Chapter Summaries

Lin Suchou and his companions discovered that the All Academies Alliance wanted the Wood God Tablet and confronted its leaders at a trading pavilion. Mo Yu appeared and Lin Suchou accused him of spreading the news to provoke others, then unleashed his Thunder.

• Lin Suchou sensed an unusual fluctuation at the pavilion’s trading platform and recognized a Bronze Scroll as a Level 5 Combination Array Diagram.
• Qin Feng bid three thousand points for the Array Diagram, revealing himself alongside Liu Xiong as leaders of the All Academies Alliance.
• Qin Feng offered Supreme Spirit Liquid or points for Lin Suchou’s Wood God Tablet, and Lin Suchou demanded ten thousand drops.
• Lin Suchou accused Qin Feng of sending Chen Xi to intercept his group and seize the tablet.
• Mo Yu emerged from the shadows, disavowed Chen Xi’s actions, and said the Alliance still wanted the tablet.
• Lin Suchou accused Mo Yu of arranging for others to attack him and erupted with Thunder.

Lin Suchou killed Mo Yu, Qin Feng, and Liu Xiong after they challenged him in Trade Town, then paid for the formation diagram and left for Wood God Mountain with Luo Li and the others. There, he found more than ten thousand teams gathering around the ancient ruins and began considering how to take their points.

• Lin Suchou killed Liu Xiong with a Thunder attack after rejecting Mo Yu's claim that Trade Town forbade fighting.
• Mo Yu summoned Battle Puppets and a Wood God Guard, but Lin Suchou defeated Qin Feng and sent Mo Yu crashing through houses before Mu Kui collected the spoils.
• Lin Suchou paid the formation-diagram seller two thousand points, let him keep the extra points, and left Trade Town with Luo Li and the others.
• Lin Suchou and his companions reached Wood God Mountain and saw more than ten thousand teams converging on its ruins.
• Lin Suchou looked over the gathering teams and wanted to rob them all of their points.

Lin Suchou’s group reached Wood God Mountain and waited for the Divine Wood Tokens needed to open it. When Wang Zhong of the Sacred Spirit Institute approached to propose an alliance with Wen Qingxuan, Lin Suchou killed Wang Zhong’s four teammates and faced Wang Zhong’s fury.

• Lin Suchou and his companions traveled to Wood God Mountain, where he assessed the damaged ancient spirit array surrounding it.
• Luo Li explained that all six Divine Wood Tokens were needed to open Wood God Mountain, and Lin Suchou said their group had three.
• Wang Zhong arrived with the Sacred Spirit Institute team and offered to cooperate with Wen Qingxuan.
• Wen Qingxuan hugged Lin Suchou’s arm and clarified that she had only briefly met Wang Zhong before.
• Lin Suchou challenged Wang Zhong and used four lightning spheres to kill Wang Zhong’s teammates.
• Wang Zhong grew enraged and unleashed his spiritual energy to fight Lin Suchou.

Lin Suchou overwhelmed Wang Zhong after he attacked with a Minor Divine Art and tried to detonate his Wood God Guard. He killed Wang Zhong and destroyed his fleeing Spirit Soul Doll, leaving the onlookers shocked and afraid.

• Wang Zhong summoned a Wood God Guard and attacked Lin Suchou with the Minor Divine Art, Dragon Locking Divine Stake.
• Lin Suchou countered with the Great Divine Art, Phantom Sword Diagram, splitting the wooden stake and sending Spirit Swords after Wang Zhong's self-destructing Wood God Guard.
• Lin Suchou's Spirit Swords broke apart the explosion and trapped Wang Zhong in a Sword Formation as he tried to flee.
• Wang Zhong offered the Wood God Tablet and proposed luring Ji Xuan to Lin Suchou, but Lin Suchou rejected his offers and refused to trust a traitor.
• Wang Zhong failed to destroy the Wood God Tablet, and Lin Suchou killed him and obliterated his fleeing Spirit Soul Doll.

Lin Suchou gathered the Wood God Tablets and waited at Wood God Mountain as powerful rival teams arrived, including the Four Seas Spirit Academy and Wu Yingying’s group. After trading Deng Tong a tablet and telling him Mu Chen’s name, Lin Suchou watched the six tablets activate the array around the Ruins.

• Mu Kui looted Wang Zhong’s spoils and gave Lin Suchou all four Wood God Tablets he had found.
• The Four Seas Spirit Academy arrived, and Wen Qingxuan and Luo Li remarked that the competition would be fiercer than before.
• Wu Yingying recognized Lin Suchou and asked whether Mu Chen had come; Deng Tong then introduced himself as the Martial Spirit Academy’s captain.
• Lin Suchou gave Deng Tong a Wood God Tablet in exchange for the last tablet and told him that Wu Yingying had a past with Mu Chen.
• The six Wood God Tablets sent pillars of light into the array around Wood God Mountain, signaling that the Ruins were about to open.

Lin Suchou opened the path into Wood God Mountain and controlled who could enter, trading a drop of Supreme Spirit Liquid for Four Seas Spirit Academy’s Wood God Tablet. After the other teams failed to break his spiritual array, Lin Suchou and his companions entered the vast Primordial Mountain, where the unusually active spiritual energy proved difficult to control.

• Lin Suchou used the six keys to open the ancient array, then blocked the entrance with the Minor Thousand Sword Spirit Array.
• Lin Suchou let Wu Yingying and Deng Tong enter, then traded a drop of Supreme Spirit Liquid to Four Seas Spirit Academy for its Wood God Tablet.
• Lin Suchou gave all six Wood God Tablets to Mu Kui and led his companions into Wood God Mountain.
• The teams left outside joined forces to attack Lin Suchou’s array, but its spiritual swords routed them and drove them away.
• Lin Suchou and his companions landed on a lush peak in the immense Primordial Mountain and discovered that its active spiritual energy was difficult to control.

Lin Suchou and his companions used Wen Qingxuan’s compass to find Spirit Treasure Mountain, where they discovered a mountain covered in rare spiritual treasures. As they arrived to claim them, a powerful white-haired guardian appeared.

• Wen Qingxuan explained that the Wood God Temple’s cultivation method increased their ability to mobilize spiritual energy, and Lin Suchou decided they would seek Spirit Treasure Mountain first.
• Wen Qingxuan used her Treasure-seeking Compass to locate the mountain, and Lin Suchou promised she would get the first sip of his Supreme Spirit Liquid.
• Lin Suchou took the group aboard the Void Breaking Ship and flew across a barren, fissured plain toward Spirit Treasure Mountain.
• The group found Spirit Treasure Mountain covered in rare Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, and Wen Qingxuan kissed Lin Suchou on the cheek in delight.
• A light barrier enveloped the mountain, and a white-haired elder appeared in the air, radiating immense pressure.

Lin Suchou and his companions learned the rules for claiming spiritual treasures on Spirit Treasure Mountain, and Mu Kui challenged the Battle Puppet on the eighth level. The fight began with Mu Kui trading direct punches with the puppet, leaving Lin Suchou to praise his simple style.

• The Wood God Temple’s Spirit Shadow explained that challengers had to defeat a level’s Battle Puppet one-on-one to claim its treasure, and losers would be imprisoned for half a year.
• Lin Suchou told Mu Kui that he was best suited to inherit the temple’s legacy and gave him a bolt of Black Thunder to use only if necessary.
• Lin Suchou chose the eighth level for Mu Kui, who vowed to win and flew to the stone platform.
• A powerful Battle Puppet appeared before Mu Kui, and Lin Suchou judged its strength to be at the Spiritual Energy Tribulation level.
• Mu Kui transformed his spiritual energy into a towering treant and fought the puppet with fists alone, prompting Lin Suchou to praise his return to simplicity while Luo Li and the others laughed.

Mu Kui defeated the Battle Puppet with the Minor Divine Art Heavenly Wood Divine Wheel and awakened the White-haired Elder’s consciousness. The elder, Old Man Yao, accepted Mu Kui as his disciple, gave him Spirit Treasure Mountain, and entrusted him with restoring the Wood God Temple.

• Mu Kui weakened the Battle Puppet with Spirit Corroding Toxin, then used the Heavenly Wood Divine Wheel to slice it in half.
• Mu Kui approached the Jade Lotus Platforms and chose a stalk of Blood Dragon Grass, whereupon the White-haired Elder appeared and spoke with a newly awakened consciousness.
• Mu Kui offered to become the Wood God Temple’s disciple, and Old Man Yao accepted him, marked him with a green inheritance pattern, and told him to gather the six Wood God Tablets.
• Old Man Yao gave Spirit Treasure Mountain to Mu Kui, dissolved the array around the Wood Spirit Clan, and faded away after Mu Kui promised to restore the temple.
• Lin Suchou took the Nine Yang Lingzhi and gave Mu Kui the Immortal Spirit Tree, promising to help him rebuild the Wood God Temple on Luo Huang Continent.

Lin Suchou and his companions reached the Spirit Hiding Institute, where Mu Kui’s status as a Wood God Temple inheritor let them enter and claim an imitation Spirit Gathering Bowl. They discovered the bowl was sealed, leaving the amount of Supreme Spirit Liquid inside unknown.

• Mu Kui led Lin Suchou and the others to the Thorn Iron Tree Forest surrounding the Spirit Hiding Institute, where Lin Suchou broke the Spirit Forbidden Array by cutting down a tree.
• The Institute Spirit recognized Mu Kui’s Divine Tree Mark as proof of his inheritor status and opened the institute’s doors.
• Lin Suchou and his companions found a floating pool of Supreme Spirit Liquid inside and identified its name as the Spirit Gathering Bowl.
• Mu Kui used the ancient tree mark to shrink the pool into a jade bowl and take possession of it.
• Mu Kui tried to inspect the bowl’s contents, but its emerald light blocked him and revealed an ancient seal over its opening.

Lin Suchou and his companions reached the Wood God Courtyard, where Divine Wood Gang Thunder blocked their path. Lin Suchou entered the Thunder Sea with his Black God Thunder and Luo Ling Dragon Horse, seeking to break through his Thunder God Body.

• Lin Suchou used the Black God Thunder to break the Spirit Gathering Bowl's seal, and the group divided its more than one hundred thousand drops of Supreme Spirit Liquid into five portions.
• Mu Kui led Lin Suchou and the others to the Wood God Courtyard, where his Divine Tree Mark let them pass through the protective halo and reach the summit.
• The halo formed a sea of Divine Wood Gang Thunder and announced that visitors had to endure its purification, with those bearing Inheritor Status required to last ten times longer.
• Mu Kui used the Azure Wood Spirit Bell, which restrained the Divine Wood Gang Thunder, to protect himself from the storm.
• Lin Suchou sent out the Luo Ling Dragon Horse and his Black God Thunder, revealed four Thunder patterns, and charged into the Thunder Sea to advance his Thunder God Body.

Lin Suchou endured the Azure Thunder Sea’s lightning, strengthened his Thunder God Body, and contracted with the Divine Wood Gang Thunder. He celebrated his new ally’s seventh-grade Supreme strength while the thunder spirits began fighting over food inside his Supreme Sea.

• Lin Suchou cultivated in the Azure Thunder Sea as the Divine Wood Gang Thunder battered him, and he emerged with six Thunder Patterns.
• Luo Ling completed her cultivation with eight Thunder Patterns, while the Black God Thunder Spirit absorbed some of the Divine Wood Gang Thunder.
• Lin Suchou offered the Divine Wood Gang Thunder a contract, and she accepted after communicating with the Black God Thunder Spirit.
• Lin Suchou added the Divine Wood Gang Thunder to his group and discovered that she was a seventh-grade Supreme.
• Lin Suchou shouted triumphantly, prompting Wen Qingxuan and Luo Li to worry that the lightning had made him lose his mind.
• Inside Lin Suchou’s Supreme Sea, the Divine Wood Gang Thunder ate the emerald Spirit Fish, declared herself the big sister, and fought the Black God Thunder while Luo Ling got caught between them.

Lin Suchou’s group explored the Wood God Temple, claimed its treasures, and prepared to cultivate in seclusion before the Spirit Academy Competition finals. After Luo Li and Wen Qingxuan gained insights through Dual Cultivation, Lin Suchou began cultivating with six thousand drops of Supreme Spirit Liquid to reach second-grade Supreme and strengthen himself against Ji Xuan and Tian Sheng.

• Lin Suchou took ten Spirit Artifacts from the Wood God Temple and distributed the Quasi-Divine Artifacts and Peerless-tier Spirit Artifacts among Luo Li, Wen Qingxuan, Mu Kui, and Bing Qing.
• Lin Suchou’s group encountered Wu Yingying and the Four Seas Spirit Academy team after leaving Wood God Mountain, then parted ways with them.
• Lin Suchou urged his team to improve their strength before the finals and found a secluded place in the mountains for everyone to cultivate.
• Lin Suchou, Luo Li, and Wen Qingxuan entered a hot spring together, and the two women gained new insights through Dual Cultivation.
• Lin Suchou began cultivating with six thousand drops of Supreme Spirit Liquid to try to break through to second-grade Supreme.

As the Spirit Academy Competition entered its final stage, Lin Suchou and his teammates emerged from seclusion stronger and headed for the central region after the scoring rules changed to allow unlimited point theft. Elsewhere, Shen Cangsheng and Mu Chen’s team also left seclusion, determined to climb the rankings and confront Ji Xuan.

• The competition intensified, but Ji Xuan’s Sacred Spirit Institute team remained first and Wu Ling’s Martial Spirit Academy team held second place.
• After a month in seclusion, Bing Qing and Mu Kui advanced to the First Spirit Soul Tribulation, Luo Li reached the Second Spirit Soul Tribulation, Wen Qingxuan passed the Triple Spirit Soul Tribulation, and Lin Suchou broke through again.
• The Five Great Academies abolished the limit on how often teams could deduct points, prompting Lin Suchou’s team to set out for the central region aboard the Void Breaking Ship.
• Shen Cangsheng, Mu Chen, Su Xuan, Mu Fengyang, and Zhao Qingshan emerged from a hidden valley and found Ji Xuan’s team leading the Top Sixteen with thirteen thousand points.
• Mu Chen said he intended to settle his grudge with Ji Xuan, and Shen Cangsheng led his team toward the rankings, determined to reach the Top Sixteen before Lin Suchou’s team.

Lin Suchou learned that Emperor Xiao had trapped Tang Meier and other Myriad Phoenix Spirit Academy teams in a powerful spirit array and challenged him to rescue them. He headed to the central region, where factions gathered to watch the confrontation as he approached.

• Lin Suchou learned that Emperor Xiao had trapped Tang Meier and two other Myriad Phoenix Spirit Academy teams, and he decided to rescue them because the trap was connected to his taking the Wood God Tablet.
• Lin Suchou and his group reached the central region, where the All Academies Alliance publicly announced Emperor Xiao’s challenge to break the array and save the captives.
• Teams from across the competition rushed to the northwestern mountain range to watch the spirit array surrounding the captives, while they argued over Emperor Xiao’s methods.
• Wu Ling, Wu Yingying, and teams from Qingtian Spirit Academy and Sacred Spirit Institute gathered near the array as they awaited Lin Suchou’s arrival.

Lin Suchou confronted Emperor Xiao at the mountaintop and dismissed his Sky Binding Array. He unleashed Azure Lightning to destroy the array, revealing Tang Meier's three teams inside.

• Lin Suchou and the Northern Cang Spirit Academy team arrived at the mountaintop, where many teams had gathered around Emperor Xiao's spirit array.
• Lin Suchou recognized Wu Ling and assessed the Level 5 Combination Spirit Array protecting the summit.
• Emperor Xiao challenged Lin Suchou to compete in arrays and demanded the return of the Wood God Tablet and something Lin Suchou had taken.
• Lin Suchou identified the array's hidden structure, mocked Emperor Xiao, and advanced onto the mountaintop.
• Lin Suchou unleashed Azure Lightning and destroyed the hidden offensive arrays and the Sky Binding Array, revealing Tang Meier's three teams.

Lin Suchou defeated Emperor Xiao’s forces and learned that Ji Xuan had sent teams to test him. He headed toward Ji Xuan as the two captains’ teams converged near Mu Chen and Shen Cangsheng, drawing the strongest teams in the competition toward a confrontation.

• Lin Suchou broke Emperor Xiao’s Sky Binding Array, and Divine Wood Gang Thunder killed Xiao Wang before he could fire his bow.
• Lin Suchou trapped Mo Xiu, Qiu Ning, and Liu San’s teams, then had Mu Kui and the others kill them after they revealed Ji Xuan had sent them to test his strength.
• Lin Suchou killed Emperor Xiao and the fleeing Sacred Spirit Institute team, then ordered Mu Kui to collect the spoils.
• Lin Suchou declined Tang Meier’s Academy Token and set out to find Ji Xuan, while Tang Meier offered to help hold back Ji Xuan’s teammates.
• Lin Suchou noticed Ji Xuan racing toward Mu Chen and the others, and he hurried toward Shen Cangsheng’s group as teams across the region converged.

Shen Cangsheng, Mu Chen, Su Xuan, and their teammates were cornered by Ji Xuan’s stronger group, who sought revenge on Mu Chen and hoped to use them against Lin Suchou. Lin Suchou arrived just in time to save Su Xuan, killed Mu Feng, and challenged Ji Xuan.

• Su Xuan spotted Ji Xuan’s team closing in, and Mu Chen realized they had been tracked because Lin Suchou had moved against Ji Xuan’s people.
• Shen Cangsheng chose to stand and fight with Mu Chen, Su Xuan, Mu Fengyang, and Zhao Qingshan rather than flee and risk Ji Xuan using one of them against Lin Suchou.
• Ji Xuan revealed that he had passed the Triple Spirit Soul Tribulation and overwhelmed Shen Cangsheng, while Mu Feng defeated Su Xuan, Mu Fengyang, and Zhao Qingshan despite their combined attacks.
• Mu Feng rushed to strike the exhausted Su Xuan, but Lin Suchou arrived in a bolt of Azure Lightning and killed him.
• Lin Suchou gave Su Xuan and the others Great Return Pills, then challenged Ji Xuan to face him.

Lin Suchou arrived to rescue Mu Chen, Shen Cangsheng, and Su Xuan, then faced Ji Xuan’s challenge. Ji Xuan summoned Liu Qingyun, Fang Yun, and Wang Jiang with their teams to surround Lin Suchou and his allies, leaving the confrontation poised to erupt.

• Lin Suchou appeared, told Ji Xuan he had killed Lu Tian, and promised to avenge Mu Chen and Shen Cangsheng.
• Lin Suchou gave Mu Chen and Shen Cangsheng Great Return Pills as Luo Li, Wen Qingxuan, and Tang Meier’s teams arrived.
• Ji Xuan greeted Luo Li, who coldly told him he would not see her again after this.
• Liu Qingyun of Qingtian Spirit Academy arrived at Ji Xuan’s invitation, followed by Fang Yun of Nine Tripod Spirit Academy.
• Wang Jiang of Myriad Beast Spirit Academy arrived with his group, surrounding Lin Suchou and his allies alongside Ji Xuan’s other reinforcements.
• Lin Suchou mocked Ji Xuan for gathering allies, recalling that Ji Xuan had still lost after rallying eighty people on the Spirit Road.

Lin revealed his Supreme cultivation and Supreme Dharma Body, while Ji Xuan summoned the Ancient Sky Dragon Eagle within him to fight. Lin repelled the fourth-grade Supreme beast with Black God Thunder and sent a sword strike toward it, leaving the clash unresolved.

• Lin revealed that he was a Supreme, prompting Liu Qingyun, Fang Yun, and Wang Jiang to withdraw their teams from the fight.
• Ji Xuan summoned the Ancient Sky Dragon Eagle's phantom and revealed his Supreme Sea, but Lin said Ji Xuan was only a Pseudo Supreme.
• Lin manifested his Supreme Dharma Body and used its sword to kill Ji Xuan's three remaining teammates.
• Ji Xuan allowed the Ancient Sky Dragon Eagle to take control, and it emerged in its true form as a thousand-zhang Purple Giant Eagle.
• The fourth-grade Supreme Ancient Sky Dragon Eagle attacked Lin, but Lin struck it with Black God Thunder and sent it flying.
• Lin launched Goddess Luo's Spirit Shattering Sword at the Ancient Sky Dragon Eagle, which recoiled in fear after sensing the Black God Thunder in Lin's body.