Chapter Summaries

Mu Chen and Luo Li arrived at the Spirit Soldier Kingdom, where the Nine Nether Underworld Sparrow slaughtered its defenders. The Spirit King emerged to confront it, but the Sparrow destroyed it with a single claw flick.

• Xu Huang gathered nearly a hundred Heaven Transformation Realm experts and prepared to lead their forces into the Spirit Cave.
• The Nine Nether Underworld Sparrow, carrying Luo Li, flew over the gathered groups and plunged into the canyon.
• The Sparrow massacred the Spirit Soldiers and burned several late-stage Spirit Generals to nothing, ruining the groups’ plans to divide the spiritual light.
• The Spirit King emerged from underground and struck at the Sparrow with its saber, leaving the watching experts shaken by its power.
• The Sparrow flicked its claw, shattering the Spirit King into dust and silencing the battlefield.

After a month of hunting Spirit Kings, Mu Chen and Luo Li headed to Spirit Light Mountain for the final battle. They arrived to find the Punishment Hall's Three Great Generals waiting, their cultivation secretly boosted to make the challenge harder.

• Luo Li killed a hundred-zhang Spirit King on her own and claimed its golden Spirit Crystal.
• Mu Chen and Luo Li prepared to leave for Spirit Light Mountain after spending a month hunting Spirit Caves together.
• Northern Heavens students gathered at Spirit Light Mountain, where they learned the Three Great Generals had each advanced one minor stage.
• Mu Chen transformed into the Nine Nether Underworld Sparrow and carried Luo Li to the gathering, where the couple joined the crowd.

Mu Chen, Luo Li, Shen Cangsheng, and Li Xuantong faced the Punishment Hall's Three Great Generals in the final battle of the Spirit Light World. Shen Cangsheng and Luo Li began their fights while Mu Chen faced Gu Tianyan, who summoned his Great Heavenly Flame Dragon Halberd.

• Shen Cangsheng and Li Xuantong confirmed that Mu Chen and Luo Li had reached the Heavenly Passage Realm, and the four agreed to take on the Three Great Generals.
• Mu Chen let Shen Cangsheng fight Lin Zheng after Shen asked for the chance before graduating, and they agreed to face each other afterward to decide the Heaven Ranking champion.
• Luo Li chose Zhou Qingshan, leaving Mu Chen to fight Gu Tianyan while Li Xuantong watched.
• Shen Cangsheng attacked Lin Zheng with his Heaven Lotus War God Spear, and Luo Li drew her black divine sword against Zhou Qingshan.
• Gu Tianyan unleashed his Heavenly Flame Divine Art and called forth the Great Heavenly Flame Dragon Halberd as his fight with Mu Chen began.

Mu Chen defeated Gu Tianyan and broke through the Punishment Hall general’s strongest defense, while Luo Li and Shen Cangsheng also won their challenges. Lin Zheng announced that the students had won the Hunting War and would receive the Spirit Light Baptism.

• Gu Tianyan attacked Mu Chen with his Heavenly Flame Dragon Halberd, but Mu Chen’s Vermilion Bird Divine Seal destroyed the Flame Dragon.
• Mu Chen struck with the Demon-Subduing Staff, shattered Gu Tianyan’s Flame Dragon Protection, and knocked him unconscious.
• Luo Li declared her battle over after winning, and Zhou Qingshan admitted that his Undefeated Divine Art and record had been broken.
• Shen Cangsheng and Lin Zheng descended after their fight, and Lin Zheng announced that Shen Cangsheng had won.
• Lin Zheng declared that the students had won all three battles and the Hunting War, prompting hundreds of thousands of students to celebrate.

Mu Chen faced Shen Cangsheng in a one-move duel for the Heaven Ranking’s top spot and defeated him. Shen Cangsheng conceded, and Mu Chen officially became the new number-one student.

• Mu Chen gave Shen Cangsheng a Life Profound Origin Pill so he could recover before their fight.
• After half an hour, Shen Cangsheng and Mu Chen agreed to settle the Heaven Ranking challenge with one move and charged at each other using the Thunder God Body.
• Shen Cangsheng unleashed the Cangsheng Seal while Mu Chen countered with the Azure Dragon Divine Seal.
• Mu Chen stood firm as Shen Cangsheng was forced back five steps, making Mu Chen the clear winner.
• Shen Cangsheng conceded the number-one spot, and he and Mu Chen crossed fists in a gesture marking Mu Chen’s rise to the top of the Heaven Ranking.
• A silver-haired young woman in an ink-colored robe watched Mu Chen with joy and pride.

After the Hunting War, Mu Chen and Luo Li completed their Spirit Light Baptisms and advanced in cultivation. Mu Chen then urged the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy to destroy the Dragon Demon Palace remnants, revealing the Great Sumeru Holy Pillar to help break their defenses and prompting an immediate surprise attack.

• The Earth Seat Elder declared the student faction the Hunting War’s winner and awarded Mu Chen and two others late Heavenly Passage Realm Spirit Crystals.
• Mu Chen and Luo Li chose the Northern Abyss Dragon Kun to perform their Spirit Light Baptisms, then emerged from a month of seclusion with Mu Chen at the late Heavenly Passage Realm and Luo Li at the peak of the middle stage.
• After seeing Luo Li home, Mu Chen met the Northern Abyss Dragon Kun and urged him and the Academy leaders to wipe out the Dragon Demon Palace remnants.
• The Northern Abyss Dragon Kun explained that the Dragon Demon Palace’s ancient grand array was too difficult to break through by force, with their chances below thirty percent.
• Mu Chen produced the purified Great Sumeru Holy Pillar, and the Northern Abyss Dragon Kun recognized that it could shatter the array.
• The Northern Abyss Dragon Kun ordered Dean Tai Cang and the other leaders to mobilize the Northern Heavens army for a surprise attack.

The Northern Heavens army rapidly drove the Dragon Demon Palace back to its headquarters, where Black Dragon Supreme sought outside aid. He accepted Ancestor Wuliang’s exorbitant demand for Supreme Spiritual Liquid, betting that victory would let the palace recover its losses many times over.

• Mu Chen and the Northern Heavens army destroyed the Dragon Demon Palace’s rebuilt strongholds and pushed its forces back to headquarters in half a month.
• Black Dragon Supreme watched the advancing army behind the palace’s Grandmaster Spiritual Array and questioned why the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy had launched its attack.
• Yellow Dragon Supreme reported that the Nine Summers Chamber of Commerce had not replied and that Heaven Origin and Dark Shadow were still considering whether to help.
• Black Dragon Supreme learned that Ancestor Wuliang would intervene for one hundred thousand drops of Supreme Spiritual Liquid, despite the offer to share Holy Spirit Mountain.
• Black Dragon Supreme accepted Ancestor Wuliang’s price and declared that the Dragon Demon Palace would earn the payment back many times over after defeating the Northern Heavens.

The Northern Heavens army prepared to attack the Dragon Demon Palace after Northern Abyss Dragon Kun revealed that he had become an Earth Sovereign. The Dragon Demon Palace’s hope of resisting collapsed when Black Dragon Supreme saw that Northern Abyss Dragon Kun had recovered the Great Sumeru Demon Pillar, and he fainted as the palace fell into chaos.

• Dean Tai Cang and the Northern Heavens forces gathered outside the Dragon Demon Palace, while its leaders watched from behind their ancient formation.
• Northern Abyss Dragon Kun appeared and revealed an Earth Sovereign’s overwhelming power, terrifying the Dragon Demon Palace’s Supreme experts.
• Black Dragon Supreme struck Green Dragon Supreme for causing panic, then rallied the palace’s fighters despite learning that the three great merchant associations and Ancestor Wuliang had abandoned them.
• Northern Abyss Dragon Kun appeared in the projection carrying the Great Sumeru Demon Pillar, leaving the Dragon Demon Palace with little hope of resisting.
• Black Dragon Supreme recognized the treasure, spat blood, and fainted, plunging the palace into chaos.

The Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy destroyed the Dragon Demon Palace and launched a continent-wide campaign against factions that opposed it. After a month, its army returned with spoils, while former Heaven Ranking experts continued hunting notorious criminals.

• The Northern Abyss Dragon Kun shattered the Dragon Demon Palace’s Spirit Array, demolished its headquarters, and killed the Black Dragon Supreme and five other Supremes.
• The Northern Heavens army searched the ruins and killed any surviving Dragon Demon Palace members.
• Dean Tai Cang ordered Thunder Operation, and the Five Great Hall Masters led the academy’s forces against hostile factions across the Northern Heavens Continent.
• The campaign lasted a month, devastating opposing sects and prompting numerous factions to submit; Ancestor Wuliang fled, while three merchant associations paid heavily to survive.
• Shen Cangsheng, Li Xuantong, He Yao, and other former Heaven Ranking experts hunted Blood Ranking criminals, capturing and executing Mu Gu, Gui Xiong, Wu Jia, and Teng Long over the following months.

The Great Cauldron Spiritual Academy visited the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy and gained the upper hand in a student match while most of the Northern Heavens’ strongest students were away. Dean Tai Cang sent for Mu Chen to turn the contest around, as Great Cauldron prodigy Liu Zheng continued humiliating the academy’s students.

• The Northern Spiritual Academy was renamed the Mu Spirit Academy, and its former elite students were recalled to prepare for the Academy Tournament.
• A messenger summoned Mu Chen to help against the visiting Great Cauldron Spiritual Academy; Mu Chen learned Mu Kui and Bing Qing were in seclusion and told the messenger not to disturb Luo Li.
• Dean Tai Cang and the Northern Heavens elders endured mockery from Great Cauldron head Fei Qingsong after their students lost several matches.
• Dean Tai Cang ordered Zhu Tian to fetch Mu Chen, while Fei Qingsong learned that Mu Chen had become the Heaven Ranking’s top student.
• Liu Zheng defeated a Northern Heavens Heaven Ranking student and taunted the academy, revealing he had once been eliminated from its newcomer trials.

Mu Chen arrived to defend the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy from Great Cauldron’s challenge and confronted Liu Zheng, who had defeated the academy’s remaining fighters. After Mu Chen exposed Liu Zheng’s artificially boosted cultivation, Liu Zheng attacked him in humiliation.

• Northern Heavens students called for Mu Chen, who arrived riding a white dragon and caught a defeated senior.
• Mu Chen faced Liu Zheng and pointed out that both were new students, while Liu Zheng had been rejected by the Northern Heavens.
• Liu Zheng unleashed his late Heavenly Passage Realm spiritual energy, but Mu Chen’s stronger dark energy forced it back and made him stagger.
• Mu Chen revealed that Liu Zheng had used outside help to raise his cultivation and had damaged his potential, prompting Northern Heavens students to jeer.
• Dean Tai Cang questioned whether Liu Zheng could lead Great Cauldron at the next Academy Tournament, and Fei Qingsong reacted with displeasure.
• Humiliated and furious, Liu Zheng attacked Mu Chen with ruthless methods.

Mu Chen used the Tai Cang Divine Sound to defeat Liu Zheng, prompting Fei Qingsong to reveal Xue Shi, a Blood God Royal Clan prodigy who challenged Mu Chen by bringing up Luo Li. Xue Shi attacked with his Blood Sea Sword, and the battle was left unresolved.

• Mu Chen declared Liu Zheng guilty and used the Tai Cang Divine Sound to strip away his senses and spiritual energy, causing him to collapse.
• Fei Qingsong revealed Xue Shi, a Blood God Royal Clan member, as Great Cauldron's next fighter.
• Xue Shi asked Mu Chen about Luo Li and identified her as the daughter of Luo Tianhe and the Luo God Clan's next empress.
• Mu Chen mocked Xue Shi as an insignificant clan member, angering him.
• Xue Shi unleashed his late-stage Heavenly Passage Realm blood spiritual energy and attacked Mu Chen with the Blood Sea Sword.

Mu Chen defeated and killed Xue Shi with the Thunder God Hand after Xue Shi summoned the Blood God Armor and unleashed his blood river. Dean Tai Cang confronted Fei Qingsong over the death, and Great Cauldron Spiritual Academy left after threatening to appeal to the Blood God Clan.

• Xue Shi summoned the Blood God Armor and challenged Mu Chen after surviving the Sky-Tearing Hand.
• Mu Chen used the Thunder God Hand to destroy Xue Shi's Blood River Reaching the Heavens and cripple his strength.
• An Ancient Thunder Beast swallowed Xue Shi, killing the Blood God Royal Clan genius.
• Fei Qingsong rose in anger, but Dean Tai Cang dispersed his pressure and reminded him that Great Cauldron Spiritual Academy had demanded a fight to the death.
• Fei Qingsong threatened that the Blood God Clan might retaliate, then carried his students away while Dean Tai Cang dismissed the threat.

Mu Chen traveled with Dean Tai Cang to Holy Spirit City to take part in the Sacred Spirit Baptism at Holy Spirit Mountain. After Dean Tai Cang left him to explore the city, Mu Chen met Xia Youran, who knew Ling Xi.

• Dean Tai Cang opened the Northern Heavens Gate and sent the Heaven Ranking experts inside with Zhu Tian and Mo You, while Mu Chen prepared to go to Holy Spirit Mountain instead.
• Dean Tai Cang brought Mu Chen to Holy Spirit City and explained why the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy would not seize control of Holy Spirit Mountain immediately.
• Dean Tai Cang left Mu Chen to visit the Holy Spirit Pavilion on his own, and the pavilion's guard welcomed him after recognizing his academy crest.
• Xia Youran arrived at the pavilion, recognized Mu Chen, and introduced herself as a Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy senior who had once been saved by Ling Xi.

Mu Chen met Xia Youran at Holy Spirit Pavilion, where she introduced him to the continent’s prodigies and warned him about Demon Punishment Heaven. Demon Punishment Heaven confronted Mu Chen, intending to kill Northern Heavens’ leading successor as revenge for the destruction of the Dragon Demon Palace.

• Xia Youran explained that her father, Xia Tianyan, had arranged her engagement to Liu Ying despite her lack of interest in the match.
• Xia Youran took Mu Chen inside and promised to protect him at Holy Spirit Mountain; Liu Ying later vowed to make Mu Chen pay once they entered the mountain.
• Demon Punishment Heaven entered Holy Spirit Pavilion, and Xia Youran warned Mu Chen that the former Dragon Demon Palace prodigy might be targeting him.
• Mu Chen recognized Demon Punishment Heaven as a valuable bounty and grew eager to claim his rewards, puzzling Xia Youran.
• Demon Punishment Heaven revealed that he had survived the Dragon Demon Palace’s fall and had come to kill Mu Chen to avenge his sect and undermine Northern Heavens.

Mu Chen ambushed Demon Punishment Heaven, and the two fought at the first Physical Body Tribulation. They summoned rival Divine Artifacts, leaving their dragons battling in the clouds above the city.

• Mu Chen suddenly struck Demon Punishment Heaven and smashed him through the Holy Spirit Pavilion into a nearby building.
• Demon Punishment Heaven broke free and attacked Mu Chen with deathly spiritual energy, but Mu Chen countered with the Vajra Futu Hand.
• Demon Punishment Heaven summoned the Dragon-Devouring Demon Spear and unleashed its dragon form against Mu Chen.
• Mu Chen brought out the White Dragon Spirit Bead, and its white dragon collided with the spear’s black dragon in the sky.

Mu Chen defeated Demon Punishment Heaven after the Dragon Demon Palace prodigy unleashed a forbidden blood talisman and the Ancient Demonic Bird swallowed it. Demon Punishment Heaven died, while the stolen spiritual power pushed Mu Chen close to the Second Spiritual Power Tribulation, and Mu Chen asked witnesses to confirm that he had killed his opponent.

• Mu Chen used the White Dragon Spirit Bead and White Dragon Jade Pillar to batter Demon Punishment Heaven, whose Black Sha Dragon Spear began to crack under their repeated clashes.
• Demon Punishment Heaven detonated his spear and activated the Dragon-Slaying Demon Talisman, burning his blood essence, Origin Energy, and life force to attack Mu Chen.
• Mu Chen activated his Thunder God Body and charged through the spiritual-power storm as the talisman descended upon him.
• The Ancient Demonic Bird appeared, swallowed the Dragon-Slaying Demon Talisman, and returned its vast spiritual power to Mu Chen, bringing him close to the Second Spiritual Power Tribulation.
• Demon Punishment Heaven died after seeing his final attack strengthen Mu Chen, and Mu Chen asked the surrounding witnesses to attest that he had killed him.

Mu Chen claimed the Tai Cang Divine Sound after killing Demon Punishment Heaven, then entered Holy Spirit Mountain with the other young geniuses. As a deadly spatial storm swept through the Heavenly Sovereign’s realm, he spotted what appeared to be a complete Heavenly Sovereign Hand Bone.

• Mu Chen used Demon Punishment Heaven’s corpse to claim the Tai Cang Divine Sound from Dean Tai Cang, who revealed he had destroyed the Dragon Demon Palace’s remaining forces.
• Dean Tai Cang urged Mu Chen to hurry as Holy Spirit Mountain opened, and Mu Chen joined thousands of geniuses entering the stabilized spatial passage.
• Mu Chen met Xia Youran and a red-armored beauty above the mountain, while Liu Ying grew jealous of his fiancée’s conversation with Mu Chen.
• Three days later, a spatial storm tore through the realm and killed fleeing geniuses, so Mu Chen prepared to avoid it.
• Mu Chen spotted a crystalline hand bone floating inside a ball of spiritual energy at the heart of the storm and recognized it as a possible complete Heavenly Sovereign Hand Bone.

Mu Chen entered the spatial storm to seize a treasure and killed Wu Tong, who tried to delay him for an unnamed patron. A mysterious man sealed and took the Heavenly Sovereign Hand Bone, leaving the remaining contenders furious and the identity of Wu Tong’s patron unresolved.

• Mu Chen plunged into the spatial storm and used his Thunder God Body to race toward the treasure as other warriors followed.
• Wu Tong attacked Mu Chen, then admitted he had been hired to hold him off while someone else seized the treasure.
• Mu Chen shattered Wu Tong’s halberd, killed him despite his plea for mercy, and took his Mustard Seed Bracelet.
• Mu Chen transformed into a white dragon and sped toward the storm’s center, intent on claiming the treasure before settling the score with Wu Tong’s patron.
• A veiled man seized the crystalline Heavenly Sovereign Hand Bone and sealed its power with a Mandala God Flower.
• The remaining contenders shouted in anger as the thief escaped with the Heavenly Sovereign Hand Bone.

Mu Chen claimed the Heavenly Sovereign Hand Bone, then defeated Liu Ying, who had ambushed him to steal it. Liu Ying was left sealed and beaten, at Mu Chen’s mercy.

• Mu Chen noticed Liu Ying’s assassination attempt and revealed that he had seen through Liu Ying’s Dark Shadow Divine Art.
• Liu Ying admitted he had waited to steal the Heavenly Sovereign Hand Bone because he could not break through the Heavenly Sovereign’s lingering pressure himself.
• Liu Ying attacked Mu Chen with the Dark Shadow Dagger, but Mu Chen blocked his strikes with his bare hands and taunted him.
• Liu Ying unleashed Heaven-Binding Shadow, but Mu Chen’s Futu God Pagoda absorbed and refined the giant shadow.
• Mu Chen struck Liu Ying with the White Tiger God Seal, sealed his meridians, and knocked him to the ground.
• Mu Chen crouched beside the wounded Liu Ying and asked what he should do with him.