Recaps

The academies ignited enough Academy Tokens to open the Golden Space and begin the final stage of the tournament, while Mu Chen suggested there would be no final showdown. At the gathering of academy leaders, Dean Tiansheng learned that Ji Xuan had been killed and vowed to take revenge on Mu Chen.

• Liu Qingyun ordered Azure Heaven Spiritual Academy to ignite its Academy Token, bringing the number of participating teams to eleven.
• Wen Busheng, Ten Thousand Sword Spiritual Academy, East Sea Spiritual Academy, and finally Lin Zhou’s Desolate Spiritual Academy ignited their tokens, opening the Golden Space.
• Mu Kui questioned whether the final tournament was worthwhile, and Mu Chen replied that there would be no final tournament.
• The leaders of the Five Great Academies and other Spiritual Academies gathered in the Golden Space, with Heavenly Saint presiding.
• Dean Tiansheng learned that Ji Xuan and all four Holy Sons of Holy Spirit Academy were dead, then vowed to kill Mu Chen.

Dean Tiansheng demanded that Mu Chen be handed over for killing four Holy Sons, but the other academy leaders upheld the tournament’s life-or-death rules. When Mu Chen arrived, Tiansheng summoned the Holy Spirit Academy’s guardian, Lord Holy Dragon, through a gigantic sacred gate.

• Dean Tai Cang refused Tiansheng’s demand to surrender Mu Chen, and the two Fifth Grade Supremes summoned their Dharma Bodies before Dean Tiansong and Heavenly King Wu intervened.
• Heavenly King Wu, Dean Tiansong, and Dean Tang Qiu backed Tai Cang and insisted that the Academy Tournament’s rules applied to every academy.
• Tiansheng accused the other academies of secretly joining forces to hunt Ji Xuan’s team and warned that his Holy Spirit Academy had prepared for them.
• Mu Chen and the seven other remaining teams arrived on the central battle platform, and Mu Chen cheerfully waved to the crowd without realizing the tense situation.
• Tiansheng crushed a white jade shard and summoned Lord Holy Dragon as a thousand-zhang sacred gate opened and released a flood of Holy Spirit energy.

Mu Chen's mother appeared at the Academy Tournament and effortlessly subdued the Radiant Holy Dragon, revealing herself as the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy's hidden powerhouse. The deans realized she was the mysterious woman who had intervened on the Spiritual Road three years earlier, while Tai Cang remained unaware of the assumptions they were making about him.

• The Holy Spirit Academy's officials welcomed the Radiant Holy Dragon through a portal into the Golden Space.
• A mysterious woman appeared, revealed the Radiant Holy Dragon in her grasp, and showed that its power was sealed.
• The woman shrank the newly ascended Upper Earth Sovereign dragon into a little snake and said she could give it to her husband to guard the house.
• Mu Chen called out to the woman as his mother, and she praised how much he had grown.
• The Five Great Academies' deans recognized her as the woman who had killed a Holy Spirit Academy Sovereign on the Spiritual Road three years earlier and grew wary of Tai Cang.

Qing Yanjing killed Heavenly Saint and drove off the Holy Spirit Academy’s powerful backing after the Vice Dean summoned them. She then wiped out the academy’s remaining leadership and planned to give the captured Radiant Holy Dragon to her husband.

• The Heir complained to Qing Yanjing that Heavenly Saint had bullied him, and Qing Yanjing crushed Heavenly Saint to death.
• The Holy Spirit Academy’s Vice Dean summoned the force backing the academy by crushing a token.
• Three Heavenly Sovereigns arrived, but Qing Yanjing fought them and drove them away.
• Qing Yanjing asked whether the Holy Spirit Academy had any other backing forces, then killed its remaining Supreme Elders and the visiting academy officials.
• Qing Yanjing spared the Radiant Holy Dragon and planned to give it to her husband.

After Qing Yanjing destroyed the Holy Spirit Academy’s standing, she proposed Mu Spirit Academy as its replacement among the Five Great Academies. Mu Feng revealed his Earth Sovereign strength and received the Radiant Holy Dragon as a mount, while Mu Chen promised to find Mu Spirit Academy a guardian beast in the Nine Nether World.

• Qing Yanjing declared that the Holy Spirit Academy was relinquishing its place among the Five Great Academies and proposed Mu Spirit Academy as its successor.
• Qing Yanjing summoned Dean Xiao, Instructor Xi, and Teacher Mo to present Mu Spirit Academy’s senior staff before the gathered academies.
• Mu Feng appeared in the Golden Space and introduced himself as King of Hundred Spirits, revealing that he had reached the Earth Sovereign level.
• Qing Yanjing gave Mu Feng the Radiant Holy Dragon as a mount after planting a Micro Spirit Array in its Spirit Soul.
• Mu Chen promised to travel to the Nine Nether World in a few years and bring back a Nine Nether Flame Sparrow or Nine Nether Cold Sparrow for Mu Spirit Academy.

After the Academy Tournament was suspended and Mu Spirit Academy replaced Holy Spirit Academy among the Five Great Academies, Mu Chen reunited with his mother, Qing Yanjing, through her fading spiritual projection. She promised that their family would reunite within several years and revealed that she was preparing to take control of the Buddha Ancient Clan.

• The Academy Tournament was suspended after the Holy Spirit Academy team was wiped out, its leaders were killed, and its Guardian Beast was captured; Mu Spirit Academy took its place among the Five Great Academies.
• Qing Yanjing's spiritual projection appeared before Mu Chen and the reunited Hundred Spirits Royal Clan, and she called Mu Chen over to see her son.
• King of Hundred Spirits reminded Qing Yanjing that her projection was fading, while Mu Chen explained how he and Mu Feng had helped Mu Spirit Academy take down Holy Spirit Academy.
• Mu Chen asked when their family could be together, and Qing Yanjing predicted it would happen within four to eight years after her complaint to the Buddha Ancient Clan's ancestral weapon succeeded.
• Qing Yanjing's efforts had stirred the Spirit of the Futu Ancient Pagoda, which was nearing awakening and could help her challenge Futu Xuan's rule of the Buddha Ancient Clan.

Qing Yanjing met Luo Li and teased Mu Chen about his future wives before her spirit body vanished. Back in the Northern Heavens Continent, Mu Chen visited Ling Xi and spent the night with her after returning without the Academy Tournament championship.

• Qing Yanjing welcomed Luo Li, praised her, and warned Mu Chen not to bully her before she cultivated the Luo God Dharma Body.
• Qing Yanjing's spirit body vanished, and Mu Feng prepared to handle the remaining matters.
• The four victorious expeditionary teams and Northern Heavens officials returned to a grand welcome after Holy Spirit Academy was defeated and Mu Spirit Academy took its place.
• Mu Chen visited Ling Xi at Ling Xi Courtyard, where she embraced him and said she would punish him for failing to win the tournament championship.
• Mu Chen and Ling Xi spent the night together, and he left her courtyard at dawn.

Mu Chen advanced to the Fourth Grade Sovereign realm, while Luo Li reached the late Second Grade after her seclusion. Luo Tianshen arrived at Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy to take Luo Li back, and his displeasure at seeing Mu Chen holding her hand left their reunion tense.

• Mu Chen's breakthrough to the Fourth Grade Sovereign realm caused Jiu You to advance to the Sixth Grade through their Bloodline Link.
• Jiu You left to meet Mu Chen and the others after Bei Ming Long Kun told her the Academy Tournament was over.
• Luo Li emerged from seclusion at the late stage of the Second Grade Sovereign level, then spent half a month with Mu Chen.
• Luo Tianshen arrived at Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy with more than a hundred Thunder Crane Legion riders, and Dean Tai Cang welcomed him.
• Luo Tianshen spotted Luo Li holding Mu Chen's hand, and his kindly smile disappeared as anger flashed in his eyes.

Luo Tianshen arrived at the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy to bring Luo Li back to the struggling Luo God Clan, while testing Mu Chen and confronting the academy’s Earth Sovereign protectors. Luo Li agreed to return with her grandfather and departed through a spatial passage, leaving Mu Chen behind.

• Luo Tianshen tested Mu Chen with his pressure, but Mu Chen resisted with the power of his treasures.
• The Academy Guardian and the Northern Abyss Dragon Kun arrived, and the Dragon Kun warned Luo Tianshen against taking his anger out on the younger generation.
• Luo Tianshen asked Luo Li to return to the Luo God Clan, and she agreed after recognizing how much her people needed her.
• Luo Qingya and Luo Xiu pledged themselves as Luo Li’s knights, while Luo Qingya brought her a Thunder Swallowing Crane.
• Luo Li waved goodbye to Mu Chen and left with the Thunder Crane Knights through a spatial passage.

Luo Tianshen challenged Mu Chen over his relationship with Luo Li, but Mu Chen’s father Mu Feng arrived with a powerful Radiant Holy Dragon and defended his son. Ling Xi then appeared and intimidated Luo Tianshen, leaving him facing the full weight of Mu Chen’s powerful allies.

• Luo Tianshen questioned Mu Chen about Luo Li’s identity and tried to make him give up their relationship.
• Mu Feng arrived atop a Radiant Holy Dragon and asked Luo Tianshen why he had come to trouble his son.
• Luo Tianshen began to reconsider his approach after seeing Mu Feng and the dragon’s strength, but still refused to bless the young couple.
• Ling Xi appeared after hearing that someone was bullying Mu Chen and introduced herself to Luo Tianshen.
• Ling Xi unleashed her aura on Luo Tianshen, forcing him to acknowledge that he could not have matched her even in his prime.

Mu Chen and Jiu You left the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy early to travel to the Tianluo Continent and pursue the next stage of the Great Solar Undying Body. After reaching the prosperous Shang Continent, they headed for an auction house while Jiu You teased Mu Chen about his interest in beautiful women.

• Dean Tai Cang introduced Elder Ling Xi, prompting Luo Tianshen to abandon his test of Mu Chen and leave after praising the academy.
• Ling Xi explained that only a Heavenly Sovereign could cure Luo Tianshen's long-standing Blood Demon Poison, and Mu Chen comforted her.
• Mu Feng accepted an invitation to visit the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy, while Mu Chen and Jiu You departed half a month later.
• Shen Cangsheng, Li Xuantong, Su Xuan, He Yao, and other Heaven Ranking experts announced their early graduation, and Ling Xi resigned to travel with Mu Feng before pursuing the Grandmaster realm.
• Ling Xi used a long-distance Teleportation Spirit Array to send Mu Chen and Jiu You toward the Tianluo Continent, and they reached the Shang Continent a month later.
• Jiu You teased Mu Chen about the beauty of a white-robed youth they saw arguing over a stolen fruit, then awarded him only eighty points out of ten thousand for his interest in women.

Mu Chen met Lin Jing, the disguised daughter of Martial Ancestor Lin Dong, but mistook her for an ordinary young woman and left without learning her true identity. He and Jiu You then stayed in Commerce City until the Central Auction House’s large auction was ready to begin.

• Mu Chen bought Lin Jing a Century Vermilion Fruit after she admitted she had no money with her.
• Lin Jing introduced herself, and Mu Chen guessed she was Martial Ancestor Lin Dong’s daughter, but she denied it and he accepted her explanation.
• Mu Chen left Lin Jing, then told Jiu You that she was the little princess of the Martial Border, which Jiu You laughed off.
• Mu Chen and Jiu You waited in Commerce City for several days before heading to the Central Auction House.

Lin Jing was harassed by Liu Ming outside the Central Auction House until Mu Chen intervened and helped her escape the encounter. After Liu Ming left, Lin Jing revealed that Xuantian Hall might be in serious danger if she reported the incident to the Heavenly Profound Hall.

• Liu Ming blocked Lin Jing's way and tried to persuade her to travel with him, while she angrily refused.
• Liu Ming invoked his father Liu Tiandao's status, causing the onlookers to back away from confronting him.
• Mu Chen arrived and pretended Lin Jing was his younger sister, while Jiu You's presence made Liu Ming reconsider and leave.
• Lin Jing thanked Mu Chen, who warned her that Liu Ming's father was an Earth Sovereign and that she should be careful.
• Lin Jing dismissed the threat and pointed out that the Heavenly Profound Hall could retaliate against Xuantian Hall if she reported the encounter.

Mu Chen brought Lin Jing into the Central Auction House and watched the Fairy Heart Fox’s charm technique falter when it touched the mysterious power in his eyes. The auction had not yet begun, and Lin Jing wondered why the Immortal Fox Sect sounded familiar.

• Mu Chen agreed to take Lin Jing inside if she called him big brother, then paid her entrance fee and gave her three thousand drops of Supreme Spiritual Liquid.
• Mu Chen, Jiu You, and Lin Jing bought VIP seats at the Central Auction House, where Jiu You identified members of Skull Demon Mountain.
• The Fairy Heart Fox entered with an escort, drawing the crowd’s attention with her beauty and charm.
• The Fairy Heart Fox’s Immortal Fox Great Technique broke when Mu Chen’s gaze summoned the image of an Ancient Undying Bird, leaving her shaken and wary of him.
• Jiu You approved of Mu Chen’s response, while Lin Jing wondered why the Immortal Fox Sect sounded familiar.

Lin Jing joined Mu Chen and Jiu You at Commerce City's auction, where her aggressive bid for Heavenly Fire Jade Essence revealed that she was refining a powerful Supreme Dharma Body. The auction continued as her companions wondered about her true strength and background.

• Lin Jing recalled that Lady Immortal Fox had once tried to seduce Martial Ancestor, prompting Mu Chen to admire his romantic exploits and Jiu You to kick him for his reaction.
• Master Mo Qing opened Commerce City's auction by presenting a Space Ship, which a low-level Sovereign bought for more than three thousand drops of Supreme Spiritual Liquid.
• Mo Qing offered Heavenly Fire Jade Essence, and Lin Jing immediately bid three thousand drops, using all the Supreme Spiritual Liquid she had been given.
• Lin Jing claimed she needed the jade essence for a Heavenly Jade Dharma Body ranked sixty-third, though she was actually refining a much higher-ranked one.
• Jiu You praised Lin Jing's claimed achievement, while Mu Chen privately doubted her explanation.

At the auction, Mu Chen helped Lin Jing secure Heavenly Fire Jade Essence and revealed he had several other materials she needed to refine her Heavenly Jade Dharma Body. Lin Jing gave Mu Chen a Protective Spirit Jade, then showed him and Jiu You her collection of powerful protective artifacts.

• Liu Ming outbid Lin Jing for the Heavenly Fire Jade Essence, and Mu Chen supplied her with a higher-quality piece of his own.
• Lin Jing thanked Mu Chen and called him her real big brother after he gave her the treasure.
• Mu Chen told Lin Jing he had earth, wind, light, and darkness jade essences, bringing her close to collecting half the main materials she needed.
• Lin Jing gave Mu Chen a Protective Spirit Jade that could withstand an Earth Sovereign's full-strength attack.
• Lin Jing produced a handful of additional protective artifacts, leaving Mu Chen and Jiu You stunned by her wealth.

Mu Chen and Liu Ming competed over the Void Great Sun Fruit, and Liu Ming later set his guards against Mu Chen and his companions. When the auction presented the Nine Dragons Nine Elephants Art, Liu Ming declared that Xuantian Hall would claim it, hoping to use it to surpass his brother.

• Lin Jing gave Jiu You a protective hairpin Spirit Artifact that could withstand an Eighth Grade Sovereign's attack.
• Mu Chen let Liu Ming win the bidding for the Void Great Sun Fruit after raising the price to ten thousand drops of Supreme Spiritual Liquid.
• Liu Ming ordered his Fifth Grade Supreme subordinate to take Mu Chen and his companions out beyond the city.
• Master Mo Qing presented the incomplete Nine Dragons Nine Elephants Art, which might surpass a Great Perfection Divine Art and rival a divine ability.
• Fairy Heart Fox listened to Uncle Liu's warning and decided not to bid hastily.
• Liu Ming announced that the Nine Dragons Nine Elephants Art belonged to Xuantian Hall, hoping to master it and surpass Liu Yan.

At the auction, Liu Ming won the Nine Dragons Nine Elephants Art for forty-two thousand drops of Supreme Spiritual Liquid after Mu Chen refused to engage in his bidding trap. The Phoenix Transformation Divine Pill became the final item, and Mu Chen promised to buy it for Jiu You as the bidding began.

• Liu Ming tried to bait Mu Chen into raising the price but panicked when Mu Chen stayed silent.
• Elder Guiku joined the bidding, and Liu Ming outbid Skull Demon Mountain to claim the Nine Dragons Nine Elephants Art for forty-two thousand drops of Supreme Spiritual Liquid.
• Master Mo Qing presented the Phoenix Transformation Divine Pill, a peak Eighth Grade pill capable of strengthening Phoenix bloodlines.
• Jiu You recognized that the pill could greatly benefit her, and Mu Chen told her to wait while other bidders competed.
• Mu Chen assured Jiu You that he would buy the pill for her, even if it cost a hundred thousand drops of Supreme Spiritual Liquid.

Mu Chen won the Phoenix Transformation Divine Pill at auction after outbidding Fairy Heart Fox, who needed it for an aging sect elder. As Mu Chen and his companions left the city, Xuantian Hall followed them, while Fairy Heart Fox decided to return to the Immortal Fox Sect rather than risk confronting them.

• Lin Jing used her awakened ocular art to glimpse Jiu You’s true form, then quickly stopped because she realized it was impolite.
• Fairy Heart Fox bid on the Phoenix Transformation Divine Pill for the Immortal Fox Sect, but Mu Chen raised the price to ninety thousand and won it.
• Liu Ming sent an elder to watch Mu Chen’s group, and the group noticed Xuantian Hall followers after leaving the auction house.
• Mu Chen’s group stayed in Commerce City for three days, then left, prompting Xuantian Hall’s people to follow them.
• Fairy Heart Fox rejected her companion’s suggestion to attack Mu Chen’s group and ordered the Immortal Fox Sect to return home.

Mu Chen’s group confronted Liu Ming and his allies, including the Eighth Grade Sovereign Elder Renmo, who killed Guiku after catching him spying. The battles began with Jiu You facing Renmo, Mu Chen facing the elder surnamed Mu, and Lin Jing overwhelming Liu Ming with the Ice Ancestral Talisman’s power.

• Liu Ming summoned Elder Renmo, who seized Guiku from hiding and killed him with a single finger.
• Jiu You identified Renmo as one of Xuantian Hall’s Great Elders, and Mu Chen assigned the group’s opponents and lent Jiu You the Great Sumeru Pillar.
• Mu Chen’s group attacked, and Jiu You confronted Renmo with her Nine Nether Underworld Fire.
• Liu Ming summoned his Heavenly Flame Dharma Body to fight Lin Jing, who called forth a frost dragon using a secondary imprint of the Ice Ancestral Talisman.
• Lin Jing’s ice attack overwhelmed Liu Ming and left him unable to resist.

Mu Chen and his allies defeated Xuantian Hall’s elders and captured Liu Ming, but Lin Jing killed him before he could use his father’s name to protect himself. The chapter ended with Liu Tiandao meditating at Xuantian Hall’s headquarters.

• Mu Chen used the Demon Lotus Spirit-Slaughtering Array to kill Elder Mu, a Fifth Grade Supreme.
• Jiu You burned Elder Renmo with purple flames and smashed his head with the Great Sumeru Pillar.
• Lin Jing captured Liu Ming with the Ice Ancestral Talisman, and Mu Chen killed him with the Demon-Subduing Staff.
• Mu Chen took Liu Ming’s Mustard Seed Bracelet and found the Void Great Sun Fruit, the Nine Dragons Nine Elephants Art, and Supreme Spiritual Liquid inside.
• At Xuantian Hall’s headquarters, Liu Tiandao meditated in a great hall as spiritual energy gathered around him.

Liu Tiandao tracked down Mu Chen, Lin Jing, and Jiu You to avenge his son, but Lin Jing’s mother, Ling Qingzhu, arrived and overwhelmed him. The chapter ended with an account of the Saint Grade powerhouses protecting Martial Border and the Great Thousand World.

• Liu Tiandao sensed that his son Liu Ming had died and vowed to take revenge.
• Liu Tiandao attacked Mu Chen, Lin Jing, and Jiu You, but Lin Jing’s protective Spirit Artifact blocked his strike.
• Lin Jing called for her mother, and Ling Qingzhu appeared and reunited with her daughter.
• Ling Qingzhu identified herself to Liu Tiandao and trapped him, leaving him terrified when he realized who she was.
• The narration described Martial Border’s Saint Grade protectors and the powerful forces on both sides of the Great Thousand World’s conflict with the Evil Clan from Beyond.

Ling Qingzhu killed Liu Tiandao and gave his spoils to Mu Chen after he and Jiu You befriended Lin Jing. The Martial Border party departed, leaving Mu Chen with a token, a teasing exchange with Jiu You, and a rich haul of treasures and techniques.

• Ling Qingzhu crushed Liu Tiandao to blood mist after he offered compensation for offending Lin Jing.
• Mu Chen and Jiu You greeted Ling Qingzhu, who welcomed Mu Chen as Aunt Ling and invited him to visit the Martial Border.
• Lin Jing gave Mu Chen a Martial Border token and asked him to visit, while Ling Qingzhu teased her about marrying him.
• Mu Chen and Jiu You joked about him becoming the Martial Border's son-in-law, and Jiu You blushed and hurried away.
• Ling Qingzhu gave Liu Tiandao's Mustard Seed Bracelet to Mu Chen, who also gained the Void Great Sun Fruit and Nine Dragons Nine Elephants Art from Liu Ming.

Mu Chen and Jiu You returned to Daluo Heaven, where Jiu You reunited with the Heavenly Vulture Emperor and revealed her remarkable rise in strength. Mu Chen then reported Liu Tiandao’s death and asked for an audience with the Domain Lord, prompting the emperor to demand whether he understood the weight of his words.

• Mu Chen and Jiu You reached Daluo Heaven, and the guards admitted them after recognizing Jiu You’s token.
• Jiu You took Mu Chen to visit the Heavenly Vulture Emperor at Heavenly Vulture Palace.
• The Heavenly Vulture Emperor was stunned to learn that Jiu You had reached Peak Sixth-Grade Sovereign and was evolving into a Nine Nether Underworld Sparrow.
• Jiu You learned that the Heavenly Vulture Emperor had preserved her palace and retained her subordinates during her absence.
• Mu Chen reported that Liu Tiandao had fallen and asked the Heavenly Vulture Emperor to introduce him to the Domain Lord.
• The Heavenly Vulture Emperor released a powerful aura and challenged Mu Chen to consider the significance of his request.

Mu Chen persuaded the Heavenly Vulture Emperor to bring him before Mandala and used Liu Tiandao’s personal artifacts to prove the Xuantian Hall was vulnerable. Mandala ordered the Daluo Territory’s armies to launch an immediate assault on the Xuantian Hall.

• Mu Chen reflected on Mandala’s history, her curse, and her conflict with Lu Heng, the Holy Demon Emperor.
• The Heavenly Vulture Emperor returned and led Mu Chen and his companions to meet the Domain Lord.
• Mandala appeared on the Golden Throne and asked Mu Chen to prove that Liu Tiandao was dead.
• Mu Chen presented Liu Tiandao’s Mustard Seed Bracelet and Heavenly Profound Compass, which Mandala recognized as his personal artifacts.
• Mandala ordered the Heavenly Vulture Emperor to gather the Daluo Territory’s armies and march against the Xuantian Hall.