Chapter Summaries

Chen Feng told Zhao Muyun about the attempt on his life, prompting Zhao Muyun to investigate the conspiracy and reveal that the Ancestral Dragon Bone was the motive. As the students gathered for the merit rankings, Yan Tiandu realized Chen Feng had also reached Transcendence and reconsidered challenging him.

• Chen Feng recounted the assassination attempt to Zhao Muyun, who grew furious and vowed to report the matter to the National Councilors of the Great Xia Nation.
• Zhao Muyun explained that the Ou Manor faction had targeted Chen Feng to help Randy win the Ancestral Dragon Bone, which would go to the top genius three years after the students graduated.
• Zhao Muyun urged Chen Feng to compete for the Ancestral Dragon Bone, and Chen Feng left with two thousand additional merits, bringing his total to around thirty-eight thousand.
• Zhao Muyun and the teachers reviewed the students' merits, noting that Chen Feng had killed three Transcendence Realm opponents and Yan Tiandu had killed one.
• Students from numerous academies gathered to await the rankings while injured students awaited treatment and spacecraft searched for the missing.
• Yan Tiandu learned that Chen Feng had reached Transcendence and doubted he could challenge him anytime soon.

After the hundred-day trial on Rakshasa Star ended, Zhao Muyun announced the first-year rankings, with Chen Feng taking first place ahead of Randy and Yan Tiandu. The chapter left the students reacting to the results as Zhao Muyun continued reading the top one hundred.

• Guo Rong reflected on Chen Feng and Yan Tiandu's Transcendence-level strength and considered how her Water Qilin Martial Soul could grow stronger.
• Andre lamented losing his treasured saber to Chen Feng, while Yan Tiandu watched the Spatial Ring Chen Feng had taken from him.
• Zhang Hua discovered that mysterious runes had appeared on his Four White Tiger Martial Souls after the trial.
• Zhao Muyun announced Chen Feng in first place, Randy in second, and Yan Tiandu in third on the individual list.
• Zhao Muyun continued announcing the rankings, including several Wushen University students in the top places and Zhang Hua in nineteenth.

The academies announced the Outer Domain training rankings and handed out rewards, with Chen Feng taking first place among first-year students and casually swallowing all five of his King-grade Mid-tier Pure Spirit Pills. After the second- and third-year results, the crowd awaited the overall rankings.

• Students discussed the first-year rankings, noting Randy's second place, Chen Feng's lead, and the placements of Xudete, Shi Wang, Jiang Shiran, Augustine, and Bankro.
• Zhao Muyun called the ranked students forward and distributed their rewards, giving Chen Feng five King-grade Mid-tier Pure Spirit Pills for first place.
• Chen Feng swallowed all five pills at once, stunning the students and drawing Zhao Muyun's amused attention.
• The second-year rankings were announced, and Wu Shuang placed seventh.
• Guo Rong, Li Lian, and Delis took the top three spots among third-years, and the crowd waited for the overall rankings.

Chen Feng won first place in the overall school trial rankings with 38,000 Merit Points, earning valuable pills and drawing the attention of students across Great Xia Nation. After the students returned through a wormhole, reporters and media waited at the schools to cover the results.

• The overall rankings named Chen Feng first with 38,000 Merit Points, followed by Randy and Yan Tiandu.
• Chen Feng received ten Pure Spirit Pills and a King-grade Nine Aperture Golden Pill, alongside the rewards he had earned from the category rankings.
• Guo Rong marveled at Chen Feng’s performance, while Randy accepted second place without resentment and looked ahead to his future progress.
• Students discussed the top-ranked competitors, and Guo Tao reflected on Chen Feng’s rise after failing to make the top hundred.
• The students boarded a ship, traveled through a wormhole, and returned to Great Xia Nation as media outlets waited at the schools.

Chen Feng returned to Wushen University after taking first place in the national trial, and the news of his achievement spread across the country. His family, former classmates, teammates, and others celebrated or reacted to his rise as he left the campus media behind.

• Chen Feng and Jiang Shiran returned to Wushen University, where reporters crowded Chen Feng with questions about the trial and his first-place score.
• Chen Feng flew away from the reporters, prompting them to speculate that he had reached the Transcendent Realm.
• Chen Feng’s parents and younger sister saw his name at the top of the results list and celebrated, while his family and former school rejoiced at his success.
• News about Chen Feng’s nine Martial Souls and his trial victory spread online, drawing reactions from Bearded Uncle, Zhu Tao, Tao Min, Zhang Yang, and the Bald Man.
• In a wilderness region, Chen Wu checked his electronic watch and discovered that his younger brother had taken first place in the trial.

Chen Feng reunited with Chen Wu by video call, then shared valuable pills and a Bodhi Seed with his family before returning to school. He and his teammates sold their trial spoils, and Chen Feng brought out more than seventy thousand ice-elemental origin stones for appraisal.

• Chen Wu celebrated Chen Feng's first-place trial result with the War Soul Mercenary Group and told him he planned to remain with the group rather than return home.
• Chen Feng gave his parents and Shu Qin Pure Spirit Pills and gave Shu Qin a Bodhi Seed, warning the family to take the pills in small portions.
• Chen Feng transferred money to his family before returning to school and meeting Jiang Shiran, Lu Xuan, Shi Wang, Huo Kong, Li Jian, and the others.
• The teammates sold their trial materials, splitting the team's earnings and leaving Li Jian the money from materials he had collected himself.
• Chen Feng took more than seventy thousand ice-elemental origin stones from his Spatial Ring and asked the acquisition shop manager to appraise them.

Chen Feng and his companions sold seventy thousand Ice Origin Stones to Hesheng Materials Company for more than 7 billion Xia Kingdom currency. After splitting the money, the six students received their shares and considered how to use their new wealth.

• Chen Feng revealed the Ice Origin Stones from his Spatial Ring, astonishing the acquisition store’s manager and employees.
• President Yang arrived, confirmed the shipment, and arranged a payment of 7,038,010,000 Xia Kingdom currency.
• President Yang gave Chen Feng, Jiang Shiran, and Li Jian golden membership cards and invited them to sell materials to Hesheng in the future.
• Chen Feng divided the money among the six students, giving himself 2,038,010,000, Lu Xuan 1.5 billion, and Jiang Shiran, Li Jian, Huo Kong, and Shi Wang 1.125 billion each.
• Huo Kong and Shi Wang celebrated their new resources, Jiang Shiran and Lu Xuan were thrilled, and Li Jian planned to buy a city home and bring his younger sister there.

Chen Feng sold demon materials and Malevolent Spirit Wood for billions, shocking President Yang and the others when they recognized him as the trial’s top-ranked participant. After celebrating with his friends, Chen Feng went to the shipping office while Li Jian prepared to buy a home for his sister.

• Li Jian rejoiced that his new money would let him buy a house and bring his sister to live with him.
• Chen Feng sold Transcendence Realm demon corpses, weapons, and other materials for 642 million, then sold four Malevolent Spirit Woods for 4.035 billion.
• President Yang realized Chen Feng was the top-ranked participant in the Xia Kingdom trial, and the store staff reacted with astonishment.
• Chen Feng and Lu Xuan’s group celebrated their successful cooperation, and Li Jian planned to buy a house for his sister.
• Lu Xuan, Shi Wang, Huo Kong, and Jiang Shiran planned to buy cultivation resources, while Chen Feng went to the shipping office instead of returning to school.

Chen Feng sent Chen Wu Spirit Spring Water, a Bodhi Seed, and one hundred million, helping his brother prepare to grow stronger. Meanwhile, Rayles and his allies discussed their failed attempt to kill the students and decided to avoid drawing suspicion for now.

• Chen Feng sent Chen Wu three bottles of Spirit Spring Water containing a Bodhi Seed and transferred one hundred million, while saving the Nine Aperture Golden Pill for Chen Wu’s future breakthrough.
• Chen Wu checked his account, called Chen Feng in shock, and accepted the money after learning it was only a small amount for his younger brother.
• Chen Feng returned to school and began preparing to comprehend the power of the Dharma Source with two days left in the training expedition.
• Rayles raged over the failed attack, learning that Chen Feng had killed the two Demon Humans and that the Transcendence Realm experts had failed to kill either student.
• Xibier, Kalal, and Sachida urged Rayles to avoid exposing their involvement, while Rayles said he should have sent Spiritual Wheel experts.

Rayles and the other councilors plotted to use Randy to seize control of Great Xia, while Zhao Muyun warned Jiang Nalan, Chen Yitian, and Zhou Zhenxiong about the attempted assassination of Chen Feng and Yan Tiandu. Jiang Nalan restrained his urge to start a civil war and set out with the others to confront the suspected conspirators.

• Rayles, Xibier, Kalal, and their allies discussed denying responsibility for the attack and using Randy's strength to take control of Great Xia.
• Rayles secretly considered placing a Slave Seal on Randy and eventually eliminating both rival councilors and his current allies.
• Zhao Muyun told Jiang Nalan, Chen Yitian, and Zhou Zhenxiong that the attack on Chen Feng and Yan Tiandu threatened humanity's future.
• Jiang Nalan blamed Rayles for arranging the attack, while Chen Yitian and Zhou Zhenxiong warned that fighting the other councilors could leave humanity vulnerable to its enemies.
• Jiang Nalan agreed to confront the suspected conspirators rather than attack them outright, and he called on Chen Yitian, Zhou Zhenxiong, and Zhao Muyun to come along.

Jiang Nalan, Chen Yitian, Zhou Zhenxiong, and Zhao Muyun confronted the white National Councilors over the alleged hunting of talented students, but Rayles and the others denied responsibility and threatened war. After the four National Councilors left the chamber holding Lei Qianren’s life jade, it briefly glowed, revealing that he was still alive.

• Chen Yitian told Zhao Muyun that the National Councilors had planned to elect him as Great Xia Nation’s seventh National Councilor, but the plan was on hold because the white councilors had more votes.
• Jiang Nalan, Chen Yitian, Zhou Zhenxiong, and Zhao Muyun left Lei Qianren’s silent life jade and went to confront Rayles, Xibier, Sachida, and Kalal.
• Lei Qianren’s jade briefly lit up after the four visitors had left, signaling that he was alive, though no one saw it.
• Jiang Nalan accused Rayles and the other white National Councilors of sending fighters to hunt talented students, while they denied the accusation and demanded evidence.
• Jiang Nalan threatened to kill white talents if human talents were harmed, and Rayles and the others answered with threats and displays of power.
• Rayles urged the confrontation toward war, while Chen Yitian recognized that fighting could shake Great Xia Nation.

Jiang Nalan and the Xia Kingdom’s leaders fought Rayles and his allies after Rayles sealed the lakeside in a formation to hide their battle. The clashes continued across the island, where Zhao Muyun pierced Sachida with a surprise sword strike.

• Jiang Nalan, Chen Yitian, Zhou Zhenxiong, Zhao Muyun, Rayles, and his allies revealed their powers inside the Great Xia Divine Hall.
• Rayles activated a formation that sealed the lakeside and urged both sides to settle who would rule the Xia Kingdom by force.
• Jiang Nalan attacked Rayles, and their battle burst out of the hall onto the plaza.
• Chen Yitian fought Xibier, Zhao Muyun fought Sachida, and Zhou Zhenxiong fought Kalal across the island.
• Sachida’s red swords repeatedly shattered Zhao Muyun’s Azure Dragons, but Zhao Muyun vanished and reappeared to stab Sachida through the chest.

Zhao Muyun fought through Sachida’s Blood Shadow Soul Sword substitutes and exposed his true body, while the battles between Zhou Zhenxiong and Kalal and between Jiang Nalan and Rayles continued. Zhao Muyun left Sachida defenseless and stomped toward his head as Rayles realized Sachida had been defeated.

• Zhao Muyun used spatial shifts and the Five-Headed Azure Dragon to attack Sachida, but Sachida survived a fatal strike by sacrificing one of his nine Blood Shadow Soul Swords.
• Sachida explained that his sword shadows served as substitutes and warned Zhao Muyun that his Space Law would eventually exhaust him.
• Zhou Zhenxiong battled Kalal’s countless angel shadows, while Jiang Nalan battered Rayles and broke through his lightning defenses.
• Zhao Muyun and the Five-Headed Azure Dragon reduced Sachida’s substitutes until his true body was exposed and all his other swords were gone.
• Zhao Muyun kicked the weakened Sachida backward, caught up to him, and stomped down on his head.

Zhao Muyun crippled Sachida and helped turn the battle against Rayles’s side, but Rayles revealed that he had prepared reinforcements. More than a dozen powerful fighters emerged from a Spatial Portal, including two Nirvana Realm experts and Xudra.

• Zhao Muyun crippled Sachida and let his Azure Dragon absorb Sachida’s energy.
• Rayles attacked Zhou Zhenxiong with his Thunder Origin while Kalal struck with holy light, badly wounding Zhou and sending Jiang Nalan flying after his counterattack.
• Zhao Muyun and Chen Yitian jointly wounded Kalal, while Xibier dislocated Chen Yitian’s shoulder.
• Zhou Zhenxiong survived Rayles’s attack with the help of protective soft armor and reunited with Jiang Nalan, Chen Yitian, and Zhao Muyun.
• Rayles opened a Spatial Portal, and more than a dozen powerful reinforcements emerged, including two Nirvana Realm experts and Xudra.

Rayles trapped Jiang Nalan, Zhao Muyun, Chen Yitian, Kalal, and Zhou Zhenxiong inside a reinforced formation and led a large force against them. Zhou Zhenxiong fell, leaving the others surrounded with no way to call for reinforcements as Rayles ordered the attack to continue.

• Rayles revealed that he had prepared a spatial node and gathered two Nirvana Realm experts and a host of Heavenly Bridge experts to kill Jiang Nalan's group.
• Rayles and the assembled enemies attacked, overwhelming the exhausted defenders as Zhao Muyun's Five-Headed Azure Dragon was driven back and Jiang Nalan killed one Heavenly Bridge expert.
• Rayles struck Zhou Zhenxiong repeatedly until he collapsed, leaving Jiang Nalan, Zhao Muyun, and Chen Yitian to guard him.
• Jiang Nalan tried to contact the Great Xia Nation's generals and break through the formation, but discovered Rayles had reinforced and tampered with it.
• Jiang Nalan condemned Rayles for prioritizing power over resisting the alien races, and Rayles ordered his forces to kill them.

Jiang Nalan and his allies were on the verge of defeat against Rayles and the others when Lei Qianren returned after decades away. Lei Qianren appeared inside the enemy formation, and his overwhelming presence changed the course of the confrontation.

• Jiang Nalan struck Rayles with a deadly attack, but Rayles survived by activating an ancient incomplete protective talisman.
• Jiang Nalan realized that he and his injured allies had exhausted their strength and were about to be defeated.
• Rayles mocked Jiang Nalan and claimed that Lei Qianren was dead, boasting that he would kill him too if he appeared.
• Lei Qianren's voice shook the battlefield, injuring several Heaven's Bridge experts and filling Rayles and his allies with terror.
• Lei Qianren appeared inside the formation, surrounded by lightning and the phantom of a Thunderwing Green Vulture.

Lei Qianren returned to Blue Star in time to stop Rayles and the Skybridge experts from carrying out their plot against the Great Xia Nation. He recalled the decades he spent absorbing the Thunderwing Green Vulture’s power on Thousand Thunder Mountain, then confronted Rayles over his past decision to let the white people become councilors.

• Rayles recognized Lei Qianren and despaired as Jiang Nalan and the other experts welcomed Lei’s return.
• Jiang Nalan told Lei Qianren what had happened, and Lei grew furious at the plot against the Great Xia Nation.
• The chapter recounted how Lei Qianren went to Thousand Thunder Mountain to seek a breakthrough and spent years enduring its lightning to reach the Thunderwing Green Vulture.
• Lei Qianren absorbed the Thunderwing Green Vulture’s Thunder Origin and devoured its remnant soul, but still failed to enter the Heaven-Piercing Realm.
• Lei Qianren returned to Blue Star, entered Lakeview Center through a flaw in its formation, and learned what had happened in the Great Xia Nation.
• Lei Qianren condemned Rayles, saying that allowing him and the other white people to become councilors had been his greatest folly.

Lei Qianren returned and killed Rayles, his allies, and the Skybridge experts who attacked the National Councilors. He revoked the councilors’ powers and ordered a Nation Lord system and the execution of the traitors’ families, leaving Great Xia Nation under his command.

• Lei Qianren rejected Rayles’s pleas and killed him with lightning after Rayles admitted killing Elder Yang and conspiring against the councilors.
• Lei Qianren killed Xibier, Kalal, Sachida, Xudra, and the other experts who tried to blame Rayles or resist.
• Zhao Muyun, Jiang Nalan, and the others watched Lei Qianren’s overwhelming strength and welcomed his return.
• Lei Qianren revoked the National Councilors’ decision-making authority and announced a Nation Lord system with the core army under his command.
• Lei Qianren ordered the arrest and execution of the traitors’ nine clans and the killing of anyone with separatist tendencies, and Jiang Nalan, Chen Yitian, and Zhou Zhenxiong accepted his orders.

Lei Qianren accepted Zhao Muyun’s argument against executing the relatives of the traitorous councilors, but ordered the direct relatives executed and restructured the nation’s government. He appointed Zhao Muyun as the Fifth Councilor and left the Great Xia Nation still facing the challenge of breaking through to the Heaven-Piercing Realm.

• Zhao Muyun urged Lei Qianren to punish the traitorous councilors without slaughtering their innocent collateral relatives, arguing that lasting rule depended on strength and stability.
• Lei Qianren praised Zhao Muyun’s reasoning, accepted his advice, and discussed how difficult it was to enter the Heaven-Piercing Realm.
• Lei Qianren ordered the direct relatives of Rayles and the other traitors arrested for public execution, while sparing their collateral relatives.
• Lei Qianren appointed Zhao Muyun as the Fifth Councilor and ordered the councilors to redistribute military, city, and administrative authority.
• Jiang Nalan proposed using an unforgeable National Seal to validate major orders and prevent future power struggles.

Lei Qianren returned to Great Xia Nation, discussed plans for a National Seal and assessed three rising human geniuses before outlining the dangers and opportunities in the Outer Domain. After the councilors cleared the battlefield and distributed the spoils, news of the events sent Great Xia Nation into turmoil.

• Chen Yitian and Zhou Zhenxiong supported Jiang Nalan's proposal to create a National Seal, and Lei Qianren agreed before asking about humanity's emerging geniuses.
• Jiang Nalan described Yan Tiandu and Randy, then introduced Chen Feng, whose nine powerful martial souls had helped him win the national university Outer Domain Trial.
• Lei Qianren warned that alien forces were gathering and said he planned to investigate the Outer Domain before deciding how Great Xia Nation should expand.
• Jiang Nalan told Lei Qianren about the Ancestral Dragon Bone, and Lei Qianren left it as a reward for the strongest talented student.
• Lei Qianren and the councilors cleared the corpses and divided the spoils; Zhao Muyun absorbed Sachida's power, while Lei Qianren took nothing.
• Great Xia Nation was thrown into turmoil when its citizens received sudden news.