Chapter Summaries

Kong Ling'er questioned Kong Ling about her ambitions for the Nine-Colored Peacock Tribe’s leadership and grew suspicious despite her niece’s genuine affection. She resolved to secure the Clan Leader position and considered winning over Ye Kong, whom she believed was tied to Kong Ling mainly by mutual benefit.

• Ye Kong reflected on his alliance with Kong Ling, noted that he had severed their Bloodline Link’s life-and-death connection, and considered Kong Ming’s efforts to draw closer to him.
• Kong Ling'er challenged Kong Ling to a game of Go and directly asked whether she wanted to become Clan Leader.
• Kong Ling admitted she wanted to inherit the leadership but reacted with genuine surprise when Kong Ling'er suggested she might have a child.
• Kong Ling'er pinched Kong Ling for teasing her, then comforted her and explained that she had been recovering from a cultivation problem.
• Kong Ling expressed concern for her aunt and said she intended to win the Young Clan Leader position through cultivation and strength rather than schemes.
• Kong Ling'er remained wary of Kong Ling and resolved to suppress her if necessary, while deciding that Ye Kong might be persuaded to support her because their Bloodline Link appeared interest-based.

Ye Kong traveled with Kong Ming, Lu Shengjun, and their companions to the Phoenix Tribe for Kong Ling’s master-taking ceremony, while the gathered flying bird races anticipated a clash between the ape and Kunpeng factions. The Kunpeng Tribe’s Zong Renwang arrived seeking to test the Heaven-Reaching Ape Tribe’s geniuses, and the visitors reached the Phoenix hall as Ye Kong and Lu Shengjun prepared for whatever awaited them.

• Ye Kong brought the Divine Ape Army in a storage ring and had the soldiers train for three days before departing for the Mountain Sea Continent with Lu Shengjun, Peng Chaoyang, and Kong Ming’s party.
• Flying bird representatives gathered at the Phoenix Tribe and discussed the Nine-Colored Peacock Tribe’s ties to the Heaven-Reaching Ape Tribe, while Feng Yinyun urged the Kunpeng Tribe to challenge them.
• Zong Renwang arrived with the Kunpeng Tribe’s Ninth Elder and Zong Qingfeng, declaring that he wanted to witness the Heaven-Reaching Ape Tribe’s geniuses and speak with them.
• Kong Ming arrived with Kong Ling, Ye Kong, and their companions, and Feng Yusheng welcomed them into the Phoenix hall.
• Ye Kong and Lu Shengjun exchanged a glance of battle intent as they descended toward the hall.

Ye Kong attended Kong Ling’s apprenticeship ceremony at the Phoenix Tribe, where his enemies confronted him and Lu Shengjun and Peng Chaoyang stepped in to defend him. After Kong Ling became Feng Yusheng’s disciple, the gathering shifted to arranged duels, and Ye Kong challenged Fang Kun.

• Ye Kong warned Feng Yusheng that he would settle his grudge but asked her not to take her anger out on others, while Feng Yuxiao attacked him with her words and aura.
• Lu Shengjun and Peng Chaoyang confronted Feng Yuxiao’s elders, and Zong Renwang corrected her claim that the Phoenix Tribe controlled every flying race.
• Kong Ling completed the apprenticeship ceremony and became Feng Yusheng’s personal disciple.
• Feng Yusheng created arenas and set rules for the fights, after which Lu Shengjun challenged Feng Yuxiao and began battling her.
• Fang Kun challenged Ye Kong, and after Feng Yinyun questioned Ye Kong’s past victory, Ye Kong stepped onto an arena and told Fang Kun to come up.

Ye Kong defeated Fang Kun with a spatial attack, alarming the Divine Beasts and winning some of their praise. Fang Jing then sent Fang Qian, armed with a Quasi-Sacred Artifact, to challenge Ye Kong as he schemed to gain the Huang Clan’s favor.

• Fang Kun attacked Ye Kong, but Ye Kong knocked him back with his scabbard and crushed him with a spatial kick.
• Feng Yusheng warned the watching Divine Beasts about Ye Kong’s talent, while several of them praised his strength and reframed him as a Beast Tribe genius.
• Fang Jing grew furious at Ye Kong’s rising reputation and chose not to fight him himself because he feared Ye Kong’s mother.
• Fang Jing gave Fang Qian a Quasi-Sacred Artifact and promised to help him reach the Earth Sovereign realm if he defeated Ye Kong.
• Fang Qian charged toward Ye Kong as Fang Jing hoped the Golden Phoenix Eagle Tribe would impress the Huang Clan.

Ye Kong defeated Fang Qian and challenged the Beast Tribes after Kong Ming and the others stopped their leaders from attacking him. He summoned the Divine Ape Army and called on every prodigy below the Earth Sovereign realm to face him together.

• Ye Kong used Heaven Treading Footprints to overcome Fang Qian’s Quasi-Sacred Artifact robe, knocked him unconscious, and tossed him aside.
• Fang Jing and Feng Yinyun insisted on pursuing their vendetta, but Kong Ming suppressed them and warned them not to send stronger subordinates against Ye Kong.
• Feng Yusheng persuaded Kong Ming to release Fang Jing and Feng Yinyun, after which Kong Ling challenged Fang Jing and Peng Chaoyang seized and beat Feng Yinyun.
• Ye Kong summoned ten thousand Divine Ape Army soldiers and challenged all Beast Tribe prodigies below the Earth Sovereign realm to fight him together.

Ye Kong challenged the Beast Tribe’s Supreme prodigies and used the Divine Ape Army’s battle formation to defeat three Ninth- and Eighth-grade Golden Phoenix Eagles, including one that unleashed a blood-sacrifice attack. After claiming victory, he challenged the Divine Beasts watching to send another opponent.

• Feng Yusheng warned the Golden Phoenix Eagles against speaking carelessly of death and ordered the fighting to remain within her rules.
• Ye Kong commanded the Divine Ape Twin Armies, whose War Intent Divine Ape defeated the three Golden Phoenix Eagles’ battle formation.
• Zong Renwang judged Ye Kong’s strength exceptional and predicted he could become a human Saint Grade Supreme, while deciding not to fight him that day.
• The last Golden Phoenix Eagle used its Wing of Void Severance, but Ye Kong’s Void Sky Umbrella formation made the attack pass through the War Intent Divine Ape.
• Ye Kong’s War Intent Divine Ape battered the Golden Phoenix Eagle into defeat, and Ye Kong asked the watching Divine Beasts who else dared fight him.

Ye Kong fought four Ninth-grade Venerates of the Heavenly Crane Tribe and overwhelmed them with the Divine Ape Army’s Heaven Splitting Axe. Feng Yusheng declared Ye Kong the winner, and he challenged the crowd to send another opponent.

• Four Ninth-grade Crane geniuses requested permission to fight Ye Kong, and Feng Yusheng sent them to the battle platform.
• The four Divine Cranes attacked in their True Forms, while Ye Kong summoned Lu Kaizhi and 2,500 ape soldiers to empower the War Intent Divine Ape.
• Ye Kong commanded the giant ape to use the Heaven Splitting Axe, which cleaved the first Crane apart and then crushed two more when their wings were severed.
• The last Crane summoned an ancestral phantom, but the axe split them both before a crimson barrier intervened and carried away the surviving Crane and the other three Divine Souls.
• Feng Yusheng acknowledged Ye Kong’s victory, and Ye Kong asked who else wanted to fight him.

After Ye Kong’s victory established his strength beneath the Earth Sovereign realm, Feng Xingkui’s mother challenged him to avenge her son. Feng Yusheng crippled most of her cultivation and allowed the fight to proceed, leaving her facing Ye Kong on the arena.

• The Beast Tribe prodigies concluded that Ye Kong was too dangerous to provoke, while several elders credited his strength to his mentors and praised his victory.
• Feng Yusheng prepared to end the fighting after noticing Lu Shengjun had defeated her elder sister.
• Feng Xingkui’s mother demanded permission to fight Ye Kong, and Feng Yusheng initially refused because she was a High Earth Sovereign.
• Feng Xingkui’s mother offered to cripple her cultivation and challenged Ye Kong to a fight to the death; Ye Kong accepted and condemned her for enabling her son’s crimes.
• Feng Yusheng crippled more than half of Feng Xingkui’s mother’s cultivation, and she descended onto Ye Kong’s arena to begin the duel.

Ye Kong used the Divine Ape Army to manifest the Immovable Wisdom King Dharma Form and defeated Crane Mother, killing both her true body and Divine Crane form. After the battle, Feng Yusheng offered to take Ye Huan Kong as her disciple, leaving him to consider her proposal.

• Ye Kong ordered the Divine Ape Army to form the Immovable Wisdom King Dharma Form and attacked Crane Mother.
• The Dharma Form overwhelmed Crane Mother while Feng Yusheng explained to Kong Ling that it was a technique created by the Buddha Emperor.
• Crane Mother tried to empower her poison sword with a blood sacrifice, but Ye Kong intercepted the blood, took the sword, and killed her.
• Ye Kong's attacks destroyed Crane Mother's Divine Soul and suppressed her Divine Crane form, then he dismissed the Divine Ape Army and asked Feng Yusheng for a place to rest.
• Feng Yusheng praised Ye Kong and asked whether Ye Huan Kong would become her disciple.

King Feng took Ye Kong as her personal disciple and used the recorded evidence of Feng Xingkui’s crimes to settle Ye Kong’s grudges with the Heavenly Crane and Golden Phoenix Eagle Tribes. After warning the other Beast Tribes not to trouble him, she took Ye Kong to a secluded chamber to speak with him alone.

• King Feng offered to take Ye Kong as her disciple, and he accepted after Kong Xuan encouraged him.
• King Feng asked Ye Kong to show how his feud with Feng Yinyun began, and Ye Kong played a recording proving Feng Xingkui’s crimes.
• King Feng killed Feng Yinyun and another Heavenly Crane Tribe member, then crippled Fang Jing and demanded compensation from the Golden Phoenix Eagle Tribe.
• King Feng warned the Flying Bird Tribe’s clans to keep their juniors from provoking Ye Kong, and they agreed.
• King Feng dismissed the others and took Ye Kong to a secluded chamber for a private conversation.

Feng Yusheng asked Ye Kong to help manage the Phoenix Clan’s affairs and used a contract to secure his loyalty, but burned it after he signed, insisting their bond as master and disciple was enough. Ye Kong accepted the role and agreed to guide her as she relied on him to handle the clan’s burdens.

• Feng Yusheng showed Ye Kong the Flame Emperor’s letter offering to mediate the conflict between their clans, and Ye Kong explained that the Flame Emperor was his future father-in-law.
• Feng Yusheng gave Ye Kong a stack of documents covering the Phoenix Clan’s diplomatic, financial, and internal problems and asked him to help manage them.
• Ye Kong questioned why Feng Yusheng trusted him, and she revealed that she had gathered his old writings and adapted them into a paid training agreement assigning him extensive duties.
• Ye Kong signed the agreement, but Feng Yusheng burned it and said she valued his sincere loyalty to her and the Phoenix Clan more than a contract.
• Ye Kong accepted Feng Yusheng as his master and agreed to guide her, despite feeling overwhelmed by her expectations.

After becoming Feng Yusheng’s direct disciple and secretary, Ye Kong said farewell to Lu Shengjun, Peng Chaoyang, and the others, then began cultivating under his new master. Feng Yusheng started refining his True Phoenix Essence Blood and burning the Nine-Colored Feather Divine Lights from his Venerate Sea, leaving Ye Kong engulfed in flames and unconscious.

• Ye Kong reassured Lu Shengjun that Feng Yusheng had treated him well, while Peng Chaoyang said he and Kong Xuan would leave Ye Kong with the Phoenix Tribe for a few days.
• Lu Shengjun told Ye Kong that Ancestor Kunpeng had invited Peng Chaoyang to visit the Kunpeng Tribe, and Peng Chaoyang recalled knowing him fifty thousand years earlier.
• Ye Kong bade farewell to Lu Shengjun, Peng Chaoyang, and Kong Ming, then spoke with Kong Ling about her future work as his secretary.
• Feng Yusheng examined Ye Kong’s nearly refined True Phoenix Essence Blood and offered to help him complete the process.
• Feng Yusheng summoned Ye Kong’s Venerate Sea and unleashed Phoenix Flame to refine the essence blood and burn away the Nine-Colored Feather Divine Lights, causing Ye Kong to lose consciousness.

Feng Yusheng forced Ye Kong to fuse with her True Phoenix Sacred Flame through repeated destruction and reconstruction, helping him break through to the Fifth-Rank Supreme realm. Afterward, Ye Kong asked to kill a captured Evil Tribe prisoner, and Feng Yusheng agreed on the condition that he massage her shoulders, leaving him convinced she had recruited him to compete with his first master's wife.

• Feng Yusheng fused her True Phoenix Sacred Flame into Ye Kong's Venerate Sea and repeatedly filled it with Supreme Spirit Liquid until his body and Venerate Sea burst and were rebuilt.
• Over two months, Ye Kong endured repeated cycles of destruction and restoration, eventually stabilizing his body and breaking through to the Fifth-Rank Supreme realm.
• Ye Kong asked Feng Yusheng for an Evil Tribe prisoner to kill, and she offered him a crippled Profound Demon Emperor while forbidding him from adding its soul to his Demon Slaying Token.
• Feng Yusheng asked Ye Kong to massage her shoulders before granting his request, and Ye Kong concluded she was using him in her rivalry with his first master's wife.

Feng Yusheng pressed Ye Kong to compare her beauty with his martial aunt, then brought him to the Phoenix Tribe’s Demon Prison to kill a captured Corpse Demon Tribe Profound Demon Emperor. After Feng Yusheng empowered him, Ye Kong attacked the weakened demon and prepared to finish it.

• Feng Yusheng asked Ye Kong whether she or his martial aunt was more beautiful, and Ye Kong praised his master while avoiding a direct comparison.
• Feng Yusheng asked Ye Kong about the beautiful women he had met and the ancient Luo Goddess, and he answered with praise for Feng Yusheng’s patient teaching.
• Feng Yusheng ended their conversation and led Ye Kong toward the Phoenix Tribe’s Demon Prison, where an awkward moment left both avoiding each other’s gaze.
• Feng Yusheng crippled the captured Corpse Demon Tribe Profound Demon Emperor and asked Ye Kong how he should be punished.
• Feng Yusheng infused Ye Kong with spiritual energy, and Ye Kong charged at the demon with his sword and Burying Buddha Tablet.

Ye Kong fought the weakened Ancient Corpse Profound Demon Emperor while Feng Yusheng watched, then destroyed him with Buddhist techniques and his newly gained Heavenly Phoenix Power. After the Merit Bowl collected the Demon Emperor’s remnant soul, Ye Kong received the minor divine ability Mind Reading.

• The Ancient Corpse Profound Demon Emperor complained that Ye Kong, rather than Feng Yusheng, was attacking him, and Ye Kong struck him with a Phoenix Flame claw.
• The Demon Emperor burned his Demon Soul to unleash the Myriad Corpse Demonic Soul Hand, but Ye Kong countered with Kasyapa Sword Chaos and summoned his transformed Great Sun Undying Body.
• Ye Kong’s Great Sun Undying Body used the Six-Syllable Great Bright Mantra to weaken the Demon Emperor while Ye Kong condemned his crimes.
• Ye Kong transformed into a divine phoenix and used the Flying Phoenix Divine Claw to crush the Demon Emperor’s head, while the Merit Bowl collected his remnant soul.
• Ye Kong learned that his first Demon Emperor kill had granted him the minor divine ability Mind Reading.

Ye Kong defeated the Demon Emperor Remnant Soul, gained the Buddhist Mind Reading divine ability, and used it to communicate with Feng Yusheng. He taught her the ability and left Demon Prison with her, while their teasing master-disciple relationship grew closer.

• After destroying the Demon Emperor, Ye Kong comprehended Mind Reading and tested its concealed mental communication with Feng Yusheng.
• Feng Yusheng offered Ye Kong treasures and the Phoenix Tribe's Nine Revolutions Entering Sainthood Art in exchange for learning Mind Reading, but he declined the inheritance art.
• Ye Kong assured Feng Yusheng of his sincerity and potential, then teased her; she caught on and pinched his cheeks.
• Ye Kong transmitted the Mind Reading scripture to Feng Yusheng, who vowed to protect him for life and said he must not leave before her.
• Feng Yusheng led Ye Kong out of Demon Prison, then teased him over his remarks about her age and repeatedly pinched his face.

Ye Kong requested leave to investigate a Heavenly Sovereign relic on the North Cang Continent, and Feng Yusheng explained the Great Thousand Palace’s role in establishing Spirit Academies. She approved the trip but decided she would accompany him, leaving Ye Kong startled.

• Kong Ling stamped Ye Kong’s official documents while Feng Yusheng relaxed, and she stamped his application for leave to explore a Heavenly Sovereign relic.
• Feng Yusheng noticed the application, pulled Ye Kong over, and burned it while demanding to know what he had found.
• Ye Kong explained that the relic lay on the North Cang Continent and might belong to an ancient lightning cultivator from the Thunder God Ancient Realm.
• Feng Yusheng told Ye Kong that the Great Thousand Palace had encouraged Spirit Academies to nurture young cultivators and explained the academies’ ties to powerful factions.
• Feng Yusheng approved Ye Kong’s trip but warned that the relic could be dangerous and insisted on accompanying him.

Xiao Lin reunited with Ye Kong at the Phoenix Tribe and gave him an explicit illustrated manual, advice about preparing for Xiao Xiao, and a potent pill from Flame Emperor. Ye Kong left with renewed confidence and the means to strengthen himself before facing Xiao Xiao.

• Xiao Lin joyfully reunited with Ye Kong and revealed that he had reached Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign after cultivating in a place where time passed differently.
• Xiao Lin told Ye Kong that Xiao Xiao had remained at peak Eighth-grade Venerate but might make a major breakthrough while sleeping, and Ye Kong resolved to reach Heavenly Sovereign first.
• Xiao Lin secretly gave Ye Kong a blue booklet containing illustrated and voiced intimate techniques, which Ye Kong carefully stored away.
• Xiao Lin warned Ye Kong to strengthen his body before confronting Xiao Xiao and said he could be in danger if she discovered he was not strong enough.
• Xiao Lin gave Ye Kong the Divine Phoenix Great Tonic Pill, made with Huang Jin's vital blood, and explained that Flame Emperor had prepared it to help Ye Kong protect Xiao Xiao.

Ye Kong and Xiao Lin negotiated a joint spatial trade route project, with the Phoenix Tribe supplying resources and the Endless Fire Domain paying most of the cost. Ye Kong then arranged a visit to North Cang Spiritual Institute and trained with Feng Yusheng, ending exhausted but confident he could surpass her one day.

• Ye Kong and Xiao Lin secretly agreed to let Xu Branch Pavilion Master and Kong Ling negotiate using their shared plan, and Kong Ling presented the improved transport-node blueprint.
• Kong Ling and Xu Branch Pavilion Master agreed that the Phoenix Tribe would provide resources and negotiate with the Divine Beast tribes while the Endless Fire Domain paid seventy percent of the costs for joint operating rights.
• Ye Kong asked Kong Ling to send North Cang Spiritual Institute a visiting card under his name as the Tenth Elder of the Heaven-Reaching Ape Tribe, with one hundred thousand portions of Supreme Spirit Liquid as a gift.
• Kong Ling sparred with Feng Yusheng, who defeated her and then challenged Ye Kong.
• Ye Kong battled Feng Yusheng for half an hour before she brought him down, and he told her he might surpass her sooner than a hundred years.

Dean Tai Cang and Bei Ming Long Kun learned that Ye Huan Kong, the Heaven-Reaching Ape Tribe’s new Tenth Elder, planned to visit North Cang Spiritual Institute with a friend in a month. While Mu Chen continued his Spiritual Light Crown Infusion, Bei Ming Long Kun left to verify the surprising appointment with the tribe.

• A War Puppet delivered Ye Huan Kong’s letter to Dean Tai Cang and revealed a glimpse of Ninth-grade Venerate strength, prompting the dean and four elders to discuss the visitor and his gift of one hundred thousand drops of Supreme Spirit Liquid.
• Dean Tai Cang agreed to welcome Ye Huan Kong and urged the elders to prepare the institute’s disciples for the upcoming academy exchange.
• On the ninth level of the Lightning Domain, Bei Ming Long Kun watched Mu Chen’s cultivation advance during the infusion and worried about North Cang Spiritual Institute’s prospects in the Spiritual Academy Competition.
• Dean Tai Cang brought Bei Ming Long Kun the letter, and Bei Ming Long Kun confirmed its seal was genuine but doubted that a Human cultivator could have become the tribe’s Tenth Elder.
• Bei Ming Long Kun transformed into his true form and flew out to contact the Heaven-Reaching Ape Tribe, leaving Dean Tai Cang to watch over Mu Chen.