Chapter Summaries

After obtaining Great Emperor Wushi's inheritance, Xiao Yang returned from the altar and confronted those who had offended him. He demonstrated that his Chaos God-Demon Body could withstand a top-ranked expert's full-power attack, then killed Ying Feiyang with Wushi Technique—All Laws Shall Perish.

• Xiao Yang descended from the Heaven-Piercing Sacred Ladder with Wushi Bell's recognition and learned that Hong Gaishi had escaped.
• Xiao Yang caught Ying Feiyang trying to flee, and Ying Feiyang knelt and begged for his life.
• Ying Feiyang attacked Xiao Yang with Sky Eagle Nine Transformations and Dragon Eagle Aspect, but Xiao Yang's body repelled the strike and sent Ying Feiyang flying.
• Ying Feiyang tried to escape, but Xiao Yang's power trapped and drew him in.
• Xiao Yang killed Ying Feiyang with Wushi Technique—All Laws Shall Perish, then challenged everyone present who had offended him.

After defeating Ying Feiyang, Xiao Yang accepted the surrender and gifts of the surviving favored geniuses, then learned of the dangerous God Burial Sea and the four Great Emperor Clans. He resolved to go to the God Burial Sea because Hong Gaishi might be there, and the revelations about the vanished Ye Clan reminded him of his mother and the Bronze Immortal Palace.

• The favored geniuses begged Xiao Yang for mercy and offered him their treasures, and he accepted their gifts and asked about other Secret Realms.
• Feng Qingxue told Xiao Yang about the God Burial Sea, where ancient Gods and Demons had fallen and few treasure-seekers survived.
• Feng Qingxue warned that Hong Gaishi might have fled to the God Burial Sea, so Xiao Yang decided to pursue him there.
• Feng Qingxue revealed that the Soul Clan controlled the God Burial Sea and that the Soul, Ancient, Medicine, and Ye Clans were the four Great Emperor Clans.
• Xiao Yang recalled his mother Ye Qingmei and the mysterious deity's words as Feng Qingxue explained that the once-dominant Ye Clan had vanished and the Soul Clan now ruled the Kunlun Ruins.

Xiao Yang led the heavenly prodigies into the God Burial Sea, where he subdued ancient swords and helped Sword Spirit absorb their divinity. A powerful divine inheritance awakened within the sea, and the Soul Race called for warriors to destroy the humans who had entered its territory.

• Xiao Yang ordered the heavenly prodigies who had sworn allegiance to follow him to the God Burial Sea.
• Xiao Yang and the group reached the sea of shattered divine weapons, and Sword Spirit revealed that its divine fragments could restore her strength.
• Several heavenly prodigies rushed ahead for treasure, but awakened ancient swords attacked them and drove them back.
• Xiao Yang broke through the sword net with the True Martial Nine Swords and subdued a hundred ancient swords with the Soldier Seal.
• Sword Spirit began absorbing the swords’ divinity as a great disturbance erupted in the depths, signaling that someone had obtained a high-ranked divine inheritance.
• At the Soul Race’s Sacred Mountain, an edict declared that humans had defiled Soul Race territory and called on its warriors to exterminate them.

Hun Wuxin volunteered to attack the Human Race, while Xiao Yang encountered Hong Qingcheng at God Burial Sea and learned she was the reincarnation of Electric Mother Heavenly Monarch. After leading the prodigies into the sea, Xiao Yang reached Fire God's inheritance, where Ning Hongye began absorbing its energy.

• Hun Wuxin volunteered to leave the Soul Race's sacred mountain and attack the Human Race, and the Ancestor granted his request.
• Hong Qingcheng emerged from God Burial Sea with the aura of Electric Mother Heavenly Monarch, and Sword Spirit identified her as the Heavenly Monarch's reincarnation.
• Hong Qingcheng told Xiao Yang she wanted him to become strong enough to challenge her, then left to seek other opportunities.
• Xiao Yang led Ning Hongye and the other prodigies into God Burial Sea, clearing the way as they gathered treasures and some weaker explorers died.
• Xiao Yang reached the region of Fire God's inheritance, where Ning Hongye began absorbing its fire energy and attributed her compatibility to her Phoenix Destiny.

Xiao Yang gave the Fire God’s inheritance to Ning Hongye and the Water God’s inheritance to Feng Qingxue as they continued through the God Burial Sea. Deep in a sword mound, he encountered the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass, whose Grass Character Sword Art could provide the last of the Ten Fiend Treasure Arts he needed, but its attack badly wounded him.

• Ning Hongye began absorbing the Fire God’s inheritance after Xiao Yang left it to her.
• Xiao Yang used the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls to stop the Water God’s waves and let Feng Qingxue absorb the Water God’s inheritance.
• Xiao Yang followed a mysterious call deeper into the God Burial Sea and entered a sword mound filled with awakened broken swords and wandering souls.
• Sister Sword Spirit identified the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass and its Grass Character Sword Art as the final treasure art Xiao Yang needed.
• The Nine-Leaf Sword Grass overwhelmed Xiao Yang with sword strikes, leaving him badly wounded, though his Chaos God-Demon Body let him survive.

Xiao Yang mastered Clear Sword Heart, received the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass’s Elixir of Immortality, and comprehended the Grass Character Sword Art. Meanwhile, Hun Wuxin arrived at the God Burial Sea and killed Di Yuan and his guards with a Spiritual Sense attack, leaving the gathered prodigies terrified.

• Xiao Yang stopped resisting the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass’s sword energy and endured it until he attained Clear Sword Heart.
• Xiao Yang earned the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass’s recognition, consumed its Elixir of Immortality, and comprehended the Grass Character Sword Art.
• Hun Wuxin arrived and declared that the God Burial Sea belonged to the Hun Clan, stunning the prodigies with his Spiritual Sense pressure.
• Di Yuan challenged Hun Wuxin and trapped him with the Stone Forest Array, while two Houtu Imperial Dynasty guards attacked.
• Hun Wuxin used Nine Nether Soul Capture to destroy Di Yuan’s and the guards’ Divine Souls, then the surviving prodigies panicked as he advanced.

Hun Wuxin slaughtered the prodigies of the Hundred Dynasties, and Ning Hongye and Feng Qingxue failed to stop him. Hong Gaishi emerged from the God Burial Sea with Xing Tian's inheritance, poised to challenge Hun Wuxin.

• Hun Wuxin destroyed the Nine Heavens Thunder Sword Array by killing its central prodigy with a Soul Devouring Worm, then slaughtered the trapped cultivators.
• Ning Hongye and Feng Qingxue joined forces against Hun Wuxin with their Fire God and Water God Dharma Images, but his Myriad Soul Banner and Spiritual Sense attack left them severely wounded.
• Hong Gaishi emerged from the God Burial Sea transformed, carrying a blood-red giant axe and wielding the headless Dharma Image of War God Xing Tian.
• The prodigies recognized that Hong Gaishi had obtained Xing Tian's inheritance as he confronted Hun Wuxin.

Hong Gaishi fought Hun Wuxin with the Xing Tian divine persona and wounded him, but Hun Wuxin used the Heaven Stealing Art to seize the divine personas of Hong Gaishi, Ning Hongye, and Feng Qingxue. Hun Wuxin gained all three divine personas and appeared to become the strongest beneath the starry sky.

• Hong Gaishi challenged Hun Wuxin, and the crowd cheered him as their hope against the Soul Clan Holy Son.
• Hong Gaishi and Hun Wuxin fought for hundreds of exchanges, with Hong Gaishi's Xing Tian Dharma Image forcing Hun Wuxin to retreat.
• Hong Gaishi merged with the Xing Tian Dharma Image and struck Hun Wuxin, breaking his Soul Guarding Pendant and wounding his arm.
• Hun Wuxin revealed the Heaven Stealing Art and sent invisible chains toward Hong Gaishi, Ning Hongye, and Feng Qingxue.
• Hun Wuxin forcibly severed their connections to their divine personas and took Xing Tian, the Water God, and the Fire God for himself.

Hun Wuxin defeated Hong Gaishi and began devouring the prodigies, but Xiao Yang emerged from seclusion and confronted him. Xiao Yang found Ning Hongye and Feng Qingxue wounded and challenged Hun Wuxin over hurting his woman.

• Hun Wuxin overwhelmed the three divine godheads, then blasted Hong Gaishi through the earth and left his fate unknown.
• Hun Wuxin summoned a death vortex to devour the prodigies, while Ning Hongye and Feng Qingxue invoked Xiao Yang to stall him.
• Hun Wuxin learned that Xiao Yang had won the Martial Dao Golden Ranking and obtained Great Emperor Wushi's inheritance, then moved to kill the two women.
• A tremor and primordial sword cry erupted from the God Burial Sea's core, shattering Hun Wuxin's attack as Xiao Yang awakened from seclusion.
• Xiao Yang appeared above Hun Wuxin, saw the wounded Hong Gaishi, Ning Hongye, and Feng Qingxue, and demanded to know how Hun Wuxin wanted to die.

Xiao Yang arrived in time to protect Ning Hongye and Feng Qingxue from Hun Wuxin’s attack, then confronted the Soul Clan’s Holy Son and challenged his status. He revealed his own achievements and unsettled Hun Wuxin by mentioning the vanished Ye Clan.

• Xiao Yang appeared as Hun Wuxin prepared to kill Ning Hongye and Feng Qingxue, and his aura shattered Hun Wuxin’s attack.
• Hun Wuxin launched a devouring vortex at the wounded women, but Xiao Yang stepped between them and the attack until it crumbled against his power.
• Xiao Yang mocked Hun Wuxin’s threats and compared his earned achievements to Hun Wuxin’s self-proclaimed titles.
• Xiao Yang dismissed the Soul Clan and asked what it would amount to if the Ye Clan had not vanished.
• Hun Wuxin reacted with panic and demanded to know how Xiao Yang knew about the Ye Clan, while Xiao Yang accused the Soul Clan of stealing its territory.

Xiao Yang blocked Hun Wuxin’s attack and refused to sacrifice himself despite the crowd’s pressure. He declared that he would become a Martial God to defeat Hun Wuxin.

• Hun Wuxin attacked Xiao Yang with the combined power of four divine incarnations, but Xiao Yang used the Wushi Technique to unravel the strike.
• Hun Wuxin offered to spare Ning Hongye, Feng Qingxue, and the others if Xiao Yang crippled his cultivation, and he swore upon his Dao Heart to keep his word.
• Ning Hongye and Feng Qingxue urged Xiao Yang to refuse, while Hong Gaishi and the other prodigies pressured him to sacrifice himself for them.
• Xiao Yang rejected the demand and said he had ten thousand ways to defeat Hun Wuxin.
• When Hong Gaishi questioned how Xiao Yang could fight a Half-Step Martial God, Xiao Yang declared that he would become a Martial God.

Xiao Yang used the energy he had accumulated to break through from Sixth Grade to Ninth Grade in four steps and triggered the Martial God Tribulation. As the tribulation struck, he withstood its lightning with ease and began swallowing the bolts, while Hun Wuxin prepared a forbidden technique to disrupt his breakthrough.

• Xiao Yang broke through to Seventh Grade, manifesting multiple extraordinary phenomena and the Ten Fiends' Dharma Images.
• Xiao Yang advanced to Eighth Grade and then Ninth Grade, as the crowd's ridicule turned to awe and praise.
• Hun Wuxin tried to attack Xiao Yang during his breakthrough, but the Martial God Tribulation's pressure blasted him away.
• Hun Wuxin secretly prepared the Hun Clan's forbidden Soul Devouring Hadō Needle while waiting for Xiao Yang to falter in the tribulation.
• Xiao Yang endured the first lightning strikes and then crushed and swallowed bolts from the storm of ninety-nine lightning dragons.

Hun Wuxin interrupted Xiao Yang’s Martial God breakthrough with a Soul Devouring Hadō Needle, leaving him at the peak of the half-step Martial God Realm. Xiao Yang manifested an unprecedented Ten-Pattern Martial God Body and attacked Hun Wuxin, who tried to flee after launching a killing move.

• Hun Wuxin ambushed Xiao Yang with a Soul Devouring Hadō Needle, disrupting his breakthrough and injuring him.
• Xiao Yang stabilized at the peak of the half-step Martial God Realm, dispelled his injuries, and manifested a Martial God Body.
• Hun Wuxin revealed seven Divine Marks, but Xiao Yang displayed nine, then a tenth within his left eye’s Double Pupils.
• Xiao Yang charged Hun Wuxin and declared he would use his seven-pattern body as a sacrifice for his Ten-Pattern Divine Body.
• Hun Wuxin unleashed soul-force ghosts as a killing move, then used a movement technique to retreat.

Xiao Yang overwhelmed Hun Wuxin until the Soul Clan Holy Son fused four Divine Sparks and unleashed four killing skills. Xiao Yang disappeared inside the attacks, leaving the onlookers fearing he had been killed, but his voice emerged from the darkness.

• Xiao Yang battered Hun Wuxin so badly that the seven marks on his Martial God Body began to crack, while Hong Gaishi despaired at the gap between them.
• Hun Wuxin fused the Water God, Fire God, Xing Tian, and Dark Divine Sparks, healing his injuries and raising his power close to the Martial God realm.
• Hun Wuxin trapped Xiao Yang in the Water Realm Heavenly Prison, then attacked with World Burning Calamity Flame, Xing Tian's Angry Slash, and Eternal Night Sinking.
• Xiao Yang did not visibly fight back as the attacks swallowed him in flames and darkness, and Ning Hongye and Feng Qingxue wept as the crowd feared he was dead.
• Xiao Yang's disdainful laugh came from the darkness as he asked, "Heh, is that it?"

Xiao Yang effortlessly broke Hun Wuxin’s four Divine Spirit Skills and left him badly injured. When Hun Wuxin tried to escape and threatened to bring the Hun Clan’s Ancestor after him, Xiao Yang froze time and space, trapping him as he prepared to deliver the final blow.

• Xiao Yang used his Ten-Pattern Martial God Body and several techniques to destroy Hun Wuxin’s four Divine Spirit Skills without being harmed.
• The watching geniuses celebrated Xiao Yang’s victory, while Hong Gaishi regretted making him an enemy.
• Hun Wuxin suffered the backlash of his broken divine marks, worsening his injuries and weakening his Seven-Pattern Divine Body.
• Hun Wuxin threatened Xiao Yang and the others with the Hun Clan’s Ancestor, then secretly attempted to escape.
• Xiao Yang used Wushi Technique: Seal Heaven Sever Earth to slow time and freeze space, trapping Hun Wuxin.

Xiao Yang trapped Hun Wuxin in the God Burial Sea and faced the Holy Son’s Myriad Soul Emperor Shield with the Mysterious Broken Sword. He split the shield with the Grass Character Sword Art, leaving Hun Wuxin exposed to the strike.

• Hun Wuxin burned his soul power and tried to escape, but Xiao Yang’s spatial barrier trapped him inside the God Burial Sea.
• Hun Wuxin summoned the Myriad Soul Emperor Shield by burning his life essence, and Xiao Yang failed to control it with the Soldier Seal.
• Hong Gaishi demanded the Xing Tian divine core back, so Xiao Yang slapped him unconscious.
• Xiao Yang drew the Mysterious Broken Sword and unleashed the Grass Character Sword Art · Dao Slash.
• The sword strike split the Myriad Soul Emperor Shield and continued toward Hun Wuxin’s Seven-Pattern Martial God Body.

Xiao Yang defeated Hun Wuxin and reclaimed the stolen Divine Sparks, returning the Water and Fire Divine Sparks to Ning Hongye and Feng Qingxue while keeping Hong Gaishi’s. After feeding two Divine Sparks to the Sword Spirit, Xiao Yang received two Divine Weapons and began beating Hong Gaishi over their past score, leaving Hong Gaishi pleading for the Undying Heavenly Emperor to save him.

• Xiao Yang struck Hun Wuxin down, then used spatial power to stop the four Divine Sparks from escaping.
• Xiao Yang returned the Water and Fire Divine Sparks to Ning Hongye and Feng Qingxue, restoring their strength, but kept the Xingtian and Dark Divine Sparks from Hong Gaishi.
• Xiao Yang gave the Xingtian and Dark Divine Sparks to the Sword Spirit, who absorbed them and opened two doors in the Immortal Martial Armory.
• The Sword Spirit granted Xiao Yang the Xing Tian Axe and Dark Night Armor, which he drew into his body.
• Xiao Yang attacked Hong Gaishi over their past conflict, leaving Hong Gaishi beaten and begging the Undying Heavenly Emperor for help.

Xiao Yang learned that the Bronze Immortal Palace might reappear and that the three great clans held seven Heavenly Dragon Veins that could help Ning Hongye. As Xiao Yang prepared to kill Hun Wuxin, the Soul Clan’s Third Elder arrived and demanded Xiao Yang release the Holy Son, surrender his gains, and cripple his own arm; Xiao Yang refused to retreat.

• Hong Gaishi escaped Xiao Yang through a spatial teleportation technique and vowed to return for revenge.
• Xiao Yang questioned Hun Wuxin, who revealed that the Ye Clan’s disappearance was linked to the Bronze Immortal Palace and that the palace might reappear after a thousand years.
• Hun Wuxin disclosed that the Medicine Clan and Ancient Clan each held two Heavenly Dragon Veins, while the Soul Clan held three.
• Xiao Yang rejected Hun Wuxin’s plea for mercy and prepared to kill him despite the Soul Clan’s threat of retaliation.
• The Soul Clan’s Third Elder arrived, ordered Xiao Yang to release Hun Wuxin and surrender his gains, and tried to crush him with Martial God pressure.
• Xiao Yang withstood the Third Elder’s pressure and declared that he would not retreat.

Xiao Yang faced the Third Elder’s Martial God attacks and used the Dark Night Armor to evade them, but the Third Elder then trapped him in a Spiritual Sense attack. Xiao Yang walked out of the black mist unharmed, leaving the crowd stunned.

• The Third Elder attacked Xiao Yang with a Netherworld Ghost Claw, and Ning Hongye and Feng Qingxue were injured when their barrier shattered.
• Xiao Yang summoned the Dark Night Armor, causing the Third Elder’s physical attacks to pass through him as he dodged the elder’s repeated strikes.
• The Third Elder unleashed the Soul-Devouring Heavenly Punishment, trapping Xiao Yang in a dark domain that attacked his Spiritual Sense.
• Ning Hongye urged the crowd to help Xiao Yang, but Xiao Yang emerged from the black mist unharmed and mocked the Third Elder’s attack.

Xiao Yang used the Xing Tian Axe and Dark Night Armor to wear down and kill the Soul Clan Third Elder, proving he could defeat a Martial God despite being only a Half-Step Martial God. He crippled Hun Wuxin, sealed his fleeing head, and threatened his surviving Divine Soul with a Master-Servant Contract.

• Xiao Yang ambushed the Third Elder with the Xing Tian Axe, wounded him, and repeatedly vanished into darkness to avoid retaliation.
• Xiao Yang wore down the Third Elder until he begged for mercy, but Xiao Yang refused to spare him.
• Xiao Yang empowered the Xing Tian Axe with his Ten-Pattern Divine Body and the All Characters Seal, shattering the Third Elder’s defenses and killing him.
• Xiao Yang severed Hun Wuxin’s limbs, smashed his body, caught his fleeing head, and crushed it while leaving his Divine Soul alive.
• Xiao Yang held the Immortal Slaying Flying Knife over Hun Wuxin’s Soul Fire and demanded that he sign a Master-Servant Contract.