Recaps

Xia Yu defeated Gu Qingfeng and Wang Yilun at the Martial Saint Academy’s entrance, then challenged the academy’s younger generation over their grievances. When he saw a young man approaching Xia Yao, he attacked, but learned the man had brought his master to examine her; the young man, Shen Yuxuan, then asked Xia Yu to beat up the approaching disciples.

• Gu Qingfeng lost his right hand to Xia Yu in one move, and another inner disciple demanded that Xia Yu surrender for punishment.
• Xia Yu challenged the Martial Saint Academy’s younger generation to settle their grievances in a life-and-death battle, and Wang Yilun attacked him with the Blazing Sun Sword Technique.
• Xia Yu shattered Wang Yilun’s sword strike, defeated him with one spear thrust, and told the academy disciples to stop wasting his time.
• Xia Yu saw Shen Yuxuan and an older man beside Xia Yao and attacked, but Shen Yuxuan stopped his spear and explained that his master was examining Xia Yao.
• Shen Yuxuan introduced himself, put an arm around Xia Yu, and asked him to beat up the approaching disciples, prompting Xia Yu to ask whether they were not his fellow disciples.

Shen Yuxuan refused to fight Xu Weilin but warned Xia Yu about the Martial Saint Academy’s tactics. When Xu Weilin ordered his disciples to attack Xia Yu, Xia Yu struck first and killed one disciple while badly wounding another.

• Shen Yuxuan revealed he belonged to the Dao-Seeking Academy and sold the Martial Saint Academy’s information for money.
• Shen Yuxuan refused Xu Weilin’s challenge and warned Xia Yu that the Martial Saint Academy would call on its elders if a disciple faced death.
• Shen Yuxuan blocked Xu Weilin from joining the fight as Xu Weilin ordered four inner disciples to attack Xia Yu together.
• Xia Yu suddenly attacked and killed the first inner disciple with his Sin Dragon Spear.
• Xia Yu repelled two charging disciples, and one of them realized too late that Xia Yu had cut him in half.

Xia Yu killed the two remaining inner disciples who attacked him, but Xu Weilin intervened and called for the entire Martial Saint Academy to attack. As dozens of King Realm cultivators gathered, Shen Yuxuan offered Xia Yu a place in the Dao-Seeking Academy, and Xia Yu agreed.

• The two inner disciples attacked Xia Yu with sword techniques, but he evaded them and pierced both their throats.
• Xu Weilin rushed at Xia Yu, but Shen Yuxuan struck Xia Yu out of the way and blocked Xu Weilin from pursuing him.
• Shen Yuxuan warned Xu Weilin that fighting him could cost Xu Weilin his chance to enter the secret realm and break through to the Emperor Realm.
• Xu Weilin summoned the Martial Saint Academy's inner disciples to kill Xia Yu, and dozens of cultivators, most of them in the King Realm, arrived.
• Shen Yuxuan invited Xia Yu to join the Dao-Seeking Academy, and Xia Yu accepted, asking whether he would have to take Shen Yuxuan as his master.

After the old man took Xia Yao away to treat her, Xia Yu joined the Dao-Seeking Academy and faced the Martial Saint Academy’s inner disciples with Shen Yuxuan. Xia Yu challenged Bao Yijian to a duel, survived his near-instant sword strike, and put his spear to Bao Yijian’s throat.

• The old man sealed the powers in Xia Yao and carried her away, promising to seek a way to help her at the Dao-Seeking Academy.
• Shen Yuxuan called Xia Yu his junior brother and said the two of them would face the Martial Saint Academy’s disciples under the academies’ challenge rules.
• As thirty-one Martial Saint Academy inner disciples advanced, Xia Yu challenged Bao Yijian to fight him one-on-one.
• Bao Yijian warned that his sword had only one strike, then wounded Xia Yu between the brows with its Sword Qi.
• Xia Yu used Divine Dragon Concealment to evade the killing blow, then pressed his spear to Bao Yijian’s throat and declared that he had lost.

Xia Yu defeated Bao Yijian and four other inner disciples, but a powerful woman confronted him and crushed him with her pressure. Though he spat blood, Xia Yu refused to yield to her.

• Bao Yijian admitted defeat after Xia Yu evaded his sword and struck him with the Sin Dragon Spear.
• When an inner disciple ordered a group attack, Xia Yu killed four attackers in one strike, piercing the shield bearer’s defensive king weapon.
• A woman appeared and blocked Shen Yuxuan and Xia Yu from leaving, then pressured Xia Yu until he struggled to stand.
• Xia Yu summoned his battle intent to straighten his chest, but the woman pressed him down again and made him spit blood.
• Xia Yu declared that he would never yield, and golden light flared over his body.

Xia Yu unleashed his intermediate battle intent against Qi Huang, but Su Deyu intervened before she could kill him and confronted the Martial Saint Academy’s leaders. After the two sides withdrew, Qi Huang blamed Xu Weilin for failing to kill Xia Yu, and An Qing arrived asking where he was.

• Xia Yu activated his battle intent and attacked Qi Huang, but Su Deyu blocked his punch and ordered Shen Yuxuan to take him away.
• Qi Huang challenged Su Deyu, and her master Yuan Pingtian arrived; Su Deyu warned them not to break the rules governing conflicts between the younger generation.
• Yuan Pingtian admitted he could not defeat Su Deyu and said the Martial Saint Academy’s inner disciples would still kill Xia Yu.
• Qi Huang rebuked Xu Weilin for not attacking Xia Yu and made his entry into the Emperor Realm depend on killing him.
• Xu Weilin scolded the inner disciples for letting Xia Yu humiliate the Martial Saint Hall, and An Qing arrived asking where Xia Yu was.

An Qing learned that Xia Yu had gone to the Dao-Seeking Academy and hurried there, while Xu Weilin resolved to have Xia Yu killed. At the academy, Pill Master Lin Xulun examined Xia Yao and warned that her conflicting water and fire powers would eventually kill her, leaving Xia Yu with a risky temporary treatment as his only option before he revealed a crucial flaw in Lin’s pill-making.

• An Qing asked Xu Weilin about Xia Yu, learned he had gone to the Dao-Seeking Academy, and left to follow him; Xu Weilin decided Xia Yu had to die that night.
• Su Deyu summoned Lin Xulun to examine Xia Yao, and Lin gave Xia Yu a bottle of King-Rank Foundation Nurturing Pills as a greeting gift.
• Lin Xulun diagnosed Xia Yao with an unusual water-and-fire constitution whose weakening suppression would eventually fail and kill her.
• Lin offered to suppress Xia Yao’s powers temporarily with water- and fire-attribute pills, warning that the treatment could make their eventual eruption stronger; Xia Yao agreed, but Xia Yu urged her to seek Shangguan Ming Yue first.
• As Lin Xulun was leaving, Xia Yu warned him not to use sulfur in the Separation Fire Glazed Glass Pill, and Lin spun around in shock.

Xia Yu challenged Lin Xulun’s doubts by refining a Separation Fire Glazed Glass Pill, while Xia Yao and Su Deyu learned that the Seventh Princess had come to see him. Xia Yu completed the refining process, and six pills flew from the furnace.

• Xia Yu told Lin Xulun that sulfur could not be used in the Separation Fire Glazed Glass Pill and offered to prove his alchemy skills by refining it.
• Xia Yao persuaded Su Deyu to let Shen Yuxuan check on Xia Yu, then revealed that the Seventh Princess knew him and had sent him to find Shangguan Ming Yue.
• Su Deyu learned that the Seventh Princess had come to see Xia Yu and sent Shen Yuxuan to welcome her and take her to the Pill Academy.
• Lin Xulun prepared the furnace in a magma cavern, and Xia Yu began extracting the medicinal ingredients while Lin controlled the fire.
• Xia Yu directed the furnace’s heat and struck it in rhythm until he extinguished the flame and six pills shot into the air.

After Xia Yu successfully refined supreme-grade king-tier pills, Lin Xulun asked him to become his alchemy teacher. Lin Xulun then went to confront Su Deyu, who mistakenly assumed Xia Yu had angered him and offered compensation and punishment.

• Xia Yu finished refining the pills after exhausting the Origin Force in his three small worlds and handed the jade bottle to Lin Xulun.
• Xia Yu asked Seventh Princess An Qing to help his older sister, and she agreed after he promised to repay her.
• Lin Xulun asked Xia Yu to teach him alchemy, explaining that he wanted to learn the lost Tremor Art and overcome the barrier keeping him from becoming an Emperor-Rank Alchemist.
• Lin Xulun went to find Xia Yu's master, Su Deyu, and shouted for him across the Dao-Seeking Academy.
• Su Deyu assumed Lin Xulun was angry about Xia Yu's misconduct and offered to pay for damages, serve tea, and have Xia Yu carry thorn branches to apologize.

Lin Xulun insisted on taking Xia Yu as his teacher and made him the Pill Academy’s supreme elder. Xia Yu accepted after learning that the position could help him search for a cure for his sister and bring him a huge share of the academy’s income.

• Su Deyu pleaded with Lin Xulun to spare Xia Yu, but Lin Xulun said he wanted one person from the academy.
• Lin Xulun revealed that he wanted Xia Yu as his teacher, and Su Deyu reluctantly agreed despite the awkward seniority.
• Lin Xulun bowed to Xia Yu, named him the Pill Academy’s supreme elder, and explained that the role came with access to its resources and ancient pill texts.
• Lin Xulun promised Xia Yu ten percent of the Pill Academy’s income, and Xia Yu was astonished to hear his share could exceed fifty million low-grade spirit stones a year.

Xia Yu became the Pill Academy’s supreme elder after demonstrating extraordinary alchemy, then won An Qing’s favor and accepted his master Su Deyu’s offer of spirit stones. The chapter ended with Xia Yu absorbing the entire treasury’s mountain of stones and breaking through, leaving Su Deyu stunned.

• Lin Xulun made Xia Yu the Pill Academy’s supreme elder, and the academy celebrated with a banquet.
• Xia Yu promised An Qing a discount on pills, charmed her into calling him Little Brother Yu, and took her to meet Xia Yao.
• An Qing and Xia Yao agreed to treat each other as sisters, while Su Deyu began to hope Xia Yu could restore the Dao-Seeking Academy’s fortunes.
• Su Deyu took Xia Yu to the Martial Academy treasury and invited him to take as many spirit stones as he could carry.
• Xia Yu made the entire mountain of spirit stones vanish, then broke through to a higher cultivation level as Su Deyu watched in shock.

Xia Yu absorbed a million Low-Grade Spirit Stones and advanced from the Spirit Origin Realm to the fifth heaven of the Profound Origin Realm in fifteen minutes, leaving Su Deyu stunned. Su Deyu refused to let Xia Yu visit the treasury, and Shen Yuxuan summoned them to a feast.

• Su Deyu wondered whether Xia Yu was a demonic cultivator or beast after seeing his powerful aura.
• The Heaven-Incinerating Furnace released spiritual energy from the million Spirit Stones, awakening Xia Yu's fourth, fifth, and sixth small worlds.
• Xia Yu broke through twelve minor stages, reaching the fifth heaven of the Profound Origin Realm, while Su Deyu watched in disbelief.
• Su Deyu checked that Xia Yu was human, then denied promising him access to the treasury because he could not spare more treasures.
• Shen Yuxuan announced that the feast at Martial Uncle Lin's place was starting, and Su Deyu invited Xia Yu to go drink.

Xia Yu accidentally barged into Su Xiang'er's room while she was unclothed, then met her again at the Pill Academy banquet, where she learned he was Su Deyu's new disciple. As the banquet began, a furious challenger demanded that Xia Yu face death.

• Shen Yuxuan sent Xia Yu to invite Eldest Senior Sister Su Xiang'er to the banquet.
• Xia Yu smashed into Su Xiang'er's room after hearing a groan and saw her unclothed, then hurried away.
• Su Xiang'er learned that Su Deyu had taken Xia Yu as a disciple and confronted him at the Pill Academy banquet.
• Su Xiang'er agreed to show Xia Yu around with Shen Yuxuan, while Xia Yu concealed his embarrassment over their earlier encounter.
• Lin Xulun called Xia Yu his teacher, surprising Su Xiang'er, and the banquet was interrupted by a roar demanding that Xia Yu come out and meet his death.

Xia Yu confronted Jiang Yuqi and his men at the Dao-Seeking Academy after they demanded he kneel. When Lü Junxiu attacked, Xia Yu broke his wrist with a punch and mocked him.

• Nangong Yu introduced Jiang Yuqi and ordered Xia Yu to kneel, but Xia Yu mocked Jiang Yuqi’s claim to be a little marquis.
• A burly cultivator struck Xia Yu’s head with a saber, which broke without harming him.
• Jiang Yuqi offered to spare Xia Yu if he swore loyalty, then ordered Lü Junxiu to seize him and send him to the Martial Saint Academy.
• Shen Yuxuan came out of the academy gate and watched as Lü Junxiu attacked Xia Yu.
• Xia Yu punched Lü Junxiu, twisting his wrist out of shape, and ridiculed his name.

Xia Yu defeated Jiang Yuqi’s group after killing Nangong Yu and shattering Jiang Yuqi’s arm, then clashed with Xu Weilin. Xu Weilin called for reinforcements, and Martial Saint Academy elders arrived as Zhang Xinyi questioned why he had summoned them.

• Xia Yu broke Lü Junxiu’s arm and taunted Jiang Yuqi, who hesitated to attack him.
• Nangong Yu attacked Xia Yu with his speed domain, but Xia Yu turned his iron fan against him and killed him with one strike.
• Jiang Yuqi tried to flee, then attacked Xia Yu with Heaven-Supporting Finger; Xia Yu shattered his arm before Xu Weilin intervened.
• Xia Yu and Xu Weilin exchanged punches, and Xu Weilin summoned help from Martial Saint Mountain rather than continue fighting.
• Su Deyu, Lin Xulun, Seventh Princess An Qing, and Su Xiang’er arrived with others from the Dao-Seeking Academy, while Martial Saint Academy elders confronted Xu Weilin.

Zhang Xinyi forced Xu Weilin to challenge Xia Yu, but the Dao-Seeking Academy united to stop the Martial Saint Academy from attacking. An Qing secured a fair fight between the younger generation, and the chapter ended as Xu Weilin activated his domain to battle Xia Yu to the death.

• Zhang Xinyi ordered Xu Weilin to kill Xia Yu or die trying, and Xu Weilin advanced toward him.
• Lin Xulun threatened the Martial Saint Academy with poison pills, while Zhao Sihai, Zhuge Busi, and Wu Wenxin rallied their academies to prepare for battle.
• An Qing intervened, invoked Xia Yu's connection to her, and persuaded Zhang Xinyi to let the younger generation settle the dispute.
• Xia Yu accepted a challenge from his peers, and Su Deyu agreed to intervene if the Martial Saint Academy broke the rules.
• Zhang Xinyi ordered Xu Weilin to fight Xia Yu to the death, and Xu Weilin activated his king's domain.

Xia Yu fought Xu Weilin, a half-step Emperor Realm genius from the Martial Saint Academy, and matched him despite his lower cultivation. After Xia Yu drove Xu Weilin back with his Sixfold Boundless Ancestral Dragon Fist, Xu Weilin summoned battle intent and powered up, leaving the duel unresolved.

• Su Xiang'er challenged Xu Weilin on Xia Yu's behalf, but Xia Yu insisted on fighting him himself.
• Xia Yu and Xu Weilin traded a barrage of punches, with their Ancestral Dragon Fist and fist techniques clashing evenly.
• Xu Weilin used his Divine Emperor Fist, but Xia Yu answered with Sixfold Boundless and drove him back without retreating.
• Zhang Xinyi ordered Xu Weilin to stop holding back, and Xu Weilin absorbed a golden battle-intent phantom to increase his aura.

Xia Yu and Xu Weilin fought a brutal fist-to-fist battle, and Xia Yu gradually gained the advantage as his Boundless technique and physical strength improved. Xu Weilin then revealed his gravity domain, crushing Xia Yu with a single blow and leaving him gravely wounded.

• Xia Yu displayed intermediate battle intent, prompting Xu Weilin to answer with battle intent and fist intent before the two clashed with their strongest punches.
• Xia Yu and Xu Weilin repeatedly traded blows, each suffering injuries as their battle shook the surrounding spectators.
• Xia Yu noticed that repeated use of Boundless made him faster and stronger, while Xu Weilin grew increasingly alarmed by his resilience.
• Xia Yu sent Xu Weilin flying, shocking the Martial Saint Academy and delighting the Dao-Seeking Academy.
• Xu Weilin used his gravity domain to immobilize Xia Yu and struck his chest, leaving him gravely wounded.
• Xia Yu struggled to stand against the domain's pressure as Su Deyu recognized the gravity domain.

Xia Yu learned to control the forces within Xu Weilin’s Gravity Domain and killed him, then advanced to the second level of the King Realm. Zhang Xinyi attacked Xia Yu, and Su Deyu intervened to stop him.

• Su Deyu tried to concede the fight and rescue Xia Yu, but Zhang Xinyi and reinforcements from the Martial Saint Academy blocked him.
• As Xu Weilin prepared to kill Xia Yu, the Ancestral Dragon taught him to comprehend and control the fluctuations of force.
• Xia Yu returned to his body, evaded Xu Weilin’s attack, and struck him dead, then took his Heaven and Earth Bag.
• The Heaven-Incinerating Furnace absorbed the bag’s spiritual energy, healed Xia Yu, and helped him advance to the second level of the King Realm.
• Zhang Xinyi attacked Xia Yu with the Sky-Covering Palm, and Su Deyu countered with the Dao-Seeking Fist.

Xia Yu joined the battle between the Dao-Seeking Academy and the Martial Saint Academy, killing one elder and wounding another with the Sin Dragon Spear. Two Martial Saint Academy elders then trapped him in their emperor domains and landed their attacks, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Yuan Pingtian and Zhang Xinyi fought Su Deyu while Zhang Xinyi ordered the Martial Saint Academy elders to kill Xia Yu and attack the Dao-Seeking Academy.
• Lin Xulun, Zhao Sihai, Zhuge Busi, and the others fought back, but the Martial Saint Academy overwhelmed the Dao-Seeking Academy's cultivators.
• Xia Yu killed Elder He with a spear thrust enhanced by his gravity domain, then severed another elder's arm while saving Su Xiang'er.
• Two Martial Saint Academy elders attacked Xia Yu with their King Weapons, Divine Emperor Fists, and emperor domains.
• A furious voice called for them to stop, but the elders' attacks struck Xia Yu as Su Xiang'er, An Qing, and Lin Xulun cried out.

After the imperial family stopped the fight between the Dao-Seeking Academy and the Martial Saint Academy, Su Deyu discussed Xia Yu’s future and pointed him toward a Secret Realm and the academy’s library. Xia Yu left with a possible way to cure his sister and new guidance about cultivating his mind.

• An Youguo arrived with more than a dozen Emperor Realm experts and halted the academies’ battle.
• An Qing recounted the events, and An Youguo ordered both academies to follow the rules against elders interfering in junior conflicts.
• The Martial Saint Academy withdrew, while the Dao-Seeking Academy treated its injured and ended the day with a tense dinner.
• Su Deyu asked Xia Yu about his plans, and Xia Yu said he wanted to cure his sister.
• Su Deyu told Xia Yu about a Secret Realm opening in three months and urged him to study the Dao-Seeking Academy’s books and strengthen his will.
• Xia Yu bowed and thanked Su Deyu for his instruction.

Xia Yu used his extraordinary memory to absorb every book in the Book Repository, convincing the white-haired elder by answering questions about their contents. The elder then sent him through a teleportation array to a hidden room containing more than twenty Saint-tier Bone Slips.

• Xia Yu rapidly flipped through every book in the Book Repository over ten days, memorizing their contents.
• The white-haired elder challenged Xia Yu with questions about the books, and Xia Yu answered each one accurately.
• The elder led Xia Yu to a concealed single-person Teleportation Array and told him to enter it.
• Xia Yu arrived in a hidden room and discovered more than twenty jade boxes containing Saint-tier Bone Slips.

Xia Yu entered a Sacred Bone Slip’s consciousness space and earned the blue-robed man’s approval by treating him with sincere respect. The man taught Xia Yu the Mystic Heaven Art and Mystic Heaven Finger, leaving Xia Yu eager to combine compressed Origin Force with his existing techniques.

• Xia Yu explored the bamboo forest and respectfully addressed the silent figure in the bamboo house before deciding to leave.
• The blue-robed man challenged Xia Yu’s sincerity, and Xia Yu explained that respect came from the heart rather than ritual displays.
• The man summoned Xia Yu to the bamboo house and asked him to brew tea.
• After drinking the tea, the man recognized Xia Yu’s physique and taught him a cultivation art and finger technique.
• Xia Yu received the Mystic Heaven Art and Mystic Heaven Finger, then considered using their compressed Origin Force with his spear and fist techniques.

After receiving Finger Saint Zangtiange’s Mystic Heaven Art and Mystic Heaven Finger, Xia Yu focused on cultivating and finding a way to help Xia Yao. He discovered that the Mystic Heaven Art could compress origin force inside his small worlds and strengthen his body, but its violent effects left Su Deyu watching in alarm.

• Xia Yu told Su Deyu that he had received the Mystic Heaven Art and Mystic Heaven Finger, and learned that the legacy’s master was Finger Saint Zangtiange, who died of old age.
• Xia Yu visited Xia Yao, confirmed that she had a special constitution, and resolved to grow stronger so he could seek a solution beyond the Great Xia Dynasty.
• Xia Yu secluded himself for half a month to digest what he had learned and then began practicing the Mystic Heaven Art.
• Xia Yu redirected the Mystic Heaven Art’s origin force into a small world, where it compressed far more intensely, causing severe pain and bleeding while strengthening his body.
• Xia Yu began compressing the origin force in his seven small worlds as Su Deyu watched him tremble and bleed, fearing the cultivation might cost him his life.

After two months of cultivation, Xia Yu compressed his Origin Force and revealed the power of his Mystic Heaven Finger. He answered the Martial Saint Academy’s taunts by killing Zhang Yicheng, then stripped the dead man of his treasures as another opponent arrived.

• Xia Yu finished cultivating on Wendao Mountain, demonstrated his finger’s power, and thanked Su Deyu for watching over him.
• Xia Yu visited Xia Yao, then learned that Su Xiang'er and Shen Yuxuan had been injured by challengers from the Martial Saint Academy.
• Xia Yu went to the Dao-Seeking Academy’s entrance and killed a king-realm disciple who taunted him with a single Mystic Heaven Finger.
• Xia Yu confronted Zhang Yicheng, who admitted injuring Su Xiang'er and Shen Yuxuan, and killed him with another finger strike.
• Xia Yu took Zhang Yicheng’s Heaven and Earth Bag and defensive armor before an enraged figure arrived and accused him of desecrating Zhang Yicheng’s corpse.