Chapter Summaries

Xiao Xuan and Gu Xun'er hunted Earth Sovereigns for Xiao Tian Ce to refine into Heavenly Demon Puppets while Ling Zhanzi’s group searched for them. Xiao Tian Ce completed puppets for Luo Tianshen, the Sky Dome Academy President, Xiao Xuan, and Gu Xun’er, then revealed a message as the group prepared to act.

• Xiao Xuan and Gu Xun'er delivered two Earth Sovereign corpses and evaded Ling Zhanzi, who ordered his people to travel in groups of at least five.
• Xiao Tian Ce and Ling'er infused soul fragments from Luo Tianshen and the Sky Dome Academy President into two Heavenly Demon Puppets, giving each man a puppet capable of peak Upper Rank Earth Sovereign strength.
• Xiao Tian Ce showed Qing Hou and two Lower Earthly Sovereign puppets he had named Number One and Number Two.
• Xiao Xuan and Gu Xun'er returned with two more corpses, and Xiao Tian Ce began refining puppets for them.
• After three more days, Xiao Tian Ce and Ling'er finished the new puppets, giving everyone in the group one, and Xiao Tian Ce said it was time to act.
• Xiao Xuan, Gu Xun'er, Luo Tianshen, and the Sky Dome Academy President urged Xiao Tian Ce to rest, but he showed them a message.

Xiao Tian Ce learned that the Western Heaven War Hall and the Black Heaven Gu Clan were joining forces to claim the Heavenly Dao Mirror and covet his Heavenly Demon Puppet refinement method. He led his allies toward the seal, determined to confront them and take their lives.

• Luo Tianshen explained that the Heavenly Dao Mirror was a damaged peerless sacred artifact capable of killing Heavenly Sovereigns, and Xiao Tian Ce decided to go after it with his allies.
• The Winter Elder enlisted Black Dragon and Black Phoenix of the Black Heaven Gu Clan to help break the seal hiding the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Xue Lingzi claimed Xiao Tian Ce’s puppets might evolve to Heavenly Sovereign level, prompting Black Dragon and Black Phoenix to seek the refinement method.
• Shi Hao sent Xiao Tian Ce a recording of their discussion, and Xiao Xuan and Gu Xun’er reacted angrily to Xue Lingzi’s betrayal.
• Xiao Tian Ce warned that the Black Heaven Gu Clan was a formidable primordial power, then declared that he wanted its members’ lives as much as they wanted his method.

Xiao Tian Ce and his companions hurried toward Winter Elder and the Black Heaven Gu Clan, while Ao Tianxiu and Gu Changming left after Winter Elder gave their promised reward to the Black Heaven Gu Clan instead. Ling Zhanzi and Ling Jianzi caught up with them to demand their support, but the two clan chiefs refused and faced a threat from the Western Heaven War Hall.

• Xiao Tian Ce agreed to let Xiao Xuan and Gu Xun'er fight Black Dragon and Black Phoenix as his group traveled toward the sealed Heavenly Dao Mirror.
• Winter Elder promised the Heavenly Demon Puppet Refinement Method to the Black Heaven Gu Clan, angering Ao Tianxiu and troubling Gu Changming.
• Gu Changming persuaded Ao Tianxiu to leave with him, and the two clan chiefs quietly withdrew from Winter Elder's group.
• Ling Zhanzi and Ling Jianzi caught up with Ao Tianxiu and Gu Changming; Ling Jianzi threatened them, but Ling Zhanzi offered compensation if they returned to help fight Xiao Tian Ce.
• Ao Tianxiu and Gu Changming refused the offer, and Ling Zhanzi challenged them for denying the Western Heaven War Hall's request.

Gu Changming and Ao Tianxiu refused to return to the Western Heaven War Hall, weakening the Winter Elder’s alliance as Xiao Tian Ce’s group advanced. The chapter ended with Ling Zhanzi and Ling Jianzi meeting Lin Dong and greeting him as a potential recruit.

• Ling Zhanzi and Ling Jianzi failed to persuade Gu Changming and Ao Tianxiu to rejoin the Western Heaven War Hall, and the two Clan Chiefs left after deciding not to fight.
• Gu Changming and Ao Tianxiu discussed their offense against the Western Heaven War Hall and hoped Xiao Tian Ce might eventually challenge the Western Heaven War Emperor.
• Xiao Tian Ce received Shi Hao’s recording of the dispute and said the split between the Clan Chiefs and the Western Heaven War Hall favored his side.
• The Winter Elder accepted that Gu Changming and Ao Tianxiu would not return, then sent Ling Zhanzi and Ling Jianzi to meet Xiong Ba’s new powerhouse and consider recruiting him.
• Ling Zhanzi and Ling Jianzi found Lin Dong, who introduced himself and paid his respects to the two Holy Sons.

Lin Dong joined Ling Zhanzi and Ling Jianzi’s camp, then seized the Heavenly Dao Mirror when the seal broke. After Xiao Tian Ce arrived and revealed that he knew where Ying Huanhuan was, Lin Dong gave him the mirror, while Black Dragon attacked and was repelled by a Heavenly Demon Puppet.

• Lin Dong gained Ling Zhanzi and Ling Jianzi’s trust, and they offered to recommend him to the Western Heaven War Hall after leaving the Primordial Secret Realm.
• After two days, the Winter Elder, Black Dragon, Black Phoenix, Ling Zhanzi, Ling Jianzi, and the others broke the seal and exposed the Heavenly Dao Mirror.
• Lin Dong snatched the mirror, kicked the Winter Elder away, and destroyed his attack when he retaliated.
• Xiao Tian Ce and his companions emerged from a Space Vortex, and the Winter Elder urged Black Dragon and Black Phoenix to help capture Xiao Tian Ce and obtain his Heavenly Demon Puppet Refinement Method.
• Xiao Tian Ce named Ying Huanhuan as the person Lin Dong sought, so Lin Dong handed him the Heavenly Dao Mirror.
• Black Dragon tried to seize the mirror, but Xiao Tian Ce dodged him and sent a golden Heavenly Demon Puppet to punch Black Dragon hundreds of meters away.

Xiao Tian Ce’s group clashed with Black Dragon, Black Phoenix, and the Western Heaven War Hall forces in the Primordial Secret Realm. As the battles spread across four fronts, Xiao Tian Ce told Lin Dong where Ying Huanhuan’s remnant soul was and offered an alliance against the Western Heaven War Emperor, prompting Lin Dong to volunteer to fight.

• Black Dragon demanded Xiao Tian Ce’s Heavenly Demon Puppet refinement method, and Xiao Xuan and Gu Xun’er stepped forward to fight Black Dragon and Black Phoenix.
• Gu Xun’er’s Emperor Flame injured Black Phoenix, though his True Phoenix body quickly healed the burns.
• Winter Elder and the Western Heaven War Hall’s Earth Sovereigns joined the confrontation, and Luo Tianshen and the Sky Dome Academy President released their Heavenly Demon Puppets to engage their opponents.
• Luo Tianshen fought Ling Jianzi and Xiong Ba, while the Sky Dome Academy President and his puppet faced Zi Wuji.
• Xiao Tian Ce told Lin Dong that Ying Huanhuan’s remnant soul was with the Ice Spirit Clan and proposed an alliance against the Western Heaven War Emperor.
• Lin Dong thanked Xiao Tian Ce for the information and offered to clear away their enemies.

Lin Dong, Xiao Xuan, and Gu Xun'er fought the enemies in the Primordial Secret Realm, while Xiao Tian Ce watched and considered the threat of the Western Heaven War Emperor. Gu Xun'er’s Emperor Flame-Life-Creation Lotus devastated the battlefield, and the battle continued as Lin Dong pursued Winter Elder.

• Lin Dong rapidly defeated Lower Earthly Sovereigns with the Devouring Ancestral Talisman and Thunder Ancestral Symbol, then caught Ling Zhanzi’s surprise attack and drained much of his spiritual energy.
• Xiao Xuan fought Black Dragon in his heavenly dragon form, tearing off a whisker and breaking a horn while keeping the upper hand through his combat experience.
• Gu Xun’er used her Emperor Flame to hold off Black Phoenix, then wounded him with Buddha’s Fury Fire Lotus as Black Dragon rushed to rescue him.
• Gu Xun’er unleashed the Emperor Flame-Life-Creation Lotus, but Winter Elder’s ice wall failed to stop it, and Lin Dong struck Winter Elder and Black Dragon during their escape.
• Black Phoenix carried Black Dragon out of the lotus’s range, and Gu Xun’er told Xiao Tian Ce she had developed the technique from Xiao Yan’s Buddha’s Fury Fire Lotus before the fighters resumed battle.

Xiao Tian Ce rejected Ling Zhanzi’s attempt to end the battle and seized Black Dragon, refusing to spare him despite threats from the Western Heaven War Hall and the Black Heaven Gu Clan. Ye Qingqing arrived and offered Xiao Tian Ce a top-tier grand divine ability in exchange for Black Dragon’s release, leaving his decision unresolved.

• Ling Zhanzi called off the Western Heaven War Hall’s fighting and offered Heavenly Net in exchange for peace and Ling Longzi’s release, but Xiao Tian Ce refused to negotiate with him.
• Winter Elder warned Xiao Tian Ce about the Western Heaven War Emperor and the Black Heaven Gu Clan, but Xiao Tian Ce insisted the battle continue and threatened to visit the Western Heaven War Hall.
• Xiao Tian Ce swiftly seized Black Dragon by the neck, and Black Dragon apologized as Black Phoenix and Ling Zhanzi pleaded for his life.
• Lin Dong, Luo Tianshen, and the Sky Dome Academy President left the decision about Black Dragon to Xiao Tian Ce and said they would accept the consequences.
• Ye Qingqing arrived with Uncle Lin and asked Xiao Tian Ce to spare Black Dragon, offering him a top-tier grand divine ability as compensation.

Xiao Tian Ce resolved the standoff in the Primordial Secret Realm by sparing the Western Heaven War Hall and warning them to release Heavenly Net, then parted ways with his allies as they went to seek opportunities. Shi Hao revealed that the Great Wilderness Sect had been destroyed and asked to remain by Xiao Tian Ce’s side.

• Ye Qingqing offered Xiao Tian Ce a grand divine ability to secure Black Dragon’s release, but Xiao Tian Ce spared Black Dragon and Black Phoenix without accepting it.
• Xiao Tian Ce dismissed Ye Qingqing’s offer to intervene with the Western Heaven War Hall, then let Ling Zhanzi and his people go on the condition that they release Heavenly Net.
• Xiao Tian Ce explained to Xiao Xuan that he spared the Western Heaven War Hall to avoid provoking the Western Heaven War Emperor, and gave Lin Dong a communication jade pendant in case he needed help at the Ice Spirit Clan.
• Lin Dong departed, and Xiao Tian Ce predicted that he would become one of the Great Thousand World’s foremost powerhouses within a hundred years.
• Gu Xun’er, Xiao Xuan, Luo Tianshen, and the Sky Dome Academy President left to seek opportunities, while Shi Hao told Xiao Tian Ce that the Great Wilderness Sect had been destroyed and asked to serve him.

Xiao Tian Ce followed Shi Hao to the hidden Heavenly Dao Sect Treasure Pavilion, where a dead giant Nine-Headed Serpent was chained above it. A living serpent ambushed Xiao Tian Ce, and he prepared to fight as it attacked with flames.

• Shi Hao asked to follow Xiao Tian Ce, who accepted him but warned that the Western Heaven War Emperor might defeat him.
• Shi Hao led Xiao Tian Ce to a cliff he believed concealed the Heavenly Dao Sect Treasure Pavilion, and Xiao Tian Ce descended alone.
• Xiao Tian Ce followed an iron chain through mist that weakened his spiritual energy and encountered a huge shadow moving nearby.
• Xiao Tian Ce discovered the chained corpse of a thousand-zhang Nine-Headed Serpent above the Treasure Pavilion.
• A smaller Nine-Headed Serpent ambushed Xiao Tian Ce with a soul-shaking roar and poisonous gas, then attacked with flames from eight heads.

Xiao Tian Ce spared Jiu Yuan, a Nine-Headed Heavenly Snake guarding his mother’s corpse, and learned that the Heavenly Dao Sect had fallen and the Extraterrestrial Demon Clan had been driven back. Jiu Yuan gave Xiao Tian Ce the Token needed to open the sect’s Treasure Pavilion, where Xiao Tian Ce began exploring its increasingly demanding floors.

• Xiao Tian Ce defeated the Nine-Headed Giant Serpent’s flames but spared Jiu Yuan after seeing him shield his mother’s corpse.
• Jiu Yuan told Xiao Tian Ce how the Extraterrestrial Demon Clan had imprisoned his mother and learned that the Heavenly Dao Sect was destroyed and the invaders had been driven back.
• Jiu Yuan let Xiao Tian Ce enter the Treasure Pavilion and gave him the Heavenly Dao Token that opened its formation.
• Xiao Tian Ce explored the first four floors, finding vast stores of treasures and stronger barriers and faster-moving spheres on each level.
• Xiao Tian Ce reached the fifth floor, felt its pressure, and estimated that it held fewer than a thousand treasure spheres.

Xiao Tian Ce climbed the Treasure Pavilion toward its restricted upper floors, where the artifact spirit Fatty Baby tried to enforce the sect master's rules. His Spiritual Array Notes unexpectedly opened the way to the eighth floor, and he reached its collection of scrolls and divine weapons before Fatty Baby warned him against entering the ninth.

• Xiao Tian Ce found a quasi-peerless divine ability, the Great Compassion Hand, on the seventh floor, but the entrance to the eighth floor rejected him.
• Fatty Baby appeared, identified himself as the Treasure Pavilion's artifact spirit, and explained that only Heavenly Sovereigns could enter the eighth floor and only the sect master could enter the ninth.
• Xiao Tian Ce resisted the crushing pressure on the stairs, and Fatty Baby recognized the two spiritual arrays inscribed on Xiao Tian Ce's body as matching arrays used by the sect master.
• Xiao Tian Ce's Spiritual Array Notes flew from his Storage Ring, made the pressure vanish, and entered the eighth floor ahead of him.
• Xiao Tian Ce found scrolls and more than a dozen divine-artifact weapons on the eighth floor, then headed toward the ninth as Fatty Baby warned that the pressure could kill him.

Xiao Tian Ce reached the Treasure Pavilion’s Ninth Layer, where he found the Heavenly Dao Sect Master’s final writings about the sect’s doomed battle against the Extraterrestrial Demon Clan. He revealed the sect’s destruction to Fatty Baby and explained that the Treasure Pavilion’s space was about to collapse.

• Xiao Tian Ce ignored Fatty Baby’s warnings and stepped onto the path to the Ninth Layer, discovering that its protective mechanism allowed him through unharmed.
• Xiao Tian Ce found his Spiritual Array Grandmaster Notes and read the Heavenly Dao Sect Master’s accounts of the Extraterrestrial Demon Clan’s assault and his determination to fight despite grievous injuries.
• Xiao Tian Ce vowed to preserve the Heavenly Dao Sect’s legacy and fight the Extraterrestrial Demon Clan if he had the chance.
• Fatty Baby cried after hearing Xiao Tian Ce’s words and asked whether the Heavenly Dao Sect had truly vanished.
• Xiao Tian Ce confirmed the sect had been destroyed tens of thousands of years earlier and said the Treasure Pavilion’s space was about to collapse.

Xiao Tian Ce persuaded Fatty Baby to leave the collapsing Treasure Pavilion with him and promised to help preserve the Heavenly Dao Sect’s legacy. After receiving the restored Heavenly Dao Mirror and several powerful inheritances, Xiao Tian Ce was expelled from the pavilion, which then shrank into a tiny pagoda in his hand.

• Fatty Baby explained that the Heavenly Dao Sect had been destroyed and agreed to let Xiao Tian Ce take the Treasure Pavilion’s resources if he devoted one-third of them to rebuilding the sect.
• Fatty Baby repaired the Heavenly Dao Mirror to High-Tier Sacred Artifact level and told Xiao Tian Ce that he could eventually restore it further.
• Fatty Baby gave Xiao Tian Ce the sect master’s notes, Battle Array Diagrams, and Jade Pendants containing supreme dharma bodies, including the sixth-ranked primordial supreme dharma body, the heavenly dao myriad tribulations body.
• Xiao Tian Ce agreed to carry on the Heavenly Dao Sect’s legacy and promised to kill members of the Extraterrestrial Demon Clan.
• A repulsive force threw Xiao Tian Ce out of the pavilion, and the Treasure Pavilion shrank into a nine-story pagoda that flew into his hand.
• Jiu Yuan came to Xiao Tian Ce’s side, and Xiao Tian Ce asked him what he planned to do next.

Jiu Yuan left the abyss with Xiao Tian Ce and agreed to seek him out after returning his mother’s remains to his clan. Xiao Tian Ce learned that time had passed differently below, then headed with Jiu Yuan and Shi Hao to Holy Spirit Peak to use the Holy Spirit Pool for his Heavenly Sovereign breakthrough, where Fatty Baby warned of a powerful Extraterrestrial Demon Clan member.

• Jiu Yuan accepted Xiao Tian Ce’s contact Jade Pendant and said he would return to his clan before joining him.
• Jiu Yuan carried Xiao Tian Ce out of the abyss, where Shi Hao greeted them and Xiao Tian Ce showed him the Heavenly Dao Sect’s Treasure Pavilion.
• Jiu Yuan explained that the evil qi below isolated time and space, causing half a month to pass above while Xiao Tian Ce had spent less than a day in the depths.
• Fatty Baby directed Xiao Tian Ce, Jiu Yuan, and Shi Hao to the Holy Spirit Pool, and they traveled to Holy Spirit Peak.
• Jiu Yuan warned that the accumulated spiritual qi could make the Holy Spirit Peak arrays dangerously unstable, so Fatty Baby advised Xiao Tian Ce to use the Heavenly Dao Mirror to enter.
• Fatty Baby revealed that the sect master had killed an Extraterrestrial Demon Clan member on Holy Spirit Peak whose strength rivaled an Immortal-Grade Heavenly Sovereign.

Xiao Tian Ce entered Holy Spirit Peak with Fatty Baby to cultivate in the Holy Spirit Pool and advance toward Heavenly Sovereign. As Xiao Tian Ce absorbed the pool’s spiritual power, the spirit fish grew agitated, then fell quiet after a dragon’s cry as a huge, unidentified shadow flashed through the water.

• Xiao Tian Ce ignored Fatty Baby’s warning about a possibly surviving Extraterrestrial Demon Clan member and entered Holy Spirit Peak using the Heavenly Dao Mirror, while Jiu Yuan and Shi Hao stayed outside.
• Xiao Tian Ce and Fatty Baby reached the summit, where Fatty Baby explained that spiritual explosions released pure energy and that the Holy Spirit Pool’s spirit fish carried True Dragon bloodline.
• Fatty Baby flew into the white mist to retrieve something, and Xiao Tian Ce followed him into the pool, where the spirit fish rammed him as his body absorbed the liquid spiritual power.
• Xiao Tian Ce settled into cultivation, absorbing the pool’s energy and nearby spiritual explosions while the spirit fish grew increasingly frenzied around him.
• A dragon’s cry quieted the spirit fish, then a massive shadow flashed through the pool, and Xiao Tian Ce sensed the smell of blood.

Xiao Tian Ce faced a Spirit Fish King attack while he was on the verge of advancing to Heavenly Sovereign, but Ling'er intervened with a powerful spiritual array. As the battle continued, Xiao Tian Ce’s spiritual array broke through to the Grandmaster level.

• Xiao Tian Ce sensed blood and discovered the great-perfection Earth Sovereign Spirit Fish King charging at him while he absorbed spiritual power.
• Xiao Tian Ce decided to risk stopping his cultivation to kill the Spirit Fish King, but Ling'er awakened and told him to keep absorbing while she dealt with it.
• Ling'er trapped the Spirit Fish King in the Four Saints and Four Spirits Array, where its sacred beasts repeatedly attacked and restrained it.
• The Spirit Fish King activated its True Dragon Bloodline, transformed into a dragon-like creature, and fought back against the array’s four sacred beasts.
• Ling'er noticed that Xiao Tian Ce’s spiritual power vortices were being devoured, then saw the spiritual array in his flesh and blood reveal itself after reaching the Grandmaster level.

While Xiao Tian Ce advanced in the Holy Spirit Pool, Ling'er trapped the Spirit Fish King and discovered that Spirit Fish blood could strengthen his body. Fatty Baby explained why ordinary Spirit Fish resisted Spiritual Arrays, and Ling'er began considering another way to catch them.

• Ling'er saw that Xiao Tian Ce's body array had reached Grandmaster level as he absorbed the Holy Spirit Pool's energy, while her array kept the wounded Spirit Fish King trapped.
• The Spirit Fish King commanded a school of Spirit Fish to attack Ling'er's array core, but a Grandmaster-level defense killed one of them, and Ling'er discovered its pale golden blood could strengthen Xiao Tian Ce.
• At Xiao Tian Ce's request, Ling'er tried to gather and drain the Spirit Fish's blood, but the fish escaped her Spiritual Array by moving swiftly through the water.
• Fatty Baby explained that Spirit Fish were naturally immune to Spiritual Arrays unless an array killed them in one strike, while the Spirit Fish King's True Dragon bloodline had suppressed that trait.
• Ling'er asked Fatty Baby whether Spirit Fish were difficult to catch unless killed in a single strike, hinting that she had thought of another approach.

Ling'er used Spiritual Arrays to harvest spirit fish and strengthen Xiao Tian Ce, while Fatty Baby revealed the Heavenly Dao Glazed Bottle and explained the origins of the Heavenly Dao Sect's Three Treasures. As Xiao Tian Ce finished advancing, the Heavenly Sovereign Thunder Tribulation began to gather.

• Ling'er blasted spirit fish out of the Holy Spirit Pool and killed them with an overhead ice-needle array, then applied their blood to Xiao Tian Ce.
• The spirit fish blood raised Xiao Tian Ce's physical strength, and his two internal Spiritual Arrays reached the Grandmaster level.
• Fatty Baby stopped Ling'er from killing more fish and revealed the Heavenly Dao Glazed Bottle, which could preserve Holy Spirit Peak and its living creatures.
• Fatty Baby explained that he, the Heavenly Dao Glazed Bottle, and the Heavenly Dao Mirror were the Three Treasures of the Heavenly Dao, forged by the same master artifact refiner.
• Ling'er told Fatty Baby that she was the Embryo of the Plane of the Dou Qi Continent and had signed a Soul Contract with Xiao Tian Ce.
• Xiao Tian Ce's advancement neared completion as the dark clouds of the Heavenly Sovereign Thunder Tribulation appeared.

Xiao Tian Ce studied the Heavenly Dao Myriad Tribulations Body while delaying his Heavenly Sovereign Thunder Tribulation by keeping his Sovereign Sea from filling completely. After learning its dangerous cultivation method, he left the tribulation clouds raging overhead and warned them not to descend before he was ready.

• Fatty Baby and Ling'er watched the Heavenly Sovereign tribulation clouds gather as Xiao Tian Ce sensed his increased physical strength and abundant spiritual energy.
• Xiao Tian Ce realized the tribulation would not descend until his Sovereign Sea was full, so he took out the Jade Pendant containing the Heavenly Dao Myriad Tribulations Body.
• The Jade Pendant showed Xiao Tian Ce the Lord of Myriad Tribulations and revealed that the supreme dharma body required surviving ten increasingly powerful Heavenly Tribulations.
• Xiao Tian Ce learned that the Lord of Myriad Tribulations had absorbed tribulation power eight times and died fighting the Extraterrestrial Demon Clan, then decided the gathering tribulation was suitable for his first absorption.
• As the Heavenly Tribulation grew more violent, Xiao Tian Ce finished studying the dharma body, refused to fill his Sovereign Sea, and told the tribulation not to descend before he was ready.