Chapter Summaries

Su Yuan returned to Battlepeak University after learning that Mentor Li had reached the Tenth Realm, and he met with her and Ning Tianyun. After they left to handle an important matter, Su Yuan went looking for Senior Ding Xi and found no answer at his dormitory door.

• Su Yuan learned from Ning Tianyun that Mentor Li had reached the Tenth Realm and teleported back to Battlepeak University.
• Su Yuan visited Li Dieyi's dormitory, where Li Dieyi praised his progress and he learned that Qin Xuexin was waiting with the Gun Saint for Ning Shen to return.
• Li Dieyi and Ning Tianyun left through a spatial Rift to handle an important matter, while Li Dieyi told Su Yuan to wait for her return before resuming cultivation guidance.
• Su Yuan went to the Research Division building, where Peng Linxing told him where Ding Xi's dormitory was.
• Su Yuan knocked repeatedly at Ding Xi's door, then called out that he had come to visit.

Su Yuan visited Ding Xi to thank him for helping break Sea in a Single Thought, but Ding Xi hinted that Su Yuan would learn more after reaching the Ninth Realm, Peak Tier, and gaining someone’s approval. Su Yuan then trained for three days and advanced his Astral Energy Divine Emperor Breathing Method to forty percent.

• Su Yuan thanked Ding Xi for helping him break Sea in a Single Thought, and discovered Ding Xi had advanced to the Early Eighth Realm.
• Ding Xi recognized Su Yuan’s nine Perfected Laws and sealed will, then said he would explain more when Su Yuan reached the Ninth Realm, Peak Tier, and received a certain person’s approval.
• Su Yuan reasoned that the person might be the Star Saint or Ning Shen, and Ding Xi advised him to focus on increasing his Blood Qi before vanishing to sleep.
• Su Yuan moved his spear practice to the Capital Province Martial Arts Association because his dormitory could not withstand his training.
• Su Yuan spent three days alternating between spear practice and breathing-method cultivation, raising the Astral Energy Divine Emperor Breathing Method to forty percent.

Su Yuan began a new cultivation regimen under Li Dieyi, who had advanced to the Tenth Realm and set demanding goals for him and Qin Xuexin. The chapter left Su Yuan cultivating within the painful reach of Li Dieyi’s Void-Breaking Will, while she watched in amazement at how far he had endured.

• Su Yuan checked his messages, replied to Qin Xuexin, and received Li Dieyi’s invitation to her dormitory.
• Li Dieyi told Su Yuan that she would guide him and Qin Xuexin, then brought him to a cultivation space where her storms could help them reach Ninth-Realm Peak Tier.
• Li Dieyi ordered Su Yuan to cultivate until he reached Eighth-Realm High-Stage, then defeat a Martial Saint with at least five Perfected Laws; she set the same challenge for Qin Xuexin.
• Li Dieyi promised to send Su Yuan and Qin Xuexin to the Second Primordial Sacred Land after they defeated Martial Saints, and said she would reveal her identity and secrets of the Hunyuan Clan if they swept through it.
• Su Yuan entered the range of Li Dieyi’s Void-Breaking Will, endured the pain to reach two hundred meters, and began cultivating as Li Dieyi watched in astonishment.

After thirty-five days of training in the Void-Breaking Will area, Su Yuan advanced to the Eighth-Realm High-Stage Martial Artist and asked Li Dieyi about challenging a Martial Saint. Li Dieyi advised him to wait until after the New Year, then identified a small stone Su Yuan had found as containing a sealed Origin Breathing Method.

• Su Yuan endured twenty hours of daily training for thirty-five days and advanced to the Eighth-Realm High-Stage Martial Artist.
• Li Dieyi explained that Su Yuan's Star-Piercing Spear was a Forbidden Artifact whose weight decreased as his strength increased.
• Su Yuan learned that Battlepeak University had ended its first semester and that the New Year was five days away.
• Li Dieyi told Su Yuan to delay seeking a Martial Saint-level opponent until after the New Year and noted that Qin Xuexin was nearing the Eighth-Realm Intermediate Stage.
• Su Yuan showed Li Dieyi a small stone from the Ning Shen Treasury, and she identified it as containing a sealed Origin Breathing Method that Su Yuan had already formed a connection with.

Li Dieyi identified the sealed stone as holding a replica Origin Breathing Method and the beast pupil as belonging to the Jade Balance Supreme Azure Dragon Clan, then warned Su Yuan to keep both secret and gave him a Heaven-and-Earth Ring. After their cultivation break began, Su Yuan and Qin Xuexin chose to spend the New Year with Li Dieyi and their friends, while Qin Lixiu returned to the Qin Family.

• Li Dieyi explained that the sealed stone held a replica Origin Breathing Method and identified Su Yuan's beast pupil as belonging to the Jade Balance Supreme Azure Dragon Clan, warning him not to show either item to others.
• Li Dieyi gave Su Yuan a Heaven-and-Earth Ring with one million cubic meters of space, and Su Yuan put it on before returning to cultivation.
• Four days later, Li Dieyi ended the cultivation period, noting that Su Yuan had reached Eighth-Realm High-Stage and Qin Xuexin Eighth-Realm Mid-Stage.
• Su Yuan said he wanted to spend the New Year with Li Dieyi, Ning Tian Yun, and Yun Yiyao, while Qin Xuexin said she would not return to the Qin Family that year.
• Qin Zhuyong and Li Xinlian discussed whether Qin Xuexin would come home, and Li Xinlian urged him not to pressure their granddaughter.
• Yun Yiyao arrived at Battlepeak University, while Qin Lixiu entered the Qin Family and found Qin Chengyan and Zhou Nianwei waiting to welcome him.

Qin Lixiu reunited with his parents, Qin Chengyan and Zhou Nianwei, while Su Yuan, Qin Xuexin, and Yun Yiyao spent the end of the holiday together. After Li Dieyi summoned Su Yuan back to Battlepeak University, she showed him profiles of the Martial Saints and told him to choose an opponent for his first cultivation task.

• Qin Lixiu embraced Qin Chengyan and Zhou Nianwei and called them Father and Mother after returning to the Qin Family.
• Su Yuan, Qin Xuexin, Li Dieyi, Ning Tianyun, and Yun Yiyao celebrated the New Year together, and Li Dieyi and Ning Tianyun gave the others lavish red envelopes.
• Qin Xuexin returned to the Qin Family, then left to find Su Yuan, while her family wondered when the two would confess their feelings.
• Li Dieyi summoned Su Yuan and Qin Xuexin back to school, so they said goodbye to Yun Yiyao and Su Yuan teleported her to the West Martial Province Martial Arts Association.
• Li Dieyi showed Su Yuan profiles of the Martial Saints and told him to choose an opponent for his first cultivation task.

Su Yuan reviewed a dossier of Capital Province’s known Martial Saints to select a suitable opponent and chose Ye Yulei, the Thunder Saint of Violet Thunder Martial Academy. Li Dieyi explained that challenging him would be difficult because Ye Yulei accepted challenges only under strict conditions.

• Su Yuan studied the profiles of thirty-seven known Capital Province Martial Saints, noting their Perfected Laws and Willpower Auras.
• Li Dieyi explained the dossier’s limits, while Qin Xuexin recalled that her grandparents, Qin Zhuyong and Li Xinlian, had concealed their true strength from her.
• Su Yuan chose Ye Yulei, the Thunder Saint, as his challenger because he possessed five Perfected Laws, including Perfected Spear Laws.
• Li Dieyi described Ye Yulei’s five laws and explained that challengers had to be at Ninth Realm, Peak Tier with at least three Perfected Laws, and that Ye Yulei could still reject them.

Su Yuan wrote a challenge letter to Violet Thunder Martial Academy’s Thunder Saint, Ye Yulei, and Battlepeak University’s principal agreed to issue it in the university’s name. The letter surged to the top of MistLink News, where Su Yuan, Li Dieyi, and Qin Xuexin opened the comments to see the reaction.

• Li Dieyi explained that Su Yuan would have to defeat Violet Thunder Martial Academy’s disciples and deputy director before Ye Yulei decided whether to accept his challenge.
• Su Yuan chose to challenge the academy as a Battlepeak University student and drafted a letter announcing he would arrive on February 13.
• Li Dieyi approved the letter and forwarded it to Principal Zhao Xuzhen, who agreed to issue it despite worrying about the challenge.
• Zhao Xuzhen released the challenge letter in Battlepeak University’s name, and it reached first place on MistLink News within seconds.
• Su Yuan, Li Dieyi, and Qin Xuexin opened the comments section to watch the public’s reaction.

After Su Yuan challenged Thunder Saint Ye Yulei, the announcement exploded across MistLink News, drawing millions of comments and disbelief from the public. Ye Yulei agreed to face Su Yuan if he first defeated Violet Thunder Martial Academy’s disciples and vice academy masters, and Su Yuan prepared to begin by asking Mentor Li to open the Wind Domain.

• Su Yuan’s challenge to Ye Yulei went viral on MistLink News, where commenters questioned whether he could defeat the Thunder Saint.
• He Yong interrupted Ye Yulei’s cultivation to tell him that Su Yuan had issued a challenge in Battlepeak University’s name.
• Ye Yulei dismissed Su Yuan’s chances but agreed to accept the challenge in three days if Su Yuan defeated the academy’s disciples and vice academy masters.
• He Yong showed Ye Yulei that the challenge post had surpassed twenty million comments, and Ye Yulei’s response pushed the story to an even greater peak.
• Li Dieyi told Su Yuan about Ye Yulei’s conditions, and Su Yuan asked her to open the Wind Domain.

Su Yuan prepared to challenge the Thunder Saint Ye Yulei at Violet Thunder Martial Academy after cultivating in Li Dieyi’s Wind Domain. With his Blood Qi above sixty thousand, he left Battlepeak University for the appointed battle, while a huge crowd awaited him.

• Su Yuan and Qin Xuexin continued cultivating in Li Dieyi’s Wind Domain as news of Battlepeak University’s challenge letter drew widespread attention.
• On February 13, Li Dieyi tested Su Yuan’s Blood Qi at 60,505.8 and warned him not to use the Shenluo Spear unless his life was in danger.
• Su Yuan healed, rested, and resolved to use his full combat strength to defeat Ye Yulei and test the limits of his War God’s Heart.
• Su Yuan left Battlepeak University at the appointed time as reporters and students photographed him.
• Su Yuan reached the area above Violet Thunder Martial Academy and saw thousands of people and cameras gathered below.

Su Yuan arrived at Violet Thunder Martial Academy to challenge its strongest fighters, drawing a huge crowd and media presence. After He Yong explained the floor-by-floor challenge procedure, Su Yuan began the trial and faced twenty Eighth-Realm Peak disciples on the second floor.

• Su Yuan appeared at Violet Thunder Martial Academy exactly on time as a huge crowd and countless cameras welcomed him.
• He Yong explained that Su Yuan had to defeat twenty Eighth-Realm Peak disciples in one move, then pass increasingly difficult opponents on the third, fourth, and fifth floors before the academy master would consider his challenge letter.
• He Yong promised that academy disciples would report the results of each battle to the crowd, though the fights themselves would not be revealed or recorded.
• Su Yuan chose to begin immediately and followed He Yong to the second floor, accompanied by an academy disciple assigned to relay the battle reports.
• Su Yuan entered a combat training ground where twenty Eighth-Realm Peak disciples rose from meditation and prepared to face him.

Su Yuan defeated Violet Thunder Martial Academy’s twenty disciples on the second floor in seconds, shocking He Yong and Chen Wenzhi with his Eighth-Realm High-Stage cultivation. On the third floor, he overwhelmed Deputy Director Zhou Feilei’s Laws-enhanced saber strike and appeared poised to finish him with a spear attack to the neck.

• Su Yuan erased the disciples’ combined attacks with a ripple of Blood Qi, then incapacitated all twenty at once.
• He Yong ordered Chen Wenzhi to report the victory and led Su Yuan to the third floor as news of the swift win spread through the lobby and the crowd outside.
• Zhou Feilei boasted that his three great accomplishment Laws and near-advancement to Mid-Stage Ninth-Realm would make him a far harder opponent than Li Dongning.
• Su Yuan countered Zhou Feilei’s saber with the Thousand-Breaking Prairiefire Form, whose remaining spear lights struck Zhou and sent him flying.
• Su Yuan chased Zhou through the air and thrust the Traceless Form’s spear light toward his neck.

Su Yuan defeated Zhou Feilei without using Laws Force, then began his third-round battle against He Yong at Violet Thunder Martial Academy. He Yong altered the arena with Earth Law and launched a powerful axe attack, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Su Yuan overwhelmed Zhou Feilei with spear strikes and a kick, then forced him to admit defeat.
• Chen Wenzhi announced Su Yuan's victory, prompting the crowd to celebrate and MistLink News about the challenge to surge in popularity.
• He Yong escorted Su Yuan to the fourth floor and accepted the third-round battle, despite doubting he could win.
• He Yong used Earth Law to cover the training ground with sand and gravel, then combined Water and Fire Laws on his axe.
• He Yong swung his axe and sent a spinning cone of force toward Su Yuan as the ground surged to bury him.

Su Yuan defeated He Yong without using Laws Force and advanced to face Fang Xin, Violet Thunder Martial Academy’s final challenger. Fang Xin warned him against challenging the Thunder Saint, but Su Yuan insisted on fighting, and Fang Xin unleashed his sword intent with the Azure Sky Sword.

• Su Yuan switched to the Star-Piercing Spear, shattered He Yong’s earth-brown cone attack, and forced him to concede.
• Chen Wenzhi reported Su Yuan’s victory, while the news spread through the academy and climbed MistLink News’ trending searches.
• He Yong escorted Su Yuan to the fifth floor, where Fang Xin praised his strength but warned that challenging the Thunder Saint could damage his confidence.
• Su Yuan refused to back down and challenged Fang Xin, who drew the Azure Sky Sword and launched a silver sword strike amid rising sword qi.

Su Yuan defeated Vice Director Fang Xin with the Star-Piercing Spear and Perfected Spear Laws, leaving Fang badly injured but alive. The academy received news of Fang’s defeat, while Su Yuan’s challenge to the director remained unresolved.

• Fang Xin infused his Azure Sky Sword with six perfected laws and launched a powerful sword attack at Su Yuan.
• Su Yuan summoned the Star-Piercing Spear and overwhelmed Fang Xin’s sword radiance with the Unfixed Divine Profound Form, sending him crashing into the training ground wall.
• He Yong realized Fang Xin had lost, while Chen Wenzhi panicked after the protective barrier shattered.
• Su Yuan brought Fang Xin back, and He Yong gave him a healing pill; Fang Xin later admitted defeat.
• Chen Wenzhi reported Su Yuan’s victory, and academy disciples and onlookers were stunned by the news that Vice Director Fang had lost.

After Su Yuan defeated Fang Xin, he revealed the Perfected Light Law while healing him, shocking the Violet Thunder Martial Academy and confirming his Martial Saint-level combat power. The Thunder Saint, Ye Yulei, came down to meet him and asked whether he possessed more than two Perfected Laws.

• News spread that Su Yuan had defeated Fang Xin, and the report quickly became MistLink News's top trending post.
• Su Yuan used the Perfected Light Law to heal Fang Xin, revealing another Perfected Law and astonishing Fang Xin, He Yong, and Chen Wenzhi.
• Su Yuan asked He Yong to take him to see the Thunder Saint, but Ye Yulei descended from the sixth floor in person.
• Ye Yulei accepted Su Yuan's challenge and asked whether he possessed more than two Perfected Laws, leaving Fang Xin, He Yong, and Chen Wenzhi stunned.

Ye Yulei accepted Su Yuan’s challenge letter, and the two chose the outskirts of Red South Street as the battleground. Su Yuan declined time to recover and headed out with Ye Yulei, while Chen Wenzhi decided not to risk watching their fight.

• Su Yuan confirmed that he possessed more than two Perfected Laws, keeping the total secret from Ye Yulei.
• Ye Yulei accepted Su Yuan’s challenge letter, and Chen Wenzhi informed the martial academy disciples.
• News of the Thunder Saint’s acceptance spread, and Zhao Xuzhen, Lin Xianghui, and Jiang Shiqi followed the reports at Battlepeak University.
• Ye Yulei chose the sparsely populated outskirts of Red South Street for the duel, and Su Yuan agreed.
• Su Yuan said he did not need to recover after his earlier fights and followed Ye Yulei downstairs toward the battleground.
• Ye Yulei warned Fang Xin and the others to keep their distance, while Chen Wenzhi chose to stay behind.

Su Yuan and Ye Yulei traveled to the outskirts of Red South Street to fight, where Ye Yulei discovered that Su Yuan wielded seven Perfected Laws. Their battle began with both Martial Saints unleashing their thunder powers, and Su Yuan then revealed Perfected Blood Laws as well.

• Ye Yulei and Su Yuan left Violet Thunder Martial Academy for the outskirts while the crowd stayed behind to await news.
• Fang Xin, He Yong, and Zhou Feilei followed to observe the battle, hoping to learn from the Martial Saints.
• Ye Yulei warned Su Yuan that his superior realm and perfected spear art gave him an advantage, but Su Yuan manifested seven Perfected Laws.
• Ye Yulei accepted Su Yuan as a worthy opponent and attacked with his dark-blue spear and Perfected Thunder Law.
• Su Yuan summoned the Star-Piercing Spear and answered with Perfected Thunder Law, then unleashed Perfected Blood Laws.

Su Yuan fought Ye Yulei with spear techniques empowered by Perfected Laws, but Ye Yulei blocked his attacks and showed that his five types of Perfected Laws gave him the advantage. After declaring that his turn had begun, Ye Yulei launched the first move of his Swift Dragon Tyrannic Thunder Spear Art.

• Fang Xin led Zhou Feilei and He Yong out of the blood mist after its Blood Laws disrupted their minds and bodies.
• Su Yuan and Ye Yulei clashed spears, and Ye Yulei shattered Su Yuan’s Traceless Form before blasting him into a crater.
• Su Yuan reappeared behind Ye Yulei and unleashed fifty Thousand-Breaking Prairiefire Forms, which Ye Yulei destroyed with lightning.
• Su Yuan struck with the Unfixed Divine Profound Form empowered by Perfected Dark Law, forcing Ye Yulei to block and counter while Fang Xin moved the others away from the dangerous shock waves.
• Ye Yulei acknowledged Su Yuan’s strength, said it was his turn to attack, and swung the Golden Radiance Profound Overlord Spear at him.

Su Yuan endured Ye Yulei’s spear attacks for four hours, gradually learning to read their movements before revealing his Perfected Stellar Laws and injuring Ye Yulei. Ye Yulei recovered and prepared to unleash the final move of the Swift Dragon Tyrannic Thunder Spear Art.

• Ye Yulei repeatedly struck Su Yuan with the Purple Rainbow Imperial Dragon Spear, while Su Yuan used Perfected Light Law to recover and keep fighting.
• Fang Xin, Zhou Feilei, and He Yong watched from a safe distance as the battle continued for hours, with He Yong suspecting that both fighters were holding back.
• After four hours, Su Yuan revealed his Perfected Stellar Laws and charged Ye Yulei, striking his left shoulder and sending him crashing into the ground.
• Ye Yulei acknowledged Su Yuan’s strength, retrieved his spear, and began gathering lightning to unleash the Thunder Emperor Dragon-Slaying Spear.