Chapter Summaries

Su Ye vowed to comprehend the Vast Sea Sword Intent and heal Xu Yong before the military tally changed hands, while Qin Song set a five-day deadline to claim it. After Qin Song left, Su Ye began practicing the Vast Sea Swordplay, determined to succeed in time.

• Su Ye promised to comprehend the Vast Sea Sword Intent and heal Xu Yong, angering Qin Song, who attacked him with Yuan Power.
• Xu Yong intercepted Qin Song's attack but coughed up black blood, revealing that his injuries and Flame Demon Power had worsened.
• Qin Song mocked Su Ye's chances and ordered Xu Yong to hand over the Military Tally at the military camp in five days.
• Su Ye renewed his promise to save Xu Yong within five days, while Li Aoxue asked Li Hai to guide her in the Vast Sea Swordplay.
• Xu Yong accepted that he had to obey the military order, and Su Ye began training, advancing his Vast Sea Swordplay to 811/1000.

At Shenyun First High School’s commendation ceremony, Su Ye drew attention from students and rivals while focusing on the Four School Grand Competition. After Lin Qingyue earned her first-grade alchemist certification, Su Ye advanced his Vast Sea Swordplay and formed Vast Sea Sword Intent, leaving him close to comprehending a second intent.

• Principal Sun Rui awarded Su Ye and three other students first-grade certifications at a schoolwide ceremony, while Lin Qingyue and Zhuang Xue resented the attention Su Ye received.
• Su Ye resolved to improve his Vast Sea Swordplay for the Four School Grand Competition and continued cultivating, refining pills, and sparring with Li Aoxue.
• On Tuesday, Lin Qingyue became the second student in their class to earn a first-grade alchemist certification.
• Su Ye’s rapid cultivation and combat improvement surprised Li Aoxue as they sparred, and he suddenly grasped a new sword strike called Layered Seas.
• Su Ye formed Vast Sea Sword Intent and received a Manifestation Talisman update showing Vast Sea Swordplay at 901/1000 and one of two intents achieved.

Su Ye practiced Vast Sea Swordplay and learned more about the Monster Tide from Li Hai, including Qin Song’s betrayal and Su Kuangtian’s role in stopping the disaster. He finally comprehended Vast Sea True Meaning and Mustard Sea Sword Intent, but the chapter ended with Li Aoxue and Li Hai warning that Qin Song had gone to the captain’s camp to demand the military tally.

• Su Ye trained late, and Li Hai urged him to prioritize the College Entrance Examination rather than pursue Vast Sea Sword Intent.
• Li Hai recounted the Monster Tide battle, describing the captain’s sacrifice, Qin Song’s use of civilians as bait, and Su Kuangtian’s decisive contribution.
• Su Ye cultivated in the school’s private room and advanced Vast Sea Swordplay to 999/1000.
• Su Ye completed Vast Sea Swordplay and comprehended Vast Sea Solitary Intent, Vast Sea True Meaning, the Realm of Layered Seas, and Mustard Sea Sword Intent.
• Li Aoxue and Li Hai told Su Ye that Qin Song had gone to the captain’s camp to forcefully demand the military tally.

Xu Yong agreed to surrender Dongyong Camp’s Military Tally, but when Qin Song attacked Li Hai, Li Hai’s daughter, and Su Ye, Xu Yong revealed a Divine Ability Prototype and collapsed from his injuries. Qin Song seized the tally and ordered the trio arrested, and Su Ye drove back the soldiers who charged him.

• Qin Song confronted Xu Yong’s loyal soldiers and demanded that Xu Yong hand over Dongyong Camp’s Military Tally.
• Xu Yong accepted the military order and prepared to surrender the tally, thanking his soldiers for supporting him.
• Li Hai arrived with his daughter and Su Ye, and Qin Song attacked the three with red Yuan Power arrows.
• Xu Yong used a Divine Ability Prototype to stop Qin Song’s attack, then coughed up blood and dropped the Military Tally.
• Qin Song took the tally and ordered soldiers to seize the trio, but Su Ye used Vast Sea Dual Sword Intent to repel more than a dozen attackers.

Su Ye revealed that he had mastered Vast Sea True Meaning and arrived at Dongyong Camp to help Xu Yong suppress his injuries. As Su Ye and Li Hai began the treatment, Qin Song grew desperate to stop them, while Xu Yong prepared to use his Divine Ability Prototype.

• Su Ye demonstrated Double Sword Intent before thousands of soldiers, shocking Qin Song and the military camp.
• Su Ye told Xu Yong he had come to fulfill his promise to comprehend Vast Sea True Meaning and treat him.
• Three Deputy Commanders surrounded Qin Song and refused to let him interfere with Su Ye.
• Xu Yong thanked Su Ye, and Li Hai explained that their Sword Intent would help Xu Yong's Divine Ability Prototype suppress the Flame Demon Power.
• Su Ye and Li Hai circulated Vast Sea Swordplay as Xu Yong summoned his Heavenly Blade Heart Array, alarming Qin Song.

Xu Yong’s saber strike severed Qin Song’s left arm, but the Flame Demon Power still threatened to overwhelm him. Su Ye proposed refining Intent Pills so Li Aoxue could borrow his Vast Sea Sword Intent and help suppress it.

• Xu Yong and Su Ye’s two strands of Vast Sea Sword Intent reduced the Flame Demon Power in Xu Yong’s saber, but not enough to make striking True Bone safe.
• Li Hai blamed Qin Song for pushing Xu Yong into repeated action, while Qin Song denied responsibility and demanded the Military Tally handover.
• Xu Yong threatened Qin Song and struck off his left arm, then prepared to attack again despite his worsening injuries.
• Su Ye stopped Xu Yong and said there might be another way, identifying Li Aoxue as a possible third source of Vast Sea Sword Intent.
• Su Ye proposed using a pill furnace to refine Intent Pills so Li Aoxue could temporarily borrow his intent realm and help suppress Xu Yong’s Flame Demon Power.

Su Ye claimed he could refine Intent Pills to help Xu Yong suppress the Flame Demon Power, despite having no experience making them. Xu Yong trusted him, and Su Ye began refining pills before thousands of soldiers as news of the upheaval at Dongyong Camp spread through Shenyun City's powerful circles.

• Su Ye revealed that he held a First-grade Alchemist certificate, but Li Hai explained that making the required two Intent Pills in half an hour demanded exceptional skill.
• Li Aoxue asked whether Su Ye had refined an Intent Pill before, and he admitted he had only read the formula in the school library.
• Su Ye asked for an alchemy furnace, and Qin Song pointed out the camp's Level 7 furnace while secretly hoping Xu Yong's condition would worsen.
• Xu Yong told Su Ye he believed in him, and soldiers quickly gathered the materials Su Ye requested.
• In the pouring rain, Su Ye began refining pills before thousands of soldiers and five Essence Fusion experts as news of the Dongyong Camp upheaval spread across Shenyun City.

Su Ye refined two First-grade Intent Pills under intense scrutiny, allowing Li Aoxue to borrow Vast Sea Sword Intent so Xu Yong could attempt to suppress his worsening injuries. Xu Yong promised to reach the True Bone Realm, while soldiers and major families recognized that Su Ye’s feat could make his name resound throughout Shenyun City.

• Lin Yue explained to Lin Qingyue that Su Ye’s special martial skill could help Xu Yong, but Lin Qingyue dismissed his chances of making the pills.
• Su Ying urged Su Li to protect Su Ye, but Su Li refused and ordered the family to conceal Su Ye’s connection to the Su Family.
• Su Ye completed two batches of First-grade Intent Pills, stunning Qin Song and the gathered soldiers.
• Li Aoxue swallowed both pills and borrowed Vast Sea Sword Intent so Xu Yong could begin treatment.
• Xu Yong promised Su Ye that he would reach the True Bone Realm, and the soldiers anticipated his rise to Deputy Battalion Commander.

Xu Yong absorbed Su Ye’s sword intent and broke through to the True Bone Realm, then faced pressure to spare Qin Song. He rejected Deputy Battalion Commander Wang’s intervention and raised his saber against Qin Song and Wang.

• Xu Yong used the Heavenly Blade Heart Array to borrow Su Ye’s Vast Sea Sword Intent and channel heavenly lightning into a breakthrough to the True Bone Realm.
• Su Ye watched Xu Yong withstand the lightning, while Qin Song blamed Su Ye for his failed bid to seize the Military Tally.
• Xu Yong returned to Dongyong Camp, thanked Su Ye, and prepared to strike Qin Song, who was restrained by three deputy commanders.
• Deputy Battalion Commander Wang intervened and asked Xu Yong to let Qin Song go, citing the military camp’s overall structure.
• Xu Yong refused to yield and launched a black blade radiance at Qin Song and Deputy Battalion Commander Wang, calling it the Martial Artist’s Saber.

Xu Yong killed Qin Song with the Heavenly Blade Heart Array, broke through to True Bone, and left to meet the General Commander. As Su Ye waited at Dongyong Camp, Shenyun City's major powers learned that he had helped Xu Yong recover and began spreading his name.

• Xu Yong used the Heavenly Blade Heart Array to cleave Qin Song in two, killing him as Deputy Battalion Commander Wang watched.
• Xu Yong dismissed Wang's objections, then left to meet the General Commander after Wang said the General Commander urgently wanted to see him.
• Su Ye waited inside Dongyong Camp with Li Hai, Li Aoxue, and the three Deputy Commanders, while Li Hai urged him to request one of the camp's renowned Breathing Meditation Methods.
• Shenyun City's major powers investigated Xu Yong's breakthrough and learned that Su Ye had helped him recover and advance to True Bone.
• The major powers were stunned that a Bone Tempering Realm student had influenced Dongyong Camp's power struggle, and Su Ye's name spread through the city.

After Su Ye’s feats in Dongyong became known, the Su and Lin Families reacted to his sudden rise. Su Ye then asked Xu Yong for a top-tier Breathing Technique.

• Shenyun City's major powers learned that Su Ye was a commoner-born student who had demonstrated extraordinary martial and alchemy talent.
• Su Ying urged Su Li to bring Su Ye back into the Su Family, but Su Li refused unless Su Ye humbled himself first.
• Lin Qingyue struggled with jealousy over Su Ye’s achievements, then regained confidence after Lin Yue reminded her of her family’s resources and challenged her to focus on the Four School Grand Competition.
• Lin Yue revealed that a noble young lady from Kyoto, descended from a Martial God, had come seeking the Nine Extremes Breathing Technique.
• Su Ye asked Xu Yong to recommend a top-tier Breathing Technique.

Su Ye learned about the Nine Extremes Yin-Yang Breathing Technique, a notoriously difficult method that only one known Martial God had mastered, and insisted on trying it. Xu Yong agreed to let him attempt it for a week and took him toward the main camp, where the technique and the Special Training Camp were located.

• Xu Yong offered Su Ye two Breathing Meditation Methods that could control the power of ninety-three Martial Bones as a reward for saving him.
• Xu Yong explained that the two methods were derived from the Nine Extremes Yin-Yang Breathing Technique, whose unstable yin-yang balance made it extremely difficult to cultivate.
• Xu Yong told Su Ye that one person had mastered the Nine Extremes Yin-Yang Breathing Technique in his youth and later became a Martial God.
• Su Ye chose to attempt the Nine Extremes Yin-Yang Breathing Technique, believing his Manifestation Talisman could help him achieve yin-yang unity.
• Xu Yong agreed to let Su Ye try for a week and took him to the main camp to access the technique’s jade scroll.

Xu Yong brought Su Ye to the Shenyun General Military Camp and explained why he did not recommend Su Ye for the Special Training Camp’s dangerous upcoming mission. At the camp, Su Ye encountered Su Ling, while the six trainees learned that their instructor Qin Song had died and Tan Bai would replace him.

• Xu Yong said the Special Training Camp’s selected prodigies faced a dangerous mission expected in two or three months, and he advised against sending Su Ye because his cultivation was still lacking.
• Su Ye guessed the mission involved the place where Li Hai had once gained an opportunity, but he stayed calm and said he would judge whether to continue cultivating the Nine Extremes Yin-Yang Breathing Technique for himself.
• Xu Yong drove Su Ye, Li Hai, and Li Aoxue to the Shenyun General Military Camp, where Su Ye saw its heavily patrolled grounds and military facilities.
• Su Ling saw Su Ye with Xu Yong and assumed Su Ye was borrowing the Su Family name, deciding he would expose him.
• Tan Bai told the six trainees that their instructor, Qin Song, had died and that he would take over as their new person in charge.

Tan Bai resolved to join the Heavenly Demon Cult after learning that Xu Yong had recovered and advanced to the True Bone Realm. Meanwhile, Xu Yong brought Su Ye into the restricted military arsenal and gave him the Jade Slip containing the Nine Extremes Yin-Yang Breathing Technique, whose inheritance flooded Su Ye's mind.

• Tan Bai told six people that Su Ye had helped Xu Yong recover from his injuries and kill Qin Song, while Su Ling denied knowing Su Ye and resolved to investigate him.
• Tan Bai decided he would join the Heavenly Demon Cult rather than remain trapped at Peak Essence Fusion.
• Xu Yong showed his Jade Talisman at the First Military Arsenal and entered with Su Ye, Li Hai, and Li Aoxue as Deputy Battalion Commander.
• Xu Yong explained that the Spirit Gathering Azure Dragon Formation protected the arsenal's thirteen treasures and helped defend Shenyun City from the Heavenly Demon Cult's schemes.
• Xu Yong opened the first display case and handed Su Ye the Jade Slip containing the Nine Extremes Yin-Yang Breathing Technique.
• Su Ye focused his perception on the Jade Slip, and its information surged into his mind.

Su Ye absorbed the Nine Extremes Yin-Yang Breathing Technique and recognized its opening words as the Dao De Jing from his previous life. As Xu Yong and the others watched, Su Ye’s body and spirit began synchronizing in a way that stunned them.

• Xu Yong discovered that Qi Yunqiao had recently viewed the technique and recognized her as a descendant of the Qi Family’s Martial God.
• Su Ye absorbed the Divine Sense Jade Slip, endured its information torrent, and recognized the technique’s general outline as the Dao De Jing.
• Li Hai worried that the difficult technique would waste Su Ye’s talent and jeopardize his chance of entering a top university, but Xu Yong argued that Su Ye needed to pursue a narrow path to catch up with elite heirs.
• Xu Yong said he would give Su Ye a week to make progress, then stopped speaking when Su Ye opened his eyes.
• Xu Yong sensed Su Ye merging yin and yang and synchronizing his physical body with his spirit, leaving him and the others stunned.

Su Ye mastered the first level of the Nine Extremes Yin-Yang Breathing Technique in minutes, stunning Xu Yong, Li Aoxue, and Li Hai. He learned that the technique could help conceal his cultivation and might enable him to form Extreme Bones, leaving him excited by the possibility of reaching beyond the Martial God’s known achievement.

• Su Ye reached the first extreme of the Nine Extremes Yin-Yang Breathing Technique, displaying a harmonious balance of yin and yang before Xu Yong, Li Aoxue, and Li Hai.
• Xu Yong praised Su Ye’s astonishing progress and explained that the technique could conceal his true cultivation as he advanced.
• Xu Yong explained that Martial Bones beyond the ordinary limit of ninety-nine were called Extreme Bones and that the technique could perfectly control the power of ninety-nine Martial Bones.
• Xu Yong revealed that Qi Wushen had tempered one hundred and five Martial Bones, prompting Su Ye to wonder whether the technique’s ultimate potential was one hundred and eight.

Su Ye asked Xu Yong, Li Hai, and Li Aoxue to keep his rapid mastery of the Nine Extremes Yin-Yang Breathing Technique secret, and Xu Yong set him a three-week goal of reaching the Sixth Extreme before the Four School Joint Event. Xu Yong offered Su Ye a powerful bone-forging method and daily combat instruction, while Zhang Yuan called to tell him that photos of his battlefield feats had sent the school into an uproar.

• Su Ye asked Xu Yong, Li Hai, and Li Aoxue to keep his record-breaking mastery of the Nine Extremes Yin-Yang Breathing Technique confidential, and Xu Yong explained the dangers of drawing attention from powerful enemies.
• Xu Yong challenged Su Ye to reach the Sixth Extreme within three weeks so he could reveal some of his abilities at the Four School Joint Event, which Su Ye eagerly accepted.
• Xu Yong assessed Su Ye's strengths and promised to teach him the Dragon Phoenix Bone Forging Method after he forged forty-nine Martial Bones.
• Su Ye asked Xu Yong about his past, and Xu Yong instead offered to train him in combat for at least an hour each day at Dongyong Camp, using his Heavenly Blade Heart Array to adjust Su Ye's Yin Yang imbalance.
• After leaving the First Military Depot, Su Ye answered Zhang Yuan's call and learned that photos of him facing soldiers and refining pills had caused the entire grade and school to erupt.

Su Ye saw the Monster Subduing Tower and learned about its testing and defensive powers before Xu Yong gave him access to Dongyong Camp and offered daily combat training. After Su Ye ended his lessons with Li Aoxue, she asked him to cultivate together with her.

• Zhang Yuan told Su Ye that photos of him from Dongyong Camp had spread throughout the school, and Su Ye put aside his flood of messages.
• Su Ye and his companions watched the Monster Subduing Tower expand over the Martial Arts Arena as Xu Yong explained its assessment role and its power to trap demons.
• Xu Yong gave Su Ye a Jade Talisman that let him enter Dongyong Camp freely and invited him to train with him every day at five in the afternoon.
• Su Ye thanked Li Aoxue for her private lessons and told her he would no longer need them.
• Li Aoxue asked Su Ye to cultivate together with her.

Li Aoxue asked Su Ye to cultivate with her so she could advance her breathing technique, and he agreed to meet her nightly at the Vast Sea Sword Hall. Later, Su Ying offered to help Su Ye reconcile with the Su Family, but Su Ye insisted that he had his own home and path.

• Li Hai explained that Li Aoxue needed to reach the sixth layer of her breathing technique before the departmental tournament and that dual cultivation could help her.
• Li Aoxue proposed dual cultivation with Su Ye, who agreed to meet her at nine each evening at the Vast Sea Sword Hall.
• Li Hai teased Li Aoxue about Su Ye and privately considered him an ideal match for his daughter.
• Su Ye reflected on the Nine Extremes Yin-Yang Breathing Technique as he headed home.
• Su Ying approached Su Ye and offered to mediate a reconciliation with the Su Family.
• Su Ye thanked Su Ying but said he had his own home and his own path.

Su Ying warned Su Ye about a possible Monster Tide and hinted that the Four School Grand Competition was tied to provincial military forces. At home, Wu Qian and Su Ling'er visited to curry favor with Su Ye, who remained cold toward them; after they left, his parents asked what he had done.

• Su Ying warned Su Ye that Wang Jian'an had appeared outside the city and that a Monster Tide might be gathering, then urged him to shine in the Four School Grand Competition.
• Su Ye returned home and found Wu Qian and Su Ling'er waiting with gifts and unusually warm praise.
• Wu Qian asked Su Ye to guide Su Ling'er in swordplay and alchemy, but he replied that he had no time.
• After leaving, Su Ling'er complained about Su Ye and doubted he could reach the top four, while Wu Qian urged her not to offend him.
• Su Su and Wang Yuerong questioned Su Ye about what he had done outside.