Chapter Summaries

Long Aotian unleashed Dragon Emperor's Descent against Lin Fan, but Lin Fan revealed the Kunpeng Treasure Technique and survived their clash with little injury. Long Aotian was badly wounded, yet his defeat only made him more eager to fight Lin Fan again.

• Long Aotian transformed and summoned the Dragon Emperor phantom, preparing to destroy Lin Fan with Dragon Emperor's Descent.
• Feng Jiuge and Gu Chen warned that the attack could kill a Sage King, while Lin Fan calmly faced the descending dragon claw.
• Lin Fan summoned the Kunpeng and used the Kunpeng Treasure Technique to collide with Long Aotian's attack, shattering much of the ancient city's defensive formation.
• The clash left Long Aotian's armor broken and his arm bleeding, while Lin Fan remained standing with only slight disarray.
• Lin Fan mocked Long Aotian's Eternal Dragon Emperor Physique, and Long Aotian laughed, saying Lin Fan's strength made him even more eager to trample him.

Long Aotian burned his essence and unleashed his strongest attack, but Lin Fan used the Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Art to combine three techniques and defeat him. Long Aotian then used a forbidden art to burn his dragon heart and charge again, while Lin Fan answered with five combined powers and struck his dragon head.

• Long Aotian burned his essence and unleashed Ancestral Dragon's Wrath at Lin Fan.
• Lin Fan activated the Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Art and combined the True Dragon Fist, Kunpeng Palm, and Hunyuan Fist to shatter Long Aotian's attack and send him crashing through the city gate.
• Long Aotian, badly wounded and terrified, used the Dragon Heart Blood Burning Art to release his remaining power and charged at Lin Fan in dragon form.
• Lin Fan unleashed Devil God's Wrath and combined five techniques and powers into a punch that struck Long Aotian's dragon head.

Lin Fan killed Long Aotian at the twenty-fifth trial, shocking the cultivators and earning rewards from the system. As news of the battle spread through the Immortal Ancient Ruins, Wang Teng learned of Long Aotian’s death and took interest in Lin Fan.

• Lin Fan defeated Long Aotian, whose body shattered in the ruins, and Long Aotian died as dark golden blood rained from the sky.
• The cultivators reacted in shock, while Feng Jiuge pursued the fleeing betting-table operator and Gu Chen recognized Lin Fan’s strength.
• Lin Fan collected Long Aotian’s rewards, including a Mount Saint-Level Upgrade Card, and left for the twenty-seventh trial with Ji Kun, Gu Chen, and the nine True Dragons.
• News of Long Aotian’s death spread throughout the Immortal Ancient Ruins, and cultivators discussed Lin Fan’s victory over the Dragon Clan supreme.
• At the twenty-seventh trial, Wang Teng heard that Long Aotian had died and said that Lin Fan was interesting.

Wang Teng encountered the legendary Five-Crown King, while Lin Fan reached the Nameless Sword Embryo in the Sword Forest. A Triple Crown King appeared and claimed the sword embryo as his own.

• Wang Teng stopped when a black-robed man addressed him and learned that the man was the Five-Crown King.
• Lin Fan entered the Sword Forest, where Peak Sage experts fighting over the Nameless Sword Embryo stepped aside when they recognized him.
• Lin Fan learned that the Nameless Sword Embryo lay deep in the forest beneath an ancient broken sword, and the cultivators retreated.
• Lin Fan found the sinister sword embryo and suspected its vicious nature had turned its former owners against themselves.
• The Triple Crown King confronted Lin Fan and declared that the Nameless Sword Embryo belonged to him.

In the Sword Forest, Lin Fan called the Nameless Sword Embryo to him, proving the Triple Crown King's claim to it false. The Triple Crown King attacked Lin Fan with his strongest sword strike, but Lin Fan's Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Technique shattered it.

• The Triple Crown King declared that the Nameless Sword Embryo had called to him across three eras and challenged Lin Fan to try to claim it.
• Lin Fan called, “Sword... come!!!,” and the Nameless Sword Embryo broke free of the black sword and flew to his palm.
• The Triple Crown King reacted with disbelief, then launched the sword strike he had comprehended when he earned his third crown.
• Lin Fan used the Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Technique, and his strike shattered the Triple Crown King's dark golden sword light.

Lin Fan defeated the Triple Crown King’s claim to the Nameless Sword Embryo, then absorbed the Sword Forest’s swords and refined his powers. As Wang Teng returned from an unresolved battle with the Five-Crown King, he headed toward the Sword Forest, where Lin Fan remained in seclusion.

• Lin Fan summoned the Nameless Sword Embryo and blocked the Triple Crown King’s strike with one finger, prompting the Triple Crown King to accept that the sword embryo had chosen Lin Fan and leave.
• Lin Fan stored the unrefined sword embryo and used a Mount Saint-Level Upgrade Card to raise his nine True Dragons to peak Sage King realm.
• Lin Fan began refining True Dragon blood essence and devoured the ancient swords and remaining Sword Dao energy in the Sword Forest, strengthening his Law of the Sword Dao.
• Word spread that Wang Teng had fought the Five-Crown King in a battle that shattered a sea of stars, but neither fighter had won.
• Wang Teng returned and approached the Sword Forest while Lin Fan remained in seclusion.

Lin Fan refined the Sword Forest and the Nameless Sword Embryo, breaking through to the Great Sage Realm and triggering a terrifying tribulation. He devoured the tribulation lightning as it struck, provoking the clouds into launching a massive final blow.

• Lin Fan absorbed the Nameless Sword Embryo and the Law of the Sword Dao, then broke through from peak Sage to the Great Sage Realm.
• A vast sea of tribulation clouds formed above the Sword Forest, and Lin Fan smashed apart the first lightning bolt with his fist.
• Ye Chen sensed Lin Fan’s breakthrough from beyond the thirty-first checkpoint and headed deeper into a forbidden zone to strengthen himself.
• Lin Fan walked through the lightning and used the Heaven-Swallowing Demonic Art to devour and refine the tribulation bolts.
• After Lin Fan shouted for more lightning, the tribulation clouds condensed their power into a hundred-zhang pillar and struck at him.

After surviving the Great Saint Tribulation, Lin Fan reached the middle stage of the Great Sage Realm and raised his Sword Dao law to the Sage King level. Wang Teng arrived at the Sword Forest to settle his Wang Clan’s grievances with Lin Fan, leaving the two poised for a confrontation.

• Lin Fan devoured the final lightning pillar of his tribulation, broke through to the middle stage of the Great Sage Realm, and raised his Sword Dao law to the Sage King level.
• The system awarded Lin Fan Villain Points and assessed his combat strength as unrivaled in the Sage King Realm.
• Wang Teng arrived at the Sword Forest, and the watching cultivators recognized his Chaotic Devil Physique and immense strength.
• Lin Fan welcomed Wang Teng as an opponent, and Wang Teng declared that it was time to settle the grievances between him and the Wang Clan.

Lin Fan fought Wang Teng, whose Chaotic Devil Physique distorted space and time to deflect attacks, but Lin Fan’s Kunpeng and True Dragon techniques wounded and sent him flying. Wang Teng acknowledged Lin Fan’s strength, then unleashed the full power of his Chaotic Domain.

• Lin Fan accused Wang Teng’s Wang Clan of repeatedly sending assassins after him and declared he would settle the score by killing Wang Teng.
• Lin Fan’s punch tore through space, but Wang Teng casually redirected it with his Chaotic Devil Physique and taunted Lin Fan and the Lin Clan.
• Lin Fan charged with the Kunpeng Treasure Technique and struck Wang Teng with the True Dragon Precious Technique, piercing his defense and tearing his robe.
• Lin Fan followed with a Kunpeng Palm that sent Wang Teng flying through stellar remnants and left blood at the corner of his mouth.
• Wang Teng praised Lin Fan’s treasure techniques, then unleashed his full Chaotic Domain, twisting and folding the surrounding void.

Lin Fan overwhelmed Wang Teng’s Chaotic Devil Physique and shattered his devil god phantom, but Wang Teng revealed the Phoenix Precious Technique and prepared a deadly final strike. The duel was left unresolved as Wang Teng merged the phoenix’s power into his fist and attacked.

• Lin Fan’s Chaos Domain suppressed Wang Teng’s Laws of Chaos, and Lin Fan struck the domain with a tenfold Hunyuan Fist, driving Wang Teng back.
• Lin Fan mocked Wang Teng and earned Villain Points for suppressing and humiliating him.
• Wang Teng summoned the third-level Devil’s Descent phantom, but Lin Fan’s True Dragon Fist shattered its halberd and tore the phantom apart.
• Wang Teng revealed that he also possessed the Phoenix Precious Technique, shocking the watching cultivators and prompting Feng Jiuge to react.
• Wang Teng used Nirvana in Fire to merge the phoenix phantom into his fist and declared that he would kill Lin Fan with an all-out strike.

Lin Fan defeated Wang Teng’s Phoenix Precious Technique with the True Dragon Precious Technique, but Wang Teng unleashed his Chaotic Devil Physique and attacked with the Chaos Spear, an Emperor Weapon. As the spear closed in, Lin Fan revealed an ancient dark-golden bell radiating immortal might.

• Lin Fan’s True Dragon Heaven Burial shattered Wang Teng’s attack and left him gravely wounded.
• Lin Fan mocked Wang Teng and demanded to know whether he had any other means to fight.
• Wang Teng unleashed the third stage of his Chaotic Devil Physique and summoned the Chaos Spear, an Emperor Weapon forged by his Wang Clan ancestor.
• Wang Teng thrust the Chaos Spear at Lin Fan, prompting alarmed cultivators to warn that Lin Fan was in danger.
• Lin Fan said he also had an Emperor Weapon, then revealed a dark-golden bell that radiated immortal might.

Lin Fan used the Hunyuan Bell to overwhelm Wang Teng and shatter his Chaos Long Spear, leaving Wang Teng gravely wounded in the ruins. As Wang Teng gathered himself for one final attempt, a gray-robed Sage King arrived.

• Lin Fan rang the Hunyuan Bell and suppressed Wang Teng’s Chaos Long Spear with its immortal might.
• Lin Fan struck again, forcing Wang Teng back and injuring his hands despite Wang Teng’s grip on the spear.
• Wang Teng unleashed the third level of his Chaotic Devil Physique and sent a devil god phantom charging at Lin Fan.
• Lin Fan brought the Hunyuan Bell down, shattered the phantom, blasted Wang Teng into an ancient star’s ruins, and knocked the Chaos Long Spear from his hands.
• Wang Teng struggled from the ruins, badly wounded, and prepared one final desperate attempt.
• A gray-robed old man with Sage King realm presence tore through space and arrived.

Lin Fan defeated Wang Teng, killed the Wang Clan's Third Elder, and drove the survivors from the Sword Forest. He obtained the complete Phoenix Precious Technique and left for the next trial, while Wang Teng escaped badly injured and vowed to return.

• Wang Teng urged the Wang Clan's Third Elder to flee because Lin Fan's Hunyuan Bell and other trump cards made him too dangerous to fight.
• As the Wang Clan escaped through a spatial vortex, Lin Fan's fourth bell toll shattered the Third Elder's shield and killed him, while Wang Teng escaped with half his body badly injured.
• Lin Fan collected the Chaos Long Spear and received Villain Points for defeating Wang Teng and killing the Third Elder.
• Lin Fan obtained Wang Teng's Phoenix Precious Technique precious bone and fused its complete inheritance, adding it to his True Dragon and Kunpeng techniques.
• Lin Fan left the Sword Forest with Ji Kun and Gu Chen, saying Wang Teng's injuries had weakened him and that he feared no return challenge.

Lin Fan advanced through the Immortal Ancient Ruins, refining powerful treasures and growing stronger before reaching the Purifying Lotus Immortal Flame Forbidden Zone. There he met Ye Chen, who also wanted the flame and refused to yield it to Lin Fan.

• News spread that Lin Fan had defeated Wang Teng, shattered his imperial weapon, and killed the Wang Clan's third elder.
• Lin Fan refined the Flame Emperor Essence Blood and Ancestral Dragon Remains Core, strengthening his body and techniques.
• After two and a half years, Lin Fan reached the late Great Sage Realm and advanced to the thirty-eighth trial.
• Lin Fan entered the Purifying Lotus Immortal Flame Forbidden Zone with Ji Kun and found Ye Chen cultivating there.
• Ye Chen told Lin Fan he would not yield the Purifying Lotus Immortal Flame, despite being wary of Lin Fan.

Ye Chen challenged Lin Fan in the Purifying Lotus Immortal Flame Forbidden Zone, seeking to avenge past humiliations, but Lin Fan overwhelmed him with his Cosmic Phenomenon. Refusing to accept defeat, Ye Chen absorbed a river of stars and launched another attack.

• Ye Chen confronted Lin Fan over the Immortal Spring Source and Empress Purple Moon's inheritance, then attacked with Star Fist.
• Lin Fan stopped Ye Chen's punch with a Chaos Qi screen and taunted him about their different paths to strength.
• Ye Chen unleashed Star Extinction, but Lin Fan's Cosmic Phenomenon swallowed the attack and shattered Ye Chen's Starry Sky Phenomenon.
• Lin Fan's cosmic pressure hurled Ye Chen into a mountain, badly injuring him as the senior in his mind urged him to retreat.
• Ye Chen rejected the advice, absorbed the radiance of a river of stars, and attacked Lin Fan with Star River Fist.

Lin Fan defeated Ye Chen and let him escape with his Immortal Dao inheritance, then reached the heart of the forbidden zone and refined the Purifying Lotus Immortal Flame. He gained the flame’s power and discovered it contained a fragment of an Immortal King’s memories.

• Lin Fan defeated Ye Chen with the True Dragon Fist and shattered his Dao heart by pointing out how others had helped him.
• Lin Fan let Ye Chen escape after an Immortal Dao trace carried him away, intending to take the inheritance after Ye Chen refined it.
• Lin Fan and Ji Kun reached the deepest part of the forbidden zone, where Lin Fan found the Purifying Lotus Immortal Flame above a magma lake.
• Lin Fan swallowed the flame’s attack and refined the Purifying Lotus Immortal Flame with his Chaos Gods and Devils Body.
• The system announced that the flame had strengthened Lin Fan’s fire attribute and Phoenix Precious Technique, and detected a fragment of an Immortal King’s memories within it.

Lin Fan extracted the Purifying Lotus Immortal Flame’s memories of an Immortal King’s failed stand against the darkness, then used the flame to break through to the early Sage King Realm. The chapter ended with Wang Xi emerging from an ancient immortal palace.

• Lin Fan witnessed the Immortal King’s memories of the battle against a rift pouring out Dark Matter and learned that the flame carried the Immortal King’s Law of Nirvana.
• Lin Fan began refining the Law of Nirvana and resolved to prepare for the darkness connected to the Gate of Darkness.
• Lin Fan used the Purifying Lotus Immortal Flame to break through the late Great Sage Realm, triggering a Sage King Tribulation.
• Lin Fan swallowed the tribulation lightning and broke through to the early Sage King Realm, gaining strength enough to contend with a Quasi-Emperor without the Hunyuan Bell.
• Wang Xi emerged from a crystalline immortal palace deep within the Immortal Ancient Ruins.

Wang Xi learned that Lin Fan had defeated Wang Teng and killed several clan heirs, while a mysterious young man chose not to reclaim the Purifying Lotus Immortal Flame. After Lin Fan emerged from the forbidden zone, the Five-Crown King warned him that a great figure in Emperor Pass wanted the flame.

• A Wang Clan elder told Wang Xi that Lin Fan had defeated Wang Teng, shattered his physique's foundation, and killed the Third Elder, Long Aotian, Huntian, and Liu Wuhen.
• Wang Xi decided to focus on her inheritance and Emperor Pass, leaving a meeting with Lin Fan until he reached that path.
• A mysterious young man learned Lin Fan had taken the Purifying Lotus Immortal Flame and chose to let him keep it for now.
• The Five-Crown King waited outside the forbidden zone as Gu Chen and Ji Kun feared for Lin Fan's safety.
• Lin Fan emerged with his cultivation at the early Sage King Realm and asked whether the Five-Crown King wanted to fight him.
• The Five-Crown King said he had come to warn Lin Fan that a great figure in Emperor Pass had set his sights on the Purifying Lotus Immortal Flame.

The Five-Crown King warned Lin Fan that the Purifying Lotus Immortal Flame had been reserved for someone beyond Emperor Pass, then invited him to cooperate on the Legendary Ancient Road beyond the forty-fifth trial. Lin Fan agreed to reach the trial but reserved judgment on cooperating, then planned to use his villain points to strengthen his techniques.

• The Five-Crown King told Lin Fan that taking the immortal flame could bring trouble from a powerful figure connected to Emperor Pass.
• The Five-Crown King revealed that reaching the forty-fifth trial could open a Legendary Ancient Road requiring multiple physiques and supreme bloodlines, and proposed that he and Lin Fan cooperate.
• The Five-Crown King explained that Wang Teng had been his original choice but lost to Lin Fan, and Lin Fan agreed to pursue the road's possible Immortal King inheritance.
• Lin Fan told Gu Chen and Ji Kun that he would judge the cooperation by the Five-Crown King's sincerity, then checked his system and found he had 5,600,000 villain points.
• Lin Fan decided to spend his villain points on improving his True Dragon, Kunpeng, and Phoenix techniques rather than rushing to advance his cultivation.

Lin Fan raised the True Dragon, Kunpeng, and Phoenix Precious Techniques to minor mastery, then drew an Immortal Ancient Stele Fragment and a Hundredfold Dao Comprehension Card. He left the purifying lotus immortal flame forbidden zone with Gu Chen and Ji Kun and entered the thirty-ninth trial, where a large crowd had gathered ahead.

• Lin Fan spent 4.5 million villain points to raise all three treasure techniques to minor mastery, causing a spectacle that startled the nearby cultivators.
• Lin Fan tested his newly strengthened power and concluded he could contend with Quasi-Emperors even without the Hunyuan Bell.
• Lin Fan used one million villain points for a hundred draws and obtained an Immortal Ancient Stele Fragment and a Hundredfold Dao Comprehension Card among the rewards.
• Lin Fan decided to head toward the forty-fifth trial before pursuing Emperor Pass, then rode with Gu Chen and Ji Kun out of the forbidden zone.
• Lin Fan entered the thirty-ninth trial and, using his Double Pupils, spotted a dense crowd gathered on a wasteland thousands of li ahead.