Chapter Summaries

Bing Tianxiao overwhelmed Mo Xingtian despite Mo's Dragon Devil Transformation and killed him on the Nine Heavens Ladder, while the Black Dragon Sovereign launched a surprise attack on Dean Tai Cang. The battle ended with Bing Tianxiao standing victorious, and Dean Tai Cang trapped inside the Dragon Devil Sealing Heaven Array.

• Bing Tianxiao summoned the Profound Ice Dragon Soar, while Mo Xingtian used Dragon Devil Transformation to fight back in demonic dragon form.
• Bing Tianxiao continued to suppress Mo Xingtian, and Xi Qinghai explained that Bing's foundation and abilities surpassed Mo's in every respect.
• The Black Dragon Sovereign secretly coordinated with the presidents of the Shadow Merchant Association and Tianyuan Merchant Association, then had five Dragon Devil Palace elders trap Dean Tai Cang in the Dragon Devil Sealing Heaven Array.
• Bing Tianxiao unleashed the Ice Dragon's final attack, shattering Mo Xingtian's body and killing him.
• Bing Tianxiao's Sky Frost Dragon Soul Halberd swallowed the Spirit of the Weapon and Original Devilish Qi from Mo Xingtian's Dragon Devouring Demon Spear, leaving the weapon as scrap.

After killing Mo Xingtian, Bing Tianxiao completed the Holy Spirit Baptism and prepared a second Baptism Crystal for Luo Li. As Dean Tai Cang faced a lethal siege outside, Bing Tianxiao left Holy Spirit Mountain to bring reinforcements.

• The Northern Cang Spirit Academy celebrated Mo Xingtian’s death, but the Blood Soul Bell rang to warn of a life-or-death crisis.
• Bing Tianxiao gave Xia Youran the second spot at the summit, then absorbed the Holy Spirit Baptism and forged crystals for himself and Luo Li.
• The Black Dragon Sovereign revealed that Ancestor Wuliang was holding back the Northern Sea Dragon Kun while allied forces blocked the academy’s Heaven Seat Elders from reaching Holy Spirit City.
• The Black Dragon Sovereign unleashed the Dragon Devil Sealing Heaven Array’s full power, swallowing Dean Tai Cang in demonic energy as the West Extreme Sovereign and Xia Tianyan waited to see how events unfolded.
• After the baptism ended, Bing Tianxiao sensed the Sovereign-level battle and flew through the Spatial Rift to seek reinforcements.

Bing Tianxiao crushed a jade slip to summon his grandfather, Bing Xuanming, whose Ice Phantom killed Yellow Dragon Sovereign and then took up the Ice Crystal Annihilation Divine Bow. Bing Xuanming drew a devastating ice arrow as Bing Tianxiao urged him to attack Black Dragon Sovereign and the enemy fighting a Spirit Academy senior.

• Bing Tianxiao emerged from the formation unharmed and reunited with Luo Li after obtaining an opportunity.
• Black Dragon Sovereign ordered Yellow Dragon Sovereign to kill Bing Tianxiao, and Luo Li moved to protect him with the Luoshen Sword.
• Bing Tianxiao crushed a jade slip, summoning the Ice Phantom of Bing Xuanming, who froze Yellow Dragon Sovereign's attack and killed him with one palm.
• Bing Tianxiao asked Bing Xuanming to take out Black Dragon Sovereign and the enemy fighting a Spirit Academy senior.
• Bing Xuanming requested the Ice Crystal Annihilation Divine Bow, drew it, and formed a destructive Dark Blue Ice Arrow from gathered cold energy.

Bing Xuanming’s phantom destroyed Black Dragon Sovereign and the Dragon Devil Palace’s Top Elders, then joined Northern Sea Dragon Kun to drive Ancestor Wuliang from the Northern Cang Continent. With the Dragon Devil Palace’s leaders dead, Dean Tai Cang ordered the Northern Cang Spirit Academy to launch an expedition to wipe out its strongholds.

• Bing Xuanming shattered the Dragon Devil Sealing Heaven Array, then froze and killed Black Dragon Sovereign and the five Top Elders.
• Bing Xuanming joined Northern Sea Dragon Kun above the ninth heaven, and the two defeated Ancestor Wuliang, who fled through the Plane Barrier.
• Bing Xuanming’s phantom dissipated after returning the Ice Crystal Annihilation Divine Bow to Bing Tianxiao.
• Bing Tianxiao urged Dean Tai Cang to eradicate the Dragon Devil Palace, and Dean Tai Cang ordered the Northern Cang Spirit Academy to mobilize.
• Shen Cangsheng, Li Xuantong, Mu Chen, and the academy’s forces marched toward the Dragon Devil Palace’s strongholds.

After the Northern Cang Spirit Academy destroyed the Dragon Devil Palace, Dean Tai Cang gathered its top ten Heaven Ranking students and warned them that their academy’s status among the Five Great Academies depended on the Spirit Academy Competition six months away. The academy opened the Northern Cang Gate for their training, while Mu Chen chose to study Spirit Arrays with Elder Lingxi instead, and another student began to speak.

• The Northern Cang Spirit Academy wiped out the Dragon Devil Palace’s strongholds, and its returning fighters celebrated before recuperating.
• Dean Tai Cang told the academy’s top ten Heaven Ranking students that the Spirit Academy Competition was crucial to preserving the Northern Cang Spirit Academy’s place among the Five Great Academies.
• Dean Tai Cang named Ji Xuan, Wu Ling, Wen Qingxuan, and Liu Qingyun as prominent rivals and warned that veteran geniuses from the other academies were also preparing.
• Dean Tai Cang announced that the top ten students could cultivate in the Northern Cang Gate for the next six months.
• Mu Chen gave up his Northern Cang Gate slot to study Spirit Arrays with Elder Lingxi, and Dean Tai Cang accepted his decision.
• As Mu Chen stepped back, another student spoke.

Bing Tianxiao declined to enter the Northern Cang Gate and spent half a year refining the Heavenly Sovereign Bone and cultivating Extermination Dragon Hand, while Mu Chen studied spirit arrays and the others underwent tempering inside the gate. When the gate opened, Bing Tianxiao and Mu Chen reunited with the returning students, including Luo Li, Shen Cangsheng, and Li Xuantong, who had overcome the Body Hardship.

• Bing Tianxiao told Dean Tai Cang that his Heaven Reaching Realm cultivation had reached its limit and that he would focus on Divine Arts and preparing for the Small Three Difficulties.
• Dean Tai Cang led the other top students, including Luo Li, into the Northern Cang Gate, while Mu Chen went to study spirit arrays with Elder Lingxi and Bing Tianxiao entered the Level Eight Spirit Gathering Array.
• Bing Tianxiao refined the Heavenly Sovereign Bone, mastered the Dragon Clan Divine Art Extermination Dragon Hand, perfected the final layer of the First Volume of Ice Spirit Art, and overcame the Body Hardship and Spirit Energy Hardship.
• Bing Tianxiao and Mu Chen emerged from seclusion and went to the square as the Northern Cang Gate opened.
• Shen Cangsheng, Li Xuantong, and Luo Li returned having overcome the Body Hardship, while He Yao, Su Xuan, Zhao Qingshan, and the other students near the top of the Heaven Ranking reached the late Heaven Reaching Realm.

Bing Tianxiao defeated Shen Cangsheng in a one-palm duel, taking the top spot on Northern Cang Spirit Academy’s Heaven Ranking. As the Spirit Academy Competition approached, Dean Tai Cang announced the academy’s two teams and urged the students to compete safely.

• Shen Cangsheng challenged Bing Tianxiao to an open duel to pass the Heaven Ranking’s top position to the stronger student.
• Bing Tianxiao froze Shen Cangsheng and his Cangsheng Seal with one palm, then released him; Shen Cangsheng accepted the result and the academy witnessed the change of rank.
• Several days later, Dean Tai Cang gathered the top students and explained that the Spirit Academy Competition would begin in two days and that the academy’s standing among the Five Great Academies was at stake.
• Dean Tai Cang named Shen Cangsheng’s team as Li Xuantong, Mu Chen, He Yao, and Su Xuan, and Bing Tianxiao’s team as Luo Li, Xu Huang, Zhao Qingshan, and Mu Fengyang.
• Bing Tianxiao promised victory, Shen Cangsheng pledged to fight for the academy’s glory, and Dean Tai Cang reminded them to do their best and return safely.

Dean Tai Cang explained the Spirit Academy Competition’s brutal rules and sent Northern Cang Spirit Academy’s ten representatives to the Broken Continent. Bing Tianxiao and Luo Li departed together with the team as the academy cheered them on.

• Dean Tai Cang explained that tens of thousands of teams would compete on a Broken Continent, with only eight advancing to the final battle.
• Dean Tai Cang gave the ten Northern Cang representatives Academy Tokens and described how teams could gain points and end the elimination round.
• Bing Tianxiao and Luo Li shared a tender farewell before heading to the teleportation square.
• Dean Tai Cang ordered the teleportation array activated as students and elders gathered to see the team off.
• Bing Tianxiao led Luo Li and the other representatives into the light, departing for the competition amid the academy’s cheers.

Bing Tianxiao led the Northern Cang Spirit Academy team into the Broken Continent for the Spirit Academy Competition and decided to seize the points of every team in their landing zone. After thousands of students united against them, he sent six ice dragons charging into the crowd.

• Bing Tianxiao, Luo Li, Xu Huang, Zhao Qingshan, and Mu Fengyang arrived on the Broken Continent and found no teams from the other Five Great Academies in their landing zone.
• Bing Tianxiao rejected Xu Huang's cautious plan and announced that they would take every nearby team's points at once.
• Bing Tianxiao summoned six powerful ice dragons, drawing the attention of the thousands of students gathered in the area.
• Bing Tianxiao demanded that the other teams hand over their Academy Token points, prompting several captains to unite the crowd against Northern Cang Spirit Academy.
• Bing Tianxiao sent the six ice dragons into the crowd, while Small Three Difficulties geniuses from six spirit academies rushed forward to meet them.

Bing Tianxiao froze and defeated thousands of gathered geniuses, taking their Academy Tokens and pushing Northern Cang Spirit Academy into first place. Wen Qingxuan and Ji Xuan learned he had entered the competition and vowed to take revenge on him.

• Bing Tianxiao's six Ice Dragons instantly froze the six leading geniuses and swept through the gathered teams, sealing hundreds of students in ice and driving the rest away.
• Xu Huang, Zhao Qingshan, and Mu Fengyang collected the Academy Tokens, and Bing Tianxiao transferred their points to his own token, putting Northern Cang Spirit Academy in first place.
• Bing Tianxiao took Luo Li's hand and led his team toward their next target on the Broken Continent.
• Wen Qingxuan saw Bing Tianxiao at the top of the rankings, remembered their past encounter in the Spirit Road, and vowed to defeat him.
• Ji Xuan saw Bing Tianxiao's name on his Academy Token and swore to kill him to erase his humiliation from the Spirit Road.

Bing Tianxiao encountered Qiu Beihai threatening Desolate Spirit Academy and drove Qing Tian Spirit Academy away with his overwhelming power. After taking their points and obtaining information about ancient ruins, he headed northwest with Luo Li, Xu Huang, and Lin Zhou’s team, declaring his intent to win the competition.

• Bing Tianxiao spotted Qiu Beihai confronting Desolate Spirit Academy over information about ancient ruins and descended into the canyon with his group.
• Qiu Beihai recognized Bing Tianxiao and panicked, while Bing Tianxiao’s pressure forced a Body Hardship team member to his knees.
• Bing Tianxiao ordered Qing Tian Spirit Academy to hand over its points and leave, and Qiu Beihai quickly complied and fled with his team.
• Xu Huang collected the points, and Lin Zhou offered Bing Tianxiao the ancient-ruin information and asked to explore the ruins together.
• Bing Tianxiao agreed to let Desolate Spirit Academy follow but said he would not attack them, then declared he would win the competition and was invincible below the Supreme level.
• Lin Zhou led Bing Tianxiao, Luo Li, Xu Huang, and the others toward the ruins in the northwest.

Bing Tianxiao arrived at the ancient ruin and challenged the gathered teams from Sacred Spirit Academy, Myriad Phoenix Spirit Academy, and Martial Spirit Academy to fight for entry. When the ruin opened, other teams rushed ahead and were swallowed by an air-forbidding formation, while Bing Tianxiao recognized the forest as an old gateway to the Wood God Palace.

• Bing Tianxiao reached the Poison Forest and used his pressure to force hidden teams into the open.
• Xiahou of Sacred Spirit Academy, Zhou Yuan of Martial Spirit Academy, and five women from Myriad Phoenix Spirit Academy confronted Bing Tianxiao.
• Bing Tianxiao proposed that the winner of one match enter the ruins and the losers leave.
• A pillar of light erupted from the forest, and teams rushed toward it before an air-forbidding formation made them plummet and disappear.
• Bing Tianxiao recognized the forest as the Poison Forest, once a minor gateway to the Wood God Palace.

Bing Tianxiao led Luo Li, Xu Huang, and the others through the Poison Forest, freezing its poison and vines with his powerful ice spiritual energy. The Wood God Clan decided to ambush him, but he froze their Ancient Demon Trees and poisonous miasma, leaving the group facing a forest transformed into ice and snow.

• Bing Tianxiao led Luo Li, Xu Huang, and the others past the corpses of students who had entered the Poison Forest recklessly.
• Bing Tianxiao froze the forest’s attacking vines and poison fog, allowing his group to advance with ease.
• Xiahou, Zhou Yuan, and the Myriad Phoenix Spirit Academy team struggled against the forest’s attacks as their followers suffered casualties.
• The Wood God Clan watched the academy teams enter and decided to kill Bing Tianxiao before he reached the forest’s core region.
• Bing Tianxiao sensed the ambush and froze the poisonous miasma, dozens of Ancient Demon Trees, and the surrounding forest.

Bing Tianxiao led Luo Li and the others through the Poison Forest and identified a supposed Immortal Spirit Tree as a disguised Man-Eating Demon Plant. When Tang Mei'er asked for help with her poisoned team, he temporarily sealed their poison, leaving Myriad Phoenix Spirit Academy ready to fight alongside him.

• Bing Tianxiao drove off the Wood God Clan attackers with ice spears and led his team deeper into the Poison Forest.
• Bing Tianxiao’s group reached ancient ruins, where he warned Xu Huang and the others that the apparent Immortal Spirit Tree was a Man-Eating Demon Plant.
• Teams from Sacred Spirit Academy, Martial Spirit Academy, and Myriad Phoenix Spirit Academy emerged from the forest injured, with Tang Mei'er and several teammates suffering from poison.
• Tang Mei'er offered Myriad Phoenix Spirit Academy’s obedience in exchange for Bing Tianxiao’s help, and he froze the poison in her and her teammates’ bodies.
• Myriad Phoenix Spirit Academy recovered its fighting strength and gathered near Bing Tianxiao, while Xiahou grew wary of their combined power.

The Demon Spirit Tree disguised itself as an Immortal Spirit Tree and consumed students who ate its fruit, while the Wood God Palace emerged from the ruins. Bing Tianxiao, Tang Mei'er, and the other academy teams entered the palace, followed secretly by the Wood Spirit Clan.

• Ten teams escaped the Poison Forest and rushed toward the apparent Immortal Spirit Tree, ignoring the Four Great Academies' warning signs.
• The fruit-eaters were burned by demonic flames and transformed into new fruit, revealing the tree as a Demon Spirit Tree.
• A cyan jade token landed on an altar, causing the Wood God Palace to rise from beneath the ruins.
• Bing Tianxiao and Tang Mei'er agreed to enter the palace, and the Four Great Academies and surviving teams followed them inside.
• The Wood Spirit Clan appeared after the others entered, and its leader ordered the group to pursue them and kill the outsiders.

Bing Tianxiao led the group through the Wood God Palace to a hidden hall, where he found the genuine Immortal Spirit Tree and shared its fruits with his companions. After he uprooted the tree, a Wood Spirit Clan member tried to activate the palace formations, and Bing Tianxiao stopped him; the man then sought to make peace by claiming kinship between their Elemental Spirit Clans.

• Tang Mei'er and her team followed Bing Tianxiao through the Wood God Palace, agreeing to obey his commands in exchange for a share of any treasures.
• Bing Tianxiao led the group to a hidden side hall, where they found the genuine Immortal Spirit Tree bearing five Immortal Spirit Fruits.
• Bing Tianxiao gave three fruits to Xu Huang and the other two to Tang Mei'er, explaining that he and Luo Li had already passed the Body Hardship.
• Bing Tianxiao uprooted the Immortal Spirit Tree, then struck down a green figure who tried to reach a rune controlling the palace formations.
• The ambusher identified himself as an elder of Wood Spirit Academy and a member of the Wood Spirit Clan, then appealed to Bing Tianxiao's supposed Ice Spirit Clan heritage to prevent further hostility.

Bing Tianxiao and his allies crushed the Wood Spirit Academy fighters after Zhen Qing tried to bargain for his life, while Zhen Qing escaped and joined Xiahou. In the Wood God Palace's main hall, Bing Tianxiao arrived as Zhou Yuan confronted Xiahou and declared that Xiahou and Zhen Qing would die unless they had hidden trump cards.

• Bing Tianxiao rejected Zhen Qing's attempt to make peace and attacked alongside Luo Li, Tang Mei'er, and the Myriad Phoenix Spirit Academy women.
• Zhen Qing used a blood-consuming Wood Escape Secret Technique to flee, while Bing Tianxiao killed the remaining Wood Spirit Academy members with his Ice Crystal Halberd.
• Bing Tianxiao predicted Zhen Qing would seek Xiahou's help and led his group toward the main hall.
• Zhen Qing allied with Xiahou of Sacred Spirit Academy, who protected him as Zhou Yuan of Martial Spirit Academy prepared to fight them.
• Bing Tianxiao entered the main hall with Luo Li and Tang Mei'er, then threatened Xiahou and Zhen Qing with certain death unless they had hidden trump cards.

Bing Tianxiao and his allies defeated Sacred Spirit Academy’s team in the Wood God Palace before Zhen Qing could awaken the Wood God Guard. After claiming the group’s points and searching the hall, Bing Tianxiao took the still-dormant puppet for himself.

• Zhen Qing activated the World of Ten Thousand Woods formation and tried to awaken the Wood God Guard while Xiahou led Sacred Spirit Academy’s fighters against Bing Tianxiao’s group.
• Bing Tianxiao and his allies attacked, quickly overwhelming Sacred Spirit Academy’s team and pinning down its members.
• Bing Tianxiao shattered Xiahou’s starlight defense and left him badly injured against a bronze pillar.
• Bing Tianxiao killed Zhen Qing with an ice-crystal spear before he could finish begging for mercy.
• Bing Tianxiao confiscated the defeated team’s Academy Token points, searched the Wood God Palace with his allies, and took the dormant Wood God Guard.

Bing Tianxiao found the Wood God Palace’s true treasure location and sent his companions into secluded cultivation before sharing a powerful sword art with Luo Li. After Xu Huang, Zhao Qingshan, and Mu Fengyang broke through Body Hardship, a blood-robed young man and his group attacked their hideout.

• Ji Xuan ordered his Sacred Spirit Academy teammates to eliminate the twelve teams below them after Xiahou was eliminated and Bing Tianxiao’s points surged.
• Wen Qingxuan learned that Bing Tianxiao had widened his lead and considered challenging Ji Xuan to catch up.
• Bing Tianxiao used a Wood Tablet to discover the Wood God Palace’s true treasure trove and urged Xu Huang, Zhao Qingshan, and Mu Fengyang to cultivate before pursuing it.
• Tang Mei'er thanked Bing Tianxiao and Luo Li, then led the women of Myriad Phoenix Spirit Academy away.
• Bing Tianxiao gave Luo Li the Void Dragon Abyss Sword Art, and they began secluded cultivation while Xu Huang, Zhao Qingshan, and Mu Fengyang used Immortal Spirit Fruits to break through Body Hardship.
• After the three men emerged from their breakthrough, an attack struck their defensive array, and a blood-robed young man arrived with more than a dozen figures.

Xu Huang, Zhao Qingshan, and Mu Fengyang defended Bing Tianxiao’s seclusion from a newly advanced Spirit Energy Hardship cultivator and his team. Bing Tianxiao and Luo Li emerged and swiftly killed their attackers, then Bing Tianxiao called out Wen Qingxuan, who had been watching nearby.

• A blood-robed young man demanded Bing Tianxiao’s treasures and Academy Token points, so Xu Huang, Zhao Qingshan, and Mu Fengyang stood against him to protect their captain’s seclusion.
• Wen Qingxuan watched the battle from a nearby mountain and predicted that Bing Tianxiao would intervene before his teammates were killed.
• Bing Tianxiao and Luo Li emerged from seclusion, concealed themselves with the Dragon Shadow Art, and observed Xu Huang’s group fighting the attackers.
• The blood-robed young man broke through the defenders and struck Xu Huang, prompting Bing Tianxiao to appear and freeze him with a single attack.
• Bing Tianxiao froze the remaining attackers, then spotted Wen Qingxuan and invited her to reveal herself.