Chapter Summaries

Yun Mo, a lazy but exceptionally talented disciple of Azure Wood Academy, learned that he and Qing He had been selected for the Spirit Road trial and tried to refuse. Qing Yilun restrained him and made clear that he would be sent there despite his protests.

• Yun Mo lounged and watched students spar while telling Qing He that enjoying life mattered more than hard cultivation.
• A student summoned Yun Mo and Qing He to the headmaster, threatening to expose the contents of Yun Mo's Storage Ring if he refused to come.
• Qing Yilun announced that the Five Great Academies had selected Yun Mo and Qing He to enter the Spirit Road trial directly.
• Yun Mo panicked at the prospect of facing the Spirit Road's dangers and loudly refused to go.
• Qing Yilun bound Yun Mo, threatened to reveal his hidden treasures, and sealed him so he could not escape when the Spirit Road opened.

Qing Yilun forced Yun Mo to enter the Spirit Road, where the Divine Contest Laws reduced everyone to ordinary people. Yun Mo attacked a stranger on arrival, then discovered he had ambushed Mu Chen, the chosen one.

• Qing Yilun explained the Spirit Road to Yun Mo, then threw him into the activated teleportation array and sent Qing He in separately.
• Yun Mo fell from the sky into the Spirit Road, broke free of his powerless chains, and spotted another fallen participant.
• Yun Mo attacked the injured stranger with a thrown stone and a series of strikes, but the stranger dodged and countered as Mu Chen.
• Yun Mo tried to negotiate while picking up another stone, and Mu Chen refused after identifying himself.
• Yun Mo recognized Mu Chen's name, stopped mid-attack, and despaired over having ambushed the chosen one.

Yun Mo ended his confrontation with Mu Chen by claiming they were friends and promising to take a different route through the Spirit Road. Later, while trying to collect a Mistveil Flower and find Nocturnal Bee honey, he was confronted by Yu Fang and his companions, and defeated Yu Fang with one strike.

• Yun Mo convinced Mu Chen to stop fighting by hinting that they were friends and offering him a favor, then watched him leave for the Five Great Academies.
• Yun Mo decided to avoid the main characters and search the Spirit Road for valuable opportunities.
• Yun Mo climbed a cliff to pluck a Mistveil Flower, whose center could lead him to Nocturnal Bee honey.
• Yu Fang and two companions discovered Yun Mo and attacked after he ignored their demands to come down.
• Yun Mo dodged Yu Fang's punch and struck his chest with an elbow, knocking him down in one move.

Yun Mo recruited Tan Feng and Tan Yin after killing Yu Fang, then learned of the Nine-Leaf Fruit Tree and the tokens required for Spirit Road empowerment. After using the Mistveil Flower to strengthen his soul and access his Storage Ring, he headed for the ripe fruit and planned to use the brothers to distract the spear-wielding woman guarding it.

• Yun Mo killed Yu Fang, persuaded Tan Feng and Tan Yin to follow him, and learned that a woman had taken their tokens while guarding a Nine-Leaf Fruit Tree.
• Yun Mo ate Mistveil Flower petals, strengthened his soul to Divine Soul Realm levels, and summoned his Flexible Sword from his Storage Ring.
• Yun Mo and the brothers reached the valley and saw the ripe fruit guarded by a young woman in a red dress and golden armor, who wielded a spear against the gathered challengers.
• Yun Mo told Tan Feng and Tan Yin to distract the woman and the other people while he sneaked around to collect the fruit, promising to give them one and flee with them.

Yun Mo stole the Nine-Leaf Fruits from Wen Qingxuan’s grove and fled, leaving Tan Feng and Tan Yin to escape with two fruits of their own. Wen Qingxuan caught up with Yun Mo at a torrent and attacked after he failed to persuade her to let him go.

• Tan Feng and Tan Yin challenged Wen Qingxuan, but she overwhelmed them and wounded both with her spear.
• Yun Mo, hiding in the Nine-Leaf Fruit Tree, threw two fruits to Tan Feng and Tan Yin, attacked the crowd with steel needles, and fled with the rest of the fruits.
• The crowd turned on one another over the fruit tree while Tan Feng and Tan Yin escaped with their fruits.
• Wen Qingxuan pursued Yun Mo through the valley, dodging his steel needles until he reached a rushing torrent.
• Yun Mo offered Wen Qingxuan a fruit in exchange for peace, but she refused and charged at him with her spear.

Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan fought to a standstill in the Peach Grove until Tan Feng and Tan Yin distracted her with taunts. When a group of fruit-seekers arrived demanding Yun Mo's remaining Nine-Leaf Fruits and token, he tossed two fruits to Wen Qingxuan and pointed out that she now held them.

• Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan traded spear, sword, and palm strikes, destroying parts of the Peach Grove without either gaining a clear advantage.
• Tan Feng and Tan Yin discussed helping Yun Mo, then tried to distract Wen Qingxuan by insulting and taunting her.
• Wen Qingxuan turned on the brothers in fury, but more than a dozen people who had fought over the fruit tree arrived and demanded Yun Mo's fruits and token.
• Yun Mo said he had only six fruits left and refused to hand them over, while Tan Feng and Tan Yin moved to his side.
• Yun Mo tossed two fruits to Wen Qingxuan and told her attackers that she now had them.

Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan faced a fifteen-person alliance over the Nine-Leaf Fruit Tree spoils. Yun Mo crippled the alliance’s fighters and Wang Ke fled, while Wen Qingxuan overwhelmed the opponents on her side.

• Wen Qingxuan kept the two fruits, and Yun Mo proposed that they team up to fight the group surrounding them.
• Yun Mo exposed the alliance’s fragile unity by questioning who led it, prompting Liu Ting to attack him.
• Yun Mo defeated Liu Ting with a feint and a powerful kick, then fought off the attackers who swarmed him.
• Yun Mo used steel needles to bring down several opponents, while Wang Ke fled despite his injuries.
• Wen Qingxuan chased down and suppressed several fighters on her side of the battle.

Yun Mo learned how the Spirit Road’s tokens and empowerment worked, then persuaded Wen Qingxuan to join forces and explore the road’s opportunities instead of rushing to its end. The chapter left Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan traveling together while Tan Feng and Tan Yin set out on their own.

• Wen Qingxuan defeated the men who tried to fight her, and Tan Feng brought her and Yun Mo the tokens taken from them.
• Wen Qingxuan explained that tokens could be merged to raise their grade and that Spirit Points could be used to exchange for weapons or improve physical strength.
• Yun Mo proposed that he and Wen Qingxuan work together to seek opportunities and ruins, and she agreed after he reasoned that she was not interested in empowerment alone.
• Yun Mo gave Tan Feng and Tan Yin their merged tokens and told them to train on their own, so they left for the Spirit Road End.
• Yun Mo headed after Wen Qingxuan, hoping her strength would help him survive the Spirit Road and obtain ninth-tier empowerment.

Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan hunted a fifth-grade Rock Lizard Boar for spirit points, then washed off its foul slime at a pool. As Wen Qingxuan bathed beneath the moonlight, a huge shadow approached her from the depths.

• Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan followed a stream through an ancient forest, hoping to find spirit beasts and earn enough points to buy a map.
• Yun Mo discovered a Rock Lizard Boar following them and joined Wen Qingxuan in attacking it.
• Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan wounded the boar, and Yun Mo killed it by stabbing the slime sac between its brows.
• Yun Mo collected the boar's spirit points, but its slime splashed over both him and Wen Qingxuan.
• Yun Mo gave Wen Qingxuan spare clothes and went into the forest while she washed in the pool.
• A large shadow swam through the pool toward Wen Qingxuan without her noticing.

Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan encountered and killed a three-headed snake, then used its spirit points to obtain a map of the Spirit Road. After planning to visit a Protected Zone for natural treasures and trade, they settled in for the night before setting out the next day.

• Yun Mo found no spirit beasts near the pool, then plunged into the water to wash while Wen Qingxuan bathed upstream.
• A three-headed snake attacked Wen Qingxuan, and she killed it with a powerful spear strike despite its poison mist.
• Yun Mo used his token on the snake’s corpse, and the two examined the map he obtained with its spirit points.
• Wen Qingxuan identified a Protected Zone where they could trade map information, and she and Yun Mo decided to go there for natural treasures.
• Wen Qingxuan ate three petals from Yun Mo’s Mistveil Flower, and they planned to ask about Nocturnal Bee swarms before seeking a hive.
• Wen Qingxuan went to rest in a tree while Yun Mo took watch, relieved that the awkward incident between them had passed.

Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan continued toward the Protected Zone and encountered Wu Ling fighting three token thieves. Wen Qingxuan defeated Wu Ling, while Yun Mo ambushed him and took his tokens; the two then invited him to travel with them.

• Wen Qingxuan asked Yun Mo which academy he would join, and Yun Mo said he probably would not attend one of the Five Great Academies.
• Wu Ling demanded tokens from Lu Dong and his two companions, then defeated them when they refused to surrender.
• Wen Qingxuan caught the tokens Lu Dong threw and challenged Wu Ling to fight.
• Wen Qingxuan overpowered Wu Ling with her spear and sent him flying.
• Yun Mo caught Wu Ling, held a flexible sword to his neck, and took his tokens.
• Yun Mo invited Wu Ling to accompany them to the Protected Zone, saying Wu Ling owed them a life debt.

Yun Mo, Wen Qingxuan, and Wu Ling reached the Guardian Land, where the Mirror of Judgment enforced a strict peace. Yun Mo returned Wu Ling’s token and War Staff, then sent him to sell information from their Spirit Road map while the group planned to exploit the other participants’ interest in natural treasures.

• Yun Mo persuaded Wu Ling to travel with him and Wen Qingxuan, and Wu Ling learned they had Level Two Tokens because they had focused on earning spirit points rather than collecting tokens.
• The three reached the Guardian Land, where Wen Qingxuan explained that the Mirror of Judgment punished anyone who broke the rules and that participants could safely withdraw by waiting there until the Spirit Road ended.
• Yun Mo returned Wu Ling’s Level Three Token and War Staff, then showed him four Nine-Leaf Fruits, a Spirit Road map, and other tokens.
• Yun Mo told Wu Ling to sell the map’s location of a body-tempering natural treasure for two hundred spirit points and to exaggerate its value, while also offering map information in exchange for news about Nocturnal Bees.
• Wu Ling asked for two Nine-Leaf Fruits to help his younger sister, Wu Yingying, and Yun Mo agreed before sending him out to spread the information.
• Wen Qingxuan questioned Yun Mo’s plan, and he explained that he wanted to gain spirit points before the map’s information advantage disappeared.

Wu Ling sold information about a natural treasure to earn Spirit Points for Yun Mo, while Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan prevented the buyers from following one another. That night, Yun Mo offered Wen Qingxuan a protective gown as an apology, prompting her to punch him as Wu Ling listened in.

• Wu Ling claimed a valuable Myriad Forms Immortal Grass grew near a spirit beast and charged buyers two hundred Spirit Points for its location.
• Wu Ling sent each buyer the map location only after collecting payment, and Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan blocked others from chasing the first buyer.
• The buyers who purchased the information left for the treasure, while Wu Ling and Yun Mo later counted a total of five thousand six hundred Spirit Points.
• Yun Mo gave Wu Ling fifteen hundred Spirit Points and offered Wen Qingxuan a three-thousand-point Medium-Grade Spirit Tool gown as an apology for an earlier accident.
• Wen Qingxuan blushed with fury and punched Yun Mo while he called for the Mirror of Judgment, and Wu Ling secretly watched them.

Yun Mo, Wen Qingxuan, and Wu Ling traded for a damaged bow made from fusang divine wood and dragon tendon, using an Antidote Pill to satisfy its stallholder. They reunited with Wu Yingying, who was furious and determined to find someone she wanted revenge on.

• Yun Mo, Wen Qingxuan, and Wu Ling searched the Guardian Land for news of Nocturnal Bees, then spotted a Broken Great Bow at a stall.
• Wen Qingxuan identified the bow as fusang divine wood with a dragon-tendon string, and Yun Mo traded the stallholder a token containing an Antidote Pill for it.
• Yun Mo explained that the bow's baleful energy had caused the stallholder's baleful poison, and he left with the bow before its effects could erupt.
• Wu Ling found his sister Wu Yingying waiting nearby, and she scolded him for not following the marks she had left.
• Wu Yingying demanded that Wu Ling help her settle a score, accidentally revealing that someone had angered her.

Yun Mo and his companions reached a black lake filled with rare medicinal herbs and Nocturnal Bees, only to find it guarded by a Nightglow Netherworld Beast. Recognizing the beast as one raised by the Ancient Wu Clan, they realized the Spirit Road continent might conceal secrets of the clan and prepared to face it.

• Wu Yingying teased Yun Mo about gifts and persuaded him to give her Spirit Points for a blue dress.
• Yun Mo and the others arrived at a strange basin with a black lake and discovered precious herbs and Nocturnal Bees growing in its waters.
• As the lake churned, Yun Mo warned the group to stay cautious and assigned Wu Yingying to support them with a shortbow.
• A massive, eight-headed Nightglow Netherworld Beast leaped from the lake, and Wen Qingxuan identified it as a beast raised by the Ancient Wu Clan.
• Yun Mo recalled the Wu Clan's history and concluded that the continent likely held secrets of the clan, while the group faced the powerful beast.

Wu Ling, Yun Mo, Wen Qingxuan, and Wu Yingying battled the Nightglow Netherworld Beast, badly wounding it before it transformed and grew even stronger. Yun Mo unleashed his Great Void sword technique against its last head, and the beast gathered all its baleful energy to counterattack.

• Wu Ling charged the Nightglow Netherworld Beast but was knocked away, while Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan failed to pierce its heads with steel needles.
• Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan used Black Cloth to block the beast’s tail spikes, then Yun Mo attacked with his full sword intent and Wen Qingxuan struck its back with her Long Spear.
• Wu Yingying pierced one of the beast’s heads with a Blood-Red Arrow, and Wu Ling returned to smash another head with his War Staff.
• Yun Mo gave Wen Qingxuan and Wu Ling Qi Recovery Pills as the beast withdrew into black energy and reappeared with only one head, stronger than before.
• Yun Mo fought the transformed beast alone, was wounded, and unleashed Great Void as the beast gathered baleful energy and spikes for a final counterattack.

After defeating the Netherworld Beast, Yun Mo and his companions gathered spirit medicines and used them to temper their bodies. Yun Mo reached a new level of physical strength, then discovered a strange black Jade Pillar beneath the Lake, prompting Wu Ling to call for the map.

• Yun Mo, Wen Qingxuan, and Wu Ling helped finish off the wounded Netherworld Beast, and the group discussed using the gathered spirit medicines to strengthen themselves.
• Wu Ling suggested that the Spirit Road might be connected to the Wu Clan’s ancestral continent, but Yun Mo urged everyone to improve their strength before investigating further.
• The group took body-tempering spirit medicines, and Yun Mo endured intense pain as his muscles, organs, meridians, and bones were destroyed and rebuilt.
• After reaching the Lake, Yun Mo dove underwater and found a black Jade Pillar covered in what seemed to be Spirit Array inscriptions.
• Wu Ling heard about the pillar, grew excited, and told the others to take out the map.

Yun Mo and his companions found ruins at the Spirit Road’s eastern edge and followed Nocturnal Bees into a hidden space, where Yun Mo sensed danger. Elsewhere, the Extraterritorial Evil Clan detected the space’s activation and prepared to retrieve their Demon Emperor.

• Wu Ling connected three marked sites on the Map to the Twelve Capital Gods and Demons Formation, and the group decided to investigate the Spirit Road’s eastern edge.
• Yun Mo and the others reached the ruins, searched them without finding anything, and gathered to rest with fruit wine.
• Wen Qingxuan revealed her Mistveil Flower, and Nocturnal Bees gathered around its center and carried it away.
• Yun Mo led Wu Ling, Wen Qingxuan, and Wu Yingying after the bees into a hidden space, where he sensed danger upon entering.
• An Extraterritorial Evil Clan scout reported the space’s fluctuation, and its Young Chieftain summoned his Personal Guards to welcome their clan’s Demon Emperor back.

Yun Mo and his companions followed Nocturnal Bees to a ruined palace in the Wu Clan Ancestral Land and secretly collected its transformed honey and Royal Jelly. They left the hive with their storage full and planned to find a safe place to improve their strength.

• Yun Mo, Wen Qingxuan, Wu Ling, and Wu Yingying discovered that spiritual energy had restored their cultivation to the Spirit Wheel Realm or below in the Wu Clan Ancestral Land.
• Wu Ling suggested following the Nocturnal Bees, and the group tracked them to an abandoned palace despite the surrounding desolation.
• Yun Mo used Black Cloth made from Courtyard Silkworm silk to conceal the group as they slipped past the bees and entered the palace.
• The group found a huge Honey Pool and tasted Nocturnal Honey that could aid cultivation, then filled their containers and Yun Mo drained the pool with a gourd.
• Yun Mo and the others uncovered a large quantity of Nocturnal Bee Royal Jelly, left the palace, and agreed to seek a safe place to attempt breakthroughs or strengthen their bodies.

Yun Mo and the others reached the Wu Clan Ancestral Hall, where they discovered Yuan Huai and eight members of the Yuan Demon Clan trying to free their Demon Emperor. After the intruders broke the stone gate and entered, Yun Mo led his companions inside to stop them.

• Yun Mo, Wen Qingxuan, Wu Ling, and Wu Yingying found the palace complex barren and tried to open its sealed stone gate together.
• Yun Mo sensed danger, halted their attack, and hid the group as nine black-robed figures approached.
• Yuan Huai revealed that he wanted to free the Yuan Demon Clan’s Demon Emperor and used the eight others’ power to strike the gate.
• Yuan Huai broke the stone gate with his ninth blow, then led his guards into the Wu Clan Ancestral Hall.
• Yun Mo and the others emerged from hiding, and Yun Mo said they would enter and stop the Yuan Demon Clan.