Chapter Summaries

Xu Taiping prepared to enter the Black Prison and explored the Ruin Market with the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage, while Old Daoist Huang joined them disguised as a cat. As Xu Taiping spotted someone familiar, he recognized Luo Hong of Three Corpses Cave.

• Old Daoist Huang told Xu Taiping his flesh embryo would develop better in the Land of Chaos in Outer Heaven and asked to accompany him to the Black Prison.
• Old Daoist Huang agreed to disguise himself as a cat and offered to conceal Xu Taiping's aura; Xu Taiping placed him on Xiaohei's back.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage returned and took Xu Taiping to explore the Ruin Market before the Black Prison opened.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage explained that cultivators used Ruin Markets to rest, trade, and replenish their magic power, and encouraged Xu Taiping to search the stalls for useful items.
• Xu Taiping spotted Luo Hong of Three Corpses Cave in the Ruin Market and was shocked to see him there.

Xu Taiping spotted his enemy Luo Hong at the ruins market but avoided confronting him while he examined a battered porcelain bowl. The Lotus Eye revealed the bowl’s history and left Xu Taiping stunned to discover it was a relic bestowed with spiritual intelligence by Master Zeng of the Confucian Sect.

• Xu Taiping recognized Luo Hong, recalled how he had nearly killed him, and told Xiaohei and Old Daoist Huang not to provoke the Three Corpses Cave.
• Xu Taiping noticed that the Lotus Eye reacted to a battered porcelain bowl at a stall and paid the elderly stallholder to examine it.
• The Lotus Eye revealed its second-stage power to trace an object’s origins, spending one portion of Xu Taiping’s divine essence to create a soul mark.
• Xu Taiping saw the bowl’s history: it had belonged to a poor child who grew into an adult and accompanied Zeng Can as he became a sage.
• Zeng Can poured his vast righteous qi into the bowl, granted it spiritual intelligence, and inscribed it with the words “My Lord, Sage Zeng.”

Xu Taiping discovered a powerful presence inside a cracked porcelain bowl at a ruins market and tried to buy it. A green-robed young woman entered a bidding war with him, and the chapter ended with her offering five hundred and ten upper-grade Spirit Crystals.

• Xu Taiping sensed the porcelain bowl with his divine soul, triggering a violent backlash and a furious child's voice demanding to know who its master was.
• Xu Taiping asked the elderly stallholder to sell him the bowl, and the stallholder named a price of fifty upper-grade Spirit Crystals.
• A green-robed young woman arrived on her white wolf, whose spiritual perception had detected power in the bowl, and offered one hundred upper-grade Spirit Crystals.
• Xu Taiping offered a piece of spirit marrow crystal, which the stallholder valued at three hundred upper-grade Spirit Crystals, and the stallholder challenged the young woman to outbid him.
• The green-robed young woman raised her offer to five hundred and ten upper-grade Spirit Crystals despite White Snow warning her that the bowl was not worth so much.

At the Ruin Market, Xu Taiping bid against Jiang Yu for a chipped porcelain bowl and learned she was Luo Hong's cousin. Luo Hong backed Jiang Yu's offer, but Xu Taiping raised the price to two Spirit Marrow Crystals, leaving both cousins furious.

• Luo Hong arrived and recognized Jiang Yu, who called him her cousin.
• Jiang Yu told Luo Hong she wanted the chipped bowl and had bid five hundred and ten upper-grade Spirit Crystals.
• Luo Hong agreed to help Jiang Yu buy the bowl and added Spirit Crystals to her offer, bringing their total to six hundred and fifty.
• The elderly cultivator insisted he would sell to the highest bidder despite Luo Hong's threat.
• Xu Taiping bid two Spirit Marrow Crystals for the bowl, angering Luo Hong and Jiang Yu.

Xu Taiping persisted in bidding for the chipped porcelain bowl, despite the stallholder’s warning that he would antagonize Luo Hong and Jiang Yu. He won the bowl with three pieces of spirit marrow crystal, convinced it was worth far more than its apparent price.

• Jiang Yu persuaded Luo Hong to keep bidding for the porcelain bowl, and Luo Hong offered one thousand and one upper-grade Spirit Crystals.
• The stallholder advised Xu Taiping to let the cousins have the bowl, but Xu Taiping offered a third piece of spirit marrow crystal.
• The stallholder warned Xu Taiping that bidding against Luo Hong and Jiang Yu could bring trouble, but Xu Taiping insisted on his offer.
• Luo Hong introduced himself and asked Xu Taiping’s name, but Xu Taiping ignored him until the spirit marrow crystals had been inspected.
• The stallholder accepted the three pieces of spirit marrow crystal and declared that the bowl belonged to Xu Taiping.

Xu Taiping learned that Buyu was being maneuvered into trials by the Three Corpses Cave, then refused Elder Xu’s demand to inspect his ancient porcelain. The chapter left Elder Xu holding Old Daoist Huang and threatening to uncover Xu Taiping’s secrets as Xu produced the porcelain box.

• Xu Taiping bought the ancient porcelain bowl and overheard Elder Xu and Luo Hong discuss Buyu’s cultivation and plans to arrange setbacks for her at the Yaochi Sacred Land.
• Xu Taiping grew angry at the Three Corpses Cave’s treatment of Buyu and prepared to leave the stall.
• Elder Xu stopped Xu Taiping and demanded to borrow the porcelain bowl, but Xu Taiping refused.
• Elder Xu seized Old Daoist Huang in his orange-cat form and used Soul Searching, prompting Huang to warn Xu Taiping that his identity and secret might be exposed.
• Xu Taiping told Elder Xu to release the cat and took out the porcelain box, and Elder Xu declared that he knew which way the wind blew.

Xu Taiping refused to surrender the ancient porcelain bowl after Elder Xu and Luo Hong tried to seize it, and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage returned to defend him. The Three Corpses Cave cultivators recognized that the newcomer had directly challenged their Cave Master, Luo Yuan.

• Elder Xu examined the porcelain bowl and declared it worthless, but Xu Taiping insisted he was satisfied with the purchase and asked for it back.
• Luo Hong and Jiang Yu accused Xu Taiping and the stallholder of cheating, while Elder Xu threatened to take the dispute to the Ruin Market stewards.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage appeared beside Xu Taiping, shattered the Three Corpses Cave trio’s protective true essence with his aura, and demanded the bowl.
• When Xu Laosan invoked his ties to Three Corpses Cave’s old Cave Master, the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage sent Luo Yuan a message warning him to control his subordinates.

Xu Taiping reclaimed the ancient porcelain from Xu Laosan after the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage’s identity was revealed and the Three Corpses Cave elders apologized. The stallholder offered to return the payment, but Xu Taiping insisted the porcelain was worth far more than three supreme spirit marrow crystals and began explaining why he had paid for it.

• Jiang Yu questioned the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage’s claim, but Xu Laosan received a message from Luo Yuan and realized the visitor’s identity.
• Xu Laosan, Luo Hong, and Jiang Yu apologized to the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage and Xu Taiping, who declined to have his master punish them.
• Xu Taiping took back the ancient porcelain from Xu Laosan and rejected the elders’ offer to recover his three supreme spirit marrow crystals.
• The stallholder offered the three crystals back, but Xu Taiping refused, saying the porcelain was worth much more.
• Xu Taiping told the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage and the stallholder that taking the porcelain without paying would disrespect it and the scholars of the Confucian Sect.

Xu Taiping revealed that a chipped porcelain bowl was a Confucian Sect sacred treasure, then followed the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage to the Black Prison. There, a powerful man named Heavenly Lord Hanjian confronted the Great Sage about bringing Xu Taiping to the remote Ruin Star.

• Xu Taiping identified the bowl as a sacred treasure belonging to Zengzi, causing it to unleash a pillar of righteous qi and draw the attention of Confucian Sect disciples.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage praised Xu Taiping for finding the treasure, while Yan Bu'er used the discovery to attract bids for the rest of his ancient porcelain.
• Xu Taiping told Yan Bu'er that he was Xu Taiping of the Azure Profound Sect, then left for the Black Prison with the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage, a dog, and a cat.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage explained that the gate was reserved for cultivators who had previously won first place in the Black Prison, and that he had once been its king.
• A powerful man addressed the Great Sage as Ding Mou and questioned why he had brought Xu Taiping to the Ruin Star, and the Great Sage called him Heavenly Lord Hanjian.

Xu Taiping met Heavenly Lord Hanjian and his silver-haired daughter before entering the Black Prison. After Xu Taiping revealed he was from the Azure Profound Sect, Heavenly Lord Hanjian recognized him with surprise.

• Heavenly Lord Hanjian approached the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage and introduced the silver-haired girl as the daughter left in his care by a former Dao Companion.
• Heavenly Lord Hanjian asked Xu Taiping to sell him the Confucian Sect Sacred Treasure, but Xu Taiping said they could discuss it after he left the Black Prison.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage explained that he and Xu Taiping were entering to seize the thunder and challenge the prodigies of Xu Taiping's generation.
• Xu Taiping gave the crying girl a wildflower, and Heavenly Lord Hanjian thanked him with a jug of Cold Heaven Brew.
• As the Black Prison's gate opened, Xu Taiping introduced himself as a disciple of the Azure Profound Sect, and Heavenly Lord Hanjian recognized him with astonishment.

Xu Taiping entered the Black Prison with the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage and Heavenly Lord Hanjian, guided through the void by the puppet children Li Shu and Siyou. As they approached the vast prison, he learned it was Ninth Madam Li Jiuying’s life-bound divine artifact and asked whether just anyone could enter.

• Heavenly Lord Hanjian revealed that the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage had once sought his help to divine Xu Taiping’s whereabouts.
• Li Shu and Siyou introduced themselves as puppet guides and explained that Ninth Madam Li Jiuying controlled the Black Prison.
• The guides carried Xu Taiping and his companions across the void on an Immortal Boat, warning that unaccompanied trespassers would perish there.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage and Heavenly Lord Hanjian explained that the Black Prison was Li Jiuying’s divine artifact and that entrances throughout the Ruin Markets led to the same prison.
• Xu Taiping saw the enormous five-tiered Black Prison and asked the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage whether anyone could enter it.

Xu Taiping learned how the Black Prison could improve a cultivator’s combat strength and perception, then prepared to challenge the Chaos Death Domain’s prodigies from the Bronze Prison. The chapter ended with Heavenly Lord Hanjian recognizing the Golden Millet Paper in Xu Taiping’s wager.

• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage and Li Shu explained the Black Prison’s entry costs and how its conditions and powers improved cultivators’ strength, comprehension, and Divine Soul perception.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage told Xu Taiping that first-time visitors gained the greatest benefit, and Xu Taiping vowed not to waste the opportunity.
• Heavenly Lord Hanjian’s daughter complained that her first visit to the Black Prison would be wasted, and Heavenly Lord Hanjian reassured her that they would stay on the first level.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage said he would take Xu Taiping to the Bronze Prison to claim the top spot and challenge the Chaos Death Domain’s prodigies.
• Xu Taiping opened his wooden box of wager items, and Heavenly Lord Hanjian recognized the Golden Millet Paper inside.

Xu Taiping and his companions arrived at the Black Prison, where the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage chose the Bronze Prison on the first level. Xu Taiping withstood its powerful mountain spirit energy with ease, and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage hinted that Heavenly Lord Hanjian would see his abilities when he challenged someone.

• Heavenly Lord Hanjian admired Xu Taiping's Golden Millet Paper, Flaming Sun Fruit, and Qi Mushroom, then learned that Xu Taiping had found them in the Immortal Burial Ruins.
• The little silver-haired girl teased Lin Hanjian and called the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage her father, forcing Lin Hanjian to promise not to hit, scold, or snap at her.
• Siyou and Li Shu announced the Immortal Boat's approach to the Black Prison, and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage chose the Bronze Prison on the first level.
• The Immortal Boat pierced the Black Prison's restrictions and revealed its bronze world, central abyss, and floating Bronze Sparrow Platform before landing and transforming into a viewing platform.
• Xu Taiping felt his divine soul perception surge as the first level's mountain spirit power washed over him, but he said he could withstand it.
• Heavenly Lord Hanjian marveled at Xu Taiping's physique, while the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage told him to wait until Xu Taiping issued a challenge to see what he could do.

Xu Taiping watched Chu Zheng torture Sun Tianshu on the Bronze Sparrow Platform and learned why the Tianxing Bureau disciple defended an arena in the Black Prison. The chapter left Sun Tianshu begging to confess while Heavenly Lord Hanjian and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage discussed the powerful cultivator Nangong Li.

• Chu Zheng pinned his defeated opponent to the Bronze Sparrow Platform and tortured him, explaining that challengers had to escape, kill themselves, or defeat him.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage told Xu Taiping that Chu Zheng’s cultivation grew through torturing powerful opponents and attracting spectators.
• Heavenly Lord Hanjian warned that Nangong Li defended an arena on the Black Prison’s second level and was currently beyond Xu Taiping’s ability to defeat.
• The Heaven-Guarding Great Sage said Nangong Li’s second stage of Dao Integration was unstable and predicted Xu Taiping could challenge him if he defeated Chu Zheng.
• Sun Tianshu finally begged Chu Zheng to release his primordial spirit’s tendons and bones in exchange for confessing his crimes.

Xu Taiping watched Chu Zheng defeat Sun Tianshu and decided to challenge him despite warnings about the Heavenly Punishment Scripture. As the Bronze Prison’s calls for challengers continued, Xu Taiping entered the match under the name “a nameless cultivator from the Lower Realm.”

• Chu Zheng forced Sun Tianshu’s Primordial Spirit to confess, then won the match; Xu Taiping learned that confession let Chu Zheng seize half his cultivation gains for three hundred years.
• Xu Taiping judged that Chu Zheng had only recently reached the Origin Opening Realm and said he could win, though Heavenly Lord Hanjian and a silver-haired girl urged him to wait.
• The boy announced Chu Zheng’s stakes, including a Star Map to the Yaochi Sacred Land, but no one stepped forward to challenge him.
• After learning the Black Prison would invite an outside cultivator if no one challenged Chu Zheng, Xu Taiping agreed to take the stage.
• Xu Taiping chose the name “a nameless cultivator from the Lower Realm,” and Siyou and Li Shu announced his challenge.

Xu Taiping challenged Chu Zheng on the Bronze Sparrow Platform under the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage’s restriction that he use only ordinary punches, so he could refine his fighting techniques. The match began with Xu Taiping unleashing his true dragon divine being body and shattering Chu Zheng’s opening attack with one punch.

• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage ordered Xu Taiping to fight Chu Zheng using only ordinary punches while unleashing his full physical strength.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage explained to Heavenly Lord Hanjian that he wanted Xu Taiping to simplify and refine his fighting techniques.
• Xu Taiping challenged Chu Zheng on the Bronze Sparrow Platform and focused on reducing his fist techniques to their uncarved essence.
• After the bell rang, Chu Zheng charged and swung an iron mace at Xu Taiping’s face.
• Xu Taiping unleashed his true dragon divine being body and knocked Chu Zheng backward with a single punch that shattered the mace attack.

Xu Taiping overwhelmed Chu Zheng in their fight on the Bronze Sparrow Platform, then revealed a technique that unleashed three thousand punches in an instant. Chu Zheng survived by summoning his Qi of Heaven Gang, leaving the battle ongoing.

• Xu Taiping repeatedly struck Chu Zheng and drove him into the Bronze Sparrow Platform, stunning the spectators.
• Chu Zheng summoned his Xiezhi Dharma Aspect and Qi of Heaven Gang, then attacked Xu Taiping with his twin maces.
• Chu Zheng used the Tianxing Bureau's Heavenly Hero Form to break apart Xu Taiping's accumulated fist force.
• Chu Zheng struck Xu Taiping with Xiezhi Crashing into the Mountain and followed with Punishing Whips Scourge the Corpse.
• Xu Taiping unleashed three thousand fist shadows, shattered Chu Zheng's whip shadows, and pummeled him until Chu Zheng used his Qi of Heaven Gang to escape the attack.

Xu Taiping overwhelmed Chu Zheng by repeatedly increasing the power of his ordinary punches, breaking his attacks and defenses. After Xu Taiping smashed Chu Zheng’s net of Meridian-Sealing Nails, the spectators marveled at his strength.

• Lin Hanjian and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage recognized that Xu Taiping had reached the second revolution of Blood Qi Body Tempering and discussed his potential.
• Chu Zheng used Scale-Stripping Platform to shatter Xu Taiping’s Fist Force, then bound him with Five-Chariot Rend.
• Xu Taiping summoned the force of six thousand punches, broke free of the chains, smashed three Bronze Chariots, and knocked Chu Zheng backward.
• Chu Zheng formed a pagoda from Qi of Heaven Gang, but Xu Taiping’s nine thousand punches shattered it and frightened Chu Zheng.
• Chu Zheng unleashed eighty-one Meridian-Sealing Nails as a net, but Xu Taiping’s Fist Shadows smashed it apart, prompting Heavenly Lord Hanjian to marvel at his strength.

Xu Taiping continued fighting Chu Zheng with ordinary punches, refining his fist intent as Chu Zheng unleashed the Tianxing Bureau’s Meridian-Sealing Armor and devastating forms. After raising his fist force to twelve thousand punches, Xu Taiping faced Chu Zheng’s attacks with thunderflame concentrated on his right hand.

• Xu Taiping reflected on his nine-thousand-punch strike and resolved to make every power he commanded support his own fist technique.
• Chu Zheng sealed his meridians with the Meridian-Sealing Armor and used Sin-Execution Guillotine, but Xu Taiping summoned the Heavenly Wrath Four Symbols and shattered it with ten thousand punches.
• Chu Zheng transformed into his Xiezhi Dharma Aspect and unleashed Prison-Suppressing Tribulation, whose sixteen phantoms shattered Xu Taiping’s fist force and helped wound his chest.
• Surrounded by Chu Zheng and the phantoms, Xu Taiping briefly ignited thunderflame, then concentrated it on his right hand instead of attacking with spells.
• Xu Taiping declared twelve thousand punches, revealing an even greater surge of fist force and astonishing Heavenly Lord Hanjian.

Xu Taiping shattered Chu Zheng’s Prison-Suppressing Beast phantoms with a thunderous punch, impressing the spectators and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage. Chu Zheng then used the Tianxing Bureau’s Demand Justice, but Xu Taiping’s radiant light destroyed the evil karma revealed around him, leaving the duel unresolved.

• Xu Taiping used Overlord Power, the Wind-Thunder Step, and his True Dragon Divine Being Body to unleash six fist shadows that tore apart Chu Zheng’s sixteen Prison-Suppressing Beast phantoms.
• Heavenly Lord Hanjian and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage discussed Xu Taiping’s talent, while the Great Sage said he had misjudged how far Xu Taiping could surpass his own mantle.
• A blood-colored Xiezhi phantom appeared above Chu Zheng, and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage explained to the silver-haired little girl that Demand Justice reenacted a target’s crimes if their evil karma outweighed their good karma.
• Chu Zheng invoked Demand Justice against Xu Taiping, and black qi rose from Xu Taiping as Chu Zheng laughed.
• Dazzling white radiance burst from Xu Taiping, tore away the black qi, and surged skyward in a pillar over a hundred zhang wide.