Chapter Summaries

After Xiao Chen was believed dead from the stolen Dao Heaven Holy Elixir and the backlashing Ten Thousand Calamities Curse, his family and allies grieved as Qiongqi carried his body toward Hong Chidao’s Divine Temple. Hong Chidao refused to believe Xiao Chen was dead, even as news of the Blue Moon Clan’s invasion spread.

• Wen Haishan learned that Xiao Chen had died, raged at Zhao Changhe, then collapsed in grief after hearing the Dao Heaven Holy Elixir had been stolen and the curse had backlashed.
• Xiao Zhentian, Wen Wanrong, and Xiao Lingtian arrived and saw Xiao Chen’s corpse; Xiao Zhentian regretted his estrangement from his son, Wen Wanrong fainted, and Xiao Lingtian recalled their childhood before breaking down.
• Xiao Lingtian argued with himself over his envy and affection for Xiao Chen, then returned to coldness after kneeling and sobbing.
• Qiongqi carried Xiao Chen toward Hong Chidao’s Divine Temple, where a divine coffin could preserve the corpse, while news of Xiao Chen’s death and the Blue Moon Clan’s invasion spread.
• Qiongqi arrived at a forested valley and told Hong Chidao that Xiao Chen was dead, but Hong Chidao insisted Xiao Chen could not die.

Hong Chidao revealed that Xiao Chen was barely alive after his attempt to comprehend the Path of Calamity, and he and Qiongqi brought him to a divine palace to preserve him. As Xiao Chen remained unconscious, his protectors worried over the threats ahead and placed him in Hong Chidao’s Divine Fire Coffin.

• Hong Chidao told Qiongqi that a faint thread of life force remained in Xiao Chen, then admitted he had known all along and let Qiongqi grieve; the two fought before discussing Xiao Chen’s condition.
• Hong Chidao explained that Xiao Chen was covered in Evil Curses and survived only because of Healing God power at his heart, leaving his awakening uncertain.
• Qiongqi suspected that someone above might want Xiao Chen to suffer an accident, while Hong Chidao feared the coming Divine Treasure and the Spirit Race’s experts would endanger him.
• Hong Chidao and Qiongqi carried Xiao Chen to Hong Chidao’s crimson divine palace and entered a side hall containing a Divine Fire Coffin.
• Hong Chidao explained that the coffin’s cold Ice Fire could slow the loss of life force and revealed that he had stolen it from a Demon God.

Hong Chidao placed Xiao Chen in the Divine Fire Coffin and sacrificed a Calamity Breaking Pill and several Divine Medicine plants to suppress his misfortune. Xiao Chen’s condition remained perilous, but his divine consciousness revived as he opened his eyes in his Sea of Consciousness.

• Hong Chidao put Xiao Chen in the Divine Fire Coffin, whose flames slowed the Power of Misfortune.
• Hong Chidao fed Xiao Chen a Calamity Breaking Pill, dissolving some of the gray lines covering his body.
• Hong Chidao burned several Divine Medicine plants in the coffin to further nourish Xiao Chen.
• Hong Chidao told Qiongqi that Xiao Chen might either succumb to the Evil Curse or comprehend the Path of Calamity and be reborn.
• Xiao Chen’s divine consciousness revived, and he opened his eyes in the cold, dark Sea of Consciousness beneath red snow.

Xiao Chen survived the Evil Curse and began comprehending the Path of Calamity as the Power of Misfortune turned into golden Dao Power. He resisted the Lord of Calamity’s attempts to break his will, though much of the misfortune remained.

• Xiao Chen woke in his Sea of Consciousness with a stronger divine soul and less Power of Misfortune, while Hong Chidao and Qiongqi watched over him.
• The Lord of Calamity tempted Xiao Chen with despair, but the Calamity Breaking Pill, Divine Fire Coffin, and Divine Medicines helped his consciousness fight back.
• Xiao Chen recalled his unfinished dreams and mysteries, and golden Dao Power began forming as the Power of Misfortune nourished him.
• Qiongqi and Hong Chidao saw Xiao Chen’s Soul Fire recover as golden light melted the red snow and dissolved nearly half the black lines on his body.
• Xiao Chen steadied his will and resisted the Lord of Calamity’s words, while Hong Chidao warned that the remaining Power of Misfortune could return.

Xiao Chen remained trapped in a stalemate with the Power of Misfortune, and Hong Chidao warned that freeing him could take ten thousand years. In Great Xia, Ye Haoran reported that the Blue Moon Clan had invaded Bear Martial City and overwhelmed its defenders.

• Hong Chidao told Qiongqi that Xiao Chen’s golden light was growing so slowly that removing the Evil Curse would take at least ten thousand years, though Divine Medicine could extend Xiao Chen’s life.
• Ye Qingxuan and Ye Lanxi visited Ye Haoran and learned that the Divine Treasure had emerged early in Bear Martial City.
• Ye Lanxi read a memorial stating that the Blue Moon Clan had invaded Bear Martial City and slaughtered its people.
• Ye Haoran explained that a hundred Blue Moon Clan members descended from a black hole and that an old member wounded him in three moves.
• The Blue Moon Clan invaders mocked Great Xia as barren and backward, and one young man threatened a King Realm elder who had challenged them.

The Blue Moon Clan slaughtered Great Xia’s defenders, occupied Bear Martial City, and wiped out its people, leaving the Xia Emperor seeking outside aid. Ye Haoran then told Ye Qingxuan and Ye Lanxi that Xiao Chen had died, devastating both princesses.

• A Blue Moon Clan youth killed an old King with a beam of moonlight and demanded that Great Xia’s cultivators submit to enslavement.
• Great Xia’s Kings and younger cultivators attacked the Blue Moon Clan, but the invaders slaughtered them despite being greatly outnumbered.
• The Blue Moon Clan occupied Bear Martial City and purified the city’s entire population with moonlight.
• Ye Haoran told Ye Lanxi and Ye Qingxuan that he had sought aid from Fortune Hall, while Ye Lanxi urged him to seek help from the Outer Realm.
• Ye Haoran revealed that Xiao Chen had died from the backlash of the Evil Curse after the events involving Huang Yelang, Hong Chidao, and the stolen sacred liquid.
• Ye Qingxuan grieved over Xiao Chen’s death, while Ye Lanxi turned deathly pale.

Ye Qingxuan and Ye Lanxi grieved after learning Xiao Chen had died, while Great Xia and the Outer Realm reacted to his feats and the Blue Moon Clan’s invasion. The Outer Realm sent reinforcements to Bear Martial City, but its first battle against the Blue Moon Clan ended in a costly defeat.

• Ye Qingxuan realized Xiao Chen had surpassed Xiao Lingtian and regretted losing someone who had truly loved her, while Ye Lanxi silently mourned him.
• Ye Haoran saw both daughters leave the palace in despair, and guards learned that Xiao Chen had defeated Huang Yelang and summoned a protector to kill the Dragon-Riding Ancestor.
• Ye Qingxuan chose to set aside her grief and focus on surviving the coming calamity, while news spread of a Divine Treasure at Xiong Wu Mountain and the Blue Moon Clan’s attack on Bear Martial City.
• The Outer Realm erupted in debate over Xiao Chen’s strength but largely dismissed him because he was believed dead.
• The Outer Realm sent hundreds of experts to aid Bear Martial City, but the Blue Moon Clan inflicted heavy casualties and forced them to retreat.

The Blue Moon Clan devastated cities around Bear Martial City before Great Xia and Outer Realm joined forces to fight them. After both sides suffered heavy casualties, they agreed to settle control of the Divine Treasure through a younger-generation contest for entry slots in three months, leaving Great Xia’s leaders worried about their chances.

• The Blue Moon Clan slaughtered more than a dozen cities, prompting Great Xia and Outer Realm to unite and launch an assault above Bear Martial City.
• More than a hundred Great Xia Kings and over a dozen Blue Moon Clan experts died before both sides agreed to stop fighting and negotiate.
• The Blue Moon Clan refused to return Bear Martial City or relinquish the Divine Treasure, so both sides agreed to have their younger generations compete for entry slots in three months.
• The leaders learned that the Divine Treasure was the Tomb of the Wind Lord, an inheritance expected to open in three months, and agreed to guard it until then.
• At Fortune Hall, Great Xia’s experts discussed the coming contest, and an old man warned that the Blue Moon Clan’s young fighters were powerful while Huang Yelang and Xiao Chen were dead.

As Great Xia prepared for a looming war with the Blue Moon Clan, Xiao Lingtian claimed Xiao Chen’s place and spread lies about his dead brother. Meanwhile, Xiao Chen remained in the Divine Fire Coffin, slowly resisting the curse and comprehending the Path of Calamity, while the Lord of Calamity doubted he could succeed.

• At Fortune Hall, several kings dismissed Xiao Chen and praised Xiao Lingtian, prompting Zhao Changhe and the Tai Xu Sect elders to leave rather than start an internal dispute.
• Great Xia’s sects began urgently training cultivators under twenty for the racial war in three months, while Xiao Lingtian declared that he would replace Xiao Chen and lead the younger generation.
• Xiao Lingtian spread claims that Xiao Chen had envied him, and he resolved to seize everything his brother had possessed.
• Inside the Divine Fire Coffin, Xiao Chen’s gray curse lines slowly transformed into golden light as he tried to comprehend the Power of Misfortune.
• Qiongqi and Hong Chidao observed that Xiao Chen’s progress had accelerated, though they estimated it would still take a thousand years for him to wake.
• The Lord of Calamity sensed Xiao Chen comprehending her laws but believed that the incomplete Dao of the Age of Dharma Decline made mastering the Path of Calamity impossible.

Xiao Chen struggled to comprehend the Path of Calamity as the Lord of Calamity interfered with his mind and tried to drive him to despair. He remained locked in a stalemate with her power, sustained by the Healing God, while the Blue Moon Clan’s invasion threatened Great Xia.

• Qiongqi and Hong Chidao learned that the Blue Moon Clan had invaded Great Xia and planned to compete with its younger generation for entry to the Divine Treasure.
• Xiao Chen’s struggle with the Power of Misfortune continued for a month, and gray threads began to spread across his body again.
• Hong Chidao revealed that the Lord of Calamity had entered Xiao Chen’s Sea of Consciousness and was using divine sense and illusions to weaken him.
• The Lord of Calamity wondered what constitution Xiao Chen possessed because he had endured her power far longer than she expected.
• Xiao Chen relived painful memories of his parents abandoning him, Ye Qingxuan leaving him, and his friends dying, but the Healing God’s green light repeatedly restored his will to live.

Xiao Chen resisted the Lord of Calamity’s assault, began absorbing the Power of Misfortune, and convinced her that he might possess the Martial God Physique, prompting her retreat. As Xiao Chen continued comprehending the Path of Calamity, Great Xia faced Blue Moon Clan attacks and Xiao Lingtian’s supporters spread slander against him.

• Hong Chidao and Qiongqi discussed how the Martial God Physique could resist malicious forces, and Qiongqi vowed to guard Xiao Chen if his physique matured.
• After another half month, Xiao Chen’s golden light broke through the darkness as he absorbed the Power of Misfortune and recovered his strength.
• The Lord of Calamity suspected Xiao Chen had the Martial God Physique and a connection to the Star God Hall, so she withdrew rather than risk a confrontation.
• Hong Chidao and Qiongqi realized Xiao Chen would not awaken in time for the Blue Moon Clan’s competition against Great Xia’s younger generation in a month and a half.
• The Blue Moon Clan continued attacking Great Xia’s people while Xiao Lingtian’s supporters recast his past misdeeds as Xiao Chen’s and spread rumors against him.
• At the Tai Xu Sect, Xu Potian spoke to Xiao Chen’s cenotaph and promised to make Xiao Lingtian pay once he mastered a powerful saber scripture.

Xu Potian and Ye Lanxi mourned Xiao Chen while he continued purifying the Power of Misfortune, but he missed the opening of the Wind Lord's Divine Tomb. Great Xia and the Blue Moon Clan gathered at the tomb to learn how many cultivators would earn the first entry slots.

• Xu Potian visited Xiao Chen's cenotaph, said farewell, and left to cultivate his nearly completed Supreme Blade Scripture as the Blue Moon Clan threatened the Human Race.
• A hidden Shadow Recording Stone recorded Xu Potian's farewell, and Ye Lanxi later visited the cenotaph and silently grieved for Xiao Chen.
• Another month passed as Xiao Chen transformed most of the gray lines on his body into golden light, but he failed to recover in time for the Divine Treasure's opening.
• The Wind Lord's Divine Tomb gate changed from black to white, signaling that the Divine Treasure had opened, and both sides summoned their experts.
• Great Xia and Blue Moon Clan cultivators gathered before the tomb and waited for the gate to reveal the number of first-batch entry slots, while Great Xia worried about the Blue Moon Clan's stronger younger generation.

The Blue Moon Clan challenged Great Xia for the first entries into the Divine Tomb, but Xiao Lingtian hid rather than face their Half-King Realm champion, leaving Great Xia to forfeit. As another Blue Moon fighter called for an opponent, Great Xia cultivators continued to condemn Xiao Lingtian and invoke the absent Sword Demon, Xiao Chen.

• A golden number nine appeared on the Divine Tomb gate, and a Blue Moon Clan elder announced that the tomb would admit nine Heavenly Prodigy Rank holders.
• The Blue Moon Clan’s eighteen-year-old Half-King Realm first seed challenged Great Xia, but Xiao Zhentian refused to send out Xiao Lingtian, who was hiding in an ancient forest.
• Wen Haishan learned that Xiao Lingtian himself was unwilling to fight, and Great Xia cultivators denounced his refusal while comparing him unfavorably to Xiao Chen.
• Great Xia forfeited the first match, allowing the Blue Moon Clan champion to enter the Divine Tomb as their members mocked Great Xia.
• A ninth-level Grandmaster Realm Blue Moon youth challenged Great Xia, and, with Xiao Lingtian still absent, he called on the Sword Demon to face him.

Xiao Lingtian finally entered the contest and helped Great Xia win a share of the divine tomb’s entry slots, while Xiao Chen recovered from the Evil Curse and gained the Power of Misfortune. The chapter left Xiao Chen alive and eager to learn how to use his new power.

• The Blue Moon Clan youth killed Great Xia’s surnamed Su prodigy in three breaths, prompting Xiao Lingtian to appear and challenge the clan.
• Xiao Lingtian defeated a Blue Moon Clan girl, proclaimed that he would handle everything despite his brother’s death, and entered the Tomb of the Wind Lord.
• Xu Potian and two Outer Realm Heavenly Prodigy Rank experts won three more matches for Great Xia, which finished with four of the nine slots against the Blue Moon Clan’s five.
• The Blue Moon Clan’s higher-ups vowed to bring stronger prodigies when the divine tomb opened again, and the two sides temporarily ceased hostilities.
• Xiao Chen’s golden character for misfortune fully formed as he recovered and dissolved the Power of Misfortune from the Evil Curse.
• Xiao Chen opened his eyes, realized he had survived and grown stronger, and considered testing his new power as Qiongqi approached the coffin.

Xiao Chen tested the Power of Misfortune on Qiongqi, then learned that the Blue Moon Clan had slaughtered Bear Martial City. He set out with Qiongqi and Hong Chidao to avenge the townsfolk, arriving at the city overwhelmed by rage and resentment.

• Xiao Chen used the Power of Misfortune on unsuspecting, injured Qiongqi, making him trip before Qiongqi realized what had happened and chased Xiao Chen in anger.
• Qiongqi explained the Power of Misfortune’s limits and warned Xiao Chen that it would not be enough against opponents whose strength greatly surpassed his.
• Qiongqi and Hong Chidao told Xiao Chen that the Blue Moon Clan had invaded and slaughtered Bear Martial City, prompting Xiao Chen to vow revenge for its townsfolk.
• Xiao Chen insisted he could defeat his peers, while Qiongqi warned him that the Blue Moon Clan had young King Realm prodigies and Hong Chidao offered to handle any elders who intervened.
• Xiao Chen, Qiongqi, and Hong Chidao flew to Bear Martial City, where Xiao Chen saw the blood-stained sky and felt the city’s heavy resentment.

Xiao Chen returned to the ruined Bear Martial City, determined to stop the Blue Moon Clan after learning that karma was difficult to defy. When two Blue Moon Clan youths confronted him, he attacked one and used black energy to corrode his moonlight shield and consume his fortune.

• Xiao Chen vowed to shatter karma and prevent the Blue Moon Clan from repeating the massacre of Bear Martial City.
• Qiongqi and Hong Chidao left Xiao Chen to face his peers while promising to restrain any powerful elders.
• Xiao Chen returned to Bear Martial City and found its walls and streets stained with blood and emptied of life.
• Two Blue Moon Clan youths insulted Xiao Chen and dismissed their slaughter of the townsfolk as requiring no reason.
• Xiao Chen punched one youth, and his black energy corroded the youth’s moonlight shield before spreading across his body and devouring his fortune.

Xiao Chen killed a Blue Moon Clan youth with the Power of Misfortune and deliberately let Yue Qi escape so he could draw more enemies to him. As the second round at the Divine Tomb approached, Yue Qi warned the Blue Moon Clan that Xiao Chen was coming, and two youths were sent to confront him.

• Xiao Chen drained a Blue Moon Clan youth's fortune with the Power of Misfortune, killing him, and let Yue Qi flee to summon more opponents.
• At the Divine Tomb, Thunderstorm tried to raise Great Xia's morale, but Xiao Lingtian's followers mocked Xiao Chen and an elder of the Huang Family silenced Thunderstorm.
• Yue Qi arrived at the Blue Moon Clan camp and reported that a Great Xia fighter had killed a clansman with one move.
• A Blue Moon Clan Half-King punished Yue Qi for fleeing and ordered Yue Hu and Yue She to kill Xiao Chen.
• Thunderstorm protested the Blue Moon Clan's decision to send two fighters against one, but the Half-King restrained him.

Xiao Chen revealed himself alive and returned to Bear Martial City, where its survivors begged him to avenge their murdered families. Yue Hu and Yue She mocked the fifth-level Grandmaster Realm Sword Demon as he faced them, leaving the confrontation poised to begin.

• Great Xia’s fighters speculated about the identity of the powerhouse who had killed a Blue Moon Clan expert, while Thunderstorm recognized him as Xiao Chen and insisted Xiao Chen was alive.
• Xiao Lingtian’s supporters and a Huang Family elder rejected Thunderstorm’s claim, and the elder insulted Xiao Chen, prompting Thunderstorm to defend him.
• Xiao Chen waited over the bloodstained ruins of Bear Martial City as its surviving citizens came out of hiding and gathered behind him.
• Yue Hu and Yue She arrived and mocked Xiao Chen, who complained that only two opponents had come after he had let another Blue Moon Clan member escape to lure reinforcements.
• Xiao Qing and other survivors knelt before Xiao Chen and pleaded for him to avenge their families and Bear Martial City.
• Yue She laughed at the survivors’ pleas and derided Xiao Chen as a mere fifth-level Grandmaster Realm cultivator.

Xiao Chen avenged Bear Martial City by killing Yue Hu with a single finger and defeating more Blue Moon Clan prodigies. After the Blue Moon Clan dismissed him as an expelled, inferior talent, Xiao Chen appeared before the Great Xia camp and challenged them to fight.

• Xiao Chen lifted Bear Martial City's survivors from their kowtows, killed Yue Hu with one finger, and declared that anyone who destroyed his home would die.
• Xiao Chen ordered Yue She to call for reinforcements, and Yue She fled after Xiao Chen's glare frightened him.
• Blue Moon Clan prodigies repeatedly failed to defeat Xiao Chen, while the Great Xia camp learned that the mysterious Sword Demon was Xiao Chen.
• The Blue Moon Clan Half-Divine Seed used his moonlight pressure against Xiao Chen's fans and challenged Xiao Chen to appear.
• Xiao Chen arrived before the Great Xia camp by sword light and called on anyone who wanted to suppress him to come fight.

Xiao Chen returned to Great Xia’s camp, where his enemies accused him of abandoning the Human Race and tried to turn the crowd against him. After killing a Huang Family prodigy with his Green Haze Dog-Slaying Art, he challenged the Huang Family expert, Xiao Lingtian’s followers, and the Blue Moon Clan fighters to attack him together.

• Thunderstorm reunited with Xiao Chen, and Xiao Chen secretly explained how the Evil Curse had nearly killed him.
• Xiao Lingtian’s followers and Huang Family members accused Xiao Chen of avoiding the battle and demanded that he atone.
• Xiao Chen killed a Huang Family prodigy with a glance, revealing his Green Haze Dog-Slaying Art.
• The old Huang Family King Realm expert challenged Xiao Chen, while Thunderstorm warned him against fighting ten powerful enemies alone.
• Xiao Chen invited his opponents to attack him together, and the old Huang Family King Realm expert advanced.