Chapter Summaries

Sun Mulan, Hua Xibai, Li Qingyuan, and Ji Kun battered the Black Water Crocodile Dragon, and Li Qingyuan unleashed the Eight Desolations Sword Slash to leave it gravely weakened. As Sun Mulan moved in to finish the beast, Hua Xibai suddenly struck her, revealing that the fight had taken an unexpected turn.

• Sun Mulan transformed into an Azure Dragon, while Ji Kun and Li Qingyuan joined her and Hua Xibai in attacking the Black Water Crocodile Dragon.
• Li Qingyuan suspected the beast was hiding a trump card and warned Ji Kun to watch the waters, then pretended to tire as the fight continued.
• Sun Mulan and Hua Xibai urged Li Qingyuan to use his sect's secret technique, and he unleashed the Eight Desolations Sword Slash, piercing the Black Water Crocodile Dragon and reducing its strength to about thirty percent of its peak.
• Sun Mulan and Hua Xibai moved to finish the weakened beast while Li Qingyuan withdrew to recover, but Hua Xibai suddenly attacked Sun Mulan from behind and knocked her out of her Azure Dragon form.
• Sun Mulan confronted Hua Xibai in fury as cracks spread across her golden armor.

Hua Xibai betrayed the allied cultivators and joined forces with Sun Xing, the Black Water Crocodile Dragon, and the Six-Eared Macaque Clan to seize control of the battlefield. As Sun Mulan and Ji Kun were pinned down, Hua Xibai overwhelmed Li Qingyuan and moved in to kill him.

• Hua Xibai revealed his alliance with Sun Xing and the Black Water Crocodile Dragon, and explained that he planned to drain Sun Mulan and Bing Ling'er to advance to Void Refining.
• Sun Xing arrived with two ape generals as Three Thousand Six-Eared Macaque cultivators attacked, while the Black and White Sisters led the Myriad Flowers female cultivators in betraying their allies.
• The allied forces suffered devastating casualties as the Six-Eared Macaques, Myriad Flowers cultivators, and Black Water Crocodile Dragons attacked together; Bing Ling'er concealed her strength while fighting the Black and White Sisters.
• Sun Xing challenged Sun Mulan, while the Black Water Crocodile Dragon attacked Ji Kun and Hua Xibai fought Li Qingyuan.
• Hua Xibai's Myriad Flower Domain blasted Li Qingyuan into a mountain, and Hua Xibai descended to kill him.

Li Qingyuan and his allies feigned defeat while he secretly gathered fallen souls, helping Zhao Guangzheng restore his Void Refinement cultivation. As Zhao Guangzheng celebrated his return, the Black Water Marsh produced a newly advanced Void Refining Black Water Crocodile Dragon Demon Emperor, turning on the outsiders.

• Li Qingyuan and Bing Ling'er pretended their forces were losing ground as the battle claimed tens of thousands of cultivators on both sides.
• Li Qingyuan secretly captured fallen divine souls while the Black Water Marsh swallowed the corpses, feeding the souls to Zhao Guangzheng and the Soul Refining Banner.
• The Main Soul advanced to Early Void Refinement, and Zhao Guangzheng restored his own Void Refinement cultivation and strengthened his banner’s soul-capturing powers.
• Li Qingyuan considered how to avoid making enemies of Sun Mulan and the Aolai Heavenly Domain, while Zhao Guangzheng urged him to wait for the next development.
• The Black Water Marsh gathered corpses and blood into its core vortex, producing a Void Refining Black Water Crocodile Dragon Demon Emperor that declared it would kill the outsiders.

The Male Demon Emperor and Female Demon Emperor trapped the factions’ cultivators in Black Water Marsh and slaughtered them to recover their strength. As the Male Demon Emperor turned on Li Qingyuan’s group, Li Qingyuan waited for the accumulated souls to strengthen Old Zhao.

• The Male Demon Emperor sealed a hundred-mile area with its domain while the Female Demon Emperor swallowed a blood pill and resumed hunting the fleeing cultivators.
• Li Qingyuan gathered Ji Kun, Sun Mulan, and Bing Ling'er, judged that escape was impossible, and had them restore their strength as the demons’ forces overwhelmed the factions.
• The Male Demon Emperor dismissed Hua Xibai’s appeal to their alliance, devoured Hua Xibai, and then caught and swallowed Sun Xing.
• The Female Demon Emperor and the Immortal Beasts killed cultivators across Black Water Marsh, and three fourth-Nirvana Black Water Crocodile Dragons transformed into Extreme Dao Immortal Beasts.
• The Male Demon Emperor struck Li Qingyuan’s group with its tail, worsening Sun Mulan’s injuries and shattering Bing Ling'er’s defensive treasure.
• Li Qingyuan thought that the fallen cultivators’ souls had nearly accumulated enough to let Old Zhao advance again.

Li Qingyuan and the others were overwhelmed by the Black Water Crocodile Dragon Demon Emperors, but Li Qingyuan let himself be swallowed so Old Zhao could strike from within. Old Zhao and the Soul Refining Banner destroyed one Demon Emperor’s body, while the Soul Slave devoured thousands of souls and grew stronger, leaving Sun Mulan stunned by Li Qingyuan’s true power.

• The Black Water Crocodile Dragon Demon Emperor’s Water Law and sonic attacks battered Li Qingyuan, Bing Ling'er, Ji Kun, and Sun Mulan as the surrounding cultivators were slaughtered.
• The Female Demon Emperor joined her companion, and the two Demon Emperors tried to devour Li Qingyuan, Bing Ling'er, Sun Mulan, and Ji Kun.
• Li Qingyuan allowed the Female Demon Emperor to swallow him and Bing Ling'er, then called on Old Zhao inside the beast’s body.
• Old Zhao used the Soul Refining Banner to pierce the Demon Emperor’s soul crystal, causing its body to explode and its demon infant to flee.
• The other Demon Emperor rushed to its companion as Old Zhao revealed the Void Refining Soul Slave, which devoured tens of thousands of souls and advanced alongside Zhao Guangzheng.
• Li Qingyuan proclaimed the power of his Human Emperor Banner, and Sun Mulan realized he was not Long Xiao and questioned his identity.

Li Qingyuan, Old Zhao, and their allies slaughtered the Black Water Crocodile Dragons and captured the Divine Souls of their two Void Refining Demon Emperors. After collecting the battle’s soul crystals, treasures, and resources, Li Qingyuan turned his attention to the wounded Sun Mulan.

• Old Zhao trapped the Demon Emperors and more than ten thousand Black Water Crocodile Dragons inside the Soul Refining Banner’s barrier, while Long Xiao’s Soul Slave and Li Qingyuan attacked the horde.
• Bing Ling’er joined the battle, and Li Qingyuan empowered the Green Wood Heavenly Sun Sword with Five-Colored Tribulation lightning to kill Immortal Beasts in large numbers.
• Sun Mulan tried to escape the barrier, but her attack failed and left her severely wounded on a sandbank.
• Old Zhao defeated the two Demon Emperors, seized both their Divine Souls for the Soul Refining Banner, and collected their Void Refining Soul Crystals.
• After the battle, Li Qingyuan gathered tens of thousands of soul crystals, storage rings, resources, and magic treasures, then addressed the frightened Sun Mulan.

Li Qingyuan recruited Sun Mulan and joined her and Bing Ling'er to hunt for Soul Crystals in the Tai Cang Immortal Realm. After six years as the feared Blood Demon Three Fiends, they gathered a huge haul and prepared to divide it according to contribution.

• Li Qingyuan returned the Aalai Heavenly Domain’s belongings to Sun Mulan, asked her to conceal his identity and treasures, and recruited her as an ally.
• Sun Mulan swore a Heavenly Dao Oath to keep Li Qingyuan’s secrets, then recovered from her injuries with his help.
• Li Qingyuan, Sun Mulan, and Bing Ling'er agreed to hunt soul beasts together and share Soul Crystals according to their contributions.
• The disguised trio and their large rooster spirit pet became known as the Blood Demon Three Fiends after repeatedly killing their challengers and seizing Soul Crystals.
• After six years, the trio counted three thousand Soul Crystals, including nine Extreme Dao Soul Crystals and eighty-seven fourth-Nirvana Soul Crystals, and Li Qingyuan proposed dividing the haul.

After the Tai Cang Immortal Mirror ordered the cultivators to open Tai Cang Immortal Mountain and begin the baptism, Li Qingyuan separated from Sun Mulan and Bing Ling'er to duplicate his vast hoard of Soul Crystals. He ended by testing whether the demon infants of Void Refining Demon Emperors could also be duplicated.

• Li Qingyuan divided the Soul Crystals among himself, Ji Kun, Sun Mulan, and Bing Ling'er according to their contributions, while Sun Mulan and Bing Ling'er counted their rewards and anticipated reaching Void Refining.
• Sun Mulan and Bing Ling'er told Li Qingyuan that opening Tai Cang Immortal Mountain required Soul Crystals or demon infants from more than three Void Refining Demon Emperors.
• The Tai Cang Immortal Mirror appeared over the realm and commanded the cultivators to open the Immortal Mountain and welcome the baptism, prompting them to head for the core region.
• Li Qingyuan told Sun Mulan and Bing Ling'er to go ahead while he handled personal matters, then flew away and reached a mountaintop more than a month later.
• Li Qingyuan duplicated his accumulated resources and Soul Crystals, amassing nearly two hundred thousand crystals and declaring himself the richest Soul Transformation Cultivator in the realm's Hundred Regions Wars.
• Li Qingyuan used the Light of Fortune on two Early Void Refining Demon Emperor demon infants to test whether they could be duplicated.

Li Qingyuan gathered enormous quantities of Immortal Beast Soul Crystals and prepared to use the Taicang Baptism to advance himself and the Nine Provinces cultivators. After reuniting with his allies, he reached Taicang Dragon Valley disguised among more than a million Soul Transformation cultivators, where the final contest for the Taicang Baptism was about to begin.

• Li Qingyuan gave up trying to absorb Void Refining demonic beasts and counted the vast number of Soul Crystals he had collected, hoping they would let him reach Void Refining and fulfill his teacher’s wish for Nine Provinces Revival.
• Li Qingyuan returned to the Nine Provinces cultivators, where Yang Xiaohe had also reached Void Refining, and gathered them into the Mysterious Feminine Space to receive the baptism.
• Three months later, Li Qingyuan arrived alone at Taicang Dragon Valley in disguise and saw more than 1.2 million Soul Transformation cultivators assembled there.
• Sun Mulan rebuffed Long Aotian’s offer to shelter her, and Long Aotian vowed that the Myriad Dragon Heavenly Domain would stop her from ascending Tai Cang Immortal Mountain.
• An Extreme Dao cultivator urged the gathered contestants to display their Void Refining Soul Crystals and open Tai Cang Immortal Mountain.

Jin Luo and Niu Hong displayed their strength as the Heavenly Chosen gathered the Void Refining Soul Crystals needed to open Tai Cang Immortal Mountain. Yang Xuan arrived with a vast force, hailed as Cangxuan Heaven’s Number One Heavenly Chosen.

• Jin Luo and Niu Hong tested each other’s auras and recognized that neither should provoke the other lightly.
• Long Aotian accused Sun Mulan of abandoning Hua Xibai, Long Xiao, and their cultivators, but Sun Mulan countered that his explanation was absurd.
• Wan Peng and Gui Ya presented the third Void Refining Soul Crystal, while the gathered Heavenly Chosen said at least five were needed to open Tai Cang Immortal Mountain.
• Bing Ling’er reflected that the Soul Crystals she had obtained could help her complete a high-grade baptism and rise among the top Heavenly Chosen.
• Yang Xuan arrived along a Golden Great Dao with Heavenly Dog soldiers and thousands of cultivators, and the crowd recognized him as Cangxuan Heaven’s Number One Heavenly Chosen.

Yang Xuan arrived among the Hundred Regions’ cultivators, who sought Void Refining Demon Emperor soul crystals to open Tai Cang Immortal Mountain before the Hundred Regions War ended. After Sun Mulan described the two demons she had encountered, Yang Xuan revealed that he knew where another Void Refining Demon Emperor was, though it was powerful.

• Yang Xuan arrived with his Heavenly Dog and the Yang Clan’s cultivators, and Li Qingyuan recognized Yan Lingyue and You Yanmei among his companions.
• Jin Luo asked whether Yang Xuan had enough soul crystals to open the immortal mountain, and Yang Xuan said he had only one.
• The gathered cultivators admitted they did not know where to find any Void Refining Demon Emperors, and Long Aotian asked Sun Mulan about the deaths of Hua Xibai and Long Xiao.
• Sun Mulan claimed Hua Xibai and Sun Xing had colluded with two Void Refining Demon Emperors and described Long Xiao’s sacrifice to save her and Bing Ling'er.
• Yang Xuan told the anxious cultivators that he knew the whereabouts of a Void Refining Demon Emperor, though it was somewhat strong.

Yang Xuan revealed the location of the Golden Thunder Bamboo Worm and rallied the strongest Heavenly Chosen to hunt it for its valuable remains and Heavenly Thunder Bamboos. The group set out for the target while an unseen figure secretly followed them, tracking Bing Ling'er’s aura.

• Yang Xuan identified the Golden Thunder Bamboo Worm as an Early Void Refining Stage Completion Demon Emperor and described its deadly Lightning Law and Heavenly Thunder Bamboos.
• Yan Lingyue shared memories of the worm’s attack, confirming that Yang Xuan had rescued her and You Yanmei from the slaughter.
• Feng Yu, Jin Luo, Niu Hong, and others judged that the Heavenly Chosen could defeat the worm together, with Yang Xuan leading the assault.
• Yang Xuan proposed awarding the Void Refining Demon Nascent Soul to whoever contributed most and dividing the worm’s valuable materials among the group.
• The 113 Extreme Dao Soul Transformation combatants accepted the hunt and followed Yang Xuan across the Tai Cang Immortal Realm.
• An unseen figure used Earth Evasion and Bing Ling'er’s soul-blood aura to follow the group toward the Golden Thunder Bamboo Worm.

Yang Xuan led the top hundred Heavenly Chosen to track down the Golden Thunder Bamboo Worm and seize its Heavenly Thunder Bamboo and demon nascent soul. After surrounding its hiding place, Yang Xuan and the top twenty charged into the valley, where the worm attacked them with its Heavenly Thunder World-Ending technique.

• Shou Feng tracked the scent Yang Xuan had secretly left on the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo and led the group to a valley where the Golden Thunder Bamboo Worm was hiding.
• Yang Xuan ordered the Heavenly Chosen to seal off the area and divided them into a group of twenty to attack and others to guard against the worm escaping.
• Yang Xuan, Shou Feng, Yang Ying, Yan Lingyue, and the other top Heavenly Chosen charged into the valley and confronted the Golden Thunder Bamboo Worm.
• The Golden Thunder Bamboo Worm emerged from the exploding mountain and unleashed its Heavenly Thunder World-Ending technique, declaring it would fight to the death to protect its treasures.
• Yang Xuan used Sky Splitting Divine Palm to weaken the five-colored thunder, while the Super Heavenly Chosen met the remaining lightning with their own abilities.

The twenty-three Super Heavenly Chosen endured the Golden Thunder Bamboo Worm’s lightning assault and joined forces to attack it. As the battle intensified, Yang Xuan broke through to the Second Revolution Early Stage and helped destabilize the Golden Thunder Domain, leaving the group poised to counterattack.

• Yan Lingyue, Feng Yu, Long Aotian, Niu Hong, Wan Peng, Gui Ya, Sun Mulan, Shou Feng, Yang Ying, and the Giant Race Heavenly Chosen used their techniques to withstand bolts of five-colored Heavenly Thunder, though Gui Ya was badly injured.
• The twenty-three Super Heavenly Chosen crushed the opening assault, and Yang Xuan struck the Golden Thunder Bamboo Worm’s head, breaking through its defenses and opening a gap in its Lightning Domain.
• The Heavenly Chosen unleashed their attacks together, wounding the Golden Thunder Bamboo Worm until it retaliated with Golden Thunder World Annihilation, a peak Five-Colored Heavenly Tribulation.
• Yang Xuan’s Nine Revolutions Profound Technique broke through to the Second Revolution Early Stage, and his Primordial Spirit advanced to the Early Void Refining Stage.
• Yang Xuan shattered the thickest bolt of golden lightning with his halberd, and the Heavenly Chosen blocked its scattered force as the Golden Thunder Domain destabilized.
• Yang Xuan called for a counterattack, and the Heavenly Chosen shouted and prepared to attack the Golden Thunder Bamboo Worm.

Li Qingyuan and Old Zhao secretly weakened the formations around the siege of the Golden Thunder Bamboo Worm, hoping it would escape. After the Heavenly Chosen badly wounded it, the Demon Emperor unleashed its hidden reserves, killed Gui Ya, and fled as Yang Xuan and the others pursued.

• Li Qingyuan watched Yang Xuan and the other Heavenly Chosen fight, then withdrew while Old Zhao secretly tampered with the formations and barriers around the Golden Thunder Bamboo Worm.
• Yang Xuan opened his Heavenly Eye and bound the Golden Thunder Bamboo Worm, allowing the Heavenly Chosen to break its defenses and inflict severe wounds.
• The Golden Thunder Bamboo Worm drew on the power stored in its Heavenly Thunder Bamboo and unleashed Golden Thunder World Annihilation, blasting Yang Xuan and the other Heavenly Chosen away and injuring them.
• The Golden Thunder Bamboo Worm charged into Gui Ya, annihilated his body and soul, swallowed his Extreme Dao Nascent Soul, and fled three hundred miles.
• Yang Xuan swallowed three First Revolution Golden Cores and pursued the fleeing Demon Emperor as the injured Heavenly Chosen gave chase.

The Golden Thunder Bamboo Worm fought through the Extreme Dao Heavenly Chosen’s blockade but Yang Xuan’s Heavenly Eye Divine Light struck its tail. It severed part of its tail to escape, and Yang Xuan and the others pursued it to prevent it from fleeing with the Taicang Baptism at stake.

• The weakened Golden Thunder Bamboo Worm blasted aside the first group of Extreme Dao Heavenly Chosen, then injured seventeen more as they tried to hold it back for Yang Xuan.
• Yang Xuan closed in with his Heavenly Eye Spiritual Power ready while the Golden Thunder Bamboo Worm battered through the formations, restrictions, and barriers enclosing it.
• The Golden Thunder Bamboo Worm burned its Lightning Law origin and broke through all eight layers of the blockade, despite the self-destruction of two Extreme Dao Puppets.
• Yang Xuan’s Heavenly Eye Divine Light grazed the Golden Thunder Bamboo Worm’s tail, so it severed one-third of its tail to stop the attack from spreading and fled.
• Yang Xuan, Shou Feng, Sun Mulan, Niu Hong, Jin Luo, and the other cultivators pursued the wounded Golden Thunder Bamboo Worm, determined not to let it escape.

The Golden Thunder Bamboo Worm escaped Yang Xuan and the pursuing Heavenly Chosen, then hid in a small Grotto-heaven World to recover. Li Qingyuan and Zhao Guangzheng trapped it with the Human Emperor Banner and injured it further, leaving it facing three Void Refinement Soul Slaves.

• The Golden Thunder Bamboo Worm outran Yang Xuan and the pursuing Heavenly Chosen, disappearing after a month.
• The Golden Thunder Bamboo Worm entered a small Grotto-heaven World, killed thousands of Spirit Transformation immortal beasts, and devoured their soul crystals to recover.
• Li Qingyuan and Zhao Guangzheng ambushed the Golden Thunder Bamboo Worm, sealing the area inside the Soul Banner Killing Realm.
• Zhao Guangzheng revealed himself as the vanguard of the Human Emperor and attacked the Golden Thunder Bamboo Worm with Ghost Annihilation Blades.
• Zhao Guangzheng summoned three Void Refinement Soul Slaves after the attack wounded the Golden Thunder Bamboo Worm.

Li Qingyuan and his allies killed the Golden Thunder Bamboo Worm, captured its divine soul, and claimed its Nascent Soul and Heavenly Thunder Bamboo. As Yang Xuan’s pursuit lost its trail, the Heavenly Chosen received news that the fifth Void Refining Soul Crystal had appeared and Tai Cang Immortal Mountain could be opened.

• The Golden Thunder Bamboo Worm tried to persuade Old Zhao to join forces, but Old Zhao refused because Li Qingyuan had ordered its death.
• Li Qingyuan revealed himself and, with Yang Xiaohe, Old Zhao, and their allies, overwhelmed and killed the Golden Thunder Bamboo Worm.
• Old Zhao captured and began refining the worm’s divine soul, while Li Qingyuan took its Nascent Soul and gathered its treasures and Heavenly Thunder Bamboo.
• Li Qingyuan and his allies withdrew, and Yang Xuan’s group later discovered that Shou Feng could no longer track the worm’s aura.
• The Heavenly Chosen received messages that the fifth Void Refining Soul Crystal had appeared and Tai Cang Immortal Mountain could be opened.

Li Qingyuan, posing as Lei Jingtian, revealed a Void Refining Soul Crystal and used his lightning power to deter the gathered cultivators from attacking him. The five crystals opened the Tai Cang Immortal Mountain, and its baptism began as the Heavenly Chosen were summoned to the summit.

• Yang Xuan and the other Heavenly Chosen arrived and recognized Li Qingyuan's Seven-Colored Great Rooster as the spirit pet associated with the Blood Demon Three Fiends.
• Li Qingyuan displayed the corpses of the Blood Demon Three Fiends, denied being their leader, and unleashed the Five-Colored Great Heavenly Tribulation.
• Li Qingyuan presented the Black Water Crocodile Dragon's Void Refining Soul Crystal, completing the five needed to open the Tai Cang Immortal Mountain.
• Yang Xuan and the other Super Heavenly Chosen sent their crystals into the sky alongside Li Qingyuan's, forming a pillar that shattered the void.
• The Tai Cang Immortal Mountain descended, and the Spirit of the Tai Cang Immortal Mirror announced that the baptism had arrived and called the Heavenly Chosen to the summit.

Tai Cang Immortal Mountain descended, and cultivators across Cangxuan Heaven raced to claim its baptisms, including the Emperor-grade Anointing at the summit. Li Qingyuan charged through the competitors and carried Bing Ling'er and Sun Mulan toward the main peaks.

• Tai Cang Immortal Mountain landed and its shockwave scattered the million Spirit Transformation cultivators, after which the heavenly geniuses rushed toward its summit.
• Yang Xuan, Jin Luo, Long Aotian, Sun Mulan, Wan Peng, Niu Hong, Feng Yu, Bing Ling'er, Yan Lingyue, and other Heavenly Chosen led their factions toward the mountain.
• Zhao Guangzheng explained the rewards for ascending the peaks and urged Li Qingyuan to seek the Emperor-grade Baptism, which could fully use their nearly two hundred thousand Soul Crystals.
• Li Qingyuan resolved to claim the Emperor-grade Baptism and sped toward the mountain as a lightning tribulation, injuring and overtaking cultivators in his path.
• Li Qingyuan caught Bing Ling'er and Sun Mulan as he raced toward the hundred main peaks, offering to carry them.