Chapter Summaries

Su Chen overpowered a sealed old man, who used a blood pool to reach the Peak Immortal Emperor Realm and escape after freeing himself. The old man stopped above a city to attack its people, but Su Chen caught up, provoking him into unleashing his power over the city.

• Su Chen defeated the old man in one exchange, prompting him to absorb the blood pool’s power and break through to the Peak Immortal Emperor Realm.
• The old man crushed his chains, destroyed the sealing runes, and vowed revenge on Shen Li for imprisoning him.
• The old man attacked Su Chen, but Su Chen dodged his strike and shattered the descending Pill Furnace with a punch.
• The old man fled from Su Chen, who caught up with him above a city after he prepared to slaughter its people.
• The old man erupted with Peak Immortal Emperor power, turning the sky red and terrifying the people below.

Su Chen defeated a Peak Immortal Emperor old man and sealed him in a jade bottle before reuniting with Ye Ningshuang. Ye Ningshuang invited Su Chen to visit the Azure Mist Immortal Sect, but he refused, leaving her to ask why.

• A young woman recognized Su Chen amid the chaos and pursued him and the old man, despite the middle-aged woman warning her against it.
• Su Chen took the old man ten million li away, then suppressed him with one finger and destroyed his right arm.
• Su Chen kicked the old man down, pinned him beneath his foot, and sealed him inside a jade bottle.
• Ye Ningshuang and the middle-aged woman arrived, and Ye Ningshuang happily greeted Su Chen as her fiancé.
• Su Chen claimed the old man had taken his treasure and left, and Ye Ningshuang accepted his explanation.
• Ye Ningshuang invited Su Chen to visit the Azure Mist Immortal Sect, but he declined, and she asked why.

Su Chen agreed to spend fifteen days with Ye Ningshuang in exchange for her introducing him to a skilled artifact cultivator, and she took him around the Azure Mist Immortal Sect. Their public display of affection reached Mu Xingyun, who flew into a rage and set out to find them.

• Ye Ningshuang offered to introduce Su Chen to an artifact cultivator if he spent fifteen days with her, and Su Chen agreed.
• Ye Ningshuang led Su Chen around the Azure Mist Immortal Sect and dismissed the woman who had accompanied them.
• Passing disciples saw Ye Ningshuang holding Su Chen's arm and speculated that he was her dao companion, worrying about how Mu Xingyun would react.
• A youth told Mu Xingyun that Ye Ningshuang had found a dao companion and walked around with him arm in arm, and Mu Xingyun ordered the youth to take him to them.
• Ye Ningshuang showed Su Chen the sect's treasure repository and offered to ask her father to let him inside, but Su Chen declined for the time being.

Su Chen revealed that he was Ye Ningshuang’s fiancé and accepted Mu Xingyun’s challenge to a life-and-death duel. The chapter ended with Su Chen, Ye Ningshuang, Mu Xingyun, and the watching disciples heading to the Life and Death Platform.

• Su Chen and Ye Ningshuang discussed how she had used him to discourage her suitors, and he agreed to help her as her fiancé.
• Su Chen pulled Ye Ningshuang into his arms and told Mu Xingyun that he was her fiancé; Ye Ningshuang confirmed it.
• Angry that Ye Ningshuang had a fiancé, Mu Xingyun challenged Su Chen to a life-and-death duel and offered Ye Ningshuang as the prize.
• Ye Ningshuang warned Su Chen that Mu Xingyun was powerful and protected by Gu Changfeng, but Su Chen said he knew what he was doing.
• Su Chen accepted the duel and followed Mu Xingyun toward the Life and Death Platform as Ye Ningshuang and the disciples went with them.

Su Chen faced Mu Xingyun on the Azure Mist Immortal Sect’s life-and-death platform while the sect’s elders debated his marriage to Ye Ningshuang and the risks of the duel. Su Chen shattered Mu Xingyun’s great seal with one punch, then challenged him to show his remaining tricks.

• Ye Lan told the elders that Su Chen was the Mystic Hall’s young master and that his mother had arranged his betrothal to Ye Ningshuang.
• The elders discussed whether Su Chen was worthy of Ningshuang and worried that the life-and-death duel could kill either him or Mu Xingyun.
• Mu Xingyun summoned an enormous great seal and drove it down at Su Chen.
• Su Chen destroyed the great seal with a single punch, shocking the crowd and the elders.
• Mu Xingyun acknowledged that he had underestimated Su Chen, who told him he would show him despair.

Su Chen overwhelmed Mu Xingyun on the Life and Death Platform, even after Mu Xingyun revealed that he had reached the ninth level of the Immortal Venerable realm. The chapter left the onlookers wondering whether Su Chen was an Immortal Sovereign.

• Mu Xingyun attacked Su Chen with a golden blade, but Su Chen caught it between two fingers and shattered it.
• Su Chen struck Mu Xingyun repeatedly, leaving him badly injured while the spectators and elders marveled at Su Chen's strength.
• Mu Xingyun revealed his ninth-level Immortal Venerable cultivation and launched a new attack, but Su Chen easily blocked his palm and destroyed his phantoms with Sword Qi.
• Mu Xingyun combined his phantoms into a true form and attacked alongside it, but Su Chen's overwhelming power instantly defeated them both.
• The spectators wondered if Su Chen was an Immortal Sovereign, while Ye Lan and the elders fell silent.

The Azure Mist Immortal Sect elders suspected Su Chen was an Immortal Sovereign after he defeated Mu Xingyun, while Su Chen prepared to kill Mu Xingyun on the Life and Death Platform. Gu Changfeng intervened, but Ye Lan and the elders arrived to shield Su Chen, leaving Gu Changfeng arguing that he had the right to protect his disciple.

• The Azure Mist Immortal Sect elders speculated that Su Chen was an Immortal Sovereign and agreed that the sect should win him over through his marriage to Ye Ningshuang.
• Su Chen stood over Mu Xingyun, revealed that he had never claimed to be an Immortal Venerable, and pressed his foot down as Mu Xingyun begged for mercy.
• Ye Ningshuang urged Su Chen not to kill Mu Xingyun, but Su Chen insisted that the Life and Death Platform allowed him to finish the fight.
• Gu Changfeng appeared and ordered Su Chen to release Mu Xingyun, but Su Chen defied him.
• Gu Changfeng unleashed his Immortal Sovereign pressure, and Ye Lan blocked it before the Second Elder challenged Gu Changfeng for attacking a junior.

Su Chen killed Mu Xingyun on the Life and Death Platform and threatened Gu Changfeng before Ye Ningshuang took him away from the Azure Mist Immortal Sect. Gu Changfeng later learned they were in Luo City and vowed revenge, but Su Chen’s calm voice suddenly answered him inside the hall.

• Su Chen rejected Ye Lan’s request to spare Mu Xingyun and crushed Mu Xingyun’s head after asking whether Ye Lan would protect an ordinary person in the same situation.
• Gu Changfeng demanded an explanation and threatened Su Chen, but Ye Lan ordered him to let the matter go.
• Ye Ningshuang led Su Chen out of the Azure Mist Immortal Sect and offered to keep him close so she could protect him from Gu Changfeng.
• Gu Changfeng learned that Su Chen and Ye Ningshuang were in Luo City for an upcoming auction and vowed to make Su Chen pay.
• Su Chen’s voice suddenly echoed through the hall, answering Gu Changfeng’s threat.

Su Chen confronted Gu Changfeng and suppressed him with his pressure, leaving Sword Qi in Gu Changfeng’s sea of consciousness as a threat instead of killing him. He returned to Ye Ningshuang at the inn, where their argument turned into an impending kiss.

• Su Chen appeared before Gu Changfeng and refused to leave the Azure Mist Immortal Sect with him.
• Su Chen’s pressure forced Gu Changfeng, an Immortal Sovereign Ninth Layer Peak, to his knees, and Gu Changfeng realized Su Chen was an Immortal Emperor.
• Su Chen spared Gu Changfeng to avoid complicating relations with the Azure Mist Immortal Sect and placed dangerous Sword Qi in his sea of consciousness.
• Su Chen returned to the inn, where Ye Ningshuang confronted him for leaving her side.
• Su Chen teased Ye Ningshuang, tilted her chin up, and moved to kiss her as she closed her eyes.

Su Chen and Ye Ningshuang spent the night together, then went to the Jiade Auction in Luo City. After Xiaoman led them to a private room, Su Chen pulled Ye Ningshuang into his arms.

• Su Chen pretended to sleep, and Ye Ningshuang eventually let him rest against her chest and caressed his face.
• The next morning, Su Chen and Ye Ningshuang went out together and agreed to attend the Jiade Auction.
• Ye Ningshuang promised to buy Su Chen anything he liked at the auction.
• Xiaoman welcomed them at the Jiade Auction and escorted them to a private room reserved for important guests.
• Su Chen sat beside Ye Ningshuang, caught her fragrance, and pulled her into his arms.

At Jiade’s auction, Su Chen and Ye Ningshuang teased each other while the beautiful auctioneer Yafu presented the first item, a sword forged by Master Xu Hua. Su Chen declined to bid, revealing his interest was in the sword’s maker, though Ye Ningshuang said he had guessed wrong about the artifact refining master she planned to introduce him to.

• Su Chen hugged Ye Ningshuang, and she eventually let him hold her as the auction began.
• Yafu introduced herself as the auctioneer, and Ye Ningshuang grew jealous when she noticed Su Chen watching her.
• Yafu unveiled a sword forged by Master Xu, and bidders drove its price up from ten thousand top-grade immortal crystals.
• Ye Ningshuang offered to bid on the sword for Su Chen, but he said he was interested in its maker, Xu Hua.
• Ye Ningshuang told Su Chen he had guessed wrong about Xu Hua being the artifact refining master she planned to introduce him to.

Su Chen and Ye Ningshuang watched the Jiade Auction and learned that auctioneer Yafu was the president’s daughter. Su Chen recognized that Yafu had recently reached the Immortal Sovereign Realm, then left Ye Ningshuang puzzled by his claim that the world was about to fall into chaos.

• Ye Ningshuang told Su Chen that an unknown artifact refiner surpassed Xu Hua, but refused to reveal the person’s name yet.
• Yafu sold the sword for a hundred thousand top-grade immortal crystals and auctioned five more valuable items, while the Rogue Cultivators in the hall made no winning bids.
• Ye Ningshuang asked Xiaoman about Yafu, and Xiaoman revealed that Yafu was the Jiade Auction president’s daughter and was there both to assess the staff and serve as auctioneer.
• Xiaoman explained that the Jiade Auction faced no open robberies because its president was an Immortal Emperor.
• Su Chen told Ye Ningshuang that Yafu had recently broken through to the Immortal Sovereign Realm, then teased her by claiming that chaos would bring forth experts capable of surpassing the Immortal Emperor Realm.

Yafu presented an ancient beast-hide treasure map as the auction’s final item, and several powerful bidders competed for it. When Ye Ningshuang ran short of Immortal crystals, Su Chen bid five million to win the map for her.

• Yafu revealed that the worn beast hide was a treasure map and set the starting bid at one million supreme-grade Immortal crystals.
• An elder of the Thunderous Sect bid for the map, but a bidder from the Azure Feather Holy Land outbid him.
• The occupant of private room three raised the bid to two million five hundred thousand supreme-grade Immortal crystals, then competed against Ye Ningshuang.
• Ye Ningshuang bid on the map because she wanted to go treasure hunting, but she had brought only enough Immortal crystals to bid four million.
• Su Chen bid five million supreme-grade Immortal crystals and told Ye Ningshuang he would win the map for her.

Su Chen won the treasure map for Ye Ningshuang with a bid of ten million supreme-grade immortal crystals, far exceeding the other offers. After the auction, Yafu delivered the map to their private room and met Su Chen, drawing Ye Ningshuang’s wary attention.

• Ye Ningshuang thanked Su Chen for buying her the treasure map, and he teased her about buying him something in return.
• Su Chen outbid private room three with an offer of ten million supreme-grade immortal crystals, despite Ye Ningshuang’s concern about the price.
• With no further bids, Yafu declared the treasure map sold to private room four and ended the auction.
• Yafu learned from Xiaoman that private room four held Ye Ningshuang and an exceptionally handsome young man, then brought Xiaoman along to deliver the map.
• Yafu met Su Chen and reacted to his appearance, prompting Ye Ningshuang to remark that Yafu seemed more interested in him than in greeting her.

Su Chen learned that the beast-hide map he bought showed a safe route into the Forbidden Land of Death, where an Immortal Emperor’s inheritance lay behind sealed restrictions and a formation. Yafu arranged to join Su Chen and Ye Ningshuang on an expedition the next morning, betting that he could open them.

• Yafu explained that someone had safely entered and exited the Forbidden Land of Death and guided Jiade Auction members to an Immortal Emperor’s hidden treasures and inheritance.
• Yafu revealed that Jiade Auction could not break the seals and had auctioned the map and safe route without promising access to the treasures.
• Su Chen paid Yafu ten million peak-grade immortal crystals, and she offered to return them if he could break the seals, provided he took her along.
• Ye Ningshuang accepted Yafu’s offer on Su Chen’s behalf, warning that Yafu could not blame them if he failed.
• Su Chen set the departure for the next morning, and Yafu left with Xiaoman to meet them outside the city.

Yafu investigated Su Chen and learned that he was Ye Ningshuang’s fiancé and likely an Immortal Sovereign, then joined him and Ye Ningshuang on their journey to the formation. Su Chen detected a group following them, and their leader confronted him over how he had discovered them.

• After Yafu and Xiaoman left, Ye Ningshuang explained that she had accepted Yafu’s offer so they could keep the ten million supreme-grade Immortal Crystals if Su Chen failed to break the formation.
• Su Chen refused to take the spatial ring, saying he had no interest in Immortal Crystals, and casually claimed he had a hundred million of them.
• Xiaoman told Yafu that Su Chen was Ye Ningshuang’s fiancé and seemed to be an Immortal Sovereign, prompting Yafu to order further investigation into his faction.
• Yafu met Su Chen and Ye Ningshuang outside the city the next morning, and the three set off together.
• Su Chen sensed people following them and called them out; a young man appeared with dozens of others.
• Yafu identified the young man as someone from the Azure Feather Holy Land, and Ye Ningshuang recognized him as the man from private room five who might be after the beast hide.

Su Chen killed the Azure Feather Holy Land’s Holy Son and dozens of its experts, shocking Ye Ningshuang and Yafu with his Immortal Sovereign Ninth Layer Peak strength. After five days of travel toward the Forbidden Land of Death, Yafu explained that Immortal Emperors entered it seeking the secret of eternal life.

• Yafu warned the Azure Feather Holy Land’s young man that attacking Jiade Auction’s honored guests would make the auction an enemy, but Su Chen killed him when he tried to leave.
• Dozens of Azure Feather Holy Land experts charged Su Chen, and he killed them all instantly with a sword strike.
• Ye Ningshuang questioned Su Chen about his power, and he confirmed he had reached the Immortal Sovereign Ninth Layer Peak through a fortuitous opportunity.
• Yafu privately wondered about Su Chen’s origins and secrets as the group continued traveling.
• Five days later, Yafu told Ye Ningshuang that the Forbidden Land of Death was believed to hold the secret of eternal life, drawing in Immortal Emperors nearing the end of their lives.

Su Chen, Ye Ningshuang, and Yafu entered the Forbidden Land of Death despite Liu Tiezhu arriving with nearly a hundred people and four powerful experts. Su Chen assured Yafu that she had him, while Liu Tiezhu ordered his group to follow them inside.

• Ye Ningshuang and Yafu studied their map and prepared to enter the Forbidden Land of Death with Su Chen.
• Liu Tiezhu arrived with nearly a hundred people and said he had brought them to seek opportunities inside.
• Yafu confronted Liu Tiezhu for bringing others after selling the location to Jiade Auction, and she suspected he had revealed information about the inheritance and treasures.
• Four suspected Immortal Sovereign Realm experts stepped in front of Liu Tiezhu, but Su Chen told Yafu to leave them alone and promised, "You have me."
• Su Chen, Ye Ningshuang, and Yafu entered the Forbidden Land of Death, and Liu Tiezhu told his group to follow them.

Su Chen, Ye Ningshuang, and Yafu reached the Blood Shadow Immortal Emperor’s cave, where Liu Tiezhu arrived with nearly a hundred people to claim the inheritance. Su Chen revealed that Liu Tiezhu was already dead, while Liu Tiezhu broke the cave’s formation and restriction and warned the crowd that dangers might remain inside.

• Su Chen told Ye Ningshuang and Yafu that Liu Tiezhu was already dead, though he kept the explanation to himself.
• The three reached the cave and read the stele identifying the inheritance as belonging to the Blood Shadow Immortal Emperor.
• Liu Tiezhu arrived with nearly a hundred people, and the group agreed to follow his lead after he offered to break the formation and restriction.
• Liu Tiezhu broke the formation and restriction outside the cave with a surge of Immortal Qi.
• Liu Tiezhu reminded the crowd of their agreement and warned that the cave could still contain dangers.

Su Chen stopped Ye Ningshuang and Yafu from fighting Liu Tiezhu’s group, then killed a Sixth Layer Immortal Sovereign with a single sword strike after the man insulted him. Su Chen entered the cave with his companions, and Liu Tiezhu led the others after them while hiding an eerie smile.

• The black-robed man proposed killing Su Chen, Ye Ningshuang, and Yafu, but Liu Tiezhu suggested using them to scout the cave instead.
• Su Chen prevented Ye Ningshuang from attacking, then beheaded the middle-aged man instantly after he called Su Chen a coward.
• Su Chen entered the cave with Ye Ningshuang and Yafu, and Ye Ningshuang questioned how strong he was.
• Liu Tiezhu’s group feared Su Chen’s strength but chose to follow him into the cave to pursue the Blood Shadow Immortal Emperor’s inheritance and treasures.
• Liu Tiezhu walked ahead with an eerie smile that the others did not notice.