Chapter Summaries

Chu Kuangren arrived at Five Elements Mountain with Lan Yu and faced the Heavenly Prides gathered at the summit, many of whom held grudges against him. He easily countered Yuan Zhan’s Battle Art attacks, and when Lei Yangzi joined the fight, he argued that the others had to team up to have a chance against Chu Kuangren.

• Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu reached the summit, where Yuan Zhan, Gu Tiandao, Ji Feiyu, Lei Yangzi, and Qin Tianya recognized him and recalled their grievances against him.
• Yuan Zhan challenged Chu Kuangren and attacked with the Battle Art’s Heaven and Earth Turn Upside Down, but Chu Kuangren answered with the same technique and knocked him back.
• Yuan Zhan used Overturning Rivers and Seas, but Chu Kuangren again countered him and remained unmoved.
• Yuan Zhan unleashed Trample Ling Xiao as Lei Yangzi attacked alongside him with a combined blast of lightning and fire.
• Chu Kuangren nullified both attacks with an invisible black hole force field, and Lei Yangzi told Yuan Zhan that they had to join forces to defeat him.

Chu Kuangren faced Yuan Zhan, Gu Tiandao, Lei Yangzi, Ji Feiyu, and Qin Tianya as they attacked him together, but he effortlessly repelled their combined assault. After declaring that he would exert a little strength, he swiftly defeated several of them and took Great Saint Thunder Sound.

• Gu Tiandao, Lei Yangzi, Ji Feiyu, and Qin Tianya joined Yuan Zhan in attacking Chu Kuangren, whose body remained unharmed.
• Yuan Zhan used the Battle Secret Technique to concentrate his strength, but Chu Kuangren countered his staff strikes with a sword gesture.
• Chu Kuangren stood his ground and dismantled the group’s attacks with precise sword light.
• Chu Kuangren released a surge of immortal essence that blasted the attackers away, then gravely wounded Gu Tiandao and Lei Yangzi.
• Chu Kuangren shattered Ji Feiyu’s defenses and sent her crashing underground, then took Great Saint Thunder Sound into his Heaven and Earth in the Sleeve.

Chu Kuangren killed Qin Tianya and defeated Yuan Zhan, then unleashed his immortal consciousness across the Immortal Realm to challenge every Heavenly Pride and Monster. His challenge reached the Phoenix Nest and the Demon Nation, drawing Feng Qingtian toward Five Elements Mountain while Shi Tianxuan held back.

• Chu Kuangren pierced Qin Tianya's five-element dragon qi, killed him, and took an ancient scroll containing a fortuitous opportunity.
• Chu Kuangren demonstrated the Battle Art's final move, Trample Ling Xiao, and sent Yuan Zhan crashing through dozens of mountains.
• Chu Kuangren spread his golden immortal consciousness across the Immortal Realm, openly challenging everyone who could contend with him.
• Cao Yun recognized Chu Kuangren's immortal consciousness as the allied Heavenly Prides attacking him were forced to resist its battle intent.
• Chu Hong recognized her brother's power in the Phoenix Nest, and Feng Qingtian flew toward Five Elements Mountain to answer his challenge.
• Shi Tianxuan suppressed the God-Slaying Spear's desire to fight Chu Kuangren and decided the time was not right to confront him.

Chu Kuangren challenged the Immortal Realm’s Heavenly Prides to gather at Five Elements Mountain, drawing the attention of Long Xuan, the Zhuanxu Heir, and other powerful figures. When challengers attacked him, Chu Kuangren effortlessly defeated them, leaving the gathering to face his overwhelming strength.

• The Zhuanxu Heir decided to go to Five Elements Mountain to overcome the shadow of his defeat, while the Xuanyuan Heir expected Long Xuan to answer Chu Kuangren’s challenge.
• The Xiangjun Divine Son and the Lord of the Clouds Divine Son set out to confront Chu Kuangren and avenge the past.
• Long Xuan left the deep sea to fight Chu Kuangren, despite a Dragon Palace elder warning that Chu Kuangren had defeated Long Three and Long Four; the Dragon King allowed him to go, trusting in his Four Seas Scale Armor.
• Chu Kuangren waited alone atop Five Elements Mountain, hoping someone could challenge him after years of standing above the other Heavenly Prides.
• A young swordsman attacked Chu Kuangren but was blasted away by Chu Kuangren’s Sword Qi, and Chu Kuangren then sent the other attackers flying, killing some outright.

Chu Kuangren faced the Xuanyuan Heir and several powerful Monsters who gathered to challenge him, but he overwhelmed their attacks with ease. The Monsters joined forces against him, and Chu Kuangren declared that their power still was not strong enough.

• The Xuanyuan Heir arrived, and Chu Kuangren failed to recognize him despite having defeated him in the Starry Sky Arena.
• The Xiangjun Divine Son, the Lord of the Clouds Divine Son, Qilin Duan, and Feng Qingtian joined the Xuanyuan Heir, and Chu Kuangren dismissed them as unworthy opponents.
• The Xuanyuan Heir attacked with dark water of Xuanming, but Chu Kuangren shattered his water sphere and used a black hole to crush him until the Xiangjun Divine Son intervened.
• Chu Kuangren challenged all the Monsters to attack together, and Qilin Duan, the Xiangjun Divine Son, the Lord of the Clouds Divine Son, the Xuanyuan Heir, and Feng Qingtian launched their attacks.
• Chu Kuangren countered their combined assault with the All-Realms Life-and-Death Wheel and said their power was still not strong enough.

Chu Kuangren overwhelmed the assembled Heavenly Prides, killed the Xiangjun Divine Son, and destroyed the Eastern Emperor Divine Son's avatar. The Lord of the Clouds Divine Son remained in danger after his attempt to summon help failed.

• Feng Qingtian and the Lord of the Clouds Divine Son attacked Chu Kuangren, but he countered their Phoenix Fire and Sword Formation and blasted them away.
• Chu Kuangren used the Yin-Yang Life-and-Death Diagram and Grass Sword Art to suppress and scatter the monsters and Heavenly Prides.
• Chu Kuangren killed the Xiangjun Divine Son with a sword strike that split the Xiang River and the Divine Son in two.
• The Lord of the Clouds Divine Son summoned the Eastern Emperor Divine Son's avatar to stop Chu Kuangren from killing him.
• Chu Kuangren destroyed the Eastern Emperor Divine Son's avatar with Zhou's Sword, Dominating Presence.

Long Xuan arrived at Five Elements Mountain and challenged Chu Kuangren, beginning a fierce contest between two peerless monsters. As Chu Kuangren’s sword strike forced Long Xuan to bring out his saber, Long Xuan unleashed his black dragon bloodline.

• After Chu Kuangren destroyed the Eastern Emperor Divine Son's avatar, Long Xuan arrived and challenged him to a fight.
• Long Xuan and Chu Kuangren traded more than a dozen punches and Sword Fingers, collapsing Five Elements Mountain with their clashes.
• Chu Kuangren unleashed Zhou's Sword-Dominating Presence, and Long Xuan barely blocked it with his Great Encompassment Artifact saber.
• Long Xuan put away his saber and began releasing his black dragon bloodline, startling Feng Qingtian and the other Heavenly Prides.

Chu Kuangren endured Long Xuan’s Black Dragon attacks without injury, then crushed Long Xuan’s Great Encompassment Artifact barehanded. He followed up with a punch that blasted Long Xuan away.

• Long Xuan activated his Black Dragon Bloodline and struck Chu Kuangren with a powerful punch, but Chu Kuangren remained unharmed.
• Long Xuan formed dragon claws and attacked repeatedly, yet Chu Kuangren stood unscathed as the watching Heavenly Prides and Immortal Realm experts marveled at his physical strength.
• Long Xuan wielded his pitch-black saber with Black Dragon Power, but Chu Kuangren caught it in his bare palm and crushed the Great Encompassment Artifact.
• Chu Kuangren punched Long Xuan in the chest, shattering his armor and blasting him away like a meteor.

Chu Kuangren utterly dominated Long Xuan despite the Four Seas Scale Armor, breaking his attacks and driving him into the ground. Long Xuan then crushed a Dao Integration dragon’s reverse scale and transformed into a half-dragon, charging Chu Kuangren again as their renewed clash began.

• Chu Kuangren shattered Long Xuan’s Black Armor and drove him into a crater, revealing the Four Seas Scale Armor beneath it.
• Long Xuan unleashed his Black Dragon techniques, but Chu Kuangren destroyed his attacks and blasted him backward with blood-colored lightning.
• Chu Kuangren countered Long Xuan’s Reverse Dragon Slash with Wu Dao’s Sword, leaving Long Xuan beaten while the watching Heavenly Prides recognized Chu Kuangren’s overwhelming strength.
• Long Xuan crushed a Dao Integration dragon’s reverse scale, absorbed its Dragon Qi and Dao Laws, and transformed into a half-human, half-dragon form.
• Long Xuan charged Chu Kuangren again, and their fist and dragon-claw collision sent violent energy tearing across the battlefield.

Chu Kuangren defeated Long Xuan and held him captive, forcing the Dragon Palace Lord to negotiate for his release. After the Dragon Palace Lord offered one dragon origin, Chu Kuangren demanded ten.

• Chu Kuangren overwhelmed Long Xuan in battle, sealed his escape with the Spacetime Sealing Art, and trampled him into submission.
• The Dragon Palace Lord appeared and ordered Chu Kuangren to release Long Xuan, but Chu Kuangren demanded sincerity in exchange.
• The Dragon Palace Lord offered a dragon origin, which Chu Kuangren assessed as useful for tempering his Hàn Bá true body.
• Chu Kuangren rejected the single dragon origin and demanded ten like it.

Chu Kuangren defeated Long Xuan, extorted the Dragon Palace, and refined a Fire Dragon Origin Essence to strengthen his body. He then examined a map revealing the location of Qin Huang’s Million Yin Terracotta Warriors.

• Chu Kuangren demanded ten dragon origin essences, then accepted two more essences and other treasures from the Dragon Palace Master in exchange for releasing Long Xuan.
• Chu Kuangren waited at Five Elements Mountain for challengers, then left when none appeared, while news of his victory and extortion spread across the Immortal Realm.
• The Eastern Emperor Divine Son, the Xuanyuan Heir, the Zhuanxu Heir, and Shi Tianxuan discussed Chu Kuangren’s strength and considered ways to counter his formidable body.
• Chu Kuangren refined the Fire Dragon Origin Essence, advancing his physical Great Encompassment Intent toward the middle stage.
• Chu Kuangren studied the map he had taken from Qin Tianya and discovered it marked the location of Qin Huang’s Million Yin Terracotta Warriors.

Chu Kuangren discovered that Qin Huang had hidden his million Yong Soldiers in the Underworld and decided to travel there. In Fengdu, Zhong Yun attacked with the Reincarnation Emperor Seal and declared his intention to seize the city.

• Chu Kuangren used Xiao Ai to uncover the scroll’s secret and learned that Qin Huang’s Yong Soldiers were hidden in the Underworld.
• Chu Kuangren left a clone to handle affairs in the living world, while Lan Yu returned to the Academy and he set out for the Underworld.
• Zhong Yun led the Zhong Family’s Netherworld Soldiers to attack Fengdu, where the Skeleton General, White Mei, Aoyue, and the Eighty Demon Generals gathered to defend the city.
• Zhong Yun revealed the Reincarnation Emperor Seal, startling Fengdu’s defenders, and announced that he would take Fengdu.

Zhong Yun used the Reincarnation Emperor Seal to attack Fengdu, suppressing its defenders and demanding their submission. Just as he prepared to annihilate them, Chu Kuangren arrived and claimed Fengdu, confronting Zhong Yun despite being only a Golden Immortal.

• Zhong Yun wielded the Reincarnation Emperor Seal to suppress the Skeleton Underworld General, White Mei, Aoyue, and Fengdu’s defenders as his Netherworld Soldiers attacked.
• Zhong Yun offered to spare the defenders if they submitted, but the Skeleton Underworld General, the Eighty Demon Generals, and the Million Netherworld Soldiers refused.
• Zhong Yun activated the Reincarnation Emperor Seal to destroy the unyielding defenders, but a vortex opened above Fengdu City.
• Chu Kuangren emerged from the vortex, declared Fengdu’s people under his protection, and forced the Zhong Family’s soldiers and generals to their knees with his Ghost Emperor authority.
• Zhong Yun recognized Chu Kuangren as the new Fengdu Ghost Emperor and discovered he was a Golden Immortal, then resolved to kill him and seize his authority.
• Chu Kuangren challenged Zhong Yun, declaring that all invaders of Fengdu would be killed without mercy.

Chu Kuangren confronted Zhong Yun after the Zhong Family invaded Fengdu, using the Reincarnation Emperor Seals and his Reincarnation Immortal Physique to break Zhong Yun’s attacks. The clash escalated when Zhong Yun drew the Ghost-Slaying Sword, but Chu Kuangren met it with a fist and revealed physical-body great encompassment intent.

• Chu Kuangren suppressed Zhong Yun’s Ghost Emperor authority with three Reincarnation Emperor Seals and ordered White Mei to protect Flowing Soul Street.
• Zhong Yun trapped Chu Kuangren with the Ghost-Capturing Heavenly Net, but Chu Kuangren tore it apart using his Azure Leaf Sword Sea and Six Paths Reincarnation Great World.
• Chu Kuangren’s Reincarnation Immortal Physique stirred powerful figures throughout the Underworld, including a young girl by a great river and an old man in a dark palace.
• Zhong Yun drew the Zhong Family’s Ghost-Slaying Sword, and the Skeleton Underworld General warned Chu Kuangren that the weapon countered ghost cultivators.
• Chu Kuangren struck Zhong Yun’s sword with his fist, and both fighters recoiled as Zhong Yun recognized Chu Kuangren’s physical-body great encompassment intent.

Chu Kuangren overwhelmed Zhong Yun in battle, forcing the Zhong Family patriarch to devour his Netherworld Soldiers and Underworld Generals with the Ghost-Devouring Great Art. He then unleashed the Desire Flower on Zhong Yun, whose fate remained unresolved.

• Chu Kuangren fought Zhong Yun with physical-body Great Encompassment Intent and a succession of Immortal Arts, leaving himself unhurt while Zhong Yun grew badly injured.
• Zhong Yun, afraid he would be killed, used the Ghost-Devouring Great Art to absorb his Netherworld Soldiers and Underworld Generals and greatly increase his power.
• White Mei identified Zhong Yun's technique as the Ghost-Devouring Great Art passed down through the Zhong Family.
• The Desire Flower eagerly asked Chu Kuangren to let her devour the desires of Zhong Yun and the gathered souls, and Chu Kuangren agreed.
• The Desire Flower attacked Zhong Yun with vines and demonic hooks, while Chu Kuangren told him to drown in the vortex of desire and die.

Chu Kuangren killed Zhong Yun and ordered Fengdu City’s forces to muster for an attack on the Zhong Family. As news of his arrival spread through the Underworld, Yincao’s powerful figures considered using other families and races to target him while avoiding the ban on the Three Great Netherworlds fighting each other.

• Chu Kuangren used the Six Dust Demon Hooks and the Desire Flower to trap Zhong Yun in a vortex of desire, where the dead souls within him devoured him.
• At the Emperor Palace, the Skeleton Underworld General and others explained the Zhong Family’s ambitions and the balance of power in the Underworld to Chu Kuangren.
• Chu Kuangren ordered the Skeleton Underworld General to muster Fengdu’s troops and declared that he would personally march on the Zhong Family.
• Chu Kuangren gave White Mei a marked scroll and ordered her to secretly locate the place shown on it.
• News spread that Chu Kuangren had killed Zhong Yun, prompting Underworld families and races to debate whether he could truly defeat a Great Golden Immortal.
• Yincao’s powerful figures recognized Chu Kuangren’s strength and discussed using other families and races to oppose him without violating the restriction on the Three Great Netherworlds.

Chu Kuangren prepared Fengdu’s campaign against the Zhong Family and recruited Cai Feng’s Mysterious Maiden Sect to join the army. Fengdu’s forces marched toward the Zhong Family as the other powers watched.

• Chu Kuangren drew a Weapon Use Card after refining the Reincarnation Emperor Seal and kept Fengdu’s Eighty Demon Generals behind to protect the city.
• Cai Feng of the Mysterious Maiden Sect met Chu Kuangren and learned that a woman with the golden jade pool immortal physique had inherited the Queen Mother of the West’s treasures.
• Cai Feng offered the Mysterious Maiden Sect’s help in Fengdu’s campaign, and Chu Kuangren accepted.
• Chu Kuangren ordered the march, sending the Skeleton General with a million Netherworld Soldiers and Cai Feng with her elite departed souls toward the Zhong Family.

The Zhong Family prepared to fight Chu Kuangren rather than submit to Fengdu, trusting in their forces and the Five Ghosts. When Chu Kuangren arrived, his Ghost Emperor Authority forced the Zhong Family’s soldiers and even the Five Ghosts to kneel, leaving the family’s confidence shattered.

• Zhong Feng urged peace, but the Grand Elder and most of the Zhong Family’s senior members chose battle, with the Grand Elder secretly hoping to claim the vacant patriarch position.
• The Zhong Family assembled its forces as Fengdu’s army approached, including a Skeleton Underworld General and a powerful departed soul.
• The Grand Elder summoned the Five Ghosts, five peak Golden Immortal ghost cultivators, and the Zhong Family’s disciples grew confident of victory.
• Chu Kuangren emerged from a dark vortex, and his Ghost Emperor Authority made the Zhong Family’s Netherworld Soldiers and Underworld Generals kneel.
• Chu Kuangren ordered the Five Ghosts to kneel, and they buckled under his authority as the Zhong Family’s morale collapsed.

Chu Kuangren attacked the Zhong Family and shattered its barrier with his overwhelming strength, killing the Golden Immortals who maintained it. After driving back Zhong Feng, he restored his Ghost Emperor Authority and suppressed the Zhong Family’s Netherworld forces.

• The Zhong Family elders trapped Chu Kuangren inside a barrier that cut off his Ghost Emperor Authority while the family’s forces engaged his army.
• Chu Kuangren unleashed his physical-body Great Encompassment power, destroyed the elders’ attacks, and killed two Golden Immortals, weakening the barrier.
• Zhong Feng confronted Chu Kuangren, but Chu Kuangren summoned nine Imperial Dao True Dragons and the Nine Provinces Cauldrons and blasted him away.
• Chu Kuangren destroyed the barrier’s remaining Golden Immortals with the Nine Provinces Cauldrons, causing the barrier to collapse.
• The Skeleton Underworld General sent the Zhong Family Grand Elder flying, while Chu Kuangren restored his Ghost Emperor Authority and suppressed the Zhong Family’s Netherworld Soldiers and Underworld Generals.

Chu Kuangren destroyed the Zhong Family after they invaded Fengdu, then returned with their resources. Alarmed by his growing power, Yincao Netherworld sought help from the Four Great Chi Mei Wang Liang Tribes, offering them Reincarnation Emperor Seals to eliminate him and seize Fengdu.

• Chu Kuangren killed the Zhong Family's Five Ghosts and Grand Elder, then ordered his army to slaughter the family despite Zhong Feng's surrender.
• Zhong Feng burned his lifespan origin and fought the Skeleton Underworld General, but died as Fengdu's forces overwhelmed the Zhong Family.
• Chu Kuangren sent the Skeleton General to search the Zhong Family's grounds and collect their resources, then returned to Fengdu with the spoils.
• Yincao Netherworld's powerhouses discussed Chu Kuangren's threat and resolved to stop his rise.
• Yincao Netherworld offered one Reincarnation Emperor Seal to each of the Four Great Chi Mei Wang Liang Tribes in exchange for eliminating Chu Kuangren and taking Fengdu.