Chapter Summaries

Fang Qing defeated Hua Piaomiao in a respectful semifinal, while Yang Qi used Twilight's Movement to destroy Yun Hai Lan's powerful incarnation. He discovered Yun Hai Lan's true body had stayed hidden, and the Crown Prince's will descended as Yang Qi approached the Thousand Illusions World Pearl.

• Yun He drew a bye and advanced directly to the battle for the top three.
• Fang Qing countered Hua Piaomiao's Sun Moon Academy techniques with his Five Elements defense until she conceded, sending him to the finals.
• Yun Hai Lan attacked Yang Qi with the Thousand Illusions World Pearl and the Tianzi Divine Fist, but Yang Qi skillfully countered her assault with his sword.
• Yun Hai Lan merged her phantoms and unleashed a powerful punch, but Yang Qi's Twilight's Movement eroded its force and struck her down.
• Yang Qi realized the Yun Hai Lan he had defeated was an incarnation, not her true body, and the Crown Prince's will descended as he moved to claim the Thousand Illusions World Pearl.

The Crown Prince descended into the arena and demanded that Yang Qi surrender the Thousand Illusions World Pearl, threatening him and Fang Qing’s loved ones. Yang Qi’s sworn brothers and allies rallied to his side, and Fang Qing began breaking through into the Legendary Realm.

• The Crown Prince appeared in the arena and ordered Yang Qi to surrender the Thousand Illusions World Pearl, claiming his will was the law.
• Yang Qi defended his victory and challenged the Crown Prince’s right to rule, provoking the Crown Prince to threaten their families and friends.
• Fang Qing protected Yang Qi from the Crown Prince’s killing gaze and refused his demands.
• Yang Qi called for his brothers to stand with him, and allies from multiple academies, sects, and families joined him in the arena.
• Fang Qing praised their loyalty and began breaking through into the Legendary Realm.

Fang Qing broke through to the Legendary Realm at Heavenly Battle Plaza and endured successive tribulations by absorbing their power to strengthen his body and soul. As he completed the third transformation, Void Transformation, the Crown Prince's fear and desire to kill him intensified.

• Fang Qing completed the Blood Soul Transformation, triggering an immense Legendary Tribulation above Heavenly Battle Plaza.
• Fang Qing absorbed the Five Elements Lightning Tribulation to temper his body, shocking the gathered elders, disciples, and Crown Prince.
• Fang Qing resisted the heart demon lightning and yin fire, refining their power to strengthen his soul and divine thoughts.
• The Crown Prince concluded that Fang Qing had to be killed and silently vowed to eliminate him.
• Fang Qing reached the third Legendary transformation, Void Transformation, and gained an initial grasp of Space Law.

Fang Qing broke through to the fifth Legendary Transformation and survived the Five Elements and Yin Yang tribulations, prompting the Crown Prince to attack him. After the Academy’s leader stopped the attack and upheld Yang Qi’s claim to the Thousand Illusions World Pearl, Fang Qing destroyed the Crown Prince’s incarnation, leaving their feud irreconcilable.

• Fang Qing mastered Five Elements Transformation and absorbed the fourth tribulation’s Five Elements Annihilation Divine Light.
• Fang Qing completed Yin Yang Transformation, overcame the fifth tribulation, and reached the fifth Legendary Transformation.
• The Crown Prince attacked Fang Qing, but the Venerable of Five Elements and other elders intervened before the Academy’s leader ordered him to stand down and awarded the Thousand Illusions World Pearl to Yang Qi.
• Fang Qing struck down the Crown Prince’s departing incarnation with one sword slash, escalating their feud.
• Fang Qing thanked the elders and the leader, who declared that the competition would continue and forbade further disputes.

Fang Qing won the Four Academies Tournament, became a Saint, and helped Yang Qi build the Saint King Faction into a major power. After Yang Qi found the Great Emperor Pagoda and invited their allies to cultivate inside it, Fang Qing’s guidance helped Yang Qi begin breaking through to Legend and ushered in a new stage of Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Strength.

• Fang Qing won the Four Academies Tournament, received the Gate of Taixu, and was promoted to Saint, accelerating the growth of the Saint King Faction.
• Yang Qi ventured into the Ancient Yuan Ore Vein, absorbed the Asura power, and seized the Great Emperor Pagoda after the Crown Prince and Young Master Shrouding the Heavens fought and wounded each other.
• Yang Qi invited Fang Qing and their allies to cultivate in the Great Emperor Pagoda, where Fang Qing created quiet rooms and Yang Qi shared his martial insights.
• Huo Qingquan broke through to the First Transformation of Legend, while the other cultivators made major gains before most of them stalled at the Ninth Life Seizing bottleneck.
• Fang Qing taught the group about the transformations and laws of the Legendary Realm, resolving Yang Qi’s confusion and prompting him to begin his breakthrough.

After Yang Qi entered the Legendary Realm, he shared the newly revealed Dominator Body cultivation method with Fang Qing, who used its insights to reach Legendary Six Transformations. Fang Qing empowered the Great Emperor Pagoda and Yandu City before returning to Heavenly Position Academy to manage the Saint King Faction and face the Crown Prince’s entrenched forces.

• Yang Qi transmitted the Dominator Body cultivation method to Fang Qing after Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Strength revealed its secrets upon Yang Qi’s breakthrough.
• Fang Qing transformed his body, formed an Immortal Domain, swallowed his Lightning Tribulation, and advanced to Legendary Six Transformations.
• Fang Qing fully activated the Great Emperor Pagoda, helping Jun Tianchou, Zhao Wuhun, Hua Fengfeng, and Meng Qingshan break through to Legendary First Transformation while strengthening the other cultivators and Yandu City.
• Fang Qing entrusted Yang Qi with Yandu City and the brothers, then returned to Heavenly Position Academy to oversee the Saint King Faction and prepare for the Crown Prince’s forces.

Fang Qing returned to Heavenly Position Academy and began reforming it by establishing a Discipline Hall to punish abuses by the Crown Prince Faction and corrupt academy officials. As fairness and righteousness spread among the disciples, the academy regained its sense of duty, and Fang Qing saw this as the true beginning of the Saint King path.

• Fang Qing returned to Heavenly Position Academy, and his presence inspired awe among disciples and stewards throughout Saint Peak.
• Fang Qing heard elders report that Crown Prince Faction members bullied disciples, demanded protection fees, and received help from corrupt stewards and elders.
• Fang Qing ordered the creation of a Discipline Hall and secret investigations into officials who abused their positions or aided wrongdoers.
• The Discipline Hall punished Crown Prince Faction members and colluding stewards, prompting victims to report abuses and helping restore fairness at the academy.
• Heavenly Position Academy's disciples began taking missions to fight demons and help civilians, while the academy's reputation and righteous spirit recovered.
• Fang Qing reflected that guiding people through fairness and righteousness was the true beginning of the Saint King path, and declared that only his arrival had brought a Saint King and a sun to the Saint King Realm.

Fang Qing and the Eldest Miss entered the void to undertake the Sky Mending Mission, where they encountered a Hell Monsoon and its invading demons. Fang Qing unleashed his domain to devastate the horde, and the pair continued deeper into the dangerous region.

• Fang Qing accepted the dangerous Sky Mending Mission, and the Eldest Miss decided to accompany him.
• Fang Qing and the Eldest Miss entered the void passage and fought their way through increasingly powerful demons.
• A Hell Monsoon appeared, and the Eldest Miss explained that it threatened to unleash Hell across Bountiful Continent if the seal failed.
• Hell demons surged from the monsoon and attacked Fang Qing and the Eldest Miss.
• Fang Qing expanded his domain, slaughtered scores of powerful demons, and grew stronger by refining their essence.
• The Eldest Miss was astonished by Fang Qing's power, and Fang Qing urged her to continue onward.

Fang Qing charged into a disciplined demonic army inside Hell Monsoon and slaughtered its ranks. When its seventh-transformation Ghost God master appeared, Fang Qing reached the same realm and killed him with a single strike, leaving the Eldest Miss stunned by his seemingly endless breakthroughs.

• Fang Qing and the Eldest Miss advanced through Hell Monsoon and encountered tens of thousands of Life Seizing Realm demons led by Legendary Realm commanders.
• Fang Qing combined Divine Elephant Suppresses Hell with the Great Five Elements Art and tore through the demonic army, killing or crippling its soldiers and commanders.
• The old demon who commanded the army appeared in a blood-red robe, revealed his seventh-transformation Ghost God Realm power, and threatened Fang Qing.
• Fang Qing broke through to the seventh transformation of the Legendary Realm and killed the old demon with one energy-palm strike.
• The Eldest Miss wondered who Fang Qing was and whether he could keep breaking through forever.

Fang Qing pushed through Seal Number Seven, killing Legendary Eight Transformations demons before reaching the corrupted Plane Pearl. He revived the ancient saints’ wills with holy light, restoring the seal’s power and driving the demons away, and emerged as the plane’s hero.

• Fang Qing refined the energy of the Ghost God Transformation demon and advanced through the demonic region toward the Stellar Transformations demons.
• Fang Qing killed the old demon woman with a single punch, then defeated three Legendary Eight Transformations demons in succession as the Eldest Miss watched.
• Fang Qing reached the Plane Pearl and found it cracked and corrupted by demonic qi while demons attacked the sealing network.
• Fang Qing used his holy techniques to restore the Plane Pearl, awaken the ancient saints’ wills, and heal the corruption.
• The revived plane will unleashed holy light that killed a Legendary Nine Transformations demon and drove the surrounding demons into flight, leaving Fang Qing hailed as the plane’s hero.

Fang Qing’s restoration of the Plane Pearl revived the Lesser Universe Realm and sparked a spiritual qi resurgence across the Bountiful Continent, making him a celebrated hero. Meanwhile, Yang Qi seized Silver Moon City in the Western Continent and returned to reunite with Fang Qing, bringing him a Saint Grade Spirit Stone.

• Fang Qing’s purification of the Plane Pearl awakened the ancient Saints’ wills, expanded the Lesser Universe Realm, and reopened its energy passages to high-level planes.
• Heavenly Position Academy learned that Fang Qing had saved the plane, raising the Saint King Faction’s prestige while the Crown Prince Faction grew fearful of its decline.
• The Plane Pearl’s revival repaired the Bountiful Continent’s crystal wall system and began restoring spiritual qi across the continent.
• Yang Qi confronted the Silver Moon County Princess over her faction’s mistreatment of Bountiful Continent merchants, then used the Great Emperor Pagoda to take Silver Moon City and its inhabitants.
• Yang Qi returned to Yandu City, distributed most of the spoils, and brought Fang Qing a Saint Grade Spirit Stone when they reunited on Saint Peak.

Fang Qing entered the Chaos Secret Realm to find a fragment of the Primordial Chaos Heart and discovered that Zhendan Continent cultivators had already begun exploring the ruins. After a ninth-transformation assassin from the Zhendan Divine Temple ambushed him, Fang Qing killed him and identified his affiliation.

• Fang Qing sensed a summons from a Primordial Chaos Heart fragment and entered the Chaos Flow beneath the Bountiful Continent.
• Fang Qing explored the ancient ruins of the Chaos Secret Realm, where he found the fresh corpses of cultivators from Zhendan Continent.
• A ninth-transformation assassin ambushed Fang Qing, but Fang Qing shattered the attack with a palm strike and crushed the assassin.
• Fang Qing burned the assassin beyond revival and searched his storage pouch, finding intelligence, maps, and a token from the Zhendan Divine Temple.
• Fang Qing identified the assassin as an elite of the Zhendan Divine Temple's Ninja Hall.

Fang Qing reached a temple in the Chaos Secret Realm where a Legendary Saint Weapon was sealed, then seized it amid a battle among the gathered factions. He also took control of the Ninja Hall’s Black Gold Dragon Refining Cauldron and killed its Half-Saint leader.

• Fang Qing sensed a Great Sage Weapon and followed its aura to a temple where a deadly mirror formation guarded a hook-shaped Saint Weapon.
• A lightning-cultivating man triggered the mirror formation and was killed, and the Ninja Hall arrived and surrounded the temple.
• The Ninja Hall’s Half-Saint leader used the Black Gold Dragon Refining Cauldron to shatter the formation, releasing the Saint Weapon and drawing attacks from rival factions.
• Fang Qing used the Five Elements Suppression Seal to capture the fleeing Saint Weapon and tried to escape, prompting the Ninja Hall to attack him.
• Fang Qing cut down the cauldron’s dragon spirit, weakened the cauldron, seized one of its legs, and eroded the Half-Saint leader’s control over it.
• Fang Qing killed the Half-Saint leader with the White Emperor Gold Emperor Slash and collected the Saint Weapons.

Fang Qing used the Chaos Secret Realm and the Primordial Chaos Heart fragment to withstand nine Great Sages while refining their attacks and advancing his cultivation. He then refined all nine into a Chaos Holy Pill and prepared to break through to the Great Sage realm.

• The nine Great Sages formed the Nine Stars Aligned World-Breaking Formation and launched a combined attack on Fang Qing.
• Fang Qing awakened the Chaos Secret Realm's guardian formation, which slowed the Great Sages' attack and eroded their power.
• While the Great Sages struck at him, Fang Qing absorbed the Primordial Chaos Heart fragment's Origin Power and rapidly advanced his cultivation.
• Fang Qing activated the Chaos formation to refine the nine Great Sages, dissolving their bodies, souls, and Saint Marks.
• Fang Qing collected the Chaos Holy Pill containing the nine Saint Marks and declared that he would break through to the Great Sage realm.

Fang Qing endured and overcame the Yama River Calamity Water tribulation, using it to strengthen his domain, body, soul, and Saint Dao as he advanced to Great Sagehood. He emerged to celebrations at Heavenly Position Academy, then set his sights on Crown Prince Peak and the old grudges he intended to settle.

• Fang Qing swallowed the Chaos Holy Pill in his sanctuary and drew on the Primordial Chaos Heart fragment to begin breaking into the Great Sage realm.
• Yama River Calamity Water flooded the sanctuary, but Fang Qing resisted it with the Five Elements Divine Fist, Chaos Divine Fist, and Heavenly God Fist, refining the calamity as he fought.
• Fang Qing cleared the last of the calamity water and stabilized his Great Sage realm with nine complete Saint Marks and an exceptionally powerful foundation.
• Fang Qing left his sanctuary and received cheers from Heavenly Position Academy disciples, elders, visiting powers, and the Saint King Faction.
• Fang Qing looked toward Crown Prince Peak, noted that the Crown Prince remained at the Nine Transformations of Legend, and resolved to settle their old grudges.

Fang Qing confronted the Crown Prince in his secluded cultivation realm and killed him despite the Crown Prince’s breakthrough to Great Sage and mastery of the Wings of the Starry Sky. Heavenly Position Academy hailed Fang Qing as invincible, and he left Yun Hai Lan to Yang Qi while ordering the other chief offenders killed.

• Fang Qing appeared in the Crown Prince’s secluded realm, where the Crown Prince broke through to Great Sage and revealed the Wings of the Starry Sky.
• The Crown Prince attacked Fang Qing with Starfall Annihilation Claw, but Fang Qing’s Pure Land of the Gods neutralized the assault.
• Fang Qing used Hand of the Upper Heavens to crush the Crown Prince, then absorbed his Saint Mark, bloodline origin, and Star Power.
• The elders and disciples of Heavenly Position Academy cheered Fang Qing as invincible and hailed him as a Saint King.
• Fang Qing told Yang Qi that Yun Hai Lan was his to deal with and that the other chief offenders must be killed.

Yang Qi avenged himself on Yun Hai Lan, and Fang Qing used the Crown Prince’s treasures to strengthen the Great Emperor Pagoda before unifying and rebuilding the Bountiful Continent. With the continent entering the Saint King Epoch, Fang Qing prepared to seek advancement beyond it and left an incarnation to govern in his absence.

• Yang Qi killed Yun Hai Lan, erasing her completely, and Fang Qing said his cousin’s vengeance had helped his Dao heart advance.
• Fang Qing took the Crown Prince’s storage pouch and sent the Bountiful Token into Yang Qi’s Great Emperor Pagoda, strengthening it with the Great Emperor’s origin power.
• Over the next half month, Fang Qing dissolved the four great academies and the Sacred Ancestor Dynasty, suppressed resistance, and established the Saint King Academy as the continent’s central institution.
• Fang Qing rebuilt Saint King City as the City of Divine Blessing, connected it to higher Xian planes, and led the Saint King Faction in purging demon and devil strongholds across the Bountiful Continent.
• The new order brought peace and prosperity, and Fang Qing, having reached the peak of the Great Sage realm, decided to seek opportunities beyond the continent.
• Fang Qing created an incarnation to oversee the Bountiful Continent from the Saint King Pagoda, then prepared to leave and explore the wider world.

Fang Qing and Yang Qi traveled to Suspended Mountain to enter the Immortal Realm’s Supreme Trial, where participants would hunt demons in Hell for points and rewards. As the trial began, Yang Qi faced hostility from Xiang Li’s faction while Fang Qing and Yang Qi prepared to test their strength.

• The Saint Mother summoned Yang Qi to Suspended Mountain for its once-in-a-millennium Supreme Trial, and Fang Qing accompanied him.
• Fang Qing and Yang Qi arrived at Suspended Mountain and settled in Whale Prairie to cultivate.
• Suspended Mountain’s disciples mocked Yang Qi’s weak cultivation and questioned his place in the trial.
• The Sick Old Man confirmed that Fang Qing and Yang Qi could participate and explained that they would earn points by slaying demons in a Hell plane.
• The Sick Old Man warned Yang Qi that Xiang Li, a fifth-stage Great Sage from a rival faction, might target him during the trial.
• Fang Qing and Yang Qi cultivated in Whale Prairie as the trial approached, and the trial finally began.

Fang Qing and Yang Qi arrived at Mount Sumeru for Suspended Mountain’s Strongest Trial, where Yang Qi faced public challenges from four Demon Clan chiefs. When the Immortal Realm opened a passage to the terrifying Maha Hell and announced the trial, the two rushed in first.

• Sick Old Man brought Fang Qing and Yang Qi to Mount Sumeru, where he explained the peak’s history and power.
• The Lion, Leopard, Rhinoceros, and Horse Race chiefs challenged Yang Qi over his status as Saint Mother’s son, while Xiang Li watched from the crowd.
• A Heavenly Eye opened a passage into Maha Hell, alarming the assembled demons and cultivators with its ancient, overwhelming demonic aura.
• The Immortal Realm revealed the trial rankings, explained how demon kills would earn points, and registered the participants’ Primordial Spirit imprints.
• The Immortal Realm announced the Strongest Trial, and Fang Qing and Yang Qi used the Wings of Freedom to enter Maha Hell first.

Fang Qing and Yang Qi slaughtered demons in Maha Hell, drawing attention to Yang Qi’s rising ranking and prompting Xiang Li and Shi Zhonglou to target him. After Yang Qi fought back against the Lion Race, Fang Qing uncovered a vast vein of high-grade spirit stones and began purifying it.

• Fang Qing and Yang Qi adapted to Maha Hell, then Fang Qing killed an Ox Demon and wiped out a gathering of Great Sage demons while Yang Qi helped earn trial points.
• Yang Qi’s score surged into the top ten on the Heaven Ranking, so Xiang Li ordered the Demon Clan participants to find and kill him.
• Shi Zhonglou and a group of Lion Race experts trapped Yang Qi in a canyon and demanded his secrets and treasures, but Yang Qi killed or injured several attackers and defeated Shi Zhonglou.
• Fang Qing ventured deeper into Maha Hell alone and discovered a vast mineral vein that he purified into what appeared to be Heaven Grade or possibly Immortal Grade Spirit Stones.