Chapter Summaries

Lin Fan fought Chu Yun, Hongyue, and dozens of powerful Quasi-Emperor geniuses before Su Chen appeared to save him. Su Chen killed Chu Yun and the others with a single flick of his fingers, leaving everyone stunned by his strength.

• Chu Yun struck Lin Fan with a sudden punch, and Lin Fan flew hundreds of thousands of zhang before recovering.
• Lin Fan shattered Hongyue's strongest attack and destroyed her body, leaving only her soul.
• Chu Yun returned with dozens of Ninth-Level Quasi-Emperor geniuses, who attacked Lin Fan together; Lin Fan blocked their attacks but was badly wounded.
• As Chu Yun and the others charged again, Lin Fan prepared to fight to the death and called out to his master.
• Su Chen appeared before Lin Fan and killed Chu Yun and the dozens of geniuses with a flick of two fingers, terrifying the onlookers.

After Su Chen’s show of strength ended the other geniuses’ hopes of claiming the Heavenly Heart Mark, he and Lin Fan reunited three years later on the seventh level of the Emperor’s Road. Lin Fan entered a palace beneath the glacier, where a mysterious woman offered to become his master and asked him to break the seal on her divine soul, but he refused her proposal.

• Su Chen killed dozens of Quasi-Emperors, and the remaining geniuses abandoned their plans to fight for the Heavenly Heart Mark.
• Zhao Wuji grew tired of waiting for Chu Yun and the others on the second level and left.
• Three years later, a palace rose from beneath a glacier on the seventh level, drawing the attention of the geniuses there.
• Lin Fan found Su Chen outside the palace, then entered it and discovered a statue that transformed into a white-haired woman.
• The woman offered to take Lin Fan as her disciple, but he refused because he already had a master.
• The woman asked Lin Fan to break the seal on her divine soul in return for helping him grow stronger, and Lin Fan declined.

Lin Fan received the Immortal-Slaying Sword-Drawing Technique from the woman and began comprehending it, while Su Chen guarded the hall and forced Yun Changge to kneel. Yun Changge remained pinned before Su Chen as the gathered experts watched.

• The woman sent Lin Fan the Immortal-Slaying Sword-Drawing Technique, and he entered a state of enlightenment as she watched.
• A Quasi-Emperor Ninth Layer expert charged toward the hall, but Su Chen killed him with one sword strike and warned everyone away.
• Hundreds of Quasi-Emperor experts attacked Su Chen, and he killed them all with Sword Qi, driving most of the crowd to leave.
• Yun Changge arrived with Yun Clan experts and crushed a man who refused to answer his question.
• After hearing what had happened, Yun Changge approached Su Chen, who ordered him to kneel and forced him down with a mysterious power.

Su Chen forced Yun Changge and the Quasi-Emperor experts to kneel while Lin Fan negotiated with Liu Mengli over her sword techniques. After Su Chen saw through Liu Mengli and warned Lin Fan not to trust her, she remained by Lin Fan’s side under suspicion.

• Su Chen made Yun Changge kneel and beg for his life, then forced every Quasi-Emperor expert present to kneel as well.
• Liu Mengli offered to teach Lin Fan more sword techniques if he helped her, and Lin Fan agreed to bring her to meet his master.
• Lin Fan and Liu Mengli left the hall and introduced themselves to each other before finding Su Chen outside with the kneeling experts.
• Su Chen asked Lin Fan what he had gained, then looked at Liu Mengli and left her shaken by his apparent insight into her past and present lives.
• Su Chen allowed Liu Mengli to stay with Lin Fan but warned him not to believe her, leaving Lin Fan concerned about her intentions.

Su Chen arranged a battle to the death between Lin Fan and Yun Changge, and Lin Fan ultimately defeated and killed Yun Changge with a sword strike that exhausted all his Immortal Qi. Lin Fan then fell from the air, utterly weakened.

• Su Chen released Yun Changge and declared that he could leave only by defeating Lin Fan in a battle to the death.
• Lin Fan and Yun Changge exchanged powerful sword and spear attacks, and Lin Fan drove Yun Changge into a deep pit.
• Yun Changge emerged protected by cracked golden armor and burned his body to increase his strength.
• Yun Changge's spear strike shattered Lin Fan's Sword Intent and wounded him, while Yun Changge recognized that Lin Fan had a special physique.
• Yun Changge launched an all-out spear attack, but Lin Fan poured all his Immortal Qi into the Bloodthirst Sword and killed him with a devastating slash.
• Lin Fan's strength faded after the strike, and he fell from the air.

Su Chen spared the Quasi-Emperor experts on the seventh layer on the condition that they spread word that Lin Fan had obtained a supreme treasure. Lin Fan was soon hunted by powerful experts on the eighth layer, though he escaped after a day and night of pursuit.

• Su Chen healed Lin Fan and sent him to the eighth layer while Liu Mengli entered Lin Fan’s sea of consciousness to sustain her soul.
• Su Chen ordered the kneeling Quasi-Emperor experts to announce that Lin Fan had obtained a supreme treasure, then let them go.
• The Quasi-Emperor experts spread the news, prompting experts across the Emperor's Road to search for Lin Fan.
• Five Quasi-Emperor Ninth Layer experts attacked Lin Fan, and he fought back before escaping when he found an opening.
• Lin Fan ran for a day and night to shake off his pursuers, then complained that they had hunted him for no reason.

Lin Fan learned that a rumor about him possessing a supreme treasure had made everyone on the Emperor's Road hunt him, and Liu Mengli suspected his master Su Chen had spread it. The chapter left Lin Fan terrified that Su Chen had heard him curse, while Liu Mengli was stunned by Lin Fan's story of being beaten by Quasi-Emperor experts as a Great Saint.

• After being hunted for a month, Lin Fan kidnapped a low-level Quasi-Emperor and demanded to know why people were chasing him.
• The captive explained that rumors of Lin Fan possessing a supreme treasure had spread across the Emperor's Road.
• Lin Fan cursed whoever had started the rumor, and Su Chen heard him and vowed to make him suffer.
• Liu Mengli suggested that Su Chen had spread the rumor to make Lin Fan's journey harder, and warned that Su Chen likely knew Lin Fan had cursed him.
• Lin Fan panicked, recalling that Su Chen had once arranged for Peak Ninth-Level Quasi-Emperors to beat him for a year when he was a Great Saint, leaving Liu Mengli speechless.

Lin Fan resolved to endure the Emperor’s Road hunters, while Su Chen freed a sealed Devil Emperor and his forces, then revealed overwhelming power by forcing them all to kneel. The Devil Emperor realized Su Chen might have freed them because he needed their help.

• Lin Fan learned that nearly everyone on the Emperor’s Road was hunting him, but he left determined to endure the hardship and become like his Master.
• Su Chen destroyed the altar on the eighth layer of the Emperor’s Road, releasing a sealed Devil Emperor who had been imprisoned for a million years.
• The Devil Emperor attacked Su Chen, but Su Chen shattered his giant hand with a finger, so the Devil Emperor summoned hundreds of thousands of powerful followers.
• The Devil Emperor ordered his forces to kill Su Chen after Su Chen refused to join him, but Su Chen’s single command forced the entire army and the Devil Emperor to kneel.
• The terrified Devil Emperor began to hope that Su Chen had freed them because he needed their help.

Su Chen ordered the Devil Emperor to have his forces hunt Lin Fan without killing him, and the Devil Emperor realized they were meant to push Lin Fan to grow stronger. Two years later, Lin Fan was still being hunted by hundreds of thousands of Devil Race experts and learned from Liu Mengli that he would hear more about the Devil Race after reaching the True Immortal Realm.

• Su Chen showed the Devil Emperor Lin Fan’s likeness and ordered him to hunt Lin Fan but not kill him.
• The Devil Emperor struck down an old man who questioned why Su Chen needed their help, then sent hundreds of thousands of experts to hunt Lin Fan.
• Hu Xiaotian searched the Emperor’s Road for his master and decided to look on its higher levels.
• After two years of being hunted, Lin Fan rested in a cave on the eighth level, badly injured and exhausted.
• Lin Fan recognized Su Chen’s hand in the hunt, regretted running his mouth, and asked Liu Mengli about the Devil Race.
• Liu Mengli told Lin Fan he would learn about the Devil Race when he reached the True Immortal Realm.

Lin Fan fought Xiao He to a grave stalemate, then left to recover before others arrived. A month later, Hu Xiaotian encountered a Dragon Clan youth who demanded his submission or death, and Hu Xiaotian attacked him.

• Lin Fan dodged Xiao He's surprise sword strike and fought him across the battered landscape.
• Lin Fan's special physique shattered Xiao He's Sword Intent, and his Immortal-Slaying Sword-Drawing Technique left Xiao He gravely wounded.
• Xiao He withdrew, and Lin Fan left to find somewhere to heal before others investigated the fight.
• A month later, Hu Xiaotian searched for Lin Fan when a Dragon Clan youth recognized him as a Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox and demanded that he submit or die.
• Hu Xiaotian transformed into a giant beast and lunged at the young man, who thrust his spear at him.

Hu Xiaotian’s bloodline burst forth as he fled the young dragon, but he collapsed from his injuries before Lin Fan arrived and confronted his pursuer. Lin Fan wounded the dragon in battle, though the dragon struck him back and the fight continued.

• The young man overpowered Hu Xiaotian, whose Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox bloodline erupted and swept the surrounding area with devastating force.
• Hu Xiaotian fled tens of millions of miles while the young man pursued him, then collapsed from his injuries.
• Lin Fan caught Hu Xiaotian and challenged the young man, who attacked him without answering.
• Lin Fan beat back the young man and shattered his spear, forcing him to transform into a giant dragon.
• The dragon attacked Lin Fan with dragon breath and its tail; Lin Fan cut deeply into the dragon’s tail, then was struck and sent flying while remaining unharmed.

Lin Fan battled Xiao He and a giant dragon, unleashing his Bloodline Power when the pair began to overwhelm him. He killed Xiao He with one sword strike and turned toward the fleeing dragon as terrifying presences emerged from a shattered world.

• Lin Fan wounded the giant dragon, but Xiao He interrupted his finishing blow with a surprise attack.
• Lin Fan and Xiao He exchanged sword strikes until the dragon joined the fight, and Lin Fan unleashed an ancient power that sent both enemies flying.
• Xiao He and the dragon attacked Lin Fan together and gradually gained the advantage, forcing him to activate his Bloodline Power.
• Lin Fan used the Immortal-Slaying Sword-Drawing Technique to kill Xiao He instantly, and the dragon fled in terror.
• The world shattered as Lin Fan faced the fleeing dragon, and several terrifying presences emerged.

Lin Fan was surrounded by Emperor's Road experts and tens of thousands of Devil Race fighters seeking the Bloodthirst Sword, then burned his body to kill the dragon with a single strike. Su Chen appeared, healed Lin Fan, and left the gathered forces terrified after erasing a Ninth-Level Quasi-Emperor expert with a glance.

• Countless Emperor's Road experts confronted Lin Fan and demanded the Bloodthirst Sword, while the dragon claimed his Dragon Clan heritage and ordered them to kill Lin Fan.
• Tens of thousands of High-Level Quasi-Emperor Devil Race experts arrived and focused on Lin Fan, who blamed the dragon for drawing attention to him.
• Lin Fan burned his physical body and used the Immortal-Slaying Sword-Drawing Technique to cleave the dragon in two, before collapsing as the dragon's light entered his brow.
• A white-robed Su Chen caught Lin Fan, restored his body and healed his injuries, but Lin Fan remained unconscious.
• When a Peak of the Ninth Level of Quasi-Emperor expert challenged him, Su Chen erased the man with a glance, terrifying the gathered experts and Devil Race fighters.

Su Chen killed a peak ninth-level Quasi-Emperor with a glance and drove the Emperor's Road experts away with a single word. After reuniting with Lin Fan and Hu Xiaotian, he let Lin Fan continue toward the ninth level on his own and went there himself, where a horde of powerful sea creatures turned hostile.

• Su Chen frightened hundreds of thousands of Devil Race experts into kneeling, then ordered everyone on the Emperor's Road to leave; his voice cracked their bodies and sent them fleeing.
• Su Chen dropped Lin Fan into a crater, teased him for pretending, and heard him apologize for cursing his master.
• Su Chen healed Hu Xiaotian with a pill and agreed to let Lin Fan search for the teleportation array to the ninth level by himself.
• After Lin Fan left, Su Chen recalled that the Dragon Clan had cursed him and decided to visit them later.
• Su Chen took Hu Xiaotian to the ninth level, where scarlet-eyed sea creatures stirred up enormous tsunamis around them.

Su Chen killed a sea beast and a Nangong Clan genius with single strikes before defeating Nangong Guyue when she attacked him over the Heavenly Heart Mark. Nangong Guyue survived only as a bewildered divine soul, while the witnesses feared Su Chen might be a Great Emperor.

• Su Chen instantly killed a giant sea beast, frightening the remaining creatures beneath the water.
• Nangong Guyue arrived with hundreds of Nangong Clan figures and confronted Su Chen, blaming him for her father's death.
• A Nangong Clan genius challenged Su Chen about the Heavenly Heart Mark, and Su Chen killed him with a flash of sword light.
• Nangong Guyue asked Su Chen about the Heavenly Heart Mark, then attacked him with her full strength.
• Su Chen shattered Nangong Guyue's sword strike and body with a wave of force, leaving her divine soul as the others trembled in fear.

Su Chen killed Nangong Guyue and the Nangong Clan’s geniuses, then claimed the Heavenly Heart Mark and kept the sea beasts from taking it. After Lin Fan arrived to claim the jade, Gu Qingying and Zhao Wuji fought over it.

• Su Chen killed Nangong Guyue and struck down the fleeing Nangong Clan geniuses with a sword.
• The Heavenly Heart Mark appeared, and Su Chen told Hu Xiaotian that it belonged to Lin Fan while promising to help Hu Xiaotian obtain one after he reached the peak of the ninth level of quasi-emperor.
• Su Chen killed the sea beasts that charged him for the Heavenly Heart Mark, and the remaining beasts fled.
• A month later, Lin Fan arrived, and Su Chen explained that refining the Heavenly Heart Mark would raise him directly to five-star great emperor.
• Gu Qingying and Zhao Wuji rushed toward the jade, but Zhao Wuji attacked Gu Qingying and she countered by unleashing a sea of flames.

Lin Fan intervened as Zhao Wuji nearly killed Gu Qingying, defeated him, and then faced the Great Emperor whose power emerged from Zhao Wuji. The chapter ended with Lin Fan resisting the Emperor’s crushing power despite his body cracking and bleeding.

• Zhao Wuji broke through Gu Qingying’s wall of flame and thrust his spear at her, but stopped when Lin Fan rushed toward a piece of jade.
• Lin Fan fought Zhao Wuji, shattered his Spear Intent with the Immortal-Slaying Sword-Drawing Technique, and sent him flying.
• A Great Emperor’s presence emerged through Zhao Wuji, and he overwhelmed Lin Fan with Emperor’s Might.
• Lin Fan resisted the pressure by unleashing his bloodline power and a mysterious power from his body.
• The Great Emperor increased his attack, cracking Lin Fan’s body and drawing blood as Lin Fan struggled to hold his ground.

Su Chen arrived on the ninth level of the Emperor's Road and saved Lin Fan by forcing Zhao Wuji to kneel. He seized and killed Zhao Wuji's true body across time and space, then destroyed the Wuji Holy Land before killing Zhao Wuji.

• Su Chen appeared as Lin Fan was close to being crushed, and Lin Fan called him Master.
• Su Chen forced Zhao Wuji to his knees and sealed his power, leaving Gu Qingying terrified.
• When Zhao Wuji threatened Su Chen, Su Chen reached through shattered space and dragged Zhao Wuji's true body from the True Immortal Realm.
• Su Chen crushed Zhao Wuji's true body, then killed Zhao Wuji after he threatened him with the Wuji Holy Land.
• Su Chen's sword strike annihilated the Wuji Holy Land and the surrounding region, shocking the True Immortal Realm.
• Su Chen struck Zhao Wuji with sword light and beheaded him.

Gu Qingying fled the Emperor's Road after Su Chen intimidated her, while a mysterious woman claimed the Heavenly Heart Mark and became a Great Emperor. She attacked Su Chen with the Fallen Phoenix Sword, but he effortlessly destroyed her first strike before she launched an even more powerful one.

• Gu Qingying collapsed under Su Chen's gaze, then fled the Emperor's Road once he turned away.
• Su Chen praised Lin Fan for standing firm against Gu Qingying, and a cold, beautiful woman appeared beside the Heavenly Heart Mark.
• The woman absorbed the Heavenly Heart Mark and became a Great Emperor, then confronted Su Chen and accused him of disrupting her Dao heart.
• The woman demanded that Su Chen kill himself and attacked with the Fallen Phoenix Sword, but Su Chen dispersed her sword intent and shattered her sword strike.
• The woman gathered Immortal Qi and unleashed a more powerful sword strike at Su Chen as Lin Fan watched in fear.

Su Chen defeated Ye Lingxi after she awakened as an empress, then destroyed her past-life memories while preserving those from her current life. Ye Lingxi woke on the Emperor's Road with her memories intact and her cultivation inexplicably at the Great Emperor realm, and Lin Fan introduced himself as Su Chen's disciple.

• Su Chen shattered Ye Lingxi's attack, seized her, and extracted the memories of her past life.
• Su Chen destroyed those memories, healed Ye Lingxi, and explained to Lin Fan that she had been the reincarnation of an empress.
• Lin Fan doubted whether he could ever match Su Chen, but Su Chen encouraged him to cultivate diligently until he surpassed his master.
• Ye Lingxi woke on the Emperor's Road, accepted Su Chen's request not to ask what had happened, and discovered she had grown up and reached the Great Emperor realm.
• Ye Lingxi noticed Lin Fan, and he introduced himself as Su Chen's disciple.