Chapter Summaries

Shi Yan learned that his blade’s theft had jeopardized Huang Qizheng’s plan to deter foreign warriors, and he was sent to retrieve it quickly. Huang Qizheng then escorted Shi Yan and Nie Lingshan toward the Tianshan Mountains, where Bai Xuanling had secretly arranged an opportunity for them.

• Feng Xiaotian explained that Shi Yan’s actions could make foreign countries believe Huaxia was weak and invite hostile warriors into the country.
• Shi Yan and Nie Lingshan asked Huang Qizheng to punish them, but he gave Shi Yan a chance to make amends by retrieving the blade quickly.
• Huang Qizheng warned that the plan’s failure could devastate Lu Xingzhou and urged Shi Yan to strengthen himself and seek help from his senior siblings if needed.
• Three days later, Huang Qizheng and Feng Xiaotian escorted Shi Yan and Nie Lingshan to Starry Gorge, then waited as the pair entered the snowy forbidden zone.
• Feng Xiaotian learned that Bai Xuanling had left Huang Qizheng three Brocade Pouches and that Shi Yan’s trip into the Tianshan Mountains was partly arranged to lead him to an opportunity.

Shi Yan and Nie Lingshan crossed the Heavenly Mountains under camouflage and discovered that Bao Dabo had tried to draw them into danger before asking them to help drive away a Fifth-Order Snow Leopard. Shi Yan insulted Bao Dabo, who flew into a rage and threatened him.

• Shi Yan and Nie Lingshan used camouflage pills to travel through the harsh mountains while suppressing their auras.
• An arrow struck near them, and Shi Yan spotted Bao Dabo trying to lure them into Heavenly Mountain Weasel territory.
• Shi Yan and Nie Lingshan continued on, and Bao Dabo later approached them to propose working together.
• Bao Dabo explained that a Fifth-Order Snow Leopard blocked the only route to the inner circle and wanted them to help drive it away.
• Shi Yan called Bao Dabo useless, and Bao Dabo became enraged and threatened him.

Shi Yan and Nie Lingshan killed Bao Dabo with a surprise attack and took his possessions, then prepared to face a Fifth-Order Snow Leopard. Before approaching it, Shi Yan spent 64,000 Martial Virtue Points to raise the Nine Revolutions Vajra Art to its Fifth Rotation.

• Nie Lingshan pierced Bao Dabo’s skull with a Flame Needle while Shi Yan made him think he was about to unleash his ability.
• Shi Yan took Bao Dabo’s Space Ring and concealed his corpse and the bloodstained snow to avoid attracting demonic beasts.
• Shi Yan found Bao Dabo’s Silver plaque from Gods Martial Arts Hall, but dismissed the likelihood of immediate retaliation.
• Shi Yan and Nie Lingshan spotted a Fifth-Order Snow Leopard blocking their route and decided to assess it before fighting.
• Shi Yan spent 64,000 Martial Virtue Points to advance the Nine Revolutions Vajra Art to its Fifth Rotation, enduring twenty-four seconds of intense pain.

Shi Yan transformed his Spiritual Power upon reaching 1,000 Hz, gaining a thousand-meter range, extraordinary perception, and the ability to fly. He and Nie Lingshan continued toward their destination, where Shi Yan detected three Fifth-Order Demonic Beasts and chose to confront them rather than detour.

• After reaching Mid Fifth Order and completing the Fifth Rotation, Shi Yan gained immense Blood Vitality and Spiritual Power, then used Martial Virtue Points to raise his Spirit from 996 to 1,000 Hz.
• Shi Yan's Spiritual Power transformed, granting him God's Perspective, a thousand-meter range, control over objects and air, and the ability to fly.
• Nie Lingshan was stunned by Shi Yan's new power, and he reassured her before they continued along their route.
• Shi Yan and Nie Lingshan killed eyeless demonic beasts they encountered and collected their corpses as they traveled toward the boundary between the outer and inner regions.
• Shi Yan detected three Fifth-Order Demonic Beasts ahead, including a Snow Leopard Demonic Beast, and decided they would proceed straight through rather than take a detour.

Shi Yan and Nie Lingshan fought their way through repeated groups of powerful Demonic Beasts, and Shi Yan began to suspect that the beasts were targeting the same destination as they were. The chapter ended when another Sixth-Order Demonic Beast appeared on their route and Shi Yan shared his suspicion with Nie Lingshan.

• Shi Yan and Nie Lingshan killed a snow leopard, a Blizzard Bear Demon, and a Steel-Spear Boar Demon after the three beasts surrounded them.
• Shi Yan and Nie Lingshan encountered four more Fifth-Order Demonic Beasts along their route and killed them.
• After night fell, Shi Yan killed a Sixth-Order goat demon by restraining it and piercing its head with the Phantom Blood Saber.
• Shi Yan and Nie Lingshan fled the noise of the goat demon's death, then encountered another Sixth-Order Demonic Beast blocking their path.
• Shi Yan told Nie Lingshan that the Demonic Beasts might share their objective.

Shi Yan defeated a Three-Eyed Red Fox and discovered that five Sixth Order Peak demonic beasts were fighting a newly advanced Seventh-Level Black Great Serpent over the Sacred Healing Fire. He returned to Nie Lingshan, who said her ability needed ten minutes of stimulation to upgrade, and promised to find a way to buy her time.

• Shi Yan sent Nie Lingshan into hiding and went to confront the Three-Eyed Red Fox alone.
• The Three-Eyed Red Fox trapped Shi Yan in an illusion, but his Spiritual Power resisted its attack and he killed it with the Phantom Blood Saber.
• Shi Yan found the Sacred Healing Fire in a pond where five Sixth Order Peak demonic beasts were besieging a wounded Black Great Serpent that had reached the Seventh Level.
• Shi Yan returned to Nie Lingshan and explained that the Black Great Serpent might force them to abandon their mission.
• Nie Lingshan said her ability needed ten minutes of stimulation to upgrade, and Shi Yan promised to find a way to buy her time.

Shi Yan and Nie Lingshan reached the pool after the Black Scale Demon Snake fled, and Nie Lingshan completed her transformation into an S-Class healing ability. Her manifestation alarmed nearby Monster Emperors, forcing Shi Yan to kill the five weakened beasts and flee with her, but an unknown force dragged them into the pool.

• Shi Yan used Sacred Healing Fire to heal the beasts fighting the Black Scale Demon Snake, and they drove the snake away at dawn.
• Shi Yan and Nie Lingshan landed by the pool, where Shi Yan used the flames and a bluff to keep the wounded beasts at bay while Nie Lingshan completed her transformation.
• Nie Lingshan formed a jade-green droplet, and a vast lotus-and-rain manifestation spread across the sky, drawing powerful Monster Emperor auras toward them.
• Shi Yan killed the five demonic beasts and carried Nie Lingshan toward the edge of the Restricted Zone, but a force slowed their flight.
• The force vanished, and a column of water rose from the pool, wrapped around Shi Yan and Nie Lingshan, and pulled them underwater.

Shi Yan and Nie Lingshan met Sequence Seventeen, a dying guardian of the Tianshan Defense Line who learned that Huaxia had survived and grown strong. After Sequence Seventeen helped Nie Lingshan transform her ability into SS-Class Water of Life, Shi Yan asked to use the Life Spirit Pool to cultivate a Martial Arts technique.

• Shi Yan and Nie Lingshan entered a hidden Life Spirit Pool, where Sequence Seventeen rescued them and asked whether Huaxia had held its defense lines.
• Nie Lingshan told Sequence Seventeen that Huaxia had survived, and she recounted the nation’s history beside the Ice Coffins of fallen warriors.
• Sequence Seventeen revealed that he had guarded the Tianshan Defense Line for more than a century by restraining the powerful demonic beasts through the earth vein.
• Sequence Seventeen used three Sacred Lotus Spirit Seeds and the Life Spirit Pool to transform Nie Lingshan’s ability into SS-Class Water of Life.
• Shi Yan and Nie Lingshan learned that Sequence Seventeen was near death, and Shi Yan asked to borrow the pool to cultivate a Martial Arts technique.

Shi Yan began cultivating the First Level of Eightfold Collapse in the Life Spirit Pool, enduring a near-fatal bodily collapse. Sequence Seventeen revealed that Shi Yan could absorb multiple fire abilities through the technique and told Nie Lingshan that doing so depended on them becoming husband and wife.

• Shi Yan learned that Sequence Seventeen had helped create Eightfold Collapse and entered the Life Spirit Pool to spend 25,000 Martial Virtue Points on its First Level.
• The First Level caused Shi Yan excruciating pain and threatened to overwhelm his consciousness, but Sequence Seventeen urged him to keep his spiritual platform clear.
• As Shi Yan endured the collapse, his two fire ability vortices absorbed life force from the pool, and Sequence Seventeen recognized his fire abilities.
• Sequence Seventeen poured Sacred Healing Fire onto Shi Yan, explaining that the collapsing body could absorb a new fire seed because Shi Yan already possessed higher-grade fire abilities.
• Sequence Seventeen explained that Shi Yan might absorb as many as nine or ten kinds of flames through Eightfold Collapse, then told Nie Lingshan that it depended on them becoming husband and wife.

Shi Yan awoke after absorbing the Sacred Healing Fire and gaining a third ability, along with a major increase in strength. Sequence Seventeen, near death after battling the monsters, sent Shi Yan and Nie Lingshan out of the Heavenly Mountain Forbidden Zone and entrusted them with returning the fallen young men someday.

• Shi Yan awoke after five days in the Spirit Pool and found that the Sacred Healing Fire had joined the two other flames in his dantian.
• Shi Yan checked his data panel and saw that he had reached Late Fifth Order, with his Blood Vitality and Spiritual Power greatly increased.
• Nie Lingshan explained that Sequence Seventeen had drawn the Sacred Healing Fire into Shi Yan while he was recovering.
• Sequence Seventeen revealed that he was close to death after fighting the monsters and said Shi Yan's Third and Sixth Senior Brothers had temporarily escaped the Heavenly Mountain Forbidden Zone.
• Sequence Seventeen gave Nie Lingshan the first draft of Ninth Layer Collapse and a map of the underground routes, then asked them to bring the fallen young men home when they were strong enough.
• Sequence Seventeen opened a passage, and a column of water pulled Shi Yan and Nie Lingshan into the darkness.

Shi Yan and Nie Lingshan escaped the Restricted Zone and encountered ten Sixth Order adventurers who tried to rob them. After one foreign warrior threatened Nie Lingshan, Shi Yan killed him and faced the remaining nine.

• Shi Yan comforted Nie Lingshan as she grieved over Sequence Seventeen, then led her out of the Restricted Zone.
• Ten Sixth Order adventurers spotted Shi Yan and Nie Lingshan and blocked their way, demanding to know what they had found inside.
• Shi Yan gave Nie Lingshan a Jade Token and warned the adventurers that they should let the pair go home.
• A white warrior advanced on Shi Yan and threatened to take Nie Lingshan for himself.
• Shi Yan used his Martial General power and eighteen saber strikes to kill the white warrior, then declared that the remaining nine would die too.

Shi Yan killed the ten adventurers who had tried to rob him, but his attack left him exhausted. A Beast Tide then appeared, and Huang Qizheng and Feng Xiaotian arrived to help hold it back.

• Shi Yan used Eightfold Collapse to kill the Saber-wielding Man and the other eight Great Grandmasters in one strike.
• Shi Yan collapsed from exhaustion, and Nie Lingshan treated him until his Sacred Healing Fire began restoring his strength.
• Shi Yan spotted a Beast Tide on the distant mountains, took a Vitality Restoration Pill, and told Nie Lingshan to crush the Jade Token.
• Huang Qizheng and Feng Xiaotian arrived, and Shi Yan explained that the adventurers had attacked him and he had killed them.
• Huang Qizheng identified the Beast Tide as a minor disturbance led by Seventh-Level monsters, and the group decided to stop it as much as possible.

Shi Yan chose to test himself against the approaching Beast Tide, and Huang Qizheng let him fight while Feng Xiaotian cleared the area and Nie Lingshan guarded against beasts that got through. After perfecting Flowing Fire Thousand Jin Fist with his Martial Virtue Points, Shi Yan unleashed a devastating attack on the Heavenly Mountain Weasels.

• Huang Qizheng refused to recruit the other warriors outside the Restricted Zone and agreed to let Shi Yan face the Beast Tide.
• Feng Xiaotian went to drive the other warriors away, while Huang Qizheng assigned Nie Lingshan to guard against demonic beasts that slipped past Shi Yan.
• Shi Yan spent twenty thousand Martial Virtue Points to perfect Flowing Fire Thousand Jin Fist.
• Shi Yan charged toward the Beast Tide and attacked the Heavenly Mountain Weasels with a gigantic flaming fist that split into a rain of smaller fists.

Shi Yan fought the Beast Tide, used a massive flame explosion to shatter its overwhelming aura, and upgraded Blazing Flame Divine Needle to perfection. As he continued slaughtering demon beasts, Huang Qizheng watched in shock, until the Beast Emperor’s pressure descended from the Restricted Zone.

• Shi Yan killed thousands of Heavenly Mountain Weasels and rat demons with Flowing Fire Thousand Jin Fist and Sky Dragon Blazing Flame, earning Martial Virtue Points.
• Shi Yan fused two Blazing Flame Divine Needles in an explosion that devastated the Beast Tide and broke its aura, raising his points to 166966.
• Shi Yan used the system to upgrade Blazing Flame Divine Needle to perfection and began piercing and burning demon beasts as he sprinted through the horde.
• Huang Qizheng watched Shi Yan’s destructive power in shock and realized he might be able to end the Beast Tide.
• A terrifying pressure descended from the Restricted Zone as the Beast Emperor appeared.

Shi Yan’s attack on the Beast Tide drew the attention of the Snow Leopard Demon Emperor, who arrived with a vast horde and threatened to advance. Huang Qizheng stopped it with a small Flying Dagger and warned it not to take another step.

• Shi Yan detonated the Blazing Flame Divine Needles, wiping out demon beasts but sensing that the pressure around him was growing stronger.
• The Beast Tide halted as flocks of avian beasts and enormous creatures appeared, and Shi Yan realized a powerful Monster Emperor was approaching.
• Huang Qizheng identified the newcomer as the Snow Leopard Demon Emperor, ranked second in the Tianshan Mountains Restricted Zone, and explained that Shi Yan had been seen as a future threat.
• The Snow Leopard Demon Emperor appeared on a distant mountain and prepared to advance, while Feng Xiaotian grabbed Shi Yan and Huang Qizheng rose to confront it.
• Huang Qizheng produced a small Flying Dagger that stopped the Snow Leopard Demon Emperor’s raised paw, then warned it not to take another half step.

The Snow Leopard Demon Emperor withdrew after a disturbance in the Core Circle drew it away, and Huang Qizheng recovered after Shi Yan used his healing flame. As the group fled the Restricted Zone, members of Gods Martial Arts Hall stopped them and asked whether they had seen Bao Dabo.

• The Snow Leopard Demon Emperor recognized Po’s Flying Dagger and hesitated to attack, then rushed back to its nest when a powerful phantom charged toward it in the Core Circle.
• The Snow Leopard Demon Emperor and its monster horde retreated, and Huang Qizheng fell from the strain of resisting its aura.
• Shi Yan healed Huang Qizheng with his Sacred Healing Fire, stunning Huang Qizheng and Feng Xiaotian with his three abilities.
• Huang Qizheng urged Shi Yan to keep a low profile, and the group collected monster corpses and storage equipment before leaving with Nie Lingshan.
• Several people from Gods Martial Arts Hall blocked Shi Yan and his companions and asked whether they had seen Bao Dabo.

Shi Yan returned to Magic Martial University and learned that several senior students were graduating early, reshuffling the campus factions. Zhang Yunya explained that Shi Yan was on next semester’s exchange student list and asked him to help with her graduation mission before he left for Lingnan Martial School.

• Feng Xiaotian drove away Bao Dabo’s associates, who recognized him and chose not to confront him.
• Shi Yan returned to Magic Martial University after reporting Sequence Seventeen, while his senior brothers continued on to their destinations.
• Shi Yan learned that Xu Zhenxing, Qi Tianying, Zhan Kuang, and Zhang Yunya had applied for early graduation, prompting him to call Zhang Yunya.
• Zhang Yunya told Shi Yan he was on the exchange student list and described her plan to destroy an organization involved in smuggling Huaxia’s treasures to foreign forces.
• Zhang Yunya promised Shi Yan a surprise after their mission, and he changed the subject to the campus faction reshuffle.
• Zhang Yunya said she had forced Xu Zhenxing and the others to graduate early.

Shi Yan considered Zhang Yunya’s advice to establish a faction to protect his friends after he left for Lingnan Martial School. He spent 128,000 Martial Virtue Points advancing the Nine Revolutions Vajra Art and broke through to Early Sixth Order, leaving him with much greater Blood Vitality and Spiritual Power.

• Zhang Yunya urged Shi Yan to form a faction so his friends could share resources and support one another.
• Shi Yan agreed to discuss the idea with Qi Ziyue and the others, then returned to his dormitory to rest for a day.
• After waking, Shi Yan noticed his Spiritual Power and Blood Vitality had increased and saw signs that he was nearing Sixth Order.
• Shi Yan chose to advance the Nine Revolutions Vajra Art and spent 128,000 Martial Virtue Points to strengthen his body.
• Shi Yan’s Blood Vitality climbed to 12,000, breaking his bottleneck and advancing him to Early Sixth Order.
• Shi Yan checked his status and found his Blood Vitality had risen to 22,208 and his Spiritual Power to 1,307 Hz.

Shi Yan went to the library to receive a Blood Concealment Technique, then arrived at the Martial Practice Arena where senior students were challenging the graduating Great Grandmasters. He appeared behind Lu Jian'an after Lu Jian'an taunted his friends, leaving Lu Jian'an shocked and afraid.

• Students gathered at the Martial Practice Arena to watch Xu Zhenxing, Qi Tianying, and Zhan Kuang defend their arenas before graduating.
• Shi Yan headed to the library to receive the memory transfer for a B-class Blood Concealment Technique so he could conceal his aura.
• Xu Zhenxing, Qi Tianying, and Zhan Kuang defeated every student who challenged them, while Nie Lingshan expected Shi Yan to defeat them.
• Lu Jian'an mocked Qi Ziyue and the others for Shi Yan's absence, but they ignored him until he angrily demanded their attention.
• Shi Yan appeared silently behind Lu Jian'an and startled him.

Shi Yan challenged Zhan Kuang and declared that his newly registered Sky Demon Club would take the place of the departing seniors’ forces. He stunned the crowd by catching Zhan Kuang’s heavy hammers barehanded and overpowering him, then asked for a stronger attack as the fight continued.

• Shi Yan threw Lu Jian'an onto Zhan Kuang’s arena, then stepped up to face the Sixth Order senior himself.
• Shi Yan praised Zhan Kuang, Xu Zhenxing, and Qi Tianying before announcing that he would take their place and that the Sky Demon Club would replace their subordinate forces.
• Zhan Kuang offered Shi Yan leadership of the Battle Society, but Shi Yan refused and urged him to use the Whirlwind Hammer Technique.
• Shi Yan caught Zhan Kuang’s hammer strikes with his bare hands and kicked him back, shocking Zhan Kuang and the crowd with his physical strength.
• Zhan Kuang transformed with his Berserk Wolf ability and attacked with the Whirlwind Hammer Technique, but Shi Yan met his hammer with a Battle Qi-coated fist and sent him crashing into the arena barrier.
• Shi Yan said Zhan Kuang’s first-stage Whirlwind Hammer Technique had barely made him feel anything, and the fight remained underway.