Chapter Summaries

Shi Yan faced Zhen Jin in the National College Tournament finals and repeatedly outmatched him, drawing out a powerful attack from Zhen Jin’s knuckle guards. The chapter ended as Shi Yan met the destructive energy with a gold-and-blood-red punch.

• Ye Daorong watched the finals and worried that a dangerous beast in the heavens was becoming more active before he vanished.
• Shi Yan and Zhen Jin exchanged taunts, and Wu Bangning warned them that betting on the stage could get them disqualified.
• Zhen Jin charged Shi Yan with Explosive Gold Fist, but Shi Yan struck him first and sent him flying.
• Zhen Jin enlarged his body and attacked with golden fist imprints, but Shi Yan shattered them and sent him flying again.
• Zhen Jin collided his knuckle guards and unleashed a powerful burst of energy that cracked the arena stage.
• Shi Yan punched into the incoming attack with a fist covered in gold and blood-red light.

Shi Yan defeated Zhen Jin to win the championship, then used his Martial Virtue Points to advance Yan Shen Jue and Six Harmonies Saber Domain. His thousand-meter Saber Aura stunned the venue and made him a beacon for Huaxia’s younger martial artists.

• Shi Yan struck Zhen Jin out of the arena, and Wu Bangning declared him the winner before Zhen Jin could die.
• Shi Yan spent 630,000 Martial Virtue Points to raise Yan Shen Jue to the sixth layer and gained the ability to use movement techniques.
• Shi Yan invested points in Six Harmonies Saber Domain, first awakening Saber Bone and then reaching Saber Aura.
• Shi Yan released a thousand-meter crimson Saber Aura, leaving Wu Bangning shocked and drawing the stunned crowd into chants of Shi Yan’s name.
• Shi Yan returned to himself, saw that he had 116,291 Martial Virtue Points remaining, and left before the awards ceremony.

Shi Yan spent his championship rewards on Blood Origin Pills, raising the Blood Pattern Geng Gold Grass to Level 1, then prepared to leave Kyoto. After he was mobbed by fans and reporters outside Jingwu, a hidden enemy vowed to kill him once he left the university.

• Shi Yan gave Mu Yuqing his championship rewards to exchange for cash and feed the Blood Pattern Geng Gold Grass, while Nie Lingshan and Qi Ziyue visited him.
• Shi Yan spent the night with Nie Lingshan and Qi Ziyue, earning Martial Virtue Points as the Blood Pattern Geng Gold Grass consumed Blood Origin Pills.
• The next morning, Shi Yan saw the grass had reached Level 1 and left to say goodbye to Ye Daorong before returning to school.
• A crowd of fans, reporters, and Kyoto lineages surrounded Shi Yan outside Jingwu, but he used his movement technique to leave after answering their questions.
• After news of Shi Yan's movement technique spread across Huaxia, a hidden enemy decided to wait until he left Jingwu to attack him.

Shi Yan told Ye Daorong about his grievances with Gods Martial Arts Hall and received his assurance that the Ye Family would not stand in his way, though he should spare Ye Xinghe's life. Returning to Jingwu, Shi Yan found numerous groups courting Nie Lingshan and disguised himself to learn why they were waiting for her.

• Shi Yan shared his conflict with Gods Martial Arts Hall over drinks, and Ye Daorong revealed that he had once joined Extreme Martial Arts Hall before affirming his loyalty to the Ye Family.
• Ye Daorong told Shi Yan that young people needed to face setbacks and implied that Shi Yan could challenge Ye Xinghe but should not kill him.
• Shi Yan promised to show Ye Xinghe mercy, and Ye Daorong offered to tell him more about Gods Martial Arts Hall.
• Shi Yan returned to Jingwu and saw wealthy groups offering Nie Lingshan houses, money, shares, and positions after her team championship and title as the Goddess of Life.
• Shi Yan changed his appearance and questioned a Haotian Group representative, who explained that the groups were competing to court Nie Lingshan because she was talented, powerful, and alone.

Shi Yan publicly revealed his Martial General strength while warning off those pursuing Nie Lingshan, and the news spread across the world. Soon afterward, he and Mu Yuqing detected an approaching expert and escaped a sudden net attack, leaving an ambush underway.

• Shi Yan warned Cheng Qinain to abandon his attempt to win Nie Lingshan with money, and Cheng led his group away before seeing Shi Yan leave Jingwu with Nie Lingshan and Qi Ziyue.
• Shi Yan crushed the suitors' banners from a distance and told them to stop pursuing Nie Lingshan, revealing his Martial General strength to the witnesses.
• Cheng Qinain reported Shi Yan's rank to his young master, while reports of Shi Yan's achievement spread around the globe.
• Gu De warned Shi Yan that revealing his strength could make him a target, but Shi Yan said the disclosure was part of Ye Daorong's plan to identify hostile people.
• Shi Yan handed control of his aircraft to Gu De and sent Mu Yuqing's aircraft toward Shanghai, then went with Mu Yuqing to investigate an approaching expert.
• Shi Yan and Mu Yuqing escaped to a mountain forest as a giant net of black threads appeared where they had been, and a sinister figure emerged.

At Mount Tai, Shi Yan and Mu Yuqing faced an ambush by the Gods Martial Arts Hall, whose leaders tried to recruit Mu Yuqing and kill Shi Yan. Mu Yuqing trapped Bing Xiaofeng in a World Within a World while Shi Yan overwhelmed the attackers with his flames, but Bing Xiaofeng’s ploy left Shi Yan exposed to a sudden ambush.

• Shi Yan and Mu Yuqing discovered that Bing Xiaofeng, another Martial King, and nineteen Martial Generals had surrounded them at Mount Tai.
• Mu Yuqing sealed the attackers inside an isolated space, and Bing Xiaofeng recognized her as a Mu Family spatial ability user and offered her the position of Thirteenth Main God.
• Mu Yuqing trapped Bing Xiaofeng within a World Within a World as Shi Yan burned through the attackers’ black net and sent fire dragons after them.
• Shi Yan’s fire dragons began killing the Martial Generals, while Bing Xiaofeng used a dagger and black mist to occupy Mu Yuqing and undermine her spatial prison.
• A black shadow appeared beside Shi Yan as Bing Xiaofeng’s companion launched an ambush.

Shi Yan and Mu Yuqing defeated the Gods Martial Arts Hall force at Mount Tai, and Shi Yan killed Bing Xiaofeng after rejecting his plea for mercy. Shi Yan began cultivating while waiting for more enemies, but powerful auras approached before he had meditated for half an hour.

• Shi Yan killed the close-combat attacker with a slap and Blazing Flame Divine Needles, then eliminated the remaining Martial Generals.
• Mu Yuqing kept Bing Xiaofeng trapped in her World Within a World, and Shi Yan killed him after rejecting his offers of wealth and allegiance.
• Mu Yuqing withdrew the spatial barrier around Mount Tai, and Shi Yan chose to stay there and wait for more enemies instead of calling reinforcements.
• Shi Yan sat down to cultivate Boundless Sea of Fire, and Mu Yuqing watched him settle into meditation.
• Powerful aura fluctuations came from afar less than half an hour after Shi Yan began cultivating.

Shi Yan and Mu Yuqing confronted Night Fiend Master God after he arrived to avenge the Gods Martial Arts Hall members killed on Mount Tai. Shi Yan revealed his Eighth Realm Body Refinement and overwhelmed Night Fiend, then pursued him with a storm of punches.

• Mu Yuqing warned Shi Yan that Night Fiend Master God had arrived, and Shi Yan recognized him as a formidable Eighth Order expert with Early Eighth Realm Body Refinement.
• Night Fiend accused Shi Yan and Mu Yuqing of killing members of the Gods Martial Arts Hall, and Shi Yan mocked him before shattering his heaven-and-earth cage with one slap.
• Night Fiend was shocked to learn that Shi Yan had Eighth Realm Body Refinement and asked who he really was.
• Shi Yan told Mu Yuqing to close the space around them, trapping Night Fiend and containing the battle's damage.
• Night Fiend attacked Shi Yan, but Shi Yan's punch broke Night Fiend's fist and sent him flying while spitting blood.
• Shi Yan pursued the wounded Night Fiend and unleashed a storm of punches.

Shi Yan defeated and killed Night Fiend with Mu Yuqing’s help, then returned to Mount Tai and waited for Gods Martial Arts Hall to retaliate. The next day, a force of a hundred Martial Generals or stronger arrived, and Shi Yan urged Mu Yuqing to wipe them out before a Martial Emperor approaching from Kyoto arrived.

• Shi Yan overwhelmed Night Fiend in close combat, then used Southern Bright Blazing Fire and twelve Blazing Flame Divine Needles to kill him while Mu Yuqing trapped him in place.
• Shi Yan let a fleeing Martial General escape and returned to Mount Tai with Mu Yuqing after Gods Martial Arts Hall had lost three Martial Kings and nineteen Martial Generals.
• Shi Yan called Gu De and Qi Ziyue, told them he was safe, and warned them not to bring reinforcements so the enemy would still come.
• The next day, Shi Yan and Mu Yuqing saw a hundred people arrive, including four Martial Kings and one of the Twelve Master Gods.
• Shi Yan sensed a Martial Emperor racing toward them from Kyoto and urged Mu Yuqing to wipe out the arriving force quickly.

Shi Yan killed the force sent after him, then received a Special Action token from Ye Daorong alongside Mu Yuqing as Huaxia prepared for a major operation. Back at Magic Martial University, Shi Yan and Nie Lingshan helped Huang Qizheng break through to Martial King, and official calls went out for martial artists to join the fight against demon beasts.

• Shi Yan unleashed his blade to kill the more than one hundred attackers, while Mu Yuqing's spatial barrier collapsed and she fell from Mount Tai.
• Ye Daorong arrived, gave Shi Yan and Mu Yuqing Special Action tokens that let them operate throughout Huaxia, and said he would handle Gods Martial Arts Hall.
• Shi Yan and Mu Yuqing returned to Magic Martial University, where the school celebrated its victory in the national interschool martial arts tournament.
• Shi Yan and Nie Lingshan helped Huang Qizheng undergo a dangerous breakthrough, and he reached Martial King by dawn.
• Official messages urged Huaxia's martial artists to report to military districts and the Monster Suppression Bureau to fight demon beasts.

Huaxia’s call to prepare for looming monster calamities prompted Magic Martial University to organize a combat unit, while Shi Yan equipped the Sky Demon Club and prepared to join the response. The chapter ended with Huang Qizheng ordering Shi Yan to save his Sixth Senior Brother.

• Countries watched Huaxia’s mobilization with suspicion despite its earlier warnings about spiritual energy eruptions and monster threats.
• Wang Changfu congratulated Huang Qizheng on becoming a Martial King and rewarded him before Magic Martial University connected with the Monster Suppression Bureau.
• Shi Yan donated eight hundred million to equip the Sky Demon Club, and Lu Xingzhou agreed to arrange the purchases.
• Shi Yan warned the club members to prioritize their safety as they prepared for upcoming battles.
• Huang Qizheng met Shi Yan at the Martial Practice Arena and told him to go save his Sixth Senior Brother.

Shi Yan and Mu Yuqing rescued Feng Xiaotian and his team from the Blue Silver Vine on Helan Mountain, then Shi Yan slaughtered the demonic beasts there and helped the Blood Pattern Geng Gold Grass grow. After the battle, Mu Yuqing told Shi Yan she was willing to be his girlfriend, leaving him baffled because he had never written her a letter.

• Shi Yan and Mu Yuqing traveled to Helan Mountain to rescue Feng Xiaotian, who was trapped with a dozen people by the evolved Blue Silver Vine.
• Shi Yan burned back the Blue Silver Vine, healed the survivors, and sent them to Magic Martial University with Mu Yuqing while he stayed behind.
• Shi Yan fought the demonic beasts and let the Blood Pattern Geng Gold Grass feed on their hearts, helping it reach Level 2 and raising his Martial Virtue Points above one million.
• After Shi Yan cleared the area of demonic beasts, Mu Yuqing wiped the blood from his face and said she was willing to be his girlfriend.
• Shi Yan asked when he had ever written Mu Yuqing a letter.

Shi Yan completed the Nine Revolutions Vajra Art and learned that his strengthened Sea of Consciousness would need to break open a second time before he could advance, requiring more Spiritual Power. As Shi Yan and Mu Yuqing faced abnormal spatial fluctuations, a terrifying roar came from the direction of the moon.

• Mu Yuqing embraced Shi Yan, and they acknowledged their feelings before turning to the Blue Silver Vine.
• Mu Yuqing trapped the Blue Silver Vine in a spatial dome, and Shi Yan killed it so the Blood Pattern Geng Gold Grass could absorb its roots and reach fourth level.
• Shi Yan spent 1,024,000 Martial Virtue Points to advance the Nine Revolutions Vajra Art to its Ninth Revolution, strengthening his body and Sea of Consciousness without advancing his realm.
• Shi Yan called Ye Daorong and learned that his Sea of Consciousness could undergo a second opening, which would require greater Spiritual Power.
• Shi Yan's call and satellite phone stopped connecting as Mu Yuqing sensed abnormal spatial fluctuations, then a powerful roar sounded from the sky toward the moon.

The Silver Moon Sky Wolf’s pressure disrupted Huaxia, while foreign leaders considered exploiting the crisis and the Alloy Emperor struggled to approach Po’s Flying Dagger. As Shi Yan prepared to help repair damaged facilities, Ye Xinghe confronted him over Bai Yuyao’s disappearance.

• The Silver Moon Sky Wolf’s pressure struck Huaxia, and Ruan Tianhe celebrated while planning to contact the Alloy Emperor; Ryōmori Reiko intended to warn her master.
• Fei Er urged the Alloy Emperor to meet with other countries’ leaders, but the Alloy Emperor refused and remained unwilling to touch Po’s Flying Dagger.
• The Alloy Emperor failed to cross the final millimeter to the Flying Dagger, questioned Po’s strength, and declared that no one could act against Huaxia while it remained suspended.
• Shi Yan and Mu Yuqing returned to Magic Martial University to help repair communications facilities damaged by the Silver Moon Sky Wolf’s roar.
• Ye Xinghe confronted Shi Yan about Bai Yuyao’s disappearance and showed him a note saying she planned to become worthy of Shi Yan and surpass Qi Ziyue.

Shi Yan and Mu Yuqing completed repair missions across Huaxia until Shi Yan accepted a dangerous assignment near the Changbai Mountains Restricted Zone. Huang Qizheng sent him off with a secret instruction from Bai Xuanling, while Mu Yuqing waited as Shi Yan headed into the snow alone.

• Shi Yan and Mu Yuqing traveled from one disrupted site to another, where Shi Yan shielded repair crews from magnetic interference and fought attacking monsters.
• In November, Shi Yan accepted a mission at the foot of the Changbai Mountains despite Huang Qizheng warning him about the nearby Restricted Zone.
• Huang Qizheng secretly followed Bai Xuanling's Brocade Pouch instruction: if Shi Yan encountered danger, he was to wait for help.
• Shi Yan and Mu Yuqing stopped some distance from the Restricted Zone, and Shi Yan told Mu Yuqing not to approach unless he sent a distress signal.
• After reassuring Mu Yuqing, Shi Yan walked alone into the wind and snow toward the mission site.

Shi Yan joined a fifteen-person emergency repair team near the Changbai Mountains Restricted Zone and helped them hurry to set up surveillance equipment before his Blood Vitality attracted demon beasts. When a Beast Tide appeared, Shi Yan walked out to confront it alone while the team drew their weapons to support him.

• Shi Yan found the repair team beneath a boulder and checked the members for a possible spy before apologizing for his mistaken headcount.
• Shi Yan urged the team to quickly repair the equipment monitoring the Restricted Zone while he cautiously released enough Blood Vitality to resist the Silver Moon Sky Wolf's magnetic field.
• The team set up the base in half an hour, but Shi Yan sensed two Peak Seventh Order Blizzard Bear Demons leading a Beast Tide toward them.
• Shi Yan told the repair crew to keep working and walked past them with his blade as the team realized a Beast Tide was approaching.
• The fifteen team members stopped working and drew their weapons, but Shi Yan ordered them to get back.

Shi Yan used his Special Action Token to keep the repair team focused on their work while he held off the Beast Tide with his Blazing Flame Divine Needles. After the team escaped and Shi Yan prepared to withdraw, a Monster Emperor appeared.

• Shi Yan ordered the repair team to complete its mission using the Special Action Token, then advanced until he could cover them without moving too far away.
• Shi Yan unleashed his Blazing Flame Divine Needles and Blood Pattern Geng Gold Grass, killing monsters and stopping the first assault for half an hour.
• Shi Yan recognized that the monsters were regrouping for a second assault and waited while the repair team finished its work.
• Shi Yan ordered the fifteen repair workers to leave, then charged into the second assault and slaughtered monsters with his needles and movement technique.
• After Shi Yan lost sight of the fleeing repair team and prepared to retreat, the Beast Tide froze under a powerful pressure, and Shi Yan identified the newcomer as a Monster Emperor.

Shi Yan was rescued from the Purple Sable Emperor by Sequence Thirteen, an ancient Huaxia hero hidden beneath the earth. After learning that Huaxia had risen, she asked why the Restricted Zone’s beasts were targeting him, leaving Shi Yan poised to hear the explanation.

• Shi Yan detonated twelve Blazing Flame Divine Needles, killing many beasts and raising his Martial Virtue Points above 1.9 million.
• Shi Yan strengthened his Yan Shen Jue to the seventh layer and briefly resisted the Purple Sable Emperor’s domain, but its suppression badly injured him.
• When Shi Yan was close to collapse, an icy blue streak carried him away, and the Purple Sable Emperor withdrew.
• Shi Yan found himself in an underground ice chamber with an Ice Coffin and met the spirit-like old woman who introduced herself as Sequence Thirteen.
• Shi Yan showed Sequence Thirteen videos of Huaxia’s prosperity and told her the history of the country after her era.
• Sequence Thirteen asked why the Restricted Zone’s beasts were targeting Shi Yan and revealed that someone else had broken in before him.

Shi Yan used his Martial Virtue Points to evolve the Fire of Life into Origin True Fire of Life, which revived Sequence Thirteen and restored her to youth. After she agreed to let the Eight Directions Cold Flame go, Shi Yan jumped into the cold pond to claim it as his sixth flame.

• Sequence Thirteen showed Shi Yan the eight spaces holding seven weakened Monster Kings and Bai Shengnan with her daughter, Bai Yuyao, and explained how Bai Shengnan had taken a Monster King's place as an ingredient to sustain the Eight Directions Cold Flame.
• Sequence Thirteen revealed that she had fused with the Eight Directions Cold Flame and that her body was dead, while Shi Yan's Fire of Life could not restore her.
• Shi Yan spent one million Martial Virtue Points to evolve the Fire of Life into Origin True Fire of Life, whose life-filled rain suppressed the Eight Directions Cold Flame and revived Sequence Thirteen.
• Sequence Thirteen emerged from the Ice Coffin restored to youth and released a Martial Emperor's aura, then moved to destroy the Eight Directions Cold Flame.
• Shi Yan asked Sequence Thirteen to give him the flame, jumped into the cold pond, and reached for it as he commanded the system to add points.

Shi Yan absorbed the Eight Directions Cold Flame, then reunited with Bai Yuyao and Bai Shengnan as a million demonic beasts surrounded Sequence Thirteen’s refuge. After Bai Yuyao evolved her ability and Bai Shengnan recovered, Shi Yan and Bai Yuyao escaped through a hidden passage while Sequence Thirteen stayed behind to help Bai Shengnan become a Martial Emperor.

• Shi Yan absorbed the Spirit-Class Eight Directions Cold Flame and learned that its manifestation had drawn a vast horde of demonic beasts to the area.
• Bai Yuyao tearfully reunited with Shi Yan, and Sequence Thirteen explained that the beasts would eventually disperse if they waited.
• Sequence Thirteen sent Bai Yuyao into the Cold Pond, where she spent five days and evolved her ability into Eight Directions Profound Ice.
• After most of the beasts left, Shi Yan used the Origin True Fire of Life to restore Bai Shengnan to Peak Martial King condition.
• Sequence Thirteen opened a passage and sent Shi Yan and Bai Yuyao out, revealing that she would remain behind to help Bai Shengnan reach the Martial Emperor realm despite her failing soul.