Chapter Summaries

Shi Tianqiong unleashed a powerful soul attack and tried to escape, but Winter Old Man trapped him with a formation. Xue Lingzi and Xue Tianhe joined the assault, while Winter Old Man held off Shi Tianqiong’s corpse.

• Li Xiao decided the Ascending Heaven Pavilion would not intervene as several experts confronted Shi Tianqiong.
• Shi Tianqiong combined hundreds of souls in his Myriad Phenomena: Soul Burial technique, unleashing a black tide that devastated the battlefield.
• Winter Old Man used Heaven and Earth Profound Truth to trap Shi Tianqiong after the elder attempted to flee.
• Winter Old Man held back Shi Tianqiong’s corpse and called on the others to attack the elder.
• Xue Tianhe summoned a Blood Demon Beast and sent it charging at Shi Tianqiong with Blood God Art, Sea That Binds Heaven.

Shi Tianqiong broke through Xue Tianhe’s blood attack and fought Winter Old Man, revealing that he had gathered many souls and a mid-rank Sacred Weapon. As Winter Old Man faltered, Li Xiao decided to intervene, while Shi Tianqiong threatened to kill everyone who remained.

• Xue Tianhe’s blood attack shattered against Shi Tianqiong’s black-energy spear, and Winter Old Man ordered Gu Mie and Li Kun to hold off the corpse while he fought Shi Tianqiong.
• Li Xiao told Yun Yun that Shi Tianqiong had many souls and might have killed the absent Hun Clan Dou Di to learn about the Auction.
• Li Xiao left to intervene after the battle’s shockwaves destroyed trees a hundred li away.
• Shi Tianqiong blasted Winter Old Man backward and taunted him while displaying his mid-rank Sacred Weapon and the souls he had collected.
• Shi Tianqiong threatened to kill everyone who stayed, frightening the onlookers.

Li Xiao arrived as Shi Tianqiong threatened Luo Tianshen and revealed that he had become a Heavenly Supreme. Shi Tianqiong unleashed his gathered souls and prepared a deadly life-sacrificing attack, leaving the battle poised to escalate.

• Winter Old Man and Ling Zhanzi wavered as the other onlookers fled, while Luo Tianshen vowed to fight Shi Tianqiong rather than retreat.
• Shi Tianqiong charged at Luo Tianshen, but Li Xiao appeared and stopped him, citing damage to trees on Ascending Heaven Pavilion’s outskirts as a violation of its rules.
• Shi Tianqiong threatened Li Xiao with retaliation from the Corpse Demon Clan and offered to make peace if Li Xiao withdrew.
• Li Xiao struck Shi Tianqiong down with a single attack, revealing his Heavenly Supreme strength.
• Shi Tianqiong summoned every soul and began unleashing a life-sacrificing technique, prompting Winter Old Man to ask whether Li Xiao could kill him.

Li Xiao fought the Corpse Demon Clan Elder Shi Tianqiong, who sacrificed hundreds of thousands of stolen souls to reach the peak of the Spirit Grade Heavenly Supreme realm. Li Xiao overwhelmed him with a Saint Grade Peerless Sacred Object, leaving Shi Tianqiong terrified and questioning Li Xiao’s identity.

• Li Xiao used Phantom Spirit Shadow Step to evade Shi Tianqiong’s blood-blade attacks, while Winter Old Man watched in awe.
• Shi Tianqiong released the hundreds of thousands of souls he had collected over ten thousand years and absorbed their power, reaching the peak of the Spirit Grade Heavenly Supreme realm.
• Shi Tianqiong threatened Li Xiao and his family, so Li Xiao unleashed a devastating attack that severely injured him and carved out a massive crater.
• Li Xiao marked Shi Tianqiong so he could not escape and prepared to strip him of his Supreme status.
• Shi Tianqiong recognized Li Xiao’s weapon as a Saint Grade Peerless Sacred Object and demanded to know who Li Xiao really was.

Li Xiao killed Shi Tianqiong despite his threats about the Corpse Demon Clan, then took his ring and rewarded Luo Tianshen with a Soul Fusion Blood Pill. Back at Ascending Heaven Pavilion, Li Xiao and the others shared out the treasures and held a campfire banquet.

• Shi Tianqiong threatened Li Xiao with a Corpse Demon Clan invasion, but Li Xiao killed him and took his ring.
• Li Xiao gave Luo Tianshen a Soul Fusion Blood Pill for keeping his righteous heart while fighting Evil Clan experts.
• Li Xiao returned to Ascending Heaven Pavilion and decided not to attack the Corpse Demon Clan unless necessary.
• Li Xiao poured out Shi Tianqiong's treasures and told Bailing to sort them, then called for a banquet.
• Niu Meng went with the Amethyst Winged Lion King to hunt spirit beasts, and everyone gathered that night to eat roasted meat and drink Peach Blossom Wine.

Xun'er and Ya Fei began giving birth at the Ascending Heaven Pavilion, drawing a vast heavenly phenomenon and the attention of powerful figures across the continents. As Li Xiao waited anxiously, more than ten thousand spirit beasts gathered and knelt in submission, while members of the Evil Clan also watched the unborn children.

• At the Bonfire Banquet, Li Xiao looked forward to the birth of Xun'er and Ya Fei's children and planned to travel with Bailing afterward.
• Two months later, Xun'er and Ya Fei went into labor in separate rooms at the Ascending Heaven Pavilion as storms and a spectacular dragon-and-phoenix phenomenon spread across the sky.
• Zhu Kun, Yan Jin, Lei Ying, and other elders arrived to witness the births and bring gifts, while Li Xiao waited anxiously outside.
• Niu Meng reported that more than ten thousand spirit beasts had gathered nearby and were kneeling in submission, including beasts as powerful as Half-Step Heavenly Supremes.
• Li Xiao and Ye Chen prepared for the births as hidden experts and members of the Evil Clan turned their attention toward the pavilion.

Xun'er and Ya Fei gave birth to Li Xiao's son and daughter, who were Upper Earth Supremes from birth. Two days later, the Ascending Heaven Pavilion held a grand celebration as powerful guests arrived to congratulate the family.

• Golden dragon and phoenix energies entered the Ascending Heaven Pavilion after Xun'er and Ya Fei gave birth safely.
• Li Xiao learned that both newborns were Upper Earth Supremes and named his son Li Muxi and his daughter Li Qianning.
• Ye Chen gave Xun'er and Ya Fei Emperor Pills, and Gu Yuan met his grandson, Li Muxi.
• Li Xiao ordered Niu Meng to prepare a banquet to celebrate the births.
• Two days later, Li Xiao welcomed powerful guests, including Luo Tianshen, to the celebration at the Ascending Heaven Pavilion.

At the Ascending Heaven Pavilion, Li Xiao welcomed congratulations and gifts for his newborn son, then reunited with Xiao Yan, who had become a Lower Earth Supreme after a perilous year. After the banquet, Li Xiao and Xun'er discussed their family and the choices awaiting their son, Mu Xi.

• The Western Heaven Battle Emperor congratulated Li Xiao on Mu Xi's birth, offered a Peerless Sacred Object, and proposed an alliance between their families; Li Xiao lifted the Emperor's curse in return.
• Xiao Yan arrived after a year away, and Li Xiao recognized that he had reached the Dou Di Realm and become a Lower Earth Supreme.
• Xiao Yan greeted Xun'er, held Mu Xi, gave the child several gifts, and left the Ascending Heaven Pavilion.
• Li Xiao told Xun'er that Xiao Yan's coldness and murderous aura made him wonder what dangers the young man had faced.
• After the banquet, Li Xiao and Xun'er walked by the lake, where Xun'er asked him to respect Mu Xi's choices and Li Xiao agreed.

After receiving Xiao Xiao’s distress signal, Li Xiao traveled with Bailing to the Tianluo Continent to rescue her. Xiao Xiao and two companions were cornered by the Demon Emperor and his forces, and the chapter ended as he gathered power to attack them.

• Li Xiao saw Xiao Xiao’s distress signal and learned that Lian Xue had left her to return to the Ascending Heaven Pavilion.
• Li Xiao entrusted the Ascending Heaven Pavilion to Qing Ling and took Bailing through a spatial passage toward Xiao Xiao.
• On the Tianluo Continent, Xiao Xiao and two women faced the black-robed Demon Emperor and his blood-clad followers.
• Xiao Xiao used her Sacred Weapon to block the Demon Emperor’s attack and told her companions that Li Xiao was coming.
• The Demon Emperor dismissed the chance of rescue and formed an enormous skull as he prepared to kill the three women.

Li Xiao arrived in time to save Xiao Xiao and her companions from the Nether Emperor, the Saber Demon Clan’s Grand Elder. After identifying himself as the Lord of Ascending Heaven Pavilion, Li Xiao prepared to confront the Nether Emperor over his attack on the girls.

• The Nether Emperor’s attack failed to break the girls’ protective barrier, but a silver sword destroyed his next skull attack.
• Li Xiao and a silver-haired woman appeared, and Li Xiao suppressed the Nether Emperor’s demonic power with his sword qi.
• The Nether Emperor identified himself as Nine Heavens Nether Ghost, Grand Elder of the Saber Demon Clan, and recognized Li Xiao as the Lord of Ascending Heaven Pavilion.
• Bailing checked on Li Xiyuan, while Xiao Xiao complained that her father had arrived late and showed Li Xiao the wound on her face.
• Li Xiao gave the girls pills, killed nearby experts with his aura, and rejected the Nether Emperor’s claim that the girls had trespassed on his territory.

Li Xiao confronted Nether Emperor, the Saber Demon Clan’s Grand Elder, and revealed overwhelming strength when Nether Emperor threatened his family. After learning Li Xiao was a peak Sacred Grade Heavenly Supreme wielding a Peerless Sacred Object, Nether Emperor fled, and Li Xiao pursued him.

• Li Xiao insulted Nether Emperor and claimed he had killed Corpse Demon Clan Elder Shi Tianqiong with one sword strike.
• Nether Emperor threatened to destroy the Western Heaven Continent and Ascending Heaven Pavilion, then ordered his subordinates to attack Bailing and the other women.
• Li Xiao clashed with Nether Emperor, whose demonic power turned the surrounding land into demonic soil.
• Nether Emperor recognized Li Xiao’s peak Sacred Grade Heavenly Supreme strength and Peerless Sacred Object, then used a subordinate to block a sword strike and fled.
• Li Xiao killed several Half-Step Heavenly Supreme experts, left the remaining Saber Demon Clan enemies to Bailing and the others, and chased Nether Emperor.

Bailing and Li Xiyuan attacked Evil Clan experts while Li Xiao fought and killed the Nether Emperor by refining him in a furnace of Heavenly Flames. The Demon Emperor Zhan Tian arrived too late to save his younger brother and began tearing through space to destroy Li Xiao.

• Bailing summoned phantom sword blades and sent them down against the Evil Clan experts, while Li Xiyuan unleashed her Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Li Xiao trapped the Nether Emperor’s route with a wall of sword qi and summoned a rune-covered furnace to contain him.
• Li Xiao poured twenty-three Heavenly Flames into the furnace and began refining the Nether Emperor despite his threats and counterattacks.
• The Demon Emperor Zhan Tian appeared through a tear in the sky and demanded that Li Xiao spare the Nether Emperor, but Li Xiao continued refining him until his soul was destroyed.
• The Demon Emperor Zhan Tian learned that the Nether Emperor was his younger brother and, enraged, began tearing apart space to annihilate Li Xiao’s Divine Soul.

Li Xiao survived Demon Emperor Zhan Tian’s devastating attack with the help of a one-use defensive jade pendant, then reunited with Xiao Xiao and her companions. He told Xiao Xiao he had come to take her home after visiting the Tianluo Continent with Bailing.

• Demon Emperor Zhan Tian burned his lifespan to strike Li Xiao with eighty percent of his power, but Li Xiao survived behind a defensive jade pendant that shattered in the attack.
• Demon Emperor Zhan Tian ordered his clan to investigate Li Xiao and vowed to avenge his younger brother, Nether Emperor.
• Li Xiao met Bailing, Xiao Xiao, Zi Ji, and Qing Zhu, then led them away from the devastated battlefield.
• Xiao Xiao teased Li Xiao for arriving late and introduced Zi Ji and Qing Zhu, while Li Xiao confirmed that her mother and younger siblings were well.
• Li Xiao told Xiao Xiao he would take her home after visiting the Tianluo Continent with Bailing, and ordered her not to go out again.

Li Xiyuan, Bailing, Zi Ji, and Qing Zhu traveled to Tianluo Imperial City, where Qing Zhu reunited with her father, Azure Mountain Supreme. The group introduced Li Xiao as Li Xiyuan’s father, leaving Azure Mountain Supreme surprised by the young-looking senior.

• Li Xiyuan asked Zi Ji and Qing Zhu to visit the Ascending Heaven Pavilion, and Li Xiao welcomed them before arranging to travel the next morning.
• Li Xiyuan teased Zi Ji and Qing Zhu about wanting to become her mothers, and Bailing agreed to accompany her to the Imperial City.
• Li Xiao reflected on his need to grow stronger after offending Demon Emperor Zhan Tian, the peak Sacred Grade Heavenly Supreme.
• The group arrived at Tianluo Imperial City, where guards greeted Qing Zhu and Zi Ji and Azure Mountain Supreme confronted his daughter for traveling alone.
• Qing Zhu introduced Li Xiyuan and then revealed that Li Xiao was her father, prompting Azure Mountain Supreme to regard him with surprise.

Li Xiao arrived in the Tianluo Empire, where Azure Mountain Supreme learned he was the Lord of Ascending Heaven Pavilion and bowed in fear. After Li Xiao revealed the empire relied on the Tailing Ancient Clan’s support, Zi Tianlin arrived to thank him for saving Zi Ji.

• Qing Zhu told Azure Mountain Supreme that Li Xiao was the Lord of Ascending Heaven Pavilion, prompting him and the city’s experts to bow to Li Xiao.
• Qing Zhu explained that Li Xiao had killed Nether Emperor, who had reached the half-step Sacred Grade Heavenly Supreme Realm, and saved her life.
• Li Xiao followed Qing Zhu and Azure Mountain Supreme into the imperial palace and sensed a Spirit Grade Heavenly Supreme cultivating beneath it.
• Azure Mountain Supreme explained that the Tailing Ancient Clan supported the Tianluo Empire amid the Great Thousand World’s struggle to control Tianluo Continent.
• Zi Tianlin introduced himself as Zi Ji’s grandfather and thanked Li Xiao for saving her.

Li Xiao attended a banquet in the Tianluo Empire and warned its leaders not to reveal his presence because Demon Emperor Zhan Tian might retaliate. He promised to leave a Soul Imprint to protect the empire and agreed that Zi Ji and Qing Zhu could visit Ascending Heaven Pavilion.

• Azure Mountain Supreme hosted Li Xiao and the gathered experts of the Imperial Capital, who toasted his arrival.
• Li Xiao said he would leave Tianluo Continent within a month and asked Azure Mountain Supreme to keep his arrival secret because it had offended the Saber Demon Clan.
• Azure Mountain Supreme asked whether Li Xiao could kill Demon Emperor Zhan Tian, and Li Xiao said he had a chance but could not guarantee success.
• Li Xiao promised to leave a Soul Imprint so he could return if Demon Emperor Zhan Tian threatened the empire, and Azure Mountain Supreme ordered witnesses’ memories erased or the witnesses killed.
• Zi Tianlin asked whether Zi Ji could visit Ascending Heaven Pavilion, and Li Xiao agreed that she and Qing Zhu could visit as friends of his daughter.

Li Muchen told Linglong he had found his own path and was ready to pursue it, while she decided not to force him to remain at the Ascending Heaven Pavilion. In the Imperial Capital, Xiao Xiao, Qing Zhu, and Zi Ji encountered the lecherous young sect leader Zhang Song.

• Linglong told Li Muchen that they would return to the Ascending Heaven Pavilion, and he agreed to leave after saying farewell to his teacher, Confucian Sage.
• Li Muchen reflected that he had found his path in swordsmanship and wanted to continue traveling and gaining experience rather than marry or stay at the pavilion.
• Linglong realized Li Muchen had changed and decided there was no need to keep him at the Ascending Heaven Pavilion.
• Li Xiao toured the Imperial Capital with Bailing and their daughter while Xiao Xiao, Qing Zhu, and Zi Ji went to find food.
• Zhang Song, the Rakshasa Sect’s young sect leader, approached the three girls with another Nine Grade Supreme expert, and Zi Ji identified him and condemned his misdeeds.

Zhang Song harassed Xiao Xiao and threatened her after she killed two Rakshasa Sect experts, so Li Xiyuan killed him as well. Li Xiao arrived and heard Xiao Xiao accuse Zhang Song of trying to take her away and touch her, while Bailing remarked that the dead men had been weak opponents.

• Zhang Song swaggered into the Tianluo Empire and made lewd advances toward Xiao Xiao despite warnings from Qing Zhu, Zi Ji, and Li Xiyuan.
• Zhang Song shoved Zi Ji aside and threatened to capture her and Xiao Xiao, prompting Xiao Xiao to unleash her Upper Earth Supreme power and kill two Rakshasa Sect experts.
• Zhang Song threatened Xiao Xiao with retaliation from his master, and Li Xiyuan changed her mind about letting him leave and killed him with the Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python.
• Zi Ji and Qing Zhu discussed informing their families and destroying the Rakshasa Sect before Zhang Song could escape.
• Li Xiao arrived, and Xiao Xiao threw herself into his arms, claiming Zhang Song had tried to take her away and touch her; Bailing noted that the dead opponents had been only two Lower Earth Supremes and one First Grade Supreme.

After Xiao Xiao explained that she had killed Zhang Song in self-defense, Bailing left to destroy the Rakshasa Sect before it could retaliate. She returned to the Tianluo Imperial Capital after wiping out the sect and gathered its treasures for Pavilion Master.

• Xiao Xiao told Li Xiao that Zhang Song and his people had attacked her first, and Qing Zhu and Zi Ji confirmed her account.
• Li Xiao decided they should leave no future threat behind, and Bailing set off for the Rakshasa Sect.
• The Rakshasa Sect Master learned that Zhang Song had died and ordered an attack on the Tianluo Empire, claiming the sect had joined the Futu Ancient Clan and obtained a Sacred Weapon.
• Bailing confronted the Rakshasa Sect, revealed her overwhelming strength, and destroyed the sect despite its alliance with the Futu Ancient Clan.
• Bailing collected the sect's rings and ancestors, returned to the Tianluo Imperial Capital, and thanked Pavilion Master for preparing a hot bath.

Li Xiao returned to the Ascending Heaven Pavilion with Bailing after their travels, where the women welcomed them and Xiao Yi Xian asked for funds to establish the Heaven Sect. Li Muchen and Linglong also arrived, and Bailing reunited with her son while Yun Yun remained in seclusion.

• Li Xiao and Bailing spent time together in the Tianluo Continent before leaving for the Ascending Heaven Pavilion.
• Two months later, Xiao Yi Xian and the others had returned to the pavilion and worried that Li Xiao and Bailing were still away as the Auction approached.
• Li Xiao and Bailing arrived, and Xiao Yi Xian told Li Xiao that she and Qing Lin had founded the Heaven Sect.
• Li Xiao gave Xiao Yi Xian ten million Spirit Crystals to help establish the sect, then greeted Xun'er and Ya Fei's children.
• Li Muchen and Linglong arrived, and Bailing embraced Li Muchen after a year apart.
• Li Muchen asked where Yun Yun was, and Bailing told him that his mother was in seclusion.