Chapter Summaries

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.

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.