Chapter Summaries

Qing Yan Jing secured Northern Darkness Dragon Kun’s promise to protect and teach Mu Chen, while Qing Luo celebrated his victory and discussed the upcoming Hunting Battle with Luo Li. The chapter ended with Mu Chen brooding at the Spirit Array Group headquarters as a member insisted that his defeat had practically been a victory.

• Qing Yan Jing revealed that she was a Half-step Saint Grade Spirit Array Grandmaster and offered Northern Cang Academy a protective Spirit Array in exchange for looking after Mu Chen.
• The Heaven Ranking placed Mu Chen second, prompting Student Union members to complain about his background while Qing Luo declared he would kill Mu Chen if he threatened their relationship.
• Qing Luo and Luo Li shared a private moment, then Qing Luo avoided visits from Shen Cangsheng, Li Xuan Tong, and Su Xuan by slipping away.
• Luo Li told Qing Luo that Supreme Elders might guard the upcoming Hunting Battle, and Qing Luo promised to secure its Spiritual Energy Infusion for her.
• At the Spirit Array Group headquarters, a member told the gloomy Mu Chen that his loss to Qing Luo had practically been a victory.

Mu Chen sought a Spirit Array Disk to defeat Qing Luo in the upcoming Hunting Battle and regain Luo Li, bargaining with Crane Demon and asking Ling Xi to inscribe arrays on it. Ling Xi agreed despite their argument, while Qing Luo returned to the transformed tenth level of the Thunder Domain.

• Mu Chen accepted Crane Demon's proposal to seek a Spirit Array Disk, while Crane Demon offered Hunting Battle intelligence in exchange for help rebuilding the Demon Gate.
• Mu Chen visited Ling Xi and asked her to inscribe Human Grade Spirit Arrays on a disk so he could defeat Qing Luo and win back Luo Li.
• Ling Xi warned Mu Chen against fixating on Luo Li, and he left angrily after rejecting her advice.
• Ling Xi sent Ye Ling'er to deliver spirit fruits and wine to Mu Chen and promised to complete the Spirit Array Disk inscriptions.
• Qing Luo returned to the tenth level of the Thunder Domain, which had transformed into a different world.

Qing Luo entered the Thunder Domain to help Northern Darkness Dragon Kun obtain the Thunder God Pill, while Mo Lun’s repeated deaths in the Thunder Sea transformed his Soul Body and raised its power to the Heavenly Pass Realm. After half a month of tempering himself amid the chaos, Qing Luo also broke through to the Heavenly Pass Realm and prepared to confront the Thunder Spirit again.

• Qing Luo learned that Qing Yan Jing had left a Spirit Array to protect Northern Cang Academy, and he promised Northern Darkness Dragon Kun that he would not kill Mu Chen while Mu Chen remained there.
• Northern Darkness Dragon Kun explained that the Thunder Spirit guarded the Thunder God Pill, which he needed to break through to the Earthly Sovereign Realm, and Qing Luo agreed to help retrieve it.
• Qing Luo discovered that Mo Lun had gained control of fire and lightning and reached the Heavenly Pass Realm after repeatedly reviving in the Thunder Sea, then brought him along to confront the Thunder Spirit.
• The Thunder Spirit repeatedly lured Mo Lun into deadly attacks and fled from Qing Luo, who ordered Mo Lun to keep baiting it while he tempered his Thunder Emperor Body.
• After half a month of cultivating in the Thunder Sea, Qing Luo reached the Heavenly Pass Realm and declared that he was ready to settle the score with the Thunder Spirit.

Mo Lun tried to flee the Thunder Spirit in the Endless Thunder Sea, but Qing Luo and Northern Darkness Dragon Kun trapped it so Qing Luo could absorb its power and temper his Thunder Emperor Body. Mo Lun also began devouring the loose lightning energy as Qing Luo entered the Thunder Prison, and both sought to grow stronger.

• Mo Lun attempted to escape the Thunder Spirit, which pursued him and overwhelmed his attack.
• Qing Luo trapped the Thunder Spirit with the Immemorial Catalogue and Thunder Emperor Treasure Arts, then called Northern Darkness Dragon Kun to reinforce the Thunder Prison.
• Northern Darkness Dragon Kun noticed Qing Luo had reached the Heavenly Pass Realm, gave him a drop of Divine Beast Blood, and went to seek the Thunder God Pill.
• Qing Luo entered the Thunder Prison and absorbed the chaotic Thunder Force with the Thunder Emperor Treasure Arts to strengthen his Thunder Emperor Body.
• Mo Lun repeatedly re-formed after lightning destroyed him and devoured the loose lightning energy, exulting as his strength rapidly increased.

Northern Cang Academy began its Hunting Battle under the unprecedented challenge of two Sovereign guardians, and Qing Luo arrived just as the students feared they could not advance without him. After revealing that he had reached the Heavenly Pass Realm Peak, Qing Luo reunited with Luo Li and confronted Mu Chen before entering the Spirit Light Realm.

• Luo Li led the Student Union to Northern Darkness Square while Mu Chen and Crane Demon arrived with the Spirit Array Group.
• Dean Taicang announced that two First-grade Sovereigns would guard the final stage, leaving the students worried because Qing Luo was absent.
• Qing Luo arrived to cheers from the students, and Dean Taicang opened the gateway to the Spirit Light Realm.
• Qing Luo reunited with Luo Li and revealed that he had reached the Heavenly Pass Realm Peak.
• Mu Chen challenged Qing Luo and entered the Spirit Light Realm with the Spirit Array Group, promising to wait for him inside.

Qing Luo entered the Spirit Light Realm with the Student Union, gained an Innate Spirit Body, and set out to hunt its Spirit Kings. After he effortlessly destroyed a powerful Spirit General while rescuing the Great Wilderness Society, Xu Huang realized the Student Union was targeting a Spirit King, then spotted signs that another group was fighting one elsewhere.

• Qing Luo entered the Spirit Light Realm with Luo Li and the Student Union, gained an Innate Spirit Body, and chose a Spirit King's territory as their target.
• Xu Huang and the Great Wilderness Society struggled against a Spirit General and its Spirit Soldiers, suffering casualties as their hunt went badly.
• Qing Luo arrived and killed the late Heaven Transformation Realm Spirit General with one finger, then left without taking the scattered Spirit Light.
• Xu Huang inferred that Qing Luo was going to hunt a Spirit King and led the Great Wilderness Society after him to offer help.
• The Spirit Light Realm shook as two crimson Spiritual Energy dragons clashed near another Spirit King gathering point, and Xu Huang wondered who else was hunting Spirit Kings.

Qing Luo unleashed the Great Desolation Prison Heaven Finger against a vast Spirit King gathering point, evolving a Martial Art Spirit that attracted the attention of the Martial Ancestor, Lin Dong. The chapter ended with Lin Dong appearing before Qing Luo and asking his name.

• Shen Cangsheng and Li Xuan Tong prepared to hunt a late-Heavenly-Pass-Realm Spirit King, then realized someone had already attacked their chosen gathering point.
• Mu Chen used two Human Grade Spirit Arrays from his Spirit Array Disk to destroy a Spirit King gathering point while the academy elders watched uneasily.
• Qing Luo led the Student Union to a gathering point containing over a hundred thousand Spirit Soldiers and confronted its powerful Spirit King.
• Qing Luo combined his Double Pupils with his Innate Spirit Body and manifested the Great Desolation Prison Heaven Finger, evolving a Martial Art Spirit and drawing the attention of experts across the Great Thousand World.
• Lin Dong, the Martial Ancestor of Martial Border, appeared before Qing Luo, helped Northern Darkness Dragon Kun break through to the Earthly Sovereign realm, and asked Qing Luo his name.

Martial Ancestor Lin Dong appeared in the Spirit Light Realm and invited Qing Luo to join Martial Border, but Qing Luo refused so he could keep his promise to Luo Li. Lin Dong praised his choice, left him a Stone Talisman, and transformed the realm’s Spirit Soldiers into stronger opponents, leaving Qing Luo and the Student Union ready to hunt them.

• Martial Ancestor Lin Dong appeared in the Spirit Light Realm, praised Qing Luo’s mastery of the Great Desolation Prison Heaven Finger, and invited him to cultivate at Martial Border.
• Qing Luo refused Lin Dong’s invitation, saying he had promised to protect a girl and would not break his word.
• Qing Luo destroyed the Heavenly Abyss, embraced Luo Li, and told her he would stay by her side rather than let her send him away.
• Lin Dong approved of Qing Luo’s decision, gave him a Stone Talisman to summon help, and dispersed his Spirit Body to nourish the Spirit Light Realm.
• Qing Luo urged the Student Union to gather the spirit lights and hunt the newly strengthened Spirit Kings.

After refusing Martial Ancestor’s invitation to the Martial Border, Qing Luo became a symbol of Northern Cang Academy as the Spirit Light Realm grew more dangerous. Mu Chen founded the Mu Alliance to compete with Qing Luo’s expanding Student Union, while Qing Luo ended the chapter defeating three Sovereign Realm Spirit Soldiers at once.

• Northern Cang Academy’s leaders praised Qing Luo for refusing Martial Ancestor, while the transformed Spirit Light Realm filled with powerful, wandering Spirit Soldiers.
• Li Xuan Tong and Shen Cangsheng struggled against a Heavenly Pass Realm Thunder Spirit Soldier, and Mu Chen’s Spirit Array Group trapped and destroyed two Flame Spirit Soldiers.
• Crane Demon told Mu Chen that Qing Luo had refused the Martial Border and that the Student Union was growing; Mu Chen suspected Qing Luo was building strength against him.
• Mu Chen refused to admit Zhao Qingshan, Mu Fengyang, and Xu Que into the Spirit Array Group, then formed the Mu Alliance with the Spirit Array Group at its core.
• Qing Luo’s True Phoenix Phantom failed to defeat three Sovereign Realm Spirit Soldiers, so he crushed one with the Archaic Kirin, cut down another with the Thunder Emperor Battle Halberd, and dismantled the last with the Great Desolation Prison Heaven Hand.

Qing Luo organized the hunt for Sovereign Realm Spirit Soldiers across the Spirit Light Realm and helped his allies gather enough spiritual light for a perfect infusion. The chapter left off with him leading the Student Union toward the Spirit Light Platform after Mu Chen trapped Xu Huang and Su Xuan’s team and demanded that they join the Mu Alliance.

• Qing Luo destroyed the icy Sovereign Spirit Soldier that emerged from the Earth Veins, then learned that most students had formed alliances and were no longer in immediate danger.
• Guo Xiong gave Qing Luo a scroll marking more than a hundred Sovereign Spirit Soldier gathering points, and Qing Luo split the hunters into two groups, giving Xu Huang the Myriad Soul Banner to help lead one.
• Qing Luo learned that Mu Chen’s Mu Alliance was also hunting Sovereign Spirit Soldiers, and he accepted that the Spirit Array Group’s efforts would help protect the students.
• Over the next half month, Qing Luo’s group cleared marked dangers while Luo Li and the others fought weaker Spirit Soldiers; their haul exceeded fifty million units of spiritual light.
• Chen Yang received word that Mu Chen had trapped Xu Huang and Su Xuan’s team at the Spirit Light Platform after they refused to leave the Student Union and join the Mu Alliance.
• Qing Luo led more than a thousand Student Union members toward the Spirit Light Platform to confront Mu Chen and settle the score.

Mu Chen used Xu Huang and Su Xuan as bait to lure Qing Luo into a confrontation at Spirit Light Mountain, while Crane Demon pressured the Student Union to surrender its Spirit Light. Qing Luo arrived with Luo Li and the Student Union, and the chapter ended with Qing Luo and Mu Chen facing off after Mu Chen demanded that Qing Luo kneel and atone.

• Mu Chen trapped Xu Huang and Su Xuan in a Spirit Array and had Crane Demon argue that the Mu Alliance was entitled to the Student Union's Spirit Light.
• Xu Qingqing and Su Ling'er resisted Crane Demon, and Shen Cangsheng and Li Xuan Tong stepped in to challenge him.
• Qing Luo attacked Crane Demon with a beam of glazed light, but Mu Chen blocked it with a Black Tortoise Spirit Array.
• Qing Luo arrived with Luo Li, Guo Xiong, and more than a thousand Student Union members, while Mu Chen assembled the Mu Alliance to meet them.
• Mu Chen demanded that Qing Luo disband the Student Union, apologize, break up with Luo Li, and never approach him again, threatening Xu Huang and Su Xuan.
• Qing Luo warned Mu Chen that he would kill him, and Mu Chen ordered Qing Luo to kneel and atone.

Qing Luo fought Mu Chen across the Spirit Light Realm, breaking through his Spirit Arrays and overwhelming him with the Glazed Heaven-Refining Bottle. Their final collision shattered the Spirit Array Disk and the surrounding space, leaving the battle unresolved as Northern Darkness Dragon Kun raced to intervene.

• Mu Chen unleashed seven Human Grade Spirit Arrays, but Qing Luo broke through them with his Kirin Step, Azure Sky Glazed Hand, and True Phoenix technique.
• Mu Chen exhausted himself to summon more than ten Spirit Arrays, while the Heaven Seat Elders fled and Northern Darkness Dragon Kun set out for Spirit Light Mountain.
• Northern Darkness Dragon Kun berated Dean Taicang and the Heaven Seat Elders for allowing Qing Luo and Mu Chen to fight in the Hunting Battle, then hurried into the Spirit Light Realm.
• Mu Chen attacked with more than ten Spirit Arrays, and Qing Luo advanced through them with his Glazed Heaven-Refining Bottle, shattering most of them.
• Mu Chen threw his Spirit Array Disk at Qing Luo, and the disk collided with the Glazed Heaven-Refining Bottle, breaking the sky and swallowing both in the fractured void.

Qing Luo defeated Mu Chen in the Spirit Light Realm, but an Earthly Sovereign-level Spirit Array attacked and forced Qing Luo to sacrifice Mo Lun’s Spirit Body to survive. After the Northern Darkness Dragon Kun rescued the students, Qing Luo agreed to stop pursuing Mu Chen in exchange for Ling Xi’s promise that Mu Chen would never trouble him again.

• Mu Chen triggered the Physical Tribulation and attacked Qing Luo, but the Glazed Immortal Sword severed one arm and Qing Luo’s Thunder Emperor Battle Halberd severed the other.
• Mu Chen drew on the power of fortune, but Qing Luo used the Great Desolation Heaven-Imprisoning Finger to strike him down.
• A Spirit Array left by a senior of the Buddha Ancient Clan sent an Eerie Beam at Qing Luo, who sacrificed Mo Lun’s Spirit Body to divert the attack.
• The Spirit Light Realm collapsed, and the Northern Darkness Dragon Kun rescued the students and brought them back to Northern Darkness Square.
• The Northern Darkness Dragon Kun and Ling Xi urged Qing Luo to stop, and Ling Xi promised Mu Chen would never trouble him again.
• Qing Luo agreed to stop in exchange for Ling Xi’s promise.

Qing Yan Jing confronted the Buddha Ancient Clan's elders over their plans for Mu Chen and defended her right to protect him. At Northern Cang Academy, Ling Xi secured access to resources and Northern Darkness Dragon Kun's help to rebuild Mu Chen's body, while the Spiritual Energy Infusion was set to begin in three days.

• Dean Taicang announced that students who had obtained spirit light would undergo Spiritual Energy Infusion at Northern Darkness Square in three days.
• Qing Yan Jing argued with Fu Tu Xuan and the other elders, rejecting their demand that she conceal Mu Chen and warning them not to harm her son.
• Ling Xi arrived at the Thunder Domain and asked Northern Darkness Dragon Kun to help reconstruct Mu Chen's physical body.
• Ling Xi offered to perfect Northern Cang Academy's Level 8 Spirit Gathering Array and serve the academy for ten years in exchange for access to its Treasure Pavilion.
• Northern Darkness Dragon Kun gave Ling Xi his Grand Elder Token and agreed to help her, then turned his attention to the coming Spiritual Energy Infusion.

After the Spirit Light Realm trial, Qing Luo became Northern Cang Academy’s Dao Child and received a perfect Spiritual Energy Infusion from Northern Darkness Dragon Kun, while Mu Chen underwent a dangerous body reconstruction. Two months later, the Student Union had risen to prominence, and Northern Cang Academy prepared to face Taiding Spirit Academy in an exchange meet.

• Dean Taicang appointed Qing Luo Northern Cang Academy’s Dao Child, and Mo You offered to preside over Luo Li’s infusion because he owed her father his life.
• Northern Darkness Dragon Kun took Qing Luo to the Thunder Domain, used a Black Lotus Platform and the Spirit Lights to conduct his infusion, and asked him not to make things too difficult for Ling Xi.
• Ling Xi entered the Treasure Pavilion with Northern Darkness Dragon Kun’s token, then helped Northern Darkness Dragon Kun begin reconstructing Mu Chen’s body with precious medicines and protective Spirit Arrays.
• Over the next two months, the Student Union grew to include nearly half the academy’s students and most of the Heaven Ranking’s strongest members, while Shen Cangsheng and Li Xuan Tong accepted a mission to hunt Demon Dragon Son.
• Northern Cang Academy welcomed Taiding Spirit Academy for an exchange meet, and its students prepared to defend the academy’s reputation.

Qing Luo endured the Physical Tribulation in the Thunder Domain while Taiding Spirit Academy’s Liu Zheng dominated the exchange meet and challenged the absent Banner Carrier. As Luo Li stepped forward to defend Qing Luo, Qing Luo completed his transformation and confronted a Heavenly Dao Thunder Tribulation, vowing to replace the Heavenly Dao.

• Qing Luo’s Blood Fire ignited as he began the Physical Tribulation, and Northern Darkness Dragon Kun recognized that Qing Luo had to endure it alone.
• Liu Zheng defeated Northern Cang Academy’s leading Heaven Ranking students and called out the Banner Carrier, whom the students identified as Qing Luo.
• Liu Zheng mocked Qing Luo for not appearing, and Luo Li took the platform, warning Liu Zheng that he was unworthy of Qing Luo and that one sword would defeat him.
• A Thunder Tribulation formed over the Thunder Domain as Qing Luo opened his eyes after completing the Physical Tribulation, with a body as powerful as a young Primordial Ten Calamity.
• Qing Luo recognized the Thunder Tribulation as the Heavenly Dao’s attempt to kill him and declared that he would one day replace the Heavenly Dao.

Qing Luo defied the Heavenly Dao’s attempt to reclaim the Illusory Thunder Pool, while Luo Li’s victory over Liu Ning was followed by a new challenger from the Blood God Clan. After Mu Chen alerted Qing Luo to Luo Li’s danger, he and Ling Xi entered the Thunder Domain, where Mu Chen began the path toward training in the Thunder God Body.

• Qing Luo shattered the tribulation Thunder Dragon and entered the Illusory Thunder Pool, where its power repeatedly destroyed and regenerated his body as Thunder Dao Origin was etched into his bones.
• The Heavenly Dao manifested a real Thunder Pool and began reclaiming the Illusory Thunder Pool, but Qing Luo tried to hold on to it with the Glazed Treasure Bottle.
• Luo Li defeated Liu Ning with one sword strike, and Fei Qingsong sent a red-eyed young man who identified her as the future emperor of the Luoshen Clan and revealed himself as a member of the Blood God Clan.
• Mu Chen and Ling Xi encountered Qing Luo outside the Thunder Domain; Mu Chen told him Luo Li had run into trouble, and Qing Luo left for Northern Darkness Square.
• Ling Xi asked Northern Darkness Dragon Kun to teach Mu Chen the Thunder God Body and offered to join Northern Cang Academy, but Northern Darkness Dragon Kun told her to seek her own path and took Mu Chen deeper into the Thunder Domain for training.

Luo Li fought the Blood God Clan Youth and nearly lost before Qing Luo’s scroll turned the duel in her favor. Qing Luo arrived, killed the youth with one punch, then attacked Fei Qingsong and left him impaled on the main platform.

• Luo Li clashed with the Blood God Clan Youth, whose visions of the Luoshen Clan’s suffering disrupted her Sword Intent and let him wound her.
• Luo Li threw Qing Luo’s scroll, whose supreme Sword Intent tore through the Blood God Clan Youth and badly wounded him, though his secret art healed him.
• Qing Luo appeared before Luo Li and killed the Blood God Clan Youth with a single punch as he attacked again.
• Fei Qingsong attacked Qing Luo, but Qing Luo met his strike with the Thunder Emperor Fist and forced him back.
• Fei Qingsong summoned his Sovereign Dharma Body, and Dean Taicang manifested his own to stop the confrontation.
• Qing Luo tore through Fei Qingsong’s Spiritual Energy barrier with the Thunder Emperor Battle Halberd and pinned him to the main platform.

After Qing Luo killed Fei Qingsong, Dean Taicang shielded him from the political fallout, while Luo Li worried that the Luoshen Clan would soon summon her back. Qing Luo comforted Luo Li before taking the Nine Nether Sparrow beyond the academy to begin its evolution, where thunderclouds gathered for its tribulation.

• Qing Luo killed Fei Qingsong, and Dean Taicang ordered the Taiding Spirit Academy elders escorted to the Elder Pavilion while Northern Cang Academy contained the incident.
• Qing Luo defended his actions to Dean Taicang, who affirmed that Northern Cang Academy would protect its students and gave Luo Li three Spirit Rhyme Resurrection Pills for her injuries.
• Luo Li told Qing Luo that news of her departure from the Luoshen Clan had spread and feared the clan would call her back early; Qing Luo reassured her that separation would not change their feelings.
• The next day, Qing Luo left Northern Cang Academy with the Nine Nether Sparrow and gave it the Northern Darkness Dragon Kun's essence blood to begin its evolution.
• The Nine Nether Sparrow grew beneath spreading Black Flame, and destructive black thunderclouds gathered overhead as its tribulation began.

Qing Luo intervened in the Nine Nether Sparrow’s Black Thunder God Tribulation, absorbed its lightning, and drove the tribulation away, allowing the bird to evolve. Ling Xi then offered to become Qing Luo’s servant in exchange for Mu Chen’s life, but Qing Luo demanded she sever her ties with Mu Chen and Qing Yan Jing.

• The Nine Nether Sparrow endured a devastating Black Thunder God Tribulation, and Qing Luo entered the lightning to face it himself.
• Qing Luo absorbed and repelled the tribulation, after which the Nine Nether Sparrow’s Undying Fire healed it and its power rose to the Fourth-grade Sovereign level.
• Ling Xi witnessed Qing Luo’s strength and realized he could kill Mu Chen despite Aunt Jing’s protection.
• Ling Xi offered her life and service in exchange for Mu Chen’s, but Qing Luo asked whether she would accept becoming enemies with Mu Chen and Qing Yan Jing.
• A proud, icy voice called Ling Xi’s offer foolish and demanded permission to kill her.