Chapter Summaries

Ye Chen confronted the Black Descent City Lord after dispelling his pressure, prompting the city lord to mistake him for a challenger seeking his position. As a crowd gathered to watch, Ye Chen remained confident and prepared to use the city lord as a test of his strength.

• The Black Descent City Lord sensed Ye Chen dispelling his pressure and accused Mo Ba of bringing an outsider to ambush him.
• Mo Ba and Murong Qing fled the City Lord's Mansion to avoid getting caught in a battle between Hunyuan Divine Lords.
• The commotion drew Black Arrival City's residents to the mansion, where they gathered to watch Ye Chen face the city lord.
• The spectators doubted Ye Chen could win, while Murong Qing defended her sect master and scolded Mo Ba for looking nervous.
• Ye Chen offered to spare the Black Descent City Lord if he yielded his position, and the furious city lord's killing intent surged.

Ye Chen effortlessly dodged the Black Descent City Lord’s attacks, provoking him while the crowd mistook the exchange for a one-sided beating. The city lord unleashed his signature Dark Cloud Explosive Killing Fist, shrouding Black Arrival City in darkness as the battle escalated.

• The Black Descent City Lord attacked Ye Chen with powerful punches, but Ye Chen evaded each one with minimal movement.
• Spectators mocked Ye Chen for dodging, while a few stronger experts noticed the city lord’s composure was becoming unsettled.
• Ye Chen taunted the Black Descent City Lord and concluded that he had used less than a tenth of his strength.
• The Black Descent City Lord declared he was getting serious and unleashed the Dark Cloud Explosive Killing Fist, covering Black Arrival City with dark clouds and overwhelming fist intent.

The Black Descent City Lord unleashed the Dark Cloud Explosive Killing Fist against Ye Chen, and the spectators assumed the attack had killed him. As the fist intent faded, the City Lord waited to see the result, while Murong Qing remained confident that the Sect Master would survive.

• The Black Descent City Lord appeared above Ye Chen and struck, but Ye Chen blocked his punch with one hand and called it passable.
• The City Lord turned the dark clouds into countless fists and bombarded Ye Chen until black light obscured him.
• The spectators feared Ye Chen had been killed, while Murong Qing trusted the Sect Master and scolded Mo Ba for panicking.
• Mo Ba said he would attack the City Lord from behind if the chance arose.
• The fist intent dissipated, and the Black Descent City Lord withdrew his fists and watched the spot where Ye Chen had stood.

Ye Chen emerged unscathed after taking the Black Descent City Lord’s Dark Cloud Explosive Killing Fist, leaving the crowd and the City Lord stunned. When the City Lord attacked again with his divine greataxe, Ye Chen caught it effortlessly in his enormous hand, and the City Lord began to fear him.

• Ye Chen appeared unharmed after the Black Descent City Lord’s Dark Cloud Explosive Killing Fist, shocking everyone watching.
• Mo Ba celebrated Ye Chen’s survival, while the Black Descent City Lord struggled to believe his attack had failed.
• Ye Chen dismissed the City Lord’s strength, prompting the City Lord to transform into a giant and summon a powerful greataxe.
• The Black Descent City Lord swung his greataxe at Ye Chen, whose body he had restrained with his power.
• Ye Chen raised an enormous hand and caught the greataxe, stopping the strike and leaving the City Lord terrified.

The Black Descent City Lord drew on the City Lord's Mansion's formations and used Demon God Transformation to strengthen himself against Ye Chen. He reclaimed his massive axe and launched an all-out strike, leaving the battle poised for a decisive clash.

• The Black Descent City Lord abandoned his trapped axe and stamped on the void to draw power from the City Lord's Mansion's formations.
• The City Lord's Mansion's formations sent seven-colored power into the Black Descent City Lord, greatly increasing his strength.
• The Black Descent City Lord used Demon God Transformation, growing to five thousand zhang and further boosting his power.
• The Black Descent City Lord shattered Ye Chen's enormous palm and reclaimed his enlarged massive axe.
• The Black Descent City Lord poured all his strength into an axe strike aimed at Ye Chen.

Ye Chen defeated the Black Descent City Lord with the Mountain and River Seal, winning the challenge and becoming Black Arrival City's new city lord. The stunned residents celebrated the change of rulers and speculated that Ye Chen would rank among the strongest city lords in the Demon Abyss Eye.

• Ye Chen used the Mountain and River Seal to stop the Black Descent City Lord's enormous axe from striking him.
• The Mountain and River Seal suppressed the city lord's attacks and crushed him beneath its mountains and rivers, breaking both his arms.
• The people of Black Arrival City watched in disbelief as Ye Chen defeated the city lord and won the challenge.
• The residents recognized Ye Chen as their new city lord and speculated that he would rank in the top ten, or even the top five, of the City Lord Rankings.

Ye Chen defeated the Black Descent City Lord and used the Mountain and River Seal to force him into becoming a servant. The defeated lord began explaining how Hunyuan experts were ranked.

• Ye Chen won the challenge, and Mo Ba loudly declared him his master while the crowd muttered about his eagerness.
• Ye Chen questioned the Black Descent City Lord about his standing among Hunyuan Divine Lords and offered to spare him as a servant.
• The Black Descent City Lord refused, so Ye Chen used the Mountain and River Seal to crush his body and soul until he surrendered.
• Ye Chen stopped the suppression after the Black Descent City Lord agreed to cooperate, and Murong Qing prepared tea beside him.
• The Black Descent City Lord began explaining the divisions among Hunyuan experts.

Ye Chen questioned the Black Descent City Lord about the Hunyuan Divine Lord ranks and the strength of the five kings. He learned that Hunyuan Divine King came after Hunyuan Divine Lord, while the next realm remained unknown.

• The Black Descent City Lord explained that each of the four Hunyuan Divine Lord stages was separated by a vast gap, and said Ye Chen seemed to be at late stage.
• Mo Ba struck the Black Descent City Lord for talking back, and Ye Chen warned him to answer directly.
• The Black Descent City Lord suspected Ye Chen was an outsider after hearing his unfamiliar questions about the realms beyond Heavenly Emperor.
• The Black Descent City Lord revealed that the five kings were all peak Hunyuan Divine Lords, and Ye Chen wondered if the Demon Abyss Eye capped cultivation at that stage.
• The Black Descent City Lord said Hunyuan Divine King came after Hunyuan Divine Lord, but admitted he knew nothing beyond that.

Ye Chen forcibly stripped half of the Black Descent City Lord’s Divine Lord origin, leaving him alive but gravely weakened, then rejected the position of city lord. Black Arrival City’s prominent figures arrived to offer gifts to the new ruler.

• Ye Chen used five golden threads to extract half of the Black Descent City Lord’s origin while sparing his life.
• The Black Descent City Lord’s cultivation fell to the Immortal Emperor Realm Stage, and Ye Chen flung him outside the city.
• Mo Ba congratulated Ye Chen on becoming city lord, but Ye Chen declared he had never wanted the position.
• Murong Qing recognized that Ye Chen had no interest in ruling Black Arrival City.
• Black Arrival City’s prominent figures hurried to the City Lord’s Mansion with valuable gifts for Ye Chen.

Ye Chen accepted a trove of gifts from Black Arrival City's powerful residents after they mistook his silence for dissatisfaction. He learned that the City Lord Rankings measured the strength of all 435 city lords, and the former city lord had ranked 105th.

• Black Arrival City's influential residents offered Ye Chen congratulations and gifts, but his indifferent reaction left them worried that he was displeased.
• A wealthy merchant added rare pills to her offering, prompting the other big shots to compete by bringing out their most precious treasures.
• Ye Chen had Murong Qing store the gifts in a spatial Law Treasure, easing the residents' nerves.
• The residents praised Ye Chen's strength and predicted that he would rank among the Demon Abyss Eye's strongest city lords.
• Ye Chen asked what the City Lord Rankings were, and the residents explained that the former city lord had ranked 105th among 435 city lords.

After learning that the Demon Abyss Eye held more than four hundred city lords, Ye Chen announced that he would kill them all. He forced the people of Black Arrival City to accept his order, leaving them too terrified to object.

• Ye Chen learned that the five great kings ruled more than four hundred cities and that the former city lord ranked one hundred and fifth.
• After hearing about the strongest city lords, Ye Chen declared that he would kill every city lord and invited anyone who objected to find him in Black Arrival City.
• The people in the City Lord's Mansion urged Ye Chen to focus on developing Black Arrival City instead of provoking the other city lords.
• Ye Chen released his cultivation pressure across Black Arrival City, crushing everyone to the ground, and warned that anyone who disobeyed his order would die.
• Ye Chen withdrew his pressure and asked if anyone still had complaints, but no one dared raise their head.

Ye Chen dismissed the city lords’ doubts about accepting his challenge and said he would hunt them down if they stayed away. After learning that the Blood Prison King was an ancient, elusive figure, Ye Chen decided to test the city lords first and leave the search for the five kings for later.

• Mo Ba warned Ye Chen that the arrogant city lords might ignore his challenge, and others voiced the same concern.
• Ye Chen said he would kill the city lords himself if they refused to come, then suggested he could instead seek out the Blood Prison King.
• Mo Ba and the scantily clad woman warned Ye Chen that the Blood Prison King was one of the five great kings and could not be defeated by a city lord.
• Mo Ba explained that the Blood Prison King had existed since the Demon Abyss Eye’s beginning and that no city lord knew where he lived or how to contact him.
• Ye Chen decided to use the city lords as opponents to test his abilities before searching for the five great kings.

Ye Chen used an enormous, expanding mountain range of Divine Source to lure the people of Black Arrival City into approaching it. The treasure’s deadly pressure killed thousands, and the survivors realized they could not claim it without risking their lives.

• Ye Chen decided to use the Divine Source to tempt the other city lords and draw them out.
• Ye Chen enlarged the Divine Source until it became a vast mountain range above Black Arrival City, stunning everyone who saw it.
• Greedy residents of Black Arrival City flew toward the Divine Source, hoping to seize some for themselves.
• An overwhelming pressure crushed the first arrivals, and those who tried again were killed when their bodies burst into blood mist.
• More than ten thousand people died, while the survivors retreated and recognized that touching the Divine Source meant death.

Ye Chen displayed a Divine Source mountain range as bait to lure other city lords into attacking him, while the people of Black Arrival City speculated about the new city lord’s power. He decided the treasure alone might not be enough and began considering another lure tied to the city’s appetite for living flesh.

• Ten people tried to reach the Divine Source mountain range and exploded into bloody mist, frightening the people of Black Arrival City into giving up their attempts.
• The residents blamed Ye Chen for the strange events and argued that displaying such a treasure would attract powerful rivals.
• Inside the City Lord's Mansion, Ye Chen asked whether the Divine Source mountain range would tempt other city lords to come seize it.
• The beautiful woman and the others agreed that the treasure would attract city lords, but warned Ye Chen that the resulting pressure would be dangerous.
• Ye Chen decided to raise the stakes and asked whether devouring living beings from outside strengthened the people of the Demon Abyss; the beautiful woman answered and then realized something was wrong.

Ye Chen revealed that he was an outsider and ordered Black Arrival City’s prominent figures to spread the news, using himself and a divine source mountain range as bait to lure powerful opponents. The rumor reached Shadow Demon City, where its lord erupted in anger over the death of his former ally, Black Arrival City’s previous lord.

• Ye Chen told the City Lord’s Mansion residents to publicize that he was a fresh living being from outside, hoping to attract formidable hunters.
• The residents spread the news throughout Black Arrival City, where its people were shocked and debated Ye Chen’s plan to lure the top city lords with his identity and a divine source mountain range.
• The news spread to nearby cities and reached the Shadow Demon City Lord, who had been on good terms with Black Arrival City’s former lord.
• The Shadow Demon City Lord smashed a precious drinking table and shouted that someone had killed his pig brother.

The Shadow Demon City Lord abandoned his plans for revenge after learning that Ye Chen had killed the Black Descent City Lord despite the mansion’s formations, and decided to befriend the powerful newcomer. When he learned Ye Chen was an outsider who had challenged every city lord and was offering Divine Source to draw them in, he began to suspect Ye Chen had a hidden purpose.

• The Shadow Demon City Lord questioned a guard about his old friend’s death and learned that Ye Chen had defeated the Black Descent City Lord.
• After hearing that the Black Descent City Lord had used the City Lord’s Mansion’s formations, the Shadow Demon City Lord gave up on revenge and planned to visit Black Arrival City with gifts.
• A second guard reported that the new Black Descent City Lord had challenged every city lord in the Demon Abyss Eye.
• The Shadow Demon City Lord learned that Ye Chen was an outsider and wondered why he had revealed his identity and invited everyone to fight him.
• The guard added that Ye Chen had offered a large amount of Divine Source to lure the other city lords over.

After learning that Ye Chen had revealed a vast mountain range of divine source above Black Arrival City, the Shadow Demon City Lord sought an ally to help seize it. He and the Heavenly Wing City Lord joined forces and flew toward Black Arrival City to kill Ye Chen and divide his treasure.

• The Shadow Demon City Lord learned that a mountain range of divine source floated above Black Arrival City and decided to claim it.
• The Shadow Demon City Lord realized Ye Chen might have prepared a trap, so he went to find an ally rather than attack alone.
• The Shadow Demon City Lord arrived at Heavenly Wing City and discovered that the Heavenly Wing City Lord also planned to attack Ye Chen.
• The two city lords agreed to kill Ye Chen and split the divine source mountain range between them.
• The Shadow Demon City Lord and the Heavenly Wing City Lord flew toward Black Arrival City, expecting their combined strength to overwhelm Ye Chen.

The Heavenly Wing City Lord and the Shadow Demon City Lord arrived at Black Arrival City to seize its enormous Divine Source mountain range and kill Ye Chen. Their attack failed to break through Ye Chen’s protections, so the Shadow Demon City Lord called him out to fight.

• The Heavenly Wing City Lord and the Shadow Demon City Lord reached Black Arrival City and were astonished by its vast Divine Source mountain range.
• The Heavenly Wing City Lord struck the mountain range with black light, but Ye Chen’s restrictions repelled the attack and disturbed the residents’ cultivation.
• The Shadow Demon City Lord recognized the protective restrictions and concluded that they would have to kill Ye Chen before taking the Divine Source.
• The Shadow Demon City Lord called for Ye Chen to come out, declaring that he had come to avenge his brother.

Ye Chen faced the Shadow Demon City Lord and the Heavenly Wing City Lord, who attacked together after arriving in Black Arrival City. He effortlessly dodged their killing moves, leaving both City Lords shocked and the Shadow Demon City Lord furious.

• Black Arrival City's residents panicked when they learned the Shadow Demon City Lord had arrived, and many suspected he wanted the Divine Source rather than revenge.
• Mo Ba told Ye Chen that the Shadow Demon City Lord ranked one hundred and third among City Lords, but Ye Chen dismissed his strength as unremarkable.
• Ye Chen appeared above Black Arrival City and met the Shadow Demon City Lord and Heavenly Wing City Lord, who struggled to assess his strength.
• The Shadow Demon City Lord claimed Ye Chen had killed his brother, and Ye Chen invited him to attack, treating the two City Lords as whetstones.
• The Heavenly Wing City Lord and Shadow Demon City Lord attacked Ye Chen together, but he dodged every strike with ease.
• The Shadow Demon City Lord grew furious when he realized Ye Chen was toying with them and still had not been touched.

Ye Chen faced the Shadow Demon City Lord and Heavenly Wing City Lord as they unleashed their strongest attacks. His Heavenly Sound of the Great Dao destroyed their assaults and left the two city lords reeling, with the Hundred Ghost Fan ruined.

• The Shadow Demon City Lord and Heavenly Wing City Lord stopped chasing Ye Chen and agreed to attack him together before their strength ran out.
• The Shadow Demon City Lord summoned a massive ghost face whose roar struck at the souls of Black Arrival City's residents, killing some and leaving others in agony.
• The Heavenly Wing City Lord unleashed the Hundred Ghost Fan, releasing the souls of powerful beings he had killed to charge at Ye Chen.
• Ye Chen answered with the Heavenly Sound of the Great Dao, which drowned out the ghostly roar and caused the ghost face and the released souls to dissipate.
• The Shadow Demon City Lord suffered severe backlash, while the Hundred Ghost Fan cracked and lost every image on its surface.