Chapter Summaries

Mu Chen passed the Trial Tower’s tenth stage by awakening the Spirit Worm’s power of time, then discovered he ranked fifth on the Spirit Soul Ranking. The chapter ends with Li Xuantong suspecting the top-ranked Luo Li is someone he knows and learning that Shen Cangsheng lost to Hun Jin in one move.

• Mu Chen used the Spirit Worm’s time-altering torrent to disrupt the puppet’s Spirit Array and pass the tenth stage, though the move exhausted him and weakened Di Er Meng.
• Di Er Meng explained how the torrent disrupted spiritual energy circulation, and Mu Chen checked the Spirit Soul Ranking, where Luo Li led, Yang Hong ranked second, and Mu Chen placed fifth.
• Mu Chen resolved to recover and work with Di Er Meng to challenge the thirteenth floor, while students outside discussed the freshmen’s rise on the ranking.
• Yang Hong saw Mu Chen’s ranking and dismissed him as already falling behind without the spiritual energy infusion from completing the Spirit Road.
• Li Xuantong wondered whether the first-ranked Luo Li was the person he knew, and Shen Cangsheng told him Hun Jin had defeated him with one move.

Mu Chen cleared the Trial Tower’s thirteenth floor, claimed first place on the Spirit Soul Ranking, and received the Soul Suppressing Seal from a mysterious white-clad senior. He and Luo Li went to the Spirit Value Hall to buy a Spirit Soul Pill, where an attendant recognized Luo Li as a member of the Luo God Clan.

• Mu Chen cleared the eleventh and twelfth floors with his time-based technique, climbing to first place on the Spirit Soul Ranking and leaving Yang Hong troubled.
• After Mu Chen cleared the thirteenth floor, Hun Husheng and other students reacted with disbelief at his victory over an early Heaven Transformation Realm puppet.
• Mu Chen met a mysterious young man in white in a special space and received the top-grade divine spiritual art Soul Suppressing Seal.
• Mu Chen reunited with Luo Li, saw that Hun Husheng had reached the Heaven Ranking, and promised to keep growing stronger beside her.
• Mu Chen and Luo Li entered the Spirit Value Hall to exchange for a Spirit Soul Pill, and the old attendant recognized Luo Li as someone from the Luo God Clan.

Mu Chen and Luo Li fought through Northern Spirit Mountain’s spirit beasts and reached the summit during the Freshman Tournament. As Yang Hong transformed to challenge Mu Chen, Mu Chen unexpectedly seized the Spirit Flag, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Hun Miesheng announced the Freshman Tournament and warned the freshmen about the Heavenly-rank spirit beasts on Northern Spirit Mountain.
• Mu Chen and Luo Li advanced through the mountain alongside members of the Luo God Society, while Yang Hong sent members of the Flying Dragon Society to hold Mu Chen back.
• Mu Chen and Luo Li reached the summit, defeated a Mountain-Swallowing Python and a Green Leaf Mantis, and approached the Spirit Flag with the other top freshmen.
• Yang Hong transformed into an Ancient Tiger Dragon and challenged Mu Chen, while Luo Li held back Bing Qing and Mu Kui.
• Mu Chen suddenly appeared on the stone platform holding the Spirit Flag, and Yang Hong crashed to the ground in a cloud of dust.

Mu Chen won the Freshman Tournament and entered the Spirit Art Hall to claim his reward. As he pursued a powerful spirit art, Di Er Meng advised him to use Time Zero to bypass its defenses and take the scroll.

• Mu Chen knocked Yang Hong unconscious with the Soul Suppressing Art, seized the flag, and was named the Freshman Tournament champion.
• Hun Husheng broke through to the Heaven Transformation Realm and learned that Hun Yufeng planned to use the Spirit-Devouring Life-Extinguishing Array on people drawn to the White Dragon Sovereign's treasury.
• Hun Husheng urged Hun Yufeng to reconsider, but he remained determined and asked her to invite Mu Chen and encourage him to improve his spirit array cultivation.
• Mu Chen, Yang Hong, Bing Qing, Mu Kui, and Luo Li entered the Spirit Art Hall to select their rewards, and the Black Paper led Mu Chen toward a powerful spirit art.
• When the spirit art's protective energy repelled Mu Chen, Di Er Meng told him to use Time Zero to take the scroll while its defenses were frozen from his perspective.

After nearly three months of cultivation, Mu Chen reached the late Rongtian Realm and freed Nine Nether from the Mandala Flower cage. At the Mission Hall, Hun Husheng invited him to join a team exploring the White Dragon Sovereign's Spiritual Treasury, leaving Mu Chen to consider the dangers of the mission.

• Mu Chen spent over 400,000 spirit value points cultivating in the Level 7 Spirit Gathering Array and bought a Rongtian Pill, advancing to the late Rongtian Realm.
• Mu Chen used the Mysterious Black Paper to open Nine Nether's cage, and she chose to stay with him to pursue her evolution.
• Mu Chen went to the Mission Hall seeking a high-paying mission and learned that students needed merit ranks to accept difficult missions.
• Hun Husheng found Mu Chen and offered him a place on a Spiritual Treasury mission with a reward of 12.5 million spirit value points per person.
• Hun Husheng explained that the team, led by the Young Clan Leader and including Hun Jin, would explore the White Dragon Sovereign's Spiritual Treasury and retrieve an item for the clan.

Mu Chen joined Hun Yufeng’s group in White Dragon City, where they acquired a White Dragon Jade Pillar linked to the White Dragon Sovereign and uncovered signs that the city’s rulers had ties to the Dragon Demon Palace. Hun Yufeng launched an attack on the City Lord’s Mansion, and Mu Chen activated a blood-colored array as Bai Xuan realized their identities had been exposed.

• Hun Yufeng warned Mu Chen that The Academy’s rivals should be treated as enemies, and the group traveled to White Dragon City for the emerging Spirit Treasury.
• At the auction, Mu Chen bought a damaged Spirit Array Bead while Hun Yufeng bid against Bai Dong for the White Dragon Jade Pillar, which Bai Dong ultimately bought for twenty-one million Spirit Coin.
• Bai Xuan confirmed that the White Dragon Jade Pillar had been left by the White Dragon Sovereign and learned from Bai Dong that Hun Yufeng and Hun Jin had been at the auction.
• Hun Yufeng gave Mu Chen and the others Array Disks, explained his suspicions about White Dragon City’s Dragon Demon Palace connections, and led them to the City Lord’s Mansion.
• Mu Chen activated the Spirit-Devouring Life-Extinguishing Array around the mansion as Hun Yufeng confronted Bai Xuan, who recognized that his Dragon Demon Palace ties had been discovered.

Hun Yufeng and the Soul Clan assassins defeated the Black Dragon Sovereign’s avatar and destroyed the White Dragon City Lord’s Mansion after Bai Xuan’s forces attacked them. After escaping with Mu Chen, Hun Yufeng invited him to grow stronger and join their team for the Academy Tournament.

• Mu Chen helped Hun Yufeng, Hun Jin, and Hun Husheng maintain their arrays as they fought Bai Xuan’s forces, and Bai Xuan summoned the Black Dragon Sovereign’s avatar.
• Hun Yufeng used a blood saber powered by his own and his companions’ blood essence to destroy the Sovereign avatar with a single strike.
• Bai Xuan fled, but Hun Jin killed him, and Hun Jin and Hun Husheng finished off the remaining occupants of the City Lord’s Mansion.
• Mu Chen took Space Rings from the fallen enemies, then left White Dragon City with the unconscious Hun Yufeng and the others.
• Hun Jin and Hun Husheng gave Mu Chen the spoils, and Hun Yufeng invited him to join their Academy Tournament team once he became stronger.
• Hun Yufeng learned that Hun Husheng had carried him away in a princess carry and hid beneath the blanket.

After the clash at White Dragon Hill drew more factions toward the Sovereign Spiritual Treasury, Hun Yufeng revealed that the team was searching for a lower-plane coordinate that could lead to a Plane Membrane and a chance to create a Heavenly Sovereign. The group vowed to pursue the mission for the clan’s promised rewards, while Mu Chen realized that the Spirit Worm they coveted was not so special to him because he already had Di Er Meng.

• Hun Yufeng said Lord Void would be available within the week if a veteran Sovereign came after them, and Hun Jin reported that news of the treasury had spread and more factions were arriving.
• Hun Yufeng planned to use a concealed, modified Spirit-Devouring Life-Extinguishing Array to trap experts amid the coming chaos.
• At Mu Chen’s request, Hun Yufeng revealed that their objective was to find a coordinate for a lower plane that the White Dragon Sovereign had tried to save from the Outer Evil Clan.
• Hun Jin explained that despairing planes could produce a Plane Membrane, which might help a Great Perfection Earthly Sovereign break through to Heavenly Sovereign.
• Hun Husheng and Hun Jin cheered for the Spirit Worm they might earn as a reward, and Di Er Meng boasted to Mu Chen that she was far superior to ordinary Spirit Worms.

Mu Chen learned that wearing a Monocle could make someone look like Amon, but would also risk drawing attacks from Devil Emperors. At the Hall of Ten Thousand Devils, the Outer Evil Clan’s leaders planned to eliminate Amon, only for Monocles to appear among the attendees and plunge their meeting into chaos.

• Mu Chen asked Di Er Meng how the Amon Clan could move through Outer Evil Clan territory, and she warned that a Monocle could attract dozens of Devil Emperors.
• The Saint Heavenly Devil Emperor convened the Council of Ten Thousand Devils and proposed uniting the clans to erase Amon before the next Great Thousand Covenant.
• The Devil Emperors discussed Amon’s attacks, suspected whereabouts, and hostile relationships with forces in the Great Thousand World.
• Several attendees began wearing Monocles and declaring that they would help bring down Amon, including a Heavenly Devil Emperor who volunteered to contact the Great Thousand Palace.
• The Saint Heavenly Devil Emperor shouted Amon’s name, and the Hall of Ten Thousand Devils descended into confusion as the Devil Emperors searched for him and prepared to fight.

Mu Chen entered the White Dragon Sovereign’s spiritual treasury and hurried toward its center in search of the coordinates, avoiding other treasures along the way. At the basin, he helped correct Hun Jin and Hun Husheng’s array setup, then watched as rival forces joined together to attack the barrier around the treasury’s center.

• The White Dragon Sovereign’s projection opened a spatial vortex, and Hun Yufeng split the group into two teams before he and Mu Chen entered the treasury after planting Array Disks outside White Dragon Hill.
• Mu Chen arrived alone beside a magma lake, recognized the Flame Spirit Lotuses, and pressed deeper into the treasury without stopping to collect them.
• At the central basin, Mu Chen spotted Hun Jin and Hun Husheng planting Array Disks and corrected their placements to strengthen the grand array.
• The stone pillars formed a barrier of light around the basin’s center, prompting She Jiu and Han Ying to propose that the gathered forces break it together.
• Poison Lady and Hun Yufeng agreed, and the gathered experts began attacking the barrier.

Hun Yufeng revealed that he was the Soul Clan’s Young Clan Leader and persuaded the White Dragon Sovereign to share his homeland’s coordinates and information about the Outer Evil Clan. The White Dragon Sovereign gave Hun Yufeng his treasures and spirit arts, then the group prepared to return to the Academy with him.

• The White Dragon Sovereign’s spirit power remnant repelled the attackers’ energy and recognized Hun Yufeng’s talent.
• Hun Yufeng offered the Soul Clan’s help against the Outer Evil Clan and proved his identity with his abilities and Soul Clan Token.
• The White Dragon Sovereign accepted Hun Yufeng’s offer, gave him a Jade Slip containing his homeland’s coordinates and enemy information, and shared his secret techniques.
• The White Dragon Sovereign presented Hun Yufeng with the Great Sumeru Demon Pillar and White Dragon Spirit Bead, then opened the Spirit Treasury for the others.
• Hun Yufeng abandoned his plan to kill the others, and he and his companions set off for the Academy with the White Dragon Sovereign.

Hun Yufeng summoned Void Devouring Flame, who overwhelmed the Black Dragon Sovereign and four other Sovereigns and forced them through a passage to meet the Soul Clan’s clan leader. Mu Chen and his companions returned from White Dragon Hill, while Demon Dragon Son fled and Mu Chen resolved to build power of his own.

• Hun Yufeng and the others returned to White Dragon Hill, where the Black Dragon Sovereign confronted them.
• Hun Yufeng called on Void Devouring Flame, who swallowed the Black Dragon Sovereign’s attack and revealed that Hun Yufeng had obtained the White Dragon Sovereign’s residual spiritual image.
• The White Dragon Sovereign urged the Black Dragon Sovereign to stop resisting, but the Black Dragon Sovereign demanded the Great Sumeru Demon Pillar and summoned four more Sovereigns.
• Void Devouring Flame drained the five Sovereigns’ strength, then Hun Yufeng ordered them into a passage to meet the Soul Clan’s clan leader.
• Demon Dragon Son fled, and Mu Chen collected his unused Array Disk before returning through the passage with Hun Yufeng, Hun Husheng, and Hun Jin.
• Mu Chen reflected on the Soul Clan’s power and resolved to rise through his own efforts.

Mu Chen and Hun Yufeng brought the White Dragon Sovereign and his companions before Soul Clan Leader Hun Zhang, who agreed to organize a force to rescue their invaded homeland. After the mission, Mu Chen received more than twelve million spirit value points, while Hun Yufeng planned to use the group’s merit to request Spirit Worms for Hun Jin and Hun Husheng.

• Hun Zhang greeted Mu Chen and the others, then heard the White Dragon Sovereign explain that an Outer Evil Clan invasion threatened a Plane Embryo in his homeland.
• Hun Zhang agreed to curb the Outer Evil Clan’s expansion and told the Black Dragon Sovereign and his companions that they would guide the Soul Clan’s forces.
• Hun Zhang revealed that the Northern Heavens Soul Academy belonged to the Soul Clan and that its dean was his younger sister, prompting the Black Dragon Sovereign to apologize for the trouble he had caused there.
• Hun Yufeng, Hun Jin, Hun Husheng, and Mu Chen left the great hall and confirmed that their mission had ended successfully.
• Hun Yufeng transferred more than twelve million spirit value points to Mu Chen, who left intending to buy Nine Nether the essence blood she wanted.
• Hun Yufeng told Hun Jin and Hun Husheng that their merit could earn them Spirit Worms from the clan.

Mu Chen bought Nine Nether Underworld Bird Essence Blood and two spirit arts, then entered the Blood Sea Secret Realm to cultivate the Blood Emperor Body Tempering Art and condense Blood Beads. After Di Er Meng warned him about the risks of buying untested beads from students, Mu Chen wondered how The Academy’s arrays tested them.

• Mu Chen spent ten million spirit value points on Nine Nether Underworld Bird Essence Blood and bought the Blood Coagulation Art and Soul Hooking Lock.
• Mu Chen teased Nine Nether with the essence blood, then returned home and spent the afternoon with Luo Li.
• Mu Chen learned the Soul Hooking Lock and Blood Coagulation Art, then headed to the Blood Sea Secret Realm.
• Mu Chen used the Blood Coagulation Art in the Blood Sea and found that consuming Blood Beads improved his Blood Emperor Body Tempering Art faster than cultivating directly.
• Di Er Meng warned Mu Chen that student-sold Blood Beads might contain dangerous levels of toxins and baleful energy, and Mu Chen asked how The Academy tested them.

Mu Chen completed the first level of the Blood Emperor Body Tempering Art, broke through into the Heaven Transformation Realm, and prepared to help Nine Nether face her Black God Thunder Tribulation. Nine Nether proposed returning to the Blood Sea Secret Realm to refine more Blood Beads for him before her tribulation.

• Mu Chen cultivated at sixty meters in the Blood Sea for a month and completed the first level of the Blood Emperor Body Tempering Art.
• Nine Nether gave Mu Chen a Space Ring containing nearly twenty thousand Blood Beads that she had refined, then helped him cultivate further.
• Mu Chen left the Blood Sea and broke through into the initial stage of the Heaven Transformation Realm in the Level 7 Spirit Gathering Array.
• Di Er Meng offered to guarantee Nine Nether's tribulation success in exchange for five percent of the Evil King True Eye, but Nine Nether refused the deal.
• Di Er Meng threatened Nine Nether, and Mu Chen stood between them and told Di Er Meng that Nine Nether was his friend.
• Nine Nether asked Mu Chen to return with her to the Blood Sea Secret Realm so she could refine more Blood Beads before her tribulation, and Mu Chen agreed.

Mu Chen’s Blood Bead cultivation disturbed the Blood Sea, and Hun Xiao assigned him to inspect the secret realm’s array eye. As Mu Chen studied the array’s intricate structure, he suspected Hun Xiao had given him an opportunity to learn about spiritual arrays, but he continued the inspection as promised.

• Hun Xiao reassured a teacher that Mu Chen’s cultivation was harmless, then waited above the Blood Sea as he condensed Blood Beads.
• Mu Chen surfaced beneath Hun Xiao’s boat, and she explained that his disturbance could affect the Spirit-Devouring Life-Extinguishing Array’s fragile array eye.
• Hun Xiao gave Mu Chen an Array Map and Array Disk and told him to inspect the nodes for malfunctions.
• After Mu Chen left, Hun Xiao marked the array’s annual inspection complete in her work notebook and went to sleep.
• Mu Chen studied the array’s nested construction, tested several nodes, and concluded his cultivation likely had not damaged the array.
• Mu Chen wondered whether Hun Xiao was guiding his spiritual-array cultivation, and Nine Nether advised him to finish testing every node.

After completing his work in the Blood Sea Secret Realm, Mu Chen returned to The Academy and was challenged by Li Xuantong over his relationship with Luo Li. Mu Chen defeated Li Xuantong in one move, won a huge betting payout, and discovered that the Spirit Value Hall had unlocked the next two levels of the Blood Emperor Body Tempering Art.

• Mu Chen returned from the Blood Sea Secret Realm, reported to Hun Miesheng, and learned the Spirit Array Grandmaster had refused to maintain the Spirit-Devouring Life-Extinguishing Array.
• Li Xuantong confronted Mu Chen and demanded that he leave Luo Li, so Mu Chen accepted his challenge to fight in the Spirit Fighting Arena.
• Hun Xiao opened betting on the match, and Mu Chen wagered one million Spirit Value points that he would defeat Li Xuantong in one move.
• Mu Chen activated Time Zero and the Blood God Body, struck Li Xuantong once, and knocked him unconscious off the platform.
• Hun Xiao paid Mu Chen one hundred million Spirit Value points, and Mu Chen found the third and fourth levels of the Blood Emperor Body Tempering Art available in the Spirit Value Hall.

Mu Chen watched as Nine Nether used the Nine Nether Underworld Bird Essence Blood to undergo the Black God Thunder Tribulation and evolve. After surviving the final strike, she emerged in human form, leaving Mu Chen flustered by her nakedness.

• Mu Chen brought Nine Nether to a remote mountain location, where she prepared to evolve using the essence blood.
• Nine Nether absorbed the essence blood and began her Black God Thunder Tribulation as Hun Xiao and Hun Miesheng noticed it from afar.
• Hun Zhang and Void Devouring Flame discussed preparations to attack a lower plane and the possibility of seeking help from Xiao Yan.
• Nine Nether endured dozens of lightning strikes and evolved her Nine Nether Fire into Undying Fire.
• The final strike charred Nine Nether's bird form, but she emerged from the ashes as a naked woman and pressed against Mu Chen.

After Nine Nether evolved, Mu Chen met Hun Xiao, the Northern Heavens Soul Academy's headmaster, who offered to investigate his mother’s origins in exchange for his help at the Academy Tournament. Hun Xiao revealed that Mu Chen’s mother was most likely from the Budu Ancient Clan.

• Nine Nether thanked Mu Chen for helping her obtain the Nine Nether Underworld Bird Essence Blood, then returned to his qi sea to sleep while she completed her evolution.
• Di Er Meng appeared outside Mu Chen’s qi sea, and Mu Chen confirmed that he could still use the Time Zero divine ability.
• Hun Xiao revealed that she had witnessed Nine Nether’s evolution and introduced herself as the Academy’s headmaster; Di Er Meng assured Mu Chen that Hun Xiao would not try to take her Spirit Worm.
• Hun Xiao offered to investigate Mu Chen’s mother if he broke through the Spiritual Energy Disaster before the Academy Tournament and helped Hun Yufeng’s team win the championship.
• Hun Xiao told Mu Chen that his mother was most likely a member of the Budu Ancient Clan, and Mu Chen reacted with joy.

Hun Xiao offered to personally guide Mu Chen's cultivation if he led Northern Heavens Soul Academy to victory, killed Holy Spirit Academy members, and repaid the academy's costs if he failed. Hun Xiao and Hun Zhang then learned from Amon 10086 that Mu Chen was Qing Yanjing's son, while Hun Zhang considered bringing him on a campaign against a lower plane.

• Luo Li confronted Li Xuantong for approaching Mu Chen and asking about the Luo God Clan, and Li Xuantong clarified that Mu Chen already knew its situation.
• Hun Xiao told Mu Chen that the Budu Ancient Clan was one of the Five Great Ancient Clans and offered him personal guidance under three conditions.
• Mu Chen accepted Hun Xiao's conditions and decided to exchange for the third and fourth layers of the Blood Emperor Body Tempering Art.
• Hun Xiao and Hun Zhang discussed nurturing Mu Chen and potentially taking him on a campaign against a lower plane.
• Amon 10086 revealed that Mu Chen was Qing Yanjing's son, then ran off with Hun Xiao's pork knuckle.