Chapter Summaries

Su Yuan defeated Lu Tianqiao by exploiting her vulnerability while she was naked, then enslaved her and extracted her complete Divine Body Sacrificial Artifact Great Law inheritance. He ended the chapter holding the golden Human Pill containing Divine Imperial.

• Su Yuan's Finger Beast: Enslavement ensnared Lu Tianqiao's Sword Spirit, but she escaped when the spirit took the effect in her place.
• Lu Tianqiao announced she would unleash the complete Artifact Refining Department inheritance, Divine Imperial, and began gathering power.
• Chen Nuoyi hurled Su Yuan toward Lu Tianqiao, and he used Night Raid Must Succeed to teleport behind her and stab her with a crimson sword.
• Su Yuan weakened Lu Tianqiao with the sword's draining and poisoning effects, then subdued her and brought her to Zhu Tianqing.
• Su Yuan activated Spirit Enslavement on Lu Tianqiao and extracted her complete inheritance with Finger Spirit: Human Pill, condensing it into a golden pill.

Su Yuan obtained Divine Imperial by extracting Lv Tianqiao’s Spirit Transmutation Inheritance and led his companions to the center of the Eighth Floor. There, he challenged Guo Zhengyi and Jiang Taibai together, provoking them to attack.

• Su Yuan learned that Divine Imperial could extract nearby Heavenly Daos and use them to empower magical treasures after sacrificing life force.
• Su Yuan set out with Chen Nuoyi, Qi Hanyua, and Zhu Tianqing, connecting his path to the Flesh and Blood Carpet as they rushed toward the center of the Eighth Floor.
• Su Yuan’s group found Guo Zhengyi and Jiang Taibai contesting control of the center, while Jiang wondered why Lv Tianqiao had not arrived.
• Su Yuan told Guo Zhengyi and Jiang Taibai he had come to challenge them both, then revealed the weakened Lv Tianqiao and extracted her Divine Imperial inheritance.
• Guo Zhengyi and Jiang Taibai condemned Su Yuan and drove their Flesh and Blood Carpet and Star-Shattering Static Domain toward him.

Su Yuan used Divine Imperial to unleash the Jieyue Pearl and trap Guo Zhengyi and Jiang Taibai, then Chen Nuoyi used the Dragon Emperor Coin to steal their treasures and Su Yuan sealed them inside the blood moon. With the two enemies subdued, Su Yuan considered taking their Spirit Transmutation Inheritance and stealing a nine-story Exquisite Pagoda.

• Su Yuan connected Divine Imperial to the Corpse Mountain Blood Sea and used the Jieyue Pearl to pull Guo Zhengyi and Jiang Taibai into its inner realm, leaving their domains outside.
• Su Yuan deployed the Secret Realm of Severing Heaven to disrupt the two men's cultivation, but Guo Zhengyi and Jiang Taibai used Golden Core Realm treasures to counter its effects.
• Su Yuan gave Chen Nuoyi the Dragon Emperor Coin, and she used it to take every magic treasure from Guo Zhengyi and Jiang Taibai, including their Natal Swords.
• Su Yuan activated Moon Chant and trapped both disarmed men in the blood moon, sealing their cultivation and movement.
• Su Yuan reflected on how Divine Imperial and his magic treasures had enabled his victory, then decided to wait until the captives were unconscious before approaching them for their Spirit Transmutation Inheritance.
• Su Yuan considered using the Dragon Emperor Coin to steal a nine-story Exquisite Pagoda.

Su Yuan planned to seize control of the Nine-Story Pagoda and use its floors to gain an advantage in the Sword Trial Tournament. After capturing everyone on the eighth floor, he extracted Guo Zhengyi’s complete Corrupting Devil Lord inheritance and began examining Jiang Taibai’s inheritance.

• Su Yuan proposed borrowing the Nine-Story Pagoda with Dragon Emperor Coin, and Chen Nuoyi agreed after hearing how he planned to use it to shape the tournament battlefield and raid the other floors.
• Su Yuan explained that he intended to seize opponents’ magical treasures and Spirit Transmutation Inheritances to prepare for Xuan Haoran, while Zhu Tianqing and Qi Hanyua watched to see how far he would go.
• Su Yuan led his team through the eighth floor and captured all its occupants, including Chou Tianze, Zhuo Lixin, and Mu Shouzhen, before anyone outside could learn what had happened.
• Su Yuan returned to Jieyue Space, found Guo Zhengyi and Jiang Taibai nearly overcome by the Jieyue Pearl’s erosion, and extracted Guo Zhengyi’s Human Pill.
• Su Yuan learned that the Corrupting Devil Lord’s complete inheritance could create a spreading Corrupting Divine Kingdom that teleported its master and corrupted intruders into powerful followers.
• Su Yuan extracted Jiang Taibai’s Human Pill and saw that it was the Blessing of Star Shattering Pill.

Su Yuan explained the effects of the completed Divine Abilities, claimed the tower for his team, and began spreading the Corrupting Divine Kingdom. A day later, Black Mud surged into Yang Hong’s carefully prepared arena on the seventh floor.

• Su Yuan gave Chen Nuoyi and Qi Hanyua the Blessing of Star Shattering Pills, kept the Corrupting Divine Kingdom Pill, and promised Zhu Tianqing pills from the Myriad Beast Demonic Sect’s students.
• Su Yuan said he would corrupt and dominate the other School Teams, and Zhu Tianqing agreed to help conquer the remaining floors.
• Su Yuan swallowed the Corrupting Divine Kingdom Pill, turning the Corrupting Fungal Carpet into Black Mud that began spreading across the eighth floor.
• Chen Nuoyi used the Dragon Emperor Coin to temporarily take control of the tower, opening the passages between floors.
• Twenty-four hours later, Yang Hong prepared a seventh-floor arena with extreme gravity, suppressed spiritual energy, and a vacuum, but a flood of Black Mud surged toward him from the eighth floor.

Guo Zhengyi, Jiang Taibai, and Lu Tianqiao overwhelmed and corrupted Yang Hong, revealing that Su Yuan controlled the Corrupting Divine Kingdom. The corruption spread across all eight lower floors, and Su Yuan prepared to target the Ninth Floor.

• Guo Zhengyi attacked Yang Hong with Corrupting Profound Light while Black Mud tendrils restrained them both.
• Jiang Taibai and Lu Tianqiao joined Guo Zhengyi, and their combined attacks broke Yang Hong’s Impervious Golden Body.
• The Black Mud corrupted Yang Hong, who learned that Su Yuan controlled the Corrupting Divine Kingdom.
• The Black Mud overran the Seventh Floor and then corrupted the other seven floors in succession.
• Su Yuan, Chen Nuoyi, Qi Hanyua, and Zhu Tianqing stood on the Eighth Floor’s spiral staircase to the Ninth Floor and inspected the remaining School Team members.

Su Yuan led the Black Mud onto the Ninth Floor, where Star River University's team had prepared a coordinated battlefield. Leng Qianliu countered the invasion with a copied demonic force, and the chapter ended as Su Yuan received a system notice identifying her as one of the five greatest Foundation Establishment Realm devilish talents under heaven.

• Su Yuan opened the Ninth Floor and found Star River University's team working together to build a combat network and prepare the terrain.
• Su Yuan sent the Black Mud into the Ninth Floor, and Chen Nuoyi used the Dragon Emperor Coin to make Tang Jingcheng's base stations and Zhuang Ze's Dao Soldiers vanish.
• The Black Mud corrupted several students before Leng Qianliu summoned seven spiritual-energy base stations and used a scarlet storm to stall and weaken it.
• Leng Qianliu explained that she had analyzed the Black Mud and created a similar force with the All-Knowing Eye, though she could not stop it if it spread.
• Qi Hanyua warned Su Yuan about Leng Qianliu's abilities, and a system notice identified Leng Qianliu as one of the five greatest Foundation Establishment Realm devilish talents under heaven.

Su Yuan’s followers and Chen Nuoyi overwhelmed Star River University’s team, leaving Leng Qianliu as the only defender against the Black Mud. Su Yuan discovered that taking away her glasses disabled her All-Knowing Eye, then learned that using the divine ability had severely damaged her eyesight.

• Su Yuan sent all nineteen followers to attack Leng Qianliu, but she used the All-Knowing Eye and the Ninth Floor’s spiritual energy to counter their techniques and hold the Black Mud back.
• Zhuang Ze and Tang Jingcheng charged Su Yuan, but Chen Nuoyi used Wealth Connects to God to form a False Core and combined it with Blessing of Star Shattering to immobilize them.
• The Black Mud engulfed Zhuang Ze and Tang Jingcheng and turned them into followers of the Corrupting Divine Kingdom, leaving Leng Qianliu alone to defend Star River University.
• Su Yuan used Speedrun Cultivator of Demonic Arts to identify Leng Qianliu’s weakness, borrowed the Dragon Emperor Coin from Chen Nuoyi, and took her glasses through a forced transaction.
• Without her glasses, Leng Qianliu lost the ability to use the All-Knowing Eye and could not defend herself, so Su Yuan stopped the attacks and left her unharmed.
• Qi Hanyua realized that using the All-Knowing Eye had nearly blinded Leng Qianliu and that losing her glasses had crippled her in battle.

Su Yuan defeated Leng Qianliu and recruited her into the Yuan Sect by offering her access to rare Spirit Transmutation knowledge. After taking control of the Ninth Floor and renovating it, he prepared for the Sword Trial Tournament’s main event, Xuan Haoran’s tower challenge.

• Qi Hanyua explained that Leng Qianliu’s All-Knowing Eye could eventually leave her blind and prevent her from advancing to Spirit Transmutation.
• Su Yuan helped Leng Qianliu see without her glasses, then offered her forbidden demonic knowledge and Spirit Pills; she accepted and joined the Yuan Sect.
• Su Yuan gave Leng Qianliu a Spirit Pill containing Xuan Art University’s Spirit Transmutation Inheritance, while Star River University students mistakenly believed he had forced her to submit.
• Su Yuan ordered the Black Mud to consume the Ninth Floor, sparing Leng Qianliu, and organized renovations throughout the tower.
• The fifteen-day deadline passed, and students from all ten immortal academies gathered to watch Xuan Haoran challenge the tower.

As Xuan Haoran began the High Tower challenge, he discovered that Su Yuan’s allies had transformed the first floor into a corrupted landscape and appointed Zhu Tianqing as its guardian. Zhu Tianqing revealed that Su Yuan’s alchemy had given her three complete Spirit Transmutation Inheritances, but Xuan Haoran bypassed her fused beast and declared that he could control other people’s fates.

• Taihua Tianji and the spectators watched as Xuan Haoran approached the tower and a surge of black mud and Corrupting Divine Kingdom energy spilled through its doors.
• Xuan Haoran entered the tower, and the live broadcast showed the first floor covered in black mud, flesh, and tentacles.
• Zhu Tianqing appeared as the first-floor guardian and told Xuan Haoran that the tower no longer belonged to him and that Su Yuan was behind the changes.
• Zhu Tianqing explained that Su Yuan’s special alchemy method had let her temporarily master three complete Spirit Transmutation Inheritances, then fused a hundred corrupted spirit beasts into a powerful monster.
• Xuan Haoran evaded the fused beast’s attacks, reached Zhu Tianqing, and revealed that he could control other people’s fates as well as use Future Foresight.

Xuan Haoran defeated Zhu Tianqing by using his Destined Failure ability, but the Corrupting Divine Kingdom transformed her into a servant and let her escape. As Xuan Haoran prepared to leave, the Nine Extreme Exquisite Pagoda’s power suddenly turned against him, and he suspected Su Yuan had taken control of the tower.

• Zhu Tianqing tried to summon the Breeding Mother Tree, but Xuan Haoran made her Breeding Seed fail and injure her.
• Xuan Haoran used Destined Failure to break apart Zhu Tianqing’s beast fusion, causing her to slip into the Black Mud and accidentally stab herself with her bone sword.
• The Black Mud corrupted Zhu Tianqing, who recovered and teleported away with her spirit beasts.
• The Demon Refining True Lord watched in horror as his daughter was corrupted, while Ye Muyu recognized Xuan Haoran’s growing mastery of Destined Failure.
• A crimson storm swept the Black Mud into a wave that crashed toward Xuan Haoran, who suspected Su Yuan had taken control of the Nine Extreme Exquisite Pagoda.

Xuan Haoran survived the Nine Extreme Exquisite Pagoda’s first floor and faced Qi Hanyua and 159 School Team members on the second. He defeated them without attacking, then climbed toward the third floor, wary of what Su Yuan had prepared.

• Xuan Haoran endured the Black Mud and lightning on the first floor and reached the second floor.
• Qi Hanyua gathered 159 tournament participants to confront Xuan Haoran, including Guo Zhengyi, Yang Hong, and nineteen prodigies with complete Spirit Transmutation Inheritances.
• Xuan Haoran’s Destined Failure made the attackers hit one another, and their weakened condition let him eliminate them without making a single attack.
• After two hours, Xuan Haoran had eliminated all 159 School Team members except Qi Hanyua, whom he left behind as he climbed to the third floor.
• Spectators celebrated Xuan Haoran’s victory and wondered who had corrupted the School Team prodigies and transformed the High Tower.

Xuan Haoran reached the pagoda’s corrupted third floor and discovered that Leng Qianliu controlled its grotesque creations after absorbing twenty-two Spirit Transmutation Inheritances. Leng Qianliu attacked him, and he narrowly avoided a massive trap array’s explosion.

• Xuan Haoran climbed to the third floor despite his instincts warning him of danger, while the livestream showed a horrifying realm filled with Breeding Mother Trees and other corrupted creations.
• The audience recognized the young woman commanding the realm as Leng Qianliu, and True Lord Zhaixing grew furious at her transformation.
• Xuan Haoran confronted Leng Qianliu and sensed that she had built the surrounding horrors and gathered many Dao Seeds within herself.
• Leng Qianliu revealed that she had acquired all twenty-two complete Spirit Transmutation Inheritances and demanded more pills before turning her creations on Xuan Haoran.
• Xuan Haoran dodged the attacking monsters and rushed toward Leng Qianliu, then retreated just before a concealed blood-red array exploded across a thousand-meter area.

Xuan Haoran spread Destined Failure across the battlefield, causing Leng Qianliu’s fortune to collapse, and advanced to finish her. Su Yuan appeared beside Leng Qianliu and revealed he had a counter, as her fortune suddenly surged upward.

• Leng Qianliu unleashed a massive crimson beam at Xuan Haoran, who dodged her attack and a swarm of monsters emerging from Black Mud.
• Xuan Haoran used Destined Failure: The Tide of Fate, spreading its shared-fate effect through the monsters and Breeding Mother Trees.
• The effect reached Leng Qianliu, whose fortune plummeted as Xuan Haoran approached and prepared to strike.
• Leng Qianliu asked whether Su Yuan could turn Xuan Haoran’s divine ability into a pill, and Xuan Haoran denied that it could be extracted.
• Su Yuan teleported beside Leng Qianliu and told Xuan Haoran he had a way to counter Destined Failure and a Dharma Protector Heavenly King.
• Leng Qianliu’s fortune abruptly surged upward, shocking Xuan Haoran.

Su Yuan used the Yuan Sect's fortune to break Xuan Haoran's Destined Failure and force him into a humiliating choice. Xuan Haoran agreed to join the sect under pressure, but refused to sign Su Yuan's contract, and Su Yuan began tormenting him again.

• Su Yuan gave Leng Qianliu two hundred points of sect fortune, weakening Xuan Haoran's Destined Failure until its backlash left him with rock-bottom fortune.
• Xuan Haoran sat motionless on the Black Mud and secretly asked Su Yuan to let him leave with dignity, but Su Yuan offered him a place as the foremost of the Yuan Sect's Four Heavenly Kings instead.
• After Xuan Haoran refused to join, Su Yuan's tentacle tore his pants, leaving him afraid to stand before the cameras.
• Su Yuan threatened further humiliation, and Xuan Haoran agreed to join the Yuan Sect, but Su Yuan then handed him a ten-year contract with strict terms.
• Xuan Haoran refused to sign and declared he would rather die than submit, so Su Yuan sent Black Mud oozing through the tear in his pants.

After winning the Sword Trial Tournament, Su Yuan brought Xuan Haoran and the other finalists out of the tower, having forced Xuan Haoran to sign a contract under threat. True Lord Wuluo invited them to join a Secret Cultivation Plan, and the chapter ended with Chen Nuoyi and Qi Hanyua asking what the plan involved.

• Su Yuan and Xuan Haoran pretended before the audience that Xuan Haoran had recruited Su Yuan, while Xuan Haoran secretly feared the contract and the threats behind it.
• Su Yuan teleported Xuan Haoran, Leng Qianliu, Chen Nuoyi, Qi Hanyua, and Zhu Tianqing to the High Tower entrance, ending the tournament.
• True Lord Wuluo announced that the five winners and Xuan Haoran could join the Secret Cultivation Plan without taking its entrance test.
• Leng Qianliu told her father, True Lord Zhaixing, that she would follow Su Yuan because he supplied pills that eased her Addiction to Knowledge.
• Aboard the Flying Boat, Xuan Haoran admitted he was convinced, and True Lord Wuluo praised Su Yuan before Chen Nuoyi and Qi Hanyua asked about the plan.

True Lord Wuluo explained the Mai Gou Plan, which would send Su Yuan and five other young cultivators to infiltrate the Tianluo World and ascend to its Immortal World to identify Ancient Spirit Transmutation cultivators. The group agreed to join after hearing the possible rewards, and True Lord Wuluo began outlining their preparations while warning that spies might be hidden among them.

• True Lord Wuluo explained that the Ten Great Immortal Sects planned to infiltrate the Tianluo World, locate its Immortal World, and help the Ten Great Heavenly Lords capture the Ancient Spirit Transmutation cultivators there.
• True Lord Wuluo said the infiltrators had to enter while still at Foundation Establishment and form their Golden Cores in the Tianluo World to conceal their origins from Spirit Transmutation cultivators.
• Su Yuan initially refused, but he agreed after hearing that the pioneers could develop the Yuan Sect and claim opportunities in the Tianluo World; Chen Nuoyi, Qi Hanyua, Zhu Tianqing, Leng Qianliu, and Xuan Haoran also joined, though Xuan Haoran objected.
• True Lord Wuluo assigned the group to learn the Tianluo World's language and culture, master a Spirit Transmutation Inheritance, and gradually disappear from public view.
• True Lord Wuluo warned that spies from the Tianluo World and other Main Worlds might be hiding among the Blue Star Federation's people.

Su Yuan completed the task to recruit nine King's Aide Devils when Chu Lanxi's Devil Index crossed the threshold, then claimed the reward and raised his Abyss Dharma Vein to Prismatic Grade. The new abilities gave him greater cultivation speed and powers to stir desires and implant corrupting knowledge in others.

• Su Yuan left the Flying Boat with his followers, avoided True Lord Zhaixing, and showed Leng Qianliu and Xuan Haoran around the Yuan Sect.
• Su Yuan reviewed his completed task to defeat the world's top five Foundation Establishment Devilish Talents and noted that his Flower of Ultimate Evil task was nearly complete.
• Su Yuan discovered that Chu Lanxi had raised his King's Aide Devil Index above ten thousand, completing the nine-devil task.
• Su Yuan asked Chen Nuoyi to lead a meeting at a Yuan Sect factory, returned to his dorm, and claimed the reward to max out his Abyss Dharma Vein.
• Su Yuan saw that his Abyss Dharma Vein had become Prismatic Grade, gaining the abilities Desire Release and Abyssal Whisper.

After completing the Corrupting Divine Kingdom, Su Yuan was sent ahead of the other Mai Gou Plan agents to infiltrate the Tianluo World by taking the place of a young cultivator ascending from one of its subordinate worlds. He arrived aboard the Guanyu Ship and saw the Tianluo World for the first time.

• Su Yuan fused the three stages of the Spirit Transmutation Inheritance to create the Corrupting Divine Kingdom, gaining the ability to spread hidden Corrupting Spores across a vast area.
• Taihua Tianji told Su Yuan that he would leave early to replace a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivator ascending to the Tianluo World’s Main World, and Su Yuan agreed to depart immediately.
• True Lord Wuluo gave Su Yuan a mask that could change his appearance and soul aura, then sent him through a long-distance teleportation array.
• Su Yuan arrived aboard the Guanyu Ship, where Captain Zhang welcomed him and showed him the stealth vessel’s facilities and forces.
• Su Yuan viewed the Tianluo World from the ship’s observation hall and saw it drawing resources from the worlds beneath it.

Su Yuan and Captain Zhang intercepted Su Youlin during his ascent so Su Yuan could impersonate him in the Tianluo Main World. Su Yuan killed and interrogated Su Youlin, then reviewed the information he needed before taking his place.

• Captain Zhang explained that Su Youlin was a notorious commoner genius from the Cold Plum World and outlined the plan to seize him during his ascent.
• The Guanyu Ship infiltrated the Ascension Path, and Captain Zhang replaced Su Youlin with a prepared puppet as he brought the real target aboard.
• Su Youlin recognized Su Yuan and Captain Zhang as Outer Realm Heavenly Devils, but Su Yuan used Corrupting Profound Light to kill him and sent his soul into the Myriad Soul Banner for interrogation.
• Su Yuan's methods astonished Captain Zhang as the interrogation quickly revealed Su Youlin's life, personality, skills, and plans after ascending.