Chapter Summaries

Jiang Yan endured the Altar’s Pure Yang Lightning, gaining strength as its power surged after a restraining rune failed. He kept welcoming the golden bolts while Cheng Wu mourned him outside, and the chapter ended as another strike descended.

• A bystander touched the Altar and had his finger badly burned by its lightning, frightening the others away.
• Jiang Yan absorbed the Pure Yang Lightning while the Hunxu Ancestral Spirit devoured energy from the Thunder Pool, and observers noted the Altar’s lightning-restraining rune was failing.
• The central rune cracked, causing golden lightning five times stronger than normal to engulf Jiang Yan.
• Jiang Yan was gravely injured by the golden lightning, then rapidly recovered and eagerly called for another strike.
• Cheng Wu mourned Jiang Yan outside the Thunder Pool while Jiang Yan continued enduring the golden bolts.
• Jiang Yan refined his tenth acupoint and opened his fifteenth as another heavenly bolt descended.

Jiang Yan provoked the Senluo Secret Realm into unleashing a Golden Dragon of lightning, then used a wolf pack to trigger an untargetable Trait and survive its strike. The blast opened and refined his eighteenth aperture, transformed all his apertures, and awakened a Special Constitution.

• Jiang Yan opened his sixteenth aperture as the Thunder Pool tempered his body, surpassing Tian Yuan Star’s known limits.
• Jiang Yan slashed into the thunderclouds, provoking the Senluo Secret Realm to gather an overwhelming storm around him.
• Jiang Yan condensed his remaining two Doppelgangers to reduce the damage he would suffer, then attacked the heavens twice more.
• Jiang Yan fled the Altar as a Golden Dragon of lightning pursued him, leading it to a wolf den.
• Jiang Yan damaged the wolf pack ten times to trigger Rootless Duckweed and become untargetable as the Golden Dragon struck.
• The System Log announced that Jiang Yan had opened and refined his eighteenth aperture, transformed all his apertures, and awakened a Special Constitution.

After surviving the Secret Realm’s heavenly punishment, Jiang Yan awakened the Heavenly Slaughter Battle Ruins constitution and sent his doppelgangers to plunder the realm. He entered the updated Forgetting Path Returning Path Dungeon, where the first puppet, Shasha, repeatedly killed him.

• Jiang Yan opened all Eighteen Apertures and gained the Heavenly Slaughter Battle Ruins constitution.
• After confirming the Secret Realm had no lightning left to unleash, Jiang Yan sent eight doppelgangers to gather its treasures and joined the surviving students.
• Jiang Yan entered the Combat Space and discovered the Forgetting Path Returning Path Dungeon, which gave him ten revival chances and set Forgetting Path’s realm to Sixth Order.
• Shasha arrived and killed Jiang Yan before he could land a hit, then evaded his attacks by following the pull of unseen red threads.
• Jiang Yan triggered a Moment of Truth to survive one death, but Shasha killed him again.

After failing to defeat the dungeon’s puppets, Jiang Yan left the Senluo Secret Realm with the survivors and learned that Professor Lan was waiting outside for Pei Qin. When Cheng Wu identified Lan Shuli, Jiang Yan charged at him and kicked him in the face.

• Jiang Yan spent three days learning Shasha’s attack patterns, then faced the massive puppet Zhuang Zhuang, whose weight and defense made him nearly impossible to fight.
• After the Secret Realm gate opened, Cheng Wu urged the survivors to report Professor Lan for bringing Pei Qin, a Demon Lord, into the realm.
• Jiang Yan asked Cheng Wu about Professor Lan’s martial arts realm and planned to confront him over setting him up.
• Jiang Yan and Cheng Wu exited first, and Cheng Wu pointed out Lan Shuli, who was waiting for Pei Qin to return.
• Jiang Yan charged at Lan Shuli and planted a foot on his face, demanding to know if he was Professor Lan.

Jiang Yan publicly beat Professor Lan Shuli after accusing Silver Radiance Academy of shielding the Demon Lord, and students confirmed that a demon had appeared in the Secret Realm. Police Chief Zhang Qianyue inspected the Demon Lord’s corpse and learned that its killer was a student of Silver Radiance Academy.

• Jiang Yan stomped and beat Lan Shuli while the academy’s Principal and Vice Principal hesitated to intervene after he invoked the Demon Lord.
• A returning student told Principal Yuan Bo that a demon had appeared in the Secret Realm, and a girl recounted what had happened inside.
• Yuan Bo tried to stop the Principal from killing Lan Shuli and insisted the Police Department handle the matter, while Jiang Yan continued beating him.
• Police Chief Zhang Qianyue rushed to Silver Radiance Academy after Xiao Li reported the Demon Lord’s appearance.
• Zhang Qianyue inspected the Secret Realm and retrieved the Demon Lord’s intact corpse, then asked Yuan Bo if a student had slain it.

After killing the Demon Lord, Jiang Yan was questioned by the Police Department and swarmed by reporters before returning to his dormitory. He tried to locate his Spirit Platform and instead entered the familiar Divine Martial Space.

• Jiang Yan handed Lan Shuli over to Zhang Qianyue, and the Police Department questioned the students, academy leaders, and people connected to Professor Lan.
• News of the Demon Lord’s appearance at Silver Radiance Academy spread, and reporters crowded Jiang Yan as he left the Police Department.
• Jiang Yan told reporters that he had killed the Demon Lord, but they dismissed his claim until Cheng Wu confirmed it after Jiang Yan had disappeared.
• Jiang Yan escaped the matchmaking reporter and returned to the nearly deserted Silver Radiance Academy dormitory.
• Jiang Yan searched for Spirit Platform cultivation methods, tried to visualize his Spirit Platform, and found himself in the Divine Martial Space.

Jiang Yan failed to locate his Spirit Platform and went to Silver Radiance Academy’s Contemplation Room to try using a Contemplation Diagram. On the way, a student offered to pay for his viewing in exchange for details about how he killed Pei Qin.

• Jiang Yan briefly entered the Divine Martial Space while searching for his Spirit Platform, but could not reproduce the experience or find it there.
• Jiang Yan learned that Contemplation Diagrams could help focus the mind, but their online prices were beyond his means, so he headed to the academy’s Contemplation Room.
• Students recognized Jiang Yan as the martial artist who had slain the Demon Lord, while the arrest of Professor Lan brought renewed scrutiny to his book Human Martial Arts.
• A liberal arts student offered to cover Jiang Yan’s viewing fee in exchange for his account of killing Pei Qin, and Jiang Yan agreed, saying he had chopped Pei Qin a few times.
• When the student hesitated to pay, a shadow resembling him threatened to replace him, and he hurriedly agreed to cover the fee.
• Jiang Yan and the student reached the Contemplation Room, where the student advised him to choose a cheap diagram for his first attempt.

Jiang Yan used a Contemplation Room to observe a landscape diagram and cultivate his Spirit Platform, though he could only find half of it. After prolonged observation, his Spiritual Power surged and the Divine Martial Space appeared within his consciousness.

• Jiang Yan chose the Intermediate Contemplation Room and entered while a Doppelganger watched the liberal arts student outside.
• Jiang Yan immersed himself in the landscape diagram and quickly formed a Spirit Platform in his consciousness, but could not locate where it was.
• After an hour, Jiang Yan continued observing the diagram and finally saw that his Spirit Platform was only half complete.
• Jiang Yan kept cultivating and searching for the missing half as his Spirit Platform and Spiritual Power grew.
• Jiang Yan's Spiritual Power surged, and the Divine Martial Space appeared within his consciousness beneath half a blazing sun.

Jiang Yan discovered that half of his Spirit Platform was inside the Divine Martial Space and tried to move the other half there, but lacked the Spiritual Power to do so. After exhausting his points while cultivating, he learned he could claim generous rewards for helping kill Pei Qin and planned to collect them from Director Zhang Qianyue.

• Jiang Yan found half of his Spirit Platform in the Divine Martial Space and realized he could use its Spiritual Power.
• Jiang Yan moved the other half of his Spirit Platform about a millimeter, but could not locate the Divine Martial Space well enough to move it further.
• Jiang Yan spent nearly five hours contemplating the diagram, ran his points down to negative 2,500, and returned to the dormitory to cultivate.
• Sun He and Cheng Wu returned bruised from another fight and kept quiet so they would not disturb Jiang Yan.
• Jiang Yan called Director Zhang Qianyue and learned he could claim subsidies for helping kill Pei Qin, so he arranged to visit the bureau the next day.

Zhang Qianyue interrogated Lan Shuli, who revealed that Pei Qin had been human before evolving into a demon. After an unseen authority ordered Lan Shuli killed, Zhang crushed his earpiece and left the chamber, then went to meet the young man who had killed the Demon Lord.

• Zhang Qianyue questioned Lan Shuli about who had supported him, and Lan Shuli named the Heavenly Demon Cult before explaining he had wanted to keep Pei Qin for himself.
• Lan Shuli claimed Pei Qin had been human and that humans could evolve into demons, warning that powerful factions and the leaders listening through Zhang Qianyue's earpiece would eventually learn of it.
• Zhang Qianyue demanded to know why Lan Shuli had brought Pei Qin back, and Lan Shuli argued that Pei Qin could have become a demon in either world.
• A voice through the earpiece ordered Zhang Qianyue to kill Lan Shuli, and Zhang obeyed before crushing the device and leaving the interrogation room.
• A jailer told Zhang Qianyue that the young man who had killed the Demon Lord had come to claim his reward, and Zhang agreed to meet him.

After killing the Demon Lord, Jiang Yan collected a government reward and bought treasures to improve his Spiritual Power. As rumors turned him into a legendary hero, Heavenly Radiance Martial Hall announced that its young master would challenge him at Silver Radiance Academy.

• Zhang Qianyue offered Jiang Yan a merit citation and ten million Tian Yuan Coins for killing Pei Qin, and promised to apply for additional privileges.
• Jiang Yan spent five million Tian Yuan Coins on Green Jade Stones and a Blue Sky Pendant, then headed to Silver Radiance Academy.
• A paparazzo fabricated a sensational report portraying Jiang Yan as a youth who had opened all fifteen apertures, comprehended Martial Intent, and defeated the demon through overwhelming strength.
• As Jiang Yan cultivated in his dormitory, people argued online over whether he could really have killed a Demon Lord, and Heavenly Radiance Martial Hall announced a dojo challenge for the next day.
• The young master of Heavenly Radiance Martial Hall told his father he was confident he could defeat Jiang Yan, despite his father's warning not to underestimate the Demon Lord slayer.

Jiang Yan cultivated Spiritual Power through the night, rapidly expanding his Spirit Platform and learning how Tian Yuan Star’s Spirit Platform Realm worked. He went to face Ling Tian, whose Battle Intent offered Jiang Yan a chance to test his Heavenly Slaughter Battle Ruins Physique.

• Jiang Yan absorbed ten Green Jade Stones overnight, expanding his Spirit Platform to between the Cup and Pond realms and nearing a breakthrough to True Intent.
• Cheng Wu told Jiang Yan that someone was challenging him at the school gate, and Jiang Yan agreed to go test his Heavenly Slaughter Battle Ruins Physique.
• Ling Tian, the Young Master of Heavenly Radiance Martial Hall, boasted to reporters about opening Ten Apertures while his father watched and lamented the martial hall’s troubles.
• Jiang Yan and Cheng Wu arrived at the deserted Silver Radiance Academy gates, where reporters crowded around them.
• Ling Tian introduced himself to Jiang Yan and stared at him with Battle Intent, which Jiang Yan recognized with excitement.

Jiang Yan defeated a young challenger with ease, then refused a place at Wan Tao Academy in Heart Source City so he could enter the dangerous Hundred Prisons Hunting Ground to seek battle. Wan Tao Academy's representative reacted angrily and crossed Jiang Yan off the academy's list.

• Jiang Yan defeated the Young Master with one punch, leaving reporters stunned by the sudden fight.
• Zhang Qianyue told Jiang Yan that his additional reward for killing Pei Qin had been approved and offered him a place to study in Heart Source City.
• Jiang Yan refused the academy offer and asked Zhang Qianyue about dangerous Secret Realms where he could fight worthy opponents.
• Zhang Qianyue recommended the Hundred Prisons Hunting Ground, and Jiang Yan chose it over studying at Wan Tao Academy.
• A Wan Tao Academy representative learned that Jiang Yan had refused the invitation, crossed out his name, and wondered how he had killed the demon.

Jiang Yan left the failing Silver Radiance Academy and headed for the Hundred Prisons Hunting Ground, intent on testing his Heavenly Slaughter Battle Ruins Physique against its deadly Killing Intent. He reached the entrance with a Permanent Pass and, despite warnings about the dangers, entered the queue without a Protective Suit.

• Jiang Yan packed to leave Silver Radiance Academy and learned that Cheng Wu was returning to Thousand Chariot Plaza to inherit a small family shop.
• Cheng Wu warned Jiang Yan that the Hundred Prisons Hunting Ground was dangerous, difficult to enter, and controlled by the Cheng family only as an agent in 1026 City District.
• Jiang Yan revealed that he had a Permanent Pass obtained by killing Pei Qin, then left the dormitory.
• Jiang Yan reached Thousand Chariot Plaza and found the entrance to the Hundred Prisons Hunting Ground, where entrants were being checked for passes.
• Jiang Yan refused to buy or wear a Protective Suit, while the people around him silently looked forward to watching him suffer from the Killing Intent.

Jiang Yan entered the Hundred Prisons Hunting Ground, where its Killing Intent and the Battle Intent of his attackers strengthened him. After cutting down several groups, he was struck in the chest by an unknown object.

• Jiang Yan showed his Permanent Pass at the entrance and entered the Hunting Ground without wearing a Protective Suit.
• Two men tried to seize Jiang Yan's pass, but he killed them, took their Space Rings, and gained a little Battle Intent.
• Jiang Yan flew through the Hunting Ground, absorbing Battle Intent as he killed a group of martial artists who attacked him.
• Jiang Yan discovered that the Hunting Ground's Killing Intent was stirring a desire to slaughter and wondered why so many martial artists had come there.
• An unknown object struck Jiang Yan in the chest and tore his shirt.

Jiang Yan defeated an Earth Fiend in the Hundred Prisons Hunting Ground, then learned about the Heroic Spirit Domain and its monopolizing occupant, Yuan Tianjiao. After hearing that Yuan Tianjiao was cultivating there, Jiang Yan became eager to visit the treasure ground.

• Jiang Yan burned, uprooted, and killed an Earth Fiend that had attacked him from underground.
• Two nearby martial artists discussed Jiang Yan's strength and planned to tell him about the Heroic Spirit Domain, hoping he would challenge Yuan Tianjiao.
• Yuan Tianjiao began cultivating in the Heroic Spirit Domain while his junior promised to guard the place.
• Two brothers approached Jiang Yan and explained that Yuan Tianjiao had taken over the Heroic Spirit Domain and barred others from sharing its Vengeful Spirit Intent.
• Jiang Yan sheathed his blade and asked the brothers to tell him everything they knew about the Heroic Spirit Domain.

Jiang Yan entered the Heroic Spirit Domain to challenge Yuan Tianjiao, killing Meng Xing and two brothers who tried to exploit the clash. Yuan Tianjiao emerged from seclusion and fought Jiang Yan with his Thousand Sound Pupils, Myriad Life Technique, leaving their battle underway.

• Jiang Yan forced two brothers to lead him to the Heroic Spirit Domain, where they later hid nearby to wait for him and Yuan Tianjiao to weaken each other.
• Jiang Yan entered the domain, gained Spiritual Power, and attacked Meng Xing, who called for Yuan Tianjiao’s help.
• Meng Xing unleashed Sword Holds the Sky, Falling Cry, but Jiang Yan’s Protective Gang Shield endured the attack, and Jiang Yan killed Meng Xing with Abyssal Thunder Annihilation Slash.
• The two brothers fled after witnessing Meng Xing’s death, but Jiang Yan killed them with more thunder blades.
• Yuan Tianjiao emerged from seclusion, declared that Jiang Yan should die, and attacked with Martial Intent: Chaos True and Heavenly Meteor.
• Jiang Yan cleaved Yuan Tianjiao’s meteorite apart and descended with dozens of blades, while Yuan Tianjiao invoked Body Guard.

Jiang Yan killed Yuan Tianjiao and then absorbed the Heroic Spirit Domain’s Vengeful Spirit Intent to cultivate his Spiritual Power. His Spirit Platform reached the Pond Realm and continued expanding toward the Spring Realm.

• Jiang Yan used Yuan Tianjiao as a sparring partner, collected his Battle Intent, and defeated him with the Battle Ruin Imprint.
• Yuan Tianjiao died after Jiang Yan’s Blood Red Beam pierced his chest and then struck his head.
• Jiang Yan searched Yuan Tianjiao’s corpse, took his Space Ring, and headed to the center of the Heroic Spirit Domain.
• Jiang Yan absorbed the dense Vengeful Spirit Intent, increasing his Spiritual Power while his Spirit Platform endured pollution and gradually strengthened.
• Jiang Yan’s Spirit Platform reached the Pond Realm and continued expanding as he cultivated under the protection of his three Doppelgangers.

Jiang Yan broke through to the Spring Realm while refining Vengeful Spirit Intent, as his Doppelganger slaughtered the martial artists who gathered outside the Heroic Spirit Domain. After exhausting the domain's Vengeful Spirit Intent, Jiang Yan recalled the Doppelganger and left to seek another domain.

• Martial artists gathered outside Yuan Tianjiao's Valley and spread news of the Heroic Spirit Domain to draw others there.
• An archer shot at Jiang Yan's middle Doppelganger, and the arrow broke against it; a burly man then charged the Doppelganger and was instantly killed.
• Jiang Yan continued refining Vengeful Spirit Intent, increasing his absorption efficiency and resistance as his Spirit Platform transformed.
• Jiang Yan broke through to the Spring Realm and sensed that the Heroic Spirit Domain's Vengeful Spirit Intent had been exhausted.
• Jiang Yan saw his Doppelganger crushing the gathered martial artists, recalled it, and left to search for another Heroic Spirit Domain.

Jiang Yan left the valley where Yuan Tianjiao had been accused of slaughter and traveled through the Hundred Prisons Hunting Ground, discovering and eating energy-rich Fire Melting Crystals. After learning that the battlefield’s center held the best treasures, he flew there despite warnings about its danger.

• A crowd charged into the valley to confront Yuan Tianjiao, but found it empty except for two corpses and a drained Heroic Spirit Domain.
• Jiang Yan dodged an arrow, killed the two attackers, and found blood-red crystals among the rocky cliffs.
• Jiang Yan ate the Fire Melting Crystals, increasing his physique and fire resistance, then buried the corpses and continued on.
• Jiang Yan learned that the eastern edge held few treasures and that the center of the Hundred Prisons Hunting Ground was dangerous but rich in treasured sites.
• Jiang Yan asked for directions and flew toward the center, ignoring the man’s warnings.