Chapter Summaries

Ye Fan defeated Wang Teng at the Ji Family, then opened the Bronze Ancient Coffin with Lu Chen and their companions. The coffin returned to the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land, and Ye Fan departed across the stars; Lu Chen assured his grieving friends that Ye Fan would return in ten years before leaving.

• Lu Chen joined Ye Fan at the Ji Family, where Ye Fan defeated Wang Teng with the Bronze Ancient Coffin and Saint Flame.
• A Ji Family member invoked the Void Mirror against Ye Fan, but the Bronze Ancient Coffin withstood its power until the Ji Family Holy Lord stopped the confrontation.
• Lu Chen revealed the Immortal Treasure Map’s Kunlun route and starry map, then the Black Emperor prepared a formation to open the Bronze Ancient Coffin.
• The opened coffin unleashed a destructive force, returned to the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land, and rejoined the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin.
• Ye Fan boarded the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin and departed across the starry sky, while Pang Bo and Lu Chen stayed behind.
• Lu Chen comforted Ji Ziyue, Xiao Nannan, and the others by promising that Ye Fan would return in ten years, then walked away.

Lu Chen activated the Five-Colored Altar and left Big Dipper on the Starry Sky Ancient Road, heading toward Earth. After arriving on a barren star and defeating its surviving monsters, he found the altar and continued his dangerous journey across the stars.

• Lu Chen activated the Five-Colored Altar in his concealed cave abode and stepped through the Bagua Gate toward Earth.
• Lu Chen emerged on a barren star, searched for the altar, and discovered ruins built from bones.
• Lu Chen killed the mantis-like monsters that attacked him and learned from their memories that they were descendants of beings who had attacked Earth in search of Kunlun Immortal Mountain.
• Lu Chen used his Source Heaven Divine Eye to locate and break the formation concealing the Five-Colored Altar, then set out across the stars again.
• Over half a year, Lu Chen crossed many barren stars, encountered surviving beings and deadly environments, and continued toward Earth.

Lu Chen discovered that the Five-Colored Altar was in the Ant Dragon race’s possession and infiltrated their floating continent to retrieve it. After killing the Ant Dragon King, he used the Immortal-Slaying Gourd to destroy the pursuing swarm and left the star through the altar.

• Lu Chen found a barren ore star along the Ancient Road and learned that the Ant Dragons had taken the Five-Colored Altar.
• He secretly followed the Ant Dragons to their floating continent and located their king inside a stone mountain.
• Lu Chen killed the Nine-Colored Ant Dragon King and found the Five-Colored Altar in the cave.
• The Ant Dragons attacked Lu Chen as he fled, and he fought through their overwhelming numbers.
• Lu Chen unleashed the Immortal-Slaying Gourd, annihilated the Ant Dragon race and their floating continent, then activated the altar to depart.

After fighting his way along the Starry Sky Ancient Road, Lu Chen reached Hangu Pass and met its guardian, Demon Venerable Xuan Chi. He passed through the ancient battlefield and returned to Earth, where the planet’s suppressive laws began weakening his strength.

• Lu Chen arrived at Hangu Pass after advancing four minor realms and introduced himself to Demon Venerable Xuan Chi as one of the mortals taken from Mount Tai by the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin.
• Lu Chen told Xuan Chi that the coffin had taken him to the Big Dipper Star Domain and that he had found a route back through information left by Dao Ancestor Lord Lao.
• Xuan Chi opened Hangu Pass, and Lu Chen gave him several stalks of ten-thousand-year-old spirit medicine as a gift.
• Lu Chen and Xuan Chi walked through the silent city and discussed its history before Lu Chen passed the statues of Laozi and Yi Xi.
• Lu Chen crossed an ancient battlefield beyond Hangu Pass and entered Earth’s mortal world.
• Earth’s laws suppressed Lu Chen’s cultivation, so he concealed his figure and flew away.

Lu Chen ventured into Kunlun’s forbidden central region, following a copied terrain map through Emperor Zun and the Nether Emperor’s deadly formation. He reached the Immortal Ascension Ground and found the divine mark purple gold he had come to claim.

• Lu Chen entered Kunlun, drove off or slew the ancient beasts in its outer regions, and followed Ye Fan’s copied map toward the center.
• He collected ancient spirit medicines along the safe route and saw that the Immortal Ascension Ground’s dragon veins were nurturing the Immortal Cauldron.
• Lu Chen carefully navigated the Emperor Formation, passing the remains of three Great Saints and a Quasi-Emperor descendant of Gu Xin'ao.
• Lu Chen found a half-meter-tall Purple Gold Divine Pagoda made from divine mark purple gold.

Lu Chen recovered a Divine Mark Purple Gold Pagoda and four medicine kings from Kunlun before leaving the Immortal Valley. At Mount Zhongnan, he comprehended Laozi’s Dao marks and learned an incomplete One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones, then faced Taoists coveting his pagoda.

• Lu Chen dissolved the murderous intent on the unfinished pagoda, collected its Quasi-Emperor blood, and took the Immortal Gold for his own nine-layer pagoda.
• He gathered four medicine kings along the Safe Path, then left Kunlun because the Emperor Formation barred him from entering the central Immortal Valley without the Immortal Treasure Map Scroll.
• Lu Chen arrived at Mount Zhongnan and used the Enlightenment Coffin Lid and his pagoda to comprehend the Dao marks Laozi had left at Louguan Terrace.
• After half a month, Lu Chen manifested three copies of himself and realized he had learned only an incomplete version of One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones.
• Taoists from Dragon-Tiger Mountain, the Kunlun Sect, the Lingbao Sect, and the Primordial Dragon Cave spotted Lu Chen’s pagoda and asked to borrow it for a look.

Lu Chen subdued cultivators who coveted his Immortal Gold Pagoda and visited the Lingbao Sect to investigate Heavenly Venerable Lingbao’s legacy. After recovering the Deliverance Scripture from the sect’s Dao platform, he gained a chance to pursue the Lingbao Four Slaying Swords.

• Lu Chen sent a Kunlun elder and a Primordial Dragon Cave demon general flying, then subdued the gathered cultivators with his aura.
• Lu Chen had two Lingbao Sect Daoists take him to Gezao Mountain, where the sect’s people welcomed him cautiously.
• Lu Chen asked the Lingbao Sect’s elders about Heavenly Venerable Lingbao, but they knew little about the sect’s ancient origins.
• Lu Chen sat on the sect’s Dao platform for ten days and used his Immortal Gold Pagoda to imprint its Dao marks and scriptures.
• Lu Chen reconstructed the Deliverance Scripture, a Lingbao text that could restrain Divine Spirit Resentment and help him seek the Lingbao Four Slaying Swords.

Lu Chen visited the Lingbao Sect and Shushan, where he acquired the Deliverance Scripture and explored Chisongzi’s ancient sword sanctuary. He left the Immortal Map pieces untouched and settled into secluded cultivation before the Immortal Sword Heaven Pool.

• Lu Chen gave the Lingbao Sect the fragmentary scriptures he had recovered and departed after learning about Earth’s cultivation world.
• Lu Chen broke through the formation near Mount Emei and entered the legendary Shushan, Chisongzi’s Enlightenment Ground.
• Lu Chen climbed the sword peak under the protection of the Immortal Gold Pagoda and reached the Immortal Sword Heaven Pool.
• Lu Chen found three pieces of the Immortal Map but left them behind because he already possessed the complete route.
• Lu Chen endured the sword intent near the pool, refined its meaning into his Treasure Pagoda, and entered a month of secluded cultivation.

Lu Chen refined Chisongzi’s sword intent, advanced to the sixth minor step of the Immortal Two Realm, and merged two Immortal Gold Pagodas into a nine-layer embryonic supreme Dao Artifact. He then visited Xu Qiong and Ye Fan’s parents in China’s Capital, showed them scenes of Ye Fan’s life on the Big Dipper, and left them asking whether Ye Fan was alive.

• Lu Chen comprehended Chisongzi’s sword Dao and combined it with Nine Secret: Bing to transform his Immortal Gold Pagoda into a vessel for his Great Dao.
• Lu Chen survived a lightning tribulation and reached the sixth minor step of the Immortal Two Realm.
• Lu Chen fused his four-colored Immortal Gold Pagoda with Gu Xin’ao’s Divine Mark Purple Gold Pagoda in the Sword Pool, creating a nine-layer embryonic supreme Dao Artifact.
• Lu Chen found Xu Qiong in the Capital and told her he had come to share news about Ye Fan.
• Lu Chen showed Xu Qiong and Ye Fan’s parents a projection of Ye Fan’s life on the Big Dipper, prompting them to ask whether he was still alive.

Lu Chen visited the families of Ye Fan and his companions, then spent five years living as an ordinary person to deepen his understanding of the Dao. After years without progress, he broke through to the immortal two peak and reached the threshold of severing the Dao.

• Lu Chen told Ye Fan's parents and Xu Qiong that Ye Fan was alive in a distant world, showed them the Big Dipper, and said Ye Fan would return someday.
• Lu Chen restored Ye Fan's parents' health, gave Xu Qiong treasures, and departed after offering them advice.
• Lu Chen secretly checked on Pang Bo's family and helped Zhang Wenchang's and Liu Yiyi's families.
• Lu Chen settled in a southern city and lived as a mortal for five years, studying ancient books and gaining insight into the Dao.
• Lu Chen entered a realm sealed by an ancient spell formation, endured three successive heavenly tribulations, and advanced to the immortal two peak.

After five years on Earth, Lu Chen returned to the Big Dipper as the Golden Age began and the Primordial Myriad Races emerged. He listened to cultivators debate the leading human and ancient-race prodigies, while his own reappearance remained unknown to them.

• Lu Chen returned to the Big Dipper through Hangu Pass, eager to face the bloodstained Emperor Road and its many rivals.
• He entered an ancient city and saw powerful members of the Primordial Myriad Races living among humans, sensing the growing turmoil.
• At the Heavenly Pavilion, Lu Chen listened as cultivators discussed the rising human prodigies, including Yaoguang Holy Son, Hua Yunfei, Wang Teng, Fairy Zixia, and Xia Jiuyou.
• The cultivators named the ancient-race heirs, including Zi Tiandu, Yuan Gu, the Qilin Child, and the Divine Silkworm Daoist, as fearsome rivals to humanity.
• The tavern patrons wondered whether the missing Lu Chen could have matched the strongest prodigies, unaware that he was sitting among them.

Lu Chen arrived in the Northern Region and rescued Pang Bo from Yuan Gu, the heir of Primordial Lake, before challenging him. After healing Pang Bo, Lu Chen faced Yuan Gu as the fight began anew.

• Lu Chen learned that Pang Bo was being hunted by Yuan Gu for the Demon Emperor's Nine Slashes after the Demon Race discovered Pang Bo's identity.
• Yuan Gu gravely wounded Pang Bo and demanded the Azure Emperor Ancient Scripture.
• Lu Chen appeared before Pang Bo, used the Phoenix Tribulation Rebirth Art to remove the power afflicting his wound, and reunited with him.
• Yuan Gu vowed to kill both men, and Lu Chen challenged him with a Heavenly Sword infused with Chisongzi's Supreme Sword Dao.
• Yuan Gu met Lu Chen's sword with a punch, beginning their battle.

Lu Chen battled Yuan Gu, heir of the Primordial Lake and bearer of an ancient emperor bloodline, and gained the upper hand after both fighters healed from grave wounds. He shattered Yuan Gu with a manifested Immortal-Slaying Gourd, but Ancient Race kings and a hidden Ancestor King prepared to strike.

• Lu Chen and Yuan Gu traded devastating blows, leaving Yuan Gu's lower body shattered and Lu Chen nearly severed at the waist.
• Lu Chen healed with the Phoenix Tribulation Rebirth Art, while Yuan Gu restored himself with the Origin Light Rebirth Wheel.
• Lu Chen declared that the Human Race's glory would endure and vowed to slay Yuan Gu.
• Yuan Gu unleashed the Origin Light Rebirth Wheel's destructive radiance, forcing spectators to retreat, while Lu Chen manifested an Immortal-Slaying Gourd.
• Lu Chen crushed Yuan Gu's treasure wheel and shattered Yuan Gu's body with the gourd.
• Several Ancient Race kings stepped forward to kill Lu Chen as a hidden Ancestor King prepared to attack.

Lu Chen endured Yuan Gu’s repeated revivals and fought against the Yuan Huang Dao Sword, a taboo secret art that inflicted the power of Dao Transformation. He cleansed its effects, learned to disrupt the sword, and ended the chapter blocking it with his fist.

• Yuan Gu revived twice more after Lu Chen crushed him with the Immortal-Slaying Gourd, each resurrection draining his vital essence.
• Yuan Gu summoned the Yuan Huang Dao Sword, whose Chains of Order pierced Lu Chen and began transforming him into part of heaven and earth.
• Lu Chen used Nine Secret: Bing to briefly disrupt the Dao Sword, then escaped its strike and dispelled the Dao Transformation with the Phoenix Tribulation Rebirth Art.
• Yuan Gu’s Dao Sword pursued Lu Chen through a fierce exchange, striking him repeatedly as Lu Chen struggled to repair his body.
• Lu Chen countered with the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist and blocked the Yuan Huang Dao Sword, stunning the watching Ancient Race and Human Race cultivators.

Lu Chen overwhelmed Yuan Gu with the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist, repeatedly destroying Yuan Huang's Dao Sword and forcing Yuan Gu to revive at the cost of his vital essence. When a hidden Primordial Ancestor King intervened to stop Yuan Gu from using a forbidden art, the Ancestor King attacked Lu Chen himself, leaving him trapped beneath a Saint-level assault.

• Lu Chen used the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist to shatter Yuan Huang's Dao Sword and blast Yuan Gu's body apart.
• Yuan Gu revived through the Primordial Light Rebirth Wheel, but Lu Chen destroyed his Dao Sword and body again, leaving him increasingly weakened.
• Yuan Gu began to unleash a forbidden Ancient Emperor art, but a hidden Primordial Ancestor King stopped him to protect his foundation.
• The Ancestor King launched a Saint-level attack at Lu Chen, who dodged the first strike and condemned the attack as bullying the young.
• The Ancestor King dismissed Lu Chen and pressed down with an enormous hand, forcing Lu Chen to consider activating an Emperor Weapon to escape.

Wei Yi, a human Saint, saved Lu Chen from a Primordial Ancestral King after Lu Chen defeated Yuan Gu, then vanished after asking about Lu Chen’s Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist. Lu Chen resolved to prepare more trump cards and traveled to the ruins of the Feathered Divine Dynasty.

• A White-Haired Ancestor King attacked Lu Chen, but Wei Yi arrived and struck the Ancestor King down with saintly power.
• Wei Yi warned the Ancient Race against targeting human prodigies and threatened to kill Huang Xudao, Huo Linzi, and others in retaliation.
• The Primordial Lake guardians took the wounded Yuan Gu away, while the White-Haired Ancestor King and other Ancient Race figures withdrew.
• Wei Yi praised Lu Chen, asked where he had learned the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist, and vanished after lamenting that six thousand years had passed.
• News of Lu Chen’s victory spread across the Eastern Wasteland, while Pang Bo recovered in a secluded oasis after Lu Chen had saved him.
• Lu Chen traveled to the ruined Feathered Divine Dynasty in the Central Plains and entered its black-mist-covered Calamity Land with the Immortal-Slaying Gourd above his head.

Lu Chen broke into the Eternal Eclosion Ancestral Temple and collected rare treasures while avoiding its deadly traps. He discovered the Divine Nine-Layer Coffin containing the still-living God Emperor and hesitated over whether to take it.

• Lu Chen used the Immortal-Slaying Gourd to break the temple's seal and cleared its yin spirits with the Deliverance Scripture.
• Lu Chen ignored wall carvings that would trigger eclosion and used the Bronze Ancient Bell to overcome the temple's dangerous worlds and beasts.
• Lu Chen found and suppressed sleeping God-Slaying Insects in a five-colored refined iron chest, then took immortal tear green gold and four more insects from an altar.
• Lu Chen uncovered two dead Saint-realm God-Slaying Insects and stored their bodies as potential external incarnations.
• Lu Chen identified the palm-sized stone box as the Divine Nine-Layer Coffin containing the still-living God Emperor and weighed the danger of taking it.

Lu Chen returned from the Eternal Eclosion Ancestral Temple and found the Eastern Wasteland in turmoil as the Primordial Myriad Races and the Assassin Divine Dynasties attacked humans. After Hell or Human World killed Liu Feng, an assassin appeared and challenged Lu Chen, leaving them on the verge of a fight.

• Lu Chen left the Eternal Eclosion Ancestral Temple with the Immortal Tear Green Gold and the saint-level corpse of the God-Slaying Insect, avoiding its deeper halls and their two Saints.
• Lu Chen returned to the Eastern Wasteland and learned that Ancient Race forces were driving out or destroying human sects while the major human powers stayed silent.
• Lu Chen heard that the Northern Region's Thirteen Great Bandits were being hunted, the Undying Old Man was missing, and Hell and Human World had renewed their campaign of killings.
• Lu Chen found Liu Feng, the Sixth Great Bandit, dead from a single sword strike and recognized the work of the Assassin Divine Dynasties.
• A hidden attacker struck Lu Chen with the Blood-Dripping Divine Sword, cutting his forehead and killing nearby cultivators, but Lu Chen dodged and healed himself.
• Lu Chen fixed his Source Heaven Eye on the assassin, who declared that Lu Chen would be the first prodigy to fall to his Divine Sword.

Lu Chen fought Human World's Divine Son in the Holy City and killed him despite his damaged Saint Weapon and hidden protector. He left with the Sixth Great Bandit's corpse and bone pagoda, while other prodigies recognized him as a major rival on the path to the Dao.

• Lu Chen saw through Human World's Divine Son's concealment and drove him into a direct battle with his Dragon Spear.
• Human World's Divine Son used a damaged Saint Pagoda and Divine Sword, but Lu Chen overwhelmed him with the Dragon Spear and Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist.
• A Severing the Dao assassin tried to kill Lu Chen from the shadows, but a golden figure appeared and destroyed the assassin's body and soul.
• Lu Chen annihilated Human World's Divine Son, collected the bone pagoda, and left with the Sixth Great Bandit's corpse.
• Yaoguang Holy Son, Wang Teng, the Heavenly Emperor's Son, Huo Linzi, and the Divine Silkworm Daoist heard of Lu Chen's victory and regarded him as a formidable rival.

Lu Chen received the remains of Liu Feng from the Great Bandits and told them their missing descendants might be trapped in Nine Netherworlds Mountain. Later, he met the Divine Silkworm Daoist in the Holy City and invited him to drink.

• Hell's divine son and divine daughter vowed to kill Lu Chen after Human World's divine son died.
• The Heavenly Blind Elder and Jiang Yi came to collect Liu Feng's remains, mourned the Great Bandits' losses, and warned Lu Chen that the assassins might target him.
• Lu Chen suggested that Jiang Huairen and other missing bandit descendants could be trapped in Nine Netherworlds Mountain, so Jiang Yi and the Heavenly Blind Elder went to search there.
• Representatives of major powers visited Lu Chen to befriend him after his growing strength established his standing.
• Lu Chen recognized the drunken Divine Silkworm Daoist, greeted his Great Accomplished King Dao protector, and invited them to share wine at a Holy City restaurant.