Chapter Summaries

Xiao Qing used World Annihilation to destroy the Slaughter Heaven Demon Emperor’s projection and send sword intent through the barrier toward the Demon Territory. The sword’s power stunned the defenders of Saint Abyss Continent, while Xiao Qing was left weakened and Qin Tian and Qing Muxuan recognized the danger of his strike.

• The Slaughter Heaven Demon Emperor struck Xiao Qing with a Heaven-Reaching Demon Hand, but Xiao Qing’s Law True Body endured the blow.
• Xiao Qing unleashed World Annihilation, and its sword light tore through the Slaughter Heaven Demon Emperor’s Demon Blade and shattered the spatial blockade.
• The sword intent pierced toward the Slaughter Heaven Demon Emperor’s true body in the Demon Territory, forcing his projection to collapse after he vowed to return in person.
• Xiao Qing sheathed his sword, weakened by the strike and bleeding from his hand.
• The sword light crossed the barrier above Saint Abyss Continent, alarming Wan Xuan and the defenders as it flew toward the Demon Territory.
• Qin Tian and Qing Muxuan recognized Xiao Qing’s aura in the sword light and were shaken by its Saint Grade-level power.

Xiao Qing repelled an attack by Slaughter Heaven Demon Emperor’s projection with his newly comprehended World Annihilation sword, wounding the Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign. Qin Tian and Qing Muxuan arrived after the battle, warned that the Outer Realm Evil Clan was targeting Xiao Qing, and gave him a talisman to summon help.

• Slaughter Heaven Demon Emperor’s projection attacked Xiao Qing, but Xiao Qing countered with World Annihilation and left a wound that Chaos Sword Intent prevented from healing.
• Slaughter Heaven Demon Emperor acknowledged Xiao Qing’s strength and resolved to report him to Saint Heaven Demon Emperor as a threat that must be eliminated.
• Qin Tian and Qing Muxuan reached the battlefield after the fight and found Xiao Qing exhausted but uninjured.
• Xiao Qing identified his sword technique as World Annihilation, and Qin Tian and Qing Muxuan concluded that the Evil Clan had targeted him because of his potential.
• Qin Tian warned Xiao Qing to strengthen the Heavenly Court’s defenses and gave him a Great Thousand Palace Emergency Contact Talisman before leaving with Qing Muxuan.

After repelling the Slaughter Heaven Demon Emperor’s projection, Xiao Qing returned to the Heavenly Court and learned that his victory over Mohe Tian had drawn widespread attention and offers of allegiance. He warned the court that the Outer Realm Evil Clan’s activity was increasing and ordered preparations for infiltration and war.

• Xiao Qing reflected on the danger of facing the Slaughter Heaven Demon Emperor’s true body and hurried toward the Western Heaven Continent to strengthen his cultivation.
• Xiao Qing returned to the Heavenly Court, where Qing Xuan, Gu Xun'er, Zi Yan, and the others welcomed him; Xiao Xuan'er drew Qing Yanjing into the gathering.
• Qing Xuan showed Xiao Qing letters and petitions from factions pledging allegiance after his victory over Mohe Tian, and Xiao Qing worried that the attention would invite more enemies.
• Xiao Qing told Qing Xuan that the Mohe Ancient Clan might retaliate and said he needed to cultivate so he could protect the Heavenly Court.
• Xiao Qing told the court that Outer Realm Evil Clan activity near the borders was increasing and that the Great Thousand Palace was preparing for war.
• Xiao Qing ordered Xiao Xuan to scrutinize submitting factions and reinforce border defenses, and Xiao Xuan said the preparations were underway.

Xiao Qing organized Heavenly Court’s expansion and defenses while preparing to enter seclusion, then learned that the Nine-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python Clan had sent Elder Yu to visit. The chapter ended with Qing Yanjing noting that the clan’s choice to send an Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign showed how seriously it regarded Qing Ling’s bloodline and a possible alliance.

• Xiao Qing assigned Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun to strengthen Heavenly Court’s control, directed Old Yao and Qing Yanjing to advance alchemy and array work, and ordered intelligence efforts against the Outer Realm Evil Clan and Primordial God Clan.
• Qing Xuan confronted Xiao Qing about the trouble he had concealed, and he told her that Slaughter Heaven Demon Emperor had attacked him; she asked him not to bear such dangers alone.
• Cai Yun received a clan order to prepare for Elder Yu’s visit and continue gathering intelligence on Heavenly Court.
• Cao Ying delivered Great Thousand Pavilion’s message that Elder Yu, an Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign, was coming to discuss Qing Ling’s bloodline and cooperation with Heavenly Court.
• Xiao Qing accepted the visit, and Qing Yanjing observed that the clan’s decision to send Elder Yu showed greater concern than they had expected.

Xiao Qing agreed to meet Elder Yu of the Nine-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python Clan, hoping to build an alliance as Heavenly Court sought more allies. Elder Yu arrived at the council hall to investigate whether Qing Ling was the clan’s long-awaited Pureblood Royal Clan member, whose potential could reach Saint Grade.

• Xiao Qing and Qing Xuan agreed to receive Elder Yu and invited Qing Ling to attend the meeting.
• Qing Ling learned that Elder Yu was coming to investigate her connection to the Nine-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python Clan and decided to hear her out.
• Elder Yu reviewed Heavenly Court’s history and defenses before sending a formal message requesting an audience with Xiao Qing.
• Elder Yu arrived at Heavenly Court’s council hall, where Xiao Qing, Qing Xuan, Qing Ling, Xiao Xuan, and Old Yao awaited her.
• Elder Yu greeted Xiao Qing respectfully, and he welcomed her and invited her to sit.

Elder Yu visited the Heavenly Court to verify Qing Ling’s rumored lineage and confirmed that she carried an exceptionally pure royal bloodline of the Nine-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python Clan. She also discovered Qing Xuan had royal blood, leaving Elder Yu pleased as she prepared to pursue her next purpose.

• Elder Yu praised Xiao Qing’s achievements and exchanged formal greetings with him before explaining why her clan had sent her to verify Qing Ling’s lineage.
• Qing Ling revealed her nine-colored bloodline mark, and Elder Yu’s jade pendant resonated with it, confirming Qing Ling was a pure-blooded royal clanswoman.
• Qing Ling said she had grown up believing she belonged to the Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python Clan, and Elder Yu considered whether her bloodline had undergone an unprecedented ancestral reversion.
• Elder Yu sensed Qing Xuan’s faint Nine-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python bloodline and confirmed it with the jade pendant.
• Qing Xuan explained that she had evolved from a Snake-People Tribe member into an Eight-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python and then into a Nine-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python because of Ancestor Qing Ling.

Qing Ling and Qing Xuan declined to return to the Nine-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python Clan but agreed to recognize their bloodline ties, while Xiao Qing accepted the clan’s offer of an alliance. After the clan’s envoy departed, Qing Ling and Qing Xuan reaffirmed their place in the Heavenly Court and grew closer.

• Qing Ling and Qing Xuan declined Elder Yu’s invitation to return to the Nine-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python Clan, but agreed to acknowledge their bloodline connection and help the clan when appropriate.
• Xiao Qing agreed to establish an equal and mutually beneficial alliance with the Nine-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python Clan to face the Outer Realm Evil Clan and other threats.
• Elder Yu presented gifts for Qing Ling, Qing Xuan, Xiao Qing, and the Heavenly Court, then returned to her clan.
• Xiao Xuan, Old Yao, Gu Yuan, Zhu Kun, and Qing Ling discussed the alliance’s benefits, and Xiao Qing assigned Xiao Xuan to handle further negotiations.
• Qing Ling told Qing Xuan to stop calling her Ancestor and invited her to call her Big Sister Qing Ling instead.

The Heavenly Court strengthened its alliances and defenses while Xiao Qing cultivated and prepared to expand into Tianluo Continent. Five years later, he sent Xiao Yan and Lin Dong there to gain experience and advance the Heavenly Court’s next objective.

• Elder Yu reported Qing Ling and Qing Xuan’s bloodlines and the proposed cooperation with the Heavenly Court to her clan, then left expecting their alliance to grow.
• Old Yao organized cooperation between the two sides as Xiao Xuan, Gu Yuan, and Qing Yanjing strengthened the Heavenly Court’s defenses, while Xiao Qing cultivated to refine his World Annihilation sword strike.
• Over five years, the Nine Provinces Continent completed its fusion with the Great Thousand World, the Heavenly Court’s formations and alchemy business expanded, and its cultivators grew stronger.
• Xiao Qing met with Xiao Yan and Lin Dong and asked what they knew about Tianluo Continent and its restriction on Heavenly Sovereigns taking action.
• Xiao Qing announced that Tianluo Continent was the Heavenly Court’s next target and ordered Xiao Yan and Lin Dong to go there for experience.

Xiao Qing sent Xiao Yan, Lin Dong, and more than thirty Heavenly Court disciples to Tianluo Continent to build strength and prepare for the Heavenly Court’s future plans. He followed them there to pursue the Ancient Heavenly Emperor’s inheritance, drawing the attention of the Mohe Ancient Clan and powerful figures across the continent.

• Xiao Qing gave Xiao Yan and Lin Dong protective talismans and warned them to prioritize survival in Tianluo Continent.
• Xiao Qing told Zhu Xu that he would go to Tianluo Continent for the Ancient Heavenly Emperor’s inheritance, despite the Mohe Ancient Clan’s interest.
• Xiao Qing arrived at the continent’s border and sensed a hidden Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign spy from the Mohe Ancient Clan.
• Xiao Yan and Lin Dong arrived with more than thirty Heavenly Court disciples, and Xiao Qing transported the group away in Chaos light.
• Xiao Qing appeared outside Tianluo City, where a white-haired old man recognized him as the Heavenly Emperor and decided not to get involved.

Xiao Qing arrived on Tianluo Continent, prompting its factions to brace for the Heavenly Court’s intentions while Xiao Yan and Lin Dong settled in Tianluo City and began assessing local powers. Xiao Qing set out to seek the Ancient Heavenly Emperor’s inheritance, while Mohe Yu ordered surveillance and Qing Yanjing finished the Heavenly Court’s grand arrays.

• Tianluo Continent’s factions learned that Xiao Qing had arrived and chose not to provoke him as rumors spread about the Heavenly Court’s intentions.
• Xiao Yan led the Heavenly Court disciples into Tianluo City, where Lin Dong identified hostile watchers and the two settled into an inn.
• Xiao Yan and Lin Dong reviewed a Jade Slip detailing the continent’s factions and ruins, then prepared to see whether its information was a trap or an opportunity.
• Xiao Qing left Xiao Yan and Lin Dong to manage their affairs and went to pursue the Ancient Heavenly Emperor’s One Qi Transforms Three Purities inheritance.
• Mohe Yu ordered his people to monitor Xiao Qing and the Heavenly Court on Tianluo Continent because Mohe Tian remained unable to fight.
• Qing Yanjing completed the Heavenly Court’s three grand arrays, then watched Xiao Xuan’er demonstrate a new trapping array.

The five Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereigns formed the Tianluo Alliance to resist the Heavenly Court, with support from the Mohe Ancient Clan. Xiao Yan and Lin Dong learned of the alliance and identified the Mohe Ancient Clan as its backer.

• Venerable Ghost, Ancestor Danyang, Ancestor Mystic Yin, Venerable Purple Thunder, and the White Tiger King reacted to Xiao Qing’s arrival and the Heavenly Court’s plans.
• Ancestor Mystic Yin invited the other four sovereigns to Mystic Yin City and proposed an alliance.
• Ancestor Mystic Yin revealed that the Mohe Ancient Clan would provide resources and intelligence in exchange for keeping the Heavenly Court off Tianluo Continent.
• The five sovereigns established the Tianluo Alliance, set its headquarters in Tianluo City, and jointly took control.
• Xiao Yan and Lin Dong reviewed news of the alliance, and Xiao Yan named the Mohe Ancient Clan as its backer.

Xiao Yan led Heavenly Court disciples to the Desolate Ancient Battlefield despite the Tianluo Alliance’s efforts to disrupt their supplies and reputation. There, he defeated Blood Divine Temple’s Xue Wuji in one move, leaving the opposing faction to retreat.

• Lin Dong reported that the Mohe Ancient Clan was supplying the Tianluo Alliance, and Xiao Yan ordered the Heavenly Court disciples to stay vigilant.
• The Tianluo Alliance disrupted Heavenly Court supply lines, training, and public standing, but Xiao Qing told Xiao Yan to follow his own pace.
• After learning that an ancient treasure might be emerging in the Desolate Ancient Battlefield, Xiao Yan led more than thirty Heavenly Court disciples there.
• Xue Wuji confronted Xiao Yan and ordered the Blood Divine Temple disciples to attack the Heavenly Court group.
• Lin Dong struck down the first attackers, and Xiao Yan’s Origin Flame overwhelmed Xue Wuji and burned him badly.
• Xue Wuji withdrew with the Blood Divine Temple disciples after Xiao Yan challenged anyone else to fight.

After defeating Xue Wuji, Xiao Yan and Lin Dong explored the Desolate Ancient Battlefield and found a vitality-filled branch that helped loosen their bottlenecks. Meanwhile, the Tianluo Alliance began a resource blockade against the Heavenly Court, as Xiao Yan and Lin Dong entered seclusion on the verge of breakthroughs.

• Xiao Yan and Lin Dong dismissed their victory over Xue Wuji as easy and led the Heavenly Court disciples deeper into the Desolate Ancient Battlefield to train and search for treasures.
• Xiao Yan sensed a surge of vitality underground, uncovered a verdant branch, and felt his bottleneck loosen after touching it.
• Earthly Sovereigns watching from afar discussed Xiao Yan's strength and planned to oppose the Heavenly Court, while acknowledging the threat posed by the Heavenly Emperor.
• Ancestor Mystic Yin announced the Tianluo Alliance and persuaded its leaders to block the Heavenly Court's access to resources, with direct fighting left to their subordinates.
• Xiao Yan and Lin Dong felt their bottlenecks loosen in the battlefield and sat down to cultivate, with Xiao Yan nearing the Earthly Sovereign realm and Lin Dong nearing Tier Nine Supreme.
• Xiao Qing watched Xiao Yan and Lin Dong in seclusion, then departed with a pleased smile.

Xiao Qing went to Great Luo Heaven to meet Mandala, the Ancient Heavenly Emperor’s adopted daughter and ruler of the Northern Region, hoping to gain allies and pursue the Ancient Heavenly Emperor’s inheritance. After revealing himself as the Heavenly Emperor, he faced Mandala’s anger over his use of her adoptive father’s title.

• Xiao Qing surveyed Great Luo Heaven and identified Mandala as a key person in his search for the Ancient Heavenly Emperor’s inheritance and support for the Heavenly Court.
• Xiao Qing bypassed Great Luo Heaven’s restrictions and entered Mandala’s secluded chamber while she was struggling with an old curse.
• Mandala tried to attack the intruder but froze under Xiao Qing’s Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign pressure.
• Xiao Qing introduced himself as the Heavenly Emperor, provoking Mandala’s resentment over his use of her adoptive father’s title.
• Mandala asked why Xiao Qing had come, and he told her not to be hostile.

Xiao Qing offered Mandala relief from her curse and help rescuing her true body and avenging the Ancient Heavenly Palace, winning her pledge to join the Heavenly Court. Mandala summoned the Three Sovereigns to announce an important matter, and they began discussing the unstable situation in Tianluo Continent.

• Xiao Qing used his Power of Life to silence Mandala's curse and promised he could remove it completely.
• Xiao Qing offered to help Mandala rescue her true body and purge the Ancient Heavenly Palace's traitors, and Mandala agreed to lead the Great Luo Heaven Territory in submitting to the Heavenly Court.
• Mandala donned a black robe, summoned the Three Sovereigns to the Deliberation Hall, and brought Xiao Qing with her.
• The Heavenly Vulture Sovereign and Sleeping Emperor described the Tianluo Alliance's opposition to the Heavenly Emperor and remarked on Xiao Qing's rapid rise.

Xiao Qing appeared before Mandala and the Three Sovereigns as the Heavenly Emperor, and Mandala announced that the Great Luo Heaven Territory would submit to the Heavenly Court. When a Tianluo Alliance envoy arrived to demand their allegiance and threaten invasion, Xiao Qing killed him with a glance.

• Mandala revealed that Xiao Qing had personally come to recruit the Great Luo Heaven Territory, and the Three Sovereigns felt the pressure of his Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign power.
• Mandala announced that she had decided to lead the territory in submitting to the Heavenly Court.
• A Tianluo Alliance envoy arrived and offered the Northern Territory's resources in exchange for joining the alliance, threatening to destroy the Great Luo Heaven Territory if Mandala refused.
• The envoy insulted Xiao Qing and learned that he was the Heavenly Emperor, then dropped to his knees in fear.
• Xiao Qing obliterated the envoy with a glance, and the Three Sovereigns understood why Mandala had chosen to submit.

Mandala and the Three Sovereigns submitted the Great Luo Heaven Territory to Xiao Qing’s Heavenly Court, which moved to consolidate the Northern Region as the Tianluo Alliance gathered forces elsewhere. Xiao Qing dismissed the restrictions on Heavenly Sovereigns fighting over territory and left Mandala to manage the regional conflict, warning that he would answer if the Alliance’s five Heavenly Sovereigns intervened.

• Mandala declared that the Great Luo Heaven Territory would join the Heavenly Court, and the Three Sovereigns pledged their allegiance to Xiao Qing.
• Xiao Qing postponed dealing with the Ancient Heavenly Palace, planned to visit the Northern Region’s Earthly Sovereigns, and learned that Mandala’s true body had been trapped for an unknown length of time.
• After his envoy died, Ancestor Mystic Yin identified the Heavenly Emperor as the killer and ordered the Tianluo Alliance to seize the Northern Region before Xiao Qing could.
• Mandala reported that the Heavenly Court controlled most of the Northern Region while the Tianluo Alliance gathered factions across the other three regions.
• Xiao Qing argued that strength, not the Great Thousand Palace’s territorial rule, determined who ruled Tianluo Continent, and told Mandala to handle the Earthly Sovereign conflicts.
• Xiao Qing assured Mandala that the Alliance’s five Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereigns would not act, and threatened to confront them if they attacked the Heavenly Court’s forces.

Xiao Qing established a Teleportation Array linking Great Luo Heaven and the Nine Provinces Continent, allowing the Heavenly Court to enter the struggle for Tianluo Continent. The Heavenly Court claimed the Northern Region, while Mandala began forcing its border factions to submit, and Ancestor Danyang gathered forces in the Eastern Region.

• Xiao Qing built a Teleportation Array in Great Luo Heaven and activated its connection to the Heavenly Court headquarters on the Nine Provinces Continent.
• Xiao Xuan, Gu Yuan, and the Heavenly Court’s core forces traveled through the array to Great Luo Heaven, where Xiao Xian'er and Xiao Xuan'er met Mandala.
• Xiao Qing declared that the Heavenly Court had officially joined the struggle for supremacy on Tianluo Continent and named the Northern Region its first territory.
• News of the Heavenly Court’s arrival spread across the continent, prompting factions to choose sides as border conflicts began.
• Mandala led the Three Sovereigns of Great Luo Heaven Territory in clearing the Northern Region’s borders, compelling neutral factions to submit or leave and crushing those that resisted.
• Ancestor Danyang began gathering forces around Danyang Mountain in the Eastern Region.

The Supreme Spirit Ancient Clan reinforced the Heavenly Court, prompting the remaining Northern Region forces to submit while the Tianluo Alliance consolidated its territories and sought support from the Mohe Ancient Clan. At the Northern and Eastern Region border, Heavenly Vulture Sovereign reported that Danyang Mountain’s forces had camped opposite the Heavenly Court, and Mandala ordered him to ignore them.

• Tai Cang arrived at Great Luo Heaven with more than a dozen Earthly Sovereigns and other Supreme Spirit Ancient Clan members, offering them to Xiao Qing’s command.
• The Supreme Spirit Ancient Clan’s support persuaded the remaining Northern Region factions to pledge allegiance, completing the Heavenly Court’s control of the region.
• Ancestor Mystic Yin ordered the Tianluo Alliance to consolidate its three regions and avoid escalating border clashes, while a Mohe Ancient Clan envoy promised resources and urged the alliance to hold back the Heavenly Court.
• Heavenly Vulture Sovereign led a sweep along the Northern Region border, giving local forces the choice to submit to the Heavenly Court or leave.
• Danyang Mountain’s forces camped opposite Heavenly Vulture Sovereign’s troops at the Northern and Eastern Region border, and Mandala told him to ignore them.

After three years of stalemate, the Heavenly Court secured the Northern Region while Xiao Yan and Lin Dong rose to Earthly Sovereign and defeated veteran opponents. Xiao Qing decided the time had come to enter the Ancient Heavenly Palace with Mandala and rescue her trapped true body.

• The Heavenly Court and Tianluo Alliance maintained their border standoff for three years as both sides consolidated their territories and strength.
• Xiao Yan and Lin Dong broke through to Earthly Sovereign and each nearly killed a veteran Earthly Sovereign of the Tianluo Alliance in battle.
• The Tianluo Alliance leaders reacted with alarm to the two young fighters’ achievements, while Tai Cang praised their talent and worried over the Heavenly Court’s strength.
• Xiao Qing recognized that Mohe Yu was using the Tianluo Alliance to test and weaken the Heavenly Court, then decided to turn his attention to the Ancient Heavenly Palace.
• Mandala gave Xiao Qing a map showing the sealed entrance and explained that the seal required the Heavenly Emperor Bloodline or a Heavenly Emperor token to open.
• Xiao Qing asked Mandala to accompany him to the Ancient Heavenly Palace, and she agreed; the entrance lay in Spatial Turbulence at the edge of the Northern Region.