Chapter Summaries

After months of cooperation, Luo Li and the others entered the Spiritual Academy Competition finals, bringing Mu Chen, Zhou Yuan, and Shen Cangsheng with them. At Northern Spiritual Academy, the finalists appeared on the screen and revealed that its four teams held the top four rankings.

• Luo Li and the other teams pooled their points and treasures, helping Mu Chen, Zhou Yuan, and Shen Cangsheng rise to sixth place.
• Luo Li and her companions burned their academy cards to enter the finals, while Tang Mei'er and Wen Xuan joked with them about their strength and treasure-laden equipment.
• An announcement confirmed that eight teams had burned their cards and teleported the top eight teams to the final battlefield.
• Fu Ye and Jiu You watched Luo Li's team teleport before Fu Ye moved toward the final competition site.
• At Northern Spiritual Academy, the enormous screen showed that all four of its teams had made the finals and occupied the top four rankings.

The eight academy teams learned the finals’ rewards and one-on-one scoring rules, then drew their matchups, which pitted all four Northern Spiritual Academy teams against different rivals. Zhou Yuan’s team was set to face Ji Xuan’s Sacred Spirit Academy, and Ji Xuan felt relieved that he would not have to fight Luo Li.

• The finals organizers announced that the championship team would receive Sovereign Spirit Liquid and Sovereign Pills, while Luo Li and the other Northern Spiritual Academy girls considered the rewards unimpressive.
• A phantom announced that the finals would use one-on-one battles, awarding one point for defeating a team member and three points for defeating a captain.
• Tai Cang boasted to the other academy heads about Northern Spiritual Academy’s four teams reaching the top eight.
• The teams drew their matchups: Luo Li faced Xue Tianhe, Ye Sun'er faced Liu Qingyun, Ye Qingling faced Wen Xuan, and Zhou Yuan faced Ji Xuan.
• Zhou Yuan prepared to face Ji Xuan, whose relief at not drawing Luo Li came from his fear of fighting her.

Zhou Yuan defeated Ji Xuan with his eighth-grade World-Suppressing Heavenly Flood Dragon Qi, helping Northern Spiritual Academy’s team secure third place in the tournament. As the competition ended, Luo Li could no longer suppress her cultivation.

• Zhou Yuan overwhelmed Ji Xuan with his Imperial Seal, Sacred Dragon Might, and Ancestor Dragon Claw, leaving him gravely injured and unconscious.
• Mu Chen and Shen Cangsheng defeated Ji Xuan’s two teammates, and Shen Cangsheng deliberately humiliated them during the battle.
• Tian Sheng angrily confronted Tai Cang over Ji Xuan’s defeat, but Tai Cang defended Northern Spiritual Academy’s team.
• Wen Xuan and Ye Qingling fought to a draw and were placed fourth and fifth, while Luo Li, Wu Yao, and Su Youwei’s team took first, Ye Sun’er’s team took second, and Zhou Yuan’s group took third.
• Luo Li felt that she could no longer suppress her cultivation after the tournament ended.

Luo Li broke through to the First-grade Supreme Realm inside the Judgment Realm with Fu Ye’s help. After half a month of cultivation, she awakened to celebrate with her teacher and junior sisters.

• Fu Ye and Nine Nether watched Luo Li prepare to break through, while the Five Great Academies’ heads rushed into the Judgment Realm after Tian Sheng cut off the broadcast.
• Fu Ye stabilized Luo Li’s spiritual energy, supplied her with Sovereign Spirit Liquid and a Top-grade Sovereign Pill, and borrowed the Judgment Mirror as the academy heads stood guard.
• Luo Li’s junior sisters talked with Nine Nether, while Zhou Yuan and Mu Chen met Wu Yao and Su Youwei and Shen Cangsheng left on his own.
• After half a month, Luo Li’s breakthrough aura overturned the academy heads’ mahjong table, and she awakened as a First-grade Supreme.
• Fu Ye told Luo Li to consolidate her cultivation and promised to take her and her sisters to a grand feast.

After the Northern Spiritual Academy Grand Competition, Fu Ye let Luo Li and Ling Xi return to their respective duties and gave them resources and support. Jiuyou then traveled with Fu Ye to the Great Luo Heavenly Domain to see what remained of her Nine Nether Palace.

• Fu Ye allowed Luo Li to return to her clan after she reached the Supreme Realm, while he gave Bing Qing an inheritance and required her to reach the Supreme Realm before going home.
• Ling Xi told Fu Ye she was returning to help Qing Yan Jing, and Fu Ye gave her combat array diagrams and a token to summon him if she faced trouble.
• Ling Xi and Luo Li departed, and Tai Cang lamented losing Ling Xi's Earthly Sovereign strength while Northern Darkness Dragon Kun mocked him.
• Luo Li asked Fu Ye to return with her, but he declined and predicted the Blood God Clan would face another purge.
• Jiuyou decided to visit her Nine Nether Palace on Shang Continent, and Fu Ye accompanied her to the Great Luo Heavenly Domain, where her force was one of its nine great King-level Forces.

Fu Ye returned to the Great Luo Heavenly Domain with Nine Nether, who prepared to reclaim her palace and take revenge on those who had oppressed her. At the Nine Nether Palace, they found Blood Eagle Hall members bullying its remaining disciples, and Nine Nether killed the intruders.

• Fu Ye teased Nine Nether about her small body, and she reflected on her cultivation and relationship with him.
• Nine Nether told Fu Ye she wanted to kill those who had oppressed her and offered two talented palace sisters as potential maids; Fu Ye said he would consider them for Yao Yao.
• Fu Ye and Nine Nether arrived at the deserted Nine Nether Palace and searched for survivors.
• At Nine Nether Hall, Blood Eagle Hall members demanded protection money from the remaining girls and threatened them.
• Nine Nether appeared, burned the ringleader to ashes with her Undying Fire, and killed the other Blood Eagle Hall members.

Nine Nether returned to Nine Nether Palace and learned that the Blood Eagle King and Cao Feng had driven the sect to the brink of ruin. She introduced Fu Ye as her master and benefactor, then announced that she had returned with a purpose she had not yet revealed.

• Nine Nether killed the Blood Eagle Hall attackers, and Tang Rou recognized her and embraced her while Tang Bing admitted she was angry with herself for failing to protect the palace.
• Tang Rou told Nine Nether that only a few disciples remained and that Cao Feng had defected to the Blood Eagle King.
• Tang Rou revealed that the Blood Eagle King had seized ninety percent of Nine Nether Palace's yearly Sovereign Spirit Liquid tribute, leaving Tang Bing unable to advance to the Supreme Realm.
• Nine Nether erupted with killing intent, and the remaining disciples sensed that her power surpassed the Supreme Realm.
• Nine Nether introduced Fu Ye as her master, explained that he had helped her become a Divine Beast and that a curse had left her human form tiny, and said her cultivation had reached Peak Middle Earthly Sovereign.
• Nine Nether told Tang Bing and Tang Rou that she had returned for a simple purpose, but the chapter ended before she explained it.

Fu Ye gave Nine Nether’s remaining disciples cultivation resources and offered them a place by Yao Yao’s side. At the Nine Kings Conference, Nine Nether returned as a powerful Earthly Sovereign, killed Cao Feng, and turned her attention to the Blood Eagle King.

• Nine Nether worried over the few disciples left in Nine Nether Palace, and Fu Ye gave Tang Bing and four other disciples Top-grade Sovereign pills and Sovereign Spirit Liquid.
• Fu Ye offered to let Nine Nether’s remaining disciples stay with Yao Yao, and Nine Nether thanked him for supporting her palace.
• At the Nine Kings Conference, the Blood Eagle King boasted that Blood Eagle Hall would win the Great Luo Golden Pool contest, but the Mountain Splitting King refused to bet.
• Nine Nether entered the hall, overwhelmed the eight high-grade Sovereign experts, and seized the Blood Eagle King with a claw of Undying Fire.
• Nine Nether revealed that she had reached the Earthly Sovereign realm and demanded an explanation for the Blood Eagle King’s treatment of Nine Nether Palace.
• Nine Nether condemned Cao Feng for betraying her after she had once saved him, and shattered his soul and bones.

Nine Nether returned to the Nine Kings and killed Blood Eagle King and Ling Tong Emperor for their roles in the destruction of her palace. She left with Fu Ye and the others for the Great Luo Golden Pool, where he prepared the disciples to cultivate the Great Luo Golden Body.

• Nine Nether crushed Blood Eagle King and burned his spiritual essence after condemning him for taking the Nine Nether Palace’s resources and slaughtering its disciples.
• Ling Tong Emperor arrived, and Nine Nether seized and killed him, accusing him of enabling Blood Eagle King’s attacks.
• Fu Ye arrived, and Nine Nether left with him after saying she had mostly settled matters.
• Fu Ye told Nine Nether he would take her to meet an interesting young person at the Great Luo Golden Pool.
• Fu Ye brought Nine Nether, Tang Bing, Tang Rou, and five other disciples to the pool and placed protective restrictions on them before their cultivation.

Fu Ye found Mandala, an Ancient Mandala Flower whose true body was trapped in the Heavenly Emperor Mausoleum and whose curse threatened to kill her within a hundred years. After she agreed to follow him and signed a binding contract, Fu Ye removed her curse, restoring her strength to the Lower Earthly Sovereign realm.

• Fu Ye brought Jiu You and Tang Bing and Tang Rou's group to the bottom of the Great Luo Golden Pool, where the disciples endured its pressure as their Sovereign Dharma Bodies repeatedly shattered and reformed.
• Fu Ye called out to a hidden girl, offered her a Mandala Flower, and identified her as an avatar of the Ancient Mandala Flower adopted by the Heavenly Emperor.
• Mandala accepted Fu Ye's offer to help her escape the curse and reach her true body, then signed a contract binding her to him in exchange for his assistance.
• Fu Ye sent golden energy into Mandala and removed the curse, causing her strength to rise from the peak of the Ninth-grade Sovereign realm to the Lower Earthly Sovereign realm.

Fu Ye helped Tang Bing, Tang Rou, and the others condense their Great Luo Golden Bodies in the Great Luo Golden Pool while Mandala joined his group and learned about Nine Nether’s rapid rise in strength. The group left the pool’s ordeal behind, with the girls now possessing the foundation to challenge the Earthly Sovereign realm.

• Mandala learned that Nine Nether had improved through Dual Cultivation with Fu Ye and asked to observe or participate, leaving Fu Ye and Nine Nether stunned.
• Tang Bing, Tang Rou, and the other girls completed the Great Luo Golden Body refinement after repeatedly enduring the pool’s crushing pressure with Fu Ye’s help.
• The girls told Fu Ye that the process had been agonizing but had increased their spiritual energy concentration nearly tenfold.
• Fu Ye told the girls they had been reborn through nirvana and now had the foundation to challenge the Earthly Sovereign realm.
• Mandala revealed that she had created the Great Luo Golden Pool, and Fu Ye said there was much more she had yet to see.

Fu Ye took the Great Luo Golden Pool and helped Nine Nether and Mandala settle old grievances in the Great Luo Heavenly Domain. After wiping out the factions and Domain Lords they named, he brought the pool to Wu Yao, Qian Er, and Luo Li so they could strengthen their cultivation.

• Fu Ye took the Great Luo Golden Pool, then agreed with Nine Nether to plunder resources and retaliate against factions that had mistreated her followers.
• Tang Bing, Tang Rou, and the other girls listed their enemies, and Nine Nether led them in purging those factions.
• Mandala asked Fu Ye to deal with the Domain Lords who would appear during the Great Hunting Battle, and Fu Ye killed them remotely and took their Space Rings.
• Nine Nether returned with more plunder, and Fu Ye accepted it before deciding to bring the Great Luo Golden Pool to Wu Yao and Qian Er.
• Wu Yao and the others entered the pool to cultivate, and Luo Li returned and joined them to temper her Luo Shen Dharma Body.

Mu Chen and Zhou Yuan planned to break through to the Supreme Realm so they could enter Dragon Phoenix Heaven, while Luo Li and the others prepared to travel there after recovering. In the Misty Heavenly Domain, Gu Lin and Cai Xiao received permission from their master to attend Dragon Phoenix Heaven.

• Mu Chen and Zhou Yuan discussed gathering resources and joining a faction after reaching the Supreme Realm so they could qualify for Dragon Phoenix Heaven.
• Luo Li and the others met Mandala, learned about her origins and strength, and heard about the hardships Jiu You's disciples had endured.
• Tang Bing, Tang Rou, and the others chose to follow Yao Yao, while Luo Li and the others prepared to leave for Dragon Phoenix Heaven after resting for nearly half a year.
• Gu Lin and Cai Xiao asked their master for permission to train at Dragon Phoenix Heaven, and she agreed while warning them to stay safe.
• Cai Xiao teased Gu Lin for being so excited to leave after spending more than half a year reflecting, and their master smiled at the siblings' bickering.

Tang Wutong’s disciples Gu Lin and Cai Xiao traveled toward Dragon Phoenix Heaven, unaware that they were the children of Xiao Yan and destined to have helped Mu Chen. Meanwhile, Zhou Yuan began to suspect that Mu Chen was the Child of Destiny, and the brothers continued along a route Mu Chen felt would lead to an opportunity.

• Tang Wutong’s history was revealed: she had founded the Misty Heavenly Domain and taken in Gu Lin and Cai Xiao, not knowing their identities or Cai Xiao’s connection to Medusa.
• Gu Lin and Cai Xiao traveled toward Dragon Phoenix Heaven, teased each other about romance, and decided to rest by a stream.
• Zhou Yuan questioned Mu Chen about their route and recognized that their repeated escapes and gains resembled the workings of great fortune.
• Mu Chen said a vague feeling had guided him to the mountain path, and Zhou Yuan resolved to protect him as they continued.

Cai Xiao and Gu Lin robbed Mu Chen and Zhou Yuan, then prepared to bury them after deciding they could not safely release them. Luo Li’s group sensed Mu Chen and Zhou Yuan nearby, uncovered the aura-concealing array, and descended toward them.

• Gu Lin emptied Mu Chen and Zhou Yuan’s Storage Rings and found Flame Dragon Essence Blood and tokens taken from disciples across the major domains.
• Cai Xiao and Gu Lin discussed their own reputation for robbery and decided Gu Lin should bury Mu Chen and Zhou Yuan and burn their souls.
• Mu Chen and Zhou Yuan despaired as Gu Lin dug a pit, unable to escape while protecting each other.
• Luo Li led Ye Sun’er, Wu Yao, and Su Youwei toward the Dragon Phoenix Mountain Range, while Ye Sun’er explained her array skills and War Array Puppets.
• Wu Yao and Su Youwei sensed Mu Chen and Zhou Yuan nearby, and Ye Sun’er detected an aura-concealing array below.
• Luo Li and the others formed a battle formation and descended toward the concealed area.

After Wu Yao and Su Youwei rescued Mu Chen and Zhou Yuan, the brothers explained how Gu Lin and Cai Xiao had defeated and robbed them. The group left in disgust after discovering Gu Lin’s humiliating prank, while Cai Xiao scolded him as they fled.

• Cai Xiao used her spatial power to escape with Gu Lin before the others broke the concealment array.
• Wu Yao, Su Youwei, Luo Li, and the others found Mu Chen and Zhou Yuan and heard how Gu Lin and Cai Xiao had captured and robbed them.
• Mu Chen explained that Gu Lin and Cai Xiao were far stronger than he and Zhou Yuan, and Luo Li warned the brothers against ambushing and robbing people.
• Su Youwei pointed out an embarrassing item among the scattered possessions, prompting the women to leave in contempt as Mu Chen and Zhou Yuan blamed Gu Lin.
• Gu Lin admitted that he had left the item as a prank, and Cai Xiao scolded him and gave him a bump on the head.

Cai Xiao and Gu Lin met Luo Li's group at Dragon Phoenix Pavilion, where a confrontation was interrupted by Hong Yu and Su Biyue. The newcomers defended Cai Xiao and Gu Lin, leaving the two sides arguing over their relationships and seniority as the Dragon Phoenix Heaven trial approached.

• Gu Lin lured Chu Feishuai of the Tianxiang Sect away, robbed him, and learned that Mu Chen and Mu Yuan had a terrible reputation for robbery and lechery.
• Luo Li and her group entered Dragon Phoenix Pavilion and approached Cai Xiao and Gu Lin, prompting the siblings to prepare to flee.
• Cai Xiao challenged Luo Li's group, but before they could fight, Hong Yu and Su Biyue appeared and offered to compensate them on behalf of the Immortal Demon Domain.
• Hong Yu and Su Biyue defended Cai Xiao and Gu Lin, while Cai Xiao argued that she and Gu Lin were their seniors because they had joined first.
• Hong Yu and Su Biyue argued with Cai Xiao over her claims and temperament, leaving Luo Li's group bewildered by the unusual group.

Su Biyue and Hong Yu persuaded Pavilion Master Mu to hold the Dragon Phoenix Heaven expedition despite the danger and the shortage of Dragon Phoenix Pools. As Mu Chen and Zhou Yuan learned what the pools offered, Cai Xiao, Luo Li, and the others caught and killed Fang Yi spying on them.

• Su Biyue and Hong Yu arrived, drawing attention as the first- and second-ranked cultivators on the Dragon Phoenix Ranking.
• Pavilion Master Mu proposed canceling the expedition because only five Dragon Phoenix Pools had appeared, but Hong Yu, Su Biyue, and the other cultivators insisted it proceed.
• Luo Li recognized that Pavilion Master Mu was trying to avoid blame, while Mu Chen and Zhou Yuan arrived and learned the expedition would be dangerous.
• Zhou Yuan explained that the Dragon Phoenix Pools could help cultivators develop Pseudo Dragon and Pseudo Phoenix Bodies, while the deepest Dragon Phoenix Platform offered True Dragon and True Phoenix Bodies.
• Cai Xiao, Luo Li, and the others sensed someone watching them and instantly killed Fang Yi, who had been spying from the shadows.

Fu Ye discovered that Tang Wutong and Hu Liena had taken disciples who were competing in Dragon Phoenix Heaven alongside his own disciples. He revealed their connections but decided not to tell the girls yet.

• Hu Liena and Tang Wutong watched Cai Xiao, Hong Yu, and the others compete while discussing their disciples' prospects.
• Fu Ye arrived and learned that Tang Wutong had taken Cai Xiao and Gu Lin as disciples and that Hu Liena had taken Su Biyue and Hong Yu.
• Fu Ye recognized Cai Xiao and Gu Lin as aliases of Xiao Yan's children and realized Tang Wutong had changed their destined paths.
• Tang Wutong worried that Cai Xiao and Gu Lin would struggle to find opportunities among the five Dragon Phoenix Pools.
• Fu Ye revealed that Luo Li, Bing Qing, Ye Sun'er, Ye Qingyu, Tang Qian'er, Red Ling, and the other girls were all connected to him and his companions.
• Fu Ye said he would not tell the girls about their connections yet because he had placed restrictions on them.

After Fu Ye gave the girls maps to Dragon Phoenix Pools, several groups cultivated Dragon Phoenix Bodies and gathered at the Dragon Phoenix Platform. Luo Li and Cai Xiao’s groups chose to cooperate against the other cultivators, and Ye Sun’er opened the attack on the Nether Prince.

• Fu Ye gave the girls locations of Dragon Phoenix Pools, and Hong Yu, Su Biyue, Cai Xiao, and Gu Lin cultivated Dragon Phoenix Bodies and reached the peak of the fourth-grade Supreme Realm.
• Luo Li and her companions gathered at the Dragon Phoenix Platform, where Luo Li had reached the fifth-grade Supreme Realm and Ye Sun’er remained at the third grade.
• Hong Yu and Cai Xiao were shocked to find that Luo Li’s group had also cultivated Dragon Phoenix Bodies.
• Luo Li and Cai Xiao’s groups silently agreed to clear out the surrounding cultivators and divide the Dragon Phoenix energy among themselves.
• Ye Sun’er threw the Instant Hell Shadow Kill Array at the Nether Prince.