Chapter Summaries

Li Xiaoya entered the inheritance site to undergo his first bloodline purification and met Titan, another Legacy Disciple who challenged him to spar. After buying pain-relief pills, Li Xiaoya chose Pool Thirteen on the chief steward’s advice, but the cultivator guarding the teleportation formation said that pool had been reserved.

• Li Xiaoya met Titan, who noticed his Legacy Disciple token and asked which grand ancestor had recommended him, but Li Xiaoya refused to reveal the information.
• Titan invited Li Xiaoya to spar, introduced himself, and left after learning Li Xiaoya’s name.
• Li Xiaoya gave the chief steward his inheritance token and chose to undergo bloodline purification immediately.
• The chief steward sold Li Xiaoya pain-relief pills for five thousand race contribution points and secretly advised him to choose Pool Thirteen.
• At the teleportation formation, Li Xiaoya requested Pool Thirteen, but one of the three cultivators said it had been reserved.

Li Xiaoya forced the guards to teleport him to Pool Thirteen, resisting their pressure and threatening to report them. He arrived at a frigid Bloodline Inheritance Spirit Pool and reached toward its azure liquid.

• Li Xiaoya rejected the guards’ attempt to redirect him and demanded Pool Thirteen, citing his Legacy Disciple status and threatening to report them.
• Li Xiaoya repelled a guard’s pressure with his own aura, forcing the three cultivators to agree to send him to Pool Thirteen.
• The chief steward denied telling Li Xiaoya about Pool Thirteen, while the guards worried about Titan’s arrival and whether Li Xiaoya would report them.
• Li Xiaoya was teleported to a cold chamber surrounded by blue glaciers and found a pool of clear azure liquid beneath a blue beam of light.
• Li Xiaoya examined the Bloodline Inheritance Spirit Pool and reached toward its azure liquid.

Titan discovered that Li Xiaoya had entered the reserved Number Thirteen Spirit Pool and ordered the guards to keep him out of Number Seventeen instead. Inside the pool, Li Xiaoya endured intense cold as its power purified his essence blood and began improving his vitality and Five-Element Immortal Roots.

• Titan learned that Li Xiaoya had entered Number Thirteen Spirit Pool and suspected the guards had exposed its secret by trying to stop him.
• The Head Steward concealed his role in directing Li Xiaoya to the pool while pointing out the guards’ suspicious attempts to turn him away.
• Titan sent the Head Steward away, warned the guards to keep everyone out of Number Seventeen Spirit Pool, and ordered them to notify him when Li Xiaoya emerged.
• Li Xiaoya lay in the icy pool as blue light entered his body and purified his essence blood, strengthened his vitality, and began pushing his Five-Element Immortal Roots past their bottleneck.

Li Xiaoya endured the Inheritance Spirit Pool’s freezing refinement and discovered that Earth Demon Dragon essence blood let the pool purify his bloodline further. After four months inside, he emerged radiating vitality, and the guards were stunned to find he had reached the Heaven-and-Earth Realm.

• The chapter revealed that Titan’s lineage secretly reserved Spirit Pool Thirteen because its potency accumulated when left unused, and Titan could not challenge Li Xiaoya without risking exposure of the secret.
• Li Xiaoya endured the pool’s increasingly bitter cold with the steward’s elixirs, then noticed the elixirs contained demon beast essence blood.
• As his body began crystallizing, Li Xiaoya swallowed Earth Demon Dragon essence blood, which weakened the cold before the pool surged and resumed refining him.
• Li Xiaoya realized that making his essence blood impure allowed the pool to continue purifying it and improving his vitality and five-element immortal roots.
• After four months, Li Xiaoya emerged from the Teleportation Formation radiating a powerful aura, and the three guards recognized that he had reached the Heaven-and-Earth Realm.

Li Xiaoya emerged from Pool Thirteen after absorbing its potency, greatly strengthening his body, divine sense, and aptitude while remaining just above the fourth level of the Middle Great Void Stage. He received the Demon-Suppressing Divine Art and left the pool, as its guardians concealed his gains from Lord Titan; the chapter ended with the Steward surprised to see him.

• Li Xiaoya concealed his cultivation aura and left the three guardians, who wondered whether he had reached the Heaven-and-Earth Realm.
• The leading guardian told the other two to report Li Xiaoya’s return to Lord Titan while hiding how much he had gained from Pool Thirteen.
• Li Xiaoya’s four months in the pool strengthened his Five-Element Immortal Roots, vitality, divine sense, and physical strength, though his cultivation improved only slightly.
• After absorbing the pool’s potency with the aid of five drops of Earth Demon Dragon essence blood, Li Xiaoya received the Demon-Suppressing Divine Art, which attacked Heavenly Demon souls and protected his own soul.
• Li Xiaoya returned to the wooden building and greeted the Steward, who was startled that he had failed to sense him approaching.

After completing his bloodline inheritance in Pool Thirteen, Li Xiaoya returned to the Star Tower, where he planned to rest before challenging for a higher Heaven Ranking position. He was met by Xu Chuling, who announced that he had come to challenge him.

• The Steward warned Li Xiaoya that Titan might target him, then realized Li Xiaoya had spent more than four months in Pool Thirteen, longer than anyone in Heavenly Demon Race history.
• Li Xiaoya kept secret that using Elder Demon Beast essence blood during the spirit pool refinement had prolonged his stay, and he decided to return to the Star Tower while seeking a way to reach the East Xia Continent and help Zhang Hong.
• After flying for several days, Li Xiaoya returned to the Star Tower and considered climbing from his assigned hundredth place on the Heaven Ranking into the top ten for greater rewards.
• Xu Chuling, an eighth-level late Great Void cultivator ranked eighty-third on the Earth Ranking, approached Li Xiaoya and issued him a Heaven Ranking challenge.

Li Xiaoya learned that Xu Chuling could challenge him for the Heaven Ranking position he had lost, then went to the combat secret realm to face him. With the ten-year rewards only twenty-three days away, Li Xiaoya received a mandatory challenge notice and prepared to fight Xu Chuling.

• Xu Chuling explained that, as the cultivator displaced from the Heaven Ranking's hundredth place, he had the right to challenge Li Xiaoya, and Li Xiaoya accepted.
• Li Xiaoya rested in his cave abode to recover from the strain of the Inheritance Spirit Pool.
• Li Xiaoya visited the combat secret realm hall, inspected the rankings, and saw that only twenty-three days remained before rewards were issued.
• Xu Chuling arrived and told Li Xiaoya he had registered their challenge, and a notice confirmed Li Xiaoya had to participate.
• After the ongoing match ended, Xu Chuling led the way to the old man in white robes and armor, and Li Xiaoya agreed to follow.

Li Xiaoya and Xu Chuling entered the Combat Secret Realm to settle their challenge, and their battle escalated into a clash of powerful transformations and weapons. They remained locked in an apparently even fight, while two Heavenly Demon Race cultivators watched Li Xiaoya and planned to report to Lord Titan.

• Li Xiaoya and Xu Chuling received talismans from the armored elder and teleported into the Combat Secret Realm.
• Xu Chuling proposed that they avoid seriously harming each other, but Li Xiaoya calmly said he would not kill him.
• Xu Chuling attacked with a phantom hoof, and Li Xiaoya blocked it with a golden dragon claw before counterattacking.
• Xu Chuling transformed into a giant boar-like demon beast and struck Li Xiaoya with a three-pointed blade, sending him flying.
• Li Xiaoya feigned weakness, then countered Xu Chuling's attack and charged back into the fight.
• Li Xiaoya and Xu Chuling traded blows in a fierce deadlock, while two Heavenly Demon Race cultivators decided to report Li Xiaoya to Lord Titan.

Li Xiaoya lured Xu Chuling into exhausting himself, then revealed overwhelming power and forced him to concede without killing him. Back in the Main Hall, Li Xiaoya was immediately challenged by the eighth-ranked Earth Ranking cultivator, who claimed the rules left him no choice but to fight.

• The watching cultivators doubted Li Xiaoya’s strength as Xu Chuling drove him back, while the white-robed elder noticed Li Xiaoya was not truly in danger.
• Li Xiaoya unleashed a powerful barrage that shattered Xu Chuling’s beast phantom, damaged his True Immortal Spirit Treasure, and sent him crashing into a mountain.
• Xu Chuling emerged with his cultivation forcibly raised, but Li Xiaoya revealed an aura Xu Chuling could not resist and gave him three breaths to concede.
• Xu Chuling conceded and left by teleportation after Li Xiaoya ordered him to keep the fight’s secret, leaving the Main Hall cultivators baffled.
• After Li Xiaoya returned to the Main Hall, the eighth-ranked Earth Ranking cultivator challenged him and insisted that the rules prevented him from refusing.

Li Xiaoya pretended to be weakened after defeating Xu Chuling, provoking Earth Ranking cultivators into challenging him so he could build a winning streak and climb the rankings. He accepted Qi Hai’s challenge, then astonished the onlookers by swallowing a red elixir and quickly overwhelming him.

• Qi Hai and Qu Diwei tried to challenge Li Xiaoya, while Li Xiaoya feigned anger and weakness to provoke them and other cultivators.
• Qian Lingbing intervened, rebuking Qi Hai and Qu Diwei and criticizing Li Xiaoya before leaving.
• Li Xiaoya chose Qi Hai as his opponent, and the two registered and entered the Teleportation Formation to fight.
• During the match, Li Xiaoya swallowed a red elixir, his aura surged, and he battered Qi Hai across the battlefield.
• Li Xiaoya struck Qi Hai with a powerful punch that sent him through several mountains, leaving the watching cultivators shocked.

Li Xiaoya defeated Qi Hai while pretending that an ordinary restorative pill had boosted his power, then provoked the Earth Ranking disciples to keep challenging him. He used the Giant Spirit Divine Weapon to defeat Young Master Duange and, as more challengers crowded the Main Hall, continued accepting fights while acting as though he had been forced into them.

• Li Xiaoya defeated Qi Hai, who escaped with a Teleportation Talisman, and mocked the Earth Ranking disciples when they reunited in the Main Hall.
• Li Xiaoya challenged Qu Diwei, who tried to delay their fight until the effects of Li Xiaoya's supposed elixir wore off.
• Young Master Duange challenged Li Xiaoya, and Li Xiaoya pretended to weaken before using the Giant Spirit Divine Weapon to destroy Duange's body and force his nascent soul to flee.
• Li Xiaoya emerged looking exhausted but continued insulting the Inner Clan Disciples, drawing more angry cultivators to the combat hall.
• The Inner Clan Disciples blocked Li Xiaoya from leaving, and he kept accepting challenges while pretending he had no choice.

Li Xiaoya used a streak of victories to earn the right to challenge a Heaven Ranking cultivator, then provoked Titan into accepting his challenge. The chapter ended as Titan's fury shook the Rankings Hall.

• Titan learned that Li Xiaoya was challenging Inner Clan Disciples and set out for the Rankings Hall, still angry that Li Xiaoya had taken Pool Thirteen.
• Li Xiaoya defeated his ninth opponent, then quickly won four more challenges as the crowd realized he had been concealing his strength.
• Ning Mozi, ranked second on the Heaven Ranking, arrived and questioned Li Xiaoya about his plan to challenge someone on the Heaven Ranking.
• Titan arrived and revealed that Li Xiaoya had won ten consecutive matches, prompting the crowd to understand his strategy.
• Li Xiaoya challenged Titan, ranked sixth on the Heaven Ranking, and Titan accepted in a rage.

Li Xiaoya challenged Titan, the sixth-ranked cultivator on the Heaven Ranking, and the two began a fierce battle in the Combat Secret Realm. Titan brought out the Heavenfire Divine Bow, while Li Xiaoya answered with his Five-Element Heavenly Dao Art and launched a barrage of ice mountains, leaving their clash unresolved.

• Li Xiaoya accepted Titan's challenge, then admitted he did not know Titan's name, provoking him before they were teleported into the Combat Secret Realm.
• Li Xiaoya and Titan traded powerful attacks, with Li Xiaoya's golden Earth Demon Dragon techniques holding off Titan's blood-red demon beast phantoms.
• Ning Mozi told Qian Lingbing that he felt Li Xiaoya had the upper hand.
• Titan drew the Heavenfire Divine Bow and began gathering fire spirit energy into a red arrow.
• Li Xiaoya shifted to his water element power, suppressed Titan's fire energy, and sent countless huge ice mountains crashing toward him.

Li Xiaoya fought Titan in a fierce battle, overcoming the Heavenfire Divine Bow’s tracking arrows and pressing his advantage with rapid, powerful attacks. The chapter ended with Li Xiaoya driving Titan backward under a relentless barrage of golden-blue dragon-claw fists.

• Titan covered himself in fiery armor and clashed with Li Xiaoya’s ice magic.
• Titan’s Heavenfire Divine Bow fired a tracking arrow that shattered Li Xiaoya’s frost dragon claw, but Li Xiaoya dodged it and destroyed it with a golden-blue sphere.
• Titan fired three arrows at Li Xiaoya, who used his Storm Gold-Light Wings to evade them and charge toward him.
• Titan attacked Li Xiaoya with a huge blade of red light and the three arrows, but Li Xiaoya slipped past the assault and struck at close range.
• Li Xiaoya’s successive golden-blue dragon-claw fists overwhelmed Titan and drove him backward.

Li Xiaoya continued to overpower Titan in the Combat Secret Realm, forcing Titan to unleash a transformation and a devastating punch. After the clash destabilized the realm and Titan’s power waned, Li Xiaoya sent the Giant Spirit Divine Weapon’s silver claw down toward him as Titan tried to stop the attack and speak.

• Cultivators watching the battle marveled that Li Xiaoya had gained the upper hand over Titan, while a mysterious short figure cloaked in black watched unseen.
• Titan, badly battered by Li Xiaoya’s physical strength, merged the demon beast phantom into his body and grew into a towering, more powerful form.
• Li Xiaoya summoned the Giant Spirit Divine Weapon as a gigantic silver beast, and Titan answered with a colossal punch that collided with it in an explosion of red, gold, and blue light.
• The battle’s force destabilized the Combat Secret Realm, prompting the white-robed, golden-armored manager to reinforce the teleportation formation.
• As the silver beast was blasted back and Titan’s aura and gauntlets weakened, Li Xiaoya transformed the weapon into a giant silver claw and sent it toward Titan.
• Titan shouted that he had something to tell Li Xiaoya.

Li Xiaoya overwhelmed Titan in their ranking match, destroying the Heavenfire Divine Bow’s arrow and damaging Titan’s divine sense. When Titan tried to bargain instead of conceding, Li Xiaoya pressed his attack until Titan escaped with a teleportation talisman.

• Li Xiaoya’s Giant Spirit Divine Weapon caught Titan’s Heavenfire Divine Bow arrow, and Li Xiaoya shattered it with the Earth Demon Dragon’s freezing attack.
• Li Xiaoya’s silver blades destroyed Titan’s divine-sense threads despite Titan’s Red Armor blocking many of them.
• Titan invoked the Nine-Headed Ancestor, but Li Xiaoya continued attacking and struck Titan hard enough to make him spit blood.
• Titan offered Li Xiaoya twice the ten-year ranking reward in exchange for conceding, but Li Xiaoya rejected the promise of payment after they left the realm.
• Li Xiaoya unleashed an aura that made Titan suspect he had reached the Heaven-and-Earth Realm, so Titan crushed a teleportation talisman and vanished.

Li Xiaoya defeated Titan and encountered Demonfire, who challenged him to fight, but Li Xiaoya refused. After Ning Mozi tried to steer him toward challenging Demonfire, Li Xiaoya challenged Ning Mozi instead.

• Li Xiaoya appeared in the Main Hall and thanked Titan for yielding, and Titan left after warning that he would defeat Li Xiaoya someday.
• Demonfire revealed himself, frightened Titan into leaving, then challenged Ning Mozi and Li Xiaoya to fight.
• Li Xiaoya refused Demonfire’s challenge, and Demonfire departed after insulting the Legacy Disciples.
• Li Xiaoya left the Main Hall, and Ning Mozi and Qian Lingbing caught up with him in the passage.
• Ning Mozi urged Li Xiaoya to challenge Demonfire, so Li Xiaoya challenged Ning Mozi instead.

Li Xiaoya challenged Ning Mozi for second place on the Heaven Ranking, while Ning Mozi planned to exploit a future clash between Li Xiaoya and Demonfire. Ning Mozi failed to appear at the challenge, leaving Li Xiaoya in second place and his scheme in jeopardy.

• Li Xiaoya challenged Ning Mozi, and Ning Mozi accepted while privately planning to let him take second place and then profit from a fight with Demonfire.
• Li Xiaoya defeated Titan and became famous, but avoided Demonfire when Demonfire challenged him.
• As the ranking rewards approached, Li Xiaoya registered a challenge against Ning Mozi for second place instead of challenging Demonfire.
• Ning Mozi did not appear before the challenge deadline, so Li Xiaoya took second place and Ning Mozi fell to sixth.

The Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones learned that Li Xiaoya had spent over four months in the Inheritance Spirit Pool and risen to second on the heaven ranking, and he sent Qian Lan to contact him. While Li Xiaoya waited for his ranking rewards and studied his enhanced senses, Xilan Yuru delivered him a sealed mirror case and a Voice Transmission Talisman from Qian Lan.

• Qian Lan told the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones about Li Xiaoya’s time in the Number Thirteen Spirit Pool and his second-place ranking, and he ordered her to bring Li Xiaoya a Spatial Spirit Pearl.
• Qian Lan reported that three Great Void Stage Cultivators from the Nine-Headed Ancestor’s Lineage guarded the teleportation formation and that the Nine-Headed Ancestor had also entered the Number Thirteen Spirit Pool; the Ancestor ordered her to investigate in secret.
• Li Xiaoya cultivated in his cave abode while exploring how his enhanced five senses helped him perceive magic power and detect Demonfire Xining Mofeng.
• Xilan Yuru visited Li Xiaoya on Qian Lan’s orders and gave him a sealed mirror case and a Voice Transmission Talisman before leaving.

Li Xiaoya met with the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones through a Spatial Spirit Pearl and was warned to keep a low profile in the Inheritance Secret Realm. The Ancestor offered help securing a Soul-Restoring Purple Vitality Pill and told Li Xiaoya to prepare for a dangerous, undisclosed task by improving his cultivation and senses.

• Li Xiaoya checked Qian Lan’s message and the brocade box, then used the Spatial Spirit Pearl to contact the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones.
• The Ancestor rebuked Li Xiaoya for pursuing ranking rewards and ordered him to keep a lower profile and avoid challenging Demonfire, who was backed by the Heavenly Demon Ancestor.
• Li Xiaoya agreed not to join other treasure-hunting activities and explained that he needed a Soul-Restoring Purple Vitality Pill to save one of his Dual Cultivation Partners.
• The Ancestor said he had contacted the humans about the pill and advised Li Xiaoya to raise his cultivation and acquire treasures or secret arts that improved his divine sense and five senses for the coming task.