Chapter Summaries

Xiao Chen fought the white-robed old man transformed from the Purple-Horned Serpent, but exhausted his strength and collapsed. As the old man prepared to dismiss him, Qiongqi’s pattern blazed and an imposing green-armored elder appeared.

• The white-robed old man attacked Xiao Chen after scorning Qiongqi, and Xiao Chen blocked his first strike with a sword slash.
• Xiao Chen unleashed Starlight Fist, but the old man dispelled it with a white snake formed from demonic aura.
• With his energy spent and Qiongqi and the system silent, Xiao Chen lost his True Devil state and collapsed unconscious.
• The white-robed old man assumed Xiao Chen had no guardian and began descending toward him.
• Qiongqi’s chest pattern erupted with eerie green light, and an aged voice challenged the old man.
• A green-haired, green-eyed elder in beast armor appeared, making the white-robed old man wary.

Qiong Shitian revealed himself as Qiongqi and attacked the white-robed elder for injuring Xiao Chen, but the Divine Fruit Mystic Realm’s Realm Spirit blocked the strike. The Realm Spirit confirmed Qiong Shitian’s identity while mocking how little strength he had left.

• Qiong Shitian challenged the white-robed elder for injuring his successor, Xiao Chen, and summoned Qiongqi’s enormous true-form phantom.
• The white-robed elder unleashed his Purple-Horned Giant Serpent Soul, but Qiongqi’s phantom destroyed it before it could reach him.
• As Qiongqi’s phantom charged, the white-robed elder called for the Realm Spirit, who appeared and raised a black shield to block the attack.
• Qiong Shitian protected the unconscious Xiao Chen from the shockwaves as the clash destroyed nearby mountains and trees.
• The Realm Spirit addressed Qiong Shitian as Lord Qiongqi and mocked him for retaining only a tiny fraction of his former strength.

Qiong Shitian killed the Martial God Hall’s Realm Spirit and the Purple-Horned Serpent after they threatened Xiao Chen, then stayed to protect him while he recovered. Xiao Chen awoke two hours later in the Divine Fruit Mystic Realm, alive and with both divine fruits still nearby.

• The black-robed Realm Spirit revealed his ties to the Martial God Hall and clashed with Qiong Shitian over Xiao Chen and the Supreme Five-Colored Spirit Fruit.
• Qiong Shitian seized the Realm Spirit and burned him to ashes with ghostfire, declaring he would one day attack the Martial God Hall to avenge his descendants.
• Qiong Shitian burned the Purple-Horned Serpent to ashes, then suffered dizziness from using his power despite his severe injuries.
• Qiong Shitian remained beside the unconscious Xiao Chen and protected him from demons attempting to steal the Supreme Five-Colored Spirit Fruit and the Immortal Spirit Fruit.
• Two hours later, Xiao Chen awoke, realized he was alive, and saw that both divine fruits were still there.

Xiao Chen collected the Immortal Spirit Fruits and Supreme Five-Colored Spirit Fruit despite his depleted strength, then escaped the enraged demons and found a cave to begin refining the fruit. As he prepared to form Dual Core, Qiongqi revealed that Dual Core could make him strong enough to fight a Grandmaster Realm cultivator.

• Xiao Chen picked seventeen Immortal Spirit Fruits while the lurking great demons held back, frightened by Lord Yellow's earlier attack.
• Xiao Chen took the Supreme Five-Colored Spirit Fruit, provoking the demons to roar, then fled into tall grass and realized they had not pursued him.
• Qiongqi explained that Lord Yellow had killed several powerful demons and scared the others away from Xiao Chen.
• Xiao Chen inspected his fruits, found a clean cave, and prepared to refine the Supreme Five-Colored Spirit Fruit to form Dual Core.
• Qiongqi told Xiao Chen that Dual Core could let him fight a Grandmaster Realm cultivator, and Xiao Chen asked whether Qiongqi had saved him from the demons.

Xiao Chen tempered his Kunpeng Body Core with the Supreme Five-Colored Spirit Fruit, completing its transformation. A new phenomenon began, drawing his consciousness into a mysterious spiritual world above an endless azure ocean.

• Qiongqi denied saving Xiao Chen from the Purple-Horned Serpent and explained that Xiao Chen’s Dual Core would become usable once he tempered his Body Core.
• Qiongqi told Xiao Chen he would need to reach the sixth level of the General Realm and use the Ancient True Devil to have a strong chance of killing Xue Can.
• Xiao Chen began tempering his Kunpeng Body Core with the Supreme Five-Colored Spirit Fruit while Qiongqi watched.
• The Kunpeng Body Core transformed, growing golden scales and a pair of black wings.
• A new phenomenon appeared, and Xiao Chen found himself above an endless azure ocean in a mysterious spiritual world.

After tempering his Dual Core through the Kunpeng Devours the Sun phenomenon, Xiao Chen learned the Divine Fruit Mystic Realm was collapsing and began absorbing Immortal Spirit Fruits while Qiongqi held it together. The chapter ended as Xiao Chen recklessly absorbed more than a dozen fruits at once, suffering intense pain as Qiongqi warned him to stop.

• Xiao Chen resonated with Kunpeng Devours the Sun, astonishing Qiongqi, who downplayed the feat while privately recognizing Xiao Chen's extraordinary talent.
• Xiao Chen completed tempering his Dual Core and felt his strength rise, then wanted to seek out the Purple-Horned Serpent for a rematch.
• Qiongqi warned Xiao Chen that the Divine Fruit Mystic Realm was collapsing because its Realm Spirit had been slain and urged him to absorb the Immortal Spirit Fruit.
• As the realm shook and cracked, Qiongqi took human form and temporarily stabilized it with his demon aura.
• Xiao Chen began drawing spiritual energy from more than a dozen Immortal Spirit Fruits at once, and the immense energy caused him excruciating pain.
• Qiongqi shouted at Xiao Chen to stop, warning that absorbing so many fruits at once was dangerously reckless.

Xiao Chen risked his life absorbing more than ten Immortal Spirit Fruits while Qiongqi strained to keep the Divine Fruit Mystic Realm from collapsing. After the realm shattered, Xiao Chen was hidden in a cave, but Ye Lanxi and the others believed he had died and mourned him.

• Xiao Chen used Healing God to repair his wounds as he absorbed the fruits, while Qiongqi struggled to hold the realm together.
• Xiao Chen absorbed all the fruits’ spiritual energy and fragments of Dao Power, breaking through to the third level of Sword General.
• Qiongqi ran out of strength, the Divine Fruit Mystic Realm collapsed, and Xiao Chen was teleported unconscious to a hidden cave near Divine Fruit Mountain.
• Thunderstorm, Ye Lanxi, and their subordinates searched for Xiao Chen but found no trace of him and feared the Purple-Horned Serpent and Blackfeather Demon Lion had killed him.
• Ye Qingxuan wept over Xiao Chen’s presumed death, and Ye Lanxi ordered her imperial family’s experts to kill the two demons and sent news to the Zhenbei King.

After Xiao Chen was presumed dead in the Divine Fruit Mystic Realm, Ye Lanxi ordered action against the two Demon Sect Leaders despite the risk of conflict with the Demon Race. News of Xiao Chen’s death reached Zhenbei King Manor, leaving Xiao Zhentian enraged, Wen Wanrong devastated by regret, and Xiao Lingtian stunned.

• Ye Lanxi refused to reconsider her order to avenge Xiao Chen by acting against the Purple-Horned Serpent and the Blackfeather Demon Lion, while Song Ji realized she had feelings for Xiao Chen.
• Thunderstorm silently vowed to cultivate hard and avenge Xiao Chen himself.
• A report reached Xiao Zhentian that Xiao Chen had died, and he roared in fury, unleashing killing intent that tore open the hall’s roof.
• Wen Wanrong learned of Xiao Chen’s death, broke down in grief, and blamed herself for failing to stay by his side when he needed her.
• Xiao Lingtian stood stunned and muttered that the jinx was dead.

After Xiao Chen was presumed dead, Xiao Lingtian pinned his hopes on Wen Haishan, Wen Wanrong’s long-absent father, returning from Beyond the mortal realm with a way to repair his dantian. Xiao Chen woke in a hidden mountain cave with the weakened Qiongqi and began absorbing his Dual Core’s spiritual energy to prepare for the Demon Race’s challenge in three days.

• Xiao Lingtian despaired over Xiao Chen’s apparent death and his own ruined dantian, then hoped Wen Haishan might be able to restore it.
• The chapter recounted how Wen Haishan left for the Outer Realm decades ago, lost contact with the Wen family, and recently announced he would return to acknowledge Wen Wanrong and meet his grandsons.
• Xiao Chen woke in a concealed mountain cave among decaying demon corpses and realized Lord Yellow had chosen the hidden refuge for him.
• Qiongqi revealed that he had been gravely injured while holding back the collapsing secret realm, and Xiao Chen was relieved he had survived.
• Xiao Chen prepared to break through to the sixth level of Sword General before the Demon Race challenged the mountain in three days, beginning to absorb the spiritual energy in his Dual Core.

After Xiao Chen was believed dead in the Divine Fruit Mystic Realm, people across the Tai Xu Sect mourned or celebrated, while Wu Qinglong drank alone in grief. With the Demon Race's Mountain Kicking Tournament only two days away, disciples feared the sect would be overwhelmed if Huang Yelang had left and could not defend it.

• Wu Qinglong drank alone after hearing of Xiao Chen's presumed death, and his disciples worried as he recalled the loss of his daughter Wu Qingqing.
• Hei Meier and Moli burned paper offerings for Xiao Chen, while Niu Feng and Gu Lanlan prepared a spirit tablet; Black Kill Hall and Zhu Yijian's circle celebrated his death.
• Huang Yelang called Xiao Chen's death a pity, while Fire Phoenix fell silent with an emotion she could not explain.
• Tai Xu Sect disciples discussed the approaching Mountain Kicking Tournament and feared the Demon Race's three Young Grandmasters would overpower them.
• Disciples heard a rumor that Huang Yelang had left with his Lineage and might miss the tournament, then questioned whether the news was reliable.

Tai Xu Sect disciples discussed rumors that Huang Yelang might skip the Mountain Kicking Tournament and recalled Wu Qingqing’s death and Sword King Hall’s decline. Hidden near Divine Fruit Mountain, Xiao Chen absorbed abundant spiritual energy, advanced to the fourth level of Sword General, and worried he would not grow strong enough before the tournament.

• A disciple reported rumors that Huang Family members had argued with the Sect Master, while others doubted Huang Yelang would flee before the tournament.
• Tai Xu Sect disciples remembered how Xue Can killed Wu Qingqing after Wu Qinglong knelt to save her, then left Sword King Hall shattered.
• The disciples lamented that Xiao Chen’s death had left Sword King Hall without hope against Xue Can at the coming tournament.
• Xiao Chen absorbed the dense spiritual energy in a hidden cave near Divine Fruit Mountain and advanced from the third to the fourth level of Sword General.
• Xiao Chen felt his progress slow as he pushed toward the fifth level and worried he had less than two days before the tournament.

Xiao Chen cultivated relentlessly in a cave, nearing the fifth level of Sword General before the Mountain Kicking Tournament began. Tai Xu Sect faced the Demon Race without Huang Yelang, while Zhu Yijian confronted Wu Qinglong over giving Xiao Chen the Supreme Five-Colored Spirit Fruit.

• Xiao Chen absorbed spiritual energy at a dangerous pace, aiming to break through two more realms before the tournament, and Qiongqi warned him not to overexert himself.
• After two days of cultivation, the Mountain Kicking Tournament began, and Tai Xu Sect disciples headed to the Dragon Transformation Arena in despair after learning Huang Yelang had been taken back to the Huang Family.
• Disciples discussed rumors that Huang Yelang had fought his family before a King suppressed and forcibly removed him, leaving Tai Xu Sect without its strongest fighter.
• Zhu Yijian told Wu Qinglong he would defeat the demons and bring glory to Sword King Hall, while resenting the fruit Wu Qinglong had given Xiao Chen.
• Wu Qinglong said he had regarded Zhu Yijian as his own son, and Zhu Yijian demanded to know why Wu Qinglong had given the Supreme Five-Colored Spirit Fruit to Xiao Chen instead of him.

Zhao Changhe rallied Tai Xu Sect’s disciples to face the Demon Race at the Mountain Kicking Tournament, despite expecting defeat. The Demon Race arrived with powerful elders and revealed that they had killed the Tai Xu Mountain guards, leaving the sect furious.

• Zhu Yijian rejected Wu Qinglong’s praise of Xiao Chen and vowed to prove his own talent in the tournament.
• The Tai Xu Bell rang for the first time in a century, and disciples learned the Demon Race had added new demands to the tournament.
• At the Dragon Transformation Arena, Zhao Changhe recounted the Human Race’s losses and urged the disciples not to fear; tens of thousands answered with defiant roars.
• The Demon Race arrived with ten youths and several formidable elders, including one surrounded by terrifying phenomena.
• A Demon Race youth tossed Liu Gang’s severed head at Zhao Changhe’s feet and boasted that he had killed the guards, enraging the Tai Xu Sect leaders and disciples.

The Demon Race stormed Tai Xu Sect, killed its guards, and demanded three Titan Cities’ worth of people and Sword King Hall as the stakes for the Mountain Kicking Tournament. After Zhao Changhe fought their elder to a draw, the Demon Race proposed ten matches, leaving Wu Qinglong to decide whether Tai Xu Sect had any choice but to accept.

• Xue Can, the Nine-tailed Celestial Fox and young Mountain Lord of Snow Fox Mountain, taunted Wu Qinglong over his daughter, but other elders restrained Wu Qinglong from attacking.
• A Demon Race elder demanded the commoners of three Titan Cities and Sword King Hall if the Demon Race won, and Zhao Changhe refused.
• Zhao Changhe and the Demon Race elder fought in the sky; both were injured, and the elder admitted Zhao Changhe was his better.
• The Demon Race elders proposed ten matches, with Tai Xu Sect forced to accept their demands if it failed to win even one.
• Zhao Changhe asked Wu Qinglong what he thought, and Wu Qinglong replied that they had no other choices.

Wu Qinglong agreed to a ten-battle contest with the Demon Race, risking Sword King Hall and three Titan Cities if Tai Xu Sect lost every match. Zhu Yijian entered the first battle against She Huang, but She Huang’s green bone blade cut through his opening attack.

• Xue Can refused Wu Qinglong’s plea to spare Sword King Hall and demanded the sect as repayment for a slain demon.
• Wu Qinglong asked Sword King Hall’s disciples to stand with him, and they vowed to fight alongside him.
• Tai Xu Sect and the Demon Race agreed that one Human Race victory in ten battles would secure Tai Xu Sect’s victory; otherwise, the Demon Race would claim three Titan Cities and Sword King Hall as blood food.
• She Huang entered the Dragon Transformation Arena, shattered the arena’s resentful heroic spirits, and challenged Tai Xu Sect’s disciples.
• Zhu Yijian answered She Huang’s challenge, declared himself Sword King Hall’s strongest young disciple, and attacked with his Violet Sun Sword.
• She Huang drew a short green bone blade and slashed through Zhu Yijian’s purple sword light.

She Huang defeated Zhu Yijian with one slash, deepening Tai Xu Sect’s despair as the Demon Race challenged Sword King Hall. Xiao Chen reached the sixth level of the General Realm and rushed back to Tai Xu Sect, where he found its mountain guards dead and realized disaster had struck.

• She Huang severed Zhu Yijian’s arm and shattered his Martial Core phantom, leaving Zhu Yijian’s sword heart broken.
• She Huang mocked Sword King Hall, while Xue Can taunted Wu Qinglong; Wu Qinglong carried Zhu Yijian from the arena and said Xiao Chen could not defeat the Demon Race prodigies.
• Zhao Changhe revealed that the Fire family had taken the Holy Maiden away from Tai Xu Sect.
• Xiao Chen broke through to the sixth level of the General Realm, then hurried toward Tai Xu Sect after realizing the Mountain Kicking Tournament had begun.
• Xiao Chen arrived at Tai Xu Sect and found its mountain guards dead, including a headless corpse near the gate.

Xiao Chen arrived at the Dragon Transformation Arena carrying Liu Gang’s corpse as She Huang and Xue Can threatened the Tai Xu Sect, Sword King Hall, and nearby commoners. He stopped Wu Qinglong from kneeling and declared that he would kill Xue Can to avenge Wu Qingqing.

• Xiao Chen recognized the bloodied doll on Liu Gang’s corpse, carried him toward the mountain gate, and headed for the Dragon Transformation Arena in fury.
• She Huang defeated nine Tai Xu Sect Heavenly Prodigy Rank cultivators and demanded that the sect surrender three Titan Cities and Sword King Hall after one more loss.
• Xue Can threatened to spare commoners only if Wu Qinglong knelt and kowtowed, and Wu Qinglong began walking toward him to protect them.
• Xiao Chen appeared carrying Liu Gang’s headless corpse, stunning the gathered humans and demons and interrupting Wu Qinglong.
• Xiao Chen apologized to Wu Qinglong for arriving late, then vowed to kill Xue Can and avenge Wu Qingqing.

Xiao Chen arrived at the Dragon Transformation Arena and vowed to kill Xue Can, shocking the Tai Xu Sect with his rapid cultivation progress. He killed She Huang with a single sword strike, saving the gathered humans from the demon blood feast, while Zhu Yijian realized Xiao Chen was far stronger than him and his sword heart shattered.

• Wu Qinglong, Zhu Yijian, and Zhao Changhe were stunned to discover Xiao Chen had advanced to the sixth level of the General Realm in one month.
• Xiao Chen told Wu Qinglong that he had gained cultivation in the Divine Fruit Mystic Realm and vowed to slay Xue Can, then leaped onto the Dragon Transformation Arena.
• Xue Can ordered She Huang to quickly kill Xiao Chen so the demons could begin their blood feast, terrifying the human civilians.
• She Huang mocked the humans and their Dragon Transformation Arena, and Xiao Chen promised the heroic spirits he would make the demon prodigies bleed.
• Xiao Chen drew his sword and beheaded She Huang with one strike, causing the heroic spirits to rejoice and the Tai Xu Sect disciples to celebrate.
• Zhu Yijian acknowledged that Xiao Chen was stronger than him and suffered the complete shattering of his sword heart.

After Xiao Chen defeated She Huang, the Demon Race rejected the agreement to end the tournament and demanded that the fight continue. As Zhao Changhe and the Tai Xu Sect prepared for war, Xiao Chen offered to face the Demon Race prodigies alone.

• Zhu Yijian realized Xiao Chen far surpassed him, while Wu Qinglong watched his sword heart shatter.
• The Demon Race dismissed Xiao Chen’s victory over She Huang, and Xue Can ordered Wang Xiong to challenge him.
• Zhao Changhe confronted the Demon Race elder when Wang Xiong entered the arena, demanding to know why they had broken their agreement.
• The Demon Race elder declared that the tournament would continue because Xiao Chen had killed She Huang, and he claimed Demon Race lives were worth more than Human Race lives.
• Zhao Changhe and the Tai Xu Sect disciples chose to fight rather than submit, and the Demon Race elders agreed to battle.
• Xiao Chen told Zhao Changhe that he could kill the Demon Race prodigies alone, but Zhao Changhe warned that he was not yet their match.

Xiao Chen agreed to fight the Demon Race in a best-of-ten tournament to protect civilians, then faced Wang Xiong, who admitted to killing Liu Gang. After Wang Xiong revealed his Giant Bloodline, Xiao Chen sheathed his sword, leaving the onlookers uncertain of his intentions.

• Xiao Chen insisted on fighting the Demon Race instead of letting war endanger more than a hundred thousand civilians, and Zhao Changhe negotiated a new tournament agreement.
• The Demon Race and Tai Xu Sect agreed to a best-of-ten, first-to-six Mountain Kicking Tournament, with the Demon Race demanding one city's civilians and Sword King Hall if they won; Zhao Changhe required both sides to swear a Heavenly Dao Oath.
• Xiao Chen confronted Wang Xiong about Liu Gang's death, and Wang Xiong admitted killing him cruelly and without reason.
• Xiao Chen vowed to avenge Liu Gang, and Wang Xiong grew to ten meters tall by revealing his Giant Bloodline.
• Xiao Chen sheathed the Dragon Slayer Sword and proposed testing his body against Wang Xiong's, while the Tai Xu Sect disciples mistook the gesture for surrender and Wu Qinglong watched in silence.