Chapter Summaries

Li Ye passed the first test by leaving a deep fist mark on Black Obsidian, then defended himself when Li Yuan attacked him. As news of his return spread, Li Xuanji and Li Hou Nian recognized the significance of his talent and prepared for the next day's contest.

• Li Yuan accused Li Ye of cheating, attacked him, and was slapped down before Li Xuan stopped him and apologized to Li Ye.
• Li Ye accepted Li Xuan's apology, and Sixth Lord Li announced that Li Ye had passed the first round.
• Li Ye left, expecting the clan elders to hear of his success and anticipating the next day's contest.
• Sixth Lord Li reflected on Li Ye's father and realized the clan had misjudged Li Ye, then welcomed the returning Li Hou Nian.
• Li Hou Nian warned Sixth Lord Li to guard against tricks and said tomorrow would be exciting, while Li Xuanji promised Li Ye would reach the arena safely.

Li Ye prepared for the second round of the Li Family's martial contest, where hundreds of youths competed for valuable ranks and rewards. As the contest began, he was assigned to one of ten groups while Li Huangran watched him coldly from the stands.

• Xiao Qing praised Li Ye for handling the Li Family dispute without needing his help, while Li Ye awaited Li Yating's return on the contest's final day.
• Li Ye discovered that his Vampire speed had improved, making a lightly thrown punch faster than one from a Spirit Martial Tier Six cultivator.
• Li Ye entered the Li Family residence for the second round, where youths mocked him and suspected he had used Fossil Powder to cheat in the first round.
• Participants discussed rewards for the top ranks, including steward and elder positions and personal guidance from the Grand Supreme Elder, reportedly offered because Li Yating was returning.
• Li Family stewards opened the second round as Li Huangran and other elders observed from the stands, and the participants were divided into ten groups.

Li Ye entered the sixth arena’s tournament group and challenged its dominant contender, Li Dakui, after seeing Li Xuan reveal his breakthrough to Spirit Martial Tier Seven. Li Ye defeated Li Dakui with one punch, taking over his winning streak and stunning the spectators.

• Li Ye assessed the sixth group’s strong main branch contenders and decided the consecutive-win system could let him advance early.
• Li Ye watched Li Xuan defeat five opponents in the second group with one move apiece after reaching Spirit Martial Tier Seven.
• Li Ye stepped onto the sixth arena to face Li Dakui, who had won four matches in a row and planned to claim twenty consecutive victories.
• Li Dakui mocked Li Ye’s reputation as a good-for-nothing, while Li Huangran questioned Li Xuanji’s decision to let Li Ye pass the first round.
• Li Ye revealed his peak Spirit Martial Tier Four cultivation and met Li Dakui’s powerful punch head-on, sending him flying off the arena with one blow.
• Li Ye won his fifth consecutive match and inherited Li Dakui’s four-win streak, leaving the crowd and elders stunned.

Li Ye watched the martial arts arena’s first-round matches, noting the powerful dark horses and the Li Family’s renowned geniuses. After Li Yating returned to the Lineage and exchanged greetings with Li Mo, she searched the crowd and found Li Ye, leaving him focused on his ambition to rise through the ranks and challenge the geniuses.

• Li Datou defeated a string of main family disciples on the second platform, while Li Ye swept through the sixth platform and both advanced with twenty consecutive victories.
• Li Xuan took first place in the first group, and Li Ye assessed the strength of Li Datou and the Iceberg Beauty, recognizing they could fight well above their realms.
• The disciples discussed the Li Family’s three great geniuses—Li Mo, Li Yating, and Li Yue—as well as Li Xuan’s potential to join them.
• Li Ye saw Li Mo in the stands and reaffirmed his goal of reaching the top ten and eventually defeating the Lineage’s leading geniuses.
• Xiao Qing appeared in the stands, then Li Yating arrived with several figures and exchanged pointed greetings with Li Mo.
• Li Yating searched the crowd, spotted Li Ye, and briefly smiled knowingly.

Li Ye competed for the chance to enter the Martial Arts Pavilion and challenge the Li Family’s strongest disciples. After Li Datou won ten matches, he challenged an Inner Disciple, setting up their fight.

• The elders recognized Li Ye as Li Kainian’s son while the lineage announced that the top three would earn access to the Martial Arts Pavilion and become the Supreme Elder’s registered disciples.
• Li Ye resolved to pursue the rewards, especially the chance to learn Combat Techniques, and learned that the strongest ten could challenge the three great geniuses.
• The contestants began fighting, and Li Datou swept through several opponents with his strength.
• After winning ten consecutive matches, Li Datou challenged an Inner Disciple ranked twenty-sixth, who reacted with anger and unleashed his aura.

Li Datou and Li Xuan stunned the gathering by defeating powerful opponents during the Li Family disciple assessment. Li Xuan claimed the seventh Inner Disciple seat after defeating Li Wei, while Li Ye reconsidered the strength of the Li Family’s younger generation.

• Li Datou overpowered Li Wei with his immense strength, defeating the Inner Disciple and taking his twenty-sixth rank.
• Several Outer Disciples tried and failed to win ten consecutive matches, until Li Xuan defeated a challenger in one move and qualified to challenge an Inner Disciple.
• Li Xuan challenged Li Wei, who ranked seventh among the Inner Disciples, and the two clashed using their High-Grade Yellow-Tier Combat Techniques.
• Li Xuan defeated Li Wei and claimed the seventh seat, impressing the Li Family elders and surprising Li Ye.

Li Ye entered the Outer Disciple ranking competition and easily defeated the notorious Li Gua despite being a realm weaker. His victory drew the attention of Li Mo and revealed that Li Yating was watching him closely.

• After Li Wei lost his Inner Disciple position, he used his second challenge to defeat the eighth-ranked disciple and reclaim a place among the Inner Disciples.
• Li Mo challenged Li Yating's abilities and resented that the Heavenly Profound Sect had recruited her instead of him, while she ignored him and watched the arena.
• Li Mo recognized Li Ye as the youth who had appeared on the arena and noticed that Li Yating's expression changed when she saw him.
• Li Gua warned Li Ye to surrender, then attacked him with the Eagle Claw Technique, but Li Ye broke both of his hands with a punch each.
• The crowd focused on Li Ye after he defeated peak Spirit Martial Tier Five Li Gua using only his fists, making him another dark horse after Li Datou.

Li Ye faced Li Yuan, whose strength had abruptly risen to Spirit Martial Tier Six after consuming a Millennium Snow Ginseng. Li Ye struggled to damage him with brute-force attacks, then discovered that his eyes could perceive Li Yuan’s movements in slow motion.

• Li Ye defeated several Outer Disciples, leaving the remaining challengers reluctant to face him.
• Li Yuan mocked Li Yijian for hesitating, then entered the arena and challenged Li Ye.
• Li Yuan revealed his Spirit Martial Tier Six cultivation, which the elders suspected came from a Millennium Snow Ginseng.
• Li Ye used his speed to evade Li Yuan’s Frost Fist, but Li Yuan hardened his body with its freezing effect and resisted Li Ye’s attacks.
• Li Ye recognized that his lack of Combat Techniques limited his attack power, then noticed that his eyes made Li Yuan’s movements appear slow.

Li Ye revealed that his Blood Eyes could analyze and copy Combat Techniques, using the ability to imitate Li Yuan’s Frost Fist. Li Huangran accused him of stealing from the Martial Arts Pavilion and tried to have him branded a traitor, but Li Hou Nian intervened, and Xiao Qing also spoke in Li Ye’s defense.

• Li Ye copied Li Yuan’s Frost Fist with his Blood Eyes and struck him in a clash that sent Li Yuan flying farther.
• Li Huangran accused Li Ye of stealing Combat Techniques and ordered enforcement elders to seize him.
• Li Ye avoided the elders’ first attempt, then chose not to resist so Li Huangran could not use resistance to support a charge of betraying the Lineage.
• Li Hou Nian arrived and demanded that the enforcement elders release Li Ye, openly challenging Li Huangran’s accusation.
• Xiao Qing surprised the gathered elders by speaking in Li Ye’s defense.

Li Huangran dropped the accusation against Li Ye and demanded that he prove he could learn a High-Grade Yellow-Tier Combat Technique by challenging an Inner Disciple. Li Ye accepted the challenge against eighth-ranked Li Wei, whose opening attack left him facing a storm of kicks.

• Xiao Qing claimed that Li Ye had learned Frost Fist by watching it once, and Li Ye agreed that he had not stolen a manual.
• Li Huangran changed course and said Li Ye could end the dispute by copying an Inner Disciple's technique during a fight.
• Li Huangran selected Li Wei, the eighth-ranked Inner Disciple, as Li Ye's opponent, despite Li Ye's much lower cultivation.
• Li Hou Nian offered to refuse the fight for Li Ye, but Li Ye said he was confident and entered the arena.
• Li Huangran warned Li Wei not to injure Li Ye, while Li Hou Nian stayed ready to intervene.
• Li Wei launched Storm of Gale, using afterimages and a barrage of kicks to seal off Li Ye's paths of escape.

Li Ye defeated Li Wei in the arena by copying Gale Legs, switching to Frost Fist, and using Blood Eyes to create an opening. Li Huangran accused him of secretly learning Combat Techniques and ordered him seized, but a powerful voice intervened before anyone could attack.

• Li Ye used Frost Fist to disrupt Li Wei’s Gale Legs, then evaded Li Wei’s relentless attacks with his speed.
• Li Ye copied Gale Legs and abruptly switched to Frost Fist, striking Li Wei and disrupting his balance with Blood Eyes.
• Li Ye punched Li Wei off the arena, winning the fight as the crowd watched in shock.
• Li Ye challenged Li Huangran, who accused him of secretly learning Frost Fist and Gale Legs and ordered his men to seize him.
• An unseen speaker roared that anyone who touched Li Ye would be killed first.

Li Hou Nian protected Li Ye from Li Huangran’s attempt to arrest him, and Li Mo proposed postponing the case until the Council of Elders could review it. Li Ye secured eighth place among the Inner Disciples, and the Year-End Martial Contest moved on to the ranked challenges between them.

• Li Huangran attacked Li Ye and demanded his arrest, but Li Hou Nian blocked him and defeated his Eagle Claw Technique with a punch.
• Li Mo proposed setting the matter aside until after the contest, with the Council of Elders to decide Li Ye’s case, and Li Huangran accepted.
• Li Ye took eighth place among the Inner Disciples after defeating Li Wei, while Li Yu and Li Datou also successfully challenged Inner Disciples.
• An elder offered to take Li Datou as a disciple, but Li Datou refused, and Li Ye suspected the honest-looking youth was concealing his true nature.
• The Lineage began the ranked challenges among the thirty Inner Disciples, with Li Xuanji presiding.

Li Wei challenged Li Ye to regain his standing among the Inner Disciples, but Li Ye copied his Phantom Step and defeated him. After other disciples advanced in rank, Li Ye challenged seventh-ranked Li Xuan, leaving the crowd stunned.

• Li Wei challenged Li Ye, believing he could avenge his earlier defeat and preserve his rank.
• Li Wei used Phantom Step to pressure Li Ye, who copied the movement technique while dodging his attacks.
• Li Ye countered Li Wei's Gale Legs with Frost Fist and a copied Storm of Gale, striking Li Wei's old injury and winning the match.
• Li Wei's defeat made the other Inner Disciples wary of challenging Li Ye, while Li Huangran wondered if Li Ye had hidden his true cultivation.
• Li Yijian, Li Yu, and Li Datou each won their challenges and improved their rankings.
• Li Ye challenged seventh-ranked Li Xuan, stunning the crowd.

Li Ye challenged Li Xuan and struggled against his powerful Frost Fist, which slowed his movements and gradually cornered him. Just as the crowd expected Li Ye to lose, Li Xuan revealed that he had been hiding peak seventh-level Spirit Martial Realm strength, leaving the match’s outcome uncertain.

• Li Ye challenged Li Xuan, drawing ridicule from many Lineage disciples and concern from Li Huangran, while Xiao Qing defended Li Ye’s resolve.
• Li Xuan attacked with Frost Fist at major accomplishment, and Li Ye recognized that the technique’s icy force was reducing his speed.
• Li Ye evaded Li Xuan’s attacks, but the frost steadily restricted his movements as elders judged that Li Xuan had the advantage.
• Li Xuan taunted Li Ye and unleashed his hidden strength, revealing that he had reached the peak of the seventh level of the Spirit Martial Realm.

Li Ye turned the tables on Li Xuan, winning their Inner Disciple challenge and claiming seventh place. The fight pushed Li Ye through his bottleneck into Spirit Martial Tier Five, leaving him newly confident in his strength.

• After Li Xuan defeated Li Wei, Li Ye felt the pressure loosen the bottleneck at his peak Spirit Martial Tier Four.
• Li Xuan struck Li Ye with Frost Fist, covering him in ice and convincing the crowd that he had been defeated.
• Li Ye shattered the frost, used Gale Legs to distract Li Xuan, and struck him from behind after leaving an afterimage.
• Li Xuanji declared Li Ye the winner, while Li Huangran left in anger and Li Hou Nian congratulated Li Ye.
• Li Ye took seventh place among the Inner Disciples and realized that the fight had advanced him to Spirit Martial Tier Five.

After defeating Li Xuan, Li Ye discovered the Blood Clan’s Inheritance Space and entered the Marquis’s Gate, where he learned he could absorb books with a glance. Returning to the ongoing Inner Disciple battles, he watched Li Huo challenge Li Mo, the Li Family’s top disciple.

• Li Ye reflected that his mastery of Frost Fist and Gale Legs had boosted his strength, though he recognized his victory over Li Xuan had been close.
• Li Ye entered a Blood Clan Inheritance Space, where an ancient voice directed him to choose a gate according to his bloodline.
• Li Ye found that the Baron, Viscount, and Count gates would not open, while the Marquis’s Gate admitted him to an inheritance study.
• Li Ye learned that a single glance copied a book’s contents into his mind, then returned to the arena after only moments had passed outside.
• Li Huo challenged Li Mo, drawing the attention of the gathered disciples and family elders.

Li Ye watched Li Huo challenge Li Mo and learned from Li Yuan Jia that Li Mo had hidden strength far beyond the other Inner Disciples. The chapter ended with Li Mo revealing himself as a Spirit Martial Tier Nine Martial Dao Grandmaster, leaving everyone overwhelmed by the gap between them.

• Li Huo challenged Li Mo, hoping to avenge his defeat from two years earlier, and unleashed his Blood Soul Astral Energy.
• Li Ye assessed his own chances against a Spirit Martial Tier Eight Martial Dao Master while Li Yuan Jia explained that Li Huo had no chance against Li Mo.
• Li Mo casually evaded Li Huo's attacks until Li Huo's Astral Energy faded and his strength declined.
• Li Mo insulted Li Huo and the other powerful Inner Disciples, then challenged them all to attack together.
• Li Mo revealed Spirit Martial Tier Nine cultivation, shocking the Inner Disciples into abandoning their challenge.

Li Mo revealed that he had reached Spirit Martial Tier Nine and dominated the Year-End Martial Contest, while Li Ye secured seventh place among the Inner Disciples. When Li Ye went to claim his reward and enter the Martial Arts Pavilion, its two elder guards blocked him and one attacked.

• Li Mo revealed his Spirit Martial Tier Nine cultivation, dismissed the other Inner Disciples' chances, and heard that Wuzhou City's other leading genius, Yuwen Wushuang, had reached the same realm.
• Li Yuan Jia defeated Li Ji after more than a hundred moves and rose from fifth to second in the Inner Disciple rankings, while Li Ye kept his seventh-place rank.
• Li Ye reflected on his limits in daylight and his hidden Blood Eyes abilities, then considered how becoming a top-ten Inner Disciple gave him access to the Martial Arts Pavilion.
• Li Huangran ordered the disciples to collect their rewards, and Li Ye followed the Inner Disciples to claim his chance to select a Combat Technique.
• The two elders guarding the Martial Arts Pavilion denied Li Ye's ranking and blocked his entry, and one struck him with a palm attack.

Li Ye fought off two elders who tried to keep him from entering the Martial Arts Pavilion, then gained entry with Li Hou Nian’s intervention. Inside, he asked the pavilion’s old guardian for permission to choose a Yellow Tier High-Grade technique and was told his cultivation was too low; Li Ye offered to prove he was qualified.

• Li San and Li Si attacked Li Ye at the Martial Arts Pavilion, but he used his spiritual force, Frost Fist, and Storm of Gale to send them flying.
• Li Hou Nian intervened, rebuked Li San and Li Si, and let Li Ye enter the pavilion while his aura kept the two elders from stopping him.
• Li Ye met the old man inside, who explained that the first floor held Yellow Tier Mid-Grade techniques and the second floor held Yellow Tier High-Grade techniques.
• Li Ye said his seventh-place finish entitled him to choose a Yellow Tier High-Grade technique, but the old man argued that his cultivation was too low.
• Li Ye asked the old man to let him choose from the second floor if he could prove he was qualified.

Li Ye proved his movement skill to the old man and gained access to the Martial Arts Pavilion’s second floor, where he discovered the hidden cultivation method for the Sword Control Technique. He realized his powerful mental strength as a Blood Clan Vampire made him especially suited to learning it.

• Li Ye evaded the old man's grab with an afterimage clone, convincing him to allow Li Ye onto the second floor.
• Li Ye encountered Li Wei and studied the second floor's Combat Techniques and Movement Techniques, including Frost Fist, Gale Legs, Phantom Step, and Cloud-Turning Palm.
• Li Ye discovered that several techniques were incomplete versions of powerful ancient arts and copied them with Blood Eyes.
• Li Ye found the neglected Sword Control Technique, which claimed to control weapons at a distance and allow its practitioner to travel on a sword.
• Li Ye saw hidden writing appear in the manual and realized that the technique required mental power, which his Blood Clan Vampire nature had made exceptionally strong.