Chapter Summaries

Chen Changqing bid thirty million supreme-grade spirit stones for the Bronze Key to the Heaven Swallowing Demon Immortal’s inheritance, repeatedly outbidding Elder Long Xing and the Heavenly Fox Queen. Young Master Chiyan accused him of malicious bidding and demanded verification of his assets, forcing Myriad Treasure Tower’s elders to respond.

• The Heaven Swallowing Python Clan, the Golden Winged Peng Clan, the Heavenly Fox Queen, and Elder Long Xing raised bids for the Bronze Key while Young Master Chiyan held back on his elder’s advice.
• Liu Ruyan explained the Heaven Swallowing Demon Immortal’s power, and Chen Changqing considered the inheritance’s value to Wangcai, whose bloodline resonated with the key.
• Chen Changqing bid twenty million, then repeatedly outbid Elder Long Xing by one million at a time, before raising the price to thirty million when the Heavenly Fox Queen offered twenty-nine million.
• Young Master Chiyan accused Chen Changqing of bidding maliciously and demanded that Myriad Treasure Tower verify his funds, while Elder Long Xing joined the protest.
• A green-robed Myriad Treasure Tower elder stepped forward and silenced the uproar.

Chen Changqing allowed Myriad Treasure Tower to verify his wealth and won his wager against Young Master Chiyan. After Qing Xuan declared his resources unfathomable, Chiyan faced the demand to sever an arm and kneel in apology, while his elder urged him to accept the loss and live to reclaim his dignity.

• Chen Changqing agreed to the funds verification and wagered that Young Master Chiyan would sever an arm and kneel if his wealth proved sufficient.
• Young Master Chiyan accepted the wager, and Qing Xuan entered Chen Changqing's room to inspect five storage rings.
• Qing Xuan found vast stores of spirit stones and treasures in the rings, then declared Chen Changqing's financial resources unfathomable.
• Qing Xuan relayed Chen Changqing's demand that Young Master Chiyan fulfill the wager, leaving Chiyan pale and devastated.
• The gray-robed old man urged Young Master Chiyan to accept losing an arm and reclaim his dignity through strength later.

Young Master Chiyan severed his arm and knelt to fulfill his wager, then fled as Chen Changqing won the Bronze Key. After Chen Changqing freed Xiao Jiu, Wangcai awakened the Heavenly Demon Token, and Xiao Jiu recognized him as the Heavenly Demon clan’s young master.

• Young Master Chiyan cut off his left arm, knelt before Myriad Demon City, and left Myriad Treasure Tower with the gray-robed elder.
• Meiji sold the Bronze Key to Chen Changqing’s Heaven Rank No. 3 private room for thirty million supreme-grade spirit stones.
• Chen Changqing dissolved the Black Iron cage’s seals, and Wangcai helped Xiao Jiu restore her demon power so she could break her shackles.
• Chen Changqing introduced himself and Wangcai to Xiao Jiu after she thanked him for saving her.
• The Heavenly Demon Token emerged from Xiao Jiu’s chest and hovered over Wangcai, bathing him in golden light.
• Xiao Jiu explained the token’s significance, then knelt and addressed Wangcai as the Heavenly Demon clan’s young master.

Wangcai awakened its Heavenly Demon bloodline and left with Xiao Jiu to inherit its position, while Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan departed Myriad Treasure Tower. Outside, Blood Fiend Old Devil and the Blood God Sect trapped them for the Demon Immortal Key, but Chen Changqing effortlessly shattered Blood Fiend Old Devil’s attack and faced him down.

• Xiao Jiu recognized Wangcai as the Heavenly Demon clan’s young master, and Chen Changqing agreed that Wangcai should return with her to inherit its position.
• Xiao Jiu opened a golden portal, and Wangcai entered it to leave with her for the Heavenly Demon clan’s Secret Realm.
• Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan sensed hostile cultivators waiting around Myriad Treasure Tower and walked out toward the city gate.
• Blood Fiend Old Devil and three Demon King-level experts trapped Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan inside the Blood Sea Imprisoning Heaven Formation and demanded the Demon Immortal Key and Chen Changqing’s storage treasure.
• Chen Changqing destroyed Blood Fiend Old Devil’s blood-colored Ghost Claw with a casual sword-finger motion and warned that he had killed Blood God Sect members before.

Chen Changqing annihilated Blood Fiend Old Devil and the rest of the Blood God Sect squad, then faced a coalition of Demon Race powers demanding the Demon Immortal Key. He froze them all with his Invincible Sword Domain and began taking the Golden Winged Peng King's storage ring, but an unknown voice ordered him to stop.

• Chen Changqing drained Blood Fiend Old Devil of his power and reduced him to ash in three breaths.
• Chen Changqing erased the three fleeing Demon Kings and shattered the Blood Sea Imprisoning Heaven Formation with a flick of his finger.
• The Golden Winged Peng King arrived with experts from several royal clans, surrounded Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan, and demanded the Demon Immortal Key.
• Chen Changqing demanded a toll from the assembled Demon Race powers, then unleashed the Invincible Sword Domain and imprisoned them in place.
• Chen Changqing reached for the Golden Winged Peng King's storage ring, but an unknown voice ordered him to stop.

The Heavenly Demon City Lord intervened to stop Chen Changqing’s clash with the Demon Race clans and punished the Golden Winged Peng King and the others for breaking Myriad Demon City’s rules. Recognizing Chen Changqing as Wu Zhen’s granddisciple, he let the conflict end with a warning and the clans’ retreat.

• The Heavenly Demon City Lord appeared and shattered Chen Changqing’s Invincible Sword Domain, then forced the Golden Winged Peng King, Elder Long Xing, and the other demons to kneel.
• The City Lord rebuked the Golden Winged Peng King for twisting the truth about the Blood God Sect’s ambush and punished him for breaking Myriad Demon City’s rules.
• Chen Changqing resisted the City Lord’s Heavenly Monarch pressure and revealed that Wu Zhen was his grandmaster.
• The City Lord laughed at Chen Changqing’s greed, ordered the demons to leave, and warned the clans not to hunt Myriad Treasure Tower guests again.
• Chen Changqing asked the departing Golden Winged Peng King to leave behind his storage ring, but the king fled without handing it over.

Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan visited the Heavenly Demon City Lord, who revealed his old friendship with Daoist Wu Zhen and explained the path of Tribulation Immortals. The City Lord acknowledged Chen Changqing’s Demon Immortal Token and urged him to keep it safe and visit its destination if he got the chance.

• The Heavenly Demon City Lord brought Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan through a spatial gateway to his isolated residence in the clouds, where an ancient stele briefly displayed the words “The Heavenly Demon Returns.”
• Chen Changqing recognized a Heavenly Demon aura from the stele, and the City Lord told him he had known his grandmaster, Wu Zhen, for many years.
• Chen Changqing drank a cup of Enlightenment Tea in one gulp and rapidly reforged his Invincible Sword Domain, surprising the Heavenly Demon City Lord.
• Chen Changqing told the City Lord that Wu Zhen had become a Tribulation Immortal, and the City Lord explained the paths of ascension and Tribulation Immortality, including the nine heavenly tribulations.
• The Heavenly Demon City Lord said he had little interest in Chen Changqing’s Demon Immortal Token and advised him to keep it safe and visit its destination for possible benefits.

Chen Changqing received a token from the Lord of Heavenly Demon City and learned that only cultivators below the True Lord realm could enter the Demon Immortal Treasure’s ancestral land. After leaving Myriad Demon City, he met Hu Xian'er, who showed him a painting of a dark crimson herb as she began to ask for his help.

• The Lord of Heavenly Demon City gave Chen Changqing a token that let him travel freely through Heavenly Demon City and explained that the Demon Immortal Treasure’s final entrance remained unopened.
• The Lord of Heavenly Demon City told Chen Changqing that the ancestral land rejected cultivators at the True Lord realm and above, then sent Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan through a spatial portal to Myriad Demon City.
• Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan left the city, and Chen Changqing checked his AFK Points while considering how to strengthen his Invincible Sword Domain.
• A fox woman summoned Chen Changqing to meet Hu Xian'er at the Myriad Treasure Tower, and he agreed to hear her request.
• Hu Xian'er congratulated Chen Changqing on obtaining the Demon Immortal Key and revealed a painting of a dark crimson herb.

Hu Xian'er asked Chen Changqing to find Blood Soul Grass in the Demon Immortal Treasure to restore her mother's scattered Primordial Spirit, and the Demon Immortal Key confirmed the herb was there. Chen Changqing left the Myriad Treasure Tower despite warnings about the royal clans waiting outside Myriad Demon City, while Hu Xian'er secretly sent a True Lord to protect him.

• Hu Xian'er offered Chen Changqing an Immortal Artifact for complete Blood Soul Grass and explained that it could reunite the seven pieces of her mother's Primordial Spirit.
• Chen Changqing agreed to search for the herb, and the Primordial Spirit Jade reacted to his Demon Immortal Key, confirming Blood Soul Grass was in the treasure.
• Hu Xian'er gave Chen Changqing instructions for harvesting the herb and warned him that soul beasts guarded it and could be powerful enough to kill True Lords.
• Hu Xian'er told Chen Changqing that the Golden Winged Peng Clan, the Ancient Dragon Clan, and the Heaven Swallowing Python Clan had men waiting outside the city, but he refused to travel with her caravan.
• Hu Xian'er gave Chen Changqing a talisman that could block one True Lord's strike, then asked her hidden elder to follow him and help if he encountered danger.

Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan left Myriad Demon City, only to be ambushed by a huge force of demon clans seeking the Demon Immortal Key and his treasures. Chen Changqing began cutting through the attackers with the Heavenly Thunder Sword, and the battle was still underway when he killed the Heaven Swallowing Python Clan's old woman.

• The demon soldiers let Chen Changqing leave Myriad Demon City after recognizing his Heavenly Demon Token.
• Chen Changqing gave Liu Ruyan Hu Xian'er's protective talisman and called out the demons waiting along the ancient road.
• Young Master Chiyan rallied more than a hundred demons to attack Chen Changqing and seize the Demon Immortal Key and his treasures.
• Chen Changqing killed more than a dozen Demon Kings with one sword strike and wounded two Tribulation Transcendence Realm elders with another.
• Chen Changqing cut off the Golden Winged Peng Clan elder's wing and crushed the Heaven Swallowing Python Clan old woman's Primordial Spirit.

Chen Changqing fought Young Master Chiyan’s forces outside the city and faced Blackscale True Lord after Young Master Chiyan summoned him. Though Blackscale True Lord’s laws suppressed Chen Changqing’s sword domain, Chen Changqing killed an Ancient Dragon Clan expert who tried to take Liu Ruyan hostage.

• Chen Changqing cut down more than a dozen Demon Kings, while the Heavenly Demon City Lord watched and chose not to intervene.
• Young Master Chiyan summoned Blackscale True Lord with a black Jade Talisman, and the True Lord demanded that Chen Changqing kneel and die.
• Chen Changqing used three avatars and four Immortal Artifacts to break most of Blackscale True Lord’s attack, then struck him hard enough to crack his armor.
• Blackscale True Lord invoked his laws to suppress Chen Changqing’s Invincible Sword Domain, and Young Master Chiyan urged the demons to attack together.
• An Ancient Dragon Clan expert tried to seize Liu Ruyan as a hostage, but Chen Changqing killed him with a streak of sword light.

Chen Changqing fought Blackscale True Lord and broke his strongest attack, then wounded him severely in close combat. The chapter left the demons staring in silence at a True Lord gravely injured by a Tribulation Transcendence cultivator.

• Blackscale True Lord drew on the surrounding demonic energy and summoned the Myriad-Scale Mountain to crush Chen Changqing.
• Chen Changqing and his three incarnations battered the mountain, then combined their fist techniques to split it apart and make Blackscale True Lord fall from the sky.
• Chen Changqing pursued Blackscale True Lord and pierced his defenses with the Dragon-Patterned Sky-Splitting Spear while his zither incarnation disrupted the True Lord's Primordial Spirit.
• Chen Changqing shattered Blackscale True Lord's flood-dragon scales and severed one of his arms with the Heavenly Thunder Sword.
• Chen Changqing contracted the Invincible Sword Domain, forcing Blackscale True Lord out of the debris as the demons fell silent at his grievous injuries.

Chen Changqing killed Blackscale True Lord after surviving his reverse-scale power and soul-devouring array, then confronted Young Master Chiyan. Young Master Chiyan offered his clan’s wealth to save his life, but Chen Changqing refused the amount as too little.

• Blackscale True Lord burned his life-bound reverse scale, healed his wounds, and trapped Chen Changqing in the Black Flood Dragon Soul-Devouring Array.
• Chen Changqing used the Immortal-Burying Zither to damage Blackscale True Lord and break the array, then struck him with the Three Extremes Origin Seal and Immortal Execution.
• Chen Changqing killed Blackscale True Lord, took his storage ring, and turned his sword toward Young Master Chiyan.
• Young Master Chiyan warned Chen Changqing about the Chi Yan Demon Clan, then offered his storage ring and clan resources to settle matters.
• Chen Changqing rejected Young Master Chiyan’s offer as too little.

Chen Changqing pretended to spare Young Master Chiyan after taking his storage ring, then killed him as he fled and turned on the remaining Demon Race forces. He slaughtered the experts of the Golden Winged Peng Clan, Ancient Dragon Clan, and Heaven Swallowing Python Clan while Liu Ruyan watched, leaving no one able to escape.

• Chen Changqing took Young Master Chiyan's storage ring and told him he could leave, then killed him with the immortal sword as he fled.
• Chen Changqing summoned the Heavenly Thunder Sword and declared that none of the remaining Demon Race experts would escape.
• Chen Changqing used the Invincible Sword Domain and Ten Forms of Sword Annihilation to cut down fleeing Demon Kings.
• Chen Changqing killed a Golden Winged Peng Clan elder, an Ancient Dragon Clan fighter, and a Heaven Swallowing Python Clan elder with his techniques.
• Liu Ruyan watched Chen Changqing slaughter the Demon Race forces and wondered at the strength he had revealed.

After slaughtering the Demon Race experts who ambushed them, Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan traveled through teleportation arrays toward Shu Mountain and stopped in Demon-Suppressing City. At an inn, Chen Changqing learned that Great Thunder Sound Temple planned to challenge Heavenly Sound Temple and seize its followers, prompting him to think of Rujie.

• Chen Changqing collected the fallen cultivators’ storage treasures, then took Liu Ruyan and headed back toward Shu Mountain.
• The Heavenly Demon City Lord watched the battle and reflected that Chen Changqing was even more ruthless than his grandmaster, Wu Zhen.
• Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan used the ancient teleportation array at Blackstone City to reach Demon-Suppressing City.
• At Listening Wind Tower, Liu Ruyan listened to news about tensions between the Great Chu Dynasty and the Ancient Dragon Clan while Chen Changqing calculated his AFK Points.
• Chen Changqing overheard Great Thunder Sound Temple monks boast that they would defeat Heavenly Sound Temple in a Dharma debate and claim its northern followers.
• Chen Changqing stopped moving when he heard of Heavenly Sound Temple and thought of Rujie.

Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan traveled to Heavenly Sound Temple after learning that his friend Rujie was being challenged by Great Thunder Sound Temple. They arrived as Wuchen demanded a Dharma debate whose stakes were the temple’s thirty-six branch temples.

• Chen Changqing overheard monks discussing Rujie’s predicament and decided to go to Heavenly Sound Temple with Liu Ruyan.
• Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan paid to teleport to Brahma Mountain City, then hurried toward the temple while recalling how he had met Rujie during demon extermination.
• Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan reached Heavenly Sound Temple and saw Great Thunder Sound Temple confronting its monks at the mountain gate.
• Wuchen claimed Heavenly Sound Temple was too weak to protect its incense offerings and proposed taking over its thirty-six branch temples if Rujie lost a Dharma debate.
• Rujie accepted Wuchen’s challenge despite recognizing that Great Thunder Sound Temple had chosen its moment while the temple’s strongest protector was unavailable.

Rujie faced Wuchen in a doctrinal debate and a contest of techniques at Heavenly Sound Temple, while Chen Changqing arrived and watched. Wuchen’s Demon-Suppressing Bowl trapped and injured Rujie, who prepared a desperate counterattack by spitting blood onto his prayer beads.

• Wuchen accused Heavenly Sound Temple of taking incense offerings without protecting its believers, but Rujie countered that strength did not justify seizing offerings and defended killing demonic cultivators to save lives.
• Wuchen moved the debate to a contest of techniques and wielded the Demon-Suppressing Bowl, prompting Heavenly Sound Temple’s elders to object to his use of a Quasi-Immortal Artifact.
• Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan arrived, and Chen teased Rujie and Wuchen before telling Rujie to continue the fight without his help.
• Wuchen’s golden rings forced Rujie to the edge of the platform, tightened around his arms, and let the bowl’s chants weaken his Buddha Shadow.
• Rujie refused to admit defeat, said the bowl would be handy for collecting alms, and sprayed blood onto his prayer beads.

Rujie revealed the Tiger-Taming Arhat Inheritance and broke free of Wuchen’s Demon-Suppressing Bowl during their dharma debate. He countered Wuchen’s golden lightning, leaving the battle still underway.

• Wuchen used the Demon-Suppressing Bowl to pin Rujie down while the Great Thunder Sound Temple mocked him, and Chen Changqing refused to intervene.
• Rujie endured the pressure until Chen Changqing’s presence made him fear being mocked for losing, then broke through a barrier within his body and revealed the Arhat tattoo on his back.
• Rujie activated the Tiger-Taming Arhat Inheritance, summoned an Arhat phantom, and shattered the six golden rings restraining him.
• Wuchen launched Thunder Sound Demon Suppression with the Demon-Suppressing Bowl, but Rujie’s giant tiger smashed apart the golden lightning.

Rujie overwhelmed Wuchen in the Dharma debate until Xuan Ku intervened, prompting Chen Changqing to challenge Great Thunder Sound Temple. Chen Changqing forced Xuan Ku back with a sword strike and revealed he had killed Blackscale True Lord, but Xuan Ku chose to continue the confrontation.

• Rujie battered Wuchen and dimmed the Buddhist light of the Demon-Suppressing Bowl until Xuan Ku intervened and accused him of using an evil art.
• Chen Changqing stepped onto the Dharma platform, rejected Xuan Ku's demand to withdraw, and threatened to take lives.
• Chen Changqing blocked Xuan Ku's Buddhist palm with Ten Forms of Sword Annihilation and forced the Half-Step True Lord to retreat half a step.
• Xuan Ku revealed that rumors said Chen Changqing had slain Blackscale True Lord, and Chen Changqing confirmed it to Rujie.
• Xuan Ku and the other Great Thunder Sound Temple elders decided not to retreat, and Xuan Ku drew out his golden prayer beads to face Chen Changqing.

Chen Changqing defeated Xuan Ku and destroyed his Eighteen Thunder Sound Beads after the Great Thunder Sound Temple elder attacked him at the Heavenly Sound Temple. Xuan Ku agreed to withdraw, and Rujie began questioning him about the dispute over the thirty-six branch temples’ incense offerings.

• Xuan Ku used the Eighteen Thunder Sound Beads to trap Chen Changqing and demanded he withdraw from the Heavenly Sound Temple’s affairs.
• Chen Changqing cut through Xuan Ku’s lightning attack, dodged his vajra dharma form, and struck him with the Three Extremes Origin Seal.
• Chen Changqing summoned three avatars, which damaged the vajra while the Immortal-Burying Zither disrupted Xuan Ku’s primordial spirit.
• Chen Changqing shattered the Thunder Sound Beads with his sword, forcing Xuan Ku to kneel and concede defeat.
• Chen Changqing let Rujie question Xuan Ku, who replied that Buddhist disputes over incense offerings had their own rules.