Chapter Summaries

Wang Hao explained the realms of cultivation to Nangong Xian'er and examined six inheritances she gave him, discovering that they descended from a shared source. He advised her on how to fuse them, and she ended by asking whether he would enter the Young Heaven's Chosen Tournament in Huaxia Nation.

• Wang Hao explained the Master, Grandmaster, and Great Grandmaster realms to Nangong Xian'er, prompting her to reflect on her cultivation.
• Nangong Xian'er gave Wang Hao six spirit jades containing inheritances, and he quickly comprehended their contents.
• Wang Hao recognized that the six inheritances shared a source, and Nangong Xian'er explained their connection to the Six Immemorial Evils and the Evil Venerable.
• Wang Hao offered Nangong Xian'er two ways to fuse the inheritances and recommended that she first create a cultivation method of her own.
• Nangong Xian'er asked Wang Hao whether he would enter the Young Heaven's Chosen Tournament, which would be held in Huaxia Nation a month later.

Wang Hao decided to enter the Huaxia prodigies' competition for the chance to search the imperial armory, while Nangong Xian'er left to pursue a dangerous power-up. At the capital, he learned she had registered him under the identity Dugu Qiubai and introduced him as her live-in son-in-law.

• Nangong Xian'er told Wang Hao that the Huaxia imperial armory held faction inheritances and Secret Methods for opening an Inner World, so he resolved to win the competition.
• Wang Hao and Nangong Xian'er saw Dongfang Changming, the formidable holy son of the Destruction Dao, on the road to the capital.
• Nangong Xian'er complained that Wang Hao's Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms produced weaker loach-like attacks, and he advised her to refine the legacy of a buried true dragon.
• Nangong Xian'er kissed Wang Hao and left to contact her sect elders, while he realized she had not told him what identity she had arranged for the competition.
• A seductive woman in the capital addressed Wang Hao as Young Master Dugu Qiubai and said Nangong Xian'er had registered him and called him her live-in son-in-law.

At the Blossoming Flowers Courtyard, Wang Hao trained its workers to leave the flesh trade behind and guided Nangong Xian'er toward cultivating the Demonic Dao before eventually combining it with the Divine Dao. The chapter ended with sect master Nangong Yu questioning whether the manual Qing Ming brought back was truly the Heaven-Destroying Hand Instruction.

• Wang Hao taught the young women of the Blossoming Flowers Courtyard to cultivate and present themselves as righteous sect fairies, renaming the establishment the Listening to Rain Pavilion.
• Nangong Xian'er returned after refining the Dragon Baleful Intent and angrily accused Wang Hao of hiding how painful the process would be before venting her frustration by smashing a rockery.
• Wang Hao asked Nangong Xian'er to choose between the Divine Dao and the Demonic Dao, and she asked whether she could cultivate both.
• Wang Hao agreed that she could eventually combine both paths but told her to begin with the Demonic Dao by refining the Dragon Baleful Intent into Demon Dragon Sha Qi.
• Nangong Yu examined the manual Qing Ming had brought and questioned whether Xian'er had truly identified it as the Heaven-Destroying Hand Instruction.

Wang Hao taught the Listening to Rain Pavilion’s young ladies new arts and cultivation methods, while Nangong Xian’er recognized the potential of his approach and completed her conversion to the Demonic Dao. The Desire Dao’s leader learned that Wang Hao was the man Nangong Xian’er had chosen for her Love Tribulation and suspected the plan might go awry.

• Wang Hao lectured the young ladies on developing their skills and gave them an incomplete Formless Divine Art to perfect through their own cultivation.
• Nangong Xian’er realized Wang Hao’s teaching method could help the girls develop their potential and asked to bring more people to his lessons.
• Wang Hao praised Nangong Xian’er for converting her Evil Dao True Qi into Demonic Dao True Qi in five days, then tried to ask her to become his disciple.
• Nangong Xian’er misunderstood Wang Hao’s unfinished question, blushed, and ran away.
• The Desire Dao’s leader learned from Song Jiaojiao that Wang Hao was the man Nangong Xian’er had chosen for her Transcending the Love Tribulation.

Wang Hao entered the Young Geniuses Tournament and recognized that its strongest figures and future conflict far exceeded his current power. He left himself resolved to proceed cautiously, especially around Yuxin, whose fate drew the attention of powerful schemers.

• Wang Hao and Nangong Xian'er arrived at the tournament grounds, where he saw that more than a hundred thousand young contestants had gathered.
• Yu Qing'er mocked Nangong Xian'er over her cultivation, but a Carefree Guard stopped them from fighting on the grounds.
• Nangong Xian'er explained that Desire Dao candidates competed to devour one another's cultivation, and Wang Hao warned that the practice damaged their future prospects.
• Wang Hao saw Li Daozong arrive with Chen Zhan, recognized the Carefree King, and deduced how the world's Heaven Tier and Heaven-Defying Tier compared to his cultivation system.
• Wang Hao spotted Chen Nan and Yuxin, realized powerful figures such as Dugu Baitian and Taishang were watching her, and decided he must approach her carefully.

Wang Hao watched the tournament begin and saw Nangong Xian'er face Yu Qing'er in the first elimination melee. Nangong Xian'er swept Yu Qing'er from the stage with one physical strike, then fought the remaining contestants with Wang Hao’s unusual body-refinement techniques as he observed through his Heavenly Eye.

• Yuxin sensed a familiar gaze in the crowd but could not identify Wang Hao, who had already looked away.
• Li Daozong and Chen Zhan gave speeches before the tournament began its first elimination round, a ten-thousand-person melee with only ten advancing.
• Nangong Xian'er was selected for the first match alongside Yu Qing'er and knocked her out with a single palm strike using only physical strength.
• Nangong Xian'er charged through the contestants with the Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms, astonishing Li Daozong, Chen Zhan, Song Jiaojiao, and Nangong Ruan with her fierce style.
• When the contestants joined forces against her, Nangong Xian'er shifted to soft, yielding techniques while Wang Hao watched through his Heavenly Eye.

Nangong Xian'er used Wang Hao's Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms to survive the first elimination battle and defeat her opponents, while Wang Hao quietly advanced using a concealment method he had devised. Back at the Listening to Rain Pavilion, he gave Nangong Xian'er the method, and a mysterious woman from the Annihilation Dao appeared.

• Nangong Xian'er used the Sha Qi Demon Dragon and the Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms to withstand attacks and defeat the contestants besieging her.
• Chen Zhan recognized that Nangong Xian'er's palm technique contained the essence of the Chen Clan's Dragon-Capturing Hand and became interested in its creator.
• Wang Hao ignored Nangong Xian'er after her match, then returned to the Listening to Rain Pavilion pleased with the martial arts he had observed during the day's competition.
• Nangong Xian'er confronted Wang Hao about the concealment method he had used to advance, and he inscribed it on spirit jade and gave it to her.
• Nangong Xian'er began asking Song Jiaojiao to invite Xue Yi of the Annihilation Dao, but Xue Yi appeared on the roof beam before she finished.

Nangong Xian'er met with her five allies from the other Primordial Evil Daos, discussed her bond with Wang Hao, and shared a concealment method with them. The gathering ended with Xiang Shengnan groping Nangong Xian'er for her Body Refinement art, while Wang Hao walked in and quickly backed out.

• Xiang Shengnan praised Nangong Xian'er's performance and teased her about following Wang Hao, prompting Nangong Xian'er to insist they were in love and that she was not Transcending the Love Tribulation.
• Nangong Xian'er gave Xue Yi a Secret Method for concealing her presence and urged her to become the Annihilation Dao's holy maiden so she could access its inheritances.
• Nangong Xian'er offered the same Secret Method to Xiang Shengnan and the other three women, hoping to obtain their sects' secret manuals and protect her allies.
• Xiang Shengnan grabbed Nangong Xian'er and demanded her supreme Body Refinement art, while the other women watched eagerly.
• Wang Hao entered to discuss plans for Devotion Lake, saw Xiang Shengnan groping Nangong Xian'er, and backed out of the room.

Nangong Xian'er explained to Xiang Shengnan and the other women that they could increase their potential by strengthening all six fundamental attributes before breaking through to the Fourth Tier, and shared Wang Hao's supreme Body Refinement art. The women began cultivating it in medicinal baths, where they discovered that Nangong Xian'er had failed to warn them about its effects.

• Xiang Shengnan forced Nangong Xian'er to hand over Wang Hao's nameless supreme Body Refinement art, and the women praised its comprehensiveness.
• Nangong Xian'er explained that the transformation at the Third-to-Fourth Tier threshold affected all six fundamental attributes and rewarded a stronger foundation.
• Xiang Shengnan guessed that Wang Hao, not Nangong Xian'er, had discovered the secret, and Nangong Xian'er tacitly admitted it.
• Nangong Xian'er showed how Sha Qi could temper spirit and True Qi, then advised the women to use spirit medicines to speed up their progress with the Body Refinement art.
• The women questioned the art's unnamed origins, but Nangong Xian'er refused to explain that Wang Hao had casually named it Iron Cloth Shirt.
• The women entered medicinal baths to cultivate the art, then trembled in shock and realized Nangong Xian'er had tricked them.

Nangong Xian'er’s friends punished her with the medicinal bath after discovering its painful side effect, then she tried to make Wang Hao drink some of it at the tournament. Wang Hao revealed that he had been drinking the far more potent original liquid all along, leaving Nangong Xian'er embarrassed as the second round began.

• Ye Shuanghua and the other four women sealed Nangong Xian'er's meridians and forced her into the medicinal bath to make her experience its painful side effect.
• Nangong Xian'er apologized for her mistake, warned her friends not to repeat their actions, and took some medicinal liquid with her to the tournament grounds.
• The second round began with one-on-one matches, and Wang Hao watched the contestants reveal their powerful techniques and inheritances.
• Nangong Xian'er served Wang Hao medicinal liquid from the tub, but he drank it without reacting and then drank more from his flask.
• Wang Hao explained that the liquid was meant to be drunk and was more effective undiluted, then warned Nangong Xian'er that adding perfume could ruin it.
• Nangong Xian'er realized Wang Hao had noticed the liquid’s fragrance and blushed with embarrassment.

Wang Hao fought a blind opponent, while Nangong Xian'er used his body-tempering medicinal liquid to humiliate Xiang Ba. At the Listening to Rain Pavilion, the women began refining their True Qi through a mutually beneficial dual cultivation method, as the Muddling Heavenly Dao investigated the medicinal liquid and sought to reproduce its formula.

• Wang Hao drew a blind opponent and used his concealing techniques to counter him, prolonging the fight until he had seen the man's abilities before winning.
• Xiang Ba approached Nangong Xian'er to court her support, but she served him Wang Hao's body-tempering medicinal liquid, which knocked him out and made him lose control of his bladder.
• Xiang Shengnan and the other women returned to the Listening to Rain Pavilion after their bouts, and Ye Shuanghua led them in using the Formless Divine Art to temper their True Qi through Nangong Xian'er.
• A Muddling Heavenly Dao elder learned that Xiang Ba had been disqualified from consideration as holy son and heard the test results showing the medicinal liquid's powerful effects and dangerous side effects.
• The elder ordered his subordinate to determine whether the Muddling Heavenly Dao could work out the medicinal liquid's formula.

Wang Hao tried to avoid being drawn into the schemes surrounding the body-tempering medicinal liquid and the powerful figures of this era. After fleeing from Tantai Xuan and then Nangong Xian'er, he reached the competition grounds' entrance only to be confronted by Chen Zhan, leaving him trapped in their affairs.

• A Muddling Heavenly Dao elder summoned Wang Hao, but Nangong Xian'er sent him away and proposed that the Six Primordial Evil Daos' holy maidens negotiate over the medicinal liquid in six months.
• Tantai Xuan approached Wang Hao, and he recognized her from Tomb of Gods and fled to avoid her and her master, Divine Ji.
• Nangong Xian'er saw Wang Hao run from Tantai Xuan, then joined him; Wang Hao realized she might be connected to the Desire Dao's founding ancestor and fled the competition grounds.
• Chen Zhan stopped Wang Hao at the entrance and asked why he feared Tantai Xuan, leaving Wang Hao alarmed by the powerful figure blocking his escape.

Wang Hao was pressured by Chen Zhan's clone to remain in the Huaxia capital, so he reconsidered his plans and chose a remote region for a future base. He offered Nangong Xian'er an incomplete Dou Character Secret in exchange for the Desire Dao's support, while privately admitting he still had to create the full Nine Character Secret himself.

• Chen Zhan's clone questioned Wang Hao about Tantai Xuan and the Desire Dao girl, then warned him not to leave the Huaxia capital during the tournament.
• Wang Hao returned to the tournament, stayed silent for the rest of the day, and began revising his plans with the help of a map of the Human Realm.
• Wang Hao told Nangong Xian'er he planned to develop a barren region into a base of operations, and she realized he wanted her support.
• Wang Hao gave Nangong Xian'er the incomplete Dou Character Secret, which astonished her with its power to imitate offensive arts.
• Nangong Xian'er objected when the secret art ended abruptly, and Wang Hao called it a deposit whose continuation depended on her investment.
• Wang Hao reflected that he had only deduced the basic art from inherited techniques and tournament observations, and planned to develop the complete Nine Character Secret over time.

Wang Hao faced Dongfang Changming in the Young Heaven's Chosen Tournament and urged him to use the Ten Heaven-Splitting Strikes. After observing Dongfang Changming's attack, Wang Hao replicated the technique and countered it, leaving Dongfang Changming and the watching factions demanding an explanation.

• Nangong Xian'er left after Wang Hao rejected her overtures and told her to relay his proposal to the Six Primordial Evil Daos.
• Wang Hao faced Dongfang Changming, whose attacks with several Destruction Dao techniques failed to touch him.
• Dongfang Changming unleashed five strikes of the Ten Heaven-Splitting Strikes, pushing Wang Hao toward the edge of the battle platform.
• Wang Hao used the Dou Character Secret to reproduce the Ten Heaven-Splitting Strikes and shattered Dongfang Changming's attack with three palm strikes.
• Dongfang Changming demanded to know how Wang Hao had learned the secret technique, and Wang Hao said he had learned it by watching him.

Wang Hao defeated Dongfang Changming by copying the Ten Heaven-Splitting Strikes with his Dou Character Secret, shocking the tournament and drawing attention from the factions. As the other contestants grew cautious, Wang Hao turned his thoughts to obtaining the Huaxia imperial family's method for opening an Inner World.

• Wang Hao admitted that he had copied the Ten Heaven-Splitting Strikes with the Dou Character Secret, and Dongfang Changming collapsed from exhaustion, regretting that he had lost.
• A Dao protector from the Dongfang Lineage carried Dongfang Changming away while Wang Hao returned to his seat beside Nangong Xian'er.
• Nangong Xian'er and the other women admired Wang Hao, while Li Daozong considered recruiting him and Chen Zhan warned that doing so could endanger the Huaxia Empire.
• Chen Zhan warned Chen Nan to avoid becoming Wang Hao's enemy, and Chen Nan resolved to befriend him; Yuxin also found Wang Hao strangely familiar.
• Wang Hao grew frustrated when the tournament contestants fought cautiously to keep their techniques from being copied, and he resolved to seek the Huaxia imperial family's method for opening an Inner World.

Wang Hao faced Chen Nan in the tournament final and defeated him despite Chen Nan wielding the Hou Yi Bow and unleashing the Chen Clan’s strongest arts. Afterward, Wang Hao beat Chen Nan while demanding he call him uncle, and Chen Nan realized Wang Hao had already copied the Eight Heavenly Demon Steps.

• The factions’ contestants grew wary and furious after Wang Hao openly demonstrated that he had secretly learned their inheritances, while others considered capturing him to obtain those techniques.
• Wang Hao confronted Chen Nan over the Hou Yi Bow, revealed his blood-colored divine sword, and insisted Chen Nan call him uncle because he was sworn brothers with Chen Zhan.
• Chen Nan used the Divine Void Steps and Dragon-Capturing Hand, but Wang Hao evaded him while studying the Chen Clan Profound Art with his Heavenly Eye and Dao Comprehension Function.
• Chen Nan reversed the Chen Clan Profound Art and attacked with the Eight Heavenly Demon Steps and Heaven-Destroying Hand, but Wang Hao blocked the strike with six Ten Heaven-Splitting Strikes, forcing Chen Nan to concede.
• Wang Hao punched Chen Nan repeatedly while demanding he call him uncle, then matched him with the Eight Heavenly Demon Steps, leaving Chen Nan shocked that Wang Hao had copied the Chen Clan technique.

After defeating Chen Nan and winning a month with the Hou Yi Bow, Wang Hao secured a fief and used his time in the imperial armory to memorize its inheritances. At the Carefree King Manor, he uncovered the dangerous secrets of the Chen Clan bloodline and began cultivating a refined version of its profound art to study the bow.

• Wang Hao made Chen Nan hand over the Hou Yi Bow for a month, and Chen Zhan arranged for Chen Nan to host him at the Carefree King Manor.
• Wang Hao asked Li Daozong for his chosen fief, then secretly memorized the imperial armory’s inheritances with his Heavenly Eye while pretending to leave disappointed.
• Wang Hao headed to the Carefree King Manor after sensing Sixth Tier experts from the Six Primordial Evil Daos had gathered at the Listening to Rain Pavilion.
• Wang Hao teased Chen Nan by demanding that he call him uncle, then settled in beside Chen Nan and Yuxin and announced he would study the Hou Yi Bow.
• Wang Hao used the Dao Comprehension Function to learn that the Chen Clan bloodline contained eight powerful origins and that its profound art suppressed their imprints by turning its practitioners into demons.
• Wang Hao began cultivating his refined Chen Clan Profound Art, which he needed to unlock the Hou Yi Bow’s secrets.

Wang Hao comprehended the source Dao charm in the Hou Yi Bow, then returned it to Chen Nan and prepared to leave the Carefree King Manor. Chen Zhan mistook Wang Hao’s display of the bow’s power for a crude attempt to force out an energy arrow, while Wang Hao challenged Chen Nan over the Huaxia imperial family’s treatment of him.

• Emperor Li Daozong questioned Chen Zhan about the fief Dugu Qiubai had chosen after the Six Primordial Evil Daos sent resources there, but Chen Zhan said he had seen nothing unusual in the area.
• Chen Zhan felt a sudden, ominous tremor but could not determine what had happened, and he told Li Daozong the land was not the cause.
• Wang Hao used the Dao Comprehension Function to master the source Dao charm in the Hou Yi Bow, then drew it far enough to form and seal an energy arrow.
• Chen Zhan arrived after sensing the bow’s divine might, assumed Wang Hao had forced the bow to produce the arrow, and departed without discovering what Wang Hao had done to his mark.
• Wang Hao returned the Hou Yi Bow to Chen Nan, exchanged barbs with him, and announced that he was leaving after a month at the Carefree King Manor.
• Chen Nan questioned why Wang Hao used the name Wang instead of Dugu, and Wang Hao reminded him that he had left the Huaxia imperial armory before completing the promised three-day visit.

Wang Hao traded new Secret Methods with the Six Primordial Evil Daos and recruited Nangong Xian'er and the other women to help develop his fief. After Nangong Xian'er angrily rejected his offer to become her teacher, Wang Hao revealed his real name to Dongfang Changming and invited him to join the project.

• Chen Nan realized the Huaxia imperial family had likely interfered with Wang Hao's access to the royal armory and watched him leave the Carefree King Manor.
• At Listening to Rain Mountain Manor, Nangong Xian'er showed Wang Hao the Six Primordial Evil Daos' account book, and he gave them the second chapter of the Dou Character Secret and the foundational Secret of the Character Xing.
• Wang Hao invited Nangong Xian'er and the other five women to help develop his fief, and they agreed; he then gave each of them the initial chapter of the Secret of the Character Zhe.
• Wang Hao again asked Nangong Xian'er to become his disciple, and she angrily refused before leaving with the other women.
• Wang Hao told Dongfang Changming that his real name was Wang Hao, not Dugu Qiubai, and invited him to help develop the fief.

Wang Hao hosted Listening to Rain Mountain Manor’s opening ceremony and a Dao Discussion Grand Ceremony, impressing the Heaven’s Chosen with his cultivation method before using his concern for women’s plight to recruit them to his cause. He offered the Nine Character Secret as payment, and the chapter ended with him explaining the Dou Character Secret to his captivated audience.

• Wang Hao welcomed the honored guests, including Tantai Xuan and Chen Nan, to Listening to Rain Mountain Manor’s opening ceremony.
• Wang Hao gathered the Heaven’s Chosen for a Dao Discussion Grand Ceremony, where his all-encompassing cultivation method helped them improve their own techniques.
• Tantai Xuan praised Wang Hao’s work with the women from the pleasure houses, prompting him to speak about their suffering and the injustice women faced.
• Wang Hao invited the Heaven’s Chosen to help him change the world and offered them the Nine Character Secret as payment.
• Chen Nan and Yuxin asked about the Nine Character Secret, and Wang Hao began explaining the Dou Character Secret’s abilities.