Chapter Summaries

Yun Tian visited the Alchemist Association and demanded to take its highest alchemist examination, the Alchemy Myth rank. He paid the fifty million Demon Spirit Coins required, and the Association began preparing for the exam scheduled for the following day.

• Yun Tian completely healed Xiao Ning'er, said goodbye, and left; Nie Li appeared shortly afterward.
• Yun Tian decided to visit the Alchemist Association and obtain an alchemist certificate.
• Yun Tian told the receptionist he wanted to take the Alchemy Myth examination, shocking everyone in the hall.
• Gu Yan and Yang Xin explained that the examination required a day of preparation and cost fifty million Demon Spirit Coins.
• Yun Tian handed over Demon Crystal Cards, and Gu Yan and Yang Xin began preparing the examination.

Yun Tian restored and refined pills from the Alchemist Association’s damaged ancient formulas, then accepted an honorary position. He raised Yang Xin and Li Yue to Demigod Rank, and the chapter ended with both women suggesting they might marry him.

• Yun Tian used his flames to restore and refine pills from the Alchemist Association’s surviving Dark Age formulas, astonishing Gu Yan and the elders.
• Gu Yan tested the pills, gave Yun Tian a badge and robes, and persuaded him to become an Honorary Elder with Yang Xin as his secretary.
• Yun Tian returned to his courtyard with Yang Xin, where Li Yue greeted him and asked who Yang Xin was.
• Yun Tian used Finger of God to raise Yang Xin and Li Yue from their former ranks to Demigod Rank, the limit of their small world.
• When Yun Tian asked how they would thank him, Li Yue offered to marry him someday, and Yang Xin also looked at him eagerly.

Yun Tian accepted breakfast from Xiao Ning'er and shared it with Ye Ziyun before agreeing to visit a lesson with Ye Xiu. They arrived as Nie Li and the others entered Shen Xiu’s class, just as her lesson began.

• Yang Xin chose to stay, and Yu Yan and Ling'er were surprised by Li Yue’s and Yang Xin’s cultivation levels before Yun Tian explained he had raised them.
• Xiao Ning'er brought Yun Tian a homemade breakfast to thank him, and he accepted and ate it.
• Ye Ziyun visited Yun Tian, shared some of Xiao Ning'er’s breakfast, and laughed at Yun Tian’s joke about being handsome.
• Ye Xiu invited Yun Tian to observe a lesson, and Yun Tian agreed because he expected Nie Li’s three-year agreement with Shen Xiu to be discussed.
• Shen Xiu let Nie Li and the others into the classroom, then began teaching as Ye Xiu, the principal of the Sacred Orchid Academy, and Yun Tian entered.

Nie Li challenged Shen Xiu’s claim that the Divine Family’s Blazing Fury Inscription was an original, powerful Bronze inscription, and the two made a bet over its origins. As Ye Xiu and the headmaster arranged for Nie Li and his companions to visit the Library, Yun Tian watched the dispute from the back of the classroom.

• Shen Xiu called on Nie Li after catching him asleep and asked him to explain the Blazing Fury Inscription.
• Nie Li said the inscription had thirty-eight basic inscriptions and was a flawed Silver Rank inscription reduced to something barely capable of boiling water.
• Shen Yue defended the Divine Family, but Nie Li challenged him and recalled the family’s betrayal of Glory City in his previous life.
• Nie Li cited a book and its page to argue that the inscription had been copied, then bet Shen Xiu that she would resign if she lost.
• Ye Xiu asked Yun Tian’s permission to take Nie Li and the others to the Library, and Yun Tian agreed.

Nie Li moved into the Library with his friends, tested their soul seas, and gave them suitable cultivation techniques as they prepared to meet the wager. When the others neared Bronze rank, Nie Li revealed that Lu Piao’s Chaos Form suited the Chaos Art, giving Lu Piao an excuse to keep slacking off.

• Ye Xiu told Nie Li that he would work at the Library and warned him not to disturb the librarian.
• Nie Li moved into the Library with Lu Piao, Du Ze, and the others, then retested their soul seas with new Soul Crystals and assigned them cultivation techniques.
• Nie Li went to the Alchemist Association to take the qualification exam and discuss his share of the Purple Orchid Grass proceeds, while Yang Xin was less friendly than before.
• Nie Li cultivated the Heavenly Dao Divine Art and reflected that its slow progress was necessary for fighting the Saint Emperor.
• Du Ze and the others said they were close to breaking through to Bronze rank, and Nie Li explained that Lu Piao’s Chaos Form was best suited to the Chaos Art.

Nie Li tried to get closer to Ye Ziyun in the Library, but she said she was waiting for someone. Before he could learn who it was, Shen Yue confronted him over his accusation that the Divine Family had copied someone else's work, and a fight broke out.

• Nie Li spotted Ye Ziyun reading about the Dark Empire era and offered to help her understand the book.
• Ye Ziyun told Nie Li she had arranged to meet someone who could teach her, so he stepped away and watched to see who would arrive.
• Lu Piao and Du Ze watched Nie Li talk with Ye Ziyun and teased him about approaching her.
• Shen Yue confronted Nie Li over his accusation against the Divine Family and ordered his lackeys to attack.
• Lu Piao, Du Ze, and Nie Li quickly defeated Shen Yue's lackeys, so Shen Yue joined the fight using his soul force.

Nie Li defeated Shen Yue while Yun Tian watched with Ye Ziyun, then the story shifted to Lu Wei leading the Lu Family Army to victory against a hostile force. Lu Wei found evidence of an insider’s betrayal and vowed to uncover the traitor and the Mysterious Organization’s secrets.

• Shen Yue attacked Nie Li, but Nie Li overpowered him and knocked him down.
• Yun Tian showed Ye Ziyun Nie Li’s fight with Shen Yue, then left with her; Nie Li realized Ye Ziyun was gone and turned back to Shen Yue.
• Lu Wei led the Lu Family Army in an attack, recognized the enemy’s retreat as a trap, and ordered her troops to prepare a counter-trap.
• Lu Wei’s counter-trap broke the enemy assault, but a mysterious expert’s black energy halted the army until the Mysterious Organization joined the fight and drove him away.
• Lu Wei’s forces routed the enemy, and she found a Lu Family emblem and a scorched letter suggesting someone inside the family was aiding the hostile forces.

Yun Tian joined Chen Linjian’s expedition to the ruins with Ling'er, Li Yue, and Yu Yan, where he reunited with Ye Ziyun and noticed Shen Yue and Nie Li at the city gate. The group prepared to depart, leaving Yun Tian’s encounter with the expedition’s members unresolved.

• Yun Tian returned home with Ye Ziyun, who greeted Ling'er, Li Yue, and Yu Yan in the courtyard.
• Chen Linjian recruited explorers for an expedition to the ruins outside the city by offering valuable rewards.
• Yun Tian agreed to join the expedition with Ling'er, Li Yue, and Yu Yan after recalling that the ruins held a coffin connected to Kong Ming.
• Ye Ziyun arrived at the city gate and happily agreed to travel with Yun Tian’s group.
• Shen Yue recognized Yun Tian and hid behind his followers instead of confronting him.
• Nie Li arrived late, and Chen Linjian welcomed him as someone criticized his delay.

Nie Li joined Chen Linjian’s expedition to the ruins, defeated a Bronze Rank opponent, and watched Yun Tian effortlessly send another attacker flying. The group camped for the night, while an unrelated account of Lu Wei’s operation ended with her team trapped before an unknown mechanism inside the remnant forces’ stronghold.

• Chen Linjian calmed the group after Nie Li’s late arrival, and the expedition set out for the ruins.
• At Shen Yue’s prompting, a lackey challenged Nie Li, but Nie Li quickly defeated him in a sparring match.
• Yun Tian struck down another lackey who charged at him, surprising Nie Li and Chen Linjian with his strength.
• At camp, Yun Tian and Li Yue bickered over his grilled meat while Ling’er, Yu Yan, and the others laughed.
• Lu Wei led the Justice League through a secret passage into the remnant forces’ stronghold, where the team avoided patrols and traps before an enormous mechanism blocked their way.

Yun Tian spent the evening joking with Li Yue and meeting Huyan Lanruo, while Shen Yue arranged to target Nie Li. As the group reached the ruins the next day, a Snowstorm Giant Ape roared nearby, warning them of a dangerous encounter.

• Yun Tian stayed apart as Ye Ziyun chatted with him and others, then joked and tickled Li Yue when she took his skewer.
• Huyan Lanruo approached Yun Tian, stopped using her Demon Spirit's Charm Technique when he noticed it, and joined him and the others for food.
• The group set out at dawn, with Huyan Lanruo walking beside Yun Tian as they traveled toward their destination.
• One of Shen Yue's lackeys reported that everything had been arranged, and Shen Yue looked toward Nie Li with plans to make him pay.
• Nie Li identified a nearby roar as belonging to a Gold Rank Snowstorm Giant Ape, and a scream followed.

Chen Linjian’s expedition was surrounded by Snowstorm Giant Apes, and the group fought its way free while Yun Tian and Li Yue dealt with one ape easily. The injured survivors continued toward the ruins, while Shen Yue and the Dark Guild faced a Black Gold Rank ape.

• Snowstorm Giant Apes surrounded Nie Li and the others, and Chen Linjian ordered everyone to break through.
• Yun Tian knocked aside a Gold Rank ape, then let Li Yue defeat it while he protected Ye Ziyun and Huyan Lanruo.
• The group escaped the encirclement with injuries, while Shen Yue was captured by the Dark Guild and a Black Gold Rank ape appeared before them.
• Chen Linjian assessed the expedition’s casualties, let the group rest, and then led them onward to avoid attracting more demon beasts.

The group explored the ruins, where Yun Tian opened a sealed burial chamber and Nie Li obtained the Temporal Demon Spirit Book from its coffin. Nie Li survived the strange light but emerged desperately thirsty, while Yun Tian’s abilities left him wondering who Yun Tian was.

• Chen Linjian led everyone to dig at the ruins’ training grounds, where they uncovered and opened a stone door.
• Nie Li and Chen Linjian split up, while Yun Tian, Ye Ziyun, and Nalan Yanran followed Nie Li’s route.
• Yun Tian opened the burial chamber’s array with a finger, surprising Nie Li with his power.
• Nie Li entered the chamber and opened its black coffin after Yun Tian advised him to prepare water.
• Nie Li obtained the Temporal Demon Spirit Book and drank a dozen waterskins after the light nearly dried him out.

Nie Li obtained the Temporal Demon Spirit Book, while Yun Tian found a necklace in the coffin and took it. The group reached the treasure chamber, where Li Yue opened the door and everyone began choosing treasures as Nie Li sought the Shadow Demon Divine Lamp.

• Nie Li emerged with the Temporal Demon Spirit Book and drank from the waterskins, while Yun Tian sensed the separate space-time realm and recognized Great Emperor Kongming.
• Yun Tian took a necklace from the coffin, and Nie Li accepted it as his share of the find.
• The group continued through the ruins, where Ye Ziyun and Huyan Lanruo clung to Yun Tian after being frightened by skeletons.
• Li Yue broke open the treasure chamber door, revealing gold, jewels, armor, weapons, and cultivation treasures.
• Yun Tian let Li Yue, Ling'er, and Yu Yan choose treasures, while Nie Li headed for the Shadow Demon Divine Lamp.

After the treasure expedition, Nie Li and his friends entered the genius class, while Yun Tian continued his life in Glory City and learned that Xiao Ning'er had been abducted. Yun Tian set out with Lazuo to find her, and the chapter ended with Xiao Ning'er bound to a tree and unable to use her soul force.

• Chen Linjian rebuked a man who suggested taking the treasures Nie Li's group had already claimed, and the party returned to Glory City.
• The Holy Nether Family sold treasures from the ruins, sparking a treasure-hunting craze, while Nie Li, Lu Piao, Du Ze, and the others passed their examinations and entered the genius class.
• Yun Tian woke beside Yang Xin, then ordered General Niga to keep watching Nie Li.
• Lazuo told Yun Tian that an elder of the Winged Dragon Family had abducted Xiao Ning'er after her family agreed to end her engagement to Shen Fei.
• Yun Tian and Lazuo left to investigate as Xiao Ning'er woke up tied to a tree and found that she could not use her soul force.

Yun Tian rescued Xiao Ning'er from Shen Fei’s scheme and turned the trap against Shen Fei and his accomplices. He left the Shadow Soldiers recording the humiliating spectacle so it could be shown throughout Glory City.

• Yun Tian and the Shadow Soldiers freed Xiao Ning'er, and Yun Tian told her the Xiao Family elders had sided with Shen Fei.
• Yun Tian stopped Xiao Ning'er from confronting Shen Fei and waited for his plan to unfold.
• Shen Fei arrived at the courtyard with two Winged Dragon Family traitors, who gave him a vial meant to make Xiao Ning'er compliant.
• The Shadow Soldiers sprinkled powder over Shen Fei and the others, causing Shen Fei to pursue a female monkey and the traitors and attendants to embrace one another.
• Yun Tian led Xiao Ning'er away and ordered Lazuo to record Shen Fei so the footage could be shown to everyone in Glory City.

Yun Tian’s prank turned Shen Fei and the Winged Dragon Family elders into the subject of a citywide “Monkey King” scandal, while he relaxed with his friends and received news about Nie Li. When Yang Xin invited him to an auction in the West of the City, Yun Tian declined, leaving the auction’s events ahead.

• The people of Glory City spread an increasingly ridiculous account of Shen Fei and the Winged Dragon Family elders’ encounter with monkeys, while Ye Xiu struggled to manage the rumors.
• Yun Tian arranged for Lazo to release recordings, making Shen Fei famous as the “Monkey King” and driving the two Winged Dragon Family elders into seclusion.
• Xiao Ning’er grew closer to Yun Tian, who sang a silly song to entertain her and the others in his courtyard.
• Nika reported that Nie Li had survived an ambush by the Shadow Forces, integrated with a Shadow Demon, and killed his attackers after a cultivation breakthrough.
• Yang Xin told Yun Tian about an auction in the West of the City, but Yun Tian declined to attend.

At Glory City’s Genius Battle, Nie Li defeated Shen Fei and the Divine Family’s other young fighters, winning a fifty-million-Demon-Spirit-Coin wager and spreading his fame. Yun Tian and his companions left with their winnings, while Xiao Ning'er arranged to train in the Heavenly Illusion Sacred Realm.

• Yun Tian brought the girls to watch the Genius Battle, where Li Yue easily defeated several opponents without summoning her demon spirit.
• Nie Li mocked Shen Fei, and Shen Ming challenged him to successive bouts with fifty million Demon Spirit Coins wagered by each side.
• Nie Li merged with his fang-toothed panda demon spirit and knocked Shen Fei out, while Ling'er, Li Yue, and Yu Yan recognized its high quality and god-level growth potential.
• Nie Li defeated the Divine Family’s remaining young fighters and collected the wager as Shen Ming worried about Shen Hong’s reaction to the loss.
• Yun Tian and his companions left with their winnings, and shadowy figures eliminated the men who tried to rob them.
• Nie Li’s victory made him famous across Glory City, while Xiao Ning'er requested permission to train in the Heavenly Illusion Sacred Realm.

Nie Li tried to visit Ye Ziyun but was thrown out by her Shadow Soldier, then joined Yun Tian in the Heavenly Illusion Sacred Realm, where they found Xiao Ning'er and encountered Ye Yan. Ye Yan recognized Yun Tian as a terrifyingly powerful senior, while Nie Li was left confused by the sudden deference.

• Shen Hong ordered Shen Ming to kill Nie Li or face death under the family rules.
• Nie Li used Shadow Demon Fusion to sneak toward Ye Ziyun's residence, but her Shadow Soldier struck him and threw him back to his courtyard.
• Yun Tian and Nie Li entered the Heavenly Illusion Sacred Realm to check on Xiao Ning'er, and Yun Tian navigated its illusions while Nie Li stopped to cultivate.
• Ye Yan approached Nie Li and Xiao Ning'er, offering to teach them, but Yun Tian's presence frightened him into addressing Yun Tian as Senior.
• Nie Li entered Xiao Ning'er's Consciousness Sea, and Ye Yan elbowed him for failing to show Yun Tian proper respect.

Nie Li partnered with Ye Yan and retrieved the Heavenfall Divine Thunder Sword from the altar while Yun Tian protected the group and Xiao Ning'er cultivated with her powerful Demon Spirit, Thunder Prison. After Nie Li and Xiao Ning'er passed the trial and left the Sacred Realm, Nie Li asked the dean to keep his success secret from the Dark Guild.

• Yun Tian told Ye Yan to protect Nie Li, and Ye Yan agreed to partner with Nie Li in exchange for a suitable body in the future.
• Ye Yan warned Nie Li that the Heavenfall Divine Thunder Sword's baleful energy could destroy his soul, but Yun Tian assured him Nie Li could withstand it and led the group to the altar.
• Yun Tian shielded the group from the altar's lightning, then told Xiao Ning'er to release her Demon Spirit and absorb the wind and thunder.
• Xiao Ning'er summoned Thunder Prison, an Ancient Exotic Beast whose power overwhelmed the Demon Beast souls, and Yun Tian warned it not to devour the sword.
• Nie Li dashed to the altar and safely claimed the Heavenfall Divine Thunder Sword.
• After Nie Li and Xiao Ning'er left the Sacred Realm, the dean praised them for passing the trial, and Nie Li asked him to conceal the news from the Dark Guild.

Yun Tian learned that Nie Li and the others had dealt with the Dark Guild, while Nie Li told Ye Yan that Legend rank was only the start of cultivation. In Glory City, Ye Zong sought help deciphering the ancient Ten Thousand Demon Spirit Great Array and decided to ask Ye Ziyun to invite Yun Tian.

• Yang Xin told Yun Tian that Nie Li and the others had encountered the Dark Guild and Shen Ming, and that the captured men were in the Alchemist Guild.
• Nie Li boasted to Ye Yan that Legend rank was only a starting point and asked him to help Nie Li reach the Gold Realm.
• Du Ze struggled with the burden of becoming his family's patriarch, while Lu Piao and Xiao Xue chased and bickered through the streets.
• Ye Xiu warned Ye Zong that demon beasts in the Sacred Ancestor Mountain Range were multiplying and showed him the unreadable Ten Thousand Demon Spirit Great Array.
• Ye Zong rejected asking Nie Li for help, then agreed with Ye Xiu to have Ye Ziyun invite Yun Tian to decipher the book.