Recaps

After Xia Yao demanded the Sacred Martial Token to heal Xia Yu, Xia Yu fought to protect her and the clan’s First Elder shattered his dantian. As Xia Yu confronted his despair over being unable to help his sick sister, a mysterious voice spoke in his mind and he discovered something unexpected in his dantian.

• A maid told Xia Yu that the clan planned to strip him of his position and that Xia Yao had been struck while defending him.
• Xia Yao demanded their mother’s Sacred Martial Token, but Xia Hongji and the elders refused, and Xia Longfei ordered Monkey to hit her.
• Xia Yu stopped Monkey, attacked Xia Longfei, and was struck by the First Elder, who shattered his dantian.
• Xia Yao offered the Sacred Martial Token to spare Xia Yu from punishment, and Xia Hongji agreed to let them leave.
• Xia Hongji secretly ordered the First Elder to dispose of Xia Yu and Xia Yao, while Xia Yao tried to comfort her injured brother.
• Alone, Xia Yu worried that he could no longer suppress Xia Yao’s chronic illness, then heard a mysterious voice and examined his dantian.

After the cauldron appeared inside Xia Yu and absorbed spiritual energy from across ten thousand li, the Ancestral Dragon passed him a cultivation art before a mysterious white light struck them both and left Xia Yu unconscious. Xia Longfei mistakenly received credit for the heavenly phenomenon and celebrated his breakthrough, while Xia Yu woke with the Ancestral Dragon Boundless Art in his mind.

• Xia Yu recognized the cauldron in his body as the object connected to the white light that had struck him in the cavern and destroyed his dantian and meridians.
• The cauldron drew spiritual energy from across ten thousand li, creating a heavenly phenomenon that drew the attention of Zhu Kang, Zhou Xing, nearby sects, and a woman riding a white tiger.
• The Ancestral Dragon escaped the cauldron, declared it would pass on its art to Xia Yu, and was struck by the white light as both sent golden energy through Xia Yu, knocking him unconscious.
• Xia Longfei broke through to the third level of Origin Absorption, and Xia Hongji credited his cultivation with the heavenly phenomenon as city and lineage leaders arrived with gifts.
• Xia Yu woke and examined the Ancestral Dragon Boundless Art, learning that awakening each of the body's 1.08 billion small worlds would grant the strength of one dragon.

Xia Yu awakened the Ancestral Dragon techniques, broke through to the fifth level of Origin Absorption, and mastered two movement techniques. After Xia Fan injured and harassed Xia Yao, Xia Yu killed him and faced the Xia Lineage leaders, the city lord, and the other Lineage patriarchs.

• Xia Yu learned that the Ancestral Dragon Fist required at least two activated small worlds and that the Heaven-Incinerating Furnace could refine spiritual energy.
• Xia Yu activated one small world, broke through from the tenth level of Body Tempering to the fifth level of Origin Absorption, and practiced the Ancestral Dragon techniques.
• Xia Yu mastered Divine Dragon Concealment and Divine Dragon Movement, then hurried to the kitchen after a maid told him Xia Yao was in trouble.
• Xia Fan shoved Xia Yao, injured her forehead, and tried to force himself on her, so Xia Yu punched him and killed him.
• Xia Yu treated Xia Yao's wound, then confronted the Xia Lineage patriarch, grand elder, young patriarch, city lord, and other Lineage patriarchs, declaring that Xia Fan deserved to die.

Xia Yu survived Xia Yonggang’s attack despite his shattered dantian and challenged Xia Longfei to a fight to the death in fifteen days. He left for the Ten Thousand Demons Forest to find resources and cultivate, but discovered someone had followed him there.

• The Grand Elder ordered Xia Yonggang to kill Xia Yu, but Xia Yu withstood his Dragon Claw Hand with a powerful punch despite lacking origin energy.
• Xia Yu challenged Xia Longfei to a fight to the death, and Xia Longfei accepted for the grand tournament in fifteen days.
• Xia Longfei told Xia Hongji he expected his cultivation to advance after the heavenly phenomenon, and the Xia family ended the confrontation.
• Xia Yu reassured Xia Yao, gave her Spirit-Melting Pills, and left the Xia residence to cultivate and hunt demonic beasts.
• At midnight, Xia Yu reached the Ten Thousand Demons Forest and confronted a dark figure who had followed him from Huai City.

Xia Yu defeated Xia Yonggang after the Heaven-Incinerating Furnace refined the Cloud-Riding Sword and kept its wound from harming him. He negotiated a share of the furnace’s refined spiritual energy, then entered the Ten Thousand Demons Forest to gather more.

• Xia Yonggang attacked Xia Yu with the Cloud-Riding Sword, but Xia Yu’s small-world origin power helped him endure the strikes and heal.
• Xia Yu fought back with the Ancestral Dragon Fist, forcing Xia Yonggang to retreat and drawing his offer to spare Xia Yu in exchange for the technique.
• Xia Yonggang pierced Xia Yu’s abdomen with the Soul-Chasing Spirit-Seizing Strike, but the Heaven-Incinerating Furnace refined the sword, and Xia Yu killed him with a surprise punch.
• Xia Yu struck a deal with the Heaven-Incinerating Furnace to split spiritual energy from items he found, then received half of the Cloud-Riding Sword’s refined energy.
• Xia Yu headed toward the Ten Thousand Demons Forest and fought demon wolves.

Xia Yu slaughtered demonic beasts in the Myriad Demon Forest, reaching the middle region after breaking through to the seventh level of the origin absorption realm. A rumor spread through the Treehouse Settlement that he carried a priceless treasure, just as he faced his first advanced demonic beast, a Jade-Eyed Striped Black Tiger.

• Xia Yu killed six intermediate demonic wolves, fed their crystal cores and corpses to the Heaven-Incinerating Furnace, and gained only a small amount of spiritual energy.
• Xia Yu spent a day killing more than a hundred intermediate demonic beasts, advanced to the seventh level of the origin absorption realm, and entered the middle region of the forest.
• Ruda Nanyang invited Xia Yu to join his group, but Xia Yu refused and hurried away; Ruda stopped his companions from pursuing him.
• A rumor spread through the Treehouse Settlement that Xia Yu was a lone origin absorption realm cultivator carrying a priceless treasure, and many people quietly left.
• A Jade-Eyed Striped Black Tiger lunged at Xia Yu, beginning their first encounter with an advanced demonic beast.

Xia Yu repeatedly fought the Jade-Eyed Striped Black Tiger until he awakened elementary battle intent and brought the beast down, but he disappeared beneath its body. Old Man Cold Crow arrived to claim the tiger and Xia Yu, then discovered Xia Yu was still alive when his walking stick pierced the beast.

• Xia Yu charged the Jade-Eyed Striped Black Tiger again and again, growing stronger as his injuries worsened.
• Xia Yu awakened elementary battle intent and struck the tiger with all his strength, apparently killing it before vanishing beneath its body.
• A thin cultivator and his companions watched, while Ning Yidao approached to claim the tiger and its treasure.
• Old Man Cold Crow appeared, drove Ning Yidao and the other onlookers away, and announced that he would take the tiger and Xia Yu as his own.
• Old Man Cold Crow offered to make Xia Yu his disciple in exchange for learning how he comprehended battle intent, then jabbed his walking stick through the tiger and struck Xia Yu underneath it.

After killing Old Man Cold Crow and absorbing his body and the Jade-Eyed Striped Black Tiger, Xia Yu activated his second small world and rapidly advanced in cultivation. He tested his strengthened abilities before falling into a deep underground passage, where he spotted a red light.

• Xia Yu feigned weakness, then snapped Old Man Cold Crow's neck after the old man offered to save him in exchange for the secret of battle intent.
• The Heaven-Incinerating Furnace absorbed Old Man Cold Crow's corpse and sent pure spiritual energy into Xia Yu, bringing his second small world close to activation.
• Xia Yu fed the Jade-Eyed Striped Black Tiger's crystal core and body to the furnace, activating his second small world and advancing to the third level of the Origin Command Realm.
• Xia Yu tested Boundless alongside Divine Dragon Concealment and Divine Dragon Movement, discovering that the techniques greatly increased his power and speed.
• Xia Yu vanished into the forest, fell into a rocky underground passage, and spotted a red light after sliding several miles.

Xia Yu climbed through a foul passage into a hidden cavern, where he found a long-dead old man and claimed the Sin Dragon Spear. After using the Heaven-Incinerating Furnace to frighten the arrogant weapon into submission, he learned it had brought him its former master's Heaven and Earth Ring.

• Xia Yu climbed through a bone- and dung-blocked passage and emerged into a vast cavern containing a stone bed, a dusty Pill Furnace, and an old man whose body had not decayed.
• When the Heaven-Incinerating Furnace demanded to devour the old man's body, Xia Yu refused and respectfully bowed before leaving.
• The Sin Dragon Spear flew to Xia Yu, drew his blood to bind itself to him, and insulted him through their new connection.
• Xia Yu threatened to feed the Sin Dragon Spear to the Heaven-Incinerating Furnace until it begged for mercy and swore to obey him.
• The Sin Dragon Spear gave Xia Yu a Heaven and Earth Ring, which he opened with his blood and found astonishingly vast.

Xia Yu discovered that the Heaven and Earth Ring contained the Heaven-Splitting Three Forms and extensive alchemical knowledge, then emerged from the cavern to find a woman in white battling a giant python. As the woman weakened, Xia Yu waited for an opening to strike the python, which had stolen the pills in his furnace.

• Xia Yu found the Heaven-Splitting Three Forms and alchemical knowledge in the jade slip inside the Heaven and Earth Ring.
• Xia Yu collected the Pill Furnace and left the cavern as fighting outside shook the mountain.
• Xia Yu saw a wounded woman in white fighting a giant python, while the Sin Dragon Spear urged him to rescue her.
• The Sin Dragon Spear revealed that the python had stolen the pills from Xia Yu's Pill Furnace and was close to transforming into a flood dragon.
• Xia Yu gripped the Sin Dragon Spear and vanished from his position when the python attacked the woman again.

Xia Yu killed a peak King Realm python and absorbed its energy, then hunted more King Realm demonic beasts until he activated his third small world and reached the peak of the Origin Command Realm. A furious demon king led a horde after him, and the chapter ended as the Lion Demon King’s attack triggered a battle between humans and demons.

• Xia Yu killed the peak King Realm python with his Sin Dragon Spear, took its crystal core, and secretly absorbed the beast into the Heaven-Incinerating Furnace.
• The White-Clad Woman realized Xia Yu had saved her, while Xia Yu fled into the Ten Thousand Demons Forest and absorbed the python’s spiritual energy.
• Xia Yu ambushed King Realm demonic beasts over several days and activated his third small world, advancing to the tenth level of the Origin Command Realm.
• A peak King Realm demonic beast roared that Xia Yu had killed its little brother and sent beasts throughout the forest after him.
• Xia Yu fled toward the forest’s edge, using Divine Dragon Concealment to vanish from the pursuing horde and the demon king.
• The demonic beasts attacked humans, and a figure from the Treehouse Settlement confronted the Lion Demon King for breaking the rules.

The Cloud Emperor drove off the Lion Demon King, who had demanded the human responsible for killing his younger brother, while Xia Yu escaped pursuit and returned to Huai City. He rescued Xia Yao from the Xia family and took her to the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, where the guards refused to let him see the pavilion master.

• The Cloud Emperor defeated the Lion Demon King in their clash and refused to interfere with his hunt for Xia Yu, invoking the agreement between the Ten Thousand Demons Forest and humanity.
• The Lion Demon King left, and the Cloud Emperor learned that his tracker had lost Xia Yu’s trail.
• Xia Yu reached the Xia family estate and found Fourth Uncle and the servants trying to drive Xia Yao from her courtyard and denying her medicine.
• Xia Yu struck Fourth Uncle, carried the unconscious Xia Yao away, and declared that they had no reason to remain with the Xia family.
• Xia Yu arrived at the Myriad Treasures Pavilion and asked to see its pavilion master, but the lead guard demanded payment for the broken door and ordered him to leave.

Xia Yu forced his way into the Myriad Treasures Pavilion to obtain spirit pills for his gravely ill sister, Xia Yao, and fought off its guards. After the pills temporarily suppressed her condition, he faced the pavilion’s forces and defeated their sword cultivator, Wu Zichi, before the branch master Duanmu Lin demanded an explanation.

• Xia Yu offered the Sin Dragon Spear as collateral for spirit pills, but the head guard demanded his Heaven and Earth Ring and attacked him.
• Xia Yu knocked aside the guards and pavilion fighters who tried to stop him, then entered the Spirit Pill Tower and gave Xia Yao pills that temporarily suppressed the powers of water and fire.
• Xia Yu realized Xia Yao needed a king-grade spirit pill for a chance at a cure and decided to refine one using the alchemy inheritance he had absorbed.
• A crowd from the Myriad Treasures Pavilion confronted Xia Yu outside the tower, and he challenged them after seating Xia Yao nearby.
• Xia Yu defeated the eighth-level Origin Command Realm sword cultivator Wu Zichi with one thrust of the Sin Dragon Spear.
• Duanmu Lin, master of the pavilion’s Huai City branch, arrived and demanded an explanation, and Xia Yu asked whether he was threatening him.

After resolving the Myriad Treasures Pavilion dispute, Xia Yu secured rare ingredients to refine a King Pill for his sister Xia Yao. He prepared to begin with his own mysterious pill furnace, which Duanmu Wenshan suspected might be Saint-Tier.

• Duanmu Lin learned Guard Liu had caused the trouble, expelled him, apologized to Xia Yu, and offered spirit pills and a VIP Card.
• Xia Yu asked Duanmu Lin for costly medicinal ingredients, and Duanmu Lin admitted the Huai City branch did not have them.
• Duanmu Wenshan recognized the ingredients as materials for a King Pill and offered to supply them free if he could watch Xia Yu refine it.
• Duanmu Wenshan led Xia Yu to a pill-refining chamber and offered his King-Tier Pill Furnace, but Xia Yu chose his own furnace instead.
• Duanmu Wenshan inspected Xia Yu's furnace and was shocked that it might be Saint-Tier.

Xia Yu refined King-Tier Spirit Pills to restore Xia Yao, then took her to the Huai City Grand Competition to reclaim what their mother had left them. At the competition, Xia Longfei challenged the crowd, and someone stepped forward to fight him.

• Duanmu Wenshan set up the alchemy array while Xia Yu refined ten batches, succeeding with seven and giving Xia Yao two pills to help her recover.
• Duanmu Lin warned that the Xia Lineage had come to arrest Xia Yu, but Duanmu Wenshan promised to handle them and protect him.
• After reviewing his alchemy, Xia Yu remembered the Huai City Grand Competition and agreed to go with Xia Yao despite her recent recovery.
• At the competition, the crowd and sect representatives watched as Xia Longfei entered the arena, and Lu Tianxiang and the sect representatives were disappointed by his sixth-level Origin Absorption cultivation.
• Xia Longfei challenged the crowd, and a figure charged onto the platform to fight him.

Xia Longfei defeated Gong Jihang and challenged Xia Yu, but An Qing dismissed his claim that he had summoned a heavenly phenomenon. Xia Yu arrived with his sister and received deference from Duanmu Wenshan, then agreed to fight An Qing after dealing with Xia Longfei.

• Xia Longfei defeated Gong Jihang with a single move and proclaimed himself invincible among his peers.
• When Xia Yu did not appear, Xia Longfei called him a coward, but An Qing descended and said Xia Longfei was not worthy of summoning a heavenly phenomenon.
• Duanmu Wenshan arrived with Xia Yu and Xia Yao, treated Xia Yu with great respect, and escorted Xia Yao to the viewing stands.
• Xia Yu recognized An Qing as the King Realm Sword Cultivator he had rescued, and she said she wanted to fight him.
• Xia Yu agreed to deal with Xia Longfei first, while An Qing went to the viewing stands and showed Lu Tianxiang a token that made him fall to his knees.

Xia Yu killed Xia Longfei and the Xia Lineage elders who attacked him, then entered sudden enlightenment while the Seventh Princess and his allies protected him. After reaching the first level of the Spirit Origin Realm, he followed An Qing outside Huai City to fight her.

• After the Seventh Princess revealed her identity, Xia Longfei challenged Xia Yu, who defeated him with a single spear thrust and killed him despite Xia Hongji’s protests.
• Xia Yu killed four Xia Lineage experts with one attack, then pierced Xia Hongji and the first elder through the throat as they charged him.
• Xia Yu entered sudden enlightenment, while Wu Zichi, Duanmu Lin, An Qing, and Zhu Kang prevented anyone from attacking or disturbing him.
• Two hours later, Xia Yu awoke at the first level of the Spirit Origin Realm, thanked An Qing, and agreed to fight her with her cultivation suppressed.
• Outside Huai City, Xia Yu walked toward An Qing as his aura rose with each step.

Xia Yu sparred with An Qing, endured her full-strength sword strike, and learned she knew how to cure his sister. An Qing agreed to explain only if Xia Yu defeated her.

• Xia Yu fought An Qing with ordinary weapons and his fists, showing his strength as a body cultivator.
• An Qing unleashed a colossal sword strike, and Xia Yu met it with his full power before crashing into a deep pit with severe injuries.
• Xia Yu’s ancestral dragon power rapidly healed him, astonishing An Qing, and he surrendered when she threatened another strike.
• An Qing revealed that she knew how to cure Xia Yu’s sister, whose unusual condition was only being suppressed by pills.
• Xia Yu begged An Qing for help, but she told him to defeat her first.

Xia Yu defeated An Qing in one strike, prompting her to break through in sword cultivation. After she told him Ming Yue in Capital City might know how to save his sister, Xia Yu set off with An Qing’s jade pendant to seek her help.

• Xia Yu used his full strength to pierce An Qing’s defenses and win their duel, leaving her stunned by the defeat.
• An Qing reflected on Xia Yu’s willingness to risk his life for his sister, reached an epiphany, and advanced to the third level of the King Realm with intermediate sword intent.
• An Qing attacked Xia Yu again, and he let her sword strikes hit him so the Heaven-Incinerating Furnace could return pure spiritual energy.
• Xia Yu demanded that An Qing honor their wager and explain how to save his sister; she said Ming Yue in Capital City might know a way.
• Xia Yu hurried toward Capital City, and An Qing gave him her jade pendant to take to Ming Yue at the Martial Saint Academy.

Xia Yu left Huai City with Xia Yao and Duanmu Wenshan, while the city’s leaders divided up the Xia Lineage’s property. After more than ten days of travel and study, they reached Capital City, where Xia Yu looked upon the statue of the dynasty’s founder.

• Xia Yu left Huai City with Xia Yao, and Duanmu Wenshan followed them after the Myriad Treasures Pavilion’s people departed.
• Lu Tianxiang and Zhu Kang concluded that Xia Yu had triggered the heavenly phenomenon and decided to visit him, but learned he had already left for Capital City.
• Zhu Kang and the heads of the Xu, Gong, and Zhang Lineages agreed to divide the Xia Lineage’s property, leaving the lineage with only part of its ancestral residence.
• Duanmu Wenshan arranged the journey to Capital City and tutored Xia Yu in alchemy while Xia Yu studied and cultivated aboard the ship.
• After more than ten days, Xia Yu and Xia Yao reached Capital City and saw the statue of An Qi, inspiring Xia Yu to think that a man should be like this.

Xia Yu and Xia Yao arrived at Capital City's harbor, where the young marquis's men tried to seize Xia Yao. Xia Yu killed the Sixth Master and A Jian, then spared the young marquis while warning him never to appear before him again.

• The Sixth Master ordered his men to take Xia Yao for the young marquis, but Xia Yu killed the attackers and snapped the Sixth Master's neck.
• The young marquis ordered A Jian to fight Xia Yu and boasted that A Jian was a Sword Cultivator from a backwater.
• A Jian attacked Xia Yu with his sword, but Xia Yu killed him with the Sin Dragon Spear.
• The frightened young marquis tried to recruit Xia Yu, who grabbed him by the neck and warned him not to appear again.

After Xia Yu spared the young marquis, Duanmu Wenshan explained the powerful family and connections behind him and described the dangers Xia Yu faced in Capital City. As they approached the Crouching Dragon Mountains, Duanmu Wenshan began explaining the academies there.

• The young marquis fled toward his residence, terrified that Xia Yu would kill him.
• Duanmu Wenshan explained that Jiang Yuqi was the heir of a powerful marquis family and warned Xia Yu about his half-brother Jiang Yufeng, a half-step king realm genius.
• Duanmu Wenshan offered help through his Myriad Treasures Pavilion connections, but Xia Yu resolved to rely on himself.
• Xia Yao urged Xia Yu to stay alive, and Xia Yu promised to protect her and hoped they could both cultivate once her illness was cured.
• Duanmu Wenshan pointed out the Crouching Dragon Mountains and described Dragon-Riding Mountain, Wendao Mountain, and the schools of Wendao Academy.

Duanmu Wenshan explained the vast world and the history of the Martial Saint Academy and Wendao Academy to Xia Yu as they traveled to Martial Saint Mountain. On the academy’s crowded recruitment day, Xia Yu joked with a peddler, but the story ended when Xia Yao suffered a severe flare-up of her illness.

• Duanmu Wenshan described the nine continents and recounted how Yuan Dehai helped His Majesty An Qi defeat Great Zhou before the Martial Saint Academy rose and Wendao Academy declined.
• Xia Yu, Xia Yao, and Duanmu Wenshan reached Martial Saint Mountain and learned that it was the academy’s annual recruitment day.
• A young man tried to sell Xia Yu examination guides and information about the academy’s elders, but Xia Yu turned down each offer with exaggerated confidence.
• Xia Yu followed the crowds to the Martial Saint Academy entrance, then saw Xia Yao’s body split between burning heat and icy cold, with ice crystals forming and bluish smoke rising.

Xia Yu rushed to the Martial Saint Academy with his gravely ill sister, Xia Yao, and begged Miss Ming Yue to help save her. When the academy elders refused and tried to seize him, he fought them at the gates and survived their attacks, leaving the outer sect elder stunned.

• Duanmu Wenshan warned Xia Yu that Xia Yao's opposing fire and water powers had grown stronger and she could last only half an hour.
• Xia Yu carried Xia Yao through the crowd to the Martial Saint Academy gates and pleaded with the outer sect elders for help, but they refused.
• Xia Yu called out to Miss Ming Yue for aid, then struck down an outer sect disciple who moved to seize him.
• Xia Yu used the Ancestral Dragon Fist to defeat three sword-wielding disciples and withstand the elder's Sky-Covering Palm.
• The elder attacked with his Explosive Charging Fist, but Xia Yu met it with Threefold Boundless, leaving the elder shocked by the result.

Xia Yu fought Martial Saint Academy's outer sect elder Jiao while trying to reach Miss Ming Yue for help with Xia Yao. After defeating Jiao, he was attacked by Gu Qingfeng, whom he disarmed before leaving.

• Xia Yu set Xia Yao down with Duanmu Wenshan and demanded that Elder Jiao let him see Miss Ming Yue.
• Xia Yu dodged Jiao's Sky-Covering Palm and fought him to a standstill with Ancestral Dragon Fist.
• Xia Yu defeated Jiao with the Sin Dragon Spear and again called for Miss Ming Yue.
• Gu Qingfeng confronted Xia Yu when he turned to leave and attacked him with Sky-Covering Palm.
• Xia Yu countered with Heaven-Splitting Three Forms and severed Gu Qingfeng's wrist.