Chapter Summaries

After completing his baptism, Ling Yuan learned that the Outer Realm Evil Clan had strengthened its guard against the Spirit Firmament Palace, limiting his ability to kill them. He stocked up on cultivation resources and received orders to prepare for the Saint Abyss Continent, where he would search for the Tailing Heaven-Piercing Light.

• Lin Bei praised Ling Yuan for nearing the Heavenly Sovereign realm, and Ling Yuan explained that the Soul Cores had raised his soul by a major level.
• Lin Bei told Ling Yuan that three Heavenly Demon Emperors now guarded the Spirit Firmament Palace, and Ling Yuan confirmed that it could kill only around thirty or forty enemies per activation.
• Ling Yuan exchanged more than twenty thousand Demon-Slaying Points for cultivation supplies that Qin had arranged to be transferred to the Great Thousand Palace branch.
• Ling Yuan encountered Yu Lao, who delivered one hundred and sixty million units of Supreme Spirit Liquid and told him to prepare to depart for the Saint Abyss Continent.
• Ling Yuan asked Yu Lao about conditions on the Saint Abyss Continent and whether he could begin searching for the divine ability.

Ling Yuan traveled with Yu Lao to Saint Abyss City to seek the Tailing Heaven-Piercing Light in the Ancient Sacred Abyss. While waiting for the entrance to open, he encountered Qing Yanjing among the arriving Futu Ancient Clan team.

• Ling Yuan and Yu Lao left the Lingxiao Continent and reached the Saint Abyss Continent half a month later.
• At the Great Thousand Pavilion, Ling Yuan met Old Immortal Chiyan and denied being the Ling Yuan ranked second on the Demon-Slaying Ranking.
• Ling Yuan demanded information about the Ancient Sacred Abyss, and Old Immortal Chiyan explained its dangers while they waited for the spacetime storms to subside.
• The Futu Ancient Clan team arrived, and Ling Yuan recognized its divine maiden, Qing Yanjing, whom he had last met two years earlier.
• Old Immortal Chiyan warned Ling Yuan that Qing Yanjing was intended to marry Maha Tian, and Ling Yuan denied being interested in her.

The Tailing Ancient Clan and Futu Ancient Clan prepared to enter the Ancient Sacred Abyss after its spatial-temporal storm stabilized. Qing Yanjing suspected Ling Yuan was the second-ranked figure on the Demon-Slaying Ranking, but he did not confirm it, and the chapter left the teams about to enter the dangerous realm.

• The Futu Ancient Clan party arrived, and Old Immortal Chiyan and Elder Xuan Hua had the two clans’ disciples meet while they waited for the storm to settle.
• Qing Yanjing approached Ling Yuan, apologized for their previous encounter, and asked why he would not join the others’ plans.
• Qing Yanjing guessed that Ling Yuan was the second-ranked figure on the Demon-Slaying Ranking, but Ling Yuan ignored her rather than confirming or denying it.
• When the spatial-temporal storm stabilized, the two clans followed the other cultivators toward the Ancient Sacred Abyss.
• Old Immortal Chiyan and Xuan Hua gave the disciples jade talismans for leaving the realm and warned them about its dangers, with Xuan Hua urging them to travel together.

Ling Yuan left the group after entering the Ancient Sacred Abyss and traveled alone toward the Fallen God Abyss, hoping to find the Four Saint Towers. He found the area occupied by the Outer Realm Evil Clan and began attacking its forces.

• Ling Yuan rejected Qing Yanjing’s request to travel with the group and flew west alone.
• Ling Yuan studied Old Immortal Chiyan’s route map and set out for the Fallen God Abyss to search for the Four Saint Towers and the Tailing Heaven-Piercing Light.
• After three days, Ling Yuan ignored a cultivator’s warning that the Outer Realm Evil Clan had occupied the area and continued toward the Fallen God Abyss.
• Ling Yuan found the Abyss’s illuminated side guarded by squads of Outer Realm Evil Clan members and killed two sentries, alerting the nearby forces.
• Ling Yuan fought the swarming enemies, killing them with swift punches and palm strikes.

Ling Yuan fought through the Outer Realm Evil Clan at the Fallen God Abyss and discovered the Four Saint Towers, which sealed the remnant souls of four Heavenly Demon Emperors. He entered the tower to seek the Tailing Heaven-Piercing Light and began trying to awaken the Tailing Ancestor.

• Ling Yuan used the Little Spirit Palace to kill more than a hundred Outer Realm Evil Clan members and forced the survivors to retreat deeper into the abyss.
• Ling Yuan entered the Fallen God Abyss and found the Four Saint Towers behind a spiritual array that blocked the Outer Realm Evil Clan.
• A remnant will told Ling Yuan that the Four Saint Towers sealed four Heavenly Demon Emperors and that he had to prevent the Outer Realm Evil Clan from breaking in.
• Ling Yuan entered the tower and went directly to the floor guarded by the Tailing Ancestor.
• Ling Yuan's Tailing Divine Light failed to awaken the stone stele, so he struck it with the Soul Spirit Bead and prompted it to tremble.

Ling Yuan used the Little Spirit Palace to wear down the Heavenly Demon Emperor's remnant soul while the Great Thousand World's cultivators fought the returning Outer Realm Evil Clan outside the Four Saint Towers. After ten days, the protective array broke, and Ling Yuan appeared to block the enemy's advance.

• Ling Yuan woke the Tailing Ancestor and bargained for Tailing Heaven-Piercing Light by agreeing to help destroy the Heavenly Demon Emperor's remnant soul.
• The Tailing Ancestor could not activate Ling Yuan's Little Spirit Palace, so Ling Yuan used it himself to grind down the remnant soul over five or six days.
• News of Ling Yuan's victory at the Fallen God Abyss spread, drawing Great Thousand World cultivators and the Tailing Ancient Clan and Futu Ancient Clan toward the ruins.
• The defeated Outer Realm Evil Clan gathered reinforcements and returned to rescue the remnant soul, overwhelming the Great Thousand World's defenders as they attacked the Four Saint Towers' protective array.
• Qing Yanjing fought to defend the towers and wondered why Ling Yuan had not appeared, while the Great Thousand World's cultivators called for reinforcements.
• After ten days of fighting, the protective array shattered, and Ling Yuan blocked the Outer Realm Evil Clan as they prepared to rush inside.

Ling Yuan annihilated the Outer Realm Evil Clan army attacking the Four Saint Towers, then returned to destroy the Heavenly Demon Emperor's remnant soul. After two days of effort, he erased the soul and collected its final wisp of demonic energy for his Demon-Slaying Token.

• Ling Yuan blocked the Outer Realm Evil Clan army outside the Four Saint Towers and killed Commander Corpse in two exchanges, causing the army to flee.
• Ling Yuan used the Little Spirit Palace to drain the souls of nearly all the fleeing Outer Realm Evil Clan members.
• Ling Yuan returned to the Four Saint Towers while Great Thousand World cultivators entered to seek the four Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign inheritances, and Qing Yanjing went to Ling Yuan's level.
• Ling Yuan spent two days repeatedly using the Little Spirit Palace until he completely erased the Heavenly Demon Emperor's remnant soul.
• Ling Yuan poured the final wisp of the remnant soul into his Demon-Slaying Token to earn Demon-Slaying Points.

Ling Yuan earned the Demon-Slaying King title after killing a Heavenly Demon Emperor, then obtained the Tailing Heaven-Piercing Light. Qing Yanjing persuaded him to help her obtain the Futu Ancient Clan's Eight Budur, and they headed to the ancestor's floor.

• The Demon-Slaying Token awarded Ling Yuan ten thousand points and named him the Demon-Slaying King, prompting excitement across Saint Abyss Continent.
• The Tailing Ancestor passed Ling Yuan the Tailing Heaven-Piercing Light after Ling Yuan erased the Heavenly Demon Emperor's remnant soul.
• Ling Yuan told Qing Yanjing that the Futu Ancient Clan's ancestor was on the second floor, where she could seek the Eight Budur.
• Qing Yanjing asked Ling Yuan to lend his sacred artifact so the Futu Ancestor could kill the Heavenly Demon Emperor's remnant soul, but Ling Yuan refused.
• Qing Yanjing offered him compensation and promised to agree to a request, so Ling Yuan agreed to help her and set off with her.

Ling Yuan joined Futu Ancestor to suppress the Blood Zombie Heavenly Demon Emperor’s remnant soul, using the Little Spirit Palace alongside Futu Ancestor’s Demon-Sealing Mirror. The remnant soul struggled and called for rescue as its power drained, while Ling Yuan revealed he had nearly wiped out the Outer Realm Evil Clan in the Ancient Sacred Abyss.

• Qing Yanjing brought Ling Yuan to the second floor, where she introduced him to her sister Qing Xuan and the Futu Ancient Clan disciples as someone who could help the Ancestor.
• Qing Yanjing awakened Futu Ancestor, who agreed to work with Ling Yuan after recognizing the Little Spirit Palace.
• Futu Ancestor summoned his damaged Demon-Sealing Mirror, and he and Ling Yuan joined forces to suppress the Blood Zombie Heavenly Demon Emperor’s remnant soul.
• The remnant soul struggled against the intact seals as the Demon-Sealing Mirror confined it and the Little Spirit Palace drained its power.
• The Blood Zombie Heavenly Demon Emperor sent a distress signal to the Outer Realm Evil Clan, but Ling Yuan said he had nearly killed them all in the Ancient Sacred Abyss.

Ling Yuan escaped the Blood Zombie Heavenly Demon Emperor’s tracking curses by taking Qing Yanjing into the Little Spirit Palace. The curses turned on the Futu Ancient Clan disciples outside, while Ling Yuan and Qing Yanjing waited safely inside.

• The Blood Zombie Heavenly Demon Emperor burned its remaining Soul Origin and sent tracking curses after Ling Yuan, but Ling Yuan and Futu Ancestor struggled to disperse them.
• Qing Yanjing rushed to help Ling Yuan, and Ling Yuan pulled her close before taking them both into the Little Spirit Palace.
• The curses could not penetrate the Little Spirit Palace’s barrier and instead pursued nearby Futu Ancient Clan disciples, who pleaded to be let inside.
• Ling Yuan refused to admit the disciples and released Qing Yanjing once they were safe, reassuring her that he did not blame her for intervening.
• Ling Yuan offered Qing Yanjing Soul Cores, then began refining them to restore his soul while she watched him quietly.

Ling Yuan and Qing Yanjing emerged from the Spirit Firmament Palace after the Blood Curse vanished, and Ling Yuan helped the Futu Ancestor finish off the Blood Zombie Heavenly Demon Emperor. As the Futu Ancient Clan disputed who should inherit the Eight Budur, Xuan Qing and Mo Fei tried to take it from Qing Yanjing, and Qing Xuan defended her.

• Ling Yuan and Qing Yanjing left the Spirit Firmament Palace after he sensed the Blood Curse had disappeared, and Qing Yanjing learned her sister had escaped serious harm.
• Ling Yuan exposed the danger of the Blood Curse as two afflicted clansmen lost control, then slapped a young man who blamed him until the man claimed the evil aura had been expelled.
• The Futu Ancestor called Ling Yuan to help suppress the nearly defeated Blood Zombie Heavenly Demon Emperor, and Ling Yuan delivered the final blow and gained ten thousand Demon-Slaying Points.
• Xuan Qing and Mo Fei stepped forward to claim the Eight Budur, arguing that Qing Yanjing was too weak to accept the inheritance.
• Qing Xuan rebuked Xuan Qing and Mo Fei for trying to seize the inheritance despite doing nothing to defeat the Heavenly Demon Emperor.

Ling Yuan rejected Xuan Qing’s offer and stood up for Qing Yanjing, insisting she be allowed to inherit the Eight Budur. The Futu Ancestor agreed to let her try, leaving Qing Yanjing poised to face the dangerous inheritance.

• Qing Yanjing appealed to the Futu Ancestor to grant her the Eight Budur, but he warned that her cultivation might be too weak to withstand its evil aura.
• Xuan Qing and Mo Fei volunteered for the inheritance after Qing Yanjing was turned down.
• Ling Yuan summoned the Little Spirit Palace to intimidate Xuan Qing and Mo Fei, then refused Xuan Qing’s offer of 1.5 billion Supreme Spirit Liquid.
• Ling Yuan declared that no one else could take the Eight Budur before Qing Yanjing had a chance to inherit it.
• The Futu Ancestor agreed to let Qing Yanjing try after she firmly said she could handle the danger.

Qing Yanjing thanked Ling Yuan for defending her, kissed him, and entered the Futu Pagoda to accept the Eight Budur inheritance. Ling Yuan waited outside and began cultivating, determined to grow strong enough to protect himself.

• Futu Ancestor opened a passage into the Futu Pagoda, and Qing Yanjing thanked Ling Yuan for choosing to help her.
• Qing Yanjing suddenly kissed Ling Yuan, then hurried into the passage as the gathered clansmen stared in shock.
• Futu Ancestor praised Ling Yuan’s divine soul talent and told Qing Yanjing that she and Ling Yuan were well matched.
• Qing Yanjing denied that she and Ling Yuan were anything but friends, then began accepting the inheritance of the Eight Budur.
• Ling Yuan ignored the jealous men outside the pagoda and sat down to cultivate with resources from the Great Thousand Palace.

Ling Yuan learned that the Spirit Firmament Palace had weakened from years of use and needed soul power from the Outer Realm Evil Clan to recover. The Futu Ancestor advised him to hunt several Heavenly Demon Emperors, and Ling Yuan realized he already had two suitable remnant souls in the Four Saint Towers.

• Ling Yuan reflected on the powerful opponents he would face and resolved to reach Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign.
• Qing Yanjing emerged from the passage with the Eight Budur, disappointing the Futu Ancient Clan members who had hoped she would fail.
• The Futu Ancestor praised Qing Yanjing, instructed the clan to support her, and asked everyone to leave so he could speak privately with Ling Yuan.
• The Futu Ancestor revealed that the Spirit Firmament Palace had worn down from Saint Grade to Immortal Grade power and needed a great deal of soul power to recover.
• The Futu Ancestor told Ling Yuan to absorb souls from Outer Realm Evil Clan members, and Ling Yuan remembered the two Heavenly Demon Emperor remnant souls in the Four Saint Towers.

Ling Yuan discovered that the Little Spirit Palace could repair itself by absorbing Heavenly Demon Emperor Soul Origins, then decided to hunt the two remaining remnant souls in the Four Saint Towers. Qing Yanjing urged him to leave instead, offering her own cultivation resources because she feared for his safety.

• Ling Yuan found that the Little Spirit Palace absorbed Heavenly Demon Emperor Soul Origins and grew brighter, but barely reacted to Earthly Sovereign Soul Cores.
• Ling Yuan decided to clear the remaining two tower levels and take the remnant souls' Soul Origins to repair the Little Spirit Palace.
• Qing Yanjing waited for Ling Yuan, and he teased her by claiming Futu Ancestor had urged them to marry before admitting he had made it up.
• Ling Yuan told Qing Yanjing he planned to visit the levels guarded by Spear Saint and Ancestor Qingtian to claim their remnant souls and Demon-Slaying Points.
• Qing Yanjing warned Ling Yuan that the Outer Realm Evil Clan might return for revenge and offered to share her cultivation resources so he would leave the towers.

Ling Yuan stayed in the Four Saint Towers with Qing Yanjing and spent two and a half months collecting the remaining Heavenly Demon Emperor souls to restore the Little Spirit Palace. His victories spread throughout the Ancient Sacred Abyss, driving most of the Outer Realm Evil Clan to withdraw and letting Great Thousand World experts explore their abandoned territories.

• Ling Yuan reassured Qing Yanjing that the Four Saint Towers were secure, but Qing Yanjing refused Qing Xuan's attempts to take her back to the Futu Ancient Clan and followed Ling Yuan instead.
• Qing Xuan went to guard outside the Four Saint Towers while Ling Yuan and Qing Yanjing visited the Spear Ancestor's and Ancestor Qingtian's floors, where Ling Yuan found their inheritances badly damaged.
• Over two and a half months, Ling Yuan collected the other two suppressed Heavenly Demon Emperor souls without the ancestors' help, then fed them to the Demon-Slaying Token and Little Spirit Palace.
• The Little Spirit Palace absorbed the souls and began recovering its dormant power, while Ling Yuan gained more than sixty thousand Demon-Slaying Points.
• Word of Ling Yuan's deeds spread through the Ancient Sacred Abyss, and most of the Outer Realm Evil Clan withdrew, allowing Great Thousand World experts to enter their abandoned territories.

Ling Yuan and Qing Yanjing left the Ancient Sacred Abyss after making plans to keep traveling together, and Ling Yuan returned to a crowd eager to meet the newly appointed Demon-Slaying King. The chapter ended with Lu Tong presenting Ling Yuan with the Demon-Slaying King's Token.

• Ling Yuan finished restoring his divine soul and teased Qing Yanjing, who had fallen for him during their time together in the Four Saint Towers.
• Qing Yanjing worried about returning to her clan, but Ling Yuan proposed asking Elder Xuanhua to let her travel with him to fight the Outer Realm Evil Clan.
• Ling Yuan and Qing Yanjing crushed their transmission jade slips and left the Ancient Sacred Abyss through a spatial passage.
• A crowd of powerful figures greeted them, and onlookers praised Ling Yuan for his achievements against the Heavenly Demon Emperors and the Outer Realm Evil Clan.
• Lu Tong, master of the Great Thousand Pavilion, bowed to Ling Yuan and offered him the Demon-Slaying King's Token.

Ling Yuan earned the Demon-Slaying King’s recognition while Qing Yanjing inherited Eight Budur and claimed its evil aura required his protection. After Ling Yuan suppressed a backlash, Elder Xuanhua let Qing Yanjing stay with him, though she warned him to protect the Futu divine maiden.

• Lu Tong presented Ling Yuan with the Demon-Slaying King’s Token and praised his talent before the gathered cultivators.
• Elder Xuanhua praised Qing Yanjing for inheriting Eight Budur and prepared to take her back to the Futu Ancient Clan.
• Qing Yanjing said only Ling Yuan could suppress the evil aura within her inheritance, then stirred the aura to demonstrate its danger.
• Ling Yuan used Tailing Heaven-Piercing Light to purify the evil aura and caught Qing Yanjing as she collapsed into his arms.
• Elder Xuanhua allowed Qing Yanjing to remain beside Ling Yuan and asked him to protect her before departing with the others.
• Ling Yuan soon ignored Xuan Hua’s warning and became more intimate with Qing Yanjing.

Ling Yuan spent his Demon-Slaying Points on cultivation resources, then hunted Outer Realm Evil Clan members to earn enough for a Demon-Sealing Necklace for Qing Yanjing. After they grew closer, he broke through to the Heavenly Sovereign realm to strengthen himself against the Futu Ancient Clan and other threats.

• Ling Yuan spent his sixty thousand Demon-Slaying Points on resources for himself and the Dragon Clan, then learned the Great Thousand Pavilion had received a Demon-Sealing Necklace.
• Ling Yuan hunted Outer Realm Evil Clan members until he earned enough points to exchange for the necklace and gave it to Qing Yanjing.
• Qing Yanjing learned Ling Yuan had risked himself to obtain the gift, apologized for calling it ugly, and grew intimate with him.
• Ling Yuan and Qing Yanjing spent a tender night together, and she became clingy with him afterward.
• Ling Yuan used several clones to return to his source and broke through from Earthly Sovereign to Heavenly Sovereign, greatly strengthening himself and his Little Spirit Palace.

After returning to the Tailing Ancient Clan, Ling Yuan gave Elder Yu the recovered Tailing Heaven-Piercing Light and learned that the Great Thousand Palace wanted him to guard the southern border. He declined the clan’s Holy Son position and considered establishing his own faction in the south.

• Ling Yuan returned to the Tailing Ancient Clan with Qing Yanjing and Old Immortal Fen Yan and presented Elder Yu with the complete Tailing Heaven-Piercing Light.
• Elder Yu told Ling Yuan that the Great Elder had agreed to make him Holy Son, but the Great Thousand Palace had also asked him to guard the southern border.
• Elder Yu explained that the Great Thousand Palace would support Ling Yuan and might eventually let him command the southern continent as its lord.
• Ling Yuan chose freedom over the Holy Son position, and Elder Yu agreed to tell the Great Elder.