Chapter Summaries

At the opening of the Demon Ruins Secret Realm, Su Changge arrived in Immortal Demon City with the Returning Origin Holy Land and clashed with Jin Aoyang of the Golden Winged Great Peng Clan. After Jin Aoyang attacked, Su Changge effortlessly shattered his golden feather blades, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Cultivators gathered in Immortal Demon City to witness the factions and prodigies arriving for the Demon Ruins Secret Realm's opening.
• Su Changge arrived with the Returning Origin Holy Land, drawing attention as its renowned Divine Son.
• Jin Aoyang mocked Su Changge, and Su Changge retorted by calling him a mongrel bird and insulting the Golden Winged Great Peng Clan.
• Jin Aoyang transformed his Qi and Blood into a golden peng and fired countless golden feather blades at Su Changge.
• Su Changge stopped the feather blades in midair and shattered them into specks of starlight.

Su Changge killed Jin Aoyang with a single punch, forcing him to survive through a Substitute Death Puppet and flee. The display spread Su Changge’s reputation through Immortal Demon City, while other prodigies considered him a formidable opponent and Luo Qingyu wrestled with whether to warn him about the Returning Unity Sect’s plans.

• Jin Aoyang tried to leave after provoking Su Changge, but Su Changge attacked him with the Sky Breaking Overlord Fist.
• Su Changge trapped Jin Aoyang with sword qi and obliterated him, shattering his defensive treasures.
• Jin Aoyang reappeared after his Substitute Death Puppet saved him, then fled rather than risk another attack from Su Changge.
• The crowd in Immortal Demon City praised or feared Su Changge, and his reputation grew as the Returning Origin Holy Land celebrated his strength.
• Qin Taiyi saw Su Changge as an opponent worth defeating, Li Han wondered whether his Dao Breaking Holy Flame could overcome him, and Luo Qingyu debated whether to warn Su Changge about the Returning Unity Sect’s hostility.

Returning Origin Holy Land arrived at Immortal Demon City, where Su Changge learned about the Heavenly Questioning Mirror and helped Yun Xinyan cultivate through the night. When the mirror opened the next morning, its law barrier welcomed Su Changge on its own, drawing attention from the crowd and provoking a challenge.

• Bai Wenqin greeted Li and praised Su Changge, then told them he looked forward to seeing him at the Heavenly Questioning Mirror opening.
• Su Changge spent the night helping Yun Xinyan cultivate, exhausting his spiritual qi as she absorbed it.
• The Heavenly Questioning Mirror appeared above Immortal Demon City, and cultivators gathered to test their Dao hearts against its law barrier.
• The barrier opened by itself for Su Changge and shone with rosy light, astonishing the crowd.
• A young man in crimson-gold armor mocked the idea that Su Changge's physique could secure the mirror's complete recognition.

At the Heavenly Questioning Mirror trial, Shi Xiaocang and Yun Xinyan drew impressive amounts of divine light, while Su Changge remained still. After Jin Aoyang mocked him, Su Changge finally activated the mirror and unleashed a terrifying display of divine light and Heavenly Might, leaving Jin Aoyang bleeding.

• Bai Wenqin announced that those who passed the preliminary trial should circulate their cultivation and comprehend their Dao Hearts to draw a response from the Heavenly Questioning Mirror.
• Jin Aoyang drew twenty-two streams of divine light, while other human prodigies also received their baptisms.
• Shi Xiaocang manifested a nine-headed golden lion and drew 186 streams of divine light, prompting his clan's elder to boast about his talent.
• Yun Xinyan drew 102 streams of divine light, and Jin Aoyang mocked her and Su Changge; Su Changge told her to focus on comprehending.
• Su Changge challenged Jin Aoyang's taunts and unleashed countless streams of divine light from the Heavenly Questioning Mirror, whose pressure made Jin Aoyang cough blood.

Su Changge received an overwhelming Heavenly Questioning Mirror baptism that repaired a flaw between his body and soul, then claimed its mysterious Five-Colored immortal aura. When the Returning Ruins Secret Realm opened, he entered with Yun Xinyan, intending to use his map to find its opportunities.

• Su Changge drew thousands of streams of divine light, eclipsing Shi Xiaocang and leaving Jin Aoyang humiliated.
• The divine light repaired the slight incompatibility between Su Changge's body and soul, strengthening his foundation.
• The Heavenly Questioning Mirror sent Su Changge a Five-Colored immortal aura, which he recognized as connected to Five Elements Power and his Mending Heaven Divine Stone Fragment.
• Shi Xiaocang resented losing the immortal aura, while the Supreme Elder warned others not to threaten Su Changge, the Returning Origin Holy Land's Divine Son.
• The Returning Ruins Secret Realm opened, and Bai Wenqin warned that entrants had one month to return before being trapped for ten thousand years.
• Su Changge led Yun Xinyan through the vortex and entered the Returning Ruins Secret Realm.

A Black-Clothed Man entered the Returning Ruins Secret Realm after cutting his cultivation, intent on killing Su Changge. While other prodigies fought through a Beast Tide, Su Changge’s group found ancient Dragon Spirit Grass and headed toward Hidden Dragon Valley to seek True Dragon Essence Blood.

• The Black-Clothed Man reduced his cultivation from the Great Power Realm to the Venerable Realm so he could enter the secret realm and target Su Changge.
• A Beast Tide attacked the newly arrived prodigies, and Shi Xiaocang, Li Han, Limitless Pride Heaven, and Cloud Laurel Fairy fought their way through it as casualties mounted.
• Su Changge’s group avoided the Beast Tide by entering later, following the Returning Ruins Map’s directions.
• Yun Xinyan spotted a large patch of Dragon Spirit Grass, and the Returning Origin Holy Land disciples gathered around it.
• Su Changge set his sights on Hidden Dragon Valley, where he hoped to obtain True Dragon Essence Blood and strengthen his physical body.

Su Changge rescued Mo Yanxi from the Heavenly Wolf Clan Prodigies and discovered that she was the reincarnated body of the Peach Blossom Female Emperor. After learning her former identity, he began considering how to make her a powerful ally.

• Su Changge appeared as Mo Yanxi prepared to take her own life and recognized the demon assailants as members of the Heavenly Wolf Clan.
• Su Changge cut down half the demons with a sword strike, then sent the Returning Origin Holy Land’s Saint Sons and Saint Daughters to kill the rest.
• Mo Yanxi thanked Su Changge, and he discovered that her Aura Points were 496.
• Su Changge used Aura Insight and learned that Mo Yanxi was the reincarnated body of Hua Qianyue, the legendary Peach Blossom Female Emperor.
• Su Changge considered turning Mo Yanxi into a future asset, while she wondered whether his mischievous gaze meant he disliked her.

Su Changge and his group reached Hidden Dragon Valley after a restriction released a giant dragon, where Qin Taiyi used the Dragon Transformation Art to repel challengers. When Qin Taiyi’s golden dragon defeated Lei Wanjun, Su Changge arrived and challenged him, prompting Qin Taiyi to send the dragon at him.

• Su Changge offered to help the stranded Mu Yanxi, then led his group toward Hidden Dragon Valley after a restriction summoned a colossal dragon.
• Qin Taiyi blamed his followers for triggering the ruin’s restriction and defeated the white dragon with the first form of the Dragon Transformation Art.
• Qin Taiyi used the second form, Divine Dragon Transformation, to threaten approaching cultivators and attack Lei Wanjun.
• Qin Taiyi’s golden dragon defeated Lei Wanjun, revealing Qin Taiyi’s Venerable Realm cultivation and driving many challengers away.
• Su Changge arrived, mocked Qin Taiyi as a loach, and faced the golden dragon when Qin Taiyi sent it to attack him.

Su Changge faced Qin Taiyi’s Dragon Transformation Art in the secret realm and shattered his second-form Golden Dragon with a palm infused with sword qi. Qin Taiyi revealed his Venerable Initial Stage strength and Dragon Essence to unleash the third form, Twin Dragons Sweep the Heavens, while Su Changge’s allies watched anxiously and Yun Xinyan remained confident in him.

• Su Changge sent Qin Taiyi’s first Golden Dragon flying with a punch, then let him gather power for another attack.
• Qin Taiyi unleashed the second form of the Dragon Transformation Art, and Su Changge destroyed its Golden Dragon with a palm combined with Godslaying Sword Intent.
• Su Changge taunted Qin Taiyi and offered him another chance to strike first.
• Qin Taiyi revealed his Venerable Initial Stage strength, summoned Dragon Essence, and unleashed the third form, Twin Dragons Sweep the Heavens.
• The twin dragons shook the firmament as the Returning Origin Holy Land disciples and Mu Yanxi worried, while Yun Xinyan declared her faith in Su Changge.

Su Changge defeated Qin Taiyi and crushed the Great Qin Ancient Dynasty disciples who tried to intervene. As a black-robed Great Power Realm expert ambushed him with a Black Dragon phantom, everyone feared Su Changge had been killed.

• Su Changge manifested overwhelming sword intent and declared that he would slay the dragons Qin Taiyi summoned.
• Su Changge's sword qi destroyed Qin Taiyi's two Golden Dragons and shattered his Golden Dragon transformation, badly injuring him.
• Su Changge killed several Great Qin Ancient Dynasty disciples who tried to protect Qin Taiyi.
• Qin Taiyi insisted Su Changge had not won, and a black-robed Great Power Realm expert attacked Su Changge from the void with a Black Dragon phantom.
• The attack caused a massive explosion, leaving the onlookers shocked and fearing that Su Changge was doomed.

Su Changge survived Qin Taiyi’s ambush, killed a Great Qin Ancient Dynasty expert, and defeated Qin Taiyi in the secret realm. He took Qin Taiyi’s Dragon Essence before killing him, leaving the feud with Great Qin Ancient Dynasty unresolved.

• Qin Taiyi attacked Su Changge by surprise, but the Immortal Spirit Treasure Armor protected Su Changge from the strike.
• Su Changge used One Sword Yin Yang to kill the black-robed Great Power Realm expert, while Mo Yanxi experienced fragments of memories involving someone named Qianyue.
• Su Changge restrained Qin Taiyi with the Locking Heaven Chain and extracted his Dragon Essence.
• Su Changge absorbed and refined Qin Taiyi’s Dragon Essence, then killed Qin Taiyi with a punch after Qin Taiyi threatened him.

Su Changge killed Qin Taiyi, then opened the ancient ruins and led his group inside. As they explored the dragon-filled passage, Mu Yanxi and Yun Xinyan both clung to him, while the disciples admired and envied his attention.

• Qin Zilan wondered why she could no longer sense Qin Taiyi in the Great Qin Ancient Dynasty's origin secret realm.
• Su Changge lamented that killing Qin Taiyi had cut short the fortune points he could have gained, then reassured Yun Xinyan and Mu Yanxi that he was fine.
• Su Changge used his spiritual energy to activate the inscriptions on the gate, which opened and released powerful dragon aura and a dragon's roar.
• Su Changge led his companions into the ruins as people outside hurried off to search for other sites.
• Mu Yanxi moved close to Su Changge out of fear, and Yun Xinyan grabbed his other arm so no outsider could take advantage of him.
• The Returning Origin Holy Land disciples envied Su Changge's attention, while he reacted with exasperation to their comments.

Su Changge defeated the guardian beast and reached a drop of True Dragon Essence Blood, where the remnant soul of Long Huang offered him a bargain. Su Changge instead tried to refine Long Huang, who invaded his Purple Mansion to possess him, only to face Su Changge’s power within his own world.

• Su Changge beat the Venerable Realm guardian beast and ordered it to lead the group to the True Dragon Essence Blood.
• When the dragon blood’s spirit attacked, Su Changge suppressed it, causing the remnant soul of Long Huang to appear and offer him the blood and a dragon secret art in exchange for a favor.
• Su Changge rejected Long Huang’s offer and used the Soul Suppressing Mirror and Carefree Concentration Art to attack and devour his soul.
• Long Huang launched a sea of blood, then slipped into Su Changge’s dantian and entered his Purple Mansion World to possess him.
• Su Changge manifested within his Purple Mansion World, summoned an Ancient Divine Mountain and countless Sage phantoms, and confronted Long Huang.

Su Changge crushed and refined Long Huang after trapping him in his Ten Purple Mansions, learning of the old man’s scheme and Heaven’s Secret Island. Back in the Returning Ruins Secret Realm, he prepared to seek another opportunity, while Shi Xiaocang arrived calling for him.

• Su Changge used his Purple Mansion World to catch Long Huang and crushed him despite his plea for mercy.
• After refining Long Huang, Su Changge learned that Long Huang had planned to lure him into a formation and seize his body, and he became interested in Heaven’s Secret Island.
• Su Changge returned to the Returning Ruins Secret Realm, where Mu Yanxi confirmed his soul was unchanged and Yun Xinyan reacted bashfully to his teasing.
• Su Changge noticed Mu Yanxi’s Aura Luck Points had risen and suspected the Peach Blossom Empress’s soul was awakening.
• Su Changge set out for the next place of opportunity and asked the guardian beast to serve as his mount, but it could not leave the ruin.
• Shi Xiaocang shouted for Su Changge from outside, and Su Changge welcomed the prospect of a new mount.

Su Changge confronted Shi Xiaocang, who demanded the fortune from the Heaven Questioning Mirror and attacked after Su joked about making him a mount. Su crushed Shi Xiaocang with one palm, but the enraged lion transformed into his true form as Su prepared to face him.

• Shi Xiaocang demanded that Su Changge hand over the fortune from the Heaven Questioning Mirror, and Su teased him by offering to make him a mount.
• Shi Xiaocang attacked Su Changge with Lion King Suppresses the Heavens, but Su destroyed the technique and sent him flying with one palm.
• Su remarked that Shi Xiaocang barely qualified as a mount after surviving the blow, enraging him further.
• Shi Xiaocang transformed into his thousand-zhang true form, the Nine-Headed Golden Lion, while onlookers debated his increased strength.
• Su Changge stood unruffled amid the phantom Gods and Devils and declared that he could suppress the beast with one palm.

Su Changge defeated Shi Xiaocang and beat him until the Nine-Headed Golden Lion heir begged to submit. After Shi Xiaocang pledged to become his mount, Su Changge offered to show him the second opportunity in the Returning Ruins Secret Realm.

• Shi Xiaocang attacked Su Changge with his roar, law powers, and claws, but Su Changge shattered his attacks with the Sky Breaking Overlord Fist and rode on his back.
• Su Changge repeatedly beat Shi Xiaocang, healing him between attacks, until Shi Xiaocang begged him to stop and declared his surrender.
• Su Changge sensed Shi Xiaocang was still plotting revenge after they left the Returning Ruins Secret Realm and warned him against it.
• Shi Xiaocang promised to serve as Su Changge's mount, and Su Changge offered to show him the second opportunity.

Li Han forced the injured Fairies of Flower Thousand Valley to scout dangerous ruins until Cloud Laurel Fairy and Yan Xi intervened. Su Changge arrived on Shi Xiaocang, recognized Li Han as a fortunate Flame Dao heir, and challenged his claim to the ruins by unleashing overwhelming spiritual pressure.

• Li Han demanded that Bai Qiluo and the other Fairies of Flower Thousand Valley scout the ruins or die, while Cloud Laurel Fairy asked him to show mercy.
• Yan Xi attacked Li Han to protect her Older Sister, but he easily dispelled her strike.
• Su Changge arrived riding the Nine-Headed Golden Lion, stunning the gathered disciples and revealing that Shi Xiaocang had become his mount.
• Su Changge used Aura Eye and Aura Insight on Li Han, learning that he had 312 Fortune Points and was destined to obtain an ancient Demon Emperor's Heaven Burning True Fire.
• Li Han accused Su Changge of trying to steal the ruins, and Su Changge challenged him before releasing an immense spiritual pressure that terrified everyone.

Su Changge humiliated Li Han with a devastating punch, then easily countered his Dao Breaking Holy Flame with sword qi. The onlookers were left marveling at Su Changge’s strength as Li Han lay in the ruins.

• Li Han claimed the relic and challenged Su Changge, who struck him away with a fist empowered by Dragon Elephant Suppressing Prison Strength.
• Li Han emerged from the ruins with stronger flames and attacked Su Changge with the Dao Breaking Holy Flame.
• Su Changge formed a Sword Domain that dissolved Li Han’s flames, then sent sword lights through his defenses.
• Li Han’s Flame Serpents and Wall of Flame shattered, and Su Changge’s sword qi hurled him into distant ruins without moving Su Changge from his spot.
• The Heavenly Pride Disciples praised Su Changge’s ability to break countless techniques with a single strand of sword qi.

An eerie mist swallowed the ruins, and Mu Yanxi disappeared as Li Han escaped in the confusion. Su Changge entered a mysterious gateway in search of Mu Yanxi and the secrets of the inheritance ground, arriving in an ancient passage marked by the remains of a battle.

• Li Han unleashed a flaming lotus technique, but fled when a gray mist suddenly engulfed the ruins.
• The mist absorbed spiritual energy and obscured the area, and the Flower Thousand Valley disciples discovered that Mu Yanxi had vanished.
• Su Changge sent the Returning Origin Holy Land disciples to safety, then entered the mist with Shi Xiaocang and the Nine-Headed Golden Lion.
• Su Changge and his companions found an ancient stone wall with a mysterious gateway and stepped through it.
• They emerged in a deathly quiet bluestone passage scattered with skeletons and broken weapons, its walls scarred by a long-ago battle.

Su Changge and Shi Xiaocang fought through strange, resilient shadows in a dark passage and followed the black lights they released to an ancient palace. There, they found Mu Yanxi invoking the Peach Blossom Female Emperor Hua Qianyue, and the palace gates began to open.

• Su Changge dodged an attack from a shriveled shadow, then fought off the surrounding human and Demon Race creatures alongside the Nine-Headed Golden Lion, Shi Xiaocang.
• Su Changge used the Azure Heaven Sword to destroy the shadows, each of which released an ominous wisp of black light as it died.
• Su Changge followed the black lights deeper into the passage with Shi Xiaocang and reached a vast, radiant palace.
• Su Changge spotted Mu Yanxi standing before the bronze gates and contemplating them.
• Mu Yanxi swore, "I, Peach Blossom Female Emperor, Hua Qianyue," and declared, "Borrow your inheritance, fulfill your Long-cherished Wish," causing the palace gates to open.