Chapter Summaries

Zhou Changqing intimidated Chai Ping into retreating and left the square, while Shao Dongyuan killed the wounded Lian Tu. Back at the Black Emperor Pavilion, Zhou Changqing’s Spirit-Gathering Armor became the talk of Black Emperor City, and news that it might be auctioned sparked a frenzy among powerful bidders.

• Shao Dongyuan returned Zhou Changqing’s weapons and Spirit-Gathering Armor, revealing that the treasures belonged to Zhou Changqing rather than the Rakshasa Gate.
• Zhou Changqing confronted Chai Ping, who withdrew rather than risk fighting him, and then left with Zi Yan as Su Mei followed.
• Shao Dongyuan killed the gravely wounded Lian Tu with a blade to the chest.
• Zhou Changqing stayed at the Black Emperor Pavilion, cultivating and helping Zi Yan refine pills and strengthen her bloodline.
• Shao Dongyuan spread word of the Spirit-Gathering Armor, then announced that it might be auctioned, prompting factions and experts to prepare bids.

The Black Emperor Sect agreed to auction Zhou Changqing’s Spirit-Gathering Armor and warned Chai Ping not to provoke him. At the crowded Black Emperor City auction, bidding began on the armor and saber, drawing fierce offers from major factions.

• The First Elder told Chai Ping to accept the Spirit-Gathering Armor for auction and avoid provoking Zhou Changqing.
• Zhou Changqing arrived at the auction with Su Mei and the Rakshasa Gate party, and Su Mei confirmed the Black Emperor Sect had accepted the armor without trouble.
• Liu Wufeng opened the auction and sold several early lots before the major factions began competing over more valuable items.
• Liu Wufeng presented the tier-five intermediate Spirit-Gathering Armor and saber, explained their proven power, and announced that bidders had to barter rather than pay gold coins.
• The major factions scrambled to bid for the armor set with medicinal pills and rare materials.

The auction of Zhou Changqing’s Spirit-Gathering Armor brought him a fortune, and the Black Emperor Sect later bought two sets from him. The chapter ended with both sides satisfied with the deal.

• Liu Wufeng auctioned five tier 5 Spirit-Gathering Armor sets, which fierce bidding sold for valuable pills, techniques, and other resources.
• The tier 6 Spirit-Gathering Armor drew even fiercer competition from first-rate factions and drove the auction to a close.
• After the auction, Liu Wufeng invited Zhou Changqing and his group backstage to discuss buying Spirit-Gathering Armor for the Black Emperor Sect.
• Zhou Changqing sold the Black Emperor Sect one tier 6 high-grade set and one tier 6 intermediate set in exchange for an Emperor's Extreme Pill, techniques, and another sixth-grade pill.

After leaving Black Emperor City, Zhou Changqing parted ways with Su Mei and traveled east with Zi Yan. They reached Tianya City, the nearest major city with a Space Wormhole connecting to the Central Plains.

• Liu Wufeng rejected Che Cheng's suggestion to attack Zhou Changqing and ordered the sect to study his Spirit-Gathering Armor.
• Su Mei led the Rakshasa Gate party out of Black Emperor City, and Zhou Changqing told her he and Zi Yan would go their separate way.
• Zhou Changqing gave Su Mei a Storage Ring containing a high-grade sixth-tier Spirit-Gathering Armament before flying off with Zi Yan.
• Su Mei discovered the gift and took comfort in believing she held some place in Zhou Changqing's heart.
• After eight or nine days of travel, Zhou Changqing and Zi Yan arrived at Tianya City in the Tianqing Mountain Range.

Zhou Changqing and Zi Yan entered Tianya City's space wormhole without a spatial boat after preparing for the journey. They began traveling through its passage toward the Central Plains, a trip expected to take a month.

• Zhou Changqing learned that Tianya City had no spatial boats available, and Zi Yan reassured him that their strength and her spatial talent would help them travel without one.
• Zhou Changqing and Zi Yan went to the city center and paid a steep fee to enter the guarded space wormhole.
• Zhou Changqing took Zi Yan's hand and led her into the wormhole, where they found a stable passage bordered by faintly glowing spatial barriers.
• Zhou Changqing and Zi Yan headed deeper into the passage toward the Central Plains, with Zhou Changqing warning that the journey would take a month.

Zhou Changqing and Zi Yan endured a month-long journey through a space wormhole without a spatial ship before finally reaching Sky Star City. They emerged into sunlight and bustle, where a local offered them a guide to the city.

• Zi Yan grew bored during the wormhole journey and repeatedly asked Zhou Changqing when they would arrive.
• Zhou Changqing carried the exhausted Zi Yan against his chest so she could sleep, then continued traveling with her for the rest of the journey.
• After more than twenty days, Zhou Changqing spotted the wormhole exit and woke Zi Yan.
• Zi Yan woke refreshed, thanked Zhou Changqing, and took his hand as they approached the exit.
• Zhou Changqing and Zi Yan emerged into Sky Star City, where a local offered to sell them a basic guide for a thousand gold coins.

Zhou Changqing and Zi Yan arrived in Sky Star City, where Zhou Changqing bought regional guides and learned of a hidden Dou Zun tomb in the Purple Sun Mountain Range. After resting, they left the city and flew west toward the surrounding region.

• Zhou Changqing met Gao Lang at the wormhole square and bought twenty-eight handbooks covering the region around Sky Star City.
• Gao Lang sold Zhou Changqing information about a recently discovered Dou Zun tomb in the Purple Sun Mountain Range and gave him a map.
• Zi Yan questioned whether Gao Lang could be trusted, and Zhou Changqing explained that he suspected Gao Lang was a powerful Dou Zong with hidden motives.
• Zhou Changqing and Zi Yan rested at an inn in Sky Star City.
• The next morning, Zhou Changqing and Zi Yan left Sky Star City and flew west.

Zhou Changqing and Zi Yan traveled to the Purple Sun Mountain Range to investigate the rumored Dou Zun tomb. They found a powerful Spatial Boundary Mirror in a ravine, confirming the tomb’s existence, while a Dou Zong expert took note of Zhou Changqing’s formidable soul power.

• Zhou Changqing and Zi Yan flew for several days to reach the Purple Sun Mountain Range, following the location marked on Gao Lang’s map.
• Zi Yan eagerly checked the map and led Zhou Changqing to the marked site, where they found dozens of experts waiting among the peaks.
• Zhou Changqing gauged the assembled cultivators’ strength and ignored their contemptuous remarks about the pair’s apparent youth.
• Zhou Changqing sensed spatial fluctuations in a ravine and recognized a sturdy Spatial Boundary Mirror, which confirmed that the Dou Zun tomb was real.
• The strongest Dou Zong detected Zhou Changqing’s soul power, judged him unusually talented, and decided to avoid provoking him unless necessary.

Zhou Changqing waited with Zi Yan for the Spatial Boundary Mirror to weaken enough to enter the Dou Zun tomb, as more experts—including the Wind-Thunder West Pavilion—gathered in the Purple Sun Mountain Range. The mirror began weakening at noon, signaling that the time to enter had come.

• Zhou Changqing monitored the deteriorating Spatial Boundary Mirror while he and Zi Yan cultivated on the mountain.
• More experts arrived over several days, bringing the number of Dou Zongs present to seven.
• He Yanhao, the Five-Star Dou Zong First Elder of the Wind-Thunder West Pavilion, arrived with the Pavilion's Second Elder and their followers, but did not challenge the other experts.
• At noon, spatial power poured from the ravine and the Spatial Boundary Mirror rapidly weakened, drawing the attention of all nine Dou Zongs.

Nine Dou Zong experts joined forces to break the Spatial Boundary Mirror protecting the tomb, leaving a vast crater and revealing a passage. Zhou Changqing and Zi Yan followed the crowd into the crater, where they discovered the entrance.

• Zhou Changqing and Zi Yan watched as He Yanhao proposed that the nine Dou Zong experts combine their strength to break the weakened barrier.
• He Yanhao, the other seven Dou Zong experts, and the Wind Lightning West Pavilion's Second Elder gathered above the ravine and unleashed a combined attack.
• The strike obliterated the ravine, carved out a crater ten li across, and tore open countless spatial fissures, frightening the gathered cultivators and Zi Yan.
• Zhou Changqing reassured Zi Yan that she would become even stronger once she reached the Dou Zong realm.
• After the spatial fissures healed, the nine Dou Zong experts headed into the crater, followed by the others, including Zhou Changqing and Zi Yan.
• The cultivators found an enormous passage exposed at the center of the crater.

Zhou Changqing and Zi Yan entered the Dou Zun expert’s underground tomb and found a vast complex of buildings. Zi Yan plundered its medicinal garden, then led Zhou Changqing to the Treasure Pavilion, leaving them ahead of the other tomb raiders.

• The nine Dou Zongs led their groups through the passage into the enormous underground complex, with Zhou Changqing and Zi Yan entering last.
• Zi Yan sensed something valuable and guided Zhou Changqing to a medicinal garden enclosed by a spatial barrier.
• Zi Yan passed through the barrier and harvested all the herbs while Zhou Changqing guarded the area.
• Zi Yan spotted more treasures, and Zhou Changqing carried her swiftly to a hall marked Treasure Pavilion.

Zhou Changqing and Zi Yan looted a treasure hall in the tomb, then encountered and killed a peak Dou Emperor from the Wind Lightning West Pavilion. They left the hall with its treasures secured and the old man’s corpse at the doors.

• Zhou Changqing and Zi Yan found a hall full of gold, jade containers, and ore, though some of its pills had decayed.
• Zhou Changqing and Zi Yan took everything in the hall, including the gold, and prepared to leave.
• A green-robed old man from the Wind Lightning West Pavilion entered and demanded the treasures while threatening to kill them.
• Zhou Changqing told Zi Yan to stand back and charged the peak Dou Emperor.
• Zhou Changqing shattered the old man’s defense with two slaps, burst his head, and moved out of the way of the flying gore.

Zhou Changqing and Zi Yan explored Yuan Honglie’s tomb, where Zhou revealed that his body had reached Dou Zong strength and learned from an epitaph that the tomb belonged to the Crimson Venerable. They entered the main palace, where nine powerful Dou Zong factions had gathered around Yuan Honglie’s coffin, and He Yanhao and the Second Elder noticed them.

• Zi Yan was amazed when Zhou Changqing explained that his body had reached the strength of a Dou Zong.
• Zhou Changqing and Zi Yan plundered the tomb and killed several people who tried to take their treasures.
• At the main burial chamber, Zhou Changqing read Yuan Honglie’s epitaph and learned that the Crimson Venerable had hidden his descendants and left the tomb’s resources for them.
• Zhou Changqing warned Zi Yan to stay close if danger arose, then led her into the palace, where nine Dou Zong factions watched a dark-red coffin.
• Zhou Changqing took Zi Yan to a corner, drawing mockery from some gathered people, while He Yanhao and the Second Elder turned their attention toward them.

Zhou Changqing was confronted by the Wind Lightning West Pavilion after its elders traced a dead deacon’s marked Storage Ring to him. He admitted killing the man and fought off the pavilion’s Peak Dou Emperor deacon, leaving the West Pavilion elders displeased as the battle continued.

• He Yanhao detected the Three Thousand Lightning Movement Scroll’s mark on Zhou Changqing and suspected he had killed a missing deacon.
• The Second Elder ordered a Peak Dou Emperor deacon to confront Zhou Changqing and Zi Yan.
• The deacon accused Zhou Changqing of killing a Wind-Thunder Pavilion member and taking his belongings, while onlookers reacted with surprise.
• Zhou Changqing admitted killing the man, drew the Glorious Thunder Tyrant Sword, and attacked the deacon without revealing any backing.
• Zhou Changqing wounded the deacon and pressed him with a rapid barrage, leaving him dodging as He Yanhao and the Second Elder watched with displeasure.

Zhou Changqing faced the West Pavilion’s Second Elder after nearly killing the West Pavilion Deacon. He used Azure Thunder Voidstep to evade the Dou Zong expert’s attacks, revealing a movement technique that the onlookers recognized as High-grade Earth-tier.

• He Yanhao ordered the Second Elder to deal with Zhou Changqing, and the elder appeared just as Zhou Changqing’s sword threatened the West Pavilion Deacon.
• The Second Elder attacked Zhou Changqing, who dodged his lethal claw strike and forced the Deacon to retreat to the West Pavilion’s ranks.
• The Second Elder lunged again, but Zhou Changqing activated Azure Thunder Voidstep and left an afterimage in the path of the elder’s attack.
• The Second Elder pursued Zhou Changqing using Three Thousand Lightning Movement, but Zhou Changqing dodged him again with ease.
• The assembled Dou Zong experts and He Yanhao recognized that Zhou Changqing’s movement technique was likely High-grade Earth-tier.

Zhou Changqing evaded the Second Elder while He Yanhao ordered his men to capture him alive and targeted Zi Yan as leverage. The outer coffin opened to reveal a scarlet coffin and two blood-jade boxes, sending all eight Dou Zongs racing toward the platform.

• He Yanhao ordered the Second Elder to capture Zhou Changqing alive and extract his movement Dou Technique, but the Second Elder pursued him, unable to catch him.
• He Yanhao sealed the palace exit with a lightning net while the other Dou Zongs coveted Zhou Changqing's technique but kept their focus on the outer coffin.
• A West Pavilion deacon suggested taking Zi Yan hostage, and He Yanhao ordered him to capture her; Zhou Changqing and Zi Yan noticed the threat.
• The outer coffin released a blood-red ripple, opened to reveal a scarlet coffin and two blood-jade boxes, and drew everyone's attention.
• All eight Dou Zongs charged toward the platform, and two Four-Star Dou Zongs attacked He Yanhao as he neared it.

He Yanhao and two other Mid-Rank Dou Zong stalemated over the treasures in the Dou Zun's tomb while Zhou Changqing wondered why the Wind Lightning West Pavilion's Second Elder kept pursuing him. Gao Lang suddenly seized the Jade Boxes, and He Yanhao attacked the two rivals trying to stop him.

• He Yanhao and two Four-Star Dou Zong clashed, then united to blast an early-stage Dou Zong who tried to reach the coffin.
• The three Mid-Rank Dou Zong held their positions, leaving the other Dou Zong unable to approach the treasures.
• Zhou Changqing questioned why the Second Elder kept fighting him instead of helping He Yanhao and suspected the Wind Lightning West Pavilion had a plan.
• Gao Lang appeared behind the coffin and drew the two Jade Boxes into his hand.
• As the two Four-Star Dou Zong moved to stop Gao Lang, He Yanhao attacked them with lightning, forcing them to defend themselves.

Gao Lang opened a jade box in the Crimson Dou Zun’s coffin and revealed an eighth-tier Sun-Moon Truth-Stabilizing Pill with a turtle pill spirit. The two Four-Star Dou Zong grew greedy, while He Yanhao realized Gao Lang had endangered the West Pavilion’s claim to the treasure.

• He Yanhao blocked the two Four-Star Dou Zong while Gao Lang took the jade boxes, revealing that the West Pavilion had staged the delay to let him retrieve the coffin’s treasures.
• He Yanhao warned the two Four-Star Dou Zong to withdraw, and they hesitated over the consequences of openly antagonizing the Wind-Thunder Pavilion.
• Gao Lang opened a jade box despite He Yanhao’s furious protest, releasing a radiant sun-and-moon manifestation and a turtle-shaped pill spirit.
• A knowledgeable Four-Star Dou Zong identified the creature as a pill spirit, and the gathered cultivators realized the jade box held an eighth-tier pill.
• Gao Lang named the pill the five-colored Sun-Moon Truth-Stabilizing Pill, and the two Four-Star Dou Zong’s greed intensified as He Yanhao suspected Gao Lang had a hidden agenda.

Gao Lang revealed the Netherblood Spirit-Devouring Canon, triggering a palace-wide battle over the scroll and the Sun-Moon Truth-Stabilizing Pill. As Zhou Changqing decided to leave with Zi Yan rather than join the fight, another upheaval struck.

• Gao Lang opened a second jade box and revealed the Netherblood Spirit-Devouring Canon, a cultivation technique said to rival a low-grade Heaven Rank technique.
• Gao Lang tossed both jade boxes toward He Yanhao, but two Four-Star Dou Zong attacked He Yanhao as he reached to catch them.
• The other Dou Zong and the Dou Emperor joined the scramble for the treasures, and a Peak Dou Emperor seized both boxes before the crowd blasted him apart.
• Zhou Changqing stayed out of the battle, judged the treasures not worth the risk, and prepared to leave with Zi Yan.
• Another upheaval struck just as Zhou Changqing prepared to break free of the Second Elder's harassment.

Song Jun appeared and stopped the fighting over the jade boxes, then confronted Gao Lang and revealed his identity as Yuan Gaolang. The revelation that Yuan Gaolang might be closely connected to the Crimson Venerable left everyone stunned.

• He Yanhao drove back two Four-Star Dou Zongs with a lightning technique and called for the Pavilion Master to take charge.
• Song Jun arrived, and his Seven-Star Dou Zong aura subdued the combatants and shifted the balance of power.
• Song Jun rebuked He Yanhao, claimed the two jade boxes, and surveyed the palace while Zhou Changqing prepared for a possible escape.
• Song Jun called out Gao Lang as Yuan Gaolang and demanded an explanation.
• Gao Lang reappeared on the platform, and the gathered Dou Zongs realized he might have a deep connection to the Crimson Venerable.