Chapter Summaries

The Origin Continent contestants debated the increasingly powerful Chaos Ancient Clan fighters and tried to steel themselves for the battles ahead. As another drawing began, Ye Lin waited without concern while the others eagerly hoped to be chosen.

• The remaining Origin Continent contestants questioned whether the drawing was unfair but accepted that they would eventually face their opponents.
• The contestants discussed fighting together on the Arena and encouraged one another to challenge the Chaos Ancient Clan.
• Ye Lin withdrew from the conversation because he could not connect with the other contestants after Yan Ting died.
• The next round of drawing began, and the contestants eagerly called for their names to be selected.

Long Yuan of the Dragon Hall and Zhao Leer of the Chaos Ancient Clan were drawn as the thirteenth combatants and entered the Arena. Zhao Leer launched the first attack, but Long Yuan parried her punch with his saber, leaving their battle underway.

• The thirteenth match was drawn, and Long Yuan stepped forward as the Dragon Hall's chosen fighter.
• The Chaos Ancient Clan discovered that Zhao Leer had been drawn; she insisted she would win gloriously despite their concern for her safety.
• Zhao Leer and Long Yuan faced each other in the Arena, where she remarked on his height and warned him that she was strong.
• Zhao Leer vanished and struck at Long Yuan's ribs from behind, but he blocked her punch with the back of his golden saber.
• Zhao Leer retreated after the clash, noticed his saber intent eroding her protection, and remarked that his saber was fast.

Long Yuan shifted from testing Zhao Leer to attacking her with his golden saber, forcing her to evade and defend herself with blood mist. The fight continued with Zhao Leer wounded and a faint chill gathering in her eyes as Long Yuan watched her reaction.

• Long Yuan recognized that Zhao Leer had tested him and called her too weak.
• Long Yuan drew his golden saber and struck at Zhao Leer, who dodged the blade by less than half an inch.
• Long Yuan sent more than a hundred streaks of saber light after Zhao Leer, and she used blood mist to deflect or absorb them.
• Zhao Leer emerged with cuts in her skirt and a fine wound on her cheek, then praised Long Yuan's fierce saber technique.
• Long Yuan examined Zhao Leer's injuries and saw the chill gathering in her eyes with a knowing glimmer in his own.

Long Yuan accused Zhao Leer of hiding her true strength and attacked her with his Heaven-Sundering Arc. Zhao Leer escaped the spatial rift, but she was left injured and sprawled across the Arena.

• Long Yuan judged Zhao Leer’s earlier punch too weak and accused her of concealing her strength.
• Long Yuan raised his golden saber and used Heaven-Sundering Arc to split the space around Zhao Leer.
• Zhao Leer wrapped herself in a blood cocoon, but the displaced space cracked it apart.
• Zhao Leer blasted the spatial layers back into place with pillars of blood-colored light.
• Zhao Leer was thrown across the Arena and came to rest with her skirt torn and her legs covered in wounds.

Zhao Leer revealed her hidden form after Long Yuan pushed her to her limit, transforming into a tall, sinister woman surrounded by dark-red blood mist. Long Yuan showed no surprise and said her transformation confirmed his suspicions.

• Zhao Leer warned Long Yuan that he was forcing her to use her full strength.
• Zhao Leer grew from a petite girl into a tall woman with ink-black eyes, sharp features, and a blood-red aura.
• Zhao Leer told Long Yuan that her transformed form needed blood and pointed at him, demanding her fill.
• Long Yuan calmly said Zhao Leer could not possibly have been as weak as she had seemed.

Long Yuan and Zhao Leer fought in earnest, with Zhao Leer’s transformed body overwhelming his defenses through a relentless assault. By the end, her hair had bound Long Yuan’s saber arm and her blood mist was corroding his Dragon scales.

• Zhao Leer lunged at Long Yuan and slashed his shoulder armor, drawing his first visible reaction.
• Zhao Leer launched a frenzied attack with her fingers, legs, and hair, forcing Long Yuan to retreat three steps.
• Zhao Leer’s hair wrapped around Long Yuan’s right wrist as her blood mist seeped through his armor and began corroding his Dragon scales.

Zhao Leer wounded Long Yuan with her corrosive bloodline power, and he retaliated with a storm of golden blades. His attack pierced her body, leaving their battle ongoing.

• Zhao Leer pierced Long Yuan’s chest armor and infused his wound with bloodline decay, corroding his Dragon scales.
• Long Yuan grabbed Zhao Leer’s wrist, pulled her finger from his chest, and swung at her face, but she evaded and retreated.
• Zhao Leer absorbed and tasted Long Yuan’s blood, then asked him for more.
• Long Yuan recognized her corrosive power and unleashed Myriad Blades Return to the Source to keep her at a distance.
• Zhao Leer raised a blood-colored barrier against the golden blade storm, but its later waves broke through and pierced her in several places.

Zhao Leer endured Long Yuan’s blade attack and destroyed the Blade Dao fragments in her wounds, then challenged him to continue fighting. Long Yuan transformed into a thousand-zhang Nine-Clawed Giant Dragon, while Zhao Leer stood her ground beneath his shadow.

• Zhao Leer crushed the golden Blade Dao fragments she had dug from her wounds and advanced on Long Yuan, vowing to bite him after he cut her.
• Long Yuan planted his golden longsword in the ground and proposed settling their fight through their physical strength.
• Long Yuan roared and transformed into a thousand-zhang golden Nine-Clawed Giant Dragon that nearly filled Arena.
• Zhao Leer faced the colossal dragon without retreating, her mad smile growing more intense.

Zhao Leer fought Long Yuan by corroding his scales and flesh, but his rapid recovery and dwindling strength drove him to unleash Dragon Ancestor's Descent. The attack overwhelmed her, dissolving her body until only her head remained in the golden light.

• Zhao Leer pierced Long Yuan's belly scales with her blood blades and corroded them, but he struck at her with his tail as his scales quickly regenerated.
• Zhao Leer climbed Long Yuan's flank and flooded the gaps in his neck scales with corrosive blood mist, injuring him and making his golden blood spill onto the Arena.
• Long Yuan felt his strength draining from the wound and warned Zhao Leer that he would kill her with Dragon Ancestor's Descent.
• Long Yuan spat a golden sphere that summoned a Dragon Ancestor phantom, whose pillar of light crushed Zhao Leer and dissolved her body until only her head remained.

Zhao Leer survived the destruction of her body by burning her soul and bloodline to attack Long Yuan, and the two died together on the Arena. She then returned to her childlike form and walked away, leaving the crowd to realize that she had won.

• Long Yuan believed Zhao Leer was dead after Dragon Ancestor's Descent destroyed her body, but her head revived and formed a body from blood mist.
• Zhao Leer engulfed Long Yuan in decaying energy and revealed she had burned her soul to take him down with her.
• Zhao Leer's blood mist consumed Long Yuan's life, and his body crumbled into fragments.
• Zhao Leer's head fell to the Arena and transformed into her childlike form, with her body restored.
• Zhao Leer left the Arena, and everyone recognized her as the victor while Long Yuan lay dead.

Zhao Leer defeated and killed Long Yuan, leaving the Origin Continent’s cultivators shaken as their side began losing consecutive battles again. The contestants prepared for the worst, hoping to win enough matches to force a draw among the thirty-six battles.

• Zhao Leer walked down from the arena alive, and the Chaos Ancient Clan’s experts sighed with relief.
• The Origin Continent’s spectators reacted furiously to Long Yuan’s death and feared their younger generation would be wiped out.
• A young man on the contestants’ viewing platform questioned how Long Yuan could have lost after gaining an early advantage.
• A cultivator urged his fellow contestants to give everything they had and at least end the thirty-six battles in a draw.

The eleventh battle was drawn, and Yun Qingyin stepped onto the Arena for the Origin Continent as the Chaos Ancient Clan chose its fighter. The chapter ended with the Chaos fighter promising to show her mercy.

• The draw announced that the next match was number eleven.
• Yun Qingyin stepped forward for the Origin Continent, carrying a green zither, as her fellow cultivators warned and encouraged her.
• The Chaos Ancient Clan's champions admired Yun Qingyin and called for their fighter to come out.
• The Chaos fighter faced Yun Qingyin and said he would be merciful.

Xu Xun faced Yun Qingyin in the Arena and promised to let her make three attacks without striking back. The match was about to begin, with Yun Qingyin preparing her azure zither.

• Xu Xun walked toward the Arena as Chaos Ancient Clan experts behind him mocked his promise to show mercy.
• Xu Xun introduced himself and told Yun Qingyin he would block and evade for three moves, conceding if she injured him.
• Yun Qingyin stepped onto the Arena, where the Gold-Patterned Restriction responded gently to her presence.
• Yun Qingyin lowered her head and rested her fingers on the strings of her azure zither.

Yun Qingyin challenged Xu Xun with three musical attacks in the Arena, but he endured her first two moves with little damage. She began her final attack by plucking all seven strings at once.

• Yun Qingyin accepted Xu Xun’s invitation and sent a sound lotus toward him with her first move.
• The sound lotus tore Xu Xun’s robe, but an invisible defense left his skin unharmed.
• Yun Qingyin’s second move formed an azure river of sound, which Xu Xun stopped with a palm-generated vacuum barrier.
• Xu Xun judged the second attack about five times stronger than the first and warned Yun Qingyin that she had one move left.
• Yun Qingyin placed both hands on the strings and plucked all seven at once for her third move.

Xu Xun endured and destroyed Yun Qingyin’s final sonic attack, then declared that the three moves were over and launched a punch at her musical barrier. The chapter ended as his fist struck the barrier.

• Yun Qingyin’s seven-string attack formed a cage of sonic runes around Xu Xun and battered him.
• Xu Xun’s purple markings healed his wounds and shattered the musical cage.
• Xu Xun told Yun Qingyin that her three moves were over and said it was his turn.
• Xu Xun vanished and reappeared above Yun Qingyin as she formed a cyan musical barrier.
• Xu Xun struck the center of the barrier with a punch powered by pure physical strength.

Xu Xun and Yun Qingyin continued their duel, testing the power of his mysterious bodily patterns against her musical defenses. Xu Xun revealed that the patterns had aided and protected him since birth, and he faced Yun Qingyin’s soundwaves and piercing notes with renewed battle intent.

• Yun Qingyin’s barrier absorbed Xu Xun’s punch but cracked, forcing her to step back and wonder what was sealed inside him.
• Xu Xun explained that mysterious patterns had helped him withstand impacts and grow stronger throughout his thirty thousand years of boxing practice.
• Xu Xun declared the patterns were part of him and launched a left-handed punch at Yun Qingyin.
• Yun Qingyin used bass notes to blunt the punch and high notes to cut shallow, bloody marks across Xu Xun’s arm.
• Xu Xun examined the wounds and licked a blood pearl as his blue eyes lit up.

Yun Qingyin countered Xu Xun’s Fist Dao: Hundred Tendrils with layered soundwave defenses, then severed his purple tentacles with a cyan shockwave. She prepared a new technique as the chapter ended.

• Xu Xun unleashed dozens of purple, rune-tipped tendrils that attacked Yun Qingyin from every direction.
• Yun Qingyin formed layers of cyan soundwave rings, but Xu Xun’s tendrils began consuming them faster than she could replenish them.
• Yun Qingyin swept across her zither strings and released a sharp sonic shockwave that severed the tendrils and made Xu Xun’s arm patterns dim.
• Xu Xun revealed that each tentacle was connected to his origin, then praised Yun Qingyin for surprising him.
• Yun Qingyin’s eyes lit with seven points matching the zither’s strings, and she addressed Xu Xun.

Yun Qingyin unleashed her Musical Dao: Seven-Colored Collapse against Xu Xun, but he shattered the attack with a precisely placed punch. The exchange left Xu Xun injured and Yun Qingyin bleeding, and she questioned how he had found the attack’s weak point.

• Yun Qingyin warned Xu Xun that she would no longer hold back and summoned Seven-Colored Collapse, forming a colossal cyan pillar from seven converging melodies.
• Xu Xun struck a tiny weak point in the pillar with one punch, breaking it apart into cyan glimmers.
• Xu Xun remained standing with bloody wounds across his knuckles, while Yun Qingyin stepped back and bled from the corner of her lips.
• Yun Qingyin asked whether Xu Xun could see fissures in the laws, and Xu Xun said he could not.

Xu Xun trusted the unseen force within him as Yun Qingyin challenged it with her strongest sonic attack. As the barrage wounded him, the force emerged and transformed him, leaving him grinning wildly on the Arena.

• Xu Xun told Yun Qingyin he trusted the force inside him to guide his attacks.
• Yun Qingyin unleashed Myriad Strings, Severing Sound, filling the Arena with sonic attacks aimed at Xu Xun.
• Xu Xun fought back with purple shockwaves but was overwhelmed and badly wounded by the relentless barrage.
• Xu Xun roared, and his purple markings blazed as the force within him emerged.
• Xu Xun appeared covered in denser purple runes, with vortices in his eyes, and told Yun Qingyin he had come out.

Xu Xun’s awakened power drove him into a frenzied assault on Yun Qingyin. Yun Qingyin struggled to defend herself with her zither as Xu Xun’s attacks overwhelmed her.

• Xu Xun announced that the being within him had awakened and wanted a proper fight with Yun Qingyin.
• Xu Xun lunged at Yun Qingyin and smashed through her sonic barrier, bruising her arms with a punch.
• Xu Xun demanded that Yun Qingyin keep playing and charged at her again at nearly twice his previous speed.
• Yun Qingyin raised barriers and sent out attacks with her zither, but Xu Xun shattered them and pressed his assault.
• Yun Qingyin retreated under the barrage, suffering cuts to her dress and hair and bleeding from the corner of her lips.