Chapter Summaries

Liu Yuan shocked the gathered factions by comprehending three Creation Martial Arts, then used the Gray Light Seal to open the restriction guarding the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet’s true core. As he and his companions prepared to enter, a gigantic bloodthirsty dragon beast burst from the rift.

• Liu Yuan’s mastery of three Creation Martial Arts left Lin Lang Tian disgraced and awed the gathered faction leaders, while Mu Qianqian and Lin Dong reaffirmed their confidence in him.
• The Creation Martial Tablet faded, revealing an ancient palace filled with Nirvana Pills and guarded by terrifying ancient remains.
• Liu Yuan identified the palace as the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet’s core and led Lin Dong and Mu Qianqian toward the spatial rift.
• Liu Yuan used the Gray Light Seal to force open a stable passage through the restriction, astonishing Qin Shi, Huangfu Jing, and the other Martial Artists.
• A colossal dark-red-scaled dragon beast charged out of the rift, its overwhelming aura frightening everyone nearby.

Liu Yuan instantly killed the Ancient Blood Bat Dragon that guarded the palace, astonishing the crowd and securing its Monster Core and dragon essence blood for Lin Dong. With the gates open, Liu Yuan led the others inside, where the real treasures awaited.

• The Ancient Blood Bat Dragon appeared before the palace, and Lin Lang Tian hoped it would kill Liu Yuan while Little Sable urged Lin Dong to claim the beast's Monster Core and essence blood.
• Lin Dong asked Liu Yuan to help him obtain the beast's resources, and Liu Yuan agreed, dismissing the dragon as trash.
• The Ancient Blood Bat Dragon attacked Liu Yuan, who killed it instantly with Divine Thunder.
• Liu Yuan kept part of the Monster Core and dragon essence blood for the Phantom Spirit Cat and gave the rest to Lin Dong for his Monster Beast pet.
• Liu Yuan entered the Ancient Palace first, telling Lin Dong that the real grand finale was inside.

Liu Yuan guided Lin Dong and Mu Qianqian safely through the Ancient Palace’s traps while they gathered uncorrupted Nirvana Pills. Lin Lang Tian shifted a pursuing Nirvana Realm Guard Remnant’s attention onto Lin Dong, leaving him facing its killing intent.

• Liu Yuan warned Lin Dong and Mu Qianqian that the palace’s treasure chests and Nirvana Pills were protected by deadly restrictions and that some pills were corrupted.
• Liu Yuan led Lin Dong and Mu Qianqian through the safe route, helping them collect pure Nirvana Pills as greedy Martial Artists triggered traps and fell victim to corrupted pills.
• Lin Lang Tian accidentally awakened an Ancient Guardian Remnant by breaking a restriction hub, and the remnant pursued him while the Aged Soul urged him to flee toward other people.
• Lin Lang Tian burned blood essence to reach Lin Dong’s group and threw him a bag of corrupted Nirvana Pills before hiding behind a stone pillar.
• The Ancient Guardian Remnant locked onto Lin Dong and raised its greatsword to attack him.

Lin Lang Tian used corroded Nirvana Pills to draw a powerful Ancient Guardian toward Lin Dong, but Liu Yuan rescued Lin Dong and Mu Qianqian and faced the monster himself. Liu Yuan struck the guardian with a lightning-charged punch and sent it crashing into the ground, leaving everyone stunned.

• Lin Lang Tian used the corroded pills to provoke the Ancient Guardian into attacking Lin Dong.
• Liu Yuan pulled Lin Dong and Mu Qianqian out of the guardian’s sword strike and told them to wait while he dealt with it.
• Lin Lang Tian learned from the Aged Soul that the guardian had reached at least the Nirvana Realm and expected it to kill Liu Yuan.
• The Ancient Guardian fixed its Soul Fire on Liu Yuan and prepared another sword strike as the Martial Artists fled.
• Liu Yuan activated his Supreme Divine Thunder Body and Supreme Lightning Transformation, then charged the guardian with a punch.
• Liu Yuan’s fist met the guardian’s black sword and sent the Ancient Guardian flying into the ground, shocking the onlookers.

Liu Yuan revealed that he had reached Nirvana Realm and destroyed the Ancient Guardian with his Supreme Lightning and Devouring Divine Art. After the battle, he turned his attention to Lin Lang Tian, who was left fearing for his life.

• Liu Yuan sent the Four Yuan Nirvana Realm Ancient Guardian crashing into the corridor wall with one punch.
• The Aged Soul realized Liu Yuan was in Nirvana Realm, and Lin Lang Tian’s confidence collapsed.
• The guardian resumed its attack, and Liu Yuan used Supreme Lightning Transformation, Devouring Divine Art, and Great Black Creation Movement to evade it.
• Liu Yuan unleashed a dark purple beam that shattered the Ancient Guardian and erased its Soul Fire.
• Lin Lang Tian spat blood in despair as Liu Yuan turned his gaze toward him.

After Lin Lang Tian tried to redirect danger toward Liu Yuan’s brother, Liu Yuan decided to kill him despite knowing Lin Dong needed him as a rival. Lin Lang Tian fled and begged the mysterious soul in his consciousness for help as Liu Yuan blocked his escape.

• The martial artists watched Liu Yuan fix his killing intent on Lin Lang Tian, and Huangfu Jing told Qin Shi that Liu Yuan would kill him.
• Liu Yuan recalled that he had planned to spare Lin Lang Tian as Lin Dong’s whetstone, but changed his mind over Lin Lang Tian’s attempt to endanger his brother.
• Lin Lang Tian invoked the Lin Clan’s power, but Liu Yuan attacked with a thunderous hand and declared that he would die.
• Lin Lang Tian burned his blood essence and fled, but Liu Yuan used Great Black Creation Movement, Shadow-Following to appear in his path.
• Lin Lang Tian pleaded with the Mysterious Soul Body in his Sea of Consciousness to save him, offering it half control of his body.

Liu Yuan rejected the ancient soul’s attempt to bargain for Lin Lang Tian’s life and killed them both with his Divine Thunder. As the Martial Artists feared the consequences of his killing three superpowers’ prominent figures, Liu Yuan stood beside Lin Dong, unconcerned.

• An ancient soul took control of Lin Lang Tian’s body and blocked Liu Yuan’s fatal blow, then offered to spare Lin Lang Tian if Liu Yuan let them go.
• Liu Yuan refused to forgive Lin Lang Tian or be intimidated by the Lin Clan, and the ancient soul attacked him with the Great Heaven Creation Palm.
• Liu Yuan dodged the attack and countered with the Great Black Creation Movement and Supreme Divine Thunder: Great Judgment.
• Liu Yuan’s Purple Divine Lightning destroyed Lin Lang Tian’s body and dissolved the ancient soul, leaving neither alive.
• Lin Dong approached Liu Yuan, who dismissed Lin Lang Tian as a nuisance, while onlookers feared Liu Yuan had made enemies of three of the Great Yan Dynasty’s major powers.

After killing Lin Lang Tian and looting the Nirvana Pill Sea, Liu Yuan returned to the Great Demon Sect with Lin Dong and Mu Qianqian. He sent Lin Dong into seclusion, ordered an investigation into the Yin Kui Sect and the Devouring Ancestral Talisman, and began cultivating while Mu Lei considered the sect’s future alongside him.

• Liu Yuan, Lin Dong, and Mu Qianqian gathered the safe Nirvana Pills and left the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet for Great Demon Sect headquarters.
• Mu Qianqian arranged a quiet guest area for Lin Dong, and Liu Yuan told him to absorb the Great Desolate Prison Finger while the sect searched for the Devouring Ancestral Talisman.
• Liu Yuan asked Mu Qianqian to use the Great Demon Sect’s intelligence network to investigate the Yin Kui Sect and its forbidden grounds.
• Liu Yuan returned to his secret chamber and began absorbing his rewards and cultivating.
• Mu Qianqian told Mu Lei that Liu Yuan had killed Teng Lei, destroyed the Wang Clan’s elites, and killed Lin Lang Tian; Mu Lei praised Liu Yuan and asked for a detailed account.

Mu Lei concluded that Liu Yuan was a Nirvana Realm expert and ordered the Great Demon Sect to support him. After half a month of cultivation, Liu Yuan learned the Demon Devouring Art and learned that the Yin Kui Sect planned to break an ancient seal, prompting him to prepare to destroy the sect.

• Mu Qianqian recounted Liu Yuan's feats, and Mu Lei guessed that he had reached the Nirvana Realm.
• Mu Lei ordered the Great Demon Sect to follow Liu Yuan's wishes and monitor the Yin Kui Sect.
• After fifteen days in seclusion, Liu Yuan stabilized his Nirvana Realm cultivation and gained initial mastery of the Demon Devouring Art.
• Lin Dong emerged from seclusion with improved mastery of the Great Desolate Prison Finger and cultivation nearing the Creation Realm.
• Mu Qianqian reported that Teng Sha planned to seal the Yin Kui Sect in three days and break an ancient seal protecting a peerless treasure.
• Liu Yuan suspected the treasure was the Devouring Ancestral Talisman and told Mu Qianqian to prepare to ensure the Yin Kui Sect never reopened its gates.

Liu Yuan, Lin Dong, and Mu Qianqian arrived at Yin Puppet City to destroy the Yin Kui Sect, and Liu Yuan received a powerful Divine Talisman from the system. He ordered the slaughter to begin before the Great Demon Sect’s forces arrived.

• Mu Qianqian relayed Liu Yuan’s plan to attack Yin Puppet City, and Mu Lei ordered the Great Demon Sect’s elites to seal off the area.
• Liu Yuan, Lin Dong, and Mu Qianqian reached Yin Puppet City after the Yin Kui Sect shut its gates and raised its protective array.
• The system rewarded Liu Yuan for exploring the city with pills and a Devouring Divine Talisman more than ten times stronger than the Devouring Ancestral Talisman.
• Liu Yuan sensed Teng Sha and the Devouring Ancestral Talisman inside the city and told Lin Dong and Mu Qianqian they would not wait for the Great Demon Sect’s forces.
• Liu Yuan ordered Lin Dong and Mu Qianqian to kill every Yin Kui Sect member in black robes and leave no survivors.

Liu Yuan shattered the Yin Kui Sect’s protective array and slaughtered its fighters with the Devouring Divine Talisman and his Divine Thunder. He then turned toward the shaking Black Tower to hunt down the remaining members of the sect.

• Liu Yuan destroyed the Yin Kui Sect’s Sect Protecting Array with a single strike and led Lin Dong and Mu Qianqian into Yin Puppet City.
• Liu Yuan used the Devouring Divine Talisman to drain the Origin Power of thousands of low-level Yin Kui Sect disciples.
• Liu Yuan invoked the Devouring Divine Talisman’s Extinction technique, killing the drained disciples and turning them into dried corpses.
• Liu Yuan unleashed Thunder Prison Descent and killed the Form Creation Realm and Qi Creation Realm fighters with Purple Divine Lightning.
• Liu Yuan called Lin Dong and Mu Qianqian to follow him toward the shaking Black Tower to eliminate the remaining Yin Kui Sect members.

Liu Yuan entered Yin Puppet City and killed Teng Sha and the Yin Kui Sect members who resisted, then told Lin Dong to take the black Stone Talisman. After sensing someone nearby, Liu Yuan demanded that they reveal themselves.

• Teng Sha prepared to break the seal on the Devouring Ancestral Talisman when a steward warned him that Liu Yuan had destroyed the Sect Protecting Array and invaded.
• Liu Yuan entered the Mysterious Yin Tower with Lin Dong and Mu Qianqian, and Teng Sha recognized his Nirvana Realm pressure and begged for mercy.
• Liu Yuan refused Teng Sha’s offer, killed him with Purple Divine Lightning, and wiped out the remaining Yin Kui Sect members with Supreme Thunder Prison.
• Liu Yuan told Mu Qianqian to let the Great Demon Sect clean up and directed Lin Dong to take the black Stone Talisman.
• Liu Yuan sensed someone nearby and demanded that they show themselves.

Liu Yuan destroyed the Yin Kui Sect and forced the Martial Alliance to submit, leaving Mu Lei and the Great Demon Sect stunned by how quickly he had reshaped the Great Desolate Commandery’s balance of power.

• Liu Yuan revealed Martial Ancestor and two Martial Alliance elders hiding near the hall and warned them against interfering.
• Martial Ancestor and the elders bowed to Liu Yuan, who demanded that the Martial Alliance submit or die.
• Martial Ancestor knelt and offered the Martial Alliance’s leader’s seal, and the two elders acknowledged Liu Yuan as their master.
• Mu Lei entered with Great Demon Sect fighters, saw Teng Sha reduced to ashes and Martial Ancestor kneeling, and realized he had underestimated Liu Yuan.

Liu Yuan handed the Great Desolate Commandery’s remaining affairs to Mu Lei and had Lin Dong begin refining the subdued Devouring Ancestral Talisman. While Liu Yuan remained in seclusion, the Great Demon Sect and Martial Alliance united under the newly established Liu Alliance, whose rise astonished the people of the commandery.

• Liu Yuan instructed Mu Lei to bring order to the Great Desolate Commandery, and Mu Lei and Martial Ancestor accepted their subordinate roles.
• Liu Yuan urged Lin Dong to refine the Devouring Ancestral Talisman carefully, and Lin Dong thanked him with a solemn salute.
• Mu Lei established the Liu Alliance with Liu Yuan as Alliance Leader and himself and Martial Ancestor as Vice Alliance Leaders, uniting the Great Demon Sect, Martial Alliance, and affiliated factions.
• Mu Lei told Martial Ancestor that Liu Yuan remained in seclusion while guarding Lin Dong.
• A disciple told Jiang Lei and Jiang Xue that Liu Yuan had destroyed the Yin Kui Sect and united the commandery under the Liu Alliance, leaving Jiang Lei stunned and Jiang Xue shaken with pride and bitterness.

Liu Yuan left Lin Dong to refine the Devouring Ancestral Talisman and returned to Yin Puppet City, where the Liu Alliance had been established. He ordered invitations sent across the Great Yan Dynasty for a ceremony in three months, warning that he would destroy the Wang Clan and Lin Clan if they refused to attend.

• Liu Yuan judged that Lin Dong only needed time to refine the Devouring Ancestral Talisman and left the Mysterious Yin Tower’s forbidden grounds.
• Mu Lei and Martial Ancestor welcomed Liu Yuan at the Liu Alliance headquarters and reported on their work uniting the Martial Alliance and Great Demon Sect.
• Liu Yuan ordered Mu Lei to bring his clansmen and old friends from Flame City to the Great Desolate Commandery for the Alliance’s Ascension Ceremony.
• Liu Yuan gave Mu Lei and Martial Ancestor invitations for factions throughout the Great Yan Dynasty, including the royal family and the Four Great Clans.
• Mu Qianqian warned that the Wang Clan and Lin Clan might refuse the invitations or attack, but Liu Yuan vowed to visit them after the ceremony and destroy their clans if they did not come.

Mu Lei and Mu Qianqian escorted Liu Yuan’s old friends from Flame City to Liu City for his Ascension Ceremony. On the journey, Mu Qianqian recounted Liu Yuan’s rise to power, leaving Qing Tan and the others astonished as they neared the center of his domain.

• Mu Lei led an elite Liu Alliance force to Flame City and presented Liu Yuan’s token to prove he had come to escort Liu Yuan’s family and friends.
• Shi Hao opened the city gates, and Mu Lei told Lin Zhentian and the others that Liu Yuan had taken control of Great Desolate Commandery.
• Lin Zhentian, Lin Xiao, Shi Hao, Xuan Su, Zi Yue, and Qing Tan joined the procession and departed Flame City for Liu City.
• Mu Qianqian described how Liu Yuan killed Wang Pan and Lin Lang Tian, destroyed the Yin Kui Sect, and made the Martial Alliance submit.
• Qing Tan and the others listened in disbelief as the group flew toward Liu City and the coming Grand Ceremony.

Liu Yuan’s invitations to the Liu Alliance’s Grand Ceremony drew sharply different responses from the Great Yan Dynasty’s major powers. The Huangfu, Qin, and Lin Clans chose to attend, while the Wang Clan refused and plotted to disrupt Liu City; Liu Yuan waited at the alliance headquarters for friends and challengers alike.

• Huangfu Jian decided the Huangfu Clan would support Liu Yuan, attend the ceremony, and present valuable gifts after Huangfu Jing reported his strength.
• Qin Tian chose to befriend Liu Yuan and said he would personally lead the Qin Clan’s delegation to the ceremony.
• Lin Ke’er urged the Lin Clan to reconcile with Liu Yuan, and Lin Fan overruled the radicals and agreed to attend with a delegation.
• Wang Lei destroyed the invitation, refused to attend, and ordered the Wang Clan to stir up chaos in Liu City with help from forces Liu Yuan had defeated.
• The imperial family remained silent as the Grand Ceremony approached, while Liu Yuan waited at the Liu Alliance headquarters for his old friends and anyone who challenged his rules.

Liu Yuan welcomed his family and allies to Liu City and showed them the Liu Alliance’s strength and respect for him. The Great Yan Royal Family and two of the Four Great Clans agreed to attend his Ascension Ceremony, leaving Lin Zhentian stunned by Liu Yuan’s standing.

• The Flame City convoy entered Liu City, where Liu Alliance disciples and officers greeted Mu Lei, Mu Qianqian, and Liu Yuan’s guests with deep respect.
• Liu Yuan reunited with Qing Tan, Xuan Su, Zi Yue, and Mu Qianqian, then warmly welcomed Lin Zhentian, Lin Xiao, Xia Wanjin, and Shi Hao.
• Liu Yuan hosted the visitors at the Alliance Leader’s residence and promised to provide cultivation resources for Flame City.
• A Liu Alliance disciple reported that the Great Yan Royal Family had accepted Liu Yuan’s invitation to the Ascension Ceremony and that the Huangfu and Qin clan heads would attend with delegations.
• Lin Zhentian and the others were astonished that the royal family and major clans recognized Liu Yuan’s influence.

Liu Yuan learned that the Lin Clan would attend his Grand Ceremony while the Wang Clan had rejected his invitation and threatened the Liu Alliance. He went to Wang Mountain, shattered the Wang Clan’s protective formation, and announced that he would destroy the clan.

• A disciple reported that Lin Fan had accepted Liu Yuan’s invitation, while Wang Lei had rejected it and threatened retaliation over Wang Yan and Wang Tong’s deaths.
• Liu Yuan told Lin Zhentian and Lin Xiao to rest in Liu City, then declared that he would visit the Wang Clan and destroy it.
• Liu Yuan flew to Wang Mountain and broke the Wang Clan’s Clan Protection Array with a Dark Gold hand seal.
• Liu Yuan announced his identity to the Wang Clan and declared that he would send the clan on its way, drawing the attention of nearby forces.

Liu Yuan destroyed the Wang Clan’s protective array and slaughtered its defenders after the clan rejected his invitation to the Grand Ceremony. He killed Wang Lei despite the clan chief’s surrender, leaving the Wang Clan in ruins.

• Liu Yuan suppressed the Wang Clan’s attacks with his Nirvana Realm Spiritual Sense and killed hundreds of defenders with Supreme Divine Thunder.
• Wang Lei confronted Liu Yuan and accused him of killing Wang Pan and Wang Tong and attacking Wang Mountain.
• Liu Yuan said the Wang Clan had forfeited its chance to live by shattering his invitation and humiliating his messenger.
• Wang Lei attacked Liu Yuan with the Wang Family’s inherited Martial Arts, but Liu Yuan pierced his attack with lightning and gravely wounded him.
• Wang Lei begged for mercy and offered the Wang Clan’s submission, but Liu Yuan refused and killed him with a purple thunder dragon.