Chapter Summaries

Xiao Teng defeated An Ran with borrowed authority over the surrounding world, then entered Northern Azure Academy with Mu Chen and Luo Li and learned about its rankings. After settling into a house, he asked Xiao Lin why he advanced so quickly, and Xiao Lin explained that his potential was extraordinary and described the realms beyond Heaven Integration.

• Xiao Teng used the Three Yuan Sky Piercing Technique to subdue An Ran in one move, and Old Bai declared him the victor.
• Old Bai opened the Bronze Giant Gate, and Xiao Teng and the other new students entered Northern Azure Academy.
• Luo Li explained the Divine Soul Ranking and Heavenly Ranking to Xiao Teng and Mu Chen, including the names of the leading students.
• Xiao Teng rented a house beside Mu Chen and the others, then contacted Xiao Lin to ask whether his rapid cultivation was a problem.
• Xiao Lin told Xiao Teng that he had inherited extraordinary potential and explained the realms beyond Heaven Integration, prompting Xiao Teng to grow interested in the Beast Domain.

Xiao Teng stopped suppressing his cultivation and drew all the Spiritual Energy from the freshman district’s Level-Four Spirit Gathering Array. After Dean Taicang arranged compensation for the displaced freshmen, Xiao Teng broke through to the Heaven Transformation Realm and became famous throughout Northern Plains Academy.

• Xiao Teng used his Nine Divine Meridians to absorb the Spiritual Energy of the freshman district’s Level-Four Spirit Gathering Array, startling the other students.
• Mu Chen and Luo Li witnessed the disturbance, while the freshman district mentor went to investigate.
• Dean Taicang told the mentor to report that the array had malfunctioned, compensate each freshman with one thousand Spirit Points, and relocate them to other arrays.
• Xiao Teng cultivated uninterrupted for more than half a month and reached the threshold of the Heaven Transformation Realm.
• Xiao Teng’s Divine Soul broke free of his body and merged with heaven and earth, completing his breakthrough to the Heaven Transformation Realm.
• The academy relocated the other freshmen, and word of Xiao Teng’s cultivation spread through Northern Plains Academy, making him famous.

Zhu Tian opened Northern Azure Academy’s Freshmen Assembly and announced a race to claim the spirit flag atop Northern Spirit Mountain, where dangerous spirit beasts guarded the route. The freshmen entered the mountain range, and Xiao Teng, Mu Chen, Luo Li, and Yang Hong each advanced toward the summit as Zhu Tian withheld a warning about a powerful beast waiting there.

• Xiao Teng arrived at the assembly with Mu Chen and Luo Li, drawing attention from freshmen and old students curious about his strength.
• Zhu Tian introduced the mountain-climbing contest, offering Spirit Points and entry to the Spirit Arts Divine Hall to the first five freshmen to reach the summit.
• Zhu Tian started the assembly, while an Elder pointed out that he had neglected to warn the freshmen about a powerful beast at the summit; Zhu Tian admitted he had deliberately kept it from them.
• The freshmen surged into Northern Spirit Mountain, where spirit beasts attacked and scattered the crowd, stopping thousands at the outskirts.
• Xiao Teng, Mu Chen, and Luo Li fought their way toward the summit independently, while Yang Hong advanced swiftly from the north.

As the newcomer tournament finalists reached the summit platform, a colossal Magma creature awakened and attacked them. Xiao Teng revealed that he had reached the Heaven Transformation Realm and advanced toward the fiery barrier, leaving the spectators wondering what he would do next.

• Mu Chen, Luo Li, Xiao Teng, Yang Hong, Mu Kui, and the other finalists fought through the Heaven-tier Spirit Beasts and reached the stone platform.
• Magma erupted across the platform, and enormous hands crushed Spirit Beasts and forced the newcomers to flee.
• Mu Chen grabbed Luo Li and led her away from the Magma attacks while the other finalists struggled to evade them.
• Xiao Teng calmly walked among the Magma hands, drawing the attention of the spectators and Li Xuantong.
• A colossal presence awakened within Northern Spirit Mountain and raised a vast Magma wall across Xiao Teng's path.
• Xiao Teng revealed his Heaven Transformation Realm strength, and an elder noticed that he was doing something unexpected.

Xiao Teng claimed first place in Northern Azure Academy’s Freshman Assembly, then devoted himself to cultivation instead of pursuing fame or challenging the Heavenly Ranking. After sensing that he was ready to advance, he entered a costly Level Six Spirit Gathering Array and began preparing to cultivate the Three Yuan Sky Piercing Technique.

• Xiao Teng used Calling Wind to break through the Spirit of Magma’s walls of fire and reach Northern Spirit Mountain’s summit.
• Xiao Teng took the golden spiritual banner, securing first place in the Freshman Assembly while the other freshmen continued fighting for second.
• Xiao Teng studied in the academy library and focused on comprehending Calling Wind as Luo Li and Mu Chen drew attention through their own exploits.
• Xiao Teng collected his freshman reward and entered a Level Six Spirit Gathering Array to seek a breakthrough to the Heaven Penetration Realm.
• Xiao Teng reached a secluded lake near the array’s core and began recalling the Three Yuan Sky Piercing Technique.

Xiao Teng broke through to the Heaven Penetration Realm, drawing the attention of Northern Plains Academy and Dean Taicang, who reported the news to Xiao Lin. As Xiao Lin prepared to finish refining the Northern Azure Continent, he considered taking Xiao Teng to visit spiritual beasts and helping Mu Chen remove the seal on his Nine Divine Meridians.

• Xiao Teng absorbed the Spiritual Energy in the Level Six Spirit Gathering Array and broke through from the Heaven Transformation Realm to the Heaven Penetration Realm, allowing his Divine Soul to roam outside his body.
• Students gathered to witness Xiao Teng’s breakthrough and marveled that he had surpassed even many elite cultivators.
• The academy’s overseers reported Xiao Teng’s breakthrough to Dean Taicang, who contacted Xiao Lin and told him that Xiao Teng was approaching the Minor Three Tribulations of the Sovereign.
• Xiao Lin praised Xiao Teng’s talent and said he was close to finishing his refinement of the Northern Azure Continent.
• Xiao Lin considered taking Xiao Teng to see spiritual beasts and removing the seal on Mu Chen’s Nine Divine Meridians, but decided to wait before choosing what to do.
• Xiao Lin felt a fish take the bait and lifted his fishing hook.

Li Xuantong told Mu Chen about Luo Li’s origins and the danger facing the declining Luo Shen Clan, explaining that she would have to return and risk a deadly inheritance to save it. Mu Chen accepted that he could not stop her and resolved to grow strong enough to support her, while learning about the Flame Emperor, the Immortal Palace, and the powers that shaped the West Heaven Realm.

• Li Xuantong met Mu Chen and revealed that Luo Li belonged to the once-mighty Luo Shen Clan, now weakened and threatened by its three rival divine clans.
• Li Xuantong explained that Luo Li’s father had died, her grandfather Luo Tianshen was nearing the end of his life, and Luo Li had been raised to inherit the clan and bear its future.
• Li Xuantong warned that Luo Li had to return within five years to attempt the clan’s inheritance and reach the Sovereign Realm, a process that could kill her if it failed.
• Mu Chen understood that Luo Li had to return and resolved to break through within five years so he could help her.
• Li Xuantong recounted how Luo Tianshen had helped the Flame Emperor Xiao Yan and how the Immortal Palace’s Heavenly Sovereigns, including Martial Ancestor Lin Dong and Xiao Lin, had influenced the West Heaven Realm.
• Mu Chen contemplated the vast Great Thousand World and resolved to become strong enough to make his own mark in it.

Mu Chen learned about the Primal Chaos Beast Plains and agreed to join Xiao Teng and his father, Xiao Lin, on a journey there. After meeting Xiao Lin and discovering that Northern Plains Academy’s dean was accompanying him, Mu Chen and the others set off for the legendary region.

• Luo Li told Mu Chen that Xiao Teng had invited them to visit the Beast Domain with his father.
• Nine Nether explained the history and rare opportunities of the Primal Chaos Beast Plains, persuading Mu Chen to go.
• Mu Chen and Luo Li met Xiao Teng’s father, Xiao Lin, and learned that the green-robed man accompanying him was the dean of Northern Plains Academy.
• Xiao Lin led Mu Chen, Luo Li, Xiao Teng, and the dean into the sky and set out for the Primal Chaos Beast Plains.

Xiao Lin took Xiao Teng, Mu Chen, Luo Li, and Dean Taicang on a leisurely journey across several continents toward the Divine Beast Continent. Near the Primal Chaos Beast Plains, the super divine beast Lin Diao arrived and greeted Xiao Lin as Palace Master, leaving Mu Chen and Luo Li shocked.

• Luo Li used her spirit map to show Mu Chen that they were crossing the sea beyond the Northern Azure Continent toward the Southern Mausoleum Continent.
• Xiao Lin summoned a Saint-grade flying vessel and took the group sightseeing across more than ten continents, where local rulers welcomed him with great deference.
• As the group neared the Divine Beast Continent, the vessel stopped, and a colossal purple-black beast emerged from a spatial rift.
• Nine Netherworld told Mu Chen that the beast was an exceptionally powerful super divine beast whose bloodline suppressed her.
• The beast transformed into a handsome man, and Xiao Teng mistakenly called him an auntie before Xiao Lin introduced him as Lin Diao, Brother Diao.
• Lin Diao boarded the vessel and respectfully greeted Xiao Lin as the Palace Master.

Xiao Lin brought Mu Chen, Luo Li, and their companions into the Beast Domain, where the True Dragon Emperor and other clan leaders watched his arrival. After the Nine Netherworld Sparrow Clan asked to meet Lin Diao, Nine Nether warned Mu Chen that her clan might attack him because of their bloodline link, and the clan's envoys approached through the mist.

• Lin Diao told Xiao Lin that most spirit beasts from the Immortal Palace would not attend the Beast Domain gathering because native clans excluded outsiders.
• Xiao Lin guided the boat into the Divine Beast Continent, where the True Dragon Emperor confronted him with a manifestation of his will while other clan leaders watched.
• Lin Diao received a message from the Nine Netherworld Sparrow Clan, and Xiao Lin agreed to stop and meet its envoys.
• Nine Nether told Mu Chen that her clan might detect their Bloodline Link and attack him to protect its bloodline purity.
• Xiao Lin brought the boat to a mist-covered cliff, where several figures from the Nine Netherworld Sparrow Clan approached after a bird cry.

Patriarch Tianhuang found Nine Nether traveling with Mu Chen and, after seeing Xiao Lin, accepted her bloodline contract without protest. Lin Diao then used the Yin Yang Twin Flames to help Nine Nether complete her evolution, leaving her newly transformed and delighted.

• Patriarch Tianhuang told Lin Diao that Nine Nether's life token had dimmed and asked the Immortal Palace to help locate her.
• Xiao Lin asked Mu Chen to reveal Nine Nether, and she appeared before the group as Luo Li grew uneasy about her connection to Mu Chen.
• Patriarch Tianhuang entered the cabin, respectfully greeted Xiao Lin, and urged Nine Nether to stay by the Palace Master's side and learn humbly.
• Xiao Lin asked Lin Diao to help restore Nine Nether's true body, and Lin Diao recognized that she was at a critical stage of evolution.
• Lin Diao used heavenly treasures and a subsidiary Yin Yang Twin Flames to nourish Nine Nether's evolution.
• Nine Nether emerged from her cocoon as an evolved Nine Netherworld Nether Sparrow and happily tasted a piece of the eggshell.

Xiao Lin brought Xiao Teng, Mu Chen, and the others to the Primal Chaos Beast Plains, where Lin Diao refined Blood Spirit Pills and the group learned about the Outer Realm Demons’ devastation. After the Beast Domain agreed in principle to an alliance with the Great Thousand Palace, Xiao Lin learned Mu Chen’s identity had been exposed and began removing the seal on his Nine Divine Meridians.

• Xiao Lin led the group to the outskirts of the Primal Chaos Beast Plains, where Lin Diao explained Blood Spirit Mud and refined it into pills that strengthened Xiao Teng, Mu Chen, Luo Li, Nine Nether, and Dean Taicang.
• The group saw a mural depicting the Outer-domain Evil Clan’s catastrophic attack on the Primal Chaos Beast Plains and learned why the spirit beasts regarded them as a common enemy.
• Xiao Lin represented the Great Thousand Palace in negotiations, and the super divine beasts of the Beast Domain reluctantly agreed in principle to an alliance against the Outer Realm Demons.
• Super divine beasts investigated Mu Chen and sent the Futu Ancient Clan news of his identity, prompting Xiao Lin to decide to resolve Mu Chen’s troubles.
• Xiao Lin sent spiritual light into Mu Chen, beginning to loosen the seal on his Nine Divine Meridians and awaken the power hidden within him.

Xiao Lin lifted Mu Chen’s seals and transformed the Eight Divine Meridians Qing Yan Jing had implanted in him into the foundation for his Nine Divine Meridians. Their awakening triggered a reaction in the Futu Ancient Clan’s Spiritual Meridian Tablet, leaving the clan’s monitors stunned as its power continued to rise.

• Xiao Lin used Supreme Spirit Sky Piercing Light to penetrate Mu Chen’s seals, revealing eight purple moons that appeared to be Eight Divine Meridians.
• Lin Diao suppressed the aura leaking from Mu Chen while Luo Li, Dean Taicang, and Xiao Teng watched the changes.
• Xiao Lin burned away the eight purple moons, releasing their essence into Mu Chen’s body and awakening nine sacred suns: his Nine Divine Meridians.
• Xiao Lin learned that Qing Yan Jing had implanted her own Eight Divine Meridians in Mu Chen to conceal his innate meridians from the Futu Ancient Clan, and he vowed to protect him.
• Lin Diao concealed the Nine Divine Meridians’ manifestation, but Mu Chen’s bloodline transmitted the awakening to the Futu Ancient Clan’s Spiritual Meridian Tablet.
• The Spiritual Meridian Tablet erupted with a powerful beam of light, shocking the Spiritual Meridian Hall’s master and attendants.

The Futu Ancient Clan discovered that the Nine Divine Meridians had appeared and ordered a search for their owner. Inside the Ancestral Pagoda, Qing Yan Jing sensed that Xiao Lin was connected to the meridians and warned Futu Xuan, leaving him to consider the threat.

• The Spiritual Meridian Tablet erupted with spiritual radiance, and Futu Xuan identified the manifestation as the Nine Divine Meridians.
• Futu Xuan ordered the clan elders to find the meridians’ owner, bring them into the inner clan, and protect them from factional schemes.
• Qing Yan Jing sensed that the Eight Divine Meridians she had left in Mu Chen’s body had been refined and feared Xiao Lin had acted against her son.
• Qing Yan Jing detonated spirit arrays in the Ancestral Pagoda to summon Futu Xuan.
• Qing Yan Jing warned Futu Xuan that the Nine Divine Meridians were connected to Xiao Lin of the Immortal Palace, then refused to explain further.

After Xiao Lin learned that Futu Xuan was coming after him, he sent Xiao Yan to strike the Futu Ancient Clan’s territory with a Buddha’s Rage Fire Lotus. Xiao Yan’s attack devastated Futu Continent’s defenses, and the Futu Ancient Clan confronted him as war threatened to erupt.

• Mu Chen’s Nine Divine Meridians were unsealed, and he advanced to the perfected Heaven Transformation Realm with further breakthroughs expected.
• Xiao Lin learned that Futu Xuan was coming after him and suspected the Futu Ancient Clan wanted revenge over the Eight Divisions Pagoda and Mu Chen’s Divine Meridians.
• Xiao Lin told Xiao Yan not to come rescue him and instead ordered him to attack Futu Continent with a Buddha’s Rage Fire Lotus.
• Xiao Yan arrived above Futu Continent and launched the fire lotus as a warning to the Futu Ancient Clan.
• The fire lotus exploded, destroying many of Futu Continent’s defensive formations, and the Futu Ancient Clan’s members rushed to confront Xiao Yan.

Futu Xuan led the Futu Ancient Clan through a spatial passage to capture Xiao Lin, but the Immortal Palace learned of the plan and countered it. Martial Ancestor Lin Dong intercepted Futu Xuan, and the confrontation escalated as more powerful figures arrived.

• A Futu Heavenly Sovereign reported that Xiao Yan had attacked Futu Continent with Buddha's Rage Fire Lotus, causing enormous damage and confronting the clan's defenders.
• An azure-scaled giant palm shattered the Futu Clan's spatial passage and forced Futu Xuan and his group into the void.
• Martial Ancestor Lin Dong emerged from the broken passage and confronted Futu Xuan, who acknowledged the Immortal Palace's strength and regretted targeting Xiao Lin.
• Futu Xuan opened a spatial rift to summon the Futu Ancient Clan's Ancestral Pagoda, while Lin Dong prepared to fight.
• Lin Dong announced that his teacher had arrived as a flying ship, another powerful figure, and a figure seated within the sun approached.

Xiao Lin used the laws of a world he had refined to suppress Futu Xuan, the Futu Ancient Clan’s Heavenly Sovereigns, and the Ancestral Pagoda. He revealed how the Immortal Palace had infiltrated the clan and began to expose the identity of the Nine Divine Meridians genius, leaving Futu Xuan awaiting a devastating revelation about Qing Yan Jing.

• Xiao Lin extinguished the light and used his words to seal the Futu Ancient Clan’s Spiritual Power, bodies, and souls, leaving Futu Xuan and the others helpless.
• Xiao Lin intensified his suppression and restrained Futu Xuan together with the Ancestral Pagoda, then restored light and Spiritual Energy while the clan’s forces remained immobilized.
• Lin Dong watched Xiao Lin’s effortless victory in shock, and Xiao Lin told him he was ready to learn about the level beyond the Immortal Emperor’s.
• Xiao Lin told Futu Xuan that the Immortal Palace had recruited oppressed Qing Lineage geniuses, including one who became a Heavenly Sovereign elder and was promised the Futu Ancient Clan.
• Xiao Lin offered to reveal the Nine Divine Meridians genius’s identity and began to say that Qing Yan Jing was connected to him, leaving Futu Xuan horrified.

Xiao Lin revealed to Mu Chen that Qing Yan Jing was his mother and defeated Futu Xuan and the Futu Ancient Clan’s Heavenly Sovereigns. He then told Qin Tian that he had embarked on the path of the Immortal Emperor and would address the Heavenly Evil God, prompting Qin Tian to set a Great Thousand Invitation for three months later.

• Xiao Lin revealed Mu Chen’s Futu Ancient Clan bloodline to Futu Xuan, then silenced him when he cursed Qing Yan Jing.
• Xiao Lin told Mu Chen the story of his parents, and Mu Chen realized Qing Yan Jing and the man from Hundred Spirits Continent were his mother and father.
• After receiving Qin Tian’s message about Flame Emperor Xiao Yan’s attack on Futu Continent, Xiao Lin sent Qin Tian the full account and said he would prepare to refine the Heavenly Evil God.
• Qin Tian summoned the Lord of Immortality and told him that Xiao Lin had embarked on the path of the Immortal Emperor and would discuss the Heavenly Evil God with him.
• Qin Tian said Xiao Lin had asked him to issue the Great Thousand Invitation for three months later, bringing the Great Thousand World’s experts to the Hill of Northern Wilderness.

The Great Thousand Palace summoned the Heavenly Sovereigns early for the Great Thousand Covenant, prompting the Outer-domain Evil Clan to mobilize against the Great Thousand World and protect the Heavenly Evil God. As the covenant began, the demons attacked the Endless Fire Domain and Martial Realm to hold their defenders at the borders, while Xiao Lin activated the Immortal Palace and sent it toward the Hill of Northern Wilderness.

• The Great Thousand Palace issued invitations for an early Great Thousand Covenant, and the Saint Heaven Demon Emperor ordered the Outer Realm Demons to stop the covenant and rescue the Heavenly Evil God.
• The Outer-domain Evil Clan attacked the Endless Fire Domain and Martial Realm, raising alarm across the Great Thousand World as the date of the covenant approached.
• Xiao Yan ordered the Endless Fire Domain onto full alert after Yao Chen, Cai Lin, and Xiao Xun'er warned that the attacks aimed to keep him from the gathering.
• Demonic forces and three enormous demons emerged before the Endless Fire Domain, while Lin Dong and Ying Huanhuan prepared the Martial Realm's forces to defend their border.
• Xiao Lin poured his Spiritual Power into the Immortal Palace, activated the sacred artifact, and sent it flying toward the Hill of Northern Wilderness.

At the Great Thousand Covenant on the Hill of Northern Wilderness, the arrival of Beast Domain overlords revealed the Immortal Palace’s growing influence. At the Immortal Emperor’s altar, Xiao Lin demonstrated the power of the Azure Vault Ranking and uncovered the character “Ye,” left upon it by the Immortal Emperor.

• Heavenly Sovereigns gathered at the Hill of Northern Wilderness for the Great Thousand Covenant, which the Immortal Palace and Great Thousand Palace jointly hosted.
• The True Dragon Emperor, the Phoenix King and Queen, and the Kunpeng Old Ancestor arrived, impressing the gathered experts with the Immortal Palace’s influence among the divine beast races.
• Xiao Lin led Qin Tian and the Lord of Immortality to the altar where the Immortal Emperor’s remains rested, and shielded them from the altar’s pressure.
• Xiao Lin explained that the Azure Vault Ranking embodied the World Will and that the Immortal Emperor had left only half a name upon it.
• Xiao Lin used Chaos Power to draw out and analyze the Immortal Emperor’s undying power, revealing the Azure Vault Ranking’s radiance and the character “Ye.”