Chapter Summaries

After transmigrating to the Dou Qi Continent, Meng Chen received four chosen rewards: a Divine King Physique, the Divine Gu Secret Art, the Combat Character Secret, and a guardian. His guardian turned out to be the injured Qing Yanjing, whom he had intercepted before Mu Feng could rescue her.

• Meng Chen remembered choosing a special physique, a guardian, a Ten Fiends Treasure Art, and one of the Nine Secrets before the transport truck sent him to another world.
• Meng Chen fused with a primeval Divine King Physique and received the Divine Gu Secret Art and the Combat Character Secret.
• Qing Yanjing fell through a shattered spatial rift and landed on Meng Chen, unconscious and badly injured.
• Meng Chen recognized Qing Yanjing and realized that his intervention might prevent her meeting Mu Feng and having Mu Chen.
• Qing Yanjing began to wake as Meng Chen watched over her.

Qing Yanjing awakened in the Dou Qi Continent after Meng Chen summoned and rescued her, but her failed breakthrough had left her without spiritual energy and unable to serve as his Dao protector. She offered him ancient Battle Emperor techniques as compensation, but could not retrieve them from her Spatial Sacred Artifact, and she expected her recovery to be slow on this lower plane.

• Qing Yanjing woke and learned from Meng Chen that he had summoned her to the Dou Qi Continent, but she could not protect his Dao because her spiritual energy had dispersed.
• Qing Yanjing explained that her physical strength was barely comparable to the Divine Soul Realm, and Meng Chen told her she was on a lower plane outside the Great Thousand World.
• Meng Chen described the Dou Qi Continent’s cultivation system, and Qing Yanjing said ancient Battle Emperors had fought the Extraterritorial Evil Clan before falling.
• Qing Yanjing offered Meng Chen cultivation techniques once practiced by Battle Emperors, but she could not open her Spatial Sacred Artifact without spiritual energy.
• Qing Yanjing estimated that recovering to the Sovereign realm on the Dou Qi Continent could take ten years.

Meng Chen and Qing Yanjing reached Wutan City after Qing Yanjing defeated a group of bandits, whose loot gave Meng Chen money and a Dou Qi cultivation method. In the city, Xiao Yan noticed Meng Chen, but Xiao Xun'er’s jealousy interrupted his attempt to figure out why his clothes looked familiar.

• Meng Chen and Qing Yanjing walked toward civilization, and Meng Chen said he first needed a Dou Qi cultivation method before he could train.
• Bandits ambushed them on the road, but Qing Yanjing killed their leader and all his men with single palm strikes.
• Meng Chen looted over a thousand gold coins, healing supplies, and a low-grade Yellow Rank Barbaric Bull Art from the bandits.
• Meng Chen and Qing Yanjing entered Wutan City, where their striking appearance drew attention from the crowd.
• Xiao Xun'er caught Xiao Yan staring at Meng Chen and Qing Yanjing, pinched him, and then walked away when he insisted he had been looking at Meng Chen.

Meng Chen cultivated with the Divine King Physique and reached the Battle Practitioner realm in three days, while Qing Yanjing began restoring her spiritual energy. The chapter ended as Meng Chen sensed that Qing Yanjing had condensed her first strand of spiritual energy and could open her Spatial Sacred Artifact.

• Meng Chen and Qing Yanjing rented the inn's last superior room and settled into its two bedrooms.
• Meng Chen cultivated the Barbaric Bull Art, drawing in the world's primordial energy and surprising Qing Yanjing with the sacred aura of his Divine King Physique.
• After a night of cultivation, Meng Chen reached the fifth stage of Dou Qi and predicted he would break through to the Battle Practitioner realm within three days.
• Meng Chen bought new clothes, then continued cultivating until he formed a golden Dou Qi vortex and reached the Battle Practitioner realm on the third day.
• Meng Chen sensed that Qing Yanjing had condensed a strand of spiritual energy, allowing her to open her Spatial Sacred Artifact.

Qing Yanjing gave Meng Chen six Ancient Emperor Techniques, and he chose the Purple Sun Incinerating World Heavenly Technique. Studying it brought him face-to-face with the Purple Sun Emperor’s remnant inheritance, which he received before the remnant dissipated.

• Qing Yanjing used her recovered spiritual energy to retrieve six Ancient Emperor Techniques from the Small Pagoda and offered them to Meng Chen.
• Qing Yanjing explained the origins of the six techniques, and Meng Chen set aside the Blood River Demonic Art and the Azure Abyss Heaven-Devouring Record while considering the others.
• Meng Chen brought the scrolls to his bedroom and chose the Purple Sun Incinerating World Heavenly Technique over Emperor Tuo She's Emperor Flame Art.
• The technique's words left the scroll and entered Meng Chen's glabella, bringing his consciousness into a realm of purple mist.
• The Purple Sun Emperor's remnant inheritance appeared, thanked Meng Chen for bringing it back to the Dou Qi Continent, and passed its inheritance to him before dissipating.

After inheriting the Purple Sun Incinerating World Heavenly Technique, Meng Chen advanced to Three-Star Fighter and visited Wutan City's marketplace, where he met Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er. He left with Xiao Yan as his guide and, unable to afford a Storage Ring, considered selling knowledge to earn the money.

• Meng Chen discovered that the Purple Sun Incinerating World Heavenly Technique had transformed his battle qi vortex and raised his cultivation to Three-Star Fighter.
• Meng Chen left Qing Yanjing's courtyard and entered Wutan City's marketplace, where Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er approached him.
• Xiao Yan introduced the marketplace and offered to guide Meng Chen, who told him his name and asked about Storage Rings.
• After learning that even a low-grade Storage Ring cost seventy or eighty thousand gold coins, Meng Chen considered selling knowledge from the Purple Sun Emperor's inheritance.
• Xiao Yan led Meng Chen and Xiao Xun'er to Old Zhao's restaurant, where he served them a meal and remembered to offer food to Xiao Xun'er.

Meng Chen and Qing Yanjing needed money while they waited for her spiritual energy to recover, so they prepared a battle skill scroll to sell. After making a convincing scroll, they headed for the Mittel Auction House.

• Meng Chen treated Xiao Yan to lunch and took a packed meal back for Qing Yanjing, while Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er recalled meeting him earlier.
• Qing Yanjing said she had only recovered enough strength to reach the Spirit Movement Realm and that restoring her power in the Dou Qi Continent would take a long time.
• Meng Chen told Qing Yanjing they were nearly out of gold coins and proposed selling a genuine battle skill on a scroll marked with her Small Pagoda imprint.
• Qing Yanjing wrote the Profound Flame Palm, a Profound Tier, High Grade battle skill, onto a scroll and added the Small Pagoda imprint.
• After Qing Yanjing rested, she and Meng Chen left for the Mittel Auction House to sell the scroll.

Meng Chen met Yafei at the Mittel Auction House and consigned a Profound Tier, High Grade battle skill for that day's auction. As the auction filled with buyers drawn by the Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid, Xiao Yan spotted Meng Chen in the crowd.

• Meng Chen and Qing Yanjing entered the Mittel Auction House and asked to meet Yafei about a business deal.
• Meng Chen told Yafei he wanted to consign a battle skill, and Qing Yanjing presented its scroll for appraisal.
• Yafei confirmed the skill was Profound Tier, High Grade and arranged for it to be included in the auction.
• Yafei persuaded Meng Chen and Qing Yanjing to stay and watch the auction.
• Xiao Yan, Xun'er, and Xiao Ning arrived at the crowded auction, where Xiao Yan bragged about his cultivation and taunted Xiao Ning.
• Xiao Yan spotted Meng Chen in the auction hall and called out to him.

Meng Chen attended the auction with Qing Yanjing and met Xiao Yan and Xiao Zun'er, while Jialie Ao's leering gaze prompted Meng Chen and Xiao Yan to anticipate trouble. The auction sold Xiao Yan's Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid before revealing a fire-element Profound Tier, High Grade battle skill as its true grand finale.

• Xiao Yan and Xiao Zun'er greeted Meng Chen and Qing Yanjing at the auction, and Xiao Zhan welcomed Meng Chen as a friend of the Xiao Clan.
• Meng Chen noticed Jialie Ao staring at him, and Xiao Yan warned Xiao Zun'er that Jialie Ao had grown stronger but was risking a disastrous confrontation.
• Yafei began the auction and was puzzled when Meng Chen showed no interest in her charms.
• Yafei auctioned Xiao Yan's Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid, which Xiao Zhan won after outbidding Jialie Bi by a hundred thousand gold coins.
• Yafei revealed the auction's true finale: a fire-element Profound Tier, High Grade battle skill called Profound Flame Palm, starting at one hundred and twenty thousand gold coins.

Jialie Bi blamed Xiao Zhan for the costly bidding mistake, while Xiao Zhan secured the Profound Flame Palm for Xiao Yan. After the auction, Meng Chen and Qing Yanjing met Yafei, bought a Storage Ring, and left with Yafei eager to befriend Meng Chen.

• Jialie Bi accused Xiao Zhan of tricking him and threatened to destroy the Xiao Clan before leaving the auction with Jialie Ao.
• Xiao Zhan won the Profound Flame Palm for three hundred and sixty thousand gold coins, intending it for Xiao Yan.
• Meng Chen asked Qing Yanjing about her odds against Xiao Zhan and Jialie Bi, and she explained that she could kill them with one move.
• Yafei returned to the reception room and found Meng Chen unmoved by her charms, then gave him the jade card without charging commission.
• Meng Chen used the proceeds to buy a low-grade Storage Ring and left with Qing Yanjing, while Yafei resolved to befriend him and went to meet the man who had consigned the Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid.

Meng Chen bought a spacious residence and moved in with Qing Yanjing, while Xiao Zhan gave Xiao Yan the Profound Flame Palm to help him prepare for the agreement in two years. Yao Lao was weakened by the scroll’s Small Pagoda insignia, and the chapter ended with Xiao Yan calling out to Meng Chen as he headed to the Mittel Auction House.

• Meng Chen bought a large residence near the Xiao Clan, hired a steward and eight servants, and prepared to move in.
• Xiao Zhan gave Xiao Yan the Profound Flame Palm scroll, and the two shared an emotional exchange about Xiao Zhan’s wish to help his son grow stronger.
• Yao Lao examined the scroll and was weakened by the Small Pagoda insignia, alarming Xiao Yan.
• Meng Chen and Qing Yanjing moved into their new residence, where Qing Yanjing agreed to make a Spirit-Gathering Formation using magic cores and other materials.
• Meng Chen left for the Mittel Auction House to buy the materials, and Xiao Yan spotted him and called out.

Meng Chen ran into Xiao Yan, moved into a residence near the Xiao Clan, and went to Mittel Auction House to buy materials for Aunt Qing. Yafei tried to seduce him, but he stopped her, bought the goods, and left her watching him with lingering interest.

• Meng Chen met Xiao Yan, who warned him that Jialie Ao had taken an interest in Aunt Qing and offered the Xiao Clan's protection.
• Xiao Yan's teacher, Yao Lao, told him that Meng Chen was far from ordinary and carried a pure, sacred aura.
• At Mittel Auction House, Yafei tried to provoke a reaction from Meng Chen by sitting close and touching him, but he caught her hand and teased her about getting burned by her own fire.
• Yafei stumbled into Meng Chen's arms after he released her, then apologized and reflected that her pride had nearly gotten her into trouble.
• Yafei showed Meng Chen the magic cores, magical beast bones, and special metals, and Meng Chen paid fifty-seven thousand gold coins before leaving.

Meng Chen returned with formation materials, then cultivated the Purple Sun Incinerating World Heavenly Technique and advanced to the peak of Three-Star Fighter. Qing Yanjing completed a Second-Level Essence-Gathering Formation over the Meng Residence, leaving Meng Chen with a new formation to support his cultivation.

• Meng Chen returned to the Meng Residence with magic cores, Cold Jade Iron Essence, and the bones of a third-tier Giant Rock Bull, which Qing Yanjing agreed to test.
• Meng Chen cultivated the Purple Sun Incinerating World Heavenly Technique, drawing the attention of Yao Lao, Ling Ying, and Xiao Xun'er with the surge of essence energy.
• Meng Chen advanced from the beginning of Three-Star Fighter to its peak before stopping to rest as his meridians became saturated.
• Qing Yanjing showed Meng Chen her Imitation Spirit-Gathering Formation and instructed him to place the inscribed Cold Jade Iron Essence around the residence.
• Qing Yanjing linked the magic cores and spirit array iron pieces, completing a Second-Level Essence-Gathering Formation that enveloped the Meng Residence.

Meng Chen caught Qing Yanjing after she exhausted herself setting up an Essence-Gathering Formation, and the close encounter left both of them unsettled. After the formation boosted the Meng Residence’s energy and Meng Chen reached Four-Star Battle Practitioner, Qing Yanjing explained how the Extraterritorial Evil Clan had forced her failed breakthrough, while Meng Chen claimed to come from the Heavenly Origin Realm and revealed that it lay beyond the Great Thousand World.

• Qing Yanjing completed the Essence-Gathering Formation, spent her recovered spiritual energy, and collapsed into Meng Chen’s arms before quickly pulling away.
• Meng Chen cultivated in the strengthened energy and advanced to Four-Star Battle Practitioner, then shared a light dinner with Qing Yanjing.
• Qing Yanjing offered to guide Meng Chen in cultivation, and he asked why she had failed to advance from Spirit Grade to Immortal Grade.
• Qing Yanjing told Meng Chen that the Extraterritorial Evil Clan had ambushed her, forcing her to attempt a breakthrough before she killed three Nether Demon Emperors and escaped to the Hundred Spirit Continent.
• When Qing Yanjing questioned how Meng Chen knew so much about her and the Ancient Clans, he claimed to be from the Heavenly Origin Realm, beyond the Great Thousand World.
• Meng Chen told Qing Yanjing that the Heavenly Origin Realm was larger and more prosperous than the Great Thousand World, and that the Extraterritorial Evil Clan and the Heavenly Evil God came from there.

Meng Chen explained the Extraterritorial Evil Clan’s origins and his mission to Qing Yanjing, who resolved to protect and train him. She accepted him as her only disciple, then realized she had wrongly suspected him of harboring improper thoughts toward her.

• Meng Chen told Qing Yanjing that the Extraterritorial Evil Clan and the Heavenly Evil God originated in the Heavenly Origin Realm, and that Origin Sovereign had sent him to eliminate them.
• Meng Chen said his Divine King Physique made him suited to fight the Extraterritorial Evil Clan, and Qing Yanjing vowed to protect him and help him grow stronger.
• Qing Yanjing decided to teach Meng Chen cultivation so he could reach the Great Thousand World sooner, and Meng Chen asked her to accept him as her disciple.
• Qing Yanjing accepted Meng Chen as her only disciple, and he bowed to her as his master.
• Qing Yanjing warned Meng Chen not to entertain improper thoughts, but his confusion made her realize she had misunderstood him and feel ashamed.

Meng Chen cultivated the Divine Gu Secret Art and planned to strengthen his body so he could refine Heavenly Flames for the Purple Sun Incinerating World Heavenly Technique. After buying herbs from the Mittel Auction House, he returned home and told Qing Yanjing about his body-refinement preparations.

• Meng Chen used the Divine Gu Demonstration to study the Divine Gu Secret Art overnight and reached five-star Battle Practitioner.
• Meng Chen recalled that he needed Dragon Blood and herbs to cultivate the Taihao Imperial Dragon Body before attempting to refine a Heavenly Flame.
• Meng Chen bought thirteen herbs from Yafei at the Mittel Auction House and asked her to keep them in stock, while deciding to hunt for fresh Dragon Blood himself.
• Guni identified Meng Chen's herb list as part of a secret body-refining formula, and Yafei decided to stock more of the herbs for future business.
• Meng Chen returned to the Meng Residence, met Qing Yanjing by the pond, and began telling her he had bought herbs for body refinement.

Qing Yanjing gave Meng Chen True Dragon Essence Blood to help temper his body, and its dragon might fully awakened his Divine King Physique. The resulting divine aura alarmed powerful figures across Wutan City, while Meng Chen prepared to refine the Dragon Blood.

• Qing Yanjing misunderstood Meng Chen’s plans to visit the Mittel Auction House, then learned he needed fresh Dragon Blood and body-tempering herbs for his cultivation.
• Qing Yanjing gave Meng Chen a bottle of True Dragon Essence Blood taken from a True Dragon at Earth Sovereign Great Perfection.
• The Dragon Blood’s might nearly forced Meng Chen to kneel, but his Divine King Physique resisted and released a powerful divine aura.
• Yao Lao, Xiao Yan, Ling Ying, and Xiao Xun'er sensed the aura, and Xiao Xun'er ordered Ling Ying to investigate in the name of the Ancient Clan if necessary.
• Meng Chen’s Divine King Physique fully awakened, and he thanked Qing Yanjing before resolving to refine the Dragon Blood.

Meng Chen refined his body with Dragon Blood, reached the Nine-Star Battle Practitioner realm, and awakened three golden Sun Python Markings. After he teased Qing Yanjing with his newly strengthened body and aura, she fled in embarrassment and later struggled with her feelings toward her disciple.

• Meng Chen prepared a medicinal bath, and Qing Yanjing added a wisp of Dragon Blood to it.
• Meng Chen endured the Dragon Blood’s torment as his Golden Divine Blood subdued it, then absorbed the medicinal liquid to refine his body.
• Meng Chen emerged from the bath at the Nine-Star Battle Practitioner realm with three golden Sun Python Markings and greatly increased strength.
• Meng Chen pressed Qing Yanjing’s hand against his chest and enveloped her in his vital energy, causing her to lose composure before she fled.
• That night, Qing Yanjing meditated but could not stop thinking about Meng Chen and wondered if loneliness had caused her improper thoughts.

Ling Ying arrived at the Meng Residence on behalf of his young lady, but Qing Yanjing dismissed him without revealing her identity. Later, Meng Chen kissed Qing Yanjing, who pushed him away and shut herself in her room; Meng Chen decided to provoke her with someone else.

• Ling Ying sensed the dense natural energy at the Meng Residence and mistook Qing Yanjing for a powerful senior when she confronted him.
• Qing Yanjing dismissed Ling Ying after he introduced himself as an emissary sent by his young lady.
• Meng Chen approached Qing Yanjing, caught her when she stumbled, and kissed her after lifting her veil.
• Qing Yanjing pushed Meng Chen away, told him they could not do this, and shut the door between them.
• Qing Yanjing struggled with her feelings inside the room while Meng Chen decided to use someone else to provoke her.

Qing Yanjing reflected on Meng Chen’s kiss and resolved to maintain the proper distance between master and disciple, then learned he had gone to the Mittel Auction House. There, Meng Chen accompanied Yafei to meet the disguised Xiao Yan, arranged to buy more herbs, and followed Xiao Yan after the old guest departed.

• Qing Yanjing recalled how Meng Chen had saved and kissed her, then decided she could not keep making mistakes with her disciple.
• Qing Yanjing learned Meng Chen was at the Mittel Auction House and ordered the steward to send him to see her when he returned.
• Meng Chen asked Yafei to prepare more medicinal ingredients, then joined her to meet the auction house’s most important guest.
• Meng Chen sat beside Yafei and put an arm around her waist while Xiao Yan, disguised as an old gentleman, asked for a medicinal cauldron and ingredients through Yao Lao.
• Xiao Yan traded a free batch of Qi-Gathering Powder for the needed supplies, then left with them; Meng Chen arranged delivery of his herbs and followed him.