Recaps

Xiao Hua led the Creation Sect in defeating the Shanghua Sect forces and discussed the past and their sects with Zhang Qingxiao. After identifying Shanshengzi and True Person Du'e as the Nascent Soul cultivators who had hunted him, Xiao Hua went with Zhang Qingxiao to Xihua Peak to see Xiao Xianrui.

• Tens of thousands of Creation Sect disciples overwhelmed the Shanghua Sect and Hundred Herbs Sect forces, while Xiao Hua and Zhang Qingxiao discussed Xiao Hua’s survival and their plans for the Heavenly Demon Sect and Creation Sect.
• Zhang Qingxiao explained that he had merged a wounded child with Ye Yin, who had sacrificed himself to save the child, and Xiao Hua learned why Ye Yin had taken that name.
• Xiao Hua identified Shanshengzi of the Ascension Gate and True Person Du'e of the Immortal Music Sect as the two Nascent Soul cultivators who had pursued him.
• Xiao Hua said Shang Hua Ming was not suitable for restoration and ordered Zhang Qingxiao to withdraw the Heavenly Demon Sect disciples while the remaining Hundred Herbs Sect disciples stayed.
• Zhang Qingxiao withdrew his guards from Xihua Peak and left Xiao Xianrui’s safety in Xiao Hua’s hands.

Xiao Hua reunited with Xiao Xianrui and told her that Jiang Liuer had become the Xuanji Merit Buddha in another realm. He recounted Jiang Liuer’s journey through the Pure Land and Cangxian Continent, leaving Xiao Xianrui with news of her son but unable to see him.

• Zhang Qingxiao brought Xiao Hua to the medicinal garden, where Xiao Xianrui asked at once about Jiang Liuer.
• Xiao Hua told Xiao Xianrui that Jiang Liuer was safe, had attained Buddhahood as the Xuanji Merit Buddha, and could not return because he was no longer in Xiaoyu Continent.
• Yuan Ya greeted Xiao Xianrui and praised Chunzang’s pilgrimage, lifting her spirits before he stood guard outside the garden.
• Xiao Hua and Zhang Qingxiao entered the simple tent where Xiao Xianrui had kept Jiang Liuer’s childhood belongings.
• Xiao Hua recounted his journey and Jiang Liuer’s Buddhist pilgrimage in detail, explaining that Jiang Liuer was now revered by countless believers and protected by gods and Buddhas.

Xiao Hua reunited with Xiao Xianrui and Zhang Qingxiao, explaining Jiang Liuer’s journey and the World-Ending Mayflies threatening the Three Great Continents. He enlisted Zhang Qingxiao’s help to find a way through the ancient formation and proposed establishing the Creation Sect at Huanghua Ridge, leaving the decision to Xiao Xianrui and Zhang Qingxiao.

• Xiao Hua told Xiao Xianrui and Zhang Qingxiao that Jiang Liuer’s westward journey would bring him back to Huanghua Ridge through an immortal formation, and revealed the World-Ending Mayflies’ threat.
• Xiao Hua gave Xiao Xianrui and Zhang Qingxiao Immortal Peaches to restore their lifespans, then recounted parts of his travels through the Myriad Monster Realm and Yilin Continent.
• After Zhang Qingxiao realized Jiang Liuer also faced danger, Xiao Hua reassured him that Creation Sect disciples and Buddhist leaders would protect Liuer.
• Zhang Qingxiao urged Xiao Hua to break the formation between the Three Great Continents and Xiaoyu Continent, and issued a Heavenly Demon Token to seek information about it.
• Xiao Hua revealed that he led the Creation Sect and that it now occupied Huanghua Ridge, then explained Ming Hua’s connection to Shang Hua Ming and asked Xiao Xianrui and Zhang Qingxiao to decide whether the Creation Sect should be established there.

Xiao Hua brought Xiao Xianrui and Zhang Qingxiao to the Creation Sect’s new gathering place, where they learned how the sect was organizing its mountain gate. Zhang Qingxiao gave Xiao Hua information about the Creation Sect on the Xiaoyu Continent, revealing that it had grown into a sprawling alliance whose founders were losing control.

• Xiao Hua introduced Xiong Yi and Li Xiang as Creation Sect leaders, and they explained that Xiao Hua was the sect’s Grand Master alongside nine other Human Race Supremes.
• Xiao Xianrui asked that the medicinal garden at Xihua Peak be preserved for Liu'er, and Xiong Yi and Li Xiang agreed to keep the peaks as Shang Hua Ming’s mountain gate while searching for a larger site.
• Xiao Hua used the Kunlun Mirror to send out Creation Sect disciples from the Kunlun Immortal Realm, then asked Zhang Qingxiao about the sect’s development on the Xiaoyu Continent.
• Zhang Qingxiao gave Xiao Hua jade slips describing the Creation Sect and said he had secretly investigated it to protect Xiao Hua’s reputation.
• Xiao Hua discovered that Zhong Zhan had betrayed the Creation Sect and founded a rival sect, while Qin Ji and Zhong Pei had disappeared with the storage bags.
• Zhang Qingxiao explained that many small sects founded by Rogue Cultivators had adopted the Creation Sect name, attracting the attention of major factions that coveted Xiao Hua’s reputation.

Xiao Hua discussed the mystery of how he had arrived on Xiaoyu Continent and learned that two Dividing Spirit cultivators had sealed and searched his soul. Zhang Qingxiao suspected the Immortal-Demon War at Demon Subduing Valley was connected and set out to find its participant roster, while Xiao Hua briefly left by spatial escape.

• Xiao Hua told Xiao Xianrui and Zhang Qingxiao that two Dividing Spirit cultivators had sealed his middle dantian and Niwan Palace and searched his soul after he crossed into Xiaoyu Continent.
• Xiao Xianrui and Zhang Qingxiao connected Xiao Hua's arrival to the Immortal-Demon War at Demon Subduing Valley, though Xiao Hua rejected Zhang Qingxiao's guess that he was of the Devil Race.
• Zhang Qingxiao said his pawn Zhang Zhihao could obtain the roster of cultivators who participated in the war, and he decided to go retrieve it himself.
• Xiao Xianrui agreed to have the Hundred Herbs Sect disciples submit to the Creation Sect and flew toward Minsi Peak.
• Xiao Hua left Yuan Ya with Zhang Qingxiao and used spatial escape to head toward Jingbo City.

Xiao Hua and Zhang Qingxiao entered Demon Subduing Valley, where they encountered the battlefield’s lingering blood, damaged restrictions, and dangerous spatial rifts. They reached the valley’s deepest area, where Xiao Hua saw a planar barrier enclosing a violent mist and a tiny hollow leaking black qi and flames.

• Xiao Hua asked Zhang Qingxiao to lead him to Demon Subduing Valley after failing to find traces of the Zhu family in Jingbo City.
• Zhang Qingxiao pointed out the valley entrance, and Xiao Hua bypassed the Golden Core guards and brought Zhang Qingxiao and Yuan Ya inside.
• Xiao Hua and Zhang Qingxiao observed the valley’s bloodstained rocks, damaged talismans, violent Primordial Qi, and remnants of the Immortal-Demon War.
• Xiao Hua shattered a spatial crack before it struck Zhang Qingxiao, then flew with him and Yuan Ya deeper into the valley through further spatial rifts.
• Xiao Hua reached the valley’s deepest area and saw a blood-red mist bound by planar restraints, with a hollow at its core leaking black qi and black flames.

Xiao Hua confronted Zhang Qingxiao about his love for Xiao Xianrui and revealed that he had brought him to Demon Subduing Valley to make him face his fading humanity. Zhang Qingxiao confessed his feelings and his burden of vengeance, and Xiao Xianrui arrived and kissed him.

• Zhang Qingxiao recoiled from the Devil Realm’s laws, and Xiao Hua questioned him about his Di Luo Beast nature and lingering love for Senior Sister.
• Xiao Hua told Zhang Qingxiao that Cai Zhuoxia had been revived, but Master and Eldest Senior Brother were truly dead beyond his ability to save.
• Zhang Qingxiao admitted he was exhausted from carrying Shang Hua Ming’s blood debt and vowed that his love for Junior Sister mattered more than possessing her.
• Zhang Qingxiao confessed that he was becoming one of the Devil Race and had come to Huanghua Ridge hoping to see Xiao Xianrui once more without being seen.
• Xiao Xianrui kissed Zhang Qingxiao, and the two embraced before asking how she had been brought to Demon Subduing Valley.

Xiao Hua helped Zhang Qingxiao and Xiao Xianrui settle their feelings before Zhang Qingxiao entered demonhood, then arranged for Zhang Qingxiao to become Demon Venerable Slayer’s disciple. The chapter ended with Zhang Qingxiao meeting his new senior brother, Dragon God Son, as Dragon God Son transformed his devil body.

• Xiao Hua urged Zhang Qingxiao and Xiao Xianrui to speak plainly and said Zhang Qingxiao would soon enter demonhood, while Xiao Xianrui believed Xiao Hua was leaving for the Immortal Realm.
• Xiao Hua used the Kunlun Mirror to send Feng Wu to take Xiao Xianrui back, then told Zhang Qingxiao he could still visit her at Xi Hua Peak Medicine Garden while settling his mortal wishes.
• Xiao Hua revealed that Demon Venerable Slayer was a Master of the Sect of the Creation Sect, and Demon Venerable Slayer accepted Zhang Qingxiao as his second disciple and gave him Qiu Yin Liu.
• Demon Venerable Slayer showed Zhang Qingxiao the damaged devil body of Demon Venerable Ju, inspiring Zhang Qingxiao to vow to cultivate to the Demon Venerable realm.
• Xiao Hua introduced Dragon God Son as Demon Venerable Slayer’s eldest disciple, and Dragon God Son greeted Zhang Qingxiao as his junior brother while continuing to transform his devil body.

Xiao Hua prepared Zhang Qingxiao to leave with Feng Wu, warning him that Ji Peng was at large and giving him Demon Venerable Slayer’s protection. Xiao Hua and Demon Venerable Slayer then discussed crossing the boundary into the Demon Realm, where Feng Wu questioned whether the passage truly led to another realm.

• Dragon God Son asked Demon Venerable Slayer to avoid disturbing his recovery and to break through into the Demon Realm, and Xiao Hua stored him in the Kunlun Mirror.
• Demon Venerable Slayer gave Zhang Qingxiao cultivation techniques, while Xiao Hua arranged for Feng Wu to take him away to search for Zhang Zhihao and Xiao Hua’s list of enemies.
• Xiao Hua warned Zhang Qingxiao that Ji Peng had reached Demon Marshal strength and was missing; Demon Venerable Slayer planted a Demon Sight in Zhang Qingxiao to summon help if he faced danger.
• After Zhang Qingxiao left, Xiao Hua and Demon Venerable Slayer discussed the Demon Realm and tested whether Demon Venerable Slayer could cross its boundary barrier.
• Demon Venerable Slayer said he could reach the Demon Realm through the passage, and Xiao Hua asked him to conceal the barrier and keep demons from harassing Xiaoyu Continent.
• Feng Wu returned and asked Xiao Hua whether he was certain that he had crossed realms and entered from this place.

Xiao Hua learned that the Thunder Control Sect was in trouble and sent Feng Wu to help, then descended into the foothills of Demon Subduing Valley to investigate his memories. Meanwhile, Zhang Qingxiao realized that Fairy Hongxia’s engagement ceremony in Xuntian City had become the focus of competing schemes, while Xiao Hua headed toward the Thunder Control Sect and arrived as its guards challenged approaching flying boats.

• Xiao Hua recalled being captured and sealed during the Immortal-Demon War, then concluded that Xiaohei and Xiaohuang had arrived in different places.
• After reading a message about the Thunder Control Sect, Xiao Hua asked Feng Wu to go there and told Demon Venerable Slayer to prepare to take Dragon God Son and Zhang Qingxiao to the Demon Realm.
• Zhang Qingxiao received a message about Fairy Hongxia’s proposed engagement to the young master of the Ye family and deduced that several powers planned to use the ceremony to seize influence over the Three Cultivation Kingdoms.
• Zhang Qingxiao decided not to send Xiao Hua another message, reasoning that the summons order would reach him at the Thunder Control Sect.
• Several flying boats approached the Thunder Control Sect, and a Foundation Establishment cultivator ordered their passengers to land and identify themselves.

Kan Xu returned to the Thunder Control Sect with ten disciples and learned that the Hundred Halls Competition was nearing its final stage. He discovered the eight Thunder Competition Grounds and heard how they had been formed, while Kan Bo encouraged Zhou Hong and gave him a Foundation Establishment Pill.

• Kan Xu presented his token at the sect gate, where a patrolling disciple explained that the Hundred Halls Competition would determine which halls and branches remained.
• Kan Xu dismissed the competition as a distraction, then returned to the sect with his disciples aboard the flying boat.
• Kan Xu and his disciples saw eight vast lightning formations above the Lei Mo Mountain Range, each holding battles for the competition.
• Kan Bo greeted Kan Xu, comforted Zhou Hong over missing his chance to establish his foundation, and gave him his last Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Kan Bo explained that the Thunder Competition Ground was one formation space divided into eight parts by the masters of the Eight Great Thunder Palaces.

During the Hundred Halls Competition, Myriad Thunder Valley’s disciples fought to avoid being cleared out, and Xi Tuo’s draw against Zhen Gan secured their standing. The chapter ended with Zhuo reassured that Myriad Thunder Valley was safe because of both its results and Ganlei Zi’s Sect Leader Token.

• Kan Bo told Kan Xu that Fen Yu Mountain’s poor results could lead to its removal and directed him to the competition ground.
• At Zhen Thunder Palace’s Thunder Competition Ground, Xi Tuo and Zhen Gan nearly killed each other before a lightning strike forced their match to end in a draw.
• Zhen Quan treated the injured Xi Tuo, who told Zhuo that Myriad Thunder Valley would not be cleared out.
• Dui Qimeng gave Zhen Quan pills to help repair Xi Tuo’s damaged Dao Foundation, while Yan Qinglian also offered medicine.
• Yan Qinglian told Zhuo that Myriad Thunder Valley had placed in the upper-middle range and was protected by Ganlei Zi’s Sect Leader Token.

Xiangyang reflected on Myriad Thunder Valley’s decline after Wunai and Xue Xue vanished, and on how the surviving disciples had endured hardship and performed well in the Hundred Halls Competition. The chapter then recounted how Xiang Zhili, Wu Qing, and Cui Yingying rose to prominence as the Myriad Thunder Valley Three Heroes, leaving their story at the height of their early reputation.

• Wunai returned from Great Thunder Hall with Ganlei Zi’s order for Xiao Hua to return, but soon left with Xue Xue and never came back; their Life Spirit Tablets later shattered.
• Myriad Thunder Valley struggled with scarce supplies and recruitment, though True Person Leixiao’s decree helped Zhuo recruit a few fourth-generation disciples.
• Xiangyang recalled that Myriad Thunder Valley’s elders and remaining Golden Core disciples had performed well enough in the Hundred Halls Competition to avoid being purged.
• Ganlei Zi, True Person Leixiao, and Fairy Yaofeng began guiding Wu Qing, Xiang Zhili, and Cui Yingying, who advanced rapidly despite hostility from other Zhen Thunder Palace disciples.
• Xiang Zhili, Wu Qing, and Cui Yingying fought back against provocations and became known throughout Zhen Thunder Palace as the Myriad Thunder Valley Three Heroes.

Xiangyang and Myriad Thunder Valley’s elders learned that the valley had placed twenty-third in Zhen Thunder Palace’s Hundred Halls Competition and would avoid removal. As they awaited the decision on the Dry Thunder Palace Lord, Cui Hongshen warned that True Person Kuangtian was favored to win, leaving Zhuo worried about what his rise might mean for the valley.

• Xiangyang recalled how Xiang Zhili, Wu Qing, and Cui Yingying had disappeared into a century of seclusion and wondered how much stronger Myriad Thunder Valley would be if they were present.
• Cui Hongshen returned from the competition and teased Xiangyang before reporting that Myriad Thunder Valley had ranked twenty-third among the hall branches.
• Cui Hongshen gave medicinal pills to the disciples and offered Xi Tuo more, but Zhen Quan said Dui Qimeng had already provided some.
• Dui Qimeng criticized True Person Kuangtian over his treatment of Qian Diheng, and Xiangyang and Cui Hongshen urged her not to reopen old grievances.
• Cui Hongshen explained that True Person Kuangtian was favored to become Dry Thunder Palace Lord, and Zhuo worried he might target Myriad Thunder Valley.

Cui Hongshen learned that Myriad Thunder Valley was on a prearranged list of hall branches to be abolished, despite its participation in the Hundred Halls Competition. He and the others considered how to protect their disciples and decided to seek help from True Person Leixiao.

• Cui Hongshen returned with news that Myriad Thunder Valley was on Bo Lei Hall's old list of branches to be cleared away.
• Zhuo and the others feared that Myriad Thunder Valley's disciples would be merged into Thousand Thunder Mountain and forced to guard Thunder Abyss.
• Dui Qimeng urged Cui Hongshen to transfer their daughter Cui Yingying to Shuo Lei Hall to protect her chance of advancing her cultivation.
• Cui Hongshen rejected leaving Myriad Thunder Valley at first, but Dui Qimeng's suggestion to seek True Person Leixiao changed his mind.
• Zhuo and Cui Hongshen agreed to go ask True Person Leixiao for help, while Cui Hongshen insisted that they could not abandon Myriad Thunder Valley.

After Myriad Thunder Valley appeared on Zhen Thunder Palace’s elimination list, Cui Hongshen, Xiangyang, and Zhuo rushed to Ben Lei Hall to seek True Person Leixiao. Cui Hongshen gained entry by claiming they needed to report the whereabouts of Xiang Zhi Li, Cui Yingying, and Wu Qing, and the group entered the hall.

• The elimination list appeared with Myriad Thunder Valley at the top, and a second screen began displaying the Hundred Halls Competition rankings.
• Cui Hongshen persuaded Xiangyang and Zhuo to seek True Person Leixiao, arguing that Myriad Thunder Valley had nothing left to lose.
• At Ben Lei Hall, Cui Hongshen distracted Zhen Qing by claiming they had come to ask about Xiang Zhi Li, Cui Yingying, and Wu Qing.
• Cui Hongshen saw other eliminated hall branches turned away and heard True Person Leixiao and Superior Leiting angrily forbid more petitioners from entering.
• Cui Hongshen hurried through the gates and called out that he had urgent business as Shuo Lei Hall’s Vice Hall Master, allowing Zhuo and Xiangyang to enter with him.

Zhuo, Xiangyang, and Cui Hongshen sought True Person Leixiao’s help after Myriad Thunder Valley appeared on the list of branches to be cleared out. Leixiao brought them to Bo Lei Hall with a jade slip that revealed Seven Thunders Blazing Sun as the valley’s only chance to survive, while he waited for the Sect Leader and reflected on the succession crisis caused by Ganlei Zi’s death.

• Zhuo and Cui Hongshen told True Person Leixiao that Myriad Thunder Valley had been placed first on the clearance list despite its middle-tier ranking in the Hundred Halls Competition.
• True Person Leixiao confirmed the list, then retrieved a jade slip and led Zhuo, Xiangyang, and Cui Hongshen through a teleportation array to Bo Lei Hall.
• Leixiao gave Zhuo an ancient jade slip she had found in Myriad Thunder Valley, and she passed it to Cui Hongshen and Xiangyang to inspect.
• Xiangyang identified the jade slip’s contents as Seven Thunders Blazing Sun, which Leixiao said was Myriad Thunder Valley’s only path to continued existence.
• Leixiao summoned the Sect Leader back from Thunder Competition Ground, ordered Zhuo and the others to kneel, and waited while recalling how Ganlei Zi’s death had disrupted his plans to succeed him.

True Person Leixiao had yielded the Sect Leader position to Fairy Xuanhua to prevent the weakened Thunder Control Sect from suffering further damage, but he grew concerned when her purge of Myriad Thunder Valley threatened its disciples. Their confrontation in Bo Lei Hall escalated until other Hall Masters arrived, and Fairy Xuanhua defended the purge as necessary to strengthen the sect.

• True Person Leixiao had abandoned his claim to the Sect Leader position and supported Fairy Xuanhua to avert a damaging struggle within the weakened Thunder Control Sect.
• Fairy Xuanhua arrived at Bo Lei Hall and dismissed True Person Leixiao's concern about the threatened purge of Myriad Thunder Valley.
• Cui Hongshen argued that Myriad Thunder Valley's disciples deserved a voice, and Fairy Xuanhua ordered him to be silent.
• Fairy Xuanhua released her mid-Nascent Soul pressure against Cui Hongshen, but True Person Leixiao countered it until both withdrew their pressure.
• Kun Shen mocked Myriad Thunder Valley and its three heroes, while Fairy Xuanhua defended the purge as a way to restore the Thunder Control Sect's strength.

True Person Leixiao challenged Fairy Xuanhua’s plan to remove Myriad Thunder Valley by invoking an unaltered ancestral rule called Seven Thunders Blazing Sun. The rule forced Fairy Xuanhua to acknowledge that Myriad Thunder Valley could demand trials by the other Thunder Palaces, and True Person Kuangtian proposed turning the dispute into a contest at Thunder Competition Ground.

• True Person Leixiao argued that Fairy Xuanhua had added conditions to the Hundred Halls Competition and asked her to spare Myriad Thunder Valley.
• Fairy Xuanhua ordered Kun Shen to check the records for Sect Leader Ganlei Zi’s supposed promise to preserve Myriad Thunder Valley, but the relevant jade slips had been destroyed.
• True Person Leixiao presented an ancient jade slip containing the Seven Thunders Blazing Sun rule, and Fairy Xuanhua admitted no Sect Leader had abolished it.
• Kun Shen explained that the rule let a hall branch facing removal survive by passing tests from the other Seven Thunder Palaces, but True Person Leixiao pointed out that it remained in force.
• True Person Kuangtian arrived at Bo Lei Hall and proposed that seven disciples from each of the other Thunder Palaces challenge Myriad Thunder Valley at Thunder Competition Ground.

Fairy Xuanhua ordered Seven Thunders Blazing Sun, a series of seven duels that would determine whether Myriad Thunder Valley could keep its hall branch. Back at Zhen Thunder Palace, Xiangyang and the others planned their matchups, but they could not agree on who should face Kan Thunder Palace.

• True Person Kuangtian set the Seven Thunders Blazing Sun rules, requiring Myriad Thunder Valley to win four duels against the seven Thunder Palaces, and Fairy Xuanhua issued the Sect Leader Token.
• True Person Leixiao sent the Myriad Thunder Valley disciples back to prepare and privately gave Zhen Qing medicine and orders to protect them on Thunder Competition Ground.
• Cui Hongshen, Xiangyang, Zhuo, and Dui Qimeng discussed which Thunder Palaces might show mercy and planned to concede the likely losses against Dry Thunder Palace and Kun Thunder Palace.
• Xiangyang volunteered to fight Dry Thunder Palace, Cui Hongshen agreed to face Xun Lei Palace, and Zhuo was assigned the crucial Xun Lei Palace match before Cui Hongshen took that role instead.
• Xiangyang asked Zhuo to fight Kan Thunder Palace, but Yan Qinglian offered to take that match, prompting Zhuo, Cui Hongshen, and Dui Qimeng to object.

Zhuo assigned Myriad Thunder Valley’s disciples to face the dangerous Thunder Palace matches, and the disciples rallied around their willingness to sacrifice for the sect. Qian Diheng returned, learned Xiangyang would fight Qian Ding, and gave him protective armor and healing pills before Fairy Xuanhua addressed the sect.

• Zhuo assigned Yan Qinglian to face Gen Lei Palace and Fang Lihe to face Dry Thunder Palace, while Zhen Quan volunteered for Li Lei Palace.
• Fang Lihe and Zhen Quan clasped hands and led the disciples in shouting that Myriad Thunder Valley stood united.
• Qian Diheng returned and asked Xiangyang why Myriad Thunder Valley was confronting Dry Thunder Palace.
• Xiangyang explained the dispute and revealed that he would fight first against Qian Ding.
• Qian Diheng gave Xiangyang a protective magic armor and its refinement jade slip, then returned to hand him healing pills as Fairy Xuanhua began addressing the sect.

Fairy Xuanhua gave the threatened branch halls one last chance to survive, but Myriad Thunder Valley was forced to sign a Life-and-Death Contract before competing. Xiangyang entered the Thunder Competition Ground to face Qian Ding, and their battle began with Qian Ding attacking him with lightning spells.

• Fairy Xuanhua announced that branch halls facing elimination could remain for a hundred years if they survived the Seven Thunders Palace challenges.
• Xiangyang led Myriad Thunder Valley toward the Thunder Competition Ground, where Kun Shen revealed the Hall of Life and Death and demanded Life-and-Death Contracts.
• After Kun Shen said Qian Ding had already signed, Xiangyang volunteered to face him and told Yan Qinglian to tell their son that his father was no coward.
• Kun Shen brought Xiangyang through the Hall of Life and Death and explained the battle rules before leaving the arena.
• Qian Ding trapped Xiangyang with rings of light and sent lightning spells toward his chest and abdomen.

Xiangyang let Qian Ding beat him without fighting, intending to die for Myriad Thunder Valley and force the sect to reconsider its fate. As Xiangyang neared death inside Thunder Competition Ground, Fairy Xuanhua refused to intervene, and the chapter left him trapped with Qian Ding.

• Qian Ding struck Xiangyang, and Qian Diheng realized Xiangyang had not worn the spirit armor or intended to fight back.
• Yan Qinglian explained that Xiangyang hoped his death would awaken Fairy Xuanhua's compassion and preserve Myriad Thunder Valley.
• Qian Ding repeatedly battered Xiangyang, who refused to retaliate even after his Golden Core shattered and declared that he and Qian Ding would have no rest until one died.
• Qian Ding hesitated to kill Xiangyang outright and urged him to admit defeat, but Xiangyang remained silent.
• True Person Leixiao and Myriad Thunder Valley's disciples pleaded with Fairy Xuanhua to save Xiangyang, but she said the competition ground could only open if someone fell or admitted defeat.

As Qian Ding moved to kill the helpless Xiangyang, Xiang Zhili and Cui Yingying completed their Nascent Soul formations nearby and rushed to save him. The chapter ended with them attacking the Thunder Competition Ground’s illusion formation with hundreds of lightning dragons.

• Qian Ding resumed attacking Xiangyang, whose shattered Golden Core left him unable to resist.
• Xiang Zhili and Cui Yingying formed Nascent Souls in neighboring locations, and their combined heavenly phenomena tore through the sect-protecting formation before dissipating.
• Xiang Zhili and Cui Yingying arrived before the Thunder Control Sect disciples, and Xiang Zhili realized that Xiangyang was in danger on the Thunder Competition Ground.
• Xiang Zhili and Cui Yingying ignored Fairy Xuanhua’s command to stop and flew toward the Thunder Competition Ground.
• Xiang Zhili and Cui Yingying summoned hundreds of lightning dragons and sent them crashing into the illusion formation above the Thunder Competition Ground.

Xiang Zhili broke into Thunder Competition Ground, defeated Qian Ding, and rescued his father, Xiangyang. After learning that Myriad Thunder Valley faced further matches in Seven Thunders Blazing Sun, Xiang Zhili offered to fight Kun Thunder Palace, but learned that Nascent Soul cultivators were barred from entering without special permission.

• Fairy Xuanhua was shaken when Xiang Zhili and Cui Yingying displayed the Lightning Drawing Technique, which tore open Thunder Competition Ground’s weakened formation.
• Xiang Zhili entered the arena, overwhelmed Qian Ding, and shattered his Golden Core after Xiangyang asked him not to kill him.
• Xiang Zhili gave Xiangyang medicine and carried him out through the red pillar after Qian Ding admitted defeat and was sent through the blue pillar.
• Xiang Zhili learned from Cui Hongshen that True Person Leixiao had arranged the competition and that Fairy Xuanhua was now Sect Leader.
• Xiang Zhili praised Fang Lihe, then declared that he would face Kun Thunder Palace while his Junior Sister faced Kan Thunder Palace.
• Kun Shen explained that Seven Thunders Blazing Sun barred Nascent Soul cultivators from entering unless the Sect Leader granted special permission.