Chapter Summaries

Lu Chen and his companions searched the Myriad Dragon Nest, discovered and took the sealed Human Race Great Saint Dongfang Taiyi, and Ye Fan harvested a fruit from the True Dragon Divine Medicine. They escaped the nest with the Yaochi Holy Lord and Feng Clan Holy Lord while the Ancient Race’s forces trapped the other intruders.

• Xiao Nannan guided Lu Chen, Ye Fan, Black Emperor, and the others to caves containing divine source, including one where a chained old man was sealed.
• Lu Chen identified the old man as Dongfang Taiyi, a Human Race Great Saint who had cultivated the Taiyin and Solar True Scriptures, and stored him in the Immortal-Slaying Gourd.
• The group tried to reach the True Dragon Divine Medicine on Ruthless’s first-life coffin, and Ye Fan used the Immortal Treasure Map to take its dragon fruit before the medicine escaped.
• Lu Chen and his companions returned to the Myriad Dragon Nest entrance as the Ancient Race sealed the void and slaughtered or wounded many intruders.
• Black Emperor used the Void Emperor’s formation patterns to escape with the group, and Ye Fan also rescued the Yaochi Holy Lord and Feng Clan Holy Lord.

After the slaughter at the Myriad Dragon Nest shocked the Eastern Wasteland, Lu Chen and his companions ignored the powers demanding an explanation and prepared to travel to the Central Plains. Lu Chen identified the Qishi Mansion’s mysterious Ancient Road as the true Great Emperor’s Road.

• Lu Chen, Ye Fan, and their companions escaped the Myriad Dragon Nest through a Domain Gate, leaving the Feng Clan Holy Lord and the Yaochi Holy Mother to seek a way to rescue those trapped inside.
• News spread that the Myriad Dragon Nest massacre had killed several Holy Lords and many other powerful cultivators, and major powers issued personal kill orders against Ye Fan, Lu Chen, and the Black Emperor.
• Lu Chen realized the kill orders were a pretext to target him and seize the Immortal Gold Pagoda, while the major powers avoided acting in their own names because they feared his and Ye Fan’s backers.
• The Jade Pool Holy Land demanded that Lu Chen and his companions explain themselves, but they ignored the summons and studied the Primordial Human Demon instead.
• Lu Chen proposed traveling to the Central Plains to cultivate and learn about the Qishi Mansion, and he declared that its Ancient Road was the true Great Emperor’s Road.

Lu Chen awakened the primordial Human Demon, Dongfang Taiyi, in Purple Mountain and told him how the Human Race had risen since the Primordial Era. They discovered that the transformed Yin-Yang Eyes could help Dongfang Taiyi balance his Solar and Taiyin powers, leaving Lu Chen with an opportunity to learn from the Great Saint.

• Lu Chen told Ye Fan, Li Heishui, the Black Emperor, and the others that only a Great Accomplished God King could qualify to enter the Emperor Road.
• Lu Chen returned to Purple Mountain and found that its Yin-Yang Eyes had transformed into a terrifying Chaos Dao Point.
• Lu Chen released Dongfang Taiyi from Divine Source and carefully awakened the primordial Human Demon.
• Lu Chen described the Human Race's rise to rule Big Dipper Ancient Star, and Dongfang Taiyi asked about the Ancient Race in the Myriad Dragon Nest.
• Lu Chen led Dongfang Taiyi to the Chaos Dao Point, where the old Great Saint realized it could help him comprehend the Dao and resolve the conflict between his saint powers.

After months of secluded cultivation beneath Purple Mountain, Lu Chen survived the Dragon Transformation tribulation and reached the third heaven of the realm. He left the Eastern Wasteland for the Central Plains, intent on seeking opportunities in the Immortal Mansion World despite missing Qishi Mansion’s opening.

• Lu Chen endured the Dragon Transformation tribulation, absorbed the nine celestial dragons’ vital essence, and tempered his spine, divine sense, and nine-story Immortal Gold Pagoda.
• Lu Chen reached the first transformation of Dragon Transformation, recovered with the Phoenix Tribulation Rebirth Art, and later advanced to the third heaven using primal dragon qi.
• Lu Chen learned that Eastern Wasteland prodigies had gone to Qishi Mansion and that primordial creatures were demanding humans vacate lands near their sleeping grounds.
• Lu Chen used the Profound Jade Platform to travel from the Eastern Wasteland to the Great Xia Dynasty in the Central Plains.
• Lu Chen decided not to pursue Qishi Mansion and headed toward the Anyang Dynasty, where he planned to seek entry to the Immortal Mansion World.

Lu Chen entered the Immortal Mansion World through the Pagoda Grove with Ye Fan and discovered a dangerous ancient realm filled with powerful beasts and forgotten inheritances. After deciphering the Emperor's Way Saint Sword from a cliff, Lu Chen continued deeper in search of treasures before Qishi Mansion could arrive.

• Ye Fan told Lu Chen how Black Emperor's faulty teleportation had sent him to the Northern Plains, where he eventually became a local lord.
• Ye Fan led Lu Chen to the Pagoda Grove, and Lu Chen explained that it concealed an entrance to the dangerous Immortal Mansion World.
• Lu Chen entered the hidden realm through a hollow in a tree, and Ye Fan followed him inside.
• Lu Chen encountered a massive Desolate Antiquity Silver Wolf, avoided confronting it, and found a sword mark on a nearby cliff.
• Lu Chen deciphered the sword mark as the Emperor's Way Saint Sword from Great Xia's Taihuang Scripture, erased the imprint, and continued searching the realm.

Lu Chen pursued the rare Dragon Loach after powerful experts killed its would-be captors in the newly opened Immortal Mansion World. He caught it underground and placed it in Divine Spring water, hoping to raise it into a treasure comparable to a demidivine medicine.

• Lu Chen heard fighting in the mountains and realized the Immortal Mansion World had opened to the prodigies and major powers entering from Qishi Mansion and elsewhere.
• Lu Chen saw seven or eight people trying to capture a Dragon Loach in a swamp and followed them, hoping to claim the rare creature.
• Four powerful experts killed the would-be captors and sealed the swamp, but the Dragon Loach escaped through an underground river.
• Lu Chen pursued the Dragon Loach through the earth veins and caught it with his Source Arts inheritance.
• Lu Chen placed the Dragon Loach in a Spatial Artifact filled with Divine Spring water to raise it.

Lu Chen found Zixia nearly defeated by powerful cultivators and killed her attackers before they could finish her off. He gave the badly wounded Purple Mansion Saintess divine spring water to help her recover.

• Lu Chen sensed Zixia's dao embryo aura and rushed to a battlefield where she was fighting seven or eight powerful cultivators.
• Zixia fought on despite her injuries after the other Qishi Mansion prodigies had been killed.
• Lu Chen arrived and killed the cultivators, destroying their ancient bell and treasure mirror as they tried to stop him.
• Lu Chen checked on Zixia and gave her divine spring water, leaving her astonished that he had more of it.

Lu Chen and Zixia escaped the Immortal Mansion World’s savage beast tide, then Lu Chen bought and copied a genuine Immortal Treasure Map, making a fortune from its sale. When cultivators returned to seek a possible Great Emperor’s resting place, Lu Chen waited with Zixia at the dangerous region’s edge, letting others scout ahead.

• Lu Chen gave Zixia Divine Spring water to heal her wounds, and the two continued exploring the Immortal Mansion World together.
• Lu Chen reached the fourth level of the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm after a lightning tribulation, while he and Zixia discussed the powerful young prodigies.
• A battle over a Primordial Saint Weapon enraged the Savage Beast Kings, whose beast tide slaughtered cultivators and forced Lu Chen and Zixia to leave the Immortal Mansion World.
• Lu Chen bought a genuine Immortal Treasure Map from the Heavenly Blind Elder, copied it, and sold the copies for a fortune.
• Cultivators returned to the Immortal Mansion World to pursue a possible Great Emperor’s resting place, but Lu Chen stayed with Zixia at its perilous edge while others went ahead.

Lu Chen and Fairy Zixia entered the Immortal Burial Ground, avoided its Saint-level Divine Spirit Resentment, and reached the immortal treasury ahead of the other cultivators. After the treasury opened, they collected fragments of an ancient Saint Weapon and raced deeper inside.

• Savage Beast Kings slaughtered the first wave of cultivators, so Lu Chen and Zixia waited for the supreme experts to engage them before slipping into the Immortal Burial Ground.
• Lu Chen used his Source Heaven Divine Eye to search the cliffs, and a battle revealed the entrance to an Underground Palace; he and Zixia entered, then fled when a Divine Spirit Resentment seized a Half-Step Great Power.
• A Primordial Divine Mountain rose from underground, and a supreme Great Power opened its stone gate to reveal the immortal treasury.
• Lu Chen and Zixia bypassed the first level's medicine kings and hurried to the Second Cave Abode, where they gathered fragments of a broken bronze Saint Weapon.
• When pursuing experts attacked, Lu Chen struck two bell fragments together and killed them, then took Zixia deeper into the treasury.

Lu Chen and Fairy Zixia used the Immortal-Slaying Gourd’s aura to escape the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s divine spirit remnant and climbed the White Jade Stairway into a world from the Primordial Era. They discovered several pools of divine source liquid and stored it for later use.

• Lu Chen led Fairy Zixia past the king medicines, claimed a shattered Inherited Saint Weapon bell, and guided her across a lake to the White Jade Stairway.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor’s divine spirit remnant appeared on a boat, but Lu Chen released the Immortal-Slaying Gourd’s aura and flew with Zixia up the stairway.
• After Lu Chen and Zixia vanished into the clouds, the divine spirit remnant attacked the arriving cultivators until a Buddhist monk and the Heavenly Blind Elder led them in chanting scriptures that drove it back.
• Lu Chen and Zixia reached a world from the Primordial Era, where Zixia recognized a pool of divine source liquid and sealed it in a jade bottle.
• Lu Chen and Zixia searched further and found several more small pools of divine source liquid, gathering enough to seal someone away for tens of thousands of years.

Lu Chen and Zixia followed the Ancient Emperor’s aura through an underground cave, using a broken Ancient Bell to withstand its pressure and defeat the tomb’s guardians. They reached a towering jade terrace and found numerous powerful factions arriving behind them as a coffin floated above it.

• Lu Chen and Zixia located an ancient cave in a strange mountain ridge and discovered that an emperor corpse’s aura filled its depths.
• Lu Chen assembled the broken Ancient Bell fragments, inscribed Emperor Script on the bell, and used it to shield them from the aura and destroy a Demon Ape.
• Lu Chen and Zixia crossed a river of Taiyin true water, smashing the strange corpses and creatures in their path with the bell.
• Lu Chen and Zixia reached a vast jade terrace where a coffin floated amid chaos qi.
• Duan De arrived with Ye Fan, the second great bandit, Heavenly Blind Elder, Dongfang Ye, and Jue Youqing.
• The Great Xia Emperor, the Jiuli Imperial Lord, other rulers, and powerful figures from several regions arrived at the terrace.

At the jade platform, Gao Changhao and other Great Powers confronted Lu Chen and Ye Fan, while the mysterious coffin above them remained beyond reach. Gao Changhao recognized Lu Chen as the killer of the Gao Family’s new Twin Kings and advanced to take revenge.

• Lu Chen, Ye Fan, Dongfang Ye, and the other cultivators felt crushing pressure from the jade platform and the ancient coffin suspended above it.
• Gao Changhao insulted the younger cultivators, and Lu Chen and Dongfang Ye answered him defiantly before a Qishi Mansion elder intervened.
• A Great Power from the Xiao Family recognized Ye Fan, who was using the alias Ye Zhetian, and accused him of killing a Xiao Family disciple.
• A sect master revealed that Lu Chen was the prodigy the Gao Family had been searching for, prompting Gao Changhao to threaten him over the deaths of the new Twin Kings.
• Gao Changhao declared that the Twin Kings had been his nephews and advanced toward Lu Chen, vowing to torture and kill him.

Lu Chen confronted Gao Changhao on the thirty-thousand-meter Jade Platform, where the Ancient Emperor's aura suppressed Dharma Power and gave Lu Chen's powerful flesh an advantage. After reaching the summit with Zixia, Lu Chen faced Gao Changhao again as the fight over the Ancient Coffin and the supreme Immortal Treasure loomed.

• The other supreme experts stayed out of Lu Chen's fight, while Zixia stood by him and Ye Fan was occupied by an Xiao Family expert.
• Lu Chen struck Gao Changhao with the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist and shattered both of his arms before Gao Changhao blasted him backward with Dharma Power.
• Lu Chen evaded Gao Changhao's attack by climbing the Jade Platform and taunted him, but Gao Changhao refused to pursue him up the steps.
• Lu Chen and Zixia used their broken Saint Bell to climb to the platform's summit as other groups relied on super Forbidden Artifacts to resist the Ancient Emperor's aura.
• Gao Changhao, protected by nearly twenty Forbidden Artifacts, tried to seize the Saint Bell, but Lu Chen's strike met his hand and forced both of them to retreat.

Lu Chen used the Ancient Bell to destroy Gao Changhao's allies' protective artifacts and force them off the jade platform. The powerful figures then gathered around the Enlightenment Coffin, whose sapling Lu Chen hoped to cultivate, but they remained wary and discovered that the supreme aura did not come from the coffin.

• Lu Chen strengthened his control over the Ancient Bell and shattered most of the super Forbidden Artifacts protecting Gao Changhao and his allies.
• Gao Changhao and his allies fled the jade platform by leaping off its edge, while the others watched Lu Chen and Zixia warily.
• The powerful figures approached the Ancient Coffin and recognized it as a priceless coffin made from the Enlightenment Divine Tree, bearing a sprouting branch.
• Lu Chen decided he could cultivate the enlightenment branch into a supreme treasure, but he refrained from claiming it first because the others might attack him.
• The crowd discovered that the supreme aura on the jade platform did not come from the Ancient Coffin.

Experts discovered that the Enlightenment Coffin held Taihuang’s remains and that the nearby Five-Colored Human Skin belonged to the Undying Heavenly Emperor. As the Great Xia Dynasty and other powers disputed the relics, Lu Chen seized the coffin lid and used the Saint Bell to hold off those who demanded it.

• Experts identified the Five-Colored Human Skin inside Immortal Source as the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s shed remnant and learned from Taihuang’s inscription how it had ended up beside the Enlightenment Coffin.
• The Great Xia Dynasty claimed Taihuang’s remains, but other powers refused to let the dynasty monopolize the coffin and its treasures.
• The Great Xia Emperor poured Imperial Dragon Qi into Taihuang’s imprint, opening the Enlightenment Coffin as the assembled experts retreated from the burst of chaos qi.
• Lu Chen used the Saint Bell to draw in the coffin lid, including its newly sprouted enlightenment branch, while the others demanded he surrender it.
• Lu Chen rang the Saint Bell to stop the approaching powers and challenged them to take the lid by force.

Lu Chen seized the Enlightenment Coffin Lid as the great powers revealed Saint Weapons and Emperor Weapons to fight over Taihuang’s treasures. The coffin was dismantled, but a clash over Taihuang’s Great Dao Imprint threatened to escalate until Ye Fan’s heavenly tribulation sent everyone fleeing.

• Lu Chen took the Enlightenment Coffin Lid and drew the attention of the Ancient Hua Dynasty, Western Desert Buddhism, and Southern Ridge Demon God Hall, who displayed their Inherited Saint Weapons.
• The great powers discovered Taihuang’s Great Dao Imprint in the inner coffin and contested its ownership as the Great Xia Dynasty summoned the Taihuang Sword and the Nine Li Dynasty brought out the Jiuli Diagram.
• Duan De and the Heavenly Blind Elder joined the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid with the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar Body, while Lu Chen held back the Immortal-Slaying Gourd.
• The factions dismantled the outer coffin and divided its boards and nails, while Lu Chen and Zixia used the Saint Bell to claim another coffin board.
• The Great Xia Dynasty guarded Taihuang’s Great Dao Imprint as the Nine Li Dynasty, Duan De, and the Heavenly Blind Elder challenged them with Emperor Weapons.
• Ye Fan broke through to a new realm and triggered heavenly tribulation, forcing everyone to flee the Jade Platform.

Lu Chen survived his Heavenly Tribulation, advanced to the fifth level of Dragon Transformation, and shared treasures with Fairy Zixia. Before they parted, he passed her the Western Emperor Scripture, strengthening her resolve to become a Great Emperor.

• Lu Chen drew down his own Heavenly Tribulation and chased Gao Changhao, causing the Gao Family's mighty cultivator to trigger his tribulation and die in the lightning.
• Lu Chen left the Primordial Ancient World and completed his tribulation, reaching the fifth level of Dragon Transformation as Ye Fan also finished his.
• Zixia gave Lu Chen the damaged Saint Bell, and Lu Chen exchanged it for the Enlightenment Coffin Board before explaining that he would seek dragon marrow in the Central Plains.
• At the Immortal Mansion World's exit, Lu Chen passed Zixia the Western Emperor Scripture, which she studied in a Dao Realm for an hour.
• Zixia recognized the scripture and vowed to pursue the goal of becoming another female Great Emperor as Lu Chen departed.

Lu Chen nurtured the Enlightenment Tea Tree shoot and learned of upheavals across the cultivation world, then openly defied the Gao Family after it issued a Death Warrant against him. After Lu Chen killed more than a dozen of its disciples, a mighty cultivator found him in the mountains and attacked.

• Lu Chen watered the Enlightenment Tea Tree shoot with his remaining Azure Emperor's Essence Blood and Divine Spring water, helping it double in size and grow three new leaves.
• Lu Chen heard rumors about the Immortal Mansion World’s final struggle and learned that the Primordial Ancient Mine had erupted with strange radiance, drawing the attention of many powers.
• The Gao Family issued a Death Warrant against Lu Chen, and he publicly threatened to slaughter its younger generation if it hunted him.
• Lu Chen killed more than a dozen Gao Family disciples, prompting the family to recall its young members and intensify its search for him.
• A mighty cultivator found Lu Chen while he searched for dragon marrow and reached out to attack him with a vast Dharma-powered hand.

Lu Chen used a damaged Primordial Saint Weapon to kill Gao Family pursuers, then slaughtered its experts until the family withdrew its kill order. He infiltrated the Qin Sect in the Qinling Mountains to seek the “Bing” secret, one of the Nine Secrets.

• Lu Chen evaded a Gao Family Immortal Two Realm expert and killed him with the Saint Bell, though wielding it left him weakened.
• Lu Chen attacked the Gao Family’s territory, killing its experts and city lord, then slew dozens more over the next month until the family withdrew its kill order.
• The Gao Family secretly planned to use a Primordial Saint Weapon against Lu Chen, while he remained confident that he could destroy the family once he reached the Holy Lord Realm.
• Lu Chen traveled to the Qinling Mountains to obtain the Qin Sect’s “Bing” secret, which the sect guarded alongside the Ruthless Great Emperor’s Deity-Deliverance Art.
• Lu Chen changed his appearance and paid a considerable price to infiltrate the Qin Sect.

Lu Chen infiltrated the Qin Sect to find Nine Secret: Bing while resisting the Ruthless Great Emperor’s Deity-Deliverance Art. After paying his way into the inner sect, he discovered the secret’s stone wall and began comprehending it under the starlight.

• Lu Chen joined the Qin Sect and used his Heavenly Eye to identify hidden experts and assess the danger of the Deity-Deliverance Art.
• Lu Chen met Ye Fan in secret, saw Li Xiaoman and Hua Yunfei, and continued concealing his identity.
• The Qin Sect offered inner-sect entry to the disciple competition’s winner or to anyone who provided precious treasures, so Lu Chen surrendered ancient spirit medicines.
• After sensing the Deity-Deliverance Art’s influence during the Sect Master’s lectures, Lu Chen stopped attending and searched the peaks for Nine Secret: Bing.
• Lu Chen found a stone wall covered in crude weapon carvings, then used the Enlightenment Coffin Lid and waited for starlight to reveal the inheritance’s mysteries.