Chapter Summaries

Yan Qingshan persuaded his son Yan Qingchen to enter the Spirit Road Trial, a dangerous selection meant to test young geniuses’ strength and wits. Yan Qingchen agreed because he wanted to see the world, but their argument over what supplies he would receive ended with Yan Qingshan trying to distract him.

• The chapter explained that the Spirit Road Trial tested young geniuses without their cultivation and could earn survivors entry to the Five Great Spirit Academies.
• Yan Qingshan asked Yan Qingchen whether he was ready for the trial, and Yan Qingchen teased him about favoring his many younger sisters.
• Yan Qingchen questioned why he needed the trial given his family’s circumstances, and Yan Qingshan argued that it would train his judgment and expose him to other geniuses.
• Yan Qingchen said he wanted to experience the world and asked his father for protective treasures, but Yan Qingshan insisted that the Ruyi Divine Weapon was enough.
• Yan Qingshan pointed toward the sky and claimed the Mirror of Judgment had appeared, seemingly to distract his son.

Yan Qingchen was launched into the Spirit Road by his father, Yan Qingshan, and qualified for the trial after the Mirror of Judgment recognized his talent. He arrived in a dangerous forest, received his Blood-colored Token, and froze when he discovered someone bathing by a stream.

• The Mirror of Judgment tested Northern Spirit Academy's students, and Yan Qingchen's starlit fall earned him passage to the Spirit Road.
• Yan Qingchen shouted a threat at Yan Qingshan before the Starry Sky Gate swallowed him, while Yan Qingshan laughed at the trick he had played on his son.
• Yan Qingchen arrived in a forest, noticed that the Spirit Road's suppression barely affected him, and received a Blood-colored Token marking him as a challenger.
• Yan Qingchen explored the forest in search of water and approached a stream after hearing a voice and splashing.
• Yan Qingchen peered through the bushes and froze when he saw someone bathing.

Yan Qingchen escaped Wu Yingying after she chased him for seeing her bathing, then used the commotion to trap and kill a group of Spirit Beasts. He refined their Soul Essences for cultivation and saved the Golden Lightning Wolf’s Essence to trade before leaving the forest.

• Yan Qingchen stumbled upon Wu Yingying bathing, and she chased him into the forest with a dagger after he fled.
• Yan Qingchen concealed himself among tree roots and waited until Wu Yingying left to escape the dangerous forest.
• Yan Qingchen spotted several Spirit Beasts, including a Golden Lightning Wolf, fighting in the forest.
• Yan Qingchen trapped the Spirit Beasts in a spiritual net and killed them while they were weakened.
• Yan Qingchen refined most of the Spirit Beast Soul Essences with his Blood-colored Token and stored the Golden Lightning Wolf’s Essence in a jade bottle.

Yan Qingshan watched Yan Qingchen’s Spirit Road Trial and secretly recorded his son’s awkward encounter before heading to the Great Thousand Palace to address the Outer Realm Evil Race. The chapter ends with Yan Qingshan hearing that the enemy’s Heavenly Devil Emperors were entrenched behind the Demonic Array, which even he found troublesome.

• Yan Qingshan remotely watched Yan Qingchen encounter Wu Yingying in the Spirit Road and saved the footage to share with Yan Qingchen’s mother and aunt.
• Yan Qingshan stopped watching Yan Qingchen and left the Hundred Spirits Continent to deal with the Outer Realm Evil Race.
• Great Thousand Palace guards surrounded Yan Qingshan, but Qin Tian recognized him as the Demon Slaying Great Emperor and ordered everyone to stand down.
• Yan Qingshan rearranged the Great Thousand Palace’s seats and took the highest golden seat before asking about the Outer Realm Evil Race.
• Qin Tian reported that the Great Thousand World had slain twenty-three Demon Emperors but could not overcome the Demonic Array maintained by the enemy’s Heavenly Devil Emperors.
• Yan Qingshan said the Outer Realm Evil Race was weakened and that failing to break the Demonic Array was not a failure of battle.

Yan Qingshan persuaded the Great Thousand Palace to delay a full offensive against the Outer Realm Evil Race and focus on preparing for the final expedition to the Northern Barren Hills, where they planned to eliminate Heavenly Evil God. After Qin Tian agreed to his strategy, Yan Qingshan revealed that he had noticed the Heart Heavenly Devil Emperor’s presence in Qin Tian and was willing to tolerate him as long as he did not interfere.

• Yan Qingshan explained that Heavenly Evil God had been recovering and that the Great Thousand Demon Transformation Array gave the Great Thousand World an opportunity to eliminate him during the Northern Barren Hills expedition.
• Yan Qingshan argued that the Great Thousand World should avoid a costly decisive battle for now, surround the Outer Realm Evil Race, reinforce its troops, and strike when the time was right.
• Qin Tian and the other experts accepted Yan Qingshan’s plan, and the Great Thousand Palace began preparing for the next phase of the campaign.
• After Qin Tian left, Yan Qingshan warned the Heart Heavenly Devil Emperor to cooperate and not disrupt his plans.

Yan Qingchen used the Golden Armored Dragon-Tiger Beast to wipe out most of Ji Xuan’s group, then killed Ji Xuan and the wounded beast. The Five Great Spirit Academies revoked Yan Qingchen’s examination qualifications and expelled him from the Spirit Road, prompting disbelief among the trial participants.

• Yan Qingchen lured Ji Xuan and more than eighty pursuers into the Golden Armored Dragon-Tiger Beast’s path, and the beast killed sixty-four participants.
• Yan Qingchen confronted the survivors, drove them away, and threw Ji Xuan back into the valley, where the beast killed him.
• Yan Qingchen killed the wounded Golden Armored Dragon-Tiger Beast and refined its Spirit Beast Soul Essence with the Blood-colored Token.
• Tiansheng demanded Yan Qingchen’s execution, but the academy heads decided to expel him from the Spirit Road instead.
• The Mirror of Judgment announced that Yan Qingchen had violated the rules and lost his examination qualifications, shocking the trial participants.

Yan Qingchen openly defied the Five Great Spirit Academies’ judgment and challenged their authority on the Spirit Road. After Heavenly Saint Sovereign attacked him, Yan Qingchen broke the trial’s restraints and struck back, leaving the confrontation poised to escalate as Heavenly Saint invoked the Mirror of Judgment.

• Yan Qingchen cursed the Spirit Road and condemned the Five Great Spirit Academies for using their rules to punish him.
• Heavenly Saint Sovereign and the other academy leaders appeared, and Yan Qingchen again rejected their judgment in front of the trial-takers.
• Heavenly Saint accused Yan Qingchen of violating the rules and attacked him with his Sovereign Dharma Body despite the other leaders’ warnings.
• Yan Qingchen shattered the Spirit Road’s restrictions, used his Ruyi Staff to crush Heavenly Saint’s giant hand, and sent him crashing into a mountain.
• Heavenly Saint emerged from the dust and invoked the Mirror of Judgment, while the other four academy leaders tried to stop him.

Yan Qingchen was rescued from the Spirit Road by his father, Yan Qingshan, after Heavenly Saint Sovereign was killed for trying to punish him. Back at Northern Spirit Academy, Yan Qingchen faced his father’s criticism and teasing, while Yan Qingshan questioned his interest in Luo Li.

• A mysterious force shattered the Mirror of Judgment, killed Heavenly Saint Sovereign, and took Yan Qingchen away from the Spirit Road.
• The four academy leaders worried about the consequences of the Spirit Road Blood Calamity and decided to report the matter to stronger figures.
• Yan Qingchen reappeared near Northern Spirit Academy and narrowly dodged a surprise attack from Yan Qingshan before sparring with him.
• Yan Qingshan criticized Yan Qingchen for killing sixty-four people so conspicuously and gambling with his life by defying Heavenly Saint.
• Yan Qingchen explained that he believed his family could protect him, and Yan Qingshan warned him not to take such risks again.
• Yan Qingshan teased Yan Qingchen about peeking at girls and pursuing Luo Li, then asked whether he knew enough about her to court her.

Yan Qingshan explained his past and warned Yan Qingchen to be less impulsive, then offered him two possible Bloodline Link partners for Spirit Soul cultivation. Yan Qingchen was left considering a young True Dragon with Azure Dragon blood or a Nine Netherworld Bird in the Northern Spirit Region.

• Yan Qingshan told Yan Qingchen about Luo Li’s powerful Luoshen Clan family and admitted he knew her grandfather, Luo Tianshen.
• Yan Qingchen revealed that he had awakened a bloodline power that made plants grow and move, and Yan Qingshan said it came from him rather than the Wood Spirit Clan.
• Yan Qingshan recounted his difficult childhood and advised Yan Qingchen to protect himself and think before acting.
• Yan Qingshan said he had an enemy in the Western Heaven Continent, the Western Heaven War Emperor, and claimed the emperor had pursued his disciple’s wife.
• Yan Qingshan explained that he had sealed part of Yan Qingchen’s surging power and told him to choose a spirit academy and reclaim his dignity himself.
• Yan Qingshan offered Yan Qingchen a Bloodline Link with either a young True Dragon carrying Azure Dragon blood or a Nine Netherworld Bird that might become an Ancient Undying Bird.

Yan Qingchen was sent by Yan Qingshan to find a Nine Netherworld Bird whose failed transformation had left her badly injured. After surviving her attacks, Yan Qingchen trapped and drugged her, leaving her incapacitated in a pit.

• Yan Qingchen chose the Nine Netherworld Bird, and Yan Qingshan kicked him toward the Black Underworld Abyss while privately admitting he had set him up.
• Yan Qingchen landed before the enraged Nine Netherworld Bird as she recovered from a failed Spirit Shedding Transformation into Deity.
• The Nine Netherworld Bird attacked Yan Qingchen, who dodged her black flames with the Ruyi Staff and struck her on the head.
• Yan Qingchen bound the weakened Nine Netherworld Bird with roots and vines using Myriad Forest Prison.
• Yan Qingchen caused flowers to bloom on the vines, and their anesthetic pollen made the Nine Netherworld Bird drowsy as he considered making her a mount.

Yan Qingchen formed a Bloodline Link with the Nine Netherworld Bird, healed her, and broke through to the Heaven-Melding Realm. After Yan Qingshan sent him to choose a spirit academy, Yan Qingchen and the Bird headed for Northern Desolate Spirit Academy, while Yan Qingshan watched from a mysterious palace.

• Yan Qingchen pulled the injured Nine Netherworld Bird from the abyss, and their Bloodline Link healed her while strengthening his Divine Soul.
• Yan Qingchen broke through to the Heaven-Melding Realm, and Yan Qingshan explained that his sealed Nine Divine Veins would awaken as he cultivated.
• Yan Qingshan told Yan Qingchen to temper his cultivation and choose a spirit academy, then disappeared before explaining his ominous warning.
• The Nine Netherworld Bird transformed into a girl and threatened Yan Qingchen, but she could not kill him because their Bloodline Link bound their lives.
• Yan Qingchen took the Nine Netherworld Bird to the empty site of his former home, then set off for Northern Desolate Spirit Academy with her following.
• Yan Qingshan watched them depart from a distant palace and mused about karma or fate before returning to a hall filled with glowing screens and streams of information.

Yan Qingshan used his hidden hall and Intelligent Brain Dawn to investigate fate and space-time, planning to trace the Outer Realm Evil Race’s karma to locate the Heavenly Origin Realm. He was interrupted when Luo Tianshen left seclusion early to fetch Luo Li, prompting Yan Qingshan to leave the hall and observe the change.

• Yan Qingshan reflected on how his son’s life appeared to follow fixed trajectories and decided to study fate rather than interfere.
• Yan Qingshan used his fantasy-version supercomputer to investigate fate and space-time, hoping to trace demonic qi back to the Heavenly Origin Realm.
• Yan Qingshan began following strands of Heavenly Origin Qi toward their source and thought of the approaching hundred-year deadline for the Heavenly Evil God.
• Yan Qingshan was awakened when he learned that Luo Tianshen had left seclusion early to fetch Luo Li before the Spirit Academy Tournament.
• Yan Qingshan found the deviation in fate interesting and vanished from the hall.

Yan Qingshan arrived in Northern Desolate City to find his son Yan Qingchen and entered the Northern Desolate Spirit Academy with Su Ling'er, later meeting her sister, Su Xuan. Su Ling'er brought him to Yan Qingchen, who froze when he turned around and saw him.

• Yan Qingshan reminisced about his past visit to Northern Desolate City before Su Ling'er mistook him for Yan Qingchen and apologized.
• Yan Qingshan told Su Ling'er he had come to see Yan Qingchen, and she offered to guide him to the academy.
• Su Ling'er took Yan Qingshan to obtain Academy Passes, then led him through the academy's Spirit Array-protected boundary.
• Yan Qingshan met Su Ling'er's older sister, Su Xuan, and chatted with both sisters as they continued toward the student residential district.
• Su Ling'er told Yan Qingchen that someone was looking for him, and he turned around and froze upon seeing Yan Qingshan.

Yan Qingshan reunited with Yan Qingchen at Northern Desolate Spirit Academy, where he easily defeated his son and revealed that Luo Tianshen was coming. When Luo Tianshen arrived with the Thunder Crane Guards, he recognized Yan Qingshan and greeted him with deep respect.

• Yan Qingchen attacked Yan Qingshan when he arrived, but Yan Qingshan defeated him and pinned him to the ground.
• Yan Qingchen revealed that Yan Qingshan was his father, shocking Su Xuan and Su Ling'er.
• Yan Qingshan told Luo Li that he had known her grandfather, Luo Tianshen, and expected him to arrive at the academy.
• Taicang and the Northern Nether Dragon Kun arrived as Yan Qingshan sensed Luo Tianshen approaching.
• Luo Tianshen appeared with the Thunder Crane Guards and began testing Yan Qingchen with his pressure.
• Luo Tianshen recognized Yan Qingshan, bowed to him, and greeted him as an old acquaintance.

Yan Qingshan met with Luo Tianshen, revealed Yan Qingchen’s extraordinary birth, and arranged for his son to face the Western Heaven War Emperor as a trial. The chapter ended with Yan Qingshan returning to his leisurely life at the academy.

• Luo Tianshen recognized Yan Qingshan’s status and walked with him away from the crowd, while Yan Qingchen privately wondered how powerful his father was.
• Yan Qingshan told Luo Tianshen that Yan Qingchen was his son and said young people should make their own way, then asked about the Western Heaven War Emperor.
• Luo Tianshen explained that the War Emperor ruled the Western Heaven Continent and had grown notorious for indulging in wine and women.
• Yan Qingshan planned to use the upcoming Son of the Continent competition to make the War Emperor a trial for Yan Qingchen.
• Yan Qingshan revealed that Yan Qingchen had been born a Heavenly Sovereign and that he had sealed his son’s bloodline spiritual energy after it nearly destroyed a continent.
• Yan Qingshan learned why Luo Tianshen had come to the academy, made arrangements for Yan Qingchen’s trial, and returned to his idle life.

Yan Qingchen’s team entered the Spirit Academy Tournament and dominated the ruins continent until Ji Xuan gathered several academies to ambush them. Yan Qingchen revealed that he had reached the Sovereign realm and struck at Ji Xuan, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Dean Taicang rallied the Northern Desolate Spirit Academy’s elite students before they entered the tournament through a Teleportation Spirit Array.
• Yan Qingshan watched the tournament through a light screen and recalled giving the Su Sisters gifts that increased their strength.
• Yan Qingchen led his team across the tournament ruins, defeating opposing teams until Ji Xuan confronted them.
• Ji Xuan launched the Dust Annihilation Operation with teams from the Azure Sky, Nine Tripod, and Blood Spirit Academies to target Yan Qingchen and Luo Li.
• Yan Qingchen revealed a Sovereign Dharma Body and brought his palm down toward the fleeing Ji Xuan.

Yan Qingchen defeated and killed Ji Xuan after Ji Xuan merged with the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Eagle, then Luo Li slaughtered the Blood Spirit Academy students who tried to surrender. Yan Qingchen turned his attention to Liu Qingyun and the Azure Sky Spirit Academy, whose leader begged to surrender and offered compensation.

• Ji Xuan revealed his Sovereign Sea and summoned the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Eagle, but Yan Qingchen's Sovereign Dharma Body crushed him.
• Ji Xuan used Spirit Beast Parasitism and merged with the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Eagle, gaining strength comparable to a Fourth Grade Sovereign.
• Yan Qingchen's Power of One Sun overwhelmed the beast's Heavenly Dragon Roar and reduced the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Eagle to dust.
• Ji Xuan tried to surrender, but Yan Qingchen killed him with the golden sunbeam and then killed Sacred Spirit Academy students who had threatened him and Northern Desolate Spirit Academy.
• Luo Li slaughtered the Blood Spirit Academy students before they could surrender, while Liu Qingyun collapsed and begged Yan Qingchen to spare Azure Sky Spirit Academy in exchange for compensation.

Yan Qingchen and Northern Desolate Spirit Academy confronted Sacred Spirit Academy after its four Holy Sons were eliminated from the tournament. Yan Qingchen demanded that Sacred Spirit Academy answer for its past abuses and called for it to lose its place among the Five Great Academies for a hundred years.

• Yan Qingchen persuaded Liu Qingyun to blame Sacred Spirit Academy for coercing him into a mistake.
• The Alliance leaders watched Yan Qingchen kill Ji Xuan, and Sovereign Taicang warned Sacred Spirit Academy’s new dean not to provoke Yan Qingshan.
• Yan Qingchen’s group eliminated Sacred Spirit Academy’s remaining teams, leaving all four of its Holy Sons out of the tournament.
• Dean Taicang defended Northern Desolate Spirit Academy’s leading position and clashed with Sacred Spirit Academy’s new dean over the tournament’s violence.
• Yan Qingchen interrupted the tournament’s closing announcement and accused Sacred Spirit Academy of years of oppression and wrongdoing.
• Yan Qingchen demanded that Sacred Spirit Academy withdraw from the Five Great Academies for a hundred years and settle its karmic debts.

Yan Qingchen defeated the Sacred Spirit Academy’s Sovereign experts, then transformed his Great Sun Undying Body into the Immortal Golden Body with a power sent by Yan Qingshan. He struck at the academy’s summoned Divine Beast, and the Holy Light Pegasus tried to negotiate after sensing his formidable backing.

• Yan Qingchen demanded that the Sacred Spirit Academy pay for its actions and killed the Sovereign who attacked him before overwhelming the academy’s other experts.
• The Sacred Spirit Academy’s new dean summoned its academy-guarding Divine Beast, while Dean Taicang contacted the Northern Nether Dragonkun for help.
• Yan Qingshan sent a sphere of light to Yan Qingchen, whose Great Sun Undying Body transformed into the violet-gold Immortal Golden Body amid intense pain.
• Yan Qingchen punched the spatial gate and nearly destabilized it as the Holy Light Pegasus emerged.
• The Holy Light Pegasus recognized the Immortal Golden Body’s extraordinary power and offered to apologize on the Sacred Spirit Academy’s behalf.

Yan Qingchen defeated and subdued the Sacred Spirit Academy’s guardian beast, then returned to his father, Yan Qingshan, who sent him toward the Western Heaven Continent to compete for the Son of the Continent. The chapter ended with Yan Qingchen determined to win, unaware of how easily his father could claim such a title himself.

• Yan Qingchen demanded that the Holy Light Pegasus serve as his mount for a hundred years or see the Sacred Spirit Academy punished.
• Yan Qingchen defeated the Holy Light Pegasus with Immortal Divine Runes, shrank it, and rode it while bringing a woman along.
• Yan Qingshan confirmed that the Luoshen Clan had secured another slot in the Son of the Continent competition and suggested Luo Li compete after the Luoshen Sacrifice.
• Yan Qingshan dampened Yan Qingchen’s pride over making the Sacred Spirit Academy bow and urged him to grow beyond his family’s protection.
• Yan Qingshan explained the Son of the Continent’s importance and sent Yan Qingchen to the Western Heaven Continent to compete for the title.