Chapter Summaries

The students absorbed the spiritual energy on the Nine-Tier Platform, with Wen Qingxuan and her companions reaching the Heaven Fusion Peak. Yun Mo resisted the Evil Clan's mark with the Ziwei Emperor Art, then unexpectedly broke through to the Heaven Transformation Realm as the deans discussed the coming trials and academy choices.

• Ji Xuan, Qiu Beihai, and Liu Qingyun set aside their hostility toward the Spirit Jade holders and began absorbing the platform's spiritual energy.
• Wen Qingxuan, Qing He, Wu Ling, and Wu Yingying advanced to the Heaven Fusion Realm, while Ji Xuan and Luo Li also continued cultivating.
• The Evil Clan's mark attacked Yun Mo as he tried to break through, but he used the Jade Bi and Ziwei Emperor Art to protect his mind and manifest a Great Emperor's Phantom.
• Yun Mo's emperor's intent entered his qi sea and propelled him into the Heaven Transformation Realm, shocking Qiu Beihai and the other observers.
• Dean Taicang predicted Yun Mo could challenge for the Spirit Road Champion's Seat, while Dean Tian Sheng argued that reaching the Heaven Transformation Realm would not guarantee victory.

The Spirit Crown Trial began, and Wen Qingxuan quickly defeated Liu Qingyun on a battle platform. Ji Xuan entered the competition and immediately drew several challengers, leaving his fight about to begin.

• Tang Qiu explained how the Level-Nine Token holders could compete for the Spirit Crown and earn King-Sealing Titles.
• Wen Qingxuan entered a battle platform, while Qing He and Wu Ling waited for Ji Xuan to appear.
• Liu Qingyun challenged Wen Qingxuan after accepting Ji Xuan's promise to probe her strength.
• Wen Qingxuan overwhelmed Liu Qingyun with her Golden Phoenix Spear, and the platform's protection stopped her strike from killing him.
• Ji Xuan moved onto another battle platform, where three challengers—a staff wielder, a lance wielder, and a silver-haired swordswoman—headed straight for him.

Luo Li challenged Ji Xuan over their unfinished grudge from the Spirit Road, and the two unleashed powerful sword and holy-light techniques in a fierce battle. Both were injured before deans intervened, leaving the trial participants to await the selection of the Spirit Crown Holder and the conferring of king titles.

• Wu Ling, Qing He, Yun Mo, and Wu Yingying watched as Luo Li stepped onto the battle platform to fight Ji Xuan.
• Ji Xuan said the Spirit Road contest had ended with him victorious, and Luo Li attacked him with the Luo God Sword.
• Ji Xuan and Luo Li traded increasingly fierce spear and sword strikes while the spectators and academy elders watched.
• Luo Li released the Luo God Sword's first seal and unleashed Luo River Sword Shadow, while Ji Xuan countered with Holy Light Art, Holy Wheel.
• Their techniques collided with immense force, and two deans intervened to protect the injured Luo Li and Ji Xuan.
• The spectators reacted to the pair's strength, and the group anticipated the selection of the Spirit Crown Holder and the conferring of king titles.

Wen Qingxuan was named the Spirit Road's Spirit Crown Holder and chose to use her reward to search for a heavenly treasure. The Five Great Academies then crowned the Level-Nine Token holders as kings and opened enrollment to the trial participants.

• Luo Li and Ji Xuan survived their final clash but were too injured to fight again, leaving Wen Qingxuan as the uncontested Spirit Crown Holder.
• Tang Qiu announced Wen Qingxuan as the Spirit Crown Holder and offered her a reward from the Five Great Academies.
• Wen Qingxuan asked to use the Mirror of Judgment to find a heavenly treasure, and the deans approved her request.
• Dean Tian Sheng began the crowning ceremony, giving titles such as King Xuan to Ji Xuan, King Luo to Luo Li, and King Mo to Yun Mo.
• The deans invited the trial participants to choose among the Five Great Academies.

Yun Mo chose the Martial Spirit Academy, while Wen Qingxuan joined the Ten Thousand Phoenix Academy. The Spirit Road group spent their last night together before separating, and Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan shared a private conversation about their backgrounds and his dangerous Evil Clan mark.

• Wen Qingxuan told Yun Mo that heavenly demon grass could be found in a Demon Hall on the Ruins Continent, the venue for the next Academy Tournament.
• Yun Mo chose the Martial Spirit Academy, while Luo Li joined the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy, Ji Xuan joined the Sacred Spirit Academy, and Wen Qingxuan joined the Ten Thousand Phoenix Academy.
• The Mirror of Judgment opened five teleportation arrays, and the deans told the students they would leave for their academies the next day.
• Yun Mo and his four companions drank together, and Wu Yingying suggested they reunite with Wen Qingxuan before the Academy Tournament.
• After the others left, Wen Qingxuan leaned against Yun Mo and told him she came from the powerful Northern Region Wen Family; Yun Mo told her he was an orphan marked by the Evil Clan.

Yun Mo and the others arrived at the Martial Spirit Academy, where Wu Ling explained its rumored connection to the Martial Realm and the power of Ancestral Spirit Stones. The academy welcomed the Spirit Road talents and outlined their places in its grounds and upcoming trials.

• Wu Yingying questioned Yun Mo about Sister Qingxuan, and he changed the subject to the Martial Spirit Academy.
• Wu Ling described the academy’s rumored link to the Martial Realm, its towering pagoda, and the Ancestral Spirit Stones used to strengthen cultivators.
• Elder Wu Ji introduced himself and told Wu Yingying that her returning master, Elder Ling Yi, would teach her manners again.
• Dean Tianwang welcomed Yun Mo and the others and expressed hope that their names would become known throughout the Great Thousand World.
• Elder Wu Ji explained that most new students would stay in the outer grounds until the trials, while those at Heaven Fusion Peak or equivalent strength could enter the inner grounds.

Wu Ling explained to Yun Mo and Qing He how the Martial Spirit Academy used battle spirit points and the Martial Dao Tower to reward combat and provide cultivation resources. The chapter ended with Yun Mo learning that collusion in the tower’s combat zones was difficult and punishable.

• Wu Ling gave Yun Mo his core disciple rune, which merged into his wrist and identified him as a core disciple.
• Wu Ling explained that students spent battle spirit points on resources and secluded cultivation in the Martial Dao Tower’s upper floors.
• Wu Ling described the tower’s combat zones, where students could earn points by defeating opponents, with higher rewards for challenging stronger opponents.
• Yun Mo and Qing He learned that core students received doubled daily points and combat rewards, while defeats imposed waiting periods before they could fight again.
• Wu Ling told Yun Mo that combatants were matched through anonymous projections and that collusion was monitored and severely punished.

Yun Mo learned more about the Martial Spirit Academy’s rules and joined Wu Ling’s Heavenly Terrace before visiting the Martial Dao Tower to earn Battle Spirit Points and settle his mind. Elder Wu Ji explained the tower’s battle zones and rankings, and Yun Mo entered the third-floor zone ready to fight.

• Wu Ling explained the academy’s rules, alliance missions, and Heavenly Terrace’s benefits, and Yun Mo agreed to join the alliance with Qing He.
• Wu Ling said Elder Ling Yi had taken Wu Yingying away to discipline her, and Qing He left with Wu Ling to see the Heavenly Terrace.
• Yun Mo sensed that his wrist mark let the academy track and protect core students across the Martial Dao Continent.
• The next day, Yun Mo went to the Martial Dao Tower, where Elder Wu Ji advised him to calm his restless mind and offered to explain the tower.
• Elder Wu Ji explained that the lower five floors were battle zones, core students earned double Battle Spirit Points, and strong records could unlock challenges on the fourth floor.
• Yun Mo entered the Martial Dao Tower’s third-floor battle zone, determined to let battle nourish battle.

Yun Mo entered the Martial Dao Tower and used his mastery of spacetime to defeat three powerful opponents with a single sword strike. The academy elders watched in shock as he headed toward more battles, hoping the tower’s ninth floor would help him understand spacetime.

• Yun Mo entered the Martial Dao Tower and released his powerful divine sense, drawing the attention of nearby fighters.
• Three Martial Spirit Academy cultivators approached Yun Mo and prepared to fight him separately.
• Yun Mo unleashed Great Void, Yin-Yang Dusting, and erased the three cultivators and their attacks with a sword strike.
• Yun Mo reflected on his limited understanding of spacetime and continued toward other battles.
• Wu Ji and two elders watched the fight from outside the tower and marveled at Yun Mo’s terrifying power.
• The three defeated cultivators returned to their bodies in shock, wondering who Yun Mo was.

Yun Mo defeated two Heaven Transformation Realm fighters with his emperor-infused fists and named his technique the Ziwei Emperor Fist. The elders recognized his exceptional talent and decided to support him without interfering with his independent cultivation.

• Yun Mo interrupted two men fighting and broke their arms with his fist intent.
• Yun Mo struck the men with emperor-infused punches until they were near collapse, then sent them back to the Great Thousand World with his palms.
• Yun Mo realized his attacks could be called the Ziwei Emperor Fist.
• Elder Ruyong and Zongfang judged Yun Mo among the Martial Spirit Academy’s finest students after Wu Ji revealed his name and Spirit Road origins.
• Ruyong decided to find spacetime-related Spirit Arts and records to help Yun Mo while the elders otherwise left him to forge his own path.

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.