Chapter Summaries

Chen Changqing defeated Zhong Cheng after shattering the Zhong Kui Faxiang summoned from the Evil-Punishing Bureau, then spared Zhong Cheng when he conceded. Nangong Tian entered the arena and challenged Chen Changqing, setting the stage for their decisive battle.

• Chen Changqing countered Zhong Cheng’s Judge Blade techniques and resisted his soul-cleaving strike with his powerful Divine Sense.
• Zhong Cheng invoked his ancestor’s power, summoning Zhong Kui’s Faxiang and gaining late Heavenly Monarch-level strength.
• Chen Changqing combined the Human Emperor Heaven-Suppressing Seal with the Immortal Execution Sword Technique to wound and destroy the Faxiang.
• Chen Changqing spared Zhong Cheng, who conceded, and the Black Armor Ghost Immortal declared Chen Changqing the winner of the third battle.
• Nangong Tian stepped onto the Battle Platform, drew the Yama Emperor Sword, and challenged Chen Changqing to a decisive fight.

Chen Changqing faced Nangong Tian in the Ancestral Land competition’s championship battle, matching the Central Domain prodigy’s ancestral spear with his own Immortal Artifact and powerful techniques. After Chen Changqing knocked Nangong Tian into the battle platform, Nangong Tian rose with killing intent and vowed to end the fight.

• The Black Armor Ghost Immortal closed betting, and the Rakshasa Ghost King and Black Mountain City wagered heavily on Nangong Tian while the Dark Moon Ghost Lord staked three Nether Spirit Stone mines on Chen Changqing.
• Nangong Tian summoned the Nine Netherworlds Heaven-Breaking Spear and challenged Chen Changqing, who answered with the Dragon-Patterned Sky-Splitting Spear.
• Nangong Tian attacked with a powerful thrust, but Chen Changqing blocked it with the Black Tortoise Suppresses the Abyss technique.
• Nangong Tian unleashed Night Parade of a Hundred Ghosts, but Chen Changqing shattered the spear shadows with Mortal Breaking and closed in on him.
• Chen Changqing struck Nangong Tian with Earth Splitter, smashed him into the Battle Platform, and drew blood from his mouth.
• Nangong Tian rose with Slaughtering Will and declared that Chen Changqing had reached his limit.

Nangong Tian released his seal and surged to the Late Heavenly Monarch Stage, but Chen Changqing used the Violence Formula to rise to the Middle Heavenly Monarch Stage and overpower him. After Chen Changqing shattered Nangong Tian’s defenses with a single punch, Nangong Tian lay in a deep pit on the Battle Platform.

• Nangong Tian released the first layer of his Yama Heavenly Seal and unleashed his Late Heavenly Monarch Stage power on Chen Changqing.
• Dark Moon Ghost Lord protested that Nangong Tian had entered the trial with his cultivation suppressed, but the Black Armor Ghost Immortal ruled that his release counted as a breakthrough during battle.
• Chen Changqing activated the Violence Formula and rose from the Late True Lord Stage to the Middle Heavenly Monarch Stage, drawing shocked reactions from the spectators.
• Chen Changqing struck Nangong Tian’s spear aside, then hit him with the third form of the Heavenly Emperor Divine Fist, Reincarnation.
• Chen Changqing shattered Nangong Tian’s Yama Indestructible Body and punched him into a deep pit in the Battle Platform.

Chen Changqing defeated Nangong Tian even after he broke all three seals and unleashed the power of a Half-Step Tribulation Immortal. As Chen Changqing moved to kill him, an unknown attacker intervened to protect the Nangong bloodline.

• Chen Changqing overwhelmed Nangong Tian, who broke his second and third seals and transformed into a ten-zhang demonic body.
• Nangong Tian drew his Yama Ancient Sword and struck Chen Changqing with a massive sword ray.
• Chen Changqing summoned five powerful avatars, and he and the avatars shattered Nangong Tian’s attack and wounded him.
• Chen Changqing defeated Nangong Tian, whose body reverted to normal, and pressed the Immortal Execution Sword to his throat.
• As Chen Changqing prepared to kill Nangong Tian, a tribulation-wreathed hand burst through the Minor World’s boundary and attacked him while an aged voice threatened him.

Chen Changqing killed Nangong Tian in front of the Nangong Family’s Law Hall Grand Elder, then faced the Grand Elder’s enraged attack. As the Tribulation Immortal’s lightning palm bore down, Chen Changqing broke the sword talisman given to him by Daoist Chen Yuan and unleashed Mount Shu’s peerless sword light.

• The Nangong Family’s Grand Elder attacked Chen Changqing with a giant Tribulation Immortal lightning palm, while the Black Armor Ghost Immortal used the Heavenly Gate array to stop the Dark Moon Ghost Lord from intervening.
• Chen Changqing’s five Avatars combined their techniques to hold back the lightning palm long enough for him to behead Nangong Tian and destroy his escaping soul.
• Chen Changqing gained AFK Points, took Nangong Tian’s weapons and Storage Rings, and rose to the top of the competition rankings as the Outer Domain reacted to the kill.
• The Grand Elder burned his Tribulation Immortal Origin, destroyed Chen Changqing’s five Avatars, and drove his enlarged lightning palm toward Chen Changqing.
• Chen Changqing broke the Azure Jade Sword Talisman from Daoist Chen Yuan, releasing a vast azure Sword Light that made the Grand Elder panic and attempt to retreat.

Chen Changqing used a sealed sword strike to sever the Law Hall Grand Elder’s Tribulation Immortal Dharma Body and win the Ancestral Land competition as Dark Moon City’s champion. He returned to Heavenly Gate’s White Jade Plaza, where the defeated cities backed down and the Dark Moon Ghost Lord claimed a massive payout from the betting board.

• Chen Changqing’s Green Lotus Sword Light severed the Law Hall Grand Elder’s giant hand, collapsed the spatial passage, and grievously injured the Grand Elder’s true body.
• Chen Changqing absorbed the Grand Elder’s immortal blood and confirmed that the other competitors were defeated, leaving him alone atop the rankings with 55,600 Points.
• The Dark Moon Ghost Lord challenged the Black Armor Ghost Immortal to announce the champion, and he declared Chen Changqing the winner of the Outer Domain competition.
• Chen Changqing returned to the White Jade Plaza, where the Dark Moon Ghost Lord and First Ghost General greeted him and the other cities’ cultivators recoiled in fear.
• The Dark Moon Ghost Lord demanded payment for her bets, and the Black Armor Ghost Immortal ordered Heavenly Gate to pay the 260 million top-grade Ghost Coins owed to Dark Moon City.
• The Dark Moon Ghost Lord collected the winnings and mocked the Black Mountain deputy city lord and Rakshasa Ghost King for losing their armor and Taiyin Black Iron vein deed.

After winning the Outer Domain tournament, Chen Changqing received Dark Moon City’s rewards and a passage token to the Nine Netherworlds Central Domain, then slaughtered six Nangong enforcers who threatened him. He cultivated in seclusion, advanced to Half-Step Heavenly Monarch, and discovered a blood-written warning that Dark Moon had betrayed them.

• The Rakshasa Ghost King collapsed after losing the Taiyin Black Iron Vein and six million Ghost Coins, while the Dark Moon Ghost Lord rewarded Chen Changqing with the vein and one hundred million top-grade Ghost Coins.
• Zhao Wuji and Lin Xiao congratulated Chen Changqing and gave him rare treasures, while the Black Armor Ghost Immortal presented him with Ten-Thousand-Year Yellow Springs Origin and a Central Domain Passage Gold Token.
• Six Nangong Aristocratic Clan enforcers confronted Chen Changqing, and he bent Nangong Tian’s Yama Ancient Sword before killing all six with his bare hands.
• Chen Changqing returned to the Dark Moon Posthouse, absorbed the Ghost Coins, drank the Yellow Springs Origin, fused four Immortal Artifacts into two stronger weapons, and advanced to Half-Step Heavenly Monarch.
• The five Heaven-Stepping Immortal Emperor Inheritance Tokens pointed toward the Central Domain, and a blood-written message warned Chen Changqing not to enter the teleportation array because Dark Moon had betrayed them.

Chen Changqing uncovered a plot against him, learned that he was the heir to the Yinyue Holy Dynasty, and entered Heavenly Gate’s sabotaged teleportation array using the Fragment of the Creation Jade Disk. He survived the spatial storm but emerged in a sealed starry expanse, where the Nangong Aristocratic Clan’s Grand Elder and two Third-Tribulation Ancestors awaited him.

• Chen Changqing discovered that the bloodstained warning on the Yellow Springs bottle was a trap and killed Dark Moon City’s Second Elder, who had been reporting to Heavenly Gate.
• The Dark Moon Ghost Lord gave Chen Changqing a Nether River Calamity-Crossing Token and an ancient map, then recognized his perfected Heaven-Slaying Sword Drawing Technique and revealed that he was the Yinyue Holy Dynasty’s chosen Holy Lord.
• Yue Wuxia explained that the Nangong Aristocratic Clan had destroyed the Yinyue Holy Dynasty and that its imperial mausoleum lay in Senluo Deathland; Chen Changqing ordered her to seize Rakshasa City’s Taiyin Black Iron vein while he continued to the Central Domain.
• Chen Changqing entered Heavenly Gate’s cross-realm teleportation array, and Black Armor Ghost Immortal triggered the altered coordinates to unleash primordial Spatial Turbulence.
• Chen Changqing used the Fragment of the Creation Jade Disk to withstand the spatial storm, then emerged in a sealed starry expanse facing the one-armed Nangong Grand Elder and two Third-Tribulation Ancestors.

Chen Changqing fought off an ambush by three Tribulation Immortals in the void passage, killing Black Mountain Ancestor and surviving the Replica of Yama's Book of Life and Death. He spent all his AFK Points to break through to the Early Heavenly Monarch Stage, leaving Grand Elder Nangong and Rakshasa Ancestor badly weakened by the backlash.

• Grand Elder Nangong, Rakshasa Ancestor, and Black Mountain Ancestor trapped Chen Changqing in the Nine-Bend Immortal-Severing Grand Formation, but the Fragment of the Creation Jade Disk shielded him from the spatial storms.
• Chen Changqing activated the Violence Formula, summoned five powerful Avatars, and played the Immortal-Burying Melody to break the formation and stun the three Tribulation Immortals.
• Chen Changqing's Avatars shattered Black Mountain Ancestor's demonic coffin and gravely wounded him, then Chen Changqing destroyed his body and Primordial Spirit with the Immortal Execution Sword.
• Rakshasa Ancestor tried to flee, but Grand Elder Nangong joined forces with him to use the Replica of Yama's Book of Life and Death to strip Chen Changqing of his lifespan.
• As the death curse began aging him, Chen Changqing spent all his AFK Points to break through to the Early Heavenly Monarch Stage, destroying the curse and causing the book to injure Grand Elder Nangong and Rakshasa Ancestor through its backlash.

After breaking through to the Heavenly Monarch realm, Chen Changqing defeated the Nangong Family’s allies, captured Grand Elder Nangong, and broke into Guiding Divine City carrying him. Surrounded by the city’s forces, Chen Changqing turned Grand Elder Nangong into a living bomb, kicked him into the plaza, and escaped through a teleportation formation as the explosion began.

• Chen Changqing broke through to the Early Heavenly Monarch Stage, opened his Sword World, killed Black Mountain Ancestor, and grievously wounded Rakshasa Ancestor with the Heaven-Slaying Sword Drawing Technique.
• Chen Changqing caught Grand Elder Nangong with the Chaotic Immortal-Locking Chain, took the Book of Life and Death replica and Judge’s Brush, and shattered the boundary wall into the Central Domain while carrying him.
• Chen Changqing emerged above Guiding Divine City with Grand Elder Nangong, shocking Second Master Nangong and the assembled Nangong Iron Guards and Central Domain experts.
• Second Master Nangong ordered the city’s forces to attack, but Chen Changqing destabilized Grand Elder Nangong’s Three-Tribulation cultivation and made his body swell with explosive power.
• Chen Changqing kicked the self-detonating Grand Elder Nangong into the Nangong Iron Guards, crushed four formation elders with the Human Emperor Heaven-Suppressing Seal, and escaped through the teleportation formation.
• Grand Elder Nangong exploded in the center of Guiding Divine City’s White Jade Plaza.

After escaping Guiding Divine City, Chen Changqing reached Black Wind Ridge and rescued Zhong Cheng from an ambush by Blood-Robed Guards. Zhong Cheng revealed that his family’s rule forced True Lord descendants to survive alone for ten thousand years, leaving Chen Changqing with a glimpse of the danger behind the Zhong Family’s power.

• Chen Changqing gained thirty million AFK Points after Nangong Grand Elder’s self-destruction killed members of the Nangong Family, bringing his balance to thirty million.
• Chen Changqing sensed Zhong Cheng fighting for his life at Duanhun Gorge and rushed to intervene.
• Chen Changqing caught the Death Knell Nails and killed eleven Blood-Robed Guards with one sweep, then killed their leader Blood Butcher after learning Zhong Wanchou had ordered the ambush.
• Chen Changqing asked Zhong Cheng why his own family was hunting him, and Zhong Cheng explained that the Zhong Family exiled members who reached the True Lord Realm and left them to survive alone for ten thousand years.

Chen Changqing agreed to escort Zhong Cheng through Heavenly Wind City in exchange for payment and the Zhong Family’s intelligence network, then revealed the extent of his strength as they reached the city. The five Inheritance Tokens suddenly pointed toward Heavenly Wind City’s tallest pavilion, while Chen Changqing challenged Zhong Wanchou and his forces.

• Zhong Cheng explained that he needed to survive the Zhong Family’s ten-thousand-year trial and reach the Ancestral Land before his elder brother Zhong Wanchou could kill him.
• Zhong Cheng offered Chen Changqing thirty million top-grade Ghost Coins and the Evil-Punishing Bureau’s intelligence network in exchange for an escort through Heavenly Wind City, and Chen Changqing accepted.
• Chen Changqing gave Zhong Cheng a Mysterious Origin Pill, then told him he had killed Nangong Tian and maimed a Nangong Family Law Hall Grand Elder.
• Chen Changqing and Zhong Cheng reached Heavenly Wind City, where Zhong Wanchou and three hundred Zhong Family cultivators waited behind closed gates.
• Zhong Cheng confronted Zhong Wanchou, while a Half-Step Tribulation Immortal elder warned that Zhong Cheng’s poison had been purged and Chen Changqing’s strength was unclear.
• The five Inheritance Tokens pointed toward the tallest pavilion in the City Lord Mansion, and Chen Changqing challenged Zhong Wanchou’s forces to attack him.

Chen Changqing killed Zhong Wanchou’s Blood Armor Guards and elders, but Zhong Wanchou invoked Zhong Kui’s power to enter the One-Tribulation Ghost Immortal realm. Chen Changqing and his Avatars overwhelmed him, and Zhong Wanchou called for Lord Nangong to save him, offering the Primordial Immortal Emperor Token.

• Zhong Wanchou ordered the Blood Sha Immortal-Slaughtering Great Array to attack Chen Changqing and Zhong Cheng.
• Chen Changqing destroyed the array with one punch, killing three hundred Blood Armor Guards and three Heavenly Monarch elders before killing the Half-Step Tribulation Immortal elder.
• Zhong Wanchou invoked Zhong Kui with the Evil-Punishing Orthodox God Jade Seal and ascended to the One-Tribulation Ghost Immortal realm.
• Chen Changqing devoured the dead cultivators’ Essence Blood, advanced to the peak of the Late Heavenly Monarch Stage, and summoned five Avatars.
• Chen Changqing’s Avatars and true body broke Zhong Wanchou’s sword attack and battered his Zhong Kui Faxiang until Zhong Wanchou was gravely wounded.
• Zhong Wanchou crushed a Communication Jade Talisman and begged Lord Nangong to save him, offering him the Primordial Immortal Emperor Token.

Chen Changqing killed Zhong Wanchou and the Nangong Third Elder, then learned that the Nangong Family and Netherworld Palace planned to sacrifice Xiaoqian in Senluo Deathland in seven days. He set out with Zhong Cheng to kill Zhong Wansha and obtain the Zhong Family’s intelligence files on the deathland.

• Chen Changqing killed Zhong Wanchou with the Immortal Execution Sword, leaving ten successors on the Golden Fortune Ranking.
• Chen Changqing recognized the Nangong Third Elder, defeated him with the Dragon-Patterned Sky-Splitting Spear, and took his sixth Heaven-Stepping Immortal Emperor Inheritance Token.
• Chen Changqing forcibly searched the Nangong Third Elder’s soul and learned that the Nangong Family and Netherworld Palace planned a sacrifice in Senluo Deathland to uncover a buried Ghost King.
• Chen Changqing discovered that Xiaoqian had been sent to Senluo Deathland as the sacrifice’s main offering and would have her essence blood and soul drained in seven days.
• Zhong Cheng told Chen Changqing that killing Zhong Wansha would let him claim the Zhong Family young master position and access its intelligence files, so Chen Changqing ordered him to lead the way.

Chen Changqing killed Zhong Wansha and three Netherworld Palace assassins, securing Zhong Cheng’s place among the Zhong Family successors and learning that the Netherworld Palace had infiltrated the family. On the way to find records about Senluo Deathland, Chen Changqing’s inheritance tokens reacted to something inside Tianyuan Giant City’s Great Thousand Auction House, so he entered to retrieve it.

• Chen Changqing and Zhong Cheng reached White Bone Ravine, where Zhong Wansha was about to kill the wounded Zhong Wuming with help from three Netherworld Palace assassins.
• Chen Changqing killed Zhong Wansha and the three assassins, destroyed the Nine Netherworlds Soul-Locking Banner, and discovered from Zhong Wansha’s memories that a Zhong Family supreme elder had conspired with the Netherworld Palace.
• The Golden Fortune Ranking confirmed Zhong Cheng and Zhong Wuming as successors, and Chen Changqing ordered Zhong Cheng to take him to the Zhong Family Ancestral Land for Senluo Deathland records.
• Chen Changqing’s six Heaven-Stepping Immortal Emperor Inheritance Tokens pointed toward the Great Thousand Auction House in Tianyuan Giant City, so he descended there despite Zhong Cheng’s warning.
• Chen Changqing entered the auction house after seeing a wanted notice offering rewards for information about, or the capture of, a white-robed sword cultivator from the Yang Realm.

Chen Changqing killed Zhong Wuming after he betrayed him to the Nangong Family, then subdued their forces and forced the Great Thousand Auction House to welcome him as an honored guest. From Purple-Gold Heaven Box One, he detected a mysterious peachwood box being prepared as the auction’s finale while a sinister young lord watched from the neighboring box.

• Steward Zhao mocked Zhong Cheng and demanded ten million supreme-grade ghost coins per person before letting the group enter the auction house.
• Zhong Wuming betrayed Chen Changqing and Zhong Cheng to the approaching Nangong troops, but Chen Changqing killed him with a single strike, removing his name from the Golden Fortune Ranking.
• Chen Changqing caught the Nangong commander’s spear and slapped him into the city wall, then displayed a hundred million supreme-grade ghost coins and a Nine Provinces Supreme Token.
• The Great Thousand Auction House’s head manager bowed to Chen Changqing, punished Steward Zhao, and escorted Chen Changqing and Zhong Cheng to Purple-Gold Heaven Box One with a twenty-percent discount.
• Chen Changqing sensed a sealed, sword-scarred peachwood box being moved from the underground treasury as the auction’s finale.
• A sinister young lord in Heaven Box Two examined a blood-colored jade slip bearing the aura of a pure Yin immortal physique.

At the Great Thousand Auction House, Chen Changqing won a sealed peachwood box after defeating a soul attack from the Netherworld Palace’s young master and overwhelming the rival bidders with his wealth. He opened the box and found a severed finger bone pulsing with Immortal Emperor essence blood, along with an inscription in primordial divine script.

• Chen Changqing sensed Xiaoqian’s essence in the Netherworld Palace’s young master’s jade slip and bought three Taiyin divine herbs at the auction.
• Chen Changqing bid on the mysterious peachwood box, but the Nangong elder threatened him and the Netherworld Palace’s young master raised the price to eighty million ghost coins.
• The Netherworld Palace’s young master attacked Chen Changqing with the Netherworld Soul Devour Thorn, but Chen Changqing destroyed it and counterattacked, gravely wounding the young master.
• Chen Changqing paid two hundred million supreme-grade ghost coins and three low-grade immortal ghost treasures for the box, while the Nangong elder and the Netherworld Palace protectors left to seek revenge.
• Chen Changqing broke the box’s restrictions and found a blackened index finger bone with pulsing Immortal Emperor essence blood and a primordial divine-script inscription.

Chen Changqing deciphered the imperial inscription, learned that Senluo Deathland concealed a dangerous demonic body, and fused the Heaven-Stepping Immortal Emperor’s severed finger to advance his physique. As Nangong Lie and three Netherworld Palace elders surrounded Tianyuan City to seize him, Chen Changqing rejected a secret escape route and faced them openly, where the Ghost-Weeping Elder attacked first.

• Chen Changqing read the inscription’s warning that a foreign demonic body lay beneath Senluo Deathland and that removing the Heaven-Stepping Tokens could unleash it.
• Chen Changqing spent one hundred million AFK Points to fuse the severed emperor finger and its essence blood, reaching the seventh turn of the Primordial Nine-Turn Body Refining Art and gaining the Heaven-Stepping Emperor Finger.
• Nangong Lie arrived at Tianyuan City with three Three-Tribulation Ghost Immortal elders and demanded that Chen Changqing be handed over.
• The Great Thousand Auction House head shopkeeper offered Chen Changqing and Zhong Cheng a secret passage, but Chen Changqing destroyed it and chose to confront their pursuers.
• Chen Changqing walked out of the auction house with Xiaoqian’s blood jade slip, and the Ghost-Weeping Elder attacked him with the Nine Netherworlds Soul-Destroying Bell.

Chen Changqing destroyed the Ghost-Weeping Elder with one finger, then fought Nangong Lie and two Netherworld Palace elders after they unleashed their strongest attacks. He split the Nine Netherworlds Yellow Springs Diagram and badly wounded Nangong Lie, leaving the remaining enemies overwhelmed by his strength.

• Chen Changqing shattered the Ghost-Weeping Elder’s Soul-Losing Bell with the Heaven-Stepping Emperor Finger and killed him with the same strike.
• Nangong Lie recognized Chen Changqing’s seventh-turn body refinement and summoned the Nine Netherworlds Yellow Springs Diagram while two Netherworld Palace elders attacked from either side.
• Chen Changqing used the Violence Formula to reach Heavenly Monarch Great Perfection and sent five avatars to drive back the two elders.
• Chen Changqing protected himself from the Yellow Springs with the Fragment of the Creation Jade Disk and charged up the waterfall toward its diagram.
• Chen Changqing split the Nine Netherworlds Yellow Springs Diagram with the Immortal Execution Sword and severed Nangong Lie’s right arm and part of his shoulder.

Chen Changqing defeated Nangong Lie and the Netherworld Palace elders, then accompanied Zhong Cheng to the Zhong Family ancestral land to seek records about Senluo Deathland. There, Zhong Jiuyou appeared on the Golden Fortune Ranking, and Zhong Tianba ordered Chen arrested as Zhong Cheng protested.

• Nangong Lie sacrificed allied troops to form a Four-Tribulation formation, but Chen Changqing's sword world and five avatars killed the two Netherworld Palace elders and disrupted the formation.
• Chen Changqing dispersed Nangong Lie's tribulation lightning, killed him, and collected his spoils as thousands of cultivators knelt and the auction-house manager offered compensation.
• Chen Changqing accepted the manager's storage ring and treasure map, then followed Zhong Cheng toward the Zhong Family ancestral land.
• At Jambudvipa Divine Mountain, Zhong Jiuyou's name appeared on the Golden Fortune Ranking, and Zhong Cheng suspected Zhong Tianba had forced him onto it.
• Zhong Cheng told Zhong Tianba that Zhong Wanchou and Zhong Wansha had died and requested access to Senluo Deathland records, but Zhong Tianba ordered Chen Changqing seized.
• Ten enforcement elites attacked Chen Changqing with soul-locking chains as Zhong Cheng protested that Chen was his honored Dao-protecting guest.