Chapter Summaries

Xiao Tian convinced Perfected Xuanyin that he was a disciple of Old Ancestor Xuantian by demonstrating his skill with Domains and arrays. Xuanyin then insisted on visiting the tomb where Xuantian was supposedly handling a calamity, leaving Xiao Tian worried about the encounter.

• Xiao Tian visited the injured Long Zaitian, who said he expected to take up his deputy city lord duties in three or four days.
• Perfected Xuantian told Long Zaitian that Xiao Tian belonged to the Jade Void Palace and that Long should assist him; he also said Xiao Tian's Daoist arts had helped Long temper his body.
• Long Zaitian informed Xiao Tian that an important visitor from Dragon City, Perfected Xuanyin of the Jade Void Palace, was waiting at the city lord's residence.
• Xiao Tian claimed that Old Ancestor Xuantian was his master and demonstrated a Taiji Yin-Yang Spirit-Gathering Array, convincing Xuanyin that the claim was credible.
• After Long Zaitian mentioned that Xuantian was overseeing a tomb, Xuanyin demanded to visit it despite Long's warning that it was not the right time.

Xiao Tian delayed entering the tomb as representatives of the Biyou Palace and Eight Sceneries Palace arrived to recruit him, while Perfected Xuanyin insisted he belonged to the Jade Void Palace. He secretly sent a staff transformed into Perfected Xuantian into the tomb and left the visitors discussing its dangers and the Carefree Realm.

• Xiao Tian agreed to lead Perfected Xuanyin and Long Zaitian toward the tomb, but postponed their departure when Luo Xue of the Biyou Palace arrived to recruit him.
• Perfected Xuanyin claimed Xiao Tian as a Jade Void Palace disciple, while Xiao Tian said his membership was unconfirmed and Luo Xue invited him to join the Biyou Palace.
• Xiao Tian delayed the visit again for a meal, then secretly transformed his Adamantine Staff into Perfected Xuantian and sent it into the tomb using the Invisibility Technique.
• Beichen Feng of the Eight Sceneries Palace arrived and invited Xiao Tian to join his sect, prompting further disagreement among the three representatives.
• Xiao Tian described the tomb’s dangers, and Long Zaitian listened as the visitors discussed whether Perfected Xuantian might have reached the Carefree Realm.

Xiao Tian led Beichen Feng, Xuanyin, and Luo Xue into the tomb after making them sign a life-and-death contract. In Myriad Nether Hell, the tomb’s owner attacked the group, and Beichen Feng was nearing his limit as the danger intensified.

• Xiao Tian warned the three visitors about the tomb’s dangers and had a life-and-death contract drawn up and signed.
• Xiao Tian and the three cultivators traveled to the sealed tomb and entered its outer palace, where they found signs of a fierce battle and encountered chilling Evil Qi.
• The tomb’s owner unleashed Myriad Nether Hell, trapping the four with Yomi Nether Water, bloody skeletal hands, and rune-empowered sculptures.
• Xuanyin and Beichen Feng fought back with their divine techniques, while Luo Xue revealed her Heavenly Immortal Mystic Realm inheritance and blocked the Nether Water.
• Xiao Tian pretended to fight at full strength as the tomb’s owner focused its attack on the three visitors, and Beichen Feng began to buckle under the pressure.

Xiao Tian rescued Luo Xue from the tomb and helped her recover while concealing that his supposed master, Senior Xuantian, was an identity he had fabricated. Luo Xue warned him that Jade Void Palace was sending powerful forces against Senior Xuantian over a valuable ancient artifact, leaving Xiao Tian to face a new threat.

• Beichen Feng, Xuanyin, and Luo Xue were overwhelmed by the Yomi Nether Water, and Beichen Feng and Xuanyin died before Xiao Tian escaped with Luo Xue.
• Luo Xue awoke in Xiao Tian's residence, thanked him for saving her, and promised to provide resources in return.
• Luo Xue recovered without losing cultivation and joined Xiao Tian in his office, where she offered to handle Dragon City's investigation into the tomb.
• Luo Xue told Xiao Tian that Jade Void Palace was hostile to Senior Xuantian and that its Carefree Realm palace master might pursue an ancient artifact entrusted to him.
• Xiao Tian thanked Luo Xue and said he would hide in the tomb if Jade Void Palace attacked, while Luo Xue promised Biyou Palace would not ignore the situation.

Xiao Tian learned that Chu Feng had returned to human form before a Dragon City investigation team arrived and clashed with its arrogant leader, Nangong Xiongye. After Xiao Tian sent Nangong Xiongye flying from the city lord’s residence, mission leader Nangong Yanrou met with him and sought an explanation.

• Luo Xue told Xiao Tian that the Biyou Palace wanted Senior Xuantian’s ancient artifact but that she would not betray Xiao Tian and his master.
• Chu Feng awoke in human form at the peak of the Shackle Realm, remembered being killed by a Great Emperor, and learned from Xiao Tian and Zhou Quan that he had been a seed.
• Xiao Tian received a system choice between activating the Undying Vein and becoming a Great Emperor, both at the cost of the promised Great Dao-grade reward, and decided to wait before choosing.
• Nangong Xiongye demanded classified files, insulted the city lord’s staff, and attacked Xiao Tian, who stopped the strike with his protective astral Qi and blasted him out of the residence.
• Nangong Yanrou presented Dragon City’s investigation assignment and questioned Xiao Tian about Nangong Xiongye; Xiao Tian called in Long Zaitian and three elders, who showed their injuries, while the surveillance footage proved unavailable.

Xiao Tian refused Nangong Yanrou’s investigation team and then tested Chu Feng’s identity and power, while Nangong Yanrou and Luo Xue discussed Xuantian, Jade Void Palace, and Dragon City’s plans. Xiao Tian left Luo Cheng with Chu Feng and Zhou Quan to draw out whoever was following them, arriving at Blood Wolf Mountain to meet Wolf King Big Red.

• Xiao Tian refused to discuss the tomb with Nangong Yanrou and told her that he would decide whether to pursue Nangong Xiongye’s matter.
• Xiao Tian asked Chu Feng whether he was himself or the ancient relic, and Chu Feng warned that the Eternal Chaos was collapsing and offered Xiao Tian a chance to leave with him within a hundred years.
• Xiao Tian grabbed Chu Feng by the head and beat him after Chu Feng claimed he could no longer be trapped, while Zhou Quan watched and encouraged him.
• Nangong Yanrou and Luo Xue discussed Xuantian’s identity, Jade Void Palace’s interest, and Dragon City’s plan to enter the tomb; Nangong Yanrou then learned that a powerful figure from her family was coming.
• Xiao Tian, Zhou Quan, and Chu Feng drove out of Luo Cheng to draw out their pursuers and went to Blood Wolf Mountain, where Xiao Tian summoned Big Red.

Xiao Tian and Chu Feng killed sixty-five Jade Void Palace Evolvers outside Luo Cheng, then Xiao Tian confronted enforcement elder Xing Xiu when he arrived at the city lord's residence. Xiao Tian sent Xing Xiu flying with one effortless strike, leaving Nangong Yanrou stunned by his strength.

• Xiao Tian and Chu Feng ambushed and killed the sixty-five Jade Void Palace Evolvers who had come to apprehend Xiao Tian, while Zhou Quan and Little He watched from their barbecue.
• Xing Xiu explained that he had sent the Evolvers because he suspected a mole among them, then went with a young man to confront Xiao Tian at the city lord's residence.
• Xiao Tian taunted Xing Xiu and revealed that he knew Jade Void Palace had tried to use its people against him, while Nangong Yanrou and Luo Xue learned he had killed them.
• Xing Xiu attacked Xiao Tian with his Dragon-Capturing Claw, but Xiao Tian disappeared and sent him flying through the office wall into a street crater.
• Xiao Tian teased Nangong Yanrou after defeating Xing Xiu, and she wondered whether Xiao Tian had reached the half-step Carefree Realm.

Xiao Tian, Chu Feng, and Luo Xue traveled to Dragon City, where human leaders and Beast Kings negotiated a pact and a future contest at Kunlun. At the Crown Hotel, Xiao Tian and Zhou Quan confronted Beast King descendants and old enemies, leaving He Zhongtian pinned beneath Xiao Tian’s foot.

• Xiao Tian argued with Nangong Yanrou, then Chu Feng warned that vines and runes were sealing off the planet and urged them to go to Dragon City.
• At the Forbidden Palace, the ruler and the Beast Kings failed to agree on territorial terms, then accepted the Old Ape King’s proposal for human and beast kings to fight at Kunlun in two years.
• At the Crown Hotel, Kong Tianye insulted humanity and threatened Jiang Zhexian, while He Zhongtian struck a human genius and sent him crashing into the street.
• Xiao Tian, Chu Feng, Zhou Quan, and Luo Xue entered the hotel, where Zhou Quan beat Situ Qingyun over his past betrayal of Xiao Tian.
• Xiao Tian seized He Zhongtian by the neck, slammed him onto the floor, and pinned his face beneath his foot.

Xiao Tian overpowered He Zhongtian and Kong Tianye after the Beast Kings’ descendants demanded an apology, defying their threats and the humans urging him to preserve unity. He let one descendant escape to alert the Beast Kings, hoping to draw them out and prevent a hidden danger from taking root in Dragon City.

• Xiao Tian kept his foot on He Zhongtian while refusing Kong Tianye’s demand for an apology, and Zhou Quan challenged Situ Qingyun as he berated them.
• Kong Tianye attacked Xiao Tian with the Five-Colored Divine Light, but Xiao Tian was unharmed and seized him by the neck.
• Xiao Tian rebuked the Beast Kings’ descendants for insulting humanity, while Zhou Quan slapped one descendant and beat Situ Qingyun after taking his laser weapon.
• One third-generation Beast King descendant slipped away to report what happened, and Xiao Tian let him go to draw the Beast Kings into confronting him.

Xiao Tian confronted the Golden-Winged Great Peng King after attacking his junior, and the Beast King’s arrival threatened to disrupt the new human-beast agreement. Their battle moved outside Dragon City, where the Golden-Winged Great Peng King transformed into his true form and vanished at terrifying speed, leaving Xiao Tian’s fate uncertain.

• After negotiations ended, the Golden-Winged Great Peng King learned that his junior was near death and rushed to the Crown Grand Hotel.
• The Golden-Winged Great Peng King attacked Xiao Tian, but Xiao Tian’s astral Qi barrier blocked his claw, and Xiao Tian mocked him.
• The Old Ape King tried to stop the confrontation, but Xiao Tian and the Golden-Winged Great Peng King agreed to fight outside Dragon City.
• Xiao Tian evaded the Golden-Winged Great Peng King’s rapid attacks while observers worried that the fight could have wider consequences.
• The Golden-Winged Great Peng King transformed into his enormous true form, unleashed wind and lightning, and disappeared at extreme speed.

Xiao Tian used his speed and skill to survive the Golden-Winged Great Peng King's attack, then fought him in the sky while the spectators realized he had not been swallowed. As the aerial battle continued, Chu Feng and Zhou Quan teased Jiang Zhexian about Xiao Tian's closeness to Yun Shang.

• The Golden-Winged Great Peng King attacked Xiao Tian at incredible speed, and spectators assumed he had swallowed him when Xiao Tian disappeared.
• After the Peng King remained stuck headfirst in the ground for several minutes, he freed himself and looked up at Xiao Tian, who was standing on a sword transformed from the Adamantine Staff.
• The Golden-Winged Great Peng King charged into the sky, where he and Xiao Tian exchanged attacks amid explosions and falling sparks.
• The human ruler and Beast Kings watched the battle, while several spectators marveled that Xiao Tian could match the Peng King's speed.
• Jiang Zhexian asked Chu Feng about Xiao Tian, and Chu Feng and Zhou Quan claimed Xiao Tian had known Yun Shang since childhood, making Jiang Zhexian react with hostility.

Xiao Tian defeated the Golden-Winged Great Peng King and accepted the human sovereign’s invitation to a banquet, but Chu Feng and Zhou Quan’s prank led Jiang Zhexian to spread rumors that Xiao Tian was a scumbag. The chapter left Xiao Tian entering the banquet to hostile looks and accusations.

• Xiao Tian defeated the Golden-Winged Great Peng King, demanded compensation, and watched the beast clans depart.
• The human sovereign invited Xiao Tian to a banquet, while Jiang Zhexian angrily accused him of mistreating Yun Shang.
• Xiao Tian fought Chu Feng and Zhou Quan until Chu Feng confessed that they had tricked Jiang Zhexian with false gossip about him.
• Jiang Zhexian warned women at the banquet that Xiao Tian was a scumbag, and the sovereign ordered an investigation into her claims.
• Xiao Tian arrived at the Golden Throne Hall with Chu Feng and Zhou Quan, where guests insulted him and called for his companions to leave him.

Xiao Tian was nearly driven into a confrontation with Jiang Zhexian after someone manipulated her emotions and provoked a public dispute. Duanmu Yunyan stopped the quarrel, and Xiao Tian and Chu Feng later uncovered the culprit, who was secretly beaten by Zhou Quan.

• Jiang Zhexian confronted Xiao Tian at the banquet, while Chu Feng and Zhou Quan distanced themselves from him and the women insulted him.
• Duanmu Yunyan reprimanded Jiang Zhexian and defended Xiao Tian, then sent him to meet the Sovereign.
• Chu Feng and Zhou Quan admitted their earlier claims about Xiao Tian and Yun Shang had been a prank, and Chu Feng suspected someone had manipulated Jiang Zhexian to target the Jiang Family.
• The Sovereign introduced Xiao Tian to Helian Huo, Xue Qian Sha, and Chen Fan, who argued over whether Xiao Tian's master had belonged to Jade Void Palace.
• Xiao Tian met Nangong Yin, general manager of the Ancient God Biological Gene Group, and gave him an autograph and a photo; Chu Feng recognized him as the person who had cursed Jiang Zhexian.
• After Nangong Yin went outside drunk to find a restroom, Zhou Quan secretly beat him, causing internal injuries without striking his face.

Xiao Tian endured a banquet’s worth of toasts, learned that Nangong Yin’s curse had caused major upheavals, and negotiated compensation from Jiang Zhexian. After returning to their lodgings, Xiao Tian mastered the Emotion Control Curse while Zhou Quan gave up trying to learn it.

• The ruler and Dragon City’s dignitaries repeatedly toasted Xiao Tian for defeating the Golden-Winged Great Peng King, and Jiang Zhexian awkwardly joined the toasts.
• Chu Feng told Xiao Tian and Zhou Quan that Nangong Yin had used a curse to manipulate people and had even cursed the ruler and the Golden-Winged Great Peng King.
• Duanmu Yunyan helped Jiang Zhexian reconcile with Xiao Tian, who demanded a list of rare treasures and gave her one year to find them before owing him a lawful, harmless favor.
• After the banquet, Chu Feng shared the Emotion Control Curse with Xiao Tian and Zhou Quan, and Xiao Tian used his system to master and upgrade it.
• Zhou Quan struggled to understand the curse technique and quit, while Xiao Tian and Chu Feng looked at him with concern.

Jiang Zhexian struggled to obtain the rare items Xiao Tian demanded, while Xiao Tian returned to Luo Cheng and began preparing the city for the coming transformation of heaven and earth. The chapter ended with him outlining a plan to reinforce Luo Cheng’s walls and build a city-protecting formation.

• Jiang Zhexian searched her clan’s storehouses and learned that the Nine Revolutions Golden Pill and other items on Xiao Tian’s compensation list were beyond her reach.
• Duanmu Yunyan’s Sovereign father confirmed that the Eight Sceneries Palace would not provide its Nine Revolutions Golden Pill and reflected on a dangerous tomb in Luo Cheng.
• Jiang Zhexian grew discouraged after Xiao Tian, Chu Feng, and Zhou Quan left Dragon City, then resolved to keep searching for the demanded treasures.
• Xiao Tian returned to Luo Cheng with Chu Feng and Zhou Quan and told them that the coming transformation of heaven and earth could threaten the city.
• Xiao Tian addressed reporters, recommended opening a third Evolver Pavilion, and warned the public away from a mysterious dangerous location.
• Xiao Tian ordered Luo Cheng’s walls reinforced and explained to Long Zaitian and the elders how he would build a city-protecting formation using Spirit Gathering Formations.

Xiao Tian’s preparations to protect Luo Cheng sparked rumors that a catastrophe was near, prompting cities across Country H to strengthen their defenses. As Luo Cheng’s walls reached five hundred meters, Xiao Tian prepared to complete the central core of its city-protecting formation, while Chu Feng remained unaware of the larger plan.

• Xiao Tian’s vague remark about Luo Cheng’s rushed defenses fueled rumors, and Jiang Zhexian and Duanmu Yunyan wondered what threat he had sensed.
• Dragon City’s leaders approved stronger defenses after Xue Qian Sha supported Xiao Tian’s preparations, and Phoenix City and other cities began fortifying themselves.
• Long Zaitian watched for people stealing or swapping materials as Luo Cheng’s walls continued to rise.
• After a drunken Evolver revealed Xiao Tian’s plan to cover the city in formations, rumors spread that he intended to build a city-protecting formation.
• Xiao Tian told reporters the formation could protect Luo Cheng indefinitely if its central hub endured, then prepared to set up that core while Chu Feng instructed workers on the wall.

Xiao Tian shared Luo Cheng’s defensive formation plans with Dragon City, which began building its own defenses while he delayed his trip. When the mysterious mist arrived, Luo Cheng’s barrier held against the monsters, and Long Zaitian killed a gigantic attacker.

• Xiao Tian gave Luo Xue Luo Cheng’s defensive formation blueprints, and Dragon City’s Ruler decided to follow the plan and have Xiao Tian handle the central core.
• Dragon City completed most of its defensive works, and Xiao Tian prepared to travel there while waiting for the mist Chu Feng expected to arrive.
• At four in the afternoon, Chu Feng warned Xiao Tian and Zhou Quan that the mist was coming, and Luo Cheng closed its gates as it approached.
• Luo Cheng’s defensive barrier stopped the mist and repelled attacks from monsters, while Long Zaitian arrived to direct the defenders.
• Long Zaitian struck a six-hundred-meter giant emerging from the mist and cut off its head.

Luo Cheng’s defenders fought mist creatures behind Xiao Tian’s formation while a live interview explained the city’s defenses and introduced new energy-converting weapons. After the Evolvers killed a hundred-meter monster, a mass of bugs and long worms appeared outside the barrier, leaving the battle ongoing.

• Long Zaitian and the wall defenders killed mist giants by targeting their eyes, while Xiao Tian reassured Commander Zhou that the formation remained intact.
• Yue Wan and reporter Xiao Na broadcast the fighting, and Xiao Tian explained the formation’s ability to absorb attacks and strengthen itself.
• Chu Feng destroyed a purple energy beam from a powerful creature in the mist, then Xiao Tian announced that new weapons had arrived.
• Xiao Tian demonstrated an energy-converting fan, and the close-combat Evolvers used the new weapons to kill a hundred-meter, seventy-two-tentacled monster.
• Xiao Na joined the fight with a fire dragon spear, but bugs and long worms then swarmed into view outside the barrier.

Xiao Tian led Luo Cheng through the monster assault without casualties, then set out for Dragon City to aid the other survivors. Dragon City’s leaders suspected Luo Cheng had concealed the true extent of its survival and approved an investigation into Xiao Tian and the city.

• Xiao Tian explained that the monsters’ vanished corpses were in another spatial dimension and warned Luo Cheng to stay alert for further attacks.
• Xiao Tian told Luo Cheng officials to report more than ten thousand casualties, then ordered Dragon City to encourage Phoenix City and the City in the Clouds to relocate their survivors.
• Xiao Tian departed for Dragon City, healed the surviving Blood Wolf King, and rode north with him.
• Dragon City’s ruler and officials received Luo Cheng’s message and learned Xiao Tian was on his way.
• Tuoba Wei argued that Luo Cheng’s barrier and casualty report were suspicious, and Dragon City’s leaders approved a secret investigation team.

Xiao Tian arrived in Dragon City and took charge of strengthening its inner-city defenses, completing a network of Yin-Yang Spirit Gathering Formations. While inspecting another construction site, he criticized Beihai Wu’s formation and left after Beihai Wu challenged him to explain its flaws.

• The ruler welcomed Xiao Tian to Dragon City, arranged for the Blood Wolf King to be treated as an ally, and asked Xiao Tian to review the city’s losses.
• Xiao Tian assessed Dragon City’s damage, directed leaders to follow his plans, and urged the ruler to summon survivors from other cities while offering Luo Cheng as a refuge.
• Xiao Tian constructed the inner city’s crucial Yin-Yang Spirit Gathering Formations, while Dragon City’s citizens repaired walls and built ramparts.
• Phoenix City’s first group of wealthy residents arrived in Dragon City, while Long Zaitian arranged accommodations for demons and monsters in Luo Cheng.
• After completing his assigned formations, Xiao Tian inspected eastern inner-city construction with Nangong Feiying and called Beihai Wu’s formation riddled with holes.
• Beihai Wu challenged Xiao Tian to identify the formation’s flaws, but Xiao Tian turned to leave.