Chapter Summaries

Xiao Chen and Qian Wandai entered Green Maple City and went to Treasure Devouring Hall to join as Treasure Devourers, drawn by rumors of True Dragon Blood. A wounded treasure hunter, Cao Hong, arrived and threatened them, leaving Xiao Chen facing a hostile confrontation.

• Xiao Chen recognized Meng Qiuhan in the queue, but she withdrew her gaze and acted as if she did not know him.
• Xiao Chen heard that Treasure Devouring Hall had discovered Dragon Blood in an ancient nest and learned that only members with high merits could compete for it.
• Xiao Chen and Qian Wandai entered Green Maple City and found Treasure Devouring Hall after asking for directions.
• Xiao Chen and Qian Wandai asked the fair-faced middle-aged steward to join Treasure Devouring Hall, and Qian Wandai boasted about their promise.
• Cao Hong entered the hall wounded, mocked Xiao Chen and Qian Wandai, and ordered them to get out of his sight while he spoke with White Steward.

Xiao Chen confronted Cao Hong at the Treasure Devouring Hall and defeated him with one punch, crushing the bones in his left arm. Xiao Chen joined as a probationary Yellow Rank Treasure Devourer, then froze when he learned who his superior was.

• Cao Hong mocked Xiao Chen and Qian Wandai for applying to become Treasure Devourers before they met the cultivation requirement.
• Xiao Chen insulted Cao Hong, who attacked him with the Blood Wolf Fist.
• Xiao Chen knocked Cao Hong down with one punch and pulverized the bones in his left arm.
• The pale-faced middle-aged man offered Xiao Chen a place in the Treasure Devouring Hall, while Qian Wandai asked to join as well.
• Xiao Chen became a probationary Yellow Rank Treasure Devourer and froze after learning who his superior was.

Xiao Chen became a reserve Yellow Rank Treasure Devourer and was assigned to Meng Qiuhan, who rejected having him as her subordinate. After Xiao Chen and Qian Wandai settled into a rented courtyard, Bai Hong told Xiao Chen that his Treasure Devourer career might end before it began.

• Xiao Chen learned that he would serve as a reserve Yellow Rank Treasure Devourer under Meng Qiuhan, and Qian Wandai warned him about her hostility toward men.
• Xiao Chen and Qian Wandai spent Spirit Stones on a meal and rented a small courtyard in Green Maple City for a year.
• Meng Qiuhan refused Bai Hong's request to keep Xiao Chen as her subordinate, insisting she would pursue the True Dragon Blood and avenge her family on her own.
• Xiao Chen asked Bai Hong when he could take missions, and Bai Hong revealed that Meng Qiuhan was his niece and that he had assigned Xiao Chen to look after her.

Xiao Chen learned that he could only advance as a Treasure Devourer by working under Meng Qiuhan, who refused to take him along because she considered him weak. After Wei Renjie intervened, Meng Qiuhan agreed to bring Xiao Chen on missions, but warned him to stay out of her way.

• Bai Hong told Xiao Chen that his assignment to Meng Qiuhan could not be changed and urged him to withdraw rather than risk angering her.
• Xiao Chen went to Meng Qiuhan's courtyard, but she rejected him and shut the gate in his face.
• Xiao Chen asked Wei Renjie for help, and Wei Renjie sent Meng Qiuhan a message praising him and urging her to assist him.
• Meng Qiuhan reopened the gate and agreed to take Xiao Chen on missions, ordering him to follow quietly and not interfere.

Xiao Chen joined Meng Qiuhan on a dangerous mission to retrieve a Blood Refining Flower from an ancient mountain. They reached Blood Corpse Mountain, where its sinister aura unsettled even Meng Qiuhan.

• Meng Qiuhan gave Xiao Chen the Yellow Rank mission scroll for a hundred-year-old Blood Refining Flower, despite five previous groups dying at the site.
• Xiao Chen learned from Qiongqi that the flower could slightly improve his Kunpeng Body Core and agreed to leave with Meng Qiuhan immediately.
• Xiao Chen and Meng Qiuhan flew from Green Maple City toward the mission site while Xiao Chen reflected on his progress and ambitions.
• They arrived at Blood Corpse Mountain, and Xiao Chen remarked on its dark crimson color and oppressive corpse qi.
• Meng Qiuhan's expression changed as she saw how vicious the mountain appeared.

Xiao Chen and Meng Qiuhan entered Blood Corpse Mountain to retrieve a Blood Refining Flower, learning of the mountain’s deadly history and confronting the strange creatures within. They found the flower without its rumored guardian, but Xiao Chen spotted a faint, tangled demonic aura stirring beneath the soil.

• Meng Hanqiu explained that an ancient evil beast had slaughtered a hundred thousand Divine Army soldiers on Blood Corpse Mountain and warned that its corpse soldiers and unknown guardians still posed a threat.
• Meng Qiuhan told Xiao Chen to avoid the two unexplored mountain ranges, and they flew toward the first peak to search for the Blood Refining Flower.
• Giant-eyed beasts watched them from the dark forest until Meng Qiuhan summoned an ice dragon phantom that drove them away.
• Meng Qiuhan used her map to locate the Blood Refining Flower beside a boulder, but Xiao Chen noticed there was no guardian nearby and grew wary.
• The soil near the flower shifted as a faint, mixed demonic aura seeped out, and Xiao Chen asked what it was.

Xiao Chen and Meng Qiuhan encountered a swarm of powerful Blackblood Antfiends, then watched an Ant King Beast charge in to prey on them. The Ant King Beast suddenly began bleeding black blood and fled, leaving the antfiends advancing.

• Meng Qiuhan warned Xiao Chen as more than a thousand Blackblood Antfiends emerged from the soil around the Blood Refinement Flowers.
• Meng Qiuhan explained the danger of the pestilence-bearing antfiends and told Xiao Chen to flee on his own.
• An enormous Ant King Beast appeared, and Meng Qiuhan believed its natural advantage over ants would save them.
• Xiao Chen doubted the Ant King Beast could defeat the unusually powerful swarm, whose leader took to the air and directed the attack.
• The Ant King Beast devoured several antfiends, then began bleeding black blood and turned to flee, shocking Meng Qiuhan.

The Blackblood Antfiends devoured the Ant King Beast, leaving Meng Qiuhan and Xiao Chen trapped before their king. When the Antfiend King attacked Meng Qiuhan, Xiao Chen stepped in front of her and faced its next venom arrow.

• Xiao Chen explained that the Blackblood Antfiends' Power of Pestilence made them a match for the Ant King Beast.
• The Blackblood Antfiends killed the Ant King Beast by corroding and consuming it, while Meng Qiuhan realized she could not escape.
• Xiao Chen reassured Meng Qiuhan, and the Antfiend King threatened to turn them into pus.
• The Antfiend King fired a venom arrow at Meng Qiuhan, and she formed an ice shield that endured the attack.
• As the Antfiend King prepared another strike, Xiao Chen stepped in front of Meng Qiuhan and challenged it.
• The enraged Antfiend King fired a larger venom arrow at Xiao Chen.

Xiao Chen used the Demon Subduing Scripture and Fire Lotus Blaze to protect Meng Qiuhan and rout the Blackblood Antfiend army. He pursued the fleeing antfiends, while the Antfiend King demanded that he let them go.

• Xiao Chen shattered the Antfiend King's venom arrow with the golden light of the Demon Subduing Scripture, shocking Meng Qiuhan and the Antfiend King.
• The Antfiend King ordered its nearly thousand Blackblood Antfiends to attack, and their wingbeats shattered Meng Qiuhan's divine light and knocked her down.
• Xiao Chen invoked Fire Lotus Blaze, saving Meng Qiuhan and surrounding himself with nearly a hundred blazing lotuses.
• The Antfiend King fled in terror, and the antfiends that charged Xiao Chen caught fire and burned to nothing as the rest of the army turned to flee.
• Xiao Chen pursued the antfiends, saying they would all stay, and the Antfiend King demanded that he leave them a way out.

Xiao Chen forced the Blackblood Antfiend King to offer him more than twenty Blood Refinement Flowers in exchange for sparing its clan. The king secretly planned to lure Xiao Chen to a powerful demon that owned the flowers, while Xiao Chen collected the flower beneath the boulder and followed it.

• Xiao Chen confronted more than nine hundred Blackblood Antfiends with Fire Lotus Blaze, and the Antfiend King warned its followers that his flames were an Exotic Flame.
• The Antfiend King offered to reveal a site with more than twenty Blood Refinement Flowers in exchange for its clan's lives, and Xiao Chen agreed after learning they were about a hundred years old.
• The Antfiend King hid its murderous intent and led Xiao Chen toward the flowers, planning to use a powerful demon that hated Great Xia humans to kill him.
• Xiao Chen stopped to uproot the Blood Refinement Flower beneath a boulder, stored it in his Space Stone Ring, and then prepared to follow the Antfiend King.

Xiao Chen ignored Meng Qiuhan’s warning and went with the Blackblood Antfiend King to find Blood Refinement Flowers, while secretly recognizing the antfiends’ scheme. After they reached a blood-red forest claimed by a powerful demon, the antfiends revealed their hostility, but Xiao Chen showed he had anticipated their betrayal.

• Meng Qiuhan warned Xiao Chen that the antfiends might be luring him into a trap, but he pretended to trust the Blackblood Antfiend King and agreed to follow it.
• Xiao Chen and the antfiends traveled through the ancient forest together, and their presence drove away the lurking beasts.
• The group entered a silent, blood-red woodland where Meng Qiuhan sensed a powerful demon’s territory and urged Xiao Chen to leave.
• The Blackblood Antfiend King dropped its friendly act and threatened Xiao Chen and Meng Qiuhan, but Xiao Chen said he had known about the scheme.

Xiao Chen and Meng Qiuhan encountered the Mountain Devouring Demon Tiger, a near-King great demon, in its territory. Xiao Chen remained calm, revealed his confidence, and drew the Dragon Slayer Sword as the tiger confronted him.

• Xiao Chen revealed that he already knew the Mountain Devouring Demon Tiger ruled the area, shocking the Blackblood Antfiend King and Meng Qiuhan.
• The tiger roared from its cave, releasing green demon qi that sent nearby winged beasts fleeing and drove the Blackblood Antfiends to retreat.
• Meng Qiuhan urged Xiao Chen to flee, but he claimed he had slain a King Realm expert before and refused to back down.
• The Mountain Devouring Demon Tiger emerged as a colossal, three-eyed beast and challenged Xiao Chen after he called it a kitty.
• Xiao Chen unsheathed the Dragon Slayer Sword, revealing powerful Sword Qi that startled Meng Qiuhan and the Antfiend King, then drew the sword fully.

Xiao Chen fought the Mountain Devouring Demon Tiger after his sword strike wounded and drove the beast back, shocking the Antfiends and Meng Qiuhan. The battle reached a stalemate until the tiger used its peerless Demon Tiger Devours Mountain technique, leaving Meng Qiuhan worried about Xiao Chen's survival.

• Xiao Chen struck the Mountain Devouring Demon Tiger with the Dragon Slayer Sword, sending the tiger crashing into its cave and cutting its paw.
• The Mountain Devouring Demon Tiger rose, sealed its wound with demon power, and charged at Xiao Chen in fury.
• Xiao Chen and the tiger fought at high speed, trading sword light and claw strikes while the Antfiends watched in disbelief.
• The Mountain Devouring Demon Tiger activated its third Mystic Eye and fired a blood-red beam at Xiao Chen with Demon Tiger Devours Mountain.
• The Blackblood Antfiend King celebrated the technique's return, while Meng Qiuhan feared Xiao Chen would be crushed by it.

Xiao Chen killed the Mountain Devouring Demon Tiger and wiped out the Blackblood Antfiends on Blood Corpse Mountain's First Peak. Meng Qiuhan was stunned by his strength, while Xiao Chen learned that Wei Renjie had never told her he was Tiger Seedling.

• Xiao Chen used Starlight Sword to kill the Mountain Devouring Demon Tiger, then took its demon crystal.
• Xiao Chen beheaded the Blackblood Antfiend King and killed all nine hundred Blackblood Antfiends after they had ambushed him.
• Meng Qiuhan approached Xiao Chen in shock and asked whether he was Tiger Seedling.
• Xiao Chen realized Wei Renjie had kept his identity and past deeds from Meng Qiuhan.

Xiao Chen and Meng Qiuhan harvested nearly a thousand Antfiend Demon Cores and found twenty-two Blood Refinement Flowers in the Mountain Devouring Demon Tiger’s territory. They left the forest with their haul, and Xiao Chen wondered why they had not encountered any of the Divine Army’s dead.

• Xiao Chen collected the Antfiends’ Demon Cores and watched ghostly faces drift toward the Third Peak, but he and Meng Qiuhan chose not to follow them.
• Xiao Chen and Meng Qiuhan searched the blood-colored forest until Xiao Chen discovered twenty-two Blood Refinement Flowers hidden between two boulders.
• Xiao Chen offered Meng Qiuhan five flowers, but she refused them, and he stored the entire harvest in his Space Stone Ring.
• Xiao Chen and Meng Qiuhan left the forest as nearby great demons retreated, then watched from afar as the demons fought over the Mountain Devouring Demon Tiger’s corpse.
• Xiao Chen asked Meng Qiuhan where else they could find Blood Refinement Flowers, then wondered why they had not encountered any of the Divine Army members said to haunt the First Peak.

Xiao Chen and Meng Qiuhan left Blood Corpse Mountain as Bing Yangyu awakened and vowed revenge against Great Xia for the destruction of his antfiends and flowers. On their way to Green Maple City, Meng Qiuhan warned Xiao Chen about Bing Yangyu and the danger posed by the mountain’s Second and Third Peaks, then reminded him that his grandfather was returning to claim him.

• Bing Yangyu awoke in a coffin on Blood Corpse Mountain’s Third Peak and learned that a youth from Great Xia had killed his antfiends, demon tiger, and harvested his Blood Refinement Flowers.
• Bing Yangyu ordered his ghost faces to remember Xiao Chen and kill him if he entered the Second or Third Peak, threatening to exterminate his family once he escaped.
• Xiao Chen and Meng Qiuhan left Blood Corpse Mountain and flew toward Green Maple City on the Tianfeng.
• Meng Qiuhan told Xiao Chen that the Second and Third Peaks held dangerous Profound-grade missions and might shelter Bing Yangyu, a demon wielding the Power of Pestilence.
• Meng Qiuhan explained that the Divine Fire Army had wounded Bing Yangyu by joining their Spiritual Fire through an ancient formation, but Great Xia could no longer assemble such a force.
• Meng Qiuhan reminded Xiao Chen that his grandfather was returning to the mortal world that day to claim his kin at Zhenbei King Manor.

Wen Haishan arrived in Barren North City and learned that Xiao Lingtian’s dantian had been shattered, while Wen Wanrong remained wary of her father despite their reunion. After asking where his other grandson, Xiao Chen, was, Wen Haishan left the family’s reunion unresolved.

• Xiao Chen rejected Meng Qiuhan’s suggestion that he seek protection from Wen Haishan, saying he wanted nothing to do with Zhenbei King Manor.
• Xiao Zhentian, Wen Wanrong, Xiao Lingtian, and Barren North City’s influential figures gathered to welcome Wen Haishan.
• Wen Haishan arrived with a black-robed elder, and Xiao Lingtian mistakenly rushed toward the elder before Wen Haishan identified himself as his grandfather.
• Wen Haishan discovered Xiao Lingtian’s shattered dantian and released a pressure that forced Barren North City’s influential figures to their knees.
• Wen Wanrong called Wen Haishan Father to stop him from harming Xiao Zhentian, then refused to repeat the name.
• Wen Haishan accepted the gathered gifts and asked where Xiao Chen was.

Wen Haishan arrived at Zhenbei King Manor and learned that Xiao Chen had left the family, but Xiao Lingtian’s lies made him believe Xiao Chen had injured his younger brother out of jealousy. Wen Haishan offered Xiao Lingtian a Supreme Treasure Pill, and Wen Wanrong wondered if it could cure the Ten Thousand Calamities Curse.

• Wen Haishan demanded to know why Xiao Chen was absent, and Xiao Zhentian explained that Xiao Chen had been removed from the family register.
• Wen Haishan erupted in anger at Xiao Zhentian and Wen Wanrong for casting Xiao Chen out, but Wen Wanrong said Xiao Chen had chosen to leave.
• Xiao Lingtian claimed Xiao Chen had shattered his dantian out of jealousy and stolen his fiancée, while Xiao Zhentian and Wen Wanrong stayed silent rather than expose his lies.
• Wen Haishan believed Xiao Lingtian and promised to give him a Supreme Treasure Pill that could heal injuries and condense a Dual Core.
• Wen Wanrong asked whether the Supreme Treasure Pill could lift the Ten Thousand Calamities Curse.

Wen Haishan learned that Xiao Chen had the Ten Thousand Calamities Curse and that only one Heaven-Seizing Fortune Pill existed, while Xiao Lingtian pressed Wen Wanrong to choose him over his elder brother. Zhang Da challenged Xiao Lingtian’s account and defended Xiao Chen, leaving Wen Wanrong to decide whose story to support.

• Wen Haishan said the Heaven-Seizing Fortune Pill could cure Xiao Chen’s curse, but he had only one and intended to save it for Xiao Lingtian.
• Zhang Da stood up to defend Xiao Chen, recalling how Xiao Chen had saved his life and helped other servants.
• Xiao Lingtian ordered guards to drag Zhang Da away, but Wen Haishan stopped them and let Zhang Da speak.
• Zhang Da told Wen Haishan that Xiao Chen had been framed and that Xiao Lingtian was the one acting viciously.
• Wen Haishan asked Wen Wanrong which young man was telling the truth, and Xiao Lingtian pleaded with her to choose him.

Wen Wanrong confirmed Xiao Lingtian’s accusations, and Zhang Da was beaten to death for defending Xiao Chen. Xiao Lingtian consumed the Heaven-Seizing Fortune Pill and became a Half-King, while Xiao Chen returned unharmed from a mission with Meng Hanqiu to Blood Corpse Mountain.

• Wen Wanrong backed Xiao Lingtian’s claims, and Zhang Da was beaten to death after pleading for Xiao Chen.
• Wen Haishan gave Xiao Lingtian the Heaven-Seizing Fortune Pill, whose vision revealed the Soul-Seizing Immortal’s fifty-thousand-year effort to refine it.
• Xiao Lingtian emerged from seclusion with a Dual Core and Half-King cultivation, vowing to kill Xiao Chen.
• News spread that Xiao Lingtian was a prodigy while false accusations against Xiao Chen circulated and Zhang Da’s death went unnoticed.
• Bai Hong worried that Meng Hanqiu had injured Xiao Chen, but Xiao Chen arrived unhurt and said they had completed a mission together.
• Meng Hanqiu told Bai Hong that she and Xiao Chen had gone to Blood Corpse Mountain to gather Blood Refinement Flowers.