Chapter Summaries

Ye Yun fought Ning Mang in the True Martial Tower and endured until the quarter-hour limit, clearing the fifth floor. Ning Mang then offered to guide Ye Yun, but asked him to identify his greatest foolishness.

• Ning Mang summoned the Wrathful Vajra Dharma Form and clashed with Ye Yun’s ice-blue giant sword, leaving both fighters badly damaged.
• Ye Yun consumed Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Rock Marrow to restore his True Essence and unleashed a barrage of Frost Sword Qi against Ning Mang.
• After the quarter-hour ended, Ye Yun returned to human form and successfully cleared the fifth floor of the True Martial Tower.
• Ning Mang praised Ye Yun’s ability but said he still had far to go to obtain the True Martial King’s inheritance.
• Ning Mang offered Ye Yun guidance and asked where his greatest foolishness lay, leaving Ye Yun stunned.

Ning Mang explained that Ye Yun had barely developed the power of his Taiyin Spirit Body and agreed to guide him. He clarified how Ye Yun should pursue the Path of Proving the Dao through Force, leaving Ye Yun confident in his martial path as Ning Mang began teaching him about his physique.

• Ning Mang rebuked Ye Yun for using only the cultivation benefits of his Taiyin Spirit Body and told him that he had barely tapped its power.
• Ye Yun explained that he had grown up in the remote Shattered Lands and sincerely asked Ning Mang to teach him.
• Ning Mang agreed to guide Ye Yun and advised him to identify and maximize his strengths if he wanted to follow the difficult Path of Proving the Dao through Force.
• Ning Mang praised Ye Yun's command of Heaven-and-Earth Grand Momentum and said he could have great potential if he learned to wield the momentum of an entire world.
• Ye Yun understood his martial path more clearly, and Ning Mang began to teach him how to develop the Taiyin Spirit Body.

Ning Mang explained that the Taiyin Spirit Body’s power came from latent Lunar Power and taught Ye Yun three ways to awaken it. Ye Yun chose to comprehend Lunar Power through his ice cultivation, leaving with Ning Mang’s approval.

• Ning Mang told Ye Yun that the Lunar Star was the core of the Taiyin Spirit Body and that Ye Yun had barely developed its potential.
• Ning Mang outlined three methods for awakening Ye Yun’s latent Lunar Power: cultivating a Taiyin technique, comprehending Lunar Power through a related attribute, or consuming heavenly treasures containing it.
• Ye Yun weighed the methods and chose the second, relying on his ice attribute and enhanced comprehension.
• Ning Mang approved Ye Yun’s choice and said that perfecting the Ice Jade Divine Art could help him understand the Taiyin attribute.
• Ye Yun thanked Ning Mang and offered to help him in return.

Ning Mang gave Ye Yun the Taiyin Canon and asked him to pay respects to Shui Qingyue at the Taiyin Tomb if he reached the Central Province. After warning Ye Yun to stop the True Martial Tower challenge after the sixth floor, Ning Mang vanished, and Ye Yun entered the next challenge, where he killed a white-haired old man with a single attack.

• Ning Mang asked Ye Yun to visit Shui Qingyue at the Taiyin Tomb and passed him the Taiyin Canon, warning that men who cultivated it faced deadly consequences.
• Ning Mang advised Ye Yun to end the challenge after the sixth floor of the True Martial Tower, then disappeared.
• Ye Yun promised to fulfill Ning Mang's request and replenished his True Essence before the next challenge began.
• The True Martial Spirit set Ye Yun the task of killing an Early Spirit Sea Realm white-haired old man as quickly as possible.
• Ye Yun trapped the old man in a Heaven-and-Earth Prison and punched through his heart, causing him to dissolve into seven-colored light.

After passing the sixth floor of the True Martial Tower, Ye Yun forfeited the next challenge and learned how successor challenges differed from those faced by challengers. While recovering, he broke through to the seventh layer of the Ice Jade Divine Art, strengthening his True Essence ahead of the battle awaiting him outside.

• Ye Yun received four drops of Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Rock Marrow for passing the sixth floor and used one to restore his True Essence.
• Ye Yun forfeited the next challenge after the True Martial Spirit warned him that he would lose his progress and have to restart from the first floor.
• Ye Yun learned that challengers who reached the thirtieth floor could become successors and receive a True Martial Token.
• Ye Yun cultivated through the night, and the Ice Jade Divine Art advanced from the sixth layer to the seventh.
• Ye Yun spent two hours consolidating his stronger True Essence before ending his cultivation.

Ye Yun emerged from the True Martial Tower and faced anger from Zhou Wu for supposedly breaking the martial artists’ rules, but Jin Yuanbao helped defuse the dispute. Ye Yun learned Zhou Wu had injured Ling Chen and Li Qinglian, while Xuanyuan Wudi and the other challengers remained inside the tower.

• Ye Yun left the True Martial Tower, drawing every martial artist’s attention.
• Zhou Wu accused Ye Yun of breaking the agreed rules, but Jin Yuanbao explained that Ye Yun had arrived after the rules were made, and Ye Yun apologized to the crowd.
• Zhou Wu threatened Ye Yun and Jin Yuanbao before ordering Lu Feng to watch them; Ye Yun realized Zhou Wu had pursued and injured Ling Chen and Li Qinglian.
• Jin Yuanbao warned Ye Yun that Zhou Wu belonged to the Radiant Sun Alliance, then asked Ye Yun about his tower challenge.
• Jin Yuanbao showed Ye Yun the tower’s light screen, where one challenger had reached the twentieth floor and four others had reached the fifteenth; Ye Yun suspected Xuanyuan Wudi was in the lead.

Ye Yun concealed why he had not appeared on the True Martial Tower’s screen while Xuanyuan Wudi advanced to the twenty-ninth floor. As Situ Lanlan was eliminated, Ye Yun reflected on his plans to seek Bing Qianyue’s inheritance in the Ice Abyss and concluded that Xuanyuan Wudi was his only serious rival.

• Jin Yuanbao asked Ye Yun why he had not appeared on the screen, and Ye Yun claimed his challenge result had not met the requirements.
• Jin Yuanbao accepted Ye Yun’s explanation, and the other martial artists stopped watching him closely.
• Over the next two days, Xuanyuan Wudi reached the twenty-ninth floor of the True Martial Tower, nearing the legendary thirtieth floor.
• Ye Yun recalled Bing Qianyue’s inheritance at Cold Moon Pool in the Ice Abyss and resolved to seek it after the trial.
• Situ Lanlan emerged after being eliminated on the nineteenth floor, saw Xuanyuan Wudi’s progress, and felt disheartened.
• Ye Yun judged that Situ Lanlan and the other challengers posed little threat, leaving Xuanyuan Wudi as his only true opponent.

Xuanyuan Wudi cleared the thirtieth floor of the True Martial Tower, stunning the martial artists watching outside. He emerged and demanded the champion's position, and Situ Lanlan and the other four accepted his challenge by presenting their wagers.

• Situ Lanlan, Ouyang He, Shangguan Wuxiu, and Meng Fan were eliminated from the True Martial Tower, leaving Xuanyuan Wudi as the last challenger inside.
• After another hour, Xuanyuan Wudi reached the thirtieth floor, setting a new record and shocking the crowd.
• Jin Yuanbao expressed despair over the growing gap between himself and Xuanyuan Wudi, but Ye Yun encouraged him to leave his own mark on the era.
• Two hours later, the screen vanished, and Xuanyuan Wudi emerged from the tower.
• Xuanyuan Wudi demanded the champion's position, and Situ Lanlan and the other four accepted, placing their True Martial Hearts on the ground as wagers.

Ye Yun challenged Xuanyuan Wudi for the champion’s position, revealing an aura powerful enough to force back Xuanyuan Wudi’s. After learning that Ye Yun also possessed a True Martial Token, Xuanyuan Wudi accepted the challenge, and the two prepared to fight.

• Ye Yun interrupted Xuanyuan Wudi as he was about to claim the eighty thousand True Martial Hearts and said it was too early to decide the champion.
• Xuanyuan Wudi challenged Ye Yun’s right to question him, but Ye Yun calmly asked to receive his guidance.
• Jin Yuanbao tried to stop Ye Yun, but Ye Yun stepped forward and released an aura that matched Xuanyuan Wudi’s.
• Ye Yun revealed that he had also obtained a True Martial Token, and Xuanyuan Wudi acknowledged his right to challenge him.
• The crowd cleared a battlefield, and Ye Yun and Xuanyuan Wudi released their auras as their fight began.

Ye Yun and Xuanyuan Wudi fought fiercely, matching each other despite Ye Yun being only at the Ninth Revolution of the Core Elixir Realm. As their battle intensified and heaven and earth’s spiritual energy surged toward them, the onlookers remained stunned by Ye Yun’s strength.

• Ye Yun and Xuanyuan Wudi clashed auras, then charged at each other and exchanged a punch that shook the forest.
• After judging each other’s strength, Ye Yun and Xuanyuan Wudi resumed fighting with their strongest martial arts.
• Their attacks divided the battlefield between crushed ground and blue ice, astonishing the martial artists watching nearby.
• Situ Lanlan questioned whether Ye Yun had concealed his Spirit Sea Realm cultivation, but Shangguan Wuxiu and Meng Fan argued that he was still using True Essence.
• Ye Yun and Xuanyuan Wudi escalated their battle as spiritual energy from dozens of miles around surged toward them.

Ye Yun and Xuanyuan Wudi fought an evenly matched battle, each displaying the power of their mastered elemental forces. As they prepared to decide the fight with a single strike, Zhou Wu began a conspiracy against Ye Yun with other Radiant Sun Alliance members.

• Ye Yun formed Ice God Armor while Xuanyuan Wudi summoned wind-and-fire wings, and the two clashed with powerful attacks.
• The watching martial artists studied the battle, while Zhou Wu grew resentful and worried about Ye Yun's strength.
• Zhou Wu left the crowd after casting Ye Yun a murderous glance, and several Radiant Sun Alliance members followed him to begin a conspiracy.
• Ye Yun and Xuanyuan Wudi continued fighting, each relishing the chance to display his strength and settle the battle.
• Ye Yun's chilling ice force drained Xuanyuan Wudi's spiritual power, and both prepared to end the fight with a single strike.

Ye Yun and Xuanyuan Wudi agreed to settle their evenly matched battle with one final strike, each unleashing his strongest power. Ye Yun trapped Xuanyuan Wudi with the Heaven-and-Earth Grand Momentum, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Ouyang He, Shangguan Wuxiu, and Situ Lanlan thought Xuanyuan Wudi had the advantage, while Meng Fan argued that Ye Yun might still have a hidden trump card.
• Ye Yun sensed danger from hostile gazes among the spectators and proposed that one final strike decide the battle; Xuanyuan Wudi agreed because his spiritual power was nearly depleted.
• Ye Yun entered the Selfless Realm, raised its amplification to fivefold, and gathered the Heaven-and-Earth Grand Momentum from across ten miles.
• Xuanyuan Wudi activated the War God Formula, which tripled his strength and defense but reduced his speed.
• Ye Yun charged Xuanyuan Wudi as the gathered momentum formed a huge cage, binding Xuanyuan Wudi before he could counterattack.

Xuanyuan Wudi detonated his Wind-Fire Twin Wings to escape Ye Yun’s Heaven-and-Earth Prison and drag Ye Yun into a mutual attack. The explosion swallowed Ye Yun and devastated the surrounding area, leaving the watching martial artists to see only scorched earth and ruined branches.

• Ye Yun trapped Xuanyuan Wudi in the Heaven-and-Earth Prison and repeatedly struck his defensive Wind-Fire Twin Wings.
• Xuanyuan Wudi failed to break free and decided to detonate the Wind-Fire Twin Wings, hoping to take Ye Yun with him.
• Ye Yun sensed the danger, retreated, and tried to keep Xuanyuan Wudi restrained, but Xuanyuan Wudi said it was too late.
• The Wind-Fire Twin Wings exploded, engulfing Ye Yun and sweeping across a ten-mile radius.
• The blast faded after an hour, leaving charred earth and ruined branches as the surviving martial artists watched in shock.

Meng Fan suspected Ye Yun had used the Heaven-and-Earth Grand Momentum to restrain Xuanyuan Wudi before their clash ended in a devastating explosion. Ye Yun survived, emerged from the crater pretending to be gravely injured, and was hailed as the champion while planning to recover the True Martial Hearts he believed Xuanyuan Wudi had taken.

• Meng Fan explained that Ye Yun’s technique resembled the Formation King’s use of the Heaven-and-Earth Grand Momentum, though Situ Lanlan, Shangguan Wuxiu, and Ouyang He doubted it could be so powerful.
• Ye Yun awoke at the bottom of the crater and realized he had survived Xuanyuan Wudi’s explosion by using every defense available and consuming Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Rock Marrow.
• Ye Yun found Xuanyuan Wudi missing and assumed the explosion had eliminated him, taking Ye Yun’s eighty thousand True Martial Hearts with him.
• Ye Yun decided to pretend he was severely injured to lure out anyone outside who intended to assassinate him, then leaped out of the crater.
• The spectators saw Ye Yun emerge and exclaimed that he had won and taken the champion’s seat.

After defeating Xuanyuan Wudi, Ye Yun met the gathered martial artists and considered which of the East Ancient Domain’s Three Sects to join. Zhou Wu ordered an ambush against Ye Yun, while Ye Yun remained undecided between the Desolate Sect and the Sword God Sect.

• Jin Yuanbao, Situ Lanlan, Meng Fan, Ouyang He, and Shangguan Wuxiu recognized Ye Yun’s victory over Xuanyuan Wudi and acknowledged his strength.
• Zhou Wu decided Ye Yun was a threat and ordered Lu Feng to prepare an ambush for when Ye Yun was alone.
• Lu Feng questioned whether they should wait, but Zhou Wu argued that Ye Yun was likely injured and needed to be killed before joining an overlord-level power.
• Ye Yun met Jin Yuanbao and the others, accepted their congratulations, and offered to host a banquet after they left the True Martial Secret Realm.
• When Ouyang He asked which sect Ye Yun planned to join, Ye Yun considered the Desolate Sect, the Sword God Sect, and the Blade Saint Sect, leaning toward the Desolate Sect.

Ye Yun learned that the East Ancient Domain had two hidden powers beyond the Three Sects and reconsidered his choice of sect. Meanwhile, Zhou Wu and his companions surrounded Jin Yuanbao, who had left Ye Yun to meet them.

• Ye Yun let the martial artists leave without demanding the True Martial Hearts they had promised, while Jin Yuanbao departed in the same direction as Zhou Wu.
• Situ Lanlan told Ye Yun that the Great Xia Celestial Dynasty and the Alchemist Alliance were hidden powers stronger than the Three Sects, then left with the others.
• Ye Yun realized he needed to learn more about the Three Sects before choosing one.
• Zhou Wu and his companions surrounded Jin Yuanbao several dozen li away, and Zhou Wu mocked him for defending Ye Yun earlier.

Zhou Wu captured Jin Yuanbao and planned to use him to lure Ye Yun into an ambush. As Zhou Wu’s men sent word to Ye Yun, Ye Yun waited by a lake and an arrow landed beside him.

• Zhou Wu intercepted Jin Yuanbao to use him as bait, but Jin Yuanbao feigned an apology and wounded Zhou Wu with a sudden blade strike.
• Zhou Wu and his men attacked Jin Yuanbao, and Zhou Wu pierced his thigh with a spear after a prolonged fight.
• Zhou Wu revealed his plan to lure Ye Yun, while Lu Feng and the others sealed Jin Yuanbao’s meridians to stop him from leaving the True Martial Secret Realm.
• Zhou Wu ordered Shen Lie to take Jin Yuanbao to the trap and sent Lu Feng to pass the news to Ye Yun, with orders to gather more men if Ye Yun did not come.
• Ye Yun meditated beside a lake while waiting for two figures following him, and an arrow struck the ground beside him.

Ye Yun learned that Zhou Wu had Jin Yuanbao captured and was using him to lure Ye Yun into an ambush west of the True Martial Tower. After interrogating and sparing Zhou Wu’s messengers, Ye Yun headed toward the trap.

• Ye Yun chased down Wang Song and Chen Fang after they delivered a threatening note about Jin Yuanbao.
• Wang Song admitted that Zhou Wu had ordered them to follow Ye Yun and revealed that Jin Yuanbao had been captured half an hour earlier.
• Wang Song said Zhou Wu’s ambush force likely included Radiant Sun Alliance martial artists, though he did not know its exact size.
• Ye Yun took Wang Song and Chen Fang’s Storage Bags and let them leave.
• Ye Yun turned west toward the valley where Zhou Wu and his allies had prepared their ambush.

Ye Yun entered Zhou Wu’s ambush to rescue Jin Yuanbao, then effortlessly eliminated Zhou Wu’s thirteen attackers with a single blow. Zhou Wu and his remaining allies tried to flee as Ye Yun challenged them to escape.

• Zhou Wu waited for Ye Yun to arrive and planned to kill Jin Yuanbao if Ye Yun did not come within another hour.
• Ye Yun entered the valley, reassured the bound Jin Yuanbao, and called Zhou Wu out of hiding.
• Zhou Wu taunted Ye Yun and ordered his thirteen subordinates to attack, while two others blocked the valley entrance.
• Ye Yun trapped the thirteen attackers with the Heaven-and-Earth Grand Momentum and eliminated them with one punch.
• Zhou Wu, Lu Feng, and the other survivors panicked and tried to flee, and Ye Yun asked whether they could escape.

Ye Yun trapped Zhou Wu and his followers, eliminated everyone except Zhou Wu, and rescued Jin Yuanbao. After swearing to spare Zhou Wu if he answered honestly, Ye Yun began questioning him about the Radiant Sun Alliance.

• Ye Yun revealed that his injuries had been a ruse, trapped Zhou Wu and his followers, and agreed to spare Zhou Wu in exchange for answers.
• Ye Yun eliminated Lu Feng and the others, sealed Zhou Wu's meridians, and freed Jin Yuanbao.
• Ye Yun gave Jin Yuanbao a Vitality Pill, which quickly healed his injuries.
• Ye Yun swore an oath to spare Zhou Wu if he answered honestly, then asked about the Radiant Sun Alliance.
• Zhou Wu said the Radiant Sun Alliance had over a hundred thousand members from the Shattered Lands and was led by the Nirvana Realm martial artist Meng Tianji.