Chapter Summaries

Li Xijun used Earth Core Tempering Emulsion under Lisa’s supervision to strengthen his body during Mortal Shedding, pushing past its natural absorption limit by converting excess vitality into Inner Breath. Lisa concluded that his physical talent was extraordinary and warned that completing Mortal Shedding would require far more Spiritual Power than usual.

• Lisa took Li Xijun to her loft and explained that Earth Core Tempering Emulsion could strengthen his body but might harm him if he ignored his physical limits.
• Lisa supervised as Li Xijun entered a medicinal bath and absorbed the emulsion’s intense Spiritual Power, which painfully strengthened his flesh and bone marrow.
• Li Xijun used his Embryonic Breathing state to observe his improving physique and predicted that the strengthened marrow would make future Marrow Cleansing much faster.
• When his body reached its absorption limit, Li Xijun converted some of the resulting vitality and blood into Inner Breath, then resumed absorbing Spiritual Power.
• After the bath, Lisa examined Li Xijun and said he might develop an exceptionally powerful body, but would need far more Spiritual Power than ordinary people to complete Mortal Shedding.

Li Xijun completed absorbing the Earth Core Tempering Emulsion, reached Life Level 12.5, and discovered that acupoints and meridians were manifesting in his body. After testing his strength, he planned to study the Marrow Cleansing manual in the Da Sheng World.

• Lisa promised to secure Li Xijun the resources and treasures he deserved, and he thanked her and vowed to repay her when he became a Martial Saint.
• Jiang Qiyue barged into Lisa's room and found Li Xijun finishing his medicinal bath, then later stood guard while he completed absorbing the Earth Core Tempering Emulsion.
• Li Xijun reached Life Level 12.5 and realized that more acupoints and meridians had manifested, allowing Spiritual Power to circulate through his body.
• Jiang Qiyue rushed in to ask whether Li Xijun had broken through, and Lisa dragged her outside so he could get dressed.
• Li Xijun tested his full-force punch and recorded a punching force of 7,037 kilograms, enough to surpass most Marrow Cleansing Grandmasters.

Li Xijun helped Jiang Qiyue reach the Man and Spear as One realm, then returned to Jinmen and met Fang Tianying, who proposed protecting the Life-Slaying Martial Hall’s assets. After Li Xijun declined for the time being, an unidentified Marrow Cleansing Grandmaster attacked him, and a violent blast shook the restaurant.

• Li Xijun pressured Jiang Qiyue during their sparring until she entered the Man and Spear as One realm.
• Li Xijun returned to Jinmen, ate at a restaurant on Merchant Guild Street, and deliberately made his presence known to the city’s powers.
• Fang Tianying told Li Xijun that he had deterred threats against the Life-Slaying Martial Hall and proposed taking a share of its dividends while protecting its property.
• Li Xijun thanked Fang Tianying but declined to agree immediately, and Fang Tianying advised him on the risks and methods of Marrow Cleansing.
• An unidentified Marrow Cleansing Grandmaster smashed through the restaurant wall and lunged at Li Xijun, prompting Fang Tianying to rush back upstairs.
• A tremendous blast erupted from the restaurant rooftop and hurled a tall, thin figure outside.

Wang Fusheng ambushed Li Xijun at a restaurant, but Li Xijun effortlessly overpowered him and exposed the plotters watching from the Scales Goddess Church. The chapter ended with Li Xijun standing victorious in the street as Jinmen fell silent.

• Li Xijun relaxed his psychic surveillance after Fang Tianying left and turned his attention to the meal.
• Wang Fusheng smashed through the restaurant wall and attacked Li Xijun, while Annie and her allies watched from the Scales Goddess Church and celebrated their plan.
• Li Xijun cut through Wang Fusheng's specially tempered claws with a single hand blade.
• Li Xijun struck Wang Fusheng in the back with a 7,000-kilogram punch, sending him crashing through the restaurant and out into the street.
• Annie and the others watched in shock as Li Xijun emerged and called Wang Fusheng too weak.

Li Xijun killed a peak Marrow Cleansing assassin who had attacked him, securing the Life-Slaying Martial Hall and earning Jinmen’s admiration. After returning to the hall, he checked on his unconscious master and began reading the Black Tortoise Life-Governing Marrow Cleansing Secret Method.

• Li Xijun killed the wounded assassin with a sword strike, and the martial hall masters who had considered seizing the Life-Slaying Martial Hall’s property felt relieved they had held back.
• Fang Tianying denied involvement in the assassination attempt, and Li Xijun vouched for him and thanked him for his support.
• Fang Tianying praised Li Xijun to the crowd, while Jinmen residents and storytellers spread embellished accounts of Li Xijun’s victory.
• Li Xijun returned the assassin’s severed head to the Life-Slaying Martial Hall, lifting the disciples’ fears and prompting a feast on the Training Ground.
• Li Xijun visited his still-unconscious master, opened a hidden compartment, and began studying the Black Tortoise Life-Governing Marrow Cleansing Secret Method.

Li Xijun began cultivating the Black Tortoise Life-Governing Marrow Cleansing Secret Method and rapidly cleansed his spinal marrow. After visiting Li Boyan for guidance on Embryonic Breathing spells, he was knocked into the lake by Li Boyan’s overwhelming mental power and then noticed something alarming about Su Youli’s hand.

• Li Xijun studied the Black Tortoise Life-Governing Marrow Cleansing Secret Method and recognized that his mastery of the foundational Turtle-Snake method let him begin immediately.
• Li Xijun used Inner Breath to cleanse his spinal marrow, advancing his Marrow Cleansing Realm to 1% and the secret method to Entry 5%.
• After seven days, Li Xijun had thoroughly cleansed his Spine Great Dragon and planned to pursue resources before continuing his cultivation.
• Li Xijun went to Duke Boyan’s residence to seek guidance, but Li Boyan’s mental power scattered the force supporting Li Xijun in midair and sent him plunging into the lake.
• Li Xijun recovered, greeted the Dragon Girl, and gave Su Youli an Essence Oil Elixir before freezing when he noticed her hand.

Li Xijun sought Li Boyan’s help learning the Eternal Life Finger, a spatial technique, and struggled to sense the void while trapped by a Confucian spell. When Su Youli reached through the frozen space to feed him, he glimpsed how to pass through the void.

• Li Boyan assessed Li Xijun’s spirit-refining progress and warned that advancing beyond early Embryonic Breathing would take years without a soul-strengthening treasure.
• Li Xijun asked Li Boyan to explain the Eternal Life Finger, which used soul power to strike through space.
• Li Boyan suppressed and froze the void around Li Xijun so he could experience space and practice sensing it.
• Li Xijun spent a day and night trying to grasp the void but made little progress.
• Su Youli brought Li Xijun pastries and reached through the frozen space to feed him, revealing how to pass through the void.

Li Xijun cultivated alongside Su Nianyi in her Sea of Consciousness, advancing his Spirit Level as signs of her awakening appeared. After learning how Fang Jiekong was injured by a dangerous assignment, Li Xijun examined the school’s assignment board and then entered a Cage Melee whose final four survivors would earn seed slots for the Five Schools Joint Martial Arts Competition.

• Li Xijun entered Su Nianyi’s Sea of Consciousness and cultivated beside her, calming the lightning and bringing signs of life to the realm as her finger twitched.
• Li Xijun’s Spirit Level and cultivation methods improved, and he left after tending to Su Nianyi; her finger twitched again as he departed.
• Li Xijun learned that Fang Jiekong had been injured when a credit-paying assignment led students into a fight with an Exterior Scenery teacher.
• Li Xijun inspected the Spring Splendor Hall assignment board, saw that valuable academic-credit assignments were scarce, and decided to wait for his practical ranking before pursuing Student Union membership.
• The Vice Principal announced a Cage Melee that would determine freshman points and the school’s four seed slots for the Five Schools Joint Martial Arts Competition, recommending team fighting; Li Xijun looked forward to the challenge.

Li Xijun and the other first-years began a trophy-based arena melee to determine four seed contestants for the Five Schools Joint Martial Arts Competition. After Li Xijun claimed the first-place trophy, a crowd gathered against him, and the chapter ended as they urged one another to swarm him.

• Teacher Mengna explained that four randomly placed trophies would determine the seed contestants and their rankings.
• Li Xijun sensed the Wood Law imprint in the plaza, and Teacher Mengna explained that it prevented anyone below the Exterior Scenery Realm from dying there.
• Vice Principal Lisa announced the thirty-minute melee, and Mo Cheng and Mona threw the four trophies into the arena.
• Fang Jiekong, Jiang Qiyue, and Qin Lingfeng sent trophies into the surrounding crowds and plunged into the ensuing chaos.
• Li Xijun caught the first-place trophy and drew his blade as more than two hundred contestants gathered before him.
• One contestant urged the crowd to swarm Li Xijun, reasoning that he could not kill them all before tiring.

Li Xijun overwhelmed the first-year combat examination, defeating more than two hundred opponents before taking on Jiang Qiyue, Fang Jiekong, and Qin Lingfeng together. He defeated all three in rapid succession, and Zhang Ziyu recognized that his swordsmanship had reached the Subtle realm.

• Li Xijun used a mind-disrupting sword technique and overwhelming strength to cut down nearly a hundred attackers, then defeated the rest of the surrounding students.
• Qin Lingfeng, Jiang Qiyue, and Fang Jiekong emerged from the melee with trophies, and Li Xijun invited them to spar with him together.
• Jiang Qiyue, Fang Jiekong, and Qin Lingfeng attacked Li Xijun at once, but he split Jiang Qiyue's spear and sent her flying, then shattered Fang Jiekong's bones in a body collision.
• Li Xijun met Qin Lingfeng's sword with his own, broke his weapon, and defeated him with a single strike.
• Zhang Ziyu recognized Li Xijun's swordsmanship as having reached the Subtle realm and hurried toward the exit.

Li Xijun learned that the Five Schools Joint Martial Arts Competition would move to a virtual world and test martial arts skill alone, then trained with Lisa to improve his saber technique. After making visible progress, he went to meet Zhang Ziyu for dinner and a discussion about the Student Union.

• Zhang Ziyu praised Li Xijun's match, invited him to dinner to discuss the Student Union, and exchanged contact information with him.
• Lisa told Li Xijun that the Five Schools competition would take place in the virtual world using equally strong bodies, and warned him to watch the top freshman from Unnamed Exquisite Pavilion.
• Lisa began personally training Li Xijun, teaching him to gather the force of his body into a single saber strike so he could perfect the Intricate Realm.
• Li Xijun practiced with Lisa until nightfall and raised Myriad Blades Return to Origin from Master 33% to Master 34%.
• Li Xijun accepted Zhang Ziyu's invitation and arrived at West No. 2 cafeteria to meet her.

Li Xijun joined the Student Union, learned about a formidable rival in the upcoming Five Schools Joint Martial Arts Competition, and decided to save his credits for Dragon Blood. He entered the Nine-Layered Demon Tower’s fifth floor and faced the Sea Spirit Clan warriors with confidence.

• Li Xijun accepted Zhang Ziyu’s invitation to join the Student Union and received a warm welcome and red packets from its members.
• Zhang Ziyu warned Li Xijun that Ye Ningxue of the Unnamed Exquisite Pavilion had reached the Intricate Realm and cleared the Nine-Layered Demon Tower’s first six floors.
• Li Xijun decided to save his credits for Dragon Blood and planned to earn more by clearing the tower and competing in the Five Schools Joint Martial Arts Competition.
• Li Xijun entered the tower’s fifth floor and let the Sea Spirit Clan warriors assemble before their joint assault.
• Li Xijun killed a Sea Spirit Clan warrior with a single blade strike, then challenged the others to attack together.

Li Xijun cleared the sixth floor of the Nine-Layered Demon Tower but failed to defeat the Magma Giants on the seventh, where Ye Ningxue led him on the rankings. A month later, after improving his cultivation and preparing for the Five Schools Joint Martial Arts Competition, he woke Su Nianyi from her long sleep through their daily soul cultivation.

• Li Xijun slaughtered the Golden-Winged Eagles on the sixth floor and earned 6 credits, bringing his total to 21.
• Li Xijun failed to kill all the Magma Giants before time ran out, then saw Ye Ningxue ranked first on the seventh-floor leaderboard with 95 progress against his 34.
• A month later, Li Xijun reached Life Level 12.8, increased his punch force to 8,091 kilograms, and learned the joint competition qualifiers had begun.
• Li Xijun declined Lisa's offer to watch the matches, saying the other schools' geniuses would come to see him, then continued his daily soul cultivation beside Su Nianyi.
• Su Nianyi woke and teased Li Xijun for entering her Sea of Consciousness every day while she slept.

Su Nianyi woke with psychic power strong enough to overwhelm Li Xijun, then entered the Five Schools Joint Martial Arts Competition and advanced through the preliminaries. As the Round of Sixteen began, Li Xijun drew his old friend Ye Liuyun, while the other schools prepared for the threat they believed Li Xijun posed.

• Su Nianyi revealed that her psychic power had reached about 32 tons, and Li Xijun told her about the competition.
• Su Nianyi registered for the Five Schools Joint Martial Arts Competition and won her preliminary matches, often defeating opponents with her first strike.
• Su Nianyi defeated Zhou Tiancheng after her Astral Projection soul disrupted his focus during their match.
• Lisa briefed Li Xijun, Su Nianyi, and Jiang Qiyue on the Round of Sixteen contestants, including Chu Chenhuan and Ye Ningxue, while other schools discussed how to face Li Xijun.
• Li Xijun drew Ye Liuyun for the Round of Sixteen; after Chu Chenhuan advanced by defeating Fang Jiekong, Li Xijun took the arena the next morning and Ye Liuyun greeted him warmly.

Li Xijun faced his old high school friend Ye Liuyun in the competition arena and let him build up the full force of Cangming Thousand Layer Wave. Li Xijun cut through Ye Liuyun’s thousand-layer strike in a single slash, leaving the arena stunned and his Myriad Blades Return to Origin proficiency improved.

• The tower-like Principal of Qiushi Lianzhen Academy tried to provoke the other principals by predicting Ye Liuyun could defeat Li Xijun, but learned that Ye Liuyun had once been guided by Li Xijun.
• Li Xijun greeted Ye Liuyun and agreed to let him use Cangming Thousand Layer Wave to its full potential.
• Ye Liuyun stacked force with repeated sword strikes while Li Xijun stood still and deflected each attack with a single plain slash.
• Ye Liuyun unleashed a sword strike carrying a thousand layers of force, alarming the audience and the other competitors.
• Li Xijun slashed through Ye Liuyun, his sword, and his body, prompting a roar from the arena crowd.
• Li Xijun received a notification that his Myriad Blades Return to Origin proficiency had risen from Mastery 75% to Mastery 85%.

Li Xijun advanced through the quarterfinals while Ye Ningxue revealed overwhelming blade skill, defeating Chu Chenhuan with a single slash in the semifinal. Ye Ningxue faced Li Xijun in the final, leaving Lisa unsure whether her student could win.

• Li Xijun thanked Ye Liuyun for their virtual sparring, then received advice from He Wushuang and Teacher Lisa to preserve his strength and conceal his skill.
• Li Xijun defeated Qiao Ninger in three slashes, then trained alone and advanced his Myriad Blades Return to Origin realm.
• Jiang Qiyue broke through during her quarterfinal and narrowly won, while Ye Ningxue defeated Su Nianyi with a single slash.
• Chu Chenhuan used the Thirteen Swords of Absolute Death to defeat Qin Lingfeng, break into the Minute Insight realm, and secure a semifinal against Ye Ningxue.
• Li Xijun sparred with Jiang Qiyue in the semifinal, then gave her pointers before she conceded defeat.
• Ye Ningxue called Chu Chenhuan a sword slave and killed him with one slash, then glanced at Li Xijun as the crowd erupted and Lisa wondered if he could beat her.

Li Xijun focused on improving his saber technique while the Wind Sage secretly observed his character and considered whether to grant him an opportunity. On the final day, Li Xijun and Ye Ningxue met in the arena, and their saber duel began.

• Students from Clear Spring Splendor Hall and Unnamed Exquisite Pavilion argued online over whether Li Xijun or Ye Ningxue would win the virtual competition.
• The Wind Sage appeared at a school leadership meeting and said he would judge Ye Ningxue's character before deciding whether she deserved a future opportunity.
• Li Xijun ignored the online arguments and practiced his saber until his Myriad Blades Return to Origin proficiency rose to Mastery 96%.
• Lisa carried the exhausted Li Xijun to bed, and the Wind Sage watched him before saying, "Not bad."
• Li Xijun and Ye Ningxue faced each other in the arena before more than a hundred thousand spectators, then began their saber match.

Li Xijun and Ye Ningxue fought to a draw in the Five Schools Joint Martial Arts Competition final after Li Xijun broke through to Perfected Intricate and revealed Myriad Blades Return to Origin. Their duel became a national sensation, and afterward strange golden threads entered Li Xijun’s Sea of Consciousness and gilded the image of the Eternal Life Mother.

• Li Xijun blocked Ye Ningxue’s opening saber technique, but her precise attacks wounded him and cracked his saber as she drove him to the edge of the arena.
• During the fight, Li Xijun’s Myriad Blades Return to Origin reached Mastery 100%, allowing him to break through to Perfected Intricate.
• Ye Ningxue stopped attacking and explained that she wanted to witness the profound meaning of Myriad Blades Return to Origin at Great Accomplishment.
• Li Xijun and Ye Ningxue unleashed their perfected saber techniques and struck at the same time, both falling as their sabers hit the ground; Li Xijun turned back a moment later and smiled at Lisa.
• Videos of the duel spread across Great Xia, surpassing one hundred million views in a night.
• After leaving the virtual pod, Li Xijun sensed a distant existence enter his Sea of Consciousness, where golden threads began to cover the image of the Eternal Life Mother.

Li Xijun discovered that public attention had gathered a powerful reserve of the Power of the People, which strengthened his attacks, and he used his competition rewards to obtain Dragon Blood. The chapter ended with Lisa supervising his Dragon Blood bath while Jiang Qiyue guarded the bathroom and Su Nianyi watched in confusion.

• During Contemplation Method cultivation, Li Xijun sensed the Power of the People gathered around the Eternal Life Mother in his Sea of Consciousness and realized that the viral competition video had brought him over a hundred million followers.
• Li Xijun tested the Power of the People with his Eternal Life Finger and found that it roughly doubled his attack strength, though he could only use a small portion of it.
• Lisa announced that Li Xijun and Ye Ningxue would share first place in the Five Schools Joint Martial Arts Competition, giving him enough credits to exchange for Dragon Blood.
• Lisa gave Li Xijun Star Marrow Glimmer from Qin Linghan and explained that Qin Linghan had also wanted to meet him, but she had turned down the recruitment approach.
• Li Xijun began his Dragon Blood bath under Lisa's supervision, Jiang Qiyue guarded the bathroom, and Su Nianyi was bewildered by their familiarity.

Li Xijun used Star Marrow Glimmer and Dragon Blood under Lisa’s guidance, enduring an intense transformation that raised his Life Level to 13.8. Lisa expected him to reach Outer Body completion in about six months by continuing to use the remaining resources.

• Li Xijun consumed Star Marrow Glimmer, which increased his body’s tolerance for Spiritual Power.
• Lisa carefully applied one-third of the Dragon Blood to Li Xijun, and its energy began transforming his cells and meridians.
• Li Xijun endured severe pain, entered a meditative state, and continued absorbing the Dragon Blood for ten days as his body evolved.
• Lisa woke Li Xijun and asked about the results; his notification showed his Five Hearts Facing Heaven proficiency reached 100% and his Life Level rose from 13.7 to 13.8.
• Lisa said the remaining Dragon Blood and exchange-point resources could help Li Xijun gain another level and approach Outer Body completion within three months of recovery periods.