Chapter Summaries

Chen Feng survived the Crown Prince’s attack after Bodhi possessed him, and Tuoba Huang killed the Crown Prince’s avatar, leaving Chen Feng wary of its powerful original body in the upper realm. On the journey back, Chen Feng asked how he could revive Jun Qianwu’s parents, and Tuoba Huang hinted that it might not be entirely impossible.

• The Crown Prince revealed that he was an avatar and attacked Chen Feng, but Bodhi possessed Chen Feng and helped him smash the Crown Prince with the Sacred Hammer.
• The Crown Prince warned Chen Feng that another avatar would pursue him, then his descended will vanished and the Crown Prince regained control of his body.
• Tuoba Huang killed the Crown Prince, while Jun Qianwu checked on Chen Feng and urged him to call for help if danger arose.
• Bodhi advised Chen Feng to cultivate quickly, study his Iron Vine Divine Tree, and avoid staying in one place as he prepared for another avatar’s arrival.
• Chen Feng asked Bodhi and Tuoba Huang about reviving Jun Qianwu’s parents, and Tuoba Huang explained the limits of life-and-death magic before saying revival was not entirely impossible.

Chen Feng learned a brutal, uncertain method for opening a gate to the Hell Realm, then decided to seek the Witch Ancestor’s guidance after improving his strength. Meanwhile, Xiao Lie feared that the Crown Prince had been an outsider’s avatar who might have inherited the Sage Dynasty.

• Tuoba Huang told Chen Feng that Jun Qianwu’s parents’ souls might have gone to the Netherworld and described the Hell Gate ritual, which required killing one hundred thousand wicked people in a blood pool.
• Chen Feng rejected the ritual as cruel and impractical, and Tuoba Huang offered to take him to Misty Mountain to meet the Witch Ancestor.
• Chen Feng agreed to go after strengthening his martial soul and cultivation, then entered seclusion and consumed many pills.
• Xiao Lie returned to the Imperial Palace grieving the Crown Prince’s death and realized the Crown Prince might have been an avatar belonging to a stranger who could have taken over the Sage Dynasty.

Xiao Lie appointed Sixth Prince Xiao Feng as Crown Prince after discovering that the former Crown Prince was someone else's avatar, while Fang Heyun and Mu Qing became a couple. Chen Feng continued cultivating at Sea God Academy, breaking through to the sixth rank of Divine Harmony.

• Xiao Lie doubted whether Xiao Feng was also an avatar but issued an imperial decree making him Crown Prince.
• Notices announcing Xiao Feng's appointment spread throughout the Sage Dynasty, where people traded increasingly exaggerated stories about Chen Feng.
• Fang Heyun gave Mu Qing a jade figurine and showed her the hundreds he had carved; Mu Qing teased him before agreeing to become his woman.
• Fang Heyun and Mu Qing sensed Chen Feng's breakthrough aura and discussed his extraordinary potential and the rumored Misty Mountain.
• Chen Feng consumed sacred pills and competition rewards, advancing from the first to the fifth rank of Divine Harmony, then reaching the sixth rank three days later.

After reaching Divine Harmony Sixth Rank, Chen Feng completed his Nine Radiance Divine Robe and Shadowless Trace technique, then went to Lightning Canyon to nourish his fifth divine tree. He absorbed even the canyon’s core lightning unharmed, leaving the elders stunned by his strength.

• Chen Feng broke through to Divine Harmony Sixth Rank, completed his Nine Radiance Divine Robe, and tested its defenses with the Dragon Slaying Sacred Halberd.
• Chen Feng left his courtyard as Sea God Academy’s disciples and elders watched in awe, while Chu Cangtian’s Gentleman Camp remained disbanded and the Sixth Prince enjoyed his new status as Crown Prince.
• Chen Feng entered Lightning Canyon and endured its lightning, allowing his fifth divine tree to absorb the energy as spectators gathered to watch.
• Elder Zhou realized Chen Feng had been absorbing lightning from the Lightning Chambers and warned him that the canyon’s core was dangerous.
• Chen Feng stepped into the core and absorbed its powerful purple lightning without harm, prompting Elder Zhou to call him an Imperial Embryo destined to become a Great Emperor.

Chen Feng absorbed the lightning deep in the canyon unharmed while the crowd marveled at his strength and discussed how his rise could transform Great Xia Nation. He continued deeper into the canyon, drawing in the countless Lightning Dragons that struck him.

• Elder Jiang and Elder Zhou praised Chen Feng as an Imperial Embryo, while Chu Cangtian and the others accepted that he had eclipsed them and their camps had disbanded.
• Marquis Wu Yue and Su Luo regretted that Chen Feng had left Heavenly Position Camp, and Lei Qianren and others discussed the benefits his Sacred Arts and future rise could bring Great Xia Nation.
• Lu Xuan, Jiang Shiran, Li Jian, Shi Wang, and Yan Tiandu reflected on Chen Feng's extraordinary talent, with Yan Tiandu feeling respect for the fellow townsman who had treated them generously.
• Randy, Bankro, Guo Rong, Augustine, and Jiang Shiran discussed keeping their Great Xia Nation origins quiet and speculated about the origins of Chen Feng's nine Martial Souls.
• Xiong Batian watched Chen Feng and kept his homeland secret, then thought about visiting Great Xia Nation and bringing food to his father.
• Chen Feng absorbed another vast expanse of lightning and advanced into the canyon's deepest part as countless Lightning Dragons vanished against his body.

Chen Feng dug beneath Lightning Canyon and discovered a Lightning Soul Dragon forming inside a massive lightning stone. After he awakened it, the dragon drained the valley of its lightning, and Xiao Lie arrived, furious that Chen Feng had claimed his treasure.

• Chen Feng absorbed the valley’s lightning, then broke through the ground and dug hundreds of meters underground in search of its source.
• Chen Feng found a huge black lightning stone and began absorbing its energy to nourish his fifth divine tree.
• Chen Feng sensed a Lightning Soul Dragon inside the stone and tried to seize it, but the dragon blasted him back to the surface.
• The Lightning Soul Dragon emerged, absorbed the remaining lightning, and frightened the gathered crowd into retreating.
• Xiao Lie sensed the dragon and arrived above Sea God Academy, recognizing it as the treasure he had planned to claim himself.

Chen Feng subdued the Lightning Soul Dragon that Xiao Lie had raised, binding it with his vines and an enslavement rune. He kept it away from his Lightning Divine Tree so it could supply lightning without being absorbed, then rode it toward the depths of Sea God Academy.

• Xiao Lie claimed he had intended to give Chen Feng the Lightning Soul Dragon, and Chen Feng accepted it.
• The Lightning Soul Dragon attacked Chen Feng, but Chen Feng restrained it with the Iron Vine Divine Tree and forced it to submit with an Enslavement Rune.
• Chen Feng tested the dragon's lightning attacks on nearby peaks and confirmed that its strength reached the Divine Infant realm.
• Chen Feng brought the dragon into his Sea of Consciousness, then kept it away from the Lightning Divine Tree after sensing that the tree might destroy its consciousness.
• Chen Feng used the dragon to draw down lightning, then rode it as a mount toward the depths of Sea God Academy.

Chen Feng challenged Sea God Academy’s Heavenly Ladder and climbed past the academy’s standing records with little difficulty. He reached the seventy-ninth flight as spectators watched, while the summit and its extraterrestrial stone remained ahead.

• Chen Feng arrived at the Heavenly Ladder, saw Fang Heyun’s top ranking, and began climbing to break the record and reach the summit.
• Chen Feng passed the thirtieth flight, ringing the ancient bell and drawing disciples and academy leaders to watch.
• Fang Heyun and Mu Qing discussed Chen Feng’s chances as he climbed past the fiftieth and sixtieth flights.
• Chen Feng used the Nine Radiance Divine Robe to withstand the growing pressure and passed Zhou Zihong’s record at the seventy-seventh flight.
• Chen Feng reached the seventy-ninth flight with his protective aura barely wavering, leaving Mu Qing and the other spectators astonished.

Chen Feng shattered Sea God Academy’s Heavenly Ladder record by climbing far beyond Fang Heyun’s best, enduring the pressure with his cultivated body after his protective aura failed. He reached the ninety-fourth level and prepared to continue toward the summit despite his body cracking.

• Chen Feng stepped onto the eighty-first and then eighty-second levels, surpassing Fang Heyun’s record and sounding the academy’s ancient bronze bell.
• Chen Feng endured the pressure on the eighty-second level with his body and used the Heavenly Ladder to temper it.
• Chen Feng climbed from the eighty-third to the ninetieth level, astonishing the crowd as cracks and blood appeared on his body.
• Chen Feng reached the ninety-first level and continued climbing, deciding not to give up despite the pain.
• Chen Feng advanced through the ninety-second, ninety-third, and ninety-fourth levels as Elder Zhou worried that his body might fail if he went higher.

Chen Feng used his two Divine Tree martial souls to endure the Heavenly Ladder’s crushing pressure and reached its ninety-ninth level, setting a new record at Sea God Academy. He stood one step from the summit and the meteorite stone he intended to claim as the crowd and elders watched in shock.

• Chen Feng crossed the ninety-fifth and ninety-sixth levels, then reached the ninety-seventh before the pressure forced him back to the ninety-fourth.
• Chen Feng summoned the Iron Vine Divine Tree to anchor himself and climbed back to the ninety-seventh level as his body bled under the pressure.
• Chen Feng summoned the Life Divine Tree, whose Life Essence healed his worsening injuries as he advanced to the ninety-eighth level.
• Chen Feng endured cracking bones and climbed onto the ninety-ninth level with both feet, becoming the first person at Sea God Academy to reach it.
• The crowd and Elders Zhou and Jiang stared in disbelief as Chen Feng stood one step from the summit and the meteorite stone.

Chen Feng used the summit’s pressure and the Life Fruits from his Life Divine Tree to transform his body into a high-grade Life Physique. The transformation triggered a powerful heavenly tribulation while he remained at Divine Harmony Sixth Rank, and the elders realized it might be proof that he had formed a special physique after birth.

• Chen Feng endured the pressure on the ninety-ninth level, ate three Life Fruits, and absorbed the vital energy around the summit with his Life Divine Tree.
• Chen Feng consumed five more Life Fruits, and Life Law runes spread across his body and soul as a mark formed on his forehead, completing his Life Physique.
• Chen Feng felt his vitality and strength surge, while dark clouds gathered and a heavenly tribulation descended despite his unchanged cultivation rank.
• Elder Zhou and Elder Jiang debated why Chen Feng had triggered a tribulation, then flew to the side of the mountain to inspect him.
• Elder Zhou recognized the mark on Chen Feng’s forehead as evidence of a special physique, and the elders watched as lightning began to descend.

Chen Feng survived the heavenly tribulation, gained a Life Physique, and reached the mountain’s hundredth level, where he discovered a Magnetic Crystal Stone. After learning more about the stone from Tuoba Huang, Chen Feng began plundering Sea God Academy’s cultivation grounds before returning to Blue Star, and entered a submerged world that held a lone island.

• Chen Feng endured all nine bolts of lightning as his Life Physique rapidly healed his injuries, then climbed to the hundredth level.
• Chen Feng examined the gray stone, drained its origin energy, and tested its magnetic force by flattening a distant mountaintop.
• Tuoba Huang identified the stone as a rare Magnetic Crystal Stone from the Heaven Realm and discussed the Heaven Realm and immortal realm with Chen Feng.
• Chen Feng told Tuoba Huang he would clear out Sea God Academy’s cultivation grounds before returning to his hometown, then entered the Hall of Nine Deaths One Life.
• Chen Feng entered a water-filled cultivation space, found its abundant water element useless to him, and spotted a lone island in the depths.

Chen Feng absorbed the resources of Sea God Academy’s alternate-dimensional worlds, then returned to Blue Star with Tuoba Huang to show him the Great Xia Nation. After Tuoba Huang revealed he had once found similar green spacecraft on a distant planet, Chen Feng brought him to Great Xia’s center of power, where the guards recognized him.

• Chen Feng used the Life Divine Tree’s vines to plunder spirit herbs and plants across Sea God Academy’s spaces, reaching the eighth rank of the Divine Realm and leaving many Cave Heaven Worlds depleted.
• Xiao Lie learned of the damage and, though frustrated, accepted that Chen Feng had followed the academy’s rules; disciples across the academy cursed and marveled at Chen Feng’s actions.
• Chen Feng met Tuoba Huang, and the two traveled through a teleportation array to Blue Star, where Chen Feng introduced him to the Great Xia Nation’s technology and asked him to keep its location secret.
• Tuoba Huang recalled finding green spacecraft wreckage on a distant abandoned planet fifty thousand years earlier, though Chen Feng could not identify where the craft had come from.
• Chen Feng and Tuoba Huang changed into local clothes, then flew to Great Xia’s central temple; the guards recognized Chen Feng as their nation’s powerful leader.

Chen Feng returned to Great Xia Nation and learned that Lei Qianren had named him Nation Lord, then reunited with his family and introduced Tuoba Huang to them. Tuoba Huang enjoyed Great Xia Nation’s comforts but was reminded of the family he had lost, before embracing his new life of lavish spending.

• Chen Feng learned that Lei Qianren had publicly passed the Nation Lord position to him, and he accepted the title.
• Chen Feng met with Yang Jun and Great Xia Nation’s officials, reviewed the nation’s expansion, and strengthened them with resources and the Life Divine Tree.
• Chen Feng brought Tuoba Huang to his home, where Tuoba Huang explored Great Xia Nation and enjoyed its food, wine, and amenities.
• Chen Feng’s parents, Chen Wu, and Chen Shuqin returned to reunite with him, and Tuoba Huang felt sorrow as he remembered his long-dead family.
• Tuoba Huang spent the following days enjoying Great Xia Nation and bought a three-million watch with his bank card.

Chen Feng spent time with his family and friends, leaving them resources and helping them advance before departing with Tuoba Huang for Misty Mountain. On the way, he plundered resources across several territories, grew stronger, and entered the Sun Moon Empire, where he and Tuoba Huang began exploring a port city.

• Chen Feng gave his family resources, cultivation guidance, and talismans, helped Bearded Uncle and his friends improve, and then left with Tuoba Huang for Misty Mountain.
• Chen Feng and Tuoba Huang traveled across the Sage Dynasty and the Panwu Divine Dynasty while Chen Feng harvested mines, herbs, and other resources, advancing to God Union Level Ten.
• Chen Feng used the Magnetic Crystal Stone to scatter a huge pack of demonic wolves and absorbed the Demonic Cores from their nest.
• Tuoba Huang showed Chen Feng a map of the Sun Moon Empire, explaining that Misty Mountain supported the unified nation and its temples devoted to the gods.
• Chen Feng and Tuoba Huang crossed the border into the Sun Moon Empire, flew past its port, and descended onto a nearby street to explore.

Chen Feng and Tuoba Huang entered Moonfall City, where hostility toward outsiders and steep entry fees revealed growing tensions under Princess Yinhua. Chen Feng learned from merchant Du Yu why the Sun Moon Empire depended on imported demonic beast Crystal Cores before the caravan went to its trading center.

• Chen Feng and Tuoba Huang saw the Tianyu Merchant Team pay greatly increased entry fees to enter Moonfall City.
• The guards charged Chen Feng and Tuoba Huang sixty origin stones and warned that Princess Yinhua had been targeting outsiders.
• Du Yu warned Chen Feng to avoid strangers and leave before dark, explaining that the city had become dangerous for outsiders.
• Du Yu told Chen Feng that demonic beasts in the Sun Moon Empire had been nearly wiped out by the Boga Cult, so the Temple of Heavenly Gods protected and bred them while importing Crystal Cores.
• Du Yu explained that his caravan traded Crystal Cores in Moonfall City for profit, then led the Tianyu Merchant Team to the trading center.

Chen Feng saw how Moonfall City exploited and preyed on outsiders as Du Yu’s caravan was robbed, beaten, and imprisoned by corrupt officials. The officials planned to demand ransom from the caravan’s families, leaving Du Yu and the others fearing they would not survive.

• Chen Feng and Tuoba Huang explored Moonfall City and noticed that local thugs targeted outsiders, many of whom had disappeared.
• A merchant association official beat an old man who protested the low price offered for his Crystal Cores, then ordered guards to imprison him.
• Officials demanded that Du Yu’s caravan surrender its goods without payment, and they arrested the caravan when Du Yu refused.
• The guards defeated the caravan members, bound them, and carried them toward prison while the officials discussed using Princess Yinhua’s influence to seize outsiders’ resources.
• Du Yu and Du Peng feared that their families could not afford the ransom and that the officials might keep the goods without releasing them.

Chen Feng rescued Du Yu, Du Peng, and their caravan after defeating the Moonfall City guards who were arresting outsiders. The chapter then showed Princess Yinhua torturing a merchant couple while demanding their wealth.

• Du Yu warned Chen Feng to leave, but a guard attacked Chen Feng with a whip.
• Chen Feng struck the guard, defeated the fifty-odd guards and three officials, and freed the caravan members from their cages.
• Du Yu and Du Peng thanked Chen Feng, who told them to leave Moonfall City while he stayed to handle his own matters.
• At her estate, Princess Yinhua ordered a merchant couple to surrender their wealth and shops, then had a guard gouge out the woman's eye.

Chen Feng confronted Princess Yinhua and Moonfall City's forces after they attacked outsiders, defeating the princess and resisting the city's formation. He killed the City Lord, prompting the remaining experts to call for a retreat.

• Princess Yinhua ordered her guards to capture Chen Feng and take him to her residence as a male slave.
• Chen Feng blasted away dozens of guards, ignored Princess Yinhua's Heavenly Bridge Level attack, and knocked her to the ground.
• The City Lord activated Moonfall City's formation and sent his four great personal guards and other experts to attack Chen Feng.
• Chen Feng blocked the attacks and killed the City Lord with a single clash, causing the surrounding experts to call for a retreat.

Chen Feng defeated Moonfall City’s city lord, its Temple of Heavenly Gods elder, and the other defenders after they persecuted outsiders. He killed Princess Yinhua, destroyed the city’s formation and gate, and left the city open as onlookers recognized him as a first-sequence genius of the Sage Dynasty’s Sea God Academy.

• Chen Feng cut down Moonfall City’s experts while Tuoba Huang stopped the black-clothed official and his companions from fleeing.
• Tuoba Huang gouged out Princess Yinhua’s eye, then confronted a white-robed elder of the Temple of Heavenly Gods who defended the city’s mistreatment of outsiders.
• Chen Feng used his Dragon Slaying Sacred Halberd and Magnetic Crystal Stone to overcome the elder’s attacks and kill her.
• Chen Feng killed Princess Yinhua and announced that Moonfall City had been punished, inviting anyone who disagreed to challenge him.
• Chen Feng punched open the city gate and shattered the formation that sealed Moonfall City.
• An onlooker recognized Chen Feng as the first-sequence genius of the Sage Dynasty’s Sea God Academy.