Chapter Summaries

Little Rou and Youruo secured two portions of Hundun Purple Qi and escaped the Primordial God-Forbidden Abyss with Ji Ren. Back at the Nether Blood Imperial Palace, they reunited with Ye Chen, who asked to inspect their prizes.

• The Blood Spirit Race Saint Emperor abandoned the Hundun Purple Qi, and Little Rou seized it while Youruo shielded her from the other contenders.
• Little Rou and Youruo divided the two portions of Hundun Purple Qi and departed as the battlefield erupted into renewed fighting.
• Ji Ren appeared, praised the women’s strength and their Saint Emperor Weapons, and opened a spatial passage to take them away.
• Youruo, Little Rou, and Ji Ren returned to the Nether Blood Imperial Palace, where Ye Chen greeted them and asked to see the Hundun Purple Qi.
• Youruo and Little Rou took out their respective portions of Hundun Purple Qi and held them above their palms for Ye Chen to inspect.

Youruo and Little Rou began refining Hundun Purple Qi, encountering profound Great Dao runes that tested their comprehension as Ye Chen guarded them. The Nether Blood Saint Emperor asked whether Ye Chen had surpassed peak Saint Emperor, and Ye Chen said his cultivation remained at that realm, though he could not say whether the Great Dao had a limit.

• Youruo and Little Rou began refining their Hundun Purple Qi under Ye Chen's guidance and protection.
• Their souls encountered countless mysterious Great Dao runes, and they steadied themselves to comprehend the principles as the refinement continued.
• The Nether Blood Saint Emperor admired the two disciples and discussed how attachments could become vulnerabilities for powerful cultivators.
• Remembering Ye Chen's overwhelming victory over him, the Nether Blood Saint Emperor asked whether Ye Chen had surpassed peak Saint Emperor.
• Ji Ren realized how far Ye Chen's strength might exceed his own assumptions as Ye Chen answered that his cultivation remained at peak Saint Emperor and that he did not know whether the Great Dao had a limit.

Ye Chen created a thousandfold time secret realm so Youruo and Little Rou could comprehend Hundun Purple Qi, and the two advanced from the middle God Emperor stage to peak Hunyuan Divine Emperor. They completed their transformation and released their newly strengthened powers in the cultivation hall.

• The Nether Blood Saint Emperor asked Ye Chen about realms beyond Saint Emperor, then renewed his resolve to improve after learning Ye Chen had no higher realm to confirm.
• Ye Chen sealed Youruo and Little Rou in a time secret realm where each day outside equaled a thousand days within, allowing them to focus on the Hundun Purple Qi.
• Youruo and Little Rou absorbed the purple Qi and broke through to the late God Emperor stage as their understanding of the Hundun Great Dao deepened.
• Ye Chen told the Nether Blood Saint Emperor that their cultivation blessing was not over, and the two continued refining the purple Qi and consolidating their foundations.
• After a thousand years within the secret realm and one year outside, Youruo and Little Rou reached peak Hunyuan Divine Emperor and opened their eyes together.
• Little Rou and Youruo unleashed their distinct lightning and ocean-like auras, shaking the cultivation hall without damaging it.

Little Rou and Youruo completed their breakthroughs to the Peak God Emperor Stage, and Ye Chen guided them to trust their own Dao hearts rather than seek reassurance about their chances of reaching the Hundun Saint Emperor Realm. They then asked the Nether Blood Saint Emperor to arrange battles against Hundun Saint Emperor experts, leaving him surprised by their confidence.

• Little Rou and Youruo emerged from a thousand years of secluded cultivation, unaware that Ye Chen had restored the secret realm’s time and space to normal.
• Youruo celebrated their breakthroughs, while Little Rou asked Ye Chen how likely they were to reach the Hundun Saint Emperor Realm.
• Ye Chen told them to ask their own hearts instead of relying on outside predictions, and both disciples accepted his guidance and resolved to trust their Dao hearts.
• Little Rou asked the Nether Blood Saint Emperor to arrange opponents for them and changed her request from Peak God Emperor Stage cultivators to Hundun Saint Emperor experts.
• The Nether Blood Saint Emperor questioned whether they were certain, and Little Rou and Youruo insisted that only Saint Emperor opponents could provide the pressure they needed.

Youruo and Little Rou sought to test their new strength against first-heaven Saint Emperors, so the Nether Blood Saint Emperor arranged sparring matches in the palace arena. The chapter ended with Little Rou’s Nine Tribulations Divine Lightning spear striking the Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor without leaving a mark.

• Youruo and Little Rou wanted to measure their strength against genuine Hundun Saint Emperors, and the Nether Blood Saint Emperor agreed to arrange opponents.
• The Nether Blood Saint Emperor ordered Ji Ren to summon two first-heaven Saint Emperors, and Ji Ren warned them to hold back and avoid injuring their opponents.
• The Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor entered the arena and was stunned to find that his opponent, Youruo, was human.
• The Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor saw Little Rou’s peak God Emperor cultivation and assumed he had been assigned to train a junior, so he told her to attack him.
• Little Rou unleashed her Nine Tribulations Divine Lightning and hurled a lightning spear at the Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor.
• The spear exploded against the Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor’s chest, but his skin remained completely unharmed.

Little Rou tested her strength against the Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor, but her lightning attacks could not harm him. After exhausting herself, she faced the Saint Emperor as he began his turn to attack.

• Little Rou’s opening lightning strike failed to move the Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor, who praised her unusual lightning talent and accepted her challenge.
• Little Rou attacked from behind with Lightning Cutter, but the Saint Emperor’s icy barrier dissolved the strike without harming him.
• Little Rou unleashed more than a thousand Nine Tribulations Divine Lightning attacks and a finishing punch, yet the Saint Emperor remained unmoved.
• Exhausted, Little Rou withdrew as the Saint Emperor approached and warned that it was his turn to attack.
• The Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor stamped the ground, freezing it and spreading cracks and ice outward.

Little Rou fought the Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor, who tested her strength and easily outmatched her despite her powerful Nine Tribulations Divine Lightning. After he shattered her strongest lightning-hammer strike with one finger, he told her to use her Saint Emperor Weapon if she wanted to truly fight him.

• The Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor attacked Little Rou with a crushing stomp, and she dodged before forming a lightning hammer that carried a trace of Saint Emperor pressure.
• The Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor sent spatially manipulated ice daggers at Little Rou; she blocked most with lightning but suffered numerous wounds from those that pierced through.
• Little Rou struck back with a fierce barrage of red lightning, but the Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor casually dispersed it with his Cold Qi and said she could not hurt him.
• Little Rou unleashed her full strength in a hammer strike that shattered the Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor's ice wall, but he stopped and disintegrated the hammer with one finger.
• Little Rou retreated in shock, and the Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor told her to use her Saint Emperor Weapon if she wanted to fight him seriously.

Little Rou awakened the Mysterious Firmament Thunder-Wielding Hammer and fought the Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor in a fierce, nearly even battle. On another battlefield, Youruo used the Blue Abyss Star Soul Pearl against the Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor, who caught the pearl after she enlarged it and sent it crashing toward him.

• Little Rou summoned the Mysterious Firmament Thunder-Wielding Hammer and unleashed its Saint Emperor pressure, prompting the Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor to take her seriously.
• Little Rou shattered the Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor’s ice daggers, then struck him from above with Ten Thousand Jun Thunderstorm.
• The Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor met Little Rou’s hammer with an ice fist and blasted her back, but she returned to fight him in a continuing deadlock.
• Youruo used the Blue Abyss Star Soul Pearl to disperse the Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor’s corpse Qi and withstand his corrosive attack with a water curtain.
• Youruo enlarged the Blue Abyss Star Soul Pearl and hurled it at the Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor, who wrapped his elongated fingers around it and clenched it in his palm.

Youruo used the Blue Abyss Star Soul Pearl to battle the Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor, pushing him back with powerful water attacks. When he charged at her, she trapped him inside Mirror Flower, Water Moon, where he faced the pearl’s crushing Saint Emperor power.

• The Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor tried to seize the Blue Abyss Star Soul Pearl, but Youruo poured Immortal Power into it and blasted his palm with deep-blue water.
• Youruo drove him into a wall with a concentrated water column, but he dismissed the attack and summoned two vicious ghosts.
• Youruo formed two flood-dragon sea beasts to fight the ghosts while the Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor launched a punch at her.
• Youruo activated Mirror Flower, Water Moon, and the Saint Emperor sank into its water mirror and vanished into a deep-blue space.
• The trapped Saint Emperor felt the space’s crushing power compress his corpse Qi and began examining his surroundings.

Youruo used the Blue Abyss Star Soul Pearl to fight the Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor, but he broke through her Mirror Flower, Water Moon and forced her into a fierce battle. As Ye Chen and the Nether Blood Saint Emperor watched Youruo and Little Rou contend with Saint Emperors, Ye Chen insisted that they still had much to improve and should strengthen themselves before advancing.

• Youruo repeatedly folded the Mirror Flower, Water Moon to crush the Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor, but he shattered the space and attacked her directly.
• Youruo used the Blue Abyss Star Soul Pearl to block the Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor's blows and counter with powerful waves.
• Ye Chen and the Nether Blood Saint Emperor watched Little Rou fight the Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor and Youruo battle the Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor.
• The Nether Blood Saint Emperor praised the girls for using Saint Emperor Weapons to contend with Saint Emperors, but Ye Chen said their performance still left much to be desired.
• Ye Chen explained that he wanted the girls to hone their current realms rather than rush to become Saint Emperors, even if they were to fight without relying on Saint Emperor Weapons.

Ye Chen demanded that Little Rou and Youruo reach First Heaven Saint Emperor combat strength without outside help, while the Nether Blood Saint Emperor and Ji Ren were awed by his standards. On the battlefield, Youruo unleashed the Blue Abyss Star Soul Pearl’s full power and summoned a gigantic Kun Fish, prompting the Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor to transform and charge at it.

• Ye Chen set the standard that Little Rou and Youruo had to match a First Heaven Saint Emperor through their own strength, and the Nether Blood Saint Emperor and Ji Ren were shocked but accepted his authority.
• Little Rou and Youruo struggled against their opponents and decided to abandon defense for a desperate finishing strike.
• Youruo used the Blue Abyss Star Soul Pearl to flood the battlefield and summon a colossal Kun Fish that attacked the Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor.
• The Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor transformed into a thousand-zhang giant with black bone wings and released his full power.
• The Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor beat his wings, split the ocean, and charged toward the Kun Fish as it unleashed a torrent of water.

Youruo and Little Rou fought their respective Devil Race Saint Emperors as the battle across both fields reached its climax. Youruo’s Kun Beast recovered from a barrage of poisoned bone spikes, but the Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor struck it with a sharp wing slash, leaving the ocean battle unresolved.

• Youruo’s clash with the Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor sent a shockwave across the battlefield, forcing Little Rou and the Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor to pause their fight.
• Little Rou renewed her attack, and she and the Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor resumed their fierce battle with lightning and ice.
• The Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor battered Youruo’s Kun Beast with bone claws and poisoned spikes, leaving its body riddled with wounds.
• Youruo’s Kun Beast replenished itself with seawater and launched a violent counterattack that drove the Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor into the ocean.
• The Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor evaded the Kun Beast’s assault and slashed its body with his bone wings.

Youruo used the Blue Abyss Star Soul Pearl to split the Kun Beast, but the backlash left her gravely wounded and unable to continue fighting the Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor. She accepted her defeat as a chance to learn and grow, while Little Rou’s battle against the Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor was still nearing its end.

• Youruo’s attack cleaved the Kun Beast in two, and its seawater body dissipated after its power was exhausted.
• The Blue Abyss Star Soul Pearl’s backlash and Youruo’s depleted strength left her unable to summon its power again, and she collapsed after coughing up blood.
• The Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor praised Youruo’s strength and descended without releasing his Saint Emperor pressure.
• Youruo accepted her defeat, recognizing that the battle had taught her about her abilities, the Saint Emperor’s power, and how to control the Blue Abyss Star Soul Pearl.
• A thousand li away, Little Rou’s fierce battle against the Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor continued toward its end.

Little Rou fought the Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor with her Mysterious Firmament Thunder-Wielding Hammer, pushing her strength and endurance to their limits. The Saint Emperor answered her giant lightning strike with Ice Tribulation Space Rend, and their clash left her hammer damaged and her arms numb.

• Youruo and the Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor sensed Little Rou's growing divine lightning power and watched her battle.
• Little Rou endured her rapidly draining Immortal Power and pain as she poured her remaining strength and essence blood into her hammer.
• Little Rou enlarged the Mysterious Firmament Thunder-Wielding Hammer to more than ten thousand zhang and brought it crashing down on the Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor.
• The Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor used Ice Tribulation Space Rend to summon a massive blade of ice and snow and strike the hammer.
• The ice blade cleaved away much of the hammer's lightning and checked its fall, sending icy power through the handle and numbing Little Rou's arms.

Little Rou fought the Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor with everything she had but could not force him to use his Saint Emperor Weapon, then Ye Chen recalled the fighters to the palace. There, Youruo and Little Rou received Ye Chen’s praise while the two Saint Emperors realized he was their master.

• Little Rou’s lightning hammer broke through the Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor’s ice blades, but their final clash left her severely injured and the hammer depleted.
• The Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor praised Little Rou’s strength and explained that her attacks had not been enough to make him use his Saint Emperor Weapon.
• Little Rou recognized the gap between them and resolved to grow strong enough to make a Saint Emperor fight at full strength.
• Ye Chen used his Space Principle to bring Youruo, Little Rou, and both Saint Emperors from the battlefield to the palace.
• Youruo and Little Rou told Ye Chen they had nearly defeated their opponents, and he praised their performance while correcting their assessment.
• The Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor and the Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor realized Ye Chen, not the Nether Blood Saint Emperor, was the girls’ master, while the Nether Blood Saint Emperor lamented that they were not his disciples.

Ye Chen declined the Nether Blood Saint Emperor’s invitation to stay and decided to take Little Rou and Youruo to the Thunder Abyss Divine Kingdom in search of a powerful thunder cultivator. The chapter ended with Nether Blood offering the girls resources and Ye Chen urging them to ask for what they wanted.

• The Nether Blood Saint Emperor rewarded the Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor and Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor with tokens to enter his cultivation secret realm, crediting Ye Chen for securing the opportunity.
• Nether Blood invited Ye Chen, Little Rou, and Youruo to remain in the Nether Blood Divine Kingdom, but Ye Chen said they would leave soon.
• Ye Chen asked about newly risen Saint Emperors and experts of the Great Dao of Thunder, and Nether Blood identified the Thunder Abyss Divine Kingdom as the place to find them.
• Ye Chen chose the Thunder Abyss Divine Kingdom as their next destination, and Nether Blood gave him a jade slip containing its coordinates and intelligence.
• Nether Blood offered Little Rou and Youruo cultivation resources; they declined to protect Ye Chen’s and Kunlun Holy Land’s dignity, but Ye Chen told them to ask for what they wanted.

Ye Chen let Little Rou and Youruo collect rare materials from the Nether Blood Saint Emperor before taking them toward the Thunder Abyss Divine Kingdom. He revealed that he was seeking Willow God, who had disappeared after her memories returned upon ascending to the Heavenly Divine Realm.

• Little Rou and Youruo asked to gather materials for their future lifebound Saint Emperor Artifacts, and the Nether Blood Saint Emperor gave them a vast hoard from his treasury.
• Little Rou and Youruo divided and stored the materials, then Ye Chen thanked the Nether Blood Saint Emperor and departed with them.
• As the three traveled through the void toward the Thunder Abyss Divine Kingdom, Little Rou and Youruo asked why Ye Chen was going there.
• Ye Chen said he wanted to find someone, and Youruo guessed that he meant Willow God.
• Ye Chen recalled that Willow God had left the Kunlun Holy Land alone after ascending and that her lost memories had returned, after which no one had heard from her.

Ye Chen set out with Youruo and Little Rou toward the Thunder Abyss Divine Kingdom to search for Willow God, confident that his protective jade pendant would keep her alive. In the Joined Mountains Realm, Willow God fled a powerful force sent after her while planning to build her strength and take revenge on the Thunder Abyss Saint Emperor and her other enemies.

• Ye Chen reassured Youruo and Little Rou that the jade pendant he had given Willow God could protect her from even a Saint Emperor-level attack.
• Ye Chen, Youruo, and Little Rou headed toward the Thunder Abyss Divine Kingdom to investigate its strength while continuing their search for Willow God.
• Willow God concealed herself in the Joined Mountains Realm, part of the domain ruled by the Thunder Abyss Saint Emperor, one of the enemies who had betrayed her.
• Willow God vowed to grow stronger in secret and eventually destroy the Thunder Abyss Divine Kingdom to avenge her lineage.
• Willow God fled through a demon-infested forest as thirty late God Emperor powerhouses, led by two peak God Emperors, pursued her.
• One of the pursuing peak God Emperors angrily complained that they had chased Willow God for months without catching her.

Willow God lured thirty Shi Household God Emperor experts through the Joined Mountains Realm’s primeval mountains toward a High Antiquity killing formation. She feigned exhaustion and let them surround her, while Shi Rong dismissed Shi Yi’s warnings and prepared to capture her.

• The Shi Household’s pursuers chased Willow God for three days and nights, enraged over her earlier killings and repeated escapes.
• Shi Rong insisted their numbers and strength would overcome any scheme, while Shi Yi warned him to be cautious.
• Willow God calculated that the pursuers’ anger made them easy to lure into the killing formation she had prepared.
• After reaching the ambush area, Willow God feigned injury and slowed down so the thirty Shi Household experts could catch her.
• Shi Rong and Shi Yi blocked Willow God’s path as the other experts surrounded her, and Shi Rong demanded to know why she had stopped running.
• Shi Yi suspected a trap, but Shi Rong brushed off his warning and asserted that Willow God could not threaten their overwhelming advantage.

Willow God feigned weakness under the pressure of the Shi Household’s experts, then revealed her peak God Emperor cultivation and countered their attempt to bind her. As she held off their chains with a phantom willow, she activated two jade slips containing powerful formations.

• Shi Rong questioned Willow God while thirty Shi Household experts suppressed her with their combined pressure.
• Willow God pretended to be near collapse and provoked the Shi Household into attacking, causing its experts to lower their guard.
• Shi Rong ordered the experts to bind Willow God with Divine Power chains, but she revealed that she was a peak God Emperor.
• Shi Rong and Shi Yi rallied the remaining Shi Household experts to press their attack against Willow God.
• Willow God summoned a towering phantom willow that stopped the chains, then poured her power into two formation jade slips.