Chapter Summaries

Xiao Xiao headed into the Ancient Heavenly Palace as the surrounding powers sent their younger disciples inside, while Mu Chen learned that Earth Supremes could enter only through the Heavenly Emperor’s Mausoleum. Protected by Mao Wu’s black flame, Xiao Xiao crossed the palace’s violent spatial turbulence and arrived in its ancient, desolate world, where she found signs of the Devouring Demon Clan’s attack and identified tokens needed to enter the Heavenly Palace.

• Xiao Xiao, Xiao Lin, and Xiao Jue discussed Zhu Yan’s ranking and speculated that the Ancient Heavenly Emperor and Immortal Great Emperor had arranged for a successor to obtain One Qi Transforms into Three Purities.
• Mandala explained to Mu Chen that Earth Supremes could not safely enter the Ancient Heavenly Palace except through the Heavenly Emperor’s Mausoleum, and gave him an object to use as a spatial anchor.
• After five days, the leaders of the various powers opened passages and sent Mu Chen, Jiu You, and Lin Jing into the Ancient Heavenly Palace.
• Xiao Xiao wrapped herself in Mao Wu’s black flame and forced her way through the turbulent space, startling the Earth Supremes watching nearby.
• Xiao Xiao arrived alone in the Ancient Heavenly Palace, found corpses and tokens marked with green wolves, and recognized them as disciple identity tokens tied to the Ascending Dragon Gate.

Xiao Xiao arrived at the Ancient Heavenly Palace and watched the Ascending Dragon Gate award Zheng Yingming an Azure Eagle Token and Garuda a Golden Dragon Token. She entered the test, easily destroyed the Gold Eagle Disciple, and faced the stronger Golden Flood Dragon Disciple.

• Xiao Xiao reached the Ascending Dragon Gate and saw most challengers receive Wolf or Eagle Tokens.
• Zheng Yingming emerged with an Azure Eagle Token, while two top-ten experts received Dragon Tokens.
• Garuda, ranked third on the Strongest Expert List, earned the highest-grade Golden Dragon Token.
• Xiao Xiao entered the testing ground, where the gate assigned her a Gold Eagle Disciple challenge.
• Xiao Xiao revealed her face and destroyed the Gold Eagle Disciple with a casual flick of her finger.
• The gate sent out the Golden Flood Dragon Disciple, which attacked Xiao Xiao with the Subdue Demons Divine Fist.

Xiao Xiao defeated the Golden Flood Dragon Disciple with one finger, then overcame the Golden Dragon Disciple using her Thousand Wind Gang and Void Fire Lotus to earn a Gold Dragon Token. Her success stunned the experts gathered outside the Ascending Dragon Gate, including Garuda, who wondered where she came from and considered her worthy of becoming his companion.

• Xiao Xiao crushed the Golden Flood Dragon Disciple's Stone Statue with a single finger and asked the Ascending Dragon Gate to send out its strongest opponent.
• The Golden Dragon Disciple warned Xiao Xiao that failure would end her challenge at the highest rank she had already beaten, and Xiao Xiao accepted anyway.
• Xiao Xiao used Thousand Wind Gang to break through the Golden Dragon Disciple's Black Dragon Demon Spear attack.
• Xiao Xiao's Void Fire Lotus melted the Golden Dragon Disciple's spear and defeated it, earning her a Gold Dragon Token.
• The Ascending Dragon Gate revealed Xiao Xiao outside amid a golden pillar and giant dragon, leaving the gathered experts and Garuda stunned.

Mu Chen became the fourth Golden Dragon Disciple, while Xiao Xiao and Lin Jing entered the Ancient Heavenly Palace and reached Dragon Island. Xiao Xiao found a Dragon Spirit Pearl in the ruins, but someone else arrived just as she was about to claim it.

• Mu Chen received a Golden Dragon token, stunning the gathered experts, and sent Jiu You and Lin Jing into the Ascending Dragon Gate.
• Xiao Xiao ignored Garuda’s advances, struck him with a multicolored attack, and entered the Ancient Heavenly Palace.
• Xiao Xiao explored the Inner Domain and headed for Dragon Island, where she used her Netherworld Poison Flame to pass through Dragon Breath Poison.
• Lin Jing also entered Dragon Island using a White Jade Gourd to protect herself from the poison.
• Guided by a Dragon Phoenix Scale, Xiao Xiao found a Dragon Spirit Pearl atop a Bone Throne, but an unknown person announced that they had found something good.

Lin Jing found a Dragon Spirit Pearl in the Dragon Mansion, but Xiao Xiao appeared and claimed it, leading the two into a confrontation. Lin Jing summoned her strength and contacted Mu Chen for help, leaving him to respond to her call.

• Lin Jing used the Treasure Hunting Bug to find a Dragon Spirit Pearl and tried to seize it.
• Xiao Xiao emerged from the void, stopped Lin Jing, and took hold of the Dragon Spirit Pearl.
• Lin Jing's Ice Spirit Puppet attacked Xiao Xiao, but Mao Wu shattered its icy sword and drove it back.
• Lin Jing removed her jade bracelet, unleashed her Ninth Grade peak Spiritual Power, and crushed a Spirit Array transmission Jade Talisman.
• Lin Jing called Mu Chen for help, and Mu Chen wondered whether Garuda was the troublesome opponent.

Lin Jing and Xiao Xiao fought fiercely in the ruins, revealing their powerful transformations and abilities. Mu Chen and Jiu You arrived, and Xiao Xiao questioned whether Mu Chen was the person Lin Jing had called.

• Lin Jing summoned the Ice Dragon Spear and attacked Xiao Xiao with her eight-attribute Spiritual Power.
• Xiao Xiao evaded Lin Jing's thrust with her Three Thousand Lightning Illusion Body, and the two exchanged attacks involving lightning and a Nine-Headed Thunder Serpent Talisman Spirit.
• Lin Jing activated the Azure Sky Dragon Transformation Art and attacked with her Azure Dragon Spear, but Xiao Xiao transformed with her Nüwa God Race bloodline and stopped the spear with one hand.
• Mu Chen and Jiu You arrived at the ruins as Lin Jing called out to Mu Chen.
• Xiao Xiao asked Mu Chen if he was Mu Chen, and he hurled his Crimson Dragon Battle Spear toward the fighters.

Mu Chen and Jiu You arrived as Lin Jing fought Xiao Xiao, the eldest daughter of Xiao Yan, over a Dragon Pearl. Xiao Xiao refused to give up the treasure and challenged Mu Chen, offering to hand it over if he defeated her.

• Mu Chen intervened with a Spiritual Power battle spear, separating Lin Jing and Xiao Xiao, and joined Lin Jing and Jiu You.
• Xiao Xiao told Mu Chen that her younger sister Xiao Qing'er had spoken of him, and Lin Jing realized Xiao Xiao was Xiao Yan's daughter.
• Xiao Xiao revealed that she held the Dragon Pearl, and Lin Jing urged her to give it up since she knew Mu Chen.
• Xiao Xiao refused to let her sister's connection to Mu Chen decide the matter and challenged him, offering the Dragon Pearl if he won.
• Mu Chen accepted Xiao Xiao's challenge.

Mu Chen accepted Xiao Xiao’s challenge and revealed powerful techniques as they clashed on Dragon Island. Their fight left the Dragon Breath Poison weakened, drawing the attention of treasure hunters, while Mu Chen continued his assault with the Wind God Fan.

• Lin Jing warned Mu Chen that Xiao Xiao’s true cultivation was at Nine Grade Supreme Perfection, and Jiu You promised to help if he was in danger.
• Mu Chen summoned the Great Sun Undying Body, then revealed the Dragon Phoenix Body and struck Xiao Xiao with the Dragon Phoenix Undying Palm.
• Xiao Xiao countered with the Grand Creation Palm, and their collision shattered the surrounding ground and blasted apart much of the Dragon Breath Poison.
• Experts watching from afar noticed the weakened poison and hurried onto Dragon Island to hunt for treasure.
• Mu Chen activated his Dragon Phoenix Body, drew the Wind God Fan, and swung it at Xiao Xiao.

Mu Chen fought Xiao Xiao but was outmatched by her overwhelming physical strength and attacks. He answered with the Eight Yang Heavenly Wheel, but Xiao Xiao unleashed her Emperor Flame Divine Lotus, leaving Jiu You ready to intervene as Lin Jing held her back.

• Xiao Xiao defeated Mu Chen in a clash of physical strength and knocked him into a crater with her Yellow Spring Finger.
• Mu Chen acknowledged Xiao Xiao's strength and asked her to continue guiding him, then renewed his resolve to fight.
• Mu Chen used the Eight Yang Heavenly Wheel, a technique designed to reflect attacks, against Xiao Xiao.
• Xiao Xiao raised her cultivation to Nine Grade Supreme Perfection and fused twenty-three Heavenly Flame Sub-flames into the Emperor Flame Divine Lotus.
• The Fire Lotus melted Mu Chen's Eight Yang Heavenly Wheel, and Lin Jing restrained Jiu You as the attack flew toward Mu Chen.

Mu Chen survived Xiao Xiao’s Fire Lotus by unleashing the Life-Sacrificing Demon Fist, but the clash left him gravely wounded and Dragon Island in ruins. As Jiu You helped him recover, Xiao Xiao and Xiao Lin discussed the Martial Ancestor’s suspicions and the looming struggle involving the Heavens List and the Heavenly Evil God.

• Mu Chen used the Life-Sacrificing Demon Fist to shatter Xiao Xiao’s Fire Lotus, and the explosion devastated Dragon Island.
• Jiu You caught the bloodied Mu Chen, and Lin Jing gave her a Divine Pill bearing the Mittel Auction House’s mark to heal him.
• Lin Jing reflected that the Martial Ancestor had sent her to the Ancient Heavenly Palace after suspecting the battle between the Nine Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor and the Heavenly Emperor had not truly ended.
• Xiao Lin asked Xiao Xiao what she thought of Mu Chen, and Xiao Xiao judged him ordinary beside the heirs of the strongest factions, while suggesting Lin Jing might better fit the role of the prophesied savior.
• Xiao Xiao and Xiao Lin discussed the Martial Ancestor’s power and concluded that he had sensed a larger danger, while their father could not act rashly because the Great Thousand World’s Heavens List sealed the Heavenly Evil God.

As the Heavenly Emperor's Mausoleum opened, Xiao Xiao entered and witnessed the arrival of the Ancient Heavenly Palace's strongest factions and their leaders. A vision of the Heavenly Emperor appeared, but Xiao Xiao saw through it as a trick and prepared for danger as the inheritance was revealed.

• Xiao Xiao injured Zhu Yan, while Mu Chen later killed Xia Yu during the fight for the Spirit of the Heavenly River and claimed his Spirit.
• Mu Chen killed Garuda in the Scripture Pavilion after both men cultivated the Great Sun Undying Body.
• Xiao Xiao entered the opened Heavenly Emperor's Mausoleum, where the great figures of the factions could descend and compete for the Heavenly Emperor Inheritance.
• Mandala absorbed a flood of Spiritual Power and recovered her Great Perfection Earth Supreme strength.
• A Blue-robed Figure resembling the Heavenly Emperor appeared, but Xiao Xiao used her Serpent God Eyes to recognize the image as a trick and withdrew into the void, leaving her Three Thousand Lightning Illusion Body behind.
• The experts realized they were facing the Heavenly Emperor's Inheritance Will and identified One Qi Transforms into Three Purities and the Heavenly Emperor Sword.

Lu Heng revealed that the figure resembling the Heavenly Emperor was the Nine Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor and began feeding it power and victims to revive it. As Mandala fought to hold the demon back, Mu Chen drew the Heavenly Emperor Sword, confirming that he was the successor the Heavenly Emperor’s plans had prepared for.

• Several Earth Supremes tried to seize the Heavenly Emperor’s body, and Lu Heng killed three before the body devoured them and their Supreme Seas.
• Lu Heng poured out Saint Demon Palace’s Supreme Spirit Liquid to revive the figure, but Mandala identified it as the Nine Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor, the First Clan Leader of the Devouring Demon Clan.
• The Nine Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor attacked the gathered experts, swallowing several Earth Supremes as its body began to regain vitality.
• Mandala engaged the demon and called for Mu Chen, who rushed to the Heavenly Emperor Sword while Lu Heng claimed only the Heavenly Emperor could draw it.
• Mu Chen manifested the Undying Golden Body and pulled out the Heavenly Emperor Sword, while Xiao Xiao realized that the Heavenly Emperor and Immortal Great Emperor had arranged for him to become their successor.

Mu Chen drew the Heavenly Emperor Sword, triggering a disturbance around the Eternal Undying Body and revealing the Ancient Heavenly Palace as a trial for the Immortal Great Emperor’s successor. The Nine Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor revived and began slaughtering the gathered experts, leaving Mu Chen gravely wounded as he shielded Lin Jing and Jiu You.

• Mu Chen pulled out the Heavenly Emperor Sword, and Xiao Xiao realized that the Ancient Heavenly Palace’s trials pointed toward the Immortal Great Emperor’s inheritance and the Eternal Tower.
• The Eternal Undying Body stirred in the Moksha God Clan, while Xiao Yan and Cai Lin discussed the coming Heavens List and the need for a Great Ruler to oppose the Heavenly Evil God.
• Mandala urged Mu Chen to use the Heavenly Emperor Sword, which flew at the Nine Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor, but the revived Demon Emperor stopped it with one hand.
• The Nine Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor devoured fleeing experts and attacked the survivors, while Xiao Xiao evaded him by entering the world of nothingness.
• Mu Chen used the Heavenly Emperor Sword to shield Lin Jing and Jiu You, but the Demon Emperor’s Demonic Qi tore into him and threatened to erase him.

The Martial Ancestor arrived just as the Nine Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor threatened Mu Chen, then overwhelmed the demon emperor’s attacks. As the demon emperor escaped in a final burst, Xiao Xiao’s Soul token reacted and a refined young man appeared in the Heavenly Emperor’s Mausoleum.

• A Thunder Emperor Scepter tore through the Ancient Heavenly Palace’s defenses and protected Mu Chen from the Demonic Qi.
• The Martial Ancestor appeared, destroyed the mausoleum’s Demonic Qi, and told Mu Chen to leave the fight to him.
• The Nine Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor survived by sacrificing Lu Heng, but the Martial Ancestor swallowed his world-destroying attack with the Eight Ancestors Glazed Bowl.
• The Nine Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor self-destructed and sent a dark beam toward Lin Jing, which the Martial Ancestor destroyed as the demon escaped into the void.
• Xiao Xiao’s Soul token emitted a special fluctuation, and a scholarly young man appeared and invited the fleeing demon to stay for tea.

Hun Tiandi captured the Nine Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor and revealed the history behind the demon and the Heavenly Emperor’s sacrifice. The Heavenly Emperor’s remnant consciousness appeared, reunited with Mandala, and offered Mu Chen his legacy of One Qi Transforms into Three Purities.

• Hun Tiandi sealed the fleeing Nine Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor and introduced him as a fusion of nine Demon Emperors from the Devouring Demon Clan.
• Hun Tiandi explained that the Heavenly Emperor had destroyed seven of the nine demons and sealed the other two before dying, while leaving behind a remnant consciousness to watch over the seal.
• Hun Tiandi dissolved the demonic disguise around the black head, revealing the Heavenly Emperor’s remains and restoring his remnant spiritual shadow.
• The Heavenly Emperor greeted Mandala, who held his hand, and acknowledged Mu Chen as the one who had drawn the Heavenly Emperor Sword.
• The Heavenly Emperor offered Mu Chen the legacy of One Qi Transforms into Three Purities, and Mu Chen accepted while expressing doubts about his ability.

Mu Chen received the Heavenly Emperor’s One Qi Transforms into Three Purities inheritance, along with offers of protection from Soul Emperor and Martial Ancestor. After the Ancient Heavenly Palace closed, Hun Tiandi and Hun Lao Gui discussed Xiao Yan’s interest in the Immortal Great Emperor’s inheritance and the possibility that Mu Chen was its true successor, while Hun Tiandi’s hidden Soul Summoning Tower revealed his sinister operations.

• The Heavenly Emperor agreed to teach Mu Chen One Qi Transforms into Three Purities, and Soul Emperor gave him a Soul Token while Martial Ancestor gave him a Stone Talisman for protection.
• Martial Ancestor took Lin Jing away, and Hun Tiandi sent the other visitors out of the Ancient Heavenly Palace, which closed with Mu Chen as its new master.
• Hun Tiandi met Xiao Xiao outside the palace and discussed Xiao Yan, the Eternal Gathering, and the Immortal Great Emperor’s inheritance before returning to the Endless Soul Domain.
• Hun Tiandi met Hun Lao Gui in the Soul Summoning Tower, where countless souls—including Extraterritorial Evil Clan Demon Emperors—were imprisoned and drained of their Soul Origin.
• Hun Tiandi told Hun Lao Gui that Mu Chen had obtained One Qi Transforms into Three Purities, and they considered whether Mu Chen might be the Immortal Great Emperor’s chosen successor.

Hun Tiandi revealed his plan to side with the Great Thousand World and destroyed the Nine Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor, while Xiao Xiao returned from the Ancient Heavenly Palace and confirmed that the Ancient Heavenly Emperor had chosen an inheritor. Xiao Yan recognized that the forces were gathering for the coming conflict and explained his confidence by showing his three Dharma Bodies.

• Hun Tiandi and Hun Lao Gui discussed the looming war between the Great Thousand World and the Extraterritorial Evil Clan, and Hun Tiandi suggested Xiao Yan could upset their plans.
• Hun Tiandi freed the Nine Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor, revealed that he was the clan leader of the Evil Soul Clan, and attacked him with his combined Spiritual Power and Soul Power.
• Hun Tiandi dragged the Nine Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor into his soul space to extract his Soul Origin.
• Xiao Xiao, Xiao Lin, and the others returned to the Dou Qi Continent and found Xiao Yan training Xiao Baiyue, Xiao Yanzhi, and Xiao Long.
• Xiao Xiao told Xiao Yan that the Ancient Heavenly Emperor had given the One Qi Transforms into Three Purities inheritance to a Ninth Grade Supreme who had cultivated the Undying Golden Body.
• Xiao Yan displayed his Battle Through the Heavens Primordial Body, Burning Flame Dharma Body, and Evil God Asura Soul Body, showing why he had expected the inheritor's path.

Xiao Yan discussed the Heavens List and the coming final battle as Mu Chen completed the Eternal Undying Body inheritance. With the Great Thousand Covenant three months away, the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor ordered the evil clans to prepare an invasion and welcome the Heavenly Evil God’s return.

• Xiao Yan told his family that he could leave his complete true name on the Heavens List, but he still had to wait for the right moment to claim World Power.
• Xiao Xiao asked for the Divine Bone, and Xiao Yan gave it to her while saying he intended to sell it later.
• Outside the Eternal Tower, the Moksha God Clan and Futu God Clan maintained a tense standoff while Mu Chen remained inside for more than four months.
• The Eternal Undying Body chose Mu Chen as its new master, and Xiao Yan recognized the inheritance as the Immortal Great Emperor’s legacy.
• The Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor ordered the leaders of the thirty-two clans to gather and prepare to attack the Great Thousand World in three months.
• The Great Thousand Bell rang again.

Mu Chen emerged from the Eternal Tower with the Eternal Undying Body and defeated the Moksha God Clan’s attempt to seize it. Great Thousand Palace recognized him as its new palace master and summoned the world’s experts for the forty-ninth Great Thousand Covenant; three months later, Xiao Yan stood ready as the gathering began.

• Mu Chen resisted the Moksha Clan Leader’s pressure with his Saint Grade Physical Body and used the Eternal Tower to suppress the Moksha God Clan’s Clan Protecting Grand Array.
• The Moksha Clan Leader called his clan to battle, but Qin Tian arrived on behalf of Great Thousand Palace and stopped the conflict.
• Qin Tian declared Mu Chen the Immortal Great Emperor’s successor and the new palace master of Great Thousand Palace.
• Qin Tian issued Great Thousand Golden Decrees and explained that the Great Thousand Covenant would convene at Northern Wilderness Hill in three months to suppress Heavenly Evil God’s remaining vitality for the forty-ninth time.
• Three months later, Xiao Yan stood on a mountain in the Xiao Realm as Xiao Xuan told him the Great Thousand Covenant began that day.

Xiao Yan explained to Xiao Xuan how Immortal Great Emperor may have planned for Heavenly Evil God's resurrection to unite the Great Thousand World, then set out for the Saint Demon Continent. At Northern Wilderness Hill, Mu Chen and the assembled Heaven Supremes activated the Great Thousand Demon Transformation Array as Heavenly Evil God threatened to turn their world into a demon ruin.

• Xiao Yan warned Xiao Xuan that the Extraterritorial Evil Clan was attacking the border and might bypass its defenses to reach Northern Wilderness Hill.
• Xiao Yan argued that Immortal Great Emperor had anticipated Heavenly Evil God's return and intended the threat to unite the Great Thousand World; Xiao Xuan recognized the plan's parallels to the Xiao Clan's blood sacrifice.
• Xiao Yan asked whether Xiao Xuan would still have fought Hun Tiandi if he had known he would die, and Xiao Xuan answered yes.
• Xiao Yan produced a Divine Bone and announced he would go to the Saint Demon Continent to face Heavenly Evil God.
• Mu Chen, Qing Yanjing, and the gathered Heaven Supremes watched the Great Thousand Demon Transformation Array activate at Northern Wilderness Hill.
• Qin Tian rallied the Heaven Supremes as the array formed a mottled spear, and Heavenly Evil God declared that the Extraterritorial Evil Clan would turn the Great Thousand World into a demon ruin.