Chapter Summaries

Instructor Gongsun explained Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy’s rules, spirit value, and ways students could earn it. He left the freshmen stunned by the vast rewards and dangers awaiting them.

• Instructor Gongsun introduced himself and answered several freshmen’s basic questions.
• Instructor Gongsun explained the academy’s Spirit Gathering Arrays, room grades, and the spirit value required to access better cultivation areas.
• Instructor Gongsun described the God Soul Ranking and Heaven Ranking, which rewarded ranked cultivators with spirit value.
• Instructor Gongsun explained monthly cultivation rewards and other ways to earn spirit value, including dangerous bounty missions against rival factions.
• Instructor Gongsun departed after leaving the freshmen shocked by the scale of the academy’s rankings and bounties.

Lu Yuan and Qing Yan Jing organized the new students, chose Rank A housing, and discussed how to earn the spirit values they needed. Lu Yuan decided to climb the rankings and immediately claimed first place on the God Soul Ranking, leaving the academy in an uproar.

• Lu Yuan and Qing Yan Jing agreed to inspect Rank A housing, then visit the Spirit Value Hall to learn how to register a society.
• Lu Yuan assigned thirty new students to patrol nearby areas, maintain order, and report any conflicts; Qing Yan Jing encouraged Mu Ling to look after the girls in her group.
• Lu Yuan and Qing Yan Jing found that they had eight thousand and seven thousand spirit values, respectively, and concluded they needed far more resources.
• Lu Yuan told Qing Yan Jing he planned to climb the Heaven Ranking, but explained that he would first earn the God Soul Ranking's one-time reward.
• Lu Yuan infused his Spirit Value Plate with his spiritual energy, and his name shot to first place on the God Soul Ranking.

Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy students debated whether a Heaven Fusion Realm freshman signaled rising standards before a new challenger began an unprecedented climb up the Heaven Ranking. The challenger reached the top ten, but their identity and final rank remained unknown.

• Senior students discussed whether the freshman who entered as a Heaven Fusion Realm cultivator was an isolated case or evidence that geniuses were becoming stronger.
• The seniors concluded they would pay closer attention only if the next two freshman classes also produced Heaven Fusion Realm cultivators.
• A golden light appeared on the Heaven Ranking, and the students realized a challenger had passed the thousandth rank.
• The challenger rose through the rankings without slowing, prompting students across the academy to fall silent and watch.
• The golden light entered the top ten and hesitated slightly, while the students wondered whether the Heaven Ranking could be broken.

Lu Yuan climbed the Heaven Ranking after entering Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy, shocking students, instructors, and elders by taking first place despite being at the Initial Stage of the Heavenly Realm. His arrival left the former top-ranked students displaced and the academy in an uproar.

• The chapter explained the Heaven Ranking’s mission privileges and the five tiers of missions, including the high rewards and risks of missions reserved for the strongest students.
• The chapter described how Heavenly Realm students could teach from personal experience and why the Heaven Ranking carried great prestige.
• Qing Yan Jing considered how her foundation-building cultivation differed from that of other Heaven Ranking students.
• Lu Yuan’s name rose past the Top Ten, the top five, and the top three before reaching first place.
• Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy saw Lu Yuan ranked first as a Heavenly Realm Initial Stage cultivator who had entered one day earlier.
• The former Heaven Ranking Thousandth mourned losing his place, while Heaven Ranking Tenth wondered how Lu Yuan had pushed him out of the Top Ten.

Lu Yuan explained why he had taken first place on the Heaven Ranking and why the current students were weaker than the geniuses of Mu Chen’s era. He and Qing Yan Jing agreed that she would stay at the academy to lead the new students while he began handling bounties, and they arrived at the Spirit Value Hall to register the Heaven Evolution Pavilion and choose a target.

• Lu Yuan compared the current Heaven Ranking students with the stronger geniuses from Mu Chen’s era and said he had taken first place to simplify claiming bounties.
• Qing Yan Jing offered to accompany Lu Yuan on bounty missions, but he advised her to stay at the academy, restore her cultivation, and manage the new students.
• Qing Yan Jing agreed to lead the academy and build the Heaven Evolution Pavilion while Lu Yuan accompanied her to the Spirit Value Hall.
• Lu Yuan carried Qing Yan Jing to the Spirit Value Hall, registered the Heaven Evolution Pavilion, and began assessing the bounty targets and their rewards.

Lu Yuan slaughtered the Dragon Demon Palace’s strongest geniuses, completing twelve bounty tasks and throwing its forces into panic. As he counted his rewards, Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy students seized the chance to rout the remaining Dragon Demon Palace disciples.

• Lu Yuan killed four Dragon Demon Palace geniuses in two strikes, prompting the survivors to scatter and summon reinforcements.
• Lu Yuan used one fleeing genius as bait and cut down the Dragon Demon Palace’s top ten core disciples, including the Young Palace Master.
• A surviving low-ranked genius escaped and urged the others to warn the Palace Master that Lu Yuan threatened the Dragon Demon Palace’s survival.
• Three Top Ten Heaven Ranking students cornered Dragon Demon Palace disciples they had previously been forced to flee from, while other academy students joined the fight and most of the disciples were killed or captured.
• Lu Yuan finished twelve Dragon Demon Palace-related Bounty Board tasks and counted seventy-three million spirit points, two God-level spirit arts, and four Spirit Artifacts among his rewards.

Lu Yuan defeated the Dragon Demon Palace Young Palace Master and gathered the major bounty rewards, then allowed Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy’s students to pursue the remaining enemies. After the battle, he found an injured little girl named Ling Xi buried in a pit, and she told him the fight had destroyed her home.

• Lu Yuan explained that his seventy-three million spirit value points were only a starting fund and planned to sell spirit artifacts and spoils for more resources.
• Three former Top Ten Heaven Ranking students learned Lu Yuan was the newly appointed Heaven Ranking First and asked to pursue the escaped bounty targets; Lu Yuan agreed.
• The Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy students cleaned the battlefield and continued hunting the weakened Dragon Demon Palace Disciples.
• Lu Yuan found an unconscious little girl buried in a pit and confirmed her injuries were minor.
• The girl introduced herself as Ling Xi and told Lu Yuan that the battle had destroyed her home.

Lu Yuan discovered that Ling Xi had delivered a whale made entirely of Time Force, which he absorbed to complete his God Soul Realm and gain control over time. He tested his new ability and realized his Time Clone could anchor him in the river of time, leaving him convinced he could never die while the anchor remained.

• Lu Yuan realized Ling Xi's appearance on the battlefield was connected to the miniature whale of pure Time Force that emerged from her and froze time across the Myriad Heavens.
• Lu Yuan concluded the Time Whale was too dangerous to refuse and guided it into his body using the God Soul Realm method from the Great Floating Tu Art Yang Scroll.
• Time resumed, Ling Xi fell unconscious, and Lu Yuan remained unable to move while he completed his cultivation.
• Lu Yuan gained the ability to create a Time Clone that matched his strength and obeyed his commands.
• Lu Yuan killed the clone with the Years Blade and realized it had left an anchor in the river of time, which he believed would keep him from dying.

Lu Yuan returned to Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy with Ling Xi, whose presence led Qing Yan Jing to suggest adopting her. After Qing Yan Jing bought resources to restore her cultivation, she rose to second place on the Heaven Ranking, revealing her late Heaven Transformation Realm strength.

• Lu Yuan returned to Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy with Ling Xi after completing twelve high-ranked bounties, and news of his achievement spread through the academy.
• Qing Yan Jing mistook Ling Xi for Lu Yuan’s daughter, then heard his explanation for bringing her back and proposed that they adopt her.
• Lu Yuan agreed that Qing Yan Jing should guide Ling Xi and transferred Spirit Values to her so she could buy resources to restore her cultivation.
• Qing Yan Jing went to the Spirit Value Hall, bought the supplies available, and then climbed the Heaven Ranking to second place.
• Qing Yan Jing’s name appeared on the Heaven Ranking with a late Heaven Transformation Realm cultivation level, stunning the students.

Lu Yuan and Qing Yan Jing’s strength at just sixteen placed them first and second on Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy’s Heaven Ranking, far ahead of students around four years older. The chapter explained why their advantages would likely grow as they advanced and how their rankings, rewards, and extra cultivation time widened the gap, leaving the rest of their generation struggling to catch up.

• The chapter explained that cultivators’ strengths diverged as they advanced, with Innate Divine Powers separating God Soul Realm cultivators and Unity of Heaven and Man separating Heaven Fusion Realm cultivators.
• Students and staff at Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy recognized that Lu Yuan and Qing Yan Jing had reached the top of the Heaven Ranking through their combat strength and were unlikely to be overtaken soon.
• Lu Yuan and Qing Yan Jing’s age and talent made their future growth seem certain, while older Heaven Ranking students faced the difficult path toward the Supreme Realm.
• The chapter explained that high Heaven Ranking rewards let students spend more time cultivating, while missions and additional spirit arts helped other students compete.
• The chapter concluded that Lu Yuan and Qing Yan Jing truly overwhelmed their generation, and that only those who reached a far higher level could rely on mastery of a single principle instead of accumulating skills.

Lu Yuan emerged from seclusion to learn that a mysterious inheritance had appeared across the Northern Heavens Continent, supposedly containing Heavenly Sovereign-level treasures. He initially dismissed the need to pursue it, but clues linking the ruins to the Fox Clan and the Red Dust Threads made the inheritance too significant to ignore.

• After more than two months of seclusion, Lu Yuan adapted to his Time Whale Innate Divine Power while Qing Yan Jing managed the Heaven Evolution Pavilion and taught Ling Xi.
• Qing Yan Jing visited Lu Yuan with news that a widely reported inheritance had appeared, and Lu Yuan said he had no reason to risk himself for it.
• Lu Yuan read the documents and noticed that the ruins were connected to the Fox Clan and featured the character “Jie” at the center of an altar.
• Qing Yan Jing explained that the ruins resembled an interrealm Teleportation Array and contained an unusual list of rewards, including a World Body, Red Dust Threads, and numerous Primordial Grade Spirit Arts.
• The Red Dust Threads’ presence troubled Qing Yan Jing because they were tied to the Fox Clan’s past and no one had previously found a way to preserve them.

Lu Yuan decided to investigate an Inheritance Remains that might be connected to the Red Dust Threads and his Intercepting Sect inheritance, despite the dangers inside and outside. Qing Yan Jing stayed behind at the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy and gave him a jade token containing an Earth Supreme’s attack before Lu Yuan departed.

• Lu Yuan suspected the Inheritance Remains and Red Dust Threads were connected to his lineage or Intercepting Sect inheritance, and he decided to investigate.
• Qing Yan Jing warned Lu Yuan that the Dragon Demon Palace might send Supreme-level experts after him and advised him not to go, but he said his intuition told him he had to.
• Qing Yan Jing offered Lu Yuan her Heavenly Sovereign projection token, but he refused because it was one of her most important protections.
• Lu Yuan warned Qing Yan Jing that enemies could target her even at the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy, and she accepted that she needed to keep her token.
• Qing Yan Jing gave Lu Yuan a jade token containing an Earth Supreme’s attack, and Lu Yuan accepted it before flying toward the freshmen dormitories.

Lu Yuan traveled to the Inheritance Remains, a vast Blood Sacrifice Abandoned Teleportation Array whose Red Dust Threads had drawn powerful cultivators from across the Myriad Heavens. He found the area crowded with Supremes and members of ancient clans, and the story left him facing a contest that would only grow as more factions arrived.

• Lu Yuan reviewed the unusual nature of the inheritance and learned that the Myriad Heavens faced an opposing half-plane occupied by the Extraterrestrial Evil God Race.
• He learned that war could unite cultivators across old divisions, while the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy offered ordinary people a path to cultivation through fair examinations.
• Lu Yuan traveled by airship for four days because the Inheritance Remains disrupted space and had destroyed a Spatial Spaceship.
• Lu Yuan arrived at the temporary town and saw cultivators ranging from cannon fodder to Supremes and Earth Supremes gathered around the ruins.
• Lu Yuan spotted a young man bearing the Floating Tu Ancient Clan crest among members of other ancient clans, confirming that the inheritance had attracted factions from beyond the Northern Heavens Continent.

Lu Yuan reflected on the cultivation world's commercial power structure and the Mitre Family's rise under Ya Fei. He saw Mitre Family descendants heading toward the Inheritance Remains and learned the clan had committed substantial forces to claim its inheritance.

• Lu Yuan explained how merchants built towns around the Inheritance Remains to profit from the cultivators arriving there.
• He described how colossal commercial families controlled industries through fair competition and how smaller merchant families often fought brutal proxy conflicts.
• He contrasted the Mitre Family's current power under Ya Fei with its former weakness and noted that the Martial Realm's lack of commercial expertise had allowed its talisman-making techniques to leak.
• Lu Yuan learned that the Mitre Family had sent five or six Supreme-level experts and many direct descendants to the Inheritance Remains.
• Lu Yuan saw several young people wearing the Mitre Family crest on the road to the ruins and reflected that Ya Fei's rise was a better fate than her original story's stagnation at the Dou Emperor realm.

Lu Yuan arrived at the Inheritance Remains, where the cultivators debated the Red Dust Threads, the likely nature of the inheritance trial, and the factions from the Endless Fire Territory that had stayed away. As Lu Yuan examined the site from a distance, several seemingly ordinary figures took up positions around him and prepared to trap him.

• The cultivators identified the Seven-Colored Threads around the barrier as Red Dust Threads and concluded that the inheritance must have a way past them.
• The cultivators reasoned that the remains held a public inheritance, though they could not determine whether Blood Sacrifice or another test would unlock it.
• The cultivators noted that the Xiao Clan, Gu Clan, Void Ancient Dragon, and Fox Clan had not come from the Endless Fire Territory, while the Mitre Family, Yun Lan Sect, and Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan were present.
• The Mitre Family and Yun Lan Sect kept low profiles with one Supreme leading each team, while the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan sent a middle-stage Earth Supreme.
• Lu Yuan arrived and examined the remains from a distance as several seemingly ordinary figures spread out and positioned themselves around him.

Lu Yuan allowed three Dragon Demon Palace Supremes to ambush him at the Inheritance Remains, while onlookers recognized the shameful attack and Jiu Feng criticized the attackers. The chapter left the confrontation underway, with the three Supremes’ killing moves bearing down on Lu Yuan.

• The three Dragon Demon Palace Supremes launched a coordinated ambush on Lu Yuan with dragon-shaped qi blasts and Dragon's Roar.
• Cultivators at the Inheritance Remains noticed three Supremes attacking a single Heavenly Realm cultivator, but most stayed silent to avoid trouble.
• The assembled Supremes felt the attack disgraced their realm and darkened their expressions.
• Jiu Feng, an Earth Supreme of the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan, openly criticized the three Dragon Demon Palace Supremes.
• The chapter described Zi Yan's standing as a Heavenly Sovereign and outlined the leadership structure of the Primordial Dragon Phoenix clans.

Lu Yuan faced three Dragon Demon Palace Supremes who tried to kill him, but the Space-Time Force in the Inheritance Remains suppressed their access to the surrounding Heaven and Earth Power. He overwhelmed them with Time Force and Spatial Power, killed them, and destroyed their souls.

• The three Dragon Demon Palace Supremes launched a sneak attack on Lu Yuan, but Spatial Rifts swallowed their dragon-shaped blasts.
• Lu Yuan taunted the Supremes and tested them with Spatial Severance as Huang Long failed to use an elemental Spirit Skill.
• Lu Yuan explained that Space-Time Force suppressed Heaven and Earth Power in the Inheritance Remains, leaving the Supremes unable to draw on it.
• Lu Yuan unleashed Space-Time Force and shattered the three Supremes before they could react.
• Lu Yuan seized and destroyed the Supremes' souls, killing all three Dragon Demon Palace Supremes.

After Lu Yuan killed three Supreme Realm cultivators, Jiu Feng recognized him as a possible connection to the legendary Lu Yuan and decided to keep his identity quiet. He stopped the Mitre Family from recruiting or provoking him and sent word to the Yun Lan Sect, leaving Lu Yuan free to continue his apparent game in the ruins.

• The crowd realized that a Heavenly Realm cultivator had killed three Supreme Realm opponents, and the chapter explained the significance of the power gap between cultivation realms.
• Jiu Feng recognized Lu Yuan’s appearance and methods, recalled his reputation and the Red Dust Threads, and suspected he might be Lu Yuan or one of his descendants.
• Jiu Feng chose not to interfere, reasoning that Lu Yuan had designed the Inheritance Remains and that revealing the ruins as a safe training ground could undermine the youngsters’ trials.
• The Mitre Family leader ordered a junior to try recruiting Lu Yuan, but Jiu Feng warned him that Lu Yuan resembled a dangerous figure from his era.
• The Mitre Family Supreme recognized Lu Yuan from a portrait displayed with ancestor Ya Fei and called back his junior.
• Jiu Feng told the Mitre Family Supreme not to provoke Lu Yuan, and the Supreme agreed to inform Old Yun at the Yun Lan Sect.

Lu Yuan approached the Red Dust Threads and declared that he had left no back door in the inheritance, then struck the barrier and seized a thread. His attack shattered the protective barrier and destroyed the Small Teleportation Array, leaving only barren land and scattered villages.

• Lu Yuan explained that Red Dust Threads could not be worn down or exhausted by sacrificing lives, and that their laws formed a cycle immune to time.
• Lu Yuan crossed to within a hundred meters of the barrier while other cultivators searched for a way around the Red Dust Threads.
• Lu Yuan pressed his hand against the barrier, prompting nearby cultivators to flee and drawing Jiu Feng and other powerful cultivators to watch.
• A whale appeared behind Lu Yuan as his time phantoms joined their palm strikes, allowing him to seize a Red Dust Thread.
• The protective barrier shattered, the whale struck the Small Teleportation Array, and a blinding light left only barren land and scattered villages.

Lu Yuan escaped the collapsing Inheritance Remains with its inheritance and discovered that the Teleportation Array had carried him more than five hundred years into the past. After reaching a town under Azure Heavens Spiritual Academy’s influence, he reflected on the continent’s stagnant system and found that it had changed little over the centuries.

• Lu Yuan realized the Teleportation Array had existed at a time node more than five hundred years in the past and had transported him there through overlapping space-time.
• Lu Yuan gathered the inheritance’s remaining balls of light, fled the collapsing ruins, and avoided the cultivators who arrived afterward.
• Lu Yuan reached a nearby town, confirmed there was no Supreme Realm powerhouse present, and learned that its city lord was a Heavenly Realm cultivator who had gone away.
• Lu Yuan discovered that the continent belonged to Azure Heavens Spiritual Academy’s sphere of influence and considered how the academy could support small cities and nurture local talent.
• Lu Yuan watched the town’s crowds from a wine shop and concluded that the same problems persisted more than five hundred years later.