Chapter Summaries

As the Immortal Array weakened, Ji Wushuang slaughtered Hidden Sect cultivators, used Liu Ruyan to help him break through to Nascent Soul, and learned that Chen Xuan had entered the Dragon Gate with Luo Qingxian. Enraged by Liu Ruyan’s taunts and Chen Xuan’s apparent lead in claiming the great immortal fortune, Ji Wushuang vowed to kill him.

• Ni Chang worried about Chen Xuan, while Yuan Bu'er reassured her that Chen Xuan could protect himself.
• Ji Wushuang defeated the Hidden Sect group, forced Lin Lin to become his servant, and froze and devoured the other disciples.
• Liu Ruyan came to Ji Wushuang’s cave and helped him break through, but he condensed an Eighth Grade Nascent Soul instead of the Ninth Grade one he wanted.
• Ji Wushuang struck Liu Ruyan after blaming her for his disappointing breakthrough, and she provoked him by claiming Chen Xuan was more capable.
• Liu Ruyan told Ji Wushuang that Chen Xuan had entered the Dragon Gate with Luo Qingxian and that the great immortal fortune lay inside.
• Ji Wushuang flew into a rage and swore to kill Chen Xuan.

Chen Xuan and Luo Qingxian emerged from the Dragon Gate after a month together, and Chen Xuan tried to claim the gate as the Immortal Array neared collapse. When the assembled geniuses attacked him to seize the opportunity, he overwhelmed them with his heavy sword and announced that he was robbing them.

• The Dragon Spirit told Chen Xuan that the Dragon Gate would fall dormant in a month and instructed him to seize and refine it before the Immortal Array dissipated.
• Chen Xuan and Luo Qingxian spent a month together in the pagoda, grew closer, and reluctantly left hand in hand.
• Chen Xuan and Luo Qingxian emerged from the Dragon Gate as its immortal radiance withdrew, but Chen Xuan failed to store it in his pagoda and realized he needed to refine it with a secret art.
• Nearly three hundred gathered geniuses attacked Chen Xuan, but he repelled their combined assaults with two horizontal sweeps of the Haotian Heavy Sword.
• Chen Xuan cut down Gui Li of the Forget Love Demonic Sect and declared that the gathered geniuses were surrounded and being robbed.

Chen Xuan fought the cultivators gathered at the Dragon Gate and overwhelmed them with his sword, physique, and soul. After killing most of his attackers, he stood among the survivors and challenged anyone else to face him.

• The Red-Haired Enchantress taunted Chen Xuan and incited Diao Zhenxiao and other cultivators to attack him.
• Chen Xuan fought off waves of attackers, wounded Diao Zhenxiao, and deflected his Yin-Yang Two-Phases Thunder into the demonic cultivators.
• Turtle Thirteen trapped Chen Xuan and used his Annihilating Soul Divine Power, but Chen Xuan broke free and killed him with one sword strike.
• Chen Xuan killed Pan Wu with a single punch and pursued Wood Daoist after the latter briefly bound him with branches.
• Chen Xuan unleashed the Sky Dragon Eight Sounds, then slaughtered most of the besieging cultivators as Shi Batian and the White Bone Young Master fled.
• Chen Xuan stood over the battlefield with the Haotian Heavy Sword and roared, "Who! Else?..."

Chen Xuan finished refining the Dragon Gate just as the Immortal Array vanished and powerful cultivators arrived to seize it. When they threatened him, he released his Heavenly Punishment Golden Core Tribulation and used the Nine Yang True Dragon Art to redirect its lightning toward them, leaving the experts fleeing as he pursued them.

• Chen Xuan suppressed the gathered geniuses, cleared the battlefield, and nearly finished refining the Dragon Gate while the Li Yang Sect disciples watched from afar.
• The Immortal Array disappeared, and Sword Master Fu Du and other powerful cultivators arrived to demand the Dragon Gate; Chen Xuan and Luo Qingxian blocked Fu Du's first strike with their combined swords.
• Jialan learned that Luo Qingxian had reached the ninth-grade, ninth-tier Transformation Spirit Realm as the arriving experts demanded that Chen Xuan surrender the Dragon Gate.
• Chen Xuan refused to yield and unleashed his Heavenly Punishment Golden Core Tribulation, then used the Nine Yang True Dragon Art to conceal his aura and redirect the lightning toward the Seven Fiends Evil Lord and the other experts.
• Chen Xuan pursued the fleeing cultivators, repeatedly drawing waves of Heavenly Condemnation Lightning toward them.

Chen Xuan used the Heavenly Punishment Golden Core Tribulation to turn the Sword Master Fu Du into its target, while evading his attacks and letting the lightning temper his body. After Fu Du’s body was destroyed and his soul escaped, the tribulation’s final Seven-Colored Thunder Dragon locked onto Chen Xuan and dived toward him.

• Chen Xuan provoked the tribulation lightning while pursuing the Sword Master Fu Du, then withdrew and let Fu Du draw the bolts as the others fled.
• Fu Du struck at Chen Xuan, who blocked the sword qi with the Haotian Heavy Sword, shattered it, and escaped with the Illusion Sky Robe protecting him.
• Fu Du offered to reconcile, but Chen Xuan refused; when Fu Du charged him, black thunder dragons and then a Seven-Colored Thunder Dragon attacked Fu Du.
• The lightning tore apart Fu Du’s body, and his grievously wounded soul escaped on a streak of sword light while Seven Fiends Evil Lord and the others sent disciples after him.
• A final Seven-Colored Thunder Dragon locked onto Chen Xuan and plunged toward him.

Chen Xuan survived the Heavenly Condemnation Lightning Tribulation and formed a Tenth-Grade Heavenly Condemnation Golden Core, but more than twenty powerful cultivators attacked him and Luo Qingxian. Chen Xuan summoned Senior Ape, who arrived and instantly killed Long River Sword Venerable.

• Chen Xuan endured the Seven-Colored Thunder Dragon and heart demon tribulation, refining the lightning until his Nine Yang True Dragon Art reached its second level.
• Chen Xuan emerged from underground and formed a Tenth-Grade Heavenly Condemnation Golden Core, stunning the watching cultivators and delighting Luo Qingxian.
• Liu Ruyan urged Xuan Yang Zhenren to seize Chen Xuan, and Xuan Yang Zhenren and other powerful cultivators charged at him.
• Luo Qingxian used a Forbidden Technique to take Chen Xuan away, but Seven Fiends Evil Lord attacked them with his White Bone Great Capture Divine Power.
• Chen Xuan struck Seven Fiends Evil Lord's skeletal claw with golden Dragon Flame, badly damaging it and forcing Seven Fiends Evil Lord to self-detonate it.
• Chen Xuan called for Senior Ape, who arrived in overwhelming immortal radiance and crushed Long River Sword Venerable into blood mist.

Yuan Bu'er appeared to protect Chen Xuan, forcing the cultivators who had attacked him to apologize and pay compensation. Chen Xuan then extorted Spirit Stones from the gathered prodigies, including Liu Ruyan, who asked to reconcile.

• Yuan Bu'er crushed the Long River Sword Venerable and revealed himself as the Loose Immortal Zhu Li, then spared Di Sha Kunmo for his master's sake.
• Yuan Bu'er called Chen Xuan his prospective son-in-law, and Ni Chang blushed as he teased her about marrying him.
• Yuan Bu'er struck Xuan Yang Zhenren and demanded that the Great Cultivators apologize and compensate Chen Xuan or die.
• Chen Xuan collected nearly ninety million Spirit Stones and rare treasures from the Great Cultivators, then demanded compensation from the gathered prodigies for standing by.
• Chen Xuan charged Liu Ruyan five times the usual amount, and she asked him to forgive her and get back together; he told her to hand over the Spirit Stones and stop talking nonsense.

Chen Xuan rejected Liu Ruyan, declared that he would compete for the Wild Heaven Supreme Talent Competition championship and marry Bai Bingyan, then spent ten days dual cultivating with Luo Qingxian. They arrived at Ten Thousand Flowers Valley with both having advanced, leaving the gathered cultivators stunned by Luo Qingxian’s breakthrough.

• Chen Xuan collected Spirit Stones and treasures from the supreme talents who apologized, then told Xuan Yang Zhenren he would compete and marry Bai Bingyan.
• Jialan took her people toward Ten Thousand Flowers Valley, while Chen Xuan and Luo Qingxian went off to speak privately; Xuan Yang Zhenren later sent Copper Hammer Elder to contact Ji Yaoyue about winning Chen Xuan back.
• Ji Wushuang emerged from seclusion at the fifth level of the Eighth Rank Nascent Soul Realm with Sword Domain, then learned Chen Xuan had survived and gained Yuan Bu'er as a prospective father-in-law.
• Chen Xuan confirmed the pagoda’s Time Seed only worked for him and that opening its second floor would consume most of his Crimson-Gold True Essence.
• Chen Xuan and Luo Qingxian dual cultivated in the pagoda for ten days, advancing him to the third level of the Tenth Rank Heaven's Condemnation Golden Core Realm and her to the first level of the Ninth Rank Body Integration Realm.
• Chen Xuan and Luo Qingxian arrived hand in hand at Ten Thousand Flowers Valley and revealed her breakthrough, shocking the assembled cultivators.

Chen Xuan defended his relationship with Luo Qingxian and announced that he would rebuild Heavenly Maiden Dao Sect so he could marry her. Nangong Feifei arrived with Chu Chu, and Chen Xuan promised to make amends for his past treatment of her, leaving their relationship unsettled.

• Liu Ruyan mocked Chen Xuan, and he embraced Luo Qingxian, challenged his critics, and taunted Liu Ruyan and Ji Wushuang.
• Ji Wushuang nearly attacked Chen Xuan over the Half-Immortal Pill, but Xuan Yang Zhenren stopped them.
• Jialan ordered Luo Qingxian to sever ties with Chen Xuan, but Luo Qingxian refused and threatened to leave Misty Sect.
• Chen Xuan reminded Jialan of the rule protecting lovers in upper sects and declared that he would apply to restore Heavenly Maiden Dao Sect's status as an upper sect.
• Nangong Feifei arrived with Chu Chu, heard Chen Xuan apologize for the Demonfall Well, and left Chu Chu behind after he promised to make it up to her and teased her about her figure.

Chen Xuan helped begin rebuilding the Heavenly Maiden Dao Sect in the Raging Dragon Sea Area, then opened the second level of his pagoda and spent a fortune activating its Heaven and Earth Grinding Disc to forge a new weapon. Meanwhile, Li Yinglian and Ji Yaoyue conspired to cooperate with a plot against Chen Xuan as he prepared to apply to establish the sect.

• Chen Xuan agreed to let Ni Chang become his junior sister, and Yuan Bu'er brought her, Chu Chu, and Chen Xuan to the hidden Water Mansion.
• Chen Xuan, Yu Meiren, Yuan Bu'er, and the others chose the Raging Dragon Sea Area as the site for the rebuilt sect, and Yuan Bu'er agreed to stay for several years at Ni Chang's request.
• Chen Xuan shared treasures from the Burial Immortal Graveyard, and Yu Meiren and Yuan Bu'er planned to lay a grand protective formation.
• Chen Xuan opened the pagoda's second level, discovered the Heaven and Earth Grinding Disc, and fed it swords, forging materials, and one hundred million Spirit Stones.
• Chen Xuan supplied his blood essence and an unconscious Dragon Soul to the grinding disc to form a Natal Artifact Soul, then kept the returned half-drop of Heavenly Dragon Blood Essence for Golden Horn Great King.
• Li Yinglian and Ji Yaoyue discussed Xuan Yang's plan to reconcile Ji Yaoyue with Chen Xuan and agreed to cooperate while hoping to profit from a plot to capture him.

The chapter introduced Tu Hongyan, a white-haired demon consort imprisoned by the monk Da Ci, and showed Jian Jingchen killing Yu Feng while pursuing information about Bai Bingyan. After learning that Chen Xuan would soon visit the Seven Towers of Central Province, Jian Jingchen planned to target him, while Bai Bingyan learned of Yu Feng’s death and decided to leave her hiding place to find her husband.

• Da Ci visited the imprisoned Tu Hongyan and demanded that she submit to Buddhism, but she refused and threatened revenge.
• A demon informant told Tu Hongyan that Chen Xuan’s Extreme Yang True Dragon Bloodline and cultivation with Luo Qingxian might help free her, and Tu Hongyan welcomed the prospect of meeting him.
• Jian Jingchen confronted Yu Feng, who used a Heavenly Profound Demon Crystal before sacrificing herself to protect Bai Bingyan’s whereabouts.
• Jian Jingchen learned from his servant that Chen Xuan would head to the Seven Towers of Central Province in two days and agreed to pursue him.
• Bai Bingyan discovered Yu Feng had died, swore to avenge her, and decided to leave the Water Mansion to search for Chen Xuan.

The National Teacher sought Shui Linglong's divination on when to capture Chen Xuan, but she secretly learned that Chen Xuan was her destined tribulation and only savior. In the Eastern Sea, Purple Rhyme Superior told Blue Flood Dragon King that Dragon Flame had appeared in Chen Xuan, prompting the king to head for the Seven Towers Plain.

• The Demon Ancestor told the National Teacher to use strategy to capture Chen Xuan, and the National Teacher left displeased that he had not been given a treasure.
• The National Teacher brought He Xiaoxiao to Heavenly Secrets Island and asked Shui Linglong to divine the best time to capture and kill Chen Xuan.
• Shui Linglong named the Seven Towers Plain as the best opportunity, then later spat black blood and realized Chen Xuan was her destined tribulation and only savior.
• Purple Rhyme Superior told Blue Flood Dragon King that Dragon Flame had appeared in Chen Xuan after she encountered him in the Burial Immortal Graveyard.
• Blue Flood Dragon King became excited and declared that he would go to the Central Province Seven Towers.

Yuan Bu'er and Yu Meiren completed a powerful formation to protect the Profound Maiden Dao Sect, while Chen Xuan forged Dragon Sword and rapidly strengthened himself. With the sect ready to seek recognition from the Seven Towers, Chen Xuan prepared to face interference from the Vast Sword Sect and other forces.

• Yuan Bu'er and Yu Meiren established a five-part grand formation around the Turbulent Sea Area, while Golden Horn Great King rallied sea beasts to strengthen it.
• Yu Meiren declared that Chen Xuan would become Sect Master of the Profound Maiden Dao Sect and privately resolved to nurture him as her little husband.
• Chen Xuan completed Dragon Sword, an Immortal Artifact Roughcast heavy sword infused with an awakened Dragon Soul, and named it his natal weapon.
• Chen Xuan spent five million Spirit Stones to activate the Time Seed, then cultivated for a hundred accelerated days and reached the fifth level of the tenth-grade Heaven's Condemnation Golden Core Realm.
• Chen Xuan gave Golden Horn Great King half a drop of Heavenly Dragon Blood Essence and invited it to become the sect's guardian divine beast; Golden Horn agreed and swallowed it.
• Yu Meiren warned Chen Xuan that the Vast Sword Sect and other forces would interfere with the Seven Towers journey, and Chen Xuan eagerly accepted the challenge.

Loose cultivators and sect forces gathered around the Raging Dragon Sea Area to seize its resources, while the Nine Sects and Thirteen Schools awaited Chen Xuan at the Seven Towers Plain. Chen Xuan arrived atop the Golden Horn Sky Devouring Serpent, drawing the crowd’s attention and provoking Ji Wushuang’s fury.

• Jin Wuwang rallied loose cultivators in Huangyan City for a planned assault on the Raging Dragon Sea Area once they confirmed the serpent had left.
• At the Seven Towers Plain, Bai Ling and Zhao Caiyue speculated that Chen Xuan planned to return to a major sect, while Mu Xueyuan dismissed their theories and Liu Ruyan regretted losing him.
• The Golden Horn Sky Devouring Serpent arrived carrying Yuan Bu'er, Yu Meiren, Chen Xuan, and their companions, as Xuan Yang Zhenren and other Great Cultivators secretly crushed Communication Jade Talismans.
• Ji Yaoyue stared in astonishment at Chen Xuan’s handsome appearance, and many female cultivators shifted their attention from Ji Wushuang to him.
• Ji Wushuang saw Ji Yaoyue’s reaction and, enraged by the attention Chen Xuan received, swore that Chen Xuan would die that day.

Chen Xuan arrived at the Seven Towers to demand the restoration of the Profound Maiden Dao Sect, but Dragon Cry Superior urged him to join another sect instead. As various sects offered to recruit him and Ji Yaoyue tried to lure him back, Chen Xuan accused her of betraying and plotting against him, leaving Yu Meiren to shield him from her attack.

• Chen Xuan announced that he had come to the Seven Towers to rebuild the Profound Maiden Dao Sect, and Yu Meiren slapped Bai Ling for insulting him.
• Dragon Cry Superior rejected Chen Xuan's request and suggested that he join one of the Nine Sects and Thirteen Schools to secure a place in the Wild Heaven Supreme Talent Competition.
• Several sect leaders, including Shangguan Yayin, offered to recruit Chen Xuan, while Ji Yaoyue urged him to return to the Vast Sword Sect and promised better treatment.
• Chen Xuan rejected Ji Yaoyue's appeal and accused her of plotting against him, helping Ji Wushuang, and causing his forced self-detonation.
• Ji Yaoyue tried to attack Chen Xuan, but Yu Meiren intervened and used her Tribulation Transcendence Realm aura to drive Ji Yaoyue back.

Chen Xuan rejected the Vast Sword Sect’s attempt to bring him back and reaffirmed his bond with Yu Meiren. When Dragon Cry Superior announced three nearly impossible trials for the Profound Maiden Dao Sect to regain upper-sect status, Chen Xuan vowed to begin the first trial at once.

• Mu Xueyuan urged Chen Xuan to kneel, kowtow to Ji Yaoyue, and return to the Vast Sword Sect, but he refused and declared their ties severed forever.
• Yu Meiren promised to protect Chen Xuan, and he embraced her, provoking Ji Wushuang’s jealousy.
• Xuan Yang Zhenren threatened to leave after Dragon Cry Superior initially resisted the Profound Maiden Dao Sect’s application, but Dragon Cry persuaded him to stay and explain the requirements.
• Dragon Cry Superior announced that the sect must defend four of seven Battle Arenas, destroy a major demonic or Demon Race force within a year, and retrieve the Righteous Qi Immortal Tome from the Black Abyss.
• After Dragon Cry Superior challenged Chen Xuan to prove the trials could be completed, Chen Xuan ordered the Battle Arenas to be formed and vowed to clear the first trial.

Chen Xuan’s Profound Maiden Dao Sect began the Seven Towers tournament with Chu Chu winning one Qi Refining bout before losing to Fang Yuan, while Shi Lei won five Foundation Establishment bouts before Ling Feng defeated him. After conceding both arenas, Chen Xuan barred his other disciples from challenging Ling Feng, leaving the sect down two matches.

• Chen Xuan declared that he would defeat Dragon Cry Superior, and Dragon Cry Superior announced the seven-arena battle rules.
• Chu Chu defeated a Red Leaf Sect challenger in the Qi Refining Arena, then Fang Yuan used talismans and the Scolding Mysterious Sound to knock her off the arena.
• Chen Xuan comforted the tearful Chu Chu and conceded the Qi Refining Arena.
• Shi Lei won five consecutive Foundation Establishment battles before Ling Feng used an ancient jade talisman to overpower him and knock him off the arena.
• Chen Xuan treated Shi Lei and stopped Lan Lingfeng, Dong Yufei, and the others from challenging Ling Feng, then conceded the Foundation Establishment Arena.

Chen Xuan secured the Golden Core Platform for the Profound Maiden Dao Sect after no rival dared challenge him, then stepped onto the Nascent Soul Stage despite being a Golden Core cultivator. He invoked the contest rules and challenged the Nascent Soul cultivators of the Nine Sects and Thirteen Schools, leaving the crowd stunned.

• Chen Xuan took the Golden Core Platform and challenged the assembled sects, but no Golden Core cultivator accepted.
• Dragon Cry Superior declared the Profound Maiden Dao Sect the winner of the Golden Core Platform.
• Xuan Po and Ji Yaoyue mocked the Profound Maiden Dao Sect for lacking Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Chen Xuan stepped onto the Nascent Soul Stage, prompting surprise from the crowd and concern from those who knew his strength.
• Chen Xuan argued that a Golden Core cultivator could guard the Nascent Soul Stage and challenged its Nascent Soul opponents to fight.

Chen Xuan stood firm as more than twenty Nascent Soul cultivators answered his challenge, while Ji Yaoyue taunted him about Ji Wushuang and the Wild Heaven Supreme Talent Competition. Yu Meiren attacked Ji Yaoyue’s ally and then humiliated her with claims that Chen Xuan loved her, leaving Ji Yaoyue furious and insisting she had once been the most beautiful woman in Chen Xuan’s heart.

• More than twenty Nascent Soul cultivators, including Gu Ming and Copper Hammer Elder, released their auras and challenged Chen Xuan.
• Ji Yaoyue revealed that Ji Wushuang had reached the Nascent Soul Realm with an Eighth Grade Nascent Soul and urged him to win the upcoming competition and its marriage prize.
• Yu Meiren charged at Ji Yaoyue, but Xuan Yang Zhenren intercepted her; Yu Meiren overwhelmed him until Dragon Cry Superior and the other tower masters intervened.
• Yu Meiren mocked Ji Yaoyue by claiming Chen Xuan had fallen for her, and Ji Yaoyue angrily declared that Chen Xuan had once loved her to madness.

Chen Xuan defeated Copper Hammer Elder with ease and faced Fu Longxiang, who challenged him over Saintess Luo. The chapter ended with Fu Longxiang demanding a head-on clash to test how strong Chen Xuan was.

• Yu Meiren pressed Chen Xuan to say who was prettier, and Chen Xuan praised her while Ji Yaoyue seethed.
• Ji Wushuang consoled Ji Yaoyue as Chen Xuan returned to the arena to duel Copper Hammer Elder.
• Copper Hammer Elder used smoke and an Invisibility Talisman to launch a sneak attack, but Chen Xuan found him and beat him out of the arena.
• Fu Longxiang charged onto the arena and revealed that he hated Chen Xuan for being with Saintess Luo.
• Fu Longxiang challenged Chen Xuan to a direct collision to prove how hard the man Saintess Luo had chosen was.