Chapter Summaries

Lu Chen subdued the Thunder Spirit, recovered the third ancient map fragment, and found a Thunder God Pill before entering seclusion to refine it. Two months later, he emerged at Earthly Supreme Great Perfection as Xiao Lin arrived at the Great Ruler Hall with an invitation from the Endless Fire Territory.

• Lu Chen used the Supreme Heart Demon Seal to calm and subdue the Thunder Spirit, which shrank and entered the seal on his hand.
• Lu Chen retrieved a third ancient map fragment and found a Thunder God Pill in the Thunder Lake, then entrusted the Heavenly Emperor Sword and the alliance’s affairs to Mandala before entering seclusion.
• Lu Chen began refining the Thunder God Pill with support from his two avatars, and continued for two months.
• Xiao Lin arrived at the Great Ruler Hall as a Quasi-Heavenly Supreme and delivered an invitation to the Endless Fire Territory Pill Gathering Ceremony for Lu Chen and the Tianluo Alliance.
• Lu Chen appeared at the hall after breaking through to Earthly Supreme Great Perfection and greeted Xiao Lin, questioning why he had been invited to a pill gathering.

Xiao Lin invited Lu Chen to join the Dan Gathering Tournament, explaining that it combined alchemy with battles against the Extraterritorial Evil Clan and offered valuable rewards. Lu Chen agreed to partner with Xiao Xiao, whose alchemy skill could help them win the Great Bodhi Pill and other prizes.

• Xiao Lin privately asked Lu Chen what he thought of Xiao Xiao, then claimed she admired him and had praised him to their father.
• Xiao Lin explained that the Dan Gathering Tournament lasted a month and involved fighting the Extraterritorial Evil Clan for Demon Subjugation Points and rewards.
• Xiao Lin revealed that tournament champions could win the Great Bodhi Pill and the Emperor Yan Celestial Body cultivation method, while guards bound to alchemists could share their rewards.
• Lu Chen weighed the rewards against the risks and asked how long the tournament lasted, then considered the value of both its prizes and the resources bought with Demon Subjugation Points.
• Xiao Lin praised Xiao Xiao's alchemy and cultivation achievements and urged Lu Chen to partner with her.
• Lu Chen agreed to participate in the Dan Gathering Tournament and partner with Xiao Xiao.

Lu Chen studied Xiao Lin’s intelligence on the Pill Gathering Tournament and devised a way to keep Liu Feng and Xuan Yuanmo from claiming victory together. After arranging protection for the Tianluo Alliance, Lu Chen and Su Qingyin arrived in the Endless Fire Territory for the tournament.

• Xiao Lin gave Lu Chen a ranking of the tournament’s likely contenders and explained why several ancient clans and the Great Thousand Palace were absent.
• Xiao Lin described Liu Feng’s strength, and Lu Chen suggested offering Liu Feng fame and Xuan Yuanmo profit through a joint championship.
• Lu Chen entrusted the Tianluo Alliance to Mandala, the Xia Emperor, and the Ten Thousand Insects Old Ancestor before leaving with Su Qingyin.
• Lu Chen and Su Qingyin reached Flame City in the Endless Fire Territory as factions gathered for the Pill Gathering Ceremony.

Lu Chen and Su Qingyin arrived in Flame City for the Dan Gathering Tournament, where Xiao Lin reunited them with Xiao Xiao and secured Xiao Xiao’s agreement to team up with Lu Chen. The next morning, Xiao Lin led the group toward the Great Thousand Tower so Lu Chen could collect a Demon Subjugation Token and see the Demon Subjugation List.

• A Flame City reception envoy welcomed Lu Chen and Su Qingyin, showed them to their courtyard, and described the city’s Burning Sky Tower and Fire Swallowing Clan.
• Xiao Lin and Xiao Xiao visited Lu Chen, and Xiao Xiao reluctantly agreed to team up with him for the tournament.
• The next morning, Lu Chen and Su Qingyin received complimentary identity jade tokens for the Burning Sky Tower.
• Xiao Lin offered to guide Lu Chen and Su Qingyin to the Burning Sky Tower, then suggested visiting the Great Thousand Tower to collect a Demon Subjugation Token.
• Lu Chen chose to visit the Great Thousand Tower first, and Xiao Lin led Lu Chen, Su Qingyin, and Xiao Xiao there.

Lu Chen and his companions visited Flame City’s Demon Subjugation List and learned how Demon Subjugators earned ranks and points. After receiving their tokens at the Great Thousand Tower, they encountered the Wen Family and set off for the Burning Sky Tower.

• Xiao Lin explained that the Demon Subjugation List ranked cultivators by points earned for killing members of the Extraterritorial Evil Clan, and Xiao Xiao described why Emperor-level devils were difficult to kill.
• Lu Chen and his companions entered the Great Thousand Tower, where Xiao Lin introduced them to Crimson Fire Elder and requested Demon Subjugation Tokens for Lu Chen and Su Qingyin.
• Crimson Fire Elder used their essence blood to create their Elementary Demon Subjugation Tokens and explained how they could record points from slain devils.
• He Po arrived with members of the Northern Region Wen Family, including Wen Ziyu, and collected Demon Subjugation Tokens for them.
• After the Wen Family left, Xiao Lin led Lu Chen and the others toward the Burning Sky Tower to see the Burning Sky Spirit Flame.

Lu Chen cultivated in the Burning Sky Tower before attending the Dan Gathering Tournament, where Yao Chen announced that its first round would send alchemists to fight the Extraterritorial Evil Clan. The top one hundred contestants would advance to the alchemy duel, while the battle could cost participants their lives.

• Xiao Lin brought Lu Chen and his companions to the Burning Sky Tower, where Su Qingyin suffered from Fire Poison and Xiao Xiao gave her a Bing Xin Pill.
• Su Qingyin left the tower, and Xiao Lin led Lu Chen to the eighth level, where Lu Chen entered the Jia Three cultivation room to cultivate.
• After several days, Lu Chen stabilized his Earthly Supreme Great Perfection realm and joined Xiao Lin and Xiao Xiao on their way to the Dan Gathering Tournament plaza.
• Lu Chen met up with Su Qingyin at the plaza as more than a hundred Heavenly Supremes appeared on the elevated platforms.
• Yao Chen opened the tournament and explained that its first round was a dangerous Demon Subjugation Battle against the Extraterritorial Evil Clan, with the top one hundred contestants advancing to the alchemy duel.

Lu Chen and Xiao Xiao entered the Extraterritorial Land for the demon subjugation battle, where they encountered two members of the Flame Demon Tribe. The chapter ended as Lu Chen prepared to fight them with his silver seal.

• Qin Bubai volunteered for the battle, clashed verbally with Mo Xin, and Bai Xin'er intervened before their argument escalated.
• Yao Chen set a fifteen-day limit, distributed Teleportation Jade Talismans, and opened the passage to the Extraterritorial Land.
• Lu Chen gave Su Qingyin fifty million Sovereign Spiritual Liquid, and she handed him newly cultivated Space Devouring Insects.
• Lu Chen and Xiao Xiao entered the corrupted Extraterritorial Land and sent the insects to search for enemies.
• Two members of the Flame Demon Tribe tracked the insects and confronted Lu Chen and Xiao Xiao.
• Lu Chen summoned a silver seal and challenged the Flame Demon Tribe members to fight.

Lu Chen and Xiao Xiao defeated two Flame Demon Tribe experts, then went to aid Wen Ziyu and Wen Qingxuan, who were being attacked by a Flame Demon Prince. Lu Chen faced the prince, who unleashed the Black Bone Heart-Burning Flame forged from the corpses of eight Heavenly Supremes.

• Lu Chen used the Supreme Heart Demon Seal to kill two Great Perfection Earthly Supreme experts from the Flame Demon Tribe, and their demon heart blood raised his Demon Subjugation Token tally to four hundred.
• A Space Devouring Insect alerted Lu Chen and Xiao Xiao that people from the Great Thousand World were in danger, so they hurried toward them.
• The Flame Demon Prince wounded Wen Ziyu and overwhelmed his Heavenly River Freezing Palm while Wen Qingxuan stood ready to fight beside him.
• Lu Chen appeared to shield Wen Ziyu and Wen Qingxuan, then clashed with the Flame Demon Prince using the Supreme Heart Demon Seal.
• The Flame Demon Prince recognized that Lu Chen had killed his guards and summoned the Black Bone Heart-Burning Flame, which he said had been forged from eight Heavenly Supreme corpses.

Lu Chen fought off the Flame Demon Tribe prince with the help of his battle arrays, but the prince self-destructed a Sacred Artifact and left Lu Chen gravely injured with Black Bone Heart-Burning Flame raging inside him. After Xiao Xiao killed the prince, Wen Qingxuan offered a possible cure: the Wen Family's Yin-Yang Profound Dragon Pill.

• Lu Chen used Fleeting Shadow to break the prince's Black Bone Heart-Burning Flame, but the prince returned and attacked while Lu Chen was depleted.
• Xiao Xiao protected Lu Chen with her Seven-Colored Heaven Devouring Dharma Body, and Lu Chen used the Space Devouring Insects' Spirit Devouring Battle Array to swallow the Spirit Binding Demon Net.
• The prince self-destructed his Sacred Artifact, and Lu Chen shielded Xiao Xiao, Wen Qingxuan, and Wen Ziyu with the Black Tortoise Battle Array before collapsing from his injuries.
• Xiao Xiao destroyed the prince's remnant soul by detonating more than a dozen high-grade Sacred Artifacts.
• Wen Qingxuan told Xiao Xiao that the Wen Family's Yin-Yang Profound Dragon Pill might save Lu Chen.

Xiao Xiao used the Yin-Yang Profound Dragon Pill and entered Lu Chen’s spiritual soul to guide its power, helping them both reach the Quasi-Heavenly Supreme realm. After waking, Lu Chen and Xiao Xiao reconciled and became friends, while Lu Chen revealed that the Black Bone Heart-Burning Flame had been purified and was waiting for him to refine it.

• Wen Qingxuan gave Xiao Xiao the Yin-Yang Profound Dragon Pill so she could enter Lu Chen’s body and guide its power.
• Xiao Xiao’s spiritual soul entered Lu Chen’s mind and fused with his, while the pill’s power formed a cocoon around them.
• Lu Chen and Xiao Xiao emerged from the cocoon having both reached the Quasi-Heavenly Supreme realm.
• Lu Chen and Xiao Xiao set aside their awkwardness, introduced themselves again, and agreed to be friends.
• Lu Chen showed Wen Ziyu, Wen Qingxuan, and Xiao Xiao the purified Black Bone Heart-Burning Flame and said it seemed attached to him.

Demon Emperor Yan Tian learned that his child had been killed and sent two members of the Hidden Demon Clan to hunt the culprit. Meanwhile, Lu Chen refined the Black Bone Heart-Burning Flame and reached the limit below the Heavenly Supreme realm.

• Demon Emperor Yan Tian gave the Hidden Demon Clan members a Flame Demon Pearl and ordered them to bring back the one who killed his child.
• Lu Chen killed a peak Earthly Supreme Demon General, earning enough points to become an Intermediate Demon Subjugator.
• Lu Chen told Wen Ziyu, Xiao Xiao, and Wen Qingxuan that the Extraterritorial Evil Clan were retreating after their allies were killed and that he might have to scout deeper into their territory.
• Lu Chen swallowed the Black Bone Heart-Burning Flame and began refining it while his companions stood guard.
• Lu Chen's Heavenly Flame Celestial Body balanced its three flames, expanded, and helped him reach the limit below the Heavenly Supreme realm.

Lu Chen sensed the Heavenly Supreme Barrier after refining the Black Bone Heart-Burning Flame and evolved his Ten Thousand Flames Celestial Body. He followed a Space Devouring Insect’s alert to a battle, where he met a mysterious Black-Robed Man, slew four Flame Demon Tribe experts, and faced two Demon Emperor-level enemies alongside his new acquaintance.

• Lu Chen sensed the Heavenly Supreme Barrier, put away his evolved Ten Thousand Flames Celestial Body, and split from Xiao Xiao, Wen Ziyu, and Wen Qingxuan to investigate Extraterritorial Evil Clan activity.
• Lu Chen found a black barrier containing the Black-Robed Man, who was fighting four Flame Demon Tribe experts, and entered after the swordsman invited him in.
• Lu Chen used a powerful sword strike to kill the four Flame Demon Tribe experts and collected their Demon Subjugation Points.
• The Black-Robed Man criticized Lu Chen for relying on spiritual energy instead of swordsmanship, and Lu Chen admitted he had never cultivated a swordsmanship divine ability.
• Two Demon Emperor-level figures appeared, and Lu Chen and the Black-Robed Man agreed to fight one each as the Black-Robed Man launched his first attack.

Lu Chen and Liu Feng defeated two Demon Emperors, using Lu Chen’s Ten Thousand Flames Celestial Body and Liu Feng’s Azure Sword Profound Body to destroy their bodies and capture their souls. After introducing themselves, Lu Chen asked Liu Feng how to completely erase the captured Demon Emperor’s demonic soul.

• Lu Chen summoned his black-and-white incarnations and used the Ten Thousand Flames Celestial Body to burn apart the short Demon Emperor’s avatar and body.
• Lu Chen’s black-robed incarnation caught the short Demon Emperor’s fleeing remnant soul in the Supreme Heart Demon Seal.
• Liu Feng revealed the Azure Sword Profound Body and destroyed the tall Demon Emperor with the Azure Immortal Sword, then sealed his demonic soul in an azure crystal.
• Lu Chen introduced himself as the alliance leader of the Tianluo Alliance, and Liu Feng praised his strength.
• Lu Chen asked Liu Feng whether he knew how to completely erase the captured Demon Emperor’s demonic soul.

Lu Chen used the Black Bone Heart-Burning Flame to destroy a Demon Emperor’s demonic soul and helped Liu Feng claim five thousand Demon Subjugation Points. After they parted ways, Lu Chen returned to Flame City, where weary survivors of the demon-subjugation missions began arriving.

• Liu Feng gave Lu Chen the sealed demonic soul, and Lu Chen refined it with the Black Bone Heart-Burning Flame until only a remnant remained.
• Lu Chen used Liu Feng’s Demon Subjugation Token to absorb the remnant soul, raising its points to five thousand.
• Lu Chen told Liu Feng he planned to compete for the Emperor Yan Celestial Body, but Liu Feng said he had no need to pursue it and would not stand in Lu Chen’s way.
• Lu Chen declined Liu Feng’s offer to hunt demons together because he had agreed to meet his companions, and they parted with plans to meet again in Flame City.
• Ten days later, travelers returned through the Light Gate in Flame City, including pill-gathering prodigies and demon-subjugation squads, some grieving their losses.

Lu Chen began another future-life simulation to locate the Heaven Wrath Thunder Emperor’s inheritance. The simulation ended with his death after helping Emperor Yan fight the Heavenly Evil God, and Lu Chen could choose one of three rewards.

• Lu Chen gave Xiao Xiao his seven thousand Demon Subjugation Points and left the Dan Gathering Tournament preparations to her.
• Lu Chen started a simulation and saw Xiao Xiao win the Dan Gathering Tournament with quasi-peerless divine-grade Rebirth Pills.
• In the simulation, Lu Chen unified Tianluo, found the Heaven Wrath Thunder Emperor’s Spiritual Treasury, and obtained the Sole Self Technique and Heaven Wrath Thunder Flame.
• Lu Chen became a Saint Grade Heavenly Supreme, helped move the Tianluo Continent with four other Saints, and led a campaign against the Extraterritorial Evil Clan.
• Lu Chen joined Emperor Yan and the Martial Ancestor against the Heavenly Evil God, sacrificed his Celestial Body’s source at his death, and helped Emperor Yan advance.
• The simulation offered Lu Chen the Sole Self Technique, a Spiritual Grade Heavenly Supreme Space Devouring Insect Venerate, or an Immortal Grade Heavenly Supreme Heaven Wrath Thunder Flame.

Lu Chen comprehended the Thunder Emperor’s Sole Self Technique, then met Xiao Lin and Xiao Xiao, collected his tournament rewards, and prepared to return to the Tianluo Alliance. At the Great Thousand Tower, he spent all fourteen thousand Demon Subjugation Points on cultivation and artifact-recovery treasures before asking about the Thunder God Palace’s inheritance.

• Lu Chen received the Sole Self Technique and reflected on the Thunder Emperor’s ambition to make his body a world, then spent three days recovering and trying to comprehend the divine art.
• Xiao Xiao told Lu Chen she had won the Dan Gathering Tournament and gave him the Great Bodhi Pill, the Rebirth Pill, and the tournament reward; Lu Chen said he planned to return to the Tianluo Alliance and later visit the Martial Realm.
• Lu Chen declined Xiao Lin’s invitation to stay in the Endless Fire Territory and left with Su Qingyin after Xiao Lin urged Xiao Xiao to act on her feelings for him.
• At the Great Thousand Tower, Lu Chen collected his Demon Subjugation Token, which held fourteen thousand points, and exchanged them for a High-Level Sky Restriction Talisman, Void Thunder Marrow, and six Spirit Accumulation Pearls.
• Before leaving, Lu Chen asked Crimson Fire Elder whether the Thunder God Palace had obtained the Ancient Thunder Palace’s inheritance.

Lu Chen returned to Tianluo Continent, resumed his duties as Alliance Master, and prepared to break through to Heavenly Supreme before the Northern Domain struggle for supremacy. After his Heavenly Emperor Sword recovered to Immortal Grade, he headed through a spatial rift toward the White Dragon Plane, intent on slaughtering the Blood Evil Clan.

• Crimson Fire Elder told Lu Chen about the Thunder God Palace and gave him a Great Thousand Palace guest elder token.
• Lu Chen returned to Da Luo Heaven and told Mandala and Jiuyou that he planned to break through to Heavenly Supreme, leaving Mandala in charge of the alliance.
• Lu Chen checked the two sacred artifacts in the Heaven River and discovered that the Heavenly Emperor Sword had absorbed five Spirit Accumulation Pearls and recovered to Immortal Grade.
• The Supreme Heart Demon Seal complained that it had received only one pearl, and Lu Chen promised to prioritize it with future resources.
• Lu Chen took the White Dragon Spiritual Pearl and entered a spatial rift toward the White Dragon Plane, declaring that he would slaughter the Blood Evil Clan.

Lu Chen entered the White Dragon Plane to answer Senior White Dragon’s request and found the Saint Dragon Sect oppressed by the Blood Evil Clan. After exposing and killing several infiltrators in the royal hall, he learned the enemy’s headquarters was Blood Demon Mountain and set out with the White-Clothed Queen to confront them.

• Lu Chen located the White Dragon Plane’s hidden spatial node, secured its passage with a High-Level Sky Restriction Talisman, and entered the plane.
• Lu Chen reached the Saint Dragon Continent and discovered its people were living under the Blood Evil Clan’s oppression.
• The White-Clothed Queen and her officials debated the Blood Evil Clan’s tribute while a Grand National Preceptor subordinate argued against resistance.
• Lu Chen entered the royal hall, revealed Senior White Dragon’s spirit pearl, and burned several figures who had been transformed by the Extraterritorial Evil Clan.
• The White-Clothed Queen identified Blood Demon Mountain as the Blood Evil Clan’s headquarters and offered to guide Lu Chen there.

Lu Chen attacked Blood Demon Mountain, killed its Blood Demon Kings, and destroyed the newly awakened Blood Devil Emperor to earn Demon Subjugation Points. The Great Thousand Palace’s Demon Subjugation Monument recognized Lu Chen as a Demon Subduing King.

• The Blood Evil Clan’s leaders discussed raising their emperor with sacrifices, but Lu Chen killed Blood Evil King with a single sword strike.
• Lu Chen defeated the two Blood Demon Kings, crushed one escaping remnant, and gained Demon Subjugation Points.
• The Great Blood Demon King revived in the Blood Abyss and sacrificed Blood Evil Clan members to awaken the blood egg early.
• Lu Chen recognized the Great Blood Demon King’s escape and deployed a formation over Blood Demon Mountain, killing its inhabitants as the Blood Devil Emperor emerged.
• The Blood Devil Emperor attacked Lu Chen, but Lu Chen’s Crystal Longsword shattered him and his remnant soul was absorbed into the Demon Subjugation Token.
• The Demon Subjugation Monument displayed Lu Chen’s name beneath Demon Subduing King Qin Tian.

Lu Chen returned to Saint Dragon Mountain after destroying the Blood Evil Clan’s leaders and joined forces with the White Dragon Sovereign to cleanse the Plane of Origin. With the plane spirit’s power, Lu Chen broke through the Heavenly Supreme Barrier and forged a Celestial Supreme Spiritual Body, but the Heavenly Sovereign Tribulation descended immediately.

• Lu Chen gave Bai SuSu intelligence on the remaining Blood Demon Kings and left to hunt them down.
• Lu Chen killed a Blood Demon King at Heaven Origin City and returned to learn that the other Blood Demon Kings and the Blood Evil Clan’s forces had been defeated.
• Lu Chen awakened the White Dragon Sovereign and asked him to help locate the Plane of Origin.
• The White Dragon Sovereign helped Lu Chen connect with the plane spirit, and Lu Chen cleansed its contamination before receiving its power.
• Lu Chen’s body shattered and reformed as a Celestial Supreme Spiritual Body, breaking the Heavenly Supreme Barrier and reaching late Spiritual Grade.
• The Heavenly Sovereign Tribulation formed in the chaos and sent mountain-sized pillars of lightning toward Lu Chen.