Chapter Summaries

Li Xiuwen defeated Sun Dazhou, Little Blazing Monk, and Wang Hezi in succession, taking their places among the Azure Hall’s powerhouses. He then faced Wang Daorong, who summoned his Blazing Ninth Prince manifestation, while Wang Wu began plotting to kill Li Xiuwen before the Dragon-Raising-Head Dharma Assembly.

• Li Xiuwen defeated Sun Dazhou and declined to take fourth place, challenging Little Blazing Monk instead.
• Li Xiuwen overwhelmed Little Blazing Monk with his techniques, forcing him to concede.
• Li Xiuwen defeated Wang Hezi by using vibrating force to break his fingertip, leaving only Wang Daorong among the four powerhouses.
• Wang Wu decided to travel under an assumed identity and prepare an assassination at the Dragon-Raising-Head Dharma Assembly, while Fatso anticipated that Li Xiuwen would attract more enemies.
• Li Xiuwen said he would use Spirit-Summoning against Wang Daorong, who stepped onto the stage and manifested the Blazing Ninth Prince.

Li Xiuwen and Wang Daorong fought a fierce duel on the platform, pushing each other to reveal their strongest techniques. Wang Daorong attained sudden enlightenment and merged Western and Eastern combat arts, but his transformation abruptly collapsed.

• Li Xiuwen used his speed and afterimages to attack Wang Daorong, who countered with his combat instincts and scattered dust to hinder him.
• Li Xiuwen fought through the dust with psychic sensing, broke through Wang Daorong’s palm strikes, and injured his ribs with a punch.
• Wang Daorong reset his broken rib and challenged Li Xiuwen to continue, then unleashed the Heavenly Steed Tramples the Stars Killing Fist.
• Li Xiuwen summoned the patriarch’s manifestation, and the two fighters clashed with their ultimate techniques, each retreating three steps.
• Wang Daorong attained sudden enlightenment and began merging the Flame Nine Princes with the Heavenly Steed, astonishing Li Xiuwen and the onlookers.
• Wang Daorong charged at Li Xiuwen again, but his white horse and the Flame Nine Princes suddenly shattered, and the merged power dissipated.

After defeating Wang Daorong and becoming Azure Hall's Senior Brother, Li Xiuwen used his new rewards to buy Great Elixirs and learn the Water Dragon's Chant, a dangerous secret art. As he began cultivating with the elixirs, the Tigress received word that the youngsters would soon be sent on another ancient-tomb adventure before the Dragon Raising Its Head Assembly.

• Li Xiuwen defeated Wang Daorong, who conceded and declared him Azure Hall's Senior Brother as the hall's disciples bowed to him.
• Li Xiuwen announced that he aimed for the Placement Exam's top four and hoped to compete for the championship, while Wang Daorong set his sights on the top eight.
• The Learning Society and martial factions heard of Li Xiuwen's victory, and Lu Shanjun connected his Sea Sand Style to the legendary Whale-Killing Style and urged him to join the Little Martial Saint Alliance.
• Li Xiuwen used his savings and congratulatory gifts to buy two Great Elixirs and the Water Dragon's Chant, then swallowed both elixirs to aid his cultivation.
• The Tigress received Tai Ziren's call asking her to prepare the youngsters for another ancient-tomb adventure before they went to Sheng Nation for the Dragon Raising Its Head Assembly.

Wang Wu left for the Prosperous State to confront the danger he believed Li Xiuwen posed, while Li Xiuwen broke through the tiger-elephant limit and joined a trial expedition to a Martial Tomb. The group reached the island and learned the tomb’s dangers, including an exotic beast guarding its deepest chamber.

• Wang Wu accepted treasured armor from Hong Fang and left for the Prosperous State, explaining that he feared Li Xiuwen would eventually kill him and might have caused Sun Sanpao’s death.
• Su Ming learned that Li Xiuwen had risen to the top of the Learning Society’s assessment rankings and planned to kill him by exploiting a Martial Tomb discovered by Changle.
• Li Xiuwen condensed a tenth blood-qi seed, transforming his strength, and decisively defeated Wang Daorong in the Grand Void Illusory Realm.
• Tiger Granny sent Li Xiuwen and four other young fighters to explore a small Martial Tomb in the Southern Sea as a trial before Dragon Rising.
• Li Xiuwen used his qi-observing art to detect white dragon qi above the tomb, and Chen Jin warned the group about its traps, underwater chambers, and an Azure Ripple guarding the Nether Abode.

Li Xiuwen and four companions explored a Martial Tomb, survived underwater traps and Ghost Jellyfish, and discovered Silk-Thread Puppets guarding valuable Yin-Horse Zhi. After the group defeated the creatures and collected the lingzhi, they found a darker passage leading farther into the tomb.

• Li Xiuwen, Wang Hezi, Wang Daorong, Sun Dazhou, and Little Blazing Monk entered the tomb together and chose the larger passage to search for its Inner Tomb.
• The group swam through hidden underwater traps and escaped a swarm of paralyzing Ghost Jellyfish into a cavern filled with stone coffins.
• Wang Hezi opened a coffin and awakened a Silk-Thread Puppet, while the other explorers also became entangled with the creatures.
• Li Xiuwen burned fourteen Silk-Thread Puppets and collected their Yin-Horse Zhi, while Wang Daorong, Liehuo, the young monk, and Wang Hezi each obtained one.
• The group searched the cavern, found a deeper tunnel, and discussed returning with the lingzhi they had collected.

Li Xiuwen and his companions were trapped in the Nether Abode, where Su Cha killed the Jade Wave Beast and Li Xiuwen uncovered the true tomb chamber. The group received martial arts from an Inheritance Treasure, and Li Xiuwen began learning the Lesser Mystic Heaven Finger.

• Su Ming ambushed the tomb raiders, but Fatso and Su Cha revealed they had been waiting to protect Li Xiuwen and the others.
• Su Cha and the group entered the Nether Abode, where he fought the Jade Wave Beast while its attacks knocked Wang Hezi and several others unconscious.
• Su Cha defeated the Jade Wave Beast, and Li Xiuwen deciphered the Three Palaces Five Elements Array to reveal a hidden passage.
• Li Xiuwen and the others found the tomb owner's chamber and discovered a stone tablet that granted each of them a Golden Network Gate martial art.
• Li Xiuwen received the Lesser Mystic Heaven Finger from the Inheritance Treasure.

Li Xiuwen and the others escaped the ancient tomb after he gained the Little Mystic Heaven Finger and learned of the Carefree Treasure Land. Back in Fragrant Sea, they received rewards, and the Learning Society announced that the Azure Rankings’ Top Ten would leave for the Prosperous State in three days.

• Li Xiuwen received an inheritance vision from Li Tong, Heavenly Mountain Lineage Patriarch, and learned the Little Mystic Heaven Finger, whose perfected form was called the Heaven-Cutting Earth-Limiting Great Mystic Heaven Finger.
• Li Xiuwen, Su Cha, Wang Daorong, Wang Hezi, Sun Dazhou, and the little Blazing Monk broke through a stone wall and escaped the tomb through a cave.
• The group met Fatso on the beach; he said he had driven Su Ming away with a grenade, and Chen Jin later sailed them back to Fragrant Sea with escorts.
• Su Ming returned home injured and resolved to recruit reinforcements, while Tiger Granny rewarded the tomb expedition team for their efforts.
• Tiger Granny announced that the Azure Rankings’ Top Ten would leave for the Prosperous State in three days and confirmed that each could bring two family members.

Li Xiuwen celebrated the riches and martial treasures he gained from the ancient tomb expedition, then tested the Little Mystic Heaven Finger and discovered it could nearly kill him. After the Learning Society announced the Dragon-Raising-Head Dharma Assembly roster, he prepared to travel to the Prosperous State and met with Ye Lao and Mr. Long.

• Tiger Granny told Mr. Ming that Li Xiuwen and the expedition team had uncovered the Heavenly Mountain Lineage’s inheritance treasure, and Mr. Ming celebrated that Li Xiuwen had comprehended a finger technique.
• Li Xiuwen assessed his treasure-note, Yin-Horse Zhi, and Serpent’s Cry Armguards, then learned the armguards amplified his punches but could not be used at the assembly.
• Li Xiuwen tested the Little Mystic Heaven Finger against Wang Daorong in the Grand Void Illusory Realm, froze half his body, and died from the technique’s strain before reconstructing himself.
• At the Placement Exam, Ling Xuangui reached tenth place and qualified for the assembly, while Little Loudspeaker ranked fifteenth and missed qualification.
• Old Tiger Granny announced the assembly roster and departure plans; Li Xiuwen chose Little Basket to accompany him, bought ten Blood-Coagulating Elixirs, and prepared for the journey.
• Li Xiuwen visited Ye Lao and Mr. Long, and Ye Lao told him to claim he had learned his practical knowledge without a teacher.

Li Xiuwen received Mr. Long’s letter of introduction and a wine gourd before setting sail for the Prosperous State with his companions. As the group neared the coast, Young Master Nine appeared with a plaque from Tianyi Hao, whose terrifying aura forced the Ten-Handed Strange Fish to shield the ship.

• Mr. Long gave Li Xiuwen a letter for the Tiger-Running Spring Master to help him refine the Supreme-Yin Zhi Great Elixir, warned him about Heaven’s Will, and gifted him aged wine.
• Li Xiuwen’s group sailed toward the Prosperous State, while Huang Sihai, Qiu Xiang, Chen Beiwang, and the Humpbacked Elder discussed his chances at Dragon Rising.
• Young Master Nine caught up to the yacht and greeted Crown Prince Ren, revealing that Heaven’s Will had prepared a plaque for the Changle group.
• Young Master Nine’s fighters presented the plaque bearing the words “Mad Dragon Returns Home,” and Li Xiuwen sensed Tianyi Hao’s immense baleful aura and guts aura in its inscription.
• The Ten-Handed Strange Fish raised a blood-red barrier around the ship and blocked the plaque’s aura, while a voice from the plaque praised the Heluo Taisui God.

Li Xiuwen and the Ever Joy group traveled from Fragrant Sea to Mount Tai Prefecture for the Dragon Rising competition, while Tianyi Hao taunted them before they left. As Li Xiuwen trained and refined medicine, mastering the Whale-Slaying Fist gave him a new understanding of vibration and improved his Boundless Vibration Fist.

• Tianyi Hao confronted Ever Joy's yacht, mocked Crown Prince Ren and Li Xiuwen, and sent the group off toward the Prosperous State.
• Mr. Ming learned that Tianyi Hao had appeared and warned his people to watch for dangers in the Prosperous State.
• Huang Sihai explained the Prosperous State's martial forces as the group traveled to Lingnan, then Crown Prince Ren led them by plane to Mount Tai Prefecture City.
• Crown Prince Ren warned the group to stay inside their guesthouse, while Li Xiuwen chose to train and refine his potent medicines.
• Li Xiuwen refined a Blood Condensation Pellet, enlarged his tenth blood seed, and spent a week practicing his techniques.
• Li Xiuwen defeated Wang Daorong in the Great Void Illusion Realm, grasped the art of vibration, and raised his Boundless Vibration Fist proficiency to 66%.

Li Xiuwen reached Peak Perfection in Whale-Killing Fist, witnessed the Patriarch’s vision, and showed Huang Sihai an aura that convinced them the Patriarch might still be alive. While waiting for the Dragon-Raising-Head Dharma Assembly, Li Xiuwen tested Qi Yunzhi in the Great Void Illusion Realm and was stunned by his overwhelming inner-heaven-and-earth power.

• Li Xiuwen brought Whale-Killing Fist to Peak Perfection, unlocked its extreme realm power, and defeated Wang Daorong with ease.
• Li Xiuwen told Huang Sihai he aimed for the Four Paths and showed him an aura containing the Patriarch’s complete story; Huang Sihai declared that the Patriarch was still alive.
• The Learning Society disciples explored Mount Tai Prefecture as crowds gathered for the Dharma Assembly, while Li Xiuwen stayed at the guesthouse and cultivated his tenth blood-qi seed.
• Little Basket reported that Mr. Long was famous throughout Sheng, and Huang Sihai recalled that his own master had missed the Dui Jia of his grassland home.
• Li Xiuwen challenged Qi Yunzhi in the Great Void Illusion Realm and saw Qi Yunzhi summon a vast aura of mountains, clouds, a golden pill furnace, and a Daoist.
• Li Xiuwen struggled under Qi Yunzhi’s immense inner-heaven-and-earth momentum, then realized that Qi Yunzhi’s daily task of sweeping the grounds might explain his strength.

Li Xiuwen perfected Startling Swan Wandering Dragon, advanced his training, and prepared for the Dragon Rising tournament as contestants gathered in Mount Tai Prefecture. The chapter ended with the tournament ten days away, Li Xiuwen hiding his immense strength and hoping a rare medicine would help him form his twelfth blood-qi seed.

• Li Xiuwen perfected Startling Swan Wandering Dragon while training against the Four Great Powerhouses, and he continued developing Windling Crossing.
• Little Basket reported that visiting schools would arrive in Taizhou Prefecture, and Crown Prince Ren gave the Learning Society contestants a list of the tournament’s seeded fighters.
• Wang Wu planned to assassinate Li Xiuwen during the Mountain-Searching Demon-Hunting stage, while Xiao Feng waited in the mountains and promised to avenge Xiao Tao.
• The schools and contestants gathered in Mount Tai Prefecture, where the Mount Tai Dao Lord’s external manifestation of Senior Crimson Cloud warned troublemakers to behave.
• Li Xiuwen trained until he had formed an eleventh blood-qi seed, tested himself against recorded Thirty-Two Paths contestants, and decided to conceal his true strength during the early rounds.

Chi Xiazi prepared the Mount Tai Way to protect Dragon Rising contestants and hunt foreign spies, while Li Xiuwen broke through to the fourth layer of Dragon-Binding Skill and gained Black-Gold Mysterious Scale Armor. The chapter left Li Xiuwen at the Mount Tai Grand Hotel, introducing himself to Baotu Spring Academy's disciples as a contestant from Sheng.

• Chi Xiazi ordered the Mount Tai Way to hunt foreign spies, protect contestants, and escort the Hundred Schools' experts to the Mount Tai Grand Hotel.
• Li Xiuwen endured Dragon-Binding Skill's transformation and reached its fourth layer, gaining armor that covered nearly his entire body and could withstand small-caliber bullets.
• Jade Palace Master invited Li Xiuwen and the other contestants to stay together at the Mount Tai Grand Hotel, while Crown Prince Ren declined the offered guards for Li Xiuwen.
• Li Xiuwen entered the Great Void Dream Realm and found many Thirty-Two Paths prospects gathered at the hotel, but not the hidden Four Paths favorites.
• Li Xiuwen visited Baotu Spring Academy's training ground, where Li Mei and the disciples discussed him, and he explained that he came from Sheng, not Fragrant Sea.

Li Xiuwen met the Tiger-Running Spring Master, who agreed to refine Yin Horse Mushroom medicine for him, then attended the Mount Tai Dragon Vein Grand Sacrifice. As the True Dragon Lord appeared and bestowed blessings over the gathering, Li Xiuwen prepared to face the Dragon-Raising-Head contestants, including Zuo Tianqing.

• Li Mei verified Mr. Long’s letter of introduction, contacted the Tiger-Running Spring Master, and arranged for Li Xiuwen to meet her before the assembly.
• The Tiger-Running Spring Master accepted Li Xiuwen’s Yin Horse Mushroom ingredients and said he could collect the refined medicine in seven days; she also warned Li Mei about possible assassins during the demon hunt.
• Crown Prince Ren led the Learning Society group to the Martial Plaza, where Li Xiuwen explained the importance of Mount Tai’s Earth Dragon Great Vein.
• The Jade Palace Master began the Dragon Vein Grand Sacrifice and called the leading contestants, including Zuo Tianqing, Chang Shixian, and Wu Meihua, to sit near the Jade Emperor Furnace.
• Daoist practitioners summoned the dragon-vein manifestation, and the Jade Palace Master called on everyone to honor the True Dragon Lord of Mount Tai.
• The True Dragon Lord appeared above the plaza, and seven-colored blessings began falling over the assembled martial artists.

Li Xiuwen received seven Golden Scales during the dragon-vein sacrifice and easily qualified among the thirty-two contestants in the Hundred Sects War. After discovering that his Frenzy Dragon State let him use the Little Mystic Heaven Finger, he resolved to study the remaining top contenders before the final round.

• The Auspicious Rain ended, and Li Xiuwen discovered that he had received seven Golden Scales while other geniuses received fewer.
• Jade Palace Master began the Hundred Sects War, and Li Xiuwen swiftly defeated multiple opponents before retreating to a corner to conserve energy.
• Wu Meihua knocked Wang Hezi out with one move, while contestants were eliminated throughout the two-hour battle.
• The match ended with thirty-two qualifiers, including Li Xiuwen, Zuo Tianqing, Chang Shixian, and Wang Daorong.
• The Crimson Cloud Dao Master investigated the twenty missing dragon scales and sensed that Li Xiuwen had affected Zuo Tianqing's fortune.
• Li Xiuwen activated the Frenzy Dragon State in the Great Void Illusory Realm, survived using the Little Mystic Heaven Finger, and went to study the other finalists.

Li Xiuwen aimed for a Four Paths place in the Dragon Raising Its Head competition as he and the other competitors began Mountain-Searching Demon-Hunting in the forest. After killing a Mountain-Falling Boar, he discovered that his Heavenly Dragon Aura-Sight Art let him see trails of ferocious aura and set off to find more prey.

• Wu Meihua joined Li Xiuwen and the Sea Sand Style group for breakfast, then learned that Li Xiuwen was aiming for the Four Paths.
• Little Loudspeaker told Li Xiuwen she had seen three golden scales after the auspicious blessing, prompting him to suspect she had a special endowment.
• Old Wu Ghost warned Wu Meihua to secure a Four Paths placement so she could compete for a true disciple position in the Mount Tai Way.
• The Jade Palace Master explained the history and rules of Mountain-Searching Demon-Hunting, then sent the thirty-two competitors into the forest to hunt Fierce Creatures.
• Li Xiuwen killed a Mountain-Falling Boar and used his Heavenly Dragon Aura-Sight Art to spot ferocious aura rising deeper in the forest.

Li Xiuwen hunted vicious creatures in the Primeval Forest and secured fifth place in the Mountain-Searching Demon-Hunting event, while surviving an assassination attempt by Xiao Feng. The chapter ended with the contestants’ rankings announced, placing the Six-Fingered Little Monk first and Li Xiuwen among the Eight Paths.

• Li Xiuwen hunted dozens of vicious creatures and met Wang Daorong, who had collected only seven.
• Zuo Tianqing fought the Three-Headed Monster Deer while Li Xiuwen killed five creatures nearby, then escaped Zuo Tianqing’s pursuit.
• The Six-Fingered Little Monk accumulated sixty-six strands of vicious aura and left the mountain.
• Xiao Feng disguised as a farmwoman tried to assassinate Li Xiuwen, but his armor repelled her hidden weapons and she fled; Wang Wu also abandoned his plan to kill him.
• A Golden Network Expert escorted Li Xiuwen off the mountain, and Jade Palace Master counted forty-three strands of vicious aura around him.
• Jade Palace Master announced the final rankings, placing the Six-Fingered Little Monk first and Li Xiuwen fifth with seventy points.

Li Xiuwen placed fifth in the mountain demon hunt and qualified for the Eight Paths, then used an Elephant-Swallowing Grand Elixir to condense his twentieth Blood-Qi Seed. He tested his strengthened Little Mystic Heaven Finger in the Grand Void Illusory Realm and found it could kill a Golden Network Martial Artist.

• Jade Palace Master announced that the Eight Paths contestants would rest for three days before competing for the Four Paths and Path Champion title, while Zuo Tianqing and Qiu Xuanming discussed their prospects.
• Wu Jiuzhou visited Old Wu Ghost and persuaded him to attend the assembly, confident that Wu Meihua could defeat Li Xiuwen.
• Crown Prince Ren distributed rewards to the Community School’s successful contestants and praised Li Xiuwen for reaching the Eight Paths.
• Mr. Ming and the Dragon-Tiger Dao Lord discussed Li Xiuwen’s unexpected progress and the difficulty of reaching the Four Paths against Wu Meihua.
• The Tiger-Running Spring Master gave Li Xiuwen an Elephant-Swallowing Grand Elixir, which he used to condense his twentieth Blood-Qi Seed.
• Li Xiuwen tested his Little Mystic Heaven Finger against Xiao Feng in the Grand Void Illusory Realm and pierced through her defenses, concluding that the technique could kill a Golden Network Martial Artist.

After drinking the liquor Mr. Long gave him, Li Xiuwen reached the second layer of Limitless Tremor Fist and entered the Dragon-Raising-Head Dharma Assembly finals. He defeated Wu Meihua with his Golden Network-level body tempering and newly mastered Tremor River, leaving the contest’s Four Paths lineup unsettled.

• Li Xiuwen drank Mr. Long’s liquor, entered an epiphany, and raised Limitless Tremor Fist to its second layer.
• The Eight Paths contestants gathered at Mount Tai, where Zuo Tianqing, Chang Shixian, and the Six-Fingered Little Monk each won their opening matches.
• Li Xiuwen faced Wu Meihua, who used the Frenzied Shark Tyrant Body and Spirit Invocation, but his Golden Network-level Dragon-Binding Skill let him withstand her attacks.
• Wu Meihua used Blood Shark State and tried Limitless Tremor Fist, but Li Xiuwen struck her with Tremor and left her unconscious.

Li Xiuwen defeated Chang Shixian and Zuo Tianqing to win the Path Champion title, revealing a foundation and strength that shocked the martial arts factions. The chapter ended with his victory announced, while the rest of the competitors and masters reckoned with the result.

• Li Xiuwen was recognized as a Four Paths contender after defeating Wu Meihua, and Huang Sihai celebrated the victory while taunting the Wu family.
• The Six-Fingered Little Monk fought Zuo Tianqing, but Zuo Tianqing defeated him after 286 moves with his special endowment and powerful martial arts.
• Li Xiuwen endured Chang Shixian's attacks, revealed eleven Blood-Qi Seeds, and defeated him with the Limitless Tremor Fist, advancing to the Path Champion match.
• Li Xiuwen revealed twenty Qi-Blood Seeds against Zuo Tianqing and met his Emerald Bell Ancient Realm with Spirit-Summoning and powerful counterattacks.
• Li Xiuwen shattered Zuo Tianqing's barrier and held a killing blow above him, and Jade Palace Master declared him the Path Champion.