Chapter Summaries

Hun Changqing reunited with Lin Dong in the Chaotic Demon Sea and revealed that he had recovered his memories. After Huang Ling threatened Gu Mengqi and attacked Lin Dong, Lin Dong defeated him and faced the intervention of Qing Teng, fourth on the Rising Stars Ranking.

• Hun Changqing told Lin Dong that he had recovered his memories but was still the same person who owed him for taking him in.
• Huang Ling threatened to take Hun Changqing as a male attendant and reached for Gu Mengqi, so Lin Dong smashed his arm onto a table and struck him with a wine jug.
• Huang Ling attacked Lin Dong with Tiger Fang Force, but Lin Dong countered with an azure fist and sent him flying.
• Chen Qing and Li Lin moved to defend Huang Ling, while Lin Dong evaded their attacks with startling speed as observers discussed his strength.
• As Lin Dong moved to seize Huang Ling, an attacker struck from behind; Lin Dong blocked the force and recognized the brown-robed man as Qing Teng, ranked fourth on the Rising Stars Ranking.

Lin Dong and Qing Teng halted their fight when Tang Xinlian intervened, but Hun Changqing then confronted Huang Ling and revealed overwhelming power. After Hun Changqing killed Huang Ling and a blue-robed expert, Tang Xinlian regained movement and faced his warning.

• Qing Teng challenged Lin Dong over Huang Ling, and the two exchanged lightning-fast attacks before Tang Xinlian arrived and stopped the fight.
• Hun Changqing stepped forward to settle Huang Ling's earlier insult, but Tang Xinlian ordered him not to fight and tried to threaten him with her power.
• Hun Changqing immobilized Tang Xinlian and disintegrated the blue-robed man when he confronted him.
• Hun Changqing killed Huang Ling by dissolving his body into black blood while Qing Teng withdrew into the crowd.
• Tang Xinlian regained control of her body, and Hun Changqing warned her not to provoke him.

Hun Changqing killed the men who had threatened Huang Ling, then revealed himself as Talisman Valley’s Valley Master and demanded that Mo Luo return his Storage Ring. After recovering the Origin Emperor Qi inside, Hun Changqing confirmed that he came from outside their world, leaving Lin Dong and the others shocked.

• Hun Changqing killed the men who had spoken for Huang Ling and told Tang Xinlian to identify him as the Valley Master of Talisman Valley.
• Tang Xinlian recognized Hun Changqing and led him and Lin Dong to meet Mo Luo, who greeted Hun Changqing deferentially.
• Hun Changqing demanded his Storage Ring, and Tang Xinlian revealed that Mo Luo had given it to her as a birthday gift.
• Hun Changqing recovered the ring and confirmed that the Origin Emperor Qi inside was safe, warning that the Flame Sea Region would have been destroyed if it had been harmed.
• Mo Luo asked whether Hun Changqing came from outside their world, and Hun Changqing confirmed that he did.

Hun Changqing explained his history with the Alien Demons and revealed that his world had once possessed eight powerhouses on the Symbol Ancestor’s level. He agreed to stay at the Flame God Hall to hunt Alien Demons, while Fire Flame City prepared for the tournament, which began as crowds gathered.

• Hun Changqing told Mo Luo and Lin Dong that he had crossed into the Tianxuan Continent through a teleportation formation and that his world had repelled another Alien Demon Emperor with eight Symbol Ancestor-level powerhouses.
• Hun Changqing judged Mo Luo to have barely Half-Saint combat strength, prompting Tang Xinlian to defend her master before Hun Changqing described the vast power gap between their worlds.
• Hun Changqing offered a reward for information about powerful Alien Demons, and Mo Luo persuaded him to stay at the Flame God Hall during the tournament as bait for the demons.
• Tang Xinlian led the Enforcement Team in suppressing disorder in Fire Flame City, while Hun Changqing and Lin Dong rested undisturbed.
• The tournament began, drawing countless experts to the Flame God Hall, where Lin Dong and the other competitors watched the enormous gathering.

Lin Dong entered the Flame God Hall’s Thunder Championship and raced through the Boundless Mirror to Boundless Mountain, where he joined the nine other finalists. As the ten contestants prepared to fight over the Thunder Ancestral Symbol, Mo Luo and a mysterious dark figure watched for the alien demons’ next move.

• Tang Xinlian led the Fire God Guard as Mo Luo opened the championship and revealed the Boundless Mirror and the Thunder Ancestral Symbol atop Boundless Mountain.
• Lin Dong entered the Boundless Mirror, avoided its clashes, and hurried toward Boundless Mountain while intending to draw out powerful alien demons.
• Lin Dong reached the mountain’s base, encountered Tang Xinlian and the suspected alien demon Xu Xiu, then raced for the summit.
• The ten highest-ranked contestants reached the summit, including Lin Dong and Xu Xiu, while Mo Luo identified two contestants as alien demons.
• The ten finalists faced the Thunder Ancestral Symbol at the summit and unleashed hostile auras as a battle threatened to begin.

Xu Xiu killed a challenger and tried to claim the Thunder Ancestral Symbol, prompting Tang Xinlian and Lin Dong to fight him and a suspicious black-robed figure. As the battles intensified, Tang Xinlian was sent flying, leaving her fate uncertain.

• A burly man rushed toward the Thunder Ancestral Symbol, but Xu Xiu killed him with a single attack and intimidated the other challengers.
• Tang Xinlian challenged Xu Xiu, while Lin Dong stopped a suspicious black-robed figure from interfering and began fighting him.
• Tang Xinlian and Xu Xiu fought fiercely as Lin Dong battled the black-robed figure; Mo Luo asked Hun Changqing to arrange for Tang Xinlian to train under his companion, and Hun Changqing agreed to introduce them if the Alien Demons pleased him.
• Tang Xinlian began to lose ground against Xu Xiu, while Lin Dong remained in control of his opponent and prepared to finish the fight and help her.
• The combatants unleashed their strongest attacks, and an energy shock wave sent Tang Xinlian flying.

Lin Dong faced Xu Xiu and Hua Chen alone after Tang Xinlian was gravely wounded, and defeated both Alien Demons by unleashing his strongest techniques. His victory secured the Thunder Ancestral Symbol and left Mo Luo astonished as the planned confrontation became easier to carry out.

• Tang Xinlian lost to Xu Xiu and was left too badly wounded to fight, forcing Lin Dong to face Xu Xiu and the black-robed man together.
• Lin Dong blocked their combined attack with a powerful array, then fought off Xu Xiu while the black-robed man held back the array.
• Xu Xiu and Hua Chen broke their seals, exposed their Alien Demon auras, and greatly increased their power.
• Lin Dong used the Great Desolation Scripture against Xu Xiu and Hua Chen, and the clash left both men unconscious in a huge crater.
• Mo Luo watched Lin Dong win and realized that the next stage of his plan would be much simpler.

After Lin Dong won the tournament, alien demons attacked the Flame God Hall to seize the Thunder Source, triggering a battle between Mo Luo and the Grand Elder against three Alien Demon Kings. Qingzhi arrived to fight the Fifth Palace Lord, while Tang Xinlian returned Lin Dong’s Thunder Source as the battles continued.

• Lin Dong withdrew from the Thunder Source when an enormous rift opened and an Alien Demon King attacked it.
• The Flame God Hall’s Grand Elder blocked the demon’s strike, and Mo Luo joined him as two more Alien Demon Kings emerged.
• The Fifth Palace Lord appeared and exposed Mo Luo’s plan to use the Thunder Ancestral Symbol as bait to draw out Qingzhi.
• Qingzhi emerged and attacked the Fifth Palace Lord, while Mo Luo and the Grand Elder fought the three Alien Demon Kings.
• Tang Xinlian gave Lin Dong his Thunder Source, and he swallowed it back into his body.

Lin Dong completed the Thunder Ancestral Symbol while Qingzhi fought the Fifth Palace Lord and nearly fell after his jade disc failed to kill the demon. Hun Changqing intervened, leaving the Fifth Palace Lord terrified before declaring that Alien Demons were delicacies.

• Lin Dong’s Thunder Ancestral Symbol regained its missing essence and healed his wounds, while Tang Xinlian watched Qingzhi and Mo Luo’s battles with concern.
• Qingzhi unleashed the jade disc’s power, destroying the Fifth Palace Lord’s demon statues and striking him, but the Fifth Palace Lord survived and shattered the disc.
• The injured Qingzhi faced the Fifth Palace Lord’s killing blow as Mo Luo remained calm, waiting for the preparations at Flame God Hall to finish.
• Hun Changqing emerged from the black mist and stopped the Fifth Palace Lord’s halberd, stunning Qingzhi and filling the demon with terror.
• The Fifth Palace Lord asked Hun Changqing whether he intended to oppose the Alien Demons, and Hun Changqing called them rare delicacies.

Hun Changqing killed the Fifth Palace Lord, absorbed his Alien Demon origin, and seized the Space Ancestral Symbol, though a stronger Alien Demon escaped. Afterward, Lin Dong learned that Xiao Yan and Little Marten had been sent to the Demon Region and decided to find them himself.

• Hun Changqing trapped the Fifth Palace Lord in sealed space and killed him as a powerful Alien Demon intervened from a black vortex.
• Hun Changqing absorbed the Fifth Palace Lord's Alien Demon origin and used moonlight to drive off the remaining Alien Demon, retaining the Space Ancestral Symbol.
• Hun Changqing told Lin Dong that the First or Second Palace Lord, both high-rank Dou Shengs, had rescued the Alien Demon, and Lin Dong asked about Ziyue in the Dao Sect.
• Lin Dong explained that he planned to find Xiao Yan and Little Marten, and Hun Changqing revealed that he already knew both of them.
• Qingzhi told Lin Dong that Xiao Yan and Little Marten had likely been teleported to the Demon Region, where their clans could protect them.
• Hun Changqing offered to help Lin Dong reach the Demon Region, but Lin Dong refused and resolved to find his brothers through his own efforts.

Tang Xinlian accepted Hun Changqing’s offer of guidance and left with him, while Lin Dong prepared to enter the Demon Region to find Xiao Yan and reunite with Sky Demon Marten. In the Eastern Xuan Region, the Flame Master awakened the Lord of Primordial and planned to gather the other Masters to reclaim the ancestral symbols from Gu Xun’er and the other outsiders.

• Tang Xinlian agreed to follow Hun Changqing to the Eastern Xuan Region and promised Lin Dong she would challenge him again after becoming stronger.
• Lin Dong told Mo Luo he needed to find Xiao Yan and Sky Demon Marten, and Mo Luo offered a Nine-Tailed Fox Tribe disciple to guide him through the Demon Region.
• Qingzhi and Mo Luo built a spatial teleportation formation, and Lin Dong departed with the young fox guide.
• The Flame Master appeared before Ying Huanhuan in the Dao Sect with the awakened Lord of Primordial and said he had found where several other Masters were sleeping.
• The Flame Master told the Lord of Primordial that outsiders had seized the Ice and Flame Ancestral Symbols, and the two agreed to awaken their fellow disciples before confronting them.

Ying Huanhuan stayed silent after the Flame Master asked her to witness his revenge on Hun Changqing, while Hun Changqing returned to the Nine Heavens Supreme Purity Palace with Tang Xinlian. Gu Xun'er nearly attacked Tang Xinlian, then agreed to train her after privately asking Hun Changqing to pay a price.

• Ying Huanhuan told the Flame Master and Primordial that her reincarnation had gone wrong and her strength had fallen to the Death Profound Realm.
• The Flame Master urged Ying Huanhuan to watch him avenge her by killing Hun Changqing, then left with Primordial to awaken their fellow disciples.
• Hun Changqing brought Tang Xinlian to the Nine Heavens Supreme Purity Palace, where Gu Xun'er confronted him in a furious blaze and nearly killed Tang Xinlian.
• Hun Changqing explained that Tang Xinlian had safeguarded his Storage Ring and that her master wanted her to study fire cultivation under Gu Xun'er.
• Gu Xun'er agreed to train Tang Xinlian but whispered a condition to Hun Changqing, whose expression turned reluctant.

Hun Changqing separated the Desire Demon King from Xuan Su and reconstructed the demon’s body, restoring her strength. After helping her cultivate, he watched her begin a difficult breakthrough, while Xuan Su rejoined them.

• Gu Xun'er agreed to let Tang Xinlian cultivate under her in a month, after Hun Changqing accepted Gu Xun'er's private condition.
• A month later, Hun Changqing used a Soul-Separation Formation to separate the Desire Demon King from Xuan Su and formed a new body for the demon with Alien Demon qi and three-light divine water.
• The Desire Demon King emerged with her reconstructed body, and Hun Changqing sent the Nine Heavens Supreme Purity Palace disciples away after they became entranced by her.
• The Desire Demon King asked Hun Changqing to help her cultivation advance, and Xuan Su awakened and joined them inside.
• Half a month later, the Desire Demon King began gathering pink energy around her lower-abdomen marking, and Hun Changqing realized she was attempting a breakthrough.

Hun Changqing agreed to Gu Xun'er’s price so Tang Xinlian could cultivate under her, then completed the Desire Demon King’s separation from Xuan Su and reshaped her body. After helping the Desire Demon King cultivate, Hun Changqing saw her begin a difficult breakthrough and sent her supreme yin true qi to assist.

• Gu Xun'er agreed to let Tang Xinlian cultivate under her in a month, after Hun Changqing accepted her private condition.
• A month later, Hun Changqing used a Soul-Separation Formation and alien demon qi to separate the Desire Demon King from Xuan Su and create the Desire Demon King a new body.
• The Desire Demon King awakened in her reshaped body, and Hun Changqing sent the Nine Heavens Supreme Purity Palace’s female disciples away after they became captivated by her.
• The Desire Demon King asked Hun Changqing to help advance her cultivation, and he carried her into the pavilion; Xuan Su then awakened and joined them.
• Another half month later, the Desire Demon King began a difficult breakthrough, and Hun Changqing sent her supreme yin true qi to help.

Hun Changqing helped the Desire Demon King break through to the Samsara Stage while Gu Xun'er forced Tang Xinlian through a brutal trial. Tang Xinlian defeated the Fire Python and survived the first day, as the newly advanced Desire Demon King marveled at her power.

• Hun Changqing lent the Desire Demon King Alien Demon Qi, helping her break through to the Samsara Stage.
• Gu Xun'er whipped Tang Xinlian and ordered her to defeat a peak Dou Zong Fire Python or face another lash for every incense stick of delay.
• Tang Xinlian used her Phoenix Spear to destroy the Fire Python despite her injuries, then respectfully reported that she had completed the trial.
• Gu Xun'er saw through Tang Xinlian's concealed resentment, told her to stop hiding her hatred, and warned that tomorrow's punishment would be harsher.
• Hun Changqing observed that Tang Xinlian had survived but chose not to intervene, while the Desire Demon King opened her eyes and celebrated stabilizing her Samsara Stage cultivation.

After the Desire Demon King sensed a Samsara Stage Palace Lord in the Northern Profound Region, Hun Changqing decided to go there but delayed his departure for half a month. The Ancient Eight Masters tracked him to the region and planned to attack, while Ying Huanhuan struggled between warning him and standing with her former comrades.

• The Desire Demon King told Hun Changqing she could sense a brazen Palace Lord in the Northern Region but could not locate the others.
• Hun Changqing decided to travel to the Northern Profound Region, though the Desire Demon King persuaded him to stay with her and Xuan Su for half a month.
• Ying Huanhuan, the Flame Master, the Lord of Primordial, the Space Master, the Life and Death Master, and the Thunder Master traced Hun Changqing's spatial passage.
• Space determined that Hun Changqing had gone to the Northern Profound Region, and the Flame Master proposed waiting to separate and defeat him and his companion.
• Ying Huanhuan silently wrestled with whether to warn Hun Changqing or remain loyal to her fellow Masters as Space opened a rift to the Northern Profound Region.

Hun Changqing reached the Northern Profound Region and learned that Qingtan, now Hall Master of the Darkness Hall, was under threat from powerful factions within her organization. After rescuing one of Qingtan’s supporters, he headed for Darkness City to confront the crisis.

• Hun Changqing and the Desire Demon King crossed into the Northern Profound Region and encountered a wounded girl being hunted by Darkness Hall members.
• Hun Changqing saved the girl from their attack and learned that Qingtan was the current Hall Master and the girl’s leader.
• The girl explained that two Samsara Stage elders had rallied factions against Qingtan and planned to force her to surrender her title and the Darkness Ancestral Talisman at a ceremony in three days.
• Hun Changqing killed the pursuing men who opposed Qingtan and ordered the girl to take him to the Darkness Hall.
• Hun Changqing, the girl, and the Desire Demon King reached Darkness City, where the girl described the ceremony and its gathering of Northern Profound Region factions.

Hun Changqing interrupted the Darkness Hall ceremony by killing several elders who opposed Qingtan, then reunited with her. Qingtan broke down in his arms as the two Grand Supreme Elders watched them with hostility.

• Qingtan presided over a Darkness Hall ceremony while two Grand Supreme Elders plotted to take the Darkness Ancestral Talisman from her.
• Hun Changqing attacked the elders' seats, killing several elders and deacons with a surge of silver light.
• The Grand Supreme Elders demanded to know who had attacked, while Qingtan's followers rushed to protect her.
• Hun Changqing revealed himself, and Qingtan recognized him and ran to embrace him.
• Qingtan sobbed in Hun Changqing's arms, revealing her exhaustion, as the gathered experts and Grand Supreme Elders watched in shock.

Hun Changqing helped Qingtan crush the Darkness Hall coup and secure her authority as Hall Master. Three days later, he reassured her that his returned memories had not changed his feelings for her, and they rekindled their intimacy in her hall.

• Hun Changqing subdued the two Grand Supreme Elders with silver mist and left their punishment to Qingtan.
• Qingtan spared the elders but made them swallow Darkness Sacred Talismans, bringing the coup to an end and securing her control of the Darkness Hall.
• Three days later, Qingtan asked Hun Changqing whether his memories had returned, and he confirmed that they had.
• Hun Changqing reassured Qingtan that his feelings for her remained sincere, and she admitted she had feared he would no longer want her.
• Hun Changqing carried Qingtan to the Hall Master's seat, and they became intimate before he jokingly prepared to continue.

Hun Changqing and his companions tracked a Palace Lord's aura to a city where a naked woman held public cultivation gatherings. The Desire Demon King revealed the woman was a puppet used by the Seventh Palace Lord to harvest desire, and Hun Changqing decided to capture her and uncover the Palace Lord's location.

• Hun Changqing, Qingtan, and the Desire Demon King arrived in a chaotic city in the Northern Profound Region to investigate a Palace Lord's aura.
• The trio found a naked woman presiding over a crowded cultivation gathering, where men took turns approaching her.
• The Desire Demon King explained that the woman was a puppet made from a gifted Human Clan woman and that the hidden Seventh Palace Lord absorbed the crowd's wicked thoughts and desire.
• Hun Changqing watched the gathering, detected spiritual force that weakened the participants, and realized the woman was harvesting their energy.
• Hun Changqing stopped watching and released an icy chill throughout the city as he prepared to capture the puppet and force her to reveal the Seventh Palace Lord.