Chapter Summaries

Luo Li killed Xue Shi, and Dean Taicang protected her from Fei Qingsong before sending Taiding Spirit Academy away. Lin Suchou finished a month of training in the Thunder Domain and headed to Northern Ming Plaza, where Dean Taicang praised Luo Li and Wen Qingxuan.

• Luo Li killed Xue Shi with a single sword strike, and Fei Qingsong moved to attack her.
• Dean Taicang blocked Fei Qingsong, defended Luo Li as acting in self-defense, and refused to yield to his complaints.
• Fei Qingsong collected Xue Shi's corpse and led Taiding Spirit Academy out of Northern Cang Spirit Academy.
• Lin Suchou checked his cultivation panel after a month in the Thunder Domain and left for Northern Ming Plaza.
• Dean Taicang praised Luo Li and Wen Qingxuan for their victories and said Lin Suchou would have killed his opponent outright.

After Luo Li and Wen Qingxuan gave their reward to Lin Suchou, he set his sights on mastering spirit arrays and promised to grow strong enough to protect Luo Li. He visited Elder Ling Xi and hinted that he knew the person she was searching for, leaving their conversation poised to reveal more.

• Luo Li and Wen Qingxuan declined Dean Taicang’s reward and gave Lin Suchou the jade pendant meant to help him study spirit arrays with Elder Ling Xi.
• Luo Li told Lin Suchou that news of her leaving the Luo Shen Clan had spread, and he promised to enter Sacred Spirit Mountain and become strong enough to protect her.
• After Luo Li and Wen Qingxuan began preparing to undergo the Body Tribulation, Lin Suchou forced Li Xuantong’s Xuan Gang, Crane Demon’s Demon Gate, and Mu Fengyang’s Black Association to refine Thunder God Pills in the Thunder Domain.
• Lin Suchou went to Ling Xi’s residence, where Sun’er welcomed him and led him to meet the aloof Elder Ling Xi.
• Lin Suchou told Ling Xi that he knew the person she sought through one of her clansmen.

Lin Suchou told Ling Xi that Qing Yan Jing had saved her and sealed her memories, then misled her about his connection to the Futuo Ancient Clan. Ling Xi deduced that Lin Suchou was Qing Yan Jing’s son, while his system contracted her and awarded him a bloodline-granting fruit.

• Lin Suchou told Ling Xi that Qing Yan Jing, Saintess of the Futuo Ancient Clan, had saved her and sealed her memories, and he suggested dual cultivation as a way to recover them.
• Lin Suchou waited near Ling Xi’s Courtyard, checked Crane Demon and the others’ progress in the Thunder Domain, and had the Luoshui Spirit Horse supervise them.
• Ling Xi asked Lin Suchou whether Qing Yan Jing had children, then noticed that the Black Scroll he carried shared the aura of her own Dark Black Spiritual Power.
• Ling Xi concluded that Lin Suchou was Qing Yan Jing’s son and that he was cultivating to rescue her, then vowed that they would save Aunt Jing together.
• Lin Suchou’s system announced that his affection with Ling Xi was full, contracted Goddess Ling Xi, and rewarded him with a Nine Spirit Arrays formation diagram and a Pagoda Divine Fruit.

Lin Suchou cultivated the Great Pagoda Art after eating the Pagoda Divine Fruit, then helped Ling Xi recover memories through their shared spiritual power. Ling Xi remembered how Aunt Jing had rescued her and why she chose the Yin Scroll, while Aunt Jing’s reason for sealing her memories remained part of the revelation.

• Lin Suchou ate the Pagoda Divine Fruit and began cultivating the Great Pagoda Art, producing Dark Black Spiritual Power.
• Ling Xi mistook Lin Suchou for Aunt Jing’s child and brought him to a Bamboo House to help her recover her memories.
• Lin Suchou and Ling Xi joined hands and circulated their matching Dark Black Spiritual Power, causing Ling Xi to lose consciousness and see a memory.
• Ling Xi remembered being rescued from the rain by Aunt Jing, who took her in and taught her to cultivate.
• Ling Xi remembered choosing the Yin Scroll so she could someday find the person who had the Yang Scroll and bring him to Aunt Jing.
• Aunt Jing had planned to seal Ling Xi’s memories and send her away to protect her from the cold and dangerous place she had to return to.

Ling Xi recovered memories of Aunt Jing and took Lin Suchou in, teaching him Spirit Arrays while he urged her to stop harming herself for his cultivation. After Lin Suchou challenged her plans to dual cultivate, Ling Xi kissed him, and they became intimate.

• Ling Xi remembered Aunt Jing and asked Lin Suchou to live with her, while he refused to improve his cultivation through a method that damaged her body.
• Ling Xi began teaching Lin Suchou Spirit Arrays, and he gave her spiritual liquid that increased her favorability toward him.
• Lin Suchou decided to treat the system as a tool, and the system confirmed that binding Goddesses depended on his preferences.
• Ling Xi made Lin Suchou new clothes and revealed that she had locked Sun'er in the Spirit Array House until she comprehended the Heart Array State.
• Ling Xi said she planned to break through to the Supreme level so dual cultivation could improve Lin Suchou's strength, but he urged her to live for herself and protect her health.
• Ling Xi kissed Lin Suchou, and they went to bed together.

Lin Suchou advanced his cultivation, earned Dean Taicang’s permission to enter Sacred Spirit Mountain, and asked Bing Qing to deliver a letter to the Ice Master. He left Bing Qing’s pavilion after spending the night with her, while the journey to Sacred Spirit Mountain remained ahead.

• Lin Suchou discovered that his Great Pagoda Art had advanced to the Pagoda Transformation Realm, while Ling Xi’s spiritual energy had also grown stronger and she went into seclusion.
• Lin Suchou released Crane Demon and the others from the Thunder Domain, exchanged their Thunder God Pills for more than forty million Spirit Value, and bought Northern Darkness Dragon Kun blood essence.
• Luo Li and Wen Qingxuan emerged from seclusion after overcoming the Body Tribulation, and Lin Suchou persuaded Dean Taicang to let him enter Sacred Spirit Mountain by defeating Shen Cangsheng and destroying three Xing Ling Battle Puppets.
• Lin Suchou spent his new Spirit Value on more blood essence, searched the Thunder Domain for the Northern Darkness Dragon Kun, and then visited Bing Qing to give her a letter for the Ice Master.
• Bing Qing misunderstood Lin Suchou’s reason for visiting, but he returned after she had sent him away and spent the night with her.

Lin Suchou reached the First Spirit Soul Tribulation and traveled with Ling Xi, Dean Taicang, and two elders to Sacred Spirit City to seek the Sacred Spirit Baptism. As Sacred Spirit Mountain came into view, Dean Taicang warned Lin Suchou to conceal his spirit array cultivation and Thunder Spirit inside.

• After nearly a month of secluded cultivation in the Thunder Domain, Lin Suchou reached the First Spirit Soul Tribulation and prepared to seek the Sacred Spirit Baptism.
• Lin Suchou said goodbye to Luo Li and Wen Qingxuan, then met Dean Taicang, Palace Lord Moyou, Elder Zhu Tian, and Ling Xi at the Spirit Academy.
• Ling Xi accompanied Lin Suchou on a compass-like halo, and Dean Taicang opened a spatial passage to the Sacred Spirit Domain.
• Dean Taicang brought the group to Sacred Spirit City, where many factions had gathered for Sacred Spirit Mountain's opening.
• When Lin Suchou saw Sacred Spirit Mountain, Dean Taicang warned him that he must conceal his spirit array cultivation and Thunder Spirit there.

Dean Taicang brought Lin Suchou and Ling Xi to the Sacred Spirit Pavilion to await Sacred Spirit Mountain’s opening and meet other contenders. Lin Suchou reunited with Ling Xi’s senior sister Xia Youran, while Liu Ying watched them from a concealed corner with displeasure.

• Dean Taicang said Sacred Spirit Mountain would open in three days and led Lin Suchou and Ling Xi to the Sacred Spirit Pavilion.
• Dean Taicang went upstairs with Elder Mo You and Elder Zhu Tian, while Lin Suchou and Ling Xi took a seat by the window.
• Xia Youran arrived, recognized Ling Xi, and greeted Lin Suchou as her junior brother after learning he had killed Bai Dong.
• Xia Youran offered to protect Lin Suchou at Sacred Spirit Mountain, and other pavilion guests discussed his past victories.
• Liu Ying and Dong Yuan watched Lin Suchou and Xia Youran from behind a screen, and Liu Ying admitted he was unhappy to see them together.

Mo Xingtian arrived at Sacred Spirit Pavilion and declared that his mission was to kill Lin Suchou, but their confrontation was interrupted by the Black Dragon Supreme and Dean Taicang. Lin Suchou agreed to team up with Xia Youran when they entered Sacred Spirit Mountain and watched Mo Xingtian leave with killing intent.

• Liu Ying and Dong Yuan discussed the powerful contenders for the Sacred Spirit Baptism slots and sensed Mo Xingtian arriving.
• Mo Xingtian approached Lin Suchou and declared that he had come to kill him.
• Lin Suchou kicked Mo Xingtian back, revealing his Body Tribulation strength, and the Black Dragon Supreme intervened to accuse him of breaking the pavilion's rules.
• Dean Taicang appeared and clashed verbally with the Black Dragon Supreme, who left with Mo Xingtian after threatening Northern Cang Spirit Academy.
• Xia Youran invited Lin Suchou to team up at Sacred Spirit Mountain, and he agreed while vowing to deal with Mo Xingtian.

Lin Suchou gathered with the Northern Cang Spirit Academy factions as Sacred Spirit Mountain opened, and Xia Youran warned him about its dangers. He discovered a way to make the system accept candidates by improving their deficient qualities, while Liu Ying grew hostile toward him; the chapter ended with Sacred Spirit Mountain appearing through a Spatial Rift.

• Dean Taicang led Lin Suchou and his group to the front of the gathering as Sacred Spirit Mountain began to emerge from the ocean of spiritual energy.
• Lin Suchou sensed the pressure of an ancient Heavenly Supreme and concealed his aura with the Luo Shen Robe.
• Xia Youran warned Lin Suchou about the Spatial Torrent, Spatial Blast, and threats from other visitors, and offered to guide and protect him.
• Lin Suchou asked the system whether improving Xia Youran's cultivation talent and background would make her qualify; the system reported that he had found a viable bug.
• Liu Ying watched Lin Suchou and Xia Youran together with killing intent, while Dong Yuan urged him to wait until they entered the mountain.
• A Spatial Rift opened, revealing part of the Sacred Spirit Mountain Range as Spatial Blasts swept out.

Lin Suchou and Xia Youran entered Sacred Spirit Mountain and headed toward the Baptism Grounds as Lin Suchou sought the finger bone. They sheltered from a deadly Spatial Blast, witnessing other entrants being torn apart by its blades.

• Lin Suchou and Xia Youran entered Sacred Spirit Mountain after Ling Xi and Dean Taicang warned him to stay safe.
• Lin Suchou surveyed the mountain range, learned from Xia Youran about its unusual spiritual energy and treasures, and urged her toward the Baptism Grounds.
• Lin Suchou and Xia Youran flew low through the mountains, passing other treasure seekers and ignoring weak Spirit Light pillars along the way.
• Xia Youran sensed an approaching Spatial Blast, pulled Lin Suchou into a mountain hollow, and shielded them with a membrane of spiritual light.
• The Spatial Blast battered their shelter, while its Spatial Blades destroyed another group's defense and cut its members into pieces.

Lin Suchou braved the Spatial Blast to reach a Spiritual Treasure inside a Tornado Storm, while Liu Ying arranged for Wu Tong to stop him. Lin Suchou killed Wu Tong with one strike and entered the storm to claim the treasure.

• Lin Suchou spotted a pearly white finger bone glowing inside a distant Tornado Storm and ignored Xia Youran's warning to pursue it.
• Other cultivators charged the storm but were shredded by its spatial wind blades, while Liu Ying and Dong Yuan watched Lin Suchou approach.
• Liu Ying summoned Wu Tong to test Lin Suchou and blocked Xia Youran from helping him.
• Lin Suchou's Luo Shen Robe shielded him from the Spatial Blast as he reached the storm, and Wu Tong attacked him.
• Lin Suchou destroyed Wu Tong with a single Thunder strike, collected his Azure Armor, and entered the storm.

Lin Suchou collected the Heavenly Supreme’s finger bone, then fought Liu Ying after emerging from the storm and killed him despite Liu Ying’s threat of retaliation. Dong Yuan fled toward the Nine Heavens Ladder to warn the others about Lin Suchou’s strength.

• Lin Suchou grabbed the jade-like finger bone and suppressed it inside his Qi Sea as the Tornado Storm dissipated.
• The factions rushed to seize the treasure, but Lin Suchou rode out on a white dragon and knocked the Heaven Reaching Realm cultivators aside.
• Lin Suchou challenged Liu Ying and destroyed his Shadow Divine Art with the Purple Flame Ring.
• Lin Suchou beheaded Liu Ying and burned his Spirit Soul Doll to ashes.
• Dong Yuan, alarmed by Liu Ying’s death, headed for the Nine Heavens Ladder to warn the others.

After defeating Liu Ying, Lin Suchou showed Xia Youran a White Jade Finger Bone and decided to search for the Heavenly Supreme’s remains instead of going to the Nine Heavens Ladder. He revealed that he had passed the First Spirit Soul Tribulation and set off with Xia Youran to investigate the Spiritual Energy Orbs in the sky.

• Lin Suchou collected Liu Ying’s Spirit Storage Ring and showed Xia Youran the White Jade Finger Bone, which they suspected belonged to a Heavenly Supreme.
• Lin Suchou decided to search for the Heavenly Supreme’s remains, and Xia Youran chose to accompany him and help protect him.
• Lin Suchou used the Tornado Storm to track the finger bone’s direction and rode a White Dragon with Xia Youran across the land.
• When Lin Suchou proposed flying up to examine the Spiritual Energy Orbs, he revealed that he had passed the First Spirit Soul Tribulation.
• Lin Suchou and Xia Youran soared toward the Spiritual Energy Orbs on the White Dragon.

Lin Suchou and Xia Youran were swept into a hidden valley after the White Jade Finger Bone reacted with the Spiritual Energy Orb, where they awakened a White Jade Skeleton. The skeleton revealed it had failed to reach Saint Grade and recognized the Green Shirt Sword Saint as a former little beggar, leaving Lin Suchou astonished by its identity and past.

• Lin Suchou pulled Xia Youran to safety as they climbed through violent Spatial Blasts and Torrents.
• Lin Suchou placed the White Jade Finger Bone inside a Spiritual Energy Orb, and the orbs carried him and Xia Youran down toward the ground.
• Xia Youran, fearing they would die, kissed Lin Suchou before the orbs stopped and revealed a White Jade Skeleton.
• The White Jade Skeleton assembled, sat on a stone chair in a desolate valley, and asked Lin Suchou who had awakened it.
• Lin Suchou explained that nearly fifty thousand years had passed since the Evil Clan invasion and named the current figures at the Great Thousand's peak.
• The White Jade Skeleton recognized the Green Shirt Sword Saint as a little beggar from its past, shocking Lin Suchou.

Lin Suchou inherited the White Jade Skeleton's legacy and absorbed most of the Baptism Power, while Xia Youran took the rest. The power's disappearance sent the young elites toward their location and left observers outside Sacred Spirit Mountain staring at a blackened screen.

• The White Jade Skeleton gave Lin Suchou a golden sword, a Supreme Dharma Body inheritance, and a token, then asked him to avenge his death by a monk from Great Spirit Mountain.
• The White Jade Skeleton created Baptism Power to protect Lin Suchou and Xia Youran during their Minor Tribulation, and Lin Suchou absorbed eighty percent while Xia Youran absorbed twenty percent.
• The Baptism Power vanished from the Nine Heavens Ladder, prompting Xi Qinghai, Dong Yuan, Mo Xingtian, and the other young elites to head toward the remaining light.
• The Spiritual Energy Screen outside Sacred Spirit Mountain went black, alarming the watching faction leaders and Ling Xi, though Dean Taicang suspected Lin Suchou was responsible.
• The Northern Cang Spirit Academy's screen also went dark, and its students saw the figures on the heavenly ladder fly toward the same direction.

Lin Suchou absorbed the Sacred Spirit Baptism and gathered eighty-eight Baptism Crystals while Strong Persons outside the valley failed to break through the Spatial Torrent. After it vanished, Lin Suchou and Xia Youran emerged to confront Mo Xingtian and the others, and Lin Suchou challenged them to attack him together or take turns.

• Lin Suchou continued absorbing Baptism Power and condensed more than thirty Baptism Crystals as Mo Xingtian, Zhou Xuan, Dong Yuan, and other Strong Persons gathered outside the valley.
• Mo Xingtian persuaded the crowd to attack the Spatial Torrent, but it barely stirred and its backlash injured or killed several attackers.
• The next morning, the Spatial Torrent and Spatial Blasts vanished, and Lin Suchou and Xia Youran finished the Sacred Spirit Baptism with eighty-eight and a little over ten Baptism Crystals, respectively.
• The White Jade Skeleton turned to ashes after bidding farewell, and Lin Suchou and Xia Youran left the valley as the golden gem on Lin Suchou's sword flickered faintly.
• Mo Xingtian accused Lin Suchou and Xia Youran of causing the obstruction, and Lin Suchou summoned his black demonic pillar and challenged the gathered crowd to fight him together or one by one.

Lin Suchou challenged the crowd at Sacred Spirit Mountain and used the Great Sumeru Demon Pillar to overpower Mo Xingtian. Dong Yuan revealed that Lin Suchou had already passed the Spiritual Energy Tribulation, leaving Mo Xingtian without the support he expected.

• The powerful figures watching the Spiritual Energy Screen reacted to Lin Suchou’s challenge, while Liu Ying’s father realized his son was missing.
• Lin Suchou summoned the Ninefold Golden Mountain Array and attacked the crowd, forcing many cultivators to retreat.
• Lin Suchou struck Mo Xingtian with the Great Sumeru Demon Pillar, overwhelmed his Dragon Demon Force, and sent him crashing through a boulder.
• Mo Xingtian called on Dong Yuan and the others to help him, but they refused and retreated.
• Dong Yuan told Su Buxiu that Lin Suchou had killed Liu Ying and had already passed the Spiritual Energy Tribulation.

Lin Suchou defeated and killed Mo Xingtian after revealing that he had reached the First Spirit Soul Tribulation, then used a fourth-grade Supreme Thunder Spirit to repel the Black Dragon Supreme. The chapter left everyone stunned by Lin Suchou’s ability to withstand a Supreme’s attack.

• Mo Xingtian summoned the Dragon Devouring Demon Spear, but Lin Suchou’s Water Dragon dissolved its attack.
• Mo Xingtian activated the Dragon Slaying Demon Talisman, and Lin Suchou revealed his First Spirit Soul Tribulation cultivation and shattered it with a punch.
• Mo Xingtian summoned another Demon Dragon, but Lin Suchou crushed it and used the Great Sumeru Demon Pillar to kill him and destroy his Spirit Soul Doll.
• The Black Dragon Supreme attacked Lin Suchou, but Lin Suchou’s fourth-grade Supreme Thunder Spirit shattered the Supreme’s spiritual-energy hand.

The Dragon Demon Palace launched an assault at Sacred Spirit Mountain, trapping Dean Taicang and sending Yellow Dragon Supreme to capture Lin Suchou. Lin Suchou emerged from the mountain and killed Yellow Dragon Supreme with Black Thunder, revealing strength enough to threaten a Supreme.

• Black Dragon Supreme summoned the Dragon Demon Palace’s five Supremes and trapped Dean Taicang in a fiery formation, while Liu An moved to keep Ling Xi from intervening.
• Palace Lord Moyou and Elder Zhu Tian tried to head to Sacred Spirit Mountain, but Dong Ming appeared and stopped them.
• Lin Suchou and the other survivors left Sacred Spirit Mountain through the Space Vortex and saw Dean Taicang trapped inside a massive crimson cauldron.
• Black Dragon Supreme ordered Yellow Dragon Supreme to capture Lin Suchou and seize the Great Sumeru Demon Pillar.
• Lin Suchou charged Yellow Dragon Supreme, unleashed Black Thunder from his Qi Sea, and destroyed Yellow Dragon Supreme’s body and spirit soul.