Chapter Summaries

Chu Yunfei asked Wen Jiao to secretly gather intact demonic beast corpses and soul-nourishing spirit herbs before the tournament, while hiding the requests from the wider Pill Pavilion. After entering seclusion, he planned to repay the Pavilion with another pill formula, but Xiaoxiao Dragon refused to speak with him.

• Chu Yunfei told Wen Jiao that he needed many perfectly preserved demonic beast corpses and asked her to gather them secretly, without informing even Head Pavilion Master Wen.
• He also requested large quantities of spirit herbs for nourishing and repairing the soul, and Wen Jiao agreed to collect them through the Pill Pavilion's branches and secret channels.
• Wen Jiao worried that Chu Yunfei's soul was injured, but he reassured her that he was only preparing for an unforeseen need.
• Chu Yunfei entered the secluded chamber and decided to offer the Pill Pavilion a valuable pill formula to repay its costs.
• Chu Yunfei summoned Xiaoxiao Dragon in his sea of consciousness, but Xiaoxiao Dragon told him to get lost.

Chu Yunfei traded Xiaoxiao Dragon a promise for an ancient fifth-grade pill formula, then entered secluded cultivation. As the Seven Sects Grand Competition approached, news of the Jade Firmament Sect’s destruction spread through the imperial city, where a veiled woman challenged a rogue cultivator for mocking Chu Yunfei.

• Chu Yunfei promised Xiaoxiao Dragon she could watch an intimate encounter in exchange for the Ancient Spirit-Exploding Pill formula, which she sent into his divine sense.
• Chu Yunfei notified Lin Wanyin that he would enter secluded cultivation and began practicing the Boundless Creation Scripture.
• Four days later, as the Seven Sects Grand Competition neared, cultivators in the Great Qian Imperial City discussed the Jade Firmament Sect’s complete destruction.
• Restaurant patrons debated likely competition champions and Chu Yunfei’s past feats, while a middle-aged rogue cultivator dismissed him and boasted that he could kill him.
• A veiled woman mocked the rogue cultivator’s boasts and pointed out that Chu Yunfei had defeated a stronger opponent half a month earlier.

A mysterious woman in black made patrons of a tavern slaughter one another with a glance, then sought out the young imperial son-in-law after hearing about the Pill Pavilion’s collection of demon beast remains. She mocked Qin Hao and revealed that Chu Yunfei was expected at the grand competition in two days, leaving Qin Hao furious and eager for a rematch.

• The woman in black enthralled a middle-aged rogue cultivator and his men, causing them to butcher him before the other patrons fled in terror.
• The woman in black wondered whether Chu Yunfei was behind the Pill Pavilion’s collection of demon beast remains and decided to meet Great Qian’s young imperial son-in-law.
• Qin Hao and Li Ce watched from upstairs, and Li Ce warned that he could not fathom the woman’s dangerous mind-controlling methods.
• Qin Hao approached the woman in black, introduced himself as the Cangyun Sect’s Holy Son, and boasted that he would kill Chu Yunfei within three moves.
• The woman in black mocked Qin Hao’s reputation and said she looked forward to seeing him face Chu Yunfei at the grand competition in two days.
• The woman in black vanished, while Qin Hao vowed to kill Chu Yunfei if he appeared without imperial protection or Ling Xueyao beside him.

Chu Yunfei cultivated Nine Heavens Lightning Escape and refined a cache of demonic beast origins, breaking through to the Divine Sea Realm Sixth Layer. After emerging from seclusion, he learned that the Great Qian Imperial Family’s third prince, Ling Chengxuan, had come to see him and agreed to meet him.

• Chu Yunfei spent nearly twenty days cultivating Nine Heavens Lightning Escape inside the Divine Cauldron of Heavenly Mandate, reaching minor mastery despite nearly destroying his meridians.
• Wen Jiao delivered hundreds of demonic beast corpses to Chu Yunfei, and he gave her the fifth-grade Ancient Spirit-Exploding Pill formula in return.
• Chu Yunfei refined the demonic beast corpses into a golden droplet of pure origin energy and used it to break through from the Divine Sea Realm Second Layer to the Sixth Layer.
• Wen Jiao told Chu Yunfei that the third prince, Ling Chengxuan, was asking for him, and Chu Yunfei said he would meet him in a quiet room.

Chu Yunfei learned that Ling Chengxuan had poisoned Ling Zhantian to avenge his murdered birth parents, and uncovered the emperor’s scheme to harvest special physique origins to heal his Dao injuries. Realizing Ling Xueyao could be the next target, Chu Yunfei erupted in killing intent and vowed to kill Ling Zhantian.

• Chu Yunfei entered the room where Wen Jiao and Ling Chengxuan were meeting, and Ling Chengxuan revealed that he was the young tower master of the Blood Baleful Intent Tower.
• Ling Chengxuan admitted he had poisoned Ling Zhantian and sent someone to probe the inner palace, while claiming Ling Chengyuan had ordered the ambush on Chu Yunfei and Xueyao.
• Ling Chengxuan revealed that Ling Zhantian had murdered his birth parents and the people of his village, then raised him as a prince because he needed Ling Chengxuan’s special physique origin.
• Ling Chengxuan explained that Ling Zhantian intended to use a demonic formation and special physique origins to repair the Dao injuries that prevented him from advancing beyond the divine sea realm ninth level.
• Chu Yunfei realized Ling Xueyao’s flawless spirit physique might make her a target, then erupted with killing intent and condemned Ling Zhantian.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.