Chapter Summaries

Su Yu used his recovery seclusion to study armament forging, then spent nearly a month repeatedly entering the Hundred Paths Pavilion under the name Zhou Podao to learn from its inherited forging trials. He emerged having reached the fifty-first floor, while attention outside shifted back to Great Xia Prefecture and the coming opening of the Multi Divine Script Academy.

• Su Yu recovered his injured apertures while reading armament-forging books and decided to practice forging in the Hundred Paths Pavilion.
• Su Yu entered the pavilion wearing a fierce tiger mask, registered as Zhou Podao, and used its repeated trials and evaluations to improve his weapons.
• On the tenth floor, Su Yu watched an old master demonstrate forging a three-inscription sword and recognized the pavilion’s instruction as a valuable inheritance.
• Su Yu stalled at forging checkpoints, learned from the old master’s repeated demonstrations, and eventually passed the forty-first floor by forging a Mysterious Tier weapon.
• Su Yu repeatedly paid to enter the pavilion, reached the peak of the second tier in Willpower, and became a genuine Soaring Ninth Level Civilization Master.
• Su Yu emerged at the end of April after reaching the fifty-first floor, while the outside world focused on Great Xia Prefecture’s upcoming admissions and Multi Divine Script Academy.

After leaving the Hundred Paths Pavilion, Su Yu collected money and supplies from Zhu Tiandao while quietly preparing to leave Great Ming Prefecture and find his father on the Battlefields of the Heavens. Zhu Tiandao secretly assigned Shadow to protect him, while Su Long worried about his injured son from the eastern war zone.

• Su Yu returned to the research institute after spending twenty-five days forging weapons in the Hundred Paths Pavilion, completing his seventh body forging and reaching the limits of his current virtual armament-forging skill.
• Wu Lan told Su Yu about unrest across the Human Realm and said Wan Mingze had begun traveling with Jiang Mu, Guo Shengquan, and Zhan Hai to form a Human Realm Youth Alliance Army.
• Su Yu visited Zhu Tiandao and received 1.76 million Merit Points, essence blood, and armament-forging materials for his cultivation and preparations.
• Zhu Tiandao ordered Shadow to secretly follow Su Yu and protect him if he faced a crisis, suspecting that Su Yu planned to leave Great Ming Prefecture.
• Su Yu planned to improve his Sensing Jade, gather supplies, and travel under a traceable identity to the Battlefields of the Heavens to find his father.
• Su Long worried about Su Yu's injuries and thought of his son from the Great Xia Prefecture camp in the eastern war zone.

Su Yu forged a Profound-rank cultural weapon, strengthened his divine scripts, and discovered the dangerous power of the Yang Aperture while preparing for his journey. After Hu Qi emerged from seclusion, she agreed to modify his Sensing Jade, leaving Su Yu with a new ally and the Yang Aperture’s risks still unresolved.

• Su Yu extracted Heavenly Origin Qi, forged his first real Profound-rank cultural weapon, and outlined the Strength, Battle, Still, and Change divine scripts.
• Su Yu shattered a Sun Moon Qi divine script to strengthen Change, which advanced to the third rank, and continued recovering his apertures and preparing for his journey.
• Su Yu opened the Yang Aperture slightly and found that it absorbed power from his other apertures, producing a violent burst that damaged his body and destroyed a reinforced chamber wall.
• Su Yu concluded that fully opening the Yang Aperture might make it impossible to close, and suspected that Bai Feng's grandfather had been trapped resisting its power.
• Hu Qi emerged from seclusion after using Su Yu's Primordial Spirit Vitality Art, and the two discussed its effects and the difficulty of obtaining Heavenly Origin Qi.
• Hu Qi agreed to modify Su Yu's Sensing Jade to identify individuals and count people, and offered to help him in the future because he had saved her life.

Su Yu arranged to leave Great Ming Prefecture under Cui Lang’s identity, while Niu Baidao helped him prepare a cover and concealment. After completing his eighth body forging and receiving Hu Qi’s improved Sensing Jade, Su Yu settled on May eighteenth as his departure date and prepared to enter seclusion under his real identity.

• Su Yu asked Niu Baidao for a believable identity, and Niu Baidao proposed that he impersonate Cui Lang, a talented Armament Master with a troublesome romantic past.
• Su Yu met Cui Lang on Yuexin Island and spent several days learning his history, habits, abilities, and connections so he could convincingly use his identity.
• Su Yu completed his eighth body forging, and Hu Qi finished upgrading the Sensing Jade with improved aura detection and tracking functions.
• Niu Baidao tested Su Yu’s disguise and warned that a high-level Sun Moon expert examining him closely could expose him, though his concealment should fool most others.
• Su Yu chose May eighteenth to leave, agreed to resolve any trouble caused while using Cui Lang’s identity, and planned to announce that he had entered seclusion.

Su Yu prepared to leave Great Ming Prefecture under the cover of entering seclusion, while Little Fur Ball helped Jin Sheng break through to the Lingyun Realm by devouring six of his Human race scripts. Su Yu slipped out of the city disguised as Cui Lang, leaving a stand-in behind as Zhu Tiandao allowed him to go.

• At a farewell dinner, Su Yu announced he would enter seclusion on Yuexin Island and offered to let Little Fur Ball devour Human race scripts to reduce script rejection.
• Little Fur Ball devoured six of Jin Sheng's Human race scripts, allowing Jin Sheng to advance to the Lingyun Realm and confirming that Human race scripts caused unusually strong rejection.
• Su Yu told Wu Lan he was leaving secretly, entrusted her with resources and responsibility for the research institute, and promised he would return.
• Su Yu disguised himself as Cui Lang and left Great Ming Civilization Academy, while a cross-dressing expert impersonated him in seclusion on Yuexin Island.
• Hu Qi altered the Super Sensing Jade's marker to conceal Su Yu's departure, and Zhu Tiandao learned he had left but chose not to pursue him.

Su Yu listened to rumors about the assassinations of four Shanhai commanders, while Ji Hong traced their connections to Chen Yong and a possible traitorous invincible. Disguised as Cui Lang, Su Yu escorted a merchant caravan toward Nanyuan and neared his hometown, where rumors of an Invincible ruin continued to draw outsiders.

• Su Yu heard a storyteller discuss four Shanhai commanders assassinated across different prefectures and wondered whether the myriad races were preparing for war.
• Ji Hong connected the slain commanders to missing or dead Multi Divine Script Faction Civilization Masters and suspected Chen Yong had killed them to expose a traitorous invincible.
• Su Yu left Northern Union City disguised as Cui Lang and joined a merchant caravan traveling toward Great Xia Prefecture, learning that many powerful descendants and Myriad Races Students had gathered there.
• In Starfall Mountain, Su Yu killed a newly advanced Soaring robber with one sword, while two Lingyun experts nearby discussed whether the Invincible ruin might be in Nanyuan.
• Su Yu continued toward Nanyuan, reflecting on his return and hoping the city would remain peaceful despite the ruin attracting attention.

Su Yu returned to Nanyuan disguised as Cui Lang and found outsiders searching his home for a rumored ruin. After learning that Nanyuan residents had died because of the outsiders’ presence and seeing his house ransacked, he resolved to identify those responsible and make them pay.

• Su Yu reached Nanyuan with a caravan, killed a young Hao Family member’s mount after the youth insulted him, and used Cui Lang’s reputation to make the group back down.
• Su Yu flew onto the city wall, claimed ties to Su Yu, and persuaded Huang He to guide him to Su Yu’s home after meeting with City Lord Wu Wenhai.
• Su Yu found officials and visitors from the two great sacred lands inside his damaged home, questioned their presence, and watched them leave after they finished investigating.
• Su Yu cleaned the house and collected traces of the intruders’ scents, then made Little Fur Ball eat the dust so it could help identify them later.
• Su Yu decided that the outsiders who had entered and damaged his home would face a reckoning, and considered Nanyuan a possible first opening for action.

Su Yu discovered that strangers had entered his childhood home and decided to kill those responsible, then slipped out of a massage club and silently killed Zhang Heng, a Soaring Realm genius who had trespassed there. The Dragon Martial Guard began investigating Zhang Heng’s death while Su Yu returned to the crowd and concealed his involvement.

• Su Yu left his home and learned from Xia Bing that the Xia Family had allowed outsiders to enter it, deepening Xia Bing’s doubts about the family.
• Su Yu and Huang He visited a club, where Su Yu used his divine scripts and talents to leave unnoticed and travel through the sewers.
• Su Yu recognized the auras of people who had entered his home and killed Zhang Heng, destroying his Sea of Will and erasing the evidence.
• The Dragon Martial Guard discovered that a Soaring aura had vanished, and Zhang Heng’s protector identified the storage ring and realized the young man was likely dead.
• Su Yu returned to the club, heard that Zhang Heng had died, and joined Huang He and Liu Li at the scene while pretending to fear the murderer.
• Su Yu warned the gathered outsiders not to target him, then left with Huang He and said the two of them could trust each other because they had been together earlier.

Su Yu secretly killed a Lingyun Ninth Level expert who had targeted Chen Hao, then escaped as the Xia family withdrew its protection from Nanyuan. He used Cui Lang’s reputation as a Mysterious Tier Armament Master to gather an escort and leave for Great Xia Prefecture City, while privately considering whether to kill anyone who stayed behind.

• Su Yu used Flesh and Blood Rebirth to leave a substitute cultivating in the arena while he secretly investigated two people discussing Chen Hao and his connection to Su Yu.
• Su Yu ambushed and killed the Lingyun Ninth Level Wang Chen and the young man with him after realizing they might target Chen Hao, then escaped underground as experts arrived.
• A Sun Moon Realm commander concluded that a powerful Civilization Master had attacked, while Marquis Xia ordered the Dragon Martial Guard to withdraw and the Xia family to stop interfering in Nanyuan.
• Su Yu emerged from the arena and urged Huang He and Liu Li to leave with him, offering a Mysterious Tier cultural weapon to anyone who could provide an escort.
• Zhou Hongbo and other Holy Land experts agreed to travel with Su Yu, and a group of geniuses and their protectors gathered to depart for Great Xia Prefecture City.

Chen Yong fled after killing several Shanhai Realm generals, left Feng Qi with altered memories to take the blame, and disappeared. As Feng Qi faced an Invincible public trial and the upper ranks turned against the Great Xia Multi Divine Script Faction, Su Yu continued toward Great Xia Prefecture, hiding his alarm while wondering whether his faction or the wider Human Realm was in the wrong.

• Chen Yong told Feng Qi he would not return to Great Xia Prefecture, then extracted and altered Feng Qi’s memories before abandoning him in the mountains.
• Feng Qi was arrested by Great Wu Prefecture’s forces and admitted to the killings, while Chen Yong escaped and an Invincible public trial was arranged.
• Su Yu learned of Feng Qi’s arrest from Xia Huyu and decided to continue toward Great Xia Prefecture to observe the trial despite the risk of being recognized.
• Marquis Xia told Hong Tan that Feng Qi might be cleared but Chen Yong had chosen not to return; Hong Tan grieved for his disciple and vowed to live for himself and his loved ones.
• Wan Tiansheng reflected on the people he considered sinners and waited for greater certainty about who deserved to die.
• On the journey, Zhou Hongbo’s group blamed the Great Xia Multi Divine Script Faction for the turmoil, while Su Yu concealed his anger and wondered whether his faction or the majority was wrong.

Su Yu returned to Great Xia Prefecture disguised as the Mysterious Tier Armament Master Cui Lang and arranged to meet Zhao Li. Wan Tiansheng realized that the future he had glimpsed might be unfolding much sooner than expected, as Invincibles approached and Su Yu neared the Lingyun Realm.

• Su Yu cultivated on the journey and, posing as Cui Lang, boasted about his status while asking Zhou Hongbo and the others about the Sacred Lands and Zhao Li.
• Su Yu persuaded Little Li to introduce him to Zhao Li, claiming he had forged a forty-five-inscription Mysterious Tier weapon and hoped to learn from Zhao Li.
• On May 22, Su Yu arrived in Great Xia Prefecture and went with Little Li and Zhao Li's disciple to Daxia Civilization Academy.
• Zhao Li recognized the saber's inscription as a sign from Su Yu, approved of the weapon, and agreed to receive Cui Lang.
• Wan Tiansheng sensed Su Yu's arrival, realized he had returned near the time of his vision, and worried that a coming upheaval would strike before they were ready.

Su Yu, disguised as Cui Lang, forged weapons under Zhao Li’s instruction, while Zhao Li revealed the ambitious plan behind his Earth-tier weapon and moved the Qi Secret Realm to support the attempt. The immense forging display persuaded the Invincibles to postpone Feng Qi’s public trial for a few days, though they continued to watch the Multi Divine Script Faction closely.

• Su Yu followed Zhao Li’s disciple to Zhao Li’s research institute, where Zhao Li asked him to demonstrate his forging skills.
• Su Yu forged a script weapon under Zhao Li’s guidance, reaching forty-eight Gold Inscriptions before a failed switch from Willpower to origin qi caused it to explode.
• Zhao Li explained that his Earth-tier weapon was intended to grow into a Heavenly Tier weapon and said Su Yu would help him forge it.
• Zhao Li took the Qi Secret Realm from the academy and brought it to his research institute, ignoring protests from Yuan Qingdong and the elders.
• Zhao Li began forging his Earth-tier weapon, creating a huge translucent hammer that drew attention across the academy and from the Invincibles.
• King Han decided to delay Feng Qi’s public trial until his injuries healed so they could observe Zhao Li’s forging, while the Invincibles remained wary of Chen Yong and Hong Tan.

Su Yu and Zhao Li began preparing to forge a Heavenly Soldier Prototype, while Zhao Li reforged his Earth Tier weapon and Su Yu worked to strengthen his skills. The spectacle drew powerful Armament Masters and experts to Great Xia Prefecture, as Hong Tan watched the gathering of Invincibles and worried over Chen Yong’s fate.

• Zhao Li unsealed his Earth Tier cultural weapon in the Qi Secret Realm and told Su Yu to assist him in forging a Heavenly Soldier Prototype.
• Su Yu practiced converting qi and Willpower while forging, then used the Expansion God Art to strengthen his foundation after struggling to make a high-grade Mysterious Tier weapon.
• Rumors spread that Cui Lang was helping Zhao Li forge a Heavenly Soldier Prototype, prompting Armament Masters and experts from across the Human Realm to travel to Great Xia Prefecture.
• Zhao Li began reforging the seventy-two-and-a-half Gold Inscriptions in his weapon, while Su Yu continued forging and observed his teacher’s work.
• Hu Qi and Elder Chen explained the significance of Zhao Li’s reforging to the gathered Armament Masters as the half inscription vanished from the weapon’s projection.
• Hong Tan and Bai Feng watched from the Wentan Research Center, where Hong Tan suspected Zhao Li’s forging might be buying time for Chen Yong and noted that three Invincibles had gathered in the city.

Zhao Li began reforging his Script Weapon into a Heavenly Soldier Prototype while teaching Su Yu his forging methods. Su Yu learned to stack hammer strikes, joined the forging, and reached his ninth body tempering as the weapon continued gaining Gold Inscriptions.

• Zhao Li finished stripping the old weapon down to its blank embryo and began forging it anew, instructing Su Yu to observe and help once it reached fifty-four inscriptions.
• Su Yu cultivated his body with Heavenly Origin Qi while watching Zhao Li's rhythmic hammering, and students outside used the vibrations to temper their bodies and Seas of Will.
• Zhao Li Tianbing arrived at the City Lord's Mansion and asked the Invincibles to intervene if his junior brother's forging failed, estimating that Zhao Li had only a thirty percent chance of success.
• Su Yu recognized Zhao Li's Stacked Hammer technique and learned to combine nine strikes, then joined Zhao Li in forging when the weapon reached thirty-six inscriptions.
• While forging alongside Zhao Li, Su Yu reached his ninth body tempering, raising his physical strength to nearly 4,500 apertures as more Gold Inscriptions appeared on the weapon.

Su Yu and Zhao Li forged a powerful Earth Tier script weapon, but a heaven-and-earth reward strengthened it beyond Zhao Li's control. Su Yu entered Zhao Li's Sea of Will with his divine script battle technique to help restrain the weapon while Zhao Li attempted to advance to the Shanhai Realm.

• Su Yu and Zhao Li forged the weapon past seventy-two gold inscriptions, and Su Yu manifested a first-tier "Vibrate" divine character that weakened the backlash.
• Su Yu shattered a Sun Moon Divine Script to restore their strength, and his "Shock" divine script advanced to the second tier.
• The weapon reached the Earth Tier and absorbed the heaven-and-earth reward, rapidly gaining inscriptions and becoming difficult for Zhao Li to reclaim.
• Su Yu shattered his final Sun Moon Divine Script and gave Zhao Li Heavenly Origin Qi as Zhao Li tried to pull the weapon into his Sea of Will.
• Su Yu fused his divine script battle technique with the Expansion Divine Hammer, brought Little Fur Ball into Zhao Li's Sea of Will, and joined the battle against the weapon while Zhao Li advanced toward the Shanhai Realm.

Su Yu helped Zhao Li survive the rebellious Expansion Divine Hammer and break through into the Shanhai Realm, then continued forging with him until Zhao Li reached the hundredth Gold Inscription prototype. The chapter left Zhao Li poised to become a Peak Earth Tier Armament Master while Su Yu completed his tenth body forging and prepared to forge a weapon of his own.

• Su Yu, Zhao Li, and Little Fur Ball battled the Expansion Divine Hammer inside Zhao Li's Sea of Will, and Su Yu guided the hammer into opening Divine Apertures while outlining a second-tier Union divine script to stabilize the Sea of Will.
• Su Yu transformed his divine script battle technique into different forms to restrain the hammer, helped Zhao Li construct a hammer battle technique, and guided him in completing two sets of Five Elements Script Art Divine Apertures.
• Zhao Li fused eight Divine Apertures, broke through into the Shanhai Realm, and resumed forging with Su Yu as his main Divine Script became more obedient.
• Zhao Li forged the prototype of the hundredth Gold Inscription, impressing the Armament Masters and Invincibles watching outside, while Su Yu completed his tenth body forging.
• Zhao Li urged Su Yu to forge his own weapon and vowed to forge a true Heavenly Soldier within ten years.

Zhao Li emerged from seclusion after forging a cultural weapon, while Su Yu, posing as Cui Lang, revealed that he had forged a peak Profound Tier weapon and drew the attention of prominent armament masters. As the group prepared to attend Feng Qi’s public trial the next day, Marquis Xia suspected Cui Lang was Su Yu and told Xia Huyu to keep close to him.

• Zhao Li completed his cultural weapon and reached the Shanhai Realm and Earth Tier, while Su Yu emerged with a peak Profound Tier cultural weapon he had forged.
• Hu Qi and several Earth Tier Armament Masters praised Su Yu and invited him to discuss weapon forging, then agreed to attend Feng Qi’s public trial the next day.
• Yuan Qingdong warned his companions not to provoke the armament masters, while Marquis Xia agreed to let them attend the trial.
• Marquis Xia reviewed Cui Lang’s file and suspected that Cui Lang was Su Yu, linking him to Zhao Li, the Expansion God Art, and the deaths in Nanyuan.
• Marquis Xia told Xia Huyu to stay beside Cui Lang during the trial, and Xia Huyu considered how Great Xia Prefecture might sharpen its reputation.

Su Yu attended Feng Qi’s public trial at Daxia Civilization Academy, where Feng Qi confessed to assassinating five Shanhai Realm experts but gave explanations that raised doubts. The inquiry turned toward whether Chen Yong and Wan Tiansheng had truly sent Feng Qi undercover, leaving Wan’s absence and the possibility of his involvement unresolved.

• Zhao Tianbing learned that Feng Qi’s public trial would be held at Daxia Civilization Academy, and Su Yu traveled there with the Armament Masters.
• Hong Tan asked the Three Kings to investigate whether Chen Yong was alive, and King Han agreed to look into it.
• Marquis Xia opened the trial by recounting Feng Qi’s history, and Feng Qi admitted killing five experts for private vengeance.
• A military interrogation officer challenged Feng Qi’s account, and Feng Qi claimed that Qian Jun had once tried to kill him in Star Mansion.
• The interrogation officer questioned whether Feng Qi had truly been planted in the Six-Winged Divine Cult, but Marquis Xia said Wan Tiansheng was in seclusion and Feng Qi accepted blame for his later corruption.

Feng Qi recanted his confession after Zhou Mingren revealed that Chen Yong might still be acting, while Hong Tan challenged the evidence and resisted an immediate soul search. Silkworm King Annihilator put the dispute to a vote, leaving the hall to decide whether to search Feng Qi, search him and members of the Eight Great Families, or investigate further without searching anyone.

• Zhou Mingren pressured Feng Qi to reconsider dying for Chen Yong, and the hall learned that another Mountain Sea cultivator had been killed in Great Jin Prefecture.
• Wu Jia lashed out at Zhou Mingren, while Hong Tan defended Feng Qi and argued that the killings did not prove Chen Yong was responsible.
• Feng Qi withdrew his confession, saying he had been unconscious after an attack and had falsely assumed Chen Yong had committed the murders; he also suggested hidden Six-Winged Divine Cult members could be responsible.
• A general presented the murderer's blood, and Silkworm King Annihilator used it to reveal the dead vice cult leader Red Wing, leaving the blood inconclusive.
• Silkworm King Annihilator proposed searching Feng Qi and Sun Moon experts from the Eight Great Families, and Marquis Xia set a vote on three investigative options.
• The representatives received jade talismans and began consulting their prefectures before voting anonymously.

As the Human Realm voted on whether to search Feng Qi’s soul or investigate the Eight Great Families, Su Yu realized the vote concealed a struggle over the realm’s future and the Xia Family’s plan to appear weak while luring its enemies in. The vote ended with Feng Qi chosen for a soul-search, but the close result left the realm divided and the Xia Family’s next move uncertain.

• Zhou Pochong represented the Seeking Sacred Land, accused Chen Yong and the Multi Divine Script faction, and warned that the myriad races were preparing for war.
• Su Yu reconsidered whether sacrificing a few people could buy peace, then understood from Xia Huyu’s tiger parable that the Xia Family was feigning weakness to draw its enemies together.
• Marquis Xia voted to search Feng Qi’s soul, and Su Yu told Hu Qi to cast Great Ming Prefecture’s vote for the same option.
• Zhao Li, Zhao Tianbing, Hu Qi, and other Armament Masters chose to investigate the Eight Great Families, while the factions submitted their votes.
• Silkworm King Annihilator revealed the ballots, secretly changed the final vote from two to one, and declared that Feng Qi alone would undergo a soul-search.
• Marquis Xia accepted the result as Hong Tan and others reacted, while Su Yu concluded that the close vote showed the Human Realm had split into opposing camps.