Chapter Summaries

Chu Luo killed Luo Yu with a Forbidden Secret Art, then traded Yun Qianqian the soul-nourishing flower for a Realm-Breaking Pill and began cultivating. Outside the secret realm, Luo Yu’s death enraged Ancient Sage Lan Qing, who suspected the Forbidden Sect.

• Chu Luo used Blood-Baleful Sword Slaughter to defeat Luo Yu, the Heavenly Prodigy Ranking’s 123rd-ranked prodigy, at the cost of three hundred years of lifespan.
• The Spiritclear Sect disciples fled, while the Forbidden Sect disciples gave Chu Luo vitality-restoring herbs and he ate them.
• Yun Qianqian revealed that her soul was injured and offered Chu Luo a Realm-Breaking Pill for the soul-nourishing flower; he accepted and she consumed the flower to heal.
• Chu Luo swallowed the Realm-Breaking Pill and began cultivating as the others guarded Yun Qianqian.
• Outside the secret realm, Luo Yu disappeared from the Heavenly Prodigy Ranking, and Ancient Sage Lan Qing found his shattered Life Tablet and vowed revenge.

At the Great Emperor Secret Realm, Dan Chenzi encountered the Ancient Pill Great Emperor’s remnant soul and was taken away to receive the Pill Sect’s inheritance. Outside, Du Sheng and Han Wujie eyed the Forbidden Sect disciples, preparing to settle a score once the remnant soul disappeared.

• Ancient Sage Lan Qing accused the Forbidden Sect of possibly killing his disciple, while Zhao Sheng secretly summoned reinforcements in case Chu Luo had caused trouble.
• Dan Chenzi and other sect experts gathered before the Flameforging Cauldron, and Dan Chenzi asked a Forbidden Sect disciple to contact Chu Luo for help reclaiming it.
• The cauldron’s imperial might forced the gathered experts to kneel, but Dan Chenzi and a Spiritclear Sect companion of the Wang Family remained standing.
• The Ancient Pill Great Emperor appeared, recognized Dan Chenzi as a Pill Sect disciple, and took him away to inherit the cauldron and his legacy.
• After the Great Emperor’s remnant soul vanished, Du Sheng and Han Wujie turned their attention to the Forbidden Sect disciples and planned to collect a debt.

Zhu Yue, Lü Changkong, and Wang Lin learned that Chu Luo had killed Luo Yu and joined Crimson Flame Valley in attacking the Forbidden Sect disciples. Meanwhile, Chu Luo broke through to the divine soul fourth realm, received a message about an Imperial Artifact, and rushed toward the secret realm’s depths with his allies.

• Spiritclear Sect disciples reported that Chu Luo had killed Luo Yu, prompting Zhu Yue, Lü Changkong, and Wang Lin to seek revenge.
• Du Sheng and the Crimson Flame Valley prodigies joined Spiritclear Sect in blocking and attacking the Forbidden Sect disciples, while the Pill Sect helped defend them.
• Chu Luo broke through from the divine soul second realm to the fourth realm using a Realm-Breaking Pill.
• Yun Qianqian recovered her soul and offered to help Chu Luo compete for the Imperial Artifact.
• A Forbidden Sect disciple received a message that an Imperial Artifact had been discovered, and Chu Luo led the group toward the secret realm’s depths.

Chu Luo arrived at a sea of fire with Yun Qianqian and the Forbidden Sect disciples, where he found their fellow disciples and Pill Sect members badly beaten. He faced off against the Crimson Flame Valley, Spiritclear Sect, and Wang Lin, and the chapter ended with Wang Lin ordering his followers to kill him.

• Chu Luo and Yun Qianqian arrived and saw injured Forbidden Sect and Pill Sect disciples lying near the sea of fire, while Han Wujie stood over one of them.
• Chu Luo stopped his junior brothers from attacking and told them to look for a chance to rescue the injured disciples and escape.
• Chu Luo taunted Han Wujie, and Du Sheng led Crimson Flame Valley disciples in surrounding Chu Luo's group.
• Zhu Yue and Lü Changkong confronted Chu Luo about killing Luo Yu, and Chu Luo admitted he had killed him.
• Wang Lin demanded that Chu Luo kill himself, but Chu Luo insulted him and the Evil-Suppressing Great Emperor.
• Wang Lin declared that his family would take responsibility and ordered his followers to kill Chu Luo.

Chu Luo ambushed Han Wujie and poisoned disciples from Crimson Flame Valley and the Spiritclear Sect while they were distracted by Dan Chenzi's breakthrough. As four enraged prodigies attacked him, Chu Luo spent Apprentice-Protection Points to reach the Great Beginning Realm, and Yun Qianqian moved to help him.

• Dan Chenzi emerged from the Flame-Forging Cauldron with the Ancient Pill Great Emperor's inheritance and began breaking through.
• Chu Luo used Spatial Displacement to appear beside Han Wujie and struck him with Calamity Poison Finger, poisoning him fatally.
• Chu Luo feinted a palm strike at Du Sheng and Zhao Tianyu, then hit disciples from Crimson Flame Valley and the Spiritclear Sect with Heart-Ravaging Purple Poison Palm as Forbidden Sect disciples evacuated their injured allies.
• Zhu Yue, Lü Changkong, Du Sheng, and Zhao Tianyu attacked Chu Luo together, prompting him to spend 10,000 Apprentice-Protection Points and break through to the first stage of the Great Beginning Realm.
• The four prodigies charged Chu Luo again, and Yun Qianqian stepped forward to help him.

Dan Chenzi broke through to the Great Beginning Realm and joined the battle, while Chu Luo fought Zhu Yue and Du Sheng. As the two prodigies unleashed their finishing moves, Wang Lin ambushed Chu Luo with the Immovable Wisdom King manifestation, leaving his fate unclear.

• Dan Chenzi broke through to the first stage of the Great Beginning Realm and charged at the four prodigies, prompting Lü Changkong and Zhao Tianyu to intercept him and Yun Qianqian.
• Chu Luo fought Zhu Yue and Du Sheng while secretly consuming lifespan-restoring pills to replenish his strength.
• Wang Lin broke through to the second stage of the Great Beginning Realm and suddenly struck, forcing Chu Luo away from Zhu Yue and Du Sheng.
• Zhu Yue summoned hundreds of phantom spears, and Du Sheng unleashed a blazing manifestation as they prepared their finishing attacks against Chu Luo.
• Wang Lin summoned the Immovable Wisdom King behind Chu Luo and pressed its attack down on him, raising an enormous mushroom cloud.

After Zhu Yue, Du Sheng, and Wang Lin bombarded Chu Luo, they assumed he had died, but his missing body and a sudden blood-red killing intent revealed that he had survived. As Chu Luo invoked a Forbidden Secret Art, a spatial rift opened above Zhu Yue and Du Sheng, leaving them in peril.

• Zhu Yue and Du Sheng followed Wang Lin’s ambush with powerful attacks aimed at the mushroom cloud, and the spectators believed Chu Luo had been killed.
• Dan Chenzi defeated Lü Changkong, while Yun Qianqian defeated Zhao Tianyu; Wang Lin then demanded Dan Chenzi surrender the Pill Cauldron.
• A spectator noticed that Chu Luo’s body and clothing were missing from the crater, making Zhu Yue, Du Sheng, and Wang Lin suspect that he was still alive.
• The secret realm turned blood-red as killing intent swept across the sky, and the Forbidden Sect disciples recognized Chu Luo’s presence.
• Chu Luo announced the Forbidden Secret Art, Blood Fiend Devours Heaven, while a spatial rift opened above Zhu Yue and Du Sheng; Zhao Tianyu and Lü Changkong warned them to look out.

Chu Luo emerged from a Blood-Colored Wormhole after escaping Wang Lin’s attack and used its power to kill Zhu Yue and Du Sheng. He then unleashed Spacetime Displacement on Wang Lin, pulling him directly in front of him.

• Zhu Yue and Du Sheng failed to escape the wormhole’s suction or break it with their combined attacks, while Wang Lin ignored Zhu Yue’s plea for help.
• Chu Luo appeared from the sea of blood, revealing that he had survived by using the Forbidden Secret Art Blood Fiend Devours Heaven.
• Chu Luo summoned the wormhole’s suction and dragged Zhu Yue and Du Sheng inside, where they were torn into bloody mist.
• Chu Luo used the Forbidden Secret Art Spacetime Displacement to move Wang Lin from afar to the space directly in front of him.

Chu Luo crippled Wang Lin and tried to kill him, triggering the Evil-Suppressing Great Emperor's safeguard. Just as the Great Emperor's phantom moved to attack Chu Luo, a second Great Emperor's power emerged from Chu Luo and shattered its strike.

• Chu Luo punched Wang Lin, destroyed his cultivation with a kick, and taunted him before sending him flying.
• Chu Luo fired a Spirit Sword attack at Wang Lin, but the Evil-Suppressing Great Emperor's imperial pressure crushed it.
• Wang Lin revealed that he had provoked Chu Luo to activate his grandfather's life-saving safeguard, and the Evil-Suppressing Great Emperor's phantom appeared.
• The Evil-Suppressing Great Emperor's phantom immobilized Chu Luo and reached to attack him despite Chu Luo's attempt to explain.
• A Great Emperor's power erupted from Chu Luo, shattered the phantom's palm, and threatened to kill Wang Lin and destroy the Evil-Suppressing Great Emperor's family branch.

Chu Luo’s Great Emperor master, Yin Ya, intervened to protect him from the Evil-Suppressing Great Emperor and battled the latter’s phantom as the secret realm collapsed. Chu Luo killed Wang Lin and escaped toward the exit, while the Evil-Suppressing Great Emperor vowed revenge.

• Chu Luo’s lifesaving protection summoned Great Emperor Yin Ya’s phantom, which confronted the Evil-Suppressing Great Emperor’s phantom.
• Yin Ya attacked, and their battle shook the secret realm and sent the martial artists fleeing toward its exit.
• Chu Luo sent Dan Chenzi, Yun Qianqian, and the Forbidden Sect disciples to escape while he stayed behind to kill Wang Lin.
• Chu Luo killed Wang Lin and took his storage ring, prompting the Evil-Suppressing Great Emperor to attack him.
• Yin Ya shattered the Evil-Suppressing Great Emperor’s phantom, which threatened revenge before vanishing.
• Yin Ya sent Chu Luo toward the secret realm’s exit as the realm neared collapse.

The Spiritclear Sect and Crimson Flame Valley confronted the Forbidden Sect elders over Chu Luo’s alleged killings, and the returning disciples confirmed the deaths and revealed Dan Chenzi had obtained an Imperial Artifact. When Chu Luo emerged from the collapsing secret realm, four Ancient Sages attacked him, but Zhao Sheng and Qin Yi blocked their strike.

• Ancient Sages from the Spiritclear Sect and Crimson Flame Valley surrounded Zhao Sheng and Qin Yi, while Ancient Sage Qingdan joined the Forbidden Sect elders in support.
• The secret realm began collapsing, and the returning disciples reported that Chu Luo had killed Zhu Yue, Luo Yu, Du Sheng, and many others; Zhao Tianyu also said Dan Chenzi had gained the Ancient Pill Great Emperor’s inheritance and an Imperial Artifact.
• The four Ancient Sages advanced on Zhao Sheng and Qin Yi, demanding that they hand over Chu Luo.
• Chu Luo flew out just before the secret realm entrance collapsed, and the four Ancient Sages immediately attacked him.
• Zhao Sheng and Qin Yi stepped in front of Chu Luo and blocked the four sages’ attack.

Great Emperor Yaoming and Great Emperor Baikong appeared as the Spiritclear Sect tried to take Chu Luo away for killing Wang Lin. Yin Ya Great Emperor arrived to protect his disciple and challenged Baikong to a fight beyond the world, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Ancient Sage Lan Qing joined Flame Lord Ancient Sage and Ming Yan to attack Zhao Sheng and Qin Yi and seize Chu Luo, but Great Emperor Yaoming appeared and vowed to protect him.
• Great Emperor Baikong appeared at Great Emperor Yaoming’s summons and demanded that Chu Luo spend two or three hundred years imprisoned in the Spiritclear Sect for killing Wang Lin.
• Great Emperor Yaoming opposed Baikong, but Baikong insisted that Yaoming could not stop him alone.
• Yin Ya Great Emperor arrived, checked that Chu Luo was unharmed, and ordered Yaoming to protect the Forbidden Sect’s people.
• Yin Ya Great Emperor challenged Baikong to fight beyond the world and threatened to slaughter the Spiritclear Sect members if Baikong refused.

Great Emperor Yin Ya launched an Emperor War against Great Emperor Baikong to defend Chu Luo, and their clash shattered the void across the Three Thousand Great Worlds. Yin Ya severely wounded Baikong, while Chu Luo watched anxiously as the battle ended and a returning figure appeared.

• Great Emperor Yin Ya challenged Great Emperor Baikong to an Emperor War, and Baikong accepted.
• The two Great Emperors fought in the Outer Void, and their clashes shattered space throughout the Three Thousand Great Worlds.
• Elder Zhao Sheng reassured Chu Luo that Yin Ya would not fight without confidence.
• Two elders in the Forbidden Ground prepared to intervene, but they saw Yin Ya severely wound Baikong and decided the battle was settled.
• The refined elder told the shabby elder that Chu Luo had learned all one thousand lower Forbidden Secret Arts and had tried to study the remaining two thousand.
• The battle ended, and Chu Luo's expression changed when a figure returned from the Outer Void.

Great Emperor Yin Ya defeated Great Emperor Baikong, who fled with the Spiritclear Sect forces, and the factions left the secret realm. Spirit Diviner decided to recruit Chu Luo as his battle protector, while Ancient Sage Xuanji revealed that the Heavenly Prodigy Ranking Battle would be held in two years ahead of the Primordial Ruins opening in five years.

• Great Emperor Baikong returned wounded and fled through a spatial rift with Ancient Sage Lan Qing, the Creation Ancient Sage, and Spiritclear Sect cultivators; Flame Lord Ancient Sage and Netherflame Ancient Sage also led the Crimson Flame Valley forces away.
• Great Emperor Yin Ya returned unharmed, and Chu Luo praised him for defeating Baikong; Yin Ya and Elder Zhao Sheng traded insults before Great Emperor Yaoming congratulated Yin Ya.
• Elder Qin Yi warned that the Spiritclear Sect and Crimson Flame Valley would retaliate, and Great Emperor Yin Ya and Great Emperor Yaoming took their disciples back aboard a Void Warship.
• Spirit Diviner chose Chu Luo as his intended battle protector, and Ancient Sage Xuanji agreed to accompany him to the Forbidden Sect after its troubles were settled.
• Ancient Sage Xuanji told Spirit Diviner that the Heavenly Prodigy Ranking Battle would take place in two years and the Primordial Ruins would open in five years.

After Liu Feng and Wang Lin were killed by disciples of the Forbidden Sect, the Heavenly Gate Great Emperor and two ancestors of the Desolate Ancient Wang Family set out to confront the sect. The chapter left the Wang Family patriarch behind as the Great Emperors headed for the Forbidden Sect.

• Liu Daoyuan told the Heavenly Gate Great Emperor that Chu Luo, a disciple of Yin Ya, had killed Liu Feng, and the ancestor left to demand justice from the Forbidden Sect.
• The Evil-Suppressing Great Emperor learned that his grandson Wang Lin had been killed by the Forbidden Sect and awakened the Wang Family ancestors.
• The Bright King Great Emperor agreed to accompany the Evil-Suppressing Great Emperor to challenge the Forbidden Sect.
• Wang Aotian offered to gather the Wang Family experts, but the two Great Emperors left without him.

Chu Luo returned to the Forbidden Sect after the Great Emperor Secret Realm, where his master Great Emperor Yin Ya revealed he had searched the deathlands for herbs to extend Chu Luo’s lifespan. The sect welcomed Chu Luo’s valuable haul and dismissed his fears that killing a Spiritclear Sect prodigy would bring trouble.

• Wang Aotian watched the ancestors leave and turned his attention toward the Forbidden Sect as other sects began sending out Great Emperors.
• At the Pill Sect, Great Emperor Yin Ya gave Great Emperor Yaoming precious lifespan-restoring herbs and asked him to refine Saint Longevity Pills for Chu Luo.
• Great Emperor Yin Ya told Chu Luo he hoped he would become the Forbidden Sect’s Number Zero Sequence Disciple and young sect master, and Chu Luo resolved to claim those positions.
• Lin Feng and the elders welcomed Chu Luo and his companions, then were astonished by Chu Luo’s breakthrough to the Primordial Beginning First Realm.
• Chu Luo’s six junior brothers presented spirit soil and spiritual herbs from the secret realm, and Lin Feng assigned the spirit soil to Zhao Sheng.
• Chu Luo worried that killing a Spiritclear Sect prodigy might implicate the sect, but Lin Feng assured him the sect would protect him.

After Chu Luo confessed to killing prodigies from several factions and the Desolate Ancient Wang Family, seven Great Emperors arrived above the Forbidden Sect to demand answers. Lin Feng and the elders prepared to face them, while Great Emperor Yin Ya assured Chu Luo that the sect was powerful enough to protect him.

• Chu Luo told Lin Feng that he had killed prodigies from Crimson Flame Valley, the Heavenly Gate Sect, and the Desolate Ancient Wang Family, in addition to one from the Spiritclear Sect.
• The Evil-Suppressing Great Emperor arrived above the Forbidden Sect, and Lin Feng ordered Fourth Elder Qin Yi to summon the ancestor.
• The Evil-Suppressing Great Emperor and Bright King Great Emperor appeared, followed by five Great Emperors from the Heavenly Gate Sect, Crimson Flame Valley, and the Spiritclear Sect.
• Lin Feng and the elders showed no fear as Chu Luo worried he might endanger the sect, and Great Emperor Yin Ya promised that even twenty Great Emperors could not take him away.
• Lin Feng stepped forward and asked the seven Great Emperors why they had come.

Great Emperor Yin Ya and the Forbidden Sect refused to hand Chu Luo over to three rival factions, even as their Great Emperors threatened war. As the conflict was about to erupt, a voice from the Forbidden Sect’s forbidden grounds announced the ancestors’ arrival.

• Great Emperor Yin Ya blocked the combined pressure of seven Great Emperors and demanded that they answer the Forbidden Sect’s sect master.
• The Great Emperors of Spiritclear Sect, Crimson Flame Valley, and Heavenly Gate Sect demanded Chu Luo’s surrender, accusing him of killing their disciples.
• Great Emperor Yin Ya insulted Heavenly Gate Great Emperor, then rejected the other factions’ demands and accepted their declarations of war.
• Lin Feng, the elders, and the Forbidden Sect disciples stood with Yin Ya and vowed to fight the three factions to protect Chu Luo.
• As Evil-Suppressing Great Emperor prepared to attack, a majestic voice from the Forbidden Sect’s forbidden grounds rang out and darkness covered the sky.

Ancestor Xiaochen and Ancestor Dao Yuan emerged from the Forbidden Sect to protect Chu Luo and confront the seven Great Emperors. After the ancestors challenged their foes, both sides headed to the Outer Void to fight.

• Ancestor Xiaochen and Ancestor Dao Yuan appeared above the Forbidden Sect, and Chu Luo recognized Xiaochen as the elder who had thrown him out of the Forbidden Ground.
• Lin Feng and the Forbidden Sect disciples greeted the ancestors, while Xiaochen and Dao Yuan scolded Chu Luo for bringing the seven Great Emperors and then promised to protect him and the sect.
• Dao Yuan challenged the four fourth-realm Great Emperors and ordered them to leave, but the Evil-Suppressing Great Emperor mocked the ancestors for matching their realm while facing four opponents of equal strength.
• Chu Luo secretly worried to Lin Feng that the ancestors were too cocky and might be killed, and Lin Feng admitted he was losing confidence in their chances.
• Xiaochen and Dao Yuan entered the Outer Void and challenged the Great Emperors, who agreed to join forces and fight them.

Great Emperor Xiaochen and Great Emperor Dao Yuan fought seven opponents in the Outer Void while Yin Ya joined the battle. Just as Dao Yuan faced a deadly coordinated attack, a mysterious ancestor emerged from the Forbidden Sect and struck back, leaving all sides focused on the sect.

• Great Emperor Xiaochen and Great Emperor Dao Yuan battled seven Great Emperors in the Outer Void, with Xiaochen holding off four and Dao Yuan struggling against three.
• Yin Ya Great Emperor entered the fight and, at Dao Yuan’s direction, joined Xiaochen’s battlefield by blocking the retreating Heavenly Gate Great Emperor.
• Bright King Great Emperor distracted Dao Yuan, Wine Saint Great Emperor trapped him in an illusory tower, and Evil-Suppressing Great Emperor launched a surprise attack.
• A bronze coffin burst open in the Forbidden Sect’s restricted ground, and a force from within shattered the tower and forced Evil-Suppressing Great Emperor to dodge.
• The Great Emperors and experts turned toward the Forbidden Sect as an aged voice declared that the sect alone stood immortal through the passing generations.