Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ya secretly reported his successful infiltration to the Outer Realm headquarters, but Ling Yuan captured him and summoned Qin Tian to confirm he was a spy. Qin Tian identified Jiang Ya as a member of the Evil Spirit Clan, and Jiang Ya realized that Ling Yuan had exposed him.

• Jiang Ya sent a message to the Outer Realm headquarters and continued cultivating while concealing his evil aura.
• When Ling Yuan came to check on him, Ling Yuan struck Jiang Ya with a Soul Spirit Beam and trapped him inside the Little Spirit Palace.
• Ling Yuan summoned Qin Tian and explained that he suspected Jiang Ya was an Outer Realm Evil Clan spy.
• Qin Tian confirmed that Jiang Ya carried concealed evil aura and identified him as a member of the Evil Spirit Clan.
• Qin Tian explained that Ling Yuan had previously helped reveal the Evil Spirit Clan's existence, and Jiang Ya realized his cover was blown.

Ling Yuan interrogated Jiang Ya and learned that the Outer Realm Evil Clan planned to attack the southern region of the Great Thousand World in five years, with Jiang Ya helping from inside the Spirit Domain. After killing Jiang Ya, Ling Yuan and Qin Tian faced the warning of an approaching war.

• Ling Yuan tortured Jiang Ya after Qin Tian failed to persuade him to reveal his mission.
• Jiang Ya broke under Ling Yuan’s threat and confessed that the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor planned a surprise attack on the Great Thousand World’s southern region in five years.
• Jiang Ya revealed that the Outer Realm Evil Clan had sent him to gather intelligence and coordinate an attack from inside the Spirit Domain.
• Ling Yuan decided Jiang Ya was too dangerous to trust and killed him after hearing his confession.
• Qin Tian worried about the Outer Realm Evil Clan’s strength, while Ling Yuan believed five years would give him time to grow stronger.

Ling Yuan planned to refine forty Heavenly Sovereign bodies into puppets, but he lacked the rare Spirit Cores needed to begin. After a year of intense cultivation, he reached Mid-Immortal Grade and, with his reserves exhausted, decided to seek resources by expanding his territory and collecting protection fees.

• Ling Yuan asked Qin Tian to gather high-grade Spirit Cores so he could refine powerful battle puppets, and Qin Tian agreed to help.
• Ling Yuan stored Jiang Ya's body and counted the forty Heavenly Sovereign bodies he had collected, hoping to turn them into an army of puppets.
• Ling Yuan planned to seek Spirit Cores through Qin Tian and by helping Zi Yan gain influence within the Dragon Clan.
• Ling Yuan and his clones consumed the Spirit Domain's Supreme Spirit Liquid while cultivating, and one year later he broke through to Mid-Immortal Grade.
• After spending more than ten billion Supreme Spirit Liquid, Ling Yuan decided to seek resources by fighting and collecting protection fees.

After a year in seclusion, Ling Yuan gathered resources by demanding protection fees from neighboring factions and met Qin Tian, who warned that the Outer Realm Evil Clan might attack sooner than expected. Qin Tian placed three Great Thousand Palace elders under Ling Yuan’s command and gave him rare Spirit Cores, while Ling Yuan prepared to defend Southern Border.

• Ling Long and Ling Yao reached the Sovereign Realm, and Ling Yuan sent them out to gain experience with resources, protectors, and emergency jade slips.
• Ling Yuan swept through the factions and continents around Southern Border, demanding protection fees and gathering enough resources to leave himself roughly 24.9 billion Supreme Spirit Liquid.
• Qin Tian discovered Ling Yuan had advanced to Mid-Immortal Grade and learned that he was collecting resources to support his cultivation and seeking stronger opponents.
• Qin Tian warned Ling Yuan that the Outer Realm Evil Clan was gathering at the border and that its major attack might come early, then assigned three Immortal Grade elders to Southern Border under Ling Yuan’s command.
• Qin Tian gave Ling Yuan more than ten Spirit Cores, including three Heavenly Sovereign-level cores, as a reward for guarding the Great Thousand World.

After refining five Earthly Sovereign puppets and three Heavenly Sovereign puppets, Ling Yuan sought a stronger flame to speed up his work. He traveled to the Fire Spirit Continent to seek the Fire Spirit Clan’s Eternal Flame, only to sense that it was actually Tou She Ancient God, who had ascended from the Douqi Continent.

• Qin Tian tested Ling Yuan’s combat ability, judged that he could hold off a Mid-Saint Grade Heavenly Demon Emperor, and gave him five billion units of Supreme Spirit Liquid.
• Ling Yuan used Tailing Heaven-Piercing Light to remove evil qi from an Earthly Sovereign corpse and refined five Earthly Sovereign puppets after two failed attempts.
• Ling Yuan spent two months in seclusion refining three complete Heavenly Sovereign puppets, but found that his Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame made the process too slow.
• Ling Yuan decided to seek a Heavenly Sovereign-level flame and traveled to the Fire Spirit Continent to pursue the Fire Spirit Clan’s Eternal Flame.
• Ling Yuan sensed the Eternal Flame’s origin aura and realized that the sacred flame was Tou She Ancient God, who had ascended from the Douqi Continent.

Ling Yuan learned that the Fire Spirit Clan had captured and gradually erased Tou She Ancient God's intelligence, so he defeated the Fire Spirit Ancestor and took the imprisoned Eternal Flame. After giving Tou She Ancient God's improved Burning Mantra to Cao Ying, Ling Yuan began refining the Eternal Flame, which started merging with his other flames into a new, more powerful divine flame.

• Ling Yuan discovered that the Fire Spirit Ancestor had ambushed Tou She Ancient God after his tribulation and used forbidden arts to wear away his intelligence.
• Ling Yuan demanded that the Fire Spirit Clan hand over its sacred flame, then defeated the Fire Spirit Ancestor and removed the Eternal Flame from its confinement.
• Ling Yuan ended Tou She Ancient God's suffering, and Tou She Ancient God left behind the Improved Burning Mantra.
• Ling Yuan gave the Improved Burning Mantra to Cao Ying and kept the Eternal Flame for himself.
• Ling Yuan began refining the Eternal Flame, and it merged with his three other Heavenly Flames into a new ultimate divine flame.

After Ling Yuan displayed his three Heavenly Sovereign-level puppets, Qin Tian agreed to seek dozens of Spirit Cores from the Divine Beast Families so Ling Yuan could make more. Qin Tian left with the puppets to negotiate, while Ling Yuan wondered whether the families would cooperate.

• The Fire Spirit Ancestor accused Ling Yuan of stealing his clan’s sacred flame, but Ling Yuan exposed the Ancestor’s own actions and the dispute ended without resolution.
• Ling Yuan discovered that another Early Saint Grade Heavenly Demon Emperor had arrived across from the Southern Border and called Qin Tian for help.
• Ling Yuan showed Qin Tian two Spiritual Grade and one Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign Puppets, explaining that Spirit Cores could let him produce more.
• Qin Tian recognized the puppets’ potential to strengthen the Great Thousand World against the Outer Realm Evil Clan and agreed to negotiate with the Divine Beast Families for Spirit Cores.
• Qin Tian took the three puppets to the Divine Beast Continent to demonstrate their power, while Ling Yuan worried that the families might refuse.

Ling Yuan continued cultivating and reached the Late Immortal Grade, while Zi Yan won the Dragon Clan’s Holy Daughter and Holy Son ranking challenge. Qin Tian brought nearly a hundred Heavenly Sovereign Spirit Cores and struck a deal for Ling Yuan to refine them into puppets in exchange for permanent cultivation support from Great Thousand Palace.

• Ling Yuan trained by fighting groups of Southern Border Heavenly Sovereigns, while Zi Yan reached the Middle Spirit Grade and later won first place in the Dragon Clan ranking challenge.
• Ling Yuan broke through to the Late Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign realm using the Eternal Flame and Supreme Spirit Liquid.
• Qin Tian gave Ling Yuan nearly a hundred Heavenly Sovereign Spirit Cores, which he had obtained from Divine Beast Families in exchange for puppets.
• Qin Tian offered bodies and suggested using Perfected Earthly Sovereign evil clan divine souls as substitutes for the missing Heavenly Sovereign souls, and Ling Yuan agreed.
• Ling Yuan agreed to refine the puppets in exchange for Great Thousand Palace permanently covering half of his cultivation resources.

After refining and tempering fifty Heavenly Sovereign puppets, Ling Yuan reached Peak Immortal Grade just as the Outer Realm Evil Clan launched a surprise attack on the Southern Border. He helped the Spirit Domain repel the invasion, leaving the Southern Border victorious after the enemy retreated.

• Ling Yuan spent more than eight months refining fifty Heavenly Sovereign puppets, then sent them to natural Thunder Pools for tempering.
• Ling Yuan reached Peak Immortal Grade through Source Return from his clones as the puppets completed their lightning tempering.
• Two Heavenly Demon Emperors and twenty Demon Emperor experts launched a sneak attack on the Southern Border, and Ling Yuan led its Heavenly Sovereigns to meet them.
• Ling Yuan fought the Mid-Saint Grade Devouring Heaven Demon Emperor while his puppets engaged the other enemy forces.
• The Outer Realm Evil Clan retreated when it could not gain an advantage, and the Southern Border killed six Nether Demon Emperors while pursuing them.

After Ling Yuan crushed the Outer Realm Evil Clan’s surprise attack, he rallied the Southern Border and earned renown across the Great Thousand World. Meanwhile, Ling Long and Ling Yao found a powerful spiritual fruit in the Divine Beast Continent, where Ling Yuan’s spiritual incarnation defeated their guardian beast and caught Huang Xuanzhi trying to steal it.

• Ling Yuan celebrated the Southern Border’s victory, promised a future counteroffensive, and strengthened the cultivators’ resolve.
• Qin Tian saw Ling Yuan’s success and believed he would become a vital weapon against the Outer Realm Evil Clan.
• Ling Yuan’s battle spread his fame across the Great Thousand World, while Ling Long and Ling Yao proudly heard people praise their father.
• Ling Long and Ling Yao traveled to the Divine Beast Continent and discovered two golden fruits guarded by a Half-step Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign divine beast.
• Ling Yuan’s spiritual incarnation arrived after the siblings called for help, defeated the guardian beast, and struck down Huang Xuanzhi as he tried to seize it.

Ling Yuan plundered a secret realm, then spent half a year refining a Half-Step Saint Grade divine beast’s essence blood without breaking through. He finally reached Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign during a four-day battle against two Heavenly Demon Emperors, then withdrew from the Outer Realm.

• Ling Yuan plucked Huang Xuanzhi’s feathers until the Phoenix Clan elders apologized and offered resources, then gave the Bloodline Spirit Fruits to Ling Long and Ling Yao to save for when they were stronger.
• Ling Yuan’s spirit body explored the secret realm, summoned his true body to kill a Half-Step Saint Grade divine beast, and brought its essence blood back to the Southern Border.
• Ling Yuan refined the essence blood and cultivated for half a year, but failed to break through despite reaching the limits of Peak Immortal Grade.
• Ling Yuan entered the Outer Realm borderlands alone and fought two Heavenly Demon Emperors for four days and nights as both sides watched without intervening.
• As Ling Yuan tried to retreat, the pressure of battle triggered his breakthrough to Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign, and he blasted both Heavenly Demon Emperors away.
• Too exhausted to pursue the injured demons, Ling Yuan declared his goal achieved and departed through space.

After recovering from his battle with two Heavenly Demon Emperors, Ling Yuan learned that the Outer Realm Evil Clan had captured the Burning Sky Continent. He agreed to let Great Thousand Palace elders reinforce the north while he guarded the Southern Border.

• Ling Yuan slept for seven days after breaking through to Saint Grade, then recovered and discovered Qing Yanjing had cared for him while he was unconscious.
• Ling Yuan received visitors who came to congratulate him, recruit into the Spirit Domain, and build ties, leaving him exhausted by the formalities.
• Elder Yu of the Tailing Ancient Clan visited Ling Yuan and told him that the Outer Realm Evil Clan had taken the Burning Sky Continent in an attack by six Heavenly Demon Emperors.
• Elder Yu explained that Qin Tian had gone to lead the defense and wanted to transfer Immortal Grade elders from the Southern Border to reinforce the north.
• Ling Yuan agreed to send five Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign elders north, confident that he and his puppets could defend the Southern Border.

After the Outer Realm Evil Clan conquered the Burning Sky Continent, the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor demanded that the Great Thousand World hand over Ling Yuan in exchange for two hundred years of peace. The major factions refused and rallied behind Ling Yuan, leaving him backed by the Great Thousand World as tensions rose.

• Ling Yuan strengthened his defenses in the Southern Border by refining slain Demon Emperor corpses into Heavenly Sovereign Puppets and creating two more avatars.
• The Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor learned that Great Thousand World cultivators could turn dead Evil Clan members into puppets and, unable to command the thirty-two great clans or attack the fortified Southern Border, redirected his forces to the Burning Sky Continent.
• The Outer Realm Evil Clan conquered the Burning Sky Continent, killing ten Heavenly Sovereigns, then demanded that the Great Thousand World surrender Ling Yuan for two hundred years of peace.
• Ling Yuan joked that the Outer Realm had undervalued him, while his subordinate assured him that the Great Thousand World would not hand him over.
• The Great Thousand Palace, the Tailing Ancient Clan, and factions across the Great Thousand World—including the True Dragon, Sky-Piercing Ape, Kun Peng, Phoenix, Nine-Tailed Fox, and White Tiger clans—publicly pledged to protect Ling Yuan.

After the major factions backed him, Ling Yuan declared that he would enter the Outer Realm in five years, prompting the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor to halt attacks and fortify the borders. As Ling Yuan resumed his private life, he discovered that Qing Yanjing was pregnant.

• Ling Yuan thanked the factions for their support and publicly vowed to enter the Outer Realm in five years.
• The Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor ordered the Outer Realm forces to withdraw to defensive positions and avoid losing high-ranking Demon Emperors.
• Ling Yuan told Medusa that his declaration had bought him five years to grow stronger.
• While preparing to be intimate with Qing Yanjing, Ling Yuan sensed a faint aura in her abdomen and confirmed she was pregnant.
• Qing Yanjing worried that the Great Elder would find out, and Ling Yuan promised to handle the situation.

Ling Yuan married Qing Yanjing with the Futu Ancient Clan’s approval after defeating Futu Xuan and offering four Heavenly Sovereign Puppets. An examination revealed their unborn child had Nine Divine Veins, and Qing Yanjing gained the recognition of the Ancestor Pagoda as she returned with Ling Yuan to the Southern Border.

• Ling Yuan took Qing Yanjing to the Futu Ancient Clan and asked to marry her as an equal wife.
• Ling Yuan offered four Heavenly Sovereign Puppets and defeated Futu Xuan in a spar, winning the clan’s approval.
• A Futu elder examined Qing Yanjing and discovered that their child had the rare Nine Divine Veins.
• Ling Yuan escorted Qing Yanjing back to the Futu Ancient Clan each month so she could absorb power from the Futu Ancestral Pagoda.
• Qing Yanjing gained the Ancestor Pagoda’s recognition, strengthening her despite being only a Perfected Earthly Sovereign.

Ling Yuan kept his breakthrough to Mid-Saint Grade secret and brought Qin Tian to the Sword Domain, where he revealed that Qin Tian carried a Heart Demon Seed planted by the Heart Demon Clan Chief. The Green-Shirt Sword Saint confirmed the danger and agreed to help Ling Yuan remove it, while Qin Tian remained unaware of their plan.

• Ling Yuan concealed his Mid-Saint Grade breakthrough to avoid provoking the Outer Realm Evil Clan and told Qin Tian that his cultivation resources needed to increase.
• Ling Yuan brought Qin Tian to the Sword Domain and asked the Green-Shirt Sword Saint to examine him privately.
• Ling Yuan explained that he had sensed a Heart Demon Seed in Qin Tian, likely planted by the Heart Demon Clan Chief.
• The Green-Shirt Sword Saint examined Qin Tian's Soul Origin and confirmed that something unusual was hidden there.
• Ling Yuan said he was ninety percent certain he could remove the seed and asked the Green-Shirt Sword Saint to assist him.
• The Green-Shirt Sword Saint agreed, and Qin Tian asked what the two had been discussing.

Ling Yuan and the Green-Shirt Sword Saint discovered that the Heart Demon Clan patriarch had planted a Heart Demon Seed inside Qin Tian and removed it before it could control him. The Heart Demon Emperor sensed the seed’s destruction and wondered how Qin Tian had uncovered it.

• Ling Yuan and the Green-Shirt Sword Saint restrained Qin Tian and told him that the Heart Demon Clan patriarch had planted a Heart Demon Seed inside him.
• Qin Tian trusted Ling Yuan, stopped resisting, and allowed him to search his heart meridian with soul power.
• The Heart Demon Seed split into black rays, but Ling Yuan captured and removed its core while Qin Tian suppressed the seed’s influence.
• Ling Yuan burned the core with Eternal Flame and meticulously cleared every remaining trace of Heart Demon Evil Qi from Qin Tian.
• Qin Tian thanked Ling Yuan, and the Green-Shirt Sword Saint released him after the cleansing was complete.
• The Heart Demon Emperor sensed that one of his seeds had been destroyed and wondered how Qin Tian had discovered it.

After gathering his family in the Spirit Domain, Ling Yuan finally found the state of mind he needed to break through to Late Saint Grade. The chapter ended with the world's energy converging toward the Spirit Domain as he began his breakthrough.

• Ling Yuan tested his strength against Qin Tian, drew with him, and asked Qin Tian and the Green-Shirt Sword Saint to keep his breakthrough to Mid-Saint Grade secret.
• Qing Yanjing gave birth to Ling Yuan's son Ling Fan beneath nine-colored auspicious clouds and broke through to the Heavenly Sovereign Realm.
• Unable to break through to Late Saint Grade, Ling Yuan took the Green-Shirt Sword Saint's advice and traveled across the Great Thousand World to seek an opportunity.
• Ling Yuan returned to the Douqi Continent, brought his parents, wives, concubines, and children to the Spirit Domain, and summoned Ling Long and Ling Yao back from their training.
• After a family banquet left him feeling peaceful, Ling Yuan woke with a familiar sense of enlightenment and began cultivating as energy converged on the Spirit Domain.

Ling Yuan broke through to Late Saint Grade and launched a devastating assault on the Outer Realm, leaving its forces struggling to stop him. After he battled the Heart Demon Emperor and six other Heavenly Demon Emperors, the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor arrived as the Heart Demon Emperor ordered the others to hold Ling Yuan in place.

• Ling Yuan absorbed the Spirit Domain's spiritual power and broke through to Late Saint Grade, drawing the attention of the Great Thousand World's experts.
• Ling Yuan sent the Spirit Firmament Palace crashing into the Outer Realm's main camp, killing the Devouring Heaven Demon Emperor, another Heavenly Demon Emperor, and the forces gathered there.
• Ling Yuan advanced through the Outer Realm, destroying three cities before the Heart Demon Emperor arrived with six ordinary Heavenly Demon Emperors to reinforce them.
• The Heart Demon Emperor recognized Ling Yuan as the one who had destroyed the Heart Demon Seed inside Qin Tian, and Ling Yuan fought all seven Heavenly Demon Emperors, killing two.
• As the Heart Demon Emperor prepared to retreat, the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor approached, and the Heart Demon Emperor ordered the remaining four Heavenly Demon Emperors to hold Ling Yuan until he could be killed.

Ling Yuan fled the arrival of the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor, then agreed to a one-on-one duel at the Great Thousand World border. Their prolonged fight ended without a victor, and the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor withdrew his forces while the Outer Realm’s internal rivalries remained evident.

• Ling Yuan used Soul Spirit Beams to break the Heavenly Demon Emperors’ encirclement and escaped as the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor pursued him with the Heart Demon Emperor.
• At the World Membrane, the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor offered a one-on-one fight, and Ling Yuan agreed after both sides withdrew their other forces.
• Ling Yuan and the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor fought for a long time without either gaining the upper hand, until the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor withdrew to avoid revealing more of his abilities.
• The Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor pulled the Outer Realm Evil Clan out of the cities along the way, and the Heart Demon Emperor challenged his performance in the duel.
• The Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor rebuked the Heart Demon Emperor, exposing divisions among the Outer Realm’s great clans.