Chapter Summaries

At Blackstone Mountain, Li Xijun protected Mu Hongling from the Seven Emotions Sect’s Blood Sacrifice Soul-Confusing Smoke and revealed his overwhelming swordsmanship. He killed Qi Youming and Liu Suifeng, leaving Li Wujiu and Hua Nongying facing him as they realized he seemed more like the Life and Death Sword Sect’s holy son than the White Tiger Saintess’s younger brother.

• Qi Youming, Ding Jinglin, and another Palace of the Stars Inner Disciple drove back the Seven Emotions Sect archers, but Li Wujiu, Hua Nongying, and Liu Suifeng attacked them.
• Li Wujiu and Hua Nongying sacrificed their remaining disciples to unleash Blood Sacrifice Soul-Confusing Smoke, incapacitating most of the Palace of the Stars fighters.
• Li Xijun dispelled the smoke around Mu Hongling and offered her a Heavenly Wisdom Earthly Hearing Pill to help her break through to Orifice Opening.
• Liu Suifeng killed the weakened Palace of the Stars Inner Disciple, while Ding Jinglin fled and Qi Youming tried to use Li Xijun and Mu Hongling as a distraction.
• Li Xijun killed Qi Youming with one sword strike, then beheaded Liu Suifeng as he tried to flee.
• Li Wujiu and Hua Nongying recoiled from Li Xijun’s killing intent and recognized that he seemed like the holy son of the Life and Death Sword Sect.

Li Xijun returned from the Outer Sect operation with Mu Hongling, used his spoils to break through to the Orifice Opening Realm, and prepared to become an Inner Disciple. Li Qinghan arrived and offered to help him register, but first asked him to choose a branch of the Palace of the Stars' Four Spirits.

• Li Xijun killed Li Wujiu and Hua Nongying after Liu Suifeng, leaving the three Orifice Opening Realm demonic sect fighters dead.
• Li Xijun and Mu Hongling collected the spoils, returned to the Palace of the Stars, and exchanged them for cultivation pills.
• Li Xijun refined Glory Fungus Qi Nourishing Pills for fifteen days, reaching Qi Accumulation Major Completion.
• Li Xijun used a Heavenly Wisdom Earthly Hearing Pill to open his Eye Aperture and enter the Orifice Opening Realm.
• Li Qinghan visited Li Xijun, confirmed his breakthrough, and said she would take him to register as an Inner Disciple and choose a Four Spirits branch.

The Vermillion Bird Venerable explained the Four Divine Beasts Branches’ cultivation inheritances and persuaded Li Xijun to join her faction. When Li Xijun revealed that he had mastered the Heavenly Emperor Qi Observation Art and possessed a True Dragon Fate, she and Li Qinghan were stunned, and the Venerable hurried off to bring him to inherit the Vermillion Bird scripture.

• Li Qinghan began explaining the Four Divine Beasts Branches, but the Vermillion Bird Venerable appeared and thanked Li Xijun for helping Mu Hongling.
• The Vermillion Bird Venerable described the branches’ Divine Arts, their inheritance requirements, and the obstacles facing the White Tiger, Black Tortoise, and Azure Dragon factions.
• The Vermillion Bird Venerable offered to teach Li Xijun the Vermillion Bird Fire Sky Burning Scripture, and Li Xijun agreed to join her faction.
• Li Xijun revealed that he had mastered the Heavenly Emperor Qi Observation Art, shocking the Vermillion Bird Venerable and Li Qinghan.
• Li Xijun demonstrated his Qi-Observing Eyes and disclosed that he possessed a True Dragon Fate, while Li Qinghan and the Vermillion Bird Venerable tried to make sense of his origins.
• The delighted Vermillion Bird Venerable took Li Xijun away to inherit the Vermillion Bird Fire Sky Burning Scripture.

Li Xijun received the Vermillion Bird Fire Sky Burning Scripture and discovered that its circulation route occupied one quarter of his energy system, renewing his plan to combine the Four Spirit lineages’ methods. Li Qinghan agreed to help him seek the other inheritances and offered to take him to see the Azure Dragon Seal during their travels.

• Mu Wanqiu led Li Xijun into Li Fire Hall and gave him the guiding formula for receiving the Vermillion Bird lineage’s inheritance.
• Li Xijun touched the Vermillion Bird Seal, comprehended the Orifice Opening and Exterior Scenery chapters, and recognized the Exterior Scenery circulation route as the southern quarter of his energy system.
• Mu Wanqiu explained that earlier generations had failed to combine the Four Spirit methods into the All Heavens Stellar Four Symbols Art without comprehending the All Heaven Stars Great Formation.
• Mu Wanqiu teased Li Xijun, and Li Qinghan destroyed her sword qi before pulling him away from Li Fire Hall.
• Li Qinghan said Li Xijun could gain the White Tiger inheritance by replacing Jin Zangfeng after his death, then offered to take Li Xijun to see the Azure Dragon Seal on their travels.

Li Xijun and Li Qinghan entered an ancient imperial tomb on Mount Mang in search of the Azure Dragon Seal. After Li Xijun honed his Vermillion Bird Twelve Styles while fighting pottery soldiers, they reached the altar and found the seal, but twelve powerful guards surrounded them.

• Li Xijun cultivated the Vermillion Bird Fire Sky Burning Scripture as he and Li Qinghan rode toward Mount Mang.
• Li Qinghan used a hand seal to open a hidden passage into an ancient imperial tomb, where pottery soldiers began attacking them.
• Li Xijun defeated a pottery figurine with the Vermillion Bird Twelve Styles, and Li Qinghan's advice helped him advance the technique's proficiency.
• Li Xijun continued practicing against the tomb's pottery figurines until he mastered the Vermillion Bird Twelve Styles.
• Li Xijun and Li Qinghan reached an altar bearing an Azure Dragon Seal in an opened treasure box, then twelve six-aperture pottery guards emerged and surrounded them.

Li Qinghan and Li Xijun discovered that the Azure Dragon Seal taught them the Azure Dragon Wood Longevity Art and revealed a route toward clues about the Night Emperor. After Jin Zangfeng ambushed them, Li Xijun used the teleportation formation to take him to the Northern Desert, where he prepared to confront him.

• Li Qinghan destroyed twelve pottery figurine guards with her White Tiger sword technique and awakened the Azure Dragon Seal, which strengthened her and shared information about the tomb and a teleportation formation to the Northern Desert.
• Li Qinghan guided Li Xijun in learning the Azure Dragon Wood Longevity Art from the seal, and the pair left the tomb intending to travel and challenge Human Ranking prodigies.
• Jin Zangfeng ambushed Li Qinghan and Li Xijun outside the fissure, but Li Qinghan blocked his attack and retreated into the tomb with Li Xijun.
• As Jin Zangfeng pursued them to the altar, Li Xijun pushed Li Qinghan away, struck Jin Zangfeng, and vanished with him through the teleportation formation.
• In the Northern Desert, Li Xijun destroyed part of the altar and taunted Jin Zangfeng before transforming into golden light and rising into the sky.

Li Xijun fought Jin Zangfeng in the Northern Desert, using their clash to master the Vermillion Bird Sky Burning Seal and advance his Slaughter Sword Intent. After killing Jin Zangfeng, Li Xijun saw a golden radiance appear in the sky above the Wuxia World.

• Li Xijun absorbed his Other Self, gained a surge in aptitude and spiritual power, and began cultivating the Vermillion Bird Fire Sky Burning Scripture.
• Jin Zangfeng attacked Li Xijun with his perfected killing sword intent, but Li Xijun blocked the strikes with his body and practiced the Vermillion Bird Twelve Styles in their fight.
• Jin Zangfeng unleashed the White Tiger God Slaughter Seven Kill Sword Formation, and Li Xijun endured its Exterior Scenery-level strike while comprehending the Vermillion Bird's deeper intent.
• Li Xijun formed the Vermillion Bird Sky Burning Seal and shattered Jin Zangfeng's sword light, then struck him down with the White Tiger Seven Kill Stance as Jin tried to burn his life origin.
• Li Xijun's White Tiger Stance mastery rose and his Slaughter Sword Intent reached Major Accomplishment, while a golden radiance appeared above the Wuxia World.

Li Xijun killed Jin Zangfeng and rose to Number One on the Human Ranking, shocking the martial world and easing Li Qinghan’s worries about him. After absorbing the wish power stirred by his fame, he returned to the Main World and found its Spiritual Power more abundant than in the Wuxia World.

• Li Xijun defeated Jin Zangfeng in the northern desert, comprehended the Vermillion Bird Sky Burning Seal, and killed him, prompting the Book of Mortal Affairs to rank him Number One on the Human Ranking.
• Mu Hongling, Mu Wanqiu, Li Qinghan, and an elderly Exterior Scenery master reacted with shock to Li Xijun’s rise, while Li Qinghan began considering his cultivation technique.
• Leaders and prodigies across Great Xia’s sects and schools noticed Li Xijun’s feat, and Su Manniang became curious about meeting him in the northern desert.
• Li Xijun filtered the negative emotions from the wish power entering his body and decided to return to the Main World, believing the ranking would reassure his Sister.
• Li Xijun returned to the bathhouse in the Main World, relaxed in the hot springs, and found that Spiritual Power was more active and abundant there.

Li Xijun realized that the Wuxia World’s stagnant spiritual energy and restrictive laws explained its limits, then strengthened his Main World body by reopening his Eye Aperture. After Jiang Qiyue told him Su Nianyi was competing for a Global National Government Competition slot, Li Xijun thought of a way to help Qiyue raise her cultivation quickly.

• Li Xijun concluded that the Wuxia World’s spirit energy was beginning to revive and that its emperor had likely pursued the path to immortality, so he resolved to collect more Divine Arts before the world changed.
• Li Xijun reopened his Eye Aperture, sensed spiritual energy more clearly, and measured a punching force of 218.87 tons after his body was strengthened.
• Li Xijun found Jiang Qiyue practicing spearwork at great mastery and watched her precisely dent a steel target with a thrust.
• Jiang Qiyue told Li Xijun that Su Nianyi had registered to compete for a Clear Spring Splendor Hall slot in the Global National Government Competition, and worried that she would be left behind.
• Li Xijun remembered the Nirvana Dual Cultivation Art and told Jiang Qiyue he might have a way to raise her cultivation quickly.

The Wood Sage agreed to watch Li Xijun’s progress and promised to demonstrate his Dao if Li won the world championship and passed his trial. Meanwhile, Li used Vermillion Bird Nirvana to help Jiang Qiyue pursue a breakthrough, while Su Nianyi won another arena match.

• The Flame Sage visited the wounded Wood Sage and told him that the annual recommendation period was approaching and that the old Daoist had selected Li Xijun.
• After hearing that Li might lead Great Xia to the world championship, the Wood Sage said he would personally demonstrate his Dao if Li won and passed his trial.
• Li Xijun told Jiang Qiyue about the Yin-Yang Nirvana Art, and she eagerly agreed to cultivate with him.
• Li used Vermillion Bird Nirvana to temper Jiang Qiyue’s body with Vermillion Bird Spirit Energy and help her advance toward perfected Mortal Shedding.
• Once her breakthrough had entered a smooth stage, Jiang Qiyue pushed Li underwater and said she had wanted to get back at Nianyi.
• Su Nianyi defeated a third-year Intent Realm Martial Warrior at Clear Spring Dawn Palace and declared that she had won again.

Su Nianyi advanced to the final selection and was named an official member for the Global National Government Competition, while Jiang Qiyue completed Mortal Shedding with Li Xijun’s help and gained a Vermillion Bird Sky Patrol Spirit Body. The chapter ended with Su Nianyi feeling the Emerald Laurel Crown was unusually heavy as Lisa placed it on her head.

• Su Nianyi won her fifth consecutive advancement match but felt soreness and heaviness around her neck and head afterward.
• Jiang Qiyue emerged from her crimson-gold cocoon after five days, reaching the peak of the Mortal Shedding Realm and forming a Vermillion Bird Sky Patrol Spirit Body.
• Jiang Qiyue told Li Xijun she had also comprehended an Artistic Conception resembling his Vermillion Bird Sky Burning Seal, and she anticipated competing for a reserve spot.
• Lisa announced Ju Mengya and Su Nianyi as official members alongside Li Xijun for the Global National Government Competition.
• Lisa placed Emerald Laurel Crowns on Ju Mengya and Su Nianyi, and Su Nianyi quietly asked why hers felt so heavy.

Lisa introduced the eight official members of the Great Xia National Academy Team and explained their abilities ahead of the reserve selection. After two reserve spots were chosen in three days, the team would depart for several months of global training.

• Su Nianyi learned that Jiang Qiyue had reached Mortal Shedding completion, formed an extraordinary physique, and comprehended Artistic Conception after cultivating with Li Xijun.
• Lisa registered Jiang Qiyue for the National Academy Team reserve selection and told her to cultivate at home for the next few days.
• Lisa presented the team members from the Unnamed Exquisite Pavilion, including Ye Ningxue, Luo Xu, and Cai Meng'er, and described their strengths.
• Jiang Qiyue identified military representatives Jiang Tu and Wei Ying and explained their backgrounds and martial arts.
• Lisa told the group that the two reserve members would be selected in three days, after which the team would leave for several months of global training.

Jiang Qiyue won a substitute spot on the National Academy Team, and the team assembled in the Imperial Capital for its training. Li Xijun arrived late and learned that Su Nianying, who had just formed a First-Grade Golden Core, would be one of the instructors.

• Jiang Qiyue burst into Teacher Lisa's loft and announced that she had won a substitute spot, alongside Zhou Mingji.
• Lisa explained that Zhou Mingji came from the Modu Zhou Family, whose members cultivated the Withering Wood Poison Dragon Scripture.
• Li Xijun asked who would lead the National Academy Team, and Lisa said she would not go but hinted that one instructor was someone the group knew.
• The National Academy Team gathered at Great Xia National Stadium, where Ju Mengya and Su Nianyi wondered why Li Xijun had not arrived.
• Li Xijun reached the stadium and joined the others, then Su Nianying introduced herself as a newly formed First-Grade Golden Core Martial Artist and the team's instructor.

Su Nianying revealed her First-Grade Golden Core and led the Great Xia National Academy Team toward Sakura Country for its training selection trials. Once aboard their ship, she began teaching Li Xijun the Thunder Saint Saber Technique’s Four Seasons Thunder Burst, leaving him to practice its spring thunder intent under her close guidance.

• Su Nianying explained that the team had to pass trials in three countries and announced that Sakura Country was their first destination.
• The ten prodigies flew to Modu, boarded a cruise ship, and sailed beyond Great Xia’s safe waters toward Japan.
• Su Nianying called Li Xijun to her room, claiming she would teach him the Thunder God’s saber technique, while Su Nianyi realized her sister wanted him to herself.
• Su Nianying demonstrated Four Seasons Thunder Burst, showing how spring, summer, autumn, and winter thunder each carried a different intent.
• Su Nianying guided Li Xijun through the saber technique’s opening practice, telling him that understanding spring thunder would bring him more than halfway toward mastering the move.

Su Nianying taught Li Xijun the Four Seasons Thunder Burst, and he quickly mastered its forms before using the Azure Dragon Yi Wood Longevity Art to comprehend the spring thunder intent. He left the lesson wielding vital azure lightning, with both his saber technique and cultivation art greatly advanced.

• Su Nianying guided Li Xijun through the saber forms and explained that the technique’s true power came from comprehending Spring Thunder Awakening.
• Li Xijun drew on the Azure Dragon Yi Wood Longevity Art and realized that its connection to spring and the Zhen Trigram could reveal the spring thunder intent.
• The Azure Dragon Seal manifested the Eastern Azure Dragon Seven Mansions in Li Xijun’s Sea of Consciousness, and he awakened azure lightning filled with vital power.
• Su Nianying was stunned as Li Xijun advanced Four Seasons Thunder Burst to Mastery and the Azure Dragon Yi Wood Longevity Art to Proficient.

Li Xijun impressed Su Nianying with the power of his Azure Dragon Wood Longevity Art and rapidly advanced in the Four Seasons Thunder Burst under her instruction. Their training was interrupted when a Sea Spirit Clan army attacked the cruise liner, beginning the National Academy Team’s practical trial.

• Su Nianying sensed the Azure Dragon true intent in Li Xijun’s cultivation art and realized its potential might rival or surpass the Wood Sage’s Jianmu Azure Sky Dao Chapter.
• Su Nianying promised to teach Li Xijun the remaining forms of the Four Seasons Thunder Burst, and he made rapid progress during their close training over the next three days.
• Su Nianying and Li Xijun were practicing Summer Thunder when an explosion beneath the cruise liner triggered alarms and Professor Xu ordered everyone to combat positions.
• Su Nianying told Li Xijun that the attack was the National Academy Team’s practical trial and that the teachers would not intervene if their performance was lacking.
• Li Xijun used his Psychic Power to see seawater tentacles battering the liner as a vast Sea Spirit Clan army surged toward it.

Li Xijun and the National Academy Team faced a massive Sea Spirit Clan assault at sea, fighting off the warriors until they formed the Vast Sea Battle Formation. With the formation’s power nearing the Outer Scenery Realm, the team realized they had to flee across the sea without help from their teachers.

• Li Xijun sensed the Sea Spirit Clan’s enormous army surrounding the cruise ship, including thirty-six War General-Level commanders.
• Jiang Tu, Wei Ying, Cai Meier, Cai Meng'er, Luo Xu, Ye Ningxue, Jiang Qiyue, Zhou Mingji, and Su Nianyi fought to defend the ship and its ice-covered perimeter.
• The Sea Spirit Clan adjusted its tactics, wearing down the team while seeking openings for attacks.
• The Sea Spirit Clan warriors reorganized into the Vast Sea Battle Formation and summoned a giant whose power approached the Outer Scenery Realm.
• Professor Xu explained that the teachers would not intervene unless the students faced death, and Wei Ying urged the team to retreat toward safe waters.
• The Sea Spirit giant opened its eyes and fixed its gaze on the cruise ship.

Li Xijun used the Heavenly Emperor Qi Observation Art to expose the core of the Sea Spirit Clan’s battle formation, then destroyed it with one sword and perfected his Slaughter Sword Intent. Afterward, Professor Xu and Su Nianying agreed that Li Xijun should captain the National Academy Team, with Wei Ying as vice-captain.

• Wei Ying proposed a retreat plan, but Su Nianyi, Jiang Qiyue, Ju Mengya, and Ye Ningxue said they wanted to follow Li Xijun’s decision.
• As the Sea Spirit Clan’s Vast Sea battle formation gathered power for a devastating strike, Li Xijun used the Heavenly Emperor Qi Observation Art to locate its seven core War Generals.
• Li Xijun killed the seven War Generals with a single sword, causing the battle formation to collapse and its army to be destroyed by the backlash.
• Li Xijun’s Eternal Life Killing Sword · White Tiger Seven Kill Stance reached Grandmaster 100%, bringing his Slaughter Sword Intent to perfection.
• The people aboard the cruise ship reacted with shock as Li Xijun’s strength surpassed their expectations, while Ye Ningxue felt defeated by his progress.
• Professor Xu and Su Nianying concluded that Li Xijun should be captain of the National Academy Team and that Wei Ying should assist him as vice-captain.

The National Academy Team arrived in Sakura Country and learned that the corrupted Magatsu Divine Domain around Mount Fuji threatened the region. Their upcoming training in Dragon Spring Village could earn the slayer of the corrupted Sakura Dragon three drops of Baxia Blood Essence, leaving the team eager to begin the Tenshukaku trial.

• After Li Xijun defeated the Sea Spirit Clan’s battle formation, the National Academy Team’s voyage continued peacefully and his teammates’ attitudes toward him shifted.
• Kiba Saburo met the team at the harbor and escorted them by car and aircraft toward Osaka.
• Li Xijun noticed the corrupted Mount Fuji, and Professor Xu explained that the Magatsu Divine Domain was spreading deadly pollution through nearby Mythical Worlds.
• Professor Xu told the team that after the Tenshukaku trial they would train in Dragon Spring Village, where slaying the corrupted Sakura Dragon would earn the slayer three drops of Baxia Blood Essence.
• The team grew eager to compete for the Blood Essence and arrived at Osaka Tenshukaku that afternoon.

The Great Xia National Academy Team arrived at Osaka Castle, where Sakura Country’s team prepared to provoke Li Xijun and learn his abilities. Professor Xu explained how Sakura Country acquired the Divine Children’s powers and Divine Artifacts, warning the team to beware of shrine maidens and Fire Attribute martial artists.

• Kiba Saburo escorted the Great Xia National Academy Team to a waiting room in Osaka Castle and said someone would soon discuss the trial details.
• A Sakura Country elder ordered his team to test Great Xia in a best-of-three match and gather intelligence on Li Xijun, especially by provoking him.
• Hyodo Castle volunteered to anger Li Xijun and insult the women around him, and the elder approved the plan while cautioning him to control himself.
• Professor Xu explained that a righteous god had created Divine Children, three Divine Artifacts, and a sealing method to resist the evil god.
• Professor Xu said Sakura Country had taken the Divine Children’s bloodlines and Divine Artifacts, while the Mythical World became corrupted and produced an Emperor-level evil god.
• Professor Xu warned Jiang Tu, Ye Ningxue, and the others to watch out for Sakura Country’s shrine maidens, Fire Attribute flames, and related secret arts.