Chapter Summaries

Su Yuan revealed that he had secretly designed the Old One Sword Armor, a stronger successor to the lab’s Flame Sun Sword Armor, and took charge of the lab’s effort to build it. Wei Yuxiu agreed to become his deputy as the team prepared for the design competition.

• After thirty minutes of being burned as a sacrifice, Su Yuan climbed down while Wei Yuxiu announced that he had received enough inspiration and would complete the Flame Sun Sword Armor plans.
• On November 9, Wei Yuxiu finished the plans and rallied the lab to perfect the armor before the competition, but Su Yuan called the design outdated and revealed his own plans for the Old One Sword Armor.
• Su Yuan displayed a detailed holographic model and claimed the Old One Sword Armor could boost its user by at least 130 percent, possibly reaching 150 percent.
• Su Yuan offered the lab assistants credit on the design and Wei Yuxiu co-first authorship, persuading the team with the armor’s chances at the competition.
• Wei Yuxiu made Su Yuan the lab’s leader and agreed to serve as his deputy while they built the Old One Sword Armor.

Director Liu expected Su Yuan to flop at the monthly exam, but discovered that Su Yuan had spent his time in Wei Yuxiu's laboratory creating powerful sword armor. The chapter ended as Su Yuan activated the Old One Sword Armor and Xuanji Demonic Sword together against Pan Yunqing.

• Director Liu summoned Wei Yuxiu to ask whether Su Yuan was still visiting the laboratory, and Wei Yuxiu said he was.
• At the joint monthly exam, Su Yuan easily won his first two matches, then faced Pan Yunqing in the Top 3 Battle.
• Pan Yunqing revealed that he had mastered the Blood Corrupting Sword and challenged Su Yuan, who promised to defeat him within ten seconds without using two of his strongest techniques.
• Su Yuan summoned the Old One Sword Armor prototype and merged with it, stunning Director Liu and the artifact-refining students.
• Su Yuan drew the Xuan Ji Sword and announced that he would demonstrate the combined divine ability of the armor and sword, Old One.

Su Yuan defeated Pan Yunqing with the Old One Sword Armor’s dangerous illusion, drawing Director Liu’s attention as an artifact-refining prodigy. He refused to leave the Evil Slaying Department but declared that he wanted to learn its sword inheritances as well as the Artifact Refining Department’s Divine Body Sacrificial Artifact Great Law.

• Su Yuan activated the Old One Sword Armor and Xuanji Demonic Sword, pulling Pan Yunqing and most spectators into a sinister illusion until Yang Hao True Lord and Taihua Tianji intervened.
• A referee declared Pan Yunqing defeated, and Pan Yunqing lamented that Su Yuan had surpassed him again.
• Director Liu questioned Su Yuan about the Old One Sword Armor, then offered to take him as a personal disciple if he joined the Artifact Refining Department.
• Taihua Tianji challenged Director Liu for trying to recruit Su Yuan, but Su Yuan refused to change departments.
• Su Yuan told Director Liu and Taihua Tianji that he wanted the Blood Corrupting Sword, the Heaven Shaking Star Shattering Sword, and the Divine Body Sacrificial Artifact Great Law.

Su Yuan earned Hidden Points by taking over departments across campus and using the Old One Sword Armor and his unusual abilities to win their approval. After conquering ten departments, he completed the Demonic Contamination task and unlocked several rewards, including a chance to corrupt Artifact Peak for a Spirit Sword upgrade.

• Su Yuan explained how he planned to earn enough Hidden Points to study multiple Spirit Transmutation Inheritances, and Taihua Tianji and Director Liu agreed to help him approach several departments.
• Chou Tianze conceded their decisive monthly exam match, while Chen Nuoyi won her match in the Sword Dao Department.
• Su Yuan and Wei Yuxiu's group won first place in the Battle Armor Design Competition with the Old One Sword Armor, earning Su Yuan ten Hidden Points.
• Su Yuan gained approval in the Management, Beast Taming, Finance, Alchemy, and Formation departments through his projects and displays of skill, recruiting Finance prodigies into Yuan Sect along the way.
• Su Yuan took first place in another monthly exam, then conquered the Security, Talismans, and Physical Education departments to complete the ten-department task.
• The Demonic Contamination task completed, making its rewards and the option to corrupt Artifact Peak available to Su Yuan.

Su Yuan claimed rewards that gave him the Deceive Sword Physique and awakened a sword spirit in the Crimson Origin Sword using the Xuan Ji Sword Spirit’s consciousness. He then used the Xuan Ji Sword’s origin to upgrade Chiyuan and persuaded the now-foolish Xuan Ji Sword Spirit to accept Chiyuan as his second Natal Flying Sword.

• Su Yuan claimed the Evil Slaying Holy Land reward and gained the Deceive Sword Physique, which let him dodge a first fatal attack and counter techniques that targeted demonic cultivators.
• Su Yuan used the Xuan Ji Sword Spirit’s consciousness as nourishment to awaken a sword spirit in the Crimson Origin Sword.
• The Xuan Ji Sword Spirit became unusually foolish, and Su Yuan considered contracting two Natal Swords.
• Chiyuan awakened as a red-dressed young woman who could manifest outside the Crimson Origin Sword.
• Su Yuan used the Xuan Ji Sacred Sword’s origin to upgrade the Crimson Origin Sword and explained the arrangement to the Xuan Ji Sword Spirit.
• The Xuan Ji Sword Spirit agreed to let Chiyuan become Su Yuan’s second Natal Flying Sword.

Su Yuan upgraded the Crimson Origin Sword into a Nascent Soul spiritual treasure and made her his second Natal Sword. When Taihua Tianji mistook their relationship for mistreatment and then misunderstood Su Yuan’s words, he tried to strike him, but Su Yuan effortlessly dodged.

• Su Yuan finished upgrading the Crimson Origin Sword, whose new blood poison complemented the Blood Corrupting Sword, and bound her as his second Natal Sword.
• Su Yuan told Taihua Tianji that Crimson Origin had become his second Natal Sword, and Taihua Tianji drew the Wenji Sword, believing she had been humiliated.
• Crimson Origin emerged to defend Su Yuan and said she was happy as his Natal Sword, prompting Taihua Tianji to notice that she had reached the Nascent Soul rank.
• Taihua Tianji accused Su Yuan and the Xuan Ji Sword of corrupting Crimson Origin because of the black-gold markings on her Sword Body, but Crimson Origin defended Su Yuan and rejected Taihua Tianji’s control.
• Su Yuan asked to head downstairs with Crimson Origin and later be taken to the Inheritance Land, but Taihua Tianji misheard him and swung the Wenji Sword at his head.
• Su Yuan tilted his neck and effortlessly dodged Taihua Tianji’s sword strike.

Taihua Tianji took Su Yuan to the Blood Corrupting Sword inheritance, where the Blood Lake eagerly granted him its power. Su Yuan condensed a Corruption Dao Seed, upgraded the inheritance through his system, and gained a sword effect that drained targets’ blood at a fixed rate.

• Taihua Tianji struck Su Yuan after he dodged the first blow, and Su Yuan comforted Chiyuan while joking about inheriting Taihua Tianji’s gold coins after his death.
• Taihua Tianji brought Su Yuan to the Blood Corrupting Sword inheritance beneath Zhuxie Academy and explained how to cultivate in the Blood Lake.
• Su Yuan stepped into the center of the Blood Lake, where its power formed a Blood Lotus Platform around him and flowed into him and the Crimson Origin Sword.
• Su Yuan condensed a Corruption Dao Seed in less than three hours and used his system to upgrade the Blood Corrupting Sword.
• The upgrade gave Su Yuan’s sword energy a Blood Transformation effect that caused struck targets to lose three percent of their blood per second, even against Golden Core Cultivators.

Taihua Tianji arranged for Su Yuan to meet an important visitor, World Lord Wuluo, while considering a future mission for him. At the reception, Su Yuan discovered that Wuluo was Qi Hanyua’s mother after he had threatened to discipline her, and Wuluo demanded an explanation for how he had treated her daughter.

• Taihua Tianji considered taking Su Yuan to a Great World after the end-of-year exams and told him an important visitor would arrive the next morning.
• Su Yuan mastered the Blood Corrupting Sword and joined the university’s reception for World Lord Wuluo on December 31.
• Qi Hanyua croaked at Wuluo’s arrival, and Su Yuan tried to discipline her and apologize on her behalf.
• Wuluo revealed that she was Qi Hanyua’s mother, leaving Su Yuan stunned as Qi Hanyua apologized to her.
• Wuluo confronted Su Yuan about taking Qi Hanyua to his Demon Lair and making her work unpaid overtime, demanding a reasonable explanation.

Su Yuan faced True Lord Wuluo’s anger over his treatment of Qi Hanyua, but Qi and Chen Nuoyi both defended him. True Lord Wuluo took Chen Nuoyi as her disciple and agreed not to blame Su Yuan, though she still resented him for loving Chen Nuoyi instead of her daughter.

• True Lord Wuluo questioned Su Yuan about his relationship with Qi Hanyua, and Qi defended their friendship and business arrangement.
• Qi Hanyua praised Su Yuan’s training, including the dangerous way he ran her over with Thousand-Ton King, prompting Su Yuan to explain that he was strengthening her endurance.
• True Lord Wuluo approached Chen Nuoyi and revealed that she had been waiting for someone in the Chen Family to break the Dragon Blood Curse so she could guide her toward Spirit Transformation.
• Chen Nuoyi accepted True Lord Wuluo as her master on the condition that she stop blaming Su Yuan for what happened with Qi Hanyua.
• True Lord Wuluo agreed, privately admitting that she resented Su Yuan because he mattered deeply to Qi Hanyua while being in love with Chen Nuoyi.

True Lord Wuluo explained that Chen Nuoyi could inherit the Dragon King Secret Realm’s Spirit Transmutation legacy and arranged for Su Yuan to accompany her through its trials. The group prepared to pursue the inheritance, while Su Yuan eagerly imagined the treasures hidden inside.

• Qi Hanyua worried that Su Yuan would distance himself after learning her identity, but he reassured her and learned that she had been created from the life essence of True Lord Wuluo and Star River Heavenly Lord.
• Su Yuan encouraged Chen Nuoyi after True Lord Wuluo chose her as a personal disciple, and Taihua Tianji summoned them to his office.
• True Lord Wuluo revealed that Chen Nuoyi’s ancestor had discovered the Dragon King Secret Realm and left her its coordinates, opening method, and a way to overcome its trials.
• True Lord Wuluo explained that the secret realm contained a human-compatible Spirit Transmutation inheritance from the benevolent Demon Venerable Wan Gu Chang Qing.
• True Lord Wuluo said Su Yuan would accompany Chen Nuoyi into the secret realm, and Su Yuan looked forward to finding its treasures.

Su Yuan agreed to visit Myriad Beasts University with Chen Nuoyi to choose a dragon-blooded Spirit Pet for the Dragon King Inheritance, after True Lord Wuluo arranged special permission. He entered the university expecting an easy choice, only for a mysterious figure to appear behind him and reveal that Su Yuan had been lured there.

• True Lord Wuluo told Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi to prepare a dragon-blooded Spirit Pet for the Dragon King Inheritance and wrote them a special permission slip for a divine beast.
• Su Yuan teased Taihua Tianji by calling him “Tai Bai boy,” and Taihua Tianji struck him with a Teaching Whip until Chen Nuoyi watched him leave covered in whip marks.
• Su Yuan took Chen Nuoyi to Myriad Beasts University and showed a Golden Core Realm Mentor True Lord Wuluo’s note.
• The Mentor told Su Yuan he could choose a divine beast at the Divine Beast Base without paying or meeting other restrictions.
• As Su Yuan entered the university, a dark figure appeared behind him and said he had finally tricked Su Yuan into coming there.

Su Yuan accompanied Demon Refining True Lord through the Beast Taming Department and discovered how Zhu Tianqing had turned Human-Demon Equality into a system of labor and harsh study. Zhu Tianqing welcomed Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi by threatening to make them experience her department’s discipline, while Demon Refining True Lord remained the only one bearing the students’ resentment.

• Demon Refining True Lord ambushed Su Yuan, insisted on accompanying him to the Beast Taming Department, and said they could talk while handling Su Yuan’s assignment.
• Su Yuan saw spirit beasts working throughout the department and realized Zhu Tianqing had transformed it through Human-Demon Equality.
• Demon Refining True Lord explained that his objection was not to Human-Demon Equality but to his daughter’s interpretation of equality, which made students work as hard as their spirit beasts.
• Students fled their classrooms to beg Demon Refining True Lord for help, but Zhu Tianqing used her Spirit Enslavement talent to send them back to class.
• Zhu Tianqing greeted Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi, then threatened to make them experience her department’s study atmosphere.

Su Yuan visited the Beast Realm with Chen Nuoyi and Zhu Tianqing to find a powerful Spirit Pet, and Demon Refining True Lord challenged him to tame one of the dangerous Waste Beasts. Su Yuan brutally subdued a Night Demon Beast and claimed it as his own, leaving Demon Refining True Lord dismayed by his daughter’s admiration for Su Yuan.

• Zhu Tianqing suggested giving Su Yuan a Mystic Water Flood Dragon hatchling, but Demon Refining True Lord instead directed him to the Waste Beast enclosure.
• Su Yuan agreed to choose a Foundation Establishment Waste Beast and selected a Night Demon Beast, a pureblood descendant of a Nascent Soul Demon Emperor.
• Su Yuan used Demonic Art: Finger Beast to connect with the Night Demon Beast and raise its intelligence and subjugation level.
• When the Night Demon Beast remained violent, Su Yuan beat and choked it repeatedly until its subjugation level reached 100%.
• Su Yuan asked Demon Refining True Lord to hand over the tamed Night Demon Beast, while Zhu Tianqing openly admired him and her father lamented losing her favor.

Su Yuan won Demon Refining True Lord’s bet and claimed the Waste Beasts, then used Olden Days to subdue more than a hundred at once. Demon Refining True Lord gave him a certificate worth twenty Hidden Points, and Su Yuan left the Beast Realm to celebrate the New Year with his friends.

• Demon Refining True Lord conceded defeat and agreed to hand over Night Demon Beast, while privately wondering whether Su Yuan’s beast-taming method could be learned through Zhu Tianqing.
• Su Yuan asked for all the Foundation Establishment Realm Waste Beasts, and Zhu Tianqing urged her father to give them to him.
• Demon Refining True Lord agreed, and Su Yuan said that Chen Nuoyi and Zhu Tianqing would help him tame the beasts.
• Demon Refining True Lord opened the cages to challenge Su Yuan, but Su Yuan used Olden Days to trap the consciousness of more than a hundred Waste Beasts.
• Demon Refining True Lord returned the beasts to their cages and gave Su Yuan a certificate declaring him Peerless in Beast Taming, worth twenty Hidden Points.
• Su Yuan took Chen Nuoyi and Zhu Tianqing out of the Beast Realm and celebrated the New Year with Qi Hanyua, Wu Ziying, Chu Lanxi, and other friends.

Su Yuan, True Lord Wuluo, Qi Hanyua, and Chen Nuoyi entered the Dragon King Secret Realm and discovered the immense corpse of Long Bai, a True Dragon who had been refined into a magic treasure. The System announced a Prismatic Grade mission to infiltrate Long Bai’s room and win her affection, leaving Su Yuan baffled because the Dragon Palace was gone and Long Bai was dead.

• True Lord Wuluo teleported Su Yuan, Qi Hanyua, and Chen Nuoyi beyond Blue Star before bringing them back near Taihua City.
• True Lord Wuluo revealed the entrance hidden in folded space and led the group into the Dragon King Secret Realm.
• The group found a gigantic True Dragon corpse, and True Lord Wuluo explained that it had been a Nascent Soul Peak Flesh and Blood Magic Treasure refined by a Deity Transformation expert.
• The System identified the corpse as Long Bai and described her cultivation, her Dragon Palace, and how her two elder brothers had protected her.
• The System assigned Su Yuan a mission to spend a night on Long Bai’s Dragon Bed and win her favor, but he realized Long Bai was dead and her Dragon Palace was missing.

Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi entered Long Bai’s Dragon King inheritance assessment, where the first trial asked them to choose between saving a human cultivator and a demon. As both candidates faced the dilemma, Su Yuan tried to use Demonic Art: Finger Beast on Long Bai to learn the examiner’s thoughts.

• Zhu Qingqing identified the Dragon Corpse as Long Bai, and Su Yuan revealed her identity to True Lord Wuluo, Chen Nuoyi, and Qi Hanyua.
• Long Bai appeared as the inheritance spirit, selected Chen Nuoyi as the candidate and Su Yuan as her Dao Protector, and warned them that the assessment had four stages.
• True Lord Wuluo promised to protect Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi before they followed Long Bai into the Dragon Corpse’s mouth.
• Su Yuan’s system map showed that Long Bai’s Sleeping Palace lay inside the Dragon Corpse, and he and Chen Nuoyi reached the first assessment stage.
• Long Bai presented a trial about whether to save a human with a 10% survival chance or a demon with a 90% chance; Chen Nuoyi chose the human.
• Su Yuan decided to use Demonic Art: Finger Beast on Long Bai to discover her thoughts and determine the correct answer.

Su Yuan passed the first round of Purple Gold Dragon Venerable’s inheritance by finding ways to preserve lives and subdue aggressors, while winning Long Bai’s approval with his claims of human-demon equality. Long Bai offered the two test-takers three rewards and explained that one would let them learn about the next round in advance.

• Su Yuan read Long Bai’s thoughts and learned that she disliked blindly favoring humans, so he saved the human cultivator while transforming the Snake Demon into a Blood Snake, raising Long Bai’s favorability.
• Su Yuan persuaded Long Bai that he supported human-demon equality, then helped Chen Nuoyi preserve a dying human’s soul by turning him into a Walking Corpse rather than taking the Fox Demon Emperor’s son’s heart.
• Su Yuan subdued the humans abducting and attacking the Qingqiu Fox Clan, crushed their Demonic Pills, and passed the first round with Long Bai’s approval.
• Long Bai presented three rewards: an incomplete Dragon King Bloodline, a bath in the Dragon Saliva Pool, or advance information about the next round with seven days to prepare.

Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi chose to bathe in the Dragon Saliva Pool, gaining stronger bodies and cultivation while Long Bai withheld details about the next trial. After the pool ran dry, Su Yuan secretly left to pursue a system reward near Long Bai’s bedroom, leaving Chen Nuoyi to stall her.

• Su Yuan ruled out the bloodline and trial-hint rewards, then chose the Dragon Saliva Pool for himself and Chen Nuoyi.
• Long Bai led Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi to the pool and explained that they had to bathe together to use its power fully.
• Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi soaked for ten days, absorbing the Dragon Power and greatly strengthening their cultivation and bodies.
• When the pool cleared, Su Yuan accused Chen Nuoyi of spying on him and asked her to keep Long Bai occupied while he slipped away.
• Long Bai returned to the cave minutes later and asked whether Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi had finished soaking.

Su Yuan sneaked into Long Bai’s Sleeping Palace to complete his mission and discovered her soulless human body resting on the Dragon Bed. He hid beneath the bed when Long Bai’s True Spirit approached, and the system counted the mission as complete.

• Long Bai mistook Chen Nuoyi’s nervous delay for an intimate encounter with Su Yuan and left the cave in disgust.
• Su Yuan followed the mission route through the Dragon Corpse and reached the Sleeping Palace without encountering any defenses.
• Su Yuan forced open the crystal doors and found the palace furnished for a human-sized occupant.
• Su Yuan discovered Long Bai’s physical body on the Dragon Bed and realized it was absorbing power from the Dragon Corpse to develop as a human body.
• As Long Bai’s True Spirit approached, Su Yuan hid under the bed beside her body, and the system announced that he had completed the task progress.

Su Yuan claimed the colorful divine ability Night Raid Must Succeed to escape Long Bai unnoticed and return to the Dragon Saliva Pool. He emerged beside Chen Nuoyi just as Long Bai entered, leaving both girls flustered by his sudden appearance.

• Long Bai wondered whether to leave the Dragon King Secret Realm with Chen Nuoyi and Su Yuan, and whom she should follow as her master.
• After Long Bai left the Sleeping Palace to check on Su Yuan, he claimed Night Raid Must Succeed and learned it granted stealth and spatial movement during a surprise attack.
• Su Yuan pinched Long Bai's Physical Body's cheek, then flew toward the Dragon Saliva Pool while hidden by the divine ability.
• Su Yuan found Long Bai blocking the pool cavern's entrance and used Spatial Thrust to bypass her and reach the pool.
• Long Bai confronted Chen Nuoyi about Su Yuan's absence, but Su Yuan burst from the water beside her and teased Long Bai about watching him bathe.