Chapter Summaries

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.

Su Yuan forced Chen Xian to gather intelligence on the Guantian Pavilion and gained the Heaven-Deceiving Constitution, which made him difficult to track through divination. As Su Yuan prepared to leave, Chen Xian warned him that becoming the Chen Family's live-in son-in-law would not be easy.

• Su Yuan threatened Chen Xian into working for him and ordered him to report intelligence about the Guantian Pavilion.
• Chen Xian agreed to gather information but refused to help Su Yuan pursue the young lady or do anything that could jeopardize his exams.
• Su Yuan claimed the system reward and obtained the Heaven-Deceiving Constitution, which resisted divination and the Guantian Pavilion's big-data surveillance.
• Chen Xian said Su Yuan's aura had changed and that Guantian Pavilion divination could no longer locate or predict him.
• As Su Yuan left with Bai Ling, Chen Xian warned him to give up on the young lady because becoming the Chen Family's live-in son-in-law would be difficult.

Chen Xian explained that the Chen Family’s bloodline gave its descendants great power but caused them to die young, and Su Yuan rejected Chen Xian’s plan to marry Chen Nuoyi for her family’s fortune. Su Yuan resolved to find a way to save Chen Nuoyi, then learned that her birthday was the next day.

• Chen Xian told Su Yuan that the Chen Family’s unstable bloodline made its descendants die young and that this was why the family relied on live-in sons-in-law.
• Su Yuan accused Chen Xian of wanting Chen Nuoyi and her family’s estate, warned him not to use her for advancement, and left the training grounds.
• Su Yuan worried about Chen Nuoyi’s approaching bloodline awakening and considered using his cultivation methods to keep her alive if he could not cure it.
• The next day, Su Yuan asked Chen Nuoyi when her birthday was, and she revealed that it was tomorrow.

Su Yuan discovered that the Chen Family planned to suppress Chen Nuoyi’s bloodline and keep her confined in exchange for eternal life, rather than let her awaken it. Chen Nuoyi rejected the plan and chose to pursue cultivation, while Su Yuan protected her from Butler Zheng and tried to leave with her in the family’s Flying Boat.

• Su Yuan learned that Chen Nuoyi’s bloodline awakening could be dangerous and arranged a birthday celebration with her friends before it.
• Butler Zheng arrived in a Mai Ba He to take Chen Nuoyi home, claiming the Chen Family would help her awaken her bloodline.
• Su Yuan received a warning from Chen Xian, used Finger Command, and realized the Chen Family intended to suppress Chen Nuoyi’s bloodline and grant her eternal life.
• Chen Nuoyi rejected the family’s plan, choosing to pursue immortality and break the bloodline’s restrictions despite the failures of her mother and grandmother.
• Su Yuan stood by Chen Nuoyi, and Bai Ling wounded Butler Zheng when he tried to take her by force.
• Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi boarded the Mai Ba He, but Su Yuan realized he might not have a license to pilot it.

Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi fled north in Mai Ba He while the Chen Family pursued them. Su Yuan disabled an enemy Flying Boat with his banner, sending it crashing toward the ground.

• Su Yuan activated Mai Ba He's flight attendant and ordered the Flying Boat to head north at full speed.
• Chen Nuoyi told Su Yuan that her bloodline might awaken around three in the morning, and he warned her not to force it.
• The Chen Family's Flying Boats caught up to Mai Ba He in the rain, and Su Yuan realized they had followed their route out of the city.
• Su Yuan ordered Mai Ba He to move alongside the pursuing Flying Boat and confronted a Chen Family bodyguard who demanded that he release Chen Nuoyi.
• Su Yuan shook his banner at the enemy Flying Boat, causing its systems to fail and the craft to plummet toward the ground.

Su Yuan escaped Taihua City with Chen Nuoyi and recruited Yin Qiyue, Li Zhengxing, and Chen Xian to help evade the Chen Family, but Chen Yifeng pursued them in person. Su Yuan raced toward Jinhua Mountain for help, only for Chen Yifeng to stop Mai Ba He effortlessly just before it reached safety.

• Su Yuan disabled three Chen Family Flying Boats, escaped the city with Chen Nuoyi, and contacted Yin Qiyue, Li Zhengxing, and Chen Xian for help.
• Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi hid in the mountains while Chen Xian relayed the Chen Family’s pursuit; at midnight, Chen Nuoyi thanked Su Yuan for her birthday and resolved to awaken her bloodline.
• Yin Qiyue reported that Chen Yifeng had left the estate to pursue them, and Li Zhengxing could not persuade him to stop.
• Taihua Yu Xi told Su Yuan to head for Jinhua Mountain, where Ye Muyu could contact her father and seek his protection for them.
• Su Yuan overclocked Mai Ba He and rushed toward Jinhua Mountain, but Chen Yifeng appeared in their path and halted the Flying Boat with overwhelming force.

Chen Yifeng tried to take Chen Nuoyi back to the Chen Family and suppress her bloodline, but Su Yuan resisted and Chen Nuoyi’s father arrived to hold Chen Yifeng off. He gave Su Yuan one minute to escape with Chen Nuoyi, entrusting her future to him.

• Chen Yifeng explained that he planned to suppress Chen Nuoyi’s bloodline and force her to marry Chen Xian to preserve the Chen Family.
• Su Yuan took Chen Nuoyi’s hand and refused to let Chen Yifeng take her without a fight.
• Chen Yifeng used his power to pull Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi out of the Flying Boat, but a sword strike interrupted him.
• Chen Nuoyi recognized the disheveled swordsman who arrived as her father.
• Chen Nuoyi’s father told Su Yuan he could hold Chen Yifeng off for one minute and urged him to take Chen Nuoyi and flee.

Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi fled toward the Jinhua Mountain Secret Realm while Chen Yifeng and Chen Liangchen revealed their confrontation had been staged to test Su Yuan. At the secret realm entrance, guards tried to turn Su Yuan away, so he claimed he had come to see Ye Muyu.

• Su Yuan took Chen Nuoyi away on the Crimson Origin Sword, leaving Chen Yifeng and Chen Liangchen behind.
• Chen Yifeng and Chen Liangchen revealed they had staged the confrontation, and Chen Yifeng said he was willing to entrust Nuoyi's future to Su Yuan.
• Chen Yifeng told Chen Liangchen he had settled the debt hanging over him and urged him to return to the Chen Family, but Chen Liangchen refused to decide until Nuoyi entered college.
• Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi reached Jinhua Mountain Town, where guards tried to stop them after explaining True Man Tai Bai had ordered them to turn Su Yuan away.
• Su Yuan spotted Ye Muyu behind the gate and claimed he had come to see her instead.

Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi sought refuge at Jinhua Mountain Town so Chen Nuoyi could awaken her bloodline under Ye Muyu’s supervision. While she began communing with it, Su Yuan learned that Taihua Tianji was trapped in the secret realm and that its ruins belonged to an ancient demonic sect, prompting the system to issue him new quests.

• Ye Muyu let Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi into Jinhua Mountain Town, and they explained that the Chen Family intended to seal Chen Nuoyi’s bloodline.
• Ye Muyu agreed to watch over Chen Nuoyi as she prepared to awaken her bloodline, and Su Yuan learned that Taihua Tianji had been trapped inside the secret realm for twenty-four hours.
• Ye Muyu said she would lead a rescue team at five in the morning and reassured Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi that Taihua Tianji was not in serious danger.
• Chen Nuoyi began communing with her bloodline in the pavilion while Su Yuan watched over her and noticed a chilling cavern in the mountain ruins.
• The system identified the ruins as Zhu Yan Bai Gu Guan, a demonic sect from the Ancient Cultivation World, and updated Su Yuan’s quests to challenge the sect and rescue Taihua Tianji.

Su Yuan watched Chen Nuoyi awaken her True Dragon bloodline, then asked Ye Muyu to let him join the rescue team entering Jinhua Mountain Secret Realm. Ye Muyu demanded a reason for his inclusion, and Su Yuan revealed he knew the ancient ruins inside were Zhu Yan Bai Gu Guan.

• Su Yuan saw Chen Nuoyi's fate change to Dragon Transformation and watched her transform into a dragon-like state.
• Chen Nuoyi attacked Ye Muyu while berserk, but awakened dragon qi, which Ye Muyu identified as one of the True Dragon's Nine Arts.
• Chen Nuoyi's transformation ended, and she ate the food Su Yuan had prepared as her strength rapidly increased.
• Su Yuan asked Ye Muyu to let him join the rescue team, first claiming he wanted to save Tai Bai, then admitting he wanted benefits and a recommendation letter.
• Su Yuan told Ye Muyu that documents suggested the secret realm's ancient sect ruins were Zhu Yan Bai Gu Guan.

Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi joined Ye Muyu’s rescue team as they entered the Jinhua Mountain Secret Realm to search for Taihua Tianji. After discovering the ruins of Zhu Yan Bai Gu Guan, Su Yuan found that the team’s strict archaeological rules made his system’s supposed easy missions look much harder.

• Ye Muyu supplied Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi with clerical-staff gear and brought them along to scout the secret realm’s perimeter.
• Captain Wang assembled the twenty-five-member rescue team and led them into the frigid cavern before dawn.
• Su Yuan learned that the Jinhua Mountain Secret Realm could be a Living Secret Realm and recognized the dangers it might hold.
• The team emerged into the Folded Space and saw the ruins of Zhu Yan Bai Gu Guan spread across a mountain.
• Su Yuan nearly kicked down the Mountain Gate, but Captain Wang warned the team not to damage the archaeological relics, leaving Su Yuan to question his system’s missions.