Chapter Summaries

Ye Mo was alarmed by Ouyang Qingxuan’s growing admiration for Wang Mu and left the Sacred Land to uncover Wang Mu’s true nature. In Yingchuan City, he learned about Langya Academy’s enrollment and remained skeptical of its mission to educate low-level cultivators.

• Ye Mo listened to Ouyang Qingxuan’s Jade Slip messages as she went from defending Wang Mu to calling him a great man.
• Worried that Ouyang Qingxuan had been led astray, Ye Mo left a message for his Master and flew out of the Sacred Land to expose Wang Mu.
• Ye Mo arrived in lively Yingchuan City and learned that Langya Academy had begun enrollment across the Northern Region.
• A waiter and nearby guests explained that Langya Academy selected students by character and background, excluding those with wealthy families or major sect backing.
• Ye Mo dismissed the academy’s policy as a gimmick, doubting that anyone with real means would attend.

Ye Mo challenged the praise of Wang Mu and Langya Academy, drawing Lin Yan into a confrontation. They fought fiercely at Peach Mountain, but neither gained the upper hand, and both summoned powerful weapons.

• Ye Mo questioned whether Wang Mu’s Langya Academy truly benefited cultivators, enraging the Wine Shop’s patrons.
• Lin Yan confronted Ye Mo, and they agreed to settle their disagreement in battle at Peach Mountain.
• Lin Yan attacked with Heavenly Dragon Transformation, Eight Extremes Crushing Heaven Fist, while Ye Mo countered with the Heavenly Emperor Seal.
• The two exchanged hundreds of blows without either gaining an advantage, then separated as Lin Yan produced a dark-gold ruler and Ye Mo summoned an ancient bronze cauldron.

Lin Yan and Ye Mo fought to a draw, then argued over Wang Mu after Lin Yan defended Wang Mu’s deeds and explained why he had once hated him. Lin Yan revealed that Wang Mu had crippled him and taken his fiancée as part of a supposed effort to temper him, then warned Ye Mo of an impending calamity that could kill even Great Emperors.

• Lin Yan and Ye Mo exchanged powerful techniques across Peach Mountain, and Lin Yan declared that he had lost while Ye Mo called their battle a draw.
• Lin Yan refused to befriend Ye Mo because Ye Mo had questioned Wang Mu, and he defended Wang Mu’s good deeds despite any possible motives.
• Ye Mo told Lin Yan that Wang Mu’s subordinates had hunted him into a forbidden land, nearly killing him.
• Lin Yan said he had also once considered Wang Mu his greatest enemy because Wang Mu had crippled his cultivation and taken his fiancée.
• Lin Yan claimed Wang Mu had done those things to temper him, then warned Ye Mo that a terrible calamity could make even Great Emperors bleed.

Lin Yan explained to Ye Mo how Wang Mu’s Ascension Convention, Langya Foundation, and Langya Academy could gradually transform the Human Race and prepare for a future Great Tribulation. Ye Mo was left shaken by the scale of Wang Mu’s vision and the possibility that his efforts could change the Azure Yuan Realm over generations.

• Lin Yan challenged Ye Mo’s doubts by describing how the Ascension Convention had revealed Spiritual Roots among countless ordinary people who previously had no way to pursue cultivation.
• Ye Mo argued that cultivation was dangerous and that most newly discovered cultivators would remain at the bottom, but Lin Yan pointed out that Wang Mu left the choice of whether to cultivate to each person.
• Lin Yan explained that Spiritual Roots could become more common over generations as cultivators had children, potentially transforming the Human Race across the Azure Yuan Realm.
• Lin Yan linked Wang Mu’s efforts to a future catastrophe so severe that even Great Emperors would bleed, and described his goal of creating an unprecedented golden age.
• Lin Yan said the Langya Foundation and Langya Academy supported cultivators and could improve future generations, leaving Ye Mo shaken and stung by the thought that he had underestimated Wang Mu.

Lin Yan argued that Wang Mu may have arranged the pursuit that led Ye Mo to a transformative opportunity, leaving Ye Mo shaken but determined to investigate for himself. Ye Mo set out to learn what Wang Mu had done by opening the Tianwen Communication Talismans he had bought.

• Lin Yan suggested that Wang Mu either had not ordered the low-level pursuit of Ye Mo or had arranged it to guide him toward an opportunity in a forbidden zone.
• Ye Mo recalled entering an ancient stone door with the help of his Primordial Purple Qi and gaining a Sacred Physique, then feared Wang Mu had planned the encounter.
• Ye Mo revealed his Nascent Soul Peak Stage cultivation and summoned a Heavenly Emperor phantom, but Lin Yan urged him to see how Wang Mu had changed the Cultivation World before leaving.
• Ye Mo resisted attacking Lin Yan, declared that he would investigate the truth himself, and received a reminder from Jiang Baiyi to return for the approaching Heavenly Pride Assembly.
• Ye Mo decided to examine his Tianwen Communication Talismans to find out what Wang Mu had done.

Wang Mu struggled to finalize Langya Academy’s textbooks because the Spirit Transformation Cultivators compiling them could not understand the difficulties of low-level cultivators. After Xiao Wanmeng teased him, he realized his accumulated cultivation insights made him the right person to write them.

• Wang Mu rejected the draft textbooks and explained that they needed to work for students of different abilities, while Nie Tingting said there was little time to produce better versions.
• Wang Mu sent Nie Tingting away to think over the problem of finding someone with both advanced cultivation knowledge and firsthand understanding of low-level cultivators.
• Xiao Wanmeng visited after putting Little Nannan to sleep, teased Wang Mu with stories about him, and encouraged him to play along with her flirtation.
• Wang Mu recognized that his system’s investment feedback had given him personal experience and extensive insight into the cultivation problems faced by cultivators of many levels.

Wang Mu wrote nine volumes of cultivation methods for low-level cultivators, and his work resonated with the Heavenly Dao, producing phenomena across the sky and transforming his robe into a supreme treasure. The chapter ended with nine pillars of merit light surging toward him as he completed the final volume.

• Wang Mu sealed off the space around him and began writing a cultivation manual on a Jade Slip.
• The Yellow Springs Twelve Guards questioned Wang Mu's passages about farming and ordinary work, while Luo Feng and Yin Jiuzhu privately admitted they could not understand them.
• As Wang Mu wrote, the Heavenly Dao resonated with his words, and purple qi, auspicious clouds, and golden characters appeared across the sky.
• Wang Mu set aside the first Jade Slip and continued with further volumes, astonishing the Yellow Springs Guards as new heavenly phenomena appeared.
• Wang Mu completed all nine volumes, and nine steles rose above the North Sea as pillars of golden merit light surged toward him.

Wang Mu completed the nine-volume Heavenly Book, whose chapters of the Great Dao earned merit that strengthened both the Jade Slips and his own abilities. As rival sacred grounds resolved to eliminate him, he sent Nie Tingting to distribute copies as textbooks for Langya Academy and reassured her when she feared the secret behind the anomaly.

• Leaders of Primal Origin Sacred Ground and other major factions dismissed the North Sea anomaly as a false rumor about a chapter of the Great Dao, but decided Wang Mu should be eliminated.
• Wang Mu finished the nine volumes of the Heavenly Book, creating eighty-one chapters for Langya Academy's compulsory education.
• Merit transformed the original Jade Slips into treasures, improved Wang Mu's affinity for spiritual energy, and strengthened his Magic Robe.
• Wang Mu gave Nie Tingting copied Jade Slips to reproduce and distribute to major academies as textbooks.
• Nie Tingting worried that the anomaly exposed dangerous secrets, but Wang Mu gently reassured her, and she returned to her room overwhelmed by her feelings for him.

Wang Mu planned Langya Academy’s Opening Ceremony and accepted Song Danqing’s apology, while Jin Zhongyuan suspected Song had taken a bribe meant for the Heavenly Dao Institute. Jin confronted Song over a communication talisman, demanding the Institute’s supposed share.

• Wang Mu set Langya Academy’s Opening Ceremony for five days later and arranged a livestream speech for its students.
• Wang Mu invited Song Danqing to attend the ceremony after Song said On Teachers had given him insight and he wished to apologize.
• Langya Academy sent invitations to sects and lineages across the Northern Region, and Song Danqing publicly agreed to attend.
• Jin Zhongyuan refused to attend the ceremony and ordered that no one from the Three Great Academies go, then learned Song had already accepted.
• Jin Zhongyuan’s disciple suggested the Langya Merchant Association had bribed Song, and Jin called Song to demand the Heavenly Dao Institute’s share.

Song Danqing sent Jin Zhongyuan his insights into Wang Mu’s piece of On Teachers, but Jin dismissed them and vowed to challenge his standing at Langya Academy’s Opening Ceremony. Five days later, the ceremony began across the Northern Region, and Wang Mu appeared at the Lixiao branch before a crowd that rose to its feet.

• Jin Zhongyuan confronted Song Danqing about the benefits he had received from Wang Mu, and Song agreed to send him his insights into On Teachers.
• Song Danqing carefully wrote down his understanding of the text and told his disciple he hoped sharing it would help the Confucian Sect.
• Jin Zhongyuan received Song’s written insights, considered them a sham, and declared that he would attend Langya Academy’s Opening Ceremony to assert Heavenly Dao Institute’s authority.
• Three thousand Langya Academy branches held their Opening Ceremonies, drawing representatives and livestream viewers eager to see Wang Mu.
• At the Lixiao branch ceremony, the dean welcomed the crowd and announced Wang Mu’s arrival, prompting every Cultivator present to stand.

Wang Mu appeared at the Langya Academy Opening Ceremony as images of all three thousand academies were linked and broadcast to hundreds of millions of viewers. While the crowd and dignitaries were overwhelmed by the spectacle, Jin Zhongyuan mocked Wang Mu’s display and predicted his downfall.

• Wang Mu appeared amid golden lotuses and starlight, and the assembled guests nervously saluted him.
• Wang Mu activated the formation, projecting scenes from all three thousand Langya Academies across the Northern Region.
• Viewers discovered the ceremony livestream on the Langya Forum, where its audience climbed past five hundred million.
• Fang Heng grew nervous about the enormous audience, while Jin Zhongyuan pretended to be calm despite his shaking legs.
• Jin Zhongyuan steadied himself, then dismissed Wang Mu’s ceremony as showy and warned that those who stood high could fall hard.

At Langya Academy’s first Opening Ceremony, Wang Mu defended students from humble backgrounds and condemned the great academies and powers that denied them a chance to cultivate. His speech stirred students across all three thousand academies and angered powerful guests, including hidden observers from two Sacred Grounds.

• Wang Mu thanked the guests and described the prejudice that commoners and students from humble families faced in the Cultivation World.
• Wang Mu called those prejudices bullshit and urged students to defy fate, find their own Dao, and prove their doubters wrong.
• Students at all three thousand academies applauded and stared defiantly at Jin Zhongyuan, Liu Yebai, and the other powerful guests.
• Wang Mu declared that nobles, immortal sects, sage lineages, and Sacred Lands could all be overthrown, provoking hidden figures from the Qiankun Sacred Ground and the Primal Origin Sacred Ground.
• The Great Beings who sensed the hidden figures grew alarmed, while others accepted that Wang Mu would openly challenge any power.

Wang Mu won the impoverished students’ devotion, while observers feared Langya Academy could help the Wang Family build a vast network of loyal followers. Song Danqing publicly praised Wang Mu and apologized to Langya Academy, leaving Jin Zhongyuan furious and ashamed to be associated with him.

• Wang Mu silenced the crowd after their applause and declared that even a few talented students could become powerful blades in his hand.
• Sect leaders concluded that Langya Academy could supply the Wang Family with loyal death warriors and spread its influence across the Northern Region.
• Jin Zhongyuan realized the Heavenly Dao Institute had been used by Wang Mu and grew livid.
• Wang Mu invited Song Danqing, dean of Taiyi Academy, to address Langya Academy’s teachers and students.
• Song Danqing praised Wang Mu, admitted he had previously made improper remarks about Langya Academy, and bowed in apology to its students and teachers.
• Jin Zhongyuan condemned Song Danqing’s apology and declared himself ashamed to keep company with the old scoundrel.

Wang Mu donated ten billion Low-Grade Spirit Stones to Taiyi Academy, framing the gift as support for its students and a call to serve the Human Race. Song Danqing accepted the money on their behalf, realizing that Taiyi Academy had now tied itself to Langya Academy and the Wang Family.

• Wang Mu reassured Song Danqing, then offered Taiyi Academy ten billion Low-Grade Spirit Stones from the Langya Foundation.
• The huge donation stunned the crowd and Taiyi Academy’s disciples, while Jin Zhongyuan and Liu Yebai complained that their own academies had been overlooked.
• Liu Yebai told Chengtian Academy’s disciples not to be swayed by money, but they privately messaged their families about transferring to Taiyi Academy.
• A Langhuan Jade Pavilion representative presented Song Danqing with a Black Gold Card containing ten billion Spirit Stones, and Wang Mu said the funds were for Taiyi Academy’s students.
• Song Danqing accepted the card on the students’ behalf and warned them that the gift bound Taiyi Academy to Langya Academy and signaled that the Wang Family rewarded its allies.

Wang Mu’s investment in Taiyi Academy completed his Confucian cultivation plans as observers debated his ambitions and the Sacred Lands reacted angrily. Ye Mo watched the academy ceremony and began questioning whether Wang Mu’s self-interest made his good deeds any less meaningful.

• Song Danqing praised Wang Mu’s sage-like restraint and kingly methods, but lamented that he was a mortal who could not cultivate.
• Wang Mu’s system announced that his 10-billion-spirit-stone investment had completed its progress with Wen Zhenghe, Luo Tianming, and Su Xincheng, giving him returns tied to their future cultivation.
• Several hidden observers admired Langya Academy’s ambition, while noting that overturning the ancient Sacred Lands would be difficult.
• At Primal Origin Sacred Ground, Ling Xiaozi dismissed the elders’ angry complaints and told them to focus on dealing with the Northern Darkness Saintess and Imperial Infant.
• Jiang Baiyi said the Holy Son had gone to investigate Wang Mu’s background, and Ling Xiaozi urged him to focus on cultivation and postpone revenge.
• Ye Mo watched the ceremony’s recording and recalled Lin Yan’s question about whether a good deed stopped being good when its giver sought something in return.

After sparing Wang Mu once, Ye Mo discovered novels on the Langya Forum and became absorbed in reading them instead of returning to cultivate. At dusk, he told his Master Jiang Baiyi he would return that day, but he was still reading in the restaurant.

• Ye Mo closed the livestream, left the Wine Shop, and received a message from Jiang Baiyi telling him to return and cultivate.
• Ye Mo noticed novel recommendations on his Communication Talisman and chose to investigate the Langya Forum’s storybooks.
• Ye Mo used Divine Sense to read over five hundred chapters of a novel about nine dragons pulling a coffin, then realized he had reached its latest chapter and understood the warning against reading with Divine Sense.
• Ye Mo rented a private room, ordered food and wine, and began reading Battle Through the Heavens slowly without Divine Sense.
• Jiang Baiyi contacted Ye Mo again, and Ye Mo claimed he would return that day as dusk fell.

Ye Mo became absorbed in reading and missed his return to the Primal Origin Sacred Ground, while Jiang Baiyi waited anxiously for him, unaware of the reason for his delay. Elsewhere, Wang Mu learned that his game template needed new hardware and ordered a dedicated gaming Magic Artifact instead of a new Communication Talisman.

• Ye Mo kept reading in Yingchuan City, while Jiang Baiyi waited outside the Primal Origin Sacred Ground and assumed Ye Mo was troubled by news about Wang Mu.
• Ye Mo continued reading past midnight and decided to stay overnight rather than return late and face a scolding.
• Jiang Baiyi remained at the Sacred Ground entrance, worried about Ye Mo and planning to console him when he returned.
• Nie Tingting told Wang Mu that the game template required a formation drive absent from existing Communication Talismans.
• Wang Mu set aside plans for a new Communication Talisman model and ordered a Magic Artifact designed specifically for games.

Wang Mu planned a dedicated gaming Magic Artifact and outlined changes to the game, including characters based on popular novels. He agreed to travel with Xiao Wanmeng to the Kunlun Saintess's Coming-of-Age Ceremony and suspected his enemies would wait until the Heavenly Pride Assembly to strike.

• Wang Mu told Nie Tingting to develop a Magic Artifact for games and described new characters, including Emperor Yan and the only son of the Tang Sect, drawing inspiration from popular novels.
• Nie Tingting recognized the characters as protagonists from Battle Through the Heavens and Douluo World, and Wang Mu explained his plans to expand the stories into commercial IPs.
• Xiao Wanmeng visited Wang Mu and complained that he had not taken her out; he promised they would stroll together after attending the Kunlun Saintess's Coming-of-Age Ceremony.
• Xiao Wanmeng warned Wang Mu that Primal Origin Sacred Ground and Qiankun Sacred Ground were trying to eliminate him, and Wang Mu predicted they would act at the Heavenly Pride Assembly.

Lu Jiuyuan completed his cultivation and learned about two formidable rivals before preparing to attend the Kunlun Saintess’s Coming-of-Age Ceremony. Meanwhile, Tai Bai Sect traveled to the ceremony, where Venerable Flowing Cloud taught Chang Feng the rules of yielding to stronger factions.

• Lu Jiuyuan finished cultivating the Qiankun God-Refining Physique and Myriad Tribulations Starfall Physique, and Su Li warned him about the Holy Son of Primal Origin Sacred Ground and Xiao Wanmeng.
• Lu Jiuyuan welcomed the challenge of facing powerful rivals and prepared his halberd for the Kunlun Saintess’s Coming-of-Age Ceremony.
• Venerable Flowing Cloud and Tai Bai Sect loaded their gifts and set out for the ceremony with Chang Feng.
• Venerable Flowing Cloud explained to Chang Feng that weaker factions should lower their altitude and speed when traveling near stronger ones.

Lu Jiuyuan waited aboard a palace carried by eighteen Hanhai Lishi, blocking the route to the Kunlun Ruins while cultivators from many factions gathered behind him. When Spirit Transformation cultivators challenged the delay, the Hanhai Lishi struck them down, but the arrival of a radiant Heavenly Palace pulled by twelve Ink Qilin interrupted the confrontation.

• Flowing Cloud Venerable told the Tai Bai Sect members to yield the way to higher-ranking factions, and Chang Feng realized how small his sect was among the powers traveling to the Kunlun Ruins.
• The cultivators discovered that eighteen Hanhai Lishi of the Qiankun Sacred Ground were blocking the route while carrying Lu Jiuyuan's palace, and Lu Jiuyuan ordered his elder to keep waiting for the people he expected.
• As the delay continued, several Spirit Transformation factions sent representatives to ask when the Holy Son would depart, but Lu Jiuyuan called them noisy.
• Two Hanhai Lishi attacked the representatives, shattering their domains and sending them flying with a single palm strike.
• A Heavenly Palace drawn by twelve Ink Qilin arrived through rosy light and swirling currents, interrupting the attack.