Chapter Summaries

Chen Xuan returned to Yan City, reunited with Xuan Su, Xia Zhilan, and Shi Ziyue, and learned that the Lin Family remained in Qingyang Town. He used his accumulated emotion points for two rounds of system draws and obtained the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.

• Chen Xuan watched Lin Dong fail to tempt the Ancient Dragon Ape and Shaking Heaven Demon Ape with medicinal liquid before they drove him back into the underground passage.
• Chen Xuan returned to the Ten Thousand Gold Inn, where Xuan Su and Xia Zhilan embraced him, followed by Shi Ziyue.
• Xia Wan Jin and Shi Haotian reported that only Lin Zhentian had visited the Lin Clan while the others remained in Qingyang Town.
• Chen Xuan considered the threat of Bo Xuan, the Samsara Stage Hall Master, and said he had already prepared a way to deal with him.
• Chen Xuan spent emotion points on two ten-draw lotteries, receiving two martial arts, several failed draws, and the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.

Chen Xuan arrived at the Lin Family and began his revenge, using the Ten Thousand Souls Banner to capture Lin Mang’s soul after killing him. He left Lin Zhentian restrained and Lin Xia and the other young women terrified in the main hall.

• Chen Xuan retrieved the Ten Thousand Souls Banner and left for Qingyang Town the next morning.
• Lin Mang told Lin Zhentian that Lin Qingtan was missing, and Chen Xuan appeared in the Lin Family’s main hall.
• Chen Xuan struck Lin Zhentian, ordered Lin Mang to gather the Lin Family’s young women, and had Lin Zhentian and Lin Mang guard the door.
• Lin Xia arrived with the young women, and Chen Xuan stopped Lin Zhentian and Lin Mang from leaving the doorway.
• Chen Xuan crushed Lin Mang with Yuan Power and collected his soul in the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.
• Lin Zhentian tried to resist, but Chen Xuan restrained him and silenced him while Lin Xia wept and demanded to know what Chen Xuan had done.

Chen Xuan destroyed the Lin Family and killed Lin Zhentian, then took Lin Xia to the Mist Forest to show her that Lin Dong could not rescue them. Lin Xia still clung to hope that Lin Qingtan would return and defeat Chen Xuan.

• Chen Xuan unleashed the White-Headed Joyous Ape on the Lin Family women while Lin Zhentian watched helplessly from a Yuan Power prison.
• After a day, Chen Xuan freed Lin Zhentian, crushed his bones, cremated him, and scattered his ashes.
• Chen Xuan ordered the surviving Lin Family members to fetch Lin Dong's parents, then took Lin Xia to the Mist Forest.
• Chen Xuan showed Lin Xia Lin Dong struggling against two demonic beasts, and she realized he could not hear or help her.
• Lin Xia insisted that Lin Qingtan would return from her training and kill Chen Xuan.

Chen Xuan disguised himself as Lin Zhentian and tricked Lin Xiao and Liu Yan into believing a demonic beast threatened Lin Dong and Qingtan. After Lin Xiao left to seek help from the Flame City Lord's Mansion, Chen Xuan stopped Liu Yan with a pointed question.

• Chen Xuan disguised himself as Lin Zhentian, restored the Lin Family hall, and summoned Lin Xiao and Liu Yan.
• Chen Xuan claimed a powerful demonic beast had demanded a human woman and threatened Lin Dong and Qingtan, and Lin Xiao and Liu Yan agreed to help.
• Lin Xiao suggested substituting another woman, but Chen Xuan and Liu Yan warned that this could endanger the Lin Family.
• Lin Xiao decided to seek help from the Flame City Lord's Mansion and hurried away.
• Chen Xuan stopped Liu Yan and asked whether she also wanted to prevent anything happening to Lin Dong and Qingtan.

Chen Xuan used a White-Headed Joyous Ape to force Liu Yan into submission, threatening the Lin family and blaming Lin Dong for taking his wife’s innocence. After reviving Lin Xiao with a Life-Extending Pill, Chen Xuan left him conscious but unable to intervene, and hinted that his revenge was only beginning.

• Disguised as Lin Zhentian, Chen Xuan told Liu Yan that the threat to Dong'er and Qingtan was a White-Headed Joyous Ape at the Form Creation Realm.
• Chen Xuan summoned the White-Headed Joyous Ape, revealed his identity to Liu Yan, and threatened the Lin family unless she submitted.
• A second demonic beast brought back Lin Xiao, whom Chen Xuan revived with a Life-Extending Pill.
• Chen Xuan blamed Lin Dong for taking his wife's innocence and gave Liu Yan the choice to submit or let the Lin family die.
• Liu Yan chose to endure the White-Headed Joyous Ape's assault to protect Lin Xiao, Lin Dong, and Qingtan.
• Lin Xiao woke and tried to stop the attack, but an invisible wall blocked him as Chen Xuan watched without sympathy.

Lin Qingtan learned that Chen Xuan had attacked the Lin Family and brought her senior apprentice brother Chen Kui to Qingyang Town to kill him. Their battle began when Chen Xuan revealed his Ten Thousand Souls Banner and raised his strength to the Nine Yuan Nirvana Realm.

• Bo Xuan sent Chen Kui, an Eight Yuan Nirvana Realm cultivator, to accompany Lin Qingtan to the Lin Family.
• Chen Xuan wasted emotion points on two unsuccessful rounds of martial art draws before sensing a powerful aura approaching Qingyang Town.
• Lin Qingtan arrived with Chen Kui and ordered him to cripple Chen Xuan without asking who he was.
• Chen Kui attacked Chen Xuan with his serrated broadsword, while Chen Xuan brought out the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.
• Chen Xuan used the World King Fist to raise his strength from Six Yuan Nirvana to Nine Yuan Nirvana, shocking Lin Qingtan and stirring Chen Kui's greed.

Chen Xuan easily defeated Chen Kui’s strongest attack, prompting Lin Qingtan to summon her master, Bo Xuan, the Darkness Hall’s hall master. As Bo Xuan prepared to fight, Chen Xuan’s aura surged past hers and reached the Reincarnation Stage.

• Chen Kui attacked Chen Xuan with the Great Darkness Heavenly Ghost Claw, but Chen Xuan devoured and destroyed it with the Ten Thousand Souls Banner and Devouring Ancestral Symbol.
• Chen Xuan told Chen Kui to summon Bo Xuan, and Lin Qingtan crushed a Jade Talisman to call her master.
• Bo Xuan arrived, reprimanded Chen Kui, and ordered Chen Xuan to end himself.
• Chen Xuan revealed that he knew Bo Xuan was the Darkness Hall’s hall master and challenged her to attack.
• As Bo Xuan began to threaten Chen Xuan, his aura rapidly rose to the Reincarnation Stage.

Chen Xuan fought Bo Xuan after using a secret art to reach the Reincarnation Stage, and wounded her with his Tetanus Blade. He stole the Darkness Ancestral Symbol and enveloped Bo Xuan with the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, intending to make her its main soul.

• Chen Xuan rejected Bo Xuan’s offer to spare him in exchange for his secret art and shattered her scythe attack with the Tetanus Blade.
• Chen Xuan used the Ten Thousand Souls Banner to swallow Bo Xuan’s Great Darkness Heavenly Ghost Claw, then pierced her arm with his blade.
• Bo Xuan cut off her injured arm to stop the blade’s mysterious force from devouring her vitality.
• Bo Xuan summoned the Darkness Ancestral Symbol, but Chen Xuan stole it and severed her connection to it.
• Chen Xuan enveloped Bo Xuan with the Ten Thousand Souls Banner and declared that she would become its main soul.

Chen Xuan defeated Bo Xuan and Chen Kui, then captured Lin Qingtan and threatened her parents to make her obey. He brought her to the Lin Family’s back mountain, where Lin Xiao and Liu Yan were, and left her desperate to save them.

• Bo Xuan failed to resist the Ten Thousand Souls Banner and had his soul absorbed as Chen Kui tried to flee with Lin Qingtan.
• Chen Xuan trapped the fleeing pair, absorbed Chen Kui’s soul, and left Lin Qingtan with no way to escape.
• Chen Xuan threatened Lin Qingtan by invoking Lin Xiao and Liu Yan, and she begged him not to harm them.
• Chen Xuan brought Lin Qingtan to the Lin Family’s back mountain, where Lin Xiao and Liu Yan confronted him.
• Chen Xuan slapped Liu Yan after she cursed him, then restrained Lin Qingtan as she tried to rush to her mother.

Chen Xuan coerced Lin Qingtan into submitting by threatening her family, then used the Concentric Heart Gu to prevent her and Lin Xiao, Liu Yan, and Lin Dong from escaping through death. The chapter ended with Lin Xiao and Liu Yan unconscious while Chen Xuan continued to torment Lin Qingtan.

• Chen Xuan threatened to kill Lin Xiao and Liu Yan unless Lin Qingtan did what he demanded.
• Lin Qingtan agreed to comply after Chen Xuan aimed a Yuan Power arrow at her parents.
• Chen Xuan forced Lin Qingtan to undress in front of Lin Xiao and Liu Yan, and Liu Yan fainted while Lin Xiao cried out in anguish.
• Chen Xuan fed Lin Qingtan, Lin Xiao, and Liu Yan the Concentric Heart Gu, warning that their deaths would also kill Lin Dong.
• Lin Xiao tried to kill himself but knocked himself unconscious after learning about the Gu, while Lin Qingtan tried to keep her cries from waking her parents.

Ling Qingzhu received reports that Chen Xuan had reached the Reincarnation Stage and killed the Northern Xuan Region Darkness Hall Master, but she dismissed the reports as false and resolved to obtain his secret art. When Chen Fei and the others confronted her for sending people to the Great Yan Dynasty, Ling Qingzhu struck Chen Fei, and his furious brothers attacked her together.

• A disciple told Ling Qingzhu that Chen Xuan had risen from Six Yuan Nirvana to the Reincarnation Stage and killed the Darkness Hall Master in the Northern Xuan Region.
• Ling Qingzhu doubted the reports, investigated, and felt relieved when no one could confirm the battle or the Hall Master’s death.
• Ling Qingzhu decided she wanted Chen Xuan’s secret art and believed he had divorced her to keep it from her.
• Chen Fei and the others emerged from seclusion as One Yuan Nirvana practitioners and went to Qingzhu Courtyard to confront Ling Qingzhu for sending people after Chen Xuan.
• Ling Qingzhu struck Chen Fei and sent him crashing into a wall after he said Chen Xuan had divorced her.
• Zhang Chao and the others rushed Ling Qingzhu together in anger.

Ling Qingzhu defeated Zhang Chao and the others but spared them, while Chen Xuan kept the surviving Lin Family members under guard and brought Lin Qingtan to watch Lin Dong in the Mist Forest. Lin Qingtan offered to accept any condition if Chen Xuan would not hurt Lin Dong, as Chen Xuan observed that Lin Dong had made no progress and would be unable to defeat Lin Langtian at the approaching Lin Clan Competition.

• Ling Qingzhu repelled Zhang Chao and the others with a green lotus petal, spared them, and remained determined to claim Chen Xuan.
• Chen Xuan brought the surviving Lin Family members to Yan City, where Lin Xiao learned Qingyang Town had been destroyed and Lin Qingtan revealed she knew Lin Dong's whereabouts.
• Chen Xuan took Lin Qingtan to the Mist Forest, where she watched Lin Dong struggle against two powerful demonic beasts and asked what it would take for Chen Xuan to release him.
• Little Marten warned Lin Dong about a faint, terrifying aura, and Lin Dong saw the two demonic beasts bow toward an apparently empty spot.
• Chen Xuan watched Lin Dong and judged that his Form Creation Realm Greater Completion strength would not be enough to defeat Lin Langtian at the Lin Clan Competition, while Lin Qingtan offered to accept any condition if Chen Xuan would not hurt her brother.

Lin Dong and Little Marten planned to escape the Mist Forest after realizing they had attracted a terrifying enemy. Nearby, Chen Xuan guided Lin Qingtan's cultivation, and she broke through to Form Creation Realm Greater Completion.

• Little Marten warned Lin Dong that the person who had trapped them was likely more dangerous than the Wang Family, so they planned to retreat toward Great Yang Prefecture.
• Lin Qingtan tried to stay quiet so Lin Dong would not recognize her voice, while Chen Xuan assured her that his Bewilderment Array concealed their sounds.
• Chen Xuan's cultivation method rapidly increased Lin Qingtan's Yuan Power, bringing her close to a breakthrough before he briefly stopped.
• Lin Dong and Little Marten faintly heard a woman's voice, and Lin Dong felt that it sounded familiar, but they returned to planning their escape.
• Chen Xuan resumed guiding Lin Qingtan, and she broke through to Form Creation Realm Greater Completion.

Lin Dong tried to escape the Mist Forest but was beaten back by the Ancient Dragon Ape and the Shaking Heaven Demon Ape, until Chen Xuan and Lin Qingtan appeared and frightened the beasts away. Chen Xuan introduced himself as a member of Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace, leaving Lin Dong reacting to the name while Chen Xuan planned to torment him.

• Lin Dong followed Little Marten's advice and entered a tunnel to escape the Ancient Dragon Ape and the Shaking Heaven Demon Ape, but the beasts noticed and trampled the tunnel.
• Lin Dong emerged covered in dirt, and the two giant apes attacked him, sending him flying and leaving him injured.
• Chen Xuan took Lin Qingtan to Lin Dong after she worried about him, and the giant apes turned and fled when the pair appeared.
• Lin Dong angrily questioned why Lin Qingtan had come to the dangerous Mist Forest, while Little Marten warned him that Chen Xuan was more terrifying than Ling Qingzhu.
• Chen Xuan introduced himself as Chen Xuan of Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace, and Lin Dong reacted to the faction's name as Chen Xuan asked whether he had heard of it.

Chen Xuan left Lin Dong trapped with the Giant Apes after warning him that Lin Qingtan might be forced into marriage at the Lin Clan Competition. News of Chen Xuan killing a Samsara Stage expert spread across the regions, prompting sects to seek him out, while Ling Qingzhu asked Qin Xiuqing to let her go win him back.

• Chen Xuan convinced Lin Dong that the Giant Apes were helping him cultivate, then revealed that Qingtan had become his disciple and warned him about her possible forced marriage.
• Chen Xuan left with Lin Qingtan, and Little Marten berated Lin Dong for missing his chance to ask for help escaping as the Giant Apes resumed their harsher attacks.
• Ying Xuanzi and the Four Hall Masters argued over which Dao Sect hall should recruit Chen Xuan, then agreed to let Desolate Hall make the first attempt.
• Lu Feng learned that Chen Xuan had supposedly killed a Samsara Stage expert, killed Chen Quan to conceal his plans, and began coveting Chen Xuan's secret art.
• Darkness Hall's Grand Elder announced that the fourth Hall Master had died and the Darkness Ancestral Symbol and Darkness Holy Scythe were missing, prompting a continent-wide search.
• Ling Qingzhu pleaded with Qin Xiuqing to let her leave and try to win Chen Xuan back, but Qin Xiuqing warned that she would be in danger outside the palace.

Qin Xiuqing stopped Ling Qingzhu from pursuing Chen Xuan while Lin Fan and Mo Jingtian traveled to Yan City to recruit him. They learned Chen Xuan had left Tiandu County, unaware that he had already taken the White-Headed Joyous Ape outside Huangpu City.

• Qin Xiuqing sent Ling Qingzhu back to cultivate and considered whether she could repair Chen Xuan's relationship with Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace.
• Lin Fan learned of the battle in Qingyang Town and set out for Yan City with Lin Mu to find Chen Xuan.
• Mo Jingtian received the same report and traveled toward Yan City with the Black-Clothed Man; he and Lin Fan met on the way and agreed not to obstruct each other's attempts to recruit Chen Xuan.
• At the Ten Thousand Gold Commerce Association, Mo Jingtian and Lin Fan encountered Xuan Su, Xia Zhilan, and Shi Ziyue, whose identical hairpin Spiritual Treasures astonished them.
• Xuan Su told Mo Jingtian and Lin Fan that Chen Xuan had left Tiandu County, and Shi Haotian recognized Mo Jingtian as the emperor before inviting the visitors to the Ten Thousand Gold Inn.
• Chen Xuan had already taken the White-Headed Joyous Ape outside Huangpu City.

Chen Xuan used his Emotion Points on several lottery draws, obtaining an Artifact Spirit that upgraded the Tetanus Blade into a divine artifact. After killing guards who tried to seize it, he encountered Huangpu Long, patriarch of the Huangpu Clan, who offered him a martial art in exchange for the sword.

• Chen Xuan made several lottery draws and obtained a Plane Positioning Talisman, a Space-Time Shuttle Talisman, a Creation Martial Art, a Heart Devouring Gu, an Artifact Spirit, and a Tianxuan Continent Plane of Origin Fragment.
• Chen Xuan infused the Artifact Spirit into the Tetanus Blade, causing it to upgrade from a Pure Yuan Treasure into a divine artifact.
• The guards on Huangpu City’s wall tried to claim Chen Xuan’s sword, so Chen Xuan killed them and obliterated the guard captain.
• Huangpu Long arrived after sensing the treasure’s aura and introduced himself as the patriarch of the Huangpu Clan.
• Huangpu Long offered Chen Xuan a martial art of his choice if Chen Xuan handed over the treasure sword.

Chen Xuan stormed the Huangpu Clan after learning it had pressured Ling Qingzhu to visit, overpowering Huangpu Long and killing Grand Elder Huangpu Jun. He gathered the clan and the city’s homeless people in the square, then ordered the men to one side and the women to the other, provoking the young members.

• Chen Xuan rejected Huangpu Long’s offer and threats, pierced his chest with Yuan Power, and forced him to kneel and beg for mercy.
• Chen Xuan carried Huangpu Long to the main hall and demanded to know who had ordered Huangpu Jing to keep inviting Ling Qingzhu.
• Huangpu Long identified Grand Elder Huangpu Jun, whom Chen Xuan dragged forward and crushed into a cloud of blood mist.
• Chen Xuan ordered the elders to gather the city’s homeless and beggars and bring every Huangpu Clan member to the square before nightfall.
• Chen Xuan stood on the platform and ordered the crowd to put men on the left and women on the right, drawing angry protests from the young members.

Chen Xuan crushed the Huangpu Family’s resistance and handed its women over to beggars and homeless people, while capturing hostile souls in the Ten Thousand Souls Banner. Elsewhere, a black-robed woman refused a new assignment but assured her contact that her situation was under control.

• Chen Xuan killed those who defied him, forced the Huangpu Family to separate into groups, and imprisoned them in Yuan Power cages.
• Chen Xuan brought the beggars and homeless people into the square and let them and the White-Headed Joyous Ape attack the Huangpu Family’s women.
• Chen Xuan promised the beggars three days with the women, then drew the souls of hostile Huangpu Family members into the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.
• In a cave near Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace, a black-robed man told a black-robed woman that the boss wanted her to handle a new matter.
• The woman refused to leave her current role, warned that super sects were heading to the Great Yan Dynasty, and told the man everything was under control before vanishing.

Chen Xuan wiped out the Huangpu Clan and left its territory to be claimed by others, while the Wang Family, Qin Clan, and Great Yan royal family discussed how to respond to the rising threat. At the dynasty’s border, several mysterious figures arrived on a mission they said could not fail.

• Chen Xuan killed the Huangpu Clan’s remaining people with the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, cremated their bodies, and departed as factions divided the clan’s territory.
• News of the Huangpu Clan’s destruction spread across Great Yan Prefecture, alarming Wang Lei and Wang Fu, who decided to seek help from the Qin Clan and the Royal Overlord Tiger.
• Mo Jingtian met Wang Lei and Qin Zhenfeng in the Imperial City and said he had contacted the family of the powerful expert connected to Lin Fan.
• Wang Lei and Qin Zhenfeng pledged to pay any price for the expert’s help, including offering the Great Yan throne as a sign of sincerity.
• Several mysterious figures appeared at the Great Yan border and discussed their mission to investigate the killing before insisting that they could not fail.