Chapter Summaries

Rujie nearly defeated Wuchen in the dharma debate before Elder Xuanku intervened on Great Thunderclap Temple’s behalf. Chen Changqing challenged Xuanku and forced him back with one sword strike, and Xuanku prepared to fight after learning Chen had killed Black Scale True Lord.

• Rujie repeatedly struck Wuchen’s Demon-Suppressing Bowl until Xuanku used his half-step True Lord pressure to stop the fight.
• Xuanku claimed Rujie used an evil art and ordered him taken to Great Thunderclap Temple, prompting the Tianyin Temple monks to confront the intruders.
• Chen Changqing stepped onto the dharma platform, challenged Xuanku’s interference, and refused his offer to withdraw.
• Xuanku attacked Chen with a Buddhist palm, but Chen’s Ten Forms of Sword Annihilation cut through it and forced Xuanku back half a step.
• Xuanku revealed that Chen had reportedly slain Black Scale True Lord, then took out eighteen golden prayer beads and prepared to fight him.

Chen Changqing defeated Xuanku after the Great Thunderclap Temple elder tried to force him to leave Tianyin Temple. With Xuanku beaten and his Thunder Sound Beads shattered, Rujie questioned him about the temple’s real reason for coming.

• Xuanku summoned the Eighteen Thunder Sound Beads and demanded that Chen Changqing withdraw from Tianyin Temple, but Chen refused.
• Chen Changqing cut through Xuanku’s lightning attack and struck him back with the Three Extremes Return to Origin Seal.
• Xuanku summoned his Thunder Sound Dharma Form, but Chen Changqing’s three incarnations and Immortal Burial Qin disrupted and broke it.
• Chen Changqing used the Seventh Sword of the Ten Forms of Sword Annihilation to shatter the Thunder Sound Beads and force Xuanku to his knees.
• Xuanku conceded defeat and agreed that Great Thunderclap Temple would withdraw, while Rujie pressed him about the incense offerings of the thirty-six branch temples.
• Xuanku answered that disputes over Buddhist incense offerings had their own rules.

After exposing the Great Thunderclap Temple’s real target, Chen Changqing drove its monks from Tianyin Temple and claimed the Demon-Suppressing Bowl. He then entered the Arhat Ancient Cave with Liu Ruyan, Rujie, and Huiming, where strange chanting greeted them below the opened stone gate.

• Wuchen revealed that the Great Thunderclap Temple wanted the Tianyin Buddha Bone hidden in the Arhat Ancient Cave, using Rujie and the Tiger-Taming Arhat Inheritance as keys.
• Chen Changqing defeated Wuchen, took the Demon-Suppressing Bowl, and forced the Great Thunderclap Temple’s delegation to flee Tianyin Temple.
• Chen Changqing asked to see the Arhat Ancient Cave, and Huiming revealed the old abbot’s instruction to admit an honored guest bearing the power of lightning tribulation.
• At the sealed stone gate, Rujie’s blood and inheritance failed to open the entrance, but Chen Changqing’s Heaven Treading Ring made it respond.
• Chen Changqing, Liu Ruyan, Rujie, and Huiming descended the steps into the cave as eerie Buddhist chanting sounded around them.

Chen Changqing, Rujie, Liu Ruyan, and Huiming discovered the Tianyin Buddha Bone beneath Tianyin Temple, and Rujie took it to help his temple. Removing the bone freed Kongwu, a demonic monk who had been sealed beneath the Buddha statue, and Huiming revealed the crimes that led to his imprisonment.

• Chen Changqing and the others descended into a cavern and found the Tianyin Buddha Bone suppressing demonic qi inside a giant Buddha statue.
• Chen Changqing urged Rujie to claim the Buddha Bone as an ancestral treasure of Tianyin Temple.
• Rujie prayed to the patriarch and pulled the Buddha Bone from the statue, causing the cavern to shake and demonic qi to erupt.
• The statue cracked apart, and its collapse released a terrifying presence that injured Huiming.
• Kongwu emerged from beneath the statue, and Huiming identified him as Tianyin Temple's first patriarch's eldest disciple, who had slaughtered a million people before being sealed thirty thousand years earlier.

Chen Changqing and his avatars overwhelmed Kongwu, who answered his injuries by burning his demonic soul to raise his realm. The chapter ended as Kongwu transformed into a gigantic bone demonic Buddha and Rujie warned Chen Changqing of the danger.

• Kongwu demanded Rujie's Buddha Bone and body, but Chen Changqing stepped in and struck him with the Heavenly Thunder Sword.
• Chen Changqing fought Kongwu in the cavern, blocking thirty-six strikes before calling forth three avatars.
• The Immortal Burial Qin avatar disrupted Kongwu, the spear avatar cracked his blade, and the hammer avatar broke his arm and drove him to one knee.
• Furious and badly injured, Kongwu crushed his skull prayer beads and became a colossal bone demonic Buddha by burning his demonic soul.
• Rujie warned Chen Changqing that Kongwu was forcibly raising his realm.

Chen Changqing fought Kongwu and his White Bone Demon Buddha in the karst cave while Rujie received the Tianyin Buddha Bone inheritance. Chen Changqing cut down the Demon Buddha and trapped Kongwu’s fleeing demon soul, which begged for its life and offered secrets.

• Kongwu used his burning demon soul to empower the White Bone Demon Buddha and threatened to devour Chen Changqing.
• Chen Changqing summoned a fourth incarnation, and his four incarnations and main body battered Kongwu and shattered several demonic artifacts.
• Kongwu unleashed Buddhist chants, and the Tianyin Buddha Bone blocked their demonic influence as Rujie began receiving its inheritance.
• Kongwu turned his attack toward Rujie, but Chen Changqing and his incarnations defended him while Liu Ruyan held back one of the bone arms.
• Chen Changqing used the Immortal Slaying Sword Technique to cleave the White Bone Demon Buddha in two and gravely wound Kongwu.
• Kongwu’s demon soul tried to flee, but Chen Changqing trapped it with the Heaven Treading Ring and Immortal Burial Qin as Kongwu begged for his life and offered secrets.

Chen Changqing slew Kongwu and helped free Huixin, while the Tianyin Buddha Bone named Rujie the next abbot of Tianyin Temple. Rujie faced the assembled monks and began explaining what he had learned after the Great Thunderclap Temple came to their doorstep.

• Chen Changqing destroyed Kongwu’s demonic soul, ending the Demon Buddha’s existence and clearing most of the cavern’s demonic energy.
• The Tianyin Buddha Bone declared that its bearer would become Tianyin Temple’s next abbot, and it struck Rujie when he tried to refuse.
• Huixin climbed from beneath the shattered statue and explained that he had secretly guarded Kongwu’s seal before Chen Changqing destroyed the seven Demon Buddha Nails trapping him.
• Huiming and Huixin confirmed that Rujie had been chosen as abbot, and Rujie reluctantly accepted the appointment.
• Huiming announced Rujie’s appointment to the monks of Tianyin Temple, who knelt and greeted him as their abbot.
• Rujie began addressing the monks, saying that the Great Thunderclap Temple’s visit had taught him something.

Rujie settled into his role as Tianyin Temple’s new abbot after Great Thunderclap Temple’s retreat, while Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan prepared to leave for the Ten Great Sect Competition. The chapter ended with Rujie returning to temple duties and joking that he wanted to leave monastic life.

• Tianyin Temple’s branch temples sought forgiveness after hearing that Xuanku had been defeated, Wuchen crippled, and Chen Changqing had taken the Demon-Suppressing Bowl.
• Rujie struggled with his new duties as abbot while Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan prepared to depart.
• Huixin thanked Chen Changqing and promised Tianyin Temple would aid Shushan if needed.
• Chen Changqing told Rujie that the Ten Great Sect Competition would begin soon, and Rujie said he would attend only as a spectator.
• Rujie asked Chen Changqing to strike Great Thunderclap Temple’s people if they met at the competition, then returned to his temple duties and wondered if he could still return to secular life.

As Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan traveled toward Shushan, his Heaven-Treading Immortal Emperor Legacy Token reacted near Nine Provinces Auction City. At the auction house, Chen Changqing presented a Supreme Token and clashed with Yin Yue Holy Dynasty's ninth prince, Yue Xuan, before Steward Zhou confirmed the token and Chen Changqing introduced himself as being from Shushan.

• Chen Changqing sensed his Legacy Token pulsing toward the southwest and led Liu Ruyan on a detour to Nine Provinces Auction City.
• At the Nine Provinces Auction House entrance, Chen Changqing presented a Supreme Token after the guards asked for an invitation.
• Yue Xuan mocked Liu Ruyan and challenged Chen Changqing, who retorted that Yue Xuan could crawl inside on his knees to go first.
• Yue Xuan's Tribulation Transcendence elder moved to confront Chen Changqing, but Steward Zhou came out and stopped him.
• Steward Zhou verified the Supreme Token and welcomed Chen Changqing, who identified himself as Chen Changqing of Shushan.

Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan arrived at the Nine Provinces Auction House, where Chen used his Supreme Token and reputation to force Yue Xuan into a second-class seat. From their private room, Chen sensed that the auction’s hidden treasure had triggered the Heaven-Treading Immortal Emperor’s inheritance token, though the auction house’s formations obscured its signal.

• Yue Xuan and his Tribulation Crossing elder challenged Chen Changqing at the entrance, but the crowd recognized Chen and revealed his history with the Yin Yue Holy Dynasty.
• Chen told Manager Zhou that Yue Xuan had insulted him, and Manager Zhou revoked Yue Xuan’s Heavenly Character private room and demoted him to a second-class seat.
• Yue Xuan threatened Chen Changqing after leaving the city, while Chen challenged him to fight immediately; Yue Xuan restrained himself and entered the auction house.
• Manager Zhou escorted Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan to the top-tier private room, where Chen dismissed the attendants and the room’s formation blocked outside probing.
• Liu Ruyan and Chen discussed the auction house’s allegiance to strength and backing, while Chen sensed Yue Xuan’s anger and recalled that his inheritance token had reacted to something outside the city.

Chen Changqing used the auction to buy treasures for himself and his disciples, then deliberately drove Yue Xuan to bid two million Top-grade Spirit Stones for a Blood Fiend Yin Luo Pearl. He stopped bidding and left Yue Xuan trapped with the costly purchase.

• Chen Changqing won the Ten-Thousand-Year Thunder Tribulation Wood for three hundred thousand Top-grade Spirit Stones.
• Chen Changqing bought peak-grade ores to upgrade the equipment of the Changqing Peak disciples.
• Chen Changqing noticed Yue Xuan wanted the Blood Fiend Yin Luo Pearl and bid against him, raising the price to one million five hundred thousand.
• Yue Xuan ignored his Tribulation Transcendence elder's warning and bid two million Top-grade Spirit Stones.
• Chen Changqing ended the bidding, saying he would not take what Yue Xuan loved, and Yue Xuan froze.

Chen Changqing recognized the bronze treasure box that triggered strong reactions from his Legacy Token and Heaven Treading Ring, and decided he had to obtain it. The auction’s final lot sparked fierce bidding, which continued as Chen Changqing waited to make his move.

• Yue Xuan spat blood after Chen Changqing stopped bidding at two million top-grade spirit stones for the Blood Fiend Yin Luo Pearl, and vowed revenge.
• Chen Changqing told Liu Ruyan he had deliberately swindled Yue Xuan to weaken the Yin Yue Holy Dynasty, then waited through the rest of the auction.
• Qian Tong unveiled an unopenable bronze treasure box from an ancient ruin in the Western Wasteland and claimed it might be connected to immortality.
• Chen Changqing sensed the Legacy Token and Heaven Treading Ring reacting intensely to the box and told Liu Ruyan he would obtain it.
• Bidding for the treasure box surged past eight million top-grade spirit stones as Yue Xuan and several private rooms competed, while Chen Changqing held back.

Chen Changqing faced off against the Great Chu Dynasty over a bronze treasure box at the auction, driving the bid to fifty million top-grade spirit stones. The Heavenly Character Number Two Private Room fell silent, leaving Chen Changqing poised to win the item and humiliate Chu Xiong.

• Chen Changqing let the bidding reach ten million before suddenly raising it to twenty million top-grade spirit stones.
• The Heavenly Character Number Two Private Room identified Chen Changqing as Shushan's foremost Holy Son and bid twenty-five million for the bronze treasure box.
• Liu Ruyan recognized the rival bidders as members of the Great Chu Dynasty, whose Crown Prince Chen Changqing had killed during the Hundred Dynasties War.
• Chen Changqing raised the bid to thirty million and then forty million as the Great Chu Dynasty's Chu Xiong tried to keep pace.
• After Chu Xiong bid forty-five million, Chen Changqing raised the price to fifty million, and the Heavenly Character Number Two Private Room made no further bid.

Chen Changqing bought a sealed bronze treasure box for fifty million spirit stones, and his Legacy Token opened it to reveal another matching token. After leaving the auction house with four of the Heaven-Treading Immortal Emperor’s Legacy Tokens, he sensed hostile figures watching him in the streets.

• Chen Changqing paid fifty million spirit stones for the bronze treasure box, and Steward Zhou delivered it to his private room.
• Liu Ruyan tested the box with her imperial dragon qi but could not affect it, while Chen Changqing shattered the ice encasing it.
• Chen Changqing’s Legacy Token flew out and resonated with the box, causing it to open by itself.
• Chen Changqing found an identical Legacy Token inside and added it to the three he already possessed.
• Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan left the auction house, where Chen Changqing sensed at least a dozen hostile auras watching him.

Chen Changqing sent Liu Ruyan back to Shushan so he could face the cultivators hunting him without being held back. He stayed in a restaurant under heavy surveillance, while Yue Xuan’s forces ordered their watchers to wait him out.

• Chen Changqing told Liu Ruyan to return to Shushan and alert their Master if he had not come back within seven days.
• Liu Ruyan left through the city’s Teleportation Array, and the hidden cultivators concentrated their attention on Chen Changqing.
• Chen Changqing entered a restaurant, ordered food and wine, and leisurely listened to the storyteller while his pursuers watched.
• Yue Xuan learned Chen Changqing had stayed in the restaurant for nearly three hours and angrily accused him of playing them.
• A Tribulation Transcendence elder urged Yue Xuan to wait, and Yue Xuan ordered his cultivators to watch Chen Changqing for twelve hours.

As Yue Xuan and Chu Xiong’s forces waited for Chen Changqing to leave Nine Provinces Auction City, he spent three days calmly exploring, fishing, and enjoying himself before finally heading out through the south gate. He walked into a rocky valley with his pursuers trailing behind, and the prepared killing trap was poised to unfold.

• Yue Xuan and Chu Xiong ordered their followers to watch Chen Changqing and attack only if he left the city.
• Chen Changqing spent the first day browsing shops and fishing, frustrating the cultivators assigned to follow him.
• On the second day, Chen Changqing watched a beast fight, won a bet, and bought Wangcai a Demon King leg bone.
• Chen Changqing stayed in his inn room on the third day, shielding himself from watchers’ divine senses with Sword Intent.
• At dusk, Chen Changqing walked through the south gate as his pursuers followed him beyond the city.
• Chen Changqing entered a jagged-rock valley, and the people following him prepared for the next move.

Chen Changqing was cornered in Dragon-Severing Valley by Yue Xuan, Chu Xiong, and a host of cultivators seeking his treasures. After killing a peak Spirit Transformation demon cultivator with one sword, he faced a full assault as two True Lords prepared to strike if he showed an opening.

• Yue Xuan, Chu Xiong, and several groups of cultivators surrounded Chen Changqing in Dragon-Severing Valley and demanded his storage ring and bronze treasure box.
• Chen Changqing mocked his attackers, calling the valley a fine burial ground and warning that they would all travel to the Yellow Springs together.
• A peak Spirit Transformation demon cultivator attacked Chen Changqing, who killed him instantly with the Heaven-Slaying Sword Drawing Technique.
• Chu Xiong and Yue Xuan ordered everyone to attack Chen Changqing and offered a reward for his head.
• Dozens of cultivators charged Chen Changqing while the Black-robed elder and the Great Chu worship elder watched from the void, ready to strike.

Chen Changqing slaughtered the ambush in Dragon-Severing Valley with four powerful avatars, then defeated two True Lords who intervened. He killed the Great Chu Dynasty's chief Attendant and left Chu Xiong and Yue Xuan trapped in the valley.

• Chen Changqing summoned four late Tribulation Crossing avatars and led them in wiping out the encircling cultivators.
• Chu Xiong and Yue Xuan watched in horror as Chen Changqing and his avatars slaughtered their forces and gathered the spoils.
• The Great Chu Dynasty's attendant elder and the Yin Yue Holy Dynasty's Black-robed elder attacked Chen Changqing together, but Chen Changqing blocked the attendant elder's ruler and wounded him with the Haotian Hammer.
• The Black-robed elder fled after Chen Changqing severed his arm, while Chen Changqing pinned the Great Chu attendant elder and confronted Chu Xiong and Yue Xuan.
• Chen Changqing crushed the attendant elder's chest, beheaded him, and destroyed his primordial spirit with lightning.

Chen Changqing killed the fleeing Yin Yue Holy Dynasty True Lord with one sword, then collected the spoils from the fallen elders. With Chu Xiong and Yue Xuan trapped by his four incarnations, Chu Xiong tried to negotiate a way out and threatened retaliation from Great Chu’s emperor.

• Chen Changqing used the Immortal Slaying Sword Technique’s second form to erase the black-robed elder’s body, Primordial Spirit, and karmic imprint.
• Chen Changqing received AFK Points for killing a True Monarch Realm cultivator and looted the Great Chu elder’s storage ring and Heaven-Burning Ruler.
• Chu Xiong and Yue Xuan watched in terror as Chen Changqing’s four incarnations trapped them above Dragon-Severing Valley.
• Chu Xiong accepted that he could not defeat Chen Changqing and threatened that Great Chu’s emperor would demand repayment for the consecrated elder’s death.
• Chu Xiong urged Chen Changqing to let him leave, offering to put in a good word with his Imperial Father.

Chen Changqing trapped Chu Xiong and Yue Xuan in Dragon-Severing Valley after their escape talismans failed. With the Four Symbols Heaven-Sealing Formation sealing the space, he approached the terrified princes.

• Yue Xuan and Chu Xiong threatened Chen Changqing and crushed their escape talismans.
• The talismans failed to transport them, and their other escape artifacts also lost their power.
• Chen Changqing revealed that his four avatars and main body had formed the Four Symbols Heaven-Sealing Formation around Dragon-Severing Valley.
• Chen Changqing walked toward Chu Xiong and Yue Xuan, and Yue Xuan cried out for him not to come closer.