Chapter Summaries

Li Muchen returned home and challenged Li Xiao to a spar, hoping to prove how much his swordsmanship had improved. Li Xiao defeated him and taught him about the Sword Heart, prompting Li Muchen to awaken Sword Intent before their fight continued.

• Ye Chen welcomed Li Muchen and praised his progress, while Li Muchen asked about his absent sister.
• Li Muchen challenged Li Xiao to a spar, and Li Xiao agreed to fight with an ordinary weapon.
• Li Xiao blocked Li Muchen's attack and explained that the sword came from the heart as their weapons clashed.
• Li Xiao shattered Li Muchen's Sacred Weapon and knocked him down, then criticized him for failing to grasp his Sword Heart.
• Li Muchen awakened Sword Intent and caught Li Xiao's next sword strike, but Li Xiao overpowered him and slammed him into the lake.

Li Xiyuan brought Zi Ji and Qing Zhu to the Ascending Heaven Pavilion, where they met its guardian, the Amethyst Winged Lion King, and her brother, Li Muchen. Li Muchen welcomed the girls as family, while Li Xiyuan teased him about a possible marriage arranged by his teacher.

• Bailing scolded Li Xiao for sending Li Muchen flying into the lake, and Li Xiao discreetly backed away from her and Linglong.
• Three days later, Li Xiyuan brought Zi Ji and Qing Zhu to the Ascending Heaven Pavilion and introduced them to the Amethyst Winged Lion King.
• The Amethyst Winged Lion King welcomed Li Xiyuan and allowed her friends into the pavilion, warning them not to damage anything.
• Li Xiyuan showed Zi Ji and Qing Zhu the pavilion grounds, including the Bodhi Ancient Tree, before Li Muchen appeared to greet his sister.
• Li Xiyuan introduced Zi Ji and Qing Zhu to Li Muchen, then teased him about his teacher wanting him to marry the Confucian Sage's daughter.
• Li Muchen told Zi Ji and Qing Zhu to treat the pavilion as home and offered to help them, while Li Xiyuan mocked his promise.

Li Muchen reunited with Li Xiyuan and attended a family meeting at the Ascending Heaven Pavilion. Li Xiao ordered everyone to stay until the upcoming Auction ended and announced that he would enter seclusion afterward, leaving future auctions to Bailing and the others.

• Li Xiyuan asked Li Muchen for a meeting gift, then gave the treasures he handed over to Zi Ji and Qing Zhu.
• Niu Meng summoned Li Muchen, Li Xiyuan, Zi Ji, and Qing Zhu to the Ascending Heaven Pavilion, where Li Xiyuan greeted Li Xiao and her mothers.
• Li Xiao told his family to remain at the Pavilion until the Auction concluded and warned guests not to harm the living creatures there.
• Li Xiao announced that the current Auction would proceed as usual and that Bailing and the others would handle the next year's Auction while he entered seclusion to strengthen himself.

Yun Yun tried to arrange a match between Li Muchen and Zi Ji and Qing Zhu, but Li Muchen asked to get to know them first. Meanwhile, Demon Emperor Zhan Tian bribed Tian Ling to divine Li Xiao’s location so he could avenge his younger brother.

• Yun Yun asked Zi Ji and Qing Zhu whether they were betrothed, then suggested they become Li Muchen’s wives.
• Li Muchen objected to marrying so soon and asked to get to know Zi Ji and Qing Zhu before deciding.
• Yun Yun agreed that the young people should come to know and love one another before discussing marriage.
• Demon Emperor Zhan Tian told Tian Ling that he could not locate Li Xiao despite having planted a strand of divine consciousness on him.
• Demon Emperor Zhan Tian offered Tian Ling a Spirit Grade Peerless Sacred Object, and Tian Ling agreed to divine Li Xiao’s exact location.

Tian Ling’s failed divination warned Demon Emperor Zhan Tian that the person he sought was beyond his power to probe, but Zhan Tian still sent the Saber Demon Clan to attack Tianluo Continent. Meanwhile, experts gathered at the Ascending Heaven Pavilion ahead of its auction, unaware that the continent was being ravaged.

• Tian Ling tried to divine the target’s whereabouts, suffered a backlash, and warned Demon Emperor Zhan Tian to stop pursuing him.
• Tian Ling sensed that the target had gone to Tianluo Empire but could not determine his exact location, and Zhan Tian resolved to retaliate against Tianluo Continent.
• The Saber Demon Clan launched a massacre across Tianluo Continent while Li Xiao remained unaware because his Soul Power was suppressed.
• Experts from across the Great Thousand World, including Azure Mountain Supreme and Zi Tianlin, arrived at the Ascending Heaven Pavilion for the upcoming auction.
• Luo Tianshen welcomed Azure Mountain Supreme, who learned that the auction was still a month away and considered cultivating at the pavilion.

Azure Mountain Supreme waited outside the Ascending Heaven Pavilion while Demon Emperor Zhan Tian ordered his forces to advance on the Tianluo Empire. After Luo Tianshen explained the three great families’ efforts to undermine the Luoshen Clan, Azure Mountain Supreme offered to intervene.

• Demon Emperor Zhan Tian ordered his forces to attack the Tianluo Empire and make rivers of blood flow.
• Fellow daoist Tian Ling warned Demon Emperor Zhan Tian that his slaughter could provoke powerful experts and the Tailing Ancient Clan, but Zhan Tian dismissed the threat.
• Winter Old Man warned Xue Lingzi not to let the Blood God Clan’s growing strength make it defy the Western Heaven Battle Hall.
• Azure Mountain Supreme asked Luo Tianshen why he was on unusual terms with Winter Old Man’s group, and Luo Tianshen explained how the three great families had been secretly causing trouble for the Luoshen Clan.
• Azure Mountain Supreme asked Luo Tianshen whether he wanted him to take action against the three great families.

Li Xiao reassured Ya Fei as she returned to preparing the Ascending Heaven Pavilion’s auction, then reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and finally accepted her love. The chapter ended with Xiao Yi Xian clinging to Li Xiao and asking him to be with her again.

• Luo Tianshen declined Azure Mountain Supreme’s offer to intervene, while Azure Mountain Supreme resolved to help if the Luoshen Clan faced danger.
• Ya Fei resumed organizing the auction, and Li Xiao worried about her health before she sent him away to rest.
• Li Xiao found Xiao Yi Xian at the Ascending Heaven Pavilion and comforted her as she confessed that she had missed him.
• Li Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian shared their first intimate moment together while others quietly left them alone.
• As they rested on a boat at sunset, Xiao Yi Xian thanked Li Xiao for staying by her side and asked him to be with her again.

As the auction at the Ascending Heaven Pavilion approached, Niu Meng warned the gathered experts to obey its strict rules, while they discussed Li Xiao’s overwhelming strength. At dusk, Bing Shuang opened the pavilion and guided visitors inside to exchange their resources for Spirit Crystals before the auction began.

• Niu Meng patrolled the pavilion and recited its rules, warning that fraud, fighting, unpaid bids, and remaining after the auction could bring expulsion or death.
• Azure Mountain Supreme said Li Xiao had killed the Nether Emperor and must have reached the Sacred Grade Heavenly Supreme realm, while Winter Old Man recalled the Western Heaven Battle Emperor’s advice to ally with Li Xiao rather than oppose him.
• At dusk, Bing Shuang announced that the auction was beginning and instructed visitors to exchange their Spirit Coins, techniques, and weapons for the pavilion’s Spirit Crystals.
• Visitors entered the valley and were astonished by the Bodhi Ancient Tree, whose presence inspired some lower-level cultivators.
• Bing Shuang directed the crowd to Linglong for Spirit Crystal exchanges, while Niu Meng guided them and explained the value of their resources.

Experts gathered at the Ascending Heaven Pavilion for its auction, drawn by the spiritual energy and lavish accommodations. Elder Qing Yun of the Futu Ancient Clan’s Qing Faction secretly attended, hoping to obtain a treasure that could strengthen him and help his faction recover its former standing.

• Bing Shuang led the crowd to Linglong to exchange Spirit Crystals, while Li Xiao observed that no experts from the Evil Clan had entered the Pavilion.
• Bailing announced the auction and directed the guests to seats according to their means, with the Fourth Floor reserved for top experts.
• Several Spirit Grade Heavenly Supremes explored the Fourth Floor’s dense spiritual energy before returning to their private rooms under the auction’s no-contact rule.
• Elder Qing Yun asked his disciples whether the other three great ancient clans had arrived, and they explained that the Pavilion’s energy blocked Soul Power investigations.
• Qing Yun considered how the Xuan and Mo Factions had suppressed the Qing Faction and hoped to acquire a strength-enhancing treasure before another world war began.

Ya Fei opened the auction by offering a drop of Spirit Liquid refined by Ye Chen, which could boost cultivation and was especially suited to talented juniors. The bidding reached One Hundred Million Spirit Crystals before Azure Mountain Supreme withdrew, leaving the Spirit Grade Heavenly Supreme to claim the item as the auction continued.

• Ya Fei apologized for missing the previous year's auction and introduced a drop of Spirit Liquid refined by Ye Chen.
• Ya Fei explained the Spirit Liquid's effects and began bidding at Ten Million Spirit Crystals, while Li Kun and Azure Mountain Supreme bid for their juniors.
• A Spirit Grade Heavenly Supreme from another Fourth Floor private room entered the bidding, driving the price up to One Hundred Million Spirit Crystals.
• Zi Tianlin stopped Azure Mountain Supreme from continuing to bid, and Azure Mountain Supreme withdrew from the contest.
• The Spirit Grade Heavenly Supreme accepted the Spirit Liquid and offered to help Azure Mountain Supreme in the future.

At Ascending Heaven Pavilion’s auction, the Azure Star Earrings chose Luo Li as their master, and Luo Tianshen bought them for One Hundred Million Spirit Crystals. The auction then moved on to a High-Rank God-level Cultivation Method Spiritual Skill called Wind and Rain Curse.

• Ya Fei introduced the Azure Star Earrings, explaining that they could improve their wearer’s innate talent and bloodline and would choose their own master.
• Ya Fei set the earrings’ price at One Hundred Million Spirit Crystals and let them search the auction hall for someone fated to receive them.
• The Azure Star Earrings passed over the first three floors and stopped in Luo Tianshen’s private room on the Fourth Floor.
• The earrings flew to Luo Li and settled in her palm, and Li Xiao nodded for her to protect them.
• Luo Tianshen agreed to pay One Hundred Million Spirit Crystals for the earrings, and Ya Fei announced the next item, the High-Rank God-level Cultivation Method Spiritual Skill Wind and Rain Curse.

At the Ascending Heaven Pavilion auction, Ya Fei revealed that the Wind and Rain Curse could manifest a powerful golden dragon god, prompting intense bidding. Xue Lingzi sought to buy it despite Blood Robe Elder warning him to save their funds for the final treasure.

• Winter Old questioned the Wind and Rain Curse’s usefulness to Earth Supreme experts, and Ya Fei showed its ancient characters forming a golden dragon.
• The golden dragon stirred Zhu Kun’s bloodline, and Ya Fei explained that the Spiritual Skill could manifest a dragon god.
• Ya Fei set the Wind and Rain Curse’s starting bid at fifty million Spirit Crystals, and bidders quickly raised the price.
• Xue Lingzi decided he needed the Spiritual Skill to strengthen the Blood God Clan against its enemies.
• Blood Robe Elder urged Xue Lingzi to conserve their funds for the final treasure, but Xue Lingzi rebuked him.

The leaders of several clans competed for the Wind and Rain Curse while Xue Lingzi insisted on using the Blood God Clan’s resources to strengthen himself. The bidding reached Four Hundred Million Spirit Crystals, and Gu Mie finally withdrew, leaving Xue Lingzi with the upper hand.

• Xue Lingzi silenced the Blood Robe Elder and refused to reconsider his plan to prioritize his own strength over the Blood God Clan’s elders.
• Li Kun bid One Hundred Million Spirit Crystals for the Wind and Rain Curse, hoping to drain other clans’ resources before later auction items appeared.
• Gu Mie bid Two Hundred Million Spirit Crystals, and Xue Lingzi threatened him for competing.
• Xue Lingzi and Gu Mie drove the price up to Four Hundred Million Spirit Crystals.
• Gu Mie withdrew from the bidding and warned Xue Lingzi that he would not get another such opportunity.

Xue Lingzi bluffed that he was an Immortal Grade Heavenly Supreme to outbid a Spirit Grade Heavenly Supreme for the Wind and Rain Curse. After the rival withdrew and Xue Lingzi won the item, Ya Fei introduced the Demon Spirit Spear, a High-Level Sacred Object Weapon, as the next auction item.

• A white-haired Spirit Grade Heavenly Supreme raised the bid for the Wind and Rain Curse to five hundred million Spirit Crystals, and Xue Lingzi challenged him.
• Xue Lingzi falsely claimed to be an Immortal Grade Heavenly Supreme, prompting the old man to probe his identity and suffer a backlash from the Ascending Heaven Pavilion's restrictions.
• Xue Lingzi invented the name Li Qiufeng, taunted the old man, and raised his bid to six hundred million Spirit Crystals.
• The old man threatened to kill Xue Lingzi after the auction but withdrew, and Xue Lingzi won the Wind and Rain Curse.
• Ya Fei introduced the fourth auction item, the Demon Spirit Spear, as a High-Level Sacred Object Weapon.

At Ascending Heaven Pavilion, Ya Fei revealed the Demon Spirit Spear had belonged to Sacred Heaven Demon Emperor and opened bidding at one billion Spirit Crystals. In the Wildlands, the Extraterritorial Evil Clan learned the weapon was at the auction house and discussed their plans, while Sacred Heaven Demon Emperor ordered Demon Emperor Zhan Tian to return from Tianluo Continent.

• Ya Fei revealed the Demon Spirit Spear’s history and began the auction with a starting bid of one billion Spirit Crystals.
• Sacred Heaven Demon Emperor sensed that his lost spear had appeared in the Great Thousand World and learned it was at Ascending Heaven Pavilion.
• The Corpse Demon Clan's leader warned that Ascending Heaven Pavilion possessed many Peerless Sacred Object weapons and reported that Demon Emperor Zhan Tian had gone to Tianluo Continent.
• Dark Heaven Demon Emperor urged the gathered leaders to keep their long-planned opportunity in mind and said Ascending Heaven Pavilion was not an overwhelming threat.
• Sacred Heaven Demon Emperor told a Saber Demon Clan elder to order Demon Emperor Zhan Tian to return after finishing his mission.

The Evil Clan prepared to retrieve the Demon Spirit Spear and advance their plan to free their god, while Li Xiao explained the threat they posed to Bailing. The auction continued as Li Xiao resolved to grow strong enough to confront the Evil Clan.

• Sacred Heaven Demon Emperor ordered Spirit Heaven Demon Emperor to reclaim the Demon Spirit Spear and warned the clan leaders to follow their plan to resurrect their god.
• The Evil Clan leaders proclaimed that their god lived forever, and Sacred Heaven Demon Emperor relied on his Soul Imprint to track the spear's holder.
• Bailing questioned Li Xiao about auctioning the spear because it carried Sacred Heaven Demon Emperor's Soul Imprint.
• Li Xiao explained the Evil Clan's invasion and the losses suffered by ascended Dou Qi Continent experts, then said only he and Qing Ling could currently oppose the enemy.
• Li Xiao told Bailing to oversee the auction while he planned to enter seclusion and strengthen himself; Bailing left as bidders competed fiercely for the Demon Spirit Spear.

Bidders competed for the Demon Spirit Spear, which several believed could help someone reach the Sacred Grade Heavenly Supreme realm. Winter Old and Ling Zhanzi withdrew after a Spirit Grade Heavenly Supreme raised the bid to thirteen billion Spirit Crystals, leaving the weapon on the verge of being sold.

• Xue Lingzi opened bidding for the Demon Spirit Spear at three billion Spirit Crystals, while Azure Mountain Supreme warned that the weapon was strange and the Tianluo Continent experts stopped bidding.
• Bidders raised the price to ten billion Spirit Crystals, and Winter Old considered the weapon's potential to help the Western Heaven Battle Emperor break through.
• Ling Zhanzi bid eleven billion Spirit Crystals with Winter Old's approval.
• A black-robed Spirit Grade Heavenly Supreme raised the bid to thirteen billion Spirit Crystals and rebuffed Winter Old's objection.
• Ling Zhanzi advised Winter Old to stop bidding, and Winter Old gave up on the weapon.
• Ya Fei called for further bids, but no one raised the price beyond thirteen billion Spirit Crystals.

Ya Fei auctioned Kun Peng Blood Essence after explaining its immense power and warning that it could not be absorbed by ordinary means. She promised the buyer help from the Ascending Heaven Pavilion, and bidding escalated until Gu Mie claimed the treasure and another bidder challenged him.

• Ya Fei sold the Demon Spirit Spear for thirteen billion Spirit Crystals to the guest in Number Three Private Room on the Fourth Floor.
• Ya Fei introduced the Kun Peng and displayed a drop of Kun Peng Blood Essence, startling the assembled bidders.
• Xue Lingzi asked whether even a Spirit Grade Heavenly Supreme could consume the blood essence, and Ya Fei said even a Sacred Grade Heavenly Supreme could not safely do so.
• Ya Fei promised the buyer assistance from the Ascending Heaven Pavilion in using the blood essence, prompting bidders to offer rare treasures instead of Spirit Crystals.
• Gu Mie offered a high-rank god-level weapon and an Upper Grade God-level Body Refining Spiritual Skill, declared the blood essence his, and threatened anyone who challenged him.
• An unnamed bidder mocked Gu Mie's temper and said the bidders should compete for the treasure.

Shui Ling'er challenged Gu Mie and Li Kun over the Kun Peng Blood Essence, but withdrew when their bids grew too costly. Just as Gu Mie expected to win, an unknown bidder offered a mid-rank Sacred Weapon.

• Shui Ling'er defended her right to bid against Gu Mie and Li Kun, who threatened her for competing with them.
• Gu Mie raised the price, and Shui Ling'er answered with a low-rank Sacred Weapon and a High-Rank God-level Cultivation Method Spiritual Skill.
• Gu Mie doubled Shui Ling'er's bid, then added another Sacred Weapon when she continued to taunt him.
• Shui Ling'er stopped bidding because her faction had other purposes and could not afford to waste more resources.
• Most of the auction attendees gave up, and Gu Mie believed the Kun Peng Blood Essence was his until an unknown bidder offered a mid-rank Sacred Weapon.

Xue Lingzi won the Kun Peng Blood Essence by offering the Blood God Clan’s only mid-rank Sacred Weapon. The auction then introduced the rare Golden Phoenix Wings Flying Dou Technique, and Ya Fei explained its Phoenix origins and the legend of Nirvana.

• Gu Mie threatened the anonymous bidder after Xue Lingzi offered a mid-rank Sacred Weapon for the Kun Peng Blood Essence.
• Xue Lingzi defended his bid by invoking the auction’s rules, and Gu Mie backed down.
• Xue Lingzi obtained the Kun Peng Blood Essence, leaving the Blood God Clan without its only mid-rank Sacred Weapon.
• Ya Fei presented the Golden Phoenix Wings, a rare Flying Dou Technique that drew dismissive remarks from Supreme Realm experts.
• Ya Fei explained that the wings had been forged from Phoenix wings and described the Phoenix’s Nirvana.