Chapter Summaries

Murong Yuantian agreed to join a plan to kill Chen Wen in hopes of securing ties with the Mandate Temple. At the Thatched Cottage, Chen Wen accepted an invitation to join and then set out for the Heavenly Mandate Beast Arena to confront the Mandate Temple.

• Ximen Tiankuang told Murong Yuantian about a plan targeting Chen Wen, and Murong Yuantian consulted the clan elders.
• Murong Yuanchen warned against further wrongdoing, but other elders argued that joining the plan could eliminate Chen Wen and win the Murong Clan favor with the Mandate Temple.
• Murong Yuantian decided that the Murong Clan would participate, and the elders supported him.
• Chen Wudi told Chen Wen that the Thatched Hall Master had invited him to join the Thatched Cottage, and Chen Wen accepted.
• Chen Wudi gave Chen Wen a Token, a uniform, and a handbook, and told him to contact Ling Lianyi if he encountered trouble at the Mandate Temple.
• Chen Wen left the Thatched Cottage for the Heavenly Mandate Beast Arena.

Chen Wen joined the Thatched Cottage, learned that factions backed by the Mandate Temple wanted him handed over, and went to the Heavenly Mandate Beast Arena in its territory. Donghuang Dixiao recognized the provocation and ordered the arena’s champions replaced as he prepared to respond.

• Chen Wudi told Beichen Zhaojun that Chen Wen might soon surpass him, while Beichen Zhaojun said the investigation into his affairs had found nothing.
• Hua Nongyue welcomed Chen Wen as a fellow disciple, gave him an illusion-array flower, and passed him a Spirit Scroll from Second Senior Sister.
• Chen Wen learned that the Mandate Temple had turned public opinion against him and that several factions wanted the Thatched Cottage to hand him over, so he put on its robes and descended the mountain.
• Donghuang Dixiao ordered Li Yong to follow Chen Wen without acting, after Li Yong reported that Chen Wen had joined the Thatched Cottage.
• Chen Wen entered the Heavenly Mandate Beast Arena, drawing a crowd that recognized him and noticed his Thatched Cottage robes.
• After Li Yong confirmed Chen Wen was at the arena, Donghuang Dixiao called it a provocation and ordered its resident champions replaced with disciples from the Mandate Hall.

Chen Wen learned the rules of the Mandate Temple’s Heaven Grade beast arena and headed there to challenge its champions. His seventh senior sister, Ling Lianyi, arrived to support him as he prepared to begin at the first tier and work his way upward.

• Zheng Feng explained the beast arenas’ fees, concession rules, tiers, and the Heaven Grade arena’s anonymous champions to Chen Wen.
• Chen Wen chose the Heaven Grade arena, where Zheng Feng led him past the watching crowd before leaving.
• Ling Lianyi appeared beside Chen Wen, and spectators recognized her as the Jade-Hand Butcher and him as the Blood-Faced Madman.
• Xian Hongshao told Chen Wen that Ling Lianyi possessed a terrifying power, though Chen Wen chose not to pry into it.
• Ling Lianyi encouraged Chen Wen and promised to back him up as he went to challenge the first-tier champion.

Chen Wen entered the first-tier arena to claim the Dragon-Elephant Ten-Thousand-Jin Pill and discovered that the organizers had placed Hong Tian, the former eighth-tier champion, in his path. He killed Hong Tian with a single stomp and headed for the second-tier arena, determined to fight through the entire place.

• Chen Wen paid ten million Top-grade Spirit Crystals, received a Challenge Token, and entered the first-tier arena.
• Zheng Feng told Li Yong that the arena lineup had been replaced, while Li Yong said the hall master had sent people and might project his Divine Sense.
• Hong Tian descended into the arena, and the crowd revealed that he had been the eighth-tier champion and was placed there to target Chen Wen.
• Chen Wen overwhelmed Hong Tian with his physical force and killed him with a stomp before he could surrender.
• Chen Wen received one drop of golden fate nirvana liquid from the completed refinement and stepped toward the second-tier arena.