Chapter Summaries

Xu Taiping defeated Chu Zheng on the Bronze Sparrow Platform when his good karma tore apart Chu Zheng’s Xiezhi phantom and wounded his divine soul. After Chu Zheng conceded and Xu Taiping claimed his stake, Xu Taiping looked to the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage for approval to challenge the prodigies of his cultivation realm across the Chaos Death Domain.

• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage showed Heavenly Lord Hanjian a Moonshadow Stone recording of Xu Taiping’s past battle and explained that Xu Taiping had earned immense good karma fighting the Primordial Lord’s calamity.
• Xu Taiping’s good karma tore apart Chu Zheng’s Xiezhi phantom, causing Chu Zheng excruciating pain as an elder arbiter of the Tianxing Bureau broke through the Bronze Sparrow Platform’s seal to intervene.
• The elder arbiter asked Xu Taiping to extinguish the karmic fire, but Xu Taiping refused to withdraw his fist force before the match ended.
• The elder arbiter ordered Chu Zheng to concede, and Chu Zheng reluctantly admitted defeat to save his life.
• Xu Taiping withdrew his fist force, received the stake he had won, and looked to the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage for approval to challenge the realm’s prodigies across the Chaos Death Domain.

Xu Taiping chose to reopen the Bronze Sparrow Platform and offered a prepared arena stake. The Nine Luminaries Mirror of Primordial Unity arrived to appraise it, while Ninth Madam and Lin Hanjian traded insults as they waited.

• Xu Taiping agreed to reopen the Bronze Sparrow Platform and handed over his arena stake for appraisal.
• The cultivators below debated whether to challenge Xu Taiping, while Heavenly Lord Hanjian and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage discussed his match with Chu Zheng.
• Ninth Madam warned Lin Hanjian to stop insulting her and threatened him after he mocked her.
• The Nine Luminaries Mirror of Primordial Unity descended onto the Bronze Sparrow Platform, and the boy asked Xu Taiping to present his treasure.

Xu Taiping presented a Qi Mushroom as his proposed arena stake before the Nine Luminaries Mirror of Primordial Unity. The mirror identified it as an Ancient Times Spirit Seed, leaving the spectators surprised by its value.

• The Black Prison boy explained the mirror’s appraisal system and the requirements for an arena stake, and Xu Taiping approached it with a wooden box.
• Chu Zheng complained to the old Chief Arbiter about losing to Xu Taiping, while Luo Hong, Jiang Yu, and Xu Laosan speculated that Xu Taiping might stake an ancient porcelain bowl.
• Luo Hong and Xu Laosan discussed contacting Junior Brother Nangong to challenge Xu Taiping if he offered the porcelain bowl.
• Xu Taiping opened the box and presented a lingzhi-shaped Qi Mushroom instead of the porcelain bowl.
• The mirror emitted orange immortal light and identified the Qi Mushroom as an Ancient Times Spirit Seed, which Xu Laosan said could improve the success rate of refining immortal-grade pills.

Xu Taiping offered an ancient-seed Qi Mushroom and a legendary Yang Yan Fruit as stakes to reopen the arena, shocking the spectators with their rarity and value. Though the stakes already met the Black Prison’s requirements, Xu Taiping insisted on presenting one more treasure to draw all the prodigies of the Land of Chaos.

• Xu Laosan and Luo Hong decided not to compete for Xu Taiping’s Qi Mushroom after learning it came from an ancient spirit seed, while Heavenly Lord Hanjian lamented its use as an arena stake.
• Xu Taiping presented a Yang Yan Fruit, and the octagonal mirror identified its powers and ancient-seed origin as an immortal-treasure-rank spirit fruit.
• Xu Laosan urged Luo Hong to summon Junior Brother Nangong with a Star-Treading Talisman so they could pursue pill refinement using the rare fruit.
• The Black Prison boy said the Qi Mushroom and Yang Yan Fruit were enough to reopen the arena, but Xu Taiping said he had another stake and wanted to attract all the prodigies of the Land of Chaos.
• Heavenly Lord Hanjian worried aloud that the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage was putting Xu Taiping in danger.

Xu Taiping offered Golden Millet Paper as an arena stake, drawing excitement from cultivators who recognized its rare power. The revelations prompted Xu Laosan to call for Baili Yezhao to challenge the arena.

• Heavenly Lord Hanjian warned the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage that adding Golden Millet Paper would attract top-ranked prodigies, but the Great Sage insisted Xu Taiping needed to fight stronger opponents.
• Xu Taiping took a sheet of Talisman Paper from the Wooden Box, and the Bronze Prison cultivators saw that it was immortal-class Golden Millet Paper.
• Xu Laosan explained that the paper could help a third-grade Talisman Master create a talisman comparable to an Origin Opening Realm expert's full-power strike.
• The immortal light revealed that the paper's wood came from an ancient spirit seed and could give a fourth-grade Talisman Master a chance to produce a Peerless Grade Immortal Talisman.
• Xu Laosan told Jiang Yu to ask the Cave Master to send Baili Yezhao, ranked twenty-first on the Heavenly Prodigy Ranking, to challenge the arena.

Xu Taiping raised the arena stakes and challenged Heaven Shocking Realm prodigies from the Heavenly Prodigy Ranking to fight him in Black Prison. His declaration drew challengers’ attention, including Yan Xuanling, whose request to leave foot confinement enraged Heavenly Lord Hanjian.

• Xu Laosan and Luo Hong discussed summoning Baili Yezhao and Nangong to improve their chances of claiming the arena rewards.
• Xu Taiping asked what stakes would attract the Heavenly Prodigy Ranking’s prodigies, surprising the spectators and the Heaven-Guarding Great Sage.
• The Black Prison Child said two more immortal items might attract more ranked prodigies, and Xu Taiping added two each of Qi Mushroom Herb, Yang Yan Fruits, and Golden Millet Paper to the stakes.
• Xu Taiping invited Heaven Shocking Realm cultivators to fight him, giving ranked prodigies priority and restricting only their cultivation.
• Yan Xuanling asked Heavenly Lord Hanjian to lift his foot confinement so he could challenge Xu Taiping, and Hanjian angrily refused.

Yan Xuanling misinterpreted Heavenly Lord Hanjian’s warnings as permission to enter Black Prison and challenge Xu Taiping. At the Golden Goblet Tower, Heavenly Lord Hanjian and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage discussed Xu Taiping’s need for life-extending treasures and the dangers of their planned trip to the Yaochi Sacred Land, while recognizing that Lin Hanjian was approaching his tribulation.

• Yan Xuanling watched Xu Taiping declare war on the prodigies and decided her master’s message to go away meant she should challenge him.
• Heavenly Lord Hanjian warned Yan Xuanling not to cause trouble, especially by going to the Bronze Prison Arena, but she replayed his message until she concluded he wanted her to conceal her identity in Black Prison.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage told Heavenly Lord Hanjian that Xu Taiping had only three to five years to live and needed rare pills or spirit fruits to extend his lifespan.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage said Xu Taiping might reach early Dao Integration Realm combat strength after training in Bronze Prison, which could help him survive the Yaochi Sacred Land.
• Heavenly Lord Hanjian offered to accompany the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage, but the Great Sage pointed out that Lin Hanjian was nearing his tribulation and should avoid dangerous ruins.

After recovering, Xu Taiping received guidance from the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage on mastering his full fighting strength before fusing it into ultimate moves, and he prepared to use ordinary blade techniques in tomorrow’s arena match. Meanwhile, Luo Hong and Xu Laosan discussed Nangong Wen’s chances of defeating Xu Taiping, just as Nangong Wen arrived at their door.

• Xu Taiping told the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage and Lin Hanjian that he had fully recovered, and they noted that he had not yet drawn out the full strength of his physique and cultivation.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage taught Xu Taiping to master his full fighting strength before shaping ultimate realm or extreme law moves to surpass it.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage warned Xu Taiping to handle tomorrow’s arena opponents carefully and allowed him to use ordinary blade moves, but not ultimate realm blade force or blade domain power.
• Luo Hong told Xu Laosan that Junior Brother Baili would arrive too late for the second match, leaving Junior Brother Nangong to face Xu Taiping tomorrow.
• Luo Hong revealed that Junior Brother Nangong had mastered an extreme law Wind-Riding Divine Ability, reached the Great Sage Realm in physique, and cultivated the Soul-Slaying Blade to the ultimate realm.
• Nangong Wen knocked at the door of the Three Corpses Cave group’s private room and announced himself to Luo Hong and Xu Laosan.

Xu Taiping took the Bronze Sparrow Platform for his next challenge, but his first opponent, Yue Zhenchuan of the Mountain-Moving Guests, had been recruited by the Tianxing Bureau to counter him. The chapter ended as Yue prepared to fight Xu Taiping on the Bureau’s behalf.

• Nangong Wen secured the fourth challenger position, and he and the Three Corpses Cave disciples discussed Xu Taiping’s victory over Chu Zheng.
• Xu Taiping appeared on the Bronze Sparrow Platform using his refined Wind-Thunder Step.
• The attendant announced Yue Zhenchuan of the Mountain-Moving Guests as Xu Taiping’s first challenger.
• Luo Hong and Xu Laosan warned that Yue’s physique and Martial Dao techniques matched Xu Taiping’s strengths, making him a dangerous opponent.
• Yue Zhenchuan told Xu Taiping he was repaying an old favor to the Tianxing Bureau, while Old Siming and Chu Zheng watched from the crowd.

Xu Taiping fought Mountain-Moving Guest Yue Zhenchuan on the Bronze Sparrow Platform, measuring their strength as Yue Zhenchuan unleashed increasingly powerful martial techniques. The chapter ended with Xu Taiping bracing himself against Yue Zhenchuan’s seven mountain-like fist shadows.

• Heaven-Hunting Great Sage Ding Mou and Heavenly Lord Hanjian discussed Yue Zhenchuan’s strength and chose to let Xu Taiping face the challenge.
• When the bell stopped, Yue Zhenchuan struck Xu Taiping with a punch that sent him sliding back, and Xu Taiping judged that Yue Zhenchuan was using fifty percent of his strength.
• Yue Zhenchuan grew to over three hundred zhang tall and attacked with Bearing Mountains and Chasing the Moon, but Xu Taiping transformed into his complete True Dragon Divine Being Body and stood firm against the blow.
• Yue Zhenchuan followed with Collapse the Mountain, Ask the Way, sending seven mountain-like fist shadows at Xu Taiping, who raised his arms to block them.

Xu Taiping endured Yue Zhenchuan’s powerful punches to study his technique, then struck back with a punch that unleashed eighty percent of his combat power. As Yue Zhenchuan answered with Jiuyi Upside Down, Xu Taiping prepared to test whether he could reach ninety percent.

• Yue Zhenchuan’s successive punches battered Xu Taiping’s true dragon divine being body and drove him close to the edge of the Bronze Sparrow Platform.
• Xu Taiping rose smiling, having understood how to unleash more than seventy percent of his combat power by sensing Yue Zhenchuan’s fist force.
• Yue Zhenchuan attacked with mountain-shattering crossed blows, but Xu Taiping countered and sent him flying with a punch that unleashed eighty percent of his combat power.
• Yue Zhenchuan steadied himself and launched Jiuyi Upside Down at full strength.
• Xu Taiping invoked the Overlord’s Breath and shouted “Twelve thousand punches!!” as he tried to unleash ninety percent of his combat power.

Xu Taiping used his newly mastered control of ninety percent of his combat strength to overpower Yue Zhenchuan and send him off the Bronze Sparrow Platform. After the fight, Xu Taiping realized he had spent far less true essence, qi and blood, and divine essence than he had against Chu Zheng.

• Xu Taiping unleashed a powerful punch that shattered Yue Zhenchuan’s inverted-mountain fist-force phantom and sent his enormous body flying.
• Yue Zhenchuan used a body-fixing method and mountain spirit power to hold himself on the Bronze Sparrow Platform, then pressed the platform downward with even greater force.
• Heavenly Lord Hanjian remarked that Yue Zhenchuan was using mountain spirit power far beyond the local level, while Chu Zheng relaxed, believing Yue Zhenchuan still had methods to resist.
• Xu Taiping’s fist force tore through Yue Zhenchuan’s mountain spirit power and struck him repeatedly despite his attempts to anchor himself.
• Xu Taiping’s final punch sent Yue Zhenchuan off the Bronze Sparrow Platform and into the Black Prison’s barrier.
• Xu Taiping assessed his condition and realized that his expenditure in this match was far lower than in his fight against Chu Zheng.

Xu Taiping defeated Yue Zhenchuan with little expenditure and received a Mountain-Moving Token from him. After the Black Prison announced Duan Qingbo as Xu Taiping’s next opponent, the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage hoped the fight would push Xu Taiping to use the full strength of his physique.

• Xu Taiping reflected on how efficiently he had fought Yue Zhenchuan and replenished his strength with a Spirit Crystal.
• Heavenly Lord Hanjian praised Xu Taiping’s traditional martial arts, while the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage eagerly predicted he could reach the physique’s full fighting strength.
• Luo Hong, Xu Laosan, Jiang Yu, and Nangong Wen celebrated Xu Taiping’s victory and discussed Nangong Wen’s coming match against Wuming.
• Old Siming received a warning from the bureau chief ordering him and Chu Zheng to leave the Black Prison or risk their lives.
• Yue Zhenchuan returned to the platform, conceded defeat, and gave Xu Taiping a Mountain-Moving Token before departing.
• The Black Prison announced that Duan Qingbo of the Tide Listening Pavilion would be Xu Taiping’s next opponent.

Xu Taiping defeated Duan Qingbo quickly, then faced Mo Qingzhu of the Hundred Talisman Sect as the next challenger. Mo Qingzhu struggled to explain his request, and Xu Taiping suggested that he write it down.

• Xu Taiping broke through Duan Qingbo's Body-Protecting Golden Light with two punches and defeated him.
• Heavenly Lord Hanjian and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage discussed how spell cultivators struggled against Xu Taiping and worried about the next challenger.
• The boy announced Mo Qingzhu of the Hundred Talisman Sect as the next arena challenger.
• Mo Qingzhu arrived on the platform, introduced himself to Xu Taiping, and tried to ask the boy to stay.
• Xu Taiping suggested that Mo Qingzhu write down his request when he could not get the words out, and the boy agreed.

Mo Qingzhu conceded his match and asked Xu Taiping to sell him Golden Millet Paper, offering his life as a helper in return for one sheet. Xu Taiping privately told him where he was staying, and the next challenger, Nangong Wen of the Three Corpses Cave, was called to the arena.

• Mo Qingzhu conceded to Xu Taiping and asked to buy his Golden Millet Paper, but Xu Taiping refused.
• After spectators jeered at Mo Qingzhu, he offered to risk his life as Xu Taiping’s helper for one sheet of Golden Millet Paper.
• Xu Taiping asked why Mo Qingzhu would make the offer, and Mo Qingzhu said the paper could give the Hundred Talisman Sect a path to survival.
• Xu Taiping privately told Mo Qingzhu that he was staying at the Golden Goblet Tower, and Mo Qingzhu flew away.
• The Black Prison Child announced Nangong Wen of the Three Corpses Cave as the next challenger, and Xu Laosan urged him to defeat Xu Taiping and earn a place on the Heavenly Prodigy Ranking.

Xu Taiping fought Nangong Wen of Three Corpses Cave on the Bronze Sparrow Platform, breaking through Nangong Wen’s wind prison and meeting his Soul-Slaying Blade head-on. The chapter ended with Nangong Wen calling out “Asura” as his blade shadow began to shatter.

• After the fifth bell, Xu Taiping closed the distance and exchanged a wind-and-thunder fist with Nangong Wen’s blade, sending both fighters reeling.
• Nangong Wen trapped Xu Taiping in a whirling Wind Prison Sword Formation using Three Corpses Cave’s Azure Nether Nine Transformations.
• Xu Taiping assumed his true dragon body and shattered the wind prison with a single punch.
• Nangong Wen unleashed the Soul-Slaying Blade, Hungry Ghost Asura, and Xu Taiping countered with Ten Thousand Two Thousand Fists.
• As Xu Taiping’s fist cracked Nangong Wen’s blade shadow, Nangong Wen shouted, “Asura!”

Xu Taiping fought Nangong Wen while the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage kept him from using his other techniques, forcing him to rely on his physique and fist strength. Under Nangong Wen’s increasingly deadly wind attacks, Xu Taiping broke through his limits and unleashed eighteen thousand punches, reaching the full combat strength of his physique.

• Nangong Wen’s armored battle-soul phantom strengthened its blade and shattered Xu Taiping’s strongest fist shadow, sending him skidding backward.
• Nangong Wen used Wind Earl Suppresses Sea to pin Xu Taiping beneath compressed gang wind and tear apart his dragon scales.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage refused Heavenly Lord Hanjian’s request to let Xu Taiping use other techniques, while Xu Taiping drew on more qi and blood and shouted thirteen thousand punches.
• Nangong Wen unleashed Great Void Heavenly Gang, badly wounding Xu Taiping with countless wind Feilian.
• Xu Taiping reached fifteen thousand punches, realized he could draw out his physique’s full combat strength, and then unleashed eighteen thousand punches.

Xu Taiping defeated Nangong Wen with a twenty-one-thousand-punch strike, then tested his strength against Luo Hong and Xu Laosan when they intervened. Luo Hong nearly killed Xu Taiping, but Heaven-Hunting Great Sage appeared and forced him to his knees.

• Xu Taiping unleashed twenty-one thousand punches, shattered Nangong Wen's Great Annihilation Blade, and destroyed Nangong Wen's physical body.
• Luo Hong and Xu Laosan intervened to protect Nangong Wen's primordial spirit, and Xu Taiping used his remaining fist force to test their strength.
• Luo Hong shattered Xu Taiping's fist shadow with one finger and pressed that finger against Xu Taiping's forehead.
• Luo Hong's killing intent surged, but Heaven-Hunting Great Sage struck him with mountain spirit power and drove him to his knees.

Xu Taiping defeated Nangong Wen and began recovering on the Bronze Sparrow Platform, absorbing spiritual power at a startling rate. As the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage and Heavenly Lord Hanjian debated whether he should keep pursuing greater strength, Ninth Madam reacted to their teasing and the platform’s rapidly growing cloud pillar.

• Luo Hong held back from attacking Xu Taiping after Xu Laosan warned him, then left with Xu Laosan and Nangong Wen’s primordial spirit.
• The Black Prison Child declared Xu Taiping the winner and explained that the Bronze Sparrow Platform would supply spiritual and divine soul power during his half-incense-stick recovery period.
• Xu Taiping sat on the spirit platform as Heavenly Lord Hanjian and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage discussed whether he should continue testing his limits.
• Xu Taiping absorbed spiritual power so quickly that a cloud pillar formed around him and repeatedly expanded, astonishing the spectators.
• Ninth Madam scolded Heavenly Lord Hanjian for calling her an iron rooster, then asked the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage where he had found Xu Taiping.

Xu Taiping asked to begin the arena competition early and quickly overwhelmed Du Shouzhuo. As the Three Corpses Cave debated whether to send Baili Yezhao into the arena before he had rested, they decided he would take the next match.

• Xu Taiping stood up after resting and asked for the competition to begin early, while Heavenly Lord Hanjian and Ninth Madam exchanged insults.
• Du Shouzhuo of the Seven Stars Mound entered the arena to challenge Xu Taiping, who soon forced him onto the defensive.
• Luo Hong received messages from Baili Yezhao, who had arrived in the Black Prison and offered to take the stage early.
• Luo Hong and Xu Laosan debated whether Baili Yezhao should fight despite his hurried arrival, as Xu Taiping broke Du Shouzhuo's defensive treasure and struck him back.
• Baili Yezhao said an Earth Marrow Essence-Returning Pill would restore his strength, and Xu Laosan decided he would take the next match.