Chapter Summaries

Fu Yuan entered a hazy tunnel and encountered a vision of an ancient Immortal Domain, where a mysterious being questioned him about his origin before sending him back. He received Double Pupils and an Immortal Bone as sign-in rewards, while terrifying beings on the ancient road realized that the presence they feared still existed.

• Fu Yuan crossed the tunnel into a boundless white realm and witnessed a wondrous vision of the Immortal Domain.
• A reclining being questioned Fu Yuan, who involuntarily answered that he came from Blue Star; the being then dismissed him.
• The being’s presence froze the ancient road and forced powerful monsters to prostrate themselves in fear.
• Fu Yuan awoke at Solitude Pavilion Summit and received the nine-star rewards Double Pupils and Immortal Bone.
• The monsters recalled that the Immortal Domain had returned to nothingness and that even their Immortal King had perished when he investigated.

Dugu Baitian crossed the Lost Sea of Light, destroying the beasts that attacked him, while Fu Yuan underwent a series of breakthroughs inside the Lone Lamp Pavilion. Fu Yuan broke through to a Tenth-Grade Bloodline and stood on the verge of entering Nirvana.

• Dugu Baitian walked toward the eighth trial through the Lost Sea of Light, ignoring its opportunities and killing the attacking Nirvana Realm beasts and their Seventh Layer of Nirvana black flood dragon emperor.
• At the fifth trial, Zhuge Xiao, Zhuge Yi, and Zhuge Lingfeng discussed the World Road’s problems as most cultivators left the Lone Lamp Pavilion.
• Nangong Mengzhu noticed that her Life-Bound Gu’s life essence was growing stronger, though it had not broken into a new realm.
• Inside the pavilion, Fu Yuan activated his Double Pupils and Immortal Bone and broke through the limits of the ninth layer of Mystical Passage, reaching the Tenth Layer.
• Fu Yuan’s bloodline, body, Qi Sea, and spirits transformed, and his Bloodline Pagoda began changing as he attained the first Tenth-Grade Bloodline since the Mythic Era.
• Fu Yuan’s intent of life, death, and Nirvana surged as he approached the breakthrough from Profound Opening into Nirvana.

Fu Yuan challenged the Eleventh Layer of Profound Opening, resisting heaven and earth’s crushing force with his powers and the Zhe Secret. His breakthrough shook the World Road and the present world, while powerful figures sensed the emergence of a rival.

• Fu Yuan’s ten-colored bloodline manifestation appeared as he advanced, and the Double Pupils bearer, Dugu Baitian, and Ao Jue sensed a new and powerful presence.
• Dugu Baitian recognized a complete tenth-grade bloodline and vowed to wait for Fu Yuan at the tenth trial of the World Road.
• After ten days, Fu Yuan repeatedly tried to surpass the Tenth Layer of Mystical Passage, even cutting down his own cultivation after twice entering Nirvana.
• Fu Yuan’s attempt to reach the Eleventh Layer brought crushing pressure from heaven and earth, destroying his bloodline cauldron, spirit platform, and Qi Sea as his body began to break apart.
• The Zhe Secret restored Fu Yuan, and his Creation Qi and Chaos Qi helped him resist the pressure as he continued roaring at the heavens.
• The World Road and present world shook, and the Tribulation Sword’s master declared that a living being had taken the path to the Eleventh Layer of Profound Opening.

Powerful ancient beings discussed the rising age of contention as dormant lineages and supposedly dead Saints reemerged. Fu Yuan returned from the Lone Lamp Pavilion, took Nangong Mengzhu’s transformed Life and Death Gu into his spiritual altar, and continued toward the sixth trial with her following him.

• Ancient beings discussed the Indestructible Heavenly Venerable, the Heavenly Court, Dao Venerable Mountain, the World Road, and other powers competing in the new age.
• Ancient lineages and Saints emerged from seclusion, including Luan'an, who claimed to have lived a second life, and the Little Dao Venerable, whom many expected to become an emperor.
• After half a month, Nangong Mengzhu sensed Fu Yuan’s growing presence and watched him emerge from the Lone Lamp Pavilion in bloodstained, tattered robes.
• Fu Yuan pulled Nangong Mengzhu’s Life and Death Gu from her spiritual altar and found it had grown to four wings and willingly followed him.
• Fu Yuan placed the Gu in his own spiritual altar and headed for the sixth trial while Nangong Mengzhu followed, weakened without her Gu.
• Fu Yuan, in unusually high spirits, repeatedly asked the hooded Nangong Mengzhu to show him her face.

Fu Yuan and Nangong Mengzhu traveled through the sixth and seventh checkpoints, where Fu Yuan recognized the soul flowers’ insidious corruption, before the story shifted to the tenth checkpoint, where Dugu Baitian and Huo Lingxiao began their battle. Meanwhile, Fu Yuan climbed Sword Heart Mountain alone, leaving Nangong Mengzhu below with the Life and Death Gu.

• Fu Yuan used his Double Pupils to see that the soul flowers in Flower Soul Valley were slowly transforming cultivators, even powerful prodigies, and Nangong Mengzhu recalled how her brother had changed after obtaining the Karma Gu.
• Fu Yuan and Nangong Mengzhu crossed the Lost Sea of Light, and Fu Yuan revealed his Nirvana Realm strength as they hurried toward the tenth checkpoint.
• At the tenth checkpoint, Dugu Baitian confronted Huo Lingxiao, the Radiance Son and bearer of the Sun Holy Body, and the two began fighting.
• At Sword Heart Mountain, Fu Yuan gave Nangong Mengzhu the Life and Death Gu and continued toward the summit alone.
• Huo Lingxiao unleashed his Golden Crow power and several blazing suns against Dugu Baitian, but Dugu Baitian’s Sword Qi repeatedly wounded him.

Fu Yuan climbed Sword Heart Mountain, clashed with Wu Qi, and received the Emperor Sword Art at the summit, revealing sword intent that astonished Wu Qi. At the gateway to the tenth trial, Dugu Baitian continued to overwhelm Huo Lingxiao as Su He arrived.

• Fu Yuan comprehended the Five Elements Sword Intent while climbing Sword Heart Mountain and encountered Wu Qi, whose destruction Sword Qi clashed with it.
• Fu Yuan dispersed Wu Qi’s sword intent and declined to fight, so Wu Qi returned to cultivating.
• Fu Yuan checked in at the summit and obtained the Emperor Sword Art, whose imperial sword intent clashed with the mountain’s tyrannical sword intent.
• Wu Qi recognized Fu Yuan’s sword intent as that of an emperor’s son and suspected he was Jian Wushuang of the Sword Emperor Hall.
• Dugu Baitian overwhelmed Huo Lingxiao at the gateway to the tenth trial, even as Huo Lingxiao used the Spirit Fire Pearl to recover and boost his strength.
• Su He walked out of the gateway and reached the tenth trial.

Su He watched Dugu Baitian overwhelm Huo Lingxiao and challenge three other imperial scions at the tenth stage. Meanwhile, Fu Yuan completed his ascent of Sword Heart Mountain and continued toward the coming clash.

• Su He recognized Huo Lingxiao as the Sun Holy Body and watched a golden-robed swordsman nullify his attacks with overwhelming sword intent.
• Su He identified the swordsman as Dugu Baitian, the Heavenly Emperor's son who possessed the Chaos Physique, as Huo Lingxiao fought back with his Nirvana Spirit Body.
• Zhou Jingyun and a Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird arrived at the tenth stage, and Dugu Baitian split into four selves to face them, Su He, and Huo Lingxiao.
• Fu Yuan continued cultivating the Emperor Sword Art on the ninth stage as its domineering sword intent became evenly matched with imperial sword light.
• Fu Yuan descended Sword Heart Mountain with its sword intents yielding to him, found Nangong Mengzhu absent, and continued onward toward the tenth stage.

Dugu Baitian suppressed Su He and defeated Huo Lingxiao, the Sun Holy Body, while another of his avatars pushed the Little Peng Emperor to the brink of death. The Little Peng Emperor burned his remaining blood Qi and fled toward the gateway to the tenth trial.

• The arriving holy sons and pureblood beings watched eighteen geniuses fight across nine battlefields, and Xuanyuzi revealed that the Su Lineage had three imperial sons in this generation.
• Dugu Baitian suppressed Su He despite Su He's Double Pupils, Qilin Step, and fourth-level Nirvana Realm cultivation.
• Dugu Baitian broke Huo Lingxiao's Nirvana Spirit Body and drove the exhausted Sun Holy Body to concede defeat and leave.
• Old monsters pursued the wounded Huo Lingxiao, hoping to seize his Sun Holy Body.
• Dugu Baitian's avatar battered the Little Peng Emperor, destroying his spirit body and stripping away most of his feathers.
• The Little Peng Emperor burned his remaining blood Qi and fled toward the gateway to the tenth trial.

Dugu Baitian defeated and killed the Little Peng Emperor, revealing himself as the Heavenly Court's heir and the man behind the nine fighters who had challenged nine Emperor's Children. A month later, Fu Yuan entered the tenth pass, where the battle's outcome had left the gathered cultivators in awe.

• Dugu Baitian caught the fleeing Little Peng Emperor, broke both his wings, and rejected his offer to become a follower.
• A golden feather summoned the Little Peng Emperor's ancestor, but Dugu Baitian's Nine Dao Mountain overwhelmed the Saint's heart feather and killed the Little Peng Emperor.
• Dugu Baitian told the ancestor that he had killed his three elder brothers and vowed to destroy the lineage after returning from the World Road.
• Xuanyuzi revealed that the figures on all nine battlefields had been Dugu Baitian's clones, and that he had defeated nine Emperor's Children, killing one.
• Fu Yuan entered the tenth pass a month later as its inhabitants continued to discuss Dugu Baitian's victory.

Dugu Baitian’s reputation spread across the Tenth Pass as the Old Blind Man’s claim about the Heaven-Swallowing Python Emperor drew a crowd and provoked a deadly confrontation. Fu Yuan arrived, revealed his formidable power, and recognized the Old Blind Man as an Ancient Saint, leaving the elder wondering who the young man was.

• Xuanyuzi and Zhuge Wudao identified Dugu Baitian as the Chaos Saint Emperor, prompting cultivators to recount his legendary victories.
• The Old Blind Man claimed that the Heaven-Swallowing Python Emperor had fought an opponent to a standstill, then demanded rare goods before sharing more.
• Dozens of prodigies attacked the Old Blind Man, but he killed nearly all of them, while the Wind-Riding Rat escaped after losing its right ear.
• Fu Yuan entered the marketplace and subdued Tie Shan with spiritual pressure before asking him to lead the way to the Old Blind Man.
• Fu Yuan called the Old Blind Man an Ancient Saint, and the elder recognized Fu Yuan as an emperor’s son among emperor’s sons.

Fu Yuan learned from the Blind Daoist that Dugu Baitian had fought the newly ascended Heaven-Swallowing Python Emperor as an eighth-level Saint King and forced him to flee. Fu Yuan left determined to become invincible in his lifetime, while the Blind Daoist’s divinations could not reveal his fate and rival prodigies began challenging Dugu Baitian.

• Fu Yuan revealed he was the son of the Indestructible Heavenly Venerable and agreed to pay the Blind Daoist with the heart's blood of a True Dragon and the crown blood of a Divine Phoenix for information.
• The Blind Daoist told Fu Yuan that Dugu Baitian had fought the Heaven-Swallowing Python Emperor as an eighth-level Saint King, forcing the emperor to retreat beyond the present world after half a month of battle.
• The Blind Daoist explained that watching the battle had blinded him and lowered his realm, then warned Fu Yuan that Dugu Baitian was invincible among those of the same realm.
• Fu Yuan declared that he would be invincible in his lifetime and departed, after which the Blind Daoist’s nine divinations all failed to predict Fu Yuan’s future.
• Ao Jue, Mo Tao’s followers, and Jian Wushuang began seeking challenges against Dugu Baitian.

Fu Yuan followed an opportunity alert to a misty valley, where he encountered four Nirvana Realm cultivators and a soulless living puppet searching for a hidden treasure. After they refused to hand over their treasure map, they attacked him, and he crushed the puppet while taking an interest in whoever had made it.

• Fu Yuan followed the system's alert for Soul Heavenly Gold into a mist-covered valley and found five cultivators who had arrived with an archaic treasure map.
• Fu Yuan demanded the treasure map, but the cultivators resisted and warned that the valley was a grand array whose treasure could not be found without it.
• The iron-tower-like cultivator attacked Fu Yuan with his blood Qi, but Fu Yuan's power sent the group reeling.
• The middle-aged Daoist offered to search with Fu Yuan, then threatened to destroy the map when Fu Yuan refused to compromise.
• The blue-robed living puppet attacked under cover of poison Qi, and the other cultivators joined in.
• Fu Yuan broke the puppet's technique, crushed it, swallowed its blue and black Qi, and wondered about the person behind it.

Fu Yuan defeated the valley’s attackers and learned that the middle-aged Daoist’s backers were connected to Carefree Manor, also called the Ghost Domain. The revelation tied the group to a brutal lineage from the Imperial Dao era, and Fu Yuan’s killing intent surged as he questioned whether it had survived.

• Fu Yuan devoured the poison gas, blasted the tower-like Nirvana Realm body cultivator apart, and pinned the fleeing middle-aged Daoist to a mountain with Sword Qi.
• The two black foxes merged into a two-headed, eight-legged fox that reached the fourth level of the Nirvana Realm, but Fu Yuan let it leave.
• Fu Yuan searched the dead cultivator’s storage bag, found nothing worthwhile, and interrogated the middle-aged Daoist about his group’s living puppets and sinister artifacts.
• The middle-aged Daoist revealed that his backers belonged to Carefree Manor, also known as the Ghost Domain.
• Fu Yuan recalled the Carefree Saint King’s atrocities in the Imperial Dao era and the Indestructible Heavenly Venerable’s campaign against the lineage, then wondered if it had survived.

Fu Yuan tortured Feng Si for information about Carefree Manor and discovered that the treasure site concealed a search for blood puppets. He found the intelligent Soul Heavenly Gold beneath the converging streams, where it begged him to leave.

• Fu Yuan learned that Feng Si had targeted him and the twin foxes as prey for Carefree Manor, then forced Feng Si to summon a ghost general.
• Fu Yuan tortured Feng Si's body and soul after the message talisman was activated.
• Thousand Winds Demon General learned from Feng Si's transmission that an emperor's son was alone and grew eager to capture him.
• Fu Yuan descended through the spring opening and found an immense underground ocean fed by the ten thousand streams.
• Fu Yuan fought off water dragons and two giant kun formed by the Soul Heavenly Gold, then heard it plead with him to go away.

Fu Yuan discovered that a character on the sentient Soul Heavenly Gold contained a supreme Great Dao and learned two techniques from it. He left the depths with the Holy Spirit, who took the name Fu Feng and wore the face of someone from his past named Ji Feng.

• Fu Yuan found the Soul Heavenly Gold and decided not to suppress it, learning that it could not move from its position.
• Fu Yuan used his Double Pupils to uncover an ancient character on the gold and entered a profound state of enlightenment.
• After awakening, Fu Yuan traced the character for “Suppress” twice, briefly freezing his surroundings and then summoning the force of a great mountain.
• The Soul Heavenly Gold broke free and first copied Fu Yuan’s appearance, then changed into a handsome youth after refusing his suggested forms.
• Fu Yuan and the Soul Heavenly Gold returned through the waters, and the Holy Spirit chose the name Fu Feng, recalling Ji Feng, the first living being he had met.

Fu Yuan and Fu Feng emerged from the spring into a valley where the Carefree Manor’s forces had set a Three-Demon Formation to capture an imperial scion. Fu Yuan and Fu Feng began destroying the formation’s soul attacks, leaving their enemies alarmed at facing two imperial scions.

• The nine-headed lion and its allies identified Fu Yuan as a likely imperial scion and prepared the Three-Demon Formation to capture him.
• Fu Yuan sensed the ambush as he flew through the valley with Fu Feng.
• Fu Yuan and Fu Feng rose from the spring, and the nine-headed lion swallowed the middle-aged Daoist who had revealed their presence.
• The seven-footed black-feathered eagle ordered Thousand Winds Demon General to activate the Three-Demon Formation against Fu Yuan and Fu Feng.
• Fu Yuan unleashed the Emperor Sword Art against the Soul-Seizing Flags’ skulls, while Fu Feng used soul power to destroy them.
• The seven-footed black-feathered eagle realized they faced two imperial scions, while Zhu Yan insisted the formation could still trap them.

Fu Yuan broke through the Three-Demon Formation’s first layer and destroyed the Iron Puppet King, only to uncover a second formation and face Mo Tao’s clone with hundreds of enemies. He launched an attack against them, while his true name remained unknown to Mo Tao.

• Fu Yuan used his Double Pupils to find the first formation core and destroyed it, dispersing the demon dragons and revealing the formation’s weakness.
• The nine-headed lion sent the Iron Puppet King into the formation, but Fu Yuan destroyed it with a golden greatsword.
• Fu Yuan broke the first formation core, revealing that the Spirit-Seizing Flags formed a second layer that confined those inside.
• Mo Tao’s clone appeared with the nine-headed lion and a large force, and Fu Yuan declared that he would kill the clone before facing Mo Tao’s main body.
• Fu Yuan attacked Mo Tao’s clone and the hundreds of opponents with nine golden greatswords and powerful arts.

Fu Yuan survived the puppet explosion unharmed and turned on Mo Tao’s forces, overwhelming their group with his speed and strength. As the Thousand Winds Demon General called for a formation, Fu Yuan’s assault continued.

• Fu Yuan slaughtered the earth puppets and melted the ice puppets’ attacks with his overwhelming blood Qi.
• The Thousand Winds Demon General detonated 180 fire and poison puppets around Fu Yuan, blasting open the Three-Demon Formation.
• The explosion cracked the ground near the vanished Soul Heavenly Gold, allowing a wisp of black Qi to emerge from below.
• Fu Yuan emerged unharmed and astonished Mo Tao’s clone and the gathered beasts with his speed and physical power.
• Fu Yuan attacked the group, killing opponents with casual strikes as the Thousand Winds Demon General shouted for them to form a formation.

Fu Yuan slaughtered Mo Tao’s followers and beat Zhu Yan to death, discovering a small black worm inside the beast. The story then shifted to the Dragon-Phoenix Cave, where Mo Tao hunted Bai Su and looked toward another target.

• Fu Yuan killed Mo Tao’s twenty-six devil envoys and two devil generals, then rejected Mo Tao’s offer of a powerful constitution and attacked him.
• Mo Tao escaped, leaving the Nine-Headed Lion, Zhu Yan, the Black-Feathered Eagle, and Madam Snake to face Fu Yuan.
• Fu Yuan broke Zhu Yan’s arm and shoulder, froze its allies with the Suppress Character Art, and killed it with twelve punches; his Double Pupils revealed a black worm inside Zhu Yan’s heart and Qi Sea.
• Fu Yuan used the Suppress Character Art again against the Heaven-Swallowing Python and the Nine-Headed Lion while Mo Tao watched and wondered which Holy Body Fu Yuan possessed.
• In the Dragon-Phoenix Cave, Mo Tao and two companions discussed Bai Su’s escape and the wounds inflicted by Fellow Daoist Chen’s art.
• Mo Tao turned and gazed greedily into the distance.

Mo Tao watched Fu Yuan slaughter his followers and decided he wanted to devour him, while Brother Chen warned that Ao Jue was approaching. Fu Yuan and Fu Feng killed the remaining beasts, then Fu Yuan used his Double Pupils to destroy Mo Tao’s fleeing avatar.

• Mo Tao showed Brother Chen Fu Yuan’s image and said he wanted to devour him after dealing with the White Tiger and Azure Luan.
• Fu Yuan tore off the Seven-Footed Black-Feathered Eagle’s wings and killed him, then severed Madam Snake’s body and broke her neck.
• The Nine-Headed Lion tried to seize Fu Feng with his Buddhist Lion’s Roar, but Fu Feng immobilized him with overwhelming soul power.
• Fu Yuan charged at Mo Tao and used the Star-Plucking Hand to seal the surrounding space, but Mo Tao’s avatar dissolved into black Qi to escape.
• Fu Yuan revealed his Double Pupils, erased the demonic Qi, and destroyed Mo Tao’s avatar.