Chapter Summaries

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.

Nangong Yue defeated Crimson Refinement, giving the Origin Continent its first victory after three losses. The spectators and powerful figures celebrated, while Nangong Yue’s father looked ahead to Ye Lin’s upcoming battle and the Chaos Ancient Clan vowed not to lose again.

• The Origin Continent spectators and assembled powerful figures celebrated Nangong Yue’s victory over Crimson Refinement.
• Nangong Yue’s father said he had arranged her marriage to the Blade Saint’s fourth personal disciple and would hold the wedding if Ye Lin survived his battle.
• Nangong Yue’s father said he wanted to see Ye Lin’s ability for himself before accepting him as his son-in-law.
• The Chaos Ancient Clan contestants discussed Crimson Refinement’s defeat and warned that Nangong Yue might be targeted.
• The Chaos Ancient Clan contestants resolved that they could not afford to lose the next battle.

Song Ting faced Blood Baleful in the next Arena match and provoked him with flamboyant banter and changing appearances. Blood Baleful attacked him with his massive sword.

• The draw selected number twenty-nine, and Yan Ting regretted that he had not been chosen.
• Song Ting flamboyantly entered the Arena, and Yan Ting explained that the Rogue Cultivator had powerful connections and was more capable than he appeared.
• The Chaos Ancient Clan experts recognized Song Ting and urged Blood Baleful to kill him quickly.
• Song Ting teased Blood Baleful and transformed into a woman in a white dress to provoke him.
• Blood Baleful lost his patience and brought his massive sword crashing down at Song Ting.

Song Ting fought Blood Baleful in the Arena, using a conjured woman in white to evade his attacks before meeting his strongest blow with a multicolored shield. Their opposing powers collided in a fierce standoff that split the Arena in two.

• Song Ting conjured a graceful woman in white and sent her charging at Blood Baleful.
• Blood Baleful swung his greatsword, but the woman floated away from the strike and its wave of Killing Intent.
• Song Ting scattered into snow-white butterflies to evade Blood Baleful's sweeping energy blade, then re-formed nearby.
• Blood Baleful compressed the Killing Intent in his sword and brought it down toward Song Ting.
• Song Ting returned to his original form and raised a multicolored shield, which clashed with Blood Baleful's greatsword and divided the Arena with red and rainbow light.

Song Ting tested Blood Baleful with a barrage of Five Elements laws, then transformed into a nine-tailed fox and trapped him in illusions. Blood Baleful resisted the deception and struck at the Void, leaving the duel unresolved.

• Blood Baleful’s sword clashed with Song Ting’s shield, but Song Ting expanded it and forced him back three steps.
• Song Ting unleashed hundreds of spirit seals, while Blood Baleful endured the Five Elements assault with his Killing Intent.
• Blood Baleful advanced as Song Ting transformed into a snow-white nine-tailed fox and filled the Arena with illusions.
• Blood Baleful closed his eyes, opened them with scarlet light in his gaze, and brought his giant sword down at the Void amid the illusions.

Blood Baleful and Song Ting fought fiercely in the Arena, with Song Ting’s transformations overwhelming Blood Baleful and leaving him badly injured. As Song Ting mocked his apparent defeat, Blood Baleful raised his head and challenged him.

• Blood Baleful struck through Song Ting’s illusion and wounded his shoulder.
• Song Ting transformed into a giant black wolf and battered Blood Baleful with claws and his tail.
• Blood Baleful unleashed “Baleful: Unending,” whose corrosive Killing Intent forced Song Ting back into human form and injured him.
• Song Ting transformed into a golden elephant, a crimson Qilin, and a golden stone giant, injuring Blood Baleful and driving him to his knees.
• Song Ting returned to human form and taunted the kneeling Blood Baleful to surrender.
• Blood Baleful raised his head, demanded to know who had lost his spark, and Song Ting sprang backward too late.

Song Ting’s transformations gave him an early advantage, but Blood Baleful unleashed his boundless Killing Intent and overwhelmed him. Song Ting fell wounded in the Arena as the light in his eyes began to fade.

• Ye Lin watched Song Ting’s varied attacks and learned that his transformations also reproduced the powers of what he became.
• Blood Baleful rose and flooded the Arena with crimson-purple Killing Intent, transforming his body and greatsword.
• Song Ting transformed into a golden Divine Dragon and used its breath to counter Blood Baleful’s attack.
• Blood Baleful’s greatsword broke through the dragon’s breath, severed its foreclaw, and wounded its back.
• Song Ting crashed onto the Arena floor, bleeding gold as the light in his eyes flickered and faded.

Blood Baleful defeated Song Ting in the Arena by driving his greatsword through the golden dragon’s head, then collapsed from the backlash of the Killing Intent he had drawn into himself. The Boundary Sea Abyss celebrated while Origin Continent cultivators realized Blood Baleful might survive, but would suffer lasting torment.

• Song Ting gathered his remaining dragon breath for a final strike, but Blood Baleful plunged his greatsword through the dragon’s skull and killed him.
• The golden dragon dissipated, leaving Song Ting dead in human form as Blood Baleful knelt beside him, alive but drenched in blood.
• Blood Baleful forced out that he had won, then collapsed as the backlash from the Killing Intent overwhelmed him.
• The Boundary Sea Abyss erupted in cheers while the Origin Continent spectators stared in shock and grief.
• Origin Continent cultivators explained that the Killing Intent had contaminated Blood Baleful’s Primordial Spirit and true spirit, and a young man said surviving was better than dying.

After the Origin Continent lost its fourth battle, Yan Ting and the others faced the cost of the defeats and questioned whether they could overcome the Chaos Ancient Clan. The chapter ended with a Daoist-robed elder insisting that holding the arena competition had been the right decision.

• Yan Ting reflected that the Origin Continent had lost four battles, four top geniuses, and three great provinces despite Nangong Yue's victory.
• Ye Lin dismissed the other geniuses' despair and focused only on winning his own battle.
• An expert in the Endless Void said the fighter who drew Killing Intent into his body had sacrificed his future, confirming another loss for the Origin Continent.
• An expert questioned whether the arena competition had been a mistake after the Origin Continent lost four of five battles.
• A Daoist-robed elder declared that holding the competition had been an extremely correct decision.

Origin Continent’s powerful figures accepted that the Arena had bought them time against the Chaos Ancient Clan, even though their side had lost four of the first five battles. They rallied their confidence to avoid discouraging the remaining contestants.

• An old man argued that the Arena’s losses had exposed the gap between the Origin Continent and the Chaos Ancient Clan, while giving survivors a chance to grow stronger and buying time.
• The powerful figures agreed that delaying a full-scale invasion had been their true victory, even if some leaders grieved for fallen daughters and heirs.
• The spectators worried that the Origin Continent might lose most of the remaining Arena matches.
• The powerful figures urged one another to show confidence so their mood would not undermine the fighters still to compete.

Yan Ting faced Annihilation in the next match, while spectators argued that Yan Ting’s heavenly thunder gave him a decisive advantage over Annihilation’s Great Dao of the Undead. The fight had not yet begun when the chapter ended, and the outcome remained uncertain.

• Ye Lin recognized that Yan Ting had drawn match number fourteen and wished him luck.
• Yan Ting stepped into the Arena and called for his opponent to come forward.
• Annihilation emerged from the Chaos Ancient Clan, carrying a strange staff, and joined Yan Ting in the Arena.
• Yan Ting and Annihilation exchanged remarks before preparing to fight.
• A spectator explained that Yan Ting’s heavenly thunder was especially effective against Annihilation’s power, though the result would ultimately depend on their strength.

Yan Ting and Annihilation fought in the arena, where Annihilation's undead power countered Yan Ting's lightning. The two withdrew to a distance, and Yan Ting remarked that Annihilation's methods were as insidious as ever.

• Annihilation spread a gray undead domain across the arena with his staff.
• Yan Ting hurled a lightning spear at Annihilation, but Annihilation swallowed it with a column of undead mist.
• Yan Ting charged and attacked with lightning, while Annihilation's robe transformed into strips that summoned pale hands to corrode the lightning.
• Yan Ting cut Annihilation's shoulder with a thunderclap blade, and Annihilation struck Yan Ting's forearm with his staff, sending cold undead energy into it.
• Yan Ting burned away the yin energy, and the two fighters retreated; Yan Ting noted the lingering bruise and criticized Annihilation's insidious methods.

Yan Ting used the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder to overwhelm Annihilation with a relentless assault, leaving the Origin Continent cultivators expecting victory. Annihilation stopped retreating and summoned something as Yan Ting launched a powerful sixth punch.

• Annihilation remarked that Yan Ting's lightning still hurt, and Yan Ting formed lightning armor with the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder, First Form: Thunderfall.
• Yan Ting absorbed a pillar of lightning and struck Annihilation, scorching his hands and forcing him back seven steps.
• Yan Ting followed with a relentless series of punches that burned and wounded Annihilation while damaging his staff and dispersing the undead mist.
• Origin Continent cultivators cheered as Yan Ting seemed to have Annihilation beaten, while the Chaos Ancient Clan members remained confident that Annihilation had a hidden tactic.
• Yan Ting launched a sixth punch infused with seventy percent of his lightning power, and Annihilation held his staff across his body and murmured, "Summon!"

Annihilation summoned three Third Heaven Quasi-Saint undead that overwhelmed Yan Ting and drained his thunderclap power. With Yan Ting trapped and weakened, Annihilation approached him and revealed that he had prepared the attack especially for him.

• Annihilation shattered the skull ornament on his staff, releasing three Third Heaven Quasi-Saint undead.
• The curved-blade and bone-shield undead attacked Yan Ting while the chain undead bound and weakened him with its deathly aura.
• Yan Ting broke one chain with his lightning and struck the curved-blade undead, but the other two undead knocked him off balance and bound him again.
• The three undead trapped Yan Ting as Annihilation formed a sinister hand seal and told him the attack had been prepared especially for him.

Yan Ting transformed his body into a Thunder Dao Sacred Body and broke free of Annihilation’s undead assault. He drove back the three undead, turning the battle on the arena.

• Annihilation’s three Third Heaven Quasi-Saint undead overwhelmed Yan Ting as spectators on both islands reacted to his apparent defeat.
• As Annihilation’s deathly aura descended, Yan Ting opened his eyes and invoked the Thunder Dao Sacred Body.
• Yan Ting concentrated his lightning power into his heart, then reforged his entire body into a vessel of heavenly lightning.
• Yan Ting shattered his chains and blasted the three undead away, suppressing them with his lightning power.

Yan Ting unleashed Great Dao Divine Thunder, destroying Annihilation’s three undead and shattering his staff. Exhausted but victorious, Yan Ting moved to finish Annihilation, who smiled and questioned whether he had truly lost.

• Yan Ting formed and released Great Dao Divine Thunder, drawing on the laws of thunder across a million li.
• Yan Ting’s divine thunder destroyed Annihilation’s three undead and broke apart his staff, purifying the undead mist within it.
• Annihilation stood exposed and defenseless as Yan Ting’s lightning faded and his strength nearly gave out.
• Yan Ting approached Annihilation, declared that he had lost, and raised his hand to strike.
• Annihilation smiled and asked, “Have I lost?”

Annihilation transformed into a Fourth Heaven Quasi-Saint monster by calling the vengeful spirits within him back into his body. He overwhelmed and killed Yan Ting, then howled over the fallen fighter.

• Annihilation summoned the vengeful spirits he had slain and refined, transforming into a monster and breaking through to the Fourth Heaven Quasi-Saint Realm.
• Yan Ting, nearly out of strength, attacked the monster, but his lightning failed to pierce its bone armor.
• The monster slammed Yan Ting into the Arena, shattered his Thunder Dao Sacred Body, and wounded him with its claws.
• Annihilation said the killing blow was repayment, then pierced Yan Ting's chest and killed him.
• The thunder crystals on Yan Ting's body crumbled as the monster howled with the cries of the vengeful spirits and Annihilation's fading thought.

Annihilation turned into an undead monster and charged toward the Origin Continent spectators' island. The experts tried to stop it, but it brushed aside their combined attacks as the island's cultivators fled.

• Annihilation roared atop the Arena, then left it and headed for the spectators' island.
• The Holy Lord of the Heavenly Thunder Sacred Land struck with a Great Dao Divine Thunder, but a gray giant hand shattered the attack and warned him not to interfere.
• The experts argued that the Arena's contestants should settle the matter themselves, while the monster drew within a hundred li of the island.
• Third Heaven Quasi-Saint experts attacked together, but the monster crushed all their attacks with one claw.
• The island's cultivators began fleeing, and the experts continued attacking the monster.

Annihilation overwhelmed the gathered cultivators, whose attacks could not harm him, while the Chaos Ancient Clan experts mocked them. The monster then targeted Shen Chen, leaving the others unable to intervene.

• Chaos Ancient Clan experts laughed as Annihilation held off the group of cultivators.
• The cultivators and some spectators attacked Annihilation, but their attacks had no effect.
• One cultivator proposed breaking through to the Fourth Heaven Quasi-Saint Realm, but another urged everyone to keep attacking rather than risk damaging their foundation.
• Annihilation roared, released a shockwave that sent countless figures flying, and declared that those who blocked him would die.
• Annihilation appeared before Shen Chen and severed his connection to the laws, while the other cultivators were blasted back before they could reach him.

Shen Chen’s Purple Zenith Lightning failed against the Fourth Heaven Quasi-Saint Realm monster, leaving him trapped until Ye Lin intervened. Ye Lin killed the monster with one sword, stunning the watching cultivators.

• Shen Chen attacked the monster with Purple Zenith Lightning, but it caught and crushed the lightning.
• The monster reached for Shen Chen, while the other cultivators could not get close enough to save him.
• Ye Lin’s sword appeared and blocked the monster’s claw, giving Shen Chen time to retreat.
• Ye Lin arrived, summoned Divine Evolution to his hand, and struck the monster with Heaven-Opening.
• The monster gradually dissipated, and the cultivators stared in shock at its death.