Chapter Summaries

At the Myriad Treasures Tower auction, Chen Changqing challenged the Demon Emperor Hall’s claim to a Heavenly Demon girl, enraging the Crimson Flame Young Lord. After effortlessly dispelling the young lord’s attack, Chen Changqing raised his bid and threatened to charge him more for every word he spoke.

• The Sky Fox Queen, Long Xing, the Golden-Winged Roc Clan, and others drove the Heavenly Demon girl’s price above five million Top-grade Spirit Stones.
• The Third Hall of the Demon Emperor Hall declared it would take the girl, and Mei Ji prepared to end the auction until Chen Changqing bid ten million.
• Chen Changqing taunted the Crimson Flame Young Lord through the bidding screen, prompting the young lord to attack Heavenly Character Number Three Private Room with a flaming lion’s head.
• Chen Changqing casually erased the attack, leaving the auction hall stunned and making the Crimson Flame Young Lord wary.
• Chen Changqing bid eleven million and told the Crimson Flame Young Lord that the extra million was to buy his silence, warning that he would add another million if he spoke again.

Chen Changqing outbid the Crimson Flame Young Lord for the Heavenly Demon girl, humiliating the Demon Emperor Hall and winning the auction for thirty-one million Top-grade Spirit Stones. The auction then revealed a key to the Demon Immortal Treasure Trove, and bidding began with a ten-million-stone starting price.

• The Crimson Flame Young Lord raised his bid to thirty million Top-grade Spirit Stones, but an elder reminded him that the Demon Immortal Treasure Trove was their priority.
• Chen Changqing bid thirty-one million and added the taunt, "That's it?", causing the Crimson Flame Young Lord to spit blood and collapse.
• Mei Ji declared Chen Changqing the winner, and attendants delivered the Heavenly Demon girl to his private room.
• Mei Ji unveiled an ancient bronze key and explained that it was one of three keys to the Demon Immortal Treasure Trove, which held the Heaven-Devouring Demon Immortal's inheritance.
• Mei Ji opened bidding for the key at ten million Top-grade Spirit Stones, setting the stage for a contest among the great forces.

Chen Changqing bid on the bronze key to the Heaven-Devouring Demon Immortal’s inheritance, repeatedly outbidding Elder Long Xing and shocking the auction hall with a thirty-million-Top-grade-Spirit-Stone offer. The Crimson Flame Young Lord and Long Xing challenged Chen Changqing’s ability to pay, and a Myriad Treasures Tower elder stepped forward as the crowd demanded verification.

• The Heaven-Devouring Python Clan, the Golden-Winged Roc Clan, and the Heavenly Fox Queen began bidding on the bronze key, while the Crimson Flame Young Lord held back on his elder’s advice.
• Liu Ruyan explained the Heaven-Devouring Demon Immortal’s power, and Chen Changqing considered buying the key to benefit Wangcai.
• Chen Changqing bid twenty million, then repeatedly raised Long Xing’s offers by one million as Long Xing tried to secure the key for the Ancient Dragon Clan.
• When the Heavenly Fox Queen bid twenty-nine million, Chen Changqing jumped the price to thirty million, stunning the auction hall and the rival bidders.
• The Crimson Flame Young Lord accused Chen Changqing of making fraudulent bids, Long Xing joined the demand to verify his assets, and a Myriad Treasures Tower elder stepped forward.

Chen Changqing accepted a funds verification and wagered that Young Mistress Crimson Flame would sever an arm and kneel if he could pay for the Demon Immortal Treasure Trove key. After Qingxuan confirmed Chen’s wealth was unfathomable, Crimson Flame lost the wager, and her elder urged her to accept the loss and seek dignity through strength.

• Chen Changqing challenged Young Mistress Crimson Flame to wager an arm and an apology against the result of verifying his funds.
• Young Mistress Crimson Flame accepted the wager, and Qingxuan entered Chen’s private room to inspect his assets.
• Qingxuan examined five rings filled with vast stores of Spirit Stones and priceless treasures, then declared Chen’s financial resources unfathomable.
• Qingxuan relayed Chen’s demand that Young Mistress Crimson Flame fulfill the wager, leaving her collapsed in despair.
• The gray-robed elder told Young Mistress Crimson Flame that her arm could regenerate and urged her to endure the humiliation and regain her dignity through strength.

The Crimson Flame Young Lord honored his wager and fled after Chen Changqing won the bronze key at the auction. Chen Changqing freed Little Nine, and Wangcai awakened the Heavenly Demon Token, prompting Little Nine to recognize her as the Young Mistress.

• The Crimson Flame Young Lord severed his own arm, knelt before the Heavenly Character Number Three Private Room, and left the Myriad Treasures Tower with the gray-robed elder.
• Mei Ji sold the bronze key to Chen Changqing for thirty million top-grade spirit stones, and an attendant delivered it to his private room.
• Chen Changqing dissolved the seals on Little Nine's cage, and Wangcai's aura helped Little Nine awaken her demonic power and shatter her shackles.
• Little Nine thanked Chen Changqing and learned that his dog was named Wangcai.
• The Heavenly Demon Token emerged from Little Nine's robes and bathed Wangcai in golden light.
• Little Nine explained that the token was the Heavenly Demon race's supreme legacy, then knelt and addressed Wangcai as the Young Mistress.

Wangcai awakened its Heavenly Demon bloodline and left with Little Nine to inherit its position, while Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan departed Myriad Treasures Tower. Outside, the Blood God Sect ambushed them for the Demon Immortal Key, but Chen Changqing effortlessly destroyed their leader’s attack and prepared to face them.

• Little Nine revealed that Wangcai was the Heavenly Demon race’s Young Mistress, and Chen Changqing agreed to let Wangcai go with her to inherit its position.
• Little Nine opened a golden portal, and Wangcai and Little Nine entered it after bidding farewell to Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan.
• Chen Changqing sensed greedy cultivators waiting outside Myriad Treasures Tower, and he and Liu Ruyan continued toward the city gate.
• The Blood Fiend Old Devil and three Demon King-level fighters trapped Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan in the Blood Sea Heaven-Imprisoning Array and demanded the Demon Immortal Key and his storage Magical Artifact.
• Chen Changqing shattered the Blood Fiend Old Devil’s blood-colored Ghost Claw with a casual sword-finger motion and warned the Blood God Sect.

Chen Changqing annihilated Blood Fiend Old Devil and the Blood God Sect squad, then faced a coalition of powerful Demon Race figures demanding the Demon Immortal Key. He imprisoned them all in his Invincible Sword Domain and reached for the Golden-Winged Roc King's storage ring, but an enigmatic voice ordered him to stop.

• Chen Changqing drained Blood Fiend Old Devil of his cultivation and life, leaving only ash.
• Chen Changqing erased the three fleeing Blood God Sect demon kings and shattered the Blood Sea Heaven-Imprisoning Array.
• The Golden-Winged Roc King and other Demon Race powers surrounded Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan, demanding the Demon Immortal Key and threatening Chen Changqing.
• Chen Changqing demanded a toll, then unleashed his Invincible Sword Domain and imprisoned the Golden-Winged Roc King, other Tribulation Crossing experts, and dozens of Demon Kings.
• Chen Changqing reached for the Golden-Winged Roc King's storage ring before an inexplicable voice said, "Stop."

The Heavenly Demon City Lord intervened to break Chen Changqing’s sword domain and punish the demons who had attacked him. He dismissed the royal clan leaders and learned that Chen Changqing was Daoist Wuzhen’s grand-disciple, leaving the conflict settled as Chen still joked about collecting their storage rings.

• The Heavenly Demon City Lord appeared above Ten Thousand Demon City and shattered Chen Changqing’s Invincible Sword Domain with his authority.
• The City Lord forced Golden-Winged Roc King, Long Xing, and the other demons to kneel, then condemned them for attacking a Myriad Treasures Tower guest.
• The City Lord punished Golden-Winged Roc King and made the royal clan leaders submit to Ten Thousand Demon City’s rules.
• The City Lord eased the pressure on Chen Changqing and learned that he was Shushan’s sect leader Chen Yuan’s disciple and Daoist Wuzhen’s grand-disciple.
• The City Lord ordered the demons to leave and warned them not to pursue Chen Changqing, while Chen asked Golden-Winged Roc King to leave his storage ring behind.

Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan met the Heavenly Demon City Lord, who revealed his old connection to Wuzhen and explained the path of Tribulation Immortals. The City Lord urged Chen Changqing to keep the Demon Immortal Token and visit its destination if he had the chance.

• The Heavenly Demon City Lord brought Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan through a spatial gateway to his cloud-hidden residence, where he showed them a stele bearing the words “Heavenly Demon Returns.”
• The City Lord said he had known Chen Changqing’s Grandmaster, Wuzhen, for many years, and Chen Changqing concealed Wangcai and Little Nine’s connection to the Heavenly Demon aura.
• Chen Changqing drank the Enlightenment Tea in one gulp and rapidly restored his Invincible Sword Domain, surprising the City Lord.
• Chen Changqing told the City Lord that Wuzhen had become a Tribulation Immortal, and the City Lord reacted with shock before explaining the tribulations and their dangers.
• The City Lord told Chen Changqing to keep the Demon Immortal Token and said he might gain considerable benefits by visiting its destination.

Chen Changqing received a token from the Celestial Demon City Lord and learned that only cultivators below the True Monarch Realm could enter the Demon Immortal Treasure Trove. After leaving Ten Thousand Demon City, he agreed to meet Hu Xian'er, who showed him a picture of a dark-red medicinal herb and asked for his help.

• The Celestial Demon City Lord gave Chen Changqing a token that let him pass freely through Celestial Demon City and explained that the Demon Immortal Key was only a pass to enter the ancestral land.
• The Celestial Demon City Lord revealed that the ancestral land had seven entrances, six of which had been searched, and that cultivators at or above the True Monarch Realm could not enter.
• Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan left the City Lord's Manor, discussed the ambushes and the token, and Chen Changqing checked his growing AFK points.
• A fox woman summoned Chen Changqing to meet Hu Xian'er at the Myriad Treasures Tower, and he agreed to go.
• Hu Xian'er congratulated Chen Changqing on obtaining the Demon Immortal Key, then showed him a scroll depicting a dark-red herb as she asked for his help.

Hu Xian'er asked Chen Changqing to find Blood Soul Grass in the Demon Immortal Treasure Trove to save her mother, whose Primordial Spirit had been split into seven fragments. After learning that royal clans were waiting outside Ten Thousand Demon City, Chen Changqing refused an escort and left with Liu Ruyan, while Hu Xian'er secretly sent a True Monarch to protect him.

• Hu Xian'er offered Chen Changqing an immortal artifact for an intact Blood Soul Grass and explained that it could reunite her mother's seven scattered Primordial Spirit fragments.
• Chen Changqing's Demon Immortal Key caused Hu Xian'er's Primordial Spirit Jade to react, confirming that the Blood Soul Grass was in the final treasure trove; Hu Xian'er gave him instructions for harvesting it and warned him about soul beasts.
• Hu Xian'er told Chen Changqing that the Golden-Winged Roc Clan, Ancient Dragon Clan, and Heaven-Swallowing Python Clan had people waiting outside the city, and offered him a place in her clan's caravan.
• Chen Changqing refused the caravan escort, accepted a talisman that could withstand one strike from a True Monarch, and left with Liu Ruyan.
• Hu Xian'er ordered her hidden True Monarch elder to follow Chen Changqing and help him if he encountered danger outside the city.

Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan left Ten Thousand Demon City, but more than a hundred Demon Kings and over a dozen Tribulation Crossing experts ambushed them on the road. Chen Changqing cut down several powerful enemies, and the battle continued as he faced the gathered demon clans.

• Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan passed through the city gates, and Chen Changqing gave Liu Ruyan Hu Xian'er's protective talisman before confronting the hidden attackers.
• More than a hundred Demon Kings and over a dozen Tribulation Crossing experts emerged, led by the Crimson Flame Young Lord, who demanded Chen Changqing's Demon Immortal Key and treasures.
• Chen Changqing drew the Heavenly Thunder Sword and killed more than a dozen Demon Kings with a single strike.
• Chen Changqing's Ten Forms of Sword Annihilation broke the attacks of two Crimson Flame Demon Clan elders and wounded them.
• Chen Changqing slowed the Golden-Winged Roc Clan elder with his Invincible Sword Domain and severed one of his wings.
• Chen Changqing crushed the Heaven-Swallowing Python Clan old woman's poisonous mist, broke her cane, and destroyed her Primordial Spirit with the Three Extremes Return to Origin Seal.

Chen Changqing fought the Black Scale True Lord after cutting down the Demon Kings outside Heavenly Demon City. Though the True Lord’s laws suppressed his Sword Domain, Chen Changqing still killed an Ancient Dragon Clan mighty figure who tried to take Liu Ruyan hostage.

• The Crimson Flame Young Lord summoned Black Scale True Lord with a jade talisman, and the True Lord ordered Chen Changqing to kneel and die.
• Chen Changqing used his avatars and four Immortal Artifacts to break most of Black Scale True Lord’s attack, then injured him with the Heavenly Emperor Divine Fist.
• Black Scale True Lord suppressed Chen Changqing’s Invincible Sword Domain with True Lord laws as Demon Race fighters renewed their assault.
• An Ancient Dragon Clan mighty figure tried to seize Liu Ruyan as a hostage, but Chen Changqing cut off his head with a sword strike.

Chen Changqing fought Black Scale True Lord and shattered his Ten Thousand Scales Mountain, then drove him back with his spear, qin, and sword. The battle left Black Scale True Lord severely wounded, with a bloody chest wound and a severed arm.

• Black Scale True Lord drew in demonic qi and unleashed Ten Thousand Scales Mountain Suppression against Chen Changqing.
• Chen Changqing and his three incarnations attacked the descending mountain with their weapons and shattered it with Four Aspects Unite.
• Chen Changqing pursued Black Scale True Lord and pinned him with the Dragon Pattern Sky-Splitting Spear while the Immortal Burial Qin disrupted his Primordial Spirit.
• Chen Changqing slashed through Black Scale True Lord's wyrm-scaled arm with the Heavenly Thunder Sword, forcing him to retreat.
• Chen Changqing contracted the Invincible Sword Domain to stop Black Scale True Lord's escape, leaving him severely wounded before the silent demons.

Chen Changqing killed Black Scale True Lord after surviving his reverse-scale power and soul-devouring array. He then confronted Crimson Flame Young Lord, who offered his clan’s wealth to save his life, but Chen Changqing called the offer too small.

• Black Scale True Lord burned his natal reverse scale, restored his body, and trapped Chen Changqing in the Black Flood Dragon Soul-Devouring Array.
• Chen Changqing played the Immortal Burial Qin, damaging Black Scale True Lord’s Primordial Spirit and breaking the array.
• Chen Changqing pierced Black Scale True Lord with his spear, struck him with the Three Extremes Return to Origin Seal, and killed him with Immortal-Slaying.
• Chen Changqing took Black Scale True Lord’s storage ring, then pointed his sword at Crimson Flame Young Lord.
• Crimson Flame Young Lord offered fifteen million Top-grade Spirit Stones and his clan’s collected herbs and materials, but Chen Changqing said it was too little.

Chen Changqing killed the Crimson Flame Young Lord after pretending to spare him, then slaughtered the fleeing Demon Race experts from the three royal clans. He continued cutting down demon kings and Tribulation Crossing elders while Liu Ruyan watched, unable to find a chance to help.

• Chen Changqing took the Crimson Flame Young Lord's storage ring and let him flee, then sent his Immortal Sword after him and killed him.
• Chen Changqing used the Invincible Sword Domain and Ten Forms of Sword Annihilation to trap and kill the fleeing demons.
• Chen Changqing beheaded a Golden-Winged Roc Clan elder who had tried to escape through the sword domain.
• Chen Changqing killed an Ancient Dragon Clan elder with the Heavenly Emperor Divine Fist and scattered a Heaven-Swallowing Python Clan elder's primordial spirit with the Immortal Burial Qin.
• Liu Ruyan watched as Chen Changqing massacred the demon experts, realizing she had never had an opportunity to act.

After slaughtering the Demon Race forces on the ancient road, Chen Changqing took Liu Ruyan back toward Shushan, stopping in Demon Suppressing City to rest. At an inn, he overheard monks from Great Thunderclap Temple plotting to defeat Tianyin Temple and claim its Northern Border worshippers, prompting him to think of Monk Rujie.

• Chen Changqing collected the fallen enemies' storage artifacts, then took Liu Ruyan and headed back to Shushan.
• The Heavenly Demon City Lord watched the massacre and concluded that Chen Changqing was more ruthless than his Grandmaster and had badly weakened several Demon Race clans.
• Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan used a Teleportation Array to travel from Blackstone City to Demon Suppressing City, where they checked into Listening Wind Tower.
• Cultivators at the inn discussed the Great Chu Dynasty's plans to provoke the Ancient Dragon Clan after Crown Prince Chu Tian's death.
• Chen Changqing overheard Great Thunderclap Temple monks planning to defeat Tianyin Temple and claim its Northern Border worshippers, and he thought of Monk Rujie.

Chen Changqing learned that Great Thunderclap Temple was challenging Tianyin Temple and traveled there with Liu Ruyan to support his friend Monk Rujie. He arrived as Rujie accepted Wuchen’s Dharma debate, which would decide whether Tianyin Temple surrendered its thirty-six branch temples.

• Chen Changqing overheard monks discussing Wuchen’s challenge to Monk Rujie and decided to go to Tianyin Temple with Liu Ruyan.
• Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan teleported to Brahma Mountain City and traveled toward Tianyin Temple, where Chen explained how he had met Rujie while exterminating demons.
• Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan reached Tianyin Temple and saw Great Thunderclap Temple confronting the temple’s monks at its Mountain Gate.
• Wuchen demanded a Dharma debate with Rujie, wagering Great Thunderclap Temple’s withdrawal against Tianyin Temple’s thirty-six branch temples.
• Rujie recognized that Wuchen had chosen his moment while Tianyin Temple was weakened, but accepted the debate.

Rujie defended Tianyin Temple in a scripture debate against Wuchen, then faced Great Thunderclap Temple’s unfair Dharma contest with the Demon-Suppressing Bowl. Chen Changqing arrived and watched as Rujie was forced to the edge of defeat, where he prepared a desperate counterattack.

• Wuchen accused Tianyin Temple of taking incense offerings without protecting its believers, but Rujie challenged his logic and passed the scriptural debate.
• Wuchen began a Dharma battle with the Demon-Suppressing Bowl, a Quasi-Immortal Artifact, prompting Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan to arrive at Tianyin Temple.
• Chen Changqing mocked the Demon-Suppressing Bowl as a pot and told Rujie he would not intervene unless Rujie was beaten to death.
• Wuchen used the bowl to strike Rujie with Buddhist light and golden rings, overpowering him with superior cultivation and the artifact.
• As Wuchen’s chant disrupted Rujie’s wrathful Buddha phantom and urged him to surrender, Rujie praised the bowl’s usefulness for begging alms and spat blood onto his prayer beads.

Rujie revealed the Tiger-Taming Arhat Inheritance after Wuchen’s Demon-Suppressing Bowl nearly overwhelmed him in the Dharma debate. Rujie broke free of the bowl’s restraints and countered Wuchen’s attack, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Wuchen used the Demon-Suppressing Bowl to pin Rujie down while Great Thunderclap Temple mocked Tianyin Temple and claimed its branch temples’ incense offerings.
• Chen Changqing told Liu Ruyan that Rujie still had an unused technique, and Rujie refused to ask for help despite his injuries.
• Rujie broke open a hidden barrier within himself, revealed the Tiger-Taming Arhat tattoo on his back, and summoned the golden Arhat and a colossal tiger.
• Rujie shattered the six golden rings binding him, forcing Wuchen back and silencing Great Thunderclap Temple’s disciples.
• Wuchen attacked with Thunderclap Demon Suppression, but Rujie’s giant tiger shattered the golden lightning, and Rujie stepped forward.