Chapter Summaries

Xiao Tian battled three Carefree Realm ghost-faced demon lords, outmaneuvering their attacks and killing two while capturing the third. As an undying army swarmed Luo Cheng, he tortured his prisoner for information about the Demonic Gu, but its location remained unknown.

• Xiao Tian discovered that his Heavenly Flames could not destroy the undead army’s source of immortality, then redirected a demon lord’s death scythe into the undead and injured all three demon lords.
• The demon lords trapped Xiao Tian with dark chains and coordinated attacks, but he broke free, summoned the Adamantine Staff, and killed the crowd controller and another demon lord.
• Xiao Tian captured the surviving demon lord and demanded to know where the Demonic Gu was hidden, but it said the demon he had killed was the one who buried it.
• The undead army swarmed Luo Cheng’s city-protecting formation, and Nangong Yanrou realized that killing the demon lords had not stopped the undead from reviving.
• Xiao Tian continued torturing the surviving demon lord inside the Kamui Dimension while the city’s defenders fought off the undead.

Xiao Tian returned to Luo Cheng with an immortal artifact and wiped out most of the undead army, then learned that a new incarnation from Chaos was targeting him. After asking Chu Feng to take over drawing the enemy’s attention, Xiao Tian’s spar with Oulunna ended in her unexpected victory, and he urged the city to keep striving.

• Xiao Tian’s clone refined an immortal artifact after 9,988 deaths, while the Ghost-Faced Demon Lord died during punishment and the true dragon was ordered to deal with its girlfriend’s rival before facing a longer seclusion.
• Xiao Tian used the immortal artifact above Luo Cheng to destroy the undead below the Shackle Realm; the surviving dwarf skeleton exhausted its resurrections, causing the remaining undead leaders to vanish.
• Xiao Tian learned that a being from Chaos had sent another incarnation to Blue Star to target him, and he told Chu Feng to draw the fire while his body cultivated.
• Xiao Tian sparred with Oulunna, who unexpectedly won, then told the crowd that failure was no reason to give up and urged them to work for Luo Cheng’s future.
• Nangong Yanrou found Xiao Tian more approachable, and Xia Yanrou teased her about developing feelings for him.

Xiao Tian entered long-term secluded cultivation and began visualizing Chu Feng’s Primordial Hongmeng form, while a divine sword from beyond the heavens descended on Mount Tai and unleashed a deadly magnetic pressure. As Dragon City and Luo Cheng’s forces struggled to climb the mountain, the Black Peng Demon King tried to demonize the sword, and a mysterious figure at the summit prepared to take it.

• Xiao Tian left Luo Cheng’s affairs to Chu Feng and other officials, then began cultivating in the Kamui Dimension and chose to visualize Chu Feng’s Primordial Hongmeng form.
• The Sovereign learned that Xiao Tian had entered seclusion and ordered Dragon City to watch for uncanny beings, but no uncanny fog appeared over the next three months.
• The Golden-Winged Great Peng King left Luo Cheng, and a divine sword from beyond the heavens struck Mount Tai, killing most of its inhabitants and transforming the mountain’s life with its magnetic field.
• The Black Peng Demon King reached Mount Tai’s summit and attempted to demonize the divine sword, while Dragon City and Luo Cheng’s forces climbed the mountain and suffered casualties under its pressure.
• Xue Qian Sha and Long Zaitian’s allied forces stopped short of the summit and sent for help, while an unidentified figure at the summit said he would take the sword after filling his progress bar.

Chu Feng refused to leave Luo Cheng unguarded to join the Mount Tai expedition, while the ruler of Dragon City and Biyou Fairy ascended to investigate the summit. Amid the dangers and rivalries at Mount Tai, a mysterious spatial power stole a golden sword fruit, provoking a fight between its guardian and four Carefree Realm experts.

• Chu Feng declined Nangong Yanrou’s request to go to Mount Tai, and Luo Cheng’s leaders decided to keep their forces cautious while gathering intelligence.
• Four days later, the ruler of Dragon City and Biyou Fairy joined the Mount Tai expedition, then ascended through the summit’s clouds as their troops stayed below.
• Dragon City and Luo Cheng’s Evolvers formed a group, hunted mutant beasts, and collected natural treasures while Carefree Realm experts faced deadly sword rain near the summit.
• Lin Langya, Immortal in Wine Guo Wuya, North Sea Ascetic Monk, and Holy Soul Medicine Immortal eyed a golden sword fruit, each claiming a reason to take it.
• A mysterious spatial force stole the golden sword fruit and part of its tree, and the furious golden snake king attacked the four Carefree Realm experts as an unseen voice mocked them.

Overlord and Biyou Fairy encountered the Central Peak Sword Venerable at a treasure site, while the Holy Soul Medicine Immortal and Immortal in Wine fought over a Golden-Patterned Matsutake and were both tricked. Lin Langya challenged Biyou Fairy, but the Holy Soul Medicine Immortal and the enraged Thorn Blood Tiger King arrived before their duel began.

• Overlord and Biyou Fairy reached a Seven-Leaf Purple Heart Lotus guarded by the Central Peak Sword Venerable, but an unseen thief took the lotus and escaped through spatial-domain abilities.
• The Immortal in Wine and the Holy Soul Medicine Immortal teamed up with the Thorn Blood Tiger King to fight the black rat guarding a Golden-Patterned Matsutake, but the mushroom disappeared amid the Holy Soul Medicine Immortal's neurotoxin attack.
• The Holy Soul Medicine Immortal woke in an unfamiliar place, realized someone had stolen the treasure and knocked him out, and then fought the Immortal in Wine when he arrived.
• Overlord and Biyou Fairy harvested two batches of natural treasures before Lin Langya demanded a share and challenged Biyou Fairy to a sword fight.
• The Holy Soul Medicine Immortal interrupted Lin Langya and Biyou Fairy, proposing to wait for someone to fall and then lend a hand, as the Thorn Blood Tiger King appeared and recognized its enemy.

The Thorn Blood Tiger King escaped the battle with the human experts and entered a medicinal garden, where it ate the last spiritual root despite warnings. The garden’s buried power erupted and destroyed it, while Overlord, Biyou Fairy, the bald man, and the fourth person escaped into the sword rain and lightning.

• The Thorn Blood Tiger King endured the Southern Peak Sword Venerable’s killing strike, escaped, and found a pearl of Geng Metal Sword Qi that it hoped would help it evolve into a sacred beast White Tiger.
• Overlord and Biyou Fairy entered a medicinal garden and met a bald Carefree Realm expert who admitted he was not human; another visitor joined them as they harvested its spiritual roots.
• The fourth person warned everyone not to pick the final spiritual root, saying his deceased great-grandmother had told him to leave it, and Overlord and Biyou Fairy agreed.
• The Thorn Blood Tiger King arrived, ignored Overlord’s warning, and ate the last spiritual root, triggering a violent eruption beneath the garden.
• The fourth person, the bald man, Overlord, and Biyou Fairy escaped through the gate of light as the medicinal garden collapsed and the Thorn Blood Tiger King melted away.

Xiao Tian revealed himself after rescuing Overlord and Biyou Fairy, then killed Southern Peak Sword Venerable with a branch. With Big Black Bull and his former dragon disciple Xuanlong now alongside him, Xiao Tian claimed the Twelve-Leaf Phoenix-Pattern Fire Lotus and other treasures.

• Big Black Bull attacked Xiao Tian after he stopped him from pursuing Overlord and Biyou Fairy, but Xiao Tian blocked his punch and fled.
• Southern Peak Sword Venerable confronted the wounded Overlord and Biyou Fairy, and Xiao Tian killed him with a branch after breaking his sword.
• Xiao Tian revealed his identity to Overlord and Biyou Fairy and accepted their spiritual roots as protection fees.
• Big Black Bull arrived, ate the spiritual roots Xiao Tian offered, and agreed to protect Overlord and Biyou Fairy while Xiao Tian confronted a dragon-horned man.
• The dragon-horned man recognized Xiao Tian as his master, revealed himself as Xuanlong, and offered him a mountain of treasures.
• Xiao Tian asked Big Black Bull to defeat the Five-Colored Phoenix-Crested Chicken, and Big Black Bull returned with the Twelve-Leaf Phoenix-Pattern Fire Lotus and the dead chicken.

Xiao Tian, Xuanlong, and Big Black Bull roasted the Five-Colored Phoenix-Crested Chicken while Holy Soul Medicine Immortal tried to ally with Biyou Fairy and Overlord against them. After Big Black Bull’s arrival drove Holy Soul Medicine Immortal away, Xiao Tian and Big Black Bull explored a hidden secret realm and took its flowers, leaving its Demon Spirit unable to locate them.

• An ascetic monk arrived, saw the group and the roast chicken, and fled into the sword rain and thunder.
• Holy Soul Medicine Immortal tried to recruit Biyou Fairy and Overlord, but Xiao Tian exposed his intentions and overheard his plan to poison the group.
• Big Black Bull returned with wine, frightening Holy Soul Medicine Immortal into fleeing; the others ate the roasted chicken and recovered.
• Xiao Tian and Big Black Bull entered a second secret realm, searched for its source of spiritual energy, collected its flowers, and left.
• Holy Soul Medicine Immortal fought a plant-type Demon Spirit, but its poison overcame him and it escaped; on returning home, the Demon Spirit found its flowers gone and failed to track the thieves with a blood curse.

Xiao Tian and Big Black Bull forced Immortal in Wine to brew for them, then raided a demonic secret realm while Black Peng King tried to discover who had plundered his territory. Meanwhile, Xuanlong beat Kabuta, a Tianzhu Evolver who had targeted Biyou Fairy, and the chapter ended with Kabuta being made to serve the group.

• Xiao Tian and Big Black Bull bullied Immortal in Wine into brewing Hundred Flowers Wine with spirit flowers Xiao Tian had collected.
• The Demon Spirit marked Immortal in Wine with Blood Guiding, and the trio entered a demonic secret realm, defeated its creatures, and plundered its treasures.
• Black Peng King found his treasured ground devastated and changed his plans after failing to identify the intruder.
• Kabuta arrived and sought to take Biyou Fairy to become his sect's Holy Maiden, but Xuanlong accused him of coveting his mistress and beat him repeatedly.
• Xiao Tian and Big Black Bull returned with Immortal in Wine and exotic beasts, and Xuanlong made Kabuta help prepare their meal.
• Xiao Tian learned Kabuta came from Tianzhu and reassured him that they were courteous to foreign guests.

Xiao Tian's group feasted and continued plundering Mount Tai's secret realms as rival factions gathered below the summit. When Jin Taisuo threatened the Dragon City and Luo Cheng coalition, Tianxuzi revealed himself and effortlessly stopped the Carefree Realm expert's attacks.

• Xiao Tian made Kabuta and Immortal in Wine serve the feast, then let them eat the scraps, which brought them both to tears over the food's flavor.
• Kabuta snatched the last mouthful of Hundred Flowers Wine from Immortal in Wine before Xiao Tian's group departed and continued taking treasures across Mount Tai.
• After more than half a month, rival factions crowded Mount Tai, and Carefree Realm experts from Gaoluo Country and Amazon Country targeted the coalition led by Dragon City and Luo Cheng.
• Jin Taisuo killed three Shackle Realm experts and attacked Long Zaitian, but his Wave Ball vanished before it could hit him.
• Tianxuzi stepped forward and nullified Jin Taisuo's eight attacks with his control of space, shocking the gathered factions.

Tianxuzi defeated Jin Taisuo and protected Long Zaitian’s group as disturbances at Mount Tai’s summit shook the mountain. A spatial portal then brought Xiao Tian, Overlord, and others to them, and Tianxuzi left with Xiao Tian while Overlord stayed behind and formed an alliance with Amazon Country’s Evolver.

• Tianxuzi killed Jin Taisuo with a single strike, then killed the remaining Evolvers from Gaoluo Country when they surrendered.
• Tianxuzi accepted Amazon Country’s goodwill gift and shielded his group when Mount Tai shook and the summit’s disturbances killed or injured cultivators below.
• Tianxuzi explained that he was the master of the Eight Sceneries Palace and had drawn the lot to guard the group instead of joining the expedition to the summit.
• A spatial portal opened, and Xiao Tian, Overlord, Biyou Fairy, and their companions emerged after taking the wrong gate while returning from fighting the Flood Dragon King.
• Overlord stayed behind to recover from his injuries, while Tianxuzi joined Xiao Tian and the others as Xiao Tian altered the portal and led them back.
• Amazon Country’s Evolver offered gifts to Overlord, who accepted them and agreed to an alliance.

Xiao Tian led the group through a deadly portal trap to the Water Curtain Cave, where they discovered the World-Chaos Demon Ape's legacy. Four of them qualified for its inheritance trial, and Xiao Tian stunned the monkey spirit by awakening the sealed Heaven-Overturning Demon Staff with a touch.

• Xiao Tian chose the middle gate, destroyed the group’s return portal, and revealed that the corrosive flood concealed an entrance to a blessed grotto-heaven.
• The group found the Water Curtain Cave and heard Tianxuzi recount the legend of the World-Chaos Demon Ape, then discovered the remains of cultivators and dangerous weapons inside.
• Big Black Bull collected spirit stones while Xiao Tian and the others found a spirit pool, where Kabuta accidentally activated a crystal pillar and summoned the monkey’s primordial spirit.
• The monkey’s legacy-assessing light selected Xiao Tian, Big Black Bull, Xuanlong, and Kabuta to attempt the inheritance trial.
• Xuanlong and Big Black Bull lifted the Heaven-Overturning Demon Staff, while Kabuta failed; Xiao Tian awakened the staff’s black light with a touch before letting it fall back into place.

Xiao Tian passed the statue trial despite choosing the most obvious statue, then refused the World-Chaos Demon Ape’s legacy and revealed his overwhelming power. He helped the Demon Ape begin a path to revival and returned with its techniques, while Yuan Daqiang gave him free access to the cave abode.

• Yuan Daqiang warned Xiao Tian, Big Black Bull, and Xuanlong that the next trials could be deadly, but all three chose to continue.
• Big Black Bull and Xuanlong each selected a statue, and Xiao Tian hurled the staff at the largest statue; Yuan Daqiang declared Xiao Tian the only one to advance.
• Xiao Tian tried to withdraw, but Yuan Daqiang forced him onward, and the World-Chaos Demon Ape offered him its legacy.
• Xiao Tian refused the legacy, immobilized the Demon Ape and the Sky-Spilling Staff with his power, and agreed to help find a new inheritor while keeping his identity secret.
• Xiao Tian gave the World-Chaos Demon Ape a Thought-Concentrating Pearl and explained how it could use Chaos Qi to revive through nirvana.
• Xiao Tian returned to Yuan Daqiang with the Demon Ape’s techniques, and Yuan Daqiang rewarded him with a jade token granting access to the cave abode and its spoils.

Xiao Tian and his companions looted the World-Chaos Demon Ape’s cave abode, cultivated there, and added the Demon Spirit to their group after defeating a demonized man. They headed toward the Heavenly Divine Sword so Xiao Tian could use it and the stars in his Visualization Realm breakthrough, while Black Peng King plotted against them from Mount Tai’s summit.

• Xiao Tian refused the World-Chaos Demon Ape’s legacy but accepted permission to take treasures, and he, Big Black Bull, and Xuanlong stripped the cave abode before cultivating there for eleven years.
• Immortal in Wine challenged Big Black Bull for his freedom and lost, while Xiao Tian advised Big Black Bull to be cautious about breaking through to the Visualization Realm.
• After the group left the cave abode, Xuanlong kicked the stranded Kabuta, and the group captured the Demon Spirit and made it work as an ingredient supplier for Hundred Flowers Brew.
• Big Black Bull killed a demonized peak Carefree Realm man who had injured the Demon Spirit, and Xiao Tian removed the demonic Qi contaminating it.
• Xiao Tian explained that he wanted to visualize both the Heavenly Divine Sword and the stars, while Black Peng King learned that Xiao Tian’s group had destroyed his demonic puppet and planned to confront them.
• As the group advanced toward the Heavenly Divine Sword, the Demon Spirit’s cultivation reached peak Carefree Realm, and Xiao Tian assured Big Black Bull that they could retreat into the World-Chaos Demon Ape’s cave abode if necessary.

Xiao Tian reached the Visualization Realm by enduring the Heavenly Divine Sword’s sword gales, then led his companions to a gathering of Carefree Realm cultivators. After Tianxuzi fought Wood Dragon Immortal over an old grudge, Xiao Tian displayed rare treasures and provoked the gathered factions, ending with Kongming Saber Immortal attacking him and losing his saber.

• Big Black Bull, Xuanlong, and Xiao Tian used the World-Chaos Demon Ape’s cave abode to rest as they advanced through the Heavenly Divine Sword’s Domain, while Black Peng King watched and withdrew to plan a careful attack.
• Xiao Tian let the sword gales strike him, mastered their sword intent, and reached the Visualization Realm as his companions witnessed a starry phenomenon.
• Xiao Tian led his group to a gathering of Carefree Realm cultivators, where Wood Dragon Immortal accused Tianxuzi of buying the Azure Sky Hollow-Heart Vine that she had wanted to save her descendant.
• Tianxuzi fought Wood Dragon Immortal, breaking her Wood God Imprisons the Heavens technique, while Xiao Tian warned her against attacking his companion.
• Xiao Tian showed Wood Dragon Immortal more than two hundred natural treasures, including an Immortal Heart Lotus that could save her daughter, then baited rival cultivators into threatening his group.
• Kongming Saber Immortal attacked Xiao Tian with his Void Blade, but Xiao Tian remained unharmed and took the saber, while Wood Dragon Immortal watched her Immortal Heart Lotus disintegrate.

Xiao Tian and his companions subdued Kongming Saber Immortal and stopped another cultivator from killing him to curry favor. Xiao Tian traded an Immortal Heart Lotus to Wood Dragon Immortal for Yanyan to travel with his group for a month, leaving Wood Dragon Immortal to await her return at Mount Tai.

• Xiao Tian ambushed Kongming Saber Immortal with a golden staff, while Big Black Bull and Xuanlong joined him in intimidating the surrounding Carefree Realm cultivators.
• Xiao Tian took Kongming Saber Immortal's ring, iron band, and inner armor, then Big Black Bull killed a cultivator who tried to kill Kongming Saber Immortal and win favor.
• Xiao Tian offered Wood Dragon Immortal an Immortal Heart Lotus in exchange for Yanyan accompanying his group for a month, and Yanyan agreed after asking whether she would have to do chores.
• Wood Dragon Immortal inspected the genuine Immortal Heart Lotus, accepted the deal, and entrusted Yanyan to Xiao Tian and Biyou Palace Master.
• Xiao Tian told Yanyan to watch Kabuta, while Wood Dragon Immortal agreed to wait at Mount Tai for her return in a month.

Xiao Tian's group competed with Carefree Realm experts for treasures erupting from the spiritual Qi vortex, collecting rare li flame snow essence and claiming comic new sobriquets. When a beautiful pearl appeared in the fifth wave, Big Black Bull charged to seize it for the group.

• The Wood Dragon Immortal left Mount Tai with the Immortal Heart Lotus, while Xiao Tian entrusted Yanyan to the Biyou Fairy and waited with the others for the vortex to erupt.
• The first two waves produced spirit stones, and Big Black Bull and Xuanlong collected most of the purer stones in the second wave.
• Big Black Bull seized a giant demon beast egg in the third wave, then the fourth wave's dangerous li flame snow essence killed four Carefree Realm experts who rushed toward it.
• Perfected Xuanfeng explained how lightning-struck wood could collect the li flame snow essence, and Xiao Tian's group helped the Biyou Fairy and Tianxuzi gather forty-three motes before Xiao Tian took half from each of them.
• Xiao Tian, Big Black Bull, and Xuanlong gave themselves the sobriquets Great Sage Equaling Heaven, Great Sage Equaling Heaven and Earth, and Great Sage Tongtian, forming the Three Great Sages.
• A beautiful pearl appeared in the fifth wave, and Big Black Bull charged forward, declaring that it was his.

Xiao Tian’s group manipulated the Evolvers into fighting among themselves while the spiritual Qi vortex produced increasingly dangerous treasures and traps. After a humanoid blast killed or crippled many Evolvers, Xiao Tian confronted a second puppet, and Big Black Bull revealed strength that made the remaining opponents fear he had reached Half-Step Visualization Realm.

• Big Black Bull claimed the first pearl, while Dao Lord Longxin and the other Evolvers secretly planned to unite against Xiao Tian’s group.
• Xiao Tian’s group feigned weakness as Dao Lord Longxin took the blood lotus and Daoist Hun obtained a spiritual pill, deepening the Evolvers’ internal disputes.
• Black Peng King disguised himself as a late Carefree Realm Evolver and infiltrated the group to observe Xiao Tian.
• Xiao Tian’s group seized seven of thirteen Phoenix Blood Leaves and badly injured four Evolvers, prompting Dao Lord Longxin to distribute Rejuvenation Life Pills while the others recovered.
• The ninth wave’s humanoid figure exploded, killing nearby late Carefree Realm experts and leaving two peak experts near death; Black Peng King survived the blast and received clothes from Daoist Hun.
• When the tenth wave produced another humanoid puppet, Xiao Tian attacked it, and Big Black Bull smashed apart its energy blast, startling Daoist Hun and Dao Lord Longxin with his apparent Half-Step Visualization Realm strength.

Xiao Tian took control of the Carefree Realm puppet while Big Black Bull kept it occupied, as Black Peng King and the other experts tried to destroy it. Xuanlong shielded them from the attack, and after the puppet joined their side, Xiao Tian, Big Black Bull, and Xuanlong confronted Dao Lord Longxin and the others.

• Xiao Tian told Big Black Bull to restrain the Carefree Realm puppet while he found its control system, and Black Peng King warned the others that Xiao Tian planned to seize it.
• Black Peng King, Dao Lord Longxin, Daoist Hun, Kongming Saber Immortal, and the other experts attacked as Big Black Bull held the puppet.
• Xuanlong used Dragon Qi Origin Realm to block the attack, giving Xiao Tian time to transfer his primordial spirit imprint into the puppet and take control of it.
• Xuanlong's barrier collapsed, and Xiao Tian and Big Black Bull fended off the remaining attacks without being injured.
• Xiao Tian, Big Black Bull, and Xuanlong landed and advanced on Dao Lord Longxin and the other experts, with Xuanlong preparing to retaliate.

Xiao Tian forced the Evolvers who had opposed him to surrender their treasures, then revealed his Visualization Realm strength to protect Big Black Bull from Black Peng King. As the spiritual Qi vortex dwindled, Xiao Tian and Big Black Bull attacked it with energy, and it began shrinking rapidly.

• Daoist Hun and Dao Lord Longxin handed over their assets as compensation, and the other Carefree Realm Evolvers followed.
• Xiao Tian demanded payment from the remaining Evolvers, while Black Peng King hid in a deep pit and refused to pay.
• Black Peng King revealed his nonhuman form and attacked Big Black Bull, but Xiao Tian's sword strike exposed his Visualization Realm strength and stopped the ambush.
• Black Peng King fled and resolved to accelerate his demonization, while the other Evolvers yielded to Xiao Tian and stopped contesting the vortex's treasures.
• After the spiritual Qi vortex produced only a few ordinary spirit stones, Big Black Bull and Xiao Tian blasted it with energy until it began shrinking.