Chapter Summaries

Feng Qingjue defeated Du Yao after he rejected her offer, and Gu Tianye overpowered Zhang San in the next match. As more bouts were announced, Qin Wangchuan recognized Xiao Yun among the Wen Dao Palace contestants.

• Feng Qingjue broke through Du Yao's Zhou Tian Star Illusion and defeated him, but Du Yao said his path lay among the stars and declined her offer.
• Gu Tianye attacked Zhang San without holding back, smashed his defenses, and seized his true body among the illusions.
• The referee declared Gu Tianye the winner, while Zhang San struggled up from the arena, still unwilling to yield.
• The referee announced several upcoming matches, including Jiang Yan versus Xiao Yun, and Qin Wangchuan spotted the Wen Dao Palace group in the contestants' waiting area.

Jiang Yan fought Xiao Yun at the Grand Competition after claiming to be from the Wen Dao Palace, and his powerful technique led Xiao Yun to recognize a connection to the Young Master. Xiao Yun deliberately lost to help Jiang Yan, then his companions played along with his injury as the crowd began to suspect a fixed match.

• Jiang Yan confirmed to Xiao Yun that he was from the Wen Dao Palace, while Chen Wan and her junior brother recognized him as an impostor.
• Jiang Yan used his Mysterious Thunder True Body and Returning Resonance against Xiao Yun, who easily dodged and broke his Thunder Spear.
• Jiang Yan unleashed First Gear, and Xiao Yun recognized the Qin Clan technique and spotted the Young Master watching from the clouds.
• Xiao Yun let Jiang Yan's punch send him out of the arena, then secretly struck himself and spat blood to make his defeat look convincing.
• When spectators suspected a fixed match, Xiao Yun warned Chen Wan and the youngest junior brother to play along, and they declared him gravely injured.

Jiang Yan gained confidence after winning with the Wanjie Thunder Furnace, while Su Wanqing defeated a Sword Cultivator with a strange weapon. Qin Wangchuan’s Ten Directions Profound Sword advanced to the Magic Tool realm, and Tongtian Wanyue asked him for help after revealing she had nowhere safe to turn; he demanded to know what she could offer in return.

• Jiang Yan credited his victory to Eldest Brother’s Wanjie Thunder Furnace and resolved that he could win.
• Su Wanqing fired a strange Iron Box at her opponent, breaking his sword and blasting him off the arena.
• Qin Wangchuan suspected Su Wanqing possessed advanced weapons and considered putting her to work building Flying Ships.
• Qin Wangchuan fed the Crimson Flame Flowing Fire Blade to the Ten Directions Profound Sword, which advanced to the Magic Tool realm.
• Tongtian Wanyue admitted she had come without her family’s orders and begged Qin Wangchuan to let her serve as an envoy so she could return to the Immortal Court alive.
• Qin Wangchuan offered Tongtian Wanyue the title of envoy and his influence, then asked what she could give him.

Qin Wangchuan enlisted Tongtian Wanyue to help him claim the Heaven-Reaching Pillar and sent her back to the Tongtian Family under the Qin Divine Son's protection. When her eldest brother's men tried to kill her, the Divine Son's power killed their leader and forced the survivors to escort her home.

• Qin Wangchuan offered Tongtian Wanyue the Divine Son Token and asked her to help him obtain the Heaven-Reaching Pillar; she accepted and agreed to serve as his vanguard.
• Qin Wangchuan declared that Tongtian Sinan was under Chuanliu Pavilion's protection and warned the Tongtian Family not to challenge him.
• On her way home, Tongtian Wanyue was surrounded by Shadow Figures led by Tong Mingyuan, who said her eldest brother had ordered her death.
• Tongtian Wanyue raised the Divine Son Token, but Tong Mingyuan dismissed it and prepared to attack her.
• An unseen voice killed Tong Mingyuan and ordered the other men to return to the Tongtian Family and accept punishment; they bowed to Tongtian Wanyue and escorted her home.

Jiang Yan defeated Sun Yu after his body instinctively blocked a lightning-fast attack and revealed his extraordinary fighting instincts. The Martial Arts Competition continued through half a month of bouts and reached the finals.

• Ye Jianwei told Qin Wangchuan that meeting the Young Master had been the greatest fortune of her life.
• Sun Yu accused Jiang Yan of fixing his previous match before their bout began.
• Jiang Yan instinctively deflected Sun Yu's first punch, astonishing Sun Yu and drawing Feng Qingjue's and Gu Tianye's attention.
• Jiang Yan gained confidence, overwhelmed Sun Yu's attacks, and knocked him out of the arena to win.
• After half a month of bouts, the Martial Arts Competition reached the finals.

Su Wanqing defeated Gu Tianye with Ge Zixuan’s technological weapons, while Feng Qingjue defeated Jiang Yan and won the Martial Arts Competition. After Qin Wangchuan intervened and revealed his power, Feng Qingjue challenged him for the Nine-Turn Pill and offered to make him her subordinate if she won.

• Ge Zixuan took control of Su Wanqing’s body and drove Gu Tianye off the platform with a pair of Gatlings, winning their semifinal.
• Feng Qingjue defeated Jiang Yan with her Dao Slash, but Qin Wangchuan quietly confronted her before leaving with the injured boy.
• Feng Qingjue defeated Ge Zixuan in the final with her Taichu God-Burial Sword and claimed the championship and Nine-Turn Pill.
• Qin Wangchuan saw that the competition’s real purpose was to gather Qi Yun and received a system notification for the Ten Lives Trial.
• Feng Qingjue challenged Qin Wangchuan for the pill and rewards, offering to take him to the heavens as her subordinate if she won.

Qin Wangchuan challenged Feng Qingjue’s resolve to ascend to Heaven, judging her ambition too shallow to fulfill the role of a true Heaven Crusher. As they prepared to fight, he suddenly summoned a Metal Puppet that aimed a Spirit Light Cannon at her temple.

• Qin Wangchuan recognized Feng Qingjue’s gathered Qi Yun and realized he had become her tribulation.
• Feng Qingjue declared that she wanted to ascend to Heaven and break the order that placed the Immortal Court above the mortal world.
• Qin Wangchuan agreed that she had the freedom to ascend, but questioned what she would do after reaching the Immortal Court.
• Feng Qingjue said she would decide what came next after ascending, and Qin Wangchuan judged her ideal too shallow to make her a true Heaven Crusher.
• Feng Qingjue drew her sword and introduced herself as a dual cultivator of the sword and Sword Technique, while Qin Wangchuan identified himself as a Talisman Cultivator.
• A three-meter-tall Metal Puppet appeared beside Feng Qingjue and aimed its Miniature Spirit Light Cannon at her temple.

Qin Wangchuan used his Soldier Puppets to defeat Feng Qingjue, whose powerful sword arts and deceptive ice illusion could not overcome his defenses. The fight ended with Feng Qingjue captured and the audience amazed by Qin Wangchuan’s strength.

• Feng Qingjue unleashed Ice River Hanging Upside Down, but Qin Wangchuan’s Soldier Puppet shattered the frost with a shock wave.
• Feng Qingjue used Sword Intent Furnace, Second Gear, and Dao Slash, but the Soldier Puppet crushed her Sword Qi with its bare hand.
• Qin Wangchuan gave the Soldier Puppet a talisman sword, and it copied Dao Slash, cutting through Feng Qingjue’s ice-clone illusion.
• Feng Qingjue tried to ambush Qin Wangchuan from behind, but a second Soldier Puppet exposed her real body and seized her.
• Gu Tianye recognized Feng Qingjue’s ice-crystal illusion, while Jiang Yan marveled at Qin Wangchuan’s strength and wondered how powerful the Wen Dao Palace was.

Feng Qingjue awakened her Profound Ice Jade Bone Sacred Body and unleashed its Extreme Ice Emperor Sword, but Qin Wangchuan answered with the Taichu God-Burial Sword and killed her. He absorbed her golden Qi Yun, claiming the fortune of the Heaven Crusher and the Sacred Body.

• Feng Qingjue broke free of the Soldier Puppet's grasp by awakening her Sacred Body, freezing and shattering its metal hand.
• Feng Qingjue revealed her transformed Sacred Body and rose above the arena as the crowd recognized her power.
• Feng Qingjue launched her Extreme Ice Emperor Sword at Qin Wangchuan, who said he was tired and ordered the Soldier Puppet to strike.
• The Soldier Puppet wielded the Taichu God-Burial Sword, shattered Feng Qingjue's Emperor Sword, and cut her in two.
• Qin Wangchuan declared Feng Qingjue dead and absorbed all the golden Qi Yun from her corpse.

Feng Qingjue recalled her rise from Young Emperor to Peerless Fairy, her vow to challenge the Upper Realm, and Qing Wangchuan’s defeat of her in battle. She woke alive in an unfamiliar room, stripped of her Sacred Body and former strength, and heard Qing Wangchuan speaking outside.

• Feng Qingjue remembered ruling as Young Emperor and realizing that even her court bowed to a cultivator from the Upper Realm.
• Feng Qingjue vowed to ascend to the heavens and challenge the Celestial Beings, then became a Peerless Fairy with a Profound Ice Jade Bone Sacred Body.
• Feng Qingjue met Qing Wangchuan and invited him to ascend with her, but he called her ideal too shallow and defeated her with Soldier Puppets and the Taichu God-Burial Sword.
• Feng Qingjue awoke alive in a strange, empty room wearing a plain green robe, with her Sacred Body and Ice Crystal Long Skirt gone.
• Feng Qingjue heard Jiang Yan ask Qing Wangchuan about his strength, then pushed open the door.

After reviving Feng Qingjue, Qin Wangchuan urged her to abandon her goal of ascending to Heaven and instead bring down the Immortal Court, but agreed to take her and her followers to Heaven so she could judge for herself. Feng Qingjue learned that Qin Wangchuan came from the Qin Clan and heard that he intended to appear at the Upper Realm’s upcoming Prodigy Grand Competition.

• Qin Wangchuan had the Golden Crow burn Feng Qingjue’s Green Robe and returned the Nine-Turn Pill and Thunder Furnace Cultivation Method to her.
• Feng Qingjue refused Qin Wangchuan’s proposal to Attack Heaven, explaining that she still wanted to see whether Celestial Beings were truly superior to others.
• Qin Wangchuan offered to take Feng Qingjue to Heaven and help her overthrow it if she chose to after seeing it; Feng Qingjue agreed and insisted her followers come too.
• Feng Qingjue examined the cultivation method and recognized the character “Qin,” while Tongtian Xuanming revealed that Qin Wangchuan came from Heaven Above Heaven and belonged to the Qin Clan.
• Tongtian Xuanming told Feng Qingjue that the Upper Realm would soon hold a Prodigy Grand Competition and that Qin Wangchuan seemed intent on taking the stage himself.

Ge Zixuan joined Qin Wangchuan after seeing the Qin Clan’s Sky Patrol Throne, while Zhang San recruited Qin Wangchuan into the Returnees and warned him about the Cleaners. After Zhang San left, Jiang Yan challenged Qin Wangchuan, but Gu Tianye appeared and demanded to fight him instead.

• Zhang San identified Ge Zixuan as a fellow transmigrator and invited him to join the Returnees, but Qin Wangchuan arrived with a competing offer.
• Qin Wangchuan showed Ge Zixuan an image of the Sky Patrol Throne, and Ge Zixuan eagerly agreed to join him.
• Qin Wangchuan passed the Returnees’ code phrases and accepted their compass, while Zhang San warned that the Cleaners were hunting transmigrators.
• Qin Wangchuan arranged for Ge Zixuan to be escorted to the Immortal Court and reflected on the Returnees and the Cleaners.
• Jiang Yan challenged Qin Wangchuan to a spar, but Gu Tianye appeared and demanded to fight him instead.

Jiang Yan and Gu Tianye challenged Qin Wangchuan to fight with his full strength, but he effortlessly overpowered them and revealed a glimpse of his true power. The chapter ended with the two accepting his invitation to eat roasted Demonic Beast meat, shaken by the enormous sword scar he had carved through the land.

• Jiang Yan activated Wanjie Thunder Furnace and attacked Qin Wangchuan, while Gu Tianye joined him with Burning Heaven Palm, but the Soldier Puppet blocked their assaults.
• Jiang Yan invoked Lei Shi and Gu Tianye summoned Heavenly Fire Meteor Fall, yet the Soldier Puppet stopped Jiang Yan and Qin Wangchuan evaded Gu Tianye's meteors without being touched.
• Qin Wangchuan dismissed the Soldier Puppet and agreed to fight them directly, then immobilized Jiang Yan and Gu Tianye with invisible power.
• Qin Wangchuan revealed Dragon Scale, Wanjie Thunder Furnace's Third Gear, Ultimate Saint Law, and the Ten Directions Profound Sword, then struck once and left the pair feeling as though their consciousness had died.
• Jiang Yan and Gu Tianye saw the vast sword scar and ravine Qin Wangchuan's strike had cut through the land, and Gu Tianye asked to join Qin Wangchuan for roasted meat.

After Qin Wangchuan shattered Gu Tianye’s faith in the Sacred Body’s invincibility, he urged him to study the Qin Clan Secret Technique and grow stronger. Jiang Yan reunited with Wen Dao Palace’s escorts and learned that Qin Wangchuan had founded the sect, as they set off toward the Upper Thousand Provinces to witness his next move.

• Gu Tianye asked Qin Wangchuan how he would fare against him after reaching great completion, and Qin Wangchuan said he did not know because he treated every opponent as someone to vanquish.
• Qin Wangchuan told Gu Tianye to study the Qin Clan Secret Technique at Chuanliu Pavilion, and Gu Tianye left after questioning whether Qin Wangchuan feared a future challenge.
• Xiao Yun and the others arrived in Tongtian City to collect Jiang Yan, while Qin Wangchuan and Feng Qingjue departed for the Upper Thousand Provinces.
• Xiao Yun introduced Jiang Yan to Wen Dao Palace, accidentally gave him Blood Evil Sect tokens, and explained the group’s double identity and dubious approach to robbing the rich.
• Jiang Yan learned from Xiao Yun that Qin Wangchuan had founded Wen Dao Palace, and Chen Wan suggested they go see his coming move in the Upper Thousand Provinces.

Aboard the Qin Clan Flying Ship, Qin Wangchuan explained to Feng Qingjue his ambition to reshape the myriad laws and unite all living beings, even at the cost of bloodshed. He revealed himself as the Qin Clan Divine Son and descended to face the gathered Prodigies, while Feng Qingjue and Jiang Yan learned the truth of his identity.

• Feng Qingjue asked Qin Wangchuan why he had deceived all living beings, and he declared himself a villain who stood above them.
• Qin Wangchuan described his Dao of reshaping the laws and uniting all living beings, accepting that his path could cause tragedy and might prove wrong.
• The Flying Ship arrived at the packed Circular Arena, where Qin Wangchuan shattered his mask, revealed his Dragon Robe, and announced he would soon set out for the Immortal Court.
• Qin Wangchuan leapt down to the arena, and Ye Jianwei followed after explaining that fighting the Qin Clan Divine Son was itself a rare honor, not a reward.
• Feng Qingjue realized Qin Wangchuan was the Qin Clan Divine Son, and Jiang Yan arrived lamenting that Qin Wangchuan had lied to him again.

Qin Wangchuan arrived at the Martial Arts Competition and challenged every gathered prodigy at once. He defeated Wang Qiming in a single exchange and called for the next challenger, warning that anyone without a Heaven and Earth Law domain would waste his time.

• Qin Wangchuan reached Cloud Mist Heavenly City, where the gathered Immortal Court figures and prodigies waited to watch him fight.
• Qin Wangchuan merged the Twelve Arenas into one and announced that he would face everyone.
• Wang Qiming stepped forward, and Qin Wangchuan praised his Dao of equality among all living beings while declaring it a lesser Dao.
• Wang Qiming unleashed the Peerless Emperor Seal, but Qin Wangchuan shattered it with his Dragon Armor and knocked him out of the arena.
• Qin Wangchuan invited defeated prodigies to return and demanded that the next challenger have a domain formed with Heaven and Earth Law.

Qin Wangchuan faced wave after wave of Prodigies in a sparring match, defeating them while offering advice and growing stronger through each battle. By the thirteenth day, his rapid evolution had left the challengers afraid to approach him.

• Qin Wangchuan revealed that he was at the Twelfth Realm, shocking the onlookers and prompting Chu Wujiu and the others to stick to their plan.
• After Qin Wangchuan defeated Wang Qiming without killing him, more than ten Prodigies eagerly took turns challenging him on the arena.
• Qin Wangchuan countered the challengers with their own techniques, offered them pointers, and defeated a Heaven and Earth Dharma Manifestation with a single strike.
• Over more than ten days, Qin Wangchuan’s wounds multiplied, but his strength and Dao insights continued to grow as Qi Yun gathered around him.
• On the thirteenth day, the Prodigies realized Qin Wangchuan had become far stronger, and many were too afraid to challenge him again.

The group analyzed Qin Wangchuan’s awakening Immortal Bone and planned how to face his growing strength in the coming battle. Li Xuan sensed that Qin Wangchuan might target him, but then noticed Qin Wangchuan seemed unable to hold on.

• The onlookers observed Qin Wangchuan growing stronger as he fought, and Yun Zexuan concluded that his Immortal Bone was still awakening and helping him adapt to attacks.
• Wang Xuance estimated that Qin Wangchuan had defeated an opponent of the same realm using only thirty percent of his strength, prompting Chu Wujiu and the others to plan for the battle.
• Zhao Lingyun proposed that Ye Lingchuan take Qin Wangchuan’s Heavenly Sword and Dao Slash, while Zhou Yunyi would help him, and Ye Lingchuan protested the plan.
• Li Xuan predicted that Qin Wangchuan might target him first, based on a Sword Cultivator’s instinct and the tension he felt when facing Qin Wangchuan.
• Li Xuan suddenly widened his eyes and warned the group that Qin Wangchuan seemed unable to hold on.

Qin Wangchuan endured the voices unleashed by the gathered Qi Yun, then faced a new battle against the Upper Thousand Provinces prodigies. The fight began with his Soldier Puppets powering his Wanjie Thunder Furnace, and he immediately smashed Li Xuan into a city wall.

• Qin Wangchuan absorbed the gathered Qi Yun, endured the countless voices in his mind, and promised the defeated prodigies they would fight again.
• Chu Wujiu challenged Qin Wangchuan, and Chu Wujiu, Li Xuan, Yun Zexuan, Zhao Lingyun, and the others joined him on the arena.
• Jiu Jiu grew larger than Yan Wujin's Nine-Flame Golden Crow and revealed Immortal light in his feathers; Qin Wangchuan agreed that the Golden Crows would not kill each other.
• Qin Wangchuan ordered the battle to begin, and his Soldier Puppets formed a ring to channel Spiritual Power into his Wanjie Thunder Furnace.
• Qin Wangchuan activated Fourth Gear, seized Li Xuan, and drove his head into the city wall.

Qin Wangchuan killed Li Xuan and faced the assembled fighters, while Li Qingluan arrived and proposed a wager before the battle turned into a series of coordinated attacks and feints. The chapter ended with Wang Xuance exposing a concealed Soldier Puppet attack and warning that no one could afford to let their guard down against Qin Wangchuan.

• Qin Wangchuan shattered Li Xuan’s sword, struck him down, and turned to face Chu Wujiu and the others.
• Yun Zexuan ordered the group to form up, but Li Qingluan attacked Qin Wangchuan from above and proposed that the winner could make one request of the loser.
• Qin Wangchuan accepted Li Qingluan’s wager, and Zhou Yunyi and Zhao Lingyun switched Chu Wujiu into position for a Fourth Gear attack that struck only a phantom.
• Qin Wangchuan reappeared before Yun Zexuan and attacked, but Yun Zexuan used Boundary Defining Existence to escape as Ye Lingchuan charged with the Mysterious Immortal Coffin.
• Wang Xuance spotted a concealed Soldier Puppet about to attack Yun Zexuan, destroyed it with Yellow Springs Water, and warned the group that Qin Wangchuan could kill them if they relaxed.