Chapter Summaries

Wang Chen’s path of merit drew Old Yao’s warning about impending tribulations, but a massive beast horde then emerged from the Mist Zone and threatened White Deer Academy. As Wang Chen ordered the academy to prepare its defenses, Hu Jiaojiao’s cry threw the horde’s green-wolf vanguard into chaos.

• Wang Chen watched White Deer Academy disciples practice the Dragon Tiger Fist as their gratitude gathered merit Spiritual Light around him.
• Old Yao warned Wang Chen that pursuing the path of merit would bring tribulations, and Wang Chen acknowledged the warning.
• Wang Chen received an alarm that countless ferocious beasts were advancing from the Mist Zone and ordered the guards to return to the academy and defend it.
• Wang Chen sent one guard to Taiwu City to request reinforcements while the rest withdrew to the academy.
• Hu Jiaojiao arrived beside Wang Chen and used her cry to knock down the green wolves at the front of the horde, causing the beasts behind them to trample them and throw the vanguard into chaos.

Hu Jiaojiao used her Demonic Speech to turn the first beast horde against itself, but a Myriad Beast Bell drove the surviving beasts away. After the academy disciples gathered the spoils and celebrated, a larger horde returned to surround White Deer Academy, and Wang Chen went to face it.

• Hu Jiaojiao unleashed Demonic Speech, causing the Azure Wolves and other beasts to fall into confusion and attack one another.
• A bell disrupted Hu Jiaojiao's power, and Old Yao identified it as the Myriad Beast Bell, a treasure capable of commanding beasts below the eighth rank.
• Hu Jiaojiao exhausted her power and fell asleep in Wang Chen's arms as academy disciples arrived to help clean up the battlefield.
• Wang Chen ordered the disciples to kill the wounded beasts under the Martial Artists' protection, and White Deer Academy held a bonfire feast with the spoils.
• A new beast horde encircled White Deer Academy, so Wang Chen ordered everyone to stay inside and went to a towering tree to watch the approaching beasts.

Ji Yun sent a massive beast horde to attack White Deer Academy, but Wang Chen unleashed the Myriad Thunder formation and destroyed it. After the storm passed, Wang Chen spotted Ji Yun twenty miles away, leaving the exhausted steward terrified.

• Ji Yun used the Myriad Beast Bell to drive tens of thousands of savage beasts toward White Deer Academy.
• Wang Chen activated the Myriad Thunder formation as the horde approached the academy.
• Lightning struck the beasts relentlessly, killing the horde and forcing the three seventh-rank beast kings to flee before they too fell.
• Wang Chen sustained the formation by converting his vitality points into Innate true qi until the last beast was dead.
• Wang Chen spotted Ji Yun in the distance, and Ji Yun panicked and dropped the golden bell.

Wang Chen caught Ji Yun as he fled and killed him after destroying his Qi Sea Dantian, taking the Myriad Beast Bell. By dawn, the dead beast horde outside White Deer Academy drew a crowd and strengthened the public’s admiration for the academy and its headmaster.

• Ji Yun fled toward Azure Cloud Peak after witnessing Wang Chen destroy the beast horde, but Wang Chen intercepted him.
• Wang Chen shattered Ji Yun’s Qi Sea Dantian with a punch and killed him with a wisp of finger force.
• Wang Chen took the Myriad Beast Bell and burned Ji Yun’s corpse before vanishing.
• At dawn, crowds gathered around White Deer Academy to see the dead ferocious beasts and hear about the night’s battle.
• The townspeople grew more awed by Wang Chen and White Deer Academy, while those plotting against the academy became afraid.

Wang Chen expanded White Deer Academy and opened admissions to ten thousand new students, drawing crowds from across the region. As the academy’s recruitment proceeded smoothly, he received a visitor from Azure Cloud Palace.

• Wang Chen calmed the crowd gathered at White Deer Academy and promised to expand the academy and admit more students.
• Wang Chen oversaw a major expansion, recruited instructors, and had Hu Jiaojiao screen applicants for spies and saboteurs.
• White Deer Academy announced it would admit ten thousand students by merit, regardless of family background, with no tuition and two free meals daily.
• Thousands of young people took the academy’s entrance examinations, and successful candidates became new students.
• Wang Chen received a visitor from Azure Cloud Palace.

Wang Chen rejected Zhao Zhengyu’s demand to dissolve White Deer Academy, hand over Cishi Pharmacy, and submit to punishment. Three days later, city merchants began restricting and inflating the academy and pharmacy’s supplies, leaving Wang Chen to prepare a response.

• Zhao Zhengyu demanded that Wang Chen dissolve White Deer Academy, surrender Cishi Pharmacy to Taiwu Pavilion, and reflect at Siguo Cliff for three years, but Wang Chen refused.
• Hu Jiaojiao offered to kill Zhao Zhengyu, but Wang Chen declined, believing the Azure Cloud Alliance was still testing his strength.
• Three days later, White Deer Academy and Cishi Pharmacy found that Taiwu City merchants were limiting large purchases and raising prices on food and medicinal ingredients.
• An academy steward warned Wang Chen that continued price hikes could turn the public against his institutions, and Wang Chen ordered purchases of medicinal ingredients in other cities while promising to handle the grain problem himself.

Wang Chen led White Deer Academy’s three thousand disciples into the Mist Zone for their first wilderness operation, where they gathered medicinal herbs and prepared to face ferocious beasts. When a pack of wolf beasts attacked, the disciples formed ranks and opened fire with their bows.

• Wang Chen led three thousand armed disciples out of White Deer Academy toward the Mist Zone, accompanied by Innate experts and Martial Masters.
• At the mist’s edge, Wang Chen asked whether the youths were afraid, and all three thousand shouted that they would continue.
• The disciples entered the Mist Zone, where the fog parted, and gathered medicinal herbs and useful materials under the Martial Masters’ guidance.
• Wolf beasts emerged from the forest and advanced on the disciples as the patrolling Martial Masters withdrew.
• A quick-witted youth ordered the disciples to form ranks, and they fired a volley of arrows that struck down the leading wolf beasts.

Wang Chen and Hu Jiaojiao used the Myriad Beast Bell to stage a controlled beast attack so the White Deer Academy disciples could practice fighting and hunting. The disciples returned stronger and self-sufficient, while Wang Chen gained Spiritual Light and sensed a path toward the Supreme Realm.

• The White Deer Academy disciples fought off waves of ferocious beasts, unaware that Hu Jiaojiao controlled them with the Myriad Beast Bell.
• Wang Chen told Hu Jiaojiao to end the staged attack, and she rang the bell, sending the beasts fleeing.
• The disciples collected arrows and dismantled the beast carcasses under the Martial Artists' supervision, then smoked and roasted the meat.
• As the disciples gathered around the campfires, their aura of humanity condensed into Spiritual Light within Wang Chen, raising his cultivation.
• Over the following days, the disciples practiced hunting and gathering herbs, then returned to the academy laden with spoils and hardened by battle.

Wang Chen learned that Azure Cloud Palace had arrested Mo Han and surrounded the Mo residence, then refused its demand that he appear for questioning. To find leverage to save Mo Han, Wang Chen confronted Sikong Hongfei at a banquet in Qingchun Tower.

• Mo Han was arrested by Azure Cloud Palace, and Taiwu City's guards surrounded the Mo residence, prompting Steward Mo to seek Wang Chen's help.
• Wang Chen read Azure Cloud Palace's letter demanding that he report to Azure Cloud Peak within three days over Dharma Master Ji Yun's disappearance.
• Wang Chen promised Steward Mo he would find a way to save Mo Han and asked him to gather information.
• Wang Chen entered Sikong Hongfei's banquet at Qingchun Tower, rendered the guests and guards unconscious, and seized Sikong Hongfei by the throat.
• Wang Chen introduced himself to Sikong Hongfei, who realized he was in serious trouble.

Wang Chen captured Sikong Hongfei to pressure his father, Sikong Deping, over the Sikong Family’s attack on Mo Han and the Mo Family. He emptied White Deer Academy ahead of a coming spell duel with Azure Cloud Palace and waited at the gates as its procession arrived.

• Wang Chen told Sikong Hongfei that he had taken him because Sikong Deping was trying to cause trouble, then forced him to write a plea for help and had him locked in the dungeon.
• Wang Chen ordered Gao Zhuang to send Sikong Hongfei’s letter to Azure Cloud Palace and announced that White Deer Academy would close for three days.
• Wang Chen sent the academy’s disciples home and ordered its martial masters to stay in their quarters during his spell duel with Azure Cloud Palace.
• Wang Chen waited at the academy gates, and a banner-filled procession arrived from Taiwu City.

Sikong Deping arrived at White Deer Academy with a powerful force to demand Sikong Hongfei’s release and punish the Mo Family. Wang Chen held firm, forcing Sikong Deping to agree to bring Mo Han and the Mo Family members over, and revealed a miraculous ability by reattaching Sikong Hongfei’s severed hand.

• Sikong Deping confronted Wang Chen at White Deer Academy and demanded that he answer for taking Sikong Hongfei.
• Wang Chen revealed Sikong Hongfei as his captive and demanded that Sikong Deping send Mo Han and the Mo Family members to him.
• Sikong Deping threatened the Mo Family, so Wang Chen ordered Gao Zhuang to sever Sikong Hongfei’s little finger.
• Sikong Deping ordered the Mo Family punished, and Wang Chen responded by having Gao Zhuang sever Sikong Hongfei’s left hand.
• Sikong Deping agreed to bring Mo Han and the Mo Family members, and Wang Chen reattached Sikong Hongfei’s severed hand with a flash of white light.

Wang Chen faced Azure Cloud Palace’s forces alone outside White Deer Academy after Mo Han and the Mo Family were exchanged for Sikong Hongfei. When Sikong Deping ordered an attack, Wang Chen’s lightning destroyed the cavalry’s battle formation and his palm shattered the Innate Martial Artists’ spears, leaving the battle underway.

• Mo Han and the Mo Family arrived, and Wang Chen welcomed them before Gao Zhuang helped them settle inside the academy.
• Wang Chen closed the academy gates after the hostage exchange, leaving himself alone to face Sikong Deping’s forces.
• Sikong Deping accused Wang Chen of violating the alliance rules and raised a talisman plaque to order his forces to attack.
• The armored cavalry charged as twelve cultivators empowered them and thirty-six Innate Martial Artists hurled their spears at Wang Chen.
• Wang Chen’s lightning shattered the cavalry’s blood beast and killed many riders, while he broke all thirty-six spears with a strike of his palm.

Wang Chen repelled Azure Cloud Palace’s attack with the Myriad Lightning Great Formation, forcing the survivors to flee. After the battle, the Mo Family chose to move to White Deer Academy and pledge itself to Wang Chen.

• Sikong Deping used a talisman plaque to teleport away as Wang Chen’s lightning struck the Azure Cloud Palace forces.
• Wang Chen’s lightning killed or incapacitated many attackers, and the surviving cultivators and Martial Artists fled while he stayed by the formation node.
• Gao Zhuang and the academy’s martial instructors came out to clear the battlefield and recovered corpses, belongings, and horses.
• Wang Chen offered Old Master Mo the choice to return to Taiwu City or relocate the Mo Family to White Deer Academy.
• Old Master Mo chose to move the entire Mo Family and pledged its loyalty to Wang Chen, whose promise of protection was followed by the family’s bow of allegiance.

Wang Chen visited Taiwu Pavilion after defeating Azure Cloud Palace, and his arrival frightened the pavilion’s officials into giving him the highest honors. The chapter left him welcomed inside as Elder Chen tried to avoid provoking him or Azure Cloud Palace.

• The Mo Family hurriedly relocated from Taiwu City, selling or abandoning property and starting a major construction project beside White Deer Academy.
• Wang Chen arrived at Taiwu Pavilion and asked the guards to announce his visit as the Academy Head of White Deer Academy.
• The guards recognized Wang Chen from his defeat of Azure Cloud Palace and alerted Elder Chen, who initially panicked and called for help.
• After a guard suggested Wang Chen had not come to cause trouble, Elder Chen ordered the officials to ring the Ancient God Bell twelve times and open the pavilion gates.
• Chen Zhongjing and the stewards welcomed Wang Chen with humble smiles and apologies.

Wang Chen secured Taiwu Pavilion’s agreement to protect the Mo Family, White Deer Academy, and Cishi Pharmacy, then led an expansion into the Mist Zone that allowed a new settlement to grow. The chapter left the settlement thriving as Taiwu City’s powers, including Azure Cloud Palace, dared not interfere.

• Elder Chen and Taiwu Pavilion’s stewards bid farewell to Wang Chen after agreeing to his three demands.
• The Mo Family established a new foundation and began reclaiming land in the Mist Zone with workers and support from White Deer Academy.
• Wang Chen led White Deer disciples against ferocious beasts, helping the academy grow while Hu Jiaojiao’s forces supplied resources and food.
• The Mo Family sold reclaimed land to common people at low prices in exchange for their labor on public works.
• Tens of thousands of settlers helped clear the mist, strengthened Wang Chen’s human-path Spiritual Light, and built a growing city around White Deer Academy and Cishi Pharmacy.
• Taiwu City’s families and powers, including Azure Cloud Palace, refrained from interfering with the new city because they feared Wang Chen.

Zhong Lei and his family fled through the Sacred Ancestor Road toward Taiwu City, but bandits attacked their procession. The Iron Blood Youth Corps rescued them, and one of its teenage warriors invited them to Chang'an City.

• Zhong Lei carried his children and encouraged his exhausted wife, Xiuyun, as they continued toward Taiwu City after fleeing Whitewood City.
• When whistles warned of an enemy attack, Zhong Lei armed himself while Xiuyun led the children and luggage toward the procession's center.
• Bandit spies triggered panic among the refugees, and Zhong Lei feared the scattered procession would be overwhelmed.
• The Iron Blood Youth Corps swept in, killing the bandits with arrows, spears, and blades.
• A teenage warrior asked Zhong Lei where he was going, then suggested he settle in Chang'an City instead of Taiwu City.

Zhong Lei and his family reached Chang'an City after escaping bandits and chose to settle there rather than continue to Taiwu City. They received citizenship, farmland, and a cottage, while Wang Chen’s reputation and the city’s prosperity left a lasting impression on them.

• The Chang'an Patrol Guard Camp reorganized Zhong Lei’s group, executed several bandit spies, and escorted the travelers out of Sacred Ancestor Road.
• A young warrior introduced Taiwu City and Chang'an City, explaining that Chang'an welcomed newcomers with land, work, and schooling.
• Zhong Lei and most of the travelers chose to follow the warrior to Chang'an City, where Zhong Lei’s family registered as citizens and received eight mu of farmland.
• Zhong Lei’s family spent a sleepless night exploring the bustling city and hearing stories about Wang Chen, whom residents called the Sacred Master.
• Zhong Lei’s family received their farmland and a cottage, while Chang'an City’s growing prosperity brought human fortune to Wang Chen.

Wang Chen sensed heaven and earth’s hostility intensifying as he prepared to break through into the Supreme Realm. With Hu Jiaojiao beside him, he flew through a storm to Tribulation Crossing Peak to face the coming tribulation.

• Wang Chen detected the world’s hostility in the lightning and thunder gathering over Chang'an City.
• Old Yao warned Wang Chen that a great heavenly and human tribulation awaited him and that he had to advance or die.
• Wang Chen reunited with Hu Jiaojiao, who had regained her human form and was ready to face the tribulation with him.
• Wang Chen took the Heaven and Earth Two Principles Disk, carried Hu Jiaojiao away on the Wind Thunder Wings, and reached Tribulation Crossing Peak.

Wang Chen endured the heavenly lightning on Tribulation Crossing Peak while seven Azure Cloud Palace cultivators ambushed him to prevent his breakthrough. Hu Jiaojiao shielded him at great cost, and the chapter ended with Wang Chen opening his eyes and catching the leader’s sword between two fingers as the storm dissipated.

• Wang Chen placed the Heaven and Earth Two Principles Disk at the formation’s central eye and began his breakthrough while Hu Jiaojiao hid nearby.
• Wang Chen used his Magic Treasures one after another to withstand the tribulation lightning as seven Azure Cloud Alliance cultivators gathered to kill him.
• When the final lightning struck, the seven cultivators attacked Wang Chen with their life-bound Magic Tools.
• Hu Jiaojiao manifested a giant fox phantom and swept away the attackers’ weapons, but heavenly lightning scattered her phantom and left her badly injured.
• The cultivators rushed Wang Chen, but he caught their leader’s sword between two fingers as the storm began to vanish.

Wang Chen defeated the Azure Cloud Palace cultivators after advancing to the Supreme Realm, then set his sights on Azure Cloud Peak. The palace’s elders realized their formation could not protect them from him and faced the choice of seeking peace.

• Wang Chen caught an Azure Cloud Palace grand cultivator’s divine sword, swept the attackers away, and shattered the weapon, killing two cultivators with its fragments.
• Wang Chen spared the fleeing cultivators because his new realm was unstable and the world’s rejection of him had intensified; he reunited with the White Fox and planned to return to the Haotian Realm.
• Wang Chen vanished toward Azure Cloud Peak while the Azure Cloud Palace Great Elder questioned three wounded survivors and learned that Wang Chen had reached the Supreme Realm.
• The Great Elder urged the elders to seek peace, but they argued that the Upper Purity Mountain Protection Formation could withstand Wang Chen.
• The Great Elder warned that Wang Chen could destroy Azure Cloud Peak and collapse the formation, then looked toward the blue-robed cultivator as the elders asked what they could offer for peace.