Chapter Summaries

Su Yuan tried to make Wu Ziying submit rather than turn her into a blood beast or Walking Corpse. After she attempted to kill him, he used Abyssal Spiritual Power to control her, leaving her limp and vacant.

• Su Yuan explained the blood beasts and Walking Corpses to Wu Ziying and offered her a choice between becoming one of them.
• Wu Ziying offered to serve Su Yuan, and he proposed using a secret technique to control her instead.
• Wu Ziying pretended to submit, then tried to kill Su Yuan with her flying sword, but Jin Hao blocked the attack.
• Su Yuan overwhelmed Wu Ziying with Abyssal Spiritual Power until she accepted becoming his subordinate.
• Su Yuan took complete control of Wu Ziying's body and returned her bodily sensitivity to normal, leaving her limp on the ground.

Su Yuan cured Wu Ziying’s poison and turned her into a loyal workhorse, using her to accumulate points in the Placement Exam. As Xiao Kong hunted other examinees to take first place, Su Yuan set his sights on him as his next target.

• Yue Lin and Li Ziquan explained to the school administrators that they had not taught Su Yuan to use his Variant Spiritual Power in such a disturbing way.
• Su Yuan purged Wu Ziying’s corpse poison and cured the Blackstone Flood Dragon venom with an antidote pill, then took her and his blood beasts deeper into the forest.
• Su Yuan had Wu Ziying kill spirit beasts and collect points for him, bringing her score above ten thousand while keeping her cooperative.
• Xiao Kong held first place with twelve thousand points after killing thirteen examinees, and Su Yuan greedily watched his fast-moving dot on the minimap.

Su Yuan sent Wu Ziying and his blood beasts to hunt the remaining candidates while Chen Nuoyi drew attention with her corpse-beast livestream. As Su Yuan hurried to help Wu Ziying, he discovered that the candidate overpowering her was Chu Lanxi, not Xiao Kong.

• Su Yuan deployed his blood beasts and Wu Ziying to surround and kill candidates, rapidly raising Wu Ziying's score.
• Xiao Kong and Chen Nuoyi also killed high-ranking candidates, while the audience watched Su Yuan's blood-beast sweep and Chen Nuoyi's livestream sales pitch.
• Su Yuan saw that his follower count had surged because of Chen Nuoyi's livestream and considered turning corpse- and blood-beast techniques into businesses.
• A blood beast sent Su Yuan a plea for help when Wu Ziying was driven back by a nearby candidate.
• Su Yuan rushed to the battlefield and found Chu Lanxi fighting Wu Ziying.

Su Yuan recruited Chu Lanxi after discovering his powerful hidden constitution, then kept hunting examinees with Chu Lanxi and Wu Ziying. The team continued to build points while Su Yuan satisfied the Crimson Origin Sword’s hunger.

• Chu Lanxi used a hidden constitution to overpower Wu Ziying, but Su Yuan approached him and persuaded him to join the team.
• Su Yuan arranged for most of his future points to go to Wu Ziying and planned for Chu Lanxi to eliminate her before Su Yuan eliminated Chu Lanxi.
• Chu Lanxi warned Su Yuan that his powerful form could last for only three minutes, and Su Yuan considered how much effort a fight between them would take.
• Wu Ziying rushed toward a newly detected examinee, but Su Yuan ordered her not to kill the target so he could handle the next opponent himself.
• Su Yuan killed the captured examinee with the Crimson Origin Sword, reducing its hunger by thirty percent and puzzling Wu Ziying and Chu Lanxi.

Su Yuan received a mission to defeat Xiao Kong by breaking his body, heart, and will, and prepared to face him in the exam’s final circle. He sent Jin Hao’s grotesque walking corpse to attack Xiao Kong, completing the mission’s first step.

• Su Yuan saw that only a few examinees remained and that Xiao Kong was surrounded by opponents on both sides.
• The system assigned Su Yuan the mission “BOSS's First Taste,” requiring him to defeat Xiao Kong three times to earn the demonic technique Finger Body.
• Su Yuan realized the mission required him to break Xiao Kong’s body, heart, and will.
• Xiao Kong challenged his hidden opponents to reveal themselves in the forest.
• Jin Hao’s walking corpse emerged and pleaded with Xiao Kong to save him before attacking on Su Yuan’s signal.
• The mission panel updated Su Yuan’s progress to 1/3 as Xiao Kong raised his sword to fight.

Su Yuan used Jin Hao's Walking Corpse to test Xiao Kong, but Xiao Kong's secret black-fire technique countered its attacks and burned it away. Su Yuan then prepared for Wu Ziying to face Xiao Kong next.

• The System declared that Su Yuan had defeated Xiao Kong's inner turmoil, and Xiao Kong suppressed his doubts before fighting Jin Hao's Walking Corpse.
• Xiao Kong's sword failed to break the Walking Corpse's defenses, though his Yin Fire Meridian's black flames burned its arm.
• Jin Hao's Walking Corpse played messages blaming Su Yuan and urging Xiao Kong to surrender, but Xiao Kong kept searching for a weakness.
• The Walking Corpse's detached head bit Xiao Kong and poisoned him, but Xiao Kong transformed his body into black flames and burned away the toxins.
• Xiao Kong's black flames ignored the Walking Corpse's attacks and burned it from within, leaving Su Yuan to consider sending Wu Ziying into battle next.

Su Yuan forced Wu Ziying to confront Xiao Kong and used her apparent allegiance to break Xiao Kong’s resolve. Wu Ziying then attacked Xiao Kong, revealing that her heightened bodily sensitivity had unexpectedly made her faster and stronger.

• Su Yuan brought the unwilling Wu Ziying out of the forest and told Xiao Kong that she belonged to him.
• Xiao Kong urged Wu Ziying to resist Su Yuan and promised to share the exam points with her, but Su Yuan raised her sensitivity and warned her that Xiao Kong could not win.
• Wu Ziying told Xiao Kong that she could no longer leave Su Yuan, and Su Yuan’s system reported that Xiao Kong’s resolve had been defeated.
• Wu Ziying charged at Xiao Kong, and Su Yuan was surprised when she recovered her footing and moved faster than before.

Su Yuan pushed Wu Ziying's enhanced sensitivity too far, allowing Xiao Kong to kill her and increase his points. Xiao Kong declared his ambition to defeat Su Yuan, who accepted the challenge and said he would beat him himself.

• Wu Ziying used her boosted speed to keep Xiao Kong on the defensive while Su Yuan secretly increased her sensitivity beyond nineteenfold.
• At twentyfold sensitivity, Wu Ziying froze, and Xiao Kong seized the opening to decapitate her, gaining 21,400 points.
• Jin Hao's Walking Corpse burned away, giving Xiao Kong another thousand points and bringing his total to 55,600.
• Xiao Kong declared that he would become True Man Tai Bai's favored student and defeat Su Yuan in the college entrance exam.
• Su Yuan interrupted Xiao Kong's speech and said he would defeat him without sending out Chen Nuoyi or Chu Lanxi.

Su Yuan defeated Xiao Kong with a fused blood beast, then arranged for Chu Lanxi and Chen Nuoyi to kill one another and himself to gain points. The Placement Exam ended with Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi’s heads falling to the Crimson Origin Sword, and Su Yuan reaching 85,100 points.

• Su Yuan fused more than twenty blood beasts into a giant blood leopard, which swallowed Xiao Kong and left him unconscious but alive.
• Su Yuan received the Finger Body demonic technique for defeating Xiao Kong and called Chu Lanxi and Chen Nuoyi out to split the points.
• Chu Lanxi killed Xiao Kong, gaining 56,600 points, then Chen Nuoyi killed Chu Lanxi and gained 62,200 points.
• Su Yuan opened his livestream and promoted it before the Crimson Origin Sword beheaded him and Chen Nuoyi together.
• Su Yuan completed the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword task and finished with 85,100 points as the Placement Exam ended.

After returning from the other world, Su Yuan received a costly new-world quest and claimed a Devil Heart Sword Seed, then recruited Wu Ziying as his thousandth follower. The Placement Exam ended with Su Yuan, Chen Nuoyi, and Chu Lanxi far ahead of the other examinees.

• The Dog System corrected its records and gave Su Yuan the Demonic Descent quest, which required him to bring materials back from the new world.
• Su Yuan considered using Tai Xu Illusion Realm data to fulfill the quest, but rejected the expense of buying a login device and premium membership.
• Su Yuan claimed the Devil Heart Sword Seed reward and learned that his Pure Devil Heart would shape its effects, though he lacked the swordsmanship to use it.
• Su Yuan made Wu Ziying follow his Miaoyin account and watch his livestreams, completing the Primordial quest with 1,000 followers.
• Taihua Tianji announced the Placement Exam rankings, with Su Yuan, Chen Nuoyi, and Chu Lanxi taking the top three spots by a wide margin.

After placing first in the Special Class, Su Yuan celebrated with his friends and returned the next morning to choose rewards with his points. He reserved access to a Heaven's Spiritual Root, chose the Wisdom Sword Mind Method, and learned he could teach it to classmates after mastering it himself.

• Xiao Kong challenged Su Yuan to maintain his standing, promising to surpass him within three days.
• Su Yuan invited Chen Nuoyi, Chu Lanxi, and Wu Ziying to celebrate their exam results at a buffet.
• Taihua Tianji offered the class a chance to redeem points, and Xiao Kong and several classmates chose sessions of his after-class guidance.
• Su Yuan reserved twelve hours of access to a Heaven's Spiritual Root, chose the Wisdom Sword Mind Method, and asked whether he could share it with the class.
• Taihua Tianji said Su Yuan could teach the method after mastering it, and Su Yuan encouraged Chen Nuoyi and Chu Lanxi to save their points.
• Taihua Tianji showed that most rewards could also be purchased with money instead of points.

Taihua Tianji explained the Ten Great Immortal Estates’ Potential Index, which adjusted gaokao scores according to five measures of a student’s abilities. Su Yuan’s index was 1.29, far above Xiao Kong’s 0.67, but Taihua Tianji warned that Su Yuan would need to maintain it at Qi Cultivation Level 9 to have a better-than-even chance of admission.

• Taihua Tianji shared discounted cultivation resources with the Special Class and began the lesson.
• Taihua Tianji explained that the Ten Greats judged applicants by five potential measures and multiplied their gaokao scores by the resulting Potential Index.
• Taihua Tianji showed that Xiao Kong’s Potential Index was 0.67, reducing his 732 exam score to 490.5, and said last year’s admitted students had indexes of at least 0.82.
• Taihua Tianji revealed that Su Yuan’s Potential Index was 1.29, which raised his 650 exam score to 838.5 and stunned the class.
• Taihua Tianji warned Su Yuan that his high physical and martial potential had specific causes and that he needed to maintain his index through Qi Cultivation Level 9.

Taihua Tianji revealed the Special Class students’ Potential Indexes and began their training with the Indestructible Sword Body method. Su Yuan mastered it quickly, then discovered the Wisdom Sword Mind Method could help him prove his true nature by condensing Spiritual Wisdom Sword Qi.

• Su Yuan checked his friends’ Potential Indexes, then asked Taihua Tianji about his own; Taihua Tianji said it had been around 1.68 before his college entrance exam.
• Taihua Tianji explained that the school could not improve the students’ Potential Indexes, but he could, and warned that their special training would be harsh.
• Taihua Tianji gave the class the Indestructible Sword Body method and promised tailored equipment that would improve physical potential without medicinal toxins.
• Su Yuan used his Devil Master title’s boost to memorize the body-tempering method in less than an hour.
• Su Yuan read the Wisdom Sword Mind Method and realized its Spiritual Wisdom Sword Qi could help show that he was pure-hearted, so he decided to cultivate it immediately.

Su Yuan mastered the Wisdom Sword Mind Method and created sword qi whose demonic appearance and overpowering hypnosis effect alarmed his classmates. The system claimed the sword qi revealed Su Yuan’s true, power-hungry nature, leaving him baffled by the accusation.

• Su Yuan quickly mastered the Wisdom Sword Mind Method and formed his own Spiritual Wisdom Sword Qi.
• The Special Class students noticed black smoke rising from Su Yuan, and he insisted his strange-looking sword qi was righteous.
• Taihua Tianji tested Su Yuan’s sword qi, and the dummy briefly knelt to greet him as Sect Leader before giving its report.
• The dummy rated the sword qi’s destructive power A and revealed that it could inflict an S-rank Mind Impact that hypnotized targets into obeying Su Yuan.
• The system declared that Su Yuan was fundamentally evil and wanted to make others generate wealth for him, while Su Yuan protested that he only wanted financial freedom.

Su Yuan tried to sell his classmates lessons in the Wisdom Sword Mind Method, then launched a new livestream service for processing living ingredients. The chapter left him and the Special Class students facing highway cultivation practice arranged by Taihua Tianji.

• Su Yuan revealed that his Devil Heart Sword Seed could fuse his Sword Qi, then reassured his classmates and offered to teach them the Wisdom Sword Mind Method for a fee.
• Su Yuan asked Chen Nuoyi to learn the method properly so she could help teach his future lessons, and he sent it to Chen Nuoyi, Chu Lanxi, and Wu Xingqi.
• Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi delivered takeout, then launched a livestream service to process living ingredients into safer semi-finished products.
• Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi rode the Crimson Origin Sword to meet the Special Class students beside a national highway.
• Taihua Tianji told the students he had arranged for them to practice cultivation on the highway.

Taihua Tianji taught the Special Class the dangerous Great Fortune Cultivation Method by having them train on a highway amid speeding semi-trucks. Su Yuan overcame his fear and used his abilities to turn the truck impacts into an unusually effective body-tempering session.

• Taihua Tianji explained that students would strengthen their bodies by using spiritual energy to cushion collisions with semi-trucks, and Xiao Kong volunteered to demonstrate.
• A truck struck Xiao Kong and sent him flying, but Taihua Tianji rescued him and gave him a healing pill; Xiao Kong insisted the method worked, though the other students backed away.
• Taihua Tianji called on Su Yuan, who flew over the highway on the Crimson Origin Sword before the sword flung him into the traffic.
• Su Yuan narrowly dodged a truck, took a glancing impact through his spiritual-energy airbag, and felt the Indestructible Sword Body strengthen his muscles.
• Su Yuan used Finger Artifact to influence the approaching trucks' angles, letting one truck after another strike different parts of his body as his classmates watched in amazement.

Su Yuan demonstrated his mastery of the Big Rig Training Method and tried to sell lessons to his classmates. After Wu Ziying survived the highway training using the method, the Special Class students rushed to sign up for Su Yuan’s lessons.

• Taihua Tianji wondered whether Su Yuan’s uneven martial arts talent meant he had a special aptitude for demonic cultivation.
• Su Yuan survived being struck by the Hundred-Ton King without injury, leaving the Special Class students amazed by his perfected physical training.
• Xiao Kong rejected Su Yuan’s offer of a ten-thousand lesson, charged into traffic, and was sent flying again after lasting eleven seconds.
• Wu Ziying was knocked down almost immediately, then told Su Yuan she had grown accustomed to the heightened sensitivity from the Tai Xu Illusion Realm.
• Su Yuan threw Wu Ziying into the highway, where she reproduced his technique and took the trucks’ impacts without serious injury.
• The Special Class students crowded around Su Yuan to buy lessons, while Taihua Tianji and Xiao Kong watched.

Su Yuan ran paid Big-Rig Training Method classes for Taihua Tianji’s Special Class, using pills and his upgraded Finger Artifact ability to improve his students’ physical strength while making the work easier for himself. After class, Xiao Kong paid for a lesson, and Wu Ziying asked to owe Su Yuan the fee.

• Su Yuan charged the Special Class students for lessons and trained them by arranging for Hundred-Ton Kings to strike them on the highway.
• He gave the students Blue Pills and takeout meals, and Jin Hao and the others noticed improvements in their physical strength.
• Taihua Tianji realized Su Yuan had built favorability with the Big-Rig Spirit Vehicles by treating them as artifacts.
• Su Yuan upgraded Demonic Cultivation Technique · Finger Artifact and gained the Tribe effect, which let him communicate with and command artifact tribes more easily.
• After two hours, the students finished their training with improved Physical Body ratings, and Taihua Tianji dismissed the class.
• Xiao Kong paid Su Yuan for a lesson, while Wu Ziying asked if she could pay him later.

Su Yuan recruited Wu Ziying as a test subject for his supposed training technique, then used the session to cultivate with his demonic technique. A system mission pushed him toward creating a magic-treasure clan, but instead of Myriad Swords Return to Origin, it assigned him a Myriad Soul Banner and ordered him to collect ten thousand living souls.

• Su Yuan refused Wu Ziying’s request to pay her tuition on credit, then offered her free tutoring in exchange for serving as his test subject.
• Wu Ziying accepted Su Yuan’s offer, and he sent her and the other four people present into forty-five minutes of special training before distributing Blue Pills.
• Chen Nuoyi, Chu Lanxi, and Wu Xingqi paid Su Yuan for their Blue Pills, and the system announced a mission involving a clan of magic treasures.
• Su Yuan considered using his Crimson Origin Sword to cultivate Myriad Swords Return to Origin, but the system noted that Treasure Swords were too expensive for him.
• The system assigned Su Yuan the Myriad Soul Banner Refining Method and ordered him to extract ten thousand living souls to create his first magic-treasure clan.

Su Yuan learned that the Myriad Soul Banner required intelligent living souls, making his system task seem dangerously difficult. After following Xiao Kong into the Tai Xu Illusion Realm, he discovered he could capture souls there and began making progress toward the task.

• Su Yuan learned the Myriad Soul Banner's refining method and found that ordinary animal souls were unsuitable, so he resolved to keep earning money through lessons and livestreaming.
• Xiao Kong told Su Yuan he planned to practice the Great Transport Vehicle cultivation method in the Tai Xu Illusion Realm, prompting Su Yuan to ask to use his Login Pod.
• Xiao Kong let Su Yuan visit his home and use an old Login Pod for one hour, and Su Yuan accepted Xiao Kong's multiplayer invitation.
• Xiao Kong simulated driving on a busy national highway and was run over, allowing Su Yuan to capture his virtual soul and raise his task progress to one.
• Su Yuan found that Xiao Kong's soul vanished when he respawned, then captured the soul of a virtual dummy in Jin Hao's likeness and confirmed that Tai Xu Illusion Realm souls counted toward his task.