Chapter Summaries

After Zhang Tan announced that Su Ye would become his Disciple of Inheritance, Chen Kai accused him of secretly helping Su Ye win the Spring Outing Cup. Su Ye asked for five minutes, then revealed he had deduced a Third-grade Ultimate-tier Bone Tempering Pill formula and requested permission to refine it on the spot.

• Zhang Tan announced that Su Ye would become his Disciple of Inheritance, leaving Lin Qingyue and Chen Kai devastated.
• Chen Kai accused Zhang Tan of leaking the Hammer God Pill Fragmentary Formula to Su Ye, and the crowd began to doubt whether Su Ye had received advance help.
• Su Ye asked Zhang Tan for five minutes, then sat cross-legged and closed his eyes as the venue and online audience waited.
• After three minutes, Su Ye recited eighty-one ingredients and announced that he had deduced a Third-grade Ultimate-tier Bone Tempering Pill formula.
• Su Ye asked Zhang Tan for permission to refine the pill on the spot, shocking the audience and driving online viewership to thirteen million.

Su Ye answered accusations of cheating by deriving and refining a third-grade Ultimate-tier pill before the Spring Outing Cup audience. His success silenced his critics and left Chen Kai humiliated as Su Ye demanded to know whether he accepted the proof.

• Su Ye proposed refining a third-grade Ultimate-tier pill from eighty-one ingredients, and Zhang Tan ordered the ingredients prepared.
• Su Ye began refining, using sixteen coordinated alchemy techniques and demonstrating extraordinary Spiritual Power and control over the ingredients.
• Su Ye completed the pill and presented the crystal-clear result to Zhang Tan, who praised him and defended him against accusations of cheating.
• Su Ye told Chen Kai he would derive another formula if Chen still refused to accept the result, while Chen struggled to respond and Lin Qingyue clenched her teeth until they bled.
• Su Ye asked Chen whether he accepted the proof of the third-grade Ultimate-tier pill.

Chen Kai tried to persuade Zhang Tan to take him as a disciple by revealing his Fire Resilience Spiritual Seed, but Zhang Tan reaffirmed that Su Ye would be his only disciple and announced plans to release a simplified version of the Thousand Forge Divine Art. Su Ye used a Law Reflection point to learn the secret technique on the spot, leaving Zhang Tan and the crowd stunned.

• Chen Kai revealed his Fire Resilience Spiritual Seed and argued that it made him an ideal successor to Zhang Tan's Thousand Forge Divine Art, but Zhang Tan refused to change his decision to take only Su Ye as his disciple.
• Zhang Tan explained that the Thousand Forge Divine Art tempered Spiritual Power with alchemy furnace flames and said he planned to create a simplified version that anyone could learn.
• Zhang Tan told Chen Kai he could try the future simplified version, while making clear that Su Ye alone would inherit from him.
• Su Ye asked Zhang Tan to teach him the Thousand Forge Divine Art, received a Jade Slip, and spent one Law Reflection point to begin learning it.
• Less than twenty seconds later, Su Ye manifested his Spiritual Power as a sword and plunged it into the pill flames, shocking Zhang Tan, Chen Kai, and the crowd.

Su Ye stunned the Spring Outing Cup audience by mastering the Thousand Forge Divine Art almost instantly, then won first place individually and helped Shenyun City’s Alchemy Association take second overall. After the competition, Zhang Tan praised his disciple and promised a grand banquet, while Vice President Xu brought Su Ye and the others back to Shenyun.

• Su Ye instantly mastered the Thousand Forge Divine Art, leaving Zhang Tan and the audience astonished and Chen Kai devastated.
• Zhang Tan called for the contestants’ pills to be scored, and Su Ye took first place while Chen Kai came second.
• The Shenyun City Alchemy Association placed second overall, its best result in years, largely thanks to Su Ye.
• Su Ye received his award as the Spring Outing Cup ended and sparked widespread discussion online.
• Zhang Tan told Su Ye to return to Shenyun and promised to arrive the next day for a grand banquet.
• Vice President Xu brought Su Ye and the others back to Shenyun, anticipating that the city’s Four Great Families would have to bow to him.

After Su Ye won the Spring Outing Cup and became Zhang Tan’s disciple, Lin Qingyue and Su Li struggled with the consequences of having rejected or cast him aside. Shenyun City prepared for Zhang Tan’s disciple-taking banquet the next day, where the city’s powerful families were expected to gather.

• Vice President Xu anticipated the spectacle at Fengyun Restaurant as Lin Qingyue and Luo Ting returned to Shenyun separately from Su Ye.
• Lin Qingyue called Lin Yue, who told her not to provoke Su Ye, to maintain her relationship with Su Ling cautiously, and to attend Zhang Tan’s banquet with him.
• Lin Qingyue realized her father was reconsidering his stance between Su Ye and Su Ling, but she insisted to herself that breaking the engagement had not been a mistake.
• Su Li regretted expelling Su Ye and faced the prospect of attending the banquet at Fengyun Restaurant, which belonged to the Su Family.
• Sun Rui and the leaders of Shenyun First High School suspended classes, replayed Su Ye’s livestream, and publicized his victory across the school.

After winning the Spring Outing Cup, Su Ye visited Dongyong Camp, gave Xu Yong his prize pill, and received news that his status had brought new opportunities and a flood of visitors to his family. As his apprenticeship ceremony approached, powerful figures from across Tiandong Province gathered in Shenyun City.

• Vice President Xu offered to arrange Su Ye’s Third-grade Alchemist certificate and drove him to Dongyong Camp.
• The soldiers at Dongyong Camp celebrated Su Ye’s Spring Outing Cup victory, and Xu Yong praised his achievements.
• Su Ye gave Xu Yong the Thousand Refinements Spirit Tempering Pill, which Xu Yong accepted with gratitude.
• Principal Sun Rui and Zhang Yuan congratulated Su Ye, while Wang Yuerong told him relatives and old acquaintances had filled their home hoping to meet him or get invitations to the Fengyun Restaurant event.
• Prominent families, Nine-star Alchemists, and nearly a hundred True Bone powerhouses arrived in Shenyun City ahead of Su Ye’s apprenticeship banquet.

Su Ye and his parents arrived at Fengyun Restaurant for his Apprenticeship Banquet, where powerful Martial Artists eagerly greeted him because he was Master Zhang Tan’s Disciple of Inheritance and a Spring Outing Cup champion. Formerly dismissive relatives and Lin Qingyue watched his newfound stature, and Lin Yue ordered the Lin Family’s chief steward to apologize for interfering with Su Ye’s alchemy.

• Factions and powerful Martial Artists competed for places at Fengyun Restaurant as Shenyun City prepared for Su Ye’s Apprenticeship Banquet.
• Su Ye reassured his nervous parents, Wang Yuerong and Su Su, as they arrived at the crowded restaurant.
• Essence Fusion and True Bone Martial Artists surrounded Su Ye, praising him and offering their business cards.
• Wu Qian, Su Ling'er, and Aunt Su Nian saw the crowd around Su Ye, and Su Ling'er and Su Nian regretted how they had treated him.
• Lin Yue confronted the Lin Family's chief steward about interfering with Su Ye’s alchemy and ordered him to apologize to Su Ye immediately.

The Lin Family tried to apologize to Su Ye with a rare pill, but he refused to accept their gesture and left with Xu Yong. At Su Ye’s banquet, Zhang Tan arrived with twenty-four God-Opening experts and revealed they had brought the Yin-Yang Profound Strange Fire as a gift for his disciple.

• The Lin Family chief steward apologized to Su Ye and offered him a Bone Opening Profound Spirit Pill, but Su Ye left with Xu Yong without taking it.
• Xu Yong supported Su Ye’s decision to reject the Lin Family’s insincere apology, and Su Ye resolved to focus on strengthening his cultivation after the Spring Outing Cup.
• Su Ye, Xu Yong, Su Su, and Wang Yuerong arrived at Fengyun Restaurant, where they noticed Zhang Tan had not yet appeared.
• The restaurant’s Formation Array opened the ceiling to reveal the night sky, and twenty-five beams of Vast Light approached Shenyun City.
• Zhang Tan appeared with twenty-four God-Opening experts and announced they had formed the Twenty-Four Solar Terms Grand Array to retrieve the Yin-Yang Profound Strange Fire for Su Ye.

At the banquet, Zhang Tan presented Su Ye with the Yin-Yang Profound Strange Fire, which twenty-four God-Opening Martial Artists had captured in the Ice Fire Melting Sea. The fire broke free after revealing a remnant of a Martial God’s will, but Su Ye called it back, and it knelt before him.

• Zhang Tan revealed that the twenty-four God-Opening Martial Artists had captured the Yin-Yang Profound Strange Fire as a gift for Su Ye.
• The strange fire grew violent as the martial artists tightened their array, and they warned Zhang Tan that forcing it to merge with a Bone Tempering Martial Artist would be difficult.
• The Yin-Yang Profound Strange Fire formed a figure carrying a trace of a Martial God’s will and shattered the Formation Array.
• The strange fire fled toward the horizon, but Su Ye told it to come back.
• The strange fire returned and knelt before Su Ye, leaving the crowd and the twenty-four God-Opening Martial Artists stunned.

Su Ye subdued the Yin-Yang Profound Strange Fire, which revealed memories of Qi Lie’s sacrifice and a hidden secret tied to the martial Great Era. As Su Ye celebrated with Zhang Tan and his family, the Lin Family watched from afar while Lin Qingyue questioned her decision to break off their engagement.

• Su Ye’s Nine Extremes Yin-Yang Breathing Meditation Technique drew the Yin-Yang Profound Strange Fire to him, and it entered his Sea of Consciousness to temper his Spiritual Power.
• Su Ye witnessed Qi Lie’s memory: the Qi Family’s Martial God had become the Yin-Yang Rotating Heavenly Disc to suppress a soul fragment and had left a key for a worthy successor.
• Su Ye returned to the gathering, confirmed that he had subdued the strange fire, and demonstrated that he could summon it; the witnesses marveled at his achievement.
• Su Ye recalled Qi Lie’s warning that he needed to condense Yuan Power and reach the Origin Fusion Realm before exploring the Ice Fire Melting Sea, then resolved to grow stronger.
• Su Su and Wang Yuerong toasted Zhang Tan, and the gathering’s influential guests praised Su Ye and presented him with valuable gifts.
• The Lin Family watched Su Ye receive acclaim, while Lin Qingyue privately wondered whether she had been wrong to break off their engagement.

After the banquet, Su Ying asked Su Ye to return to the Su Family, but Su Ye refused and gave him two precious pills to repay his past kindness. Zhang Tan and Xu Yong witnessed the exchange as Su Ye walked away, grateful to have a disciple like him.

• After the banquet, Su Ying urged Su Ye to return to the Su Family and consider becoming its heir, but Su Ye said the family and he were separate.
• Su Ye stopped Su Ying as he was leaving and gave him a Myriad Transformation Clear Origin Spirit Pill to treat his old injuries.
• Su Ye also gave Su Ying a Heavenly Thunder Marrow Transformation Pill to improve his chance of reaching the True Bone Realm.
• Su Ye told Su Ying he remembered and appreciated his kindness, then walked away with Zhang Tan and Xu Yong watching proudly.

Zhang Tan taught Su Ye the Hundred Heavenly Crafts and gave him a Space Ring filled with gifts and treasured items, while concealing the danger posed by his unfinished Heavenly Fire Transformation. Zhang Tan asked Qin Hantian to protect Su Ye if anything happened to him, and Su Ye learned that the Sea of Thorns Secret Realm would open in thirty days.

• Zhang Tan taught Su Ye the Hundred Heavenly Crafts and praised his exceptional comprehension as Su Ye refined a Third-grade Ultimate-tier pill.
• Zhang Tan gave Su Ye a Space Ring containing the banquet gifts and many of his own treasured possessions, then withheld his suspicion that the Heavenly Fire Transformation might be a dead end.
• Zhang Tan asked Qin Hantian to protect Su Ye if something happened to him, and Qin Hantian revealed that a powerful force was keeping him trapped in seclusion.
• Xu Yong told Su Ye that the Sea of Thorns Secret Realm would open in thirty days.

Su Ye considered his progress in tempering Martial Bones and planned to investigate the Blood Sea before the Sea of Thorns Secret Realm opened. Qi Ruoshui, a maid of Qi Yunqiao, offered him a place as her Companion Reader and riches in exchange for his Yin-Yang Profound Strange Fire, but he refused both; she left plotting to have Xiao Yuliang punish him.

• Su Ye calculated that he could temper more than ninety Martial Bones within thirty days and resolved to ask Uncle Li about entering the Blood Sea.
• Qi Ruoshui introduced herself as Qi Yunqiao's maid and invited Su Ye to Kyoto as a Companion Reader, promising the Qi Family would guarantee him the God-Opening Realm.
• Qi Ruoshui offered to exchange for Su Ye's Yin-Yang Profound Strange Fire, but Su Ye rejected both offers and left.
• Qi Ruoshui grew furious at Su Ye's refusal and decided to use Xiao Yuliang's arrival in two months to provoke him into teaching Su Ye a lesson.

Su Ye visited the Vast Sea Sword Hall to learn about the Sea of Thorns Secret Realm and the Blood Sea, while Su Ling dismissed him and vowed to rise through martial strength. Li Hai described strange sights inside the Blood Sea, including a Boundary Stone and a starship, leaving Su Ye eager to investigate and wondering about the Sky Demon’s plot.

• Su Ling ignored Su Ye, declared that martial strength mattered more than alchemy, and vowed to claim a top place in the Heavenly Pride Soaring Cloud Ranking with his changing Innate True Bone.
• Su Ye met Xu Yong and Li Hai at the Vast Sea Sword Hall and insisted he would enter the dangerous Sea of Thorns Secret Realm to seek the Blood Sea.
• Li Hai explained that a formation mark could transport someone out of the Blood Sea and recounted seeing a Boundary Stone amid a sea of blood.
• Li Hai described a mysterious rune-covered starship, and Xu Yong suggested it could be real because ancient Mystic Realms had yielded strange artifacts and breathing techniques of unknown origin.
• Li Hai mentioned that he had nearly fallen victim to the Sky Demon’s plot, prompting Su Ye to ask what it was.

As the Heavenly Pride Soaring Cloud Ranking stirred public debate and drew attention toward Su Ling, Su Ye completed his tempering of all ninety-nine Martial Bones. The Sea of Thorns Secret Realm was set to open the next day.

• Li Hai and Xu Yong explained that a Heavenly Demon Cult believer had once used a Secret Technique to ambush students with Demon Beasts in the Sea of Thorns Secret Realm, killing or injuring more than half of them.
• The Eastern Four Provinces announced the Heavenly Pride Soaring Cloud Ranking, offering valuable rewards and guaranteed admission to the Five Great Academies for its top one hundred.
• People predicted that Chen Kuangdao and Su Ling would rank highly, while some prominent-family scions resented Su Ye's rise and wanted his Spring Outing Cup banner replaced with one celebrating Su Ling.
• At the Vast Sea Sword Hall, Su Ye performed the final forms of his training and completed his ninety-ninth Martial Bone.
• Su Ye reflected that the Sea of Thorns Secret Realm would open the next day and felt the power of his completed Martial Bones.

Su Ye went to Dongyong Camp to test his Combat Strength after tempering ninety-nine Martial Bones, where Ye Tianlin learned he would enter the Sea of Thorns Secret Realm. Su Ye’s sword strike against Xu Yong left Ye Tianlin, Li Hai, and Xu Yong stunned by his strength.

• Su Ye told Li Hai he had recovered and was going to Dongyong Camp to test his Combat Strength, so Li Hai joined him.
• Ye Tianlin asked Xu Yong to add Ye Xingli to the Sea of Thorns Secret Realm roster and revealed that she had tempered eighty-one Martial Bones.
• Xu Yong told Ye Tianlin that Su Ye would join the next day’s trip, then suppressed his aura to the level of ninety-nine Martial Bones for their test.
• Su Ye crossed nearly ten meters in an instant and struck Xu Yong with a sword thrust that left a mark on his clothes.
• Li Hai and Ye Tianlin stared in shock as Ye Tianlin realized Su Ye had tempered ninety-nine Martial Bones.

Su Ye stunned Xu Yong, Ye Tianlin, and Li Hai by revealing ninety-nine Martial Bones and demonstrating extraordinary control and swordsmanship. Xu Yong then advanced to the Blood Nourishing Realm and challenged Su Ye to fight with all his strength.

• Su Ye revealed his ninety-nine Martial Bones, shocking Xu Yong, Ye Tianlin, and Li Hai with his perfect Foundation and rapid progress.
• Xu Yong explained Extreme Bones and tested Su Ye, but Su Ye used the Dragon Phoenix Bone Forging Method to force him back.
• Su Ye drew Gui Shi and used the first form of Vast Sea Swordplay against Xu Yong's incomplete Divine Ability, Scorching Weld Blade, and was pushed back only half a step.
• Ye Tianlin speculated that Su Ye's martial-skill mastery resembled the transcendence of a Sacred Martial Body, while Su Ye suspected the Black-White Spirit Figure was responsible.
• Xu Yong entered the Blood Nourishing Realm and told Su Ye to use his full strength as he prepared to test Su Ye's true limit.

After witnessing Su Ye overwhelm Xu Yong, Ye Tianlin and Li Hai discussed the coming challenge from the Xiao Family’s Xiao Yuliang and wondered whether Su Ye might face him. Ye Tianlin then warned Ye Xingli about the dangers of the Sea of Thorns Secret Realm and told her to find Su Ye if she was in danger.

• Su Ye left Dongyong Camp, and Xu Yong, Li Hai, and Ye Tianlin were left stunned by his battle performance.
• Ye Tianlin and Xu Yong speculated that Xiao Yuliang would challenge the Eastern Four Provinces’ top prodigies to build momentum and temper an Extreme Bone.
• Ye Tianlin suggested that Su Ye might clash with Xiao Yuliang in a month, and the others began to share his anticipation.
• Ye Xingli told Ye Tianlin that she had tempered another Martial Bone, bringing her total to eighty-two.
• Ye Tianlin warned Ye Xingli about the dangers of the Sea of Thorns Secret Realm and told her to seek Su Ye if she encountered danger.

As Su Ye prepared to enter the Sea of Thorns Secret Realm, the Chen Family secretly arranged for Huang He to kill him there. Huang He accepted the task to secure precious pills and help the Chen Family position Chen Kai as Master Zhang Tan’s successor.

• Ye Tianlin told Ye Xingli that Su Ye had tempered all ninety-nine Martial Bones and urged her to seek his protection if she faced danger.
• The participants in the six cities’ military camp were shocked that Su Ye had joined the Sea of Thorns Secret Realm competition, but they dismissed him as an unworthy alchemist.
• Chief Steward Chen visited the Yellow Family and suggested that Huang He kill Su Ye inside the unmonitored Mystic Realm, offering him two Marrow-Changing Bone-Through Pills in return.
• The Yellow Family patriarch agreed to the plan, explaining that the Chen Family wanted Su Ye gone so Chen Kai could inherit Master Zhang Tan’s teachings.
• Huang He accepted the order and vowed that Su Ye would not leave the Mystic Realm alive.

Chen Huan and the Chen Family chief steward headed to the Sea of Thorns Secret Realm to claim Spirit Splitting Grass, while Po Jun learned about Su Ye and received power from her god. The chapter ended with Su Ye reflecting on his Extreme Bone cultivation at Shenyun First High School.

• Chen Huan complained about having to visit the Sea of Thorns Secret Realm, and the chief steward warned him not to cause trouble because the six cities' authorities were involved.
• Wang Jian'an told Po Jun that Su Ye had won the Spring Outing Cup and become Zhang Tan's disciple, and Po Jun said he might not survive the Sea of Thorns Secret Realm.
• Po Jun dismissed Wang Jian'an, then communicated with a dragonlike god who gave her true blood and ordered her to retrieve its Main Soul from Shenyun City.
• The god told Po Jun that one of its soul fragments would soon appear in Tiandong Province, and she wondered whether it was with the Ye, Lin, or Su Family.
• Su Ye put down a book at Shenyun First High School and reflected on his Extreme Bone.