Chapter Summaries

Xie Feng and the other contestants entered the Soul Battle, where they had to remain inside a circle that steadily drained their soul power. As the battle began and contestants started to weaken, the first attacks broke out while spectators placed bets on the winner.

• Six hundred contestants entered the battle platform and were told that anyone who left the circle would be eliminated until one remained.
• Xie Feng sat near the circle's edge, and Lei Lian, Shi Jian, and Chu Yi chose nearby positions that stirred rumors about the rival sects.
• The elder announced that the winner would receive a reward from the Northern Spirit Emperor and all of Lingnan City, then declared the Soul Battle underway.
• A Ling, Gu Yu, Yao Cang, and Xu Fei placed bets on Xie Feng, while most spectators backed one of the three great powers.
• As the circle drained contestants' soul power, one weakened contestant attacked, prompting nearby fighters to defend themselves and start battling.

Xie Feng waited out the arena melee before countering Shi Jian and Lei Lian’s attacks with overwhelming soul power. After Shi Jian’s redirected attack left Chu Yi exposed to Lei Lian’s lightning, Xie Feng’s soul sword stopped Chu Yi from being eliminated.

• Xie Feng and Lei Lian remained still as contestants fought and were eliminated, while the battle gradually shifted closer to them.
• Lei Lian moved within striking distance of Xie Feng, and Shi Jian launched a soul beam that Xie Feng shattered with a silver soul sword.
• Shi Jian and Lei Lian attacked together, but Xie Feng split his sword to meet them, and their clash eliminated many nearby contestants.
• Shi Jian attacked again with a soul-power hammerhead, but Xie Feng’s storm knocked it off course toward Chu Yi.
• Lei Lian struck Chu Yi with No Life Purple Lightning, and Xie Feng used a soul sword to stop Chu Yi from sliding out of the circle.

Xie Feng effortlessly defeated Lei Lian and the other contenders, winning the Soul Battle and claiming Lingnan City and the surrounding land. The Northern Spirit Emperor praised him and awarded him the city seal, while Lei Lian and Shi Jian concealed their killing intent.

• Lei Lian unleashed the Purple Thunder Tiger Art at Xie Feng as spectators argued over who would win.
• Xie Feng ended the battle with a surge of soul power, shattering the purple tiger and blasting Lei Lian, Shi Jian, and the other opponents out of the circle.
• Gu Yu, Yao Cang, Xu Fei, A Ling, and several strangers collected their winnings after Xie Feng took first place.
• The Northern Spirit Emperor summoned Xie Feng, praised his talent, and had Elder Jin present him with the official seal of Lingnan City.
• The Northern Spirit Emperor declared that Lingnan City and the surrounding land belonged to Xie Feng, while Lei Lian and Shi Jian congratulated him and secretly harbored killing intent.

After the Soul Battle, Xie Feng explored Lingnan City and killed Shi Jian and Lei Lian when they attacked him. He then faced Liu Xing, the Sword Gate sect master, who had arrived seeking vengeance for Hong Jian.

• Xie Feng assigned Gu Yu, Little Cang, and Xu Fei to repair the temporary city, while Sister Ling and Little Nine mapped Lingnan City and its terrain.
• Xie Feng considered Lingnan City as a home for the Demon-Burying Clan but decided the Jade Pivot Sect deserved a better location.
• Shi Jian attacked Xie Feng, who summoned Little Sword and killed him with Chaos.
• Lei Lian attacked Xie Feng with lightning balls, but Xie Feng remained unharmed and used Sword Qi to kill him.
• Liu Xing, the intermediate Ancient God sect master of the Sword Gate, confronted Xie Feng over Hong Jian's death, and Xie Feng pointed out that he had killed Shi Jian too.

Xie Feng fought Liu Xing over the deaths of the Sword Gate’s Twin Swords until Leng Handao intervened on the Spirit Emperor’s orders. Liu Xing withdrew, and the Spirit Emperor appeared to invite Xie Feng’s friendship.

• Liu Xing attacked Xie Feng, and Xie Feng fought back with the Qilin King's Heaven-Obscuring Palm as Little Sword joined the battle.
• Xie Feng and Little Sword clashed with Liu Xing until Leng Handao separated them before their powers could devastate Lingnan City.
• Xie Feng explained that he had killed Hong Jian to protect his disciple after Hong Jian tried to silence a witness to his murder of the Heaven-Subduing Pavilion's deputy pavilion master.
• Leng Handao warned Liu Xing that continuing the fight would make him an enemy of the Spirit Emperor, so Liu Xing withdrew resentfully.
• Leng Handao told Xie Feng that the Spirit Emperor wished to see him, and the Spirit Emperor appeared and asked to become his friend.

Xie Feng agreed to represent the Northern Spirit Emperor in the Battle of the Four Emperors for the chance to win the Heaven-Sent Emperor Rainbow. He returned to the Fifth Universe, brought the Demon-Burying Clan to Lingnan City, and began resettling its tens of millions of people.

• The Northern Spirit Emperor told Xie Feng that his failing health meant he needed a substitute for the Battle of the Four Emperors, and Xie Feng agreed after learning the winner would receive a Heaven-Sent Emperor Rainbow.
• The Northern Spirit Emperor offered to find powerful cultivators to help Xie Feng improve, but Xie Feng declined and later received a notebook of information about Lingnan City from A Ling, Gu Yu, and the others.
• Xie Feng returned to the Fifth Universe and told Yao Zhi and Zang Tian about Lingnan City, prompting the Demon-Burying Clan to move there; he also told Ren Yanyu and the Jade Pivot Sect members that they would relocate later.
• Xie Feng found that Ren Yanyu and the Imperial Evil Lord had advanced to Intermediate God Emperors, and he agreed to let the Imperial Evil Lord visit the Sixth Universe.
• Three days after setting out, the Demon-Burying Clan's tens of millions of people reached Lingnan City, where Yao Zhi, Zang Tian, Yuan Ling, and Shi Yan began rebuilding their home and helping the troops return to civilian life.

Xie Feng learned that Xie Ling was his older cousin from the Chaos Lineage and discovered that his senior brother Kong Qiusu had been taken to the Tenth Universe. After reading about Heavenly Corpse Ridge, he gathered the Jade Pivot Sect to seek its energy, but Xu Fei warned that the forbidden ground ate people.

• Xie Ling revealed that she was Xie Feng’s older paternal cousin, and the Imperial Evil Lord left to ask his original body to search for Kong Qiusu in the Tenth Universe.
• Xie Feng read about Heavenly Corpse Ridge, where half the Sixth Universe’s God of Creation’s heart was said to be buried, and decided to investigate it to grow stronger.
• Xie Feng gathered the Jade Pivot Sect and told them about his connection to the Chaos Lineage and his plan to share the forbidden ground’s energy.
• Xie Ling explained that Little Nine was a Chaos Jiuying tied to the Chaos Lineage, while Xie Feng’s companions reacted to his identity.
• Xu Fei warned the group that people who entered Heavenly Corpse Ridge never returned and said that the place ate people.

Xie Feng confronted A Ling and the Imperial Evil Lord and learned that he was the orphaned son of Xie Xuanyuan and Mu Yueheng, members of the Tenth Universe’s Chaos and Jade Pivot lineages. He also learned that his master, Mu Bingxing, had been severely injured while investigating his parents’ deaths, and the chapter ended with A Ling and the Imperial Evil Lord introducing themselves by their true names.

• Xie Feng found A Ling and the Imperial Evil Lord talking and confronted them about knowing his origins.
• A Ling revealed that Xie Feng was the son of Xie Xuanyuan and Mu Yueheng, whose deaths and unborn child’s fate had been concealed.
• Xie Feng learned that Mu Bingxing was his master’s real name and that he belonged to the Jade Pivot Lineage.
• A Ling explained that Mu Bingxing had investigated Xie Feng’s parents’ deaths, angering Xie Tu, who had secretly pursued him and left him severely injured.
• A Ling introduced herself as Xie Ling, and the Imperial Evil Lord introduced himself as Xie Hun.

After the Demon-Burying Clan settled in Lingnan City, A Ling intercepted a Thunder Sect force sent to kill Xie Feng and killed them all. She then encountered the Imperial Evil Lord, who explained that he had followed someone from the Fifth Universe to the Sixth.

• The Northern Spirit Emperor sent resources to win Xie Feng's favor, while the Demon-Burying Clan's move to Lingnan City stirred controversy that Xie Feng ignored.
• Lei Panfeng led Thunder Sect members into Lingnan City to avenge Grand Elder Lei Lian and kill Xie Feng.
• A Ling blocked the mountain path, killed Lei Panfeng with one sword strike, then slaughtered the kneeling Thunder Sect members and buried their bodies.
• A Ling met the Imperial Evil Lord, recognized him beneath his disguise, and greeted him as Brother Hun.
• The Imperial Evil Lord said his clone was cultivating in the Fifth Universe and that he had followed someone to the Sixth Universe.

Xie Feng and his companions reached Heavenly Corpse Ridge, where a mysterious force drained their strength. After Xu Fei collapsed on a plain of human ashes, Xie Feng sent him and Gu Yu back while he, Xie Ling, and Yao Cang continued onward.

• Xie Feng formed an adventuring party with Xu Fei and traveled west aboard a starship.
• Xu Fei presented a spirit talisman to the western border guards, who allowed the group to pass.
• Xie Feng and his companions reached Heavenly Corpse Ridge and felt their strength being siphoned away as they approached.
• Xu Fei fainted on a white plain, and Xie Ling found that his power was completely depleted.
• Xie Feng identified the plain's gray soil as human ashes and sent Gu Yu and Little Nine out with Xu Fei.
• Xie Ling questioned why Yao Cang remained unaffected by the strength-draining force.

Xie Feng, Xie Ling, and Yao Cang crossed the dangerous Heavenly Corpse Ridge and followed the strongest power to its center. After Xie Ling killed a divine wild bull, the three roasted and ate it before continuing their journey.

• Yao Cang explained that the strange place affected him less because he was a Demon-Burying Demon from the outside world, though he still stuttered.
• Xie Feng found fresh human footprints, then mapped the mountains of Heavenly Corpse Ridge with his power.
• Xie Ling sent Big Yellow to search the ridge, and the little golden dragon pointed out that the strongest power lay at its center.
• Xie Feng, Xie Ling, and Yao Cang reached a deep-red valley, where a divine red wild bull charged at them.
• Xie Ling struck the bull with silver lightning, killed and butchered it, then had Xie Feng roast the meat while Yao Cang prepared skewers.
• Xie Ling, Xie Feng, and Yao Cang ate the roasted beef together.

Xie Hun returned to the Land of Chaos and used his time-controlling ability to discover that Xie Han’s subordinates had abducted Kong Qiusu. He confronted Xie Han before Patriarch Xie Tu, but kept the evidence hidden to protect Xie Feng’s existence.

• Xie Hun entered the Tenth Universe and used a gold obsidian mirror to view the people who had abducted Kong Qiusu.
• Xie Hun traveled to Immortal Cloud Island and met Patriarch Xie Tu and Elder Xie Han in the royal city’s great hall.
• Xie Hun asked Xie Han to release Kong Qiusu, but Xie Han denied knowing about the abduction and demanded evidence.
• Xie Hun revealed that the ten Half-Step Heavenly Emperors who seized Kong Qiusu were Xie Han’s Ten Heavenly Generals.
• Xie Han admitted that he had imprisoned Kong Qiusu for offending his superior, claiming he had only just remembered the matter.

Xie Han lured Xie Hun to the Demon-Suppressing Tower, knocked him out, and had him bound before bringing him to the imprisoned Kong Qiusu. He revealed Xie Hun’s presence to Kong Qiusu and taunted him, while also issuing a kill order for Xie Feng.

• Xie Han persuaded Xie Hun to leave the royal city with him, then led him to the Demon-Suppressing Tower instead of taking him to Kong Qiusu.
• Xie Han knocked Xie Hun unconscious and ordered a silver-robed Heavenly General to chain him up.
• Xie Han speculated that Xie Feng had befriended Xie Hun and sent a kill order for Xie Feng through a sound transmission talisman.
• Xie Han and the silver-robed man carried Xie Hun to the tower’s nine-hundredth floor, where Kong Qiusu was chained to a pillar.
• Xie Han threw Xie Hun before Kong Qiusu and taunted him about the young master’s opposition to Xie Han.

Kong Qiusu and Xie Hun remained imprisoned by Xie Han, who threatened Xie Feng if he came to the Tenth Universe. Kong Qiusu sent a desperate message to his master using his heart-source power, and Xie Hun gave up fifty years of vitality to revive him; the message then drifted slowly through space.

• Xie Han taunted the bound Kong Qiusu and warned that Xie Feng would die if he came to the Tenth Universe.
• Xie Hun woke and explained that Xie Han had sent Xie Feng a gold paper invitation, but the repaired Gate of the Vast Expanse blocked him.
• Kong Qiusu asked Xie Hun to lend him vitality so he could send a message to his master without using cultivation power.
• Kong Qiusu sent a faint white message through space and lost consciousness as his heart-source power ran out.
• Xie Hun transferred fifty years of vitality through his Chaos Inscription, reviving Kong Qiusu, then fainted from hunger.
• Kong Qiusu's message continued traveling slowly, with no certainty about when it would reach its recipient.

Xie Feng and his companions encountered a horde of Corpse Puppets guarding a valley at Heavenly Corpse Ridge. After Xie Ling and Yao Cang held them off, Xie Feng entered a hidden tomb and sensed a faint, sealed presence that might be connected to the God of Creation’s heart.

• Xie Feng, Yao Cang, and Xie Ling reached an energy gate guarded by more than a hundred Corpse Puppets, which Xie Feng identified as people transformed into mindless guardians.
• The Corpse Puppets attacked with fireballs and claw strikes, and Xie Feng and Xie Ling fought them back.
• Xie Ling shattered the gate with the Approaching Winter Sword and told Xie Feng to search inside for the God of Creation’s heart while she and Yao Cang dealt with the puppets.
• Xie Feng entered a strange illusion, summoned Little Sword, and broke through it to reveal a dark, damp tomb filled with poisonous mist.
• Xie Feng expelled the poison, released his soul power, and detected a faint presence sealed somewhere within the tomb.

Xie Feng found the Heart of the Creation God in a hidden tomb at Heavenly Corpse Ridge, but a purple-robed man challenged him for it. Their battle ended with the man surrounding Xie Feng with alluring female phantoms, only for Xie Feng to vomit.

• Xie Feng followed the energy through the tomb maze and found a white chamber containing a statue of the Sixth Universe's Creation God.
• Xie Feng split the statue with Little Sword and discovered the Heart of the Creation God inside.
• A purple-robed man appeared and claimed strength would decide who owned the Heart of the Creation God.
• Xie Feng and the purple-robed man traded attacks, with Xie Feng breaking the man's halberd phantom before the fight continued.
• The purple-robed man unleashed his Myriad Spirits Illusory Dance Technique, but Xie Feng stared at the beautiful female phantoms and vomited.

Xie Feng fought the purple-robed man for the Heart of the Creation God until Xie Ling arrived and drove the enemy away. Yao Cang retrieved the heart, and the group prepared to leave Heavenly Corpse Ridge.

• Xie Feng mocked the purple-robed man, swallowed his Yellow Springs Fire, and exchanged powerful punches with him.
• Xie Feng and the purple-robed man both retreated from their clash, but Xie Feng suffered minor injuries while the man's arm was hurt.
• The purple-robed man charged at full strength, but Xie Ling's Sword Qi struck and injured him, forcing him to flee.
• Xie Ling checked Xie Feng's injuries while Yao Cang retrieved the Heart of the Creation God.
• Xie Feng explained that the purple-robed man had left the footprints they found at Heavenly Corpse Ridge and was likely a Peak Ancient God.
• Xie Ling led Xie Feng and Yao Cang away from the tomb with the heart.

Gu Yu and Xu Fei encountered an injured purple-robed man outside Heavenly Corpse Ridge, then reunited with Xie Feng and the others after they retrieved the Heart of the Creation God. They divided and absorbed its power, strengthening everyone, while Xie Feng’s new realm remained unknown.

• An injured purple-robed man attacked Gu Yu after learning Xie Feng was his master, but Little Nine drove him away with fireballs.
• Xie Feng, Xie Ling, and Yao Cang emerged from Heavenly Corpse Ridge, and Xie Feng revealed the Heart of the Creation God.
• After the Heart left the ridge, its bloody mountains turned green, and Xie Feng divided the heart’s power among the group, with Xie Ling and Little Nine giving up their shares.
• Yao Cang and Xu Fei advanced to Peak God King, while Gu Yu rose from Initial Divine Saint to Advanced Divine Saint.
• Xie Feng quietly completed a breakthrough, and Xie Ling explained that higher realms did not necessarily cause dramatic displays as Gu Yu asked what realm Xie Feng had reached.

After reaching the advanced stage of the Ancient God Realm, Xie Feng learned the Western Nether Emperor had attacked Gu Yu and then prepared to travel to Heavenly World City for the Battle of the Four Emperors. The Northern Spirit Emperor offered Xie Feng the throne of the north if he died, while Xie Feng’s party learned more about the four rulers on their journey.

• Xie Feng told Xie Ling that he had fought the Western Nether Emperor over the Heart of the Creation God and injured him with the Approaching Winter Sword.
• The Northern Spirit Emperor told Xie Feng that the Battle of the Four Emperors was seven days away and asked him to travel to Heavenly World City with Xie Ling and Yao Cang.
• The Northern Spirit Emperor, citing his declining health and distrust of the court, offered Xie Feng the northern throne if he died before Xie Feng returned.
• Xie Feng accepted the offer and promised to make arrangements for the north’s lasting peace and prosperity.
• Xie Feng, Xie Ling, Yao Cang, Little Nine, and Leng Handao departed by starship for Heavenly World City.
• Leng Handao described the Southern Illusion Emperor, Western Nether Emperor, and Eastern Star Emperor as dangerous and petty, and Xie Feng asked what backing the Star Emperor had.

Xie Feng and his companions arrived at Heavenly World City to represent the ailing Spirit Emperor at the coming Battle of the Four Emperors. After they settled into the Spirit Emperor’s residence, Dongfang Xun discovered that the Golden Emperor Heavenly Flame had vanished, threatening the Emperor Rainbow ceremony.

• Dongfang Xun welcomed Xie Feng, Xie Ling, Yao Cang, and Leng Handao to Heavenly World City, where Xie Feng learned that the Southern Illusion Emperor and Eastern Star Emperor had arrived but the Western Nether Emperor was delayed.
• Dongfang Xun led Xie Feng and the others to the Spirit Emperor’s residence, then returned to the royal city.
• A female disciple reported turmoil at the Emperor Rainbow Platform, and Dongfang Xun hurried to investigate.
• Dongfang Xun found that the Golden Emperor Heavenly Flame had reached the end of its lifespan and disappeared from atop the Heavenly Pillar.
• Dongfang Xun decided she had to conceal the flame’s disappearance and find a substitute before the news caused turmoil.