Chapter Summaries

Chen Changqing defeated Chen Yuan by erasing his Severing Mortal Ties strike with the Sword Realm, and Chen Yuan conceded defeat. After recognizing the power of Chen Yuan’s sword, Chen Changqing told him to join him at the sect Grand Tournament.

• Chen Yuan’s Severing Mortal Ties strike shattered when Chen Changqing’s Sword Realm vanished, leaving Chen Yuan drained and his Sword Heart cracked.
• Chen Yuan admitted defeat, prompting Lu Tian to celebrate and Chen Yuan to take pride in his disciple’s victory.
• Chen Yuan told Daoist Wuxing that Chen Yuan’s disciple lacked polish compared with Chen Changqing, and Wuxing admitted he had misjudged Chen Changqing.
• Chen Changqing praised Chen Yuan’s sword and said that without the Sword Realm, even the strongest successors of the Nine Provinces’ holy lands would die facing it.
• Chen Changqing told Chen Yuan to accompany him to the sect Grand Tournament, and Chen Yuan questioned the invitation because he had already lost.

Chen Changqing secured Chen Yuan’s and Lu Tian’s places alongside his own as Shushan’s representatives in the Grand Tournament. After Shushan began preparations, Chen Changqing returned to Changqing Peak and was drawn back toward his companions instead of going into seclusion.

• Chen Changqing praised Chen Yuan’s strength and confirmed he could attend the Grand Tournament, and Chen Yuan thanked him.
• Chen Changqing nominated Lu Tian for the third slot, and Lu Tian eagerly accepted.
• Chen Yuan and the elders approved the lineup of Chen Changqing, Chen Yuan, and Lu Tian, then ordered Shushan to support their preparations.
• Chen Yuan praised Chen Changqing for touching the Sword Realm and said the tournament rules would arrive in three days.
• Chen Changqing went to Changqing Peak, where Liu Ruyan told him Hua Yao had made spiritual cuisine and Xiao Yu wanted to help organize tournament intelligence; he gave up on seclusion and returned to them.

Factions across the Nine Provinces prepared for the sect Grand Tournament and focused on Shushan's formidable participants, especially Chen Changqing. After Xuanyuan Xiaoyu showed Chen Changqing intelligence files on dangerous rivals, he remained confident and went to make preparations.

• Daoist Sect's master reviewed Shushan's participant list, and a disciple worried that Chen Changqing was too powerful while another boasted that his hammer would prevail.
• At Great Thunderclap Temple, Fayan accepted the prospect of facing Chen Changqing's sword with his Immovable Wisdom King Method.
• Heavenly Secrets Tower's young participant expressed interest in meeting Chen Changqing, while the tower master reminded him that he was entering a tournament, not a chess match.
• A prince of the Jiuzhou Divine Dynasty claimed a tournament spot and vowed to punish the man who had taken his sister, Xiao Yu, back to Shushan.
• Other factions prepared counters and sent hidden successors toward the tournament as Chen Changqing examined Xuanyuan Xiaoyu's files on ancient prodigies and suspected immortal reincarnations.
• Chen Changqing declared that he would challenge all the rivals at once, then left to make preparations despite Xuanyuan Xiaoyu's concern.

Chen Changqing and the Shushan disciples traveled aboard the Shushan Warship to the Land of the Heavenly Void for the Grand Tournament. After arriving in the shattered world, Chen Changqing was mocked by the Jiuzhou Divine Dynasty's First Prince, Xuanyuan Hong.

• Chen Yuan explained that the Grand Tournament would take place in the dangerous Land of the Heavenly Void, an ancient ruin formed from the fallen Immortal Plucker's pocket world.
• The Shushan Warship arrived, and Chen Changqing set out with Lu Tian, Chen Yuan, Xuanyuan Xiaoyu, Hua Yao, and Liu Ruyan.
• Chen Yuan showed Chen Changqing the warships of other sacred lands as they converged on the Land of the Heavenly Void.
• The Shushan Warship entered a spatial rift and arrived in a shattered world filled with floating land fragments and ancient ruins.
• Powerful divine senses scrutinized the Shushan Warship, and Jiuzhou Divine Dynasty's First Prince, Xuanyuan Hong, mocked Chen Changqing.

Chen Changqing faced Xuanyuan Hong, who tested him and revealed that Chen was engaged to Xuanyuan Xiaoyu, the Jiuzhou Divine Dynasty's Third Princess. As more factions arrived at the Land of the Heavenly Void, Shushan and Chen drew wary attention because of their alliance with the Divine Dynasty.

• Xuanyuan Xiaoyu angrily confronted Xuanyuan Hong after he challenged Chen Changqing, and Xuanyuan Hong revealed that Chen was his future brother-in-law.
• Chen Changqing accepted Xuanyuan Hong's invitation to spar at the Grand Tournament, and Xuanyuan Hong promised to test him there.
• Lu Tian learned that Chen Changqing was the Divine Dynasty's imperial son-in-law and complained that Chen had not mentioned it sooner.
• Warships from the Ten Great Sacred Lands and other factions arrived at the Land of the Heavenly Void, making the gathered forces increasingly tense.
• Leaders warned their disciples not to provoke Shushan or Chen Changqing, while Lu Tian proudly listened to their caution.

As the Ten Great Sacred Lands gathered to open the Heavenly Void Gate, Chen Changqing prepared for the Grand Tournament. After an awakened Primordial Gate Sect ancestor disparaged him, Chen Changqing answered with a mocking remark that reached the ancient relic directly.

• Chen Changqing asked Chen Yuan how long the group would wait, and Chen Yuan explained that the Heavenly Secrets Tower’s arrival would let the Ten Great Sacred Lands open the Land of the Heavenly Void’s core region.
• The Nine Provinces Auction House arrived on the second day aboard its lavish treasure ship.
• On the third day, the Heavenly Secrets Tower’s Stargazing Ark appeared, and representatives of the Ten Great Sacred Lands joined forces to open the Heavenly Void Gate.
• An ancient prodigy from the Primordial Gate Sect used divine sense to scorn Chen Changqing, and Chen Yuan, Bai Wuya, and the others identified the source.
• Chen Changqing stopped Lu Tian from responding and mocked the old relic to Wangcai, whose bark accompanied the insult as the stone vessel’s occupants froze.

Chen Changqing silently subdued an ancient prodigy with a trace of his Sword Realm aura, preventing a clash between the Shushan Sect and another force. At the Heavenly Void Gate, Kongwu the True Person opened the sect Grand Tournament by declaring its first trial a three-day free-for-all in which only the first hundred survivors could advance.

• Chen Changqing erased the ancient prodigy's threatening pressure with his Sword Realm aura, leaving the prodigy shocked and afraid.
• Lu Tian complained that the ancient prodigy had backed down, while Bai Wuya and Chen Yuan praised Chen Changqing's restraint.
• The ten top experts opened the Heavenly Void Gate, and Kongwu the True Person appeared above it.
• Chen Yuan identified Kongwu as the Great Thunderclap Temple's Guardian Vajra and recounted his rise to become a fourfold Tribulation Immortal.
• Kongwu announced that the first trial was a ruleless free-for-all lasting three days, with only the first hundred survivors advancing.

Chen Changqing and the other cultivators entered the Land of the Heavenly Void after True Person Kongwu announced that only a hundred people would survive the brutal tournament. Chen Changqing was separated from Lu Tian and Chen Yuan on arrival, and the system reported that AFK Cultivation efficiency had increased by 10% as he sensed something in the void nearby.

• True Person Kongwu announced that only a hundred of the thousands of entrants would survive, prompting outrage while the strongest prodigies welcomed the deadly rules.
• Chen Yuan explained to Lu Tian that the tournament tested survival, and Chen Changqing told them to stay alive and kill their enemies if they became separated.
• True Person Kongwu opened the Heavenly Void Gate, and Lu Tian, Chen Yuan, and Chen Changqing charged inside after Chen Changqing told Xuanyuan Xiaoyu, Hua Yao, and Liu Ruyan to wait aboard the ship.
• A member of the Great Chu Dynasty threatened Chen Changqing, who wounded the speaker's soul with a strand of Sword Qi before entering the gate.
• Chaotic laws scattered Chen Changqing away from Lu Tian and Chen Yuan, and he arrived on a lifeless floating landmass in the Land of the Heavenly Void.
• The system warned Chen Changqing about spatial rifts and dangers while reporting a 10% increase in AFK Cultivation efficiency, and he sensed movement to his left.

Chen Changqing was confronted in the Land of the Heavenly Void by Feng Tian, a young master of the Heavenly Secrets Tower, who sought his head for a bounty issued by the Great Chu Dynasty and Yin Yue Holy Dynasty. Feng Tian explained his preparations to trap and kill Chen Changqing, but Chen Changqing mocked his outdated intelligence and showed no fear.

• Chen Changqing encountered Feng Tian and his twelve Tribulation Crossing subordinates, who sealed off his escape routes.
• Feng Tian identified himself as the young master of the Thirty-Seventh Floor of the Heavenly Secrets Tower, but Chen Changqing dismissed the faction and insulted the group.
• Feng Tian revealed the bounty on Chen Changqing’s head and offered him a dignified death, but Chen Changqing asked whether killing them would keep the bounty secret.
• Feng Tian described his Nine Palaces Locking Heaven Formation, the group’s combined attack technique, and his calculations of Chen Changqing’s abilities.
• Chen Changqing laughed at Feng Tian’s plan and accused him of relying on a pile of outdated intelligence.

Chen Changqing defeated Feng Tian and the twelve Heavenly Secrets Tower disciples who tried to trap him, revealing a fourth avatar that Feng Tian’s divination had missed. After killing Feng Tian, Chen Changqing sensed another powerful pursuer approaching and prepared to face more enemies.

• Feng Tian ordered the twelve Heavenly Secrets Tower disciples to trap Chen Changqing in the Nine Palaces Locking Heaven Formation.
• Chen Changqing summoned four avatars, broke the formation with one punch, and overwhelmed Feng Tian’s divination.
• Chen Changqing’s avatars killed Feng Tian’s twelve fellow disciples while Chen Changqing stopped Feng Tian from teleporting away.
• Chen Changqing questioned Feng Tian about who else was hunting him, but Feng Tian shouted a warning to his approaching Tenth Brother.
• Chen Changqing killed Feng Tian and sensed another powerful enemy approaching.

Feng Yu arrived to avenge Feng Tian and sent the Heavenly Secrets Tower’s deathsworn against Chen Changqing, while hidden bounty hunters watched for a chance to strike. After Chen Changqing’s incarnations overwhelmed the deathsworn, Feng Yu attacked him personally, and Chen Changqing met his Thousand-Handed Buddha assault with a punch.

• Feng Yu arrived in a Flying Boat, found Feng Tian’s corpse, and vowed to kill Chen Changqing.
• Feng Yu ordered more than twenty Tribulation Crossing deathsworn to surround Chen Changqing with the Heavenly Net formation.
• Hidden cultivators from various factions watched the battle, intending to claim the bounty on Chen Changqing’s head.
• Chen Changqing’s four incarnations broke through the Heavenly Net and killed or wounded more than half of Feng Yu’s deathsworn.
• Feng Yu summoned the Thousand-Handed Buddha and launched a storm of attacks at Chen Changqing.
• Chen Changqing stepped toward Feng Yu’s attack and threw a single punch.

Chen Changqing defeated Feng Yu’s strongest techniques and destroyed his Heavenly Secrets Wheel, then exposed the cultivators hiding nearby. Dozens and hundreds of attackers surrounded him, while the wounded Feng Yu tried to escape amid the ensuing assault.

• Chen Changqing shattered Feng Yu’s Thousand-Handed Buddha with a punch, leaving Feng Yu injured and horrified.
• Feng Yu used the Heavenly Secrets Wheel to distort time and space and attack Chen Changqing, but Chen Changqing’s Sword Intent broke the wheel.
• Chen Changqing’s four incarnations killed Feng Yu’s dead soldiers, and he advanced toward the defeated Feng Yu.
• Hidden observers decided to attack Chen Changqing, but he revealed that he had discovered their hiding places and challenged them to come out.
• Chen Changqing’s incarnations dragged cultivators from behind distant meteors, forcing the hidden groups to emerge and surround him.
• Feng Yu tried to flee while the cultivators launched a massive attack, and Chen Changqing welcomed the chance to fight them all at once.

Chen Changqing slaughtered the cultivators who pursued him in the Land of the Heavenly Void, gaining 300,000 AFK Points before resting. Outside, his rapidly rising points alarmed Xuanyuan Xiaoyu and Liu Ruyan, but Hua Yao believed they proved he was safe.

• Chen Changqing and his four incarnations killed dozens of pursuing cultivators while sparing a Rogue Cultivator who surrendered.
• Chen Changqing gained 300,000 AFK Points, increased his cultivation efficiency to 37 times, and rested after the battle.
• Feng Yu escaped the slaughter with a life-saving magical artifact, bleeding as he fled.
• Chen Changqing's points surged on the Heavenly Void Mirror, drawing astonished attention from those watching outside.
• Xuanyuan Xiaoyu and Liu Ruyan worried that Chen Changqing was being targeted, while Hua Yao reassured them that his rising points showed he was defeating his attackers.

Chen Changqing continued killing in the Land of the Heavenly Void while his allies and rivals watched his score rise. More than seventy cultivators united under Feng Yu and agreed to use the Myriad Spirits Unity Formation to empower him as their vessel to face Chen Changqing.

• Hua Yao reassured Xuanyuan Xiaoyu as Chen Changqing’s points climbed, while the Daoist Sect’s young leader chose to wait and the Yin Yue Holy Dynasty’s Gray-robed Elder plotted to attack after Chen Changqing weakened.
• The system alerted Chen Changqing to more than seventy cultivators gathered within three hundred li, and he headed toward them.
• Feng Yu told the gathered cultivators that Chen Changqing had defeated him and slaughtered his forces, making a direct fight impossible.
• Feng Yu revealed the Myriad Spirits Unity Formation, which could pool their power to raise one vessel to Half-step Heavenly Monarch.
• Feng Yu volunteered as the vessel, and the gathered cultivators agreed to contribute their strength so they could try to kill Chen Changqing.

Feng Yu used the power of more than seventy cultivators to reach Half-step Heavenly Monarch and challenged Chen Changqing. Chen Changqing evaded Feng Yu’s attacks as his borrowed strength began to destroy his body, and Feng Yu launched one final golden sphere at him.

• Feng Yu formed an array with more than seventy cultivators and drew their power into himself, raising his cultivation to Half-step Heavenly Monarch.
• Chen Changqing arrived, recognized that Feng Yu had borrowed the cultivators’ power, and faced his challenge.
• Feng Yu struck Chen Changqing with a punch that forced him back, then attacked repeatedly with overwhelming strength.
• Chen Changqing dodged Feng Yu’s punches and pointed out that the borrowed power was rapidly damaging Feng Yu’s meridians and would soon fade.
• Feng Yu compressed his remaining power into a golden sphere and hurled it at Chen Changqing as his final attack.

Chen Changqing used his Sword Realm to shatter Feng Yu’s Half-step Heavenly Monarch attack, leaving Feng Yu gravely injured and warning him to tell the Heavenly Secrets Tower not to scheme against him again. Outside the Land of the Heavenly Void, Chen Changqing’s score settled at 213 in first place, alarming the watching factions and filling Shushan with pride and unease.

• Chen Changqing opened his Sword Realm and stopped Feng Yu’s full-force attack before reducing its energy to motes of light.
• Feng Yu’s borrowed power ran out, his cultivation collapsed, and his meridians shattered; Chen Changqing spared him and warned the Heavenly Secrets Tower against further schemes.
• Chen Changqing left Feng Yu behind as his points rose into first place on the Heavenly Void Mirror.
• The spectators learned that Chen Changqing had scored 213 points and speculated that he had killed more than two hundred Tribulation Crossing cultivators in under an hour.
• Elder Willow Wood took pride in Chen Changqing’s success, while Xuanyuan Xiaoyu, Liu Ruyan, Hua Yao, and Chen Yuan watched the reactions aboard Shushan’s warship.

Chen Changqing looted the battlefield after defeating his enemies, spared a Rogue Cultivator, and searched the Land of the Heavenly Void for treasures. He found a landmass rich in lightning-imbued plants and heard a fight ahead as he gathered them.

• Chen Yuan reflected on Chen Changqing's brutal but justified fighting and calmly watched the distant warships.
• Chen Changqing collected storage rings from the battlefield and gave the Rogue Cultivator healing pills and Spirit Stones, warning him to abandon the bounty.
• Chen Changqing sorted his spoils and traveled through the shattered void in search of more treasures for himself and Changqing Peak.
• Chen Changqing found a green landmass around a lightning-wreathed black mountain and began collecting Ink Thunder Fungus and other spiritual plants.
• Chen Changqing heard weapons clashing and violent energy fluctuations ahead while he was harvesting.

Chen Changqing intervened when Blood Sect cultivators cornered Chen Yong over the Nine-Leaf Tribulation Thunder Grass. He crushed Blood Wind’s attack with one punch, leaving the two disciples stunned as the confrontation continued.

• Chen Changqing recognized Chen Yong’s Daoist aura and found him being attacked by Blood Wind and two Blood Sect disciples for the Nine-Leaf Tribulation Thunder Grass.
• Chen Changqing emerged and greeted Chen Yong, who welcomed him as his chance to survive.
• Blood Wind threatened Chen Changqing and attacked both men with the Blood Sea Soul-Refining Banner.
• Chen Changqing told Chen Yong to watch and destroyed the blood sea with one punch.
• The strike crippled Blood Wind and shattered his banner, leaving the other two Blood Sect disciples terrified.

Chen Changqing defeated Blood Wind and two Blood Sect disciples, then climbed the lightning-wreathed mountain and discovered the Nine Heavens Imperial Thunder Diagram. As he reached for it, Red Robe, a True Monarch and Young Mistress of the Heavenly Secrets Tower’s third tower, appeared and asked him to yield the treasure.

• Chen Changqing revealed his identity to Blood Wind and killed him and the two fleeing Blood Sect disciples with his avatars.
• Chen Changqing gave Chen Yong the Nine-Leaf Tribulation Thunder Grass, and Chen Yong pledged that the Daoist Sect would remember his favor.
• Chen Changqing climbed the black mountain and found the Nine Heavens Imperial Thunder Diagram, which the system identified as a suspected natal relic left by an ancient immortal.
• Red Robe shattered Chen Changqing’s hand seal with her crimson spear, introduced herself, and asked him to give her the diagram.

Chen Changqing confronted Red Robe over the Nine Heavens Imperial Thunder Diagram and told her he had killed Feng Tian and Feng Yu. Red Robe offered him nine heavens profound yang divine iron and a favor from the Heavenly Secrets Tower's Third Tower in exchange for the diagram, and Chen Changqing weighed the deal.

• Chen Changqing told Red Robe that he had killed Feng Tian and Feng Yu after they tried to claim the bounty on his head.
• Red Robe recognized Chen Changqing and hesitated to fight him over the Nine Heavens Imperial Thunder Diagram.
• Red Robe accepted that Feng Tian and Feng Yu had brought their deaths upon themselves and asked Chen Changqing to accommodate her need for the diagram.
• Red Robe offered a piece of nine heavens profound yang divine iron and a major favor from the Heavenly Secrets Tower's Third Tower in exchange for the diagram.
• Chen Changqing used his divine sense and system to confirm the divine iron was genuine, then considered the benefits of the trade.