Chapter Summaries

Chen Changqing killed True Person Mu and the Black Wood Sect forces attacking the Flying Cloud Sect, then took Zhao Wuji to destroy the Black Wood Sect at its home. He left Black Wood Cliff and everyone remaining there erased by a single punch.

• Chen Changqing used the Heavenly Thunder Sword to kill True Person Mu and hundreds of Black Wood Sect cultivators in one strike.
• Zhao Wuji and the surviving Flying Cloud Sect disciples thanked Chen Changqing, who said he would eliminate the Black Wood Sect as well.
• Chen Changqing sent the two disciples back to watch over the little girl and used spatial power to take Zhao Wuji to Black Wood Cliff.
• Chen Changqing surveyed the Black Wood Sect and learned that over a thousand disciples remained behind, protected by a weakened array.
• Chen Changqing struck Black Wood Cliff with the Heaven-Collapsing Style, crushing the array, the sect compound, and everyone remaining there.

Chen Changqing destroyed Black Wood Sect, gave Flying Cloud Sect resources to rebuild under his support, and took Li Yuanyuan to Medicine God Valley for safety. There, Hua Yao heard he had arrived with a little girl and mistook Li Yuanyuan for his daughter.

• Chen Changqing obliterated Black Wood Cliff, collected Black Wood Sect's surviving treasures, and gave Zhao Wuji a large share to rebuild Flying Cloud Sect.
• Zhao Wuji returned to Flying Cloud Sect, declared Black Wood Sect destroyed, and told the disciples that Chen Changqing had erased it with one punch.
• Chen Changqing reunited with Li Yuanyuan in Wind Cloud City and decided to take her to Medicine God Valley instead of leaving her in Flying Cloud Sect.
• Chen Changqing brought Li Yuanyuan to Medicine God Valley and asked to see Hua Yao.
• Yao Feng told Hua Yao that Chen Changqing had arrived with a little girl who looked like his daughter, so Hua Yao rushed out to confront him.

Chen Changqing entrusted Li Yuanyuan to Hua Yao at Medicine God Valley before returning to Shu Mountain, where the disciples welcomed him as their First Sequence Holy Son. He then visited his master Chen Yuan, who was astonished that he could no longer discern Chen Changqing's cultivation.

• Hua Yao mistook Li Yuanyuan for a rival until Chen Changqing explained that she was the sole survivor of a massacred village.
• Chen Changqing asked Hua Yao to care for Li Yuanyuan while he attended the Holy Land Grand Tournament, and Hua Yao welcomed the girl as her little sister.
• Hua Yao gave Chen Changqing three Nine-Turn Soul Returning Pills, and he accepted them before leaving Medicine God Valley.
• Chen Changqing returned to Evergreen Peak, where Jian Zhenzi and the Shu Mountain disciples gathered to welcome him back.
• Chen Changqing climbed Heaven Pivot Peak to meet Chen Yuan, who poured him Enlightenment Tea and found his cultivation impossible to fathom.

Chen Changqing told Chen Yuan he could guarantee that Daoist Wu Zhen would break through to the Tribulation Immortal realm. Chen Yuan chose to believe him and brought him to Immortal Burial Cliff, where two elders appeared to block their way.

• Chen Changqing recounted his dealings at the East Sea Dragon Palace and learned that Lu Tian had left to gain experience.
• Chen Yuan explained that the Holy Land Grand Tournament would begin in one month and that its victor might enter the legendary Immortal Path.
• Chen Changqing asked to see Daoist Wu Zhen and declared that he could help his grandmaster become a Tribulation Immortal with absolute certainty.
• After recalling Chen Changqing’s past achievements, Chen Yuan agreed to take him to Daoist Wu Zhen’s secluded cultivation grounds.
• Chen Yuan and Chen Changqing arrived at Immortal Burial Cliff, where two gray-robed elders appeared and blocked their path.

Chen Changqing brought Chen Yuan to meet Daoist Wu Zhen and declared that he could help him become a Tribulation Immortal. He revealed an Undying Divine Medicine, leaving Wu Zhen overwhelmed with hope as he carefully cradled it.

• Sword One and Sword Two initially barred Chen Yuan and Chen Changqing from entering Immortal Burial Cliff, but Daoist Wu Zhen allowed them in.
• Daoist Wu Zhen recognized Chen Changqing's cultivation, completed Primordial Body Refining Art, and Invincible Sword Domain.
• Chen Changqing told Daoist Wu Zhen he was absolutely certain he could help him become a Tribulation Immortal.
• Chen Changqing produced the Undying Divine Medicine, and Daoist Wu Zhen recognized it from ancient Mount Shu records.
• Daoist Wu Zhen laughed with joy, then carefully cradled the Undying Divine Medicine and asked whether Chen Changqing was asking if he was confident.

Daoist Wu Zhen used the Undying Divine Medicine to restore himself and began his Tribulation Immortal tribulation immediately. After he split the first Nine-Colored Divine Lightning with a single stroke of Sword Qi, Mount Shu’s elders gathered to witness the trial and set aside factional concerns.

• Daoist Wu Zhen explained that the Undying Divine Medicine had repaired his Dao wounds, lifespan, and soul, giving him confidence to face the Tribulation Immortal tribulation.
• Daoist Wu Zhen sent Chen Yuan and Chen Changqing outside Immortal Burial Cliff, then began his tribulation inside the sealed cave.
• A terrifying aura darkened the sky, drew spiritual energy toward Immortal Burial Cliff, and summoned a Chaos Tribulation Cloud with a destructive lightning eye.
• Daoist Wu Zhen emerged from the cave and split the descending Nine-Colored Divine Lightning with a stroke of gray Sword Qi.
• Supreme Elders and other Mount Shu cultivators gathered at Immortal Burial Cliff, while the Grand Elder rebuked those focused on factional gains and declared Mount Shu’s glory paramount.

Daoist Wu Zhen endured the Heavenly Dao’s final tribulation strike, but his body shattered and his Dao seemed to vanish. The Undying Divine Medicine revived him in a flawless new body, and he charged into the renewed Thunder Purgatory.

• Daoist Wu Zhen summoned Mount Shu’s swords and formed the Shu Mountain Sword Array to meet the Nirvana Divine Lightning.
• The Immortal Execution Heavenly Sword shattered, and the remaining lightning struck Daoist Wu Zhen, whose body dissolved into specks of light.
• Chen Changqing watched as an emerald light absorbed the scattered energy and grew into the legendary Undying Divine Medicine.
• The Undying Divine Medicine bloomed into a Nine-Colored Lotus, which formed a young Daoist Wu Zhen in a reborn Dao Body.
• The Heavenly Dao gathered an even greater tribulation, and Daoist Wu Zhen challenged it before charging into the Thunder Purgatory.

Wu Zhen broke through to the Tribulation Immortal realm after Chen Changqing supplied the Undying Divine Medicine, transforming Mount Shu’s fortunes and securing Chen Yuan’s lineage. As Wu Zhen prepared to reward Chen Changqing, the Nether Ancestor arrived demanding his death, but Wu Zhen revealed his new power and trapped the intruder.

• Wu Zhen endured the heavenly tribulation, destroyed the Eye of the Heavenly Dao, and became a first-level Tribulation Immortal as Mount Shu’s disciples celebrated.
• Wu Xing and the elders bowed to Wu Zhen, who entrusted Mount Shu to Chen Yuan and thanked Chen Changqing for providing the Undying Divine Medicine.
• Wu Zhen began to promise Chen Changqing a reward, then sensed an intruder from the Nether Sect and warned that the sect was spying on Mount Shu.
• The Nether Ancestor emerged from a spatial rift, accused Chen Changqing of killing the Nether Sect’s Holy Son and stealing its supreme treasure, and threatened to destroy him.
• Wu Zhen appeared before the Nether Ancestor with Chen Yuan and Chen Changqing, revealed that he was a genuine Tribulation Immortal, and sealed the Nether Ancestor in place.

Daoist Wu Zhen suppressed Nether Ancestor after ascending to Tribulation Immortal, and Chen Changqing asked to kill the wounded foe himself to temper his cultivation and gain AFK Points. After praising Chen Changqing and offering him any reward, Daoist Wu Zhen heard him humbly refuse to claim credit.

• Daoist Wu Zhen revealed his Tribulation Immortal power and immobilized Nether Ancestor while explaining the Nether Ancestor's flawed Dao.
• Daoist Wu Zhen crushed Nether Ancestor's body after learning that Nether Ancestor had come to Mount Shu over the death of the Nether Sect's Holy Son and the loss of its treasure.
• Chen Changqing asked Daoist Wu Zhen to leave Nether Ancestor's soul to him so he could temper his sword heart and Dao foundation.
• Daoist Wu Zhen released Nether Ancestor, and Chen Changqing killed his fleeing soul with Heaven-Slaying, earning three million AFK Points.
• Daoist Wu Zhen praised Chen Changqing and offered him any reward, but Chen Changqing declined to claim credit.

After refusing a personal reward, Chen Changqing received status and privileges equal to Mount Shu’s Sect Master and learned that the upcoming competition among the Ten Great Sacred Lands would decide who entered the Ancient Immortal Court Ruins. He returned to Evergreen Peak, where Liu Ruyan arrived from the Maple Leaf Dynasty and reunited with him.

• Chen Changqing refused Daoist Wu Zhen’s offer of a reward, so Wu Zhen decreed that Chen Changqing would hold status equal to the Sect Master and freely access Mount Shu’s resources and forbidden grounds.
• Daoist Wu Zhen told Chen Changqing that the winner of the coming competition among the Ten Great Sacred Lands would receive a key to the Ancient Immortal Court Ruins, and Chen Changqing vowed to take first place.
• Chen Changqing returned to Evergreen Peak, praised his followers’ progress, and gave them magical treasures and pills to prepare for the competition.
• Liu Ruyan arrived at Evergreen Peak, and her Tribulation Transcendence pressure drove back the disciples who mistook her teasing greeting for an insult to Chen Changqing.
• Chen Changqing greeted Liu Ruyan, asked whether she had settled matters in the Maple Leaf Dynasty, and sent the shaken crowd away.

Liu Ruyan visited Chen Changqing on Evergreen Peak, bringing Liu Ye’s warning that hidden powers were watching him ahead of the Ten Great Sacred Lands competition. When Wangcai’s bone tablet summoned it to aid its Heavenly Demon Clan kin and warned of the Demon Emperor Palace, Chen Changqing agreed to go with it, with Liu Ruyan joining them.

• Chen Changqing dismissed the Evergreen Peak disciples and welcomed Liu Ruyan, who privately embraced him and chided him for staying away.
• Liu Ruyan relayed Liu Ye’s warning that the competition was no ordinary contest and that hidden powers would act when the key to the Immortal Court Ruins appeared.
• Wangcai revealed that its bone tablet had received a summons from its Heavenly Demon Clan kin, and Chen Changqing agreed to accompany it southwest with Liu Ruyan.
• The bone tablet warned the Heavenly Demon Clan to beware the Demon Emperor Palace’s pursuit, which Liu Ruyan identified as a powerful alliance of Demon Race clans.
• Chen Changqing told Chen Yuan about the summons, and Chen Yuan let him leave after ordering him to return before the competition and not hold back if the Demon Emperor Palace attacked.

Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan traveled with Wangcai into Demon Race territory, following a bone token to Myriad Demon City. At the city gates, Liu Ruyan struck a guard captain who tried to force Wangcai to wear a Spirit-Restricting Ring, and the other guards moved to attack them.

• Chen Changqing received permission from Chen Yuan to leave Mount Shu and set off with Liu Ruyan on Wangcai's true form.
• Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan used a teleportation array to reach Ten Thousand Demon Ridge, where Wangcai followed the bone token deeper into Demon Race territory.
• After two days of travel, the group reached Myriad Demon City and approached its gates.
• A wolf demon guard captain demanded three spirit stones and tried to make Wangcai wear a Spirit-Restricting Ring.
• Liu Ruyan slapped the guard captain into the city wall, prompting the remaining wolf demon soldiers to surround the group.

Chen Changqing subdued the guards at Myriad Demon City's gates and secured a top-grade guest token for the Myriad Demon Auction. Inside the city, he suspected Wangcai's missing clansman was being held as an auction item.

• Liu Ruyan struck Captain Wolf Nine, and Chen Changqing's overwhelming pressure forced the guards and everyone at the gates to kneel.
• The bull-demon steward apologized, promised to punish the guards, and gave Chen Changqing a top-grade guest token for the auction three days later.
• The steward led Chen Changqing, Liu Ruyan, and Wangcai into Myriad Demon City before leaving them on its bustling main road.
• Wangcai could no longer sense its clansman's bloodline after entering the city, and Chen Changqing concluded the clansman might be imprisoned or hidden from detection.
• Chen Changqing connected the missing summons to the auction's special-bloodline captives and suspected Wangcai's clansman was among its items.

Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan arrived in Myriad Demon City with Wangcai and planned to attend the upcoming auction and rescue Wangcai’s clansman. When Long Feiyu of the Ancient Dragon Clan attacked them over Chen Changqing’s killing of Long Tian, Chen Changqing killed him and challenged the elder who intervened.

• Chen Changqing reassured Wangcai that he would rescue his clansman at the assembly in three days, then took Wangcai and Liu Ruyan to stay at Myriad Demon Tower.
• The fox-eared maid warned Chen Changqing that people from the Ancient Dragon Clan had come looking for him, but Long Feiyu and his attendants broke into the room before he could refuse them.
• Long Feiyu threatened Chen Changqing over Long Tian’s death, and Liu Ruyan stepped forward to defend him.
• Chen Changqing immobilized Long Feiyu and destroyed his body with one finger, then erased his Primordial Spirit as a hidden Ancient Dragon Clan elder attacked.
• Chen Changqing’s Invincible Avatar Technique punched away the elder’s attack and the roof, after which Chen Changqing challenged the elder to come die as well.

Chen Changqing and his companions clashed with the Ancient Dragon Clan in Myriad Demon City, where law-enforcement chief Niu Qingtian intervened and drove the clan away. Suspecting the Demon Emperor Palace held Wangcai’s clansmen, Chen Changqing went to Myriad Treasure Tower to seek answers and was summoned to meet its steward.

• Long Xing attacked Chen Changqing, but Niu Qingtian appeared and slapped the Ancient Dragon Clan elder into the street after Long Xing challenged Myriad Demon City’s authority.
• Long Feiyu threatened Chen Changqing before leaving with Long Xing and their attendants, while Niu Qingtian warned that the Ancient Dragon Clan would seek revenge outside the city.
• Hu Yue moved Chen Changqing, Liu Ruyan, and Wangcai to a better room, where Chen Changqing concluded that the Demon Emperor Palace might hold Wangcai’s clansmen.
• Chen Changqing decided to visit Myriad Treasure Tower immediately and had Hu Yue lead him and his companions there.
• A maid welcomed them on behalf of her master, and Chen Changqing followed her alone to the top floor of Myriad Treasure Tower.

Chen Changqing learned that a Heavenly Demon descendant, who was also a Heavenly Demon Young Master, would be auctioned in three days, and he vowed to rescue Wangcai’s clansman despite the Demon Emperor Palace’s interest. As Chen Changqing examined a Purple Gold VIP Token, it suddenly trembled under his divine sense.

• Chen Changqing met Hu Xian'er, who revealed that Myriad Treasure Tower would auction a captured Heavenly Demon descendant from Black Wind Ridge in three days.
• Hu Xian'er warned that the Ancient Dragon Clan, the Golden Winged Peng Clan, the Heaven Swallowing Python Clan, and Demon Emperor Palace’s young kings were interested in the Heavenly Demon, and disclosed that he bore a bone talisman naming him Heavenly Demon Young Master.
• Chen Changqing told Wangcai and Liu Ruyan about the auction, and Wangcai said he wanted to save his clansman.
• Chen Changqing promised to rescue Wangcai’s clansman, while Liu Ruyan pledged to go with him and the group prepared to wait for the auction.
• Chen Changqing sent his divine sense into the Purple Gold VIP Token, which suddenly trembled violently.

After discovering that a captured Heavenly Demon descendant was listed for sale, Chen Changqing vowed to buy him back at the Ten Thousand Demons Auction. He entered Myriad Treasure Tower with a Purple Gold VIP Token and faced Long Xing's hostile attention as the auction began.

• Chen Changqing found the Heavenly Demon descendant listed as an auction item and told Wangcai and Liu Ruyan he would buy him back or overturn the auction.
• Chen Changqing, Liu Ruyan, and Wangcai waited three days as powerful Demon Race clans gathered in Myriad Demon City.
• Chen Changqing showed his Purple Gold VIP Token to Commander Xiong Da, who apologized and escorted the group to a private box.
• Chen Changqing spotted Long Xing in the Heaven No. 1 private box and blocked his hostile divine sense with the room's restriction.
• The auction hall lights dimmed, and a pillar of light illuminated the central platform as the auction began.

At the Myriad Demon Auction, Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan watched as rare treasures sparked fierce bidding while Wangcai sensed its missing clansman nearby. The twentieth item proved to be a captive Heavenly Demon girl with Wangcai’s golden eyes, and the auction began with a one-million-spirit-stone bid as Chen Changqing prepared to act.

• Meiji opened the auction, and the Fire Lion Clan won an exquisite-grade Tribulation Transcendence Pill for five million three hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones.
• The Golden Winged Peng Clan outbid Long Xing for the Star-Shattering Spear, provoking his fury.
• Chen Changqing waited for auction item seventy-three while Wangcai sensed its blood-related clansman growing closer and weaker.
• Meiji unveiled a chained young Heavenly Demon girl, and Wangcai recognized her as the clansman it had been searching for.
• Meiji described the girl as a prize for devouring, bloodline refinement, or other uses and set her starting bid at one million top-grade spirit stones.

Chen Changqing challenged the Demon Emperor Palace’s claim to the Heavenly Demon girl by bidding ten million supreme-grade spirit stones, then effortlessly deflected Young Master Chiyan’s attack. He raised his bid to eleven million and threatened to add another million for every word Chiyan spoke, leaving the auction hall in an uproar.

• The Heavenly Fox Queen, Long Xing, the Golden Winged Peng Clan, and the Heaven Swallowing Python Clan bid against one another for the Heavenly Demon girl, pushing the price past five million supreme-grade spirit stones.
• When Long Xing’s bid of five million five hundred thousand was about to win, the Third Hall of the Demon Emperor Palace declared that it would take the girl.
• Chen Changqing entered a bid of ten million, then taunted Young Master Chiyan with a message telling him to keep quiet if he had no money.
• Young Master Chiyan attacked Chen Changqing’s private room with a flaming lion head, but Chen Changqing dissolved the attack with a casual wave.
• Chen Changqing raised his bid to eleven million and declared that the extra million was to buy Chiyan’s silence, threatening to add another million if Chiyan spoke again.

Chen Changqing outbid Young Master Chiyan for the Heavenly Demon Girl, then the auction revealed a key to the legendary Demon Immortal Treasure. The bidding for the key began, setting up a new contest among the great forces.

• Young Master Chiyan bid thirty million supreme-grade spirit stones, but Chen Changqing answered with thirty-one million and mocked him, leaving him defeated and humiliated.
• Meiji sold the Heavenly Demon Girl to Chen Changqing, and the attendants delivered her cage to his private room.
• Meiji announced the final auction item, and Myriad Treasure Tower elders unsealed an ancient bronze key from a sandalwood box.
• Meiji revealed that the key was one of three needed to enter the Heaven Swallowing Demon Immortal's Secret Realm and compete for his inheritance.
• Meiji opened bidding for the key at ten million top-grade spirit stones, and the assembled forces prepared to compete.