Chapter Summaries

Yi Chentian brought the Fire Bead to Wu Dai, who recognized its value and arranged an auction to draw out the person carrying a resonant treasure. Chu Ming followed the divided traces to the auction, where he recognized the bait and decided to turn the trap against its makers; the bidding for the first sixth-tier treasure was still underway.

• Yi Chentian found no mention of the Fire Bead in his books and asked Wu Dai to examine it after sensing a similar treasure approaching.
• Wu Dai took the Fire Bead, warned Yi Chentian that it stirred greed, and gave him treasures while ordering him to hold an auction and conceal the bead’s aura among six items.
• Wu Dai split the Fire Bead’s aura among six treasures, and Chu Ming sensed the presence divide into six traces and followed them to Green-Face Mountain Range.
• Yi Chentian hosted an auction attended by Chu Ming, Xing Rong, Yiyang Shan, and Yiyang Jing, while the first four aura-bearing decoys were sold.
• Yi Chentian announced two sixth-tier treasures, and Chu Ming decided to bid with his Star Sand while treating the auction as a chance to draw out the person behind the trap.
• Yiyang Shan and Xing Rong competed for the White Bamboo Bottle until its price reached twenty-two grains of Star Sand, and Yiyang Jing urged Yiyang Shan to save their remaining Star Sand for the next treasure.

Chu Ming and Xing Rong won the White Bamboo Bottle and Grey Bone Bag at the Heaven-Asking Pavilion auction, then fled Yiyang Kingdom with its three powerhouses in pursuit. In the White River Basin, Chu Ming dropped his disguise during the ambush, killed Yiyang Jing, and trapped Yiyang Shan beneath his fierce blade.

• Yiyang Shan and Yiyang Jing stopped bidding on the White Bamboo Bottle, but Chu Ming and Xing Rong drove its price up until Chu Ming won it for twenty-nine grains of Star Sand.
• Yiyang Shan won the Grey Bone Bag for fifty-six grains, while Chu Ming refrained from bidding; afterward, Xing Rong introduced himself to Chu Ming under false names and proposed they travel together.
• Yiyang Ye joined Yiyang Shan and Yiyang Jing in pursuing Chu Ming and Xing Rong, while Yi Chentian and Wu Dai decided to follow and wait for an opportunity to seize the Fire Bead treasure.
• In the White River Basin, Yiyang Ye confronted the pair and identified Xing Rong through his Seven Stars Sword, then ordered Yiyang Shan and Yiyang Jing to attack Chu Ming.
• Yiyang Shan and Yiyang Jing unleashed Golden Sun Myriad Annihilation, but Chu Ming revealed his Moon-Slaying Fierce Blade and Origin Artifact Shield Shuttle, killed Yiyang Jing, and pinned Yiyang Shan beneath his blade.

Chu Ming disguised himself as Yiyang Shan, captured Xing Rong, and used the Tanghulu’s resonance to lure Heaven-Asking Pavilion into revealing its interest in the True Intent Weapon Embryo. After exchanging the Tanghulu for the Earth-Shaking Golden Dragon Armor, Chu Ming exposed his disguise by killing Yiyang Ye and faced Wu Dai and Yi Chentian.

• Chu Ming killed Yiyang Shan, took his treasures, mastered Golden Sun Myriad Annihilation, and assumed his identity and aura.
• Disguised as Yiyang Shan, Chu Ming helped Yiyang Ye capture Xing Rong and used the Tanghulu’s aura to make the True Intent Weapon Embryos resonate, drawing Wu Dai and Yi Chentian toward them.
• Wu Dai and Yi Chentian demanded a treasure from Yiyang Shan in exchange for the Earth-Shaking Golden Dragon Armor, and Chu Ming offered the Tanghulu.
• After the exchange, Chu Ming attacked Heaven-Asking Pavilion with the Yiyang Golden Bow, then revealed his true strength and killed Yiyang Ye with a blade strike.
• Xing Rong escaped while Wu Dai recognized Chu Ming’s True Intent, and Chu Ming prepared to face the Heaven-Asking Pavilion experts.

Chu Ming defeated Wu Dai of Heaven-Asking Pavilion and then ambushed Xing Hong of the Seven Stars Kingdom, killing both while concealing his presence. After killing Yi Chentian as he fled east, Chu Ming reached the border between the Yiyang Kingdom and the Seven Stars Kingdom and hid underground.

• Wu Dai and Chu Ming fought over the True Intent weapon embryos while Yi Chentian fled from the battle’s shockwaves.
• Xing Hong arrived with Xing Rong, learned that Chu Ming and Heaven-Asking Pavilion each had a True Intent weapon embryo, and planned to ambush the exhausted fighters.
• Chu Ming used the True Intent of Destruction and the True Intent of Nirvana to kill Wu Dai, then concealed himself as Xing Hong and Xing Rong approached.
• Xing Hong attacked the battlefield with Seven Swords Fall Stars, but Chu Ming emerged unharmed, wounded him, and killed him; Xing Man received the transmitted recording and summoned Han Ting to return.
• Chu Ming killed the fleeing Yi Chentian, then followed the White River east and hid in an underground space near the border between the Yiyang Kingdom and the Seven Stars Kingdom.

Chu Ming fused the Fire Bead with Tanghulu and gained an initial grasp of Fierce Baleful True Intent, then planned how to strengthen himself against the Black and White Divine Palace, the Black Flame Cult, and the Seven Stars Kingdom. After plundering the Heaven-Asking Pavilion’s Yiyang branch, he drew the attention of its elders and headed for the Yiyang capital, where two nation-protecting experts waited beside a powerful golden arrow.

• Chu Ming fused Tanghulu with the Fire Bead, manifested Fierce Baleful True Intent, and realized that gaining it had made his other True Intents harder to advance.
• Chu Ming learned from Xing Hong and Xing Rong’s belongings that their sister Xing Man possessed another True Intent weapon embryo and that she and Han Ting were powerful Seventh Realm experts with innate Spirit Treasures.
• Chu Ming assessed the threats facing him and resolved to improve his techniques, gather treasures, and eventually seek Xing Man’s weapon embryo in the Seven Stars Kingdom.
• Chu Ming attacked the Heaven-Asking Pavilion’s Yiyang branch, killed five guards, destroyed its treasure formations, and seized five sixth-rank treasures and other valuables.
• Elder Qianchuan learned that Wu Dai had died, and Elder Guan Hai sent Xu Yuan and Xu Chang to capture Chu Ming while the elders guarded the young pavilion master.
• Chu Ming left for the Yiyang Kingdom’s imperial capital, where Yiyang Ke and Yiyang Zhan stood beside a pressure-radiating golden arrow.

Chu Ming infiltrated Yiyang Kingdom by disguising himself as Yiyang Ye, destroyed its Imperial City with Golden Sun Myriad Annihilation, and then spent more than ten days refining his techniques. Meanwhile, Yiyang Lie allied himself with Eclipsing Shadow and took up a sacrificial saber to pursue revenge, while Chu Ming emerged from seclusion with a new True Intent divine ability.

• Chu Ming disguised himself as Yiyang Ye, baited Yiyang Kingdom into firing its Golden Sun Myriad Annihilation, and then used the same divine ability to destroy the Imperial City and kill Yiyang Ke and Yiyang Zhan.
• Chu Ming collected Yiyang Kingdom's treasures and withdrew to the White River basin, where he spent more than ten days deducing divine abilities and Primordial Nature secret arts.
• Eclipsing Shadow ordered Yiyang Lie to bury five Gloomy Nether Fortune-Devouring Chains across Yiyang Kingdom, then gave him a sacrificial black saber while concealing its true nature.
• Yiyang Lie knowingly fed his Qi and Blood Power to the saber, accepting its devouring in hopes of gaining the power to avenge his brothers.
• Chu Ming emerged from seclusion with stronger techniques, including Void-Sundering Destruction, his second True Intent divine ability.

Chu Ming discovered and purified the Gloomy Nether Fortune-Devouring Chains beneath the White River, then fought Yiyang Lie after the chains’ destruction drew him there. Yiyang Lie died when his sacrificial weapon self-destructed, while Eclipsing Shadow arrived and began searching the river for Chu Ming, who had disguised himself as a fish.

• Chu Ming deduced Star-Moon Starfall, a Primordial Nature secret art capable of threatening Seventh Realm fighters, and followed a sinister aura to the White River riverbed.
• Chu Ming found the Gloomy Nether Fortune-Devouring Chains draining the Yiyang Kingdom’s national fortune, broke them with Star-Moon Starfall and Void-Sundering Destruction, and purified thirteen meters of chain into Azure Sky Chains.
• Yiyang Lie sensed the chains’ destruction and attacked Chu Ming with a sacrificial black blade, while Eclipsing Shadow set out for the White River on the Duke of An’s orders.
• Chu Ming fought the Seventh Realm Yiyang Lie through a day-long battle, then unleashed Void-Sundering Destruction and Star-Moon Starfall when he sensed a stronger expert approaching.
• Yiyang Lie briefly regained clarity, chose revenge, and triggered the sacrificial weapon’s self-destruction; Chu Ming survived by fleeing behind his defenses, and Yiyang Lie died.
• Eclipsing Shadow dispersed the explosion, found no trace of Chu Ming, and used his detection ability to search the White River until he seized a disguised fifth-rank fish beast.

Chu Ming escaped Eclipsing Shadow, strengthened his Mutated Black Flame and Azure Sky Chains, and entered the Seven Stars Kingdom seeking Xing Man’s True Intent Weapon Embryo. Heaven-Asking Pavilion trackers pursued him, while Han Ting and Xing Man learned he was in their kingdom and moved to intercept him; the chapter ended with Xu Guang and Xu Yuan losing his trail.

• Chu Ming fled the White River battlefield, fed black saber fragments to the Mutated Black Flame, and headed toward the Seven Stars Kingdom.
• Xu Guang and Xu Yuan investigated the Yiyang branch, recovered an image of Chu Ming, and tracked his trail east.
• At High Willow Mountain, Chu Ming transformed the black chains into Azure Sky Chains and strengthened the Mutated Black Flame by feeding it the saber fragments.
• The Wind Spirit Ancient Tree’s spirit devoured the High Willow Tree’s spirituality, nearly doubling its strength and increasing its spirit-dew production.
• Han Ting and Xing Man learned Chu Ming was in the Seven Stars Kingdom and traveled toward Third Star Province to watch Heaven-Asking Pavilion’s pursuit.
• Chu Ming sensed Xu Guang and Xu Yuan approaching and concealed himself; the trackers reached the spot where his trail vanished and suspected he had used a spatial movement treasure.

Chu Ming tested his concealment against Heaven-Asking Pavilion’s tracking methods, escaped their Star Net Killing Formation, and entered the Seven Stars Kingdom to investigate Xing Man and Han Ting. He began approaching the Xuan Clan through Xuan Chang, whose invitation led Chu Ming to a poisoned wine that his body easily purified.

• Chu Ming found that combining thirty percent of [Book Intent Painting Realm] with [Mountain-Sea Yang-Guarding Breath Concealment] concealed him from Xu Guang and Xu Yuan, who failed to trap him with the Star Net Killing Formation.
• Xu Guang and Xu Yuan met Han Ting and Xing Man, agreed to alert them if they located the Youth in Black, and privately planned to use the Seven Stars Kingdom experts to force him out of hiding.
• Chu Ming entered the First Star Province’s Imperial City and decided to investigate the Han, Xing, and Xuan clans to learn the movements of Han Ting and Xing Man.
• At a restaurant, Chu Ming gained Xuan Chang’s attention by matching his apparent late-stage Marrow Cleansing Realm strength and accepted an invitation to Xuan Chang’s residence.
• Xuan Chang offered Chu Ming poisoned Seven Stars Wine, but Chu Ming’s [Sword Gourd Spiritual Sense] detected the poison and his body purified it.

Chu Ming captured Xuan Jing with the Ashen Soul Flame Prison Heart Curse and used him to stir conflict in the Seven Stars Kingdom while advancing his cultivation. He then headed to investigate Heaven-Asking Pavilion, whose experts detected the aura of the person who had seized their tower nearby.

• Xuan Chang tried to turn Chu Ming into an Iron Fiend Guard, but Chu Ming escaped and disguised himself as Xuan Chang.
• Chu Ming knocked out Xuan Jing, controlled him with the heart curse, and learned that Han Ting and Xing Man had gone to Heaven-Asking Pavilion.
• Chu Ming reached the middle stage of the Qi Sea Realm and late stage of the Infant Void Realm, then ordered Xuan Jing to keep provoking the Han and Xing families.
• Heaven-Asking Pavilion’s Xu Guang and Xu Yuan learned that the family feud had eased and worried that the tower thief might be in seclusion.
• Xu Guang’s Spirit Shadow Star Net detected the tower thief’s aura fifty li east of Heaven-Asking Pavilion, and Xu Guang and Xu Yuan rushed toward it.

Chu Ming killed Heaven-Asking Pavilion enforcers Xu Guang and Xu Yuan, took their treasures, and continued cultivating while his plans in the Xing Kingdom faltered. The chapter ended with Han Ting confronting Xing Man and insisting that the conflict between their families had been orchestrated, but his defense of her attack on Han Chen reignited her anger.

• Chu Ming lured Xu Guang and Xu Yuan to Tiger Head Pass, defeated their Innate Spirit Treasures with his techniques, and killed them with his blade arts and Star-Moon Stellar Fall.
• Wu Qianchuan learned of the enforcers’ deaths and summoned his descendant Wu Rong, while he and Guan Hai discussed the approaching Divine Martial Trial, Ancient Immortal Trial, and ten-thousand-year calamity.
• Chu Ming claimed the two golden-patterned pages as Innate Spirit Treasures, examined Xu Guang’s other spoils, and chose to save the Guiyuan Pills until his cultivation advanced.
• Chu Ming learned that Han Ting and Xing Man had clashed over Han Chen’s attempted murder of Xing Yang, but Xuan Jing’s warning ended when Han Ting discovered his role and the Heart Curse shattered.
• Han Ting visited Xing Man, blamed Xuan Jing and Xuan Yun for driving a wedge between them, and said he had ordered the Xuan Family exterminated; when he defended Xing Man’s crippling of Han Chen, her anger flared again.

Chu Ming infiltrated the Seven Stars Kingdom to seize the True Intent Weapon Embryo, while Xing Man tried to lure him into the Imperial City’s Seven Stars Sword Formation. After discovering the formation’s hidden structure and learning that Xing Man had summoned Pang Chong, Chu Ming impersonated him and went to confront her.

• Xing Man and Han Ting remained estranged until Han Ting apologized before leading disciples into the Seven Stars Sword Tomb, where he secretly arranged to make Xing Man bait for Chu Ming.
• Chu Ming broke through to the late Qi Sea Realm, learned that Han Ting had entered the Sword Tomb, and planned to lure Xing Man out rather than charge into the defended Imperial City.
• Pang Chong realized Han Ting might silence him, but Chu Ming controlled him and ordered him to send Xing Man a false report about Chu Ming’s whereabouts.
• Xing Man used the aura of the True Intent Weapon Embryo to try to draw Chu Ming into the Imperial City, but Chu Ming inferred that Han Ting was away and refused to enter blindly.
• Chu Ming entered the Imperial City disguised as Pang Chong, discovered sword-shaped spaces beneath the star halls, and decided to exploit Xing Man’s summons to catch her off guard.
• Xing Man questioned the disguised Chu Ming about where he had found the supposed trace of the Dongyi youth.

Chu Ming controlled Xing Man, learned that Han Ting had entered the Seven Stars Sword Tomb, and took her there to pursue the sword spirit and True Intent Weapon Embryo. He passed the first four tombs with ease, leaving Xing Man astonished as he continued deeper into the Sword Tomb.

• Chu Ming disguised as Pang Chong wounded Xing Man and subdued her with the Ash Soul Flame Prison Heart-Pinching Curse, then learned Han Ting was at the Seven Stars Sword Tomb.
• Xing Man gave Chu Ming the sword talisman and revealed the Seven Stars Sword Tomb’s trials and the sword spirit Han Ting sought; Chu Ming took her Seven Stars Divine Swords and learned the Seven Stars Sword Art.
• Three Shadow Tower Seventh Realm assassins entered the Sword Tomb to retaliate against the Seven Stars Kingdom and destroy the tomb.
• Chu Ming and Xing Man entered the Sword Tomb, where Chu Ming defeated waves of sword puppets and collected 607 wreckages and cores.
• Xing Man guided Chu Ming through the Alkaid and Mizar Sword Tombs, and Chu Ming bypassed the Alioth Sword Tomb’s climbing trial by flying to its peak.
• Chu Ming shattered blue-flame Sword Qi in the Megrez Sword Tomb, refined its sword intent and fragments into the Seven Stars Divine Sword, and continued onward with Xing Man.

Chu Ming and Xing Man survived the Fifth Sword Tomb, where he fused annihilation intent into the Seven Stars Sword Art and strengthened the Seven Stars Divine Sword. In the Sixth Sword Tomb, Chu Ming exposed Han Ting’s plot against Xing Man, killed a Shadow Tower assassin, and discovered that the black sword fragments left by the tomb’s wraiths resisted the Mutated Black Flame.

• Chu Ming shattered the Fifth Sword Tomb’s sword waves, fused annihilation intent into the Seven Stars Sword Art, and escaped with Xing Man carrying sword intent and fragments.
• Chu Ming refined the Fifth Sword Tomb’s spoils into the Seven Stars Divine Sword, raising it to the brink of second-rate innate Spirit Treasure strength, before entering the Sixth Sword Tomb with Xing Man.
• Chu Ming revealed that Han Ting had hidden a True Intent weapon embryo in Xing Man’s jade pendant to trap and kill her, and Xing Man realized Han Ting had betrayed her.
• Chu Ming killed Sentry Shadow with the newly developed True Intent Divine Ability, Seven Stars Sword Art, then proceeded into the Sixth Sword Tomb alone.
• Chu Ming used [Book Intent Painting Realm] to destroy a Sword Tomb wraith and collect its sword intent and black sword fragment, but the fragment resisted attempts to feed it to the Mutated Black Flame.

Chu Ming used the Sixth Sword Tomb’s wraiths and sword fragments to strengthen the Mutated Black Flame, while Xing Man witnessed his effortless victories. After preparing to face Shadow Tower’s powerful Darkwalker, Chu Ming entered the Seventh Sword Tomb, which appeared bright and peaceful.

• Chu Ming modified a secret art so the Black Soul Wood absorbed dark power from black sword fragments, restoring its ability to strengthen the Mutated Black Flame.
• Chu Ming and Xing Man entered the Sixth Sword Tomb, where [Book Intent Painting Realm] caused wraiths to burn away and leave sword intent and fragments for him to collect.
• Nether Demon fled from Chu Ming and Xing Man, then tried to lure a pursuing wraith toward them; Chu Ming killed him, and the Sword Tomb transformed his soul into a wraith that Chu Ming also destroyed.
• After gathering twenty-three black sword fragments, Chu Ming strengthened the Black Soul Wood and Mutated Black Flame, then prepared to confront Darkwalker in the Seventh Sword Tomb.
• Chu Ming and Xing Man entered the Seventh Sword Tomb and found it filled with gentle light, in stark contrast to the Sixth Sword Tomb.

Chu Ming defeated Darkwalker in the Seventh Sword Tomb and found new pages of the Classic of Mountains and Seas and Great Wilderness among his spoils. The pages led his Lake of Mountains and Seas to reveal the words “Ancient Immortal Kingdom,” prompting him to plan a visit there as well as to Tianmu Kingdom.

• Chu Ming used Destruction Seven Stars and the Azure Sky Chains to defeat a Heavenly Pivot Sword Soul and collect its sword intent and Sword Fragment.
• Darkwalker defeated another Heavenly Pivot Sword Soul, fused its spoils into a Seven Stars Divine Sword, and went looking for Chu Ming.
• Chu Ming ambushed Darkwalker with his Seven Stars Divine Sword and Origin Artifact Shield Shuttle, then trapped and killed him with the Sky Blue Chain Net and True Intent of Destruction.
• Chu Ming collected Darkwalker’s treasures, including the Godslaying Twin Blades, and found an incomplete book containing pages of the Classic of Mountains and Seas and Great Wilderness.
• The Lake of Mountains and Seas revealed the words “Ancient Immortal Kingdom,” and Chu Ming decided he would visit it in addition to Tianmu Kingdom.
• Chu Ming mastered the God-Slaying Blood Blades, burned Darkwalker’s corpse, and headed back.

Chu Ming and Xing Man crossed the Seventh Sword Tomb and descended into Sword Abyss, where they fought enraptured cultivators and a golden Sword Puppet before meeting Han Ting. Han Ting wielded the sword spirit’s Seven Kill True Intent, but Chu Ming outmatched him; Han Ting fled and tried to gather the abyss’s Sword Qi, only for Chu Ming to escape beyond his detection.

• Chu Ming defeated the seventh Heavenly Pivot Sword Soul after the Azure Sky Chains shattered, then entered Sword Abyss with Xing Man to search for Han Ting.
• Chu Ming used [Book Intent Painting Realm] to extend his senses and guided Xing Man down the abyss, where they survived its gravity and violent Sword Qi.
• Chu Ming defeated three enraptured cultivators, collected treasures from the latter two, and gave Xing Man two innate Spirit Treasures that could be detonated.
• Chu Ming destroyed a golden Sword Puppet bearing a fresh sword scar, prompting Han Ting to leave the sword platform and confront him.
• Han Ting attacked with Seven Kill True Intent, but Chu Ming countered with the Seven Stars Divine Sword and Mutated Black Flame; Han Ting retreated into the mist and tried to ambush him.
• Han Ting began gathering Sword Qi from across Sword Abyss, but Chu Ming vanished beyond the sword spirit’s detection range, leaving Han Ting unable to find him.

Chu Ming killed Han Ting after Xing Man sacrificed herself, then claimed Han Ting’s treasures and perfected his Fierce Baleful True Intent while investigating the True Intent Weapon Embryos. In the Seven Stars Kingdom, Chang Lu and Ling Luo took control and prepared to ambush Chu Ming at the Sword Tomb exit.

• Han Ting revealed his long-standing hatred of Xing Man, and she disclosed that his beloved Yuan'er had been her substitute before triggering the Primordial Nature Secret Arts and two innate Spirit Treasures to explode with them both inside the blast.
• Chu Ming survived the aftermath, killed the weakened Han Ting, took the Seven Stars Divine Sword and Han Ting’s treasures, and secluded himself on a sword platform in Sword Abyss.
• Chu Ming subdued the Seven Stars Divine Sword’s sword spirit, discovered its Seven Kill True Intent, fused Han Ting’s True Intent Weapon Embryo into his Tanghulu, and perfected the first level of Fierce Baleful True Intent.
• Pang Chong told the Han and Xing Family Heads that Han Ting and Xing Man had not returned, then Chang Lu arrived with Ling Luo and announced their deaths, taking temporary control of the Seven Stars Kingdom.
• Chang Lu ordered Pang Chong to surround the Seven Stars Sword Tomb exit and kill anyone who emerged, while Pang Chong secretly warned Chu Ming; Chang Lu and Ling Luo then set out to pursue him.

Chu Ming completed his secluded cultivation, escaped the Seven Stars Sword Tomb, and defeated the forces waiting outside before reaching Tianmu City. There, he reunited with Ji Wujiang, revealed his role in recent upheavals, and learned that Tianmu Kingdom was gathering the national fortune of thirty kingdoms to reopen the Langshu Realm.

• Chu Ming reached the complete Infant Void Realm, left the Seven Stars Sword Tomb, and emerged along the Seven Stars Path.
• Chang Lu and Ling Luo attacked Chu Ming with the Seven Stars Guards, but Chu Ming destroyed their formation, killed both men, and left the soldiers crippled.
• Chu Ming arrived in Tianmu City, met Ji Wujiang at the Golden Osmanthus Tavern, and admitted that he had killed the powerful figures in Yiyang Kingdom and Seven Stars Kingdom.
• Chu Ming gave Ji Wujiang a Seven Stars Divine Sword, then discussed the Black Flame Cult, the Black and White Divine Palace, and the missing third Bluestone Ancient Lamp.
• Ji Wujiang explained that Tianmu Kingdom had summoned the thirty kingdoms’ experts to gather their national fortune and reopen the Langshu Realm, offering each participating kingdom one entry slot.

Chu Ming refused to take Ji Wujiang’s Langshu Realm quota and stayed in Tianmu Kingdom, where he planned to seek other opportunities and learn about its literary temples. After Ji Wujiang brought him to the Hanmo Confucian Temple’s examination, the chapter left Chu Ming poised to compete while three foreign experts considered drawing him into an expedition to Thousand Demon Island.

• Chu Ming declined Ji Wujiang’s offer of the Qi Dynasty’s Langshu Realm slot, and Ji Wujiang promised to look for another way for him to enter.
• Chu Ming moved into a private estate in Tianmu City, while Ji Wujiang gave him news that Tianmu Kingdom planned to enter the Langshu Realm in one year and that the Qi Dynasty had one quota.
• Ji Wujiang told Chu Ming that six Confucian Temples in Tianmu City were holding examinations, and Chu Ming chose to use his real identity to seek entry into one.
• Ji Wujiang returned to Tianmu City with Chu Ming, presenting him to Wuding Sheng, Baihong Nanyou, and Ba Manshan as the Qi Dynasty’s young genius; the three gave Chu Ming gifts and hoped to befriend him.
• Ji Wujiang explained that the three experts wanted Chu Ming’s help exploring Thousand Demon Island, and Chu Ming said he wished to visit the Youli Sea after going to the Hanmo Confucian Temple.
• Wuding Sheng, Baihong Nanyou, and Ba Manshan discussed Chu Ming’s chances of passing the examination and questioned whether Baihong Nanyou would bring her young female disciple to meet him.