Chapter Summaries

Shen Qian returned to Jing City, reunited with his parents, and met Ji Ruoshui, who admitted she had come to see him. As he wrestled with whether to use her hidden yin energy to break through his stalled cultivation, a resonance from his soul drew him away toward something that had emerged in the city.

• Shen Qian reviewed the Life and Death Gate and Hundred Refinements Gate that had stalled his physical and elemental cultivation, while his Mental Power had advanced through the first Form and Intent Gate.
• Shen Qian and Jiang Xuan saw the devastation around Jing City as their aircraft descended, then arrived at the airport with Dao Jiu and the Luxu Battalion guard unit.
• Jiang Xuan fled from the welcoming crowd, and Shen Qian reunited with Wang Xiaojuan and Shen Liang before greeting Chai Haotian and the city officials.
• Shen Qian recognized Ji Ruoshui at the airport, embraced her, and heard her say she would wait for him at the Sky-Reaching Tower.
• Shen Qian considered whether to sleep with Ji Ruoshui to use her hidden extreme yin energy to break through the Life and Death Gate, but hesitated over the consequences.
• Shen Qian sensed a resonance from his soul, told his parents to go home without him, and vanished from the car.

After months of cultivating in the Myriad Manifestations Tower’s time-altering hundredth floor, Shen Qian returned to Jing City and discovered that Ji Ruoshui had prepared a wedding ceremony for him. The chapter ended with her revealing the secret behind her peaches and shyly facing him in bridal attire.

• Shen Qian and his Wang Hou avatar discussed the hundredth floor’s time-controlling formation, their cultivation bottlenecks, and the Dao Stones they had exhausted.
• Shen Qian spent three days with his parents, then attended a gathering with his fellow disciples, where Liu Changqing learned how powerful Shen Qian had become.
• Shen Qian went to Ji Ruoshui’s residence after hearing she was upset and found her Buddhist hall decorated for a wedding.
• Ji Ruoshui told Shen Qian that her peaches had been grown with water from her bath and that she did not want anyone else eating them.

Shen Qian and Ji Ruoshui married, and their wedding night brought Ji Ruoshui’s long-suppressed power of utmost yin into play. Shen Qian crossed the Life and Death Gate, advanced Calamity Buddha to the sixth level, and gained the strength to stand alongside ordinary Wang Hou.

• Shen Qian realized that Ji Ruoshui’s peaches drew their vitality from her body of utmost yin.
• Shen Qian and Ji Ruoshui exchanged vows and completed a wedding ceremony before the altar to Heaven and Earth.
• When Ji Ruoshui became frightened in the bedchamber, Shen Qian promised to wait until she was ready, then coaxed her into talking about meeting his parents.
• Ji Ruoshui’s temperament changed as her suppressed desire erupted, and she embraced Shen Qian with overwhelming passion.
• The surge of utmost yin let Shen Qian cross the Life and Death Gate, raise Calamity Buddha to the sixth level, and reach the Seventh Restriction.

After reaching the Seventh Restriction and spending a month with Ji Ruoshui, Shen Qian left for the Sea of Learning, where he planned to enter alone while his clone pursued a way to refine origin force. He departed from Jing City and headed to the Martial Arts Department’s gathering coordinates, confident he could survive the trial.

• Shen Qian realized he had reached the Seventh Restriction during his breakthrough with Ji Ruoshui and assessed that he could rival an ordinary Golden Immortal-level Wang Hou.
• Shen Qian spent a month with Ji Ruoshui, returned to Jiangzhong Military University for his final exams, and devoted his remaining time to his family and friends.
• On the fifth day of June, Shen Qian quietly left Jing City for the Sea of Learning and called out to Ji Ruoshui as he departed.
• Shen Qian traveled through the restricted zone to the gathering coordinates and told his clone he would enter the Sea of Learning alone.
• Shen Qian tasked his clone with using the Shennong Cauldron and the Destined Great Alchemist method to find a way to refine origin force while he entered the Sea of Learning.

Shen Qian arrived at the gathering for the Sea of Learning, reunited with his companions, and learned that a Wang Hou-backed bounty had been placed on his life. As the group prepared to share what they knew about the Sea of Learning, he spotted Tantai Qin and discovered she had not secured a slot.

• Shen Qian reached the abandoned port, received the Sea of Learning entry mark, and loudly called for his friends to gather.
• Marquis Wu Ding silenced the crowd, and Shen Qian reunited with Lin Sanmo, Li Muyi, Bai Fei, Qu Bai, Niu Ziguo, Feng Manlin, Taishi Wuwei, and Sun Zuo.
• Sun Zuo told Shen Qian that the black market had placed a bounty on his death worth a hundred years of residence rights, twenty billion in cash or resources, and a Wang Hou's favor.
• Shen Qian proposed that the group share their information about the Sea of Learning before entering.
• Shen Qian spotted Tantai Qin standing by the river, approached her, and asked why she had not obtained a slot.

Shen Qian reunited with Tantai Qin in the Sea of Learning, where she revealed she had abandoned her former Immortal Seat and the Moon God identity, leaving him unsure whether their feelings were real. After receiving Wu Wei’s warning list of powerful participants, Shen Qian entered the newly opened Sea of Learning and arrived alone in its vast world.

• Shen Qian found Tantai Qin on a small rock and learned she had abandoned her former Immortal Seat, declaring that the Moon God no longer existed.
• Shen Qian asked whether Tantai Qin still had feelings for him, but she fell silent and vanished after a Martial Arts Department director summoned him.
• Director He gave Shen Qian a confidential list from Wu Wei naming more than a hundred peak Mountains and Seas participants, including Wang Shuo.
• Wu Wei and eight other Wang Hous used the Qiankun Cauldron and a formation to open a temporary passage to the Sea of Learning.
• Shen Qian and the other martial artists sent their souls across the white jade bridge, and Shen Qian arrived alone in the Sea of Learning.

Shen Qian explored the Qian Sea, learned that its currents contained knowledge and that the system could hide his soul’s strength by storing his memories. After identifying the sea and searching for Literary Ranks, he was surrounded by more than a hundred Mountain Sea martial artists led by Tan Hao, who sought revenge for losing an arm to Shen Qian.

• Shen Qian discovered that the Sea of Learning’s currents contained knowledge fragments that he could absorb, and he realized that the brightness of each person’s soul reflected their strength.
• Shen Qian used the system to temporarily store much of his knowledge, dimming his soul’s radiance, then restored enough martial arts knowledge to make his apparent strength seem more plausible.
• Shen Qian tested which abilities he could still use without his physical body and concluded that soul power and the Great Dao remained most useful.
• Shen Qian found knowledge manifested as weapons and identified his location as Qian Sea after following the currents and considering the weapons’ metal affinity.
• Shen Qian encountered more than a hundred Mountain Sea martial artists who surrounded him, and their leader, Tan Hao, revealed his missing arm and demanded recognition.
• Shen Qian recalled that Tan Hao had blocked a gate on the Nine Heavens Battlefield and that he had shattered Tan Hao’s arm.

Shen Qian killed Tan Hao and more than a hundred Mountain Sea Martial Artists who tried to claim the bounty on his head. He collected their literary positions, then learned from Sun Zuo that Book Mountain could combine them.

• Tan Hao gathered more than a hundred Mountain Sea Martial Artists to attack Shen Qian for the bounty, but Shen Qian offered them a chance to leave.
• Shen Qian used one saber slash to kill the assembled martial artists, including Tan Hao, and watched their remains dissolve into the Sea of Learning.
• Shen Qian found four literary positions among the remains: Sword Disciple, Merchant, Poet, and Tan Hao's two-star Registrar.
• Sun Zuo arrived after hearing Shen Qian was under attack and found him unharmed.
• Sun Zuo told Shen Qian that Book Mountain was a treasured place where literary positions could be combined, and Shen Qian became interested.

Shen Qian and Sun Zuo survived a Knowledge Storm that swept them into the long-lost Middle Sea, where they gathered Literary Positions and discovered Book Mountain. After a huge shadow passed overhead, they realized the Middle Sea might hold dangerous creatures as well as treasures.

• Shen Qian stored four Literary Positions, but a Knowledge Storm struck before he and Sun Zuo could leave.
• Shen Qian used his system to endure the storm, while Sun Zuo survived with a soul-based divine ability.
• The storm carried Shen Qian and Sun Zuo into the Middle Sea, where they found books and gathered thirty-nine Literary Positions.
• Book Mountain rose before Shen Qian and Sun Zuo after they wondered aloud whether they could find it.
• A huge creature passed over them, and Shen Qian suspected that Chaos Creatures lived in the Middle Sea.

Shen Qian and Sun Zuo headed toward Book Mountain after considering the danger of Chaos Creatures in the Sea of Learning. Elsewhere, Wang Shuo gathered with Ghost Clan forces, recovered a Nine-Star Literary Position, and prepared for a larger scheme as Gao Wenyuan sensed something approaching Ten Thousand Years Mountain.

• Shen Qian told Sun Zuo that a Chaos Creature might have passed overhead, but he still chose to continue toward Book Mountain.
• Wang Shuo rebuked the black-clad Witch Clan leader for bringing too few fighters, and the leader revealed that Master had mobilized Ghost Clan sleeper agents willing to self-destruct their soul power.
• Wang Shuo showed the leader the trench where Azure Lotus Buddha Lord and the White Emperor had fought, then used a compass to locate a Magatama in the trench.
• Wang Shuo claimed the Magatama as a Nine-Star Literary Position and warned the leader not to covet it when six powerful figures appeared behind him.
• Wang Shuo suggested the Sea of Learning was only part of a larger plan involving deceiving heaven after crossing the sea.
• Gao Wenyuan stopped reading atop Ten Thousand Years Mountain and sensed something terrifying arriving through the starfield.

Gao Wenyuan confronted Han Chi and six other Divine Emperor Palace allies at Ten Thousand Years Mountain as they prepared for a decisive battle, while Shen Qian sensed that something had happened to his teacher in the Sea of Learning. The chapter ended with the two conflicts poised to unfold.

• Han Chi arrived to confront Gao Wenyuan and admitted that he would oppose anyone who blocked his pursuit of the Martial King’s path.
• Marquis Yongye emerged from the darkness, and Gao Wenyuan accused him of secretly aiding the Divine Emperor Palace and altering himself with the Dao of other races.
• Duke Tianning, Marquis Liegu, Gao Zhengjie, Marquis Qin Zhao, Qin Ba, Jun Buping, and Marquis Tuodong joined Han Chi and Marquis Yongye against Gao Wenyuan.
• Duke of Yanshan revealed that Wu Wei and the other Wang Hous were occupied guarding the Sea of Learning formation, and Duke Tianning threatened that Shen Qian might soon die.
• Gao Wenyuan closed The Analects as the gathered fighters prepared for battle, while Shen Qian stopped on the way to Book Mountain after sensing that his teacher was in danger.

Shen Qian and Sun Zuo fought off assassins on their way to Book Mountain, where thousands of martial artists were battling over Literary Ranks. After Shen Qian found Niu Ziguo and Feng Manlin under attack, he rushed to aid Qu Bai and Li Muyi, only to be surrounded by six Mountain Sea experts.

• Shen Qian killed two attackers with his Word of Law while Sun Zuo held off another, and a fourth escaped.
• Shen Qian and Sun Zuo endured more ambushes before reaching the basin around Book Mountain, where thousands of martial artists fought over Literary Ranks and tried to climb the mountain.
• Shen Qian used his Mental Power to search the basin, then struck a group besieging Niu Ziguo and Feng Manlin.
• Feng Manlin warned Shen Qian that Qu Bai and Li Muyi were in danger, so he rushed to find them and saw Qu Bai injured and Li Muyi close to dispersing.
• The six Mountain Sea experts attacking Qu Bai and Li Muyi abandoned them and surrounded Shen Qian.

Gao Wenyuan faced seven Marquis-level powerhouses and Zheng at Ten Thousand Years Mountain, then used his Edification Domain to devastate the attackers with a single overwhelming assault. The battle left Zheng dead, Duke Tianning badly wounded, and the other combatants battered as they realized how formidable Gao Wenyuan had become.

• Duke of Yanshan, Duke Tianning, Marquis Yongye, Marquis Liegu, and the other Marquis-level powerhouses revealed their colossal forms as they surrounded Gao Wenyuan.
• Gao Wenyuan questioned Duke Tianning about the meaning of a true body, using his Dao of Edification to leave Duke Tianning confused and vulnerable.
• Gao Wenyuan unleashed the full Boundless Domain, turning its symbols of knowledge into hundreds of millions of weapons that forced everyone present to defend themselves.
• The attack devastated the surrounding starfield, but Ten Thousand Years Mountain endured as the combatants emerged from the destruction.
• Duke of Yanshan returned badly depleted, Duke Tianning suffered serious wounds, and Zheng was gone, prompting Marquis Liegu to cry out in grief and rage.
• Marquis Zhaoyuan, Marquis Tuodong, Marquis Yongye, and Marquis Qin Zhao returned with injuries, while Duke of Yanshan realized Gao Wenyuan had killed one foe and severely wounded two with his opening strike.

Gao Wenyuan revealed that he had reached the absolute peak of Mental Power and wielded the Soul Dharma Form, while his Wang Hou cultivation was only at the Golden Immortal level. As Han Chi and the other Wang Hou prepared to fight him, Gao Wenyuan urged them to survive and questioned whether their understanding of the Dao had been wrong from the beginning.

• Han Chi realized Gao Wenyuan had crossed the boundary into the Primal Chaos Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, though the blocked path kept him from becoming a true Martial King.
• Han Chi mocked Gao Wenyuan for protecting the Nine Kings' legacy, then enlarged his form and drew in Star Power as the other Wang Hou prepared to attack.
• Gao Wenyuan summoned his Soul Dharma Form, and Han Chi explained that it represented the ultimate peak of Mental Power and could preserve its wielder's soul from death.
• Gao Wenyuan revealed that Jiang Huan was not the first to reach an ultimate Forbidden Domain, naming ancient figures who had attained the Great Sun Golden Body, the Power of Life and Destruction, or the Soul Dharma Form.
• Gao Wenyuan disclosed that he was only a Golden Immortal in Wang Hou cultivation and asked the gathered Wang Hou to preserve humanity's spark, suggesting that their understanding of the Dao might have been wrong from the start.

Gao Wenyuan faced a united attack from the nobles in the starfield while Shen Qian defeated the assassins sent after him in the Sea of Learning. Reunited with Tantai Qin, Shen Qian resolved to make the world fear him and struck Book Mountain as they began their assault.

• Han Chi persuaded the nobles to attack Gao Wenyuan, who met their combined assault with the power of his golden dharma form.
• Shen Qian overwhelmed six Mountains and Seas martial artists, killed one after he mocked Shen Qian, and watched two others take Qu Bai and Li Muyi hostage.
• Tantai Qin arrived and killed the two hostage-takers, then slew the three surviving attackers before leaving with Shen Qian.
• Shen Qian told Tantai Qin he had mistaken others' restraint for weakness and wanted the world to fear him; she listened as they flew toward Book Mountain hand in hand.
• After Tantai Qin asked whether Li Muyi liked him, Shen Qian assured her he would not let her go and struck Book Mountain with his saber.

Shen Qian cleared the crowd from Book Mountain and began using its refining platform to fuse nearly two hundred Literary Positions into a stronger one. As thousands gathered below, Tantai Qin left to find more Literary Positions while Shen Qian continued refining at the summit.

• Shen Qian killed two martial artists who challenged him, then drove the crowd away from Book Mountain with a massive blade strike.
• Shen Qian gathered Literary Positions from Tantai Qin, Sun Zuo, Li Muyi, and the others, then climbed to Book Mountain’s summit.
• Shen Qian learned how to use the platform and Iron Hammer to refine Literary Positions, and began fusing his collection with the blue ore.
• Thousands of martial artists surrounded Book Mountain, drawn by Shen Qian and the powerful Literary Position taking shape above him.
• Tantai Qin sent Shen Qian more than ten Literary Positions through the barrier, then left to search for more as he continued hammering.

Shen Qian completed an Eight-Star Literary Position called Sovereign and used it to bait the gathered martial artists into attacking him. As his seemingly dwindling power let him slaughter wave after wave, the crowd began to suspect he had reached the Marquis Realm.

• Shen Qian forged an Eight-Star Literary Position called Sovereign after smelting more than four hundred Literary Ranks into it.
• Shen Qian announced Sovereign’s power to accommodate a hundred Paths, then beheaded hundreds of attackers with one precise slash.
• Shen Qian used Myriad Starfall to kill more than a thousand martial artists as Tantai Qin held back from intervening.
• The surrounding martial artists mistook Shen Qian’s dimming radiance and unsteady appearance for signs that his power was running out, and launched repeated attacks.
• After Shen Qian continued fighting while the mound of fallen heads grew, the crowd realized he might have broken through to the Marquis Realm.

Shen Qian confronted the martial artists besieging him at Book Mountain, condemning their greed and reminding them of humanity’s enemies beyond the gates. After killing Yan Kuan and destroying the Sovereign Literary Rank, he faced the roughly twenty thousand who still refused to leave and called on the System to act.

• Shen Qian challenged Yan Kuan and the crowd, admitting he had killed thousands and daring them to take the Sovereign Literary Rank from him.
• Shen Qian recounted his past and urged the martial artists to stop turning against one another and remember the threats to humanity beyond the gates.
• Yan Kuan accused Shen Qian of wanting to monopolize the rank, but Shen Qian froze and killed him with a spear from several thousand zhang away.
• Shen Qian warned the crowd that he would settle accounts with schemers and those colluding with alien races, then destroyed the Sovereign Literary Rank with Iron Hammer.
• Most martial artists retreated, but around twenty thousand remained as Shen Qian’s Soul Power light dimmed; he smiled and told the System to make its move.
• A note from the author said the two chapters involving Eighth Senior Sister would be deleted and revised.

Shen Qian unleashed his hidden movement technique and slaughtered the martial artists surrounding him, while Tantai Qin sealed the outer perimeter to prevent anyone from escaping. As the massacre continued, several hundred cloaked figures charged against the fleeing crowd, and Tantai Qin sensed a deadly threat and warned Shen Qian.

• Shen Qian restored his Soul Power, charged at Cui Jing, and killed him while using Shifting Form, Changing Shadow to evade the crowd’s combined attack.
• Shen Qian used his movement technique to strike across the battlefield, killing more than ten peak Mountain Sea Martial Artists and throwing the encirclement into panic.
• Tantai Qin joined Shen Qian in the slaughter, blocking the perimeter as the martial artists fled and preventing them from escaping.
• Several hundred cloaked figures charged toward Shen Qian in formation, and Tantai Qin sensed their deadly threat and shouted a warning.

Shen Qian was caught in a Ghost Clan ambush orchestrated by No. 56, whose fighters used mass self-destruction to try to kill him. Shen Qian survived by sacrificing all nine of his clones, but the attack left him gravely injured and damaged his soul.

• Shen Qian exposed a cloaked Ghost Clan fighter, who self-destructed and wounded him.
• No. 56 revealed himself, claimed the Witch Emperor had sent him, and ordered nearly five hundred Ghost Clan fighters to kill Shen Qian.
• Shen Qian created nine clones, but the Ghost Clan fighters repeatedly self-destructed and engulfed him in a massive chain of explosions.
• After the final explosion, the crowd mistook the charred remains for Shen Qian's corpse, and Tantai Qin mourned him.
• Shen Qian emerged alive after sacrificing his nine clones and revealed that the attack had destroyed two souls and seven spirits, gravely injuring him.