Chapter Summaries

Instructor Mo rebuked the deacons for targeting Yang Chen after Yang Chen cleared the Trial Tower’s nineteenth level, and ordered Deacon Xiao and Deacon Fang’s monthly earnings cut in half. The deacons regretted opposing Yang Chen as the chapter ended.

• Instructor Mo silenced the deacons and challenged Deacon Fang to find someone who could match Yang Chen’s achievements.
• Instructor Mo defended Yang Chen’s talent and regretted not recruiting him earlier.
• Yang Chen cleared the eighteenth level and entered the nineteenth, matching Huang Taiji’s record.
• Deacon Xiao suggested killing Yang Chen, but Instructor Mo explained that doing so would provoke Yuanshan Gate and ordered Yang Chen befriended instead.
• Instructor Mo cut Deacon Xiao and Deacon Fang’s monthly earnings, leaving them regretting that they had targeted Yang Chen.

Yang Chen defeated the Nineteenth Level’s sand soldiers, refined the Creation Divine Qi, and entered the Trial Tower’s twentieth level, surpassing Huang Taiji’s record. There, he faced twenty sand soldiers whose Star Sea Divine Formation tore through his flames, leaving him to confront a deadly fight.

• Yang Chen used most of his spirit talismans, the Benlei Stance, and his dual flames to defeat the Nineteenth Level’s sand soldiers.
• Yang Chen refined the Creation Divine Qi and stepped onto the twentieth level, while observers and North Mountain Main City’s leaders reacted to his new record.
• Yang Chen saw twenty sand soldiers form from the barren ground and tested them with the Benlei Stance, which failed to harm them.
• The twenty sand soldiers attacked in formation and their qi wave cut through Star Fire and Demon Fire, forcing Yang Chen to recognize the Star Sea Divine Formation.

Yang Chen broke the Star Sea Divine Formation with powerful spirit talismans, but the twenty sand soldiers merged into an even stronger giant. The giant attacked Yang Chen, leaving him struggling to find a way to overcome its overwhelming defense.

• Yang Chen faced the twenty sand soldiers as their Star Sea Divine Formation shattered his Star Fire and forced him to retreat.
• Yang Chen unleashed his spirit talismans in a massive storm, but the soldiers’ formation withstood the attack.
• Yang Chen used a Volcano Spirit Talisman and a Dragon Gale Spirit Talisman to break the formation and scatter the sand soldiers.
• The twenty sand soldiers turned into sand and merged into a towering giant whose armor was even harder to pierce.
• Yang Chen struck the forming giant with his spear’s lightning, but the attack barely affected it.
• The giant finished forming and thrust its spear at Yang Chen, whose attempt to dodge left him reeling from the force of its gale.

Yang Chen struggled to break through the twentieth level’s massive sand soldier, exhausting his lightning technique, spirit talismans, and God-Piercing Nail without defeating it. He used the Blazing Fire Spirit Pen to expose unstable space and lured the sand soldier into it, where spatial forces ground it apart.

• Yang Chen struck the massive sand soldier with the Five Thunders Orthodox Method, cracking its armor but failing to break through its defenses.
• Yang Chen used all his remaining spirit talismans, but the blasts only widened the cracks in the sand soldier’s armor.
• Yang Chen attacked with the God-Piercing Nail, which also failed to penetrate the sand soldier’s defenses.
• Yang Chen remembered the Blazing Fire Spirit Pen could tear apart restrictions and planned to lure the sand soldier into unstable space.
• Yang Chen used the Blazing Fire Spirit Pen to expose unstable space, then dodged as the pursuing sand soldier charged into it and was ground apart.

After passing the twentieth level, Yang Chen refined its vast supply of Creation Divine Qi and began breaking through his realm inside the Trial Tower. Outside, Instructor Mo confirmed Yang Chen had survived and passed, while Ma Shenghe, encouraged by Han Lingling, prepared to challenge him.

• Yang Chen absorbed the Creation Divine Qi from the twentieth level and decided to break through, expecting to reach the peak of the third level of the Origin Martial Realm.
• The spectators and North Mountain Main City deacons wondered whether Yang Chen had failed, but Instructor Mo explained that surviving the twentieth level meant he had passed.
• Instructor Mo ordered Yang Chen placed second on the stone monument and blamed Deacon Xiao and Deacon Fang for letting a supreme genius slip away.
• Han Lingling arrived with her fiancé, Ma Shenghe, who resented Yang Chen for drawing everyone's attention away from him.
• Han Lingling promised to be Ma Shenghe's if he defeated Yang Chen, and Ma Shenghe confidently vowed to crush him.

Yang Chen broke through to the peak of the third level of the Origin Martial Realm inside the Trial Tower, then emerged to a crowd of admirers in North Mountain Main City. Ma Shenghe challenged him publicly, and Yang Chen recognized that Han Lingling had arranged the confrontation.

• Yang Chen broke through from the Half-step Origin Martial Realm to the peak of the third level, then stopped challenging the Trial Tower to stabilize his cultivation.
• Yang Chen left the Trial Tower and was mobbed by admirers, while Instructor Mo explained that he had encouraged North Mountain Main City's disciples to win Yang Chen's favor.
• Ma Shenghe grew jealous of Yang Chen's fame and planned to defeat him to restore his standing in Changning Main City.
• Ma Shenghe loudly challenged Yang Chen, who recognized Han Lingling beside him and realized she had sent a Second-level Origin Martial Realm genius.

Ma Shenghe challenged Yang Chen, confident that his cultivation and Changning County origins gave him an advantage, while Han Lingling hoped he would defeat Yang Chen. Yang Chen refused to fight unless Ma Shenghe first cleared the Trial Tower’s twentieth level, leaving Ma Shenghe unable to answer the condition.

• Deacon Xu warned Instructor Mo that Ma Shenghe’s challenge was likely stirred up by Han Lingling, but Instructor Mo decided to let the fight proceed as a test of Yang Chen.
• Ma Shenghe, convinced that North Mountain County’s geniuses were inferior, challenged Yang Chen while the crowd speculated that Yang Chen was afraid to accept.
• Yang Chen told Ma Shenghe to clear the Trial Tower’s twentieth level before challenging him, pointing out that he had just cleared it himself.
• Ma Shenghe could not clear the twentieth level but accused Yang Chen of avoiding the fight, and Yang Chen rebuked him for demanding a challenge without proving himself.

Yang Chen refused Ma Shenghe’s challenge until Ma Shenghe offered a wager, then agreed to fight him for five million spirit stones. Ma Shenghe arranged to compete immediately in front of the gathered North Mountain Main City crowd, hoping to make a name for himself.

• Yang Chen rejected Ma Shenghe’s challenge and left, prompting the North Mountain Main City geniuses to criticize Ma Shenghe for boasting about Changning County.
• Han Lingling privately advised Ma Shenghe to use spirit stones to entice Yang Chen into fighting.
• Ma Shenghe offered one million spirit stones, and Yang Chen mocked the wager until Ma Shenghe raised it to five million.
• Yang Chen accepted the five-million-spirit-stone match and asked when and where they would fight.
• Ma Shenghe chose to compete on the spot before the gathered crowd and invited everyone to make room.

Yang Chen defeated Ma Shenghe with a single lightning attack, revealed that he had reached the third level of the Origin Martial Realm, and collected the five million spirit stones. As Yang Chen departed, Ma Shenghe reflected on his jealousy, while Han Lingling ended their relationship.

• Ma Shenghe challenged Yang Chen, confident that defeating him would bring glory and help him win Han Lingling’s attention.
• Yang Chen revealed the aura of the third level of the Origin Martial Realm and defeated Ma Shenghe with a lightning dragon, injuring only his right arm.
• Ma Shenghe admitted defeat and handed Yang Chen the five million spirit stones they had wagered.
• Yang Chen left after giving Han Lingling a cold glance, and Ma Shenghe recognized that jealousy and comparison had hindered his cultivation.
• Han Lingling told Ma Shenghe that they were not suitable for each other and ordered him not to visit her again.

Han Lingling broke off her engagement to Ma Shenghe after he lost to Yang Chen, and Instructor Mo stripped her of her rights in North Mountain Main City for targeting Yang Chen. The chapter left Han Lingling silent after Instructor Mo warned her that she would lose the city’s protection if she rejected its arrangements.

• Han Lingling told Ma Shenghe their engagement was over because she wanted someone strong enough to defeat Yang Chen, and Ma Shenghe accepted the breakup.
• Instructor Mo arrived and announced that North Mountain Main City’s leaders had stripped Han Lingling of her rights for repeatedly targeting Yang Chen.
• Han Lingling demanded to consult her father, but Instructor Mo frightened her into silence with his True Martial Realm aura.
• Instructor Mo told Ma Shenghe and Han Lingling to complete their marriage, but Ma Shenghe explained that Han Lingling had already ended their engagement.
• Han Lingling rejected the idea of marrying a North Mountain Main City genius, and Instructor Mo warned that she would have to leave the city and give up its protection if she refused its arrangements.

Han Lingling regretted breaking off her engagement to Ma Shenghe, but Shao Ming and Ma Shenghe both rejected her, leaving her with no choices. Meanwhile, Yang Chen stayed in North Mountain Main City to enter seclusion and investigate the second layer of Zhang Xuelian's box.

• Instructor Mo asked Han Lingling to remain in North Mountain Main City, then proposed that Shao Ming marry her on her father's behalf.
• Shao Ming rejected the betrothal, explaining that he was devoted to cultivation and did not like Han Lingling.
• Instructor Mo ordered that Han Lingling be married to whichever genius agreed, and Han Lingling pleaded to marry Ma Shenghe instead.
• Ma Shenghe rejected Han Lingling and left, leaving her isolated and despairing.
• Yang Chen asked Elder Li and Elder Ma to find lodging in North Mountain Main City so he could enter seclusion and examine the second layer of Zhang Xuelian's box.

Yang Chen broke the Second Layer Restriction on Zhang Xuelian’s box and found an Exquisite Dream Mirror that could temper his state of mind through realistic dreams. After spending what felt like a year in the mirror’s dream, he returned to reality and learned that only one day had passed.

• Yang Chen entered seclusion in North Mountain Main City while Elder Ma and Elder Li guarded him.
• Yang Chen shattered the box’s Second Layer Restriction and discovered the Exquisite Dream Mirror.
• Yang Chen used the mirror to enter a realistic dream and experienced life, loss, and danger to temper his state of mind.
• Yang Chen ended the dream and found his state of mind had improved, though he wanted further training toward the True Martial Realm.
• Yang Chen left seclusion and learned from Elder Li and Elder Ma that he had been gone for only one day.

After returning to Yuanshan Gate, Yang Chen entered the Heavenly Capital Divine Kingdom to learn what new permissions and treasures his breakthrough to the Origin Martial Realm had unlocked. Yu Ban prepared to show him the Great Emperor’s inheritance, leaving Yang Chen poised to inspect it.

• Elder Li told Yang Chen that North Mountain Main City planned to marry Han Lingling to an eighth-level Spiritual Martial Realm genius, and Yang Chen recognized it as a signal to keep her in check.
• Yang Chen stayed in North Mountain Main City for two more days, then returned to Yuanshan Gate with Elder Ma and Elder Li.
• Yang Chen greeted the Yuanshan Gate disciples, spent a day with Gu Mingyue on Flying Heaven Peak, and then entered seclusion to test his teleportation artifact.
• Yang Chen used a top-grade spirit stone to enter the Heavenly Capital Divine Kingdom and met Yu Ban in the heavenly palace.
• Yang Chen told Yu Ban that he had reached the third level of the Origin Martial Realm, and Yu Ban offered to show him the permissions and treasures the Great Emperor had left for him.

Yang Chen received treasures left by the Heavenly Capital Great Emperor and learned that a special array disk could protect him from True Martial Realm attacks. After Senior Yu Ban explained which places and rewards Yang Chen could access at his current cultivation level, Yang Chen decided to visit the Beast Taming Hall to practice against demon beasts.

• Yang Chen examined an array disk containing four stone generals and learned from Senior Yu Ban that they had evolved from Life Stones sealed inside it.
• Senior Yu Ban explained that the array disk let Yang Chen control the four Life Stone generals, whose barrier could withstand attacks from True Martial Realm experts.
• Yang Chen stored the array disk, inspected the other treasures, and asked Senior Yu Ban what he could use and where he could go in the Heavenly Capital Divine Kingdom.
• Senior Yu Ban explained that most rewards available to Yang Chen at his current cultivation level would offer little help with his martial cultivation.
• Yang Chen learned that he could practice against demon beasts in the Beast Taming Hall and decided to take a look.

Yang Chen visited the Beast Taming Hall and challenged a Swiftwing Eagle to temper his Primordial Divine Body. He deliberately endured its nonfatal attacks as his body grew tougher, while Yu Ban watched and recognized his training.

• Yu Ban explained that the Beast Taming Hall held demon beasts for sparring and told Yang Chen that he was training the two Black Mountain Black Bear brothers while Golden Claw remained occupied refining demon beast corpses.
• Yang Chen asked Yu Ban to take him to the Beast Taming Hall and chose to challenge a demon beast at the third level of the Origin Martial Realm.
• Yu Ban sent Yang Chen to face a Swiftwing Eagle, which attacked him at great speed and injured him.
• Yang Chen dodged the eagle's fatal strikes while allowing lesser wounds, and his injuries healed quickly as his body grew more resilient.
• Yu Ban realized that Yang Chen was deliberately tempering his Primordial Divine Body with the Swiftwing Eagle's attacks.

Yang Chen considered how to advance his Primordial Divine Body and concluded that the Beast Taming Hall was meant to help him enslave the imprisoned demonic beasts. He left the Swiftwing Eagle alive and planned to seek more willing beasts after arranging materials and visiting Rainbow and the others.

• Yang Chen reviewed the three methods of cultivating the Primordial Divine Body and decided he needed additional materials to advance it.
• The Swiftwing Eagle accused Yang Chen of using it as a sparring target and asked him to kill it, but Yang Chen spared it.
• Yang Chen returned to the Beast Taming Hall with Yu Ban and explained that killing the beasts offered him no benefit.
• Yang Chen told Yu Ban that the hall's true purpose was to let later generations enslave the demonic beasts imprisoned there.
• Yang Chen decided to leave the untamed Swiftwing Eagle imprisoned and seek other beasts to enslave, then asked Yu Ban to prepare materials before he visited Rainbow and the others.

Yang Chen visited the Merfolk maidens studying Senior Yu Ban’s Way of Restrictions, then returned to the Beast Taming Hall to find a way to control its demonic beasts. Senior Yu Ban proposed a slave restriction that required the beasts’ consent, so Yang Chen began looking for candidates to persuade.

• Yang Chen gave Senior Yu Ban the body-refining materials he needed, and Senior Yu Ban prepared most of them.
• Yang Chen visited the Merfolk quarters, where Rainbow and the other maidens enthusiastically showed him their progress studying restrictions.
• Yang Chen returned to the Beast Taming Hall and asked Senior Yu Ban about methods of enslavement.
• Senior Yu Ban explained that a slave restriction could kill anyone implanted with it if they tried to harm their master, but it required their consent.
• Yang Chen asked Senior Yu Ban for information on the demonic beasts so he could find some to persuade.

Yang Chen chose the Long-armed Ape clan as a possible target for his demon beast enslavement plan and went to test a Long-armed Ape near his own strength. He told the captive beast that he controlled the Beast Taming Hall and could decide whether it lived or died.

• Yang Chen and Senior Yu Ban discussed which demon beast clans might be easiest to enslave, and Yang Chen settled on the Cave Rat and Long-armed Ape clans as promising targets.
• Senior Yu Ban gave Yang Chen a slave restriction and used the Way of Restrictions to transfer him into a forest containing a third-level Origin Martial Realm Long-armed Ape.
• The Long-armed Ape spoke with Yang Chen and explained that it did not plan to kill him immediately, though it remained hostile toward humans.
• Yang Chen argued that the Long-armed Ape had no reason to keep fighting humans after a thousand years had passed since the war.
• Yang Chen revealed that he was Senior Heavenly Capital's successor, controlled the Beast Taming Hall, and could decide whether the Long-armed Ape lived or died.

Yang Chen persuaded the Long-armed Ape to submit and planted a slave restriction in its mind. With the ape now obeying him, Yang Chen prepared to approach a second demon beast.

• Yang Chen told the Long-armed Ape that he could keep it imprisoned or let it see daylight if it submitted to him.
• The Long-armed Ape accepted submission, and Yang Chen planted a slave restriction in its head.
• The Long-armed Ape called Yang Chen “Young Master” and understood that the restriction prevented it from resisting or harming him.
• Yang Chen told the Long-armed Ape to help persuade a second demon beast, promising future benefits in return.

Yang Chen enlisted the Long-armed Ape, Fire-tailed Fox, and Golden-spinning Leopard to persuade other demon beasts to accept enslavement. The Black-winged Great Roc agreed to become his slave if Yang Chen proved his strength, and acknowledged him after Yang Chen trapped it with lightning.

• Yang Chen enslaved the Fire-tailed Fox after the Long-armed Ape helped persuade it, then failed to subdue a stubborn demon beast.
• The Long-armed Ape and Fire-tailed Fox persuaded the Golden-spinning Leopard to accept Yang Chen, making him realize demon beasts could convince one another more easily.
• Yang Chen chose the Black-winged Great Roc as his next target, and the Roc attacked him after seeing the other three demon beasts standing with him.
• The Black-winged Great Roc agreed to be enslaved if Yang Chen demonstrated strength worthy of its recognition.
• Yang Chen bound the Black-winged Great Roc with Heavenly Thunder Essence, and the Roc acknowledged him.