Chapter Summaries

Ying Ming Hao watched a lower-realm sect ancestor face the One-Horned Giant Python in an arena, learning how the old man and his world had fallen under Jin Dongni’s control. The old man entered the fight shackled and wounded, and the chapter left him facing the python after a staff member dangled freedom before him.

• Ying Ming Hao sat with Jin Nainai at the front of the arena and chose not to bet on the match.
• The host announced that the One-Horned Giant Python had won three matches and introduced a great-perfection human immortal from a lower realm as its next challenger.
• Ying Ming Hao considered how lower-realm cultivators were constrained by their worlds and how Jin Dongni had conquered and dragged the old man’s homeland into the Xuanhuang World.
• Arena staff shoved the shackled, battered old man into the cage and promised him freedom and a higher cultivation realm if he won ten consecutive matches.
• The One-Horned Giant Python roared and unleashed foul breath toward the old man as he listened to the staff member’s promises and laughed bitterly at the irony.

The old man escaped his restraints and fought the one-horned giant python in the arena, eventually killing it and advancing to the fourth level of the Earth Immortal realm. After his victory, the host announced his next opponent, a wandering cultivator of the same level.

• The old man used the key to remove his restraints and restored his suppressed cultivation, but the python immediately attacked him.
• The python knocked the old man into a crater, but he reappeared with a sword and wounded it from behind.
• The old man and the python fought hundreds of exchanges until he stopped it from gathering power and met its Energy Cannon with his Sword Qi.
• The old man defeated the python, and the arena's spiritual qi healed his injuries and raised his cultivation to the fourth level of the Earth Immortal realm.
• The host announced the old man's next opponent, a wandering cultivator at the fourth level of the Earth Immortal realm, and the crowd mostly bet on the old man.

Ying Ming Hao and Jin Nainai shared snacks while another ragged beggar was forced to fight in the Gladiator Arena, where the beggar swiftly overwhelmed an old man. Ying Ming Hao learned that Central Saint Palace had rounded up the city’s beggars and recognized the cruelty behind Central Saint City’s polished appearance.

• Ying Ming Hao doted on Jin Nainai, feeding her snacks as they talked about her past weight and hardships.
• Arena attendants promised a beggar ten roast chickens and wine if the beggar defeated an old man.
• The beggar attacked with astonishing speed and drove the old man into a desperate position.
• Spectators said Central Saint Palace had rounded up the city’s beggars and forced them to fight, including a former regional Heaven’s Chosen who had offended one of its disciples.
• Ying Ming Hao heard the spectators’ comments and coldly judged Central Saint City’s clean image to be a farce.

An arena bout between an old man and a beggar ended in mutual destruction, and the announcer introduced a duel between the Snow Wolf Clan and Gu Clan Heavenly Prodigies. After Jin Nainai judged the Snow Wolf fighter had the advantage, Ying Ming Hao wagered one hundred million middle-grade spirit stones on him.

• The old man baited the beggar into a trap, but both fighters dealt fatal blows and died in the arena.
• The female announcer declared the bout a draw and introduced the Snow Wolf Clan and Gu Clan Heavenly Prodigies as the main event.
• Ying Ming Hao asked Jin Nainai to assess the fighters, and she said their strength was close but favored the Snow Wolf Clan in close combat.
• Ying Ming Hao bet one hundred million middle-grade spirit stones on the Snow Wolf Heavenly Prodigy and reassured Jin Nainai that they could afford the risk.
• Ying Ming Hao kissed Jin Nainai before turning his attention to the duel as she nestled against his arm.

The Snow Wolf Heavenly Prodigy and the Southern Territory Gu Clan Heavenly Prodigy fought a fierce duel, each using their distinctive techniques and tactics. As the Gu Clan Heavenly Prodigy’s black Flood Dragon swallowed the Snow Wolf, a bright white light began piercing through the creature from within.

• The Snow Wolf Heavenly Prodigy rushed the Southern Territory Heavenly Prodigy, who unleashed a swarm of Gu insects and retreated to control them.
• Ying Ming Hao watched the battle and studied both fighters’ tactics while secretly hoping the Snow Wolf Heavenly Prodigy would win his wager.
• After hundreds of exchanges left both fighters wounded, the Snow Wolf Heavenly Prodigy transformed into a giant white wolf while the Gu Clan Heavenly Prodigy formed a black Flood Dragon from Gu insects.
• The Gu Clan Heavenly Prodigy used Gu Technique! Mind Confusion! to stun the Snow Wolf Heavenly Prodigy, but a Wolf Clan mark above him glimmered and restored his clarity.
• The Snow Wolf Heavenly Prodigy charged with Wolf Fang Thrust, but the black Flood Dragon swallowed him before white light began shining through its body.

The Snow Wolf killed the Gu Clan prodigy in the arena despite suffering a near-fatal wound, earning the Northern Territory’s cheers and Ying Ming Hao a large betting payout. Ying Ming Hao gave Jin Nainai the winnings and spent the following days shopping with her in Central Saint City.

• The Snow Wolf shattered the Gu Clan prodigy’s python and killed him, though the prodigy’s last strike tore a deep wound into the Snow Wolf’s chest.
• The crowd cheered the Snow Wolf’s victory, and a leader escorted the furious Southern Territory prodigies away.
• Ying Ming Hao redeemed his winnings and received a Black Gold Card holding three hundred million middle-grade spirit stones.
• Ying Ming Hao gave the card to Jin Nainai, who accepted it and secured it in her dress.
• Ying Ming Hao and Jin Nainai watched several more bouts, then spent several days shopping around Central Saint City.

As the competition approached, Ying Ming Hao spent his final days of leisure building connections and enjoying time with his companions. The teams from the Eight Great Regions gathered at the Central Saint Palace’s Back Mountain, where rival geniuses sized one another up before the competition began.

• Ying Ming Hao returned to his room, then invited Gu Xinghai, Qiu Yajing, and Wang Zhu to explore the city and share meals with him.
• Ye Rulan and He Lingyin grew more comfortable visiting Zhao Bufan, while Su Yan toured the city with Zhang Jie and the Plain Maiden Sect disciples but kept her distance from Ying Ming Hao.
• Luo Bai woke after being unconscious for over half a month and learned from Steward Jin that the competition was the next day.
• The teams from the Seven Great Regions traveled to the Central Saint Palace’s Back Mountain, where the assembled Heaven’s Chosen drew loud cheers from the crowd.
• Zhang Jie took the front position for the South Sea Continent, while the leading geniuses from the Central Saint Palace, Southern Territory, and Western Region drew attention with their imposing appearances.

The Heavenly Prodigies from across the regions gathered at the Burial World, where Jin Dongni prepared to host the tournament. As the Central Saint Palace’s powerful forces guarded the site, Jin welcomed the contestants and regional elders.

• The Northern Region’s Demon Race contingent gathered under a graceful nobleman, while its human contestants followed a cold woman in a white fox-fur cloak.
• The North Sea Continent’s Demonic Cultivators and the Overseas Immortal Dao’s veiled, androgynous leader assembled at the tournament site.
• Xuan Qiwu led the Great Qin Dynasty’s dominant Eastern Region contingent, with Wang Baishun, Little Fish, and Little Boss among its members.
• The gathered contestants faced the sealed Burial World, where small worlds merged into the earth core and the Central Saint Palace controlled abundant cultivation resources.
• Jin Dongni welcomed the contestants to the tournament as regional elders returned his greeting.

Jin Dongni announced the deadly rules of the Elimination Tournament in the Burial World, prompting hundreds of Heavenly Prodigies to withdraw. The remaining competitors entered the realm through portals as spectators watched scenes of them appear.

• Jin Dongni explained that competitors had to survive a month while facing hundreds of Scavengers, whose pursuit would intensify during the first half-month.
• A Western Region elder challenged the harsh rules, but Jin Dongni insisted that competitors could withdraw and would bear responsibility for their own lives once inside.
• Hundreds of Heavenly Prodigies withdrew, with many leaving from teams outside the Central Region and the Great Qin Dynasty.
• Jin Dongni and the Central Saint Palace elders opened portals to the Burial World, and the remaining Heavenly Prodigies entered them.
• The portals closed, and scenes of the competitors inside the Burial World appeared in the air.

Ying Ming Hao and the other Heavenly Prodigies entered the ruined Burial World, where the Central Saint Palace’s accumulated worlds revealed the cost of its power. As the groups scattered to survive the native inhabitants’ pursuit, the South Sea Continent’s Heavenly Prodigies split between Luo Bai and Ying Ming Hao.

• Ying Ming Hao and his companions entered a devastated world in the Burial World, while cultivators outside watched in shock and wondered how the Central Saint Palace endured the karmic burdens of ruined worlds.
• The Central Region’s Heavenly Prodigies departed with confidence, and the other regions’ groups scattered in different directions.
• The Great Qin Dynasty’s Heavenly Prodigies abandoned the Eastern Region factions, leaving them frightened and regretting their failed alliance.
• Luo Bai called on others to join his group, while Su Mei urged them to choose the side backed by the top-ranked fighters.
• Ding Lei and several others joined Luo Bai, while Lin Zihan, Zhao Bufan, Yun Qingyi, and others stayed with Ying Ming Hao, dividing the South Sea Continent’s Heavenly Prodigies into two camps.

Ying Ming Hao rejected Su Mei’s invitation and gathered several wary Heavenly Prodigies under his leadership. After assessing the terrain, he led them west through the Burial World while the watching elders considered their fate.

• Zhao Xu declined Su Mei’s invitation and said he would stay with Ying Ming Hao, while Jiang Zhiqing and Lu Shen chose to join Ying’s group.
• Ying Ming Hao and Luo Bai’s groups exchanged cold looks but avoided fighting under the projectors’ watch, then Luo Bai led his companions away.
• Wang Teng, Jun Mo, Luo Shuihan, and others accepted Ying Ming Hao’s leadership, and he compared the surrounding terrain before choosing to travel west.
• Ying Ming Hao caught some of the blood rain, then flew west with his followers as the projectors recorded their movements.
• Elder He considered the Heavenly Prodigies expendable, Jin Dongni vowed revenge, and Jin Nainai watched Ying Ming Hao with worry.

Zhang Ze, Jie Kong, and Ying Ming Hao hurried to find defensible terrain as they feared the hunt would soon begin. Across the ruined world, indigenous inhabitants rallied to kill the visiting Heavenly Prodigies, unaware that the Central Saint Palace had engineered their cooperation through propaganda and promises of food and escape.

• Zhang Ze complained about waiting for the tracking hunt to begin, while Jie Kong warned that the cultivators in the towns they had passed were likely preparing to attack them.
• Ying Ming Hao urged everyone to find favorable terrain, and the group sprinted onward in fear of being caught before they could put enough distance behind them.
• A gaunt middle-aged man rallied the indigenous inhabitants of a fortified village, blaming the outsiders for their suffering and urging them to fight.
• The middle-aged man ordered cultivators at the great perfection stage of the great luo realm and in the quasi-saint realm to track assigned enemies with Messaging Stones, while the rest chose targets freely.
• The indigenous cultivators poured out of settlements to hunt the Heavenly Prodigies, as similar rallies took place across the world.
• The Central Saint Palace had manipulated the indigenous inhabitants with promises of food and escape, hatred of outsiders, and propaganda, and it would purge them if they refused to cooperate.

Ying Ming Hao’s group fled a pack of Ferocious Beasts in the Burial World, then ambushed them briefly to help the others escape before running again. Across the world, the elimination tournament claimed more than two hundred peerless geniuses in less than half a day.

• Lin Zihan warned the group that trees could draw enemies, and a large pack of skeletal Ferocious Beasts charged out from the rocks.
• Ying Ming Hao ordered his group to run, while Wang Teng, Gu Xinghai, Cai Dagui, Luo Shuihan, Jun Mo, and the others hesitated before fleeing behind them.
• The pursuers surrounded the fleeing contestants with reinforcements, and Gu Xingchen unsuccessfully urged Brother Leopard to negotiate with the beasts.
• Ying Ming Hao and his companions hid beside a mountain and attacked the nearest beasts as Gu Xinghai’s group passed, then resumed their escape.
• Ying Ming Hao warned the others not to let the unusually tough beasts pin them down, and Wang Teng’s group agreed to keep running.
• Across the Burial World, many prodigies who fought and won were later overwhelmed by waves of enemies, and spectators learned that more than two hundred had died.

Location beams exposed the participating Heavenly Prodigies in the Burial World, forcing Ying Ming Hao and his companions to flee and fight off a large Scavenger force. Ying Ming Hao led a desperate charge into the enemy formation, with the outcome still uncertain.

• Ying Ming Hao's group rested in a secluded mountain haven and used pills to recover after escaping pursuing Scavengers.
• White location beams appeared above the group, and Ying Ming Hao ordered everyone to flee as Scavengers spotted them and gave chase.
• A force of nearly a thousand Scavengers attacked with a volley of arrows, and Ying Ming Hao assigned his companions to defend and counterattack.
• Ying Ming Hao organized the group into a triangular formation and ordered them to break through the enemy lines.
• Ying Ming Hao, Wang Teng, and Gu Xinghai used powerful attacks to open a gap, but the Scavengers quickly filled it again.
• Ying Ming Hao led the group deeper into the enemy formation, refusing to retreat.

Ying Ming Hao led his injured group through a desperate battle against the Scavengers and escaped their first encirclement. More than twenty thousand Scavengers then surrounded them from multiple directions, forcing Ying Ming Hao to plan another evasive route.

• Ying Ming Hao fought through the Scavengers, killing a white-haired old man and a girl who wounded his left shoulder.
• Ying Ming Hao ordered his group to break through the formation, and his allies held back the pursuers as they escaped.
• Lin Zihan reported that no one had fallen behind or died, though twelve were severely wounded and the others were injured.
• Wang Teng, Yang Fanyuan, Lin Yong, and Luo Shuihan warned that Scavengers were approaching from several directions and nearly ten thousand were chasing from behind.
• Ying Ming Hao directed the group northwest before they would turn northeast, while Lin Zihan, Qing Yu, and others covered their retreat with ranged attacks.

Ying Ming Hao led Wang Teng, Gu Xinghai, and the other Heavenly Prodigies through the Scavengers’ encirclement, using a feint and a fierce ranged assault to break through. The hunt continued as the tournament’s first day grew more dangerous, with the group still fleeing and enemies converging on their trail.

• Ying Ming Hao feinted toward the northwest, then abruptly turned northeast to exploit gaps in the Scavengers’ encirclement.
• The Old Woman and dozens of Scavengers blocked their route with the Eight Desolations Binding Formation, but Ying Ming Hao called on Lin Zihan and Qing Yu to attack.
• Lin Zihan, Qing Yu, and the other ranged attackers overwhelmed the formation, allowing Ying Ming Hao’s group to escape through the opening while Lin Zihan and Qing Yu were left weakened.
• The Scavengers continued pursuing the group, which repeatedly changed course to evade new enemies until the Positioning Beams faded an hour later.
• The hunt intensified as more Scavengers converged, while other Heavenly Prodigies set traps, raided enemy bases, and fought back or fell to their pursuers.

Ying Ming Hao and his companions were discovered hiding in a fissure and fought their way through the Scavengers' encirclement. As signals drew ever more pursuers and a violent storm began, they fled through the Burial World with tens of thousands of enemies converging on them.

• The Scavengers searched the fissure and prepared to burn the hiding place with the Fire Qilin and other flame-wielding beasts.
• Ying Ming Hao ordered his companions to charge west, and they burst out of hiding and fought through the guards.
• Ying Ming Hao used the Devious Castration Kick to defeat a burly Quasi-Saint Realm opponent, then killed him with the Burial Life Blade.
• The Scavengers sent signals and pursued Ying Ming Hao's group as more enemies gathered from every direction.
• A violent storm struck while Ying Ming Hao's companions lost hope, and tens of thousands of enemies closed in around their group.

Ying Ming Hao and his companions endured the final day of the Positioning Beams while Scavengers hunted them across the Burial World. After the beams vanished, they found themselves surrounded by overwhelming numbers of Scavengers, with no apparent way out.

• Ying Ming Hao led his companions in evading Scavengers for half a month, using guerrilla tactics to avoid casualties.
• Ying Ming Hao, Wang Teng, and Lin Zihan urged the group to keep fleeing as nearly a hundred thousand Scavengers pursued them on the final day of the Positioning Beams.
• The surveillance projectors disappeared, while Central Saint Palace elders and Misty Sect elders secretly rejoiced over their apparent scheme.
• After the Positioning Beams vanished, Lin Zihan spotted Scavengers ahead, and Ying Ming Hao repeatedly redirected the group to avoid them.
• Jun Mo, Wang Teng, and the others realized that Scavengers were closing in from every direction, leaving them besieged without an apparent escape.

Ying Ming Hao and the other Heavenly Prodigies broke through to the Quasi-Saint Realm and armored themselves as more than two hundred thousand enemies surrounded them. Ying Ming Hao agreed to join forces with Jin Bei and the Central Saint Palace’s contestants, and the two groups prepared to break out toward the east.

• Ying Ming Hao broke through to the third level of the Quasi-Saint Realm, and the other Heavenly Prodigies rapidly raised their cultivation and donned high-grade armor.
• More than a hundred Central Saint Palace contestants arrived, pursued by a vast force that encircled Ying Ming Hao’s group.
• Jin Bei introduced himself as the Central Saint Palace group’s leader and proposed that the two groups join forces to escape.
• Ying Ming Hao agreed to Jin Bei’s proposal, and they chose to break through toward the east.
• Ying Ming Hao and Jin Bei took the front of a triangular formation as both groups completed their preparations to charge.

Ying Ming Hao, Jin Bei, and their allies fought through a vast enemy force, hoping to break out before exhaustion overcame them. The Central Saint Palace’s Heavenly Prodigies then ambushed them, and similar attacks left Ye Hua, Miss Shui, and Qing Yun in mortal peril elsewhere in the Burial World.

• Ying Ming Hao warned Lin Zihan, Liu Jingyuan, Wang Teng, Gu Xinghai, and the others to watch the Central Saint Palace’s people and avoid their traps.
• Ying Ming Hao and Jin Bei charged the enemy ranks, enduring volleys of arrows and fighting through formations as Lin Zihan and the other ranged attackers targeted enemy leaders.
• After more than an hour of combat, the group had killed thousands but remained surrounded, wounded, and unable to escape quickly.
• Jin Bei and other Heavenly Prodigies ambushed Ying Ming Hao, Lin Zihan, Wang Teng, and their companions, striking them from multiple directions.
• Ying Ming Hao fought off his attackers, severed Jin Bei’s arm, hurled a spear to rescue Lin Xue and Yu Wanchuan, and protected Lin Qinqin, Zhang Ze, and the others.
• Jin Bei, Ning Huai, Yu Huohuo, Zhang Yu, and the other attackers withdrew as the two sides faced off, while Ye Hua, Miss Shui, Qing Yun, and their companions suffered similar ambushes elsewhere.