Chapter Summaries

Wang Feiyun defeated Yuan Xuecheng to show that Ye Xiwen’s earlier victory over him reflected Ye Xiwen’s strength, not his own weakness. Wu Chenhai then challenged Wang Feiyun, and their fight began with Wu Chenhai pressing the attack.

• Yuan Xuecheng challenged Wang Feiyun, and Wang Feiyun took the arena in place of a weaker Wang Family disciple.
• Wang Feiyun blocked Yuan Xuecheng’s sword, shattered it, and kicked him off the arena.
• Wang Feiyun reflected that he had fought to show the Wang Family that Ye Xiwen’s defeat of him did not mean he was weak.
• Wu Chenhai entered the arena and declared that he could suppress the Wang Family’s experts without Senior Brother Jia’s help.
• Wu Chenhai attacked Wang Feiyun with a kick; Wang Feiyun met him with the Gui Yi Cloudbreak Hand, and Wu Chenhai followed with another strike.

Wu Chenhai crippled Wang Feiyun with a single devastating kick, prompting Ye Xiwen to enter the arena as the Wang Family’s next opponent. As Wu Chenhai unleashed his full power against him, Ye Xiwen answered with a seemingly ordinary kick that shattered the air, leaving the crowd stunned.

• Ye Xiwen told Wang Mengyu that Wu Chenhai controlled the fight and that Wang Feiyun would lose.
• Wu Chenhai broke through Wang Feiyun’s defense with a powerful kick, crippling both his arms and knocking him unconscious.
• Ye Xiwen stopped Wang Mengyu from entering the arena and volunteered to fight Wu Chenhai on the Wang Family’s behalf.
• Wu Chenhai attacked Ye Xiwen with his full-strength Whirlwind Kick, while spectators recognized Ye Xiwen as the fighter rumored to have defeated Wang Feiyun in one move.
• Ye Xiwen swung an ordinary kick that shattered the air and made Wang Mengyu realize how formidable his strength was.

Ye Xiwen overwhelmed Wu Chenhai in their arena fight, effortlessly breaking through the Gale Leg Technique and crippling him with a kick. The chapter ended with a Wu Family expert rushing out and accusing Ye Xiwen of striking viciously during a spar.

• Ye Xiwen’s opening kick scattered Wu Chenhai’s storm and forced him to retreat.
• Wu Chenhai unleashed Sudden Storm, but Ye Xiwen blocked his attacks with simple kicks and remained unharmed.
• Wu Chenhai gathered spiritual energy for a powerful Overlord Dao strike, but Ye Xiwen stopped it with his hands.
• Ye Xiwen drove through Wu Chenhai’s leg shadows and kicked him in the chest, shattering his ribs and sending him crashing to the ground.
• A Wu Family figure rushed out of the seating area and accused Ye Xiwen of attacking too viciously.

After Ye Xiwen defeated Wu Chenhai, Wu Nanjie tried to kill him but Wang Yanghua intervened. Jia Qing then challenged Ye Xiwen, and their battle began with both attacks colliding.

• Wu Nanjie attacked Ye Xiwen, but Wang Yanghua blocked him and forced him to return to the Wu Family seats.
• Wu Nanjie promised Jia Qing doubled rewards if he killed Ye Xiwen, and Jia Qing agreed.
• Jia Qing flew onto the arena and challenged Ye Xiwen, who sensed that Jia Qing was a more dangerous opponent than Wu Chenhai.
• Jia Qing attacked with the Severing Wave Blade Technique, but Ye Xiwen used Burial of Man Sword to break apart the saber waves.
• Ye Xiwen rushed at Jia Qing, who reacted in time to raise his saber and block Ye Xiwen's Sword Intent.

Ye Xiwen and Jia Qing fought in the arena, with Jia Qing trying to wear Ye Xiwen down before unleashing his strongest blade technique. Ye Xiwen answered with the Burial of Heaven Sword and sent Jia Qing flying, leaving the match’s outcome unresolved.

• Ye Xiwen and Jia Qing exchanged blows as spectators watched, unable to follow their movements.
• Jia Qing tried to prolong the fight, believing Ye Xiwen would run out of true yuan, but Ye Xiwen said he had enough to outlast him.
• Jia Qing gathered his full strength and challenged Ye Xiwen to settle the fight with one move.
• Ye Xiwen covered himself in golden divinity, while Jia Qing drew moisture into towering waves for his Severing Wave Blade Technique.
• Jia Qing unleashed the Wave Cleaving Stance, and Ye Xiwen met it with the Burial of Heaven Sword.
• The clash released a massive burst of energy, and Jia Qing flew backward spitting blood.

Ye Xiwen defeated Jia Qing and faced Yuan Xuehai, who revealed his Transcendent Realm Second Heaven cultivation and power over ice. Their sword duel began with both fighters testing each other, and it ended this chapter with Yuan Xuehai blocking Ye Xiwen’s near-fatal counterattack rather than risking mutual destruction.

• Ye Xiwen exploited flaws in Jia Qing’s Severing Wave Blade Technique and defeated him with the Burial of Heaven Sword.
• Ye Xiwen turned his attention to Yuan Xuehai, and Yuan Xuehai entered the arena to challenge him.
• Yuan Xuehai offered to let Ye Xiwen recover, but Ye Xiwen refused, saying he had already restored his true essence.
• Yuan Xuehai revealed his ice power and Transcendent Realm Second Heaven cultivation, then attacked Ye Xiwen with his longsword.
• Ye Xiwen deflected Yuan Xuehai’s sword shadows and answered his focused strike with the Burial of Earth Sword.
• As both swords neared their targets, Yuan Xuehai blocked Ye Xiwen’s attack instead of allowing them to strike each other.

Ye Xiwen fought Yuan Xuehai, seized control of their battle, and survived being swallowed by Yuan Xuehai’s ice dragon. Yuan Xuehai then unleashed his strongest technique, Ice Seal the World, leaving Ye Xiwen facing a raging blizzard.

• Ye Xiwen forced Yuan Xuehai onto the defensive, and Wang Mengyu realized Yuan Xuehai had reached the Transcendent Realm Second Heaven.
• Ye Xiwen countered Yuan Xuehai’s sword-light snowflakes and pressed him with powerful sword techniques.
• Yuan Xuehai summoned an ice dragon that swallowed Ye Xiwen, but Ye Xiwen used the Heavenly Origin Mirror to survive and burst out of it.
• Yuan Xuehai, exhausted by their prolonged fight, vowed to withdraw if Ye Xiwen survived his next strike.
• Yuan Xuehai unleashed Ice Seal the World, sending a massive blizzard and icy pillar crashing toward Ye Xiwen.

Ye Xiwen defeated Yuan Xuehai by unleashing Meteor Burst, securing the championship for the Wang Family. Yuan Xuehai survived and promised to challenge Ye Xiwen again, while the Wang Family celebrated its first victory in five hundred years.

• Yuan Xuehai used his final ice-pillar attack, and Ye Xiwen countered with Meteor Burst.
• Ye Xiwen shattered the ice pillar and blasted Yuan Xuehai into the Yuan Family seating area.
• Yuan Xuehai stopped his clansmen from attacking Ye Xiwen and thanked him for showing mercy.
• The Wang Family celebrated Ye Xiwen's championship victory, and Wang Mengyu and Uncle Le praised his achievement.
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Ye Xiwen’s championship victory revived the Wang Family’s standing and disrupted the Wu Family’s long-term plan to weaken them. The Wu Family decided to have Wu Ying’s sea-folk ally E Xiangtian kill Ye Xiwen after he left Wang Family protection.

• News spread across Qi Nan Island that Ye Xiwen had won the championship for the Wang Family, prompting many martial artists to consider joining them.
• Wu Family members cursed Ye Xiwen for ruining their plans, while Wu Ying urged Wu Nanjie to retaliate.
• Wu Nanjie said the Wang Family was protecting Ye Xiwen too closely for the Wu Family to attack him directly.
• Wu Ying proposed asking E Xiangtian, his Shadowfang Poison Crocodile friend at the Transcendent Realm Third Heaven, to kill Ye Xiwen.
• Wu Nanjie approved the plan, and the three Lineages began distributing their Spirit Fire Mountain slots.

The families and independent cultivators gathered at the docks to travel to Spirit Fire Mountain for its eruption and baptism, with Ye Xiwen focused on using it to strengthen himself before facing the Transcendent Realm tribulation. The Wu Family openly hated Ye Xiwen, but Wang Yanghua urged everyone to depart before the eruption began.

• The Wang Family arrived first, celebrating Ye Xiwen's championship while he continued deducing Meteor Burst in the Mysterious Space.
• The Yuan Family arrived, and its members discussed how Ye Xiwen had defeated Yuan Xuehai, Wu Chenhai, and Jia Qing.
• Two independent cultivators arrived together to protect themselves from pressure by the three great families.
• The Wu Family arrived with recovered Wu Chenhai and Jia Qing, both glaring at Ye Xiwen with undisguised killing intent.
• Ye Mo warned Ye Xiwen that the Wu Family would likely seek revenge, and Ye Xiwen said he expected to become strong enough to escape Wu Nanjie after the baptism.
• Wang Yanghua called for the groups to head to the sea above Spirit Fire Mountain before its eruption could cost them their slots.

Ye Xiwen entered Spirit Fire Mountain as it erupted and seized the chance to absorb its immense fire-attributed energy. He continued cultivating as lava buried his cave, leaving him to withstand the eruption and absorb its power.

• Wang Yanghua led the three Lineages and two independent cultivators to Spirit Fire Mountain and warned them to stay in their caves until the eruption.
• Ye Xiwen reached his assigned cave, set up an array, and waited as the volcano began shaking and heating the sea.
• Ye Mo explained that the eruption had broken open a fire Spirit Stone mine, releasing highly concentrated fire-attributed spiritual energy.
• Ye Xiwen absorbed the fire-attributed energy with his Overlord Body Art and the Guanren Scripture, strengthening himself and further absorbing the Star Colossus flesh and blood within him.
• Lava poured into and buried Ye Xiwen's cave, and he withdrew his protective qi to absorb the energy in the lava directly.

After Spirit Fire Mountain’s eruption subsided, the other cultivators emerged with greatly improved cultivation, while Jia Qing waited to kill Ye Xiwen. Ye Xiwen finally came out a month later, his aura revealing that he had reached the Half-Step Transcendent Realm Late Stage.

• The two independent cultivators emerged first, followed by Wu Chenhai, who had advanced to the Transcendent Realm Second Heaven and expected a sea race expert to kill Ye Xiwen.
• Jia Qing emerged at the peak of the Transcendent Realm Second Heaven and waited to challenge Ye Xiwen, while Wu Chenhai left without warning him that Jia Qing might lose.
• Yuan Xuehai and the other cultivators from the Yuan Family emerged, followed by Wang Feiyun, who had broken through to the Transcendent Realm Second Heaven.
• Wang Mengyu emerged and asked about Ye Xiwen; she and Wang Feiyun decided to wait, believing he was likely still alive in his cave.
• After another month, Ye Xiwen’s cave shattered open and he emerged with an aura at the Half-Step Transcendent Realm Late Stage.

Ye Xiwen emerged from the volcano at the Half-Step Transcendent Realm Late Stage and challenged Jia Qing's confidence by defeating him in one move. The chapter ended with Jia Qing sent flying and bleeding beneath the sea.

• Ye Xiwen reached the peak of the Half-Step Transcendent Realm Late Stage and brought the Eighth Layer of the Overlord Body Art to the threshold of the Ninth Layer.
• Wang Mengyu, Wang Feiyun, and another Wang family disciple congratulated Ye Xiwen on his advancement.
• Jia Qing challenged Ye Xiwen and attacked him with the Severing Wave Blade Technique, empowered by the surrounding sea.
• Ye Mo explained the ranks of martial arts and assessed the techniques Ye Xiwen possessed.
• Ye Xiwen countered Jia Qing's blade aura with the Great Extinction Star Dust Fist and defeated him with one move.

After defeating Jia Qing with one move, Ye Xiwen decided to leave Qi Nan Island for Yangzhu Island in search of sea charts that could lead him toward the Ancient Barrens Continent. The Wu Family learned of his departure and arranged an ambush, sending Wu Chenhai and Jia Qing after him.

• Ye Xiwen overwhelmed Jia Qing in a single move, then rose to the surface with Wang Mengyu, Wang Feiyun, and the others.
• Ye Xiwen told Wang Mengyu he was leaving Qi Nan Island, and she warned him that the Wu Family might try to intercept him.
• Wang Mengyu recommended that Ye Xiwen travel to Yangzhu Island to seek sea charts and later visit Sea Dragon Prefecture if needed.
• Ye Xiwen thanked Wang Mengyu and promised to help the Wang Family if it faced trouble in the future.
• Wu Nanjie approved a plan to kill Ye Xiwen as he left, and Wu Chenhai and Jia Qing volunteered to join the pursuit.

Ye Xiwen was ambushed at sea by Wu Chenhai, Jia Qing, and Sea Clan fighters led by E'Xiangtian, but he swiftly killed two of the attackers. He charged at the two remaining Sea Clan experts as E'Xiangtian watched his men fall.

• Ye Xiwen flew across the sea and discussed his rapid cultivation progress with Ye Mo.
• Ye Mo warned Ye Xiwen that a crocodile demon beast was following him, likely under someone’s control.
• Ye Xiwen recognized Jia Qing and Wu Chenhai among the group that caught up with him, led by E'Xiangtian of the Shadowfang Poison Crocodile Clan.
• Wu Chenhai and E'Xiangtian threatened Ye Xiwen and ordered four peak Transcendent Realm Second Heaven fighters to attack.
• Ye Xiwen killed two of the four Sea Clan fighters with golden strikes and lunged at the remaining two.

Ye Xiwen slaughtered the remaining Sea Clan experts and fought their leader, E'Xiangtian, who wielded a low-grade Human Rank artifact. Their artifacts collided in a violent clash, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Ye Xiwen killed another Sea Clan expert despite E'Xiangtian's water pillar attack, then killed the last survivor before E'Xiangtian could save him.
• E'Xiangtian threatened Ye Xiwen and attacked him with his claws, but Ye Xiwen's golden defenses withstood the blows and drove him back.
• E'Xiangtian summoned a pair of low-grade Human Rank iron claws, and Ye Mo warned Ye Xiwen to be careful.
• E'Xiangtian charged with the iron claws as Ye Xiwen sent the Heavenly Origin Mirror against him, and the two low-grade Human Rank artifacts collided.

Ye Xiwen defeated and killed E'Xiangtian, Wu Chenhai, and Jia Qing after they joined the siege against him. He collected E'Xiangtian's wealth and left the bloodied sea before it could attract sea demon beasts.

• Ye Xiwen overwhelmed E'Xiangtian's claw-shaped magic item with the Heavenly Origin Mirror and blasted a hole through his chest.
• E'Xiangtian died despite warning Ye Xiwen that the Shadowfang Poison Crocodile Clan would seek revenge, and Ye Xiwen took his wealth.
• Jia Qing and Wu Chenhai fled in opposite directions, but Ye Xiwen caught up to Wu Chenhai and killed him with the Heavenly Origin Mirror.
• Ye Xiwen pursued Jia Qing and killed him before leaving the sea to avoid attracting sea demon beasts.

Ye Xiwen reached Yangzhu City, learned that the Azure Flame Cave Abode was nearing its opening, and planned to attend an auction and seek a sea chart. The chapter left him recognizing Wang Mengyu among a group of Wang family experts who entered the inn.

• Ye Xiwen traveled to Yangzhu Island and entered its prosperous Yangzhu City.
• At an inn, Ye Xiwen overheard guests discussing an auction and the impending opening of the Azure Flame Cave Abode.
• Ye Xiwen asked the waiter about the cave abode and learned that a sea chart might be offered at the auction.
• Ye Mo advised Ye Xiwen to investigate the cave abode, and Ye Xiwen decided to attend the auction and look for a chart.
• Wang Mengyu, accompanied by Wang Feiyun and other young Wang family experts, arrived at the inn, and Ye Xiwen recognized her.

Ye Xiwen met Wang Mengyu and her family on Yangzhu Island, agreed to explore the rumored Immortal's Cave Residence with them, and accepted an invitation to attend an auction. Their conversation was interrupted by Crimson Lightning Fairy, whose taunts escalated into an attack on Ye Xiwen.

• Ye Xiwen reunited with Wang Mengyu and Wang Feiyun, who explained that the Wang family had come to investigate rumors of an ancient immortal's cave residence.
• Wang Mengyu invited Ye Xiwen to explore the cave residence with the Wang family, and he agreed to join them when it opened.
• Wang Mengyu invited Ye Xiwen to attend Yangzhu Island's auction with her the next day, and he accepted.
• Crimson Lightning Fairy arrived and traded barbed remarks with Wang Mengyu, revealing hostility between them.
• Crimson Lightning Fairy mocked Ye Xiwen's Half-Step Transcendent Realm cultivation, and he told her to mind her own business.
• Crimson Lightning Fairy grew angry at Ye Xiwen's reply and slashed at him.

Xiao Chen reflected on his unexpectedly strong monthly ticket ranking and urged readers to support him as competition intensified in the second half of the month. He vowed to keep working hard and avoid another last-minute fall in the rankings.

• Xiao Chen finished his fourth update, ate instant noodles, and returned to work on two reports before morning.
• Xiao Chen noted that his monthly results had exceeded expectations, including a place among the top twelve in the monthly ticket rankings.
• Xiao Chen warned that the approaching double-ticket period would bring fiercer competition from major authors.
• Xiao Chen recalled being overtaken near the end of a previous contest and vowed not to repeat that defeat.
• Xiao Chen asked readers to vote for him and promised to keep fighting through this month and the next.