Chapter Summaries

The Thunder Emperor cornered Shen Xiu and demanded his fifteen soul fragments, overpowering him when he resisted. After Shen Xiu revealed that Xiao Chen was his master, the Thunder Emperor warned his demons not to provoke Xiao Chen, but they dismissed the threat.

• The Thunder Emperor surrounded Shen Xiu with fifteen powerful demons and demanded that he submit or face death.
• Shen Xiu attacked, but the Thunder Emperor intercepted his blow and severely injured him while the demons were struck down.
• The Thunder Emperor demanded Shen Xiu's fifteen soul fragments, and Shen Xiu agreed to hand them over in exchange for being allowed to leave.
• Shen Xiu revealed that Xiao Chen was his master and warned the Thunder Emperor of their close bond; the Thunder Emperor left with his demons after accepting the fragments.
• The Thunder Emperor told the demons Xiao Chen was a Heaven-rank alchemist with Saint Domain Middle Stage strength, but they mocked the warning.

Shen Xiu and the Thunder Emperor led a group toward Thunder City, where Shen Xiu fought an old man who overpowered him with a Black Hammer. As Shen Xiu was battered and appeared to break through, he invoked his grandfather’s strength, and his aura began growing more terrifying.

• Shen Xiu revealed an aura that shocked the devils, while the Thunder Emperor praised his talent and ordered the group to pursue him.
• Shen Xiu led the Thunder Emperor and the devils toward Thunder City, refused a sneak attack, and asked the Thunder Emperor to kill the devils if necessary.
• At the City Lord’s Mansion, an old man attacked Shen Xiu, knocking him down and wounding him, but Shen Xiu fought back and made the old man spit blood.
• The old man used his Black Hammer to wound Shen Xiu severely as Shen Yueru and Lin Xue'er watched in alarm.
• Shen Xiu’s power surged as he appeared to break through, and he challenged the old man to witness his grandfather’s strength.

Shen Xiu fought a Half-Saint from the Myriad Beast Sect, but the old man overpowered him, shattered his sword, and captured him to drain and refine his body. As the old man attacked him again, golden light and immense pressure erupted from Shen Xiu, revealing that he had hidden strength.

• Shen Xiu clashed with the old man, wounded him with a sword strike, and learned that the Nine Dragon Soul Annihilation Fist concealed a deadly attack.
• The old man unleashed the fist's full power, shattered Shen Xiu's azure sword, and beat him down despite Shen Xiu's attempts to fight and flee.
• The old man captured Shen Xiu and threatened to refine his body into primordial energy for the Myriad Beast Sect, while claiming Shen Xiu's body was drained and his dantian ruptured.
• When the old man attacked Shen Xiu from behind, golden light and overwhelming pressure erupted from Shen Xiu, forcing the old man to retreat.

Shen Xiu fought the old man of the Myriad Beast Sect, who pursued him for his treasures and threatened his friends. After the old man revealed the Essence Devouring Stele, Shen Xiu counterattacked but was overwhelmed and left badly wounded beneath the stele.

• Shen Xiu offered his treasures in exchange for the old man leaving Xuanzhou City, but the old man refused and chased him as he fled.
• The old man struck Shen Xiu down repeatedly, while Shen Xiu healed himself and insisted his powerful friends would defeat the Myriad Beast Sect.
• The old man pierced Shen Xiu with a Soul Power attack and threatened to use the Essence Devouring Stele to devour him and create a powerful puppet.
• Shen Xiu refused to surrender, healed his wounds, and attacked with a bronze longsword, but the old man shattered his defenses and overwhelmed him with weapons.
• The old man’s attacks left Shen Xiu gravely wounded beneath the Essence Devouring Stele.

Shen Xiu used his golden Sarira to resist the old man’s soul-devouring attacks and overpower his black python, but the Demonic Cult leader pursued him with the Ghost Shadow Clone Technique. The chapter ended with Shen Xiu catching a Ghost Shadow clone in his hand.

• The old man tried to devour Shen Xiu’s soul, but Shen Xiu’s Sarira shattered the black mouth and protected him.
• The old man summoned a black python, and Shen Xiu’s Sarira destroyed it and drove the old man into the ground.
• Shen Xiu taunted the old man and fled, but the old man pursued him using the Ghost Shadow Clone Technique.
• A Ghost Shadow clone attacked Shen Xiu with a dagger, but his barrier stopped the strike, and Shen Xiu seized the clone.

Shen Xiu defeated the Ghost Shadow Clone and faced a group of Half-step Transcendent Realm experts who tried to kill him while he was injured. After absorbing the spiritual energy from a talisman’s mountain, he unleashed a powerful black Lei Long, leaving the remaining experts alarmed.

• Shen Xiu shattered the Ghost Shadow Clone’s dagger, then killed the clone with successive punches.
• Shen Xiu escaped a rain of falling boulders and confronted the Half-step Transcendent Realm experts who had tracked him.
• The experts attacked Shen Xiu, but he resisted their sword strikes with the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Sword and killed several with his Sword Aura.
• One expert used a talisman to summon a mountain of spiritual energy, which Shen Xiu struck with his spear and absorbed into his body.
• Shen Xiu released a powerful surge of energy that formed a huge black Lei Long above his head, startling the remaining experts.

Shen Xiu overwhelmed the Half-step Transcendent Realm experts with his lightning martial spirit and immense strength, killing some and forcing the others to submit. After he left, the survivors hid the bodies and discussed his connection to the Shen Family and his possible future in Tianyuan City.

• Shen Xiu destroyed the experts’ Spirit Weapons, wounded six of them, and killed their leading expert with a spear thrust.
• Shen Xiu shattered the Fifth Prince’s half-step Saint Artifact, killed another expert, and warned the survivors not to attack recklessly or he would slaughter their clans.
• Shen Xiu left after sensing powerful auras approaching, then returned to strike the Fifth Prince and bury him beneath a collapsing mountain.
• The surviving experts begged for mercy, and Shen Xiu departed while they dragged the corpses into the valley.
• The Fifth Prince ordered the group to dispose of the bodies, and the onlookers revealed that Shen Xiu was the Shen Family Patriarch’s personal disciple.

Shen Xiu rejected the powerful experts’ offer to share the spirit core, then fought off those who pursued him and revealed his overwhelming strength. He reached the City Lord’s Mansion on his way to Heavenly Sun Academy, where a stone stele formed before him.

• The Fifth Prince offered to protect Tianyuan City, and Shen Xiu accepted him as a friend and promised to keep him safe.
• Shen Xiu refused to share the spirit core with the experts and left, but the Fifth Prince’s followers and other fighters confronted him outside.
• Shen Xiu burned several Martial Emperor Realm pursuers to ashes, then drove back another group with his pressure and declared himself a Spirit Venerable.
• Shen Xiu killed an expert who questioned his power and ordered the remaining fighters to leave before continuing toward Heavenly Sun Academy.
• Shen Xiu arrived at the City Lord’s Mansion, killed the elders who refused to leave, and formed a stone stele with spiritual light.

Shen Xiu challenged the students of the Eastern Region’s Number Two Heavenly Sun Academy while fighting Liang Shanyue, whose clan coveted Shen Xiu’s cultivation arts. Shen Xiu used a golden tower and a spirit weapon to overpower Liang Shanyue, then checked on his father and faced Liang Shanyue’s fear and demands.

• Shen Xiu publicly challenged the students of the Eastern Region’s Number Two Heavenly Sun Academy and threatened them if they refused to submit.
• Liang Shanyue attacked Shen Xiu and demanded his cultivation arts, but Shen Xiu summoned a golden tower that shattered Liang Shanyue’s armor and absorbed his spiritual energy.
• Liang Shanyue unleashed a secret technique, and a black figure blocked Shen Xiu’s attack and sent him flying.
• Shen Xiu attacked Liang Shanyue with a spirit weapon, stabbed him in the back, and collected his body after he fell.
• Shen Xiu checked his father and found him alive, then restrained Liang Shanyue as Liang Shanyue demanded to know what Shen Xiu wanted.

Shen Xiu fought Liang Shanyue and the Demon Sect disciples despite his injuries, but the battle turned into a chaotic fight when the Demon Sect Young Master attacked. Shen Xiu overwhelmed the disciples, though the confrontation remained unresolved.

• Liang Shanyue unleashed his strongest attack and badly injured Shen Xiu, but a dagger wielded by two masked Demon Sect figures stopped Shen Xiu from striking him down.
• The Demon Sect Young Master claimed he would handle Shen Xiu, while Liang Shanyue hoped the others would weaken one another and leave him a chance to survive.
• Shen Xiu attacked Liang Shanyue with an Azure Dragon phantom, but Liang Shanyue broke his True Yuan longsword and struck him with an azure whip.
• The Demon Sect Young Master wounded Shen Xiu with streaks of azure light and attacked him, while the other Demon Sect disciples joined the battle against Shen Xiu and Liang Shanyue.
• Shen Xiu knocked several Demon Sect disciples flying, then faced the surrounding group as they prepared to fight him together.
• Shen Xiu fought back with renewed power and battered the Demon Sect disciples, leaving them injured and coughing blood as he mocked them.

Shen Xiu overwhelmed the Demon Sect disciples with his immense strength, turning their attack into a massacre. After the survivors fled, he pursued and killed them, leaving the arena strewn with fallen disciples.

• Shen Xiu killed several Demon Sect disciples with punches and took a Storage Ring, warning the others not to challenge him.
• The Demon Sect disciples attacked with weapons and secret arts, but Shen Xiu dodged their strikes and defeated them despite briefly being pushed back by a powerful beast transformation.
• The crowd discussed Shen Xiu’s rise and revealed that he had become the Holy Son of the Devil Race and then the Holy Son of the Immortal Race.
• Shen Xiu launched a rapid assault, knocking all five Demon Sect disciples onto the arena and killing another disciple who could not defend himself.
• The remaining Demon Sect disciples fled and called for reinforcements, but Shen Xiu pursued them and killed them in a frenzied attack.

Shen Xiu fought the Demon Sect forces that had come to capture him, killing numerous disciples and Demon King experts despite being injured and outnumbered. After the Demon Sect elder ordered a massacre, Shen Xiu struck back and killed the elder, leaving the surviving disciples terrified.

• A figure descended amid heavenly lightning and demonic flames, and Shen Xiu recognized the newcomers as Demon Sect members before attacking them.
• Shen Xiu killed one Demon King expert with a punch, then fought the remaining experts and disciples with sword phantoms and the Black Dragon Spear.
• Shen Xiu overwhelmed the Demon Sect fighters, while onlookers considered killing him to take his treasures; he sensed a powerful enemy among the forces and retreated.
• The Demon Sect elder ordered his disciples to kill everyone, and Shen Xiu resumed fighting rather than flee.
• Shen Xiu severed the elder's claws with the Black Flood Dragon Halberd and smashed him into Blood Mist.

Shen Xiu fought the Demon Sect elders to save the Demon Sect disciples, breaking through a sealing formation and killing one elder before facing another in a fierce battle. After the elder struck him with a giant Blood-red Blade and Shen Xiu counterattacked, the elder began powering up again, leaving Shen Xiu retreating and channeling Soul Power into the Azure Dragon Crescent Blade.

• Shen Xiu escaped the Demon Sect elder’s attempt to seize him, but learned that a sealing formation suppressed his strength while empowering the elder.
• Shen Xiu pierced an elder with his halberd, killing him and breaking the formation’s Soul Suppressing Chains.
• Shen Xiu fought another Demon Sect elder, wielding the Azure Dragon Crescent Blade and forcing the elder back with a powerful strike.
• The elder attacked with a Blood-red Blade, and Shen Xiu answered with his longsword and the Blood-colored Vortex, but was struck into a mountain and coughed up blood.
• The Demon Sect elder summoned a blood-red pillar of light into his body, and Shen Xiu retreated while pouring Soul Power into the Azure Dragon Crescent Blade.

Shen Xiu defeated a powerful Demon Sect elder, then encountered another elder guarding the golden Spirit Pill and fought him after he swallowed a demonic core. The second elder caught Shen Xiu from behind and crushed his chest, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Shen Xiu exchanged devastating blows with a Demon Sect elder, then killed him with the Azure Dragon Crescent Blade and absorbed him into his soul space.
• Shen Xiu approached a golden sphere at the mountain summit, suspecting it was the legendary Spirit Pill, but another Demon Sect elder blocked his way.
• The second elder displayed a demonic core, swallowed it, and mocked Shen Xiu before Shen Xiu attacked.
• Shen Xiu pursued the elder at full speed, but the elder appeared behind him and struck his back, caving in Shen Xiu's chest and making him spit blood.

Shen Xiu survived the Demon Sect elder’s attack through a strange disappearance, then confronted the elder and was targeted by Blood Clan fighters. After defeating one attacker, Shen Xiu raced toward the Demon Emperor’s Tomb, with a black-robed man pursuing him.

• The Demon Sect elder stabbed Shen Xiu and seized him, but Shen Xiu’s body dissipated as the elder took the demonic core and headed into the Demon Mountains.
• Shen Xiu reappeared behind the elder, who revealed he planned to kill Shen Xiu and take his place as the Demon Sect’s new sect master.
• White beams attacked Shen Xiu, and two black-robed figures approached; Shen Xiu recognized them as members of the Blood Clan.
• Shen Xiu destroyed one black-robed man’s bloody maw and black spear with lightning, then declared he would claim the Demon Emperor’s treasure and flew toward the Demon Emperor’s Tomb.
• The black-robed man pursued Shen Xiu using a blood-colored rainbow.

Shen Xiu fought off the black-robed man and his Devil Race allies, defeating them with overwhelming attacks. When a much larger force arrived, he unleashed the Myriad Manifestations Sword Art, slaughtering many and severely injuring the survivors.

• Shen Xiu broke the black-robed man's attacks, while the clash razed the mountain range and forced the hidden Devil Race experts to retreat.
• The black-robed man released his devil soul, but Shen Xiu shattered the Demon Dragon Pearl and suffered backlash before striking him down with an earth-yellow pillar of light.
• The black-robed man led the other black-robed figures in an attack, but Shen Xiu cleaved him in half and a sudden energy storm destroyed the fleeing figures.
• A force of roughly a hundred black-robed figures and several thousand followers approached, and Shen Xiu attacked them with the Myriad Manifestations Sword Art, killing many and badly injuring the strongest survivors.

Shen Xiu defeated the Black-Robed Men of the Magic Cloud Sect who were trying to capture three girls, then reunited with his teacher, Old Master Shen. They fled to a remote mountain range, where Shen Xiu entered the forest while Old Master Shen hid inside his Storage Ring.

• Shen Xiu wiped out the Black-Robed Men's elite fighters and repelled their attacks with sword techniques.
• The Black-Robed Men unleashed their Soul Power and tried to overwhelm Shen Xiu, but he badly wounded them and killed a fleeing fighter.
• Shen Xiu demanded that the Black-Robed Men hand over the three girls; they identified themselves as members of the Magic Cloud Sect, then scattered when he killed more of their fighters.
• Shen Xiu heard Old Master Shen's voice and reunited with his teacher, who asked how Shen Xiu's strength had risen so quickly.
• Shen Xiu and Old Master Shen flew to a mountain range about five thousand li from Heavenly Flame City, where Shen Xiu entered the forest and Old Master Shen hid in his Storage Ring.

Shen Xiu entered a hidden passage and fought the Spirit Emperor Realm experts pursuing him, killing several with his Sword Domain and black sphere. He then approached an ancient stone stele surrounded by powerful spirit beasts, intent on hunting them.

• Old Master Shen entered the passage, and three Black-Robed Men followed him while vowing to capture him.
• Shen Xiu ambushed the pursuing experts, blocked a soul attack, and killed one with a claw strike empowered by his Sword Domain.
• Shen Xiu killed another expert with a palm strike and used his black sphere to swallow and destroy the fleeing Spirit Emperor Realm experts.
• Shen Xiu considered refining the dead experts into puppets and resolved to grow stronger by hunting spirit beasts.
• Shen Xiu reached a black stone stele guarded by Spirit Emperor Realm spirit beasts and pierced one beast, taking the black orb from its body.

Shen Xiu defeated spirit beasts in a secret realm, met the Shen Family disciples, and set out for Tianyang Commandery as his reputation spread across the Tianwu Continent. A mysterious white-robed man appeared before him and said he could send him to the commandery.

• Shen Xiu captured a Spirit Emperor-level spirit beast and killed another whose strength reached peak Saint King level.
• Shen Xiu entered a mountain range, defeated the Spirit Sect-level spirit beasts there, and met several hundred Shen Family disciples on the third small hill.
• Shen Xiu learned the Shen Family had found the secret realm and felt disappointed that Shen Ling was not among them.
• Shen Xiu gave spirit crystals, Spirit Weapons, and other treasures to two Spirit Sect-level experts, then traveled with them toward Tianyang Commandery.
• Shen Xiu's deeds made him famous across the Tianwu Continent, so he left it for Tianyang Commandery to avoid drawing the wary attention of its forces.
• A white-robed man appeared before Shen Xiu and offered to send him to Tianyang Commandery.

Shen Xiu traveled toward Tianyang Commandery with Li Xuan and tested the power of the Heavenly Demon Devouring Art, only to be caught in a fierce battle against Li Xuan. Their clash ended with Shen Xiu acknowledging defeat, though the contest had not been a true victory.

• Li Xuan introduced himself to Shen Xiu as a genius of the Li Clan and offered him a ride to Tianyang Commandery, while an old man later praised Shen Xiu's rapid rise and strength.
• As they traveled, Shen Xiu drew on the blood-red pearl in his dantian and summoned a giant blood-colored python, then sent it against Li Xuan.
• Li Xuan revealed that Shen Xiu was not truly fighting him, bound himself with black chains, and struck Shen Xiu with blood-colored energy and Sword Qi.
• Shen Xiu and his companions survived the python's attack, but Li Xuan summoned the Heavenly Thunder Sword and challenged Shen Xiu to decide the victor.
• Shen Xiu countered Li Xuan's attacks and struck him down, then acknowledged that he had lost the contest.