Chapter Summaries

Ye Xuan arrived at the City Lord's Manor to challenge Mo Gaishi after news spread that Ye Xuan's protector had killed Mo Tianyi. Mo Gaishi confronted him, and the two exchanged threats as their battle drew near.

• News that Ye Xuan was challenging Mo Gaishi and that Mo Tianyi had been killed spread through Devil City, drawing crowds to the City Lord's Manor.
• Mo Gaishi learned of Mo Tianyi's death and Ye Xuan's arrival, then destroyed part of a hall in rage and vowed to kill Ye Xuan.
• Ye Xuan arrived at the manor and called on Mo Gaishi to fight him.
• Mo Gaishi flew out to confront Ye Xuan and mocked his strength, while his voice injured some onlookers.
• Ye Xuan answered that he could handle Mo Gaishi, blamed him for sending Mo Tianyi to attack, and told him Mo Tianyi was dead.

Ye Xuan and Mo Gaishi began their battle over the Saint Ranking, with Ye Xuan gaining the upper hand in their opening exchange. Ye Xuan then drew the Seven Star Dragon Abyss Sword and launched a powerful sword strike.

• Mo Gaishi grew furious at Ye Xuan’s taunts and gathered his spiritual essence while Ye Xuan prepared to fight.
• Mo Gaishi charged and summoned a spiritual-essence demon, which Ye Xuan cut apart with a wind blade.
• Ye Xuan used Wandering Dragon Steps to close in and attack Mo Gaishi, who dodged and countered with a finger-seal divine ability.
• Ye Xuan’s whip kick clashed with Mo Gaishi’s Demonic Qi, driving Ye Xuan back hundreds of zhang and Mo Gaishi back over a thousand.
• Ye Xuan judged Mo Gaishi’s strength manageable, summoned the Seven Star Dragon Abyss Sword, and unleashed Primordial Unity, Third Form.

Ye Xuan defeated Mo Gaishi, the number one on the Saint Ranking, after Mo Gaishi used a devil god technique to swallow Ye Xuan’s sword strike. Ye Xuan prepared to kill him, but an unseen voice warned him about the consequences of killing the young master of the Devil Moon Immortal Sect.

• Mo Gaishi summoned a devil god phantom that swallowed Ye Xuan’s sword strike, then charged at him while he believed Ye Xuan could not attack again.
• Ye Xuan met Mo Gaishi head-on and crippled his limbs and dantian in a series of physical attacks.
• The watching cultivators saw Mo Gaishi defeated and kneeling helplessly in the void.
• Ye Xuan rebuked Mo Gaishi for his past killings and for trying to kill him first, then drew the Seven Star Dragon Abyss Sword.
• An unseen voice warned Ye Xuan to consider the consequences of killing the young master of the Devil Moon Immortal Sect.

Ye Xuan continued punishing Mo Gaishi despite Mo Wufang’s threats, declaring that the Devil Moon Immortal Sect must not target him or the Eastern Wasteland. He made clear that he intended to kill Mo Gaishi, then sent a sword strike toward his head.

• Mo Wufang appeared and threatened Ye Xuan, but Ye Xuan severed Mo Gaishi’s left arm and destroyed it with Sword Qi.
• Ye Xuan cut off and shredded Mo Gaishi’s right arm, dismissing Mo Wufang’s appeal to show restraint.
• Ye Xuan severed Mo Gaishi’s left leg and accused the Devil Moon Immortal Sect of repeatedly bullying him and killing innocents.
• Ye Xuan warned Mo Wufang to return to the Devil Moon Immortal Sect and threatened to attack it if it targeted him or the Eastern Wasteland.
• Mo Gaishi sensed Ye Xuan’s intent to kill him, and Ye Xuan’s sword light shot toward his head.

Ye Xuan killed Mo Gaishi and Mo Wufang, taking first place on the Divine Ranking. After ranking portals appeared and the opportunities were set to open in three days, Ye Xuan sent Han Bingning to improve her position and went to guard her.

• Ye Xuan killed Mo Gaishi with his sword and burned away his divine soul with True Solar Fire.
• Ye Xuan killed Mo Wufang after a mysterious pressure left him unable to move, then took both men's storage rings.
• Ye Xuan rose to first place on the Divine Ranking, and Mo Gaishi's name disappeared from the stele.
• The divine stele expanded and its names became portals; an ancient voice announced that the opportunities would open in three days.
• Ye Xuan urged Han Bingning, who ranked thirty-second, to climb into the top ten, then left to guard her.

Ye Xuan wondered whether the mighty woman in his divine palace was his system, but she ignored his calls while secretly enjoying his praise. Han Bingning arrived at Blood Moon City to challenge its lord, Blood Moon, and left the city gates shattered with her challenge.

• Ye Xuan tried to speak with the black-robed woman in his divine palace and suspected she had designs on him, but she did not answer.
• The black-robed woman privately praised Ye Xuan's flattery and decided he was still too weak for her to engage with.
• Han Bingning arrived at Blood Moon City to challenge Blood Moon, the Saint Ranking's twenty-third expert.
• Han Bingning destroyed the city gates with her ice sword and called out, asking Blood Moon whether he dared to fight.

Han Bingning challenged Blood Moon and narrowly defeated him after a battle that lasted more than four hours, rising to twenty-third in the Divine Ranking. After recovering from her injuries, she told Ye Xuan that she would challenge Huo Long, ranked fifteenth, the next day.

• Blood Moon accepted Han Bingning’s challenge and met her at the ruined city gates.
• Han Bingning fought Blood Moon with her sword Dao and Ice Domain while Ye Xuan watched from the void.
• After more than four hours of battle, Han Bingning narrowly defeated Blood Moon, though both were badly injured and much of Blood Moon City was destroyed.
• News of Han Bingning’s victory spread, and she rose to twenty-third in the Divine Ranking as other geniuses began fighting to improve their ranks.
• Han Bingning healed in her room while Ye Xuan watched over her.
• After recovering, Han Bingning told Ye Xuan she would challenge Huo Long, ranked fifteenth, the next day.

Ye Xuan tried to stay the night with Han Bingning, but her Dao protector, Aunt Rong, appeared and told him to leave. Han Bingning sent Aunt Rong away and kept Ye Xuan with her, leaving them alone in an awkward silence.

• Ye Xuan doubted Han Bingning could defeat Huo Long and urged her not to challenge him, saying she could rely on the resources he earned.
• Han Bingning ordered Ye Xuan to leave, but he asked to stay and keep her company for the night.
• Aunt Rong appeared and told Ye Xuan that Han Bingning did not need his protection, but he argued that she could not intervene if someone from their generation challenged his master.
• Han Bingning told Aunt Rong to leave because she had things to discuss with Ye Xuan, and Aunt Rong warned him not to try anything.
• Ye Xuan asked Han Bingning what Aunt Rong meant, and Han Bingning blushed and glared at him.

Han Bingning challenged Huo Long, ranked fifteenth on the Saint Ranking, while Ye Xuan accompanied her to his city. Huo Long accepted the fight and attacked Han Bingning, who answered with a swarm of ice dragons.

• Han Bingning ordered Ye Xuan to stay quiet, and they spent the night without further words.
• The next day, Ye Xuan and Han Bingning traveled to Huo Long's city despite Ye Xuan's reluctance to let her challenge him.
• New talents fought for places on the Saint Ranking, and some began searching for Ye Xuan to challenge him.
• Huo Long waited outside the city and recognized Ye Xuan, but Han Bingning demanded that Huo Long accept her challenge.
• Huo Long dismissed Han Bingning's strength, then attacked her when she insisted on fighting.
• Han Bingning summoned thousands of ice dragons and sent them roaring toward Huo Long.

Han Bingning fought Huo Long but was defeated after he broke through her Ice Domain. Ye Xuan stepped in to protect her and asked Huo Long whether he still wanted to challenge him.

• Huo Long advanced through Han Bingning's ice dragons and unleashed his Heaven-Exterminating Strike against her.
• Han Bingning froze Huo Long with her Ice Domain and struck him with her divine sword, but he broke free at the cost of serious injuries.
• Huo Long closed in on the weakened Han Bingning, who admitted defeat.
• Ye Xuan stepped between Huo Long and Han Bingning, drew her into his arms, and gave her a healing pill.
• Ye Xuan asked Huo Long whether he still wanted to challenge him.

Ye Xuan turned from challenging the injured Huo Long to facing Lei Xiao, a powerful Thunder Sect prodigy who challenged him. Ye Xuan demanded ten thousand low-grade immortal crystals before accepting, leaving Lei Xiao angered and the crowd stunned.

• Ye Xuan pressed Huo Long to fight, but Lei Xiao appeared and offered to challenge Ye Xuan in his place.
• The crowd identified Lei Xiao as a Thunder Sect prodigy ranked ninth on the Divine Ranking, and Huo Long thanked him before putting away his golden staff.
• Lei Xiao praised Ye Xuan's accomplishments and challenged him, while Han Bingning warned Ye Xuan that Lei Xiao was exceptionally powerful and may have killed a half-emperor.
• Ye Xuan asked Lei Xiao's rank, then said it was not high enough and demanded ten thousand low-grade immortal crystals to accept the challenge.
• Lei Xiao grew angry at Ye Xuan's fee and insult, while the surrounding cultivators fell silent.

Lei Xiao threatened Ye Xuan after Ye Xuan refused his challenge, but Ye Xuan warned that his powerful protector would kill anyone who attacked him before he accepted. Ye Xuan prepared to leave with Han Bingning, and Lei Xiao finally agreed to pay the immortal crystals.

• Lei Xiao unleashed his peak Saint Realm aura and prepared to attack Ye Xuan, but Ye Xuan warned that his senior would kill him if he struck before Ye Xuan accepted the challenge.
• Ye Xuan demanded that Lei Xiao either pay the immortal crystals or fight, then took Han Bingning's hand and started to leave.
• Cultivators erupted in anger over Ye Xuan holding Han Bingning's hand, while some challenged him and offered to pool the ten thousand immortal crystals for Lei Xiao.
• Han Bingning warned Ye Xuan that many of the gathered cultivators were Saint Ranking experts backed by powerful forces, and Ye Xuan chose not to provoke them.
• Lei Xiao reconsidered attacking, called Ye Xuan to stop, and tossed him a storage pouch, agreeing to pay the immortal crystals.

Ye Xuan accepted Lei Xiao’s challenge after taking his ten thousand immortal crystals and forced him to clarify the stakes. They agreed to fight for victory, with either allowed to concede, and Lei Xiao opened the battle with a storm of lightning dragons.

• Lei Xiao paid Ye Xuan ten thousand immortal crystals for the chance to challenge him.
• Ye Xuan asked whether the fight would be an ordinary spar or to the death, unsettling Lei Xiao and drawing objections from Lei Xiao’s supporters.
• Lei Xiao proposed a fight to determine victory, with either contestant allowed to concede and accidental deaths treated as bad luck.
• Ye Xuan accepted, told Han Bingning to move back, and said he would eat with her after the fight.
• Lei Xiao unleashed his lightning essence and sent countless lightning dragons blasting toward Ye Xuan.

Ye Xuan overwhelmed Lei Xiao in a lightning duel, then left the gathering with Han Bingning after no one else dared challenge him. News of the defeat spread across Heavenly Void Divine Island with one day remaining before the secret realm opened.

• Lei Xiao unleashed a torrent of lightning dragons, but Ye Xuan matched his lightning resonance and shattered them.
• Lei Xiao attacked with Thunder Kill, but the lightning blades could not harm Ye Xuan’s physique.
• Ye Xuan used Five Thunderbolts Strike the Crown to destroy Lei Xiao’s defenses and send him flying.
• Ye Xuan struck Lei Xiao with a giant lightning fist, then spared him and offered the crowd a chance to challenge him for ten thousand Immortal Crystals.
• When no one stepped forward, Ye Xuan returned to Han Bingning and left as Lei Xiao lay humiliated.
• News of Ye Xuan’s crushing victory spread throughout Heavenly Void Divine Island, one day before the secret realm’s opening.

On the final day of the rankings, Ye Xuan stayed with Han Bingning as they awaited the secret realms and prepared to part. When the realms opened, they exchanged promises before heading to their separate destinations, while a woman who had watched them vanished from the crowd.

• Ye Xuan stayed with Han Bingning and worried about the missing Yin Tianjiao as the final day passed.
• The divine stele opened passages to the secret realms, and the ranked cultivators flew toward them.
• Ye Xuan asked Han Bingning to wait for him at the Sacred Frost Palace, and she promised she would.
• Ye Xuan embraced Han Bingning, joked about beating her marriage suitors, and flew toward his secret realm as she headed to hers.
• Aunt Rong watched them part, while a woman who had witnessed their intimacy wished them happiness and vanished.

Ye Xuan entered the secret realm through the gateway at the first-place position on the Saint Ranking. Beyond a small door, he found a sunlit world of spring and realized he could not return.

• Ye Xuan drew the attention of the gathered cultivators as he rose to the first-place gateway on the Saint Ranking.
• Ye Xuan entered his secret realm, and the other outstanding talents were pulled into their own gateways.
• The divine stele vanished, and white light carried the remaining cultivators away from Heavenly Void Divine Island.
• Ye Xuan climbed a flight of stairs and opened a small door.
• Ye Xuan saw a springlike landscape beyond the door, then discovered he could not turn back.

Ye Xuan entered a strange sea that sealed his Spiritual Qi and inflicted agonizing pain, but he continued forward while using the Wilds Body Refining Technique and pushing his spiritual sense toward a distant light. As he endured the sea’s trials, illusions tried to tempt him to stop, and a woman in a boudoir invited him to listen to her tune.

• Ye Xuan stepped into the sea, where his Spiritual Qi was sealed and his clothes shattered as piercing pain made his body bleed.
• Ye Xuan discovered that he could still circulate the Wilds Body Refining Technique, so he endured the pain and began walking through the sea.
• Ye Xuan tried to send out his spiritual sense, but it was squeezed and devoured as he struggled to push it toward a distant sliver of light.
• A voice urged Ye Xuan to stop, and an illusion of a luxurious paradise and carefree young man appeared, but Ye Xuan ignored it and pressed on.
• The illusion shattered and Ye Xuan found himself in a woman's boudoir, where a graceful figure invited him to stop and listen to a tune.

Ye Xuan struggled through a sea of illusions that used seductive women and people he loved to break his mind. He recognized Yin Tianjiao’s apparent rescue as another deception, but a sword strike descended on him as the scene vanished.

• Ye Xuan broke a seductive illusion of a woman behind vermilion curtains and pushed onward through the endless sea.
• Ye Xuan resisted an illusion of Han Bingning appearing as his master, shattering it despite its pleas and reproaches.
• Ye Xuan saw Yin Tianjiao trapped and wounded, then stopped charging when he noticed her subtle smile and realized the scene was an illusion.
• The illusion vanished, and a streak of sword light slashed down at Ye Xuan.

Ye Xuan faced dangerous visions as he crossed the sea, breaking through to the Second Layer Saint Realm and defeating a humanoid Devil Creature. He shattered a third shackle, freed his spiritual sense, and reached the end of the sea, where a second doorway appeared.

• Ye Xuan destroyed a sword-light attack and broke through to the Second Layer Saint Realm.
• A black hole opened before Ye Xuan, and he fought off waves of Devil Creatures as the hole shrank.
• A humanoid Devil Creature attacked Ye Xuan, who shattered its claw and tore it apart.
• Ye Xuan returned to the sea and continued forward through the waves without encountering more strange visions.
• Ye Xuan shattered his third shackle, released his trapped spiritual sense, and reached the second doorway.

Ye Xuan entered the Profound Void Realm's first tower and met its guardian, Xu Huang, who offered him a chance to skip ten trials if he could defeat him. Their battle began with Xu Huang striking Ye Xuan from behind, leaving Ye Xuan shaken by his speed and power as another threat approached.

• Ye Xuan reached the portal at the peak of the Second Layer Saint Realm, with his third shackle shattered, and entered it.
• Ye Xuan arrived at a vast pyramid filled with Immortal Spiritual Qi and followed its source to a golden light.
• Xu Huang introduced himself as the first tower's guardian and said Ye Xuan could pass a hundred-move trial or skip to the eleventh trial by defeating him.
• Ye Xuan attacked Xu Huang with the Wandering Dragon Steps and Emperor Art, but Xu Huang vanished and reappeared behind him.
• Xu Huang punched Ye Xuan and sent him flying, and Ye Xuan sensed another danger approaching.