Chapter Summaries

Baixiaosheng revealed Ye Xiwen’s history to the gathered disciples, establishing his reputation as a formidable fighter, and Ye Xiwen studied information on the Heaven’s Chosen entering the competition. He accepted the challenge of facing them as a way to grow stronger and declared that powerful opponents were meant to be defeated.

• Chi Tian mocked the Xuan Yuan Twin Stars, and the brothers left the tavern without fighting.
• Baixiaosheng recounted Ye Xiwen’s exploits, including his victories over Heaven’s Chosen and the deaths he had dealt the God Army.
• After the Heaven’s Chosen departed, Shui Yanluo and the others bought intelligence, and Ye Xiwen obtained profiles of the competition’s participants.
• Ye Xiwen read about Chi Tian, the Xuan Yuan Twin Stars, Jin Wushuang, and the True Martial School’s representatives, recognizing how dangerous they were.
• Qi Feifan warned Ye Xiwen that the competitors would be difficult to defeat, but Ye Xiwen welcomed the chance to fight them and grow stronger.

As the competition entered its seventh round, Ye Xiwen learned that his opponent was Sun Zhanpeng, a formidable Xuanyuan Hall fighter nearing Heaven's Chosen strength. He gave Shui Yanluo protective Pseudo-Saint Artifact armor and urged her to surrender against the Xuan Yuan Twin Stars, then entered the arena for his match.

• After the second day eliminated every Paragon, the competition advanced to its seventh round with only Half-Saints remaining.
• Ye Xiwen heard that Sun Zhanpeng, who had cultivated the Heavenly Longevity King of the Underworld Rebirth Scripture, was his next opponent.
• Shui Yanluo and Huang Luochen told Ye Xiwen that Shui Yanluo would face the Xuan Yuan Twin Stars and Huang Luochen would face a Quasi-Heaven's Chosen.
• Ye Xiwen warned Shui Yanluo to surrender immediately and gave her Pseudo-Saint Artifact inner armor to protect her.
• Ye Xiwen heard the bell, took his token, and entered the arena.

Ye Xiwen fought Sun Zhanpeng, whose recent rebirth had raised him to prodigy-level strength and whose Saint Artifact gave him a powerful advantage. Ye Xiwen unleashed his Burial of Heaven Sword, and the clash sent one fighter flying, leaving the outcome unclear.

• Ye Xiwen recognized Sun Zhanpeng's nine hundred and ninety-nine laws and learned that Sun Zhanpeng wanted to kill him to claim the vacant prodigy position left by Fan Ming.
• Sun Zhanpeng attacked Ye Xiwen with the Jidu Underworld King Blade, and Ye Xiwen dodged its devastating strike.
• Sun Zhanpeng revealed that his blade was a Saint Artifact and struck twice, while Ye Xiwen evaded the attacks with his golden wings.
• Ye Xiwen declared that he would show Sun Zhanpeng the gap in their true strength, and Sun Zhanpeng charged at him amid a ghostly aura.
• Ye Xiwen used the Burial of Heaven Sword against Sun Zhanpeng's blade, shattering space in their clash and sending a figure flying.

Ye Xiwen defeated Sun Zhanpeng with one move, then rescued Shui Yanluo after the Xuan Yuan Twin Stars attacked her despite her surrender. He vowed to kill the brothers, and the chapter ended with the crowd awaiting the eighth-round match between the Qin King and Di Chen.

• Ye Xiwen defeated Sun Zhanpeng in a single move, and the referee declared him the winner.
• Shui Yanluo fell from a shattered battle space, badly injured, as the Xuan Yuan Twin Stars sent a water-and-fire tornado after her.
• Ye Xiwen destroyed the tornado, confronted the Twin Stars brothers, and treated Shui Yanluo with his Phoenix Rebirth Art.
• Shui Yanluo told Ye Xiwen that the brothers had attacked her after she surrendered, and Ye Xiwen vowed to kill them.
• Ye Xiwen sent Shui Yanluo down the mountain and returned as the seventh round ended.
• The disciples focused on the upcoming eighth-round match between the Qin King of True Martial School and Di Chen of the East Sea.

Ye Xiwen quickly advanced through the eighth round after his opponent conceded, then watched Di Chen and Qin King begin a fierce battle. Their first clash shattered space, and Ye Xiwen recognized Di Chen’s Golden Lion as one of the demon beasts hatched from eggs found on Ten Thousand Demons Island.

• Ye Xiwen’s Late Stage Half-Saint opponent conceded, giving Ye Xiwen the eighth-round victory.
• Ye Xiwen joined the spectators as Di Chen and Qin King faced off, each refusing to back down from the other’s threats.
• Di Chen charged Qin King on the Golden Lion, and their spear and lance collided with enough force to shatter space.
• The Golden Lion revealed an aura equal to a supreme expert who had condensed nine hundred and ninety-nine laws.
• Ye Xiwen recognized the Golden Lion as a demon beast hatched from an egg found on Ten Thousand Demons Island, like Little Wolf.

Qin King summoned his Black Armor Guard against Di Chen, revealing an army of more than a thousand powerful puppets backed by the Great Tang Empire. Di Chen met their first volley head-on, and the battle remained unresolved as the arrows struck his crimson armor.

• Ye Xiwen compared the Golden Lion's strength with Qin King's steed as Di Chen and Qin King prepared to fight in earnest.
• Di Chen challenged Qin King to reveal his full strength and threatened to kill him.
• Qin King released more than a thousand Black Armor Guards from a scroll, including cavalry, infantry, and archers.
• The Black Armor archers fired two hundred magical-artifact arrows at Di Chen.
• Di Chen swept his spear through the volley, shattering dozens of arrows, while the rest struck his crimson armor and tore at the surrounding void.

Qin King unleashed his Black Armor Guard and Saint Artifact bow against Di Chen, whose Saint Artifact spear and Golden Lion barely held off the combined assault. Just as Qin King’s forces appeared to overwhelm him, Di Chen teleported to within ten feet of Qin King, leaving the duel poised for a close-range attack.

• Qin King’s Black Armor cavalry combined their strength into a giant halberd, but Di Chen smashed it aside with his spear.
• Qin King fired a Saint Artifact arrow at Di Chen, whose spear stopped it after the force drove the Golden Lion backward.
• Qin King and the Black Armor Guard launched a coordinated assault, pinning Di Chen under a storm of arrows and attacks.
• Di Chen and the Golden Lion vanished moments before the combined strike shattered the space where they had stood.
• Di Chen reappeared near Qin King through spatial power, and Qin King drew and nocked an arrow as Di Chen closed to within ten feet.

Di Chen used the Golden Lion’s spatial ability to defeat and kill Qin King, establishing his dominance among the prodigies. After the matches ended, Bai Jiansong told Ye Xiwen that Yu Yang Peak’s elders wanted him to find a chance to kill Di Chen and offered ten million Spirit Origin Pills as an additional reward.

• Di Chen repeatedly used the Golden Lion’s spatial ability to ambush Qin King and overwhelm him despite Qin King’s arrows.
• Di Chen ignored the Supreme Palace Lord’s order to stop and killed Qin King by driving his spear through him and his horse.
• Di Chen’s victory left the spectators regarding him as the foremost prodigy, while the tournament’s next matches were set to include Di Chen against Jin Wushuang and the Xuan Yuan Twin Stars against Ice King.
• Ye Xiwen reflected on the nearly ten years since arriving at Hidden Star Peak and worried that he might never return to Earth to see his former parents again.
• Bai Jiansong visited Ye Xiwen and told him that elders, furious over Qin King’s death, had offered him ten million Spirit Origin Pills to find a chance to kill Di Chen.

Bai Jiansong told Ye Xiwen that Yu Yang Peak offered ten million Spirit Origin Pills to kill Di Chen, and warned him about Di Chen’s spatial abilities. He also cautioned that killing Di Chen would make Ye Xiwen the next target of the forces watching the competition.

• Bai Jiansong told Ye Xiwen that Yu Yang Peak would pay him ten million Spirit Origin Pills to kill Di Chen, and Ye Xiwen accepted the offer.
• Bai Jiansong warned Ye Xiwen that Di Chen’s spatial abilities made him exceptionally dangerous, while Ye Xiwen said he believed the Golden Lion possessed the ability.
• Bai Jiansong said the school’s leaders wanted Ye Xiwen to survive even if he could not defeat Di Chen, and explained that the early advantage of spatial abilities was especially formidable.
• Ye Xiwen questioned Bai Jiansong’s low expectations, and Bai Jiansong admitted that he hoped Ye Xiwen would not kill Di Chen.
• Bai Jiansong warned that many forces regarded Di Chen as a threat, but if Ye Xiwen killed him, they would turn their attention to Ye Xiwen and subject him to assassinations and blockades.

Ye Xiwen faced Chi Tian, the Southern Barbarians’ Barbarian God True Body, in a highly anticipated battle between powerful physical fighters. As their auras collided, the Xuanyuan Hall Master predicted that the True Martial School’s contestants would all lose, while the Supreme Palace Lord remained unmoved.

• Ye Xiwen told Bai Jiansong that he would kill Di Chen if he had the chance and learned that Chi Tian possessed the formidable Barbarian God True Body.
• On the fourth day of the competition, Chi Tian and Ye Xiwen entered the arena as spectators gathered to watch their clash.
• Chi Tian declared that he would kill Ye Xiwen, who responded by unleashing his golden divinity and meeting Chi Tian’s aura head-on.
• The Xuanyuan Hall Master predicted that the Xuan Yuan Twin Stars would defeat Ice King and that Ye Xiwen would lose, but the Supreme Palace Lord said the outcome was not yet decided.

Ye Xiwen and Chi Tian fought in a brutal contest of strength, and Ye Xiwen gained the upper hand by wounding Chi Tian. The spectators were left stunned as Chi Tian, widely expected to dominate, became the first to bleed.

• The Fire Cloud Cave Master challenged others to judge Ye Xiwen by watching him fight Chi Tian.
• Chi Tian charged Ye Xiwen on his Barbarian Beast, but Ye Xiwen met his spear with a sword and matched his strength.
• Chi Tian called Ye Xiwen a whetstone and launched another assault, while the two exchanged more than a hundred heavy blows.
• Ye Xiwen began suppressing Chi Tian and continued pressing him with forceful sword strikes.
• The fighters crossed paths in midair, and Ye Xiwen cut a deep wound across Chi Tian's chest, shocking the watching disciples.

Ye Xiwen overwhelmed Chi Tian in a brutal duel, breaking his hands and killing him with a final sword strike. The Fire Cloud Cave Master watched in disbelief as Chi Tian was cleaved in two.

• Chi Tian recovered from his first injury and charged Ye Xiwen with the Eight Desolations Killing God Spear.
• Ye Xiwen met Chi Tian’s spear with his own sword art and forced the Barbarian Beast beneath Chi Tian to its knees.
• Ye Xiwen’s aura continued rising as he struck Chi Tian with the Burial of Heaven Sword, inflicting internal injuries and breaking his mount’s front legs.
• Ye Xiwen’s successive sword strikes shattered Chi Tian’s hands, leaving him unable to defend himself.
• The Fire Cloud Cave Master shouted for Ye Xiwen to stop, but Ye Xiwen cleaved Chi Tian in two.

Ye Xiwen killed Chi Tian and advanced to the semifinals, earning recognition as a serious championship contender. As the competition’s odds shifted in his favor over the Xuan Yuan Twin Stars, the semifinals approached with Di Chen and Ye Xiwen favored to reach the final.

• Ye Xiwen killed Chi Tian with a decisive sword strike, eliminating Fire Cloud Cave and securing a place in the top four.
• The Xuanyuan Hall Master worried that Ye Xiwen might defeat the Xuan Yuan Twin Stars in their upcoming semifinal.
• Di Chen advanced after Jin Wushuang surrendered, while the Xuan Yuan Twin Stars barely defeated the Ice King in a difficult battle.
• Spectators began treating Ye Xiwen as a leading championship contender, and his odds surpassed those of the Xuan Yuan Twin Stars.
• True Martial School disciples crowded the betting tables, with most backing Ye Xiwen and Xuanyuan Hall disciples supporting the Xuan Yuan Twin Stars.

Ye Xiwen wagered three million Spirit Origin Pills on his own victory, prompting the Xuan Yuan Twin Stars brothers to withdraw rather than match his stake. As the grand competition’s atmosphere grew tense, Ye Xiwen’s match against the brothers was about to begin.

• The Xuan Yuan Twin Stars brothers blamed Ye Xiwen for their humiliation, but they did not dare attack him when they met outside the gambling house.
• Ye Xiwen placed a three-million-Spirit-Origin-Pill bet on his own victory, and disciples gathered to wager on the match.
• The Xuan Yuan Twin Stars brothers realized they could not match Ye Xiwen’s wealth and left rather than risk further humiliation.
• True Martial School disciples celebrated the brothers’ retreat while disciples from the other factions watched, and the match between Ye Xiwen and the Twin Stars brothers drew near.

Ye Xiwen faced the Xuan Yuan Twin Stars in the tournament semifinals and swiftly shattered Huo Chi’s flame fist intent, injuring him. As Huo Lan attacked Ye Xiwen from behind, the brothers’ attempt to prove themselves in a one-on-one fight was already falling apart.

• Ye Xiwen arrived early and told the Twin Stars brothers he intended to kill them.
• Huo Chi attacked Ye Xiwen with a fist infused with fire laws, and Ye Xiwen met it with a golden dragon formed from his palm intent.
• Ye Xiwen’s golden dragon tore apart Huo Chi’s flame deity, badly injuring Huo Chi.
• Huo Lan launched a surprise attack from behind with a colossal watery foot after seeing Huo Chi’s defeat.

Ye Xiwen overwhelmed the Twin Stars brothers after they separated, killing Huo Lan and Huo Chi in the arena. As the Xuanyuan Hall Master reacted in shock, an unknown figure charged into the competition's minor world.

• Ye Xiwen shattered Huo Lan's kick with a punch, badly injuring his leg as the crowd watched in disbelief.
• Qi Feifan explained that the Twin Stars brothers were dangerous only when they fought together, and the brothers realized they needed to reunite.
• Ye Xiwen stopped Huo Chi from joining Huo Lan, broke Huo Chi's arms, and sent him crashing into the earth.
• Huo Lan kicked Ye Xiwen's waist without moving him, and Ye Xiwen smashed Huo Lan's legs before stomping him to death.
• Ye Xiwen killed Huo Chi with a giant palm, prompting the Xuanyuan Hall Master to rise in shock.
• A figure suddenly charged into the competition's minor world.

Ye Xiwen killed the Xuan Yuan Twin Stars, leaving the spectators stunned, and Di Chen entered the competition's small world to challenge him ahead of the scheduled final. The leaders debated whether to allow the fight, and Fire Cloud Cave Master backed it while suggesting Huantian Island punish Di Chen afterward.

• Ye Xiwen killed the Xuan Yuan Twin Stars before Xuanyuan Hall Master could intervene, astonishing the spectators.
• Di Chen rode into the competition's small world on the Golden Lion and challenged Ye Xiwen to fight immediately.
• Spectators argued over whether Di Chen meant to exploit Ye Xiwen's recent battle and worried that he had violated the competition's rules.
• Xuanyuan Hall Master urged the leaders to let Di Chen and Ye Xiwen fight, hoping their factions would become deadly enemies.
• Fire Cloud Cave Master agreed to allow the fight and said Huantian Island could discipline Di Chen afterward.

Ye Xiwen accepted Di Chen’s challenge despite having just defeated the Xuan Yuan Twin Stars, and the two began a fierce battle. Their clash shattered the small world, leaving the fight unresolved.

• The Huantian Island Lord stayed silent as the Fire Cloud Cave Master and others proposed delaying the fight, and the Supreme Palace Lord of True Martial School let Ye Xiwen choose whether to face Di Chen.
• Ye Xiwen agreed to settle his old grudge with Di Chen from Ten Thousand Demons Island, surprising the watching disciples.
• Di Chen charged Ye Xiwen on the Golden Lion, and Ye Xiwen answered with a Mountain Shaking Seal that Di Chen destroyed with a roar.
• Ye Xiwen fought Di Chen and the Golden Lion through more than a thousand exchanges without falling behind.
• Their battle unleashed such force that the small world shattered.

Ye Xiwen unveiled his newly refined Demon Wings and used their wind-and-thunder power against Di Chen and the Golden Lion after their clash shattered a small world. The battle continued atop Duwu Peak, where Ye Xiwen’s lightning began battering his opponents.

• Ye Xiwen and Di Chen’s clash destroyed the small world and carried their fight onto Duwu Peak’s plaza.
• The spectators recognized that the fight’s power set the two apart from their generation, while a Huantian Island disciple complained that the arena restricted Di Chen’s spatial abilities.
• Di Chen charged Ye Xiwen on the Golden Lion, but Ye Xiwen summoned enormous golden Demon Wings.
• Ye Xiwen revealed that he had infused the Demon Wings with his understanding of wind and thunder after reaching the Half-Saint realm.
• Ye Xiwen’s wind and lightning forced back Di Chen and the Golden Lion, then repeatedly struck and scorched them.

Ye Xiwen used his Demon Wings and overwhelming physical strength to take control of his battle with Di Chen. He left Di Chen struggling to keep up, while spectators speculated that the solid space atop Duwu Peak was limiting Di Chen’s spatial ability.

• Ye Xiwen charged Di Chen and struck his holy-artifact spear with his bare palm, astonishing the spectators with his body’s toughness and strength.
• The master of Xuanyuan Hall coveted Ye Xiwen’s Demon Wings, while the Fire Cloud Cave Master became interested in the secret behind his powerful body.
• Ye Xiwen repeatedly attacked at tremendous speed, forcing Di Chen to flee and leaving him unable to counterattack.
• Spectators concluded that Ye Xiwen was suppressing Di Chen, while others argued that Di Chen would have the advantage if he could fully use his spatial ability in a less solid space.