Chapter Summaries

Jing Liuli proposed using her Dream Power to turn the world into a dream, while the battle in the Starfrost Faction’s underground base continued. The Frost God ritual began at the Seaside Concert Hall, leaving the Frostsound Family’s future in Jing Liuli’s hands.

• Jing Liuli suggested turning the world into a dream, prompting the Dimensional Audience to debate whether her plan could influence and control people.
• Jeremiah appeared to struggle against Chen Kong, Liu Ma, and Vivian while Chen Xing fought Shuang Yuan and Shuang Hang in the burning prison area.
• Chen Xing lost herself in battle and unleashed her full strength, but Jeremiah warned her that she might burn Chen Kong, who had just broken free of Bai Kong’s control.
• Danika sat unharmed amid Chen Xing’s Bloodflame, eating tomato-flavored chips as the underground base began to shake.
• Shuang Yuan, Shuang Hang, and Jeremiah sensed the Frost God’s Extreme Cold Aura from the Seaside Concert Hall and realized the ritual had begun.
• Jeremiah stopped slacking and looked toward the concert hall, where Jing Liuli’s breakthrough would also decide the Frostsound Family’s future.

Jing Liuli completed her Secondary Perfect Awakening during the concert, gaining the ability to make dream creations real, with their power growing according to how many people recognize them. The chapter ended with the Dimensional Audience realizing her fame could turn fictional stories into reality.

• The Frost God Phantom appeared behind Jing Liuli as she sang, and snowflakes gathered around it while her dream butterflies joined its power.
• The Ice Queen touched Jing Liuli's brow, then condensed into a crown that merged into her body.
• Jing Liuli awakened at Rank 3 Perfect, and her Star Source gained the ability to manifest dream creations in reality.
• The Movie Edition revealed that a creation's strength depended on Jing Liuli's Star Energy and how widely people knew and recognized it.
• The Dimensional Audience realized Jing Liuli could use her fame to make fictional stories and abilities real, and compared her cheat with Tiandao's.

After Jing Liuli displayed her awakened Star Source at the New Year concert, Valentina arrived at the hotel on behalf of General President Enit to speak with Tiandao. Tiandao left the others to meet with her privately, anticipating the reason for her visit.

• Jing Liuli surrounded herself with ice mist and dream butterflies as the concert audience celebrated the New Year.
• Tiandao and Caroline discussed Jing Liuli's new abilities and the way she used her Star Source Daytime Dream.
• The next morning, Jing Liuli, Danika, Tiandao, Caroline, Liu Yao, and Mei Ling spent time together in the hotel room.
• Valentina entered the room and told Caroline that Enit had sent her to contact someone.
• Tiandao returned Danika's controller and invited Valentina to discuss her business with him in the study.

Valentina gave Tiandao an invitation to the Starry Sky Ladder Ranking Competition in Martial Arts Heavenly Capital, and he agreed to compete as a commoner genius for the General President. Tiandao prepared to leave, knowing the competition would pit him against the four great families as the Association sought to reshape its leadership.

• Valentina asked Tiandao about Doctor Dragon, but Tiandao said he did not know Doctor's current situation.
• Valentina explained the Starry Sky Ladder Ranking Competition and gave Tiandao an invitation and an agreement promising a reasonable reward.
• Tiandao accepted the invitation and agreed to participate as a commoner genius, representing Star Envoys outside the four great families.
• After Valentina left, Tiandao joined Liu Yao, Jing Liuli, and Danika, and Liu Yao warned that the four great families would resist outsiders claiming the remaining Floating City positions.
• Tiandao explained that the General President wanted to limit the families' control of Association branches, and he said he had no intention of cooperating with anyone.

Tiandao and the others traveled by steam airship toward Martial Arts Heavenly Capital, where he would need seven Martial Arts Emblems to enter the Heavenly Martial Arena. The group arrived within sight of the vast city, and Tiandao went to review his Movie Edition rewards before their journey ended.

• Jing Liuli brought Danika onto the freezing deck and used her Star Source to create a little sun that warmed them.
• Danika suggested building a snowman, but Mei Ling came to bring Jing Liuli inside for ginger tea, and Jing Liuli dragged Danika along with her.
• Liu Yao welcomed Jing Liuli and Danika with ginger tea while Tiandao and Caroline watched Martial Arts Heavenly Capital from the window.
• Caroline asked which martial arts tower Tiandao planned to challenge first, and he said they would start with the closest one.
• Tiandao returned to his room to sort through his Movie Edition gains while the airship still had half a day's journey to go.

After the Movie Edition ended, Tiandao claimed his rewards and added its permanent art style, then prepared to use Trista's Silver Fate Coin to dominate Season 3's Starry Sky Ladder. He left determined to turn defeated Starborn into subordinates rather than release them.

• Tiandao received the Movie Edition rewards after ranking first and discovered that his custom posters and merchandise could earn him Popularity Points.
• Tiandao activated the Permanent Movie Edition Art Style, which enhanced his appearance and made details of his powers clearer on the Dimensional Screen.
• Tiandao opened the Movie Edition Special Popularity Mall and obtained Trista's Silver Fate Coin, which let him gamble with souls as stakes.
• Tiandao planned to use the coin to make defeated Starborn his subordinates and monopolize the Starry Sky Ladder rankings.
• Tiandao declared that he preferred enslaving Divine Beasts to releasing them and said he had never claimed to be a good person.

Season 3 opened with Liu Ma and Chen Kong fleeing a Tyrant Sub-Dragon in a primeval forest until Vivian used her Void Turret to drive it off. The three escaped into the woods while the wounded beast returned to its territory, vowing revenge on the next upright apes to disturb its sleep.

• The Tyrant Sub-Dragon chased Liu Ma and Chen Kong through the forest after they disturbed its sleep.
• Liu Ma and Chen Kong blamed each other for taking a dangerous route on foot, and the beast's Dragonfire singed Chen Kong's hair.
• Vivian told Liu Ma and Chen Kong to duck, then fired her Void Turret into the Tyrant Sub-Dragon's chest.
• Vivian folded the Void Turret into a pocket watch and urged Liu Ma and Chen Kong to flee with her.
• The wounded Tyrant Sub-Dragon lost track of the three, returned to the forest, and vowed to punish the next upright apes that disturbed it.

Chen Kong, Liu Ma, and Vivian reached Martial Arts Heavenly Capital after escaping a Tyrant Sub-Dragon, where Chen Kong learned about the Martial Arts Tournament and the Martial Arts Emblems. Vivian explained that earning each emblem required mastering a corresponding martial arts school and gaining its Tower Guardian’s recognition.

• Chen Kong complained that Vivian’s shot had burned his hair, while Liu Ma teased him and examined Vivian’s pocket-watch weapon.
• Liu Ma led Chen Kong and Vivian away from the arriving patrol airship and toward the immense Martial Arts Heavenly Capital.
• At a Qianxia Group inn, Liu Ma checked the three of them in, and the owner told Chen Kong the Starry Sky Ladder Ranking Competition was commonly called the Martial Arts Tournament.
• Chen Kong and Vivian noticed the Heavenly Human Ranking, where Chen Xing, Jing Liuli, Caroline, and others had gathered many Martial Arts Emblems.
• The inn owner and Liu Ma explained that emblems granted access to more areas of the Heavenly Martial Qilin Tower and helped earn its exclusive Heavenly Martial Coins.
• Vivian told Chen Kong that each Martial Arts Emblem required mastering its associated martial arts school and earning the Tower Guardian’s recognition.

Chen Kong learned that Martial Arts Emblem challenges required mastering a style and its path before facing a Tower Guardian, and Liu Ma warned him against challenging the Feather Tower with Qianxia Style. The trio left their hotel room to investigate a commotion gathering outside.

• Chen Kong asked Liu Ma about the Martial Arts Tower challenges, and Liu Ma described how a Flowing Maple Tower guardian had defeated him with ease.
• Vivian showed Chen Kong a video of a challenger failing the Rock Tower test because he relied on brute force instead of learning the Rock Shattering Style's path.
• Chen Kong suggested trying the Feather Tower, but Liu Ma explained that their Qianxia Style differed from the orthodox Yu Style and that the tower had ties to Qianxia Group's rivalry.
• Vivian warned that Feather Tower practitioners would recognize Qianxia Style and might treat the challenge as an attack on their school.
• Chen Kong, Vivian, and Liu Ma went downstairs to see what had drawn an excited crowd outside the hotel.

Chen Kong and the crowd watched Yagami Rin challenge the Rock Shattering Tower after learning about her remarkable record of collecting Martial Arts Emblems. The chapter ended as Yagami Rin accepted the Tower Guardian’s challenge rules.

• The Dimensional Audience speculated about Yu Qianxia’s family history and the Qianxia Group’s role in Season 3.
• Chen Kong and the others joined a crowd outside the Rock Shattering Tower to watch a Martial Arts Emblem challenge.
• A bald man explained that Yagami Rin had earned ninety emblems in less than three months and described the difficulty of obtaining the final emblem.
• Bystanders praised Chen Xing and Jing Liuli as exceptional challengers and discussed their unusual methods.
• Yagami Rin entered the Rock Shattering Tower, and the Tower Guardian laid out the challenge she had to pass.
• Yagami Rin calmly agreed to receive three Rock Shattering Fists and block the guardian’s full-force strike with Stillness Controls Motion.

Yagami Rin faced the Rock Shattering Tower Guardian and revealed that her Shadow Double could learn an opponent’s martial arts through Phantom Assault. The chapter left the onlookers realizing that Rin’s ability explained how she had earned ninety Martial Arts Emblems.

• The Tower Guardian demonstrated Rock Shattering by cracking the arena floor and launching stone fragments at Yagami Rin.
• Rin’s Shadow Double emerged and used drifting Crow Feathers to block the fragments, prompting spectators to question whether Star Source abilities were allowed.
• The Tower Guardian charged Rin and struck at her with Shattered Stone, but the Shadow Double appeared and blocked his punch.
• The Tower Guardian realized that the Shadow Double had learned Shattered Stone, and Rin explained that Phantom was another version of herself.
• Rin raised her arm and displayed Rock Markings identical to the Tower Guardian’s, revealing that she had mastered his technique.

Yagami Rin defeated the bearded Tower Guardian’s full-powered Mountain Collapse with her Shadow Double, Shade, and received the Rock Shattering Emblem. She left the tower determined to keep collecting emblems and catch up to the monsters ahead of her.

• The bearded Tower Guardian attacked Yagami Rin with Rock Shattering Style—Mountain Collapse, but Shade shielded her and kept the ground beneath her feet intact.
• Shade’s damaged body and crow-feather haori regenerated, demonstrating its ability to recover from the attack.
• The Tower Guardian gave Yagami Rin the Rock Shattering Emblem and praised her shadow.
• Yagami Rin said she would keep collecting emblems because she needed a hundred to qualify to catch up to someone.
• Yagami Rin left the arena, and Shade dissolved into black feathers as she vanished into the corridor’s shadows.

Yagami Rin’s Shadow of Yesteryear impressed the audience with its potential, while Chen Kong worried about reaching the top twenty of the Starry Sky Ladder Ranking Competition. After leaving Rock Shattering Tower, Rin met Huan Qianyin, who invited her to meet Tiandao.

• The audience imagined the many ways Yagami Rin could use her Shadow Double, and Chen Kong considered how difficult it would be to reach the competition’s top twenty.
• Huan Qianyin waited for Yagami Rin outside Rock Shattering Tower and said she most wanted to defeat her.
• Huan Qianyin told Yagami Rin that Tiandao wanted to speak with her, and Rin agreed to go.
• Huan Qianyin bought sesame cakes for them, and Rin said she trusted Qianyin because Qianyin was lonelier than she was.
• Huan Qianyin denied Rin’s claim and said she wanted Rin to eat well before she killed her.

Tiandao pressured Jiang Lingfeng into surrendering seventy percent of his future Heavenly Martial Coins in exchange for twice as many Martial Arts Emblems, then brought Yagami Rin into his scheme. With the Starry Sky Ladder Ranking Competition approaching, Tiandao planned to secure the resources of dozens more powerful contestants and showed no concern about resistance.

• Tiandao offered Jiang Lingfeng twice the Martial Arts Emblems he could earn naturally in exchange for seventy percent of his monthly Heavenly Martial Coins.
• Tiandao revealed that he had won the souls of Tower Guardians and threatened to make Jiang Lingfeng fail challenges unless he accepted the deal.
• Jiang Lingfeng signed Tiandao's contract and left, while Caroline reported that seventy-nine potential clients remained.
• Tiandao invited Yagami Rin to join his operation, and she reluctantly agreed after asking whether she could refuse.
• Yagami Rin asked how Tiandao would handle contestants who united against him, and Tiandao dismissed the question as unimportant.

Tiandao revealed that his Silver Fate Coin required both participants to consider their stakes equal, then demonstrated the Rock Shattering Style’s ultimate secret art to persuade Yan Lei to gamble. Yan Lei recognized Tiandao Siming’s eyes as the means by which he had learned the move from the future.

• The Dimensional Audience speculated that Tiandao had won Tower Guardians’ souls through the Silver Fate Coin, while Tiandao reflected on the gamble’s equal-stakes condition.
• Three months earlier, Tiandao proposed an additional gamble to Yan Lei at Rock Shattering Tower, and Yan Lei doubted that the young stranger could offer a worthwhile stake.
• Tiandao demonstrated the Rock Shattering Style’s Rock Markings and struck the ground with the powerful secret art Earth Split.
• Yan Lei questioned how Tiandao knew the style, and Tiandao removed his blindfold to reveal his azure eyes.
• Yan Lei recognized Tiandao as Ember's Tiandao Siming and realized he had learned Earth Split by seeing Yan Lei’s future.

Tiandao challenged Yan Lei to a wager, offering to teach him Earth Rend if Yan Lei won and demanding two years of help with Martial Arts Emblem challenges if he lost. Tiandao defeated Yan Lei using only the Rock Shattering Style, leaving Yan Lei in awe and wondering whether the General President’s era was ending.

• Yan Lei realized Tiandao had learned Earth Split by seeing Yan Lei’s future and struggled to accept that Tiandao’s brief observation surpassed his thirty years of training.
• Tiandao offered to teach Yan Lei Earth Rend if Yan Lei won their fight, while wagering that Yan Lei would follow his instructions for two years if he lost.
• Yan Lei accepted the wager, and Tiandao said the fight’s outcome never changed across the futures he had seen.
• Tiandao and Yan Lei fought using the Rock Shattering Style, and Tiandao defeated Yan Lei.
• Tiandao reminded Yan Lei that the next two years belonged to him and left the Training Arena.
• Yan Lei acknowledged his defeat and wondered whether the General President’s era was coming to an end.

Tiandao finalized his plans for the Starry Sky Ladder Ranking Competition and explained why he would not recruit more Starborn, confident that the contestants would eventually need his approval to advance. He recalled his past dominance at Ember Base and set out with Caroline and Danika to watch a show, while Caroline decided to give Danika extra lessons.

• Yagami Rin and Huan Qianyin left the hotel after Tiandao assured Yagami Rin that Caroline would brief her on her duties.
• Caroline asked Tiandao whether he wanted to recruit more Starborn, but he said they would come to him when they needed his approval to advance through the Heavenly Martial Qilin Tower.
• Tiandao compared the Starry Sky Ladder to the assessments at Ember Base, and Caroline recognized that Doctor's training procedures had likely been modeled after the competition.
• Tiandao said he would make people remember their fear of being dominated by him, then took Danika's Game Console and told her to come watch a show.
• Caroline considered giving Danika extra lessons in advanced mathematics and quantum data.

Chen Kong learned that the Prosperity Martial Tower judged challengers by how much money they spent, not their fighting skill, and Liu Ma prepared to buy the Martial Arts Emblem with Yu Qianxia’s card. Yu Qianxia’s secretary revealed that she had helped lead Liu Ma into debt, leaving the Dimensional Audience to realize his supposed rescuer had helped create his troubles.

• Liu Ma told Chen Kong that wealth was essential to martial arts in Martial Arts Heavenly Capital and explained how his Martial Potential Credit Card debt had forced him to work for the Prosperity Martial Group.
• Vivian reported that challengers could earn the Prosperity Martial Tower’s emblem by recharging 100,000 Federal Coin, and Liu Ma said Yu Qianxia had supplied a card with a 300,000 limit.
• Liu Ma led Chen Kong and Vivian toward the Prosperity Martial Tower, where attendants welcomed them.
• At Qianxia Group Headquarters, Yu Qianxia’s secretary asked whether Liu Ma might discover that Yu Qianxia was a major shareholder and had led him into overspending.
• Yu Qianxia dismissed the concern, and the Dimensional Audience on Station 13 realized she had been both Liu Ma’s rescuer and the cause of his debt.

Chen Kong experienced the wealth and cultivation benefits of Prosperity Martial Tower while Tiandao met Gorn and proposed a deal involving Heaven-tier student slots. Gorn accepted Tiandao’s reasoning that, in Martial Arts Heavenly Capital, strength and results mattered more than the methods used.

• At Prosperity Martial Tower, Liu Ma offered Chen Kong a cup of Star Energy Juice and explained that it was free for honored guests but cost over a thousand Federal Coin outside.
• Chen Kong drank the juice, felt his star energy increase, and realized that wealth was an important part of martial potential.
• Tiandao met Gorn in a VIP room and congratulated him on becoming a Special Mentor for the Heavenly Martial Qilin Tower.
• Tiandao asked Gorn to act as an intermediary for leasing Heaven-tier student slots when the Starry Sky Ladder opened.
• Gorn questioned the risks of controlling promotion slots, then agreed that exceptional methods counted as strength in Martial Arts Heavenly Capital.

Tiandao arranged a deal with Gorn to mentor Chen Kong’s yellow-grade class, giving himself a reason to intervene and gain attention. Meanwhile, Chen Kong faced a hostile Tower Guardian over a Prosperity Martial Emblem and chose to fight him.

• Tiandao explained the Starry Sky Ladder Ranking Competition’s potential grades to Gorn and offered to help him train a Heaven-tier student in exchange for a cut.
• Tiandao used the deal as a pretext to involve himself in Chen Kong’s class and cultivate his public image, while anticipating a future conflict between Star Envoys and Star Beasts.
• Gorn accepted Tiandao’s proposal, and Tiandao took him to watch Chen Kong and the others attempt to earn Martial Arts Emblems.
• A gold-toothed Tower Guardian demanded an extra two hundred thousand from Chen Kong for the emblem and warned that he would show no mercy if they fought.
• Chen Kong rejected the extra charge and chose to fight the Tower Guardian, who led him toward the Training Arena.