Chapter Summaries

Chen Yan used two Time Seeds to temper his body, recover from his injuries, and strengthen his cultivation, then entered the Slaughter Forest to hunt Ancient Beasts. After defeating a horde of Double-Winged Black Wolves, he surged ahead on the Ranking Board while the chapter left him fighting inside the forest.

• Chen Yan activated the [Patrol Heaven Secret Medicine], worsened his injuries, and broke the Extreme Forging Realm limit four times, reaching 185 Extreme Stripes.
• Lu Xunyang called for the person who had broken through, stirring the examinees and Military Martial Guard soldiers, while Chen Yan chose to prioritize finding You Lan over visiting Sun Seeking Tower.
• Chen Yan used a second Time Seed to heal and review his martial arts, then went to the Wooden Houses and learned from a little girl that the trial could not begin until enough people had gathered.
• Chen Yan entered the Slaughter Forest, ignored Jiang Yuan's offer to team up, and faced a horde of Double-Winged Black Wolves.
• Chen Yan killed the Ancient Beasts with [Patrol Heaven] and [Void Breaker], collected Path Cutting Points, and widened his lead in first place on the Ranking Board.

Chen Yan fought through Slaughter Forest while the Dao Seed and Yan Realm accelerated his thoughts and helped him form a [Skill] Character Saint Breaking Fruit. His score soared far ahead of every other candidate, while He Youtong warned him that Lu Guiwen was coming to kill him.

• Ma Tianyin gave Lu Guiwen Human Head Fruits and urged him to enter Slaughter Forest and kill Chen Yan, while He Youtong overheard them and later sent Chen Yan a warning.
• Chen Yan continued killing Black Wolves with [Void Breaker], feeding the Path Cutting Bamboo and growing its fourth section.
• Chen Yan faced five Fourth Order Black Wolves, killed one from inside its skull, and formed six [Void Breaker—Exploding Saint] orbs at once.
• Chen Yan consumed the Dao Seed as he fought, pushing his thought speed beyond his body's limits and rapidly forming a [Skill] Character Saint Breaking Fruit.
• Chen Yan's score passed twenty million and held an enormous lead on the Ranking Board, while Chen Xiyuan watched with concern over his corruption by Malice.

Chen Yan survived Snow Wife’s attack in Slaughter Forest and discovered that the monster could not cross a cabin’s threshold, while Ma Tianyin tried to use the danger against him. Chen Yan escaped into Ma Tianyin’s cabin by turning the ambush against him, leaving Ma Tianyin badly injured and Snow Wife still outside.

• Chen Changyuan observed that the College Entrance Exam Secret Realm had severed his connection to Yu Changsheng and hoped Chen Yan would face Yu Changsheng’s trial.
• After slaughtering beasts, Chen Yan raised [Void Breaker—Exploding Saint] to Azure Sky Level A, exchanged his Path Cutting Bamboo for an Ice Domain Gathering Lingzhi, and advanced his Golden Body Accumulation and Forging Degree to twenty-five percent.
• An old villager warned Chen Yan about Snow Wife, then tore out his own heart and transformed into a grotesque tree that bore human-shaped fruits.
• Snow Wife attacked Chen Yan, who dodged the monster’s blows and raced toward the village while Shao Hengyang and Shang Yunwu tried to help him reach shelter.
• Ma Tianyin opened a cabin door to lure Chen Yan into danger, but Chen Yan used [Void Breaker—Exploding Saint] to slip inside and shove Ma Tianyin outside; Lu Guiwen pulled Ma Tianyin back as Snow Wife devoured his arm.

Chen Yan maimed Ma Tianyin after stopping his attempt to harm him, then learned how Snow Wife and the College Entrance Exam Secret Realm’s rules worked. The first trial was about to begin, with Ma Tianyin and Lu Guiwen seated beside Chen Yan.

• Chen Yan stomped off one of Ma Tianyin’s legs, but Lu Guiwen intervened and Snow Wife’s black-mist hand appeared when fighting broke out inside the wooden house.
• Lu Guiwen gave Ma Tianyin and an injured examinee Healing Spirit Medicines, while Chen Yan insisted Ma Tianyin had caused the other examinee’s injuries.
• The wooden house’s young master explained that Snow Wife appeared when examinees fought and would serve as a punisher during the examination.
• Chen Yan learned that the Secret Realm’s natives continued living between examinations and that Ancient Beasts, Fei Yi, and the Human Tree shaped Slaughter Village’s brutal existence.
• Chen Yan took seat forty-seven between Ma Tianyin and Lu Guiwen, and the wooden house’s young master announced the first trial.

Chen Yan solved the first trial’s riddle about the rabbit, White Bear, and honey, earning enough Path Cutting Points to strengthen his Path Cutting Bamboo. He used the time before the final trial to cultivate in the basement, while screams from examinees who failed the riddle sounded above.

• The little boy began a timed riddle trial and warned that Snow Wife would randomly skin two examinees who failed to answer.
• Chen Yan and the other examinees submitted several incorrect answers as their Path Cutting Points drained, and Chen Yan reasoned that the rabbit, White Bear, and honey represented the villagers, the Ancient God Beast, and a hidden truth about its power.
• Chen Yan submitted a new answer and was declared correct, earning about ten million Path Cutting Points and growing his Path Cutting Bamboo to five joints.
• Chen Yan asked about the next trial, then entered the basement and used a Time Seed and Morning Star Level Class D Qi and Blood Medicine to raise his Golden Body Accumulation and Forging Degree to thirty percent.
• Chen Yan heard prolonged screams from the examinees who had failed the trial and been chosen for Snow Wife’s punishment.

Chen Yan used the break between trials to push his Pushing Fist Intent to the peak of fifth grade, while Ma Tianyin and Lu Guiwen secretly considered how to kill him. The second trial began with four dangerous orbs passed around the room, and Ma Tianyin paused with them on his desk while staring at Chen Yan.

• Chen Yan pondered the trial’s clues, then used a Ninth Order Fist Intent Stone, a Dao Seed, and a Time Seed to raise his Pushing Fist Intent to the peak of fifth grade.
• Ma Tianyin told Lu Guiwen that Invincible Son had promised him a Moon-level Treasure Medicine and help escaping if he dealt with Chen Yan, and Lu Guiwen agreed to help.
• Chen Yan emerged from the basement badly weakened by training, while Ma Tianyin and Lu Guiwen concealed their murderous intentions.
• The little boy announced a three-minute limb trial in which examinees had to pass four colored orbs in seat order, with each orb requiring its holder to surrender a different limb when time ran out.
• The examinees passed the orbs through several rounds, and Ma Tianyin stopped with all four on his desk as he coldly watched Chen Yan.

Chen Yan turned Ma Tianyin’s attempt to force four light spheres onto him against their attackers, and the stage’s penalties left Ma Tianyin, Lu Guiwen, and another examinee mutilated. Shaken by the violence, most examinees quit the College Entrance Exam Secret Realm, while Chen Yan remained in the wooden house.

• Ma Tianyin tried to force four light spheres onto Chen Yan, but Chen Yan revealed that examinees could refuse spheres and blocked Ma Tianyin from transferring them.
• Chen Yan overpowered Ma Tianyin in a struggle, while the wooden house’s owner stopped them from fighting further.
• As time expired, a golden sphere appeared on Lu Guiwen’s table, followed by a silver one, and the black-mist hands tore off Lu Guiwen’s right arm and Ma Tianyin’s right hand.
• The black-mist hands also tore off Candidate No. 49’s leg, and he condemned Ma Tianyin before forfeiting the exam.
• Many examinees, including Military Martial Guard and Aristocratic Alliance prodigies, quit the secret realm after witnessing the injuries, while Chen Yan stayed behind.

During the second round, Chen Yan uncovered a clue connecting You Lan to the rabbit-and-honey story and warned Jiang Yuan to ask about the rabbit. As Ma Tianyin prepared to ambush him at dawn, Fushan General Star arrived and killed Ma Tianyin.

• Chen Yan asked the little boy about You Lan, Qi and Blood, and the rabbit’s honey, receiving “You Lan” as the answer to the last question.
• Chen Yan contacted He Youtong and Jiang Yuan, then told Jiang Yuan to ask who the rabbit that found the honey was.
• Ma Tianyin urged Lu Guiwen to help kill Chen Yan at dawn and revealed that he was a spy cultivated by the Ji Family.
• The examinees left their huts at daybreak, and He Youtong, Shao Hengyang, and Shang Yunwu worried about Chen Yan’s situation.
• Fushan General Star burst from a wooden house with Ma Tianyin’s headless body, declared that he granted Ma Tianyin death, and crushed his head.

An injured examinee publicly condemned the Aristocratic Alliance and rallied outrage over its attacks on Chen Yan, while Chen Yan killed Ma Tianyin and moved to execute Lu Guiwen. The chapter ended with Chen Yan unleashing his full strength against Lu Guiwen as Jiang Yuan realized the attack could kill him.

• The injured examinee who had shared a Wooden House with Chen Yan denounced Ma Tianyin, the Aristocratic Alliance, and the Town Martial Division, stirring anger across Yunmeng.
• Zhang Ting questioned whether Ma Tianyin had been trained by the Ji Family, while Chen Xiyuan regretted taking back Chen Yan’s Seventh Grade Fist Intent Stone.
• Chen Yan killed Ma Tianyin with two strikes, and Lu Guiwen fled toward Dream Abyss before Chen Yan blocked his path and threatened to kill him.
• Jiang Yuan demanded evidence that Lu Guiwen had conspired against Chen Yan, but Chen Yan insisted his word was proof and charged at Lu Guiwen.
• Shi Ziqin taunted Chen Yan to act as he pleased, and Chen Yan struck Lu Guiwen before activating his martial arts and preparing a devastating follow-up attack.

Chen Yan killed Lu Guiwen in the Slaughter Forest, awakened sixth-grade Fist Intent, and advanced his Saint Breaking Tree as Military Martial Prodigies roared their support. Outside, Lu Guiwen’s death and Chen Yan’s declaration that the Aristocratic Alliance must be destroyed plunged Xiaoyang City into stunned silence.

• Chen Yan battered Lu Guiwen through his ten-second escape countdown and killed him with a fist infused with sixth-grade Fist Intent.
• Military Martial Prodigies shouted “Fu Shan” as Chen Yan stood amid the flames, and his Saint Breaking Tree advanced to Level Seven with a new [Shatter] Character Saint Breaking Fruit.
• Luo Dongli promised to investigate Ma Tianyin’s case while the Broken Leg Youth publicly cursed the Aristocratic Alliance and demanded answers from Chen Changyuan.
• A blood-soaked examinee appeared in the plaza and died after calling Chen Yan’s name, then another examinee identified a headless corpse as Ma Tianyin’s.
• The examinee in white identified Lu Guiwen’s remains, told the gathered Aristocratic Alliance figures that Chen Yan had killed him, and relayed Chen Yan’s message that the Aristocratic Alliance must be destroyed.

After killing Lu Guiwen, Chen Yan silenced the gathered factions and left for Slaughter Forest. Jiang Yuan then urged Meng Wenhao to grow stronger and kill Chen Yan, while the Aristocratic Alliance candidates struggled to take the suggestion seriously.

• Chen Yan challenged the Aristocratic Alliance and Town Martial Division after executing Lu Guiwen, then flew toward Slaughter Forest.
• Shao Hengyang told Shang Yunwu not to follow Chen Yan because he preferred to hunt for resources alone.
• Shi Ziqin worried that Chen Yan's rapid rise would disrupt the Qin Prefecture Town Martial Division after the exam.
• Meng Wenhao denounced Chen Yan, and Jiang Yuan persuaded him that the Alliance could not kill Chen Yan but could try to get him eliminated from the exam.
• Jiang Yuan told Meng Wenhao to train hard and then kill Chen Yan, prompting the other candidates to laugh.

After breaking through to the True Realm of Fist Intent, Chen Yan discovered that the seventh-level Saint Breaking Tree could produce [Shatter] Character Saint Breaking Fruits that amplified other fruits a hundredfold. His discussion with Jiang Yuan linked Slaughter Village’s “honey” to You Lan and revealed that Snow Wife had discovered it.

• Chen Yan consumed sixteen [Yi] Character Saint Breaking Fruits and advanced his Fist Intent into the True Realm.
• Chen Yan found that the level-seven Saint Breaking Tree could produce [Shatter] Character Saint Breaking Fruits, which multiplied the effects of other fruits by a hundred.
• Chen Yan contacted Jiang Yuan, who warned him that someone from the Aristocratic Alliance wanted him dead and shared his deductions about the Dream Ancient God Beast.
• Chen Yan and Jiang Yuan concluded that Slaughter Village’s “honey” was You Lan, and Jiang Yuan identified Snow Wife as the rabbit who discovered it.
• Chen Yan realized that Snow Wife’s knowledge of You Lan explained why his Qi and Blood had stirred when she hunted him.

Chen Yan tracked Snow Wife into the depths of Slaughter Forest, then found the Stone Palace where Snow Wife rested during the day. After earning fifty-six million Path Cutting Points, Chen Yan exchanged them for a dangerous body-tempering medicine and drank it, igniting golden flames as he endured its effects.

• Chen Yan refused Jiang Yuan’s offer to work together and followed the trail Snow Wife had left through Slaughter Forest.
• Chen Yan killed a twelve-winged Giant Bird and gathered its Path Cutting Points while Jiang Yuan declined Shi Ziqin’s request to drive Chen Yan out of the College Entrance Exam Secret Realm.
• Chen Yan earned fifty-six million Path Cutting Points and discovered Snow Wife’s Stone Palace, whose entrance was marked for Blood Qi Martial Artists only.
• Chen Yan exchanged his points for a Morning Star Level Class B Body Tempering Medicine, Blazing Sun Body Casting Flame.
• Chen Yan drank the magma-like medicine, activated Patrol Heaven, and erupted in golden flames.

Shi Ziqin used Chen Yan’s blood to set a Beast Attraction Array, drawing hordes of Ancient Beasts toward him, while Chen Yan tempered his body and grew stronger. As the chapter ended, Chen Yan fought off the beast horde and Shi Ziqin’s companion revealed a terrifying power, declaring that his will looked down on Chen Yan.

• Shi Ziqin planted a Beast Attraction Array using Chen Yan’s blood and gave the red-shirted young man a second array to endanger the Military Martial Guard during a rescue.
• Chen Yan used a powerful fire-type Body Tempering Medicine, gained 193 Extreme Stripes, and greatly increased his combat strength.
• Chen Yan entered the Stone Palace, narrowly escaped Snow Wife’s attack, and memorized a poem that hinted at her death and a mysterious tyrant.
• After Chen Yan received multiple SOS signals, a massive horde of Green Snakes attacked him, and he slaughtered them before even larger beast hordes converged on him.
• Shi Ziqin watched Chen Yan fight while he gathered Path Cutting Points, then the red-shirted young man revealed his overwhelming power and declared that his will looked down on Chen Yan.

Chen Yan’s stand against the Aristocratic Alliance intensified the unrest in Xiaoyang City as Military Martial Guard prodigies accused Shi Ziqin of using a Beast Attraction Array to sabotage them. The Military Martial Guard was fighting a vast Ancient Beast Horde in the exam secret realm, while Chen Xiyuan concealed her use of a Malice Crystal and the city braced for Chen Yan’s return.

• Chen Yan erupted with anger over the power struggles and their consequences, while Shi Ziqin suspected he had seen through her interference and expected him to fail the exam.
• Shang Yunwu and Shao Hengyang fought a huge Ancient Beast Horde alongside the Military Martial Guard; a prodigy blamed Shi Ziqin for drawing the beasts with a Beast Attraction Array, and some examinees were eliminated or killed.
• Chen Xiyuan told the Second Elder that Chen Yan admired her, hiding that she had used a Malice Crystal to control him; the Second Elder urged her to bring Chen Yan back to the Chen Clan before the First Elder reached him.
• Eliminated Military Martial Guard prodigies publicly accused Shi Ziqin and the Town Martial Division of targeting them and Chen Yan, reigniting outrage in Xiaoyang City.
• Zhang Ting watched Chen Yan’s points surge past one hundred million and anticipated that Chen Yan’s emergence from the exam would further inflame the city.

Chen Yan fought through the Ancient Beast Horde as Shen Yiwei confronted Chen Changyuan and unexpectedly released a mysterious pressure that stopped the conflict from escalating. When Snow Wife descended on the Slaughter Forest, Chen Yan arrived in a burst of golden light and unleashed Boundless Saint Burst against her and the beasts.

• Shen Yiwei challenged Chen Changyuan, and their Sword Realms clashed until Shen Yiwei released a powerful, mysterious pressure that made the gathered factions pause and wait for Chen Yan.
• Chen Yan continued slaughtering Ancient Beasts, endured the ringing distress signal, and declared that his true strength lay in his will as Snow Wife approached.
• In the Slaughter Forest, Shao Hengyang urged wounded Heavenly Prides to quit while Shang Yunwu prepared to hold Snow Wife off for ten seconds.
• Snow Wife arrived as a black sun over the forest, and Chen Yan appeared in golden light as a second sun.
• Chen Yan invoked Void-Breaking—Boundless Saint Burst and crashed into the beast horde as Snow Wife struck, unleashing an explosion of black mist and golden light.

Chen Yan lured Snow Wife into the Slaughter Forest to help the Military Martial Guard Prodigies escape, then used its attacks to slaughter Ancient Beasts and rapidly gain Path Cutting Points. Outside the secret realm, officials watched his score soar and learned what had happened from a candidate who had escaped.

• Chen Yan arrived with Snow Wife, drove the Ancient Beasts into its attacks, and ordered the Military Martial Guard Prodigies to retreat.
• Shang Yunwu was badly injured by Snow Wife, and Shao Hengyang carried him toward the Wooden House while Chen Yan continued drawing Snow Wife away.
• Chen Yan used Snow Wife's attacks to kill hordes of Ancient Beasts, earning Path Cutting Points as his ten stalks of Path Cutting Bamboo grew.
• Snow Wife used [You Lan] to suppress Chen Yan, but Chen Yan countered with [Submerged Abyss] and escaped its crushing attack.
• Chen Yan's score surged past two hundred million on the Ranking Board, leaving the officials outside the secret realm baffled about why he had not emerged.
• A candidate who had escaped from the Slaughter Forest painted the battle in Qi and Blood, showing the officials how Chen Yan's arrival had changed the fight.

Chen Yan risked his life to save the Military Martial Guard prodigies, earning admiration even among his rivals, while his sister Chen Yu prepared to face a Fifth Order Ancient God Beast. Snow Wife pursued the badly wounded Chen Yan to Slaughter Village, where the prodigies rallied to help him, and the chapter left him racing toward Shi Ziqin’s Wooden House with his escape routes cut off.

• Chen Yu entered a cave to confront a Fifth Order Ancient God Beast, determined to grow strong enough to stand beside her brother.
• The Military Martial Guard prodigies returned to Slaughter Village and condemned Shi Ziqin after learning that Chen Yan had lured Snow Wife away to save them.
• The gathered prodigies argued over Great Xia’s future and recognized Chen Yan as a leader, while Shi Ziqin and He Youtong feared his influence.
• Chen Yan arrived at the Wooden Houses gravely wounded, pursued by Snow Wife, and the prodigies rushed out to attack her and protect him.
• Snow Wife repelled the prodigies’ attacks and blocked Chen Yan’s escape, forcing him to fly toward Shi Ziqin’s Wooden House.

Chen Yan survived Snow Wife’s attack, then challenged the dice round of the assessment when he rolled a heart. He forced the Old Woman to void his throw and reroll, but Shi Ziqin then rolled the heart and accused Chen Yan of causing it.

• Jiang Yuan shot Snow Wife with a Light Arrow, giving Chen Yan time to escape into the Wooden House.
• The Old Woman began a luck-based assessment in which examinees rolled a thousand-sided die for Path Cutting Points, but the heart face meant surrendering their heart to Snow Wife.
• Chen Yan rolled the heart, then threatened the Old Woman and pointed out a problem with the round, prompting her to void his throw.
• Chen Yan rerolled and got a nine, earning ninety million points and growing a Five-Section Path Cutting Bamboo.
• Shi Ziqin rolled the heart, stood up, and roared at Chen Yan, demanding to know what he had done.

Chen Yan survived the Wooden House trial and exposed the clue behind Snow Wife, while Shi Ziqin was killed after rolling the heart side. He withdrew to the basement, counted his enormous gains, and used a Life Immortal Pill to heal his grievous wounds as he fought off the urge to rest.

• Shi Ziqin begged Chen Yan to reveal how he had earned another roll, then fled the Wooden House as the giant hand attacked her.
• Snow Wife returned with Shi Ziqin's still-beating heart, terrifying the examinees and leaving them to realize Chen Yan had understood the trial's stages.
• Chen Yan asked the Old Woman if there were more stages, then went to the basement while Jiang Yuan later rolled an eight.
• Chen Yan entered a Time Barrier and reasoned that the Black Powder on the door kept Snow Wife out, linking the trial to the village chief's role in the rabbit and White Bear story.
• Chen Yan counted 340 million Path Cutting Points and used them to obtain a Life Immortal Pill that regenerated his wounds and severed arm.
• As the pill's soothing effects made Chen Yan want to sleep, he reminded himself that he was the Lord of Martial Arts and Will and could not rest.