Chapter Summaries

Barnes awakened his Blade-Devouring Transformation and overwhelmed Yun Feiyang, damaging his wooden sword and wounding him. Yun Feiyang answered with Reincarnation, striking Barnes across past, present, and future and severing his transformed claw.

• Barnes's right arm transformed into a blade-covered claw as his chest wound rapidly healed.
• Barnes thanked Yun Feiyang for pushing him to the brink of death, then attacked and cracked Yun Feiyang's wooden sword.
• Barnes's claws drove Yun Feiyang back, cutting his straw hat and clothing and leaving him bleeding.
• Yun Feiyang unleashed the fifth sword, Reincarnation, with a dark-golden light surrounding him.
• Yun Feiyang's strike wounded Barnes across three points in time and severed his right claw at the wrist.

Yun Feiyang failed to unleash the sixth sword after exhausting himself against Barnes, and Barnes recovered enough to overpower him. As Barnes tortured the helpless Yun Feiyang, the fight turned into another likely loss for Origin Continent.

• Yun Feiyang tried to gather enough strength for a sixth sword, while Ye Lin warned the watching cultivators that Yun Feiyang was in worse condition than Barnes.
• The Sword God and other mighty figures realized Yun Feiyang could not continue, though the crowd kept urging him to strike.
• Yun Feiyang's attempt to unleash the sixth sword failed, and he fell to his knees as the Broken Sword dropped from his grasp.
• Barnes regenerated a blade of flesh and blood at his right wrist, stood, and walked toward Yun Feiyang.
• Barnes drove the blade through both of Yun Feiyang's shoulder blades and taunted him as he set its tip against Yun Feiyang's knee.

Barnes killed Yun Feiyang after Yun Feiyang unleashed only five of the Nine Swords Descending from Heaven. Barnes won, giving the Chaos Ancient Clan a sixth consecutive victory as the Origin Continent mourned the loss of two prodigies.

• Barnes pierced Yun Feiyang’s neck and shattered his Primordial Spirit, killing him.
• Barnes taunted the Origin Continent and declared that the Chaos Ancient Clan deserved to rule it.
• The Chaos Ancient Clan celebrated Barnes’s victory while Yan Ting and the other Origin Continent cultivators watched in silence.
• Barnes glanced back at Yun Feiyang’s corpse before leaving the Arena, where Yun Feiyang’s broken wooden sword lost its last azure light.
• The Origin Continent’s defeat count reached six, and two prodigies with the potential to reach the Ninth Heaven Quasi-Saint Realm had died.

After Origin Continent lost the first two battles, its cultivators' confidence faltered as they awaited the third match. Shi Poxiao was drawn to fight and promised to win, leaving the others hopeful as he entered the arena.

• Origin Continent's cultivators grew dejected after two consecutive defeats, while the great powers worried that another loss would further damage their resolve.
• The third battle's drawing began, and Ye Lin remained calm despite the others' fear of competing.
• Shi Poxiao was drawn as number sixteen, and Yan Ting identified him as the strongest of the Stone Clan's generation.
• Shi Poxiao promised to win for Origin Continent and strode confidently onto the arena, easing the oppressive mood among his companions.

Shi Poxiao faced Shadow Fiend in the next battle, as spectators weighed the Stone Clan fighter’s Sage bloodline against the Chaos Ancient Clan fighter’s spatial abilities. The two exchanged courteous threats before the match began.

• Spectators recognized Shi Poxiao as a powerful younger-generation fighter of the reclusive Stone Clan and learned that he carried a Sage’s bloodline.
• The Chaos Ancient Clan called forward number sixteen, Shadow Fiend, who emerged from distorted space with two sabers on his back.
• Shadow Fiend’s allies said his spatial bloodline would let him evade Shi Poxiao and wear him down.
• Shadow Fiend told Shi Poxiao he could surrender to avoid being killed, and Shi Poxiao returned the warning.
• Shadow Fiend said he liked Shi Poxiao as they faced each other in the arena.

Yan Ting worried that Shi Poxiao’s matchup against the fast, space-wielding Shadow Fiend was unfavorable, while Ye Lin urged him to remain steady and rely on himself. As the battle began, Shi Poxiao offered Shadow Fiend the first move and promised to endure three attacks.

• Yan Ting assessed that Shadow Fiend’s speed and mastery of space threatened Shi Poxiao, though Shi Poxiao could win with one well-timed strike.
• Ye Lin told Yan Ting not to let other people’s victories or defeats disrupt his own composure, and Yan Ting said he understood.
• Experts in the Endless Void agreed that Shi Poxiao needed to wait for Shadow Fiend to reveal a flaw rather than rush into his opponent’s rhythm.
• Shadow Fiend drew his two sabers and asked whether he or Shi Poxiao would attack first.
• Shi Poxiao told Shadow Fiend to make the first move and offered to let him attack three times.

Shadow Fiend fought Shi Poxiao in the Arena, evading his first two attacks before blocking a powerful punch with his twin blades. The blow sent Shadow Fiend rolling across the floor, where he ended the chapter wounded and kneeling.

• Shadow Fiend challenged Shi Poxiao to make the first move, warning that he might not get another chance.
• Shi Poxiao charged and swung his right palm, but Shadow Fiend dodged and slid away as he drew both blades.
• Shi Poxiao followed with a sweeping left arm and a low kick, which Shadow Fiend evaded by ducking and jumping into the air.
• Shi Poxiao struck upward with a powerful right fist, and Shadow Fiend crossed his blades to block it.
• The punch sent Shadow Fiend rolling across the Arena; he stopped on one knee with purple blood at his mouth and dents in both blades.

Shi Poxiao initially overwhelmed Shadow Fiend, but Shadow Fiend used his speed to evade his attacks and wear him down. Yan Ting recognized that Shi Poxiao had fallen into Shadow Fiend’s fighting rhythm.

• Shi Poxiao chained together three powerful attacks and drew cheers from the cultivators of Origin Continent.
• Shadow Fiend recovered, praised Shi Poxiao’s strength, and said his speed was still slow to him.
• Shadow Fiend vanished and attacked Shi Poxiao from behind, but Shi Poxiao’s tough body endured the blades.
• Shadow Fiend repeatedly struck from different directions while evading Shi Poxiao’s counterattacks, leaving shallow marks across his body.
• Yan Ting watched with Ye Lin and realized that Shi Poxiao had fallen into Shadow Fiend’s dangerous fighting rhythm.

Shi Poxiao turned the fight around by predicting Shadow Fiend’s movements and grabbing him, but Shadow Fiend escaped a killing blow by turning transparent. Shadow Fiend reappeared badly weakened and accused Shi Poxiao of trying to kill him.

• Shadow Fiend taunted Shi Poxiao for wasting strength on attacks that could not hit him.
• Shi Poxiao stopped attacking, waited for Shadow Fiend to shift between forms, and seized his left forearm.
• Shi Poxiao slammed Shadow Fiend into the Arena floor and raised a fist to crush his head.
• Shadow Fiend turned transparent, causing Shi Poxiao’s punch to strike only an afterimage and shake the Arena.
• Shadow Fiend reappeared at the Arena’s far edge with his wounds partly healed and his aura weakened.

Shadow Fiend merged with space and repeatedly wounded Shi Poxiao by striking the weak points in his stone-like body. Shi Poxiao became severely exhausted and was left in danger as he failed to catch his opponent.

• Shi Poxiao withdrew his fist, while Shadow Fiend noticed how much strength the attack had cost him.
• Shadow Fiend chanted in an ancient language and merged into the surrounding space.
• Shi Poxiao closed his eyes, but Shadow Fiend appeared at his blind spots and stabbed through the thinner parts of his keratin armor.
• Shadow Fiend continued attacking Shi Poxiao's weak points until hundreds of cuts covered his body.
• Shi Poxiao grew badly overdrawn and realized he needed to catch Shadow Fiend quickly or face danger.

Shadow Fiend tortured Shi Poxiao and repeatedly demanded that he surrender, but Shi Poxiao refused and insulted him before Shadow Fiend killed him. The chapter left Shi Poxiao dead on the arena stage, his Primordial Spirit destroyed.

• Shadow Fiend offered to spare Shi Poxiao if he surrendered, but Shi Poxiao said he had never surrendered in his life.
• Shadow Fiend attacked Shi Poxiao with repeated precise strikes, severing his tendons and leaving him unable to move.
• Shadow Fiend urged Shi Poxiao to live and seek revenge someday, but Shi Poxiao demanded a quick death.
• Shadow Fiend gave Shi Poxiao one last chance to surrender, and Shi Poxiao cursed him instead.
• Shadow Fiend stabbed through Shi Poxiao's head and destroyed his Primordial Spirit.

Shadow Fiend killed Shi Poxiao, giving the Chaos Ancient Clan a third consecutive victory and leaving the Origin Continent's cultivators shaken. As the next battles approached, Yan Ting and Ye Lin tried to reassure one another, while a white-bearded elder recognized that the opposing fighters were simply too strong.

• Shadow Fiend lamented that he and Shi Poxiao could not be friends, then killed him and vanished from the arena.
• Ye Lin and Yan Ting faced the crowd's despair after three of their allies had died in succession.
• A young man warned Yan Ting that losses at higher cultivation levels could cripple the Origin Continent's mid-level and top-tier combat strength.
• Yan Ting and the young man expressed confidence that their side would win the coming battles and exchanged words of caution with Ye Lin.
• A white-bearded old man reviewed the three defeats and concluded that the Chaos Ancient Clan's opponents were too strong.

After Shi Poxiao’s death gave the Origin Continent its third consecutive defeat, its experts feared the Chaos Ancient Clan’s prepared fighters would win again. The chapter left Ye Lin’s upcoming battle looming as Yun Qiyue worried for him.

• The Origin Continent’s experts lamented the three straight defeats and hoped the next contestant would secure a victory.
• The Heavenly Blade Sage and an old man discussed whether Ye Lin could survive the coming battles, and the Heavenly Blade Sage expressed confidence in his disciple.
• The spectators mourned Shi Poxiao’s death and feared that the Origin Continent might continue losing.
• Yun Qiyue worried that Ye Lin could die in battle, where surrender depended on the opponent’s mercy.

Nangong Yue was chosen as the Origin Continent’s fourth fighter, prompting Yan Ting to mistakenly assume she was Ye Lin’s Dao companion. As Nangong Yue waited in the Arena, a mysterious horned woman arrived to face her.

• Yan Ting announced that the fourth match’s fighter was number fifteen, and Nangong Yue identified herself.
• Yan Ting assumed Nangong Yue was Ye Lin’s Dao companion and tried to console him, but Ye Lin denied it.
• Nangong Yue entered the Arena while experts from the Chaos Ancient Clan taunted the Origin Continent’s side to send out an opponent.
• A tall, horned woman with a scaled tail approached and announced that she was coming.

Crimson Refinement faced teasing from a Chaos Ancient Clan prodigy as the next battle began, while Nangong Yue prepared to fight for the Origin Continent after three consecutive losses. The chapter ended with the spectators awaiting the match and the Chaos Ancient Clan prodigies praising Nangong Yue’s beauty and bearing.

• A Chaos Ancient Clan prodigy teased Crimson Refinement, who warned him not to speak frivolously before walking toward the arena.
• The Origin Continent’s spectators discussed Nangong Yue’s strength and tried to place their faith in her despite their team’s three straight defeats.
• The Grand Subtle Mystic Palace’s Palace Master said Nangong Yue had chosen to fight and would have to bear the consequences herself.
• The Chaos Ancient Clan prodigies admired Nangong Yue’s beauty and bearing.

Crimson Refinement challenged Nangong Yue in the Arena and attacked with a massive saber, while Nangong Yue countered with her yin-yang disk. Their first clash shattered space across the Arena, leaving the battle underway.

• Nangong Yue said she did not know Crimson Refinement, who introduced herself and summoned a massive saber.
• Crimson Refinement released the pressure and saber intent of a peak Third Heaven Quasi-Saint, but Nangong Yue remained steady and split the force with her yin-yang disk.
• Crimson Refinement swung her saber, crushing the space in its path and sending a ferocious beast-shaped saber intent at Nangong Yue.
• Nangong Yue thrust her yin-yang disk against Crimson Refinement's blade, and their collision shattered space within a hundred yards and shook the Arena.

Crimson Refinement and Nangong Yue traded more than a hundred blows, with Nangong Yue deflecting the relentless variations of Crimson Refinement’s blade. Crimson Refinement launched an all-out thrust at Nangong Yue’s chest, and Nangong Yue joined her palms to form a Taiji Diagram in defense.

• Crimson Refinement unleashed a relentless series of slashes, while Nangong Yue used yin-yang power to divert them and keep her defensive disk intact.
• Their clashes repeatedly shattered and healed the space above the Arena, tangling the laws around them.
• Crimson Refinement praised Nangong Yue’s taiji, and Nangong Yue remarked on the variety and force of Crimson Refinement’s blade work.
• Crimson Refinement shifted to a reverse grip and warned Nangong Yue that she would not deflect the next strike.
• Crimson Refinement lunged with a slash driven by maximum speed, weight, and ruthlessness, as Nangong Yue joined her palms and formed a Taiji Diagram before her chest.

Nangong Yue and Crimson Refinement traded devastating blows in the Arena, each sustaining a serious wound. Crimson Refinement launched her Heaven Slash as Yan Ting tried to reassure Ye Lin, leaving Nangong Yue's response unresolved.

• Crimson Refinement pierced Nangong Yue's Taiji Diagram and wounded her right shoulder, while the shattered diagram's backlash pierced Crimson Refinement's chest.
• Nangong Yue pulled Crimson Refinement's blade from her shoulder and condensed another cracked Taiji Diagram, then challenged her to strike again.
• Crimson Refinement raised her blade, ignited it with a dark purple flame, and unleashed Heaven Slash.
• Yan Ting watched the attack and reassured Ye Lin that Nangong Yue would be fine.

Nangong Yue countered Crimson Refinement’s devastating slash with Supreme Ultimate: Limitless, unleashing a blast that left Crimson Refinement gravely injured. Crimson Refinement collapsed in the Arena, her life hanging by a thread.

• Spectators on another island feared that Nangong Yue could not withstand Crimson Refinement’s slash.
• Nangong Yue poured her Saintly Breath, Dao resonance, and life source into her Taiji Diagram and formed the Wuji mark.
• Nangong Yue released Supreme Ultimate: Limitless, which annihilated the slash and the surrounding space before bursting back out with overwhelming force.
• The blast hurled Crimson Refinement across the Arena, tore open her chest wound, and broke her left arm.
• Crimson Refinement fell to her knees, bleeding heavily as her aura and life flame weakened.

Nangong Yue defeated and killed Crimson Refinement in the Arena, securing victory for Origin Continent before collapsing from her injuries. Ye Lin brought her back to Yan Ting and the others, who gave her a pill.

• Nangong Yue held on despite her injuries and told Crimson Refinement that she had lost.
• Crimson Refinement recognized Nangong Yue's Wuji technique and invited her to deliver the killing blow.
• Nangong Yue sent a beam of light through Crimson Refinement's brow, killing her and winning the battle for Origin Continent.
• Nangong Yue collapsed on the Arena after exhausting her strength.
• Ye Lin carried Nangong Yue off the Arena, and Yan Ting fed her a pill offered by another cultivator.