Chapter Summaries

Lin Ming and the Dragon Battle Palace group entered the Earth Sovereign Secret Treasury and found themselves in a vast, rune-covered hall. Lin Ming’s attack failed to damage the Bronze Giant Gate, leaving the group trapped with their way forward uncertain.

• Lin Ming and the Dragon Battle Palace group passed through a turbulent spatial passage and arrived inside an immense ancient hall.
• A Dragon Battle Palace elder struck the rune-covered floor, leaving only a shallow crack, and the Southern Heavenly King warned everyone against acting recklessly.
• Lin Ming reached the Bronze Giant Gate and formed a powerful Flame Crystal from the surrounding spiritual energy.
• Lin Ming’s Flame Crystal slammed into the gate, but the gate remained undamaged while the impact shook the hall and drove the group back.
• The Southern Heavenly King said they seemed trapped inside the secret treasury, and he doubted Long Qingyue’s suggestion to use a Fallen Origin Pill on the gate.

Lin Ming identified the Bronze Giant Gate's seals as part of the Eight-Gate Fierce Lock Formation and arranged for the group to enter its eight gates simultaneously. The group was drawn into separate gates, where they would face the formation's fierce beasts.

• Lin Ming recognized eight beast locks on the Bronze Giant Gate and connected them to the eight fierce-beast statues above the hall.
• The Southern Heavenly King explained that the statues powered the Eight-Gate Fierce Lock Formation, an ancient array created by the Wu Earth Hall.
• Lin Ming's spiritual-energy attack was stopped by a barrier, and he explained that eight people had to activate all eight gates together to reveal a flaw in the formation.
• Zi Yan summoned the refined Golden-Armored Guardian Puppet, giving the group the eighth participant they needed.
• Lin Ming assessed the beasts' strengths and assigned everyone a gate, taking the strongest one himself.
• The group activated all eight gates at once and was drawn into them, disappearing from the Stone Hall.

Lin Ming and the others fought the vicious beasts guarding the Eight-Gate Fierce Lock Formation and broke all eight gates. The bronze gates opened, revealing the way to the Earth Sovereign’s final resting place.

• Lin Ming defeated the strongest vicious beast by shattering its gravity-controlling pearl with Five Elements Power.
• Long Qingyue, the Southern Heavenly King, Zi Yan, the golden-armored Puppet, and the three elders of Dragon Battle Palace each killed the vicious beast in their gate, suffering varying injuries.
• The eight gate spaces dissolved, and Lin Ming and the others returned to the ancient hall as the beast locks vanished.
• The bronze gates opened, releasing an ancient aura from beyond them.
• Lin Ming led the group toward the Earth Sovereign’s final resting place.

Lin Ming, Zi Yan, the Southern Heavenly King, Long Qingyue, and the elders passed through the bronze gates into an ancient world under attack by creatures emerging from Spatial Rifts. They witnessed a devastating war between the creatures and Great Thousand World experts, and the overwhelming Killing Aura began to affect their minds.

• Lin Ming led the group through the shattered bronze gates, where violent Spatial Fluctuations transported them into an ancient world.
• The group saw Spatial Rifts tear open across the sky as a black torrent of smoke-like creatures poured out and drove the world's spiritual power away.
• An army of Great Thousand World experts charged the black creatures, and the two forces collided in a catastrophic battle.
• Smoke-like creatures pierced an expert's defenses and drained his life until his body crumbled into powder.
• Long Qingyue and the others watched the war spread across the world as the Killing Aura seeped into their minds and reddened their eyes.

Lin Ming led Long Qingyue and the others across a projection of the ancient war against the Extraterritorial Clans, protecting them from its Killing Aura. The battlefield transformed into a dark, crushing ocean that Lin Ming identified as the Earth Sovereign’s Supreme Sea.

• Long Qingyue and the others nearly succumbed to the battlefield’s Killing Aura until Lin Ming rang a spiritual bell and restored their clarity.
• The Southern Heavenly King confirmed that the battlefield depicted the ancient invasion of the Great Thousand World by the Extraterritorial Clans, and Lin Ming shielded the group as they flew across it.
• Lin Ming slowed as the battlefield’s slaughter sounds vanished and the landscape changed into an immense, dark yellow ocean beneath a starless sky.
• Lin Ming identified the ocean as the Earth Sovereign’s Supreme Sea and explained that a sufficiently powerful Supreme Sea could become a world and crush even many Tier 9 Supremes.

Lin Ming led Dragon Battle Palace through the crushing, silent sea to a Stone Island that resonated with the fallen Earth Sovereign’s legacy. Before they could approach it, the Snake God Hall’s elite force appeared, led by its Earth Sovereign-level master, She Wuyou.

• Lin Ming sensed that their destination was near and led the group deeper across the silent ocean.
• As the pressure grew, Lin Ming formed a crystal flying boat that shielded the group and sped their journey.
• Lin Ming identified a floating Stone Island as the likely form of the fallen Earth Sovereign and traced the Earth-Element Origin aura beneath it.
• Lin Ming revealed that someone had followed them, and the Snake God Hall’s force emerged from a rift in space.
• The group recognized She Yuan and Tian She among the pursuers, while She Wuyou appeared at the front of the force.

The Southern Heavenly King summoned Long Zhantian, the Dragon Battle Palace’s poisoned master, to confront She Wuyou and protect his daughter and allies. Long Zhantian and She Wuyou began a fierce battle over the ocean, with Long Zhantian fighting despite the Snake Venom weakening him.

• She Wuyou ordered the Dragon Battle Palace members and Lin Ming to kill themselves, but the Southern Heavenly King challenged him and shattered a golden jade talisman.
• Long Zhantian emerged from the shattered space, and Long Qingyue tearfully greeted her father.
• Long Zhantian accused She Wuyou of poisoning him and vowed to protect Long Qingyue and punish the Snake God Hall.
• She Wuyou deduced that Long Zhantian had suppressed the Snake Venom and burned his foundation to reach the Earth Sovereign Secret Treasury, then attacked him.
• Long Zhantian blocked She Wuyou’s attacks with earth-based power as they continued battling above the sea.

The Dragon Battle Palace fought the Snake God Hall while Long Zhantian and She Wuyou’s Earth Sovereign duel escalated. As She Wuyou unleashed his Scarlet Flame Snake God’s devastating beam, Long Zhantian summoned his War Dragon Battle Form to meet it.

• Long Qingyue attacked She Yuan, overpowering him with her True Dragon Body and nearly breaking his scarlet Snake Spear.
• The Southern Heavenly King and Tian She fought to a standstill, though the Southern Heavenly King gradually forced Tian She into a narrower space.
• Lin Ming and Zi Yan attacked the Snake God Hall elders, killing and driving back their opponents with Emperor Flame, Nine Profound Golden Lightning, and the Dragon Phoenix Sword.
• She Wuyou summoned the Scarlet Flame Snake God and fired a destructive scarlet beam at Long Zhantian.
• Long Zhantian burned his Earth Sovereign Sea and summoned his War Dragon Battle Form to face the beam.

Long Zhantian and She Wuyou's battle drew in outside allies, bringing five Earth Sovereigns together above the battlefield. The chapter ended as the two sides prepared to fight over the fate of the Dragon Battle Palace and the Northern Domain.

• Long Zhantian and She Wuyou exchanged devastating attacks, and both were wounded as the fighting below continued.
• She Wuyou summoned the Netherworld Palace Master, promising him Spirit God Liquid and territory in exchange for his help.
• Long Zhantian summoned Mandala, ruler of the Greatlaw Domain, who agreed to stand with him.
• She Wuyou called on the Myriad Saint Ancestor, who accepted payment from the Snake God Hall and joined the confrontation.
• With the Myriad Saint Ancestor's arrival, five Earth Sovereigns faced off, and the Myriad Saint Ancestor, Netherworld Palace Master, and She Wuyou prepared to attack.

Lin Ming lured She Wuyou beneath the sea and revealed a powerful Five Elements Annihilation that injured the Earth Sovereign. Above them, Mandala and Long Zhantian battled the Netherworld Palace Master and Myriad Saint Ancestor as the clashes continued.

• She Wuyou charged Lin Ming while asking the Netherworld Palace Master and Myriad Saint Ancestor to hold Mandala and Long Zhantian back.
• Lin Ming met She Wuyou's punch with his flaming blade, then fled into the heavy sea with She Wuyou in pursuit.
• The Myriad Saint Ancestor and Long Zhantian clashed, while Mandala and the Netherworld Palace Master fought amid their opposing powers.
• She Wuyou chased Lin Ming through the sea and attacked with a barrage of crimson fire, but Lin Ming dodged and shattered his closing fire net with a five-colored punch.
• Lin Ming appeared behind She Wuyou and unleashed Five Elements Annihilation, injuring him and filling him with fear.

Lin Ming trapped She Wuyou inside his Five Elements world and revealed power far beyond the Earth Sovereign realm. She Wuyou failed to escape and struggled against the world’s crushing force as Lin Ming’s attack continued.

• Lin Ming transported She Wuyou from the battlefield into a vast Five Elements world that radiated Lin Ming’s own aura.
• Lin Ming appeared as the world’s master, and She Wuyou realized Lin Ming possessed a complete world and power beyond his understanding.
• She Wuyou fled and tried to tear open the void, but Lin Ming’s control over space prevented him from escaping.
• Lin Ming summoned mountains of Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth to crush She Wuyou from every direction.
• She Wuyou manifested the Scarlet Flame Snake God and used fire and poison arts, but the Five Elements mountains kept reforming and pressing down.

Lin Ming killed She Wuyou and emerged from the sea carrying his head, stunning both armies. Long Zhantian shielded Lin Ming from Myriad Saint Ancestor, who withdrew to seize Snake God Hall’s resources.

• Lin Ming crushed She Wuyou’s Scarlet Flame Snake God and destroyed She Wuyou with a Five Elements Battle Saber, then erased his Remnant Soul.
• Lin Ming surfaced holding She Wuyou’s head, bringing the battlefield to a stunned halt.
• Myriad Saint Ancestor confirmed She Wuyou’s death and challenged Lin Ming, who warned him that he could share She Wuyou’s fate.
• Long Zhantian stepped in front of Lin Ming and threatened to take Myriad Saint Ancestor down with him, while declaring Lin Ming would protect Dragon Battle Palace.
• Myriad Saint Ancestor weighed the risks and fled, intending to take Snake God Hall’s resources before other factions could act.

After the Netherworld Palace Lord and Myriad Saint Ancestor fled, Long Qingyue, Zi Yan, and their allies destroyed the Snake God Hall forces. With the battle over, Long Zhantian asked to use the Earth Sovereign Sea to recover, and Lin Ming and Mandala divided its Earth Spirit Qi and Spirit God Liquid between them.

• The Netherworld Palace Lord escaped in a cloud of black mist, and the Snake God Hall forces fled after She Wuyou's death.
• Long Qingyue killed She Yuan, Zi Yan beheaded Tian She, and the allied forces slaughtered the Snake God Hall's remaining elites.
• The Southern Heavenly King declared that the Northern Domain would have no more Snake God Hall.
• Long Zhantian asked Lin Ming and Mandala to let him use the Supreme Sea to recover, offering them its Earth Spirit Qi and Spirit God Liquid.
• Lin Ming claimed the Earth Spirit Qi while Mandala gathered the Spirit God Liquid from the sea.
• The Earth Spirit Qi strengthened Lin Ming's Inner World and raised his spiritual power conversion, while the sea level visibly fell.

Long Zhantian restored his Supreme Sea, and the group left the Fallen Battlefield as it began to close. The surviving powers raced to divide the Snake God Hall’s wealth, and Long Zhantian and Mandala arrived to confront the rivals already there.

• Long Zhantian used the remaining Supreme Sea to restore his own, and Long Qingyue tearfully celebrated his recovery.
• Lin Ming led the group out of the Fallen Battlefield, then returned to the Dragon Battle Palace to refine the Earth Spirit Qi he had absorbed.
• Long Zhantian joined Mandala and led their forces toward the Snake God Hall, while the Netherworld Palace Lord and Myriad Saint Ancestor raced there to claim its spoils.
• The Netherworld Palace Lord and Myriad Saint Ancestor argued over how to divide the Snake God Hall’s riches until Long Zhantian and Mandala arrived.
• Long Zhantian traded blows with the Myriad Saint Ancestor, then stopped before their staged battle could turn into a fight to the death.
• Long Zhantian, Mandala, the Netherworld Palace Lord, and the Myriad Saint Ancestor sat down to negotiate the division of the Snake God Hall’s spoils.

After the Snake God Hall fell, Long Zhantian and Mandala claimed most of its territory while Lin Ming secluded himself in the Dragon Battle Palace. Lin Ming completed the conversion of his Dou Qi into spiritual power and reached Peak Tier 9 Supreme, leaving him one step from the Earth Sovereign realm.

• Long Zhantian, Mandala, the Netherworld Palace Master, and the Myriad Saint Ancestor divided the Snake God Hall's territory and resources, with Long Zhantian and Mandala taking sixty percent.
• The Snake God Hall's destruction reshaped the Northern Domain, and rumors about Lin Ming's identity spread as the Dragon Battle Palace attracted visitors and allies.
• Lin Ming refined the last of his Earth Spirit Qi, transforming the mountains, rivers, and spirit veins in his Inner World.
• Lin Ming completed his spiritual power conversion, cleansed his meridians of Dou Qi, and reached Peak Tier 9 Supreme.

After refining the Earth Spirit Qi, Lin Ming reached Peak Tier 9 Supreme but recognized that his Five Elements foundation remained dangerously incomplete without metal and water. Dragon Battle Palace celebrated his return from seclusion, where Long Zhantian offered him half the palace’s power and a share of Snake God Hall’s spoils.

• Lin Ming completed his refinement of the Earth Spirit Qi and realized that his water and metal elements had to be strengthened before he could safely attempt the Earth Sovereign realm.
• Lin Ming left the Quiet Room, then entered seclusion again with Zi Yan; a day later, they emerged and Dragon Battle Palace celebrated their return.
• Long Zhantian arranged a grand banquet attended by Dragon Battle Palace’s guests and representatives from Mandala Hall, Netherworld Palace, and Myriad Saint Mountain.
• Long Zhantian thanked Lin Ming and Zi Yan for saving Dragon Battle Palace and Yue'er, then offered Lin Ming half the palace’s territory, industries, and resources.
• Long Zhantian announced that Lin Ming would also receive half of the sixty percent of Snake God Hall’s assets that he and Mandala had obtained.

Lin Ming declined control of the Dragon Battle Palace’s territories but accepted thirty million Supreme Spirit Liquids, then learned that a Sunflower Ice Spirit Object might help him complete the Five Elements. The chapter ended as the Southern Heavenly King revealed that major forces from across the continent were preparing to compete for it.

• Long Zhantian offered Lin Ming more than half of the Dragon Battle Palace’s power and part of the Snake God Hall’s resources, but Lin Ming asked the palace to manage them and split the profits fifty-fifty.
• Long Zhantian gave Lin Ming thirty million Supreme Spirit Liquids, which Lin Ming accepted.
• Lin Ming asked about water- and gold-element spirit objects, and the Southern Heavenly King told him that a Sunflower Ice Spirit Object had appeared in the Far Western Lands.
• The Dragon Battle Palace investigated the Sunflower Ice Spirit Object for two days and summoned Lin Ming, Zi Yan, Long Zhantian, and Long Qingyue to hear the findings.
• The Southern Heavenly King reported that the Sacred Demon Palace, Xia Imperial Dynasty, Primordial Sect, Beast King, Netherworld Lord, and other forces were heading to contend for the object.

Long Zhantian explained that formidable forces across the Sky Luo Continent—and possibly the Ice Spirit Clan—were pursuing the Sunflower Ice Spirit Object. Lin Ming decided to travel with Zi Yan alone, then set out several days later with two guides appointed by Long Zhantian.

• Long Zhantian described the Sacred Demon Palace, Xia Imperial Dynasty, Primordial Sect, Beast King, and Lord of Netherworld as powerful rivals for the Sunflower Ice Spirit Object.
• The Southern Heavenly King revealed rumors that the Ice Spirit Clan might also join the contest, leaving Long Zhantian and the others alarmed.
• Lin Ming told Long Zhantian that he and Zi Yan would go without the Northern Domain forces, explaining that their presence could hinder his ability to retreat.
• Long Zhantian accepted Lin Ming's decision and urged him to put his safety before obtaining the Sunflower Ice Spirit Object.
• Several days later, Lin Ming and Zi Yan prepared to depart from the Dragon Battle Palace's teleportation spirit array with the newly appointed Northern King and Xia Jia as guides.

Lin Ming, Zi Yan, Xia Jia, and North King traveled west toward the Far Western Lands, where a Sunflower Ice Spirit Object had drawn powerful cultivators from across Sky Luo Continent. After more than half a month of teleportations, the group stopped in a crowded city near the region.

• Xia Jia explained the teleportation route to Shiqu City, and Lin Ming and Zi Yan used the array to depart.
• North King warned Xia Jia to protect Lin Ming and Zi Yan, and she promised to stay by their side before they followed through the array.
• News of the Sunflower Ice Spirit Object drew factions and powerful experts to the dangerous Far Western Lands.
• Lin Ming's group crossed the continent by teleportation arrays for more than half a month and neared the Far Western Lands.
• Lin Ming's group rested at a tea pavilion in a city crowded with cultivators, vendors, and travelers heading toward the region's depths.

Lin Ming and his companions traveled toward the Far Western Lands, stopping at West City to learn more about the Sunflower Ice Spirit Object. They arrived to find the once-declining city packed with cultivators and powerful experts from across the Sky Luo Continent.

• The North King told Lin Ming that West City was the largest nearby hub and a place to gather information about the Sunflower Ice Spirit Object.
• Lin Ming decided to go to West City and see whether any notable young experts had gathered there.
• Lin Ming, Zi Yan, the North King, and Xia Jia flew west toward the Far Western Lands.
• The group reached a mountain outside West City and saw cultivators streaming into the city from every direction.
• Lin Ming sensed numerous formidable experts in West City, including auras at the pinnacle of Tier 9 Supreme and possibly Earth Sovereign level.