Chapter Summaries

After Su Ye’s sword strike stunned the Myriad Laws Dao Discussion, Su Ling chose to break through to True Bone ahead of the Spirit Bamboo Secret Realm. Three days of fierce contests followed, and the final Dragon Phoenix Ascending God Ranking was revealed.

• The crowd marveled at Su Ye killing a True Bone Perfection martial artist in one strike, and Lin Wudi left the Myriad Laws Dao Discussion in silence.
• At the Su Family residence, Su Ling resolved to break through to True Bone so he could secure a top-eight place and challenge Su Ye in the Spirit Bamboo Secret Realm.
• Su Ling summoned a Thunder Tribulation above Sky Mountain and became Long Hua’s first freshman True Bone martial artist, though news of his breakthrough was overshadowed by Su Ye.
• Over the next three days, Lin Wudi defeated a True Bone prodigy, Su Ling beat two True Bone Perfection instructors, and Qi Weinian drew against a True Bone opponent while Feng Wuyue remained untested.
• The Dragon Phoenix Ascending God Ranking was finalized for the eight National Team members, and the crowd opened the rankings in astonishment.

The Dragon Phoenix Ascending God Ranking named Su Ye and Feng Wuyue joint first, while Xiao Yuan took third after officials revealed his powerful New Path. Longhua’s eight chosen fighters learned that the Spirit Bamboo Secret Realm contest could determine which nation gained access to a path Above Divine Level, and Liu Zhen again asked Su Ye if he was certain he wanted to participate.

• The ranking placed Su Ye and Feng Wuyue joint first, Xiao Yuan third, and Su Ling, Qi Weinian, Zhang Tianlie, Fang Yanran, and Lin Wudi in the remaining positions.
• A mysterious powerhouse revealed that Xiao Yuan had opened a unique New Path and killed four Demon Beasts at True Bone Perfection within a hundred moves, sparking heated debate about the top-ranked fighters.
• Longhua publicized the eight fighters as its national team, and their names and records spread across the country.
• Liu Zhen told the eight representatives that their Spirit Bamboo Secret Realm battle records would determine who earned places in the Eight Fiends Secret Realm.
• Liu Zhen revealed that Martial Gods had found a path to a realm Above Divine Level in the Eight Fiends Secret Realm, raising the stakes of the competition.
• Liu Zhen asked Su Ye whether he was sure he wanted to take part, and the others turned to hear his answer.

Su Ye agreed to enter the Spirit Bamboo Secret Realm, where Liu Zhen announced the four national team pairings and warned that foreign cultivators posed the greatest danger. As the opening neared, Su Ling secretly resolved to kill Su Ye under the Dragon Soul’s influence, while worldwide attention focused on the upcoming contest.

• Su Ye agreed to participate in the Spirit Bamboo Secret Realm expedition, and Liu Zhen confirmed the decision.
• Liu Zhen paired Lin Wudi with Su Ling, Fang Yanran with Zhang Tianlie, Feng Wuyue with Qi Weinian, and Xiao Yuan with Su Ye.
• Liu Zhen explained that the realm contained Demon Beasts up to True Bone Perfection and warned the team that cultivators from other countries were their greatest threat.
• Su Ling listened to the Dragon Soul’s claim that realm restrictions could be bypassed and resolved to kill Su Ye, driven further by the Dragon Soul’s influence.
• As the realm’s opening approached, Tuiyin filled with global discussion about the thirty-two young talents and the ten places in the Eight Fiends Secret Realm.

Foreign powers promoted their prodigies and mocked Longhua’s contenders, while Lin Yue realized Su Ye might be targeted by other nations. Qingyue began absorbing the Phoenix Nirvana Body, and the Four Great Nations’ strongest prodigies gathered in Los Angeles for the Spirit Bamboo Secret Realm Tournament.

• Ollman, Daitou Jinna, and Xibo were presented as their nations’ fourth-level contenders as foreign forums ridiculed Longhua’s top three.
• Lin Yue suspected that foreign leaders had ordered their contenders to kill Su Ye if they got the chance.
• Qingyue began absorbing the Phoenix Nirvana Body, fulfilling the Lin Family’s plan to claim the power hidden within the Dragon Soul.
• Lin Yue learned that Qingyue had advanced from Blood Nourishing to Essence Fusion and urged her to absorb the Nirvana Body’s full potential.
• The Four Great Nations arrived in Los Angeles, where the world watched their eight strongest Prodigies from each nation meet.

At the four-nation tournament’s opening ceremony, representatives from Western America, Sakura Moon Kingdom, and Eagle Nations publicly challenged Su Ye. The chapter ended with the stadium buzzing over why all three had singled him out.

• Tong Ruoxian defended Longhua Kingdom’s competitors on the livestream, saying the Mystic Realm would reveal the truth about their rankings.
• Western America’s Ollman challenged Su Ye, accusing someone from Longhua Kingdom of throwing his weight around while Ollman was in seclusion.
• Sakura Moon Kingdom’s Daitou Jinna introduced herself, displayed the nine Shikigami merged with her arms, and told Su Ye she was interested in him.
• Eagle Nations’ Xibo, who had fused with the Titan Bloodline, said he wanted to fight strong opponents and challenged Su Ye over his breakthrough to level four.

Su Ye answered a Western American host’s provocation with calm confidence, saying he would test the other nations’ systems with his sword. Meanwhile, the Dragon Soul revealed Ollman’s connection to the Manbo Mechanical Star Clan and urged Su Ling to cooperate in exchange for dominion over Blue Star, leaving Su Ling resolved to pursue power.

• The Western American host challenged Su Ye to comment on the other three nations’ cultivation systems, and Su Ye said he had a sword and hoped they would not disappoint him.
• Liu Zhen and Longhua’s spectators welcomed Su Ye’s confident reply, while the other nations’ Prodigies viewed it as arrogance and Xibo judged Su Ye unqualified to test them at level three.
• The Dragon Soul told Su Ling that Ollman carried the scent of the Manbo Mechanical Star Clan, which had set its sights on Blue Star for its resources.
• The Dragon Soul promised Su Ling dominion over Blue Star if he helped it recover, and its influence stirred Su Ling’s ambition to make himself and the Su Family powerful.
• Su Ling resolved to reach the top despite suspecting the Dragon Soul had its own plans, while data flickered through Ollman’s eyes as he confirmed something with an unknown entity.

Su Ye and Xiao Yuan received rings for the Spirit Bamboo Secret Realm tournament, while leaders from Western America, Sakura Moon, and the Eagle Nations prepared their own schemes and goals. The thirty-two Prodigies entered the realm as the worldwide broadcast began.

• Xiao Yuan gave Su Ye a live-broadcast and Contribution Point ring, then experienced another mysterious vision and decided to investigate after the battle.
• Ollman ordered seven Western American students to guide rival geniuses toward a location, while the Manbo Star Race promised to colonize Blue Star and make Western America its administrators.
• Daitou Jinna expressed her desire for Su Ye and vowed to give the tournament her all because the Spirit Bamboo Secret Realm held something important to her.
• Xibo resolved to claim the Eight Fiends Secret Realm’s Demon Beast Spirit Blood, which could help advance the Eagle Nations beyond Divine Level, and struggled to control his Titan Potion transformation.
• Thirty-two Prodigies from four nations entered the Spirit Bamboo Secret Realm, and the worldwide broadcast began with record viewership.

As the thirty-two Prodigies entered the Spirit Bamboo Secret Realm, Su Ling secretly fed Heavenly Demon Blood to a Heavenly Bamboo Exploding Tiger, forcing it past the realm’s limits into the Spirit Splitting Realm. The world realized the entry was part of a dangerous conspiracy, while the trapped contestants faced a rapidly growing threat.

• The global broadcast drew over a billion viewers as the thirty-two Prodigies entered the secret realm in pairs for a three-day trial.
• Su Ling encountered a True Bone Perfection Heavenly Bamboo Exploding Tiger, which bowed and trembled before him.
• Su Ling fed the beast a drop of Heavenly Demon Blood, intending to use it to kill the other contestants and advance his master’s plans.
• The Heavenly Bamboo Exploding Tiger surged toward the Spirit Splitting Realm as the realm’s restrictions failed to stop its transformation.
• The contestants sensed a Spirit Splitting Realm Demon Beast, while authorities and viewers outside recognized the Heavenly Demon Blood and feared a conspiracy.

The Heavenly Demon Cult revealed that the Sky Demon was a being above Divine Level and that Su Ling was helping restore him, plunging the world into panic. As the Prodigies rushed to stop the Heavenly Bamboo Exploding Tiger from breaking through, Su Ling announced that they were too late and the beast completed its breakthrough.

• The Heavenly Demon Cult spread information worldwide, revealing the Sky Demon's power, its role in the Secret Realm Incident, and Su Ling's mission to restore it.
• The Four Great Nations' leaders debated whether to cut the livestream, and Long Hua's leader watched as the Prodigies began moving against the threat.
• Tong Ruoxian told viewers that all thirty-two Prodigies had sensed the danger and were heading toward the Heavenly Bamboo Exploding Tiger.
• Tong Ruoxian urged Xibo, Ollman, Daitou Jinna, and the other Prodigies to stop the beast before its breakthrough.
• Su Ling laughed as the Heavenly Bamboo Exploding Tiger completed its breakthrough and roared at the Heavenly Chosen.

Su Ling revealed his role in helping the Heavenly Bamboo Exploding Tiger break into the God-Opening Realm, and the global prodigies realized they had to kill it before its power stabilized. The chapter ended as twenty prodigies unleashed their strongest combined attack while Su Ling ordered the tiger to block them.

• Xibo charged Su Ling but was blasted into a mountain by the Heavenly Bamboo Exploding Tiger.
• Su Ling mocked the prodigies and stalled as the tiger's aura continued to grow.
• Daitou Jinna warned that the tiger was still getting stronger and rallied everyone to attack before it stabilized.
• Daitou Jinna, Xibo, Ollman, Lin Wudi, Qi Weinian, Sakura Moon, Ying Lie, and the other prodigies unleashed their trump cards together.
• Su Ling shouted for the Heavenly Bamboo Exploding Tiger to block their combined strike.

Su Ling and the Heavenly Bamboo Exploding Tiger overwhelmed the gathered prodigies, while Ollman used the Scientific Martial Arts Ring to borrow power from Western America’s fighters. Just as Qi Weinian was about to be killed, Feng Wuyue arrived and struck the beast with a devastating attack, though his pale, withered appearance suggested a heavy cost.

• The Su Family elders discovered that Su Ling had become the Heavenly Demon Cult’s Holy Son and that Su Li had mysteriously vanished.
• Lin Yue viewed the battle and the chaos surrounding it as an opportunity for himself and the Lin Family.
• The Heavenly Bamboo Exploding Tiger recovered after enduring the prodigies’ combined attack, then grievously wounded Daitou Jinna and attacked Ollman.
• Ollman used his ring to borrow power from the twenty Western American prodigies, prompting accusations that Western America had cheated.
• The Heavenly Bamboo Exploding Tiger used a Divine Ability to slow Qi Weinian and nearly swallowed him, but Feng Wuyue arrived and blasted the beast away.

Feng Wuyue badly wounded the Heavenly Bamboo Exploding Tiger, then revealed the immense cost and limits of his power. With the beast recovering, the Prodigies and Heavenly Chosen launched a desperate coordinated assault to keep it from healing and buy time for his next strikes.

• Feng Wuyue arrived and struck the Heavenly Bamboo Exploding Tiger, severing one of its limbs and severely wounding it.
• Qi Weinian explained that Feng Wuyue had possessed Yuan Power since birth but could not advance beyond Essence Fusion, and that his overwhelming strikes consumed his life force and accumulated power.
• Feng Wuyue said he needed time to gather power for another strike, while Qi Weinian warned that the Prodigies had to suppress the recovering beast until his remaining strikes could be used.
• Qi Weinian attacked first, followed by Xibo, Daitou Jinna, Ollman, and the other Prodigies and Heavenly Chosen.
• The assembled humans unleashed their attacks against the Heavenly Bamboo Exploding Tiger, tearing apart the surrounding bamboo and turning the area into a battlefield.

Su Ling and the Heavenly Bamboo Exploding Tiger overwhelmed the Heavenly Chosen as Feng Wuyue struggled to finish preparing an attack. Just as the Tiger unleashed its Thousand-Annihilation Black Light, Xiao Yuan and Su Ye arrived and blocked its two beams.

• The Heavenly Bamboo Exploding Tiger tore apart an Essence Fusion Demon Beast and grew stronger as the Heavenly Chosen struggled to restrain it.
• Su Ling joined the fight, clashed with Qi Weinian, and raged that he would surpass Su Ye and revive his lord.
• The Tiger broke through the defensive line, wounded a Western American Prodigy, and gathered power for its Thousand-Annihilation Black Light.
• Feng Wuyue asked the Prodigies to hold the Tiger off for twenty breaths while he prepared an attack, but the Tiger fired its Divine Ability before they could stop it.
• Xiao Yuan used Six Paths, Heavenly Execution, and Su Ye used Sword Two, Lightning Flicker, to block the two beams and arrive on the battlefield.

Su Ye and Xiao Yuan arrived and blocked attacks from the Initial Spirit Splitting Stage Heavenly Bamboo Exploding Tiger, shocking the prodigies and viewers worldwide. Su Ye stayed behind to fight the great demon, unveiling Sword Five, Yin-Yang, as Xiao Yuan retreated.

• Su Ye and Xiao Yuan blocked the demon’s black beams, revealing strength that stunned the gathered prodigies and viewers across Blue Star.
• The Heavenly Bamboo Exploding Tiger charged at Xiao Yuan, but Su Ye blocked its bite with Return to the World and told Xiao Yuan to leave the demon to him.
• Xiao Yuan trusted Su Ye and retreated while Su Ye faced the Initial Spirit Splitting Stage Heavenly Bamboo Exploding Tiger alone.
• Su Ye activated Yin-Yang Dissociation’s Sixth Limit, suppressed the demon with his Domain Prototype, merged his Three States, and unleashed Sword Five, Yin-Yang.

Su Ye wounded the Heavenly Bamboo Exploding Tiger with powerful sword strikes, but the Demon Beast regenerated and surged to the peak of the middle stage of God-Opening. As the prodigies fell into despair, Su Ye stepped forward and began breaking through to True Bone.

• Su Ye severed the Heavenly Bamboo Exploding Tiger’s fangs and pinned it down with Sword One: Timely Rain.
• Su Ye used Sword Nine: God-Connecting to cut through a third of the Demon Beast’s skull, provoking its Thousand-Annihilation Black Light and lightly injuring himself.
• Feng Wuyue unleashed his final strike, but the Heavenly Bamboo Exploding Tiger survived, healed, and rose to the peak of the middle stage of God-Opening.
• Su Ling revealed that the attacks had forced out the Sky Demon’s full potential, leaving Feng Wuyue and the other prodigies in despair.
• Su Ye asked the others to hold off the Demon Beast, then triggered a thunder tribulation and declared that he would reach True Bone.

Su Ye endured and destroyed the seven bolts of his True Bone Heavenly Tribulation while Xiao Yuan and the other Heavenly Pride Prodigies held off the Heavenly Bamboo Exploding Tiger. The clouds then continued to gather, revealing that Su Ye had triggered a Supreme Heavenly Tribulation.

• Su Ling ordered the Heavenly Bamboo Exploding Tiger to attack Su Ye, but Xiao Yuan intercepted it and bought Su Ye time to break through.
• Ollman, Xibo, Daitou Jinna, Qi Weinian, Xiao Yuan, and the other Heavenly Pride Prodigies attacked the beast together to hold it back.
• Su Ye triggered a sevenfold Thunder Tribulation, and the gathered spectators recognized it as an extraordinary sign of potential.
• Su Ye destroyed each of the seven bolts with his Sword Qi or Yuan Power, while the others continued fighting the beast.
• After the seventh bolt dissipated, Su Ye asked the others to buy him more time as the storm clouds remained and two different bolts of heavenly lightning began to form.
• The spectators realized that Su Ye had triggered a Supreme Heavenly Tribulation.

Su Ye endured the eighth and ninth bolts of the Supreme Heavenly Tribulation while Xiao Yuan risked everything to hold off the Heavenly Bamboo Exploding Tiger. As Su Ye drew on the Martial God Source Marrow, the clouds gathered into a single chaotic bolt: an unprecedented tenth tribulation, the Divine Tribulation.

• The Cherry Moon Research Institute identified the eighth and ninth bolts as the rare Supreme Heavenly Tribulation and cited Xiao Qingyu and the founder of Western America as possible past recipients.
• Xiao Yuan united the Six Paths in his Foundation and used his trident to block the Heavenly Bamboo Exploding Tiger, buying Su Ye time.
• Su Ye met the Yin lightning with his Origin Fusion Realm Spiritual Power and Heart Sword, but the strike cracked his Black-White Spirit Figure.
• Su Ye used his Yin-Yang sword technique and the life force of Wood Origin to withstand the destructive Yang lightning.
• After the ninefold tribulation ended, Su Ye asked for one more chance to prepare and drew on the Martial God Source Marrow as the clouds formed a chaotic bolt of Divine Tribulation.

Su Ye survived the unprecedented tenth Divine Tribulation by unleashing his True Self Sword and broke through to the True Bone realm, astonishing Blue Star. As the world celebrated and Su Ling despaired, a colossal eye appeared in the sky and subjected Su Ye to an even greater pressure.

• The tenth Divine Tribulation formed, and the prodigies were too terrified to attack Su Ye despite Su Ling's order.
• Su Ye gathered his strength, spirit, techniques, and resolve into the True Self Sword and clashed with the divine thunder.
• Su Ye endured the tribulation, broke through to True Bone, and caused strange phenomena across Blue Star as people worldwide cheered.
• Su Ling sensed Su Ye recovering and growing stronger inside the blood scab, while the last dark cloud began to tremble.
• A vast, impassive eye appeared across the sky, and its pressure made Su Ye's bones creak as onlookers feared Heavenly Punishment.

Su Ye survived the final Divine Tribulation by wielding the Nine Extremes God-Connecting Sword, then Xiao Yuan killed the Heavenly Bamboo Exploding Tiger with one sword. The secret realm fell silent as the world marveled at Xiao Yuan’s strength.

• A mysterious eye sent a final strand of black lightning at Su Ye, locking him in place with overwhelming pressure.
• Su Ye forced his hand to move, and an unknown sword cultivator lent him the Nine Extremes God-Connecting Sword.
• Su Ye swung the sword and dispersed the lightning, after which the eye and sword cultivator vanished and the world forgot they had appeared.
• The Heavenly Bamboo Exploding Tiger lunged at Xiao Yuan, but Xiao Yuan killed it with one sword.
• The crowd across the world was stunned that Xiao Yuan had slain a Spirit Splitting Realm Great Demon after breaking through.

Su Ye defeated the Heavenly Bamboo Exploding Tiger with one sword, while Su Ling accepted his loss and revealed an earth-shattering secret before taking his own life. The secret realm upheaval ended, but Su Ling warned that it was only the beginning.

• Su Ye killed the injured Heavenly Bamboo Exploding Tiger with one sword, astonishing the observers with his strength.
• Su Ling admitted that he had lost the gamble and began severing his own life force.
• Su Ling recalled how Su Ye had surpassed him repeatedly and said that his father and Qingyue had nothing to do with the matter.
• Su Ling created a soundproof barrier and revealed an earth-shattering secret to the Heavenly Pride Prodigies.
• Su Ling warned Su Ye that this was only the beginning, admitted he was inferior, and burned himself to ashes.