Chapter Summaries

Chen Changqing followed Xuanyuan Xiaoyu through the dangerous formations guarding the Xuanyuan Clan's Ancestral Land and was impressed by its formidable defenses. At the gate, Xuanyuan Ao confronted Xiaoyu, who introduced Chen Changqing as her fiancé.

• Xuanyuan Xiaoyu used a Xuanyuan Token to guide Chen Changqing through the shifting Stone Forest toward the Ancestral Land.
• Two Half-Step True Lord gatekeepers opened the passage through the cliff wall for Xuanyuan Xiaoyu and Chen Changqing.
• Xuanyuan Ao arrived with a woman and addressed Xuanyuan Xiaoyu as his cousin, but she told him they were not close.
• Xuanyuan Ao noticed Chen Changqing holding Xuanyuan Xiaoyu's hand and asked who he was.
• Xuanyuan Xiaoyu glared at Xuanyuan Ao and introduced Chen Changqing as her fiancé.

Chen Changqing entered the Xuanyuan Clan's Ancestral Land with Xuanyuan Xiaoyu, where he discovered the clan's divine artifact, the Xuanyuan Sword, which surpassed Immortal Artifacts. Xuanyuan Xiaoyu then led him to meet someone, leaving the sword's higher grade unexplained.

• Xuanyuan Ao reacted angrily when Xuanyuan Xiaoyu called Chen Changqing her fiancé, but withdrew his pressure and threatened Chen before entering the passage with a woman.
• Xuanyuan Xiaoyu defended Chen Changqing and reassured him that Xuanyuan Ao was an arrogant fool.
• Chen Changqing followed Xuanyuan Xiaoyu through the white-jade passage into the Xuanyuan Clan's Ancestral Land and marveled at its scenery and dense spiritual energy.
• Chen Changqing saw the golden Xuanyuan Sword floating above the Ancestral Land, and Xuanyuan Xiaoyu explained that it was a divine artifact beyond Immortal Artifacts.
• Chen Changqing asked what artifact grades existed above Immortal Artifacts, but Xuanyuan Xiaoyu said she did not know and led him to meet someone.

Chen Changqing accompanied Xuanyuan Xiaoyu to meet her mother, Xuanyuan Yun, at Cloud Dream Pavilion. Xuanyuan Yun recognized Chen Changqing as the famed Mount Shu cultivator whose name had shaken the Nine Provinces Continent, and Xiaoyu asked why her mother looked so surprised.

• Xuanyuan Xiaoyu led Chen Changqing through the Xuanyuan Family's Ancestral Land to her mother's residence, Cloud Dream Pavilion.
• Chen Changqing met Xuanyuan Yun and greeted her as his mother-in-law.
• Xuanyuan Xiaoyu introduced Chen Changqing as a disciple of Mount Shu.
• Xuanyuan Yun recognized Chen Changqing's name and reacted with surprise, prompting Xuanyuan Xiaoyu to ask if she was all right.

Xuanyuan Yun met Chen Changqing and learned that he was Chen Yuan’s last disciple, while Xuanyuan Xiaoyu repeatedly praised her husband’s achievements. Xuanyuan Yun approved of the couple and asked whether Chen Changqing had come to take part in the Xuanyuan Clan’s Family Annual Competition.

• Xuanyuan Yun recognized Chen Changqing’s fame, and Xuanyuan Xiaoyu enthusiastically recounted his victories, inheritance, and accomplishments.
• Xuanyuan Yun asked after Mount Shu’s Sect Master, and Chen Changqing revealed that Chen Yuan was his master.
• Xuanyuan Xiaoyu questioned her mother about knowing Chen Yuan, and Xuanyuan Yun said she had known him before he became Sect Master.
• Xuanyuan Xiaoyu praised Chen Changqing’s status and abilities, while Xuanyuan Yun approved of their marriage and asked Chen Changqing to look after her daughter.
• Xuanyuan Yun asked Xuanyuan Xiaoyu whether she had brought Chen Changqing to participate in the Xuanyuan Clan’s Family Annual Competition.

Xuanyuan Yun told Xuanyuan Xiaoyu and Chen Changqing that outside helpers could compete in the Xuanyuan Clan’s Annual Competition, adding new uncertainties. The three arrived at the Ancestral Sword Platform as the competition was about to begin, where clan members noticed Xuanyuan Yun and Xuanyuan Xiaoyu.

• Xuanyuan Xiaoyu said she expected Chen Changqing to help her win the Annual Competition, and Chen Changqing considered his strength against Tribulation Transcendence opponents.
• Xuanyuan Yun learned that Xuanyuan Xiaoyu had not explained the competition’s rules to Chen Changqing and told them that outside helpers were now allowed to participate.
• An old servant summoned Xuanyuan Yun and Xuanyuan Xiaoyu to the Annual Competition at the Ancestral Sword Platform.
• Xuanyuan Yun explained that the clan had known they returned when they passed through the Stone Forest, then led Xuanyuan Xiaoyu and Chen Changqing to the platform.
• Chen Changqing, Xuanyuan Yun, and Xuanyuan Xiaoyu arrived at the Ancestral Sword Platform, where gathered clan members watched and praised Xuanyuan Xiaoyu.

Chen Changqing and Xuanyuan Xiaoyu surveyed the nine branches gathered for the Xuanyuan Family Grand Competition, and Xiaoyu explained their roles and introduced their leaders. Xuanyuan Ao threatened to kill Chen Changqing if they met in the arena, but Chen Changqing assured Xiaoyu that he would help her win first place.

• Xuanyuan Yun led Chen Changqing and Xuanyuan Xiaoyu beneath one of the nine Dragon Pillars, where Xiaoyu explained that each pillar represented a Xuanyuan Family branch and that her own branch had been nearly wiped out in the last Immortal-Demon Battlefield.
• Xuanyuan Xiaoyu introduced the First Branch, led by Xuanyuan Lü, and the Second Branch, led by the battle-hungry twins Xuanyuan Zhan and Xuanyuan Ge, who had brought a powerful body-refining helper.
• Xuanyuan Xiaoyu introduced the Third Branch, which oversaw commerce and was led by Xuanyuan Ce, then described the leaders of the remaining branches.
• Chen Changqing recognized Xuanyuan Ao as the head of the Seventh Branch, and Xuanyuan Ao mocked him and threatened to kill him if they met in the arena.
• Xuanyuan Xiaoyu warned Chen Changqing that the competition rules had changed and that the branches had recruited outside helpers, but Chen Changqing promised to help her claim first place.

The Xuanyuan Clan’s annual competition began with Clan Head Xuanyuan Tian announcing a major change: the winner would become a candidate for the next clan head. Chen Changqing learned that Xuanyuan Tian had reached the limit of the Heavenly Monarch realm, while Xuanyuan Xiaoyu explained why she had brought no other outside help.

• The Xuanyuan Sword rang out and released a powerful pressure, drawing the crowd’s attention.
• Xuanyuan Tian emerged from the void, and the clan members greeted him as their clan head and ancestor.
• Xuanyuan Xiaoyu told Chen Changqing that Xuanyuan Tian had reached the limit of the Heavenly Monarch realm.
• Xuanyuan Tian announced that clan members could bring outside help to the competition.
• Xuanyuan Xiaoyu said she had not known about the rule change and had invited Chen Changqing as her future husband; Xuanyuan Yun accepted responsibility for the late notice.
• Xuanyuan Tian declared that the first-place competitor would become a candidate for the next clan head, shocking the assembled branches.

Xuanyuan Tian announced that the Annual Competition’s winner would become a candidate for the next lineage head and receive a baptism in the Xuanyuan Clan’s Ancestral Land Blood Pool. When other branches mocked the Ninth Branch for bringing only two participants and demanded its position, Xuanyuan Yun defended her branch and silenced them with her Tribulation Transcendence Realm aura.

• Xuanyuan Tian announced the Ancestral Land Blood Pool baptism as an additional reward for the competition’s first-place winner, and Xuanyuan Xiaoyu explained its benefits to Chen Changqing.
• Xuanyuan Tian questioned Xuanyuan Yun about the Ninth Branch having only two participants, prompting members of other branches to mock Xuanyuan Xiaoyu and her family.
• Xuanyuan Jin urged Xuanyuan Tian to strip the Ninth Branch of its position, and other branches echoed his demand.
• Xuanyuan Yun asserted the Ninth Branch’s rightful standing, invoked her husband’s and daughter’s status, and unleashed her Tribulation Transcendence Realm aura.
• Xuanyuan Tian refrained from challenging Xuanyuan Yun because he was wary of her husband, the Human King.

Chen Changqing stepped forward and declared that he would represent Xuanyuan Xiaoyu’s Ninth Branch alone in the Xuanyuan Clan’s Annual Competition. As the crowd mocked him, Xuanyuan Tian questioned his identity and wondered why he could not see through him.

• Chen Changqing shielded Xuanyuan Xiaoyu and Xuanyuan Yun, then announced that he alone was enough to represent the Ninth Branch.
• Xuanyuan Lü, Xuanyuan Jin, Xuanyuan Xue, Xuanyuan Ao, and members of the other branches mocked Chen Changqing’s late-stage Spirit Transformation cultivation and his boast.
• Xuanyuan Xiaoyu and Xuanyuan Yun were surprised, but Chen Changqing reassured Xuanyuan Xiaoyu that he knew what he was doing.
• Xuanyuan Xiaoyu recalled Chen Changqing winning first place in the second trial’s artifact refinement challenge, and she felt reassured by his confidence.
• Xuanyuan Tian asked Chen Changqing his name and faction, while silently wondering why his Heavenly Monarch cultivation could not see through him.

After Chen Changqing revealed himself as Mount Shu’s Holy Son and former first-ranked Azure Dragon prodigy, the Xuanyuan Clan’s young talents dismissed him as a rival they could defeat. The arrival of an imposing white-robed man left the Ancestral Sword Platform silent, and Xuanyuan Xiaoyu feared he had come for the clan-head candidacy or the Ancestral Blood Pool.

• Chen Changqing introduced himself, shocking the crowd with his identity and late-stage Spirit Transformation cultivation.
• Xuanyuan Lü and the other Xuanyuan Clan prodigies insisted they could match Chen Changqing, while Xuanyuan Ao plotted to defeat him and claim renown.
• Xuanyuan Tian prepared to continue his announcement, but a rift opened above the Ancestral Sword Platform and a white-robed man emerged.
• The Xuanyuan Clan’s young members lowered their heads before the newcomer, and Xuanyuan Xiaoyu wondered whether he sought the clan-head candidacy or the Ancestral Blood Pool.
• Chen Changqing asked Xuanyuan Xiaoyu who the newcomer was and why the Xuanyuan Clan prodigies feared him.

Xuanyuan Long returned for the Xuanyuan Family Annual Competition, where his Tribulation Transcendence cultivation and immortal master made him the clear favorite. After learning Chen Changqing was Xuanyuan Xiaoyu’s fiancé, Xuanyuan Long scorned him as unworthy and challenged his right to marry her.

• Xuanyuan Xiaoyu told Chen Changqing that Xuanyuan Long was the Xuanyuan Family’s strongest younger-generation member and the disciple of a true immortal.
• Xuanyuan Ao realized Xuanyuan Long’s return threatened his chance of winning, while Xuanyuan Tian expected the First Branch to take first place.
• Xuanyuan Long greeted Xuanyuan Yun and Xuanyuan Xiaoyu, then asked who Chen Changqing was.
• Xuanyuan Xiaoyu introduced Chen Changqing as her fiancé, and Xuanyuan Long reacted with surprise before looking down on his Spirit Transformation cultivation.
• Xuanyuan Long told Chen Changqing he was unworthy of Xuanyuan Xiaoyu, and Xuanyuan Xiaoyu stepped forward to challenge his insult.

Chen Changqing challenged Xuanyuan Long and entered the Xuanyuan Family’s Annual Grand Competition alone despite Xuanyuan Xiaoyu’s concerns. The competitors entered the Battle Realm, where Chen Changqing found Xuanyuan Long waiting for him.

• Chen Changqing told Xuanyuan Long they could settle their disagreement in the arena, and Xuanyuan Long accepted the challenge.
• Xuanyuan Tian announced the chaotic battle rules, and Chen Changqing refused Xuanyuan Xiaoyu’s offer to enter the Battle Realm with him.
• Xuanyuan Tian opened the Battle Realm, and the representatives and external aid from the nine branches entered.
• Xuanyuan Ao taunted Chen Changqing before entering, while Xuanyuan Long entered separately at his own pace.
• Chen Changqing entered the Battle Realm, and the light gate closed as the competition appeared on a screen above the Ancestral Sword Platform.
• Chen Changqing found no other Xuanyuan Family members nearby and saw Xuanyuan Long staring at him from a distance.

Chen Changqing entered the Battle Realm and encountered Xuanyuan Long, who dismissed him and said they could fight only if Chen survived until the end. Chen Changqing then traveled openly through the realm and was surrounded by Xuanyuan Jin and his hired reinforcements, leaving a fight about to begin.

• Xuanyuan Long told Chen Changqing he would only fight him if Chen made it to the end of the competition, then walked away.
• Chen Changqing chose to travel openly through the Battle Realm instead of hiding, while Xuanyuan Xiaoyu watched with concern.
• Chen Changqing searched a valley for treasures but found none.
• Xuanyuan Jin and Daoist Duobao prepared an ambush with more than a dozen Spirit Transformation reinforcements.
• Xuanyuan Jin ordered his group to eliminate Chen Changqing, and they surrounded him on the cliff as he calmly waited.

Chen Changqing faced Xuanyuan Jin and his outside helpers in the Battle Realm, where Daoist Duobao attacked him with a torrent of magical artifacts. The barrage left Chen Changqing completely unharmed, stunning Xuanyuan Jin, Daoist Duobao, and the onlookers.

• Xuanyuan Jin mocked Chen Changqing for not fleeing and declared that he would eliminate him first.
• Daoist Duobao demanded Chen Changqing surrender and hand over his treasures, then summoned dozens of magical artifacts to attack him.
• Chen Changqing assessed Daoist Duobao’s artifact technique and remained calmly on the cliff as the attacks struck.
• Xuanyuan Jin, Daoist Duobao, and the Xuanyuan Clan members believed Chen Changqing had been overwhelmed, while Xuanyuan Xiaoyu and Xuanyuan Yun worried about him.
• The dust cleared to reveal Chen Changqing standing completely unharmed, leaving Xuanyuan Jin and Daoist Duobao stunned.

Chen Changqing used the Haotian Hammer to destroy the Fifth Branch’s artifacts and eliminate Xuanyuan Jin, Daoist Duobao, and their reinforcements from the Annual Competition. After being teleported out, Xuanyuan Jin accused Chen Changqing of breaking the rules and demanded that he be disqualified.

• Chen Changqing endured Daoist Duobao’s artifacts with his physical body and mocked the attackers.
• Xuanyuan Jin ordered his reinforcements and Daoist Duobao to attack Chen Changqing together.
• Chen Changqing brought out the Haotian Hammer and shattered the incoming artifacts with one strike.
• The hammer’s force sent Xuanyuan Jin, Daoist Duobao, and the reinforcements flying, killing several and eliminating the Fifth Branch from the competition.
• The Xuanyuan Family and Xuanyuan Xiaoyu and Xuanyuan Yun watched in shock as the group was teleported out.
• Xuanyuan Jin accused Chen Changqing of killing people in the Battle Realm and demanded that Xuanyuan Tian strip him of his right to compete.

Chen Changqing encountered Xuanyuan Zhan and the Second Branch’s massive group in the Battle Realm and refused Xuanyuan Ge’s demand to withdraw. As the group unleashed its combined pressure, Chen Changqing casually shattered it, leaving the Ancestral Dragon Platform’s spectators stunned.

• Xuanyuan Xiaoyu argued that Chen Changqing had not broken the competition rules by killing Xuanyuan Jin with one strike, and Xuanyuan Tian agreed.
• Chen Changqing left the site of the fight and openly crossed a plain through the Battle Realm.
• Xuanyuan Zhan’s group, including Xuanyuan Ge and Xiao Xiong, spotted Chen Changqing and decided to eliminate him.
• More than a hundred members of the Second Branch surrounded Chen Changqing, and Xuanyuan Ge ordered him to admit defeat and withdraw.
• Chen Changqing refused and invited them to surrender instead, then casually shattered the group’s combined aura pressure.
• The spectators on the Ancestral Dragon Platform reacted in shock, while Xuanyuan Xiaoyu grew worried for Chen Changqing.

Chen Changqing faced the Xuanyuan Clan’s battle-focused Second Branch and used the Haotian Hammer to break through their formation. The chapter ended with Xuanyuan Zhan and Xuanyuan Ge stunned as more than a dozen cultivators were hurled away by his strike.

• Xuanyuan Xiaoyu worried that Chen Changqing would be overwhelmed by the Second Branch’s hundred-plus cultivators, while Xuanyuan Yun questioned his decision to draw attention to himself.
• Xuanyuan Jin predicted Chen Changqing would be eliminated, and Daoist Duobao secretly coveted the Haotian Hammer.
• Chen Changqing dismissed Xuanyuan Ge’s challenge and revealed the Haotian Hammer, shocking Xuanyuan Zhan, Xuanyuan Ge, and Xiao Xiong.
• Xuanyuan Zhan ordered the Second Branch to form the Bloody Battle in Eight Directions formation around Chen Changqing.
• Chen Changqing unleashed the first hammer of Thirty-Six Chaotic Cloak Hammers, Star Fall, tore open the formation, and sent more than a dozen cultivators flying.

Chen Changqing used the Haotian Hammer to defeat the Second Branch’s hundred-man formation and overpower Xuanyuan Zhan, Xuanyuan Ge, and Xiao Xiong. The battle left the Xuanyuan Clan stunned, while Xuanyuan Xiaoyu wondered whether an Immortal Artifact explained his strength.

• Chen Changqing shattered more than half of the Second Branch’s Bloody Battle in Eight Directions formation with three hammer strikes.
• Xuanyuan Zhan and Xuanyuan Ge summoned a combined Blood-Colored War God phantom as Xiao Xiong transformed into his Giant Spirit True Body and attacked Chen Changqing.
• Chen Changqing broke the phantom’s attacks and Xiao Xiong’s blade with a single hammer strike, sending all three leaders flying and scattering the remaining formation.
• The Xuanyuan Clan watched in disbelief as Chen Changqing defeated more than a hundred members of the Second Branch alone.
• Xuanyuan Xiaoyu marveled at Chen Changqing’s strength and wondered whether it came from his Immortal Artifact.

Chen Changqing eliminated the Fifth Branch and the Second Branch, then stopped to rest beside a lake. Xuanyuan Ce and Xuanyuan Wen arrived with their allies and confronted him while he remained lying down.

• Xuanyuan Yun praised Xuanyuan Xiaoyu for finding a fine husband after witnessing Chen Changqing defeat the Second Branch.
• The Second Branch’s Xuanyuan Zhan, Xuanyuan Ge, Xiao Xiong, and others were teleported out of the Battle Realm, and Xuanyuan Zhan vowed to defeat Chen Changqing someday.
• Chen Changqing left the plains, reached a lake, and lay down to rest while wondering how many branches had been eliminated.
• Xuanyuan Ce and Long Yue arrived with more than a dozen allies, but Chen Changqing ignored them and went back to sleep.
• Xuanyuan Wen and Pei Xiu arrived with their group, and Xuanyuan Wen criticized Chen Changqing for acting unconcerned despite being surrounded.

Chen Changqing faced the arrivals of the Xuanyuan Clan’s Third, Fourth, and Sixth Branches, all of whom had come to eliminate him from the competition. When they hesitated to attack for fear of helping rival branches, Chen Changqing challenged all three to fight him together, provoking their fury.

• Xuanyuan Xue arrived at the lakeshore with his people and Yan Lu, joining Xuanyuan Ce and Xuanyuan Wen, while the clan members watching from outside realized that four branches had gathered.
• Xuanyuan Xiaoyu worried that the three branches would join forces against Chen Changqing, and Xuanyuan Yun silently shared her concern.
• Chen Changqing rose from the ground and realized that Xuanyuan Ce, Xuanyuan Wen, and Xuanyuan Xue had all come for him while their branches had avoided fighting one another.
• Xuanyuan Ce and the others hesitated to attack Chen Changqing first because they feared giving another branch an advantage.
• Chen Changqing invited all three branches to attack him together, and Xuanyuan Ce and Xuanyuan Wen angrily rebuked his arrogance.