Recaps

Mu Chen rejected the Five Great Academies’ punishment and defied their Supremes before a vast crowd. When a Supreme attacked him, Mu Chen struggled against the overwhelming pressure, and the Supreme of Wanhuang Academy recognized signs of a Level 9 Spirit Body.

• Mu Chen denounced the Five Great Academies’ judgment and said he would rather be expelled from the Spirit Road than accept their punishment.
• The Supremes warned Mu Chen of the consequences, but he refused to yield or show gratitude for their supposed leniency.
• Zhu Tian and the Supreme of Wu Ling Academy fell silent as the crowd watched Mu Chen stand by his claim of innocence.
• The white-robed Supreme attacked Mu Chen with his aura and ordered him to kneel, leaving Zhou Yuan and others struggling under the pressure.
• Mu Chen forced himself to move against the Supreme’s oppressive aura, and the Supreme of Wanhuang Academy wondered whether he had a Level 9 Spirit Body.

Mu Chen unleashed his spirit power and revealed the nine-story Futu Ancient Pagoda, breaking through the plane’s restrictions and advancing into the Divine Soul Realm. The Sovereigns and youths watched in shock as his Spirit Soul Golden Figure formed above the pagoda.

• Wen Qingxuan recognized that Mu Chen had reached a Level 9 Spirit Body and wanted to fight him.
• The white-robed Sovereign tried to seize Mu Chen, but a column of spirit power erupted from him and knocked the Sovereign’s hand away.
• Mu Chen broke through the Pagoda God Art to its third realm, Pagoda Transformation, and summoned a nine-story ancient pagoda.
• Mu Chen drew on spirit-power crystals within his spiritual sea, using the pagoda’s power to break through the realms.
• Mu Chen formed a Spirit Soul Golden Figure above the Futu Ancient Pagoda and entered the Divine Soul Realm.

Mu Chen reached the Spirit Soul Realm ahead of the other Spiritual Road youths, but a mysterious hand erased the Holy Spirit Academy guardian and took him away. Luo Li understood his silent promise to return and remembered how he had entrusted her with his Blood-Colored Token.

• Mu Chen revealed that he had reached the Spirit Soul Realm, leaving the youths and Sovereigns stunned by his achievement.
• The Holy Spirit Academy guardian attacked Mu Chen, but a crystalline hand emerged from a spatial rift, erased the guardian from existence, and carried Mu Chen away.
• The frozen world resumed, and Zhu Tian, the other Sovereigns, and the surviving youths feared the power behind Mu Chen.
• Luo Li recalled Mu Chen silently telling her to wait for him as the mysterious hand took him away.
• More than half a month earlier, Mu Chen had promised Luo Li he would return and secretly placed his Blood-Colored Token in her hand.

After leaving the Spirit Road, Mu Chen returned to the Hundred Spirits Capital and learned that envoys from the Five Great Academies had come to recruit him. He and Mu Feng weighed their offers, while Mu Feng vowed to support the Northern Spiritual Academy against the Holy Spirit Academy.

• After the bloodshed, Ji Xuan was left furious and humiliated, while Luo Li ignored him and Mu Chen departed.
• In the final month of the Spirit Road Trial, Luo Li defeated Ji Xuan, Wen Qingxuan, Wu Ling, and the other contenders to claim the Spirit Crown and its Spirit Power Empowerment.
• Nearly two years later, Mu Chen returned to the Hundred Spirits Capital with the Mysterious Black Paper and Immortal Page, having awakened a fragment of A-Jing's thought and forced back a Sovereign.
• A palace guard told Mu Chen that envoys from the Five Great Academies had arrived and that Mu Feng had ordered him to come at once.
• Mu Chen and Mu Feng sent off the envoys without accepting an invitation, deciding to weigh each academy's sincerity and offers.
• After Mu Chen explained what had happened on the Spirit Road, Mu Feng cursed the Holy Spirit Academy and vowed to help the Northern Spiritual Academy challenge the Five Great Academies.

After hearing about Mu Chen’s Spirit Road journey, Mu Feng praised his son and asked what spirit beast he planned to refine. Mu Chen chose to stabilize his new Divine Soul Realm first, then entered Hundred Spirit Heaven to cultivate in seclusion and catch up with the Spirit Road’s strongest kings.

• Mu Feng praised Mu Chen and asked which spirit beast he would refine, but Mu Chen said he would stabilize his realm before choosing one.
• Mu Chen told Mu Feng he wanted to cultivate in Hundred Spirit Heaven because he needed to close the gap with the Spirit Road’s strongest kings before the Five Great Academies’ admissions.
• Mu Feng opened a rift to Hundred Spirit Heaven and sent Mu Chen inside.
• Mu Chen experienced the dense spiritual energy in the half-plane and began cultivating in the Level 9 Spirit Gathering Array his mother had prepared for him.

Mu Chen unlocked his Eight Spirit Veins and advanced his cultivation while studying the Immortal Record's remnant page in Hundred Spirit Heaven. After King Mu Feng found a Nine Nether Sparrow undergoing Nirvana in the Black Nether Abyss, Mu Chen prepared to go there before leaving for the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy.

• Mu Chen's cultivation revealed that he had unlocked eight Spirit Veins and possessed a nine-petaled Futu Ancient Pagoda.
• During his fifth month in Hundred Spirit Heaven, Mu Chen stabilized and improved his Divine Soul Realm cultivation, reached the second level as a Spirit Array Master, and studied the Immortal Page.
• A spiritual-energy bird delivered a message from Mu Feng, summoning Mu Chen from Hundred Spirit Heaven.
• King Mu Feng told Mu Chen that a Nine Nether Sparrow was undergoing Nirvana in the Black Nether Abyss.
• Mu Chen agreed to leave for the Black Nether Abyss soon, ahead of his departure for the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy.

Liu Jingshan emerged from years of seclusion after breaking into the Heaven Melting Realm, expecting to reclaim his ambitions, but his loud arrival provoked the royal city's defenses. He ended the chapter surrounded by elite forces and panicking as Liu Qingtian rushed to deal with the disturbance.

• Mu Feng received Liu Qingtian at court and asked him to make arrangements before accompanying him.
• A spiritual-energy eruption at the Liu family residence revealed that Liu Jingshan had broken through to the Heaven Melting Realm.
• Liu Jingshan announced his return and ordered his clansmen to summon Liu Qingtian, Liu Zong, and Liu Ming.
• Liu Qingtian heard Liu Jingshan's voice and hurried toward the residence, fearing the commotion would anger Mu Feng.
• The royal city's furious defense forces surrounded Liu Jingshan, who shrank back in alarm.

Liu Qingtian arrived to take charge of the crisis caused by his father Liu Jingshan, who had mistakenly believed his family was still in the Northern Spiritual Realm. Liu Qingtian killed his father, declared him an impostor, and the Liu family backed the cover story as Zhou Ye watched from the city wall.

• The garrison surrounded the Liu family residence and began arresting people, while Liu Jingshan panicked at the sight of powerful experts.
• Liu Qingtian arrived with the King's verbal order, and the garrison commander withdrew after requiring him to complete the proper paperwork.
• Liu Jingshan learned that he was in the Hundred Spirits Royal Capital and assumed Liu Qingtian had conquered the Northern Spiritual Realm.
• Liu Qingtian stabbed and killed Liu Jingshan, then announced that an impostor claiming to be a Liu ancestor had been put to death.
• Liu Yang tried to reach his grandfather, but Liu Mubai and the other Liu brothers insisted that Liu Jingshan had died years earlier and that the dead man was an impostor.
• Zhou Ye told an old companion that Liu Qingtian had sacrificed his father to demonstrate the Liu family's loyalty.

Mu Feng and Mu Chen led elite troops into the Black Nether Abyss to find the Nine Nether Sparrow as it recovered inside an active volcano. Mu Chen reached the creature and began talking with its avatar, ending with a bold claim that the entire continent belonged to him.

• Mu Feng dismissed Liu Qingtian from the mission and sent him to bury his father, then chose Duan Wei to accompany him and Mu Chen to the Northern Spiritual Realm.
• Mu Feng, Mu Chen, and their Heaven Melting Realm troops fought through spirit beasts and reached the Nameless Basin, where Duan Wei recognized signs of the Nine Nether Sparrow's immense power.
• Mu Chen went ahead alone to the volcano while Mu Feng reassured Duan Wei that his son had his own plan.
• Mu Chen blocked the Nine Nether Sparrow's attack with a spirit array, prompting the bird to appear as a small avatar and recognize him as a second-level Spirit Array Master.
• Mu Chen objected when the Nine Nether Sparrow called the Northern Spiritual Realm barren and declared that both the region and the entire continent belonged to him.

Mu Chen offered to help the Nine Nether Sparrow survive her Divine Transformation Tribulation and evolve into a Nine Nether Underworld Sparrow. He revealed the Northern Abyss Dragon Kun’s blood essence, which he had obtained through the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy, and offered it to her.

• Mu Chen recognized the Nine Nether Sparrow’s clan and asked which form she was evolving toward.
• The Nine Nether Sparrow said she was striving to become a Nine Nether Underworld Sparrow and revealed that she had attempted evolution twice.
• Mu Chen pointed out that she had drained the life force of countless beasts for her tribulation and warned that her chances of surviving were poor.
• Mu Chen produced a crystal orb containing the Northern Abyss Dragon Kun’s divine beast blood essence and said it could help awaken her Undying Bird Bloodline.
• Mu Chen explained that the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy had provided the costly blood essence after he requested it, intending to use it to win over the Nine Nether Sparrow.

Mu Chen pressured the Nine Nether Sparrow into agreeing to a Bloodline Link by revealing his formidable family backing and withholding the ancient divine beast essence it needed. The sparrow agreed but privately planned to undo the pact later, and Mu Chen reminded it that the rite required their true bodies.

• Mu Chen named Bloodline Link as the favor he wanted, and the Nine Nether Sparrow rejected the proposal.
• The chapter explained that Bloodline Link shared lifespan, abilities, cultivation, and life between willing partners, making it a mutually beneficial but dangerous pact.
• The Nine Nether Sparrow claimed its position as Young Clan Leader meant its clan would forbid linking with an outsider, but Mu Chen said he could handle the pressure.
• Mu Chen introduced his father, the King of Hundred Spirits, and implied that his mother could take on ten Nine Nether Sparrow Clans.
• The Nine Nether Sparrow tried to postpone the link until after its tribulation, but Mu Chen withheld the ancient divine beast essence it needed, so it agreed.
• Mu Chen pointed out that the rite required their true bodies, since the sparrow before him was only an avatar carrying a wisp of its consciousness.

Mu Chen and Jiu You completed Bloodline Link, and Mu Chen discovered that their cultivation realms were linked. Jiu You swallowed the Northern Abyss Dragon Kun’s blood essence and revealed her true form, drawing the Black God Lightning Cloud as she approached the Supreme Realm.

• Jiu You formed the Bloodline Link with Mu Chen, and they sensed a bond that let them share thoughts and power.
• Mu Chen advanced to the late stage of the Divine Soul Realm, but explained that he had already been ready to break through and had been strengthening his foundations.
• Mu Chen gave Jiu You the Northern Abyss Dragon Kun’s blood essence, and she flew away with it.
• Jiu You swallowed the blood essence and expanded into her colossal true form, revealing her power after crossing the Three Small Tribulations of the Supreme.
• The Black God Lightning Cloud gathered above Jiu You, and nearby beasts fled toward the outskirts of the Black Nether Abyss.

The Nine Nether Sparrow endured the Black God Lightning Tribulation and awakened her ancient bloodline, transforming into the Nine Nether Underworld Sparrow and attaining divine-beast Sovereign status. After she took human form, Mu Chen hurried to cover her with a dress.

• King of Hundred Spirits withdrew with his descendants and subordinates to keep them from interfering with the Nine Nether Sparrow's tribulation.
• The Nine Nether Sparrow battled the Black God Lightning Tribulation for more than half a day as her life force and ancient bloodline grew stronger.
• The final lightning faded, and a pillar of pure essence healed the Nine Nether Sparrow and completed her transformation into the Nine Nether Underworld Sparrow.
• The Nine Nether Underworld Sparrow absorbed her flames and began taking human form as the tribulation ended.
• Mu Chen used their Bloodline Link to see her naked form and rushed over with a dress, while the Bailing experts turned away.

Jiu You reached Third Grade Sovereign and returned to her egg form, while Mu Chen used their Bloodline Link to improve his cultivation and devised a way to conceal his Primordial Clan bloodline. Six months after the Spirit Road, Mu Chen arrived at the Northern Spiritual Academy for enrollment at the Five Great Academies, where his Core Quota had already been secured.

• Jiu You emerged in a new dress, teased Mu Chen, and transformed back into her mysterious black egg.
• Mu Chen received power through the Bloodline Link and reached the peak of the Divine Soul Realm, but suppressed the breakthrough he did not want.
• During the final month, Mu Chen infused his spiritual energy with the Nine Nether Underworld Fire to strengthen it and hide his Primordial Clan bloodline.
• Enrollment day arrived, and the Northern Spiritual Academy gathered to send off students selected for the Five Great Academies; Mu Chen already held the continent's sole Core Quota.
• Mu Chen arrived at the academy with two renowned beauties, drawing excited cheers and admiration from the crowd.

Mu Chen and the other selected youths left the Northern Spiritual Academy and arrived at the Northern Heavens Realm to begin the academy’s month-long freshman trial. Mu Chen was transported alone to a reception platform, where a woman named Lu Lou approached him.

• Hong Ling and Tang Qian'er said farewell to Mu Chen and promised to meet him at the Academy Tournament.
• Dean Xiao wished the departing students well as they entered teleportation arrays bound for the Five Great Spirit Academies.
• The freshmen learned that they had to raise their Spirit Seals during a trial and reach at least Level Four to avoid elimination.
• Mu Chen arrived alone on a crowded reception platform after being separated from his friends during teleportation.
• Lu Lou introduced herself to Mu Chen and approached him with a charming smile.

Mu Chen entered the Northern Heavens freshman trial with a Level 5 Spirit Seal and a Core Quota, then defeated and stripped the marks from the students at the Reception Grounds. He began racing through the trial and, after linking bloodlines with the Nine Nether Underworld Sparrow, killed a powerful Golden Crocodile.

• Lu Lou welcomed Mu Chen and led him to the stele, where he received a dark-gold Level 5 Spirit Seal and revealed his Core Quota.
• Mu Chen demanded the marks of everyone at the Reception Grounds, then defeated the crowd and absorbed their Spirit Seals, raising his own mark to Level 6.
• Mu Chen left the students behind and flew away on black-flame wings.
• Mu Chen used abilities gained through his Bloodline Link with the Nine Nether Underworld Sparrow to hunt spirit beasts and gather treasures during the trial.
• Mu Chen roasted meat beside the carcass of a Golden Crocodile he had killed with ease.

Mu Chen rescued Sun'er from a pack of Flame Leopards with a Spirit Binding Array, then joked that he would take her Spirit Seal before returning it. As they shared roasted meat, Sun'er told him about her Spirit Array skills and her older sister, Ye Qingling.

• Mu Chen sensed trouble while cooking Golden Crocodile tail and rushed into the forest.
• A pack of Flame Leopards chased Sun'er until Mu Chen used a Spirit Binding Array to kill them.
• Sun'er searched for her rescuer, and Mu Chen startled her before pretending to rob her of her Level 4 Spirit Seal.
• Mu Chen returned Sun'er's seal and brought her back to his campfire, where she ate roast meat.
• Sun'er told Mu Chen that she was a Level 2 Spirit Array Master and that her sister Ye Qingling was a Divine Soul Realm expert who had nearly earned a Quasi-King position in the Spirit Road Selection.

Mu Chen used spirit creations and a Soul Bewildering Array to protect Sun'er from the Ge Gang, who had pursued her for her Spirit Seal. He left Ge Qing and his men trapped among Black Tiger Spirit Beasts while Sun'er celebrated learning the array.

• Sun'er used a Spirit Disk to locate her sister, and Mu Chen sent out black sparrow spirit creations to scout and relay her location.
• Ge Qing and four Ge Gang fighters emerged and demanded that Mu Chen hand Sun'er over, revealing they had staged the Flame Leopard attack to target her Spirit Seal.
• Ge Qing ordered his men to ambush Mu Chen at close range, but their attacks struck illusions by the bonfire and exposed them to more than twenty Black Tiger Spirit Beasts.
• Mu Chen revealed that he and Sun'er had watched from a tree and praised her for learning to use the Soul Bewildering Array.
• Sun'er shyly admitted she had little combat experience because she was timid and had secretly joined the freshman trial.

Mu Chen and Sun'er ambushed Ge Qing's group, collected their Spiritual Energy Marks, and learned that Ge Qing's brother was Ge Hai, the leader of Ge Gang. After Mu Chen sent a survivor to summon Ge Hai, the chapter ended with Ge Hai asking the messenger for the attacker’s name.

• Mu Chen lured Black Tiger Spirit Beasts into Ge Qing's group, and Ge Qing and one companion escaped after most of their fighters were killed.
• Mu Chen trapped Ge Qing and his companion in a Spirit Binding Array, raising his Spirit Seal to Level 7, while Sun'er raised hers to Level 5.
• Ge Qing revealed that his brother Ge Hai led Ge Gang, and Mu Chen recognized him as an old Spirit Road rival.
• Mu Chen released Ge Qing's companion and ordered him to fetch Ge Hai, then kept Ge Qing captive as bait.
• The messenger returned to Ge Gang's camp, where Ge Hai looked up from his sword and demanded to know the attacker's name.

Ge Hai learned that Mu Chen had returned and fled with the Ge Gang rather than risk confronting him. After Mu Chen killed Ge Qing, a woman in an apricot-yellow dress arrived and reunited with Sun'er.

• Ge Hai recognized Mu Chen's name, killed a subordinate who suggested besieging him, and ordered the Ge Gang to evacuate.
• Ge Hai refused to return for his sworn brother Qing and mocked a subordinate who asked about him.
• After waiting two days for Ge Hai, Mu Chen killed Ge Qing and noticed a group approaching with the help of his black bird.
• A woman in an apricot-yellow dress arrived, and Sun'er ran into her arms as they reunited.

Mu Chen reunited with Ye Qingling and Sun'er, then asked the Ye Gang to spread word of his return through the Northern Heavens Realm. The news sent Spirit Road veterans into an uproar.

• Wang Sheng thanked Mu Chen for saving Sun'er, and Ye Qingling recognized him as King Mu and knelt in respect.
• Ye Qingling recalled Mu Chen's exploits on the Spirit Road, while Sun'er struggled to believe the gentle youth was the rumored Blood Disaster.
• Mu Chen denied being the Blood Disaster and blamed Qiu Beihai, and Ye Qingling stayed silent rather than correct him.
• Mu Chen asked Ye Qingling to look for Luo Li and to announce his return across the Northern Heavens Realm.
• The Ye Gang spread the news, alarming the human elites who had taken part in the Spirit Road Trial.

Mu Chen learned that a Spirit Soul Yin-Yang Ganoderma could help him perfect his Spirit Soul cultivation and break through to the Heaven Melting Realm, so he went to claim it. After killing its three guardians, he trapped the Yang Gang and Zhou Gang leaders and their warriors inside the valley.

• Ye Qingling told Mu Chen about the Spirit Soul Yin-Yang Ganoderma guarded by three high-grade spirit beasts southwest of their location.
• Yang Gong and Zhou Li’s gangs camped near the valley, unable to agree on how to divide the treasure if they joined forces against its guardians.
• A mysterious figure with black-flame wings attacked the valley and killed all three blue raptors with a single Samsara Death Seal.
• Yang Gong and Zhou Li rushed into the valley with their warriors, recognized the mysterious figure as a peak Divine Soul Realm expert, and tried to flee.
• The mysterious figure warned that anyone who left the valley would die and sealed its entrance with a powerful Spirit Array, leaving Yang Gong and Zhou Li trapped.

Mu Chen consumed the Spirit Soul Yin-Yang Ganoderma and broke through to the Heaven Melting Realm. After the gangs guarding him fled, Chu Qi and Fang Zhong arrived, and Mu Chen prepared to fight Chu Qi over his threat concerning Luo Li.

• Mu Chen took the Spirit Seals from the Yang Gang and Zhou Gang, ate the Spirit Soul Yin-Yang Ganoderma, and advanced his Spirit Seal to level eight.
• Mu Chen broke through from the Divine Soul Realm to the Heaven Melting Realm, but discovered that Yang Gong, Zhou Li, and their gangs had fled.
• Chu Qi and Fang Zhong arrived after Yang Gong and Zhou Li reported Mu Chen's whereabouts, and Chu Qi challenged Mu Chen to a fight.
• Chu Qi told Mu Chen to stay away from Emperor Luo and claimed that neither he nor Mu Chen was worthy of her.
• Mu Chen declared that he had changed his mind and would scatter Chu Qi's ashes.

Mu Chen defeated Chu Qi with Jiu You’s power, then spared Fang Zhong in exchange for his Spirit Seal and beast essence soul. After absorbing the spoils, Mu Chen’s Spirit Seal advanced to Level Nine, and he considered hunting stronger beasts in Ice Cold Valley.

• Chu Qi summoned his Green-Eyed Golden Crystal Beast and attacked Mu Chen with the Golden Crystal Divine Fist.
• Mu Chen manifested Jiu You, whose strike shattered Chu Qi’s beast essence soul and killed him, while Mu Chen seized Chu Qi’s Level Seven Spirit Seal.
• Fang Zhong offered information about the Ice Profound Spirit Flood Dragon and the Ice God Tree in Ice Cold Valley in exchange for his life.
• Mu Chen demanded Fang Zhong’s Spiritual Energy Mark and Spirit Beast Essence Soul, and Fang Zhong surrendered them before fleeing.
• Mu Chen absorbed both Level Seven Spirit Seals and both beast essence souls, advancing his mark to Level Nine.

Xie Guan, Wu Hu, and Qin Zheng gathered Divine Soul Realm experts at Ice Cold Valley to hunt the Ice Profound Spirit Flood Dragon and claim its treasures. Before they could organize, the dragon clashed with the Earth Core Flame Dragon Lizard, and the crowd waited for the beasts to weaken each other.

• Xie Guan, Wu Hu, and Qin Zheng assembled nearly a hundred Divine Soul Realm experts near Ice Cold Valley while thousands of other students gathered to watch.
• The Ice Profound Spirit Flood Dragon guarded the Ice God Tree and waited for its fruit to ripen so it could advance.
• The Earth Core Flame Dragon Lizard burst from the magma and wounded the Ice Profound Spirit Flood Dragon with a surprise attack.
• The Ice Profound Spirit Flood Dragon and the Earth Core Flame Dragon Lizard exchanged freezing winds and magma attacks as the crowd rushed to watch.
• Xie Guan and the gathered experts saw a chance to profit after the two Heavenly Beasts fought each other.