Chapter Summaries

Ye Xingchen joined Bear Child and Huo Ling'er for a Heaven Mending Sect training exercise in the Fire Spirit World, where Huo Ling'er explained how its fire spirits awakened flame abilities. When Wang Ping attacked them, Huo Ling'er effortlessly stopped his fireballs and formed a fire dragon to pursue him.

• The Heaven Mending Sect dean and the Divine Vine discussed Ye Xingchen's extraordinary talent and agreed to keep a close eye on him.
• Bear Child, Ye Xingchen, and Huo Ling'er boarded a realm-crossing ship with the other students for a reaction and pressure training exercise.
• The ship entered a strange realm through a glowing barrier, and the three found themselves in the Fire Spirit World.
• Huo Ling'er explained that those recognized by the Fire Spirit World gained control over flames, and that her own flame origin kept her safe there.
• Wang Ping attacked the trio with fireballs, but Huo Ling'er dispelled them and formed a fire dragon that swept toward him.

Huo Ling'er drove Wang Ping away and explained how to use the Fire Spirit Platform, where Ye Xingchen and Bear Child began contemplating the flames. As Ye Xingchen’s Great Dao Fire Laws subdued the fire spirits, an ancient presence recognized him and stirred from its slumber.

• Huo Ling'er repelled Wang Ping with the surrounding fire power, and he fled as onlookers mocked him.
• Huo Ling'er told Ye Xingchen and Bear Child that contemplation on the Fire Spirit Platform could earn the fire spirits' recognition.
• Ye Xingchen and Bear Child sat on the platform and studied its flames, while Wang Ping found that the fire power gathered toward him.
• The Dean and Elders discussed the Fire Spirit World's connection to the ancient Fire God, and the Dean suspected Ye Xingchen might obtain the Fire God's power.
• Ye Xingchen’s Great Dao Fire Laws made the surrounding flames bow to him, shocking an ancient being in the depths of the Fire Spirit World.

Ye Xingchen mastered the Fire Law in the Fire Spirit World and earned the Fire God’s sword, while Wang Ping watched in jealousy. The Heaven Mending Sect’s Dean vowed to protect Ye Xingchen, who left the circle and handed the sword to Bear Child.

• Wang Ping felt the fire spirits respond to his cultivation and believed he was about to master their power.
• Fire spirits gathered around Ye Xingchen and Bear Child as Huo Ling'er and the other contestants watched in amazement.
• A fire dragon emerged from the magma, ignored Wang Ping, and dissolved into streams of light that entered Ye Xingchen and Bear Child.
• Bear Child withdrew when the heat became unbearable, while Ye Xingchen transformed the fire dragon into a sword and continued comprehending the flames.
• The Dean identified the weapon as the Fire God's divine sword and promised that the Heaven Mending Sect would protect Ye Xingchen.
• Ye Xingchen left the circle and passed the fire sword to Bear Child.

Ye Xingchen opened a hidden barrier in the Fire Spirit World, met the Fire God, and absorbed his power. As Qingyi and Witch entered the realm with others, the Heaven Mending Sect rushed to protect its disciples and the Fire God’s weapon.

• Ye Xingchen gave the Fire God's weapon to Huo Ling'er and Bear Child to study, and Wang Ping was repelled when he tried to take it.
• Ye Xingchen split open a lava-filled canyon and revealed a hidden stairway leading to a palace.
• The Fire God emerged from the palace, bowed to Ye Xingchen, and merged with him, increasing his power beyond the Inscription Realm.
• The Heaven Mending Sect's Dean led others into the Fire Spirit World after learning Ye Xingchen had uncovered its hidden barrier.
• Qingyi entered the Fire Spirit World, and Wang Ping and the other disciples realized that outside forces had arrived and urged their fellow students to protect Huo Ling'er and Bear Child.

Witch and Qingyi tried to seize the Fire God Weapon from Bear Child and Huo Ling'er, but Bear Child fought Witch with the weapon while Qingyi overwhelmed Huo Ling'er. Ye Xingchen arrived in time to catch Huo Ling'er and confronted the two women.

• Witch and Qingyi attacked the Heaven Mending Sect disciples and tried to take the Fire God Weapon, but its repelling force blasted them away.
• Bear Child and Huo Ling'er insulted Witch and Qingyi, then Bear Child took up the weapon and fought Witch with its flames.
• Qingyi entered the fight, defeated Huo Ling'er, and sent her flying back.
• Ye Xingchen emerged from the Flame Palace, caught Huo Ling'er, and challenged Witch and Qingyi as dragons of flame rose around him.

Ye Xingchen defeated Qingyi and the Witch in the Fire Spirit World, took the Fire God Weapon, and forced them to surrender their valuables before letting them leave. After slapping Qingyi as she escaped, he watched her vow revenge, while she attacked the Witch for mocking her.

• The Witch warned Qingyi that Ye Xingchen's control over the flames made him far stronger than they were.
• Ye Xingchen took the Fire God Weapon from Bear Child and attacked Qingyi and the Witch with Sword Qi Dragons.
• Ye Xingchen destroyed their Barrier and demanded their valuables, threatening them with the Three Flavors True Fire.
• The Witch and Qingyi handed over their treasures and fled the Fire Spirit World.
• Ye Xingchen slapped Qingyi as she escaped, and she vowed to take revenge.
• The Witch mocked Qingyi about the slap, and Qingyi attacked her.

After Ye Xingchen obtained the Fire God's legacy, masked attackers ambushed the Heaven Mending Sect's ship and separated him from the Dean. Ye Xingchen, Bear Child, and Huo Ling'er were then confronted by black-armored fighters demanding the Fire Spirit Sword, and the battle began.

• A black-armored leader sent fighters to retrieve the Divine Fire remaining on the Fire Spirit Sword to restore the Ancestor Sacrificial Spirit's power.
• Ye Xingchen left the Fire Spirit World with the Heaven Mending Sect's Dean and Elders after gaining the Fire God's legacy.
• Dark clouds pursued the group, and an underground attack split their ship apart while the Dean fought the pursuers.
• Ye Xingchen, Bear Child, and Huo Ling'er escaped to a plain and found its teleportation formation destroyed.
• Black-armored fighters demanded Ye Xingchen's Fire Spirit Sword, then attacked him, prompting Bear Child and Huo Ling'er to join the fight.

The Dean of the Heaven Mending Sect and Divine Vine uncovered an attack by Upper Realm remnants and discovered that someone in the academy had leaked Divine Vine’s condition. Meanwhile, Ye Xingchen defeated the armored men threatening Bear Child and Huo Ling'er, but a black-armored man arrived just as Ye Xingchen moved to finish them off.

• The Dean of the Heaven Mending Sect faced five Upper Realm remnants, who revealed they had attacked because Divine Vine could not leave the academy.
• Divine Vine emerged and used his power to defeat the five attackers, then warned the Dean that there was a traitor in the academy and that the youngsters were in danger.
• Bear Child and Huo Ling'er were knocked down while Ye Xingchen fought four armored opponents who demanded the Fire Spirit Sword.
• Ye Xingchen unleashed the Fire Spirit Sword’s power, left the Barrier, and defeated the armored men with his sword techniques.
• As Ye Xingchen advanced to finish the defeated men, a mysterious strike forced him back, and a tall man clad in black armor appeared before him.

Ye Xingchen fought an armored half-step Divine Fire cultivator who tried to make him and his companions defect from the Heaven Mending Sect. The sect’s dean and the Divine Vine arrived, trapping the attackers, and the surviving enemy leader tried to bargain with the Divine Vine.

• The armored leader arrived and his subordinates warned him that Ye Xingchen was too strong for them to handle.
• Ye Xingchen told Bear Child and Huo Ling'er to move back, then clashed with the half-step Divine Fire cultivator using the Fire God Weapon.
• The armored man recognized Ye Xingchen as a born supreme and offered to spare him if he joined their side, while claiming the Heaven Mending Sect’s dean was likely dead.
• Ye Xingchen refused to surrender and charged the armored man, but the dean and the Divine Vine suddenly appeared, causing the attackers to flee.
• The Divine Vine sealed the area with its vines and demanded to know where the attackers came from, while their leader pleaded that the incident be treated as a misunderstanding.

The Dean of the Heaven Mending Sect and the elderly Divine Vine killed an armored man and destroyed the sect behind him, while Ye Xingchen, Bear Child, and Huo Ling'er returned safely to the academy. Three days later, Shi Zhongtian returned to the Stone Kingdom princely residence with Pixiu Precious Blood and demanded to know where his son and grandson were.

• The elderly Divine Vine captured the armored man's primordial spirit, then drained his blood and killed him as the Dean of the Heaven Mending Sect watched.
• The Dean sent Ye Xingchen, Bear Child, and Huo Ling'er back to the academy and told them to keep the incident secret.
• The elderly Divine Vine and the Dean entered a spatial Barrier and attacked the sect responsible, razing it in a battle that lasted a day and a night.
• Three days later, Ye Xingchen, Bear Child, and Huo Ling'er discussed the Heaven Mending Sect's victory and the need to strengthen themselves.
• Shi Zhongtian returned to the Stone Kingdom princely residence carrying Pixiu Precious Blood and asked the kneeling clansmen where his son and grandson were.

Shi Zhongtian returned to the princely residence and learned that his grandson and son had supposedly died, but he suspected a conspiracy. Using a gemstone to trace bloodlines, he uncovered the truth about the Supreme Bone’s extraction and attacked the woman responsible, then descended into the ruined courtyard.

• Shi Zhongtian questioned the residence’s clansmen and confronted Shi Hao's Mother, who claimed that Shi Hao had died of illness and that Zilin and his wife had left to seek medicine.
• Shi Zhongtian sensed something was wrong, and the Shi Clan patriarch claimed that Shi Hao had died and that Zilin had gone to the Great Wilderness.
• Shi Zhongtian used a gemstone’s Origin Tracing power to reveal the truth about his grandson’s bloodline and past.
• Shi Zhongtian saw that a vicious woman had extracted Shi Hao’s Supreme Bone and that Zilin and his wife had left with their son in grief.
• Shi Zhongtian condemned the woman and hurled a blood-red spear that destroyed nearby buildings, then rushed into the courtyard when he sensed her aura remained.

Shi Zhongtian attacked Shi Hao and his mother to avenge his grandson’s stolen Supreme Bone, but the Grand Elder intervened and fought him. Shi Zhongtian revealed that he had reached the Venerable realm more than ten years earlier and threatened everyone in the Prince’s Residence as the battle continued.

• Shi Hao confronted Shi Zhongtian and said he would take responsibility for his mother’s past actions.
• Shi Zhongtian attacked Shi Hao, knocked him down, and prepared to kill him and his mother.
• The Grand Elder appeared to protect Shi Hao, but Shi Zhongtian challenged him and they began fighting.
• Shi Hao refused his mother’s plea to flee and insisted on facing Shi Zhongtian himself.
• Shi Zhongtian sent the Grand Elder flying, revealed his strength, and threatened to kill everyone who stood in his way.

Ye Xingchen, Bear Child, and Huo Ling'er headed for the Hundred Broken Mountains, where rare treasures and a Mountain Treasure were expected to appear. The Stone Emperor told Shi Zhongtian that his grandson was alive, and the chapter ended with the Witch teasing Qingyi about her Heavenly Silkworm Transformation.

• Huo Ling'er urged Ye Xingchen and Bear Child to join the expedition to the Hundred Broken Mountains, and Ye Xingchen agreed in hopes of finding the Original True Explanation.
• The Divine Vine warned the Heaven Mending Sect Dean that the Hundred Broken Mountains were too dangerous, so the Dean decided to stay behind and watch for trouble at the academy.
• The Stone Emperor ordered Shi Zhongtian to leave the Shi Clan's territory and revealed that his grandson, Zilin, and the others were alive.
• Shi Zhongtian accepted a jade slip from the Stone Emperor and left, determined to save his grandson.
• Three days later, Ye Xingchen, Bear Child, and Huo Ling'er reached the Hundred Broken Mountains and entered, while Huo Ling'er warned them to avoid the approaching rivals and Venerables.
• The Witch teased Qingyi for practicing the Heavenly Silkworm Transformation, but Qingyi believed it would remove her Demonic Fetus and improve her cultivation.

After entering the Hundred Broken Mountains, Ye Xingchen, Huo Ling'er, and Bear Child were separated, and Bear Child found a gorge filled with bones before Witch and her companions confronted him. Bear Child defeated two cloaked attackers, and Witch recognized his unusually powerful Grotto-Heaven Realm cultivation and questioned his plan to open nine grotto-heavens.

• Qingyi warned Witch that powerful people, including the Celestial Human Race, had entered the Hundred Broken Mountains, then went inside.
• Ye Xingchen found himself separated from Huo Ling'er and Bear Child, encountered Yun Xi, and went on alone after she suspected him of following her.
• Bear Child discovered golden-patterned bones in a gorge and began collecting them in his Heaven and Earth Bag.
• Witch and several companions demanded that Bear Child surrender the bones, but he refused and knocked two cloaked attackers down with his bone club.
• Witch recognized Bear Child's unusual Grotto-Heaven Realm strength and said she thought he intended to open nine grotto-heavens and attain the Dao through his flesh.

Bear Child fought Witch, who withdrew rather than waste strength, while he stayed behind to absorb energy from the bones. Elsewhere, Ye Xingchen captured the God-Striking Stone, forced it to accept a Slave Contract, and ordered it to guide him to the Mountain Treasure.

• Bear Child used his six grotto-heavens to absorb Witch's black flames and attack her.
• Witch retreated, unwilling to spend her strength fighting Bear Child, and he stayed behind to absorb the golden energy among the bones.
• Ye Xingchen found the God-Striking Stone bathing in a pool and trapped it inside his cauldron martial soul.
• Ye Xingchen threatened to refine the God-Striking Stone unless it acknowledged him as master, and the stone agreed.
• Ye Xingchen placed a Slave Contract on the God-Striking Stone and ordered it to take him to the Mountain Treasure, leaving the stone alarmed at the dangerous return.

Ye Xingchen entered the forest with the God-Striking Stone to seek the Little Tower and Original True Bone, while Yun Xi was poisoned and stumbled into him. Elsewhere, Huo Ling'er waited with the Fire Emperor near a gorge where a treasure was expected to emerge.

• Ye Xingchen ignored the God-Striking Stone's warnings and continued into the forest to find the treasures.
• Yun Xi dispersed a beguiling voice, then used her Jade Ruyi to destroy a creature that attacked her with poisonous pink mist.
• Poisoned and disoriented, Yun Xi found Ye Xingchen, recognized him, and asked him for help.
• Ye Xingchen sealed a ten-li area with his Heavenly Emperor Cauldron Martial Soul and gathered Yun Xi into his arms.
• Huo Ling'er asked the Fire Emperor about the treasure near the gorge, and he told her to wait as other groups had also come to seize it.

Yun Xi parted from Ye Xingchen after their encounter, while Bear Child rescued a Celestial Human Race man from treasure thieves and continued his search. Ye Xingchen then followed Yun Xi through the Hundred Broken Mountains, and the God-Striking Stone warned him about the treasures he sought.

• Yun Xi thanked Ye Xingchen, asked him to forget their encounter, and left without learning that he had kept her jade token.
• Bear Child saw a group of men fighting a Celestial Human Race man over a treasure, then killed one attacker when they tried to kill him.
• Bear Child threatened the remaining thieves, who fled, and declined the rescued man's offer of repayment before moving on.
• The rescued Celestial Human Race man reflected that he had come to find Princess Yun Xi but still could not locate her.
• Ye Xingchen followed Yun Xi through the mountains and told the God-Striking Stone he would find the treasures and leave, while the stone warned that they might be weapons of slaughter.

Ye Xingchen rescued Yun Xi from a white-haired old man and persuaded her to travel with him through the dangerous Hundred Broken Mountains. Elsewhere, Bear Child encountered a blood-covered man and overpowered him in a fight.

• Ye Xingchen put the God-Striking Stone into the System Space and hurried after Yun Xi.
• A white-haired old man tried to capture Yun Xi, but Ye Xingchen appeared and forced him to retreat with the Four Immortal Slaying Swords.
• Yun Xi agreed to travel with Ye Xingchen on the condition that they kept their arrangement secret.
• Bear Child spotted gruesome corpses and called a blood-covered man out of hiding.
• The man split Bear Child's bone club with his Black Gold Ancient Saber, but Bear Child punched him down and cracked the saber.

Ye Xingchen and Yun Xi reached the Treasure-Dividing Cliff, where powerful figures gathered to compete for its many treasures. Bear Child reunited with Ye Xingchen and asked him to help claim several treasures, while Yun Xi stayed with them despite Ye Xingchen’s teasing about their future child.

• Bear Child knocked down a man who begged for mercy after trying to ambush him.
• Huo Ling'er watched the treasure lights draw powerful figures and their followers to the canyon.
• Ye Xingchen and Yun Xi arrived at the Treasure-Dividing Cliff, and Ye Xingchen said he was seeking the Little Tower and the Original True Explanation.
• Ye Xingchen teased Yun Xi about a future child, and she denied that they could ever be together.
• Bear Child reunited with Ye Xingchen, called Yun Xi his new sister-in-law, and asked Ye Xingchen to help him obtain treasures from the cliff.

Ye Xingchen, Bear Child, and Yun Xi joined Huo Ling'er at the Fire Nation camp as the barrier around Treasure-Dividing Cliff began to break. After the treasure light erupted, they entered the canyon, where powerful contenders immediately fought over the treasures.

• Ye Xingchen and Bear Child went to the Fire Nation camp, where guards mocked them until Ye Xingchen showed a jade token and Huo Ling'er welcomed them.
• Huo Ling'er invited Ye Xingchen, Bear Child, and Yun Xi into the camp and promised they would be safe while her father was there.
• Bear Child noticed stronger treasure light from the canyon, and the barrier shattered as treasure light burst out and experts rushed inside.
• Ye Xingchen and Bear Child entered the canyon and saw the first contenders battle over the treasures atop Treasure-Dividing Cliff.
• The fighting's shock waves reduced several wandering cultivators to ash while Ye Xingchen and Bear Child watched from behind a rock.