Chapter Summaries

Su Yuan and Qin Xuexin returned to Battlepeak University, where Ning Tianyun explained that the Sword Saint had placed a rare Willpower Aura on Su Yuan, greatly increasing his Blood Qi. Ning Tianyun told Su Yuan to rest before an important mission, while Qin Xuexin went home and Su Yuan learned that Yuan’s actions were being watched by Ning Shen.

• Su Yuan and Qin Xuexin left the Martial Arts Association and went to Battlepeak University to meet Ning Tianyun.
• Ning Tianyun revealed that Su Yuan carried the Sword Saint’s Willpower Aura, which had raised his Blood Qi by two thousand and helped him reach Seventh-Realm Peak Tier.
• Ning Tianyun explained that Willpower Aura was rare, took the Sword Saint half a year to replenish, and could help or destroy its target depending on the wielder’s intent.
• Ning Tianyun told Su Yuan to rest for two days before receiving an important mission, and Qin Xuexin left to return home at her father’s request.
• Su Yuan told Ning Tianyun about his experiences after Ning Tianyun left the Primordial Sacred Land, and Ning Tianyun said Ning Shen was monitoring Yuan and urged Su Yuan to grow stronger.

Su Yuan combined the Myriad-Weight Stone with the Shenluo Spear, tested the Tenth Realm weapon’s power, and recognized it as a trump card for emergencies. He then meditated on a Thunder Law Crystal and produced a tiny bolt of lightning at his fingertip.

• Su Yuan returned to his dorm, fitted the Myriad-Weight Stone into the Shenluo Spear, and found he could wield the weapon with his current strength.
• Su Yuan tested a full-power thrust and the Thunder-Chasing Spear, destroying part of the cultivation room wall and estimating how many techniques he could perform before exhaustion.
• Su Yuan put the Shenluo Spear away, deciding to save it for life-or-death situations, and examined the nine Law Crystals he had received.
• Su Yuan focused on the Thunder Law Crystal for a day, then opened his eyes with lightning flickering in them and formed a tiny bolt at his fingertip.

Su Yuan comprehended the Thunder Laws, refined a Heavenly Yang Profound Spirit Pill, and broke the Scarlet Meteor Spear’s seal while preparing for Instructor Ning’s important mission. After their two-day rest ended, Qin Xuexin returned to Battlepeak University, where Su Yuan joined her outside the dormitory.

• Su Yuan comprehended the Thunder Laws and gained five hundred Blood Qi, then refined the Heavenly Yang Profound Spirit Pill and gained another three thousand.
• Su Yuan used Traceless Form to shatter the Scarlet Meteor Spear’s seal, revealing it as an Eighth-Tier Intermediate weapon.
• Su Yuan decided to practice with the Shenluo Spear and Thunder Laws instead of starting the Wind Laws before the mission.
• Qin Xuexin returned to Battlepeak University after two days with the Qin Family and waited outside Freshman Dormitory Building Two for Instructor Ning’s instructions.
• Su Yuan came out of Freshman Dormitory Building One, spotted Qin Xuexin, and hurried over to greet her.

Su Yuan and Qin Xuexin met with Instructor Ning after both reached the Seventh Realm, Peak Tier. Ning assigned them a campaign against the New Lun Cult, whose largest branch stronghold they were to destroy, and they recognized the mission’s connection to Fu Shan.

• Su Yuan spoke with Qin Xuexin and met Little Ice, who revealed that it could speak and nearly disclosed what Xuexin had said about him.
• Qin Xuexin sent Little Ice back to the dormitory and explained that she had reached the Seventh Realm, Peak Tier after training with her family.
• Su Yuan and Qin Xuexin received Ning Tianyun’s summons and went to his dormitory.
• Ning Tianyun told them to destroy the New Lun Cult’s largest branch stronghold and eliminate its members.
• Su Yuan and Qin Xuexin remembered Fu Shan, the New Lun Cult vice leader whom Su Yuan had killed in the Twentieth Secret Realm.
• Ning Tianyun explained that the New Lun Cult had grown rampant, caused students to disappear, and prompted Battlepeak University and other factions to campaign against it.

Ning Tianyun explained the five powers’ campaign against the New Lun Cult and revealed that its leader, Li Fuge, was the Li Family Heart Saint’s younger brother. He prepared Su Yuan and Qin Xuexin to attack the cult’s largest branch by passing them a method to counter the Li Family Concealment Method.

• Ning Tianyun said the five powers would jointly attack the New Lun Cult and outlined the cult’s forces and the targets assigned to him, Su Yuan, and Qin Xuexin.
• Ning Tianyun warned Su Yuan and Qin Xuexin that the cult’s followers were controlled by Li Fuge and should not be spared.
• Qin Xuexin asked whether Li Fuge was connected to the Li Family, and Ning Tianyun confirmed that he was the Heart Saint’s biological younger brother.
• Ning Tianyun explained that Li Fuge had taught the cult the Li Family Concealment Method and that the Heart Saint had provided a way to break it.
• Ning Tianyun said the Heart Saint would appear at a critical moment while he fought Li Fuge, then passed the concealment-breaking method to Su Yuan and Qin Xuexin.

Ning Tianyun briefed Su Yuan and Qin Xuexin on their mission to destroy the New Lun Cult's largest branch in Qingshu City, then brought them to the assembly. The assembled professors objected to the first-year students joining until they revealed their Seventh-Realm Peak cultivation, and Xu Chengwen accepted Ning Tianyun's judgment.

• Ning Tianyun told Su Yuan and Qin Xuexin that three Eighth-Realm Peak professors, including Xu Chengwen, would accompany them to attack the New Lun Cult's largest branch in Qingshu City.
• Ning Tianyun instructed Su Yuan and Qin Xuexin to prioritize destroying the branch, act independently when appropriate, and contact him after the mission.
• Ning Tianyun led Su Yuan and Qin Xuexin to the assembly, where Xu Chengwen and others questioned their participation because they were first-year students.
• Su Yuan and Qin Xuexin released their auras and shocked the assembly by demonstrating that they were both Seventh-Realm Peak Martial Artists.
• Ning Tianyun reminded the professors of Su Yuan and Qin Xuexin's achievements and their roles in the Capital Province Martial Arts Association, after which Xu Chengwen accepted their participation.

Ding Xi reappeared at the assembly for the operation against the New Lun Cult and joined Xu Chengwen’s team alongside Su Yuan and Qin Xuexin. As the teams departed, Ning Tianyun declared that the cult’s largest branch was the one that should be worried.

• Lin Xianghui assigned Su Yuan and Qin Xuexin to the operation and summoned Ding Xi, who had been asleep in the office building’s lobby, to join Xu Chengwen’s group.
• Ding Xi greeted Su Yuan and Qin Xuexin, while Ning Tianyun remained unable to sense or see through him.
• Lin Xianghui explained that the five great factions would eradicate the New Lun Cult and that the teams could keep any resources they obtained.
• Su Yuan, Qin Xuexin, and Ding Xi departed with Xu Chengwen, Lin Shun, and Lu Ronghe for their assigned target.
• Ning Tianyun told Lin Xianghui that the New Lun Cult’s largest branch should be worried, reflecting on Su Yuan’s newly perceived Thunder Laws and Ding Xi’s hidden strength.

Ning Tianyun and Lin Xianghui set out to confront Li Fuge, while Xu Chengwen led Su Yuan, Qin Xuexin, and Ding Xi on a mission to raid the largest New Lun Cult branch in Qingshu City. The six reached the outskirts of Tangping Subdistrict, where the branch base was located.

• Lin Xianghui claimed the Ninth Realm, High Tier chief elder as his opponent, while Ning Tianyun prepared to face Li Fuge.
• Xu Chengwen explained that the six-person team would seal the branch base's escape routes before beginning the encirclement.
• Su Yuan supported the drowsy Ding Xi as the group landed near the Qingshu City Martial Arts Association.
• Fang Yuan met the Battlepeak University team and guided them toward the New Lun Cult branch on Tangping Subdistrict's northeastern outskirts.
• The team reached a position five hundred meters from the base and saw an open expanse of grass below.

Xu Chengwen and the others found the New Lun Cult’s underground base sealed against outsiders and waited for a chance to enter. Ding Xi used the Spatial Laws to uproot and isolate the entire base, but an angry black-robed figure emerged to confront them.

• Fang Yuan explained that the New Lun Cult’s base could only be entered by members accompanied by an Eighth-Realm Intermediate Stage protector deacon, so the group decided to wait.
• Ding Xi fell asleep while the group watched for believers, then woke and told them he had a way inside.
• Su Yuan and Qin Xuexin surprised the others by learning voice transmission just by listening to it.
• Ding Xi used the Spatial Laws to lift the base out of the ground and seal it inside a transparent spatial barrier, cutting off its escape routes.
• Xu Chengwen and the others stared in shock at Ding Xi’s power, then a black-robed figure burst through the grass and angrily challenged them.

Xu Chengwen and the others waited for the New Lun Cult to reveal its hostages, while Ding Xi agreed to rescue them and left the fighting to Su Yuan, Qin Xuexin, and the other martial artists. The chapter ended as five New Lun Cult members appeared, each holding an unconscious young person.

• Zhang Peng arrived at the outpost, judged that his forces could not overcome Xu Chengwen's group, and contacted the three Vice Cult Leaders for help, but none replied.
• Zhang Peng ordered Gong Ruiyi to bring out the hostages, and Xu Chengwen told the others that the New Lun Cult had taken the bait.
• Xu Chengwen estimated that about five Battlepeak University students were held at the outpost and asked Ding Xi to rescue them.
• Ding Xi agreed to save the hostages but said he would leave the New Lun Cult's destruction to the others, urging Su Yuan and Qin Xuexin to seize resources from Storage Belts.
• Five New Lun Cult members appeared on the grass, each holding an unconscious young man or woman.

Ding Xi rescued five Battlepeak University students and destroyed the New Lun Cult outpost without harming its followers. When Zhang Peng rallied the cultists to fight, Su Yuan revealed his overwhelming power and wiped out nearly the entire branch, leaving Xu Chengwen to finish Zhang Peng.

• Xu Chengwen confirmed that all five hostages were Battlepeak University students, and Ding Xi severed their captors’ arms and pulled them to safety.
• Ding Xi’s lasers destroyed the New Lun Cult outpost, and Xu Chengwen confirmed there were no other hostages before Ding Xi lay down to sleep.
• Zhang Peng rallied the cultists after Ding Xi stopped acting, but Su Yuan crushed one Eighth-Realm Peak protector with Self-Is Power.
• Su Yuan killed the remaining four Eighth-Realm Peak protectors, then used Self-Is Power to kill every New Lun Cult follower except Zhang Peng.
• Xu Chengwen killed the defeated Zhang Peng and returned to Lin Shun and Lu Ronghe, who were stunned by Su Yuan’s strength.

Su Yuan and his companions destroyed the New Lun Cult’s largest branch, then received Ning Tianyun’s order to head to Black Gorge City. There, Ning Tianyun and several Ninth-Realm martial artists prepared for the next operation while debating Su Yuan’s role.

• Su Yuan killed the cult guardians and collected the Storage Belts after Xu Chengwen and the others declined their share.
• Su Yuan informed Ning Tianyun that the mission was complete, and Ning Tianyun ordered the group to Black Gorge City in Anchuan District.
• Fang Yuan returned to the Qingshu City Martial Arts Association while Xu Chengwen and the others set out with the sleeping Ding Xi.
• Ning Tianyun, Lin Xianghui, Xiao Wufeng, Long Yuzhen, and other Ninth-Realm martial artists waited in disguise at a Black Gorge City roadside stall.
• Xiao Wufeng questioned whether calling Su Yuan to Black Gorge City was safe, while Long Yuzhen defended Su Yuan’s strength and urged them to follow Ning Tianyun’s arrangements.

Li Shaowei briefed the Ninth-Realm Martial Artists on the forces assembled to attack the New Lun Cult Headquarters and asked to personally kill its chief elder, Xu Hong, his former disciple. Ning Tianyun agreed to confront Li Fuge, and the meeting ended with news that Su Yuan and the others had arrived outside Black Gorge City.

• Li Shaowei said his granddaughter Li Mengyun admired Su Yuan, then listed the forces ready to attack the New Lun Cult Headquarters.
• Li Shaowei thanked the assembled fighters and asked Ning Tianyun to leave Li Fuge for him to deal with, but Ning Tianyun insisted he would capture Li Fuge himself.
• Li Shaowei explained that Chengxin had mapped Li Fuge's escape routes and would not be able to fight him, so Ning Tianyun would take that battle.
• Li Shaowei claimed the New Lun Cult's chief elder, Xu Hong, as his own target and revealed that Xu Hong was his disciple and had founded the cult with Li Fuge.
• Ning Tianyun received a MistLink message and announced that Su Yuan and the others had arrived outside Black Gorge City.

Su Yuan and his companions reached Virtuous Garden Grand Hotel in Black Gorge City, where they joined the assembled forces preparing to attack the New Lun Cult. They learned that the cult’s headquarters was a tiny shop in the city center and waited for Professor Ning’s orders.

• Su Yuan’s group used Ding Xi’s aura-concealing barrier to enter Black Gorge City without disguises and headed to Virtuous Garden Grand Hotel.
• Su Yuan and Qin Xuexin recognized Li Mengyun and Li Yiming, and their method for breaking the Li Family Concealment Method revealed the concealed Li Family members.
• Xu Chengwen and the others joined the mission participants from the five major forces, bringing the assembly point’s total to thirty-two people.
• Li Mengyun explained that this was one of four assembly points and the strongest one without Ninth-Realm Martial Artists.
• Li Mengyun said the New Lun Cult headquarters was at Kangtu Shop, a tiny establishment nine kilometers west of the hotel, and the group stayed to await Professor Ning’s orders.

Ning Tianyun’s team waited outside the New Lun Cult Headquarters at Kangtu Shop, which stubbornly remained closed. Li Shaowei exposed “Li Wenxing” as Li Fuge, who survived his father’s strike and revealed himself to the group.

• Ning Tianyun and the other Martial Artists waited near Kangtu Shop, suspecting that Li Fuge might know about their planned attack because the shop had not opened.
• Li Wenxing offered to check Kangtu Shop, and Ning Tianyun abruptly restrained him with overwhelming pressure.
• Li Shaowei recognized Li Wenxing as Li Fuge, while Li Qinghan reacted in shock.
• Li Shaowei attacked Li Fuge with his greatsword, but the strike barely cut his neck.
• Li Fuge dropped his disguise and asked Ning Tianyun how he had uncovered his identity.

Ning Tianyun confronted Li Fuge and Xu Hong, who revealed they had become Martial Saints by absorbing Faithful Wish Power from the fallen New Lun Cult branches. As civilians fled Black Gorge City, Li Fuge declared that the cult would use the battle to rise above Xia Nation’s established powers, and Ning Tianyun prepared to face them.

• Ning Tianyun dispelled Li Fuge’s pressure, but Xu Hong emerged from behind him and attacked before Ning Tianyun rescued his companions.
• Ning Tianyun ordered Li Qinghan, Luo Songhai, Su Yuan, and the others to evacuate Black Gorge City’s civilians while Li Shaowei recognized Xu Hong as his former disciple.
• Ning Tianyun identified Xu Hong as a Martial Saint with three perfected Laws and Li Fuge as a Martial Saint with five perfected Laws; Li Chengxin appeared to support Li Shaowei.
• Li Fuge and Xu Hong said they had gained power by absorbing Faithful Wish Power supplied by the deaths of the New Lun Cult’s branch members.
• Li Fuge vowed to use the fight against Ning Tianyun to make the New Lun Cult Xia Nation’s greatest evil cult, and Ning Tianyun declared that they were not qualified to use him to gain fame.

Ning Tianyun confronted Li Fuge and Xu Hong while waiting for Black Gorge City’s civilians to evacuate, but Li Fuge used Wish Power to drain Li Shaowei’s strength and gain a seventh Perfected Law. Ning Tianyun and Li Chengxin were left facing Li Shaowei’s near-fatal collapse as the battle remained constrained by the civilians still in the city.

• Ning Tianyun revealed six Perfected Laws and suppressed Xu Hong, while Li Fuge broke free after gaining another Perfected Law from the destruction of a New Lun Cult branch base.
• Xiao Wufeng ordered the Will Martial University teams to stop attacking New Lun Cult branches and withdraw, as Ning Tianyun held back to protect Black Gorge City’s civilians.
• Ning Tianyun summoned a Sea of Stars and crushed Xu Hong with Gravity while Li Fuge struggled against the pressure.
• Li Fuge used Wish Power to make Li Shaowei spit blood and rapidly fall from the Ninth-Realm Initial Stage to the Early First-Realm.
• Ning Tianyun rushed to Li Shaowei and accused Li Fuge of corroding him with Wish Power, while Li Chengxin angrily confronted Li Fuge.

Ning Tianyun attacked Li Fuge and Xu Hong after Ding Xi evacuated Black Gorge City's civilians, quickly driving Xu Hong underground. Ding Xi warned Su Yuan and Qin Xuexin that Ning Tianyun was about to suffer as Li Fuge prepared a counterattack.

• Ning Tianyun suppressed Li Shaowei's injuries while Li Chengxin held him back from attacking Li Fuge.
• Ding Xi used a gentle force to evacuate the remaining civilians from Black Gorge City.
• Ning Tianyun attacked Xu Hong with stellar beams, but Li Fuge shielded him from the strike.
• Ning Tianyun sent Li Chengxin and the others away, then blasted Xu Hong into a massive abyss with a blade of starlight.
• Ding Xi told Su Yuan and Qin Xuexin that Ning Tianyun was about to suffer and that the battle would temper him.
• Li Fuge formed a dark golden longsword from his seven Perfected Laws and swung a golden sword beam at Ning Tianyun.

Ning Tianyun battled Li Fuge, whose attacks were strengthened by seven Laws, and revealed the Bloodfire Emperor Halberd as the fight escalated. Li Fuge then used the Zhu Family forbidden artifact Sea in a Single Thought, leaving Ning Tianyun unable to break his defense, while Li Chengxin realized the truth behind a century-old plot.

• Li Fuge controlled metal around him to attack Ning Tianyun, but Ning Tianyun neutralized the attacks with his Stellar Laws.
• Ning Tianyun and Li Fuge exchanged increasingly destructive attacks as Ding Xi led Su Yuan and Qin Xuexin away from the collapsing ruins.
• Ning Tianyun drew the Bloodfire Emperor Halberd and unleashed a powerful attack, but Li Fuge blocked it with a shield.
• Ning Tianyun recognized the shield as Sea in a Single Thought, a Zhu Family forbidden artifact that held the New Lun Cult Headquarters members and drew on their energy.
• Li Chengxin recalled Li Fuge's request from more than a century earlier and realized the truth behind the long-running plot.

Ning Tianyun’s assault failed to break Li Fuge’s Sea in a Single Thought, while Li Shaowei revealed the tragedy that drove Li Fuge to leave the Li Family and found the New Lun Cult. Li Shaowei’s life was fading as he recounted Xu Suyue’s death and ended with regret over not stopping her.

• Li Fuge used Sea in a Single Thought to withstand Ning Tianyun’s relentless attacks, and Ning Tianyun’s allies feared they could not defeat him.
• Li Shaowei took responsibility for Li Fuge’s choices and began explaining why Li Fuge founded the New Lun Cult and possessed the Sea-Shaking Blade.
• Li Shaowei said Li Fuge had given the Sea-Shaking Blade to his wife, Xu Suyue, so she could survive the mission to the Primordial Sacred Land.
• Xu Suyue died fighting Hunyuan Beasts, and most of the Li Family’s supporting force was killed or badly wounded.
• Li Fuge tried to rush to the Primordial Sacred Land, but Li Shaowei and the others restrained him; Li Fuge then left the Li Family with the Sea-Shaking Blade.
• Li Shaowei lamented that he had not forcibly stopped Xu Suyue from leaving.