Chapter Summaries

Jiang Chen survived the combined attacks of Wan Tian and two Martial Saint Realm experts, then borrowed the Sky Swallowing Demonic Dragon’s strength to fight back. After Jiang Chen struggled to control that power and suffered a wound, he handed over control of his body, leaving Wan Tian frightened by the dragon’s overwhelming aura.

• Jiang Chen used Dragon Armor strengthened by Sky Annihilation Strike to withstand the three experts’ attacks without injury.
• Jiang Chen borrowed the Sky Swallowing Demonic Dragon’s strength and temporarily gained Martial Saint Realm, First Level combat power.
• Jiang Chen injured a Martial Saint Realm, Fifth Level expert and killed a Martial Saint Realm, Fourth Level expert, but Wan Tian wounded his Dragon Claw in their exchange.
• The Sky Swallowing Demonic Dragon urged Jiang Chen to surrender control, warning that maintaining the borrowed power consumed his reserves.
• Jiang Chen handed over control of his body, and Wan Tian recoiled from the Sky Swallowing Demonic Dragon’s changed aura.

The Sky Swallowing Demonic Dragon took control of Jiang Chen's body and overwhelmed Wan Tian and the Wanhe Chamber of Commerce experts. After the Dragon Lord killed them all, he returned control to Jiang Chen and asked him to prioritize their blood essence to restore his strength.

• The Sky Swallowing Demonic Dragon used Jiang Chen's Annihilation Palm to severely injure Wan Tian, who called on a Martial Saint Realm, Fifth Level expert to join forces against him.
• The Sky Swallowing Demonic Dragon summoned four Dragon Guards at the Martial Saint Realm, Fourth Level to fight the Fifth Level expert while he faced Wan Tian himself.
• The Dragon Lord cut off Wan Tian's arm, pursued him as he tried to flee, and killed him with the Demonic Soul Blade.
• The four Dragon Guards wounded the Fifth Level expert, and the Sky Swallowing Demonic Dragon finished him off, leaving all the Wanhe Chamber of Commerce experts who entered the restricted area dead.
• The Sky Swallowing Demonic Dragon returned control to Jiang Chen and asked him to prioritize the blood essence of the three fallen enemies so he could replenish his strength; Jiang Chen agreed.

Jiang Chen returned to the City of Sin after killing Wan Tian and the other Wanhe Chamber of Commerce experts, while the Sky Swallowing Demonic Dragon absorbed their remaining power. The Wanhe Chamber of Commerce concealed its losses, then confronted Jiang Chen after learning he had returned alive, and a large group of experts arrived outside Jiang Manor.

• The Sky Swallowing Demonic Dragon said it needed to replenish its power after helping Jiang Chen reach the Martial Saint Realm, First Level, and absorbed the remaining spiritual energy from Wan Tian and the others.
• Jiang Chen collected more than three billion spirit stones and weapons from Wan Tian, stored the corpses, and returned alone to the City of Sin.
• The Wanhe Chamber of Commerce learned that Wan Tian and three other Martial Saint Realm experts had died, kept the news secret, and scaled back its operations while preparing for trouble.
• After Jiang Chen returned to Jiang Manor, he denied meeting Wan Tian or obtaining the Yang Sheng Flower and concealed his cultivation by displaying the Martial Venerable Realm, Eighth Level.
• A large group of experts arrived outside Jiang Manor and demanded that Jiang Chen come out, prompting the guards to send for him.

Chen Luofeng led the Wanhe Chamber of Commerce into Jiang Manor, injuring a guard and accusing Jiang Chen of killing Wan Tian and the others. Jiang Chen denied the charge before the gathered onlookers, while the two sides faced off.

• Chen Luofeng led Wanhe Chamber of Commerce experts to Jiang Manor and ordered the guards aside.
• Chen Luofeng injured the guard captain with a casual strike and broke the manor gate.
• Jiang Chen heard about the intruders, came out to confront them, and ordered his subordinates to treat the captain.
• Chen Luofeng accused Jiang Chen of killing Chairman Wan and the others, while Jiang Chen denied responsibility and said he had not seen them after the spiders surrounded the group.
• Onlookers learned that Wan Tian and the others had fallen and watched the confrontation between Jiang Chen and the Wanhe Chamber of Commerce.

Jiang Chen refused to accept blame for Wan Tian’s death, and the Wanhe Chamber of Commerce attacked him to seize his wealth. He unleashed an eighth-rank spirit talisman that devastated their forces, leaving Chen Luofeng furious and the battle unresolved.

• Chen Luofeng accused Jiang Chen of responsibility for Wan Tian’s death and attacked him.
• Jiang Chen entered a demonic state and used the Demonic Soul Blade to break Chen Luofeng’s attack.
• Chen Luofeng called on the Wanhe Chamber of Commerce’s Martial Saint Realm experts to surround Jiang Chen.
• Jiang Chen activated an eighth-rank spirit talisman, whose fireball killed three Martial Saint Realm experts and injured many others.
• Chen Luofeng, enraged by the casualties, vowed to kill Jiang Chen.

Jiang Chen used a second spirit talisman to kill the Wanhe Chamber of Commerce’s remaining Martial Saint Realm experts, leaving Chen Luofeng as his only opponent. After they fought to a standstill, Jiang Chen borrowed the Sky Swallowing Demonic Dragon’s power and reached the Martial Venerable Realm, Tenth Level.

• Jiang Chen activated a second spirit talisman, and its giant hammer killed every surviving Wanhe Chamber of Commerce expert except Chen Luofeng.
• Chen Luofeng charged Jiang Chen, and the two fought for more than twenty moves without either gaining the upper hand.
• Jiang Chen asked the Sky Swallowing Demonic Dragon to lend him strength, promising the fallen experts’ power as compensation.
• The Sky Swallowing Demonic Dragon lent Jiang Chen its power, raising him to the Martial Venerable Realm, Tenth Level, and alarming Chen Luofeng.

Jiang Chen defeated and killed Chen Luofeng after the latter used a Blood Boiling Pill, ending the Wanhe Chamber of Commerce’s power in the City of Sin. Jiang Chen took its wealth and businesses, though the Sky Swallowing Demonic Dragon absorbed the battle’s spiritual energy and his cultivation fell back to the Ninth Level of the Martial Venerable Realm.

• Chen Luofeng swallowed a seventh-grade Blood Boiling Pill, raising his aura to the Sixth Level of the Martial Saint Realm, and he and Jiang Chen resumed their fight.
• Jiang Chen exploited a flaw in Chen Luofeng’s defense with the Dragon King Fist, severely injuring him as the Blood Boiling state began to fade.
• Chen Luofeng collapsed, admitted defeat, and Jiang Chen severed his head with the Demonic Soul Blade.
• The remaining Wanhe Chamber of Commerce Martial Venerable Realm experts fled, while Jiang Chen let them go and drew the corpses’ blood-qi power into the Sky Swallowing Demonic Dragon.
• Jiang Chen went to the Wanhe Chamber of Commerce’s territory, took its wealth, and placed some of its industries under his own name.

Jiang Chen consolidated his control over the Wanhe Chamber of Commerce and became a major force in the City of Sin. After envoy Fang Qi challenged him for not visiting the City Lord, Jiang Chen agreed to meet the City Lord the next day.

• Jiang Chen spared the Wanhe Chamber of Commerce's two Martial Saint experts and put them in charge of its properties and personnel.
• Jiang Chen let Wanhe's other workers stay under his leadership or leave, while many forces visited to congratulate him and offer gifts.
• The Martial Saint experts who had searched for the Yang Sheng Flower kept silent about their suspicions, fearing Jiang Chen's strength.
• Fang Qi, an envoy from the City Lord's Mansion, visited Jiang Chen and said the City Lord expected him to pay his respects.
• Jiang Chen agreed to go to the City Lord's Mansion the next day and meet the City Lord.

Jiang Chen gave Fang Qi the Azure Water Sword in exchange for help dealing with the City Lord's Mansion, then went to meet the City Lord. Steward Zhu Dingshan welcomed him and led him inside, where Jiang Chen was about to meet the powerful City Lord.

• Fang Qi hinted that Jiang Chen should offer him a gift, so Jiang Chen gave him the Seventh-grade High-rank Spirit Weapon Azure Water Sword.
• Fang Qi accepted the sword, promised to put in a good word for Jiang Chen, and told him to show the City Lord respect when they met.
• The next day, Jiang Chen went to the City Lord's Mansion, where guards recognized him as the man who had destroyed the Wanhe Chamber of Commerce.
• Steward Zhu Dingshan greeted Jiang Chen courteously and said the City Lord was waiting for him inside.
• Jiang Chen followed Steward Zhu into the mansion, wondering about the City Lord's power and anticipating their meeting.

Jiang Chen met the City of Sin’s city lord, a powerful Martial Saint who concealed his cultivation, and shared tea with him. The city lord was impressed by Jiang Chen’s rare Jade Spring Tea, and their meeting continued on friendly terms.

• Steward Zhu led Jiang Chen to the city lord’s garden and left him to meet the city lord alone.
• Jiang Chen recognized that the seemingly ordinary city lord was a Martial Saint Realm, Tenth Level expert and greeted him without fear.
• The city lord invited Jiang Chen to drink tea, and Jiang Chen bluntly said the city lord’s spirit tea was not the finest he had tasted.
• Jiang Chen brought out his seventh-grade Jade Spring Tea and brewed it for the city lord.
• The city lord tasted the Jade Spring Tea, praised it, and said inviting Jiang Chen had been the right decision.

Jiang Chen met with City Lord Xu Li, who explained that the City of Sin was nearly impossible to escape and questioned him about his recent killings. After confirming Jiang Chen was only twenty-three, Xu Li introduced him to his daughter, Xu Wenjing.

• Jiang Chen gave Xu Li a box of Jade Spring Tea, and Xu Li explained that the City of Sin was a place of exile surrounded by a perilous forbidden zone.
• Xu Li asked Jiang Chen about killing Wan Tian and the Wanhe Chamber of Commerce leaders, and Jiang Chen admitted it while keeping his methods secret.
• Xu Li tested Jiang Chen’s age twice with an Age Testing Stone, which showed he was twenty-three; Xu Li’s own age was four hundred and thirty-four.
• Xu Li praised Jiang Chen’s talent and summoned his daughter, Xu Wenjing, who greeted Jiang Chen bashfully.

Xu Li offered Jiang Chen his daughter Xu Wenjing and the City Lord position, but revealed that the office required guarding an evil creature sealed beneath the City of Sin. Jiang Chen refused because he valued his freedom, leaving Xu Li still trying to persuade him with the promise of rapid cultivation.

• Xu Li proposed betrothing Xu Wenjing to Jiang Chen if he became the next City Lord, and Jiang Chen declined the offer.
• Xu Li explained that the City Lord had to remain within a hundred miles of the City of Sin and guard the seal beneath it, while serving there shortened his lifespan.
• Xu Li told Jiang Chen he hoped to hand over the office so he could leave the city and seek advancement to the Martial Sovereign Realm.
• Jiang Chen said he would not trade his freedom for marriage or a title, even if it meant refusing Xu Li's offer to raise his cultivation to the Martial Saint Realm, Tenth Level.

Jiang Chen refused Xu Li’s offer to become City Lord, but agreed to inspect the weakening seal that imprisoned a powerful demon-related creature. After seeing the guarded underground formation, Jiang Chen learned that the creature could break free within decades, leaving Xu Li’s succession plan unresolved.

• Jiang Chen refused to trade his freedom for cultivation and rejected Xu Li’s offer to make him City Lord.
• Xu Li asked Jiang Chen to examine the seal, and Jiang Chen agreed to see whether he could repair it.
• Xu Li sent Xu Wenjing away with Steward Zhu and led Jiang Chen through the heavily guarded City Lord’s Mansion to the underground chamber.
• Xu Li introduced Jiang Chen to the guards as his favored City Lord successor, though Jiang Chen had never accepted the position.
• The guards reported that the formation was weakening under increasingly frequent attacks and might hold for only a few more decades.
• Xu Li explained that the sealed demon-related creature had once reached the peak of the Martial Sovereign Realm, and he had no confidence he could defeat it.

Jiang Chen examined the weakening seal holding an ancient evil devil and offered to repair it, but the rare materials needed were beyond City of Sin’s means. When the evil being attacked the seal, Jiang Chen sensed that it had reached the Half-Emperor Realm.

• Xu Li explained that an ancient evil devil was sealed beneath the formation and that its attacks were growing more dangerous.
• Jiang Chen judged the ninth-order sealing formation too weakened to last much longer and said repairs could extend its life by at most about a hundred years.
• Jiang Chen revealed that he was an eighth-order Formation Master and offered to repair the seal if Xu Li could gather the required materials.
• Xu Li found that City of Sin could not obtain many of the rare materials on Jiang Chen’s list and gave up on the repair plan.
• The ground shook as the evil being attacked the seal, and Jiang Chen sensed its Half-Emperor Realm cultivation.

Jiang Chen determined that the sealed devil was at the Half-Emperor Realm and warned Xu Li that the seal might fail within a few years. He proposed entering the seal alone to kill the creature, leaving Xu Li to decide whether to allow the risky plan.

• Jiang Chen identified the creature's Demonic Energy and explained that it was a Half-Emperor whose attacks were weakening the seal.
• Jiang Chen warned Xu Li that the devil could escape within a few years and suggested evacuating the City of Sin or destroying it before it broke free.
• Xu Li asked Jiang Chen for a solution, but objected when Jiang Chen suggested fighting the creature.
• Jiang Chen revealed that the Sky Swallowing Demonic Dragon had urged him to enter and would help him fight the devil.
• Jiang Chen proposed using a one-way teleportation array to enter the seal and asked Xu Li to prepare for battle while he faced the creature.
• Jiang Chen told Xu Li he could walk away from the City of Sin if Xu Li refused to let him try, and Xu Li remained silent.

Jiang Chen agreed to confront the sealed evil creature, claiming an eighty-percent chance of victory, while Xu Li considered whether to trust his plan. As Jiang Chen stayed at the City Lord's Mansion, Xu Wenjing visited to apologize for her father's attempt to betroth her to him.

• Jiang Chen told Xu Li he had an eighty-percent chance of defeating the evil creature and offered to enter the seal himself.
• Xu Li brought Jiang Chen back to the surface, asked him to keep the secret, and had him stay at the City Lord's Mansion while its experts discussed his plan.
• Jiang Chen asked to meet people from his Jiang Manor so they would know why he was staying, and Xu Li agreed to arrange it.
• Xu Wenjing visited Jiang Chen, enjoyed his spirit tea, and apologized for her father's earlier attempt to betroth her to him.

Jiang Chen entered the seal to confront the evil creature after Xu Li and the City Lord’s Mansion prepared to support his attempt to deal with it. He discovered the creature was a talking eyeball, which mistook him for another prisoner.

• Jiang Chen told Xu Wenjing she was free to pursue her own happiness and dismissed the idea of their marriage.
• Xu Li said the City Lord’s Mansion had agreed to let Jiang Chen try his method against the evil creature, and Jiang Chen asked for two days to prepare.
• Jiang Chen set up teleportation formations, including a backup return route, while the City Lord’s Mansion assembled its experts outside the seal.
• Jiang Chen teleported into the sealed space, where he and the evil creature sensed each other and prepared to fight.
• Jiang Chen saw that the evil creature was a human-head-sized eyeball, and he told it he had come to subdue it.

Jiang Chen and the Sky Swallowing Demonic Dragon defeated the sealed Evil Demon Eye and destroyed its soul. Jiang Chen kept the body to refine into a weapon, while the Sky Swallowing Demonic Dragon devoured its soul and spiritual energy.

• The Evil Demon Eye revealed that it had once been a Martial God Realm being and attacked Jiang Chen with powerful beams.
• The Sky Swallowing Demonic Dragon emerged from the Sky Devouring Pearl and used its dragon might to suppress the Evil Demon Eye.
• The Sky Swallowing Demonic Dragon invaded the Evil Demon Eye’s sea of consciousness, and Jiang Chen struck its soul with a Soul Spear.
• The Sky Swallowing Demonic Dragon devoured the Evil Demon Eye’s soul, and Jiang Chen drained the spiritual energy from its motionless body.
• Jiang Chen kept the remaining eyeball to refine into a magical treasure, while the Sky Swallowing Demonic Dragon agreed to share the devoured spiritual energy with him.

Jiang Chen returned after destroying the Evil Demon Eye and explained that it had once belonged to the powerful Baleful Intent. Xu Li let him keep the ominous eye and personally escorted him from City Lord's Mansion, leaving other powers to recognize Jiang Chen's standing and warn their people not to provoke Jiang Manor.

• Jiang Chen returned to the teleportation array and told Xu Li and the City Lord's Mansion experts that he had destroyed the evil creature.
• Jiang Chen showed everyone the giant Evil Demon Eye and explained its connection to the Baleful Intent and its former Martial God Realm owner.
• Jiang Chen said he would keep the ominous eye, and Xu Li agreed that he should handle it.
• Xu Li personally escorted Jiang Chen out of City Lord's Mansion, astonishing witnesses who had heard rumors that Jiang Chen had been killed there.
• Spies reported Jiang Chen's reception to their powers, whose leaders ordered their subordinates not to provoke Jiang Manor without consulting them.

After two months of cultivation and preparation, Jiang Chen and the City of Sin learned that demon beasts were attacking, threatening the city with massive casualties. Jiang Chen led Jiang Manor’s forces to reinforce the southern gate, hoping the battle would help him break through to the Martial Saint Realm.

• Xu Li stopped pressing Jiang Chen to marry Xu Wenjing and rewarded him with resources, promising the City Lord's Mansion would protect him if others caused trouble.
• Jiang Chen spent two months cultivating and studying formations and spirit talismans as he prepared to leave the City of Sin.
• When demon beasts attacked, Xu Li ordered the City Lord's Mansion to reinforce the gates and called on cultivators to help defend the city.
• Jiang Chen assembled Jiang Manor’s experts and ordered them to bring his Spirit Cannons and use their joint attack techniques at the southern city gate.
• Jiang Chen led his forces toward the southern gate, saw the wounded returning from battle, and hoped to use the fighting to reach the Martial Saint Realm.