Chapter Summaries

After fleeing from a mysterious young man, Qin Shaofeng was pursued by a team that mistook his rapid movement for a sign of weakness. He swiftly killed the team, leaving their captain to realize too late that Qin Shaofeng was the dangerous holder of the Bronze Light.

• Qin Shaofeng rested far from Cloud Sparrow Peak and wondered who the young man who recognized him had been.
• The young man, revealed to be a Thousand Mountain Sect disciple, took credit for securing his little sister a Preparatory Camp disciple slot.
• Qiuqiu warned Qin Shaofeng that pursuers had caught up, as hunters assumed his hour-long flight meant he was injured or had lost his allies.
• A captain led his remaining eleven subordinates toward Qin Shaofeng, believing they had found a chance to seize the Bronze Tier Thousand Mountain Token.
• One of the captain's companions charged Qin Shaofeng, who killed him with Silver Light Saber Aura and then struck down the ten Legend Realm Ninth Layer subordinates with lightning from his greatsword.
• The captain realized Qin Shaofeng was the source of his danger and died recognizing his strength.

Qin Shaofeng lured a large pursuing group into a Maze Array and slaughtered them, but narrowly missed reaching Legend Realm Tenth Level. He found seven ten-year Cloud Spirit Grass before Lian Yufeng and her group appeared.

• Qin Shaofeng fled from several groups pursuing the Bronze Tier Thousand Mountain Token after killing twelve pursuers and collecting their spoils.
• Qin Shaofeng set up a Maze Array with thirty-six Low-grade Spirit Stones and waited for thirty to fifty pursuers to enter it.
• Qin Shaofeng killed the pursuers outside the array, then released and attacked the trapped groups until he had wiped them out.
• Qin Shaofeng found that he had 8,970,900 Experience Points, just short of the amount needed to reach Legend Realm Tenth Level.
• Qin Shaofeng inspected the leader's Storage Ring and found seven stalks of ten-year Cloud Spirit Grass.
• Lian Yufeng arrived with twenty or thirty people, and Qin Shaofeng recognized her as Lianyang Kingdom's Little Princess.

Little Princess Lian Yufeng found Qin Shaofeng holding the Thousand Mountain Token and considered whether to recruit him, but Lian Chengjiang attacked him instead. Qin Shaofeng shattered Lian Chengjiang’s strongest technique, and Lian Yufeng intervened—only to find Lian Chengjiang mortally wounded.

• Lian Yufeng arrived with more than twenty Lianyang Kingdom disciples and was shocked to learn Qin Shaofeng had triggered the first Bronze Light.
• Qin Shaofeng asked whether Lian Yufeng had come for his Thousand Mountain Token, while she hesitated over whether to subdue him.
• Lian Chengjiang stepped forward, mistook Lian Yufeng’s silence for permission, and attacked Qin Shaofeng with Blazing Fist.
• Qin Shaofeng cut apart Lian Chengjiang’s Blazing Fist and vanished from view, prompting Lian Yufeng to sense his killing intent.
• Lian Yufeng intercepted Qin Shaofeng with a palm strike, then saw a bloody hole between Lian Chengjiang’s brows as his aura faded.

After Qin Shaofeng killed Lian Chengjiang, he reached Legend Realm Tenth Level and confronted Lian Yufeng’s group. Lian Yufeng chose to withdraw rather than risk a fight, and Qin Shaofeng set off to find a safe place to advance further.

• Qin Shaofeng killed Lian Chengjiang and gained enough Experience Points to reach Legend Realm Tenth Level.
• Lian Yufeng accused Qin Shaofeng of killing her clansman, but Qin Shaofeng argued that Lian Chengjiang had attacked him first.
• Lian Yuhu ordered the group to attack Qin Shaofeng, whose powerful aura made them hesitate.
• Lian Yufeng stopped the attack, acknowledged that Lian Chengjiang had brought his death upon himself, and warned Qin Shaofeng she would settle the score in the Preparatory Camp.
• Lian Yufeng and her group departed, and Qin Shaofeng decided to find a safe place to use his Cloud Spirit Grass and raise his cultivation to the peak of the Legend Realm.

Qin Shaofeng reached the peak of the Legend Realm and triggered a seven-day Extreme Kill mission, then decided to pursue its ten-star reward by killing five hundred Legend Realm Tenth Level experts. He lured a group from the arrays he had prepared and slaughtered them, beginning his push toward the mission goal.

• Qin Shaofeng used Ascension Origin Pills and Cloud Spirit Grass to reach the Legend Realm peak, raising his Spiritual Qi Value to ten million.
• Qin Shaofeng read the Extreme Kill mission requirements and chose to pursue ten-star completion by killing five hundred Legend Realm Tenth Level experts within seven days.
• Qin Shaofeng opened a gap in his linked Maze and Illusion Arrays, drawing more than twenty He Family members toward him.
• Qin Shaofeng attacked with Heavy Sword Without Edge and Chidori Stream, killing the squad and leaving its captain dead.
• Qin Shaofeng turned toward the arrays, ready to continue his Extreme Upgrade mission.

Qin Shaofeng lured his pursuers into believing he was nearly defeated, then spent the night laying a massive illusion-array trap. As groups began entering it, Qiuqiu kept watch while Qin Shaofeng slept, and the first squad realized too late that they had stepped into an array.

• After his arrays killed hundreds, Qin Shaofeng staged scattered corpses and chaotic battlefields over two days to make his pursuers think he was exhausted and fleeing.
• When Qiuqiu reported that pursuers were converging, Qin Shaofeng decided to spring his trap and built a Minor Heavenly Cycle Illusion Array with Maze Arrays inside it.
• Qin Shaofeng then set up a wide Super Illusion Array nearby, spending the points he had accumulated on more Low-grade Spirit Stones.
• Qin Shaofeng slept on a couch inside the Super Illusion Array while Qiuqiu watched over him with his Perception Domain.
• A squad of more than a dozen people entered the illusion array, but its young leader persuaded them that Qin Shaofeng was too weak to do more than delay them.
• More groups entered the array, and Qiuqiu recognized the first arrivals as fish caught in Qin Shaofeng's net.

Qin Shaofeng lured hundreds of pursuers away from his first illusion array and trapped them in a more powerful advanced illusion array. The crowd realized they had been caught in his trap, but it was already too late.

• More than five hundred pursuers agreed to attack Qin Shaofeng’s illusion array, and their bombardment made him wake up.
• Qin Shaofeng moved to draw the pursuers away while Qiuqiu transferred the people trapped inside the first array to safety.
• The first illusion array vanished, revealing Qin Shaofeng fleeing in blue light, and more than eight hundred people chased after him.
• Qin Shaofeng slowed down near his destination and lured the crowd past oddly positioned trees while Qiuqiu checked that nearly everyone had entered the area.
• Qin Shaofeng stopped, formed hand seals, and activated an advanced illusion array that transformed the forest into a desert and trapped his pursuers.

Qin Shaofeng used the Minor Heavenly Cycle Illusion Array to isolate and slaughter the trapped cultivators, racing against the array’s dwindling power. He faced the remaining Legend Realm Tenth Level experts after killing nearly everyone else, with only minutes left before the array might fail.

• Qin Shaofeng split the trapped crowd into thirty-six regions and killed the Legend Realm Eighth Layer cultivators in them.
• As the captives attacked the array and its spirit stones drained, Qin Shaofeng began killing the Legend Realm Ninth Layer cultivators with his stronger techniques.
• Qin Shaofeng slaughtered all the Legend Realm Ninth Layer cultivators and killed more than a hundred Legend Realm Tenth Level experts.
• Qin Shaofeng gathered the remaining one hundred seventy or eighty Legend Realm Tenth Level experts together as the array had only seven or eight minutes left.
• The remaining experts realized that nearly everyone else trapped in the array had likely been killed.

Qin Shaofeng used Amaterasu inside the Minor Heavenly Cycle Illusion Array to burn through a crowd of geniuses, but the effort left him badly injured and unable to stop the last three survivors from escaping.

• The gathered geniuses agreed to kill Qin Shaofeng and contest for his Bronze Tier Thousand Mountain Token.
• Qin Shaofeng activated Amaterasu, and black flames spread through the crowd while the illusion array prevented them from reaching him.
• The geniuses' Inner Qi Walls drained their spiritual qi, and many burned to death as Qin Shaofeng swallowed pills to sustain the flames.
• The Minor Heavenly Cycle Illusion Array collapsed when nine survivors remained, and three were burned as they tried to flee.
• Qin Shaofeng struck three more survivors with Silver Light Saber Aura, but Amaterasu stopped as he collapsed, allowing the final three to escape.

After surviving a battle against hundreds of pursuers, Qin Shaofeng evolved his Sharingan into the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan and escaped before the Fire Cloud Sparrows arrived. As rumors spread about his victory, Lian Yufeng exposed his identity, making Qin Shaofeng's name known throughout the assessment.

• Qin Shaofeng upgraded his Sharingan to Level 5, evolved it into the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, and regained his sight.
• Qin Shaofeng accepted the brutal rules of the strong and collected the spoils from the battlefield before fleeing.
• The Fire Cloud Sparrows reached the battlefield after Qin Shaofeng had escaped, while news of the three surviving pursuers' defeat spread.
• People who saw the corpses began believing that Qin Shaofeng had defeated more than a thousand pursuers, including hundreds of experts above the Legend Realm Tenth Level.
• Lian Yufeng recognized Qin Shaofeng as a potential rival and arranged for his identity as the first person to trigger the Bronze Light to be revealed.

After his Sharingan evolved into the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, Qin Shaofeng examined its new abilities and tested Tsukuyomi and Susanoo. He learned that the techniques were powerful but costly, and left eager to see how they would improve once he reached the Lesser Origin Core Realm.

• Qin Shaofeng examined his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan and found that Amaterasu had become stronger, Copy had gained a second slot, and the ocular techniques no longer had side effects.
• Qin Shaofeng tested Tsukuyomi, discovering that opening its space and sustaining it each cost one million Spiritual Qi Value per minute of its internal time.
• Qin Shaofeng spent most of his spiritual qi shaping the Tsukuyomi Space, then returned to the forest and found that barely any time had passed outside.
• Qin Shaofeng learned that Susanoo’s Initial Form cost ten million Spiritual Qi Value per second, while its First Form was currently unavailable.
• Qin Shaofeng tested Susanoo’s Initial Form and, after Qiuqiu described its defensive strength, took the ability seriously and considered how it might improve in the Lesser Origin Core Realm.

Qin Shaofeng completed his Extreme Upgrade Mission with ten-star completion after killing five hundred Legend Realm Tenth Level experts, and the system rewarded him with the Northern Darkness Divine Skill. He discovered that the skill rapidly absorbed spiritual energy, while Qiuqiu pointed out that it could also accelerate Zhao Yun'er's Star Realm cultivation.

• Qin Shaofeng practiced Tsukuyomi on his pursuers and learned that most hunters were withdrawing from Cloud Sparrow Peak after discovering the victims he had buried alive.
• Qin Shaofeng learned that his identity had been exposed and suspected Lian Yufeng of revealing it, worrying that Zhao Yun'er and the others would face trouble.
• Qin Shaofeng killed enough remaining pursuers to reach five hundred Legend Realm Tenth Level kills and completed the Extreme Upgrade Mission at ten-star completion.
• The system awarded Qin Shaofeng five million points, three Normal Draw Chances, one Special Draw Chance, two level increases, and the God-grade Northern Darkness Divine Skill.
• Qin Shaofeng tested the Northern Darkness Divine Skill and absorbed all the spiritual energy from a Low-grade Spirit Stone in under a minute.
• Qiuqiu told Qin Shaofeng that the skill could greatly speed up Zhao Yun'er's cultivation of Star Realm.

Qin Shaofeng upgraded the Northern Darkness Divine Skill, kept his Bronze Tier Thousand Mountain Token, and set out to find Yun'er and the others. After failing to locate them, he encountered Luo Chaokun near Ninetieth Peak.

• Qin Shaofeng upgraded the Northern Darkness Divine Skill to Level 4 and decided to save his remaining Skill Proficiency points and delay his breakthrough until entering the Preparatory Camp.
• When the Bronze Light vanished, Qin Shaofeng kept his token and planned to gather enough Rankless Thousand Mountain Tokens to help Yun'er and the other two obtain Bronze Tier tokens.
• Qin Shaofeng suspected Cloud Sparrow Peak held a secret that had kept powerful geniuses away, while a fiery creature at its summit wondered about Qin Shaofeng's bloodline and resolved to leave the Thousand Mountain Sect.
• Qin Shaofeng searched the peaks from Ninety-first Peak through Ninety-eighth Peak but found no sign of Yun'er and the others, so he headed back toward Ninetieth Peak.
• Near the border of Ninetieth Peak, Qin Shaofeng encountered Luo Chaokun, who had secretly placed a bounty on him.

Qin Shaofeng encountered Luo Chaokun and his monstrous older brother Luo Tian, who demanded Qin’s Bronze Tier Thousand Mountain Token. Qin killed Luo Tian and the rest of the Luo group with Tsukuyomi, then left as he considered the technique’s heavy Spiritual Qi cost, setting the stage for the Luo family’s revenge.

• Luo Chaokun recognized Qin Shaofeng, while his companion identified himself as Luo Tian and demanded Qin’s token so he could enter the Preparatory Camp.
• Qin Shaofeng saw that Luo Tian had thirty million Spiritual Qi points but dismissed his strength and provoked him into attacking.
• Qin Shaofeng used Tsukuyomi to trap Luo Tian, killing him and leaving Luo Chaokun and the rest of their group dead as well.
• Qin Shaofeng took the group’s storage rings and reflected that Tsukuyomi had consumed ten million Spiritual Qi points against Luo Tian.
• Qin Shaofeng walked away, unaware that Luo Tian’s death would likely bring the Luo family’s retaliation.

Qin Shaofeng returned to the Ninetieth Peak and reunited with Zhao Yun'er, Du Meng, Tang Qijian, and their War Beasts, who had been forced into hiding by enemies seeking revenge on him. After learning what they had endured, he helped the group reach the peak of the Legend Realm in three days, and they prepared to strike back.

• Zhao Yun'er stopped Du Meng from confronting the people guarding the cave and urged him and Tang Qijian to cultivate while their enemies watched the Ninetieth Peak.
• Qin Shaofeng learned that his enemies had attacked and pursued Zhao Yun'er and the others, and he set off to find them after sensing Tiger Lord nearby.
• Qin Shaofeng reunited with Zhao Yun'er, Du Meng, and Tang Qijian, then heard Zhao Yun'er describe their recent hardships.
• Du Meng, Tang Qijian, Tiger Lord, Little Wolf, and Big Meng agreed that they wanted revenge, and Qin Shaofeng promised they would soon strike back.
• Over the next three days, Qin Shaofeng used Low-grade Spirit Stones and Experience Fruit to raise the group to the peak of the Legend Realm, while Du Meng and Tang Qijian advanced their Yi Jin Jing to level 2.

Qin Shaofeng assessed how much Zhao Yun'er, Du Meng, Tang Qijian, and Tiger Lord had grown, then secretly followed Zhao Yun'er and the others as they set out toward Hundredth Peak. He planned to turn the crowds targeting them for Thousand Mountain Tokens into prey and make an example of anyone who attacked him.

• Qin Shaofeng found that Tang Qijian's Sword Heart made him highly resistant to Tsukuyomi, while Du Meng was vulnerable to it but recovered his Mental Power rapidly.
• Tiger Lord refused to fuse with the Super Demon Chess Piece until Qin Shaofeng entered Thousand Mountain Sect, and Qin Shaofeng agreed to let it fight alongside the others.
• Zhao Yun'er gained the Northern Darkness Divine Skill, and her Star Realm, Star Power, and Star Armor made her powerful enough to resist Qin Shaofeng's Tsukuyomi and Amaterasu.
• With about half a month left in the Sect Entry Assessment, Zhao Yun'er and the other two left Ninetieth Peak, drawing the attention of people hoping to capture them and seize Qin Shaofeng's Thousand Mountain Tokens.
• Qin Shaofeng followed the group in secret, expecting the people pursuing them to provide experience for his Experience Tree and deciding to wipe out those who targeted him.

Zhao Yun'er, Du Meng, Tang Qijian, and their beasts drew hundreds of pursuers into Qin Shaofeng's Minor Heavenly Cycle Illusion Array, where Qin Shaofeng prepared to harvest their Experience Points. Before he could begin, a Thousand Mountain Sect expert intervened and teleported Qin Shaofeng and his companions away.

• A young master sent his men after Zhao Yun'er, but Chen Lao San attacked first and was knocked unconscious by Du Meng as his squad was defeated.
• Du Meng, Tang Qijian, Tiger Lord, and Zhao Yun'er fought off waves of pursuers, leaving them alive for Qin Shaofeng to finish off.
• Qin Shaofeng completed the Minor Heavenly Cycle Illusion Array, trapping hundreds of pursuers and appearing before them with two fivefold Bonus Cards.
• As Qin Shaofeng prepared to add Experience Points to his Experience Tree, Qiuqiu warned him that an expert close to the Saint Realm had arrived.
• A Thousand Mountain Sect overseer told Qin Shaofeng to stop killing, then teleported him, Zhao Yun'er, and the others away.

Qin Shaofeng and his companions reached the final assessment site, where Xie Zijun explained that Qin could use his Bronze Tier Thousand Mountain Token to grant others entry to the Preparatory Camp. Du Meng and Tang Qijian chose to compete for places instead, while a ruthless youth on Ninety-eighth Peak activated the second Bronze Light.

• A mysterious expert stopped the other candidates from pursuing Qin Shaofeng and transported Qin and his companions to Hundredth Peak.
• Xie Zijun identified himself as the assessment’s chief examiner and told Qin Shaofeng that his Grandmaster had granted him five Preparatory Camp places using his tokens.
• Qin Shaofeng offered places to Zhao Yun'er, Du Meng, and Tang Qijian, but Du Meng and Tang Qijian chose to compete through the normal process.
• Half a day later, the second Bronze Light appeared across the first hundred peaks of the Thousand Mountain Sect.
• A fifteen-year-old youth on Ninety-eighth Peak stood over the corpses of those he had killed for their Thousand Mountain Tokens as his token emitted the Bronze Light.

As the Sect Entry Assessment neared its end, Xu Tianyang’s Bronze Light terrified other contestants while he hunted them for sport. At Hundredth Peak, Xu Tianyang confronted Xie Zijun, who led Qin Shaofeng and the other Bronze Token holders through the formation into the Thousand Mountain Sect.

• Xu Tianyang’s second Bronze Light drove powerful contestants to flee, and he hunted others until he left for Hundredth Peak.
• Contestants triggered more Bronze Lights, but battles and failed attempts left all ten Bronze Tier Thousand Mountain Tokens accounted for.
• Xie Zijun waited at Hundredth Peak for Xu Tianyang, while Qin Shaofeng and the other Bronze Token holders gathered there.
• Xu Tianyang arrived with four guards and challenged Xie Zijun for trying to leave before the assessment deadline.
• Xie Zijun rebuked Xu Tianyang and led Qin Shaofeng and the others through the teleportation formation into the Thousand Mountain Sect.
• Tang Qijian and Du Meng had joined the Legend Realm contestants below, and Xie Zijun gave them places among the top hundred.

Qin Shaofeng and the others arrived at a mountain set aside for Legend Realm disciples, which was not yet the Thousand Mountain Sect's true Preparatory Camp. After settling into his lavish Cultivation Room, Qin Shaofeng went outside to meet Zhao Yun'er and was surprised to find Aunt Qing with her.

• Xu Tianyang vowed to repay Xie Zijun for humiliating him, then left through the teleportation array.
• Xie Zijun explained that the mountain was a temporary cultivation area and warned the newcomers not to rush into the Lesser Origin Core Realm before departing.
• The other three geniuses left, while Qin Shaofeng and Zhao Yun'er went to their assigned Cultivation Rooms; Qin received room number one and Zhao Yun'er received number two.
• Qin Shaofeng explored the thirty-six rooms in his luxurious Cultivation Room, and Qiuqiu explained why sects valued outstanding geniuses.
• Zhao Yun'er called Qin Shaofeng outside, where he found Aunt Qing accompanying her.