Chapter Summaries

Xu Yang completed his breakthrough to the seventh level of the Blood Prison Heart Saber Scripture and was assigned to guard node four of the Demon-Sealing Array, where the Han Family’s Shadow Guards launched an attack. The chapter ended as Xu Yang struck at the attackers while quietly moving behind Liu Ze and the others.

• Xu Yang condensed his heart saber, strengthened his body and spiritual force, and reached the seventh level of the Blood Prison Heart Saber Scripture.
• Song Anbang took Xu Yang and the other students to their assigned nodes, where Kong Ning warned Xu Yang to obey her orders and assigned him to night watch at node four.
• Han Qianlin ordered Han Yun to arrange a delayed attack on node four, using the Han Family’s Shadow Guards to kill Xu Yang, draw out his protector, and destroy the node.
• Xu Yang spent more than two months guarding the node, improving his martial arts while concealing his cultivation during the day.
• Four masked Shadow Guards attacked node four, and the ghost-masked and ox-masked attackers wounded Kong Ning in their opening exchange.
• Liu Ze, Wang Xu, and the others rushed to defend Kong Ning as Xu Yang struck at the attackers and slipped behind them.

Xu Yang revealed his true strength and slaughtered the masked Han Family attackers who had targeted him during an assault on a demon-sealing node. After rescuing Kong Ning, he approached her with a saber, leaving her uncertain of his intentions.

• The masked attackers struck the demon-sealing node, and Kong Ning fled while Xu Yang warned Liu Ze, Wang Xu, and the other students to escape and split up.
• Xu Yang drew the Pig-Faced Guard, Monkey-Faced Guard, and Bull-Faced Guard away from the others, then unleashed his seventh heavenly origin strength and killed all three.
• Xu Yang hurried to Kong Ning’s battle, killed the Ghost-Faced Guard with one stroke, and learned that she now knew he was a Spirit Bone Prodigy.
• Kong Ning thanked Xu Yang, promised to keep his talent secret, and urged him to spare her; Xu Yang picked up the Ghost-Faced Man’s saber and walked toward her.

Xu Yang killed Kong Ning after defeating the attackers, concealed the Ghost Face Man’s remains, and returned to the damaged node, where he gave a carefully prepared account of the assault. The Han Family learned that its Shadow Guards had vanished and Xu Yang had survived, leaving Han Qianlin to postpone another attempt on Xu Yang.

• Xu Yang killed Kong Ning, destroyed the Ghost Face Man’s body in a river, and hid until the Heavenly Strategy Academy’s forces arrived.
• Xu Yang told Jin Yu he had hidden from the attackers, then returned to the node and joined the survivors as they recovered Kong Ning’s and Hu Qiangyun’s bodies.
• During questioning, Xu Yang and the others revealed that Kong Ning had fled first; Kong Shuping accused Xu Yang of slander, but Kong Shuyuan’s Heart Inquiry art confirmed their account.
• The Kong Family and Demon-Suppression Bureau searched for clues but found no attackers, while the Han Family discovered its Shadow Guards had not returned and Xu Yang was still alive.
• Han Qianlin concluded that the Shadow Guards had likely been killed and blamed Xu Yang, but decided to wait before trying to kill him again.

After returning from his three-month guard assignment, Xu Yang cultivated in the Spirit Tower and forged a Supreme-Grade Spirit Weapon, which he traded to Huo Xiaochен for rare cultivation materials. He continued preparing for a breakthrough to Eighth Heavenly Origin, then refused Yan Bing’s request to forge a weapon for the Spirit Treasure Market’s grand auction.

• Xu Yang returned to the Heavenly Strategy Academy, collected his assignment rewards, and spent a month cultivating the Dragon Elephant Heart Sutra and Azure Dragon Tyrant Body in the Spirit Tower.
• Xu Yang reforged Han Yi’s Spirit Weapon into a Supreme-Grade saber, then sold it to Huo Xiaochен for two heart-calming fire lotuses and three Golden-Horned Spirit Deer Antlers.
• Xu Yang refined the traded materials into pills and devoted himself to cultivation for two months while making slow progress on the Blood Prison Heart Saber Scripture.
• Yan Bing visited Xu Yang and asked him to forge a Supreme-Grade Spirit Weapon for the Spirit Treasure Market’s grand auction.
• Xu Yang rejected Yan Bing’s request, citing his upcoming secluded cultivation and his lack of interest in working with her.

Xu Yang refused Yan Bing’s request to forge weapons, then watched Qi Ning and three junior Spirit Bone Prodigies demonstrate their strength and challenge the Middle Court rankings. After helping Xu Qing enter the Middle Court, Xu Yang began breaking through the Dragon Elephant Heart Sutra toward its eighth layer, intending to strengthen himself before settling accounts with the Han Family.

• Xu Yang rejected Yan Bing’s offer, and she left his courtyard vowing to kill him after realizing he resented her for revealing his identity to the Han Family.
• Xu Yang learned that Jiang Yue Bai, Wei Fengyi, and Yang Mingxiu had entered the Middle Court, while Qi Ning reached sixth heavenly origin perfection and challenged the Battle Tower.
• Qi Ning reached the Battle Tower’s sixteenth floor, while Jiang Yue Bai, Wei Fengyi, and Yang Mingxiu each reached the thirteenth floor and climbed the rankings.
• Xu Yang argued with Jiang Yue Bai over his boasts and excuses about age, then continued cultivating as the junior Spirit Bone Prodigies displaced several students on the rankings.
• Xu Yang learned that Xu Qing had reached fourth heavenly origin, helped her move into the Middle Court, and prepared to break through after his Dragon Elephant Heart Sutra reached the limit of its seventh layer.
• Xu Yang upgraded the Dragon Elephant Heart Sutra and began circulating his astral energy and spirit-bone power to break through to its eighth layer, hoping to gain strength for his confrontation with the Han Family.

Xu Yang broke through to eighth heavenly origin, then used a mission as cover to draw the Han Family into Jade Dragon Mountain while he secretly prepared to raid one of its Treasure-Gathering Studios. The chapter left him hidden across from the studio on Everlasting Joy Street, assessing its heavy security before making his move.

• Xu Yang shattered the barrier to eighth heavenly origin, unified his Spirit Bone power with his astral energy, and gained strength, spiritual force, and cultivation points.
• Xu Yang learned that Lu Wei had mastered the Azure Dragon Tyrant Body, but skipped Lu Wei's planned Battle Tower challenge to focus on his own affairs.
• Xu Yang accepted a Golden-Feathered Eagle mission as cover for targeting the Han Family, and Han Qianlin sent experts into Jade Dragon Mountain to hunt him.
• Xu Yang changed his appearance after entering Jade Dragon Mountain, slipped into Cloud Province City, and waited while the Han Family tightened security and moved its valuables.
• Xu Yang chose the Han Family's Treasure-Gathering Studio on Everlasting Joy Street and hid nearby at night to inspect its guards before attacking.

Xu Yang ambushed the Han Family’s Treasure-Gathering Studio, killed Han Qiansong and Han Qianchuan, and stole valuable pills and spirit herbs before escaping. He then attacked Han Qianzhao and Han Qiankui outside the city, grievously wounding Han Qianzhao and closing in on Han Qiankui.

• Xu Yang overheard Han Qiansong and Han Qianchuan discuss the search for him and their plan to kill Xu Qing, then charged into the Treasure-Gathering Studio.
• Xu Yang killed Han Qiansong with a saber strike and killed Han Qianchuan with his heart saber after Han Qianchuan reached for Thunderfire Bombs.
• Xu Yang gathered valuable spirit herbs and pills from the treasury, escaped as Han Qianzhi summoned help, and slipped toward the city outskirts.
• Han Qianzhao and Han Qiankui flew toward the western city after receiving the summons, and Xu Yang ambushed them from the mountains.
• Xu Yang shattered Han Qianzhao’s defenses and grievously wounded him, then blocked Han Qiankui’s punch with his Golden Astral Skill and seized his wrist.
• Xu Yang launched a powerful punch at Han Qiankui as Han Qianzhao warned him to run.

Xu Yang killed Han Qiankui and Han Qianzhao, escaped the Han Family’s response, and improved his bone root and comprehension while hiding in Jade Dragon Mountain. After leaving his cave to deal with Han Family ambushers, he confronted Han Chongming and Han Chongxi.

• Xu Yang killed Han Qiankui and Han Qianzhao, then fled before Han Qianhong arrived at the scene.
• Han Qianhong learned that the Han Family had lost three hundred eighty thousand spirit currency and several experts, and he ordered a bounty for the murderer.
• Xu Yang cultivated in a cave, raised his bone root to one thousand, and discovered that his body had transformed and his cultivation speed had increased.
• Xu Yang raised his comprehension to one thousand but still could not sense anything inside the Golden Book.
• Xu Yang left the cave to hunt the Han Family ambushers and heard Han Chongming and Han Chongxi call him a little bastard.

Xu Yang killed Han Chongming and Han Chongxi, returned to the Heavenly Strategy Academy, and advanced his martial arts while the Han Family plotted to have him killed in the Life-and-Death Arena. After breaking through to the eighth layer of the Azure Dragon Tyrant Body, he finished his thirty days of seclusion and prepared to leave.

• Xu Yang ambushed and killed Han Chongming and Han Chongxi, then hid in the mountains to cultivate.
• Xu Yang returned to the Heavenly Strategy Academy at sixth-level Heavenly Origin perfection, surprising Huo Xiaochен and Xiao Qi.
• Han Qianlin and Han Yun planned to use Huo Xiaochен to challenge Xu Yang in the Life-and-Death Arena.
• Xu Yang perfected the Asura Armor-Piercing Fist and taught the technique to Xu Qing.
• Xu Yang broke through to the eighth layer of the Azure Dragon Tyrant Body, turning his blood energy golden and strengthening his mental power.
• After thirty days of seclusion and consolidating his cultivation, Xu Yang opened his eyes and prepared to leave.

Xu Yang learned that the deadly Life-and-Death Duel Arena was approaching and suspected Huo Xiaochэнь planned to kill him there. He took Xu Qing into the Demon Abyss to train and test the Dragonspine Thunderclap Bow, while the Han Family discovered their ambush had failed and that Xu Yang’s enemies had suffered heavy losses.

• Xu Yang heard Jiang Fan explain that candidates for the Ultimate Dragon Platform had to face qualifying challenges in the Life-and-Death Duel Arena, and Huo Xiaochэнь secretly planned to kill his rivals there.
• Xu Yang told Xu Qing to prepare for a Demon Abyss expedition, then took her there after a few days of consolidating his cultivation.
• Han Qianjun returned from Jade Dragon Mountain believing Xu Yang was dead, but Han Qianxian revealed that Xu Yang had already returned and that Han Chongming and Han Chongxi were missing.
• Han Qianxian told Han Qianjun that Han Qianlin had arranged for Xu Yang to be killed in the Life-and-Death Arena and ordered him to help guard the weakened Han Family.
• Xu Qing disguised herself and killed a demonic beast in the Demon Abyss before she and Xu Yang found a spirit herb.
• Xu Yang tested the Dragonspine Thunderclap Bow, fired an arrow that blasted a deep crater into a mountainside, and prepared to draw it again using his golden blood energy.

Xu Yang discovered that his strength had reached a combat-power barrier, then obtained Profound Yin Spirit-Communing Grass by killing Tian Yu in the Demon Abyss. After returning to the Heavenly Strategy Academy, he learned its body inheritance was a restriction-breaking technique that could break through the barrier.

• Xu Yang activated the Frenzied Battle Four Symbols Art but found he still could not unleash all his strength because of a combat-power barrier.
• Xu Yang and Xu Qing found Tian Yu fighting the injured Zhuang Qiang over Profound Yin Spirit-Communing Grass, and Xu Yang seized the herb when Zhuang Qiang threw it away.
• Xu Yang defeated and killed Tian Yu, took his pack, and returned to Xu Qing with thirteen spirit herbs more than ten years old.
• Xu Qing’s training in the Demon Abyss prepared her to attempt a breakthrough to fifth heavenly origin, and she and Xu Yang returned to the Heavenly Strategy Academy.
• At the Dining Hall, Xu Yang learned that Qi Ning had reached seventh heavenly origin in body tempering and sought the academy’s body inheritance.
• Huo Xiaochен explained that the body inheritance was a restriction-breaking technique for overcoming the combat-power barrier, leaving Xu Yang eager to learn it.

Xu Yang defended Xu Qing from Jiang Xun’s attack, and Dean Chu Nangui expelled Jiang Xun despite Han Qianlin’s objections. Jiang Fan revealed that the Kyoto visitors were searching for a Golden Book, prompting Xu Yang to suspect they sought the treasure he possessed.

• Huo Xiaochен explained the combat-power barrier, but Xu Yang challenged him for abandoning the body inheritance and nearly shook his confidence in his martial path.
• Jiang Xun confronted Jiang Fan’s group in the Dining Hall and attacked Xu Qing, so Xu Yang blocked him and wounded him with the Heavenly Star Saber.
• Jiang Fan and Xu Yang challenged Du Yuan’s handling of the incident, and Chu Nangui invoked the Middle Court Dean Token to expel Jiang Xun.
• Han Qianlin failed to overturn Chu Nangui’s decision, and Liu Yi led the remaining Kyoto visitors out of the Dining Hall.
• Jiang Fan told Xu Yang’s group that Kyoto forces had searched for a Golden Book for centuries, and Xu Yang wondered whether it was the treasure he had obtained.

Xu Yang refused Liu Ning’s offer to search the Demon Abyss for the Golden Book and focused on cultivation, while Liu Ning recruited other academy students and Xiao Yun grew resentful at being overlooked. After perfecting the seventh layer of the Blood Prison Heart Saber Scripture, Xu Yang entered the Spirit Tower and began trying to break through to its eighth layer.

• Xu Yang declined Liu Ning’s invitation to search the Demon Abyss, saying he would be in seclusion for several months.
• Liu Ning recruited Qi Ning and Leng Qiuyue, while other Capital nobles invited academy students; Xiao Yun was left out and blamed Xu Yang.
• Xu Yang refined the Profound Yin Spirit-Communing Grass, then sparred with Xu Qing after she broke through to fifth heavenly origin.
• Xu Yang learned that Jiang Xun belonged to a declining Capital clan and that Pei Qingyi was connected to a rival of Jiang Fan’s family.
• After half a month of cultivation, Xu Yang perfected the seventh layer of the Blood Prison Heart Saber Scripture and entered the Spirit Tower to challenge the eighth-layer barrier.
• Xu Yang struck the realm barrier with his spiritual force, failed to break it, and launched another assault.

Xu Yang reached the eighth layer of the Blood Prison Heart Saber Scripture, perfected the Frenzied Battle Four Symbols Art, and advanced to the seventh heavenly origin while hiding his full strength. The Life-and-Death Arena emerged and began accepting challenges, with Wei Fengyi and Wu Sikai facing off as the first duel started.

• Xu Yang broke through to the eighth layer of the Blood Prison Heart Saber Scripture, gaining control over countless blades and sensing the combat-power barrier.
• Lu Wei, Huo Xiaochен, Tu Gang, Yang Ao, Gu Qingfeng, Sun Tao, and Li Yunfei reached the seventh heavenly origin in turn, and Xu Yang concealed his own breakthrough until after the others advanced.
• Xu Yang perfected the Frenzied Battle Four Symbols Art and later reached the seventh heavenly origin; he resolved to kill Huo Xiaochен in the Life-and-Death Arena before seeking Martial Master Lieshan’s inheritance.
• The Life-and-Death Arena emerged from the ground near the Demon Abyss, and Dean Wang Shuheng announced its rules as students and teachers gathered.
• Qi Ning, Li Xun, the Spirit Bone Prodigies, Xu Yang, and other contenders stepped onto the arena; Huo Xiaochен fixed his attention on Xu Yang, eager to settle their old grudge.
• Wu Sikai challenged Wei Fengyi to avenge his brother, Wei Fengyi accepted, and spectators discovered that Wei Fengyi had reached the fifth layer of the Azure Dragon Tyrant Body.

Wei Fengyi defeated Wu Sikai in a lethal Life-and-Death Arena battle, then Huo Xiaochેન challenged Xu Yang over an old grudge. Xu Yang accepted, and Huo Xiaochેન unleashed his azure dragon tyrant body as their fight began.

• Wei Fengyi revealed his greater mastery of the Eight Fiends Subduing Dragon Force and Limitless God-Extinguishing Palm, breaking Wu Sikai's arm and overwhelming him.
• Wu Sikai launched a dying counterattack that grievously wounded Wei Fengyi, but he died, and Xu Yang noticed the arena absorbing his essence, energy, and spirit.
• Huo Xiaochેન entered the arena and challenged Xu Yang, accusing him of helping kill Lin Jingyu years earlier; Xu Yang accepted despite warnings from Chu Nangui and his friends.
• Xu Yang stepped onto the arena without his Heavenly Star Saber and exchanged taunts with Huo Xiaochેન about their past fight.
• Huo Xiaochેન unleashed his azure dragon tyrant body and charged at Xu Yang, vowing to defeat him with body tempering.

Xu Yang revealed that he had mastered the Azure Dragon Tyrant Body and used his perfected Asura Armor-Piercing Fist to gain the advantage over Huo Xiaochен. After repeatedly being driven back, Huo Xiaochен lost his temper and broke his promise by unleashing his astral energy, leaving their duel poised to escalate.

• Xu Yang concealed his true strength no longer and met Huo Xiaochен's opening punch with the Azure Dragon Tyrant Body, stunning the spectators.
• Xu Yang explained that he had mastered the technique through years of persistence, while Huo Xiaochен resumed the attack with a more powerful flesh martial art.
• Xu Yang countered with the perfected Asura Armor-Piercing Fist and drove Huo Xiaochен back, drawing attention to Huo Xiaochен's weaker technique and comprehension.
• Xu Yang pressed his advantage in successive clashes and taunted Huo Xiaochен, who grew increasingly furious as the crowd watched him lose ground.
• Huo Xiaochен unleashed his Purple Extremity Heaven-Burning Art and astral energy, breaking his promise to fight Xu Yang using only body-tempering cultivation.

Xu Yang and Huo Xiaochેન fought on the Life-and-Death Arena as Huo escalated from astral-energy attacks to the Ninefold Nether Soul-Suppressing Blade, but Xu Yang’s superior techniques and mental strength let him break through every attack. Huo ended the chapter injured and stunned, while Xu Yang remained ready to continue the duel.

• Huo Xiaochેન abandoned his earlier restraint, attacked Xu Yang with a powerful palm technique, and met Xu Yang’s perfected Diamond Great Hand Seal head-on.
• Xu Yang and Huo Xiaochેન exchanged hundreds of blows before Huo activated the Eight Fiends Subduing Dragon Force, but Xu Yang matched him and sent him flying with a counterattack.
• Han Qianlin urged Huo Xiaochેન to use the Ninefold Nether Soul-Suppressing Blade, and Huo condensed a purple astral-energy saber and unleashed the inheritance’s soul-attacking strike.
• Xu Yang revealed his great-completion Frenzied Battle Four Symbols Art and countered Huo’s saber technique with the perfected Earth-Splitting Dragon-Shocking Slash.
• Xu Yang’s strike shattered Huo Xiaochેન’s astral-energy saber, injured his hand, and hurled him into the arena barrier; Xu Yang then declared that Huo’s illusions could not unsettle his mind.

Xu Yang defeated and killed Huo Xiaochેન in the Life-and-Death Arena, revealing his strength while pretending to be badly injured. After the arena closed, Han Qianlin began preparing another challenge for six months later, and news of Xu Yang’s victory spread across Cloud Province, leaving the Kong Family regretful over having rejected him.

• Huo Xiaochેન’s Ninefold Nether Soul-Suppressing Blade failed to overcome Xu Yang, and Xu Yang broke his saber and battered him into a near-death state.
• Xu Yang killed Huo Xiaochેન despite Han Qianlin and Xiao Qi demanding that he stop, and Wang Shuheng punished Han Qianlin for threatening a student on the arena.
• Xu Yang pretended his internal injuries were severe, hoping Han Qianlin would send another opponent, while Gu Qingfeng and the others helped him leave the arena.
• Han Qianlin ordered the Han Family to prepare Han Hu to challenge Xu Yang when the arena reopened in six months.
• News of Xu Yang’s victory reached the Kong Family, where Kong Shuyuan regretted rejecting Xu Yang and hurried to inform the family leaders.

After Xu Yang killed Huo Xiaochен, the Xiao Family hesitated to seek revenge while the Fu Family and Demon Cult plotted to lure him out of the Heavenly Strategy Academy. Xu Yang learned that the Han Family had challenged him and was asked to attend a banquet that Jin Yu suspected was a trap.

• Kong Shuping dismissed Kong Shuyuan's concerns about Xu Yang, expecting the Xiao and Han Families to kill him.
• Xiao Lan rejected Xiao Hui's demand for revenge and chose to let the Han Family act against Xu Yang first.
• Fu Zhuojie returned to Cloud Province with the Fu Family and ordered Qi Xuancheng to lure Xu Yang and Sun Tao out using Zhang Hong and Zhang Yong.
• Xu Yang received only two hundred points for killing Huo Xiaochен and continued hiding the full extent of his recovery while training Xu Qing.
• Jin Yu warned Xu Yang that Han Hu had challenged him and gave him a gift and invitation from Qi Xuancheng, Zhang Hong, and Zhang Yong.
• Jin Yu revealed that the Demon Cult likely planned to ambush Xu Yang and Sun Tao at the gathering, and Xu Yang agreed to consider helping the academy draw out its members.

Xu Yang and Sun Tao were lured into a Demon Cult ambush at the Emerald Bough Tower, where Jin Yu fought two spirit refining experts and Xu Yang fled with pursuers from the Fu Family. After killing Fu Changsheng and Fu Changqing, Xu Yang was confronted by Fu Zhenxing, who revealed that he knew Xu Yang was a Spirit Bone Prodigy and intended to devour him.

• Xu Yang accepted a Great Restoration Pill from Jin Yu and, three days later, joined Sun Tao at a banquet hosted by Qi Xuancheng at the Emerald Bough Tower.
• Two spirit refining experts ambushed Jin Yu near the tower while Demon Cult forces attacked Xu Yang and Sun Tao; Xu Yang killed Qi Xuancheng and escaped with Zhang Hong as Sun Tao fled with Zhang Yong.
• Fu Changsheng, Fu Changqing, and Fu Zhuojie pursued Xu Yang beyond the city, and Xu Yang killed Fu Changsheng and Fu Changqing with a single powerful palm strike.
• Fu Zhenxing intervened to save Fu Zhuojie, exchanged a powerful blow with Xu Yang, and identified him as the Heavenly Strategy Academy's seventh Spirit Bone Prodigy.
• Xu Yang recognized Fu Zhenxing as Fu Zhuojie's supposedly dead father, and Fu Zhenxing revealed he was a half-step spirit refining cultivator who planned to devour Xu Yang.