Chapter Summaries

Lu Chen’s weapon soul drew the attention of powerful figures, but the Divine Silkworm Princess’s warning kept them from seizing it. As the stone-cutting continued, Chu Xiong’s group uncovered the corpse of a Primordial King, and Lu Chen began opening the Divine Moon Stone, exposing his Source Heavenly Master inheritance.

• The Divine Silkworm Princess sent a warning that frightened the Great Powers and old fossils into abandoning their attempt to take Lu Chen’s weapon soul by force.
• Lu Chen let Chu Xiong cut the Coiled Dragon Stone, and the Red Dragon Daoist revealed a Primordial King’s corpse inside.
• Chu Xiong and others claimed the Primordial King’s remains surpassed Lu Chen’s weapon soul, while the crowd urged him to cut the Divine Moon Stone.
• Lu Chen used the Source Heaven Divine Eye to inspect Divine Moon, prompting onlookers to recognize his Source Heavenly Master inheritance.
• Lu Chen began cutting the Divine Moon Stone with his jade sword, though its dense black mist concealed the treasure within.

Lu Chen uncovered a palm-sized dragon-patterned black gold fragment from the Divine Moon stone and won the stone-gambling battle against the Eight Geniuses of the Source King Lineage. He kept the fragment, rejected offers to buy it, and left with his companions to celebrate as the Divine City discussed his haul.

• Lu Chen cut the Divine Moon stone open, releasing lunar saint power and revealing a dragon-patterned black gold fragment that he suspected might come from the Taiyin Human Emperor Seal.
• Experts from the Ji Family and Wang Family offered to buy the immortal gold, but Lu Chen said he had no plans to sell it.
• Chu Xiong claimed the Eight Geniuses had won because they uncovered a Primordial King's corpse, but the old veterans judged Lu Chen's haul more valuable.
• The Eight Geniuses conceded defeat and left after losing their wager and 2,520,000 jin of source, along with the treasures they had uncovered.
• Lu Chen invited Yao Yuekong, the Great Xia Imperial Prince, the Yaochi Saintess, and the others to drink at the Drunken Immortal Pavilion, while his gains made him a sought-after recruitment target.

Lu Chen watched Ye Fan and Tuoba Chang compete in stone gambling at the Ji Family Stone Workshop, where he revealed that they were searching for a Stone King. Ye Fan uncovered a Little Divine Silkworm, which flew to the Divine Silkworm Princess, its older sister, leaving the gathered factions and Ye Fan’s plans to lease it behind.

• Lu Chen arrived at the Ji Family Stone Workshop as Ye Fan, disguised as Gu Feng, and Tuoba Chang began their stone-gambling contest.
• Tuoba Chang and Ye Fan used Source Arts to inspect stones, and Lu Chen told the onlookers they were searching for a Stone King.
• Tuoba Chang cut out valuable divine source, while Ye Fan uncovered a Little Divine Silkworm that escaped from its source.
• The holy lands and Great Xia Dynasty bid for the Little Divine Silkworm, and Ye Fan said he would lease it rather than sell it outright.
• The Divine Silkworm Princess appeared beside Lu Chen, and the Little Divine Silkworm flew to her, recognizing her and babbling with tear-filled eyes.

Lu Chen borrowed Ye Fan’s Bodhi Seed and used its power to pass through the Fire Domain’s deadly flames. He entered the ninth layer, where even a Great Accomplished God King might perish.

• The Divine Silkworm Princess left with the Little Divine Silkworm, and Lu Chen gave Ye Fan a million jin of source in compensation.
• Ye Fan won the Source Arts contest and later asked Lu Chen how he had inherited Source Heavenly Master arts; Lu Chen explained that the Bodhi Seed was an Immortal Divine Medicine.
• Lu Chen borrowed Ye Fan’s Bodhi Seed, then traveled from the Northern Region to the Southern Region.
• Lu Chen entered the Fire Domain and used the Bodhi Seed to ward off the flames as he crossed its increasingly dangerous layers.
• Lu Chen reached the ninth layer of the Fire Domain, where its nine-colored flames threatened even a Great Accomplished God King.

Lu Chen entered the Fire Domain’s tenth layer to use its legendary immortal fire to restore the Immortal-Slaying Gourd. After sending the gourd into the flames with a weapon soul, he prepared to strengthen his Immortal Gold Pagoda with rare immortal metals.

• Lu Chen used the Bodhi Seed to reach the Fire Domain’s tenth layer and found the immortal fire in the form of a small flame-tree.
• Lu Chen branded nine innate sun emperor marks onto the Immortal-Slaying Gourd to establish a lasting connection with it.
• Lu Chen placed the weapon soul he had obtained at the Wang Family Stone Workshop inside the gourd and sent it into the immortal fire for restoration.
• Lu Chen brought out his Divine Mark Purple Gold Pagoda and prepared to smelt in the phoenix blood red gold and dragon-pattern black gold fragments.

Lu Chen reforged the Immortal-Slaying Gourd in the Fire Domain, restoring it as an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon while uncovering the Taiyin True Scripture in the dragon-pattern black gold. After learning that Jiang Taixu had been rescued from Purple Mountain but was in danger, Lu Chen went to Wanchu Holy Land to seek Caiyun Immortal Maiden’s help.

• Lu Chen fused phoenix blood red gold and dragon-pattern black gold into his pagoda, whose surviving emperor dao resonance revealed the Taiyin True Scripture.
• Lu Chen studied the Taiyin and Solar True Scriptures, broke through to the second minor step of the Four Extremes Secret Realm, and endured a heavenly tribulation that helped awaken the Immortal-Slaying Gourd.
• The Immortal-Slaying Gourd regained its flawless peak condition and released an Extreme Dao aura, drawing experts to the Fire Domain as Lu Chen escaped with the weapon.
• Lu Chen learned that the great powers had broken into Purple Mountain, awakened primordial beings, rescued Jiang Taixu, and left him gravely weakened amid plots against the Jiang Family.
• Lu Chen went to Wanchu Holy Land, intending to guide Caiyun Immortal Maiden so she could help Jiang Taixu survive and recover.

Lu Chen brought the Caiyun Immortal Maiden to the Holy City after warning her that Jiang Taixu faced a deadly conspiracy. They entered through the Hengyu Furnace’s seal and reached the Dragon Transformation Pool, where Jiang Taixu’s revival was being defended against thirteen supreme experts.

• Lu Chen visited the Myriad Beginning Saintess and asked to meet the living Caiyun Immortal Maiden, warning that she might face a fatal calamity while trying to save Jiang Taixu.
• The Caiyun Immortal Maiden overcame her reluctance to let Jiang Taixu see her aged appearance and left with Lu Chen for the Holy City.
• Thirteen supreme Holy Lord-level experts attacked the Dragon Transformation Pool while an unknown Emperor Weapon and formation fragment suppressed the Hengyu Furnace.
• Lu Chen used the Immortal-Slaying Gourd to cut through the Holy City’s seal, and the Caiyun Immortal Maiden followed him inside.
• Lu Chen and the Caiyun Immortal Maiden reached the Dragon Transformation Pool, where Jiang Taixu was being revived and Ye Fan and Jiang Yun defended him; Lu Chen urged the Caiyun Immortal Maiden to buy time rather than fight directly.

Thirteen hidden Holy Lord-level experts broke through the Jiang Family’s incomplete Emperor Formation and moved to kill Jiang Taixu, but the dying Divine King briefly revived and wounded one of them. As Jiang Taixu’s strength failed again, Ye Fan brought out more medicinal essence and a Dragon Pearl Divine Fruit to try to save him, while Lu Chen suspected the fruit came from the True Dragon Divine Medicine at the Myriad Dragon Nest.

• Thirteen black-mist-cloaked Holy Lord-level experts wore away the incomplete Emperor Formation above the Dragon Transformation Pool, leaving Jiang Taixu and the Jiang Family exposed.
• Jiang Taixu opened his eyes, rose from the pool, and wounded one attacker with a crimson beam before collapsing after creating another incomplete formation.
• The Jiang Family found Jiang Taixu near death despite the nine drops of divine medicine essence Ye Fan had already provided.
• Ye Fan produced more medicinal liquid essence and a Dragon Pearl Divine Fruit, stunning the onlookers with the rare divine medicine.
• Lu Chen recognized the fruit as a product of the True Dragon Divine Medicine and suspected the Ruthless Great Emperor’s influence in Ye Fan’s visit to the Myriad Dragon Nest.

Ye Fan's dragon pearl fruit revived Jiang Taixu, while Caiyun Immortal Maiden and Jiang Yi helped defend him from their enemies. The chapter ended with Jiang Taixu restoring Caiyun's youth and the two lovers reunited.

• Ye Fan gave the Jiang Family the dragon pearl fruit, giving Jiang Taixu a chance to return to life.
• Three ancient monsters and thirteen Holy Lord-level experts attacked the incomplete Emperor Formation, but Caiyun Immortal Maiden killed one monster and joined the defenders.
• Jiang Yi arrived with Tu Tian's Devouring Heaven Demon Jar and helped protect the Dragon Transformation Pool.
• After the Jiang Family elders refined the dragon pearl fruit into Jiang Taixu, he revived and reassured Caiyun that he still loved her.
• Jiang Taixu used a divine art to restore Caiyun Immortal Maiden's youth, and they faced each other again.

Jiang Taixu revived and defeated the Dark Night Monarch and the forces that had tried to kill him, ending the crisis around Ye Fan. The Divine Silkworm Princess left for the Western Desert after learning that the Fighting Saint King was alive, while the newly released Golden-Winged Little Peng King turned his attention toward Lu Chen.

• Jiang Taixu returned to his prime, killed the two ancient fiends and the Dark Night Monarch, and destroyed the Holy Lord-level enemies who had joined against him.
• Jiang Taixu lifted the Holy City's seal, and news of his return spread as the forces surrounding the Jiang Family withdrew and Ye Fan gained his protection.
• Lu Chen told the Divine Silkworm Princess that the Fighting Saint King had become the Fighting Saint Buddha, and she left for the Western Desert.
• Golden-Winged Little Peng King was released from confinement and learned of Lu Chen's strength and his divine mark purple gold Treasure Pagoda.

The Golden-Winged Little Peng King challenged Lu Chen for his Immortal Gold Pagoda, and the two began a battle outside the Holy City before a crowd of prodigies. Lu Chen blocked the Peng King's powerful attacks and crushed his summoned Heavenly Pengs, leaving their clash unresolved.

• The Golden-Winged Little Peng King demanded Lu Chen's Immortal Gold Pagoda and challenged him to fight outside the Holy City.
• Lu Chen and the Golden-Winged Little Peng King faced off before gathered holy sons, saintesses, and elders, with their killing intent splitting nearby mountains.
• The Golden-Winged Little Peng King unleashed One Hundred and Eight Thousand Swords, but Lu Chen's Immortal King Descends upon the Nine Heavens vision stopped the attack.
• The Golden-Winged Little Peng King charged with the Sword of Immortality and transformed his swords into a hundred and eight thousand Heavenly Pengs.
• Lu Chen pressed down with the Immortal King's enormous palm, causing the Heavenly Pengs to explode.

Lu Chen battled the Golden-Winged Little Peng King, matching his fearsome weapons and Peng Race saint arts with his own powerful techniques. The fight remained unresolved, with both prodigies still facing off in the sky.

• Lu Chen shattered the Golden-Winged Little Peng King's Heavenly Peng manifestations, damaging the Peng King's vital essence.
• The Golden-Winged Little Peng King wielded the Great Wilderness Halberd, and Lu Chen met it with a corroded primordial battle spear; their clash shook the mountains, but neither gained the upper hand.
• The Golden-Winged Little Peng King unleashed the Heavenly Peng Dragon-Slaughtering Art, and Lu Chen blocked its divine peng with his bare hand.
• Lu Chen countered with the Imperial Dao Fire Spirit Secret Art—Divine Phoenix Slash, and the phoenix and heavenly peng fought through hundreds of exchanges.
• The Golden-Winged Little Peng King claimed Lu Chen's Immortal Gold Pagoda would be his, while Lu Chen dismissed the Peng King's boasts and judged his strength comparable to Ji Haoyue's.

Lu Chen used Buddhism’s Six-Character True Words to withstand and overpower the Golden-Winged Little Peng King’s Heavenly Demon Saint-Slaying Canon. The Golden-Winged Little Peng King was left gravely injured, still raging after his supreme art was broken.

• The Golden-Winged Little Peng King unleashed the first form of the Heavenly Demon Saint-Slaying Canon, but Lu Chen’s “Ba” syllable formed a river of stars that blocked it.
• An Miaoyi recognized Lu Chen’s technique as the Six-Character True Words, prompting the spectators to speculate about his connection to Buddhism.
• The Golden-Winged Little Peng King attacked with the second form, manifesting an ancient demon king who tore through Lu Chen’s starry barrier.
• Lu Chen summoned the Buddhist Reincarnation Gate and began drawing the Golden-Winged Little Peng King into its vortex.
• The Golden-Winged Little Peng King used the third form to shatter the gate, but Lu Chen raised the river of stars and annihilated his demon king manifestation.
• The river of stars struck the Golden-Winged Little Peng King, shattering his bones and organs and blasting him away as he roared in fury.

Lu Chen defeated the Golden-Winged Little Peng King after the Peng heir unleashed the fourth form of the Heavenly Demon Saint-Slaying Canon, though both were wounded in their final clash. The Little Peng King survived as a head with a faint trace of soul power, while the Golden-Winged Old Peng King watched Lu Chen from the clouds with killing intent.

• The Golden-Winged Little Peng King, gravely wounded, summoned the heroic spirits of ancient Peng Race Demon Saints to unleash the fourth form of the Heavenly Demon Saint-Slaying Canon.
• Lu Chen activated the "All" secret and merged with his Immortal King manifestation to meet the Little Peng King's attack at full strength.
• Lu Chen and the Golden-Winged Little Peng King clashed repeatedly, shattering the void and collapsing mountains, until the Little Peng King's body burst apart and Lu Chen was hurled back, bleeding.
• The spectators were shocked by the Little Peng King's defeat, while the Purple Mansion Saintess, Ji Haoyue, and other prodigies reacted to Lu Chen's strength.
• The Little Peng King's head retained a faint golden glow and a trace of soul power, and he admitted defeat through Divine Sense.
• Lu Chen sensed killing intent from the Golden-Winged Old Peng King, who watched him coldly from among the clouds.

After Lu Chen defeated the Golden-Winged Little Peng King, the Old Peng King took away his son’s head and questioned him about his defeat. Lu Chen later discussed Ye Fan’s attempt to break the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body’s curse, keeping a possible method involving the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar and Ji Ziyue’s Bronze Ring to himself.

• The Old Peng King burned the Golden-Winged Little Peng King’s ruined body, questioned him about his loss, and departed with his head.
• News of Lu Chen’s victory spread across the Eastern Wasteland, and cultivators flocked to befriend him.
• Lu Chen reunited with Ye Fan, Pang Bo, the Black Emperor, and the Great Bandit Descendants at the Drunken Immortal Pavilion.
• Li Heishui asked whether Ye Fan could break through to the Four Extremes Realm with ten million jin of Source, and Lu Chen said the curse involved heaven and earth’s laws.
• Lu Chen considered using the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar and Ji Ziyue’s Bronze Ring to break Ye Fan’s curse, but kept the method to himself because Jiang’s help could also break the Divine King Body’s shackles.

Lu Chen returned to the Jade Pool Ruins to search for a Divine Spring that could revive his immortal herb. He descended through the underground lakes, burned the corpses he found, and collected fragments of Divine Source as he approached the spring’s deeper reaches.

• After Ye Fan broke the Sacred Body’s shackles but learned his origin had been wounded, Lu Chen told him that his fortune lay in the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land.
• Lu Chen left the Divine City and returned to the Jade Pool Ruins to search for a Divine Spring.
• At the Immortal Pool, Lu Chen burned the female corpses with Sun Saint Power and opened the spring leading underground.
• Lu Chen descended through successive lakes, using the Immortal-Slaying Gourd to destroy dangerous corpses, including Saint-level bodies.
• In the eighth underground lake, Lu Chen destroyed the remaining corpses and collected fragments of Divine Source before peering into the deeper darkness.

Lu Chen revived the Humanoid Undying Divine Medicine in the Jade Pool’s Ninth-Layer Immortal Lake, then traveled to Purple Mountain to cultivate the Taiyin and Taiyang Solar True Scripture together. He found a naturally formed Taiji Divine Diagram deep inside the mountain and recognized its great dao laws.

• Lu Chen endured the Queen Mother of the West’s emperor aura and used Jade Pool divine spring water to restore the Humanoid Undying Divine Medicine to its complete form.
• He stored the revived medicine in the Immortal-Slaying Gourd, collected divine spring water, and left the Jade Pool Ruins.
• Lu Chen reached Purple Mountain and entered an ancient mine, where he killed a demon bat and examined murals recounting the Primordial Ancestral Kings’ rampage and Great Emperor Wushi’s intervention.
• He reached a sacred region containing two opposing caverns that formed a natural Taiji Divine Diagram.
• Lu Chen recognized that the diagram’s great dao laws could help him cultivate the Taiyin and Taiyang Solar True Scripture together.

Lu Chen used the Yin-Yang Eyes and the treasures he had gathered in Purple Mountain to cultivate the Taiyin True Scripture alongside the Solar True Scripture. After enduring dangerous clashes between their powers, he achieved a balance across his first three secret realms and left ready to advance in the Four Extremes realm.

• Lu Chen set up the Chaos Stone Bed and the Humanoid Undying Divine Medicine beside the Yin-Yang Eyes, then began cultivating the Taiyin True Scripture.
• The Taiyin and Solar saint powers repeatedly clashed within Lu Chen’s Sea of Bitterness, injuring him, but he healed with Divine Spring water and the medicine’s life essence.
• Lu Chen studied the Taiji laws of the Yin-Yang Eyes and opened two Life Springs, one producing sun saint power and the other lunar saint power.
• After more than a year of cultivation, Lu Chen made the yin and yang powers coexist in his Sea of Bitterness, Dao Palace, and Four Extremes secret realms.
• Lu Chen reached the peak of the second level of Four Extremes, with his combat strength greatly increased and a breakthrough to the third level close at hand.

Lu Chen balanced Sun Saint Power and Lunar Saint Power, advanced to the third level of the Four Extremes Secret Realm, and survived a devastating Heavenly Tribulation. After learning that rumors of the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar Lid had drawn powerful figures to the Cloudbreak Mountains, he joined them to investigate the Ruthless Great Emperor's Daoist grounds.

• Lu Chen left Purple Mountain, broke through to the third level of the Four Extremes Secret Realm, and endured a fierce Heavenly Tribulation that left the wasteland in ruins.
• Lu Chen learned that the Various Holy Lands had entered the Forbidden Zone of Absolute Beginning, fought Primordial Creatures, and suffered heavy losses.
• Lu Chen heard a likely false report that the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar Lid had appeared in the Cloudbreak Mountains and set out to explore the Ruthless Great Emperor's Daoist grounds.
• Lu Chen arrived at the Cloudbreak Mountains, where Yao Yuekong and other young talents greeted him among the gathered holy-land experts and the Northern Region's Thirteen Great Bandits.
• The cultivators discussed an ancient legend that powerful physiques' blood was needed to open the Ruthless Great Emperor's Daoist grounds.

Powerful cultivators gathered at the Cloudbreak Mountains and opened the Ruthless Great Emperor’s Daoist Grounds with the blood of special physiques. As nearly everyone entered, Black Emperor warned Pang Bo, Tu Fei, and Li Heishui that the grounds were dangerous, while Lu Chen hesitated outside.

• Cultivators from across the Eastern Wasteland gathered at the Cloudbreak Mountains, where they uncovered a massive black portal beneath the tallest peak.
• Holy land experts failed to force the portal open, so Ji Haoyue, the Purple Mansion Saintess, the Jiang Family's Divine Body, Yao Yuekong, Xia Jiuyou, and other special physiques offered their blood.
• The portal absorbed the blood and opened, and elders, young talents, and nearly all the gathered cultivators rushed into the Daoist Grounds.
• Lu Chen remained outside, weighing whether to enter despite suspecting the grounds were a trap.
• Black Emperor blocked Pang Bo, Tu Fei, and Li Heishui from entering, warning them that something was wrong because he had visited the grounds before and suspected a conspiracy.