Chapter Summaries

Xia Mo descended the Heavenly Ladder to help the Dou Qi Continent group, defeating the Blood Shadows with his overwhelming physical strength and helping the others survive. After they rested on the five-thousandth step, they urged him to climb ahead without them, and Xia Mo continued upward alone.

• Xia Mo ignored the group's warnings and descended to fight the Blood Shadows using physical strength alone.
• Xia Mo killed or knocked the Blood Shadows off the Heavenly Ladder, using the chaos of battle to defeat the attackers surrounding him.
• The group held back the remaining Blood Shadows until Xia Mo joined them, and together they drove off the rest.
• After resting, the group climbed to the five-thousandth step and found that no pursuing Blood Shadows had caught up.
• The others asked Xia Mo to go on ahead while they rested, and he agreed and continued climbing alone.

Xia Mo climbed the Heavenly Ladder, revealed overwhelming power during its energy scan, and began racing toward the summit after the battle for the stone platforms erupted. He defeated You Fan with one move and remained among the contenders as the competition narrowed to fifteen occupied platforms, with only eight places visible at the next level.

• Xia Mo climbed past the eight-thousandth step, grew stronger from the strange power entering his body, and suppressed the heavenly tribulation aura within him.
• At the 9,500th step, the Heavenly Ladder scanned Xia Mo and produced a towering purple-gold pillar that overwhelmed every other pillar, revealing his unusually powerful special energy.
• The Blood Shadow started the charge toward the summit, and Xia Mo and the other experts raced upward before fighting over the dwindling stone platforms.
• You Fan attacked Xia Mo on a platform, but Xia Mo destroyed his demonic shadow and sent him falling with a single strike.
• Xia Mo watched the platform battles end, leaving fifteen occupied platforms and only eight platforms visible at the next level.

Xia Mo fought his way to the Heavenly Ladder’s final four as the only native of the Dou Qi Continent, then faced Blood Demon Clan Great King's Hall Blood Flame. After Xia Mo survived Blood Flame’s strongest attacks and revealed his Dragon Phoenix power, he badly wounded him and moved in to kill him, but Blood Flame unleashed a blood-devouring technique and began gathering energy for a desperate counterattack.

• Xia Mo defeated the Blood Demon Clan Seventh King's Hall and other challengers, reaching the top four as the only Dou Qi Continent native remaining.
• Blood Flame challenged Xia Mo, and Xia Mo blocked his Blood Flame Palm with one hand.
• Blood Flame swallowed the destructive power of a blood-colored feather, used his Blood Demon Body to contain it, and fired a devastating Blood Flame Finger at Xia Mo.
• Xia Mo emerged from the flames in Dragon Phoenix Ancient Armor and revealed a Dragon Phoenix Phantom before blasting apart Blood Flame’s Blood Flame Demon with one punch.
• Xia Mo pursued the grievously injured Blood Flame, who unleashed his Blood Devouring Technique, caused nearby fighters to explode, and began gathering violent energy within his cracking body.

Xia Mo defeated Xue Yan and began the final battle of the Heavenly Ladder against You Shi Tian, whose Half-Emperor power and summoned You Huang phantom threatened to overwhelm him. After Xia Mo forged a claw of chaos and checked the phantom’s Hand of Extinction with Eight Extremities, Demon Breaker, the chapter ended as the claw’s light withdrew.

• Xia Mo survived Xue Yan’s self-destruction, recovered from his wounds, and faced the remaining opponent, You Shi Tian.
• You Shi Tian revealed his Half-Emperor strength and attacked Xia Mo, who countered with his Peak Nine-star Dou Sheng power and Dragon Phoenix abilities.
• Xia Mo’s spatial Dragon Claw attacks damaged You Shi Tian’s Demon Emperor Armor, forcing You Shi Tian to summon the You Huang phantom with a skull sigil.
• You Shi Tian used the phantom’s Hand of Extinction, but Xia Mo’s Dragon Phoenix Flame arrow resisted it before You Shi Tian strengthened the phantom with his blood and shattered the arrow.
• Xia Mo awakened the power of chaos in his bloodline and clashed his claw of chaos against the You Huang phantom’s hand.
• You Shi Tian detonated one arm to empower the phantom, but Xia Mo used Eight Extremities, Demon Breaker to halt its hand as chaotic light withdrew into his claw.

Xia Mo destroyed You Huang's phantom and battled You Shi Tian, but the Sea Heart Ancient Emperor's remnant soul appeared and drove the three King Halls back while the seal endured their Emperor's attack. The remnant soul passed its power to Xia Mo, who broke through to Dou Di; his physical tribulation then covered the sealed world and terrified the Outer Realm Evil Clan.

• Xia Mo pierced and destroyed You Huang's phantom, then battered the injured You Shi Tian until the Second King Hall and Third King Hall emerged from his body.
• The Sea Heart Ancient Emperor's remnant soul appeared from the formation, defeated the three King Halls, and forced them to retreat as their Emperor's attack struck the seal.
• The remnant soul entrusted Xia Mo with protecting the world, then vanished after sending the living beings who had entered the Dou Qi Continent away.
• Xia Mo absorbed the remnant soul's strange energy over several months and broke through from Half-Emperor to Dou Di.
• A terrifying heavenly tribulation gathered over the seal, and its pressure struck down an Outer Realm Evil Clan member who tried to approach.

Xia Mo endured the final bolts of his terrifying bodily tribulation, with the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame risking itself to protect him. He unleashed his Reincarnation Sealing Heaven Diagram and every remaining technique against the ninth lightning dragon, but the blast left him charred and motionless in the ruined crater.

• Xia Mo sent the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame back into his body and faced the tribulation alone, countering the first two bolts with Purple-Gold Light patterns and Blades of Space.
• The third through sixth bolts battered Xia Mo despite his Thousand Sword Dragon-Slaying Array, Saint Artifacts, and defensive techniques, leaving him severely injured.
• Xia Mo’s formations and defenses failed against the seventh and eighth bolts, which struck together and left him near death at the bottom of a vast crater.
• The Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame emerged and shielded Xia Mo from scattered tribulation lightning, while cracks from the destruction reached the Sealing Array and excited the Outer Realm Evil Clan.
• Xia Mo used a Chaotic diagram to break the vortex, then recovered the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame as the ninth bolt manifested as a blood-red lightning dragon.
• Xia Mo attacked the ninth bolt with the Reincarnation Sealing Heaven Diagram, Prison Devour, the Dragon Phoenix Sky-Supporting Staff, sword arrays, and sound techniques, but the lightning dragon overwhelmed him and left him charred and motionless.

After surviving his physical tribulation, Xia Mo used its Chaotic Light to heal himself and help the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame gain intelligence. He entered a world corrupted by the Outer Realm Evil Clan, where he rescued captives from the Blood Demon Clan and left after killing their city lord.

• Chaotic Light healed Xia Mo and the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame, and Little Gold gained intelligence and transformed into a Fire Infant.
• Xia Mo assessed his new strength, then left the sealed formation and entered a dark-red world tainted by the Outer Realm Evil Clan.
• Xia Mo found a city where the Blood Demon Clan slaughtered its human captives for blood and destroyed the attackers to protect a young girl.
• The city’s people begged Xia Mo to save them, and the girl told him that a Blood Demon Lord ruled the city.
• Xia Mo killed the Blood Demon Lord with one palm, then told the people to leave and vanished.

Xia Mo secretly followed the refugees from Guanxue City to a vast human city-state and discovered that its people were being handed over as food to the Outer Realm Evil Clan. When the Blood Demon Clan arrived to demand five million sacrifices, Xia Mo vowed to protect the city and killed four Blood Demon Lords with one punch, while the Blood Demon King Hall rose to challenge him.

• Xia Mo followed the refugees to a huge city-state and learned that its High Priest led humanity's last refuge.
• The High Priest gathered the city's leaders after hearing that Xia Mo had killed Guanxue City's Blood Demon Lord, while City Lord Liu and his allies urged him to surrender the refugees to the Blood Demon Clan.
• Xia Mo revealed himself, seized City Lord Liu, and learned that the city-state had been forced to offer a million people each year to the Outer Realm Evil Clan.
• The Blood Demon Clan arrived with four Blood Demon Lords and a Blood Demon King Hall, who demanded five million sacrifices and ordered Xia Mo captured.
• The High Priest refused to hand over the people, and Xia Mo promised they would be free before confronting the Blood Demon Clan.
• Xia Mo killed all four Blood Demon Lords with one punch, and the Blood Demon King Hall rose from his throne to fight him.

Xia Mo defeated and sealed Xue Xie, rescued the city, and learned from High Priest Wusu about the Wu Clan and the Blood Demon and You Mo clans. After Wusu located three Blood Demon King Halls in Blood Origin City, Xia Mo prepared to attack them before the clans could unite.

• Xia Mo used the Chaotic Diagram to seal Xue Xie's Blood Sun, then trapped and sealed Xue Xie inside a blood-red sphere.
• Xia Mo emerged victorious, killed the fleeing Blood Demon Clan experts, and accepted Wusu's help while ordering him to explain what he knew about the evil clans.
• Wusu revealed that he was descended from the Sea Heart Ancient Emperor and described how the Wu Clan's elders sacrificed themselves to preserve his strength.
• Wusu gathered intelligence on the enemy, and Xia Mo learned that three Blood Demon King Halls were staying in Blood Origin City for roughly half a day.
• Wusu asked to accompany Xia Mo so he could gather further intelligence and guide him to Blood Demon Mountain if they succeeded.

Xia Mo attacked Blood Origin City and wiped out the Blood Demon Clan’s royal halls, then ambushed another Blood Demon convoy with High Priest Wusu. The Blood Demon Woman escaped after recognizing Xia Mo as the one behind the royal halls’ destruction.

• Xia Mo and High Priest Wusu arrived outside Blood Origin City, where Xia Mo killed the Blood Demon King Halls and drew their reinforcements into battle.
• Xia Mo used spatial power to kill more King Hall members, then confronted Second King Hall and Third King Hall with help from Little Gold.
• Xia Mo slaughtered the Blood Demon Clan’s royal hall forces, and High Priest Wusu greeted him when he returned.
• Xia Mo and High Priest Wusu waited above a lake to intercept a Blood Demon Woman traveling toward Blood Demon Mountain.
• Xia Mo destroyed the woman’s palace and prepared to fight her, but she fled after realizing he had destroyed the royal halls.

Xia Mo captured the Blood Demon Woman and joined High Priest Wusu as East Province’s survivors gathered to attack Blood Demon Mountain. After the two Blood Demon Elders confronted him, Xia Mo fought them with his Purple-Gold techniques and trapped the Grand Elder in the Chaos Light Diagram, where he began a deadly finishing move.

• Xia Mo captured the fleeing Blood Demon Woman in the Chaos Light Diagram and removed blood poison from High Priest Wusu.
• The Blood Demon Clan Grand Elder ordered the clan to gather at Blood Demon Mountain and summoned the You Mo Clan for aid while the Clan Chief’s breakthrough continued inside a blood egg.
• Xia Mo and High Priest Wusu led East Province’s surviving experts toward Blood Demon Mountain, where the Grand Elder and another Blood Demon Elder challenged them.
• Xia Mo blocked the two Elders’ attacks, trapped one in the Dragon Phoenix Heaven Refining Array, and battled the Grand Elder while controlling a Purple-Gold Staff against the World-Destroying Blood Beast.
• After the Grand Elder bit Xia Mo’s shoulder, Xia Mo trapped them both inside the Chaos Light Diagram and unleashed Reincarnation Demon Annihilation.

Xia Mo defeated the Blood Demon Clan’s top fighters, but the Blood Demon Clan Grand Elder sacrificed himself to bring forth the Blood Demon Emperor as You Huang arrived. Xia Mo faced both emperors alone and blocked their combined attack, but the chapter ended with the Blood Demon Emperor pressing his assault.

• The Blood Demon Clan Grand Elder escaped Xia Mo’s reincarnation attack by retreating to Blood Cliff, while Xia Mo defeated the other Blood Demon elders and captured a fleeing Blood Demon.
• The Grand Elder sacrificed Blood Demon Clan experts and then his own life to hasten the emergence of the Blood Demon Emperor from the blood egg.
• Xia Mo sealed Blood Demon Mountain and attacked the source of a dangerous fluctuation, but the Blood Demon Emperor emerged and shattered the Chaos Light Diagram’s assault.
• You Huang arrived and joined the Blood Demon Emperor, while the East Province forces feared that Xia Mo would have to fight them both alone.
• Xia Mo used Reincarnation Sealing Heaven to block the emperors’ combined attack, then clashed with the Blood Demon Emperor as You Huang countered his diagram.
• The Blood Demon Emperor outmatched Xia Mo in their exchange and charged again, forcing Xia Mo to evade with his Purple-Gold Wings.

Xia Mo fought the Blood Demon Emperor and You Huang, breaking the Blood Demon Emperor’s arm before the emperor unleashed a secret art and regained his strength. Xia Mo drew on the Plane Embryo’s power and the Sealing Array, then launched a vast final assault as both demons prepared to meet it together.

• Xia Mo counterattacked the Blood Demon Emperor and unleashed a triple assault with the Chaos Light Diagram, Dragon Phoenix Heaven Refining Array, and Void Seal, but the Blood Demon Emperor and You Huang blocked it together.
• Xia Mo used the triple assault to separate the demons, then struck the isolated Blood Demon Emperor with Demon Breaker and broke one of his arms.
• The Blood Demon Emperor tore off his injured arm and used the Blood Demon Clan’s secret art to make his aura surge, while You Huang joined him again.
• Xia Mo awakened the Plane Embryo’s power within the Sealing Array, reviving the land and drawing immense energy from across the world.
• Xia Mo expanded the Sealing Array’s vitality across the realm and summoned countless purple-gold light streaks; the Blood Demon Emperor called on You Huang to attack together as Xia Mo launched them and Blood Demon Mountain began to collapse.

Xia Mo survived the Sacrifice Pool, stabilized his strength, cleansed the Plane Spirit, and returned to Starfall Pavilion, where he cured Old Yao and helped him reach Two Star Dou Sheng. After Xiao Yi Xian awakened and the group prepared for the Yao Clan’s Medicine Ceremony, Xia Mo revealed a powerful scroll and requested rare materials for an undisclosed purpose.

• Xia Mo emerged from the Sacrifice Pool with his realm stabilized at the peak of the Quasi-Heavenly Sovereign stage, then used East Province’s prayers to find and cleanse the corrupted Plane Spirit.
• Xia Mo created a spatial passage for East Province’s people and returned to Starfall Pavilion, where he removed the strange power afflicting Old Yao and helped him break through to Two Star Dou Sheng.
• Xia Mo learned that Soul Hall had emptied its exposed branch halls, while Xiao Yan and Old Yao remained wary of the faction’s unexplained retreat.
• Xiao Yi Xian awoke, absorbed the energy surrounding her secret chamber, and advanced to Six Star Earthly Stage before reuniting with Xia Mo.
• Xia Mo and Xiao Yan promised to support Old Yao at the Yao Clan’s Medicine Ceremony, which was one month away.
• Xia Mo asked Old Yao to gather many precious materials, then produced a scroll whose power astonished the Dou Sheng experts present.

Xia Mo defeated the Blood Demon Emperor and You Huang, led East Province to wipe out the remaining Outer Realm Evil Clan, and declared war on the clan. High Priest Wusu then brought him to the Sacrifice Pool to heal his injuries and stabilize his realm, where Xia Mo endured its overwhelming life force as it began turning his body to wood.

• Xia Mo’s Dragon Phoenix, Suppress Demons clashed with the Blood Demon Emperor’s Blood Demon Body and You Huang’s Nether Demon Idol, shattering the Chaos Light Diagram and killing both demons.
• Xia Mo ambushed and killed the retreating You Mo Clan experts and their Great King's Hall, then declared that East Province would formally wage war on the Outer Realm Evil Clan.
• Three days later, East Province had wiped out the Outer Realm Evil Clan, and Xia Mo stayed behind to recover while the province rebuilt and reorganized.
• High Priest Wusu took Xia Mo to the hidden Sacrifice Pool, where successive life-force Flame Dragons struck him as he absorbed their power and fought to stabilize his realm.
• When the colorless waterfall poured down with vastly greater force, Xia Mo was engulfed and his flesh began turning to wood, but he continued resisting within it.

Xia Mo revealed and completed the Cosmic River Array, giving the Heavenly Mansion Alliance powerful protection, then prepared to attend the Yao Clan’s Medicine Ceremony with Old Yao and Xiao Yan. The chapter ended as they traveled toward the Shennong Mountain Range while the Alliance remained wary of the Soul Hall.

• Xia Mo revealed the Cosmic River Array, and the Alliance’s factions pooled their resources to gather its rare construction materials.
• Xia Mo recruited Qi Sect elders to help build the array, and a thousand people completed it in a month with Xiao Yan supplying much of its energy.
• Xia Mo activated the array, demonstrated its overwhelming power, and ordered the core guarded before Old Yao proposed an additional defensive formation.
• Xia Mo spent time with Xiao Yi Xian and Cai Xi, while the Alliance’s investigation found that the Soul Hall had withdrawn and heavily fortified its branch halls.
• Old Yao, Xia Mo, and Xiao Yan left the Star Realm for the Yao Clan’s Medicine Ceremony in the Shennong Mountain Range.

Xia Mo, Xiao Yan, and Yao Chen arrived at the Yao Clan for the Pill Gathering, where Yao Wangui insulted Yao Chen and provoked his disciples. Xia Mo and Xiao Yan fought back, and the chapter ended with Xia Mo holding Yao Wangui captive as Elder Wanhuo called for the conflict to stop.

• Xia Mo, Xiao Yan, and Yao Chen entered the Yao Clan and traveled to its central mountain for the Pill Gathering.
• Yao Wangui confronted Yao Chen and mocked him for being expelled from the clan, while his followers joined in insulting him.
• Xia Mo and Xiao Yan beat the Yao Clan members who insulted Yao Chen and drove back the Iron Guard sent to seize them.
• Xiao Yan revealed his Five Star Dou Sheng strength, and Xia Mo demanded that Yao Wangui apologize to their teacher.
• Xia Mo slapped Yao Wangui and seized him by the throat while Xiao Yan and one of Xia Mo's figures held off Elder Wanhuo.
• Elder Wanhuo asked Xia Mo to spare Yao Wangui for the sake of the Pill Gathering, and rebuked the Yao Clan elders who objected.

Xia Mo, Xiao Yan, and Yao Chen settled their confrontation with the Yao Clan and attended its Medicine Ceremony, where Hun Xuzi arrived and provoked them. After the ceremony’s opening contests ended, the story left the group awaiting the final alchemy competition.

• Elder Wanhuo intervened in Xia Mo’s confrontation with Yao Wangui, and Yao Chen agreed to end the dispute while Xiao Yan warned the Yao Clan to respect the Heavenly Mansion Alliance.
• Elder Wanhuo escorted Xia Mo, Xiao Yan, and Yao Chen to the Medicine Ceremony, where Yao Chen took seats as the Alliance leader and discussed his disciples’ chances in the final contest.
• Yao Dan opened the ceremony, and Shennong Elder arrived before Hun Xuzi appeared uninvited and revealed his hostile history with Yao Chen.
• Hun Xuzi taunted Yao Chen, so Xia Mo sent Xi Wang to attack him, but Yao Dan forbade fighting at the ceremony and Hun Xuzi held back.
• Yao Dan began the Medicine Ceremony, and the younger Yao Clan members competed in preliminary contests that lasted several days before concluding.

The Medicine Ceremony’s final contest began as Xia Mo, Xiao Yan, Hun Xuzi, Elder Wanhuo, and Shennong Elder revealed their powerful flames and started refining pills. Xia Mo and Xiao Yan swallowed nearly ten thousand kinds of herbs into their flame cauldrons, while the crowd watched their extraordinary methods.

• Yao Dan announced that five participants would compete for the title of the continent’s number one Alchemist.
• Hun Xuzi, Elder Wanhuo, and Shennong Elder entered the arena, and Xia Mo and Xiao Yan joined them.
• Hun Xuzi revealed the Earth Child Flame of the Nihility Devouring Flame, while Elder Wanhuo displayed the Nine Nether Wind Flame and Shennong Elder showed the Spirit Flame.
• Xiao Yan revealed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and Little Yi, and Xia Mo summoned a Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame powerful enough to rival it.
• The five began refining pills in separate flame cauldrons, and Shennong Elder used the Spirit Flame to rapidly grow medicinal herbs from seeds.
• Xia Mo and Xiao Yan each fed nearly ten thousand types of medicinal herbs into their cauldrons, astonishing the Yao Clan’s younger generation.

Xia Mo watched the other alchemists compete for scarce natural energy while quietly nurturing his own pill, as Hun Xuzi’s schemes turned the contest into a battle. Xiao Yan succeeded in forming a Nine-grade Profound Pill with help from Shennong Elder and Elder Wanhuo, and the pill began undergoing its lightning tribulation.

• Xia Mo and four other grandmasters spent a day refining medicinal ingredients, then Hun Xuzi, Elder Wanhuo, Shennong Elder, and Xiao Yan drew vast amounts of natural energy into their cauldrons to form Nine-grade Profound Pills.
• After three days, Hun Xuzi used his Nihility Devouring Flame to steal energy from the others’ cauldrons, but Little Gold and Little Yi protected Xia Mo and Xiao Yan’s energy and seized Hun Xuzi’s pill embryo.
• Hun Xuzi attacked, while Shennong Elder, Elder Wanhuo, and Xi Wang fought to hold him back; Shennong Elder and Elder Wanhuo then gave their pill embryos to Xiao Yan.
• Little Yi purified the donated embryos’ energy and poured it into Xiao Yan’s cauldron, allowing a point of light to form and triggering pill rain and the emergence of a Nine-grade Profound Pill.
• Xiao Yan’s pill rose into the thunderclouds, where black lightning struck it as the pill underwent its tribulation.