Chapter Summaries

After Ye Xingchen celebrated the Demon Race’s victory, news spread that Luo Qingshan’s human husband was only at the Innate Realm, prompting Huangfu Bubai to threaten the Demon Race’s access to longevity pills. Luo Qingshan heard the report while Ye Xingchen began his daily system check-in.

• Ye Xingchen gave the hundred million supreme-grade spirit stones to the Demon Race disciples, who celebrated their victory.
• Nie Zhenbei told Nangong Liuyun that Ye Xingchen was an Innate Realm human who had defeated Mu Yebai and was connected to the Demon Race’s recent changes.
• Nangong Liuyun ordered Nie Zhenbei to spread news of Ye Xingchen’s identity, and the revelation soon reached forces across the Divine Desolation Continent.
• Huangfu Bubai ordered the Supreme Purity Palace to withhold longevity pills from the Demon Race and deny them to any force that bought the Demon Race’s pills unless Luo Qingshan surrendered pill recipes and Ye Xingchen.
• Luo Qingshan listened calmly to the Grand Elder’s report while Ye Xingchen started his daily check-in.

Ye Xingchen received a vast supply of the Divine Spring of Life through the system, while Luo Qingshan learned that the Supreme Purity Palace had threatened the Demon Race over its Life-Extending Pills. Lu Wanchuan reminded her that Ye Xingchen could refine far more powerful pills, and after hearing the news, Ye Xingchen's terrifying presence erupted before Luo Qingshan calmed him; his response was left unrevealed.

• Ye Xingchen signed in and received a bottle of the Divine Spring of Life, one million supreme-grade immortal stones, and one million bottles of supreme-grade divine wine.
• Ye Xingchen discovered that the golden bottle held a lake-sized supply of the life-giving spring, whose escaping aura rapidly grew the lakeside plants and bloomed the lotuses.
• The grand elder told Luo Qingshan that Divine Desolation knew Ye Xingchen was human and that the Supreme Purity Palace had stopped making Life-Extending Pills unless she visited and handed over pill formulas and alchemists.
• Lu Wanchuan urged Luo Qingshan to stay composed and reminded her that Ye Xingchen could refine Indestructible Golden Pills, so she summoned him to the Empress Palace.
• Ye Xingchen arrived, and Luo Qingshan explained the Supreme Purity Palace's threat; his presence surged until she called to him, leaving him poised to answer.

Ye Xingchen reassured Luo Qingshan that the Demon Race no longer needed to submit to the Supreme Purity Palace for lifespan-extending pills. After revealing powerful pills of his own, he accepted the Palace’s challenge and vowed to defeat Huangfu Bubai with the very pills he trusted.

• Ye Xingchen grew angry when he learned Huangfu Bubai had demanded that Luo Qingshan apologize in person, and Luo Qingshan explained the Supreme Purity Palace’s influence and the hidden colossus holy lands.
• Luo Qingshan told Ye Xingchen that she had invited him to discuss the shortage of lifespan-extending pills, and he said he was a ninth-grade alchemist with no need to rely on the Palace.
• Ye Xingchen gave Luo Qingshan nine Indestructible Golden Pills, each capable of extending a person’s lifespan by a hundred thousand years, and reassured her that he could refine more.
• Ye Xingchen accepted the Supreme Purity Palace’s challenge and declared that he would defeat Huangfu Bubai using the pills Huangfu trusted most.

Ye Xingchen used the Divine Spring of Life to heal the Demon Race seniors whose damaged origins had kept them from advancing, allowing dozens to break through to the Immortal Thearch Realm. Their allegiance raised the Demon Race into the ranks of the Divine Desolation Continent’s superpowers, and Ye Xingchen began preparing a celebration.

• Luo Qingshan told Ye Xingchen that the Demon Race’s injured seniors needed a Supreme Good Fortune Pill, which the Demon Race could not obtain.
• Ye Xingchen revealed that he could heal the seniors and asked Luo Qingshan to invite them to the Empress Palace.
• Grand Elder Wan Qianli brought dozens of Demon Race seniors to the palace, where Ye Xingchen gave each a drop of the Divine Spring of Life.
• The seniors healed their origins and broke through to the Immortal Thearch Realm, unleashing waves of pressure throughout the palace.
• The newly advanced seniors knelt before Ye Xingchen in allegiance, and he announced that the Demon Race should celebrate its new status as a superpower.

Ye Xingchen rewarded the Demon Race’s newly advanced Immortal Thearch experts with divine wine and revealed the power of the Divine Spring of Life. He planned to auction the spring at the Ten Thousand Pills Pavilion in seven days to challenge the Supreme Purity Palace, while Luo Qingshan mobilized the Demon Race to prepare.

• Ye Xingchen gave each expert a hundred bottles of supreme-grade divine wine and gave Luo Qingshan two million bottles to distribute as benefits to the Demon Race.
• Ye Xingchen explained that the Divine Spring of Life could heal grievous injuries and extend life by fifty years per drop.
• Ye Xingchen accepted the Supreme Purity Palace’s challenge and announced that he would auction the Divine Spring of Life at the Ten Thousand Pills Pavilion in seven days.
• Luo Qingshan agreed to accompany Ye Xingchen to the Human Race’s territory, and Ye Xingchen ordered the Demon Race’s Immortal Emperor experts to go to the pavilion.
• Luo Qingshan ordered disciples to spread news of the auction, promoted the newly advanced experts to ancestors, and sent them to protect the Ten Thousand Pills Pavilion.

Ye Xingchen received several system rewards, including the Heavenly Craft Secret Treasure and Illusion-Breaking Divine Eyes, while news of the Demon Race’s upcoming lifespan-extending treasures stirred the factions of Divine Desolation. Huangfu Bubai decided to lead the Supreme Purity Palace to the Ten Thousand Pills Pavilion in seven days, determined to obtain the treasures for his alchemy ambitions.

• Ye Xingchen checked in and received one million bottles of supreme-grade divine wine, a Heavenly Craft Secret Treasure, and the Illusion-Breaking Divine Eyes.
• Ye Xingchen learned the Heavenly Craft Secret Treasure could not be retrieved after use, stored it away, and fused with the Illusion-Breaking Divine Eyes.
• Ye Xingchen used his new eyes to see through concealment and perceive the Heavenly Dao’s laws, hidden formations, and the guards’ cultivation.
• Huangfu Bubai heard that the Demon Race would auction divine objects extending life by fifty years and concluded Luo Qingshan must possess them.
• Huangfu Bubai ordered Elder Bai to prepare for him to lead the Supreme Purity Palace to the Ten Thousand Pills Pavilion in seven days and claim the divine objects.
• Major factions across Divine Desolation discussed the auction, and some secretly contacted the hidden titans behind them.

Ye Xingchen traveled with Luo Qingshan to the Ten Thousand Pills Pavilion as Heavenly Secrets City detected the Emperor Star and failed to divine its location. At the pavilion, Ye Xingchen judged its modest building inadequate for the Demon Race’s standing, then asked why the nearby grounds were crowded.

• Luo Qingshan explained that the Chromatic Phoenix was her powerful mount as she and Ye Xingchen traveled toward the Ten Thousand Pills Pavilion.
• Wei Tianji saw the Emperor Star appear at the boundary between the Demon Race and Human Race, but could not divine its location and planned to visit the pavilion’s auction in three days.
• Ye Xingchen activated the system’s heavenly-secrets concealment after it warned that someone was trying to locate him.
• The Chromatic Phoenix carried Ye Xingchen and Luo Qingshan to the Ten Thousand Pills Pavilion, where the grand elder and Demon Race members welcomed them.
• Ye Xingchen criticized the pavilion’s three-story building as inadequate beside the Human Race’s towering structures and asked Luo Qingshan why the nearby area was so busy.

Ye Xingchen replaced the Demon Race’s old Ten Thousand Pills Pavilion with a magnificent nine-story palace using the Heavenly Craft Secret Treasure. After giving the grand elder instructions for the auction and the palace, he entered with Luo Qingshan, while the Demon Race members and hidden ancestors were encouraged by his declaration of support.

• Luo Qingshan explained that the Ten Thousand Pills Pavilion had lost its customers because factions feared offending the Supreme Purity Palace, and Ye Xingchen asked whether the ancestors had arrived.
• Ye Xingchen ordered the grand elder to store the pavilion’s pills and items, then used his System Space to make the old building vanish.
• Ye Xingchen activated the Heavenly Craft Secret Treasure and created a vast golden, nine-story Ten Thousand Pills Pavilion in its place.
• Ye Xingchen reserved the ninth floor for himself and Luo Qingshan, assigned the grand elder to organize the other floors and prepare for the auction, and told him to receive any factions arriving early.
• Ye Xingchen promised the Demon Race members he would stand up for them if anyone caused trouble, then entered the pavilion with Luo Qingshan as the members and hidden ancestors looked on with admiration.

Ye Xingchen and Luo Qingshan explored the luxurious ninth floor of the Ten Thousand Pills Pavilion, then listened as townspeople speculated about the Demon Race and the empress’s human husband. Luo Qingshan finished making arrangements and returned veiled in a red gown, ready to stroll through town with Ye Xingchen.

• Ye Xingchen admired Luo Qingshan’s delight in the pavilion and embraced her as they looked out over the Human Race’s territory.
• Luo Qingshan left to coordinate with the First Elder, while Ye Xingchen used his divine sense to hear the townspeople discussing the Demon Race’s new pavilion and recent wonders.
• Townspeople gossiped about Luo Qingshan’s marriage to a supposedly Innate Realm human and about the Demon Race’s growing influence and mysterious treasures.
• Ye Xingchen resolved to kill any heavenly genius who dared provoke him.
• Luo Qingshan returned wearing a white veil and red palace gown and invited Ye Xingchen to stroll through town.

Ye Xingchen and Luo Qingshan strolled through the trading hub, where the Demon Race followed the Emperor Supreme’s order to leave them undisturbed. At the Heavenly Treasure Hall, they encountered a dispute over a hair ornament just as another man claimed it for himself.

• Ye Xingchen told the grand elder that people should stop bowing to him and gave the Demon Race disciples supreme-grade divine wine as a reward.
• Ye Xingchen and Luo Qingshan walked through the trading hub, and the grand elder’s order kept the Demon Race from disturbing them.
• Luo Qingshan pulled Ye Xingchen into the Heavenly Treasure Hall, where they browsed its wares as other patrons watched them.
• Zui Rao asked Young Master Leng to buy her a hair ornament, and he agreed to give it to her.
• A man declared that he had taken a fancy to the hair ornament and told Zui Rao to look for something else.

Baili Tu intimidated Leng Aofeng into leaving after claiming a hair ornament, then demanded the jade hairpin Luo Qingshan had chosen. Ye Xingchen and Luo Qingshan ignored him, and Baili Tu unleashed his killing intent on Ye Xingchen, leaving the hall stunned by what happened next.

• Baili Tu pressured Leng Aofeng, learned that Leng Lingtian was his father, and let him leave with Zui Rao after warning him not to provoke him again.
• The Heavenly Treasure Hall's owner respectfully gave Baili Tu the hair ornament he had claimed.
• Luo Qingshan asked Ye Xingchen to put a jade hairpin in her hair, and Ye Xingchen did so while praising her beauty.
• Baili Tu demanded Luo Qingshan's hairpin, but Ye Xingchen and Luo Qingshan ignored him and continued as before.
• Enraged, Baili Tu directed his terrifying killing intent at Ye Xingchen, shocking everyone in the hall.

Ye Xingchen and Luo Qingshan visited Heavenly Treasure Hall, where Baili Tu tried to seize a hairpin and kill Ye Xingchen. Ye Xingchen killed Baili Tu without revealing how, then left with Luo Qingshan as the news shook the City of Trade.

• Baili Tu threatened Ye Xingchen over the hairpin, but Luo Qingshan casually dispelled his killing intent.
• Luo Qingshan called Baili Tu a fly, and Ye Xingchen said he could swat it away.
• Baili Tu attacked Ye Xingchen at tremendous speed, but Ye Xingchen immobilized him and killed him without anyone seeing what happened.
• Ye Xingchen paid the owner of Heavenly Treasure Hall with a top-grade immortal stone and left with Luo Qingshan.
• The owner and customers discovered Baili Tu was dead, then planned to spread the news and sell his corpse.
• News of Baili Tu's death spread throughout the City of Trade, shaking both the Human Race's and Demon Race's territories.

After Baili Tu was killed in Heavenly Treasure Hall, Ye Xingchen and Luo Qingshan relaxed over a meal while rumors spread about the mysterious killer. Luo Qingshan explained Divine Desolation’s five provinces and their talent competition, and Ye Xingchen became intrigued by what she said next.

• Leng Aofeng and Zui Rao learned that Baili Tu had been killed, then saw his corpse crumble into powder at Heavenly Treasure Hall.
• People in the trading city speculated that a powerful disciple from a hidden hegemonic sacred land had slain Baili Tu and might be attending the Demon Race auction.
• Ye Xingchen and Luo Qingshan ate together at a restaurant, where they overheard news of a Treasure Gathering Pavilion auction scheduled for the next day.
• Luo Qingshan explained that Divine Desolation had five provinces, and that Eastern Continent had fallen to last place in their competitions.
• Luo Qingshan told Ye Xingchen that the three-yearly competition determined the Divine Desolation Heaven's Chosen Ranking and that Leng Aofeng ranked twentieth.
• Luo Qingshan gave Ye Xingchen a mysterious explanation that made him excited.

Luo Qingshan told Ye Xingchen about the Ancient Divine Tomb, the Heaven’s Chosen Ranking, and the rumored secret to becoming a god, and Ye Xingchen decided to enter the upcoming competition. The next morning, he received powerful sign-in rewards and prepared to take Luo Qingshan to the auction.

• Luo Qingshan explained that only thirty ranked disciples could enter the dangerous Ancient Divine Tomb, where a secret to becoming a god was rumored to lie.
• Ye Xingchen agreed to take Demon Race disciples to the competition in six months and investigate the tomb’s secret.
• Ye Xingchen left the City of Trade with Luo Qingshan and returned to the Ten Thousand Pills Pavilion ahead of the auction.
• Ye Xingchen signed in and received one million supreme-grade immortal stones, the Primordial Chaos Exquisite Bracelet, and a Great Emperor Guard Card.
• Luo Qingshan reported that the Ten Thousand Pills Pavilion’s preparations were settled, and Ye Xingchen invited her to bid freely at the auction.

Ye Xingchen and Luo Qingshan arrived at the Treasure Gathering Pavilion as powerful factions from across Divine Desolation gathered for the auction. After Mo Wuhen declared the auction open, the first item, the Glazed Azure Treasure Seal, stunned the crowd.

• The Beast Taming Sect, Ten Thousand Flowers Divine Palace, and other great powers arrived at the Treasure Gathering Pavilion, including leaders such as Empress Hua Xueyan, Huangfu Bubai, and Nangong Liuyun.
• Ye Xingchen and Luo Qingshan entered the pavilion hand in hand and paid for a private room on the fifth floor.
• Luo Qingshan told Ye Xingchen that the Treasure Gathering Pavilion had arranged its auction to profit from the Demon Race's gathering of great powers.
• Mo Wuhen warned bidders that those unable to pay would be detained until their faction paid and barred from future auctions.
• Mo Wuhen opened the auction and introduced the Glazed Azure Treasure Seal, prompting the crowd and Luo Qingshan to rise in shock.

Luo Qingshan explained that the Glazed Azure Treasure Seal was both a powerful divine artifact and the key to opening the Heavenly Dao Treasure Trove, prompting Ye Xingchen to consider finding the trove himself. He promised to help her win the seal, and the auction began, with the price quickly reaching one hundred million supreme-grade spirit stones.

• Luo Qingshan explained the seal's history and revealed that it was the only key to the Heavenly Dao Treasure Trove, which had helped the Glazed Empress reach the Great Emperor Realm.
• Ye Xingchen considered using his Illusion-Breaking Divine Eyes to locate the treasure trove and asked whether Luo Qingshan wanted the seal.
• Luo Qingshan hesitated over the seal's cost, but Ye Xingchen promised to pay for whatever she wanted; his affectionate words moved her, and they embraced.
• Mo Wuhen opened bidding for the Glazed Azure Treasure Seal at ten million supreme-grade spirit stones, and the crowd quickly drove the price upward.
• Nangong Liuyun, sect master of the Mysterious Heaven Sect, bid one hundred million supreme-grade spirit stones, marking the entry of a top faction into the contest.

The Glazed Azure Treasure Seal auction climbed to ten billion supreme-grade spirit stones as Divine Desolation’s most powerful factions competed for it. Just as Mo Wuhen was about to close the bidding in Huangfu Bubai’s favor, an unknown bidder raised the offer to eleven billion.

• Nangong Liuyun opened the bidding at one hundred million supreme-grade spirit stones, and the price eventually rose to five hundred million.
• Top factions joined the auction, with the Heavenly Dao Sect bidding one billion one hundred million and Huangfu Bubai of the Supreme Purity Palace raising the price to one billion five hundred million.
• Master Buchi of the Buddha Sect bid two billion, but stopped when Huangfu Bubai countered with three billion supreme-grade spirit stones.
• Hua Xueyan bid five billion and rejected Huangfu Bubai’s provocation, but his threat to cut off the Supreme Purity Palace’s pill trade led her to stop bidding.
• Huangfu Bubai raised the offer to ten billion supreme-grade spirit stones, and Mo Wuhen prepared to end the auction before an unknown voice bid eleven billion.

Ye Xingchen and Luo Qingshan appeared at the Treasure Gathering Pavilion after bidding thirty billion supreme-grade spirit stones for the Glazed Azure Treasure Seal. Huangfu Bubai challenged their ability to pay and insulted Ye Xingchen, who answered by calling him a mad dog, leaving the auction hall stunned.

• Huangfu Bubai raised his bid for the Glazed Azure Treasure Seal, but an unseen bidder repeatedly outbid him, reaching thirty billion supreme-grade spirit stones.
• Huangfu Bubai learned that the bidders were a handsome Innate Realm man and a veiled woman, then accused the woman of being the Demon Race's empress and questioned whether she could pay.
• Luo Qingshan opened the private room's window and revealed herself as the Demon Race's empress.
• Ye Xingchen joined Luo Qingshan, put an arm around her waist, and told Huangfu Bubai and Mo Wuhen to continue the auction or stop wasting his time.
• Mo Wuhen called for further bids, while Huangfu Bubai mocked Ye Xingchen as an ant who could not afford the price.
• Ye Xingchen called Huangfu Bubai a brainless mad dog, silencing the Treasure Gathering Pavilion.

Ye Xingchen insulted Huangfu Bubai during their bidding at the Treasure Gathering Pavilion, provoking the Supreme Purity Palace master’s killing intent before Mo Wuhen stopped a fight. Ye Xingchen then declared the Supreme Purity Palace would decline, while the gathered factions watched for signs that the Demon Race could challenge its dominance.

• Huangfu Bubai unleashed terrifying killing intent at Ye Xingchen, and spectators outside learned of their dispute and the thirty-billion-spirit-stone bid.
• A man outside the pavilion was killed for discussing Huangfu Bubai, silencing the gathered spectators.
• Luo Qingshan erased Huangfu Bubai’s killing intent, and Mo Wuhen warned that anyone who fought inside the pavilion would be suppressed and expelled.
• Ye Xingchen mocked Huangfu Bubai and declared that the Supreme Purity Palace was destined to decline under his leadership.
• The major factions considered whether the Demon Race’s upcoming auction would undermine the Supreme Purity Palace’s dominance, while Huangfu Bubai demanded Ye Xingchen pay the thirty billion supreme-grade spirit stones.

Ye Xingchen silenced Huangfu Bubai’s mockery by paying for the Glazed Azure Treasure Seal with supreme-grade immortal stones, then gave the treasure to Luo Qingshan. As the factions began investigating his identity and Hua Xueyan wondered about her feelings for him, the auction moved on to its second treasure.

• Ye Xingchen admitted he lacked thirty billion supreme-grade spirit stones, and Huangfu Bubai mocked him while Hua Xueyan unexpectedly offered the Demon Race a loan.
• Ye Xingchen mocked Huangfu Bubai, then revealed four hundred thousand supreme-grade immortal stones and used them to win the Glazed Azure Treasure Seal.
• Ye Xingchen gave the Glazed Azure Treasure Seal to Luo Qingshan, who accepted it, while Huangfu Bubai ordered an investigation into Ye Xingchen’s identity and threatened him.
• Hua Xueyan wondered whether Ye Xingchen was the tribulation foretold by her ancestor, and Mo Wuhen began the auction for the second treasure, the Azure Frost Flower Bracelet.