Chapter Summaries

Jiang Yan climbed the Tower of Stars to the fiftieth floor, surpassing most Silver Radiance Academy students and reaching rank two. His progress left the Tian Yuan Star students questioning Blue Star martial dao, while Jiang Yan encountered powerful Spiritual Power techniques and resolved to learn more about them.

• Jiang Yan defeated his opponent on the thirty-ninth floor and advanced to the fortieth, winning Cheng Wu’s bet against the other students.
• Jiang Yan reached the fortieth floor and rose to rank five, prompting the girl with the little braid to question Tian Yuan Martial Dao before she paid Cheng Wu her points and left.
• Eight students honored their wager and transferred 4,800 points to Cheng Wu, while several others fled without paying.
• Zhang Yufan speculated that Blue Star humans had concealed martial dao secrets from Professor Lan, but admitted he did not know why.
• Jiang Yan climbed to the fiftieth floor and rank two, then resolved to learn more about Tian Yuan Star martial dao after a Spirit Platform Realm opponent used a difficult-to-defend Spiritual Power attack.

Teacher Su learned that Professor Lan wanted her to monitor Jiang Yan and the other exchange students, while Jiang Yan climbed the Tower of Stars and tied Lin Xianyuan's record at the seventy-third floor. Lin Xianyuan faced defeat in the tower, convinced that the gap between seven acupoints could not be overcome within the same realm.

• The Vice Principal told Teacher Su that Professor Lan wanted her to observe Jiang Yan and manage future exchange students, so she messaged Cheng Wu to ask how Jiang Yan was doing.
• The crowd watched Jiang Yan advance to the sixty-second floor and pressed Cheng Wu for information about Blue Star Martial Dao, prompting Cheng Wu to boast about his bond with Jiang Yan and spin a tale about Blue Star.
• Jiang Yan climbed past the seventieth floor and reached the seventy-third, tying Lin Xianyuan for first place and drawing hundreds of spectators.
• Inside the Tower of Stars, Lin Xianyuan struggled against his opponent despite reaching Spirit Platform Perfection and despaired over the insurmountable gap between acupoints.

Jiang Yan fought his way through increasingly powerful opponents in the Tower of Stars, reaching the ninety-first floor after defeating a Nine-Orifice Martial Artist. The chapter ended as a powerful aura pressed down on him, suggesting his next opponent had reached the True Intent Realm.

• Jiang Yan defeated the Seven-Orifice Martial Artist on the seventy-third floor and advanced to the seventy-fourth, while Lin Xianyuan left after failing his challenge.
• Jiang Yan climbed to the eightieth floor and used his Doppelganger to ambush and defeat an Eight-Orifice Martial Artist whose swordsmanship approached Sword Intent.
• Jiang Yan continued clearing floors against opponents at Fifth Stage Spirit Platform Perfection and reached the ninetieth floor.
• Jiang Yan fought a Nine-Orifice opponent through a barrage of attacks and triggered the Instant Kill Law to defeat it.
• Jiang Yan entered the ninety-first floor and felt an overwhelming aura that he suspected belonged to a True Intent Realm opponent.

Jiang Yan lost to a True Intent Realm opponent on the ninety-first floor of the Tower of Stars, then learned that the upper floors held data from graduated seniors and the young form of Silver Radiance Academy’s legendary War God. The crowd discovered Jiang Yan came from Blue Star as he escaped their attention.

• Jiang Yan survived a lethal fight on the ninety-first floor only because the Moment of Truth triggered, and he assessed the overwhelming power of the True Intent Realm opponent.
• Jiang Yan emerged from the Tower of Stars to find a crowd gathered, and Cheng Wu told him he had nearly broken Silver Radiance Academy’s record.
• A spectator explained that most True Intent Realm opponents above the ninetieth floor were graduates whose combat data had been recorded later.
• The spectator revealed that the Hundredth Floor held the young form of Silver Radiance Academy’s legendary War God, whom no one had endured for ten moves.
• Jiang Yan grabbed Cheng Wu and fled the crowd, and an onlooker revealed that Jiang Yan came from Blue Star.

Jiang Yan used Spirit Aperture Source Fluid to open more apertures, reached Nine Orifices, and rapidly advanced to the peak of Inner Gang. After asking Cheng Wu about the next stage, he learned that he needed to refine only one aperture to enter the Spirit Platform Realm.

• Jiang Yan spent 8,900 academy points on Spirit Aperture Source Fluid and opened eight apertures, but the fluid's effects began to weaken.
• Jiang Yan teamed up with Cheng Wu to collect 6,600 points in unpaid debts from eleven people, splitting the recovered points and giving Jiang Yan 3,300.
• Jiang Yan bought the remaining eight bottles of Spirit Aperture Source Fluid and opened a ninth aperture after refining them.
• Jiang Yan learned that heavenly and earthly treasures could also open apertures and became interested in using them.
• Five days later, Jiang Yan reached the peak of Inner Gang and asked Cheng Wu about entering the Mysterious Aperture Realm.
• Cheng Wu explained that Jiang Yan needed to refine one aperture before entering the Spirit Platform Realm.

Jiang Yan learned that refining apertures required vast resources and heard that Silver Radiance Academy’s Secret Realm could offer him a chance to obtain Heavenly Treasures. Meanwhile, two geniuses from other planets moved into his dormitory, where one immediately fought with Cheng Wu.

• Cheng Wu explained that refining more apertures strengthened a martial artist’s foundation and that major factions supplied resources to talented students.
• Jiang Yan learned that Silver Radiance Academy had a jointly purchased Secret Realm and expected to earn a place in its next expedition.
• Jiang Yan returned to cultivation and continued forming shadowy Doppelgangers.
• Teacher Su assigned Cheng Wu to observe the two new students, Pei Qin and the arrogant man, in exchange for three hundred points each day.
• The arrogant student ordered Cheng Wu to give up his room, and Cheng Wu attacked him while Pei Qin ignored the fight and cultivated.

Jiang Yan cleared the Insectoid Cataclysm, chose Aperture Expansion, and gained the Rootless Duckweed Trait. After leaving the Combat Space, he found Cheng Wu brawling with an unfamiliar man and met the sinister Pei Qin.

• Jiang Yan endured the insect tide, revived, and killed the Greedy Fate Queen Insect with Abyssal Thunder Annihilation Slash and his instant-kill mechanic.
• Jiang Yan cleared the dungeon and chose Aperture Expansion from the available Traits.
• He obtained Rootless Duckweed and considered combining it with his attack-speed Traits and Instant Kill Law.
• Jiang Yan left the Combat Space and saw Cheng Wu grappling with an unfamiliar man in the living room.
• Pei Qin emerged from a long-empty room, introduced himself, and asked Jiang Yan's name.

Jiang Yan drove Sun He and Cheng Wu out of the dorm’s brawl, then continued cultivating by forcefully refining his acupoints with Qi Absorption. After learning Professor Lan had brought Sun He and Pei Qin from other planets for an apparent experiment, Jiang Yan stayed wary of Pei Qin, whose monstrous companion revealed its hunger for Jiang Yan.

• Jiang Yan tossed Sun He and Cheng Wu out the window when their fight disturbed him, then sent Sun He headfirst through the ceiling and told Cheng Wu to call the construction crew.
• Jiang Yan returned to cultivation and continued using Qi Absorption to refine his chest acupoints, making gradual progress despite the method being considered impossible.
• Cheng Wu told Jiang Yan that Professor Lan had brought Sun He and Pei Qin from other planets and that Teacher Su had paid him to report on their cultivation.
• Jiang Yan suspected Professor Lan was conducting an experiment and warned himself to stay guarded, while concluding that Pei Qin was worth watching.
• That night, Pei Qin spoke with a dark, violet-eyed creature that begged to eat Jiang Yan, and Pei Qin promised to get him for it.

Silver Radiance Academy announced a joint Secret Realm opening, prompting students to race for Tower of Stars qualification while Jiang Yan continued battling Wuhuan. Sun He learned how far Jiang Yan had climbed and doubted his own talent, while Jiang Yan fell to Wuhuan and began another attempt to improve.

• Silver Radiance Academy announced that students from all years could qualify for the Secret Realm by reaching their year’s Tower of Stars threshold, and Cheng Wu rushed off to climb.
• Cheng Wu reached the twenty-fifth floor, Sun He reached the twenty-sixth, and Pei Qin also reached the twenty-fifth.
• Cheng Wu told Sun He that Jiang Yan had reached the ninety-first floor, leaving Sun He stunned and questioning whether he was truly exceptional.
• Jiang Yan lost to Wuhuan after disabling both their Instant Kill Laws, recognized that Wuhuan’s Copy had a brief delay, and entered another battle to improve.

Jiang Yan entered the Senluo Secret Realm after Silver Radiance Academy’s students received their instructions. Separated from Cheng Wu upon entry, he stole a red fruit from a Golden Radiance Academy student and defeated him and a Unicorn Python, leaving the student alive.

• Jiang Yan finished cultivating, joined his dormmates, and learned from Cheng Wu that Silver Radiance Academy and Golden Radiance Academy had split from Sacred Radiance Academy eight hundred years earlier.
• The Principal opened the Senluo Secret Realm and warned students not to kill one another, while a mysterious man watched Jiang Yan and Pei Qin on a surveillance feed and called them variables.
• Jiang Yan entered the Secret Realm but was separated from Cheng Wu, then discovered that its rules prevented him from flying above thirty meters.
• Jiang Yan spotted a Golden Radiance Academy student fighting a Unicorn Python, stole their red fruit, and killed the beast with a blade gleam.
• Jiang Yan wounded the Golden Radiance Academy student but spared his life, then vanished as the student suspected he was Huang Fu, Silver Radiance Academy’s strongest genius.

Jiang Yan swallowed poisonous fruits and herbs throughout the Secret Realm, rapidly strengthening his poison resistance and opening two acupoints while seizing treasures from other students. Elsewhere, Pei Qin devoured a Silver Radiance Academy student, and Lan Shuli hinted that he was watching another student’s performance with particular interest.

• Jiang Yan swallowed a ripe Crimson Luo Fruit, endured its dangerous medicinal effects, and absorbed its power to strengthen his body and brighten an acupoint.
• Jiang Yan ate more poisonous fruits, opened one acupoint completely, and began taking spirit herbs and fruits from other students under the Principal’s rules for competition.
• Jiang Yan swallowed a powerful herb and a Green Vine, then refined his second acupoint as he raced through the Secret Realm for more treasures.
• Pei Qin devoured a Silver Radiance Academy student and told the dark purple eyeball behind him that he would seek out Jiang Yan after growing stronger by consuming everyone in the Secret Realm.
• Lan Shuli and the Vice Principal discussed Jiang Yan’s Tower of Stars performance, and Lan Shuli said he was even more interested in another student’s performance.

Jiang Yan accepted four Golden Radiance Uniform cultivators’ offer to lead him to a Spirit Burst Grass, then discovered they had lied about the guardian beast’s strength and planned to betray him. He attacked them, awakening the beast, which emerged before all five.

• Four Golden Radiance Uniform cultivators failed to recruit help to claim a thousand-year-old Spirit Burst Grass guarded by a Fifth Order Perfection beast.
• The four agreed to trick Jiang Yan, a Silver Radiance Academy student, into luring the beast while they stole the herb and planned to cripple him.
• Jiang Yan followed them to the pool and questioned their claim that the guardian was only an early Fifth Order beast.
• After the men admitted they might have misjudged the beast’s strength, Jiang Yan revealed he knew they had lied and attacked them.
• Jiang Yan’s strike awakened the guardian, which erupted from the water and appeared before the group.

Jiang Yan crippled four men who had tried to frame him and let a Fierce Beast devour them before consuming a thousand-year Spirit Burst Grass. He grew stronger while sweeping the Secret Realm for treasures, ending with twelve apertures opened and six refined.

• Jiang Yan used the Hunxu Ancestral Spirit’s domain to slow the fleeing men, knocked back the Fifth Order Perfection Fierce Beast, and pinned Li Yan and the other three men by their legs.
• Jiang Yan gave the Fierce Beast three minutes to eat the four helpless men, then took and swallowed the matured Spirit Burst Grass.
• Jiang Yan hid to endure the grass’s violent medicinal power and opened his Eleventh Aperture while refining his fourth aperture.
• Jiang Yan continued plundering treasures across the Secret Realm, opening his Twelfth Aperture and refining his sixth aperture a day later.

Pei Qin slaughtered Silver Radiance Academy students and left the Stoneback Ape’s Essence of Heaven and Earth for Jiang Yan to claim. Later, Red Mist drew martial artists and beast hordes to one region of the Senluo Secret Realm, where Pei Qin prepared to hunt the gathered crowd.

• Pei Qin and the Dark Purple Eyeball killed five Silver Radiance Academy students, draining their bodies and leaving skeletons behind.
• Jiang Yan found the dead Stoneback Ape, swallowed the Essence of Heaven and Earth, and speculated that Pei Qin had caused the scene.
• Pei Qin and the Dark Purple Eyeball discussed avoiding Jiang Yan for now and continued searching for prey.
• Jiang Yan killed a Fifth Order Perfection Fierce Beast, took its Golden Fruit, and refined it.
• Red Mist rose over part of the Senluo Secret Realm, drawing beast hordes and more than half of the human martial artists to the area.
• Pei Qin spotted the gathered martial artists and told the Dark Purple Eyeball that he wanted a buffet.

Martial artists from both academies gathered at the red mist, and Huang Fu and Chen Fei led their groups inside. Pei Qin used the mist’s ability to block perception to conceal his intentions and hunt the others, while countless eyes opened in the fog.

• Cheng Wu decided to approach the red mist, hoping to find Jiang Yan and join the others exploring it.
• Huang Fu of Silver Radiance Academy entered the red mist first, and Chen Fei of Golden Radiance Academy followed after taunts from the crowd.
• Cheng Wu spotted Sun He and Pei Qin but lost sight of Pei Qin when he entered the mist with the crowd.
• Pei Qin told the vertical-pupiled presence that the mist blocked perception and planned to use Shadow Demon Sense to hunt everyone inside.
• The red mist separated people from their companions as Pei Qin roamed through it with blood-red lips, and pairs of eyes opened throughout the fog.

Jiang Yan entered the Red Mist and used his Chaos Void Domain to see through it, killing beasts and taking treasures from people he rescued. Meanwhile, the scattered expedition lost its way and dwindled until Huang Fu collapsed unnoticed beneath the others’ feet.

• Jiang Yan entered the Red Mist, where crazed Fierce Beasts attacked him, and he flew deeper behind his Protective Gang Shield.
• The Hunxu Ancestral Spirit released a dark domain that cleared the Red Mist around Jiang Yan, allowing him to rescue a Golden Radiance Academy woman and take a green fruit from her Space Ring.
• Jiang Yan traveled through the Red Mist, taking Heavenly Treasures from people he encountered and finding the mist unable to penetrate his Chaos Void Domain.
• The expedition dwindled to fewer than two hundred people as its members became separated, were killed, or vanished, while Chen Fei and Huang Fu urged those remaining to stay together and keep moving.
• Cheng Wu failed to contact Jiang Yan, and Sun He and the others grew increasingly desperate as people disappeared and crying spread through the group.
• Huang Fu collapsed at the front of the group, but the others, unable to sense him through the Red Mist, trampled over him as though he were a stone.

Pei Qin slaughtered the warriors trapped in the Red Mist, including Huang Fu, and battled Chen Fei after returning Chen Fei’s spear through his heart. Before they could decide the victor, lightning erased the Red Mist and revealed a Thunder Pool Altar, heralding a divine treasure.

• Pei Qin devoured Huang Fu’s vitality, mutated, and hunted the students trapped in the Red Mist.
• Pei Qin killed a warrior who had lost his mind, then attacked Chen Fei, who survived the initial strike through instinct.
• Chen Fei pierced Pei Qin with his flaming spear, but Pei Qin pulled it through his hollow body and hurled it back into Chen Fei’s heart.
• Chen Fei and Pei Qin charged at each other as countless bolts of lightning descended and cleared the Red Mist across a thousand meters.
• A black altar rose from the ground, and violet lightning formed a vast Thunder Pool above it.

Pei Qin revealed himself as a Demon Lord and slaughtered the surviving students, then prepared to face Jiang Yan. Jiang Yan ignored Pei Qin’s boasts and launched a powerful blade attack.

• After the Red Mist dispersed, the surviving students recognized Pei Qin as a demon and rushed to attack him.
• Pei Qin unleashed his demonic power, killed more than a dozen people, and grew stronger by devouring their flesh and blood.
• Pei Qin regained his clarity, learned from the eyeball that Jiang Yan was approaching, and decided to settle their score.
• Cheng Wu warned Jiang Yan to flee and report Pei Qin and Professor Lan, but Jiang Yan descended toward the Altar Lightning Pool.
• Pei Qin introduced himself as a demon and demanded Jiang Yan acknowledge him, but Jiang Yan asked what he was and attacked with Abyssal Thunder Annihilation Slash.

Jiang Yan fought Pei Qin, who transformed into a full demon after his attacks failed to overcome him. As Pei Qin gained the upper hand, Jiang Yan activated his attack-speed Traits and unleashed a relentless barrage of slashes.

• Jiang Yan chased Pei Qin around the Altar and repeatedly attacked with Abyssal Thunder Annihilation Slash, while Pei Qin used Shadow Demon Sense to dodge in gaseous form.
• Pei Qin unleashed Chaos Void Domain, but Jiang Yan summoned the Hunxu Ancestral Spirit and suppressed the demonic qi, then struck Pei Qin with a punch.
• Pei Qin opened the crimson eyeball and sent wronged souls against Jiang Yan before allowing the eyeball to consume the last half of his heart.
• Pei Qin discarded his humanity, fully transformed into a demon, and absorbed the wronged souls with Yin Demon Ancient Devour.
• Pei Qin's power surged and he attacked Jiang Yan, who activated his attack-speed Traits and unleashed a continuous series of slashes.

Jiang Yan instantly killed the demonized Pei Qin, then entered the Altar Lightning Pool to temper his body with lightning. As onlookers confirmed Pei Qin’s death, a history student identified the altar as a source of the ancient Yang Lightning Body Tempering Method, sparking their interest in trying it.

• Pei Qin dismissed Jiang Yan’s attacks and summoned a colossal phantom palm, but Jiang Yan triggered the Instant Kill Law and killed him.
• Jiang Yan sent a Doppelganger onto the Altar Lightning Pool, tested its lightning, then entered the pool himself.
• Chen Fei investigated Pei Qin’s body and confirmed that the Demon Lord was dead, astonishing the gathered students.
• A Golden Radiance Academy history student identified the altar’s runes as part of the Yang Lightning Body Tempering Method and explained its risks and benefits.
• The onlookers grew eager to try the lightning pool after learning it could temper bodies and strengthen acupoints.