Chapter Summaries

Xiang Yun left the Geomagnetic Mountain Range after defeating Qing Ye and obtaining the Qiankun Battle Body, then returned to Primordial Hall. He reunited with the sect and headed to see his master, who immediately summoned him.

• Xiang Yun warned Ying Xiaoxiao and Qing Ye before greeting Qing Miao, who apologized for Qing Ye's rash actions and took the Dao Sect group away.
• Xiang Yun realized the Earth Yuan Sect inheritance site had disappeared after he obtained the Qiankun Battle Body, then left for Great Desolation City with the Ji Family.
• Xiang Yun said goodbye to Ji Shan and Ji Dong, promised to meet Ji Shan at Hundred Dynasties Mountain, and teleported to Primordial Hall.
• Xiang Yun returned to Primordial Hall and learned that most disciples were away taking the Primordial Trial.
• Xiang Yun flew to the mountain peak where the Pill River flowed, then heard his master call him back.

Xiang Yun told Hong Wuji about the Ancient Tomb Mansion and asked to attend the Dao Sect’s sect exchange, where he planned to challenge its Nirvana Realm disciples. After visiting his father, Xiang Huang, Xiang Yun learned that the Primordial Hall was facing renewed conflict between its Divine Ability Faction and Body Refinement Faction.

• Xiang Yun visited Hong Wuji at the Primordial Battle Hall and discussed the upcoming sect exchange with the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace.
• Xiang Yun told Hong Wuji about his connection with Ling Qingzhu and asked to attend the Dao Sect’s exchange instead, claiming he might be invincible in the Nirvana Realm.
• Hong Wuji agreed to let Xiang Yun go to the Dao Sect and promised to prepare resources for his Qiankun Battle Body inheritance.
• Hong Wuji told Xiang Yun to stay out of recent Primordial Hall affairs, and Xiang Yun went to ask his father, Xiang Huang, about them.
• Xiang Huang confirmed that Xiang Yun should stay out of the matter, and Xiang Yun identified it as a renewed dispute between the Divine Ability Faction and the Body Refinement Faction.

Xiang Yun learned that the Primordial Hall’s faction dispute over battle body divine abilities had flared up again, with possible ties to the demon race, then went to the Pill River to cultivate. When three senior disciples challenged his right to absorb Nirvana Qi deep in the river, Xiang Yun struck first, and their fists collided.

• Xiang Huang warned Xiang Yun that the renewed dispute over battle body divine abilities involved matters on the demon race’s side.
• Xiang Yun asked Xiang Huang to provide Earth Fiend Cold Qi and Heavenly Dipper Lightning Qi, then headed to Battle Heaven Peak’s Pill River.
• Xiang Yun plunged into the Pill River and used his miniature black hole to absorb Nirvana Qi at a startling rate, drawing the attention of nearby disciples.
• Jiang Tao, Fang Yun, and Jiang Wuyun confronted Xiang Yun and told him that deeper parts of the Pill River were reserved for those strong enough to claim them.
• Xiang Yun told the three senior brothers to take his fist first and attacked with the Heavenly Tyrant Fist combined with the Kun Peng Precious Technique.
• Jiang Tao, Fang Yun, and Jiang Wuyun activated their Primordial Battle Bodies and struck Xiang Yun with their respective fists, colliding with his attack.

Xiang Yun overwhelmed three Four Yuan Nirvana cultivators and continued cultivating deep in the Pill River while tensions between the Divine Ability Faction and the Body Refinement Faction erupted into widespread fights. After Xiang Yun surfaced and ordered them to stop, the fighters barely paid attention, leaving him ready to intervene.

• Xiang Yun struck Jiang Tao, Fang Yun, and Jiang Wuyun into the Pill River with one punch, then returned to cultivating in its depths.
• After the Primordial Trial ended, disciples of the Divine Ability Faction and Body Refinement Faction began arguing and fighting over their competing methods.
• Xiang Huang and Wu Xun discussed the factions' growing conflict, their powerful supporters, and the danger of disciples merging with demon bloodlines.
• Xiang Yun emerged from the Pill River and ordered the brawling disciples to stop, but they ignored him, prompting him to narrow his eyes.

Xiang Yun broke up a brawl between disciples of Battle Arts Peak and Battle Heaven Peak while casually enduring his Nirvana Tribulation. He absorbed the Nirvana Demonic Flame and completed his breakthrough to Three Yuan Nirvana, leaving the onlookers stunned.

• Xiang Yun suppressed the fighting disciples with a single Heavenly Tyrant Fist and demanded to know why they were brawling.
• After Xiang Yun dispersed the fist, Liang Qichao claimed the disciples had only been sparring, so Xiang Yun challenged him to spar.
• The disciples realized Xiang Yun was surrounded by Nirvana Demonic Flame and was undergoing a breakthrough while walking around and fighting.
• Xiang Huang and Wu Xun arrived and urged Xiang Yun to focus on surviving the Nirvana Tribulation.
• Xiang Yun absorbed the Nirvana Demonic Flame, completed his breakthrough, and asked whether that was better.

After emerging from seclusion, Xiang Yun learned that Ning Chen and Xun Wu had stirred up conflict between the Primordial Hall’s Body Refinement and Divine Ability factions. He confronted Ning Chen on Primordial Peak, and their clash ended with Ning Chen blasted into the Pill River platform.

• Liang Qichao and the other disciples submitted to Xiang Yun after he completed another Nirvana tribulation.
• Xiang Huang named Ning Chen of Primordial Peak and Xun Wu of Battle Arts Peak as the disciples stirring up the faction dispute.
• Xiang Yun flew to Primordial Peak with the disciples following him and demanded that Ning Chen come out.
• Ning Chen warned Xiang Yun to stay out of the dispute, but Xiang Yun insisted that his position as Young Hall Master gave him the authority to act.
• Xiang Yun transformed and struck Ning Chen with his Heaven-Breaking First Form, Earth Splitting, Heavenly Tyrant Fist, sending him crashing into the Pill River platform.

Xiang Yun defeated Ning Chen in two punches and rejected the idea that he was supporting either faction in the Primordial Hall. He left Ning Chen accepting his view that strength mattered most and said he would make Xun Wu see reality next.

• Ning Chen accused Xiang Yun of ambushing him and questioned whether he was a demon, but Xiang Huang said Xiang Yun had grown up in the Primordial Hall.
• Ning Chen invoked a Martial Arts Spirit and attacked Xiang Yun with Earth Splitting, but Xiang Yun countered with the Heavenly Horned Ant Precious Technique and sent him crashing into a pit.
• Xiang Yun asked whether Ning Chen wanted to continue, and Ning Chen admitted defeat after being overwhelmed by the two punches.
• Ning Chen asked whether Xiang Yun supported the Divine Ability Faction, and Xiang Yun said he rejected taking sides and believed strength would settle the factional disputes.
• Xiang Yun helped Ning Chen to his feet and said he would make Xun Wu see reality; Ning Chen said he would come watch.

Xiang Yun ended the faction dispute on Battle Heaven Peak by defeating its leading disciples, then joined Hong Wuji in the Primordial Battle Hall. Asked which path he preferred, Xiang Yun said they should strengthen both body refinement and divine abilities.

• Xun Wu learned that Xiang Yun had subdued Jiang Lin in one punch and Ning Chen in two, then received his grandmaster’s advice to apologize and ask about Xiang Yun’s demon-like battle form.
• Xiang Yun confronted Xun Wu, who apologized and agreed to stop pursuing the dispute between the factions.
• Hong Wuji ordered everyone involved in the fight to spend seven days in the Primordial Pool without using martial arts.
• Hong Wuji praised Xiang Yun for subduing the factions’ spokesmen and asked whether he favored body refinement or divine abilities.
• Xiang Yun said they should grasp both paths and keep both strong.

Xiang Yun revealed that his Tyrant Body Nine Forms came from abilities imprinted through generations of battle and offered to develop a secret technique that might resolve the Divine Ability Faction’s dispute over bloodline fusion. He agreed to consider the research while discussing the three-sect exchange and securing resources from Hong Wuji.

• Hong Wuji explained that Xun Wu had proposed combining demon bloodline fusion with the Primordial Battle Body, and that some disciples had succeeded while many others had failed.
• Xiang Yun demonstrated the Tyrant Body Nine Forms and explained that it came from human ancestors imprinting the abilities of powerful enemies through battle.
• Xiang Yun told Hong Wuji he could work on reproducing the technique, and Hong Wuji promised the hall’s support.
• Hong Wuji confirmed that the exchange would be held jointly by the Dao Sect, Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace, and Primordial Hall, and Xiang Yun warned that the Yuan Sect might react.
• Xiang Yun requested cultivation resources and beast and demon corpses for his research, and Hong Wuji agreed to provide most of them.

Xiang Yun asked Hong Wuji to contact the Immortal Sacred Whale Clan so he could gain their support, then cultivated at the Pill River while studying how to create a Totem Divine Ability. His experiment failed when his nine Divine Forms rejected the pattern, but it revealed a path forward, and his Qiankun Battle Body advanced to the fourth level.

• Xiang Yun asked Hong Wuji to send the Immortal Sacred Whale Clan information about the person they were seeking, and Hong Wuji agreed.
• Xiang Yun took resources from Hong Wuji and Xiang Huang to the Pill River and used them to cultivate while studying beast patterns for a Totem Divine Ability.
• Xiang Yun tried to imprint a Desolate Ox pattern with his Qi and blood, but his nine Divine Forms erased it.
• Xiang Yun concluded that each new Battle Body Divine Ability had to surpass the previous one and that the Totem Divine Ability would require someone to test the method.
• Xiang Yun absorbed the resources, advanced his Qiankun Battle Body to the fourth level, and gained the Qiankun Boundless Body.

Xiang Yun tested the Qiankun Boundless Body and learned that his Nirvana Golden Body and Origin Energy grew stronger, then Xiang Huang brought him approval to absorb Nirvana Golden Qi from three Pill Rivers. Xiang Yun also asked for help testing his battle body divine ability and arranging a challenge against Deputy Peak Master Zhong.

• Xiang Yun activated the Qiankun Boundless Body, grew to three zhang tall, and felt his strength increase under immense pressure.
• Xiang Huang told Xiang Yun that his request for Nirvana Golden Qi from three Pill Rivers had been approved and offered to take him deeper into the Pill River.
• Xiang Yun declined Xiang Huang's help reaching the river's depths and asked him to tell Hong Wuji that he had a lead on the battle body divine ability and needed people to test its Qi and blood construction.
• Xiang Yun asked Xiang Huang to arrange a fight with Deputy Peak Master Zhong, and Xiang Huang was startled that he wanted to challenge someone at Initial Life Profound.

Xiang Yun absorbed Nirvana Golden Qi and survived the resulting tribulation, reaching four yuan Nirvana while strengthening his Qiankun Battle Body. After the Hall Master summoned him to the Primordial Battle Hall, Xiang Yun arrived to hear the elders debating an experiment based on his ideas.

• Xiang Yun agreed to spar with Xiang Huang after emerging from seclusion, then returned to the Nirvana Pill River to test his strength against its pressure.
• Xiang Yun found a mass of Nirvana Golden Qi at the riverbed and absorbed it with his Qiankun Battle Body, black hole, and World Tree.
• After consuming the Golden Qi in a little over two days, Xiang Yun triggered the Nirvana Tribulation and devoured the Nirvana Demonic Flame, advancing to four yuan Nirvana.
• Xiang Yun emerged from the Pill River and gave a disciple guidance on the final fist of the Three Primordial Fists before heading to the Primordial Battle Hall.
• Xiang Yun entered the hall and heard an elder objecting to starting experiments so soon, while another mentioned that Xun Wu wanted to try Xiang Yun's idea himself.

Xiang Yun returned to the Primordial Battle Hall after absorbing all the Nirvana Golden Qi in the Pill River, astonishing the peak masters with his rapid progress. He confirmed that he had developed the Battle Body Divine Ability and prepared to show the elders, while Xun Fa offered himself as a test subject.

• Xiang Yun entered the Primordial Battle Hall and told the elders that he had absorbed all the Nirvana Golden Qi in the Pill River.
• Xiang Yun explained that he had reached Four Yuan Nirvana by tribulations, though his cultivation displayed traits of Seven Yuan Nirvana.
• Hong Wuji asked Xiang Yun whether he had truly worked out the Battle Body Divine Ability, and Xiang Yun confirmed that he had.
• Xiang Yun rebuked Xun Fa for doubting him, and Xun Fa acknowledged Xiang Yun's extraordinary talent and future leadership.
• Xun Fa explained that Xun Wu could not safely undergo further experiments and offered himself to test Xiang Yun's ability.

Xiang Yun revealed that battle-body totems contained Divine Ability Marks that could help cultivators acquire and pass down beastlike abilities, and Xun Fa confirmed the method worked. The Primordial Hall’s elders committed to developing the technique and strengthening the body-refinement path, while Xun Fa turned his attention to making Hong Wuji stronger.

• Xiang Yun explained that Divine Ability Marks were the foundation of demon bloodline abilities and showed how battle-body totems could imprint them without changing a cultivator’s bloodline.
• Xiang Yun outlined marks for the Vicious Demon Tiger, Savage Iron Ox, and Black Feather Eagle, which could grant baleful aura, powerful hoof strikes, and extreme speed.
• Xun Fa studied the patterns and manifested the Vicious Demon Tiger’s baleful aura, confirming that Xiang Yun’s technique worked.
• Xun Fa promised to gather beast resources and support the Body Refinement Faction and Divine Ability Faction, while Xiang Yun cautioned him against provoking powerful or allied demons.
• Xun Fa told Hong Wuji to get stronger so he could safeguard Xiang Yun’s future path to becoming Hall Master, leaving Hong Wuji bewildered.

Xiang Yun absorbed the Nirvana Golden Qi from Battle Heaven Peak and Battle Arts Peak, then emerged at Five Yuan Nirvana ready to challenge his father, Xiang Huang. Wu Xun spread news of the impending fight, and Xiang Huang arranged to use the Primordial Battle Platform.

• Xiang Huang gave Xiang Yun five hundred thousand Xuan Origin Pills before Xiang Yun entered Battle Heaven Peak's Pill River.
• Xiang Yun absorbed Battle Heaven Peak's Nirvana Golden Qi in less than two days and told Xiang Huang he would challenge him after absorbing the Qi from the other Pill Rivers.
• Xiang Yun arrived at Battle Arts Peak, where Wu Xun welcomed him and heard that Xiang Yun planned to fight his father.
• Wu Xun spread word throughout Primordial Hall that Xiang Yun would challenge Xiang Huang, prompting Xiang Huang to confront him.
• Xiang Huang and Wu Xun agreed to ask the Hall Master to open the Primordial Battle Platform for the fight.
• Xiang Yun emerged with scorching Origin Energy surging around him, and Xiang Huang realized he had reached Five Yuan Nirvana.

After Xiang Yun reached the five yuan nirvana realm and advanced his Qiankun Battle Body, he challenged Xiang Huang on the Primordial Battle Platform. Xiang Yun opened the fight with the Qiankun Boundless Body and Heavenly Tyrant Fist, striking at his father as the spectators watched.

• Xiang Yun completed his breakthrough to five yuan nirvana, and the World Tree’s gains advanced his Qiankun Battle Body to three Earths and three Heavens and granted him the Heaven and Earth Furnace.
• Xiang Yun asked Xiang Huang to test his new strength, and Xiang Huang arranged for the Primordial Battle Platform to be opened.
• Disciples gathered around the platform and cheered Xiang Yun on, while Hong Wuji reminded both fighters to give their all.
• Xiang Huang released a formidable torrent of Origin Energy as the battle began.
• Xiang Yun activated the Qiankun Boundless Body and Primordial Battle Body, then charged Xiang Huang with a Heavenly Tyrant Fist.

Xiang Yun and Xiang Huang fought on the Primordial Battle Platform, and Xiang Yun’s combined techniques unleashed a punch with the destructive force of the Death Profound Realm. The chapter ended with Xiang Huang struck by the attack as the platform neared its limit.

• Xiang Yun and Xiang Huang exchanged punches, with Xiang Huang using the Three Heaven-Breaking Forms and Xiang Yun answering with the Heavenly Tyrant Fist.
• Xiang Yun empowered his Heavenly Tyrant Fist with the Heavenly Horned Ant and Kun Peng Precious Techniques, forcing Xiang Huang to use World Suppression.
• Xiang Yun and Xiang Huang fought at close range until Xiang Yun sent Xiang Huang flying, shocking the onlookers.
• Xiang Yun combined his Tyrant Body, precious techniques, and World Suppression into a final Heavenly Tyrant Fist that struck Xiang Huang.
• The impact produced Death Profound Realm-level destructive force and pushed the Primordial Battle Platform toward its limit, while Zhong Ling realized he could not have survived the punch.

Xiang Yun defeated his father, Xiang Huang, in a battle on the Primordial battle platform, proving that his Five Yuan Nirvana strength could overwhelm an Advanced Life Profound fighter. As the disciples hailed him, Hong Wuji worried that the Yuan Sect would target him.

• Xiang Huang and Xiang Yun traded powerful blows, with Xiang Yun standing firm against all three of Xiang Huang's Heaven-Breaking Forms.
• Xiang Yun combined his martial techniques and shattered Xiang Huang's final Heaven Breaking fist, then struck him into the battle platform.
• Xiang Huang rose despite his injuries, laughed, and praised Xiang Yun after acknowledging his victory.
• The disciples celebrated Xiang Yun's win, while Hong Wuji checked Xiang Huang's injuries and warned that the Eastern Xuan Region would hear of Xiang Yun's strength.
• Hong Wuji worried that the Yuan Sect might target Xiang Yun, as it had Zhou Tong.

Xiang Yun secluded himself to unify his disparate powers, while rumors of his victory over an Advanced Life Profound expert stirred the Yuan Sect and Dao Sect into action. He realized that the Heavenly Tyrant Body should dominate and absorb his other body-refining arts rather than merge with them as equals.

• Xiang Yun considered how to combine his techniques and began cultivating with Xuan Origin Pills while secluded within Primordial Peak.
• Tian Yuanzi ordered the Yuan Sect to use an exchange with the super sects in the Great Desolate Region to test the rumors about Xiang Yun, despite the risk to their remaining arrangements there.
• Ying Xuanzi and the grand elder discussed testing Xiang Yun at the three-sect exchange and considered allowing him to comprehend the Great Desolation Scripture.
• Rumors about Xiang Yun drew figures from across the Eastern Xuan Region into the Great Desolate Region to investigate his strength.
• Xiang Yun concluded that the Heavenly Tyrant Body should subdue the Qiankun Battle Body, Primordial Battle Body, and other body-refining arts, turning them into nourishment and enhancement.

Xiang Yun completed the first level of the Heavenly Battle Body and learned that Jiang Ba of Tyrant Extreme Mountain was challenging Primordial Hall disciples with suspicious lightning-based power. As Jiang Ba gained the upper hand over Wang Wu, Xiang Yun arrived to confront him.

• Xiang Yun refined the Primordial Battle Body and Qiankun Battle Body into the first level of the Heavenly Battle Body, whose dominance let him exceed his former physical limit.
• Xiang Yun discovered that Jiang Ba of Tyrant Extreme Mountain had defeated Primordial Hall’s Seven Yuan Nirvana disciples and set out to challenge him.
• Jiang Ba used a lightning martial art to paralyze Wang Wu and taunted the Primordial Hall’s younger generation.
• Hong Wen suspected Jiang Ba’s lightning technique came from the Yuan Sect’s Thunder Emperor Canon and that the challenge was meant to probe Xiang Yun.
• Xiang Yun arrived at the platform and called Jiang Ba a Tyrant mutt who dared to bark at the Primordial Hall.