Chapter Summaries

Ye Wudao left the Myriad Dao Bell inactive and returned to the Spirit Realm to consult the Azure Sect about the Myriad Worlds Academy. After discovering that his Space Great Dao could traverse the void beyond the Spirit Realm fragment, he went to speak with Wang Jian.

• Ye Wudao chose not to activate the Myriad Dao Bell until he learned more about the academy that would descend when it was activated.
• Ye Wudao left a note for his companions in seclusion, traveled through the Capital City's Rift, and returned to the Spirit Realm.
• Ge Nie told Ye Wudao that the Beast Taming Sect had moved and become a subsidiary of the Azure Sect, while the sect's elders and master were cultivating in seclusion.
• Ye Wudao used the Space Great Dao to travel to Azure Sect headquarters and realized it could carry him through the void beyond the Spirit Realm fragment.
• Ye Wudao went to Wang Jian's room, called to him, and entered when Wang Jian invited him in.

Ye Wudao asked Wang Jian about Myriad Worlds Academy and learned that its entrance trial varied by person, with no known details about what lay inside. Convinced it was necessary to save the world, Ye Wudao activated the Myriad Dao Bell and summoned the academy into the Spirit Realm.

• Wang Jian told Ye Wudao he was still far from advancing to Land Immortal and explained that he feared failing Tribulation Transcendence.
• Ye Wudao asked Wang Jian about Myriad Worlds Academy, and Wang Jian went to the Sword Sect to memorize its records.
• Wang Jian explained that cultivators of any realm could attempt the academy's preliminary examination, which involved different trials such as arrays or battles against puppets.
• Wang Jian advised Ye Wudao not to enter the mysterious academy, but Ye Wudao said Ancestor Fuxi and Lady Nuwa had supported the Heavenly Dao's proposal to seek its help.
• Ye Wudao activated the Myriad Dao Bell, opening a rift above the Spirit Realm as Myriad Worlds Academy emerged from the void.
• Wang Jian recognized the colossal structure and said that Myriad Worlds Academy had returned.

Ye Wudao entered the Myriad Worlds Academy and passed its preliminary mirror-image assessment. He then began climbing the steps toward the Academy's main hall.

• A green-robed man emerged from the bronze gate, announced the Academy's opening, and invited Ye Wudao inside.
• Ye Wudao entered the Academy as Wang Jian told the Azure Sect members that Ye Wudao had summoned it and ordered them to keep watch.
• The Academy trapped Ye Wudao in a sealed domain and set a mirror image of his peak Divine Transformation Realm strength against him.
• Ye Wudao shattered the mirror image in one strike, passing the assessment in five breaths with an excellent evaluation.
• The Academy revealed a flight of stone steps leading to its main hall, and Ye Wudao stepped onto them.

Ye Wudao entered the Myriad Worlds Academy’s formal test, where failure in any of seven trials meant death, and faced the Beginner Pavilion’s test of resolve. He passed by choosing to stand with the soldiers in an illusory battle and entered the corridor marked “Gain and loss.”

• Ye Wudao learned that he had to pass through seven pavilions to reach the summit and obtain the academy’s legacy, while failing a trial would cost him his life.
• Ye Wudao entered the Beginner Pavilion and found a stone pillar asking, “To know it cannot be done, yet do it anyway—is that right?”
• Ye Wudao faced an illusion in which an old soldier urged him, as a general, to retreat from a doomed battle over an empty city.
• Ye Wudao stood at the front of the defenders, and the soldiers gathered behind him as he explained that some acts were worth doing to avoid regret.
• The illusion shattered, a golden mark appeared, and Ye Wudao passed the first trial before continuing toward the corridor marked “Gain and loss.”

Ye Wudao passed the Beginner Pavilion’s trials of loss and death by accepting the scars and risks behind his strength. After the pavilion declared his heart and will clear, he headed for the Pavilion of Understanding, still wondering why so many people had died at Myriad Worlds Academy.

• Ye Wudao told the old man that his gains were worth the wounds he had endured, and the second golden mark appeared.
• Ye Wudao faced a dying version of himself and chose to continue even if reaching his goal meant death, earning the third golden mark.
• Ye Wudao passed through the wooden door and returned to the entrance, where a flame-shaped golden mark appeared on his palm.
• The Beginner Pavilion announced that Ye Wudao had completed training and directed him to the Pavilion of Understanding.
• Ye Wudao questioned why so many people had died at Myriad Worlds Academy, then climbed the stairs toward the next pavilion.

Ye Wudao faced three life-or-death questions in the Pavilion of Understanding, each testing whether he could see beyond the conditions presented to him. He passed the first two by rejecting their false premises and reached the jade stele with one step, though the chapter ended before his third answer was judged.

• A gray-robed teacher warned Ye Wudao that he had to answer three questions correctly to survive, then asked whether a lamp illuminated darkness or darkness set off the lamp.
• Ye Wudao argued that light and darkness were mutually dependent and rejected the forced choice, passing the first question.
• The teacher asked how Ye Wudao could save two people on a bridge that supposedly held only one person, with a knife in hand.
• Ye Wudao challenged the bridge’s stated limit and the question’s assumptions, passing the second question.
• The teacher described a trapping formation with an exit ten steps away and only nine steps available, and Ye Wudao said one step would be enough before stepping beside the jade stele.

Ye Wudao passed the Pavilion of Understanding by stepping outside the final question’s rules and entered the Pavilion of Realization. After studying five seemingly unrelated scenes, he realized they all depicted people trapped in states that endlessly repeated, but the trial’s outcome remained unrevealed.

• Ye Wudao reached the jade stele in one step, passed all three questions of understanding, and received the next trial’s instructions from the teacher.
• Ye Wudao entered the Pavilion of Realization and saw five scenes: a city, a monk sweeping leaves, a child in a river, a scholar with a hovering brush, and a dark void.
• Ye Wudao examined the scenes and their details but found no storyline or causal connection between them.
• Ye Wudao stopped searching for a chain of Karma and considered that the scenes might be linked by a repeated state.
• Ye Wudao concluded that all five scenes depicted something stuck in an unchanging loop.

Ye Wudao realized the five scenes in the Pavilion of Realization reflected his own past and cleared the trial by recognizing their hidden exits. He entered the Technique Forging Pavilion, where his powers were suppressed and a life-or-death battle against a colossal beast began.

• Ye Wudao recognized himself in the five scenes and saw that their exits had always been there.
• The scenes transformed, and the voice declared that Ye Wudao had cleared the Pavilion of Realization.
• A young man in green robes watched Ye Wudao and wondered whether he could pass the trials ahead.
• Ye Wudao entered the Technique Forging Pavilion, where the trial was divided into forging form, forging force, and forging heart.
• The first forging began with Ye Wudao's cultivation suppressed and a colossal beast attacking him.
• Ye Wudao struck the beast, but its hide resisted his Golden Flame of the Way of Refining, and its claw marked his Immortal Artifact-grade puppet body.

Ye Wudao cleared the First Forging by exploiting a giant beast’s wing weakness, then defeated a silver replica of himself in the Second Forging with a deliberately fake array. With his strength restored, he looked toward the third platform.

• Ye Wudao tore the giant beast’s wing, smashed its wing bone, and snapped its neck to clear the First Forging.
• A silver figure appeared with Ye Wudao’s form and copied all his Great Dao Power for the Second Forging.
• Ye Wudao realized the silver figure repeated his recorded fighting style and would struggle with unfamiliar tactics.
• Ye Wudao scattered Treasure Artifact Formation Disks to create a false array and used the silver figure’s brief hesitation to destroy it.
• Ye Wudao cleared the Second Forging, recovered all his strength, and turned toward the third platform.

Ye Wudao passed the Technique Forging Pavilion’s heart trial by recognizing that the false Wang Jian could never truly turn against him. He entered the Dao Inquiry Pavilion, where an old man questioned him about fire and then asked what the flame was thinking.

• Ye Wudao faced a false Wang Jian who raised a sword against him and told him to go back where he belonged.
• Ye Wudao rejected the trial’s dilemma, explaining that the real Wang Jian would never make him choose between fighting and dying.
• The false Wang Jian vanished, and the voice declared Ye Wudao had passed the third forging and cleared the Technique Forging Pavilion.
• Ye Wudao entered the Dao Inquiry Pavilion and sat across from an old man, who asked him what fire was.
• Ye Wudao described fire as energy, one of the Five Elements, and a force of transformation; the old man then asked what the floating flame was thinking.

Ye Wudao answered the old man's questions about fire, water, and metal before recognizing that they were meant to make him examine himself. He concluded that the questions had been framing him, and the old man left his insight hanging.

• Ye Wudao explained that fire had no thoughts, and the old man moved on to ask where a drop of water wanted to flow.
• Ye Wudao described water's nature as flowing downward and said it could feel neither distress nor happiness.
• Ye Wudao said metal feared rust but did not know or feel fear, and the old man asked what Ye Wudao feared.
• Ye Wudao confessed that he feared being drowned by the many Great Dao Powers within him and losing track of himself; the old man passed him on the third question.
• The old man asked what the first three questions had been testing, and Ye Wudao answered that they had been framing him.

Ye Wudao passed Dao Inquiry Pavilion by recognizing that he remained himself even without his myriad Daos, then entered Momentum Pavilion. As new entrants arrived at Myriad Worlds Academy and learned they had to climb from the beginning, Ye Wudao continued toward the next trial.

• Ye Wudao answered the old man's fourth question by declaring that he would remain himself even if all his Daos and the system vanished, and he passed Dao Inquiry Pavilion.
• The old man left the words "Bearing myriad Daos, never forget my own Dao" on the table, and Ye Wudao bowed before leaving the pavilion.
• The man in azure robes praised Ye Wudao for passing all four questions and hoped he would clear Momentum Pavilion.
• Ye Wudao reached Momentum Pavilion as several new entrants arrived, but a golden beam knocked them down and a voice ordered them to begin at Beginner Pavilion.
• The new entrants recognized Ye Wudao and discussed his progress, while he ignored them, opened Momentum Pavilion's doors, and entered.

Ye Wudao entered the Momentum Pavilion and was tasked with leaving his imprint on an indestructible black stone. By sinking his whole existence into it, he made the stone form the character “Ye,” and a message appeared on the table announcing “Trial One.”

• Ye Wudao found an ordinary-looking black stone in the Momentum Pavilion and sensed a faint rhythm within it.
• A voice told Ye Wudao that the trial was to leave his imprint on the stone.
• Ye Wudao failed to mark the stone with physical force, the Way of Refining, the Space Great Dao, or the Time Great Dao.
• Ye Wudao focused on the stone’s rhythm and caused a fine white trace to appear, but realized it was not yet an imprint.
• Ye Wudao poured his entire existence into the stone, which formed the character “Ye” on its surface.
• Ye Wudao set down the stone, and the words “Trial One” appeared on the table.

Ye Wudao completed the Momentum Pavilion’s three trials, learning to stand firm when ignored, confronted by overwhelming power, and left utterly alone. The pavilion established his mark, and he left for the seventh pavilion as night fell over Myriad Worlds Academy.

• Ye Wudao stood motionless amid a bustling street until an old woman noticed him, passing the first trial.
• Ye Wudao held his ground beneath a giant serpent’s contemptuous gaze until it finally spared him a glance, passing the second trial.
• Ye Wudao stood alone on a gray plain, declared, “I am here,” and passed the third trial.
• The black stone marked all three trials complete, and the character “Ye” turned pale gold.
• Ye Wudao left the Momentum Pavilion and looked toward the seventh pavilion, seeing a crowd gathered below the mountain.

Ye Wudao entered the Unity Pavilion and found himself returned to the Beginner Pavilion, where the previous six trials had become empty. After realizing the trials’ lessons had become part of him, he tried the distant bronze gate but could not open it.

• Ye Wudao told the hesitant crowd that wavering at the Beginner Pavilion’s entrance showed their resolve was not firm, and the crowd understood why they could not pass.
• Ye Wudao entered the Unity Pavilion and found himself back before the Beginner Pavilion, with the mountain path and bronze gate behind him.
• Ye Wudao revisited the first six pavilions and found every trial empty, then repeatedly returned to the Beginner Pavilion whenever he entered the Unity Pavilion.
• Ye Wudao realized the six trials had left will, wisdom, comprehension, skill, human understanding, and momentum within him, so he did not need to repeat them.
• Ye Wudao went down the mountain to the bronze gate and pushed against it, but it would not move.

Ye Wudao unified the six qualities he had gained from the trials into a Dao Seal and became an official disciple of Myriad Worlds Academy. The man in azure robes explained that the seal would let all six qualities work together to guide his cultivation and understanding.

• Ye Wudao realized the six qualities from the pavilions had not yet been unified and merged them into a pale-gold Dao Seal.
• The Unity Pavilion recognized that Ye Wudao had formed the seal and named him a disciple of Myriad Worlds Academy.
• The Academy's voice explained that the Dao Seal proved membership, guided its bearer through the Academy, and allowed the six qualities to advance together.
• Ye Wudao met the man in azure robes in the courtyard and asked how to use the seal.
• The man in azure robes explained that activating the seal would bring all six qualities to bear at once, helping Ye Wudao comprehend cultivation methods and martial techniques more quickly.

Ye Wudao learned how his Dao Seal combined and strengthened his talents, though he judged it mostly redundant beside his system. He discovered that Hua Gan was an inner disciple assigned to the branch academy, which Ye Wudao now controlled as Myriad Worlds Academy’s representative in his world.

• Hua Gan explained that the Dao Seal could use all six of Ye Wudao’s talents together to process techniques and principles, and could incorporate new talents later.
• Ye Wudao concluded that the Dao Seal’s main value to him was organizing his talents into momentum, letting him unleash Great Dao Power with a thought.
• Hua Gan explained that a Dao Seal manifested the Dao of Self, and that Myriad Worlds Academy required its students to comprehend six innate talent Dao Seals.
• Hua Gan revealed that he was leaving for Myriad Worlds Academy and that Ye Wudao would take charge of the local branch academy.
• Hua Gan clarified that he was not the headmaster but an inner disciple, then introduced himself by name.

Hua Gan explained Myriad Worlds Academy’s role and the structure of the myriad heavens and worlds to Ye Wudao, revealing that the academy protects worlds from the growing conflict between Origin Chaos and Dark Chaos. The chapter left Ye Wudao connecting Dark Chaos energy to Heavenly Demon Qi and the extraterrestrial being in his world.

• Ye Wudao asked Hua Gan about Myriad Worlds Academy, and Hua Gan explained its strict talent requirements and its mission to protect the myriad heavens and worlds.
• Hua Gan told Ye Wudao that the academy had over a hundred thousand disciples from countless worlds and that Ye Wudao was the first from his world to pass its assessment.
• Hua Gan explained that chaos evolves into small and great worlds during an epoch, then eventually returns to an energy state, while the Supreme Realm exists beyond chaos.
• Hua Gan revealed that the Supreme Realm separates Origin Chaos from Dark Chaos, whose energies had been eroding each other for several epochs.
• Ye Wudao asked whether Dark Chaos energy was the Heavenly Demon Qi in his world and whether the extraterrestrial being came from Dark Chaos.

Hua Gan explained the origins of Dark Chaos, the Origin Realm, and the differences between great and little worlds to Ye Wudao. Ye Wudao learned that Hua Gan came from the previous era and that Myriad Worlds Academy’s students had been gathered across many eras, then continued asking questions.

• Hua Gan explained that Dark Chaos arose from negative energy and that the Heavenly Demon Ye Wudao had encountered was only indirectly tainted by dark energy.
• Hua Gan told Ye Wudao that he was a lifeform from the previous era and defined the Origin Realm as the realm reached by comprehending the complete Origin Great Dao.
• Hua Gan explained that Myriad Worlds Academy’s hundred thousand students had been accumulated over multiple eras, and described the academy’s influence across the myriad heavens and worlds.
• Hua Gan explained why great worlds produced geniuses more readily than little worlds and said he did not know the exact number of worlds in existence.
• Ye Wudao tried to let Hua Gan leave, then asked him to stay and answer more questions; Hua Gan agreed.

Ye Wudao asked Hua Gan about the deaths of Myriad Worlds Academy entrants and the nature of the Origin Great Daos. Hua Gan explained the Academy’s trials and the distinction between world-bound Origin Daos and powers that exist in Chaos, leaving Ye Wudao with a new account of the mysterious Chaos rules.

• Hua Gan explained that entrants could withdraw from Myriad Worlds Academy’s trials, though some trials were deadly, and said many people from Ye Wudao’s world failed the Wisdom Pavilion because their thinking was rigid.
• Ye Wudao asked Hua Gan why some Origin Great Daos seemed tied to worlds while elemental Origin Daos appeared to exist beyond them.
• Hua Gan said Creation, Refining, Time, and Space were world-bound powers, while Origin Daos such as Fire and Water existed in Chaos and could be used there.
• Hua Gan explained that the sea of chaos lay between worlds and that reaching the Origin Realm required comprehending Origin Great Daos within it.
• Hua Gan added that the ten world-bound Origin Daos might relate to the rules of Chaos, which supposedly allowed their masters to create another Chaos, though even Supremes had not comprehended them.