Chapter Summaries

Mu Chen attacked Liu City after the Liu Domain refused to attend the Nine Domains Conference, overwhelming Liu Qingtian and killing him. He declared that he would leave no one of the Liu Family bloodline alive.

• Liu Qingtian dismissed the Nine Domains Conference and expected his father to emerge from seclusion with the power to dominate the Northern Spiritual Realm.
• A Liu Domain soldier reported that the Mu Domain had reached the outskirts of Liu City.
• Mu Chen entered the council hall and used his pressure to knock Liu Ming unconscious and pin Liu Qingtian down.
• Mu Chen said he would leave no one of the Liu Family bloodline alive and killed Liu Qingtian.

Mu Chen unified the Northern Spiritual Realm under the Northern Spiritual Alliance, then received the Great Pagoda Art from Mu Feng and transformed it into the Chaos Buddha Art. He created the One-Qi Chaos Tower and left himself prepared to bring Qing Yanjing home.

• Mu Chen destroyed Liu Jingshan’s meditation chamber and killed him, then declared Liu Qingtian executed and demanded the Northern Spiritual Realm submit to the Northern Spiritual Alliance.
• Seven days later, Mu Feng became alliance leader at the founding ceremony in Mu City, and he gave Mu Chen the jade slip containing the Great Pagoda Art.
• Mu Feng told Mu Chen that Qing Yanjing had left to protect him, Mu Feng, and the Mu Domain, and apologized for failing to stop her departure.
• Mu Chen promised Mu Feng that he would bring Qing Yanjing home and began cultivating the Great Pagoda Art with the jade slip.
• The Chaos Dao Diagram inspired Mu Chen to use his own chaos qi to turn the illusory pagoda into the real, nine-story One-Qi Chaos Tower.
• Mu Chen renamed the Great Pagoda Art the Chaos Buddha Art.

Mu Chen used the spiritual energy from the One-Qi Chaos Tower to break through to the Heaven Transformation Realm. Tang Qian'er visited him in the Mu Estate, where they caught up and she learned about Luo Li.

• The One-Qi Chaos Tower released primordial spiritual energy into Mu Chen's Qi Sea, loosening the barrier to the Heaven Transformation Realm.
• Mu Chen's Divine Soul left his body and merged with heaven and earth, allowing him to reach the Heaven Transformation Realm.
• Mu Chen celebrated his breakthrough and discovered that he could sense and draw in spiritual energy more freely.
• Tang Qian'er arrived after hearing Mu Chen's cry and teased him for returning without telling her.
• Mu Chen told Tang Qian'er about the Spirit Road and asked about her cultivation, and she admitted she was only at the late stage of the Spirit Movement Realm.
• Tang Qian'er said she wanted to meet Luo Li, then privately wondered why the thought of Mu Chen liking someone else made her heart ache.

Mu Chen mastered every spiritual art in the Northern Spiritual Academy before entering the Black Nether Abyss to explore it. A check-in there granted him the Emperor's Fallen Double Pupils, and he continued deeper into the forest, killing the beasts that attacked him.

• Mu Chen learned every spiritual art on the Earth Floor and Heaven Floor of the academy's Spiritual Art Room.
• Mu Chen traveled to the Black Nether Abyss and checked in at its entrance.
• Mu Chen received the Emperor's Fallen Double Pupils, which let him see the forest and death miasma in extraordinary detail.
• Mu Chen tested his new power by firing a beam from his right pupil that annihilated a large swath of forest.
• Mu Chen walked deeper into the abyss, protected by his spiritual energy, and killed a three-eyed beast with a needle of spiritual energy.

Mu Chen reached the basin where Nine Nether completed her rebirth, then attacked before she could summon her tribulation. He suppressed her beneath the One-Qi Chaos Tower and introduced himself, proposing a deal.

• Mu Chen crossed the Black Poison Marsh and found a horde of spirit beasts charging toward a volcanic crater.
• Nine Nether emerged from a black egg of light, and her cry stripped the charging beasts down to skeletons.
• As Nine Nether prepared to summon her tribulation, Mu Chen unleashed his spiritual arts and sent the One-Qi Chaos Tower down to attack her.
• Nine Nether’s World-Burning Black Flame failed to stop the tower, which suppressed her in the basin.
• Mu Chen descended from the dust and asked Nine Nether whether she could hear him, then proposed a deal.

Mu Chen freed Nine Nether after suppressing her with the One-Qi Chaos Tower and proposed a bargain, explaining that he wanted to help her survive her tribulation and evolve. Nine Nether agreed to bring him into the Great Luo Heavenly Domain if he obtained the northern abyss dragon-kun blood essence and helped her evolve.

• Mu Chen suppressed Nine Nether with the One-Qi Chaos Tower, then released her and warned that she would not survive the heavenly tribulation in her current state.
• Nine Nether discovered that Mu Chen was only at the Heaven Transformation Realm and questioned why he had freed her.
• Mu Chen recounted parts of Nine Nether’s future and proposed helping her obtain the northern abyss dragon-kun blood essence in exchange for entry into the Great Luo Heavenly Domain.
• Nine Nether agreed to the bargain and swore upon her bloodline that she would keep her promise if Mu Chen helped her evolve.

Mu Chen began studying Spirit Arrays under Wen Ling and formed five hundred Spirit Seals on his first attempt. Stunned by Mu Chen’s extraordinary talent, Wen Ling said he could not teach him.

• Mu Chen visited Wen Ling’s courtyard to begin learning about Spirit Arrays.
• Wen Ling explained how Spirit Arrays worked and demonstrated a small array using five Spirit Seals.
• Wen Ling gave Mu Chen a jade slip with instructions for cultivating Spirit Seals and asked him to try forming them.
• Mu Chen formed five hundred stable Spirit Seals within moments, leaving Wen Ling speechless.
• Wen Ling recovered and told Mu Chen that he could not teach him.

Mu Chen learned Spirit Arrays from Wen Ling and attended the Northern Spiritual Academy’s admission competition to support Tang Qian'er. Tang Qian'er won a slot at the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy, and she and Mu Chen left together to explore Northern Spiritual City.

• Wen Ling shared everything he knew about Spirit Arrays with Mu Chen, then admitted he had nothing left to teach him.
• Mu Chen studied the Array Diagram while Mu Feng told him the Northern Spiritual Academy’s admission competition was approaching, and Mu Chen decided to cheer Qian'er on.
• Mu Chen attended the competition with Mu Feng and watched Tang Qian'er secure an admission slot to the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy.
• Tang Qian'er asked Mu Chen to spend time with her, and Mu Feng encouraged them to go celebrate.
• Mu Chen and Tang Qian'er wandered through Northern Spiritual City together while she enjoyed their time alone.

Mu Chen and the other Northern Spiritual Academy students traveled to the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy's testing ground, where they learned the entrance trial's rules. Mu Chen received a powerful divine ability through check-in and ended the chapter by demanding that the seed-quota holders hand over their Spirit Seals.

• Mr. Hao warned the students that passing the academy's test only qualified them for the Five Great Academies' entrance trials, then sent them through the teleportation arrays.
• Mu Chen and Tang Qian'er arrived at the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy's vast testing ground and saw the powerful young cultivators gathered there.
• Mu Chen checked in at the Northern Cang Realm and received the divine ability False World, True Realm: Future-Taking Body.
• An examiner explained that contestants needed a level-four Spirit Seal to enter the academy and called on seed-quota holders to surrender their seals.
• Mu Chen demanded that all seed-quota holders hand over their seals.

Mu Chen overwhelmed the seed quota holders on the Reception Platform by revealing his Heaven Reaching Realm cultivation, then used his divine ability to take their Spirit Seal marks. He left with Tang Qian'er, while the defeated youths were left baffled by how their marks had vanished.

• Mu Chen demanded that the sixteen seed quota holders hand over their marks, provoking them to prepare to attack.
• Mu Chen unleashed his Heaven Reaching Realm pressure and forced every seed quota holder to the ground, stunning the onlookers and the elderly figure of light.
• Mu Chen reassured Tang Qian'er that she would always be his big sister and revealed that he had reached the late stage of the Heaven Reaching Realm.
• Mu Chen activated Future-Taking Body and took the seed quota holders' marks in an instant, reducing them to level one.
• Mu Chen thanked the fallen youths and left the Reception Platform with Tang Qian'er as they wondered how he had taken their marks.

Mu Chen and Tang Qian'er reached level nine marks after sweeping through the Northern Cang Realm, then revealed Mu Chen’s Heaven Reaching Realm strength at a trading clearing. The trial participants recognized him as the Spirit Road Crown Holder, and word of his arrival spread across the realm.

• Tang Qian'er defeated a middle-stage Spirit Wheel Realm spirit beast while Mu Chen watched.
• Mu Chen led Tang Qian'er on a two-day hunt, defeating spirit beasts until both reached level nine marks.
• Mu Chen and Tang Qian'er arrived at a clearing where their marks drew the attention of the gathered trial participants.
• Mu Chen released his Heaven Reaching Realm aura, silencing the crowd and ending their greedy interest in the pair.
• A former Spirit Road participant identified Mu Chen as the Spirit Crown Holder, and news of his arrival spread through the Northern Cang Realm.

Luo Li reached the trading ground and reunited with Mu Chen, where she met his childhood friend Tang Qian'er. Luo Li took Tang Qian'er aside for a private talk, and they returned with Tang Qian'er blushing and avoiding Mu Chen's gaze.

• Luo Li left the gorge after reaching a level 8 mark and followed rumors of Mu Chen to the trading ground.
• Mu Chen spotted Luo Li in the clearing and embraced her as they reunited.
• Mu Chen introduced Luo Li to Tang Qian'er as his childhood friend, and Luo Li asked whether Tang Qian'er was also his lifelong best friend.
• Luo Li took Tang Qian'er away for a private conversation and told Mu Chen not to follow.
• Luo Li and Tang Qian'er returned after several cups of tea, with Tang Qian'er blushing and avoiding Mu Chen's eyes.

Mu Chen gave Luo Li enough Spirit Beast Essences to reach a Level 9 Mark, then traveled with her and Tang Qian'er to the Northern Cang Hall gathering site. After their marks summoned the hall, its gates opened and the three entered.

• Mu Chen gave Luo Li hundreds of Spirit Beast Essences, allowing her to form a Level 9 Mark.
• Tang Qian'er and Luo Li leaned against Mu Chen’s shoulders as they slept by the campfire, and the three set out for the center of the Northern Cang Realm the next morning.
• Mu Chen, Luo Li, and Tang Qian'er arrived at the gathering plain, where the crowd recognized Mu Chen as the Spirit Crown Holder and sensed his Heaven Reaching Realm aura.
• The trio’s purple-gold marks summoned the Northern Cang Hall, whose gates opened to trial-takers with Level 4 Marks or above.
• Mu Chen, Luo Li, and Tang Qian'er entered the Northern Cang Hall.

Mu Chen and his companions entered the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy, where Mu Chen set his sights on claiming first place on the Heaven Ranking to earn Spirit Value for Nine Nether. At the academy, Li Xuantong learned that Luo Li had arrived with Mu Chen and reacted with stunned disbelief.

• The White-Haired Elder gave the newcomers Spirit Value Tokens and offered students with level 7 marks or higher an optional challenge for an additional reward, while Mu Chen, Luo Li, and Tang Qian'er received exemptions.
• The freshmen passed through the Bronze Giant Gate and saw the academy’s vast grounds, including the Divine Soul Ranking and Heaven Ranking.
• Mu Chen decided to aim for first place on the Heaven Ranking so he could exchange Spirit Value for Bei Ming Dragon Kun's blood essence for Nine Nether.
• The White Elder told Mu Chen that he could skip the Freshman Assembly and challenge anyone on the Heaven Ranking.
• A Black-Clothed Youth told Li Xuantong that Mu Chen had arrived and named Luo Li among his companions, leaving Li Xuantong shocked that she had come to the academy.

Mu Chen faced Li Xuantong in the Spirit Fighting Arena, where his Heaven Reaching Realm aura overwhelmed the Heaven Ranking’s second-ranked expert before a real attack began. The crowd witnessed the vast gap between them as Li Xuantong was sent flying and lost.

• Students gathered at the Spirit Fighting Arena to watch Mu Chen challenge Li Xuantong, while Su Xuan, Crane Demon, and Xu Huang watched from the front.
• Li Xuantong arrived on the platform and waited for Mu Chen, who came with Xuan Yi, Luo Li, and Tang Qian'er.
• Li Xuantong asked Mu Chen to use his full strength, determined to see the true gap between them.
• Mu Chen released his aura, which hurled Li Xuantong across the platform and left him coughing blood.
• The spectators fell silent as they realized Mu Chen had defeated Li Xuantong without a direct attack.

After defeating Li Xuantong, Mu Chen entered the Thunder Domain to cultivate and received the Divine Firmament Calamity-Averting Thunder Body through a check-in. He headed for the tenth layer, while the Thunder Domain Stele revealed that he had reached it, stunning the students outside.

• Mu Chen declined to cultivate with Luo Li, Tang Qian'er, and Wen Qingxuan and set out for the Thunder Domain.
• Mu Chen entered the Thunder Domain and checked in, obtaining the Divine Firmament Calamity-Averting Thunder Body cultivation art.
• Mu Chen planned to cultivate on the tenth layer while the Gray-Brown Sparrow gathered Heavenly Thunder Beads to help them obtain Bei Ming Dragon Kun blood essence.
• Mu Chen sped through the Thunder Domain's barriers as students outside failed to recognize him.
• The Thunder Domain Stele recorded Mu Chen reaching the eighth layer, then the ninth, and finally the tenth layer.

Mu Chen tempered his body in the Thunder Domain’s tenth level and broke through to the Heaven Reaching Realm, while Nine Nether refined Heavenly Thunder Beads. A bald old man confronted them over their use of the Thunder Domain, and Mu Chen defended their actions by arguing that the rules did not forbid it.

• Mu Chen entered the black Thunder Sea and used the Divine Firmament Calamity-Averting Thunder Body to draw lightning into himself.
• Nine Nether transformed into her true form and gathered lightning with a black flame storm to refine Heavenly Thunder Beads.
• A mysterious presence deep in the Thunder Domain noticed Nine Nether’s nine nether fire and wondered how a member of her clan had arrived there.
• After half an hour of tempering, Mu Chen broke through to the Heaven Reaching Realm and appeared beside Nine Nether as a bald old man watched them.
• The old man criticized Nine Nether’s mass production of Heavenly Thunder Beads, and Mu Chen replied that using available resources was allowed because the rules did not forbid it.

Mu Chen challenged the bald old man’s avatar to a full-strength fight, seeking defeat to test his path. He shattered the avatar’s lightning dragon and overwhelmed him in close combat, then blasted him apart with a black beam from his right eye.

• Mu Chen refused to settle for merely enduring one attack and urged the bald old man to use his full strength against him.
• The bald old man raised a thirty-thousand-foot silver lightning dragon from the Thunder Sea and sent it crashing down on Mu Chen.
• Mu Chen punched through the lightning dragon unharmed and rushed the bald old man, knocking aside his claw strike with the Chaos Dao Diagram: Ten Thousand Laws Seal.
• Mu Chen drove the bald old man backward with a relentless barrage of close-range attacks, while Nine Nether watched in shock.
• Mu Chen unleashed a destructive black beam from his right eye and blasted the bald old man’s avatar apart.

Mu Chen challenged Bei Ming Dragon Kun to fight at full strength and battled the Academy Guardian Beast across the Thunder Sea. The chapter ended with Mu Chen blasting a hole through Bei Ming Dragon Kun’s immense lightning storm with the One-Qi Great Hand Seal.

• Mu Chen asked the old man to fight him with his full strength, and the old man revealed himself as Bei Ming Dragon Kun.
• Mu Chen charged through the Thunder Sea toward Bei Ming Dragon Kun, drawing on his chaos saint body, the One-Qi Chaos Tower, and the Divine Firmament Calamity-Averting Thunder Body.
• Bei Ming Dragon Kun fired a condensed column of black lightning at Mu Chen, who met it with his fist and suffered only minor injuries.
• Bei Ming Dragon Kun swept a world-spanning wall of lightning toward Mu Chen with a beat of his wings.
• Mu Chen formed the Chaos Dao Diagram: Myriad Manifestations Return to the Origin and blasted through the storm wall with the One-Qi Great Hand Seal.

Mu Chen battled Bei Ming Dragon Kun in the Thunder Sea and broke through the Spiritual Energy Tribulation during their fight. After the breakthrough shifted the advantage decisively, Bei Ming Dragon Kun admitted defeat and Mu Chen thanked him.

• Mu Chen used Future-Taking Body to appear above Bei Ming Dragon Kun’s Thunder Sun and struck him with the One-Qi Chaos Tower.
• Mu Chen and Bei Ming Dragon Kun traded powerful attacks as Mu Chen absorbed lightning energy and tempered his spiritual energy.
• Mu Chen broke through the Spiritual Energy Tribulation in the middle of the battle.
• Mu Chen’s increased strength overwhelmed Bei Ming Dragon Kun, who was battered into the Thunder Sea by his attacks.
• Bei Ming Dragon Kun stopped the fight and conceded that he could no longer beat Mu Chen, who saluted and thanked him.