Chapter Summaries

Su Ye neared completion of a Third-grade Pill, but the low-quality Heavenly Essence Fire Stone threatened to make his furnace explode. As others argued over whether to intervene, Su Ye changed techniques, leaving Master Lei and Zhang Jing stunned by what they recognized as Hundred Heavenly Crafts.

• Vice President Xu realized Su Ye's Heavenly Essence Fire Stone could not provide enough firepower for a Third-grade Pill and warned that the furnace might explode.
• Vice President Xu tried to give Su Ye an Intermediate Heavenly Essence Fire Stone, but Deputy Battalion Commander Wang and Master Lei objected to interfering in the competition.
• Xu Yong ordered Vice President Xu to throw the stone to Su Ye despite Master Lei's opposition, but Ye Tianlin arrived and urged Xu Yong to wait.
• Su Ye identified the insufficient heat and changed from Furnace Control Palm to a forceful technique that harnessed the sun and the Heavenly Essence Fire Stone.
• Master Lei and Zhang Jing recognized Su Ye's new technique as Hundred Heavenly Crafts.

Su Ye used the Hundred Heavenly Crafts, the Four Symbols Inlaid Pill Method, and his exceptional spiritual control to successfully refine a Third-grade Spirit Charging Pill. Fang Yaoxian also completed a High-grade Level 2 Bone Tempering Pill, but the crowd’s attention remained on Su Ye.

• Lei Tianming and Zhang Jing recognized Su Ye’s Hundred Heavenly Crafts and wondered how he had mastered it without condensing a Spiritual Seed.
• Ye Tianlin explained that he had taught Su Ye the technique and vouched that Su Ye relied on his own abilities, while Wan Qian and Lei Tianming suspected he had used an external weapon.
• Su Ye combined his Level 2 alchemy foundation, the Four Symbols Inlaid Pill Method, and the Hundred Heavenly Crafts to refine four pills at once.
• Su Ye successfully formed a Third-grade Spirit Charging Pill and gained 300 Level 2 Alchemy progress.
• Fang Yaoxian formed a High-grade Level 2 Bone Tempering Pill, celebrated his result, and then realized no one was paying attention to him.

Su Ye shocked the alchemy competition by refining a Third-grade Spirit Charging Pill with the Four Symbols Inlaid Pill Method and Hundred Heavenly Crafts, surpassing Fang Yaoxian’s Grade Two High pill. After the results were sent for evaluation, the other competitors learned what Su Ye had made and reacted with disbelief.

• Fang Yaoxian realized Su Ye had refined a Third-grade Pill and was overwhelmed by shock, anger, and shame.
• Su Ye sealed his pill in a jade bottle and reflected on how the Manifestation Talisman had improved his alchemy understanding.
• Lin Qingyue saw Su Ye submit a pill and assumed he had made a Grade Two Medium pill, growing upset at the possibility of losing second place.
• After the hour ended, Vice President Xu announced that Fang Yaoxian had refined a Grade Two High Bone Tempering Pill and Su Ye a Third-grade Spirit Charging Pill.
• The other competitors erupted in disbelief, while Fang Yaoxian and Lin Qingyue struggled to accept that Su Ye had made a Third-grade Pill.

Su Ye's exceptional pill drew a biased score from Master Lei, who boosted Fang Yaoxian and tried to suppress Su Ye. After Zhang Jing challenged the score, Master Lei raised it slightly, then changed the incomplete-formula round to harder Grade Two formulas, leaving the contest vulnerable to further manipulation.

• Lin Qingyue resented Su Ye's success and insisted he could not beat Fang Yaoxian in the next round.
• Master Lei gave Fang Yaoxian's pill forty-five points and initially scored Su Ye's pill at forty-eight, claiming it was not a true Third-grade Pill.
• Zhang Jing protested that Master Lei was unfairly suppressing Su Ye, while Wan Qian defended the score.
• The Dragon Pill Tower manager suggested forty-nine points, and Master Lei accepted the revised score for Su Ye.
• Master Lei proposed replacing three Grade One incomplete formulas with Grade Two formulas, prompting Zhang Jing to question who would provide them.

Vice President Xu added three bonus formulas to the assessment after Master Lei and the Alchemy Association president intervened, giving Fang Yaoxian a chance to catch up to Su Ye. Su Ye suspected the formulas were a trap but rapidly solved them, leaving the venue stunned.

• Master Lei pressed Vice President Xu to add three supplementary formulas, and the president approved them as bonus questions.
• The announced scores put Su Ye first with 49 points and Fang Yaoxian second with 45, while the next three places went to Four Great Families prodigies.
• Lei Tianming told Fang Yaoxian that the added formulas used a method from the Secret of Ginseng Elixir, and Fang Yaoxian reluctantly stayed silent despite believing it was cheating.
• Su Ye recognized that the last-minute formulas were likely targeting him and began solving the assessment questions.
• Su Ye solved three incomplete formulas in one minute, astonishing Master Lei and the spectators.

Su Ye dominated the alchemy exam by solving the fragmentary formulas far faster and more accurately than Lin Qingyue and Fang Yaoxian. After reaching 101 points with the first special formula, he secured the lead while Fang Yaoxian continued working, unaware of the rankings.

• Su Ye solved all twenty Level 1 fragmentary formulas in five minutes, leaving Lin Qingyue and Fang Yaoxian far behind.
• Su Ye worked through the Level 2 formulas, and an online alchemist confirmed that his answers were flawless.
• Master Lei regretted refusing to take Su Ye as a student and could only hope that Su Ye would fail the three special formulas.
• Su Ye completed the twenty-five standard formulas perfectly and began tackling the more difficult special formulas.
• Su Ye correctly solved the first special formula and reached 101 points, taking first place while Fang Yaoxian kept writing, unaware of the score.

Su Ye finished the alchemy assessment with a perfect score in Solving Incomplete Formulas, then cultivated while the other contestants worked. When the rankings were revealed, he took first place with 105 points and won a scholarship, pills, and an Alchemy Furnace.

• Su Ye submitted his completed paper after twenty-eight minutes and cultivated with his eyes closed, leaving Fang Yaoxian unsure whether he had finished the questions.
• Fang Yaoxian completed all twenty-eight questions in forty-one minutes and believed he had earned full marks, while Su Ye remained motionless.
• The one-hour assessment ended, and Vice President Xu prepared to announce the verified rankings and awards.
• Zhang Jing celebrated Su Ye's expected victory and decided that the existing housing-fund reward was not enough.
• Vice President Xu revealed that Su Ye ranked first with 49 points in alchemy and 56 points in Solving Incomplete Formulas, earning a two-hundred-thousand scholarship, ten Third-grade Bone Condensing Pills, and the Level 7 Alchemy Furnace Startling Cloud.

Su Ye won the Alchemy competition with full marks, earning a prized Level 7 Alchemy Furnace and silencing the other schools. As the other disciplines concluded, his achievement drew attention across Shenyun City, and Su Family Head Su Li reacted with surprise to the news.

• Fang Yaoxian accepted his loss to Su Ye but declared he would not give up pursuing Xingli.
• Master Lei awarded Su Ye the championship prize, a Level 7 Jingyun Alchemy Furnace.
• Su Ye returned to Shenyun First High School, where Zhang Yuan and Ye Xingli praised his performance and he urged them to look beyond Shenyun City.
• Ye Jingfeng, Su Huang, and Lin Qianqian won the Artifact Refining, Formation Arrays, and Talisman Dao competitions, respectively.
• Su Family Head Su Li watched Su Ye's award ceremony livestream and wondered how Su Ye had won first place in Alchemy.

Su Li, Lin Yue, and Lin Qingyue weighed Su Ye’s alchemy talent against the importance of martial arts as the Four School Grand Competition approached. Lin Qingyue returned to Shenyun Second High School determined to take first place, and Deputy Battalion Commander Wang officially began the martial arts competition.

• Su Li worried that Su Ye’s alchemy talent could revive questions about Su Li’s right to lead the Su Family, then resolved to rely on Su Ling’s martial potential and seek the family’s secret opportunity.
• Lin Yue steadied Lin Qingyue by pointing to the Lin Family’s alchemical resources and urging her to win the martial arts competition and attract attention.
• Lin Qingyue regained her confidence, assessed the other contestants, and vowed to defeat them and prove herself stronger than Su Ye.
• The contestants gathered as the livestream audience surpassed a million viewers and approached 1.5 million.
• Deputy Battalion Commander Wang declared the martial arts competition of the Four School Joint Event underway.

The students entered the Monster Subduing Tower for an assessment that tested their strength, speed, and adaptability. Lin Qingyue and the other top contenders revealed their impressive cultivation, but Su Ye advanced through the floors faster than anyone expected.

• Deputy Battalion Commander Wang explained the tower assessment and announced that students had three hours to clear as many of the first sixty floors as they could.
• Lin Qingyue, Ye Jingfeng, Wang Junran, He Jingyu, and the other students rushed into the tower to prove themselves.
• The students arrived on a grassland floor, while screens broadcast their progress to viewers across Shenyun City and online.
• Lin Qingyue revealed Forty-seven Martial Bones and used her Level 7 Origin Power Weapon to defeat the blue wolf before advancing to a desert floor.
• He Jingyu, Ye Jingfeng, and Ye Xingli displayed Forty-six, Forty-five, and Forty-four Martial Bones as they fought demons on their screens.
• Su Ye's screen drew the crowd's attention when he raced past the fourth, fifth, and sixth floors and reached the eighth floor ahead of Lin Qingyue.

Su Ye revealed his Sword Qi Realm and rapidly climbed the Monster Subduing Tower, while spectators and rival Heavenly Chosen debated his true cultivation. He kept advancing with a single sword strike per Demon Beast, leaving the crowd stunned as he passed the fortieth floor.

• The crowd realized Su Ye was using Sword Qi to defeat Demon Beasts from a distance, and Xia Han took notice of his sword and aura-concealing jade pendant.
• After receiving information that Su Ye had tempered only around Twenty Martial Bones, Xia Han and other Heavenly Chosen dismissed him as no threat, while Deputy Battalion Commander Wang suspected Su Ye was hiding his real strength.
• Su Ye decided not to hold back and advanced through the tower, killing each Demon Beast with one stroke of Gui Shi.
• Su Ye reached the thirtieth floor, making the rival Heavenly Chosen and students question whether his cultivation had recovered.
• Su Ye defeated powerful Demon Beasts on the thirty-fifth and fortieth floors, prompting the crowd to reject the claim that he had only tempered Twenty Martial Bones.
• Su Ye stepped onto the forty-first floor and continued his one-stroke assault.

Su Ye stunned the Monster Subduing Tower audience by clearing floor after floor with a single sword strike, leaving Lin Qingyue far behind and exposing how badly Lin Feiting had underestimated him. As Su Ye continued climbing, the schools and spectators could only speculate about his true cultivation and Combat Strength.

• Su Ye reached the forty-fifth floor and killed its enormous bat with one sword strike, bringing his total to forty-five floors cleared in forty-five strikes.
• Lin Feiting panicked as Su Ye's performance contradicted his assessment that Su Ye had only Twenty Martial Bones, and he feared Su Ye could threaten the Young Miss.
• Su Ye continued clearing floors in one strike, while Lin Qingyue remained far behind and the other schools' Heavenly Chosen lost their chances of winning.
• The principals questioned Sun Rui about Su Ye's hidden strength, but Sun Rui admitted privately that Su Ye's performance surpassed even what he had expected.
• A Weibo topic about Su Ye surged toward the top of the trending list as the livestream passed two million concurrent viewers.

Su Ye killed the Demon Beast on the Monster Subduing Tower’s Forty-ninth Floor with one stroke, drawing attention across Tiandong Province as spectators struggled to judge his strength. A million-strong Monster Tide led by Blood Butcher approached Shenyun City, while all 120 competitors were suddenly brought together on the same floor and a mysterious voice praised Su Ye.

• Su Ye slew the Forty-eighth-Floor Demon Beast with one stroke, intensifying the public’s amazement and the Four Great Families’ concern.
• Su Ye stayed calm in the darkness on the Forty-ninth Floor and killed the ambushing Three-Eyed Dark Tiger with a single thrust.
• Spectators saw that Su Ye had reached floor forty-nine while Lin Qingyue and the other competitors remained far behind, but he was not transported as expected.
• Deputy Battalion Commander Wang and Xu Yong sensed something was wrong as ten True Bone Demon Beasts approached Shenyun City.
• A soldier reported that a million Demon Beasts led by Heavenly Demon Vice Bishop Blood Butcher were charging toward the city.
• All 120 competitors were transported to the same floor, where an applauding, smiling voice praised Su Ye.

Yao Hong revealed herself as Po Jun and trapped the 120 students on the Monster Subduing Tower’s Eighty-first Floor, where a terrifying demon beast threatened them. Outside, the leaders struggled to unlock the tower and faced a choice between rescuing the students or protecting Shenyun City’s civilians from an attack on the city shield.

• Yao Hong admitted that she was Po Jun’s Soul Separation after Su Ye detected something abnormal about her.
• Xu Yong warned the students to stay away from Po Jun, while she summoned a demon beast and asked them to guess which floor they were on.
• Deputy Battalion Commander Wang failed to unlock the sealed Monster Subduing Tower, and Yao Hong displayed Tan Bai’s Jade Talisman, suggesting that he had betrayed them.
• Yao Hong explained that forcibly opening the tower would weaken the city shield for twenty breaths while the Ten Great True Bone Demon Beasts prepared to attack.
• Yao Hong revealed that the students were on the Eighty-first Floor with no life-saving teleportation, as an Eighty-one Bones Tempered black bear appeared behind her.

Yao Hong disabled the Monster Subduing Tower’s safety mechanism and unleashed a Black Bear at Great Completion of Bone Tempering, leaving the students terrified and trapped. As Ye Xingli prepared to risk exposing her demon blood, Su Ye stopped her and faced the beast, revealing forty-nine tempered Martial Bones and declaring he would slay it.

• Yao Hong used the Jade Talisman to unleash the Black Bear and remove the students’ protection, while Xu Yong told them to hold out for five minutes.
• The students panicked as Yao Hong taunted them and challenged the authorities to choose between saving the civilians and the students.
• Ye Xingli stepped forward and began to unleash the power of her demon blood to fight the Black Bear.
• Su Ye stopped Ye Xingli, walked toward Yao Hong and the beast, and refused Zhang Yuan’s offer of help.
• Su Ye revealed forty-nine tempered Martial Bones and declared that he would slay the Black Bear.

Su Ye revealed that he had tempered forty-nine Martial Bones, then fought the Great Completion Sky Gold Bear with his sword and Vast Sea Swordplay. After the bear used Berserk Mutation, Su Ye unleashed Heavy Sea and appeared to defeat it, leaving the spectators stunned.

• Su Ye stepped forward and revealed his Minor Completion cultivation with forty-nine Martial Bones, shocking the students and the audience outside the tower.
• Yao Hong mocked Su Ye’s chances and used her Jade Talisman to send the Sky Gold Bear charging at him.
• Su Ye blocked the bear’s first claw with Gui Shi and Rising Momentum, forcing the bear back and revealing the strength of his flawless Foundation and sword technique.
• The Sky Gold Bear activated Berserk Mutation, and Su Ye answered by unleashing Heavy Sea with his full strength.
• A bear paw struck the ground, and Su Ye asked whether a Great Completion Demon Beast was really that weak.

Su Ye killed the Great Completion Sky Gold Bear with three sword strikes, stunning viewers and drawing millions to the livestream. His victory made him a trending sensation, while Su Li resolved to keep him from claiming the Su Family’s resources.

• Su Ye evaded the Sky Gold Bear’s attack and beheaded it with his Vast Sea Dual sword technique.
• Livestream viewers praised Su Ye’s talent and declared that he had the potential to reach the Spirit Splitting Realm.
• Su Li feared that the Su Family elders would demand resources for Su Ye and decided to protect Ling’er’s claim to them.
• Ye Tianlin and Xu Yong celebrated Su Ye’s victory and his role in foiling the Heavenly Demon Cult Bishop’s plan.
• The livestream audience surged past three million viewers, and Su Ye’s feat dominated the top three trending searches.

Su Ye exposed Yao Hong’s hidden trump card: a Peak Essence Fusion Demon Core that began summoning the Azure Turtle great demon inside the Monster Subduing Tower. The tower sealed itself for at least half an hour, leaving more than a hundred students trapped with Yao Hong and the emerging demon.

• Lin Qingyue struggled with her reaction to Su Ye’s victory, while the other favored students accepted that they could not match him.
• Su Ye stopped students from attacking Yao Hong and warned that she still had another trump card.
• Yao Hong revealed a Peak Essence Fusion Demon Core, which Lin Qingyue recognized as one formerly obtained by her family and given to Qin Song.
• The Demon Core began manifesting the Azure Turtle great demon, triggering the tower’s defenses and sealing it for at least half an hour.
• Xu Yong’s attack barely scratched the sealed tower, while Yao Hong declared that the second game had begun.

Lin Qingyue and Yao Hong’s trap left the students inside the Monster Subduing Tower facing a projected Azure Turtle, while the adults outside could not intervene without risking a greater catastrophe. Su Ye judged how long remained before the Void Shadow formed and asked Xu Yong for help, leaving everyone stunned.

• Lin Qingyue and Yao Hong revealed that Po Jun had engineered the crisis to toy with the Heavenly Chosen and the livestream audience.
• Xu Yong’s attacks failed to damage the Monster Subduing Tower, and Deputy Battalion Commander Wang explained that the General Commander could not intervene because he was suppressing a far greater threat.
• Su Ye asked Xu Yong how long the Azure Turtle’s Void Shadow would take to form and learned it would emerge at Blood Nourishing Peak strength.
• Yao Hong warned Su Ye that killing her would not stop the activated Secret Technique, while the students inside sank further into despair.
• Su Ye stood ready with his sword and asked Xu Yong, “Uncle Xu, please help me!”

Su Ye asked Xu Yong to use his Heavenly Blade Heart Array through the Jade Talisman to help him fight the Azure Turtle, then revealed he was close to the seventh level of the Nine Extremes Yin-Yang Breathing Meditation Technique. He began cultivating publicly in the Monster Subduing Tower, leaving Xu Yong and millions of viewers stunned as he attempted a breakthrough in the middle of battle.

• Su Ye asked Xu Yong to lend him support through the Jade Talisman so he could face the Azure Turtle.
• Xu Yong warned that his power could only raise Su Ye to Great Completion of Bone Tempering, and that Blood Nourishing strength would make him lose control and explode.
• Su Ye asked about the seventh level of the Breathing Technique, then clarified that he had not reached it yet but was close.
• Su Ye sat down and began cultivating the Nine Extremes Yin-Yang Breathing Meditation Technique in public as the Black and White Figure appeared behind him.
• The school shook, livestream audiences surged past four million, and viewers recognized Su Ye's technique and reacted in disbelief to his attempt to break through during battle.