Chapter Summaries

Nie Yun revealed his overwhelming strength and defeated Mu Shengxue, Qi Yang, the Seventh Prince’s guards, and the Seventh Prince himself. Despite the Seventh Prince’s threat that his Realm expert ancestor would avenge him, Nie Yun killed him.

• Nie Yun knocked Mu Shengxue to the ground with one blow, stunning Bai Huaxiu, Mu Qing, and the others.
• Qi Yang attacked Nie Yun, but Nie Yun flattened his hammer, severed his arms, and shattered his sea of qi as he fled.
• The Seventh Prince sent his subordinates to hold Nie Yun back and tried to escape, but Nie Yun trapped them all behind a wall of water.
• Nie Yun killed the Seventh Prince’s middle-aged subordinates with a single sword strike and severed the Seventh Prince’s arms.
• The Seventh Prince threatened Nie Yun with his ancestor’s power and offered to conceal what happened, but Nie Yun rejected the threat and killed him.

Nie Yun killed the Seventh Prince and forced Mu Xia to become his soul-bound maidservant, then questioned Qi Yang about the Ancient Demon Saint Corpse. After confirming that it lay beneath the Nine-Hearted Demonic Fruit Tree, Nie Yun killed Qi Yang and began covering up the deaths by framing the escaped Ouyang Cheng.

• Nie Yun gave Mu Xia the choice of becoming his maidservant or dying, and she willingly sacrificed her soul to him.
• Nie Yun gave Mu Xia a Nine-Hearted Demonic Fruit as a reward for her submission.
• Nie Yun deduced that the Ancient Demon Saint Corpse lay beneath the Nine-Hearted Demonic Fruit Tree, and Qi Yang's reaction confirmed his guess.
• Nie Yun killed Qi Yang and collected the contents of his Storage Dantian.
• Nie Yun used Soaring Water Qi to tear apart the Seventh Prince and the others' corpses, planning to make the escaped Ouyang Cheng the scapegoat.

Nie Yun led Bai Huaxiu, Mu Qing, and Mu Xia into the Demon Nether Ancient Path beneath the Nine-Hearted Demonic Fruit Tree to search for the Ancient Demon Saint Corpse. After rescuing Bai Huaxiu from Blood Fiend qi, he left the group facing the path’s deadly dangers.

• Bai Huaxiu marveled at Nie Yun’s many Special Talents, then chose not to question him further.
• Nie Yun broke open the ground beneath the Nine-Hearted Demonic Fruit Tree and warned Bai Huaxiu, Mu Qing, and Mu Xia to stay close as they entered.
• Nie Yun used his Soaring Water Master abilities to block the killing aura and detect a trap, then carried the group past it as Ghost Claws emerged from the walls.
• Nie Yun recognized the Blood Fiend qi filling the passage and used his Soaring Water Master abilities to keep it from reaching the group.
• Blood Fiend qi invaded Bai Huaxiu’s mind and made her attack at illusions, so Nie Yun used the Blood Character Great Golden Curse to expel a demon shadow from her and destroy the Ghost Claws ahead.

Nie Yun led Mu Qing, Mu Xia, and Bai Huaxiu through the Demon Nether Ancient Path and reached the Ancient Demon Saint Corpse. Ouyang Cheng appeared to steal it, but Nie Yun activated the corpse and left Ouyang Cheng struck down by its fist.

• Nie Yun broke the passage's demonic traps and arrows while Mu Qing explained the Supreme rankings and remarked that he could place among the Heaven Ranking's top five.
• Nie Yun found the Ancient Demon Saint Corpse and considered refining it into a powerful puppet or using its demon core to create a Secret Realm Demon Pet.
• Ouyang Cheng suddenly seized the corpse just as Nie Yun was about to take it.
• Nie Yun shielded the three women, activated the corpse with a golden beam, and watched it overpower Ouyang Cheng.

Nie Yun used the Ancient Demon Saint Corpse to defeat and kill Ouyang Cheng, then subdued the corpse with the Ten Complete Nine Palaces Diagram. The chapter ended with the corpse stored in Nie Yun’s dantian as Mu Qing and Bai Huaxiu reacted to his abilities.

• Nie Yun lured Ouyang Cheng into attacking the Ancient Demon Saint Corpse, which struck and injured him.
• Ouyang Cheng unleashed the Soaring Water Master martial skill Ten Thousand Li Raging Waves, but Nie Yun provoked the corpse into attacking him again.
• Nie Yun pinned Ouyang Cheng beneath his foot and crushed his head, then destroyed his remains to conceal the trail linking him to the Seventh Prince and Qi Yang.
• Bai Huaxiu recognized Nie Yun’s formation as the Ten Complete Nine Palaces Diagram and explained its power to Mu Qing.
• Nie Yun used the diagram to immobilize the Ancient Demon Saint Corpse and draw it into his dantian.

After capturing the Ancient Demon Saint Corpse, Nie Yun escaped the Demon Saint Ancient Ruins with Bai Huaxiu, Mu Qing, and the other companion while two powerful elders pursued them. He left the women on an island and began preparing underwater to refine the corpse so he could gain the strength needed to rescue his parents and allies.

• Nie Yun used the Ten Complete Nine Palaces Diagram to collect the Ancient Demon Saint Corpse, then restored his depleted strength with spirit stones.
• Nie Yun sensed danger and fled the ruins with Bai Huaxiu and the other two as an enraged elder attacked him; the Soaring Water Wings let them outrun the golden strike.
• Two old men appeared at the ruins, and one mourned his grandson Qi Yang while the other vowed to find the Soaring Water Master who had killed his descendant.
• After traveling far from the pursuers, Nie Yun left Bai Huaxiu and Mu Qing on a small island and gave them two Nine-Hearted Demonic Fruits.
• Nie Yun returned underwater, made a rocky cave, and took out the Ancient Demon Saint Corpse to begin refining it.

Nie Yun risked refining the Ancient Demon Saint Corpse and survived the ancient demon’s attempt to Seize his Body by awakening his Blood Pupil Talent and tricking the demon into lowering his guard. He succeeded in refining the corpse into a Heaven-Seizing Creation Realm puppet.

• Nie Yun decided to refine the Ancient Demon Saint Corpse despite the risk of its sealed Essence, Qi, and Spirit fighting back.
• Nie Yun sent his soul flame into the corpse and encountered a white-haired demon man who attacked him with Blood Pupil Light and tried to Seize his Body.
• Nie Yun formed a Blood Pupil Dantian and fought back, but the demon man’s centuries of experience overwhelmed his new talent.
• Nie Yun bluffed that he was a Heaven-Seizing Creation Realm expert and conjured a fake Soul-Binding Seven-Life Bridge to frighten the demon man.
• Nie Yun used the opening to strike with his Blood Pupil Talent and destroy the demon man’s soul.
• Nie Yun returned to his body, having successfully refined the corpse into a Heaven-Seizing Creation Realm puppet.

Nie Yun refined the Ancient Demon Saint Corpse into a reusable avatar powered by a Spirit Gathering Formation, then studied the Winged Cloud Armored Beast King’s tortoise shell and deepened his mastery of Hidden Strength. He left the underwater cave with thirty-two layers of Hidden Strength and greater confidence in facing powerful opponents.

• Nie Yun removed the demon core from the ancient corpse and replaced it with a Spirit Gathering Formation made from one hundred Low-grade Spirit Stones.
• Nie Yun discovered that, as a Blood Pupil Master, he could control the Ancient Demon Saint Corpse as an avatar, though it could currently unleash only about one percent of its former strength.
• Nie Yun studied the Winged Cloud Armored Beast King’s tortoise shell and entered a state of enlightenment about Hidden Strength.
• Nie Yun merged his understanding of Manifest Strength and Hidden Strength, raising his Hidden Strength to thirty-two layers.
• Nie Yun judged that he could now fight the two powerful experts he had encountered before and left the underwater cave.

Bai Huaxiu and the Mu sisters tested their newly improved techniques and discussed Nie Yun’s astonishing growth. After Nie Yun emerged from seclusion, he accepted their challenge and defeated all three with one strike, leaving them drenched in the sea.

• Bai Huaxiu demonstrated Buried Flowers Consecutive Silk, and Mu Qing and Mu Xia broke through it with their newly mastered Concentric Sword.
• Bai Huaxiu said Nie Yun had grown immensely in a month and revealed that he was not yet seventeen.
• Nie Yun emerged from seclusion and agreed to spar with Bai Huaxiu, Mu Qing, and Mu Xia together.
• Bai Huaxiu attacked with Buried Flowers Consecutive Silk as Mu Qing and Mu Xia struck with the Concentric Sword.
• Nie Yun unleashed the thirty-second layer of Hidden Strength with the Profound Jade Sword, sending all three women flying into the sea.

Nie Yun and his companions headed back to Shenfeng City while the Sacred Empire’s Imperial Prince Enforcement Team invaded the imperial city and demanded the ministers submit. With Nie Yun absent, the enforcers overpowered Luo Xiaofeng, Feng Xiao, and Yang Yan, leaving the empire’s leadership at their mercy.

• Bai Huaxiu and the others followed Nie Yun toward Shenfeng City, and Mu Xia and Mu Qing confirmed they would go with him.
• The Sacred Empire’s Imperial Prince Enforcement Team broke into the imperial city and declared it would take control of the Shenfeng Empire.
• The ministers learned the enforcers were powerful members of the Sacred Empire’s imperial clan and feared punishment for supporting Nie Yun’s rise to power.
• Luo Xiaofeng told the enforcers that the Feng Clan had been replaced and the empire was now the Nie Clan Empire, but one enforcer used true qi to force him to his knees.
• The enforcer bound Feng Xiao and Yang Yan, forced them to kneel, and made them slap themselves until their faces were swollen and teeth were knocked out.

The Imperial Prince Enforcement Team attacked Nie Yun’s imperial city, and their leader defeated Nie Yun’s three Demon Pets with one move. As Yang Yan resisted torture, Meng Qimo betrayed Nie Yun and suggested using his allies and Demon Pets to track him down.

• Yang Yan summoned the Wind Wolf King, Purple Eye, and Black Rock, but the young leader defeated all three with a single strike.
• The young man demanded that the ministers reveal where Nie Yun was and tortured Yang Yan when he refused to betray him.
• Meng Qimo revealed that Nie Yun had likely left Shenfeng City and urged the invaders to interrogate Yang Yan, Feng Xiao, or the Demon Pets to locate him.
• Meng Qimo and Mu Guanzhi accepted the young man’s offer to become Left and Right Chancellors, while the other ministers hesitated to join them.

Nie Yun returned to the imperial capital and confronted the Imperial Prince Enforcement Team, who had attacked his palace and injured his Demon Pets. He killed Huang Yan with a single sword strike, leaving the remaining team members stunned as the confrontation continued.

• The Wind Wolf King refused to reveal Nie Yun's location, and an Imperial Prince Enforcement Team member attacked it until Nie Yun arrived and blocked the blow.
• Nie Yun demanded that the team kneel, surrender their treasures, and rebuild the city walls or face death.
• Nie Yun killed the member who attacked him with Blood Pupil Light, stunning the team and his Demon Pets.
• Huang Yan unleashed the Thousand Illusions Demonic Whip Technique, but Nie Yun shattered the whip shadows with a sword strike and left him near death.

Nie Yun received the Sacred Empire’s summons to attend the Seven Empires Summit and learned that nine Purple Splendor Jade Seals could open the Purple Splendor Cave Mansion. When the Imperial Prince Enforcement Team tried to leave after threatening him, he challenged their Archaic Sky-Piercing Formation and began fighting it.

• A Sacred Empire prince gave Nie Yun an imperial summons and explained that the Seven Empires Summit would discuss opening the Purple Splendor Cave Mansion with nine Purple Splendor Jade Seals.
• Nie Yun wondered why this life had nine seals and Sacred Empire involvement when he remembered only three seals and no Sacred Empire role from his previous life.
• The Imperial Prince Enforcement Team prepared to leave, but Nie Yun demanded they pay for destroying his palace and injuring his Demon Pets.
• The team formed the Archaic Sky-Piercing Formation, and Nie Yun attacked with his Profound Jade Sword, forcing them to transform it into a sword-congealing defensive formation.
• Nie Yun dodged the formation’s sword-energy attack and thrust at its barrier with the force of Earthly Momentum, while his Demon Pets and ministers watched in awe.

Nie Yun defeated the Imperial Prince Enforcement Team, forced its members to surrender limbs, and ordered the extermination of the traitorous ministers’ clans. The Fifth Prince departed vowing to meet him again, while Nie Yun remained unconcerned about the Sacred Empire’s possible retaliation.

• The Wind Wolf King shattered Meng Qimo and Luo Qingshou’s leg bones as they tried to flee.
• Nie Yun broke through the Archaic Sky-Piercing Formation and defeated the Imperial Prince Enforcement Team with a powerful attack.
• Nie Yun rejected the Fifth Prince’s offer of silver and demanded one hand and one foot from each member; after he severed the Fifth Prince’s arm, the Fifth Prince ordered the others to comply.
• Nie Yun let the Fifth Prince and the injured team leave, dismissing Feng Xiao’s warning that the Sacred Empire might retaliate.
• Nie Yun ordered the extermination of Meng Qimo and Luo Qingshou’s clans, and the Wind Wolf King struck one of the traitors down as the ministers watched in fear.

Nie Yun distributed Nine-Hearted Demonic Fruits to his followers and used spirit stones to help Luo Xiaofeng break through toward the Supreme realm. He offered a Secret Realm Demon Core to the strongest of his three Demon Pets, but they agreed to yield it to the Wind Wolf King, and Nie Yun approved their cooperation.

• Nie Yun gave Feng Xiao, Yang Yan, and Luo Xiaofeng Nine-Hearted Demonic Fruits, and Luo Xiaofeng swallowed his fruit and began breaking through.
• Nie Yun gathered spiritual energy from several dozen spirit stones and sent it into Luo Xiaofeng to help him advance toward the Supreme realm.
• Nie Yun gave the Wind Wolf King, Purple Eye, and Black Rock each a Nine-Hearted Demonic Fruit and announced that the strongest would receive a Secret Realm Demon Core.
• The three Demon Pets refined their fruits and grew stronger, then agreed to give the demon core to the Wind Wolf King rather than fight over it.
• Nie Yun praised the three Demon Pets for yielding and remaining united.

Nie Yun decided to travel to Guangming City for the Seven Empires Assembly, but first headed toward a ruin near Shenfeng City that had transformed his fortunes in his previous life. Meanwhile, the injured Fifth Prince and his allies plotted to use the First Prince against Nie Yun.

• Nie Yun gave the Secret Realm Demon Core to the Wind Wolf King and told the other two beasts to guard it while it refined the core.
• Bai Huaxiu and the Mu Qing sisters warned Nie Yun that Guangming City held powerful experts and dangerous old monsters, but Nie Yun insisted on going to the Sacred Empire.
• Mu Xia suggested Nie Yun wait until he reached the Secret Realm Potential Ranking, but Nie Yun said he would leave the three women behind and return in a few days.
• Nie Yun flew toward the outskirts of Shenfeng City to revisit the ruin where he had found the Spirit Rhinoceros Body Refining Technique and the Nine Revolutions Nirvana Art in his previous life.
• The Fifth Prince and his allies vowed to kill Nie Yun, and Huang Gan proposed provoking the First Prince into fighting him so the Fifth Prince could seize the throne.

Nie Yun returned to the hidden valley and entered the sealed cave containing the Spirit Rhinoceros Body Refining Technique and the Nine Revolutions Nirvana Art. As he began studying the arts anew, his true qi started to increase.

• Nie Yun reached the secluded valley and used a drop of blood to activate the concealed formation in the cliff.
• Nie Yun entered the cave and found the two stone walls that recorded the Spirit Rhinoceros Body Refining Technique and the Nine Revolutions Nirvana Art.
• Ephemeral Old Man’s voice told Nie Yun to comprehend the two arts within three days and suggested they might meet again if he mastered all nine levels.
• Nie Yun began studying the diagrams with greater strength and understanding than in his Past Life.
• Nie Yun entered a peculiar state as his body relaxed and the true qi in his sea of qi slowly increased.

After three days of enlightenment at the stone wall, Nie Yun greatly increased his true energy and Soul Force. He returned to Shenfeng Imperial City, where Bai Huaxiu was shocked by the strength of his Soul Force.

• Nie Yun realized that his earlier understanding of the supreme cultivation arts had been mistaken and resolved to follow the correct path.
• The stone wall crumbled as Nie Yun awoke from three days of enlightenment, having raised his true energy strength to 5,000 elephant strength.
• Nie Yun discovered that his Soul Force had reached the Qi Sea Level Peak and was close to Great Perfection.
• Nie Yun thanked Ephemeral Old Man by kowtowing before the ruined stone wall, then flew back toward Shenfeng Imperial City.
• Bai Huaxiu, Mu Qing, and Mu Xia met Nie Yun in the city, and Bai Huaxiu was overwhelmed by his powerful Soul Force.

After returning to the imperial city, Nie Yun learned that Little Wolf had broken through to the Secret Realm and used his Soul Force and spirit stones to heal him. He concealed Little Wolf’s new strength and began restoring Black Rock and Purple Eye, preparing to take his Secret Realm Demon Pet to Guangming City.

• Bai Huaxiu told Nie Yun that spiritual energy and thunder had appeared over the imperial city as someone advanced into the Secret Realm.
• Nie Yun hurried to the rear hall and found Black Rock, Purple Eye, and the newly human-formed Little Wolf badly injured.
• Nie Yun used Soul Force and hundreds of spirit stones to create Healing Qi and restore Little Wolf’s injuries.
• Nie Yun taught Little Wolf a secret technique to conceal his Secret Realm aura so he could serve as a hidden trump card in Guangming City.
• Nie Yun began using Healing Qi and Creation Severance to heal Black Rock and Purple Eye and advance their strength.

Nie Yun strengthened his Demon Pets, ministers, and companions before announcing that he would travel to Guangming City for the Seven Empires Assembly. After arranging his empire’s defenses, he went to the Tie Yan Mercenary Group to seek news, where Tie Lan and her Black Cloud Leopard sensed a terrifying presence approaching.

• Nie Yun empowered Black Rock and Purple Eye, doubling their strength and raising them among the strongest fighters on the Heaven Ranking.
• Nie Yun summoned his ministers and announced his plan to attend the Seven Empires Assembly in Guangming City, then empowered Feng Xiao, Yang Yan, Luo Xiaofeng, and several ministers.
• Nie Yun warned his ministers against betrayal, raised the strength of Bai Huaxiu, Mu Qing, and Mu Xia, and prepared to depart with them and his three Demon Pets the next morning.
• Nie Yun flew to the Tie Yan Mercenary Group to ask about the search for his parents and Supreme Tu Xin.
• Tie Lan lamented that Nie Yun had been away, while the Black Cloud Leopard sensed a terrifying aura approaching and moved to protect her.