Chapter Summaries

Key plot points

• Eleven women aligned with Ye Qiu intervene after the Examination Elder is exposed for taking benefits from Zhang Chuan’s group and abusing his authority. They drop their complaints against Ye Qiu but insist the elder answer for his misconduct. Chen Chi orders him imprisoned, and he accepts responsibility rather than risk involving his family.
• The remaining examiners realize they, too, had accepted bribes. Relieved that Ye Qiu joined Old Liu’s line, they resolve not to provoke him. His examiner, despite judging his talent to be a worthless Mortal Body, praises him and lets the assessment proceed without further scrutiny.
• Ye Qiu heads for Myriad Laws Academy with Chen Chi and the others. Li Xingchen and Tang Yan follow, joking about Ye Qiu’s influence and Tang Yan’s plan to call on his “tigress” sister.
• Ye Qiu is awed by the Academy’s scale: its many peaks, buildings, and arenas are only the outer edge. Mu Qinghe explains that the Academy contains numerous branches, each comparable to a major sect.
• Ye Qiu presses Mu Qinghe to repay money he says he is owed. She promises to handle any trouble he faces, but reveals that his conspicuous Dao Rain has attracted attention from powerful organizations, including the Great Dao Academy, the Sword Sect, and the Dragon Clan. Ye Qiu distrusts her assurance; she says she will return his money if she cannot manage the situation.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Qiu remains wary and pragmatic. He recognizes the examiner’s flattery as self-preservation and challenges Mu Qinghe both over the money and her reliability.
• The Examination Elder is forced to face the consequences of exploiting his office. His regret underscores his earlier mistake: he assumed Ye Qiu had no powerful backing.
• Chen Chi and the eleven women demonstrate their influence by shielding Ye Qiu and holding the elder accountable.
• Mu Qinghe acts as Ye Qiu’s protector and guide, but their conversation suggests an uneasy, transactional relationship: she admits taking money and promises to deal with the fallout from his growing notoriety.
• Li Xingchen and Tang Yan provide comic relief. They resent Ye Qiu’s apparent success with the women but admit they cannot safely challenge him.

Significant themes

• Power over justice: The chapter observes that connections and strength, rather than fairness, often determine who faces consequences.
• Hidden backing and shifting status: Ye Qiu’s treatment changes once others realize he is supported by formidable allies.
• Reputation and scrutiny: His unusual Dao Rain has drawn attention from major powers, foreshadowing further complications.
• Humor amid danger: The banter about Ye Qiu, Tang Yan’s “tigress” sister, and Mu Qinghe’s promise to repay him lightens the political tension.

Key plot points and events

• Ye Qiu learns that the Upper Realm’s major powers have gathered to decide which one will gain control over him. Their chosen prodigies will compete, and the winning faction will claim him—without asking his opinion.
• Feeling insulted and wary of everyone’s assurances, Ye Qiu decides to stop hiding and make himself visible.
• He first punches Li Xingchen, who has been chatting with Tang Yan. Tang Yan restrains Li Xingchen and urges him to wait for her sister, who can fight Ye Qiu.
• Ye Qiu heads to Myriad Laws Academy’s Freshman Grand Tournament. Elder Ji Wei dismisses him as an unqualified Divine Gate cultivator and refuses to give him the Token needed to compete.
• When Ji Wei’s yellow-robed grandson threatens Ye Qiu, Ye Qiu strikes him twice, then effortlessly overpowers him and throws him onto the ground, badly injuring him. Ye Qiu asks Ji Wei whether he qualifies now.

Character developments

• Ye Qiu shifts from keeping quiet amid others’ plans to deliberately asserting his presence. He distrusts everyone but himself and responds to condescension with decisive violence.
• Mu Qinghe explains the political stakes and advises Ye Qiu that his safest option is for Myriad Laws Academy to win.
• Wen Ning stays silent because her master has forbidden her to speak to Ye Qiu, disappointing his attempt to confirm what is happening.
• Ji Wei reveals his prejudice against Ye Qiu, judging him by his weak-looking cultivation and assuming he gained admission through favoritism.
• Li Xingchen is left stunned and angry after Ye Qiu’s sudden punch; Tang Yan holds him back.

Significant themes

• Agency versus being treated as property: The powerful factions negotiate over Ye Qiu as a prize, prompting his resentment at being excluded from decisions about his own future.
• Power and appearances: Ye Qiu’s apparent lack of talent leads Ji Wei to underestimate him, while his effortless victory overturns that judgment.
• Self-reliance and defiance: Unable to trust the people around him, Ye Qiu chooses to face the Upper Realm openly and make his own position known.

Character interactions

• Mu Qinghe and the women explain the competition and Ye Qiu’s precarious status; Chen Chi bluntly reminds him that their protection is the reason he has not been claimed outright.
• Ye Qiu seeks honesty from Wen Ning, but she refuses to speak because of her master’s orders.
• Ye Qiu’s confrontations with Li Xingchen and Ji Wei’s grandson establish his willingness to answer mockery and threats with immediate force.
• His final challenge to Ji Wei turns the elder’s judgment into a public test of Ye Qiu’s qualification.

Plot points and events

• Elder Ji Wei is stunned that the seemingly ordinary Ye Qiu defeated his talented grandson, Ji Xing. Though angry, Ji Wei acknowledges that Ji Xing started the confrontation and gives Ye Qiu the tournament Token he earned.
• Ye Qiu apologizes briefly, while the injured and humiliated Ji Xing is helped aside. Other freshmen now take Ye Qiu seriously, and some see defeating him as a chance to win Ji Wei’s favor.
• After the entrance assessments, just over a thousand freshmen gather for the Freshman Grand Tournament. Ji Wei explains that contestants can compete in ordinary elimination matches or attempt to defend the Arena by accepting challenges until no one can defeat them.
• Ye Qiu chooses the Arena challenge. When Ji Wei questions his judgment, Ye Qiu says he wants to “show off” and “go big,” then invites the freshmen who had challenged him to attack together.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Qiu shifts from being dismissed as an unimpressive newcomer to a figure the other freshmen watch warily. He is openly defiant and deliberately provocative, determined to make a spectacular display.
• Ji Wei struggles between irritation at Ye Qiu and his duty to judge fairly. He remains convinced that Ye Qiu’s plan is reckless, though he is also curious about the strength and hidden potential behind the boy’s victory.
• Ji Xing is left badly injured, unable to compete, and visibly resentful after his defeat.
• Several freshmen’s contempt turns into keen interest: they want to challenge Ye Qiu both to prove themselves and to curry favor with Ji Wei.

Significant themes

• Appearances versus ability: Ye Qiu looks ordinary, but his strength defies expectations.
• Pride and ambition: The Arena challenge represents an extreme test of confidence, while Ye Qiu’s boastful manner makes clear that he wants more than a routine win.
• Responsibility and agency: Ye Qiu insists that his life and choices are his own.
• Recognition and defiance: His determination to make the Academy’s leaders take notice hints at resentment over being treated as an object and brought there without his consent.

Key plot points and events

• Ye Qiu challenges the other new disciples to attack him together. A blue-clad disciple insists he can defeat Ye Qiu alone, but Ye Qiu knocks him off the Battle Stage with one blow, leaving him unconscious and badly injured.
• Xu Ba steps forward, revealing the terrifying phantom of a Primordial Blood Ape. He attacks Ye Qiu with overwhelming force, but Ye Qiu stops both Xu Ba’s fist and the ape’s with one hand.
• Xu Ba pushes himself beyond his limits, yet Ye Qiu remains unmoved. Ye Qiu lifts him and his giant phantom, then slams them into the arena, shattering the phantom and leaving Xu Ba gravely injured.
• The other challengers retreat in fear. When Elder Ji Wei asks who he is, Ye Qiu identifies himself: “Ye Qiu, from the Mortal World!”

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Qiu remains composed and confident throughout, demonstrating immense strength without apparent effort. His calm response to the crowd’s awe reinforces his sense of superiority.
• Xu Ba, initially confident in his Blood Ape power, becomes enraged when Ye Qiu stops his attack. His confidence turns to fear as he realizes he cannot overpower Ye Qiu.
• The challengers begin proud and unwilling to cooperate, viewing a group attack as dishonorable. After witnessing Ye Qiu’s strength, they retreat and cannot meet his gaze.
• Elder Ji Wei shifts from curiosity about Ye Qiu to recognizing him as a serious contender for first place among the new disciples.

Significant themes

• Overwhelming power and humility: Ye Qiu’s strength makes even formidable opponents helpless, while his calm demeanor contrasts with their pride and fear.
• Pride versus reality: Xu Ba and the other challengers’ confidence collapses when confronted with a power far beyond their expectations.
• The outsider’s arrival: Ye Qiu’s declaration that he comes from the Mortal World underscores his unexpected rise and the shock his presence causes.

Key plot points and events

• Ye Qiu’s identity as the notorious Ye Qiu of the Mortal World is revealed to the arena. Those who had heard of his destruction of the Martial Tower and Martial Domain—and his unprecedented fusion with Heaven’s Gate—react with shock and fear.
• Ye Qiu deliberately exposes himself to the whole Upper Realm, thwarting powerful factions’ plans to keep his identity and the treasures he carries secret.
• His aura surges, and his ten-thousand-foot Divine Gate appears in the sky. Dao Rain falls once more, confirming that Ye Qiu caused the earlier phenomenon that benefited people throughout Myriad Laws City.
• The freshmen are too intimidated to challenge him. Ye Qiu declares himself the tournament’s winner and claims the title of Myriad Laws Academy’s number-one freshman.
• He gets Elder Ji Wei to confirm that the result counts, then cites Ji Wei as the authority behind his victory. When Long Yuan of the Dragon Family questions the decision, Ye Qiu asks Ji Wei whether the academy fears the Dragon Family.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Qiu moves from concealing himself to boldly announcing his presence. He uses his overwhelming power to discourage challengers, but also shows a playful, provocative streak by maneuvering Ji Wei into validating his win.
• Ji Wei, who had earlier been hostile to Ye Qiu, becomes visibly intimidated and is drawn into Ye Qiu’s scheme.
• Ji Xing, Ji Wei’s grandson and Ye Qiu’s earlier opponent, loses his anger and feels relieved: he recognizes Ye Qiu could have killed him but held back.
• Tang Yan is shaken by Ye Qiu’s reputation but tries to hide his fear. Li Xingchen teases him and reassures him as a friend and “brother.”
• The academy’s powerful observers are alarmed that Ye Qiu has exposed himself, since they had hoped to control access to what he possesses without attracting the entire Upper Realm’s attention.
• Long Yuan challenges the legitimacy of Ye Qiu’s claim, setting up a confrontation over whether the academy will stand by its decision.

Significant themes

• Power and intimidation: Ye Qiu’s reputation and Divine Gate settle the contest before anyone dares fight him.
• Defiance and control: By revealing himself publicly, Ye Qiu refuses to be secretly traded or managed by powerful factions.
• Public recognition and legitimacy: His victory is not just physical; he secures an official-sounding endorsement from Ji Wei and dares the academy to defend it.
• Friendship and humor: Li Xingchen’s banter with Tang Yan lightens the tension surrounding Ye Qiu’s dramatic entrance.

• Ye Qiu secures his position: Elder Ji Wei’s public announcement makes Ye Qiu Myriad Laws Academy’s top new student. When the Dragon Family’s Long Yuan challenges the academy’s stance, Ye Qiu turns the question back on him, forcing both Long Yuan and Ji Wei to avoid answering directly. Ao Lie, the True Dragon Crown Prince, claims the Dragon Clan and academy are longtime allies; Ye Qiu cheerfully accepts the alliance and even suggests they share a drink, disarming the exchange while frustrating Ao Lie.
• Ye Qiu uses Ji Wei as cover: Ye Qiu declares Ji Wei his spokesman for further questions, then asks the elder to take him as a disciple and provide a place to live. Ji Wei angrily refuses the discipleship request but ultimately tells Ye Qiu to come with him. Ye Qiu’s audacity and quick wit leave the gathered factions with little room to challenge the public result.
• The real conflict remains unresolved: Chen Chi reports to her grandaunt that the group’s preparations were unnecessary because Ye Qiu handled the confrontation himself. Her grandaunt warns that this is only the beginning: Ye Qiu’s Heaven’s Gate and its role in taking the Martial Ancestor’s Fortune and changing the Great Dao Struggle make him a prize many powers will pursue. His public appearance is likely to draw more factions to Myriad Laws City.
• The factions challenge the academy: The Vice Dean refuses to let the gathering’s private agreement to divide Ye Qiu among the factions override the academy’s public rules. She argues that doing so would damage the academy’s authority and reputation, though she admits it cannot keep Ye Qiu for itself indefinitely. She postpones a decision by claiming the Dean is unavailable, then disappears herself.
• The cliffhanger: When the angry factions go to confront the Dean, an attendant informs them that the Dean and Vice Dean have “run off together.”
  Character developments and interactions: Ye Qiu proves himself a provocative, resourceful negotiator who exploits formalities and shifts pressure onto others. Ji Wei is increasingly exasperated at being used as Ye Qiu’s shield, while Long Yuan and Ao Lie are left frustrated by Ye Qiu’s refusal to follow their expected script. The Vice Dean is cautious and politically astute, but her repeated delays—and eventual disappearance—turn the dispute into farce without resolving its stakes.
  Themes: The chapter contrasts public rules with private power deals, and shows how wit and performance can disrupt political pressure. It also underscores the danger of Ye Qiu’s growing fame: the more openly his significance is revealed, the more powerful rivals will pursue him.

Key plot points and events

• Ye Qiu’s extraordinary Dao Rain, Divine Gate, and combat strength have made him a target for powerful factions, especially the True Dragon Clan and Dragon Family.
• The Myriad Laws Academy has prepared defenses and hidden reinforcements to protect him. When outsiders demand his surrender, the academy refuses, and the hostile powers grudgingly wait rather than risk starting a major conflict.
• Ye Qiu spends three days resting, cautiously assessing the academy while training and studying techniques. On the fourth day, he visits its Cultivation Tower. After claiming that the Freshman Grand Tournament winner should be exempt from fees, he persuades the Tower Guard Elder to let him in without paying.
• In the Body Refinement Area, Ye Qiu pushes through intense pressure, but his Qi and Blood barely improve. He concludes that he needs a stronger stimulus to advance his Bloodline awakening.
• He asks Brother Snake about his Bloodline. Brother Snake explains that Ye Qiu has “Mortal Blood”—not ordinary human blood, but a blank slate with no predetermined limit. What it can become depends on Ye Qiu himself. Brother Snake refuses to reveal what the Bloodline is connected to, fearing the consequences.

Character developments

• Ye Qiu remains wary despite the academy’s protection. He is pragmatic, testing the academy’s rules for an advantage, and focused on strengthening himself rather than trusting others.
• He learns that his Bloodline’s potential may be effectively limitless, but its nature and ultimate origin remain mysterious.
• Brother Snake shifts from playful banter to a serious explanation of Mortal Blood, while staying guarded about what he knows.

Significant themes

• Power attracts danger: Ye Qiu’s talent and Creation place him at the center of competing factions’ ambitions.
• Protection and political restraint: The academy’s preparations shield Ye Qiu, while the other powers avoid open conflict because the costs could be immense.
• Potential versus fixed limits: Brother Snake contrasts a dragon’s predetermined nature with Mortal Blood’s open-ended possibilities.
• Strength requires sacrifice: Ye Qiu’s training shows that breaking past his current limits demands increasingly severe challenges.

Character interactions

• The hostile factions confront the academy’s Guardian Elders, who deflect their demands and insist the academy’s leaders will eventually return.
• Ye Qiu bargains with the Tower Guard Elder by invoking Ji Wei and his tournament victory; the elder ultimately waives the fee.
• Ye Qiu questions Brother Snake about his Bloodline, but their exchange ends with Brother Snake withholding crucial information and joking about Ye Qiu’s likely response if he were struck dead.

Key plot points and events

• After leaving the Cultivation Tower, Ye Qiu asks the Tower Guard Elder about the benefits available to new disciples. He learns he can collect pills, choose a treasure, receive a cultivation method and divine ability, and earn further rewards by joining an academy.
• The elder suggests the Body Sect and Blade Alliance but doubts Ye Qiu can meet other academies’ standards. Ye Qiu considers joining every faction; the elder dismisses the idea.
• Ye Qiu tries to thank the guard with Divine Crystals, but the elder rejects them, boasting that his salary is far greater.
• At the Alchemy Academy, Ye Qiu receives his allotted pills and asks to join. The academy’s elders initially refuse, wary of his unclear, unusual circumstances.
• Ye Qiu invokes Elder Ji Wei’s recommendation. Reluctantly, the academy agrees to test him, expecting him to fail.
• Ye Qiu’s Golden Lotus Exotic Fire and powerful Primordial Soul shatter a Saint Pill Stone. A second, more advanced stone also explodes under his power.
• Shocked by the display, the elders seal the hall and escort Ye Qiu deeper inside, abruptly changing from dismissive to intensely interested.

Character developments

• Ye Qiu is ambitious, self-assured, and strategic. He uses Ji Wei’s influence to secure opportunities, reads the elders’ reactions, and deliberately demonstrates his full ability rather than accepting a perfunctory rejection.
• The Tower Guard Elder begins hostile and skeptical, but gives Ye Qiu useful guidance once Ji Wei’s name is mentioned. His refusal of the small gift comes with a boast about his income.
• The Alchemy Academy’s elder in black shifts from firmly rejecting Ye Qiu to being stunned by his talent and urgently taking control of the situation.
• Elder Ji Wei, though absent, is shown to have exceptional authority: his recommendation makes other elders hesitate.

Significant themes

• Talent versus institutional gatekeeping: Ye Qiu is initially judged by assumptions about his background, but his extraordinary ability overturns them.
• Influence and status: Ji Wei’s reputation opens doors that Ye Qiu’s own claims cannot.
• Ambition and self-advocacy: Ye Qiu actively pursues multiple opportunities and insists on proving his worth.
• Power as a catalyst for changing attitudes: The elders’ skepticism quickly gives way to awe once they witness his strength.

Character interactions

• Ye Qiu negotiates with the Tower Guard Elder, testing the academy’s rules and learning that joining a faction depends on ability.
• He tries to offer both elders Divine Crystals; each rejects the amount, revealing their wealth and status.
• At the Alchemy Academy, Ye Qiu’s invocation of Ji Wei forces the elders to give him a chance.
• His test transforms the encounter: the elders move from dismissing him to crowding around him and locking the doors to secure his attention.

Plot points and events

• After the Saint Pill Stone explodes twice, the elders conclude that Ye Qiu’s talent may exceed Holy Master level and rush him into a hidden testing hall.
• As Ye Qiu walks through the hall, the sculptures on its stone platforms ignite one after another. By his third step, every platform is ablaze, revealing Fire Affinity beyond anything the elders have seen.
• A powerful, alchemist-specific pressure emanates from Ye Qiu, making the elders’ Pill Fire and souls tremble. A Golden Lotus surrounds Ye Qiu and absorbs the flames. He emerges unharmed, while elders who try to breathe in the lingering heat are injured.
• The black-clad elder takes Ye Qiu to a solemn hall containing statues of the Alchemy Academy’s past leaders. He orders Ye Qiu to bow, and Ye Qiu begins to comply—but the hall suddenly shakes violently. The chapter ends with everyone staring in shock at the statues.

Character developments

• Ye Qiu is established as an unprecedented talent: his affinity for fire surpasses the Academy’s standards, and he can withstand flames that injure powerful alchemists. His apparent lack of reverence at first seems to trouble the elder, though Ye Qiu starts to bow when instructed.
• The black-clad elder shifts from caution to enthusiastic approval, deciding that the Academy must recruit Ye Qiu. His pride and excitement grow as the tests reveal the scale of Ye Qiu’s ability.
• The other elders move from anticipation to awe, then fear, as Ye Qiu’s power overwhelms the hall and injures them.

Significant themes

• Exceptional talent and hierarchy: Ye Qiu’s abilities surpass established measures of rarity and rank.
• Power and reverence: His presence exerts a force over alchemists comparable to bloodline suppression, while the Academy’s leaders are honored as pillars of the discipline.
• Humility versus extraordinary ability: The elders expect even a prodigy to show respect for tradition, though the chapter’s final supernatural disturbance interrupts that moment.

Character interactions

• The elders eagerly guide and test Ye Qiu, reacting with increasing amazement to each display of his Fire Affinity.
• The black-clad elder admonishes Ye Qiu to bow before the Academy’s past leaders, then presses down on his head in a gesture of encouragement rather than punishment.
• Ye Qiu begins to obey, but the sudden shaking of the hall—and the elders’ terrified response—cuts the encounter short.

Plot points and events

• When Ye Qiu bows before the Alchemy Academy’s ancestral statues, they bow back. The elders realize his destiny and fortune are so immense that the statues cannot accept his homage; continuing to bow might even shatter them.
• The former masters release their accumulated Fortune as a blessing for Ye Qiu. The Academy’s founder, its first master, awakens and focuses her power on him, greatly helping him fill the gap in his Single Missing Dao.
• Once the statues settle, elder Gao Da binds Ye Qiu to the Alchemy Academy by placing his blood on a jade slip—without waiting for his consent.
• Gao Da then declares that Ye Qiu is not merely a disciple but his junior brother, accepted on behalf of their late master, Pill Thirteen. The current Academy master is their senior brother, but he has fled because of Ye Qiu and is expected to return.
• The elders eagerly try to keep Ye Qiu at the Academy, but he declines, saying he still has other matters to attend to.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Qiu gains a powerful blessing that advances his cultivation, but remains pragmatic and independent. He questions the elders’ decisions and asks what benefits he will receive, yet is pleased when assured the absent master will not challenge him.
• Gao Da shifts from astonishment to possessive enthusiasm: convinced Ye Qiu could transform the Upper Realm’s Pill Dao, he forcibly secures his affiliation and treats him as family.
• The other elders move from shock and reverence to excitement, crowding around Ye Qiu and urging him to stay.
• The ancestral masters, especially the founder, respond to Ye Qiu’s extraordinary destiny by honoring and empowering him.

Significant themes

• Destiny and overwhelming fortune: Ye Qiu’s “weight” is so great that even legendary masters cannot receive his bow.
• Legacy and sacrifice: The past masters willingly give up their Fortune to support the next generation and preserve a path.
• Ambition and institutional rivalry: Gao Da believes Ye Qiu may surpass even the Pill Tower and reshape the Upper Realm’s Pill Dao.
• Autonomy versus allegiance: The Academy claims Ye Qiu as its own, but his refusal to stay shows that his larger goals remain his priority.

Plot points and events

• Ye Qiu visits the Book Tower to choose a Divine Ability and Cultivation Method. He questions the gatekeeper about access to higher floors and better techniques, then learns the elder is Ji Hong, Ji Wei’s older brother—and Ye Qiu’s granduncle.
• Ye Qiu briefly tempts Ji Hong with Eight-Color Supreme Dao Pills, then offers him one in exchange for information. Ji Hong gives directions to the Seventh Layer, but Ye Qiu realizes he has withheld important details and may be setting him up.
• Ye Qiu discovers the tower’s progression: books on the lower floors, engraved teachings higher up, and Saint Arts on the Seventh Layer. Reaching it requires a teleportation platform that consumes enormous energy.
• Despite the cost, Ye Qiu feeds the platform several handfuls of pills and successfully transports himself to the Seventh Layer.
• Ji Hong assumes Ye Qiu cannot obtain a Saint Art: he expects him to fail the tower’s seals, endure a Saint’s aura, and demonstrate rare insight and resonance. But violent booms soon shake the tower. Ji Hong rushes upstairs and, seeing what has happened, shouts, “Don’t!”

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Qiu is resourceful, confident, and wary. He uses humor and negotiation to get information, spots Ji Hong’s attempt to mislead him, and refuses to trust him fully. His successful passage to the Seventh Layer suggests his abilities exceed Ji Hong’s expectations.
• Ji Hong shifts from dismissive gatekeeper to eager negotiator after seeing Ye Qiu’s pills. He trades information for a pill and tries to manipulate Ye Qiu, but is ultimately stunned by the boy’s unexpected success.
• Their exchange is a contest of leverage: each tests the other’s motives, and neither readily gives the other the upper hand.

Significant themes

• Underestimated ability: Ji Hong’s confidence that Ye Qiu is “not quite up to it” is undercut by the unexplained commotion above.
• Cunning and mistrust: Both characters bargain strategically, revealing how knowledge and trust are treated as currency.
• Merit and access: The tower’s upper teachings require more than permission; candidates must overcome energy, power, and spiritual barriers.
• Suspense: The chapter ends before revealing what Ye Qiu has done—or encountered—on the Seventh Layer.

Key plot points and events

• In the Seventh Layer, Ye Qiu absorbs the legacies of multiple Saints, causing the landscape and its ancient seals to erupt into chaos.
• He first absorbs the Flames Great Sage’s Dao Intent, extinguishing a crimson river of fire and advancing from the second to the third level of Godbreaker.
• He then absorbs the Blood Saint’s legacy, greatly increasing his Qi and Blood. His Blood Red sprite also advances to the third Stairway.
• The destruction spreads: tombs open and legacies from the Blade Alliance and Martial Divine Academy begin merging with Ye Qiu as well.
• Sect elders arrive but cannot stop him. Elder Wen Zizai attempts to seal off the Eighth Layer, which contains a Saint King art. Ye Qiu breaks through the Heavenly Net and absorbs its runes—including Wen’s Soul Blood—leaving the elders helpless.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Qiu remains absorbed in the process, gaining power from one legacy after another without responding to the elders’ warnings.
• Ji Hong, who had secretly allowed Ye Qiu into the forbidden area, grows increasingly panicked as he realizes the scale of his mistake. He calls for help, then urges the elders to seal the Eighth Layer.
• The sect elders react according to what they stand to lose: the Flame Sect and Body Sect elders are horrified, while the Blade Alliance elder’s relief quickly turns to outrage when three of his sect’s tombs open.
• Wen Zizai arrives to contain the crisis, but his Heavenly Net fails. He tells Ji Hong that Ji will have to help repay the Soul Blood he lost.

Significant themes

• Ambition and unchecked power: Ye Qiu’s relentless absorption turns a forbidden place into a source of extraordinary advancement.
• The cost of negligence: Ji Hong’s rule-breaking admission of Ye Qiu triggers a disaster affecting multiple sects.
• The limits of control: Even the academy’s elders, seals, and formations cannot restrain Ye Qiu once the process begins.
• Legacy and loss: The Saints’ inheritances empower Ye Qiu, but their destruction threatens the institutions and families that depended on them.

Plot points and events

• Ye Qiu absorbs the Seventh Layer’s Rune light, Wen Zizai’s Soul Blood, and the ancestral Creation pouring through the tomb. His Cultivation, Qi and Blood, and Primordial Soul all rise to the Divine Gate Third Layer, and he gains Saint-level techniques and cultivation insights.
• The disturbance nearly destabilizes the Eighth Layer. Ji Hong begs Ye Qiu to stop, and Ye Qiu ends the absorption just in time, restoring calm.
• A furious crowd confronts Ye Qiu. He deflects suspicion onto Ji Hong, claiming Ji Hong let him in, gave him guidance, and took his pills. Under pressure, Ji Hong admits he helped, then argues he acted for the factions’ benefit.
• Ji Hong persuades the Flame Sect’s Great Elder that Ye Qiu could revive the sect and preserve the Flames Great Sage’s legacy. Ye Qiu offers to join and transfers the Saint technique Burning Heaven to the elder. Impressed, the elder accepts him into the Flame Sect.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Qiu emerges far more powerful and gains profound ancestral knowledge. Even amid danger, he remains composed and politically nimble, using Ji Hong’s silence and guilt to shift blame and secure a place in the Flame Sect.
• Ji Hong moves from panic and anger to reluctant confession and shrewd negotiation. Though he resents Ye Qiu, he turns the boy’s extraordinary gains into a possible advantage for the academy and Flame Sect.
• Wen Zizai remains silent as the tomb’s power is consumed, while the gathered factions grow increasingly hostile and suspicious.
• The Flame Sect’s Great Elder initially hesitates but is tempted by the prospect of restoring his sect’s standing; Ye Qiu’s gift of Burning Heaven persuades him to accept the boy.

Significant themes

• Power and its consequences: Ye Qiu’s breakthrough benefits him enormously but risks destabilizing the tomb and provoking every faction.
• Self-interest and persuasion: Ji Hong and Ye Qiu turn a crisis into bargaining, framing personal advantage as service to others.
• Legacy and renewal: The Flame Sect’s decline makes Ye Qiu—and the powerful inheritance he carries—a chance to restore its fortunes.

Key plot points and events

• Ye Qiu and Ji Hong recruit members of Myriad Laws Academy’s great academies. Ye Qiu wins over the Body Sect’s Great Elder by revealing his impressive Blood Saint Creation and thirteen million Qi and Blood.
• The Blade Alliance’s Great Elder initially refuses, but Ye Qiu demonstrates a refined blade technique. Intrigued by its profound essence, the elder offers him a place—and quietly gives him a Storage Ring.
• The Flame Sect, Body Sect, Blade Alliance, and then the remaining academies accept Ye Qiu. His Creations prove far more comprehensive than expected, and the sages’ favor earns him broad recognition.
• Ji Hong realizes Ye Qiu has become so valued that disciplining him could provoke all nine academies. Ye Qiu asks about the absent Sword Academy, which he hopes to connect with because of its unrivaled standing.
• Talisman Gate master Wen Zizai pointedly refuses to recruit Ye Qiu and asks what he intends to do with Wen’s Soul Blood. Ye Qiu offers to buy it, then draws a talisman and declares them even.
• Wen initially takes offense, but recognizes the drawing as an Imperial Pattern. His anger turns to awe, and he asks Ji Hong to plead with Ye Qiu to join the Talisman Gate—offering to make him its young master.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Qiu shows resourcefulness and confidence, tailoring his demonstrations to each academy’s interests. He also answers Wen’s arrogance with a bold gesture that reveals extraordinary ability.
• Ji Hong shifts from trying to protect Ye Qiu to worrying that the boy’s new status makes him untouchable. He is jealous and frustrated, yet intervenes to protect Ye Qiu from Wen.
• The academy elders move from skepticism or resistance to eager acceptance once they see the value of Ye Qiu’s gifts and abilities.
• Wen Zizai begins aloof and dismissive, certain Ye Qiu lacks talisman talent. The Imperial Pattern overturns his judgment, leaving him eager to claim Ye Qiu for his school.
• Ye Qiu’s interactions with the elders repeatedly reverse the balance of power: those who refuse him end up trying to recruit him, while others defend him from Wen.

Significant themes

• Talent and recognition: Ye Qiu’s abilities exceed the elders’ expectations and rapidly change his standing.
• Power, prestige, and leverage: Each academy’s response reflects both its interests and the influence it believes Ye Qiu can bring.
• Pride humbled by proof: Wen’s confidence collapses when confronted with the Imperial Pattern.
• Humor through reversal: The chapter repeatedly turns rejection into eager pursuit, culminating in Wen asking for help to recruit the boy he had just dismissed.

Key plot points and events

• Ye Qiu leaves the Book Tower carrying an Imperial Pattern from Heavy Prison Peak. He still can’t understand it, but plans to show it to Wen Zizai and impress him.
• He feeds a treasure to the Broken Saber, then deliberately passes by the tournament crowds. Ye Qiu expects the public revelation of Heaven’s Gate to draw powerful factions to the academy—and intends to use the resulting turmoil to his advantage.
• Back at the Courtyard, Chen Chi, Mu Qinghe, Shen Ling, Wen Ning, and others warn him that his spectacle has attracted more powerful outsiders. The academy’s leaders have gone missing, leaving uncertainty over whether they will protect him.
• The outsiders are taking out their anger on academy students during the ongoing contests. Since Ye Qiu is blamed for starting the crisis—and some academy residents want to capture him—he may be in danger from both guests and insiders.
• The women bring Ye Qiu the materials he needs for his treatment, including a promise from Chen Chi to obtain the Dead Man’s Flower. Their teasing suggestion that they undress for the treatment is interrupted by the arrival of the White-Clad Tomboy, who soon leaves.
• The women identify her as Tang Yan and urge Ye Qiu to avoid her, warning that her unusual background and constitution make her dangerous. Wen Ning adds that Ye Qiu is “not as fierce as her.”

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Qiu remains bold and opportunistic, but his confidence is tempered by the danger his plan has created. He relies on the women while insisting he can handle things himself, and his comic anger at Mu Qinghe’s broken promise contrasts with his decision to collect the treatment ingredients.
• Chen Chi sees through Ye Qiu’s strategy and cautions him about its risks, while continuing to help him. She also shields the shy Wen Ning.
• Mu Qinghe bluntly explains the danger from academy students and jokes that her earlier promise to handle everything was empty talk.
• Wen Ning is timid but playfully pushes back against Ye Qiu’s attempts to sound fierce.
• Tang Yan and Shen Ling exchange a silent, competitive stare, each smiling coldly and refusing to yield. The others visibly retreat, suggesting they fear Tang Yan or know her reputation.

Significant themes

• Opportunity and danger: Ye Qiu hopes to exploit the disorder he has stirred up, but the same spectacle makes him a target.
• Uncertain protection and divided loyalties: The academy’s absent leaders leave students and visitors exposed, while resentment spreads through the school.
• Humor amid tension: Banter over money, treatment, and who is “fierce” lightens the chapter’s growing sense of threat.
• Reputation and hidden power: Tang Yan’s unsettling presence hints that appearances—and Ye Qiu’s confidence—may not reflect who truly holds the advantage.

Plot points

• After the others leave, Ye Qiu meets the mysterious White-Clad Tomboy alone. Though warned to avoid her, he says he trusts his own judgment when choosing friends.
• She gives him a jade scroll as thanks for his earlier prescription. Ye Qiu then offers a second prescription and uses the Golden Lotus Exotic Fire and his blood qi to draw black impurities from her body.
• The woman introduces herself as Tang Ni and leaves distinctive footprints. Ye Qiu studies them alongside the scroll’s principles and begins to grasp the Tang family’s movement art, Thousand-Zhang Leap.
• Tang Ni returns to the Tang Sect estate. As she approaches its ancestral plaque, the founding ancestor’s intent suddenly blazes and exerts overwhelming pressure—an apparent blessing from a Saint King.
• Tang Yan explains that Tang Ni was branded a cursed, Heaven-Abandoned child from birth and denied the clan’s inheritance. After years of suppression, she returned from training, defeated most of the clan’s prodigies, and rose to third among the Twelve Sons, largely through her own strength.
• Li Xingchen admires the spectacle, then asks about Tang Ni and hints that he wants a wife. Tang Yan reacts with mock solemnity, accusing him of wanting to become his brother-in-law.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Qiu shows independence from others’ warnings and compassion toward Tang Ni. His treatment reveals that he senses a dangerous, unexplained condition within her.
• Tang Ni remains guarded but is intrigued by Ye Qiu, calling him “interesting.” The ancestral blessing marks a dramatic change in her standing—or at least a new possibility of recognition.
• Tang Yan is deeply shaken by his sister’s apparent acknowledgment and protective of her; his banter with Li Xingchen quickly turns serious when romance enters the conversation.
• Li Xingchen responds to the spectacle with enthusiasm and, in characteristic comic fashion, immediately turns his interest toward Tang Ni.

Significant themes

• Prejudice versus personal merit: Tang Ni’s cursed reputation and family rejection contrast with her achievements earned through strength.
• Trust and judgment: Ye Qiu chooses to judge Tang Ni for himself rather than accept others’ warnings.
• Inheritance and belonging: Tang Ni’s exclusion from the ancestral legacy is challenged when the plaque’s intent appears to recognize her.
• Mystery and foreshadowing: Tang Ni’s hidden condition, the incomplete movement-art inheritance, and the sudden blessing all hint at larger revelations.

Key plot points and events

• At the Tang Sect’s entrance, its golden plaque resonates with Tang Ni, bathing her in sacred light and cleansing her body with the Saint King’s Intent. She realizes the blessing was not caused by her and suspects another source.
• Li Xingchen tries to flirt with Tang Ni, but she slaps him twice. Tang Yan warns him not to provoke her; Li, undeterred, insists that he likes forceful women.
• Li tells Tang Yan they should learn from Ye Qiu’s “thick skin”: persist in pursuing women despite rejection or being hit. Tang Yan scoffs at his advice.
• Tang Ni leaves for Myriad Laws Academy. Meanwhile, the Tang family members emerge to investigate the plaque’s unusual resonance. Tang Yan claims his sister caused it, but a girl in purple mocks him and attacks him brutally.
• The girl reveals that her brother, Tang Wushuang—the First Branch’s prodigy—is expected to become Young Master in a few days, threatening the Twelve Houses. Li Xingchen helps the injured Tang Yan leave without escalating the confrontation.
• At the academy, Tang Ni witnesses Ye Qiu moving so swiftly that he creates thirty-six afterimages. His skill shocks her.

Character developments

• Tang Ni receives an extraordinary blessing from the Tang Sect plaque, suggesting a change in her relationship with the Sect’s legacy. Her reaction to Ye Qiu’s display shows growing respect—and perhaps apprehension—toward his ability.
• Li Xingchen reveals himself as shamelessly determined in romance, treating Ye Qiu’s persistence as a model. His boldness contrasts with his helplessness when Tang Ni strikes him.
• Tang Yan remains protective of Tang Ni and defends her achievement, but his family’s political weakness is made painfully clear when he is attacked in public.
• The girl in purple demonstrates her contempt for Tang Yan and confidence in her family’s coming rise.

Significant themes

• Persistence versus dignity: Li’s comic advice presents shameless persistence as a route to romance, though Tang Yan doubts it.
• Prejudice and recognition: Tang Ni has long been rejected and suppressed by the Tang Sect, making the plaque’s sudden resonance especially meaningful.
• Power and political vulnerability: Tang Yan’s assault goes unchallenged, showing how status and factional strength shape justice within the family.
• Ability and awe: Tang Ni’s reaction to Ye Qiu emphasizes how exceptional his cultivation and speed are.

Character interactions

• Li Xingchen flirts with Tang Ni and is slapped; he then discusses romantic persistence with Tang Yan.
• Tang Yan stands up for his sister before the Tang family, provoking the girl in purple, who attacks and humiliates him.
• Li quietly supports Tang Yan by helping him away from the confrontation.
• Tang Ni watches Ye Qiu train and is left deeply shaken by what she sees.

Key events

• Tang Ni reveals that the Tang Family’s Saint-level Thousand-Zhang Leap is a closely guarded art, and that even her own branch received an incomplete version. She is astonished to see Ye Qiu perform it with deeper insights than she ever mastered.
• Ye Qiu explains that he has fused the technique with Brother Snake’s Dragon’s Passage, greatly improving his speed and turning a former weakness into a potential strength.
• Tang Ni insists Ye Qiu’s achievement is his own, not the result of her teaching, and tells him to remember that.
• After playful teasing about payment and Fire Therapy, Ye Qiu treats Tang Ni by guiding flame through her body. She offers him fifty million, far more than his usual fee.
• Tang Ni leaves, and Ye Qiu discovers that the “payment” is only a piece of paper with “fifty million” written on it—not actual money.

Character developments

• Ye Qiu demonstrates extraordinary talent, rapidly understanding and transforming a powerful technique. He is courteous toward Tang Ni, though easily caught off guard by her teasing.
• Tang Ni moves from stunned admiration to playful intimacy. Despite her guarded status in the Tang Family, she is confident, self-reliant, and casually irreverent about using family resources.

Themes

• Ability over inheritance: Privileged teachings and outside assistance matter less than personal talent and effort.
• Learning and innovation: Ye Qiu does not merely copy the art; he builds on it and makes it his own.
• Appearances versus reality: Tang Ni’s stern demeanor conceals a mischievous, flirtatious side.
• Value and payment: The exaggerated fifty-million fee becomes a comic twist, blurring the line between generous reward and joke.

Character interactions

• Tang Ni watches Ye Qiu practice, praises his ability, and explicitly credits the achievement to him.
• Their exchange over Fire Therapy turns into teasing flirtation: Tang Ni challenges Ye Qiu’s reluctance, while he treats her without requiring her to undress.
• Tang Ni’s extravagant promise of payment contrasts with Ye Qiu’s modest view of the treatment—and ends with the comic reveal that she has given him a written claim rather than cash.

Key plot points and events

• Li Xingchen tends to the gravely injured Tang Yan after a girl in purple brutally slaps him. The clan elders do nothing, revealing their contempt for Tang Yan’s family.
• Tang Ni arrives, sees her brother’s injuries, and demands to know who attacked him. When the girl admits it defiantly, Tang Ni strikes her twice, badly disfiguring her.
• The girl invokes her brother’s status and threatens Tang Ni. Tang Ni repeatedly punches her, stopping only when the elders intervene.
• When the white-haired elder dismisses the assault as a “misunderstanding,” Tang Ni challenges him on the clan’s rules against members attacking one another. She then kills the girl in purple in front of the elders, repeatedly asking whether this, too, is a misunderstanding.

Character developments

• Tang Yan remains quiet and resigned, suggesting that mistreatment is familiar to him. His silence reflects how powerless and accustomed to neglect he has become.
• Li Xingchen feels deep sympathy and anger but knows he cannot protect Tang Yan himself. He is intimidated by Tang Ni’s overwhelming violence.
• Tang Ni is fiercely protective of her brother and newly confident in her speed and strength. Her restraint gives way to ruthless retaliation when the elders excuse the abuse.
• The girl in purple shifts from arrogance and mockery to fear and helplessness.
• The elders are exposed as biased: they ignore Tang Yan’s beating, then object only when the attacker is being punished.

Significant themes

• Clan hypocrisy and favoritism: Rules are invoked selectively, protecting the powerful while leaving Tang Yan’s family vulnerable.
• Family loyalty and justice: Tang Ni acts decisively where the clan fails to defend her brother.
• Powerlessness and retaliation: Tang Yan’s resignation contrasts with Tang Ni’s ability to impose consequences.
• The abuse of “misunderstanding”: The elder’s euphemism becomes a symbol of the clan’s effort to excuse violence and avoid accountability.

Character interactions

• Li Xingchen comforts and treats Tang Yan, while Tang Yan tries to conceal the attacker’s identity.
• Tang Ni presses Tang Yan for the truth, then confronts the girl directly.
• The girl taunts Tang Ni and threatens her through her brother; Tang Ni answers with escalating violence.
• Tang Ni challenges the white-haired elder to enforce the rules he previously ignored, turning his excuse back on him with the repeated question: “Does this count as a misunderstanding?”

Plot points and events

• Tang Ni rejects the White-haired Elder’s claim that the attack was a misunderstanding. She kills Purple Robe, then brutally slaughters the elder’s surrounding companions when he refuses to answer her.
• The elder tries to fight back, but Tang Ni overwhelms him, shatters his aura and fist, and nearly runs him through.
• Tang Qinglin, the Tang Sect’s second-ranked son, intervenes and catches Tang Ni’s sword. He accuses her of violating sect rules and orders her to submit to judgment.
• Tang Ni refuses and attacks him. Her three powerful strikes break through his defenses, wound him through his armor, and send him crashing into the Vermilion Mansion Gate.
• The gate’s ancient plaque glows, and golden light envelops Tang Ni like armor, suggesting the sect itself—or its legacy—is responding to her.

Character developments and interactions

• Tang Ni reveals an unprecedented level of power and ruthlessness. She is furious, refuses to accept authority, and challenges even the sect’s second-ranked son without hesitation.
• The White-haired Elder shifts from disbelief to fear as Tang Ni destroys his followers and defeats him. He survives only because Tang Qinglin intervenes.
• Tang Qinglin begins confident in his rank and authority, but is shocked and injured when Tang Ni proves stronger than he expects.
• Li Xingchen is horrified by Tang Ni’s violence and privately concludes that provoking or pursuing her would be a matter of survival, not pride.
• Tang Yan watches in stunned silence, while the gate guard pretends to be unconscious to avoid witnessing or becoming involved in the massacre.

Significant themes

• Power overturning hierarchy: Tang Ni’s sudden strength challenges the Tang Sect’s established ranks and political order.
• Violence and defiance: She rejects appeals to rules and authority, answering them with force.
• Unexplained transformation: Tang Ni’s extraordinary abilities—and the glowing plaque’s response—hint at a deeper power or connection to the sect.