Recaps

Yun Mo advanced through the Martial Dao Tower battle zone, rapidly climbing the Heaven Transformation Realm rankings and astonishing students and elders with his strength. He reached the final six fighters and unleashed his greatest attack against them.

• Yun Mo defeated more opponents and headed toward the central battle zone, where the remaining fighters were gathered.
• Students watched Yun Mo rise from seventieth to fortieth place on the rankings and questioned how an unknown cultivator could advance so quickly.
• Elder Zongfang and the other Martial Dao Tower elders observed Yun Mo's many techniques and judged that he could challenge an ordinary Heaven-reaching Realm cultivator.
• Yun Mo arrived as the final six fighters battled each other, but they ignored him and continued their duels.
• Yun Mo combined the Ziwei Emperor Art, the spacetime technique, and baleful aura in a single sword strike that seemed to crease the void.

Yun Mo cultivated on the Martial Dao Tower’s ninth floor and fought an opponent identical to himself, prompting him to question how spacetime shaped a person’s strength. As the battle wore on and his injuries worsened, he began forming a new understanding of spacetime.

• Wu Ling and Qing He discussed Yun Mo’s reputation and decided to enter the Martial Dao Tower to temper themselves and earn Battle Spirit Points.
• Yun Mo earned Battle Spirit Points on the third floor until he had amassed more than ten thousand, then entered the ninth floor to cultivate.
• Yun Mo encountered an identical opponent and fought him with the Spacetime Method, the Emperor Art, baleful aura, and Spirit Arts.
• The two Yun Mos used time and space to dissolve each other’s attacks, while their clashes inflicted withering and decay.
• Yun Mo reflected on whether spacetime could be divided and past causes removed to alter a person’s foundation and present strength.
• Though his power dissolved and his injuries worsened, Yun Mo began to form a new understanding of spacetime.

Yun Mo created and refined Momentary Eternity, a technique that sealed and weakened an opponent by imprisoning part of their spacetime foundation. Wu Zhang recognized his talent, shared his spacetime insights, and praised the technique, but Yun Mo learned he owed the Martial Spirit Academy more than twenty thousand Battle Spirit Points.

• Yun Mo used Momentary Eternity to seal part of his reflected opponent’s foundation, causing the opponent’s cultivation realm and power to plummet.
• Wu Zhang appeared before Yun Mo, witnessed the technique, and supplied spiritual energy and Spacetime Fragments to help him consolidate it.
• Yun Mo recreated Momentary Eternity and introduced himself to Wu Zhang, who gave him his spacetime insights and asked him to test the technique.
• Yun Mo used Momentary Eternity on Wu Zhang, who praised its power and urged him to study spacetime Spirit Arts as a foundation.
• Yun Mo admitted he lacked Battle Spirit Points, and someone revealed that he had spent over a month in the tower and owed the academy more than twenty thousand points.

After paying off his debt through relentless battles, Yun Mo returned to the Martial Spirit Academy and learned he had missed the new students’ assessment rewards. Weak Water joined him at the Academy and brought him a Ring of Holding, but Elder Wu Ji soon summoned the students to meet visitors from another of the Five Great Academies.

• Yun Mo told Wu Ling and Qing He that he had spent over two months fighting in the Battle Zone to repay his debt, reaching the peak of Heaven Transformation and earning Spirit Arts.
• Wu Ling told Yun Mo that the new students had all received three thousand Battle Spirit Points after the assessment ended, which Yun Mo had missed.
• Qing He explained that Weak Water had passed the assessment alone by defeating a senior student with the Weak Water Divine Art.
• Weak Water arrived at the courtyard and gave Yun Mo a Ring of Holding containing drawings sent from the Black Market.
• Weak Water told Yun Mo she had chosen to gain experience at the Martial Spirit Academy and wanted to stay with him.
• Elder Wu Ji summoned the newly admitted students to meet elders and students visiting from another of the Five Great Academies.

Yun Mo, Wu Ling, and Qing He welcomed the Myriad Phoenix Spirit Academy students for an exchange, while the elders explained the students’ arrangements. Yun Mo returned to his courtyard, where Wen Qingxuan ambushed him and revealed she had come to give him the flowing flame.

• Elder Wu Ji introduced Elder Lin Shu and assigned the Heavenly Terrace to arrange exchanges between the new students.
• Elder Lin Shu and Elder Wu Ji discussed the exchange’s training goals and the benefits each academy’s students could gain.
• Wu Ling and Qing He headed to the Heavenly Terrace, while Yun Mo returned to his courtyard.
• Wen Qingxuan attacked Yun Mo, and the two fought in the air beside a nearby waterfall.
• Yun Mo caught Wen Qingxuan’s wrist and asked how she had found his courtyard; she told him to let go and said she had come to give him the flowing flame.

Wen Qingxuan gave Yun Mo the flowing flame he needed for his Primordial Heavenly Demon Body, and she and Weak Water grew acquainted while sharing stories about him. Over dinner, Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan decided to venture out together for trials, and he offered to take both girls to the academy tower the next day.

• Wen Qingxuan gave Yun Mo the flowing flame, while Yun Mo admitted he had not yet obtained desolate ancient gold because he was paying off his debt to the Spirit Academy.
• Yun Mo introduced Wen Qingxuan to Weak Water and went to prepare dinner, leaving the two girls to talk.
• Weak Water told Wen Qingxuan about her past with Yun Mo and how he had taken her in.
• Over dinner, Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan agreed to join the new students from both academies on trials across the Martial Dao Continent.
• Yun Mo refused Weak Water's request to join them until she grew stronger, and said he would take both girls to try the academy tower the next day.

Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan left the Martial Spirit Academy to seek opportunities and visited Mysterious Sky City to ask its lord about the Martial Dao Continent. City Lord Ao Hui recommended that they travel the dangerous Supreme Road, where they might find major opportunities and attempt the Three Supreme Trials.

• Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan left their training group and headed to Mysterious Sky City on the edge of the Martial Spirit Academy's territory.
• Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan entered the city and went to the City Lord's Manor to ask about affairs on the Martial Dao Continent.
• City Lord Ao Hui recognized the pair as Heaven Transformation Realm students and sensed that they posed an unusual threat.
• Ao Hui told Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan about the nine-city Supreme Road and recommended they try it, warning that their academy status would offer little protection there.

Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan studied the Supreme Road’s rules and decided to travel there after exploring Mysterious Sky City. Their stroll introduced Yun Mo to Ancestral Spirit Stones and left him wondering about Wen Qingxuan’s family ties to powerful realms.

• Yun Mo shared City Lord Ao Hui’s information about the Supreme Road, and he and Wen Qingxuan decided to enter it after a short stay in the city.
• Wen Qingxuan gave Yun Mo a pouch containing a hundred thousand Spirit Coins after learning he had no money, and they went sightseeing together.
• Yun Mo bought a low-quality Ancestral Spirit Stone and sensed mysterious powers within it, while Wen Qingxuan compared it with superior stones from the Martial Realm.
• Wen Qingxuan explained that her family had good relations with the Martial Realm and the Endless Fire Territory, and Yun Mo concealed his reaction before they returned to their quarters.
• Wen Qingxuan advised Yun Mo to reach the Supreme threshold before the Academy Tournament, then challenged him with a dagger when he asked whether he could sleep in her bed.

Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan reached Blood Phoenix City, learned about its dangers from the Martial Spirit Academy outpost, and accepted invitations to a Heavenly Prodigy Banquet. As they entered the palace complex, a powerful Heaven-reaching Realm presence erupted nearby, and they recognized the aura as belonging to a particular race.

• Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan entered Blood Phoenix City and learned that the Supreme Road's rules forbade them from turning back once they continued.
• Yun Mo showed his core disciple mark at the Martial Spirit Academy outpost, where the students gave them two invitations to the Heavenly Prodigy Banquet and warned them about crime and conflicts with visiting geniuses.
• The outpost students gave Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan a list of famous cultivators and promised to stand with them if trouble arose.
• Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan entered the banquet's palace complex and encountered a surge of spiritual pressure from a nearby Heaven-reaching Realm cultivator.
• Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan sensed that the chilling aura belonged to a particular race in the Great Thousand World.

Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan attended a gathering in Blood Phoenix City, where Yan Qin described rumors of a Phoenix’s remains and a mysterious Blood Pool in the Fallen Phoenix Mountain Range. Yun Mo met the handsome Ice Spirit Clan youth who had been escorted into the palace, and the gathering ended with news of a possible expedition to investigate the Blood Pool.

• A Heaven-reaching Realm guard stopped a group from provoking the handsome youth, and two women helped defuse the confrontation before he entered the palace.
• Yun Mo watched the City Lord discuss the unusual changes on the Supreme Road with a mysterious, handsome man.
• Yan Qin told the gathering that Phoenix cries had been heard in the Fallen Phoenix Mountain Range and confirmed that many rumors about the Supreme Road were true.
• Yun Mo recognized the handsome youth beside him and asked Wen Qingxuan whether the youth was a girl; Wen Qingxuan explained that the Ice Spirit Clan was known for its beauty.
• Yan Qin said a visitor had found a radiant but illusory Blood Pool filled with vital essence and had asked the City Lord’s Manor to gather talented youths to investigate it.

Yan Qin explained that blood-fiend suppression barred weaker cultivators from the Fallen Phoenix Mountain Range and said it would ease in two days, offering phoenix-shaped talismans to help people enter. Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan met Lin Qing, an Ice Spirit Clan talisman master with spatial power, who gave Wen Qingxuan two talismans and invited her to explore the range with him.

• Yan Qin said the Fallen Phoenix Mountain Range’s blood-energy barrier could seriously hinder cultivators below the peak of the heaven fusion realm and would weaken in two days.
• Yan Qin presented phoenix-shaped talismans for trade, prompting Yun Mo to remark that they looked crude.
• Lin Qing recognized the talismans’ poor craftsmanship, revealed himself as a talisman master, and used spatial power to move beside Wen Qingxuan.
• Lin Qing showed Wen Qingxuan his superior talismans for suppressing blood fiend energy, and she accepted two of them.
• Lin Qing invited Wen Qingxuan to visit the Fallen Phoenix Mountain Range with him, then left after teasing Yun Mo.
• Wen Qingxuan sent Yun Mo a message that made his pupils freeze.

Yun Mo, Wen Qingxuan, and Lin Jing entered the Fallen Phoenix Mountain Range and found a vast Blood Pool hidden in a gap between spaces. Lin Jing used spatial Ancestral Spirit Stones to bring them into the void, leaving them poised to reach the pool.

• Yun Mo traveled with Wen Qingxuan and Lin Jing to the Fallen Phoenix Mountain Range, where they found a crimson barrier and passed through it.
• Yun Mo showed Wen Qingxuan and Lin Jing a terrain map, and the three flew toward the lake at the range’s heart.
• The group found a vast, boiling Blood Pool that others could not approach, though its vital essence was real.
• Yun Mo and Lin Jing sensed that the Blood Pool was hidden in a gap between spaces, and Lin Jing identified its waters as Phoenix nirvana blood.
• Lin Jing took out spatial Ancestral Spirit Stones, causing the world around the group to slip into the void.

Lin Jing, Yun Mo, and Wen Qingxuan used Ancestral Spirit Stones to enter the illusory Blood Pool and began absorbing the phoenix blood within. As the space around them started to manifest in the Great Thousand World, Yun Mo urged them to hurry toward the center before others could enter.

• Lin Jing accepted royal jelly from Wen Qingxuan in exchange for the Ancestral Spirit Stones she had given them.
• Lin Jing, Yun Mo, and Wen Qingxuan used the stones to slip through space and reach the Blood Pool, astonishing the onlookers outside.
• Yan Qin asked Gui Lin how to approach the Blood Pool, and he said the trio's entry might make it manifest for everyone.
• Yun Mo used a mysterious power to weaken the blood fiend pressure, then led Lin Jing and Wen Qingxuan into the Blood Pool.
• The three absorbed the phoenix blood's vital essence, and Yun Mo suggested they head toward the center before the space manifested.
• The space around them began to tremble violently.

Yun Mo, Wen Qingxuan, and Lin Jing collected Phoenix blood from the Blood Pool, then discovered its blood essence was tainted with demonic intent. As they tried to leave, the taint triggered a chaotic battle, and a crowd demanded that they hand over their bottled blood.

• Yun Mo, Wen Qingxuan, and Lin Jing bottled Phoenix blood as the Blood Pool became solid in the Great Thousand World.
• Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan detected demonic intent in the Phoenix blood essence, warned Lin Jing, and decided to leave before the taint could compromise them.
• A cultivator affected by the demonic intent attacked someone nearby, sparking a chaotic battle in the Blood Pool.
• Yun Mo and the two women were blocked from leaving, and several cultivators demanded their bottled Phoenix blood.
• Yun Mo, Wen Qingxuan, and Lin Jing unleashed their heaven transformation realm auras as the surrounding cultivators closed in.

Yun Mo, Lin Jing, and Wen Qingxuan fought off cultivators trying to seize the phoenix blood. After the attackers fled, Gui Lin escaped as well, leaving the trio free to depart.

• Gui Lin demanded the phoenix blood, while Lin Jing planned to break through the encirclement and flee with Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan.
• Yun Mo attacked Gui Lin and suppressed his cultivation, battering him and damaging his turtle shield.
• Attackers rushed Lin Jing and Wen Qingxuan, but Wen Qingxuan struck them with her golden spear while Lin Jing used talismans and an ice-blue Sword Aura to freeze several foes.
• Lin Jing joined Wen Qingxuan, prompting most of their attackers to flee the Mountain Range.
• Gui Lin saw that his side had lost, then fled with his damaged turtle shield and grievous injuries.

After escaping the Fallen Phoenix Mountain Range, Yun Mo and Lin Jing discussed the phoenix blood and Wen Qingxuan’s cultivation before sparring with Yun Mo’s Momentary Eternity technique. The chapter ended with Wen Qingxuan revealing her newly condensed golden-crimson Phoenix Feathers.

• Lin Jing told Yun Mo that the blood fiend suppression had vanished and people were fighting over the crimson lake water, while Yun Mo confirmed that she had expelled the Demonic Intent.
• Lin Jing asked why Wen Qingxuan remained in her room, and Yun Mo explained that she was refining phoenix blood after encountering a Golden Sacred Phoenix.
• Lin Jing said she was from the Ice Spirit Clan, while Yun Mo said he and Wen Qingxuan came from the Martial Spirit Academy.
• Lin Jing asked Yun Mo to demonstrate Momentary Eternity, and he weakened her cultivation to the Heaven Fusion Realm during their spar.
• Wen Qingxuan joined them and revealed a gleaming pair of golden-crimson Phoenix Feathers, dazzling Yun Mo and Lin Jing.

Yun Mo, Lin Jing, and Wen Qingxuan left Blood Phoenix City for Stone Forest City, knowing ambush groups were targeting travelers. One group intercepted them and trapped them in a fourth-grade Spirit Array, but Lin Jing prepared to break it with her talismans.

• Wen Qingxuan showed Yun Mo and Lin Jing her phoenix wings and demonstrated her growing control over Nirvana Fire.
• Yun Mo, Lin Jing, and Wen Qingxuan decided to travel to Stone Forest City, though Yun Mo and Lin Jing had no money for its stones.
• The three left Blood Phoenix City by a secluded road and sensed three ambush groups watching them.
• A black-robed ambusher demanded Phoenix Blood, then another attacker demanded their Storage Artifacts and activated a fourth-grade Spirit Array.
• Yun Mo identified the attacker as a Spirit Array Master, and Lin Jing declared that her talismans could break the array.

Lin Jing shattered Tang He's Ghostly Soul Baleful Spirit Array with her talismans, allowing Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan to block the attackers' escape. The trio took their spoils to Stone Forest City and planned to visit its stone forest after settling in.

• Lin Jing used linked talismans and a powerful ice-blue talisman to break Tang He's Spirit Array and injure him and his companions.
• Tang He and his accomplices tried to flee, but Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan blocked their route.
• Lin Jing, Yun Mo, and Wen Qingxuan collected several hundred thousand Spirit Coins, Spirit Artifacts, and Spirit Arts from the defeated group.
• The three traveled to Stone Forest City, where Yun Mo proposed visiting the stone forest to gamble on mystic stones the next day.
• Lin Jing asked Yun Mo to cook at their cultivation courtyard, and he agreed while suggesting they take turns cooking.

Yun Mo and Lin Jing visited the Heavenly Evolution Stone Forest to gamble on mystic stones, but grew wary after a treasure pill mysteriously flew away. At a stall whose owner demonstrated his ability by uncovering an embryonic artifact, Lin Jing chose a stone to open.

• Yun Mo and Lin Jing arrived at the Heavenly Evolution Stone Forest while Wen Qingxuan stayed behind to study her Phoenix Intent.
• Liu Jie uncovered a Creation Profound Pill, but it suddenly flew away, prompting him and his friends to chase it.
• Yun Mo and Lin Jing suspected something was amiss and approached a less crowded stall to observe its owner.
• The stallholder opened a mystic stone and revealed an embryonic Spirit Artifact, attracting more customers.
• Lin Jing selected a mystic stone costing eighty thousand Spirit Coins and asked the stallholder to open it.

Lin Jing and Yun Mo gambled on Mystic Stones at a stall, winning a high-grade Spirit Artifact embryo before losing their gains on empty stones. Yun Mo chose another stone, and its dazzling radiance left everyone in the stone forest stunned as it opened.

• Lin Jing opened her first Mystic Stone and found a high-grade Spirit Artifact embryo, which she sold for four hundred thousand Spirit Coins.
• Lin Jing paid two hundred thousand Spirit Coins for another Mystic Stone, but it contained only spiritual energy.
• Yun Mo chose a lustrous white Mystic Stone for two hundred thousand Spirit Coins, but it concealed a smaller, empty Mystic Stone.
• Yun Mo picked another Mystic Stone for three hundred thousand Spirit Coins despite the stallholder's doubts, and its opening released a radiance that shocked the stone forest.

Yun Mo uncovered a naturally formed spirit sword in a mystic stone, but it escaped and led him and Lin Jing to the forbidden area controlled by the Supreme Road natives. Yun Mo attacked the guards who blocked them, and the chapter ended as they struggled to withstand his palm strike after an unseen power failed to stop it.

• Yun Mo found a small divine spirit sword in a mystic stone, stunning the onlookers with its natural spirit array and potential to grow stronger.
• When Yun Mo tried to seize it, the sword unleashed its power and fled, so Yun Mo and Lin Jing pursued it through the void.
• The sword's trail led Yun Mo and Lin Jing to a guarded forbidden area deep in the Heavenly Evolution Stone Forest, where the guards denied knowing anything about it.
• Lin Jing accused the Supreme Road natives of meddling, and Yun Mo attacked the guards when they refused to explain.
• A powerful figure intervened but could not fully stop Yun Mo's palm strike, forcing the guards to join forces to withstand it.

Yun Mo and Lin Jing withdrew from the Heavenly Evolution Stone Forest after sensing a strange danger, then planned a nighttime infiltration with Wen Qingxuan to recover the little sword and other stolen treasures. The chapter ended with two men in the forbidden ground discussing the Heavenly Evolution Divine Stone and awaiting Qu Liang and the others.

• Yun Mo sensed a dangerous, strange power inside the stone forest and persuaded Lin Jing to retreat rather than fight its guards.
• Yun Mo and Lin Jing returned to Wen Qingxuan, who had reached the peak of the Heaven Transformation Realm, and Lin Jing told her how the locals had cheated them.
• Yun Mo proposed infiltrating the stone forest at night to find the strange power and recover the little sword, while Lin Jing vowed to take back the Creation Pill and other treasures too.
• Yun Mo, Lin Jing, and Wen Qingxuan prepared black robes and stealth talismans before heading out after nightfall.
• Two men in the forbidden ground discussed the treasures they had secured and said Qu Liang and the others would return the next day to help them control the Heavenly Evolution Divine Stone's mysterious powers.

Yun Mo, Wen Qingxuan, and Lin Jing found the Heavenly Evolution Divine Stone hidden beneath the great hall and took it along with the treasures in the underground chamber. Two furious Body Tribulation cultivators appeared as the trio prepared to escape.

• Yun Mo, Wen Qingxuan, and Lin Jing searched the forbidden grounds but found no trace of the Heavenly Evolution Divine Stone.
• Lin Jing used her Treasure Hunting Bug with Yun Mo’s remembered sensation to locate the divine stone beneath the great hall.
• Yun Mo brought the group through the chamber’s restrictions, where they discovered the divine stone and a hoard of treasures.
• The trio collected nearly everything in the chamber while a battle raged overhead.
• Yun Mo shattered the restrictions and took the divine stone, bringing the fighting above to an abrupt halt.
• Two furious Body Tribulation cultivators appeared, and Lin Jing urged the group to leave.

Lin Jing, Yun Mo, and Wen Qingxuan escaped the Second City with the Heavenly Evolution Divine Stone and headed for the Third City, but Yu Shun caught up with them and attacked. Yun Mo weakened Yu Shun with Spacetime Secret Power, and Lin Jing and Wen Qingxuan joined the fight as he struggled against them.

• Yu Shun learned that the three black-robed thieves had escaped with the divine stone and ordered a pursuit toward the Third City.
• Lin Jing, Yun Mo, and Wen Qingxuan changed out of their black robes and set off for the Third City with their stolen treasures.
• Yu Shun lost the trio’s trail, then spotted Yun Mo and the two women from his Void Shuttle and attacked them.
• Yun Mo countered Yu Shun’s punch with Spacetime Secret Power and Emperor’s Intent, weakening him to the Heaven-reaching Realm.
• Lin Jing and Wen Qingxuan moved in from either side and attacked Yu Shun with a sword and a golden spear.

Jian Yuan and Qu Liang investigated Yu Shun’s death and used the Soul-Returning Mirror to identify Yun Mo and his two companions as his killers. The group headed toward the third city to search for them, while Yun Mo, Wen Qingxuan, and Lin Jing explored Spirit Gathering City under a limited Residence Order.

• Jian Yuan met Qu Liang near the place where Yu Shun’s aura disappeared, and they searched the area with three Heaven-reaching Realm cultivators.
• After finding no traces, Jian Yuan and Qu Liang blasted the ground and uncovered Yu Shun’s corpse.
• Qu Liang used the Soul-Returning Mirror to replay Yu Shun’s final battle, revealing that Yun Mo and his two companions had killed him.
• Jian Yuan and Qu Liang decided to look for the three in the next city while continuing to seek the stolen divine stone.
• Yun Mo, Wen Qingxuan, and Lin Jing entered Spirit Gathering City, remarked on its dense spiritual energy, and complained about the Residence Order limiting their stay.