Chapter Summaries

Lu Changsheng reversed Fang Jie’s assault by controlling three Spirit Arrays at once and defeating him in the final round. The Qingwei Lineage was declared the annual competition’s champion.

• Fang Jie superimposed the Yellow Springs Blood River Array with the Four Beasts God Slaying Array, overwhelming Lu Changsheng’s Nine Dragon Ice Absolute Array.
• Lu Changsheng activated the Great Flame Demon Array and the Nine Heavens Thunder Array, controlling three Spirit Arrays simultaneously.
• Lu Changsheng’s combined arrays destroyed Fang Jie’s two arrays and left Fang Jie gravely injured and unconscious.
• The Qingwei Lineage celebrated Lu Changsheng’s victory, and the Hall Master of the Punishment Hall announced it as the annual competition’s champion.

After Qingwei Lineage won the annual grand competition, Elder Qingwei assigned Lu Changsheng, Rui'er, Tu Jiao, and Shi Jingtian to explore a Martial Venerable Tomb in the Southern Eastern Mausoleum Domain. He warned them that the tomb lay near the Boundless Demonic Palace, Lingxiao Sect’s deadly rival, and that its Ten Demonic Sons might threaten their mission.

• Shi Jingtian celebrated Qingwei Lineage’s victory and nearly knocked the exhausted Lu Changsheng over, while Tu Jiao caught him and scolded Shi Jingtian.
• News spread that Rui'er and Lu Changsheng had helped Qingwei Lineage win, with Lu Changsheng’s use of three Spirit Arrays becoming a major topic among the sect’s disciples.
• Elder Qingwei selected Rui'er, Lu Changsheng, Tu Jiao, and Shi Jingtian to explore the Martial Venerable Tomb in the Southern Eastern Mausoleum Domain.
• Tu Jiao, Shi Jingtian, and Elder Qingwei explained the Boundless Demonic Palace’s history of war with Lingxiao Sect and its covert influence across the domain.
• Shi Jingtian and Tu Jiao warned Lu Changsheng about the Ten Demonic Sons, revealing that they had each killed members of the group.
• Elder Qingwei urged the four disciples to support one another and prioritize their safety as they prepared to enter the dangerous region.

Lu Changsheng, Rui'er, Tu Jiao, and Shi Jingtian traveled to Tianyou City to use its ancient Spatial Array on their mission to the Southern Eastern Mausoleum Domain. When Myriad Poison Sect disciples bullied an elderly man and stole his granddaughter’s keepsake, Tu Jiao and Shi Jingtian confronted them.

• Lu Changsheng and his companions left Lingxiao Sect, while Elder Qingwei warned that the sect would respond if the Boundless Demonic Palace attacked them.
• The four reached Tianyou City and learned that the Myriad Poison Sect had seized the Spatial Array and raised its fee to one hundred thousand spirit stones per person.
• Tu Jiao advised the group to avoid trouble and pay the fee so they could continue their urgent mission.
• At the Spatial Array Plaza, Myriad Poison Sect disciples demanded payment from an old man and his granddaughter, then forcibly took the girl’s keepsake bead.
• Tu Jiao and Shi Jingtian stepped out of the queue and shouted at the Myriad Poison Sect disciples.

Tu Jiao and Shi Jingtian punished Myriad Poison Sect disciples for robbing an old man and a child, then faced the Myriad Poison Old Ancestor after Luo Tian summoned him. The Old Ancestor attacked, and Tu Jiao and Shi Jingtian charged to meet him.

• Tu Jiao and Shi Jingtian confronted Luo Tian and demanded that he return the child's pearl and apologize to the old man.
• Shi Jingtian struck Luo Tian with his Black Iron Rod, crushing his chest and smashing him into a Stone Platform.
• Tu Jiao killed the seven or eight Myriad Poison Sect disciples who attacked her and Shi Jingtian.
• Luo Tian crushed a token that summoned the Myriad Poison Old Ancestor, who arrived and threatened the pair.
• Shi Jingtian and Tu Jiao condemned the Old Ancestor's conduct, and he formed a giant poisonous handprint to attack them.
• Shi Jingtian and Tu Jiao charged forward to face the Old Ancestor's attack.

Shi Jingtian and Tu Jiao defeated and killed Myriad Poison Old Ancestor, ending the Myriad Poison Sect’s extortion of Spatial Array users in Tianyou City. After returning a little girl’s bead and restoring the array’s original fees, they joined Lu Changsheng and Rui'er in entering the Bronze Spatial Gate.

• Myriad Poison Old Ancestor attacked Shi Jingtian and Tu Jiao with his Myriad Poison Bone Corroding Palm, but they shattered it with a rod strike and a punch.
• Shi Jingtian and Tu Jiao overwhelmed Myriad Poison Old Ancestor’s poison arts and crushed him in battle; Shi Jingtian finished him with a blow to the head.
• Myriad Poison Old Ancestor’s remains destroyed the Myriad Poison Sect’s palace, and Shi Jingtian announced that Spatial Array fees had returned to their original price.
• Tu Jiao recovered the little girl’s pale-blue bead and returned it to her, while the crowd thanked the pair for ending the Myriad Poison Sect’s oppression.
• Lu Changsheng and Rui'er inspected the Bronze Spatial Gate’s profound array patterns, then joined Shi Jingtian and Tu Jiao in stepping through it.

Lu Changsheng and his companions traveled through an ancient Spatial Array to the dangerous Southern Domain, where they planned to gather information about the Martial Venerable Tomb. After the array deposited them in the Phoenix Blood Mountain Range, they discovered three demonic sects attacking a group over a treasure connected to the tomb.

• Tu Jiao warned Lu Changsheng, Rui'er, and Shi Jingtian about the Southern Domain and the Ten Great Demonic Sects, and told them to conceal their Lingxiao Sect identities and follow her orders.
• The four arrived in the Phoenix Blood Mountain Range after the ancient Spatial Array deviated from its intended coordinates.
• Tu Jiao led the group toward Black Demon City to seek information about the Martial Venerable Tomb.
• Lu Changsheng and the others heard a battle in a nearby valley and secretly watched the Corpse Refining Sect, Demonic Flame Valley, and Rakshasa Gate attack a group protecting a pale-faced youth.
• A Corpse Refining Sect elder demanded that the defenders surrender a treasure connected to the Martial Venerable Tomb, revealing the reason for the attack.

Lu Changsheng and his companions intervened to save a richly dressed youth from three demonic sects seeking a treasure tied to the Martial Venerable Tomb. As Tu Jiao and Shi Jingtian fought two elders, Lu Changsheng held off Bai Ming until the Corpse Refining Sect elder summoned his Black Iron Corpse General.

• Lu Changsheng suspected the surrounded youth carried a clue to the Martial Venerable Tomb, and Tu Jiao assigned the group roles for an attack.
• Lu Changsheng, Tu Jiao, Shi Jingtian, and Rui'er appeared to stop a Demonic Flame Valley elder from killing the youth.
• Shi Jingtian and Tu Jiao charged the Demonic Flame Valley and Rakshasa Gate elders, while Lu Changsheng blocked Bai Ming from reaching the youth.
• Lu Changsheng used his Dragon Elephant Golden Body, movement technique, and martial arts to fight Bai Ming to a standstill despite their difference in cultivation.
• Bai Ming summoned his Black Iron Corpse General, which charged at Lu Changsheng with overwhelming speed and menace.

Lu Changsheng struggled against Elder Bai Ming’s Black Iron Corpse Puppet and destroyed his Nine Dragon Ice Absolute Array to unleash a devastating blast. He was hurled into a rock wall by the backlash, while Bai Ming lost his connection to the puppet and the others turned toward the explosion in alarm.

• Lu Changsheng fought the Black Iron Corpse Puppet, but its strength and corrosive corpse qi overwhelmed him.
• Lu Changsheng summoned five ice dragons with the Nine Dragon Ice Absolute Array, temporarily trapping and attacking the puppet.
• The Black Iron Corpse Puppet shattered two ice dragons and battered the array until it neared collapse.
• Lu Changsheng detonated the Nine Dragon Ice Absolute Array, engulfing the puppet in a destructive blast.
• The array’s backlash hurled Lu Changsheng into a rock wall, while Shi Jingtian and Tu Jiao stopped fighting and Bai Ming’s connection to the puppet was severed.

Lu Changsheng and his companions defeated the demonic sect pursuers, and Xiao Leng gave them the black pearl that had brought ruin to his family. After Tu Jiao heated it with spiritual flame, the pearl melted into a black light curtain displaying an image.

• Lu Changsheng survived the spirit array's self-detonation and found the black iron corpse puppet destroyed, while Bai Ming fled after suffering backlash.
• Shi Jingtian killed the Demonic Flame Valley elder, Tu Jiao killed the Rakshasa Gate beauty, and Rui'er's arrays had trapped and killed many of the remaining disciples.
• The four companions met Xiao Leng, who said the demonic sects had slaughtered his family to seize the black pearl linked to the Martial Venerable Tomb, and he gave it to them.
• Lu Changsheng, Shi Jingtian, Tu Jiao, and Rui'er tried several ways to activate the pearl, but it did not respond.
• Tu Jiao applied spiritual flame to the pearl, which melted into a star-speckled liquid and formed a black light curtain showing an image.

Lu Changsheng and the others saw a black bead reveal a vision of a Purple Gold Giant Egg, a terrifying hand from beyond their world, and a woman in white who destroyed it. They stored the bead and reached Black Demon City to seek clues about the Martial Venerable Tomb, entering the city after seeing the corpses of Azure Mist Sect disciples displayed at its gate.

• The black bead melted into a screen showing a Purple Gold Giant Egg beneath thunderclouds, a giant hand reaching for it, and a woman in white erasing the hand with a single slash.
• Lu Changsheng speculated that the egg and the woman were connected to the Immortal Realm and possibly to the Martial Venerable Tomb, while Shi Jingtian stored the bead in his Cosmic Bag.
• Tu Jiao led the group toward Black Demon City to gather information, and the four traveled cautiously before reaching the city after half a day.
• The four approached Black Demon City and concealed their identities as Tu Jiao warned them to avoid conflict while seeking information.
• Lu Changsheng noticed twelve corpses at the city gate and heard demonic cultivators say the Yellow Springs Sect had destroyed the Azure Mist Sect for refusing to submit.
• Tu Jiao restrained the group's anger, and the four entered Black Demon City among the demonic cultivators.

Tu Jiao returned to Youquan Inn with news that the Martial Venerable Tomb in the Leitie Mountain Range held the remains of three Martial Venerables and was surrounded by Spirit Corroding Miasma. While searching Black Demon Market for Poison Dispelling Pills, Lu Changsheng’s group bought Rui'er a fourth-grade Spirit Array scroll, then clashed with Teng Yuan, who tried to claim Rui'er as his cultivation furnace.

• Tu Jiao returned after several hours and told Lu Changsheng, Shi Jingtian, and Rui'er that the tomb lay in the Leitie Mountain Range and contained the tombs of the Array Venerable, Sword Venerable, and Blood Purgatory Demon Venerable.
• Tu Jiao explained that Spirit Corroding Miasma surrounded the mountain range and that they needed Poison Dispelling Pills, so the four set out for Black Demon Market.
• Rui'er noticed an ancient scroll at a stall, and Lu Changsheng bought its Eight Desolations Six Harmonies Divine Sword Array for five million three hundred thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Teng Yuan, the Young Master of Joyful Union Sect, spotted Rui'er and tried to take her with him, but Tu Jiao, Shi Jingtian, and Lu Changsheng stepped forward to protect her.
• Teng Yuan threatened to drain the group’s primordial yang as his guards surrounded them in the market.

Lu Changsheng, Shi Jingtian, and Tu Jiao defeated Teng Yuan and his guards after Teng Yuan threatened Rui'er, then crippled him before leaving the Black Demon Market. Teng Sha learned that his son had been gravely injured and castrated, and swore revenge.

• Teng Yuan tried to force Lu Changsheng and his companions to hand Rui'er over, so Shi Jingtian and Tu Jiao attacked his guards while Lu Changsheng fought Teng Yuan.
• Shi Jingtian and Tu Jiao killed Teng Yuan's guards, while Lu Changsheng overwhelmed Teng Yuan and struck him down with the Dragon Elephant Hegemon Fist.
• Shi Jingtian and Tu Jiao beat the injured Teng Yuan, and Lu Changsheng crushed his manhood to prevent him from harming anyone again.
• Lu Changsheng, Shi Jingtian, Tu Jiao, and Rui'er left the Black Demon Market as onlookers feared the Joyful Union Sect's response.
• An elder told Teng Sha that Teng Yuan had been gravely injured and castrated, and Teng Sha erupted in rage and vowed to take revenge.

The Boundless Demonic Palace learned that four Lingxiao Sect disciples had entered the Southern Domain and ordered them monitored and killed if they interfered with the Martial Venerable Tomb. After learning the tomb’s seal was about to break, Lu Changsheng and his companions disguised themselves and set out for the Leitie Mountain Range.

• A black-robed Martial Venerable informed the Palace Master that four Qingwei Lineage Personal Disciples had arrived in Black Demon City, and the Palace Master ordered them watched and killed if they made an unusual move.
• Lu Changsheng and the others bought Poison Dispelling Pills, returned to Youquan Inn, and agreed to keep a low profile after crippling Teng Yuan.
• Lu Changsheng spotted a fleeting silhouette watching their inn and warned Shi Jingtian and Tu Jiao not to confront the watcher.
• For three days, the four stayed cautious while Tu Jiao gathered information about the Martial Venerable Tomb.
• Tu Jiao reported that the tomb’s seal was weakening and would likely break within a day or two, prompting the four to disguise themselves and leave for the Leitie Mountain Range.

Lu Changsheng, Shi Jingtian, Tu Jiao, and Rui'er entered the Leitie Mountain Range to reach the Martial Venerable Tomb and investigate the egg from the Immortal Realm. After Xing You arrived with the Ten Great Demonic Sects, he spotted the disguised group and challenged them to come out of hiding.

• Lu Changsheng and his companions disguised themselves and traveled into Black Demon Ridge, avoiding conflicts among the gathered martial artists.
• The four swallowed Poison Dispelling Pills and crossed the Spirit Corroding Miasma into the core of the Leitie Mountain Range.
• They saw that the tomb’s barrier was cracked and recognized the thunderclouds and mountains as the scene shown in the black bead’s light screen.
• Rui'er and Shi Jingtian connected the mountain range to the egg that had fallen from the Immortal Realm, concluding it must be somewhere inside.
• Xing You arrived in a golden carriage with the sect masters of the Ten Great Demonic Sects, then identified the four disguised Lingxiao Sect disciples and called them out.

Lu Changsheng and the other Qingwei Lineage disciples were exposed, and Tu Jiao defeated Teng Sha when he attacked Lu Changsheng. As the Martial Venerable Tomb opened, the Fourth Demonic Son postponed their fight, and the four entered the tomb, arriving in a ruined ancient world.

• The Fourth Demonic Son exposed Lu Changsheng, Shi Jingtian, Tu Jiao, and Rui'er, drawing threats from the demonic sects.
• Shi Jingtian and Tu Jiao challenged the demonic factions, and Teng Sha charged at Lu Changsheng over his injured son.
• Tu Jiao blocked Teng Sha and knocked him down with a single punch, revealing her fifth-level Heaven Piercing Realm strength.
• The tomb barrier began to collapse, so the Fourth Demonic Son withdrew and led the demonic factions toward the entrance.
• The barrier broke, and Lu Changsheng, Shi Jingtian, Tu Jiao, and Rui'er entered the Martial Venerable Tomb amid the competing factions.
• The four arrived in a vast, ruined ancient land inside the tomb.

Lu Changsheng, Tu Jiao, Shi Jingtian, and Rui'er explored the Martial Venerable Tomb, where Tu Jiao discovered a Primordial Bead that could advance her Primordial Hegemon Body. A fifth-grade killing array protected it, so Lu Changsheng and Rui'er prepared to work together to try to break through.

• Lu Changsheng and the others entered the tomb, avoided a fight over White Jade Dragon Ganoderma, and Rui'er found a Spirit Nurturing Lotus.
• Deep in the ruins, Tu Jiao sensed a Primordial Bead and said refining it could raise her Primordial Hegemon Body to the sixth level.
• Lu Changsheng and Rui'er detected a concealed killing array and confirmed its fifth-grade power by testing it with a pebble.
• Lu Changsheng failed to find a way to break the array alone but noticed its old, worn nodes and proposed that he and Rui'er attack it together.

Lu Changsheng and Rui'er broke the formation protecting the Primordial Bead, which Tu Jiao claimed after defeating a demonic cultivator who tried to steal it. As the four continued exploring the Martial Venerable Tomb, they learned that the Yellow Springs Sect and Ghost Mist Gate had blockaded an area containing a Supreme Heaven Pill.

• Lu Changsheng and Rui'er worked together to locate and break the fifth-grade killing formation around the Primordial Bead.
• A lurking demonic cultivator tried to seize the bead, but Tu Jiao struck him down and took it for herself.
• Tu Jiao thanked Lu Changsheng and Rui'er, then sealed the Primordial Bead in a jade box instead of refining it in the dangerous tomb.
• The four discovered a Dragon Blood Tree, but Lu Changsheng concluded that someone else had already picked its Dragon Blood Fruits.
• The group heard cultivators complain that the Yellow Springs Sect and Ghost Mist Gate had blocked off the Supreme Heaven Pill, drawing Tu Jiao and Shi Jingtian's attention.

Lu Changsheng and the Lingxiao Sect arrived at a jade plaza where the Yellow Springs Sect and Ghost Mist Gate had found two Supreme Heaven Pills. The sect leaders fought Shi Jingtian and Tu Jiao while Lu Changsheng and Rui'er raced against both sects to seize the pills.

• Tu Jiao identified the Supreme Heaven Pills, and she, Shi Jingtian, Lu Changsheng, and Rui'er hurried toward the plaza.
• Huang Tianba and Gui Li found two Supreme Heaven Pills embedded in a Dragon Sparrow sculpture and agreed to claim one each.
• Tu Jiao challenged the two sect leaders, and Shi Jingtian insulted them before Huang Tianba and Gui Li attacked.
• Shi Jingtian and Tu Jiao fought Huang Tianba and Gui Li while the sects' elders and disciples rushed for the pills.
• Lu Changsheng and Rui'er charged toward the Dragon Sparrow sculpture to seize the pills before the other factions.

Lu Changsheng and Rui'er raced for the Supreme Heaven Pills, but Lu Changsheng sensed danger and retreated before the Dragon Sparrow Stone Sculpture awakened and slaughtered the sect disciples. After the living sculpture turned on them, Lu Changsheng and Rui'er took shelter behind the Immeasurable Buddha Bell and began preparing arrays to restrain and attack it.

• Ghost Brake rushed toward the Supreme Heaven Pills, but Lu Changsheng overtook him with the Nine Heavens Lightning Steps and shattered his attack.
• Lu Changsheng sensed danger and pulled Rui'er away just before the Dragon Sparrow Stone Sculpture awakened and killed the disciples who reached for the pills.
• Rui'er realized the pills had activated the sculpture's defensive mechanism, and the Dragon Sparrow began slaughtering the Yellow Springs Sect and Ghost Mist Gate forces.
• The Dragon Sparrow attacked Lu Changsheng and Rui'er; Lu Changsheng fought back but was badly injured and could not break through its defenses.
• Lu Changsheng used the Immeasurable Buddha Bell to protect them, then directed Rui'er to bind the Dragon Sparrow with the Immortal Vine Array while he prepared the Nine Absolute Ice Dragon Array to strike its eyes and chest.

Lu Changsheng and Rui'er defeated the Dragon Sparrow Stone Sculpture with their combined spirit arrays and recovered its two Supreme Heaven Pills. After Shi Jingtian and Tu Jiao killed their opponents, Lu Changsheng brought out the Creation Devouring Heaven Cauldron and placed both pills inside, hinting that he had a way to share them among the four.

• Rui'er bound the Dragon Sparrow Stone Sculpture with the Immortal Vine Array while Lu Changsheng summoned five ice dragons with the Nine Absolute Ice Dragon Array.
• Lu Changsheng and Rui'er detonated their arrays together, destroying the Dragon Sparrow Stone Sculpture and freeing its two Supreme Heaven Pills.
• Lu Changsheng recovered the pills and took a restorative pill as he and Rui'er celebrated their victory.
• Shi Jingtian killed Huang Tianba, and Tu Jiao killed Gui Li.
• Shi Jingtian proposed giving both Supreme Heaven Pills to Lu Changsheng and Rui'er, but Lu Changsheng said he had a better method.
• Lu Changsheng summoned the Creation Devouring Heaven Cauldron and placed both Supreme Heaven Pills inside.