Chapter Summaries

Xu Xuan defended the treasure vault entrance and slaughtered the cultivators who challenged him, devouring the Five Elements Spirit Race's five Holy Sons and suppressing an Ice-Snow Spirit. After he destroyed a battle formation that attacked him, the survivors fled, leaving him in control of the vault.

• Xu Xuan killed more than ten peak experts and ordered the crowd to leave, but most stayed to challenge him.
• Five Holy Sons of the Five Elements Spirit Race merged into a small-world sphere, which Xu Xuan devoured with his Chaos Body.
• An Ice-Snow Spirit accused Xu Xuan of provoking the major powers, but he seized and suppressed her while guarding the vault entrance.
• More than ten Peak Saints formed an ancient battle formation and attacked Xu Xuan as a tiny star.
• Xu Xuan unleashed terrifying lightning that destroyed the formation and killed its attackers, causing the remaining cultivators to flee.

Xu Xuan faced pressure from the remaining treasure hunters, who negotiated while holding Yuantian Palace disciples captive. Feng Wuxia then warned that she had destroyed the isolation formation, leaving Emperor Realm experts able to enter as the group surrounded Xu Xuan and her.

• The remaining prodigies revealed their trump cards and demanded that Xu Xuan share the treasure, while Xu Xuan recognized the danger posed by their Emperor Weapons.
• Senior Sister Luo of the Heaven Martial Sacred Academy apologized to Xu Xuan and revealed that her people had captured the Yuantian Palace disciples.
• Xu Xuan agreed to negotiate, and Senior Sister Luo set out a table as the gathered figures prepared to discuss their demands.
• Feng Wuxia rushed out and told Xu Xuan that she had accidentally destroyed the isolation formation, allowing Emperor Realm experts to enter.
• The treasure hunters surrounded Xu Xuan and Feng Wuxia, while Feng Wuxia dismissed concerns for the captive Yuantian Palace disciples, saying their experts would arrive soon.

Xu Xuan escaped with the Yuantian Palace disciples as the Blood Clan sealed off the area, while Feng Wuxia evaded the others. He then waited for the Blood Clan pursuers and faced Emperor Xue Mantian, a true Heavenly Emperor who had brought a Buddhist treasure to counter Magnetic Mountain.

• A blood-colored barrier appeared, and Feng Wuxia warned that the Blood Clan would arrive before the other factions.
• Xu Xuan used Magnetic Mountain to pin down the gathering and took the Yuantian Palace disciples into his Small World.
• After Magnetic Mountain withdrew, Feng Wuxia escaped as a breeze, leaving Senior Sister Luo and the others behind.
• Xu Xuan waited for the Blood Clan, and Emperor Xue Mantian arrived with a Buddhist treasure that sealed the area and countered Magnetic Mountain.
• Emperor Xue Mantian revealed himself as a true Heavenly Emperor, and Xu Xuan recognized his formidable power.

Xu Xuan fought Xue Mantian, a Blood Clan Heavenly Emperor whose power was strengthened by heaven and earth and whose Blood-Colored Domain trapped and attacked him. Inside the domain, Xu Xuan resisted its crushing force and destroyed the Vengeful Spirits in his Sea of Consciousness, leaving Xue Mantian’s stomp checked.

• Xu Xuan challenged Xue Mantian to use every means at his disposal and attacked with the Magnetic Mountain Sword as nearby Heavenly Prides fled.
• Xue Mantian unleashed his Blood-Colored Domain and overwhelmed Xu Xuan with endless blood energy, explaining that a Heavenly Emperor could draw limitless power from heaven and earth.
• Xu Xuan pierced the Blood-Colored Domain with the sword’s sharpness, but Xue Mantian reinforced it and pulled Xu Xuan inside.
• Xue Mantian’s domain transformed him into a towering Blood-Colored Divine Elephant, bound Xu Xuan with Laws, and sent the Vengeful Spirits of his victims into Xu Xuan’s Sea of Consciousness.
• Xu Xuan caught and supported the divine elephant’s descending foot, then used the Chaos Body to devour the Vengeful Spirits as pure energy.

Xu Xuan was overwhelmed by Xue Mantian’s blood runes and Emperor Weapon, which battered him while draining his bloodline essence. Just as Xue Mantian prepared to sacrifice his origin to finish him, Xu Xuan used the Magnetic Mountain Sword to suppress the Strange Youth, giving Xue Mantian an unexpected opening.

• Xu Xuan crushed Xue Mantian’s blood-colored domain with his chaos divine body, but Xue Mantian summoned an Emperor Weapon that took the form of the Strange Youth.
• Xue Mantian dispersed into blood mist and covered Xu Xuan with ancient blood runes, sealing most of his strength as the Strange Youth relentlessly attacked him.
• Xue Mantian sent his bloodline origin into Xu Xuan to devour his essence, while the Blood Barrier shook as someone tried to break through.
• Xue Mantian resolved to kill Xu Xuan even at the cost of his own origin and told the Strange Youth to detonate itself if necessary.
• Xu Xuan unleashed the Magnetic Mountain Sword, transforming it into a hundred-foot ornamental mountain and temporarily immobilizing the Strange Youth.
• Xue Mantian cheered from within the blood mist when he sensed that his Emperor Weapon had been suppressed.

Xu Xuan grievously wounded Xue Mantian by turning the Emperor Weapon’s backlash against his Blood God Dharma Body, but the weapon nearly killed him in return. Qin Baichuan’s divine-sense avatar arrived and took the Emperor Weapon away, leaving Xue Mantian shocked and bleeding.

• Xue Mantian attacked Xu Xuan while he struggled to suppress the Emperor Weapon, but Xu Xuan absorbed its backlash and shattered Xue Mantian’s Blood God Dharma Body.
• Xu Xuan and Xue Mantian were both badly wounded, and the Emperor Weapon’s eerie youth form prepared to kill Xu Xuan.
• The Emperor Weapon transformed into a short sword and pierced Xu Xuan’s heart as a terrifying hand smashed the Blood-Colored Barrier.
• Feng Wuxia arrived and begged Qin Baichuan’s avatar to save Xu Xuan, while Xue Mantian threatened Qin Baichuan and the Emperor Weapon struck at Xu Xuan again.
• Qin Baichuan summoned stream water that swallowed the Emperor Weapon and erased Xue Mantian’s Divine Soul imprint, causing Xue Mantian to spit blood from all seven orifices.

Xu Xuan killed Xue Mantian with Qin Baichuan’s help, received a drop of Divine Emperor Blood, and recovered from his wounds. He and Feng Wuxia divided the treasures from the Heavenly Venerable Treasury while others waited nearby for a chance to attack.

• Xu Xuan killed the gravely wounded Xue Mantian and thanked Qin Baichuan’s projection for intervening.
• Qin Baichuan revealed that he would restrict Emperor Realm cultivators from entering the Clearfeather Realm and gave Xu Xuan a drop of his blood to heal.
• Feng Wuxia reached Xu Xuan as the barriers fell, and Xu Xuan swallowed the blood and collapsed unconscious.
• Xu Xuan awoke less than ten minutes later and told Feng Wuxia that the blood had brought him close to entering the Emperor Realm.
• Feng Wuxia sealed off the area from lurking cultivators and divided the treasury’s treasures with Xu Xuan, including a Heavenly Venerable’s Skeleton, spirit herbs, and two puppets.

Xu Xuan chose a rare, undamaged pair of Emperor Weapon Light Wings from Feng Wuxia and used them to bypass the other Heavenly Prides and reach a treasury. As the others fought an Earth Vein Fire Dragon outside, many abandoned the treasury to chase the ghost fire released when it died.

• Feng Wuxia revealed several damaged Emperor Weapons, and Xu Xuan chose the support-type Black Light Wings while leaving the others as repayment to Yuantian Palace.
• Feng Wuxia used a formation disc to locate the other treasuries, and Xu Xuan quickly fused the Light Wings into his body.
• Xu Xuan carried Feng Wuxia through space to a treasury while other Heavenly Prides gathered at a lake and triggered the Earth Vein Fire Dragon's attack.
• Xu Xuan and Feng Wuxia bypassed the treasury's formations with the Light Wings, opened its gate, and entered.
• The gathered Heavenly Prides killed the Earth Vein Fire Dragon, and many chased the ghost fire that escaped from its body while one person ventured into the lava pool.

Xu Xuan escaped the Heavenly Venerable Treasury with Feng Wuxia while the other Heavenly Prides tried to stop him. He exposed a false lead about the unusual flame, then used his Emperor Weapon to get away as the crowd pursued.

• Xu Xuan emerged from the treasury carrying Feng Wuxia and used his Light Wings to travel far ahead of the pursuing Heavenly Prides.
• Soul Clan members ambushed Xu Xuan, but his Chaos Divine Body revealed their hidden positions and his Emperor Weapon destroyed them.
• The crowd discovered that the Feng Wuxia in Xu Xuan's arms was only a spiritual-qi decoy, while the real Feng Wuxia ran off.
• Xu Xuan accused a middle-aged man of possessing the unusual flame, prompting the surrounding Heavenly Prides to attack him.
• Xu Xuan slipped away amid the chaos, and the Heavenly Prides realized his Emperor Weapon made him difficult to catch before setting off after him.

Xu Xuan seized the Strange Fire from a Snow Clan girl and confronted her brother, the Snow Clan Young Master, over the clan’s suspected role in the Blood Clan’s invasion of Primordial Dao Province. The Young Master left Xu Xuan another Strange Fire as a pledge while taking his sister away, unaware that Xu Xuan had already consumed it.

• Xu Xuan emerged from hiding, took the Strange Fire from the Snow Clan girl, and devoured it to strengthen his Chaos Divine Body.
• The girl summoned a defensive space with a jade pendant, and her brother appeared in response to the killing intent Xu Xuan sensed.
• Xu Xuan accused the Snow Clan of helping the Blood Clan invade Primordial Dao Province, but the Young Master denied knowing about it and promised to investigate any violation of the Ten Thousand Races Agreement.
• The Young Master gave Xu Xuan a mass of Ghost Fire as a pledge, then compressed the space holding his sister and departed.
• The Snow Clan Young Master told his sister he had given away the Strange Fire to track Xu Xuan, but she revealed that the protective Strange Fire he had handed over was already gone.

Xu Xuan and Feng Wuxia looted the remaining treasuries in the collapsing Clearfeather Realm and assembled four Heavenly Venerable Skeletons, which transformed into a Yin-Yang Taiji Diagram. As the diagram descended to decide the realm’s new lord, a powerful outsider tried to interfere, and Qin Baichuan fought back.

• Xu Xuan joined Feng Wuxia, and they killed the Foreign Race Heavenly Prides surrounding her with the power of his Netherworld Divine Wings.
• Xu Xuan and Feng Wuxia looted the final two treasuries as the Clearfeather Realm’s spatial barrier began to collapse.
• Little White, in her Ancestral Dragon form, gave Xu Xuan an intact Heavenly Venerable Skeleton, and Xu Xuan and Feng Wuxia released all four skeletons together.
• The skeletons transformed into the Four Symbols Divine Beasts and then into a Yin-Yang Taiji Diagram, which descended to suppress the depths of the realm.
• A furious expert from beyond the nine heavens ordered them to stop, and Qin Baichuan answered as an Emperor Realm battle erupted.

The Clearfeather Realm emerged from underground and was absorbed into Xu Xuan’s Chaos Divine Body, provoking the gathered experts to attack him. Xu Xuan trapped them with Magnetic Mountain and began a battle that continued as he summoned lightning with his Gods and Devils Spear.

• The true Clearfeather Realm rose from underground, transformed into Life-Creating Qi, and entered Xu Xuan’s body; the four Heavenly Venerable Bones also flew to him.
• The gathered Human Race and Foreign Race experts surrounded Xu Xuan and demanded that he release the Clearfeather Realm.
• Feng Wuxia urged Xu Xuan to escape, but he refused and declared that he would fight them.
• Xu Xuan unleashed Magnetic Mountain, pinning the experts in place and devouring those who tried to escape by cutting off their legs.
• Xu Xuan activated his Thunder God Physique and swung the Gods and Devils Spear, sending lightning crashing down.

Xu Xuan used Magnetic Mountain and lightning to defeat the gathered Heavenly Prides, killing most of the Human Race Prodigies despite a Divine Emperor’s attempt to stop him. As Emperor Realm experts arrived, Magnetic Mountain pulled Xu Xuan out of the collapsing space.

• Xu Xuan struck the restrained Heavenly Prides with lightning, gravely injuring many and prompting the Foreign Race experts to surrender.
• When the Human Race Prodigies denounced him, Xu Xuan attacked them with another wave of lightning.
• A Divine Emperor struck Xu Xuan’s Sea of Consciousness, but Xu Xuan pressed on and killed nearly all the wounded Human Race Prodigies.
• Xu Xuan let the surviving Foreign Race Heavenly Prides go after they swore not to oppose the Human Race.
• Human Race Emperor Realm experts arrived as the region shattered, and Magnetic Mountain carried Xu Xuan away from the collapsing space.

Xu Xuan faced the Emperor Realm experts who condemned him for killing Human Race prodigies, while Qin Baichuan defended him and prepared to bring him to Yuantian Palace. When the experts attacked, Xu Xuan put away Magnetic Mountain and confronted two Heavenly Emperors as Feng Wuxia held off two Pseudo-Emperors.

• The Emperor Realm experts accused Xu Xuan of slaughtering Human Race prodigies, and he mocked their hypocrisy after explaining that the Foreign Races had submitted to him.
• A Fire Race patriarch attacked Xu Xuan with a massive flaming palm, but Magnetic Mountain absorbed it.
• Feng Wuxia appealed to Qin Baichuan to uphold justice, and Qin Baichuan declared that he would protect Yuantian Palace disciples and challenged the other experts.
• Fang Tianxiong engaged Qin Baichuan while four Emperor Realm experts descended on Xu Xuan.
• Xu Xuan put away Magnetic Mountain and blocked two Heavenly Emperors as Feng Wuxia held back two Pseudo-Emperors, prompting Qin Baichuan to threaten to unleash his full strength.

Xu Xuan fought off two Heavenly Emperors until Ling Feixue arrived with a force of Emperor Realm experts and offered him a place in Yuantian Palace. Xu Xuan accepted and was named its Holy Son, leaving Yuantian Palace facing an encirclement and the threat of war.

• Xu Xuan used Magnetic Mountain to suppress two Heavenly Emperors and struck them until they coughed up blood.
• Qin Baichuan stopped fighting and moved to protect Xu Xuan when dozens of Emperor Realm experts arrived.
• Ling Feixue appeared in a Dao Body and asked Xu Xuan to join Yuantian Palace.
• Xu Xuan accepted Ling Feixue's offer, and she named him the Holy Son of Yuantian Palace.
• Fang Tianxiong and the other Emperor Realm experts encircled Yuantian Palace, and Ling Feixue unleashed the might of an Emperor Weapon.

The Guixu Sect intervened as the Emperor Realm experts threatened to clash, and Xu Xuan accepted a duel against a Heavenly Emperor to settle his standing among human prodigies. The duel began in a sealed death-world Battle Platform, where he faced the Guixu Sect’s Holy Maiden, Murong Qing.

• Ling Feixue and the Guixu Sect’s sect master halted the gathering from erupting into battle, while Fang Tianxiong refused to send the Heaven Martial Sacred Academy’s disciples against Xu Xuan.
• Qin Baichuan challenged Xu Xuan to fight a Heavenly Emperor, and Xu Xuan accepted.
• The Guixu Sect’s black-robed elder set the terms: Xu Xuan would be recognized among human prodigies if he won, but would surrender the Clearfeather Realm and take his own life if he lost.
• Xu Xuan entered the Battle Platform, a sealed world of endless yellow sand where only two people could remain until one died.
• Murong Qing entered as his opponent, revealed she was Murong Feng’s older sister, and drew concern from Ling Feixue.

Xu Xuan fought Murong Qing, the Guixu Sect's First Holy Maiden, and survived her blade-law attack before grievously wounding her with a single all-out punch. Murong Qing then revealed her Heavenly Emperor weapon and began a soul-targeting song, while Xu Xuan answered with a World-Opening Righteous Sound.

• Murong Qing attacked Xu Xuan with interwoven blade laws, but he endured the wounds and surged forward.
• Xu Xuan struck Murong Qing with an all-out punch, shattering her defensive Emperor Weapon and blasting away nearly half her body.
• The spectators were stunned by Xu Xuan's strength as Murong Qing rapidly repaired herself and revealed a top-tier Heavenly Emperor jade flute.
• Ling Feixue warned Xu Xuan to guard his sea of consciousness against Murong Qing's soul-control technique.
• Xu Xuan unleashed a World-Opening Righteous Sound, but Murong Qing played the flute and sent its mournful melody into his sea of consciousness.

Xu Xuan overcame Murong Qing’s attack on his Sea of Consciousness and trapped her beneath Magnetic Mountain, forcing the Guixu Sect elder to admit defeat. Qin Baichuan then publicly extorted the elder, warning that Murong Qing’s death could turn her talent into nourishment for Xu Xuan.

• Murong Qing attacked Xu Xuan’s Sea of Consciousness with her flute and approached him while he appeared unable to move.
• Xu Xuan revealed he could still speak, then summoned Magnetic Mountain to pin Murong Qing beneath it.
• Xu Xuan refined the intruders in his Sea of Consciousness and strengthened its defenses.
• The black-robed elder admitted the Guixu Sect had lost the battle.
• Qin Baichuan refused to accept the elder’s words as the end of the fight and threatened to let Murong Qing die unless the elder paid.
• Qin Baichuan explained that Xu Xuan’s Chaos Divine Body could contain and refine Murong Qing’s talent.

Xu Xuan and Qin Baichuan forced the Guixu Sect to hand over vast resources in exchange for Murong Qing’s life, with the Heavenly Emperor Sacrificial Altar as their demand. After receiving the Guixu Sect’s treasures, Xu Xuan released Murong Qing and left with Qin Baichuan.

• Xu Xuan prepared to refine Murong Qing with the Magnetic Mountain until the black-robed elder offered to negotiate.
• Qin Baichuan demanded the materials for the Heavenly Emperor Sacrificial Altar, and Xu Xuan resumed draining Murong Qing when the elder refused.
• The black-robed elder surrendered his lifetime savings and arranged for the Guixu Sect to send more cultivation resources through a Teleportation Magic Array.
• Qin Baichuan warned the Guixu Sect that its resources would help Xu Xuan become a Heavenly Emperor and lead the Human Race through its great calamity.
• After ten thousand Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures arrived, Qin Baichuan ordered Xu Xuan to release Murong Qing and leave.
• Xu Xuan thanked the black-robed elder for bringing out the spatial world and allowing him to gain so many benefits.

Qin Baichuan brought Xu Xuan to Yuantian Palace and explained that the sect hoped he could eventually reach the Dao Realm, beginning with a breakthrough to the Emperor Realm. Xu Xuan built a nine-tier Heavenly Emperor Sacrificial Altar and began refining treasures to strengthen himself, leaving his breakthrough underway.

• Qin Baichuan transported Xu Xuan and the others to Yuantian Palace, then ordered the sect sealed and took Xu Xuan to his secluded chamber.
• Qin Baichuan explained that the Nine Provinces could not nurture Dao Realm experts because its laws had been damaged, and said Yuantian Palace hoped Xu Xuan's Chaos Divine Body could overcome that limit.
• Qin Baichuan gave Xu Xuan instructions for building a Heavenly Emperor Sacrificial Altar and a vast supply of treasures.
• Xu Xuan studied two altar records, chose the more demanding method, and constructed a nine-tier altar using his essence blood.
• Xu Xuan collapsed as the altar merged into his body, then woke and began refining treasures and offering their energy to it.