Chapter Summaries

Ye Xuan left the Law Enforcement Hall after declaring himself innocent and warning Yang Kaitai not to retaliate against Lin Xue or others. Song Yu challenged him, but Ye Xuan dismissed him and the disciples’ taunts drove Song Yu to spit blood.

• Ye Xuan told Yang Kaitai that the Law Enforcement Hall was not his family’s property and warned him against harming Lin Xue or anyone else.
• Ye Xuan took Lin Xue and started to leave while Yang Kaitai seethed but dared not stop him.
• Song Yu called after Ye Xuan and challenged him to a few moves, but Ye Xuan ignored him and kept walking.
• Song Yu blocked Ye Xuan’s path and pressed him to accept, so Ye Xuan asked whether he was worthy of challenging the Holy Son.
• Disciples mocked Song Yu for challenging someone two major realms below him, and their insults made him spit blood.

After Ye Xuan revealed himself as the Holy Son, Lin Xue felt embarrassed by her earlier praise of him, while disciples across the holy land spread embellished stories about their relationship. Ye Xuan returned to the Holy Son Hall, where Han Bingning abruptly brought him to the martial platform to test his cultivation before his investiture ceremony.

• Ye Xuan gave Lin Xue healing pills and teased her about wanting to admire the Holy Son, prompting her to pound him and remind him of his own extravagant praise.
• Lin Xue found inner and outer disciples eager to flatter and help her, and realized their attention came because of Ye Xuan.
• Stories about Ye Xuan rescuing Lin Xue spread through the holy land, with disciples debating whether they were childhood sweethearts, love at first sight, or merely a case of him upholding justice.
• Ye Xuan returned to the Holy Son Hall and found Han Bingning waiting to test his cultivation before his investiture ceremony.
• Han Bingning transported Ye Xuan to the martial platform before he could respond.

Ye Xuan fought Han Bingning in a staged match while the eight patriarchs watched and urged them on. Despite Han Bingning secretly raising her suppressed cultivation to the Origin Condensation Fifth Layer, Ye Xuan began to gain the upper hand, ending the chapter with a sneak attack that stunned everyone.

• The eight patriarchs arranged for Ye Xuan and Han Bingning to fight and watched as the match began.
• Han Bingning attacked Ye Xuan with a flurry of kicks, sending him flying and leaving him bruised.
• The patriarchs berated Ye Xuan while secretly admitting that Han Bingning was fighting at the Origin Condensation Fifth Layer.
• Ye Xuan recovered and began gaining the upper hand, shocking Han Bingning and the patriarchs.
• Han Bingning became distracted by her inability to defeat Ye Xuan, and he took the opportunity to sneak-attack her backside.

After Han Bingning punished Ye Xuan for his accidental attack, she healed him and told him they would leave in three days for life-and-death training before his Holy Son investiture. Ye Xuan’s cheeky question about whether she still hurt left the Holy Son Hall in silence.

• Han Bingning raised her cultivation and beat Ye Xuan while the eight ancestors repeatedly sent him back onto the platform and watched.
• After the beating, several ancestors argued over who should take Ye Xuan as a disciple, but Han Bingning picked him up and left with him.
• In the Holy Son Hall, Han Bingning treated Ye Xuan’s injuries with Spiritual Qi, and he realized she had held back and cared for him.
• Han Bingning said she would take Ye Xuan somewhere in three days for genuine life-and-death combat before his Holy Son investiture.
• As Han Bingning left, Ye Xuan asked whether it still hurt, and the hall fell silent.

After reaching the Essence Condensation Realm, Ye Xuan was taken by Han Bingning to a city for a trial and left there to fend for himself. At the gate, he saw guards abusing cultivators and stepped in when one dragged a woman away.

• After three days of cultivation, Ye Xuan broke through to the Essence Condensation Realm and discovered that the True Solar Fire was continually compressing his Spiritual Qi.
• Han Bingning took Ye Xuan out for a trial, warned that she would not intervene unless he faced someone more than three major realms above him, and left him outside a city.
• Ye Xuan entered the city and saw guards at the gate bullying cultivators and groping women while bystanders stayed silent.
• A gate guard slapped a seventh-level Meridian Opening woman and began dragging her toward a nearby building.
• Ye Xuan pushed through the crowd and shouted for the guard to stop.

Ye Xuan rescued a female cultivator by killing the gatekeeper who had tried to assault her, then faced the gatekeeper's comrades. He began cutting through their attack, killing two more cultivators as the fight continued.

• Ye Xuan calmly caught the charging gatekeeper's wrist, shattered his dantian, and crippled him with one move.
• The gatekeeper threatened Ye Xuan, who declared that he dared to kill him and punched his head apart.
• Seven or eight gatekeepers attacked Ye Xuan after he asked whether their comrade deserved to die for trying to defile an innocent woman.
• Ye Xuan dodged a saber strike, smashed the saber-wielding cultivator's head, and kicked the staff-wielding cultivator's temple apart.

Ye Xuan killed the City Lord's Manor guards who had attacked him, then learned that the city lord was a golden core expert. After searching the fallen guards, he headed straight for the City Lord's Manor, intending to kill the city lord and carry out justice.

• Ye Xuan used an iron staff to defeat and kill the gate guards who attacked him.
• The female cultivator he had saved and other bystanders warned Ye Xuan that the city lord was a golden core expert with powerful subordinates.
• Ye Xuan considered the gap between his cultivation and the city lord's, then watched the frightened bystanders hurry away.
• Ye Xuan searched the dead and injured guards for valuables and insulted them when he found little.
• Ye Xuan went directly to the City Lord's Manor, leaving the onlookers shocked.

Ye Xuan stormed the city lord’s residence and defeated its guards, prompting City Lord Zhu Pi to wonder whether the young cultivator was backed by a powerful sect. Zhu Pi was still weighing how to respond when he learned Ye Xuan had fought his way inside.

• Ye Xuan ignored warnings about Zhu Pi’s Golden Core Realm strength and went to the city lord’s residence after hearing of his crimes.
• A gate guard attacked Ye Xuan with a whip, but Ye Xuan evaded it and defeated him with Thunder God Palm in one move.
• The surviving guard fled inside to report the attack, while the onlookers marveled at Ye Xuan’s strength.
• Zhu Pi killed a messenger who could not identify Ye Xuan, then wondered whether Ye Xuan was a young expert from a great sect.
• Another cultivator rushed to Zhu Pi and announced that someone had fought their way into the residence.

Ye Xuan stormed the city lord's manor and defeated Guo Hai and a group of twenty Essence Condensation Ninth Layer cultivators, then challenged Zhu Pi and his forces. As Huo Xiu stepped forward to fight, Ye Xuan launched a sudden attack with the Emperor Formula.

• Zhu Pi gathered the manor's experts and rushed out after learning that an intruder had broken in.
• Ye Xuan evaded Guo Hai's spear technique and knocked him down with one punch.
• Ye Xuan hurled Guo Hai's spear through six cultivators, then swiftly defeated the remaining fighters.
• Zhu Pi arrived with more than a dozen men and ordered Huo Xiu, a Wheel Sea Realm First Stage cultivator, to kill Ye Xuan.
• Ye Xuan dismissed Huo Xiu and challenged Zhu Pi's group to attack together, then charged Huo Xiu and struck with the Emperor Formula.

Ye Xuan crippled Huo Xiu and fought off the City Lord's Manor's Wheel Sea cultivators while saving his strength for Zhu Pi. He left only Zhu Pi and three Wheel Sea Late Stage cultivators standing.

• Ye Xuan crippled Huo Xiu with a fist and a kick, then charged at Zhu Pi.
• Zhu Pi ordered more than a dozen Wheel Sea cultivators to attack Ye Xuan so he could observe his abilities and trump cards.
• Ye Xuan dodged a Wheel Sea Third Layer cultivator's hammer and crippled him with the Thunder God Palm.
• Ye Xuan overwhelmed two more cultivators, at the Wheel Sea Fourth and Fifth Layers, with a series of kicks.
• Ye Xuan used the Emperor Formula and Thunder God Palm to defeat the remaining early- and mid-stage cultivators, leaving Zhu Pi and three Wheel Sea Late Stage cultivators standing.

Ye Xuan killed another Wheel Sea cultivator, then faced Zhu Pi after the city lord entered the battle himself. Zhu Pi’s Golden Core power began suppressing Ye Xuan, while Han Bingning watched from afar to see whether he could overcome the gap.

• Ye Xuan used the Deadly Sword Strike with a spear to kill a Wheel Sea Seventh Layer cultivator who attacked with poisoned needles.
• The spectators cheered as Ye Xuan’s victories wiped out most of Zhu Pi’s Wheel Sea subordinates.
• Zhu Pi charged Ye Xuan with Golden Core power, and their first clash numbed Ye Xuan’s arm and forced him back.
• Zhu Pi relentlessly attacked, driving Ye Xuan to dodge as his strikes demolished a hall behind him.
• Han Bingning watched from a distant mountain and held back from intervening, waiting to see whether Ye Xuan could kill a Golden Core cultivator.

Ye Xuan used Azure Dragon Roar to daze Zhu Pi, then killed the Golden Core cultivator with Deadly Sword Strike. As the city’s cultivators celebrated Zhu Pi’s death, two of his surviving subordinates attacked Ye Xuan by surprise.

• Zhu Pi repeatedly attacked Ye Xuan, who dodged while waiting for an opportunity to strike.
• When Zhu Pi exposed an opening, Ye Xuan used Azure Dragon Roar to briefly disrupt his consciousness and weaken his attack.
• Ye Xuan followed with Deadly Sword Strike, killing Zhu Pi before he could escape.
• The watching cultivators thanked Ye Xuan and celebrated Zhu Pi’s death.
• Zhu Pi’s two surviving Wheel Sea Realm Seventh Layer subordinates exchanged a glance and lunged at Ye Xuan.

Ye Xuan defeated two Wheel Sea Realm Seventh Layer cultivators who tried to ambush him, then Han Bingning carried him away before the city’s cultivators could thank him. Back at the Ancient Desolate Holy Land, he advanced to Origin Condensation Fifth Layer as powerful guests and potential enemies gathered for his investiture ceremony.

• Ye Xuan replenished his Spiritual Qi and crippled one Wheel Sea Realm Seventh Layer attacker before killing the other with a Thunder God Palm.
• The city’s cultivators praised Ye Xuan and asked his name, but Han Bingning carried him away before he could answer.
• Ye Xuan clung to Han Bingning during their flight, claiming he was scared, and she nearly lost control in embarrassment.
• Ye Xuan cultivated in the Holy Son Hall and advanced from Essence Condensation First Layer to Origin Condensation Fifth Layer.
• Three days before the investiture ceremony, powerful figures and talented cultivators gathered at the Ancient Desolate Holy Land, including some with ill intentions.

As the Ancient Desolate Holy Land prepared to appoint Ye Xuan as its Holy Son, young geniuses across the Eastern Wasteland questioned his achievements and openly challenged his reputation. Shen Lian and the Holy Son candidates also awaited the ceremony, which was three days away.

• People across the Ancient Desolate Holy Land discussed Ye Xuan’s Chaos Sacred Body and his rise from an orphan with no cultivation to the incoming Holy Son.
• Xiao Tian, a renowned Carefree Holy Land genius, dismissed Ye Xuan’s talent and criticized the cultivators who praised him.
• Other young geniuses publicly doubted Ye Xuan’s reported victory over Yang Xiong and said they wanted to test him at the investiture ceremony.
• At the Jade Lake Holy Land residence, Shen Lian and the other women debated whether Ye Xuan could have reached peak Meridian Opening in under three months.
• Ten Golden Core true disciples known as Holy Son candidates gathered after being summoned back to the Ancient Desolate Holy Land.

As Ye Xuan’s investiture ceremony approached, rival candidates and Carefree Holy Land’s geniuses plotted to challenge or kill him. After advancing to the sixth level of Essence Condensation, Ye Xuan prepared to face them as Han Bingning took him to the ceremony.

• Huo Qingyi urged the other nine Holy Son candidates to challenge Ye Xuan at the investiture ceremony and reclaim the position.
• An elder of the Carefree Holy Land ordered more than twenty geniuses to seize any chance to kill Ye Xuan at the ceremony.
• Ye Xuan advanced to the sixth level of Essence Condensation and resolved to defeat anyone who challenged him.
• Han Bingning arrived to take Ye Xuan to the ceremony, warned him not to disgrace her, and questioned whether he would fight women who challenged him.
• Ye Xuan promised to treat every challenger as an enemy, then asked Han Bingning not to carry him out by the neck.

The Ancient Desolate Holy Land held a grand ceremony to invest Ye Xuan as its Holy Son, drawing major powers and prodigies from across the region. After Ye Xuan arrived in a golden sedan chair and greeted the crowd, the Ninth Ancestor instructed him to don the sacred robes and crown.

• The Jade Lake Holy Land, led by Shen Yao, and the Carefree Holy Land, including Xiao Tian, arrived among a crowd of renowned prodigies and titans.
• The Ninth Ancestor appeared to preside over the ceremony and welcomed the gathered guests.
• The Ninth Ancestor called for the Holy Son, and eight powerful elders escorted Ye Xuan in a golden sedan chair.
• Ye Xuan descended onto the martial platform in white robes and charmed the crowd with his appearance and courteous greeting.
• The Ninth Ancestor told Ye Xuan to put on the sacred robes and crown.

Ye Xuan completed his Holy Son investiture ceremony, then accepted the crowd’s demands for a public challenge while warning them that he had cultivated for only three months. Yuan Chong of the Carefree Holy Land stepped onto the martial platform to face him.

• Nine fairies, including Qiu Yue and Lin Xue, dressed Ye Xuan in his sacred robes and crown, provoking envy among the crowd.
• The Ninth Ancestor declared the ceremony concluded, and an elder of the Carefree Holy Land called for Ye Xuan to display his strength.
• Numerous geniuses, including disciples of the Ancient Desolate Holy Land, demanded the chance to challenge Ye Xuan.
• Ye Xuan agreed to fight and revealed that he had reached the Essence Condensation Realm sixth layer after three months of cultivation.
• Yuan Chong, a famed Carefree Holy Land disciple at the Essence Condensation Realm sixth layer, stepped onto the martial platform.

Ye Xuan defeated Yuan Chong and Zhang Hao with ease, embarrassing the Carefree Holy Land and its disciples. He accepted the challenge to fight their Wheel Sea Realm cultivators, and another challenger rushed onto the platform.

• Ye Xuan swiftly knocked Yuan Chong off the platform before Yuan Chong could react, prompting the Carefree Holy Land to accuse him of a sneak attack.
• Zhang Hao challenged Ye Xuan from the Essence Condensation Realm Ninth Layer, but Ye Xuan shattered his sword attacks with a kick and sent him off the platform.
• Ye Xuan taunted the Carefree Holy Land, and its elder suggested that Wheel Sea Realm cultivators take the stage instead.
• Ye Xuan accepted the cross-realm challenge to fight Wheel Sea cultivators, and a figure raced onto the platform before a Wheel Sea First Stage cultivator could step forward.

Ye Xuan defeated Song Yu with a single punch, revealing his mastery of the Emperor Formula and shocking the gathered factions. The Carefree Holy Land then sent Lin Hai, a sixth-layer Wheel Sea prodigy carrying clear killing intent, to challenge him.

• Song Yu challenged Ye Xuan over his earlier humiliation, and Ye Xuan taunted him to leave the platform before he was defeated.
• Song Yu revealed he had reached the Wheel Sea Realm Second Stage and attacked Ye Xuan with Crushing Fist.
• Ye Xuan used the Emperor Formula to break Song Yu’s fist and knock him off the platform with one blow.
• The elders recognized that Ye Xuan had perfected the Emperor Formula, and a Carefree Holy Land elder secretly ordered its prodigies to act.
• Lin Hai, a Wheel Sea Realm Sixth Layer prodigy, stepped onto the platform with killing intent to challenge Ye Xuan.

Yang Kaitai challenged Ye Xuan’s worthiness to be Holy Son after Ye Xuan defeated Song Yu, but Ye Xuan exposed the elder’s contradictions and dismissed his authority. Lin Hai then challenged Ye Xuan to a fight to the death, seeking a chance to kill him without interference.

• Yang Kaitai accused Ye Xuan of cruelty toward Song Yu and called for him to be stripped of the Holy Son position.
• Ye Xuan countered that Song Yu had challenged his superior and tried to kill him, and that he had shown mercy by not crippling him.
• Yang Kaitai argued that Ye Xuan had not yet proved himself as Holy Son, but Ye Xuan mocked his lack of authority to decide the matter.
• Ye Xuan turned away from Yang Kaitai as Lin Hai proposed a fight to the death so the Holy Land’s experts could not intervene if Ye Xuan was in danger.