Chapter Summaries

The Blood God Clan conquered a Luo God Clan city while a Soul Hall member collected the dead, and Amon decided the Luo God Clan needed his help. Meanwhile, Luo Li worried that her duties would soon separate her from Mu Chen, who promised they would face the crisis together.

• The Blood God Clan commander attacked a Luo God Clan city, whose lord and daughter were killed after its defenses fell and reinforcements failed to arrive.
• A Soul Hall member collected souls from the battlefield, and the commander warned his deputy that the Soul Hall was protected by a treaty with the Western Heaven Battle Emperor.
• Amon watched the massacre from a nearby tree and decided to stabilize the Luo God Clan before its fate worsened.
• Luo Li told Mu Chen that she might soon have to leave him because of the Luo God Clan's troubles, and Mu Chen promised to face the crisis with her.

Mu Chen reached Ling Xi’s courtyard and passed her illusion array, beginning his training as a Spirit Array Master. Meanwhile, Hun Xiao learned that Mu Chen was likely Qing Yanjing’s son and hurried to confirm it.

• Ling Xi agreed to teach Mu Chen and warned that she would dismiss him if he proved incapable.
• Mu Chen saw through Ling Xi’s trapping array, met her, and told her he was a Grade Four Spirit Array Master who had entered the Heart Eye State.
• Ling Xi explained the Void State and Solid State Heart Eye and how they strengthened and accelerated spirit arrays.
• Hun Zhang showed Hun Xiao intelligence linking Mu Chen to Qing Yanjing, a Saint Grade Spirit Array Grandmaster facing a forced marriage to Mohe Tian.
• Hun Xiao decided to ask Mu Chen whether Qing Yanjing was his mother.

Mu Chen learned that Ling Xi had known his mother, Qing Yanjing, and that they both cultivated different aspects of the Great Pagoda Art. Hun Xiao and Hun Zhang brought news of Mu Chen to Hun Tiandi, who listened as they began to explain the discovery.

• Hun Xiao asked Mu Chen whether he knew Qing Yanjing, and he confirmed she was his mother.
• Ling Xi recognized Qing Yanjing in a portrait and told Mu Chen that Qing Yanjing had saved and taught her, but might now be trapped in a dangerous place.
• Hun Xiao said she had uncovered information about Qing Yanjing and would consult her brother before giving Mu Chen an answer.
• Ling Xi discovered that she and Mu Chen cultivated the Yin and Yang aspects of the Great Pagoda Art, whose spiritual energies fused and healed his injuries.
• Hun Xiao told Hun Zhang that Mu Chen was Qing Yanjing's son, and they sent their divine consciousness to meet Hun Tiandi amid the Ten Heavenly Devil Emperors.
• Hun Zhang told Hun Tiandi that the Northern Heavens Soul Academy had discovered an interesting student.

Hun Tiandi rejected a plan to recruit Qing Yanjing, choosing instead to protect the Spirit-Devouring Life-Extinguishing Array on Budu Continent and invest in Mu Chen’s rise within the Budu Ancient Clan. He also authorized Hun Zhang to pursue a Plane Embryo for Void Devouring Flame and sent Hun Zhang and Hun Xiao away as demonic forces attacked.

• Hun Zhang told Hun Tiandi about Mu Chen’s family, including his mother Qing Yanjing, a Saint Grade Spirit Array Grandmaster who had returned to the Budu Ancient Clan.
• Hun Tiandi refused to trade the Soul Hall’s presence on Budu Continent for Qing Yanjing, explaining that Amon wanted Spirit-Devouring Life-Extinguishing Arrays spread throughout the Great Thousand World.
• Hun Tiandi decided to help Mu Chen grow strong enough to become the Budu Ancient Clan’s new leader and protect the array on Budu Continent.
• Hun Zhang reported finding an Evil Clan-invaded lower plane with a Plane Embryo, and Hun Tiandi approved giving the opportunity to Void Devouring Flame and supplied Hun Zhang with a blood-colored bead for protection.
• Hun Tiandi sent Hun Zhang and Hun Xiao away, and a demonic Giant Python attacked them before Hun Tiandi’s barrier blocked it.

Hun Tiandi continued guarding the reclaimed continent while Amon warned him that a great war was approaching. After Hun Xiao revealed that Qing Yanjing was safe but trapped in the Budu Ancient Clan’s ancestral grounds, Mu Chen vowed to rescue her and accepted Hun Xiao as his master.

• Hun Tiandi questioned how long he would have to guard the continent, and Amon told him the next Great Thousand Covenant would bring a great war.
• Hun Zhang and Hun Xiao returned from their separated divine senses, and Hun Zhang described how dangerous the ten Heavenly Devil Emperors were.
• Ling Xi intensified Mu Chen’s training with a fifth-grade spirit array, then healed his injuries while he endured its attacks.
• Hun Xiao told Mu Chen that Qing Yanjing was a Saint Grade Spirit Array Grandmaster trapped by her own choice in the Budu Ancient Clan’s ancestral grounds.
• Mu Chen and Ling Xi vowed to rescue Qing Yanjing, and Hun Xiao offered Mu Chen resources and support if he became her disciple.
• Mu Chen immediately saluted Hun Xiao and accepted her as his master.

Mu Chen mastered the Void State Heart Eye under Ling Xi, then became Hun Xiao’s disciple and began training to raise his spiritual energy cultivation. The chapter ended with Hun Xiao leaving him beside her dangerous black and white flames, which she called her Cultivation Cheat Device.

• Hun Xiao asked Mu Chen to keep studying spirit arrays with Ling Xi while she and the White-Eyed Crow discussed his unusual talent and hidden seal.
• After four days of training, Mu Chen mastered the Void State Heart Eye, received the Thunder Roar Array map from Ling Xi, and returned to Luo Li.
• Mu Chen celebrated his progress with Luo Li, explained his relationship with Ling Xi, and told her he had become Hun Xiao’s disciple.
• The next morning, Hun Xiao tested Mu Chen’s Vajra Pagoda Hand, judged his spiritual energy solid but his cultivation too low, and sent him through a Spatial Passage to a Level 7 Spirit Gathering Array.
• Hun Xiao gave Mu Chen a Huatian Pill and summoned black and white flames, then told him to use her Cultivation Cheat Device to reach the late Heaven Transformation Realm before vanishing.

Mu Chen advanced to the late stage of the Heaven Transformation Realm under Hun Xiao’s spiritual-energy training, then began painful body tempering with Blood Beads and medicinal herbs. Meanwhile, Dragon Demon Palace panicked after learning its five Sovereigns had been captured, and Mo Xingtian was ordered to negotiate with Northern Heavens Soul Academy.

• Hun Xiao’s flames gathered and purified the Spirit Gathering Array’s energy, allowing Mu Chen to break through to the late stage of the Heaven Transformation Realm.
• Hun Xiao put Mu Chen into a blood pool of melted Blood Beads and medicinal herbs to train with the Blood Emperor Body Tempering Art, then left him to endure the pain.
• News spread that Void Devouring Flame had captured five Dragon Demon Palace Sovereigns, throwing the palace into panic.
• Mo Xingtian learned that Demon Dragon Son had fled after looting several branch treasure vaults.
• Yellow Dragon Sovereign ordered Mo Xingtian to contact Northern Heavens Soul Academy despite Mo Xingtian’s objections.

Hun Zhang captured Yellow Dragon Sovereign as the Dragon Demon Palace was eradicated, and the Northern Heavens Soul Academy claimed Holy Spirit Mountain. Mu Chen perfected the second layer of his body-tempering art and began fighting through the No. 3 Trial Tower, while Hun Xiao revealed Holy Spirit Mountain—only for it to move toward the Northern Heavens Soul Academy.

• Hun Zhang captured Yellow Dragon Sovereign, wiped out the remaining Dragon Demon Palace disciples, and Hun Miesheng led the destruction of the palace’s branches.
• The Northern Heavens Soul Academy took control of Holy Spirit Mountain, prompting other Northern Heavens Continent forces to quietly form an alliance against it.
• Mu Chen perfected the second layer of the Blood Emperor Body Tempering Art and began challenging the No. 3 Trial Tower, overpowering its first-floor puppet with physical strength alone.
• Hun Xiao used Void Devouring Flame to reveal Holy Spirit Mountain, and Sovereigns from across the Northern Heavens Continent gathered to watch it emerge.
• Holy Spirit Mountain began moving north, and the pursuing Sovereigns realized it was heading toward the Northern Heavens Soul Academy.

Hun Miesheng confronted the Sovereigns gathered at Holy Spirit Mountain and attacked those who refused to leave, while Hun Xiao moved the mountain to Northern Heavens Soul Academy. The academy announced that its Hunting Battle would take place there, with Holy Spirit Baptism as the prize.

• Hun Miesheng revealed his Ninth Grade Sovereign strength, let Xia Tianyan leave, then sealed the remaining Sovereigns in black mist and attacked them.
• Hun Xiao continued moving Holy Spirit Mountain, while Void Devouring Flame replenished her spiritual energy and she learned Hun Miesheng had dealt with the pursuers.
• Li Xuantong and Shen Cangsheng discussed their recent cultivation, the coming Hunting Battle, and the possibility of a new secret realm.
• Hun Xiao brought Holy Spirit Mountain to the academy and announced it as the Hunting Battle's new trial ground, offering Holy Spirit Baptism to the winners.
• Yao Yan heard the announcement while refining pills, ruined his batch, and hurried out to see Holy Spirit Mountain.

Hun Xiao turned Holy Spirit Mountain into the site of the Academy’s Summit Battle while training Mu Chen through an intensive cycle of cultivation and combat practice. Mu Chen advanced to the late Heaven Reaching Realm, and Hun Xiao praised him as a future Great Emperor.

• Hun Xiao found little treasure on Holy Spirit Mountain beyond the Heavenly Sovereign remains and made the mountain a trial ground for the Summit Battle.
• Hun Yufeng, Hun Jin, and Hun Husheng skipped the battle because its training and rewards offered them little value, and Mu Chen also stayed out under Hun Xiao’s cultivation plan.
• Hun Xiao repeatedly supplied Mu Chen with resources, spiritual arts, and Trial Tower training, helping him rapidly reach the late Heaven Reaching Realm.
• Mu Chen completed another round of spiritual energy tempering and began considering a breakthrough through the Body Tribulation.
• Hun Xiao appeared beside Mu Chen, praised his progress, and declared that he would one day rival the Soul Emperor or Flame Emperor.

Hun Zhang summoned Mu Chen and offered him a choice of Soul Clan women to marry, hoping to recruit him into the clan. Mu Chen refused because he already loved someone, and Hun Zhang ended the meeting with their relationship unchanged.

• Hun Xiao told Mu Chen that her brother, Soul Clan Leader Hun Zhang, had returned specifically to meet him.
• Hun Zhang explained that the Soul Clan had acquired Northern Heavens Soul Academy to find talent, then invited Mu Chen to choose a Soul Clan woman to marry.
• Mu Chen refused Hun Zhang's offer, saying he already loved someone, while the women urged him to choose them.
• Hun Zhang suggested his younger sister as another candidate, and Mu Chen realized he meant Hun Xiao, prompting her to scold him.
• Mu Chen reaffirmed that he was devoted to another woman and offered to help the Soul Clan without marrying into it.
• Hun Zhang withdrew the women and admitted that the clan elders had urged him to make the proposal.

Hun Xiao trained Mu Chen and gave him her survival-first advice before the Spirit Academy Tournament, while Di Er Meng urged him to pursue an invincible path. The chapter ended with Mu Chen assuring Di Er Meng that he knew Hun Xiao's teachings were unreliable and would choose his own way.

• Hun Zhang told Hun Xiao that he had offered Mu Chen women as a test and teased her about Mu Chen hesitating when her name came up.
• Luo Li won the Summit Battle, and Mu Chen continued tempering his foundation after passing the Spirit Power Tribulation.
• Hun Xiao struck Mu Chen during training, then praised his progress in the Blood Emperor Body Tempering Art.
• Hun Xiao taught Mu Chen to avoid fights he could not win, rely on allies, flee danger, and call on her if stronger experts bullied him.
• Hun Xiao placed a mark on Mu Chen that could withstand an Upper Earthly Sovereign's attack and allow him to contact her.
• Di Er Meng objected to Hun Xiao's cautious teachings and urged Mu Chen to follow an invincible path, but Mu Chen said he would decide for himself.

Hun Xiao assigned the Northern Heavens Soul Academy’s teams for the Spirit Academy Tournament and warned them about the dangers of the Ruins Continent. Three days later, Mu Chen, Luo Li, and the other representatives received a send-off and set out for the tournament.

• Hun Xiao named Hun Yufeng, Hun Jin, Hun Husheng, Mu Chen, and Luo Li as the first team, and told Shen Cangsheng and the second team to survive.
• Hun Xiao explained that the tournament would take place in the shattered Ruins Continent, where ancient treasures and dangerous remnants of the Outer Evil Clan might remain.
• Three days later, Mu Chen and Luo Li joined the other eight representatives in Northern Heavens Soul Academy uniforms before the academy’s gathered students and elders.
• Hun Xiao and the academy bowed to the ten students, who returned the gesture as they united to represent their academy.
• Hun Xiao sent the representatives off and urged them to kill members of the Holy Spirit Academy.

Mu Chen and the others arrived at the Ruins Continent, where Hun Yufeng massacred the teams gathered at their landing site and seized their points. The group split up to raid other teleportation points, with Mu Chen and Luo Li setting off together.

• Mu Chen, Luo Li, Hun Yufeng, Hun Jin, and Hun Husheng arrived at a battlefield scarred by the ancient war and found teams from many academies gathered at a teleportation point.
• Hun Yufeng revealed his Spirit Soul Tribulation strength and used the Dissolving Soul Sword and a blood-red array to kill nearly everyone on the boulder.
• Hun Yufeng collected the survivors' Academy Badge points, raising his total above one thousand, and proposed raiding the other teleportation points.
• Hun Jin, Hun Husheng, and Hun Yufeng set off separately, while Mu Chen and Luo Li formed a team and chose another direction.

Shen Cangsheng’s team discovered that Northern Heavens Soul Academy and Ten Phoenix Academy had amassed high scores by sweeping Teleportation points. Wen Qingxuan’s team encountered Hun Husheng, who had been raiding teams alone, and prepared to fight her.

• Shen Cangsheng defeated an opponent and learned his team had only 380 points, far behind the top-ranked academies.
• Li Xuantong suggested the leading teams had swept multiple Teleportation points to build their scores.
• Wen Qingxuan led her team toward another Teleportation point, determined to gather more points before exploring the ruins.
• Hun Husheng defeated a team, took its Academy Badges, and told its members where to retrieve them later.
• Wen Qingxuan challenged Hun Husheng, who set down the stolen badges and told her to withstand one move first.

Wen Qingxuan’s team fought Hun Husheng, whose immense strength and rapid healing forced them to retreat after Anya sacrificed three Spirit Artifacts to cover their escape. Hun Husheng regrouped with Hun Yufeng’s team, which held a commanding lead, while Mu Chen spotted a rival captain he wanted to face.

• Hun Husheng broke through the team’s attacks, but Wen Qingxuan wounded her with Phoenix Shadow and challenged her in a spear fight.
• Hun Husheng’s resilience blunted Wen Qingxuan’s strongest attacks, so Wen Qingxuan ordered her team to retreat.
• Anya detonated three Spirit Artifacts to block Hun Husheng, allowing Wen Qingxuan, Xiu Ling, Le'er, Pin'er, and Anya to escape.
• Hun Husheng recovered, chose not to pursue because she feared getting lost, and recruited a bystander to guide her.
• Hun Yufeng’s five-person team regrouped with 4,550 points, far ahead of the other teams.
• Mu Chen recognized the captain of the fourth-ranked team as someone he had a personal grudge against, and Hun Yufeng promised to help him face that rival.

Ji Xuan learned that Hun Yufeng's team had amassed an overwhelming score and proposed an alliance to eliminate them before the arena matches. Meanwhile, Mu Chen traveled with Hun Yufeng's team, collected loot from their defeated opponents, and followed them toward a distant ruin.

• Ji Xuan recognized Northern Heavens Soul Academy's team as a threat and resisted using the Ancient Sky Dragon Hawk's power, which risked further corruption.
• Ji Xuan proposed that the other academies unite against Hun Yufeng's team, while Wu Lin, Xue Tianhe, and Liu Qingyun reached similar conclusions.
• Mu Chen questioned whether his team's high profile would make them targets, but Hun Yufeng welcomed the chance to use opponents as nourishment for his Blood Soul Pill.
• Hun Jin killed teams they encountered, and Mu Chen collected their storage rings and buried their bodies while teasing Luo Li.
• Hun Husheng spotted a distant ancient ruin, and Hun Yufeng led the team toward it.

Hun Yufeng, Mu Chen, and the others crossed a forest of poisonous trees and discovered that the supposed Immortal Spirit Tree was a Demon Spirit Tree that lured people into eating its deadly fruit. Hun Husheng and Mu Chen used the tree’s demonic flames and fruits to temper their bodies, and Hun Husheng uprooted the tree.

• Hun Husheng revealed that the ancient trees were poisonous, so Hun Yufeng burned a path through the Poison Demon Tree Forest.
• The group found a glowing tree covered in fruits that seemed to be Immortal Spirit Fruits, but their fragrance stirred people’s desires.
• Several people ate the fruits, lost control of the violent spiritual energy, and exploded; the Demon Spirit Tree absorbed their blood and turned it into more fruit.
• Hun Husheng ate the Demon Spirit Tree’s fruits and told Mu Chen they could help cultivate the Blood Emperor Body Tempering Art, so Mu Chen ate some as well.
• The Demon Spirit Tree attacked with Black Flame, but Hun Husheng and Mu Chen endured it to temper their bodies.
• After Hun Husheng picked the fruits, she seized the Demon Spirit Tree with a giant spiritual-energy hand and uprooted it.

Hun Yufeng’s Northern Heavens Soul Academy team turned against the gathered teams after Hun Husheng took the Demon Spirit Tree, slaughtering everyone who resisted. The Spirit-Devouring Life-Extinguishing Array absorbed the dead, and its core pill grew more sinister as the battle ended with no survivors.

• Hun Husheng refused to return the Demon Spirit Tree, and Zhen Qing urged the teams to join forces against her group.
• Hun Yufeng revealed his identity and activated a blood-red array, while Hun Husheng declared that they would fight the crowd.
• Hun Yufeng overwhelmed Zhou Yuan and then annihilated Xiahou, Zhen Qing, and their teammates with a black hole.
• Hun Husheng, Hun Jin, Mu Chen, and Luo Li fought the remaining teams, while Hun Jin finished off the wounded.
• The array drew the fallen teams’ blood and souls into its core pill, and the clearing was left without survivors.

Wen Qingxuan joined Ji Xuan’s alliance to target Northern Heavens Soul Academy after learning that Hun Yufeng’s team had eliminated several rival teams. Meanwhile, Mu Chen and his companions opened the Divine Wood Palace and entered its relic, while a mysterious monocled man made arrangements after learning about them.

• Wen Qingxuan noticed Tang Mei'er, Xiahou, and Zhou Yuan’s teams had disappeared from the rankings, and she suspected Hun Yufeng had defeated them.
• Ji Xuan told Wen Qingxuan that Mu Chen’s team had killed many opponents and invited her to join his alliance; she agreed to cooperate until Northern Heavens Soul Academy was eliminated.
• A monocled young man received Whispers about Mu Chen, Hun Yufeng, and Di Er Meng, then said he would make arrangements.
• Mu Chen explained that Zhen Qing’s jade token and the Demon Spirit Tree’s bloodstains could open the Divine Wood Palace, and a Spatial Passage appeared after Hun Husheng had destroyed the tree.
• Hun Husheng, Hun Yufeng, Mu Chen, Luo Li, and Hun Jin entered the passage and arrived inside an enormous palace.