Chapter Summaries

Luo Li was cornered in the Black Demon Forest by Zhao Tiandu and the Five Tigers of the Zhao Clan, who wanted her points and the Luo God Sword, and the battle began. Xie Guan watched helplessly until Mu Chen appeared beside him and introduced himself.

• Zhao Tiandu confronted the wounded Luo Li after his gang hunted her through the forest for thirteen days.
• Zhao Tiandu and the four other youths attacked Luo Li to seize her points and the Luo God Sword, and she drew the divine weapon to fight back.
• Xie Guan, who had come to help Luo Li, hid in a tree after his friends refused to face the Five Tigers of the Zhao Clan.
• Xie Guan lamented that he could not save Luo Li and said he would avenge her if she died.
• Mu Chen suddenly appeared beside Xie Guan, advised him not to undermine himself, and introduced himself; Xie Guan gave his name in return.

Mu Chen arrived at the battlefield to rescue Luo Li and joked to Xie Guan that he was her husband. Ji Xuan, who also hoped to win Luo Li’s favor, learned that an ancient Spirit Treasury holding an Ancient Heavenly Dragon Eagle was about to emerge and weighed the choice between pursuing Luo Li and claiming its power.

• Mu Chen met Xie Guan, teased him by claiming Luo Li was his wife, and revealed he had come to rescue her from the Five Tigers of the Zhao Clan.
• Xie Guan thanked Mu Chen and asked him to keep Luo Li safe, but Mu Chen left for the battlefield after warning him to go away.
• Ji Xuan watched Luo Li fight and recalled that he had hurried to save her, hoping to win her heart.
• Ji Xuan received an urgent message that an ancient Spirit Treasury was about to emerge.
• Ji Xuan recalled that the Ji Clan had spent years uncovering the treasury’s secrets and intended for him to claim the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Eagle within it.

Ji Xuan chose the Spirit Treasury over rescuing Luo Li, while Mu Chen arrived just as the Five Tigers of the Zhao Clan were about to defeat her. Mu Chen struck Zhao Tiandu with his battle staff and confronted the Five Tigers, drawing the attention of the goddess from the Lesser Western Heaven Realm.

• Ji Xuan abandoned Luo Li and fled toward the Spirit Treasury, telling himself he would return to save her after claiming the Heavenly Beast Essence Soul.
• The Five Tigers of the Zhao Clan pressured Luo Li until she prepared to fight to the death with her clan-protecting divine artifact.
• Mu Chen hurled his Demon-Subduing Battle Staff at Zhao Tiandu, interrupting his attack on Luo Li.
• Mu Chen summoned the staff back to himself, breaking one of A-Liang's fingers when he tried to seize it.
• Mu Chen insulted the Five Tigers of the Zhao Clan and faced their anger, while the goddess from the Lesser Western Heaven Realm turned to look at him.

Mu Chen and the silver-haired girl fought the Five Tigers of the Zhao Family, and Mu Chen killed several of them with his battle staff and a dagger. As Zhao Tiandu faced the girl, she noticed Mu Chen standing over another fallen opponent.

• Mu Chen rejected Zhao Tiandu's offer and demanded that he hand over the silver-haired girl, then knocked A-Liang unconscious with one blow.
• The silver-haired girl attacked Zhao Tiandu while Mu Chen killed the weakest of the Five Tigers with his battle staff.
• Mu Chen used a dagger to kill another tiger, then struck down the Four Tigers of the Zhao Family after freeing his staff.
• The silver-haired girl unleashed One Sword Transforms into Luo Water against Zhao Tiandu and saw Mu Chen standing over the fallen Four Tigers.

Mu Chen arrived in time to help the exhausted Luo God Clan Princess defeat the Five Tigers of the Zhao Family, then faced their last survivor, Zhao Tiandu. Zhao Tiandu broke through to become a King, but Mu Chen revealed that he had already defeated Shi Hao, leaving Zhao Tiandu shaken.

• Mu Chen returned and killed the gravely wounded Third Tiger while the silver-haired girl held off Zhao Tiandu, leaving Zhao Tiandu as the last of the Five Tigers.
• The Luo God Clan Princess withdrew to heal and rest, trusting Mu Chen to take over the fight.
• Zhao Tiandu pleaded to be allowed to leave, but Mu Chen refused and challenged him to fight.
• Zhao Tiandu broke through to the sixth-level domain and became a King, then boasted of his strength by comparing himself to Ji Xuan and Shi Hao.
• Mu Chen told Zhao Tiandu that he had gravely injured Shi Hao with one staff strike, and Zhao Tiandu began to panic.

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.