Chapter Summaries

Yu Xiaoheng reunited with Rou'er in Spirit City, explained his rebirth, and shared a meal with her while she asked him for help entering the inner district. The ancestor revealed that Rou'er was the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Yu Xiaoheng had once hoped to deceive and offered a way to forcibly control her if necessary.

• Yu Xiaoheng explained to Rou'er that his third soul ring's violet flames had reshaped his body and allowed him to be reborn.
• Rou'er dodged questions about her trouble in Spirit City, and Yu Xiaoheng chose not to expose the flaws in her story or his own.
• Yu Xiaoheng cooked for Rou'er, and their easy meal and casual physical contact reassured him that she still trusted him.
• Rou'er asked Yu Xiaoheng to take her into Spirit City's inner district, and he agreed, saying he was a god's envoy.
• The ancestor identified Rou'er as the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Yu Xiaoheng had once wanted to deceive and said it could lend him spiritual will to forcibly control her in a crisis.

Yu Xiaoheng devised a crude fusion technique to capture Ice and Water elemental patterns, then realized a Heaven Dou prince had been sent to provoke Nameless into fighting Tang Hao. The prince confronted him in Spirit City's inner city, and Yu Xiaoheng remained silent as the onlookers gathered.

• Yu Xiaoheng used the Divine Emissary Token to pass inner-city inspections while Rou'er explored restricted buildings and areas.
• Yu Xiaoheng planned a simple technique in which Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi would channel their water and ice Soul Power into him, allowing him to capture Ice and Water patterns.
• Rou'er called Yu Xiaoheng over to share roasted meat at a street stall.
• A luxurious young man walked into Yu Xiaoheng and Rou'er, then mocked Nameless for avoiding Tang Hao and urged him to withdraw from the competition.
• Yu Xiaoheng recognized the young man as a Spirit King-level Heaven Dou prince likely sent by Tang San to provoke him into accepting the fight.

Yu Xiaoheng protected Rou'er from the prince’s hidden-weapon attack, then endured the prince’s insults rather than break Spirit City’s rules. Tang San watched from afar, convinced the provocation would force Nameless into a duel with Tang Hao.

• The prince fired poison-coated Godly Zhuge Crossbow bolts at Rou'er, but Yu Xiaoheng blocked them with his bare hand.
• The prince mocked Yu Xiaoheng and dared him to attack, while Tang San watched and expected him to hold back under Spirit City’s rules.
• Yu Xiaoheng kicked aside the bolts and restrained his Soul Power instead of retaliating.
• Rou'er took Yu Xiaoheng’s sleeve, and he reassured her with a pat on her hand.
• The prince insulted Rou'er, and Tang San laughed from the distant building, believing his plan was working.

Yu Xiaoheng killed a Heaven Dou prince who had wronged Rou'er, then faced the arrival of Spirit Hall knights. Rou'er tried to take the blame for him, only to realize that her impulsive confession could expose her identity and ruin her mission.

• Yu Xiaoheng used his fifth Soul Skill to drain the prince’s Soul Power and life essence, leaving only his clothes and Hidden Weapon behind.
• Rou'er panicked over Yu Xiaoheng killing a prince, while he insisted that he had acted to prevent future trouble rather than to defend her.
• Tang San watched from a nearby building and expected Spirit Hall to punish Yu Xiaoheng.
• The prince’s surviving attendants raised the alarm, and a red-clad bishop led temple knights in surrounding Yu Xiaoheng and Rou'er.
• Rou'er stepped in front of Yu Xiaoheng and claimed that she had killed the prince, then realized that her confession could expose her identity as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and derail her mission.

Qian Xunji defended Yu Xiaoheng after he killed a Heaven Dou prince, but Tang San and Tang Wei pressured the Pope to reconsider. Yu Xiaoheng then activated his Divine Emissary Token as Qian Xunji hesitated.

• The Heaven Dou attendants accused Yu Xiaoheng of murdering the prince, and Yu Xiaoheng said the prince deserved to die.
• Qian Xunji declared that the prince had deserved his death and ordered the attendants to be dragged away and fed to the dogs.
• Tang San challenged Qian Xunji and invoked his father, Tang Wei, who warned that the Clear Sky Sect could not ignore the murder.
• Qian Xunji wavered under the political pressure and demanded that Nameless provide a reasonable explanation.
• Yu Xiaoheng stopped Rou'er from speaking and poured his Soul Power into the golden Divine Emissary Token.

Yu Xiaoheng was about to be attacked by Tang San and the Clear Sky Sect when Qian Yuhan unleashed divine power and forced them and the assembled sect experts to their knees. The divine will withdrew after protecting Yu Xiaoheng, leaving Rou'er awed by his apparent authority and Tang San and Tang Wei humiliated on the ground.

• Tang San ordered the Clear Sky Sect experts to seize Yu Xiaoheng as Qian Xunji hesitated.
• Qian Yuhan's divine power erupted, melted Tang San's phantom Clear Sky Hammer, and commanded everyone except Yu Xiaoheng and Rou'er to kneel.
• Tang San was blinded and forced face-down, while Tang Wei and the other sect experts were also driven to their knees.
• Qian Xunji recognized Qian Yuhan's will within Qian Renxue and respectfully lowered his head.
• Qian Yuhan withdrew after confirming Yu Xiaoheng was safe, and Rou'er looked at him with awe and worship.
• Yu Xiaoheng realized Qian Yuhan had intervened personally and quietly welcomed the effect the display had on Rou'er.

Yu Xiaoheng trained with Qian Yuhan, who warned him that he could not defeat the Clear Sky Sect’s team and advised him to withdraw from the tournament finals. As he weighed his slim chances and Rou’er’s uncertain role, the story shifted to Rou’er exploring Spirit City’s commercial street.

• Yu Xiaoheng settled Rou’er in a secluded estate, then went to the Worship Hall to meet Qian Daoliu and Qian Yuhan.
• Yu Xiaoheng and Qian Yuhan cultivated together, raising his Light Attribute progress to just under eighty percent.
• Qian Yuhan warned Yu Xiaoheng that his Spirit King rank did not guarantee combat strength and advised him to give up the finals.
• Yu Xiaoheng considered his poor odds against the Clear Sky Sect’s team and concluded that Rou’er could not yet sacrifice herself for him.
• Rou’er walked through Spirit City’s central commercial street, eating candied hawthorn and osmanthus cakes while admiring the stalls.

Tang Hao brutally defeated Shui Yao, and Skywater Academy disowned Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi while other teams distanced themselves from Nameless. Yu Xiaoheng led Nameless into its semifinal against the Heaven Dou Royal Team, intending to use his Fifth Spirit Ring to drain their Soul Power.

• Tang Hao crushed Shui Yao and forced the remaining Four Elements Team to surrender.
• Shui Yun'er tried to rush to Shui Yao, but Yu Xiaoheng stopped her from confronting Tang Hao.
• Skywater Academy's teacher blamed Nameless for the attack and declared that Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi no longer belonged to the academy.
• The other teams pulled away from Nameless, while Yu Xiaoheng warned Tang Hao that he was next.
• Yu Xiaoheng led Nameless onto the arena to face the Heaven Dou Royal Team and planned to use his Fifth Spirit Ring to absorb their Soul Power.

After the Heaven Dou Royal Team surrendered to disrupt Yu Xiaoheng’s preparations, the crowd turned against the Nameless Team under a coordinated campaign of insults. The chapter ended with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan watching the hostile arena in a grave mood.

• Yu Xiaoheng realized the Heaven Dou Royal Team had surrendered deliberately to unsettle him and support the Clear Sky Sect’s effort to isolate his team.
• The referee declared the Nameless Team the winner, but the spectators booed instead of cheering.
• Paid agitators spread accusations against Yu Xiaoheng, while Tang San watched from the front row and recognized the value of shaping public opinion.
• The Clear Sky Sect’s influence fueled the crowd’s hostility as representatives of other powers reacted with amusement or schadenfreude.
• The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s section remained grave amid the uproar.

Yu Xiaoheng weighed forfeiting the match against the Clear Sky Sect, believing retreat would let him grow strong enough to take revenge later. He walked toward the arena exit without revealing his decision, leaving scorched footprints and deep-blue ice in his wake.

• Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi urged Yu Xiaoheng to survive rather than fight, while Bibi Dong said she would enter the arena if he chose to fight.
• Yu Xiaoheng considered forfeiting because Tang Hao and the Clear Sky Sect were too powerful, and he saw no reason to suffer a defeat just to prove his courage.
• Yu Xiaoheng told the kneeling Spirit Masters to get up, then turned his back on everyone and walked toward the passage exit without answering the others.
• Spectators interpreted Yu Xiaoheng's calm steps as a sign that he might still fight, despite his apparent move toward the exit.
• Yu Xiaoheng left a trail of scorched stone beneath his left foot and deep-blue ice beneath his right.

Yu Xiaoheng kept a low profile in Spirit City while cultivating for a breakthrough and spending time with Qian Renxue. He failed to advance his body-tempering method and left Qian Renxue with a dragon-carved jade pendant, considering her importance to Spirit Hall.

• Yu Xiaoheng accompanied Rou'er as she bought rare metals and herbs, while she kept the purpose of her purchases secret.
• Yu Xiaoheng failed to break through to the third level of the Golden Dragon Element Body Tempering Method and remained at peak Rank 58.
• Yu Xiaoheng met Qian Renxue in the Worship Hall garden and comforted her as she spoke about Grandpa being busy and Brother Nameless playing with her.
• Yu Xiaoheng gave Qian Renxue a dragon-carved jade pendant and reflected on her status as Qian Daoliu's granddaughter and Spirit Hall's heir.

Yu Xiaoheng remained at level fifty-eight on the morning of the finals, left his villa, and passed Qian Daoliu and Qian Xunji without speaking. At the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan grounds, Yu Xiaogang struggled to manage the clan’s crisis while telling himself that his supposedly dead brother could not overshadow him.

• Yu Xiaoheng awoke from cultivation at level fifty-eight and found Rou'er had left the villa.
• Yu Xiaoheng left for the finals as the streets emptied, then passed Qian Daoliu and Qian Xunji without exchanging words.
• Yu Xiaogang reviewed clan documents amid the disorder in his study while Lin Wan'er brought him soup and sorted papers.
• Yu Xiaogang handled resource allocation, personnel compensation, and defensive lines as he tried to keep the clan running.
• Yu Xiaogang reminded himself that Yu Xiaoheng was dead and that he could now protect the clan and prove his own worth.

Yu Xiaoheng delayed going to the finals while the crowd and the Clear Sky Sect waited, certain Nameless would appear. He planned to arrive and immediately forfeit, but stopped when three masked figures blocked the alley ahead.

• Yu Xiaogang suppressed his anger and agreed to attend the finals to uphold the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's dignity.
• The crowd, Tang Hao, and the Clear Sky Sect waited at Pope Hall, convinced that Nameless would come.
• Ning Zhenyuan told Ning Fengzhi that Nameless was building anticipation and would not avoid the battle.
• Yu Xiaoheng strolled toward Pope Hall, planning to forfeit as soon as the match began and frustrate Tang Hao.
• Yu Xiaoheng stopped when three masked figures in gray robes appeared at the end of the alley.

Yu Xiaoheng refused to flee after the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan survivors warned him that the Clear Sky Sect had set a death trap. He left the alley and headed toward Pope Hall Plaza, while the clansmen recognized his stubbornness as another way he resembled their dead young master.

• A middle-aged Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan clansman told Yu Xiaoheng that he resembled their dead young master and urged him not to throw his life away against the Clear Sky Sect.
• Yu Xiaoheng asked why the clan had fought Tang Hao despite knowing they would lose, and a one-armed young clansman said they had fought for revenge and to show their clan had not broken.
• The middle-aged man told Yu Xiaoheng to leave because his talent was too valuable to waste, but Yu Xiaoheng vanished before the man could stop him.
• The clansmen realized Yu Xiaoheng had gone toward Pope Hall Plaza, and the middle-aged man said his refusal to turn back was why he resembled the young master.
• Yu Xiaoheng raced through the shadows toward Pope Hall Plaza using only his physical strength.

Nameless appeared at the arena despite the crowd’s taunts and expectations that he had fled from Tang Hao. The chapter ended as the masked man approached the platform, unsettling even the Spirit Emperor referee.

• Tang San’s allies spread rumors that Nameless had fled, turning the crowd against him before the fight.
• Tang San said he welcomed Nameless’s absence, while Shui Lingxi and Shui Yun'er hoped he would avoid a fatal battle.
• The Slaughter City survivors waited tensely, unsure whether Nameless would face Tang Hao.
• Nameless emerged from the shadows in black clothes and a white mask with an exaggerated smile.
• Tang San and Tang Hu dismissed Nameless, but the referee felt a chill as he watched him approach.

Yu Xiaoheng’s Nameless Team faced Tang Hao’s Clear Sky Sect-backed team in the tournament final. As the match began, Tang Hao charged Yu Xiaoheng alone, and both teams’ members moved aside for their one-on-one fight.

• Yu Xiaoheng’s teammates and Tang Hao’s allies emerged, including Elder Liu of the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, a level sixty-three Spirit Emperor.
• Spectators and Tang San recognized the advantage Tang Hao would gain from Elder Liu’s support, while Tang San expected an overwhelming victory.
• The referee started the match, and Tang Hao immediately summoned the Clear Sky Hammer and charged Yu Xiaoheng without waiting for a support boost.
• Tang Hao ordered his teammates not to interfere, and Yu Xiaoheng told his own teammates to spread out.

Yu Xiaoheng met Tang Hao’s Clear Sky Hammer head-on with a single punch and sent him flying without taking a step back. The spectators were stunned by the display, and Yu Xiaoheng ended the exchange by telling Tang Hao he was no match for him in a straightforward clash.

• Tang Hao was blasted backward by Yu Xiaoheng’s punch, while Yu Xiaoheng remained standing in the crater.
• The Spirit Masters in the stands erupted in disbelief at Tang Hao being sent flying by an unarmed opponent.
• The Heaven Dou Empire prince dropped his teacup, Qian Xunji watched with concern, and the Nameless Team members reacted with shock.
• Tang Hao felt pain and numbness in his body and realized the punch had nearly overwhelmed his hand despite his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Yu Xiaoheng withdrew his reddened fist and told Tang Hao he was not good enough in a direct clash.

Nameless used a self-destructive soul skill to force Tang Hao back, then rapidly regenerated his lost hand. The move’s signature thunder and fire led Tang San, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan elders, Qian Xunji, and other powerful figures to suspect that Nameless was Yu Xiaoheng.

• Nameless detonated part of his own body with Burning Body Explosion and struck Tang Hao hard enough to shatter the Clear Sky Hammer’s head.
• Nameless regenerated his right hand, while recognizing Tang Hao’s strength and suspecting he had consumed a powerful Immortal Herb.
• Tang San recognized the thunder-and-fire technique as the same move Yu Xiaoheng had used against Yang Wudi and began suspecting Nameless was Yu Xiaoheng.
• The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan elders saw Nameless’s resemblance to their dead young master and reacted with excitement.
• Qian Xunji and representatives of the major powers realized Nameless might be Yu Xiaoheng and grew alarmed.

Nameless regenerated his arm, prompting the spectators to fear that he was Yu Xiaoheng, the man presumed dead in a trap years earlier. Tang Hao rejected the possibility and prepared to kill Nameless, determined to prove he was still the world’s greatest genius.

• The Clear Sky Sect's banner fell as Nameless's arm regenerated, and the spectators recognized a technique associated with Yu Xiaoheng but kept their suspicions to themselves.
• The Shui sisters trembled and insisted Nameless's resemblance to Yu Xiaoheng was only a coincidence.
• Tang Hao recalled how Yu Xiaoheng had humiliated him and left him with a lasting fear of being surpassed.
• Tang Hao raised his Clear Sky Hammer and resolved to kill Nameless, insisting that his growth to Spirit Saint had made him far stronger.

Tang Hao unleashed a devastating hammer strike at Nameless, while the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan mistook Nameless for a reminder of Yu Xiaoheng. Yu Xiaogang watched from the stands, feeling ignored again as his brother’s shadow seemed to return.

• Tang Hao gathered his power and launched his Earth-Shattering Hammer at Nameless, intent on killing him with one strike.
• The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan elders saw Yu Xiaoheng in Nameless and silently pinned their hopes on his survival.
• Yu Xiaogang watched the crowd focus on Nameless and resented being overlooked once more.
• Yu Xiaogang recalled how Yu Xiaoheng had overshadowed him in life and how his brother’s death had brought him relief.