Chapter Summaries

Chu Tian’s operation exposed Ye Feng and left Hui Lian Saintess trapped inside the Ye Family’s Reincarnation Emperor Mark. As Ye Feng moved to attack her, Chu Tian faced the choice of saving her or letting her death deepen the conflict between the sacred sects and destroy the Ye Family.

• Chu Qiqian identified himself as the Law Enforcement Hall’s deputy hall master and offered Ink Cloud County officials a chance to atone by reporting Ye Tiancheng and Ye Feng.
• Murong Yan ordered the Black Armored Guards to surround the County Governor’s residence, while officials rushed to provide evidence against Ye Tiancheng.
• Chu Tian stopped the assembled forces from attacking after spotting Hui Lian Saintess trapped inside the Reincarnation Array Pattern and wounded by its power.
• Ye Tiancheng realized Hui Lian Saintess’s death could bring the Cihang Sacred Sect against the Ye Family, but a Law Enforcement Hall guard refused to release him.
• Chu Tian recognized that Hui Lian Saintess’s presence had not been part of his plan and considered whether to save her.
• Ye Feng accused Chu Tian of plotting against him, then appeared beside Hui Lian Saintess and swung his sword at her.

Ye Feng overwhelmed Hui Lian Saintess with power drawn mostly from his own strength, while Chu Tian discovered a hidden Emperor Venerable Soul Talisman awakening within her. To save her before the Reincarnation Emperor Mark grew stronger, Chu Tian ordered the assembled forces to strike it with their array.

• Ye Feng unleashed his demonic sword strike and sent Hui Lian Saintess flying, stunning the gathered experts with his strength.
• Chu Tian recognized that Ye Feng’s power came from reversing the Primary-Secondary Art and discovered the hidden Emperor Venerable Soul Talisman awakening within Hui Lian Saintess.
• Duanmu Wan'er begged Chu Tian to save Hui Lian Saintess, and he ordered the Investigation Team, Black Armored Guards, and Ink Cloud County’s officials and generals to attack the Reincarnation Emperor Mark together.
• Chu Tian declared he would bear responsibility if Hui Lian Saintess died in the strike, and the gathered experts pledged to testify that the Ye Family was to blame.
• Nearly a thousand Investigation Team experts formed the Heavenly Saint Array Pattern, gathering power for a strike capable of contending with an Emperor Venerable.

Chu Tian helped destroy the Reincarnation Emperor Mark, then saved the gravely wounded Hui Lian Saintess as Ye Feng escaped through a teleportation vortex. Chu Tian pursued Ye Feng, while the Investigation Team searched for them and began investigating Ye Tiancheng’s residence.

• Murong Yan and the Investigation Team attacked the Reincarnation Emperor Mark, and its destruction unleashed devastating energy that engulfed Ye Feng and the Hui Lian Saintess.
• Heavenly Fortune Dao Venerable used his Emperor Soul to keep the Hui Lian Saintess alive, and Chu Tian fed her the Cihang Sacred Fruit to heal her.
• Ye Feng escaped through a teleportation vortex, and Chu Tian and Earth Slave followed him before the vortex vanished.
• Heavenly Fortune Dao Venerable roared in fury at the Ye Family after seeing the Hui Lian Saintess’s condition.
• Chu Qiqian ordered a search for Chu Tian and Ye Feng, while Duanmu Wan'er kept investigators at Ye Tiancheng’s residence to search for evidence of the Ye Family’s crimes.

Chu Tian subdued Ye Feng after the Yin Yang Dao Seed reversed their master-servant relationship, turning him into a Slaughter Demon Soldier. Ye Feng escaped as Chu Qiqian and the Black Armored Guards arrived, leaving Chu Tian injured and his revenge unresolved.

• Ye Feng attacked Chu Tian and demanded to know why the Supreme Yin Yang Art had become uncontrollable, but Chu Tian used its Great Dao phenomenon to immobilize him.
• The Heavenly Profound Divine Ring dissolved the ancient talisman suppressing Ye Feng, and the system rewarded Chu Tian for awakening the Primordial Remnant Soul and plundering Ye Fan's opportunity.
• Ye Feng Ignited Divine Fire and broke through to the Sacred God Realm before the Supreme Yin Yang Art's backlash made him kneel and recognize Chu Tian as his master.
• Chu Tian ordered Ye Feng to kill a list of targets, gave him the ring containing the Ye Family's seized treasures, and told him to attack; Ye Feng badly injured Chu Tian in their test of strength.
• Chu Qiqian, the God Kings, and over ten thousand Black Armored Guards arrived and attacked Ye Feng, who declared his intention to take revenge and escaped using an array-inscription jade platform.

After Ye Feng escaped using the Six Paths Teleportation Array Platform and badly wounded Chu Tian, Chu Tian took control of Ink Cloud County’s affairs and ordered a three-day hunt. Murong Yan turned against Ye Tiancheng, while Chu Tian planned to use her family’s hostility toward the Ye Family to his advantage.

• Chu Qiqian helped the injured Chu Tian recover as the Investigation Team and county officials realized Ye Feng had escaped with the Six Paths Teleportation Array Platform.
• The investigators and officials accused Ye Tiancheng of secretly protecting Ye Feng and supplying him with the teleportation treasure.
• Murong Yan proposed a joint petition against Ye Tiancheng and declared that the Murong Family would sign first.
• Chu Tian ordered the Investigation Team to take charge of Ink Cloud County, investigate Ye Tiancheng, and find Ye Feng within three days.
• Chu Tian demanded that Murong Yan obey, intending to use her family’s turn against the Ye Family.

Murong Yan revealed that Ye Tiancheng had conspired with the Heart Demon Sect, caused General He Tianbiao’s death, and concealed the Heavenly Heart Primordial Demon Ruins beneath his residence. Chu Tian ordered Chu Qiqian to seize the Heart Demon Saintess and pledged to pursue justice, while planning to use the revelations to destroy the Ye Family’s standing.

• Chu Tian threatened to annihilate Murong Yan’s family unless the Murong Family captured Ye Feng and redeemed itself.
• Murong Yan disclosed Ye Tiancheng’s collusion with the Heart Demon Sect and blamed him for General He Tianbiao’s death.
• Murong Yan revealed that the Heavenly Heart Primordial Demon Ruins lay beneath Ye Tiancheng’s residence and that Ye Family elders planned to enter them.
• A grieving He Family elder begged Chu Tian to avenge He Tianbiao, and Chu Tian promised that the sect would not mistreat the family.
• Chu Tian ordered Chu Qiqian to lead five hundred experts to capture the Heart Demon Saintess for interrogation.

Ink Cloud County's leaders were pushed into signing a joint impeachment of Ye Tiancheng, while Chu Yunshang underwent a heaven-defying transformation at the sect headquarters. As the Elder Council summoned the sect's leadership to a meeting, Ye Hongchen confronted Ye Tianxiong over secretly protecting Ye Feng and endangering the entire Ye Family.

• He Puhong and Qian Neng joined Murong Yan in pledging their families' support for Chu Tian and signing a joint impeachment of Ye Tiancheng, drawing Ink Cloud County's other leaders into opposing the Ye Family.
• Chu Tian refused to promise Murong Yan protection and returned to the city, leaving her dependent on earning his favor.
• Chu Yunshang's Sacred Bone evolved as she entered ultimate nirvana and sublimation and gained enlightenment in the Beginning Realm while still in the Body Integration Realm.
• News from Ink Cloud County reached the sect, and the Duanmu Family and other factions condemned the Ye Family before Elder Peak summoned the sect's leadership to a meeting.
• Ye Hongchen confronted Ye Tianxiong for ordering Ye Tiancheng to secretly protect Ye Feng, warning that the decision could get the whole clan killed.

Ye Tianxiong refused Ye Hongchen’s plea to yield the Ye Family’s authority and revealed that the Chu Family had secretly imprisoned and dissected powerful dragons for generations to develop its divine abilities. He left his uncle facing the possibility that the Ye Family’s desperate struggle would expose the Chu Family’s own crimes.

• Ye Tianxiong struggled to explain Ye Feng’s disappearance and claimed an unseen force had manipulated events against the Ye Family.
• Ye Hongchen described the family’s mounting losses and urged Ye Tianxiong to skip the Elder Council meeting, surrender influence, and preserve the family.
• Ye Tianxiong rejected retreat, declaring that he would not give up his authority unless he died.
• Ye Tianxiong told Ye Hongchen that the Chu Family also had dark secrets and asked where its many dragon-shaped divine abilities came from.
• Ye Tianxiong revealed that the Chu Family’s Yama palace imprisoned powerful Dragon Clan members and used their bodies, souls, pearls, and blood to study dragon abilities.

Ye Tianxiong and Ye Hongchen plotted to use the Dragon Clan to pressure the Chu Family, despite lacking proof of its alleged crimes. Meanwhile, Chu Tian advanced his techniques and cultivation in seclusion, reaching the seventh level of the Spirit Refining Realm and reopening thirty-six hidden treasures.

• Ye Tianxiong told Ye Hongchen that he had learned from Chu Shicheng’s soul fragments that the Chu Family had captured and dissected dragons, but Liu Zheng’s disappearance had cost him the evidence.
• Ye Tianxiong proposed spreading the allegation to provoke the Dragon God Sect and Dragon Clan into investigating the Chu Family.
• Ye Hongchen agreed to support the scheme and cover for Ye Tianxiong while he contacted the Dragon Lord.
• Chu Tian comprehended the Wind Cloud Spirit Dragon Technique to the advanced realm and developed the elementary Chaos Divine Dragon Shield.
• Chu Tian reached the seventh level of the Spirit Refining Realm and reopened thirty-five hidden treasures in two days, bringing his total to thirty-six.

Chu Tian learned that Ye Feng had fallen to demonic corruption and massacred millions, then told the Elder Council that Ye Tianxiong should be removed as Sect Master. He went to interrogate Ren Yuxun, who greeted him as her husband and returned to his embrace after he slapped her.

• Chu Qiqian reported that Ye Feng had slaughtered cities and clans in Ink Cloud County, ambushed and killed a God King and one hundred Investigation Team members, and eluded thousands more investigators.
• Chu Tian refused to call on an Emperor Venerable and sent the Elder Council his opinion that Ye Tianxiong was no longer fit to be Sect Master.
• Chu Tian ordered Chu Qiqian to keep the matters from Ye Hongwu's cave abode and Liu Zheng's evidence secret, then went to see Ren Yuxun.
• Ren Yuxun approached Chu Tian seductively and called him her husband, so Chu Tian slapped her hard enough to send her into the steel wall.
• Ren Yuxun rose with half her face smashed and twisted herself back into Chu Tian's embrace.

Chu Tian confronted Ren Yuxun, who revealed that she had arranged to meet him because she believed their supreme physiques made them destined Dao Companions. She offered to join his side in exploring the Heavenly Heart Primordial Demon Ruins, while Chu Tian recognized the origin of her attachment.

• Chu Tian slapped Ren Yuxun away and demanded that she answer his questions, unaffected by her charms.
• Ren Yuxun revealed that she had deliberately let Chu Tian's subordinates capture her so she could meet him, and showed that she had mastered the Heart Demon Clone.
• Ren Yuxun explained that she was the Heart Demon Clan's Demon Emperor's daughter and possessed the Heavenly Heart Primordial Demon Body.
• Ren Yuxun told Chu Tian that the Heavenly Heart Primordial Demon and a wielder of the Chaos Demon God Body had created a dual cultivation technique for their two physiques.
• Ren Yuxun offered to work with Chu Tian's Lineage and let him take everything in the ruins except the Primordial Demon Inheritance.
• Chu Tian realized that the Heart Demon Clan had shaped Ren Yuxun's belief that he was her destined partner, while the Great Hatred Demon Lord had once rejected her advances out of devotion to Liu Yun.

Chu Tian learned that the Ye Family had slaughtered more than one hundred thousand Divine Realm experts to prepare the Heavenly Heart Primordial Demon Ruins, and claimed the opportunity for the Chu Family. He returned to headquarters after receiving an urgent summons, where a message from Chu Tianyun promised earth-shaking good news and bad news.

• Ren Yuxun revealed that the Ye Family had gathered the souls needed to open the Primordial Demon Ruins and gave Chu Tian evidence of its alliance with the Heart Demon Sect.
• Chu Tian read the jade slip and discovered the Ye Family had slaughtered experts across the Sacred Heaven Sect and other powers to supply the ruins’ soul sacrifices.
• The system rewarded Chu Tian with one hundred and fifty thousand Destiny Points and a Heavenly Emperor Ancient Talisman for seizing the opportunity.
• Chu Qiqian told Chu Tian that the clan’s acting team leader and Great Elder had summoned him back to headquarters, so Chu Tian split the Investigation Team and returned with Ye Tiancheng.
• Chu Tian opened the Imperial Bloodline Jade Slip and heard Chu Tianyun offer him one earth-shaking piece of good news and one piece of bad news.

Chu Tian learned that the Dragon Clan and Dragon God Sect were investigating the Hall of Yama, and suspected Ye Tianxiong had exposed clues and arranged an assassination. As Heart Demon Sect experts attacked him, powerful figures intervened, but the battle remained unresolved.

• Chu Tian examined Liu Zheng’s evidence and realized Ye Tianxiong may have planted clues about the Hall of Yama to provoke an investigation.
• Chu Tian concluded that Ye Tianxiong had been driven to desperate measures and might have arranged a counterattack against the Chu Family.
• A Heart Demon Sect force ambushed Chu Tian at Heavenly Dragon Mount, overwhelming Chu Qiqian and sending a blood-red hand toward him.
• Chu Tian dispelled the attack’s illusions and took out the Heavenly Emperor Ancient Talisman.
• Earth Slave shattered one blood-red hand, but a second Half-step Emperor Venerable appeared and joined the attack.
• A voice ordered everyone to stop, but an aged voice replied that the attack followed the Sect Master's order and told the Little Princess to step aside.

Ren Yuxun stopped the Heart Demon Sect’s ambush on Chu Tian and forced its members to apologize after he spared their lives. As Chu Tian continued toward headquarters, Ren Yuxun warned him that the Dragon Clan was investigating his family and punished the sect fighters for acting without her approval.

• Ren Yuxun slapped a Demon Venerable and ordered the Heart Demon Sect forces to stop fighting, then Chu Tian called off the Investigation Team.
• Ren Yuxun apologized to Chu Tian, who warned the Heart Demon Sect that another attack would leave none of them alive.
• Ren Yuxun made the two Demon Venerables and the Heart Demon Sect fighters thank Chu Tian and apologize to the Sacred Heaven Sect.
• Ren Yuxun secretly warned Chu Tian that the Dragon Clan had accused the Chu Family of capturing and dissecting dragons and was investigating Sacred Emperor Peak.
• Chu Tian departed for headquarters, while Ren Yuxun ordered the Heart Demon Sect members to sever an arm, demoted their sect positions, and suspended their resource allotments for ten years.

Long Ao challenged the Chu Family on Sacred Emperor Peak and overwhelmed its Spirit Refining youths, including Chu Manman, while demanding to fight Chu Tian. Chu Tian arrived, praised his family for standing their ground, and took over the confrontation.

• Long Ao defeated several Chu Family prodigies and mocked their cultivation of Dragon Clan divine abilities while demanding that Chu Tian appear.
• The Chu Family youths learned that Chu Xiong was badly injured and Chu Yunshang remained in seclusion, leaving them unable to call on their strongest fighters.
• Chu Manman and other young cultivators attacked Long Ao, but he shattered her sword and blasted her away.
• Chu Tian caught the injured Chu Manman, praised the Chu Family youths for defending their dignity, and told them to leave the rest to him.
• Chu Tian landed before Long Ao as Chu Xiong apologized for his defeat.

Chu Tian confronted Long Ao after the Dragon God Sect insulted the Chu Family and Sacred Heaven Sect, then killed him despite the sect’s threats. Long Ao’s father, an Emperor Venerable, erupted from the main hall in grief and fury.

• Chu Tian explained that the Dragon God Sect’s dragon-body path sacrificed their human talents and rebuked Long Ao for using the Dragon Clan’s name to bully the Chu Family.
• Long Ao challenged Chu Tian and began boasting about his dragon-form divine ability, but Chu Tian struck first with a roar that destroyed Long Ao’s golden dragon manifestation and severely wounded him.
• Chu Tian tore off Long Ao’s dragon arms, severed his legs with Chaos blades, and threw him aside while the Chu Family’s experts held the Dragon God Sect at bay.
• Chu Tian punched Long Ao and obliterated him, ignoring Long Ao’s plea for his father to save him.
• The Dragon God Sect roared in outrage, and Long Ao’s father unleashed an Emperor Venerable’s might from the main hall after crying out for his son.

Chu Tian killed Long Ao and defied the Dragon Lord, who attacked him on Sacred Emperor Peak. Chu Tianyun and Chu Tianxing intervened, and the peak’s Grand Emperor Seal restrained the Dragon Lord as the conflict escalated.

• The Dragon Lord emerged from the main hall and demanded to know why Chu Tian had killed Long Ao.
• Chu Tian said Long Ao deserved to die and accused the Dragon Lord of slandering the Chu Family.
• The Dragon Lord attacked Chu Tian with a blood-dragon claw, while Ye Tianxiong urged him to kill the Little Holy Son.
• Chu Tianyun struck the Dragon Lord from behind with the Star Tiger Saber and rebuked him for insulting Chu Tian.
• The Grand Emperor Seal bound the Dragon Lord’s hand, and Chu Tianxing activated Sacred Emperor Peak’s formations.

Chu Tianxing and the Sacred Heaven Sect’s elders rallied to protect Chu Tian after the Dragon Lord attacked him, despite the Dragon Lord accusing the sect of shielding Long Ao’s killer. The chapter ended with the sect’s leaders turning their anger toward the absent Sect Master Ye Tianxiong, who had failed to stand with them against an outsider.

• Chu Tianxing rejected the Dragon Lord’s accusations and ordered the Chu Family to suppress him and the Dragon God Sect.
• Chu Tianyun wounded the Dragon Lord, while the Sacred Heaven Sect’s Grand Elders and upper echelons gathered to defend Chu Tian.
• Old Tuo appeared and threatened the Dragon Lord for attacking Chu Tian, revealing that he had secretly protected the young master all along.
• The Dragon Lord invoked Long Ao’s death and threatened war, but inwardly knew he could not risk fighting the Sacred Heaven Sect without evidence.
• The Dragon Lord demanded Ye Tianxiong appear, and the Chu Family elders and sect leaders grew furious when they found Sacred Emperor Peak silent.

Ye Tianxiong refused to help Chu Tian or confront the Dragon Lord, hoping the Dragon Clan and Dragon God Sect would destroy the Chu Family. As the sect families reconsidered their support for him, Chu Tian demanded that the Dragon Lord explain the rumors or die.

• Duanmu Rong, Duanmu Lei, and the Gu and Su Families suspected Ye Tianxiong had deliberately stayed away and began to question whether he should remain Sect Master.
• Ye Hongchen and Ye Family leaders pleaded with Ye Tianxiong to protect the sect, but he blamed the Chu Family for his losses and ordered the Ye Family not to act.
• When Ye Hongchen urged him to at least preserve appearances, Ye Tianxiong struck him down and insisted that letting the Dragon Clan and Dragon God Sect attack the Chu Family was the Ye Family’s last chance to recover.
• Ye Tianxiong remained absent from Sacred Emperor Peak, and the Dragon Lord realized he might have been used by him.
• Chu Tian confronted the Dragon Lord, demanded the source of the rumors, and threatened that no one would leave Sacred Emperor Peak alive without an explanation.

Chu Tianxing and the Sacred Heaven Sect defied the Dragon God Sect’s demand to search the Chu Family’s hall, until a Golden Dragon Emperor Venerable arrived and demanded the search in the name of the Heavenly Mandate Dragon Emperor. The chapter ended with the Dragon Clan’s envoy pressing Chu Tianxing and Chu Tianyun for an answer.

• Chu Tianyun refused to let the Dragon God Sect make the Chu Family pay for the alleged capture of Dragon Clan bloodlines, and Chu Tianxing backed him.
• Chu Tianxing threatened the Dragon God Sect and invited them to search the Chu Family’s main hall, while the Sacred Heaven Sect’s elders stood behind the Chu Family.
• The Dragon Lord accused the Chu Family of humiliating his sect, then realized Ye Tianxiong might have deceived him and spat blood under the pressure.
• A Golden Dragon Emperor Venerable emerged from the hall with a True Dragon Cub and said the Dragon Emperor had ordered him to investigate the allegations.
• The Golden Dragon Emperor Venerable demanded that Chu Tianxing and Chu Tianyun allow the Dragon Clan to search the hall, invoking the Heavenly Mandate Dragon Emperor.