Chapter Summaries

Zhao Chen, a transmigrated Nine-leaf Sword Grass, discovered that the Spirit Road had opened when the wounded Luo Li fled into the forest pursued by a dozen Spirit Wheel Stage geniuses. As the attackers closed in and Luo Li prepared to fight, the chapter left Zhao Chen’s sword qi noticed by her and the battle about to begin.

• Zhao Chen reflected on his sign-in reward, his limited cultivation, and his hope that Spirit Road trial-takers would arrive so he could obtain cultivation methods.
• Zhao Chen heard an angry pursuit and realized that the Spirit Road had opened.
• Luo Li, a wounded silver-haired princess of the Luo God Clan, fled through the forest while more than a dozen Spirit Wheel Stage geniuses chased her.
• Zhao Chen assessed the pursuers’ strength and recognized that Luo Li was badly weakened and likely unable to escape them.
• Luo Li sensed Zhao Chen’s powerful sword qi and looked toward his Nine-leaf Sword Grass as the attackers moved to kill her.

Zhao Chen joined Luo Li after helping her defeat the Spirit Wheel Stage geniuses pursuing her, and the system assigned him a check-in at the Spirit Crown Platform. As they headed for the Spirit Road’s endpoint, Zhao Chen proposed hunting a Golden Armored Dragon-Tiger Beast, alarming Luo Li because it was an Earth Ranking heavenly beast.

• Zhao Chen’s silver sword energy helped Luo Li kill the Spirit Wheel Stage geniuses, and he advanced into the Spirit Wheel Stage by absorbing their blood.
• Luo Li recognized Zhao Chen’s intelligence, offered to take him away from the Spirit Road and help him attain human form, and he agreed to follow her.
• The system triggered a mission for Zhao Chen to check in at the Spirit Crown Platform and obtain the Grass-Character Sword Art.
• Luo Li said she needed to hunt a Divine Soul Stage spirit beast to advance, and Zhao Chen revealed that he knew the location of a Golden Armored Dragon-Tiger Beast.
• Luo Li warned that the Golden Armored Dragon-Tiger Beast was an Earth Ranking heavenly beast and questioned whether Zhao Chen expected her to hunt it.

Zhao Chen persuaded Luo Li to kill a Golden Armored Dragon-Tiger Beast cub and use its death to draw its powerful parent into a trap for her pursuers. After Luo Li slew the cub and took its essence soul and blood, Yang Hong appeared and demanded the essence soul.

• Zhao Chen proposed that Luo Li hunt a Golden Armored Dragon-Tiger Beast cub and lure its Earth Ranking Heavenly Beast parent into attacking her pursuers.
• Luo Li agreed, left traces for her pursuers to follow, and traveled with Zhao Chen into the mountain range where the cub roamed.
• Zhao Chen mounted the Luo God Sword, and Luo Li used his sword strike to kill the cub in one blow.
• Luo Li collected the cub's essence soul and blood, then followed Zhao Chen's advice to gather ordinary blood as well.
• Yang Hong arrived and demanded that Luo Li hand over the cub's essence soul, while Luo Li wondered where Ji Xuan was.

Luo Li killed Yang Hong after he tried to take the Golden Armored Dragon-Tiger Beast's essence, then fled with Zhao Chen as the beast awakened. Zhao Chen found a powerful halberd and cultivation art in Yang Hong's storage pouch, and the pair set their sights on winning the Spirit Road championship.

• Yang Hong demanded Luo Li hand over the beast's essence, but she struck him and revealed that she had reached the peak of the Spirit Wheel Stage.
• Yang Hong tried to flee, but Luo Li killed him with the Luo God Sword, and Zhao Chen warned her that the Golden Armored Dragon-Tiger Beast had awakened.
• Zhao Chen found the Heaven-Breaking Spirit Halberd and the Heaven-Breaking Divine Canon in Yang Hong's storage pouch.
• Luo Li and Zhao Chen escaped the mountain range as the awakened beast killed people nearby, then discussed using the beast's essence to challenge Ji Xuan and claim the Spirit Road championship.
• Luo Li asked Zhao Chen what realm he had to reach before he could take human form.

Luo Li asked when Zhao Chen could take human form, then vowed to win the Spirit Road championship after he said he wanted to help her achieve it. At the Champion's Platform, Zhao Chen urged her to target Ji Xuan first, and Luo Li turned her attention toward him.

• Luo Li asked what realm Zhao Chen needed to reach to take human form, and he estimated that he might manage it at the Three Heavens Realm.
• Luo Li offered to hunt spirit beasts for Zhao Chen, but he said he would rather see her win the Spirit Road championship; she vowed to claim the title.
• Zhao Chen surveyed the factions gathered at the Champion's Platform, including the King-Sealing Prodigies and Mu Chen, and commented on their prospects.
• Zhao Chen advised Luo Li to kill Ji Xuan first, explaining that the other academies might support a challenge to the dominant Holy Spiritual Academy.
• Luo Li recalled Ji Xuan's role in the pursuit against her, fixed her gaze on him, and declared, "Ji Xuan, die!"

Luo Li and Zhao Chen killed Ji Xuan after he attacked her, despite the Heavenly Sage Dean of Holy Spiritual Academy intervening. The Dean threatened Luo Li, but Myriad Phoenix Spiritual Academy answered by warning that it would fight alongside the Luo God Clan.

• Luo Li confronted Ji Xuan, and he struck at her with power that surpassed the Spirit Wheel Stage.
• Zhao Chen controlled the Luo God Sword as Luo Li unleashed a devastating slash, killing Ji Xuan’s followers and forcing him to flee.
• Luo Li pursued Ji Xuan, declaring that she would kill him because he had hunted her the day before.
• Ji Xuan called for the Heavenly Sage Dean of Holy Spiritual Academy, who intervened with a colossal palm as an azure palm print rose to oppose him.
• Zhao Chen sent the Luo God Sword after Ji Xuan and killed him, prompting the Heavenly Sage Dean to threaten Luo Li.
• A woman’s voice warned that Myriad Phoenix Spiritual Academy would not stop Holy Spiritual Academy from making an enemy of the Luo God Clan.

After Luo Li killed Ji Xuan, the Heavenly Sage Dean tried to intervene but backed down when the Luo God Clan and the other academies opposed him. Luo Li claimed the Champion's Platform for ten days while the other contenders left to strengthen themselves, and she reflected on the power she would need to protect her clan.

• The Heavenly Sage Dean stopped his attempt to kill Luo Li after the Northern Heavens and Myriad Phoenix Spiritual Academies challenged his violation of the Spirit Road rules and cited the Luo God Clan's standing.
• The trial participants reacted to Ji Xuan's death, and Wen Qingxuan declared that Luo Li was hers to challenge.
• Luo Li announced she would claim victory after ten days and ascended to the Champion's Platform, establishing herself as the leading contender for the Spirit Crown.
• Wen Qingxuan, Wu Ling, Wu Yingying, Mu Chen, and the other King-Sealing Prodigies left with their camps to improve their strength.
• Luo Li reassured Zhao Chen that she was safe, then said the encounter with a Supreme Realm expert had shown her the gap she needed to overcome for the Luo God Clan.

Zhao Chen obtained the Grass-Character Sword Art and helped Luo Li defeat the other King-Sealing Prodigies, securing her the Spirit Crown. After the academy deans congratulated and recruited her, Luo Li said she planned to return to the Luo God Clan.

• Zhao Chen completed ten accumulated check-ins and received the Grass-Character Sword Art, gaining the Nine-leaf Sword Grass inheritance.
• Luo Li rose from the Champion's Platform and used a sword strike empowered by Zhao Chen to overwhelm the King-Sealing Prodigies.
• Wen Qingxuan conceded, Wu Ling and Wu Yingying accepted defeat, and Mu Chen gave up and prepared to receive spiritual energy empowerment.
• Luo Li thanked Zhao Chen, and they made a promise to help each other in the future.
• Dean Tang Qiu invited Luo Li to join the Myriad Phoenix Spiritual Academy, while Dean Ta Cang and the other academy heads congratulated her.
• Luo Li declined to remain in the Five Great Academies and said she would return to the Luo God Clan.

Zhao Chen received spiritual energy empowerment and advanced to the middle stage of the Fusion Heavenly Realm, then decided to travel to the Northern Spiritual Realm to find a Nine Netherbird. Luo Li agreed to let him go, and Zhao Chen prepared to part from her before she returned to the Luo God Clan.

• Dean Tang Qiu and Dean Ta Cang respected Luo Li's decision to return to the Luo God Clan and began the spiritual energy empowerment.
• Zhao Chen received empowerment alongside the trial participants and advanced from the Divine Soul Stage to the middle stage of the Fusion Heavenly Realm.
• Zhao Chen decided to seek the stranded Nine Netherbird in the Northern Spiritual Realm and heard a sign-in reward awaited him at Black Eerie Abyss.
• Luo Li anticipated Zhao Chen's wish to explore and agreed to let him go on his own.
• Luo Li explained that a surviving Nine Netherbird could be tamed and carry Zhao Chen across the Great Thousand World.

Zhao Chen and Luo Li agreed to meet at Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy after she returned to refine the Luo River Spirit and he traveled to capture the Nine Netherbird. At the Black Eerie Abyss, Zhao Chen discovered that refining its toxic miasma strengthened him and pushed his cultivation toward the Transforming Heaven Realm.

• Zhao Chen invited Luo Li to meet him at Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy, and she agreed after returning to refine the Luo River Spirit.
• Zhao Chen traveled across the Great Thousand World toward the Northern Spiritual Realm to find the Nine Netherbird in the Black Eerie Abyss.
• Zhao Chen reached the Black Eerie Abyss and found its toxic miasma too dangerous to cross by flying directly into the depths.
• Zhao Chen used his devouring ability to absorb and refine the toxic miasma, turning parts of his silver blades green.
• Refining the miasma increased Zhao Chen's cultivation, and he realized it could carry him into the Transforming Heaven Realm.

After returning from the Spirit Road, Mu Chen led Mu Domain into Black Eerie Abyss to claim the Nine Netherbird, believing it was awakening there. He reached the crater where it had supposedly rested, but found no sign of it and realized it had already flown away.

• Mu Chen and Mu Feng arrived at Black Eerie Abyss and found its poisonous miasma had vanished.
• Mu Chen guessed that the awakening Nine Netherbird had refined the miasma, then persuaded Mu Feng to lead Mu Domain’s forces inside.
• Mu Chen and Mu Feng crossed the dangerous abyss and found a plain covered with spirit beast skeletons, including Heavenly-Grade Spirit Beasts.
• Mu Chen left Mu Feng behind and searched the crater at the center of the Blood Plain for the Nine Netherbird.
• Mu Chen found no trace of the Nine Netherbird and concluded that it had recovered and left Black Eerie Abyss.

After the Nine Netherbird had vanished, Mu Chen chose to leave the Northern Spiritual Realm and attend the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy. Zhao Chen watched him depart and judged that Mu Chen had wasted a chance to challenge himself by choosing what seemed like an easier academy.

• Mu Chen told Mu Feng that the Nine Netherbird had disappeared and refused his offer to find another spirit beast essence soul.
• Mu Chen decided to leave the Northern Spiritual Realm, weighing the Five Great Academies and ruling out several of them.
• Mu Chen chose the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy, and Mu Feng agreed before leading him and the Mu Domain forces back home.
• A Water-Fire Crane carrying Zhao Chen descended into the Black Eerie Abyss after Mu Chen had left.
• Zhao Chen criticized Mu Chen for choosing the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy and said he would wait for him there.

Zhao Chen carried the Nine Netherbird toward Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy, where he planned to obtain the Northern Sea Dragon Kun’s blood essence to help her overcome her tribulation. The Nine Netherbird trusted his connections, and Zhao Chen prepared to contact someone on the Northern Heavens Continent.

• Zhao Chen traveled toward Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy on the Snow Eagle while carrying the Nine Netherbird egg and a Water-Fire Crane.
• The Nine Netherbird asked why Zhao Chen was helping her, and he said he would not let Mu Chen refine her.
• Zhao Chen said they would enter Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy openly and obtain the Northern Sea Dragon Kun’s blood essence through their own efforts.
• The Nine Netherbird agreed to trust Zhao Chen because he said he had connections.
• Zhao Chen asked the Nine Netherbird to use her Black Flame to raise the Water-Fire Crane to the Three Heavens Realm, then produced a jade pendant and sent the message, “I'm here. Are you well?”

In Northern Heavens City, Luo Li defended herself against Demon Gate members and challenged their claim to power. After a senior member tried to kill her, she questioned whether He Yao could rival Dean Ta Cang, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Luo Li waited in a teahouse, thinking of Zhao Chen and her hope of reuniting with him at Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy.
• Five Demon Gate members harassed Luo Li, and she swiftly cut them down without killing them.
• A black-robed Demon Gate member attacked Luo Li with an arrow near the city gates, but she easily dodged it.
• Luo Li accused the Demon Gate of acting above Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy and asked how He Yao compared to Dean Ta Cang.

Luo Li defeated Chen Yu in Northern Heavens City and reunited with Zhao Chen and the Nine-leaf Sword Grass. After hearing they needed divine beast blood essence for Little Nine Netherbird, she produced a droplet of Luo River Divine Dragon essence blood.

• Chen Yu attacked Luo Li with Feather Heaven Slash, but she cut through his attack and barrier and warned him not to provoke her or the Demon Gate again.
• Luo Li left Northern Heavens City as onlookers wondered about her strength and worried that the Demon Gate would retaliate.
• Luo Li reunited with Zhao Chen, who arrived with Little Nine Netherbird’s egg and the Nine-leaf Sword Grass.
• Zhao Chen explained that he needed Luo Li’s help obtaining Northern Sea Dragon Kun Divine Beast Blood Essence for Little Nine Netherbird.
• Luo Li produced Luo River Divine Dragon essence blood, astonishing Little Nine Netherbird.

Luo Li chose to give the Luo River Divine Dragon’s blood essence to Little Nine Netherbird, but Zhao Chen proposed that she refine it and they earn Spiritual Value for the Northern Sea Dragon Kun’s blood essence instead. After Luo Li registered at the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy, Dean Ta Cang welcomed her with generous privileges and one hundred thousand Spiritual Value, but she discovered the blood essence she wanted cost seven million.

• Luo Li offered the Luo River Divine Dragon’s blood essence to Little Nine Netherbird, while Zhao Chen suggested she refine it and they later obtain Northern Sea Dragon Kun blood essence for the bird.
• Luo Li agreed to Zhao Chen’s plan, and she concealed Nine-leaf Sword Grass, Little Nine Netherbird, Water-Fire Crane, and Snow Eagle inside her Divine Artifact Qiankun Bracelet.
• Dean Ta Cang welcomed Luo Li to the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy and gave her free first-class housing and access to Fifth-grade and Sixth-grade Spirit Gathering Arrays.
• Dean Ta Cang gave Luo Li a Nine-Colored Spiritual Value Token containing one hundred thousand Spiritual Value and explained what she could exchange it for.
• Luo Li checked the Spiritual Value Hall and saw that the Northern Sea Dragon Kun’s blood essence cost seven million Spiritual Value.

Luo Li learned that Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy’s students were hunted by the resurgent Dragon Demon Palace, its old enemy. Zhao Chen urged her to spend her Spiritual Value training in a seventh-level Spirit Gathering Array before taking on dangerous missions.

• Dean Ta Cang told Luo Li that the Northern Sea Dragon Kun Divine Beast Blood Essence cost seven hundred thousand Spiritual Value and warned her not to leave the academy casually.
• Luo Li asked Zhao Chen about the danger outside the academy, and he identified Dragon Demon Palace as the force hunting its students and instructors.
• Zhao Chen explained that Dragon Demon Palace had returned from hiding and that the conflict between the two forces now centered on their younger generations.
• Luo Li prepared to visit the Task Hall, but Zhao Chen stopped her and suggested she use her hundred thousand Spiritual Value to train for twenty days in a seventh-level Spirit Gathering Array.

After twenty days of cultivation, Luo Li and Zhao Chen had grown stronger but spent all their Spiritual Value, so Luo Li went to the Task Hall to find work. An Ran tried to recruit her for a mission, but Luo Li asked instead about bounty missions targeting the Dragon Demon Palace.

• Luo Li had refined the Luo River Divine Dragon's essence blood and reached the Early Heaven-reaching Realm, while Zhao Chen advanced to the Late Transforming Heaven Realm and Little Nine Netherbird recovered.
• At the Task Hall, An Ran introduced herself to Luo Li and offered to team up on a mission that would pay about two hundred thousand Spiritual Value.
• An Ran noticed that Little Nine Netherbird's presence seemed to frighten the Northern Nether Golden-Patterned Eagle spirit essence she had refined.
• Luo Li declined An Ran's offer, explaining she wanted to earn Spiritual Value more quickly and needed enough to obtain the academy's guardian divine beast's essence blood.
• When An Ran offered to show Luo Li the Task Hall, Luo Li asked whether she could accept a bounty mission to kill Dragon Demon Palace members.

Luo Li visited the Task Hall with An Ran and learned about the dangerous Dragon Demon Palace bounties. After deciding to pursue Demon Dragon Son, she revealed that the Nine Netherbird was on her shoulder, leaving An Ran stunned.

• An Ran warned Luo Li that the Dragon Demon Palace was deadly and explained how the Task Hall assigned missions by rank and qualification.
• An Ran brought Luo Li to the Bounty Ranking, where Luo Li saw the rewards for Mo Xingtian, Demon Dragon Son, and Blood Dragon Man Mu Gu.
• Luo Li agreed to accompany An Ran on her mission to investigate possible ruins in White Dragon City, intending to use them as bait for Demon Dragon Son.
• Luo Li asked An Ran to help her accept the bounty mission for Demon Dragon Son, alarming An Ran.
• Luo Li revealed that the Nine Netherbird was on her shoulder, and An Ran realized how powerful Luo Li must be.

Luo Li declared she would hunt Demon Dragon Son and used her Nine-Colored Spiritual Value Token to silence the Task Hall elder’s objections. After An Ran caught up with her, the two prepared to travel to White Dragon City and lure Demon Dragon Son into a trap.

• An Ran told the Task Hall elder that Luo Li could kill Demon Dragon Son and possibly Mo Xingtian, and Luo Li insisted she was informing him rather than asking permission.
• The elder gave Luo Li a jade token for emergency rescue, but she showed him her Nine-Colored Spiritual Value Token, which Dean Ta Cang had personally issued.
• Luo Li left the Task Hall and told Zhao Chen they could use An Ran’s trip to White Dragon City to lure Demon Dragon Son out.
• An Ran caught up with Luo Li and learned she was the Spirit Road Champion and a new student at the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy.
• Luo Li promised An Ran the Divine-grade Spiritual Art and eight million Spiritual Value after they took Demon Dragon Son’s head, and An Ran agreed to go with her.