Chapter Summaries

Lin Suchou and his companions gathered at Northern Cang Spirit Academy as they prepared to enter the Spirit Academy Competition. After the academy honored its ten competitors, they departed through Ling Xi’s Teleportation Spirit Array for the Ruins Continent.

• Lin Suchou met Bing Qing and Mu Kui, and promised to help Mu Kui if he encountered his Wood Spirit Clan relatives in the Ruins Continent.
• Luo Li and Wen Qingxuan joined Lin Suchou, and he led them with Bing Qing and Mu Kui to meet Shen Cangsheng, Mu Chen, Su Xuan, and the other competitors.
• Dean Taicang praised the ten students as Northern Cang Spirit Academy’s heroes, and the students and elders bowed to bless them.
• Ling Xi created the Teleportation Spirit Array and wished the competitors well; Lin Suchou hugged her before Shen Cangsheng led the first group through.
• Lin Suchou and his companions entered the array, and Dean Taicang voiced his hope that Northern Cang Spirit Academy would win first place.

Sacred Spirit Institute’s Ji Xuan prepared to lead his team into the Spirit Academy Competition and revealed that he had spent two years preparing to defeat Lin Suchou, the man who killed him in the Spirit Road. Teams from academies across the region entered the Teleportation Spirit Arrays as the competition began.

• At Sacred Spirit Institute, Ji Xuan warned his teammates to follow his orders and said they could expect a chance to shine in the Final Battle.
• Ji Xuan’s teammates learned that he had replaced a Saint Son by crippling him in a duel, and Ji Xuan recalled his grudge against Lin Suchou, who had killed him in the Spirit Road.
• Ji Xuan and the captains of the other Sacred Spirit Institute teams exchanged challenges before entering the Teleportation Spirit Array.
• Teams from Myriad Phoenix Spirit Academy, Martial Spirit Academy, Qingtian Spirit Academy, and other powerful academies entered their arrays amid cheers.

Lin Suchou led his team away from the landing site to search for the Ruins instead of collecting points. After the Academy Token revealed the Top Sixteen rankings, he set out toward the Desolate Spirit Academy team, but its distant location kept them traveling across the vast Ruins Continent.

• Lin Suchou arrived with Luo Li and the others on a devastated land and refused to attack the teams gathered there for points.
• Lin Suchou watched the landing-site battle from above, where two teams defeated the others and claimed their points.
• The Academy Token revealed the Top Sixteen rankings, including Ji Xuan in first place and Lin Zhou of the Desolate Spirit Academy in ninth.
• Lin Suchou chose to seek out Lin Zhou's team rather than fight for points, and his group departed aboard the Void Breaking Ship.
• After half a day of travel across the vast Ruins Continent, Lin Suchou still had not sensed the Desolate Spirit Academy team and continued flying past clashes without intervening.

Lin Suchou's team reached the mountains and found the Desolate Spirit Academy team besieged by four teams. When Lin Suchou recognized Qiu Beihai among the Qingtian Spirit Academy fighters, he confronted him and ordered his companions to engage the opposing teams.

• Mu Kui found the Desolate Spirit Academy team's precise location, and Lin Suchou hurried to the mountain range where they were fighting.
• Lin Suchou's group arrived to find the Desolate Spirit Academy team surrounded by four teams while more than a hundred teams watched from nearby mountains.
• Bing Qing recognized Qingtian Spirit Academy, and Lin Suchou and Luo Li identified Qiu Beihai, an old enemy from the Spirit Road.
• Lin Suchou confronted Qiu Beihai, who revealed that Ji Xuan had also revived, and said he would kill Qiu Beihai before pursuing Ji Xuan.
• A Taiding Spirit Academy captain offered to help Qiu Beihai, but Lin Suchou assigned Luo Li to face Taiding, Wen Qingxuan to face Qingtian, and took Qiu Beihai for himself.

Lin Suchou, Luo Li, and Wen Qingxuan fought Qingtian Spirit Academy and Great Cauldron Spirit Academy while Desolate Spirit Academy watched for a chance to survive its siege. Lin Suchou killed Qiu Beihai, leaving the other teams shocked and questioning whether the competition rules allowed it.

• Qiu Beihai and Great Cauldron Spirit Academy's captain challenged Lin Suchou and Luo Li, while Desolate Spirit Academy's attackers eased their assault as the rival teams turned their attention away.
• Qiu Beihai sent Shen Jun and three others after Wen Qingxuan, and Great Cauldron Spirit Academy's captain attacked Luo Li, who pierced his shield and threatened him with her sword.
• Lin Suchou teleported to Qiu Beihai and slapped him twice, then let him finish forming the Blood Demon Sword.
• Qiu Beihai launched his Blood Demon Sword and sea of blood at Lin Suchou, but Lin Suchou stopped the attack with a giant hand of Thunder and shattered the sword.
• Lin Suchou seized Qiu Beihai with the Thunder hand and electrocuted him until his body and Spirit Soul Doll were destroyed.
• The watching teams erupted in shock and debated whether killing was forbidden by the competition rules.

After defeating Qiu Beihai’s team, Lin Suchou’s group rescued Desolate Spirit Academy from its attackers and took Lin Zhou’s team with them to learn about the ruins they knew of. Lin Suchou explained his plans for their information and points, leaving Lin Zhou’s team to rest while the groups prepared to cooperate.

• Lin Suchou, Luo Li, and Wen Qingxuan defeated their opponents, prompting nearby teams to retreat.
• Lin Suchou persuaded the two teams besieging Desolate Spirit Academy to stand aside, then compelled Lin Zhou and his four teammates to come with him.
• At a secluded mountain peak, Lin Suchou let Lin Zhou’s exhausted team recover and revealed that their information about ruins might relate to Mu Kui.
• Lin Suchou explained that he had sought Lin Zhou because the team captain’s name had changed from Ji Qingtian, and that he planned to cooperate with them and store points for later.
• Mu Kui gave Lin Suchou the Academy Tokens taken from Qiu Beihai and another opponent, which held more than four thousand points; Lin Suchou said they could seize all points once the daily protection limit ended.

Lin Suchou’s group secured information from Lin Zhou about an Ancient Ruins and traveled with his team toward its location. They arrived at a gloomy forest as more teams gathered, making the competition for the Ruins increasingly fierce.

• Lin Suchou gave Lin Zhou’s group Academy Tokens as payment but advised them not to absorb the points, since doing so would draw attention to their exposed location.
• Lin Zhou explained that his group found a jade slip describing Ruins northwest of them and warned that several powerful teams, including one from the Sacred Spirit Institute, knew about the site.
• Lin Suchou and Lin Zhou agreed to enter the Ruins together, share help if needed, and keep whatever each person found for themselves.
• Lin Suchou took both teams aboard his Golden-Red Flying Ship and learned that Lin Zhou had used Ji Qingtian’s name as a cover, prompting him to joke about Lin Zhou being a killer and arsonist under that name and a savior under his own.
• After more than half a day of travel, Lin Suchou’s group reached a dark Primordial Forest and saw several teams already gathered there, with others arriving.

Lin Suchou's team encountered Sacred Spirit Institute and other elite teams gathered near the strange forest. When Xiahou tried to stop Northern Cang Spirit Academy from entering, Lin Suchou shot him in the eye, provoking a confrontation.

• Sacred Spirit Institute's team arrived, led by Xiahou, who had passed the Spiritual Energy Tribulation.
• Teams from Myriad Phoenix Spirit Academy and Martial Spirit Academy arrived, led by Tang Meier and Zhou Yuan.
• Lin Suchou put away the Void Breaking Ship and led his team toward the Dark Forest.
• Xiahou challenged Lin Suchou for acting arrogantly, and Lin Suchou shot a Thunder arrow through Xiahou's left eye.
• Xiahou vowed revenge as Lin Suchou mocked him, and onlookers recognized Lin Suchou as the Spirit Crown Holder.

Lin Suchou defeated and killed Xiahou and his four teammates despite Xiahou’s threats, shocking the other teams. A pillar of light and a rare treasure’s fragrance then drew nearly a thousand teams toward the depths of the Primordial Forest, where Lin Suchou recognized what was coming.

• Xiahou used the Star Grand Method to attack Lin Suchou with three stars, but Lin Suchou’s Thunder palm shattered them.
• Xiahou summoned nine stars, but Lin Suchou’s Thunder hand caught and crushed them before seizing Xiahou.
• Xiahou surrendered and threatened revenge from the Sacred Spirit Institute, but Lin Suchou killed him and struck down his four teammates.
• The other teams watched Lin Suchou with awe, while Zhou Yuan and Tang Meier recognized how dangerous he was.
• A pillar of light rose from the Primordial Forest, and the scent of a rare treasure drew the teams toward it.
• Lin Suchou sensed the treasure’s fragrance, recalled what lay ahead, and expected a spectacle.

Lin Suchou’s group entered the Poison Forest, where Mu Kui used his Wood Spirit Clan abilities to control the Poison Demon Trees and lead the way. As they continued toward the Ruins’ treasures, hidden figures resolved to kill Mu Kui so he could not challenge the Young Clan Leader.

• Teams rushed into the Primordial Forest but fell when they tried to fly over it, and Lin Suchou chose Mu Kui to handle the forest’s dangers.
• Hidden figures recognized the forest as a gateway to the Wood God Temple and planned to kill Mu Kui to protect the Young Clan Leader’s claim.
• Lin Suchou’s group entered the silent, lightless forest and found the bare skeletons of teams that had gone in ahead of them.
• When Poison Demon Trees attacked with vines and Spirit Corroding Toxin, Mu Kui used green runes to turn the trees against one another.
• Mu Kui explained that the toxin had drained the earlier teams’ spiritual energy, collected it in a Jade Bottle, and led the group onward after Lin Suchou promised him a larger share of any treasure.

Lin Suchou and his companions rescued Tang Meier’s poisoned team from Long Feng’s ambush in the Dark Forest. Tang Meier explained that a mysterious group controlling demonic trees had poisoned them, and Mu Kui suspected the attackers might be members of his clan sent by his elder brother.

• Lin Suchou changed course after sensing another powerful clash in the forest and led his group toward it.
• Long Feng and his Sky Dragon Spirit Academy teammates demanded Tang Meier’s Academy Token while she and her poisoned teammates were weakened.
• Lin Suchou seized the token and defeated Long Feng’s entire team with five Thunder Pythons.
• Lin Suchou returned the Academy Token to Tang Meier, who offered him half its points and thanked him.
• Tang Meier told Lin Suchou that a mysterious team controlling demonic trees had poisoned her group, and Mu Kui said the attackers might be members of his clan sent by his elder brother.

Lin Suchou’s group allied with Tang Meier’s team and escaped the Dark Forest, where they discovered a radiant tree that appeared to be an Immortal Spirit Tree. Mu Kui identified it as a dangerous Demonic Spirit Tree, and as more teams arrived, the group remained wary of its mind-bewitching fragrance.

• Wen Qingxuan gave Tang Meier and her teammates antidote pills, restoring their spiritual energy, and Tang Meier agreed to cooperate with Lin Suchou in exchange for points later in the competition.
• Lin Suchou led the allied teams out of the Dark Forest and toward a huge pillar of light surrounding a radiant tree.
• Tang Meier recognized the tree as a possible Immortal Spirit Tree, but Mu Kui identified it as a Demonic Spirit Tree.
• Lin Suchou dispelled the others’ trance with Black Thunder, and Luo Li warned them that the tree’s fragrance could muddle their minds and its fruits could kill them.
• As Lin Suchou’s group watched the tree cautiously, numerous figures emerged from the Dark Forest and gathered nearby.

Lin Suchou watched teams die after eating the Immortal Spirit Tree’s fruits, then had Mu Kui subdue and uproot the transformed Demonic Spirit Tree. The chapter ended with Lin Zhou showing Lin Suchou a glowing Jade Token that seemed to be reacting.

• Zhou Yuan’s injured Martial Spirit Academy team emerged from the Dark Forest, while Lin Suchou suspected a mysterious team had weakened the competitors.
• Mu Kui told Lin Suchou that the Demonic Spirit Tree was likely the key to opening the Ruins, and Lin Suchou waited for the other teams to act.
• Nearly a hundred people rushed to take the Immortal Spirit Fruits, but the fruits made those who ate them burst into black flames and blood mist that the tree absorbed.
• The Immortal Spirit Tree turned into a sinister Demonic Spirit Tree, and Mu Kui subdued it before uprooting it and storing it in his Spirit Storage Ring.
• Lin Zhou showed Lin Suchou an emerald-green Jade Token that had begun to glow.

Lin Suchou revealed an ancient palace and led his team inside, where Mu Kui sensed an Immortal Spirit Tree. They found the tree in a medicinal hall, along with several emerald-green fruits.

• Lin Suchou used the Jade Token to reveal an ancient Wooden Palace and threatened the other teams into leaving.
• Lin Suchou exposed the Black-Robed Youths, prompting Zhou Yuan and his teammates to attack them.
• Lin Suchou, Lin Zhou, and Tang Meier split their teams among three paths inside the palace.
• Mu Kui sensed an Immortal Spirit Tree and led Lin Suchou's team down the left path.
• Lin Suchou broke into a medicinal hall, where the team found an Immortal Spirit Tree bearing emerald-green fruits.

Lin Suchou defeated a Green Wood Puppet, collected its emerald leaf, and claimed the Immortal Spirit Tree and its fruits before reaching a vast hall. The leaf awakened a powerful Wood God Guard, just as an arriving youth attacked Lin Suchou with Black Tree Spears.

• Lin Suchou destroyed the Green Wood Statue guarding the Immortal Spirit Tree and took an ancient emerald leaf from its head.
• Lin Suchou gathered the five Immortal Spirit Fruits, shared them with Bing Qing and Mu Kui, and stored the tree for his faction’s medicinal garden.
• Lin Suchou led the group through a corridor into a grand timber hall containing a huge armored statue and a mysterious Wooden Stele.
• Lin Suchou activated the ancient leaf, awakening the statue as a Wood God Guard with power comparable to the First Spirit Soul Tribulation.
• A youth arrived at the hall and launched several Black Tree Spears at Lin Suchou’s vital points.

Lin Suchou and his companions fought Zhen Qing’s team in the Giant Hall after Zhen Qing tried to seize the Green Wood Puppet and the Wood God Guard. Zhen Qing triggered the hall’s self-destruction, and Lin Suchou led everyone through a Spatial Rift just before it collapsed.

• Zhen Qing and his four teammates attacked Lin Suchou’s group with poisoned tree spears and tried to persuade Mu Kui to return to the Wood Spirit Clan with the Immortal Spirit Tree.
• Mu Kui rejected Zhen Qing’s offer, and Lin Suchou shattered the team’s attempt to control the Green Wood Puppet with Thunder.
• Zhen Qing’s team trapped Lin Suchou’s group in the Myriad Wood Realm, but Lin Suchou’s purple flame burned through the vines.
• Tang Meier’s and Lin Zhou’s teams arrived, and Lin Suchou struck Zhen Qing’s group with five Thunder Pythons as they tried to flee.
• Zhen Qing activated the Giant Hall’s self-destruction mechanism and died as its pillars began to explode.
• Lin Suchou led his companions through a Spatial Rift, while Mu Kui collected the enemies’ Academy Tokens and Spirit Storage Rings before following; the Giant Hall then collapsed.

After escaping the Ruins palace, Lin Suchou distributed the Wood God Guard’s treasures and gave Mu Kui the Greenwood Stele. Mu Kui learned that the stele could guide them to the true Wood God Temple Ruins, where a Nine Yang Lingzhi awaited.

• Lin Suchou and the others emerged from a Spatial Rift onto an unfamiliar part of the Ruins Continent.
• Lin Suchou gave Mu Kui the Wood God Guard and its Peerless-tier Greenwood Armor for his contributions.
• Lin Suchou overcame the Greenwood Stele’s resistance and handed the stele to Mu Kui.
• The Greenwood Stele sent information into Mu Kui’s mind, revealing a mountain covered in Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, including a Nine Yang Lingzhi at its summit.
• Mu Kui explained that the stele held information about the true Wood God Temple Ruins and could guide them there.

Lin Suchou’s team secluded themselves in the mountains to cultivate, but after more than ten days, an alliance of teams tracked them down and demanded the Wood God Tablet. Lin Suchou effortlessly shattered their combined attack, leaving Chen Xi and the others badly injured.

• Lin Suchou stayed in the remote mountains with Luo Li and the other woman while Mu Kui and Bing Qing cultivated in seclusion, and Tang Meier’s and Lin Zhou’s teams departed.
• After more than ten days, Lin Suchou and the two women sensed a large group approaching, including at least thirty people from several teams.
• Chen Xi identified Lin Suchou’s team and demanded that they hand over the Wood God Tablet, claiming it had belonged to Zhen Qing.
• When Lin Suchou refused, Chen Xi and the alliance combined their spiritual energy to form the Heaven Suppressing Divine Tablet and sent it crashing toward the mountain.
• Lin Suchou destroyed the giant stele with a single Thunder attack, severely injuring Chen Xi and the other experts.

Lin Suchou and his companions traveled toward the Wood God Temple Ruins, then encountered the Blood God Clan’s Fourth Prince, Xue Tiandu, who demanded that Luo Li return with him. Lin Suchou effortlessly killed Xue Tiandu’s followers and bound the prince with Thunder, then ordered Mu Kui to slap him.

• Lin Suchou killed Chen Xi and the other attackers with Thunder, then Mu Kui and Bing Qing emerged from the cave after passing the Body Tribulation.
• Lin Suchou’s group set out aboard the Void Breaking Ship toward the Wood God Temple Ruins, guided by Mu Kui’s Wood God Tablet.
• The group spotted a newly gathered Trade Town and blood-robed figures watching them from a nearby mountain.
• Luo Li identified the figures as members of the Blood God Clan, and their leader, Xue Tiandu, revealed himself as the clan’s Fourth Prince.
• Xue Tiandu asked Luo Li to return with him and marry him, but Lin Suchou attacked, killed his followers, and bound Xue Tiandu with Thunder.
• Lin Suchou called Mu Kui over and ordered him to slap Xue Tiandu.

Lin Suchou and Mu Kui tortured Xue Tiandu before Luo Li killed him for the Blood God Clan’s slaughter of her people. The group then entered Trade Town, where Lin Suchou took Luo Li and Wen Qingxuan by the hand as onlookers stared.

• Lin Suchou ordered Mu Kui to slap Xue Tiandu, who threatened them and confessed that his feelings for Luo Li were genuine.
• Xue Tiandu used a secret technique to escape, but Lin Suchou caught him with a Thunder Dragon and brought him back.
• Luo Li attacked Xue Tiandu with the Luo Shen Sword, and Lin Suchou destroyed his fleeing Spirit Soul Doll.
• Mu Kui searched Xue Tiandu’s belongings and found a Wood God Tablet before the group descended to Trade Town.
• Lin Suchou entered Trade Town with Luo Li, Wen Qingxuan, and Bing Qing, took Luo Li and Wen Qingxuan’s hands, and drew the attention of the crowd.