Chapter Summaries

After spending the night with Nie Lingshan, Shi Yan thanked Qi Ziyue for arranging it and entered seclusion to absorb his insights. He emerged with a deeper understanding of the martial path, and Principal Liu Xiuyuan told him that the seed of Unity of Heaven and Man had taken root within him.

• Nie Lingshan called Qi Ziyue after she and Shi Yan had been together, and Qi Ziyue happily agreed to come care for her and Senior Zhang.
• Qi Ziyue told Shi Yan she had deliberately let Nie Lingshan get close to him, asked him to seek her consent before taking another partner, and received his promise.
• Shi Yan and Qi Ziyue parted ways so she could care for Nie Lingshan and Senior Zhang while he entered seclusion for several days.
• After seven days, Shi Yan emerged from seclusion with refined control of his strength and a new reverence for heaven, earth, and the martial path.
• Principal Liu Xiuyuan explained Unity of Heaven and Man and told Shi Yan that its initial form had taken root in him, leaving no bottleneck on his path to the Martial King realm.
• Liu Xiuyuan told Shi Yan he could report directly to Lingnan Martial School.

Shi Yan traveled toward Lingnan, learned Departing Fire Returning Heart, and entered Snow Sword Mountain after hearing that Snow Sword Silver Eagles guarded it. He encountered a bloodied Bai Yuyao fleeing through the forest.

• Shi Yan secretly watched Qi Ziyue and Nie Lingshan play in the snow before continuing south while studying Departing Fire Returning Heart and hunting demonic beasts for Martial Virtue Points.
• Bai Yuyao, Jingwu’s exchange student bound for Lingnan Martial School, killed a Fourth-Order Demonic Beast and fled when a Fifth-Order Snow Sword Silver Eagle pursued her.
• Shi Yan met Lu Gang at Youjian Tavern and learned that Snow Sword Silver Eagles had awakened after Gold Veined Blood Ginseng appeared on their mountain.
• Shi Yan spent 70,000 Martial Virtue Points to raise Departing Fire Returning Heart to great accomplishment, then entered the mountain to investigate the Seventh-Level eagles.
• Shi Yan smelled blood and saw Bai Yuyao rushing toward him, drenched in blood and pursued by a terrifying threat.

Shi Yan healed Bai Yuyao’s severe injuries, then sent her away before confronting the two Snow Sword Silver Eagles pursuing her. After easily killing them with Sky Dragon Blazing Flame, he continued deeper into the mountain.

• Bai Yuyao warned Shi Yan to flee from the two fifth-level Snow Sword Silver Eagles, but Shi Yan stopped her and healed her injuries with his azure flames.
• Bai Yuyao apologized and urged Shi Yan to escape, but Shi Yan sent her flying hundreds of meters away so she would not hinder him.
• Bai Yuyao realized Shi Yan had reached Sixth Order strength and left, privately deciding she would make him hers and use him to hurt Qi Ziyue.
• Shi Yan encountered the two Snow Sword Silver Eagles and killed them with Departing Fire Returning Heart, earning Martial Virtue Points.
• Shi Yan stored the eagles’ corpses and continued deeper into the mountain.

Bai Yuyao emerged from Snow Sword Mountain and killed a lecherous Fifth Tier warrior who tried to take advantage of her. She revealed that her boyfriend was killing Snow Sword Silver Eagles inside the mountain, leaving the waiting warriors frightened and eager to appease her.

• Lu Gang heard Snow Sword Silver Eagles scream and believed Zhang Yun had begun killing them, while the warriors waiting outside the mountain grew angry at whoever had disturbed the flock.
• Bai Yuyao came out of Snow Sword Mountain, and a lecherous Fifth Tier man accused her of provoking the eagles and blamed her for disrupting everyone's plans.
• Bai Yuyao attacked the man with ice, lured him between three ice walls, and blew him apart with an explosion.
• A Sixth Order Warrior questioned Bai Yuyao about the cries from the mountain, and another Snow Sword Silver Eagle screamed as it died.
• Bai Yuyao said her boyfriend was killing the Snow Sword Silver Eagles, and the frightened warriors quickly claimed they had only been concerned for her.

Shi Yan slaughtered two more Sixth-Level Snow Sword Silver Eagles before confronting the Seventh-Level eagle that ruled Snow Sword Mountain. He survived its first powerful strike, healed his injured hand, and taunted it as their fight began.

• Shi Yan dodged the feathers and freezing wind blades of two powerful Sixth-Level Snow Sword Silver Eagles, then killed them with his Blazing Flame Divine Needles and stored their corpses.
• Shi Yan sensed the only Seventh-Level demonic beast on Snow Sword Mountain approaching and recognized it as a Snow Sword Silver Eagle with exceptional speed and defense.
• Shi Yan tossed out the five eagle corpses he had collected, enraging the Seventh-Level eagle and drawing it into an attack.
• Shi Yan met the eagle’s wing with his bare hand, was blasted backward, and suffered cracked bones and a deep cut before green flames healed his injuries.
• Shi Yan taunted the Seventh-Level Snow Sword Silver Eagle as he prepared to continue fighting.

Shi Yan killed the Seventh Level Snow Sword Silver Eagle with his flames and Blazing Flame Divine Needle, then continued deeper into Snow Sword Mountain. Outside the mountain, Bai Yuyao waited for him with a crowd that grew increasingly suspicious, until Si Jia'an confronted her after nightfall.

• Shi Yan used the Phantom Blood Saber, his movement technique, and fused flames to badly injure the Snow Sword Silver Eagle, then killed it with the Blazing Flame Divine Needle and collected its Demon Core.
• Shi Yan stored the nearby corpses and continued into Snow Sword Mountain to hunt other demonic beasts.
• Si Jia'an and the people outside Youjian Tavern heard the Seventh Level Snow Sword Silver Eagle's death cry and realized someone had killed it.
• Si Jia'an and the others fawned over Bai Yuyao, while she worried about leaving safely and asked them to wait quietly for Shi Yan.
• After Shi Yan failed to appear by nightfall, Si Jia'an grew suspicious and approached Bai Yuyao, asking her boyfriend's name and saying they wanted to enter the mountain to find him.

Bai Yuyao and Lu Gang faced Si Jia'an as he turned hostile after deciding they had deceived him. Just as Si Jia'an attacked, an unseen force stopped his staff, and Shi Yan emerged from the forest to ask Lu Gang what had happened.

• Si Jia'an agreed to wait another half hour after Lu Gang claimed Zhang Yun would come out, but threatened Lu Gang's vegetative daughter if he was lying.
• Bai Yuyao confronted Si Jia'an and prepared to risk her life if he attacked.
• When the half hour passed, Lu Gang suggested Bai Yuyao return to rest, and Si Jia'an realized they had stalled him.
• Si Jia'an ordered his men to attack, and Bai Yuyao and Lu Gang fled toward Snow Sword Mountain.
• Si Jia'an blocked their escape with a stone peak and swung his Alloy Staff at them.
• An invisible force stopped Si Jia'an's staff, and Shi Yan walked out of the forest and asked Lu Gang what had happened.

Shi Yan emerged from the mountain and killed Si Jia'an after learning he had preyed on Lu Gang’s daughter and threatened Bai Yuyao. After Lu Gang arranged for Si Jia'an’s associates to compensate Bai Yuyao, he called her Shi Yan’s girlfriend, leaving Shi Yan confused as she blushed.

• Shi Yan shattered Si Jia'an’s mountain ability with one palm, then listened as Lu Gang explained what had happened to Bai Yuyao.
• Bai Yuyao asked Shi Yan to kill Si Jia'an, and Shi Yan stopped him from escaping and burned him to death with a Flame Palm.
• Bai Yuyao said she owed Shi Yan a favor, while Lu Gang judged Si Jia'an’s associates guilty but let them make amends by giving her gifts.
• Shi Yan let the associates leave, and Bai Yuyao accepted the gifts Lu Gang had collected for her.
• Lu Gang called Bai Yuyao Shi Yan’s girlfriend, and Shi Yan protested as Bai Yuyao blushed.

Shi Yan traveled through the mountains with Bai Yuyao, hunting Demonic Beasts before she had to report to Lingnan Martial School. As they prepared to part, he discovered that Bai Yuyao looked strikingly like Qi Ziyue and asked whether they were related.

• Shi Yan gave Lu Gang several Space Rings with enough resources to awaken his vegetative daughter and raise her to the Fifth-Order Grandmaster level.
• Bai Yuyao followed Shi Yan, and he agreed to escort her as he continued hunting Demonic Beasts through the mountains.
• Over ten days, Shi Yan visited four mountains and a lake, but found fewer Demonic Beasts and earned less than two hundred thousand Martial Virtue Points.
• After entering Lingnan, Bai Yuyao told Shi Yan she had to report to Lingnan Martial School and asked him to boil water so she could bathe.
• Bai Yuyao asked for Shi Yan's contact information and said she would prove she was stronger than Qi Ziyue.
• Shi Yan saw Bai Yuyao without her armor, noticed she looked roughly eighty percent like Qi Ziyue, and asked whether they were related.

Shi Yan and Bai Yuyao continued their journey after discovering they were both exchange students heading to Lingnan Martial School. They reached the school gates five days later, where a new beginning awaited them.

• Shi Yan helped Bai Yuyao dry her hair with his flames, and she asked for his contact information, but he initially refused.
• Shi Yan told Bai Yuyao that he was also going to Lingnan Martial School as an exchange student, and she was delighted.
• Shi Yan suspected the exchange program had a hidden purpose and wondered whether Jingwu and Tianfu were sending their students into a dangerous competition.
• Shi Yan and Bai Yuyao traveled together, hunted demon beasts, and spoke more often along the way.
• Five days later, Shi Yan and Bai Yuyao arrived at Lingnan Martial School and approached its gates.

Qi Ziyue was imprisoned by her mother, Ouyang Qiong, for dating Shi Yan, but her Third Uncle Qi Zhan broke her out and took her beyond Kyoto. After hearing about her parents’ painful past, Qi Ziyue remained determined to stay with Shi Yan and prove herself.

• Ouyang Qiong scolded Qi Ziyue for dating Shi Yan and locked her in the Qi Family dungeon for a semester.
• Qi Ziyue prepared to use Zhang Yunya’s Level 8 Demon King essence blood to improve her strength and win the elders’ attention.
• Qi Zhan shattered the dungeon door, rescued Qi Ziyue, and flew with her out of Kyoto.
• Qi Zhan told Qi Ziyue how her father’s past love had hurt both him and Ouyang Qiong.
• Qi Ziyue vowed not to abandon Shi Yan, and Qi Zhan urged her to reach Magic Martial University and prove herself.

Shi Yan arrived at Lingnan Martial School as an exchange student and reunited with several familiar Magic Martial University students. Dean Yuan summoned the first-year standouts and announced that their semester would begin early with his personal instruction in the mountains.

• Ouyang Qiong and Qi Hong discussed how they had helped Qi Zhan rescue Ouyang Yue from the dungeon and protect her from public gossip.
• Shi Yan met the four Magic Martial University exchange students, including Tian Zhi, Xiong Ba, Yu Miaomiao, and Fang Kun.
• Wei Ming welcomed Shi Yan and the exchange students, then treated them to a meal.
• Yuan Tai summoned Shi Yan, Bai Yuyao, Satu Yu, Situ Zhou, and Lingnan Martial School's first-year prodigies to the Martial Practice Arena.
• Yuan Tai announced that he would personally teach the group through mountain training and ordered them to hand over their communication devices.

Shi Yan and thirteen other students began a secret border-clearing mission in the mountains, where they had to kill demonic beasts and unauthorized intruders while continuing their studies. After taking charge of the group and splitting the students into four teams, Shi Yan killed a pack of twenty Green Wind Wolf Demons almost instantly, leaving Wu Qiang stunned.

• Yuan Tai collected the students’ communication devices, announced the dangerous border mission, and transported them into the mountains.
• Yuan Tai ordered the students to clear demonic beasts from within two kilometers of the national border and kill unauthorized people, then explained their schedule, assessments, and emergency signals.
• Bai Yuyao gave the mission map to Shi Yan, and Wei Ming and the Satu brothers supported his leadership despite Wu Qiang criticizing him over his stolen saber.
• Shi Yan divided the students into four teams and ordered them to advance together through the forest, beginning the mission immediately.
• Shi Yan stopped Wu Qiang from calling for help when they encountered twenty Green Wind Wolf Demons, then killed the entire pack with a flurry of saber strikes.

Shi Yan effortlessly killed the Fifth-Order wolf demons, leaving Wu Qiang shaken by the gap between their strengths. Yuan Tai changed the mission arrangement and promised Shi Yan an S-Class martial arts technique, which Shi Yan chose as the Thirty-Six Paths of Flaming Wind Saber.

• Shi Yan killed all twenty Fifth-Order wolf demons with one slash, and Wu Qiang collected their valuable materials for Dean Yuan to distribute.
• Wu Qiang learned Shi Yan had reached the Sixth Order and asked how he could become stronger; Yuan Tai rebuked him and sent him flying with a kick.
• Yuan Tai explained that Shi Yan had been brought in to spur Lingnan Martial School's geniuses, but his strength risked damaging their Dao Hearts, so the mission arrangement needed to change.
• Yuan Tai offered Shi Yan any one S-Class martial arts technique from Lingnan Martial School, and Shi Yan chose the Thirty-Six Paths of Flaming Wind Saber.
• Yuan Tai agreed to give Shi Yan the saber technique and said Wei Ming would be angry but would not be able to stop him.

Shi Yan reorganized the border-clearing teams and, after mastering the Thirty-Six Paths of Flaming Wind Saber, went out to test his new technique. He found a chaotic horde of fleeing demonic beasts, then sensed a Martial Emperor’s terrifying pressure above him.

• Yuan Tai assigned Shi Yan to lead and coordinate the four groups, urging him to develop into a leader who could unite martial artists.
• Shi Yan organized the groups into scouting, assault, and surprise-attack roles as they cleared the borderlands of demonic beasts.
• Over twenty days, Shi Yan learned the Thirty-Six Paths of Flaming Wind Saber and spent seventy thousand Martial Virtue Points to raise it to great accomplishment.
• Shi Yan encountered a chaotic swarm of muddy rats, rabbits, and snakes fleeing together, and he charged into them with his Phantom Blood Saber.
• Shi Yan realized the demonic beasts were fleeing rather than attacking, then sensed a terrifying presence above him and recognized it as a Martial Emperor.

Shi Yan and the others met Huaxia Martial Emperor Situ Yaoyang, who ordered them to guard Sheep Horn Mountain. After half a day without demon beasts, they spotted movement in the west as the sun set.

• Yuan Tai gathered Shi Yan and the others to meet General Situ, whom Shi Yan recognized as Martial Emperor Situ Yaoyang.
• Situ Yaoyang assigned the group to patrol Sheep Horn Mountain and prevent anything from crossing it.
• Satu Yu explained that he and Situ Zhou were related to Situ Yaoyang but were not his direct descendants, and Yuan Tai told everyone to treat them normally.
• Yuan Tai led the group to Sheep Horn Mountain, where they split into two teams and cleared the few demon beasts left behind.
• After guarding the mountain for more than half a day, Shi Yan and the others noticed movement in the west at sunset.

A woman in black and Situ Yaoyang opened a rift and brought a colossal Silver Giant Pillar into the sky, where she began embedding it into the local space. The resulting spiritual energy storm drew swarms of demonic beasts, and as Shi Yan fought to defend the area, he used Martial Virtue Points to perfect Departing Fire Returning Heart.

• Situ Yaoyang and the woman in black opened a huge rift, and a nine-hundred-meter Silver Giant Pillar emerged from it.
• The woman in black struck the floating pillar with palm seals, embedding it into the surrounding space before stopping to recover after driving it in 150 meters.
• A spiritual energy storm formed around the pillar, and demonic beasts began gathering as Yuan Tai ordered everyone to prepare for battle.
• Shi Yan leaped from Sheep Horn Mountain and killed incoming demonic beasts with Divine Decay Fire while Wu Qiang and Bai Yuyao shot down demonic birds.
• Shi Yan spent 80,000 Martial Virtue Points to raise Departing Fire Returning Heart from great accomplishment to perfection.

Shi Yan emerged from his epiphany and used his perfected S-Class Departing Fire Returning Heart to wipe out the demonic beasts around Sheep Horn Mountain. His companions were left stunned by the thousand-meter kill range, while Yuan Tai realized Lingnan Martial School would have to raise Shi Yan’s reward.

• Shi Yan woke from his epiphany and saw the elite military force defending the silver pillar while Wu Qiang, Wei Ming, and the others fought at Sheep Horn Mountain.
• Shi Yan thanked Bai Yuyao for protecting him, then told her to rest as he took over the battle.
• Bai Yuyao sat down beneath Shi Yan’s protection and watched his white flames slaughter the demonic beasts across a thousand-meter radius.
• Wu Qiang laughed as Wei Ming and the others stared in shock at the mass of dead beasts, and Yuan Tai kicked him beside Shi Yan.
• Yuan Tai realized Lingnan Martial School would need to increase Shi Yan’s scholarship because the military had witnessed his power.

Shi Yan helped Wu Qiang recover, defended Sheep Horn Mountain until the spiritual energy storm ended, and earned individual second-class merit alongside the group’s collective award. Situ Yaoyang then considered how to save Mu Yuqing, whose unstable, forcibly enhanced spatial ability had left her life source depleted.

• Shi Yan used his Fire of Life to heal Wu Qiang, who realized Shi Yan had a third flame and promised to keep it secret.
• Shi Yan returned to Sheep Horn Mountain and used the Southern Bright Blazing Fire to stop the charging demonic beasts while the silver pillar embedded itself.
• The spiritual energy storm vanished, the demonic beasts retreated, and the injured woman in black fell from the sky before powerful figures carried her away.
• Situ Yaoyang praised Shi Yan and announced collective second-class merit for the group and individual second-class merit for Shi Yan.
• Situ Yaoyang met with the others tending Mu Yuqing and considered a way to address the damage caused by her unstable SS-Class spatial ability.

Shi Yan warned his companions about foreign warriors, rescued Bai Yuyao from Ruan Shujin, and killed the Monkey Country Martial General. After three months of border missions and training, he upgraded his Nine Revolutions Vajra Art, reaching late Sixth Order with greatly increased strength, though he had not yet reached Seventh Tier.

• Yuan Tai told Shi Yan and the others that Silver Giant Pillars were being installed nationwide and warned them to watch for foreign warriors entering Huaxia.
• Shi Yan sent Bai Yuyao back to camp when she followed him into the woods, then encountered Ruan Shujin, who had captured her.
• Shi Yan used his spiritual power to pull Bai Yuyao away and killed Ruan Shujin with Eightfold Collapse and a Blazing Flame Divine Needle.
• Over the next three months, Shi Yan and the Lingnan Ten Prodigies advanced their training and cleared demonic beasts along the border route.
• Shi Yan spent martial virtue points to upgrade his Nine Revolutions Vajra Art to the Seventh Rotation, reaching late Sixth Order and raising his blood vitality to 101,208 cal and spirit to 4,517 Hz.