Chapter Summaries

Ye Xuan killed Zhang Zhao despite Zhuo Weng and Zixia demanding that he let him go and return his storage ring. After knocking Zixia back with a single palm strike, Ye Xuan crossed the city boundary and was met by a wave of killing intent.

• Ye Xuan refused Zhuo Weng and Zixia's demands, crushed Zhang Zhao's head, and swallowed his escaping soul.
• Ye Xuan ignored the watching Dao Mystic Immortal Sect disciples and continued toward the city gate as they sent for Yang Ye and Murong Xiong.
• Zixia confronted Ye Xuan, but he struck her with one palm and sent her flying nearly a thousand zhang.
• Ye Xuan warned Zixia not to provoke him again, then stepped across the ten-thousand-meter boundary into the city.
• A wave of killing intent swept toward Ye Xuan as soon as he entered.

Ye Xuan discovered that the killing intent around him could temper his body, then steadily advanced through it by comprehending each surge. He crossed the thousand-meter boundary as onlookers waited to see whether the stronger killing intent would overwhelm him.

• Ye Xuan absorbed the killing aura, strengthened his physique, and briefly glimpsed a blood-soaked warrior wielding a giant axe before the vision vanished.
• Ye Xuan began advancing one step at a time, drawing in the killing intent to temper his body while nearby cultivators mocked his pace and Lower Realm origins.
• Ye Xuan adapted to the killing intent and accelerated until he had covered a thousand meters, astonishing the watching cultivators and Azure Firmament Immortal Gate disciples.
• Ye Xuan stepped into the thousand-meter zone as the gathered cultivators expected him to fail, and a more violent surge of killing intent swept toward him.

Ye Xuan advanced through the killing intent outside the city, using it to temper his body and deepen his cultivation as he reached the Venerable realm fifth layer. The killing intent weakened as he absorbed it, and Zhuo Weng and Zixia caught up while dismissing his progress as luck.

• Ye Xuan battled visions of a giant wielding the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe as he advanced, strengthening his flesh, spiritual sense, and cultivation until he reached the Venerable realm fifth layer.
• Spectators were shocked when Ye Xuan crossed three thousand meters without injury, while Zixia and Zhuo Weng struggled to believe what they saw.
• Other cultivators entered the boundary and found the killing intent had weakened, unaware that Ye Xuan had worn it down by drawing it into himself.
• Ye Xuan reached the four-thousand-meter mark as Zixia and Zhuo Weng caught up, mocked him, and accused him of succeeding through luck.
• Zhuo Weng and Zixia crossed the four-thousand-meter threshold, where Zhuo Weng spat blood and Zixia's flesh split, but both continued forward.

Ye Xuan surpassed Zhuo Weng and Zixia while comprehending killing intent, then resisted Murong Xiong’s attempt to attack him. He confronted Murong Xiong over the accusation that he had killed Zhang Zhao without cause.

• Zhuo Weng and Zixia mocked Ye Xuan as he stood still, but Ye Xuan took a hundred steady steps and overtook them.
• Ye Xuan advanced until fewer than ten people remained ahead of him, and Yang Ye and Murong Xiong awakened from their comprehension.
• A Dao Mystic Immortal Sect disciple told Yang Ye and Murong Xiong that Ye Xuan had killed Zhang Zhao, falsely portraying Zhang Zhao as the victim.
• Murong Xiong used his voice to unleash killing intent at Ye Xuan, but Ye Xuan shattered the giant and childlike figures in his vision and opened his eyes unharmed.
• Murong Xiong accused Ye Xuan of killing Zhang Zhao without cause, and Ye Xuan retorted that Zhang Zhao had tried to steal his storage ring and kill him.

Ye Xuan killed Murong Xiong and Yang Ye, then slaughtered nearly all the Dao Mystic Immortal Sect disciples who tried to flee. He confronted Zhuo Weng and Zixia and gave them a choice: kneel or die.

• Ye Xuan crossed the killing-intent-filled space and cut Murong Xiong into a stump before killing him with a punch.
• Ye Xuan sensed Yang Ye's killing intent, defeated his Heaven Shattering saber attack with a fire dragon, and killed him.
• Ye Xuan used the Demon-Devouring Divine Canon and spiritual weapons to nearly wipe out the fleeing Dao Mystic Immortal Sect disciples.
• Ye Xuan restrained Zhuo Weng and Zixia with Spiritual Qi swords and demanded that they kneel or die.

Ye Xuan forced Zhuo Weng and Zixia to choose between kneeling and death, then continued through the killing-intent field after their confrontation left Zhuo dead and Zixia gravely injured. As the Azure Firmament Immortal Sect members abandoned Zixia, Ye Xuan reached the city gates and pushed them open.

• Ye Xuan gave Zhuo Weng and Zixia three breaths to kneel or die, and Zhuo Weng knelt while Zixia charged at him.
• Zixia’s attack failed, and the killing intent struck her and crushed Zhuo Weng, killing him.
• Ye Xuan left the injured Zixia behind and advanced beyond the nine-thousand-meter mark as the killing-intent storms intensified.
• The Azure Firmament Immortal Sect members refused to rescue Zixia and withdrew, leaving her despairing and unable to reach the medicine in her storage ring.
• Ye Xuan reached the city gates and began pushing them open.

Ye Xuan entered the city alone, swept up its treasures, and fought his way through the first trial in the City Lord's Manor. After absorbing the Spiritual Qi released by the arrows, he advanced to the Venerable Realm seventh layer and moved toward the next trial, where a figure charged at him.

• Ye Xuan entered the city as its gates closed, while the cultivators outside grew envious and called for reinforcements; Zixia was left injured and alone.
• Ye Xuan swept through the ruined streets, collecting weapons, pills, and spiritual herbs before reaching the City Lord's Manor.
• A formation unleashed a storm of arrows, and a voice declared that Ye Xuan had to pass three trials to obtain the opportunity.
• Ye Xuan destroyed the arrows and absorbed the Spiritual Qi they released, advancing from the Venerable Realm sixth layer to the seventh.
• Ye Xuan entered the small door leading to the next trial, where a figure suddenly charged at him.

Ye Xuan fought a Half-Saint Realm puppet inside the city lord’s residence, using the battle to absorb his essence blood and fortune black-yellow Qi and advance to the Venerable Realm Eighth Layer. He entered a hall and was trapped with six more powerful puppets as hundreds of cultivators broke through the city gates to hunt him.

• Ye Xuan battled a golden puppet whose strength had reached the Half-Saint Realm, swallowing gods and devils essence blood and fortune black-yellow Qi to temper his body.
• Ye Xuan destroyed the puppet with a punch to its neck, absorbed its crystal, and advanced to the Venerable Realm Eighth Layer.
• Ye Xuan entered a hall containing six puppets, but the doors shut and a runic barrier trapped him inside with them.
• Ye Xuan charged into battle against the six puppets after realizing he had no way out.
• Hundreds of cultivators from major factions gathered outside, broke through the city gates, and rushed in to hunt Ye Xuan.

Ye Xuan fought through the city lord’s puppets and entered a chamber filled with dense Immortal Qi and scattered crystals. Luo Chong and the other factions arrived behind him, setting up a race for the city’s resources.

• Luo Chong, Hua Chi, and the leader of the Luo Mountain Gate each planned how their factions would deal with Ye Xuan and the opportunities in the city.
• The cultivators reached the city lord’s residence, where Ye Xuan battled the puppets and sensed hundreds of powerful people arriving.
• Ye Xuan destroyed the final puppet, absorbed its Spiritual Qi crystal, and rushed through the doorway that appeared.
• Ye Xuan found broken crystals scattered across the chamber, swept them into his System Space, and inhaled the remaining dense Spiritual Qi.
• Luo Chong and the others entered the chamber as Ye Xuan finished gathering its resources.

Ye Xuan faced a crowd of Dao Mystic Immortal Sect cultivators demanding he surrender his storage ring, cripple his cultivation, and kneel. He instantly killed Hua Chi and Luo Chong, then unleashed his techniques against the attackers and broke through to the Saint Realm.

• Luo Chong and Hua Chi confronted Ye Xuan over the disciples he had killed and demanded his storage ring, the destruction of his cultivation, and three days of kneeling.
• Ye Xuan used the Demon-Devouring Divine Canon to weaken their spiritual senses, then killed Hua Chi with a single palm strike.
• Ye Xuan killed Luo Chong with a single golden fist and warned the remaining cultivators to leave; Xiao Yan fled with the Luo Mountain Gate disciples.
• The remaining cultivators attacked Ye Xuan, driven by greed for the Immortal Crystals.
• Ye Xuan activated the Demon-Devouring Divine Canon, Rule Suppression, and the Nine Heavens Dragon Transformation Art, raising his presence to the Saint Realm.

Ye Xuan slaughtered the cultivators who attacked him, spared Xiao Yan, and left the city, while Ye Wushen arrived in pursuit. Elsewhere, Ye Xuan's master saw his name atop the Venerable Ranking and set out to earn a place on the rankings herself.

• Ye Xuan used his Saint Realm pressure to suppress and kill the hundreds of cultivators in the city lord's manor, while Xiao Yan escaped.
• Ye Xuan collected the storage rings and left the city, ignoring the injured Zixia as she limped away.
• Ye Wushen arrived at the city and entered, intent on finding Ye Xuan.
• A divine stele appeared in an immortal valley and displayed the Venerable, Half-Saint, and Saint Realm rankings.
• Ye Xuan's master saw him ranked first among Venerables and hurried off to pursue a place on the rankings.

Ye Xuan saw that he ranked first on the Venerable Ranking and began cultivating to break through, while his name stirred shock and excitement across Heavenly Void Divine Island. The rankings soon began changing rapidly, and Ye Xuan fell from first place to sixth.

• Ye Xuan searched the Saint Realm and Half-Saint rankings for his master, then saw his own name at the top of the Venerable Ranking and began devouring spirit stones to cultivate.
• Cultivators across Heavenly Void Divine Island were shocked that Ye Xuan of the Eastern Wasteland had claimed first place, and many began seeking ways to climb the rankings.
• Qiu Yue and the others saw Ye Xuan's ranking, and Di Cangtian celebrated until Chu Rufeng asked why his name was absent and provoked him.
• Yin Tianjiao saw Ye Xuan's name on the divine stele and wondered what its appearance foretold.
• Powerful cultivators began challenging one another to rise through the rankings, and within days Ye Xuan had dropped from first place to sixth.

Ye Xuan broke through to the Supreme Extreme Realm of the Venerable Realm and shattered the first shackle on his Chaos Sacred Body. After checking in for the Thunder Sacred Body and fusing with it, he gained greater control over lightning and displayed devastating power.

• Ye Xuan’s ranking fell from sixth to tenth, prompting cultivators to mock him for being from the Eastern Wasteland.
• Ye Xuan endured a vast Lightning Tribulation and broke through to the Supreme Extreme Realm of the Venerable Realm.
• Ye Xuan shattered the first shackle on his Chaos Sacred Body, strengthening his left arm until it rivaled a top-grade sacred artifact.
• The system offered Ye Xuan a refreshed check-in, and he briefly entered its mysterious region before his spiritual-sense avatar shattered inside a palace.
• Ye Xuan checked in and received the Thunder Sacred Body, then fused with it and blasted apart an area spanning hundreds of li with lightning.

Ye Xuan assessed his dwindling resources before the System offered him one thousand low-grade immortal crystals for taking first place on the Venerable Ranking. As he traveled toward the divine island’s core, Ye Wushen ambushed him and trapped him beneath an enormous attack.

• Ye Xuan checked his System Space and realized he lacked enough spirit stones to cultivate to the half-saint realm.
• The System assigned Ye Xuan a mission to reach first place on the Venerable Ranking, promising one thousand low-grade immortal crystals.
• Ye Xuan considered how the ranking was determined as he approached a vast mountain blocking the route to the divine island’s core.
• Ye Wushen ambushed Ye Xuan, shattered the bones in his hand, and sent him flying.
• Ye Wushen pinned Ye Xuan with his emperor realm domain and summoned a colossal hand to strike him.

Ye Xuan escaped Ye Wushen’s devastating attack by tearing through his domain and teleporting away, though he was badly injured. A spatial shift then brought him to a mountain peak where two groups of Half-Saints confronted him, and one young man ordered him to stay.

• Ye Xuan used the Demon-Devouring Divine Canon to tear a crack in Ye Wushen’s domain, then teleported away from his crushing palm strike.
• Ye Wushen failed to find Ye Xuan and sent countless afterimages searching in every direction.
• While hiding from Ye Wushen’s passing clone, Ye Xuan was suddenly transported from the forest to a mountain peak.
• Ye Xuan found himself facing seven women and eleven men, all Half-Saints, and explained that he had arrived through a spatial shift.
• As Ye Xuan tried to leave, a young man from the group of eleven stepped forward and told him, “Since you're here, don't leave.”

Wu Wen attacked Ye Xuan after blocking his escape, while Qin Xian tried to protect him and revealed that she and her companions were disciples of the Sacred Frost Palace. Ye Xuan vowed to help them, and Wu Wen trapped him in the Lychee Immortal Sect’s Death God Binding vines, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Wu Wen refused to let Ye Xuan leave and attacked him despite Qin Xian’s attempt to intervene.
• Wu Wen broke through Qin Xian’s ice attack and knocked her back, while his disciples surrounded her six companions.
• Ye Xuan warned Wu Wen to stop, then learned from Qin Xian that she was a Sacred Frost Palace disciple and promised to defeat her attackers.
• Wu Wen unleashed Death God Binding, and dense vines closed around Ye Xuan in a shrinking cocoon.

Ye Xuan broke free from Wu Wen’s vines, killed him, and slaughtered most of the Lychee Immortal Sect disciples who attacked him. As Qin Xian and the other Sacred Frost Palace disciples feared Ye Xuan might turn on them, Qin Xian gritted her teeth, still unsure whether they should leave.

• Wu Wen trapped Ye Xuan in vines, but Ye Xuan broke free, struck Wu Wen, and killed him with lightning dragons.
• A Lychee Immortal Sect disciple accused Ye Xuan of killing Wu Wen, and Ye Xuan killed him with a punch.
• Ye Xuan attacked the remaining Lychee Immortal Sect disciples and killed several more despite their threats and resistance.
• Qin Xian and the other six Sacred Frost Palace disciples debated whether to leave, fearing Ye Xuan might kill them to silence them.
• With only three Lychee Immortal Sect disciples still alive, Qin Xian gritted her teeth as she hesitated over what to do.

Ye Xuan killed the remaining Lychee Immortal Sect disciples as Li Chu arrived and challenged him. Li Chu attacked with Spiritual Essence Beast Transformation, and Ye Xuan countered with a golden finger imprint.

• Qin Xian urged her six junior sisters to flee, but they refused to leave her behind.
• Ye Xuan killed the last two Lychee Immortal Sect disciples while Qin Xian and the others watched.
• Li Chu arrived and confronted Ye Xuan, furious that he had killed members of the Lychee Immortal Sect.
• Li Chu unleashed Spiritual Essence Beast Transformation, leaving Qin Xian and the other cultivators unable to intervene.
• Ye Xuan activated his meridians and Wilds Body Refining Technique, then sent a golden finger imprint crashing toward Li Chu’s beast.

Ye Xuan fought Li Chu, overwhelming the peak Half-Saint with his swordsmanship, lightning, and ability to conceal his presence. He killed Li Chu and his Primordial Spirit, then returned to Qin Xian and the others to ask if they were unharmed.

• Ye Xuan shattered Li Chu's attack and broke through his domain and great seal with his Devour ability.
• Ye Xuan used Three Primordial Unity Forms and Imprison God, then called down lightning with Five Thunderbolts Strike the Crown.
• Ye Xuan concealed his presence, teleported behind Li Chu, and severed one of his arms with a sword strike.
• Ye Xuan punched Li Chu, seized him by the neck, and slammed him into the ground, killing him and destroying his Primordial Spirit with lightning.
• Ye Xuan descended beside Qin Xian and the others and asked whether they were unharmed.

Ye Xuan joined Qin Xian and six other women, and the Divine Ranking placed him third on the Venerable Ranking. After traveling together for several weeks, the group learned that the ruins Qin Xian had found on a map had been exposed and were drawing other cultivators.

• The Divine Ranking raised Ye Xuan to third place on the Venerable Ranking, prompting Qin Xian and the others to realize his identity.
• Ye Xuan dismissed Zi'er's doubts and continued traveling with the women, sharing the resources he gained along the way.
• Over several days, the women gradually relaxed around Ye Xuan, though Qin Xian remained wary of his intentions.
• After more than ten days, Qin Xian noticed cultivators converging in one direction and warned that someone had discovered the ruins.
• Qin Xian told Ye Xuan that she had a map to the ruins and that the Lychee Immortal Sect had pursued them to take it.