Chapter Summaries

Ning Jian’s summoned Void Shadow broke Long Nianxin’s Evil Sword, but Ning Jian conceded rather than rely on another person’s sword. As Supreme Academy’s opening approached and nearly a hundred challengers lost, Li Taiyi and his companions arrived, expecting Su Ye to appear soon.

• Ning Jian’s Void Shadow snapped Long Nianxin’s Evil Sword, stunning the spectators.
• Ning Jian conceded, saying he would not wield a sword that was not his own, and Long Nianxin learned the shadow belonged to someone of their generation who had not reached the Destroy Star Realm.
• Chen Wuxin guessed the person was Su Ye and said he would wait for him.
• Over the next two months, nearly a hundred challengers, including Jin Shenghuang, Ning Jian, and Gu Chensha, failed against the special recruits.
• As Supreme Academy’s classes neared, cultivators debated whether Su Ye was alive and would make the deadline.
• Li Taiyi, also known as Tianquan, arrived with fourteen others and said the real spectacle would begin when the person they awaited arrived.

Li Taiyi and the other fourteen newcomers arrived at the Supreme Academy, while news spread that Chen Wuxin and Chen Xuan had passed the Special Recruitment Path. Hundred-Knowing Scholar used the Fate Augury Pearl to find Su Ye and warn him about the chance to receive a Dao Seed, and the pearl answered, “All right.”

• Li Taiyi told the Destroy Star Realm experts that his group had come to see the academy and wait for someone, then led the others away.
• News spread across the universe that Chen Wuxin and Chen Xuan had passed the Special Recruitment Path and earned places at the Supreme Academy.
• Hundred-Knowing Scholar grew anxious when Su Ye had not arrived, because the academy’s opening would coincide with a rare chance to bestow Dao Seeds on its official students.
• Hundred-Knowing Scholar used the Fate Augury Pearl to seek Su Ye, saw him pursuing a fleeing figure, and urgently warned him not to miss the opportunity.
• The Fate Augury Pearl cracked again and displayed the words, “All right.”

The Hundred-Knowing Scholar prepared for the Supreme Academy’s opening and sought out Su Kuangtian, whom he discovered was his father. Su Kuangtian planned to return to his home Star Domain and bring Su Ye to the academy, while Su Wuying believed Su Ye could contend with the universe’s Heavenly Chosen if given a chance.

• The Hundred-Knowing Scholar saw Su Ye’s message and anticipated his arrival at the Supreme Academy the next day.
• The Hundred-Knowing Scholar visited Dao Venerable Hao Tian’s training ground and recognized Su Kuangtian as his father.
• The Hundred-Knowing Scholar agreed to accompany Su Kuangtian to the academy’s opening and promised him a Boundary Sea Map if needed.
• Su Kuangtian told Su Wuying he planned to settle past grudges, bring Su Ye to the academy, and ask Dao Venerable Hao Tian for a place for him.
• Su Wuying recalled Su Ye defeating ten Divine Realm Beasts with one sword and said Su Ye could contend with the universe’s Heavenly Chosen if given a stage and resources.

The Seven Great Dao Venerables and more than a thousand World Lords activated the Dao Network, connecting beings across the universe to Supreme Academy. As the opening ceremony approached, Su Ye’s family, friends, mentors, and admirers gathered online to watch him begin at the academy.

• Chen Xuan resolved to pursue the Overlord's Sword through conquest, while Chen Wuxin vowed to rise above his peers.
• Seven powers at Supreme Academy used the Dao Stone to spread the Dao Network across the Five Great World Seas and tens of thousands of Star Domains.
• Liu Baiyi and people throughout the Nine Saints Sect, including Tian Yang, entered the Dao Network and prepared to watch their pride, Su Ye.
• Tian Yuan, Deng Wusheng, their elders, and leaders on Blue Star connected to the Dao Network to follow Su Ye’s arrival at Supreme Academy.
• Students and instructors at Myriad Laws Academy, along with Su Ye’s allies, relatives, and parents, joined the Dao Network as the opening ceremony neared.

The Supreme Academy’s Opening Ceremony drew thousands of World Lords and linked cultivators across the universe to witness it. After the Seven Great Dao Venerables appeared and called the Heavenly Chosen to enter, a sword-bearing figure emerged and stunned the crowd.

• More than two thousand World Lords gathered at the Supreme Academy as cultivators from across the universe watched through the Dao Network.
• The Dao Stone announced the ceremony’s three steps: the Heavenly Chosen would enter, Dao Bestowal would open the academy, and the Dao Venerables would impart the Dao.
• Li Taiyi explained that the Void Seed ceremony would also test the Heavenly Chosen, while Zong Tiangang held back from boasting about crushing them.
• Li Taiyi and the other Seven Stars and Eight Fiends Inheritors sensed that someone was close, and Li Taiyi said the ceremony would truly begin when he arrived.
• The Seven Great Dao Venerables and nearly a thousand World Lord mentors appeared, and the Heavenly Chosen were summoned to enter.
• A sword-bearing figure walked out, leaving everyone in shock.

More than thirty thousand young Heavenly Chosen gathered at the Supreme Academy to receive Dao seeds, but Su Ye was missing. As the Seven Great Dao Venerables began the ceremony, Zeng Tianyao sacrificed his power to delay Su Ye and block his chance, only for a calm figure to approach as Zeng vanished.

• Chen Ping'an led the Heavenly Chosen into the venue, where more than thirty thousand students from the Five Great World Seas gathered, most at the Chaos Star Realm.
• Wang Yuerong, Su Su, Gu Chensha, Ning Jian, and the Nine Saints Sect members searched for Su Ye, while Qin Batian assumed he had been killed.
• The Order Dao Venerable told the students to prepare to draw dao light from the Dao seeds, and the Hundred-Knowing Scholar pleaded with the Dao Venerables to wait for Su Ye.
• The Order Dao Venerable silenced the Hundred-Knowing Scholar, and the Seven Great Dao Venerables joined forces to awaken the Dao Stone and make the void seed appear.
• Zeng Tianyao unleashed his accumulated power in a dao sacrifice, crossed space and time to reach the Supreme Academy, and vanished into phantoms after declaring that he had blocked Su Ye's opportunity.
• A calm figure approached the academy as the ceremony's onlookers watched in shock, while Zeng Tianyao celebrated his escape and planned to seek compensation from Qin Batian.

Su Ye arrived at the Supreme Academy as its Heavenly Chosen students received Void Dao Seeds, but the opportunity had already begun and he was only at Star Shattering Perfection. The ceremony left Chen Ping'an as the standout, with his Dao Light reaching 501 meters before he broke through to Star-Destroying at age twenty-seven.

• Zeng Tianyao hid among the crowd and planned to make Su Ye miss the Void Dao Seed opportunity, then provoke a clash between him and Qin Batian.
• Su Ye arrived at the arena, where Qin Batian recognized him and the Seven Great Dao Venerables noticed his late arrival and low cultivation.
• The Supreme Academy bestowed Void Dao Seeds on more than thirty thousand Heavenly Chosen, and Chen Ping'an's Dao Light rose the highest at 501 meters.
• The Heavenly Chosen absorbed their seeds, and more than half broke through a minor realm while many others advanced beyond their previous limits.
• Chen Ping'an broke through to Star-Destroying at age twenty-seven, stunning spectators across the Five Great World Seas and overshadowing the other Heavenly Chosen.

Hundred-Knowing Scholar publicly recommended Su Ye for Supreme Academy, and Su Ye answered the challenge by resonating with the Dao Stone and killing a World Lord with one sword. The chapter ended with the entire universe stunned as Su Ye asked whether his display was enough.

• Hundred-Knowing Scholar recommended Su Ye before Supreme Academy and the watching universe.
• Dao Venerable Hao Tian offered Su Ye a chance to explain his missed admission, while Order Dao Venerable demanded proof that he deserved a place.
• Su Ye took one step, causing the Dao Stone's light to reach through the three thousand laws and flow into his Nine Swords.
• Su Ye completed the Nine Extremes God-Connecting Sword and revealed the illusory World Lord who had ordered his death.
• Su Ye killed the World Lord with one sword as Qin Batian and the Seven Great Dao Venerables reacted in shock.
• Su Ye asked whether one step and one sword were enough.

Su Ye stunned the universe by killing a World Lord with one sword and reaching Star Shattering Perfection. At the Supreme Academy, he challenged Qin Batian to a battle to sever their karma and pursue the summit of the martial path.

• Su Ye’s sword strike killed a World Lord, and the God Fate Dao Stone filled the Academy with overwhelming Dao Light.
• The Seven Great Dao Venerables and the Heavenly Chosen reacted in shock, while Chen Xuan’s Dao Heart nearly shattered and cracks appeared in Long Nianxin’s demonic sword.
• Su Ye sensed that advancing the Nine Extremes God-Connecting Sword was not his path, then revealed his Star Shattering Perfection cultivation.
• Su Ye called out Qin Batian and challenged him to fight, declaring that he would borrow Qin Batian’s life to reach the peak.

At the Supreme Academy opening ceremony, Su Ye challenged Qin Batian after revealing that he had killed Zeng Tianyao. Qin Batian unleashed his seven-Law Heaven-Dominating Blade, but Su Ye survived their clash and calmly declared that Qin Batian could not kill him.

• The gathered Heavenly Chosen and World Lords realized Su Ye was the person who had chased down the Dao Sacrifice World Lord, and Chen Xuan despaired over how far Su Ye had surpassed him.
• Su Ye challenged Qin Batian to a battle, shocking the audience because Qin Batian was a Dao-Merging World Lord who had merged multiple Law Powers.
• Qin Batian drew his blade and attacked Su Ye, revealing that he had secretly merged seven Law Powers.
• Su Ye combined his Nine Swords into the True Self Sword and met Qin Batian's Seven-Law Integration Heaven-Dominating Blade with a strike that reflected and replicated 2,999 Law Powers.
• The collision blasted Su Ye onto the Supreme Academy stage beside the Heavenly Chosen, where he rose through the smoke and said Qin Batian could not kill him.

Su Ye faced Qin Batian with a new resolve, but Source Dao Venerable interrupted his sword just as it was about to bring a transformation. When Order Dao Venerable asked whether he would accept punishment for disrupting Supreme Academy’s opening, Su Ye admitted his mistake but refused to submit.

• Su Ye’s Nine Swords formed again as his True Self awakened, stunning the onlookers and filling Qin Batian with unease.
• As Su Ye prepared to swing the merged Nine Swords, Source Dao Venerable pressed him down and scattered his Sword Qi, cutting short his chance for insight.
• Source Dao Venerable claimed Su Ye had caused a disturbance at Supreme Academy’s opening and said he deserved punishment.
• Order Dao Venerable condemned Source Dao Venerable for interrupting Su Ye and refused to be used as a shield.
• Order Dao Venerable asked Su Ye whether he admitted to disrupting the opening and would submit to punishment; Su Ye admitted he was wrong but refused to submit.

Su Ye defied Source Dao Venerable at the Supreme Academy’s opening, then accepted Qin Batian’s challenge to fight in one month in Qin Batian’s Azure Wave Star Domain. The crowd feared Su Ye was accepting a rigged battle while injured and before he could recover from his interrupted breakthrough.

• Su Ye calmly met Source Dao Venerable’s gaze after refusing to back down, while Li Taiyi and the other Sacred Star inheritors prepared to defend him.
• Source Dao Venerable withdrew his hand from Su Ye’s shoulder without anger, and Dao Venerable Hao Tian released him.
• Qin Batian proposed that Su Ye fight him in one month in the Azure Wave Star Domain, where Qin Batian’s Seven Law Powers made him strongest.
• The crowd recognized that Qin Batian was trying to exploit Su Ye’s injuries and unsettled Dao Heart, and Dao Venerable Hao Tian reacted with anger.
• Su Ye interrupted Qin Batian and accepted the one-month challenge, leaving the crowd stunned.

Su Ye accepted Qin Batian’s challenge to fight in a month, then the Divine Mandate Dao Venerable recognized his extraordinary cultivation path and appointed him Supreme Academy’s Supreme Mentor. The appointment publicly signaled support for Su Ye as he faced Qin Batian’s threat.

• Su Ye accepted Qin Batian’s challenge to fight in a month, leaving Qin Batian uncertain despite believing Su Ye was injured and weakened.
• Source Dao Venerable ended the confrontation, and Dao Venerable Hao Tian acknowledged Su Ye before returning to his seat.
• The Divine Mandate Dao Venerable identified Su Ye’s true self path, explaining how his nine swords reflected his inward cultivation and law inversion.
• The Divine Mandate Dao Venerable praised Su Ye’s combat strength and potential, then offered to appoint him Supreme Academy’s Supreme Mentor and deputy.
• Cultivators across the universe were stunned by the unprecedented appointment, while Qin Batian’s expression stiffened at the implied warning.

Su Ye accepted the Divine Mandate Dao Venerable’s offer to become a Supreme Mentor, and the Dao Venerable announced a public sermon for him in three months. After the Supreme Academy’s opening ceremony ended, media forces rushed to arrange a universe-wide broadcast of Su Ye’s expected battle with Qin Batian, drawing interest from most Star Domains.

• Su Ye accepted the Divine Mandate Dao Venerable’s offer to become a Supreme Mentor, while the Source Dao Venerable watched with a cold gaze and Qin Batian reacted angrily.
• The Divine Mandate Dao Venerable announced he would activate the Dao Stone and deliver a universe-wide sermon for Su Ye in three months, prompting speculation about Su Ye’s scheduled fight with Qin Batian in one month.
• The Divine Mandate Dao Venerable returned Su Ye to his seat among the Supreme Academy’s World Lords and resumed the opening ceremony, which ended with the audience focused on the coming battle.
• Media organizations and information brokers began building projection Formation Arrays across Star Domains and Boundary Seas to broadcast Su Ye’s fight.
• Within a week, more than three-quarters of the Star Domains across the Five Great World Seas had agreed to buy the broadcast.

Origin Dao Venerable ordered the Heavenly Message Tower master to publicize Su Ye’s upcoming battle with Qin Batian and prepare a Formation Disk for activation afterward. At the Supreme Academy, Divine Mandate Dao Venerable asked Su Ye if he had come to take the Dao Stone.

• The master of the Heavenly Message Tower reported that the battle’s promotion was drawing an astonishing response and that full coverage might be possible within a month.
• Origin Dao Venerable appeared in the tower master’s sealed hall and asked about the Formation Disk, which the master had imprinted with his information and learned to control.
• Origin Dao Venerable ordered the tower master to activate the Formation Disk after Qin Batian killed Su Ye, telling him the Five Great World Seas would be watching in one month.
• The tower master realized he was trapped by the Formation Disk’s Dao Thought and resolved to continue with Origin Dao Venerable’s plan for the sake of his Great Dao.
• At the Supreme Academy, Divine Mandate Dao Venerable asked Su Ye how his injuries were recovering, then asked whether he had come to take the Dao Stone.

Divine Mandate Dao Venerable revealed that the Dao Stone was a Source Artifact that had saved him and that he had guarded it and the Supreme Academy’s Mystic Realm for a destined inheritor. After Su Ye resonated with the Dao Stone, Divine Mandate Dao Venerable asked if Su Ye was that inheritor, whose arrival foretold a great calamity.

• Su Ye admitted he wanted to take the Dao Stone, while Hundred-Knowing Scholar entered after eavesdropping.
• Divine Mandate Dao Venerable told Su Ye and Hundred-Knowing Scholar that he had once failed to break through from Half-Step World Lord, but the Dao Stone saved him and helped him attain the Dao.
• Divine Mandate Dao Venerable explained that the Dao Stone was a Source Artifact formed when the universe first opened and the Three Thousand Laws emerged from the Source.
• Divine Mandate Dao Venerable revealed that a shattered world fragment surrounded the Dao Stone and became the Mystic Realm inside the Supreme Academy.
• Divine Mandate Dao Venerable said the Dao Stone had instructed him to guard it and the Mystic Realm until a true inheritor arrived, when a great calamity would also come.
• Divine Mandate Dao Venerable told Su Ye that his resonance with the Dao Stone made him believe Su Ye was the inheritor.

Su Ye confirmed that he was the inheritor of the Dao Stone as the Divine Mandate Dao Venerable revealed an approaching cosmic cataclysm and the reason the Supreme Academy had been founded. The chapter ended with the Dao Venerable asking Su Ye to explain the inheritance he represented.

• Su Ye confirmed that he was the inheritor of the Dao Stone, and the Divine Mandate Dao Venerable expressed relief after waiting ages to return it to its rightful owner.
• The Divine Mandate Dao Venerable revealed that thinning Chaos World Barriers would lead to the collision of the Three Thousand Laws and a cosmic cataclysm.
• The Dao Venerable explained that the Supreme Academy had been established to train World Lords who could stabilize the Law Power and limit the catastrophe's damage.
• The Divine Mandate Dao Venerable disclosed that the Source Dao Venerable was likely obstructing them, linking him to Qin Batian and his attack on Su Ye.
• The Divine Mandate Dao Venerable asked Su Ye to explain the mysterious inheritance behind the incomplete Dao Stone and Mystic Realm.

Su Ye and the Divine Mandate Dao Venerable concluded that forbidden secrets about Sacred Star’s past and a terrifying existence were not yet safe to uncover. Su Ye left determined to face Qin Batian in three weeks, then turned to the Dao Stone and Mystic Realm to search for traces of the Nine Extremes Master.

• The Divine Mandate Dao Venerable sensed a fate-law warning and stopped the Hundred-Knowing Scholar from asking about the shattered Source Dao Stone and the greater powers behind it.
• Su Ye shared his assessment that Sacred Star’s former leaders surpassed Dao Venerable-level power, while the Divine Mandate Dao Venerable recognized the heavy burden he carried.
• The Hundred-Knowing Scholar warned Su Ye that Qin Batian was far stronger than Zeng Tianyao, but the Divine Mandate Dao Venerable said Su Ye’s battle would prove his resolve and promised to intervene if necessary.
• The Divine Mandate Dao Venerable told Su Ye he could take the Supreme Academy’s Mystic Realm after it opened in two months and the Dao Stone after three months, and reminded him to expound the Dao as Supreme Mentor in three months.
• Su Ye left the palace, returned to the Supreme Academy entrance, and placed his hand on the Dao Stone to seek traces of the Nine Extremes Master.

A week after Su Ye killed a World Lord, the Supreme Academy’s prodigies remained subdued by his strength as they awaited his promised battle with Qin Batian. Qiu Sheng claimed Su Ye’s cultivation had reached its limit and that attempting to advance would kill him, while Su Ye studied the Dao Stone and obtained information he wanted.

• Chen Xuan reflected on Su Ye’s feat of killing a World Lord and the fear and despair it had stirred among the academy’s top prodigies.
• Qiu Sheng warned Chen Xuan that Qin Batian might kill Su Ye despite the protection of the Supreme Academy and the Divine Mandate Dao Venerable.
• Qiu Sheng said the academy’s prodigies were waiting for Su Ye’s battle with Qin Batian in three weeks and relayed his ancestor’s belief that Su Ye could not advance without dying.
• Chen Xuan angrily rejected Qiu Sheng’s remarks and walked away, while Qiu Sheng wondered whether he wanted Su Ye to die.
• Su Ye studied the Dao Stone and realized he had obtained some of the information he sought.

Su Ye learned that the Mystic Realm would open in two months, but his battle with Qin Batian was only three weeks away, and he resolved to fight while pursuing a return to Blue Star. Meanwhile, Source Dao Venerable ordered Qin Batian to kill Su Ye and use his corpse in a mysterious plan, leaving Qin Batian confident that Su Ye would die.

• Su Ye received a Dao pattern from the God Fate Dao Stone that pointed him toward the Mystic Realm, and he reflected on his True Self path and the upcoming battle with Qin Batian.
• Su Ye reunited with Su Kuangtian and Su Wuying, reassured Su Kuangtian about the past, and insisted that he would fight Qin Batian despite his father's warning.
• Su Ye asked Su Kuangtian and Su Wuying to return to Blue Star with him, and they agreed to go.
• Source Dao Venerable met Qin Batian and ordered him to kill Su Ye in three weeks and place a formation array on his corpse.
• Qin Batian promised to kill Su Ye, then received a sealed bottle of Su Ye's Source Blood and declared that Su Ye would die.