Chapter Summaries

Ling Xiao and Uncle Boya plundered the poisonous Daoist grounds, where Ling Xiao found Primordial-grade pills and a refined poison pill. He discovered and awakened the Heaven-Refining Furnace, then reached out to claim it.

• Ling Xiao and Uncle Boya protected themselves from the lethal poison and swept up the treasures scattered across the Daoist grounds.
• Ling Xiao entered a palace, endured its concentrated poison, and found a room filled with Primordial Sacred Pills.
• Ling Xiao subdued a pill that had taken human form, identified it as a Taiji Tyrant Emperor Pill, and collected the other pills, including a potent poison pill.
• Ling Xiao explored deeper into the ruined grounds and discovered a massive structure that was actually an ancient pill furnace.
• Ling Xiao awakened the Heaven-Refining Furnace and seized it with a massive hand to claim the treasure.

Ling Xiao opened a strange pill furnace and was drawn into its hidden dao field, where he confronted the pill spirit calling itself Pill Sun Sage Lord. After learning Ling Xiao came from the Origin True Realm, the spirit attacked him, but Ling Xiao’s cultivation technique and divine cauldrons startled it, and it demanded to know where he was from.

• Ling Xiao climbed onto the pill furnace and forced its lid open despite poisonous gas and attacks formed from venomous lightning.
• A ghostly face swallowed Ling Xiao and the sacred flame into the furnace, trapping him in a separate space.
• Ling Xiao met a human-shaped pill that identified itself as Pill Sun Sage Lord and claimed to be an ancient alchemist whose dao field contained pills it had made.
• Pill Sun Sage Lord turned hostile after Ling Xiao said he came from the Origin True Realm and attacked him.
• Ling Xiao unleashed nine streams of immortal light, summoned eight divine cauldrons, and swallowed golden pills, forcing Pill Sun Sage Lord’s divine soul to retreat into its pill body.
• Pill Sun Sage Lord asked Ling Xiao where he came from after he said a great existence had given him his cultivation technique.

Ling Xiao resisted Pill Sun Sage Lord’s attacks inside the pill furnace until the weakened sage lord exhausted his power, then killed him and refined his soul. The heart demon grew powerful enough to threaten Ling Xiao’s true body, leaving him anticipating what would happen next.

• Ling Xiao revealed that he came from the Primordial World, and Pill Sun Sage Lord tried to recruit him as an inside man.
• Ling Xiao rejected Pill Sun Sage Lord’s offer and realized the sage lord was borrowing the divine pill’s power.
• Pill Sun Sage Lord attacked, and Ling Xiao endured repeated devastating blows while waiting for his opponent’s power to run out.
• Ling Xiao survived Pill Sun Sage Lord’s final strike and killed him after the sage lord’s strength was nearly exhausted.
• Ling Xiao refined Pill Sun Sage Lord’s divine soul and fed it to the heart demon, which began squeezing the space of his true body.

Ling Xiao survived the heart demon’s attempt to take control, collected the depleted divine pill and the high-grade Heaven-Refining Furnace, and gained 1.6 million merit points. He gave the Snow Heaven Clan pills to strengthen themselves, while his sudden rise in the rankings caused a stir outside the ancient city.

• Ling Xiao felt the heart demon growing stronger but found that it had not yet fully formed or revealed itself.
• The divine pill crumbled, leaving a small remnant of its essence, which Ling Xiao stored for possible restoration or refinement.
• Ling Xiao checked his Mythic Mark, discovered he had gained 1.6 million merit points, and claimed the Heaven-Refining Furnace.
• Ling Xiao scattered most of the collected Chaos Sacred Pills and Primordial Sacred Pills to the Snow Heaven Clan so they could improve their cultivation.
• Tianxue Ji asked to leave Ling Xiao’s inner universe, but he told her to get stronger first and she obediently agreed.
• Ling Xiao’s ranking surged on the Heavenly Stele outside the City Lord’s Manor, drawing attention with its sudden 1.6-million-point increase.

Ling Xiao’s sudden rise to two million merit points shocked the Rogue Cultivators and Blood Moon Demon God, who both doubted he had killed a fifth-transformation evil spirit by himself. Meanwhile, Hundred Tribulations True Lord entered the Mythic Battlefield with his attendants and prepared to show them his Mythic Mark.

• Rogue Cultivators gathered at the heavenly monument saw Ling Xiao gain 1.6 million merit points and speculated that he had taken advantage of a weakened or nearly dead evil spirit.
• Blood Moon Demon God searched the Mythic Mark for Ling Xiao and discovered that his total had reached two million merit points.
• Blood Moon Demon God briefly feared Ling Xiao might be strong enough to kill him, then convinced himself Ling Xiao had only landed the final blow in a group battle or gotten lucky.
• Hundred Tribulations True Lord entered the Mythic Battlefield with his attendants, boasted about his experience, and took out his Mythic Mark to impress them.

True Lord Hundred Tribulations boasted about his past achievements and rallied his followers to hunt evil spirits while pursuing Ling Xiao. The group discovered that Ling Xiao had two million merit points, including a huge reward for killing a fifth-turn evil spirit, but True Lord Hundred Tribulations and the Lord of Myriad Demons refused to believe he had become that powerful.

• True Lord Hundred Tribulations showed off his Mythic Mark and bragged about earning more than five hundred thousand merit points on his previous battlefield trip.
• True Lord Hundred Tribulations told his followers to hunt evil spirits for merit points and dismissed Ling Xiao as an easy target.
• Kui Xing spotted Ling Xiao near the top of the rankings with two million merit points and alerted the group.
• True Lord Hundred Tribulations checked the ranking and realized Ling Xiao had gained 1.6 million points from killing a half-step Great Dao fifth-turn evil spirit.
• The Lord of Myriad Demons insisted Ling Xiao could not be that strong, and True Lord Hundred Tribulations agreed that the ranking must be suspicious.

Ling Xiao looted Pill Sun Sage Lord’s treasure vaults and hurried off to find Uncle Boya while powerful figures gathered at the ruins. An old man appeared to claim the Dao field, but someone inside a golden palanquin attacked him.

• Hundred Tribulations and Lord of Myriad Demons set out to find Ling Xiao, with Lord of Myriad Demons claiming he was destined to defeat him.
• Ling Xiao cleared the poisonous mist in Pill Sun Sage Lord’s dojo and discovered its treasure vault, taking its medicinal ingredients and rare divine objects.
• Ling Xiao looted several more vaults and flew out, hoping to find Uncle Boya before he slipped away.
• Powerful figures arrived at the Dao field and began entering after one of them deduced that its poisonous gas concealed valuable treasures.
• An old man appeared and ordered the newcomers to leave, but a voice from the golden palanquin called him a fraud and sent a golden hand to attack.

Uncle Boya’s disguise was exposed, but he avoided the furious crowd by claiming he guarded the ruin for another powerful lord. The War God Palace heir offered to recruit him as a follower, and the chapter left everyone wondering who Uncle Boya’s supposed lord was.

• The occupant of the golden sedan chair exposed Uncle Boya’s disguise, and the furious experts surrounded him.
• Uncle Boya tried to placate the crowd, while the experts held back when the golden sedan chair and its armored attendant approached.
• The War God Palace heir asked whether Uncle Boya had discovered the ruin, and Uncle Boya claimed the place was his to guard.
• The heir offered Uncle Boya a place in War God Palace as his follower, but Uncle Boya claimed he already served another lord inside the ruin.
• Uncle Boya warned that his lord would punish anyone who entered, leaving the crowd questioning who this lord was.

Ling Xiao confronted the War God Palace’s group at his dojo after Uncle Boya provoked them, and Wishful attacked him. Ling Xiao defeated and seized Wishful with ease, leaving the sedan’s mysterious occupant and the watching crowd to face what came next.

• Uncle Boya told the War God Palace’s envoy that his lord would have to approve his recruitment, then pointed Ling Xiao out as the master he had been speaking of.
• Wishful recognized Ling Xiao and mocked his apparent cultivation, while the crowd laughed at his claim that the dojo belonged to him.
• Ling Xiao insulted the War God Palace’s group and ordered them to leave, as Uncle Boya concealed his scheme to make them fight.
• Wishful attacked Ling Xiao with her Scarlet Sun Dao Body, but he shattered her body with a punch and then grabbed her by the throat through the void.

Ling Xiao captured Jin Ruyi and challenged Zhan Tianyan, a powerful descendant of the Ancestor of War. Zhan Tianyan unleashed his war domain to enslave Ling Xiao, and Ling Xiao killed Jin Ruyi as he prepared to fight back.

• Ling Xiao seized Jin Ruyi and threatened her while demanding that the figure in the palanquin come out.
• Zhan Tianyan emerged from the golden palanquin and demanded that Ling Xiao kneel and beg for forgiveness.
• Onlookers identified Zhan Tianyan as the descendant of the Ancestor of War and described his ancestor's immense power and reputation.
• Zhan Tianyan unleashed a vast war domain filled with battle-energy vortices and announced that Ling Xiao would become his war puppet.
• Ling Xiao saw the countless war souls in the domain, snapped Jin Ruyi's neck, and prepared to fight Zhan Tianyan.

Ling Xiao fought Zhan Tianyan, who dismissed special physiques as shackles and unleashed his War God inheritance to overwhelm him. Under the pressure of the battlefield, Ling Xiao completed the transformation of his second strand of transcendent power.

• Ling Xiao killed the golden-armored woman, then blocked Zhan Tianyan’s Hand of War with his Primordial Finger.
• Zhan Tianyan recognized Ling Xiao’s Primordial Sacred Body and argued that special constitutions could become shackles on the path to the Great Dao.
• Zhan Tianyan recognized Ling Xiao as the man who had offended the Thousand Autumn Realm Lord and attacked him with the War Codex battlefield.
• Ling Xiao charged into the battlefield with his Primordial Great Dao, but Zhan Tianyan’s three strands of transcendent power and killing attacks wounded him.
• Ling Xiao sensed a change within himself and completed the transformation of his second strand of transcendent power.

Ling Xiao broke through to the second turn during his battle with Zhan Tianyan and overwhelmed him with his superior power and physique. After maiming Zhan Tianyan and stomping him into the abyss, Ling Xiao left the battle's outcome hanging.

• Ling Xiao's breakthrough sent his aura surging and swept away the attacks surrounding him, alarming the spectators outside the battlefield.
• Zhan Tianyan unleashed his War God Supreme Art and attacked Ling Xiao, but Ling Xiao's punch forced him backward and cracked his arm.
• Ling Xiao and Zhan Tianyan fought at full strength, and Ling Xiao's techniques and relentless attacks left Zhan Tianyan struggling to breathe and defend himself.
• Ling Xiao pierced Zhan Tianyan's chest, then regenerated his own arm after Zhan Tianyan severed it with the Blade of War.
• Ling Xiao slashed half of Zhan Tianyan's head away, refined the severed portion, and stomped him into the endless abyss.

Ling Xiao defeated Zhan Tianyan and began refining him to claim his inheritance, but the Ancestor of War appeared through a vision and ordered Ling Xiao to release him. The chapter left Ling Xiao facing the Ancestor of War’s demand.

• Ling Xiao trampled Zhan Tianyan, destroyed his head, and seized him to refine his body and origin.
• The onlookers, Uncle Boya, and Jin Ruyi reacted with shock and anguish at Zhan Tianyan’s defeat.
• Ling Xiao mocked Zhan Tianyan’s inheritance and declared that he would take it for himself, despite Zhan Tianyan’s threats about the Ancestor of War.
• An ancient vision revealed the War God Palace and the middle-aged Ancestor of War, who opened his eyes and saw what had happened.
• The Ancestor of War told Ling Xiao to release Zhan Tianyan and give them both a chance.

The Ancestor of War appeared through a strand of divine thought and threatened Ling Xiao into releasing Zhan Tianyan. Ling Xiao chose to defy him, and the chapter ended with him refusing to lift his foot despite the Ancestor of War's threat to kill him.

• The Ancestor of War revealed himself and demanded that Ling Xiao spare Zhan Tianyan, warning that refusal would bring consequences.
• Ling Xiao chose the system's reward for refusing the Ancestor of War and killing Zhan Tianyan: the Heaven-Battling Combat Art and the title "Little Ling Who Knows No Better."
• Zhan Tianyan taunted Ling Xiao with confidence that the Ancestor of War would protect him, and Ling Xiao stomped him into silence.
• The Ancestor of War grew furious and threatened to kill Ling Xiao unless he released Zhan Tianyan.
• Ling Xiao calmly refused to let Zhan Tianyan go.

Ling Xiao killed Zhan Tianyan and defied Ancestor of War, whose attack was stopped by the Mythic Battlefield barrier. Ling Xiao then took Pill Sun Sage Lord’s dojo and disappeared with Uncle Boya, while Jin Ruyi departed and True Lord Hundred Tribulations arrived too late.

• Ling Xiao refused Ancestor of War’s demand to release Zhan Tianyan and crushed Zhan Tianyan’s head before drawing his remains into the Heaven-Refining Furnace.
• Ancestor of War attacked Ling Xiao across time and space, but the Mythic Battlefield barrier blocked his finger before it could reach him.
• Ling Xiao taunted Ancestor of War, took Pill Sun Sage Lord’s dojo, and vanished after grabbing Uncle Boya.
• Jin Ruyi recovered from her shock and flew away, while True Lord Hundred Tribulations and the others arrived at the ruins too late.

True Lord Hundred Tribulations and the Lord of Myriad Demons tracked Ling Xiao after finding an empty ruin, then learned that Ling Xiao had killed Zhan Tianyan and heard a wildly embellished account of Hundred Tribulations’ past defeat. Enraged by the gossip, True Lord Hundred Tribulations revealed himself and confronted the storytellers.

• True Lord Hundred Tribulations discovered that Ling Xiao had taken the entire ruin, and the Lord of Myriad Demons identified Ling Xiao’s trail and led the group after him.
• True Lord Hundred Tribulations and his companions overheard people discussing Zhan Tianyan’s death and listened as a man said Ling Xiao had torn him apart in front of the Ancestor of War.
• The crowd recognized Ling Xiao and repeated rumors that True Lord Hundred Tribulations had knelt and begged Ling Xiao for mercy after being defeated.
• True Lord Hundred Tribulations became furious at the insults and burst from hiding to confront the gossiping crowd.

Hundred Tribulations True Lord slaughtered the people who mocked him and rallied his allies to pursue Ling Xiao, despite fearing Ling Xiao’s strength. Meanwhile, Ling Xiao sheltered in a mountain valley, captured an evil spirit, and confronted Uncle Boya about his origins.

• Hundred Tribulations True Lord attacked and killed or drove off the people who mocked him for losing to Ling Xiao.
• Lord of Myriad Demons and the others reassured Hundred Tribulations True Lord, who ordered them to find and execute Ling Xiao for killing Zhan Tianyan.
• Fu Guang questioned whether they could defeat Ling Xiao, while Lord of Myriad Demons boasted that he could kill him and led the group onward.
• Ling Xiao took Uncle Boya to an uninhabited valley and refined a hidden third-turn Half-Step Great Dao evil spirit in the Heaven-Refining Furnace.
• Uncle Boya claimed he had found another treasure, and Ling Xiao accused him of being one of the ten great exotic beasts of the Origin True Realm.

Ling Xiao confronted Uncle Boya about his origins, and Uncle Boya first claimed to be the Origin-Devouring Beast before revealing he was actually a Treasure Mouse. Ling Xiao recognized why Uncle Boya concealed his identity, and the chapter ended with Uncle Boya offering to split the treasures they found seventy-thirty.

• Ling Xiao used his knowledge of the ten great exotic beasts to challenge Uncle Boya about his origins.
• Uncle Boya claimed to be the Origin-Devouring Beast, but Ling Xiao said he already had one and threatened him.
• Uncle Boya transformed into a huge rat and revealed he was a Treasure Mouse, sworn brother to the Origin-Devouring Beast.
• Ling Xiao explained that Treasure Mice were hunted for their ability to find treasures, and Uncle Boya admitted he wanted to search for treasures on his own.
• Uncle Boya asked Ling Xiao to keep his identity secret and offered to split their treasure finds seventy-thirty, prompting Ling Xiao to ask why he would get only seventy percent.

Ling Xiao and Uncle Boya agreed to split treasure evenly, and Ling Xiao asked whether the treasure mouse knew where the Origin-Devouring Beast was. After Uncle Boya failed to provide a clear lead, Ling Xiao began cultivating the Heaven-Battling Combat Art and discovered its power grew against numerous enemies.

• Uncle Boya demanded an even share of the treasures, explaining that his grandfather Bo Xuntian had been exploited and that his clan had inherited the ability to conceal their aura.
• Ling Xiao agreed to split future treasure finds fifty-fifty, though he added that whoever seized a treasure would usually keep it.
• Ling Xiao let Uncle Boya search Pill Sun Sage Lord's estate, which Ling Xiao had already stripped of its valuable contents.
• Ling Xiao asked Uncle Boya where the Origin-Devouring Beast was, but Uncle Boya said there was more than one and asked which one he meant.
• Ling Xiao received the Heaven-Battling Combat Art, learned its basics, and realized it absorbed enemies' battle intent to grow stronger against large groups.

Ling Xiao and Uncle Boya clashed over how to split a Primordial Sacred Pill before Uncle Boya told Ling Xiao about the Mythic Heavenly Abyss and its treasures. The revelation that several Realm Lords had entered the abyss and never returned left Ling Xiao wondering whether Wan Qianqiu was among them.

• Uncle Boya returned from searching the ruin with a Primordial Sacred Pill he had found embedded in a statue's head.
• Uncle Boya offered to split the pill with Ling Xiao, but Ling Xiao saw through his ploy, cut the pill in half, and swallowed his share.
• Uncle Boya told Ling Xiao about the Mythic Heavenly Abyss, where rare treasures emerged from a dangerous black hole.
• Uncle Boya warned that evil spirits guarded the route and revealed rumors that several Realm Lords had entered the abyss and never returned.
• Ling Xiao wondered whether Wan Qianqiu was among the missing Realm Lords.