Recaps

After Xu Yan killed Lu Xinting and the Crimson Nether Sect’s Second Elder, his swordsmanship spread across the Spirit Realm, though rumors exaggerated the battle and concealed Li Xuan’s intervention. The Crimson Nether Sect vowed revenge and began seeking support from allied sects, while the Myriad Worlds Alliance moved to seize the Jade God Sect and Su Family’s holdings.

• Cui Huayu searched for Xu Yan, encountered Yue'er and her grandfather, and realized the old man was an exceptionally powerful Rogue Cultivator.
• Li Xuan considered how Xu Yan’s revealed techniques might attract challenges, while Xu Yan and his companions cultivated and reflected on the battle.
• Yu Gao sent the Myriad Worlds Alliance to take control of the Jade God Sect and Su Family’s territories and treasuries before other provinces intervened.
• Shen Tai broke through, learned that Zhu Liang and Lu Xinting were dead, and ordered the Shen Family to keep a low profile around Xu Yan.
• Tales of Xu Yan’s swordsmanship spread across the Spirit Realm, growing so exaggerated that many listeners dismissed them, while Li Xuan’s role remained concealed.
• Sect Master Xing and the Crimson Nether Sect elders demanded Xu Yan’s death and decided to contact allied sects about the threat to their power.

After the Battle of Heavenly Prodigies, the Shen Family and Myriad Worlds Alliance divided the Jade God Sect and Su Family territories while the Imperial Spirit Mansion debated Xu Yan’s strength and possible ties to the Myriad Stars Martial Academy. At Li Xuan’s estate, Fang Hao completed Meng Chong’s saber, and the disciples began nurturing it with Meng Chong’s Essence Blood and intent.

• The Shen Family took control of the Jade God Sect and Su Family territories under an agreement with the Myriad Worlds Alliance, while Jade Province’s forces waited to see how the Crimson Nether Sect would respond to Xu Yan.
• Cui Huayu reported the Battle of Heavenly Prodigies to a Supreme Expert of the Imperial Spirit Mansion, who recognized Yue Changming as one of the Myriad Stars Martial Academy’s Thirty-Six Prodigies and suspected the young girl with him had a spirit body.
• Yue'er searched Zheng Kingdom for Xu Yan while Yue Changming told her that being able to hide was a skill.
• Li Xuan taught his disciples about Heaven and Earth Laws and explained how a weapon could recognize its master, gain a spirit, and be nurtured within the dantian.
• After seven days of forging, Fang Hao completed Meng Chong’s saber, and Meng Chong infused it with his Essence Blood, divine intent, and Blade Intent.

Fang Hao refined spirit weapons that Meng Chong and Xu Yan could nurture inside their bodies, while Li Xuan taught Xu Yan the Wisdom Sword Realm and Meng Chong the Bright Blade Realm. The chapter ended with Li Xuan anticipating a coming upheaval in the Spirit Domain and worrying that Transcendent Spirit Sect experts might target him.

• Meng Chong successfully stored his treasured saber inside a Golden Body acupoint, and Fang Hao discovered how to refine spirit weapons that could be taken into the body.
• Fang Hao refined weapons for the manor’s residents, including a size-changing golden chain for Red Cat, while Xu Yan and Meng Chong began nurturing their swords and saber within themselves.
• Li Xuan taught Xu Yan the third sword dao realm, the Wisdom Sword Realm, and advised him to study the Supernatural Ability Realm before trying to comprehend it.
• Li Xuan taught Meng Chong the third Way of the Saber realm, the Bright Blade Realm, and told him to cultivate steadily as the Spirit Domain faced approaching turmoil.
• Li Xuan suspected the Crimson Nether Sect was preparing a major move and the Myriad Worlds Alliance was waiting to act, while he considered how to avoid being surrounded by Transcendent Spirit Sect experts.

Emperor Zheng ordered his kingdom to stay out of Jade Province’s looming conflict, while Sect Master Hong agreed to help the Crimson Nether Sect attack the Myriad Worlds Alliance in Luozhou. Sword Hall’s arrival turned the battle against the Alliance until an old man claiming to be a Myriad Stars Remnant confronted Sect Master Hong and matched his power.

• Emperor Zheng warned the royal family and ministers not to interfere in Jade Province’s disputes or assist either side without an order from an upper sect.
• Sect Master Xing persuaded Sect Master Hong that Xu Yan had stolen Sword Hall’s secret inheritance and that the Myriad Worlds Alliance in Luozhou threatened the Spirit Sects.
• The Crimson Nether Sect, the Azure Cloud Dynasty, and allied forces attacked the Myriad Worlds Alliance, but the Alliance emerged publicly and initially gained the upper hand.
• Sect Master Hong arrived with two Sword Hall elders, killed Alliance fighters, and drove the Luozhou Alliance Leader and his allies toward defeat.
• An old man claiming to be a Myriad Stars Remnant shattered Sect Master Hong’s Great Annihilation Sword and fought him to a near standstill.

Huang Liang defeated Yue Changming and nearly wiped out the Luozhou Myriad Worlds Alliance before heading toward Jade Province to claim Xu Yan’s Sword Dao. As Yue Changming sent Yue'er to warn Xu Yan, Xu Yan discovered that supernatural abilities were a martial artist’s own laws and began refining his method for the Supernatural Ability Realm.

• Yue Changming intervened in the battle between Sect Master Hong and the Luozhou Myriad Worlds Alliance, but Huang Liang arrived and overpowered him with the might of a Supreme Expert.
• Yue Changming used the origin of his spirit body to block Huang Liang’s spear and escape, while Huang Liang killed most of the alliance and set out for Jade Province to seize Xu Yan’s Sword Dao.
• Yue Changming told Yue'er to hide her identity, take him to a cave, and warn Xu Yan that the Thousand Martial Hall was coming for him.
• Li Xuan reflected on the Heaven and Earth Laws and the Taicang Book while noting his disciples’ progress and Xu Yan’s approaching breakthrough.
• Xu Yan realized that supernatural abilities were a martial artist’s own laws, and he began organizing and perfecting his method for the Supernatural Ability Realm.

Xu Yan comprehended the methods of the Supernatural Ability Realm, triggering Li Xuan’s breakthrough and the birth of five powerful supernatural abilities. Li Xuan began planning a Supernatural Ability Martial Codex, while the Jade Province Alliance prepared to learn from the exposed Luo Province Alliance’s setbacks.

• Xu Yan realized that supernatural abilities were the laws of martial artists and entered a state of deep insight as he sorted out the Supernatural Ability Realm methods.
• After hearing that the Luo Province Alliance had been exposed but gained ground by uniting Rogue Cultivators, Li Xuan warned Fang Hao that it would not succeed and advised him to promise Rogue Cultivators an equal share of the Spirit Sects’ resources.
• Xu Yan comprehended the Supernatural Ability Realm methods, and Li Xuan broke through, condensed his Martial Dao Primordial Spirit, and comprehended the Heaven and Earth Laws.
• Li Xuan gained five innate supernatural abilities: Heaven and Earth Manifestation, Sword Within the Universe, Fixed Breath God Slaying Sword, Divine Dragon Descends, and Heaven and Earth in an Instant.
• Li Xuan resolved to compile a Supernatural Ability Martial Codex and looked forward to further supernatural ability feedback from his disciples.

Li Xuan taught Red Cat, Yu Xiaolong, and Xiao Ha the Great Monster Martial Dao while Xu Yan planned to seek resources beyond Jade Province. After Yue'er warned Xu Yan that Huang Liang of Thousand Martial Hall was coming for him, Xu Yan brought Yue'er and her gravely injured grandfather to the manor, where Su Lingxiu said she could restore Yue Changming's spirit body and Li Xuan dismissed Huang Liang as an ant.

• Li Xuan transmitted the Great Monster Martial Dao to Red Cat, Yu Xiaolong, and Xiao Ha, while Red Cat showed off its dominance over them.
• Xu Yan planned to leave Jade Province after reaching the Divine Intent Realm to gather rare treasures for his foundation.
• Yue'er searched for Xu Yan and warned him that Huang Liang, a Supreme Expert from Thousand Martial Hall, was coming to seize his sword path and kill him.
• Xu Yan refused to flee, promised to confront Thousand Martial Hall, and invited Yue'er to bring her injured grandfather to the manor for treatment.
• Su Lingxiu examined Yue Changming and said she could cure his collapsed spirit body and lost origin.
• Li Xuan called Huang Liang an ant, and Yue Changming realized Xu Yan's confidence came from his even more arrogant master.

Su Lingxiu treated Yue Changming and gave him hope of recovering, while Li Xuan and his disciples decided to use the Thousand Martial Hall as a target for tempering. The chapter left the Thousand Martial Hall’s Supreme Expert advancing toward Jade Province as the Jade Province Alliance learned that the Luo Province Alliance had nearly been destroyed.

• Xu Yan declared that he would use the Thousand Martial Hall as a stepping-stone, and Li Xuan agreed to let him temper himself against it.
• Meng Chong asked Xu Yan to leave him part of the Thousand Martial Hall, and the two disciples divided the sect between them as their target.
• Su Lingxiu’s Regeneration Pill and treatment restored some of Yue Changming’s health and gave him hope of recovery, though his collapsed spirit body still needed further treatment.
• Li Xuan explained that Xu Yan and Su Lingxiu had spirit bodies and told Xu Yan that martial progress depended on more than innate constitution.
• At the Jade Province border, injured members of the Luo Province Alliance warned the Left Protector that their alliance had nearly been wiped out by a Supreme Expert from the Thousand Martial Hall.
• The Left Protector sheltered the survivors and sent Yu Gao a warning as the Thousand Martial Hall’s Supreme Expert strode toward Jade Province.

Huang Liang demanded that Xu Yan and his master kneel before him, but Li Xuan sent back a challenge for Huang Liang to come and die. As the Myriad Worlds Alliance prepared to emerge and avenge its losses, Su Lingxiu began treating Yue Changming’s damaged spirit body, and Huang Liang rushed toward the Capital City of the Zheng Kingdom for a confrontation.

• Huang Liang arrived in Jade Province, ordered Xu Yan and his master to kneel before him within three days, and settled in the Zheng Kingdom’s capital.
• Tan Wenlin decided that the Myriad Worlds Alliance would reveal itself, claim Chenzhou Province, and send Chang Da Niu to guard the Luozhou Alliance and destroy the Crimson Nether Sect.
• Fang Hao told Li Xuan that the Luozhou Alliance had been nearly wiped out and that Huang Liang had challenged them; Li Xuan ordered Fang Hao to tell Huang Liang to come and die.
• Su Lingxiu took some of Yue'er’s Essence Blood and prepared to refine a pill to restore Yue Changming’s spirit body.
• A messenger delivered Li Xuan’s challenge to Huang Liang, who killed him and sped toward the capital as Jade Province’s experts gathered to watch.
• Li Xuan sensed Huang Liang’s arrival while Su Lingxiu was preparing to refine pills.

Huang Liang arrived at Li Xuan’s manor to seize Yue Changming and obtain Xu Yan’s swordsmanship, but Li Xuan revealed his Heaven and Earth Manifestation and killed him. The Zheng Kingdom’s martial artists remained prostrated as Li Xuan calmly returned to his tea.

• Li Xuan explained that Supreme Experts refined Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy into their souls, and judged Huang Liang to have refined only a single wisp.
• Huang Liang found Li Xuan’s hidden manor and attacked Yue Changming with spear radiance while demanding the secrets behind Xu Yan’s swordsmanship.
• Li Xuan caught and shattered Huang Liang’s spear attack, then unleashed Heaven and Earth Manifestation, leaving Huang Liang and the gathered martial artists terrified.
• Li Xuan pressed one finger down and annihilated Huang Liang’s body and soul.
• Emperor Zheng and the other Spirit Refining martial artists prostrated themselves while Li Xuan withdrew his manifestation and resumed drinking tea.

After Li Xuan killed Huang Liang, Xu Yan convinced the others that his master’s hidden strength could endanger Heaven and Earth. Meanwhile, the Myriad Worlds Alliance’s Chang Da Niu attacked the Spirit Sects, triggering battles between its Supreme Experts and the Transcendent Spirit Sects as an alliance envoy confronted the Great Zhou Emperor.

• Li Xuan told Xu Yan that his Heaven and Earth Manifestation was a Supernatural Ability, and Xu Yan claimed that even a trace of his master’s true strength could cause Heaven and Earth to collapse.
• Zheng Emperor and the other witnesses left the manor, while Zheng Emperor sent the Thousand Martial Hall a secret report about Huang Liang’s death.
• Chang Da Niu arrived in Luo Province, destroyed the Crimson Nether Sect and other Spirit Sects, and advanced toward the Azure Cloud Dynasty.
• Supreme Experts from the Myriad Worlds Alliance and the Sea Spirit Race fought Thundercloud Mountain Villa, while the Thousand Martial Hall’s experts clashed with the alliance after learning Huang Liang was dead.
• A Myriad Worlds Alliance representative asked the Great Zhou Emperor to remain neutral, and the emperor demanded proof of the alliance’s strength.

The Myriad Worlds Alliance launched a widespread war against the Spirit Sects, while Li Xuan guided Yue Changming in cultivating Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy and Laws. After several disciples broke through, Xu Yan asked to venture out and temper himself through battle, leaving Li Xuan surprised by his plan.

• The Myriad Worlds Alliance fought the Spirit Sects across the provinces, but Tan Wenlin withdrew from Yunshan Province after confronting Xin Mengrou of Tai Miao Sect.
• Chang Da Niu learned that Huang Liang had been killed in Jade Province, then was blocked by a Supreme Expert from Thundercloud Mountain Villa.
• Su Lingxiu asked the recovering Yue Changming to oversee Fang Hao's Myriad Worlds Alliance as payment for his treatment, and he agreed.
• Li Xuan taught Yue Changming how to condense Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy into his divine soul and gave him patterns of several Heaven and Earth Laws to study.
• Xu Yan, Meng Chong, and Su Lingxiu broke through, while Yue'er began advancing into the Spirit Refining Heavenly Human realm.
• Xu Yan told Li Xuan he wanted to build up his foundation through martial combat before entering the Spirit Origin Realm, and Li Xuan was surprised by his plan.

Xu Yan and Meng Chong decided to challenge the Spirit Realm’s prodigies, while Su Lingxiu and Fang Hao chose their own paths. Li Xuan established the Divine Aspect Realm and began considering what realm should follow it as the Myriad Worlds Alliance withdrew from Thunder Cloud Province after Thundercloud Mountain Villa revealed a second Divine Artifact.

• Xu Yan planned to roam the Spirit Realm and challenge its prodigies, and Li Xuan approved and resolved to arrange safeguards for him.
• Meng Chong decided to challenge saber-wielding martial artists, Su Lingxiu planned to open a medicinal martial clinic, and Fang Hao wanted to lead the Myriad Worlds Alliance in the Spirit Realm War.
• Li Xuan completed the Divine Aspect Realm, a realm that let martial artists turn the Heaven and Earth Laws into a divine aspect and control those laws.
• Li Xuan considered how to develop a realm beyond the Divine Aspect Realm while Xu Yan and Meng Chong prepared to venture out and challenge their rivals.
• Thundercloud Mountain Villa used a Divine Artifact to grievously wound the Myriad Worlds Alliance’s Supreme Experts, then revealed a second Divine Artifact and forced the alliance to withdraw from Thunder Cloud Province.

Wu Tiannan confronted the masters of three Transcendent Spirit Sects and revealed that he had reached the peak of martial arts in the Spirit Domain, demanding the chance to climb the Divine Bridge. Xin Mengrou arrived and proposed ending the fighting under the old Prodigy Competition rules, leaving the Divine Bridge secret exposed and the conflict unresolved.

• Chang Da Niu fought a Supreme Expert from Thundercloud Mountain Villa as battles between the Myriad Worlds Alliance and the Spirit Sects continued across the provinces.
• Wu Tiannan and Fu Tianhai faced the masters of Thousand Martial Hall, Thundercloud Mountain Villa, and the Imperial Spirit Mansion above the clouds.
• Wu Tiannan recounted his origins and said he had been searching for the sister who gave him his name, then revealed that he knew of the Divine Bridge.
• Wu Tiannan unleashed nine profound auras and fought all three masters at once, overpowering them despite their Divine Artifacts.
• Xin Mengrou arrived with nine profound auras, stopped Wu Tiannan's attack, and urged the factions to resume fighting under the Prodigy Competition rules.
• Xin Mengrou said the Spirit Sects had monopolized the Divine Bridge and departed, while Wu Tiannan remained facing the three masters.

The Spirit Sect and Myriad Worlds Alliance agreed to settle their conflict through a Prodigy Competition, while Xu Yan and the others prepared to challenge the Martial Spirit Realm’s rising prodigies. Li Xuan defined Void Breaking Realm and began teaching Xu Yan the realms beyond Supernatural Ability Realm before his journey.

• Wu Tiannan accepted a Prodigy Competition and warned the Spirit Sect leaders that he would retaliate if elders harmed Myriad Worlds Alliance’s young fighters.
• The Martial Spirit Realm announced a ten-year Prodigy Competition for fighters under thirty, and Spirit Sect prodigies began gaining attention as the Prodigy Ranking was published.
• Li Xuan anticipated that Xu Yan, Meng Chong, Fang Hao, and Su Lingxiu could dominate the competition, while Xu Yan and Meng Chong chose Yu Changfeng, Wu Tu, and Bao Sheng as targets.
• Fang Hao completed his Qimen Soldier Crate and agreed to forge weapons for Yue Changming and Yue'er.
• Li Xuan named the realm above Divine Aspect Realm Void Breaking Realm and explained its principles to Xu Yan as they climbed the mountain.

Li Xuan taught Xu Yan the Divine Aspect and Void Breaking Realm methods before sending his disciples and pets out to pursue their own goals in the Spirit Domain. He then set out toward Luozhou with Su Lingxiu and the others, and a spirit beast appeared overhead as they traveled.

• Li Xuan taught Xu Yan about the martial way beyond supernatural abilities and passed on the Divine Aspect and Void Breaking Realm methods.
• Yu Changfeng and Wu Tu challenged rival prodigies, starting the Spirit Domain Prodigy Competition.
• Li Xuan gave his disciples and pets Supernatural Ability Talismans, and they departed to pursue their ambitions across the Spirit Domain.
• Xu Yan went to challenge Yu Changfeng, Meng Chong sought out Wu Tu, Fang Hao headed to the Jade Province Alliance, and Red Cat led Yu Xiaolong and Xiao Ha toward Tianling Province.
• Li Xuan agreed to take Su Lingxiu to Luozhou to practice medicine, and the group traveled through Jade Province before a spirit beast flew overhead.

Li Xuan’s group met Zhu Xingzheng, a Myriad Worlds Alliance prodigy who sold his Golden Horn Purple Star Deer to Su Lingxiu for a bottle of pills and then joined their journey to Luo Province. Zhu Xingzheng revealed details about the Alliance’s strongest prodigies as the group traveled, while Xu Yan had already gone to challenge Yu Changfeng of Sword House.

• Zhu Xingzheng rode his Golden Horn Purple Star Deer toward Su Lingxiu and Yue'er, and Li Xuan asked how much he would sell the beast for.
• Su Lingxiu offered Zhu Xingzheng a bottle of pills, and he agreed to trade the Golden Horn Purple Star Deer after its reaction confirmed the pills’ effects.
• Zhu Xingzheng convinced the deer that the sale was for its benefit, handed its Command Token to Li Xuan, and taught it to please its new master for pills.
• Li Xuan’s group rode the enlarged deer toward Luo Province, and Zhu Xingzheng stayed with them despite Su Lingxiu telling him to leave.
• Li Xuan asked Zhu Xingzheng about the Myriad Worlds Alliance, and Zhu Xingzheng described its prodigies and its two strongest members, who had reached the late Spirit Refining stage.
• The group entered Luo Province while Xu Yan had already gone to challenge Yu Changfeng of Sword House.

Xu Yan arrived in Luozhou and challenged Yu Changfeng, whose repeated victories and taunts had humiliated the Luozhou Alliance. Xu Yan effortlessly endured Yu Changfeng’s sword attacks and killed him with his Mountain River Sword Dao.

• Yu Changfeng repeatedly challenged Luozhou Alliance fighters, killing an early-stage Spirit Refining Heavenly Human and provoking Chang Da Niu into nearly breaking the competition rules.
• Xu Yan appeared before Yu Changfeng and announced that he had come to challenge the Spirit Sect’s prodigies.
• Yu Changfeng attacked Xu Yan with his sword, but Xu Yan remained unharmed as the Sword Qi was absorbed into his Mountain River Sword Intent.
• Yu Changfeng used a Spirit Sect secret technique and unleashed his strongest sword strike, but Xu Yan’s Mountain River Sword Dao dissolved his attack and killed him.

Xu Yan killed Yu Changfeng and the Sword Lodge Elder, then challenged and defeated the Sword Lodge Master with his superior Sword Dao. His victory revealed him as a threat to the Transcendent Spirit Sect’s prodigies, and Fan Kaishan looked for a chance to kill him.

• Xu Yan killed Yu Changfeng with an unseen attack, and Chang Da Niu confirmed that reducing the corpse to ash did not break the competition rules.
• The Sword Lodge Elder attacked Xu Yan, who saw through his techniques and killed him with a finger strike.
• Xu Yan challenged the Sword Lodge Master and drew his sword, claiming the elder had not even entered the gate of the Sword Dao.
• Xu Yan fought through the Sword Lodge Master's attacks, gaining insight into the force he needed to accumulate before breaking through to the Spirit Origin Realm.
• The Sword Lodge Master activated his Cold Edge Treasure Body and trapped Xu Yan amid icy Sword Qi, but Xu Yan's Shocking Thunder Sword took control of the elder's sword and killed him.
• The martial artists remembered Xu Yan as Sword God Xu Yan, while Fan Kaishan anticipated a chance to kill him.

Meng Chong arrived in Great Xuan City and challenged Wu Tu, a prodigy of Three Absolutes Tower, after deciding he could face the Spirit Sect prodigies there without traveling around. He overwhelmed Wu Tu with his saber techniques and Indestructible Golden Body, leaving the battle’s outcome clear.

• After killing the Sword Studio Master, Xu Yan refused Fan Kaishan’s challenge and left to pursue Cai Yunhong, while Fan Kaishan considered attacking him from the shadows.
• Meng Chong reached Great Xuan City and watched a Prodigy Competition battle before deciding to challenge the Spirit Sect prodigies gathered there.
• Wu Tu arrived at the arena and taunted the Myriad Worlds Alliance’s Lizhou branch, so Meng Chong stepped forward to challenge him.
• Wu Tu declared that their match would end only with one of them dead, and Meng Chong introduced himself as Blade Venerable Meng Chong before agreeing to fight.
• Meng Chong shattered Wu Tu’s opening attack and countered his saber techniques with ease, while using the Heavenly Hammer Hundred Refinements Technique to cultivate from the incoming strikes.
• Wu Tu unleashed his strongest saber technique, but Meng Chong remained unharmed and steadily forced him into a losing position.

Meng Chong defeated Three Jue Tower’s three prodigies, challenged its elders, and drew the attention of martial artists throughout Great Xuan City. Meanwhile, Xu Yan set off for the Mu Family to challenge Mu Feiming, whose infamous Romantic Prodigy had reached the peak of the Spirit Refining Heavenly Human realm.

• The Three Jue Tower Lord tried to recruit Meng Chong, but Meng Chong killed Wu Tu and then defeated Bao Sheng and Lu Yi in succession.
• Meng Chong challenged the Spirit Domain’s prodigies, and after offering to avoid life-and-death battles, fought a series of Spirit Sect contestants and Three Jue Tower elders.
• Meng Chong’s Indestructible Divine Armor withstood a late-stage Spirit Refining expert’s attacks, while crowds gathered and his name spread through Great Xuan City.
• Xu Yan defeated Cai Yunhong without killing him, comprehended the power of his Divine Strength Treasure Body, and headed to challenge Mu Feiming.
• The chapter described Mu Family’s Romantic Prodigy as a notorious womanizer whose scandals repeatedly troubled the Mu Family, despite his extraordinary talent and peak Spirit Refining Heavenly Human strength.

Xu Yan defeated Mu Feiming in a staged fifteen-minute fight, collected more than a hundred Divine Grade Spiritual Medicines from the Mu Family, and headed to Thousand Martial Province. He challenged Thousand Martial Hall at its gate, killed a steward, and fought a peak Spirit Refining martial artist as he drew in his opponent’s martial aura.

• Xu Yan noticed Mu Feiming’s slight resemblance to Su Lingxiu but dismissed it as coincidence, then agreed to fight him.
• A Mu Family elder offered Xu Yan Divine Grade Spiritual Medicines to spare Mu Feiming and prolong their fight; Xu Yan negotiated a hundred medicines for fifteen minutes.
• Xu Yan defeated Mu Feiming after fifteen minutes, accepted the medicines, and received a booklet about Thousand Martial Province and Thousand Martial Hall.
• Xu Yan arrived at Thousand Martial Hall’s mountain gate and challenged its prodigies, but a steward attacked him instead.
• Xu Yan killed the steward, taunted Thousand Martial Hall’s martial artists, and fought a peak Spirit Refining warrior who attacked with a spear.
• As Xu Yan clashed with the spear-wielding warrior, he absorbed wisps of the man’s martial aura and sensed that he was nearing the Spirit Origin Realm.

Xu Yan challenged the Thousand Martial Hall and, after being told to defeat Thousand Martial Province’s prodigies first, built an arena outside its mountain gate and invited them to fight. Wu Tiannan arrived to prevent the Hall from attacking him, and a challenger flew in as the province rallied against Xu Yan.

• Xu Yan killed a Thousand Martial Hall martial artist at its mountain gate and demanded that its prodigies face him.
• The Thousand Martial Hall’s elders decided to have prodigies from the Three Kingdoms, Seven Sects, and Eight Great Clans challenge Xu Yan before he could fight the Hall’s own prodigies.
• Xu Yan accepted Song Zeng’s demand that he defeat Thousand Martial Province’s prodigies, then built an arena outside the Hall’s gate and announced his challenge.
• Song Zeng prepared to attack Xu Yan, but Wu Tiannan’s presence forced him and the Thousand Martial Hall elders to retreat.
• The Thousand Martial Hall ordered the province’s affiliated powers to send their prodigies, and news of Xu Yan’s arena spread throughout Thousand Martial Province.
• A challenger arrived and declared that he would cut Xu Yan down.

Xu Yan fought five heavenly geniuses alone outside the Thousand Martial Hall, using his Mountain River Sword Array and deepening mastery of the Heart Sword Realm to withstand their combined attacks. After ending the battle with a single slash, he prepared to break through to the Spirit Origin Realm.

• Wei Yuan challenged Xu Yan to a fight to the death, and Xu Yan quickly drove him back before Wei Yuan and two other geniuses joined forces against him.
• Xu Yan unleashed the Mountain River Sword Array, forcing the three opponents into the air as two more heavenly geniuses arrived and joined the battle.
• Facing all five opponents, Xu Yan gained new insight into the Heart Sword Realm and made each sword in his array wield a different sword path.
• Xu Yan absorbed the pressure of the five men's attacks and accumulated enough martial foundation to approach a breakthrough to the Spirit Origin Realm.
• Xu Yan brought down one slash, turning the sword within the opponents' combined attack against them and annihilating all five geniuses.

Xu Yan defeated five Jade Province prodigies and promised to challenge Thousand Martial Hall again in half a month, while the Hall Lord plotted to stop him and reshape the Spirit Domain. After meeting Wu Tiannan, the former dean of Myriad Stars Martial Academy, Xu Yan refused his request to exchange martial insights because Wu Tiannan was too weak.

• Xu Yan announced he would return in half a month, then vanished before the gathered martial artists could stop him.
• The Thousand Martial Hall Lord ordered the elders to strengthen chosen prodigies with supreme killing intent and prepared secret assassins to target Xu Yan.
• The Thousand Martial Hall Lord inspected five sealed Spirit Crystal chambers containing core prodigies and vowed that Thousand Martial Hall would defeat the Myriad Worlds Alliance.
• Wu Tiannan caught up with Xu Yan, introduced himself as the former dean of Myriad Stars Martial Academy, and revealed that he had founded Seven Stars Academy in the Inner Domain.
• Wu Tiannan asked to meet Xu Yan's master and exchange martial insights, but Xu Yan said his master would not exchange insights because Wu Tiannan was too weak.