Chapter Summaries

Lin Suchou descended into the Thunder Demon Abyss to search for the Netherworld Heart Demon Thunder. After the Earth Demon Thunder thwarted his attempts to sense it, he used the Divine Wood Gang Thunder and Black God Thunder to force a path toward a strange fluctuation near a broken stone stele.

• Lin Suchou and Jiu You reached the Thunder Demon Abyss, where Jiu You explained the Earth Demon Thunder and waited outside as he went down alone.
• Lin Suchou descended through the abyss, blasting aside Earth Demon Thunder with his eighth-grade Divine Wood Gang Thunder Spirit.
• Lin Suchou entered the vast Earth Demon Thunder Sea and searched deeper, but could not sense the Netherworld Heart Demon Thunder.
• Lin Suchou tried using the Thunder God Body, but the Earth Demon Thunder's shockwaves still battered him.
• Lin Suchou unleashed the Divine Wood Gang Thunder and Black God Thunder, which revealed a feared fluctuation and the faint outline of a broken stone stele.
• Lin Suchou drove both Thunder Seas toward the strange presence, forcing the Earth Demon Thunder to scatter and clear his way.

Lin Suchou subdued the Netherworld Heart Demon Thunder and obtained a damaged stele bearing the Supreme Heart Demon Scripture. He then brought the Jiu You Guards to the Thunder Demon Abyss and gave them the Thunder God Body cultivation method, establishing the abyss as their training ground.

• Lin Suchou entered the Netherworld Heart Demon Thunder’s vacuum zone and resisted its Thunder Sound with the Divine Wood Gang Thunder and Black God Thunder.
• Lin Suchou used the Thunder Scripture’s Thunder Eyes to reveal a giant Formless Python and a broken Stone Stele bearing the Supreme Heart Demon Scripture.
• Lin Suchou subdued the Netherworld Heart Demon Thunder with the Divine Wood Gang Thunder and a six-pointed star array, then collected the damaged stele.
• Lin Suchou returned to Jiu You and told her to bring the Jiu You Guards to train in the Thunder Demon Abyss.
• Lin Suchou brought the five thousand Jiu You Guards to a depth of three thousand zhang and taught them the Thunder God Body cultivation method.
• Qiu Shan, Zhao Wu, and the other guards knelt and thanked Lin Suchou for sharing the cultivation method.

Lin Suchou studied the Supreme Heart Demon Scripture and endured repeated attacks of Netherworld Heart Demon Thunder until he condensed a Heart Demon Seed. After helping the Jiu You Guards cultivate the Thunder God Body, he learned that the Great Luo Heaven Domain was preparing for a final battle at Hundred Battles City and set out to join it.

• Lin Suchou discovered that cultivating the Heart Demon State required a Heart Demon Seed and repeatedly struck his heart with Netherworld Heart Demon Thunder.
• After nearly half a month of enduring pain and vomiting blood, Lin Suchou condensed the Heart Demon Seed.
• Lin Suchou ended the Jiu You Guards’ cultivation and congratulated them on successfully cultivating the Thunder God Body.
• Jiu You showed Lin Suchou a map revealing that the Great Luo Heaven Domain had captured nearly half of the Hundred Battles Domain.
• Jiu You reported that Ten Thousand Swords Valley, the Demon Corpse Sect, and Great Compassion Heaven had gathered at Hundred Battles City for the final battle, and Lin Suchou arranged to head there.

Jiu You sent her forces to Hundred Battles City as the Great Luo Heaven Domain faced Hundred Battles Domain’s army. After Mandala appeared, Liu Tiandao arrived and attacked her with a Heaven and Earth Dharma Idol, hoping to test whether she had weakened.

• Jiu You ordered the Jiu You Palace forces to move out for Hundred Battles City, where Lin Suchou joined the Great Luo Heaven Domain’s army.
• Tang Bing identified Hundred Battles Domain’s three leading powers: Hidden Sword Old Man, Corpse Mountain Old Ghost, and Demon Sorrow Supreme.
• Hidden Sword Old Man taunted Sky Vulture Emperor about the Great Luo Heaven Domain’s losses and demanded to know whether its Domain Lord would appear.
• Mandala appeared on a golden throne, and her Earth Supreme pressure silenced Hundred Battles Domain’s forces.
• Liu Tiandao arrived from the sky, resisted Mandala’s pressure, and formed a multicolored spiritual-energy mountain to test her strength.

The Great Luo Heaven Domain and Hundred Battles Domain agreed to settle their conflict through a three-part wager battle, with one million drops of Supreme Spirit Liquid and one thousand cities at stake. Sleeping Emperor faced Demon Sorrow Supreme in the Emperor Rank Fight, and the chapter ended as Demon Sorrow Supreme prepared his strongest attack.

• Liu Tiandao discovered that the Great Luo Domain Lord remained powerful and said he would prevent him from intervening in the battle.
• Hidden Sword Old Man proposed a three-rank wager battle, and the Great Luo Heaven Domain accepted.
• Demon Sorrow Supreme challenged Sleeping Emperor to the Emperor Rank Fight, and Sleeping Emperor revealed that he had reached the eighth grade.
• Demon Sorrow Supreme also displayed eighth-grade spatial control, and both fighters summoned their Supreme Dharma Bodies.
• Demon Sorrow Supreme raised his Great Vajra Dharma Body’s Golden Alms Bowl to launch his strongest Supreme Divine Ability at Sleeping Emperor.

Sleeping Emperor revealed that he was a ninth-grade Supreme and won the first wager battle for Great Luo Heaven Domain, but Corpse Spirit King defeated Asura King to even the score. Mandala chose Lin Suchou for the third battle against the Hundred Battles Domain’s Commander, despite his reputation for killing Spirit Eye Emperor.

• Mo Bei unleashed his Supreme Divine Ability, but Sleeping Emperor’s Golden Heavenly Dragon swallowed the attack and revealed his ninth-grade Supreme strength, forcing Mo Bei to concede.
• Great Luo Heaven Domain won the first wager battle, then sent Asura King to fight Corpse Spirit King in the second.
• Corpse Spirit King used a Natal Corpse Demon that blew itself up, severely injuring Asura King and giving the Hundred Battles Domain the second victory.
• Liu Tiandao suggested that Great Luo Heaven Domain withdraw rather than fight the third wager battle, but Mandala asked why they should.
• Mandala selected Lin Suchou for the third battle against the Hundred Battles Domain’s Commander and explained that Lin Suchou remained a Commander despite killing Spirit Eye Emperor with external power.

Lin Suchou accepted Qin Bei’s challenge and defeated him despite Qin Bei’s powerful Supreme Dharma Body and hidden divine ability. Qin Bei conceded, and Lin Suchou spared his life.

• Lin Suchou stepped forward to accept the challenge, and Qin Bei agreed to fight him.
• Qin Bei attacked with Great Stele Divine Hand, but Lin Suchou’s Phantom Sword Diagram shattered the strike.
• Qin Bei summoned the Arhat Dharma Body and trapped Lin Suchou in the Arhat Golden Zen Formation, but Lin Suchou drew every Zen staff into his Sword Diagram.
• Lin Suchou sent a sword energy dragon at Qin Bei, who used Spirit Mountain Guardian after swallowing a pill to forcefully advance his cultivation.
• Lin Suchou’s sword energy broke through the mountain and shattered Qin Bei’s Dharma Body, leaving Qin Bei injured and forcing him to concede.

Lin Suchou won the final wager for the Great Luo Heaven Domain, then admitted he had killed Liu Tiandao’s son, Liu Ming. As Liu Tiandao prepared to attack him, Lin Suchou revealed a stone talisman that could summon the Martial Ancestor, halting the confrontation.

• The Great Luo Domain Lord declared the Great Luo Heaven Domain had won two of the three wagers and demanded the promised spirit liquid and cities.
• Liu Tiandao agreed to honor the wager, then questioned Lin Suchou about Liu Ming’s death and the treasures taken from him.
• Lin Suchou admitted killing Liu Ming and explained that Liu Ming had attacked him over a woman who was the daughter of the Martial Realm Matriarch.
• Liu Tiandao summoned the Demon Elder and threatened to kill Lin Suchou, but Lin Suchou revealed a stone talisman given to him by the Martial Ancestor.
• Lin Suchou said crushing the talisman would summon the Martial Ancestor, causing Liu Tiandao’s released spiritual energy to halt.

Lin Suchou accepted Liu Tiandao’s wager to duel Liu Yan, with Xuantian Hall’s noninterference and 300 drops of Supreme Spirit Liquid at stake. Lin Suchou and Liu Yan began fighting, and the chapter ended as Liu Yan formed an enormous flame cauldron.

• Liu Tiandao proposed a life-or-death duel between Lin Suchou and his eldest son Liu Yan, forbidding Lin Suchou from using the Two Great Divine Thunders.
• Lin Suchou negotiated for 300 drops of Supreme Spirit Liquid and accepted the wager after Mandala assured him the Great Luo Heaven Domain would protect him if he lost.
• Liu Yan introduced himself and attacked Lin Suchou with a crimson spear and scorching Spirit Energy.
• Lin Suchou used the Underworld Sparrow Spear and Void Piercing Stab to evade Liu Yan’s attack and strike through his Myriad Flames Dharma Body.
• Liu Yan repaired his Dharma Body, summoned the Flame Vermilion Bird, and fused the flames into an enormous cauldron.

Lin Suchou defeated Liu Yan with the Netherworld Heart Demon Thunder and moved to kill him, but Mandala blocked Liu Tiandao’s intervention. When Liu Tiandao offered compensation to spare his son, Lin Suchou refused and called upon the power within his Iron Sword, revealing an aura that might belong to a Heavenly Supreme.

• Liu Yan attacked Lin Suchou with his Myriad Flames Furnace, but Lin Suchou disrupted his spiritual energy with Netherworld Heart Demon Thunder and wounded him with the Saint Phoenix Hundred Battles Spear Art.
• Lin Suchou’s attacks destroyed Liu Yan’s Myriad Flames Dharma Body, leaving Liu Yan gravely injured, and Lin Suchou charged to finish him off.
• Liu Tiandao stepped in to protect Liu Yan, but Mandala blocked his attack and her radiance faded, revealing her petite form as a little girl.
• Liu Tiandao offered another 3 million Supreme Spirit Liquid in compensation, but Lin Suchou refused and said he would destroy Xuantian Hall.
• Lin Suchou drew a rust-covered Iron Sword, asked Senior for aid, and released an aura that made Liu Tiandao fear a Heavenly Supreme had appeared.

Lin Suchou and Sword Senior defeated Liu Tiandao, and the Hundred Battles Domain submitted to the Great Luo Heaven Domain. After the victory spread across the region, Mandala summoned Lin Suchou to discuss two matters.

• Sword Senior summoned the Rust Sword and split Liu Tiandao’s Heavenly Dao Sword with one strike, then killed Liu Tiandao before he could self-destruct.
• Mandala demanded that the Hundred Battles Domain submit to the Great Luo Heaven Domain instead of paying one million drops of Supreme Spirit Liquid, and Hidden Sword Old Man and the others agreed.
• The Great Luo Heaven Domain absorbed the Hundred Battles Domain and Xuantian Hall, while news of Liu Tiandao’s death at the hands of a Heavenly Supreme spread among the region’s factions.
• Mandala summoned Lin Suchou to the Great Luo Golden Hall and said she had only two matters to discuss with him.

Mandala assigned Lin Suchou to govern the Hundred Battles Domain, take part in the Dragon Phoenix Pool, and train at Flame Pool Peak. After arriving there, Lin Suchou met Bing Xin and learned that he was expected to hunt Spirit Flame Pythons for their cultivation-enhancing marrow.

• Mandala chose Lin Suchou to oversee the Hundred Battles Domain and offered him the former Thunder Demon Sect site for a hall, which he selected for its Earth Demon Thunder.
• Mandala told Lin Suchou to represent the Great Luo Golden Pool at the Dragon Phoenix Pool in three months and gave him a map to Flame Pool Peak for training.
• Lin Suchou returned to Jiu You Palace, and Jiu You decided to relocate it to the Thunder Demon Sect site and rename it Thunder Emperor Hall.
• The next day, Lin Suchou went to Flame Pool Peak and descended into its volcanic crater, where he encountered the Supreme-level Great Luo Heaven Army.
• Bing Xin identified herself as the army's Third Commander, explained how Spirit Flame Pythons and their marrow could strengthen him, and privately doubted that a fourth-grade Supreme could enter the pool.

Lin Suchou began training in the Great Luo Flame Pool, hunting Spirit Flame Pythons for their Spirit Flame Marrow. After half a month he reached the peak of fourth-grade Supreme, exhausted the prey in his area, and plunged into the magma to seek older pythons deeper in the pool.

• Lin Suchou revealed his eighth-grade Supreme aura, reassuring Bing Qing, who then led him deeper into the Great Luo Flame Pool.
• Bing Qing explained that Lin Suchou would have to pass Mandala’s Nine-Nine Flame Dragon Array after three months of training to qualify for the Dragon Phoenix Pool.
• Lin Suchou attacked Spirit Flame Pythons in the magma and collected their Spirit Flame Marrow.
• Bing Qing and other Great Luo Heaven Army soldiers watched Lin Suchou fight through a Spiritual Energy Screen and discussed his Heavenly Supreme Spirit Body.
• Over the next half month, Lin Suchou hunted pythons until his cultivation reached the peak of fourth-grade Supreme.
• Finding no more suitable prey nearby, Lin Suchou plunged into the magma to search for older Spirit Flame Pythons.

Lin Suchou descended into the Crimson Magma, killed a powerful Crimson Snake Scorpion, and obtained exceptionally pure Spirit Flame Marrow. As he prepared to leave, he encountered a red-haired woman fleeing from a three-headed Crimson Giant Python of Sixth Rank Supreme strength.

• Lin Suchou avoided Spirit Flame Pythons and encountered a four-hundred-year-old one, which attacked him before fleeing.
• A Crimson Snake Scorpion ambushed and drained the Spirit Flame Python, but Lin Suchou destroyed it with Divine Thunder and took its Spirit Flame Marrow.
• Lin Suchou decided the Spirit Flame Marrow could help him break through to the fifth-grade Supreme realm and prepared to return to seclusion.
• A red-haired woman appeared in the magma and warned Lin Suchou to run as a three-headed Crimson Giant Python pursued her.

Lin Suchou saved Huo Meier from the Three-Headed Spirit Flame Python, revealed that he was the Thunder Emperor, and gave her the python's Spirit Flame Marrow. After returning to his cultivation chamber, he began refining the Flame Dragon Scorpion's Spirit Flame Marrow with Supreme Spirit Liquid to strengthen his Supreme Sea.

• Huo Meier teleported Lin Suchou away from the Three-Headed Spirit Flame Python and asked why he had been risking his life.
• Lin Suchou told Huo Meier he belonged to Jiu You Palace, and she introduced herself as the Great Commander of the Great Luo Heaven Army and asked about his relationship with Jiu You.
• Huo Meier proposed luring the python to the Flame Dragon Scorpion, but Lin Suchou revealed he had already killed the scorpion and then killed the python with Divine Wood Gang Thunder.
• Lin Suchou confirmed he was the Thunder Emperor and gave Huo Meier the python's Spirit Flame Marrow; she recalled a conversation in which Jiu You had suggested they marry the same man.
• Lin Suchou returned to his cultivation spot, entered seclusion, and used Spirit Flame Marrow and Supreme Spirit Liquid to raise the level of his Supreme Sea.

After two months of cultivating in the Great Luo Flame Pool, Lin Suchou emerged as a peak fifth-grade Supreme and faced the Nine-Nine Flame Dragon Array. Mandala formed the array, and Lin Suchou entered it, summoning his Luo Shen Dharma Body as a magma wave attacked.

• Huo Meier and Bing Qing discussed Lin Suchou’s long breakthrough and the upcoming array challenge while Mandala arrived to check on him.
• Lin Suchou emerged from the Great Luo Flame Pool a month early, having reached the peak of the fifth grade.
• Mandala summoned the Nine-Nine Flame Dragon Array, formed from Ancient Flame Dragon Essence Blood, and forbade Lin Suchou from using external aid.
• Lin Suchou entered the array by traversing space and summoned his Luo Shen Dharma Body as a massive magma wave crashed toward him.

Lin Suchou broke through the Nine-Nine Flame Dragon Array and seized all nine drops of Ancient Flame Dragon Essence Blood. He left the magma as the array began to collapse, having revealed the Heart Demon State of the Supreme Heart Demon Scripture.

• Lin Suchou used his Mind Eye to locate the nine drops of essence blood and discovered that destroying the flame dragons only caused them to reform.
• Lin Suchou shattered the Nine Dragons Burning Heaven Talismans and entered the magma while his Luo Shen Dharma Body held off the dragons.
• Mandala explained that the Ancient Flame Dragon essence blood was protected by dragon scales as Lin Suchou entered the Heart Demon State.
• Lin Suchou struck the essence blood through the Dragon Scale Guardian with an eerie Thunder Sound and drew all nine drops into his palm.
• Lin Suchou escaped the magma as the nine dragons dissolved and the Nine-Nine Flame Dragon Array began to collapse.

Lin Suchou won the Nine-Nine Flame Dragon Array and secured the Great Luo Heaven Domain’s slot in Dragon Phoenix Heaven. After reading the Dragon and Phoenix Record and learning he ranked first, he prepared to leave for the upcoming contest with essence blood and a protective jade from Mandala.

• Mandala identified Lin Suchou’s Netherworld Heart Demon Thunder as the reason he defeated the Ancient Flame Dragon’s will and awarded him the essence blood and the Dragon Phoenix Heaven slot.
• Lin Suchou asked about the Great Luo Heaven Domain’s past participants, and Mandala said Youming Palace had killed their previous entrant.
• Mandala gave Lin Suchou a bronze scroll listing the Northern Realm’s young talents, and he discovered that he was ranked first on the Dragon Phoenix Ranking.
• Lin Suchou joked that the ranking’s namesake must be someone else, while Mandala called him an idiot and told him Dragon Phoenix Heaven would open in one month.
• Mandala gave Lin Suchou an Ancient Jade to crush if he faced certain death and told him his Thunder Emperor Hall had been repaired, so he flew off to inspect it.

Lin Suchou returned to Thunder Emperor Hall, learned that he had been put in charge of Hundred Battles Domain and Xuantian Hall’s territory, and cultivated until he and his thunder spirits grew stronger. He emerged to face his new subordinates, some of whom challenged his authority, and warned them not to share Liu Tiandao’s fate.

• Lin Suchou arrived at Thunder Emperor Hall, where Jiu You told him that he would oversee Hundred Battles Domain and Xuantian Hall’s territory and could summon the Kings to meet him.
• Lin Suchou distributed supreme spirit liquid among his thunder spirits, then cultivated with supreme spirit liquid and ancient flame dragon essence blood.
• Half a month later, Lin Suchou had reached sixth rank, Divine Wood Gang Thunder had reached ninth rank, and Black God Thunder, Netherworld Heart Demon Thunder, and Luo Ling had also advanced.
• While Lin Suchou remained in seclusion, Dragon Arm Supreme, Withered Old Man, and several former Xuantian Hall subordinates questioned his authority and complained to Jiu You.
• Demon Sorrow Supreme rejected a woman’s attempt to turn him against Lin Suchou, and Lin Suchou entered the hall, took the throne, and warned the complainers that they could follow Liu Tiandao’s footsteps.

Lin Suchou confronted three former Xuantian Hall members who challenged his authority, then killed them with Divine Wood Gang Thunder. He spared Dragon Arm Supreme and Withered Old Man, assigned them to purge disloyal forces, and ordered Hidden Sword Old Man and the others to gather pill recipes and rare materials.

• Lin Suchou defended Jiu You's authority and challenged the three former Xuantian Hall members after the white-robed man revealed his ambition to kill him and claim the Emperor title.
• Lin Suchou unleashed Divine Wood Gang Thunder, overwhelming the three and revealing power strong enough to make them believe he was a Ninth-grade Supreme.
• Lin Suchou killed the Bewitching Woman, the effeminate youth, and the white-robed man after rejecting their attempts to bargain for their lives.
• Lin Suchou accepted Dragon Arm Supreme and Withered Old Man's pledge of loyalty and ordered them to root out Xuantian Hall loyalists and other disloyal forces.
• Lin Suchou gave the three Spirit Storage Rings to Hidden Sword Old Man and his companions, then tasked them with collecting pill recipes and Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures within three days.