Chapter Summaries

After giving up his position as Holy Son, Ling Yuan planned to establish his own faction and prepare for his family’s ascension from the Douqi Continent. He received a large payment from the Tailing Ancient Clan and ended the chapter teasing Qing Yanjing.

• Ling Yuan reflected that four years had passed and learned that Medusa had become a Dou Di while his family on the Douqi Continent prepared to ascend.
• Ling Yuan decided to found his own faction, guard the Great Thousand World’s southern frontier, and use the resources Qin Tian had promised.
• Elder Yu gave Ling Yuan eight hundred million Supreme Spirit Liquid: four hundred million in annual pay and four hundred million as a reward for retrieving the Tailing Heaven-Piercing Light.
• Elder Yu explained that Ling Yuan’s Demon-Slaying King title earned him elevated pay, which could rise to one billion per year if he reached Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign.
• Qing Yanjing told Ling Yuan that the Tailing Ancient Clan was getting good value from his reputation, then offered to pay him herself if he would listen to her.
• Ling Yuan challenged Qing Yanjing to let him tame her.

Ling Yuan and Qing Yanjing stayed together while the Futu Ancient Clan tried to bring its Goddess back, angering Futu Xuan when he learned she loved Ling Yuan, who already had a companion. Ling Yuan ignored the clan’s pursuit and set off with Qing Yanjing for the Tianluo Continent to search for the Ancient Heavenly Palace.

• Xuan Hua told Futu Xuan that Qing Yanjing had stayed with Ling Yuan and fallen in love with him, and Futu Xuan ordered his people to bring her back.
• Qing Yanjing cut off contact with the Futu Ancient Clan, while its envoys failed to get Ling Yuan’s whereabouts from the Tailing Ancient Clan.
• Elder Yu warned Ling Yuan to leave and stop claiming to be a guest elder of the Tailing Ancient Clan, but Ling Yuan insisted Qing Yanjing had chosen to stay with him freely.
• Qing Yanjing suggested hiding on a remote continent, but Ling Yuan said they would go openly to the Tianluo Continent to search for the Ancient Heavenly Palace.

Ling Yuan and Qing Yanjing traveled toward the Ancient Heavenly Palace, but their journey was interrupted when the West Heaven War Emperor tried to buy Qing Yanjing from Ling Yuan. Ling Yuan recognized him and attacked with the Little Spirit Palace and Soul Spirit Bead, intent on killing him.

• Ling Yuan decided to seek the Ancient Heavenly Palace's inheritance and traveled with Qing Yanjing toward Tianluo Continent.
• Qing Yanjing pushed their teleportation array too hard, forcing them to stop and rest while Ling Yuan teased her.
• The West Heaven War Emperor appeared and offered Ling Yuan Supreme Spirit Liquid for Qing Yanjing.
• Ling Yuan attacked the War Emperor with the Little Spirit Palace, and the War Emperor used the War Emperor Art but failed to break free.
• Ling Yuan intensified his soul attacks with the Soul Spirit Bead, leaving the War Emperor screaming in pain.
• The War Emperor challenged Ling Yuan to fight hand-to-hand, but Ling Yuan ignored him and continued trying to kill him.

Ling Yuan lured the War Emperor into close combat after making him believe his soul powers were exhausted. With Qing Yanjing’s help, he trapped the War Emperor between the Little Spirit Palace, a sealing array, and the Eight Budur, leaving him under attack from all sides.

• The War Emperor broke free of the Little Spirit Palace and tried to flee, but Ling Yuan put the palace away and challenged him to fight without it.
• Ling Yuan and the War Emperor exchanged powerful attacks, and the War Emperor became convinced Ling Yuan could no longer use his soul-based techniques.
• Ling Yuan fought with restraint, then pretended to be badly wounded and flew toward Qing Yanjing to draw the War Emperor into pursuit.
• As the War Emperor closed in to strike, Ling Yuan expanded the Little Spirit Palace around him.
• Qing Yanjing trapped the War Emperor with a sealing spiritual array and the Eight Budur, while the Little Spirit Palace and Demon Emperor Budurs attacked him.

Ling Yuan killed the War Emperor after he tried to seize Qing Yanjing, then used his Demon-Slaying King's Token to convince Great Thousand Pavilion experts that the War Emperor had fled. Ling Yuan and Qing Yanjing found a secluded place to recover, and Ling Yuan discovered the resources and War Emperor Art in the War Emperor's Sumeru Ring.

• Ling Yuan used the Little Spirit Palace to devour the War Emperor's divine soul, killing him after rejecting his pleas for mercy.
• Ling Yuan stored the War Emperor's body and cleared the battle traces before leaving with the injured Qing Yanjing.
• Two Great Thousand Pavilion Heavenly Sovereigns arrived at the battlefield, sensed Ling Yuan's lingering aura, and pursued him and Qing Yanjing.
• Ling Yuan showed the Great Thousand Pavilion experts his Demon-Slaying King's Token and claimed an unidentified golden-robed attacker had stolen one billion Supreme Spirit Liquid and fled east.
• The Great Thousand Pavilion experts suspected the attacker was the War Emperor and accepted Ling Yuan's account, allowing him to avoid suspicion.
• Ling Yuan and Qing Yanjing settled in a secluded place to recover, and Ling Yuan found one and a half billion Supreme Spirit Liquid, cultivation resources, and the War Emperor Art in the War Emperor's Sumeru Ring.

Ling Yuan gave Qing Yanjing Supreme Spirit Liquid for her help in defeating the War Emperor, then concealed the fact that he had captured the War Emperor’s soul. He and Qing Yanjing entered the Little Spirit Palace and began tormenting the captive War Emperor, leaving him screaming in agony.

• Ling Yuan gave Qing Yanjing 1 billion drops of Supreme Spirit Liquid and she accepted his compensation.
• Two Great Thousand Pavilion Heavenly Sovereigns apologized for failing to find the War Emperor, and Ling Yuan pretended to forgive the loss of the Supreme Spirit Liquid.
• Ling Yuan sent the two Heavenly Sovereigns away before Qing Yanjing could expose his lie, and she laughed at his deception.
• Ling Yuan and Qing Yanjing entered the Little Spirit Palace to punish the War Emperor, who begged to be released in exchange for his treasures.
• Ling Yuan used Nine Profound Golden Lightning to torment the War Emperor’s soul while Qing Yanjing watched with satisfaction.

Ling Yuan tortured the War Emperor in the Little Spirit Palace, mutilated his body, and killed him after he threatened revenge. He and Qing Yanjing then reached the Tianluo Continent, where Ling Yuan settled her before beginning his search for the Ancient Heavenly Palace.

• Ling Yuan saw the War Emperor’s resentment after an hour of lightning torture and threatened a harsher punishment.
• Ling Yuan cut off part of the War Emperor’s body while his soul was restrained, then continued tormenting him until he died.
• Qing Yanjing left the Little Spirit Palace and accused Ling Yuan of lying when he claimed the War Emperor had died of shame.
• Ling Yuan and Qing Yanjing traveled safely to the Tianluo Continent by teleportation array.
• Ling Yuan found a place for Qing Yanjing to stay and began searching for the Ancient Heavenly Palace.

Ling Yuan used the Little Spirit Palace’s aura to draw out the Ancient Heavenly Palace on Tianluo Continent, where the Nine Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor hoped outsiders would break his seal. After waiting for the palace’s seal to weaken, Ling Yuan entered with Qing Yanjing, who had strengthened her Great Solar Undying Body, and they spotted the palace on a floating stone island.

• Ling Yuan activated the Little Spirit Palace, awakening the Heavenly Emperor’s remnant soul and the Nine Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor’s remnant soul in the Heavenly Emperor’s Mausoleum.
• The Ancient Heavenly Palace revealed itself in Tianluo Continent’s far west, and Ling Yuan set out with Qing Yanjing.
• While they waited for the seal to weaken, Qing Yanjing cultivated the Great Solar Undying Body to major success over roughly half a month.
• Ling Yuan tore open the weakened seal and entered the Ancient Heavenly Palace with Qing Yanjing, prompting many gathered Earthly Sovereigns to retreat.
• Qing Yanjing pointed out the Ancient Heavenly Palace standing on a stone island high above them.

Ling Yuan and Qing Yanjing entered the Ancient Heavenly Palace, where Qing Yanjing cultivated the Immortal Golden Body before they reached the Heavenly Emperor’s Mausoleum. Ling Yuan exposed the Devouring Heaven Demon Emperor’s deception and helped the Heavenly Emperor defeat it, then absorbed its final remnant life to repair the Little Spirit Palace.

• Ling Yuan smashed the grandmaster-level spiritual array protecting the Ancient Heavenly Palace, and he and Qing Yanjing entered.
• Ling Yuan found the altar where Qing Yanjing endured several days of golden magma and completed her Immortal Golden Body.
• Ling Yuan and Qing Yanjing reached the Heavenly Emperor’s Mausoleum and found the Heavenly Emperor’s cast-off body apparently suppressing a Demon Emperor’s head.
• Ling Yuan revealed that the cast-off body was a deception by the Devouring Heaven Demon Emperor, then used the Tailing Heaven-Piercing Light to expose the real Heavenly Emperor.
• The Heavenly Emperor struck down the Demon Emperor’s eighth life, and Ling Yuan absorbed its final remnant soul with the Little Spirit Palace for repairs.

After Ling Yuan helped the Heavenly Emperor defeat the Nine Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor, Qing Yanjing received the Ancient Heavenly Palace’s One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones inheritance and the Heavenly Emperor Sword. With the palace emptied of other cultivators, Ling Yuan and Qing Yanjing went to the Heavenly River to nourish her new incarnations, where Ling Yuan’s actions startled her.

• The Heavenly Emperor recognized Ling Yuan as a Demon-Slaying King and agreed to pass on his inheritance to Qing Yanjing, who had cultivated the Immortal Golden Body.
• The Heavenly Emperor empowered Qing Yanjing with One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones, and she formed two identical incarnations.
• The Heavenly Emperor gave Qing Yanjing the Heavenly Emperor Sword and advised her to nourish her incarnations in the Heavenly River before disappearing.
• Qing Yanjing used her authority to expel every other cultivator from the Ancient Heavenly Palace, and they failed to reopen its sealed entrance.
• Ling Yuan brought Qing Yanjing and her incarnations to the Heavenly River, then removed his clothes behind a soul barrier, leaving her flustered.

After leaving the Ancient Heavenly Palace, Ling Yuan brought Qing Yanjing to Lingxiao Continent after Lin Bei summoned him. There, Qin Tian requested a meeting, and Ling Yuan prepared to hear the chief elder’s important matter.

• Ling Yuan and the three Qing Yanjings cultivated in the Heavenly River, though their antics left them exhausted rather than improving their cultivation.
• Ling Yuan considered finding another continent where Qing Yanjing could receive a Continent’s Power baptism, but set off for Lingxiao Continent after Lin Bei summoned him.
• Lin Bei and Lin Ya greeted Ling Yuan and were shocked to learn he had become a Heavenly Sovereign.
• Lin Ya explained that Qin Tian, chief elder of the Great Thousand Palace, wanted to discuss an important matter with Ling Yuan.
• Lin Bei took Ling Yuan to meet Qin Tian, who greeted him warmly, and Ling Yuan asked why he had been summoned.

Qin Tian persuaded Ling Yuan to take charge of the Southern Border, explaining that his soul abilities made him suited to face the Soul Demon Clan and promising military support and abundant resources. Ling Yuan arrived, assumed command of the defenses, and named his new territory the Spirit Domain.

• Ling Yuan asked Qin Tian why he had been chosen to guard the Southern Border, and Qin Tian explained the coming invasion, the Guardian Spirit Clan’s destruction, and the Soul Demon Clan’s soul attacks.
• Qin Tian promised Ling Yuan four Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereigns, cultivation resources, and Continent’s Power for Qing Yanjing’s baptism, and Ling Yuan agreed to go.
• Qin Tian brought Ling Yuan and Qing Yanjing to the Southern Border, where he introduced Ling Yuan to the four Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereigns and explained the defensive situation.
• Ling Yuan formally took over the Southern Border’s defenses, moved into its central main hall, and named the territory the Spirit Domain.

Ling Yuan established his authority as Southern Border’s lord, protected Qing Yanjing’s choice to stay, and opened a passage to the Douqi Continent. He reunited with his family, brought Cao Ying, Medusa, Ling Long, and Ling Yao to the Great Thousand World, and remained with his women.

• Ling Yuan defeated a Mid-Stage and a Late-Stage Spiritual Grade Heavenly Sovereign, earning the Southern Border cultivators’ acceptance.
• Xuan Hua urged Qing Yanjing to return to the Futu Ancient Clan, but she chose to stay with Ling Yuan, who arranged for her to receive the Southern Border Continent’s Power baptism.
• Ling Yuan opened a passage to the Douqi Continent and descended through a shattered spatial barrier, startling Ling Mie and the other Dou Dis.
• Ling Yuan reunited with his family and explained that he had come to bring Cao Ying, Medusa, Ling Long, and Ling Yao to the Great Thousand World; Ling Mie stayed behind to care for the children.
• Ling Yuan’s women gathered around him, and they cultivated together after their reunion.

After bringing Cao Ying, Medusa, Ling Long, and Ling Yao to the Great Thousand World, Ling Yuan patrolled the Southern Border with his children. Their treasure-seeking senses led him to an intact Outer Realm Evil Clan restriction concealing a strange blood-red beast among fragments of divine souls.

• Ling Yuan distributed compatible cultivation resources to his loved ones on the Douqi Continent, then traveled to the Great Thousand World with Cao Ying, Medusa, Ling Long, and Ling Yao.
• Cao Ying and the others settled in the Southern Border Spirit Domain and learned that Ling Yuan was a powerful Heavenly Sovereign and Lord of the Southern Border.
• Ling Yuan explained the Great Thousand World to Ling Long and Ling Yao, then took them on a border patrol and showed them the battlefield near the Outer Realm Evil Clan territory.
• Ling Long and Ling Yao sensed something hidden on the battlefield, so Ling Yuan placed them in the Little Spirit Palace and searched the area himself.
• Ling Yuan discovered and broke an unusually intact Outer Realm Evil Clan restriction, revealing an enclosed space containing a blood-red incorporeal beast and fragments of human and evil-clan divine souls.

Ling Yuan discovered and defeated an Immortal Grade Devouring Void Beast that had been feeding on the fallen experts’ souls at the Southern Border. After taking its Spirit Core, he and the Great Thousand Palace elders found the Outer Realm Evil Clan massed across the boundary, apparently focused on the beast he had killed.

• Ling Yuan recognized the hidden beast as a Devouring Void Beast whose soul had reached the Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign level by consuming the battlefield’s scattered Soul Origins.
• Ling Yuan suspected a Soul Emperor of the Soul Demon Clan had raised the beast, then attacked it to claim its Spirit Core and foil the plan.
• Ling Yuan overwhelmed the beast, whose unstable foundation left its combat power far below its cultivation realm.
• Two Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereigns from Great Thousand Palace arrived and found Ling Yuan extracting the beast’s Spirit Core.
• Ling Yuan explained that Ling Long and Ling Yao had sensed something unusual, then noticed the Outer Realm Evil Clan gathering in force across the boundary.
• Ling Yuan concluded that the gathered enemies were targeting the Devouring Void Beast he had killed.

Ling Yuan drove off the Soul Demon Emperor’s forces after taking the Devouring Void Beast’s Spirit Core, ruining the Demon Emperor’s century-long plan to reach Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign. The Soul Demon Emperor learned Ling Yuan’s identity and swore vengeance, while Ling Yuan sought the Pill God Clan’s help to refine the Spirit Core into a Divine Pill.

• Ling Yuan taunted the Soul Demon Emperor and held his ground with two Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereigns until Great Thousand Palace reinforcements arrived and the Outer Realm Evil Clan withdrew.
• The Great Thousand World and the Outer Realm Evil Clan remained locked in a restrained standoff, each waiting for an opportunity to strike.
• The Soul Demon Emperor returned to the Outer Realm Demon Hall and lamented that Ling Yuan had destroyed his century-long scheme to raise the Devouring Void Beast and use it to break through to Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign.
• A demon subordinate reported that Ling Yuan was the Southern Border’s region lord, the Great Thousand World’s second Demon-Slaying King, and the slayer of the Heavenly Demon Emperor’s remnant soul; the Soul Demon Emperor vowed vengeance.
• Ling Yuan began preparing to refine the Devouring Void Beast’s Spirit Core and considered the Pill God Clan, since no Southern Border Alchemist could handle an Immortal Grade ingredient.

Ling Yuan had the Pill God Clan refine the Spirit Core into a Supreme-Grade Devouring Void Divine Pill, then entered seclusion and rapidly advanced to Mid-Stage Spiritual Grade Heavenly Sovereign. While he cultivated, Ao Yin visited the Southern Border and reunited Ling Long and Ling Yao with their mother, Zi Yan.

• Ling Yuan paid the Pill God Clan seven hundred million Supreme Spirit Liquid to refine the Devouring Void Divine Pill and provide its auxiliary materials.
• After the pill arrived, Ling Yuan handed the Southern Border’s affairs to four Great Thousand Palace elders and entered seclusion to refine it.
• Three months later, Ling Yuan had refined only a small portion of the pill but had reached Mid-Stage Spiritual Grade Heavenly Sovereign.
• Ao Yin visited the Spirit Domain and met Ling Yao and Ling Long, recognizing their True Dragon Bloodlines and learning they were Ling Yuan and Zi Yan’s children.
• Ao Yin told the siblings that Zi Yan was cultivating in the Dragon Transformation Blood Pool and that Zhu Kun was also well; he then brought Zhu Kun and Zi Yan to meet them.

After a year in seclusion, Ling Yuan refined the Devouring Void Divine Pill and reached the Late Spirit Grade, while his clones consumed nearly all his Supreme Spirit Liquid. He reunited with Zi Yan and learned that the Dragon Clan wanted her to become its successor, and she asked whether she should accept.

• Zi Yan arrived in the Southern Border with Zhu Kun after breaking through to the Heavenly Sovereign realm, then learned Ling Yuan had gone into seclusion to refine a pill.
• Ling Yuan completed a year of cultivation, reached the Late Spirit Grade, and increased his total number of clones to twenty-two, with seventeen already at the Earthly Sovereign realm.
• Ling Yuan realized his clones had spent more than six billion Supreme Spirit Liquid and resolved to collect more taxes after leaving seclusion.
• Ling Yuan emerged and found Zi Yan, Qing Yanjing, Ling Long, and the other women together; he told Ao Yin he had reached the Late Spirit Grade.
• Zi Yan said she had hoped to surpass Ling Yuan, and the two reunited that night.
• Zi Yan told Ling Yuan the Dragon Clan's leader wanted her to become its successor and asked whether she should agree.

Ling Yuan expanded the Spirit Domain by defeating ten neighboring rulers and recruiting powerful Heavenly Sovereigns, raising his annual income enough to fund his cultivation. Seeking battle experience to reach Immortal Grade, he invaded the Soul Demon Clan, slaughtered its forces, and fled back to the Great Thousand World when a Half-Step Saint Grade expert pursued him.

• Ling Yuan reassured Zi Yan that becoming the Dragon Clan's heir would not keep her from seeing him for long, and planned to train her before her Saintess contest in three years.
• Ling Yuan collected Southern Border taxes early, then challenged and defeated ten neighboring continental rulers, including the Ice Spirit Clan's Mid-Immortal Grade ancestor.
• Ling Yuan annexed the ten territories, accepted all the Heavenly Sovereigns who sought to join the Spirit Domain, and increased his annual income to more than thirteen billion Supreme Spirit Liquid.
• Ling Yuan invaded the Soul Demon Clan alone, killed two Demon Emperors by ambush, and then killed six more with the Little Spirit Palace as ten Demon Emperors surrounded him.
• Ling Yuan rampaged through the Outer Realm for a month before retreating from a pursuing Half-Step Saint Grade Demon Emperor and returning across the world barrier to the Great Thousand World.

Ling Yuan ended his month-long battle in the Outer Realm, then used the experience and the energy gathered by his avatars to break through to Immortal Grade. He emerged to find the Outer Realm Evil Clan harassing the Southern Border while its experts urged restraint until he returned.

• The Soul Demon ancestor refused to cross the border against Ling Yuan and threatened revenge, while Ling Yuan taunted him and declared he would kill any attackers.
• Ling Yuan returned from the Outer Realm bloodied but unharmed, earning praise from the Southern Border’s experts for killing six Demon Emperors and driving off the rest.
• Ling Yuan gathered the energy stored by more than twenty avatars and broke through to Immortal Grade in seclusion.
• Ling Yuan emerged and sensed that the Outer Realm Evil Clan had assembled more than twenty Demon Emperors to bombard the Southern Border’s world membrane and wear down its defenders.
• A Southern Border expert urged Elder Tan to charge out, but a Spirit Domain Heavenly Sovereign warned that the Outer Realm was provoking them while Ling Yuan remained in seclusion.