Chapter Summaries

Chen Changqing defeated the Netherworld Sect’s half-step True Lords and discovered that the Netherworld Sect Master was drawing power from the Ten Thousand Souls Array. After killing the banner-wielding half-step True Lord, Chen Changqing faced the Sect Master and declared that he was next.

• Chen Changqing used lightning to destroy the corpse puppet, damaged the soul banner, and nearly killed its wielder before the Netherworld Sect Master intervened.
• The Netherworld Sect Master sacrificed the surviving Netherworld Sect disciples to strengthen himself and attacked Chen Changqing with the Soul-Suppressing Demonic Seal.
• Chen Changqing and his four incarnations blocked the True Lord’s strike while damaging the Ten Thousand Souls Array, weakening the Sect Master’s power.
• Chen Changqing charged the banner-wielding half-step True Lord, broke the array pattern beneath him, and pierced him with the Heavenly Thunder Sword.
• Chen Changqing killed the banner-wielding half-step True Lord, broke his Soul Banner, and took it for his storage ring.
• Chen Changqing looked up at the Netherworld Sect Master and told him not to rush because he was next.

Chen Changqing fought the Netherworld Sect Master, who used the valley’s remnant formation to drain his disciples and empower his attacks. Chen Changqing wounded him, but the peak True Lord’s overwhelming force left Chen Changqing battered and struggling to stand.

• The Netherworld Sect Master drained the surviving Netherworld Sect disciples’ soul flames, while Chen Changqing fought off a Void Refinement Demon Cultivator.
• The Netherworld Sect Master formed a black-red seal from the valley’s remnant formation and attacked Chen Changqing, who countered with his weapon incarnations and sword.
• Chen Changqing broke through the Netherworld Sect Master’s defenses, wounded him with the Heavenly Thunder Sword, and drove the broken soul banner into the ground.
• The Netherworld Sect Master unleashed his full power and drained the remaining disciples to strengthen himself.
• The Netherworld Sect Master overwhelmed Chen Changqing’s weapon incarnations and blasted him back, leaving him spitting blood and bracing himself with his sword.

Chen Changqing used the true Dragon Pattern Sky-Splitting Spear against the Netherworld Sect Master’s sealing formation and prepared to unleash an immortal spear art. The chapter ended as he aimed its first spear at the True Lord.

• The Netherworld Sect Master attacked Chen Changqing and sealed the valley, slowing his spiritual power and binding him with black chains.
• Chen Changqing revealed the genuine Dragon Pattern Sky-Splitting Spear, which suppressed the corpse puppet inside the black coffin.
• The Netherworld Sect Master intensified the seal and ordered the coffin-bearing Half-step True Lord to hold the formation steady.
• Chen Changqing broke the chains and gathered power for Immortal Extermination Three Spears as the Netherworld Sect Master formed the Myriad Souls Heaven-Suppressing Seal.
• Chen Changqing declared he would sacrifice the True Lord to his spear and began the first spear strike.

Chen Changqing used the Heavenly Lord power Bai Wuya had left him to kill the Netherworld Sect Master with the Immortal-Slaying First Spear. Afterward, he received one million AFK Points, while the surviving witnesses realized the Netherworld Sect was finished.

• The Netherworld Sect Master strengthened himself with the Netherworld Ghost Seed and sent its ghostly face to attack Chen Changqing.
• The Heavenly Lord power within Chen Changqing activated, burning a hole through the ghostly face and replenishing his spiritual energy.
• Chen Changqing unleashed the Immortal-Slaying First Spear, destroying the Netherworld Sect Master's defenses and killing him.
• The watching cultivators stood stunned and concluded that the Netherworld Sect was finished.
• Chen Changqing received one million AFK Points for slaying a peak True Lord.

After killing the Netherworld Sect Master, Chen Changqing collected his spoils and fled while badly injured from the backlash. He collapsed in the wilderness, where a hungry little girl found him and discovered he was still breathing.

• Chen Changqing intimidated the watching cultivators, retrieved the Netherworld Sect Master's storage ring, and killed the fleeing coffin-carrying Half-Step True Lord for 350,000 AFK points.
• Chen Changqing flew away from the valley as the cultivators spread news that the Netherworld Sect had been wiped out.
• His injuries worsened during flight, and he eventually lost consciousness and crashed into a patch of wild grass.
• A little girl searching for wild vegetables found Chen Changqing in the crater and checked that he was still breathing.

After a little girl rescued the badly wounded Chen Changqing and cared for him in a ruined temple, he woke just as men from the Sun Family came to seize her. Chen Changqing killed several attackers with his sword, while the burly leader warned that the Sun Family’s Patriarch was a Violet Mansion Cultivator.

• The little girl dragged Chen Changqing from a pit to a ruined temple and spent three days feeding and warming him while his injuries healed.
• Chen Changqing woke and thanked the little girl, who offered him a roasted sweet potato.
• Men arrived demanding that the little girl hand over something, and she hid behind Chen Changqing when their leader raised his whip.
• Chen Changqing caught the whip and told the little girl to close her eyes before using the Heavenly Thunder Sword to kill the attackers.
• The burly leader warned Chen Changqing that he belonged to the Sun Family of Windcloud City and that its Patriarch was a Violet Mansion Cultivator.

Chen Changqing killed the Sun Family pursuers who threatened him and comforted Li Yuanyuan, the little girl who had cared for him. After she asked him to avenge her murdered family, she explained the attack and handed him the hidden bundle her father had given her.

• Chen Changqing killed the burly Violet Mansion Cultivator and the fleeing man who warned that the Sun Family would come after him.
• Chen Changqing learned the girl's name was Li Yuanyuan, burned the corpses, and gave her a Spirit Fruit.
• Li Yuanyuan asked Chen Changqing to avenge her family, and she told him the Sun Family and Wang Family had attacked her home and killed her relatives.
• Li Yuanyuan explained that her father had pushed her to safety with a cloth bundle containing half a piece of jade and a note warning her not to trust anyone.
• Li Yuanyuan retrieved the hidden bundle from beneath the headless idol and handed it to Chen Changqing.

Chen Changqing avenged Li Yuanyuan’s family, brought her into Windcloud City, and learned that the Sun Family patriarch would celebrate his three-hundredth birthday in three days. He ordered an extravagant coffin for the patriarch, leaving the startled coffin maker staring at him.

• Chen Changqing examined the jade map piece Li Yuanyuan had inherited and told her he had avenged her family.
• Chen Changqing took Li Yuanyuan into Windcloud City, bought her new clothes, and treated her to a meal.
• Chen Changqing overheard that the Sun Family patriarch’s three-hundredth birthday banquet would take place in three days.
• Chen Changqing used the alias Chen Changsheng and led Li Yuanyuan to Old Wang Coffins to order a grand rosewood coffin for someone aged three hundred.
• The coffin maker dropped his plane and stared at Chen Changqing after hearing the coffin’s specifications.

Chen Changqing commissioned a lavish coffin for the Sun Family patriarch and took Li Yuanyuan to see the burned ruins of her family home, promising to destroy the Sun Family in three days. After recovering his strength while they stayed among the ruins, he returned to Old Wang Coffin Shop to inspect the finished coffin.

• Chen Changqing paid an old coffin maker to craft a redwood coffin lined with cloud silk and told him he would collect it in three days.
• Chen Changqing took Li Yuanyuan to the ruins of the Li Family estate, where she searched the burned grounds and mourned her family.
• Chen Changqing meditated for three days while Li Yuanyuan gathered usable items from the ruins, and he recovered enough strength to fight a Violet Mansion Cultivator.
• Chen Changqing promised Li Yuanyuan that the Sun Family would join her parents in death, then took her to collect their things.
• Chen Changqing inspected the finished coffin at Old Wang Coffin Shop and approved its craftsmanship.

Chen Changqing took Li Yuanyuan to the Sun Family’s birthday celebration, intending to avenge the Li Family and recover the half piece of jade. He dropped a coffin into the banquet courtyard and declared that he had come to send the Sun Family off to their graves.

• Chen Changqing made the thousand-jin coffin vanish from the coffin shop and told the old man he needed no help carrying it.
• Chen Changqing took Li Yuanyuan’s hand and led her toward the Sun Family estate, while the coffin shop owner stashed his payment and prepared for business to boom.
• At Sun Changtai’s birthday banquet, Sun Changtai and his son discussed searching for Li Yuanyuan and retrieving the Li Family’s half piece of jade.
• A coffin crashed into the center of the courtyard, scattering guests and enraging Sun Changtai.
• Chen Changqing’s voice rang down from above, declaring that he had come to see the Sun Family off to their graves.

Chen Changqing brought Li Yuanyuan and a coffin to Sun Changtai’s birthday banquet, confronting him over the slaughter of the Li Family and the jade legacy map. When the Sun and Wang Families attacked and Elder Zhao intervened, Chen Changqing revealed his strength and was recognized as the Shushan Holy Son.

• Chen Changqing arrived at the Sun Family banquet with Li Yuanyuan and a coffin, then challenged Sun Changtai over the Li Family’s destruction.
• Chen Changqing revealed the half jade pendant, prompting Wang Deshan to accuse Sun Changtai of betraying their agreement to guard the legacy map.
• Li Yuanyuan learned that Wang Deshan had also pursued the jade, and Chen Changqing promised to deal with both men.
• Elder Zhao demanded the jade pendant and Li Yuanyuan, but Chen Changqing killed the Sun Family guards and resisted the ensuing attack.
• Chen Changqing unleashed the Heavenly Thunder Sword, defeated the attacking cultivators and Wang Deshan, and was identified by Elder Zhao as the Shushan Holy Son.

Old Wang revealed himself as a half-step True Lord and demanded the Dragon-Burial Ancient Well key from the injured Chen Changqing. Chen Changqing summoned two armed incarnations, and the fight began as Old Wang attacked.

• Old Wang emerged from the Sun Family's rear courtyard and revealed his half-step True Lord cultivation, shocking the guests.
• Old Wang explained that he had waited for the three jade fragments and told Chen Changqing that his injuries left him unable to defeat him easily.
• Old Wang demanded the Dragon-Burial Ancient Well key, while Chen Changqing sent Li Yuanyuan behind the coffin and refused to hand it over.
• Chen Changqing summoned two incarnations, one wielding the Heavenly Thunder Sword and the other the Dragon Pattern Sky-Splitting Spear.
• Old Wang empowered his black short knife with blood and attacked, and Chen Changqing's two incarnations moved to meet him.

Chen Changqing defeated and killed Old Wang at Sun Changtai’s birthday gathering after Old Wang threatened Li Yuanyuan. He then killed Sun Changtai, Wang Deshan, and the other cultivators, leaving the Dragon-Burial Ancient Well’s danger unresolved.

• Old Wang tried to escape the courtyard with coffin nails, but Chen Changqing blocked his path while protecting Li Yuanyuan.
• Old Wang threatened Li Yuanyuan, and Chen Changqing shattered his black claw and knocked him away with a slap.
• Old Wang infused himself with coffin baleful intent and attacked Chen Changqing, who pierced him with the spear and sword and burned away his baleful energy.
• As he died, Old Wang warned Chen Changqing that the Dragon-Burial Ancient Well would open once its keys were gathered and that something inside had sensed the Undying Medicine.
• Chen Changqing killed Old Wang, took his storage ring, and gained 350,000 AFK points.
• Chen Changqing led Li Yuanyuan out from behind the coffin, then slew Sun Changtai, Wang Deshan, and every cultivator in the courtyard with Sword Qi.

Chen Changqing avenged Li Yuanyuan by killing the Sun and Wang Families’ members involved in the Li Family’s destruction, then arranged for the Flying Cloud Sect to restore her inheritance. Li Yuanyuan asked to follow him and cultivate immortality, and he agreed to take her to Shushan after he dealt with the Dragon-Burial Ancient Well.

• Chen Changqing killed the Sun and Wang Families’ cultivators who had participated in wiping out the Li Family, then ordered Elder Zhao to restore the Li Family’s assets and investigate all those responsible.
• Li Yuanyuan said she felt empty despite her revenge, and Chen Changqing reassured her that her parents would be happy and promised that every guilty person would be found.
• Chen Changqing left the Sun Family with Li Yuanyuan, who asked whether she could follow him and cultivate immortality; he agreed to take her to Shushan.
• Chen Changqing told Li Yuanyuan he had to investigate the Dragon-Burial Ancient Well alone, and she made him promise to return for her.
• Chen Changqing took Li Yuanyuan to the largest inn in Windcloud City.

Chen Changqing followed a complete jade pendant to Dragon King Well on Green Ox Ridge, where its hidden power dragged him into a strange small world. He arrived in the new realm as several figures descended toward him.

• Chen Changqing gave Li Yuanyuan protective treasures, left her under Elder Zhao's guard, and set out to investigate the jade pendant's destination.
• Elder Zhao told Chen Changqing that Dragon King Well was known as an ordinary well, though the Flying Cloud Sect had found no secrets there.
• At Green Ox Ridge, Chen Changqing paid the villagers for their sacrificial pig and sent them home before examining the well.
• The jade pendant activated, and a powerful suction pulled Chen Changqing into the well as a deep breath shook the ridge.
• Chen Changqing emerged in a strange realm with dense spiritual energy and a dragon-shaped seal on the pendant, just as several figures descended.

Chen Changqing, using the alias Li Feiyu, learned that the jade pendant that brought him into the Dragon-Burial Ancient Well was a token for the True Dragon Clan princess's marital selection. He followed Long Jing to the Dragon Gate, where his pendant identified him as the holder of the third token, and learned that one hundred token holders would compete in three trials.

• Chen Changqing met Long Jing and Long Lan, who explained that the Dragon-Burial Ancient Well was the True Dragon Clan's ancestral land and that his jade pendant was a Marital Selection Token.
• Long Jing told Chen Changqing that leaving required registering at the Dragon Gate and that the outside entrance would remain open for only three days; Chen Changqing decided to go with them and used the alias Li Feiyu.
• Chen Changqing followed the group through the ancestral land, sensing an unfamiliar presence in the spiritual energy that seemed drawn to the Undying Medicine mark in his palm.
• Long Jing brought Chen Changqing to the white jade Dragon Gate, where a silver-armored dragon guard verified his pendant and named him the holder of the third Marital Selection Token.
• Long Lan explained that one hundred token holders would take part in three Dragon Gate trials, and Chen Changqing reacted with surprise.

Chen Changqing, posing as Li Feiyu, entered the Dragon Clan ancestral land with a marriage recruitment token and stayed in Courtyard Number Three to recover from his injuries. His inheritance token revealed another Heaven-Treading Immortal Emperor inheritor was nearby, while the other inheritor learned his assumed identity and chose to wait.

• Long Jing explained that the marriage recruitment tokens granted priority but did not guarantee marriage, then escorted Chen Changqing through the Dragon Gate to Courtyard Number Three.
• Long Jing and Long Lan discussed the Ancestor Dragon Pool, a forbidden ground that many token holders sought to reach through the marriage recruitment.
• Chen Changqing inspected the courtyard's restrictions and took healing pills before his inheritance token began reacting toward the other side of the Dragon Gate.
• A young man in Courtyard Number Eight discovered Chen Changqing's token and identity as Li Feiyu, then told his old servant to investigate without alerting the Dragon Clan.
• Over the next three days, Chen Changqing stayed in his courtyard, healed, and avoided seeking out the other inheritor as more people arrived.

After recovering at the True Dragon Ancestral Land, Chen Changqing went with Long Jing and Long Lan to hear the rules for the son-in-law selection. He sensed that the mysterious holder of Token Number Eight also possessed a Heaven-Treading inheritance, just as the True Dragon Patriarch appeared to address the gathered challengers.

• Chen Changqing finished another meal, learned that all one hundred tokens had been gathered, and set out with Long Jing and Long Lan to hear the selection rules.
• The young woman in Courtyard Number Eight learned that no one named Li Feiyu existed on Jiuzhou Continent, but decided to stop investigating and let him compete for the Heaven-Treading Immortal Emperor's legacy.
• Chen Changqing arrived at the stone platform and took his place among the token holders as cultivators from across Jiuzhou gathered for the trials.
• Chen Changqing sensed his inheritance token react toward Token Number Eight and exchanged smiles with its holder, a young man surnamed Chu who had a True Monarch servant guarding him.
• A dragon's roar silenced the crowd, the nine Dragon Pillars lit up, and a figure appeared on the elevated platform.

Long Gan announced the True Dragon Clan’s husband-selection trials and offered successful contestants entry to the Ancestor Dragon Pool. After Niu Lieshan won first place on the Dragon Might Platform, he challenged Chen Changqing, the holder of Token Number Three.

• Long Gan welcomed the cultivators and explained that contestants who passed three trials could compete to become his daughter’s husband, while those who passed could enter the Ancestor Dragon Pool.
• Chen Changqing told Long Lan he had come for someone in Area Eight, and the young man there silently beckoned him forward.
• After token holders were granted exemption from the first trial, Niu Lieshan and an Eastern Sea Flood Dragon Clan youth clashed until Long Gan restrained them.
• Long Gan allowed the top ten contestants without tokens to challenge token holders after the first trial, and the contestants began testing themselves on the Dragon Might Platform.
• Niu Lieshan reached the front of the platform and won first place, then challenged Chen Changqing for Token Number Three.

Chen Changqing accepted Niu Lieshan’s challenge and defeated him with one punch using the Heavenly Emperor Divine Fist’s Reincarnation Style. The victory stunned the audience and revealed that the young man in the eighth area recognized Chen Changqing’s technique.

• Niu Lieshan challenged Chen Changqing, and Long Lan urged Chen Changqing to refuse, but Chen Changqing accepted.
• Chen Changqing faced Niu Lieshan on the Dragon Might Platform as Niu Lieshan charged with his Mountain-Shattering Strike.
• Chen Changqing countered with the Reincarnation Style and shattered Niu Lieshan’s arm and body with a single punch.
• Niu Lieshan flew into a distant mountain wall, leaving the crowd and Long Gan stunned.
• The young man in the eighth area recognized Chen Changqing’s Heavenly Emperor Divine Fist and wondered how Chen Changqing had learned the Reincarnation Style.