Chapter Summaries

Mu Chen and Ling Yu fought fiercely, trading powerful attacks as each searched for an opening. After Mu Chen struck Ling Yu and sent him flying, Ling Yu forced himself to continue, and both prepared for a final exchange.

• Ling Yu hurled a massive spear at Mu Chen, who formed a spiritual light shield to withstand its impact.
• Ling Yu sent a spiritual energy net after Mu Chen, but Mu Chen shattered his shield to disrupt it and dodged the net.
• Mu Chen spotted a weakness in Ling Yu’s defenses and struck him with a beam of spiritual light, injuring him.
• Ling Yu fused the net with his battle armor and launched a relentless barrage of punches, but Mu Chen absorbed part of their force and counterattacked.
• Mu Chen punched Ling Yu in the abdomen and sent him flying, but Ling Yu stood and insisted the fight was not over.
• Mu Chen and Ling Yu readied themselves for the final exchange.

Mu Chen defeated Ling Yu in a brutal final clash and became champion of the Spirit Road tournament. He accepted the tournament prizes and left the arena with his companions, ready to face further challenges.

• Ling Yu unleashed Spirit Shadow Illusion Kill, but Mu Chen used his soul power to expose and shatter the phantoms.
• Ling Yu and Mu Chen charged at each other with their remaining strength, and their weapons collided with enough force to crack the arena's spiritual energy restriction.
• Mu Chen managed to stand while Ling Yu could not, and Ling Yu conceded defeat.
• The spectators celebrated as Mu Chen was declared champion, and his companions gathered around him.
• The administrator of the Spirit Road gave Mu Chen an ancient book, a Spirit Pearl, and a Spirit Soldier.
• Mu Chen accepted the prizes and left the arena with his companions, heading deeper into the Spirit Road.

Mu Chen studied the champion’s rewards, learned the Star Transformation technique, absorbed some energy from the Spirit Pearl, and tested his new Spirit Soldier. He cultivated Star Transformation in ancient ruins and mastered its first stage, while continuing his search for clues about his mother and the strange power within him.

• Mu Chen examined the ancient tome and learned that Star Transformation fused spiritual energy with stellar power to strengthen attacks.
• Mu Chen absorbed part of the Spirit Pearl’s energy, healing and strengthening his meridians before stopping when his body neared saturation.
• Mu Chen tested the Spirit Soldier by infusing it with spiritual energy and splitting a boulder with a blade of energy.
• Mu Chen practiced Star Transformation at the ruins and gradually mastered First Glimmer of Starlight.
• Mu Chen used First Glimmer of Starlight to defeat a powerful magical beast.
• Mu Chen shared cultivation insights with his companions, and they grew stronger as they continued through the Spirit Road together.

Strange phenomena spread across the Spirit Road, leaving cultivators dead or missing, and Mu Chen led his companions to investigate their source. At an ancient temple, they found a sinister black crystal ball and were trapped as dark spiritual energy closed in around them.

• Blood-red lights, warped trees, and shadowy figures caused deaths and panic across the Spirit Road, while investigating experts vanished.
• Mu Chen gathered his companions and decided to investigate the strange incidents.
• Mu Chen and his companions followed enormous, ominous footprints from the site of the blood-red light to an abandoned temple.
• Inside the temple, Mu Chen found murals of ritual sacrifices and a black crystal ball that tried to siphon his spiritual energy.
• A shrill cry sounded outside, and dark spiritual energy engulfed the temple, revealing that Mu Chen and his companions had fallen into a trap.

Mu Chen and his companions escaped a temple overwhelmed by dark spiritual energy and learned that the Spirit Road’s strange occurrences were linked to an ancient sealed ruin. They entered the ruin and found a black vortex at the source of the evil energy, where tentacles attacked them as a new battle began.

• Mu Chen led his companions through the dark spiritual energy surrounding the temple and escaped through a weak point in its northwest corner.
• Outside, Mu Chen saw the ruined landscape and learned from a silver-armored cultivator that powerful fluctuations had appeared at an ancient ruin in the Spirit Road’s central region.
• Mu Chen and the other cultivators fought off monsters on their journey to the ruin, then used their spiritual energy and the Spirit Pearl to reinforce its weakening seal.
• When a roar from within damaged the seal again, Mu Chen and the cultivators used the Spirit Pearl to open a temporary passage, and Mu Chen led a group inside.
• Mu Chen protected his companions from the ruin’s mind-clouding murmuring, and they discovered a black vortex before its tentacles swept toward them.

Mu Chen and the other cultivators fought a dark figure controlling the black tentacles and ruins, then destroyed it and calmed the vortex. The Spirit Road was safe for now, but Mu Chen suspected more dangers remained.

• Mu Chen noticed a dark figure directing the tentacles and led the cultivators toward it.
• Mu Chen and his companions broke through the figure’s barriers, then fought off its tentacles and spiritual energy attacks.
• Mu Chen struck the dark figure with Wrath of the Starry Firmament, but it survived and began controlling the ruins.
• Mu Chen and several strong cultivators attacked while the figure was distracted, then continued their assault until it dissipated.
• Mu Chen and the others inspected the ruins and found no further threat, though Mu Chen feared the Spirit Road held more dangers.

Mu Chen and the other cultivators fought the returning shadow in the ruins and destroyed the black rune at its core. They left with wounded companions, uncertain whether the danger was truly over and worried about the Spirit Road.

• The shadow ambushed Mu Chen and the cultivators with black spiritual energy arrows, and Mu Chen led their defense and counterattack.
• Mu Chen discovered that the black mist absorbed attacks, so the cultivators focused their strikes on it and opened a gap in the shadow’s defenses.
• Mu Chen struck the shadow’s core, but it transformed and grew stronger, injuring several cultivators.
• Mu Chen spotted a black rune at the shadow’s core and directed the cultivators to attack it.
• Mu Chen unleashed Wrath of the Starry Firmament and shattered the rune, causing the shadow to disappear and its attacks to cease.
• Mu Chen and the cultivators carried their wounded companions out of the ruins and set off to check on the Spirit Road.

After analyzing Black Shadow’s energy and the ruins’ ancient pact, Mu Chen and the cultivators suspected an outside evil force was manipulating events on the Spirit Road. Their investigation was interrupted by a swarm of black monsters, which they destroyed, but they feared more attacks would follow.

• Mu Chen gathered the cultivators to discuss Black Shadow’s strange behavior and the possibility that a stronger force controlled him.
• The group analyzed residue from the battle and found an ancient, evil mark that seemed to command Black Shadow.
• Mu Chen and the cultivators returned to the ruins, where they found ritual-like patterns and a stone tablet recording an ancient pact with an evil force.
• A swarm of small black monsters attacked, and Mu Chen used Star Transformation while directing the group to fight together.
• The monsters formed a massive black sphere, but Mu Chen and the cultivators shattered it with a combined assault.

Mu Chen and the cultivators found the source of the evil power: a cracked seal containing a black sphere, guarded by a powerful black-robed man who planned to unleash it across the Spirit Road. As they struggled against him, Mu Chen spotted ancient statues that might help them turn the battle around.

• Mu Chen and the cultivators deciphered the stone door’s restriction and opened it, then entered a hall where a black sphere was bound by rune-covered chains.
• Images revealed that ancient cultivators had sealed the sphere with their lives, and Mu Chen discovered cracks in the chains were leaking evil spiritual energy.
• A black-robed man emerged from the sphere, declared his plan to make the Spirit Road his domain, and attacked the group.
• Mu Chen and the cultivators launched their strongest attacks, but the black-robed man blocked them with a barrier of black mist.
• Mu Chen noticed guardian statues in the hall’s corners and urged the cultivators to reach them, hoping they could help strengthen the seal or defeat the black-robed man.

Mu Chen and the cultivators activated one of the ancient statues, driving back the black-robed man’s first assault. The man drew more power from the black sphere and overwhelmed them again, but the other statues formed a shield that gave Mu Chen’s group a final chance to stop him and reseal the sphere.

• The black-robed man attacked Mu Chen and the cultivators with barbed black tendrils, and Mu Chen used Star Transformation to free several companions.
• Mu Chen reached a statue, learned how to activate it, and began channeling spiritual energy into its key parts while the others defended him.
• The silver-armored cultivator took a hit protecting Mu Chen, who completed the activation and drove back the black-robed man with the statue’s light.
• The black-robed man tore chains from the black sphere, absorbed its power, and formed a black scythe to attack the exhausted cultivators.
• The other three statues lit up and created a Spiritual Energy Shield that blocked the scythe, and Mu Chen urged his companions to find a way to reseal the sphere before the shield broke.

Mu Chen returned from the Spirit Road to find his clan damaged by attacks from a mysterious force seeking something inside the compound. He led a patrol to a cave behind the clan, where he confronted black-robed figures performing a ritual, and a battle began.

• Mu Chen returned to the clan compound and learned that masked attackers wielding corrosive spiritual energy had repeatedly assaulted it.
• The clan chief and elders told Mu Chen that the attackers searched important locations, and Mu Chen proposed traps, warning devices, and scouting squads.
• Mu Chen helped fortify the compound and led an elite squad on patrol around the surrounding area.
• Mu Chen's squad followed corrupted footprints to a cave, where black-mist arrows attacked them and Mu Chen used his Spiritual Energy Shield and Star Transformation to counter them.
• Mu Chen found black-robed figures performing a ritual around a sinister stone platform, and one claimed they had come to take back what belonged to them.
• The black-robed figures attacked Mu Chen and his squad, beginning a fierce battle outside the cave.

Mu Chen led his squad against the black-robed figures, breaking their formation by discovering that the stone platform sustained their power. After destroying it and defeating the attackers, he took the survivors back to the clan for questioning, knowing the threat was not over.

• Mu Chen organized his squad into a Spiritual Energy Shield, then led a coordinated counterattack against the third black-robed figure from the left.
• The black-robed figures regrouped and tried to encircle the squad, but Mu Chen spotted that their spiritual energy was linked through the stone platform.
• Mu Chen defeated a powerful black-robed opponent with Surging Star River and struck the platform, disrupting the attackers’ formation.
• Mu Chen destroyed the platform with Wrath of the Starry Firmament, and the black-robed figures collapsed from the backlash as his squad pressed the attack.
• Mu Chen ordered his squad to bind the surviving attackers and take them back to the clan for questioning.

After defeating the black-robed men, Mu Chen cultivated in seclusion and developed a new spiritual technique that fused spiritual energy, stellar power, and soul power. He tested its strength and adapted it to his sword and movement techniques, leaving the training grounds ready to protect his clan from the evil forces.

• Mu Chen recalled the battle and discovered how to circulate spiritual energy and stellar power together through his meridians.
• Mu Chen incorporated soul power into the circulation and formed a new spiritual technique with both offensive and defensive applications.
• Mu Chen tested the technique at the clan training grounds and destroyed a testing stele with a beam of silver light.
• Mu Chen combined his new power with his sword and movement techniques, increasing their strength and disrupting enemies' souls.
• Mu Chen left the training grounds determined to defend his clan against the evil forces and whatever stronger enemies might follow.

Mu Chen gathered the family’s young members, organized them into balanced squads, and trained them to coordinate against the evil forces. When the family alarm sounded, the young fighters assembled and rushed toward the attacked grounds, ready to defend their home.

• Tan Qingshan and Tang Qian'er joined Mu Chen at the training grounds and praised his strength.
• Mu Chen rallied the young family members and organized them into squads with attackers, defenders, and support cultivators.
• Tan Qingshan and Tang Qian'er joined Mu Chen's squad, and the group practiced coordinating their techniques in combat drills.
• Mu Chen corrected the squads’ tactics as their teamwork improved through continued training.
• The family alarm sounded, and Mu Chen led the assembled young fighters toward the attack.

Mu Chen led the clan’s young disciples against a renewed assault by the black-robed figures and helped drive them from the compound. The clan was safe for now, but Mu Chen knew a more brutal battle was coming.

• Mu Chen rallied the clan’s disciples and arranged them into the coordinated formation they had practiced.
• Tan Qingshan charged the attackers while Mu Chen’s spiritual technique and Tang Qian’er’s support skills strengthened the clan’s counterattack.
• The black-robed leader launched a powerful black skull at the disciples, and Mu Chen blocked it with Star Vault Protection.
• Mu Chen called the disciples to counterattack, and their combined efforts forced the black-robed figures to retreat.
• The clan celebrated repelling the assault, while Mu Chen urged them to prepare for the next battle.

Mu Chen and the clan faced a stronger black-robed army whose coordinated attacks overwhelmed their defenses. After Mu Chen destroyed the bell-wielding enemy, the reinforcements’ leaders attacked, leaving the clan in grave danger as Mu Chen prepared to fight with all his strength.

• Mu Chen sensed stronger enemies approaching and warned the clan as black-robed reinforcements arrived and attacked in formation.
• Mu Chen and Tan Qingshan charged out to disrupt the enemy formation while Tang Qian'er stayed behind to support the clan’s defenses.
• Mu Chen spotted a bell-wielding enemy empowering the army, and he and Tan Qingshan fought through his guards to confront him.
• Mu Chen unleashed his strongest stellar technique and destroyed the bell-wielding man, weakening the black-robed army’s attacks.
• The enemy leaders launched spatial rifts and dark creatures against the clan, wounding its defenders and forcing Mu Chen to prepare to fight at full strength.

After the clan retreated from the battlefield, Mu Chen, Tan Qingshan, Tang Qian'er, and the elders devised a strategy to counter the black-robed men. The clan put its plans into action, developing stronger defenses and preparing for the enemy’s next attack.

• The clan leader ordered the disciples to retreat behind the clan’s fortifications after senior elders arrived on the battlefield.
• Mu Chen proposed targeting the black-robed leaders, while Tan Qingshan and Tang Qian'er identified the need to counter soul attacks and the bell’s effects.
• The clan formed an intelligence team and planned layered defenses, an elite assault squad, and coordinated attack and containment tactics.
• The clan began reconnaissance, fortification work, and intensive training for the assault squad.
• Tang Qian'er and her team developed a soul-defense formation and small magical treasures that could disrupt the spiritual energy of items such as the bell.
• The clan completed its preparations while the black-robed men continued prowling around the clan grounds.

The clan's younger members built defensive barriers, traps, warning devices, and watchtowers to prepare for the black-robed attackers. After several days of work and adjustments, the fortifications were operational, and the clan awaited the enemy's next move.

• Mu Chen and Tan Qingshan carried spiritual ores as the clan's younger members laid trenches and connected the barrier network.
• Tang Qian'er led clan members in adding soul-disrupting properties to spiritual energy traps around the buildings.
• The clan installed spiritual energy wind chimes and watchtowers to detect and observe approaching enemies.
• An elder helped the young members correct clashes between ores, while companions prevented injuries during trap testing.
• After several days, the barriers, traps, and warning devices were completed and tested around the compound.
• Mu Chen, Tan Qingshan, and Tang Qian'er surveyed the fortifications and voiced confidence in protecting their clan.

Mu Chen sent Lin Feng and Su Yao to gather intelligence on the black-robed men, whose forces threatened the clan. Lin Feng discovered they had found a flaw in the clan’s defenses, while both scouts faced pursuit as they tried to escape with what they had learned.

• Mu Chen assigned Lin Feng to spy on the black-robed men’s camp and Su Yao to track their forces, while Tan Qingshan and Tang Qian'er warned and equipped them.
• Lin Feng infiltrated a valley near the guarded camp and overheard the black-robed men planning an all-out assault based on a flaw their leader had found in the clan’s defenses.
• Su Yao discovered hidden strongholds connected by spiritual energy passages and saw the black-robed men transporting rune-covered crates filled with sinister energy.
• A surge of spiritual energy threatened to expose Lin Feng, who escaped the cave and raced back toward the clan.
• The black-robed men detected Su Yao near a crate, and she left a marker before fleeing their pursuit with her intelligence.

Mu Chen analyzed reports about the Black-Robed People's attack plans and organized new defenses against their barrier-breaching methods and black-box formation. The clan prepared to disrupt the enemy formation and target its leader as the coming battle approached.

• Mu Chen questioned Lin Feng and Su Yao about the Black-Robed People's camp, learning of chaotic spiritual energy in a cave and sinister black boxes that seemed linked as a formation.
• Mu Chen ordered further intelligence gathering and a full inspection and reinforcement of the clan's defensive barrier while strategists discussed ways to counter the boxes.
• New reports showed the Black-Robed People were testing a way to disrupt a spiritual energy node and could arrange the boxes into a formation that fired corrosive black rays.
• Mu Chen and the clan added protections to key barrier nodes, prepared treasures to neutralize the black rays, and installed devices to interfere with the formation.
• The assault squad intensified its training to seek a chance to strike the Black-Robed People's leader during the coming battle.