Chapter Summaries

After dying as Yang Pan in the Yang God world, he awakened in the womb in Desolate Era with a system called the Primordial Chaos Universe. He was born with extraordinary talent and began cultivating, leaving Silver Fox stunned by his rapid mastery of powerful techniques.

• Yang Pan remembered his failed attempt to escape his fate in his previous life and discovered that the Primordial Chaos Universe system had activated.
• The system revealed that Yang Pan was in Desolate Era, gave him an Eye of Fortune, and offered Super Epiphany in exchange for Merit Points.
• The Sun Star and Lunar Star sent power to Yang Pan as his father, a black-robed man, accelerated his growth and entrusted him to Silver Fox.
• A voice urged Yang Pan to cultivate the Crimson Bright Nine Heavens Map and a Body Refining Divine Ability while absorbing the descending power.
• Yang Pan formed the Taiyin and Taiyang Divine Patterns, then manifested the Nine Suns Divine Pattern and Great Sun Tathagata Dharma Body, astonishing Silver Fox.

Yang Pan completed the first volume of the Crimson Bright Nine Heavens Map and learned that shocking Uncle Fox earned him Fortune Value and Merit Points. After learning his new name was Xia Manggan and that his father had sent him away from the Royal Capital to grow through hardship, he suspected his father was the Xia Emperor.

• The Silver-haired Man watched Yang Pan reach the first level of the Vairocana Corpse Body and later complete the seventh level of the Crimson Bright Nine Heavens Map.
• Yang Pan awoke, found that his body had gained tremendous strength, and learned from the system that shocking Uncle Fox had earned him Fortune Value and 50 Merit Points.
• The Silver-haired Man gave Yang Pan clothes, introduced himself as Uncle Fox, and explained that Yang Pan's parents were not ready to meet him.
• Uncle Fox told Yang Pan that his father planned to send him away from the Royal Capital to cultivate independently and had prepared techniques and resources for him.
• Yang Pan learned that his name was Xia Manggan and that Uncle Fox was a Heavenly Immortal, leading him to suspect his father was Xia Mang Xun, the Xia Emperor.

Xia Manggan arrived in Anchan Commandery and sought a sect while using Cave of Carefree to investigate the local timeline. There, he unexpectedly saw Ji Ning, leaving him poised to meet the young cultivator.

• Silver Fox Celestial saw Xia Manggan off at Yinglong Divine Mountain, and Xia Manggan vowed to return for the Immortal Fate Assembly in thirteen years.
• Xia Manggan arrived in Anchan Commandery, where Qu Changqing offered to guide him and introduce him to the Black-White Academy.
• At Cave of Carefree, Xia Manggan let Ah Huang eat the feast and learned from Qu Changqing that the Black-White Academy was the strongest sect option.
• Xia Manggan heard someone declare that Ji Ning would never enter the Heaven-Splitting Sword Sect and spotted Ji Ning in a nearby private room.

Xia Manggan watched Ji Ning and the rival Beishan heirs at the Cave of Carefree’s Treasure Contention Meeting while comparing their Fortune Values and learning about Anchan Commandery’s major powers. Qu Changqing bought Xia Manggan the Qushan Seal, but Xia Manggan could not refine it because he had not begun Qi Refining.

• Xia Manggan used his Eye of Fortune to compare Ji Ning, Beishan Hu, Beishan Baiwei, Qu Changqing, and White Water Marsh, and found Ji Ning’s golden Fortune Value was 1,000.
• Qu Changqing explained the feud between Beishan Hu and Beishan Baiwei and described Anchan Commandery’s eight foremost powers, including the Black-White Academy.
• Xia Manggan reflected on Ji Ning’s opportunities and the powerful Body Refining Divine Ability he was cultivating, which required True Sun Fire and exceptional soul strength.
• The woman in pink opened the Treasure Contention Meeting, and Beishan Hu offered his top-grade Human Rank magic treasure, the Qushan Seal, to provoke Beishan Baiwei.
• Qu Changqing bid 120 taels of Essence Liquid for the Qushan Seal and had it delivered to Xia Manggan, who explained that he could not refine it without Qi Refining cultivation.

Ji Ning entered the wagered battle to defend Beishan Baiwei against Beishan Hu’s Rhinoceros Great Demon, despite the crowd’s doubts about his cultivation. Xia Manggan then challenged Beishan Hu to accept a thousand-jin bet on Ji Ning, leaving the wager’s acceptance in question.

• Qu Changqing gave Xia Manggan a magic treasure and offered to find him a Qi Refining technique, while Xia Manggan let him believe he had never practiced Qi Refining.
• Beishan Hu challenged Beishan Baiwei to wager nine hundred taels of Essence Liquid on a battle, but Baiwei could not find a suitable Purple Mansion retainer to fight.
• Ji Ning entered the arena, and Lady Ziyi assessed his Fiendgod Body Refining at Late Purple Mansion and his Qi Refining at Early Purple Mansion.
• Beishan Hu mocked Ji Ning’s cultivation and offered odds to draw the hall’s guests into betting, but no one joined the wager.
• Xia Manggan asked whether Beishan Hu would accept a wager without a limit, then offered his smallest Essence Card, worth one thousand jin of Essence Liquid, on Ji Ning to win.

Xia Manggan’s thousand-jin Essence Card astonished Ji Ning and provoked Beishan Hu, while Ji Ning defeated the Rhinoceros Great Demon and revealed his Domain of Dao. After losing heavily, Beishan Hu arranged another wagered battle, and Xia Manggan entered the arena, confident that no Purple Mansion cultivator could kill him.

• Xia Manggan showed a thousand-jin Essence Card, shocking Ji Ning and angering Beishan Hu.
• Beishan Hu threatened the Rhinoceros Great Demon, which transformed and charged at Ji Ning.
• Ji Ning killed the Rhinoceros Great Demon with his Rainwater Sword Domain and Water-Fire Lotus, revealing that he had reached the Domain of Dao.
• Ji Ning stayed in the arena to accept more challenges, while Beishan Baiwei and Xia Manggan taunted Beishan Hu over their winnings.
• Beishan Hu conceded Ji Ning’s victory, then proposed a new wager in which his female attendant would fight Xia Manggan.
• Xia Manggan accepted the wager and entered the arena, telling Qu Changqing that no Purple Mansion cultivator could kill him.

Xia Manggan entered a betting battle at Cave of Carefree and revealed that he cultivated only Fiendgod Body Refining. He killed the White Witch Maiden with the Wheel of Life and Death of the Heavens, leaving the spectators eager to learn what they had witnessed.

• Xia Manggan explained that the betting battle rules limited opponents to their own cultivation, bodies, and abilities, and he believed his body could withstand any Purple Mansion cultivator.
• Lady Ziyi inspected Xia Manggan and announced that he was at the Late Purple Mansion Stage in Fiendgod Body Refining and did not practice Qi Refining, causing an uproar among the spectators.
• Xia Manggan entered the killing ground, recalled his former life and Hong Xuanji, and resolved to begin his path to the summit.
• The White Witch Maiden sent Gu insects at Xia Manggan, but he destroyed them with his Divine Sense before she attacked him with her hair-binding technique.
• Xia Manggan invoked the Wheel of Life and Death of the Heavens and killed the White Witch Maiden with one punch, shocking the spectators and damaging the Sealing Array with his fist intent.
• The powerful figures in Cave of Carefree rushed to investigate the strange technique Xia Manggan had displayed.

At a Beishan Clan banquet, a display of Xia Manggan’s battle intent revealed his grasp of the true meaning of the Great Dao of Life and Death. He then comprehended Domains of Dao in water and fire, leaving Beishan Hu stunned after Beishan Yin urged him to befriend Xia Manggan.

• Beishan Yin toasted the guests at a banquet celebrating Lian Feng’s advancement to Void Return Earth Immortal.
• Xia Manggan’s battle intent and Black-White Wheel reached the Immortal Hall, where Jade Sea Daoist recognized the aura of the Great Dao of Life and Death.
• Beishan Yin Teleported the banquet guests to Myriad Phenomena Hall to investigate the disturbance.
• Xia Manggan’s punch stirred his emotions and insights, and he entered enlightenment as Domains of Dao in water and fire formed around him.
• Beishan Hu prepared to secretly disrupt Xia Manggan’s enlightenment, but Beishan Yin arrived with the guests and praised Xia Manggan’s talent.
• Beishan Yin told Beishan Hu to befriend Xia Manggan, leaving Beishan Hu dumbfounded and resentful.

Xia Manggan’s comprehension of the Great Dao of Life and Death astonished the cultivators at Myriad Phenomena Hall, while Beishan Yin learned of Beishan Hu’s conflict with Ji Ning and promised to settle the debt. After Xia Manggan revealed that he had come to find a sect and take a master, Jade Sea Daoist worried that the Black-White Academy’s recruitment rules might let another sect claim him first.

• Beishan Hu told Beishan Yin about offending Ji Ning and interfering with his attempt to join the Heaven-Splitting Sword Sect, and Beishan Yin instructed him to compensate Ji Ning with Essence Liquid.
• Xia Manggan awoke from his enlightenment, checked his system rewards, and calculated that he needed 65 more Merit Points to exchange for Super Epiphany.
• Xia Manggan asked Beishan Yin whether he had come to settle Beishan Hu’s debt, then introduced himself as Xia Manggan and said he sought a sect and a master in Anchan Commandery.
• Beishan Yin and the other elders realized Xia Manggan belonged to the Xia Mang Clan, and leaders of several sects grew eager to recruit him.
• Jade Sea Daoist worried that the Black-White Academy’s annual recruitment rule would allow another sect to recruit Xia Manggan before the next twelfth lunar month.

Beishan Yin arranged for Beishan Hu to become Xia Manggan’s follower, turning their wager into an opportunity for his son to gain ties to the imperial clan. Xia Manggan chose the Black-White Academy, but Jade Sea Daoist said that admission depended most on Dao Heart and required an entrance examination.

• Beishan Yin rebuked Beishan Hu and ordered him to serve Xia Manggan in repayment of the four thousand jin of Essence Liquid wager.
• Beishan Hu accepted the role after his father privately urged him to use the opportunity to build connections with the Xia Mang Clan.
• Xia Manggan accepted Beishan Hu as a follower, gaining Fortune Value and Merit Points from the system.
• Xia Manggan told Beishan Yin and Jade Sea Daoist that he wished to join the Black-White Academy.
• Jade Sea Daoist said Xia Manggan had to take the Academy’s entrance examination and explained that it valued Dao Heart above talent, strength, and Dao Comprehension Realm.

Ji Ning learned how difficult it was to enter the Black-White Academy and resolved to surpass Xia Manggan. After arriving at his estate, Xia Manggan displayed his wealth by ordering extravagant meals for his spirit beast, and Beishan Hu became more sincere in his service.

• Beishan Yin led the sect leaders away, while Xia Manggan announced he would take the Black-White Academy's entrance examination on the first day of the twelfth lunar month.
• Beishan Baiwei told Ji Ning that the Black-White Academy accepted only a few disciples each year and said Xia Manggan had already been guaranteed admission.
• Ji Ning resolved to treat Xia Manggan as the person he needed to surpass and agreed to stay with Beishan Baiwei until the examination.
• Xia Manggan arrived at a Beishan Clan estate with Beishan Hu and Qu Changqing, then told Beishan Hu to arrange one thousand Hundred Delicacies Feasts each day for Ah Huang.
• Beishan Hu realized Xia Manggan's extravagance and became substantially more sincere in his role as Xia Manggan's follower.

Beishan Yin and Beishan Hu identified Ah Huang as a Heaven-Eroding Yellow Dragon and concluded that Xia Manggan had an extraordinarily powerful imperial backer. Beishan Heihu ordered Beishan Baiwei to investigate Xia Manggan while supporting his friendship with Ji Ning, as Xia Manggan prepared to cultivate the Yin Yang Two Caves Scripture.

• Beishan Hu told Beishan Yin about Xia Manggan and recreated Ah Huang's appearance with a Water Mirror.
• Beishan Yin recognized Ah Huang as a Heaven-Eroding Yellow Dragon and warned Beishan Hu to serve Xia Manggan faithfully.
• Beishan Baiwei told Beishan Heihu that Beishan Yin had arranged for Beishan Hu to become Xia Manggan's follower.
• Beishan Heihu ordered Beishan Baiwei to question Qu Changqing about Xia Manggan and to support Ji Ning with resources and information.
• Beishan Heihu contemplated Beishan Yin's outside connections and formed a black flaming serpent around himself.
• Xia Manggan prepared to cultivate the Yin Yang Two Caves Scripture.

Xia Manggan used the Yin Yang Two Caves Scripture and a large amount of Essence Liquid to open and stabilize his Purple Mansion, reaching the Early Purple Mansion Stage with exceptional Origin Force. He stopped there to avoid complications with sect entry and turned to comprehending the Great Dao.

• Xia Manggan drew Heaven and Earth origin energy into his dantian and quickly transformed it into Xiantian True Essence.
• Xia Manggan consumed about a hundred jin of Essence Liquid and used the Yin Yang Two Caves Scripture to open a Purple Mansion more than twice the size of an ordinary cultivator’s.
• Xia Manggan absorbed over eight hundred jin of Essence Liquid to stabilize his Early Purple Mansion Stage cultivation, giving him Origin Force comparable to elite Purple Mansion Completion cultivators.
• Xia Manggan stopped cultivating before reaching the Purple Mansion Middle Stage so his cultivation would not complicate his entry into Black-White Academy.
• Xia Manggan began comprehending the Great Dao and considered how teachings from his past life might combine with the principles of the Desolate Era world.

On the day Black-White Academy accepted disciples, Xia Manggan emerged from seclusion and went to Heavenly Treasure Mountain instead of heading straight to the Academy. As Ji Ning waited to take the entrance examination, Academy leaders grew impatient with Xia Manggan and decided to temper his arrogance.

• Qu Changqing visited Xia Manggan’s estate and found Beishan Hu tending to Ah Huang while Xia Manggan remained in seclusion.
• Xia Manggan emerged, praised Beishan Hu for caring for Ah Huang, and agreed to go with Qu Changqing to Black-White Academy after stopping at Heavenly Treasure Mountain for food.
• Ji Ning arrived at Black-White Academy and passed the initial inspection after revealing that he cultivated the Crimson Bright Nine Heavens Map.
• Bi Hai told Hanshan that Xia Manggan had gone to Heavenly Treasure Mountain to hold a banquet instead of coming to the Academy.
• Hanshan agreed with an elderly Immortal that Xia Manggan’s temperament needed tempering and ordered Bi Hai to make arrangements.

Xia Manggan arrived at the Black-White Academy and was allowed to continue despite exceeding the usual cultivation limit because he used an Immortal Rank Qi Refining technique. He crossed the Thunder Dragon Puppet Formation with a mountain seal treasure, prompting the Academy’s elders to make the next trial harder, while Ji Ning prepared to attempt the formation himself.

• Xia Manggan entered the Black-White Academy and was permitted to proceed after an Immortal inspected his Purple Mansion and confirmed he cultivated an Immortal Rank technique.
• When onlookers protested Xia Manggan’s admission, Wu Xiu silenced them and ordered the Black Armor Soldiers to drive them away.
• Xia Manggan used a mountain seal magic treasure to withstand the Thunder Dragon Puppet Formation’s lightning and fly into the cave without revealing his true strength.
• Immortal Hanshan told Jade Sea Daoist to let Xia Manggan use his immortal arts and secret techniques in the third trial, while restricting his magic treasures.
• After a young cultivator revealed that each lightning bolt struck with the force of an Early Purple Mansion cultivator, Ji Ning formed his Water-Fire Lotus Petals and flew into the trial.

Xia Manggan demonstrated his powerful soul and rebuffed the other examinees while Ji Ning and eight others passed the Puppet Formation assessment. Ink Daoist led them to the final entrance test and assigned Xia Manggan a separate path, warning him to be careful.

• Xia Manggan repelled intrusive Divine Senses with his Spirit Refining Technique, impressing the Primordial Spirit Daoists and drawing Immortal Hanshan's defense.
• Ji Ning entered the cave, and Xia Manggan greeted him because they had met before and would join the same sect.
• The Puppet Formation assessment ended, and Ink Daoist eliminated a cultivator who had used a forbidden Dao talisman while inspecting Mu Zishuo's Puppet.
• Ink Daoist told the nine remaining examinees that they had passed the basic screening and must escape past a Formal Disciple guarding one of nine paths.
• Ink Daoist assigned Xia Manggan the first path on the left and warned him to stay alert, leaving Ji Ning and the others to choose among the remaining paths.

Xia Manggan faced Beishan Xuantang in the Black-White Academy’s final trial, while the observers watched to see his true strength. Beishan Xuantang attacked with concealed malice, and Xia Manggan unleashed the Qushan Seal as the clash began.

• Wu Xiu told the Primordial Spirit Daoists that Xia Manggan’s body, cultivation, and abilities made him a match for many Wanxiang disciples.
• Beishan Xuantang introduced himself as the trial’s guardian, while privately resenting Xia Manggan and plotting to keep him out of the Academy.
• Xia Manggan sensed Beishan Xuantang’s killing intent but chose not to expose him and entered the corridor.
• Beishan Xuantang attacked with his Whisk magic treasure, Five Qi Great Capture, and Wanxiang Dharma Form despite claiming he would exercise restraint.
• Xia Manggan expanded the Qushan Seal and filled the corridor with the life-and-death power of his Wheel of Life and Death of the Heavens.

Xia Manggan defeated Beishan Xuantang by using the Qushan Seal and Void Transference, then forced the Black-White Academy’s leaders to acknowledge Xuantang’s violation and promise punishment. Immortal Hanshan revealed that he had arranged the examination changes to assess Xia Manggan and planned to take him as a disciple at the initiation ceremony in two days.

• Beishan Xuantang’s Five Qi Great Capture failed against Xia Manggan’s Qushan Seal, and his Gold-Breaking Awl attack missed when Xia Manggan used Void Transference to stomp him into the floor.
• The watching Primordial Spirit Daoists realized Xia Manggan had reached the entry level in both the Great Dao of Life and Death and the Great Dao of Space.
• Iron Hand Daoist objected to Xia Manggan humiliating Beishan Xuantang, but Xia Manggan pointed out that Xuantang had used Earth Rank treasures and attacked him first.
• Immortal Hanshan revealed that he had altered the entrance examination to assess Xia Manggan and said he would formally take him as a disciple in two days.
• Jade Sea Daoist promised the Academy would punish Beishan Xuantang, and Immortal Hanshan ordered Xuantang and Iron Hand Daoist confined to the Academy for ten years and deprived of Essence Liquid for a hundred years.

Xia Manggan passed the Black-White Academy assessment after defeating Beishan Xuantang, who had tried to kill him and was punished for breaking the rules. Ji Ning realized Xia Manggan’s strength far surpassed his own as the new disciples prepared to become fellow students.

• Xia Manggan gained Fortune Value and Merit Points after damaging Beishan Xuantang’s Dao Heart, while Beishan Xuantang was punished with the loss of a hundred years’ Essence Liquid quota.
• Primordial Spirit Daoists discussed Beishan Xuantang’s severe misconduct and praised Ji Ning’s sword insight and conduct.
• Xia Manggan joined Ji Ning and Mu Zishuo at the mountaintop after passing the final assessment.
• Xia Manggan told Ji Ning and Mu Zishuo that he had taught Beishan Xuantang a lesson, and warned Ji Ning to be wary of him.
• Ji Ning reflected that the gap between his strength and Xia Manggan’s was much greater than he had expected.

Xia Manggan, Ji Ning, and Mu Zishuo became Formal Disciples of the Black-White Academy and chose neighboring mountain residences. Outside the Academy, a Heaven-Eroding Yellow Dragon swallowed Beishan Baiwei’s maid, carriage, and its Heavenly Fire, shocking a witness.

• Ink Daoist gave the three new disciples their Letter Talismans and took them to choose mountain residences.
• Mu Zishuo named his mountain Twin Wood Peak, Ji Ning named his Beiming Peak, and Xia Manggan named his Di Ta Peak before stepping onto its summit.
• Beishan Baiwei taunted Beishan Hu outside the Academy, mocking him for serving another person and caring for a spirit beast.
• A Heaven-Eroding Yellow Dragon emerged from Beishan Hu’s carriage and swallowed Beishan Baiwei’s Puppet maid, Nine-Star Immortal Carriage, and Nine-Star Heavenly Fire.
• A woman who witnessed the attack recognized the beast as a Heaven-Eroding Yellow Dragon and wondered how one had appeared in Anchan City.