Chapter Summaries

After defeating the Undying Heavenly Empress, Lu Chen gained the Presence Secret and buried her remains before joining Chuan Ying outside the ruined Underworld. He gave Chuan Ying two Ancient Medicine Kings to heal his wounds and help him keep the Nether Emperor in check, then returned to the Purple Mansion Divine Land.

• Lu Chen obtained the Presence Secret from the Undying Daoist’s memories, bringing his collection of the Nine Secrets to six, and buried the Undying Heavenly Empress’s remains on a desolate celestial body.
• The Nether Emperor withdrew into the depths of the ruined Underworld after fighting Chuan Ying, who survived despite his severe injuries.
• Lu Chen appeared before Chuan Ying and praised him for fighting the Nether Emperor and withdrawing safely.
• Lu Chen gave Chuan Ying two Ancient Medicine Kings, which healed his injuries and strengthened his vitality.
• Chuan Ying agreed to keep the Nether Emperor in check for a while, and Lu Chen returned to the Purple Mansion Divine Land.

Lu Chen faced the ninefold immortal tribulation to reach the Quasi-Emperor Ninth Heaven and advanced halfway into the Great Emperor realm. The Forbidden Zone Supremes attacked him while he was exhausted, but he escaped into the depleted Cosmic Frontier, with the Supreme from the Reincarnation Sea still pursuing him.

• Lu Chen concealed the Purple Mansion Divine Realm and sent Zixia and Lu Yu into hiding to protect them from the Forbidden Zone Supremes.
• Seventy years later, Lu Chen began his Quasi-Emperor Ninth Heaven tribulation and endured its escalating lightning and five-element trials.
• The ninefold immortal tribulation manifested the Nine Heavenly Venerables and imprints of three Immortal Artifacts, while Lu Chen’s five secret realms began to unite.
• Lu Chen survived nine days of tribulation but reached only alternative Dao attainment, and several Forbidden Zone Supremes attacked him while he was weakened.
• Lu Chen used the Immortal Bell’s power of time to repel the attacks and fled into the depleted Cosmic Frontier, but the Supreme from the Reincarnation Sea continued to hunt him.

Lu Chen survived the Forbidden Zone Supremes’ Human Tribulation, but Carefree Heavenly Venerate emerged in person and tried to possess him. Lu Chen broke through the Heavenly Venerate’s attacks, and Carefree Heavenly Venerate revealed that he had previously seized another Dao attainer’s body.

• After surviving the attacks of the Forbidden Zone Supremes, Lu Chen retreated to the Cosmic Frontier to heal, where Carefree Heavenly Venerate appeared in his true body.
• Carefree Heavenly Venerate surrounded Lu Chen with enormous stone steles and used a possession technique, but Lu Chen recognized him and defended his soul with the Nine-Layer Immortal Gold Pagoda and the Foreknowledge secret.
• Lu Chen dispelled the curse and destroyed the attacking spirits with his self-created Immortal-Shocking Secret Art, then shattered the Reincarnation Gate with the Battle Immortal Seal.
• Carefree Heavenly Venerate told Lu Chen he had once possessed a man on the verge of attaining the Dao and intended to seize Lu Chen’s body and return to his prime.

Lu Chen recovered from his wounds with a pill refined from the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s essence blood and fought Carefree Heavenly Venerate, who ultimately used Nine-Turn Immortal Liquid to return to his peak. Carefree Heavenly Venerate revealed himself as the creator of the Travel secret and tore Lu Chen apart, but Lu Chen regenerated as the battle continued.

• Lu Chen swallowed the five-colored divine pill and rapidly recovered, forcing Carefree Heavenly Venerate to face him at full strength.
• Lu Chen and Carefree Heavenly Venerate fought across the starry sky, shattering the stone steles and destroying star domains with their imperial Dao laws.
• Carefree Heavenly Venerate swallowed his last drop of Nine-Turn Immortal Liquid and underwent ultimate sublimation, returning to his peak as a Great Emperor.
• Lu Chen used the divine forbidden domain and the Enhancement secret to match Carefree Heavenly Venerate, though both repeatedly shattered each other’s bodies.
• Carefree Heavenly Venerate revealed the Travel secret, and two Ancient Supremes in Big Dipper’s forbidden zones recognized him and threatened to settle old grudges.
• Carefree Heavenly Venerate used the Travel secret to tear Lu Chen apart, but Lu Chen regenerated, and Carefree Heavenly Venerate declared that he had no chance of surviving.

Carefree Heavenly Venerate used the Nine Secrets: Xing and its power over time to overwhelm Lu Chen, who fought back with his Nine-Layer Immortal Gold Pagoda and supreme secret techniques. The chapter ended with Carefree Heavenly Venerate unleashing a temporal attack that aged the pagoda’s manifested immortal spirits to death, leaving Lu Chen facing his most dangerous threat.

• Carefree Heavenly Venerate revealed his identity and used the Nine Secrets: Xing to wound Lu Chen with attacks too fast to follow.
• Lu Chen used the Nine Secrets: Xing and Enhancement to resist, but Carefree Heavenly Venerate repeatedly overwhelmed him with his speed.
• Lu Chen brought out the Nine-Layer Immortal Gold Pagoda, while Carefree Heavenly Venerate declared he would claim the pagoda, Lu Chen’s body, and his primordial spirit.
• Lu Chen drew Carefree Heavenly Venerate into his Nine-Layer Chaos World, restricting his speed and creating an opening for the Battle Immortal Seal.
• Carefree Heavenly Venerate countered with a beam of temporal power that cracked the pagoda, then launched his deadliest attack.
• Lu Chen drove the pagoda against him, but Carefree Heavenly Venerate’s temporal power aged the manifested immortal spirits until they died.

Lu Chen used the Wushi Secret Art to resist Carefree Heavenly Venerate’s control over time, then merged the origins of Taiyin and Taiyang to cultivate the chaos great dao. Carefree Heavenly Venerate’s final attack shattered Lu Chen’s body, but Lu Chen regenerated as the two primordial spirits fought inside his immortal platform.

• Lu Chen used the Wushi Secret Art to disrupt Carefree Heavenly Venerate’s power over time and fought back with stars seized from a star domain.
• As Carefree Heavenly Venerate repeatedly injured him with temporal attacks, Lu Chen merged the origins of Taiyin and Taiyang and formed a chaos dao cocoon.
• Carefree Heavenly Venerate realized Lu Chen was cultivating the chaos great dao through acquired means, while the cocoon increasingly resisted his attacks.
• Lu Chen struck Carefree Heavenly Venerate with the cocoon, but the Heavenly Venerate summoned the River of Time, shattered it, and tore apart Lu Chen’s body.
• Carefree Heavenly Venerate sent a small silver figure into Lu Chen’s immortal platform to seize his body, while Lu Chen used the Phoenix Tribulation Rebirth Art to restore himself.
• Lu Chen and Carefree Heavenly Venerate’s primordial spirits began a perilous confrontation inside Lu Chen’s immortal platform.

Lu Chen killed Carefree Heavenly Venerate and became a supreme Great Emperor-level powerhouse, then traveled to the Underworld to confront the Prison-Suppressing Emperor and aid Chuan Ying. He revealed that the enemy Chuan Ying meant to fight was not the true Nether Emperor, but only an inheritor of the title.

• Lu Chen defeated Carefree Heavenly Venerate, whose primordial spirit and body dispersed, and seized the Immortal Tear Green Gold Vase.
• Lu Chen recovered from his injuries, refined the Undying Heavenly Emperor's Five-Colored Immortal Blood, and gained Great Emperor-level combat strength.
• Lu Chen ignored speculation that he would attack a Big Dipper forbidden zone and instead headed for the Underworld, where Chuan Ying had been holding back the Prison-Suppressing Emperor.
• Lu Chen reached the Underworld's heartland and found the wounded Chuan Ying facing the Prison-Suppressing Emperor.
• Chuan Ying prepared to avenge the Ancient Heavenly Court, but Lu Chen stood beside him and explained that the Prison-Suppressing Emperor was not the true Nether Emperor.

Lu Chen and Chuan Ying attacked the Underworld after learning that its ruler was the Prison-Suppressing Emperor, not the Nether Emperor. They killed the last remaining Underworld Supreme, seized two ancient weapons, and sealed the weakened Underworld.

• The Prison-Suppressing Emperor revealed that he had inherited the Nether Emperor’s title and weapons and had joined the ambush on Emperor Zun.
• Lu Chen identified the Prison-Suppressing Emperor as a Dao-Proven One, and Chuan Ying declared him an enemy for his role in the Ancient Heavenly Court’s collapse.
• Lu Chen and Chuan Ying battled the Prison-Suppressing Emperor, while Lu Chen explained that the Underworld’s other Supremes had left after sensing the Nether Emperor’s aura.
• The Prison-Suppressing Emperor admitted that he was the Underworld’s last Emperor-level expert and was nearing the end of his life.
• Lu Chen and Chuan Ying defeated the Prison-Suppressing Emperor, who died after claiming Emperor Zun had tried to sacrifice them.
• Lu Chen seized the Nether Iron Battle Armor and Heavenly Halberd, then ordered the Underworld’s Quasi-Emperors to seal the realm and remain inside.

Lu Chen destroyed the Reincarnation Sea, announced the Underworld’s end, and entered the Undying Mountain, where he took its ripe Enlightenment Tea Leaves. He left without confronting the Stone Emperor or the other Ancient Supreme lurking there.

• Lu Chen traveled from the Underworld to Big Dipper and destroyed the former site of the Reincarnation Sea with a single attack.
• Lu Chen declared that the Underworld was no longer a Life Forbidden Zone, stunning the world and the remaining Ancient Supremes.
• Lu Chen entered the Undying Mountain despite its Emperor’s Way Formation Patterns, while its Saint Spirit stone men retreated and its supremes watched without attacking.
• Lu Chen searched the Undying Mountain for the Black Tortoise Immortal Divine Medicine but found no trace of it.
• Lu Chen plucked all 108 ripe leaves from the Enlightenment Tea Tree and left after looking toward the mountain’s depths, where the Stone Emperor and another aging supreme remained.

After proving his Dao, Lu Chen visited the Life Forbidden Zones and demanded compensation from the Supremes who had attacked him during his tribulation. As he left Heavenly Island, a new Great Emperor Tribulation began in a distant star domain, and Lu Chen turned to investigate.

• Lu Chen taunted the Stone Emperor at the Undying Mountain, then entered the Immortal Mausoleum and took ancient stone tablets.
• Lu Chen entered the Divine Ruins, seized a supreme-grade divine spring, and left after the local Supreme rebuked him.
• Lu Chen demanded primordial life stone from the Supremes in the Forbidden Zone of Absolute Beginning, and they handed him a block.
• Lu Chen entered Heavenly Island and took several Ancient Medicine Kings before returning to the outside world.
• A Great Emperor Tribulation erupted in a distant star domain, and Lu Chen looked toward its source.

Old Golden Crow seized the moment while Lu Chen kept the forbidden-zone Supremes at bay to undergo his Great Emperor Tribulation. As he battled the universe-spanning lightning, he neared becoming a Demon Race Great Emperor, closing the path to the Dao for the era’s other prodigies.

• Lu Chen recognized Old Golden Crow in the tribulation and understood that he had used Nirvana to prepare for a second lifetime and chosen this moment to prove the Dao.
• The Ancient Supremes considered killing Old Golden Crow but held back, wary of provoking Lu Chen, whose power had cowed the forbidden zones.
• Divine Silkworm Daoist, Yin Tiande, God Venerable, and other aspiring heroes lamented that Old Golden Crow’s imminent attainment would block their path to becoming emperor.
• Lu Chen remained undaunted, believing he could overcome the rules of heaven and earth through his own strength.
• Old Golden Crow fought through the vast sea of lightning and appeared close to surviving the tribulation and becoming a Great Emperor.

The Golden Crow ancestor became a Great Emperor and forged a golden Extreme Dao bell, while Lu Chen remained a rival source of power in the universe. Lu Chen visited the dying First Divine General, Chuan Ying, and promised to take him somewhere that might extend his life and let him glimpse immortality.

• The Golden Crow ancestor survived a second life, overcame his tribulation, and became a Great Emperor of the Demon Race.
• The Golden Crow Great Emperor forged a golden Extreme Dao bell, while Lu Chen regarded him as a rival who might not enjoy an unchallenged reign.
• The Golden Crow Clan rose to prominence, but Lu Chen's victories and reputation drew even more pilgrims to the Divine Realm on Ziwei.
• Lu Chen arrived at the God Organization's heartland and told Old God he had come to see Chuan Ying.
• Lu Chen found Chuan Ying near the end of his life and offered to take him to a place that could extend his lifespan and perhaps let him attain the Dao.
• Lu Chen and Chuan Ying left the God Organization together for the mysterious place.

Lu Chen brought Chuan Ying to Mars and revealed the One World Mausoleum, hoping to find a way to extend the First Divine General’s life. Inside, they discovered the Undying Heavenly Emperor was dormant, and Chuan Ying resolved to kill him despite the danger.

• Lu Chen and Chuan Ying arrived in the Solar System, where Chuan Ying recognized the Primordial Ancient Star and recalled fighting at Kunlun with Emperor Zun.
• Lu Chen said Mars held the place that might slow Chuan Ying’s dwindling life essence, then led him into the One World Mausoleum.
• Chuan Ying recognized the mausoleum as a sealed world filled with the remains of an entire era’s experts.
• Lu Chen and Chuan Ying reached a great palace where Chuan Ying sensed an Emperor’s aura.
• Lu Chen revealed that the Undying Heavenly Emperor lay dormant inside, and Chuan Ying declared he would kill him even if it cost his life.

Lu Chen and Chuan Ying found the Undying Heavenly Emperor trapped in a nirvana state, but Chuan Ying’s attack failed to harm him. Lu Chen explained that Great Emperor Wushi had entered a longevity-filled Strange World from the mausoleum, and proposed sending both Chuan Ying and the Undying Heavenly Emperor there.

• Lu Chen and Chuan Ying entered the palace and discovered the Undying Heavenly Emperor as a blood-red ball of flesh locked in a struggle with the Wushi Bell.
• Chuan Ying fired a Divine Arrow at the Undying Heavenly Emperor, but five Feather Plumes emerged from the flesh and destroyed the attack.
• Lu Chen stopped Chuan Ying from attacking again and explained that Great Emperor Wushi had entered a Strange World containing longevity substance after fighting the Undying Heavenly Emperor.
• Chuan Ying agreed to attempt to enter the Strange World, despite having little life remaining.
• Lu Chen proposed following the Wushi Bell’s traces into the Strange World and declared that they would send the Undying Heavenly Emperor there too.

Lu Chen and Chuan Ying used the Wushi Bell to force the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s nirvana flesh sphere into a passage to the Strange World, and Chuan Ying followed it through. After revisiting Earth and Big Dipper, Lu Chen arrived at Jade Lake, where his presence drew crowds of cultivators and old friends to hear him expound the Dao.

• Lu Chen and Chuan Ying awakened the Wushi Bell, knocked aside the Five-Colored Feather Plumes, and sent the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s flesh sphere into a chaos passage.
• Chuan Ying rushed after the Wushi Bell into the Strange World, thanking Lu Chen before the passage closed and leaving his fate uncertain.
• Lu Chen returned to Earth, saw that its revived spiritual energy had made cultivation common, then traveled back to Big Dipper to revisit places and mourn heroes lost in the Dark Turmoil.
• Lu Chen visited Jade Lake and observed the Saint Spirit within the Nine-Aperture Stone Man, whom he believed he could suppress if necessary.
• Lu Chen welcomed the crowds who came to Jade Lake and expounded the Dao, drawing old friends such as the Great Xia Imperial Prince, his sister, Yao Yuekong, and the Yuhua King Body.

Lu Chen preached the Great Dao at Jade Lake, drawing experts from across the universe, including the wary Great Saint Hun Tuo. After seven days, he reunited with old friends before returning to the Purple Mansion Divine Realm.

• Lu Chen’s sermon drew Great Saints and Quasi-Emperors to Jade Lake, where the assembled experts treated him with reverence.
• Hun Tuo paid his respects to Lu Chen, who recognized him and ordered him to rise.
• Lu Chen expounded the Dao for seven days amid auspicious signs, then met and drank with old friends who gradually relaxed around him.
• Lu Chen left Big Dipper and returned to the Purple Mansion Divine Realm.

After the Golden Crow Great Emperor’s rise left Lu Chen’s path to the throne seemingly blocked, Lu Chen declared that he would defy the Great Dao’s restriction and become an emperor. A century later, he reached the pinnacle beneath the Great Emperor Domain through alternative Dao attainment, but the reigning emperor’s Dao still held him back.

• Lu Chen explained to Lu Yu that the Ancient Heavenly Court’s emperors had not attained the Dao simultaneously, but had extended their lives with Nine-Turn Immortal Pills.
• Lu Yu and Fairy Zixia lamented that the Golden Crow Great Emperor had seized the chance to attain the Dao before Lu Chen.
• Lu Chen insisted that he could break the restriction and become the first person in history to attain the Dao after another emperor.
• Zixia worried about the danger of challenging the Great Dao, and Lu Chen promised to wait until he was sufficiently prepared.
• A hundred years later, Lu Chen reached the absolute pinnacle beneath the Great Emperor Domain through alternative Dao attainment, but the Great Dao still prevented him from becoming complete.

The Golden Crow Great Emperor went to the Purple Mansion Divine Realm to challenge Lu Chen and reclaim the glory he felt belonged to the reigning emperor. Their battle on the Mythic Battlefield escalated to full strength, leaving victory and survival undecided.

• The Golden Crow Great Emperor crossed the universe to reach the Purple Mansion Divine Realm and told Lu Chen he had come to discuss the Dao.
• Lu Chen understood the Great Emperor wanted to prove his supremacy and led him to the Mythic Battlefield.
• The Golden Crow Great Emperor attacked Lu Chen with a flaming blade ray, but their opening exchange ended evenly.
• The Golden Crow Great Emperor struck with a golden wing while Lu Chen countered with his Immortal King Descends upon the Nine Heavens vision, and their clash destroyed ancient remains across the battlefield.
• Lu Chen and the Golden Crow Great Emperor unleashed their full strength, spreading their emperor might across the universe as their fight became a battle that could decide life and death.

Lu Chen fought the Golden Crow Great Emperor in the Mythic Battlefield, turning their clash into a battle to the death. Lu Chen killed the reigning Great Emperor, and heaven and earth mourned his fall.

• The Golden Crow Great Emperor summoned his Golden Emperor Bell and battled Lu Chen with the Nine-Layer Immortal Gold Pagoda.
• The Golden Crow Great Emperor claimed that a reigning Dao-Proven One in his prime had never been defeated, and Lu Chen vowed to make him the first.
• The Forbidden Zone Supremes criticized the Golden Crow Great Emperor for avoiding the trials other Dao-Proven Ones had faced, provoking him to attack Lu Chen more fiercely.
• Lu Chen equipped the Nether Emperor's Black Battle Armor and Nether Spear, wounded the Golden Crow Great Emperor, and began evolving his own Dao inside a Chaos Dao Cocoon.
• The Golden Crow Great Emperor's attack injured Lu Chen, but Lu Chen recovered and pierced the Golden Divine Bell and the Great Emperor's skull with the Nether Spear.
• Lu Chen destroyed the Golden Crow Great Emperor's body and primordial spirit, and the universe mourned the Emperor's death.

Lu Chen killed the Golden Crow Great Emperor on the Mythic Battlefield, shocking the universe and the Forbidden Zone Supremes. After driving off Supremes who tried to seize the emperor’s remains, he warned the forbidden zones and learned that they expected to face him on the Road to Immortality.

• Lu Chen defeated the Golden Crow Great Emperor in a bloody battle, destroying his immortal platform and primordial spirit.
• The Forbidden Zone Supremes marveled at Lu Chen’s strength and compared him to Wushi, Ruthless, and Emperor Zun.
• The Supremes reached for the Golden Crow Great Emperor’s remains, but Lu Chen shattered their manifested hands and absorbed the corpse, golden blood, and Dao Tribulation Gold bell into the Nine-Layer Immortal Gold Pagoda.
• Lu Chen threatened to destroy any forbidden zone that stirred and challenged the Supremes to fight with their true bodies.
• The Forbidden Zone Supremes withdrew, declaring they would settle matters on the Road to Immortality, and Lu Chen noted that it would appear on Flying Immortal Star several hundred years later.