Chapter Summaries

Lu Chen survived another assassination attempt in the Second Holy City and entered the Primordial Daoist Grounds with the other trial participants. After several days of comprehending the Dao, he subdued a powerful Three-Legged Golden Crow and made it his mount.

• Yan Chifeng learned that Lu Chen had survived the forbidden artifact's attack because of his treasure pagoda and remained determined to obtain the Source of the Dao.
• A black seal destroyed Lu Chen's hall, but Grand Commander Yu Han urged him to exercise restraint, and Lu Chen left without retaliating.
• The Guide Envoy opened the twelve Starry Sky Gates, and Lu Chen, Yin Tiande, the Human King, and the other trial participants entered the Primordial Daoist Grounds.
• Lu Chen spent several days resonating with the Dao and strengthening himself in the primordial land.
• Lu Chen seized the seventh-heaven Three-Legged Golden Crow and subdued it as his mount.

Lu Chen rode the Golden Crow through the Primordial Daoist Grounds, then spent half a month comprehending the Dao at a place of fortune. When Yan Chifeng ambushed him and demanded the Source of the Dao, Lu Chen killed him and his men, leaving the watching trial-takers unharmed and wary.

• Lu Chen passed the Human King as she cultivated in a Dragon Saliva Pool, and she vowed to challenge him again.
• Lu Chen found a place of fortune and spent half a month cultivating and comprehending the Heaven and Earth Great Dao.
• Yan Chifeng and his followers ambushed Lu Chen, revealing that Yan Chifeng had sent the assassins who previously used the forbidden artifact Blood Arrow.
• Lu Chen slaughtered most of Yan Chifeng's men and used Nine Secret: Bing to turn their weapons and armor against them.
• Lu Chen ordered the Golden Crow to kill the remaining followers, then defeated Yan Chifeng and split him in two with a broken golden sword.

After returning to the Second Holy City, Lu Chen faced a night attack by the Yan Clan and their ancestor Yan Yu, a Saint King. Lu Chen destroyed their forbidden artifact and challenged Yan Yu’s Saint Weapon, leaving the battle unresolved as Yan Yu realized how powerful Lu Chen had become.

• The trial participants returned to the Second Holy City, where Yan Clan members glared at Lu Chen over Yan Chifeng’s death.
• Grand Commander Yu Han warned Lu Chen that he should not have killed Yan Chifeng, then left without offering protection.
• That night, Yan Clan experts trapped Lu Chen in a spell formation and attacked him with a forbidden cauldron, which his Nine-Layer Immortal Gold Pagoda destroyed.
• Yan Yu appeared and declared that the Yan Clan’s word was the law, then attacked Lu Chen with a Blood-colored Battle Flag.
• Lu Chen shattered the battle flag’s Saint energy and ancient stars with his bare hand and fists, stunning Yan Yu with his strength.

Lu Chen defeated former Grand Commander Yan Yu after destroying his weapons and killing the Yan Clan experts who had attacked him. Yan Yu sought refuge with the Guide Envoy, but the Guide Envoy refused to intervene, and Lu Chen killed Yan Yu in the Holy City.

• Lu Chen tore apart Yan Yu's Blood-colored Battle Flag and used Nine Secret: Bing to turn the Yan Clan experts' weapons against them, killing them all.
• Yan Yu unleashed his Saint King arts and six Saint Sabers, but Lu Chen's Fusang Divine Tree and nine Golden Crows destroyed the blades and overwhelmed him with Solar True Fire.
• The battle shattered the formation, exposing Yan Yu as a trembling head and drawing the Holy City's inhabitants to watch.
• Yan Yu begged the Guide Envoy to save him, but the Guide Envoy's barrier blocked him from entering the City Lord's Mansion.
• Lu Chen hurled his Dragon Spear through Yan Yu's remaining head, pinning him to the main avenue and killing him.

Lu Chen killed Yan Yu, a Saint King and former commander, in the Second Holy City, earning fame across the Human Race Ancient Road. After advancing to the Tenth Holy City and reaching the fifth heaven of the Saint realm, Lu Chen recalled the ancient star below held rare treasures and prepared to seek its fortunes.

• Lu Chen recalled his Dragon Spear after killing Yan Yu, and the city lord declared the fighting over.
• News of Lu Chen's victory spread across the Ancient Road, marking him as a peerless rival alongside Di Tian, the Great Demon God, and God Venerable.
• Lu Chen and his companions left the Second Holy City, and he passed nine trials over a little more than a year, advancing to the fifth heaven of the Saint realm.
• Lu Chen arrived at the Tenth Holy City, where cultivators admired him while the city's commanders and soldiers regarded him with hostility over Yan Yu's death.
• After resting for two days, Lu Chen recalled that the ancient life star beneath the city contained a God-and-Ghost Burial Ground, immortal liquid, and a Supreme Ancestral Artifact.

Lu Chen traveled to the Life Origin Star and entered the lake cave abode where the Demon Emperor had once cultivated. He uncovered the Demon Race Ancient Scripture, leaving the Nine-Tailed Crocodile Dragon stunned by the treasure he had guarded without knowing it was there.

• The Guide Envoy warned Lu Chen and the other trial participants to avoid the ancient star’s forbidden regions, including the territory of a Great Saint Tyrannosaurus.
• Lu Chen headed toward the Demon Emperor’s Abandoned Cave Abode, bypassing the Well of Gods and Demons because he could not claim its immortal liquid.
• The Nine-Tailed Crocodile Dragon confronted Lu Chen when he arrived at the lake, but Lu Chen shattered the water abode’s Saint-level formation and entered.
• Lu Chen found artifacts and cultivation methods in the cave abode, including an incomplete secret technique for evolving toward a True Dragon.
• Lu Chen pushed aside a stone wall and revealed nine pieces of ancient heavenly jade containing the Demon Race Ancient Scripture.

Lu Chen discovered the Demon Emperor’s hidden Cave Abode and studied the ancient methods recorded in its Heavenly Jade, sharing the bloodline purification method with the Three-Legged Golden Crow and the Nine-Tailed Crocodile Dragon. After seven Saints tried to rob him, Lu Chen killed them and left the Great Lake to seek more opportunities on the Primordial Ancient Star.

• Lu Chen examined the nine pieces of Heavenly Jade in the Demon Emperor’s Cave Abode and gave the bloodline purification method to the Three-Legged Golden Crow and the Nine-Tailed Crocodile Dragon to study.
• Lu Chen took the Flat Peach pit from a wooden box and considered cultivating it into a Half-Divine Medicine.
• Seven Saints confronted Lu Chen outside the Cave Abode and demanded that he hand over its treasures.
• The Three-Legged Golden Crow revealed its power, and the seven Saints recognized Lu Chen as the Battle Immortal.
• Lu Chen suppressed the seven men in his palm’s Small World and killed them despite their claim that they served Di Tian.
• The Three-Legged Golden Crow consumed the Saints’ remains, and Lu Chen left the Great Lake to seek other opportunities on the Primordial Ancient Star.

After reaching the Thirtieth Pass, Lu Chen went to Nether Ridge despite warnings that it was a forbidden zone, believing one of Dao Venerable’s ancient wells lay there. He found a Saint-realm stone man and an ancient hall, and prepared to open the well for its supreme immortal liquid.

• Lu Chen arrived at the Thirtieth Pass after three years of trials and learned that the ancient star might contain a God-Demon Ancient Well.
• After resting, Lu Chen left the city and rode the Three-Legged Golden Crow to Nether Ridge, where he sensed the ancient well’s aura.
• Lu Chen spotted a fast-moving creature in the mist and pursued it deeper into the forbidden zone with the Three-Legged Golden Crow.
• Lu Chen recognized the creature as a prematurely emerged stone man in the Saint realm.
• Lu Chen and the Three-Legged Golden Crow reached an ancient hall, and Lu Chen resolved to open the well with the Immortal-Slaying Gourd and claim its immortal liquid.

Lu Chen and the Three-Legged Golden Crow entered the God-and-Ghost Burial Ground after Lu Chen defeated a wounded Saint Spirit. They studied an ancient sword mark and continued toward the true God-and-Ghost Ancient Well.

• Lu Chen waited as the Stone Man Saint Spirit opened the stone gate and entered, then watched him flee back out gravely wounded by undying sword intent.
• The Three-Legged Golden Crow ambushed the wounded stone man, but he overpowered it until Lu Chen intervened.
• Lu Chen shattered the stone man's body and caught his primordial spirit, which self-destructed while warning that others would avenge him.
• Lu Chen led the Golden Crow through the gate and found the sword mark that had wounded the stone man.
• Lu Chen comprehended the sword mark's killing intent, then continued deeper into the burial ground toward the God-and-Ghost Ancient Well.

Lu Chen opened the God-and-Demon Well beneath the River of the Dead, seeking the immortal liquid Dao Venerable had tried to refine. The seal released more than twenty ancient Corpse Demons, but Lu Chen destroyed them all with the Immortal-Slaying Gourd.

• Lu Chen and the Golden Crow followed the River of the Dead to its source and discovered an ancient well sealed beneath the Netherworld Pool.
• Lu Chen revealed that Dao Venerable had tried to refine immortal liquid from a Great Perfection Saint Spirit, then used the Immortal-Slaying Gourd to break the well’s seal.
• The broken seal unleashed a terrifying aura that shook Nether Ridge and alarmed powerful cultivators across the ancient star.
• A Saint King Realm Corpse Demon climbed out of the well, followed by more than twenty ancient humanoid fiends.
• Lu Chen unleashed the Immortal-Slaying Gourd’s extreme Dao might and annihilated every fiend that had emerged.

Lu Chen uncovered thirty-six drops of Immortal Liquid in the shattered Demon Well and used one to reach Saint Realm Eighth Heaven. After two years at the Thirtieth Pass, he traveled with the Golden Crow to Heavenly Soldier Ancient Star, a prosperous world that Lu Chen knew would produce the future Golden Crow Great Emperor.

• Lu Chen broke open the Demon Well with the Immortal-Slaying Gourd and found thirty-six drops of Five-Colored Immortal Liquid beneath its ruined layers.
• The Great Perfection Saint Spirit's ruined torso collapsed, and Lu Chen left Nether Ridge with the Golden Crow, preventing the Immortal Liquid from becoming the cause of a future war at the Thirtieth Pass.
• Lu Chen spent two years cultivating at the Thirtieth Pass, consumed a drop of Immortal Liquid, and advanced to Saint Realm Eighth Heaven.
• The Golden Crow also consumed Immortal Liquid and, after years of following Lu Chen, advanced to the Saint King Realm while remaining his mount.
• Lu Chen and the Golden Crow took a branch route through a Five-Colored Altar to Heavenly Soldier Ancient Star.
• Lu Chen recognized the ancient star's extraordinary fortune and revealed that the future Golden Crow Great Emperor would rise there.

Lu Chen used an Emperor Weapon’s aura to frighten the Fire Crow Great Saint into abandoning Heavenly Venerable Lingbao’s Immortal Platform and moving the Golden Crow Quasi-Emperor elsewhere. After confirming the secret realm was clear, Lu Chen prepared to claim its blessings, though the remaining divine liquid was gone.

• Lu Chen located the Immortal Platform Secret Realm in the Primordial Mountains and sensed that a powerful being was guarding it.
• Lu Chen sent a Dao Body armed with the Immortal-Slaying Gourd into the secret realm, where it encountered the Fire Crow Great Saint guarding the Golden Crow Quasi-Emperor’s golden divine egg.
• Lu Chen’s Dao Body revealed the Emperor Weapon’s aura and withdrew, prompting the Fire Crow Great Saint to carry the egg and the remaining divine liquid away.
• Lu Chen waited a month, then used the Source Heavenly Divine Art to inspect the underground realm and confirmed the Fire Crow Great Saint had left.

Lu Chen entered Heavenly Venerable Lingbao’s Immortal Platform and used its undying Dao imprint to comprehend the Lingbao Scripture and the Formation Secret. After half a year of cultivation, he began creating his own scripture, completing a volume for the first great secret realm.

• Lu Chen entered the Immortal Platform after the Fire Crow Great Saint left and had the Three-Legged Golden Crow guard while he cultivated.
• Lu Chen endured Heavenly Venerable Lingbao’s undying imprint with the Fore Secret, the Deliverance Scripture, and his divine mark purple gold.
• Lu Chen awakened his Seven-Colored Immortal Gold Pagoda and captured the Lingbao Ancient Scripture, including the Formation Secret of the Nine Secrets.
• Half a year later, Lu Chen fused insights from the Taiyin and Solar scriptures and other arts to create his own Dao lineage.
• Lu Chen completed the first volume of his scripture, one for the first great secret realm, and continued toward creating arts for all Five Great Secret Realms.

Lu Chen created the Nine Heavens of the Sea of Bitterness, perfected the first secret realm, and advanced to the second heaven of the Saint King Realm after a fierce tribulation. After spending nearly two years studying Heavenly Soldier Ancient Star, he left for the Human Race Ancient Road.

• Lu Chen fused lunar and sun saint powers to create the Nine Heavens of the Sea of Bitterness and perfected it after a year of cultivation at Heavenly Venerable Lingbao's Immortal Platform.
• The Three-Legged Golden Crow told Lu Chen that heavenly phenomena had attacked him during his cultivation, destroying several Saint Weapons as it guarded him.
• Lu Chen left Heavenly Soldier Ancient Star and underwent a tribulation in a distant star domain, overcoming Great Emperor and Ancient Supreme imprints and advancing from the eighth heaven of the Saint realm to the second heaven of the Saint King Realm.
• Lu Chen absorbed primordial essence to restore and transform his body, while the Three-Legged Golden Crow congratulated him on his breakthrough.
• Lu Chen spent two months studying Heavenly Soldier Ancient Star's Great Dao, then left the star and returned to the Human Race Ancient Road.

Lu Chen reached the Star Ruins, where the tomb of Demon Emperor Xue Yueqing lay hidden among ancient continents. He arrived as the Dao Guardians prepared to risk forcing open the mausoleum in search of its treasures.

• Lu Chen spent nearly three years tempering himself on dangerous branch roads, advancing to the fifth heavenly layer of the Saint King realm and becoming invincible beneath the Great Saint realm.
• Lu Chen reached the Fiftieth Pass, paid his respects at the tomb of an ancient great accomplishment Sacred Body, and learned that the Saint Spirit Race and allied races had broken through several Human Race cities.
• Lu Chen swept through the passes ahead and entered the Golden Branch Road, heading for the Star Ruins in search of Demon Emperor Xue Yueqing's tomb and the Heaven-Measuring Ruler.
• Dao Guardians from several races gathered at Ruins City and concluded they would have to wait for the Emperor's Mausoleum to crack open before they could enter safely.
• Lu Chen arrived at Ruins City astride a Golden Crow and gazed toward the continents concealing the Demon Emperor's tomb.

Lu Chen entered Ruins City to investigate the imperial tomb and encountered powerful figures gathering in the Nebula Tower. When a young Saint Spirit entered, a golden halo revealed that Lu Chen had killed a Saint Spirit and incurred its curse.

• Lu Chen entered Ruins City, saw the Underworld's Yin Soldiers, and visited the Nebula Tower with the Golden Crow.
• Lu Chen heard cultivators discuss the imperial tomb and the arrival of young supremes, while Fairy Qing Shi watched him from across the hall.
• Gu Huang, the Great Demon God, entered the Nebula Tower and sat beside Lu Chen, leaving nearby tables empty.
• A Saint Spirit procession arrived in Ruins City, and its young Saint Spirit entered the Nebula Tower.
• A golden halo appeared behind Lu Chen, and cultivators recognized it as the curse for killing a Saint Spirit.

Lu Chen confronted Cang Yun, a Saint Spirit who recognized the curse-mark halo as proof that Lu Chen had killed one of his kind. Their battle outside the Holy City ended with Lu Chen entering divine prohibition and shattering Cang Yun with a single palm.

• Cang Yun saw the golden Divine Halo behind Lu Chen and vowed to kill him for slaying a Saint Spirit.
• Lu Chen accepted Cang Yun's challenge and moved the fight from the Holy City to the starry sky, where countless spectators gathered.
• Cang Yun's roar devastated nearby spectators, but Lu Chen countered it and shattered half of Cang Yun's body with their first exchange.
• Cang Yun restored his body and unleashed the ancient marks of heaven and earth, while Lu Chen entered a profound state and struck with an unadorned palm.
• Lu Chen tore Cang Yun's stone body apart, and the observers were shaken as Lu Chen realized that true power lay in oneself and entered divine prohibition.

Lu Chen remained in the divine forbidden domain and effortlessly defeated Cang Yun, a powerful Saint Spirit, before killing him and rejecting the old Saint Spirit’s threat of heavenly retribution. He left the watching races stunned, proclaiming that he would destroy heaven itself if it stood in his way.

• Cang Yun restored his shattered stone body and charged Lu Chen at the peak of his power.
• Lu Chen calmly struck Cang Yun with one palm, shattering his body and leaving only his cracked head and fading primordial spirit.
• Lu Chen killed Cang Yun with a ray of sharp light, provoking strange heavenly phenomena that he destroyed with his Yin-Yang Divine Demon Diagram.
• The old Saint Spirit warned Lu Chen that killing a Saint Spirit would bring calamity upon him.
• Lu Chen declared that he would destroy heaven if it blocked his path.

Lu Chen challenged the peerless Saint Spirit Shi Lun after Great Saint Yanlong intervened to stop Shi Lun from killing him. Revealing the power of divine prohibition and Emperor Zun’s Nine Secrets: Jie, Lu Chen injured Shi Lun with a single punch, leaving the Star Ruins stunned.

• Shi Lun attacked Lu Chen to avenge Cang Yun, but Great Saint Yanlong blocked him and revealed himself as the Human Race Guardian.
• Lu Chen thanked Yanlong but insisted on testing Shi Lun himself, then met the Saint Spirit’s attack with the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist and survived the clash uninjured.
• Yanlong recognized that Lu Chen had entered the legendary divine prohibition, and Lu Chen activated Emperor Zun’s Nine Secrets: Jie to multiply his strength.
• Lu Chen attacked Shi Lun again and blasted the peerless Saint Spirit tens of thousands of li, making him spit blood and shocking everyone present.

Lu Chen combined the divine forbidden domain with Nine Secrets: Jie to defeat and kill the peak Great Saint Shi Lun, a peerless Saint Spirit. The other races’ guardians left shaken by the human prodigy’s rise, while Lu Chen recognized how much his victory depended on those powers.

• Lu Chen met Shi Lun’s furious attack head-on, and the two devastated the Star Ruins as they fought.
• Lu Chen used the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist to shatter Shi Lun’s arm and overwhelm his strongest strike.
• Shi Lun unleashed his true blood, but Lu Chen broke his other arm and pierced his stone body with another punch.
• Lu Chen tore Shi Lun apart, dispersing his primordial spirit and killing the peerless Saint Spirit.
• The gathered Great Saints marveled at Lu Chen’s victory, while he reflected on how dangerous the battle had been without his temporary enhancements.
• The other races’ guardians grew anxious about the rise of a human Young Supreme.