Chapter Summaries

Xiao Han returned to the Imperial Capital Academy after escaping the secret realm, concealing his breakthrough to Martial Master Realm Fifth Level and pretending to be badly injured and exhausted. When Instructor Lin Qingxia questioned him about the trip, he gave her a fabricated account of hardship and claimed he had gained little.

• Xiao Han escaped the warped secret realm through several spatial jumps and traveled back to the academy while hiding his Fifth Level cultivation.
• Xiao Han arrived looking battered, and rumors spread as academy disciples speculated about how he had survived the secret realm.
• Luo Bing sensed something unusual about Xiao Han, while Xia Yubing showed concern and Xiao Han insisted his injuries were minor.
• Instructor Lin Qingxia summoned Xiao Han to her courtyard, where she closely examined him and asked what he had gained.
• Xiao Han described invented dangers, displayed a bundle of ordinary herbs, and claimed he had lost a beast core while fleeing.

After returning from the secret realm, Xiao Han warned Lin Qingxia that masked attackers had targeted his Martial Souls and techniques, and she cautioned him about powerful forces in the Imperial Capital. Back in his protected cultivation cave, he dropped his act, stabilized his breakthrough, and began studying the deeper mysteries of the Shadow Void Scripture.

• Lin Qingxia cautioned Xiao Han that his exposed twin SSS+ Martial Souls had put him at the center of a storm, and he admitted masked attackers had been interested in his Martial Souls and techniques.
• Lin Qingxia counted Xiao Han’s secret-realm trip as his training assignment, urged him to rest, and offered help if he faced trouble.
• Xiao Han returned to Zero Class, ignored the probing gazes of Luo Bing, Shi Lei, and the others, and went to his private cultivation cave.
• Xiao Han sealed the cave, revealed that his apparent weakness had been an act, and confirmed his genuine cultivation at the Fifth Level of the Martial Master Realm.
• Xiao Han used his techniques and Martial Souls to stabilize his cultivation, heal minor injuries, and absorb spiritual energy and dark-attribute treasures.
• Xiao Han studied the later chapters of the Shadow Void Scripture engraved on his soul and began understanding new uses for shadow power and spatial-node detection.

Xiao Han advanced his cultivation and refined his shadow and Annihilation Divine Fist abilities while exploring a possible fusion of destruction and purification. He stabilized at the Fifth Level of the Martial Master Realm and demonstrated new techniques, while remaining wary of the unknown enemies targeting him.

• Xiao Han explored combining the Chaos Green Lotus's purification power with the Annihilation Divine Fist's destruction intent, and an unstable clash briefly revealed a promising balance.
• Xiao Han cultivated with abundant resources and considered the trained assassins who had ambushed him, suspecting that more powerful enemies were watching him.
• Xiao Han stabilized his cultivation at the Fifth Level of the Martial Master Realm and found that his connection to the Eternal Night King Martial Soul had deepened.
• Xiao Han used Shadow Binding to restrain a boulder and judged that it could briefly bind an ordinary Seventh or Eighth Level Martial Master.
• Xiao Han struck an exotic beast bone with Return to the Ruins, disintegrating it into fine powder.

Xiao Han refined his techniques, concealed his breakthrough to the Fifth Level of the Martial Master Realm, and left seclusion. At the academy, he learned that students had been called to a dangerous mission in the newly discovered Red Ridge Mountain Range.

• Xiao Han improved A Step to the Ends of the Earth and infused the Green Lotus Sword Song with the Chaos Green Lotus's purifying power.
• Xiao Han decided not to rush fusing his Domains and disguised his Fifth Level cultivation as the Fourth Level Peak while appearing weakened.
• Xia Yubing met Xiao Han after he left seclusion, and he reassured her that his recovery was going well.
• Xiao Han headed toward Lin Qingxia's courtyard while concealing his strength and the changes to his techniques.
• Xiao Han saw the academy announce a special-grade mission for students to exterminate a beast tide and compete for rare energy crystals in the Red Ridge Mountain Range.

Xiao Han chose the high-risk mission option and refused invitations from stronger teams, then shocked the academy by joining Zhang Dali's obscure team. The Red Ridge Mountain Range mission loomed ahead, with Xiao Han eager to test his hidden strength and uncover its secrets.

• Xiao Han read the mission notice requiring teams of at least three and suspected the Red Ridge Mountain Range expedition hid deeper dangers.
• The God-Level Choice System offered Xiao Han a safe team option or a dangerous fringe-team option, and he chose the latter for its special rewards.
• Xiao Han ignored the rush to form powerful teams and rejected students who invited him to join theirs.
• Xiao Han joined the low-ranked team led by Zhang Dali, alongside Li Min and Wang Hu, leaving the three and nearby students stunned.

Xiao Han joined Zhang Dali’s weak team for their mission in the Red Ridge Mountain Range, ignoring the ridicule from other students. After the team was assigned to the outskirts, a pack of Red-Armored Wolves ambushed them, leaving Zhang Dali preparing to defend the group.

• Xiao Han calmly confirmed he had chosen Zhang Dali, Li Min, and Wang Hu’s team despite their doubts and the other students’ mockery.
• The academy’s teams traveled to the Red Ridge Mountain Range, where the strongest teams were assigned to the middle and Xiao Han’s team was sent to clear the outskirts.
• Xiao Han and his teammates entered the mountain range on ordinary Two-Winged Horned Horses and soon encountered dozens of Red-Armored Wolves.
• Wang Hu warned that the wolves were numerous and powerful, while Zhang Dali ordered him to draw their attention, told Li Min to prepare support and healing, and summoned his Thick Earth Savage Bear.

Xiao Han rescued Zhang Dali, Wang Hu, and Li Min by annihilating a pack of Red-Armored Wolves that had nearly overwhelmed them. After witnessing his overwhelming strength, the three submitted to his leadership.

• Zhang Dali, Wang Hu, and Li Min struggled to defend themselves as dozens of Red-Armored Wolves broke their formation and wounded them.
• A Fourth-Level Red-Armored Wolf knocked Wang Hu down and prepared to bite him, but Xiao Han suddenly appeared and killed it with one punch.
• Xiao Han moved through the pack and killed every Red-Armored Wolf in less than a minute.
• Zhang Dali, Wang Hu, and Li Min stared in shock at Xiao Han's display of power and realized their assumptions about him had been wrong.
• The three accepted Xiao Han's authority, and Wang Hu volunteered to scout for him.

Xiao Han led Zhang Dali, Wang Hu, and Li Min away from the academy’s planned route and effortlessly defeated powerful exotic beasts as they traveled deeper into the Red Ridge Mountain Range. In a dangerous canyon, he discovered a pack of Mountain Ridge Giant Lizards and concealed people watching nearby, then activated his Eternal Night King Martial Soul’s Domain Prototype to seize control of the situation.

• Xiao Han ignored the academy map and led Zhang Dali, Wang Hu, and Li Min deeper into the Red Ridge Mountain Range.
• Xiao Han killed powerful exotic beasts with ease, leaving Zhang Dali, Wang Hu, and Li Min increasingly awed by his strength.
• At a treacherous canyon, Xiao Han sensed danger and ordered the others to hide while he used the Shadow Void Scripture to scout ahead unseen.
• Xiao Han discovered at least twenty sixth-level Mountain Ridge Giant Lizards and their seventh-level-peak king in a valley, along with concealed auras in the cliffs.
• Xiao Han decided to strike first and silently spread his Eternal Night King Martial Soul’s Domain Prototype across the valley.

Xiao Han ambushed the Mountain Ridge Giant Lizards, killed their king, and survived a coordinated attack from hidden assailants. More than ten masked figures revealed themselves on the canyon cliffs, including two leaders at the Seventh Level of the Martial Master Realm.

• Xiao Han used Shadow Binding to restrain several giant lizards and attacked the lizard king while his Shadow Avatar distracted the pack.
• Xiao Han struck the lizard king with the Annihilation Divine Fist, inflicting a fatal wound as his Shadow Avatar kept other lizards at bay.
• Masked attackers on the cliffs launched poisoned arrows and runic beams at Xiao Han, but he blocked most of them with Green Lotus Protection.
• The wounded lizard king fired a ball of demonic baleful energy at Xiao Han, who disrupted it with Green Lotus Sword Qi and killed the king with another Annihilation Divine Fist.
• More than ten black-uniformed, masked figures emerged from the cliffs after their ambush failed, including two leaders at the Seventh Level of the Martial Master Realm.

Xiao Han chose to confront the Blood Fiend Hall ambushers, using the Eternal Night King Martial Soul to kill most of them and defeat their two leaders. After gaining the Illusion-Breaking Spirit Eyes, he captured one leader, who revealed that Earth Vein Spirit Marrow had emerged deep in the canyon.

• Xiao Han rejected the option to flee and chose to kill the ambushers and force them to reveal the canyon's secret.
• Xiao Han plunged the canyon into darkness and killed the Blood Fiend Hall fighters, leaving the two Seventh Level Martial Master leaders alive.
• Xiao Han broke the sinister leader's bloodlight shield with Lotus in Motion, destroyed his dantian with Annihilation Divine Fist, and killed the burly leader with help from his Shadow Avatar.
• Xiao Han received the Illusion-Breaking Spirit Eyes and a Red Ridge Canyon Core Area Map Fragment as his mission rewards.
• Xiao Han questioned the crippled leader, who identified the group as Blood Fiend Hall and revealed that Earth Vein Spirit Marrow had emerged deep in the canyon.

Xiao Han discovered that a mysterious presence tied to his Eternal Night King Martial Soul lay near the Earth Vein Spirit Marrow, just as two Martial Grandmasters arrived to fight over the canyon. He sent Zhang Dali and the others fleeing and stealthily headed toward the hidden fluctuation.

• Xiao Han killed the Blood Fiend Hall leader before he could detonate himself, then searched the canyon and detected signs of a stronger force and a treasure.
• A Black Water Mysterious Snake Tribe Demon Grandmaster and a Dragon Country Martial Artists Association elder arrived, each claiming the Earth Vein Spirit Marrow.
• Xiao Han detected a fluctuation sharing the origin of his Eternal Night King Martial Soul near the location marked on his Canyon Core Area Map Fragment.
• Xiao Han told Zhang Dali, Li Min, and Wang Hu to escape during the coming clash and gave them healing pills and a defensive talisman.
• The two Martial Grandmasters attacked each other, and Xiao Han concealed his aura with the Shadow Void Scripture and slipped toward the mysterious fluctuation.

Xiao Han uncovered an ancient cave and was dragged inside by a Primordial Shadow Source Crystal’s overwhelming power. As two Martial Grandmasters raced after him, the system offered him a cautious absorption or a potentially fatal origin-fusion evolution.

• Xiao Han protected Zhang Dali, Wang Hu, and Li Min from a pursuing snake demon with a long-range Green Lotus Sword Qi strike.
• Xiao Han reached the concealed cave entrance and used his Illusion-Breaking Spirit Eyes to disable its restriction.
• A powerful burst of shadow and space origin power erupted, and its suction pulled Xiao Han and nearby debris into the cave.
• The Dragon Nation elder and the Black Water Mysterious Snake demon grandmaster stopped fighting and rushed toward the cave, while Zhang Dali, Wang Hu, and Li Min watched helplessly.
• As Xiao Han descended through the cave, the system revealed the Primordial Shadow Source Crystal and offered him a cautious absorption choice or a life-or-death origin fusion.

Xiao Han chose to risk his life fusing the Eternal Night King Martial Soul with the primordial shadow source crystal while two Martial Grandmasters closed in. As his Martial Soul began evolving inside a dark purple cocoon, the Dragon Nation elder and the Blackwater Mystic Serpent Demon Grandmaster attacked it together, but it endured their strike.

• Xiao Han chose the system's life-or-death gamble and began fusing the Eternal Night King Martial Soul with the primordial shadow source crystal.
• The fusion engulfed Xiao Han in agonizing pain as the Dragon Nation elder and the Blackwater Mystic Serpent Demon Grandmaster arrived at the cave.
• The Eternal Night King Martial Soul began transforming into a more powerful emperor form inside the dark purple energy cocoon.
• The Dragon Nation elder and the Blackwater Mystic Serpent Demon Grandmaster agreed to join forces and break open the cocoon.
• The two Martial Grandmasters struck the cocoon together, but its shadow and space power repaired its cracks and let it withstand the attack.

Xiao Han emerged from the shattered cocoon with his Martial Soul transformed and gained control over shadow and space within the cave. He confronted the Dragon Nation elder, the Blackwater Mystic Snake Demon Grandmaster, and the hidden Blood Fiend Hall deacon, then began trapping them in his domain.

• Xiao Han fused with a fragment of the primordial shadow source crystal, awakening the pseudo-form eternal night void emperor and unlocking the prototype Eternal Night Void Realm and Dark Realm Descent.
• Xiao Han sensed the hidden Blood Fiend Hall deacon watching the Dragon Nation elder and the Blackwater Mystic Snake Demon Grandmaster attack his cocoon.
• The Dragon Nation elder and the Blackwater Mystic Snake Demon Grandmaster shattered the cocoon, and Xiao Han emerged under the overwhelming pressure of his transformed Martial Soul.
• Xiao Han addressed all three experts and revealed that he knew the Blood Fiend Hall deacon was hiding nearby.
• Xiao Han spread his shadow and space powers through the cave, darkening it and placing invisible restraints on the three Martial Grandmasters.

Xiao Han fought off the Dragon Nation elder, the Blackwater Mystic Snake Demon Grandmaster, and the Blood Fiend Hall enforcer by exploiting the cave’s shadow and spatial powers. He escaped through a hidden spatial node, leaving the three experts furious and promising to repay them.

• Xiao Han used the embryonic [Eternal Night Void Realm] to slow the three Martial Grandmasters, then wounded the Blackwater Mystic Snake Demon Grandmaster with Shadow Obliteration Finger.
• Xiao Han evaded the Dragon Nation elder’s pure-yang palm and distracted him with Green Lotus Sword Qi and a destruction-intent fist blast.
• The Blood Fiend Hall enforcer attacked Xiao Han from the shadows, but Xiao Han summoned a Shadow Avatar and activated the area effect of [Dark Realm Descent].
• Xiao Han used the darkness to make the three Martial Grandmasters’ attacks collide, causing the Blackwater Mystic Snake Demon Grandmaster and the Blood Fiend Hall enforcer to suffer setbacks.
• Xiao Han raced to a hidden spatial node and opened an unstable gate with shadow power and spatial law.
• Xiao Han entered the gate after mocking the three experts and promising to repay their hospitality twofold.

After escaping the three Martial Grandmasters through a spatial gate, Xiao Han landed in an unfamiliar mountain range and used a system reward to stabilize his cultivation and newly awakened martial soul. Guided by a map and compass toward an ancient valley, he encountered mutated beasts and continued toward the place he suspected held something connected to his power.

• Xiao Han escaped the Black Water Mystic Snake Demon Grandmaster, the Dragon Nation elder, and the Blood Fiend Hall deacon, leaving them furious after taking the primordial shadow source crystal.
• Xiao Han arrived in an unfamiliar mountain range, where the system rewarded him with a Boundary-Breaking Compass, a Soul Fusion Pill, and improved mastery of A Step to the Ends of the Earth.
• Xiao Han swallowed the Soul Fusion Pill in a secluded cave, stabilizing his cultivation at the peak of the Fifth Level of the Martial Master Realm and gaining better control over his Eternal Night Void Emperor martial soul.
• Xiao Han examined map fragments taken from Blood Fiend Hall assassins and used the compass to confirm that they pointed toward a ring-shaped valley containing an ancient altar or ruin.
• Xiao Han traveled toward the valley, killed a mutated giant toad with Green Lotus Sword Qi, and encountered a pack of mutated demon wolves wreathed in blue flames.

Xiao Han tested his increased strength, then infiltrated Blood Fiend Hall’s encirclement around the ring-shaped valley and discovered they were hunting him and the primordial shadow source crystal. After killing a patrol and sneaking into the valley, he was detected and calmly stepped out to face the waiting attackers.

• Xiao Han used Dark Realm Descent and Annihilation Divine Fist to slaughter demon wolves and gauge his increased strength.
• Xiao Han reached the ring-shaped valley, sensed powerful sentries, and spotted a Blood Fiend Hall patrol.
• Xiao Han lured the patrol into rough terrain and killed the entire squad with his Eternal Night Void Realm and other techniques.
• Xiao Han searched the minor leader’s memories and learned that Blood Fiend Hall was hunting him and the primordial shadow source crystal, with a protector guarding the valley.
• Xiao Han concealed himself and entered the valley, where he saw a blood-red crystal above an ancient stone platform and felt his Eternal Night King Martial Soul yearn for it.
• A Blood Fiend Hall protector detected Xiao Han and sent dozens of assassins to surround him, but Xiao Han stepped out from the shadows without retreating.

Xiao Han fought the Iron-Masked Protector and discovered that a blood-colored heart crystal was strengthening Blood Fiend Hall by absorbing their qi and blood. He chose to destroy the crystal with Void Dark Annihilation Slash, triggering a violent backlash that left the Blood Fiend Hall fighters screaming as their power and qi and blood were drained away.

• The Iron-Masked Protector recognized Xiao Han and demanded the Primordial Shadow Source Crystal, but Xiao Han attacked and swiftly killed several Blood Fiend Hall elites.
• The Iron-Masked Protector struck at Xiao Han with Blood Soul Claw, while Xiao Han used his Illusion-Breaking Spirit Eyes to notice the heart crystal absorbing qi and blood and empowering the fighters.
• The God-Level Choice System offered Xiao Han a choice between killing the Iron-Masked Protector and destroying the heart crystal, and Xiao Han chose to destroy the crystal.
• Xiao Han evaded the Iron-Masked Protector's attacks and unleashed Void Dark Annihilation Slash at the blood-colored heart crystal, identified as the Blood Fiend Source Core.
• The crystal went still and unleashed a violent backlash, causing Blood Fiend Hall fighters to cry out as their power and qi and blood were affected.

The Blood Soul Source Crystal’s backlash crippled the Blood Fiend Hall members, giving Xiao Han a chance to strike before the Great Elder emerged and attacked him. As Xiao Han faced a vastly stronger foe, the system revealed a way to evolve his Illusion-Breaking Spirit Eyes, and he began forming a risky plan involving the Mysterious Soul Jade.

• The damaged Blood Soul Source Crystal unleashed a backlash that drained and injured the Blood Fiend Hall members, while the Iron-Faced Protector’s power plummeted.
• Xiao Han used Dark Realm Descent and his Illusion-Breaking Spirit Eyes to kill the injured Blood Fiend Hall members.
• The Great Elder emerged from behind the hidden altar, dismissed the Iron-Faced Protector, and demanded Xiao Han’s secrets and submission as a blood slave.
• The system announced that Xiao Han could evolve his Illusion-Breaking Spirit Eyes by using the Mysterious Soul Jade to absorb soul energy from the Blood Soul Source Crystal.
• The Great Elder attacked Xiao Han with a massive blood-colored palm, but Xiao Han narrowly dodged it and began devising a daring plan involving the warming Mysterious Soul Jade.

Xiao Han fused the Mysterious Soul Jade with the Blood Soul Source Crystal, awakening the Void-Piercing Divine Eyes and striking the purple-robed grand elder with a soul attack. He escaped through an unstable spatial node with the crystal, while the wounded elder vowed to remember him; Xiao Han was left struggling against violent spatial turbulence.

• Xiao Han pressed the Mysterious Soul Jade into a crack in the Blood Soul Source Crystal, unleashing a soul storm that dissolved the purple-robed grand elder's attack.
• The soul energy transformed Xiao Han's Illusion-Breaking Spirit Eyes into Void-Piercing Divine Eyes and rapidly strengthened his soul.
• Xiao Han used True Sight to spot the weakness in the purple-robed grand elder's soul, then struck him with Soul Intimidation.
• Xiao Han seized the Blood Soul Source Crystal and escaped through a weak spatial node using A Step to the Ends of the Earth.
• The purple-robed grand elder failed to pursue Xiao Han, mourned Blood Fiend Hall's losses, and vowed to remember him.
• Xiao Han was battered by violent spatial turbulence as he traveled through the unstable passage.