Chapter Summaries

Three church Archbishops argued over the destruction of the God-Bearing Statue and the Pope’s plans, before White Robe ordered retaliation against the Seven Great Alliances and assigned Dust Robe to expand the faithful. Meanwhile, Su Tu headed to the Third Examination Site as an examiner and deduced that his secretive martial uncle was the War Lord.

• Gray Robe and Red Robe clashed over whether the Pope was responsible for Sufferer taking the God-Bearing Statue to the Ancestral Star, after learning the statue had been destroyed by the Shadow Clan of the Seven Great Alliances.
• White Robe stopped the fight, declared that the Seven Great Alliances would pay for destroying the statue, and ordered Blood Robe to handle the matter and Dust Robe to expand the faithful.
• As the Martial Examination began, Su Tu read the Treading Moon Squad group chat and wished Mu Wuyang luck while traveling to the Third Examination Site as an examiner.
• Su Tu questioned the driver about his martial uncle and inferred from the driver’s military bearing that the man was a senior Federation military figure.
• After reaching the Third Examination Site, Su Tu told the driver to give his regards to the War Lord, leaving the driver stunned that Su Tu had identified his connection.

Su Tu arrived at Examination Venue Three and confronted the privileged students who had intimidated their examiner and treated the Martial Examination as a formality. After Su Tu and his guards overwhelmed Chang Wu’s protectors, he declared himself the preliminary examiner and warned the students that they would bear the consequences if they challenged him.

• The students at Examination Venue Three ignored their examiner until he used Qi to quiet them, then Chang Wu and his peers used their powerful family connections and military bodyguards to intimidate him.
• Bai Xiao and a youth in rimless glasses explained that the venue had no elimination quota and told the examiner to let the students spend the week undisturbed.
• Su Tu appeared on Chang Wu’s inflatable mattress and challenged the students, then deflated it as Chang Wu charged at him.
• Su Tu blasted Chang Wu away with True Qi, while Black Crow crippled one bodyguard’s arms and an unseen archer pinned the other to a wall.
• Su Tu identified himself as the preliminary examiner and warned the students that they would bear all consequences if they made trouble for him.

Su Tu used his authority as an examiner to intimidate the examinees, clear the third examination ground of their companions, and begin the seven-day Martial Examination. As the students ran their first physical fitness test, he revealed that he knew Chang Wu, Bai Xiao, and the bespectacled man had unlocked their Body Locks.

• Su Tu's Candle Wisdom leveled up, briefly allowing him to see Karma Threads connecting the examinees.
• Su Tu gave the students the chance to withdraw, then ordered Black Crow to remove their imitators, robots, and hidden protectors from the examination ground.
• Su Tu arranged for the two injured martial artists to be taken to the infirmary and ordered the examinees to run laps until nightfall.
• Chang Wu ran first, and he told Bai Xiao and the bespectacled man that Black Crow were the Federation's Harbingers of Death.
• Su Tu ran ahead of the examinees and told Chang Wu, Bai Xiao, and the bespectacled man that he knew they had unlocked their Body Locks.

Su Tu used his hidden perception and Error to expose the examinees’ secrets and drive them through a day-long race, earning Proficiency as their suppressed determination surfaced. After telling them to prove their choices through action, he killed a crew-cut youth who asked why Su Tu was their examiner.

• Su Tu saw the True Qi in Bai Xiao and the other two students, but let them keep their secrets when they denied opening their Body Locks.
• Su Tu challenged the examinees to overtake him using any means while he ran without Qi or techniques, then used Error to intensify their competitive drive.
• The examinees chased Su Tu until dusk and, despite failing to catch him, celebrated the exhilaration of giving everything they had.
• Su Tu gained substantial Proficiency, announced that he would test their Base Skill the next day, and urged them to show their choices through their actions rather than speak of them.
• A crew-cut youth asked why Su Tu could serve as their examiner despite being about their age, and Su Tu struck him with Prajna Seven Kills, bursting his head into blood mist.

Su Tu discovered that an unknown intruder had infiltrated the Third Examination Hall using a blood-red wooden doll connected to the Three Deviant Sect. After learning the intruders had targeted him and Chen Xian had come to challenge him, Su Tu accepted the coming fight and wondered whether his identity as Teacher had been exposed.

• Su Tu destroyed the disguised intruder, leaving behind a blood-red wooden doll, and ordered the other examination halls to screen for infiltrators.
• An elderly Great Divine Power Expert arrived, identified himself as Su Tu's martial uncle, She Taijun, and gave Su Tu a bell that could protect him from Mind Power attacks.
• She Taijun told Su Tu that no infiltrators had been found elsewhere and warned that the intruders had targeted him; he also revealed that Chen Xian had arrived to challenge him.
• Su Tu refused help in avoiding the fight and said he would grant Chen Xian's wish to die.
• In his dormitory, Su Tu suspected that the Three Deviant Sect had noticed his identity as Teacher, while Teacher Liu stayed late to grade her students' mock exams.

Su Tu nearly broke through to Leaf Falling but stopped when a phone vibration triggered his Good Fortune skill, confirming his suspicion that something remained undiscovered in his current realm. After answering Sister Hua’s call and agreeing to pick up Ya Ya and buy seafood, he realized something had happened to her family.

• Su Tu gained Proficiency as the examinees trained diligently, then went to the inner training room to cultivate.
• Su Tu felt that his cultivation was incomplete despite being ready to reach Leaf Falling, but convinced himself to break through.
• As Su Tu’s blood qi began merging with his Martial Bone, a faint vibration interrupted him and he stopped the breakthrough.
• Su Tu received a Good Fortune notification and concluded that remaining in his current realm was beneficial and that his doubts about hidden mysteries were justified.
• Su Tu answered Sister Hua’s call and agreed to pick up Ya Ya and buy seafood from Morning Light Seafood Market.
• Su Tu remembered that Ya Ya was allergic to seafood and realized something had happened to Sister Hua’s family.

Su Tu rushed to Morning Light Seafood after Sister Hua’s cryptic call and discovered Chen Xian had staged a provocation using disguised people and a fake threat against Sister Hua and Ya Ya. After revealing that Black Crow had already dealt with the real watchers, Su Tu heard Chen Xian demand the return of something the Chen Family had lost on the Ancestral Star, and answered that he would destroy the family.

• Su Tu left the examination venue at full speed after Sister Hua called, while the examinees who saw him trained even harder.
• At Morning Light Seafood, Su Tu recognized a fish stall’s baited-fish display as a deliberate message and crushed the vendor’s head.
• Chen Xian emerged from the headless corpse and admitted he had used Sister Hua’s voice to provoke Su Tu, but Su Tu revealed he had only been acting angry.
• Su Tu showed Chen Xian the heads of the people Black Crow had caught watching Sister Hua and Ya Ya, who were safe at home.
• Chen Xian asked Su Tu to return something the Chen Family had lost on the Ancestral Star, offering any price.
• Su Tu asked whether the Chen Family would pay for its own destruction, and Chen Xian challenged him to try.

Su Tu fought and killed the false Chen Xian, discovering that he was an old demon possessing another body and using stolen pieces of the Immortal Garment. As the garment’s ribbon and Celestial Silk merged with the three strands of hair in Su Tu’s mind, a mysterious voice spoke to him.

• Chen Xian demanded the White Jade Pendant, threatened Su Tu, and attacked him after Su Tu denied knowing what he meant.
• Su Tu opened the Sacrificial Path, shattered Chen Xian’s Immortal Light, and subdued the Celestial Silk with the power connected to the strands of hair in his mind.
• Su Tu used the Heaven Flipping Seal while Chen Xian summoned an Immortal Ribbon, which the strands of hair recalled and absorbed.
• Su Tu’s attack shattered Chen Xian’s body, and he recognized from the youth’s face that the apparent prodigy had been possessed by an old demon.
• Su Tu concluded that the real Chen Xian had stolen the Immortal Garment and vowed to destroy his family, but then a layered voice spoke in his mind.

Chen Shan ordered the Chen Family to close its doors and prepare for his Martial Dao instruction, while Chen Zian resolved to cooperate with Su Tu and kill the ancestor to save the family. After returning home, Su Tu discovered that Big Eyeball feared the presence within him, which identified the cat as a crippled deity and prompted Su Tu to wonder if he should call it Wa Emperor.

• Chen Shan punished Chen Zian, ordered the Chen Family to avoid provoking Su Tu, and summoned his blood relatives to the ancestral residence for Martial Dao instruction.
• Chen Shan revealed that he no longer needed the jade pendant because Su Tu had obtained the opportunity he wanted, and he planned to use the Chen Family as fuel for his pursuit of immortality.
• Chen Zian told the other family members that Su Tu might restrain Chen Shan and proposed cooperating with him, declaring that their path to survival was to kill the ancestor.
• Chen Zian returned to Chen Family Tower with the others and admitted that the old man’s planned instruction could change or destroy the younger descendants.
• Su Tu went home, where Big Eyeball cowered before the presence within him, which called the cat a crippled deity and a relative of Xiao Xixi.
• Su Tu connected the voice to the being governing Heavenly Wrath and Five Remnants and asked whether he should address it as Wa Emperor.

Su Tu spoke with A Chang, a remnant spirit connected to Wa, and learned that his lineage belonged to the Heaven Reaching Successors. Her advice led him to fuse Immortal Power with True Qi, opening a potential new path for Martial Dao before his body suddenly became thin.

• A Chang introduced herself as a remnant spirit named A Chang, and Su Tu asked to call her Sister A Chang as thunder shook the North Sea.
• A Chang confirmed that Su Tu belonged to the lineage of the Heaven Reaching Successors and offered to answer his questions if he retrieved all her clothes.
• Before returning to sleep in the strands of hair, A Chang told Su Tu that power, Qi, and the body shared the same essence.
• Su Tu repeatedly tried to combine Immortal Power and True Qi, eventually forming a tiny drop of fused power.
• The system awarded Su Tu 3000 Battle Body Proficiency, raised his Battle Body to Mid Grade, and restored his strength.
• Su Tu stretched, then his powerful physique suddenly thinned.

After advancing his Battle Body, Su Tu realized that a lucky chain of events had led him to discover a new path for the Martial Dao. Summoned to Examination Hall Three over Chen Xian’s death, he faced Silver Evil, who challenged him to prove his worth against Ink Wolf.

• Su Tu examined his Mid Grade Battle Body and the new power connecting his Five Palaces and Celestial Orifices, then reflected on how a phone call had set his breakthrough on its new path.
• She Taijun messaged Su Tu to come to Examination Hall Three, while Big Eyeball stayed behind and spotted his phone.
• At Examination Hall Three, She Taijun defended Su Tu against Silver Evil, who blamed him for Chen Xian’s death and the loss of a Supreme Heaven’s Pride.
• Su Tu arrived and told Silver Evil he was more worthy of the title Heaven’s Pride than Chen Xian had been.
• Silver Evil summoned Ink Wolf, limited it to the Second Realm, and challenged Su Tu to prove his talent or lose his examination eligibility.

She Taijun defended Su Tu when Silver Evil demanded that he prove his talent, and Su Tu invoked the authority of his Emperor Crown to make Silver Evil back down and gift him the Mind Cage divine ability. Su Tu hinted that the real Chen Xian was still alive, prompting Silver Evil to suspect the Chen Family, before Zhou Wuliang appeared and struck him.

• She Taijun crushed Silver Evil’s Ink Wolf and challenged his right to judge Su Tu.
• Su Tu reminded Silver Evil that the Emperor Crown made him a Lord who owed no one proof of his talent, and Silver Evil apologized.
• At She Taijun’s prompting, Silver Evil gave Su Tu the Mind Cage divine ability.
• Su Tu told Silver Evil that the real Chen Xian was not dead, leading Silver Evil to suspect Chen Shan and the Chen Family.
• Zhou Wuliang confronted Silver Evil in midair and punched him before he could finish speaking.

Su Tu passed all forty-one candidates in the Third Examination Hall after testing them with Mind Cage, then used Error to influence their future resolve. Back at Treading Moon Martial Hall, Zhou Wuliang offered Su Tu a difficult task while the other candidates prepared for the second examination.

• Su Tu used Mind Cage to restrain the candidates, then released them and announced that all forty-one had advanced.
• The candidates thanked Su Tu with a half-teacher’s salute, and he secretly used Error to influence them for a future moment of despair.
• Su Tu returned to Treading Moon Martial Hall, where Zhou Wuliang reminded the students that the second examination would decide the final ten.
• Zhou Wuliang told Su Tu he had failed to find the Three Deviant Sect’s headquarters and asked whether Su Tu had plans during the next few days.
• Zhou Wuliang offered Su Tu a difficult task, describing it as one man guarding a gate alone and winning over countless geniuses.

Su Tu agreed to serve as the gatekeeper for the retest on Celestial Capital Star, while Zhou Wuliang revealed that he intended the trials to temper his disciple and that Black Crow would accompany him. As Su Tu prepared for his first trip off the Ancestral Star, he called his mother Shang Zichun and saw a dark, twisted mass of flesh growing from her neck.

• Zhou Wuliang explained that Su Tu could skip the retest’s arena battles by guarding the Ultimate Gate on Celestial Capital Star, and Su Tu agreed.
• Su Tu asked Zhou Wuliang about his relationship with Granny She, and Zhou Wuliang sent him flying from the inner chamber.
• Zhou Wuliang told the Black Mist Man that the New Star prodigies would temper Su Tu and that Black Crow would protect him on Celestial Capital Star.
• Su Tu trained against Li Binghu in his cultivation visions, reached ten moves without being defeated, and increased his Battle Body Proficiency.
• Su Tu received a video call from his mother, Shang Zichun, who said she planned to stay on Celestial Capital Star for about a week.
• Su Tu noticed a dark brown mass of twisted flesh growing from Shang Zichun’s neck and urgently told her not to move.

Su Tu saw an eerie growth on his mother, Shang Zichun, during a video call and feared she had a parasite, though his father’s scans found nothing. Xiao arranged for Su Tu’s Third Senior Brother, an expert on parasites, to examine Shang Zichun when she reached Celestial Capital Star, leaving Su Tu reassured but still uneasy.

• Su Tu saw a strange lump of flesh reach toward Shang Zichun’s face, but it vanished before he could confirm what he had seen.
• Su Tu discreetly alerted Su Qingping, who promised to arrange scans and an examination for Shang Zichun.
• Su Tu replayed the call with Mind Power but could not see the growth again, then told Xiao what had happened.
• Xiao arranged for Su Tu’s Third Senior Brother, who knew parasites well, to examine Shang Zichun in Celestial Capital Star.
• Su Qingping sent reports showing that Shang Zichun had no detected parasites, but Su Tu still planned to ask his Third Senior Brother to check her.

Su Tu traveled to Treading Moon Martial Hall and boarded Tide, a train that crossed subspace, with Lao San Luo. During the journey, a terrifying entity noticed them, and Lao San Luo began to liquefy.

• Su Tu left Big Eyeball at home and told it to learn to cook, so it started a livestream to earn its own cat treats.
• At Treading Moon Martial Hall, Su Tu met Lao San Luo, who offered to take him to Celestial Capital Star using subspace traversal.
• Lao San Luo activated a strange sculpture, transporting Su Tu and himself onto Tide, a train that existed within subspace.
• Lao San Luo explained how Tide used shifting coordinates to travel through subspace while remaining hidden from its entities.
• The train shook violently, Su Tu sensed a terrifying lifeform outside, and Lao San Luo began to liquefy as a message declared that Beauty had noticed them.

Su Tu survived Mo Mei’s accidental spill of power by summoning Wa’s strand of hair, then discovered that the Origin had come to fulfill an agreement with Wa. The chapter ended with Mo Mei saying she had to pursue Su Tu.

• Su Tu resisted the colors of Beauty, reunited his body and spirit, and summoned Wa’s strand of hair, dispelling the vision.
• Su Tu realized Lao San Luo was Mo Mei in disguise when the train scene began collapsing around him.
• Mo Mei revealed that it was an Origin from subspace and said its earlier attack had been an accidental spill of ink.
• Mo Mei explained that it owed Wa a favor and had agreed to pursue whoever appeared carrying her strand of hair.
• Su Tu froze as Mo Mei declared that it had come to pursue him.

Su Tu arrived at Celestial Capital Star to serve as a Martial Examination gatekeeper, where Lao San Luo credited him with saving his life during a dangerous subspace traversal and promised him Tianhai Group membership. After settling into the examiner dormitory, Su Tu learned that more than fifty candidates were qualified to challenge him, just as someone outside began demanding to fight the supposed nepotism hire.

• Su Tu and Lao San Luo arrived on Celestial Capital Star by subspace traversal, and Su Tu politely greeted Ming Yuan, Cheng Tian, and the other examiners.
• Lao San Luo thanked Su Tu for saving him from a mental collapse in subspace, promised him a place with Tianhai Group, and said he would apply for Su Tu to become a Black Gold member.
• Su Tu recalled that Mo Mei had appeared in subspace to pursue him under their agreement, then sent him back to Tide before he awakened Lao San Luo from his own dangerous trance.
• Lao San Luo announced that Tide would suspend operations for further research, then left as the examiners envied Su Tu's prospective Tianhai Group membership.
• Ming Yuan and Cheng Tian explained that over fifty candidates in Liuyun District could challenge Su Tu, and they escorted him to his luxurious examiner dormitory.
• A voice outside demanded that the nepotism hire come out and fight, and Su Tu asked Ming Yuan and Cheng Tian if the speaker meant him.

Su Tu learned why the other Gatekeepers resented his direct appointment and decided to handle any challenges himself. When Dong Dong discovered Su Tu was the newly appointed Gatekeeper his group had been mocking, he stopped Liu Zi from provoking him further.

• Ming Yuan explained that Gatekeepers were normally selected through rigorous competition, while Su Tu had been directly appointed, prompting other prodigies to resent him.
• Su Tu told Cheng Tian and Ming Yuan he did not blame them and would handle any trouble from the other Gatekeepers himself.
• Cheng Tian and Ming Yuan praised the mysterious prodigy climbing the Heaven's Pride Ranking, not realizing they were talking to Su Tu.
• Liu Zi and the other Gatekeepers discussed confronting the supposedly connected newcomer while Dong Ge warned them of Su Bigshot's strength.
• Dong Dong saw Su Tu's group messages revealing that he was working as a Gatekeeper, then grabbed Liu Zi and warned him to stop provoking Su Tu.

After gaining the Divine Skill Mortal World to Ash, Su Tu reunited with Dong Dong and visited the Bountiful God Temple on Celestial Capital Star. As Su Tu began to bow before the Bountiful God, the scarecrow started cracking as if it could not withstand his worship.

• Su Tu examined his new Divine Skill, Mortal World to Ash, and considered how its damage buildup and Execution effect could help against powerful enemies.
• Dong Dong brought Liu Zi to apologize for confronting Su Tu, and Su Tu forgave him and asked Dong Dong to stop calling him Su Bigshot.
• Dong Dong invited Su Tu to the Bountiful God Festival, and they entered Feng God Temple to see the scarecrow revered as the Bountiful God.
• Dong Dong placed a stalk of wheat on the Bountiful God after worshipping, then Su Tu began to bow and the scarecrow started cracking.