Chapter Summaries

Ye Yu registered for Heavenly Saint Academy, reunited Gu Qianqian with her father, and agreed to join Xie Liuying and two companions for the dangerous first selection round. After three days of cultivation, Ye Yu entered the selection grounds with the group while Feng Qiwen and the Fat Monk worried about him and Gu Qianqian.

• Ye Yu completed Heavenly Saint Academy's registration and received a jade token for the selection in three days.
• Gu Qianqian reunited with Gu Shan, but she asked about her mother before leaving with him, while Ye Yu and the Fat Monk departed.
• Xie Liuying proposed that she and Ye Yu cooperate during the dangerous first selection round, and Ye Yu agreed.
• Ye Yu cultivated for three days, then met Xie Liuying, Qing Li, and Fan Bian before they entered the selection grounds through a light screen.
• Feng Qiwen worried about Ye Yu and Gu Qianqian, and he challenged the Fat Monk's belief that parents would naturally care for their children.

Fat Monk and Feng Qiwen discovered that Gu Qianqian’s family had lured them away to steal their Rings of Holding, and Fat Monk defeated the group after learning Gu Qianqian had pretended not to know him to protect him. Gu Qianqian left with them, while Feng Qiwen secretly used a formation to eliminate her family and their allies; the chapter ended with Feng Qiwen reflecting on family and memory.

• Fat Monk found Gu Qianqian selling pills with Qiu Yuan, and Gu Qianqian pretended not to know him.
• Qiu Yuan lured Fat Monk and Feng Qiwen outside Heavenly Saint City, where she demanded their Rings of Holding and revealed the ambush.
• Qiu Yuan slapped Gu Qianqian aside when she tried to protect the two men, and Fat Monk realized she had been acting to keep them safe.
• Fat Monk unleashed his power and defeated Qiu Yuan, Gu Shan, and the others, then carried Gu Qianqian as she chose to leave with him and Feng Qiwen.
• Feng Qiwen activated a formation that swallowed Qiu Yuan and the others, then discussed with Fat Monk how memories shaped feelings for one’s parents.

Ye Yu and his companions entered Heavenly Saint Academy’s first screening, a dangerous mountain range where they had to reach a distant peak alive. As they waited for a chance to pass two powerful Demonic Beasts, the academy’s vice deans discussed whether Ye Chengjun of the Ye Family could be turned away.

• Feng Qiwen watched the sleeping Gu Qianqian and wondered whether instinct had driven her choices and the Young Master’s refusal to return to the Xu Family.
• Ye Yu and the others arrived in the mountain range, learned that reaching the distant peak alive was the first screening, and headed toward the dangerous area.
• Xie Liuying warned the group that the range contained powerful Demonic Beasts and other races, including possibly Body Integration Realm experts.
• Two late Void Refining Demonic Beasts fought across their path, so Xie Liuying suggested waiting for more people before deciding how to cross.
• Heavenly Saint Academy’s vice deans revealed that they had arranged the beast battle to force applicants to cooperate and fight their way through, then discussed the mysterious youth from Dry Moon Island.
• The vice deans noted that Ye Chengjun of the Ye Family had arrived, and the old man in green lamented that they could not refuse him.

Ye Yu used an illusion formation to deceive newcomers and keep them from interfering with his group’s plans. Heavenly Saint Academy’s higher-ups praised his ruthless judgment and dismissed Fan Bian’s compassion as weakness.

• Ye Yu detected that the two late Void Refining Demonic Beasts were only probing each other and concealed them with an illusion formation.
• Ye Yu set up another illusion formation, then told the newcomers that he suspected the area was already under one.
• A formation cultivator exposed Ye Yu’s Spiritual Seals, convinced the newcomers that Ye Yu had tried to scare them away, and led them off.
• Ye Yu and the others followed the newcomers while their spiritual senses remained deceived, drawing closer to the two Demonic Beasts.
• Qi Liantian said Ye Yu should receive a Heavenly Saint Academy quota, while the higher-ups judged Fan Bian unfit for admission.

Ye Yu and his companions escaped the Demonic Beasts after his illusion formation helped expose the danger, then discovered their Heavenly Saint Academy jade plaques were draining their spiritual energy. As they hid and waited for the four plaques to be gathered, Ye Yu grew wary of Xie Liuying, while Qing Li warned him she would flee if danger arose.

• Two Demonic Beasts devoured a group of cultivators, and Ye Yu led Qing Li, Fan Bian, and Xie Liuying away using his illusion formation.
• Fan Bian tried to attack Ye Yu for trapping them, but Qing Li sided with Ye Yu and Xie Liuying calmed the dispute.
• The group noticed their spiritual energy draining and found that their jade plaques each bore one of the characters Heaven, Saint, or Academy.
• Ye Yu and the others hid in tree canopies to wait for someone carrying the missing plaque.
• Ye Yu asked Qing Li whether Xie Liuying had recruited her, then advised caution; Qing Li said she would not let anyone hold her back if they had to flee.

Ye Yu and Qing Li watched a crowd organize arena battles to distribute Heavenly Saint Academy’s jade tokens, but Fan Bian accused Ye Yu of using an illusion array and pressured him to leave. As more contestants won tokens and departed, the remaining crowd turned on one another and demanded that the token holders hand theirs over.

• A mid Void Refining cultivator proposed arena battles, and most of the crowd, including Xie Liuying and Fan Bian, agreed while Ye Yu and Qing Li stood apart.
• Fan Bian accused Ye Yu of setting an illusion array, and the crowd demanded that Ye Yu hand over his jade token and leave.
• Ye Yu tossed his token to Fan Bian and walked away; Qing Li stayed, but the crowd forced her and the other holdouts to join the arena battles.
• Ye Yu and Qing Li watched from a tree as contestants fought, and Ye Yu assessed their strength while considering his chances of winning without revealing his strongest abilities.
• The arena-battle proposer gathered four tokens and left, followed by other winners; when the tenth person was about to depart, the remaining crowd erupted and demanded the jade tokens.

Ye Yu and Qing Li fought their way through a bloody battle over the Saint Character Jade Tablets and reached the peak’s ten seats. With the seats already occupied and new arrivals appearing, Ye Yu killed two exhausted cultivators before they could recover, drawing a taunt that called him despicable.

• A crowd turned on the cultivator who had gathered four jade tablets, killing him and scattering the tablets as Xie Liuying watched from the side.
• Ye Yu and Qing Li arrived at the bloodied arena; Xie Liuying killed the wounded Fan Bian, while Ye Yu collected tablets and learned from her that only thirteen Saint Character Jade Tablets existed.
• Ye Yu entered the battlefield and killed two cultivators with the Purple Firmament Sword to seize a tablet, while Qing Li gathered four tablets of her own.
• Xie Liuying said she hoped to see Ye Yu at Heavenly Saint Academy, and she and her companions collected the fallen cultivators’ Ring of Holdings.
• Ye Yu and Qing Li reached the peak, where nine of the ten seats were occupied; Qing Li attacked a cultivator, while Ye Yu took a seat.
• Two more cultivators arrived and prepared to recover, but Ye Yu killed them with a purple sword strike, prompting an onlooker to call him a despicable villain.

Ye Yu confronted Xiong Yan, then faced Huang Sitong’s trial and escaped his illusion formation. He passed, while the other nine remained trapped and one died in the illusion.

• Ye Yu wounded a man who had been insulting him, and Xu Yao stopped Xiong Yan from attacking him so the group would not lose a seat.
• Huang Sitong revealed himself, introduced the trial, and challenged the candidates to survive for an hour against him.
• As the candidates fled, Ye Yu severed one man’s leg and moved away; Huang Sitong killed the fleeing man.
• Ye Yu realized he was trapped in an illusion, shattered it with the Purple Firmament Sword, and learned he had passed the trial.
• Huang Sitong watched the other nine candidates struggle in the illusion, and one candidate exploded into blood before his Nascent Soul dispersed.

Ye Yu passed the first round of Heavenly Saint Academy’s selection and refused to join Yaochi. After learning that Feng Qiwen had concealed Yaochi’s connection to Qin Ruoxian, Ye Yu dismissed him from his service and left him bound to silence about Ye Yu.

• Ye Yu survived the illusion array and returned to Heavenly Saint City with the six other candidates who passed the selection.
• Qing Li thanked Ye Yu for helping her, but he told her he had not intended to help.
• A Kunlun prodigy tried to claim Qing Li, while the other candidates joined factions and Qin Yao invited Ye Yu to join Yaochi; Ye Yu refused.
• Ye Yu confronted Feng Qiwen for failing to tell him about Yaochi and dismissed him from his service.
• Ye Yu placed the Void Sky Cauldron’s power inside Feng Qiwen to prevent him from revealing anything about Ye Yu, then left as Fat Monk entered the room.

Ye Yu watched the final test for entry into Heavenly Saint Academy, where candidates’ spiritual-root talents were judged by the Seven-Colored Glazed Stone. Ye Chengjun’s talent was revealed to be Crimson Dragon level, stunning the academy’s elders and the crowd.

• Feng Qiwen bowed to Ye Yu and left the inn after their private conversation, while Fat Monk questioned Ye Yu about what had happened.
• Three days later, Ye Yu gave Fat Monk a Cosmos Bag of spirit stones and went to the academy registration area, aware that Feng Qiwen was following him.
• Chang Qingzi and Qi Liantian opened the academy’s entrance and began the final talent test with the Seven-Colored Glazed Stone.
• Yun Ling revealed High-grade Water Spiritual Root and Python level talent, but none of the eight elders accepted him, so Chang Qingzi eliminated him.
• Ye Chengjun’s test summoned an azure dragon, revealing Dragon level talent, then the dragon phantom began to glow red and Chang Qingzi identified it as Crimson Dragon level talent.

Ye Yu’s talent test revealed only a mid-grade Spiritual Root, causing the evaluators to dismiss his potential. As he prepared to leave without securing the Void Sky Cauldron fragment, a yawning old man stopped him and told him to come along.

• Lei Dong’s voice claimed Ye Chengjun as his disciple after Ye Chengjun revealed Crimson Dragon level talent.
• Ye Yu noticed Ye Qingqing standing behind Ye Chengjun before placing his hand on the Seven-Colored Glazed Stone.
• The stone showed only a faint golden glow, revealing Ye Yu’s mid-grade Spiritual Root and prompting the crowd to mock him.
• Ye Yu withdrew from the test and prepared to leave, still intent on obtaining the Void Sky Cauldron fragment.
• The yawning old man blocked Ye Yu’s path; Ye Yu struck at him with his sword, and the old man praised the sword and told him to come along.

Li Daoyi forced Ye Yu to join Heavenly Saint Academy and brought him to Hidden Sword Peak, where Gai You explained the academy’s rules. At the peak’s Sword Offering Ground, Li Daoyi warned Ye Yu that the Purple Firmament Sword was not his destined sword and urged him to find the sword within himself.

• Li Daoyi chose Ye Yu for Heavenly Saint Academy, and Ye Yu agreed after Li Daoyi threatened to stop him from leaving.
• Li Daoyi brought Ye Yu to Hidden Sword Peak, where Gai You revealed that Li Daoyi had chosen him at Gai You’s request.
• Gai You gave Ye Yu a spiritual energy point card, explained the academy, and told him the top newcomer contest would take place in a year.
• Ye Yu chose a remote cave dwelling, set up five formations, and went to the back mountain to explore its powerful sword intent.
• At the Sword Offering Ground, Ye Yu tried to comprehend with the Purple Firmament Sword but spat blood when it trembled.
• Li Daoyi told Ye Yu to find the sword within his body, and Ye Yu wondered whether it was Qiushui.

Qin Ruoxian struggled between her love for Ye Yu and her duty as Yaochi Saintess, while Li Daoyi tested Ye Yu’s sword strike and identified the flaw in it. The chapter ended with Li Daoyi urging Ye Yu to stop gathering strength through unnecessary motions and let his movements naturally drive the sword momentum.

• Qin Ruoxian confronted Qin Wushuang for interfering in her affairs, then reassured him that she would keep her position as Yaochi Saintess.
• Qin Ruoxian mourned that her duties might prevent her from being with Ye Yu, but resolved to continue supporting him as Saintess.
• Li Daoyi tested Ye Yu’s sword strike and praised its power, concluding that Ye Yu was not a mid-grade Spiritual Root cultivator.
• Ye Yu told Li Daoyi that he sensed something missing from his self-comprehended strike.
• Li Daoyi explained that Ye Yu’s deliberate strength-gathering motions made the attack too slow and demonstrated a sword radiance without them.

Ye Yu accepted Xie Liuying’s invitation to join the Luoshen Society and learned how the Heavenly Saint Academy’s Treasure Pavilion and spirit energy system worked. After discovering that spirit energy could be transferred between people, he decided that robbing others would be faster than climbing the Heavenly Prodigy Ranking, but Ye Qingqing caught up with him before he could act.

• Li Daoyi told Ye Yu he could lower his guard on Hidden Sword Peak, then vowed to avenge Xinru once he found Xu Yunxi.
• Ye Yu went to the Treasure Pavilion, where Xie Liuying invited him to join the Luoshen Society and he accepted her jade talisman.
• Xie Liuying showed Ye Yu the Treasure Pavilion catalog and explained how students earned spirit energy through exchanges, tasks, and the Heavenly Prodigy Ranking.
• Ye Yu found that Primordial Breath cost eight hundred thousand spirit energy and asked whether spirit energy could be transferred between people.
• Ye Yu decided robbing other students would be a faster way to obtain spirit energy, and Ye Qingqing called after him as he headed back toward Hidden Sword Peak.

Ye Yu confronted Ye Qingqing, then learned Ye Chengjun had found traces of him in Fengzhou. Ye Yu left Hidden Sword Peak and challenged Gao Sheng, the tenth-ranked cultivator on the Heavenly Prodigy Ranking.

• Ye Qingqing gave Ye Yu two million spirit stones, but he returned them and used the Void Sky Cauldron to prevent her from revealing his identity.
• Ye Chengjun tested Ye Qingqing by checking that the spirit stones remained untouched, then received word that traces of Ye Yu's aura had been found in Fengzhou.
• Ye Chengjun let Ye Qingqing leave and began cultivating after declaring that he would find the defier of fate.
• Ye Yu changed his appearance with the Void Sky Cauldron and went to Gao Sheng's cave residence at Hangu Peak.
• Ye Yu entered Gao Sheng's cave residence without triggering its formations and asked for spirit energy, prompting Gao Sheng to raise Spiritual Seals.

Ye Yu robbed Gao Sheng of spirit energy and bought Primordial Aura before defeating a Flame Wolf Society disciple who threatened him. He forced the disciple into a life-and-death match, and Kui Yan arrived to demand that Ye Yu release him.

• Ye Yu seized Gao Sheng before he could finish forming an array, took his spirit energy card, and left him with one thousand spirit energy.
• The next day, Ye Yu exchanged eight hundred thousand spirit energy for Primordial Aura at the Treasure Pavilion.
• A mid Void Refining disciple from the Flame Wolf Society confronted Ye Yu, who beat him down and dragged him toward the Life and Death Arena.
• Ye Yu registered a life-and-death contract and forced the injured disciple onto the arena.
• Kui Yan arrived with Flame Wolf Society members and asked Ye Yu to let the disciple go, citing his rank on the Heavenly Prodigy Ranking.

Ye Yu advanced to mid Void Refining and learned that he needed to complete a three-star mission to leave Heavenly Saint Academy. Li Daoyi gave him the Hidden Sword Peak Master Token and asked him to find someone, while Ye Yu arrived at the Mission Hall and encountered Xie Liuying again.

• Ye Yu killed a mid Void Refining cultivator, and Kui Yan withdrew after Xie Liuying intervened and invited Ye Yu to join a mission.
• Ye Yu declined Xie Liuying's invitation and returned to Hidden Sword Peak to cultivate with primordial aura.
• Half a month later, Ye Yu broke through to mid Void Refining by absorbing heavenly lightning, but found that his Illusory Dragon Wind Lightning Body had stopped improving.
• Li Daoyi recognized similarities between Ye Yu's body-tempering technique and Lei Dong's Illusory Dragon True Lightning Body, then told Ye Yu he needed to complete a three-star mission to leave the academy.
• Li Daoyi gave Ye Yu the Hidden Sword Peak Master Token and asked him to help find someone; Ye Yu accepted and went to the Mission Hall.
• Ye Yu saw a five-star Cleansing Operation mission, and Xie Liuying invited him to join her.

Ye Yu accepted a Cleansing Operation mission to wipe out the Gale Wolves, learning that his Peak Master Token let him choose a weaker target. After meeting the other members of Xie Liuying’s team and leaving Heavenly Saint Academy, the group began looking for helpers and intelligence in Heavenly Saint City.

• Ye Yu showed Xie Liuying his Peak Master Token and accepted the Cleansing Operation mission.
• The mission steward gave Ye Yu a choice of targets, and Ye Yu selected the Gale Wolves in Fengzhou using the token to access a map of weaker factions.
• Xie Liuying explained that the Cleansing Operation targeted factions that grew too quickly, produced noticed geniuses, or refused recruitment, and introduced Ye Yu to the other seven team members.
• Ye Yu spent three days stabilizing his mid Void Refining cultivation before the nine-person group left Heavenly Saint Academy for Heavenly Saint City.
• Xie Liuying told the group to split up, find helpers no stronger than themselves and without influential backgrounds, and gather intelligence on the Gale Wolves.

Ye Yu took the Fat Monk from the inn after Gong Lei’s companions accused him of attacking Gong Lei, then gathered the group for a journey to Fengzhou. Gong Chunyu arrived with Xie Liuying, who confirmed she had secured the late Void Refining cultivator’s oath, and the group prepared to set out.

• Gong Dongxiang and Gong Qiumei accused the Fat Monk of injuring Gong Lei, but he refused to argue as they blocked his departure.
• Gu Qianqian said the Fat Monk had been preaching at the inn, while Ye Yu stepped in and took him away from the confrontation.
• The Fat Monk asked why Ye Yu had summoned him, and Ye Yu said they were going to Fengzhou for a cleansing.
• Ye Yu and the Fat Monk reached the meeting place, where the others had gathered with their recruits and waited for Xie Liuying.
• Xie Liuying returned with Gong Chunyu, whom she had bound by oath in exchange for an Azure Frost Glazed Fruit, and Ye Yu ordered everyone to set out.

Ye Yu and the others traveled toward Fengzhou, while Gong Lei worked to turn the group against Fat Monk. When Xie Liuying demanded a response to the growing dispute, Ye Yu handed her a jade bottle and agreed to wait with Fat Monk.

• Gong Lei warned Ye Yu that Fat Monk was jealous of the worthy and advised him to be careful, while Gu Qianqian urged Ye Yu not to believe him.
• Gu Qianqian asked Ye Yu to help Fat Monk, but Ye Yu said friendship did not make helping a friend an obligation.
• Ye Yu and Fat Monk spotted Ye family dead soldiers flying past, but the strangers left without confronting them.
• The group teleported to Beicang Island, where Gong Lei's companions demanded that Fat Monk be separated from them and accused him of attacking Gong Lei.
• Xie Liuying asked Ye Yu what he would do, and Ye Yu handed her a jade bottle before she told him and Fat Monk to wait behind.