Chapter Summaries

In the Ice Spirit Race prison, Ye Kong discussed the upcoming Contest for Son of the Continent with Xiao Lin and learned it would be held in the Sword Domain in a year. Xiao Lin asked Ye Kong to protect Xiao Xiao there, and Ye Kong promised while respecting her right to fight for herself.

• Ye Kong found Xiao Lin pretending to sleep and woke him by pinching his nose before sharing wine with him.
• Xiao Lin praised Ye Kong's rapid cultivation and explained that becoming a Son of the Continent could help him advance toward Heavenly Sovereign.
• Xiao Lin revealed that the Sword Domain would hold a Contest for Son of the Continent in a year's time, with a special battlefield for quasi-Heavenly Sovereigns.
• Ye Kong declared that he would compete in the Sword Domain and protect Xiao Xiao, though he would not stop her from choosing her own fights.
• Xiao Lin accepted Ye Kong's promise and glanced toward Xiao Xiao, hoping she would take the opportunity to rely on Ye Kong.

After the Martial Arts Gathering ended, Zi Xiao asked Ye Kong to release Hai Lin, but he refused and argued that Hai Lin had insulted the Flame Emperor. When Zi Xiao revealed she was the Flame Emperor’s daughter, Ye Kong challenged her, defeated and restrained her, then accused her of impersonating the Endless Fire Domain’s Young Lady.

• Ye Kong announced Zi Xiao as the winner, and Lin Jing delivered the closing remarks before the Martial Arts Gathering ended.
• Yan Ni and Zi Xiao visited Ye Kong, and Zi Xiao asked him to release Hai Lin.
• Ye Kong refused, claiming Hai Lin had falsely taken credit for the Flame Emperor’s fire lotus technique.
• Zi Xiao revealed that she was the Flame Emperor’s daughter after Ye Kong boasted of his closeness to the Flame Emperor’s family.
• Ye Kong and Zi Xiao fought, and Ye Kong sealed her spiritual energy and captured her.
• Ye Kong teased Zi Xiao and accused her of impersonating Xiao Xiao, the Endless Fire Domain’s Young Lady.

Ye Kong helped Xiao Xiao break through to High Earth Sovereign, then the two teased each other and discussed the women in his life. Xiao Xiao warned him not to get involved with other women, while Ye Kong insisted he had never had designs on any little girl.

• Ye Kong released Xiao Xiao, sat her down, and apologized before removing the restriction on her wrist.
• Ye Kong refined Ice Sky Cattail Dragon Grass and infused its spiritual essence into Xiao Xiao to help her break through.
• Xiao Xiao successfully advanced to High Earth Sovereign and joked that she could now take revenge on Ye Kong.
• Xiao Xiao teased Ye Kong about proposing to her and threatened him with a pair of scissors if he got close to another girl.
• Ye Kong explained his connections with Kong Ling, Lin Jing, Little Wen, and Yan Ni, insisting he treated the younger women only as a child or as his disciples.
• Xiao Xiao pointed out that Little Wen liked Ye Kong.

Ye Kong and Xiao Xiao discussed Wen Qingxuan’s feelings for him, and Xiao Xiao said she might accept her as a sister, though Ye Kong insisted he had no romantic feelings for his disciple. They shifted to discussing how to train Wen Qingxuan and Yan Ni, and Xiao Xiao agreed to keep an eye on both girls, especially Yan Ni.

• Ye Kong clarified to Xiao Xiao that he saw Wen Qingxuan only as a disciple and asked Xiao Xiao to watch over her in case rejection harmed her.
• Xiao Xiao admitted she might accept Wen Qingxuan, but Ye Kong worried that her father and younger brother would punish him if he pursued his disciple.
• Ye Kong changed the subject and invited Xiao Xiao to observe as he trained Wen Qingxuan and Yan Ni.
• Ye Kong explained Yan Ni’s parents’ identities and described the Joyful Zen Sect’s approach to dual cultivation.
• Xiao Xiao grew suspicious of Yan Ni’s cultivation and proposed watching the two girls; Ye Kong jokingly thanked his wife, and Xiao Xiao agreed.

Ye Kong told Yan Ni to relay his interest in the Ancient Heavenly Palace to Zhu Yan and arranged for Yan Ni and her senior sister to explore Dragon-Phoenix Heaven when it opened. He urged Yan Ni to seek its highest inheritance, even by force if necessary.

• Ye Kong learned that Zhu Yan planned to leave for Tianluo Continent with Yan Ni’s senior sister and offered not to pursue the Flame Spirit Race genius.
• Ye Kong asked Yan Ni to tell Zhu Yan to search for information about the Ancient Heavenly Palace after reaching Tianluo Continent.
• Ye Kong explained that Dragon-Phoenix Heaven would open in a year and invited Yan Ni and her senior sister to explore it.
• Ye Kong warned Yan Ni about the Dragon-Phoenix Golden Ladder and encouraged her to climb beyond the tenth level.
• Ye Kong told Yan Ni to bring an elder if needed and to take the True Dragon and True Phoenix inheritances by force if they refused to yield them.

Ye Kong brought Wen Qingxuan and Yan Ni to a thunder-filled Blood Sea to strengthen their physical cultivation, then learned Xiao Xiao planned to hibernate there. Xiao Xiao’s expected breakthrough pushed Ye Kong into a clash of Sovereign Divine Abilities with her.

• Ye Kong asked Wen Qingxuan and Yan Ni about their cultivation paths and confirmed that both cultivated spiritual energy and their bodies.
• Ye Kong opened the Blood Sea, created floating islands above it, and sent Wen Qingxuan and Yan Ni to train against its thunderous waves.
• Xiao Xiao arrived and noted that time moved at half speed in the Blood Sea; Ye Kong said he was training to protect her in the Contest for Son of the Continent at Sword Domain.
• Xiao Xiao said she might hibernate for half a year or longer and would likely awaken as a Great Perfection Earth Sovereign, while Ye Kong admitted he wanted to challenge her.
• Ye Kong formed the Purple Gold Binding Snake Rope with his Immortal Golden Body, and Xiao Xiao countered with Heaven-Devouring Myriad Forms; their abilities collided and tore through space.

Ye Kong defeated Xiao Xiao’s Seven-Colored Snake Person Dharma Body, and Xiao Xiao sealed herself inside a cocoon to enter a temporary sleep. Wen Qingxuan welcomed the chance to be closer to Ye Kong, while Ye Kong became eager to study the cocoon.

• Wen Qingxuan regretted that Xiao Xiao had won Ye Kong’s affections, and Yan Ni invited her to visit the Dragon Phoenix Secret Realm on Tianluo Continent.
• Yan Ni tried to comfort Wen Qingxuan by suggesting Ye Kong might understand her feelings and respond to them.
• Ye Kong pierced Xiao Xiao’s divine ability, bound her Dharma Body with the Purple Gold Binding Snake Rope, and sealed it.
• Xiao Xiao formed a powerful Seven-Colored Cocoon and warned Ye Kong not to use X-ray Vision on her while she slept.
• Ye Kong explained to Yan Ni and Wen Qingxuan that Xiao Xiao had entered a temporary sleep, and Wen Qingxuan was pleased that Xiao Xiao had fallen asleep.

After a year of secluded cultivation, Wen Qingxuan, Yan Ni, and Lin Jing grew much stronger, while Lin Jing remained hurt that her family had neglected her. Lin Dong arrived with pregnant Ling Qingzhu to tell Ye Kong that the Heavenly Gu Empress’s relic might soon emerge in the Southern Border Land, and Ye Kong was invited to investigate.

• Wen Qingxuan advanced to the Seventh-rank Perfected Supreme realm, and Yan Ni advanced to the Eighth-grade Venerate stage while cultivating in the Sea of Thunder.
• Lin Jing, upset that Lin Dong, Ling Qingzhu, and Ying Huahuan had focused on their pregnancies, ran away to Ye Kong and reached the Fourth-rank Perfected Supreme realm.
• Feng Yusheng told Ye Kong that corpse poison had erupted from a Southern Border treasure land, where investigators had found traces of a fallen Heavenly Sovereign.
• Lin Dong and pregnant Ling Qingzhu visited Ye Kong, and Lin Dong said the Heavenly Gu Empress’s relic was likely about to emerge and asked whether Ye Kong would go there.

Martial Ancestor explained the history of the Heavenly Gu Empress’s Relic and warned that its sudden appearance might be an Evil Tribe scheme. Ye Kong agreed to investigate with King Feng and urged Martial Ancestor to summon powerful experts in case of an invasion.

• Martial Ancestor told Ye Kong that the Heavenly Gu Empress was a Saint grade Heavenly Sovereign who cultivated a Primal Dharma Body and killed several Heavenly Demon Emperors.
• Feng Yusheng explained that the Heavenly Evil God killed the Heavenly Gu Empress during the Evil Tribe’s second invasion, destroying her Primal Dharma Body and nearly wiping out her tribe.
• Martial Ancestor reported that the dangerous, unstable region around the relic might be an Evil Tribe trap, and Lin Jing playfully teased Lin Dong and Ling Qingzhu about her unborn sister.
• Martial Ancestor asked Ye Kong and King Feng to investigate the relic while he waited outside to intervene if danger arose.
• Ye Kong warned that Martial Ancestor and his master might be outmatched by a large-scale invasion and urged him to invite several powerful experts for support.

Ye Kong, Yan Ni, and Wen Qingxuan traveled to the Southern Border Continent to investigate the Black God Great Marsh and the rumored Ten Thousand Gu Garden. Su Xian described the deadly Corpse God Gu and suspicious newcomers claiming to be the Heavenly Gu Tribe, leaving Ye Kong doubtful about who had spread the rumors.

• Ye Kong left the Ice Spirit Race with Yan Ni and Wen Qingxuan, while Lin Dong and Feng Yusheng warned Lin Jing that the Southern Border Continent was too dangerous for her.
• After five days of travel, Ye Kong learned that rumors of the Ten Thousand Gu Garden and a treasure in the Black God Great Marsh had drawn experts from many continents.
• Su Xian welcomed the group and explained that a burst of corpse aura in the marsh had killed hundreds of Supremes and destroyed the Spirit Worm Tribe's stronghold.
• Su Xian revealed that a wounded elder had been killed by the Corpse God Gu, a taboo insect that devoured its host's Divine Soul and turned the body into a puppet.
• Su Xian said mysterious people claiming to be the Heavenly Gu Tribe had appeared, but his Clan Leader had refused to join forces with them.
• Ye Kong questioned whether someone had deliberately spread the rumors and linked the Spirit Worm Tribe to the supposed Heavenly Gu Tribe.

Ye Kong agreed to attend the Heavenly Gu Tribe’s auction with Su Xian after receiving an invitation to hear about discoveries in the Black God Great Marsh. Meanwhile, Jiang Gu revealed that he had infiltrated the Heavenly Gu Tribe on orders from Jiang Ya and the Holy Demon Lord, then attacked three tribal leaders.

• Su Xian told Ye Kong that the Spirit Worm Tribe was being harassed by forces who suspected it had concealed information about the Heavenly Gu Tribe.
• Su Xian received an invitation from a Heavenly Gu Tribe expert to attend an auction at Gu'an Auction House in three days and hear about discoveries in the Black God Great Marsh.
• Ye Kong advised Su Xian to accept the invitation, and the two agreed to go together.
• In a hall in the Black God Great Marsh, Elder Jiang gathered leaders of the Scorpion King, Hundred Feet, Sky Snake, and Golden Toad Tribes and promised them Soul Locking Gu.
• Elder Jiang revealed himself as Jiang Gu of the Evil Spirit Tribe and, invoking orders from Clan Leader Jiang Ya and the Holy Demon Lord, used a blackish-purple eye to overpower three Heavenly Gu Tribe leaders.

Ye Kong attended an Ancient Frontier Auction House event with Wen Qingxuan and Yan Ni, where the venue’s witch-patterned aura affected Yan Ni and the Western Heaven Battle Emperor arrived with his disciples. The auction began when Jiang Dong of the Heavenly Gu Tribe appeared, with the promised information about the Ten Thousand Gu Garden Ruins still to come.

• Ye Kong and the two women entered the auction house in disguise and reviewed a catalog that promised free information about the Ten Thousand Gu Garden Ruins.
• Ye Kong inspected their private room, then explained that the auction house’s witch patterns were suppressing Yan Ni, who used a Buddha Lamp to ease the pressure.
• Ye Kong spotted Zhu Yan among the attendees and wondered why he had come to the Southern Border instead of training on Tianluo Continent.
• The Western Heaven Battle Emperor arrived with Ling Zhanzi, Ling Jianzi, and Ling Longzi, prompting Ye Kong and the two women to speculate about his reason for coming.
• Jiang Dong of the Heavenly Gu Tribe appeared on the auction stage and welcomed the attendees.

Ye Kong won a Beast Bone Bracelet at the auction and discovered that a Heavenly Gu Tribe maid was a living corpse, leading him to suspect a major conspiracy surrounding the Heavenly Gu Empress Relic. He kept the discovery from Wen Qingxuan and secretly told Yan Ni to summon her father for help.

• Ye Kong outbid the other guests for the Beast Bone Bracelet with unusually precise bids, and the Western Heaven Battle Emperor's group stopped competing.
• Jiang Dong sold the bracelet to Ye Kong for 40,960,000 Supreme Spirit Liquid, and a Heavenly Gu Tribe maid delivered it to his private room.
• Ye Kong used Heavenly Eye and Mind Reading to discover that the maid had no thoughts and was a living corpse.
• Ye Kong gave the bracelet to Wen Qingxuan and promised to extract its essence blood to help her cultivation.
• Yan Ni noticed Ye Kong's unease, and he secretly told her to summon her father because something major was about to happen.

Ye Kong and the other bidders competed fiercely for three Ninth-grade Venerate Brute Beast Hearts, while Ye Kong grew suspicious of auctioneer Jiang Dong and the Evil Spirit Tribe. After Ling Longzi threatened Booth 29, Ye Kong challenged Jiang Dong to protect his customer.

• Jiang Dong presented three Brute Beast Hearts, and Zhu Yan, Ling Longzi, Ye Kong, and Ling Zhanzi entered a bidding contest.
• Wen Qingxuan bid on Ye Kong’s behalf, and Su Xian also raised the price to help Ye Kong.
• Ye Kong observed Jiang Dong’s stiff movements and suspected the Heavenly Gu Tribe had been destroyed or turned into puppets by the Outer Domain Evil Tribe.
• Ye Kong urged Wen Qingxuan to make a much higher bid, and she raised the price to 81.92 million Supreme Spirit Liquid.
• Ling Longzi threatened the guests in Booth 29, and Ye Kong called on Jiang Dong to intervene.

Ye Kong disrupted a confrontation at the auction, helped Wen Qingxuan and Yan Ni obtain beast hearts, and uncovered a deadly secret hidden in an artifact from the Ten Thousand Gu Garden. The Heavenly Gu Tribe’s Great Elder revealed that Devil Emperors were trapped in the ruins and called on the assembled powers to join forces against them.

• Ye Kong persuaded Jiang Dong to rebuke Ling Longzi, and the Western Heaven Battle Emperor made his disciple apologize for his outburst.
• Wen Qingxuan and Yan Ni each chose a Ninth-grade Venerate Beast Heart for Ye Kong to refine, and Yan Ni took over bidding at the auction.
• The Sky Snake Tribe leader auctioned artifacts said to point toward the Ten Thousand Gu Garden; Ye Kong found tiny, dangerous insect cocoons in the jade pendant and warned his disciples not to touch the items.
• The Western Heaven Battle Emperor won the jade pendant, while the Great Witch Tribe and Spirit Worm Tribe chiefs acquired the other artifacts.
• Jiang Gu, the Heavenly Gu Tribe’s Great Elder, announced that Outer Domain Devil Emperors had entered the Ten Thousand Gu Garden and remained trapped there, then urged the gathered cultivators to help eliminate them.

After the auction, Ye Kong warned Feng Yusheng that the Heavenly Gu Tribe might be conspiring with the Outer Domain Evil Tribe, prompting them to plan an investigation in the Black God Great Marsh. The chapter ended with Feng Yusheng revealing that the Western Heaven Battle Emperor had secretly watched Ye Kong.

• Jiang Gu rallied the Southern Border powers to gather outside the Ten Thousand Gu Garden in a month and attack the Evil Tribe Demon Emperor together.
• Ye Kong sensed a watcher after leaving the auction, and Feng Yusheng used her aura to sever the watcher's Divine Soul before they reached their estate.
• Feng Yusheng helped the two women begin cultivating with Beast Hearts, then listened as Ye Kong described suspicious events involving the Heavenly Gu Tribe and the auction items.
• Ye Kong and Feng Yusheng suspected the Heavenly Gu Tribe might be helping the Outer Domain Evil Tribe control Southern Border powers, so they agreed to investigate the Black God Great Marsh and capture a Heavenly Sovereign.
• Feng Yusheng told Ye Kong that the watcher had been the Western Heaven Battle Emperor, not someone from the Heavenly Gu Tribe.

Ye Kong, Feng Yusheng, and Monk Dingxin infiltrated the Black God Great Marsh and interrogated a wounded Heavenly Gu Tribe woman. Her answers suggested the tribe might be preparing to fight the Outer Domain Evil Tribe, but she also revealed that four tribes had been sacrificed to summon the Gu God.

• Ye Kong, Feng Yusheng, and Monk Dingxin entered the Black God Great Marsh and gathered rare spirit plants as they advanced.
• Ye Kong captured Asuoluo, a Great Perfection Earth Sovereign from the Sky Snake Tribe, while Feng Yusheng and Monk Dingxin dealt with the guards and concealed the area.
• Monk Dingxin used a modified soul-bewitching art to question Asuoluo, who said her tribe was acting under Elder Jiang's orders to help slay the Demon Emperor in more than twenty days.
• Asuoluo explained that the insect Gu hidden in three auction items were guardian Gu seeds intended as a gift, and that the tribe used Corpse God Gu as punishment for severe crimes.
• Asuoluo revealed that four of the Heavenly Gu Tribe's tribes had sacrificed their members to summon the Gu God's will, prompting Monk Dingxin to declare that it was impossible.

Monk Dingxin discovered that the surviving leaders of the Heavenly Gu Tribe were hiding within major Super Powers, and Asuoluo died after revealing that Jiang Gu and his allies were not beings of the Great Thousand World. Ye Kong, Feng Yusheng, and Dingxin set out to attack Jiang Gu, who ordered his followers to destroy the Southern Border and summon the Outer Domain Evil Tribe’s clan leaders.

• Asuoluo identified the leaders of the Heavenly Gu Tribe’s four surviving divisions, and Monk Dingxin recognized them as powerful figures in four major Super Powers.
• When Asuoluo tried to recall the Gu God, a hidden restriction shattered her Divine Soul; before dying, she warned Ye Kong that Jiang Gu and his allies were not beings of the Great Thousand World.
• Monk Dingxin explained that an Outer Domain Evil Tribe restriction had sealed Asuoluo’s memories, and Feng Yusheng, Ye Kong, and Dingxin flew toward the depths of the Black God Great Marsh to confront Jiang Gu.
• Jiang Gu sent Jiang Dong and Jiang Xi with him into the Ten Thousand Gu Garden Ruins, while Jiang Nan and Jiang Bei were ordered to fight the newcomers with the four divisions.
• Jiang Gu ordered his followers to destroy the Southern Border and sacrifice it to summon the clan leaders, declaring that they had already delivered the Mother Gu Seed of the Mind Control Gu to Holy Demon Lord.

Ye Kong, Feng Yusheng, and Monk Dingxin reached the altar where the Outer Domain Evil Tribe had turned the Four Division Leaders into puppets and begun a sacrifice to summon a powerful being. As Monk Dingxin battled the altar’s defenders, Ye Kong ignited an ancient lamp and prepared to borrow the Phoenix Tree Divine Tree’s power.

• Feng Yusheng carried Ye Kong and Monk Dingxin to the depths of Black God Great Marsh, where they found the puppet Four Division Leaders and a sinister altar surrounded by demon statues.
• Monk Dingxin charged Jiang Nan and Jiang Bei, striking their shield with the Great Joyful Sorrow Fist and revealing that the altar was a Peerless Demon Weapon.
• The altar’s defenders and the Four Divisions resisted Monk Dingxin while sacrificing their own blood to strengthen the altar.
• The Four Division Leaders and tribesmen began a ritual that opened a Space Light Path into the chaotic space, apparently to summon their god.
• Ye Kong lit an ancient lamp and told his master that he would soon need to borrow the Phoenix Tree Divine Tree.

Monk Dingxin and Feng Yusheng fought the Evil Spirit Tribe and a host of invading Heavenly Demon Emperors as the battle intensified. Flame Emperor Xiao Yan arrived and killed Flame Heavenly Demon Emperor, while the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor and other demons remained on the battlefield.

• Monk Dingxin battled Jiang Ya, who revealed that the Evil Spirit Tribe descended from Great Thousand World lifeforms and the Outer Domain Evil Tribe.
• The Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor arrived with four Heavenly Demon Emperors, and Flame Heavenly Demon Emperor and Saint Yan Heavenly Demon Emperor attacked Feng Yusheng.
• Feng Yusheng overwhelmed the two demons, nearly killing Saint Yan Heavenly Demon Emperor before two other Heavenly Demon Emperors ambushed her.
• Flame Emperor Xiao Yan struck down Saint Yan Heavenly Demon Emperor and Flame Heavenly Demon Emperor with his fire lotus and black ruler.
• Xiao Yan burned Flame Heavenly Demon Emperor to ashes, then faced the remaining demons.