Chapter Summaries

Xiao Ze and Qing Yanjing discovered a Heavenly Splendor Spiritual Pool in the abandoned sect ruins and used its accumulated spiritual energy to cultivate. Qing Yanjing broke through to Upper Earth Supreme first, then helped Xiao Ze cross the same threshold.

• Xiao Ze repaired a damaged spiritual array, revealing the hidden Heavenly Splendor Spiritual Pool.
• Xiao Ze and Qing Yanjing cultivated on the golden Spiritual Platform, drawing in the pool’s vast spiritual energy.
• Qing Yanjing broke through to Upper Earth Supreme and stopped cultivating to leave more energy for Xiao Ze.
• Qing Yanjing activated the Spiritual Platform’s patterns and formed a larger Spirit Gathering Array to assist Xiao Ze.
• Xiao Ze manifested the mountains-and-rivers phenomenon and successfully entered Upper Earth Supreme.

Xiao Ze and Qing Yanjing reached a vast Chaos Fragment while following the Bronze Token toward Yaoguang Palace, then joined a group of experts preparing to explore it. They entered the fragment and saw an enormous palace steeped in Demonic Energy.

• Xiao Ze and Qing Yanjing broke through to the Upper Earth Supreme realm after benefiting from the Heavenly Splendor Spiritual Pool.
• Xiao Ze and Qing Yanjing traveled deeper into the Chaos Continent, collecting Chaos Crystals from fragments along the way.
• The Bronze Token resonated near a vast Chaos Fragment, and a black-robed elder invited Xiao Ze and Qing Yanjing to explore it with other experts.
• Xiao Ze and Qing Yanjing met the assembled experts, including three Earth Supreme Great Perfection experts, and agreed to enter the fragment together.
• Xiao Ze and Qing Yanjing passed through the barrier and saw a gigantic palace covered in Demonic Energy.

Xiao Ze, Qing Yanjing, and a group of Earth Supremes fought their way through the Demon Puppet-filled Chaos Fragment toward Yaoguang Palace. After several rotations defending the group, they finally emerged from the Demon Realm.

• A blue-robed elder urged the Earth Supremes to cooperate as they approached the apparent Seven Star Palace, which might hold a Heavenly Supreme inheritance.
• The blood-spear expert led the group into the Demon Realm while the other Earth Supremes took positions to defend their sides and rear.
• Xiao Ze used a golden flame to strike a Demon Puppet attacking from the left, then warned Qing Yanjing about the puppets’ ability to traverse space and corrupt their bodies.
• The group rotated its Earth Supreme Great Perfections and Upper Earth Supremes as they fought forward through the Demon Realm.
• Xiao Ze and Qing Yanjing defended the right side with their own techniques, and the group eventually passed through the Demon Realm.

Xiao Ze and Qing Yanjing entered the Demon Palace, following the Bronze Token’s guidance, and discovered an ancient battlefield and a Contention Stage tied to Yaoguang Palace. They realized the sealed space’s way forward was probably on the stage.

• A blood-spear-wielding Earth Supreme Great Perfection opened the Demon Palace’s stubborn gate, and the gathered cultivators rushed inside seeking the inheritance.
• Xiao Ze confirmed the Bronze Token pointed toward the palace, while he and Qing Yanjing chose to enter with their Escape Jade Token as a safeguard.
• The palace gate closed behind Xiao Ze and Qing Yanjing, transporting them to a vast battlefield filled with bones and weapons.
• Xiao Ze and Qing Yanjing found an ancient arena and a ranking stele listing Yaoguang Palace cultivators by the floors they had reached on the Contention Stage.
• Xiao Ze sensed that the space was sealed and concluded that the way forward was probably on the Contention Stage.

Xiao Ze and Qing Yanjing discovered that the Contention Stage was their apparent way out of Yaoguang Palace, and that defeating its Spirit Shadows rewarded challengers with pure Spiritual Energy. Qing Yanjing climbed to the eighty-first level and prepared to face an Earth Supreme Great Perfection opponent, while Xiao Ze watched anxiously.

• Xiao Ze and Qing Yanjing concluded that they needed to ascend the Contention Stage to leave the sealed space, and Qing Yanjing volunteered to go first.
• Qing Yanjing defeated the early Spirit Shadows with ease, absorbed the pure Spiritual Energy they left behind, and climbed to the sixtieth level, where Lower Earth Supreme opponents appeared.
• Qing Yanjing used Spirit Arrays to defeat the Spirit Shadows from the seventy-first level onward, but reached a stalemate on the seventy-sixth level.
• At Xiao Ze's urging, Qing Yanjing fought at full strength with her Spirit Array and Futur Pagoda, defeating the Upper Earth Supreme Spirit Shadow on the eightieth level.
• Qing Yanjing restored herself and stepped onto the eighty-first level to challenge an Earth Supreme Great Perfection Spirit Shadow as Xiao Ze watched nervously.

Qing Yanjing challenged the eighty-first-floor Spirit Shadow by mastering a High-Grade Grandmaster Spirit Array, then advanced to the eighty-fifth floor, where a far stronger opponent forced her to retreat. She left the challenge excited by her gains and with Xiao Ze watching closely.

• Qing Yanjing's first attempt to form a High-Grade Grandmaster Spirit Array failed, but she learned from the mistake and began again while Xiao Ze observed.
• Qing Yanjing formed the Divine Elephant Subduing Demon Diagram and used it to defeat the eighty-first-floor Spirit Shadow.
• Qing Yanjing absorbed and refined the Spirit Shadow's Spiritual Energy, then demonstrated the array several more times before reaching the eighty-fifth floor.
• Qing Yanjing's array, Futur Pagoda, and golden dragon could not overcome the eighty-fifth-floor Spirit Shadow, which tore apart much of the array with a punch.
• Xiao Ze urged Qing Yanjing to give up, and she left the Contention Stage before the Spirit Shadow could strike her.

After Qing Yanjing entered the Contest Ranking’s top five, she gave Xiao Ze the Divine Elephant Subduing Demon Diagram scroll and urged him to challenge the Contention Stage. Xiao Ze advanced through the stages with overwhelming physical strength, then successfully formed the diagram on the eighty-first level and summoned an Ancient Divine Elephant.

• Qing Yanjing took Xiao Ze’s pills, entered the Contest Ranking in fifth place, and learned she could claim Contention Spiritual Energy Cleansing later.
• Qing Yanjing gave Xiao Ze the Divine Elephant Subduing Demon Diagram scroll and encouraged him to challenge the Contention Stage.
• Xiao Ze rapidly defeated the Spirit Shadows, punching through the Lower Earth Supreme opponents from the sixty-first level onward.
• Xiao Ze reached the eighty-first level and studied the diagram after his first attempt shattered under the backlash.
• Xiao Ze successfully formed the Divine Elephant Subduing Demon Diagram and summoned an Ancient Divine Elephant.

Xiao Ze used the Divine Elephant and Origin Emperor Flame to defeat Spirit Shadows on the Contention Stage and reach the ninetieth floor, absorbing the spiritual energy they left behind. He stepped onto the ninety-first floor to face a powerful Spirit Shadow and summoned his Origin Supreme Dharma Body.

• Xiao Ze and Qing Yanjing’s Divine Elephant defeated the Spirit Shadow on the eighty-fifth floor, and Xiao Ze absorbed its spiritual energy.
• Xiao Ze used the Divine Elephant and Origin Emperor Flame to wear down and defeat the Spirit Shadow, while the Contention Stage replenished the spiritual energy he had consumed.
• Xiao Ze continued challenging the Contention Stage and defeated the Spirit Shadow on the ninetieth floor, bringing his spiritual energy closer to completion.
• Xiao Ze considered the possibility that the ninety-first-floor opponent had Pseudo Heaven-Man Union, then stepped onto the floor after recovering.
• Xiao Ze faced a lifelike Spirit Shadow whose spiritual energy pressure stopped Qing Yanjing’s breathing, then summoned his Origin Supreme Dharma Body.

Xiao Ze unleashed the Supreme Dharma Body’s Calamity Three Disasters: Wind Disaster, whose power rivaled a Quasi Peerless Divine Ability, and defeated the Spirit Shadow. Afterward, he absorbed the Contention Stage’s reward and wondered why its challenges ended at the ninety-second floor.

• Xiao Ze expanded his purple-green storm across the Contention Stage, and Qing Yanjing recognized that his Supreme Divine Ability rivaled a Quasi Peerless Divine Ability Technique.
• Xiao Ze used Calamity Three Disasters: Wind Disaster to overwhelm Spirit Shadow’s spiritual-energy attacks and engulf it in the destructive storm.
• Spirit Shadow dissipated, and the Contention Stage healed the Spatial Rifts left by Xiao Ze’s attack.
• Xiao Ze absorbed the pure spiritual energy that appeared at the center of the stage.
• Xiao Ze questioned why the Contention Stage’s challenges stopped at the ninety-second floor, then realized he had underestimated how difficult Quasi Peerless Divine Abilities were to cultivate.

Xiao Ze passed the ninety-first and ninety-second Contention Stage levels, then entered the never-cleared ninety-third level, a Limit-Breaking Challenge with a far stronger Spirit Shadow. He fought the refined, heavy-sword-wielding opponent with his divine abilities, but the battle remained evenly matched as the Spirit Shadow began to gain the upper hand.

• Xiao Ze defeated the Spirit Shadow on the ninety-first level with his Quasi Peerless Divine Ability and absorbed an exceptionally abundant spiritual energy reward.
• Xiao Ze defeated the next Spirit Shadow with his fully condensed Destructive Storm and advanced to the ninety-third Contention Stage.
• Qing Yanjing envied Xiao Ze’s Quasi Peerless Divine Ability but reminded herself that the Futur Ancient Clan could provide resources for her future cultivation.
• Xiao Ze read that the never-cleared ninety-third level was a Limit-Breaking Challenge, where the Spirit Shadow gained past challengers’ combat experience, divine abilities, sacred artifacts, and Supreme Dharma Body.
• Xiao Ze stepped onto the stage and battled an intelligent Spirit Shadow wielding a heavy sword, countering its attacks with his Thunder Calamity Power, Fire Calamity, and Dragon Phoenix True Body.
• Xiao Ze and the Spirit Shadow clashed head-on, but the smaller opponent fought to a draw and began gaining the upper hand.

Xiao Ze defeated the Spirit Shadow in the Limit-Breaking Challenge, awakening the Master of Yaoguang. The Master explained how an Outer Realm Evil Race Demon Emperor had corrupted Yaoguang Palace and warned that the fiend might have escaped without Xiao Ze’s victory.

• Xiao Ze used the Origin Emperor Flame and Supreme Dharma Body to wear down the Spirit Shadow until its spiritual energy was incinerated and it dissipated.
• The Contention Stage announced Xiao Ze’s success, sending golden light and a disturbance throughout Yaoguang Palace as he refined the surging spiritual energy.
• Xiao Ze and Qing Yanjing sensed a Heavenly Supreme’s arrival, and Qing Yanjing readied her Stone Pagoda before the newcomer identified himself as the Master of Yaoguang.
• The Master of Yaoguang explained that an Outer Realm Evil Race army had fallen alongside the palace forces, and he had merged his consciousness with Yaoguang Palace to suppress a Demon Emperor’s Demonic Soul.
• The Master of Yaoguang said the Demon Emperor had secretly weakened its seal and corrupted the palace over time, and that Xiao Ze’s challenge had awakened him before the fiend could succeed.

The Master of Yaoguang explained how the Demon Emperor had used explorers to weaken Yaoguang Palace’s defenses and proposed that Xiao Ze use his Divine Flame to help destroy the Demon Emperor’s Demonic Soul. He sent Xiao Ze and Qing Yanjing to receive Contention Essence before they headed to the sealing grounds.

• The Master of Yaoguang explained that the Demon Emperor had let explorers weaken the palace’s crucial areas so he could erode them all at once.
• The Master of Yaoguang said Xiao Ze’s Divine Flame could help him grind away the Demon Emperor’s Demonic Soul, and Xiao Ze agreed to help.
• The Master of Yaoguang explained that Contention Essence was Continent Power nurtured in the Contention Stage from fragments of Chaos Continent.
• Xiao Ze asked for Qing Yanjing to receive the baptism too, and the Master of Yaoguang agreed to share the essence with them both.
• The Master of Yaoguang opened a golden vortex over the Contest Ranking, and Xiao Ze and Qing Yanjing entered to absorb the Contention Essence.
• After they entered, the Master of Yaoguang praised Xiao Ze’s talent and said he might one day reach the Hall Master’s level.

Xiao Ze and Qing Yanjing underwent the Contention Essence baptism inside the Contest Ranking, enduring its painful impacts to strengthen their bodies and spiritual energy. After several years within the arena, Xiao Ze had absorbed more than half of its Contention Essence and tempered his foundations until his physique could rival a Super Divine Beast.

• Xiao Ze insisted that Qing Yanjing share the Contention Essence baptism with him, and she agreed.
• Xiao Ze and Qing Yanjing began drawing Spirit Shadows into themselves, enduring pain as the Contention Essence damaged and strengthened their bodies.
• Xiao Ze adapted quickly and increased the number of Spirit Shadows he absorbed at once, while his spiritual energy grew and Qing Yanjing's physique improved through cycles of damage and repair.
• Several years passed inside the Contest Ranking as Xiao Ze delayed breaking through to focus on tempering his foundations.
• Master of Yaoguang observed that Xiao Ze had absorbed more than half the Contention Essence and could confront experts who had touched the Heavenly Supreme level through his physique alone.

Qing Yanjing and Xiao Ze used the Contention Essence in the Contest Ranking to reach Earth Supreme Great Perfection. They left the ranking and reunited with the Master of Yaoguang, whose assessment hinted that Xiao Ze’s true strength far exceeded his apparent realm.

• Qing Yanjing refined Spirit Shadows until her physique became comparable to a Divine Beast’s, then absorbed dozens at once and advanced to Earth Supreme Great Perfection.
• Qing Yanjing watched Xiao Ze absorb Spirit Shadows with ease and suspected his physique might rival that of a Super Divine Beast.
• Xiao Ze absorbed hundreds of Spirit Shadows and naturally broke through to Earth Supreme Great Perfection, displaying extraordinary control over his spiritual energy.
• Xiao Ze teased Qing Yanjing about her blood-covered appearance, and she cleansed herself with spiritual energy.
• Xiao Ze and Qing Yanjing left the Contest Ranking and met the Master of Yaoguang, who recognized that Xiao Ze concealed power capable of threatening those who had touched the Heavenly Supreme realm.

Xiao Ze and Qing Yanjing followed Master of Yaoguang to the Star Abyss, where the sealed Profound Demon Emperor lay. Master of Yaoguang transferred his Star Spiritual Energy to Xiao Ze and weakened the fiend with the river of stars, but the Demon Emperor began to emerge.

• Xiao Ze thanked Master of Yaoguang for helping him and Qing Yanjing reach Earth Supreme Great Perfection.
• Master of Yaoguang tested Xiao Ze’s affinity for Star Power and offered to entrust his strength to him for the coming battle.
• Xiao Ze and Qing Yanjing followed Master of Yaoguang through a star passage to the Star Abyss sealing ground.
• Master of Yaoguang poured his Star Spiritual Energy into Xiao Ze, then used the river of stars to weaken the sealed Profound Demon Emperor.
• The Demon Emperor cursed Master of Yaoguang as overwhelming Demonic Energy surged from the abyss and dimmed the river of stars.

Xiao Ze used the Master of Yaoguang’s vast Star Power to battle the Ice Profound Demon Emperor, who broke through his seal and emerged in a body of demonic ice. Their attacks collided in the starry river, leaving Xiao Ze facing the full might of an enemy comparable to an Immortal Grade Heavenly Supreme.

• Xiao Ze sent Qing Yanjing away from the crack and told her to protect herself while she kept the Stone Pagoda ready.
• The Ice Profound Demon Emperor broke the starlight seal, formed a body of demonic ice, and mocked Xiao Ze for relying on the Master of Yaoguang’s power.
• Xiao Ze attacked with a Starfall Spear, but the Ice Profound Demon Emperor caught it and then froze and shattered successive spears with his Demonic Ice World.
• The Ice Profound Demon Emperor emerged from the crack and threatened to torment Xiao Ze, while Xiao Ze answered with a Great Starfall Palm.
• The Ice Profound Demon Emperor countered with Annihilating Demonic Freeze Light, and the two attacks collided, dimming the starry river across hundreds of thousands of miles.

Xiao Ze fought the Ice Profound Demon Emperor by drawing on the star river’s immense Star Power, then unleashed a Nebula Storm after the Demon Emperor demonized the surrounding region. The storm shattered the Emperor’s Great Annihilating Demonic Ice, leaving his fate unresolved as his howl sounded from within it.

• The Ice Profound Demon Emperor shattered Xiao Ze’s Starfall Palm Print with Annihilating Demonic Freeze Light and fired countless beams at him.
• Xiao Ze used Star River Torrent to intercept the beams, gradually overwhelming the Emperor with an inexhaustible supply of Star Power.
• The Ice Profound Demon Emperor cast Demonized World, turning a vast Star Region into a Demon Realm and cutting Xiao Ze off from its Star Power.
• Xiao Ze unleashed Nebula Storm and fled with Qing Yanjing as the storm rapidly eroded the Demon Realm and restored the region.
• The Ice Profound Demon Emperor transformed his body into Great Annihilating Demonic Ice and collided with the storm, which began shattering the ice as he howled in disbelief.

Xiao Ze used the river of stars to destroy the Ice Profound Demon Emperor’s body, then discovered that the Demon Emperor had hidden his Demonic Soul in a shard of demonic ice. Xiao Ze trapped and burned the shard with the Origin Emperor Flame, earning enough credit to become a High-Level Demon Slayer.

• Xiao Ze’s Nebula Storm swept the Ice Profound Demon Emperor into the river of stars, but the Demon Emperor tore it apart by self-destructing.
• Qing Yanjing warned Xiao Ze that the Ice Demon Tribe could hide its Demonic Soul among shattered demonic ice and fake its own death.
• Xiao Ze spread the Origin Emperor Flame through the river of stars to expose the Ice Profound Demon Emperor’s hidden Demonic Soul.
• Xiao Ze trapped the Demon Emperor’s thumb-sized shard of demonic ice in a golden flame sphere and infused the Demon Slaying Token with a wisp of his Demonic Soul.
• The Demon Slaying Token changed Xiao Ze’s rank from Low-Level Demon Slayer to High-Level Demon Slayer.

Xiao Ze’s Demon Slaying Token recognized him as a High-Level Demon Slayer after he defeated the Ice Profound Demon Emperor, drawing attention across the Great Thousand Palace. The Master of Yaoguang then offered him a chance to seek the Chaos Divine Emperor’s Circumstellar Map inheritance in the Chaos Divine Hall.

• The Demon Slaying Steles across the Great Thousand Palace announced Xiao Ze as a High-Level Demon Slayer, and an elderly woman at the Great Thousand Tower decided to report his achievement to headquarters.
• Branches of the Great Thousand Palace reacted to Xiao Ze’s sudden promotion, with many assuming a Heavenly Supreme had killed a Demon Emperor.
• Xiao Ze finished incinerating the Ice Profound Demon Emperor’s Demonic Soul, and the Master of Yaoguang asked him about his Demon Slaying Token.
• Xiao Ze explained the Great Thousand Palace to the Master of Yaoguang, who praised him for stopping the Ice Profound Demon Emperor’s scheme.
• The Master of Yaoguang revealed that Xiao Ze’s affinity with Star Power might let him inherit the Chaos Divine Emperor’s Circumstellar Map, a Peerless Divine Ability.
• The Master of Yaoguang invited Xiao Ze to visit the Chaos Divine Hall and test whether he could obtain the inheritance.

Xiao Ze agreed to use Yaoguang Palace’s dormant spirit array to reach the Chaos Divine Hall and seek the Circumstellar Map, while Qing Yanjing chose to return to her clan rather than risk the Chaos Continent’s depths. Xiao Ze and Master of Yaoguang entered the hall containing the array, where Xiao Ze learned it was a subsidiary of a Grandmaster Level Teleportation Spirit Array connected to the Chaos Divine Hall.

• Xiao Ze accepted Master of Yaoguang’s offer to reach the Chaos Divine Hall, despite its extreme dangers.
• Qing Yanjing asked whether her Escape Jade Token would work in the Chaos Continent’s depths, and Master of Yaoguang warned that the Chaos Storm might interfere with it.
• Xiao Ze gave Qing Yanjing a Dragon-shaped Jade Token so they could contact each other, and she used the Escape Jade Token to return to the Great Thousand Tower.
• After seeing Xiao Ze’s name on the Demon Slaying Stele, Qing Yanjing resolved to return to her clan and seek her own path to the Heavenly Supreme realm.
• Xiao Ze thanked Master of Yaoguang, then followed him through a starlit passage to a great hall and identified the spirit array as part of a Grandmaster Level array connected to the Chaos Divine Hall.