Chapter Summaries

Su Chen subdued the God-Slaying Flying Dagger, prompting Granny Shi to believe he was an Immortal Emperor before he killed her. He took the dagger for Lingxi, while Wang Xi and Wang Ziyue decided to report what happened to their family.

• Su Chen threatened the God-Slaying Flying Dagger until it came to him, and Granny Shi concluded he was an Immortal Emperor.
• When Su Chen grasped the dagger, a man in white robes in another universe lost his ability to sense or divine it and set off to retrieve it before Xiao Fan’s tribulation.
• Su Chen put the God-Slaying Flying Dagger into System Space, saying Lingxi would like it, then killed Granny Shi.
• Wang Xi stopped Wang Ziyue from asking Su Chen about the dagger, and he left without harming them.
• Wang Xi told Wang Ziyue to give their father and the elders a full report, and the two set off.

Wu Li brought Wu Clan experts to the Lower Immortal Realm to find the person who killed the young master, while keeping secret that Wu Yuanzhou was nearing an Immortal Lord breakthrough. He revealed a Seeker to track the murderer and recounted how a mysterious merchant from the Immortal Treasure Pavilion had once effortlessly subdued him.

• Wu Li arrived with dozens of Wu Clan True Immortal Realm experts through a teleportation array that cracked after use.
• Wu Li told his trusted subordinates that Wu Yuanzhou was about to break through to the Immortal Lord level and warned them to keep it secret from the three rival forces.
• A young married woman asked how they would find the young master's murderer, and Wu Li produced a Seeker that could locate a person once before dying.
• Wu Li said he had bought the Seeker from a merchant claiming to come from the Immortal Treasure Pavilion, then described how the merchant had sensed his attempt to rob him and suppressed him effortlessly.

Wu Li and the Wu Clan experts tracked Ye Lingxi to a desert, where they discovered her with a Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox. After attacking the fox and exposing Ye Lingxi, Wu Li ordered his forces to kill her, leaving her in immediate danger.

• Wu Li used Seeker to lead the Wu Clan experts into the desert, where they found a Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox cub.
• Wu Li decided to capture the fox and raise it for the Wu Clan’s benefit, despite a middle-aged expert warning him of the risks.
• Seeker died after sensing Ye Lingxi nearby, and Wu Li realized the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox was protecting her.
• The middle-aged expert fled while Wu Li and the others charged the fox.
• Hu Xiaotian attacked the Wu Clan experts but was badly wounded, revealing Ye Lingxi behind him.
• Wu Li identified Ye Lingxi as the culprit who killed the young master and ordered the experts to kill her.

Hu Xiaotian shielded Ye Lingxi while she continued her breakthrough, but the Wu Clan experts attacked her again. Su Chen appeared in response to Hu Xiaotian's call and left Wu Li and the Wu Clan experts terrified after making Wu Li kneel with a single word.

• Hu Xiaotian took the Wu Clan experts' attacks meant for Ye Lingxi and fell critically injured.
• Wu Li ordered the experts to attack Ye Lingxi again, and Hu Xiaotian watched helplessly as they unleashed their strongest attacks.
• Hu Xiaotian called for his master, and Su Chen appeared, freezing the Wu Clan experts in place.
• Wu Li struck at Su Chen with a powerful punch, but Su Chen said, "Kneel," and forced Wu Li to his knees.

Su Chen killed Wu Li and the Wu Clan experts, then healed Hu Xiaotian and boosted his cultivation. In the Upper Immortal Realm, Wu Yuanzhou learned of Wu Li’s death and led the Wu Clan elders to the Lower Immortal Realm to pursue a divine object before rival forces could claim it.

• Su Chen killed Wu Li with a single sword strike, then killed the dozens of Wu Clan experts who begged for mercy.
• Su Chen praised Hu Xiaotian for protecting Ye Lingxi, healed his injuries, and helped him break through to the False Immortal Realm Ninth Layer Peak.
• Su Chen noticed Ye Lingxi’s ongoing breakthrough and complimented her appearance, making her smile.
• Wu Yuanzhou learned that Wu Li and the others were dead and revealed that he had broken through to the Immortal Lord Realm.
• The Wu Clan elders advised Wu Yuanzhou to investigate the force behind the woman before seeking revenge, but he chose to pursue the divine object instead.
• Wu Yuanzhou led the elders toward the Lower Immortal Realm, fearing the three rival forces would claim the divine object.

Su Chen watched Ye Lingxi and Hu Xiaotian grow stronger while preparing to accompany Hu Xiaotian to the Qingqiu Clan. After Wu Yuanzhou discovered that Ye Lingxi was among the people who had killed his son and Wu Li, he led the cocky Wu Clan elders to seek revenge despite the second elder's warnings.

• Su Chen joked with the system about his cultivation talent as Ye Lingxi made a breakthrough and Hu Xiaotian's power surged.
• Su Chen worried that Hu Xiaotian would be upset by the Qingqiu Clan's situation and resolved to accompany him there.
• Wu Yuanzhou and the Wu Clan elders emerged from the secret realm, found the divine treasure missing, and lamented the loss of their resources.
• Wu Yuanzhou sensed Su Chen's group and identified Ye Lingxi as the killer of his son and Wu Li.
• The second elder warned that they should investigate the group’s backing, but Wu Yuanzhou and the other elders chose to pursue revenge.
• The second elder followed Wu Yuanzhou despite fearing the decision could endanger them.

Su Chen effortlessly killed a Wu Clan elder and defeated Wu Yuanzhou with a single wave, then faced the clan leader’s desperate renewed attack. The chapter ended with Wu Yuanzhou and the surviving elders staring at Su Chen in shock.

• Wu Yuanzhou and the Wu Clan elders arrived, and Su Chen killed an elder who mocked him with a flash of sword light.
• Wu Yuanzhou attacked Su Chen with his spear, but Su Chen sent him flying with a wave and shattered his weapon.
• Wu Yuanzhou erupted with Immortal Lord Realm power and charged Su Chen with a full-strength punch.
• The punch’s shockwave destroyed the bodies of several Wu Clan elders, while Wu Yuanzhou and the survivors looked toward Su Chen in disbelief.

Su Chen effortlessly defeated Wu Yuanzhou and terrified the Wu Clan elders. Wu Yuanzhou begged to become Su Chen’s dog, while the surviving elders feared they would be killed next.

• Su Chen caught Wu Yuanzhou’s full-strength punch and crushed his right fist.
• Su Chen kneed Wu Yuanzhou into the distance, leaving him severely injured and unable to fight back.
• A Wu Clan elder tried to retreat, but a flash of sword light beheaded him.
• Wu Yuanzhou begged Su Chen to spare him and offered to become his dog.
• The Wu Clan elders watched in fear as Wu Yuanzhou repeatedly kowtowed to Su Chen.

Su Chen killed Wu Yuanzhou and every Wu Clan elder, while Ye Lingxi and Hu Xiaotian broke through to the True Immortal Realm. The Immortal Gate appeared before them, and a voice invited them to climb the Immortal Stairway and enter.

• Su Chen beheaded Wu Yuanzhou and killed the fleeing Wu Clan elders with his sword.
• Ye Lingxi and Hu Xiaotian released immense power as they broke through to the True Immortal Realm, drawing the attention of experts across the Lower Immortal Realm.
• Lin Fan sensed their breakthroughs while refining a Divergent Flame and resolved to cultivate harder so he would not fall behind.
• The Immortal Gate and a staircase appeared before Ye Lingxi and Hu Xiaotian as tens of thousands of people gathered to watch.
• A majestic voice from the Immortal Gate told Ye Lingxi and Hu Xiaotian to climb the Immortal Stairway and enter.

Ye Lingxi destroyed the Immortal Stairway and fought the Upper Immortal Realm expert who came through the Immortal Gate. Their first clash ended with both of them driven back, and the middle-aged man was shocked that a True Immortal Realm First Stage cultivator could match his strength.

• Ye Lingxi slashed the Immortal Stairway twice, destroying it after Hu Xiaotian urged her to strike again.
• The furious expert inside the Immortal Gate opened it and sent a giant golden palm at Ye Lingxi, but she blocked the attack unharmed.
• A green-robed middle-aged man emerged from the Immortal Gate and revealed his True Immortal Realm Seventh Stage cultivation, terrifying the onlookers and shattering some of their Dao hearts.
• Ye Lingxi challenged the middle-aged man and thrust her sword at him, while he countered with a punch.
• Ye Lingxi and the middle-aged man were both forced back, and he exclaimed that she was only at the True Immortal Realm First Stage before she rushed at him again.

Ye Lingxi fought a powerful middle-aged man from the Upper Immortal Realm and nearly killed him, but a woman intervened with a sneak attack. As Ye Lingxi charged at them both, Su Chen chose to let her continue fighting and warned that he would wipe out anyone else who interfered.

• Ye Lingxi blocked the middle-aged man's saber strike, surprising him with her strength and making him fear what she might become.
• Ye Lingxi and the middle-aged man clashed repeatedly, and her Return to One strike nearly killed him.
• A woman from the Upper Immortal Realm appeared and saved the middle-aged man by attacking Ye Lingxi, sending her flying.
• The woman learned what had happened, rebuked the middle-aged man, and turned her killing intent toward Ye Lingxi.
• Ye Lingxi charged at the two opponents while Su Chen watched with Hu Xiaotian and said he would not intervene unless someone else interfered.

Ye Lingxi fought the woman and severely injured her, but the woman struck back and left Ye Lingxi near death. Su Chen refused to intervene, offering to save her only if she gave up the Path of Invincibility; Ye Lingxi did not respond as the woman turned her anger toward the middle-aged man who had failed to help.

• Ye Lingxi transformed the Fallen Phoenix Sword into a Fire Phoenix and wounded the woman with a powerful strike.
• The woman struck Ye Lingxi in the stomach, leaving her with ruptured organs and a rapidly fading life force.
• Hu Xiaotian begged Su Chen to save Ye Lingxi, but Su Chen said she had to endure danger to pursue her chosen path.
• As Ye Lingxi called for her brother and begged him not to abandon her, Su Chen offered to protect her if she gave up the Path of Invincibility.
• The woman confronted the middle-aged man for not helping her, then silently resolved to get revenge on him later.

Ye Lingxi awakened transformed Invincible Sword Intent, killed the woman and the middle-aged man, and faced Elder Shi after he threatened her. Just as Elder Shi’s pressure nearly forced her to her knees, Su Chen’s voice declared that Elder Shi and his force had no need to exist anymore.

• Ye Lingxi broke through to the True Immortal Realm Fourth Stage Peak and unleashed a purer, more terrifying Invincible Sword Intent.
• Ye Lingxi killed the woman with Return to One, then pursued and pinned the middle-aged man.
• Ye Lingxi beheaded the middle-aged man despite Elder Shi’s warning as he emerged from the Immortal Gate.
• Elder Shi revealed his Golden Immortal Realm Ninth Stage Peak cultivation and pressured everyone, but Su Chen’s calm voice interrupted him.

Su Chen arrived to help Ye Lingxi and confronted Elder Shi, while Ouyang Zhengchu and Wang Yuanwu emerged from the Immortal Gate. After Ouyang Zhengchu knelt at Su Chen’s command, Elder Shi realized he had offended someone far beyond his power.

• Su Chen praised Ye Lingxi and told her he would handle Elder Shi.
• Su Chen called out the Purple Mansion Holy Land, the Wang Clan, and the Purple Lightning Sect, and Ouyang Zhengchu and Wang Yuanwu emerged from the Immortal Gate.
• Ouyang Zhengchu bowed to Su Chen and declared that the Purple Mansion Holy Land had no intention of making an enemy of him.
• Su Chen ordered Ouyang Zhengchu to kneel, and Ouyang Zhengchu obeyed.
• Elder Shi collapsed in despair as he realized Su Chen was a powerful figure he could not afford to offend.

Su Chen used a mysterious power to raise Ouyang Zhengchu’s cultivation to the Immortal Saint Realm, then asked him to put more pressure on his two disciples. Wang Yuanwu, overcome with envy, abandoned his pride and demanded a breakthrough of his own.

• Su Chen touched Ouyang Zhengchu between the brows and helped him break through several realms while the onlookers watched in astonishment.
• Wang Yuanwu realized Su Chen might be as powerful as Wang Xi and her younger brother had claimed, and he was relieved he had not attacked him.
• Su Chen refused Hu Xiaotian’s apparent request, then smacked him for acting up before Ye Lingxi took the sobbing creature into her arms.
• Ouyang Zhengchu broke through to the Immortal Saint Realm, thanked Su Chen, and promised to make Su Chen’s two disciples experience the cruelty of cultivation.
• Wang Yuanwu gave up caring about his face and shouted that he wanted to break through to the Immortal Saint Realm.

Wang Yuanwu begged Su Chen to help him reach the Immortal Saint Realm, and Su Chen agreed in exchange for Wang Yuanwu targeting Lin Fan and Jianxin. Wang Yuanwu broke through and unleashed his presence before Su Chen told him to restrain it.

• Wang Yuanwu knelt before Su Chen and asked him to help him break through to the Immortal Saint Realm.
• After Wang Yuanwu offered the Wang Clan's resources, Su Chen agreed to help if Wang Yuanwu accepted a condition.
• Ouyang Zhengchu told Wang Yuanwu to target Lin Fan and Jianxin, and Wang Yuanwu readily agreed.
• Su Chen tapped Wang Yuanwu between the brows, helping him break through to the Immortal Saint Realm.
• Wang Yuanwu's presence spread over a million li, and Su Chen warned him to withdraw it; Wang Yuanwu apologized and obeyed.

Su Chen suppressed Ouyang Zhengchu and Wang Yuanwu, warned them to carry out his task, and spoke with Ye Lingxi about his new disciple. When Elder Shi called for help, his sect master appeared through a shattered space.

• Ouyang Zhengchu and Wang Yuanwu bickered until Su Chen's pressure forced them to their knees, and he threatened to kill them if they acted out of line again.
• Ouyang Zhengchu and Wang Yuanwu promised to carry out Su Chen's task of making two young masters experience despair, then respectfully departed.
• Ye Lingxi asked Su Chen whether he had taken in another disciple, and he told her the disciple was at the Sword Sect in the Upper Immortal Realm.
• Su Chen turned toward the awakened Elder Shi, who called for his sect master to save him.
• A red-haired old man surrounded by rumbling lightning emerged from the Immortal Gate.

Su Chen killed Elder Shi, then used Words Followed by Law to suppress the Purple Lightning Sect's sect master when he attacked. The old man begged for his life and revealed that he, Ouyang Zhengchu, and Wang Yuanwu had been capturing True Immortal Realm cultivators from the Lower Immortal Realm and forcing them to mine.

• Elder Shi greeted the arriving sect master, but Su Chen killed Elder Shi before he could speak.
• The sect master attacked Su Chen with a powerful punch, and Su Chen dispersed it with a word.
• Su Chen commanded the sect master to kneel, leaving him helpless and terrified.
• The sect master offered to free the slaves from the Lower Immortal Realm in exchange for his life.
• At Ye Lingxi's urging, the sect master confessed that he, Ouyang Zhengchu, and Wang Yuanwu captured True Immortal Realm cultivators from the Lower Immortal Realm and made them mine.
• The onlookers became furious as they realized their missing acquaintances had likely been enslaved.

After Su Chen killed the old man who had captured Lower Immortal Realm cultivators for forced mining, he sent Ye Lingxi through a safe rift to the Upper Immortal Realm and promised to accompany Hu Xiaotian to the Qingqiu Clan later. Meanwhile, Lin Fan broke through to the True Immortal Realm First Stage as his Divergent Flames melted Spirit Flame Mountain.

• Ye Lingxi learned that the Immortal Gate was a teleportation array controlled at its Upper Immortal Realm exit by the old man, Wang Yuanwu, and Ouyang Zhengchu.
• Su Chen killed the old man after he begged to be spared, and he told Ye Lingxi that the miners' treatment had nothing to do with them.
• Ye Lingxi said she would cultivate so she could protect Su Chen, then reluctantly parted from him.
• Su Chen opened a safe rift and sent Ye Lingxi to the Upper Immortal Realm, telling Hu Xiaotian he would take him to the Qingqiu Clan later.
• Su Chen left through another spacetime rift as the onlookers marveled at his power.
• Lin Fan awakened at Spirit Flame Mountain, where his Divergent Flames melted the mountain as he reached the True Immortal Realm First Stage.

After breaking through to the True Immortal Realm, Lin Fan tested the Fallen Heart Flame and learned about the Upper Immortal Realm and the danger surrounding its Immortal Gate. He entered the gate and found himself in an empty plaza, where hundreds of thousands of True Immortal experts appeared.

• Lin Fan wrapped his fist in the Fallen Heart Flame and shattered the sky with a punch, while Liu Mengli explained that the flame ranked twentieth and warned him not to pursue stronger flames yet.
• Liu Mengli told Lin Fan that the Upper Immortal Realm had five domains and revealed that she came from the Spirit Domain, whose inhabitants were not human.
• The Immortal Gate appeared, and Liu Mengli explained that someone controlled its exit; Lin Fan accepted the danger and flew through it.
• Lin Fan arrived in a deserted plaza, drew the Bloodthirst Sword, and cautiously searched for the people Liu Mengli had mentioned.
• A spacetime rift opened, releasing hundreds of thousands of True Immortal Realm experts into the sky.