Chapter Summaries

Sun Taiqing defeated challengers from the Six Cities, but each declared that he was no match for Su Ye. When Sun Taiqing publicly threatened Su Ye, Su Ye returned to Shenyun and defeated him with his Sword Soul.

• Qin Cai challenged Sun Taiqing and lost after more than a hundred moves, but told him he was far inferior to someone else.
• Li Tao, Yang Yuan, and Luo Ting each challenged Sun Taiqing, lost, and said he was no match for that same person.
• Sun Taiqing realized the challengers were comparing him to Su Ye and grew furious at the repeated humiliation.
• As the Heavenly Pride Soaring Cloud Ranking neared its preliminary rankings, Sun Taiqing threatened to cut down Su Ye if he entered the secret realm.
• Su Ye returned to Shenyun, overwhelmed Sun Taiqing with his remnant Sword Soul, and disarmed him with Light Cone Sword.
• Su Ye told Sun Taiqing that the others had been right and that he was no match for him.

Su Ling’s victory over Sun Taiqing and the revelation that he possessed a Supreme Bone shook the Eastern Four Provinces, while the Lin Family celebrated his rising status and his engagement to Lin Qingyue. Chen Kuangdao announced that he would travel to Shenyun to challenge Su Ling before setting out across the provinces to sharpen his blade.

• Su Ling defeated Sun Taiqing, and the Su Family announced that Su Ling possessed a Supreme Bone and had been chosen as a personal disciple by the Heavenly Light Supreme of Nine Heavens University.
• Lin Qingyue and Lin Yue celebrated Su Ling’s reputation, and Lin Yue anticipated his ranking on the Heavenly Pride Soaring Cloud Ranking and the engagement banquet seven days later.
• Chen Kuangdao emerged from seclusion having tempered his sixth Extreme Bone and declared his intention to claim first place on the Heavenly Pride Soaring Cloud Ranking.
• Chen Kuangdao announced that he would go to Shenyun the next day to challenge Su Ling, then travel across Tiandong and the other provinces to sharpen his blade.

Su Ling accepted Chen Kuangdao’s challenge, setting up a major duel at Shenyun First High School while people debated Su Ye’s disappearance and legacy. Su Ye completed his eighth Extreme Bone and discovered that his Manifestation Talisman had awakened a third trait: Derivative Law Breaking Limits.

• Su Ling accepted Chen Kuangdao’s challenge, and their duel was scheduled for the next day at Shenyun First High School.
• Students mocked Su Ye’s achievements and absence, while Zhang Yuan defended him and prayed for his safe return.
• Lin Qingyue basked in the attention surrounding her engagement to Su Ling and felt satisfied that she had broken off her engagement to Su Ye.
• Su Ling revealed that his Spirit Sword Yaoguang resonated with him and declared confidence in facing Chen Kuangdao.
• Su Ye completed his eighth Extreme Bone, and his Manifestation Talisman revealed its third trait, Derivative Law Breaking Limits.

Su Ye learned that his flawless Bone Building Foundation could let him temper Nine Extreme Bones, and he discovered the Manifestation Talisman's new ability to push perfected martial arts beyond their limits. After Senior Brother Luo sent him back to the Sea of Thorns Secret Realm, Su Ye killed four demons with one sword strike and returned to Shenyun City.

• Su Ye discovered that the Manifestation Talisman's third trait, Derivative Law Breaking Limits, could elevate perfected martial arts and develop incomplete ones.
• Senior Brother Luo explained that flawless Bone Building meant making all ninety-nine Martial Bones function as one, and said Su Ye could temper Nine Extreme Bones.
• Senior Brother Luo placed the Nine Extremes Imprint on Su Ye and told him to return when his cultivation matched his mental strength.
• Su Ye returned to the Sea of Thorns Secret Realm and faced the Black Fierce Tiger and three other demons, all stronger than before.
• Su Ye killed all four demons with one strike of Sword One: Timely Rain, then activated the imprint and left for Shenyun City.

Su Ye returned from the Sea of Thorns Secret Realm stronger than before and learned that Master Zhang Tan had been missing for ten days. At the General Camp, Su Ye entered the Soul-Bewildering Formation, claiming he could see through it.

• Su Ye returned to the modern world after a month in the Endless Blood Sea, and Gui Shi had grown to the peak of grade eight.
• Su Ye went to Dongyong Camp, where Xu Yong welcomed him back and explained that Zhang Tan had been missing for ten days at the General Commander’s Secret Land.
• Su Ye and Xu Yong reached the General Camp and met Deputy Battalion Commander Wang, who was also unable to contact the General Commander.
• Xu Yong and Wang planned to damage the Soul-Bewildering Formation to alert the General Commander, but Su Ye offered to unravel it instead.
• Su Ye used his spiritual perception to see through the Formation Array and stepped inside.

Su Ye reached Zhang Tan and Qin Hanxing through the shifting Soul-Bewildering Formation and learned that Zhang Tan was burning his life to help Qin Hanxing absorb a dangerous power. Su Ye insisted on learning the flawed Heavenly Fire Transformation to find a way to save Zhang Tan, and after Qin Hanxing abandoned his chance at a breakthrough, Su Ye mastered the technique instantly.

• Su Ye used his spiritual perception to guide Xu Yong and Deputy Battalion Commander Wang through the Soul-Bewildering Formation to the hidden secret land.
• Su Ye found Zhang Tan burning his life force to help Qin Hanxing suppress and absorb the power in a mysterious footprint that threatened Shenyun.
• Su Ye asked Zhang Tan to teach him the Heavenly Fire Transformation so he could try to extend his master's life, but Zhang Tan initially refused.
• Xu Yong urged Zhang Tan to let Su Ye try, citing Su Ye's rapid mastery of the Nine Extremes Yin-Yang Breathing Meditation Technique.
• Qin Hanxing gave up his chance to break through by cutting off the strange fire's power, and Zhang Tan handed Su Ye a Jade Slip containing the Heavenly Fire Transformation.
• Su Ye opened the Jade Slip and instantly mastered the Heavenly Fire Transformation as the Yin-Yang Profound Strange Fire flared behind him.

Su Ye mastered the basics of the Heavenly Fire Transformation and began analyzing how to control its destructive power. As he prepared to test it, he revealed eight Extreme Bones, leaving Qin Hanxing, Zhang Tan, Xu Yong, and Deputy Battalion Commander Wang stunned.

• Su Ye instantly mastered the basics of the Heavenly Fire Transformation, astonishing Qin Hanxing, Zhang Tan, Xu Yong, and Deputy Battalion Commander Wang.
• Su Ye’s Manifestation Talisman showed that completing the technique would let him deduce a new path and perfect it.
• Su Ye analyzed how the Heavenly Fire Transformation used fused and dispersed strange fires, and recognized why Zhang Tan’s attempt had endangered his life.
• Su Ye split the Yin-Yang Profound Strange Fire into black and white flames, then began merging them under his spiritual control.
• Su Ye unleashed his cultivation and revealed his Eight Extreme Bones, shocking everyone present.

Su Ye revealed that he had tempered Eight Extreme Bones and demonstrated the growing power of his Heavenly Fire Transformation, promising to forge it into a New Path within a day. As news of his return spread through Shenyun, Su Ling resolved to fight him, while the Lin Family planned to invite him to Su Ling and Lin Qingyue’s engagement banquet.

• Deputy Battalion Commander Wang and the others realized Su Ye had reached the record of Eight Extreme Bones, and marveled that he had hidden his strength from even General Commander Qin Hanxing.
• Su Ye unleashed the Heavenly Fire Transformation, which Xu Yong crushed, and received feedback that the technique remained incomplete.
• Su Ye told Zhang Tan he could master the Heavenly Fire Transformation and forge a New Path within a day, then repeatedly practiced it as his proficiency and power rose.
• News of Su Ye’s return from the Mystic Realm reached Shenyun, and Su Li reassured Su Ling that his Supreme Bone and Heavenly Light Supreme’s instruction made him the family’s foremost prodigy.
• Su Ling resolved to fight Su Ye after his match with Chen Kuangdao, regardless of the outcome, to settle his doubts and prove himself.
• Lin Yue decided to arrange Su Ling and Lin Qingyue’s engagement banquet and invite Su Ye as Zhang Tan’s disciple, hoping Su Ye would attend and feel inferior.

Sun Taiqing challenged Su Ye, but Deputy Battalion Commander Wang refused on Su Ye’s behalf while Su Ye dealt with the Shenyun Crisis. Sun Taiqing spread claims that Su Ye feared him, and news arrived that Xiao Yuliang and the leading prodigies from three other provinces would come to Shenyun the next day.

• Deputy Battalion Commander Wang recalled how greatly Su Ye’s abilities had exceeded his earlier expectations.
• Sun Taiqing arrived with Master Lie and demanded a fight with Su Ye, but Deputy Battalion Commander Wang said Su Ye would not accept his challenge.
• Master Lie urged Sun Taiqing to publicize the refusal as proof that Su Ye feared him, and the claim spread through Shenyun and beyond.
• Su Ling, Lin Qingyue, and Wang Junran reacted to the rumors, while Deputy Battalion Commander Wang told Wang Junran that Sun Taiqing was not worth Su Ye’s attention.
• A Wang Family steward announced that Xiao Yuliang and the leading prodigies from three other provinces would arrive in Shenyun the next day.

Wang Junran learned that prodigies Wang Nianshuang, Xiao Pofeng, and Yan Wujue were coming to Shenyun City because they feared Chen Kuangdao and Xiao Yuliang, a Kyoto prodigy seeking to make his name across the Eastern Four Provinces. As the region’s strongest gathered for a clash the next day, Deputy Battalion Commander Wang hinted that someone would step in if they all lost.

• Wang Junran compared Shenyun’s strongest students with the exceptional prodigies of the Eastern Four Provinces and Kyoto.
• Deputy Battalion Commander Wang explained that Wang Nianshuang, Xiao Pofeng, and Yan Wujue were coming to Shenyun City because they feared Chen Kuangdao and Xiao Yuliang.
• Deputy Battalion Commander Wang said Xiao Yuliang had come to use the four provinces’ prodigies to raise his own name, prompting their allies to act before he gained momentum.
• Wang Junran anticipated that many prodigies and martial dao powerhouses would gather in Shenyun City the next day to witness the clashes.
• Deputy Battalion Commander Wang reassured Wang Junran that if Chen Kuangdao, Xiao Pofeng, Wang Nianshuang, Yan Wujue, Su Ling, and the others all lost, someone would step in.

Xiao Yuliang prepared to travel to Shenyun City to build momentum for the Xiao Family and challenge Su Ye, while Shenyun First High School scrambled to prepare for the widely publicized Heavenly Pride Battle. The chapter ended with the city becoming the focus of the four provinces and Principal Sun Rui hoping Su Ling would defend the school’s honor.

• Deputy Battalion Commander Wang hinted to Wang Junran that someone would act if the Eastern Four Provinces’ contenders lost, then left to prepare for the ranking event.
• Xiao Yuliang dismissed the Eastern Four Provinces’ talents and revealed his plans to spread the Xiao Family’s name, test his Nine Crows Heavenly Fierce Sword, and confront Su Ye.
• Qiu Lin gave Xiao Yuliang a Domain Void Stone from his father, Jingkong Supreme, and Xiao Yuliang accepted it before setting out east.
• Principal Sun Rui organized preparations at Shenyun First High School as officials ordered the school closed for the Heavenly Pride Battle.
• Longhua Daily announced that Tong Ruoxian would host a full live broadcast, prompting other outlets to plan coverage as Principal Sun Rui hoped Su Ling would uphold the school’s honor.

The crowd gathered at Shenyun First High School for Su Ling and Chen Kuangdao’s highly anticipated battle, while three provincial prodigies arrived and the two fighters revealed Sword Soul and Blade Soul. At the General Camp, Su Ye completed his new cultivation method and prepared to demonstrate the Heavenly Fire Transformation to Zhang Tan.

• Lin Qingyue and Zhuang Xue watched from the near field, where Zhuang Xue praised Su Ling and mocked Su Ye for avoiding Sun Taiqing’s challenge.
• Wang Nianshuang, Xiao Pofeng, and Yan Wujue arrived, drawing attention with the blazing Martial Momentum of three provincial prodigies.
• Su Ling and Chen Kuangdao appeared from opposite ends of the lawn, and their auras collided as the crowd discovered they had reached the Soul realm at eighteen.
• Su Ye opened his eyes at the General Camp, announced that he had completed the derivation of a new method, and told Zhang Tan to watch his Heavenly Fire Transformation.

Su Ye helped Zhang Tan perfect the Heavenly Fire Transformation, then learned that the Xiao Family's Prodigy and the four provinces' Prodigies had gathered at Shenyun First High School. As Su Ye went to watch their contest, Qin Hanxing wondered what he was waiting for before condensing a Sword Heart, while Su Ling and Chen Kuangdao's battle astonished viewers.

• Su Ye explained how separating and stretching the properties of strange fires could balance them, and Zhang Tan perfected the Heavenly Fire Transformation.
• Qin Hanxing said Zhang Tan's help gave him a ninety percent chance of breaking through the Supreme threshold after five days of seclusion, and promised Su Ye a grand gift.
• Xu Yong told Su Ye that the Xiao Family's Prodigy and the four provinces' Prodigies had gathered at Shenyun First High School to contend for martial intent, and Su Ye agreed to go.
• After Su Ye and Xu Yong left, Qin Hanxing said Su Ye was already at the extreme level of Sword Soul and seemed to be waiting before condensing a Sword Heart.
• At Shenyun First High School, Su Ling and Chen Kuangdao fought, astonishing viewers and Martial Artists with their strength.

Su Ling and Chen Kuangdao fought an astonishing duel, each displaying Spirit Artifact resonance, perfected martial skills, and power beyond their Bone Tempering Realm. Su Ling briefly reached Flawless Unity with his Supreme Bone, but after their strongest techniques collided, Chen Kuangdao declared that Su Ling had lost, settling Tiandong's top Heavenly Chosen title.

• Su Ling and Chen Kuangdao clashed with resonant Spirit Artifacts and demonstrated their exceptional martial skills and cultivation foundations.
• Su Ling used his Supreme Bone to temporarily reach Flawless Unity and gained the advantage over Chen Kuangdao.
• Su Ling unleashed the Primordial Radiance Sword, while Chen Kuangdao countered with the Heavenly Absolute Overlord Saber; Chen Kuangdao was wounded, and his Mad Saber Battle Body grew stronger.
• Su Ling used the Supreme Divine Ability Light Cone Sword, and Chen Kuangdao answered with Mountains and Seas in their final collision.
• Chen Kuangdao announced that Su Ling had lost, and Tiandong's number one Heavenly Chosen was decided.

Chen Kuangdao defeated Su Ling, then used the momentum of his victory to challenge the top prodigies of the Eastern Four Provinces. Just as Chen Kuangdao and Xiao Pofeng prepared to fight, Xiao Yuliang arrived and challenged all five talents to last fifty moves against him.

• Chen Kuangdao defeated Su Ling, who regretted that their cultivation levels had differed, while the crowd praised both prodigies.
• Chen Kuangdao declared himself Tiandong's top young talent and advanced further into the Blade Soul level after his battle.
• After taking a Dragon-Elephant Qi-Blood Pill, Chen Kuangdao challenged Wang Nianshuang, Yan Wujue, and Xiao Pofeng, who revealed they had each tempered six Extreme Bones.
• Chen Kuangdao called for a fight to decide the top prodigy of the Eastern Four Provinces, and Xiao Pofeng stepped forward to face him as Wang Nianshuang and Yan Wujue yielded the stage.
• Xiao Yuliang entered the lawn and challenged the five great talents to remain undefeated against him for fifty moves.

Kyoto prodigy Xiao Yuliang challenged the five foremost figures of the Eastern Four Provinces to defeat them within fifty moves and began with Chen Kuangdao. After defeating Chen in forty-three moves, Xiao turned to the other four and dismissed the four provinces’ heavenly prides.

• Xiao Yuliang declared that he would defeat the five foremost figures within fifty moves and chose Chen Kuangdao as his first opponent.
• Chen Kuangdao unleashed his Heavenly Absolute Overlord Saber, but Xiao Yuliang repelled him with the flat of his Golden Greatsword.
• Xiao revealed that he had eight Extreme Bones and Sword Soul-level mastery, then used Sky Sever to force Chen back and injure him.
• Chen Kuangdao fought on with his Mad Saber Battle Body, but Xiao defeated him in forty-three moves without being harmed.
• Xiao sheathed his sword, declared that the five had already lost, and asked whether the four provinces’ heavenly prides amounted to nothing more than this.

Xiao Yuliang overwhelmed the Eastern Four Provinces’ top Prodigies and challenged Shenyun to produce someone worthy of facing him. Deputy Battalion Commander Wang announced that Shenyun’s missing Heavenly Chosen had arrived.

• Xiao Yuliang’s victory over Chen Kuangdao left the crowd and the other Prodigies despairing at the gap between Kyoto and the four provinces.
• Martial Artists online explained that Kyoto’s research and training had given its Heavenly Chosen a stronger foundation, while a Tianhun Academy instructor said Xiao Yuliang might rank second in Kyoto.
• Xiao Yuliang drew his Golden Greatsword and declared that none of the four provinces’ Prodigies had been worthy of facing its edge.
• Luo Ting and Ye Xingli reacted angrily, while Qin Cai and other Prodigies gathered nearby.
• Deputy Battalion Commander Wang said Shenyun still had one Heavenly Chosen who had yet to arrive, then sensed the person’s arrival and announced, “No need. He’s here!”

Su Ye returned to Shenyun First High School and stunned the crowd by stopping Xiao Yuliang’s powerful sword with two fingers. He challenged Xiao Yuliang to use his full strength, then invited six prodigies to attack him together.

• Su Ye arrived at Shenyun First High School, drawing the attention of Deputy Battalion Commander Wang, Ye Xingli, Luo Ting, and viewers across the internet.
• Xiao Yuliang challenged Su Ye with a sword strike, confident that he would display the gap between himself and the provincial prodigies.
• Su Ye caught Xiao Yuliang’s Golden Greatsword between two fingers and asked whether the heavens Xiao Yuliang saw were only that high.
• Su Ye called Xiao Yuliang weak, urged him to use his full strength, and challenged him to join Chen Kuangdao, Su Ling, Yan Wujue, Xiao Pofeng, and Wang Nianshuang in attacking together.

Su Ye stunned the spectators by catching Xiao Yuliang's sword with two fingers and challenging six prodigies at once. Xiao Yuliang awakened his Martial God Bloodline and unleashed his Supreme Secret Weapon, Sky Rend, but Su Ye used unranked Extreme Shadow Swordplay to deflect the strike and leave him reeling.

• Su Ye caught Xiao Yuliang's sword between two fingers and declared that he would fight six prodigies alone, shocking the crowd.
• Tong Ruoxian introduced Su Ye as the four provinces' top young alchemist and previous Spring Outing Cup champion.
• Xiao Yuliang grew enraged, awakened his Martial God Bloodline, and prepared to attack with his Golden Palace greatsword.
• Xiao Yuliang unleashed his Supreme Secret Weapon, Sky Rend, against Su Ye.
• Su Ye used Extreme Shadow Swordplay to strike the side of Xiao Yuliang's blade, deflecting the attack and forcing him back three steps.
• Su Ye asked Xiao Yuliang whether that had been his strongest sword, leaving the spectators stunned.

Su Ye challenged six Kyoto prodigies at once, seeking a battle that could help him forge his Nine Extremes Dao Heart. When all six unleashed their strongest attacks, Su Ye answered with one sword strike and forced them all to retreat.

• A Jinling martial artist explained that Su Ye had used Extreme Shadow Swordplay to exploit the Supreme Secret Weapon's flaw with extraordinary timing, leaving his cultivation impossible to discern.
• Su Ye told Xiao Yuliang, Chen Kuangdao, Su Ling, Wang Nianshuang, Yan Wujue, and Xiao Pofeng to attack him together, deciding Xiao Yuliang alone was not enough for the battle he sought.
• Su Ye locked onto all six prodigies with his aura, raised his sword, and challenged them to strike rather than disappoint him.
• Enraged, the six prodigies unleashed their strongest skills and secret weapons together against Su Ye.
• Su Ye used Sword One, Timely Rain, and his single strike made all six prodigies retreat, stunning the more than forty million viewers.