Chapter Summaries

Ye Qingxuan’s reforms revived Xingluo State as cultivators built Battle Stages, academies, and new settlements, while Liu Laosan defended his plans for a village of thirty thousand residents. To support Dongxuan City’s far-flung Branch Cities, Ye Qingxuan arranged rotational duty for Core Members, and Xueyu returned to Xingluo State to oversee the city for a hundred years.

• Dongxuan City cultivators spread across Xingluo State to build Battle Stages, establish academy branches, and recruit mortals for new settlements.
• Liu Laosan refused to share the thirty thousand mortals he had recruited, insisting they were the foundation of his future village.
• Ye Qingxuan arranged thirty-year rotations for one-fifth of Dongxuan City’s mid-tier Core Members and hundred-year rotations for its three high-level members to support Branch Cities.
• Xueyu received Ye Qingxuan’s order while training in the South Barbarian Domain and returned through Nanxuan City and Qingxuan Cave Heaven.
• Ye Qingxuan assigned Xueyu to oversee Dongxuan City for a hundred years and advised her to rest, recover from the effects of prolonged slaughter, and drink Enlightenment Tea.

Liu Family Village’s youths set out for the Dongxuan Academy examination and Qi Refining Competition, while other contenders across Xingluo State prepared to compete. Shi Huang left his village to enter the competition, hoping to reach the finals and see Dongxuan City.

• Liu Laosan warned Liu Yuan, Li Lan, and the other Liu Family Village youths to aim for the top hundred, though Liu Yuan and Li Lan confidently claimed they could reach the top ten.
• Liu Laosan led the youths toward Yuanqing Prefecture City, hoping Liu Yuan and Li Lan would earn a place in the finals and bring rewards to Liu Family Village.
• Yuan Qingcheng declared that she would win first place, while her father, Yuan Mingzhi, cautioned her that powerful Qi Refining Realm Peak cultivators from across Xingluo State could challenge her.
• In Taiyuan Commandery, a young man with Void Glimpse aptitude proclaimed himself destined to win the competition, and his father praised his confidence.
• Shi Huang declined the Stone Village Chief’s offer to escort him, skipped the distant Dongxuan Academy examination, and set out from Shi Village for the Qi Refining Competition.

The Qi Refining Competition began across Xingluo State, while Ye Qingxuan examined how many young cultivators Dongxuan City’s vast mortal population could produce. The chapter ended with the scale of the Dihuan Realm’s cultivator population presented as the strength that let it keep fighting the Azure Devil Realm.

• Li Yuanxing regretted missing Dongxuan City’s recruitment, fearing his son’s Dual Element Spiritual Root Talent would not qualify for Dongxuan Academy.
• The Qi Refining Competition began across more than three hundred prefectures, drawing crowds to the battle stages.
• A young competitor defeated his opponent at Yuanqing Prefecture, while his mortal family watched and celebrated.
• Dongxuan City used protective formations and healing pills to let competitors fight fiercely without dying.
• Ye Qingxuan studied the competition’s data and considered how Xingluo State’s population produced a vast number of new cultivators.
• The chapter described how the Dihuan Realm’s enormous cultivator population helped it withstand the Azure Devil Realm.

After the first round exposed how powerful Xingluo State’s young cultivators were, Liu Laosan encouraged Liu Yuan and Li Lan to learn from their defeats. The second-round tournaments then selected the finalists for Dongxuan City, where Shi Huang, Yuan Qingcheng, and others advanced despite setbacks, while Wang Teng watched his conqueror fight for first place.

• Li Lan apologized to Liu Laosan after losing in Ziyan Prefecture’s first round, and Liu Laosan comforted him and Liu Yuan while urging them to keep cultivating.
• The first round concluded across Xingluo State, drawing attention from cultivators and scouts after more than three thousand young cultivators advanced to the commandery tournaments.
• Liu Yuan was eliminated during the half-month second round but gained experience by watching the other cultivators compete.
• Shi Huang, Yuan Qingcheng, and other strong practitioners qualified for the Dongxuan City Grand Finals, while Shi Huang lost to Leng Ren and Yue Xiling.
• Wang Teng watched Nangong Ji of Nan Yufu fight the final match after Nangong Ji had defeated him in the second round.

The five New Generation cultivators from Dongxuan City discussed the approaching Qi Refining Competition Grand Finals as other commanderies' qualifiers arrived. Jiang Wen opened the finals and announced a hundred-battle format followed by a challenge in Ye Qingxuan's Heart Refining Great Formation.

• Ying Wuqiu boasted about the Dongxuan City elimination tournament, but Yan Ruyan mocked him and suggested he fight Jun Moyan, Li Gexiao, and Bing Ruyi again.
• Jun Moyan warned the others not to underestimate competitors from other commanderies, and the five watched the qualifying flying boats approach Dongxuan City.
• A day later, participants and spectators gathered at the plaza, where people argued over who would become the strongest of Xingluo State's New Generation.
• Jiang Wen arrived with six other figures and announced that the Grand Finals had begun.
• Jiang Wen explained that the one hundred participants would each fight the other ninety-nine, then enter Ye Qingxuan's Heart Refining Great Formation, with victories earning points toward the championship ranking.

Jiang Wen announced generous rewards for the competition’s top participants and their home settlements, motivating the contestants to fight for high rankings. The first round began, and Shi Huang won with his Hundred Battles Fist while hoping to face stronger opponents in later battles.

• Jiang Wen announced Contribution Point prizes and Treasury exchange permissions for the top-ranked contestants, with matching rewards for their villages, towns, and cities.
• Ye Qingxuan explained that the rewards were meant to encourage local leaders to nurture talented cultivators, especially prodigies from ordinary backgrounds.
• Shi Huang and the Dongxuan City contestants resolved to pursue high rankings, while Jun Moyan set his sights on the championship.
• Jiang Wen displayed the match chart and ordered the hundred participants to begin their first battles across the fifty stages.
• Contestants launched varied attacks, and strong cultivators including Jun Moyan and Li Gexiao quickly defeated their first opponents.
• Shi Huang defeated his equally ranked opponent with Hundred Battles Fist and hoped its growing fist intent would carry him into the top ten.

Ying Wuqiu defeated Wang Teng by exploiting the competition rules and using thirty Earth Origin Shield talismans, prompting Ye Qingxuan to consider how future contests might limit external aids. As the Grand Finals continued, Ying Wuqiu’s supplies dwindled against stronger opponents, while the participants’ records and fortunes diverged.

• Ying Wuqiu used thirty Earth Origin Shield talismans to withstand Wang Teng’s attacks and defeated him, despite Wang Teng’s furious protests.
• Jiang Wen and Ye Qingxuan observed the match; Ye Qingxuan chose not to intervene and decided to watch how participants used external forces.
• Ying Wuqiu grew confident after his win and planned to rely on his stockpile of talismans and pills in later rounds.
• The recovered participants began successive rounds, and Ying Wuqiu won several matches with talismans and pills but lost to Leng Ren, whose sudden trump-card attack defeated him.
• Ying Wuqiu barely beat two mortal-origin Seven-element Spirit Root prodigies, spending about half his prepared supplies and worrying they would not last.
• Jun Moyan maintained a perfect record, while Wang Teng and Yuan Qingcheng suffered repeated losses and grew more restrained through their battles.

Ye Qingxuan reflected on how talent, resources, and family origins shaped the competition, and hoped the contests would spur Xingluo State’s young cultivators to improve. As the seventy-second round ended, Jun Moyan met the undefeated Li Taibai in a fierce clash that revealed their unusual strengths.

• Ye Qingxuan concluded that cultivators from privileged lineages usually held an advantage, but planned to offer a fair platform through Dongxuan City’s Contribution Points Exchange System rather than equalize everyone’s resources.
• Ye Qingxuan watched discouraged competitors and hoped the competition would teach the young cultivators to recognize their limits and grow stronger.
• Ying Wuqiu conceded to Jun Moyan on Battle Stage Seven, conserving his remaining talismans and pills for a chance to reach the top ten.
• After the seventy-second round, Jun Moyan and Li Taibai faced each other on Battle Stage 18 as two of the competition’s three undefeated participants.
• Jun Moyan and Li Taibai exchanged more than a hundred blows, each detecting the other’s exceptional qualities: Li Taibai’s spiritual power and Jun Moyan’s physical strength.

Jun Moyan and Li Taibai unleashed Foundation Establishment Realm combat power in their Qi Refining Realm final, astonishing the spectators and other contestants. Ye Qingxuan explained that their accumulated foundations were temporary competition strategies, and that holding back cultivation was generally a waste; he expected Jun Moyan to defeat Li Taibai.

• Li Taibai used his self-comprehended Taibai Sword while Jun Moyan activated the Glazed Treasure Body and charged through the sword qi, then the two fought on Battle Stage 18.
• Spectators and contestants reacted with shock to their Foundation Establishment Realm combat power; Shi Huang accepted that he was unlikely to enter the top ten, while the Dongxuan City contestants were visibly affected.
• Ye Qingxuan explained that Jun Moyan had advanced his body to the Foundation Establishment Late Stage or peak, while Li Taibai had strengthened his spiritual power and mastered Taibai Sword.
• Ye Qingxuan judged that Jun Moyan would win because Li Taibai could not break through his defense, and explained that cultivators generally gained little by suppressing their realm to accumulate combat power.
• Ye Qingxuan said Jun Moyan and Li Taibai had delayed their breakthroughs for the competition’s rewards, since ordinary cultivators benefited more from advancing their realms.

Jun Moyan defeated Li Taibai, and the competition moved into its final Self Battle, where participants faced identical Replication Bodies in the Heart Refining Great Formation. Most participants overcame themselves, including Shi Huang, while the experience left Wang Teng humbler and more self-aware.

• Jun Moyan defeated Li Taibai after a difficult half-hour battle, and Li Taibai accepted his first defeat while vowing to become stronger.
• Jun Moyan and Li Taibai defeated Xiao Yuexian in later rounds, while Shi Huang finished with eighty-seven wins and twelve losses and fell short of the top ten.
• Jiang Wen activated the Heart Refining Great Formation and explained that participants would fight Replication Bodies identical to themselves in the final Self Battle.
• Jun Moyan, Li Taibai, and Xiao Yuexian eventually defeated their Replication Bodies, and about seventy percent of the first batch won.
• Shi Huang quickly defeated his Replication Body after his cultivation improved during the battle, and most of the second batch also won, though Ying Wuqiu lost.
• Wang Teng overcame his Replication Body and recognized his own strengths, becoming calmer and less arrogant after the competition.

The Xingluo State New Generation Qi Refining Competition concluded with Jun Moyan taking first place, and the finalists joined Dongxuan City after receiving their Dongxuan Edicts. Ye Qingxuan set rules for future competitions and reviewed the finalists’ backgrounds, noticing the generation’s unusually high talent.

• Ying Wuqiu reflected on losing to his Replication Body and resolved to improve rather than rely on talismans and pills.
• Jiang Wen announced the final rankings, with Jun Moyan first, Li Taibai second, and Xiao Yuexian third; Ying Wuqiu tied for twelfth with Shi Huang.
• Jiang Wen gave the participants Dongxuan Edicts, and all one hundred agreed to join Dongxuan City and serve the City Lord.
• Jiang Wen announced Ye Qingxuan’s rules barring Grand Finals participants from the next competition and setting age limits for future Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, and Purple Mansion competitions.
• Ye Qingxuan examined the finalists’ information and observed that village and small-town contestants were rare among the highest-ranked, then wondered whether this generation’s talents were unusually strong.

Ye Qingxuan suspected Dihuan Realm’s Heaven and Earth Rules were fostering a new generation of prodigies and recalled four clones from the Azure Devil Realm while preparing a hidden move. In Dongxuan City, Shi Huang declined recruitment by several Demon Hunting Armies, exchanged Contribution Points for cultivation resources, and headed to his new cave mansion.

• Ye Qingxuan noted the exceptional spirit-root talents among Xingluo State’s finalists and suspected Dihuan Realm’s rules were intervening amid the Two Realms’ Contest.
• Ye Qingxuan recalled four of his clones from the Azure Devil Realm, leaving ten to continue hunting there.
• A Bai Mang Demon Hunting Army elder offered Shi Huang resources worth one hundred thousand Contribution Points to join, but Shi Huang refused and later rejected other armies’ offers as well.
• Shi Huang browsed Dongxuan City’s Exchange List and spent nearly twenty thousand Contribution Points on pills, Chaos Spirit Fruits, spells, and a month in a Second-Tier Spirit Vein Cave Mansion.
• Shi Huang left the Exchange Hall with his purchases and flew toward the cave mansion, planning to cultivate in Dongxuan City before returning to Shi Village.

While Shi Huang cultivated, Ye Qingxuan prepared to preserve access to Azure Devil Realm by sending his clones to occupy wormhole passages, and completed a powerful flying boat. After his World Map advanced to a High-grade Spirit Treasure, he reunited with four followers who had waited over a hundred years for him to honor his promises.

• The Stone Village Chief received Shi Village's reward of two hundred thousand Contribution Points and reserved thirty thousand for the village's young cultivators, giving the rest to Shi Huang.
• Ye Qingxuan's four clones returned to Qingxuan Cave Heaven, raised their cultivation to the Pseudo Void Comprehension Realm, and departed to occupy wormhole passages across Dihuan Realm's four outer domains.
• Ye Qingxuan explained his plan to establish cities around four wormhole passages so his forces could retain routes to Azure Devil Realm if the passages were destroyed on a large scale.
• Ye Qingxuan completed and named the eighth-tier low-grade Azure Wood Flying Boat, then stored it to nurture its power.
• The World Map advanced to a one-star High-grade Spirit Treasure, giving Ye Qingxuan strength to contend with Tribulation Crossing Realm cultivators without relying on Qingxuan Cave Heaven.
• Ye Zhaoheng, Ye Zhaoyu, Liu Yun'er, and Liu Cai'er greeted Ye Qingxuan after waiting over a hundred years for him to send them to Azure Devil Realm or extend their entry permissions.

Ye Qingxuan sent Ye Zhaoheng, Ye Zhaoyu, Liu Yun'er, and Liu Cai'er to the Azure Devil Realm to gain experience, protecting them with Five Elements armors. After they departed, he entered seclusion to cultivate three new Minor Divine Abilities and began with Ice Sky Snow Land.

• Ye Qingxuan decided that Ye Zhaoheng, Ye Zhaoyu, Liu Yun'er, and Liu Cai'er needed outside experience to advance beyond the Peak Spirit Transmutation Realm.
• Ye Qingxuan gave the four retainers Metal, Earth, Water, and Fire Five Elements armors, each containing a protective wisp of his Spiritual Sense.
• Ye Qingxuan sent the four through the Realm Gate to the South Barbarian Domain and warned them to return alive from the Azure Devil Realm.
• Ye Qingxuan returned to cultivation and chose Minor Divine Ability: Body Fixation, Minor Divine Ability: Sword Realm, and Minor Divine Ability: Ice Sky Snow Land to study.
• Ye Qingxuan entered an Enlightenment State and began comprehending Ice Sky Snow Land.

While trapped in Xuanli Realm, Ye Qingxiao prepared to lead its Human Race in the decisive battle against the invading Azure Devil Race. As the fighting began, an unfamiliar Peak Spirit Transmutation Realm devil from the Blood Capital Demon Realm appeared, and Ye Qingxiao attacked him.

• Ye Qingxiao explained that he had chosen to defend Xuanli Realm rather than escape by destroying its spirit veins, and had led its cultivators through nine battles against the Azure Devil Race.
• Ye Qingxiao shared his unease about the realms’ border with Xiao Yixian and ordered the cultivators to prepare for what he believed would be the decisive battle.
• Three days later, the border settled, and Ye Qingxiao led Xuanli Realm’s Human Race to charge at a vast Azure Devil Race invasion.
• Ye Qingxiao questioned the enemy’s growing numbers, then encountered an unfamiliar Peak Spirit Transmutation Realm Azure Devil who identified himself as coming from the Blood Capital Demon Realm.
• Ye Qingxiao severely injured the devil with his sword and charged at him again.

Prince Xieyue’s decades-long scheme to capture and destroy Xuanli Realm reached its final stage as his cross-border channel to the Blood Capital Realm became stable. He watched a large force of Azure Devil Race cultivators arrive, ready to attack Xuanli Realm and help him force Ye Qingxiao to reveal his trump cards.

• Prince Xieyue had spent thousands of years seeking a way to break through to the Void Glimpse Realm and settled on destroying a Lesser Thousand Realm to seize its World Origin and Rule Origin Fragments.
• After finding Xuanli Realm beside the Blood Moon Realm, Prince Xieyue began capturing it, but changed his plans when he sensed danger from Ye Qingxiao and chose to conceal himself while testing Ye Qingxiao’s strength.
• Prince Xieyue secretly arranged a channel to the Blood Capital Realm and used Azure Devil Race forces from both realms to wear down Xuanli Realm while keeping some Peak Spirit Transmutation Realm experts in reserve.
• After waiting for the border between the Blood Moon Realm and Xuanli Realm to stabilize, Prince Xieyue completed the channel and watched Azure Devil Race experts pour through from the Blood Capital Realm.

Mo Li brought the Blood Capital Realm’s forces to join Prince Xieyue’s plan to attack the Human Race, while Ye Qingxiao continued fighting the Azure Devil Race in the Xuanli Realm. When the Azure Devil Race retreated after the battle, the border between the realms showed no sign of turning violent as it had before, leaving Xiao Yixian unsure whether the Human Race should withdraw.

• Mo Li arrived in the Blood Moon Realm and learned that Mo Wu Er had disobeyed Prince Xieyue and gone alone to hunt Human Race cultivators.
• Mo Li told Prince Xieyue that the Blood Capital Realm would send more than six hundred Spirit Transformation Realm Experts and over ten thousand Nascent Soul Realm cultivators to support the attack.
• Ye Qingxiao killed a Peak Spirit Transmutation Realm Azure Devil, considered the enemy’s evasive tactics and suspected that an expert from the Azure Devil Realm was behind them.
• Ye Qingxiao worked with Xiao Yixian and other Xuantian Sect Core Disciples to kill six Early and Mid Spirit Transmutation Realm Azure Devils as he moved across the battlefield.
• The Azure Devil Race signaled a retreat, but the border between the realms showed no signs of becoming violent, so Xiao Yixian asked Ye Qingxiao whether they should withdraw their forces.

Ye Qingxiao held the Xuanli Realm cultivators at the border and sent an Earth Shadow Clone into the Blood Moon Realm to scout the Azure Devil Race. The clone was discovered and destroyed by Prince Xieyue, who secured Mo Li’s agreement to let him command the Blood Capital Realm forces in the coming battle.

• Ye Qingxiao ordered the Xuanli Realm cultivators to remain on guard and sent an Earth Shadow Clone into the Devil Realm World to follow the retreating Azure Devil Race army.
• Six Peak Spirit Transmutation Realm subordinates reported to Prince Xieyue and described the Human Race forces they had encountered during ten battles.
• One subordinate told Mo Li that Ye Qingxiao had killed Mo Wu Er, and Mo Li asked Prince Xieyue to lead the allied armies in avenging his brother.
• Prince Xieyue detected and destroyed Ye Qingxiao’s Earth Shadow Clone, then promised to target Ye Qingxiao and won Mo Li’s agreement to accept his deployment.

Ye Qingxiao ambushed the allied Azure Devil Race army at the Xuanli Realm border with three Seventh-grade High-grade Attack Talismans, devastating its forces and forcing survivors to flee. He then clashed with Prince Xieyue over their remaining talismans, while Ye Qingxiao feared he might not survive the battle.

• Ye Qingxiao deduced that Prince Xieyue planned to unite the Blood Moon Realm and Blood Capital Realm against the Xuanli Realm, so he ordered Human Race cultivators to retreat and prepared an ambush.
• Prince Xieyue gathered the two realms’ armies and advanced toward the Xuanli Realm, while Xie Xinghun and other powerful Azure Devil Race experts answered his call and headed for the border.
• Ye Qingxiao waited until the allied army’s Spirit Transmutation Realm experts approached, then unleashed three Seventh-grade High-grade Attack Talismans and killed most of them in a devastating strike.
• Prince Xieyue survived by activating a protective talisman, but Ye Qingxiao’s attack shattered the army and sent many survivors fleeing toward the Blood Moon Realm.
• Prince Xieyue attacked Ye Qingxiao with a Seventh-grade talisman, but Ye Qingxiao countered with another; both men then worried about how many talismans the other still had.
• Ye Qingxiao realized he had only two Seventh-grade Talismans left and feared he would die before returning to Ye Qingxuan and Xueqing.

Prince Xieyue revived the Xieyue Sword to trap and kill Ye Qingxiao and the gathered Human Race experts, but Xiao Yixian revealed a Spirit Treasure of his own and met the attack. The two treasures clashed while the Human Race survivors remained under threat.

• Prince Xieyue hesitated to spend the Xieyue Sword's power until hundreds of Human Race Spirit Transformation Realm experts gathered near Ye Qingxiao.
• Prince Xieyue revived the Xieyue Sword, sealed the area with its Rule Power, and attacked the Human Race experts.
• Ye Qingxiao used his remaining Seventh-grade High-grade Attack Talismans against the barrier and the Xieyue Sword, but the barrier recovered and the sword pressed its assault.
• As Ye Qingxiao faced death with his talismans exhausted, Xiao Yixian pulled him back and revealed the Tai Xu Flame Spear.
• The Tai Xu Flame Spear clashed with the Xieyue Sword and stopped its attacks on the other Human Race experts, prompting Prince Xieyue to recognize it as a Two-star Low-grade Spirit Treasure.