Chapter Summaries

Lin Changqiang and Ying Huanhuan discovered Life Profound Bone Beads and five Demonic Corpses in the Demonic Ant nest. After Wild purified the corpses, Lin Changqiang chose to give them a proper burial, and Wild offered to help him in future battles; the pair then left the nest with Ying Huanhuan embarrassed by her growing admiration for Lin Changqiang.

• Lin Changqiang sent Ying Xiaoxiao and Wang Yan to guard the nest entrance while he and Ying Huanhuan explored underground.
• Lin Changqiang killed the Ant Queen and found five Life Profound Bone Beads nourishing it beside five Demonic Corpses.
• Wild purified the Demonic Corpses and presented Lin Changqiang with the bone beads, then offered to fight for him if needed.
• Lin Changqiang declined to refine the five seniors into puppets and decided to return them to the sect for burial.
• Ying Huanhuan ran ahead in embarrassment after Lin Changqiang teased her about choosing a new idol.

Lin Changqiang led the Yuan Sect competition team across the Demonic Tribulation Domain toward the Burning Heaven Ancient Treasure, training the three hundred disciples into a coordinated fighting force along the way. They reached the crowded treasure basin and faced the Yuan Sect, with other powerful sects also gathered nearby.

• Lin Changqiang sent a sunlight clone ahead to scout as he, Wang Yan, and Ying Xiaoxiao led the disciples toward the central region.
• Over several days, the disciples defeated Demonic Beasts in coordinated formations while other groups avoided Lin Changqiang’s party.
• Lin Changqiang’s group reached the Burning Heaven Ancient Treasure, a vast crimson basin shaped like a palm print, where a large crowd had gathered.
• Lin Changqiang proposed waiting to see whether the Yuan Sect could open the Secret Treasury, then led the disciples toward the central area.
• Ying Xiaoxiao identified the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace and the Sword Sect, and the group came face-to-face with the Yuan Sect disciples.

Lin Changqiang confronted Yuan Sect’s allies, defeated Meng Duan, and faced Yuan Cang’s attack until Chen Kui and Qing Tan intervened. Lin Dong recognized Qing Tan, whose reunion with the brothers ended in shock and fury.

• Yang Yan and Meng Duan approached Dao Sect to deliver Yuan Cang’s warning that they should stay away from the area.
• Lin Changqiang insulted Yuan Cang and struck Meng Duan down with a single punch.
• Yuan Cang arrived, drew the Profound Gold Origin Returning Sword, and launched a sweeping attack at Lin Changqiang and Dao Sect’s disciples.
• Chen Kui and Qing Tan blocked Yuan Cang’s sword strike and stood between Yuan Sect and Dao Sect.
• Lin Dong recognized Qing Tan, who greeted him and Lin Changqiang before Lin Dong’s joy gave way to shock and fury.

Lin Changqiang and Lin Dong reunited with Qing Tan, who had joined the Dark Hall and grown to Eight Yuan Nirvana. After Lin Dong worried that the sect had forced her cultivation, Qing Tan explained that she wanted to become strong enough to protect her family and embraced both men, telling them she had missed them.

• Chen Kui blocked Yuan Cang's attack and faced down the Yuan Sect, while Ling Zhen persuaded Yuan Cang to prioritize their mission over fighting him.
• Lin Changqiang explained to Lin Dong that Qing Tan had joined the Dark Hall after he met her there in Lin City.
• Qing Tan greeted Lin Dong and Lin Changqiang, and Lin Changqiang reproached her for leaving without contacting their worried parents.
• Lin Dong questioned why Qing Tan had traveled alone, and she said she wanted to become stronger and help protect everyone.
• Lin Dong discovered Qing Tan had reached Eight Yuan Nirvana, apologized to Chen Kui for his suspicion, and Qing Tan embraced him and Lin Changqiang, saying she had missed them.

Lin Changqiang reunited with Qing Tan and then confronted Yuan Cang after Yuan Sect mocked their family reunion. As the two prepared to fight over Yuan Sect’s earlier attack and the Burning Heaven Ancient Treasure, Qing Tan revealed the Scythe of Darkness, but Lin Changqiang sent her behind him and advanced alone.

• Lin Changqiang invited Qing Tan to return to the Lin Family after the competition, and Lin Dong forgave her for leaving without saying goodbye.
• Lin Changqiang faced Yuan Cang and demanded that he kneel and beg forgiveness or be beaten to his knees for Yuan Sect’s earlier attack.
• Yuan Cang raised the Profound Gold Origin Returning Sword and threatened to execute Lin Changqiang, while Yuan Sect’s disciples cheered him on.
• Qing Tan stepped forward with the Scythe of Darkness, but Lin Changqiang pulled her back and told her to stay out of the fight.
• Ying Xiaoxiao warned Lin Changqiang to be careful, while Ling Qingzhu judged that fighting Yuan Cang before Yuan Sect could open the ancient treasure might be sensible.
• Lin Changqiang released his killing intent and walked toward Yuan Cang as Yuan Cang recognized Qing Tan’s weapon and grew wary.

Lin Changqiang and Yuan Cang fought fiercely until the Burning Heaven Ancient Treasure began to stir. Yuan Cang tried to pressure the Dao Sect into leaving, but Lin Changqiang revealed three powerful Spirit Treasures and threatened to force him to open it.

• Lin Changqiang and Yuan Cang exchanged powerful attacks, and Yuan Cang used a Spirit Seal to raise his strength.
• Fiery ripples spread through the basin as the Burning Heaven Ancient Treasure began to appear, drawing the crowd’s attention.
• Yuan Cang threatened not to open the ancient treasure while the Dao Sect remained, turning the other sects against them.
• Lin Changqiang summoned the Five Thunder Drum and Seal Heaven Array Diagram alongside his sword, then challenged Yuan Cang to open the treasure by force.
• Lei Qian reacted with disbelief at the Dao Sect’s three formidable Spirit Treasures.

Lin Changqiang defeated Yuan Cang and entered the Burning Heaven Ancient Treasure, while the Dao Sect prepared to face the remaining Yuan Sect disciples outside. Inside the vast, scorching realm, he unexpectedly encountered Yuan Cang, Ling Zhen, and Lei Qian.

• Yuan Cang admitted defeat, agreed to open the Burning Heaven Ancient Treasure, and let Lin Changqiang return to the Dao Sect.
• Yuan Cang opened the seal, and intruders below the Eight Yuan Nirvana Stage burned to ash while Yuan Cang and the qualified disciples entered safely.
• Lin Changqiang gave Spirit Treasures to Ying Xiaoxiao, Wang Yan, and Lin Dong, then entered alone to confront Yuan Cang and protect the Dao Sect disciples.
• Ying Xiaoxiao and the others remained outside as a black prison rose around the Dao Sect and more than four hundred Yuan Sect disciples.
• Lin Changqiang ignored the ancient treasure's scorching heat, found himself in a vast scarlet land, and spotted Yuan Cang, Ling Zhen, and Lei Qian in the distance.

Lin Changqiang explored the Red Mist formation, collecting replicas until he encountered the real Ling Qingzhu. He led her toward the formation’s core, and they continued onward together while discussing their rapid cultivation.

• Lin Changqiang defeated replicas of Yuan Cang, Ling Zhen, and Lei Qian, then formed an Ice Master replica that could only tell him the Ancestral Talisman of Ice was in the Extreme North.
• Lin Changqiang followed the Great Desolation Stele’s guidance toward the formation’s center and collected the Red Mist replicas that attacked him.
• Lin Changqiang mistook the real Ling Qingzhu for a replica and struck her, but apologized after realizing she was real.
• Ling Qingzhu explained that the illusions could be dispelled by calming the mind, and Lin Changqiang told her he was heading for the formation’s core.
• Ling Qingzhu followed Lin Changqiang, and they flew through the scarlet space while discussing how quickly they had advanced in cultivation.

Lin Changqiang and Ling Qingzhu encountered Yuan Cang and the other two Little Kings at the Sky Burning Array, where Yuan Cang threatened to burn the Dao Sect disciples trapped inside. Lin Changqiang revealed that the Dao Sect had instead slaughtered nearly all the Yuan Sect disciples outside, and as Yuan Cang’s group prepared to attack, Ling Qingzhu stood up for him before retreating behind him.

• Lin Changqiang and Ling Qingzhu reached the Sky Burning Array and met Yuan Cang, Ling Zhen, and Lei Qian.
• Yuan Cang warned that the Dao Sect disciples trapped in the array would burn if he seized control of its core.
• Lin Changqiang revealed that he was the only Dao Sect disciple inside the array and that the others had killed 487 Yuan Sect disciples outside.
• Yuan Cang and his companions grew furious and prepared to attack Lin Changqiang.
• Ling Qingzhu stepped between them and Lin Changqiang, then retreated behind him after he told her to leave the fight to him.

Lin Changqiang fought Yuan Cang and Ling Zhen while Lei Qian secretly attacked the altar, and Ling Zhen trapped him with the Five Spirits Seal. As Lei Qian continued breaking the seal, a sinister black aura emerged, leaving the altar and its surroundings on the verge of disaster.

• Yuan Cang attacked Lin Changqiang with Emperor Yuan's Canon, but Lin Changqiang met his Pure Origin Treasure strike with a powerful fist and barely suffered a wound.
• Lin Changqiang evaded Yuan Cang's beam and repeatedly battered Yuan Cang and Ling Zhen, cracking the ancient bell that shielded them.
• Lei Qian used Lin Changqiang's distraction to fly to the altar and destroy its stone pillars, while Ling Zhen trapped Lin Changqiang in the Five Spirits Seal.
• Ling Zhen boasted that the group controlled the Sky Burning Array, but Lin Changqiang warned that their method was destroying the seal rather than controlling the array.
• Yuan Cang and Ling Zhen realized something was wrong as Lei Qian kept smashing the pillars, and sinister black aura began leaking from cracks in the trembling altar.

Lin Changqiang escaped the Five Spirits Seal as Yuan Cang and his allies broke the formation and released the Black Qi Creature. The Burning Heaven Cauldron appeared and trapped the creature in a Light Array, which began to weaken under its attacks.

• Lin Changqiang slipped free of the Five Spirits Seal and appeared beside Ling Qingzhu.
• Yuan Cang, Ling Zhen, and Lei Qian destroyed the final pillar of light, releasing the Black Qi Creature from beneath the Altar.
• Yuan Cang and the others tried to capture the Black Qi Creature with a triangular Light Screen, but it dispersed the screen and pursued them.
• Lin Changqiang retreated with Ling Qingzhu, then used his token as the formation lifted and the Burning Heaven Cauldron appeared around them.
• The Burning Heaven Cauldron's Light Array trapped the Black Qi Creature, but its repeated attacks made the array dim and sway.

Lin Changqiang and the others emerged from the array into the Burning Heaven Ancient Treasure, where Crimson Robe and the imprisoned Demonic General confronted each other. After Crimson Robe began opening an escape route, Lin Changqiang identified Yuan Cang and two others as the ones who released the Demonic General, leaving the Yuan Sect members facing his killing intent.

• Lin Changqiang and Ling Qingzhu arrived in a fiery mountain range, where the factions regrouped and discovered that some disciples were missing.
• Lin Changqiang recognized the nearly lifeless figure in the magma as Crimson Robe, while the giant Cauldron began shaking under the Demonic General's attacks.
• The Demonic General broke through the Cauldron and attacked the gathered cultivators, so Lin Changqiang summoned the Great Desolation Stele and Crimson Robe rose to stop the black beams.
• Lin Changqiang returned the Light Token to Crimson Robe, who used the Cauldron and eight Light Tokens to trap the Demonic General in a vast Fire Array.
• Crimson Robe prepared Space Gates so everyone could leave, but Lin Changqiang accused Yuan Cang and two others of releasing the Demonic General and said the Yuan Sect's higher-ups were involved with Demonfiends.

Lin Changqiang exposed Yuan Sect’s members as traitors and killed all 540 participating disciples while Fen Tian drove Black Mist into a magma prison. The Demonfiend was trapped beneath the magma mountain, and Lin Changqiang offered Fen Tian the Ancestral Talisman or Great Desolation Stele to help suppress it.

• Fen Tian suppressed Yuan Sect’s members and gave Lin Changqiang authority over their lives while continuing to pursue Black Mist.
• Ling Qingzhu stayed to watch the fight, and Lin Changqiang used the Great Desolation Stele to kill Yuan Cang, the Three Little Kings, and all 540 Yuan Sect disciples.
• The Great Desolation Stele returned to human form and complained that Lin Changqiang had used its true form to crush Yuan Sect.
• Fen Tian compressed Black Mist with the grand array and magma, then trapped the Demonfiend beneath a magma mountain with Crimson Chains.
• Lin Changqiang asked Fen Tian whether he needed the Ancestral Talisman or the Great Desolation Stele to suppress the Demonfiend.

Lin Changqiang and Fen Tian crushed the trapped Demonfiend, and Fen Tian agreed to accompany Lin Changqiang to the Dao Sect. After they returned to the waiting disciples, Ying Huanhuan stared at Fen Tian as icy blue crept into the ends of her hair.

• The Great Desolation Stele convinced Fen Tian to preserve himself and protect Lin Changqiang, then helped him crush the Demonfiend beneath the giant stele.
• Fen Tian agreed to accompany Lin Changqiang and gave him a pill made from the vitality he had extracted before becoming a Living Dead.
• Lin Changqiang, Ling Qingzhu, and Fen Tian traveled through a Spatial Vortex to the crimson basin, where the Dao Sect and Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace disciples were waiting.
• Lin Changqiang told Ying Xiaoxiao and the others that he had defeated Yuan Cang and his group, and Wang Yan celebrated his victory.
• Ying Huanhuan stared at Fen Tian as icy blue spread into the ends of her hair.

After Lin Changqiang exposed the Yuan Sect’s alliance with the Demonfiends, Ying Huanhuan began manifesting signs of her past life as the Ice Master. Lin Changqiang alerted the Dao Sect and returned to the Demonic Tribulation Domain, where the system declared the Dao Sect the competition’s winner and awarded him a new passive ability.

• Ying Huanhuan’s hair and eyes turned ice-blue, and Fen Tian recognized her as the benefactor who had once guided him.
• Lin Changqiang took Ying Huanhuan and Fen Tian to Ying Xuanzi and explained the Yuan Sect’s cooperation with the Demonfiends, using the Great Desolation Stele’s Stele Spirit as proof.
• Ying Xuanzi sent Gan Qing to warn the other six Super Sects and told Lin Changqiang to bring the Dao Sect disciples back from the Demonic Tribulation Domain.
• Ying Huanhuan feared that awakening her past-life memories would erase her identity, but Lin Changqiang reassured her before teleporting away with her.
• The system ended the Sect Competition early, ranked the Dao Sect first and the Yuan Sect eighth, and rewarded Lin Changqiang with ten lottery draws and the passive ability Handsomest Guy in Eastern Xuan Region.

Lin Changqiang reached Nine Yuan Nirvana before Ling Qingzhu’s mark summoned him to the Taiqing Immortal Pond, where he saved her from an ancient skeleton draining her life energy. Ling Qingzhu received the skeleton’s Spirit Seal, then woke and fled Lin Changqiang’s arms after mistaking his awkward touch for deliberate behavior.

• Lin Changqiang absorbed Fen Tian’s energy pill for several days and advanced from Eight Yuan to Nine Yuan Nirvana.
• When Ling Qingzhu’s mark vanished, Lin Changqiang teleported to the Taiqing Immortal Pond and found her trapped in a Light Cocoon while a skeleton drained her life energy.
• Lin Changqiang used Unity of Man and Heaven to sever the skeleton’s connection to Ling Qingzhu, and the skeleton crumbled into fragments.
• A powerful Spirit Seal flew into Ling Qingzhu’s brow, restoring her energy and promising further cultivation benefits.
• Ling Qingzhu woke, realized Lin Changqiang had been carrying her, pushed away from him, and called him a pervert.

Lin Changqiang challenged Ling Qingzhu’s beliefs about the Tai Shang Gan Ying Jue and persuaded her to accept that its teachings might not require suppressing all feelings. The chapter left Ling Qingzhu shaken by his ideas and newly touched by affection after he hugged and kissed her forehead.

• Lin Changqiang asked Ling Qingzhu for a warm hug as repayment for saving her, and she reluctantly agreed.
• Ling Qingzhu warned that her palace’s rules and the Path of the Mirror Heart forbade love between men and women.
• Lin Changqiang questioned whether the palace’s interpretation of Tai Shang Wang Qing was mistaken and argued that it meant having feelings without being controlled by them.
• Ling Qingzhu remembered that the Tai Shang Gan Ying Jue could also be inherited through Dual Cultivation and began to doubt what she had been taught.
• After repeatedly blocking Ling Qingzhu from leaving, Lin Changqiang received the promised hug and kissed her forehead, stirring sweetness in her heart.

Lin Changqiang and the Dao Sect disciples left the Demonic Tribulation Domain after wiping out Yuan Sect’s competing team. At the teleportation plaza, Yuan Sect confronted them, and the Dao Sect elders refused to apologize.

• Lin Changqiang rejoined the Dao Sect team as they traveled toward the exit, and he told Ying Xiaoxiao, Wang Yan, and the others about the sects’ plans against Yuan Sect.
• The Dao Sect’s three hundred disciples teleported into Demonic Tribulation City, drawing a crowd and the attention of Yuan Sect’s experts.
• Yuan Sect’s representatives accused the Dao Sect of slaughtering all 540 of their competing disciples, while Yang Yan and Meng Duan watched from the side.
• Qi Lei and the other Dao Sect Hall Masters defended the disciples, arguing that the competition allowed for life and death.
• Shi Dong demanded an explanation, but Chen Zhen and the Dao Sect elders said Yuan Sect’s disciples had lost by their own lack of ability and deserved to die.

Yuan Sect tried to seize the Dao Sect disciples, overpowering the four Hall Masters until Little Sable and Xiao Yan arrived to protect them. Lin Changqiang hoped Little Sable’s appearance would draw Yuan Sect’s Sect Master into the conflict.

• Shi Dong threatened the Dao Sect and ordered its Hall Masters to hand over the disciples, but Qi Lei refused.
• Shi Dong ordered Yuan Sect’s ten experts to attack, and the four Dao Sect Hall Masters fought to give Lin Changqiang and the disciples time to escape.
• Su Jia and Teng Cang moved to capture the disciples, and Teng Cang sent a giant Yuan Power hand sweeping toward them.
• Little Sable appeared with Xiao Yan, shattered Teng Cang’s attack, and sent both Teng Cang and Su Jia flying.
• Lin Changqiang watched Little Sable reveal himself, intending to lure Tian Yuanzi and Yuan Sect’s other experts into action.

Little Sable arrived to help Lin Changqiang and the Dao Sect disciples, then fought Yuan Sect’s six Life Profound Stage experts alone. The six used the Heavenly Yuan Formation to channel their power into Shi Dong, leaving the battle poised to intensify.

• Little Sable called Lin Changqiang his big brother and greeted the Dao Sect disciples, while Little Sable and Xiao Yan recognized Qing Tan among them.
• Shi Dong threatened to take the Dao Sect disciples under orders from the Yuan Sect leader, and Little Sable insulted the Yuan Sect elders.
• Su Jia, Shi Dong, Teng Cang, and the others attacked Little Sable, who told Chen Zhen and the other Hall Masters to hold off four opponents while he faced six.
• Little Sable blocked the six experts’ combined attack with a purple-black flame barrier and taunted them.
• Shi Dong ordered the others to use the Heavenly Yuan Formation, which transferred most of their Yuan Power to him and greatly increased his strength.