Chapter Summaries

Chen Changqing invited the Third, Fourth, and Sixth Branches to attack him together, then used the Haotian Hammer to defeat them all with one strike. Their leaders were teleported out of the Battle Realm, leaving the Xuanyuan Clan stunned and arguing over the power of his Immortal Artifact.

• Xuanyuan Ce ordered the Third Branch to trap Chen Changqing in a Starlight Labyrinth Array as the Fourth and Sixth Branches joined the attack.
• Chen Changqing summoned the Haotian Hammer and swung it once, shattering the formation and blasting away the attackers from all three branches.
• Xuanyuan Ce, Long Yue, Xuanyuan Wen, Pei Xiu, Xuanyuan Xue, Yan Lu, and their allies were teleported out of the Battle Realm with severe injuries.
• Chen Changqing wondered whether the Xuanyuan Clan's prodigies were all so weak.
• The Xuanyuan Clan members at the Ancestral Dragon Platform reacted with disbelief, and some claimed Chen Changqing relied on the Immortal Artifact.

Chen Changqing reflected on the branches he had eliminated while Xuanyuan Long forced Xuanyuan Yin and the Eighth Branch to submit in the Battle Realm. Xuanyuan Long’s effortless victory won praise from the Xuanyuan Clan, whose members expected him to defeat Chen Changqing if they met.

• Xuanyuan Yun asked Xuanyuan Xiaoyu whether Chen Changqing truly had only late-stage Spirit Transformation cultivation, and Xuanyuan Xiaoyu confirmed that he did.
• Xuanyuan Tian recognized that Chen Changqing’s own strength was formidable but remained confident that Xuanyuan Long would beat him.
• Chen Changqing counted the five branches he had eliminated and wondered what Xuanyuan Long and Xuanyuan Ao were doing.
• Xuanyuan Long demanded Xuanyuan Yin’s surrender, then pierced Xuanyuan Yin’s shoulder with a single strike after Xuanyuan Yin attacked him.
• Xuanyuan Long left Xuanyuan Yin and his outside helpers defeated, and the members of the Xuanyuan Clan praised his strength.

After Xuanyuan Long eliminated Xuanyuan Yin, only the First, Seventh, and Ninth Branches remained in the Battle Realm. Xuanyuan Lü and Xuanyuan Ao searched for their rivals while preparing for a possible fight with Xuanyuan Long, and Xuanyuan Ao also hoped to confront Chen Changqing.

• Xuanyuan Yin of the Eighth Branch was eliminated, leaving the First, Seventh, and Ninth Branches in the competition.
• Xuanyuan Lü waited with his followers in a river valley and declared that the First Branch would take first place, though he doubted he would be the one to secure it.
• Xuanyuan Ao advanced through a forest with Dugu Han and other reinforcements, reflecting on his plan to defeat Xuanyuan Long and claim the position of the clan's top young cultivator.
• Dugu Han questioned why they had not encountered anyone from the other branches, and Xuanyuan Ao guessed that their rivals were hiding.
• When a subordinate raised the possibility of meeting Xuanyuan Long, Xuanyuan Ao told Dugu Han to fight without holding back.
• Xuanyuan Ao thought of Chen Changqing as someone he could use to vent his anger and claimed Chen would have no chance against him.

Chen Changqing encountered Xuanyuan Ao and the Seventh Branch in the Battle Realm, where Xuanyuan Ao challenged him but let Dugu Han step forward first. Dugu Han demanded a swordsmanship contest, and Chen Changqing dismissed him as unqualified.

• Chen Changqing emerged from the forest and came face to face with Xuanyuan Ao and the Seventh Branch.
• Xuanyuan Ao taunted Chen Changqing and unleashed his Tribulation Transcendence aura, but Chen Changqing's aura met it evenly.
• Dugu Han offered to fight Chen Changqing, and Xuanyuan Ao told him to teach Chen Changqing a lesson.
• Dugu Han challenged Chen Changqing to compare their swordsmanship, but Chen Changqing said he had never heard of the Taibai Sword Sect and that Dugu Han was unqualified.
• Dugu Han grew furious at Chen Changqing's response.

Chen Changqing fought Dugu Han, a Taibai Sword Sect prodigy, with the Haotian Hammer and overwhelmed his Green Lotus Sword Art attacks. Their latest clash ended with hammer force meeting Dugu Han’s descending enlarged sword, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Dugu Han summoned his Quasi-Immortal Artifact, the Green Frost Sword, and challenged Chen Changqing to a fight.
• Chen Changqing revealed the supreme-grade Immortal Artifact Haotian Hammer and shattered Dugu Han’s opening sword attack, sending him staggering backward.
• Dugu Han unleashed Green Lotus Sword Art, Ten Thousand Lotuses Wither, but Chen Changqing crushed its storm of sword qi with overlapping hammer strikes.
• Dugu Han used Green Lotus Sword Art, Line of Heaven, to enlarge the Green Frost Sword and slash down at Chen Changqing.
• Chen Changqing struck the descending sword with condensed hammer force, and the two attacks collided.

Chen Changqing defeated Dugu Han with the Haotian Hammer and provoked Xuanyuan Ao, who stepped forward to challenge him. Xuanyuan Ao summoned a golden dragon spear, and the confrontation was about to begin.

• Chen Changqing shattered Dugu Han's Green Lotus Sword Art and knocked the Green Frost Sword away with the Haotian Hammer.
• Chen Changqing struck Dugu Han into a crater, leaving him unconscious and gravely injured.
• Xuanyuan Clan members dismissed Chen Changqing's victory as the power of his Immortal Artifact, while Xuanyuan Yun defended his abilities and remembered that he was a sword cultivator from Shu Mountain Sacred Land.
• Chen Changqing taunted Xuanyuan Ao for relying on outside help and lacking an Immortal Artifact, and Xuanyuan Ao challenged him with a fierce display of power.
• Xuanyuan Ao summoned a golden spear wrapped with a Five-Clawed Golden Dragon, and dragon roars echoed around them.

Chen Changqing faced Xuanyuan Ao, who wielded the Quasi-Immortal Artifact Sky-Splitting Spear and attacked with the Imperial World-Shocking Spear Art. After Chen Changqing blocked Xuanyuan Ao’s first strike with the Haotian Hammer, he met Xuanyuan Ao’s domain-shrouded descending slash head-on with another hammer technique.

• Xuanyuan Ao revealed his Sky-Splitting Spear and declared that he would end Chen Changqing’s run in the competition.
• Xuanyuan Ao vanished and thrust at Chen Changqing with Startling Dragon Thrust, but Chen Changqing blocked the spear with the Haotian Hammer and Mountain-Lifting.
• Xuanyuan Ao accused Chen Changqing of relying on his Immortal Artifact and launched Imperial Hegemon Slash from above.
• Xuanyuan Ao’s spear domain slowed Chen Changqing, who powered up the Haotian Hammer and swung Against the Firmament into the descending golden spear force.

Chen Changqing withstood Xuanyuan Ao’s Imperial Hegemon Slash without injury and shattered the momentum of his spear, leaving Xuanyuan Ao battered and furious. As Xuanyuan Long and Xuanyuan Lü headed toward the disturbance, Xuanyuan Ao vowed to get serious and make Chen Changqing understand despair.

• Chen Changqing and Xuanyuan Ao’s clash sent energy storms and spatial rifts across the Battle Realm, forcing nearby cultivators to retreat with the unconscious Dugu Han.
• The Xuanyuan Clan members watching from the Ancestral Dragon Platform expected Xuanyuan Ao to defeat Chen Changqing, while Xuanyuan Yun and Xuanyuan Xiaoyu worried for Chen Changqing’s safety.
• Xuanyuan Long and Xuanyuan Lü sensed the battle’s great disturbance and led their people toward the fight.
• After the dust cleared, Xuanyuan Ao stood with a trembling hand, torn battle robe, and unsteady aura, while Chen Changqing remained completely unharmed.
• Chen Changqing mocked Xuanyuan Ao for losing the spear clash, and Xuanyuan Ao angrily declared that he would get serious and make Chen Changqing understand despair.

Xuanyuan Ao unleashed the ultimate technique of the Imperial Extreme World-Shaking Spear Art, but Chen Changqing met it with the Haotian Hammer and dissolved its power. The chapter ended with Xuanyuan Ao stunned as his strongest strike crumbled.

• Xuanyuan Ao awakened the golden dragon on the Sky-Splitting Spear and drew down tribulation power to strengthen himself.
• Xuanyuan Ao used “Dragon Emperor Descends, Tribulation Lightning Demon Execution” to launch a devastating spear strike at Chen Changqing.
• Chen Changqing infused the Haotian Hammer with spiritual power and swung a plain, gray-hazed hammer strike to meet the attack.
• Chen Changqing's hammer force rapidly dissolved Xuanyuan Ao's spear strike, leaving Xuanyuan Ao shocked and disbelieving.

Chen Changqing defeated Xuanyuan Ao, an Early Tribulation Transcendence cultivator, with the Return to Void strike of his Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique. After the Battle Realm teleported Xuanyuan Ao away, Chen Changqing realized only the First and Eighth Branches remained, then spotted Xuanyuan Lü approaching with attendants.

• Chen Changqing's hammer strike shattered Xuanyuan Ao's spear and sent him crashing to the ground.
• Xuanyuan Ao blamed his defeat on the Haotian Hammer, but the Battle Realm eliminated him and teleported him away.
• The Xuanyuan Clan members, Xuanyuan Yun, Xuanyuan Xiaoyu, and Xuanyuan Tian were shocked that Chen Changqing had defeated a Tribulation Transcendence expert.
• Chen Changqing counted the branches he had eliminated and realized only the First and Eighth Branches remained besides Xuanyuan Xiaoyu's Ninth Branch.
• Xuanyuan Lü of the First Branch approached Chen Changqing with a group of attendants.

Chen Changqing confronted Xuanyuan Lü and the First Branch after defeating Xuanyuan Ao, then attacked them with the Haotian Hammer. Xuanyuan Lü’s group raised a strange formation that trapped Chen Changqing beneath a web of Law Chains.

• Xuanyuan Lü arrived with his followers and found Chen Changqing alone amid the ruined battlefield.
• Chen Changqing revealed that he had fought and defeated Xuanyuan Ao of the Seventh Branch.
• Xuanyuan Lü declared that the First Branch would defeat Chen Changqing, and Chen Changqing attacked with the Haotian Hammer.
• Xuanyuan Lü ordered his followers to form an array, and bronze pillars rose to block Chen Changqing’s hammer strike.
• The formation tightened around Chen Changqing as Law Chains gathered into a net and the Heavenly Dao’s force of confinement locked onto him.

Chen Changqing resisted the Xuanyuan Clan's First Branch and broke the Heavenly Punishment Evil-Slaying Array with the Haotian Hammer. Xuanyuan Lü and the other cultivators controlling the formation were injured when its pillars and runes shattered.

• Xuanyuan Lü warned Chen Changqing to surrender, but Chen Changqing refused and denied that the formation could trap him.
• Xuanyuan Lü and the others used the array's first transformation, Spirit-Sealing Pulse-Locking, but Chen Changqing shattered the Law Chains faster than they could reform.
• Xuanyuan Lü launched the second transformation, Law Blade Evil-Slaying, and sent an enormous silver blade down at Chen Changqing.
• Chen Changqing gathered eighteen strikes of the Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique and smashed the silver blade apart with the Haotian Hammer.
• Chen Changqing's hammer force shattered the formation's pillars and runes, causing Xuanyuan Lü and the other cultivators controlling it to spit blood.

Chen Changqing shattered Xuanyuan Lü’s Heavenly Punishment Evil-Slaying Array and argued that laws should protect what matters rather than obstruct progress. With only Chen Changqing and Xuanyuan Long left in the Battle Realm, the Xuanyuan Clan watched in anticipation of their coming match.

• Chen Changqing broke the Heavenly Punishment Evil-Slaying Array with a single hammer strike, leaving Xuanyuan Lü stunned by his words about laws and shackles.
• The Xuanyuan Clan members realized Chen Changqing had defeated participants from six branches, and Xuanyuan Ao marveled that he seemed not to need rest or to have fought at full strength.
• Xuanyuan Ao recalled that Chen Changqing came from Shu Mountain Sacred Land and excelled at sword techniques and spells.
• Xuanyuan Yun worried about Chen Changqing facing Xuanyuan Long, but Xuanyuan Xiaoyu insisted he would win and urged her mother to trust him unconditionally.
• Xuanyuan Tian praised Chen Changqing’s strength and anticipated the deciding fight between him and Xuanyuan Long.

Chen Changqing faced Xuanyuan Long as the last two contestants remaining in the Battle Realm, with the Xuanyuan Clan expecting Xuanyuan Long to win. Xuanyuan Long offered to let Chen Changqing recover before their fight, but Chen Changqing refused.

• The Battle Realm eliminated Xuanyuan Lü and the others, leaving Chen Changqing as the only contestant he knew remained.
• Xuanyuan Long appeared before Chen Changqing, while the Xuanyuan Clan members outside anticipated that he would defeat the outsider.
• Xuanyuan Xiaoyu hoped Chen Changqing would beat Xuanyuan Long and secure first place for the Ninth Branch.
• Xuanyuan Long taunted Chen Changqing and said he had wanted to test whether the rumors about his strength were true.
• Xuanyuan Long offered to wait while Chen Changqing recovered, but Chen Changqing said he did not need to recover to fight him.

Chen Changqing refused Xuanyuan Long’s offer to recover and taunted him before Xuanyuan Long revealed his Mid Tribulation Transcendence cultivation. Chen Changqing met the pressure with the Haotian Hammer, and Xuanyuan Long prepared to show that he also possessed an Immortal Artifact.

• The Xuanyuan Clan members and Xuanyuan Tian condemned Chen Changqing for refusing Xuanyuan Long’s offer to recover.
• Xuanyuan Long warned Chen Changqing not to make excuses after losing, but Chen Changqing calmly said Xuanyuan Long still could not defeat him.
• Xuanyuan Long unleashed the aura of a Mid Tribulation Transcendence cultivator, shocking the Xuanyuan Clan and worrying Xuanyuan Yun and Xuanyuan Xiaoyu.
• Chen Changqing raised the Haotian Hammer and blocked Xuanyuan Long’s aura with his own, making Xuanyuan Long remark that he was not the only one with an Immortal Artifact.

Xuanyuan Long revealed the Universe Spear, a genuine Immortal Artifact, and challenged Chen Changqing with it. Their first clash ended with both fighters blasted backward, and Xuanyuan Long renewed his attack.

• Xuanyuan Long summoned the Universe Spear and announced he would show Chen Changqing the might of his immortal inheritance.
• Xuanyuan Clan members and Xuanyuan Tian reacted with surprise to Xuanyuan Long's Immortal Artifact, while Xuanyuan Yun and Xuanyuan Xiaoyu worried about Chen Changqing.
• Chen Changqing unleashed the Haotian Hammer with the Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique and struck at Xuanyuan Long.
• Xuanyuan Long countered with the Immortal Spear Art, Star Plucking, and the two Immortal Artifacts collided in a tremendous explosion.
• Chen Changqing and Xuanyuan Long were both driven backward, then Xuanyuan Long charged at Chen Changqing again.

Chen Changqing faced Xuanyuan Long’s Immortal Spear Art and let the devastating follow-up strike hit him, relying on his powerful body to endure it. He remained unharmed, leaving Xuanyuan Long and the Xuanyuan Clan astonished.

• Xuanyuan Long attacked Chen Changqing with the Immortal Spear Art’s Moon Chaser, whose shattered spear radiance turned into countless Ice Crystal Spear Qi.
• Chen Changqing allowed the Ice Crystal Spear Qi to strike him as the Xuanyuan Clan spectators expected him to be defeated.
• Xuanyuan Long believed his attack had severely wounded or killed Chen Changqing, but the dust cleared to reveal Chen Changqing standing unscathed.
• Xuanyuan Xiaoyu rejoiced at Chen Changqing’s safety, while Xuanyuan Tian wondered how his physical strength had withstood the attack.
• Chen Changqing remained calm, protected by the body he had refined with the Primordial Nine-Turn Body Refining Technique to the strength of a high-grade spirit treasure.

Chen Changqing and Xuanyuan Long resumed their fierce battle, and Xuanyuan Long gained the upper hand by exploiting the limits of Chen Changqing’s hammer technique. Chen Changqing then summoned an identical avatar wielding the Heavenly Thunder Sword, revealing the sword-path power Xuanyuan Long had challenged him to show.

• Chen Changqing told Xuanyuan Long that he had blocked the Universe Spear with his physical strength, then provoked him to use stronger techniques.
• Chen Changqing and Xuanyuan Long exchanged over a hundred blows, but Xuanyuan Long gradually suppressed him with the Immortal Spear Art and sent him flying with a thrust.
• Members of the Xuanyuan Clan believed Chen Changqing was nearing defeat, while Xuanyuan Yun and Xuanyuan Xiaoyu watched with concern.
• Chen Changqing told Xuanyuan Long the fight had only just begun and agreed to demonstrate the sword path of the Shu Mountain Sacred Land.
• Chen Changqing activated the Invincible Avatar Technique, summoning an identical avatar that manifested the Heavenly Thunder Sword and released terrifying Sword Intent.

Chen Changqing revealed a clone wielding the Immortal Artifact Heavenly Thunder Sword, stunning the Xuanyuan Clan as he prepared to attack Xuanyuan Long with sword and hammer together. Xuanyuan Long activated Starry Protection to defend himself against the incoming strikes.

• Xuanyuan Long and the onlookers were stunned when Chen Changqing's clone appeared with the Immortal Artifact Heavenly Thunder Sword.
• Xuanyuan Ao realized Chen Changqing had held back during their earlier fight, while Xuanyuan Yun and Xuanyuan Xiaoyu marveled at his hidden strength and artifacts.
• Chen Changqing taunted Xuanyuan Long and declared he would demonstrate the sword dao of Shu Mountain Sacred Land.
• Chen Changqing's clone launched the Immortal Execution Sword Technique's first form, Spirit Slaying, while Chen Changqing attacked with the Haotian Hammer and Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique.
• Xuanyuan Long urgently invoked the Immortal Dao Secret Art, Starry Protection, as starlight erupted from his Universe Spear and acupoints.

Chen Changqing and his clone overwhelmed Xuanyuan Long with their combined attacks, leaving the spectators stunned by his strength. As Xuanyuan Long recovered, the clone unleashed another Immortal Execution Sword Technique strike while Chen Changqing attacked with the Haotian Hammer.

• Xuanyuan Long’s Star River Circulation collided with Chen Changqing and his clone’s attacks, but the clone’s Sword Qi pierced through and sent him flying.
• The spectators, including Xuanyuan Ao, Xuanyuan Yun, Xuanyuan Xiaoyu, and Xuanyuan Tian, reacted with shock to Chen Changqing’s strength and two Immortal Artifacts.
• Chen Changqing recognized the power of Xuanyuan Long’s Immortal Spear Art and immortal spiritual energy, but judged the technique insufficient to defeat him.
• Chen Changqing’s clone used the second form of the Immortal Execution Sword Technique, Immortal Slaughter, and brought down a lightning-wreathed blade as Chen Changqing swung the Haotian Hammer.