Chapter Summaries

Long Qingyue returned to the Dragon Battle Palace as a celebrated hero, though the palace’s deeper crisis remained unresolved. After the banquet, the Southern Heavenly King thanked Lin Ming and Zi Yan, then asked Lin Ming about Spirit God Liquid.

• Long Qingyue arrived at the Dragon Battle Palace with Lin Ming and Zi Yan and was welcomed with a grand victory banquet for her achievements in Dragon-Phoenix Haven.
• The palace celebrated Long Qingyue’s rise among the Northern Domain’s greatest talents, which restored morale despite the Palace Master’s injury and the palace’s political dangers.
• Lin Ming sensed the leaders’ worries but chose not to involve himself in the Dragon Battle Palace’s conflict with the Snake God Hall.
• After the banquet, the Southern Heavenly King visited Lin Ming and conveyed the Palace Master’s gratitude for saving Long Qingyue and helping her gain the True Dragon’s inheritance.
• The Southern Heavenly King asked Lin Ming whether he had heard of Spirit God Liquid, and Lin Ming said he had not.

The Southern Heavenly King explained the Great Hunting War and why the weakened Dragon Battle Palace had to enter the deadly contest for Spirit God Liquid. He left Lin Ming with the knowledge that the palace’s survival depended on the treasure, and that the war would begin in one month.

• The Southern Heavenly King told Lin Ming that Spirit God Liquid could help Tier 9 supremes break through and raise Earth Sovereigns’ cultivation.
• The Southern Heavenly King explained that the Great Hunting War took place in the Fallen Battlefield, where ancient inheritances and Spirit God Liquid lay amid deadly spiritual energy storms.
• The Southern Heavenly King said the storms weakened only at a special time, allowing elite teams from every Northern Domain faction to enter and fight without rules.
• The Southern Heavenly King revealed that the Great Hunting War would begin in one month and that the Dragon Battle Palace had no choice but to participate.
• The Southern Heavenly King explained that Spirit God Liquid might cure the poisoned Palace Master or help him break through to Earth Sovereign, giving the Dragon Battle Palace a chance to survive.

Lin Ming pressed the Southern Heavenly King to reveal Dragon Battle Palace’s real strength and learned the faction’s desperate circumstances and its remaining trump card. Five days before the Great Hunting War, Dragon Battle Palace’s leaders gathered to plan their entry into the shifting Fallen Battlefield and search for Fallen Origin Pills and the Earth Sovereign Secret Treasury.

• Lin Ming confronted the Southern Heavenly King about Dragon Battle Palace’s resources, allies, and ability to fight, insisting on honesty before he would cooperate.
• The Southern Heavenly King admitted Dragon Battle Palace’s dire situation and disclosed its true circumstances to Lin Ming.
• More than half a month later, the Southern Heavenly King gathered Lin Ming, Zi Yan, Long Qingyue, and the subordinate faction leaders to prepare for the Great Hunting War.
• The Southern Heavenly King announced that the war would begin in five days, explained that the Fallen Battlefield’s terrain changed with its storms, and ordered the forces to enter from the north and split into units to find Fallen Origin Pills.
• The Southern Heavenly King said he would search for the Earth Sovereign Secret Treasury with Lin Ming and Zi Yan, leaving the subordinate leaders responsible for gathering Fallen Origin Pills.

The Southern Heavenly King urged the Dragon Battle Palace and its allies to cooperate in the Great Hunting War, while Long Qingyue gave their leaders Dragon Battle Tokens and rallied everyone to fight. As the war began, the Northern Domain braced for slaughter, but its top powers entered the Fallen Battlefield for the chance to claim Spirit God Liquid and advance their cultivation.

• The Southern Heavenly King told the factions to set aside their rivalries and gather enough Fallen Origin Pills to break the formation guarding the Earth Sovereign Secret Treasury.
• Long Qingyue distributed Dragon Battle Tokens that let their holders sense one another's locations and offer aid in the Fallen Battlefield.
• Long Qingyue rallied the Dragon Battle Palace experts, and they answered her call to fight.
• The Great Hunting War arrived beneath dark clouds and a killing aura that spread across the Northern Domain.
• The narration explained that top powers risked their lives for Spirit God Liquid, which contained the insights and essence of fallen Earth Sovereigns.

As the Great Hunting War began, the Dragon Battle Palace and the other top factions of the Northern Domain mobilized their armies for the Fallen Battlefield. The vast forces converged from every direction, leaving the Northern Domain poised for a brutal war.

• The chapter explained that factions sought the Spirit God Liquid in the Fallen Battlefield, and that the Great Hunting War gave their leaders a chance to fight for it.
• At the Dragon Battle Palace, the Southern Heavenly King, Long Qingyue, Lin Ming, and Zi Yan stood before the assembled Dragon Battle Army.
• The Southern Heavenly King rang the war bell and ordered all forces of the Dragon Battle Palace Domain to set out.
• The Dragon Battle Palace's army crossed its domain, gathering troops from affiliated factions as citizens watched and offered their blessings.
• Armies from the Divine Pavilion, Netherworld Palace, Monster Gate, and other Northern Domain factions also marched toward the Fallen Battlefield.

The Northern Domain’s forces gathered at the Fallen Battlefield as its black-storm barrier collapsed, beginning the Great Hunting War. The Dragon Battle Palace army entered the battlefield and faced its eerie, penetrating chill.

• The weakened black storm guarding the Fallen Battlefield collapsed, releasing an ancient aura of desolation and murderous intent.
• The Southern Heavenly King ordered the Dragon Battle Palace army to begin the war, and its golden legion crossed the fissure into the Fallen Battlefield.
• The Dragon Battle Palace soldiers found that the battlefield’s sinister chill penetrated their spiritual energy barriers and unsettled them.
• Xiang Tian and Zi Yan stood at the army’s front as the Southern Heavenly King warned them to be careful.

The Southern Heavenly King explained that death intent permeated the Fallen Battlefield and that the Extraterritorial Evil Race could contaminate spiritual energy with corpse qi. He revealed that the ancient war had cost the Great Thousand World half its territory, leaving Long Qingyue shaken but reassured that powerful figures still stood ready to defend it.

• The Southern Heavenly King warned that only utmost yang power could dispel the battlefield’s death intent, while Lin Ming and Zi Yan’s powers kept it at bay.
• The army landed on a crimson plain, where Long Qingyue noticed that the scattered remains all belonged to humans and spiritual beasts, not the Extraterritorial Evil Race.
• The Southern Heavenly King explained that dead members of the Extraterritorial Evil Race dissolved into corpse qi that contaminated spiritual energy and had once turned the battlefield into a wasteland.
• The Southern Heavenly King told Long Qingyue that the ancient war had left the Great Thousand World half its former size, with the other half occupied by the Extraterritorial Evil Race.
• The Southern Heavenly King reassured Long Qingyue that legendary figures such as the tomb keeper of the Land of Ten Thousand Tombs and the Green Shirt Sword Saint would act if the Extraterritorial Evil Race threatened them again.

The Southern Heavenly King divided the Dragon Battle Palace forces across the Fallen Battlefield to search for Fallen Origin Pills while he, Lin Ming, and Zi Yan ventured deeper to locate the Earth Sovereign Secret Treasury. The trio entered the battlefield’s lethal depths, where their arrival broke the region’s long silence.

• The Southern Heavenly King warned that every faction in the Fallen Battlefield could be an enemy and ordered his commanders to search ruins for Fallen Origin Pills.
• The Southern Heavenly King distributed Jade Slip maps and told the commanders to avoid unnecessary battles, retreat from stronger opponents, and regroup at the agreed location.
• Long Qingyue took command of an elite force and rode east with nearly a hundred cavalrymen.
• The Southern Heavenly King, Lin Ming, and Zi Yan set off to investigate possible locations of the Earth Sovereign Secret Treasury.
• The trio entered the storm-ravaged depths of the Fallen Battlefield, where ghosts and deadly spiritual energy storms haunted the land.

Lin Ming, Zi Yan, and the Southern Heavenly King traveled into the depths of the Fallen Battlefield and confronted intelligent, powerful Ghosts. As Lin Ming’s Emperor Flame destroyed most of them, the strongest Ghost triggered an ancient Restriction and brought the abyss down on the trio.

• Lin Ming used his soul perception and Emperor Flame to navigate the deadly depths while the Southern Heavenly King warned of the Ghosts and the dangers near Earth Sovereign Secret Treasuries.
• Lin Ming sensed several intelligent Ghosts following the group, so he and Zi Yan pursued them into a black abyss.
• Two Ghosts attacked Lin Ming and Zi Yan, and Zi Yan cut them apart before the Southern Heavenly King destroyed them with his spear’s masculine power.
• Lin Ming exposed three stronger Ghosts with his Emperor Flame and burned away the two weaker ones.
• The peak Tier 9 Ghost fled, then triggered an ancient Restriction that caused the abyss’s black rock ceiling to collapse toward Lin Ming, Zi Yan, and the Southern Heavenly King.

Lin Ming destroyed the specter and discovered Earth Spirit Qi hidden within it. He absorbed the wisp, awakening his Inner World's Earth-Element Power and beginning a transformation.

• Lin Ming pursued the fleeing specter through the falling rubble and trapped it with Emperor Flame.
• Lin Ming combined Emperor Flame with Nine Profound Golden Lightning and burned away the specter's body, revealing a wisp of Earth Spirit Qi.
• The Southern Heavenly King identified the wisp as rare Earth-Element origin, while Lin Ming sensed his Inner World responding to it.
• Lin Ming told Zi Yan to guard him, and the Southern Heavenly King joined her in keeping watch as Lin Ming absorbed the Earth Spirit Qi.
• Lin Ming's body grew denser as his Inner World expanded, raising mountain ranges and strengthening its Earth-Element Power.

After refining the Earth Spirit Qi, Lin Ming sensed a far greater source of Earth-Element Power deep in the Fallen Battlefield and led Zi Yan and the Southern Heavenly King toward it. They survived a vast ghost horde and a region filled with Spatial Rifts, and the source drew close as they pressed deeper.

• Lin Ming refined the Earth Spirit Qi and sensed an immense source of matching Earth-Element Power in the depths of the Fallen Battlefield.
• Lin Ming took the lead, and he, Zi Yan, and the Southern Heavenly King traveled deeper through increasingly dangerous terrain.
• The trio fought through a huge swarm of ghosts, and Lin Ming summoned five fire beasts to clear a path so they could escape the encirclement.
• Lin Ming and Zi Yan guided the Southern Heavenly King through a region crowded with invisible Spatial Rifts.
• After nearly three days, the Spatial Rifts began to thin, and Lin Ming sensed that the distant Earth-Element source was much closer.

Lin Ming, Zi Yan, and the Southern Heavenly King encountered Tian She and three Snake God Hall elders after they escaped the Spatial Turbulence. The group split into battles, and Tian She transformed into a colossal serpent as his fight with the Southern Heavenly King continued.

• After three days of travel through the Spatial Rifts, Lin Ming's group saw four battered figures emerge from the Spatial Turbulence.
• The Southern Heavenly King recognized Tian She as a traitor, and Tian She declared that killing him would earn a great reward from the Snake God Hall.
• Lin Ming assigned the Southern Heavenly King to fight Tian She while Zi Yan and Lin Ming faced the other three Snake God Hall elders.
• The Southern Heavenly King and Tian She clashed, while Zi Yan threatened one elder and Lin Ming attacked the other two with Emperor Flame.
• After the Southern Heavenly King wounded him, Tian She stabbed the Snake Blades into his shoulders and transformed into a gigantic dark-green serpent.

Lin Ming and Zi Yan helped the Southern Heavenly King defeat a Snake God Hall ambush in the Fallen Battlefield. Two Tier 9 Supremes died to Lin Ming’s Five-Colored Wheel, while Tian She and another attacker escaped gravely wounded.

• Tian She fought the Southern Heavenly King as Zi Yan battled a Snake God Hall expert, while Lin Ming faced two more attackers.
• Lin Ming unleashed the Five-Colored Wheel and annihilated both of his Tier 9 opponents.
• Tian She fled after Lin Ming’s attack, and the Southern Heavenly King struck his tail as Zi Yan wounded the Snake God Hall expert pursuing her.
• Tian She and the other expert escaped into the gray fog using secret techniques that burned their origins.
• The Southern Heavenly King and Zi Yan called off pursuit, and the Southern Heavenly King thanked Lin Ming and Zi Yan for saving him.

Lin Ming, Zi Yan, and the Southern Heavenly King crossed the dangerous gravity field surrounding the Earth Sovereign Secret Treasury and fought its Earth Spirit Guardian. Lin Ming destroyed the guardian, leaving the way into the basin open.

• Lin Ming saw through and destroyed a Mist Wraith illusion of Yun Yun, while Zi Yan and the Southern Heavenly King overcame their own illusions.
• The three avoided spatial turbulence and fought off a swarm of Void Worms as they continued through the Fallen Battlefield.
• Lin Ming recognized the growing gravity and earthy yellow glow as signs that they had reached the outer perimeter of the Earth Sovereign Secret Treasury.
• The three entered a vast basin, where an Earth Spirit Guardian rose from the yellow mist and attacked them with a stone spear and countless hands of Earth Spirit Qi.
• Lin Ming unleashed Five Elements Power against the guardian, disrupting its Earth-Element Power and shattering its body into motes of light.

Lin Ming dismantled the formation protecting the Earth Sovereign Secret Treasury, but the residual will guarding its Stone Door proved too powerful to overcome directly. He sent the Southern Heavenly King to retrieve Fallen Origin Pills while he and Zi Yan waited at the entrance.

• After the guardian spirit shattered, Lin Ming identified the secret treasury beneath the basin’s luminous mist and discovered its transparent protective formation.
• Lin Ming studied the formation for a day and night, then dismantled its nine nodes in sequence to avoid triggering the earth veins.
• The formation collapsed, and Lin Ming, Zi Yan, and the Southern Heavenly King reached the treasury’s Stone Door beneath the Earth Sovereign’s immense pressure.
• The Southern Heavenly King’s spear rebounded from the residual will protecting the door and left him badly injured; Lin Ming found that his Five Elements Power weakened it too slowly.
• Lin Ming decided they needed Fallen Origin Pills, and the Southern Heavenly King left to find Qing Yue and the others and bring some back.

Long Qingyue’s force discovered a trove of Fallen Origin Pills, but She Yuan and the Snake God Hall attacked to seize it. Tian She threatened Long Qingyue before the Southern Heavenly King intervened, and the chapter ended with the Dragon Battle Palace keeping the pills and counting 390,000 of them.

• Long Qingyue led her soldiers to uncover a Second-Level Ruin and collect its Fallen Origin Pills.
• She Yuan arrived with a larger Snake God Hall force and demanded that Long Qingyue hand over the pills.
• Long Qingyue attacked She Yuan and gained the upper hand as the two sides fought.
• Tian She appeared as a Tier 9 Supreme and reached for Long Qingyue, but the Southern Heavenly King arrived and destroyed his attack.
• Tian She withdrew after threatening the Dragon Battle Palace, and Long Qingyue reported that her force had collected 390,000 Fallen Origin Pills.

The Southern Heavenly King led the Dragon Battle Palace and its allied forces toward the Earth Sovereign Secret Treasury, hoping to obtain Spirit God Liquid that could heal the Palace Master. As they entered the deadly depths of the Fallen Battlefield, the army sheltered from catastrophic spiritual energy storms while Long Qingyue sensed hidden dangers nearby.

• Long Qingyue asked the Southern Heavenly King whether he had found the Earth Sovereign Secret Treasury, and he confirmed that he had.
• The Southern Heavenly King ordered the Dragon Battle Palace forces to depart for the treasury, explaining that its Spirit God Liquid might heal the Palace Master and strengthen their faction.
• The Dragon Battle Palace and other top factions left the Crimson Wasteland for the depths of the Fallen Battlefield, while lesser forces stayed behind.
• The Southern Heavenly King guided his army along a mapped route, keeping them low and taking detours to avoid deadly spiritual energy storms.
• The Dragon Battle Palace troops sheltered inside a black Mountain Peak as a massive storm raged outside, and Long Qingyue sensed obscure, dangerous fluctuations in the surrounding world.

The Southern Heavenly King led Long Qingyue and a small group through the perilous Great Rift Valley to the Earth Sovereign Secret Treasury. Lin Ming used the Dragon Battle Palace’s Fallen Origin Pills to dissolve the Stone Door’s seals, opening the treasury and releasing an ancient pressure.

• The Southern Heavenly King explained that many Earth Sovereigns had fallen in the ancient battlefield and estimated that the group was two days from the Earth Sovereign Ruins.
• After surviving dangerous storms and gray mist, the Southern Heavenly King ordered the army to remain behind while he led Long Qingyue and the other leaders into the Great Rift Valley.
• The group found Lin Ming and Zi Yan in the basin, and the Southern Heavenly King gave Lin Ming one hundred thousand Fallen Origin Pills.
• Lin Ming crushed and refined the pills into dark gold liquid, then sent it against the sealed Stone Door.
• The Fallen Origin Pill liquid melted the door’s runes, and the Stone Door opened as an ancient pressure surged from within.

Lin Ming opened the Earth Sovereign Secret Treasury’s sealed Stone Door and led a small group through its perilous, distorted space toward the enormous Stone Tower. As they flew closer, the Southern Heavenly King warned that the tower was still tens of thousands of miles away and that the surrounding Spatial Turbulence was dangerous.

• Lin Ming used the Five-Colored Light to dispel the ancient aura pouring from the opened Stone Door, then led the group inside.
• Lin Ming identified the distant Stone Tower as the Earth Sovereign Secret Treasury and sensed that its depths held the Earth-Element Origin his Inner World needed.
• The Southern Heavenly King let the eager Dragon Battle Palace members search the floating Stone Islands while retaining Long Qingyue and three trusted elders to accompany him, Lin Ming, and Zi Yan.
• Lin Ming led the remaining group toward the Stone Tower at full speed, crushing obstacles with the might of Emperor Flame.
• After nearly two hours of flight, the Southern Heavenly King explained that distorted space made the tower appear closer than it was and warned the group against touching anything near the chaotic Spatial Fluctuations.

Lin Ming led the Dragon Battle Palace group to the Stone Tower and used two hundred thousand Fallen Origin Pills to open a narrow entrance. They crossed the tower’s dark inner space and entered a Light Gate into the Earth Sovereign Secret Treasury, where deadly dangers awaited.

• Lin Ming cleared away the Spatial Rifts around the Stone Tower and inspected its powerful runic seal.
• Lin Ming spent two hundred thousand Fallen Origin Pills to erode a one-zhang-wide fissure through the tower’s surface.
• Lin Ming, Zi Yan, the Southern Heavenly King, Long Qingyue, and the three Dragon Battle Palace elders entered the darkness inside the tower.
• Lin Ming found a Light Gate and warned the group that dangers within the treasury could kill even Tier 9 Supremes.
• Lin Ming and the others passed through the Light Gate, which vanished after the last person entered.