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Su Yuan learned that Chen Xian would return to Taihua City with a Guantian Pavilion delegation and planned to profit from the news before Chen Xian could target him. After cultivating to the Eighth Layer of Qi Cultivation, Su Yuan learned that Taihua High School would soon compete in an eight-school joint examination.

• Chen Xian told Su Yuan that he would arrive in Taihua City with a Guantian Pavilion delegation in three days and deal with him personally.
• Su Yuan sold news of the delegation’s visit to the high schools in Golden City, earning eight hundred thousand.
• Su Yuan had Chen Nuoyi watch the shop, cultivated overnight, and broke through to the Eighth Layer of Qi Cultivation.
• Principal Zhang Youde announced that the top eight high schools would hold a real-world team battle in the Eight-School Joint Examination three days later, with thirty-eight students on each team.

Su Yuan accepted the mission to corrupt all thirty-seven Special Class prodigies and promised to lead them to first place in the Eight-School Joint Examination. After Zhang Youde agreed to his demand for an early student discount on a spiritual root, Su Yuan took control of the class and sent the students out for grueling practical training.

• Su Yuan accepted the final Taihua Collapse Plan mission to corrupt the Special Class students within three days and earn the Finger Talisman technique.
• Su Yuan asked Zhang Youde where the school would place in the Eight-School Joint Examination, and Zhang Youde estimated fourth or fifth.
• Su Yuan offered to train the Special Class for three days in exchange for an early fifty-percent student discount on an ordinary-grade spiritual root if they won first place.
• Xiao Kong advised Zhang Youde to accept, and Zhang Youde put the competing students in Su Yuan's hands.
• Su Yuan used black mist to take control of the Special Class students and assigned them rotating jobs and combat practice, followed by electrotherapy.

Su Yuan sent the Special Class students to work jobs he claimed would train their combat skills, while secretly intending to corrupt them to complete a system mission. During their evening cultivation, he covertly siphoned spiritual power from most of the class, leaving Chen Nuoyi and several others untouched.

• Chen Nuoyi questioned Su Yuan about making the Special Class students work, and he justified the jobs as practical training while keeping most of their earnings.
• Su Yuan told Chen Nuoyi to supervise the students and alert him if anyone began breaking free from hypnosis.
• Su Yuan revealed that the jobs and hypnosis were meant to corrupt the students so he could complete his system mission and obtain the Finger Talisman demonic cultivation technique.
• Su Yuan sent the students to cultivate under level-four electric shocks, while Chen Nuoyi trained alongside them.
• Su Yuan used his Senluo Spiritual Root to secretly siphon one-tenth of the spiritual power gained by most of the students, boosting his own cultivation.

As the Eight-School Joint Examination approached, Su Yuan reported that the Special Class had made rapid gains but still lagged behind rival schools in cultivation level. He promised Chen Nuoyi he had a way to improve their strength, then began a suspicious “secret technique” by lifting her top.

• Su Yuan ended the students’ six-hour electric-shock training, gave them healing pills, and put them to sleep to recover.
• Su Yuan told Chen Nuoyi that the Special Class’s average Potential Index had risen to 0.62, while Shining Star and Xiaoshui averaged 0.69 and 0.65.
• Su Yuan explained that the rival schools still had much higher average cultivation levels, leaving Chen Nuoyi worried about the approaching examination.
• Su Yuan promised he could improve the team’s strength in the few hours remaining and asked Chen Nuoyi to lie down for his method.
• Chen Nuoyi agreed to let Su Yuan try the method on her, but grew uneasy when he lifted her top and exposed her stomach.

Su Yuan inscribed the Demonic Cultivation Technique · Finger Talisman on Chen Nuoyi, giving her the ability to convert her spiritual power into Abyssal Spiritual Power. Chen Nuoyi tested the rune and realized she could temporarily wield the power of an Abyss Dharma Vein.

• Chen Nuoyi pretended to sleep while Su Yuan searched her lower abdomen for her dantian.
• Su Yuan used the Demonic Cultivation Technique · Finger Talisman to inscribe a purple, heart-shaped rune on Chen Nuoyi's abdomen.
• Chen Nuoyi saw the rune and mistook it for a suggestive marking before Su Yuan explained that it was a spirit rune.
• Su Yuan explained that the rune let Chen Nuoyi convert her spiritual power into Abyssal Spiritual Power.
• Chen Nuoyi circulated her spiritual power, confirmed the transformation worked, and realized the rune temporarily gave her the power of an Abyss Dharma Vein.

Su Yuan tested his skin-imprinted talismans on Chen Nuoyi, then marked the Special Class students with talismans that granted different abilities. After explaining their effects and winning the class’s respect, he faced Xiao Kong’s question about whether students could receive more than one.

• Chen Nuoyi tested the Abyssal Spiritual Power talisman, and Su Yuan said the imprints would last long enough for the Eight-School Joint Examination.
• Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi imprinted talismans on the sleeping Special Class students before they woke.
• The students teased Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi, but Chu Lanxi discovered his own rune and learned that everyone had received one.
• Su Yuan explained the talismans’ different abilities, and the students eagerly examined their imprints instead of asking for wages.
• Wu Ziying hid her heart-shaped Abyssal Spiritual Power talisman while Su Yuan had not mentioned it to the class.
• Xiao Kong asked Su Yuan whether each person could receive only one talisman.

Su Yuan branded Xiao Kong with nine spirit talismans, turning him into a heavily enhanced rune warrior before the Eight-School Joint Examination. After the Special Class students prepared for the exam, Principal Zhang Youde arrived and led them to the venue, where the competition was about to begin.

• Su Yuan inscribed nine spirit talismans on Xiao Kong, including Tai Xu Nine Swords, Indestructible Sword Body, and Eighteen Divine Fork Styles, while warning him about the strain of activating them all.
• Zhang Jun realized that the students' new abilities represented only part of Su Yuan's mastered techniques, and the class was astonished by Su Yuan's apparent Potential Index.
• Su Yuan told the class to prepare for the Eight-School Joint Examination, then meditated to recover his spiritual power.
• Principal Zhang Youde saw that the students' spiritual power had risen substantially over three days, and learned that even the class's two Qi Cultivation Level 6 students had advanced to Level 7.
• Zhang Youde announced that the examination would begin at ten and led the Special Class students aboard a flying vessel to the venue.

Su Yuan watched the Eight-School Joint Examination judges and the Guantian Pavilion delegation arrive, noticing that Ye Muyu looked strikingly like Taihua Yu Xi. He amused himself by provoking Chen Xian’s attention, but Chen Nuoyi grabbed his hand and left Chen Xian visibly furious as the examination was about to begin.

• Su Yuan saw that Taihua Tianji’s judge seat was occupied by a nameplate and that Golden Core Peak instructor Ye Muyu was seated at the center.
• Taihua Yu Xi arrived and sat on Taihua Tianji’s seat, and Ye Muyu casually drew her onto her lap, revealing that they knew each other.
• Su Yuan noticed Chen Xian watching him closely whenever he approached Chen Nuoyi and tested how his attention changed as he moved his hand toward her.
• Chen Nuoyi grabbed Su Yuan’s hand and pinned it to the armrest, causing Chen Xian to turn red and visibly lose his temper.

Su Yuan and the Special Class entered the Eight-School Joint Examination, and he secretly strengthened their protective membranes while weakening those of the other schools’ candidates. When he learned the exam included a popularity ranking and discovered he was absent from its top ten, he suspected his followers had boosted Chen Nuoyi instead and decided to find another way to attract attention.

• Su Yuan activated his technique on the Special Class students’ protective membranes, improving their protection while giving candidates from the other schools a debuff.
• The candidates from the eight schools took their positions, while Yin Qiyue watched from the stands and cheered for Chen Nuoyi.
• Old Huang announced that the candidate who won the popularity ranking would receive a special interview, and Su Yuan realized the contest could promote his account.
• The big screen showed Li Zhengxing, Xiao Meng, and Chen Nuoyi among the leaders, but Su Yuan did not appear in the top ten.
• Chen Nuoyi offered to promote Su Yuan’s account, and Su Yuan suspected Su Yuan No. 1 had redirected his popularity to her.
• Su Yuan decided he needed to take a bad-publicity approach to overtake the leading candidates.

Su Yuan drew attention before the Eight-School Joint Examination began, prompting Xiao Meng to charge at him over their past encounter. Xiao Kong intercepted her and revealed new abilities, leaving Xiao Meng shocked when he withstood her punch and counterattacked.

• Su Yuan insulted everyone at the exam through Old Huang's microphone, drawing the crowd's attention before the Eight-School Joint Examination began.
• Xiao Meng charged toward Su Yuan, while the other schools focused on Shining Star High School and its examinees watched calmly.
• Xiao Kong rushed out to confront Xiao Meng, and the judges discussed his transfer from Xiaoshui High School and his rivalry with her.
• Xiao Kong fired a black-and-red Sword Qi at Xiao Meng, forcing her to dodge and crash onto the field.
• Xiao Kong activated nine spiritual talismans and charged at Xiao Meng, who punched his chest but failed to overcome his spiritual-energy cushion.
• Xiao Meng realized Xiao Kong had mastered the Indestructible Sword Body, then faced Sword Qi bursting from his chest toward her face.

Xiao Kong defeated Xiao Meng with demonic-path talismans, but exhausted his spiritual power and was eliminated. After the judges commented on the fight, Xiao Meng joined Taihua High School’s team, leaving the examination’s next developments unclear.

• Xiao Kong suppressed Xiao Meng with black flames and a powerful Sword Qi attack, then collapsed from exhaustion and was eliminated.
• The arena’s Light Membrane covered Xiao Kong’s exposed body, while the markings from his talismans shocked the spectators and judges.
• Li Qingyun explained that Xiao Kong’s strength came largely from reusable talismans and praised the likely Talismans Department genius who made them.
• Ye Muyu praised Taihua City and said she looked forward to the rest of the examination.
• Old Huang noticed that Xiao Meng had joined Taihua High School’s team and taken Xiao Kong’s place.

Su Yuan revealed his control over Xiao Meng and led Taihua High School’s Special Class in a rapid assault that shattered Xiaoshui High School’s forces. The joint examination continued with Xiaoshui reduced to a handful of eliminated and hypnotized students, leaving the other schools wary of Taihua.

• Taihua Yu Xi revealed that Su Yuan’s Sword Qi could hypnotize opponents, and Old Huang publicized Su Yuan’s connection to True Man Tai Bai as his livestream popularity climbed.
• Su Yuan claimed Xiao Meng as his obedient ally and offered Xiaoshui High School a chance to place second if its examinees followed his orders, but Shi Ze refused.
• Su Yuan ordered the Sword Body Squad and Sword Art Squad to attack, and their coordinated techniques broke through and devastated Xiaoshui High School’s formation.
• Chen Nuoyi and Wu Ziying stopped Shi Ze’s attempted breakout, while Chu Lanxi hypnotized the less-injured Xiaoshui examinees and the severely injured were eliminated.
• Xiaoshui High School lost seventeen examinees and had twenty recruited in under five minutes, while Taihua High School lost only Xiao Kong; the other schools’ judges watched with grave concern.

Su Yuan declared war on the popularity rankings and eliminated Liang Yunyun and Wang Baiji while leading Taihua High School against the other schools. After four schools fell, the remaining examinees gathered under Li Zhengxing, leaving the Taihua Devilish Sect and the righteous alliance as the last two factions.

• Su Yuan announced that he would take the top popularity ranking and eliminated Liang Yunyun with Sword Qi after immobilizing him and subduing his two classmates.
• Su Yuan and Xiao Meng attacked Wang Baiji’s alliance of Qiansuan High School and Black Dragon High School, with Xiao Meng’s Yin Fire opening a path through their defenders.
• Su Yuan replenished his Spiritual Power by siphoning it from eliminated athletes, then bound and defeated Wang Baiji with Spiritual Wisdom Sword Qi.
• Taihua High School’s forces routed the leaderless Qiansuan and Black Dragon students, bringing the number of schools Su Yuan had defeated to four.
• Li Zhengxing united Hundred Lotus Royal Girls’ High School and Yangxi High School with Shining Star High School, leaving two opposing factions on the field.

Su Yuan and Li Zhengxing faced off as the last two leaders in the Eight-School Joint Examination, while the judges and livestream audience watched. Su Yuan sent rune-enhanced Red Deer candidates to attack the opposing formation, and the chapter ended with Yangxi students volunteering to face the gentle beauty after she eliminated one of their leaders.

• Old Huang presented Su Yuan's Black Team and Li Zhengxing's Red Team as the final forces, while most judges predicted Li Zhengxing would win.
• Ye Muyu said the victor would be the leader better suited to lead, boosting Su Yuan's popularity.
• Su Yuan tried to persuade Li Zhengxing to surrender, but Li Zhengxing refused and challenged him to fight.
• Su Yuan branded the Red Deer candidates with Abyssal Spiritual Power and Indestructible Sword Body runes, then sent them charging at the opposing teams.
• The gentle beauty overwhelmed a Yangxi candidate with heightened sensitivity and was eliminated, prompting Yangxi students to volunteer to face her while rejecting Shining Star's offer of help.

Su Yuan used Abyssal Spiritual Power and his allies to overwhelm Yangxi High School and Baihe Wang Girls' High School, turning their students against the joint examination. His forces continued advancing as Chu Lanxi served as bait, and Su Yuan declared the supposed three-school alliance a loose heap of sand.

• The gentle girl and the proud Red Deer girl swiftly incapacitated Yangxi students, whose pursuit of thousandfold bodily sensitivity left their school close to collapse.
• Su Yuan's use of hypnosis and bodily domination drew attention from the spectators, and his notoriety among livestream viewers grew.
• Baihe Wang students mocked Yangxi's boys, but they became captivated by Chu Lanxi and Black Dragon High School's exposed physical education students.
• Baihe Wang students rushed to capture Chu Lanxi and fell one after another to the Black Dragon students along the way.
• Su Yuan watched his forces advance and concluded that the three-school alliance had fallen apart because Abyssal Spiritual Power made students actively seek it.

Su Yuan’s forces eliminated most of Yangxi and Baihe Queen’s examinees before confronting Li Zhengxing’s Shining Star team. Li Zhengxing revealed Stars Shift, a secret technique that redirected Taihua’s Sword Qi, leaving Su Yuan looking to Xiao Meng for a way to counter it.

• Su Yuan’s beauty trap helped eliminate more than half the examinees from Yangxi High School and Baihe Queen Girls High School, while two Shining Star students also fell to it.
• Su Yuan sent twenty Special Class students to fire Sword Qi at Li Zhengxing’s Shining Star formation.
• Yun Ling channeled the power of thirty-five Shining Star students into Li Zhengxing, who used Stars Shift to redirect the Sword Qi back at Taihua.
• Su Yuan ordered his Sword Body team and remaining captives to block the returning attacks, and more than thirty captives were killed.
• Li Zhengxing explained Stars Shift and challenged Su Yuan to break it, while Su Yuan wondered whether Xiao Meng had a comparable technique.

Su Yuan faced Li Zhengxing’s Stars Shift, which used gathered spiritual energy to launch devastating stars, and asked the Special Class students to trust him with their dantians so he could use his own energy-linking secret art. After Wu Xingqi’s crude joke persuaded them to agree, Su Yuan’s invisible tendrils entered their dantians, leaving the students wondering if they could still change their minds.

• Li Zhengxing explained that Stars Shift could amplify his celestial arts even without incoming attacks, then launched a star that blasted through Su Yuan’s prisoner cannon fodder before Su Yuan dodged it.
• Chen Nuoyi warned that Li Zhengxing had linked the spiritual energy of thirty-five Shining Star High School candidates and that the Special Class could not outlast him.
• Su Yuan revealed that his secret art required him to extend his power into the students’ dantians and asked whether they would accept the risk.
• Zhang Jun agreed after Su Yuan estimated their chance of winning at six or seven in ten, and the other students followed after Wu Xingqi joked that Su Yuan might have already meddled with their dantians while they were hypnotized.
• Su Yuan sent invisible tendrils from his Senluo Spiritual Root into his classmates’ dantians, and the conscious students’ faces darkened as they felt them enter.

Su Yuan drew on Li Zhengxing’s stolen spiritual power and used a risky sword strike to expose a flaw in Stars Shift. The strike left Su Yuan bleeding and Li Zhengxing shaken, with the fight still unresolved.

• Su Yuan absorbed spiritual power through the Senluo Spiritual Root, bringing his strength level with Li Zhengxing’s and drawing attention from the arena’s spectators and judges.
• Li Zhengxing paused his attacks and challenged Su Yuan to show his full strength, while Su Yuan fused Spiritual Wisdom Sword Qi into a powerful strike.
• Su Yuan used Finger Body to transfer his pain to Li Zhengxing, disrupting his defense as the sword struck the star curtain and knocked a Radiant Star student out of the examination.
• The judges noticed that Su Yuan was bleeding from the strain of his attack, while Li Zhengxing was pale and sweating after losing his composure.

Su Yuan’s hidden technique intensified Li Zhengxing’s pain, making him lose control of his attacks and suffer a public collapse in reputation. As Su Yuan neared his own limits, he ordered Xiao Meng to use her self-detonation technique, and her purple fireball engulfed the Yaoxing examinees.

• Li Zhengxing ignored Yun Ling’s concern and continued fighting, but the surging phantom pain made his next star miss Su Yuan.
• The judges and livestream viewers mocked Li Zhengxing’s aim and speculated that he had poor self-control or kidney deficiency, while Su Yuan’s reputation rose.
• Li Zhengxing repeatedly failed to redirect Su Yuan’s Sword Qi, and his missed stars eliminated only a few Taihua High School examinees.
• Su Yuan recognized that Li Zhengxing had endured pain amplified three hundred times, but decided he was too injured to keep fighting without using his trump card.
• Su Yuan ordered Xiao Meng to attack, and she elementalized her Yin Fire Dharma Body and began charging toward the Yaoxing formation.
• Xiao Meng transformed into a massive purple fireball that swallowed every Yaoxing examinee.

Su Yuan led Taihua High School to win the Eight-School Joint Examination, while the judges evaluated the students and Xiao Butian ordered Xiao Meng to learn from Su Yuan. The chapter ended with Li Qingyun confronting Li Zhengxing about his poor performance and asking whether a romantic entanglement had distracted him.

• After Li Zhengxing was eliminated protecting his teammates, Su Yuan's forces overwhelmed the remaining examinees, and Taihua High School won the examination.
• Su Yuan realized how much modern cultivation technology outweighed the power of Qi Cultivators in the Qi Cultivation Stage.
• During Xiaoshui High School's evaluation, Xiao Butian criticized Xiao Meng and instructed her to visit Su Yuan and ask him for guidance.
• Li Qingyun questioned Li Zhengxing about his unusually poor performance and whether a romantic entanglement had affected him.

Li Zhengxing claimed he was congenitally kidney-deficient to thwart his family’s marriage-alliance plans and publicly affirm his relationship with Yun Ling. After Shining Star High School’s evaluation, Ye Muyu offered Su Yuan guaranteed admission to Guantian Pavilion, but Taihua Yu Xi objected, leaving the offer unresolved.

• Li Qingyun questioned Li Zhengxing about his supposed kidney deficiency and suggested it came from secretly dating Yun Ling.
• Li Zhengxing publicly claimed he was congenitally kidney-deficient, then said he wanted to end marriage alliances and grabbed Yun Ling’s hand.
• Su Yuan realized Li Zhengxing was using the rumor to prevent the Li Family from forcing him into a marriage alliance, and Li Qingyun fell silent.
• The judges finished evaluating Shining Star High School and began Taihua High School’s assessment, where Ye Muyu offered Su Yuan guaranteed admission to Guantian Pavilion.
• Su Yuan asked whether he could still list other colleges on his application, and Ye Muyu said he could.
• Taihua Yu Xi objected to the offer while sitting in Ye Muyu’s arms, surprising Su Yuan.

Ye Muyu offered Su Yuan a recommendation to the Ten Great Preparatory Classes, while Chen Xian resolved to sabotage his chances. A system quest tasked Su Yuan with turning Chen Xian into a loyal follower, and Chen Xian later learned Su Yuan might train alone at a remote site outside Taihua City.

• Ye Muyu explained the Ten Great Preparatory Classes and promised Su Yuan one of her recommendation slots, then offered her remaining slots to promising Taihua students.
• Chen Xian envied Su Yuan's opportunity and decided to ruin his chance of entering the Preparatory Class before Taihua Tianji returned.
• Su Yuan received a system quest to take Chen Xian in as a loyal follower in exchange for an attribute effective against the Ten Great Sacred Lands.
• Su Yuan promoted his Miaoyin account during an interview, gaining two hundred thousand followers and surpassing Yin Qiyue.
• Chen Xian heard from an online astroturfing shop owner that Su Yuan would take Special Class students to train outside Taihua City and might stay behind alone, so he asked for the location.

Chen Xian lured Su Yuan into a secluded grove and tried to ruin his future by tattooing him with a permanent mark. As Chen Xian lunged, a Hundred-Ton King truck veered off the highway and charged toward him.

• Chen Xian waited until the Special Class students had left, then searched the grove for traps before approaching Su Yuan.
• Chen Xian confronted Su Yuan over his relationship with Chen Nuoyi and threatened to destroy his prospects with a permanent tattoo.
• Su Yuan backed toward the highway and acted frightened while Chen Xian advanced with a Demonic Dao Magic Treasure tattoo needle.
• Chen Xian lunged at Su Yuan, then noticed Su Yuan's strange smile and sensed danger.
• A Hundred-Ton King truck suddenly veered off the highway and charged straight toward Chen Xian.

Su Yuan used the Hundred-Ton Kings on the highway to torment Chen Xian, who realized Su Yuan had likely engineered the attacks. Chen Xian remained trapped in a desperate flight as Su Yuan repeatedly redirected the trucks to batter him without killing him.

• A Hundred-Ton King crashed into Chen Xian and Su Yuan, sending them both flying, but Su Yuan absorbed most of the impact with his Indestructible Sword Body.
• Chen Xian summoned his jade-green flying sword, but it abandoned him and flew into Su Yuan’s hand, leaving Chen Xian to fall onto the highway.
• Chen Xian tried to dodge an oncoming truck using his deductions, but it swerved and struck him head-on.
• Chen Xian suspected Su Yuan had arranged the truck attacks and tried to flee as more Hundred-Ton Kings bore down on him.
• Su Yuan rode atop a truck with both swords and used Demonic Cultivation Technique · Finger Artifact to steer trucks into Chen Xian at reduced force, keeping him battered but alive.

Su Yuan defeated Chen Xian and tattooed his butt with demonic slogans, then revealed that removing the tattoos would require cutting off the reanimated corpse flesh he had attached there. Chen Xian was left terrified and unable to threaten Su Yuan without risking the spread of corpse poison.

• After Chen Xian collapsed on the highway, Su Yuan used a Hundred-Ton King to run him over, then carried him back to the training grounds when he was incapacitated.
• Su Yuan realized that defeating Chen Xian had not advanced the system Task Progress, so he found the tattoo needle and marked Chen Xian while he was unconscious.
• Chen Xian woke, recognized Su Yuan, and panicked when Su Yuan told him to inspect his butt.
• Chen Xian saw the tattoos reading “Righteous and Demonic” and “Primordial Beginning” and threatened to destroy Su Yuan.
• Su Yuan explained that he had attached a reanimated corpse butt before tattooing Chen Xian, making the tattoos removable only by cutting it off, which would release lethal corpse poison.