Arc 10Secrets Before the Tournament

Ling Chengxuan exposed Ling Zhantian’s sacrifices and the Blood Baleful Intent Tower’s infiltration before dying in the emperor’s formation. Chu Yunfei prepared to rescue Ling Xueyao, investigated his lost origins, and resolved to enter the tournament’s secret-realm trap while Yao Yue pursued him over a ruins map.

  • Ling Chengxuan warned Chu Yunfei that Ling Zhantian had sacrificed the princes for their origins and would eventually target Ling Xueyao.
  • Ling Chengxuan gave Chu Yunfei evidence of the Blood Baleful Intent Tower’s infiltration and blood rite plans before Ling Zhantian killed him, while a hidden wisp of his true spirit escaped.
  • Chu Yunfei prepared a weapon against Ling Zhantian, defeated Yao Yue after she sought his ruins map, and concealed that her suppressed cultivation would recover naturally.
  • Lin Wanyin revealed Chu Yunfei’s forgotten past, leading him to suspect that Chu Batian had transferred his constitution’s origin to save Situ Shuang'er.
  • Zhao Baimei discovered a death tribulation through divination and asked to borrow Yan Guining’s Dao Fruit origin to avert it.
  • Xiaoxiao Dragon told Chu Yunfei that someone was tracing his karmic connection and that another person in the lower realm was concealing his karmic thread.
  • Qin Yangui and Wen Daoyuan reported purges of infiltrators, and Chu Yunfei resolved to enter the imperial family’s secret-realm tournament despite recognizing its trap.
  • Yao Yue repeatedly asked Chu Yunfei to strike her again because she mistakenly believed his supposed restoration technique would strengthen her recovering cultivation.
Chapters 226–250 Vol. 3 Read

Ch. 226The insane truth!

Chu Yunfei learned that Ling Zhantian had imprisoned Ling Xueyao and might use her as a medicinal catalyst despite the danger to her life. After realizing Ling Zhantian would risk even a thirty percent chance of success, Chu Yunfei decided to go to the imperial palace.

  • Chu Yunfei reacted with fury when Ling Chengxuan revealed that Ling Zhantian had used the princes as medicinal catalysts and intended to target Ling Xueyao.
  • Ling Chengxuan revealed that none of Ling Zhantian’s three princes or Ling Xueyao were his biological children, and that Ling Xueyao was under house arrest with her belongings confiscated.
  • Xiaoxiao Dragon pointed out that Ling Xueyao’s Divine Sea Realm cultivation should make her unsuitable as a medicinal catalyst.
  • Chu Yunfei asked whether Ling Zhantian would still target Ling Xueyao, and Ling Chengxuan warned that the emperor might risk a thirty percent chance of extracting some essence to heal his Dao injuries.
  • Chu Yunfei regained his composure and announced that he was going to the imperial palace.

Ch. 227The imperial family's true reserves

Ling Chengxuan warned Chu Yunfei that the imperial palace was guarded by Ling Zhantian, an imperial clan elder, and an awakened Crimson Flame Berserk Lion, making a direct rescue attempt suicidal. Chu Yunfei postponed his attack after learning Xueyao would remain safe for now, while Ling Chengxuan accepted that his meeting with Chu might be his last.

  • Chu Yunfei tried to leave to kill Ling Zhantian, but Ling Chengxuan and Wen Jiao stopped him and urged him to hear their warning.
  • Ling Chengxuan revealed that Ling Zhantian had restored his strength by refining Ling Chenglie's Mysterious Yang Physique and could again use his forbidden art.
  • Ling Chengxuan disclosed that the imperial palace also held the dao mysterious realm second-stage elder Ling Changkong and an awakened Crimson Flame Berserk Lion whose strength could rival a human fourth-layer expert.
  • Wen Jiao realized Ling Zhantian had massacred the Jade Firmament Sect to obtain the Nine-Aperture Life-Restoring Pill and revive the lion, while Chu Yunfei judged that attacking the palace alone would mean certain death.
  • Ling Chengxuan said Xueyao would remain safe until Ling Chengyuan and he had been drained of their origins, so Chu Yunfei set aside his immediate attack.
  • Chu Yunfei asked why Ling Chengxuan had risked meeting him, and Ling Chengxuan said he expected the meeting to be their last and wanted Ling Zhantian to pay for his family's deaths.

Ch. 228Blood Baleful Intent Tower's Hidden Strength, One Last Act of Kindness

Ling Chengxuan revealed the Blood Baleful Intent Tower’s immense strength and its plan to destroy Great Qian, warning Chu Yunfei about the danger to Xueyao. He left after explaining that he had risked coming because he did not want his imperial sister to die.

  • Ling Chengxuan gave Chu Yunfei a jade slip listing the Blood Baleful Intent Tower’s infiltrators and revealed its deputy tower masters and powerful tower master.
  • Ling Chengxuan explained that the tower planned to exploit conflict between Great Qian and the seven sects, but the capital’s formation and Ling Zhantian’s hidden forces prevented a direct assault.
  • Ling Chengxuan said the tower’s next step involved a grand formation, and Chu Yunfei identified it as the Myriad Spirits Blood Rite.
  • Ling Chengxuan asked Chu Yunfei to collect his family’s blood debt from Ling Zhantian, but Chu Yunfei said he would kill Ling Zhantian for threatening his woman.
  • Ling Chengxuan explained that he had come to warn Chu Yunfei because he feared Xueyao would die if the tower’s plan went undiscovered.

Ch. 229A shocking list, a sliver of hope

Ling Chengxuan explained why he had secretly protected Ling Xueyao and left with new information from Chu Yunfei that gave him a sliver of hope. Wen Jiao and Chu Yunfei discovered that the Blood Baleful Intent Tower had deeply infiltrated the seven sects, and the chapter ended as Wen Jiao found something alarming at the end of the jade slip.

  • Ling Chengxuan revealed that he had secretly limited the strength of assassins sent after Ling Xueyao, then recalled how she had defended him as a child and given him his first cultivation manual.
  • Chu Yunfei sent a mysterious strand of information into Ling Chengxuan’s sea of consciousness, and Ling Chengxuan thanked him before leaving to face death with renewed resolve.
  • Wen Jiao read Ling Chengxuan’s jade slip and discovered that powerful figures across the seven sects had secretly sided with the Blood Baleful Intent Tower, while Chu Yunfei noted that no Dao Mysterious Realm cultivators were listed.
  • Wen Jiao found Nangong Hai and Yin Xiaotian among the compromised figures, and Chu Yunfei explained why the sects’ holy sons and holy maidens were absent from the list.
  • Chu Yunfei and Wen Jiao discussed the Vast Waves Sacred Academy and their possible plans to go there when its envoys arrived, before Wen Jiao reached the end of the jade slip and cried out in alarm.

Ch. 230The Third Prince Falls!

Chu Yunfei learned that the Blood Baleful Intent Tower was rooted in the Heavenly Evil Devil Sect and prepared to rescue Xueyao, while Ling Zhantian tortured Ling Chengxuan to death and took his Soul Origin Spirit Physique origin. The chapter ended with Chu Yunfei leaving the Pill Pavilion to seek Lin Wanyin as the grand competition approached.

  • Chu Yunfei confirmed the Blood Baleful Intent Tower had infiltrated the Heavenly Evil Devil Sect, then sent Wen Jiao to deliver evidence to Wen Daoyuan and contact Si Yunshu.
  • Chu Yunfei sealed himself in a secret chamber and worked for hours to prepare a weapon against Ling Zhantian.
  • Ling Chengxuan confronted Ling Zhantian in the imperial palace’s forbidden cavern and revealed that he knew the emperor’s secrets.
  • Ling Zhantian brutally injured Ling Chengxuan and cast him into the blood formation, which killed him and extracted his Soul Origin Spirit Physique origin.
  • A hidden wisp of Ling Chengxuan’s golden true spirit escaped through a spatial fissure, unnoticed by Ling Zhantian.
  • Chu Yunfei emerged from the chamber with his preparations complete and headed west through the imperial capital to see Lin Wanyin.

Ch. 231Heavenly Demon Emperor Physique

Chu Yunfei was ambushed by a black-dressed woman whose Violet Extremity Demon Pupils nearly overwhelmed his soul, but he broke her attack with the Samsara Soul-Forging Scripture and struck back. As he prepared to kill her, her unveiled beauty and an ancient Heavenly Fox bloodline gave him pause.

  • Chu Yunfei detected a black-dressed woman following him and confronted her beneath an abandoned ceremonial archway.
  • The woman used her Violet Extremity Demon Pupils to attack Chu Yunfei’s soul, but he shattered the invading power with the Primordial Golden Hammer.
  • Chu Yunfei attacked with Nine Heavens Lightning Escape and the Sea-Overturning Ninefold Sword, breaking the woman’s whip and wounding her.
  • The woman’s veil slipped off as Chu Yunfei approached to kill her, and he faltered when he saw her face.
  • Xiaoxiao Dragon identified the woman as possessing an atavistic ancient Heavenly Fox bloodline and a fully realized special physique.

Ch. 232Yao Yue of the Demon Race

Chu Yunfei confronted Yao Yue, a woman from the Qingqiu Fox Clan, after she attacked him with a soul-bewitching art. She proposed joining forces to enter the Demon Race Sacred Land, and Chu Yunfei left the negotiations hanging by demanding that she sleep with him.

  • Chu Yunfei held Yao Yue at swordpoint, and she explained that she had followed him to test his divine soul and seek a deal.
  • Yao Yue showed Chu Yunfei a broken tablet bearing a sigil matching the seal on the stone stele he had bought at auction.
  • Yao Yue revealed that she had consigned the stele for auction and proposed combining Chu Yunfei's map with the Qingqiu clan's bloodline to reach the sacred land ruins.
  • Chu Yunfei rejected cooperation and ordered Yao Yue to leave the Great Qian Imperial City, but she asked to buy the map instead.
  • Chu Yunfei refused to sell the map, offered to reconsider cooperation, and demanded that Yao Yue sleep with him.

Ch. 233Damn it, can't you take a loss?

Yao Yue tried to trade a seventh-grade Tribulation-Transcending Golden Pill and a complete lower-grade divine-tier cultivation technique for Chu Yunfei’s sacred land map, but he insisted she sleep with him. Enraged, she attacked him with the Qingqiu Royal Clan’s Purple Pupil Illusory Charm Technique, leaving Chu Yunfei’s expression suddenly changed.

  • Yao Yue rejected Chu Yunfei’s demand and offered a seventh-grade mid-tier Tribulation-Transcending Golden Pill and a complete lower-grade divine-tier cultivation technique for his stone stele map.
  • Chu Yunfei refused the offer and repeated that Yao Yue had to sleep with him to obtain the map.
  • Yao Yue revealed her Divine Sea Realm Sixth Layer cultivation and activated the Purple Pupil Illusory Charm Technique to trap Chu Yunfei and seize his storage ring.
  • The purple demonic light descended on Chu Yunfei, whose expression suddenly changed.

Ch. 234That's what you get for using illusions!

Chu Yunfei escaped Yao Yue’s seductive illusion and subdued her with a series of blows, interrupting her attempt to unleash her bloodline power. Yao Yue’s strength collapsed, and she accidentally revealed that Chu Yunfei had discovered a weakness.

  • Yao Yue trapped Chu Yunfei in a seductive illusion, but he used Nine Heavens Lightning Escape to vanish and attack her from behind.
  • Chu Yunfei kicked Yao Yue to the ground and slapped her while rebuking her for using illusions and trying to steal his map.
  • Yao Yue burned her ancestral blood to raise her cultivation from Divine Sea Realm sixth layer to eighth level and tried to fight back.
  • Chu Yunfei sat on Yao Yue’s back and continued striking her, causing her power to fall as low as the Divine Sea Realm third layer.
  • Chu Yunfei wondered if her lower back was a weakness, and Yao Yue accidentally began to confirm his guess before stopping herself.

Ch. 235Demoness, you're finished! Take this!

Chu Yunfei exploited Yao Yue’s physique weakness and repeatedly struck her, sealing her demonic power and destroying her cultivation. Yao Yue was left sobbing in the alley and vowed to have her mother avenge her.

  • Chu Yunfei realized Yao Yue’s physique had a hidden flaw and struck the vulnerable point, causing her Divine Sea Realm cultivation to collapse.
  • Yao Yue cursed Chu Yunfei, ended their proposed trade, and threatened him with the power of the Qingqiu Royal Clan.
  • Yao Yue pretended to plead for mercy while secretly using her demonic seduction art, but Chu Yunfei’s golden hammer shook him awake.
  • Chu Yunfei angrily slapped Yao Yue dozens of times, sealing her Qi points and leaving her unable to sense any demonic power.
  • Yao Yue discovered that her cultivation had vanished, then sobbed and vowed to tell her mother and have Chu Yunfei skinned alive.

Ch. 236You don't even have common sense. You deserve to be fooled by me

Chu Yunfei realized Yao Yue mistakenly believed her cultivation had been permanently crippled and claimed he could restore it. He left her believing he needed to repeatedly strike her weak point, setting up another deception.

  • Yao Yue sobbed over losing her cultivation, and Chu Yunfei realized she did not know her power would naturally recover after a few hours.
  • Chu Yunfei promised to restore Yao Yue's cultivation, and she agreed not to pursue their earlier conflict if he succeeded.
  • When Yao Yue accused him of going too far, Chu Yunfei threatened her until she apologized and asked him to hurry.
  • Chu Yunfei concealed that Yao Yue's cultivation would recover on its own and invented a secret method to restore it.
  • Chu Yunfei told Yao Yue he needed to repeatedly strike the weak point where he had injured her.

Ch. 237Help Me Recover-Do It Now!

Chu Yunfei convinced Yao Yue that a humiliating method could restore her cultivation, and she agreed to let him try. When he tried to leave for urgent business, she refused to let him go and became curious about the dangerous opponent he claimed to face.

  • Chu Yunfei claimed that Yao Yue’s blocked spiritual meridians could only be reopened through a humiliating method, and Yao Yue reluctantly believed him.
  • Yao Yue tried to lie down so Chu Yunfei could begin, but he pulled her up and insisted they needed a proper place and preparations.
  • Yao Yue clung to Chu Yunfei and insisted on following him, despite his warning that a dangerous battle could kill her.
  • Yao Yue eagerly asked who the formidable opponent was, and Chu Yunfei silently realized his warning had only made her more curious.
  • Chu Yunfei told Yao Yue to find an apothecary who treated demonic beasts, privately suspecting that something was wrong with her brain.

Ch. 238Was this the ruthless character he had mentioned?

Chu Yunfei tricked Yao Yue into following him to Lin Wanyin’s residence, then sealed her acupoints and hid her in a storeroom while he met Lin Wanyin. Yao Yue overheard their intimate reunion and realized Chu Yunfei had come to meet a woman, not the ruthless figure she suspected.

  • Chu Yunfei escaped Yao Yue with Nine Heavens Lightning Escape, but she caught up using a Divine Movement Talisman.
  • At Lin Wanyin’s residence, Chu Yunfei silenced Yao Yue, sealed her acupoints, and carried her into a storeroom after her tears made him fear leaving her alone outside.
  • Chu Yunfei contacted Lin Wanyin with her jade slip, and she opened her door and welcomed him inside.
  • Lin Wanyin embraced Chu Yunfei and reproached him for ignoring her messages, while he teased her about missing him.
  • Yao Yue overheard their intimate conversation and realized Chu Yunfei had come to meet Lin Wanyin for a secret tryst.

Ch. 239Secrets and the truth of that year

Chu Yunfei urged Lin Wanyin to leave the imperial capital before the tournament, but she refused and revealed that she and Shuang'er came from another domain. She then recounted how Chu Batian saved them, and how a mysterious ordeal in Chu Yunfei's childhood left him with no memories; the chapter ended as Lin Wanyin prepared to explain her confrontation with Chu Batian.

  • Chu Yunfei warned Lin Wanyin that the Blood Baleful Intent Tower and the emperor would bring violence to the tournament, but Lin Wanyin insisted on staying with him and Shuang'er.
  • Chu Yunfei told Lin Wanyin that she was a Daughter of Heavenly Mandate whose power could awaken after she reached the Divine Sea Realm.
  • Chu Yunfei asked what Lin Wanyin knew about Chu Batian, and she revealed that Chu Batian and Chu Yunfei were not from the Vast Waves Domain.
  • Lin Wanyin explained that Chu Batian had rescued her and Shuang'er from pursuers in the Domain Sea and brought them to the Azure Mystic Sect.
  • Lin Wanyin said a childhood ordeal erased Chu Yunfei's memories, then recounted how Chu Batian took him and Shuang'er away for two months to save Shuang'er's life; Chu Yunfei returned gravely weakened while Shuang'er recovered.
  • Lin Wanyin said she suspected Chu Batian had transferred Shuang'er's affliction to Chu Yunfei and ran to confront him, prompting Chu Yunfei to ask what his father had said.

Ch. 240An unearned father? An absurd thought

Lin Wanyin revealed how Chu Batian had saved Situ Shuang'er by removing the origin of Chu Yunfei’s constitution, and Chu Yunfei comforted her instead of blaming her. He learned that Shuang'er had once eagerly wanted to marry him, then resumed intimacy with Lin Wanyin while Yao Yue fumed in the next room.

  • Lin Wanyin recalled that Chu Batian had sealed her memories after explaining that his actions were the best choice for Chu Yunfei and Situ Shuang'er.
  • Chu Yunfei inferred that he had once possessed a powerful constitution whose origin his father had transferred to save Shuang'er, possibly to protect him from a deadly threat.
  • Lin Wanyin broke down and apologized for bringing Shuang'er to end the engagement, but Chu Yunfei reassured her that he did not blame her.
  • Lin Wanyin told Chu Yunfei that Shuang'er had once happily agreed to marry him before returning from her two missing months with lost memories and a changed temperament.
  • Chu Yunfei joked with Lin Wanyin and kissed her, while Yao Yue heard them through the storeroom wall and vowed revenge.

Ch. 241Borrow your Dao Fruit to avert his death tribulation

After Lin Wanyin revealed that Zhao Baimei might know what happened during her disappearance, Zhao Baimei divined that a death tribulation threatened Chu Yunfei and approached Yan Guining to borrow her Dao Fruit origin. He persuaded her with the promise of raising her chances of breaking through, then asked her to accompany him to Vast Waves Sacred Academy.

  • Lin Wanyin told Chu Yunfei that Zhao Baimei might know what had happened during her two-month disappearance.
  • Zhao Baimei tried to divine Chu Yunfei's fate, but a powerful backlash injured him and revealed a death tribulation.
  • Zhao Baimei entered Yan Guining's bedchamber and released the sealed divine sense belonging to her Upper Realm true body.
  • Yan Guining confronted Zhao Baimei, who revealed that she was an incomplete Dao Fruit Body and warned that it could be harmed in the lower realm.
  • Zhao Baimei asked to borrow Yan Guining's Dao Fruit origin to avert a death tribulation and promised to raise her chance of breaking through to over seventy percent.
  • Yan Guining asked whose tribulation he meant to avert and what she would have to pay; Zhao Baimei told her to accompany him to Vast Waves Sacred Academy.

Ch. 242Demoness, take this again!

Chu Yunfei learned that Zhao Baimei might be tied to the secrets of his origin and resolved to return to the Azure Mystic Sect. After hearing Yao Yue next door, he went back to suppress her recovering demonic power, leaving her furious and helpless in the storeroom.

  • Lin Wanyin told Chu Yunfei that Zhao Baimei had helped her and Chu Batian and that the Vast Waves Sacred Academy's experts had treated him with awe.
  • Chu Yunfei connected Zhao Baimei to the removal of his origin and the map pointing near the Azure Mystic Sect, and decided to investigate there after handling matters in the imperial capital.
  • Lin Wanyin heard faint sounds from the storeroom, and Chu Yunfei realized Yao Yue's sealed acupoints might soon recover.
  • Chu Yunfei entered the storeroom and struck Yao Yue repeatedly, dispersing her recovering demonic power and sealing her consciousness for several more hours.
  • Chu Yunfei left Yao Yue in tears, promising to return after suppressing the supposed formidable foe next door.

Ch. 243Demoness, are you sure you want to follow me?

After tormenting Yao Yue through the night, Chu Yunfei told her that her cultivation would begin to recover, then tried to leave her behind. Yao Yue insisted on following him for protection, and Chu Yunfei fled after teasing and molesting her, but she chased after him anyway.

  • Chu Yunfei released Yao Yue's sealed acupoints and told her that her cultivation would start recovering after four hours.
  • Yao Yue accused Chu Yunfei of lying and demanded that he take responsibility for her safety, but he refused and warned that following him would put her in danger.
  • Yao Yue threatened to expose what happened to Lin Wanyin unless Chu Yunfei took her along.
  • Chu Yunfei grabbed Yao Yue, teased her about demon-human relationships, and kissed her ear to scare her off.
  • Chu Yunfei left, but Yao Yue resolved to follow him despite his threats.

Ch. 244Who Was the Shameless One, Really?

Chu Yunfei returned to the Pill Pavilion and was confronted by Wen Jiao and Yao Yue, whose competing accusations exposed his connection to both women. After Yao Yue clung to him and demanded he settle her grievance, Chu Yunfei carried her inside, promising to deal with her himself.

  • Chu Yunfei met Wen Jiao outside the Pill Pavilion, where she accused him of spending the night with Lin Wanyin and refused his advances because her period had not ended.
  • Yao Yue arrived, and Wen Jiao suspected Chu Yunfei had secretly become involved with another beauty.
  • Chu Yunfei claimed Yao Yue had followed and tried to seduce him, while Yao Yue accused him of sealing her acupoints and taking advantage of her.
  • Yao Yue revealed that she was a princess of the Qingqiu Royal Clan, but Chu Yunfei dismissed her claim as proof that she was unwell.
  • Yao Yue clung to Chu Yunfei and demanded he answer for what he owed her, so he carried her into the Pill Pavilion as Wen Jiao watched.

Ch. 245Demoness, do you submit?

Chu Yunfei beat Yao Yue after she followed him to the Pill Pavilion, while Wen Jiao learned the truth behind their conflict and recognized the danger of the Qingqiu princess’s presence. Chu Yunfei then sensed unusual Qi fluctuations within himself and left to enter seclusion, leaving Wen Jiao to handle Yao Yue.

  • Chu Yunfei carried Yao Yue to a pavilion and beat her until she begged him to stop and submit.
  • Wen Jiao recognized Yao Yue as the Qingqiu princess and urged Chu Yunfei to stop before others came.
  • Chu Yunfei secretly told Wen Jiao what had happened, and she learned Yao Yue had used the Pill Pavilion to pursue a ruins map and had believed his story about restoring her cultivation.
  • Wen Jiao confronted Yao Yue, who argued that she needed to follow Chu Yunfei because he had cost her cultivation and promised to restore it.
  • Yao Yue warned that the Qingqiu Royal Clan would hold Chu Yunfei responsible if anything happened to her, making Wen Jiao worry about the consequences.
  • Chu Yunfei noticed unusual Qi fluctuations within himself, asked Wen Jiao to look after Yao Yue, and hurried away to enter seclusion.

Ch. 246Ripples in the sea of consciousness, karma from Calamity Land?

Chu Yunfei discovered that a powerful, unknown force was tracing his location through a karmic bond, while Xiaoxiao Dragon said someone in the lower realm was hiding his karmic thread. She urged him to focus on the coming grand competition and the Great Qian Imperial City, then privately feared the threat might come from Calamity Land.

  • Chu Yunfei sealed himself in a secluded chamber and tried to identify the source of an ominous karmic disturbance in his sea of consciousness.
  • Chu Yunfei questioned Xiaoxiao Dragon, who admitted that someone had been using a karmic connection to locate him, but said she did not know who was behind it.
  • Xiaoxiao Dragon explained that the Divine Cauldron of Heavenly Mandate had concealed most of Chu Yunfei's heavenly secrets and that someone in the lower realm was secretly concealing his karmic thread.
  • Chu Yunfei agreed not to press Xiaoxiao Dragon for answers and promised he would not let her face danger alone.
  • After Chu Yunfei left his sea of consciousness, Xiaoxiao Dragon worried that the tribulation came from Calamity Land and doubted the old man from the Azure Mystic Sect could withstand it.

Ch. 247Secrets of the Demon Race

Chu Yunfei returned to Wen Jiao and learned Yao Yue had agreed to stay at the Pill Pavilion while her cultivation recovered, though she still refused to believe her demonic power would return on its own. At a council meeting with Qin Yangui and Si Yunshu, Yao Yue revealed that the Blood Baleful Intent Tower had secretly taken control of two Western Continent royal clans.

  • Chu Yunfei left seclusion and returned to the pavilion, where Wen Jiao told him Yao Yue had agreed to shelter at the Pill Pavilion but still doubted his explanation about her sealed Qi.
  • Wen Jiao received a message from Wen Daoyuan summoning them to the council hall, where Qin Yangui and Si Yunshu had arrived discreetly.
  • Qin Yangui reported that she had secretly killed four traitorous Heavenly Edict Sect elders and eighteen elite stewards, while Wen Daoyuan said the Pill Pavilion had executed seven compromised stewards.
  • Yao Yue declared that the Blood Baleful Intent Tower's plans extended beyond the Eastern Continent and revealed that the Mysterious Serpent Clan and Savage Ox Clan had fallen under its secret control.

Ch. 248The Imperial Family's Trap, the Secret Realm Contest

Qin Yangui revealed that the Great Qian Imperial Family had replaced the Seven Sects Grand Competition with a secret-realm contest open to all Heavenly Origin Realm Fifth Layer cultivators. Chu Yunfei and Wen Daoyuan concluded that the change served the imperial family's and the Blood Baleful Intent Tower's plans to turn the realm into a trap targeting Chu, leaving them questioning why Ling Zhantian expected him to enter.

  • Yao Yue said the Mystic Serpent and Barbarian Ox clans had fallen under the Blood Baleful Intent Tower's influence and were joining forces to suppress the Qingqiu clan.
  • Qin Yangui told Chu Yunfei that the competition would take place in a secret realm, where entrants would collect Sect Tokens, and that anyone at the Heavenly Origin Realm Fifth Layer or above could participate.
  • Qin Yangui explained that First Prince Ling Chengyuan had proposed the change and offered the imperial family's Heavenly Mystic Secret Realm as the venue.
  • Chu Yunfei argued that the imperial family could have tampered with the realm and that the Blood Baleful Intent Tower had helped the proposal succeed for its own purposes.
  • Wen Daoyuan warned that the expanded competition would let Chu Yunfei's enemies hunt him in the secret realm and provoke a wider conflict if he killed their disciples.
  • Wen Daoyuan asked why Ling Zhantian was so certain Chu Yunfei would enter an obvious trap.

Ch. 249Borrowing a knife to kill? You're just sending me resources!

Chu Yunfei accepted that he had to enter Ling Zhantian’s deadly tournament, seeing it as a chance to gather resources, while Qin Yangui and Wen Daoyuan promised support against the sects. Back in his room, he was interrupted by Yao Yue, who said his secret technique had revived her demonic power and demanded he use it on her again.

  • Chu Yunfei explained that Ling Zhantian could force him into the tournament by threatening Ling Xueyao, but he intended to turn the secret realm into a hunting ground for resources.
  • Wen Jiao worried about the danger, but Chu Yunfei declared he would enter the tournament and accept the emperor’s gift.
  • Qin Yangui warned that sect masters and Dao Mysterious Realm elders had arrived, then promised to expose sects colluding with the Blood Baleful Intent Tower after the tournament.
  • Wen Daoyuan pledged that the Wen Family’s ancestor would help protect Chu Yunfei, and the group discussed the tournament’s rules before dispersing.
  • Yao Yue rushed to Chu Yunfei’s room and said his secret technique had caused her demonic power to recover on its own.
  • Yao Yue ran into the room and urged Chu Yunfei to keep using his secret technique to stimulate her.

Ch. 250The demoness came begging for another beating?

Yao Yue repeatedly mistook Chu Yunfei’s painful palm strikes for a secret technique that would restore her cultivation, while he knew the blows only shattered the small amounts of demonic power she had gathered. The chapter ended with Yao Yue eagerly anticipating another recovery after Chu Yunfei beat her and threw her from his room again.

  • Yao Yue insisted Chu Yunfei continue the supposed cultivation-restoring technique, and he struck her until her faint demonic power vanished before throwing her out.
  • Yao Yue convinced herself the blows had cleared blocked acupoints and would cause even greater demonic power to gather, while Chu Yunfei and Xiaoxiao Dragon marveled at her misunderstanding.
  • Ten hours later, Yao Yue returned, claiming she had regained the Spirit Martial Realm and urging Chu Yunfei to help her reach the Heavenly Origin Realm.
  • Chu Yunfei struck Yao Yue again until her cultivation dispersed, then threw her into the corridor.
  • Despite her pain, Yao Yue believed her demonic power would return even stronger and staggered away, delighted that she would soon regain her strength.
Arc 10 of 13
Arc 10 of 13