Chapter Summaries

Su Yuan learned how the Hunyuan Clan’s forces were divided and how dangerous its three Pure Hunyuan Beasts could be. Qin Anwu finished briefing him, leaving Su Yuan aware of the base’s protections and the risks of venturing beyond it.

• Su Yuan bonded with the Mind Compass and registered his handprint, allowing him to enter and leave the base alone.
• Qin Anwu explained that Feng, Jue, and Zhong led the Hunyuan Clan’s three factions, with Feng’s faction the largest and strongest.
• Qin Anwu described the Hunyuan Beasts’ combat strength, and Long Xinh an realized Su Yuan would rank among their top fighters.
• Qin Anwu told Su Yuan that Star Saint had hidden the base in a separate space, but the protection limited weaker martial artists’ ability to search for Hunyuan Crystals.
• Qin Anwu warned Su Yuan that Feng tortured its victims, while Jue and Zhong slaughtered Xia Nation martial artists, though the two were usually too lazy to hunt them personally.

Su Yuan checked into Combat Room 103 and refined Hunyuan Crystals and Primordial Beast Origins to raise his Blood Qi, though he remained far from reaching the Eighth-Realm Peak. When he left the outpost, he found the badly injured Ink Saint and began treating him, sensing a strange power sealing Ink Saint’s strength.

• Qin Anwu thanked Su Yuan for looking after Xuexin and promised to fulfill any request at the Second Primordial Sacred Land.
• Su Yuan checked into Combat Room 103 and refined four Hunyuan Crystals, increasing his Blood Qi by 300.
• Su Yuan refined three Primordial Beast Origins, raising his Blood Qi to 63322.8, then decided to seek more resources by leaving the outpost.
• Su Yuan found Ink Saint collapsed and covered in blood at the edge of the outpost, with martial artists gathered around him.
• Su Yuan used Perfected Light Law to treat Ink Saint and sensed another power sealing Ink Saint’s strength.

Su Yuan treated Ink Saint after Feng sealed him, and Ink Saint confirmed that Feng had attacked. Ink Saint explained privately that Feng used Su Yuan’s killings of its Hunyuan Beasts as a pretext, then told Su Yuan to take his place until the other Martial Saints arrived.

• More than a dozen Martial Saints returned to the outpost and found Su Yuan treating the injured Ink Saint.
• Miao Saint, Cloud Saint, and Blade Saint learned that Feng had attacked Ink Saint and sealed his Perfected Thunder Law.
• Ink Saint warned the Martial Saints to stay at the outpost until Star Saint, Gun Saint, or Sword Saint entered the Primordial Sacred Land.
• Ink Saint privately told Su Yuan that Feng had demanded Su Yuan be handed over because he had killed three Hunyuan Beasts, and Ink Saint had refused.
• Ink Saint told Su Yuan that he was named Su Mo, had no faction, and had relied on himself for nearly two hundred years.

Su Yuan revealed that he had killed Hou Sha, one of Feng’s strongest Hunyuan Beast subordinates, and learned that this was likely why Feng had sealed and attacked the Ink Saint. The Gun Saint was due to enter the Primordial Sacred Land that afternoon, but the Ink Saint’s seal remained intact and Feng still posed a threat.

• Su Yuan promised to find a way to break the Ink Saint’s seal, though the Ink Saint doubted he could do so.
• Qin Anwu announced that the Gun Saint would enter the Primordial Sacred Land at five that afternoon, prompting the martial artists to hope Feng would be deterred.
• The Ink Saint dismissed the gathered martial artists and remained with Su Yuan, the Miao Saint, the Cloud Saint, the Blade Saint, and Qin Anwu.
• The Blade Saint asked why Feng had attacked the Ink Saint, and Su Yuan admitted that he had killed three Hunyuan Beasts under Feng’s command.
• The Miao Saint identified the Hunyuan Beast Su Yuan killed as Hou Sha, and the Martial Saints realized how powerful Su Yuan must be to have killed Feng’s fierce general.

Su Yuan explained how killing Hou Sha led Feng to seal and injure Ink Saint, then helped Ink Saint recover. Qin Chengyan and Gu Lingkong arrived and vowed to confront the Hunyuan Clan at the Hunyuan King Crystal Contest, while Star Saint remained absent.

• Ink Saint told Blade Saint not to pursue his affairs, and Blade Saint promised to find a way to remove the seal.
• Su Yuan continued using the Perfected Light Law until Ink Saint's injuries healed, then vowed to kill Feng for attacking him.
• Qin Chengyan and Gu Lingkong arrived, learned that Feng had sealed Ink Saint because Su Yuan killed Hou Sha, and prepared to retaliate against the Hunyuan Clan at the contest.
• Qin Chengyan confirmed that Star Saint would not enter the Primordial Sacred Land or attend the contest, leading Su Yuan to wonder whether he was preparing to break through to the Tenth Realm.

Gun Saint and Sword Saint reassured the gathered martial artists that they would protect them from Feng, Jue, and Zhong, and announced that Light Saint would join the Hunyuan King Crystal Contest. Qin Chengyan and Gu Lingkong then left the base with Su Yuan to confront the Hunyuan Beasts, and Qin Chengyan gave Su Yuan an origin he had seized.

• Qin Chengyan and Gu Lingkong told the martial artists they knew about Ink Saint’s attack and would keep Feng, Jue, and Zhong occupied while the others hunted Hunyuan Beasts.
• Qin Chengyan announced that Star Saint would not attend the contest, but Light Saint would arrive the next morning; he also said there was no news of Butterfly Saint joining.
• Qin Chengyan and Gu Lingkong invited Su Yuan to leave the base with them and collect interest from the Hunyuan Beasts for their attack on Ink Saint.
• Miao Saint and several other Martial Saints left the base to search for Hunyuan Crystals after the trio departed.
• Gu Lingkong praised Su Yuan for killing Hou Sha, while Qin Chengyan killed a Hunyuan Beast and handed its origin to Su Yuan.

Qin Chengyan and Gu Lingkong competed to give Su Yuan Primordial Beast Origins, but he insisted on hunting Hunyuan Beasts himself. After refining four Origins, Su Yuan killed a Martial-Saint-level Hunyuan Beast alone and began refining its Origin.

• Qin Chengyan gave Su Yuan a Ninth-Realm Peak Primordial Beast Origin, and Gu Lingkong killed another Hunyuan Beast to give him one too.
• Qin Chengyan and Gu Lingkong escalated their rivalry by bringing Su Yuan higher-grade Origins, but Su Yuan stopped them and asked to hunt for himself.
• Su Yuan swallowed and refined all four Primordial Beast Origins in under ten seconds, increasing his Blood Qi by one thousand.
• Su Yuan asked Qin Chengyan and Gu Lingkong not to interfere as he searched for Hunyuan Beasts, and they agreed to stand back.
• Su Yuan confronted a Martial-Saint-level Hunyuan Beast and killed it with a single spear strike before taking and refining its Primordial Beast Origin.

Su Yuan hunted Hunyuan Beasts with Qin Chengyan and Gu Lingkong after revealing his powerful spear art. When Feng confronted them over their killings, Qin Chengyan and Gu Lingkong negotiated a limit of ten more Martial Saint-level Hunyuan Beasts before Feng vanished.

• Qin Chengyan and Gu Lingkong recognized Su Yuan's spear art as a Ninth-Tier Peak technique, and Su Yuan named it the Ultimate Emperor Godbreaker Spear Art.
• Qin Chengyan advised Su Yuan to focus on his own spear art instead of learning the God-Slaying World-Breaking Spear Technique.
• Su Yuan killed eleven Hunyuan Beasts over half an hour, raising his Blood Qi to 66860.8.
• Feng appeared and told Su Yuan, Qin Chengyan, and Gu Lingkong to stop killing Hunyuan Beasts, warning that Su Yuan could lose his realm or his life.
• Qin Chengyan and Gu Lingkong challenged Feng and demanded permission to kill more beasts, with Gu Lingkong revealing his greatly increased strength.
• Feng compromised by allowing them to kill ten more Martial Saint-level Hunyuan Beasts, then vanished.

After Feng retreated rather than fight Qin Chengyan and Gu Lingkong, Su Yuan continued hunting Martial-Saint-level Hunyuan Beasts to strengthen his Blood Qi. He killed fifteen before they stopped and prepared to return to the outpost, leaving him more than two thousand Blood Qi short of reaching Eighth-Realm Peak.

• Feng withdrew after realizing Gu Lingkong’s strength had increased and that fighting Qin Chengyan and Gu Lingkong together would put it at a disadvantage.
• Qin Chengyan and Gu Lingkong checked on Su Yuan, then agreed to continue hunting despite Feng’s demand that they kill no more than ten beasts.
• Qin Chengyan set a limit of fifteen additional kills before returning to the outpost, planning to deal with the remaining five during the Hunyuan King Crystal Contest.
• Su Yuan killed fifteen Martial-Saint-level Hunyuan Beasts over the next hour and a half, leaving around seventy in the Primordial Sacred Land.
• Su Yuan swallowed and refined the Primordial Beast Origin from his final kill, raising his Blood Qi by about five thousand but leaving him more than two thousand short of Eighth-Realm Peak.

Su Yuan learned that his unusually strong physique had absorbed some of the energy from Primordial Beast Origin, slowing his Blood Qi growth, and he gathered another Hunyuan Crystal before returning to the base. After cultivating overnight, he planned to search for crystals rather than kill more Hunyuan Beasts, while Zhao Feiguang arrived at the base the next morning.

• Gu Lingkong and Qin Chengyan tested Su Yuan and explained that his powerful physique had diverted some Primordial Beast Origin energy into strengthening his body.
• Su Yuan found a sixth Hunyuan Crystal on the way back, but Qin Chengyan and Gu Lingkong declined his offer to share it.
• After returning to the base, Su Yuan refined the crystal, assessed his progress toward Eighth-Realm Peak, and decided to focus on finding crystals and cultivating.
• Su Yuan cultivated the Astral Energy Divine Emperor Breathing Method through the night.
• Zhao Feiguang entered the base the next morning and greeted Gu Lingkong and Qin Chengyan.

Zhao Feiguang reunited with the martial artists at the outpost and revealed that he could handle any of the three Hunyuan Beasts, having already severely injured Zhong. As Feng prepared to exploit Zhong’s injury, Su Yuan left to search for Hunyuan Crystals with Zhao Feiguang, Gu Lingkong, and Qin Chengyan accompanying him.

• Zhao Feiguang reunited with Qin Chengyan, Gu Lingkong, and the other martial artists, then warmly greeted Su Yuan as Source Saint, surprising those who did not know the two had met before.
• Zhao Feiguang declared that he could deal with any of the three Hunyuan Beasts, including Feng, and said he had driven Zhong back after severely injuring it on his way to the outpost.
• Feng condemned Zhong for acting before the contest and decided to use Zhong’s severe injury as an opportunity to take its Origin Essence.
• Zhao Feiguang warned the martial artists not to let down their guard and said the Hunyuan Clan would respond to Zhong’s injury.
• Su Yuan prepared to leave the outpost to search for Hunyuan Crystals, and Zhao Feiguang, Gu Lingkong, and Qin Chengyan joined him.

Su Yuan searched for Hunyuan Crystals with Gun Saint, Sword Saint, and Light Saint, repeatedly locating them before the experienced Saints could. By noon, they had collected six crystals, and the three Saints focused on protecting Su Yuan.

• Gun Saint, Sword Saint, and Light Saint left the outpost with Su Yuan to search for Hunyuan Crystals while Long Xinh an and Qin Anwu stayed behind to train.
• Su Yuan sensed a Hunyuan Crystal hidden beneath rubble and found it before the three Saints could locate it.
• Light Saint asked Su Yuan to call him Uncle Zhao, and Su Yuan agreed.
• Su Yuan found a second Hunyuan Crystal by a river, convincing the others that his ability to sense them was no coincidence.
• Su Yuan led the group to six Hunyuan Crystals during their morning search, while the Saints eventually stopped searching and concentrated on guarding him.
• Su Yuan thanked the three Saints for protecting him and bowed to them.

Su Yuan returned to the base with Gu Lingkong, Qin Chengyan, and Zhao Feiguang after collecting six Hunyuan Crystals, and revealed that he had comprehended nine Perfected Laws. The others were astonished and encouraged him to cultivate ahead of the upcoming Hunyuan King Crystal Contest.

• Su Yuan convinced Gu Lingkong, Qin Chengyan, and Zhao Feiguang to stop searching for Hunyuan Crystals and return to the base to cultivate.
• Qin Chengyan sensed that three Peak Ninth-Realm Martial Artists had arrived, and Gu Lingkong warned that the Hunyuan Clan would prepare for a fierce contest.
• Zhao Feiguang asked Su Yuan about his Perfected Light Law and learned that it could heal severe injuries and help reduce casualties in battle.
• Zhao Feiguang asked how many Perfected Laws Su Yuan possessed, and Su Yuan answered that he had nine, shocking Qin Chengyan and Zhao Feiguang.
• Qin Chengyan and Zhao Feiguang praised Su Yuan’s talent and urged him to cultivate toward the Eighth-Realm Peak before the contest, while they went to spar with Gu Lingkong.

Su Yuan comprehended the perfected Wood Law after refining Hunyuan Crystals, raising his total to ten Perfected Laws Forces. After collecting seven more crystals with Qin Chengyan, Gu Lingkong, and Zhao Feiguang, he came within 57.5 Blood Qi of reaching the Eighth-Realm Peak.

• Su Yuan refined six Hunyuan Crystals and comprehended the perfected Wood Law, his tenth Perfected Law, which gave him powerful recovery and greater endurance.
• Su Yuan planned to test his strength against Feng's strongest Hunyuan Beast during the Hunyuan King Crystal Contest and continued cultivating through the night.
• Qin Chengyan, Gu Lingkong, and Zhao Feiguang waited for Su Yuan and escorted him outside the outpost to search for Hunyuan Crystals.
• The four found seven Hunyuan Crystals before noon, while Qin Chengyan and the others protected Su Yuan.
• Su Yuan refined the seven crystals back in the Combat Room, reaching 73942.5 Blood Qi and estimating he would advance to Eighth-Realm Peak before midnight.

Su Yuan advanced to Eighth-Realm Peak Martial Artist and spent several days cultivating the Extreme One Form while gathering Hunyuan Crystals with Qin Chengyan, Gu Lingkong, and Zhao Feiguang. As signs of the Hunyuan King Crystal’s imminent birth appeared, the outpost’s martial artists assembled for a pre-battle meeting, where Su Yuan recognized several powerful contestants.

• Su Yuan broke through to Eighth-Realm Peak Martial Artist, then tested the Extreme One Form against the Combat Room walls and discovered they redirected his attacks through Perfected Spatial Law.
• Su Yuan continued cultivating the Extreme One Form while joining Qin Chengyan, Gu Lingkong, and Zhao Feiguang to search for Hunyuan Crystals over the following days.
• On Su Yuan’s seventh day, Qin Chengyan, Zhao Feiguang, and Gu Lingkong sensed that the Hunyuan King Crystal would appear within one or two days and planned a pre-battle meeting.
• Su Yuan and the others returned to the outpost, where seventy-nine martial artists gathered around a round table to assess their strength before the contest.
• Su Yuan recognized Li Chengxin, Ye Yulei, and Su Mo among the assembled Martial Saints.

Qin Chengyan briefed Xia Nation’s martial artists on the Hunyuan King Crystal Contest and assigned them search and combat roles. The group prepared to enter the contest, with the King Crystal as their priority and the Hunyuan Beasts as their targets.

• Su Yuan identified the gathered Martial Saints, including the fathers of Xu Xinghan and Jiang Xiangze, and judged Xia Nation’s Martial-Saint-level forces stronger than the Hunyuan Clan’s in quality.
• Qin Chengyan distributed positioning wristbands and explained that whoever found the Hunyuan King Crystal should signal the others so they could converge.
• Qin Chengyan told the martial artists to kill Hunyuan Beasts no stronger than themselves and to flee if they encountered Feng, Jue, or Zhong.
• Qin Chengyan ordered fifty Peak Ninth-Realm Martial Artists to search in pairs for the King Crystal, making the search their primary mission.
• Qin Chengyan assigned Martial Saints with three or fewer Perfected Laws to search alone, while those with four or more were tasked primarily with killing Martial-Saint-level Hunyuan Beasts.

Qin Chengyan assigned the Martial Saints to search for the Hunyuan King Crystal and stop the remaining Pure Hunyuan Beasts, while Su Yuan continued training before the contest began. At midnight, humans and Hunyuan Beasts waited at their respective bases for the crystal’s birth, poised for battle.

• Qin Chengyan assigned Ink Saint, Miao Saint, Cloud Saint, Blade Saint, and Halberd Saint to search for the Hunyuan King Crystal, while he, Light Saint, and Sword Saint prepared to confront Feng, Jue, and possibly Zhong.
• Ye Yulei met Su Yuan and admitted that Su Yuan’s strength had grown so much that he expected to lose to him quickly.
• Su Yuan checked his cultivation progress, then trained with Extreme One Form until just before midnight.
• Su Yuan and the other seventy-eight people at Building One gathered and waited for the Hunyuan King Crystal to emerge.
• Feng summoned Frost to balance his forces after Zhong was injured, and agreed to give her half the Hunyuan King Crystal if they obtained it.
• Feng’s forces and Jue’s forces waited for the crystal’s birth as the humans also prepared for the coming battle.

The Hunyuan King Crystal emerged, and Su Yuan’s rapid Teleportation brought him to the standoff between Qin Chengyan’s group and Feng’s Pure Hunyuan Beasts. Frost revealed that Yuan had ordered her to prioritize capturing Su Yuan, leaving the coming battle over the crystal unresolved.

• The Hunyuan King Crystal emerged at eight o’clock, sending purple ripples across the Primordial Sacred Land and boosting Su Yuan’s cultivation speed.
• Qin Chengyan, Gu Lingkong, and Zhao Feiguang raced ahead to block Feng, Frost, and Jue from entering the Purple Mist, while Su Yuan’s Teleportation quickly carried him far ahead of the other Martial Saints.
• Feng revealed that he had devoured Zhong, then prepared to fight as Qin Chengyan, Gu Lingkong, and Zhao Feiguang chose their opponents.
• Qin Chengyan warned Su Yuan to stop, but Feng called him over, and Su Yuan teleported to the group.
• Frost told Feng that Yuan had ordered her to focus on capturing Su Yuan, and she agreed to give up any share of the Hunyuan King Crystal.

Zhao Feiguang wounded Jue and began fighting Feng, while Qin Chengyan and Gu Lingkong went to face Frost. Su Yuan then confronted Ge Ruo and insisted that Ink Saint and the others search the Purple Mist for the Hunyuan King Crystal.

• Zhao Feiguang shot Jue through the shoulder, and Feng swallowed the severely wounded Jue to increase his own power.
• Feng challenged Zhao Feiguang, while Qin Chengyan and Gu Lingkong left together to fight Frost.
• Su Yuan decided to stay behind and stop the Hunyuan Beasts from entering the Purple Mist.
• Ink Saint, Miao Saint, Cloud Saint, Blade Saint, and Halberd Saint arrived, and Su Yuan told them to enter the Purple Mist without him.
• Ge Ruo mocked Su Yuan, while Cloud Saint and Miao Saint urged him to leave Ge Ruo to them.
• Su Yuan refused and told the others to search for the Hunyuan King Crystal while he dealt with Ge Ruo.

Su Yuan confronted Ge Ruo and demonstrated his overwhelming power with nine Perfected Laws, defeating Lord Feng’s fierce general despite being in the Eighth Realm. After testing his combat strength, Su Yuan killed Ge Ruo and destroyed its body.

• Su Yuan revealed nine Perfected Laws, astonishing Ge Ruo and the Saints as they entered the Purple Mist to search for the Hunyuan King Crystal.
• Ge Ruo attacked Su Yuan, but Su Yuan’s spear strike shattered its phantom tiger paw and injured it.
• Su Yuan unleashed seven kinds of Laws Force in a seven-colored spear attack, sending Ge Ruo crashing into the ground while Thunder Saint and the others watched from afar.
• Ge Ruo repeatedly attacked Su Yuan for more than ten minutes, but Su Yuan kept overpowering it until it could barely stand.
• Su Yuan pierced Ge Ruo’s heart, took its Origin Essence, and used Self-Is Power to destroy its body.