Chapter Summaries

After a Spatial Storm dropped Xiao Han into the Northern Azure Spiritual Academy, the students and Dean Tai Cang mistook him for an enemy and attacked. Xiao Han trapped Tai Cang and the others in his icy domain and gave them ten minutes, while his strength continued to drain.

• Xiao Han arrived in the academy plaza, blocked the students’ attacks with an Ice Shield, and asked where he was.
• Dean Tai Cang attacked Xiao Han with the Tai Cang Divine Sound, but Xiao Han’s Soul Strength barrier stopped it, and Xiao Han recognized the Northern Azure Spiritual Academy.
• Tai Cang questioned Xiao Han about the Dragon Demon Palace, then had Zhu Tian signal for help as the elders prepared a battle formation.
• Xiao Han summoned Frost Battle Armor and used the Northern Kingdom Killing Realm to pull Tai Cang and the elders into an icy domain.
• Tai Cang and the elders defeated Xiao Han’s Ice and Snow Giants and Frost Armored Warriors with Spiritual Power and Supreme Dharma Bodies.
• Xiao Han bound the six Supreme Dharma Bodies with Frost Chains and told Tai Cang and the others they had ten minutes.

Xiao Han convinced Tai Cang and the others that he had arrived from the Dou Qi Continent and was not connected to the Dragon Demon Palace. After Bei Ming Long Kun apologized and gave him the Spiritual Power Conversion method, Xiao Han accepted an invitation to stay at Northern Azure Spiritual Academy while he converted his power.

• Xiao Han threatened Tai Cang and the others until they listened, then explained that he had arrived from the Dou Qi Continent and knew nothing of the Dragon Demon Palace.
• Tai Cang recognized that Xiao Han’s power was clashing with Spiritual Power and explained that Lower Plane arrivals needed to convert their power.
• Xiao Han released Tai Cang and the others, then attacked when Bei Ming Long Kun emerged from the void.
• Tai Cang and the others explained the misunderstanding, and Bei Ming Long Kun apologized and introduced himself as the guardian Divine Beast of Northern Azure Spiritual Academy.
• Bei Ming Long Kun gave Xiao Han the Spiritual Power Conversion method and invited him to stay at the academy while he completed the process.

Xiao Han began converting his Dou Qi into Spiritual Power inside Northern Azure Spiritual Academy’s Eighth Level Spirit Gathering Array. Bei Ming Long Kun and Dean Tai Cang backed their decision to invest in Xiao Han as the academy prepared to face the Dragon Demon Palace, while Ice Emperor wondered how long Xiao Han would need to regain his former strength.

• Bei Ming Long Kun brought Xiao Han to the academy’s Eighth Level Spirit Gathering Array and gave him a jade token to activate it.
• Xiao Han and Ice Emperor checked the array and found no apparent problems, then Xiao Han began cultivating with a Dou Sheng-level puppet beside him.
• Bei Ming Long Kun told Dean Tai Cang that the academy should treat Xiao Han sincerely because their investment could strengthen its foundations.
• Bei Ming Long Kun sent Tai Cang to prepare for the conflict with the Dragon Demon Palace.
• Xiao Han converted his Dou Qi into crystal-blue Spiritual Power as Ice Emperor watched and wondered how long it would take him to recover his former strength.

After one year in seclusion, Xiao Han emerged as a Third Grade Sovereign, just as the Northern Azure Spiritual Academy struggled to find a way to overcome the Dragon Demon Palace’s Ancient Defense Array. Bei Ming Long Kun began introducing Xiao Han to the Great Thousand World, and Xiao Han asked to hear more about the academy’s difficulties.

• Dean Tai Cang and the elders discussed the academy’s costly war with the Dragon Demon Palace and its inability to break the enemy’s Ancient Defense Array.
• Xiao Han completed his inheritance in the Spirit Gathering Array, and his breakthrough caused a region-wide storm of ice and Spiritual Power.
• Xiao Han emerged as a Third Grade Sovereign, surprising Bei Ming Long Kun and the academy’s elders.
• Bei Ming Long Kun invited Xiao Han to talk and began explaining the Great Thousand World while the elders returned to discussing the war.
• Xiao Han noticed the academy’s tense atmosphere and asked Bei Ming Long Kun to tell him what trouble it was facing.

Bei Ming Long Kun explained the Great Thousand World and its Spirit Array Masters to Xiao Han, who revealed his exceptional array skills and offered to help Northern Azure Spiritual Academy. The chapter ended with Xiao Han accepting an elder position and Bei Ming Long Kun eagerly taking him to meet Tai Cang and complete the arrangements.

• Bei Ming Long Kun brought Xiao Han to the ninth level of the Thunder Domain and explained the Great Thousand World, including the high status and power of Spirit Array Masters.
• Bei Ming Long Kun told Xiao Han that an Ancient Spirit Array protected the Dragon Demon Palace from attacks below the Earthly Supreme level.
• Xiao Han activated an Array Disc and covered the Thunder Domain with a powerful spirit array, stunning Bei Ming Long Kun.
• Xiao Han explained that he had developed the Array Disc, which could store and activate spirit arrays using Spiritual Power.
• Bei Ming Long Kun invited Xiao Han to help Northern Azure Spiritual Academy attack the Dragon Demon Palace and offered him an elder position.
• Xiao Han accepted the position, and Bei Ming Long Kun hurriedly took him to meet Tai Cang and complete the procedures.

Xiao Han joined the Northern Azure Spiritual Academy as a Heaven Seat Elder and agreed to help break the Dragon Demon Palace’s Ancient Grand Array. Three days later, Tai Cang rallied an elite force for an assault on the palace headquarters, and the group set out by teleportation array.

• Tai Cang appointed Xiao Han a Heaven Seat Elder after Xiao Han agreed to join the academy temporarily.
• Xiao Han told Tai Cang he had some confidence in breaking the Dragon Demon Palace’s Ancient Grand Array, and Tai Cang ordered preparations for an assault in three days.
• Tai Cang addressed the assembled force at North Sea Plaza, roused them to destroy the Dragon Demon Palace, and ordered Zhu Tian and Cao Xiu to guard the academy.
• Xiao Han promised that the Spirit Array would not last past the next day if Tai Cang’s information was accurate, while joking with Tai Cang about becoming dean.
• Tai Cang and Xiao Han led the assembled force toward the Dragon Demon Palace headquarters as the teleportation array activated.

Xiao Han used a newly developed Array Disc to reverse Dragon Demon Palace’s defensive grand array, allowing the Northern Azure Spiritual Academy to break through. As the academy prepared to attack, White Dragon Supreme fled the headquarters.

• White Dragon Supreme urged Black Dragon Supreme not to provoke the Northern Azure Spiritual Academy, but Black Dragon insisted Dragon Demon Palace needed overwhelming power to return to its homeland.
• Bei Ming Long Kun attacked the headquarters’ defensive grand array while Xiao Han examined how it operated.
• Xiao Han gave Bei Ming Long Kun an Array Disc and explained that it could reverse the grand array and paralyze it within three breaths.
• Bei Ming Long Kun poured his Spiritual Power into the Array Disc, and Dragon Demon Palace’s defensive grand array shattered.
• The Northern Azure Spiritual Academy prepared to attack, but White Dragon Supreme escaped in the confusion.

Xiao Han pursued the fleeing White Dragon Supreme while Bei Ming Long Kun trapped the Dragon Demon Palace forces and sent Tai Cang and the others to fight them. After Xiao Han caught the White Dragon Supreme, the two discussed the Extraterrestrial Evil race, and the White Dragon Supreme offered Dragon Demon Palace’s wealth and a chance to become a Heavenly Supreme in exchange for a deal.

• Xiao Han chased after the White Dragon Supreme while Bei Ming Long Kun activated a Trapping Array to stop the Black Dragon Supreme and his companions from escaping.
• Bei Ming Long Kun ordered Tai Cang and the others to attack the trapped Dragon Demon Palace forces.
• Xiao Han caught the White Dragon Supreme, who recognized him as a Heaven Seat Elder of Northern Azure Spiritual Academy.
• The White Dragon Supreme told Xiao Han that he and the other survivors had escaped a Lower Plane targeted by the Extraterrestrial Evil race.
• The White Dragon Supreme offered Dragon Demon Palace’s wealth and an opportunity to become a Heavenly Supreme, and Xiao Han asked what the terms were.

Xiao Han defeated the White Dragon Supreme but spared him, urging him to pursue his own strength and vengeance rather than fight among the people of the Great Thousand World. After the Dragon Demon Palace fell, Xiao Han shared its treasure with the Northern Azure Spiritual Academy and kept the Great Sumeru Demon Pillar as the academy emerged as the Northern Azure Continent’s dominant force.

• The White Dragon Supreme asked Xiao Han to save their continent, but Xiao Han refused to risk his life for the Dragon Demon Palace’s wealth and an uncertain opportunity.
• The White Dragon Supreme attacked Xiao Han with the White Dragon Blade, but Xiao Han restrained him with icy chains and then released him, advising him to join the Great Thousand Palace and fight the Extraterrestrial Evil race.
• Xiao Han demanded the Dragon Demon Palace’s assets in exchange for the White Dragon Supreme’s life, and the White Dragon Supreme handed him a Spirit Pearl containing the treasure’s location.
• The White Dragon Supreme reflected on his group’s misplaced focus on expanding its forces and left determined to grow stronger or pass his legacy to gifted disciples.
• Xiao Han returned to the Dragon Demon Palace headquarters, gave Bei Ming Long Kun the treasure’s location, and later received half the hoard while keeping the Great Sumeru Demon Pillar.
• The Northern Azure Spiritual Academy defeated the Dragon Demon Palace, became the Northern Azure Continent’s uncrowned king, and drew more applicants.

After two years at the Northern Azure Spiritual Academy, Xiao Han was ready to leave when Dean Tai Cang asked him to train ten students for the upcoming Spiritual Academy Tournament. Xiao Han agreed, then discovered that Bei Ming Long Kun had singled out Bing Yu, an Ice Spirit Race student, for special attention.

• Xiao Han reflected that the academy was limiting his recovery and decided it was time to leave and explore the Great Thousand World.
• Dean Tai Cang asked Xiao Han to train ten students for half a year so the Northern Azure Spiritual Academy could face the Saint Spiritual Academy at the Spiritual Academy Tournament.
• Xiao Han accepted and told Tai Cang to send the students to him the next day.
• Xiao Han reviewed the student files and noticed that Bing Yu, one of two students at the Heavenly Completion Late Stage, had an unusually detailed record.
• Xiao Han realized Bei Ming Long Kun had deliberately flagged Bing Yu and agreed to take him on.

Bing Yu sought Xiao Han’s help for his branch’s crisis, and Xiao Han tested him and the other selected students before considering whether to take Bing Yu as a disciple. Bing Yu faced a powerful Ice and Snow Giant in the Snowy Plains, while Xiao Han watched and judged his potential.

• Bei Ming Long Kun told Bing Yu that Xiao Han might help him, but Bing Yu would have to earn Xiao Han’s approval or offer something that moved him.
• The ten preselected students waited outside Xiao Han’s courtyard for an entire day before he invited them inside.
• The students entered a test that separated them into different areas of the Snowy Plains, leaving Bing Yu alone.
• Bing Yu dodged a surprise attack and learned that he had to defeat his opponent for Xiao Han to consider helping him.
• Bing Yu saw the Ice and Snow Giant, whose aura surpassed his Heavenly Completion Late Stage cultivation, as Xiao Han watched the test with Bei Ming Long Kun.
• Xiao Han said Bing Yu needed to show his talent if he wanted to become his disciple, then remarked that Bing Yu seemed pretty good.

Bing Yu passed Xiao Han’s trial and became his nominal disciple, securing Xiao Han’s help with his clan’s affairs. Xiao Han then split the students into two groups and took six of them to the Han Yi Merchant Guild to begin their training arrangements.

• Bing Yu defeated the Ice and Snow Giant, passed Xiao Han’s trial, and was accepted as his nominal disciple.
• Xiao Han warned the students that those whose strength fell short could be removed from the competition, then said he would help them improve their cultivation.
• Xiao Han called Bing Yu, Wang Zhi, Lie Tian Yu, and Jin Hong Yue aside for separate plans and led the other six to the rear courtyard.
• Xiao Han teleported himself and the six students to a lavish hall filled with treasures and Spirit Gathering Arrays.
• Xiao Han identified the hall as the Han Yi Merchant Guild.

Xiao Han revealed his position as the Han Yi Merchant Guild’s president and learned that the Limitless Sect was obstructing the guild’s expansion on the Heaven Rain Continent. He gave Yang Qianshan five powerful puppets to destroy the sect, leaving Yang ready to make an example of it.

• A student named Li Tianqiong described the Han Yi Merchant Guild’s rapid rise, its Array Discs, and its secret auction, and Xiao Han offered to show him the guild’s true face.
• Xiao Han knocked Li Tianqiong and five other students off the Altar and into the vortex, then met with Yang Qianshan, the guild’s vice president.
• Xiao Han gave Yang Qianshan a ring of Array Discs and told him to keep watch over the Northern Azure Spiritual Academy students.
• Yang Qianshan reported that the Limitless Sect, a force driven out of the Commerce Continent, was hindering the guild’s operations on the Heaven Rain Continent while local forces stayed out of the conflict.
• Xiao Han gave Yang Qianshan five Supreme Realm Puppets and ordered him to deal with the Limitless Sect, and Yang began planning its destruction.

Xiao Han rewarded Wang Zhi and two other students with God-Rank Spirit Arts and gave Bing Yu a sealed Quasi-Divine Artifact that matched him unusually well. He left Bing Yu facing a grueling path to reach Spirit Energy Tribulation and unlock the spear.

• Xiao Han gave Wang Zhi and the other two students God-Rank Spirit Arts and arranged a Spiritual Energy-rich place for them to recover after changing cultivation methods.
• Xiao Han teased Bing Yu about lacking God-Rank Spirit Arts, then produced a pitch-black long spear that stirred a powerful response in him.
• Xiao Han identified the weapon as the Shadow Jade Ice Spear, a Quasi-Divine Artifact, and gave it to Bing Yu.
• Bing Yu discovered that Xiao Han had sealed the spear, leaving him unable to use it until he reached Spirit Energy Tribulation.
• Xiao Han told Bing Yu he would help him reach Spirit Energy Tribulation within half a year, warned that the process would be difficult, and refused to let him decline.

Bing Yu completed his breakthrough after half a year of training, and Xiao Han told Bei Ming Long Kun that he planned to leave soon. Xiao Han revealed that his students were ready for the Spiritual Academy Tournament, then departed the Thunder Domain after Bei Ming Long Kun asked him to attend the finals.

• Bing Yu defeated the giant ice dragon in the Snowy Domain Space, claimed its crystal, and thanked Xiao Han for guiding him to break through two realms.
• Xiao Han told Bing Yu to rest for three days before the Spiritual Academy Tournament, then went to visit Bei Ming Long Kun in the Thunder Domain.
• Xiao Han told Bei Ming Long Kun he had nearly finished the favor and would soon leave, while reflecting on his duty to prepare for the war against the Extraterrestrial Evil race.
• Xiao Han listed his students' cultivation levels and said he had spent about as much as Tai Cang's entire fortune to train them, astonishing Bei Ming Long Kun.
• Bei Ming Long Kun asked Xiao Han to notify him when the finals began, and Xiao Han left after giving him a parting gift.

At the Han Yi Merchant Guild headquarters, Xiao Han learned that the Limitless Sect was backed by the Shadow Demon Sect and agreed to work with the Shadow Demon Sect’s rival, the Fox Fairy Sect. As Xiao Han prepared to contact the Fox Fairy Sect, Yang Qianshan warned him to protect himself while away from home.

• Yang Qianshan inferred that Xiao Han planned to leave the Northern Azure Continent after helping Northern Azure Spiritual Academy students cultivate in the Creation Secret Realm.
• Yang Qianshan explained that the Limitless Sect had only three Supreme Realm experts but was backed by the Commerce Continent’s Shadow Demon Sect.
• Yang Qianshan described the Shadow Demon Sect’s conflict with the Fox Fairy Sect and proposed cooperating with the Fox Fairy Sect to eliminate their rival.
• Xiao Han approved Yang Qianshan’s plan and agreed to contact the Fox Fairy Sect himself.
• Yang Qianshan warned Xiao Han to protect himself when away from home, leaving Xiao Han bewildered.

Xiao Han sought the Fox Fairy Matriarch’s help in attacking the Shadow Demon Sect, offering to eliminate its headquarters experts himself while the Fox Fairy Sect stopped anyone from escaping. The Fox Fairy Matriarch accepted the proposal if Xiao Han could control the sect’s protective arrays, then asked how they would divide the spoils.

• Xiao Han met the Fox Fairy Matriarch and told her to stop using her Charm Technique.
• Xiao Han asked whether the Fox Fairy Sect wanted to attack the Shadow Demon Sect, then proposed a partnership.
• Xiao Han offered to handle all Shadow Demon Sect headquarters experts above the Supreme Realm while the Fox Fairy Sect guarded against survivors escaping.
• The Fox Fairy Matriarch questioned Xiao Han’s strength, and he said he could turn the Shadow Demon Sect’s spirit arrays against its own people.
• The Fox Fairy Matriarch agreed to cooperate and asked how they would divide the spoils.

Xiao Han reached an agreement with Fox Fairy Matriarch to attack the Shadow Demon Sect and learned that its headquarters held more than thirty Supreme Realm experts. When the operation began, he returned to the Fox Fairy Sect and set out with Supreme Elder Hong Yan and a small group of experts.

• Xiao Han confirmed that he would return to the Fox Fairy Sect in one month, while Fox Fairy Matriarch teased him and he declined to stay.
• Fox Fairy Matriarch questioned her shadowy subordinate about the Shadow Demon Sect, then ordered a review of its movements over the past ten years.
• Xiao Han traveled to a deserted mountain range and realized the Shadow Demon Sect had over fifty Supreme Realm experts, though he planned to handle the headquarters himself.
• Xiao Han returned on the agreed day, and Fox Fairy Matriarch introduced Hong Yan, a Ninth Grade Sovereign, as the operation’s leader.
• Xiao Han told Hong Yan to keep the Fox Fairy Sect experts close, then led the group toward the Shadow Demon Sect.

Xiao Han arrived at the Shadow Demon Sect’s headquarters and declared that his mission was to destroy it. After freezing the sect’s defenders, he urged its two Supreme experts to summon stronger fighters.

• Xiao Han told the gate disciples that his target was the Shadow Demon Sect headquarters and that his payment was its destruction, then froze the two guards.
• Shadow Demon Sect experts surrounded Xiao Han as two Supreme experts arrived to confront him.
• Xiao Han dismissed the elders’ strength, and the gray-haired elder attacked him with a giant palm.
• Xiao Han manifested his Snow Domain, freezing and shattering everyone at the mountain gate except the two Supreme experts.
• Xiao Han asked the elders to call out the sect’s stronger experts, and the two enraged elders charged at him together.

Xiao Han fought the two Shadow Demon Sect elders at their mountain gate, using Spirit Arrays to withstand their attacks and destroy their Supreme Dharma Bodies. He then climbed the steps toward the sect, leaving the battle site buried in frost and blood.

• Hong Yan told the Fox Fairy Sect elders that Xiao Han's Spiritual Power seemed to be at Tier 4 Supreme, though she could not sense his full cultivation.
• The two Shadow Demon Sect elders attacked Xiao Han with the Ghost Dragon Sky-Slaying Hand and Azure Sword Howling Moon, while Xiao Han summoned a giant ice spear.
• Xiao Han protected himself with the Vajra Buddha · Immovable Wisdom King Array and survived the elders' attacks unharmed.
• The elders summoned their Great Skeleton Dharma Body and Azure Dharma Body to flank Xiao Han, but he trapped and destroyed both with the Heavenly Cold Ice Shackles Array.
• Xiao Han shielded himself from the falling blood and climbed the stone steps toward the Shadow Demon Sect's mountain gate.