Chapter Summaries

Lin Fan confronted the Five-Crown King on the Immortal Ladder, and the two began a fierce battle that left them evenly matched. Their fight continued near the summit as the golden light above the ladder began to solidify.

• Lin Fan ascended the Immortal Ladder without slowing, while the geniuses on the steps moved aside for him.
• Lin Fan subdued Zhao Tiezhu with a glance and told him to stand back from the coming shock waves.
• Lin Fan and the Five-Crown King met on the ninety-ninth step and acknowledged each other's strength.
• The Five-Crown King struck first with his sword, and Lin Fan countered with a fist wrapped in Chaos Qi.
• The two exchanged dozens of blows without either gaining the upper hand, while their clashes cracked the ladder and sent shock waves across it.

Lin Fan defeated the Five-Crown King on the Immortal Ladder with Immortal Qi and the Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Technique, proving himself unrivaled among his peers. As Lin Fan approached the highest meditation cushion, a silent attack emerged from the void and aimed between his brows.

• The Five-Crown King unleashed an Emperor Dao Divine Ability, but Lin Fan's Immortal Qi shattered it and wounded him.
• The Five-Crown King revealed the Immortal Dao Divine Ability Parting in the Mortal World and struck at Lin Fan.
• Lin Fan countered with the Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Technique, broke the Five-Crown King's sword, and defeated him.
• The Five-Crown King admitted defeat, and the cultivators declared Lin Fan invincible among his peers.
• Lin Fan walked toward the highest meditation cushion, but a soundless glint of cold light shot from the void toward his brow.

The Void Physique ambushed Lin Fan for the Immortal Stele, but Lin Fan saw through his stealth and chased him through the void. The Void Physique escaped after Lin Fan severed his right arm, leaving the spectators in awe and fear of Lin Fan’s strength.

• The Void Physique attacked Lin Fan with a silent Void Thorn, but Lin Fan dodged it and confronted him.
• The Void Physique tried to flee, but Lin Fan struck him out of the void and pursued him with the True Dragon Fist and Kunpeng Extreme Speed.
• Lin Fan used his Double Pupils to predict the Void Physique’s movements and block his escape routes.
• The Void Physique opened a rift to escape, but Lin Fan’s sword light severed his right arm before he vanished.
• The spectators reacted in disbelief as Lin Fan declared, “Who else?”

Lin Fan claimed the highest prayer cushion and defeated the Triple Crown King's long-awaited sword strike, granting him release from an old regret. He received the right to comprehend the Immortal Stele and a mysterious Emperor Pass Ancient Token, then sensed an ancient door opening in his consciousness.

• Lin Fan sat atop the Immortal Ladder while the Five-Crown King and three other cultivators claimed the remaining prayer cushions.
• The Triple Crown King challenged Lin Fan to receive one sword strike, recalling his earlier defeat in the Sword Forest.
• Lin Fan broke the Triple Crown King's perfected sword light with a wisp of Chaos Immortal Qi, and the Triple Crown King left satisfied.
• The system rewarded Lin Fan with Immortal Stele comprehension rights, one million Villain Points, and an Emperor Pass Ancient Token.
• Lin Fan examined the token, hung it at his waist, and sensed an ancient door opening within his consciousness.

Lin Fan cooked Long Aotian’s dragon meat while waiting atop the Immortal Ladder, and the Five-Crown King eventually joined him for food and wine. As the contest below continued to wind down, a strange golden-edged fissure opened over Qing Province.

• Lin Fan identified the golden cushion as a receiving array that could transport its occupant to the Ultimate Ancient Land.
• Lin Fan had Ji Kun barbecue Long Aotian’s hind-leg meat while they waited for the golden light to finish swirling.
• The aroma distracted the cultivators fighting for cushions, while Lin Fan invited the Five-Crown King to share a skewer.
• The Five-Crown King joined Lin Fan for dragon meat and wine as the battle for the cushions gradually subsided.
• A door-like fissure edged with golden patterns opened in the sky above an ancient Quasi-Emperor lineage in Qing Province.

Visitors from Emperor Pass crossed into the Three Thousand Provinces and sought Lin Fan, who was on the Mythical Ancient Road. Three months later, Lin Fan remained atop the Immortal Ladder and considered going to Emperor Pass after leaving the Immortal Ancient Ruins, as golden light above the heavens began to take shape.

• A silver-gray-robed Quasi-Emperor and four Sage Kings emerged at the border of the Three Thousand Provinces and questioned Lei Yuan about Lin Fan.
• Lei Yuan told the visitors that Lin Fan was at the Ultimate Ancient Pass, and they set off across a bridge of golden laws.
• Lei Yuan warned that the visitors intended to make an example of the Lin Clan, but he doubted Lin Fan was necessarily in danger.
• Three months passed on the Immortal Ladder, where Lin Fan, the Five-Crown King, and several other cultivators held their places.
• Lin Fan wondered about missing acquaintances, said he might seek new opponents after leaving the ruins, and considered going to Emperor Pass.
• Golden light above the heavens began to take shape.

Lin Fan entered the Ultimate Ancient Land and met its guide, who explained that the Three Thousand Provinces were in a Dharma-ending Age and revealed the significance of Immortal Qi. The guide led him to the damaged Immortal Stele, where Lin Fan’s two fragments began resonating with it.

• The Five-Crown King watched as six golden pillars carried the cushion holders, including Lin Fan, through the immortal gate into the Ultimate Ancient Land.
• Lin Fan arrived in the ancient land and wondered aloud whether he had to find the Immortal Stele himself.
• A remnant of the guide appeared, praised Lin Fan for condensing Immortal Qi in the Sage Realm, and explained that Immortal Qi was the foundation of becoming an immortal.
• The guide told Lin Fan that cultivators could condense at most three strands of Immortal Qi and that the damaged Immortal Stele might help him gain another.
• Lin Fan approached the cracked Immortal Stele, and the two Dao Comprehension Stele fragments in his storage ring began humming in response.

Lin Fan discovered that the dark-gray Immortal Stele was the third fragment of the Dao Comprehension Stele, an artifact containing an Immortal Emperor’s insights. The three fragments reunited in form, but their Dao traces had been altered and severed over time, leaving the stele incomplete in its power.

• Lin Fan learned from the guide that the Dao Comprehension Stele had shattered into three pieces during an ancient battle between supreme beings.
• Lin Fan realized he already possessed two fragments and suspected the Immortal Stele was the third.
• Lin Fan revealed his fragments, and all three pieces resonated as gray-gold light spread through the ancient land.
• The guide praised Lin Fan’s great providence and said he could become an Immortal King or Immortal Emperor.
• Lin Fan sensed the fragments resisting fusion, and the guide explained that their Dao traces had worn away and diverged over time.

Lin Fan learned that the incomplete Dao Comprehension Stele could still help him reach immortality, while the Guide warned that the Darkness Clan would soon return. The Guide sacrificed his remnant soul and complete Immortal Dao Law to mend the stele, leaving Lin Fan with a message to carry to Emperor Pass.

• Lin Fan learned from the Guide that the incomplete Dao Comprehension Stele could support him until immortality, and the system revealed the stele’s costly restoration requirements.
• Lin Fan told the Guide that he had killed An Yuan and the Dark Emperor Physique, prompting the Guide to say he no longer needed to hesitate over his final method.
• The Guide revealed that the Darkness Clan would soon return and that he had waited for someone capable of reaching the stele.
• The Guide burned his remnant soul and poured his complete Immortal Dao Law into the Dao Comprehension Stele, rapidly mending its cracks.
• The Guide asked Lin Fan to visit Emperor Pass after becoming an immortal and tell those who came after that Immortal Antiquity had not perished and the flame of the Dao would not die.

The guide sacrificed himself to repair the Dao Comprehension Stele, allowing Lin Fan to begin comprehending its ancient laws and strengthening his cultivation. While Lin Fan remained in seclusion, people from Emperor Pass searched the Three Thousand Provinces for an immortal relic, and the Wang Clan spread a rumor that Lin Fan possessed it.

• The guide turned into gray-gold motes and merged with the Dao Comprehension Stele, healing its cracks and restoring its power.
• Lin Fan promised to restore the stele completely, then entered meditation and advanced his Chaos Immortal Qi and laws through its Dao resonance.
• During Lin Fan's first two years in seclusion, young experts from Emperor Pass entered the Three Thousand Provinces and searched for an ancient relic linked to immortality.
• In the third year, the Wang Clan spread a rumor that Lin Fan possessed the relic sought by the people from Emperor Pass.
• The Wang Clan patriarch hoped the rumor would bring Emperor Pass's people after Lin Fan.

Lin Fan emerged from five years of seclusion with a second strand of Immortal Qi and discovered a severed Immortal Road before leaving the ancient land. At the ruins’ exit, he learned that Emperor Pass had been searching for a treasure rumored to be connected to him, and Ji Kun began explaining what had happened during his absence.

• Lin Fan completed five years of cultivation before the Dao Comprehension Stele, formed a second strand of Immortal Qi, and took the stele with him.
• Lin Fan found a broken stele marked “Immortal” beyond the severed ancient road and suspected the Darkness Clan had visited it.
• A golden light carried Lin Fan out of the ancient land and delivered him to the exit of the fiftieth trial.
• Lin Fan heard that Emperor Pass had been searching for a treasure rumored to be connected to the Lin Imperial Son.
• Ji Kun greeted Lin Fan and began recounting the intelligence he had gathered during Lin Fan’s five years in seclusion.

Lin Fan returned from seclusion and learned that the Wang Clan had spread rumors of an immortal treasure, drawing Emperor Pass prodigies to hunt for him. When a golden-robed prodigy demanded the treasure, Tian Ye stepped forward to fight in Lin Fan’s place, and the young man attacked him.

• Ji Kun told Lin Fan that Emperor Pass prodigies were searching for him because the Wang Clan had spread rumors about an immortal treasure.
• Lin Fan blamed the Wang Clan, decided to return to the Three Thousand Provinces, and welcomed the chance to fight Emperor Pass prodigies to temper his Immortal Qi.
• Lin Fan arrived openly at the square, where a golden-robed Emperor Pass prodigy had spent three months waiting and asking for him.
• The golden-robed young man demanded Lin Fan hand over his immortal treasure, but Tian Ye stepped forward and offered to deal with him and his companions.
• The golden-robed young man called Tian Ye Lin Fan’s lackey and launched a full-strength punch at him.

Tian Ye defeated three heaven's chosen from Emperor Pass in the square, displaying the strength he had gained on the Legendary Ancient Road. Lin Fan received villain points for his subordinate’s victory, then left while warning that greater trouble still lay ahead.

• Lin Fan reassured Ji Kun that Tian Ye could handle the Golden Sand Clan’s challengers.
• Tian Ye shattered Jin Buhuan’s spear with one punch and left him badly injured.
• Tian Ye defeated Jin Buhuan’s two companions in quick succession, overwhelming all three challengers in fewer than ten breaths.
• Tian Ye returned to Lin Fan, and the system awarded Lin Fan 80,000 villain points for his subordinate’s victory.
• Jin Buhuan and his companions fled through the spatial rift as the cultivators celebrated Tian Ye’s victory.
• Lin Fan said greater trouble remained, and a booming sound rang out from the distant sky.

A gold-armored Quasi-Emperor demanded that Lin Fan surrender the Purifying Lotus Immortal Flame and apologize, while his Peak Sage King attendants fought Tian Ye. Lin Fan wounded the Quasi-Emperor with a strand of Immortal Qi, leaving him and the onlookers stunned.

• The gold-armored Quasi-Emperor accused Lin Fan of killing Jin Clan cultivators and stealing the Purifying Lotus Immortal Flame, then demanded that Lin Fan kneel and apologize.
• Tian Ye attacked the Quasi-Emperor's two Peak Sage King attendants, and the three fought across the square.
• Lin Fan told Ji Kun that Tian Ye could handle the fight and watched as Tian Ye was pressed by his stronger opponents.
• The gold-armored Quasi-Emperor again demanded the flame, and Lin Fan answered by sending a strand of Immortal Qi at him.
• The Immortal Qi shattered the Quasi-Emperor's spear and protective laws, wounded his shoulder, and forced him backward.
• The battle stopped as the Quasi-Emperor recognized Lin Fan's Immortal Qi and wondered how someone in the Sage King Realm could cultivate it.

Lin Fan rejected the Golden Armor Quasi-Emperor’s attempt to call his threats a misunderstanding and killed him with Immortal Qi. The crowd was left stunned as Lin Fan declared he would eventually visit Emperor Pass.

• The Golden Armor Quasi-Emperor tried to retreat from the conflict by apologizing to Lin Fan and calling his earlier threats a misunderstanding.
• Lin Fan demanded that the Golden Armor Quasi-Emperor kneel and apologize, but he refused and tried to flee.
• Lin Fan pierced the Golden Armor Quasi-Emperor’s defenses with Immortal Qi and killed him.
• The system awarded Lin Fan 900,000 Villain Points for killing the Quasi-Emperor while in the Sage King Realm.
• The cultivators in the square erupted in shock and fear at Lin Fan’s feat.

Lin Fan killed a Jin Clan Quasi-Emperor with Immortal Qi, while Tian Ye learned that remnants of the Ancient God Lineage had been sent to Emperor Pass and set out to investigate. As Lin Fan headed home, news of his feat spread across the Three Thousand Provinces and alarmed the Wang Clan.

• Lin Fan pierced the gold-armored Quasi-Emperor with a strand of Immortal Qi, and Tian Ye killed the two Peak Sage King attendants.
• Tian Ye recalled that some Ancient God Lineage survivors had been sent to Emperor Pass and decided to search there for clues about his lineage and father.
• Lin Fan gave Tian Ye a communication talisman and let him depart alone for Emperor Pass before taking the Nine-Dragon Carriage home with Ji Kun.
• News of Lin Fan’s feat spread across the Three Thousand Provinces and reached Emperor Pass, where prodigies speculated that his opportunity might relate to becoming an immortal.
• The Wang Clan’s elders learned Lin Fan had condensed Immortal Qi and worried that his growing strength would make him difficult to kill.

The Wang Clan patriarch plotted to use Jin Xuan against Lin Fan, while Lin Fan returned to the Lin Clan and learned that his family had left. The Drunkard Ancestor began explaining Emperor Pass and its origins, leaving Lin Fan with more to learn about the world beyond the Three Thousand Provinces.

• The Wang Clan patriarch and elders decided to let Jin Xuan seek revenge on Lin Fan for killing his cousin, the Golden Armor Quasi-Emperor.
• Lin Fan returned to the Lin Clan and learned that his parents had gone to Emperor Pass, while his grandfather had entered a forbidden land.
• Lin Fan visited the Drunkard Ancestor on the rear mountain and asked about his parents and Emperor Pass.
• The Drunkard Ancestor explained that Emperor Pass guarded the boundary with the Foreign Domain and darkness, and that it and the Three Thousand Provinces were fragments of the shattered Immortal Domain.
• The Drunkard Ancestor said Emperor Pass held much of the Great Dao's essence and could produce Great Emperors and higher beings, prompting Lin Fan to ask whether those beings were Immortals.

Drunkard Ancestor explained Emperor Pass and how Lin Fan could obtain a third strand of Immortal Qi, then refused the Dao Comprehension Stele Lin Fan offered him. Lin Fan spent over half a year studying Emperor Pass before sensing an honored guest from there arrive at the Lin Clan.

• Drunkard Ancestor told Lin Fan that Emperor Pass guarded the Three Thousand Provinces from the Foreign Domain and that the Sage King Tribulation could yield a third strand of Immortal Qi.
• Lin Fan revealed that he had condensed two strands of Immortal Qi, and Drunkard Ancestor said Lin Fan's father and grandfather had each condensed three.
• Drunkard Ancestor told Lin Fan to wait until the Immortal Ancient Ruins closed before going to Emperor Pass, and he refused the Dao Comprehension Stele Lin Fan offered him.
• Lin Fan suspected the ancestors had no need for the stele, then asked Ji Kun to gather books about Emperor Pass and studied the Lin Clan's records for over half a year.
• A powerful expert from Emperor Pass arrived at the Lin Clan, and Lin Fan called on the visitor to show themself.

Lin Fan met Tian Ming, a Quasi-Emperor from Emperor Pass’s Tian Clan, who told him about the upcoming passage to Emperor Pass and invited him to a Dao discussion gathering tied to the ruins of a destroyed immortal lineage. Lin Fan began checking a system notification as Tian Ming’s revelation caught his interest.

• Lin Fan sensed visitors from Emperor Pass, left the scripture pavilion, and went to the Lin Clan’s reception hall.
• Tian Ming introduced himself while the Lin Clan elder received him with restrained courtesy and said Lin Fan was busy reading.
• Lin Fan arrived, greeted Tian Ming, and asked why he had come.
• Tian Ming said Emperor Pass would open its passage in two and a half years, allowing qualified prodigies from the Immortal Ancient Ruins to travel there.
• Tian Ming invited Lin Fan to a Dao discussion gathering in six months, explaining that it concerned access to ruins linked to a destroyed immortal lineage.
• Lin Fan recalled a system notification and opened his system panel.

Lin Fan accepted Tian Ming’s invitation to a Dao discussion gathering in Immortal Burial City, where the competitors would vie for access to the Longevity Ye Clan ruins. He then pushed his cultivation to the limit of the Sage King Realm and triggered a heavenly tribulation that astonished experts throughout the Three Thousand Provinces.

• Lin Fan learned that the gathering six months later would test the participants before they entered the Longevity Ye Clan ruins, and he accepted Tian Ming’s invitation.
• After Tian Ming left, Lin Fan considered the calamity in his fate and decided to break through to the Quasi-Emperor Realm.
• Lin Fan refined the last Dao resonance in the Dao Comprehension Stele and used Villain Points to reach the limit of the Sage King Realm.
• Lin Fan flew above the Lin Clan’s formation and triggered a heavenly tribulation.
• The tribulation clouds formed nineteen immense heavenly gates, alarming experts across the Three Thousand Provinces.