Chapter Summaries

Xiao Han confronted the Shadow Demon Sect and revealed that he had come to attack despite Sect Master Ying Wu Yi offering him a chance to withdraw. As the sect launched its formation and prepared to surround him, a thunderous boom from above left everyone stunned.

• Xiao Han advanced through the Shadow Demon Sect and forced its hidden members to appear in the square.
• Ying Wu Yi recognized Xiao Han as a Spirit Array Master and asked why he had come to target the sect.
• Xiao Han refused to give a reason beyond wanting to cause trouble, and Ying Wu Yi ordered the Shadow Demon Sect to form the Shadow Prison Heavenly Demon Formation.
• Ying Wu Yi warned Xiao Han to withdraw, but Xiao Han mocked the ultimatum, prompting Ying Wu Yi to order an attack.
• A thunderous boom drew the crowd's attention overhead, and Ying Wu Yi cried out that what he saw was impossible.

Xiao Han turned the Shadow Demon Sect’s three Sect Protecting Arrays against its forces and rejected Ying Wu Yi’s offer of compensation. He trapped Ying Wu Yi in the Ten Directions Dragon Prison Array after resisting his assassination attempt, leaving the Shadow Demon Sect’s leaders and experts fighting for survival.

• Xiao Han revealed and controlled the Blood Shadow Submerged Shark Array, Eternal Night Grand Array, and Crimson Gold Defense Array, while Ying Wu Yi failed to activate them with his own array talismans.
• Ying Wu Yi offered Xiao Han one hundred million drops of Supreme Spirit Liquid, but Xiao Han launched the arrays at the Shadow Demon Sect instead.
• The Fox Fairy Sect Group learned that Xiao Han had turned the sect’s defenses against it, and Hong Yan ordered them to wait for his signal before clearing out the remnants.
• Xiao Han used the Crimson Gold Defense Array to cage the Black Scorpion and the Eternal Night Grand Array to trap nearly twenty Supremes, while the Blood Shadow Submerged Shark Array attacked Ying Wu Yi’s remaining forces.
• Ying Wu Yi ambushed Xiao Han with Shadow Binding Kill, but his dagger struck Xiao Han’s body with a metallic clang.
• Xiao Han trapped Ying Wu Yi in the Ten Directions Dragon Prison Array, and Ying Wu Yi realized that Xiao Han had carved Spirit Arrays onto his body.

Xiao Han used his Spirit Arrays to overwhelm the Shadow Demon Sect, killing its experts while Ying Wu Yi fought inside the Ten Directions Dragon Prison Array. The battered Grand Supreme made a final charge, but struck the Crimson Gold Defense Array trapping the sect’s tens of thousands of members.

• Xiao Han’s Ten Directions Dragon Prison Array attacked Ying Wu Yi with ten dragon shadows while a Shadow Demon Sect Grand Supreme trapped Xiao Han in a mental illusion.
• Xiao Han’s Divine Soul overwhelmed the attacker, and a blood-colored shark swallowed the wounded Grand Supreme.
• Ying Wu Yi summoned his Sky Shadow Dharma Body and used Shadow Sky Demon Prison against the dragons, but Xiao Han’s Dragon Slaying technique broke his assault.
• Xiao Han turned the Blood Shadow Submerged Shark Array against the Shadow Demon Sect experts, leaving only the Grand Supreme and five others able to fight.
• After the remaining fighters were defeated, the injured Grand Supreme charged Xiao Han but slammed his Dharma Body into the Crimson Gold Defense Array trapping the sect members.

Xiao Han defeated the Shadow Demon Sect’s Supreme Elder, Ying Wu Yi, and the sect’s other fighters, then recovered from the strain of using multiple powerful Spirit Arrays. After he sent the agreed signal, Hong Yan led the Fox Fairy Sect group toward the Shadow Demon Sect’s mountain gate.

• The Supreme Elder shattered the Crimson Gold Great Bell by detonating his Supreme Dharma Body, then died from his injuries.
• Xiao Han used the Four Spirits Sealing God Array to bind the Black Scorpion and kill its Shadow Demon Sect fighters.
• Xiao Han’s Ten Directions Dragon Prison Array destroyed Ying Wu Yi and his Dharma Body, leaving no one alive on the plaza.
• Xiao Han purified the plaza and spent several hours cultivating to recover from the strain of his Spirit Arrays.
• Hong Yan and the Fox Fairy Sect group waited outside the headquarters until a Giant Ice Spear appeared as the agreed signal.
• Hong Yan told Qing Xuan to inform the Sect Master that they could move against the Shadow Demon Sect, then led the group toward its mountain gate.

Xiao Han searched the Shadow Demon Sect’s treasure vault and found a cache of Supreme Spirit Liquid, a Nine Nether Jade Marrow Heart, and other rare treasures. He sealed the discoveries away and left with the mountain containing the vault transformed into a Black Palace.

• Xiao Han opened the Shadow Demon Sect’s treasure vault with Ying Wu Yi’s Sect Master token and inspected its vast collection of treasures and Ninth-Grade Array Diagrams.
• Xiao Han collected more than a hundred million units of Supreme Spirit Liquid from the vault’s pool.
• Xiao Han found a Jade Box containing Nine Nether Jade Marrow Heart and realized it could advance his cultivation and provide material for a powerful weapon.
• Xiao Han sealed the Jade Box, inspected the remaining boxes, and discovered another treasure in the final wooden box.
• Xiao Han walked out of the vault, destroyed the surrounding mountain range, and carried away a Black Palace.

Xiao Han left the destroyed Shadow Demon Sect headquarters to the Fox Fairy Sect, which swiftly seized the sect’s branches and wealth. He returned to the Northern Azure Continent and began cultivating with the Nine Nether Jade Marrow Heart in a prepared secret realm.

• Xiao Han left Hong Yan and the Fox Fairy Sect elders to search the Shadow Demon Sect headquarters, then departed after reminding them he would visit in two months.
• The Fox Fairy Matriarch ordered the Fox Fairy Sect to attack the Shadow Demon Sect’s branches, and the sect swiftly captured them before other forces could intervene.
• News spread that Xiao Han had destroyed the Shadow Demon Sect headquarters and killed Ying Wu Yi and the other powerful figures, while the Fox Fairy Sect absorbed most of the sect’s remaining territory and wealth.
• Xiao Han returned to the Northern Azure Continent and went to the Han Yi Merchant Guild, where Yang Qianshan showed him a concealed cultivation secret realm.
• Xiao Han opened the Jade Box and used cold-attribute treasures and a spirit array to draw energy from the Nine Nether Jade Marrow Heart as he cultivated amid intense Cold Qi.

Xiao Han visited the Fox Fairy Sect to collect his share of the Shadow Demon Sect’s spoils, then heard the Fox Fairy Matriarch’s proposal to bring his merchant guild into Commerce Continent. She wanted him to help the sect withstand outside powers now that the Shadow Demon Sect was gone.

• Xiao Han arrived at the Fox Fairy Sect, where an elder and the disciples respectfully welcomed him.
• The Fox Fairy Matriarch gave Xiao Han about one hundred and fifty million Supreme Spirit Liquid as his share of the spoils.
• The Fox Fairy Matriarch proposed cooperating with Xiao Han and revealed that she knew about his chamber of commerce.
• Xiao Han’s aura revealed that his Spiritual Power cultivation had reached the Earthly Supreme level, and he confronted the Fox Fairy Matriarch over her investigation.
• The Fox Fairy Matriarch explained that rival powers were stirring after the Shadow Demon Sect’s fall and asked Xiao Han to help replace its role in protecting the Commerce Continent.

Xiao Han arranged for the Han Yi Merchant Guild to expand onto the Commerce Continent with help from the Fox Fairy Sect. A month later, he arrived at the Ten Thousand Gold Pavilion in Nine Seas City, where an old gatekeeper recognized his token and ushered him inside.

• Yang Qianshan reported that the Han Yi Merchant Guild had established branches across three continents and supported forces on dozens more.
• Xiao Han asked whether the guild could enter the Commerce Continent with assistance from the Fox Fairy Sect, and Yang Qianshan said it would face no problems.
• Xiao Han ordered Yang Qianshan to proceed with the expansion and then left the hall.
• A month later, Xiao Han arrived at the Ten Thousand Gold Pavilion in Nine Seas City and was stopped by its old gatekeeper for lacking an invitation.
• Xiao Han showed the gatekeeper an Ink-black Token, which prompted the old man to recognize him and escort him inside.

Xiao Han met Jin Wu Xie, who accepted him as the new master of the Ten Thousand Gold Pavilion after the Shadow Demon Sect’s destruction. Xiao Han asked about the Black Abyss Mountain Range, and Jin Wu Xie warned him that the place had swallowed millions of explorers, leaving its dangers unknown.

• Jin Wu Xie greeted Xiao Han and explained that the Ten Thousand Gold Pavilion would follow whoever held the Pavilion Master Token, regardless of the Shadow Demon Sect’s destruction.
• Xiao Han accepted Jin Wu Xie’s submission and showed him an image of the Black Abyss Mountain Range.
• Jin Wu Xie recounted how the Black Mist had vanished a century earlier, revealing Seven-Colored Radiance that drew explorers from across several continents into the range.
• Jin Wu Xie said that millions of experts, including more than a hundred Supreme experts and several Earthly Supremes, had disappeared without leaving a corpse.
• Jin Wu Xie urged Xiao Han not to risk entering the Black Abyss Mountain Range.

Xiao Han entered the Black Abyss Mountain Range, where he and the Ice Emperor encountered a dangerous horde and an unfamiliar Spirit Array. After breaking the array, Xiao Han realized that its creator’s methods might signal a greater threat.

• Jin Wu Xie failed to dissuade Xiao Han from entering the Black Abyss, and Xiao Han left the Ten Thousand Gold Pavilion.
• Xiao Han discovered that the Ice Emperor had awakened after absorbing much of the Nine Nether Jade Marrow Heart’s energy, and they sensed faint Evil Qi in the Black Abyss Mountain Range.
• Xiao Han fought off waves of black Humanoid Creatures while the Ice Emperor helped guard him as he examined the Spirit Array.
• Xiao Han found that the array followed no Great Thousand World conventions and forcefully disrupted its Spiritual Energy flows, causing it to collapse.
• Xiao Han told the Ice Emperor that they might be in trouble after breaking the array.

Xiao Han and Ice Emperor reached the Medicine Mountain in the Ruins and learned that its resources could be claimed by defeating its guardians. Ice Emperor shattered the barriers around the Spiritual Medicines and faced the awakened Medicine Guardians.

• Xiao Han and Ice Emperor continued through the darkness and found a barrier-enclosed mountain filled with Spiritual Medicines and human remains.
• Xiao Han suspected the medicines had been nourished by the corpses and decided to investigate rather than retreat.
• Ice Emperor used Nine Shadows to break open the barrier and entered the Medicine Mountain with Xiao Han.
• A puppet elder explained that the site held Battle Venerable Mingyu's inheritance trials and that challengers could take herbs by defeating the Medicine Guardian within three days.
• Ice Emperor shattered the barriers protecting the Spiritual Medicines, awakening countless Medicine Guardians, and declared the herbs his.

Xiao Han studied and dismantled the Spirit Array protecting Medicine Mountain while Ice Emperor fought its Medicine Guardians. After they seized the mountain, Xiao Han identified their next target as the Nine Nether Jade Vein.

• Ice Emperor attacked Medicine Mountain and crushed waves of Medicine Guardians with his Nine Cold Sky Prison and Long Whip while Xiao Han studied the barrier’s Spirit Array.
• The next day, Xiao Han finished deciphering the array and began reshaping it, impressing Ice Emperor with his command of its patterns.
• Xiao Han disabled the light barrier, leaving the surviving Medicine Guardians powerless, and told Ice Emperor to collect the valuable spoils.
• Ice Emperor gathered the planned treasures, and Xiao Han turned Medicine Mountain into a miniature model and stored it in his palm.
• Xiao Han produced a damaged Scroll and named their next target, the Nine Nether Jade Vein.

Xiao Han and Ice Emperor pursued the Nine Nether Jade Vein through the Ruins, where they were ambushed by more than ten powerful Earthly Supremes. The chapter left them fighting back against their pursuers on the plain.

• Xiao Han warned Ice Emperor that the Nine Nether Jade Vein would be dangerous to find, and Ice Emperor questioned how they could search through the Black Mist.
• After fifteen days of travel, Xiao Han and Ice Emperor continued toward the vein while overcoming several obstacles and gaining some rewards.
• Three days earlier, Xiao Han’s Soul Strength search alerted over a dozen Earthly Supremes, who pursued him relentlessly across the plain.
• Xiao Han and Ice Emperor stopped running and divided the pursuers between them, with Ice Emperor taking five Lower Earthly Supremes.
• Xiao Han used a Five Elements Sky Binding Array to trap the attackers, while Ice Emperor struck several enemies with Long Whip.
• Xiao Han summoned a Giant Bear and a Golden-Winged Great Roc, and the two sides began a fierce battle.

Xiao Han and the Ice Emperor defeated the blood-colored puppets that had been pursuing them, then reached the protected Nine Nether Jade Vein. Xiao Han broke through its Spirit Array, revealing the mountain range in full.

• Xiao Han trapped the remaining blood-colored figures in his arrays, and the Giant Bear and Great Roc helped crush them after their resistance weakened.
• The Ice Emperor destroyed the blood clouds with Whip Wind Cold Shadow and Purifying World, then returned to Xiao Han to rest.
• Xiao Han traveled without further trouble to a pitch-black mountain range he identified as the Nine Nether Jade Vein.
• Xiao Han spent a day studying and attacking the golden barrier, then formed a miniature Spirit Array and used an Ice Blue Sword to make the distant formation collapse.
• The full appearance of the mountain range unfolded before Xiao Han.

Xiao Han and the Ice Emperor reached the portal at the mountain’s center and fought the five giant guardians, with Xiao Han trapping two powerful enemies inside his Northern Kingdom Killing Realm. The battle escalated when the giants unleashed a flaming tornado against the Snow Domain’s storm, leaving their clash unresolved.

• Xiao Han and the Ice Emperor approached the portal and discovered five giant guardians, including a Great Perfection Earthly Supreme.
• The Ice Emperor engaged three giants while Xiao Han used his whip and Northern Kingdom Killing Realm against the remaining two.
• The two trapped giants attacked the domain, forcing Xiao Han to repair its damaged sky and reveal a Spirit Array that weakened them and strengthened his Frost Legion.
• The Frost Legion attacked with shields, arrows, and ice spears, but the giants countered with a flaming tornado that melted a vast stretch of the snowy plain.
• Xiao Han invoked Snow Domain Descent, and the resulting blizzard collided with the giants’ flaming tornado.

Xiao Han and the Ice Emperor approached a Portal but were suddenly swallowed by two Vortexes. At Northern Azure Spiritual Academy, an anxious visitor waited for Xiao Han, while Bing Yu’s team drew pursuing tournament contestants toward a Ruins and left traps behind them.

• Xiao Han and the Ice Emperor joined forces after Xiao Han defeated two giants, then were swallowed by Vortexes before entering the Portal.
• Bei Ming Long Kun told a gray-robed old man that Xiao Han had left the Northern Azure Continent, and the old man agreed to wait for him at Northern Azure Spiritual Academy.
• Bing Yu led the Northern Azure Spiritual Academy team away from pursuers from Saint Spiritual Academy, Azure Sky, and Ten Thousand Phoenix.
• Bing Yu’s team decided to use a Ruins as a trap and planted hidden methods in the forest as they fled.
• The pursuing contestants triggered explosions, while Bing Yu and his companions escaped deeper into the forest.

Xiao Han agreed to help Battle Venerable Mingyu deal with the Extraterrestrial Evil race in the Ruins and seemed to accept his inheritance. He stopped before touching the inheritance crystal, exposed Mingyu as a demon emperor, and prepared to fight.

• Battle Venerable Mingyu offered Xiao Han his inheritance after learning that Xiao Han had broken the Seal on the Nine Nether Jade Vein.
• Xiao Han changed his mind about the inheritance when Mingyu hinted it included wealth, then agreed to help destroy the Extraterrestrial Evil threat in the Ruins.
• Battle Venerable Mingyu summoned a crystal ball and instructed Xiao Han to place his hand on it to receive the inheritance.
• Xiao Han stopped before touching the crystal, withdrew his hand, and addressed Mingyu as the Demon Emperor of the Extraterrestrial Evil race.

Xiao Han exposed and defeated the disguised Blood Demon Tian, then uncovered that Battle Venerable Mingyu’s spirit had been trapped in a crystal ball. The chapter ended when the supposed Battle Venerable Mingyu revealed himself as Blood Demon Tian again, after Xiao Han refused his offered legacy.

• Xiao Han deduced that the mild Battle Venerable Mingyu was an impostor from the Evil Clan and exposed him as Blood Demon Tian.
• Blood Demon Tian attacked Xiao Han with Blood Demon's Hand, but Xiao Han evaded him and shattered the attack with an explosion.
• Xiao Han bound Blood Demon Tian with the Five Elements Sky Binding Array and crushed him into a mist of blood.
• Xiao Han seized the crystal ball and found that its scarlet aura could corrupt Spiritual Power creations; Battle Venerable Mingyu then appeared from within it.
• Battle Venerable Mingyu offered Xiao Han his life's legacy, but Xiao Han refused to help fight Blood Demon Tian, and the apparition turned ferocious.

Xiao Han purified Battle Venerable Mingyu of Blood Demon Tian, but Mingyu was already fading and passed his inheritance and the control of the Ruins to Xiao Han. Xiao Han accepted the opportunity to claim Mingyu’s Lower Plane and planned to wait until he reached Heavenly Supreme before pursuing it.

• Xiao Han used Purifying World to destroy Blood Demon Tian’s soul and free Battle Venerable Mingyu from its corruption.
• Battle Venerable Mingyu told Xiao Han how he had suppressed Blood Demon Tian five thousand years earlier and explained that his own body was now fading.
• Mingyu gave Xiao Han a crystal ball containing his inheritance and the means to control the Ruins, then died with a request that Xiao Han fulfill his last wish.
• After fifteen days, Xiao Han received Mingyu’s inheritance and decided the Lower Plane and its Spirit Sect could help him establish a force in the Great Thousand World.
• Xiao Han set aside the inheritance plans until he became Heavenly Supreme, then remembered an old senior he had parted ways with and worried about being chased down.

Xiao Han mastered the Inheritance Ruins and set up a cultivation array over the Nine Nether Jade Vein before preparing to leave. At the Spiritual Academy Tournament, Northern Azure Spiritual Academy faced a coalition demanding its Ruins key, and the others blamed Little Fatty for the conflict.

• Xiao Han fought Ice Emperor, learned that Ice Emperor had held back his strength, and accepted that his inherited Spiritual Power left him at a disadvantage.
• Xiao Han revealed that he had mastered the Inheritance Ruins and persuaded Ice Emperor to stay and cultivate there.
• Three days later, Xiao Han activated a Grand Array that drew out the Nine Nether Jade Vein’s Spiritual Energy for cultivation.
• At the tournament, Bing Yu confronted Qing Hao, who demanded Northern Azure Spiritual Academy surrender its Ruins key and withdraw.
• Xue Qinghuang blamed Little Fatty for the coalition’s hostility, and Bing Yu’s team wondered whether he had toyed with someone from her academy and abandoned her.