Chapter Summaries

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.