Chapter Summaries

After Xiao Aotian crippled the Heavenly Underworld Old Demon, Yang Shan focused on securing Xiao Xun'er’s marriage despite the coming Ancient Clan Marriage Tournament. He baited Xiao Qian Di into challenging him and ended the chapter as Xiao Qian Di confronted him.

• Tian Yao Company reopened the servers, and Players learned that the Heavenly Underworld Sect had seized resource sites across the Central Plains.
• Xiao Aotian defeated the Heavenly Underworld Old Demon in a livestreamed battle and left him alive for Players to claim later.
• Gu Yuan told Yang Shan that the Ancient Clan would no longer oppose his marriage to Xiao Xun'er, but other ancient clans would still challenge him at the marriage tournament.
• Yang Shan planned to defeat the clan leaders who coveted Xiao Xun'er and used a staged conversation about marrying her and finding Yun Yun to provoke Xiao Qian Di.
• Xiao Kuang overheard Yang Shan and Xiao Xun'er, reported their words to Xiao Qian Di, and prompted Xiao Qian Di to block their path and challenge Yang Shan.

Yang Shan and Xiao Qian Di began their arranged battle in the Tianwu Arena Space, where Yang Shan’s sudden opening punch and apparent resilience stunned the gathered clans. After Xiao Qian Di realized Yang Shan had disheveled his appearance, he launched an explosive movement technique and charged at him again.

• The Ancient Eight Clans gathered to watch the battle, and Gu Qingyang and Lei Ting ordered their younger generations to study Yang Shan closely.
• Hun Yu watched Xiao Qian Di pose atop a mountain, but Yang Shan struck him before he could finish his challenge and drove him into the mountaintop.
• Yang Shan and Xiao Qian Di fought hand-to-hand through the mountain until their blows flattened it, while Yang Shan concealed his strength and tried to make Xiao Qian Di reveal his techniques.
• The spectators cheered for Yang Shan, and Xiao Qian Di noticed that his hair, collar, and sleeves had been disarranged while Yang Shan looked unhurt.
• Xiao Qian Di activated an explosive movement technique and charged Yang Shan, who took his punch and mocked the loud burst of his technique.

Yang Shan fought Xiao Qian Di in the Tianwu Arena Space, using feints and Thunderfire Overload to offset Xiao Qian Di’s stronger direct attacks. As their battle shifted into close combat, the clan leaders wagered on its outcome, and Xiao Qian Di committed to wearing Yang Shan down.

• Yang Shan used Soul Strength to keep his appearance neat while making Xiao Qian Di look battered, and Xiao Xuan and Lei Ying discussed how Xiao Qian Di had fallen for his feint.
• Gu Yuan praised Yang Shan modestly while privately boasting of his achievements, and Lei Ying, Xiao Xuan, and Gu Yuan placed bets on the fight.
• Yang Shan’s Thunderfire Overload explosions stopped Xiao Qian Di from breaking through, despite the power of Xiao Qian Di’s Mystic Origin Palm.
• Xiao Qian Di recognized that Yang Shan could recover Dou Qi with the Sea Heart Flame, endured several Overload blasts, and closed in for hand-to-hand combat.
• Yang Shan drew Yama and met Xiao Qian Di in close combat, while both fighters held back their Heaven Rank Dou Skills and Xiao Qian Di tried to wear him down.

Yang Shan and Xiao Qian Di fought an exhausting battle before Xiao Qian Di sprang a trap, only for Yang Shan to counter with a powerful soul attack and pin him down. The clan leaders were left stunned by Yang Shan’s strength, while Soul Heavenly Emperor recognized a deeper threat in his technique.

• Yang Shan and Xiao Qian Di traded blows for two incense sticks, with their recovery and damage reduction keeping the fight even.
• Xiao Qian Di secretly used the Azure Dragon Divine Wood to bind Yama and countered Yang Shan’s soul attack with Azure Soul Mystic Aura.
• Xiao Qian Di prepared Heavenly Meteor Finger, but Yang Shan unleashed a stronger Ten Thousand Demons Howling to the Heavens with over a thousand demon spirits.
• Yang Shan seized Xiao Qian Di and drove him into a crater, pinning him down and raising Yama as the spectators watched in shock.
• Xiao Xun’er remained confident Yang Shan would win, while Soul Heavenly Emperor stood and reacted to Yang Shan’s soul strength and soul Dou Skill.

Yang Shan battled Xiao Qian Di, using soul attacks, taunts, and lightning against Xiao Qian Di’s defenses and Azure Dragon Divine Wood Cosmos Phenomenon. The fight escalated into a prolonged clash, which Yang Shan welcomed as a rare chance to face an evenly matched opponent.

• Soul Heavenly Emperor recognized Yang Shan’s Ten Thousand Demons Howling to the Heavens as a legacy of Ten Thousand Souls Ancient Emperor and decided to handle the matter cautiously.
• Yang Shan’s soul attack disrupted Xiao Qian Di, but Xiao Qian Di resisted with Azure Soul Mystic Aura and summoned branches of the Azure Dragon Divine Wood.
• Xiao Qian Di endured Yang Shan’s boosted soul attack with his Protective Gang Qi, while Yang Shan mocked him for relying on Dao Traces and pretending to be calm.
• Lei Ting’s favorability toward Yang Shan increased after she defended him, and she flusteredly denied that she had fallen for him.
• Xiao Qian Di formed his Ten Thousand Woods Paying Homage Cosmos Phenomenon, while Yang Shan darkened its sky with thunderclouds and repeatedly struck its emerald dragon with lightning.
• The emerald dragon regenerated after Yang Shan’s lightning barrage, and Yang Shan called for another round, excited to fight Xiao Qian Di.

Yang Shan fought Xiao Qian Di in an exhausting battle, using his hidden Void Iterated Realms to escape Xiao Qian Di’s trap and turn the tables. He pinned Xiao Qian Di down and resumed hacking at him as the fight continued.

• Yang Shan and Xiao Qian Di traded attacks, with Yang Shan relying on the Nine Heavens Thunder Domain and Mystic Dragon Body Protection while Xiao Qian Di’s Azure Wood True Dragon repeatedly blocked his openings.
• Yang Shan released his thunder illusion body and used Myriad Demons Howling at Heaven - Double Howl Overload to destroy the Azure Wood True Dragon.
• Xiao Qian Di revealed that Azure Dragon Divine Wood power had secretly spread through Yang Shan’s Mystic Dragon Body Protection, then trapped Yang Shan with Divine Wood Burying Flowers.
• Yang Shan used Void Iterated Realms to survive the vines’ attack, then struck Xiao Qian Di with Tyrant Blade - Nine Annihilations and smashed him to the ground.
• Yang Shan pinned Xiao Qian Di in a crater and repeatedly attacked him with Yama, while Xiao Qian Di’s Azure Dragon Divine Wood formed branches to protect him.

Yang Shan beheaded Xiao Qian Di, but the Azure Dragon Divine Wood restored Xiao Qian Di and the battle resumed. Yang Shan recovered his strength with Sea Reflecting Star River and Starfire Undying Art, pinned Xiao Qian Di down again, and was interrupted by the appearance of a massive figure like the one seen when Xiao Xuan obtained a Supreme Opportunity from the Heavenly Martial Ancient Emperor.

• Yang Shan used Tyrant Blade - Nine Annihilations to cut off Xiao Qian Di's head, shocking the spectators at the Tianwu Arena.
• Yang Shan hacked at Xiao Qian Di's corpse, but the Azure Dragon Divine Wood sent its remaining vitality into him and restored his head and body.
• Xiao Qian Di challenged Yang Shan to continue fighting, and Yang Shan revealed his Sea Reflecting Star River phenomenon despite his injuries.
• Xiao Qian Di attacked Yang Shan, but Starfire Undying Art rapidly restored Yang Shan's vitality and let him pin Xiao Qian Di down again.
• A massive figure appeared in the star-filled sky, prompting the great figures in the Clan Leader Space to rise.

Yang Shan entered the Heavenly Martial Ancient Emperor’s inheritance after defeating Xiao Qian Di, while Xiao Qian Di was barred from the gate. By absorbing the Emperor’s thousand years of spatial insights, Yang Shan gained a new derivative phenomenon, Interdimensional Void Realm.

• Xiao Qian Di approached the Heavenly Martial Ancient Emperor’s gate, but could not enter despite believing the inheritance was meant for him.
• Yang Shan told Xiao Qian Di to make way and entered the gate, which then slammed shut behind him.
• Yang Shan met the Heavenly Martial Ancient Emperor on a silent battlefield and learned that the Emperor’s unfinished spatial imperial art required Supreme Void.
• The Heavenly Martial Ancient Emperor invited Yang Shan to study his insights and potentially create an imperial art of his own.
• Yang Shan meditated for two days and absorbed the Heavenly Martial Ancient Emperor’s thousand years of insights into Space Power.
• Yang Shan’s Cosmos Phenomenon mutated, granting him the derivative phenomenon Interdimensional Void Realm.

Yang Shan tested the Interdimensional Void Realm and learned his slash had split the Heavenly Martial Ancient Emperor’s inheritance space, then discussed Xiao Qian Di’s collapse and his own future with Gu Yuan and Xiao Xun'er. He set out to secure Xiao Xun'er’s engagement by making her other suitors renounce their claims, and the clans raised their white flags rather than risk challenging him.

• Yang Shan activated his Cosmos Phenomenon and used Tyrant Blade - Nine Annihilations, splitting the inheritance space before falling headfirst into the arena district.
• Xiao Xun'er told Yang Shan that Xiao Qian Di had collapsed after losing the Supreme Opportunity, and Gu Yuan praised Yang Shan’s victory while warning that Xiao Qian Di might recover stronger.
• Yang Shan told Gu Yuan he would not marry before becoming a Nine Star Dou Sheng and said he wanted to face Xiao Xun'er’s other suitors so they would stop pursuing her.
• Yang Shan challenged Huo Xuan and asked Huo Zhi to record his promise to abandon thoughts of marrying Xiao Xun'er.
• Yao Ling gave Yang Shan an Image Retaining Pearl containing Yao Tian’s renunciation, while the clan leaders avoided challenging him after seeing Xiao Qian Di’s condition.

Yang Shan returned from the Ancient Eight Clans Gathering with the Heavenly Martial Ancient Emperor’s insights and two Saint Crystal Stones from Gu Yuan. After Xiao Yan warned him that the Heavenly Underworld Sect was about to make a major move, Thunder Lord reported that it had invaded Wind and Thunder Pavilion territory and was advancing on a newly discovered Saint Spirit Blessed Land.

• Yang Shan learned that the remaining Ancient Eight Clans Gathering would focus on veteran experts seeking the Heavenly Martial Ancient Emperor’s inheritance, while his own gains included insights that empowered his Interdimensional Void Realm.
• Gu Yuan gave Yang Shan two Saint Crystal Stones, which could let him bypass the breakthrough process for One Star and Two Star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan messaged Yang Shan that the Dou Sheng stages’ values had been finalized and asked the five players to watch the Heavenly Underworld Sect, which would soon make a major move.
• Yang Shan logged out, installed the hotfix, and returned to find a transmission from Thunder Lord.
• Thunder Lord told Yang Shan that the Heavenly Underworld Sect had conquered seven Wind and Thunder Pavilion cities in two days and would reach the Saint Spirit Blessed Land within three days.

Yang Shan left Tianwu Space after saying goodbye to Xiao Xun'er and returned to the Northern Region, where the Heavenly Underworld Sect was attacking the Wind and Thunder Pavilion. He joined the battle by sealing powerful enemy NPCs so the Players could defeat them and gain rewards.

• Yang Shan told Gu Yuan he would return to the Wind and Thunder Pavilion while Xiao Xun'er stayed in Tianwu Space, then sent his Thunder Phantom Body to notify the Thunder Clan.
• Xiao Xun'er defeated Ling Fu, who triggered a First-Class Opportunity, and Yang Shan gave her a bottle of Three-Colored Pill Lightning-grade Jade Beauty Pills before leaving with Lei Zhanghao.
• Yang Shan persuaded Lei Zhanghao to remain in Tianwu Space, then shared a farewell with Xiao Xun'er and used Void Shuttle to reach the Northern Region.
• Thunder Lord used the Wind and Thunder Pavilion's numerical advantage and formations to break the Heavenly Underworld Sect's formation and keep the battle at a standstill.
• Yang Shan struck the Demonic Flower Evil Monarch down with Extraterrestrial Ghoul Lightning, sealed his Dou Qi, and left the weakened enemy for the Players to kill.
• Yang Shan continued across the battlefield, striking Heavenly Underworld Sect NPCs and sealing their Dou Qi so the Players could claim kills and rewards.

Yang Shan returned to Phoenix Perch Mountain and turned the Heavenly Underworld Sect’s assault into a crushing defeat, sealing its Half-Saints while battling Heavenly Underworld Old Demon. After Heavenly Underworld Old Demon summoned reinforcements, Yang Shan recognized Heaven Scorpion Child and confirmed that the sect had joined Dark Blood.

• Thunder Lord ordered Fei Tian to prepare an evacuation, but Heavenly Underworld Old Demon crashed into the Nine Heavens Thunder Prison Formation as Yang Shan returned.
• Yang Shan fought Heavenly Underworld Old Demon in the sky while his Thunder Phantom Body attacked and sealed the Heavenly Underworld Sect’s Half-Saints.
• Yang Shan dismissed the formation and let Wind and Thunder Pavilion members attack the helpless Half-Saints, while stronger disciples helped weaker Players gain experience.
• Yang Shan defeated Heavenly Underworld Old Demon and said he would keep the old man’s soul for questioning.
• Heavenly Underworld Old Demon opened a Space Channel, and Yang Shan recognized Heaven Scorpion Child among the four figures who emerged, confirming the Heavenly Underworld Sect had joined Dark Blood.

Yang Shan fought the five Dou Saints sent by the Heavenly Underworld Sect and used his spatial abilities to isolate and kill Heavenly Underworld Old Demon. The kill gave Yang Shan enough experience to advance to Mid Stage One Star Dou Saint, while Withered Wood Old Man warned the others that Yang Shan could restrict their Space Power.

• Yang Shan assessed the five attackers and launched an Overload before targeting Heavenly Underworld Old Demon.
• Withered Wood Old Man blocked Yang Shan's attack as White Jade Spear Saint and Ink Stone Axe Saint pressed him, but Yang Shan defended against them and kicked Heavenly Underworld Old Demon in the face.
• Yang Shan deployed the Hundred Twists Chaos Array and held off four opponents while his Thunder Phantom Body chased Heavenly Underworld Old Demon.
• The five Dou Saints unleashed their Cosmos Phenomena, but Yang Shan used a spatial technique to appear beside Heavenly Underworld Old Demon and cut him down.
• Withered Wood Old Man discovered that Yang Shan could restrict Space Power, but Heavenly Underworld Old Demon's death let Yang Shan advance to Mid Stage One Star Dou Saint.

Yang Shan killed three of the Heavenly Underworld Five Saints and advanced to Late Stage One Star Dou Sheng, then let Heaven Scorpion Child escape so he could track down Blood Eyes. After reaching Phoenix Perch Mountain, he used Gu Yuan’s Saint Crystal Stone to break through to Early Stage Two Star Dou Sheng.

• Yang Shan overwhelmed Ink Stone Axe Saint and White Jade Spear Saint with Thousand Demons Manifest, then used Thunder Phantom Body to keep them occupied.
• Yang Shan bypassed Withered Wood Old Man’s defenses with Supreme Void Power and killed him with Tyrant Blade - Nine Annihilations, gaining enough experience to reach Late Stage One Star Dou Sheng.
• Yang Shan secretly placed a wisp of Soul Strength inside the fleeing Heaven Scorpion Child so he could find Blood Eyes, then withdrew Interdimensional Void Realm and let him escape.
• Yang Shan returned to Phoenix Perch Mountain’s forbidden area and left Thunder Lord to deal with the remaining Heavenly Underworld Sect forces.
• Yang Shan used a Saint Crystal Stone to remove his realm barrier and successfully broke through to Early Stage Two Star Dou Sheng.

After reaching Early Stage Two Star Dou Sheng, Yang Shan tracked Heaven Scorpion Child to a hidden realm in the Severed Realm Mountain Range. He discovered powerful strangers searching the ruins of the Cloud—Xuan Lei Sect, leaving their purpose unclear.

• Yang Shan reviewed his Dou Sheng gains and exchanged most of the Heavenly Underworld Sect’s drops for Closed Beta Points, keeping essence blood and select materials.
• Yang Shan gave Fei Tian cultivation resources and Dou Sheng Essence Blood before rushing after Heaven Scorpion Child, whose soul imprint was nearing its tracking limit.
• Yang Shan followed Heaven Scorpion Child across several cities as he changed his appearance and cultivation disguise, then watched him enter a concealed lake in the Severed Realm Mountain Range.
• After waiting for a Half Saint and a One Star Dou Sheng to emerge from the lake, Yang Shan sent a heavily protected Thunder Phantom Body into the hidden realm.
• Yang Shan found a ruined sect where even the weakest searchers were early-stage Half Saints, and identified a stone gate bearing the name Cloud—Xuan Lei Sect.

Yang Shan discovered that Blood Eyes had found a repaired spatial formation seal leading to Cloud Residence and used his Cloud Residence Token to enter it. He learned that Blood Eyes was actually Han Feng, whom he left unconscious after escaping through the formation.

• Blood Eyes questioned Heaven Scorpion Child about Yang Shan and ordered his followers to find the entrance to Cloud Residence.
• A formation expert repaired the Xuan Lei Sect’s spatial formation seal but found it needed a token to activate.
• Yang Shan abandoned his plan to kill Blood Eyes after Thousand Azure Saint warned that Blood Eyes carried an Earth Saint Artifact.
• Yang Shan killed the formation expert, entered the formation seal, and fought off Blood Eyes’s Sea Heart Flame attack with Ten Thousand Demons Howling to the Heavens.
• The attack revealed that Blood Eyes was Han Feng, and Yang Shan activated the formation with his Cloud Residence Token and disappeared.
• Han Feng fainted from rage as his followers scrambled to find an Alchemist to treat him.

Yang Shan arrived at Cloud Residence and was welcomed by its last Residence Master, Yun Yi, who recognized his extraordinary fortune and accepted him as an inheritor. While Yang Shan entered the Thunder God Pillar to learn the Heaven Rank High Dou Skill, Yun Yi recounted his ancient battle with Tou She Ancient God and watched the pillar flare with lightning after less than an hour.

• Yang Shan presented Cloud Residence's token, and Yun Yi recognized his immense auspicious fortune and accepted him as a disciple.
• Yun Yi led Yang Shan to the Thunder God Pillar and explained that it held the 'Three Thousand Thunder Instantaneous Method.'
• Yang Shan summoned Thousand Azure Saint and Severing Heaven Blade Saint to keep Yun Yi company, then entered the pillar to pursue the inheritance.
• Yun Yi told the two saints that Tou She Ancient God had been a sentient Heavenly Flame who seized the Source Qi after Yun Yi defeated him.
• The Thunder God Pillar erupted with lightning, and Yun Yi wondered whether Yang Shan had already become Cloud Residence's successor.

Yang Shan received Yun Yi’s Young Residence Master token after comprehending the Spirit Opening Seal, then left with Thousand Azure Saint and Severing Heaven Blade Saint to rescue Yi Qingyang and Shi Xiaoqi from Soul Hall’s Hun Mieling. Yun Yi revealed that Yun Residence had secretly kept World Extinguishing Wild Thunder, the second-ranked Strange Lightning.

• Yun Yi confirmed that Yang Shan had comprehended the Spirit Opening Seal and explained how it could grant spiritual intelligence to a Strange Lightning Origin.
• Yun Yi appointed Yang Shan as Yun Residence’s Young Residence Master and asked him to strengthen his Strange Lightning Origins before returning to nurture them.
• Yi Qingyang reported that Hun Mieling of Soul Hall was hunting him and Shi Xiaoqi inside a formation, and Yang Shan suspected Soul Hall was cooperating with Dark Blood.
• Yang Shan contacted Hun Dan, who denied that Soul Hall had sent Hun Mieling, then set out with Thousand Azure Saint and Severing Heaven Blade Saint to reach Yi Qingyang within half an hour.
• Yun Yi entered Yun Residence’s forbidden ground and addressed World Extinguishing Wild Thunder, revealing that it was the second-ranked Strange Lightning.

Yang Shan learned that Hun Mieling had been captured alive by the Pill Tower Old Ancestor after attacking Shi Xiaoqi and Yi Qingyang, then warned Hun Miesheng that the Soul Hall Vice Hall Master was tied to Dark Blood. As Yang Shan reached Soul Sweeping Mountain Range, Mystic Wrath Thunder Saint ordered him to lead an attack on the Soul Hall, unaware that Hun Miesheng had said he would handle the crisis.

• Yi Qingyang told the Closed Beta Group that the Pill Tower Old Ancestor had taken Hun Mieling alive after rescuing him and Shi Xiaoqi from an attack.
• Yang Shan revealed that Han Feng was a high-ranking Dark Blood member and warned the players that Dark Blood grew stronger by reclaiming energy from its dead members.
• Hun Dan summoned Yang Shan to Human Hall for secluded cultivation, and Yang Shan reported Hun Mieling's alleged collusion with Dark Blood to Hun Miesheng.
• Hun Miesheng said he would seek help from Soul Heavenly Emperor and urged Yang Shan and Hun Dan to head to Human Hall.
• Mystic Wrath Thunder Saint ordered Yang Shan to gather Wind and Thunder Pavilion's disciples and attack the Soul Hall in retaliation for the attempted assassination of a Thunder Clan prodigy.

Yang Shan learned that the Soul Hall had attacked chosen ones from several factions, prompting the Pill Tower and seven ancient clans to surround Heaven Hall and demand the Soul Hall’s destruction. As the leaders prepared to seize Hun Miesheng and search his soul, Yang Shan arrived and revealed himself, asking Gu Yuan and Lei Ying to hear him out.

• Gu Yuan told Yang Shan that the Soul Hall’s Heaven Hall was about to be destroyed after attacks on chosen ones from several factions, and Yang Shan rushed there with Hun Dan.
• The Pill Tower Old Ancestor and the seven clan patriarchs confronted Hun Miesheng and Soul Heavenly Emperor, accusing the Soul Hall of breaking the rules and demanding that it be erased from Central State.
• The Pill Tower Old Ancestor proposed dividing the Soul Hall’s members among the factions so their souls could be searched, while Soul Heavenly Emperor and Hun Miesheng argued over what to do.
• As the leaders prepared to take Hun Miesheng away, Yang Shan broke through the sealed space, joined him, removed his mask, and asked Gu Yuan and Lei Ying to hear him out.