Chapter Summaries

Xiao Ming confronted the Black Dragon Sovereign and revealed that he wanted the Plane Embryo of the Sovereign’s home plane. After Xiao Ming effortlessly forced the Sovereign to kneel, the Sovereign began to consider his offer to save their homeland.

• The White Dragon City Lord crushed a black pearl, summoning the Black Dragon Sovereign, who demanded an explanation for being disturbed.
• Xiao Ming identified the Black Dragon Sovereign and said he had come to save the plane the Sovereign’s people had left behind.
• The Black Dragon Sovereign dismissed Xiao Ming’s claim, but Xiao Ming’s pressure forced him to his knees and proved the vast gap between them.
• The Black Dragon Sovereign apologized, then asked why Xiao Ming wanted to save their plane.
• Xiao Ming said he sought the plane’s Plane Embryo, while Qing Yanjing recognized its value as a treasure that could enable advancement to Heavenly Sovereign.
• The Black Dragon Sovereign realized Xiao Ming’s strength could help his people return to their homeland, after their conflict with White Dragon had cost them the Great Sumeru Demonic Pillar and left them in hiding.

Xiao Ming postponed helping Black Dragon Sovereign reclaim his plane while he studied the Great Thousand World's cultivation system. After discovering that Qing Tan had broken through and gained a powerful Sovereign Immortal Body from Qing Yanjing, he decided to take the group to the Merchant Continent to recover his strength.

• Xiao Ming assured Black Dragon Sovereign that he would eventually take him to his plane, but said he first needed time and would leave him a jade slip before departing the Northern Desolate Continent.
• Qing Yanjing asked whether Xiao Ming would let her take the Plane Embryo, and he said he would give it to her if she wanted it.
• Xiao Ming spent two weeks studying Dragon Demon Palace's books on the Great Thousand World's cultivation system.
• Xiao Ming discovered that Qing Tan had reached the Supreme realm and condensed the Netherworld Sovereign Immortal Body, which Qing Yanjing had given her.
• Xiao Ming decided to take Qing Tan and the others to the Merchant Continent, where he expected to recover his strength.

Xiao Ming and his companions arrived at Commerce City on Merchant Continent to seek rare medicinal herbs and supplies. After entering the bustling city with Qing Tan and Qing Yanjing, they headed toward the Auction House, leaving their search just beginning.

• Xiao Ming and his companions traveled to Merchant Continent while he continued searching for news of Xiao Xuan and the others, and Qing Yanjing's injuries partially healed.
• The group reached Commerce City, where Xiao Ming and Qing Yanjing examined the city's formidable defensive formation.
• Xiao Ming led Qing Tan and Qing Yanjing into the city to find rare herbs for his pill formula, medicine for Qing Yanjing, and other supplies.
• As they walked through the crowded streets, Qing Tan and Qing Yanjing each took Xiao Ming's arm, drawing jealous and hostile stares from onlookers.
• Xiao Ming suggested they check shops for ordinary herbs on their way to the Auction House, and the three headed toward the city center.

Xiao Ming, Qing Yanjing, and Qing Tan entered Commerce City's Merchant Auction House to seek medicinal ingredients and discovered that the Fire Spirit Race had come for a powerful Spirit Fire. As the auction began under chief auctioneer Master Mo Qing, the Fire Spirit Race's plans and Xiao Ming's interest in the treasures remained unresolved.

• Xiao Ming and his companions reached the Merchant Auction House, bought tickets with Supreme Spirit Liquid, and found seats in the enormous venue.
• Xiao Ming noticed the Fire Spirit Race entering, and Qing Yanjing explained that the race collected Heaven and Earth Spirit Fire.
• Elder Yan recognized Qing Yanjing as an injured Earthly Sovereign Great Perfection, while the arrogant young man said the Spirit Fire was essential to his rise.
• Major factions filled the private rooms as the auction venue grew more animated.
• Master Mo Qing appeared to open the auction, and Xiao Ming considered the Treasure Hunting Beast bloodline behind the auctioneer's reputation.

Mo Qing began the auction with Blood Spirit Mud and Spirit Fire Companion Jade Marrow, drawing fierce bidding from the crowd. Qing Yanjing outbid Huo Mo for the Jade Marrow, while Huo Mo held back in anticipation of the Heaven and Earth Spirit Fire.

• Mo Qing opened the auction and sold the Blood Spirit Mud to a fierce-looking middle-aged man for three million two hundred thousand Supreme Spirit Liquid.
• Mo Qing introduced Spirit Fire Companion Jade Marrow, and Xiao Ming showed interest in it as a medicinal ingredient.
• Huo Mo told his companion to bid three million Supreme Spirit Liquid for the Jade Marrow.
• Qing Yanjing raised the bid to six million Supreme Spirit Liquid, stunning the venue and prompting Xiao Ming to caution her about the cost and possible trouble.
• Huo Mo chose not to bid again, and Mo Qing declared the Jade Marrow sold.

Xiao Ming bid on the Six Paths Heavenly Tree, a key ingredient for his Spirit Transformation Pill, and outlasted rival bidders before the Fire Spirit Race tried to drive up the price. He won the bidding at twenty-five million drops of Supreme Spirit Liquid after the Fire Spirit Race stopped, though the chapter did not confirm the final sale.

• After fourteen auction items passed without the ingredients he sought, Xiao Ming saw the Six Paths Heavenly Tree presented as the fifteenth item and recognized it as a main ingredient for his pill.
• Mo Qing explained the tree's ability to cleanse and strengthen spiritual energy and convert its attribute without loss, then opened bidding at ten million drops of Supreme Spirit Liquid.
• The ruler of the Nine Heavens Continent and the young master of the White Jade Tower raised the price, but both stopped after Xiao Ming bid twenty-one million.
• The Fire Spirit Race bid against Xiao Ming, prompting Qing Yanjing to offer to cover any shortfall, and Xiao Ming continued raising his offer to twenty-five million.
• After the Fire Spirit Race withdrew, Huo Mo told Elder Yan he had used the bidding to drain Xiao Ming's funds and ordered the others to stop driving up prices.

Xiao Ming won the Withered Glory Divine Fruit at the auction, bringing him closer to gathering the ingredients for the Spirit Transformation Pill. The auction then revealed its final treasure, the dangerous Azure Rock Green Flame, which had already killed three High-Rank Alchemy Grandmasters.

• Xiao Ming heard Qing Yanjing warn that the Fire Spirit Race elder was powerful, but he chose to focus on the ongoing auction.
• Xiao Ming bid thirty million Supreme Spirit Liquid for the Withered Glory Divine Fruit and won it after no one else joined the bidding.
• Xiao Ming and Qing Tan noticed the greedy gazes from other bidders and warned that anyone who attacked them would pay for it.
• Master Mo Qing unveiled the Azure Rock Green Flame, ranked sixty-second on the Heaven and Earth Spirit Fire Ranking.
• Master Mo Qing explained that the flame had developed intelligence and killed three High-Rank Alchemy Grandmasters who tried to subdue it.

Xiao Ming used the Supreme Spirit Liquid Qing Yanjing lent him to outbid Huo Mo for the Azure Rock Green Flame. After Xiao Ming won the fire, Huo Mo ordered his people to investigate them and threatened to take it back.

• Huo Mo declared that he would test his ability to subdue the Azure Rock Green Flame, and Mo Qing opened bidding at thirty-five million drops of Supreme Spirit Liquid.
• Qing Yanjing lent Xiao Ming one hundred million drops of Supreme Spirit Liquid so he could bid on the fire, and Xiao Ming said he would use it to refine pills to heal her injuries.
• After the price rose to sixty-three million, Huo Mo offered the highest bid until Xiao Ming raised it to seventy million drops.
• Xiao Ming displayed the Supreme Spirit Liquid in Qing Yanjing's Jade Bottle, proving he could pay, while Huo Mo declined to bid higher.
• Mo Qing awarded the Azure Rock Green Flame to Xiao Ming, and Huo Mo ordered his people to watch them and investigate their backgrounds.

Xiao Ming settled the auction bill and arranged for the Auction House to find an Astral Heavenly Origin Fruit while he waited on the Merchant Continent. After swallowing the Azure Rock Green Flame and asking Mo Qing to search for Xiao Xuan and two others, Xiao Ming left with Qing Yanjing and Qing Tan, intent on healing their injuries and dealing with anyone stalking them.

• Xiao Ming paid for the auction items with Supreme Spirit Liquid and asked Mo Qing to obtain an Astral Heavenly Origin Fruit, which Mo Qing expected to deliver from a branch on the Star Continent in ten days.
• Xiao Ming crushed the crystal containing the Azure Rock Green Flame and swallowed the Spirit Fire, astonishing Mo Qing and Qing Yanjing as it accelerated his spiritual energy conversion.
• Xiao Ming asked Mo Qing to investigate Xiao Xuan and two others, and Mo Qing promised to search for them without charge.
• Mo Qing ordered the maids to keep Xiao Ming's actions secret after Xiao Ming and the two women left the Auction House.
• Xiao Ming sensed greedy onlookers in the shadows and told Qing Yanjing and Qing Tan to find a courtyard where he could heal their injuries while waiting for the fruit.

Xiao Ming began refining a healing pill for Qing Yanjing, using the Withered Glory Divine Fruit and his Emperor Flame. As the pill neared completion after nine days, its gathering Spirit Qi drew attention across Commerce City, while Huo Mo remained confident that Elder Yan could defeat them.

• Xiao Ming decided to refine medicine after the pursuers kept their distance, and he brought out the Withered Glory Divine Fruit and other ingredients.
• Xiao Ming used his Emperor Flame to extract the fruit's essence and began refining a pill to heal Qing Yanjing.
• Qing Yanjing recognized Xiao Ming as at least a Spirit Grade Alchemy Grandmaster, while Qing Tan watched with familiarity.
• After nine days, strange visions and gathered Spirit Qi from the nearly completed pill alerted all of Commerce City to the secluded courtyard.
• Huo Mo concluded that Xiao Ming was the injured Earth Sovereign and remained confident that Elder Yan would prevail.

Xiao Ming refined a Ninth Grade medicinal pill for Qing Yanjing, drawing Pill Rain and Earth Demon Thunder that stirred Commerce City. After he caught the pill and explained its grade, he noticed visitors approaching the Secluded Courtyard.

• Xiao Ming fused the spirit liquids and formed a medicinal pill prototype, which drew a Pill Rain over Commerce City.
• Black clouds and Earth Demon Thunder gathered as the pill was tempered, then the pillar of light broke and the completed pill tried to flee.
• Xiao Ming struck the escaping pill with Soul Power and caught it, while onlookers outside grew greedy and sent messages to other factions.
• Xiao Ming examined the pill's nine Pill Markings and gave it to Qing Yanjing to help her recover.
• Qing Yanjing identified the pill as a Ninth Grade Divine Pill, and Xiao Ming explained that true Divine Pills were Level Ten before noting that visitors had arrived.

Xiao Ming obtained the Astral Heavenly Origin Fruit and refined the Spirit Transformation Pill, drawing even more attention from powerful forces in Commerce City. He left the city to recover his cultivation on a deserted continent, where the pill’s power began rebuilding his body.

• Master Mo Qing delivered the Astral Heavenly Origin Fruit, gave Xiao Ming a Merchant Auction House VIP card, and warned him that powerful forces might target him.
• Qing Yanjing went to take a pill and recover from her injuries, while Xiao Ming told Qing Tan to cultivate as he prepared another pill.
• Ten days later, Xiao Ming’s Spirit Transformation Pill drew a fierce Pill Lightning with traces of gold, stirring greed among onlookers in Commerce City.
• Xiao Ming decided to recover his cultivation outside Merchant Continent and left through a spatial rift for an abandoned continent.
• Xiao Ming swallowed the Spirit Transformation Pill and began rebuilding his body as vast Spirit Qi surged into him.

Xiao Ming completed his conversion to Spirit Qi, rapidly advanced to Ninth Grade Sovereign, and used Ling to devour a continent and form the Ten Thousand Spirits Floating World Body. The body’s power restored his Heavenly Sovereign cultivation, but a dark tribulation gathered above him, seeming more dangerous than an ordinary Heavenly Venerable Tribulation.

• Xiao Ming completed his Spirit Qi conversion, passed the Sovereign Minor Three Difficulties, and opened his sovereign sea.
• Xiao Ming drew energy from the Tian Xuan Continent to enlarge Ling, then had Ling devour an abandoned continent.
• Xiao Ming used the continent’s laws and Ling as the foundation to form the Ten Thousand Spirits Floating World Body.
• Xiao Ming absorbed the body’s power of chaos and recovered his Heavenly Sovereign cultivation.
• Xiao Ming saw dark clouds gather overhead and realized the Heavenly Venerable Tribulation was descending, though it seemed unusual.

Xiao Ming faced a devastating Heavenly Venerable Tribulation infused with Wrath of the Heavens after restoring his strength. As the Abyssal Purple Void began erasing him and the Ten Thousand Spirits Floating World Body, he awakened an innate divine ability called Chaos Tribulation Light.

• Xiao Ming blocked a crushing Black Water Stream with a Spiritual Energy Barrier, then deflected a corrosive Black Spark by discarding the barrier.
• Xiao Ming used Heavenly Flames to slow and weaken a Black Meteorite before smashing it apart with his fist.
• Xiao Ming endured a relentless storm of Black Lightning behind a multicolored lotus, which eventually shattered as the tribulation subsided.
• A Purple Lightning Eye appeared in the clouds and sent down an Abyssal Purple Void more powerful than the preceding attacks.
• Xiao Ming combined his spiritual treasures into a strengthened lotus, but the Purple Void erased it and began annihilating the Ten Thousand Spirits Floating World Body.
• As the Ten Thousand Spirits Floating World Body vanished, Xiao Ming's bloodline intertwined with his spiritual energy and awakened the innate divine ability Chaos Tribulation Light.

Xiao Ming awakened the Chaos Tribulation Light, subdued the Purple Lightning Eye, and reshaped the Ten Thousand Spirits Floating World Body into a vast Small World. He returned to Commerce City, where Qing Tan and Qing Yanjing confronted him for leaving without warning.

• Xiao Ming used the Chaos Tribulation Light to dispel the Purple Void and the Thunder Eye, then transformed the Thunder Eye into the Eye of the Heavens.
• Xiao Ming explored the Small World inside the Ten Thousand Spirits Floating World Body and created a mountain range and a Medicine Mountain.
• Xiao Ming left the Small World and returned to the Secluded Courtyard in Commerce City.
• Qing Tan greeted Xiao Ming and scolded him for leaving without telling her and Qing Yanjing.
• Xiao Ming apologized to Qing Yanjing, then asked whether she had broken through.

After recovering her strength and reaching Touching Heavenly Sovereign, Qing Yanjing joined Xiao Ming and Qing Tan as they lured their pursuers out of the city. They confronted Huo Mo and the Gaunt Old Man on a mountain, where the elder unleashed his cold black flames to begin the fight.

• Qing Yanjing thanked Xiao Ming for the pills and revealed that she had recovered her strength and reached Touching Heavenly Sovereign.
• Xiao Ming said they would deal with the people pursuing them, and he, Qing Yanjing, and Qing Tan left the city at dusk to draw them out.
• Huo Mo and the Gaunt Old Man followed the trio to a mountain, where Huo Mo demanded the Azure Rock Green Flame and Xiao Ming's Spirit God Pill.
• Qing Yanjing questioned whether Huo Mo qualified to cultivate the Fire Spirit Sacred Canon, and Xiao Ming's remark made Huo Mo order the Gaunt Old Man to attack.
• The Gaunt Old Man released a storm of freezing black flames that shattered the mountain as he told everyone else to step aside.

Huo Mo and Elder Yan confronted four powerful experts who had arrived to claim the Alchemy Grandmaster and other prizes, despite the Fire Spirit Race’s demand that they stay out of the dispute. Huo Mo threatened to call upon the Fire Spirit Race’s Old Ancestor when the others refused to back down.

• The Gaunt Old Man’s Black Flame exposed concealed groups in the sky, and Elder Yan watched True Monarch Ziyun, Joyful Immortal, Crimson Firmament Emperor, and the Eastern Thunder Branch Master emerge.
• Onlookers identified the four experts and described the powerful factions and Heavenly Sovereigns backing some of them.
• Huo Mo introduced himself and Elder Yan, then asked the four to leave the Fire Spirit Race’s dispute alone.
• The Eastern Thunder Branch Master and True Monarch Ziyun said their orders required them to bring back the Alchemy Grandmaster, while Joyful Immortal declared she wanted the handsome young man.
• Huo Mo realized the experts intended to take people rather than challenge him directly, and threatened to have the Fire Spirit Race’s Old Ancestor emerge if they continued interfering.

Qing Yanjing trapped the assembled experts in her vast Spirit Array, while Xiao Ming demanded they surrender all their possessions. When the leaders attacked, Xiao Ming revealed Heavenly Sovereign-level power and shattered their combined assault, leaving them terrified.

• Qing Yanjing activated the Futuo Great Formation, sealing everyone in the region and alarming the assembled experts.
• True Monarch Ziyun and the others realized Qing Yanjing controlled the formation and began to suspect Xiao Ming's true strength.
• The Crimson Firmament Emperor, True Monarch Ziyun, and the others asked to leave, but Xiao Ming demanded they surrender all their possessions.
• Huo Mo urged the experts to join forces, and True Monarch Ziyun led five Touching Heavenly Sovereigns in attacking Xiao Ming.
• Xiao Ming unleashed pressure beyond the Heavenly Sovereign level, shattered all five attacks, and revealed himself as a Heavenly Sovereign.

Xiao Ming revealed himself as a Heavenly Sovereign after True Monarch Ziyun and the others attacked him, and Huo Mo summoned Fire Spirit Old Ancestor through a jade pendant. Fire Spirit Old Ancestor learned that Huo Mo had provoked Xiao Ming, leaving the two sovereigns facing each other.

• Xiao Ming's pressure knocked True Monarch Ziyun and five others from the sky, while Huo Mo was badly injured.
• Huo Mo activated a fiery-red jade pendant and called for Fire Spirit Old Ancestor to save him.
• Fire Spirit Old Ancestor appeared as an avatar, and Xiao Ming introduced himself as the Heavenly Emperor.
• Elder Yan explained how Huo Mo had provoked Xiao Ming, and Fire Spirit Old Ancestor condemned Huo Mo's reckless behavior.

Xiao Ming rejected Fire Spirit Old Ancestor’s appeal for leniency and demanded compensation for Huo Mo’s crimes. When the two Heavenly Sovereigns fought, Xiao Ming’s Emperor Flame melted Fire Spirit Old Ancestor’s Fire Spirit Bell, leaving the elder asking its name.

• Fire Spirit Old Ancestor asked Xiao Ming to spare Huo Mo and give the Fire Spirit Race face, but Xiao Ming refused.
• Xiao Ming offered to let the matter go if Huo Mo and his protector were crippled and the Fire Spirit Race paid two billion drops of Supreme Spirit Liquid and surrendered five ranked Spirit Fires.
• Fire Spirit Old Ancestor rejected the terms and challenged Xiao Ming, forming the Fire Spirit Bell from his Natal Spiritual Fire.
• Fire Spirit Old Ancestor trapped Xiao Ming inside the bell, but Xiao Ming’s Emperor Flame melted it and overwhelmed the elder’s fire.
• Fire Spirit Old Ancestor asked Xiao Ming the name of his flame, and Xiao Ming answered, “Emperor Flame.”