Chapter Summaries

Lu Chen forced open the hidden entrance to the Demon Emperor’s Tomb above the Cloudmist Continent and entered its inner world with the Three-Legged Golden Crow. At Emperor Weapon Mountain, he soothed the shattered Heaven-Measuring Ruler and obtained all five pieces.

• Lu Chen learned that the Star Ruins held only false tombs and that the true Demon Emperor’s Tomb lay in the void above the Cloudmist Continent.
• Lu Chen used the Immortal-Slaying Gourd to split open the void and entered the tomb world with the Three-Legged Golden Crow.
• Lu Chen and the Three-Legged Golden Crow paid their respects at the stone gate and traveled to Emperor Weapon Mountain.
• Lu Chen found the five shattered segments of the Demon Emperor’s Heaven-Measuring Ruler on the God-Demon Altar.
• Lu Chen calmed the ruler with Heavenly Venerable Lingbao’s Deliverance Scripture, recited the Demon Emperor’s scripture, and used the “Weapon” Secret to obtain all five segments.

Lu Chen left the Demon Emperor's Tomb with the shattered Demon Emperor Ruler, then escaped the greedy cultivators who tried to learn what he had found. Twenty years later, nearly invincible beneath the Great Saint level, he had moved on to battle across the Ancient Roads of other races, spreading the Battle Immortal's reputation through the starry sky.

• Lu Chen placed the five fragments of the Demon Emperor Ruler in his Sea of Bitterness and refused to disturb the Demon Emperor's final resting place.
• Lu Chen and the Three-Legged Golden Crow exited the tomb as cultivators gathered around the Yellow Springs river, believing it revealed the Emperor's Mausoleum.
• When several Saints tried to stop Lu Chen from leaving, the Three-Legged Golden Crow killed them, and Lu Chen departed the Cloudmist Continent and the Star Ruins.
• Twenty years passed, and Lu Chen became almost invincible beneath the Great Saint level, leaving the Human Race Ancient Road to fight across other races' Ancient Roads.
• Lu Chen battled many unfamiliar races across the starry sky, and news of the Battle Immortal's strength spread through ancient star domains.

After twenty years fighting on other races’ trial roads, Lu Chen returned to the Human Race Ancient Road and learned that the Immortal Life Tree had appeared on the Mythical Ancient Road. He entered that ancient hunting zone with the Three-Legged Golden Crow, where his arrival as the Battle Immortal drew the attention of rival prodigies.

• Lu Chen reached the seventh heaven of the Saint King realm, while the Three-Legged Golden Crow advanced to the fifth heaven after devouring his slain foes.
• Lu Chen returned to the Human Race Ancient Road and heard from the Guide Envoy that Ye Fan, Zixia, the Central Emperor, and others might be heading to the Mythical Ancient Road to pursue the Immortal Life Tree.
• Lu Chen slew ten descendants of primordial god-demon bloodlines, used their blood to activate the God-Demon Altar in the Golden Seven Cities, and traveled with the Three-Legged Golden Crow to the Mythical Ancient Road.
• Lu Chen and the Three-Legged Golden Crow crossed the boundary into the Mythical Ancient Hunting Zone, where they encountered powerful beasts and cultivators battling them.
• The Three-Legged Golden Crow was recognized as the Battle Immortal, and prodigies followed Lu Chen toward the depths of the hunting zone, anticipating a contest for the title of supreme.

Lu Chen waited on the Mythical Ancient Road for a way to the Bitter Sea and Other Shore as Young Supremes fought and died. After Great Saint Daoist Qinghuang underwent Dao Transformation and Lu Chen declared that immortals should exist, Heavenly Punishment struck him with devastating Immortal Light.

• Lu Chen traveled the Mythical Ancient Road with the Three-Legged Golden Crow, waiting for someone to reveal the way to the Bitter Sea and Other Shore.
• A Teng Snake killed a Young Supreme of the Golden Giant clan during the bloody contest among the races.
• After five years on the road, Great Saint Daoist Qinghuang reached the end of his lifespan and began Dao Transformation before the gathered cultivators.
• Daoist Qinghuang asked whether immortals existed, then transformed into a blazing azure phoenix and vanished as Lu Chen said that immortals should exist.
• The Mythical Ancient Domain trembled, and Heavenly Punishment struck Lu Chen with Immortal Light, leaving the onlookers stunned.

Lu Chen survived heavenly punishment after declaring that immortals existed, then fled to heal while the cultivators searched for the Bitter Sea. After a diviner revealed its location, the factions opened a path into the vast sea, where Lu Chen began looking for a boat to reach the Other Shore and its Life Spring Divine Liquid.

• Daoist Qinghuang completed his Dao Transformation and died, while the cultivators wondered whether Lu Chen's claim about immortals had triggered heavenly punishment.
• Lu Chen emerged from the shattered void badly injured and realized the heavens had punished him for revealing a true heavenly secret about immortals.
• Lu Chen used Nine Secrets: Xing to escape with the Three-Legged Golden Crow, then concealed himself with a heaven-deceiving formation and healed.
• The Heavenly Secret Diviner located the Bitter Sea, and the factions gathered to open the spatial coordinates leading to it.
• The Dao Guardians widened the rift and entered the Bitter Sea, where the water drained cultivation and the laws made prolonged flight dangerous.
• Lu Chen searched for a boat to cross the Bitter Sea, aiming to reach the Other Shore and obtain the Life Spring Divine Liquid.

Lu Chen reunited with Zixia in the Bitter Sea and led her and the Three-Legged Golden Crow to Heavenly Venerable Lingbao’s Life Spring. They cultivated there for five years, but Lu Chen still could not claim the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords.

• Lu Chen reunited with Zixia after decades apart in the starry sky.
• Lu Chen seized an ancient ship and took Zixia and the Three-Legged Golden Crow toward the Bitter Sea’s central Life Spring.
• Lu Chen entered the Life Spring using Heavenly Venerable Lingbao’s scripture, found the Four Killing Swords and Lingbao’s Cave Abode, and brought his companions inside to cultivate.
• Lu Chen refined the Life Spring Divine Liquid, nourished a Flat Peach pit, and brought out the Humanoid Immortal Divine Medicine and Little Enlightenment Tea Tree.
• Zixia advanced to the fifth heaven of the Saint King realm, while the Three-Legged Golden Crow drew closer to the Ancient Golden Crow bloodline.
• After five years of cultivation, Lu Chen reached the eighth heaven of the Saint King realm but still could not claim the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords.

Lu Chen, Zixia, and the Three-Legged Golden Crow crossed the newly formed Divine Bridge to the Divine Other Shore, where Lu Chen chose the Gods and Demons Burial Ground as a place to cultivate. He used the Immortal-Slaying Gourd to break through the forbidden region’s defenses and lead them inside.

• Lu Chen concluded that the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords could not yet be taken and collected Heavenly Venerable Divine Liquid from the Life Spring.
• A Divine Bridge formed across the Bitter Sea, and Lu Chen crossed it with Zixia and the Three-Legged Golden Crow to reach the Divine Other Shore.
• Lu Chen identified the Other Shore’s five continents as the Five Elements Immortal Land and learned that the Immortal-Slaying Formation Diagram guarded the Life Ancient Tree.
• Lu Chen led Zixia and the Three-Legged Golden Crow to the Gods and Demons Burial Ground, where the Great Daos of ancient gods and demons remained.
• Lu Chen activated the Immortal-Slaying Gourd to force his way into the forbidden region, cutting through the Great Daos’ attacks as the mountains shook around them.

After twenty-four years of secluded cultivation in God-Demon Ridge, Lu Chen began creating the Battle Immortal Seal by refining the many supreme arts he had learned. Zixia and the Three-Legged Golden Crow watched as his new seal art took shape, while the struggle over the Life Ancient Tree continued beyond their refuge.

• Lu Chen secluded himself with Zixia and the Three-Legged Golden Crow in God-Demon Ridge, planting the Humanoid Immortal Tree and Little Enlightenment Tea Tree and hiding them with a formation.
• During twenty-four years of cultivation, the Three-Legged Golden Crow advanced to the eighth heaven of the Saint King realm after refining a Fusang Divine Tree branch.
• Zixia used portions of the Fusang branch and immortal liquid to reach the ninth heaven of the Saint King realm, while the Golden Crow reported that attacks on the Divine Realm had failed and the Life Ancient Tree remained beyond reach.
• After seven more days of contemplation, Lu Chen awakened and demonstrated the Earth Seal, Divine Phoenix Slash, Imperial Dragon Qi Saint Sword, and other techniques.
• Lu Chen combined and refined his arts into the Battle Immortal Seal, an invincible technique he intended to use as a blade to forge his path ahead.

After more than twenty-four years of cultivation in the Gods and Demons Burial Ground, Lu Chen forged his own Dao Palace scripture and created the Battle Immortal Seal by smelting the ancient Daos of gods and demons. He emerged with strength that could break through the eight forbidden domain.

• Lu Chen comprehended and refined the myriad Daos and ancient runes beneath the Human-Shaped Immortal Tree, using them to forge his own Dao.
• The God-Demon Ridge trembled as its runes descended, while Lu Chen's blood-energy Dao Body unfolded his methods and tempered his Immortal Seal.
• Lu Chen completed the Battle Immortal Seal, whose manifestation astonished Zixia and the Golden Crow.
• Zixia recognized that Lu Chen had forged an invincible path, and Lu Chen declared that he had created his Dao Palace scripture and would be invincible.
• Lu Chen explained that his Battle Immortal Seal was a forbidden art tailored to him, allowing his combat strength to break through the eight forbidden domain.

After twenty-four years in seclusion, Lu Chen emerged with the Battle Immortal Seal and advanced to the pinnacle of the Saint King realm. When the Gold-Eating Beast, Kunyang, and other cultivators attacked him, he killed two Young Supremes with single blows, leaving the battlefield stunned.

• Lu Chen left God-Demon Ridge with Zixia and the Three-Legged Golden Crow after creating the Battle Immortal Seal.
• Lu Chen underwent heavenly tribulation and reached the ninth heaven of the Saint King realm, becoming a Heaven King.
• The Gold-Eating Beast, Kunyang, and the Second Young Lord of the Teng Snake race closed in on Lu Chen, coveting his treasure and seeking revenge.
• The Gold-Eating Beast attacked Lu Chen, who destroyed its body and primordial spirit with the Battle Immortal Seal.
• Kunyang fled, but Lu Chen caught up and killed him with one palm strike, shattering his treasures and leaving the battlefield silent.

Lu Chen killed three Young Supremes, including the Teng Snake Second Young Lord, and left the gathered prodigies too afraid to challenge him. He then announced that he would break open the Divine Realm, which remained protected by Heavenly Venerable Lingbao’s sword formation.

• Lu Chen confronted the Teng Snake Second Young Lord, whose Quasi-Emperor formation diagram fled when Lu Chen unleashed the Immortal-Slaying Gourd’s power.
• Lu Chen defeated the Teng Snake Second Young Lord in fewer than ten exchanges and destroyed his body and spirit with the Battle Immortal Seal.
• The assembled Young Supremes, including the Great Demon God, the Divine Race’s goddess, Di Tian, and the Golden-Horned Ant, gave up any thought of challenging Lu Chen.
• Lu Chen declared that he would break open the Divine Realm, whose Lingbao Sword Formation had resisted attacks from the Light Clan’s God-Refining Pot and the Purple Dragon Clan’s Myriad Dragon Bell.
• Lu Chen concluded that four Emperor Weapons would be needed to break the Divine Realm’s sword formation.

Lu Chen joined the Great Saints’ assault on the Divine Realm after the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords arrived and made its formation nearly impossible to breach. He stopped the Saints from using the Void Emperor’s coffin and summoned the Immortal-Slaying Gourd to help attack the formation.

• Lu Chen told the Three-Legged Golden Crow that more Emperor Weapons would arrive and that he intended to claim the Life Ancient Tree or the Heavenly Venerable’s killing formation.
• The Immortal Iron Rod joined the Myriad Dragon Bell and God-Refining Pot in attacking the Divine Realm, but the formation diagram and the realm’s power of faith held them back.
• The Four Immortal-Slaying Swords arrived and united with the formation diagram, completing the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation and repelling the three Emperor Weapons.
• A Great Saint proposed using the Void Emperor’s Ancient Coffin to break the formation, but Lu Chen stopped him to prevent the realm’s power of faith from igniting and destroying the ancient star.
• Lu Chen summoned the Immortal-Slaying Gourd and descended onto the ancient star, startling the Great Saint from the Myriad Dragon Nest.

Lu Chen assembled five Emperor Weapons to suppress the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation and the Divine Realm’s power of faith, allowing the attackers to break into the Divine Realm. When Dao Yi’s five-element essence qi shattered the Other Shore’s ancient star, Dao Yi stole the Life Ancient Tree, leaving Lu Chen to pursue the Heavenly Venerable Formation Diagram and four immortal swords.

• Lu Chen warned that the Divine Realm’s power of faith could rival an Emperor Weapon and called forth Dao Yi’s Protector, who arrived wearing the Daoyan Immortal Robe.
• Lu Chen, the Saint Emperor’s Imperial Prince, and the other Great Saints used five Emperor Weapons to suppress the sword formation and the Divine Realm’s power of faith.
• The attackers overwhelmed the Divine Realm, and its elders, hall masters, and Four Great Saintesses fell in battle.
• The Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation collapsed, and Lu Chen approached the Heavenly Venerable Formation Diagram.
• Dao Yi’s five-element essence qi tore the Other Shore’s ancient star apart, while its power of faith shielded it from even greater destruction.
• Dao Yi stole the Life Ancient Tree during the chaos, and Lu Chen turned his attention to the Formation Diagram and four immortal swords.

After Dao Yi’s destruction of the Other Shore Ancient Star, Lu Chen escaped the battle over the Immortal Swords and used the Lingbao Immortal Scripture to summon the Killing Formation Diagram and two swords. He secured them, while the other two swords fled into the universe.

• Dao Yi’s detonation of the Five-Element Continent’s essence shattered the Other Shore Ancient Star and killed countless beings.
• The Great Saints fought over the abandoned Killing Formation Diagram and four Immortal Swords, while the Light Clan’s Great Saint attacked Lu Chen as he tried to connect with the formation.
• Lu Chen retreated with Zixia and the Three-Legged Golden Crow, then chanted the Lingbao Immortal Scripture with Zixia’s help to draw the formation and swords toward him.
• The Daoyan Immortal Robe, Myriad Dragon Bell, and God-Refining Pot intercepted the formation and swords, but the Killing Formation Diagram and two swords reached Lu Chen.
• Lu Chen grasped and stored the formation diagram and two Immortal Swords with the Immortal-Slaying Gourd, while the other two swords escaped into the universe.

After leaving the ruined Other Shore, Lu Chen traveled with Zixia and the Three-Legged Golden Crow to the Human Race’s final pass and entered the Ultimate Emperor Road. He reached the nameless imperial pass and prepared to leave his name on the Giant Stele.

• The Great Saints abandoned the Other Shore, while survivors later rebuilt parts of the shattered star; Lu Chen and his companions gathered Five Elements Qi and left the region.
• Lu Chen decided to visit the Human Race’s final pass, since the Ancient Road’s trials no longer challenged him or Zixia.
• Lu Chen, Zixia, and the Three-Legged Golden Crow entered the final pass, where the Guide Envoy welcomed them and its inhabitants cheered Lu Chen.
• The Guide Envoy led them to the Ultimate Ancient Road, where Lu Chen saw the pillars bearing the imprints of past Great Emperors.
• Lu Chen approached the shut gates and summoned a Giant Stele, discovering that twenty-three people had already left their names on it.

At the Imperial Pass, Lu Chen inscribed his name on the Crystal Stele and decided to return to the Big Dipper with Zixia and the Three-Legged Golden Crow. After years of battles across other races’ Ancient Roads, the three finally set out for home.

• Lu Chen and his companions examined the Crystal Stele, noting names including Primordial Beginning, Yin Tiande, Golden Cicada, Divine King Jiang Taixu, and Human Demon Dongfang Taiyi.
• Lu Chen carved his name onto the Crystal Stele in twenty-fourth place, while Zixia and the Three-Legged Golden Crow lacked Great Saint-level combat power to qualify.
• Lu Chen told Zixia they could return home before the Ultimate Imperial Pass opened, and the three traveled through other races’ Ancient Roads for over a dozen years.
• Lu Chen fought peerless opponents across the starry sky, earning an invincible reputation, while Zixia and the Three-Legged Golden Crow also became renowned.
• Lu Chen and his companions finally began their journey back to the Big Dipper, the Burial Emperor Star.

After a hundred years on the Human Race's Ancient Road, Lu Chen returned to Big Dipper with Zixia and the Three-Legged Golden Crow. He reached the Eastern Wasteland after crushing an attacking warship and leaving the Ancient Race wary of his return.

• Lu Chen, Zixia, and the Three-Legged Golden Crow crossed the starry sky on the Void-Breaking Formation Platform and arrived at Big Dipper Ancient Star.
• The Three-Legged Golden Crow carried Lu Chen and Zixia toward the planet, where Lu Chen recognized its five regions as Heavenly Venerable Immeasurable's Five-Colored Altar.
• They found Saints and Great Saints fighting in the battlefield beyond Big Dipper, but Lu Chen ignored the distant battle and descended toward the planet.
• A golden warship carrying Saints and Saint Kings attacked them, and Lu Chen seized it and killed everyone aboard with one clench of his hand.
• Qin He recognized Lu Chen and warned the Ancient Race to withdraw if they encountered him.
• Lu Chen and his companions landed in the Eastern Wasteland, where Zixia and Lu Chen sensed that the star's vital essence and Great Dao had grown far stronger.

Lu Chen returned with Zixia to the Purple Mansion Holy Land, where their reunion and his achievements astonished the sect. He later placed the broken Demon Emperor Ruler in the Endless Fire Domain’s immortal fire for repairs, then entered the Immortal Mansion beneath the northern polar icefield in search of immortal light.

• Zixia and Lu Chen arrived at the Purple Mansion Holy Land, where the sect welcomed Zixia home and learned that Lu Chen had conquered the Human Race Ancient Road and could slay Great Saints.
• The Purple Mansion Holy Lord and elders accepted Lu Chen’s relationship with Zixia, and Lu Chen reunited with Gu Qingxia, Gu Youtong, and Gu Youyu, who had all become Dao-Slaying Kings.
• Lu Chen traveled to the Endless Fire Domain with the Three-Legged Golden Crow and placed the five fragments of the Demon Emperor Ruler in its central immortal fire for repair.
• Lu Chen went to the northern polar icefield, entered the ancient well and the Immortal Mansion, and passed through dangerous imperial formation patterns.
• Lu Chen followed a narrow passage supported by Great Saint formation patterns into the depths of the chaos.

Lu Chen excavated the chaos beneath the northern pole, gathered northern pole immortal light, and comprehended the Great Dao until he entered the Great Saint realm. He survived a world-destroying tribulation against the fused imprints of the Taiyin Human Emperor and Solar Saint Emperor, reaching the fifth heaven of the Great Saint realm.

• Lu Chen discovered Tu Fei cultivating inside a cocoon of northern pole immortal light and met an elderly peak Great Saint who had used the same spiritual essence to prolong her life.
• Lu Chen used the Immortal-Slaying Gourd to carve through the chaos, collected seventy-two strands of northern pole immortal light, and found no other surviving treasures.
• Lu Chen spent three years studying the Great Dao and refining a hundred and eight strands of northern pole immortal light, then advanced into the Great Saint realm.
• Lu Chen left the depleted Road to Immortality and traveled far from Big Dipper Ancient Star before beginning his heavenly tribulation.
• Lu Chen battled the Great Dao imprints of the Taiyin Human Emperor and Solar Saint Emperor, nearly perished, and used the Phoenix Tribulation Rebirth Art and Battle Immortal Seal to destroy them.
• Lu Chen survived the tribulation and advanced several minor realms, reaching the fifth heaven of the Great Saint realm.

After surviving his Great Saint Tribulation, Lu Chen learned that experts had gathered in the Endless Fire Domain to seize the Demon Emperor Ruler, which he had left there to be repaired. As the stone saint spirit pulled the ruler from the immortal fire, Lu Chen arrived and attacked him.

• Lu Chen recovered from his tribulation wounds, reached the Great Saint Fifth Heaven, and headed for the Big Dipper.
• In the Fire Domain, Saints and Saint Kings gathered around the Demon Emperor Ruler while the Three-Legged Golden Crow warned them that it had a master.
• Several experts who tried to reach the ruler were burned to ash by the immortal fire, and their weapons shattered.
• Great Saint Hun Tuo, a Ji Family Great Saint, and a stone saint spirit arrived and attempted to take the ruler.
• The stone saint spirit used a Glowing Green Weapon to retrieve the Demon Emperor Ruler from the immortal fire, and Lu Chen arrived and struck at him.