Chapter Summaries

Gu Xun'er and Yun Yun answered Lu Yuan’s offer, and their words helped him confront his conflicted ideas about fairness and choice. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan prepared to face Nalan Yanran as the Three-Year Agreement began, with Lu Yuan’s presence still felt at the Yun Lan Sect.

• Gu Xun'er agreed to try a relationship with Lu Yuan while promising they would end it face-to-face if their feelings changed.
• Yun Yun told Lu Yuan that he had not wronged her and accepted his offer, explaining her views on fairness and responsibility.
• Lu Yuan embraced Yun Yun and Gu Xun'er after recognizing that his pursuit of perfect certainty had caused his inner conflict.
• Yao Chen advised Xiao Yan to choose the path he believed was right before his match with Nalan Yanran.
• Xiao Yan climbed onto the platform and placed his copy of the Three-Year Agreement on the prepared stone table.
• Yun Yun revealed that the third agreement had arrived from the mountaintop, and Xiao Yan summoned his Dou Qi Wings to begin the challenge.

Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran fought as Dou Wangs, with Nalan Yanran using wind techniques and Xiao Yan countering her speed with trained intuition. After Xiao Yan struck her, Nalan Yanran revealed another attack, and Xiao Yan answered by forming a huge sphere of green flames.

• Nalan Yanran and Xiao Yan began their battle while Jia Xingtian mocked Nalan Jie from the nearby viewing peak.
• Nalan Yanran used nine persistent afterimages to force Xiao Yan to defend against her and the clones, but Xiao Yan countered with his ruler, elbow, and a fiery Hawk Flip.
• Nalan Yanran invoked her understanding of the wind to move too quickly for Xiao Yan to track, but Xiao Yan closed his eyes and struck her using intuition and prediction.
• Xiao Yan explained how his trained intuition helped him locate Nalan Yanran, who recovered and launched a blue orb with four wind wings.
• Xiao Yan dismissed the orb as a Spiral Shuriken and formed a huge sphere of green flames, calling out “Great Flame Ring, Yan Di!”

Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran’s duel escalated as their rotating attacks unleashed a devastating firestorm, forcing Haibodong and Jia Xingtian to protect the Yun Lan Sect Disciples. After the two fighters recovered, they launched their final techniques at each other, and the chapter ended as Xiao Yan’s Crystal Lotus met Nalan Yanran’s sword qi.

• Haibodong, Jia Xingtian, Gu He, and the other observers noticed that Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran’s techniques shared the principle of rotation and suspected Xiao Yan already knew her move.
• Nalan Jie recognized Xiao Yan as the masked alchemist who had cured his Branding Poison and regretted Nalan Yanran’s earlier attempt to break off the engagement.
• Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran’s attacks collided, creating a scorching fire tornado that damaged the platform and injured Yun Lan Sect Disciples.
• Haibodong and Jia Xingtian combined their strength to contain the fire tornado before it could sweep into the crowd.
• Xiao Yan announced that he would use his final trump card, while Nalan Yanran prepared her modified sword art.
• Xiao Yan formed a Crystal Lotus of azure, blue, and purple flames and hurled it at Nalan Yanran as she swung out her sword qi.

Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran’s duel ended with Xiao Yan winning after their ultimate attacks shattered space and they continued fighting at close range. Xiao Yan tore up the three contracts, while Nalan Yanran vowed to challenge him again at the Xiao Family in three years.

• Xiao Yan revealed that he could wield two Heavenly Flames, prompting the watching experts to curse in shock as Yun Shan raised a barrier around the platform.
• Xiao Yan’s Angry Buddha Fire Lotus collided with Nalan Yanran’s sword qi, and their combined attack briefly tore open space before its aftershocks engulfed them.
• Xiao Yan emerged in better condition than Nalan Yanran, whose armor was nearly destroyed and whose sword was broken, but she refused to concede and pressed on.
• Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran fought at close range until Xiao Yan defeated her and helped her back to her feet.
• Xiao Yan tore up all three contracts, and Nalan Yanran vowed to challenge him again at the Xiao Family in three years.

After Xiao Yan defeated Nalan Yanran, Yun Yun went to comfort her while Lu Yuan considered the risks of making Xiao Yan the center of her life. Xiao Yan secretly came up the mountain and clashed with Gu Xun'er before Yun Yun revealed that she had gathered them to discuss her journey to the Myriad Heavens.

• Yun Yun regretted Nalan Yanran's defeat, and Gu Xun'er suggested that Xiao Yan's connection to Lu Yuan might make the outcome easier to accept.
• Lu Yuan reasoned that Nalan Yanran's fixation on defeating Xiao Yan could lead to despair whether she won or lost, and he stayed behind rather than embarrass her further.
• Xiao Yan sneaked up the mountain in a black robe despite Yao Chen's assurance that his tracks were concealed.
• Xiao Yan questioned why Gu Xun'er was there, and she challenged his disguise and claimed Yun Yun had invited her.
• Yun Yun returned from comforting Nalan Yanran, ended the awkward exchange, and said she had gathered everyone to explain arrangements for her journey to the Myriad Heavens.

Lu Yuan explained the Myriad Heavens, its cultivation realms, and how it related to the Lesser Thousand Worlds before clarifying how he had learned about it. He then told Gu Xun'er and the others he was leaving to assess the situation, asked them to pass along his instructions to Zi Yan, and promised he would return.

• Lu Yuan outlined the Myriad Heavens' eleven cultivation stages and compared them with the realms of the Lesser Thousand Worlds.
• Lu Yuan explained that worlds could connect or converge, and that cultivators entering the Myriad Heavens had to adapt their power and techniques.
• When Yun Yun asked how he knew about the Myriad Heavens, Lu Yuan described ascending from a two-dimensional Lower Realm into a three-dimensional reality.
• Lu Yuan revealed that Zi Yan was his friend and the young clan leader of the Void Ancient Dragon Clan, and Yao Chen explained the clan's strength to Xiao Yan.
• Gu Xun'er asked about Zi Yan, Little Fairy Doctor, and Qing Lin; Lu Yuan said they had their own paths and asked Gu Xun'er to relay his arrangements to Zi Yan.
• Lu Yuan said he would leave to assess the situation and return, then looked toward the Myriad Heavens.

Lu Yuan ventured beyond the Dou Qi Continent to locate the Myriad Heavens, but was swept onto a mysterious river of light and met a powerful stranger called Origin. Origin told him a story about a future traveler who reshaped the Primordial World, then vanished, leaving Lu Yuan to wonder whether the traveler was his past self.

• Lu Yuan opened a way beyond the Dou Qi Continent and searched the starry sky for signs of the Myriad Heavens.
• The starry sky vanished, leaving Lu Yuan standing on a flowing path of light.
• A fisherman-like man appeared behind Lu Yuan, warned him not to move, and introduced himself as Origin.
• Origin said he and Lu Yuan had met before, and confirmed he was Lu Yuan's Past Self when Lu Yuan asked.
• Origin recounted how a future traveler joined the Intercepting Sect and helped remake heaven and earth.
• Origin vanished after telling Lu Yuan not to worry about the truth and to do something that would surprise him.

Lu Yuan weighed the danger of trusting his Past Self and decided he lacked the ability to pursue the truth, so he left through a spatial rift. Qing Yan Jing, a Holy Daughter of the Floating Tu Ancient Clan, fought off a group of unknown attackers but faced exhaustion and had to flee.

• Lu Yuan questioned whether his life and the worlds around him were real, but concluded that taking action without reliable information could lead him into a trap.
• Lu Yuan found a faint spatial ripple linking the Myriad Heavens and the Dou Qi Continent, tore it open, and slipped through.
• A young man in the depths of the starry sky appeared to hear Lu Yuan's final words, then remained silent.
• Qing Yan Jing blasted one black-clothed attacker into blood and shifted away while remaining within the enemies' attack range.
• The chapter explained that Qing Yan Jing had rejected a Heavenly Sovereign Guardian of the Dao and had been ambushed by unknown cultivators.
• Although Qing Yan Jing's spirit arrays let her hold off the Supremes, their numbers and her limited spiritual energy forced her to seek an escape.

Qing Yan Jing escaped her pursuers by using a Jade Talisman, but its teleportation left her stranded in a spirit-beast territory with her spiritual energy suppressed. Lu Yuan had just arrived in the Myriad Heavens when Qing Yan Jing broke through toward him, unaware of who he was, and signaled for him to flee.

• Qing Yan Jing used a harmful Secret Technique to strengthen herself, crushed a Jade Talisman, and vanished as a white-haired Earth Supreme arrived and incinerated the attackers with a white Fire Dragon.
• The white-haired man realized he might have caused trouble by bringing Qing Yan Jing and Lu Yuan together, while Hu Jiu Jiu teased him and left to tell Qing Lin.
• Lu Yuan entered the Myriad Heavens, converted some mana into spiritual energy, and found that he had retained the Heavenly Realm rather than dropping a major realm.
• Qing Yan Jing emerged from her teleportation in a spirit-beast territory and fought her way out while unable to use spiritual energy.
• Qing Yan Jing broke through toward Lu Yuan with the spirit beasts pursuing her, then waved for him to retreat.

Lu Yuan encountered Qing Yan Jing after his power forced the spirit beasts pursuing her to retreat. Their conversation revealed that she was the Floating Tu Ancient Clan’s Holy Daughter, and she recognized his name as the same as Yan Di’s Junior Brother, leaving Lu Yuan stunned by the timeline.

• Lu Yuan released his dragon might, causing the spirit beasts pursuing Qing Yan Jing to prostrate themselves before him.
• Qing Yan Jing asked Lu Yuan whether he ruled the forest, and he explained that he was a guest who had wandered there and asked where they were.
• Qing Yan Jing revealed her identity as the Floating Tu Ancient Clan’s Holy Daughter and asked Lu Yuan whether he was her enemy, friend, or a stranger, as well as his age.
• Lu Yuan said they were strangers, gave a joking answer about being eighteen with extra months, and introduced himself as Lu Yuan.
• Qing Yan Jing recognized his name as the same as Yan Di’s Junior Brother, and Lu Yuan realized the timeline was consistent with Qing Yan Jing’s age.

Lu Yuan and Qing Yan Jing agreed to travel together after she lost the use of her spiritual energy, and they found a young cultivator who could tell them where they were. The young man introduced himself as Mu Feng, the young lord of Mu Territory, in the Northern Spirit Realm of Hundred Spirit Continent.

• Lu Yuan invited Qing Yan Jing to travel with him, and she accepted because she could not use her spiritual energy.
• Lu Yuan sensed living cultivators nearby and led Qing Yan Jing to a young man being chased by a God Soul Realm spirit beast.
• Lu Yuan frightened off the beast, and the grateful young man introduced himself as Mu Feng.
• Lu Yuan confirmed that Mu Feng was Mu Territory's young lord and learned they were in the Northern Spirit Realm of Hundred Spirit Continent.
• Qing Yan Jing recognized the continent's name and considered its relationship to the nearby Sky Luo Continent.

Lu Yuan explained the Northern Spirit Realm and decided to visit Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy, inviting Qing Yan Jing to accompany him. Qing Yan Jing confessed to a hazy fondness for him and agreed, and they set off toward the academy.

• After Mu Feng left, Lu Yuan explained that he planned to visit Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy and might stay there for a few years.
• Lu Yuan asked Qing Yan Jing whether she wanted to travel with him, and she quickly agreed to go.
• Qing Yan Jing asked whether Lu Yuan had fallen for her, and he admitted he felt a hazy fondness for her.
• Qing Yan Jing said she might feel the same and asked to accompany Lu Yuan to Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy.
• Lu Yuan agreed, and he and Qing Yan Jing set off toward the edge of the forest.

Lu Yuan and Qing Yan Jing traveled to the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy so she could gain experience, taking a Teleportation Array after registration opened. They arrived safely and registered, leaving them to await the academy’s next instructions while Lu Yuan prepared to handle the entrance process without Qing Yan Jing’s cultivation.

• Lu Yuan and Qing Yan Jing rested and ate while traveling, since Qing Yan Jing relied on her physical strength and using her cultivation could damage her foundation.
• Lu Yuan and Qing Yan Jing reached a main city and took its Teleportation Array to the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy’s reception platform.
• Outer Academy students recorded Lu Yuan and Qing Yan Jing’s information and told them where to gather while they awaited further notice.
• Qing Yan Jing told Lu Yuan she would rely on him, and Lu Yuan agreed as long as no new student matched her level.

Lu Yuan and Qing Yan Jing registered for Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy’s entrance examination and arrived in the Northern Heavens Realm, where an examiner explained the route to the academy and the Stone Tablet’s grading system. The candidates began testing their grades, and Lu Yuan watched as yellow and red lights appeared, with no golden grade shown yet.

• Lu Yuan and Qing Yan Jing registered, then boarded a Teleportation Array with the other candidates to reach the examination grounds.
• An examiner appeared through the Stone Tablet and explained that candidates had to cross the dangerous Northern Heavens Realm to reach Northern Heavens Hall.
• The examiner explained that touching the Stone Tablet would assign each candidate one of nine grades, with starting grades determined partly by their admission spots.
• Candidates began touching the Stone Tablet, producing mostly yellow Level One lights and a few red Level Three lights.
• Lu Yuan noted that no golden light had appeared, although he knew Luo Li had received one after clearing the Spirit Road.

The Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy elder explained how examinees could raise their marks and announced that the entrance examination had begun, triggering a chaotic battle. Lu Yuan and Qing Yan Jing avoided the initial slaughter, then discussed their strength and Lu Yuan revealed he was an eighteen-year-old pseudo-Heavenly Realm cultivator.

• The elder explained that examinees could raise their marks by defeating spirit beasts, finding treasures, or seizing spiritual energy from other examinees, and that final levels would determine their status and resources.
• The elder permitted groups and attacks, let examinees who had struck early keep their head start, and officially began the entrance examination.
• Examinees attacked one another, with many targeting Seed students while others fled or hunted weaker opponents; Lu Yuan knocked out a young man who charged at him.
• Qing Yan Jing advised Lu Yuan to let the examinees weaken one another before they hunted higher-level marks, and Lu Yuan led her away from the fighting.
• In a secluded forest, Lu Yuan told Qing Yan Jing that he was in the Heavenly Realm with Heaven Transformation Realm combat power, explained his pseudo-Heavenly Realm status, and said he was physically eighteen, leaving her stunned.

Lu Yuan and Qing Yan Jing planned to divide Northern Heavens Realm into a hunting ground and a safe zone, while recruiting new students to build their own force. Lu Yuan hunted down a Level Five examinee, who escaped into the region Qing Yan Jing guarded.

• Lu Yuan and Qing Yan Jing counted the Level Three imprints and found that seventeen geniuses remained, with five seriously injured and one eliminated.
• Lu Yuan proposed that he hunt examinees in the outer regions while Qing Yan Jing controlled the central triangular region and let it become known as a safe zone.
• Qing Yan Jing suggested recruiting examinees and keeping admission slots for people loyal to them, and Lu Yuan agreed.
• Lu Yuan pursued a Level Five examinee and defeated his group of more than forty underlings as they tried to hold him back.
• Lu Yuan spared the battered examinee, who entered the distant region and realized he had fled from one hunting ground into another safer one.

A mysterious hunter’s attacks drove Level Four examinees toward the Northern Heavens Realm’s central region, while Dean Tai Cang and Bei Ming Dragon Kun discussed the identities and backgrounds of Qing Yan Jing and Lu Yuan. Tai Cang suspected Lu Yuan was connected to Yan Di’s Junior Brother, and the chapter ended with Lu Yuan still hunting without knowing the academy’s elders were watching him.

• Examinees learned that two Forbidden Grounds threatened them and that those with Level Four marks needed to head for the center or risk elimination.
• Reports revealed that a lone male hunter who used Spatial Power had eliminated more than three hundred elite examinees, prompting survivors to flee toward the Safe Zone.
• Tai Cang identified Qing Yan Jing’s cufflink as belonging to the Floating Tu Ancient Clan and judged that her sealed cultivation and strong foundation explained her power.
• Tai Cang suspected Lu Yuan was related to Yan Di’s Junior Brother, and he warned Bei Ming Dragon Kun not to speak that person’s name or investigate him.
• Tai Cang and Bei Ming Dragon Kun hoped Lu Yuan would not be that person’s child, while Lu Yuan continued hunting and driving examinees toward the central region.

Lu Yuan returned to the Safe Zone with a Fifth Grade Spirit Seal, and he and Qing Yan Jing took control of the remaining examinees and formed a freshman association. As the exam neared its end, they named it Heaven Evolution Pavilion, while news of their strength spread through Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy and earned them the title of the Two Great Demon Kings.

• Lu Yuan arrived at the Safe Zone, where Qing Yan Jing and her followers welcomed him as the examinees fled in fear.
• Lu Yuan and Qing Yan Jing sent their followers to spread rumors, then subdued the Safe Zone examinees; Qing Yan Jing eliminated two high-seal examinees to demonstrate her power.
• Qing Yan Jing captured fleeing examinees and distributed their Spirit Seals among her original subordinates, strengthening her faction.
• Lu Yuan and Qing Yan Jing discussed names for their association and settled on Heaven Evolution Pavilion.
• Older students learned of Lu Yuan and Qing Yan Jing's strength, and some dubbed them the Two Great Demon Kings among this year's new students.

Lu Yuan and Qing Yan Jing’s exam tactics reduced the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy’s incoming class to 6,700 students while leaving the survivors unusually strong. Dean Tai Cang accepted that the academy had to keep the two geniuses and ordered the elders to stop trying to assign them teachers.

• Lu Yuan and Qing Yan Jing’s screening and battles eliminated weaker candidates and forced capable contenders into brutal fights, leaving only 6,700 new students.
• The statistics alarmed the academy’s examiners, but they concluded that Lu Yuan and Qing Yan Jing had broken no rules and were too valuable to reject.
• Tai Cang learned that enrollment had fallen from one-third of applicants to one-tenth and worried about the two geniuses’ powerful backers.
• Tai Cang issued the four elders a Sealing Order and told them that neither he nor Bei Ming was qualified to teach Lu Yuan and Qing Yan Jing.

Lu Yuan and Qing Yan Jing arrived at Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy with the six thousand-odd freshmen they had united from the Northern Realm. After the other three factions mocked their small numbers, Qing Yan Jing coordinated the northern freshmen into a Pseudo Dragon Soul Array Spirit that suppressed their rivals, then dispersed the formation when instructors arrived and led them toward the dormitories.

• Lu Yuan and the freshmen entered Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy and saw its vast grounds, palaces, mountains, waterfalls, and towering rankings stone tablet.
• Freshmen from the other three Northern Heavens Realms arrived, and their larger numbers drew attention to how few people stood with Lu Yuan and Qing Yan Jing.
• The rival factions mocked each other, and Qing Yan Jing saw an opportunity to demonstrate the northern freshmen's strength.
• Qing Yan Jing coordinated more than six thousand northern freshmen into a Pseudo Dragon Soul Array Spirit, which overwhelmed the auras of the other three factions.
• Qing Yan Jing dissolved the array when instructors arrived, and an instructor transported her, Lu Yuan, and several hundred freshmen to the foot of their dormitory mountain.