Chapter Summaries

Yan explained the Ancestor Symbols’ trials and told Lin Dong the Thunder Ancestor Symbol was his best chance. Lin Dong decided to seek it in the Chaotic Demon Sea after the Sect Tournament, while realizing Little Marten could ask the other Overlord Races for help against Demon Prison.

• Yan described the Ancestor Symbols’ differing requirements and explained why Lin Dong was not yet suited to the Space or Life and Death Ancestor Symbols.
• Yan said Lin Dong’s resilience made the Thunder Ancestor Symbol his best option, and Lin Dong noted that its location in the Chaotic Demon Sea would make reaching it difficult.
• Yan suggested using spatial teleportation to travel there, and Lin Dong remembered that Little Marten held the Space Ancestor Symbol and might need it against Demonic Aliens targeting the Sky Demon Marten Tribe.
• Lin Dong decided to head to the Chaotic Demon Sea after the Sect Tournament to pursue the Thunder Ancestor Symbol.
• Yan reminded Lin Dong that Little Marten could seek help from the other Overlord Races, and Lin Dong thanked him.

Yan explained the Ancestor Symbols’ different requirements to Lin Dong and told him the Thunder Ancestor Symbol was his best prospect. Lin Dong decided to seek it in the Chaotic Demon Sea after the Sect Tournament, while realizing Little Marten could call on the other Overlord Races against Demon Prison.

• Yan explained that the Devouring Ancestor Symbol tested will, while the Life and Death and Space Ancestor Symbols were beyond Lin Dong’s current abilities.
• Yan said Lin Dong’s toughness made the Thunder Ancestor Symbol his best choice and reminded him that he already had clues to its location.
• Lin Dong worried that reaching the Thunder Ancestor Symbol in the Chaotic Demon Sea would take too long, and Yan suggested using the Space Ancestor Symbol or a spatial formation to travel there.
• Lin Dong considered Little Marten’s danger from Demon Prison and decided they would head for the Chaotic Demon Sea after the Sect Tournament.
• Yan reminded Lin Dong that Little Marten could seek help from the other Overlord Races, and Lin Dong thanked him for the reminder.

The Dao Sect arrived at Otherworldly Demon City ahead of the Sect Tournament, drawing attention to its growing strength and its conflict with Yuan Sect. As the story left off, many gathered experts favored the Dao Sect and expected the tournament to bring a reckoning with Yuan Sect.

• Qi Lei warned the Dao Sect disciples to be careful in Otherworldly Demon City, while Ying Xiaoxiao told Ying Huanhuan to prioritize her safety.
• The Dao Sect’s nearly thousand-strong party entered the city, and onlookers remarked on its formidable lineup and the Sword Saint leading it.
• Experts debated whether the Dao Sect and its allies could overcome Yuan Sect’s foundation and the Yuan Gate Three Little Kings.
• Onlookers discussed Ying Xiaoxiao’s Fu Zhu inheritance, Su Rou’s Cheng Huang inheritance, and the Dao Sect disciple who had obtained the Great Desolate Scripture.
• Many experts expressed hostility toward Yuan Sect and said they hoped to aid the Dao Sect or earn the Sword Saint’s favor during the tournament.

Dao Sect and Yuan Sect arrived in Otherworldly Demon City as the Eastern Xuan Region’s grand event began. Lin Xuan went out with Ying Huanhuan, Ying Xiaoxiao, and Ling Qingzhu, while Lin Dong explored the Treasure Hunting Zone with Dao Sect disciples, hoping to find powerful ancient treasures.

• Qi Lei and the Dao Sect elders settled their disciples in the western part of Otherworldly Demon City and warned them to be cautious.
• Ying Huanhuan pulled Lin Xuan and Ying Xiaoxiao out to meet Ling Qingzhu and walk around the city, though Lin Xuan soon retreated to a teahouse to escape the attention of onlookers.
• Lin Dong learned that ancient Pure Origin Treasures had once been found in the Treasure Hunting Zone and entered it with Qing Ye and other Dao Sect disciples.
• Qing Ye explained that the shops sold fully appraised treasures, so Lin Dong turned his attention to the strange relics displayed by stall owners on the street.

Lin Dong explored the Treasure Hunting Zone and spotted an unusual Old Bronze Furnace that Yan identified as a formation plate. When Yuan Sect disciples tried to take it, the dispute turned into a confrontation with the Dao Sect, ending with Lin Dong and Qing Ye taunting Jiang Tao about Yuan Sect’s humiliation at the hands of Lin Xuan.

• Lin Dong ignored the vendors’ exaggerated claims and followed Qing Ye deeper into the Treasure Hunting Zone, where the treasures were more powerful and recently unearthed.
• Yan pointed out an unusual Old Bronze Furnace at a stall, and Lin Dong learned it was a remnant formation plate before negotiating its price down to eight million Nirvana Pills.
• Jiang Tao and two Yuan Sect disciples interrupted the sale and offered to pay the stall owner twenty million Nirvana Pills for the furnace.
• Qing Ye mocked Jiang Tao for trying to take the item, and the stall owner raised his asking price to twenty million Nirvana Pills.
• Jiang Tao insulted the Primordial Hall disciples, and Lin Dong and Qing Ye retorted by recalling how Lin Xuan had trapped Yuan Sect in its Ancestral Court and beaten its leaders.
• Jiang Tao’s anger gave way to fear as Lin Dong and Qing Ye challenged him to take the matter up with Lin Xuan.

Dao Sect and Yuan Sect disciples gathered for a confrontation in Otherworldly Demon City after Jiang Tao provoked Qing Ye, while Lin Xuan recognized that Yuan Sect was using the Sect Tournament to advance a dangerous plan. The standoff escalated when Lei Qian arrived to challenge Wang Yan, whose strength had risen to the Half-Step Life Profound Realm.

• Jiang Tao crushed a Signal Jade Slip to summon Yuan Sect reinforcements, and Qing Ye sent a signal of his own as Dao Sect and other sects gathered.
• Lin Xuan watched from a teahouse while Ying Xiaoxiao went to support Lin Dong and the Dao Sect disciples against a powerful opponent in the crowd.
• Lin Xuan, Ling Qingzhu, and Ying Huanhuan discussed Yuan Sect's plan to use the Sect Tournament as its last chance, and Lin Xuan declared that Yuan Sect had no more chances.
• Wang Yan arrived to join Lin Dong and the others, then Lei Qian appeared and mocked him over their previous fight.
• Wang Yan revealed his Half-Step Life Profound Realm strength, and Lei Qian recognized that Wang Yan had become strong enough to challenge him.

Wang Yan and Qing Ye fought Lei Qian and Jiang Tao while Lin Dong confronted Yuan Sect disciples Shen Yun and Xia Yan. Lin Dong killed Xia Yan despite a furious order to stop, leaving the battle between the sects raging.

• Wang Yan fought Lei Qian and gained a slight advantage, while Qing Ye clashed with Jiang Tao.
• Lin Dong challenged Shen Yun and Xia Yan to attack him together, drawing them into battle.
• Lin Dong exchanged blows with Shen Yun and used the Stasis Divine Talisman to freeze Xia Yan briefly.
• Lin Dong pierced Xia Yan's throat and carried his corpse back to the Dao Sect disciples, ignoring a shout to stop.

Lin Dong killed Xia Yan after the Yuan Sect’s attack on the Dao Sect, and Ying Xiaoxiao and the others confronted the Yuan Gate Three Little Kings. Yuan Cang withdrew rather than reveal the Yuan Sect’s strength, but warned Lin Dong that they would settle the score in the Otherworldly Demon Domain.

• Yuan Cang tried to strike Lin Dong, but Ying Xiaoxiao stopped his palm with her water-control power, and the Dao Sect fighters regrouped.
• Ying Xiaoxiao confronted Yuan Cang, while Lin Dong destroyed Xia Yan’s corpse and Wang Yan insulted the Yuan Sect.
• Ling Zhen appeared and restrained Lei Qian as onlookers recognized the assembled Yuan Gate Three Little Kings and reconsidered the Dao Sect’s strength.
• Yuan Cang weighed the risks of exposing the Yuan Sect’s plans and decided to retreat rather than start an all-out battle.
• Yuan Cang admitted the Yuan Sect’s defeat for the day and warned Lin Dong that they would settle matters in the Otherworldly Demon Domain.

After Yuan Cang withdrew from the clash, Lin Dong recovered the Old Bronze Furnace and the Dao Sect disciples returned to their encampment, where Qi Lei warned Wang Yan against acting rashly. The Dao Sect leaders prepared for the Yuan Sect’s schemes in the Otherworldly Demon Domain, while Yuan Cang and his allies faced a reprimand at their own camp.

• Yuan Cang admitted defeat and led the Yuan Sect disciples away after Lin Dong killed Xia Yan, while Ying Xiaoxiao regretted that they had escaped without further losses.
• Lin Dong paid the gray-robed merchant eight million Nirvana Pills and received the Old Bronze Furnace, which the merchant believed Lin Dong was fated to obtain.
• Ying Xiaoxiao returned to the teahouse, where observers realized the Sword Saint had been nearby, then she, Lin Xuan, and Ying Huanhuan went back to the Dao Sect encampment.
• Qi Lei praised Lin Dong but reprimanded Wang Yan for risking the younger disciples, and the Dao Sect leaders warned that the Yuan Sect would plan more carefully in the Otherworldly Demon Domain.
• At the Yuan Sect encampment, Yuan Cang reported the failed attempt to probe the Dao Sect’s strength, and a Revolving Wheel Realm elder warned him not to underestimate the Sword Saint.

Lin Dong discovered that the bronze furnace contained a map and an array gate tied to the Burning Heaven Ancient Treasury, leading Dao Sect to uncover Yuan Sect’s plan to release a sealed Demonic Alien. As Dao Sect prepared to thwart the conspiracy without provoking an all-out war, the day the Otherworldly Demon Domain opened arrived.

• Lin Dong used Nirvana Fire to uncover a map to the Burning Heaven Ancient Treasury and an array token inside the bronze furnace, then asked Ying Xiaoxiao about them.
• Ying Xiaoxiao explained that the treasury was famous but thought to contain no treasure, while Lin Xuan and Ying Huanhuan identified the token as an array gate from the Eight Extremes Burning Heaven Gate.
• Ying Huanhuan and Ying Xiaoxiao reasoned that the Burning Heaven Old Man had sealed a powerful Demonic Alien in the treasury and that Yuan Sect intended to release it.
• Ying Xiaoxiao began planning how Dao Sect could seize control of the formation, and Ying Huanhuan resolved to inform Senior Sister Ling and the others.
• Dao Sect and Yuan Sect quietly prepared while avoiding open war, and the day the Otherworldly Demon Domain opened arrived.

As the Otherworldly Demon Domain prepared to open, the major sects gathered outside Otherworldly Demon City and Yuan Sect and Dao Sect sized each other up. Yuan Cang found Dao Sect and Taiqing Palace's close alliance troubling, just as Chen Kui arrived to taunt him.

• Countless experts gathered at the black plain outside Otherworldly Demon City, where the loosened seal barred the entrance to the Otherworldly Demon Domain.
• Divine Sect, Rune Valley, Taiqing Palace, and Yuan Sect arrived, and onlookers noted Yuan Cang, Ling Zhen, and Lei Qian's strength.
• Ying Xiaoxiao led Dao Sect's team while Lin Xuan stayed away to avoid exposing his presence and provoking Yuan Sect's leaders.
• Yuan Cang exchanged guarded greetings with Ling Qingzhu, who warmly spoke with Ying Xiaoxiao, and he realized Dao Sect and Taiqing Palace would likely join forces.
• Chen Kui arrived and mocked Yuan Cang, who challenged him to fight again.

Chen Kui joined the Dao Sect group before the Otherworldly Demon Domain opened, shifting the balance against Yuan Cang. The sect disciples entered the domain, while Yuan Cang pursued the Taiqing Palace and Qi Lei and Chen Zhen planned to counter the Yuan Sect.

• Chen Kui dismissed Yuan Cang’s threat and joined the Dao Sect group, whose strength he believed could overwhelm Yuan Cang.
• As the Otherworldly Demon Domain opened, Ying Xiaoxiao warned the Dao Sect disciples to keep their auras connected during the spatial transmission.
• Yuan Cang ordered Lei Qian and Ling Zhen to strengthen themselves and secretly target the Taiqing Palace instead of the Dao Sect.
• The Dao Sect and Taiqing Palace entered the domain, and Yuan Cang led the Yuan Sect in after the Taiqing Palace.
• Qi Lei and Chen Zhen recognized Yuan Cang’s plan and decided the Dao Sect should join forces with the Taiqing Palace to strike first and mislead the Yuan Sect about the Sword Saint’s presence.

Ling Qingzhu stayed behind to confront Yuan Cang while Su Rou led Taiqing Palace toward the Burning Heaven Ancient Treasury. After Ling Qingzhu and Yuan Cang clashed, Lin Xuan suddenly appeared and sent Yuan Cang and his forces fleeing.

• Ling Qingzhu suspected Yuan Sect was tracking Taiqing Palace through an informant or a method that pierced Su Rou's concealment, and she sent Su Rou ahead to meet Dao Sect at the Burning Heaven Ancient Treasury.
• Ling Qingzhu faced Yuan Cang alone, and Yuan Cang attacked her with Lei Qian, Ling Zhen, and an array formed by Yuan Sect's disciples.
• Ling Qingzhu invoked the Ice Ancestor Symbol and froze and shattered the attackers' combined techniques, but the exertion made her sway.
• Lin Xuan appeared during Yuan Cang's next attack and ordered him to scram, prompting Yuan Cang, Lei Qian, and the others to flee.

Ling Qingzhu stayed behind to confront Yuan Cang while Su Rou led Taiqing Palace toward the Burning Heaven Ancient Treasury. After Ling Qingzhu fought off Yuan Cang and his allies with the Ice Ancestor Symbol, Lin Xuan appeared and sent Yuan Cang fleeing.

• Ling Qingzhu suspected that someone in Taiqing Palace was helping Yuan Sect track them and ordered Su Rou to lead the disciples to the Burning Heaven Ancient Treasury.
• Ling Qingzhu stayed behind to stop Yuan Cang, who arrived with Lei Qian, Ling Zhen, and Yuan Sect's forces.
• Ling Qingzhu revealed the Ice Ancestor Symbol and fought off the combined attacks of Yuan Cang, Lei Qian, Ling Zhen, and the formed disciples.
• Yuan Cang noticed Ling Qingzhu was weakened by using the Ice Ancestor Symbol and prepared to defeat her.
• Lin Xuan appeared in the Otherworldly Demon Domain, and Yuan Cang fled with Lei Qian and the others when Lin Xuan ordered them to scram.

Lin Xuan rescued Ling Qingzhu from Yuan Cang’s pursuit but could not fully use his strength under the Otherworldly Demon Domain’s sealing formation. Yuan Cang and Ling Zhen realized Lin Xuan was likely restricted there and began plotting to release a powerful Demon Prison lord, intending to keep Lin Xuan and the others from interfering.

• Lin Xuan let Yuan Cang and the Yuan Sect disciples leave, then told Ling Qingzhu he had come to protect her and followed her toward the Burning Heaven Ancient Treasury.
• Yuan Cang, Lei Qian, and Ling Zhen fled and questioned why Lin Xuan had not pursued them.
• Ling Zhen reasoned that Lin Xuan must have entered the domain by a special method and might be constrained by its sealing formation.
• Yuan Cang concluded that they could try to release a powerful Demon Prison lord to kill Lin Xuan and the others.
• Yuan Cang saw the Yuan Sect disciples approaching and suggested ensuring that Lin Xuan’s allies would have no chance to interfere.

The Burning Heaven Ancient Treasury drew the Dao Sect, several allied Super Sects, and Yuan Sect vassals as rumors spread that the Dao Sect could open it and that the Yuan Sect would clash with them. The Yuan Sect arrived without Taiqing Palace, but Taiqing Palace then appeared with the Sword Saint leading its team, leaving the crowd stunned that he had entered the Otherworldly Demon Domain.

• The Dao Sect and several major Super Sects gathered at the Burning Heaven Ancient Treasury ahead of the Yuan Sect, while Yuan Sect vassals arrived hoping to prove their loyalty.
• Onlookers discussed Lin Dong's role in discovering how to open the treasury and his past clashes with the Yuan Sect.
• The Yuan Sect team arrived under Yuan Cang, and the crowd feared it had intercepted Taiqing Palace before coming to face the Dao Sect.
• Taiqing Palace's team arrived with the Sword Saint leading it, shocking the gathered experts because powerful outsiders were supposedly unable to enter the Otherworldly Demon Domain.

Dao Sect and its allies confronted Yuan Sect in the Burning Heaven basin, while Lin Xuan’s presence kept Yuan Sect from openly releasing its Demonic Alien trump card. When the Burning Heaven Ancient Treasury began to appear, Yuan Cang brought out its key under Lin Xuan’s threat.

• Ying Xiaoxiao led Dao Sect and Ling Qingzhu led Taiqing Palace in joining forces against Yuan Sect, while the other Super Sects pressured Yuan Sect’s allies.
• Lei Qian challenged Wang Yan, but Chen Kui stepped forward to fight and Ling Zhen offered to join him, revealing Yuan Sect’s willingness to gang up on its opponents.
• Wang Yan openly called Yuan Sect’s members Demon Spawn, and Ling Zhen admitted they had gained powerful strength as he tried to gauge Lin Xuan’s capabilities.
• Lin Xuan rebuked Yuan Sect for hiding, and Ling Qingzhu, Ying Xiaoxiao, Wang Yan, Lin Dong, and the others prepared to attack.
• The Burning Heaven Ancient Treasury began appearing, and Yuan Cang threatened to damage its key unless the assembled sects stayed calm.
• Lin Xuan warned Yuan Cang that he could kill him before Tian Yuanzi’s protection could save him, so Yuan Cang took out the key.

Yuan Cang used the key to open the Burning Heaven Ancient Treasury, and Yuan Sect’s forces rushed inside. Lin Xuan entered the Burning Heaven Cauldron with Ying Huanhuan, Ying Xiaoxiao, and Ling Qingzhu to reach the formation core and stop the sealed Otherworldly Demon General, while Wang Yan stayed behind to deal with the remaining Yuan Sect disciples.

• Yuan Cang opened the Burning Heaven Ancient Treasury with a fiery key and led Yuan Sect disciples inside.
• Ying Xiaoxiao ordered Dao Sect disciples to enter the treasury and told Wang Yan to eliminate the Yuan Sect forces left behind.
• Lin Xuan, Ying Huanhuan, Ying Xiaoxiao, and Ling Qingzhu entered the Burning Heaven Cauldron together, where Ying Huanhuan explained its connection to the Eight Extremes Burning Heaven Formation.
• Lin Xuan led the group toward the formation core and said the Otherworldly Demon General would not escape if they restored the formation.
• The group discovered Yuan Sect had reached the formation core first, where sinister Otherworldly Demonic Qi and a terrifying aura were awakening.

Yuan Cang and the Yuan Sect disciples destroyed the altar’s sealing formation to free a powerful Otherworldly Demon General, hoping it would protect them and kill Lin Xuan. The General emerged, rejected Yuan Cang’s expectations, and reached for him to devour him.

• Yuan Cang, Lei Qian, and Ling Zhen began breaking the altar’s sealing formation while Lin Xuan and the others watched from hiding.
• Lin Xuan told Ying Huanhuan that the freed Otherworldly Demon would treat the Yuan Sect as slaves, and Ling Qingzhu realized he intended to turn the General against them.
• Yuan Cang and the Yuan Sect disciples destroyed the remaining pillars, causing the altar to split open and release clouds of black demonic qi.
• The Otherworldly Demon General emerged and demanded that Yuan Cang and the others kneel before him.
• Yuan Cang invoked the Seven Kings Hall and asked the General to kill Lin Xuan, but the General said he would rather eat him and reached for Yuan Cang.

Yuan Cang and the Yuan Sect disciples freed a General-level Otherworldly Demon, which turned on them before the Burning Heaven Cauldron’s array sealed it again. Lin Xuan reinforced the seal, while Yuan Cang escaped with his followers; the women were expelled from the Cauldron’s space and found themselves near them.

• The General-level Otherworldly Demon attacked Yuan Cang, and Ling Zhen rallied the Yuan Sect disciples to fight it, but its demonic qi forced them into disarray.
• Ying Xiaoxiao and Ying Huanhuan watched the Yuan Sect’s plight, while Lin Xuan noticed the sealing array had been activated and the Burning Heaven Cauldron began to appear.
• The Burning Heaven Cauldron’s spirit array suppressed the demon, and Lin Xuan added a sword array that steadied the seal.
• Yuan Cang, Ling Zhen, Lei Qian, and the Yuan Sect disciples fled through a spatial crack after abandoning their plan to seize the Cauldron.
• The Burning Heaven Cauldron expelled Ling Qingzhu, Ying Xiaoxiao, Ying Huanhuan, and the third woman, bringing them near Yuan Cang and his followers.