Chapter Summaries

Jiang Qiu bonded with [Abyssal Emergence], completing the first stage of Soldier Cultivation almost instantly through Zhuli’s remnant soul. Zhai Song registered him for the academy’s Spirit Fusion Test and demonstrated how [Technique and Weapon Fusion] empowered a spear technique, leaving Jiang Qiu eager to try it with Enraged Dragon Facing Heaven.

• Zhai Song opened the case and revealed [Abyssal Emergence], a heavy spear made by Grandmaster Yuan.
• Zhai Song guided Jiang Qiu through binding the spear, but Jiang Qiu’s dragon spirit fused with it immediately and completed [Weapon Forging and Spirit Fusion].
• Jiang Qiu told Zhai Song that he had absorbed the remnant soul of Zhuli, astonishing Zhai Song.
• Zhai Song registered Jiang Qiu for the Spirit Fusion Test and explained that a strong result could earn him more Blazing Flame Spirit Fusion Su Xiang.
• Zhai Song demonstrated [Technique and Weapon Fusion] with Spinning Sky Thrust, blasting a deep hole into a training post and inspiring Jiang Qiu to imagine using the method with Enraged Dragon Facing Heaven.

Jiang Qiu began fusing his self-created spear technique Enraged Dragon Facing Heaven with his weapon under Zhai Song’s guidance, while Liu Zili shared her promising start at the Refinement Institute. The chapter left Jiang Qiu preparing for the Spirit Fusion Test and Liu Zili determined to develop her talent so she could help him.

• Jiang Qiu practiced Enraged Dragon Facing Heaven, and Zhai Song advised him to concentrate its Blazing Flame Spirit Charm for greater force.
• Zhai Song offered to apply for Blazing Flame Spirit Fusion Su Xiang for Jiang Qiu and told him to keep practicing on his own after their day of training.
• Jiang Qiu returned to his apartment and saw that his Technique and Weapon Fusion progress had reached 23/1000.
• Liu Zili messaged Jiang Qiu that Shangguan Yue had found her Jade Tendon talent equivalent to ninth-rank aptitude.
• Liu Zili told Jiang Qiu about her new studies and resolved to earn a refinement certificate so she could help him, while a tiny purple-black spider watched her from the shadows.

Jiang Qiu attended the Spirit Fusion Test at Northwest Martial Arts University, where he learned that the formidable axe cultivator Liang Taiyue was expected to take first place. The test began with students demonstrating their Spirit Fusion, while Jiang Qiu waited among the spear-specialty participants.

• Jiang Qiu explored the academy and practiced Enraged Dragon Facing Heaven before following An Ling to the testing building.
• An Ling explained the testing stone and warned Jiang Qiu that Liang Taiyue, an accomplished axe cultivator, would fight fiercely for first place.
• Zhong Zhichuan struck the testing stone, received a one-stage Jade Tendon result with extremely weak Spirit Fusion, and celebrated earning eligibility for an ordinary martial artist certificate.
• Xue Zhang explained that the test measured Spirit Fusion and described Liang Taiyue's ambition to become Wu Daoqing's direct disciple.
• The Spirit Fusion Test continued as students from the spear and non-spear specialties took turns being called.

Jiang Qiu took the Spirit Fusion Test after Liang Taiyue set a new record with eight-stage Jade Tendons, and his spear strike activated nine rings. The testing stone began to crack as the Dragon Spirit surged into it, leaving the result unresolved.

• Lin Wei scored seven-stage Jade Tendons, earning praise from Zhai Song for his talent and Spirit Fusion.
• Liang Taiyue struck the testing stone and lit eight rings, prompting Wu Daoqing to celebrate his exceptional foundation.
• Wu Daoqing predicted Jiang Qiu would fall short of Liang Taiyue, while Zhai Song worried about his junior brother’s chances of taking first place.
• Jiang Qiu summoned the Abyssal Emergence spear and struck the testing stone as a Dragon Spirit appeared behind him.
• Jiang Qiu’s strike lit nine rings, and the testing stone began to crack as the Dragon Spirit surged into it.

Jiang Qiu shattered the academy’s testing stone with a spear thrust, proving he had Nine-Stage Jade Tendons and perfect Spirit Fusion, and won first place in the Spirit Fusion Test. He left with Zhai Song to claim his reward and learned that the Rookie Tournament could give him a chance to fight demons and earn powerful secret art cultivation methods.

• Jiang Qiu’s spear thrust shattered the testing stone, while the Dragon Spirit devoured the spiritual essence leaking from its fragments.
• Wu Daoqing recognized Jiang Qiu’s strength, and Liang Taiyue conceded that Jiang Qiu surpassed him in the test.
• Zhai Song announced Jiang Qiu as the Spirit Fusion Test’s first-place winner and applied for Blazing Flame Spirit Fusion Su Xiang as his reward.
• Jiang Qiu asked whether he had to compensate the academy for the broken stone, and Zhai Song told him it was damaged through normal use.
• Jiang Qiu asked how he could leave campus to kill demons, and Zhai Song recommended the Rookie Tournament, which would begin in thirty days and award points through missions.
• Jiang Qiu and Zhai Song reached the resource repository so Zhai Song could collect Jiang Qiu’s reward.

Jiang Qiu refined Blazing Flame Spirit Fusion Su Xiang and spent a month improving Enraged Dragon Facing Heaven, then met Xue Zhang to prepare for the Rookie Tournament. At the university market, Xue Zhang told him that a major anomaly had appeared in the Northern Wasteland and might herald a secret realm or treasure-filled ruin.

• Jiang Qiu took a medicinal bath with Blazing Flame Spirit Fusion Su Xiang, grew the dragon spirit, and raised Enraged Dragon Facing Heaven's proficiency by 400.
• Jiang Qiu practiced Enraged Dragon Facing Heaven for thirty days until his spear attack formed a condensed azure flame dragon, though he felt the dragon spirit still needed to grow larger.
• Jiang Qiu called Xue Zhang, who had gathered supplies for the Northern Wasteland Rookie Tournament, and agreed to inspect them at the small market.
• Jiang Qiu examined a stall selling mutated creatures and used Dragon Eye to inspect a purple-black spider with crimson flame patterns.
• Xue Zhang explained that Martial Combat Team members brought many market goods back from the Northern Wasteland and mentioned a major anomaly there that might produce a secret realm or great ruin.

Jiang Qiu prepared for the Rookie Tournament, learned about the Northern Wasteland, and traveled north with the other students aboard a Hundred Mechanisms Giant Kite. As the kite neared Northern Border City, Lin Wei sensed danger in the surrounding chaos of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Essence.

• Jiang Qiu bought supplies from the stall owners Xue Zhang had arranged and learned about the Northern Wasteland’s harsh conditions, specialties, and secret realms.
• Jiang Qiu showed Xue Zhang a reusable Mortal Treasure Grade Wind Summoning Orb, and Xue Zhang concluded he was prepared for the tournament.
• Three days later, Jiang Qiu and more than seven hundred Soldier Cultivation Academy students gathered with An Ling and boarded a Hundred Mechanisms Giant Kite for the Northern Wasteland.
• Jiang Qiu reflected on the tournament and exchanged a farewell message with Liu Zili as the kite flew north.
• The students saw the snow-covered Northern Wasteland below as they approached Northern Border City.
• The Hundred Mechanisms Giant Kite jolted, and Lin Wei sensed danger amid chaotic Heaven and Earth Spiritual Essence.

An Ancestral Demon Feng Li ambushed the students’ Hundred Mechanisms Giant Kites, forcing them to crash into the Northern Wasteland. As a thousand demon beasts closed in, Jiang Qiu and the surviving students prepared to fight while an instructor urged them to flee north and attacked the swarm.

• Feng Li sliced through the Hundred Mechanisms Giant Kites, sending Jiang Qiu and the students plummeting from five thousand meters.
• Jiang Qiu spotted spiders among the falling students and suspected Demon King [Chen] had used special egg insects to infiltrate Northwest Martial Arts University.
• Jiang Qiu and the other students used Wind Summoning Orbs to slow their falls and survived their landings in the snowfield.
• Jiang Qiu drew [Abyssal Emergence] and led the survivors toward an approaching army of more than a thousand demon beasts.
• An instructor fell from the clouds, ordered the students to flee north toward Northern Border City, and summoned a Blazing Flame Ape Dharma Manifestation to strike the demon beast army.

Jiang Qiu and the surviving students fought the demons attacking from the air until Xia Qing grounded them with Wind Pressure Forms Abyss. As Ziyuan overwhelmed the students and Niu Yao prepared to restrain it, Jiang Qiu’s newly formed spear skill let him tear through demons, drawing Ziyuan’s attack.

• Jiang Qiu used the Black Flood Dragon Piercing the Sky bow skill to kill a Form Transformation Great Demon, but Ziyuan blocked his follow-up arrows and rallied the demons.
• Xia Qing used Wind Pressure Forms Abyss to force the airborne demons to the ground, then led the stronger students against Ziyuan while the others fought the Form Transformation Demons.
• Jiang Qiu slaughtered the demons on the Soldier Cultivation Academy’s side and developed Dragon Shadow Flash Stab, bringing its proficiency to 810/1000.
• Ziyuan broke through the students’ assault, injured Xia Qing, and knocked Niu Yao back when he tried to attack it.
• Niu Yao began powering up to restrain Ziyuan, while Jiang Qiu charged through demons with Dragon Shadow Flash Stab; Ziyuan fired a pillar of Furious Wind Spiritual Essence at him.

Jiang Qiu entered Weapon-Body Unification, survived Ziyuan’s attack, and killed the demon prodigy, then led the students north while the instructor held back Feng Li and the demon army. The exhausted group stopped in the snowfield, where Jiang Qiu’s compass spun wildly.

• Jiang Qiu unleashed Weapon-Body Unification, survived Ziyuan’s furious wind attack, and killed Ziyuan with a blazing dragon strike.
• Jiang Qiu officially entered the Enlightened Soul Realm and saw that his Dragon Spirit had condensed into a golden-patterned crimson egg.
• Feng Li broke free of the Thunder Cage and threatened Jiang Qiu, while the instructor urged the students to flee toward Northern Border City.
• Jiang Qiu led more than nine hundred students north as the instructor remained behind to fight Feng Li and the demons.
• The exhausted students stopped in the snowfield, and Jiang Qiu’s compass spun wildly as his heartbeat halted.

Jiang Qiu led the stranded students into the snowy mountains to shelter for the night, where he discovered a patrol of Northern Snow Wolves. After hearing the wolves rush off to intercept intruders, he suspected the newcomers were from Northern Border City and pursued them.

• Jiang Qiu and Xia Qing discussed how they could not confirm their location and would have to wait for the grandmasters in Northern Border City to track them.
• Jiang Qiu led the students into the mountains and had them set up tents near the edge of a possible secret realm region.
• Jiang Qiu spotted a group of Northern Snow Wolves on patrol and overheard them mention a Great Secret Realm and their clan's effort to stop people from Northern Border City from stealing fruit.
• The wolves sensed Jiang Qiu, but a howl from deeper in the mountains made them race off to confront intruders.
• Jiang Qiu guessed the intruders might be from Northern Border City and followed the wolves, hoping to learn the city's coordinates.

Jiang Qiu fought through a pack of Northern Snow Wolves to rescue a mercenary team trapped behind an ice wall, hoping to obtain their Coordinate Plate and reach Northern Border City. He blocked the Third Elder’s attack and broke open the ice wall, leaving the team a possible escape route.

• Jiang Qiu spotted Tieli’s mercenary team fleeing hundreds of Northern Snow Wolves and rushed to help them.
• The wolves trapped Tieli and his survivors behind an ice wall after accusing them of stealing 121 Ice Crystal Fruits.
• Jiang Qiu charged into the pack and learned the mercenaries carried demonkind’s aura, but decided he needed their Coordinate Plate to reach Northern Border City.
• Tieli offered to split the Ice Crystal Fruits with Jiang Qiu if he rescued the team, while the Third Elder prepared a massive Ice Claw attack.
• Jiang Qiu used Enraged Dragon Facing Heaven to block the Ice Claw and smash a breach through the ice wall.

Jiang Qiu saved Tieli’s group from the wolves and asked for a Coordinate Plate, but Tieli tried to kill him to keep their stolen Ice Crystal Fruits secret. When Jiang Qiu fought back, Tieli discovered that the young man’s strength could not be moved by his own, suggesting Jiang Qiu was a Body Cultivator.

• Jiang Qiu rescued Binglian and escaped the wolf pack alongside Tieli and the surviving martial artists.
• Jiang Qiu asked Tieli for a Coordinate Plate in return for saving the group, but Tieli attacked and revealed he planned to kill him to conceal their Ice Crystal Fruits.
• Binglian begged Tieli not to harm Jiang Qiu, and Tieli kicked her aside and ordered her to stay out of the way.
• Jiang Qiu attacked Tieli with his spear, but Tieli used his greater realm and Soul Ice Spiritual Essence to resist him.
• Tieli’s companions charged Jiang Qiu, and Tieli realized he could not shove Jiang Qiu back.

Jiang Qiu rescued Binglian from Tieli and his squad, then fled with her across the snowy wilderness. Binglian warned him that the Northern Snow Wolf Tribe's secret realm was activating, and a massive fluctuation began pulling everything in its territory inside.

• Jiang Qiu withstood attacks from Tieli and fifteen other Enlightened Soul Realm experts by unleashing his body cultivation and flames.
• Jiang Qiu struck Tieli with the Blazing Azure Dragon technique, melting his ice defenses, then used Shadow Tread to escape with Binglian.
• Tieli killed an Enlightened Soul Realm warrior who tried to attack him and threatened the rest of his squad into following his orders.
• As Jiang Qiu carried Binglian through the snow, she told him that the Northern Snow Wolf Tribe's Spiritually Aware Great Demon could activate its medium-sized secret realm.
• A vast secret realm fluctuation swept over Jiang Qiu and Binglian, and Jiang Qiu realized that the realm covered an area more than twice the size of Dongqi Lake.

Jiang Qiu and Binglian entered the Ancient Snow Wolf Emperor’s Ice Palace, where Binglian’s blood let him absorb Soul Ice Spiritual Essence and resist the poison. The Northern Snow Wolf Tribe, the students, and Tieli’s mercenary team were drawn into the realm, and Jiang Qiu attacked Tieli as he tried to escape.

• Binglian used her blood essence to help Jiang Qiu absorb Soul Ice Spiritual Essence and overcome the Ice Soul Poison’s effects.
• Binglian embraced Jiang Qiu and called him Daddy, and he comforted her and told her his name.
• The Third Elder brought Northern Snow Wolf Tribe members into the Ice Palace, where Lin Wei, Xia Qing, Niu Yao, and the other students also appeared.
• Tieli offered Jiang Qiu the Ice Crystal Fruit and Coordinate Plate, but the Third Elder ordered the tribe to attack the mercenaries.
• Tieli fled along the ice path toward the Ice-Sealed Gate as his fourteen mercenary brothers were killed, and Jiang Qiu struck him with a flame-wreathed arrow.

Jiang Qiu and the other students learned that they were trapped in the Ancient Snow Wolf Emperor’s Ice Palace trial, where they had to endure seven days of Ice Soul Poison. As the group began resisting the poison, the Third Elder suspected that several survivors were gifted students from Xia Country.

• Jiang Qiu killed Tieli and asked the Third Elder to let the group leave in exchange for Tieli’s Storage Necklace, but the Third Elder said they had to clear the trials or die.
• The Third Elder explained the Ice Palace’s rules and led his tribesmen onto the floating ice platform, where they absorbed Soul Ice Spiritual Essence.
• Xia Qing told the students they had to endure the first trial for seven days and reach the Ice-Sealed Gate, while warning them to resist the Ice Soul Poison.
• More than nine hundred students sat down to withstand the poison, while Jiang Qiu stood with Binglian and vowed to make the Northern Snow Wolf Tribe pay if they escaped.
• Binglian absorbed Soul Ice Spiritual Essence rapidly and accumulated Ice Soul Poison as time passed.
• The Third Elder noticed that Xia Qing, Lin Wei, Niu Yao, and Jiang Qiu were enduring the poison unusually well and wondered if they were students from Xia Country’s Rookie Tournament.

Jiang Qiu and Binglian absorbed the Soul Ice Spiritual Essence while the Third Elder plotted to kill the human youths, but Jiang Qiu used his newly evolved Soul Ice Spirit Fire to free everyone from the Ice Soul Poison. The Northern Snow Wolves passed through the Ice-Sealed Gate toward the trial’s second level, leaving Jiang Qiu and his companions able to follow.

• The Third Elder decided to kill the Xia Country youths and planned to blame the deaths on the Kunlun Demon Race.
• Jiang Qiu and Binglian absorbed Soul Ice Spiritual Essence at an astonishing rate, alarming the Third Elder and helping Binglian near the Spirit Communication Realm.
• Jiang Qiu vowed to take Binglian and the others out alive, while Lang Jian urged the Third Elder to attack and was told not to act rashly.
• The Third Elder led the Northern Snow Wolves through the Ice-Sealed Gate as the ice platform descended.
• Jiang Qiu evolved his talent into Soul Ice Spirit Fire and used it to suppress the poison, warming the youths and allowing them to stand.

Jiang Qiu survived the frozen lake with Binglian’s help, reached the Wolf Emperor’s statue, and absorbed its remnant soul while awakening his Dragon Spirit and advancing to the Dharma Manifestation Realm. He returned to Northern Snow Ridge, freed the students, and killed the Northern Snow Wolf Tribe before setting out for Northern Border City.

• Jiang Qiu nearly froze in the lake, but Binglian pulled him upward and poured Soul Ice Spiritual Essence into him, helping him reach the Wolf Emperor’s ice sculpture.
• The Wolf Emperor’s remnant soul tried to claim Jiang Qiu as its successor, but the Dragon Spirit hatched and destroyed it, granting Jiang Qiu new abilities and memories.
• Jiang Qiu took control of the secret realm, returned with the unconscious Binglian to Northern Snow Ridge, and freed Lin Wei and the other students.
• Jiang Qiu told the students to head to Northern Border City because the Demon King had returned, then attacked the Northern Snow Wolf Tribe with his spear.
• Jiang Qiu’s fire lotus killed more than seven hundred members of the Northern Snow Wolf Tribe, including the Third Elder, and his spear mastery advanced.

After escaping Northern Snow Ridge, Jiang Qiu led the survivors to Northern Border City, where Zhu Weiyi recognized their achievements and declared Jiang Qiu the Rookie Tournament champion. Zhu Weiyi then revealed that Jiang Qiu could compete for a quota to enter the Northern Wilderness Great Secret Realm, which would open in one month and contain the Enlightenment Fruit.

• Jiang Qiu broke the soul binding on the Storage Necklace, used the Coordinate Plate to lead the group toward Northern Border City, and gave money to a legless beggar along the way.
• At the Xia Kingdom Grand Hotel, Jiang Qiu learned that three months had passed and saw messages from friends and acquaintances who had worried about him.
• Zhu Weiyi arrived at the hotel, welcomed the returning students, and was astonished by their cultivation gains and Jiang Qiu's role in leading them through the Wolf Emperor's Trial.
• Zhu Weiyi told Jiang Qiu he had earned the Rookie Tournament championship and no longer needed to take its missions.
• Zhu Weiyi explained that Jiang Qiu could seek a token to enter the Northern Wilderness Great Secret Realm, whose Enlightenment Fruit could help cultivators break through to the Martial Arts Master realm.

Jiang Qiu learned that Demon King [Chen] had become a major threat and decided to compete for a Golden Token that would let him enter the Northern Wilderness Great Secret Realm. He learned that his opponent, Tang Guang, was a formidable sword genius, but remained determined to prepare for their contest.

• Zhu Weiyi told Jiang Qiu that Demon King [Chen] had reached at least the Ancestral Return Upper Realm and that the Committee planned an expedition into Kunlun Mountain in about half a year.
• Jiang Qiu resolved to enter the Northern Wilderness Great Secret Realm and compete for the Martial Dao Fruit so he could become a Martial Arts Master.
• Zhu Weiyi explained that Northwest Province's Golden Token would be contested by Jiang Qiu and talented martial artists from other provinces, and Jiang Qiu agreed to compete.
• Jiang Qiu checked into a hotel, contacted Liu Zili and his other acquaintances, and received a warning from Zhai Song about Tang Guang's strength.
• Zhai Song told Jiang Qiu that Tang Guang had defeated him with one sword strike and advised Jiang Qiu to comprehend Sword Intent and learn an insight-granting secret art.
• Jiang Qiu accepted that Tang Guang was a formidable opponent but vowed to keep preparing before the Great Secret Realm opened.