Chapter Summaries

Zheng Zhong opened the Heaven Sealing Array Diagram and summoned King Tian Ming, who trapped the other experts and attacked Chen Xuan. Chen Xuan blocked the attack with a banner that released figures from the Nine Kings Palace, prompting King Tian Ming to recognize the Eight Demon Generals and renew his killing intent.

• Zheng Zhong released Otherworldly Demonic Qi from the Heaven Sealing Array Diagram, and King Tian Ming appeared before the gathered competitors.
• King Tian Ming taunted Chen Xuan about his marriage, while Chen Xuan killed dozens of Nirvana Realm experts who criticized him.
• King Tian Ming trapped Qi Lei, Lu Feng, Ling Qingzhu, and the others in a Demonic Qi prison and demanded that Chen Xuan surrender.
• Ling Qingzhu offered to deal with King Tian Ming if Chen Xuan returned with her to Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace, but Chen Xuan refused.
• King Tian Ming fired a beam of Demonic Qi at Chen Xuan, who blocked it with a banner that summoned figures from the Nine Kings Palace.
• King Tian Ming recognized the Eight Demon Generals and accused Chen Xuan of wiping out the Nine Kings Palace.

Chen Xuan used the All Character Secret and the Time Stop Divine Tablet to kill King Tian Ming and defeat the Demons’ allies. After the survivors declared him the competition’s champion, the major sects competed to recruit him, and Chen Xuan said he had already made his choice.

• Chen Xuan drew several rewards, including the All Character Secret and the incomplete Time Stop Divine Tablet, then used the secret art to raise his strength to the Reincarnation Stage threshold.
• King Tian Ming tried to retreat, but Chen Xuan used the Devouring Ancestral Symbol to pull Zheng Zhong and the others toward him.
• Chen Xuan stopped time and beheaded King Tian Ming, then captured his soul in the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.
• With King Tian Ming dead, the trapped survivors escaped and killed Zheng Zhong and his companions.
• Lu Feng proposed declaring Chen Xuan the champion, and the gathered sects competed to recruit him with offers and promises of beautiful disciples.
• Chen Xuan interrupted the sects’ argument and told them he had already made his choice.

Lin Dong received a replacement arm and prepared to cultivate before taking revenge on Chen Xuan, while the Yuan Sect leaders agreed to use a Black Lotus to stir up conflict across the Eastern Xuan Region. Chen Xuan arrived at Dao Sect with Yun Yun and Su Rou, where the other hall masters were waiting to recruit him.

• In a desert cave, the Demonic Qi faction learned that King Tian Ming had been wiped out and decided to avoid acting directly against Chen Xuan for now.
• Lin Dong tested his new arm, then left with the Eighth to cultivate where Demonic Qi was densest until he could take revenge on Chen Xuan.
• A Dark Shadow gave Tian Yuanzi a Black Lotus and ordered the Yuan Sect leaders to disrupt the Eastern Xuan Region and investigate the Ice Lord's reincarnation.
• Tian Yuanzi, Ren Yuanzi, and Di Yuanzi planned to distribute the lotus's Demonic Seeds to trusted elders and disciples before targeting weaker sects.
• Chen Xuan joined Dao Sect with Yun Yun and Su Rou, and Qi Lei led them to the Hall Selection Platform, where the other hall masters had gathered.

Chen Xuan arrived at the Dao Sect, where the hall masters competed to recruit him before he chose the Heaven Hall. Ying Huanhuan also assigned Yun Yun to join as a registered disciple, and the new disciples were divided among the four halls.

• The hall masters of the Earth, Flood, Desolate, and Heaven Halls argued over recruiting Chen Xuan after learning he had reached the Initial Stage of the Life Profound Realm.
• Ying Xuanzi appeared, praised Chen Xuan, and asked him to choose a hall.
• Ying Huanhuan urged Chen Xuan to join the Heaven Hall, and Chen Xuan chose it.
• Ying Huanhuan judged Yun Yun too weak to be an inner disciple, but Qi Lei accepted her into the Heaven Hall.
• Su Rou and Su Kui joined the Heaven Hall, while the remaining recruits were divided among the other halls.
• Chen Xuan arrived at the Heaven Hall and began planning his next steps.

Chen Xuan joined the Dao Sect’s Heaven Hall, exciting Ying Xiaoxiao and enraging the Yuan Sect leaders. When Ling Qingzhu learned he had gone to the sect where her rival Ying Xiaoxiao lived, she wondered whether he had chosen it to provoke her.

• Ying Huanhuan told Ying Xiaoxiao that Chen Xuan had joined the Dao Sect, and Ying Xiaoxiao blushed when she saw him below with a beautiful woman.
• After Ying Huanhuan left, Ying Xiaoxiao formed images of Chen Xuan and Ling Qingzhu from Nirvana Qi, shattered Ling Qingzhu’s image, and vowed she would not win forever.
• Lu Feng told Ren Yuanzi that Chen Xuan had joined the Dao Sect, and Ren Yuanzi rebuked him for failing to recruit or kill Chen Xuan.
• Di Yuanzi used the Black Lotus to raise Lu Feng and five elders to the Samsara Stage, then ordered them to wipe out every sect except the Dao Sect.
• Ling Qingzhu learned Chen Xuan had joined Heaven Hall and suspected he had done so to provoke her, since Ying Xiaoxiao was her rival.

Wang Yan returned to the Dao Sect and asked Chen Xuan to help him seek revenge against Yuan Sect at the Sect Competition. After learning the Hall Examination was moved up and the Sect Competition would take place in six months, Chen Xuan asked whether he could study four martial arts scriptures in succession.

• Wang Yan returned to Heaven Hall and asked Ying Huanhuan where Chen Xuan was.
• Wang Yan found Chen Xuan training Yun Yun and asked him for help taking revenge at the Sect Competition; Chen Xuan agreed, provided the other sects did not object.
• Ying Huanhuan suspected Chen Xuan had agreed to help Wang Yan, while Ying Xiaoxiao defended Chen Xuan and told them the Hall Examination had been moved up to one month away.
• Ying Xiaoxiao said the Sect Competition would be held in six months, and Chen Xuan asked whether he could try to comprehend the Heaven Emperor Scripture, Earth Emperor Scripture, Flood Scripture, and Great Desolation Scripture one after another.

Chen Xuan rapidly comprehended the Heaven Emperor Scripture, Earth Emperor Scripture, and Flood Scripture, astonishing the Dao Sect's hall masters and disciples. At Desolate Hall, Chen Zhen required him to comprehend the other three stone tablets before he could attempt the Great Desolation Scripture.

• Chen Xuan explained that he had studied the Dao Sect's four great scriptures, prompting doubts among the disciples about whether he could comprehend them all.
• Chen Xuan comprehended the Heaven Emperor Scripture almost immediately, shocking Qi Lei, Ying Xiaoxiao, and Ying Huanhuan.
• Chen Xuan traveled with Qi Lei to Earth Hall and quickly comprehended the Earth Emperor Scripture, leaving Xia Yan and the disciples stunned.
• Chen Xuan went on to comprehend Flood Hall's Flood Scripture, making Zhu Shan regret not recruiting him earlier.
• Ying Huanhuan and Ying Xiaoxiao debated whether Chen Xuan could comprehend the Great Desolation Scripture as he arrived at Desolate Hall.
• Chen Zhen told Qi Lei that Chen Xuan had to comprehend the martial arts on the other three stone tablets before qualifying to attempt the Great Desolation Scripture.

Chen Xuan insisted on comprehending the Great Desolation Scripture directly and began meditating before the Great Desolation Monument, drawing the Dao Sect’s leaders and disciples to watch. As he remained absorbed in the monument, Ying Huanhuan worried about him, prompting Ying Xiaoxiao to suspect her feelings.

• Chen Xuan rejected Wu Dao’s suggestion to first study Desolate Force and asked to comprehend the Great Desolation Scripture directly.
• Wu Dao and Chen Zhen agreed to make an exception and brought Chen Xuan to the Great Desolation Monument.
• The hall leaders, elite disciples, Sect Leader Ying Xuanzi, and the Supreme Elder gathered to observe Chen Xuan’s attempt.
• Chen Xuan touched the monument, whose cracks and black spots stirred the Darkness Ancestral Symbol, Devouring Ancestral Symbol, and Ancestral Stone, then entered meditation.
• Ying Xuanzi said he believed Chen Xuan could succeed, while the Supreme Elder discussed his talent and the possibility that Ying Huanhuan had feelings for him.
• Ying Huanhuan anxiously asked whether Chen Xuan might suffer a setback, and Ying Xiaoxiao suspected she cared deeply about him.

Chen Xuan entered the Great Desolation Monument and convinced its Tablet Spirit that his two Ancestral Talismans could help destroy the Demon it had suppressed. The Tablet Spirit agreed to fight alongside him, and the Demon attacked as Chen Xuan prepared to face it.

• Ying Huanhuan insisted she still wanted to see Chen Xuan fail, while the Dao Sect leaders celebrated when he connected with the Tablet Spirit.
• Chen Xuan offered to help the Tablet Spirit destroy the Demon, but it doubted he was strong enough because he was only at the Life Profound Realm.
• The Demon’s Black Qi surged against the Great Desolation Monument, and Chen Xuan used the Devouring Ancestral Symbol to drive it back.
• Chen Xuan revealed both the Devouring Ancestral Symbol and the Darkness Ancestral Symbol, persuading the Tablet Spirit that together they could destroy the Demon King.
• The Demon took the form of a Dark Shadow and attacked Chen Xuan with a thousand-zhang demonic claw as the Tablet Spirit joined the fight.

Chen Xuan stopped time to destroy the True King Demon, purified the Great Desolation Monument, and received the Great Desolation Scripture. The monument acknowledged him as its master and flew into his hands, leaving the Dao Sect’s leaders and disciples stunned and accusing him of taking their treasured artifact.

• Chen Xuan used Time Stop and the Ancestral Talismans with the Ancestral Stone to erase the True King Demon, then purified the Great Desolation Monument’s Demonic Qi.
• Chen Xuan explained his time-stopping ability to the Tablet Spirit, which approved of him and gave him the Great Desolation Scripture.
• Chen Xuan asked whether other Demons had contacted the True King, and the Tablet Spirit said no; after learning he would keep fighting Demons, it acknowledged him as its master.
• The Great Desolation Monument’s space cracked apart, and Chen Xuan emerged while the Dao Sect leaders and disciples waited, assuming he had failed to comprehend the scripture.
• The Great Desolation Monument shrank to palm size and flew to Chen Xuan, prompting Wu Dao to accuse him of claiming Desolate Hall’s treasured artifact.

Chen Xuan returned the Great Desolation Scripture’s cultivation method to Dao Sect after gaining the Great Desolation Monument, while Yun Yun and Su Rou joined Ying Huanhuan on a training expedition to Blood Rock Land. The group reached the Dao Sect encampment and went with Sister Fang to investigate a strange situation, as shadowy figures watched from a nearby peak.

• Chen Xuan gave Ying Xuanzi a stone tablet containing the Great Desolation Scripture’s cultivation method and warned that only suitable disciples should study it.
• Ying Huanhuan persuaded Yun Yun and Su Rou to join her training expedition, despite Yun Yun’s initial refusal and doubts about Ying Huanhuan leading the group.
• Ying Huanhuan led the expedition to Blood Rock Land, where Dao Sect had received reports of something unusual in its elemental ore mountains.
• At the Dao Sect encampment, Ying Huanhuan reunited with Sister Fang, who took the group to inspect the strange situation.
• Several Dark Shadows appeared on a distant mountain peak after the group departed.

Chen Xuan broke through to Great Completion of Life Profound Realm, then hurried to Blood Rock Land after learning Yun Yun had gone there with Ying Huanhuan and Su Rou. Ying Huanhuan subdued a group of Fire Crystal Demon Apes and found an Immortal Essence Ancient Tree, but an unknown voice interrupted them as she reached for its fruits.

• Chen Xuan broke through to Great Completion of Life Profound Realm, drawing attention from across the Dao Sect.
• Chen Xuan learned that Yun Yun, Su Rou, and Ying Huanhuan had gone to Blood Rock Land, so Ying Xiaoxiao offered to take him there.
• Ying Huanhuan, Yun Yun, Su Rou, and Yuan Fang found dozens of Fire Crystal Demon Apes and suspected something had attracted them to the forest.
• Ying Huanhuan used green zither strings and a sound-wave attack to put the Fire Crystal Demon Apes to sleep, then led the others deeper into the forest.
• The group discovered an Immortal Essence Ancient Tree bearing five crimson fruits, and an unknown voice announced that their treasure hunt ended there as Ying Huanhuan reached for the fruits.

Ying Huanhuan and her companions discovered that the Yuan Sect had lured them to an Immortal Essence Ancient Tree and trapped them. As the elders closed in, Ying Huanhuan used the Heavenly Phoenix Zither to break their attack, but the group remained surrounded and in danger.

• Yuan Sect elders revealed that they had planted and ripened the Immortal Essence Ancient Tree to lure Ying Huanhuan and her companions into a trap.
• Ying Huanhuan urged Su Rou, Yun Yun, and Yuan Fang to hold off the elders while someone escaped to alert the Dao Sect, but they refused to leave her behind.
• Ying Huanhuan played the Heavenly Phoenix Zither, but Su Li's Yuan Power hand overwhelmed her attack and shattered Su Rou's barrier.
• Yun Yun used Wind's Extreme, Fallen Kill to sever a finger from the Yuan Power hand, and Ying Huanhuan's Formless Bodhi Sound then shattered it.
• Su Li and Wang Su agreed to attack Ying Huanhuan together, while Cheng Pu asked to take Su Rou and Yun Yun as warming maids; Yun Yun rejected him.

Chen Xuan arrived in Blood Rock Land as the Yuan Sect elders attacked Ying Huanhuan, but Su Rou had already been killed by Cheng Pu. He killed the attackers and rescued Yun Yun, then faced a new threat as a voice from the Yuan Sect emerged from twisted space.

• Cheng Pu snapped Su Rou's neck and seized Yun Yun, while Su Li attacked Ying Huanhuan.
• Chen Xuan appeared, killed Su Li, and forced Cheng Pu to release Yun Yun.
• Chen Xuan used Time Stop to kill Cheng Pu and Wang Su, then killed Shi Dong when he refused to explain the attack.
• Chen Xuan collected the elders' souls and stored Su Rou's corpse, while Ying Huanhuan blamed herself for what happened.
• A voice from the Yuan Sect emerged from twisted space and rebuked Chen Xuan.

Ren Yuanzi confronted Chen Xuan and tried to take him back to Yuan Sect, but Chen Xuan fought back with powerful treasures and techniques. Chen Xuan pierced Ren Yuanzi with the Tetanus Blade, whose strange force began devouring his life force.

• Ren Yuanzi appeared and demanded Chen Xuan return to Yuan Sect to be punished for killing its elders.
• Chen Xuan raised his aura to the Samsara Stage and faced Ren Yuanzi inside a barrier infused with spatial and reincarnation power.
• Ren Yuanzi attacked Chen Xuan, then accused him of colluding with Demons after seeing the Eight Demon Generals’ soul bodies in the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.
• Ren Yuanzi summoned a crystal giant finger, but Chen Xuan blocked it with black armor and sent sword shadows toward him.
• The Tetanus Blade pierced Ren Yuanzi’s waist, and its strange force began devouring his life force.

Chen Xuan tried to kill Ren Yuanzi, but Tian Yuanzi and Di Yuanzi intervened and attacked him and Ying Huanhuan. Ying Xuanzi and the newly returned Qian Tian arrived to protect the Dao Sect disciples, leaving the Yuan Gate leaders weighing whether to fight.

• Tian Yuanzi and Di Yuanzi arrived as Chen Xuan blocked Ren Yuanzi's escape and slashed at him.
• Tian Yuanzi stopped Chen Xuan's strike, and Di Yuanzi attacked Chen Xuan, Ying Huanhuan, and the others.
• Ying Xuanzi shattered Di Yuanzi's attack and confronted the Yuan Gate leaders after Ying Huanhuan and Yun Yun accused their elders of starting the conflict and killing Su Rou.
• Ying Xuanzi refused to hand Chen Xuan over, and Qian Tian arrived after breaking through to the Samsara Stage.
• The Yuan Gate leaders realized the Dao Sect now matched their strength and hesitated over whether to continue fighting.

Chen Xuan stood against the Three Giants of Yuan Gate, rejected their accusation that he colluded with Demons, and helped Ying Xuanzi keep him from being taken to Yuan Sect. Yuan Sect withdrew after Tian Yuanzi conceded, but Ren Yuanzi killed people who mocked the sect, and Dao Sect prepared to return with the Immortal Essence Ancient Tree.

• Chen Xuan challenged Ren Yuanzi, then denied using a black banner or colluding with Demons when Ren Yuanzi accused him.
• Tian Yuanzi proposed taking Chen Xuan to Yuan Sect for an examination, but Ying Xuanzi refused to surrender a Dao Sect disciple.
• Chen Xuan taunted the Yuan Sect leaders, and Tian Yuanzi ended the dispute and left with the dead elders’ bodies.
• Ren Yuanzi struck down people discussing Yuan Sect as they watched the leaders depart.
• Ying Huanhuan and Yun Yun blamed themselves for Su Rou’s death, while Ying Xuanzi and Qian Tian urged Dao Sect to leave.
• Ying Huanhuan showed Ying Xuanzi the Immortal Essence Ancient Tree, and he brought it back to Dao Sect.

Chen Xuan revealed the Ten Thousand Souls Banner to Ying Xuanzi and warned him that the Yuan Sect harbored Otherworldly Demonic Qi. After comforting Su Kui over Su Rou’s death and reprimanding Yun Yun, Chen Xuan left her and Ying Huanhuan to reconcile as the Dao Sect’s Hall Examination began.

• Chen Xuan showed Ying Xuanzi the Ten Thousand Souls Banner and summoned the soul of the Eight Demon Generals, convincing him that Chen Xuan had killed a General-level Otherworldly Demon.
• Chen Xuan warned Ying Xuanzi that the Yuan Sect Leader carried Otherworldly Demonic Qi, and Ying Xuanzi agreed to consider joining forces with other sects against the Yuan Sect.
• Chen Xuan told Su Kui that a Yuan Sect elder had killed Su Rou and that he had already killed the culprit; he also suggested that Su Rou might someday be revived.
• Chen Xuan scolded Yun Yun for going out, but relented when Ying Huanhuan took responsibility, and Yun Yun and Ying Huanhuan grew closer.
• The Dao Sect’s Hall Examination began, while Chen Xuan cultivated on a mountain peak as the only disciple allowed to skip it and still enter the Sect Competition.

Tian Yuanzi learned that the Black Lotus’s Black Qi could counteract the strange power draining Ren Yuanzi, and the trio planned to target Chen Xuan and Ying Huanhuan. Dao Sect secured alliances with Sword Sect and Hongya Cave while warning other sects about Yuan Sect, and Ling Qingzhu learned Chen Xuan was safe before hearing that Wei Sen had come to see her.

• The Dark Shadow scolded Tian Yuanzi, Di Yuanzi, and Ren Yuanzi for failing to eliminate Ying Huanhuan and Chen Xuan, then showed them how the Black Lotus’s Black Qi could counteract the force draining Ren Yuanzi.
• Tian Yuanzi and Di Yuanzi rejoiced that the Black Qi could counter Chen Xuan’s sword, and they discussed using the Darkness Hall and the coming Sect Competition against their enemies.
• Dao Sect warned the Eastern Xuan Region’s major sects that Yuan Sect planned to attack, but only Sword Sect and Hongya Cave agreed to form an alliance.
• Ling Qingzhu heard that Chen Xuan had fought at Blood Rock Land and injured Ren Yuanzi, and she resolved to keep improving her strength.
• Ling Qingzhu learned that Wei Sen, Dao Sect’s deputy hall master, had come to see her and reacted with joy.

Wei Sen visited Ling Qingzhu to seek an alliance, but she demanded that Chen Xuan ask her himself. As Dao Sect arrived at Otherworldly Demon City for the Sect Competition, Yuan Sect plotted revenge against Ying Xuanzi and a seemingly dead figure appeared at its head, shocking Ying Huanhuan and Ying Xiaoxiao.

• Ling Qingzhu questioned Wei Sen about Chen Xuan and refused an alliance unless Chen Xuan came to ask her personally.
• Wei Sen returned to Dao Sect and relayed Ling Qingzhu's demand, but Chen Xuan told her to fuck off.
• Dao Sect selected more than a thousand disciples for the Sect Competition and set out for Otherworldly Demon City.
• Ren Yuanzi proposed a cruel scheme against Ying Xuanzi, and Tian Yuanzi agreed while suggesting an additional plan.
• Chen Xuan and Dao Sect arrived in Otherworldly Demon City, where the gathered sects watched their arrival.
• Ying Huanhuan and Ying Xiaoxiao recognized the person leading Yuan Sect and were shocked that someone they thought had been killed had returned.