Chapter Summaries

Hua Yunfei, disguised as a white-robed man, overwhelmed Boundless Supreme and Blood Lotus Supreme while treating their battle as practice. He took control of both Supreme Battle Puppets and ordered them to destroy the Nether Heaven Sect and bring him its treasure vault.

• Boundless Supreme emerged from the earth after being battered, but the white-robed man kicked him into the sky and stunned the onlookers.
• People in the City of Contention speculated about the white-robed man's strength, while Ye Bufan and the others recognized his fighting style as Hua Yunfei's.
• Blood Lotus Supreme attacked, but the white-robed man shattered her chest with a punch, and Boundless Supreme returned to fight alongside her.
• The white-robed man dodged both Supremes and revealed that he had taken the rune stone from the Nether Heaven Sect's Great Saint ancestor.
• He recited the control incantation, stopped Boundless Supreme and Blood Lotus Supreme in midair, and ordered them to eradicate the Nether Heaven Sect and bring him its treasure vault.

Boundless Supreme destroyed the Nether Heaven Sect, and Hua Qingfeng wiped out its delegation in the City of Contention. After the Backer Sect was recognized as the sixth Immortal Sect, the War Clan Grand Elder accused it of destroying the War Clan’s chariot, and Hua Qingfeng demanded proof.

• Boundless Supreme killed Nether Heaven Sect descendants and destroyed the sect after escaping its control.
• Hua Qingfeng executed the Nether Heaven Sect delegation after the bald middle-aged man tried to attack the arena.
• The assembled powers praised the Backer Sect, and Azure Origin Old Ancestor and Yaoguang Holy Master recognized it as sixth among the Nine Great Immortal Sects.
• The War Clan Grand Elder accused the Backer Sect of causing the war chariot explosion and the deaths of War Clan members.
• Hua Qingfeng challenged the War Clan Grand Elder to provide evidence, and the Inviting Moon Palace Mistress supported him.

Hua Yunfei ordered two Supreme battle puppets to guard Backer Sect and helped the Eastern Sacred Sword advance into an Ultimate Emperor Armament. The newly named Eastern Emperor Sword challenged the Supreme Cauldron of the Pill Emperor, and the two weapons prepared to settle their grudges.

• The Yaoguang Holy Master advised the War Clan Grand Elder to target Backer Sect in secret, while the Grand Elder suspected he was being used and stayed silent.
• After the Nether Heaven Sect was destroyed, Hua Yunfei sent Blood Lotus Supreme and Boundless Supreme to guard Backer Sect.
• Hua Yunfei used Emperor Dao Laws to help the Eastern Sacred Sword begin its advancement, then hid it in the Time-Space Divine Realm to undergo its tribulation.
• Several days later, the Eastern Sacred Sword completed its tribulation and became an Ultimate Emperor Armament called the Eastern Emperor Sword.
• The Eastern Emperor Sword challenged the Supreme Cauldron of the Pill Emperor, and the two weapons moved to fight.

Hua Yunfei returned to the City of Contention after the Supreme Cauldron of the Pill Emperor defeated the newly upgraded Eastern Sacred Sword. There, Chu Qing'er lost to the Yaoguang Holy Son, and her master warned her not to awaken her Yin-Yang Chaos Physique with inferior techniques.

• The Supreme Cauldron of the Pill Emperor defeated the Eastern Sacred Sword, who had not yet mastered his new Emperor Dao Laws, and demanded that he call him Brother Cauldron.
• Hua Yunfei stopped the weapons’ quarrel, then headed back to the City of Contention to resume searching for disciples.
• The Yaoguang Holy Son defeated Chu Qing'er, and Yaoguang Holy Land won all nine matches against Inviting Moon Palace.
• The Inviting Moon Palace Master encouraged Chu Qing'er to seek the Solar Fist Sutra and combine it with the Yin Moon Tai'e Sutra to awaken her Yin-Yang Chaos Physique.
• Chu Qing'er suggested using lower-grade yin-yang techniques instead, but the Inviting Moon Palace Master warned that doing so could waste her physique and limit her chance of becoming a Great Emperor.

Inviting Moon Palace Master brought Chu Qing'er to the Backer Sect so she could join and investigate whether Hua Yunfei had cultivated the Solar Fist Sutra. Hua Yunfei returned and immediately agreed to accept her, unaware that Chu Qing'er possessed an unawakened Yin-Yang Chaos Physique.

• Inviting Moon Palace Master told Chu Qing'er that Hua Yunfei’s fist technique might be the Solar Fist Sutra and advised her to join the Backer Sect to get close to him.
• Huang Xuan joked with Jia Duobao, Ye Bufan, Jin Jin, and Ya Ya while they watched the Yaoguang Holy Son fight.
• Inviting Moon Palace Master visited the Backer Sect and asked Yun Tian Zhenren to accept Chu Qing'er as a disciple.
• Hua Yunfei arrived, welcomed Chu Qing'er into the Backer Sect, and recognized her exceptional potential.
• Chu Qing'er's profile revealed her saint-grade talents and unawakened Yin-Yang Chaos Physique.

Hua Yunfei accepted Chu Qing'er as his fifth disciple after learning that Invite Moon Palace hoped she could obtain the Solar Fist Scripture. He gave her the scripture as her greeting gift, and the system began settling his disciple-acceptance rewards.

• Hua Yunfei recognized that Chu Qing'er's talents suited Dao Origin Peak and understood that Invite Moon Palace had brought her seeking a supreme yang technique.
• True Person Yuntian warned that Chu Qing'er would belong to Mount Reliance Sect if she joined, and Palace Master Invite Moon agreed to treat Invite Moon Palace only as her maternal home.
• Chu Qing'er performed the disciple-acceptance rites, and Hua Yunfei named her his fifth disciple.
• Hua Yunfei gave Chu Qing'er the Solar Fist Scripture, shocking her, and Ye Bufan introduced her to her senior brothers.
• The system announced that Chu Qing'er met the requirements and began issuing Hua Yunfei's disciple-acceptance rewards.

Hua Yunfei received several powerful treasures from the system, while Chu Qing'er joined Backer Sect and parted from the Inviting Moon Palace Master. At the gathering, Gao Kun challenged Huang Xuan for leaving Yaoguang Holy Land.

• Hua Yunfei obtained an Enlightenment Tablet, Dao Tribulation Gold, a True Phoenix Divine Elixir, and a Martial Virtue Brick, which attacked the Eastern Sacred Sword in his Purple Mansion Grotto-Heaven.
• The Inviting Moon Palace Master entrusted Chu Qing'er to Backer Sect and returned to Inviting Moon Palace, where she announced that they would choose a new Holy Maiden.
• An elder questioned the Palace Master's decision, and she said Chu Qing'er might one day become a female emperor.
• A former Yaoguang Holy Land Holy Son candidate named Gao Kun challenged Huang Xuan, accusing him of betraying the sect by leaving.

Huang Xuan challenged Gao Kun to a fight to the death at the Immortal Ranking arena, despite being two Violet Palace Realm levels below him. Huang Xuan instantly killed Gao Kun with one punch, leaving the crowd amazed by the Backer Sect’s newest talent.

• Huang Xuan rejected Gao Kun’s challenge on behalf of Yaoguang Holy Land and demanded that Gao Kun fight him to the death.
• Gao Kun accepted, called on the gathered powers to witness the duel, and warned the Backer Sect not to interfere afterward.
• Huang Xuan and Gao Kun entered the battle platform, where Gao Kun revealed his fourth-level Violet Palace Realm cultivation and mocked Huang Xuan’s second-level cultivation.
• Hua Yunfei told Chu Qing'er that appearances in the Backer Sect could be deceiving, while the sect’s disciples cheered confidently for Huang Xuan.
• Gao Kun attacked first, but Huang Xuan killed him instantly with a punch, shocking the audience.

After Huang Xuan killed Gao Kun in a life-and-death battle, Yaoguang Holy Land accused him of betrayal, but he refused to be intimidated. Ye Bufan challenged the Yaoguang Holy Son and revealed an Ancient Sacred Body that could cultivate, leaving the Holy Son eager to face him on the Emperor’s Road.

• Huang Xuan’s single punch killed Gao Kun, prompting Backer Sect’s disciples to celebrate and Yaoguang Holy Land’s members to demand Huang Xuan’s death.
• Hua Yunfei advised Chu Qing’er to conceal her true cultivation, and she began considering how much of her realm to hide.
• Lan Zhan accused Huang Xuan of killing a former fellow disciple, but Huang Xuan silenced him by alluding to Yaoguang Holy Land’s secrets.
• Jia Duobao offered to fight any opponent, while Ye Bufan challenged all eight Yaoguang Holy Land geniuses, including the Yaoguang Holy Son.
• Ye Bufan unleashed powerful golden blood energy, and the Yaoguang Holy Son recognized him as a cultivable Ancient Sacred Body and welcomed him as a future rival.

Ye Bufan revealed that he could cultivate as an Ancient Sacred Body, prompting fears that the strangeness that had killed past Sacred Bodies would threaten Backer Sect when he became a Sage. As Ye Bufan and the Yaoguang Holy Son prepared to fight, the Holy Master stopped his disciple, and Huang Xuan challenged him instead.

• The crowd realized Ye Bufan's cultivation might bring disaster to Backer Sect, and Yun Tian Zhenren asked Hua Yunfei to prepare for the danger.
• Ye Bufan matched the Yaoguang Holy Son's cultivation at the first level of the Spirit Infant Realm, and Hua Yunfei recognized the Holy Son's exceptional Emperor-grade talent.
• The Yaoguang Holy Master ordered Beixuan to withdraw rather than risk a battle with Ye Bufan, but Beixuan ignored him until the Holy Master broke his gathered momentum.
• Jia Duobao mocked the Yaoguang Holy Son, and Huang Xuan stepped forward, reached the first level of the Spirit Infant Realm, and challenged him to fight.
• Lan Zhan insulted Huang Xuan, who killed him with a single slap and then demanded that Beixuan choose whether to fight him or Ye Bufan.

Hua Yunfei and the Backer Sect accepted Yaoguang Holy Land’s challenge to a decisive battle at Forbidden Mountain Summit in half a year, where Yaoguang Holy Son vowed to fight Ye Bufan and Huang Xuan together. The competition concluded with Backer Sect in sixth place among the Nine Great Immortal Sects.

• Yun Tian Zhenren refused to withdraw the Backer Sect disciples, and Hua Yunfei taunted Yaoguang Holy Land over its reluctance to fight.
• The Yaoguang Holy Master challenged Ye Bufan and Huang Xuan to face Yaoguang Holy Son at Forbidden Mountain Summit in half a year.
• Yaoguang Holy Son declared that he would fight Ye Bufan and Huang Xuan alone, and Huang Xuan accepted the challenge.
• Backer Sect members praised Ye Bufan and Huang Xuan for revealing their strength, while Hua Yunfei promised to help Chu Qing'er cultivate the Solar Fist Sutra and awaken her Yin-Yang Chaos Physique.
• The competition named Yaoguang Holy Land first and placed Backer Sect sixth among the Nine Great Immortal Sects.

After Backer Sect retained its place among the Nine Great Immortal Sects, Yun Tian Zhenren announced that Lin Yang and Mu Qingqing would marry and that Lin Yang would become the sect’s Holy Son. Meanwhile, the War Clan’s Grand Elder seethed over the unexplained explosion that had killed its leaders and prodigies, and the Yaoguang Holy Master urged him to take Backer Sect’s couple hostage to force an admission.

• Backer Sect’s elders and disciples returned to their manor after the Immortal Ranking, while Tianji Zhenren and Wuji Zhenren joked about being forced into the Nine Great Immortal Sects.
• Tianji Zhenren brought up Lin Yang and Mu Qingqing’s wedding, and Yun Tian Zhenren promised to arrange a grand celebration and appoint Lin Yang as Backer Sect’s Holy Son.
• Yun Tian Zhenren had the wedding news announced, and the War Clan’s Grand Elder grew angrier that Backer Sect was celebrating despite his suspicion that it had caused the war chariot explosion.
• The Yaoguang Holy Master secretly visited the War Clan’s Grand Elder and suggested capturing Lin Yang and Mu Qingqing as hostages to force Backer Sect to confess.

Hua Yunfei confronted Yaoguang Holy Master and the War Clan grand elder after overhearing their plans to attack the Backer Sect. He threatened to destroy both factions and began demonstrating his power by targeting Yaoguang Holy Land with the Martial Virtue Brick.

• Yaoguang Holy Master agreed to support the War Clan’s plan to challenge the Backer Sect’s Holy Son and promised to help the War Clan become a holy-land-level force.
• Hua Yunfei appeared beside Yaoguang Holy Master and the grand elder, then used an invisible force to pin them in their seats.
• Yaoguang Holy Master tried to summon help with a Sound Transmission Stone, but Hua Yunfei made his left arm explode and the stone fall.
• Hua Yunfei admitted he had destroyed the War Clan’s war chariot and warned that he could erase both the War Clan and Yaoguang Holy Land.
• Hua Yunfei projected an image of Yaoguang Holy Land and sent the Martial Virtue Brick toward its defensive barrier.

A giant brick engraved with “Virtue” descended on Yaoguang Holy Land, shrugging off Holy Master Jinri’s attacks and crushing the defensive formations arranged by the Yaoguang Great Emperor. Hua Yunfei watched Yaoguang Holy Master’s despair and said the destruction was only beginning.

• The “Virtue” brick grew until it covered Yaoguang Holy Land, and an elder recognized it as an enemy attack.
• Holy Master Jinri arrived and learned that Yaoguang’s recent conflict with the Backer Sect had left Lan Zhan and Gao Kun dead.
• Holy Master Jinri struck the brick twice with the Jinri Battle Blade, but its attacks were effortlessly dissolved.
• The brick descended and shattered Yaoguang Holy Land’s defensive grand formation, including the ancient formation arranged by the Yaoguang Great Emperor.
• Holy Master Jinri ordered the quasi-Emperor ancestor awakened as the Yaoguang Holy Master watched in shock.
• Hua Yunfei told Yaoguang Holy Master to keep watching, saying the destruction was only beginning.

Hua Yunfei’s Martial Virtue Brick overwhelmed Yaoguang Holy Land’s defenses and shattered the Yaoguang Emperor Sword, forcing the sect to summon its remaining Old Ancestors. The brick continued pressing down as Hua Yunfei mocked Yaoguang Holy Master.

• Yaoguang Holy Master claimed the Martial Virtue Brick could be defeated by Yaoguang Holy Land’s Quasi-Emperor Old Ancestor and Supreme Weapon.
• The gray-robed elder attacked the Martial Virtue Brick with a Supreme Weapon, but the brick broke the warhammer in one strike.
• The gray-robed elder activated Yaoguang Holy Land’s offensive formations, but their attacks only raised smoke and did no damage.
• The gray-robed elder summoned the Yaoguang Emperor Sword, but the Martial Virtue Brick cracked its blade with a beam of white light.
• The Yaoguang Emperor Sword admitted it could not defeat the brick, and the gray-robed elder ordered every Old Ancestor and remaining foundation to be brought out.
• Hua Yunfei mocked Yaoguang Holy Master by saying the brick was not strong enough to destroy an Emperor Armament in one strike, making him cough blood in rage.

Hua Yunfei subdued Yaoguang Holy Master and forced Yaoguang Holy Land to submit to Backer Sect, while investigating Yaoguang Great Emperor’s final days for clues about the Heaven-Stealing Organization. He secretly bound Yaoguang Holy Land with two forms of control, leaving it as an ally for the future threat.

• Hua Yunfei revealed another Emperor Armament, terrifying Yaoguang Holy Master into surrendering, then stopped the Martial Virtue Brick from crushing Yaoguang Holy Land.
• The peak Quasi-Emperor patriarch ordered the younger clansmen and disciples to evacuate, and Hua Yunfei chose to spare the Holy Land rather than destroy it.
• Yaoguang Holy Master told Hua Yunfei that the patriarch had been the last person to see Yaoguang Great Emperor, decades after the Great Emperor withdrew from the world.
• Yaoguang Holy Master and the War Clan Grand Elder had never heard of the Heaven-Stealing Organization, so Hua Yunfei erased that part of their memories.
• Hua Yunfei demanded Yaoguang Holy Land secretly treat Backer Sect as supreme and placed the Bloodline Curse and I'm Sunburned Secret Art on Yaoguang Holy Master.

Yaoguang Holy Master and the War Clan Grand Elder accepted Backer Sect’s control and discussed its possible strength and the approaching Emperor’s Road. Hua Yunfei then returned to Backer Sect after Ye Bufan reported that a mysterious woman had come to see him, leaving Ye Bufan waiting with her at the estate entrance.

• Hua Yunfei ordered Yaoguang Holy Land to publicly befriend Backer Sect and branded the War Clan Grand Elder with runes, then asked that the Quasi-Emperor ancestor visit him.
• Yaoguang Holy Master and the War Clan Grand Elder left, speculated that Backer Sect might rival the Primordial Legacies, and suspected its brick weapon was an immortal artifact.
• Yaoguang Holy Master and the War Clan Grand Elder discussed the approaching Golden Age and the Primordial Legacies opening the Emperor’s Road, where contenders would be suppressed to the Celestial Realm.
• Ye Bufan contacted Hua Yunfei through a Sound Transmission Stone to report that an unfamiliar woman insisted on seeing him, and Hua Yunfei said he would return shortly.
• At Backer Sect’s estate in the City of Contention, Ye Bufan offered the woman two small stools while they waited for Hua Yunfei.
• The woman asked Ye Bufan about his Ancient Sacred Body, how he could cultivate, and whether his master bore his karma.

Hua Yunfei met Jiang Ruoyao, the Holy Maiden of the Primordial Divine Territory, after someone recommended him to her. Jiang Ruoyao tried to uncover his cultivation and explain why she had come, but the chapter ended before she revealed the recommendation’s purpose.

• Hua Yunfei returned and learned that Jiang Ruoyao, a perfected Quasi-Emperor and Holy Maiden of the Primordial Divine Territory, had come to see him.
• Hua Yunfei invited Jiang Ruoyao into his manor, where Ye Bufan went to find Yaya.
• Jiang Ruoyao asked Hua Yunfei to reveal his true cultivation, but he insisted he was only at the Celestial Realm.
• Jiang Ruoyao said her recommender had identified Hua Yunfei as a Quasi-Emperor, and Hua Yunfei guessed who had sent her.
• Jiang Ruoyao introduced herself and complained about Hua Yunfei’s perfunctory manner before turning the conversation to proper business.

Hua Yunfei learned that the Primordial Legacies’ Emperor-tier geniuses were cursed and could not become emperors, and Jiang Ruoyao urged him to walk the Emperor’s Road in their place. She also revealed that the Profound Yellow Great Emperor had sacrificed himself to help the world survive the Era of Dharma Decline, while Hua Yunfei concealed that his disciple possessed the Profound Yellow Undying Body.

• Jiang Ruoyao told Hua Yunfei that the Emperor’s Road would open within ten years and that the Golden Age might begin in five.
• Jiang Ruoyao coughed up black blood, and Hua Yunfei recognized the curse’s eerie power; she suppressed it with a pill refined from traces of Emperor Blood.
• Jiang Ruoyao explained that Emperor-tier geniuses among the Primordial Legacies were cursed and would die if they underwent the Imperial Tribulation, so she asked Hua Yunfei to become an emperor.
• Jiang Ruoyao said the Heaven-Stealing Organization and other factors had driven the universe into decline, and praised the Profound Yellow Great Emperor for helping the world endure.
• Jiang Ruoyao confirmed that the Profound Yellow Undying Seal was with her, and Hua Yunfei claimed one of his disciples possessed the Profound Yellow Undying Body.
• Jiang Ruoyao explained that the Profound Yellow Great Emperor had dispersed the origin of his Undying Body to nourish the Heavenly Dao and hasten its revival.

Hua Yunfei agreed to help Jiang Ruoyao and the Primordial Divine Territory oppose the Heaven-Stealing Organization, though he planned to act through his own cautious methods. He brought Jiang Ruoyao to meet his disciples, who mistook her for their master's companion.

• Jiang Ruoyao explained why the Primordial Divine Territory wanted her to assess Hua Yunfei, and he agreed to help in his own way.
• The Martial Virtue Brick tried to knock Jiang Ruoyao unconscious and carry her off, but Hua Yunfei persuaded it to abandon the plan.
• Hua Yunfei warned Nangong Xiangtian that Jiang Ruoyao was a Quasi-Emperor, prompting him to flee before she could beat him.
• Hua Yunfei brought Jiang Ruoyao to the garden where Ye Bufan and the others lived.
• Jin Jin tricked Ya Ya into trading candied hawthorns, and Huang Xuan prepared to punish him before Ye Bufan announced Hua Yunfei's arrival.
• Jia Duobao and Huang Xuan saw Jiang Ruoyao beside Hua Yunfei and wondered if she was their mistress.