Chapter Summaries

Number One concluded that Su Tu’s actions had disrupted Bakar’s plan and urged the Three Gods Sect to prepare for war. Meanwhile, Su Tu questioned Bakar’s incomplete avatar and discovered it could feed his manifestations, leaving the little Evil God alive as a useful source of power.

• Number One insisted that Bakar was plotting against the Three Gods and announced that the sect should go to war, while Sufferer, Kai, and the others agreed to inspect Paradise for proof.
• Su Tu questioned Xiao Ba, who explained that he was an incomplete avatar of Bakar and knew little about the main body.
• When Su Tu threatened to let his manifestations eat Xiao Ba, Xiao Ba released more than a dozen of the Compassionate Blood Mother's Faith Remnants, which Blood Moon devoured.
• The remnants advanced Su Tu’s Dao Gathering and Spiritual Wisdom skills, causing changes throughout the True Self World and among its manifestations.
• Xiao Ba produced purple energy that Big Cat and Little Green consumed, and Su Tu decided to keep him working as a continuing source of power.

Su Tu made Bakar’s weakened avatar, Xiao Ba, live in his True Self World and produce authority fragments as rent, then crossed the Sea of Bitterness and improved his Mind Cultivation. After Wang Nuannuan invited him to Thunder Edge Martial Hall, he agreed to go.

• Su Tu stabilized Xiao Ba, learned it could provide daily proficiency, and charged it one hundred thousand in rent while assigning it a stone house shaped like a sheep pen.
• White Moon reassured Su Tu that Bakar’s other avatars or main body would not cause trouble, and Su Tu accepted Xiao Ba as a resident of his True Self World.
• Su Tu crossed the Sea of Bitterness, strengthened his mind, and briefly projected a phantom of Big Cat.
• Su Tu gained Dao Gathering and Spiritual Wisdom proficiency from crossing the sea and fusing Bakar’s authority fragments.
• Wang Nuannuan invited Su Tu to Thunder Edge Martial Hall, and he agreed to go, remembering that Chen Yuan belonged to the hall.
• Wang Nuannuan blushed and screamed excitedly after reading Su Tu’s reply.

Su Tu’s morning practice showed that his newly opened Hidden Acupoint greatly enhanced his Qi, and Ma Long was shocked to learn that Su Tu had nearly opened ninety-three acupoints. They reached Thunder Edge Martial Hall for Su Tu’s Sequence challenge, where Li Chang boasted about fighting Xiong Lailer and questioned whether Su Tu could be stronger.

• Su Tu recalled how the Hidden Acupoint amplified his Qi and noticed that his next acupoint was close to opening.
• Wang Nuannuan met Su Tu, and Ma Long discovered that Su Tu had nearly opened ninety-three acupoints.
• Ma Long led Su Tu and Wang Nuannuan to Thunder Edge Martial Hall and kicked open its doors while shouting that they had come to wreck the place.
• Chen Yuan recognized Su Tu, while Li Chang bragged about his Third Sequence status and claimed he had fought Xiong Lailer for three hundred rounds.
• Li Chang declared that he was not afraid of Su Tu and asked whether Su Tu could really be stronger than Xiong Lailer.

Su Tu visited Thunder Edge Martial Hall and kicked Li Chang unconscious after Li Chang challenged his qualifications. Li Chang secretly remained awake and pretended to faint, his dream of standing alongside prodigies shattered by Su Tu’s strength.

• Thunder Edge Martial Hall students praised Li Chang’s record and Sequence Warrior rank while he boasted to Su Tu.
• Chen Yuan recognized Su Tu as a dangerous fighter but could not reveal what he knew about Su Tu’s past.
• Su Tu asked Ma Long for permission to beat Li Chang, then crossed the hall with Phantom Flowing Shadow and kicked him into a wall.
• The Thunder Edge students were stunned when Su Tu shattered Li Chang’s qi with a single physical blow.
• Li Chang pretended to be unconscious to preserve his dignity, while Chen Yuan accused Treading Moon Martial Hall of going too far.

Su Tu defeated Li Chang and, with Ma Long's help, pressured Chen Yuan into trading a fourth-tier technique for keeping Li Chang's ranked slot. Su Tu received Xingtian and left Chen Yuan fuming after challenging his confidence in his clansman.

• Chen Yuan considered attacking Su Tu but held back because Ma Long was present, while Su Tu's victory over Li Chang earned him combat and body-strengthening proficiency.
• Ma Long privately advised Su Tu to claim he needed a killing technique, then negotiated with Chen Yuan to protect Li Chang's ranked slot.
• Ma Long demanded a fourth-tier technique, and Su Tu backed him by threatening to challenge the hall's other ranked fighters.
• Chen Yuan sent Su Tu the fourth-tier technique Xingtian in exchange for a promise that Su Tu would not challenge anyone else before Long Xiao Zhenren returned.
• Chen Yuan boasted that his clansman would outshine North Sea's prodigies, and Su Tu asked what technique he would offer if that clansman were crushed beneath his foot.

After gaining valuable cultivation resources from Chen Yuan, Su Tu learned that the Flowing Thought Nourishing Spirit could strengthen the heart and mind and grant another chance in the Sea of Bitterness. When Ma Long revealed he had never crossed the Sea of Bitterness, Su Tu realized he might be able to take his senior brother across in his true form.

• Su Tu returned from Thunder Edge Martial Hall with Heart and Mind Incense, Limit Breaking Pills, Dragon Tiger Nourishing Balm, Flowing Thought Nourishing Spirits, and a fourth-rank technique.
• Ma Long explained that Flowing Thought Nourishing Spirits could strengthen the heart and mind and grant a second chance in the sacred scene.
• Su Tu offered Ma Long one of the Flowing Thought Nourishing Spirits in gratitude, but Ma Long returned it and said he could not benefit from it.
• Ma Long admitted that he had not crossed even one step of the Sea of Bitterness and might never advance before his mind lifespan ran out.
• Su Tu realized that, because he crossed the Sea of Bitterness in his true form, he might be able to take Ma Long across.

Su Tu used a Limit Breaking Pill while practicing Burial of Immortals and discovered that it greatly increased his Body Strengthening gains and cultivated connected acupoints. He then opened the fourth-tier technique Xingtian and began watching its recorded demonstration.

• Su Tu declined to tell Ma Long about his unusual experience in the Sacred Realm, and Ma Long left Treading Moon Martial Hall with Wang Nuannuan.
• Su Tu swallowed a Limit Breaking Pill and practiced Burial of Immortals, enduring intense pain as his body grew stronger and his proficiency increased.
• Golden light from Su Tu's Hidden Acupoints connected his other acupoints, allowing five of them to be cultivated together.
• Su Tu thanked Zhou Wuliang inwardly for teaching him Burial of Immortals.
• Su Tu opened Xingtian on his terminal and saw a silver-armored man face a swarm of insectoid creatures in a river of stars.

Su Tu studied the Xingtian technique, unaware that the Chen Family had never been able to draw out its essential Weapons of War Killing Intent. After two hours of practice, he had only produced a trace of sharpness and still could not reach beginner level.

• Su Tu watched a recording of Xingtian destroying an insect swarm, then began studying its cultivation insights and training methods.
• Chen Yuan revealed that the Chen Family had monopolized Xingtian but failed for generations to cultivate it because no one could produce its Weapons of War Killing Intent.
• Chen Yuan learned that his younger clansman would attend the Training Camp and planned to prepare for the death quotas issued by the higher-ups.
• Su Tu practiced Xingtian for two hours and managed only a trace of sharpness, despite his precise movements and high-level Combat skill.
• Luo Fan and Tang Yangwu were surprised that Su Tu considered the technique difficult, while Su Tu remained puzzled by his inability to produce the required killing intent.

Su Tu mastered Xingtian’s killing intent and learned that prodigies from across the Federation were converging on the Ancestral Star for the chance to become the Dao Master’s personal disciples. After he was confronted inside a Mind Power space, the Soul-Entrusted Person unexpectedly bowed and thanked him.

• Su Tu drew out Weapons of War Killing Intent and split a memory-metal wooden dummy with a single hand chop, though the technique nearly exhausted his qi.
• Su Tu learned that the Dao Master would choose the Martial Examination’s top seven as personal disciples, bringing New Star prodigies and powerful families to the Ancestral Star.
• Luo Fan warned Su Tu about the Heaven’s Pride Ranking and its terrifying candidates, prompting Su Tu to curb his growing arrogance and earn Spiritual Wisdom Proficiency.
• Su Tu trained diligently for several days, then went out for barbecue with Luo Fan and the others.
• After Su Tu sensed someone following him, the Soul-Entrusted Person trapped him in a Mind Power space, bowed deeply, and thanked him for his great kindness.

Su Tu met with a Soul-Entrusted Person, whose fanatical interpretations of Su Tu’s actions revealed the Three Deviant Sect’s plans for the Ancestral Star and Training Camp. After receiving Benevolent Bone Father's Gaze, Su Tu returned to reality and found a crowd of believers awaiting his response.

• The Soul-Entrusted Person bowed to Su Tu and interpreted his words and past actions as proof of his devotion to the Three Gods.
• The Soul-Entrusted Person revealed that the Suffering Sisters Plan was underway and that the sect planned to ignite everything on the Ancestral Star’s grandest day.
• The Soul-Entrusted Person said sect members would enter the Training Camp to assist Su Tu and help him gain recognition, leading Su Tu to suspect an insider among the higher-ups.
• The Soul-Entrusted Person gave Su Tu Benevolent Bone Father's Gaze, which made the Red Moon in Su Tu’s True Self World react with intense excitement.
• Su Tu returned to his body with the black box, then found black-clad believers scraping flesh from their arms as they waited for him to salute them.

Su Tu passed the Three Deviant Sect’s test of divine favor by using Eternal Life to heal a wound instantly, convincing the sect’s believers that he was a divine envoy. Back home, he consumed a gaze from Benevolent Bone Father and gained the new Divine Skill Plunder, leaving him eager to exploit its synergy with Eternal Life.

• The Sufferer tested Su Tu’s faith by having believers cut themselves, but Su Tu healed his own wound instantly with Eternal Life.
• The Soul-Entrusted Person and the Sufferer knelt before Su Tu, while the believers praised him as a divine envoy.
• Su Tu returned home, used Li Hu’s artifact to guard against surveillance, and decided to warn Li Hu about the Three Deviant Sect’s plans at the martial arts academy.
• Su Tu opened the black box and let the Red Moon devour Benevolent Bone Father’s gaze, raising his Dao Gathering and Spiritual Wisdom proficiency.
• Su Tu received the incomplete Divine Skill Plunder and realized its Qi Plunder ability could pair with Eternal Life to restore his qi as he fought.

Su Tu tested his new Divine Skill, Plunder, and learned how it paired with Eternal Life. After the Federation announced a Martial Dao Training Camp with a seventh-tier technique for first place, Zhou Wuliang urged Su Tu and Luo Fan to defeat the Zhang, Chen, and Wang families’ students, then offered to teach Su Tu a mental cultivation method if he opened the Eight Major Apertures; Su Tu immediately began opening them.

• Su Tu tested Plunder and found that it consumed qi and blood, but Eternal Life could heal the injuries it caused.
• The Federation announced the Martial Dao Training Camp, while major companies publicized rewards and cultivation agreements for top participants.
• Zhou Wuliang told his students that the Training Camp’s first-place prize had become a seventh-tier technique after several families intervened.
• Zhou Wuliang asked Su Tu and Luo Fan to beat students from the Zhang, Chen, and Wang families, saying he would take responsibility.
• Zhou Wuliang offered to teach Su Tu a mental cultivation method once he opened the Eight Major Apertures, and Su Tu began opening them on the spot.

Su Tu opened all eight major acupoints and revealed that he had also opened his first Celestial Orifice, then received a rare mind-cultivation secret art from Zhou Wuliang. As Zhou Wuliang wrestled with the burden of his past and whether to bring Su Tu into his dao field, North Sea guardians plotted to make him clash with the Zhong Yi Clan and kill him.

• Su Tu opened the Eight Major Acupoints, and Zhou Wuliang explained that he should keep opening Celestial Orifices before advancing to the Ming Tiao Realm.
• Su Tu revealed that he had already opened his first Celestial Orifice, shocking Zhou Wuliang, who urged him to build a strong foundation.
• Zhou Wuliang taught Su Tu a secret art that used extraordinary traits to strengthen his body and protect his mind in the Sacred Realm.
• Su Tu stayed in Zhou Wuliang's inner chamber to cultivate, while Zhou Wuliang realized his student had taken advantage of the arrangement.
• Black Mist Man urged Zhou Wuliang to give Su Tu a place in his dao field, but Zhou Wuliang feared passing his heavy karma to the young man.
• Long Xiao Zhenren told the North Sea guardians that Wen Shi Dao Lord had sent information about the Zhong Yi Clan, and they plotted to provoke a clash that would lead to Zhou Wuliang's death.

Su Tu cultivated Zhou Wuliang’s Heart Furnace technique and prepared to attend the Training Camp’s first assessment. Chen Yuan turned Su Tu into a special challenge for the gathered martial artists, making him a target for anyone hoping to advance directly to the third stage.

• Long Xiao Zhenren and the other Guardians discussed waiting to act until they had prepared a way to provoke a beast, then planned to split the Heaven Reaching Dao Heritage’s inheritance.
• Su Tu completed Heart Furnace cultivation, strengthening his mind and raising his Spiritual Wisdom proficiency.
• Su Tu received notice to report to the Martial Arts Department and exchanged messages with Chen Xi, who had gone to meet Xiao Hui.
• Luo Fan explained that Guardian Martial Arts Hall students would help assess the other martial artists, and Xiong Lailer publicly greeted Su Tu as his boss.
• Chen Yuan announced that 800 martial artists had registered and set the first assessment as getting past Guardian Martial Arts Hall students at the entrances.
• Chen Yuan named Su Tu as Treading Moon Martial Hall’s representative and offered anyone who defeated him a pass to the third stage.

Chen Yuan turned the first-round assessment into an assault on Su Tu, but Su Tu overwhelmed the attackers and left Chen Yuan’s scheme spiraling out of control. Lin Feiyang watched Su Tu’s growing strength with interest, while keeping Chen Yuan alive for now because he still served a purpose.

• Chen Yuan announced that martial artists could qualify for the next round by storming the Martial Arts Department entrances, while singling out Su Tu as a guaranteed challenge; Mo Ya and others objected, but Su Tu welcomed the chance to test his strength.
• As the assault began, Luo Fan and the other Guardian Martial Arts Hall students stepped forward to protect Su Tu, but Su Tu moved ahead alone.
• Liu Mang charged Su Tu and was knocked unconscious in seconds, prompting Su Tu to challenge the remaining attackers to advance or retreat.
• A crowd surged toward Su Tu’s entrance, and Luo Fan, Mo Ya, and the others tried to hold them back while Su Tu used Prajna Seven Kills to blast groups of attackers away.
• Chen Yuan realized the violence was out of control and suspected someone was setting him up; Bai Shuang accused him of using Mind Power, while Lin Feiyang said Chen Yuan was still useful for testing a conjecture about Su Tu’s apparent physical growth.

Su Tu and the other applicants experienced a brutal assault at the Martial Arts Department, only for Su Tu to realize it was a mental illusion designed to test them. Lin Feiyang revealed the test and warned that the Training Camp could be deadly, leaving fewer than a hundred applicants willing to register.

• Su Tu defeated the martial artists attacking Treading Moon's gate, while Fat Zhuge suspected the assessment and the crowd's behavior were part of a scheme.
• Su Tu sensed the powerful mind technique behind the events and received a Spiritual Wisdom proficiency increase, then recognized the scene as an illusion.
• Lin Feiyang's illusion shattered, returning everyone to the moment before Chen Yuan announced the assessment; Su Tu and the others understood they had been tested through a supernatural art.
• Lin Feiyang explained that the Training Camp's enemies could be even stronger and warned applicants about its death quota, offering nutrient solution to those who withdrew.
• Most applicants left after the warning, leaving fewer than a hundred willing to register, and Su Tu identified Lin Feiyang as his PE teacher.

Lin Feiyang revealed that he belonged to the Lin Family, one of the Ten Heavens Martial Clans, and reunited with Su Tu at the Martial Arts Department. After Su Tu saw through Lin Feiyang’s Mind Illusion Dream, he revealed that he had comprehended all four divine manifestations in the Secret Painting, leaving Lin Feiyang stunned.

• Luo Fan explained that Lin Feiyang was a powerful, unpredictable member of the Lin Family, one of the Ten Heavens Martial Clans.
• Lin Feiyang appeared before the students, greeted Su Tu, and sent Luo Fan and the others into the Martial Arts Department.
• Lin Feiyang used Mind Illusion Dream to make Su Tu believe he had seized Chen Yuan and offered to kill him, but Su Tu recognized the illusion.
• Lin Feiyang revealed that the scene had been a mental trial, and Su Tu gained Spiritual Wisdom proficiency from it.
• Lin Feiyang asked how many divine manifestations Su Tu had comprehended from the Secret Painting, and Su Tu answered that he had seen Dragon Transformation, Crouching Tiger, Twin Moons, and Azure Peak.
• Lin Feiyang reacted in shock when Su Tu said he had comprehended all four divine manifestations.

Lin Feiyang learned that Su Tu had placed all four divine wonders from the Source of the Gods' Dao in his True Self World and warned him that the Lin Family’s prophecy could put him in danger. After leaving the Martial Arts Department, Su Tu reunited with Chen Xi at Uncle Gong’s restaurant and found a dangerous fox-like woman holding his friend’s hand.

• Su Tu told Lin Feiyang he had planted all four divine wonders in his True Self World, astonishing him with a feat matched only by Azure Heaven Lin Pandao.
• Lin Feiyang gave Su Tu a protective talisman and warned him to kill anyone who tried to inspect his True Self World or test him.
• Lin Feiyang revealed that he had deliberately let Chen Yuan into the Training Camp for Su Tu to kill, while Chen Yuan panicked and watched them leave without approaching.
• Lin Feiyang explained that the Training Camp would begin in North Sea’s Back Mountain Ancient Forest in three days, and promised to teach Su Tu Mind Illusion Dream after he crossed the Sea of Bitterness.
• Su Tu left the Martial Arts Department, messaged Chen Xi, and went to Uncle Gong’s restaurant, where he saw a sharp-clawed fox-like woman holding Chen Xi’s hand.

Su Tu recognized Chen Xi’s girlfriend Xiao Hui as a fox beast and lured her away from the restaurant to confront her. The chapter ended with Su Tu ripping out her heart at his home.

• Chen Xi introduced Su Tu to Xiao Hui at Uncle Gong's Restaurant, where Su Tu saw her true form as a fox beast.
• Xiao Hui tested Su Tu with fox tails and secretly considered draining his blood and vitality, while Su Tu probed her strength.
• Xiao Hui used a Mind Cultivation technique to persuade Chen Xi to let her accompany Su Tu to his home.
• At Su Tu's home, Xiao Hui tried to seduce him, but Su Tu tore out her heart and revealed the beast's wound in her chest.

Su Tu defeated Xiao Hui, a shape-shifting Fox Race Beast, and learned that her people had been driven from the Ancestral Star and that a Starry Sky Great Wall restricted which Beasts could return. After Su Tu speculated that the wall used the Ancestral Star as a training ground for humanity, an unseen danger turned its attention toward him.

• Su Tu exposed Xiao Hui and fought her as she repeatedly reformed, then destroyed her body and Plundered her extraordinary power to heal his wounds.
• Su Tu questioned Xiao Hui, who said humans had stripped the Fox Race of its name and original form and driven it from the Ancestral Star.
• Xiao Hui explained that the Starry Sky Great Wall surrounded the Ancestral Star and that only four Beast groups had infiltrated the North Sea.
• Xiao Hui described how she had regained strength by beguiling men and absorbing their qi and blood, and said Su Tu had taken all her extraordinary power.
• Su Tu wondered whether the Starry Sky Great Wall was using the Ancestral Star to temper its humans, then sensed sinister eyes turning toward him.