Chapter Summaries

Ling Wuyuan continued defeating challengers while news of his strength spread farther than expected, drawing attention to him from powerful forces. Yuan Yujun concluded that Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion could protect him within White Mist Country, though he might have to remain there until reaching the Enlightened Intent Realm.

• Ling Wuyuan noticed that news coverage was drawing more challengers to him, but none had matched Lan Yanhai's strength so far.
• Yuan Yujun read the special News Report edition about Ling Wuyuan and realized Jiang Wenju's promotion of him exceeded her expectations.
• Yuan Yujun worried that the news might attract powerful forces before Ling Wuyuan had fully grown.
• Yuan Yujun reassured Xi Xianlan, Pei Yi, and the others that Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion could protect Ling Wuyuan within its sphere of influence.
• Yuan Yujun said Ling Wuyuan might have to stay in White Mist Country until he reached the Enlightened Intent Realm.

Ling Wuyuan defeated another prodigy and declared that being a prodigy was merely the threshold to meeting him, while privately hoping his taunts would draw stronger challengers. The next morning, the White Mist Country News Report made his line a headline, provoking outrage and ridicule across the country.

• Ling Wuyuan crushed a challenger from Nanwang Country with his Personality Correction Fist and sent him flying from the stage.
• Ling Wuyuan told the defeated prodigy, “being a prodigy is merely the threshold to meeting me,” leaving him despairing.
• Jiang Wenju praised Ling Wuyuan’s words, while Pei Yi, Bai Jingshu, Yao Yueyan, and Yan Xiujin admired his imposing attitude.
• Ling Wuyuan privately wondered whether his provocative remarks had maxed out his opponents’ hatred and considered taunting them further.
• The White Mist Country News Report printed Ling Wuyuan’s words as a standalone headline the next morning, angering people who felt provoked by it.
• A Qi Nourishing Realm braggart claimed he could beat Ling Wuyuan, but onlookers laughed at him until he grew furious.

Ling Wuyuan continued defeating challengers at the Imperial Grand Competition, while spectators and leaders from fifteen neighboring countries watched with growing frustration and hostility. On the third day, a special edition reported that more than five hundred challengers had lost, bringing the matter to an end.

• Ling Wuyuan taunted defeated challengers as they left the arena, provoking their anger and drawing more challengers to fight him.
• Spectators from various countries called for someone to stop Ling Wuyuan, while the injured challengers and those awaiting their turns grew anxious.
• Challengers learned that the [News Report] had understated Ling Wuyuan's strength, and some who had come to compete hesitated to take the stage.
• The [Lords] and [Sect Masters] watched with helplessness and hostility, while Yi Guangxiang worried about Ling Wuyuan's growing strength.
• On the third day, a special edition titled [Could No One Really Stop Him or Hurt Him?] reported that Ling Wuyuan had defeated more than five hundred prodigies from fifteen countries around [White Mist Country].

On the final day of the challenge tournament, Ling Wuyuan defeated every challenger without suffering an injury and secured overwhelming victory. He returned to the outside world to thunderous acclaim, while Jiang Wenju’s prepared article declared him invincible among his peers.

• News reports that Ling Wuyuan remained uninjured after two days of battles left readers astonished and curious whether he could finish the tournament without being hurt.
• Ling Wuyuan faced a growing number of challengers on the final day, including two top-ranked young cultivators, and effortlessly defeated them all.
• No challengers appeared during the final hours, and Ling Wuyuan, Yuan Yujun, and the spectators recognized that he had won decisively.
• At dawn, a bell returned Ling Wuyuan to the outside world, where the crowd welcomed him with fervent cheers.
• Jiang Wenju sent his article, “Invincible Among Peers in the True Sense!!”, to every printing facility of the White Mist Country News Report Branch.

Three days after the previous events, Ling Wuyuan sat quietly at his courtyard pool until Xi Xianlan and Yan Xiujin arrived. Xi Xianlan persuaded Yan Xiujin to postpone shopping for one chess game, then told Ling Wuyuan he had appeared in the News Report.

• Ling Wuyuan emptied his mind in his courtyard on Jade Night Snow Mountain until Yan Xiujin and Xi Xianlan entered.
• Xi Xianlan asked whether Ling Wuyuan was cultivating, and he explained that he was simply enjoying sitting quietly.
• Xi Xianlan proposed playing chess, and Yan Xiujin agreed after Xi Xianlan promised to treat her to snacks.
• Xi Xianlan set up their complicated three-dimensional chessboard and tried to distract Ling Wuyuan with news.
• Xi Xianlan told Ling Wuyuan that he had made it into the News Report, leaving him and Yan Xiujin puzzled.

Xi Xianlan told Ling Wuyuan that the News Report—Headquarters had announced his success in the challenge tournament across every branch on the Notice Board of All Nations. Ling Wuyuan took the news calmly, while Yan Xiujin reacted with astonishment and celebrated his newfound worldwide fame.

• Xi Xianlan clarified that Ling Wuyuan’s news had reached beyond the White Mist Country Branch and its neighboring countries.
• Ling Wuyuan guessed that the News Report—Headquarters had ordered every branch to publish his achievement, and Xi Xianlan confirmed he was right.
• Yan Xiujin was shocked to learn that the announcement appeared on the News Report’s highest notice board.
• Xi Xianlan explained that the Notice Board of All Nations normally carried major announcements such as the founding or destruction of countries.
• Yan Xiujin slapped Ling Wuyuan’s shoulder and cheered as Xi Xianlan described the announcement as a public acknowledgment of his influence.

While playing chess with Xi Xianlan, Ling Wuyuan explained that he felt no need to celebrate his achievements because he believed they were earned through his own strength and effort. He was concerned that the News Report had revealed him to powerful factions too soon, but trusted Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion to protect him.

• Xi Xianlan urged Ling Wuyuan to show excitement over his recent success, but he stayed composed.
• Ling Wuyuan said he felt no fortune in his achievements because he believed he had earned them through talent, strength, and effort.
• Ling Wuyuan admitted that the News Report had exposed him to other nations and factions sooner than he expected, leaving him feeling some urgency.
• Ling Wuyuan said Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion's hidden strength eased his concerns, and he explained that its leaders had supported his choices.
• Xi Xianlan warned that Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion might not be able to protect him from powerful factions, but Ling Wuyuan dismissed her doubts about the sect.

Xi Xianlan’s attempt to tease Ling Wuyuan about the fame and danger he had attracted failed when he calmly assessed the situation, and she conceded that Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion had hidden strength. After Ling Wuyuan beat Xi Xianlan at chess, Yuan Yujun arrived with News Reports from sixteen countries, leaving their contents unrevealed.

• Xi Xianlan revealed that she had planned to frighten Ling Wuyuan about the dangers of appearing on the Notice Board of All Nations, but his composed response foiled her plan.
• Yan Xiujin questioned whether Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion was truly powerful, and Xi Xianlan hinted that the sect had undisclosed strength she could not explain.
• Ling Wuyuan played chess while chatting with Yan Xiujin and defeated Xi Xianlan, who gave up the game.
• Yan Xiujin and Wu Yanlian bickered after Yuan Yujun entered the courtyard with several others.
• Yuan Yujun presented Ling Wuyuan with News Reports from sixteen different countries.

Ling Wuyuan read praise of himself in news reports from sixteen countries, then declared that nobody behind him could ever catch up. Yuan Yujun and the others sensed the growing force of his presence and spiritual influence.

• Ling Wuyuan read the reports and observed that they praised his strengths while downplaying his flaws.
• Yuan Yujun said the reports aimed to make Ling Wuyuan an inspiring role model for young cultivators.
• Ling Wuyuan insisted that anyone imitating him could only follow behind, since his true rivals were those ahead of him and himself.
• Yuan Yujun recognized that Ling Wuyuan's bearing could influence others and guessed his spiritual power could affect cultivators directly.
• Ling Wuyuan said he could defeat former opponents for a lifetime because he would keep advancing faster than they could.
• Yuan Yujun, Xi Xianlan, and the other women realized their confidence seemed restrained beside Ling Wuyuan's sharp self-assurance.

Yuan Yujun told Ling Wuyuan that News Report’s coverage had raised Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion’s profile, then invited him to join Yanlian, Xianlan, and Jingshu on a secret-realm expedition. As the sisters went shopping together, Ling Wuyuan surprised them by claiming News Report should feel honored to be associated with him.

• Yuan Yujun praised the publicity surrounding Ling Wuyuan and explained that a secret realm in White Mist Country would open in a month for cultivators at the Spirit Infusion Realm or below.
• Yuan Yujun asked Ling Wuyuan to tell her if he wanted to join Yanlian, Xianlan, and Jingshu in the secret realm, promising Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion would arrange protection.
• Yan Xiujin complained that the other Senior Sisters were interrupting her private time with Ling Wuyuan, so Xianlan smacked her and Wu Yanlian urged the others to punish her further.
• After Yan Xiujin was beaten, Wu Yanlian asked Ling Wuyuan whether News Report’s attention made him feel honored.
• Ling Wuyuan said he did not feel honored and declared that News Report should feel honored because people would remember it alongside him for generations.

Ling Wuyuan rejected the honor of being covered by the News Report and declared that he intended to surpass it, achieve immortality, and claim supreme power. His ambition stunned Wu Yanlian and the others, while Wu Yanlian found herself fascinated by him.

• Ling Wuyuan considered the News Report’s coverage a source of happiness, not an honor, and believed the organization might one day be remembered because of him.
• Wu Yanlian was shocked by the scale of Ling Wuyuan’s ambition and teased him by asking whether he sought immortality.
• Ling Wuyuan declared that cultivation might let him achieve eternal life and supreme power, insisting that the ancients’ failures did not limit him.
• Wu Yanlian and the others were struck by Ling Wuyuan’s conviction, and Wu Yanlian found him exceptionally handsome.

Yan Xiujin openly clung to Ling Wuyuan and asked him to look after her if he became successful, while her Senior Sisters left her alone. Later, Ling Wuyuan and Bai Jingshu chatted at a rune gear shop, where his extensive knowledge surprised her.

• Yan Xiujin clung to Ling Wuyuan's arm and asked him to take care of her in the future, and Ling Wuyuan agreed.
• Xi Xianlan, Bai Jingshu, Wu Yanlian, Yao Yueyan, and Pei Suxia silently urged Pei Yi to rein Yan Xiujin in, but Pei Yi told them to let her be.
• At a rune gear shop in Jade Night Snow City, Bai Jingshu admired Ling Wuyuan's clothes and asked where he had bought them.
• Ling Wuyuan told Bai Jingshu that he had bought his clothes at Flower Rain Weaving Cloud Textile, and she discussed her interest in rune gear manufacturing.
• Bai Jingshu was surprised by Ling Wuyuan's breadth of knowledge, and he explained that he liked reading and had a photographic memory.

Ling Wuyuan’s vast reading and natural talent left Bai Jingshu wondering whether he was born knowing, while he himself planned to create cultivation methods only after building a stronger foundation. Xi Xianlan dismissed Bai Jingshu’s theory, leaving her annoyed but unable to prove it.

• Ling Wuyuan’s memorization of the Azure Lake White Stream Palace’s books impressed Bai Jingshu, who could not understand how he had learned so much at his age.
• Ling Wuyuan considered eventually focusing on cultivation methods of his own creation, but decided his foundation was not yet strong enough.
• Bai Jingshu asked Xi Xianlan whether anyone could truly be born knowing and wondered if Ling Wuyuan was such a person.
• Xi Xianlan said Ling Wuyuan was simply more talented than most and dismissed Bai Jingshu’s conjecture.

Nie Qingdao studied reports of Ling Wuyuan’s flawless victories and questioned his children about whether anyone could match them. The chapter left him treating Ling Wuyuan’s feat as extraordinary and wondering why a man had appeared in the [Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion].

• Nie Qingdao read the [News Report] about Ling Wuyuan and was puzzled that a man came from the [Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion].
• Nie Qingdao considered Ling Wuyuan’s record of defeating more than a thousand challengers without injury and took it seriously.
• One of Nie Qingdao’s children said that surviving successive battles against that many capable opponents would be impossible without injury or defeat.
• Nie Qingdao asked Peichang whether he could achieve the same feat, and Peichang said he could not confidently defeat a thousand opponents in succession.

Nie Peichang admitted that Ling Wuyuan was stronger, and Nie Qingdao’s family discussed whether to recruit or eliminate the rising star. Nie Qingdao warned them that Ling Wuyuan’s sect, Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion, was an overseas force the Crimson Forest Dynasty dared not offend.

• Nie Peichang told Nie Qingdao that he could not match Ling Wuyuan, despite sensing his father’s disappointment.
• The imperial family considered Ling Wuyuan’s published battle record credible and recognized that his strength surpassed ordinary national boundaries.
• One of Nie Qingdao’s children suggested recruiting Ling Wuyuan or eliminating him, possibly by helping him in a crisis first.
• Nie Qingdao rebuked the suggestion and revealed that Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion was an overseas sect the Crimson Forest Dynasty avoided offending.
• The Princes fell silent after Nie Qingdao warned them that overseas forces were far more dangerous than they understood.

Nie Qingdao worried that Ling Wuyuan’s connection to the mysterious Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion signaled a major change that could threaten the Crimson Forest Dynasty and the Golden Mist Continent. He decided to consult the News Report before choosing how to respond, while factions across the continent heightened their vigilance.

• Nie Qingdao recognized the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion as a dangerous, mysterious overseas force with a history of destroying those who challenged it.
• Nie Qingdao grew alarmed that the Pavilion had recruited the high-profile Ling Wuyuan and might be abandoning its long-standing secrecy.
• Nie Qingdao considered joining other factions to question the Pavilion, but remained unsure whether its activity was truly a threat.
• Nie Qingdao decided to ask the News Report what was happening before making further plans.
• Factions and beings across the Golden Mist Continent raised their vigilance in response to the Pavilion’s unusual movements.

Yuan Yujun decided that the [Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion] would tell the other factions it had no plans to expand beyond [White Mist Country]. The elders then gossiped about Ling Wuyuan’s growing closeness with Yi and argued over which [Cultivation Institute] should teach him.

• Yuan Yujun laughed at the [News Report]’s indirect inquiry and agreed to reassure the factions that the [Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion] would not expand beyond [White Mist Country].
• An elder asked Yuan Yujun about Yi and Ling Wuyuan, and Yuan Yujun said she suspected they had grown much closer.
• An elder argued that Ling Wuyuan’s value would help secure his place in the sect, while others praised his prospects and worried he might neglect his talents.
• The [Steward Elders] from various [Cultivation Institutes] complained that Ling Wuyuan had not studied with them and argued over which discipline he should pursue.
• Yuan Yujun recalled that Ling Wuyuan had been organizing insights from the [Imperial Grand Competition] and had previously complained that the institutes’ packed schedules felt like work.

Yuan Yujun revealed that Ling Wuyuan was nearing the Spirit Disturbance Stage, astonishing the Elders with his rapid progress and prompting them to joke that Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion could live off him. Later, Ling Wuyuan and Wu Yanlian discussed the Imperial Grand Competition, where Guan Xiangfei and Yi Chenglin placed highly because their injuries from Ling Wuyuan were comparatively light.

• Yuan Yujun told the Steward Elders that Ling Wuyuan's Spiritual Energy Vortex was nearing a transformation and he was close to the Spirit Disturbance Stage.
• Zhu Danfeng and the other Elders marveled at Ling Wuyuan's rapid advancement and stable foundation, then joked that their Pavilion could live off the young.
• Wu Yanlian told Ling Wuyuan she had withdrawn from the competition because she had no hope of beating him, and Ling Wuyuan jokingly apologized for being too strong.
• Wu Yanlian asked Ling Wuyuan about Guan Xiangfei, and Ling Wuyuan said they had become acquaintances after he beat him in Dragon Peak City.
• Wu Yanlian explained that Guan Xiangfei took third place because Ling Wuyuan had left him less injured than most contestants; Yi Chenglin took second for the same reason.

Ling Wuyuan learned that his victory had left Yi Chenglin and Guan Xiangfei awkwardly awarded second and third place because they were the least injured. He regretted not manipulating the injuries to force a more entertaining fight for the remaining rankings, then won Yan Xiujin over with a promise of food.

• Yi Chenglin and Guan Xiangfei received second and third place, though they and the other competitors knew their rankings came largely from luck and their injuries.
• Yi Guangxiang awarded the prizes while Wu Yanlian collected Ling Wuyuan's award on his behalf, citing his emergency secluded cultivation.
• Wu Yanlian explained to Ling Wuyuan that his actions had left every competitor miserable and effectively determined the placements.
• Ling Wuyuan regretted not adjusting the competitors' injuries so they could fight for the remaining places, and Wu Yanlian and the other women were stunned by his idea.
• Yan Xiujin criticized Ling Wuyuan, but changed her tune and praised him as a rare good man after he offered to treat her to food.

Ling Wuyuan returned from the Alchemy Institute and shared a meal with Pei Yi, who told him Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion might let him study some of its secret manuals. She also asked whether he had decided to visit the secret realm, and he confirmed that he planned to go.

• Ling Wuyuan told Pei Yi that his studies had resolved some pill-refining doubts and could improve his success rate.
• Pei Yi served Ling Wuyuan a lavish meal and told him that her Master was discussing opening some Source Gathering Realm manuals to him.
• Pei Yi said the sect elders had been urging her and Ling Wuyuan to grow closer and even asked when they would marry.
• Pei Yi asked whether Ling Wuyuan would visit the secret realm mentioned by the Senior Sisters, and he said he would go to broaden his horizons.