Recaps

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.

Yun Qingyin used Music Dao: Final String, burning her spirit veins, soul, and life force to destroy Xu Xun. She won the battle but vanished into the Arena’s golden net of laws.

• Yun Qingyin pinned down the bloodstained strings and unleashed Music Dao: Final String by sacrificing her life force.
• Yun Qingyin sent a ray of sound that erased everything in its path toward Xu Xun.
• Xu Xun said the being inside him would not dodge and accepted that they would perish together.
• The ray shattered Xu Xun’s body, Primordial Spirit, and true spirit, erasing him completely.
• Yun Qingyin smiled as her zither and body dissolved into cyan light and merged into the golden net of laws.

Yun Qingyin died after trading her life for a victory, leaving the Origin Continent cultivators mourning her while the Chaos Ancient Clan raged over the defeat. The clan tried to deter others from following her example, but its threat was rejected by cultivators who cited their powerful backers.

• Yun Qingyin was declared the winner of the battle after dying to secure victory.
• Ye Lin's remaining participants and the watching Origin Continent cultivators paid their respects to Yun Qingyin and vowed to remember her.
• Some cultivators considered following Yun Qingyin's path and trading their lives for victory.
• Chaos Ancient Clan powerhouses cursed their dead fighter for losing despite dying and called his death worthless.
• A Chaos Ancient Clan powerhouse threatened anyone who imitated the fighter, but other cultivators mocked him and named their Half-Step Saint ancestors as backers.
• Someone stopped the Chaos Ancient Clan powerhouse before he could respond further.

After Xu Xun’s death, the Chaos Ancient Clan spectators condemned him for showing off instead of surviving, while the Origin Continent mourned Yun Qingyin in silence. The Origin Continent’s leaders urged their fighters to prolong the Arena battles where possible as they continued trying to cultivate a new Saint, though both sides’ true intentions remained unclear.

• The Chaos Ancient Clan spectators argued that Xu Xun had needlessly acted himself to death despite being able to win and survive.
• The Origin Continent mourned Yun Qingyin in silence, contrasting with the Chaos Ancient Clan’s angry accusations.
• A supreme powerhouse in the Void told the Origin Continent’s fighters to drag out the battles when they could, while winning if possible.
• The Origin Continent’s leaders continued using the Arena battles to buy time and find powerhouses who could receive resources to become a new Saint.
• Both sides kept their plans hidden as the Arena battles continued.

Yan Wuji of the Heavenly Fire Sect faced Xiao Xuan, a man who had vanished into the Boundary Sea thirty thousand years earlier and joined the Chaos Ancient Clan. Xiao Xuan said he intended to die in the match without losing, while Yan Wuji refused to concede.

• The draw selected number eighteen, and Yan Wuji introduced himself before stepping onto the Arena.
• A black-robed man carrying a massive sword approached, startling the Chaos Ancient Clan's experts.
• Yan Wuji recognized the newcomer as Xiao Xuan, who had disappeared thirty thousand years ago after being hunted by the Three Great Sects.
• Xiao Xuan said the Chaos Ancient Clan had avenged him and cleared his name, and that he would not leave the match alive or lose.
• Xiao Xuan urged Yan Wuji to concede, but Yan Wuji refused.

Yan Wuji and Xiao Xuan agreed to fight despite understanding each other’s reasons for refusing to surrender. Their first exchange ended with Xiao Xuan breaking apart Yan Wuji’s Flame Qilin, and they prepared to continue.

• Ye Lin learned that Xiao Xuan had sought refuge with the Chaos Ancient Clan after the Three Great Sects destroyed his family and hunted him for avenging them.
• Yan Wuji refused to surrender, and Xiao Xuan agreed to fight him while promising to protect him if he could.
• Yan Wuji summoned a Flame Qilin with his Blazing Flame Great Dao and sent it charging at Xiao Xuan.
• Xiao Xuan blocked the Qilin’s attack, struck it with his greatsword, and kicked apart its flames.
• Yan Wuji praised the weight of Xiao Xuan’s sword strike, and Xiao Xuan noted that they had not fought thirty thousand years earlier.

Xiao Xuan and Yan Wuji exchanged thoughts on their weapons before Yan Wuji tested his full-strength punch against Xiao Xuan’s greatsword. Yan Wuji’s blow damaged the blade and forced Xiao Xuan back, while the sword’s rebound injured Yan Wuji; both fighters acknowledged the other’s strength.

• Xiao Xuan explained that he had wielded increasingly heavy swords, and that his current greatsword was the heaviest and only he could lift it.
• Yan Wuji declared that his punch contained the entirety of his lifetime cultivating the Blazing Flame Great Dao and charged at Xiao Xuan.
• Xiao Xuan swept his greatsword across his chest and blocked Yan Wuji’s punch, which drove him back and left a deep fist mark in the blade.
• Xiao Xuan said no one had punched a Sword Seal into his blade in thirty thousand years, while Yan Wuji’s fist was scorched by the sword’s rebounding force.
• Yan Wuji shook off the damaged skin on his knuckles and praised the hardness of Xiao Xuan’s sword.

Xiao Xuan and Yan Wuji continued testing each other’s strength in the Arena, and Xiao Xuan revealed the durability of his greatsword and the speed of his swordsmanship. The chapter ended with Yan Wuji wounded by Xiao Xuan’s powerful slash and remarking that it was far faster than Xiao Xuan’s sword strikes thirty thousand years earlier.

• Xiao Xuan explained that his greatsword had been forged from a primordial creature’s spinal fossil and tempered for twenty thousand years, and Yan Wuji learned his earlier strike had used only thirty percent of its full force.
• Yan Wuji attacked again with successive punches, and Xiao Xuan blocked them with his sword and knee while gauging their speed and force.
• Xiao Xuan described how Yan Wuji’s punches were precisely calculated, and Yan Wuji recognized that Xiao Xuan had been testing him.
• Xiao Xuan enveloped himself in dark-silver light and brought down a sword phantom that carved a groove into the Arena floor.
• Yan Wuji dodged the slash but suffered a shallow cut on his left arm, then remarked that Xiao Xuan’s strike was more than three times faster than it had been thirty thousand years earlier.

Xiao Xuan and Yan Wuji fought in the Arena, where Yan Wuji unleashed a meteor storm of flame laws to push Xiao Xuan to his limit. Xiao Xuan endured the bombardment and charged toward Yan Wuji, taking the falling meteors on his back.

• Xiao Xuan said he had become faster because he wanted to be, and Yan Wuji asked whether the past thirty thousand years had been hard on him.
• Xiao Xuan said he had only been waiting for a time when he no longer needed to wait, and Yan Wuji vowed to force him to his limit.
• Yan Wuji unleashed golden-white flame laws that formed clouds and rained flaming meteors over the Arena.
• Xiao Xuan raised a sword-light curtain to block the meteors, enduring repeated impacts that injured his arms and made blood seep from his mouth.
• Xiao Xuan shifted his greatsword into a forward thrust and charged toward Yan Wuji, taking the falling meteors on his back.

Xiao Xuan lowered his sword after Yan Wuji urged him to let go of his hatred, but neither fighter would admit defeat. They prepared to unleash their greatest attacks, leaving the outcome of their clash unresolved.

• Xiao Xuan held his sword at Yan Wuji’s shoulder, then withdrew it after Yan Wuji told him to separate the living person before him from the hatred of his past.
• Xiao Xuan asked Yan Wuji to strike with all his strength, and Yan Wuji refused to admit defeat before readying his fists.
• Yan Wuji covered himself in golden-white Dao marks and summoned a Flame Qilin, warning Xiao Xuan that his ultimate punch might destroy him.
• Xiao Xuan raised his greatsword and formed an enormous sword phantom bearing the essence of his thirty thousand years of sword cultivation.

Xiao Xuan survived Yan Wuji’s final punch, and Yan Wuji accepted defeat and died. After saying he had settled everything, Xiao Xuan killed himself on the Arena and vanished into a point of dark-silver light.

• Yan Wuji’s golden-white attack collided with Xiao Xuan’s sword phantom, tearing open the Holy Palace’s laws and cracking the Coiling Dragon Pillars.
• Both men remained standing after the clash, though they were gravely wounded.
• Yan Wuji knelt before Xiao Xuan’s sword, admitted defeat, and died in golden-white flames after asking Xiao Xuan to wait for him.
• Xiao Xuan traced the fist mark on his greatsword and said he was going down to find Yan Wuji.
• Xiao Xuan drove the greatsword into his chest, turned into dark-silver light, and disappeared.

Yan Wuji and Xiao Xuan died in the Arena, giving the Chaos Ancient Clan victory. Xiao Xuan’s sacrifice earned the enemy’s respect, while the Origin Continent mourned both fallen prodigies and began to doubt it could win.

• Yan Wuji and Xiao Xuan died in the battle, and the Chaos Ancient Clan claimed victory.
• Chaos Ancient Clan powerhouses praised Xiao Xuan for fighting to repay their kindness and choosing death over surrender.
• The Origin Continent’s cultivators mourned Yan Wuji and Xiao Xuan, recognizing that Xiao Xuan had once been driven away by their own side.
• Origin Continent cultivators recalled their string of defeats and questioned whether they could still win.

Supreme powerhouses in the endless Void debated whether the Arena was needlessly killing the Origin Continent’s young prodigies, but an aged voice defended the test as a way to find those worthy of nurturing. The powerhouses accepted the argument and began studying their own opponents ahead of their future Arena battles.

• A supreme powerhouse questioned whether they were right to let promising young talents die on the Arena.
• Another voice argued that the Arena exposed whether the prodigies were strong enough to deserve further nurturing.
• The powerhouses agreed that the Origin Continent could not afford to wait for potential Saints to emerge by other means.
• An aged voice urged the powerhouses to trust the young fighters and warned them not to perform worse when their own Arena battles came.
• The powerhouses fell silent and began studying their opponents.

The next tournament match began between Li Tian of the Origin Continent and Ling'er of the Chaos Ancient Clan. Li Tian's powerful first axe passed through Ling'er without harming her, leaving the fight's outcome unresolved.

• The tournament resumed with the factions drawing lots for the next match.
• Ling'er appeared for the Chaos Ancient Clan, and Li Tian stepped forward to represent the Origin Continent.
• Ye Lin watched Li Tian and sensed that he was a powerful opponent.
• Li Tian and Ling'er introduced themselves on the Arena.
• Li Tian attacked with his first axe, but its phantom blade passed through Ling'er and struck the Arena instead.