Chapter Summaries

After the Spirit Road ended, the Five Great Academies’ deans praised Bing Tianxiao and explained how tokens determined each student’s Spiritual Energy Infusions and King-level evaluation. The top five ascended to the ninth floor of the Nine-story Golden Platform, where the final infusion began.

• Bing Tianxiao reunited with the Five Great Academies’ deans, who praised his victory and character on the Spirit Road.
• The deans explained that students would receive infusions according to their token levels, while Nine-level Token holders qualified for King-level evaluations.
• Bing Tianxiao, Luo Li, Wen Qingxuan, Mu Chen, and Wu Ling each reached the ninth floor of the platform.
• Ji Xuan also reached the ninth floor but stood behind Bing Tianxiao, glaring at him with resentment.
• The five deans summoned Spiritual Energy from the Mirror of Judgment, and the students sat down to absorb the infusion.

Bing Tianxiao and the other top Spirit Road participants advanced to the Heaven Integration Realm during the spiritual energy infusion, after which the Five Great Academies crowned the Nine-level Token holders as kings. As the sole Spirit Crown Holder, Bing Tianxiao earned the right to make one request of the academies, and everyone waited to hear what he would ask for.

• Bing Tianxiao reached the Middle-Stage Heaven Integration Realm, while Luo Li, Wen Qingxuan, and Ji Xuan also reached that stage and Mu Chen reached the Early Heaven Integration Realm.
• Bing Tianxiao and Luo Li discussed their breakthroughs, and Wen Qingxuan challenged Bing Tianxiao to beat her next time.
• The deans of the Five Great Academies began the ceremony and announced kingly titles for the holders of Nine-level Tokens, including King Xuan, King Luo, King Qing, and King Mu.
• Dean Tian Sheng named Bing Tianxiao the sole Spirit Crown Holder and offered him one request from the Five Great Academies.
• Dean Tai Cang said the academies would try to grant a reasonable request, leaving the crowd waiting to learn what Bing Tianxiao would choose.

Bing Tianxiao chose a close-combat weapon instead of a Divine Art, cultivation method, or pills, and Dean Tian Sheng gave him the Quasi-Divine Artifact Sky Frost Dragon Soul Halberd. With his weakness in close combat addressed, Bing Tianxiao faced the five deans’ question about which academy he would join, his gaze drifting toward Luo Li.

• Bing Tianxiao decided that a halberd would complement his Ice Crystal Annihilation bow and help him defend himself in close combat.
• Bing Tianxiao asked the five deans for an ice-element halberd rather than a Divine Art, cultivation method, or pills.
• Dean Tian Sheng presented the Sky Frost Dragon Soul Halberd, a Quasi-Divine Artifact made from a fallen Sovereign Ice Frost Bone Dragon’s spine and Millennium Mystic Ice Iron.
• Bing Tianxiao refined the halberd’s icy power, tested its weight and control, and accepted it gratefully.
• Dean Tian Sheng asked Bing Tianxiao to state his final choice of academy, and Bing Tianxiao glanced toward Luo Li.

Bing Tianxiao, Luo Li, and Mu Chen chose the Northern Cang Spirit Academy, while Wen Qingxuan and Wu Ling selected other academies. Dean Tai Cang gave the three new students seven days to visit home before returning to the academy, and Mu Chen set off for the Northern Spirit Realm.

• Bing Tianxiao accepted a Quasi-Divine Artifact from Dean Tian Sheng but chose the Northern Cang Spirit Academy, angering the Sacred Spirit Academy dean.
• Luo Li joined Bing Tianxiao at the Northern Cang Spirit Academy, while Wen Qingxuan chose the Myriad Phoenix Spirit Academy and Wu Ling chose the Martial Spirit Academy.
• Mu Chen also chose the Northern Cang Spirit Academy, leaving Ji Xuan as the only outstanding candidate to join the Sacred Spirit Academy.
• Dean Tian Sheng warned Dean Tai Cang about the upcoming Academy Trials and departed, while Dean Tai Cang welcomed Bing Tianxiao, Luo Li, and Mu Chen.
• Dean Tai Cang gave the three students tokens and seven days to visit their families before returning to the Northern Cang Realm.
• Mu Chen said goodbye to Bing Tianxiao and Luo Li, then left for the Northern Spirit Realm.

Luo Li prepared to return to the Luo Shen Clan, while Bing Tianxiao headed home to the Cold Abyss Branch of the Ice Spirit Clan. He reunited with his grandfather, Bing Xuanming, and hinted that he had important news to share.

• Luo Li told Bing Tianxiao she had to return to the Luo Shen Clan to fulfill her responsibilities, and thanked him for being her friend.
• Bing Tianxiao left Luo Li and said they would meet again at Northern Cang Spirit Academy in seven days.
• Bing Tianxiao arrived in Mingyuan City, where the guards welcomed him as their young master.
• Bing Xuanming appeared to greet his grandson and praised Bing Tianxiao's progress to the Late Heaven Integration Realm.
• Bing Xuanming took Bing Tianxiao home, and Bing Tianxiao said he had major news to share.

Bing Tianxiao told Bing Xuanming that he planned to attend the Northern Cang Spirit Academy and enter the Ice Spirit Clan's Main Branch Grand Competition, despite his grandfather's worries. Bing Xuanming accepted his resolve and promised to help him build a Sovereign foundation when he returned.

• Bing Tianxiao told Bing Xuanming about the Luo Shen Clan's Imperial Daughter and said she was the person he had trusted most in the Spirit Road.
• Bing Xuanming urged Bing Tianxiao to treat her well and warned that her burdens and the Luo Shen Clan's troubles could bring future hardships.
• Bing Tianxiao said he would leave for the Northern Cang Spirit Academy in seven days rather than remain in the clan.
• Bing Xuanming told Bing Tianxiao not to worry about the Main Branch Grand Competition, but Bing Tianxiao insisted he wanted to face the main branch and fight for his family's goal.
• Bing Xuanming approved Bing Tianxiao's determination and promised to personally forge a Sovereign foundation for him after he returned.

Bing Xuanming gave Bing Tianxiao three potent pills to help him make up for the cultivation time he lost on the Spirit Road. After refining much of one pill overnight, Bing Tianxiao strengthened his spiritual power and began testing his spirit arts.

• Bing Xuanming gave Bing Tianxiao the Profound Ice Spirit Tempering Pill, the Nine Revolutions Cold Soul Pill, and the Dragon Marrow Blood Pill.
• Bing Tianxiao returned to his courtyard and swallowed a Profound Ice Spirit Tempering Pill while cultivating on his Thousand Year Cold Jade bed.
• Bing Tianxiao's Ice Spirit Meridian absorbed the pill's medicinal power and returned purer, stronger spiritual power to his spiritual sea.
• Bing Tianxiao woke after refining most of the pill and estimated he would reach the late Heaven Integration Realm in a few days.
• Bing Tianxiao went to the training ground and used Profound Ice Blade to launch dozens of ice blades at a target.

Bing Tianxiao visited the Bing Family’s Technique Repository to replace his outdated spirit techniques after returning from the Spirit Road. He selected Profound Ice Dragon Soar and Tread Snow Without Trace, leaving with new offensive and movement arts to cultivate.

• Bing Tianxiao tested his old Spirit Grade techniques and decided they were too weak for his current cultivation.
• Bing Xuanming gave Bing Tianxiao the token to enter the Technique Repository.
• Bing Tianxiao greeted Bai Xuan and Hei Sha, then entered the Spiritual Art Repository.
• Bing Tianxiao chose the low-grade divine technique Profound Ice Dragon Soar, whose power could rival a Mid-Grade Divine Technique when mastered.
• Bing Tianxiao selected the Mid-Grade Divine Technique Tread Snow Without Trace as his movement art.

Bing Tianxiao chose four Divine Techniques and trained Tread Snow Without Trace in Cold Ice Secluded Valley until he mastered it. He then began practicing Extreme Ice Shattering Star Arrow with Ice Crystal Annihilation, forming his first arrow from spiritual power.

• Bing Tianxiao selected Extreme Ice Shattering Star Arrow and the incomplete Destruction Halberd Seven Forms to join the two movement techniques he had already taken.
• Elder Hei warned Bing Tianxiao against taking on too much, while Elder Bai observed that his four choices complemented one another.
• Bing Tianxiao went to Cold Ice Secluded Valley and trained Tread Snow Without Trace for three days until he could move swiftly without leaving footprints.
• Bing Tianxiao judged Profound Ice Dragon Soar too difficult to use soon and turned to Extreme Ice Shattering Star Arrow instead.
• Bing Tianxiao summoned Ice Crystal Annihilation, channeled spiritual power into it, and formed an arrow on its bowstring.

Bing Tianxiao mastered the Divine Technique Star Breaker after six days of practice, then used the Northern Cang Spirit Academy recruitment token to travel to the Northern Cang Realm. He arrived at a Reception Platform, where a Monitor explained the trial and its quota rankings.

• Bing Tianxiao repeatedly practiced Extreme Ice, Star Breaker, until he destroyed a mountain of profound ice with its delayed explosion.
• Bing Tianxiao realized six days had passed, returned to the Bing Family main hall, and told Bing Xuanming, Elder Bai, and Elder Hei that he was leaving for the Northern Cang Spirit Academy.
• Bing Xuanming warned Bing Tianxiao to be careful and reminded him that he carried the hopes of the Cold Abyss Branch.
• Bing Tianxiao shattered Dean Tai Cang's Special Recruitment Token and was transported to a Reception Platform in the Northern Cang Realm.
• A Monitor explained that the trial had four Northern Cang Realms and that participants had to reach the Northern Cang Hall, while Bing Tianxiao received a level five Core Quota.

Bing Tianxiao received a Level Five Core Quota at the Reception Platform, then defeated Zhao Dahu and took Marked Spirit Energy from the students who remained. After gathering the energy, he left for the forest, having told the others to remember his name.

• Bing Tianxiao touched the white jade stele and received a Level Five Core Quota, drawing the crowd’s attention.
• Zhao Dahu tried to rob Bing Tianxiao, but Bing Tianxiao knocked him into a stone pillar with one slap and absorbed his Marked Spirit Energy.
• Bing Tianxiao demanded half the Marked Spirit Energy from the students who had not fled, and they gave it to him.
• Bing Tianxiao told the students they were now his people and disappeared into the forest.

Bing Tianxiao sent an ice-sword signal across the Northern Cang Realm to find Luo Li, then fell asleep in a tree. Luo Li recognized the secret code, found him, and watched until he woke and wondered if he was dreaming.

• Bing Tianxiao grew bored hunting weak spirit beasts and decided to send Luo Li a signal flare.
• Bing Tianxiao used Ice Crystal Annihilation to create a huge ice-sword pattern visible across the Northern Cang Realm.
• Luo Li recognized the secret code and traveled toward the signal, drawing wary reactions from students who saw her level five mark.
• Luo Li found traces of Bing Tianxiao at the mountain peak, guessed he was resting nearby, and located him asleep in a tree.
• Bing Tianxiao woke, saw Luo Li, and asked whether he was dreaming or the signal had brought her there.

Bing Tianxiao reunited with Luo Li in the Northern Cang Realm, and the two wandered together while collecting enough marks to reach Level Eight. They arrived at a crowded trading basin, where their marks drew the attention of everyone there.

• Bing Tianxiao greeted Luo Li after his Ice Sword Message and suggested they take their time traveling through the realm.
• Luo Li let Bing Tianxiao choose their route, and he took her hand as they strolled through the forest, driving off spirit beasts and students who attacked them.
• Bing Tianxiao and Luo Li reached the mountain-ringed basin, having raised their marks from Level Five to Level Eight by defeating challengers along the way.
• Bing Tianxiao pulled Luo Li into the basin to browse its stalls, and the crowd fell silent when they noticed both of their Level Eight marks.

Bing Tianxiao bought Luo Li an Ice Soul Hairpin and then took her to the center of the Northern Cang Realm to raise their Marks. There, they reunited with Mu Chen and confronted the gathered top students, whose Marks were all at Level Nine.

• Bing Tianxiao gave the stall owner a Fifth-Level Mark for the Ice Soul Hairpin and placed it in Luo Li's hair.
• Bing Tianxiao and Luo Li flew toward the center of the Northern Cang Realm, planning to raise their Marks to Level Ten and enter Northern Cang Spirit Academy as the strongest.
• Bing Tianxiao and Luo Li arrived among the gathered top students, startling Shi Hao and Shi Jingtian and drawing wary looks from other Spirit Road participants.
• Bing Tianxiao greeted Mu Chen, while the students around them recognized him as the Spirit Crown Holder and Luo Li as a king-level figure.
• Bing Tianxiao noted that everyone had reached the peak of Level Nine and pointed out that a Tenth-Level Mark was needed to summon Northern Cang Hall.

Bing Tianxiao demanded the students hand over their imprints and defeated the red-armored youth and the Shi brothers when they resisted. He gave their imprints to Luo Li, whose imprint advanced to Level Nine.

• Bing Tianxiao demanded that the gathered students surrender their imprints, but the red-armored youth rallied them to fight back.
• Bing Tianxiao defeated the red-armored youth with one punch and took his Level Eight imprint.
• Bing Tianxiao called on Shi Jingtian and Shi Hao, who fled in opposite directions but were frozen and had their imprints taken.
• Bing Tianxiao gave the collected imprints to Luo Li and touched her forehead, causing her imprint to transform into a Level Nine Imprint.

Bing Tianxiao and Luo Li entered Northern Cang Hall, where the Reception Guide welcomed the students and explained the Spirit Value system. After learning that Luo Li had received far more Spirit Value than anyone else, Bing Tianxiao jokingly asked her to support him, and she agreed.

• Northern Cang Hall descended into the Northern Cang Realm, and its gates opened to students with Level Four or higher imprints.
• Bing Tianxiao and Luo Li entered the hall, followed by Mu Chen and the other students, and the Reception Guide announced they had passed the trial.
• The Reception Guide gave each student an Academy Token and explained that Spirit Value could be exchanged for resources and guidance at Northern Cang Spirit Academy.
• The students checked their rewards, with Bing Tianxiao receiving 1,500 Spirit Value and Luo Li receiving 5,000 for her Level Nine Imprint.
• Bing Tianxiao clung to Luo Li and asked her to support him, and she agreed before stopping him from trying to steal a kiss.

The Gray-Robed Elder explained how new students could earn Spirit Value by challenging senior students, then summoned the seniors for the New Student Challenge. Bing Tianxiao stepped forward and challenged An Ran, the strongest senior student, after revealing that his strength matched hers.

• Mu Chen asked the Gray-Robed Elder how students could obtain Spirit Value, and the elder explained that successful New Student Challenge participants would earn five thousand Spirit Value.
• Dozens of qualified new students volunteered to challenge senior students, and the Gray-Robed Elder summoned more than a dozen seniors whose power intimidated the crowd.
• An Ran silenced the senior students’ complaints and announced that the new students would draw lots to choose their opponents.
• Bing Tianxiao stepped forward, displayed spiritual pressure comparable to An Ran’s, and challenged her directly.

An Ran recognized Bing Tianxiao as the Spirit Road’s Spirit Crown Holder and accepted his direct challenge for five thousand Spirit Values. Their match began in an isolated battle space, where Bing Tianxiao countered her attacks and unleashed Mysterious Ice Whirlwind Kill as the fight continued.

• An Ran identified Bing Tianxiao as the Spirit Crown Holder, and he challenged her for five thousand Spirit Values.
• An Ran accepted, and the other new students drew opponents for their own matches.
• Elder Bai transported the contestants into separate battle spaces and displayed the fights on a spiritual-energy screen.
• Bing Tianxiao invited An Ran to attack first, then shattered her Spirit Breaking Spear with Mysterious Ice Palm.
• An Ran countered with Void Shattering Spirit Palm, and both attacks annihilated each other.
• Bing Tianxiao formed Mysterious Ice Whirlwind Kill and sent the enormous icy tornado sweeping toward An Ran.

Bing Tianxiao defeated An Ran with a single arrow from Ice Crystal Annihilation after she summoned her North Nether Golden-Patterned Eagle Spirit Beast Essence Soul. After the battle, Luo Li revealed that she had refined the Spirit of Luo River.

• An Ran summoned the North Nether Golden-Patterned Eagle and sent its ice-blade storm against Bing Tianxiao's Mysterious Ice Tornado.
• Bing Tianxiao used Ice Crystal Annihilation to pierce the eagle's phantom and stopped his arrow just short of An Ran, forcing her to concede.
• Bing Tianxiao and An Ran returned to the hall, where the students erupted in astonishment at his victory.
• Bing Tianxiao joined Luo Li and explained that he had not refined a Spirit Beast Essence Soul because he had not found a suitable one.
• Luo Li quietly told Bing Tianxiao that she had refined the Spirit of Luo River.

Bing Tianxiao and Luo Li entered Northern Cang Spirit Academy after completing the challenges, and An Ran explained the academy’s Divine Soul Ranking and Heaven Ranking. Bing Tianxiao set his sights on eventually becoming the most dazzling number one, though the Heaven Ranking’s top three were far beyond his current strength.

• Bing Tianxiao celebrated Luo Li’s recognition by the Spirit of Luo River, teased her, and collected his reward of six thousand five hundred Spirit Value.
• Elder Bai opened the academy’s bronze gate and welcomed the new students into Northern Cang Spirit Academy.
• Bing Tianxiao and Luo Li entered the academy and saw its vast grounds, the bird-shaped mountain, and the Divine Soul Ranking and Heaven Ranking steles.
• An Ran explained that the Divine Soul Ranking was for Divine Soul Realm students, while the Heaven Ranking ranked students by absolute strength without realm restrictions.
• Bing Tianxiao admitted he could not yet challenge the Heaven Ranking’s top three but declared he intended to become its number one in the future.