Chapter Summaries

Hun Changqing maimed Lin Langtian to help Lin Dong overcome his grudge, but Lin Langtian revived under the control of a soul tainted by Yimo energy. After Hun Changqing devoured the soul and forced Ling Qingzhu to explain the Yimo, she entered the Main Tomb Mansion while Lin Dong chose to stay behind.

• Hun Changqing severed Lin Langtian's limbs and forced him to kowtow to Lin Dong, who thanked him and said he wanted to settle the rest himself.
• Lin Langtian called for Master Mu, regained his limbs, and rose to the Nirvana Realm under the control of a possessing soul.
• Lin Langtian attacked Hun Changqing with a black Yimo beam, but Hun Changqing swallowed it and devoured the soul within Lin Langtian.
• Hun Changqing restrained Ling Qingzhu and forced her to explain that the Yimo were mostly sealed away, then she entered the Main Tomb Mansion.
• Lin Dong declined to enter the Main Tomb Mansion, saying his goal was complete, and Hun Changqing went in alone.

Hun Changqing entered the Main Tomb Mansion, where Ling Qingzhu consumed the Nirvana Heart and became afflicted by its yin-yang effect. The tomb owner’s soul forced the two together before Hun Changqing absorbed it, and the chapter ended with Ling Qingzhu attacking Hun Changqing in a fury.

• Lin Dong led Ziyue and Qingtan out of the treasure area to wait for Hun Changqing, while Ziyue privately celebrated that Lin Dong and Ling Qingzhu’s fated connection seemed to have ended.
• Hun Changqing crossed the sea of fire and entered the Main Hall, where Ling Qingzhu swallowed the emerald Nirvana Heart and began refining its energy inside a Green Lotus.
• Hun Changqing followed a soul’s aura to the tomb owner’s coffin, and Ling Qingzhu destroyed the coffin after the Nirvana Heart’s hidden effect began burning within her.
• The tomb owner’s phantom explained the yin-yang condition, then used pink light to intensify the desire affecting Hun Changqing and Ling Qingzhu before Hun Changqing absorbed his soul.
• Ling Qingzhu clung to Hun Changqing as the effect overwhelmed them, and she later attacked him with green light, vowing to kill him.

Hun Changqing fled from Ling Qingzhu after she attacked him with the Nine Palace Moon Green Lotus, but she stopped when Lin Dong explained that he had lost his memories. Ling Qingzhu set aside her killing intent and decided to stay with the Lin Family to verify Hun Changqing's past.

• Hun Changqing shattered Ling Qingzhu's sword attack and explained that their intimacy had happened while he was under the influence of a soul body, but she attacked him again with her green lotus artifact.
• Hun Changqing escaped the collapsing bronze Main Hall, and Ling Qingzhu pursued him with the green lotus as Qingtan, Lin Dong, and Ziyue watched from outside the tomb.
• Ling Qingzhu threatened Hun Changqing's companions to make him stop, and Lin Dong pleaded with her while the Sky Demon Marten warned him about her sect's supreme treasure.
• Lin Dong told Ling Qingzhu that Hun Changqing had lost his memories and cultivation three months earlier, prompting her to withdraw the green lotus and reconsider his actions.
• Ling Qingzhu questioned Lin Dong about Hun Changqing's past, then announced that she would stay with the Lin Family to verify his memory loss.

Ling Qingzhu followed Lin Dong’s group to the Lin Family, where Hei Xuan arrived seeking Qingtan because of her rare Yin Fiend Body. Hun Changqing defended Qingtan’s right to refuse the Darkness Hall, and Ling Qingzhu agreed to watch the pair cultivate before leaving.

• Ling Qingzhu insisted on visiting the Lin Family, and Lin Dong led her there while Hun Changqing and Qingtan followed.
• Hei Xuan appeared and tried to take Qingtan to the Darkness Hall, but Hun Changqing attacked him until Ling Qingzhu intervened.
• Hei Xuan revealed that Qingtan’s Yin Fiend Body made her the chosen Saintess and a potential heir to the Darkness Ancestral Talisman, but Qingtan refused to leave Hun Changqing and Lin Dong.
• Hun Changqing warned Ling Qingzhu and Hei Xuan not to force Qingtan, and Hei Xuan left after offering Qingtan time to reconsider.
• After the group returned to the Lin Family, Ling Qingzhu asked to observe Hun Changqing and Qingtan cultivating, and Qingtan agreed on the condition that Ling Qingzhu leave afterward.

Ling Qingzhu left after urging Hun Changqing to attend the Hundred Dynasties War, while Hun Changqing became interested in joining a sect that had demon spirits. Lin Dong departed Flame City with Ziyue, and Qingtan admitted she wanted to join Darkness Hall, prompting Hun Changqing to support her and consider going with her.

• Ling Qingzhu visited Hun Changqing to say goodbye and encouraged him to compete in the Hundred Dynasties War, but he dismissed the prospect until she mentioned Talisman Valley and the Divine Sect had many demon spirits.
• Hun Changqing asked Ling Qingzhu whether he could join a sect directly to obtain demon spirits, but she explained that he would generally need to excel in the Hundred Dynasties War.
• Ling Qingzhu left Flame City, and Lin Dong later decided to travel alone; Ziyue insisted on accompanying him, so the two departed together.
• Hun Changqing asked Qingtan whether someone from Darkness Hall had approached her, and she confessed that she was tempted to join so she could become strong enough to protect him.
• Hun Changqing told Qingtan she could join Darkness Hall, and Qingtan happily suggested that they go together and that she would make him Hall Master when she inherited leadership.

Hun Changqing said farewell to Qingtan as she left for the Darkness Hall, then remained with the Lin Family to pursue a place in the Hundred Dynasties War. When he departed with the Lin Family for its Clan Tournament, Xuan Su could not follow him and watched him leave in tears.

• Hun Changqing persuaded Qingtan to cultivate at the Darkness Hall, promised he would not forget her, and spent their last night together before she left Flame City.
• Hun Changqing stayed with the Lin Family, planning to win a place in the Hundred Dynasties War by helping its branch succeed in the Clan Tournament.
• Over two years, Xuan Su grew stronger with Hun Changqing's help but reached only Yuan Dan Realm Great Completion, too weak to accompany him.
• Xuan Su asked Hun Changqing if she could join the Hundred Dynasties War as his attendant, but he remained silent and would not take her along.
• Hun Changqing left with the Lin Family for the Clan Tournament, while Xuan Su saw him off at the city gate and broke down crying after he disappeared.

After the Desire Demon King offered to help Xuan Su grow strong enough to enter the Hundred Dynasties War, the Lin Clan Tournament began in Lin City. Lin Dong arrived after the Flame City branch family was nearly eliminated and challenged Lin Langtian.

• Xuan Su accepted the Desire Demon King's offer to help her qualify for the Hundred Dynasties War, and the being named her the Desire Demon King.
• The Lin Clan Gathering drew factions and spectators from across the Great Yan Dynasty to Lin City.
• Hun Changqing watched from among the Lin Family and realized the Flame City branch competitors were being targeted, likely at Lin Langtian's behest.
• A brocade-robed youth insulted Lin Dong and prepared to strike a fallen Flame City competitor, but Lin Dong appeared and sent him flying with one blow.
• Lin Dong identified himself as a participant, ignored a gray-robed elder's challenge, and called Lin Langtian down from the golden seats.

Hun Changqing entered the Imperial Palace, pressured the emperor and clan chiefs into supporting the Flame City Lin Family, and secured a place in the Hundred Dynasties War. He returned to the arena as Lin Dong defeated Lin Langtian, leaving Lin Fan to announce Lin Dong as the winner.

• Lin Dong challenged Lin Langtian at the Clan Tournament, and the two began a fierce battle as Hun Changqing left the arena.
• Hun Changqing entered the Imperial Palace and revealed his six-Yuan Nirvana strength to Emperor Mo Jingtian and the four clan chiefs.
• Hun Changqing demanded that the Flame City Lin Family be welcomed into the Main Family and asked to compete in the Hundred Dynasties War on Great Yan's behalf; Mo Jingtian and Lin Fan agreed.
• Lin Fan accompanied Hun Changqing back to the arena, where Lin Dong struck Lin Langtian with a Golden Giant Finger and Lin Fan intervened to separate them.
• Lin Fan declared Lin Dong the winner, while Lin Langtian recognized Hun Changqing and renewed his hatred toward him.

Lin Dong defeated Lin Langtian at the Lin Clan gathering, while Hun Changqing prepared for the Hundred Dynasties War. After entering the Ancient Battlefield, Hun Changqing and Lin Dong separated, and Lin Dong let Lin Langtian flee for the moment.

• Lin Dong defeated Lin Langtian but held back from killing him in the Lin Clan stronghold.
• Lin Fan offered Lin Dong generous rewards and welcomed his family back into the clan, while Lin Dong reunited with Hun Changqing and learned that he had surpassed the clan chief.
• Over the next two months, Hun Changqing advanced to seven-yuan Nirvana, and he, Lin Dong, Ziyue, Lin Langtian, and the other participants traveled from the Imperial Palace to the Ancient Battlefield.
• After arriving in the Ancient Battlefield, Hun Changqing detected a few Talisman Masters and left the group to pursue his own objectives.
• Lin Dong stayed behind, and Lin Langtian fled when he realized he was no match for him; Lin Dong chose not to pursue him yet.

Hun Changqing broke into an ancient city seeking strong Spiritual Force, killed its guards and Tie Wuming, and captured Liu Ruyan after discovering her soul was the source of the powerful fluctuations he had sensed. He carried her above the city and prepared to consume the Spiritual Force of its inhabitants.

• Tie Lin and Tie Long attacked Hun Changqing with Demon-Slaying Crossbows, but he destroyed the bolts, shattered the city's barrier, and killed them.
• Hun Changqing extracted the guards' weak Spiritual Force and explained that he had come searching for Talisman Masters after parting from Lin Dong.
• Tie Wuming and Liu Ruyan led a group of defenders to confront Hun Changqing, who recognized Liu Ruyan as the source of the strong Spiritual Force he sought.
• Tie Wuming attacked Hun Changqing with Mystic Flame Black Essence Palm, but Hun Changqing killed him instantly with a wave of cold.
• Hun Changqing seized Liu Ruyan, carried her above the city, and announced that its people would be his appetizers.

Hun Changqing learned that his killings had earned him the name Blood Slaughter Talisman and went to the Ancient Hall after hearing that a hidden treasury was about to open. He entered the packed city without waiting in line, while the guards and crowds feared his reputation.

• Hun Changqing killed Liu Ruyan, absorbed her spiritual force and the force he had gathered from the city's dead, and recovered hazy fragments of memory connected to the Soul Clan.
• After half a month of hunting Talisman Masters, Hun Changqing entered Zhan City and learned from the Listening Rain Pavilion that he was known as the Blood Slaughter Talisman.
• The attendant told Hun Changqing that an ancient hidden treasury was about to open at the Ancient Hall, and he bought a map to the site.
• Hun Changqing reached the crowded Ancient Hall, considered killing its many inhabitants, then decided against a mass slaughter to avoid trouble when joining a sect.
• Hun Changqing cut the entrance line, and the gate guards let him pass; when the waiting crowd complained, a guard silenced them by invoking his name.

Hun Changqing slaughtered Feng Changkong and Yue Ningshuang’s group after they confronted him for killing Liu Ruyan. Meanwhile, Ling Qingzhu was permitted to leave the Nine Heavens Supreme Purity Palace to see him, while her master reported to a mysterious woman that the super sects had found no clues about the person she sought.

• Hun Changqing entered the city and drew attention as rumors spread about his strength and the Talisman Masters he had killed.
• Yue Ningshuang confronted Hun Changqing to avenge Liu Ruyan, with Feng Changkong and their followers backing her.
• Hun Changqing killed Feng Changkong instantly, then pursued and slaughtered Yue Ningshuang’s followers before killing her as she begged for her life.
• Ling Qingzhu admitted to her master that she still could not forget him, and her master allowed her to leave and see him.
• Ling Qingzhu’s master reported to a mysterious woman that scouts had found no unusual activity among the super sects and no clues about the person she sought.

Hun Changqing recovered the powerful spiritual secret technique Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath and learned of a Talisman Master inheritance where many Talisman Masters had gathered. As he headed there, the assembled Talisman Masters worried that the Blood Slaughter Talisman might arrive.

• A noble woman ordered her searchers to keep looking for Hun Changqing while she sought a way back to her own world.
• Hun Changqing mastered the spiritual secret techniques he had collected, then recovered the memory of Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath as his soul healed.
• At the Listening Rain Pavilion, Hun Changqing bought a map to a Talisman Master inheritance and learned that Chen Nan, a six-seal Heavenly Symbol Master, was waiting there.
• After Hun Changqing left, A-Cui told the manager he was the Blood Slaughter Talisman, terrifying her with news of his killings at the ancient hall.
• At the inheritance site, gathered Talisman Masters discussed the nine-seal Heavenly Symbol Master's legacy and feared Hun Changqing might come.

Chen Nan rallied the Talisman Masters against Blood Slaughter Talisman, but his power crushed their attack and killed the crowd. He spared Chen Nan at the last moment and asked whether she was from Talisman Valley.

• Chen Nan promised to kill Blood Slaughter Talisman, then watched him approach after slaughtering people on the outskirts of the ancient city.
• Chen Nan lifted the group’s spirits, persuaded them to pour their spiritual force into her Talisman Artifact, and formed it into the Cold Thought Severing Sword.
• Blood Slaughter Talisman shattered Chen Nan’s sword with Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath, killing the gathered Talisman Masters and grievously injuring Chen Nan.
• Blood Slaughter Talisman approached Chen Nan and placed a hand on her head, causing intense pain before lifting it away and taking her Command Token.
• Blood Slaughter Talisman asked Chen Nan whether she was from Talisman Valley.

Hun Changqing spared Chen Nan and led her into Loose Immortal Yuandu’s inheritance, where he devoured soul-nourishing pills and charged her for the secret techniques she wanted. After they stripped the storeroom of its treasures, Yuandu’s remnant soul appeared before them.

• Hun Changqing spared Chen Nan because she had been selected by Talisman Valley, and he told her he hoped to join the sect.
• The ruins opened to reveal Loose Immortal Yuandu’s inheritance, and Hun Changqing entered the underground palace with Chen Nan following.
• Hun Changqing found soul-nourishing pills in the storeroom and swallowed a handful, while Chen Nan examined Yuandu’s spiritual secret techniques.
• Hun Changqing agreed to let Chen Nan take scrolls in exchange for three Spiritual Force-nourishing pills per scroll, and she accepted the debt.
• After the storeroom was nearly stripped, symbols appeared on the wall and formed the phantom of Loose Immortal Yuandu, who challenged them for taking his belongings.

Chen Nan received Loose Immortal Yuandu’s supposed inheritance, but its light concealed an otherworldly demon soul that possessed her. Hun Changqing caught the demon as it fled and absorbed it, leaving Chen Nan’s fate unresolved.

• Loose Immortal Yuandu offered Chen Nan an inheritance that he claimed could overcome her innate limitations, then faded away after forming a ball of light.
• Hun Changqing allowed Chen Nan to take the inheritance in exchange for three hundred God-Crossing Pills and fifty Immortal Spirit Pills, and Chen Nan signed a Spirit Contract.
• The inheritance’s light turned into an otherworldly demon soul, which invaded Chen Nan’s Niwan Palace and took control of her body.
• The demon fled the ruins in Chen Nan’s body, but Hun Changqing caught her and used Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath to extract the soul.
• Hun Changqing swallowed the demon soul and assimilated its energy.

After recovering from the demon soul’s possession, Chen Nan traveled with Hun Changqing to Myriad Phenomena City for the Hundred Dynasties War’s final trial. At the Nirvana Stele, Song Lei confronted Hun Changqing after seeing him with Chen Nan.

• Chen Nan woke after three days and learned that Hun Changqing had saved her, though she remained angry about the Spirit Contract and her debt.
• Chen Nan and Hun Changqing left for Myriad Phenomena City, where Super Sect personnel enforced order and the Nirvana Stele issued entry seals for the final trial.
• Chen Nan explained the stele’s rankings and Nirvana Seals, and the crowd recognized Hun Changqing and cleared a path for him.
• Song Lei approached Chen Nan, but she hurried after Hun Changqing when he walked away toward the Nirvana Stele.
• Song Lei blocked Hun Changqing and demanded that Chen Nan explain who he was.

Hun Changqing let Song Lei escape after accepting his Spirit-Qi Origin Pill, then went with Chen Nan to inspect the Nirvana Heaven Ranking. Chen Nan found herself publicly slandered over her survival and retaliated against the gossiping crowd.

• Song Lei challenged Hun Changqing, then knelt and begged to become his foster son, offering him a Spirit-Qi Origin Pill in exchange for his life.
• Hun Changqing accepted the pill and let Song Lei leave, prompting Chen Nan to argue with him as they headed to the Nirvana Stele.
• Hun Changqing saw that the Nirvana Heaven Ranking placed him first, Qin Tian second, and Chen Nan third.
• Bystanders spread rumors that Chen Nan survived the massacre at the Talisman Master secret realm by submitting to Hun Changqing.
• Chen Nan heard the gossip and used her spiritual force to slap the slanderers.

Hun Changqing intervened when Qin Shi threatened Lin Dong and the siblings he had rescued, then reunited with Lin Dong in Myriad Phenomena City. After leaving Qin Shi in Lin Dong’s hands, Hun Changqing headed for his inn, while Chen Nan remained irritated by his explanation of their relationship.

• Lin Dong refused Qin Shi’s demand to hand over Su Rou’s inheritance and stood by Su Kui, Su Rou, and Ziyue.
• Hun Changqing stepped between Lin Dong and Qin Shi, subdued Qin Shi, and left him for Lin Dong to deal with.
• Hun Changqing and Lin Dong greeted each other, and Ziyue recognized Hun Changqing as the feared Blood Slaughter Talisman.
• Chen Nan joined them, and Hun Changqing described her as his debtor, provoking her with a remark about repaying the debt with her body or becoming his adoptive daughter.
• Hun Changqing told Lin Dong where to find him and walked toward Myriad Phenomena City without the Enforcement Team stopping him.

Hundred Dynasties Mountain opened, and Hun Changqing chose to hunt among the contestants while Chen Nan climbed ahead. As the Super Sects gathered at the summit and waited for him, Hun Changqing appeared in a surge of blood-red light, his aura shaking the mountain and startling the elders.

• Hun Changqing learned the mountain trial allowed contestants to kill one another, then spared Chen Nan and let her climb ahead while he went to hunt.
• Lin Dong reached the summit after helping his companions earn Heaven Grade Nirvana Seals, but noticed Hun Changqing was missing and Chen Nan had arrived.
• Ling Qingzhu asked the Super Sects to wait for Hun Changqing, while Lin Dong and Chen Nan grew anxious about his absence.
• As the elders prepared to begin the selection, Hun Changqing emerged at the summit entrance in blood-red light, and his overwhelming aura made the Super Sect elders rise in shock.