Chapter Summaries

Hun Changqing arrived at the final Hundred Dynasties War trial after reaching the life profound realm, shocking the contestants and sect elders. As the arena matches began, Song Lei used Hun Changqing’s name to win a difficult fight, while Lin Dong defeated Lin Langtian in a brutal act of revenge.

• Hun Changqing arrived at the summit in time for the trial, revealed he had reached the life profound realm, and reunited with Lin Dong as Ling Qingzhu watched him.
• Song Lei offered Hun Changqing a Spirit-Nourishing, Origin-Clearing Pill, which Hun Changqing accepted before allowing Song Lei to use his name out in the world.
• The elders began the arena matches, while the contestants struggled to overcome the discouragement caused by Hun Changqing’s overwhelming strength.
• Song Lei warned a stronger opponent that Hun Changqing was watching, seized the hesitation this caused, and won the match with a decisive sword strike.
• Lin Dong overwhelmed Lin Langtian and killed him after inflicting the suffering Lin Langtian had once caused Lin Dong’s father.

After fulfilling his revenge, Lin Dong felt freed to pursue cultivation for himself, while Hun Changqing unexpectedly reunited with Xuan Su during the Hundred Dynasties War. The reunion was interrupted when powerful invaders from the Western Xuan Region appeared and threatened to seize the contestants, setting up a confrontation with Hun Changqing among them.

• Lin Dong reflected on his revenge and resolved to cultivate for greater horizons, while Ziyue quietly stayed beside him.
• Hun Changqing answered the arena call and recognized his challenger as Xuan Su, who confessed that she had missed him and trained to become worthy of standing before him.
• Xuan Su ignored the Desire Demon King's angry rebuke, and she and Hun Changqing descended from the arena together, provoking jealousy in Ling Qingzhu and Chen Nan.
• Black clouds spread over the mountaintop as experts from the Western Xuan Region arrived and declared they would take the contestants as recruits or pill slaves.
• The Western Xuan Region elders sent their nine-Yuan Nirvana Realm experts to attack the contestants, while the Eight Great Super Sect elders remained confident because Hun Changqing was present.

Xuan Su defeated three nine-yuan Nirvana Realm experts with her charm and whip as the Western Xuan Region attackers withdrew. After the elders descended to recruit the geniuses, Hun Changqing chose Talisman Valley and revealed his Spiritual Force.

• The Western Xuan Region experts attacked the summit while their elders fought the Eight Great Elders, and an effeminate young man charged at Hun Changqing and Xuan Su after lusting after her.
• Xuan Su used her charm and black whip to beat the young man to death, then killed his two companions when they tried to flee.
• The Eight Great Elders gained an opening as the Western Xuan Region elders retreated and escaped through a spatial tunnel.
• The super sect elders descended to recruit the geniuses, and Hun Changqing chose Talisman Valley, explaining that he was a Talisman Master and revealing his Spiritual Force.

Hun Changqing and Xuan Su joined the Talisman Valley after the Hundred Dynasties War, and Hun Changqing was welcomed as an elder. After arriving in the Talisman Realm, he chose the Cosmos Hall over the Mysterious Hall and its powerful cultivation scripture.

• Hun Changqing revealed overwhelming spiritual force, then chose the Talisman Valley, and Xuan Su declared she would join him.
• The contestants joined their chosen sects, and the Talisman Valley elder led Hun Changqing and Xuan Su through a teleportation formation to the Talisman Realm.
• Fu Che welcomed Hun Changqing and offered him an elder's position, asking him to choose among the Talisman Valley's three halls.
• The Mysterious Hall elder described the difficult Spirit Wonder Yuan Immortal Scripture and invited Hun Changqing to join his hall.
• Hun Changqing said he would not change his cultivation method and chose the Cosmos Hall.

Hun Changqing joined the Cosmos Hall and spent three months recovering his soul before asking Xuan Su’s Desire Demon King to help disguise the demonic energy he had refined. After accepting an assignment to lead Talisman Valley’s visit to the Dao Sect, he prepared to test his new disguise away from the elders’ scrutiny.

• Hun Changqing chose the Cosmos Hall over the Mysterious Hall, while Xuan Su joined him and Chen Nan became a provisional core disciple of the Mysterious Hall.
• Three months later, Hun Changqing went to Xuan Su and asked her to let the Desire Demon King speak with him about disguising his demonic energy.
• The Desire Demon King explained how Xuan Su’s cultivation method could help disguise the energy, and Hun Changqing threatened her until she agreed to help.
• Xuan Su agreed to help Hun Changqing cultivate, and the two became intimate.
• With the Desire Demon King’s help, Hun Changqing refined a more convincing Alien Demon aura.
• Hun Changqing accepted an invitation to lead Talisman Valley’s delegation to the Dao Sect, where Lin Dong was staying.

Hun Changqing took an interest in Ying Huanhuan’s unusually pure yin qi and empowered Chen Nan to challenge her at the Dao Sect. Lin Dong arrived before their match, reunited with Hun Changqing, and revealed their family connection; Ying Huanhuan and Chen Nan then prepared to fight.

• Hun Changqing watched Ying Huanhuan defeat a Hongya Cave disciple and sensed unusually pure yin qi within her.
• Hun Changqing lent Chen Nan spiritual force and ordered her to challenge Ying Huanhuan and force her to reveal her trump cards.
• Chen Nan challenged Ying Huanhuan, who agreed to fight after recovering from her previous match.
• Lin Dong arrived with Ziyue and took responsibility for the remaining challenges, then greeted Hun Changqing across the platform.
• Ziyue explained that Hun Changqing was Lin Dong’s family and had won the Hundred Dynasties War; Ying Huanhuan reacted with disbelief.
• Ying Huanhuan returned to the arena after recovering, and she and Chen Nan prepared to begin their match.

Hun Changqing forced Chen Nan to push Ying Huanhuan to the brink, triggering the awakening of her past life as the Ice Master. After learning about Ying Huanhuan’s identity, Hun Changqing agreed to the Desire Demon King’s plan to draw Alien Demons to the Dao Sect, and the chapter ended as black mist engulfed Dao Mountain.

• Chen Nan attacked Ying Huanhuan while Hun Changqing blocked the Dao Sect elders and prevented Lin Dong from intervening.
• Chen Nan struck Ying Huanhuan again, awakening a vast surge of icy blue energy that froze Dao Mountain.
• Hun Changqing withdrew the barrier, ended the match, and left Ying Huanhuan in the elders’ care while she underwent a transformation.
• The Desire Demon King revealed that Ying Huanhuan was the reincarnation of the Ice Master and proposed using an Alien Demon attack to create chaos at the Dao Sect; Hun Changqing agreed.
• As the Dao Sect and visiting sects waited for Ying Huanhuan to awaken, black mist covered Dao Mountain and the gathered elders recognized the arrival of Alien Demons.

Hun Changqing helped the Dao Sect repel an Alien Demon invasion while secretly profiting from the slaughter, and the Desire Demon King abducted Ying Huanhuan after discovering she was the Ice Master’s reincarnation. Back in Talisman Valley, its master Fu Ming confronted Hun Changqing over the Dao Sect’s accusations that he had colluded with the Alien Demons.

• Alien Demons invaded Dao Mountain, and Hun Changqing led the Talisman Valley disciples into battle while secretly devouring souls to strengthen himself.
• The Desire Demon King trapped the elders guarding Ying Huanhuan in an illusion and abducted her before the elders could return.
• The Dao Sect and allied sects repelled the Alien Demons, but the Dao Sect elders suspected Hun Changqing had helped cause Ying Huanhuan’s disappearance.
• Hun Changqing left Dao Mountain with Xuan Su and returned to Talisman Valley, where he refined the souls he had gathered.
• Fu Ming summoned Hun Changqing and told him the Dao Sect accused him of colluding with the Alien Demons because he had earlier targeted Ying Huanhuan.

Fu Ming brought Hun Changqing before the Eight Great Super Sects to answer accusations that he colluded with the Alien Demons. Hun Changqing denied the charge but admitted to his selfish interest in Ying Huanhuan, and the meeting ended without evidence of betrayal, leaving Ying Xuanzi to return and search for her.

• Fu Ming told Hun Changqing that the Dao Sect demanded a meeting with the Eight Great Super Sects, and Hun Changqing agreed to attend.
• Fu Ming and Hun Changqing arrived at the council hall, where Ying Xuanzi confronted Hun Changqing about his connection to the Alien Demons.
• Hun Changqing blamed the Dao Sect for the conflict and admitted that he had tested Ying Huanhuan's hidden icy energy because he hoped to seize it.
• Hun Changqing claimed he had not known Ying Huanhuan was the Ice Master and openly said he would have killed her to take her power.
• Ren Yuanzi concluded that there was no evidence Hun Changqing had colluded with the Alien Demons, and the other sect leaders left the meeting.
• Fu Ming rejected Ying Xuanzi's demand for an explanation and called for compensation for Talisman Valley's losses, while Ying Xuanzi departed to search for Ying Huanhuan.

Hun Changqing awakened the Ice Master, only to discover that her strength remained at Ying Huanhuan’s level and that the Ice Ancestral Symbol was bound to her life. Unable to extract it without killing her and destroying the symbol, he considered killing her, but the Desire Demon King suggested she might have a solution.

• Hun Changqing met the Desire Demon King at a hidden cave, where she had restrained Ying Huanhuan with Reincarnation Chains to conceal and halt her awakening.
• Hun Changqing ordered the Desire Demon King to stop supplying energy to the chains, and Ying Huanhuan awakened as the Ice Master but could not break free.
• The Desire Demon King explained that the Ice Master’s sacrifice had damaged her true spirit, leaving her with Ying Huanhuan’s cultivation and preventing her from using the sealed Ice Ancestral Symbol.
• Hun Changqing searched the Ice Master’s soul and tried to pull out the Ice Ancestral Symbol, but discovered that extracting it would kill her and destroy the symbol.
• Hun Changqing considered killing the Ice Master, and the Desire Demon King approached him, saying she might have a way to obtain the symbol.

Hun Changqing used the Desire Demon King's method to break the Ice Master's bond with the Ice Ancestral Symbol, then refined it into the Extreme Yin Ancestral Symbol and advanced his cultivation. The Ice Master awoke devastated and begged him to kill her, while Hun Changqing considered whether to grant her wish.

• The Desire Demon King proposed inflaming the Ice Master's desire to loosen her Niwan Palace, and Hun Changqing agreed to the plan.
• The Desire Demon King filled the Ice Master with desire, and the freed Ice Master rushed Hun Changqing before he pulled the Desire Demon King into the encounter as well.
• Hun Changqing extracted the Ice Ancestral Symbol, transformed it into the Extreme Yin Ancestral Symbol, and refined it as his Extreme Yin Yuan Force reached the peak of the Life Profound Realm.
• The Ice Master woke, recovered memories of what had happened, realized her ancestral symbol was gone, and broke down in despair.
• The Desire Demon King celebrated her cultivation breakthrough, while the Ice Master begged Hun Changqing to kill her and he considered whether to do so.

Hun Changqing spared the Ice Master, then returned to Talisman Valley and found it devastated by an attack linked to the Yuan Sect and the Alien Demons. Before dying, Fu Ming entrusted him with Talisman Valley’s surviving souls and its leadership, and Hun Changqing agreed to become its master.

• Hun Changqing sensed Ying Xuanzi and other Dao Sect experts approaching, spared the Ice Master, and left with the Desire Demon King; the Ice Master chose to dress and live.
• Ying Xuanzi found Ying Huanhuan, who told him she was still herself despite the Ice Master's memories, and he rejoiced at having his daughter back.
• Hun Changqing and the Desire Demon King returned to Talisman Valley and found its grounds devastated by an Alien Demon attack.
• Fu Ming explained that the Yuan Sect had joined the Alien Demons and attacked Talisman Valley after forcing Lin Dong to flee.
• Fu Ming admitted he had suspected Hun Changqing needed souls, and offered him the souls of Talisman Valley's dead in exchange for becoming its master.
• Hun Changqing agreed, and Fu Ming turned into his Soul Origin, leaving behind the valley master's Command Token and a Qiankun Bag containing the souls.

Hun Changqing was surrounded by the great sects and accused of betraying humanity and destroying Talisman Valley. As Tian Yuanzi pressed his attack, Ling Qingzhu intervened, and Hun Changqing asked her to help refine Talisman Valley’s Spiritual Force essences as his last chance to survive.

• Tian Yuanzi accused Hun Changqing of colluding with the alien demons and destroying Talisman Valley, then trapped him and the Desire Demon King in a fiery cage.
• Hun Changqing resisted Tian Yuanzi’s attacks, while the Desire Demon King was badly wounded and fell into a crater.
• Ling Qingzhu stepped in front of Hun Changqing, prompting the Nine Heavens Supreme Purity Palace’s palace master to block Tian Yuanzi’s next attack.
• Tian Yuanzi ordered Ren Yuanzi and Di Yuanzi to restrain the palace master, who agreed to keep her sect out of the fight to protect Ling Qingzhu.
• Hun Changqing showed Ling Qingzhu the Spiritual Force essences from Talisman Valley and asked her to transfer Yuan Force to him so he could refine them.

After swallowing the souls, Hun Changqing survived Tian Yuanzi’s attack and fully awakened, revealing overwhelming strength. He trapped and drained the gathered sect masters, then faced an azure-robed man who tried to stop his Black Demon Lightning.

• Ling Qingzhu gave Hun Changqing all her Yuan Force as he refined the swallowed souls, while Tian Yuanzi flung her aside and struck Hun Changqing with a Heaven-Raising Giant Finger.
• Hun Changqing emerged unharmed from the silver light, and Tian Yuanzi realized he had awakened with the strength of a Samsara Stage expert.
• Hun Changqing summoned black wooden trunks that imprisoned the sect masters and drained their vitality, sparing only the Nine Heavens Supreme Purity Palace.
• Hun Changqing called down Black Demon Lightning against the trapped sect masters, but an azure dragon claw appeared from the void to intercept it.
• The Black Demon Lightning wounded the handsome azure-robed man who emerged from the void, and Hun Changqing watched him appear.

Hun Changqing confronted Qingzhi, who tried to protect the trapped sect leaders but was repeatedly deceived by Hun Changqing’s techniques and made to strike them. As Qingzhi’s mysterious reinforcements arrived, Hun Changqing waited to see what power they would bring.

• Qingzhi apologized for the sect leaders and demanded that Hun Changqing spare them, but Hun Changqing refused and challenged him to fight.
• Qingzhi transformed his body with dragon power and attacked Hun Changqing, only to strike Tian Yuanzi when Hun Changqing’s illusion changed his target.
• Hun Changqing used silver yin energy to slow Qingzhi and then tricked him into striking Di Yuanzi, while threatening to kill the remaining leaders himself.
• Hun Changqing reflected on the Ancestral Symbols he coveted and chose to spare Qingzhi because Qingzhi was Lin Dong’s master, while making him suffer for trying to interfere.
• Qingzhi urged Ling Cai to summon help, and Ling Cai sensed that the powerful presence they had called had arrived.

Gu Xun'er arrived as Hun Changqing killed the sect leaders, but she refused to intervene. Ren Yuanzi summoned the Fourth Hall King, who attacked Hun Changqing and then targeted Ying Huanhuan; Hun Changqing saved her, provoking Gu Xun'er’s anger.

• Gu Xun'er arrived in a sea of golden flames, and Qingzhi and Ling Cai greeted her while Hun Changqing prepared to finish killing the sect leaders.
• Gu Xun'er refused Qingzhi's plea to protect the Eastern Xuan Region, and Hun Changqing's black trees absorbed the remaining sect leaders.
• Ren Yuanzi summoned the Fourth Hall King, who revealed the Yuan Sect's alliance with the Alien Demons and tried to recruit Hun Changqing.
• Hun Changqing rejected the Fourth Hall King's offer and unleashed his powers, prompting the Fourth Hall King to attack Ying Huanhuan instead of facing him directly.
• Hun Changqing saved Ying Huanhuan from the descending palm, and Gu Xun'er watched with a darkening expression as a fierce aura emerged around her.

Hun Changqing enlisted Gu Xun'er to capture the fleeing Fourth Hall King, then devoured his demonic qi and explained how he and Gu Xun'er had ended up on the Tianxuan Continent. As they left for her sect, he rescued the Desire Demon King, prompting Gu Xun'er to grow jealous again.

• Hun Changqing asked Gu Xun'er to stop the Fourth Hall King, and she trapped him in golden flames and brought him back.
• Hun Changqing crushed the Fourth Hall King and devoured his demonic qi, shocking Qingzhi and the others.
• Hun Changqing sent Ying Xuanzi and Ying Huanhuan away, then discussed his past with Gu Xun'er and how he had protected her when they arrived on the Tianxuan Continent.
• Gu Xun'er invited Hun Changqing to the Nine Heavens Supreme Purity Palace, where she had been recovering and guarding the sect.
• Hun Changqing rescued the badly wounded Desire Demon King with three-light divine water, and Gu Xun'er reacted with jealousy.

Yan Shi, the Flame Master, found Ying Huanhuan and learned that Hun Changqing had taken the Ice Ancestral Symbol, so he insisted on confronting him with Ying Huanhuan accompanying him. At Hun Changqing’s palace, Gu Xun’er recognized Yan Shi’s brow mark as the Yan Clan emblem, leaving him stunned by the possibility of his unknown origins.

• Ying Huanhuan recognized the red-haired visitor at the Dao Sect as Yan Shi, and the two went to the Back Mountain to speak privately.
• Yan Shi discovered that Ying Huanhuan no longer carried the Ice Ancestral Symbol and demanded to know who had taken it.
• Ying Huanhuan warned Yan Shi that he could not defeat Hun Changqing, but agreed to accompany him after he vowed to retrieve the symbol.
• Hun Changqing left Gu Xun’er when the Extreme Yin Ancestral Symbol reacted to the arrival of Ying Huanhuan and Yan Shi outside the Nine Heavens Supreme Purity Palace.
• Gu Xun’er identified the mark on Yan Shi’s brow as the Yan Clan emblem, and Yan Shi demanded that she explain what it meant.

Gu Xun'er defeated the Flame Master, refined the Fire Ancestral Symbol, and spared him after Hun Changqing bargained for his life with heavenly flames and information. The story then shifted to Lin Dong, who arrived at the Flame Sea Region to meet Mo Luo and help plan against the alien demons.

• Gu Xun'er overpowered the Flame Master, whose Fire Ancestral Symbol submitted to her flames, and she refined it after erasing its intelligence.
• Ying Huanhuan pleaded with Hun Changqing to save Yan Shi, and he offered Gu Xun'er three sea heart flames and information about the first-ranked heavenly flame in exchange for the Flame Master's life.
• Gu Xun'er accepted the bargain and released the immobilized Flame Master to Ying Huanhuan, then learned from Hun Changqing that the foremost heavenly flame was called emperor flame.
• Lin Dong arrived at the Flame Sea Region after refining the Thunder Ancestral Symbol and gaining the Thunder Scepter, intending to meet Mo Luo and help plan against the alien demons.

Lin Dong arrived at Fire Flame City for the Flame God Hall’s tournament and reunited with the Gu Family women, then confronted Huang Ling when he pressured Gu Mengqi. Huang Ling’s allies Chen Qing and Li Lin joined the dispute, but Lin Dong was interrupted by the arrival of a familiar, beautiful figure.

• Lin Dong and his companions entered Fire Flame City and the Guest Reception Pavilion, where contestants had gathered for the tournament.
• Lin Dong reunited with Gu Mengqi and the other two Gu Family women and learned Huang Ling had harassed Gu Mengqi during their voyage.
• Huang Ling approached Gu Mengqi and pressed her to join him, prompting Lin Dong to challenge his behavior.
• Huang Ling recognized Lin Dong and provoked him over his position on the Rookie Ranking, while Chen Qing and Li Lin joined Huang Ling and taunted Lin Dong.
• A familiar voice called out to Lin Dong, and he turned to see a beautiful woman he recognized.