Chapter Summaries

Lu Chen entered the Ruthless Great Emperor’s Daoist Grounds despite recognizing that the portal was a trap, and found a killing formation targeting everyone inside. As powerful cultivators were slaughtered and several prodigies were targeted for their physique origins, Lu Chen struggled to withstand the escalating attacks.

• Lu Chen warned Pang Bo, Tu Fei, and Li Heishui that the Daoist Grounds might be a trap, then entered through the black portal while Duan De and Black Emperor stayed behind.
• Lu Chen crossed the dark passage with his Immortal Gold Pagoda and emerged into the Daoist Grounds, where a grand formation immediately attacked him.
• The formation unleashed sword beams, lightning, black mist, and crimson rays, killing many cultivators and leaving even powerful figures struggling to survive.
• Lu Chen replaced his battered Immortal Gold Pagoda with the Immortal-Slaying Gourd as the formation intensified its attacks.
• Dark lights resembling black holes enveloped Ji Haoyue, the Jiang Family Divine Body, the Purple Mansion Saintess, Yao Yuekong, and Xia Jiuyou, drawing at their physique origins.

Lu Chen rescued the wounded Fairy Zixia from the killing formation and escaped with her into the Ruthless Great Emperor's Small World. The Peacock King and the others later used Emperor Weapons to force a passage out, while the formation’s hidden controller remained concealed.

• Lu Chen saw the formation draining Fairy Zixia's Innate Dao Embryo origin and used the Immortal-Slaying Gourd to break the black hole holding her.
• Lu Chen caught the injured Zixia, put away the Landscape Scroll, and carried her toward the formation's edge.
• Lu Chen used the Immortal-Slaying Gourd to cut through the black mist and escaped the killing formation with Zixia, though they remained inside the Ruthless Great Emperor's Small World.
• The hidden controller noticed the disturbance but stayed focused on the formation as the Peacock King, the Azure Flood Dragon King, Tu Tian, and others faced lethal attacks.
• The Peacock King and Tu Tian brought out the Green Lotus Emperor Weapon and the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar, and the experts joined forces to open a passage for the surviving young prodigies to escape.

While trapped in the Ruthless Daoist Grounds, Lu Chen helped Fairy Zixia recover and obtained the Phoenix Tribulation Rebirth Art from the Ruthless Great Emperor’s enlightenment ground. With Zixia healed, they set out together to find a way out.

• News spread that the Ruthless Great Emperor’s grounds had devastated the Holy Lands, while Lu Chen and the Purple Mansion Saintess remained missing.
• Lu Chen gave Fairy Zixia Divine Spring water to heal her injured origin as they hid in a cave abode.
• Lu Chen searched the Ruthless Great Emperor’s world for treasures and found the ancient halls had been stripped bare.
• After a month of searching for surviving dao marks, Lu Chen captured the Phoenix Tribulation Rebirth Art with his Divine Mark Purple Gold Pagoda.
• Fairy Zixia recovered and told Lu Chen she considered herself separate from the slain Purple Mansion Holy Son.
• Lu Chen and Fairy Zixia flew toward the exit to find a way out of the grounds.

Lu Chen returned to the Central Region with Fairy Zixia, paid his respects at his late master Gu Ling’s grave, and sought out his senior sister, Gu Qingxia. After learning that she was injured, he asked what had happened, leaving her troubles unresolved.

• Lu Chen and Fairy Zixia escaped the Ruthless Great Emperor’s Daoist Grounds and returned to the Eastern Wasteland.
• Lu Chen traveled to the Flowing Cloud Kingdom and visited Gu Ling’s grave, sharing his progress and reaffirming his determination to pursue the immortal path.
• Lu Chen brought Fairy Zixia to Cloud Capital and found his senior sister, Gu Qingxia, at a manor outside the city.
• Lu Chen explained that Gu Ling had taken him as a disciple, while Gu Qingxia failed to realize her junior brother was the famous Lu Chen.
• Lu Chen noticed Gu Qingxia looked weak and asked what had injured her.

Lu Chen healed Gu Qingxia and learned that a Cloudmist Sect elder had killed her husband and stolen their Ice-Soul Zhi. He brought her family to the sect, killed the elder, and left the sect’s fate in Gu Qingxia’s hands.

• Lu Chen used the Phoenix Tribulation Rebirth Art to heal Gu Qingxia, who then told him how a Cloudmist Sect elder had killed her husband, Li Ruodong, and stolen their thousand-year-old Ice-Soul Zhi.
• Lu Chen brought Gu Qingxia, Gu Youtong, and Gu Youyu to the Cloudmist Sect to seek justice, knocking aside its guards and shattering its protective formation.
• The Cloudmist Sect’s sect master and elders arrived, and Gu Qingxia identified the elder who had killed her husband.
• Lu Chen killed the elder with a single blow, leaving the Cloudmist Sect leaders too afraid to resist.
• Lu Chen asked Gu Qingxia whether he should destroy the entire Cloudmist Sect.

Lu Chen avenged Gu Qingxia’s husband, provided her and her children with cultivation resources, and left them to continue their training. He then traveled to Wangkong City, where he watched the Wangkong Platform draw starlight into the city.

• Lu Chen spared the Cloudmist Sect but had the elder’s direct descendants killed, and the sect gave Gu Qingxia treasures and spirit medicines as compensation.
• Gu Qingxia thanked Lu Chen, who stayed with her family and helped her and her children advance in cultivation over the following months.
• Lu Chen gave Gu Qingxia and her children powerful magic treasures, pure source, a profound art, and a secret technique before bidding them farewell.
• Lu Chen traveled to Wangkong City, where cultivators recognized him and discussed his reputation as one of the Eastern Wasteland’s leading prodigies.
• Lu Chen watched from a restaurant as the Wangkong Platform drew the radiance of the stars into the city after nightfall.

During Sky-Gazing Day in Wangkong City, a Blue-Gold Disc from the Eternal Star Domain descended onto the Wangkong Platform and killed cultivators who tried to seize it. Lu Chen recognized it as a Starry Sky Battleship, and two powerful Demon Kings arrived to claim it.

• Lu Chen watched the Flying Immortal Spectacle and suspected that the Wangkong Platform held a deeper mystery connected to Great Emperor Wushi.
• Cultivators spotted a shining object falling from the heavens and rushed to seize it, but the Blue-Gold Disc blasted those who approached.
• Lu Chen recognized the object as a damaged Starry Sky Battleship from the Eternal Star Domain and tried unsuccessfully to contact its occupants.
• The cultivators sent word for powerful reinforcements as the ruler of Wangkong City and the Golden-Winged Old Peng King arrived.
• The two Demon Kings attacked the Blue-Gold Disc, reaching out to seize it.

Lu Chen followed the Azure-Gold Circular Warship as powerful experts pursued it into the Primeval Jungle, near the Undying Mountain. The battle uncovered a Five-Colored Altar, which Lu Chen recognized as possibly connected to an Ancient Road.

• The Golden-Winged Old Peng King and the Crane Clan's mighty expert failed to capture the warship, and the Feng Clan Holy Lord and Wanchu Holy Lord joined the struggle.
• The warship escaped through a black hole, and Lu Chen followed the experts across the void into a vast wilderness.
• The Holy Lord-level experts pursued the warship for a day, drawing more powers to the Primeval Jungle, where their battle enraged a Savage Beast King.
• Lu Chen suspected the distant black mountains were the Undying Mountain, and the warship flew toward them as the experts gave chase.
• The Holy Lords' attacks collapsed a peak and exposed a Five-Colored Altar; Lu Chen cleared away the rocks and wondered whether it marked an Ancient Road.

Lu Chen seized the Five-Colored Altar and escaped with it, recognizing it as a key to the Starry Sky Ancient Road that could eventually take him to Earth and other life stars. In Yutiandu, he discovered that assassins from Human World and Hell were watching him, and he considered the danger posed by the two Assassin Divine Dynasties.

• Lu Chen used the aura of an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon to seize the Five-Colored Altar, then fled his pursuers with Fish Leaps and Becomes a True Dragon and a Profound Jade Platform.
• Lu Chen examined the altar and concluded that it could open the Starry Sky Ancient Road, though he needed a Saint to decipher its patterns and lacked the activation method.
• The blue-gold warship vanished into the Undying Mountain after the Golden-Winged Old Peng King, the Feng Clan's Holy Lord, and other powerhouses failed to capture it.
• In Yutiandu, Lu Chen used his Source Heaven Divine Eye to spot people whose disguises and altered auras concealed their identities.
• Lu Chen identified the watchers as likely assassins from Human World and Hell and reflected that neither the Divine Silkworm Princess's deterrence nor a Saint's protection would necessarily stop them from targeting him.

Lu Chen remained wary of the Assassin Divine Dynasties, but Hell’s assassins struck him during the Feng Clan Holy Lord’s birthday gathering. He killed one attacker and pursued the other, leaving the guests shocked by Hell’s return to the Eastern Wasteland.

• Lu Chen spotted a disguised observer with his Heavenly Eye and stayed on guard against the Assassin Divine Dynasties.
• Lu Chen attended the Feng Clan Holy Lord’s birthday celebration and reunited with Yao Yuekong, the Great Xia Imperial Prince, and the Purple Mansion Saintess.
• Two assassins from Hell attacked Lu Chen, but he evaded their fatal strikes and counterattacked with his Black-Gold Battle Spear.
• Lu Chen used his Heavenly Eye and secret movement technique to pursue the fleeing assassins, then smashed one to death.
• Lu Chen demanded to know who had commissioned the attack as he chased the remaining assassin, while the Feng Clan guests reacted with shock at Hell’s involvement.

Lu Chen killed Hell’s eight seed assassins after surviving their layered ambushes. With the attack over, the spectators and Holy Sons and Holy Saintesses recognized his growing dominance, while the Yaoguang Holy Son watched him closely.

• Lu Chen slew Hell’s remaining two assassins from the first attack after shattering one’s Treasure Seal.
• Six more black-clad assassins ambushed Lu Chen, but he evaded their strike and killed one with his Battle Spear.
• The remaining five formed a killing formation, and Lu Chen broke through it, destroying the four spirits’ Dao Diagrams.
• Hell’s four surviving seed assassins fled, but Lu Chen caught and killed them all.
• The spectators said few could challenge Lu Chen, while the Yaoguang Holy Son watched him intently.

After Hell’s failed assassination at the Feng Clan banquet, Lu Chen accepted an invitation to the Jade Pool Holy Land’s Flat Peach Gathering and reached perfection in the Four Extremes Secret Realm. At the gathering, he answered a Central Plains Twin King’s insult by recalling that Divine King Jiang Taixu had slain both of their ancestors, provoking the bearer of the dark night king body.

• Hell’s attack on Lu Chen at the Feng Clan banquet alarmed the great powers, and Lu Chen vowed to destroy the shadowy forces and assassin dynasties behind such threats.
• The Yaochi Saintess invited Lu Chen to the Flat Peach Gathering, and he agreed to attend.
• A month later, Lu Chen survived Heavenly Tribulation and reached the fourth level of the Four Extremes Secret Realm.
• Lu Chen arrived at the Jade Pool Holy Land, where the Yaochi Saintess welcomed him and gathered prodigies from all Five Regions.
• The Purple Mansion Saintess identified a young man who had mocked Lu Chen as a descendant of the Central Plains Twin Kings, and Lu Chen provoked him by noting that Divine King Jiang Taixu had slain both Twin Kings.

At the Yaochi Grand Gathering, Lu Chen fought the Twin Kings of the Central Plains after the Dark Night King Body challenged him. He wounded both brothers and destroyed the Sun King Body’s nine Golden Crows, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• The Dark Night King Body challenged Lu Chen, while Ji Haoyue nearly joined the fight before Ji Ziyue stopped him.
• Lu Chen shattered the Dark Night King Body’s Curtain of Night manifestation with the Divine Phoenix Slash and wounded him.
• The Sun King Body arrived and attacked Lu Chen after Eastern Wasteland cultivators mocked the Twin Kings.
• Lu Chen countered the Sun King Body with the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist, forcing him back and drawing blood.
• The Sun King Body unleashed nine Golden Crows, but Lu Chen’s Immortal King manifestation seized and destroyed them.

Lu Chen shattered the Twin Kings of the Central Plains’ invincible legend, killing both brothers at the Jade Pool Holy Land. As the Flat Peach Gathering filled with powerful figures, the Great Xia Imperial Prince welcomed Lu Chen and Ye Fan while warning them about enemies in the Central Plains.

• The Dark Night King Body and the Sun King Body united their powers into a light-and-darkness Dao Diagram, but Lu Chen broke it with the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist and killed both brothers.
• The gathered cultivators reacted with shock and pride as Lu Chen’s reputation grew, and no one dared challenge him after the Twin Kings fell.
• Over the following days, powerful figures from the Five Regions arrived for the Jade Pool Holy Land’s Flat Peach Gathering.
• Lu Chen, Fairy Zixia, Ye Fan, and other Eastern Wasteland talents gathered as the Great Xia Imperial Prince and the Little White-Clothed Nun arrived.
• The Great Xia Imperial Prince praised Lu Chen, warned him about the Gao Family, and cautioned Ye Fan that the Yin-Yang Sect would seek revenge for its slain Holy Son and Holy Maiden.

At the Jade Pool Flat Peach Gathering, the return of Nangong Zheng from the Bronze Immortal Palace stirred the cultivation world, and Lu Chen watched the powerful figures seek answers about immortality. Nangong Zheng revealed that the blood-written character for “immortal” inside the palace had killed anyone who approached it, and elders believed the blood belonged to an ancient Great Emperor.

• Nangong Zheng returned from the Bronze Immortal Palace, drawing the attention of the Holy Lords, sect leaders, and Lu Chen.
• The Jade Pool Flat Peach Gathering began, and Lu Chen mingled with the young prodigies while others gathered to toast him.
• Nangong Zheng described how every elder who had entered the palace with him died, leaving him the sole survivor.
• Nangong Zheng said a blood-written character for “immortal” radiated lethal killing intent and annihilated a person who approached it.
• Holy Lords suggested the blood belonged to an ancient Great Emperor, shocking the gathering.

At the Flat Peach Gathering, the major powers used rumors of Ye Fan’s supposed inheritance to pressure him into revealing the True Dragon Divine Medicine’s location. Lu Chen joined Ye Fan and the others as they led the gathered cultivators to the Myriad Dragon Nest, where they discovered a vast underground store of dragon qi.

• Nangong Zheng’s account of the Bronze Immortal Palace led the major powers to connect its corpse fragments and treasures to the Ruthless Great Emperor and accuse Ye Fan of obtaining the Swallowing Heaven Demon Art.
• Ye Fan denied having the Demon Art, then revealed that the True Dragon Divine Medicine was in the Myriad Dragon Nest, hoping to lure the greedy powers into danger.
• Lu Chen urged Ye Fan to bring Xiao Nannan to the Myriad Dragon Nest, and Ye Fan relayed the suggestion to the Black Emperor, who agreed.
• Lu Chen, Ye Fan, the Black Emperor, the Saint Emperor’s Imperial Prince, and Xiao Nannan traveled with the other cultivators through a Domain Gate to the northern icefield.
• The cultivators reached the ruins of the Underworld God Palace and entered the Myriad Dragon Nest, where they sensed immense dragon qi and believed the True Dragon Divine Medicine might be inside.

The Various Holy Lands entered the Myriad Dragon Nest seeking the True Dragon Divine Medicine, only to awaken the Ancient Race and suffer a brutal assault. Lu Chen, Ye Fan, and their companions stayed out of the initial fighting while the Saint Emperor's Imperial Prince communicated with the Ancient Race, and the Holy Lords spotted the medicine deeper inside.

• Ouyang Ye and the Holy Lands’ elders identified the abyss as a site of immense dragon qi and divine source, and scouts found sealed dragon caves below.
• The Holy Lands descended to the Myriad Dragon Nest’s stone gate, where Lu Chen told his companions to keep their distance and prepare their escape route.
• After the Holy Lords broke open the gate, Ancient Race warriors emerged and killed several Supreme Elders and Source Arts practitioners.
• More Ancient Race warriors attacked, forcing the Holy Lords to fight while the Saint Emperor's Imperial Prince kept Lu Chen and his companions from being targeted.
• The Holy Lords spotted the True Dragon Divine Medicine growing among divine source blocks beside a red Ancient Coffin deeper in the Dragon Cave.

The Myriad Dragon Nest’s gate opened, and a fierce battle erupted as Primordial Creatures slaughtered members of the great powers while the True Dragon Divine Medicine appeared. Lu Chen revealed that the Ruthless Great Emperor’s four lifetime coffins lay within the nest, then joined Ye Fan, Black Emperor, Xiao Nannan, and the Saint Emperor's Imperial Prince in secretly venturing deeper.

• Primordial Creatures poured from the Myriad Dragon Nest, and the True Dragon Divine Medicine appeared beyond its gate.
• Lu Chen identified the vermilion coffin as the Ruthless Great Emperor’s and revealed that three more coffins representing her other lifetimes lay deeper inside.
• Holy Lords and other powerful leaders fell as the battle intensified, including the Wanchu Holy Land’s Holy Lord and the leaders of the Illusion Destruction Palace and Carefree Sect.
• Black Emperor used Great Emperor Wushi’s Heaven-Deceiving Formation Patterns to conceal the group as they entered the depths of the nest.
• Xiao Nannan guided Lu Chen and the others around the dangerous Ancestor Kings hidden in the labyrinth.

Lu Chen, Ye Fan, Xiao Nannan, the Black Emperor, and the Saint Emperor's Imperial Prince reached the Chaos Dragon Nest and used Xiao Nannan's mysterious power to claim nine strands of dragon qi. A treasure emerged from the coffin and went to Xiao Nannan, and Lu Chen recognized it as the Immortal Treasure Map, a pass to Kunlun's immortal land.

• Lu Chen and the others reached the Chaos Dragon Nest, where they saw four Vermilion Coffins and countless dragon-qi formations; Lu Chen identified the former inhabitant as the Myriad Dragon Emperor.
• The Big Black Dog tried to move the Chaos Dragon Nest, but he and the others failed to budge it.
• Lu Chen guided Xiao Nannan, whose radiance drew nine golden dragons from the nest.
• Xiao Nannan assigned the nine dragon-qi treasures among the group, and they sealed them in spatial artifacts.
• The Chaos Dragon Nest's red coffin opened a crack, and a streak of starlight dodged the Big Black Dog before hovering in front of Xiao Nannan.
• Lu Chen recognized the scroll in the starlight as the Immortal Treasure Map, which served as the pass to Kunlun's immortal land.

Lu Chen explained that the Immortal Treasure Map contained routes to Kunlun and the Starry Sky Ancient Road, revealing that Kunlun was an immortal mountain on Earth. He told Ye Fan how Earth could be reached and urged him to take the map there someday, while the Black Emperor coveted Kunlun but balked at the dangerous route.

• Lu Chen identified three hidden maps in the Immortal Treasure Map, including routes to Kunlun and the Starry Sky Ancient Road.
• The Black Emperor and the Saint Emperor's Imperial Prince recognized Kunlun, and Lu Chen explained its legendary reputation as a place close to immortality.
• Lu Chen revealed that Kunlun lay on Earth, surprising the Black Emperor and the Saint Emperor's Imperial Prince and making Ye Fan reconsider what he knew about his homeland.
• Lu Chen said a Five-Colored Altar in the Abyss of the Desolate Forbidden Zone could open a route to Earth, but the Black Emperor recoiled from the danger.
• Lu Chen returned the map to Ye Fan and advised him to take it to Kunlun if he ever returned to Earth.