Chapter Summaries

Lu Chen returned to the Fire Domain and claimed the Demon Emperor Ruler, then fought and killed a pinnacle Great Saint Saint Spirit beyond Big Dipper. He collected the stone man’s remains and Heaven-Measuring Ruler, destroying the weapon’s divine spirit.

• Lu Chen appeared at the Fire Domain and declared the Demon Emperor Ruler belonged to him, revealing he had reached Great Saint Fifth Heaven.
• The Saint Spirit stone man challenged Lu Chen with the Heaven-Measuring Ruler forged from immortal tear green gold, and Lu Chen summoned his Nine-Layer Immortal Gold Pagoda.
• Lu Chen drove the stone man back with the Battle Immortal Seal, even as the Saint Spirit transformed his arms into flesh and blood to unleash his strongest attack.
• Lu Chen combined the Battle Immortal Seal with Emperor Zun’s Nine Secrets: Jie and blasted the stone man apart.
• Lu Chen gathered the stone man’s remains and divine blood, took the Heaven-Measuring Ruler, and obliterated its divine spirit.

After defeating a pinnacle Great Saint Spirit, Lu Chen rushed to the Fire Domain to stop Great Saint Qian Lun from seizing the Demon Emperor Ruler. Lu Chen suppressed Qian Lun in the Outer Domain, but a second Ancient Race Great Saint arrived and attacked him.

• Lu Chen slew the Saint Spirit, collected its divine blood and Immortal Tear Green Gold ruler, and sensed the Demon Emperor Ruler awakening in the Fire Domain.
• Lu Chen found Great Saint Qian Lun trying to seize the Demon Emperor Ruler and attacked him with the Immortal-Slaying Gourd.
• Lu Chen drew the Demon Emperor Ruler's five fragments into his body, challenged Qian Lun, and took their fight to the Outer Domain.
• Qian Lun revealed that another Ancient Race Great Saint would join him, while Zixia worried that Lu Chen was facing two enemies with Ancient Emperor Weapons.
• Lu Chen fought Qian Lun with the Heavenly Venerable Killing Sword and suppressed him, until the second Great Saint arrived and attacked.

Lu Chen used his Dao Body and two Emperor Weapons to turn the battle against Qian Lun and the Golden Clan's Great Saint, killing Qian Lun and grievously wounding the Golden King. As Lu Chen closed in on the Golden King, Great Saint Hun Tuo arrived and asked him to show mercy.

• Qian Lun and the Golden Clan's Great Saint attacked Lu Chen with the Myriad Dragon Bell and the Golden Mace, forcing him to fight both Ancient Emperor Weapons alone.
• Lu Chen revealed a Dao Body as strong as himself and armed it with the Immortal-Slaying Gourd, making the fight two against two.
• Lu Chen and his Dao Body gained the upper hand, driving Qian Lun and the Golden King back and wounding them both.
• Lu Chen used the Weapon Secret to stop the Myriad Dragon Bell from returning to Qian Lun, then destroyed Qian Lun with a Battle Immortal Seal.
• Lu Chen and his Dao Body surrounded the Golden King and continued their assault until he spat blood and the outcome was settled.
• Great Saint Hun Tuo arrived from the Eastern Wasteland and asked Lu Chen to show mercy.

Lu Chen rejected Great Saint Hun Tuo’s mediation and killed the Golden King after defeating Great Saint Qian Lun, leaving both Primordial Imperial Clans without their Great Saints. He returned to the Fire Domain with Zixia, while the Ancient Emperor Weapons returned to their clans and the Three-Legged Golden Crow stayed to guard the Demon Emperor Ruler.

• Great Saint Hun Tuo and former clan leaders of several Primordial Imperial Clans tried to persuade Lu Chen to spare the Golden King, but Lu Chen refused.
• Lu Chen used the Weapon Secret to disrupt the Golden Mace, then joined his Dao Body’s attack to kill the Golden King with the Immortal-Slaying Gourd.
• The Myriad Dragon Bell and Golden Mace flew back toward their ancestral clans, and Lu Chen chose not to seize either Ancient Emperor Weapon.
• Lu Chen returned to the Fire Domain, where Zixia and the Three-Legged Golden Crow greeted him, and he placed the Demon Emperor Ruler back in the immortal fire for repairs.
• Lu Chen told the Three-Legged Golden Crow to remain in the Fire Domain and guard the Demon Emperor Ruler, then left with Zixia.

After defeating three Great Saints, Lu Chen gave Zixia the Saint Spirit's Immortal Tear Green Gold Ruler and directed the Purple Mansion disciples to publicize a great accomplishment sacred body's deeds in preparation for the coming Dark Turmoil. He then took Zixia from the Purple Mansion Holy Land to a place he believed would help her reach the Great Saint realm, leaving them in a desert in the Northern Region.

• Lu Chen handed Zixia the Immortal Tear Green Gold Ruler, which she reforged into her own divine sword and Dao Artifact.
• Lu Chen sent Purple Mansion disciples across the Eastern Wasteland to aid mortals and spread the great accomplishment sacred body's past achievements.
• Lu Chen explained that he hoped renewed faith and remembrance would strengthen the Mars great accomplishment sacred body's Dao Fruit for the coming Dark Turmoil.
• Lu Chen told Zixia that she had reached the ninth heaven of the Saint King realm and offered to take her somewhere that would help her break through.
• Lu Chen and Zixia traveled to a desert in the Northern Region, twenty to thirty thousand li from the Forbidden Zone of Absolute Beginning.

Lu Chen brought Zixia into the Jade Pool Ruins and revealed the Queen Mother of the West’s corpse and the remains of her husband, a great accomplishment sacred body. Zixia began comprehending the Western Emperor’s great dao while Lu Chen endured the corpse’s imperial might to temper himself.

• Lu Chen found the ancient well leading to the Jade Pool Ruins and guided Zixia through it, explaining that the Underworld had devastated the Jade Pool Holy Land tens of thousands of years earlier.
• Lu Chen and Zixia descended to the ninth layer of the Immortal Pool, where they sensed the aura of an Ancient Great Emperor.
• Lu Chen showed Zixia the Queen Mother of the West’s corpse and revealed the great accomplishment sacred body hidden behind her, explaining that the Underworld’s curse had led the Queen Mother to end her husband’s life.
• Lu Chen gave Zixia the Immortal-Slaying Gourd and urged her to approach the Queen Mother’s remains and study her great dao.
• Zixia reached within three zhang of the Western Emperor’s Corpse and began secluded cultivation, while Lu Chen pushed through the imperial pressure to temper himself.

After ten years of seclusion in the Jade Pool Ruins, Lu Chen and Zixia left with improved cultivation and traveled to Qishi Mansion before entering the Immortal Mansion World. There, Lu Chen headed toward the ancient battlefield to seek the remains of an Ancient Emperor.

• Zixia comprehended the Queen Mother of the West's inheritance and reached the Third Heaven of the Great Saint Realm, while Lu Chen advanced to the Eighth Heaven.
• Lu Chen reassured Zixia that he would one day eliminate the Underworld and other threats, then they collected Divine Spring water and left the Jade Pool Ruins.
• Lu Chen sealed the old well, traveled with Zixia to Qishi Mansion, and caused a stir among the gathered cultivators.
• Lu Chen and Zixia entered the Immortal Mansion World and made their way toward its forbidden battlefield.
• Lu Chen explained that an Ancient Emperor had fallen there and that he had come to retrieve some of the emperor's remaining flesh and blood.

Lu Chen and Zixia entered the Immortal Mansion World’s forbidden land, where Lu Chen used Taihuang’s remains to refine the killing intent and temper his body with emperor blood. After reaching the Great Saint peak, Lu Chen returned to the Purple Mansion Holy Land as the Myriad Races Gathering was proposed to address the coming opening of the Road to Immortality.

• Lu Chen and Zixia crossed the burning emperor blood and reached the remains of Taihuang, whose shattered body and bones still radiated immense pressure and killing intent.
• Lu Chen used the Heavenly Venerable Killing Formation to absorb the killing intent in Taihuang’s remains, while Zixia guarded him with the Immortal-Slaying Gourd.
• Lu Chen tempered his body with the remaining emperor blood and, after years of cultivation, created his own Four Extremes Secret Realm Scripture and reached the ninth heaven of the Great Saint realm.
• Lu Chen left for a depleted star domain to undergo his tribulation, while Taihuang’s remains finally dissolved and vanished.
• Lu Chen and Zixia returned to the Purple Mansion Holy Land and learned that Ye Fan had returned from the Starry Sky Ancient Road and rescued Hua Hua from Mount Sumeru.
• The various powers proposed the Myriad Races Gathering to establish rules for the impending opening of the Road to Immortality, and Lu Chen reacted with helpless resignation.

Lu Chen attended the Myriad Races Gathering in Dark City, where he crushed an attempt to threaten the Human Race and defeated two Great Saints. He rejected the debate over Immortal Road places and left to reunite with Ye Fan and the other returning talents.

• Representatives of races from across the universe gathered above Dark City to debate rules for the coming Immortal Path.
• Lu Chen arrived with Zixia and killed dozens of cultivators who proposed driving the Human Race off Big Dipper.
• The Tongtian Divine Rat Great Saint challenged Lu Chen, but Lu Chen killed him in fewer than ten exchanges and burned another Great Saint to ash.
• Lu Chen entered the Central Heavenly Palace, listened to the races argue over Immortal Road places, and said he would take none before leaving with Zixia.
• Lu Chen spotted Ye Fan and the other returning talents and walked over to greet them.

Lu Chen reunited with Ye Fan at the Myriad Races Gathering, where they learned that Anpu, the offspring of a Forbidden Zone Supreme, had appeared. After the gathering, the Divine Court sent an edict seeking to recruit Lu Chen, who dismissed the threat and said its ruler would not dare come to Big Dipper.

• Lu Chen left the Central Heavenly Palace with Zixia and reunited with Ye Fan, who thanked him for protecting his parents on Earth.
• Lu Chen and Ye Fan discussed Earth, the stars, and their cultivation before an ancient chariot arrived, pulled by a powerful Stone Tiger.
• Lu Chen revealed that the pale young man Anpu was the offspring of a Supreme within a Life Forbidden Zone, shocking Ye Fan, Dragon Horse, Zixia, and the others.
• Half a month later, the Myriad Races Gathering ended without satisfactory agreements, and Lu Chen returned with Zixia to the Purple Mansion Holy Land.
• Lu Chen learned that the Divine Court had sent an Imperial Edict recruiting him as a Divine Guardian General.
• Lu Chen reassured Zixia and the Purple Mansion Saint that the Emperor Lord would not come to Big Dipper and that he feared none of the Divine Court's other experts.

Lu Chen rejected the Divine Court’s demand that he submit to the Emperor Lord and struck down its golden-haired Great Saint messenger. The Divine Court’s deputy sect master, Yuhuatian, then arrived at the Purple Mansion Holy Land to kill him, and Lu Chen attacked with Emperor Weapons.

• A golden-haired Great Saint delivered the Divine Court’s Imperial Edict and demanded that Lu Chen kneel and accept it.
• Lu Chen rejected the edict, struck the messenger out of the Purple Mansion Holy Land, and dismissed the threat of the Emperor Lord.
• After the messenger reported back, Yuhuatian, the Divine Court’s deputy sect master, descended upon the Eastern Wasteland and confronted Lu Chen.
• Yuhuatian attacked Lu Chen, who defended himself with the Heavenly Venerable Formation Diagram and two Immortal Swords.
• Lu Chen unleashed his Emperor Weapons and charged at Yuhuatian, vowing to slay him.

Lu Chen pursued the Quasi-Emperor Yuhuatian across the stars with the Heavenly Venerable Killing Sword, but could not overcome the gulf between their realms. After a month of flight and ambushes, Yuhuatian struck Lu Chen down in the Lunar Sea of Stars, leaving only the Killing Sword behind.

• Lu Chen drove Yuhuatian into retreat with the Emperor Sword, but Yuhuatian used a Quasi-Emperor Formation Diagram to resist its attacks.
• Lu Chen’s complete Heavenly Venerable Formation Diagram empowered the sword, cracking Yuhuatian’s artifact and forcing him to flee through a universe black hole.
• Lu Chen pursued Yuhuatian for a month across several star roads and domains, while Yuhuatian repeatedly returned to ambush him.
• The battle spread across the universe, and news of Battle Immortal Lu Chen’s pursuit of a Quasi-Emperor shocked the many races.
• Lu Chen entered a Lunar Sea of Stars after Yuhuatian disappeared into its black mist, where Yuhuatian suddenly attacked from behind and shattered his body.

Lu Chen trapped and killed Yuhuatian, the Divine Court’s Quasi-Emperor deputy leader, then returned to Big Dipper. A year later, Lu Chen and Zixia married amid congratulations from powerful factions across the starry sky.

• Lu Chen used a Dao body as bait and the Heavenly Venerable Formation Diagram to trap Yuhuatian, then destroyed his body and primordial spirit.
• Lu Chen returned safely to Big Dipper and told Zixia that the Quasi-Emperor would never appear again.
• A year later, Lu Chen and Zixia held their wedding at the Purple Mansion Holy Land, with its elders approving the match.
• Leaders and representatives from Big Dipper factions, imperial clans, and beyond its domain came to offer congratulations and gifts.
• Ye Fan, the Yaochi Saintess, and Yao Yuekong congratulated Lu Chen and Zixia, and Lu Chen welcomed his guests.

Lu Chen watched the Road to Immortality open and prepared for the Dark Turmoil by moving Purple Mansion Holy Land to a concealed world beyond Big Dipper. As the Ancient Supremes gathered and the immortal path widened, ruined bodies fell from it and the forbidden-zone Supremes began to emerge, leaving Lu Chen facing the start of the calamity.

• Lu Chen ordered Zixia to evacuate Purple Mansion Holy Land, created a Divine Spirit Small World, and concealed it with heaven-deceiving formations in the Cosmic Frontier.
• Lu Chen retrieved the mostly restored Demon Emperor Ruler from the Fire Domain as other major powers moved their foundations away from Big Dipper.
• An Ancient Supreme emerged from the Immortal Mausoleum, and the Life Forbidden Zones revealed the immense power of their awakened Supremes.
• The Emperor Lord challenged the Forbidden Zone Supremes, but the Ruthless Great Emperor shattered the eternal blue gold imperial tower they sent toward the Desolate Forbidden Zone.
• Months later, the Road to Immortality burst open, and the ruined bodies of Ancient Supremes, including Demon Emperor Xue Yueqing's lingering will, fell from the rift.
• Cultivators glimpsed the Immortal Domain before dark clouds covered it, while Lu Chen watched the Ancient Supremes emerge.

Eleven Ancient Supremes and later the Wushi Bell and Amitabha Buddha's Divine Self-Body failed to become immortals on the Road to Immortality. With six wounded Supremes surviving, Lu Chen left the Big Dipper Star Domain as the Dark Turmoil threatened to begin.

• Seven Ancient Supremes entered the Road to Immortality and broke through its Immortal Gate together.
• The Supremes reached a Chaos Cave, charged inside, and emerged wounded after failing to become immortals.
• The Wushi Bell entered the collapsing Chaos Cave and vanished with the Road to Immortality, while four more Supremes also failed their attempts.
• Five of the eleven Supremes died on the Immortal Path, and six survived; the Wushi Bell and Amitabha Buddha's Divine Self-Body also failed to become immortal.
• Lu Chen left the Big Dipper Star Domain as the six surviving Supremes prepared to begin a Dark Turmoil.

After the Immortal Path failed, six Ancient Supremes began the greatest dark turmoil in history, devouring the Big Dipper Star Domain and hunting across the universe for life essence. Lu Chen sensed the catastrophe and resolved to do what he could, while the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body struggled to hold off the Longevity Heavenly Venerable.

• Five of the eleven Ancient Supremes perished on the Immortal Path, while the six survivors continued to struggle for immortality.
• The Longevity Heavenly Venerable consumed the Big Dipper Star Domain's sun, plunging it into darkness, and the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body attacked him.
• One Supreme shattered the Burial Emperor Star, and the Lord of Reincarnation and the other Supremes devoured the life essence of its inhabitants.
• The Ruthless Great Emperor awakened and attacked the Supremes, but her unstable body forced her to enter an immortal cocoon and nirvana.
• The five Supremes left the Big Dipper Star Domain to hunt across different star domains, while the Longevity Heavenly Venerable fought the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body.
• Lu Chen sensed the dark turmoil beginning and decided to make what contribution he could.

The Ancient Supremes devastated the universe and consumed the life essence of countless beings, provoking awakened Emperor Weapons to unite against them. As Ye Fan prepared to merge with a fallen great accomplishment sacred body's corpse to fight the Supremes, Lu Chen arrived at Saint Cliff and offered a potentially better way.

• The five Supremes slaughtered life across the universe, while Earth, Ziwei, and the Tyrant Body Ancestral Star briefly resisted before the great accomplished tyrant body joined the dark turmoil.
• The great accomplishment sacred body of the Desolate Forbidden Zone and Longevity Heavenly Venerable fought to the death, while the surviving Supremes continued their slaughter and shattered Emperor Weapons for their power.
• The Emperor Weapons across the universe awakened and attacked the Supremes together, prompting Stone Emperor to fight back with his halberd.
• Yellow Emperor and Shennong joined the battle, and the Ji Family and Jiang Family used their blood to restore the emperor daos of the Void Mirror and Hengyu Furnace, empowering the two Quasi-Emperors.
• Lu Chen returned to shattered Big Dipper and found Ye Fan and Black Emperor at Saint Cliff, where Ye Fan intended to merge with the fallen sacred body's corpse.
• Lu Chen told Ye Fan that the plan meant certain death and said he might have a better way.

Lu Chen’s plan awakened the Mars Great Accomplishment Sacred Body by borrowing the Dao Fruit of his previous life, then strengthened him with two Sacred Body corpses and Great Emperor Wushi’s relics. The revived Senior marched into the universe to fight the five Supremes and confront the Dark Turmoil.

• Lu Chen led Ye Fan, Black Emperor, and Xiao Nannan to retrieve the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body from Saint Cliff and Wushi’s father’s corpse from the Jade Pool Ruins, along with Wushi’s Formation Platform and blood essence.
• Lu Chen released the Mars Sacred Body’s Divine Spirit Resentment from the Immortal-Slaying Gourd and recited the Heavenly Venerable Scripture to deliver him.
• As the Divine Spirit Resentment faced destruction, he awakened the memories and Dao Fruit of his previous life, manifesting the power and aura of the Mars Great Accomplishment Sacred Body.
• The revived Sacred Body dissolved the evil thoughts, freed Ye Fan from the two bodies, and imparted a method to him before agreeing to fight for all living beings.
• The Mars Sacred Body merged with the two Sacred Body corpses, accepted Wushi’s relics, and set out with Lu Chen’s Emperor Weapons to battle Stone Emperor, the Lord of Reincarnation, and the other Supremes.

The Mars Sacred Body, Gai Jiuyou, Shennong, Yellow Emperor, and the Emperor Weapons fought the Forbidden Zone Supremes to end the dark turmoil. Stone Emperor was the sole surviving Supreme, while Lu Chen sensed the battle’s end and discovered his Immortal-Slaying Gourd had been destroyed and Heavenly Venerable Lingbao’s formation had vanished.

• The Mars Sacred Body arrived and wounded the Lord of the Divine Ruins with a sudden attack.
• Gai Jiuyou restored himself to his youthful peak and fought Light-Dark Supreme, but both disappeared after their dazzling battle.
• Yellow Emperor and Shennong each took a Supreme down with them.
• The Mars Great Accomplishment Sacred Body spent the blood essence Great Emperor Wushi had left behind and died after taking a Supreme and a Great Accomplished Tyrant Body with him.
• The dark turmoil ended with Stone Emperor as the only surviving Supreme, returning to the Undying Mountain.
• Lu Chen sensed the battle’s end and found that the Ancient Supremes had shattered his Immortal-Slaying Gourd, while Heavenly Venerable Lingbao’s Formation Diagram and Killing Swords had vanished.

Two hundred years after the dark turmoil, Lu Chen completed scriptures that fused Taiyin and Taiyang and prepared to enter the quasi-emperor realm. His terrifying tribulation began, leaving him battered as he fought the shadows of Great Emperors and Ancient Emperors.

• Lu Chen searched ruined star domains for the lost Emperor Artifacts but found nothing and wondered whether Stone Emperor or another Supreme had taken them.
• Over the next two centuries, the universe rebuilt, and Lu Chen secluded himself with Zixia to comprehend the Dao.
• Lu Chen created scriptures for his dragon transformation and immortal platform secret realms, fusing Taiyin and Taiyang and forming his own Chaos Great Dao.
• Lu Chen began his quasi-emperor tribulation while Zixia stood guard nearby with the Demon Emperor Ruler.
• A vast sea of divine lightning engulfed a barren star domain, where Lu Chen fought emperor shadows for days, bleeding and struggling to survive.