Chapter Summaries

Chen Xuan left for Qingqiu with Bai Bingyan while Mu Yun Sanxian and Xuan Yuan Jingxian prepared a plan to help him survive his ten-year agreement with Long Aotian. Meanwhile, four Killing Kings and Yan Chiyang learned of Chen Xuan’s journey and moved to exploit it, leaving his trip under threat.

• Chen Xuan spent time with Xuan Yuan Longjing before Xuan Yuan Jingxian gave him a sword talisman and departed with her for the Northern Frontier Demon Territory.
• Mu Yun Sanxian told Xuan Yuan Jingxian that they were planning ahead to protect Chen Xuan from the danger of his agreement with Long Aotian.
• Chen Xuan said goodbye to Ni Chang and left with Bai Bingyan for Qingqiu, while Yu Meiren reacted bashfully to his farewell message.
• Thunder Feather Killing King gathered Dustless Killing King, Azure Peak Killing King, and Six Desires Killing King, then persuaded them to pursue Chen Xuan for the Life Extinguishing Blood Oath Alliance’s Treasure Vault key.
• Yan Chiyang learned that Chen Xuan was going to Qingqiu to seek marriage from the White Fox Clan and saw the journey as his chance to kill him.

Mu Yun Sanxian, Chen Xuan, and Bai Bingyan traveled to Qingqiu so Chen Xuan could propose marriage, while Mu Yun warned him that the trip would draw him into the struggle over Ten Thousand Demon Mountain. At the mountain, Chen Xuan sensed a blood relative’s immortal-corpse fragment, and Bai Qian’s Love Tribulation flared when he called her “Fairy Sister.”

• Mu Yun Sanxian explained that the destroyed Immortal Talisman had opened the contest for Ten Thousand Demon Mountain and taught Chen Xuan a profound soul art, which Chen Xuan comprehended in the time it took an incense stick to burn.
• Mu Yun Sanxian told Bai Bingyan that her engagement would serve as Qingqiu’s amulet and warned Chen Xuan not to kill members of the Red Phoenix Clan unless necessary.
• Three days later, Bai Bingyan’s group entered the Northern Frontier Demon Territory and reached Ten Thousand Demon Mountain, where Chen Xuan sensed an immortal-corpse fragment sharing his bloodline.
• Bai Qian arrived with Qingqiu’s people and told Chen Xuan to call her Auntie only after his proposal succeeded.
• Chen Xuan called Bai Qian “Fairy Sister,” intensifying her Love Tribulation and sending her back into the treasure ship.

Bai Qian resolved to settle her Love Tribulation during the journey to the Ten Thousand Demon Mountain Forbidden Area, while Chen Xuan learned that he was its cause. As Mu Yun Sanxian proposed Chen Xuan’s marriage to Bai Bingyan in Qingqiu, an angry crowd demanded that he leave.

• Bai Qian suppressed her Love Tribulation, decided to resolve it at the Ten Thousand Demon Mountain Forbidden Area, and left without acknowledging Chen Xuan.
• Mu Yun Sanxian told Chen Xuan that Bai Qian’s Love Tribulation had fallen upon him, leaving Chen Xuan alarmed.
• Shi Batian and Tang Pi told Diao Zhenxiao that Chen Xuan had arrived in Qingqiu to propose marriage, and the aggrieved demon youths went to confront him.
• The Demon Empress and National Teacher Jiu Mu agreed to discuss an alliance against the Demon Ancestor and planned to cooperate over Chen Xuan’s arrival.
• Mu Yun Sanxian asked Bai Yaowu to bless Chen Xuan and Bai Bingyan’s marriage, revealing that Bai Bingyan was pregnant.
• A hostile crowd gathered outside the Nine-Tailed Great Hall and shouted for Chen Xuan to leave.

Chen Xuan drove off the Demon Cultivators who came to denounce his relationship with Bai Bingyan, then agreed to retrieve the Ten Thousand Demon Gourd as a betrothal gift. Qingqiu and several Demon clans prepared to explore the Ten Thousand Demon Mountain Forbidden Area, while Shangguan Hongyan invited Chen Xuan to her Jade Sculpture Appreciation Conference.

• Chen Xuan used the Dragon Might of his Five-Clawed Golden Dragon phantom to force most of the Demon Cultivators to their knees and challenged their right to oppose him.
• Chen Xuan slapped Diao Zhenxiao and ordered Shi Batian and the other Demon Cultivators to leave.
• Bai Yaowu accepted Chen Xuan's marriage proposal on the condition that he bring the Ten Thousand Demon Gourd from the Fountain of Youth as a betrothal gift, and Chen Xuan agreed.
• The chiefs of the Fearless Lion Clan, the Heaven Swallowing Yang Toad Clan, and other clans agreed to explore the Ten Thousand Demon Mountain Forbidden Area together in three days.
• Shangguan Hongyan sent Chen Xuan a VIP invitation to her Jade Sculpture Appreciation Conference and warned him not to stand her up.

Shangguan Hongyan invited Chen Xuan to Red Beauty Canyon, where Yue Jing claimed she was his fiancée and threatened Chen. Chen embraced Hongyan to provoke Yue Jing, who backed down under Chen’s Dragon Might, and Hongyan privately offered herself to Chen if he killed Yue Jing.

• Shangguan Hongyan awaited Chen Xuan at her Jade Sculpture Appreciation Conference, hoping his Dragon Flame could cure her strange illness.
• Yue Jing arrived and announced that Shangguan Hongyan’s father had agreed to their marriage in exchange for Yue Jing risking his life in the Ten Thousand Demons Forbidden Land.
• Chen Xuan arrived, and Shangguan Hongyan eagerly tried to link arms with him despite his attempts to avoid her.
• Yue Jing threatened Chen, so Chen pulled Shangguan Hongyan into his embrace and released Dragon Might, forcing Yue Jing to stagger back without attacking.
• Chen Xuan led Shangguan Hongyan into the canyon, where she offered to please him if he killed Yue Jing.

Shangguan Hongyan baited Chen Xuan and Yue Jing at a banquet, then lured Chen Xuan toward Red Beauty Valley. Yue Jing backed down after Chen Xuan struck him down, and Shangguan Hongyan left him with a final public humiliation.

• Shangguan Hongyan offered Chen Xuan a relic tied to Mu Yun Sanxian's old lover, saying it was in Red Beauty Valley.
• At the banquet, Shangguan Hongyan flirted openly with Chen Xuan, provoking Yue Jing and the other Demon Cultivators.
• Yue Jing attacked Chen Xuan with his Double Pupils and Soul Daze, but Chen Xuan slapped him through the hall.
• After Shangguan Feitian warned Yue Jing that fighting Chen Xuan could get him killed, Yue Jing stopped preparing a Forbidden Technique.
• Shangguan Hongyan invited Chen Xuan to Red Beauty Valley, and he followed her while Yue Jing endured her taunt about becoming a green-hatted turtle.

Chen Xuan met Shangguan Hongyan in Red Beauty Valley, learned about the dangers and immortal essence tied to the Ten Thousand Demon Gourd, and agreed to help cure her illness in exchange for its cold qi. The chapter ended as Yue Jing broke into the valley and heard Shangguan Hongyan’s cries from inside the Bronze Ancient House.

• Yue Jing flew into a rage over Shangguan Hongyan’s insults and charged toward Red Beauty Valley while Shangguan Feitian watched and criticized his recklessness.
• Yue Jing attacked Red Beauty Valley’s protective array as Diao Naixiao taunted him about Shangguan Hongyan and Chen Xuan.
• Shangguan Hongyan warned Chen Xuan about the Ten Thousand Demon Mountain Forbidden Area and explained that the Ten Thousand Demon Gourd held immortal essence from a gourd vine rooted in an immortal’s severed arm.
• Shangguan Hongyan gave Chen Xuan a jade flute and asked him to kill Yue Jing and cure her strange illness.
• Chen Xuan identified Shangguan Hongyan’s condition as the Nine Severed Cold Meridians and began treating it with Dragon Flame in exchange for her Innate Origin Cold Qi.
• Yue Jing broke through the valley’s array and reached the Bronze Ancient House, where he and the demon cultivators heard Shangguan Hongyan’s cries.

Chen Xuan dissolved Shangguan Hongyan’s Nine Severed Cold Meridians, helping her break through to the eighth-grade Transformation Spirit Realm while collecting her Innate Origin Cold Qi. When Yue Jing confronted them over his fiancée, Chen Xuan mocked him until he attacked, giving Chen Xuan the chance to kill him.

• Chen Xuan dissolved Shangguan Hongyan’s Nine Severed Cold Meridians and collected the Innate Origin Cold Qi released from her body.
• Shangguan Hongyan broke through from Nascent Soul Peak to the eighth-grade Transformation Spirit Realm, drawing the Demon Cultivators’ attention.
• Yue Jing smashed the Bronze Ancient House’s shielding formation and confronted Chen Xuan and Shangguan Hongyan.
• Chen Xuan told Yue Jing, “your fiancée is amazing,” provoking him into attacking with the Thunderclap Battle Blade.

Chen Xuan overwhelmed Yue Jing with a single sword strike and refused Shangguan Feitian’s demand to spare him. He killed Yue Jing despite the Red Phoenix Clan Chief’s threat, leaving the conflict with Shangguan Feitian poised to escalate.

• Yue Jing attacked Chen Xuan with his full strength, using the Thunderclap Battle Blade and Yuan Magnetic Fluctuation.
• Chen Xuan unleashed his peak power and severed Yue Jing’s blade, gravely wounding him with one strike.
• Chen Xuan dragged Yue Jing’s fleeing bird head back and rejected his plea for mercy.
• Shangguan Feitian arrived and demanded that Chen Xuan spare Yue Jing, threatening him when Chen Xuan refused.
• Chen Xuan stomped Yue Jing’s head apart and burned his soul away with Dragon Flame.

Chen Xuan killed Yue Jing and stood up to Shangguan Feitian, who ultimately retreated without fighting. Back in Qingqiu, Chen Xuan reunited with Bai Bingyan, while Bai Qian revealed that her Love Tribulation had fallen upon him and sought the Great Luo Ice Heart Cold Soul to control it.

• Chen Xuan killed Yue Jing and challenged Shangguan Feitian, who spared him for Shangguan Hongyan's sake and departed.
• Shangguan Hongyan invited Chen Xuan to her room, but he returned to Qingqiu after declining.
• Chen Xuan gave Mu Yun Sanxian the jade flute, then went to Bing Yan Palace and encountered Bai Bingrui teasing him about Shangguan Hongyan.
• Bai Bingyan sent Bai Bingrui away and brought Chen Xuan into a bedchamber.
• Bai Qian told Bai Yaowu she would enter the Ten Thousand Demon Forbidden Zone with Chen Xuan and asked for the Great Luo Ice Heart Cold Soul.
• Bai Qian revealed her Love Tribulation had fallen upon Chen Xuan, refined the ice treasure into her body, and left.

After Li Changshou sent a green caterpillar to Cai Jiuyou, Chen Xuan refined Innate Origin Cold Qi in seclusion and reached the fifth tier of the immortal-grade Nascent Soul Realm. He then confronted Cai Xukun, who had insulted him and challenged his Pill Venerable title, and demanded that he kneel or die.

• Li Changshou learned that Chen Xuan had killed Yue Jing, accepted Cai Jiuyou's request, and sent a green caterpillar with the purple-robed young man.
• Chen Xuan spent thirty days under the treasure tower's hundredfold time acceleration refining Innate Origin Cold Qi, reaching the fifth tier of the immortal-grade Nascent Soul Realm.
• Bai Bingyan told Chen Xuan that Cai Xukun was spreading claims that his Pill Venerable title was false and was provoking him outside Qingqiu.
• Chen Xuan arrived at Qingqiu's entrance and learned that Cai Xukun was Cai Jiuyou's younger brother and had come to challenge him on behalf of the Unrivaled Pill King.
• Chen Xuan demanded that Cai Xukun kneel and apologize or die.

Chen Xuan crushed Cai Xukun for provoking him, then rejected Cai Jiuyou’s challenge to a pill duel until Cai Jiuyou offered a Low-Grade Dao Artifact as the prize. Chen Xuan accepted the wager, and the pill duel was about to begin.

• Cai Xukun attacked Chen Xuan verbally and tried to resist, but Chen Xuan’s invisible pressure smashed him into the ground and left him gravely injured.
• Cai Jiuyou confronted Chen Xuan, but Chen Xuan pressed down again when Cai Xukun continued insulting him, forcing Cai Jiuyou to take his brother away to recover.
• Shangguan Hongyan arrived and teased Chen Xuan, provoking Bai Bingrui, while Cai Jiuyou returned and prepared to face Chen Xuan.
• Cai Jiuyou challenged Chen Xuan to a pill duel, but Chen Xuan refused until Cai Jiuyou offered a Low-Grade Dao Artifact if he lost.
• Cai Jiuyou demanded that Chen Xuan publicly acknowledge his status as a Pill Venerable if Cai Jiuyou won, and Chen Xuan accepted the condition.

Chen Xuan accepted Cai Jiuyou’s challenge for the title of Pill Revered and agreed to a one-day pill contest, with vast wagers placed on the outcome. Cai Jiuyou began refining a fire-element Top-Grade Treasure Pill using a Vermilion Bird Original True Feather and claimed it could approach Half-Immortal Pill quality, while Chen Xuan remained calm.

• Ha Xingkong, Tian Xuan, Feng Zhenyu, and Lei Fenghua wagered heavily on Cai Jiuyou’s victory, and Chen Xuan offered to bank the bets with more than two billion Spirit Stones.
• Cai Xukun and other Demon Cultivators placed additional wagers, bringing the total to six hundred and twenty-three million Spirit Stones alongside Cai Jiuyou’s Low-Grade Dao Artifact.
• Cai Jiuyou proposed a one-day contest in which each contestant would refine one pill using their own ingredients, and Chen Xuan accepted while warning that no one could take the Pill Revered title from him without facing his wrath.
• Cai Jiuyou began refining with his Nine Dragons Furnace and rare fire-element ingredients, then revealed that he had mastered the Nine Saints Pill Canon and possessed a medicinal body.
• Cai Jiuyou added a Vermilion Bird Original True Feather to his ingredients and boasted that his pill would approach Half-Immortal Pill quality, challenging Chen Xuan to match him.

Cai Jiuyou used the Vermilion Bird Original True Feather, Li Fire Golden Eyes, and an Eternal Evergreen Insect Emperor to advance his pill refinement while taunting Chen Xuan. Chen Xuan stayed confident, left with Bai Bingyan to soak in the hot springs, and was startled when Bai Bingrui approached him in a revealing dress.

• Cai Jiuyou melted the Vermilion Bird Original True Feather with Li Fire Golden Eyes and used an Eternal Evergreen Insect Emperor to feed its essence into his Nine Dragons Furnace.
• Chen Xuan mocked Cai Jiuyou and the gathered Immortality Ranking prodigies, angering Cai Jiuyou and Lei Fenghua.
• Chen Xuan said he needed at most half a day to refine his pills, then left with Bai Bingyan to soak in the hot springs.
• At Bing Yan Palace, Chen Xuan relaxed in the hot spring until Bai Bingrui entered his bedchamber wearing a thin pink dress, leaving him stunned.

Bai Bingyan disguised herself as Bai Bingrui to tease Chen Xuan and gave him a Green Wood Earth Emperor Heart, which helped him reach Immortal Grade Rank 6 Nascent Soul Realm. Chen Xuan then arrived at Qingqiu to compete against Cai Jiuyou in pill refinement, setting the stage for the wager over more than six hundred million Spirit Stones and Dao Artifacts.

• Bai Bingyan admitted she had taken Bai Bingrui's appearance, teased Chen Xuan, and presented him with the Green Wood Earth Emperor Heart.
• Chen Xuan absorbed the treasure's power, replenished his damaged origin and blood essence, and advanced to Immortal Grade Rank 6 Nascent Soul Realm.
• Bai Bingyan teased Chen Xuan about her sisters before reminding him it was time to refine pills.
• At the entrance to Qingqiu, Cai Jiuyou nurtured his pill in the Nine Dragons Furnace as Ha Xingkong praised its prospects and claimed Qingqiu would owe more than six hundred million Spirit Stones if Chen Xuan fled.
• Chen Xuan arrived holding Bai Bingyan's hand, promised to give her the Dao Artifacts he won, and brought out his Star Moon Pill Furnace while taunting Cai Jiuyou.

Chen Xuan and Cai Jiuyou competed in pill refinement, and Chen Xuan used rare treasures, extraordinary qi, and Chubby’s help to disrupt Cai Jiuyou’s attempt. Chen Xuan survived a fierce pill tribulation and produced a Half-Immortal Pill, leaving the demons astonished.

• Chen Xuan began refining with a Quasi-Heavenly Medicine, rare ice-attributed treasures, and Three Lights Divine Water, then formed Spirit Pills from torrents of extraordinary qi to reward Qingqiu’s demons.
• Chubby appeared, took control of Cai Jiuyou’s Eternal Evergreen Worm, and drew crimson essence from the Nine Dragons Furnace into Chen Xuan’s pill cauldron.
• Bai Bingyan blocked Cai Jiuyou when he tried to reclaim the stolen essence, arguing that he had set the competition’s rules and released the worm first.
• Chen Xuan balanced the conflicting medicinal powers with his essence blood as a pill tribulation descended over Qingqiu’s entrance.
• Chen Xuan endured the lightning and opened the Star Moon Pill Cauldron to reveal a seven-colored pill shaped like a meditating infant, which he identified as a Half-Immortal Pill.

Chen Xuan defeated Cai Jiuyou in pill refinement, collected the wagers, and shared part of the winnings with Qingqiu. As the expedition into the Ten Thousand Demon Forbidden Zone approached, Longevity Loose Immortal summoned Zang Daoyi, Hua Lingtian warned Chen Xuan of the dangers, and Liu Ruyan realized the slave seal was reverse-controlling her.

• Chen Xuan claimed victory over Cai Jiuyou, kept the Eternal Evergreen Worm, and demanded the Low-Grade Dao Artifact and the wagered spirit stones from the Cai brothers and Ha Xingkong's group.
• Chen Xuan distributed 123 million spirit stones to Qingqiu and gave the Low-Grade Dao Artifact bracelet to Bai Bingyan.
• Longevity Loose Immortal discovered his connection to the Eternal Evergreen Worm had been severed and summoned Zang Daoyi to the Ten Thousand Demons Mountain.
• Hua Lingtian warned Chen Xuan that powerful clans and the Demon Ancestor and Demon Empress would target him in the Ten Thousand Demon Forbidden Zone, and cautioned him not to explore the Fountain of Youth.
• Liu Ruyan struggled against her growing urge to serve Chen Xuan, while the Demon Concubine told her the Great Red Dust Slave Seal Talisman would fully reverse-control her after forty-nine days.

Chen Xuan joined the Qingqiu group at the Ten Thousand Demon Forbidden Zone, where he encountered rival cultivators and rejected Su Meier’s advances. After the clans opened the Ten Thousand Demon Void Passage, Bai Qian seized his arm and led him inside first.

• Chen Xuan reassured Bai Bingyan before leaving for the Ten Thousand Demon Forbidden Zone with her.
• At the forbidden area, Chen Xuan spotted hostile rivals and insulted Su Meier when she tried to approach him.
• Bai Qian drove Su Meier away, and the blind Zang Daoyi arrived, drawing wary attention from the cultivators.
• Chen Xuan and Bai Qian swore Great Dao Oaths to pursue the Ten Thousand Demon Gourd for the Qingqiu Fox Clan.
• The thirteen clan chiefs opened the Ten Thousand Demon Void Passage, which would remain open for a hundred days.
• Bai Qian grabbed Chen Xuan and rushed with him through the passage ahead of everyone else.

Bai Qian and Chen Xuan entered the Ten Thousand Demon Forbidden Zone ahead of the other cultivators and set out for the Fountain of Youth, but a calamity wind drove them into an Ancient Battlefield ruin and trapped them in a sealed Small World. As they fled the warning-marked Demon Suppression Land, a hidden demon watched them and declared that the trapped cultivators were its food.

• Bai Qian took Chen Xuan through the Ten Thousand Demon Void Passage, warned him about the forbidden zone's dangers, and accepted a drop of Chubby's origin essence.
• Chen Xuan and Bai Qian fought off Ghost Face Blood Bats before a Doomsday Calamity Wind forced them to seek shelter in the Ancient Battlefield Ruins.
• Mysterious void power pulled Chen Xuan and Bai Qian into a sealed Small World, where Bai Qian's Space Breaking Talisman failed to free them.
• Chen Xuan and Bai Qian found a lightning-wreathed Lonely Peak bearing a blood-written warning to trespassers and retreated from it.
• Nine Doomsday Calamity Winds herded nearly a hundred Demon Cultivator powerhouses into the ruins, where the same void power trapped them in the Small World.
• A pair of enormous black eyes appeared atop the Lonely Peak, and a hidden demon called the trapped cultivators its food.

Chen Xuan escaped a demonic aura’s lock, while the Nine Viper Demon Immortal beneath Lonely Peak began hunting for him and Bai Qian. Exploring an ancient battlefield with Bai Qian, Chen Xuan found the remains of Loose Immortals abandoned by the Immortal World and obtained their Golden Battle Flag after promising his master would avenge them.

• Chen Xuan erased the aura targeting him with Little Primal Dragon Immortal Qi and concealed himself, while the Nine Viper Demon Immortal identified him as a potential vessel and sent out demonic flames to hunt.
• Cai Jiuyou discovered that demonic thoughts were controlling cultivators, and Cai Xukun succumbed and charged northward.
• Chen Xuan and Bai Qian explored an ancient battlefield and found more than a hundred skeletons, including a platinum skeleton holding a Golden Battle Flag.
• The Golden Battle Flag revealed the dead Loose Immortals’ anger at being abandoned by the Immortal World after they answered its decree to suppress a great demon.
• Chen Xuan promised the Loose Immortals that his master would avenge their grievances, and the Golden Battle Flag flew into his hands.