Chapter Summaries

Shen Zhui helped Chen Qingshan win the arena wager battle, earned a large share of Purple Gold Liquid, and attracted recruitment offers from powerful clans. Chen Qingshan brought him to Liushan Studio to prepare for the Sacred Word Mountain Secret Realm, where Shen Zhui learned that Yao Huo and Ruan Shan had both been taken as disciples by venerables.

• Feng Ye offered Shen Zhui a Tier 5 mid-grade divine weapon and a position in the Xun Clan, but Shen Zhui refused and Feng Ye conceded.
• Bai Luo and Mo Luo also conceded, giving Chen Qingshan's side the victory and Shen Zhui a total of a hundred and five jin of Purple Gold Liquid.
• Liu Qianjie and Ao Guang tried to recruit Shen Zhui, but Chen Qingshan escorted him away after saying a venerable had summoned him.
• Chen Qingshan explained Liushan Studio's Blessed Land and its records of cultivation insights, then offered Shen Zhui a residence while they waited for the Sacred Word Mountain Secret Realm to open.
• Chen Qingshan told Shen Zhui that Yao Huo and Ruan Shan had been accepted as disciples by venerables, while Chanxin explained that Shen Zhui's ties to Marquis Wu'an made a venerable's invitation unlikely.

Shen Zhui explored Liushan Studio and learned about the Saint Word Art’s relationship to the world’s rules before Green Water led him to study a stone wall of ancient texts. As he entered enlightenment over the character for “mountain,” a master and disciple arrived at the Great Xia Academy, and a masked woman came searching for someone there.

• Shen Zhui searched Liushan Studio for insights and discussed with Chan Xin how Venerables could influence the rules of their Cave Heaven Worlds and how the Saint Word Art might have arisen.
• Green Water offered to guide Shen Zhui and brought him to Ting Shui Xuan, where a predecessor’s insights on the Hundred Texts of Mountains and Waters were carved into a stone wall.
• Shen Zhui studied an ancient character for “mountain” and entered a state of enlightenment.
• A white-haired old man brought his disciple Jing Wen to the Great Xia Academy and reassured him about entering the Sacred Word Mountain Secret Realm.
• A masked woman arrived at the academy, suspected the person her honored master sought was connected to the army, and vanished to search for him.

Shen Zhui comprehended True Word Arts in Liushan Study, mastering ten arts during seven days of study. He learned that his new abilities varied by artistic conception and power, while Chen Qingshan reported that Kuang Dao and Xue Ji were recovering after their bodies were reforged.

• After four hours studying the Hundred Texts of Mountains and Waters, Shen Zhui formed the mountain and water True Words and learned how they could weigh down or obstruct opponents.
• Shen Zhui tested Green Water’s mountain True Word, broke its pressure with ease, and recognized that her understanding emphasized peril while his emphasized heaviness.
• Shen Zhui gave Green Water a hundred seconds of Enlightenment Time and left to study other writings in Liushan Study.
• Over the next seven days, Shen Zhui studied with six of his clones and mastered ten True Word Arts, including arts for the Five Elements, Wind, and Lightning, as well as the Body Strengthening Ode.
• Chen Qingshan told Shen Zhui that Kuang Dao and Xue Ji had their bodies reforged and would need a year or two to recover, then Shen Zhui revealed that he had mastered ten True Words.

Shen Zhui learned that his rapid mastery of ten True Word Arts gave him a chance to obtain a Saintly Word Divine Ability, despite his late preparation. Chen Qingshan explained how the War God Arena could help him improve before the secret realm opened, and Shen Zhui prepared to make use of it.

• Chen Qingshan praised Shen Zhui for mastering ten True Word Arts and explained that the Saintly Word Mountain secret realm’s five hundred opportunities would be contested by ten thousand elite prodigies.
• Chen Qingshan told Shen Zhui that studying divine scriptures or improving his comprehension of Origin Laws could help, then recommended the War God Arena.
• Chen Qingshan explained that the War God Arena was a True God-level grotto-heaven world left by a fallen powerhouse, where balanced Origin Powers supported cultivation and combat training.
• Chanxin warned Shen Zhui that long-term cultivation in weaker grotto-heaven worlds could limit his future Dao, but said a True God-level world would cause no such aftereffects at his current realm.
• Chen Qingshan revealed that the War God Arena could accelerate time by as much as three hundred and sixty-five to one, and urged Shen Zhui to use it during the final ten days before the secret realm opened.

Shen Zhui entered the War God Arena with Chen Qingshan and learned about its cultivation regions, costs, and challenges. After Chen Qingshan left for the Metal Origin region, Chanxin advised Shen Zhui to train with Time Acceleration before attempting the Arena, and Shen Zhui headed for the Lightning Origin region.

• Chen Qingshan brought Shen Zhui to the Chen Family Restaurant and explained how its Reception Dao Tablet connected to the War God Arena.
• Shen Zhui entered the War God Arena as a Third-tier Divine Ability cultivator and learned that his daily residence cost ten thousand High-grade Spirit Stones.
• Chen Qingshan showed Shen Zhui the ten Origin portals and explained the Arena Zone's duels, titles, rewards, and other challenges.
• Chen Qingshan left for the Metal Origin cultivation region after Shen Zhui said he followed the Gold and Lightning Paths.
• Chanxin urged Shen Zhui to cultivate with Time Acceleration before entering the Arena, and Shen Zhui flew toward the Lightning Origin region.

In the Thunder-element Origin region, Shen Zhui broke through to the Thunder God Art’s fifth form, Inverse Scale Dragon Burst, but its power repeatedly destroyed his body and drained his Spirit Stones. With the Sacred Word Secret Realm approaching and his funds running low, he entered the competitive arena to earn more, where he was matched against a purple-haired swordsman.

• Shen Zhui tested Awakening Time in the Cave Heaven World and found that its duration followed the War God Arena’s time, not the outside world’s.
• Shen Zhui comprehended Dragon Tail Sweep and then mastered the fifth form, Inverse Scale Dragon Burst, reaching nine thousand one hundred Thunderclap Lassos.
• Shen Zhui’s unstable Inverse Scale Dragon Burst repeatedly destroyed his body, costing him Spirit Stones to reconstruct it.
• Shen Zhui noted that less than six days had passed outside and that the Sacred Word Secret Realm would open in four days, then decided to earn money in the arena.
• Shen Zhui entered a competitive challenge and was matched with a purple-haired man who underestimated him as a possible young master playing around.

Shen Zhui rose to a Seven-star War God after winning hundreds of arena battles in the hundredfold acceleration area, but Nine-star War God Long Que defeated him with a single strike. After Shen Zhui accepted the loss, Chen Qingshan contacted him with news that the rules for the Sacred Word Secret Realm had been released.

• Shen Zhui defeated Purple Sword and then won successive arena battles, using his Thunder Art to overcome opponents across varied terrains.
• Shen Zhui reached 532 consecutive victories, earned the Five-star War God title, and continued fighting as increasingly powerful opponents appeared.
• In Sky City, Fa Long and other arena experts discussed Shen Zhui's strength after losing to him, and Fa Long predicted that higher-ranked War Gods would challenge him.
• On his 719th battle, Shen Zhui faced Nine-star War God Long Que, whose Sword Qi shattered Dragon Tail Sweep and killed Shen Zhui instantly.
• Chanxin explained that Long Que's mastery of space and Metal Origin gave him power far beyond Shen Zhui's, and Chen Qingshan then told Shen Zhui that the Sacred Word Secret Realm rules had been released.

Shen Zhui prepared to enter the Sacred Word Secret Realm, strengthening his abilities through accelerated cultivation while his Lightning Element Clone attacked demonic sects for Merit Points. At the Academy plaza, Xia Hong spotted Shen Zhui among the participants and questioned why he was there.

• Shen Zhui reviewed the Sacred Word Secret Realm's entry restrictions with Chan Xin and decided to spend his remaining War God Arena time cultivating and tempering his Martial Skills.
• Shen Zhui's Lightning Element Clone infiltrated the Jizhou Army defense zone and began killing members of the demonic sects to earn Merit Points.
• During accelerated cultivation, Shen Zhui created and perfected the Falling Snow Saber Technique's fourth form, Severing Space, advanced his divine soul and Thousand Silk Divine Art, and broke through the Formless Divine Skill to its Selfless realm.
• Shen Zhui and Chen Qingshan arrived at the Great Xia Academy plaza on the secret realm's opening day, where Chen Qingshan recognized Shen Zhui as the famed Seven-star War God Cold Pine.
• Shen Zhui's Lightning Element Clone killed five First-tier Divine Ability cultivators at a demonic sect and earned twenty-three million Merit Points before disappearing.
• Xia Feng arrived with his father Xia Hong, who spotted Shen Zhui at the plaza and asked Wen Qingfeng why Shen Zhui was present despite not being on the military exchange list.

Shen Zhui entered Great Xia Academy’s Sacred Word Secret Realm and learned that hunting True Script Phantom Beasts could strengthen his True Word Arts. After defeating a pair of deceptive Phantom Beasts and collecting a Gold character, he encountered a swarm of powerful Illusion Sword Beasts and learned that Hu Li had defeated a mountain-guarding Phantom Beast.

• Xia Hong dismissed Shen Zhui’s chances in the secret realm, while Wen Qingfeng privately doubted that Shen Zhui lacked literary ability.
• Great Xia Academy opened the Sacred Word Secret Realm and transported its participants into the Cave Heaven World, where Shen Zhui could not contact Chan Xin or sense Hui’s blood essence.
• Shen Zhui learned the rules of the Phantom Beast Trial and defeated the skeleton archer Sha Wen and the centaur Phantom Beast, absorbing a Gold character from the latter.
• Shen Zhui explored the secret realm and killed eighty-nine Phantom Beasts, but their varied attributes produced little obvious improvement in his True Word Arts.
• Shen Zhui fled from a swarm of Illusion Sword Beasts after encountering three students, then received a notification that Hu Li had defeated Gan Jiang and obtained the Cease Conflict True Text treasure.

Shen Zhui discovered a Sword Tomb guarded by deadly sword formations and repeatedly sent clones to investigate it. After each attempt failed, he summoned Xiao Huo and ordered it to enter the estate.

• Shen Zhui gave Bai Liangcai Fourth-tier Antidote Pills for his poisoned companions, then learned the location of the valley guarded by the Illusion Sword Beast.
• Shen Zhui used his Wind Clone to uncover the hidden Sword Tomb and found fifty-six Purple Swords guarding its outer perimeter.
• The Purple Swords destroyed Shen Zhui's Wind Clone when it crossed their boundary, and a Sword Qi attack destroyed his Earth Clone during another attempt.
• Shen Zhui used his Wind Clone to lure away the Purple Swords while his Gold Clone rushed toward the estate, but a Patterned Broken Sword killed the Gold Clone and the Purple Swords destroyed the Wind Clone.
• Shen Zhui summoned Fighting Vajra Xiao Huo and ordered it to enter the Sword Tomb's estate.

Shen Zhui sent Fighting Vajra into the Sword Tomb, but its layered defenses stopped Xiao Huo from advancing and warped his perception. As Shen Zhui weighed risking his true body, Han Po arrived with a way to neutralize the outer sword formation, and Shen Zhui discovered that killing him could earn 526,000 Merit Points and reveal the Sword Tomb’s secrets.

• Shen Zhui sent Fighting Vajra through the purple sword formation, but the inner Flying Swords injured Xiao Huo and a strange realm prevented him from reaching the residence.
• Shen Zhui ordered Xiao Huo to retreat and considered sending his true body into the Sword Tomb despite the risks.
• A young man named Han Po arrived with a cat-like spirit beast and a high-grade Two-Headed Dragon Eagle, then descended toward the Sword Tomb.
• Han Po used his spear to knock the purple Flying Swords onto a nearby cliff, removing them from the formation one by one.
• Shen Zhui used the Eye of Insight to learn that Han Po had a Sin Value of 526,000 and had received information about the Sword Tomb from a Venerable, then considered attacking him.

Shen Zhui ambushed Han Po inside the Sword Tomb, trapped him with the Five Elements God Sealing Array, and killed him while impersonating Xun Gang. He claimed Han Po’s Bronze Bell and found a treasure map to the Sacred Word Secret Realm and a Treasure Hunting Mechanical Beast.

• Shen Zhui secretly positioned his seven clones and the Fighting Vajra around Han Po as Han Po tried to break through the Sword Tomb’s second trial.
• Shen Zhui lured Han Po into the Five Elements God Sealing Array, where seven clones and nine Yakshas surrounded him and cut off his connection to the Two-Headed Dragon Eagle.
• Shen Zhui used his Formless Divine Skill to fool the Two-Headed Dragon Eagle into staying above the cliff while the Fighting Vajra battered Han Po’s Bronze Bell.
• Shen Zhui pretended to be Xun Gang as Xiao Huo’s hammer blows injured Han Po until Han Po died inside the bell.
• Shen Zhui claimed the Bronze Bell and searched the remains, finding a golden Jade Slip with a treasure map and a Treasure Hunting Mechanical Beast.

Shen Zhui studied Han Po’s treasure map and intelligence about the Burial Sword Venerable before taking control of Han Po’s Two-Headed Dragon Eagle. He passed the Sword Tomb’s first defenses and politely addressed the mansion, whose doors then opened.

• Shen Zhui learned that the Treasure Hunting Beast had only a few uses remaining and examined Han Po’s map of treasures and dangers in the Sacred Origin Secret Realm.
• Shen Zhui found his own entry on a ranking of young talents and read the uncertain accounts of the Burial Sword Venerable’s life and possible inheritance in the Sword Tomb.
• Shen Zhui erased Han Po’s imprint from the Two-Headed Dragon Eagle, made it his own, and ordered it to keep watch.
• Shen Zhui and his seven avatars subdued the purple Flying Swords and crossed the Sword Tomb’s outer and inner defenses using the Sacred Word Token.
• Shen Zhui bowed to the Burial Sword Venerable and announced himself as a junior student of the Great Xia Academy, causing the mansion doors to open.

Shen Zhui chose to challenge the sword armors in Burial Sword Venerable’s residence and defeated all ten Divine Ability-level opponents. He gained the Natal True Word Golden Sword, then turned his attention to the Venerable-level sword armors.

• Shen Zhui entered Burial Sword Venerable’s hall, where the statue offered him a choice between receiving one sword technique or challenging the sword armors for their techniques and True Word power.
• Shen Zhui chose to challenge the armors and studied their sword intents before selecting a Divine Ability sword armor as his first opponent.
• Shen Zhui destroyed the first sword armor with Thunder God Art and absorbed its power, transforming his metal True Word into the Natal True Word Golden Sword.
• Shen Zhui defeated nine more Divine Ability sword armors, using Blood Origin Crystal Cores to sustain himself, and exhausted all ten challenges.
• Shen Zhui found that the Golden Sword could strike from five thousand meters away with power sufficient to slay a Fourth-tier Divine Ability expert, then looked toward the Venerable-level armors.

Shen Zhui failed to defeat the Venerable Sword Armor, then spent weeks hunting True Script Phantom Beasts and advanced all seven of his clones to Natal True Words. Ye Lan later invited him to explore a possible Spring Pavilion entrance, but Shen Zhui was asked to sign a Divine Contract before learning its dangers.

• Shen Zhui sent his Lightning Element Clone against a Venerable Sword Armor, but its attack only cracked the armor before the clone was destroyed and the challenge failed.
• Shen Zhui left the Sword Tomb with the rewards he had gathered and hunted True Script Phantom Beasts around Spring Pavilion to strengthen his True Words.
• Shen Zhui advanced the True Words of all seven clones to Natal level, greatly increasing the power of his Five Elements God Sealing Array.
• Ye Lan told Shen Zhui that he had found a possible entrance to the Spring Pavilion treasure ground and invited him to explore it with two others.
• Ye Lan offered Shen Zhui a golden sacred page and asked him to sign a Divine Contract before revealing more about the entrance.

Shen Zhui agreed to help Ye Lan reach a hidden cavern entrance in Spring Pavilion after negotiating a Divine Contract and recruiting Niu Tian and Bakhal. The four discovered thousands of advanced True Script Phantom Beasts guarding the route, chose to press on, and began their assault.

• Shen Zhui rejected Ye Lan's Divine Contract clause that put all decisions under Ye Lan's command, and Ye Lan offered a revised contract that Shen Zhui accepted.
• Ye Lan revealed that the entrance lay beneath a stone stele in basin mountain city and could be reached by sitting on it for half an hour; he described the powerful beasts and formations guarding it.
• Ye Lan introduced Shen Zhui, as Han Song, to Niu Tian and Bakhal, and the three agreed to join the expedition.
• The four entered the stone stele's hidden space and saw the cavern entrance, thousands of advanced True Script Phantom Beasts, and other stone steles nearby.
• After deciding to proceed, Ye Lan, Niu Tian, and Bakhal took the lead while Shen Zhui was assigned to cover the flanks and rear, and Ye Lan charged forward.

Shen Zhui, Ye Lan, Niu Tian, and Bakhal broke through the phantom beasts guarding Spring Pavilion after Ye Lan used the Night God Talisman. Inside, they discovered that Cui He and his team had reached the treasure-filled compound before them, leaving the two groups on a collision course.

• The four allies triggered a surge of phantom beasts on their first assault, retreated, and learned that Niu Tian could advance farther when the beasts returned to their normal numbers.
• After Bakhal estimated that the Cloth-robed Scepters’ combined attack had Sixth-tier Divine Ability power, Ye Lan revealed the Night God Talisman and used it to strengthen himself tenfold.
• Ye Lan forced a path past the fifty Skeleton Cavalry, allowing Shen Zhui, Niu Tian, and Bakhal to enter the statue’s mouth before he joined them.
• The group emerged into Spring Pavilion, where Shen Zhui sensed outsiders among its palaces and towers.
• Ye Lan identified the outsiders as Cui He and his team of twenty, and five of them flew toward the newly arrived group.

Shen Zhui's group fled the Cui Clan's pursuers through Spring Pavilion, then turned to fight when the pursuit continued. As the Black White Guards overwhelmed the battlefield and targeted Shen Zhui, he summoned his own Divine Weapon Puppet, Fighting Vajra.

• Ye Lan led Shen Zhui, Niu Tian, and Bakhal away from the five Cui Clan fighters, and Shen Zhui absorbed a large amount of Treasure River water as they flew.
• Shen Zhui's group turned to fight the pursuers, and Niu Tian killed Cui Huo and badly injured Cui Shui while Shen Zhui fought Cui Feng.
• The Black White Guards arrived, broke Ye Lan's wings, and joined the battle as Shen Zhui resisted the Black Guard's soul attack and injured Cui Feng.
• The Black White Guards focused their attacks on Shen Zhui, who summoned Fighting Vajra to confront them.

Shen Zhui and his companions defeated Cui He's Black White Guards and took the puppets, then gathered Sacred Text Secret Fruits while Cui He prepared a counterattack. The chapter ended as Cui He fired the God Annihilation Cannon at the group in the grove.

• Shen Zhui used Fighting Vajra Xiao Huo to help kill Cui Feng and defeat the Black White Guards, while the remaining Cui Clan members perished.
• Cui He discovered he had lost contact with the Black White Guards and ordered his men to continue breaking the Heavenly Doctor Palace barrier.
• Shen Zhui kept the captured puppets and led Ye Lan, Niu Tian, and Bakhal away to recover and search for treasures rather than confront Cui He.
• The group picked Sacred Text Secret Fruits, while Shen Zhui sensed something was wrong and secretly sent his main body underground.
• Cui He watched the group from above the grove, assembled the God Annihilation Cannon with two Black White Guards, and ordered them to attack.
• Shen Zhui sensed the danger and warned the others, but the God Annihilation Cannon's red blast struck the secret fruit grove.

Cui He used the God Annihilation Cannon to ambush Shen Zhui, Niu Tian, Bakhal, and Ye Lan, but Niu Tian survived by escaping underground and Shen Zhui's true body had already fled. Shen Zhui then disguised himself as Cui He, stole three treasures from the Heaven Doctor Palace, and escaped, leaving the real Cui He furious over the theft.

• Cui He fired the God Annihilation Cannon, destroying Shen Zhui's Wind Clone, Ye Lan, and Bakhal, while Niu Tian survived after burrowing underground.
• Shen Zhui's true body realized Cui He had launched the attack, resolved to seek revenge, and traveled underground toward the Heaven Doctor Palace.
• Shen Zhui discovered that Cui He had left the palace guarded and used the Formless Divine Skill to disguise himself as Cui He before entering.
• Shen Zhui broke the palace barrier, seized the Ancient Book, jade brush, and inkstone, then left disguised as Cui He.
• The real Cui He returned to find the sacrificial altar empty, killed a nearby subordinate in anger, and demanded to know who had stolen the treasures.