Chapter Summaries

Lu Chen mastered Nine Secret: Bing, advanced his cultivation in the Qinling Mountains, and encountered Li Xiaoman, whose body contained the Crocodile Ancestor’s Divine Embryo. After she attacked him, she unleashed the embryo’s power, setting the stage for a more dangerous fight.

• Lu Chen comprehended the weapon scars in the Qin Sect and obtained Nine Secret: Bing.
• He left the Qin Sect, gathered dragon marrow in the Qinling Mountains, and reached the sixth heaven of Dragon Transformation.
• Lu Chen met Li Xiaoman, who questioned his origins and physique before revealing that the Crocodile Ancestor’s Divine Embryo had targeted him.
• Li Xiaoman attacked with a Lotus Battle Garment and silver Phoenix Halberd, but Lu Chen knocked her back with his Nine-Layer Immortal Gold Pagoda.
• Li Xiaoman unleashed the Divine Embryo’s power, her eyes turning golden as a terrifying vision appeared behind her.

Lu Chen fought Li Xiaoman, whose body hosted the Crocodile Ancestor Divine Embryo, and used his Immortal Gold Pagoda to imprison her. Before he could refine them, Li Xiaoman escaped with a Forbidden Artifact that wounded Lu Chen, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Li Xiaoman revealed her desire to take Lu Chen's body and Immortal Gold Pagoda, then blocked the pagoda's crushing attack with the Silver Phoenix Halberd.
• Lu Chen struck Li Xiaoman with the Star-Scrambling Finger and Divine Phoenix Slash, but her Golden Divine Diagram protected her and its Buddhist chants countered his attacks.
• Lu Chen repelled the Golden Divine Diagram with the Six-Character True Words, then shattered it and a golden temple with the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist, badly injuring Li Xiaoman.
• Lu Chen used Nine Secret: Bing to drive the Immortal Gold Pagoda and imprison Li Xiaoman, then began burning her and the Crocodile Ancestor Divine Embryo with solar true fire.
• Li Xiaoman escaped and used a Golden Buddha Statue with imperial might to strike Lu Chen, who survived when the Immortal-Slaying Gourd released a protective aura.

Lu Chen used the Immortal-Slaying Gourd to suppress Li Xiaoman and destroy the Crocodile Ancestor’s divine embryo, then obtained the Swallowing Heaven Demon Art and Quasi-Emperor Forbidden Artifact. Two years later, at the peak of the ninth heaven of Dragon Transformation, he learned that cultivators were gathering in the Qinling Mountains for the coming appearance of the Immortal Transformation Pool and Eternal Ancestral Dragon Lair.

• Li Xiaoman revealed that the Crocodile Ancestor’s divine embryo had possessed her and used the Quasi-Emperor Forbidden Artifact to attack Lu Chen.
• Lu Chen summoned the Immortal-Slaying Gourd, suppressed the forbidden artifact, and seized the golden Divine Crocodile from Li Xiaoman’s Dao Palace Secret Realm.
• Lu Chen crushed the divine embryo, spared Li Xiaoman for Ye Fan’s sake, and took the Swallowing Heaven Demon Art and Buddha statue.
• Lu Chen spent two years searching the Qinling Mountains for dragon marrow and advanced to the peak of the ninth heaven of Dragon Transformation.
• Lu Chen learned that cultivators from across the Five Regions were gathering in the Qinling Mountains because the Immortal Transformation Pool and Eternal Ancestral Dragon Lair were about to appear.

Lu Chen and other cultivators gathered in Qin City as the Immortal Transformation Pool and Eternal Ancestral Dragon Lair appeared in the Qinling Mountains. Lu Chen led Zixia, the Yaochi Saintess, and others into the misty approach to the pool, where other experts were also beginning to explore.

• Lu Chen arrived in Qin City, where powerful young cultivators from across the Five Regions gathered for the appearance of the Immortal Grounds.
• Zixia warned Lu Chen that the Gao Family was secretly hunting him with its Primordial Saint Weapon, and Lu Chen said he would soon be able to face mighty experts without aid.
• Lu Chen traveled with Zixia, the Yaochi Saintess, and others to a stone forest and identified the imprints there as those of Tathagata and Laozi.
• Lu Chen and the others found that the dried-up lake's mist confused their senses, so Lu Chen used his Source Heaven Wonders and Saint Bell to guide them through the dangers.
• Lu Chen led the group toward the Immortal Transformation Pool as Source Arts Masters and Dragon-Seeking Heavenly Masters also entered the area.

Lu Chen and his companions reached the Immortal Transformation Pool and Eternal Dragon Lair, where he studied their yin-yang Dao and later searched the pool as ancient dangers erupted. The chapter ended when a cultivator found a piece of Dao Tribulation Gold and Lu Chen rushed toward it.

• Lu Chen recognized the Immortal Transformation Pool and Eternal Dragon Lair as twin yin-yang divine lands and warned his companions to wait before approaching them.
• Lu Chen spent half a month comprehending the lands’ yin-yang mysteries, while Fairy Zixia guarded him.
• When the Immortal Pool and Dragon Lair shifted, the gathered cultivators split up to search for treasures, and Lu Chen cautioned his group to stay near the pool’s edge.
• The Red-Haired Monster and a Quasi-Emperor Saint Spirit emerged in the Eternal Dragon Lair, but the Azure Emperor’s lingering power killed them both.
• Lu Chen searched the Immortal Transformation Pool instead of joining the battles over the Immortal Cauldron Fragment and Immortal Divine Pill.
• A cultivator found a human-head-sized piece of Dao Tribulation Gold, and Lu Chen hurried toward it as others converged.

Lu Chen fought through the Immortal Transformation Pool’s melee and used his Saint Bell to seize the Dao Tribulation Gold. The Imperial Lord of Jiuli then arrived with the Jiuli Diagram and targeted the treasure, leaving Lu Chen facing a Supreme Dao Emperor Weapon.

• Lu Chen raced to claim the Dao Tribulation Gold, knocked aside an Immortal Platform expert, and struck down the young cultivator who had found it.
• After the gold was tossed between combatants, Lu Chen used the Weapon character secret to pull it back, then defeated more attackers and stunned the crowd with combat strength in the eight forbidden domain.
• Lu Chen unleashed the Saint Bell, killed two Great Powers, crushed nearby fighters, and swept the Dao Tribulation Gold inside.
• The Imperial Lord of Jiuli arrived with the Jiuli Diagram and aimed its emperor might at Lu Chen’s treasure, forcing Lu Chen to shift away.
• The people of the Nine Li Dynasty unleashed their Emperor Weapon as Lu Chen held the Dao Tribulation Gold within his damaged Saint Bell.

Lu Chen revealed the Immortal-Slaying Gourd, an Emperor Weapon that forced the Jiuli Imperial Lord and Duan De’s faction to reconsider taking his dao tribulation gold. While the Emperor Weapons faced off, Ye Fan seized the green copper and escaped down the mountain, and dreamlike divine marrow emerged from the Eternal Dragon Lair.

• The Jiuli Imperial Lord demanded Lu Chen surrender the dao tribulation gold, while Duan De and the Heavenly Blind Elder also refused to protect him from the pressure of their Emperor Weapons.
• Lu Chen put away the failing Saint Bell and revealed the Immortal-Slaying Gourd, making the other factions hesitate to attack him.
• Ye Fan used the Weapon secret art to seize the green copper and fought his way out as the Great Xia Dynasty and the Jiuli Dynasty pursued him.
• The Peacock King and Red Dragon Daoist blocked the Taihuang Sword, while Duan De and the Heavenly Blind Elder used the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar to stop the Jiuli Diagram.
• Ye Fan escaped down the mountain carrying the green copper, and dreamlike divine marrow burst from the Eternal Dragon Lair in small-animal forms.

Lu Chen left the Immortal Transformation Pool after acquiring a large piece of dao tribulation gold, while others fought over the dreamlike divine marrow and Ye Fan was trapped in a formation outside. The Gao Family ambushed Lu Chen with an Incomplete Emperor Formation, intending to kill him and seize his Treasure Pagoda, unaware that he possessed a complete Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon.

• The dreamlike divine marrow emerged as little sprites, and Lu Chen, Duan De, the Heavenly Blind Elder, and other factions seized some while violent fighting erupted.
• Lu Chen decided to leave the Immortal Transformation Pool with his dao tribulation gold, while supreme figures rushed into the Eternal Dragon Lair to seek the divine marrow mother lode.
• Lu Chen found Ye Fan and his companions trapped in a Grand Formation outside the Immortal Grounds, then flew away from the area.
• A Gao Family elder attacked Lu Chen, and more than a dozen Gao Family experts surrounded him within an Incomplete Emperor Formation.
• The Gao Family revealed that it had investigated Lu Chen, learned of his Treasure Pagoda, and planned to kill him and take it, not knowing he had a complete Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon.

Lu Chen destroyed the Gao Family forces that had ambushed him, then witnessed six Emperor Weapons clash over the Immortal Transformation Pool and the green copper fragment. The confrontation ended after Ye Fan escaped with the fragment, leaving the Qinling Mountains scarred by the weapons’ power.

• Lu Chen used the Immortal-Slaying Gourd to break the Gao Family’s formation, shatter its Saint Sword, and kill its three Great Powers and accompanying Supreme Elders.
• Supreme Dao Emperor Might erupted near the Immortal Transformation Pool as six Emperor Weapons confronted one another over the green copper fragment and the secret of becoming an immortal.
• Lu Chen recognized the weapons involved and considered how Gai Jiuyou might have secretly helped Ye Fan escape.
• Ye Fan escaped with the green copper fragment, ending the confrontation between the six Emperor Weapons.
• Lu Chen later found a thousand-mile desert where the Qinling Mountains had been changed by the Emperor Weapons’ clash.

Lu Chen arrived at the Gao Family Divine City to make the family pay for its repeated attacks, choosing to break through to the Immortal Platform Secret Realm under its walls. He survived the terrible heavenly tribulation by repeatedly healing with the Phoenix Tribulation Rebirth Art and tempering himself and his treasures in the lightning, leaving the Gao Family’s watching experts alarmed.

• After three months of traveling and cultivating throughout the Central Plains, Lu Chen decided to use the Gao Family as a stepping stone for his breakthrough.
• Lu Chen reached the Gao Family Divine City and declared that he would shatter it for repeatedly hunting him.
• Rather than attack, Lu Chen summoned a great heavenly tribulation, forcing the Gao Family to activate its Heaven-Deceiving Grand Formation to protect the city.
• Lu Chen broke through to the Immortal Platform Secret Realm as his primordial spirit and nine-story Immortal Gold Pagoda faced the lightning alongside him.
• As the tribulation battered him, Lu Chen used the Phoenix Tribulation Rebirth Art to heal and repeatedly temper his body and soul with heavenly lightning.
• The Gao Family experts watched through their Divine Eyes and grew bitterly disappointed when Lu Chen survived and recovered from his wounds.

Lu Chen endured a legendary humanoid lightning tribulation, broke through three minor realms, and tempered the Nine-Layer Immortal Gold Pagoda into a Holy Lord-level weapon. With the Gao Family’s territory reduced to a wasteland, he confronted the clan and declared that he would destroy its Divine City.

• Lu Chen fought humanoid lightning bearing the Void Mirror, Hengyu Furnace, and Jiuli Diagram through two days and nights of tribulation.
• After the main tribulation ended, two more layers of lightning struck as Lu Chen advanced through three minor realms into the Immortal Platform Realm.
• Lu Chen endured the remaining tribulation, recovered with Divine Spring water and the Phoenix Tribulation Rebirth Art, and saw the Nine-Layer Immortal Gold Pagoda become a Holy Lord-level weapon.
• The tribulation devastated the Gao Family’s territory, leaving its ancient city intact beneath the Heaven-Deceiving Formation Patterns.
• Lu Chen accused the Gao Family of repeatedly ambushing him and vowed to bring down its Divine City, while the clan insisted that its own Emperor Weapon could oppose his.

Lu Chen confronted the Gao Family at their Divine City, where the Ancient Hua Dynasty brought the Ancient Hua Whip to counter his Immortal-Slaying Gourd. He left the chapter advancing on the city and overpowering nine Half-Step Great Powers without using an Emperor Weapon.

• The Ancient Hua Dynasty arrived to help the Gao Family counter Lu Chen’s Emperor Weapon after the family had secretly paid for its support.
• Lu Chen declared he could make the Gao Family pay without an Emperor Weapon and advanced toward their Divine City.
• A Gao Family Half-Step Great Power attacked Lu Chen with Ten Thousand Feather Kill, but Lu Chen shattered the golden feathers and killed him with one of them.
• Nine more Gao Family Half-Step Great Powers attacked Lu Chen together, using sword energy, secret techniques, and magic treasures.
• Lu Chen shattered their attacks and weapons in succession, leaving the nine powerhouses unable to match him.

Lu Chen slaughtered the Gao Family’s nine Half-Step Great Powers and then defeated and killed Gao Yunxiao in a duel, demonstrating Holy Lord-level combat strength. As several Gao Family elders attacked together, Lu Chen summoned the cracked Ghost Stone Statue, whose apparition halted them.

• Lu Chen broke the Nine Absolute Killing Formation and killed all nine Half-Step Great Powers sent by the Gao Family.
• Gao Yunxiao attacked Lu Chen to avenge his nephews, and Lu Chen met the Immortal Two mighty figure head-on.
• Lu Chen unleashed the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist, overwhelmed Gao Yunxiao, and destroyed his head and primordial spirit with the Star-Scrambling Finger.
• Four or five Gao Family elders attacked Lu Chen together, forcing him to retreat.
• Lu Chen summoned the cracked Ghost Stone Statue, and its terrifying Quasi-Emperor battle formation appeared overhead as the elders stopped.

Lu Chen used the cracked Ghost Stone Statue to summon more than a hundred king-level ghostly divinities and unleash a massacre on the Gao Family Divine City. By the time he brought out an Inherited Saint Bell to break the city's Saint-level defenses, its southern side had been reduced to ruins.

• Lu Chen activated the Ghost Stone Statue and summoned ghostly divinities formed from soldiers of the Ancient Heavenly Court.
• The ghostly divinities killed several Gao Family elders and stormed into the Divine City, overwhelming its defenders.
• A Gao Family expert called for the ancient Saint formation, and the clan raised its defensive barrier against the attackers.
• Lu Chen and several ghostly divinities used the Inherited Saint Bell to shatter a large section of the formation.
• The ghostly divinities continued through the city, and Lu Chen's assault destroyed its entire southern side.

Lu Chen confronted the Gao Family after devastating part of its Divine City, forcing its leaders to choose between risking the clan's destruction and negotiating. The Gao Family paid him reparations, and he left with his Kings as news of the battle spread across the Five Regions.

• The Gao Family awakened its Inherited Saint Weapon, but its old Holy Lord hesitated to order an all-out battle against Lu Chen and his Kings.
• Lu Chen demanded ten million jin of pure source and a Saint Weapon in exchange for withdrawing from the Gao Family Divine City.
• The Gao Family negotiated with Lu Chen and ultimately paid five million jin of pure source and a King Weapon.
• Lu Chen left the Divine City with his host of Kings, and news of the battle spread across the Five Regions, making his name feared by major powers.

After devastating the Gao Family, Lu Chen left with compensation and joined his friends at Qishi Mansion, where he encountered the world’s gathered young prodigies. The great powers turned their attention to a new alliance seeking Wushi’s legacy in Purple Mountain.

• News of Lu Chen’s attack spread across the Five Regions, alarming powerful factions and stunning Wang Teng, the Southern Demon, Zixia, and Pang Bo.
• Lu Chen departed the Gao Family with five million jin of pure source and a golden battle armor refined by an earlier Sun King Body.
• Lu Chen went to Qishi Mansion and reunited with Zixia, Yao Yuekong, Ye Fan, and other friends.
• A Primordial Royal Clan and the Northern Plains Wang Family prepared to explore Purple Mountain and seize Great Emperor Wushi’s legacy, drawing the attention of Human Race powers.
• Lu Chen met prodigies from across the Five Regions at Qishi Mansion and recognized that several little-known experts could rival the most famous young geniuses.

Lu Chen declined an invitation to join Qishi Mansion and returned to the Eastern Wasteland to seek a Netherworld Divine Herb that could strengthen his divine sense. He found the herb growing in a Yellow Springs pool beneath Eagle-Fall Cliff and considered how to use it without suffering its harmful side effects.

• Lu Chen refused the deputy mansion master's invitation to join Qishi Mansion and prepared to leave for the Eastern Wasteland.
• Lu Chen said farewell to Zixia, then spent half a month preparing an array platform to cross from the Central Plains to the Eastern Wasteland.
• Lu Chen traveled to Eagle-Fall Cliff, descended into the Primordial Battlefield, and searched its burial grounds for a rare divine substance.
• Lu Chen used the Sun Battle Armor to open a path through black mist into an uncanny nether land.
• Lu Chen found a Netherworld Divine Herb growing in a Yellow Springs pool and planned to remove the properties that caused bodily decay.

Lu Chen used the Netherworld Divine Herb to strengthen his divine sense, then entered the Primordial Battlefield’s core to temper himself and his weapons with the lingering laws of ancient Ancestor Kings. After restoring and refining several treasures, he forged the Primordial Battle Spear into a Dragon Spear.

• Lu Chen captured the Netherworld Divine Herb and Yellow Springs Pool, then left the netherworld-like spatial node for the Primordial Battlefield.
• Lu Chen processed the herb and consumed the portion that strengthened divine sense, reaching the peak of the Immortal One Realm over the next two months.
• Lu Chen used the Immortal-Slaying Gourd and Origin Heaven Patterns to enter the battlefield’s Core Killing Ground and withstand its Saint-level laws.
• Lu Chen tempered the Bronze Ancient Bell and Nine-Layer Immortal Gold Pagoda with the lingering Dao light, restoring the bell and nurturing a divine embryo in the pagoda.
• Lu Chen comprehended the Saint Laws for a month, reached the threshold of the Immortal Two Realm, and suppressed his breakthrough to avoid a Saint-level tribulation.
• Lu Chen reshaped the corroded Primordial Battle Spear into a dark-gold Dragon Spear using the Ancestor Kings’ laws as Dao fire.

After escaping the Primordial Battlefield, Lu Chen was struck by the curse afflicting Source Arts masters but erased it with the Solar and Taiyin True Scriptures. He broke through to the second heaven of the Immortal Platform and then heard that Wang Teng’s attempt to seize Great Emperor Wushi’s inheritance had failed.

• Lu Chen encountered the red-haired ancestor of the Source King Lineage near Eagle-Fall Cliff and was afflicted by the curse of the Source God and the Source Ghost.
• Lu Chen used the Solar True Scripture and Taiyin True Scripture to manifest a Yin-Yang Divine Diagram, erase the curse, and strike the Red-Haired Monster with the Saint Bell.
• Lu Chen escaped the Primordial Battlefield, and the curse’s uncanny aura dispersed after he left Eagle-Fall Cliff.
• Lu Chen endured a heavenly tribulation and broke through to the second heaven of the Immortal Platform, reaching Holy Lord-level strength.
• Lu Chen learned that Wang Teng and the Primordial Royal Clan had failed to obtain Great Emperor Wushi’s inheritance.

After reaching the Immortal Two Realm, Lu Chen learned to operate a Five-Colored Altar and traveled to the Ji Family, where Ye Fan was expected to confront Wang Teng over Ji Ziyue’s marriage alliance. Lu Chen offered to support Ye Fan if needed.

• Lu Chen returned to Purple Mountain, found the Primordial Human Demon cultivating at the Yin-Yang Eyes, and learned how the Wushi Bell had once restored his lucidity.
• Lu Chen showed the Primordial Human Demon a Five-Colored Altar, and the senior taught him how to set its travel parameters while warning him about the dangers of the starry sky.
• Lu Chen learned that the Ji Family was considering a marriage alliance between Ji Ziyue and Wang Teng, while Ye Fan planned to visit and help her.
• Lu Chen arrived at the Ji Family, where a Great Power welcomed him as a peer and Pang Bo urged him to protect Ye Fan.
• Lu Chen told Pang Bo he would step in if necessary.