Chapter Summaries

Ye Fan studied Three Thousand Thunder Illusions and cultivated its wind branch until his Wind Conception reached the Tongming realm, then moved on to train in thunder and in a private Wind-Thunder room. As Long Qing approved of Ye Fan’s talent and perseverance, Ye Fan’s cultivation reached a point where a figure appeared on either side of him.

• Ye Fan spent 15,000 Emperor Star Palace Points to learn Three Thousand Thunder Illusions and realized it could form both a wind clone and a thunder clone.
• Ye Fan entered the free Wind Attribute cultivation room and raised his Wind Conception to the Tongming realm over several days.
• Ye Fan moved on to cultivate in the Thunder Attribute room, then entered a private Wind-Thunder cultivation room.
• Ma Yunteng reported Ye Fan’s progress to Long Qing, who praised his talent and perseverance and ordered further scrutiny of the other new geniuses for possible spies.
• Ye Fan cultivated in the private Wind-Thunder room until a figure appeared on each side of him.

Ye Fan rapidly advanced his Wind and Thunder cultivation and mastered more of Three Thousand Thunder Illusions while spending Emperor Star Palace Points. With five days remaining before the trial, he began paying to cultivate the Space Attribute, while Marcus trained under a mysterious Thunder God figure and vowed to make Ye Fan repay the points if he lost.

• Ye Fan continued cultivating in the Wind-Thunder room, raising his Wind and Thunder realms and advancing Three Thousand Thunder Illusions to Major Mastery.
• Marcus learned that Ye Fan was spending the Emperor Star Palace Points Marcus considered his own, and angrily vowed to make Ye Fan work for him if he lost the trial.
• A mysterious figure who claimed to have come in the name of the Thunder God began instructing Marcus in thunder-based attacks.
• Ye Fan condensed prototypes of Wind and Thunder Profound Meaning, strengthening his clones to roughly ninety percent of his main body's combat strength.
• With five days left before the Emperor Star Tower trial, Ye Fan chose to spend 100 points per hour to cultivate the Space Attribute.

Ye Fan comprehended the Eighth Ancestor God's severed palm and awakened A-grade Space Spirituality. As the geniuses gathered for Emperor Star Palace's first official assessment, he prepared to take on the Emperor Star Tower.

• Ye Fan used the Eighth Ancestor God's palm and Enlightenment Points to comprehend space while absorbing its vitality.
• Daili, Di Yi, and Hambuyev headed to the Emperor Star Tower, expecting Ye Fan to be there for the assessment.
• The geniuses from Yaoguang Star, Wu Qu Star, Sea Nether Star, and Ziwei Emperor Star also set out for the tower.
• Ye Fan's body appeared across several layers of space as he continued his cultivation.
• Ye Fan received a system notification that he had awakened A-grade Space Spirituality at 1%, then opened his eyes in excitement.

Daili DuPont, Di Yi, and Hambuyev gathered with other young geniuses outside the Emperor Star Tower, where Huyan Zhuoye’s group mocked Ye Fan for not appearing. Marcus then arrived and drew attention as the favorite to win the trial, while Daili remained confident that Ye Fan would take first place.

• Daili DuPont, Di Yi, and Hambuyev admired the Emperor Star Tower and waited for Ye Fan to arrive.
• Huyan Zhuoye approached Daili, but she coldly rebuffed him and a Wu Qu Star martial artist who insulted Ye Fan felt a threatening gaze from above.
• Huyan Zhuoye and the Wu Qu Star geniuses left after sensing the danger, while the Yaoguang Star female martial artists arrived and asked after Ye Fan.
• Marcus arrived with dozens of geniuses surrounding him, and the gathered martial artists discussed his second-tier Martial God Legacy slot and odds of winning the trial.
• Hambuyev judged Marcus to be strong, but Daili insisted that Ye Fan would take first place.

Daili and the others entered the Emperor Star Tower as spectators debated Ye Fan’s chances against Marcus. Ye Fan arrived and reunited with Daili, while powerful Demigods and Ma Yunteng watched from a high-level viewing space, where Moon Chan Demigod focused on Ye Fan.

• Daili, Di Yi, and Hambuyev entered the Emperor Star Tower and saw hundreds of senior students gathered to watch the trial.
• Spectators praised Marcus and dismissed Ye Fan as a rookie and an underdog, angering Daili.
• Ye Fan appeared, told Daili that strength would silence the doubters, and delighted her.
• Ke Jingwu teased Davis about Daili’s admiration for Ye Fan, while Davis worried about his sister and his bet.
• Yaoguang Demigod, Poseidon Demigod, Wu Ying Demigod, and Ma Yunteng joined the high-level viewing space.
• Ma Yunteng greeted Moon Chan Demigod, who looked toward Ye Fan from her seat beside him.

The Star Tower Battle began as Sima Honglie explained its stakes and warned the young geniuses that the trials involved real danger. As Mandela stepped forward for the first trial, Daili taunted him into vowing to clear three trials.

• Ma Yunteng and Moon Chan Demigod discussed Ye Fan as a leading contender for the Star Tower Battle.
• Jason arrived and announced that he expected Marcus to reach the Upper Seven Layers.
• Sima Honglie addressed the gathered geniuses, explained the battle’s rewards, and warned that its opponents were real and the trials could be fatal.
• Mandela of Wu Qu Star was called as the first contestant and stepped forward nervously.
• Daili mocked Mandela, and he vowed to clear three trials.

Mandela fought through the first floor of Emperor Star Tower but lost an arm and surrendered on the second, while the other geniuses struggled to climb the tower. The trials continued, with even the strongest contestants so far reaching only the fourth floor, before Daili DuPont was called to fight.

• Mandela defeated a Blood-Patterned Flying Tiger on the first floor after unleashing his Indomitable Martial Soul.
• Mandela battled a fish-headed alien whose bubbles petrified whatever they touched, but he lost an arm and surrendered on the second floor.
• The Azure Vault Realm Warrior declared Mandela an outer palace disciple, and the watching geniuses grasped how difficult the tower trials were.
• Lola Besso and Mei Qingying also became outer palace disciples, with Mei Qingying reaching the third floor as the highest contestants advanced only to the fourth.
• The Azure Vault Realm host called Daili DuPont of Blue Star to take her turn.

Daili DuPont used her valuable jade talismans to reach the fifth floor of the Emperor Star Tower, temporarily taking the lead, while Di Yi cleared the seventh floor. Niu Shikai became an Inner Palace Disciple on the eighth floor, and Hambuyev battled his way to the eighth-floor trial.

• Senior students mocked the new students before Daili DuPont drew their attention by using jade talismans to clear each floor.
• Daili ran out of offensive talismans on the fifth floor, admitted defeat, and claimed the highest score so far; Ye Fan offered her perfunctory praise.
• Di Yi cleared the seventh floor of the Emperor Star Tower.
• Niu Shikai fought through the eighth floor and earned an Inner Palace Disciple spot.
• Hambuyev impressed the spectators with his staff and bloodline-powered fighting style, reaching the eighth-floor battle.

Hambuyev broke through during his battle on the eighth level and earned a place as an Inner Palace Disciple. Huyan Zhuoye then entered the Emperor Star Tower, quickly reached the tenth level, and faced a powerful Mechanical Race warrior.

• Hambuyev surged with blood and qi, killed his opponent with a flurry of staff strikes, and cleared the eighth level before conceding to digest his gains.
• The Azure Vault Realm host named Hambuyev an Inner Palace Disciple, and the Star Tower Battle continued as a Sea Nether Star martial artist reached the tenth level and conceded.
• Huyan Zhuoye entered the tower and split a Blood-Patterned Flying Tiger in half with his Crescent Moon Saber.
• Ye Fan praised Huyan Zhuoye's speed and sharpness but said his own spear was stronger, while Hambuyev judged he had only a ten percent chance against Huyan Zhuoye.
• Huyan Zhuoye cut through the tower's opponents and reached the tenth level, where he faced a peak early Azure Vault Realm warrior of the Mechanical Race.

Huyan Zhuoye defeated a powerful Mechanical Race opponent on the tenth floor of the Emperor Star Tower but conceded on the eleventh, leaving Wu Qu Star temporarily ranked first. The Demigods continued watching as Gan Jiumei of Yaoguang Star was called next.

• The Demigods discussed the leading freshmen and agreed to bet on whose candidate would reach the highest floor, with the loser buying Dreamlike Drunkenness.
• Huyan Zhuoye used his Eighth Rank Dao Seed technique, Moonfall: Frostbound, to defeat the Mechanical Race warrior on the tenth floor.
• Huyan Zhuoye fought on the eleventh floor, then conceded when the battle grew too dangerous to continue.
• The Demigods judged Huyan Zhuoye’s performance ordinary and teased Wu Ying Demigod about his temporary lead.
• The host announced Gan Jiumei of Yaoguang Star as the next competitor.

Gan Jiumei entered the Emperor Star Tower and revealed her formidable beast-taming ability, while the soul within her warned that Ye Fan was stronger than she was. She defeated a three-headed wolf on the first floor, drawing attention to her Level 4 Beast Taming Power.

• Spectators discussed Gan Jiumei’s prospects as she approached the Emperor Star Tower, and Huyan Zhuoye dismissed her while resenting Blue Star’s lack of interest in his achievement.
• Gan Jiumei asked the beast-taming soul within her about her chances, and it said she could surpass the Wu Qu Star boy but that Ye Fan was stronger than everyone among them.
• Ma Yunteng received a report that Gan Jiumei carried an ancient remnant soul, and he ordered that she continue to be monitored.
• Yaoguang Demigod told the other demigods that Gan Jiumei specialized in beast taming, prompting them to watch her battle with interest.
• Gan Jiumei summoned a white-furred Vajra Giant Ape, which crushed and tore off the three heads of the Three-Headed Azure Wind Wolf.
• Ye Fan saw that Gan Jiumei had Beast Taming Power Level 4 and had summoned a powerful beast emperor on the first floor.

Gan Jiumei used four powerful battle beasts and her beast-taming abilities to advance through the Emperor Star Tower, while the Myriad Beasts Demigod watched her closely. She reached the fourteenth floor, where a formidable opponent awaited her.

• The Myriad Beasts Demigod recognized Gan Jiumei’s Mind Speech technique, and Yaoguang Demigod revealed that Gan Jiumei had a Seven-Aperture Exquisite Heart that let her communicate and bond with exotic beasts.
• Gan Jiumei and her Tier 4 Beast Emperor-level Titan Ape stormed through the lower floors, while she used a Seven-Colored Python, a Black-Gold Leopard, and a Three-Headed Crow to defeat enemies on the eighth through tenth floors.
• Ye Fan explained that Gan Jiumei and her four beasts formed a balanced team, with each beast filling a different combat role and Gan Jiumei supporting and directing them.
• Gan Jiumei and her battle beasts defeated the alien guarding the thirteenth stage and entered the fourteenth floor.
• The spectators saw the opponent waiting on the fourteenth floor and reacted with shock.

Gan Jiumei faced the Water Race guardian on the fourteenth floor of the Emperor Star Tower, but its endless sea and water-made soldiers overwhelmed her team. She conceded and became an Inner Palace Disciple, leaving Marcus to battle next and Ye Fan scheduled as the final headliner.

• Gan Jiumei and her battle beasts encountered the vast Water Race guardian, whose ocean-like form made their usual tactics ineffective.
• The guardian summoned endless shrimp soldiers and crab generals, forcing Gan Jiumei’s team to defend against their attacks.
• Gan Jiumei used her Seven-Aperture Exquisite Heart to speak with the guardian, but it refused to let her pass because defeating challengers was its chance to return to the starry sky.
• Gan Jiumei learned that the Controller could help only by risking destruction, so she conceded as her four battle beasts began to falter.
• The host announced that Gan Jiumei stopped at the fourteenth floor and became an Inner Palace Disciple, then called Marcus of the Ziwei Emperor Star for the next battle.
• The crowd wondered why Ye Fan was scheduled after Marcus as the final headliner.

Gan Jiumei realized she still had room to grow after reaching the Fourteenth Floor, then learned the Myriad Beasts Demigod wanted to take her as a registered disciple. Marcus began his Star Tower challenge and cleared the Lower Seven Layers with one halberd strike per floor.

• Gan Jiumei left the Fourteenth Floor battle and told the Yaoguang Star martial artists that the fight had shown her shortcomings.
• The host announced that the Myriad Beasts Demigod wished to take Gan Jiumei as a registered disciple, and she eagerly accepted.
• Marcus entered the Emperor Star Tower and defeated the first-floor creature with a single lightning halberd strike.
• Marcus cleared each floor from the second through the seventh with one halberd strike.

Marcus displayed overwhelming strength in the Emperor Star Tower, revealing two God-tier Star Arts as he fought to break into the Upper Seven Layers. The chapter ended with his Thunder God Avatar striking the water marsh alien race on the fourteenth floor.

• Marcus cleared the Lower Seven Layers in a dozen breaths, and Ye Fan assessed his displayed strength while Di Yi watched.
• Jason Demigod praised Marcus’s thunder-path power, then complained about losing heavily on his bet.
• On the thirteenth floor, Marcus used the Thunder Attraction Art to defeat a fast Starry Sky Alien Race and advance to the fourteenth floor.
• Marcus unleashed his full combat power against the vast water marsh alien race, displaying high fifth-rank Martial Arts Mastery and major completion in Martial Dao Profound Meaning.
• Marcus summoned the Thunder God Avatar, revealing that he possessed two five-star Perfect Star Veins and had cultivated a second God-tier Star Art.
• The Thunder God Avatar formed a lightning battle saber and slashed toward the water marsh alien race.

Marcus defeated the water-formed Kunpeng with Thor's Thunder God Slash and became the eleventh genius to enter the Emperor Star Palace's core ranks in his first battle. He chose to continue climbing the Star Tower, aiming to improve his record while Ye Fan remained poised to take his turn.

• Marcus used Thunder God Slash to split the water-formed Kunpeng, which reformed and attacked again before he cut it apart repeatedly until it fell silent.
• Gan Jiumei was shocked by Marcus's strength and questioned whether Ye Fan could truly be stronger than him, as Lord Controller had predicted.
• The host announced Marcus's victory on the fourteenth floor and named him the eleventh genius to enter the core ranks in his first battle.
• Marcus's supporters cheered for him to receive a first-class Martial God Legacy, while other martial artists expected Ye Fan to become Marcus's foil.
• Marcus told the host he would continue the Star Tower battle and try to set an even better record.

Marcus challenged the Emperor Star Tower’s fifteenth floor, where he fought a Red Sun Giant warrior in a brutal test of strength. As both fighters reached their limits, Marcus used his Seventh Grade Dao Seed technique, Thunder Flash: Heart-Piercer, and drove his halberd toward the giant’s heart.

• The spectators discussed Marcus’s record-breaking run and predicted that Ye Fan would lose their wager against him.
• Ke Jingwu celebrated his bet on Marcus while Davis lamented losing two thousand Emperor Star Palace Points on Ye Fan.
• Marcus entered the fifteenth-floor battle against a mid-stage Azure Vault Realm Red Sun Giant with a Pure Yang Body.
• Marcus and the giant traded powerful blows, and Marcus activated his Thunder God Avatar and Thunder God Slash but remained locked in a stalemate.
• Marcus used Seventh Grade Dao Seed—Thunder Flash: Heart-Piercer and thrust his halberd into the giant’s chest near its heart.

Marcus fought the Red Sun Giant Tribe warrior to a draw on the fifteenth floor, earning fifth place among newcomers in Emperor Star Palace history and joining the core disciples. As the Demigods discussed whether Thor the Thunder God might take Marcus as a disciple, Moon Chan Demigod reminded them that the Star Tower Battle was not over and the winner remained unknown.

• Marcus pierced the Red Sun Giant Tribe warrior with his battle halberd, but the giant counterattacked and sent him flying while he spat blood.
• The host stopped the fight and declared a draw, ranking Marcus fifth among newcomers in Emperor Star Palace history and awarding him core disciple status and a five-thousand-point newcomer gift package.
• Emperor Star Palace students praised Marcus's achievement, and Marcus's dissatisfaction gave way to pride and confidence.
• Jason Demigod said Marcus would need to undergo an assessment, prompting other Demigods to speculate that Thor the Thunder God intended to take him as a disciple.
• Moon Chan Demigod said the Star Tower Battle had not ended and the victor was still unknown.

Ye Fan faced the Winged Ba Snake in his Emperor Star Tower battle while spectators mocked his slow progress. Moon Chan Demigod accepted Jason Demigod’s bet over a Divine Blessing, and the chapter left Ye Fan still fighting as Hambuyev said he was tempering his martial path.

• Jason Demigod proposed betting a chance at a Divine Blessing on their protégés, and Moon Chan Demigod agreed.
• Marcus finished his battle with the fifth-best freshman result in history, while Ziwei Emperor Star martial artists demanded the others surrender their Martial God Legacy slots.
• Daili defended Ye Fan against the taunts, and Ye Fan promised to silence his critics with his strength.
• Ye Fan began his battle against a third-rank Peak Beast King, the Winged Ba Snake, and fought it evenly rather than winning at once.
• Spectators mocked Ye Fan’s performance, but Hambuyev said Ye Fan was tempering his martial path.

Ye Fan used the Star Tower Battle to hone his spear technique and martial conception while advancing through its stages, revealing the Sky Breaking Shuttle as his first trump card. He reached the tenth stage without using a Star Art, drawing the attention of the Emperor Star Palace geniuses and War God Hall Demigods.

• Ye Fan killed the Winged Ba Snake with a spear thrust, cleared the first stage, and gained an increase in his spear technique and martial conception.
• As Ye Fan progressed through the next stages, spectators mocked his skill and compared him unfavorably with Marcus, while Daili grew angry at their jeers.
• At the seventh stage, Ye Fan revealed the Sky Breaking Shuttle and used it to help defeat his enemies while continuing to improve his spear technique and martial conception.
• Ye Fan fought with Mountain Sea Realm Peak power and Psychic Power, still holding back his Star Art as observers recognized that he was using the battle to train.
• The Guardian estimated that Ye Fan had used at most half his strength, while Wu Ying Demigod and the Ten Thousand Beasts Demigod noted his rapid improvement and unusually strong Psychic Power.
• Ye Fan advanced to the tenth stage, and Ma Yunteng pointed out that he had not used his Star Art and had exceptional recovery ability.