Chapter Summaries

At the Grand Gathering registration office, an official insults Xie Purou and Youruo for representing the Kunlun Holy Land. Xie Purou reveals the token bestowed by the Formless Saint Emperor, and its imperial might forces the entire Wind and Rain Pavilion to kneel.

• Ye Chen, Xie Purou, and Youruo follow Shi Kai and Mu Wanling through the Wind and Rain Pavilion to the registration office.
• A registration official warmly gives Shi Kai and Mu Wanling top-tier competition credentials, then scorns Xie Purou and Youruo and orders them to leave.
• Xie Purou angrily reveals the golden token bestowed by the Formless Saint Emperor and places it on the desk.
• The official recognizes the token as the Saint Emperor's Imperial Decree, falls to his knees, and begs the women to spare him.
• The token's imperial might sweeps across the plaza, forcing thousands of cultivators to kneel before spreading throughout the Wind and Rain Pavilion.

Xie Purou revealed the Saint Emperor's Imperial Decree, forcing the Wind and Rain Pavilion's cultivators to kneel and silencing those who had mocked her and Youruo. Feng Wanli arrived to honor Ye Chen and the two women, then dismissed the official who had insulted them.

• The Saint Emperor's pressure forced Shi Kai, Mu Wanling, Gu Hanchuan, and the cultivators throughout the Wind and Rain Pavilion to kneel, while Ye Chen, Xie Purou, and Youruo remained standing.
• Xie Purou displayed the Saint Emperor's Imperial Decree, and the registration official begged her for mercy as the crowd feared the consequences of offending the decree's holders.
• Feng Wanli and the Wind and Rain Pavilion's elders arrived, and Feng Wanli bowed to Ye Chen, Xie Purou, and Youruo.
• Xie Purou put away the token, ending the pressure, and Feng Wanli struck the official and ordered the guards to remove him.

After Feng Wanli punished Gu Hanchuan for offending Ye Chen and his companions, he personally escorted them to the Wind and Rain Pavilion’s forbidden Nine Heavens Immortal Hall. Ye Chen calmly asked for tea, and Feng Wanli began preparing his treasured Wind and Rain Immortal Tea with Yellow Springs Holy Water.

• Feng Wanli apologized to Ye Chen, gave him three Purple-Gold Heaven’s Chosen Tokens, and offered to cover the trio’s expenses in the Divine Capital.
• Gu Hanchuan watched from the second floor as Feng Wanli bowed to Ye Chen, while Shi Kai and Mu Wanling felt relieved they had treated the trio kindly.
• Feng Wanli led Ye Chen, Xie Purou, and Youruo through the pavilion’s restrictions to the Nine Heavens Immortal Hall, a place only the Saint Emperor had entered before.
• Xie Purou excitedly explored the hall, while Youruo sensed the power in its Spiritual Qi and Ye Chen sat down and asked Feng Wanli for tea.
• Feng Wanli opened a jade box containing his treasured Wind and Rain Immortal Tea and brought out Yellow Springs Holy Water to prepare it.

Ye Chen drank tea brewed by Feng Wanli with Yellow Springs Holy Water and praised it, easing Feng Wanli’s fear for the Wind and Rain Pavilion. Ye Chen’s gaze then unexpectedly opened Feng Wanli’s path beyond the third heaven of the Saint Emperor Realm, and Feng Wanli began a sudden enlightenment in the Nine Heavens Immortal Hall.

• Feng Wanli served Ye Chen tea brewed with holy water while anxiously awaiting his judgment.
• Ye Chen drank the tea, absorbed its Dao energy without a ripple, and said it was passable.
• Xie Purou drank her tea in one gulp and surged to the peak of the middle stage Hunyuan Divine King, while Youruo’s sacred bloodline awakened as she sipped hers.
• Ye Chen looked at Feng Wanli, and the gaze broke through the cultivation shackles that had troubled him for hundreds of thousands of years.
• Feng Wanli knelt to thank Ye Chen for helping him attain the Dao, then sat down to cultivate as his Saint Emperor presence shook the Nine Heavens Immortal Hall.

Feng Wanli broke through to the fourth heaven of the Saint Emperor Realm after Ye Chen’s glance and swore his allegiance to him. Ye Chen asked only for more tea, and Feng Wanli eagerly resumed serving him as the breakthrough’s disturbance drew the Divine Capital’s attention to the Wind and Rain Pavilion.

• Ye Chen’s glance sent Feng Wanli into a breakthrough, shocking Xie Purou and Youruo as auspicious signs spread over the Divine Capital.
• Feng Wanli broke through from the third to the fourth heaven of the Saint Emperor Realm.
• Feng Wanli knelt before Ye Chen, thanked him for his guidance, and swore a Heavenly Dao Oath of service.
• Ye Chen asked Feng Wanli to bring him another cup of tea, and Feng Wanli decided that the breakthrough had been granted simply because Ye Chen liked his tea.
• Feng Wanli prepared more tea while Saint Emperor powerhouses across the Divine Capital sensed his breakthrough at the Wind and Rain Pavilion.

Feng Wanli broke through to the Fourth Heaven of the Saint Emperor Realm after receiving guidance from Ye Chen. Ye Chen and his companions arrived at the Grand Gathering of Eternal Heaven’s Chosen, where Feng Wanli’s deference to him stunned the assembled dignitaries and young cultivators.

• The Formless Saint Emperor told General Xiang that Ye Chen had guided Feng Wanli, and General Xiang recalled Ye Chen’s overwhelming power.
• Feng Wanli served Ye Chen tea in the Nine Heavens Immortal Hall, and Ye Chen said it was time to go.
• Feng Wanli led Ye Chen, Youruo, and Xie Purou to the crowded white jade plaza to watch the gathering.
• The crowd recognized Feng Wanli’s breakthrough to the Fourth Heaven of the Saint Emperor Realm and marveled as he respectfully followed Ye Chen.
• The young heaven’s chosen watched Feng Wanli defer to Ye Chen and resolved to become Saint Emperor experts themselves.

Feng Wanli opened the battlefield for the Grand Gathering of Eternal Heaven's Chosen, where contestants began fighting brutally for the right to enter. Watching the carnage, Ye Chen taught Youruo and Xie Purou that strength was the only way to survive and protect others, leaving Xie Purou resolved to become stronger.

• Feng Wanli declared the gathering begun, and a spatial gate opened onto an ancient continent.
• Thousands of heaven's chosen rushed the gate, fighting one another before they could enter the battlefield.
• Youruo asked Feng Wanli whether the fighting at the entrance broke the rules, and he explained that contestants had to win the right to enter.
• Ye Chen told Youruo and Xie Purou that strength determined who survived and that the strong made the rules.
• Youruo accepted Ye Chen's view, and Xie Purou resolved to become stronger so she could protect those she cared about.

Feng Wanli announced that the first trial was a three-month free-for-all in which contestants had to steal tokens and survive, with only the thousand largest token holders advancing. The slaughter began immediately, as contestants turned on one another across the ancient continent.

• Feng Wanli appeared above the primordial continent and warned that its amplified powers came with greatly increased danger.
• Feng Wanli declared that killing, robbery, ambushes, poisoning, alliances, and betrayal were permitted, and that the thousand contestants with the most tokens after three months would qualify for the next round.
• Trial tokens appeared in everyone’s hands, and the contestants began regarding one another as targets.
• A frail-looking young man stabbed a burly man from behind, took his token, and escaped into the crowd.
• Two brothers, addressed as Xiao Chuan and his elder brother, stood back to back and prepared to fight off attackers.

The battlefield’s contestants betrayed and slaughtered one another as they fought for tokens, while Xie Purou and Youruo watched the brutality from the viewing platform. The chapter ended as Brother Li’s teammates began turning purple after drinking his recovery soup.

• Xiao Chuan stabbed his older brother from behind, took his token, and declared he would survive for both of them.
• A thirty-six-person sword formation killed cultivators and collected their tokens, while a young woman lured in and killed a would-be rescuer.
• Xie Purou reacted excitedly to the killings, and Youruo wondered whether this was human nature as Ye Chen watched calmly.
• Leizi used Rolling Thunder to kill more than a dozen attackers and collected their tokens.
• A shadow-wielding man stole tokens from a hunter, while Brother Li’s team celebrated after drinking the soup he had prepared.
• Brother Li watched as his teammates’ faces turned an eerie purple.

Brother Li poisoned and killed his supposed allies, while Xiao Jianchen swept through the battlefield before meeting a powerful fighter from the Mystic Que Giant Gods. Xiao Jianchen unleashed his Myriad Dust Returning to the Trace Sword technique, and the fight’s outcome remained unknown.

• Brother Li poisoned six allies, killed them, and took their tokens.
• Xiao Jianchen killed opponents with Sword Qi and collected their tokens without drawing his sword.
• A giant from the Mystic Que Giant Gods confronted Xiao Jianchen and demanded his tokens.
• Xiao Jianchen and the giant traded attacks, each forcing the other back, while Feng Wanli explained the giant’s strength to the viewing platform.
• Xiao Jianchen used Myriad Dust Returning to the Trace Sword, weaving thousands of sword threads around the giant’s incoming fist.

Xiao Jianchen defeated a giant with his sword technique, while Youruo, Xie Purou, and Ye Chen watched without being impressed. Elsewhere, Gu Hanchuan encountered the Ten Baleful Intents, who surrounded him and prepared to attack.

• Xiao Jianchen killed the giant with his sword net and took the tokens from his body.
• Youruo called Xiao Jianchen skilled, while Xie Purou said she wanted to fight an opponent like him.
• Ye Chen watched his disciples’ reactions and judged Xiao Jianchen weaker than them.
• Gu Hanchuan encountered the Ten Baleful Intents in a sinister gorge and demanded their tokens.
• The scorpion-tattooed man became enraged by Gu Hanchuan’s contempt and ordered the Ten Baleful Intents to attack him.

The Ten Baleful Intents surrounded Gu Hanchuan in a canyon, confident that their ten late God King cultivators could kill him. Several nearby cultivators recognized Gu Hanchuan and reacted to the clash, while a five-person team arrived and immediately fled.

• The Ten Baleful Intents unleashed their Sha Qi and vowed to make Gu Hanchuan's death famous.
• A scrawny cultivator hid behind a boulder, recognized Gu Hanchuan, and began plotting to loot the battlefield if he died.
• A female cultivator in a cliffside crack judged the Ten Baleful Intents doomed, suspected Gu Hanchuan had trump cards, and withdrew.
• A five-person team reached the canyon, recognized the Ten Baleful Intents and Gu Hanchuan, and their captain ordered them to leave.

Gu Hanchuan faced the Ten Baleful Intents’ ambush in the canyon and revealed a lethal bone-spike attack that killed three of them. As the remaining seven recoiled, he vanished and struck another from behind, leaving the battle underway.

• Several spectators hid around the canyon, hoping to loot the battlefield after Gu Hanchuan and the Ten Baleful Intents weakened each other.
• Feng Wanli explained to Ye Chen, Xie Purou, and Youruo that the Ten Baleful Intents were notorious rogue cultivators who preyed on sect prodigies.
• The Ten Baleful Intents charged Gu Hanchuan from all sides, but he stamped the ground and pierced three attackers with bone spikes.
• Gu Hanchuan disappeared in a wisp of black smoke and plunged his arm into a burly Baleful Intent’s back.

Gu Hanchuan slaughtered the Fiends who had tried to seize his treasures, using a bone dragon to devour their final attacks and wipe them out. After collecting the spoils, he spotted the places where hidden observers were concealed.

• Gu Hanchuan killed the burly Fiend and trapped the six remaining Fiends inside a cage of bones.
• The scorpion-tattooed Fiend transformed into a scorpion demon, while the other five Fiends joined him in attacking Gu Hanchuan.
• Gu Hanchuan turned the bone cage and bone spikes into a massive bone dragon that swallowed the five Fiends and devoured the scorpion demon.
• Gu Hanchuan collected the scattered green tokens and Storage Bags, then looked toward a charred boulder and a pile of rubble where someone was hiding.

Gu Hanchuan killed the remaining cultivators who had hoped to steal his tokens and treasures after watching him defeat ten Late God Kings. Outside the canyon, Youruo and Xie Purou became eager to challenge him, while Feng Wanli urged them to study his upcoming fights for weaknesses.

• A scrawny cultivator fled from Gu Hanchuan, but Gu Hanchuan killed him with a bone spike summoned by snapping his fingers.
• The scar-faced man and his lackeys begged Gu Hanchuan to spare them and offered him their tokens, Storage Bags, and Law Treasures.
• Gu Hanchuan killed the scar-faced man and dragged his lackeys into a quicksand of bones, where they died screaming.
• Youruo and Xie Purou expressed their desire to fight Gu Hanchuan, and Youruo predicted he would reach the finals.
• Feng Wanli advised Youruo and Xie Purou to watch Gu Hanchuan's next battles and learn his fighting style.

Youruo and Xie Purou watched Shi Kai defeat Wu Jiang, a powerful poison cultivator, with the Mystic Crystal Sacred Body and claim his token. After praising Shi Kai’s strength, they switched the light screen to watch Sister Wanling.

• Youruo spotted Shi Kai on the light screen and chose to watch his match against Wu Jiang.
• Feng Wanli explained that Wu Jiang was the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect’s foremost True Disciple and a formidable Late God King.
• Wu Jiang’s poisonous miasma and python could not harm Shi Kai, whose crystal body shattered the attack with a single punch.
• Shi Kai crystallized and destroyed Wu Jiang, then took the token that fell from the remains.
• Youruo and Xie Purou praised Shi Kai before Xie Purou found Sister Wanling’s match among the ancient temples.

Mu Wanling faced Gui Ying and his resentful souls inside an ancient temple, then used her life power to free the souls and defeat his control over them. She pierced Gui Ying’s Dantian with a growing vine, leaving him screaming on the ground.

• Feng Wanli identified Gui Ying as a True Disciple of the Soul-Devouring Sect who controlled resentful souls, while Xie Purou and Youruo worried that Mu Wanling would be overwhelmed.
• Gui Ying ordered the resentful souls to intensify their assault on Mu Wanling’s vine barrier and declared that he would turn her into a collectible.
• Mu Wanling unleashed Ten thousand trees... greet spring!, severing Gui Ying’s control and cleansing the resentful souls so they could pass on.
• The loss of his resentful souls weakened Gui Ying, and Mu Wanling approached him despite his threats about the Soul-Devouring Ancestor.
• Mu Wanling sent a vine through Gui Ying’s Dantian, where it spread roots through his body and left him screaming on the ground.

Mu Wanling defeated Gui Ying by using her Azure Wood Sacred Vein to drain and destroy him, impressing the spectators. As Xie Purou and Youruo compared the Divine Capital’s young geniuses with those of the Void Kun Realm, Ye Chen urged his disciples to treat their rivals as stepping stones toward the Hundun Saint Emperor Realm.

• Mu Wanling drained Gui Ying until he crumbled to ash, then took his useful possessions and burned the rest.
• Xie Purou and Youruo praised Mu Wanling’s strength and discussed how her sacred power might match Gu Hanchuan’s destructive white bone power.
• Xie Purou and Youruo watched more Divine Capital geniuses and remarked that they were far stronger than the contestants they had known in the Void Kun Realm.
• Feng Wanli explained that the geniuses they had seen were only qualifiers and that many powerful competitors were saving their full strength for the finals.
• Ye Chen told Youruo and Xie Purou to treat other geniuses as stepping stones and said they would count as strong only after reaching the Hundun Saint Emperor Realm.

After the three-month preliminary selection ended, the surviving contestants were transported to the plaza, where the hosts began collecting tokens to determine who would advance. Gu Hanchuan, Shi Kai, and Mu Wanling stood out among the survivors as the next stage of the competition approached.

• Feng Wanli marveled at Ye Chen's expectations for his disciples and the potential of Kunlun Holy Land.
• Three months of slaughter left fewer than a hundred thousand contestants alive, while Gu Hanchuan, Shi Kai, and Mu Wanling spent the late stages waiting among the strongest.
• A bell announced the end of the preliminary selection, and pillars of light transported the survivors to the plaza.
• Gu Hanchuan, Shi Kai, and Mu Wanling arrived composedly and met one another's gazes as rivals.
• A prince of the Divine Capital Imperial Dynasty ordered the survivors to place their tokens in jade trays so the advancing contestants could be announced.

Gu Hanchuan submitted 230,000 tokens, far surpassing every other contestant and taking first place in the preliminary selection. The venue erupted in shock and disbelief while Gu Hanchuan remained indifferent to his result.

• Gu Hanchuan poured a mountain of tokens into the jade tray, stunning the contestants and spectators.
• Xie Purou, Youruo, Feng Wanli, and Ye Chen reacted to Gu Hanchuan’s apparent strength and effortless token collection.
• The guards counted Gu Hanchuan’s tokens and announced a total of 230,000, currently ranked first.
• The crowd erupted in awe and disbelief, and one cultivator threw down his bag and declared that he was quitting.