Arc 5Chapters 101–127
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Lu Chen’s weapon soul drew the attention of powerful figures, but the Divine Silkworm Princess’s warning kept them from seizing it. As the stone-cutting continued, Chu Xiong’s group uncovered the corpse of a Primordial King, and Lu Chen began opening the Divine Moon Stone, exposing his Source Heavenly Master inheritance.
Lu Chen uncovered a palm-sized dragon-patterned black gold fragment from the Divine Moon stone and won the stone-gambling battle against the Eight Geniuses of the Source King Lineage. He kept the fragment, rejected offers to buy it, and left with his companions to celebrate as the Divine City discussed his haul.
Lu Chen watched Ye Fan and Tuoba Chang compete in stone gambling at the Ji Family Stone Workshop, where he revealed that they were searching for a Stone King. Ye Fan uncovered a Little Divine Silkworm, which flew to the Divine Silkworm Princess, its older sister, leaving the gathered factions and Ye Fan’s plans to lease it behind.
Lu Chen borrowed Ye Fan’s Bodhi Seed and used its power to pass through the Fire Domain’s deadly flames. He entered the ninth layer, where even a Great Accomplished God King might perish.
Lu Chen entered the Fire Domain’s tenth layer to use its legendary immortal fire to restore the Immortal-Slaying Gourd. After sending the gourd into the flames with a weapon soul, he prepared to strengthen his Immortal Gold Pagoda with rare immortal metals.
Lu Chen reforged the Immortal-Slaying Gourd in the Fire Domain, restoring it as an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon while uncovering the Taiyin True Scripture in the dragon-pattern black gold. After learning that Jiang Taixu had been rescued from Purple Mountain but was in danger, Lu Chen went to Wanchu Holy Land to seek Caiyun Immortal Maiden’s help.
Lu Chen brought the Caiyun Immortal Maiden to the Holy City after warning her that Jiang Taixu faced a deadly conspiracy. They entered through the Hengyu Furnace’s seal and reached the Dragon Transformation Pool, where Jiang Taixu’s revival was being defended against thirteen supreme experts.
Thirteen hidden Holy Lord-level experts broke through the Jiang Family’s incomplete Emperor Formation and moved to kill Jiang Taixu, but the dying Divine King briefly revived and wounded one of them. As Jiang Taixu’s strength failed again, Ye Fan brought out more medicinal essence and a Dragon Pearl Divine Fruit to try to save him, while Lu Chen suspected the fruit came from the True Dragon Divine Medicine at the Myriad Dragon Nest.
Ye Fan's dragon pearl fruit revived Jiang Taixu, while Caiyun Immortal Maiden and Jiang Yi helped defend him from their enemies. The chapter ended with Jiang Taixu restoring Caiyun's youth and the two lovers reunited.
Jiang Taixu revived and defeated the Dark Night Monarch and the forces that had tried to kill him, ending the crisis around Ye Fan. The Divine Silkworm Princess left for the Western Desert after learning that the Fighting Saint King was alive, while the newly released Golden-Winged Little Peng King turned his attention toward Lu Chen.
The Golden-Winged Little Peng King challenged Lu Chen for his Immortal Gold Pagoda, and the two began a battle outside the Holy City before a crowd of prodigies. Lu Chen blocked the Peng King's powerful attacks and crushed his summoned Heavenly Pengs, leaving their clash unresolved.
Lu Chen battled the Golden-Winged Little Peng King, matching his fearsome weapons and Peng Race saint arts with his own powerful techniques. The fight remained unresolved, with both prodigies still facing off in the sky.
Lu Chen used Buddhism’s Six-Character True Words to withstand and overpower the Golden-Winged Little Peng King’s Heavenly Demon Saint-Slaying Canon. The Golden-Winged Little Peng King was left gravely injured, still raging after his supreme art was broken.
Lu Chen defeated the Golden-Winged Little Peng King after the Peng heir unleashed the fourth form of the Heavenly Demon Saint-Slaying Canon, though both were wounded in their final clash. The Little Peng King survived as a head with a faint trace of soul power, while the Golden-Winged Old Peng King watched Lu Chen from the clouds with killing intent.
After Lu Chen defeated the Golden-Winged Little Peng King, the Old Peng King took away his son’s head and questioned him about his defeat. Lu Chen later discussed Ye Fan’s attempt to break the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body’s curse, keeping a possible method involving the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar and Ji Ziyue’s Bronze Ring to himself.
Lu Chen returned to the Jade Pool Ruins to search for a Divine Spring that could revive his immortal herb. He descended through the underground lakes, burned the corpses he found, and collected fragments of Divine Source as he approached the spring’s deeper reaches.
Lu Chen revived the Humanoid Undying Divine Medicine in the Jade Pool’s Ninth-Layer Immortal Lake, then traveled to Purple Mountain to cultivate the Taiyin and Taiyang Solar True Scripture together. He found a naturally formed Taiji Divine Diagram deep inside the mountain and recognized its great dao laws.
Lu Chen used the Yin-Yang Eyes and the treasures he had gathered in Purple Mountain to cultivate the Taiyin True Scripture alongside the Solar True Scripture. After enduring dangerous clashes between their powers, he achieved a balance across his first three secret realms and left ready to advance in the Four Extremes realm.
Lu Chen balanced Sun Saint Power and Lunar Saint Power, advanced to the third level of the Four Extremes Secret Realm, and survived a devastating Heavenly Tribulation. After learning that rumors of the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar Lid had drawn powerful figures to the Cloudbreak Mountains, he joined them to investigate the Ruthless Great Emperor's Daoist grounds.
Powerful cultivators gathered at the Cloudbreak Mountains and opened the Ruthless Great Emperor’s Daoist Grounds with the blood of special physiques. As nearly everyone entered, Black Emperor warned Pang Bo, Tu Fei, and Li Heishui that the grounds were dangerous, while Lu Chen hesitated outside.
Lu Chen entered the Ruthless Great Emperor’s Daoist Grounds despite recognizing that the portal was a trap, and found a killing formation targeting everyone inside. As powerful cultivators were slaughtered and several prodigies were targeted for their physique origins, Lu Chen struggled to withstand the escalating attacks.
Lu Chen rescued the wounded Fairy Zixia from the killing formation and escaped with her into the Ruthless Great Emperor's Small World. The Peacock King and the others later used Emperor Weapons to force a passage out, while the formation’s hidden controller remained concealed.
While trapped in the Ruthless Daoist Grounds, Lu Chen helped Fairy Zixia recover and obtained the Phoenix Tribulation Rebirth Art from the Ruthless Great Emperor’s enlightenment ground. With Zixia healed, they set out together to find a way out.
Lu Chen returned to the Central Region with Fairy Zixia, paid his respects at his late master Gu Ling’s grave, and sought out his senior sister, Gu Qingxia. After learning that she was injured, he asked what had happened, leaving her troubles unresolved.
Lu Chen healed Gu Qingxia and learned that a Cloudmist Sect elder had killed her husband and stolen their Ice-Soul Zhi. He brought her family to the sect, killed the elder, and left the sect’s fate in Gu Qingxia’s hands.