Chapter Summaries

Zhao Chen and his companions left Commerce City with Liu Ming and Elder Mu of Mystic Heaven Hall pursuing them, intending to seize their auction treasures. After Liu Ming threatened them, Zhao Chen activated the Taiji Profound Array Diagram and trapped them in a Black and White World.

• Liu Ming of Mystic Heaven Hall won the Undying Divine Leaf for twenty thousand Supreme Spirit Liquid and the Nine Dragons Nine Elephants Art for thirty-five thousand.
• Lin Jing asked Zhao Chen about his cultivation, and he assured her that everything was under control.
• Zhao Chen, Nine Nether, and Lin Jing left Commerce City, then stopped after traveling ten thousand li and confronted their pursuers.
• Liu Ming and Elder Mu appeared, with Elder Mu revealing his Fifth-Grade Supreme pressure and demanding the Void Great Sun Fruit and the other auction items.
• Liu Ming ordered Elder Mu to attack and threatened Zhao Chen's companions, triggering a sign-in mission for Zhao Chen to kill them.
• Zhao Chen activated the Taiji Profound Array Diagram, sealed the space within a thousand li, and declared that Liu Ming and Elder Mu would become spirit puppets.

Zhao Chen defeated Liu Ming and Elder Mu of Mystic Heaven Hall, turning their bodies into Supreme spirit puppets and claiming their treasures. When an Eighth-Grade Supreme, the Human Demon Elder, appeared outside the array, Zhao Chen remained calm and received the Eternal Asura Slaughter God Dharma Body through sign-in.

• Liu Ming summoned his Heavenly Flame Dharma Body, but the Taiji Profound Array Diagram shattered and devoured it, leaving him badly injured.
• Zhao Chen suppressed Elder Mu inside the Exquisite Western Wasteland Tower and dragged both Liu Ming's and Elder Mu's divine souls into his Reincarnation World.
• Zhao Chen transformed Liu Ming and Elder Mu into Supreme spirit puppets, took their Xumi Bracelets, and claimed their treasures and cultivation methods.
• Nine Nether identified a gray-robed figure outside the barrier as the Human Demon Elder, an Eighth-Grade Supreme, while Lin Jing panicked and Zhao Chen told them to wait.
• After Liu Ming and Elder Mu died, Zhao Chen used his sign-in opportunity and obtained the Eternal Asura Slaughter God Dharma Body.

Zhao Chen refined the Void Great Sun Fruit and Undying Divine Leaf, strengthening his body before confronting the Eighth-Grade Supreme Human-Demon Elder of Mystic Heaven Hall. He trapped the elder inside his Golden Divine Treasure World and summoned twelve White Dragon Saint Guards, leaving the fight about to begin.

• Zhao Chen examined the Eternal Asura Slaughter God Dharma Body cultivation method and decided to postpone cultivating its first stage, the Blood Asura Dharma Body.
• Zhao Chen refined the Void Great Sun Fruit and Undying Divine Leaf, forming a golden Spirit Sun and gaining an undying body.
• Zhao Chen refused Nine Nether's offer to accompany him and told her to protect Lin Jing.
• Zhao Chen opened the Taiji Profound Array Diagram's light curtain, luring the Human-Demon Elder inside; the elder realized Liu Ming was dead and accused Zhao Chen of killing him.
• Zhao Chen used Golden Divine Treasure to draw the Eighth-Grade Supreme Human-Demon Elder into a golden world, then summoned twelve White Dragon Saint Guards.

Zhao Chen used his White Dragon Saint Guards and Golden Divine Treasure World to defeat the Eighth-Grade Supreme Human Demon Elder of Mystic Heaven Hall. After Zhao Chen revealed that Mystic Heaven Hall had hunted the Martial Realm Little Princess, the terrified elder’s divine soul was annihilated, leaving Zhao Chen unimpressed.

• The Human Demon Elder attacked Zhao Chen, but the twelve White Dragon Saint Guards merged into a white dragon with peak Seventh-Grade Supreme strength and swallowed his spear.
• Zhao Chen activated the Golden Divine Treasure World, where Great Dao pressure helped the White Dragon Saint Guards shatter the Human Demon Elder’s palm and golden weapons crushed his Supreme Dharma Body.
• The Human Demon Elder transformed into a giant and struck the White Dragon Spear away, but Zhao Chen’s Nine Revolutions Nirvana Golden Body shattered his body with a Nirvana Fist.
• Zhao Chen bound the powerless Human Demon Elder with golden chains, then told him that Mystic Heaven Hall had hunted the Martial Realm Little Princess.
• The Human Demon Elder panicked at the thought of provoking the Martial Ancestor, and his divine soul was annihilated.

After killing Human Demon Old Man, Zhao Chen used his sign-in reward to obtain and test the powerful Asura's Curse. He returned unharmed to Nine Nether and Lin Jing, who discussed their ambitions and invited him to the Martial Realm.

• Zhao Chen refined Human Demon Old Man's body into a spirit puppet and received a sign-in reward for eliminating the Eighth-Grade Supreme.
• Zhao Chen signed in on the Commerce Continent and obtained the mystical power Asura's Curse.
• Zhao Chen absorbed the scripture's knowledge and tested its curses, destroying a golden weapon with the Giant Shadow Blood Curse and the Time Curse.
• Nine Nether reassured Lin Jing that Zhao Chen could handle Human Demon Old Man while they waited for him to return.
• Zhao Chen reappeared and told Nine Nether and Lin Jing that he had killed Human Demon Old Man without being injured.
• Nine Nether spoke of claiming a share of the Great Luo Emperor's position, while Lin Jing invited Zhao Chen and Nine Nether to come to the Martial Realm.

After Zhao Chen and his companions defeated Mystic Heaven Hall, Lin Jing revealed that she was the Martial Realm Little Princess, and her mother, Ling Qingzhu, watched from concealment. Heart Fox Fairy recognized Zhao Chen’s strength and decided to bet on him as a path to becoming the Immortal Fox Sect’s master.

• Nine Nether identified Lin Jing as the Martial Realm Little Princess, and Lin Jing revealed her identity and offered the Martial Realm’s support against Mystic Heaven Hall.
• Zhao Chen advised Lin Jing that the group could retreat rather than face Mystic Heaven Hall’s Earth Supreme master directly, and Lin Jing asked to travel with them.
• Zhao Chen revealed Ling Qingzhu through the Taiji Profound Array Diagram, and Lin Jing learned her mother had been watching her while concealing herself.
• The barrier vanished, revealing Zhao Chen, Nine Nether, and Lin Jing to Heart Fox Fairy and her protector, who realized Mystic Heaven Hall had been defeated.
• Heart Fox Fairy admired Zhao Chen’s strength and decided to follow him, hoping her bet would help her become the Immortal Fox Sect’s master.

Zhao Chen, Nine Nether, and Lin Jing arrived at Great Luo Heaven, where Nine Nether revealed her status as the Nine Nether King. Heart Fox Fairy caught up with them and joined Nine Nether as she began rebuilding the Nine Nether Palace.

• Zhao Chen, Nine Nether, and Lin Jing reached the entrance to Great Luo Heaven, and Nine Nether presented her token to the Black Armor Captain.
• Heart Fox Fairy appeared after tracking Zhao Chen and asked to follow him into Great Luo Heaven.
• Nine Nether allowed Heart Fox Fairy to enter and invited her to help rebuild the Nine Nether Palace.
• Zhao Chen accepted Heart Fox Fairy's company as the group prepared to enter Great Luo Heaven.

Nine Nether returned to Nine Nether Palace and reunited with Tang Bing and Tang Rou, who had kept the palace thriving in her absence. Learning that Cao Feng had defected and Tang Bing had sacrificed her cultivation resources to protect the palace, Nine Nether prepared to confront the forces that had pressured them.

• Tang Rou rushed into Nine Nether's embrace, and Tang Bing soon joined them as the sisters welcomed Nine Nether home.
• Nine Nether praised Tang Bing and Tang Rou for building Nine Nether Palace into a force of over a thousand people.
• Tang Bing told Nine Nether that Cao Feng had abandoned the palace and joined Blood Eagle King's command.
• Nine Nether noticed Tang Bing had not advanced to the Supreme Realm, and Tang Rou revealed that Tang Bing had spent all her Supreme Spirit Liquid on the palace's people.
• Nine Nether realized hostile forces had targeted the palace and vowed to make an example of someone upon returning to Great Luo Heavenly Domain.

Nine Nether reunited with the Nine Nether Palace, learned how its rivals had weakened it, and reorganized it under Zhao Chen’s Asura Hall. The palace members accepted the merger and received Supreme Spirit Liquid as Nine Nether prepared to confront the Blood Eagle King.

• Nine Nether introduced Lin Jing, Heart Fox Fairy, and Zhao Chen to Tang Bing and Tang Rou, revealing Zhao Chen as a peak Sixth-Grade Supreme and master of the Asura Hall.
• Tang Bing explained that rival king-level forces had tried to dissolve the Nine Nether Palace, cut its yearly Supreme Spirit Liquid allocation, and annexed many of its cities.
• Nine Nether declared that she would start the palace’s return by confronting the Blood Eagle King before the Nine Kings Meeting.
• Tang Bing agreed to place the Nine Nether Palace under the Asura Hall, and Nine Nether announced the reorganization to its members.
• Nine Nether distributed Supreme Spirit Liquid and new tokens to the palace members, while Zhao Chen welcomed them into the Asura Hall and promised to unify the Heavenly Luo Continent.

Nine Nether returned to the Great Luo Heavenly Domain for the Nine Kings Meeting and confronted the Blood Eagle King and the traitor Cao Feng. At the meeting, Zhao Chen said he had joined with Nine Nether Palace because he wanted to kill the Blood Eagle King.

• Zhao Chen, Nine Nether, and the Nine Nether Palace delegation arrived at Great Luo Peak before the other king-level factions.
• Tang Rou recalled how Tang Bing had chased Zhou Yue away when he came to Nine Nether Palace, and Zhou Yue continued to watch Tang Bing when he arrived with the Mountain-Splitting King.
• The Blood Eagle King arrived with Cao Feng and Wu Tian, mocked Nine Nether, and made Cao Feng greet his former master; Nine Nether warned Cao Feng and threatened to kill the Blood Eagle King.
• Nine Nether and her delegation entered the Lofty Hall, where the Heavenly Eagle Emperor welcomed her return and recognized her strength.
• The Heavenly Eagle Emperor asked Zhao Chen why he wanted to merge Asura Hall with Nine Nether Palace, and Zhao Chen replied that he wanted to kill the Blood Eagle King.

Zhao Chen challenged the Blood Eagle King to a life-and-death duel, prompting the Great Luo Heavenly Domain’s rulers to approve a contest with the fate of their factions at stake. The duel began on the plaza, where the Heavenly Eagle Emperor openly suggested the Blood Eagle King might die.

• Zhao Chen announced that he had come to kill the Blood Eagle King, provoking the Spirit Eye Emperor and startling the factions in the hall.
• Zhao Chen demanded an immediate life-and-death duel, and the Blood Eagle King accepted while wagering their factions and Nine Nether’s seat among the Nine Kings.
• The Spirit Eye Emperor approved the duel, and the Heavenly Eagle Emperor agreed as well, despite the Blood Eagle King’s confidence that Nine Nether could not defeat him.
• Nine Nether warned the Blood Eagle King that she would repay past grievances, and both sides went to the plaza with the emperors as judges.
• The Heavenly Eagle Emperor asked what would happen if the Blood Eagle King died, and then declared the life-and-death duel underway.

Zhao Chen defeated and killed Blood Eagle King in their life-and-death duel, then blocked Spirit Eye Emperor’s attack. He challenged Spirit Eye Emperor to face him in a duel as the Great Luo Heavenly Domain’s factions witnessed Zhao Chen’s strength.

• Blood Eagle King offered Zhao Chen a chance to leave Nine Nether Palace, but Zhao Chen told him to kill himself if he wanted to die with dignity.
• Blood Eagle King attacked Zhao Chen, who restrained him with the Blood Killing Curse and began destroying his divine soul.
• Spirit Eye Emperor tried to stop the duel, but Zhao Chen insisted Blood Eagle King must die and turned him into a Fifth-Grade Supreme spirit puppet.
• Spirit Eye Emperor attacked Zhao Chen in anger, and Zhao Chen crushed his black-light strikes with spatial pressure.
• Zhao Chen challenged Spirit Eye Emperor to a life-and-death duel.

Zhao Chen killed Blood Eagle King in a life-and-death duel, forcing the Great Luo Heavenly Domain to transfer Blood Eagle Hall and its territory to Nine Nether Palace of Asura Hall. After gaining an Ancient Mandala Flower through a system sign-in, Zhao Chen asked to experience the Great Luo Golden Pool.

• Zhao Chen challenged Spirit Eye Emperor after killing Blood Eagle King, but Heavenly Eagle Emperor declared Zhao Chen the winner and assigned Blood Eagle Hall to Nine Nether Palace of Asura Hall.
• Spirit Eye Emperor dispersed his spiritual-energy Dharma body and left, while Tang Rou celebrated Blood Eagle King's death and Cao Feng and Wu Tian struggled to accept their new subordination.
• Zhao Chen signed in at Great Luo Peak and received an Ancient Mandala Flower, which he placed in his Mustard Seed Bracelet as a possible means of dealing with the Domain Lord.
• At the council of Kings, Blood Eagle Hall's territory was formally assigned to Nine Nether Palace, and Heavenly Eagle Emperor began discussing Great Luo Golden Pool quotas.
• Zhao Chen stood and asked Heavenly Eagle Emperor and the Kings to let him experience the Great Luo Golden Pool.

Zhao Chen entered the Great Luo Golden Pool and cultivated the indestructible Great Luo Golden Body by absorbing its golden silt. At the bottom, he encountered a mysterious little girl who recognized the scent of the Ancient Mandala Flower on him.

• The Heavenly Eagle Emperor and the other kings agreed to let Zhao Chen enter the Great Luo Golden Pool without competing.
• Nine Nether stayed behind to take over Blood Eagle Hall while Zhao Chen accompanied the Heavenly Eagle Emperor to Golden Pool Peak.
• Zhao Chen descended into the pool and used the Heaven Devouring Art to absorb its golden energy and silt.
• Zhao Chen successfully condensed the Great Luo Golden Body and saw a golden stone platform appear at the bottom of the pool.
• A mysterious little girl appeared before Zhao Chen and asked whether he carried the scent of the Ancient Mandala Flower.

Zhao Chen used his Ancient Mandala Flower to destroy the curse tormenting Mandala. After the curse was removed, he offered her the flower as a temporary true form, and she agreed.

• Mandala recognized Zhao Chen's Ancient Mandala Flower and asked him to help break the curse inside her.
• Zhao Chen brought Mandala to the golden stone platform, where her curse erupted into black thorny spikes.
• Zhao Chen used the Ancient Mandala Flower's purple light to draw the curse out of Mandala and grind it away completely.
• Mandala thanked Zhao Chen after the curse was gone, and he offered her his Ancient Mandala Flower as a temporary true form.
• Mandala accepted Zhao Chen's offer.

Mandala fused with Zhao Chen’s Ancient Mandala Flower, broke through to Upper Earth Supreme, and gained the potential to reach Earth Supreme Great Perfection. Zhao Chen obtained the Great Luo Divine Light and considered using Mandala’s strength to unite the Northern Region, while Mandala asked how she could thank him.

• Mandala agreed to become the flower spirit of Zhao Chen’s Ancient Mandala Flower and fused with it.
• Zhao Chen signed in at the Great Luo Golden Pool and received the Great Luo Divine Light, which could erase attacks and strip materials and inscriptions from weapons.
• Mandala emerged from the fusion as an Upper Earth Supreme who had touched the threshold of Earth Supreme Great Perfection.
• Zhao Chen considered using Mandala’s strength and the Great Luo Heavenly Domain to unite the Heavenly Luo Continent, beginning with the Northern Region.
• Mandala pressed herself into Zhao Chen’s embrace and asked how he wanted her to thank him, calling him “Master.”

Mandala explained how the Saint Demon Emperor Lu Yuan had cursed her and agreed to delay her revenge until she reached Earth Supreme Great Perfection. With the Great Hunting War approaching, she offered Zhao Chen control of the Great Luo Heavenly Domain and asked him to lead Asura Hall in unifying the Northern Boundary.

• Mandala said she called Zhao Chen Master to repay him for freeing her from her curse and helping her gain a stronger body.
• Mandala revealed that Lu Yuan, the former Heavenly Emperor’s mount and current Saint Demon Emperor, had cursed her after the Ancient Heavenly Palace fell into ruin.
• Mandala refused Zhao Chen’s suggestion to attack Lu Yuan immediately, choosing to wait until she reached Earth Supreme Great Perfection.
• Mandala proposed renaming the Great Luo Heavenly Domain as Asura Hall, and Zhao Chen agreed that the idea was possible.
• Mandala explained that the coming Great Hunting War threatened the Great Luo Heavenly Domain and urged Zhao Chen to lead Asura Hall to become the Northern Boundary’s overlord.

Zhao Chen and Mandala agreed that the Great Luo Heavenly Domain would become a region ruled by the Asura Hall, and Mandala gave him a bamboo scroll on War Array Masters. After absorbing its incomplete teachings, Zhao Chen found he could enter the path of a War Array Master and learned that the highest way to control War Intent was through the heart.

• Zhao Chen agreed to make the Asura Hall the ruling faction of the Great Luo Heavenly Domain and expand its territory across the Northern Boundary.
• Mandala warned Zhao Chen to focus on the Great Hunting War and gave him a bloodstained bamboo scroll about War Array Masters.
• Mandala explained that War Array Masters could gather an army's strength and urged Zhao Chen to learn the art so he could unite the Great Luo Heavenly Domain's forces.
• Zhao Chen realized that the Asura God could link him to the Asura Hall's members and help him wield their War Intent without backlash.
• Zhao Chen pressed the bamboo scroll to his brow, saw an ancient army destroy an Extraterritorial Evil Clan world with its War Intent, and learned that the highest path controlled War Intent through the heart.

Zhao Chen emerged from the Great Luo Golden Pool with a nine-dragon-pattern Great Luo Golden Body, and the Domain Lord reorganized the Great Luo Heavenly Domain under Asura Hall. Zhao Chen took the Hall Master’s seat and declared that Asura Hall would seek to unify the Northern Region, beginning with the Hundred Battles Domain and Mystic Heaven Hall.

• Zhao Chen cultivated a nine-dragon-pattern Great Luo Golden Body in the Great Luo Golden Pool and thanked Heavenly Eagle Emperor for allowing him to enter.
• Heavenly Eagle Emperor told Zhao Chen that the Domain Lord wished to see him, and the Domain Lord announced plans to reorganize the Great Luo Heavenly Domain before the Great Hunting War.
• The Domain Lord declared that the Great Luo Heavenly Domain would become part of Asura Hall, with himself remaining its master and serving as deputy hall master under Zhao Chen.
• The Domain Lord and the Three Emperors invited Zhao Chen to take the Hall Master’s seat, and Zhao Chen announced that Asura Hall would seek to unify the Northern Region.
• Zhao Chen named the Hundred Battles Domain and its backer, Mystic Heaven Hall, as Asura Hall’s first conquest target and said he would lead the campaign himself.

After Asura Hall took control of the Great Luo Heavenly Domain, Zhao Chen absorbed the energy of his newly linked followers and broke through to the Ninth-Grade Supreme Realm. He prepared to begin a conquest of the Hundred Battles Domain and urged Nine Nether to cultivate toward the Ninth-Grade Supreme Realm so she could absorb the Phoenix Blood.

• News spread that the Great Luo Heavenly Domain had fallen under Asura Hall's jurisdiction, and the three emperors guided the domain through the change.
• Zhao Chen absorbed vast energy, including feedback from Mandala, and broke through to the Ninth-Grade Supreme Realm.
• Zhao Chen chose the Hundred Battles Domain as Asura Hall's first conquest target and identified Mystic Heaven Hall as another enemy.
• Nine Nether asked how Zhao Chen had dealt with the Domain Lord, and he teased her by claiming the Domain Lord was a woman.
• Zhao Chen gave Nine Nether cultivation resources and told her to reach the Ninth-Grade Supreme Realm so she could absorb the Phoenix Blood.