Chapter Summaries

Violent Dragon overwhelmed Wang Meng with a relentless assault, but Wang Meng struck back by breaking his nose and triggering a berserk transformation. Li Yichen recognized signs of a possible Primordial Demon God's bloodline as Violent Dragon prepared a powerful blow against Wang Meng.

• Violent Dragon charged Wang Meng and battered his crossed arms, forcing him backward while Hao Shuai, Ouyang Xuanxuan, and Li Yichen watched anxiously.
• Li Yichen suspected Wang Meng's ability was wearing off, and Hao Shuai volunteered to protect him before Su Xiaoxiao offered to step in.
• Violent Dragon finally broke through Wang Meng's guard, but Wang Meng rammed his head into Violent Dragon's nose and badly injured him.
• Violent Dragon grew larger and stronger as he went berserk, and Li Yichen identified the transformation as possible evidence of a Primordial Demon God's bloodline.
• Violent Dragon smashed the stone beneath his feet, leaped up, and brought his clasped hands down toward Wang Meng's head.

Su Xiaoxiao used her Energy Shield to protect Wang Meng from Violent Dragon and turned his attacks back against him. After Violent Dragon charged at her with a massive stone pillar, the shield launched it toward a female soldier, and someone rushed to protect her.

• Su Xiaoxiao appeared beside Wang Meng and shielded them both from Violent Dragon's punch with her Energy Shield.
• Su Xiaoxiao reinforced the shield and sent Violent Dragon flying when his next blow rebounded.
• Su Xiaoxiao deflected Violent Dragon's thrown stones, while Hao Jun corrected onlookers who blamed her for the danger.
• Violent Dragon tore off his shirt, lifted a huge stone pillar, and charged at Su Xiaoxiao.
• Su Xiaoxiao's shield held against the pillar and hurled it toward a female soldier, but a figure flashed in front of her.

After Su Xiaoxiao defeated Violent Dragon, Li Yichen agreed to stay at the base overnight. When he sensed another threat to Su Family Pharmaceuticals’ secret base, he flew there and watched Ghost Knights eliminate a team of intruders.

• Li Yichen caught a falling stone pillar and shattered it, while a girl mistook him for her sweetheart and Ouyang Xuanxuan reacted jealously.
• Violent Dragon collapsed after his fight with Su Xiaoxiao, and Hao Jun challenged the onlookers before Su Xiaoxiao dragged him away.
• Elder Mo announced that Esper Ability integration would begin at six the next morning and asked Li Yichen to stay at the base to help keep order.
• Li Yichen found himself sharing a room with his three roommates and later slipped away through a wall, flying toward Su Family Pharmaceuticals’ secret base.
• Brother Zhang led four intruders toward the base, but Li Yichen watched as Ghost Knights emerged from the fog and killed them all.

After Li Yichen ordered Su Shengnan to collect five bodies found outside the testing base, Su Shengnan had Dark Shadow dump them in the Jiang Family estate as a warning. The Jiang Family suffered through the stench and learned the message was aimed at anyone who dared cross the Su Family.

• Li Yichen texted Su Shengnan to collect the bodies, and she sent Dark Shadow to investigate the testing base.
• Dark Shadow reported that five unwounded bodies had been found outside the base and suggested dumping them in the Jiang Family estate; Su Shengnan agreed.
• Steward Zhao found the five bodies in the Jiang Family courtyard, uncovered their rotting remains, and ordered them burned.
• The burning corpses released foul black smoke that made the Jiang Family members vomit, including Old Master Jiang.
• At a meeting, Jiang Tianhao reported finding the warning beneath the bodies: anyone who crossed the Su Family would be put to death.

The Jiang Family patriarch ordered Jiang Tianhao to enlist the Qin and Shen Families in a campaign to eliminate the Su Family’s experts. At the training base, a hundred team members awakened their powers, broke the elders’ protective formation, and drew down a violent lightning tribulation as Li Yichen moved to confront it.

• The Jiang Family patriarch sent Jiang Tianhao to the Qin Family and the Shen Family to arrange an attack on Su Family experts within a week.
• At the secret Training Base, Elder Mo, Elder Wang, and Elder Wu formed the Three Talents Heaven-Sealing Formation to hide the hundred team members from the lightning tribulation.
• The newly awakened team members unleashed their energy together, shattered the Barrier, and caused the tribulation clouds to gather again.
• Elder Wu prepared to risk her life defending the team, but Li Yichen said he would face the lightning himself.
• Li Yichen formed a black-and-white lotus from a flame and sent it up to meet a bolt of tribulation lightning.

Li Yichen used his Black-and-White Lotus to absorb the heavenly lightning and survived the tribulation, earning the soldiers’ gratitude and being declared their Senior Brother. He then rushed to a secluded peak to handle the lightning energy stored in his flames, and his golden core began to shake as he cultivated.

• Li Yichen’s Black-and-White Lotus absorbed successive bolts of heavenly lightning until the tribulation ended.
• Elder Mo ordered the soldiers to thank Li Yichen and obey him as their Senior Brother, and Li Yichen gently raised them from their bows.
• Li Yichen suddenly flew to a quiet mountain peak, where the energy stored by his yin-yang twin flames surged through his body.
• Li Yichen cultivated with the Great Netherworld Scripture as the energy entered his golden core, which grew to the size of an egg and then began to shake.

Li Yichen broke through to the nascent soul realm and discovered that his nascent soul had absorbed and strengthened his yin-yang twin flames. His breakthrough triggered a far more powerful lightning tribulation, alarming the people at the Secret Base and leaving Mo Yurou worried for him.

• Li Yichen's golden core cracked, and a nascent soul formed inside his dantian.
• The nascent soul swallowed the yin-yang twin flames, then recovered as the flames fused into it and left a pattern between its brows.
• Li Yichen transferred his consciousness into the nascent soul, sent it outside his body, and found he could control it like a clone and summon the stronger twin flames.
• Li Yichen celebrated becoming a Nascent Soul Powerhouse, but enormous thunderclouds gathered above him for another tribulation.
• Elder Mo, Elder Wu, Elder Wang, Mo Yurou, Ouyang Xuanxuan, and Jiang Ruoyi saw the tribulation from the Secret Base, and Elder Wu warned Mo Yurou that helping Li Yichen would be too dangerous.

Mo Yurou, Ouyang Xuanxuan, and Jiang Ruoyi tried to go to Li Yichen, but the elders stopped them so they would not distract him during his Nascent Soul Tribulation. Li Yichen prepared his artifacts to withstand the lightning, and the first two strikes destroyed several of them as the tribulation continued.

• Mo Yurou, Ouyang Xuanxuan, and Jiang Ruoyi vowed to save Li Yichen, but Elder Mo, Elder Wang, and Elder Wu immobilized them with talismans.
• Elder Wu persuaded the three women that they would only distract Li Yichen, and they agreed to wait and trust him.
• Li Yichen prepared his artifacts by coating them in blood mist and refining them with spiritual energy as the tribulation cloud gathered overhead.
• The first lightning bolt destroyed Li Yichen's ancient bone sword and pursued its fleeing skull, which drew the bolt away before both were destroyed.
• Li Yichen sent a bone saber, an ancient mirror, and a Tortoise Shield against the second, stronger bolt; the saber shattered, the mirror broke, and the shield absorbed the lightning's remaining energy.

Li Yichen struggled through his Nascent Soul Tribulation as his artifacts failed to withstand the increasingly powerful lightning. With the final strike gathering overhead, the Ghost Emperor appeared, leaving Li Yichen hoping his great-grandfather would save him.

• Li Yichen used groups of bone magic artifacts to block dozens of lightning bolts, while Elder Mo, Elder Wang, Elder Wu, Ouyang Xuanxuan, and Jiang Ruoyi watched anxiously.
• As the lightning reached its seventy-ninth bolt, Li Yichen had only ten artifacts left and gathered them around the Tortoise Shield to summon a phantom Black Tortoise.
• The Black Tortoise hid in its shell as a powerful bolt struck, and the lightning destroyed the artifacts before hitting Li Yichen and leaving him charred and sprawled on the ground.
• Li Yichen taunted the thundercloud, which brightened as it prepared its final, strongest bolt.
• A black lotus appeared between Li Yichen's brows, and the Ghost Emperor spoke to him; Li Yichen begged his great-grandfather to save him.

Li Yichen discovered that his nascent soul had absorbed the Yin-Yang Twin Flames and become a powerful otherworldly flame essence, then prepared to face the heavenly tribulation. As a massive purple-gold lightning bolt appeared, Li Yichen enlarged his flame-wreathed form while the crowd watched and Mo Yurou angrily claimed him as her husband.

• Li Yichen told Ghost Emperor Haoran that his nascent soul had swallowed the Yin-Yang Twin Flames, and Haoran entered his dantian to investigate.
• When Ghost Emperor Haoran touched the nascent soul's cheek, it erupted in black-and-white flames and burned his robes before Li Yichen drew the fire back in.
• Ghost Emperor Haoran explained that Li Yichen's nascent soul had become an otherworldly flame essence, then gave him a Flame Control Technique.
• Li Yichen sent his nascent soul out of his dantian as the tribulation cloud contracted and released a huge purple-gold lightning bolt.
• Li Yichen enlarged his flame-wreathed form to face the lightning, drawing cheers from the Secret Base and an angry protest from Mo Yurou when the women called him their husband.

Li Yichen defeated the Purple-Gold lightning tribulation with his black-and-white flames and returned to his dantian, exhausted but victorious. Meanwhile, Wang Chen and six Kunlun disciples found the shattered peak where Qin Ming had survived a blood-red tribulation, only to discover that he had succumbed to demonic corruption.

• Li Yichen shattered the Purple-Gold lightning serpent and cleared the remaining electric serpents with a taiji diagram of black-and-white flames.
• The tribulation clouds dispersed, and Li Yichen's nascent soul returned to his dantian as Ghost Emperor Haoran praised him.
• Wang Chen led six Kunlun disciples to a remote peak devastated by blood-red tribulation lightning.
• Qin Ming crawled from the rubble and revealed that he intended to feed on the Kunlun disciples.
• Wang Chen recognized Qin Ming as a corrupted Senior Brother Qin, ordered the others to flee and report to the sect leader, and attacked him.

Qin Ming used his nascent soul power to overpower Wang Chen and the Kunlun disciples, killing Wang Chen and beginning to slaughter the others for their vital essence. Elsewhere, a Kunlun disciple healed her damaged dantian as her tearful apprentice hoped to reunite with her husband Yichen.

• Qin Ming defeated Wang Chen and shattered his Spirit-Light Swords, then pinned six Kunlun disciples with his pressure.
• Qin Ming killed Wang Chen, ripped out his golden core, and swallowed it.
• Qin Ming killed one of the six disciples and consumed his vital essence while the others watched in terror.
• In a secluded cave, a Kunlun disciple healed her dantian and golden core as her apprentice thought of finding her husband Yichen.

Bai Binger reunited with her recovered master, Bai Qianyue, and planned to visit Li Yichen, while Li Yichen returned to the Training Base as a Nascent Soul Patriarch. He declined to join Bureau 9 but agreed to help the elders and their bureaus when needed.

• Bai Binger hugged Bai Qianyue after her recovery and asked to go down the mountain to find Li Yichen.
• Bai Qianyue agreed to accompany Bai Binger after the Sect Master's birthday and teased her about Li Yichen.
• Li Yichen returned to the Training Base, where a crowd of girls surrounded him until Elder Wu sent them away so he could rest.
• Elder Mo praised Li Yichen for becoming a Nascent Soul Patriarch, and Li Yichen said he planned to return to school and spend time with Mo Yurou and the others.
• Li Yichen refused Elder Mo's offer to join Bureau 9 but promised to help Bureau 9, Bureau 7, and Bureau 4 when they needed him.

Li Yichen took Mo Yurou, the other girls, and his friends back to Jinling University through a spatial passage, then enjoyed a few quiet days on campus. Meanwhile, Su Shengnan faced a crisis as Yellow Level experts kept dying, and Master Huang and others arrived to leave the Su Family.

• Yang Weifeng, Zhang Yong, and Sun Kai pressured Li Yichen into taking them back, and Elder Mo let them go.
• Li Yichen opened a spatial passage and sent his companions through, dropping Yang Weifeng, Sun Kai, and Zhang Yong into Li Zhao Lake.
• Yang Weifeng remembered he could fly, while Zhang Yong and Sun Kai joked about using their abilities to sneak into a bathhouse.
• Li Yichen spent the next few days relaxing at Jinling University with Mo Yurou and the other girls.
• Su Shengnan suspected the other three families were behind the deaths of her Yellow Level experts.
• Steward Wang told Su Shengnan that Master Huang and the others had arrived and wanted to leave.

As the Su Family’s guards prepared to leave amid escalating danger, Su Shengnan revealed that she had become an Ability User and promised to resolve the crisis within three days. Huang Shan agreed to keep his men for that long, leaving the Su Family with a brief chance to protect itself.

• Su Shengnan went to the compound square, where Huang Shan and the Yellow Grade experts were preparing to leave, and Su Second argued with Huang Shan.
• Su Shengnan acknowledged that the guards feared for their lives and asked Huang Shan to stay for three more days.
• Su Shengnan displayed her ability by controlling throwing knives that pierced an ornamental rock formation.
• Su Shengnan confirmed she was an Ability User and promised Huang Shan she would resolve the Su Family’s situation within three days.
• Huang Shan agreed to wait three days and led his men away from the square.

Su Shengnan drove off the Su Family members who wanted to know how she awakened her esper ability, while the Jiang, Qin, and Shen Families decided to continue hunting Su Family experts. Qin Wenhan revealed that Qin Family agents had died mysteriously near the Su Family’s secret pharmaceutical base and asked Jiang Tianhao and Shen Beichen to investigate it with him that night.

• Su Shengnan sent the Su Family members away, and Su Third urged Su Second to uncover how she had awakened her ability.
• Su Second ordered someone to bring him the Su Family’s written records and genealogy to study.
• Jiang Tianhao, Qin Wenhan, and Shen Beichen agreed to keep hunting the Su Family’s experts, confident their three families could handle Su Shengnan.
• Qin Wenhan told Jiang Tianhao and Shen Beichen that three groups sent to the Su Family’s secret base had died without injuries or signs of illness, with dense yin energy on their bodies.
• Qin Wenhan asked Jiang Tianhao and Shen Beichen to accompany him to the secret base that night and find out what was happening.

Qin Wenhan brought Master Jia, Jiang Tianhao, and Shen Beichen to investigate the Su Family’s Secret Base, where Master Jia’s compass revealed a host of Ghost Knights guarding the perimeter. The three young men realized that attacking the base with ordinary forces would be deadly.

• Qin Wenhan persuaded Jiang Tianhao and Shen Beichen to accompany him to test Master Jia’s ghost-exorcising abilities at the Su Family’s base.
• Master Jia arrived, ate all the food on the table, and agreed to investigate the strange presence around the base.
• The four men traveled to the base at night, and Master Jia used his compass to search ahead while the others waited behind.
• Master Jia’s golden light revealed numerous Ghost Knights, shocking Jiang Tianhao and Qin Wenhan.

Master Jia summoned Zhong Kui to save Qin Wenhan, Jiang Tianhao, and Shen Beichen from the Netherworld Soldiers. Zhong Kui confronted their leader, Li Xiucheng, but his familiarity with the Loyal King left the three men alarmed.

• Qin Wenhan, Jiang Tianhao, and Shen Beichen fled with Master Jia, only to find themselves surrounded by Netherworld Soldiers.
• Shen Beichen, Jiang Tianhao, and Qin Wenhan each promised Master Jia ten million if he got them out alive.
• Master Jia used his wooden Zhong Kui Plaque and blood to summon Zhong Kui, causing the Netherworld Soldiers to retreat.
• Zhong Kui demanded to see the Netherworld General, and Li Xiucheng appeared with the Soul-Summoning Banner and knelt before him.
• Zhong Kui recognized Li Xiucheng and questioned why he was not serving alongside the Black-and-White Old Ghosts, unsettling Qin Wenhan and the others.

Zhong Kui sided with Li Xiucheng and left, forcing Master Jia to use a Heaven-Escaping Talisman to escape the Netherworld Soldiers. The talisman carried the four men only a short distance before burning to ash, leaving them fleeing on foot with their pursuers still nearby.

• Zhong Kui accepted Li Xiucheng’s explanation that the Netherworld Soldiers were only protecting the property and refused to intervene against them.
• Zhong Kui warned Master Jia and the others not to disturb him again, then vanished underground.
• Master Jia unwrapped several layers of cloth to reveal a Heaven-Escaping Talisman, and Li Xiucheng ordered the Netherworld Soldiers to charge.
• Master Jia activated the talisman with his blood, and it carried him, Jiang Tianhao, Qin Wenhan, and the fourth man past the soldiers before failing.
• The four men crashed to the ground, and Jiang Tianhao ran when he saw the Netherworld Soldiers turning toward them.

After escaping the Netherworld Soldiers, Jiang Tianhao killed Master Jia to keep the Su Family's secret from becoming known, while Tang Ling'er waited at Mount Qingcheng for her grandfather. She rushed out to greet him and instead collided with her injured eldest senior brother.

• Shen Beichen asked Master Jia about the Heaven-Escaping Talisman and learned that the art of making it might have been lost.
• Master Jia warned Jiang Tianhao that a powerful expert protected the place, but Jiang Tianhao stabbed him to conceal the Su Family's secret and recruit his younger brothers to investigate it.
• Master Jia died after cursing Jiang Tianhao, Qin Wenhan, and Shen Beichen.
• At a secluded temple on Mount Qingcheng, Tang Ling'er spoke to her unconscious mother about Li Yichen and her new boyfriend while waiting for her grandfather.
• Tang Ling'er ran outside after hearing that her master had returned, then collided with her injured eldest senior brother, who had been beaten and hospitalized.