Chapter Summaries

Zhao Chen reached the eighth layer of the Thunder Domain, where he passed its trial by withstanding the Silver Thunder Slurry River and received the Thunder God Sword Skill. He then absorbed and shaped the river’s thunder force into a giant sword.

• Zhao Chen met the bald old man overseeing the eighth layer, who questioned whether the Nine Nether Sparrow had improperly condensed a million Heavenly Thunder Pearls.
• Zhao Chen argued that the Nine Nether Sparrow was his contracted pet and part of his strength, and the bald old man accepted his reasoning.
• The bald old man set the eighth-layer trial: Zhao Chen had to withstand a strike from his clone, which hurled the Silver Thunder Slurry River at him.
• Zhao Chen absorbed the river’s thunder force without injury, passed the trial, and received the fragmentary divine-grade Thunder God Sword Skill.
• Zhao Chen condensed the Silver Thunder Slurry River into a giant Thunder God Sword and grasped it.

Zhao Chen sold a million Heavenly Thunder Pearls at the Spirit Value Hall and exchanged Spirit Value for Northern Abyss Dragon-Kun Blood Essence. Afterward, he asked the Deacon Instructor about obtaining high-grade array diagrams and alchemy formulas, leaving the instructor stunned.

• Zhao Chen rose to second place on the Thunder Domain Stele, pushing Li Xuantong down, then left the Thunder Domain with the Nine Nether Sparrow.
• Zhao Chen told the Nine Nether Sparrow that the bald old man was the Northern Nether Dragon Kun’s clone.
• Zhao Chen released a million Heavenly Thunder Pearls at the Spirit Value Hall and sold them for two hundred million Spirit Value points.
• The Deacon Instructor recognized Zhao Chen and processed the sale, raising his Nine-Colored Spirit Value Token to over two hundred million points.
• Zhao Chen exchanged seven million points for Northern Abyss Dragon-Kun Blood Essence, then asked the Deacon Instructor about high-grade array diagrams and alchemy formulas.

Zhao Chen returned from the Northern Azure Spiritual Academy to the Northern Spiritual Realm with the Nine Nether Sparrow, intending to establish his own faction. He reunited with Tang Qian'er and asked whether she would change her choice of academy, triggering a mission to establish a faction.

• Zhao Chen obtained Fifth Grade Spirit Array Diagrams and Pill Recipes, signed in for the Heavenly Passage Pill Recipe, and set up a Fifth Grade Spirit Gathering Array.
• Zhao Chen agreed to take the Nine Nether Sparrow to the Northern Spiritual Realm so she could undergo her tribulation, then used overlapping teleportation arrays to reach the Green Bamboo Courtyard.
• Zhao Chen reunited with Tang Qian'er, who had reached the Spiritual Wheel Realm Late Stage while he was away.
• Zhao Chen asked Tang Qian'er whether she would change her choice of the Myriad Phoenix Spiritual Academy, and a sign-in mission to establish his own faction appeared.

Zhao Chen returned to the Northern Spiritual Academy and urged Tang Qian'er to join him there, helping her prepare to advance her cultivation. He then visited Dean Xiao and Mr. Hao, who were discussing the Liu Territory’s threat, and left them stunned by his sudden arrival.

• Zhao Chen invited Tang Qian'er to leave the Myriad Phoenix Spiritual Academy and join him at the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy, and she agreed.
• Zhao Chen gave Tang Qian'er a Divine Soul Pill and established a Fifth Grade Spirit Gathering Array and defensive arrays in the Green Bamboo Courtyard.
• Zhao Chen told Tang Qian'er not to rush to refine a spirit essence and left for Dean Xiao's office.
• Dean Xiao told Mr. Hao that Liu Qingtian had demanded Zhao Chen be handed over, while they worried the former Liu Territory Lord might reach the Heaven Merging Realm.
• Zhao Chen appeared in Dean Xiao's office, caught a falling teacup, and greeted Dean Xiao and Mr. Hao.

Zhao Chen returned to the Northern Spiritual Academy after passing the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy's assessment, astonishing Dean Xiao and Mr. Hao with his Heaven Transformation Realm cultivation and Level 5 Spirit Array Master abilities. He arranged for Tang Qian'er to choose the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy and left pills for Dean Xiao and Mr. Hao before departing, while the two old friends immediately fought over them.

• Zhao Chen reassured Dean Xiao and Mr. Hao that he had passed the assessment and revealed that he had reached the Heaven Transformation Realm.
• Zhao Chen told Dean Xiao he had set up a Fifth Grade Spirit Gathering Array in the Green Bamboo Courtyard for him, Master Mo, and the others to use.
• Zhao Chen asked Mr. Hao to let Tang Qian'er choose the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy, and Mr. Hao agreed because the student list had not yet been submitted.
• Zhao Chen left a Storage Bag of pills for Dean Xiao and Mr. Hao, said he would leave after handling some matters, and walked out of the office.
• Dean Xiao and Mr. Hao discovered a peak-grade Third Grade Heaven Spirit Pill and a peak-grade Fourth Grade Transformation Spirit Pill, then fought over the pills.

Zhao Chen helped the Nine Nether Sparrow complete her lightning tribulation by giving her Phoenix Blood, and she evolved into a human-form Fifth-Grade Supreme. Nine Nether vowed to protect him, while Zhao Chen set his sights on reaching the Earth Supreme Realm to become a hegemon of the Northern Azure Continent.

• Zhao Chen watched as the Nine Nether Sparrow used the Northern Abyss Dragon-Kun Blood Essence to begin her tribulation in the Black Underworld Abyss.
• The Nine Nether Sparrow was badly wounded by the black divine thunder, so Zhao Chen gave her a strand of Phoenix Blood, awakening her Ancient Phoenix blood and healing her with Phoenix Fire.
• The Nine Nether Sparrow defeated the tribulation’s final attack with a massive Black Flame feather, completing her evolution and transforming into human form.
• Zhao Chen gave Nine Nether clothes, and she thanked him for his help and said she had become a Fifth-Grade Supreme.
• Nine Nether promised to protect Zhao Chen, while he considered her strength useful for establishing a foothold on the Northern Azure Continent and resolved to reach the Earth Supreme Realm.

At Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy, Zhao Chen arranged lodging for Tang Qian'er and Nine Nether and purchased an expensive blessed land for his planned faction, Asura Hall. A sign-in reward gave him the Innate Yin Yang Sutra, and he considered asking Nine Nether to cultivate its complementary half before offering her the technique.

• Zhao Chen showed Tang Qian'er the new student residences and let her invite Nine Nether to share her room.
• Zhao Chen browsed blessed lands for Asura Hall, and Nine Nether chose the ten-million-spirit-value site with nine mountain ranges and a Sixth Grade Spirit Gathering Array.
• Zhao Chen bought the blessed land through his Nine-Colored Spirit Value Token and told Tang Qian'er to cultivate until the entrance assessment.
• After receiving a sign-in opportunity for helping Nine Nether overcome her tribulation, Zhao Chen signed in and obtained the Innate Yin Yang Sutra.
• Zhao Chen learned that he could cultivate its Innate Yang Sutra while someone else cultivated the Innate Yin Sutra, then asked Nine Nether if she wanted to try the technique.

Zhao Chen gave Nine Nether the Innate Yin Sutra, and the two used the God Spirit Contract to circulate the Innate Yin Yang Sutra together. Their cultivation speed rose to nine times its former rate, and they discovered it produced a stronger form of spiritual energy; Zhao Chen then considered giving the Innate Yin Sutra to Tang Qian'er.

• Zhao Chen gave Nine Nether a one-use jade slip containing the Innate Yin Sutra, which she accepted after initially dismissing it.
• Nine Nether learned the technique could fuse with her existing cultivation and spiritual arts, while Zhao Chen explained that he cultivated its Innate Yang counterpart.
• Nine Nether cultivated the Innate Yin Sutra and transformed her spiritual energy into Innate Spirit Energy, increasing her cultivation speed threefold and strengthening her Phoenix Fire.
• Zhao Chen and Nine Nether exchanged spiritual energy through the God Spirit Contract, completing a third circulation that raised their combined cultivation speed to nine times its former rate.
• Zhao Chen discovered the circulation produced Innate Yin Yang Spirit Energy, and he considered giving the Innate Yin Sutra to Tang Qian'er.

Zhao Chen refined a Sixth-Grade Heavenly Passage Pill, broke through to the middle stage of the Heavenly Passage Realm, and gained the Asura God through a sign-in. He discovered it connected him to Tang Qian'er and Nine Nether, and decided the Asura Hall needed more geniuses.

• Zhao Chen brought Tang Qian'er and Nine Nether to the Nine Dragons Blessed Land and learned that Tang Qian'er had reached the entry level of the Innate Yin Sutra with Nine Nether's guidance.
• Zhao Chen exchanged Spirit Value for the materials to refine a Heavenly Passage Pill and received them at the Nine Dragons Great Hall.
• Zhao Chen refined a Sixth-Grade Heavenly Passage Pill and consumed it, reaching the middle stage of the Heavenly Passage Realm.
• Zhao Chen earned a sign-in opportunity for refining the pill and received the Asura God as his reward.
• Zhao Chen fused the Asura God with his Divine Soul and discovered its blood-colored connections to Tang Qian'er and Nine Nether could provide him cultivation feedback.

Zhao Chen arrived at the Teleportation Platform with Tang Qian'er and invited Senior An Ran to join his Asura Hall after she discovered his Heaven Rankings achievement. An Ran accepted, though she protested after learning Tang Qian'er had joined first, and Zhao Chen left her confident she would not go back on her word.

• Zhao Chen and Tang Qian'er arrived at the Teleportation Platform, where An Ran recognized Zhao Chen as a Heaven Rankings and Thunder Domain Stele standout.
• Old Bai greeted Zhao Chen and directed Tang Qian'er to enter the teleportation array and begin the Northern Azure World trial.
• After Tang Qian'er entered the array, Zhao Chen asked An Ran about her cultivation and invited her to join the Asura Hall.
• An Ran accepted the invitation, believing she would be the faction's first member, but Zhao Chen clarified that Tang Qian'er had joined before her.
• An Ran questioned whether the Asura Hall was an empty shell, then insisted she would not go back on her word.

Zhao Chen recruited An Ran into the Asura Hall and joined Old Bai and the students at the Northern Azure Hall to observe the entrance examination. As he searched the water screens for his friends, Tang Qian'er entered the trial, and a silver-haired girl arrived calling out to him.

• Zhao Chen welcomed An Ran into the Asura Hall and noticed that her membership strengthened the Asura God within his sea of qi.
• Old Bai led Zhao Chen, An Ran, and the students through a teleportation array to the Northern Azure Hall, where four screens displayed the examination worlds.
• An Ran identified Zhao Chen as tenth on the Heaven Rankings, silencing the students who had considered challenging him.
• Zhao Chen told An Ran he was an Alchemist, then searched the screens for Tang Qian'er, Wu Yingying, Song Yuqing, Luo Li, and Mu Chen.
• Zhao Chen spotted Tang Qian'er entering the Northern Azure World, and a silver-haired girl arrived and called, "A'Chen, I'm here!"

Luo Li, Wu Yingying, and Song Yuqing arrived at the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy, earned Fifth-Level Golden Marks, and took marks from the other youths at the reception platform. In the Northern Azure Hall, Zhao Chen revealed to An Ran that he had traveled with the three King-Class geniuses in the Spirit Road.

• Luo Li, Wu Yingying, and Song Yuqing emerged from the Teleportation Spirit Array and headed to the stone stele to obtain their marks.
• The three girls received Fifth-Level Golden Marks, shocking the youths on the Bluestone Platform.
• Wu Yingying demanded everyone hand over their marks, Song Yuqing threatened them, and Luo Li’s pressure forced them to surrender.
• An Ran worried that the three King-Class geniuses would challenge Zhao Chen and put pressure on her position in the Asura Hall.
• Zhao Chen told An Ran that he had traveled with Luo Li, Wu Yingying, and Song Yuqing in the Spirit Road.

Zhao Chen helped An Ran cultivate in the Northern Azure Hall and prepared a divine-grade cultivation art suited to her ice-and-wind attributes. After An Ran advanced to the late stage of the Heaven Merging Realm, he offered her the Northern Dark Mysterious Ice Divine Skill, leaving her astonished.

• An Ran questioned how Zhao Chen had reached his current strength, and he told her to focus on cultivating while they waited for a Ninth-Grade Mark.
• Zhao Chen triggered a sign-in quest to raise an Asura Hall student to the Heaven Transformation Realm and gave An Ran a Fifth-Grade Spirit Gathering Array, two auxiliary arrays, and an Essence Merging Pill.
• An Ran absorbed the pill's energy with the three arrays and advanced to the late stage of the Heaven Merging Realm.
• Zhao Chen exchanged Spirit Values for the Northern Dark Mysterious Ice Divine Skill, an Ancient Golden Crow Essence Soul, and other items, then sent them to the Northern Azure Hall through a teleportation array.
• Zhao Chen offered An Ran the Northern Dark Mysterious Ice Divine Skill, and she recognized the divine art she had long wanted.

Zhao Chen gave An Ran the Northern Dark Mysterious Ice Divine Skill and an Asura Token, revealing how the hall’s Contribution Points rewarded cultivation and rankings. An Ran discovered Tang Qian'er ranked above her and demanded to know who Nine Nether was to Zhao Chen.

• Zhao Chen offered An Ran the Northern Dark Mysterious Ice Divine Skill in exchange for future Contribution Points, and she accepted it.
• An Ran said she planned to stabilize her cultivation before breaking through, but Zhao Chen urged her to advance and gave her an Asura Token.
• An Ran saw that Contribution Points had far greater purchasing power than Spirit Value and received rewards for joining and for her cultivation realm.
• Zhao Chen showed An Ran that she ranked second in the Asura Hall, with Tang Qian'er ahead of her.
• An Ran saw Nine Nether's name on the ranking list and demanded to know who Nine Nether was to Zhao Chen.

Zhao Chen explained the Asura Rankings to An Ran, who decided to cultivate and break through to the Heaven Transformation Realm so she could challenge Nine Nether for first place. Meanwhile, he monitored Tang Qian'er and sent her an Ancient Golden Crow Essence Soul, leaving her excited by the gift.

• An Ran reacted to Nine Nether's first place on the Asura Rankings, and Zhao Chen revealed that the top-ranked member received ten thousand Contribution Points daily.
• An Ran worried that the rewards would bankrupt the Asura Hall, but Zhao Chen assured her its funds were sufficient and said Nine Nether was its strongest expert besides him.
• An Ran resolved to cultivate the Northern Dark Mysterious Ice Divine Skill and break through to the Heaven Transformation Realm.
• Zhao Chen watched the Four Northern Azure Worlds and used the Asura Token's Small Sumeru Teleportation Spirit Array to send Tang Qian'er a Storage Bag containing an Ancient Golden Crow Essence Soul.
• Tang Qian'er received Zhao Chen's gift and excitedly recognized the Ancient Golden Crow Essence Soul as a powerful Heaven Beast.

Tang Qian'er began refining the Ancient Golden Crow Essence Soul while An Ran broke through to the Heaven Transformation Realm but remained behind Nine Nether on the Asura Rankings. Zhao Chen returned to the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy, earned a sign-in reward, and contracted with a Treasure Hunting Cat.

• Tang Qian'er learned that Zhao Chen had left her the Ancient Golden Crow Essence Soul and began refining it after noticing An Ran had joined the Asura Hall.
• An Ran broke through to the Heaven Transformation Realm, checked the Asura Rankings, and found that Nine Nether still held first place.
• Zhao Chen left An Ran to test new students and scout for geniuses before returning to the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy.
• Zhao Chen received a sign-in opportunity for nurturing the first Asura Hall student to the Heaven Transformation Realm and obtained a Treasure Hunting Cat.
• Zhao Chen transferred the Treasure Hunting Cat from the system space, formed a contract with it, and asked whether it could find treasures.

Zhao Chen used a Spirit Enlightenment Pill to communicate with his Treasure Hunting Cat and accepted a lower-tier Heaven-Rank Spirit Treasure Mission at White Dragon Hill. He rejected Su Xuan’s offer to join him and left to investigate the Supreme Spirit Treasury alone.

• Zhao Chen gave the Treasure Hunting Cat a Spirit Enlightenment Pill, allowing it to answer his questions and confirm that it could find treasures.
• Zhao Chen went to the Mission Hall and accepted the White Dragon Hill Spirit Treasure Mission, knowing it was secretly the resting place of the White Dragon Supreme.
• Su Xuan arrived after Zhao Chen had accepted the mission and asked to join him.
• Zhao Chen refused Su Xuan, saying he could handle the lower-tier mission alone, and left the Mission Hall.
• Su Xuan watched him go and wondered who he was.

Zhao Chen agreed to let Su Xuan join him on the Heaven-Rank Spirit Treasure Mission to investigate the White Dragon Spirit Treasury, and the two traveled to White Dragon City. There, they learned that powerful factions had gathered as the treasury’s appearance drew near.

• Su Xuan persuaded Zhao Chen to let her join the mission, though he insisted they travel alone.
• Su Xuan told Zhao Chen about White Dragon Hill, the nearby White Dragon City, and the dangers posed by powerful cultivators; she recognized him as Zhao Chen, ranked tenth on the Heaven Rankings.
• Zhao Chen and Su Xuan reached White Dragon City after two days of travel and went to its auction house to learn about the situation.
• Su Xuan identified the Young City Lord of White Dragon City and a Heaven Transformation Realm expert, then spotted members of the Heavenly Star Sword Sect at the auction.
• Su Xuan explained that White Dragon City, the Heavenly Star Sword Sect, and the Earth Travel Sect were the strongest powers near White Dragon Hill, and that the Spirit Treasury was attracting them.

Zhao Chen and Su Xuan attended an auction where the White Dragon Jade Pillar, believed to be a key to the White Dragon Supreme's Spiritual Treasury, sparked a bidding war among White Dragon City, the Heavenly Star Sword Sect, and the Earth Travel Sect. Zhao Chen stopped Su Xuan from bidding, confident they could obtain the pillar without spending their Spirit Coins.

• Su Xuan explained that the Nine Summers Merchant Guild was one of the Northern Azure Continent's three largest merchant guilds as Bi Sheng opened the auction.
• Bi Sheng auctioned an Azure Hawk Sword and then a Spirit Array Seed, but Zhao Chen declined to bid on either item.
• Bi Sheng presented the White Dragon Jade Pillar and said it was likely left by the White Dragon Supreme and could be a key to his Spiritual Treasury.
• Bai Dong, the Heavenly Star Sword Sect representative, and the Earth Travel Sect elder drove the pillar's price to nine million Spirit Coins.
• Su Xuan prepared to bid, but Zhao Chen stopped her and said they would not spend the money because someone would deliver the pillar to them.

Zhao Chen explained to Su Xuan why Bai Dong would pursue them, then entered White Dragon Hill with her and lured the Dragon Demon Guard into an ambush. Zhao Chen annihilated the guard, captured Bai Dong, and found the White Dragon Jade Pillar in his Storage Bag.

• Zhao Chen told Su Xuan that Bai Dong lusted after her and that White Dragon City was tied to the Dragon Demon Palace.
• Zhao Chen and Su Xuan traveled into White Dragon Hill while the Dragon Demon Guard followed them, waiting for a chance to attack.
• Bai Dong ordered the Dragon Demon Guard to ambush Zhao Chen and Su Xuan at their campsite, triggering Zhao Chen's sign-in mission to slay them.
• Zhao Chen destroyed the incoming spears, trapped the attackers and Bai Dong in a spiritual array, and killed the Dragon Demon Guard with a palm of spiritual energy.
• Zhao Chen seized Bai Dong and took his Storage Bag, finding the White Dragon Jade Pillar inside.