Chapter Summaries

Zhao Chen killed the Patterned Black Horn Python, gained the White Tiger Divine Seal through sign-in, and escaped Chen Tong and Liu Yang. He and Tang Qian'er reached a gorge where they discovered a Jade Spirit Tree surrounded by spirit beasts.

• Zhao Chen's Blood Spirit Sword killed the Patterned Black Horn Python, and its tail struck down a black-clad man who approached the supposedly dead beast.
• Zhao Chen collected the python's essence soul and signed in to obtain the White Tiger Divine Seal.
• Zhao Chen and Tang Qian'er left the valley as Low-Level Spirit Beasts fought over the python's remains.
• Chen Tong and Liu Yang found the aftermath and discussed waiting for reinforcements from Liu Territory before attacking Zhao Chen and Tang Qian'er.
• Zhao Chen and Tang Qian'er shook off their pursuers and traveled to a gorge, where Tang Qian'er recognized a jade-like tree as a possible Jade Spirit Tree.

Zhao Chen killed the Fire Spirit Apes guarding the Jade Spirit Tree with the Slaughter Sword Array and collected their essence souls, while Tang Qian'er gathered the Jade Spirit Fruits. They left the canyon to avoid being seen, as Zhao Chen planned to keep his strength hidden from the people of the Liu Territory.

• Zhao Chen entered the canyon and killed a Fire Spirit Ape before trapping the tribe in the Slaughter Sword Array.
• Zhao Chen combined the array with the White Tiger Divine Seal and Blood Spirit Sword to kill the Fire Spirit Ape King and the other apes.
• Zhao Chen collected the Fire Spirit Ape essence souls and discovered that the Blood Spirit Sword had reached ninety-nine layers.
• Tang Qian'er picked the Jade Spirit Fruits while Zhao Chen processed materials from the Fire Spirit Ape King.
• Zhao Chen and Tang Qian'er left the canyon to avoid nearby people and keep Zhao Chen's strength secret.

After defeating the Fire Spirit Ape Clan, Zhao Chen and Tang Qian'er divided the Jade Spirit Fruits and used them to cultivate. Zhao Chen reached the Spiritual Wheel Realm Late Stage and gained a Divine Artifact-grade Alchemy Cauldron, while Tang Qian'er continued absorbing her share.

• Adventurer teams arrived at the canyon and began looting the Fire Spirit Ape corpses and materials.
• Zhao Chen gave Tang Qian'er ten of the thirty Jade Spirit Fruits and set up a Mist Spirit Array so they could cultivate safely.
• Zhao Chen absorbed the fruits, reached the Spiritual Wheel Realm Late Stage, and touched the threshold of the Divine Soul Realm.
• Tang Qian'er continued cultivating with her ten fruits, which Zhao Chen expected would let her advance toward the Spiritual Wheel Realm.
• Zhao Chen used a check-in opportunity and received a Divine Artifact-grade Alchemy Cauldron, then considered trying alchemy.

Zhao Chen tried refining an ordinary Sensing Pill and accidentally produced a first-grade Spirit Pill. He decided the valuable pill would be a bargain for Tang Qian'er, who was still absorbing the Jade Spirit Fruit’s Spiritual Energy.

• Zhao Chen reviewed the basics of alchemy and chose to practice by refining a Sensing Pill.
• Zhao Chen gathered Sensing Herb and used blood and bone marrow from the Fire Spirit Ape King as ingredients.
• Zhao Chen followed the pill formula and refined the ingredients in the Alchemy Cauldron.
• Zhao Chen discovered that his ordinary Sensing Pill had become a powerful first-grade Spirit Pill.
• Zhao Chen looked at Tang Qian'er absorbing the Jade Spirit Fruit and decided the Sensing Pill had come at a bargain for her.

Tang Qian'er advanced to the Spiritual Movement Realm Late Stage before taking Zhao Chen’s crimson Sensing Pill, which rapidly filled her qi sea with Spiritual Energy. Zhao Chen received the Nirvana Heavenly Flame as a sign-in reward and decided to use it to cultivate his Nine Revolutions Nirvana Golden Body.

• Tang Qian'er broke through to the Spiritual Movement Realm Late Stage after consuming two Jade Spirit Fruits.
• Zhao Chen gave Tang Qian'er a crimson Sensing Pill, and she swallowed it despite suspecting he did not know its effects.
• The Sensing Pill enveloped Tang Qian'er in crimson Spiritual Energy and rapidly filled her qi sea.
• Zhao Chen received a sign-in opportunity for refining a First Grade Spirit Pill and signed in at the Northern Spiritual Plain to obtain the Nirvana Heavenly Flame.
• The Nirvana Heavenly Flame attacked Zhao Chen and rapidly consumed his Blood-Red Spiritual Power.
• Zhao Chen withdrew his Spiritual Power and told the Nirvana Heavenly Flame to help him cultivate his Nine Revolutions Nirvana Golden Body.

Zhao Chen absorbed the Nirvana Heavenly Flame, strengthening his body and transforming his spiritual wheel, while Tang Qian'er advanced to the Spiritual Wheel Realm. They found and killed Blood Butcher, clearing the way for Zhao Chen's next move in the Northern Spiritual Plain.

• Zhao Chen endured the Nirvana Heavenly Flame, advanced his Nine Revolutions Nirvana Golden Body, and transformed his Blood-Red Spiritual Wheel into a Nirvana Golden Lotus.
• Tang Qian'er broke through to the Spiritual Wheel Realm with the help of the scarlet Sensing Pill.
• Zhao Chen told Tang Qian'er they would find Blood Butcher, the escaped leader of the Blood Demon Gang, and then might leave the Northern Spiritual Plain.
• Zhao Chen tracked Blood Butcher to a tree and stopped his ambush on Tang Qian'er.
• Zhao Chen pierced Blood Butcher with the Asura Sword and burned him to nothing with the Nirvana Heavenly Flame.

Zhao Chen and Tang Qian'er left the Northern Spiritual Plain for the Black Underworld Abyss, following a map that pointed to the Nine Nether Sparrow. They entered the deadly swamp aboard Zhao Chen’s enormous Leaf Flat Boat, which blocked the poisonous miasma and converted it into spiritual energy.

• Zhao Chen found a Mustard Seed Bracelet and an ancient bronze piece bearing the image of a black giant bird, then decided to leave the Northern Spiritual Plain with Tang Qian'er.
• Liu Ming took Liu Mubai, Liu Yang, Chen Tong, and others away from the camp, prompting Master Mo to suspect they planned to target Blood Butcher and Zhao Chen.
• Zhao Chen activated the ancient bronze piece, revealing the Nine Nether Sparrow and a map to its location in the Black Underworld Abyss.
• Zhao Chen received a sign-in mission to obtain the Nine Nether Sparrow and summoned a giant Leaf Flat Boat that shielded him and Tang Qian'er from the deadly miasma.

Zhao Chen piloted A Leaf Flat Boat through the Black Underworld Abyss with Tang Qian'er, using the boat to defeat a Black Underworld Snake and evade a dangerous Soul Devouring Bee Swarm. They followed the swarm to its nest, where Zhao Chen found a skeleton and began reading its message.

• Zhao Chen showed Tang Qian'er the Giant Boat City inside A Leaf Flat Boat and piloted the boat across the Black Underworld Abyss.
• A Black Underworld Snake attacked, and Zhao Chen used A Leaf Flat Boat to kill it and collect its spirit essence.
• Zhao Chen and Tang Qian'er encountered a Soul Devouring Bee Swarm, so Zhao Chen kept his distance and followed it toward its nest.
• The Soul Devouring Bee Swarm left its black-tree nest to chase fleeing spirit beasts, and Zhao Chen piloted A Leaf Flat Boat to the tree.
• Zhao Chen found a charred skeleton among the tree's branches and read the message identifying its owner as Tian Chong of the Spirit Worm Clan.

Zhao Chen and Tang Qian'er traveled through the Black Underworld Abyss toward the place where the Nine Nether Sparrow had fallen, wary of the danger surrounding it. Zhao Chen entered a hollow black volcano after the Ancient Copper Fragment began glowing and heating up, while Tang Qian'er stayed aboard A Leaf Flat Boat.

• Zhao Chen identified the dead Tian Chong as a Spirit Insect Master and took his Spirit Insect Flute and two bottles, then warned Tang Qian'er that the Nine Nether Sparrow was dangerous.
• Zhao Chen and Tang Qian'er crossed the Black Poison Swamp aboard A Leaf Flat Boat, killing Black Poison Crocodiles along the way while Tang Qian'er collected their Spirit Beast Essence Souls.
• They reached the cliffs of the Black Underworld Abyss and passed a rocky clearing that Tang Qian'er noted could serve as an ambush site against the people of the Liu Territory.
• Zhao Chen brought Tang Qian'er to the Black Basin filled with spirit beast bones and identified it as the place where the Nine Nether Sparrow had fallen.
• Zhao Chen left Tang Qian'er aboard A Leaf Flat Boat, opened the black volcano's summit, and entered its hollow interior as the Ancient Copper Fragment glowed red and grew hot.

Zhao Chen found the Nine Nether Sparrow hidden inside a black egg, seized it, and used the God Spirit Contract to begin forcibly binding it. He left the Black Underworld Abyss with Tang Qian'er, planning to return to the Northern Spiritual Plain and settle accounts with Liu Mubai, Liu Yang, and the Liu Territory.

• Zhao Chen found the Nine Nether Sparrow's Black Giant Egg inside a huge black rock and stored it in his Mustard Seed Bracelet.
• Zhao Chen received a God Spirit Contract as his sign-in reward and used it to forcibly contract the Nine Nether Sparrow.
• The Nine Nether Sparrow resisted inside the bracelet, but Zhao Chen suppressed it until the egg fell still and their connection began to form.
• Zhao Chen reunited with Tang Qian'er and set off with her on A Leaf Flat Boat toward the Northern Spiritual Plain.
• Zhao Chen planned to confront Liu Mubai, Liu Yang, and the Liu Territory, and a new sign-in mission tasked him with becoming the slayer of the Northern Spiritual Plain.

Zhao Chen and Tang Qian'er ambushed Liu Territory squads hunting them and Blood Butcher, while Liu Ming mistakenly blamed Blood Butcher for the squads’ disappearance. Liu Ming sent Liu Mubai, Liu Yang, and Chen Tong to fetch reinforcements, unaware Zhao Chen was the one slaughtering his forces.

• Zhao Chen and Tang Qian'er overheard a Liu Territory squad searching for them, then jumped down and blocked its way.
• Zhao Chen used the Blazing Flame Array to kill the ten squad members and continued eliminating Liu Territory squads with Tang Qian'er.
• Liu Ming learned that all ten squads, totaling a hundred men, had lost contact and suspected Blood Butcher had reached the Divine Soul Realm.
• Liu Ming ordered Liu Mubai, Liu Yang, and Chen Tong to return to the Liu Territory and bring reinforcements.
• Liu Mubai and the others left, while Liu Ming remained unaware that Zhao Chen, not Blood Butcher, had been killing his men.

Zhao Chen and Tang Qian’er killed Liu Mubai, Liu Yang, and Chen Tong with the Blazing Flame Array, then Zhao Chen earned Phoenix Blood by signing in at the Northern Spiritual Plain. As they traveled away, the Nine Nether Sparrow egg in his bracelet began shaking and asked to talk.

• Liu Mubai confronted Zhao Chen and Tang Qian’er, and Chen Tong charged Zhao Chen before Tang Qian’er knocked him away with one palm.
• Liu Mubai realized Tang Qian’er had reached the Spiritual Wheel Realm and accused Zhao Chen of joining forces with Blood Butcher.
• Zhao Chen trapped Liu Mubai, Liu Yang, and Chen Tong in the Blazing Flame Array, killing them and collecting their Storage Bags.
• Zhao Chen received a sign-in opportunity for completing the Northern Spiritual Plain Slaughterer mission, then left with Tang Qian’er and erased their traces.
• Zhao Chen signed in elsewhere on the Northern Spiritual Plain and received Phoenix Blood, which he considered using to strengthen his Nine Revolutions Nirvana Golden Body.
• The Nine Nether Sparrow egg in Zhao Chen’s Mustard Seed Bracelet began shaking and asked him to talk.

Zhao Chen and Tang Qian'er returned safely to the Northern Spiritual Academy, where Zhao Chen prepared to advance to the Divine Soul Realm and refine the White Tiger Essence. After breaking through, he began confronting the White Tiger's will and demanded that it submit.

• Zhao Chen and Tang Qian'er told Master Mo they had killed an Intermediate Spirit Beast, and Master Mo ordered the cultivation group to return to the Northern Spiritual Academy the next morning.
• Zhao Chen and Tang Qian'er returned safely with the group, while no one learned what had happened to Liu Mubai and the other two.
• Zhao Chen set up a Second Grade Spirit Gathering Array in the Green Bamboo Courtyard and used it to break through to the Divine Soul Realm.
• Zhao Chen began refining the White Tiger Essence, choosing to subdue its will rather than erase it.
• Zhao Chen resisted the White Tiger's aura of slaughter and commanded it to submit.

After absorbing the White Tiger Essence, Zhao Chen reached the Divine Soul Realm Middle Stage and went to ask Master Mo about the Five Great Academies’ quotas. There, he learned that Liu Mubai and two other students had disappeared, while Liu Territory suspected Blood Butcher and might blame the Northern Spiritual Academy.

• Zhao Chen suppressed the White Tiger’s will, absorbed its Essence, and advanced to the Divine Soul Realm Middle Stage while strengthening his physique and Spirit Array mastery.
• Zhao Chen decided to seek information about the Five Great Academies’ quotas and ask Master Mo about Spirit Skills and Second Grade Spirit Arrays.
• Master Mo brought Zhao Chen to meet Dean Xiao, where they encountered an anxious Master Xi, who reported that Liu Mubai, Liu Yang, and Chen Tong had disappeared.
• Master Xi said Liu Territory suspected Blood Butcher had attacked the missing students and might hold the Northern Spiritual Academy responsible.
• Master Mo proposed cooperating with Liu Territory’s search, then told Master Xi he wanted to reserve a Five Great Academies quota for Zhao Chen in advance.

Zhao Chen received one of Northern Spiritual Academy’s two Seed Quotas after revealing that he had reached the Divine Soul Realm and become a Second-Grade Spirit Array Master. Dean Xiao then declared that the academy would protect Zhao Chen and oppose any force that threatened him.

• Dean Xiao announced that Northern Spiritual Academy had received five regular quotas and two Seed Quotas, and awarded one Seed Quota to Zhao Chen after confirming his Spiritual Wheel Realm cultivation.
• Dean Xiao said Mu Chen would have to compete for the other Seed Quota, and Zhao Chen asked him to contact Mu Chen.
• Zhao Chen admitted that he had killed Liu Mubai and the others, including Blood Butcher, and asked Dean Xiao to punish him.
• Zhao Chen revealed that he had already reached the Divine Soul Realm and was a Second-Grade Spirit Array Master, leaving Dean Xiao, Master Mo, and Master Xi stunned.
• Dean Xiao named Zhao Chen a Level One Red Protection Student, ordered his information kept confidential, and promised that Northern Spiritual Academy would stand against any force that made an enemy of him.

Zhao Chen received privileged access to the Northern Spiritual Academy’s Spirit Skill Chamber and selected four Middle Spirit Grade skills. Back at Green Bamboo Courtyard, he confronted the Nine Nether Sparrow about their God Spirit Contract and taunted her by revealing that he had refined a White Tiger Essence.

• Master Mo led Zhao Chen to the Spirit Skill Chamber’s third floor, where he was allowed to cultivate any Spirit Grade skills within his ability.
• Zhao Chen chose the Middle Spirit Grade Spirit Shadow Step, Spirit Emperor Finger, Flying Swallow Blade, and Golden Spirit Shield.
• After returning to Green Bamboo Courtyard, Zhao Chen heard the Nine Nether Sparrow speak to him through their God Spirit Contract.
• The Nine Nether Sparrow offered Zhao Chen a favor if he helped her evolve, then threatened to self-detonate when he mocked her failed attempt.
• Zhao Chen warned that her death would not harm him and revealed that the White Tiger Essence he had refined ranked higher than her on the Ten Thousand Beasts Record Earth Ranking.

Zhao Chen used a drop of Phoenix Blood to make the Nine Nether Sparrow confront her promise to call him Master, but she tried to bargain for the blood instead. He kept it and began developing a powerful pill, leaving the Nine Nether Sparrow’s obedience unresolved.

• Zhao Chen revealed Phoenix Blood and reminded the Nine Nether Sparrow that she had promised to call him Master if he possessed her ancestor’s blood.
• The Nine Nether Sparrow admitted she could not bring herself to say it and offered to call him Master if he gave her the Phoenix Blood.
• Zhao Chen withdrew the Phoenix Blood and told her he would wait until she sincerely obeyed him.
• A system notification gave Zhao Chen a sign-in mission to refine a Second Grade Spirit Pill.
• Zhao Chen adapted the Crimson Blood Pill formula using Phoenix Blood and the Nine Nether Sparrow’s feather, naming the new pill the Phoenix Blood Spirit Pill.

Zhao Chen prepared to refine a Phoenix Blood Spirit Pill while bargaining with Nine Nether over whose blood to use. Nine Nether agreed to provide a trace of her blood after Zhao Chen promised her Phoenix Blood to help her evolve, and he reminded her to call him Master.

• Zhao Chen gathered the materials for the Phoenix Blood Spirit Pill and returned to Green Bamboo Courtyard while the Five Great Academies' selection battle began without Mu Chen.
• Zhao Chen proposed using Nine Nether Sparrow Blood instead of Phoenix Blood, but Nine Nether refused to give him any.
• Zhao Chen began refining the pill with Phoenix Blood as Nine Nether watched and urged him not to waste it.
• Nine Nether warned Zhao Chen that the blood would be more useful when he reached the Three Heavens Realm and offered to discuss alternatives.
• Zhao Chen promised Nine Nether Phoenix Blood to help her evolve into a Heavenly Ranking Divine Beast, and she agreed to give him a trace of ordinary blood.
• Zhao Chen reminded Nine Nether that she had promised to call him Master.

Zhao Chen forced the Nine Nether Sparrow to call him Master, then refined her blood into Phoenix Blood Spirit Pills. After taking one, he underwent a powerful cultivation breakthrough, leaving the Nine Nether Sparrow curious about his potential but still desperate to escape their contract.

• The Nine Nether Sparrow reluctantly called Zhao Chen Master, and he recorded and replayed the exchange to embarrass her.
• The Nine Nether Sparrow gave Zhao Chen a thread of blood, and he used it to refine two Second Grade Phoenix Blood Spirit Pills.
• Zhao Chen swallowed a pill and cultivated as its powerful effects strengthened his body, Divine Soul, and dantian.
• The Nirvana Heavenly Flame and an Undying Bird phantom surrounded Zhao Chen as the White Tiger Mark between his brows turned blood red.
• The Nine Nether Sparrow recognized the White Tiger Essence Soul and wondered whether following Zhao Chen might benefit her, then rejected the idea and worried about her binding contract.

Zhao Chen broke through to the late Divine Soul Realm, mastered the Sword Control Technique, and prepared to leave the Northern Spiritual Realm for one of the Five Great Academies. He chose the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy out of gratitude to Dean Bei Cang and the others who had protected him during the Spiritual Road Trial.

• Zhao Chen advanced his Nine Revolutions Nirvana Golden Body and signed in at the Northern Spiritual Academy to obtain the Sword Control Technique, which he tested with the Asura Sword.
• The Nine Nether Sparrow urged Zhao Chen to give her the Phoenix Blood so she could evolve, but Zhao Chen chose to focus on strengthening himself.
• Zhao Chen met Mr. Hao with Dean Xiao, who learned that Zhao Chen had reached the late Divine Soul Realm and agreed to let him leave for the Five Great Academies early.
• Zhao Chen asked Dean Xiao to let Qian Er and Mu Chen use the Second Grade Spirit Gathering Array in his Green Bamboo Courtyard after he left.
• Zhao Chen chose the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy to repay Dean Bei Cang and the others for defending him during the Spiritual Road Trial.