Chapter Summaries

The City Lord of Heavenly Abyss and the other city lords attacked the Chen Lineage’s empty city, but its powerful formation blocked them and the residents drove them off with taunts. As sect experts arrived to protect the city, a huge warship appeared overhead.

• The City Lord of Heavenly Abyss learned through soul-searching that the Chen Lineage had left the city and that a powerful formation protected it.
• The city lords joined forces to bombard the formation, but their attacks failed to damage it.
• The City Lord of Heavenly Formation said the defensive formation could only be broken from within, while residents mocked the attackers from behind its barrier.
• The City Lord of Heavenly Abyss ordered his forces to withdraw after the residents’ insults frustrated them.
• Experts from the Azure Cloud Sect, the Heavenly Net Sect, the Dao Dominion Gate, and other sects arrived and confronted the city lords.
• The Azure Cloud Sect’s sect master urged the city lords to leave, and an enormous warship suddenly appeared in the sky.

Chen Fan returned to the Chen Lineage with Yang Lingqing and confronted the city lords who had attacked its formation. He nearly killed them, but stopped when undercover agents among their ranks began to speak.

• The sect experts and city lords watched the Star Warship approach, while Chen Lineage undercover agents among the city guards awaited the return of their ancestor.
• The sect experts addressed Chen Fan as a Great Emperor, and his imperial might sent the city lords flying as he demanded to know why they had attacked his home.
• The Heavenly Abyss City Lord claimed the city lords had come to congratulate the Chen Lineage and had attacked only to test it, but Chen Fan rejected his excuse and pressed down with an imperial palm.
• The Heavenly Abyss City Lord invoked the Imperial Clan, but Chen Fan ordered the city lords to die and continued his attack.
• Chen Fan halted the palm just before it struck the undercover agents when they called out to him, then told them to continue.

Chen Fan’s forces killed the city lords after eight commanders revealed they were Chen Lineage undercover agents and returned to the Lineage. A system reward then expanded Chen Lineage City ten thousandfold, leaving it a colossal city that absorbed the surrounding cities.

• Eight commanders, including Chen Weifeng, Chen Beijiao, and Chen Beiwan, revealed their Chen Lineage ties and asked to return, while the city lords realized they had been betrayed.
• Chen Fan ordered that no city lord be allowed to escape, and the sect experts, Gods and Devils Pavilion masters, and puppets surrounded and attacked them.
• Chen Fan killed one city lord himself and taught the Chen Lineage members to prioritize survival, summon help, and avoid provoking enemies.
• The attackers eliminated the city lords, and Chen Fan received a reward that expanded Chen Lineage City ten thousandfold.
• Chen Fan willed the surrounding wastelands and plains to rise into buildings, creating a vast city that absorbed the nearby cities.

Chen Fan established the Chen Lineage’s vast Desolate Ancient Megacity and installed two powerful foundation steles before distributing gifts and sending the sect leaders home. Far away, the Falling Cloud Sect discovered that the city had expanded right up to its entrance.

• Chen Fan expanded the Chen Lineage’s territory into the enormous Desolate Ancient Megacity, astonishing Bai Fengyao, Yang Lingqing, and the gathered experts.
• Chen Fan raised the Dao Comprehension Divine Stele and the Mount Tai Ancient Stele, explaining how they would aid disciples and anchor the Lineage’s fortune.
• Chen Fan gave the sect leaders Pangu Blood and Nine Heavens Divine Spring Water, then sent them back to their sects to handle affairs.
• The Chen Lineage’s people returned to organize the new territory and plan the megacity.
• The Falling Cloud Sect noticed the city near its entrance, and Su Chanyue wondered why it had appeared on their doorstep.

After the Chen Lineage took control of the Heavenly Abyss Domain, the rise of a new Great Emperor unsettled factions across White Emperor Province and drew the attention of Great Emperor Chiyao. Chen Fan began organizing the enormous city and planning to expand the Chen Lineage, while the system awarded him the origin of the Law of Time.

• Holy-grade factions refined the Pangu Blood and Nine Heavens Divine Spring Water as neighboring Dao domains watched the upheaval in the Heavenly Abyss Domain.
• The Great Desolation Holy Land discussed its fallen Great Emperor and considered seeking help from the Chiyao Kingdom, but its holy lords chose to wait.
• Great Emperor Chiyao sensed the new emperor in the Heavenly Abyss Domain and decided to find and challenge them.
• Chen Fan divided the enormous city into core, inner, and outer districts and planned to summon scattered Chen Lineage clansmen and recruit new disciples.
• Chen Fan signed in and obtained the origin of the Law of Time.

Chen Fan gained the origin of the Law of Time and began integrating it into his body while the Emperor of Great Xia ordered Chen Gongting to persuade the Chen Lineage’s Great Emperor to submit. Great Emperor Chiyao arrived at the Chen Lineage’s city and sensed a Great Emperor breaking through.

• Chen Fan received the origin of the Law of Time, planned to use it to control time, and ordered the Chen Lineage to recall its undercover agents before beginning to fuse the origin into himself.
• The Emperor of Great Xia learned that the Chen Lineage had taken a Dao domain and ordered Chen Gongting to lead military officers to demand its Great Emperor’s submission.
• Chen Gongting accepted the mission, privately recognizing that he might be returning to the Chen Lineage where he had been an undercover agent.
• Great Emperor Chiyao arrived at the Chen Lineage’s vast city and prepared to challenge its ruler, but a fourteenth-rank Qilin charged toward her.
• Great Emperor Chiyao sensed a powerful disturbance in space and time and realized that a Great Emperor was breaking through.

Chen Fan broke through to the Emperor Realm third layer and used the Law of Time to effortlessly defeat Great Emperor Chiyao outside the Chen Lineage. After he rejected her invitation, Chiyao noticed Jiang Luoli and her four fellow disciples and questioned why they were there.

• Chen Fan absorbed the origin of the Law of Time, advanced to the Emperor Realm third layer, and sensed a Great Emperor outside the city.
• Chen Fan used the Law of Time to restrain Great Emperor Chiyao and tapped her forehead, leaving her unable to fight back.
• Chen Fan received a reward of three thousand Saint Realm puppets and told Chiyao he was the Chen Lineage's ancestor.
• Great Emperor Chiyao accepted her defeat, learned Chen Fan's cultivation, and invited him to visit her Chiyao Kingdom, but he refused.
• Great Emperor Chiyao spotted Jiang Luoli and her four fellow disciples among the crowd and asked why they were there; they said they had come to see their junior brother.

Great Emperor Chiyao learned that Great Emperor Tianyuan was the boy who had once followed Great Emperor Xuanji, and Chen Fan then captured her rather than letting her leave. As Jiang Luoli and the others escorted Chiyao to the Chen Lineage, Bai Fengyao saw them and suspected Chen Fan wanted another master's wife.

• Great Emperor Chiyao realized that Great Emperor Tianyuan was the child who had once followed Great Emperor Xuanji, and Chen Fan confirmed it.
• Chen Fan told Great Emperor Chiyao that he had defeated her on his master's behalf and that she no longer needed to compete with Xuanji.
• When Chiyao tried to leave, Chen Fan immobilized her and ordered Jiang Luoli and the others to escort her to the Chen Lineage as a guest.
• Chiyao questioned why Chen Fan had taken her, but he said he needed her for an important matter and would explain later.
• Bai Fengyao saw Chen Fan's group with the captive Chiyao and asked whether he intended to find another master's wife to have children with.

Chen Fan recruited Great Emperor Chiyao to help establish a Desolate Ancient lineage, then learned that a hundred thousand people were approaching the city. Meanwhile, he and Ling Qingcheng welcomed a child and agreed to marry.

• Bai Fengyao joked that Great Emperor Chiyao was Chen Fan’s wife, and Chen Fan sent her away with Ancestral Phoenix Essence Blood to refine.
• Chen Fan summoned three thousand Saint Realm puppets and secured Great Emperor Chiyao’s agreement to help establish a Desolate Ancient lineage.
• Chen Fan told Ling Qingcheng that Great Emperor Chiyao was connected to her, and they agreed to marry after the child’s arrival.
• Chen Fan and Ling Qingcheng woke in her residence, where Chen Fan sensed their child’s arrival.
• Great Emperor Chiyao reported that a hundred thousand people were approaching the city, and Chen Fan realized they were undercover agents.

Chen Fan welcomed a hundred thousand returning Chen Lineage members and ordered the city to register and accommodate them. As the city filled with clansmen from all thirty-three generations, a royal procession arrived to investigate the lineage’s sudden expansion.

• Chen Fan told Great Emperor Chiyao that the returning crowd belonged to the Chen Lineage, then sent instructions to organize their arrival.
• A hundred thousand clansmen reached the city, including undercover agents who had married, raised families, and climbed to positions in other factions.
• Si Fu registered the arrivals and discovered that Chen Lineage members from all thirty-three generations had returned, including a Dao Palace Realm steward and a city lord with dozens of children.
• Su Chanyue, Jiang Luoli, the senior sisters, and Bai Fengyao watched the registration and reacted with surprise at the lineage’s size.
• A royal procession arrived nearby, and its leading expert angrily accused the Chen Lineage of recruiting troops and building power.
• Chen Gongting told the little empress that she would be safe once they met the Chen Lineage’s Great Emperor.

Chen Gongting brought Jun Hongzhao, the Great Xia Emperor’s young empress, back to the Chen Lineage amid the upheaval caused by its newly emerged Emperor Realm ancestor. When Prince Chen arrived with an imperial edict, Chen Fan confronted him after he fell from the sky, and Jun Hongzhao hurried out to see the Chen Lineage’s ancestor.

• Chen Gongting brought Jun Hongzhao from the Great Xia imperial palace to the Chen Lineage, where she hoped to meet its Emperor Realm ancestor and seize an opportunity to change her fate.
• Great Emperor Chiyao asked Ling Qingcheng whether she would object to Chiyao becoming her sister, and Ling Qingcheng said she would not.
• Great Emperor Chiyao sensed the Imperial Clan’s arrival and offered to deal with its envoys, but Chen Fan chose to face them himself.
• Prince Chen arrived with an imperial edict and proceeded through the crowd, while Chen Gongting and Jun Hongzhao watched from another carriage.
• Prince Chen fell heavily to the ground, and Chen Fan appeared above him, demanding to know who had dared to run wild over the Chen Lineage.
• Jun Hongzhao hurried out of the carriage to look at Chen Fan.

Chen Fan killed Prince Chen after the prince threatened him with an imperial edict, then welcomed Chen Gongting back to the Chen Lineage. Jun Hongzhao agreed to stay, but before Chen Fan could learn more about her, Yang Lingqing summoned him to discuss a transaction involving his father and Great Emperor Xuanji.

• Chen Fan struck down Prince Chen and killed him with a palm after declaring that flying over the Chen Lineage was a capital offense.
• Chen Gongting returned and addressed Chen Fan as young master, forgetting his mission from the Great Xia emperor.
• Chen Gongting introduced Jun Hongzhao as the Great Xia Dynasty's young empress and a daughter of the Ancient Jun Lineage.
• Chen Fan asked Jun Hongzhao to remain in the Chen Lineage, and she agreed.
• Yang Lingqing summoned Chen Fan and said it was time to tell him about the transaction concerning his father and Great Emperor Xuanji.

Yang Lingqing told Chen Fan that the Divine Gate in Desolate Province might offer a path beyond the peak of the Great Emperor realm, and that Chen Fan’s father had entered it and never returned. Chen Fan decided to go after him, while his father remained stranded in another realm and the Chen Lineage’s sudden rise stirred the continent.

• Yang Lingqing told Chen Fan about the Divine Gate, its space-time laws, and Great Emperor Xuanji’s theory that it held an opportunity to surpass the peak of the Great Emperor realm.
• Yang Lingqing revealed that Chen Fan’s father had entered the Divine Gate at Great Emperor Xuanji’s direction, and she believed he was still alive.
• Chen Fan told Yang Lingqing that he would travel to the Divine Gate to find his father.
• Chen Fan’s father was shown ruling the True Spirit Realm after being transported there through the Divine Gate, and he hoped to find a way back to his family and the Chen Lineage.
• News of the Chen Lineage’s return and its ancestor’s victories spread across the Desolate Ancient Continent.
• The Great Xia Emperor raged over Chen Gongting’s death and his little empress’s departure with Chen Gongting.

The Great Xia emperor sent two ancestors to attack the Chen Lineage’s Great Emperor and pressured the Ancient Jun Lineage to demand Jun Hongzhao’s return. Meanwhile, the Ancient Phoenix Clan’s chiefs urged Grand Chief Bai Fengrong to bring Feng Yao home, leaving her facing pressure from within her clan.

• The Great Xia emperor went to the imperial ancestral ground, and two Emperor Realm ancestors agreed to deal with the Chen Lineage’s Great Emperor.
• The Great Xia emperor sent a warning to the Ancient Jun Lineage, and Jun Jiudao decided to demand that the Chen Lineage return Jun Hongzhao.
• Bai Fengrong refused her husband’s suggestion to retrieve Feng Yao, saying she could stay with the Chen Lineage if she was happy.
• The branch chiefs confronted Bai Fengrong and jointly demanded that she bring the Divine Maiden back to the Ancient Phoenix Clan.

Bai Fengrong faced pressure from the Ancient Phoenix Clan’s patriarchs over whether to protect the Chen Lineage, but she refused to let the clan’s politics restrict her daughter. She left to visit Feng Yao privately and meet her master, while ordering Chi Feng into seclusion.

• The patriarchs urged Bai Fengrong to recall Feng Yao and warned that helping the Chen Lineage could drag the Ancient Phoenix Clan into conflict with the Great Xia Dynasty.
• Bai Fengrong asked Chi Feng for his view, and he argued that Feng Yao should follow her own wishes but that the clan should not intervene for the Chen Lineage.
• Bai Fengrong announced that she no longer had a daughter, then left before the patriarchs could continue arguing.
• Bai Fengrong ordered Chi Feng to enter seclusion in the Ice Phoenix Ancestral Land.
• Bai Fengrong decided to visit Feng Yao privately, meet her master, and judge whether he was qualified to teach her.

Bai Fengyao refined the Ancestral Phoenix essence blood, broke through to the Void Return Realm, and received Chen Fan’s guidance. As the Chen Lineage settled into its new routines, two Great Xia Imperial Clan ancestors arrived outside the city and encountered Great Emperor Chiyao.

• Bai Fengyao refined the Ancestral Phoenix essence blood and broke through to the Void Return Realm, earning Chen Fan an emperor-grade pill.
• Chen Fan examined Bai Fengyao’s improved physique and agreed to guide her in cultivating her divine-grade technique.
• Chen Fan distributed cultivation resources, strengthened his relatives and disciples, established a river of time in the Chen Lineage, and spent time with Ling Qingcheng.
• Jun Hongzhao settled into the Chen Lineage, while Great Emperor Chiyao refined Pangu blood and enjoyed the abundant resources there.
• Great Emperor Chiyao sensed newcomers outside the city and went to confront them.
• Two Emperor Realm ancestors of the Great Xia Imperial Clan arrived with their imperial beast, and Great Emperor Chiyao appeared before them.

Great Emperor Chiyao fought the two Great Xia ancestors while Chen Fan secretly used the Law of Time to strike. Chen Fan killed one ancestor, but the surviving Emperor Realm fifth-layer expert broke free and attacked Chiyao before suddenly freezing in place.

• Great Emperor Chiyao refused to withdraw and used the Heavenly Lake Sword Art to hold off a Great Xia ancestor while the other targeted the Chen Lineage.
• Chen Fan secretly used the Law of Time to restrain the Great Xia ancestors, then appeared and killed one with his Primordial Divine Emperor Palm.
• The surviving Great Xia ancestor broke free of Chen Fan's law and unleashed the Law of Sundering against Chiyao.
• Great Emperor Chiyao's treasured sword was torn apart, and she retreated as the Great Xia ancestor's attack closed in.
• The Great Xia ancestor suddenly stopped moving, and the Law of Sundering became ineffective.

Chen Fan used the Law of Time to kill the Great Xia Ancestor, then rejected the Ancient Jun Lineage’s demand to take Jun Hongzhao back and killed its envoys. After sensing a hidden presence, he called it out, and a mature, charming woman appeared.

• Chen Fan restrained the Great Xia Ancestor with the Law of Time and killed him despite the Jun Lineage members’ plea to stop.
• Great Emperor Chiyao intercepted the Jun Lineage members as they arrived to retrieve Jun Hongzhao.
• Chen Fan declared that Jun Hongzhao belonged to the Chen Lineage and sent the Jun Lineage members flying when their leader challenged him.
• Chen Fan killed the Jun Lineage members after they asked to see Jun Hongzhao.
• Chen Fan sensed a hidden figure and called out to them, revealing a mature, charming woman.

Bai Fengrong confronted Chen Fan at the Chen Lineage, tested his age, and asked about his plans for the Great Xia Imperial Clan and the Jun Lineage. The conversation ended when Feng Yao arrived and called Bai Fengrong “Mother.”

• Bai Fengrong appeared before Chen Fan and Great Emperor Chiyao, and Chen Fan used his laws and supreme bone to resist her powers.
• Bai Fengrong touched Chen Fan to confirm that he was twenty-three, then explained she had come to see her younger sister and wanted to speak with him.
• Chen Fan realized Bai Fengrong was a Great Emperor of the Ancient Phoenix Clan and offered to summon Feng Yao, but Bai Fengrong asked to speak with him instead.
• Bai Fengrong asked what Chen Fan planned to do next, and he said he had intended to go to the Great Xia Imperial Clan's palace.
• Bai Fengrong warned Chen Fan that opposing the Jun Lineage over Jun Hongzhao could cost him more than he gained, while Chen Fan said the situation could still benefit him.
• Feng Yao arrived and called Bai Fengrong “Mother.”

Bai Fengrong reunited with Bai Fengyao at the Chen Lineage, learned that her daughter had reached Void Return Realm Third Layer by refining ancestral phoenix essence blood, and agreed to guard the clan while Chen Fan went to confront Great Xia. As Chen Fan departed with Chiyao, Qilin, and Jun Hongzhao, the Great Xia emperor reacted to the deaths of two ancestors and prepared for the Chen Lineage’s arrival.

• Bai Fengyao called Bai Fengrong her mother, while Bai Fengrong tried to present herself to Chen Fan as her elder sister.
• Bai Fengrong discovered Bai Fengyao’s Void Return Realm Third Layer cultivation and learned that Chen Fan had given her ancestral phoenix essence blood.
• Bai Fengrong asked Chen Fan to take her as a disciple, but he declined, and she agreed to guard the Chen Lineage as he left for the Great Xia imperial palace.
• Chen Fan set out with Chiyao, Qilin, and Jun Hongzhao to investigate Great Xia’s ties to the Jun Lineage.
• The Great Xia emperor learned that two of his ancestors had died, feared the Chen Lineage’s power, and ordered guards to protect him as he prepared to face Chen Fan.