Chapter Summaries

Xia Manggan accepted Duobao Ancestor God's invitation to a banquet after learning that Duobao was the son of the Thousand Treasure Kingdom Lord, and he received news that Heart Spirit General was preparing to march to war. At Wanli Pavilion, Xia Manggan met Fire Fairy Su Youji, whose unusual charm failed to draw him into conversation and left her curious about him.

• Duobao Ancestor God offered Xia Manggan Chaos Crystals, but Xia Manggan exchanged an equal value of Chaos Spirit Liquid and agreed to attend a banquet hosted by Black Brake World God.
• Wild Dog Ancestor God reported that Heart Spirit General was in the Black Lotus Imperial Capital and might soon lead troops into battle, and Xia Manggan decided to deal with him personally after entering Damo Academy.
• Xia Manggan arrived at Wanli Pavilion with the Jiuyao Puppet and joined Duobao Ancestor God and the gathered Ancestor Gods and Ancestor Immortals.
• Duobao Ancestor God introduced Fire Fairy Su Youji and offered to help bring them together, but Xia Manggan said he already had a Dao companion and children.
• Su Youji noticed that Xia Manggan did not approach her despite her bewitching technique and wondered about his strength and the World Realm aura of the Green-haired Man behind him.

At Black Brake World God's banquet, Xia Manggan drew attention from the gathered cultivators, and Su Youji defeated Fairy Shuyue in a friendly contest. When Ancestor God Xue Mang challenged Xia Manggan to a wager, Xia Manggan crushed him in one strike, leaving Black Brake World God and Immortal Qinghua astonished by his power.

• Xia Manggan arrived at Black Brake World God's banquet and became the center of attention because of his World Realm Puppet and Duobao Ancestor God's regard.
• Black Brake World God and Immortal Qinghua discussed Xia Manggan's unusual composure and decided to test him during the banquet.
• Fairy Shuyue challenged Su Youji to a contest, and Su Youji won while holding back and earned five hundred bottles of Chaos Spirit Liquid.
• Ancestor God Xue Mang challenged Xia Manggan to last ten breaths against him, but Xia Manggan offered to knock him down in one breath and borrowed the wager money from Su Youji.
• Xia Manggan's Human True Self revealed his overwhelming power, struck Xue Mang into the floor in a single blow, and claimed the wager.
• Black Brake World God and Immortal Qinghua recognized Xia Manggan as a monstrous talent, while Su Youji resolved not to let her chance with him pass.

After defeating Ancestor God Xue Mang, Xia Manggan received three days of guidance from Black Brake World God and made a breakthrough in his blade techniques. His victory drew hundreds of potential followers to his residence, and he accepted Su Youji as a trusted follower before entering seclusion for the Damo Academy assessment.

• Black Brake World God and Immortal Qinghua invited Xia Manggan to spar, and Black Brake guided him through his Blade World for three days.
• Under the pressure and guidance, Xia Manggan uncovered flaws in his techniques and displayed the embryonic form of his fifth move, Ultimate Realm of the Blade.
• After Xia Manggan left, hundreds of Ancestor Gods and Ancestor Immortals gathered outside his residence hoping to become his followers, so he had Duobao Ancestor God and Wild Dog Ancestor God screen them.
• Su Youji asked to become Xia Manggan's follower, and he accepted her under an oath that respected her boundaries and put her in charge of his Ancestor Immortal followers.
• Xia Manggan delegated visits and follower recruitment to Su Youji, then entered seclusion to cultivate until the Damo Academy assessment.

After leaving seclusion, Xia Manggan gathered new followers, learned that Su Youji had recruited hundreds more, and prepared his forces for the Damo Academy entrance examination. As the group reached the Damo Academy Branch, he considered helping Su Youji take the examination, while Jiuyan Ancestor God remained intent on competing for a place himself.

• Xia Manggan agreed to take Fairy Shuyue as a follower and offered Jiuyan Ancestor God the same arrangement if he failed the examination.
• Xue Mang asked Xia Manggan for a servant quota so he could pursue revenge against Chaos Immortal Feixiao, and accepted a strict Life-Bound Oath in exchange.
• Xia Manggan learned that Su Youji had recruited 391 Ancestor Gods and Ancestor Immortals and collected gifts from more than a hundred factions, then ordered her to buy four battle formations.
• Xia Manggan and his followers joined the crowds heading to the Damo Academy Branch, where he proposed that Su Youji take the entrance assessment with his help.
• The group arrived at the Damo Academy Branch as Xia Manggan explained that Su Youji could follow him through the first stage if the assessment allowed them to act together.

Xia Manggan renewed his resolve to advance by entering Damo Academy’s examination with Su Youji and Ancestor God Jiuya. After learning that Immortal Liuqi would host the trials, Xia Manggan and his companions entered the academy branch, while Immortal Liuqi arrived at the Damo Heavenly Palace and prepared to unleash his newly born Special Lifeforms.

• Xia Manggan reflected on the gap between his strength and Damo Academy’s cultivators, then led his companions toward the academy branch with renewed fighting spirit.
• At the examination entrance, a Bronze Mirror exposed and killed applicants whose cultivation exceeded the one-billion-year limit, prompting many others to withdraw.
• Su Youji and Ancestor God Jiuya chose to take the dangerous examination, and Xia Manggan agreed to enter alongside them while arranging for the Jiuyao Puppet to protect Su Youji.
• The black-haired middle-aged examiner discovered Xia Manggan’s exceptionally young cultivation age and powerful divine body, learned his Daoist title was Ganyu, and warned him that Immortal Liuqi would host the examination.
• Xia Manggan, Su Youji, and Ancestor God Jiuya paid their fees and entered the academy branch; the examiner wondered whether Ganyu might become a core disciple.
• Immortal Liuqi arrived before more than thirty World Realm cultivators, demonstrated his Strange Bat Language, and announced that his newly born children were hungry.

Immortal Liuqi began Damo Academy’s first entrance trial early, turning the mountain into a dark maze filled with dangerous Strange Bats. As Xia Manggan’s divine body broke through to the level of a Chaos Exotic Treasure, he listened for the trial rules.

• Gongcheng World God questioned the early start, but Immortal Liuqi insisted that his Strange Bats were hungry and moved the trial forward.
• Immortal Liuqi released more than 1,800 Strange Bats into a black-mist formation and prepared spatial mazes and turbulence to make the climb more difficult.
• Gongcheng World God warned that the Strange Bats could cause heavy casualties and instructed the overseers to rescue applicants where possible.
• At the foot of the mountain, Xia Manggan cultivated Kunyu Arm with a Chaos Crystal while Su Youji and Jiuyan Ancestor God followed his example.
• The black mist spread across the mountain, the World Realm cultivators assembled, and Gongcheng World God announced that the trial was beginning immediately.
• Xia Manggan stopped cultivating and discovered that his divine body had reached the level of a Chaos Exotic Treasure before listening to the rules.

Xia Manggan and nearly 240,000 Ancestor Gods and Ancestor Immortals began Damo Academy’s first entrance assessment, a deadly climb up Tianlin Peak beset by Strange Bat lifeforms. Xia Manggan’s extraordinary speed drew the attention of Damo Academy’s World Realm disciples, who learned that he had cultivated for less than two thousand years, while rumors revealed that Daoist Lord Damo had personally ordered the assessment and would oversee its final stages.

• World God Gongcheng explained that the candidates had to reach Tianlin Peak’s summit by the hour of Hai while surviving more than eighteen hundred Strange Bat lifeforms, including twelve as strong as World Gods.
• Xia Manggan told Su Youji to wait for him at the mountain’s foot so he could help her pass, then Gongcheng swept the candidates into Tianlin Peak.
• At the assessment viewing area, Fairy Shuyue and Duobao Ancestor God spotted Ancestor God Jiuya climbing immediately, while Xia Manggan raced around the peak searching for Su Youji.
• Black Brake World God learned from Baimang that Daoist Lord Damo had ordered the assessment and would personally appear for its final stages.
• Xia Manggan discovered that an array had greatly expanded Tianlin Peak’s distances and used Origin Force to accelerate beyond a million kilometers in an instant, astonishing the World Realm observers.
• Damo Academy’s inner disciples questioned Gongcheng and Black Brake about Xia Manggan, then learned of his exceptional Dao comprehension, powerful divine body, and cultivation of less than two thousand years.

The Damo Academy disciples learned that Ganyu, Xia Manggan’s examination name, had mastered the Thousand-Body Canon and discussed his extraordinary potential. Xia Manggan found Su Youji fleeing a Strange Bat, killed it, and carried her onward through the examination.

• The Damo Academy disciples and World God Gongcheng recognized Ganyu as a Thousand-Body Canon cultivator and discussed how powerful Xia Manggan could become.
• World God Sanhan asked why Ganyu was circling Tianlin Peak, and Black Brake World God explained that he was bringing his follower through the examination.
• Xia Manggan continued searching for Su Youji, then spotted a Strange Bat lifeform and changed course toward it.
• Xia Manggan found Su Youji fleeing the Strange Bat and killed the creature with a seven-colored blade flash.
• Xia Manggan scooped Su Youji into his robes and told her to leave the rest to him.

Xia Manggan defeated nearly all the Strange Bats with his modified Ultimate Realm of the Blade and passed the first stage of Damo Academy’s entrance test alongside Su Youji. The test ended with only forty-seven survivors on the plaza, and Damo Academy’s World Realm disciples approached Xia Manggan to befriend him before the final two stages.

• Xia Manggan killed fourteen Strange Bats, and Immortal Liuqi stopped him by offering to let him pass the test.
• World God Sanhan and the other observers praised Xia Manggan’s strength as tens of thousands of candidates died or abandoned the test.
• Xia Manggan told Su Youji his true name and explained that he had to keep it secret because an enemy knew the location of the Three Realms.
• Xia Manggan and Su Youji reached the summit, where they found only forty-seven candidates and learned that Jiuya was absent.
• Immortal Liuqi ended the test after at least one hundred thirty thousand Ancestor Gods and Ancestor Immortals had died, and Wine Sword Guest and several Damo Academy disciples approached Xia Manggan to make his acquaintance.

Xia Manggan arrived at Damo Academy’s main campus and began the final entrance trials for formal disciples. His alias, Ganyu, ranked eighty-eighth in the Heart-Questioning Hall before the Dao-heart and will test, astonishing the academy’s disciples and prompting Daoist Lord Damo’s wife to ask whether he was the variable from her husband’s divination.

• Xia Manggan, Su Youji, and the other candidates reached Damo Academy’s main campus and followed World God Tu Sheng to Tatian Courtyard for the final two trials.
• World God Tu Sheng explained that the Heart-Questioning Hall would assess the candidates’ age, souls, Dao-hearts, and wills, with high rankings bringing extra rewards.
• Xia Manggan and the other candidates entered the Heart-Questioning Hall, while Golden Horn Old Demon hurried in, confident he would excel.
• World God Tu Sheng saw that Ganyu had cultivated for only 1,425 years and had already ranked eighty-eighth among all past examinees.
• Daoist Lord Damo and hundreds of disciples gathered to view the rankings, and his wife asked whether Ganyu was the variable from his divination who would raise the academy’s destiny.

Daoist Lord Damo identified Ganyu as the unpredictable variable behind Damo Academy’s changing fortune, but chose to let him grow without personal guidance. Meanwhile, Ganyu climbed to first place in the Heart-Questioning Hall rankings, and his influence brought forward Yan’er’s chance to attempt a breakthrough to the Dao Lord realm.

• Daoist Lord Damo found that Ganyu’s future could not be seen and concluded that he was the variable he had predicted.
• Daoist Lord Damo refused to take Ganyu as his disciple, deciding to let him grow like the other disciples.
• Ganyu rose through the Heart-Questioning Hall rankings, passing World God Sanhan and reaching third place in the historical rankings.
• Daoist Lord Damo told Yan’er that Ganyu’s influence had advanced her opportunity to attempt a Dao Lord breakthrough by nearly a thousand years.
• Ganyu reached first place in the historical rankings, shocking the disciples gathered in the hall.

Xia Manggan ranked first in the histories of both the Heart-Questioning Hall and Huan Yu Tower, then passed Damo Academy’s entrance trials alongside Su Youji, Wine Sword Guest, Golden Horn Old Demon, and Qiu Nan. After becoming a formal disciple, he learned that his historical rankings earned him World Realm-level rewards and access to choose an inheritance from Emperor Pavilion.

• Xia Manggan emerged from the Heart-Questioning Hall ranked first in Damo Academy’s history, while Su Youji, Wine Sword Guest, Golden Horn Old Demon, and Qiu Nan also earned strong rankings.
• World God Tu Sheng explained that the Huan Yu Tower tested comprehension and combat potential, and Xia Manggan’s ranking rapidly climbed to first place in its history.
• Daoist Lord Damo decided to admit a fiery red woman as an exception after her fortune surged and he sensed she had Dao Lord potential.
• Xia Manggan, Su Youji, Wine Sword Guest, Golden Horn Old Demon, and Qiu Nan passed every trial and became formal disciples, receiving Damo Tokens and taking the academy’s Life-Bound Oath.
• Immortal Qicai told Xia Manggan that his top rankings earned him World Realm-level quotas and treasures, plus the right to choose an inheritance from Emperor Pavilion.

Xia Manggan explored Damo Academy’s Dao Treasury Hall and discovered the Crescent Moon Blade Carving inheritance left by Emperor Xiaoyue. He chose to pursue the blade art, which combined the Blade Dao with the Space-Time Path.

• Xia Manggan and Su Youji collected their disciple rewards and followed World God Tu Sheng to Dao Treasury Hall.
• Uncle Fu granted Xia Manggan access to all four floors and awarded him sixteen thousand Merit Points for his top rankings.
• Xia Manggan browsed the Ancestor God Pavilion, World Pavilion, and Dao Lord Pavilion before entering the Emperor Pavilion alone.
• Xia Manggan examined the Kunyu Great Strength Method and decided to inspect the Emperor Pavilion’s inheritances before spending Merit Points.
• Xia Manggan entered Emperor Xiaoyue’s mountain inheritance, learned it contained twelve blade carvings, and chose to pursue its blade art.

Xia Manggan received the Crescent Moon Blade Carving inheritance and learned that its prior students had died, then exchanged for the Kunyu Great Strength Method and the first three moves of the Crescent Moon Blade Canon. Inspired by the canon’s first move, he began rebuilding his Divine Power core, triggering a vast Chaos vortex over Damo Academy as he broke through from True God toward Ancestor God.

• Daoist Lord Damo gave Xia Manggan the Crescent Moon Blade Carving and told him its two previous students had fallen.
• Daoist Lord Damo directed Xia Manggan to the Crescent Moon Blade Canon, whose moves could help him progress toward the World Realm.
• Xia Manggan exchanged fifteen thousand merit points for the first two levels of the Kunyu Great Strength Method.
• Xia Manggan found the Crescent Moon Blade Canon, exchanged seven hundred merit points for its first three moves, and began absorbing the jade slip’s blade intent.
• The first move stirred Xia Manggan’s desire to strengthen his divine body, so he used Yin-Yang Dao to reconstruct his Divine Power core and began a breakthrough that drew a huge Chaos vortex over Damo Academy.

Xia Manggan broke through to Ancestor God, then spent half a year at Damo Academy mastering the first three forms of the Crescent Moon Blade Canon and defeating most of his fellow disciples in sparring. After learning that Heart Spirit General had left the Black Lotus Imperial Capital for the Sufeng Chaos World, Xia Manggan decided to go there with Su Youji.

• Xia Manggan transformed his divine body into a Half-Step World God-level foundation, then moved into Peach Blossom Residence with Su Youji.
• Xia Manggan used sparring matches and study of blade manuals to improve, while fellow disciples challenged him and privately bet on defeating him.
• After mastering the second form of the Crescent Moon Blade Canon, Xia Manggan defeated every Ancestor God and Ancestor Immortal who challenged him, drawing challenges from World Realm disciples.
• Over the next three months, Xia Manggan mastered the third form, Breaking the Firmament, and only peak World Realm disciples could steadily suppress him in sparring.
• Wild Dog Ancestor God reported that Heart Spirit General had left the Black Lotus Imperial Capital to reinforce the Sufeng Chaos World, and Xia Manggan prepared to travel there with Su Youji.

Xia Manggan reunited with the leaders of the Three Realms, identified Elder Yuan as Heart Spirit General, and learned that his enemy had already left the Sufeng Chaos World. He chose to explore the Sufeng Ruins and build strength before pursuing his plan to seize the Black Lotus Chaos Kingdom, then arrived in Sufeng and assessed the dangers there.

• Xia Manggan reunited with the Xia Emperor and the other leaders of the Three Realms at Dilong Star, and explained that Elder Yuan was Heart Spirit General possessing Yuan’s body.
• Xia Manggan and his companions learned that Heart Spirit General had left Sufeng for the Black Lotus Imperial Capital, so they could not intercept him on the way.
• Xia Manggan revealed that he intended to eventually defeat the Black Lotus God Emperor and seize the Black Lotus Chaos Kingdom, but decided to first search the Sufeng Ruins for treasures and resources.
• Xia Manggan and his companions traveled toward Sufeng, while he used the Crescent Moon Blade Canon to cross the void far faster than Jiuyao could.
• Xia Manggan arrived in the Sufeng Chaos World, learned that at most two World Realm experts remained in its ruins, and considered letting the leaders of the Three Realms explore with his followers’ protection.

Xia Manggan entered the Sufeng Ruins, gathered detailed intelligence, and cleared nearby World Realm Insect Beasts to secure a safe area for his companions. After dividing his followers between the swamp and Outer Domain, he used a Supreme Dao Treasure palace to ride the Sufeng Wind into an Abyss as a shortcut to the Inner Domain.

• Xia Manggan accepted a jade slip of Sufeng Ruins intelligence from a black-robed Ancestor Immortal and entered the ruins.
• Xia Manggan killed a True God-level Insect Beast and then hunted World Realm-level Insect Beasts, collecting treasures worth more than thirty portions of Chaos Spirit Liquid.
• Xia Manggan brought Three Pure Ones, Tathagata, and Xia Emperor to explore the cleared outer swamp while he continued deeper into the ruins.
• Xia Manggan gathered Su Youji, his followers, Houyi, Jueming, and Suiren Clan in the Outer Domain and ordered them to seize treasures from other adventurers or kill them.
• Xia Manggan transformed into a palace treasure and plunged into the Sufeng Wind, taking a shortcut through an Abyss toward the Inner Domain.

Xia Manggan crossed the dangerous Sufeng Hundred Streams and encountered an unfamiliar World God who demanded his treasures and service. He wounded the World God with one saber strike, then turned his attention to the Chaos Immortal who had appeared nearby.

• Xia Manggan slowed Kunyu Palace's descent through the Abyss Cavern by bouncing it off the rock walls, then reached the cavern's bottom and collected a few treasures.
• Xia Manggan traveled through a passage without encountering any Wind Beasts and suspected a powerful World Realm cultivator had recently cleared it.
• An ugly World God and a Handsome Chaos Immortal discussed guarding their master's seclusion; the ugly World God went to confront the approaching cultivator.
• The ugly World God demanded Xia Manggan's treasures and a Life-Bound Oath of service, then attacked him with his Nine Nether Blood Sea World.
• Xia Manggan shattered the blood-wave attacks and cut through the ugly World God's body with a single saber strike, then noticed the Handsome Chaos Immortal at the end of the passage.

Xia Manggan killed Heichou and suppressed Baimu after the two World Realm cultivators attacked him for his treasures. Their female master arrived and demanded that Xia Manggan release Baimu and become her follower, leaving him facing a new confrontation.

• Heichou activated the Eight Winds Token and joined Baimu in attacking Xia Manggan, but Xia Manggan used Kunyu Palace to break the wind vortex and killed Heichou with Light as Dust.
• Baimu attacked Xia Manggan with his Heaven Soul Blood-Transforming Divine Needle, but Xia Manggan's body withstood the needles and he deflected them before Baimu fled.
• Xia Manggan pursued Baimu with the Eight Winds Token and Azure Green Rope, trapping him and absorbing his Bronze Bell into Kunyu Palace.
• Baimu crushed a Letter Talisman to summon his master, and Xia Manggan suppressed him before the white-robed woman arrived.
• The white-robed woman demanded that Xia Manggan release Baimu and become her follower, threatening to fight him to the death if he refused.

Xia Manggan refused Feng Li’s demand to become her follower and fought her, revealing formidable speed, strength, and mastery of the Space-Time Path before escaping into the Sufeng Ruins’ Inner Domain. While Feng Li searched for him, Xia Manggan stumbled upon a hidden estate and found the Nine-Story Small Pagoda, whose guardian challenged him to break the Sufeng Formation.

• Xia Manggan rejected Feng Li’s offer to become her follower or Dao Protector, and Feng Li attacked him with her White Silk treasures and Hollow Metal Spheres.
• Xia Manggan used Origin Force Mist to empower his divine body and fought through Feng Li’s water-ripple Dao world, but her repeated attacks forced him to escape through space-time.
• Feng Li pursued Xia Manggan into the Inner Domain and spotted him near a valley, then searched the area after he vanished from sight.
• Xia Manggan discovered an estate ruin in the valley and recognized the Nine-Story Small Pagoda from the original novel.
• Xia Manggan tried to take the pagoda but was stopped by the Sufeng Formation, and its Black-Robed Boy questioned whether he was truly an Ancestor God.