Chapter Summaries

After the ghost-masked leader began a hunt across the Kunlun Mountain Range, Chu Feng’s group prepared to leave, and Yellow Ox gifted the Dao Yin Breathing Technique to Xiao Tian, who passed it to Chu Feng. The group later reached a human city, where Tang Taiyuan revealed the Tang Clan had a branch.

• Far away in the Kunlun Mountain Range, the ghost-masked leader sensed one of his men had died and ordered the scattered ghost-masked men to begin the hunt.
• Yellow Ox used the Universal Mental Technique to talk incessantly, and his voice reminded Tang Taiyuan of his great-grandson, strengthening Tang Taiyuan’s resolve to live.
• Chu Feng decided to leave the Kunlun Mountain Range to help Tang Taiyuan find the Tang Clan, while Yellow Ox said goodbye and gave Xiao Tian the Dao Yin Breathing Technique.
• Xiao Tian handed the technique to Chu Feng, who began cultivating it, while Zhou Quan found that it caused him pain because his constitution was half-demon.
• After Chu Feng cultivated the technique overnight, he thanked Xiao Tian, and the group continued traveling with Tang Taiyuan as his condition improved.
• Half a month later, the group reached a human city, and Tang Taiyuan said the Tang Clan had a branch there.

Chu Feng, Xiao Tian, Zhou Quan, and Tang Taiyuan entered Luo Cheng, where Xiao Tian sensed something sinister about the supposedly safe city and its mental trial. After the group split from Tang Taiyuan, Zhao Lu and Ouyang Ba tried to approach Fairy Yun Shang, but Zhou Quan knocked Ouyang Ba out.

• Tang Taiyuan guided Chu Feng and the others to Luo Cheng, whose map marker glowed an unusually dangerous red.
• The deputy commander subjected the group to Grandmaster Long's mental trial, then ordered Xiao Tian to remove his robe and wash the mud from his face before registering.
• After the group entered the city, Tang Taiyuan invited them to a banquet, but Chu Feng refused and they went their separate ways.
• Zhao Lu introduced himself to Fairy Yun Shang as Grandmaster Long's honorary disciple, but Chu Feng and Zhou Quan mocked his claim.
• Ouyang Ba arrived and threatened Chu Feng and Zhou Quan after they blocked him from approaching Fairy Yun Shang.
• Zhou Quan defeated Ouyang Ba with a single punch, leaving the sword immortal sprawled on the ground.

Xiao Tian, Chu Feng, and Zhou Quan used the Bodhi Group’s supreme VIP card at Luo Cheng’s Treasure Gathering Pavilion to obtain money, while Grandmaster Long learned of their arrival and decided to meet them. The chapter left Grandmaster Long suspecting that the Bodhi Group might have uncovered his identity.

• Zhou Quan defeated Ouyang Ba and drove Zhao Lu and his friends away, after which the three companions left the scene.
• Xiao Tian showed the Bodhi Group’s supreme VIP card at the Treasure Gathering Pavilion, and shopkeeper Liu Hai offered them antiques and cash.
• Xiao Tian requested ten million, so Liu Hai left to borrow the money from a wealthy tycoon in the Evolver-protected district.
• Grandmaster Long heard that the three visitors had a supreme VIP card and that Liu Hai was raising money for them.
• Grandmaster Long told Ouyang Ba to let the defeat go and ordered a visiting card delivered to the three, while privately wondering whether the Bodhi Group had discovered his identity.

Xiao Tian, Chu Feng, and Zhou Quan received information and an invitation from Grandmaster Long, but chose not to attend his banquet. Long Zaitian later sneaked toward their villa, where Xiao Tian confronted him and learned they were talking about different things.

• Liu Hai gave Xiao Tian, Chu Feng, and Zhou Quan information about notable people in the city and arranged roast chicken and cola for them.
• Steward Niu delivered Grandmaster Long's invitation, but Xiao Tian refused it, and Chu Feng agreed they should wait to see what happened.
• Xiao Tian considered whether to possess Chu Feng or keep helping him, deciding to test Chu Feng before the two-day deadline.
• Xiao Tian, Chu Feng, and Zhou Quan bought a secluded villa, while Long Zaitian learned they had declined his banquet invitation.
• Long Zaitian disguised himself and crept toward the villa, where Xiao Tian confronted him and Long Zaitian asked whether they had forgotten an old agreement.

Xiao Tian used his Kamui Dimension and a bluff about the Bodhi Group to force Long Zaitian to confess about Luo Cheng’s strange happenings. Long Zaitian’s account revealed that an ancient general’s helmet had led him to an underground burial chamber, where its master forced him to provide fresh blood and meat.

• Xiao Tian taunted Long Zaitian from the Kamui Dimension and convinced him that the Bodhi Group knew about his secret actions in Luo Cheng.
• Long Zaitian tried to flee, but Xiao Tian intercepted him and threatened him with fiery attacks until he agreed to confess.
• Long Zaitian returned to his villa and tried to hide and escape, but Xiao Tian found him and forced him to surrender his treasures and write an account of his deeds.
• Long Zaitian wrote for eight hours, and Xiao Tian learned that an ancient general’s helmet had brought him to an underground burial chamber whose master demanded fresh blood and meat.

Xiao Tian forced Long Zaitian to lead him into the underground tomb, where the hidden tomb master attacked Long Zaitian for bringing trouble and failing to deliver supplies. The chapter left Long Zaitian gravely injured and unsure whether Xiao Tian had ever entered the tomb at all.

• Xiao Tian dismissed Long Zaitian’s warning about the tomb master and ordered him to lead the way to the tomb.
• Long Zaitian entered the hidden basement and discovered Xiao Tian had followed him despite the cramped, closed entrance.
• Xiao Tian used his Enhanced Byakugan to observe the tomb and secretly took the night-glass lamps from the tunnel.
• Long Zaitian reached the tomb’s main chamber and told the unseen tomb master that trouble had followed him inside.
• The tomb master tore out Long Zaitian’s kidney and lung after suspecting that he was trying to betray it.
• Long Zaitian left the tomb injured and suspected that Xiao Tian had deliberately let the tomb master attack him, or had never entered at all.

Xiao Tian framed Long Zaitian for stealing the Night Glazed Lamp, then modified him and recruited him into a mission to assassinate Chu Feng. As Long Zaitian prepared to begin the mission, Chu Feng and Zhou Quan mourned Fairy Yun Shang’s departure while Xiao Tian adopted a new identity.

• Xiao Tian slipped the Night Glazed Lamp into Long Zaitian’s clothes, and the tomb’s master tore out Long Zaitian’s organs before using him as bait.
• Xiao Tian offered Long Zaitian a deal: assassinate Chu Feng, spare him during nine attempts, and kill him on the tenth if he remained in fatal danger.
• Xiao Tian revealed that he was Perfected Xuantian of the Jade Void Palace, explained that demonic seeds had infected Long Zaitian’s organs, and offered to restore and strengthen him through modification.
• Long Zaitian accepted the deal, underwent Xiao Tian’s modification, and decided to begin assassinating Chu Feng at the Treasure Gathering Pavilion.
• Chu Feng and Zhou Quan lamented Fairy Yun Shang’s departure, while Xiao Tian appeared on the roof and resolved to use a new identity.
• After a day passed, Long Zaitian began his mission to assassinate Chu Feng.

Long Zaitian planted a Lightning-Attracting Needle on Chu Feng and arranged for a lightning strike to kill him. Chu Feng survived the strike but was gravely wounded, while Xiao Tian watched from the Kamui Dimension and questioned whether Chu Feng should be saved.

• Chu Feng and Zhou Quan left the Treasure Gathering Pavilion and tried to evade their watchers, but Long Zaitian followed them and planned to make lightning kill Chu Feng.
• Long Zaitian intercepted Chu Feng and Zhou Quan in the rain, revealed his identity, warned Chu Feng of a bloody calamity, and secretly planted a Lightning-Attracting Needle in his pocket.
• As Chu Feng and Zhou Quan neared their villa, lightning struck Chu Feng; Chu Feng kicked Zhou Quan clear, then collapsed in a crater, charred and barely breathing.
• Long Zaitian called an accomplice and promised him an apartment in exchange for finishing Chu Feng off.
• Zhou Quan carried the wounded Chu Feng toward the villa, while Xiao Tian watched and considered letting Chu Feng die.

After Mo Tian, the Great Emperor of Time, killed Chu Feng, Chu Feng transformed into a seed containing the ancient stele, and Xiao Tian gained the Primordial Hongmeng Invincible Method and vowed to protect him. Mo Tian confronted Xiao Tian at the villa, where Xiao Tian used the Heaven-Measuring Technique to destroy him.

• The suited assassin killed Chu Feng while Xiao Tian watched, then went to the Treasure Gathering Pavilion and threatened Zhou Quan.
• When the assassin revealed himself as an avatar of Mo Tian, the Great Emperor of Time, an invisible hand snatched Zhou Quan away before Mo Tian could kill him.
• Chu Feng’s body disintegrated, leaving a seed that absorbed the ancient stele; one of its leaves gave Xiao Tian the Primordial Hongmeng Invincible Method and the Heaven-Measuring Technique.
• Xiao Tian decided to protect Chu Feng, while Heavenly Venerable Han, Heavenly Emperor Ye, Huang, and the other mighty figures in Eternal Chaos sensed that the seal had been broken and that events had changed.
• Mo Tian returned to the villa and challenged Xiao Tian, who used the Heaven-Measuring Technique to overwhelm him and reduce him to nothingness.

Xiao Tian reunited with Zhou Quan and explained that Chu Feng survived as a seed, then visited Long Zaitian before entering a mysterious tomb to face its trials. He pretended to be an ordinary man in danger, and when the hidden tomb owner secretly helped him cross the first trial, Xiao Tian decided to play along.

• Zhou Quan woke in the villa, recognized Xiao Tian, and read Yun Shang’s letter to confirm Xiao Tian was alive.
• Xiao Tian showed Zhou Quan the seed containing Chu Feng and explained that Chu Feng might revive if it grew and absorbed energy.
• Xiao Tian and Zhou Quan shared a barbecue, and Xiao Tian left Zhou Quan to care for the seed before heading to the Evolver Protection Zone.
• Perfected Xuantian told Long Zaitian that someone else had completed the mission and freed him to move about, while requiring him to refine the toxic metal in his body every three years.
• Xiao Tian entered the tomb, accepted its trials, and pretended to fear the first abyss-crossing challenge despite seeing the tomb owner create a hidden platform beneath him.

Xiao Tian passed the tomb’s three trials and accepted a pill and the promise of becoming Luo City’s city lord, though he suppressed the pill’s hidden creature after escaping. He reached the city lord’s residence amid the old city lord’s death and found Situ Le poised to claim the position.

• Xiao Tian refused the suspicious drinks, caught five two-headed scorpions by waiting until the final moments, and ate the roast lamb offered as his reward.
• Xiao Tian chose a bronze coin in the third trial and eventually wished for clear springs to sing and glory to last through all ages, angering the woman in palace robes.
• A hidden voice offered Xiao Tian the status of city lord if he swallowed a wax pill, and he accepted before being swept out of the tomb.
• Xiao Tian suppressed the pill’s hidden bug and headed to the city lord’s residence, where guards were preparing for the funeral after the city lord suffered a fatal stroke.
• Situ Le celebrated his father’s death in private while pretending to grieve, and he declared that he would become the next city lord as Grandmaster Long arrived.

After Situ Hua died, Long Zaitian rejected calls to become Luo Cheng’s city lord and proposed an election, while Xiao Tian discovered a glowing worm in the corpse that linked Situ Hua to the tomb master. Zhou Quan secretly entered Xiao Tian in the election, and Xiao Tian surged to first place, setting up a verification battle against Long Zaitian.

• Long Zaitian examined Situ Hua’s body, while Xiao Tian used his Enhanced Byakugan to discover a glowing worm inside the corpse and infer that the tomb master had controlled Situ Hua.
• Situ Le proposed a quick funeral and sought succession, but Long Zaitian refused the city lord position and called for an election open to capable candidates.
• The city officials established election requirements, and Xiao Tian stayed out of the process while tending to Chu Feng and training Zhou Quan.
• Zhou Quan secretly registered Xiao Tian as a candidate, and Long Zaitian approved Xiao Tian’s extraordinary application for further review.
• Situ Le led the public vote until Xiao Tian overtook him in the final minutes, prompting Situ Le to demand information about his rival.
• Xiao Tian confronted Zhou Quan about the registration and threatened him, while Zhou Quan expressed confidence that Xiao Tian could face Long Zaitian in the verification battle.

Xiao Tian advanced to the city lord candidates’ life-and-death trial despite mocking the danger and refusing to prepare. When a blood wolf approached him at Blood Wolf Mountain, it stopped and wagged its tail, leaving Mo Gaotian wondering if Xiao Tian was the Beast King.

• Xiao Tian confronted the other candidates at the city gates and blamed their votes for making him the vote king.
• Situ Le announced that the next round would be a life-and-death trial, and several candidates withdrew while Xiao Tian chose to stay.
• Grandmaster Long Zaitian explained the trial rules, requiring the remaining candidates to survive near Blood Wolf Mountain from evening until dawn.
• Xiao Tian told the media he was confident and called the trial a farce, then made no preparations before the contestants were taken to Blood Wolf Mountain by Miaomei.
• A blood wolf killed Shen Qianqiu and then approached Xiao Tian, but it stopped and wagged its tail as Mo Gaotian watched.

Xiao Tian used his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan to control the blood wolves, while Long Zaitian watched and considered recruiting him. As a Blood Wolf King approached Big Red, Situ Le and three other Evolvers began plotting to attack the wolves surrounding Xiao Tian.

• Xiao Tian ordered the blood wolves to chase Mo Gaotian, and a quasi-king-level wolf returned with him unconscious and gravely injured.
• Xiao Tian sent an ordinary blood wolf to leave Mo Gaotian near Luo Cheng, where the city's Evolvers killed it.
• Long Zaitian recognized Xiao Tian's beast-controlling ability and considered learning its secrets or taking him as a disciple.
• A rival quasi-king-level blood wolf arrived, and Big Red ignored its demands because she obeyed Xiao Tian instead.
• The Blood Wolf King followed Second to investigate Big Red after hearing that she had refused his summons and was with a human.
• Situ Le weighed attacking the gathered wolves for points, while three other Evolvers plotted against the wolves protecting Xiao Tian.

Xiao Tian’s wolf pack repelled Lei Yuanfeng, Jiang Shanghan, and Ge Feiheng, then faced the furious Blood Wolf King after he discovered Big Red’s loyalty to Xiao Tian. Xiao Tian sent Big Red to challenge the king, leaving Situ Le and Long Zaitian watching as the fight began.

• Big Red blocked Lei Yuanfeng’s Thunder Shakes the Earth with a blood-colored wind blade, then severely injured Lei Yuanfeng, Jiang Shanghan, and Ge Feiheng as they fled.
• Situ Le spotted Xiao Tian among the Blood Wolves and realized that Big Red was guarding him rather than treating him as prey.
• The Blood Wolf King arrived, demanded an explanation from Big Red, and threatened to kill her and Xiao Tian.
• Xiao Tian mocked the Blood Wolf King and declared that someone else would take his throne, while Situ Le and Long Zaitian watched from hiding.
• The Blood Wolf King activated his bloodthirsty innate enhancement, and Xiao Tian blessed Big Red and sent her to attack.
• Big Red charged the Blood Wolf King as his enormous claw tore up a gale and split the ground.

Big Red survived the Blood Wolf King's attack and broke through to King Level, undergoing a super mutation that made her strong enough to defeat him. She offered to let him and his pack leave, but the humiliated Blood Wolf King refused and charged her for a final fight.

• The Blood Wolf King wounded Big Red with a powerful claw strike while Situ Le and Long Zaitian watched from hiding.
• The Blood Wolf King attacked Big Red again, but Xiao Tian remained confident as she endured the blow and vanished beneath the crater's smoke.
• Big Red emerged as a King Level wolf with rose-gold fur and mysterious powers, then fought the Blood Wolf King for five minutes and defeated him.
• Long Zaitian identified Big Red's transformation as a super mutation, while Big Red declared that her blood wolf bloodline was gone and offered the pack a chance to leave.
• The Blood Wolf King rejected Big Red's mercy and charged her, demanding a fight to the death.

Xiao Tian helped Big Red become the new Wolf King and earned a perfect score in the Life and Death Round, then made a pact to protect Luo Cheng’s travelers. While hiding from the media, he entered the tomb and was dragged into a mysterious trial, as Grandmaster Long suspected the tomb’s owner might be connected to him.

• Big Red killed the Blood Wolf King, became the pack’s new ruler, and punished Idiot while reorganizing her followers.
• The judges awarded Xiao Tian a perfect 150 points, placing him first and advancing him to the competition’s top ten.
• Xiao Tian told reporters that travelers wearing a blood wolf design could pass through Blood Wolf Mountain safely as long as they did not harm the wolves.
• Big Red ordered the pack to stop attacking Luo Cheng’s humans and directed them toward new hunting grounds to the south.
• Xiao Tian hid from the media in the tomb and accepted its owner’s challenge in exchange for answers and a magical artifact.
• Long Zaitian chose not to enter the tomb and wondered whether Xiao Tian was another person controlled by its owner; Xiao Tian examined the illusion surrounding him.

Xiao Tian abandoned his disguise and attacked the tomb, using the Adamantine Staff, heavenly flames, and repeated revivals to resist its owner's traps. After the tomb owner stopped responding, Xiao Tian prepared to leave, but found the exit sealed from above by fiberglass and decided he would need to teleport out.

• Xiao Tian revealed his peak Shackle Realm strength, burned through the illusion, and rampaged through the tomb with the Adamantine Staff and heavenly flames.
• The tomb owner sent undead and unleashed the Netherworld gates and Myriad Nether Hell, but Xiao Tian broke through its attacks by invoking the Undying Deva Path and reviving repeatedly.
• Xiao Tian's Teleport talent activated, and he repeatedly destroyed Myriad Nether Hell until the tomb owner stopped answering him.
• Evolvers gathered above the tomb, and Grandmaster Long advised sealing the site because powerful creatures were fighting below; the group agreed to monitor it.
• Xiao Tian looted antiques and left the tomb, then discovered that fiberglass blocked the opening and realized he would have to teleport out.

Xiao Tian arrived at the city lord selection and used jokes about the burdens of the job to argue that the position should be his. When he challenged Grandmaster Long in the cultivation assessment, he unleashed a power that stunned the crowd.

• Xiao Tian returned from the cemetery, then went with the other nine contestants to the city lord's residence for the next selection round.
• Xiao Tian mocked the workload of being city lord before declaring that his stamina and lack of need for sleep made him the best candidate, angering the other contestants.
• Grandmaster Long announced that the assessment would test the contestants' cultivation and the value of their abilities to Luo Cheng.
• Xiao Tian volunteered to face Grandmaster Long first and taunted him as the crowd and media watched.
• Before the match, Grandmaster Long secretly resolved to cripple Xiao Tian, while Xiao Tian sensed his killing intent.
• After the referee's whistle, Xiao Tian told Long Zaitian that times had changed and raised a hand wreathed in purple-gold flames as thunderclouds formed and lightning struck him without harm.

Xiao Tian defeated Long Zaitian with a single devastating attack, then accepted the position of Luo Cheng’s city lord while leaving the city’s administration to Long and the Council of Elders. After moving into the city lord’s residence, Xiao Tian went to visit the injured Long Zaitian.

• Xiao Tian survived a lightning strike unharmed and overwhelmed Long Zaitian with an attack of purple-gold fire dragons, leaving the arena in ruins and Long unconscious.
• Xiao Tian secretly helped revive Long Zaitian, while Situ Le abandoned his hopes of competing for city lord and the battle footage spread rapidly online.
• The Council of Elders and Dragon City’s authorities approved Xiao Tian as city lord after Situ Le and Dongfang Hong withdrew from the final three.
• Xiao Tian agreed to take the title while appointing Long Zaitian deputy city lord, and Luo Cheng announced the decision before dawn.
• Xiao Tian and Zhou Quan moved from their villa to the city lord’s residence, where Xiao Tian completed the formalities and visited the injured Long Zaitian.