Chapter Summaries

Ling Wuyuan overwhelmingly defeated Zhang Wentao, while Wu Yanlian recognized how much strength he had held back. Afterward, Su Hu boasted about his own abilities before admitting he expected to last only twenty or thirty seconds against Ling Wuyuan, then challenged the man who mocked him to a fight.

• Wu Yanlian recalled Ling Wuyuan's abnormal physical strength and blushed as she thought about how seriously he had acted to defend her.
• Ling Wuyuan steadily overpowered Zhang Wentao, who had used special medicine but could not keep up with him.
• Zhang Wentao dropped to his knees and fainted before lasting a minute, drawing boos from the spectators.
• A spectator asked Su Hu how long he could last against Ling Wuyuan, and Su Hu claimed he would probably manage only twenty or thirty seconds.
• Su Hu argued that being unable to beat Ling Wuyuan did not mean he could not beat the spectator, and the two agreed to spar.

Two veiled women watched Ling Wuyuan effortlessly defeat his opponents and discussed his strength and personality. Su Hu challenged him to a final, all-out speed attack, but Ling Wuyuan drew his sword and struck before Su Hu could reach him.

• Two veiled women in a luxurious carriage watched Ling Wuyuan dominate the arena and agreed that he was exceptionally strong and handsome.
• Ling Wuyuan beat the third opponent with a few punches, barely paying attention to him.
• Su Hu took the stage and said he would not surrender without fighting, despite knowing his chances of winning were poor.
• Su Hu activated his family's secret technique, pushing his body beyond its limits as he charged Ling Wuyuan with his sword.
• As Su Hu's blade neared him, Ling Wuyuan suddenly had his sword drawn and flashed forward with a strike.

Ling Wuyuan defeated Su Hu with a casual sword slash, leaving Su Hu badly injured and astonished by the gulf between their swordsmanship. Su Hu asked how much speed Ling Wuyuan had used, and Ling Wuyuan said he had merely swung his sword casually before Su Hu collapsed.

• Su Hu recognized that Ling Wuyuan’s sword slash perfectly intercepted his attack and knew he had been utterly outclassed.
• Ling Wuyuan’s strike reduced Su Hu’s longsword to a fragment, while Su Hu’s self-inflicted exertion left him bleeding and severely injured.
• Ling Wuyuan sheathed his sword and acknowledged that Su Hu’s burst of speed had been fairly good.
• Su Hu asked how much speed Ling Wuyuan had used, and Ling Wuyuan replied that he did not know because he had merely swung his sword casually.
• Su Hu accepted the vast gap between them and fell backward.

Ling Wuyuan faced Guan Xiangfei as his next opponent in the Imperial Grand Competition, where the spectators’ hopes had dwindled to merely seeing someone injure him. Guan Xiangfei surrendered after Ling Wuyuan beat him badly, still unable to make Ling Wuyuan use his true skills.

• Guan Xiangfei challenged Ling Wuyuan and admitted that he could find no weakness in him.
• Guan Xiangfei resolved to force Ling Wuyuan to use his true skills, despite the enormous gap between them.
• The spectators speculated that Guan Xiangfei must have a secret technique and hoped he could at least hurt Ling Wuyuan.
• Ling Wuyuan battered Guan Xiangfei until he surrendered, complaining that Ling Wuyuan had refused to knock him out quickly.
• The spectators booed Guan Xiangfei, while Jiang Xing and the Guan family supporters pretended not to know him.

After defeating Guan Xiangfei, Ling Wuyuan discussed his ambitions to explore the world and surpass all who came before him, leaving Guan Xiangfei overwhelmed by the gulf between them. Guan Xiangfei was teleported away, and Ling Wuyuan awaited his next challenger.

• Ling Wuyuan defeated Guan Xiangfei so decisively that Guan Xiangfei realized he could not hope to catch up in strength or talent.
• Guan Xiangfei asked Ling Wuyuan whether being unmatched made the world boring, and Ling Wuyuan said the world still held vast places and secrets to explore.
• Guan Xiangfei recognized that Ling Wuyuan genuinely believed he could surpass those who came before and accomplish what no one else had.
• Guan Xiangfei laughed and admitted that he fell far short of Ling Wuyuan even in spirit and ambition.
• Guan Xiangfei was teleported away, and Ling Wuyuan waited as another challenger arrived.

Ling Wuyuan faced Lan Yanhai, Punan Country’s Hero Ranking Number One, as the twenty-second challenger in the Imperial Grand Competition. Lan Yanhai recognized Ling Wuyuan’s growing strength and aura of invincibility as a threat, but resolved to fight him in the hope of stopping his rise.

• Lan Yanhai entered the stage, and Ling Wuyuan sensed that he was far stronger than the previous challengers.
• Lan Yanhai introduced himself as Punan Country’s Hero Ranking Number One, and Ling Wuyuan returned the introduction before they drew their swords.
• Lan Yanhai praised Ling Wuyuan’s strength and acknowledged that he had little chance of victory after Ling Wuyuan’s many consecutive battles.
• Ling Wuyuan’s victories had strengthened his confidence, and Lan Yanhai realized that each defeated opponent was helping him cultivate an aura of invincibility.
• Lan Yanhai decided that defeating Ling Wuyuan might shatter his momentum, and solemnly regarded him as the greatest enemy of his life.

Lan Yanhai recognized that Ling Wuyuan was nearing an aura of invincibility and resolved to stop his rise in a fair duel. He launched a powerful Sword Momentum attack, and Ling Wuyuan welcomed the chance to face such a formidable opponent.

• Lan Yanhai realized Ling Wuyuan was close to cultivating an overwhelming will and feared he would dominate the surrounding nations.
• Lan Yanhai declared that he would fight Ling Wuyuan with all his strength and without underhanded tricks.
• Ling Wuyuan accepted Lan Yanhai's challenge and invited him to show his abilities.
• Lan Yanhai charged and struck with Sword Momentum, making the sword and surrounding space feel immensely heavy.
• Ling Wuyuan recognized the advanced Sword Momentum and felt delighted to have found a worthy opponent.

Ling Wuyuan endured Lan Yanhai’s Sword Momentum with his physical body alone, revealing defenses far beyond what Lan Yanhai expected. Lan Yanhai suspected he had cultivated the Diamond White Flow Body, but did not know the full extent of Ling Wuyuan’s body-tempering abilities.

• Ling Wuyuan forcibly broke through Lan Yanhai’s Sword Momentum without using true qi.
• Lan Yanhai realized Ling Wuyuan’s body could withstand the pressure both internally and externally, and suspected he had cultivated the Diamond White Flow Body ahead of his realm.
• Lan Yanhai reflected that Ling Wuyuan’s strength encompassed speed, power, defense, recovery, and resistance to poisons and curses.
• Ling Wuyuan had mastered the Light Wind White Flow Body and cultivated the Diamond White Flow Body across realms using his Ultimate Intent.
• Lan Yanhai recognized that Ling Wuyuan’s all-round strength made the situation extremely troublesome.

Lan Yanhai clashed with Ling Wuyuan and was gradually overwhelmed by his opponent’s superior strength. Refusing to give up, Lan Yanhai shifted tactics and tried to use his greater combat experience to find Ling Wuyuan’s weaknesses.

• Lan Yanhai and Ling Wuyuan’s swords collided, blasting apart the ground and carving out a huge crater.
• Lan Yanhai realized he was using all his strength while Ling Wuyuan remained calm and held power in reserve.
• Lan Yanhai pushed aside his despair and resolved to stop Ling Wuyuan for the sake of his faction and nation.
• Ling Wuyuan sensed Lan Yanhai’s renewed determination and increased the pressure, driving him backward.
• Lan Yanhai chained together varied sword techniques to probe for weaknesses and exploit Ling Wuyuan’s presumed lack of combat experience.

Ling Wuyuan’s extraordinary instincts let him compensate for his lack of combat experience, and he dominated Lan Yanhai with basic swordsmanship. The duel ended with Lan Yanhai’s sword broken and his confidence shattered.

• Ling Wuyuan reflected that he learned from combat instinctively and treated surpassing himself as his true path to growth.
• Ling Wuyuan used simple, precise Basic Swordsmanship to dismantle Lan Yanhai’s elaborate attacks and drive him back.
• Lan Yanhai lost confidence as Ling Wuyuan repeatedly struck the vulnerable points in his defenses.
• Ling Wuyuan cut Lan Yanhai’s longsword in two, leaving Lan Yanhai kneeling in despair.

Ling Wuyuan continued defeating challengers, including Fu Pixu and Xiao Guangxiao, despite having already fought through more than twenty rounds. As he left thirty contestants injured and remained unscathed, spectators began to wonder whether anyone could truly challenge him.

• Fu Pixu, Pine Wave Country's top-ranked hero, challenged Ling Wuyuan and attacked with a powerful saber strike.
• Ling Wuyuan defeated Fu Pixu, who left the stage coughing blood and unable to believe his loss.
• Xiao Guangxiao challenged Ling Wuyuan, then admitted defeat after being heavily injured.
• A glamorous woman asked Ling Wuyuan not to hit her face, but he injured her everywhere else; she continued complaining as she left.
• Ling Wuyuan defeated challenger after challenger, and after thirty contestants fell, spectators questioned whether anyone could challenge him.

Xi Xianlan and Bai Jingshu teased Pei Yiman about Ling Wuyuan, while Yan Xiujin’s jokes about becoming his second wife earned her a spanking. Ling Wuyuan faced the White Mist Country’s Fourth Prince, the current Hero Ranking First Place, and Yuan Yujun refused to tell him to go easy.

• Xi Xianlan praised Ling Wuyuan and teased Pei Yiman for choosing such a strong man, and Pei Yiman proudly agreed.
• Bai Jingshu joked that Xi Xianlan could become Ling Wuyuan’s second wife, prompting Yan Xiujin to claim the second-wife position for herself.
• Xi Xianlan spanked Yan Xiujin for her mischievous claims while Yuan Yujun watched Ling Wuyuan’s next match.
• Ling Wuyuan faced the White Mist Country’s Fourth Prince, who held the Hero Ranking’s First Place and was considered the likely next Country Lord.
• Zhu Danfeng asked whether Ling Wuyuan should be warned to show mercy, but Yuan Yujun said he knew his limits and the prince had to be ready to take a beating.

Yuan Yujun realized that Ling Wuyuan’s natural drive to fulfill his promise had caused his mindset and bearing to grow, and that he was the great fortune foretold for Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion. As Ling Wuyuan prepared to duel White Mist Country’s Fourth Prince, Yi Chenglin, he sensed the prince’s concealed envy and resentment.

• Yuan Yujun recognized that Ling Wuyuan’s resolve to challenge everyone had naturally strengthened his state of mind and forged an extraordinary bearing.
• Yuan Yujun recalled a divination that had led her to Pei Yi and concluded that its omen of great fortune had also pointed to Ling Wuyuan.
• Ling Wuyuan recognized Yi Chenglin as White Mist Country’s Fourth Prince and first-ranked hero from the earlier introductions.
• Yi Chenglin formally praised Ling Wuyuan on behalf of White Mist Country before their duel, while hiding envy and resentment behind his polite words.
• Ling Wuyuan sensed Yi Chenglin’s hostility and dismissed him as an insignificant clown.

Ling Wuyuan dismissed Yi Chenglin’s resentment after defeating him and regarded letting him leave on his feet as preferential treatment. Referee and news chief Jiang Wenju decided Ling was a peerless prodigy and prepared an extensive special edition about his performance.

• Ling Wuyuan recalled Yi Chenglin’s departure and said he did not care about the defeated challenger’s hidden hatred.
• Ling Wuyuan considered letting Yi Chenglin leave standing a kindness compared with how other challengers had departed.
• Jiang Wenju watched Ling Wuyuan remain uninjured and felt that refereeing the competition was easy.
• Jiang Wenju concluded Ling Wuyuan was the sole peerless prodigy among the surrounding nations.
• Jiang Wenju planned to expand the next News Report and publish a special edition about Ling Wuyuan throughout the competition.

Wu Yanlian took her turn against Ling Wuyuan but withdrew without fighting after trying to give him time to recover. Outside the secret realm, she watched challengers line up and judged that most hidden geniuses had no idea how far they fell short of him.

• Wu Yanlian joked with Ling Wuyuan about wanting to enter beneath moonlight, then stalled instead of starting their fight.
• Ling Wuyuan asked Wu Yanlian whether she intended to fight, and she angrily withdrew after he told her to leave.
• Ling Wuyuan recognized that Wu Yanlian had been trying to buy him time, though he remained near full strength and had no need for it.
• Wu Yanlian returned outside and saw challengers preparing to face Ling Wuyuan.
• Wu Yanlian considered the hidden disciples of Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion and concluded that most challengers lacked the experience and strength to threaten Ling Wuyuan.

Wu Yanlian declined to fight Ling Wuyuan and left to find her Sixth Junior Sister, while Yi Chenglin watched her go and grew jealous of Ling Wuyuan. When an overconfident cultivator asked Yi Chenglin to assess his strength, Yi Chenglin knocked him unconscious with one punch.

• Wu Yanlian told Jiang Wenju that she did not want to duel Ling Wuyuan and said they had a good relationship.
• Wu Yanlian left to find her Sixth Junior Sister and complain about Ling Wuyuan.
• Yi Chenglin saw Wu Yanlian leave without acknowledging him and grew more jealous of Ling Wuyuan.
• A confident Source Gathering Realm cultivator asked Yi Chenglin to judge his strength and chances against Ling Wuyuan.
• Yi Chenglin punched the cultivator, sending him into the arena barrier and leaving him severely injured and unconscious.

Sun Yuansheng, a little-known cultivator from Mufeng Town, appeared in the Imperial Grand Competition and astonished his family and neighbors by facing Ling Wuyuan. As their battle began, Jiang Wenju and other elders recognized Sun Yuansheng’s technique as one created by a vanished Enlightened Intent Realm cultivator.

• Sun Yuansheng’s father and neighbors were stunned to see him appear in the projection, since they had believed he was only a Blood Strengthening Realm cultivator with little chance of reaching the Qi Nourishing Realm.
• Sun Yuansheng introduced himself to Ling Wuyuan as a contestant from Mufeng Town, and Ling Wuyuan identified himself as being from Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion.
• Ling Wuyuan launched a sword strike across a hundred meters, and Sun Yuansheng countered with a giant palm formed from Fire and Earth attribute True Qi.
• Jiang Wenju recognized Sun Yuansheng’s technique as a martial art created more than two hundred years earlier by a now-missing Enlightened Intent Realm cultivator.

Sun Yuansheng reflected on his failed attempt to challenge Ling Wuyuan, realizing that the overwhelming powerhouse had eclipsed his ambitions and broadened his view of the world. Ling Wuyuan remained eager for stronger challengers as the next contestant took the stage and felt the terrifying pressure.

• Sun Yuansheng recalled his Master's advice and how he had hidden his strength until reaching the Spirit Disturbance Stage at age thirty-five.
• Sun Yuansheng recognized Ling Wuyuan as far stronger than the other contestants and chose to challenge him despite expecting defeat.
• Ling Wuyuan defeated Sun Yuansheng, who left the stage grieving that he could never match him yet feeling fortunate to have witnessed his strength.
• Ling Wuyuan hoped for an even stronger challenger and unleashed the pressure of his Five Elements True Qi across the area.
• The next challenger sensed Ling Wuyuan's overwhelming threat and instinctively concluded that he could not win.

Ling Wuyuan defeated challenger after challenger without being injured, while the audience watched in disbelief. With challengers dwindling, Jiang Wenju published an article to draw stronger opponents to him.

• Ling Wuyuan recognized that many Rogue Cultivators had advanced without solid foundations, then defeated a challenger who shouted that their equal cultivation realms made Ling's strength impossible.
• Ling Wuyuan sensed that challengers from around Rainbow Mist City were running out and waited for people from other regions to arrive.
• Guan Xiangfei asked how many people had challenged Ling, and Jiang Xing told him that 116 challengers had failed to injure Ling.
• Jiang Wenju wrote an article to attract more challengers to Ling Wuyuan.
• The next morning, White Mist Country's News Report released Jiang Wenju's complimentary supplement, titled [Invincible Among Peers in the True Sense!?].

After Jiang Wenju’s special edition reported that Ling Wuyuan had defeated more than a hundred challengers without being injured, readers and organizations across White Mist Country and beyond became fascinated by him. The News Report headquarters decided to promote Ling Wuyuan, and he began his rise to world-renowned fame.

• Jiang Wenju’s special edition shocked readers with its account of Ling Wuyuan defeating more than a hundred challengers without suffering an injury.
• Readers across White Mist Country admired Ling Wuyuan, and many people headed to Rainbow Mist City to witness his challenge firsthand.
• A young man in a remote tavern decided to travel to Rainbow Mist City, then flew into the sky despite being too old to challenge Ling Wuyuan.
• People and factions across White Mist Country and other nations turned their attention toward the Imperial Grand Competition, including those who wished Ling Wuyuan harm.
• The News Report headquarters and the organizations behind it learned of Ling Wuyuan’s record and instructed Jiang Wenju to gather information while promoting him across their branches.