Chapter Summaries

Hua Yunfei and Xia Qiuer visited Tianqing Ancient City during preparations for the Myriad Nations Grand Competition and discussed ways to prevent officials from abusing their power. Their playful outing grew awkward when Hua Yunfei teased Xia Qiuer about liking him, and they left a sugar figurine stall flustered by the old man's mistaken assumption that they were Dao Companions.

• Hua Yunfei and Xia Qiuer entered Tianqing Ancient City and discussed the Myriad Nations Grand Competition and its hierarchy of talent selection.
• Hua Yunfei suggested that Xia Qiuer send trusted inspectors to investigate local officials and strip Provincial Prefects of their positions for serious abuses, and she agreed to try it.
• Hua Yunfei teased Xia Qiuer that her consideration made it seem as though she liked him, leaving her flustered.
• At a sugar figurine stall, Hua Yunfei and Xia Qiuer each ordered a figurine modeled after the other, while the White-haired Old Man mistook them for Dao Companions.
• The White-haired Old Man struggled to make Hua Yunfei's figurine because of the burden of Karma, but succeeded after Hua Yunfei withdrew it.
• Hua Yunfei ate the head of Xia Qiuer's figurine, and Xia Qiuer blushed when he teased her about thinking something strange.

Hua Yunfei and Xia Qiuer attended the Myriad Nations Grand Competition, where the Yu Clan announced that exceptional competitors could be recommended to the Imperial Court. The Yu Clan then introduced Yu Lantian, a peerless prodigy who had joined the Imperial Court five hundred years earlier.

• Demoness Ji personally met Hua Yunfei in the Three Thousand Dao Realms, while he wondered whether she intended him harm.
• At an inn in Tianqing Ancient City, Xia Qiuer recalled her time with Hua Yunfei and privately resolved to stay by his side briefly before returning him to Sister Jiang.
• Hua Yunfei and Xia Qiuer attended the Myriad Nations Grand Competition as ordinary spectators and remarked on the strong, battle-tested Heavenly Prodigies.
• The Tianqing Immortal Dynasty and Qingyun Immortal Kingdom arrived with their talented competitors, followed by the Yu Clan, which governed Qingzhou's Provincial Prefecture.
• A stern middle-aged Yu Clan member explained that outstanding competitors could be recommended to the Regional Prefecture or the Imperial Court.
• The Yu Clan introduced Yu Lantian as its peerless prodigy who had joined the Imperial Court five hundred years earlier, astonishing the crowd.

Yu Lantian returned to Qingzhou and watched the Myriad Nations Grand Competition begin, while a powerful, simple-minded youth with Barbarian blood dominated his arena. The battles continued into the night, and a Yu Clan prodigy was about to take the stage.

• Yu Lantian arrived at the Combat Arena, where the crowd hailed him as Qingzhou’s peerless prodigy, and Xia Qiuer told Hua Yunfei that he was an Ordinary Disciple in the Imperial Court.
• Venerable Huang Yin drew the first matchups and started the Myriad Nations Grand Competition across one hundred arenas.
• A towering youth with Barbarian blood defeated his first opponent with one swing of his Wolf-tooth Club and asked Venerable Huang Yin for a stronger opponent.
• The Barbarian youth challenged the next arena’s winner to fight immediately, then knocked him unconscious with another single swing.
• The battles continued into the night as the Barbarian youth and several other prodigies kept winning, and a Yu Clan prodigy prepared to take the stage.

The Yu Clan’s prodigies dominated the competition’s final stage, crushing the Crown Prince of the Azure Heaven Immortal Dynasty and the Third Prince of the Qingyun Immortal Kingdom. Man Dali then overwhelmed Yu Lifeng, prompting a Yu Clan elder to secretly empower Yu Lifeng as the chapter ended.

• Venerable Huang Yin randomly paired the leading competitors, matching Yu Peng with the Crown Prince of the Azure Heaven Immortal Dynasty, Yu Zhan with the Third Prince of the Qingyun Immortal Kingdom, and Yu Lifeng with Man Dali.
• Yu Peng revealed that he had reached the Immortal Soul Realm and defeated the Crown Prince of the Azure Heaven Immortal Dynasty.
• Yu Zhan used his Immortal Soul and a rain of spear-like attacks to defeat the Third Prince of the Qingyun Immortal Kingdom.
• Man Dali revealed his Immortal Law Realm cultivation and badly injured Yu Lifeng with a punch and his Wolf-tooth Club.
• A middle-aged man from the Yu Clan secretly sent power into Yu Lifeng, raising him temporarily to the Dao Accomplishment Stage, while Xia Qiuer noticed something was wrong.

Yu Lifeng was secretly empowered by the Yu Clan’s Vice Clan Leader, but Man Dali revealed his own strength and defeated him. Yu Lantian then secretly crippled Man Dali’s power, letting Yu Lifeng strike him down, until a woman intervened.

• The Yu Clan’s Vice Clan Leader restored Yu Lifeng and boosted him to the fourth level of the Immortal Realm, then challenged Man Dali with a promise of a recommendation to the Regional Prefecture.
• Man Dali charged Yu Lifeng and revealed that he had also reached the fourth level of the Immortal Realm, crushing Yu Lifeng despite the Vice Clan Leader boosting him again.
• Yu Lantian secretly sent an invisible rune into Man Dali while the Vice Clan Leader restored Yu Lifeng once more.
• Man Dali found himself unable to channel his power, and Yu Lifeng pierced him, then began shredding his body and soul despite the competition’s ban on killing.
• A woman cried out, “That's enough!” before the Vice Clan Leader could intervene.

Xia Qiuer exposed the Yu Clan’s suspected use of a bloodline secret art to empower Yu Lifeng during his match against Man Dali, provoking the clan’s leaders and Second Elder. Hua Yunfei protected her, and the Heavenly Human Immortal Kingdom challenged the Yu Clan before Xia Qiuer revealed that she was an Imperial Court disciple.

• Xia Qiuer accused Yu Lifeng of using the Yu Clan Vice Clan Leader’s bloodline secret art to raise his strength during his match against Man Dali.
• The Yu Clan Second Elder attacked Xia Qiuer, but Hua Yunfei stopped his strike and challenged the Yu Clan to explain itself.
• The Heavenly Human Immortal Kingdom’s ruler backed Xia Qiuer’s accusation, and the Old State Lord appeared to support him against the Yu Clan.
• The middle-aged man ordered the Second Elder to kill Xia Qiuer, but Hua Yunfei warned that she was an Imperial Court disciple, halting the attack.
• Yu Lantian questioned whether Xia Qiuer was an Imperial Court disciple and warned her about impersonating one.

Xia Qiuer revealed her elite disciple Token and confronted Yu Lantian over the Yu Clan’s abuse of power, but Yu Lantian and his clan decided to kill her to conceal their crimes. As the Yu Clan Leader joined them, Hua Yunfei stepped in to help Xia Qiuer.

• Yu Lantian revealed that he had reached the Immortal King Realm, then recognized Xia Qiuer’s elite disciple Token and greeted her as a Senior Sister.
• Xia Qiuer rebuked Yu Lantian and the Yu Clan and said she would report their actions to the Imperial Court Saintess, despite Yu Lantian begging her not to.
• Yu Lantian dismissed the crowd, formed a barrier around the Combat Arena, and threatened to arrange Xia Qiuer’s death and cover it up.
• The Yu Clan Leader arrived and advanced on Xia Qiuer, but Hua Yunfei offered to help her.

Hua Yunfei helped Xia Qiuer enforce her laws by destroying the Yu Clan after its members tried to kill her. Xia Qiuer revealed herself as the Imperial Court’s Saintess, appointed Yan Guang to govern Qingzhou, and left the province under the new order.

• Hua Yunfei urged Xia Qiuer to wipe out the Yu Clan as a warning to those who would defy her reforms, and she agreed.
• Yu Lantian realized Xia Qiuer was the Imperial Court’s Saintess and begged for mercy, but Hua Yunfei killed him and the Yu Clan members at the Combat Arena.
• Hua Yunfei announced the Yu Clan’s destruction across Qingzhou, then opened a rift to its ancestral grounds and slaughtered the clan as Xia Qiuer revealed her identity to the gathered crowd.
• Xia Qiuer appointed Yan Guang as Qingzhou’s Mansion Lord, and Hua Yunfei raised his cultivation to the peak of King Giant.
• Hua Yunfei told the people that the Yu Clan had been punished for violating Xia Qiuer’s laws, and Xia Qiuer thanked him for supporting her.

After the Yu Clan’s destruction, the Regional Prefecture Lord rushed to Qingzhou and found Yan Guang governing it, while Hua Yunfei and Xia Qiuer continued their journey. Xia Qiuer revealed that she intended to put her dream of changing the Imperial Court ahead of her feelings for Hua Yunfei.

• The Regional Prefecture Lord met Yan Guang, warned him to govern Qingzhou well, and agreed to take Man Dali to the Regional Prefecture after discovering his hidden King Transformation Stage cultivation.
• A message said Xia Qiuer had arrived at the Regional Prefecture, so the Regional Prefecture Lord took Man Dali there, but Xia Qiuer had already left after a brief visit.
• Yan Guang ordered a fair Myriad Nations Grand Competition in one month and told someone to help Lin Xian Dao Academy become Qingzhou’s top academy.
• Hua Yunfei explained that his avatar had disguised itself as Xia Qiuer at the Regional Prefecture, and Xia Qiuer praised his cleverness as they traveled together.
• Hua Yunfei teased Xia Qiuer about marriage, and she admitted she planned to set aside her feelings and focus on changing the Imperial Court.

Hua Yunfei and Xia Qiuer enjoyed dangerous adventures while traveling through the celestial domain, and Yuan Fei learned about Demoness Ji’s struggle against the Heavenly Snake Crown Prince. The chapter ended with the Crown Prince summoning Demoness Ji and threatening her if she disobeyed.

• Hua Yunfei took Xia Qiuer through perilous ancient lands, where he teased her as they evaded beasts and she laughed despite threatening revenge.
• Yuan Fei stayed with Demoness Ji in her dilapidated hall and learned that she wanted his help building support within the Nine-Headed Heavenly Snake Clan.
• Demoness Ji identified the Heavenly Snake Crown Prince as her strongest rival and explained his formidable power and backing from the Heavenly Snake Emperor.
• Yuan Fei advised Demoness Ji to build allies but ultimately defeat the Crown Prince herself if she wanted to prove herself.
• A scarlet Token appeared before Demoness Ji, and the Heavenly Snake Crown Prince ordered her to return to the clan or die.

Demoness Ji and Hua Yunfei were summoned to the Nine-Headed Heavenly Snake Clan, where the Heavenly Snake Crown Prince confronted them and seized the little pink snake. He demanded Dao Fruit essence in exchange for sparing it, leaving Hua Yunfei and Demoness Ji in immediate danger.

• The Heavenly Snake Crown Prince threatened to destroy the Yuanyang Realm unless Demoness Ji brought Hua Yunfei to him.
• Demoness Ji and Hua Yunfei traveled through a teleportation array to the Nine-Headed Heavenly Snake Clan's territory.
• A Quasi-Immortal Emperor warned Hua Yunfei to mind his conduct before escorting him and Demoness Ji to the Crown Prince.
• The Heavenly Snake Crown Prince accused Demoness Ji of plotting against him and lifted her by the throat.
• The Heavenly Snake Crown Prince took the little pink snake and demanded Dao Fruit essence from Demoness Ji or Hua Yunfei in exchange for it.

The Heavenly Snake Crown Prince forced Hua Yunfei to withstand a hundred moves before he would release Xiao Mei, while Demoness Ji struggled to protect them both. Hua Yunfei recognized that the Crown Prince was a clone and easily broke through his attacks, leaving the Crown Prince questioning whether he had underestimated him.

• The Heavenly Snake Crown Prince demanded that Hua Yunfei withstand a hundred moves in exchange for releasing Xiao Mei.
• Demoness Ji offered to fight in Hua Yunfei's place, but Hua Yunfei insisted on facing the Crown Prince himself.
• Hua Yunfei shattered the Crown Prince's blood-red realm of consciousness and recognized that he was fighting a clone.
• Hua Yunfei countered the Crown Prince's Heaven-Piercing Hand and learned the technique after seeing it used.
• The Crown Prince unleashed several Killing Dao and Nine-Headed Clan attacks, but Hua Yunfei destroyed them with his mastery of space and time.
• Hua Yunfei told the Crown Prince to take the fight seriously, and the Crown Prince frowned at the challenge.

Hua Yunfei endured a hundred moves against the Heavenly Snake Crown Prince’s clone, allowing Demoness Ji to rescue Xiao Mei. Old Ancestor Manni then offered Hua Yunfei her support and gave him a protective jade pendant.

• The Heavenly Snake Crown Prince attacked Hua Yunfei with the Heavenly Snake Seal, and they clashed until Demoness Ji realized he was only a clone.
• Demoness Ji broke the restriction on Xiao Mei and reclaimed the pink snake while Hua Yunfei continued fighting.
• Hua Yunfei withstood the Crown Prince’s final strike and completed a hundred moves, so the Crown Prince let him and Demoness Ji leave.
• Demoness Ji brought Hua Yunfei to meet Old Ancestor Manni, who explained that she valued Demoness Ji and believed her bloodline foretold the Heavenly Snake Clan’s evolution.
• Old Ancestor Manni offered Hua Yunfei three conditions if he helped Demoness Ji, then gave him a Heavenly Snake Jade Pendant that could protect his life three times.

Hua Yunfei accepted a life-saving jade pendant from Old Ancestor Manni before traveling with Xia Qiuer to Flower Valley. There, Xia Qiuer revealed that she knew his identity and confessed her feelings, then left him to continue toward the Enlightenment Tea Party.

• Hua Yunfei accepted Old Ancestor Manni's jade pendant and set out with Demoness Ji for the Imperial Court's Celestial Domain.
• Hua Yunfei and Xia Qiuer reached Flower Valley, where Xia Qiuer asked whether he was Young Master Wu Yun, Hua Yunfei, or Mu Xuanzhi.
• Hua Yunfei admitted that he had agreed to travel with Xia Qiuer partly out of guilt for having destroyed her.
• Xia Qiuer explained that she feared the Thirty-Three Heavens might become Hua Yunfei's enemy and had tried to change the Imperial Court to prevent that.
• Xia Qiuer asked whether Hua Yunfei had ever felt anything for her, then said she would stop clinging to him and left for the Imperial Court.
• Hua Yunfei watched Xia Qiuer leave and restored the erased words on a stone tablet, revealing the name Valley of Broken Love.

Hua Yunfei accepted that he could not return Xia Qiuer’s feelings, while Xia Qiuer resolved to grow stronger and reform the Imperial Court. As Emperor Lord and the Imperial Empress discussed the danger surrounding the Venerable Lord, Dao Mountain opened for the Enlightenment Tea Party, drawing powerful cultivators from across the Eleventh Heavenly Vault.

• Hua Yunfei reflected that he admired Xia Qiuer but did not love her, and hoped Jiang Ruoyao would not learn what had happened.
• Xia Qiuer wept in the Imperial Empress’s arms, then declared she would change her approach and grow strong enough to reform the Imperial Court.
• Xia Qiuer told Emperor Lord she believed Hua Yunfei and would remain his friend, while Emperor Lord objected but ultimately let her choose.
• The Imperial Empress explained that Emperor Lord was worried about Xia Qiuer, and Xia Qiuer wished Hua Yunfei a bright future as she vowed to work hard.
• The Imperial Empress warned Emperor Lord that the Venerable Lord’s matter might be discovered, and Emperor Lord said he feared cowardice more than death.
• Dao Mountain opened for the Enlightenment Tea Party, and cultivators—including heirs of major forces and secretive Quasi-Hegemon Level beings—gathered at its foot.

Powerhouses gathered beneath Dao Mountain for the Enlightenment Tea Party, where Hua Yunfei drew attention and clashed verbally with the Sacred Dragon Clan princes. Xia Qiuer warned the princes to leave him alone, but Hua Yunfei accepted their challenge and invited all three brothers to fight him.

• Prodigies and observers gathered at Dao Mountain as Hua Yunfei arrived disguised as Wu Yun with Demoness Ji and Yuan Fei.
• Zhou Yan greeted Hua Yunfei, and Demoness Ji introduced him to Yuan Fei while Xia Qiuer noticed him from afar.
• The Sacred Dragon Clan's Second Prince accused Hua Yunfei of defeating the Fourth Prince through dishonorable means and challenged him to fight both brothers.
• Xia Qiuer defended Hua Yunfei and warned the princes against provoking him or the powerful figure backing him.
• The Sacred Dragon Crown Prince dismissed Hua Yunfei, but Hua Yunfei accepted the challenge and dared all three princes to fight him together.

Hua Yunfei overwhelmed the Sacred Dragon Clan’s Second and Fourth Princes, then forced them to pull his chariot as the Crown Prince prepared to challenge him. The Black Robed Person and the Nether Son arrived, setting the stage for a wider confrontation at the Enlightenment Tea Party.

• Hua Yunfei challenged the Sacred Dragon Clan’s princes to fight him together, then destroyed the Fourth Prince with one punch.
• Hua Yunfei shattered the Second Prince’s Sacred Dragon Seal and golden saber, defeating him with another punch.
• The Second and Fourth Princes attacked Hua Yunfei as enormous Sacred Dragons, but could not break his defense.
• Hua Yunfei beat the two princes, tore out their dragon tendons, and harnessed them to his chariot while taunting the Sacred Dragon Clan’s Crown Prince.
• The Crown Prince released his Sea of Laws and faced Hua Yunfei as the surrounding experts cleared the battlefield.
• The Black Robed Person and the Nether Son of the Dark World appeared, and the Nether Son defended his presence at the gathering.

Hua Yunfei and Nether Son rode the Sacred Dragon Chariot up the Stairway of Initiation and reached Dao Mountain’s summit first, where they met the silent Enlightenment Ancestor Tree. While waiting for the others, Nether Son turned on the Second Prince and Fourth Prince and cut off their legs.

• Nether Son joined Hua Yunfei in the Sacred Dragon Chariot, and the Crown Prince of the Sacred Dragon Clan attacked the Black Robed Person after he asked for a ride.
• Zhou Yan announced that Dao Mountain had opened, and the gathered cultivators began climbing the Stairway of Initiation.
• Hua Yunfei and Nether Son drove the chariot up the stairs with the Second Prince and Fourth Prince pulling it, while the Crown Prince could not attack because the stairway forbade fighting.
• Hua Yunfei, Nether Son, the Second Prince, and the Fourth Prince reached the summit first and greeted the apparently ordinary Enlightenment Ancestor Tree.
• As they waited for the other climbers, Nether Son cut off the legs of the Second Prince and Fourth Prince.

Hua Yunfei received the Heaven-Piercing Banner at the Enlightenment Tea Party and used it to devour the Heavenly Snake Crown Prince’s Curse Soul Cauldron. At the summit, the Sacred Dragon Clan’s Crown Prince arrived to find his brothers humiliated, while Zhou Yan noticed the Heavenly Snake Crown Prince looked unwell.

• Hua Yunfei and the Nether Son ate roasted dragon legs in front of the furious Second Prince and Fourth Prince, who vowed the Sacred Dragon Clan would retaliate.
• The system rewarded Hua Yunfei with the damaged Heaven-Piercing Banner, and he persuaded it to take the Heavenly Snake Crown Prince’s Curse Soul Cauldron as compensation.
• The Heaven-Piercing Banner devoured the Curse Soul Cauldron and absorbed its Vengeful Spirits, while Hua Yunfei sent the Emperor Soul Banner to cultivate inside it.
• Xia Qiuer, Bing Luoling, the War King, the Sword King, Zhou Yan, the Heavenly Snake Crown Prince, the Sacred Dragon Crown Prince, the Black Robed Person, and others reached the summit.
• The Sacred Dragon Crown Prince tried to attack Hua Yunfei and the Nether Son but was stopped by Dao Mountain’s no-fighting rule; the Black Robed Person then joined them in eating dragon leg.
• Zhou Yan asked the Heavenly Snake Crown Prince why his face looked awful.

The Heavenly Snake Crown Prince accused the Black Robed Person of stealing his treasure, while more powerful cultivators gathered atop Dao Mountain. Hua Yunfei reunited with Duanmu Qingyue, who had become a late-stage Quasi-Hegemon, and she asked him to let their relationship follow fate.

• The Heavenly Snake Crown Prince suspected the Black Robed Person had stolen his treasure, and the Black Robed Person accepted the accusation while provoking him.
• Demoness Ji, Yuan Fei, Zhou Qingran, Little Phoenix, and other powerful cultivators arrived at the summit of Dao Mountain.
• Duanmu Qingyue reached the summit, and Hua Yunfei recognized her as a former acquaintance from the Misty Sect.
• Hua Yunfei learned that Duanmu Qingyue had advanced to the late stage of the Quasi-Hegemon Level while concealing her cultivation.
• Duanmu Qingyue told Hua Yunfei she would not pester him and urged them to follow where fate led.