Chapter Summaries

Xuan Ye faced Soul Splitter after killing three Professional Rank attackers, then used Causality Reversal to wound the Master Rank expert despite his last-second block. Both survived the exchange, but Xuan Ye realized his opponent’s instincts and strength made a second attack dangerously costly.

• Xuan Ye used the scrolls he claimed to possess to intimidate Soul Splitter, but Soul Splitter ordered three Professional Rank experts to attack.
• Xuan Ye killed all three attackers in moments, then Soul Splitter recognized that Xuan Ye had been using intimidation to conceal his limits.
• Soul Splitter rushed Xuan Ye and cracked the Sea Tribe defensive item around his neck, but Xuan Ye counterattacked with Phantom Spirit Swordsmanship.
• Soul Splitter sensed danger and blocked Xuan Ye’s strike, but Xuan Ye activated Causality Reversal and inflicted a deep wound and soul damage.
• Soul Splitter asked why he had been injured after blocking the sword, while Xuan Ye realized that another exchange with the powerful, instinctive Master Rank expert could cost him dearly.

Xuan Ye trapped Soul Splitter in a swamp formation long enough to escape with Moro and the others, though Soul Splitter eventually broke free and began pursuing them again. As the group headed toward Plains City, they worried whether they could secure an airship, and Xuan Ye trusted that Yao Yao’s Shouxin Marquisate connections would help.

• Xuan Ye raised and hardened the swamp into a sealed pyramid around Soul Splitter and the remaining pursuers, then escaped with Moro and the others on the giant lizard.
• After roughly three quarters of an hour, Soul Splitter shattered the formation, fired a signal flare, and flew off to regroup with his people.
• Xuan Ye told the others that he had arranged for three students to meet them in Plains City and recovered from the strain by drinking potions.
• Kusile and Moro expressed astonishment at Xuan Ye’s ability to injure and restrain Soul Splitter despite his limited strength.
• Moro and Kusile warned that the Northern Domain Marquisate might prevent the group from renting an airship in Plains City.
• Xuan Ye reassured them that Yao Yao’s ties to the Shouxin Marquisate could help secure an airship.

Huai'an Lit consulted his great-grandfather, Nit Lit, about whether Plains City should rent a Magic Airship to three Dream Island students despite warnings from the Northern Domain. Nit weighed the risk to the Lit Family against the Heart-Guard Marquisate’s influence, and Huai'an left understanding that the decision required choosing which power to appease.

• Huai'an Lit visited Nit Lit to report that three Dream Island students wanted to rent a Magic Airship while the Northern Domain had warned Plains City not to rent airships indiscriminately.
• Nit Lit initially told Huai'an to follow the Northerners’ warning because the students seemed less dangerous than the Northern pursuers.
• Huai'an revealed that one of the students was the Young Lady of the Heart-Guard Marquisate, making the decision more difficult.
• Nit Lit and Huai'an discussed the Marquisate’s declining strength and the signs that its elderly Clan Master was preparing to seal himself in ice.
• Nit Lit recognized that the Lit Family had to choose whether to risk displeasing the Heart-Guard Marquisate or defy the Northern Domain, and Huai'an left after acknowledging the dilemma.

Luo Tian, Yao Yao Nock, and Cang Qiu failed to secure a Magic Airship from the Lit Family and were ambushed by Northern Domain Marquisate fighters while seeking another route. Just as the attackers threatened them, their missing teacher appeared beside the Nose-Ring Man.

• Huai'an Lit told Yao Yao Nock that no Magic Airships were available, and Luo Tian led the group away after realizing the Lit Family would not help.
• Luo Tian suggested traveling by river because the air route was blocked and the land route was too slow.
• Four Northern Domain Marquisate fighters cornered Luo Tian, Yao Yao Nock, and Cang Qiu in an alley, demanding that they cooperate.
• Luo Tian took out a Second-Tier Magic Scroll as the attackers threatened his companions and prepared to seize Yao Yao Nock.
• The Nose-Ring Man heard their teacher's voice beside him as the teacher appeared on the roof eave.

Xuan Ye arrived to help Luo Tian and Yao Yao, sealing off the area as Nose-Ring Man and his deputies confronted them. Nose-Ring Man began an attack but was instantly pinned beneath Xuan Ye, leaving his subordinates speechless.

• Nose-Ring Man and his three deputies faced Xuan Ye, whom Nose-Ring Man recognized as Dream Island Professional Rank First.
• Xuan Ye sealed off the area and asked Luo Tian whether Plains City had betrayed them; Luo Tian said they were pursuing Senior Yao Yao because of her identity.
• A long-haired deputy taunted the group and threatened to take Yao Yao, while Nose-Ring Man prepared to attack with twin blades.
• Xuan Ye pressed Nose-Ring Man flat against the ground and stood on his back, silencing the three deputies.

Xuan Ye forced the Lit Family to lend his group an airship by killing two captured Professional Rank pursuers in front of them, then set course for Dream Island. When the group unexpectedly ran into another pursuer in the sky, Xuan Ye told Kusile to land at Starwater City’s Temple and revealed his Dragon Emissary Mark.

• Xuan Ye showed Huai'an Lit a captured Professional Peak expert, then killed him to pressure the Lit Family into helping.
• Nite Lit arrived and agreed to provide the group with a Magic Airship after Xuan Ye killed the Nose-Ring Man, a captured Professional Rank expert.
• Kusile and Xuan Ye discussed evading their pursuers by air, and Yao Yao suggested detouring to her family’s home near Arand.
• Xuan Ye spotted Temo approaching the airship and realized the group was about to be caught.
• Xuan Ye directed Kusile to land at Starwater City’s Temple and revealed his Dragon Emissary Mark as a way to buy time.

Xuan Ye brought Moro Ein and the surviving children to the Temple of the War God while Soul Splitter pursued them. As Soul Splitter threatened them from outside the Temple, Xuan Ye invoked Space of Gods, leaving the confrontation suspended around the War God’s Divine Statue.

• Xuan Ye used cloud threads to trap Soul Splitter, but Soul Splitter broke free and resumed his pursuit.
• Xuan Ye delayed Soul Splitter with interception barriers long enough for the airship to land above Starwater City’s Temple District.
• The fighters and three students carried the surviving children down to the Temple plaza, where Soul Splitter stopped outside the Temple’s territory.
• Soul Splitter taunted the survivors about their family’s destruction, and Xuan Ye swore to make the Northern Domain Marquisate pay.
• Xuan Ye invoked Space of Gods, turning the surroundings gray and white while the War God’s Divine Statue remained unchanged.

Xuan Ye accepted a moderately difficult escort mission and arrived on the Ronald Kingdom’s Western Domain Great Plains, where he intervened in an attack on a noble girl’s convoy. After killing the pursuing bowman, he asked the wounded Head Maid Sera where he was.

• Xuan Ye spent nearly thirty thousand Gold Coins to select a mission, accepted an escort assignment with a 1,000-Faith-Point basic reward, and followed his mysterious pull across the plains.
• Sera fled with the blond girl while six knights sacrificed themselves to hold off their pursuers.
• The bowman destroyed the carriage with enchanted arrows, forcing Sera to protect the girl as the coachman died.
• The bowman taunted Sera and threatened the girl, but Xuan Ye shot him through the eye before he could attack.
• Xuan Ye approached Sera and asked where he was, and Sera identified the place as the Ronald Kingdom’s Western Domain Great Plains.

Xuan Ye discovered that he had arrived in Ronald Kingdom in New Era year 6044, ten years before its destruction, and recognized the young Aitiya he had met in the future. He revealed his overwhelming strength while protecting her, leaving Sera stunned.

• Xuan Ye learned that he was in Ronald Kingdom and asked Sera what year it was.
• Sera told Xuan Ye that it was New Era year 6044, the year Ronald Royal Capital would be destroyed ten years later.
• Aitiya lifted Big Bear by its paw, and Xuan Ye recognized her as the young version of the woman he knew.
• Xuan Ye picked up Aitiya, and Sera attacked him with her heavy halberd to make him release the princess.
• Xuan Ye caught Sera’s halberd barehanded and used Gravity Reversal to lift Sera and her weapon into the air.

Xuan Ye revealed his Royal Clan Bloodline to Sera and escorted Princess Aitiya toward Royal Sea on Big Bear. After they escaped one ambush and spent the night traveling, Lord Doug attacked Xuan Ye from the sky, and Sera hurried to stop him.

• Xuan Ye used Gravity Lock, convincing Sera that he was a Royal Member, and agreed to escort Aitiya back to Royal Sea.
• Sera explained that Aitiya was the future Queen and that her captain had held off the attackers’ Master Rank fighter.
• Xuan Ye, Aitiya, and Sera rode Big Bear through the night after Xuan Ye killed one pursuer and the rest fled.
• At dawn, Lord Doug’s blue-light strike crashed toward Xuan Ye, who moved in front of Aitiya and blocked its shockwave.
• Sera recognized Lord Doug and called out for him to stay his hand, telling him that Xuan Ye was one of them.

Xuan Ye helped Aitiya escape an ambush and traveled with her under Doug’s protection as reinforcements arrived. When Ruoxin Seabreeze and the Glacier Knights reached them, he mistook Xuan Ye’s closeness to the Princess for an offense and demanded that he release her.

• Doug apologized to Xuan Ye after Sera confirmed that he was on their side, then identified the attackers as a notorious assassin and a Pirate Leader hired to kill Aitiya.
• Xuan Ye, Sera, Aitiya, and Doug set out, and Doug’s emergency notice brought reinforcements while Xuan Ye fed Aitiya.
• A Professional Rank wind-element mage arrived and apologized to Aitiya for failing to detect the ambush; Sera reprimanded him, and Xuan Ye defended him.
• The Glacier Knights arrived near dusk, and Ruoxin Seabreeze knelt to apologize to Aitiya for arriving late.
• Xuan Ye praised Ruoxin on Aitiya’s behalf, but Ruoxin saw Xuan Ye holding the Princess and ordered him to release her.

Ruoxin Haifeng resented Xuan Ye for holding Princess Aitiya, but Sera identified Xuan Ye as a member of the Royal Clan and the group continued safely to the capital. There, Xuan Ye met the king and realized the supposedly unserious monarch was a terrifying peak Grandmaster with a scandalous connection to the Sea Race Saintess.

• Ruoxin Haifeng glared at Xuan Ye for holding Aitiya and questioned who he was.
• Sera rebuked Ruoxin Haifeng and declared that Xuan Ye was a Royal Clan member whom Aitiya did not repulse.
• Ruoxin Haifeng led the group onward as rescue personnel, including two Masters, arrived to protect Aitiya.
• Several days later, Xuan Ye and the others reached Royal Sea, where the king welcomed Aitiya and examined Xuan Ye.
• Xuan Ye recognized the king as a peak Grandmaster and suspected that he had been the one who flirted with the Sea Race Saintess eighteen years earlier.

Xuan Ye warned King Arthur Feng that the Sea Tribe might attack the Royal Clan, and Arthur Feng urged him to become strong enough to deter any threat. After asking Xuan Ye to protect Aitiya if the kingdom fell, the King dismissed the request as a joke, then offered to train Xuan Ye in his Bloodline Power.

• During the royal carriage ride, Xuan Ye warned Arthur Feng that the Sea Tribe's Saint Rank King was preparing to target the Royal Clan.
• Arthur Feng said excuses would not prevent conflict and that strength was the best protection for the kingdom.
• Arthur Feng asked Xuan Ye to take Aitiya away if the Royal Clan could no longer protect the Western Gate, but then claimed he had been joking.
• Xuan Ye promised to protect Aitiya, and Arthur Feng offered to teach him to use his Bloodline Power.
• Xuan Ye moved into the Imperial Palace and, that night, resolved to keep growing stronger as new tasks and rewards appeared.

Xuan Ye trained with Arthur Feng, whose guidance helped him master a Gravity Rune that greatly strengthened his Bloodline and Gravity Shackles. As the Founding Festival and a looming Sea Tribe operation approached, Arthur asked Xuan Ye to attend a banquet and entrusted Aitiya to him before leaving, leaving Xuan Ye uncertain whether he should fight or flee.

• Arthur Feng noticed that Xuan Ye’s Bloodline Power had grown dramatically, and Xuan Ye realized his ten Gravity Runes amplified his strength, physique, and mental will by more than sixty-two percent.
• Arthur asked Xuan Ye to teach Aitiya the Rune if he could not do so himself, and Xuan Ye recalled her determination to return from the Netherworld and protect the Sacred Relic.
• Xuan Ye considered contacting powerful allies, including Harman Kenze, but decided that distance and their uncertain reliability made it impractical.
• Arthur told Xuan Ye to attend a high-level Imperial Palace banquet the next day, where the nobles would be introduced to him as a member of the Imperial Family.
• Arthur said he would leave before the Founding Festival and entrusted Aitiya to Xuan Ye, who wondered whether Arthur had chosen to flee rather than fight.

Xuan Ye attended a royal banquet, where Heart-Guard Marquis tried to arrange a match between him and his granddaughter. He then spotted the Northern Lands Sword Marquis, the man he secretly held responsible for a past grievance, and struggled to conceal his hostility.

• Xuan Ye avoided the banquet guests while Sera introduced him to several nobles, including the Coastal Grand Duke.
• Heart-Guard Marquis greeted Xuan Ye, joked about courting young women, and asked whether he had a betrothed.
• Xuan Ye mentioned his contracted partner, and Heart-Guard Marquis offered him his granddaughter and gave him a Bracelet token to visit after the Founding Festival.
• Sera pointed out the Northern Lands Sword Marquis, and Xuan Ye stared at him before suppressing his hostility.

Xuan Ye struggled to grow stronger while worrying about the kingdom’s leaders, then went out exploring the royal capital with Sera. At a snack stall, his Storage Shell heated up and a mysterious stranger recognized a familiar aura on him.

• Toyas Silver asked Xuan Ye whether they had met before, and Xuan Ye cryptically said he would visit him ten years later.
• Sera told Xuan Ye that the king, three marquises, and duke had left the capital, while an Old Prince Consort oversaw the kingdom.
• Xuan Ye condensed the Professional Cores of Balance and Light and engraved ten more Gravity Runes.
• Xuan Ye avoided Ruoxin Seabreeze, who had just reached Professional Rank, and slipped out of the Imperial Palace to explore.
• Sera caught Xuan Ye trying to leave unprotected and went exploring with him in plain clothes.
• Xuan Ye’s Storage Shell grew hot at a snack stall, and a stranger sat across from him and said his aura felt familiar.

Xuan Ye confronted a hidden Sea Race King, who seized Sera and declared that the Sea Tribe would attack the Royal City in three days. As the city was sealed by the sea and the palace came under attack, Xuan Ye rushed toward the explosion site.

• Xuan Ye recognized the ordinary-looking man as a Sea Race King and admitted that he was afraid of him.
• The Sea Race King let Xuan Ye leave because of his connection to Harman, then seized Sera and proclaimed that he would wash away the tribe’s shame with blood in three days.
• The Royal City was surrounded by seawater, and Xuan Ye realized the proclamation was meant to draw Arthur Feng out of hiding.
• An explosion erupted inside the Royal Palace, and the Old Prince Consort used the Sacred Relic Seal to strengthen the City-Protecting Barrier.
• Xuan Ye reached the explosion site and found dead Imperial Guard soldiers beside an infiltrating Master-level Sea Tribe Noble.

Xuan Ye arrived at the Royal Palace and confronted the Silver Scale Sea Race Master after the Guard Captain died defending the Princess. Xuan Ye killed the intruder and absorbed his Essence, which condensed two Professional Cores.

• Xuan Ye arrived at the Royal Palace, where the dying Guard Captain asked him to support the Princess and then passed away defending the route.
• Xuan Ye promised to avenge the Guard Captain and advanced toward the Silver Scale Sea Race member, who mocked him for being only Professional Rank.
• Xuan Ye used his Pupil Power to briefly disorient the Silver Scale Sea Race member and struck with Gravity Collapse.
• The Silver Scale Sea Race member suffered a devastating wound despite dodging, and Xuan Ye finished him with a slash to the head.
• Xuan Ye absorbed the Master's scattered Essence, refined it through his Runes, and condensed two Professional Cores.

Xuan Ye advanced after killing Silver Scale Master and found Ruo Xin dying after protecting Aitiya. As Doug faced three human and Sea Tribe enemies, an unknown figure arrived and threatened to finish them within ten seconds.

• Xuan Ye absorbed Silver Scale Master's Essence and advanced to the late stage of the Professional rank.
• Ruo Xin carried the unconscious Aitiya until Xuan Ye found them, then died after handing her over.
• Xuan Ye realized humans had attacked Ruo Xin and suspected the Northern Land Sword Marquis had betrayed Royal Sea.
• Doug battled a Shadow Assassin, a Pirate Leader, and a Sea Race Priest who had joined forces against him.
• As Doug prepared to activate his Burning Core, a cold voice from above promised to defeat the three enemies within ten seconds.

Xuan Ye returned with Aitiya and swiftly defeated the Pirate Leader’s allies, turning the battle against the remaining enemies. After absorbing the fallen Masters’ Essence, he joined Doug and killed the Pirate Leader, leaving the way clear for them to press onward.

• Xuan Ye arrived carrying Aitiya, and the Pirate Leader placed her inside a golden protective barrier before attacking in Deity Mode.
• Xuan Ye severed the Pirate Leader’s arm in a flash, while Doug attacked the wounded Master.
• The hidden Assassin Leader tried to pierce Aitiya’s barrier with a Demon-Breaking Dagger, but Xuan Ye cut him in half.
• The Sea Tribe Priest surrounded himself with Heavy Water Orbs, but Xuan Ye shattered the water and killed him with a golden-flame sword.
• Xuan Ye absorbed the fallen Masters’ Essence and joined Doug against the Pirate Leader, killing him with Phantom Spirit Swordsmanship and Causality Reversal.