Recaps

Mu Chen killed Zhao Tiandu, ending the Five Tigers of the Zhao Family, then spoke with the recovering Luo Li and learned more about her identity and the Luo God Sword. The two introduced themselves and began to understand each other's backgrounds.

• Mu Chen defeated Zhao Tiandu, pierced his chest with the Demon-Subduing Battle Staff, and closed his eyes after he died.
• Mu Chen reflected on Zhao Tiandu's fighting spirit as the Five Tigers of the Zhao Family met their end in the Black Demon Forest.
• Luo Li recovered enough to open her eyes, and she and Mu Chen studied each other before she pushed him back to make space.
• Mu Chen introduced himself as being from the Hundred Spirit Continent and explained that he recognized Luo Li through the Luo God Sword, not from having visited the Western Heaven Continent.
• Luo Li's history revealed that the Blood God Clan had crippled her father and grandfather, leaving her as the Luo God Clan's sole direct heir and future ruler.

Mu Chen gave the injured Luo Li a Heavenly Spirit Recovery Pill and stayed beside her until she healed. She challenged him to a duel, and after giving him time to prepare, she drew the Luo God Sword and attacked.

• Mu Chen offered Luo Li a fourth-grade Heavenly Spirit Recovery Pill from the Endless Fire Domain, and she swallowed it to heal her hidden injuries.
• Mu Chen kept watch over Luo Li for three days as she recovered in the Black Demon Forest.
• After waking, Luo Li told Mu Chen to flee before she pursued and tried to kill him with one sword.
• Mu Chen accepted Luo Li's challenge and waited for an incense stick to burn down.
• Luo Li drew the Luo God Sword and attacked, but Mu Chen knocked her sword aside and countered with his staff.

Mu Chen and Luo Li continued their month-long pursuit and repeated battles while she secretly cultivated the Luo God Sword. Mu Chen treated her like a bodyguard, and the chapter ended with him offering her a cooked fish.

• Mu Chen and Luo Li fought to a stalemate before he retreated into the forest with her in pursuit.
• Mu Chen hunted an Ice Crystal Beast while Luo Li watched from hiding, then followed him through their ongoing cycle of battles.
• Luo Li secluded herself to refine a rare golden-element spirit plant and deepen her resonance with the Luo God Sword as Mu Chen kept watch outside.
• Mu Chen bathed openly in the river and invited Luo Li to join him, prompting her to leave in irritation.
• Mu Chen offered Luo Li a freshly cooked river fish while she sat in the sunlight.

Qing Yanjing remembered how Mu Feng rescued her after she crash-landed in the Spirit Beast Forest with her powers exhausted. The chapter left them together in the newly established Mu Domain, where Qing Yanjing was pregnant and Mu Feng had become its lord.

• Qing Yanjing recalled crashing into the Spirit Beast Forest after fleeing an arranged marriage, badly injured and surrounded by spirit beasts.
• Mu Feng killed a tiger that attacked Qing Yanjing, then carried her on his back and fought their way out through the encircling beasts.
• Qing Yanjing felt safe with Mu Feng and fell asleep on his back, beginning their relationship.
• In the present, Mu Feng joined his pregnant wife Qing Yanjing among the flowers at the Mu Domain lord's residence.
• Qing Yanjing gently chided Mu Feng for neglecting himself, and he grinned at her.

Qing Yanjing revealed to Mu Feng that she was a Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign and an intermediate Grandmaster of Spirit Arrays, leaving him stunned and despondent over the vast gap between them. She tried to rekindle his motivation by offering to tell him about her past if he agreed to one thing.

• Qing Yanjing told Mu Feng she was powerful, and he guessed she had reached the Three Days Realm or become a Sovereign.
• Qing Yanjing revealed she was a Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign and an intermediate Grandmaster of Spirit Arrays.
• Mu Feng fainted after learning that Qing Yanjing's Spirit Array mastery was equivalent to an Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign.
• Mu Feng became despondent as he dwelled on the difference between his Divine Soul Realm and Qing Yanjing's strength.
• Qing Yanjing asked Mu Feng whether he still wanted to spend his life with her and offered to explain her past if he agreed to one thing.

Mu Feng entered seclusion to reach the Three Days Realm before his son was born, while Qing Yanjing prepared to hide their child’s extraordinary bloodline from her clan. Their son, Mu Chen, was born as the Buddha Ancient Clan’s Spirit Vein Stele sensed an unusual presence.

• Qing Yanjing asked Mu Feng to reach the Three Days Realm before their child’s birth, and he entered seclusion.
• After Mu Feng broke through the Heaven Melting Realm, Qing Yanjing revealed her origins and her flight from an arranged marriage to Mohe Tian.
• As she gave birth, Qing Yanjing sensed that Mu Chen possessed Nine Divine Veins and transferred her Eight Spirit Veins to him, sealing both with a Micro Spirit Array.
• The Buddha Ancient Clan’s Spirit Vein Stele briefly blazed and fell silent, drawing the Spirit Vein Hall Master’s attention.
• Mu Feng and Qing Yanjing welcomed their son and named him Mu Chen.

Qing Yanjing explained why she needed to return to the Buddha Ancient Clan, but told Mu Feng she would first build a secure foundation for him and their newborn son, Chen'er. She took Mu Feng to Hundred Spirit City, where the new king's tribute festival was underway.

• Qing Yanjing convinced Mu Feng that returning to the Buddha Ancient Clan would let her fulfill her obligations and safely pursue the Saint Grade Grandmaster realm.
• Qing Yanjing told Mu Feng she would not leave immediately and planned to establish a prosperous territory for him and Chen'er before returning to the Buddha Realm.
• Qing Yanjing took Mu Feng through the depths of space to Hundred Spirit City, where factions had gathered for the King's Tribute Festival.
• The King of Hundred Spirits entered the palace hall, and the faction leaders and court entertainers halted their festivities to greet him.
• A favored eunuch ordered the musicians and dancers to continue after they stopped to welcome the king.

The King of Hundred Spirits hosted a feast and announced a search for beautiful women, prompting Qing Yanjing to attack him after he mistook her for a beauty he could pursue. She forced him to summon the powerhouse behind him to negotiate compensation, while Mu Feng watched in disbelief.

• The King of Hundred Spirits welcomed the faction leaders at a feast and declared that he would search the continent for beautiful young women to fill his harem.
• The drunken King of Hundred Spirits spotted Qing Yanjing and admired her, while his two Grand Perfection Earth Sovereign guards sensed danger beside her.
• Qing Yanjing struck down both guards with a single blow and demanded that the King of Hundred Spirits summon his elders to discuss compensation.
• The King of Hundred Spirits begged for mercy and crushed his Spirit Seal to summon his elders.
• Mu Feng watched Qing Yanjing's shakedown and wondered how she had become so practiced at it.

Luo Li realized she had fallen for Mu Chen, and their duel confirmed she could not bring herself to kill him. She invited him to team up and explore the Spirit Road, and they began their journey together.

• Mu Chen told Luo Li that their pursuit had deepened their bond, and she challenged him to fight.
• Mu Chen and Luo Li fought fiercely, but he hesitated to disarm her and she knocked away his staff.
• Luo Li pointed her sword at Mu Chen but admitted she could not kill him and confessed she thought she had fallen for him.
• Luo Li lowered her sword and asked Mu Chen to come with her, and he hurried after her.
• Luo Li proposed that she and Mu Chen team up to explore the Spirit Road, explaining that her feelings made her want to grow stronger.

Mu Chen urged Luo Li to seek the Flame Emperor’s help for the embattled Luo God Clan, reminding her that her grandfather had once saved his life. The Endless Fire Domain’s invitation stabilized the clan, and Mu Chen and Luo Li promised to support each other.

• Mu Chen asked why the Luo God Clan had not sought help from the Flame Emperor, and Luo Li explained that Luo Tianshen refused to trade on his past kindness to Xiao Yan.
• Mu Chen advised Luo Li to privately contact the Endless Fire Domain, and she decided to do so after returning to her clan.
• After the Spirit Road Selection, Luo Li sent a letter to the Endless Fire Domain, and Mistress Xun Er responded with a birthday invitation for Luo Tianshen in the Flame Emperor’s name.
• The invitation deterred the three Great God Clans from attacking, giving Luo Tianshen time to stabilize the Luo God Clan over the following decade.
• Mu Chen promised to be Luo Li’s strongest support, and Luo Li took his hand and promised to have his back too.

Mu Chen and Luo Li became the feared Black and White Duo, raising their Spirit Bodies to Level 8 as they prepared to pursue Level 9 before the Spirit Road Selection ended. Ji Xuan learned Luo Li was with Mu Chen and erupted in jealousy, then regained his composure after Yang Hong intervened.

• Mu Chen and Luo Li spent five months hunting together, rising into the Spirit Road's top ten and advancing to Level 8 Spirit Bodies.
• Ji Xuan heard that Luo Li and Mu Chen had become the Black and White Duo and reacted bitterly to their relationship.
• Ji Xuan's Ancient Heavenly Dragon Eagle possession was revealed: the beast and Ji Xuan had reached a precarious balance after fighting for control of his body.
• Ji Xuan blamed Mu Chen for being with Luo Li, ignoring that he had once chosen the Spirit Treasury over rescuing her.
• Yang Hong urged Ji Xuan to calm down, and Ji Xuan apologized to him and the onlooking followers.

Ji Xuan revealed that his interest in Luo Li had partly served his clan’s ambitions, then planned to attack Mu Chen out of jealousy. Mu Chen and Luo Li chose Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy, while the chapter described the guardian beasts and candidates of the Five Great Academies.

• Ji Xuan told Qiu Beihai and Yang Hong that Luo Li was the heir to the Luo God Clan and admitted he had lost his chance with her.
• Ji Xuan decided to target Mu Chen and summoned his guards to begin arranging an attack.
• Luo Li asked Mu Chen which academy he would attend, and after teasing her, he chose Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy.
• Luo Li said she would join Mu Chen at Northern Heavens, despite having been invited to Wu Ling Academy.
• The chapter outlined the Five Great Academies, their guardian beasts, and the prodigies recruited for the coming academy battle.

Mu Chen and Luo Li faced a series of coordinated attacks and captured Wang Ze to learn who was behind them. Mu Chen tortured him with Black Fire Flying Ants until Wang Ze agreed to confess.

• Mu Chen and Luo Li killed four ambushers, then wondered which enemies had sent them.
• Over the next half-month, the pair survived more than a dozen attacks and realized they were being targeted deliberately.
• Mu Chen and Luo Li defeated another group of attackers, and Mu Chen captured the unconscious Wang Ze for questioning.
• Mu Chen cut Wang Ze's leg and put a Black Fire Flying Ant into the wound.
• Mu Chen released a swarm of Black Fire Flying Ants, and Wang Ze begged for mercy and promised to tell him everything.

After uncovering Ji Xuan’s role in the attacks, Mu Chen and Luo Li waged a fierce counterattack that drove him to gather a large alliance. Their final showdown drew thousands of Spirit Road youths to the Black Demon Forest, where powerful young kings began arriving.

• Mu Chen killed Wang Ze after he and Luo Li questioned Ji Xuan, then learned from Luo Li why Ji Xuan had targeted him.
• Mu Chen rejected Luo Li’s offer to settle the matter herself, and the two attacked Ji Xuan’s strongholds, killing twenty-seven followers and nearly trapping him.
• Ji Xuan summoned his subordinates and allied with other kings, including the Twin Kings of the Shi Family, to form a force of two or three hundred.
• Mu Chen and Luo Li fought the alliance for over half a month, repeatedly striking and evading their larger force as the conflict drew attention across the Spirit Road.
• Thousands gathered at the Black Demon Forest for the final showdown, and Wu Yingying, Wu Ling, Mu Kui, and Bing Qing appeared among the arriving young kings.

The chapter recounted how Martial Ancestor Lin Dong fought the Ice Spirit Clan’s four Heavenly Sovereigns to retrieve Ying Huanhuan’s soul, then introduced the powerful kings gathering at the Black Demon Forest. Wen Qingxuan’s arrival sparked a jealous outburst from Wu Yingying at her brother Wu Ling, and the chapter ended before the confrontation with the Alliance began.

• Martial Ancestor Lin Dong defeated the Ice Spirit Ancestor, Old Man Snow Demon, and Venerable Dragon, then pursued the War Emperor after reclaiming Ying Huanhuan’s soul.
• The Ice Spirit Clan made Ying Huanhuan its chief and later benefited from Martial Ancestor’s rise to power.
• Mu Kui, a peak eighth-grade king of the Wood Spirit Clan, appeared in the north as rumors linked him and Bing Qing to Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy.
• Wen Qingxuan arrived at the Black Demon Forest with a group of young women, drawing the crowd’s attention.
• Wu Yingying asked Wu Ling whether she or Wen Qingxuan was prettier, and Wu Ling answered that Wen Qingxuan was.
• Wu Yingying punched Wu Ling in the stomach and threatened to kill him before he managed to appease her.

Mu Chen and Luo Li faced Ji Xuan’s hunting alliance on the Golden Armored Dragon Tiger Beast’s territory, where Mu Chen revealed he had prepared an ambush. After Golden Armored Dragon Tiger Beast cub blood drenched the alliance, seven members of Mu Chen’s Hundred Spirits Retinue emerged and joined him.

• Qiu Beihai taunted Mu Chen and Luo Li as Ji Xuan’s alliance surrounded them in the Black Demon Forest.
• Ji Xuan accused Mu Chen of leading the alliance to the Golden Armored Dragon Tiger Beast’s territory to use the beast against them.
• Mu Chen played along with Ji Xuan’s accusation while secretly watching the distant horizon.
• Jade bottles burst above the alliance and drenched Ji Xuan and his followers in blood from a Golden Armored Dragon Tiger Beast cub.
• Yang Hong recognized the blood, and the alliance panicked at the prospect of attracting the adult beast.
• Seven Quasi-Kings from the Northern Spiritual Academy greeted Mu Chen as members of his Hundred Spirits Retinue.

Mu Chen exposed how Ji Xuan’s alliance had been infiltrated and lured the Golden Armored Dragon Tiger Beast toward the gathered warriors. Ji Xuan drove it off with the cry of an Ancient Heavenly Dragon Eagle, while Mu Chen recognized the source of his power.

• Ji Xuan realized Zhou Yuan and six other supposed allies were spies planted by Mu Chen, while Mu Chen threw the cub’s Spirit Beast Essence at the adult Golden Armored Dragon Tiger Beast.
• The enraged beast charged toward the alliance, sending its members fleeing as Mu Chen led Luo Li and his companions into the woods.
• Ji Xuan ordered his followers to hold their ground and used a cry infused with the might of the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Eagle to frighten the beast into retreating.
• The alliance cheered Ji Xuan as a hero, and Mu Chen emerged from the woods and praised his performance, recognizing the ancient beast’s power.

Mu Chen exposed Ji Xuan’s possession of the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Eagle, turning the alliance against him, then used poison to cripple most of Ji Xuan’s forces. The fight continued with Ji Xuan’s army badly weakened and Mu Chen still in control of the encounter.

• Mu Chen revealed that Ji Xuan had subdued the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Eagle, prompting the gathered fighters to suspect Ji Xuan had obtained it in the ancient Spirit Treasury.
• Ji Xuan realized Mu Chen had provoked suspicion against him, then tried to rally his alliance and urged them to attack together.
• Mu Chen openly threatened the alliance with revenge, leaving its members convinced they had no choice but to fight.
• As Ji Xuan led the charge, Mu Chen asked whether he had taken anything to ward off poison; more than half the alliance collapsed after being poisoned.
• Ji Xuan accused Mu Chen of using a despicable trick, while Mu Chen reasoned that poison and other outside objects were fair tools in the spiritual-energy plane.

Mu Chen used Sorrowful Crisp Breeze to incapacitate Ji Xuan and the other kings, then tricked Qiu Beihai into swallowing Corrosive Poison Water. After the poison spread among the fallen fighters, Mu Chen revealed that he had visited the world beyond the Dark River.

• Mu Chen explained that he had used Sorrowful Crisp Breeze, which left Ji Xuan and the other kings unable to move.
• Qiu Beihai seized Mu Chen’s porcelain bottle, believing it contained an antidote, and swallowed the Corrosive Poison Water inside.
• Qiu Beihai died as the liquid corroded his insides, while Mu Chen pretended he had handed over the wrong antidote.
• The shattered spatial Spirit Artifact spilled Corrosive Poison Water over the fallen fighters, dissolving several of them.
• Ji Xuan recognized the lethal liquid, and Mu Chen said he had been to the world beyond the Dark River.

Mu Chen slaughtered the survivors of the Corrosive Poison Water disaster while thousands of Spirit Road youths arrived to witness his overwhelming power. He killed the Twin Kings of the Shi Family and charged at Ji Xuan, whose hidden darkness continued to grow.

• Ji Xuan threatened Mu Chen with the wrath of the Five Great Academies, but Mu Chen blamed Qiu Beihai for the Corrosive Poison Water deaths.
• Fang Zhong, Yan Xiao, Yan Ling, Zhou Ling, Wu Yingying, and thousands of Spirit Road youths reached the battlefield and witnessed the aftermath of Mu Chen's attack.
• Mu Chen began killing the remaining survivors, leaving only a handful alive as Ji Xuan struggled to retreat.
• Mu Chen killed three kings, then confronted Shi Jingtian and Shi Hao; he refused Shi Hao's plea to spare his brother and struck down both Shi brothers.
• Mu Chen turned toward Ji Xuan and charged at him as darkness deepened within Ji Xuan's eyes.

Mu Chen’s attack on Ji Xuan prompted a Supreme from the Holy Spirit Academy to intervene, while the Five Great Academies’ leaders watched the disastrous Spirit Road Trial unfold. The chapter ends with the Holy Spirit Academy’s Supreme launching an attack in the hall after seeing Ji Xuan in danger.

• Mu Chen redirected his attack toward Ji Xuan, but a powerful figure emerged from space and separated them, then cleared the Corrosive Poison Water from the battlefield.
• The scene rewound to the great hall, where the Five Great Academies’ Supremes and elders watched Mu Chen’s schemes and Ji Xuan’s setbacks on a screen.
• The observers saw Qiu Beihai unleash Corrosive Poison Water, killing himself and more than a hundred members of the alliance.
• The Holy Spirit Academy called for the battle to be stopped because many of its selected students had died, but Zhu Tian argued that the trial had no rules requiring intervention.
• The Holy Spirit Academy’s Supreme saw Mu Chen ambush Ji Xuan and unleashed spiritual energy in the hall, preparing to intervene.

Wu Tian intervened to halt Mu Chen’s fight with Ji Xuan, while the Five Great Academies’ experts weighed their competing interests. Outside the Spiritual Road, an opponent called for Mu Chen’s execution, and the author’s note clarified changes to the trial timeline and Luo Li’s pursuit.

• Wu Tian arrived with the Mirror of Judgment and ordered Mu Chen to stop attacking Ji Xuan.
• Mu Chen put away his staff, explaining that Ji Xuan had powerful protection and could not easily be killed in the Spiritual Road.
• Luo Li and Mu Chen’s allies stood beside him, and Wu Tian warned him not to act recklessly.
• Ji Xuan urged Wu Tian to kill Mu Chen, but Wu Tian ignored the demand while Mu Chen threatened Ji Xuan again.
• In the ancient hall outside the Spiritual Road, a speaker accused Mu Chen of breaking the rules and proposed executing him.
• The author’s note said Mu Chen’s trial lasted one year instead of two and that Luo Li’s pursuit had been changed.

The Five Great Academies debated punishing Mu Chen for the losses he caused on the Spirit Road, while Elder Zhu Tian fought the Holy Spirit Academy’s proposal. As the vote threatened to strip Mu Chen of his trial qualification, Elder Zhu Tian revealed that Mu Chen’s father was a powerful Sovereign who might be backed by an Earth Sovereign.

• Elder Zhu Tian furiously rejected the white-robed Holy Spirit Academy man’s accusations and blocked his proposal to remove the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy from the Five Great Academies.
• The white-robed man shifted the debate to the losses caused by Mu Chen and proposed expelling him from the Spirit Road, while the Azure Heaven Spiritual Academy Sovereign supported a lesser punishment.
• The Holy Spirit Academy and Azure Heaven Spiritual Academy voted to expel Mu Chen, the Ten Thousand Phoenix Spiritual Academy and Wu Ling Academy abstained, and Elder Zhu Tian hesitated over the Northern Heavens vote.
• A Northern Heavens warrior brought Elder Zhu Tian information about Mu Chen’s background, prompting him to reveal that Mu Chen’s father, Mu Feng, ruled the Hundred Spirit Continent as a Seventh Grade Sovereign and might have an Earth Sovereign backing him.

The Five Great Academies debated Mu Chen’s punishment, weighing his father Mu Feng’s power against their own pride and unity. They voted to strip Mu Chen of his Level 3 Spirit Body, and Wu Tian prepared to announce the decision in the Spirit Road Plane.

• The Five Great Academies’ experts considered whether the Hundred Spirits Royal Clan had an Earth Sovereign backing it, but the white-robed man dismissed the claim as unproven.
• Zhu Tian proposed respecting Mu Feng’s status while still punishing Mu Chen, and the academies voted unanimously to strip Mu Chen of his Level 3 Spirit Body.
• Zhu Tian hoped to win Mu Chen over to Northern Heavens, while the white-robed man believed the punishment would leave Mu Chen unable to benefit much from the Spirit Road Empowerment.
• In the Spirit Road Plane, Wu Tian received a signal through the Mirror of Judgment and rose to announce the Five Great Academies’ decision.

The Five Great Academies accused Mu Chen of breaking the Spirit Road’s rules and ordered his Level 3 Spirit Body stripped, threatening his chance to compete for the Spirit Crown. Mu Chen refused their joint verdict, tore up the order, and openly defied the Supremes.

• Wu Tian announced that Mu Chen would lose three levels of his Spirit Body as punishment for killing over a hundred geniuses.
• Mu Chen stopped Tang Qian'er from challenging Wu Tian and asked what rules he had supposedly broken.
• Mu Chen declared that the Five Great Academies themselves were the Spirit Road’s rules and refused to accept their order.
• Five Supremes arrived, and the Holy Spirit Academy Supreme presented Mu Chen with their joint verdict.
• Mu Chen respectfully took the verdict, tore it into pieces, and defiantly rejected it.