Chapter Summaries

During the Sacred Spirit Baptism, Qing Luo deepened his understanding of the Force Extreme Realm and discovered that the Karma Thread represented his past and future selves. As Sacred Spirit Mountain collapsed, he collected the fallen prodigies in the Myriad Soul Banner and led Luo Li and Xia Youran toward an exit blocked by a battle between Sovereign Experts.

• Qing Luo used the Sacred Spirit Baptism to refine his Dao Arts and realized the Karma Thread contained his past self and future self.
• The baptism ended, Sacred Spirit Mountain began collapsing, and Mu Chen and the other Northern Cang Continent prodigies hurried to escape.
• Qing Luo swept the fallen souls of Liu Ying, Dong Yuan, and Mo Xing Tian into the Myriad Soul Banner, then left with Luo Li and Xia Youran.
• A violent clash between Sovereign Experts struck the spatial passage, preventing Qing Luo and the others from reaching its exit.
• Qing Luo manifested Karma Threads around himself and his companions, then vanished from the passage with them.

Mu Chen and Qing Luo emerged from the Sacred Spirit Mountain Range during the Dragon Demon Palace’s assault on Northern Cang Academy and turned the battle with their overwhelming strength. Qing Luo slaughtered several Sovereigns, leaving the remaining attackers fleeing in terror while he pursued them.

• Mu Chen blocked a Sovereign’s attack with a golden Spirit Array, then trapped and refined him inside the Black Pagoda.
• More than ten Sovereigns joined the assault on Northern Cang Academy, leaving Dean Taicang and the remaining defenders in grave danger until Mu Chen’s arrays gave them a brief reprieve.
• Qing Luo, Luo Li, and Xia Youran emerged, and Qing Luo killed Azure Dragon Sovereign with the Luo Shen Sword after withstanding his attacks.
• Several Sovereigns attacked Qing Luo, but he escaped into illusion, killed Liu Yuan, and then swung the Great Sumeru Demon Pillar to crush five or six Sovereigns into the shattered void.
• The surviving Sovereigns fled or begged for mercy, but Qing Luo pursued the Ghost King Sect Sovereign and burned him to nothingness.

Qing Luo and Jiu You slaughtered Dragon Demon Palace’s Sovereigns as Dean Taicang trapped Black Dragon Sovereign. Qing Luo killed a Third-grade Sovereign, but his final punch also killed Xing Hall Master Mo You, leaving the battlefield stunned.

• Dean Taicang bound Dragon Demon Palace’s Sovereigns while Black Dragon Sovereign stayed to await the Immeasurable Ancestor.
• Jiu You killed a fleeing Sovereign with Undying Fire, then took the Myriad Soul Banner to hunt the remaining Sovereigns.
• Qing Luo reached the core battlefield and went to help Xing Hall Master Mo You fight a Third-grade Sovereign.
• Qing Luo broke through the enemy’s Demon Dragon Dharma Body and killed the Third-grade Sovereign with successive attacks.
• Qing Luo’s final punch also pierced Mo You’s chest and heart, and he claimed he had not controlled his strength properly.

Qing Luo turned the battle against the Dragon Demon Palace into a slaughter of Northern Cang Academy’s Sovereigns, then joined forces with Jiu You to pursue the fleeing Black Dragon Sovereign. After sending Luo Li back to the academy with the Elders, Qing Luo left the battlefield in pursuit.

• Qing Luo killed a Third-grade Sovereign of the Dragon Demon Palace and crushed three wounded Northern Cang Academy Heaven Seat Elders with the Glazed Treasure Bottle, leaving Dean Taicang shocked and vulnerable to Black Dragon Sovereign’s attack.
• Mu Chen arrived after refining a First-grade Sovereign, but Taicang told him to help Ling Xi and the others while he fought Black Dragon Sovereign.
• Qing Luo ignored Taicang’s attempt to keep him away from the other battle and attacked both Taicang and Black Dragon Sovereign, while Jiu You joined the fight.
• After Jiu You mistakenly attacked Taicang, Qing Luo redirected her toward Black Dragon Sovereign, who tore open space and fled.
• Qing Luo told Luo Li to return to the academy with the Elders, then rode the True Phoenix alongside Jiu You as they chased Black Dragon Sovereign.

Qing Luo and Jiu You reached the Dragon Demon Palace’s headquarters, where Qing Luo studied its ancient protective array. After Northern Darkness Dragon Kun settled Taicang’s accusations against Qing Luo, Qing Luo entered the array and found himself amid an ancient war against the Outer Realm Evil Clans.

• Qing Luo learned from the Dragon Demon Palace Sovereigns that its Ancient Spirit Array needed five Sovereigns to activate fully, then used his Double Pupils to study its patterns.
• Dean Taicang arrived with Northern Darkness Dragon Kun, Ling Xi, Mu Chen, and the remaining Heaven Seat Elder, and accused Qing Luo of deliberately killing Northern Cang Academy Sovereigns.
• Qing Luo explained that he had killed the Elders while fighting the Dragon Demon Palace, and Northern Darkness Dragon Kun ended the dispute after the Heaven Seat Elder supported Qing Luo’s account.
• Northern Darkness Dragon Kun asked Ling Xi and then Mu Chen to find a way through the array, while Qing Luo told Ling Xi to refuse and entered the formation himself.
• Qing Luo saw an ancient battlefield where Corpse Demon Clan forces fought, and golden battle halberds rained down on a towering Corpse Demon Clan expert.

Qing Luo seized control of the Dragon Demon Palace’s Ancient Spirit Array, killed Black Dragon Sovereign, and used the Fifth Grade Sovereign’s sacrifice to build a foundation for his breakthrough. He emerged as a Half-step Sovereign, while Northern Cang Academy destroyed the Dragon Demon Palace and returned home victorious.

• Qing Luo completed the Ancient Spirit Array’s missing runes, took control of it, and used its killing power to behead the Sovereigns controlling it and defeat Black Dragon Sovereign.
• Black Dragon Sovereign gave Qing Luo a Star Disk marking the Lower Plane he had failed to save, then disintegrated himself to provide Qing Luo with Spiritual Energy; Qing Luo captured his spirit in the Myriad Soul Banner.
• Qing Luo collapsed his sea of qi and refined his body with the Glazed Heaven Refining Bottle, but remained a Half-step Sovereign after exhausting the Dragon Demon Palace’s resources.
• Mu Chen failed to break the Ancient Spirit Array, which attacked him and Dean Taicang until Northern Darkness Dragon Kun intervened; Qing Luo then emerged and revealed Black Dragon Sovereign’s death and his own breakthrough.
• Northern Darkness Dragon Kun led Northern Cang Academy back, and news of the Dragon Demon Palace’s destruction spread across the continent as Qing Luo’s reputation among the academy’s students soared.

Qing Luo attended Northern Cang Academy’s assembly after a teasing exchange with Luo Li, where Dean Taicang warned that the academy risked losing its place among the Five Great Academies. The chapter ended with Mu Chen asking whether Sacred Spirit Academy’s peerless prodigy was Ji Xuan.

• Luo Li pulled Qing Luo from his attic to attend the Five Great Academies competition assembly and the opening of the Northern Cang Gate.
• Qing Luo met the Student Union members, approved their statue of him, and ordered them to build a statue of Luo Li as well.
• Qing Luo arrived at Northern Darkness Square, confronted Ling Xi about breaking their agreement, and brought her to stand behind him.
• Dean Taicang warned that Northern Cang Academy had ranked last in recent competitions and could lose its status among the Five Great Academies if it performed poorly again.
• Dean Taicang announced that four peerless prodigies had emerged at the other academies, and Mu Chen asked whether the one from Sacred Spirit Academy was Ji Xuan.

Dean Taicang announced the Five Great Academies’ prodigies and opened Northern Cang Gate for the Heaven Ranking’s top ten, while Qing Luo rejected special training to enter the trial with Luo Li and the Student Union. As the group endured the realm’s crushing spiritual pressure, Mu Chen trained in the Thunder Domain under Northern Darkness Dragon Kun, who questioned whether he fought for Qing Luo or Ji Xuan.

• Dean Taicang named Ji Xuan, Wu Ling, Liu Qingyun, and Wen Xuan as the other academies’ prodigies and warned Northern Cang Academy’s students against complacency.
• Dean Taicang limited entry into Northern Cang Gate to the Heaven Ranking’s top ten and offered Qing Luo and Mu Chen personal training from Lord Beiming.
• Qing Luo refused Lord Beiming’s training and chose to enter Northern Cang Gate with Luo Li and the other qualified students.
• Heavenfire Sovereign explained that the trial required the students to walk through escalating spiritual pressure, and Qing Luo urged the Student Union members to endure it.
• Luo Li, Shen Cangsheng, and Li Xuan Tong advanced ahead of the others as the group struggled through Northern Cang Gate, while Qing Luo forged ahead alone.
• Northern Darkness Dragon Kun asked Mu Chen whether he trained for the Spirit Academy Competition because of Qing Luo or Ji Xuan.

Mu Chen endured four months of brutal training in the Thunder Domain, advancing his Thunder God Body and then receiving the Great Pagoda Yin Art from Ling Xi. As he prepared to pursue the complete Great Pagoda Art and find his mother, Qing Luo broke through to the Sovereign Realm in the Northern Cang Gate.

• Mu Chen vowed to face Ji Xuan at the Spirit Academy Competition, and Northern Darkness Dragon Kun subjected him to the Hell Trial.
• After four months of training, Mu Chen advanced from a Four-Mark to a Six-Mark Thunder God Body and became strong enough to kill experts below the Sovereign Realm with his physical power alone.
• Ling Xi returned to the Sovereign Realm and coldly told Mu Chen she had come to give him the Great Pagoda Yin Art, which would help him obtain the complete Great Pagoda Art and find his mother and her clan.
• Qing Luo broke through to the Sovereign Realm in the Northern Cang Gate, and the watching students celebrated while Luo Li wept with happiness.

Mu Chen completed the Great Pagoda Art and reached the Triple Divine Soul Tribulation as Qing Luo returned from the Northern Cang Gate having broken through to the Sovereign Realm. With the other top Heaven Ranking students newly empowered, Mu Chen accepted Shen Cangsheng's challenge, and their long-awaited battle was about to begin.

• Mu Chen manifested a Yin Yang Divine Disc and Black and White Ancient Pagoda, while Ling Xi concealed his aura with a Spirit Array that was shattered by the Northern Cang Gate's arrival.
• Qing Luo emerged from the Northern Cang Gate with Sovereign power, and Northern Darkness Dragon Kun welcomed him as an equal.
• Qing Luo told Northern Darkness Dragon Kun that he would leave Northern Cang Academy with its last shred of dignity, alarming Dean Taicang.
• Shen Cangsheng, Li Xuan Tong, Luo Li, Su Xuan, and the other top Heaven Ranking students returned with greatly increased strength.
• Shen Cangsheng challenged Mu Chen, who accepted and revealed the power of his Triple Divine Soul Tribulation.

Mu Chen defeated Shen Cangsheng in a clash of fists using the six-mark Thunder God Body, and Shen Cangsheng acknowledged that Northern Cang Academy had entered Mu Chen and Qing Luo's era. Mu Chen then challenged Qing Luo to a spar, and the chapter ended as they prepared to fight under the pressure of Qing Luo's Sovereign Power.

• Shen Cangsheng unleashed his Judgment Divine Art, Cangsheng Seal, against Mu Chen.
• Mu Chen activated his six-mark Thunder God Body and met Shen Cangsheng's attack with a punch.
• Shen Cangsheng was forced back, and his radiant seals shattered; he acknowledged Mu Chen's strength and accepted that his era had passed.
• Mu Chen challenged Qing Luo to a spar so he could gauge Qing Luo's strength after his breakthrough to the Supreme realm.
• Qing Luo accepted, and Mu Chen grew solemn as Qing Luo's Sovereign Power pressed down on him.

Mu Chen attacked Qing Luo with two combined Spirit Arrays and the Great Pagoda Art, but Qing Luo effortlessly crushed both assaults and nearly killed him. A blood-red flower from the Thunder Domain intervened, and Qing Luo recognized it as the Spirit Array that had tried to kill him in the Spirit Light Realm before charging to strike it.

• Mu Chen sent a flaming dragon and a colossal Divine Wheel at Qing Luo, but Qing Luo remained untouched as the attacks tore apart the surrounding space.
• Ling Xi sensed an unknown Spirit Array-like power around Qing Luo, while Mu Chen realized his half-year of cultivation had not narrowed the gap between them.
• Mu Chen summoned the Black and White Ancient Pagoda with the Great Pagoda Art, but Qing Luo's Glazed Treasure Bottle crushed it and descended toward Mu Chen.
• A blood-red beam from the Thunder Domain struck the Glazed Treasure Bottle and halted its attack.
• Qing Luo recognized the blood-red flower as the Spirit Array that had tried to kill him in the Spirit Light Realm, summoned the Thunder Emperor Battle Halberd, and swung at it.

Qing Luo destroyed Qing Yan Jing’s Grandmaster Spirit Array, and the Glazed Treasure Bottle crushed Mu Chen, triggering mourning across the Great Thousand World. As Qing Yan Jing vowed to avenge her son, a hidden spatial node opened on the Northern Cang Continent and drew the Black Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor’s attention.

• Qing Luo summoned the Primordial Thunder Dragon and used the Thunder Emperor Finger to shatter Qing Yan Jing’s Grandmaster Spirit Array, revealing her protection of Mu Chen.
• The Glazed Treasure Bottle struck Mu Chen and left him presumed dead, sending a wave of grief through the Great Thousand World.
• Xiao Yan sensed the world’s mourning, while Lin Dong sealed Martial Border and Ling Qing Zhu worried about Lin Jing.
• Qing Yan Jing demanded Mu Chen’s body from Fu Tu Xuan and revealed that Mu Chen had possessed the Ten Divine Meridians and her own Nine Divine Meridians.
• A spatial node opened at the Dragon Demon Palace ruins, and the Black Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor sent an avatar toward it after learning it led into the Great Thousand World.

Qing Luo killed Futuo Mu Chen with the Glazed Treasure Bottle and renounced his position as Northern Cang Academy's Dao Child, leaving the academy to face the consequences. Back in the Student Union pavilion, he explored his new Supreme Realm power and discovered that cultivating the Supreme True Immortal Body would require an immense supply of Spiritual Energy.

• Ling Xi tried and failed to move the Glazed Treasure Bottle, while Dean Taicang panicked over Mu Chen's death and Jiu You defended Qing Luo.
• Qing Luo declared he was no longer Northern Cang Academy's Dao Child, lifted the Glazed Treasure Bottle, and confirmed that Mu Chen had died.
• Qing Luo left for the Student Union pavilion as Northern Darkness Dragon Kun told the others to disperse and admitted they might have chosen the wrong path.
• A week later, Ling Xi was still searching the abyss for Mu Chen's corpse, while the academy's Elders began rebuilding.
• Qing Luo assessed his Supreme Realm abilities and chose to cultivate the Supreme True Immortal Body rather than the Great Sun Undying Body.
• Qing Luo interrupted his first attempt at cultivating the Supreme True Immortal Body after it drained his Spiritual Energy and vitality, realizing it would require energy on the scale of an entire continent.

With the Spirit Academy Competition two days away, Dean Taicang organized Northern Cang Academy’s two teams, but Qing Luo refused the captaincy and insisted that Luo Li lead his team. The chapter ended with Qing Luo hinting at his plan for the competition: “Bird fishing!”

• After Mu Chen’s death, Ling Xi stopped appearing at Northern Cang Academy, while the students turned their attention to the approaching competition.
• Dean Taicang summoned Qing Luo, Luo Li, and the other top students and proposed two five-person teams for the competition.
• Qing Luo objected to being captain and demanded that Luo Li lead his team instead.
• Dean Taicang accepted Luo Li as captain and dismissed Elder Tianhuo after Qing Luo threatened him with a hostile glare.
• Dean Taicang explained that tens of thousands of academies would compete, and Qing Luo told Luo Li his plan was “Bird fishing!”

Dean Taicang explained the Spirit Academy Competition’s dangers and rules to Northern Cang Academy’s representatives, who vowed to fight for their academy. The teams prepared to enter the shattered Ruins Continent, where only eight would reach the final battle.

• Dean Taicang warned Luo Li and the others that elite teams from the other Five Great Academies and rival academies would threaten Northern Cang Academy’s place.
• Dean Taicang revealed that the competition would take place on the shattered Ruins Continent, rich with ancient ruins and inheritances.
• Dean Taicang explained that tens of thousands of teams would battle for eight places in the final, using Academy Tokens to track and seize points.
• Dean Taicang told them that teams in the Top Sixteen would be publicly tracked and could help end the competition by igniting their Tokens.
• Shen Cangsheng, Li Xuan Tong, and the others vowed to fight to the death for Northern Cang Academy.

Qing Luo and the Northern Cang Academy team entered the Ruins Continent for the Spirit Academy Competition, where Qing Luo wiped out more than a hundred teams before rejoining Luo Li and the others. Their Academy Token showed they had risen to third place, and Qing Luo admitted he had earned their points by eliminating those teams.

• Dean Taicang sent Qing Luo, Luo Li, and the other competitors off from Northern Cang Academy as the academy’s students bowed and wished them success.
• Qing Luo was teleported to the Ruins Continent and destroyed more than a hundred teams with the Great Desolation Prison Heaven Finger, causing their academies to discover that their competitors’ Soul Lamps had gone out.
• Luo Li, Su Xuan, Xu Huang, and Zhao Qingshan arrived elsewhere on the Ruins Continent, where Qing Luo joined them carrying the Myriad Soul Banner and placed Black Dragon in charge of it.
• Luo Li asked the team to plan their next move, and Su Xuan and Xu Huang proposed gathering information and cautiously hunting other teams for points.
• The team found that its Academy Token showed 1,360 points and third place in the rankings, and Qing Luo admitted he had gained the points by eliminating a hundred or two teams.

Qing Luo’s team decided to pursue first place and headed for Barren Spirit Academy, while Shen Cangsheng’s team defeated Cang Spirit Academy and checked the rankings. They watched Luo Li’s team surge from third to first with 3,300 points, leaving Shen Cangsheng’s team demoralized and ready to rest.

• Qing Luo revealed that he had defeated one or two hundred teams while the others recovered, and Luo Li agreed to aim for first place.
• Qing Luo chose ninth-ranked Barren Spirit Academy, led by Ji Qingtian, as their next target, and his team set off toward them.
• Shen Cangsheng’s team defeated Cang Spirit Academy, whose captain Chen Tong conceded, and gained points from their Academy Token.
• Shen Cangsheng’s team saw that Northern Cang Academy, captained by Luo Li, ranked third with 2,000 points, while their own team had only 50.
• Luo Li’s team rapidly rose to first place with 3,300 points, and Shen Cangsheng’s team gave up on catching up and decided to find somewhere to rest.

Luo Li's team reached an Ancient Ruins site after Qing Luo helped them defeat several competing teams, while Myriad Phoenix Academy and Sacred Spirit Academy raced ahead on the rankings. At the ruins, Luo Li announced Northern Cang Academy's arrival alongside the elite teams from the Five Great Academies, and Tang Mei'er welcomed her as tensions gathered.

• Wen Xuan ordered Myriad Phoenix Academy's team to abandon point farming and intercept Northern Cang Academy, while Ji Xuan set Sacred Spirit Academy on a course to reclaim first place.
• Qing Luo and his team defeated more than twenty prodigies who had besieged Barren Spirit Academy, collected their spoils, and discovered a scroll pointing to Ancient Ruins.
• Luo Li chose to explore the ruins rather than keep farming points, and her team traveled for a day as Myriad Phoenix Academy and Sacred Spirit Academy overtook them in the rankings.
• Qing Luo's team arrived at the eerie Primeval Forest and found Sacred Spirit Academy, Myriad Phoenix Academy, and Martial Spirit Academy gathering there.
• Luo Li flew into the sky and introduced herself as Northern Cang Academy's captain, revealing her strength and prompting Xia Hou, Tang Mei'er, and Zhou Yuan to regard her warily.
• Tang Mei'er welcomed Luo Li's team to explore the ruins, while Xia Hou grew displeased at Northern Cang Academy's unexpected strength.

Tang Mei'er proposed that the teams share access to the Ancient Ruins, but Xia Hou retaliated against Northern Cang Academy after Luo Li rejected him and defended Qing Luo. Sacred Spirit Academy attacked Northern Cang Academy, and the chapter ended as Xia Hou blocked Luo Li while she hinted that she had not been trying to save Qing Luo.

• Tang Mei'er called for the teams to share the Ancient Ruins, and Qing Luo agreed that no one should monopolize the treasures.
• A Sacred Spirit Academy student insulted Qing Luo, and Luo Li threatened him before rejecting Xia Hou's advances.
• Xia Hou declared that Northern Cang Academy alone could not enter the ruins, and Luo Li accepted his challenge.
• Two Sacred Spirit Academy members attacked, but Su Xuan and Xu Huang repelled their strikes while Zhao Qingshan defended himself with an ancient bell Divine Artifact.
• As Sacred Spirit Academy's other members attacked, Xia Hou intercepted Luo Li and claimed she had no time to save Qing Luo; Luo Li replied that he had misunderstood her intentions.