Chapter Summaries

Ye Xiwen slaughtered the God Army and Brocade Guard forces, including Young Master Jin, but fled when a powerful pursuer attacked. His victory made him famous throughout the Great Ming Empire and triggered a widespread hunt for him and the ancient scripture; after killing more pursuers, he escaped an ambush badly wounded.

• Ye Xiwen killed the remaining God Army and Brocade Guard experts, including Young Master Jin, with his powerful martial arts.
• A distant expert attacked Ye Xiwen with a massive hand of qi, but Ye Mo warned him to flee, and Ye Xiwen escaped using his golden wings.
• News of the deaths of three Divine Lords, Young Master Jin, and nearly two hundred fighters spread across the Great Ming Empire, making Ye Xiwen famous.
• The God Army and Brocade Guard issued wanted notices, and factions across the empire and beyond joined the hunt for Ye Xiwen and the ancient scripture.
• Three days later, Ye Xiwen killed Brocade Guard agents who found him in a small city and escaped.
• Ten days later, Ye Xiwen killed several Eastern Depot experts, was badly wounded by one of their chiefs, and fled.

After surviving repeated hunts, Ye Xiwen reached Heaven Return City seeking a Heavenly Origin Fruit to refine Longevity Pills and restore the life essence consumed by the Phoenix Rebirth Art. He offered Dragon Smoke Grass at the Heaven Return Commerce Association, whose attendant recognized its value and went to fetch the shopkeeper.

• Ye Xiwen became renowned after killing pursuers and escaping a Brocade Guard Half-Saint, though the Phoenix Rebirth Art left him aged and short of life essence.
• Ye Xiwen traveled to Heaven Return City, where the three Ancient Roads converged, to search for a Heavenly Origin Fruit and the other materials needed for Longevity Pills.
• Ye Xiwen entered the Heaven Return Commerce Association to sell Dragon Smoke Grass.
• The attendant recognized the Dragon Smoke Grass and hurried to summon the shopkeeper.

Ye Xiwen sold second-grade Dragon Smoke Grass to the Heaven Return Commerce Association for five million spirit pills and asked it to buy medicinal ingredients. After he left, Xia Chen told a young woman that he had recognized Ye Xiwen, and she explained why the association would not target him over an ancient scripture page.

• Xia Chen examined Ye Xiwen’s second-grade Dragon Smoke Grass and offered five million spirit pills, which Ye Xiwen accepted.
• Ye Xiwen commissioned the association to obtain medicinal ingredients, learned that Heavenly Origin Fruit was scarce, and received the other herbs as a gift.
• After Ye Xiwen departed, Xia Chen reported to a young woman that he had followed her instructions and identified him.
• The woman rejected the idea of intercepting Ye Xiwen over an ancient scripture page, warning that the True Martial School’s geniuses could become powerful future enemies.

Ye Xiwen found Wang Jingtian selling a Heavenly Origin Fruit and traded it for a Longevity Pill. After three days of refining, he gave Wang Jingtian a top-grade pill that could add a hundred years to the life of an elder in his family.

• A woman and Xia Chen discussed Ye Xiwen's need for Longevity Pill ingredients and the limits of his healing technique.
• Ye Xiwen searched the city's black market for a Heavenly Origin Fruit and found Wang Jingtian offering one in exchange for lifespan-extending medicine.
• Ye Xiwen promised Wang Jingtian a Longevity Pill in exchange for the fruit, and Wang Jingtian agreed.
• Ye Xiwen refined pills for three days while Wang Jingtian guarded the inn room.
• Ye Xiwen gave Wang Jingtian a top-grade Longevity Pill that could extend a person's life by a hundred years, and Wang Jingtian pledged to repay him.

Ye Xiwen replenished his life essence with Longevity Pills and ventured outside the city to break through to the Half-step Legendary Fifth Level. After surviving a fierce heavenly tribulation, he reached a new level of strength and looked toward the True Martial School as it prepared to accept students.

• Ye Xiwen refined Divine Longevity Pills with the Mysterious Space’s help, producing thirty-six pills in one batch for Wang Jingtian.
• Ye Xiwen consumed four Longevity Pills, restoring his youthful appearance and replenishing enough life essence to attempt a breakthrough.
• Ye Xiwen flew to a valley outside the city and triggered a heavenly tribulation of lightning weapons and beasts.
• Ye Xiwen fought through the lightning beasts and killed the Lightning Beast King with his Overlord Body Golden Body.
• Ye Xiwen advanced to the Half-step Legendary Fifth Level, reached the combat strength of the Half-step Legendary Sixth Level, and looked toward the True Martial School.

Ye Xiwen reached the True Martial School’s Welcoming City, where newcomers faced strict entry rules and a 108 Wooden Men Formation. After a mounted young expert attacked him, Ye Xiwen killed the Divine Tiger and injured its rider, then faced a deadly Sword Qi attack from an angry voice in the sky.

• Ye Xiwen arrived at Welcoming City and learned that its gates opened only at dusk, while challengers could enter early by breaking through the 108 Wooden Men Formation.
• Ye Mo urged Ye Xiwen to challenge the formation, and Ye Xiwen began walking toward the main gate.
• A young man riding a Divine Tiger charged at Ye Xiwen, who stopped the beast with one hand.
• The Divine Tiger attacked Ye Xiwen, but he severed its foreclaw and killed it with a palm strike that also badly injured its rider.
• An angry voice shouted at Ye Xiwen, and a powerful Sword Qi slashed toward his waist.

Ye Xiwen confronted Law Enforcement Hall disciples who had ambushed him at the gates of Welcoming City, then exposed their actions as a threat to all incoming disciples. The chapter ended with the newcomers recognizing the danger and demanding accountability.

• Ye Xiwen tore apart a sword strike and confronted a group of Law Enforcement Hall disciples led by a green-robed youth who ordered him to surrender.
• The leading disciple accused Ye Xiwen of breaking School Rules and demanded that he go to the Law Enforcement Hall, while the watching newcomers feared the disciples’ strength.
• Ye Xiwen refused to comply, and when one disciple tried to seize him, Ye Xiwen shattered his arm and kicked him away, breaking his breastbone.
• Ye Xiwen accused the Law Enforcement Hall disciples of ambushing him and rallied the newcomers to demand an explanation for their conduct.
• The newcomers reconsidered the incident as a threat to their own safety and began to question whether the disciples’ actions could be allowed.

Ye Xiwen rallied the newcomers against the Law Enforcement Hall’s attempt to seize him, then tore apart their capture net and killed the attacking disciples. He fought Yan Wufang, who threatened Ye Xiwen’s family, and had gained the upper hand by the chapter’s end.

• Ye Xiwen argued that the Law Enforcement Hall’s actions threatened every new disciple, and the crowd demanded an explanation from Yan Wufang.
• Yan Wufang accused Ye Xiwen of injuring a fellow disciple and ordered the Law Enforcement Hall disciples to capture him with a heavenly net.
• Ye Xiwen tore the net apart and killed the Law Enforcement Hall disciples with golden Sword Qi.
• Yan Wufang threatened Ye Xiwen’s family and attacked him with his sword, but Ye Xiwen broke through his strikes.
• Ye Xiwen overwhelmed Yan Wufang, confining his sword light and leaving him pale and spitting blood.

Ye Xiwen killed Yan Wufang despite the Welcoming City City Lord's warning, then entered the city and crushed the formation's puppets with his strength. He became famous among the newcomers, while observers wondered how his physical body compared with the class's other prodigies.

• Ye Xiwen defeated Yan Wufang and killed him just as the Old City Lord arrived, then heard the old man's warning about offending the Law Enforcement Hall.
• The Old City Lord told Ye Xiwen he could defend himself within Welcoming City, and praised his talent before teleporting away.
• Ye Xiwen approached the city gates with the other newcomers and entered the formation, where a Legendary Fifth Level puppet attacked him.
• Ye Xiwen shattered the puppets with his golden divinity and physical strength, forcing his way through the formation and into the city.
• Disciples praised Ye Xiwen's strength and compared his physical body with that of a newcomer who possessed a Titan Body.

Ye Xiwen learned about the True Martial School’s many inheritances and how little standing ordinary recruits had beside its established disciples. After hearing about several recruits with rare special constitutions, he asked Ye Mo what made those physiques so powerful.

• Ye Xiwen settled into an inn in Welcoming City and learned that Qi Feifan and the other Yi Yuan Sect disciples had already chosen inheritances and dispersed.
• Ye Xiwen read a booklet describing the school’s inheritances, including the Hundred Great Inheritances and their strict admission requirements.
• Ye Xiwen reflected on the school’s immense scale as recruits discussed how even talented martial artists could become mere Outer Gate or Registered Disciples.
• Recruits described the Titan Body and Sky Phoenix Body, whose owners had overwhelmed the obstacles on their Ancient Roads.
• Ye Xiwen asked Ye Mo about special constitutions, and Ye Mo explained that they were rare, profound physical mutations that could make their possessors exceptionally powerful.

After a month of rejection from the True Martial School’s inheritances because of his conflict with the Law Enforcement Hall, Ye Xiwen chose to seek entry into the declining Hidden Star Peak. He climbed its neglected mountain road, determined to join it or leave the school.

• Ye Mo and the others discussed the power and rarity of special constitutions, while Ye Xiwen considered the strength of his Overlord Body Golden Body.
• As the new disciples selected inheritances, the Law Enforcement Hall’s hostility caused one inheritance after another to reject Ye Xiwen.
• Rumors spread that Ye Xiwen had been blacklisted for killing a Law Enforcement Hall disciple, and he calmly accepted another rejection.
• Ye Xiwen decided to visit Hidden Star Peak, the last inheritance he was willing to consider before leaving the True Martial School.
• Ye Xiwen climbed Hidden Star Peak’s overgrown path and passed its abandoned residences, which reflected the inheritance’s former prosperity and present decline.

Ye Xiwen joined Hidden Star Peak, whose few remaining disciples hoped to restore its lost inheritance. At Star Gazing Cliff, he began comprehending its ancient martial traces, and Bai Jiansong realized Ye Xiwen might help Hidden Star Peak rise again.

• Bai Jiansong welcomed Ye Xiwen to Hidden Star Peak and explained its decline and the lost Hidden Star Scripture.
• Bai Jiansong assured Ye Xiwen that Hidden Star Peak would protect him from trouble with the Law Enforcement Hall and introduced the peak’s sparse membership.
• Ye Xiwen met Yang Wenjun and Deng Shuixin before Bai Jiansong led him to Star Gazing Cliff.
• At night, Star Gazing Cliff revealed an ancient figure demonstrating martial arts, and Ye Xiwen became absorbed in comprehending its principles.
• Bai Jiansong stood guard as Ye Xiwen’s Mysterious Space helped him unravel the cliff’s teachings and deepen his understanding of Star Power.

Ye Xiwen comprehended the complete Hidden Star Scripture but chose not to follow its Primordial Spirit path, instead using the opportunity to create his own technique. He completed the first level of the Guanren Scripture, leaving him with a new cultivation foundation.

• Ye Xiwen used the Mysterious Space to repeatedly analyze the chanting and comprehended a complete version of the Hidden Star Scripture.
• Star Power gathered into a storm around Ye Xiwen, and Bai Jiansong raised a barrier to conceal the phenomenon.
• Ye Xiwen recognized that the Hidden Star Scripture’s Primordial Spirit path conflicted with his fleshly-body path of supreme Overlord Dao.
• Ye Mo urged Ye Xiwen to use his enlightenment to create a cultivation technique of his own, as the Ming Yu Gong had begun to limit his progress.
• As dawn broke, Ye Xiwen’s body radiated power from within, and he completed the first level of the Guanren Scripture.

Ye Xiwen created the first stage of the Guanren Scripture by forming a sun in his dantian, establishing his path of cultivating his body as a Small Universe. After Bai Jiansong explained the coming New Talent Trial Competition, Ye Xiwen began a terrifying Variant Heavenly Tribulation at Hidden Star Peak.

• Ye Xiwen formed a blazing sun inside his dantian and established the Guanren Scripture as the foundation of his own cultivation path.
• Bai Jiansong learned that Ye Xiwen had comprehended the Hidden Star Scripture and told him that the Hidden Star Master and Eldest Senior Brother were searching beyond the domain for their predecessors' scripture.
• Bai Jiansong warned Ye Xiwen to prepare for the New Talent Trial Competition and beware of the Law Enforcement Hall, explaining that more than a million newcomers would face strange beasts beyond the Heavenly Domain.
• Ye Xiwen noticed dark clouds gathering and realized he was about to undergo tribulation.
• Bai Jiansong told Ye Xiwen to remain at Hidden Star Peak and raised a barrier to block probing senses as lightning weapons rained down on Ye Xiwen in a Variant Heavenly Tribulation.

Ye Xiwen used his newly created Guanren Scripture to absorb a powerful Variant Heavenly Tribulation and shape his dantian into a miniature universe. After defeating the lightning beasts, he reached Half-step Legendary Minor Perfection and greatly increased his combat strength.

• Ye Xiwen absorbed the lightning weapons into his dantian, using their power to carve open space and strengthen the Guanren Scripture.
• The tribulation changed from weapon rain into an army of lightning beasts, and Ye Xiwen charged into their ranks to fight.
• Ye Xiwen crushed the lightning beasts with the Coiling Dragon Palm and absorbed their energy while his Overlord Body Golden Body and Phoenix Rebirth Art protected and healed him.
• Yang Wenjun and Deng Shuixin arrived at Hidden Star Peak and watched in disbelief as Ye Xiwen fought the Variant Heavenly Tribulation.
• Ye Xiwen destroyed the final lightning beast, the tribulation clouds dispersed, and he advanced to Half-step Legendary Minor Perfection as a tiny planet formed in his dantian.

Ye Xiwen joined the new disciples traveling to the Outer Territory Battlefield and settled into Breaking Moon City. After experiencing the battlefield’s harsh conditions, he ventured into the wilderness at night and defeated a group of evil spirits.

• Ye Xiwen left Hidden Star Peak with Bai Jiansong, Yang Wenjun, and Deng Shuixin to join the new disciples headed for the Outer Territory Battlefield.
• A Breaking Moon Peak elder teleported the disciples to the battlefield and led them to Breaking Moon City, where they could hunt exotic beasts and seek ancient inheritances.
• Ye Xiwen cultivated in the city and found that the battlefield’s violent spiritual energy could strengthen his body despite its painful effects.
• Ye Xiwen flew more than a hundred li beyond the city at night and encountered an evil spirit general and its soldiers.
• Ye Xiwen crushed the evil spirits, absorbed their energy, and recognized the dangers of the battlefield.

Ye Xiwen joined the defense of Breaking Moon City when a massive beast stampede attacked the newcomers at dawn. He charged into the horde, absorbing the beasts’ Star Power as the fighting intensified and Legendary Realm beasts threatened the human line.

• Ye Xiwen learned that the beast stampede was the Outer Territory Battlefield’s first trial and retreated with the others to Breaking Moon City’s walls.
• Ye Xiwen leaped into the horde, killed a six-legged beast, and discovered that absorbing its Star Power slightly expanded his Inner Universe.
• Ye Xiwen slaughtered beasts deep inside the horde while other fighters who followed him were overwhelmed and killed.
• Hundreds of Legendary Realm beasts charged toward the valley entrance, pushing the human defensive line to the brink of collapse.
• An eighteen-legged Legendary Realm beast attacked Ye Xiwen, but he destroyed its claw and killed it with a punch through its mouth.

Ye Xiwen fought through the alien beast army and killed a powerful Legendary Eighth Level beast after a prolonged battle. As he prepared to collect its corpse, a silent, deadly attack suddenly swept toward him.

• Ye Xiwen crushed his way through the alien beasts, drawing the martial artists’ attention with his overwhelming strength.
• Ye Xiwen targeted a powerful Legendary Eighth Level alien beast, hoping to gain enough Star Power to condense Venus in his Inner Universe.
• Ye Xiwen clashed with the beast, suffering deep wounds while repeatedly striking it with his sword intent.
• Ye Xiwen used the Phoenix Rebirth Art to recover and wore the beast down over more than a hundred exchanges.
• Ye Xiwen pierced the beast’s head and killed it, then sensed danger as a cold, silent attack rushed toward him.

After Ye Xiwen killed a strange beast, a Law Enforcement Hall disciple ambushed him, and Ye Xiwen killed the attacker despite Ling Yifeng’s intervention. Ye Xiwen defeated Ling Yifeng with one saber strike, leaving himself unable to remain at Breaking Moon Peak.

• A Law Enforcement Hall disciple tried to assassinate Ye Xiwen after he killed the strange beast, but Ye Xiwen struck him down.
• Ling Yifeng arrived and demanded that Ye Xiwen spare the Breaking Moon Peak disciple, but Ye Xiwen stomped the injured attacker to death.
• Ling Yifeng attacked Ye Xiwen, who cut through his fist force with his divine garment and turned to face him.
• Ye Xiwen’s saber strike broke Ling Yifeng’s defense and left him with a bloody wound, defeating him in one move.
• Ye Xiwen accepted that he could no longer remain at Breaking Moon Peak and did not regret killing the attacker.

After leaving with Ling Yifeng, Ye Xiwen ignored the kill orders against him and hunted powerful exotic beasts to gather their inner cores. He used their Star Power to form Venus in his Inner Universe, greatly increasing his strength, before a sword rainbow appeared in the distance.

• Luo Yihang ordered a private hunt for Ye Xiwen, while Breaking Moon Peak also sought revenge for the deaths of its disciples.
• Ye Xiwen climbed a mountain in the Outer Territory Battlefield and killed a formidable six-winged beast, then slaughtered many more exotic beasts for their inner cores.
• Ye Xiwen absorbed the inner cores and dense Star Power while cultivating the Guanren Scripture, forming Venus and expanding his Inner Universe by a third.
• Ye Mo praised Ye Xiwen's strength, but Ye Xiwen said he still needed to grow and planned to use his remaining Dragon Marrow to advance further.
• A commotion rose in the distance, and a heaven-shaking sword rainbow streaked across the sky.