Chapter Summaries

Yan Feng sent the three Heaven-Swallowing Flame Flood Dragon brothers to fight, and Ao Lie selected Mao Tai, Run Tu, and Zhu Xiaoming to face them. The brothers were unnerved by Zhu Xiaoming’s speed and fell silent as the Three Scoundrels argued over who would defeat them fastest.

• Yan Feng introduced Boer Ba, Bo'er Fen, and Bo'er Ti as the Fire Clan’s three fighters, while Lin Heng left the choice of opponents to Ao Lie.
• Ao Lie explained that he struggled to find fighters as weak as the brothers, provoking Bo'er Fen to threaten to kill and eat Battle Heaven Pavilion’s fighters.
• Ao Lie called on Mao Tai, Run Tu, and Zhu Xiaoming, who complained about having to face the three brothers.
• Zhu Xiaoming shook Boer Ba’s hand, threatened him, and vanished so quickly that Boer Ba could not follow his movement.
• Ao Lie challenged the brothers to last two hundred breaths and warned the Three Scoundrels that they would face another year of brutal training if they failed to finish the fight in time.
• Run Tu, Mao Tai, and Zhu Xiaoming bickered over who would win fastest, while the Bo'er brothers stayed quiet.

Lin Heng accepted a growing series of wagers on the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s matches, leaving the pavilion with a chance to ease its financial crisis if it won. Meanwhile, Zhu Xiaoming faced all three Boer brothers alone as Mao Tai and Run Tu stood aside, and the battle began in earnest.

• Lin Heng offered Xiao Wuyu a fifty-thousand-Source-Stone wager, and the leaders of the other ascender factions joined in with matching bets.
• Yan Feng wagered on the Eight Great Imperial Clans winning overall, and Sun Yuan’s taunts prompted the Fire Clan and other imperial forces to increase their stakes.
• Xiao Wuyu backed Lin Heng’s ability to pay, and the wagers reached 1.4 million Source Stones from the imperial clans and 800,000 from the ascender factions.
• The Boer brothers formed a triangle and charged at Zhu Xiaoming, but Mao Tai and Run Tu moved aside and left him exposed.
• Zhu Xiaoming challenged the brothers to attack and charged them alone with his high-grade chaos spirit treasure, while Mao Tai and Run Tu remained back.

Zhu Xiaoming used his Four Seasons Samsara Sword Technique to overwhelm the Boer Three Brothers, first grievously wounding them with Spring Abounds, a Hundred Flowers Rage, then trapping them beneath Blazing Summer, Scorching Sun Fire. As the Flame Dragon attacked, Bo'er Fen realized it was gradually driving the accumulated heat into their bodies.

• Zhu Xiaoming's Spring Abounds, a Hundred Flowers Rage trapped the Boer Three Brothers and left all three gravely wounded.
• Zhu Xiaoming unleashed Blazing Summer, Scorching Sun Fire, and the Boer Three Brothers charged him as the heat began burning them from within.
• Zhu Xiaoming drew a Flame Dragon from the heated space, and its attacks forced the Boer Three Brothers onto the defensive.
• Bo'er Fen realized the Flame Dragon's attacks were gradually driving heat into the brothers' bodies.

Zhu Xiaoming killed the three Boer brothers with his Blazing Sun, Scorching Sun Fire technique, but they revived through their Samsara Realm survival ability. He eagerly resumed the fight as the brothers transformed into their true forms and prepared to attack together.

• Zhu Xiaoming burned the three Boer brothers to death, and Run Tu and Mao Tai teased him for taking longer than promised.
• Yan Feng recognized the strength of Zhu Xiaoming and the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s squad leaders as a threat to the Eight Great Imperial Clans.
• The three Boer brothers revived through their Samsara Realm ability, returning to their peak condition.
• Zhu Xiaoming welcomed their revival and raised his sword, eager to test his remaining techniques.
• Boer Ba ordered the brothers to attack together, and all three transformed into their true forms as Heaven-Devouring Flame Flood Dragons.

Zhu Xiaoming unleashed the third move of his sword technique against the three Boer brothers, who had transformed into flood dragons and launched their ultimate attack. His Sword Qi leaves destroyed their combined strike and killed all three brothers, leaving no intact corpses.

• The three Boer brothers returned to their flood dragon forms and charged at Zhu Xiaoming.
• Zhu Xiaoming used Autumn Wind Blows Gently, Heaven and Earth Stir, then dodged the brothers' attacks with the Law of Time.
• The Boer brothers gathered their energy and unleashed Flame Flood Dragon Break as a desperate attack.
• Zhu Xiaoming restored the speed of his Sword Qi leaves and sent them crashing into the brothers' red sphere of energy.
• The falling leaves sliced apart the sphere and killed the three Boer brothers, leaving no intact corpses.

Yan Feng chose ten Battle Heaven Pavilion disciples to face the Volcanic Rock Turtle Clan, hoping to disrupt their coordination, but Ao Lie accepted the challenge. The Battle Heaven Pavilion disciples revealed two formations that trapped the Volcanic Rock Turtle Clan as the second battle began.

• Yan Feng sent ten Third-Turn Samsara cultivators from the Volcanic Rock Turtle Clan into the second battle.
• Yan Feng asked to choose the Battle Heaven Pavilion's ten contestants, and Lin Heng agreed after Ao Lie gave his approval.
• Yan Feng selected ten disciples from different formations, believing they would struggle to coordinate.
• Ao Lie quietly instructed the selected disciples, who then faced Yan Huo and the other Volcanic Rock Turtle Clan members.
• Zhang Xiaoniu ordered the disciples to use the Heavenly Wing Four Symbols Formation and the Six Harmonies Heavenly Gate Formation, enclosing the Volcanic Rock Turtle Clan.

Battle Heaven Pavilion’s formations overwhelmed the Volcanic Rock Turtles, while Situ Jiannan’s taunt stirred suspicion among the Fire Clan’s subordinate forces. The chapter ended with Yan Feng terrified by Lin Heng’s gaze and wondering if Lin Heng had concealed his true cultivation.

• Xiao Wuyu realized that Battle Heaven Pavilion had split its fighters into an attacking formation and a trapping formation to keep the Volcanic Rock Turtles from escaping or receiving help.
• Ao Lie’s disciples formed the Heavenly Wing Four Symbols Formation and battered Yan Huo and the other nine Volcanic Rock Turtles, leaving them unable to mount a counterattack.
• Ao Lie criticized Yan Feng for sending his subordinates to die, and Situ Jiannan pointed out that the Fire Clan had not sent any of its own members into the three battles.
• Yan Feng tried to rebuke Lin Heng, but Lin Heng’s single glance filled him with terror and made him question whether Lin Heng had hidden his real cultivation.

The Battle Heaven Pavilion defeated the Fire Clan’s arguments as its disciples unleashed a devastating attack on the Volcanic Rock Turtles. The blast’s shockwaves were contained by the Six Harmonies Heavenly Gate Formation, winning the Battle Heaven Pavilion unexpected support from the Fire Clan’s subordinate factions and leaving Situ Jiannan considering recruiting them.

• Yan Feng fell silent under Lin Heng’s intimidation, prompting factions allied with the Fire Clan to doubt him and reconsider their attitude toward the Battle Heaven Pavilion.
• The four disciples controlling the Heavenly Wing Four Symbols Formation combined their spirit beasts into a giant auspicious beast and attacked the Volcanic Rock Turtles.
• Yan Huo’s turtles trapped the auspicious beast in magma, but Yan Feng realized the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s leaders were not worried and warned Yan Huo to escape.
• The four disciples detonated the auspicious beast, shattering the magma shield and sweeping the Volcanic Rock Turtles in a powerful blast.
• The Six Harmonies Heavenly Gate Formation contained the explosion’s shockwaves, earning gratitude from the surrounding cultivators and hope from factions under the Fire Clan.
• Situ Jiannan recognized that the Battle Heaven Pavilion had unexpectedly won the favor of potential subordinate factions and considered recruiting them after the battle.

After two crushing defeats, Yan Feng summoned the Turtle Field Clan for the Fire Clan’s third battle and wagered the Fire Clan’s Eighth Heaven sect against Lin Heng’s Battle Heaven Pavilion. The Turtle Field Clan arrived as the gathered factions reacted with anger and disgust.

• The Fire Clan lost its second battle, with all ten Volcanic Rock Turtles killed, and Yan Feng summoned the hidden Turtle Field Clan.
• Yan Feng challenged Lin Heng to wager that none of the Battle Heaven Pavilion disciples would survive the third battle, and Lin Heng accepted a counter-wager that no Fire Clan fighter would survive.
• Yan Feng demanded more than a million Source Stones in stakes, then secretly offered the Fire Clan’s Eighth Heaven sect as collateral in a soul contract that Lin Heng accepted.
• A hundred members of the Turtle Field Clan arrived, and Yan Feng declared that the Fire Clan had made them a subordinate force.
• Xiao Wuyu held back from attacking after Yan Feng’s announcement, while Sun Yuan voiced his disgust and the Fire Clan’s other subordinate forces grew less loyal.

Lin Heng learned why the Turtle Field Clan was feared and watched Ao Lie choose Long Aotian’s troublemaking squad for the third battle. The squad divided up its hundred opponents and prepared to fight, while joking about what they would do if they won quickly.

• Situ Jiannan explained that the Turtle Field Clan had mutated after the Great Sun Race altered their genes and could hide from detection, though they were vulnerable while concealed.
• Yan Feng announced that his candidates for the third battle had arrived but kept his plans secret.
• Situ Jiannan quietly spoke to Ao Lie, who agreed, while Situ Jiannan told Lin Heng that his advice might come in handy during the battle.
• Ao Lie selected Long Aotian’s squad to fight the Turtle Field Clan, and Long Aotian’s hundred members each picked an opponent.
• Long Aotian gave his squad three minutes to finish the fight or face a punishing run, and his members teased him about the reward they would demand if they won early.

The Long Aotian Squad attacked the Turtle Field Clan before they could deploy their hundred-man formation, turning the match into a chaotic melee. Xiao Wuyu recognized the squad’s plan to split up their opponents, but Yan Feng warned the Turtle Field Clan, prompting the hooligans to prepare an even harsher response.

• Kameda Sasaki cursed the Long Aotian Squad, and the hooligans charged the Turtle Field Clan before the spectators had cleared or the clan could form up.
• Yan Feng challenged Lin Heng over the sudden attack, but Lin Heng pointed out that the previous matches had also begun abruptly.
• The Long Aotian Squad overwhelmed the Turtle Field Clan in one-on-one fights and forcibly broke up attempts to regroup.
• Xiao Wuyu explained to Liuyun Lan that the hooligans were disrupting the formation, dividing the battlefield, and preparing killing moves.
• Yan Feng heard Xiao Wuyu’s explanation and warned Kameda Sasaki to keep the Turtle Field Clan from being split apart.
• The Turtle Field Clan regrouped, Xiao Wuyu accused Yan Feng of abandoning shame, and Lin Heng reassured Xiao Wuyu that the squad could still win.

After the Ruffian Squad’s plan was disrupted, Lin Heng ordered the Proud Dragon Squad to reveal its strength against the Turtle Field Clan. The Turtle Field Clan summoned Yamata no Orochi, but the Proud Dragon Squad’s first two attack waves overwhelmed the battlefield, leaving the clan’s condition unclear.

• Lin Heng and Situ Jiannan suspected Xiao Wuyu had warned Yan Feng on purpose and agreed the Battle Heaven Pavilion should rely only on itself.
• Situ Jiannan urged Ao Lie to send out the Proud Dragon Squad, and Lin Heng told him to use only half the squad.
• Ao Lie led a hundred Proud Dragon Squad members into five formations and announced three attack waves, including one to collect corpses.
• The Turtle Field Clan summoned Yamata no Orochi, which Situ Jiannan explained was a battle pet raised by the Great Sun Race.
• The Proud Dragon Squad bombarded the Turtle Field Clan with Palm Lightning, then sent countless flying swords into the smoke as screams came from within.

The Turtle Field Clan, outmatched by the Proud Dragon Squad, chose to sacrifice themselves to fulfill their pact with the Fire Clan and secure freedom and survival for their people. Their successive self-destruction attacks battered the Proud Dragon Squad’s protective formation, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Yan Feng watched the injured Turtle Field Clan struggle against the Proud Dragon Squad and hoped they would use their self-destruction trump card.
• The Proud Dragon Squad began activating powerful Heavenly Venerable Talisman Seals while the Turtle Field Clan recovered from the first attacks.
• Kameda Sasaki urged his clansmen to give their lives for a better future, and the entire Turtle Field Clan resolved to self-destruct.
• The Proud Dragon Squad’s Battle Heaven Pavilion members raised the Four Seas and Eight Desolations Star Grand Formation to shield their teammates.
• Kameda Sasaki and the other Turtle Field Clan members charged the formation and detonated themselves, making its ripples grow increasingly violent.

The Turtle Field Clan sacrificed itself in a wave of self-detonations, but Lin Heng and the disciples survived behind the Four Seas and Eight Desolations Star Grand Formation. After Yan Feng voiced dissatisfaction that no disciples had died, Lin Heng punished him by crippling his soul’s future growth and weakening his combat power.

• The Turtle Field Clan members self-detonated for a hundred breaths, while Yan Feng and the Fire Clan’s subordinate factions assumed the Proud Dragon Squad had been destroyed.
• Yan Feng decided to secretly deal with the Turtle Field Clan’s remnants after the battle, prioritizing the loyalty of the Fire Clan’s other subordinate factions.
• The Four Seas and Eight Desolations Star Grand Formation endured the blasts, and Lin Heng found that the exhausted disciples had suffered no injuries.
• Yan Feng complained that none of the disciples had died, so Lin Heng grabbed him, threw him down, and sent soul energy into his spiritual sea.
• Lin Heng’s soul energy left Yan Feng in constant pain, halted his soul realm’s advancement, and reduced his combat power.

After the Battle Heaven Pavilion won all three battles, Lin Heng demanded the Fire Clan vacate its sect grounds by the next day. He planned to establish the pavilion on the Dragon Flame Sect’s territory instead, judging that the Fire Clan would take its valuable Origin Veins when it left.

• The Lei Clan and the other imperial clans left after blaming Yan Feng for their humiliating defeats, while the ascender factions collected their winnings.
• Xiao Wuyu and Situ Jiannan reminded Yan Feng that the Fire Clan had promised its sect grounds to the Battle Heaven Pavilion if it lost.
• Lin Heng ordered Yan Feng to move the Fire Clan out within one day and threatened to use the Eight Desolations Fire Refining Array against anyone who remained.
• After receiving a message, Yan Feng left with the Fire Clan’s forces without answering Lin Heng’s demand.
• Lin Heng told Xiao Wuyu that he would build the Battle Heaven Pavilion on the Dragon Flame Sect’s territory because the Fire Clan would not leave its Origin Veins behind.

Lin Heng suspected the Fire Clan was planning a trap and decided to visit its sect with Sun Yuan, while Situ Jiannan began building a temporary home for the Battle Heaven Pavilion. The chapter ended with Lin Heng and Sun Yuan arriving at the Fire Clan's sect, where Yan Feng waited alone, muttering curses.

• Lin Heng told Situ Jiannan he suspected the Fire Clan might tamper with the territory and announced that he would visit its sect the next day with Sun Yuan.
• Lin Heng instructed Situ Jiannan to build a simple temporary sect, and the Battle Heaven Pavilion erected a ninety-nine-story immortal pavilion in one afternoon.
• Lin Heng contacted Miao Jingkong and Lin Xiao, who reported that Yan Lang, a Ninth-Grade Heavenly Venerable from the Fire Clan, had descended but remained unseen.
• Lin Heng prepared his Eight-Origin Heaven-Piercing Spear and said he wanted to test his combat strength against the Fire Clan.
• Lin Heng and Sun Yuan set out for the Fire Clan's sect, and Lin Heng warned Sun Yuan to flee if danger arose because of his vicious Qi.
• Lin Heng and Sun Yuan reached the Fire Clan's sect, where Yan Feng was alone and muttering curses.

Lin Heng and Sun Yuan confronted Yan Feng outside the Fire Clan’s sect, where Lin Heng exposed the Fire Clan’s hidden ambush and captured Yan Feng. Yan Lang and two other Ninth-Grade Heavenly Venerable Realm experts emerged, leaving Lin Heng facing the concealed threat.

• Yan Feng gloated about Lin Heng and the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s impending destruction until Lin Heng and Sun Yuan appeared before him.
• Yan Feng noticed that Lin Heng had brought no pavilion army and tried to persuade him to enter the Fire Clan’s sect.
• Lin Heng questioned Yan Feng about the Ninth-Grade Heavenly Venerable Realm experts inside, and Yan Feng accidentally revealed that Yan Lang and the others were waiting there.
• Lin Heng trapped Yan Feng in an invisible hand and explained that the Fire Clan’s unusual hospitality and Yan Lang’s absence from the previous battle had aroused his suspicions.
• Yan Lang and two other Ninth-Grade Heavenly Venerable Realm experts emerged from the sect and praised Lin Heng’s insight.

Lin Heng and Sun Yuan were trapped in the Fire Clan’s Heavenly Ghost Fire Spirit Array, which had been made from the flesh and souls of a hundred thousand ascenders. Yan Lang abandoned Yan Feng to the array’s creatures, leaving Lin Heng and Sun Yuan surrounded by the deadly spirits.

• Yan Lang trapped Lin Heng and Sun Yuan inside a fiery barrier and revealed that the Fire Clan had set an ambush.
• Lin Heng recognized the array as a forbidden technique that used living beings’ flesh, blood, and souls, and Yan Lang admitted the Fire Clan had sacrificed a hundred thousand ascenders to create it.
• Yan Lang and the two Ninth-Grade Heavenly Venerables retreated, leaving Yan Feng behind because Lin Heng’s restriction had weakened him.
• Yan Feng threatened to report Yan Lang to the Fire Clan’s ancestor, but more than a thousand creatures attacked and devoured him.
• Sun Yuan condemned the Fire Clan for abandoning its own clansman, while Lin Heng remained silent and considered the clan’s internal divisions.

Sun Yuan fought the creatures of ultimate evil in the Heavenly Ghost Fire Spirit Array while Lin Heng waited to confront Yan Lang and his two companions. After Sun Yuan's grief over killing an Ape Race creature drove his malice toward a dangerous level, Yan Lang and his companions prepared to attack them together.

• Sun Yuan stopped Lin Heng from fighting the creatures, explaining that their resentment could become a heart demon, then transformed into a Five-Spirit Fierce Ape and charged into battle.
• Sun Yuan killed scores of creatures with his iron hammers, while Lin Heng realized the array contained many powerful ascenders who had been refined into creatures of ultimate evil.
• Sun Yuan fought several powerful creatures, including an ape-shaped one, and killed the ape despite his grief, causing his malice to surge and his eyes to turn blood-red.
• Sun Yuan warned Lin Heng not to intervene and told him to attack Yan Lang and his two companions when they emerged from hiding.
• Yan Lang and his companions discussed Sun Yuan's strength, then agreed that Yan Lang would use the Heavenly Ghost Fire Spirit Array against Lin Heng while the other two fought Sun Yuan.

Lin Heng faced Yan Lang after Yan Lang merged with the Heavenly Ghost Fire Spirit Array and transformed into a Fire Spirit Body. Yan Lang discovered that Lin Heng could absorb his Origin of Fire, but convinced himself Lin Heng’s Ancient Void Physique had a limit and continued the fight.

• Lin Heng watched Sun Yuan rapidly defeat the beings inside the Heavenly Ghost Fire Spirit Array, then Yan Lang and two Ninth-Grade Heavenly Venerables emerged and attacked.
• Yan Lang blocked Lin Heng and used the Origin of Fire to refine himself into a Fire Spirit Body, merging with the array and weakening himself temporarily.
• Yan Lang swallowed several beings to increase his power, then attacked Lin Heng with a flaming fist.
• Lin Heng absorbed the Origin of Fire from Yan Lang’s flaming skull and fist, forcing Yan Lang to retreat.
• Yan Lang concluded that Lin Heng had the Ancient Void Physique and decided he could defeat him once its capacity to absorb energy was exceeded.