Chapter Summaries

After refusing to return to Earth with Ye Fan and the others, Lu Chen watched them depart aboard the Eternal Kingdom's spaceship. He then asked Qi Luo about the hidden locations of Hell and Human World so he could destroy the assassin dynasties.

• Pang Bo invited Lu Chen to return to Earth with Ye Fan, but Lu Chen refused because his family was not in this world's Earth and he had grown used to life in Big Dipper.
• Ye Fan, Pang Bo, Liu Yiyi, Zhang Wenchang, and Ji Ziyue prepared to travel to Earth, while Lu Chen warned the others that Earth's cultivation environment was poor.
• Ye Fan and the others departed aboard the Eternal Kingdom's spaceship, and Lu Chen wondered whether the future Heavenly Emperor Ye would still emerge after his intervention.
• Lu Chen asked Qi Luo where Hell and Human World were so he could strike back against the assassin dynasties that had repeatedly targeted him.
• Black Emperor and Duan De doubted Lu Chen could wipe out the hidden organizations, while Qi Luo began recalling their strongholds.

Lu Chen used Qi Luo’s secret information to launch a war against Hell, destroying two major bases in the Eastern Wasteland. He continued attacking the assassin strongholds, leaving the conflict in the midst of a night of bloodshed.

• Qi Luo revealed several hidden headquarters of Hell and Human World after Lu Chen vowed to destroy the assassin organizations.
• Lu Chen piloted a super mothership to bombard Hell’s first major base, killing nearly all the assassins there.
• Lu Chen attacked a second base on foot to avoid harming the city’s mortals and broke through its entrance formation.
• An old assassin King recognized Lu Chen, but Lu Chen killed him with the Star-Scrambling Finger.
• Lu Chen swept through the second base as assaults on the Assassin Divine Dynasties’ secret strongholds erupted across the region.

Lu Chen continued his assault on Hell, destroying its strongholds before entering its ancient hall in the Central Region. After killing a Great Accomplished King and destroying a Saint-level puppet, he faced an awakened assassin Saint.

• Lu Chen destroyed several of Hell’s small worlds and vital strongholds, then crossed into the Central Region at daybreak.
• Lu Chen entered Hell’s hidden ancient hall, where a Great Accomplished King raised the alarm and confronted him.
• Lu Chen used Nine Secrets: Xing to overwhelm the Great Accomplished King and kill him with a single palm strike.
• Lu Chen identified a stone dragon as a Saint-level puppet and destroyed it with his Dragon Spear.
• Hell awakened a true assassin Saint, who threatened to cast Lu Chen into the eighteen levels of Hell.

Lu Chen fought Hell’s Killer Saint in the divine spirit’s Small World, matching his killing arts with powerful techniques and the Dragon Spear. After Hell’s assassin wounded him with a surprise attack, Lu Chen used Nine Secrets: Xing to expose and strike the Killer Saint, who was left badly injured.

• Lu Chen confronted Hell’s Killer Saint and declared that Hell’s fall was inevitable.
• Lu Chen dispelled the Killer Saint’s bloody mist and Hell Soul-Suppressing Song, then clashed with his volley of Blood Divine Arrows using a vast river of stars.
• The Killer Saint ambushed Lu Chen with the Blood-Dripping Saint Sword and cut a deep wound across his back.
• Lu Chen used Buddhism’s Origin Heavenly Sound to reveal the Killer Saint’s hiding place and pursued him with Nine Secrets: Xing.
• Lu Chen struck the Killer Saint with the Dragon Spear, breaking his bones and sinews and forcing him to retreat while vomiting blood.

Lu Chen confronted Hell's assassin Saint, who sought to steal Nine Secrets: Xing and restore Hell's former power. Lu Chen used Nine Secrets: Qian to expose and predict the assassin's movements, then killed him body and soul.

• Hell's assassin Saint recognized Lu Chen's Nine Secrets: Xing and declared that Hell would claim it and rise again.
• Lu Chen rejected the assassin's boasts and defended against his sudden attack with the Immortal Gold Pagoda.
• Lu Chen used Nine Secrets: Qian to sense the assassin in hiding and foresee his attacks.
• Lu Chen struck the assassin Saint with the Dragon Spear, gravely wounding him and forcing him out of nothingness.
• Lu Chen smashed the assassin's body with the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist, then destroyed his head and primordial spirit with the Dragon Spear.

Lu Chen stormed Hell’s ancient sanctuary, breaking its defenses and killing its peak Saint King Slaughter Ancestor with the Immortal-Slaying Gourd. He then slaughtered Hell’s remaining assassins, bringing the Divine Dynasty to its end.

• Lu Chen destroyed Hell’s Saint-level formations and battled through eight layers of defenses with his Nine-Layer Immortal Gold Pagoda and Dragon Spear.
• Lu Chen used the Saint King Mecha and Legacy Saint Bell to break part of Hell’s Saint King-class spell formation and reach its ancient sanctuary.
• Lu Chen entered the hall of Saints’ bones and skins, where Hell’s Slaughter Ancestor and its leading assassins awaited him.
• Lu Chen activated the Immortal-Slaying Gourd and used the Fore Secret to locate the hidden Slaughter Ancestor, then killed him with the weapon’s Immortal Sword.
• Lu Chen slaughtered Hell’s remaining assassins, destroying the Divine Dynasty.

Lu Chen destroyed Hell and crippled the Human World, sending shockwaves through the Five Regions and alarming both human and Primordial factions. He returned to the Purple Mansion Holy Land to cleanse his killing aura and entered seclusion as the Human World hid in the Chaos Heavenly Domain and the Royal Clans prepared their counterattack against Eternal.

• Lu Chen claimed Hell's vast treasures, then razed several of the Human World's strongholds, finding them abandoned after their survivors fled to the Chaos Heavenly Domain.
• News of Hell's destruction and the Human World's defeat spread across the Five Regions, astonishing the Holy Lands and stirring concern among the Ancient Race.
• Lu Chen returned to the Purple Mansion Holy Land, where Zixia welcomed his rise and he withdrew to cleanse his killing aura.
• Ji Haoyue and members of the Gao Family reacted uneasily to Lu Chen's growing strength, while Huo Linzi and Huo Lin'er planned to seize Eternal's evolution liquid.
• A woman emerged from the Myriad Dragon Nest, and the old Saint of Qishi Mansion looked forward to seeing whether Lu Chen would reach the end of the Ancient Road.
• Lu Chen sat on the Chaos Stone Bed beneath the Enlightenment Tea Tree and entered Dao comprehension.

After three years of seclusion, Lu Chen reached the Half-Saint level and set out on the Human Race Emperor Road. Years of deadly battles across the starry sky brought him to the route toward the Human Race First City.

• Lu Chen advanced to the Half-Saint level and decided to begin his trials on the Human Race Emperor Road.
• Lu Chen bid farewell to Zixia, urged her to wait until she became a Saint, and warned her that Big Dipper faced upheaval.
• Lu Chen entered Qishi Mansion and used its Five-Colored Altar to travel into the depths of the starry sky.
• Lu Chen fought monsters and powerful foes across the Ancient Road, survived an ambush by a Saint King, and passed the grave of Yuhua King Xu Feng.
• Lu Chen learned from a Red-Haired Creature's Saint-level ancestor that humans lived farther along the route and reached a stele pointing toward the Human Race First City.

Lu Chen reached the Human Race Emperor Road, defeated a gold-armored prodigy who attacked him, and continued toward Human Race First City. He arrived with the gathered experts before the ancient city, where the struggle for supremacy was about to begin.

• Lu Chen joined more than a hundred human experts on the Emperor Road and saw a gold-armored man charge at him on a saint-realm qilin beast.
• Lu Chen crushed the qilin beast, destroyed its primordial spirit, and fought the gold-armored man as the other experts watched.
• Lu Chen used Nine Secrets: Qian to attack the man's primordial spirit, then used Nine Secrets: Xing and the Nine-Layer Immortal Gold Pagoda to refine him.
• Lu Chen followed the stone stele toward Human Race First City while the other prodigies judged the battle and continued along the road.
• Lu Chen and the assembled experts stopped before the colossal Human Race First City, and Lu Chen felt his will to battle rise.

Lu Chen arrived at Human Race First City with hundreds of prodigies and entered the Emperor Road after its gates opened. He left the soldiers’ warnings unanswered as he continued into the city, where fighting was forbidden.

• Lu Chen learned that the city gathered prodigies from across the universe and that its gates might open early when a seed-level expert was present.
• After nearly five hundred cultivators gathered, the city gates opened and Lu Chen entered with the others.
• A heavily bearded rider sent his dragon-wolf beast at Lu Chen, who killed it with one thrust of his Dragon Spear.
• The gate soldiers forbade fighting and warned Lu Chen again inside the city, but he calmly walked past their captain.
• The captain slammed his Battle Spear into the ground and warned that no one could act recklessly in Human Race First City.

After arriving in Human Race First City, Lu Chen learned about the dangers of the Emperor Road and discovered that Yi Tiande was among his rivals. The trial ground opened, and the Guard Commander led the assembled talents through a Starry Sky Gate to begin the first trial.

• The Guide Envoy announced that fighting was forbidden in the city and that the true trial ground would soon open.
• Lu Chen gathered information from other cultivators, who recognized Big Dipper as the legendary Burial Emperor Star and treated him as a major rival.
• Lu Chen learned that Yi Tiande of Ziwei Ancient Star was in First City and regarded him as a formidable competitor.
• Half a month after the city opened, the Guide Envoy announced that entrants had to comprehend the trial world's Great Dao to qualify to continue.
• The Guard Commander opened a teleportation passage and led Lu Chen and the other talents through the Starry Sky Gate to the trial ground.

Lu Chen entered the First Pass of the Human Race Emperor Road, Fallen Saint Island, to comprehend the Great Dao. After eight cultivators ambushed him over his slain mount, he killed them all and continued deeper into Area Nine.

• The guard commander explained Fallen Saint Island’s trial and warned that its forbidden central region was deadly and crossing between areas imposed heavy shackles.
• A mysterious woman called the Human King entered Area One, Yi Tiande entered Area Thirty-Six, and Lu Chen chose Area Nine.
• Lu Chen explored the wilderness and reached a mountain summit, where he began comprehending the Great Dao.
• The bearded man whose mount Lu Chen had killed ambushed him with seven allies, attacking with Saint Weapons and Forbidden Artifacts.
• Lu Chen evaded the attack, killed all eight assailants with his fists and Dragon Spear, and headed farther into Area Nine.

Lu Chen entered the Primeval Mountains’ Forbidden Zone and fought a blood-colored version of himself in the Blood Battlefield. After a seven-day battle that nearly killed him, he won and retreated to recover.

• Lu Chen studied the Natural Dao in the Primeval Mountains before continuing his journey across the regions.
• Lu Chen entered the Fiftieth Zone, overcame its dangers, and reached a blood pool whose tablet described how people faced themselves as their greatest opponent.
• Lu Chen entered the Blood Battlefield, where an identical Dao Body attacked him with the same techniques and cultivation.
• Lu Chen broke into the myriad-ages divine forbidden domain and reactivated Nine Secrets: Jie, but his opponent matched both breakthroughs and fought him for seven days and nights.
• Lu Chen finally killed his other self at the cost of devastating injuries, then returned to the Ninth Zone and spent a day recovering with the Phoenix Tribulation Rebirth Art.

Lu Chen completed the First Pass with only 333 participants surviving, then entered the second pass, where competitors were told to fight their way through a pure land to Human Race Second City. After learning that a source of the Dao lay beneath a battlefield contested by the Divine Kingdom and Demon Kingdom, Lu Chen joined the fight and encountered the Human King among the other contenders.

• Lu Chen left Fallen Saint Island as one of 333 survivors, and the Guide Envoy later announced that the second pass would allow everyone to attack and compete until only the survivors remained.
• Lu Chen arrived alone in a restricted pure land and learned that obtaining the source of the Dao could greatly strengthen its recipient and provide a foundation for invincibility.
• A member of the Divine Kingdom offered Lu Chen half the source of the Dao if he helped defeat the Demon Kingdom, explaining that both sides were fighting over its presence beneath the battlefield.
• A Demon Kingdom great demon attacked Lu Chen and the Divine Kingdom member with War Swords, but Lu Chen used Nine Secret: Bing to turn the swords back and kill the demon.
• Lu Chen surveyed the chaotic battlefield and spotted the Human King and other human trial participants fighting for the source of the Dao.

Lu Chen captured a stream of the source of the Dao and faced a coalition of alien Saints and human trial participants who tried to take it from him. He killed dozens of attackers, silenced the survivors, and vanished with the treasure.

• When the source of the Dao appeared beneath the battlefield, Lu Chen used his Source Arts and Nine Secrets: Xing to catch up and seal it inside the Nine-Layer Immortal Gold Pagoda.
• After Lu Chen emerged from underground, Saints from the Demon Kingdom, Spirit Race, and Divine Kingdom demanded that he surrender the treasure, but he refused.
• A Demon Kingdom Ancient Saint attacked Lu Chen, who blocked the strike with his pagoda and killed the Saint with a single palm.
• Ancient Saints and other experts attacked Lu Chen, but he used Nine Secrets: Bing to turn their weapons against them and killed dozens of enemies, including trial participants who ambushed him.
• Lu Chen intimidated the remaining fighters, then vanished without anyone daring to stop him, keeping the source of the Dao.

Lu Chen battled countless cultivators for the source of the Dao, then fought the Human King when she challenged him for another portion. He overwhelmed her with his techniques, leaving her severely injured as the struggle for the treasure continued.

• Lu Chen fought off repeated challengers for the source of the Dao and escaped several Saint Kings before recovering from his injuries.
• Lu Chen examined the source of the Dao and decided to keep it rather than merge with it immediately.
• Lu Chen seized another portion of the source of the Dao after fighting through more than a hundred battles.
• The Human King challenged Lu Chen for the new portion and attacked him with the Human King Seal and other ancient seals.
• Lu Chen struck back with the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist and Nine Secrets: Xing, shattering the Human King's bones and leaving her bloodied.

Lu Chen defeated the Human King and became the dominant force in the Trial Ancient Land, then survived a joint ambush by the Divine Kingdom and Demon Kingdom. After three months of battles and pursuit, the bell rang to end the bloody trial.

• Lu Chen defeated the Human King, comforted her by citing the Chaotic Ancient Great Emperor, and left with the second portion of the source of the Dao.
• Lu Chen crossed paths with Yin Tiande, and the two left without fighting.
• The Human King warned Lu Chen of an ambush, but he broke the starry Saint Weapon and killed all seven Ancient Saints from the Divine Kingdom and Demon Kingdom.
• Lu Chen gained a fearsome reputation across the Trial Ancient Land, slaughtered foreign-race experts, and repeatedly escaped pursuit by two Saint Kings.
• After three months, the bell rang across the Blood-Colored Ancient Land, ending the trial for the young experts on the Human Race Emperor Road.

After claiming three portions of the Source of the Dao, Lu Chen escaped the Blood Battlefield and reached the Second Holy City, where the survivors learned of his deeds and many abandoned the Emperor Road. He then entered the starry sky to become a Saint, enduring a devastating tribulation that transformed both him and the Nine-Layer Immortal Gold Pagoda.

• Lu Chen suppressed a third portion of the Source of the Dao, killed the Ancient Saints who tried to stop him, and boarded the altar out of the Trial Ancient Land.
• Lu Chen, the Human King, Yin Tiande, and the other survivors arrived at the Second Holy City, where news spread that Lu Chen held three portions of the Source of the Dao and Yin Tiande held two.
• After hearing fellow trial participants lament their losses, Lu Chen watched twenty or thirty of them withdraw from the Emperor Road, then left the city to pursue sainthood.
• Lu Chen endured a series of devastating heavenly tribulations, repeatedly rebuilding his body and refining the Nine-Layer Immortal Gold Pagoda with Nine Secret: Bing.
• Lu Chen crossed into the Saint domain as his flesh fused with the pagoda, which awakened a divine spirit and became an immortal Saint Weapon that shielded him from the remaining lightning.

Lu Chen endured his Saint Tribulation, fighting manifestations of his own secret techniques and surviving the attacks of twelve young Great Emperors. The tribulation continued by recreating Emperor Zun’s Heavenly Court’s destruction, where Lu Chen came face-to-face with Emperor Zun’s dao marks.

• Lu Chen absorbed lightning with his Immortal Gold Saint Pagoda and merged three portions of source of the dao into his life essence.
• Lu Chen fought a series of Heavenly Tribulation-Born Selves, each mastering one of his secret techniques, and gained insight into his arts.
• Lu Chen battled twelve young Great Emperors, including Ruthless Great Emperor, Taihuang, Hengyu, and Great Emperor Wushi, and survived despite being repeatedly shattered.
• Lu Chen entered a lightning-made battlefield depicting the destruction of Emperor Zun’s Heavenly Court during the Mythological Era.
• Lu Chen reached the Central Heavenly Palace and saw Emperor Zun seated on the Divine Throne.

Lu Chen survived his Saint tribulation, reaching the fourth heaven of the Saint realm and transforming the Nine-Layer Immortal Gold Pagoda. Back in the holy city, he repelled two assassination attempts, though the black-robed attacker escaped.

• Lu Chen overcame the heavenly tribulation, where Emperor Zun's Dao marks manifested the Myriad Things Source Cauldron to clash with his Nine-Layer Immortal Gold Pagoda.
• Lu Chen emerged from the sacred cocoon as a Saint, breaking through four stages at once and drawing on stellar power to replenish himself.
• A visitor offered half of a Great Emperor's ancient scripture for the Source of the Dao, but Lu Chen refused because he had already fused with it and possessed other Emperor Scriptures.
• Lu Chen detected and killed an attacker who had tried to ambush him in the holy city.
• A black-robed figure fired a forbidden blood arrow engraved with Lu Chen's name, but Lu Chen shattered it with his pagoda as the city's Commander repaired the damaged formations.
• Lu Chen rushed after the black-robed assassin but failed to catch them.