Chapter Summaries

Yun Mo and his companions were trapped by Yuan Huai and eight members of the Extraterritorial Evil Clan, who revealed that the group’s arrival had helped them locate the hidden spacetime. Yun Mo broke their formation with the Rain of Time and challenged Yuan Huai, leaving both sides poised for battle.

• Yun Mo questioned Yuan Huai about how the group entered the hidden spacetime and learned they had tracked the spatial fluctuations caused by Yun Mo and his companions.
• Yuan Huai revealed that his group had recognized the women’s scent and intended to capture everyone and interrogate them.
• Yun Mo identified the Evil Spirit Clan and explained that its members were born from unions between the Extraterritorial Evil Clan and people of the Great Thousand World.
• Yun Mo crushed a jade talisman, summoning the Rain of Time to erode Yuan Huai’s formation and protect his companions.
• Yuan Huai recognized Yun Mo as the one who killed Ling Shang and Xin Ze, while Yun Mo prepared to fight him with a black-and-white battle halberd.

Yun Mo and his companions fought Yuan Huai and the Yuan Demon Clan guards, and Yun Mo unleashed his Great Void technique to cripple them. Yuan Huai survived the devastating attack and challenged Yun Mo to continue the fight at the Wu Clan Ancestral Hall.

• Yun Mo attacked Yuan Huai and his five companions as Wen Qingxuan, Wu Ling, and Wu Yingying joined the battle against the guards.
• Yun Mo wounded one guard with Spacetime Poison, forcing him to cut off his own arm to survive.
• Yuan Huai's guards performed a Blood Sacrifice Ritual and gave him a Law-Breaking Origin Weapon to use against Yun Mo.
• Yun Mo unleashed Great Void, first form: Yin-Yang Dusting, overwhelming Yuan Huai's Origin Weapon and breaking through the guards' barriers.
• Yuan Huai lost an arm and two guards were destroyed, but he survived and challenged Yun Mo to fight again at the Wu Clan Ancestral Hall.

Yun Mo and his companions entered the Wu Clan’s ancestral grounds and faced the Wu Guards protecting the Ancestral Hall. A memory imprint revealed how the Wu Clan sacrificed itself to seal the Extraterritorial Evil Clan’s Demon Emperors inside the hall where Yun Mo now stood.

• Yuan Huai burned his remaining blood essence to escape, and Yun Mo gave pills to Wen Qingxuan and the others before they hurried toward the Ancestral Hall.
• Yun Mo, Wu Ling, Wen Qingxuan, and Wu Yingying entered a Stone Hall on the left and found more than ten thousand Wu Clan Wu Guards blocking their way.
• A demonic shadow formed from the guards’ battle intent attacked Yun Mo and Wu Ling while Wen Qingxuan and Wu Yingying struck at the guards.
• The Wu Guards’ eyes turned red, and they began detonating themselves as the demonic shadow pierced the group’s barrier and entered Yun Mo’s brow.
• Yun Mo saw a memory of the Wu Clan fighting the Evil Clan and learned that twelve supreme experts had sealed its Demon Emperors inside the Ancestral Hall.

Yun Mo and his companions raced into the Wu Clan Ancestral Hall to stop Yuan Huai from breaking the Demon Emperor seals. Yun Mo awakened the baleful energy with the White Tiger’s power and shattered Yuan Huai’s ritual array, but a mark of hatred entered his brow before the seals closed.

• Yun Mo, Wen Qingxuan, Wu Ling, and Wu Yingying crossed the Stone Halls after the temple opened a path for them, and the Stone Spirit sent them into the Ancestral Hall.
• The Stone Spirit warned them that Yuan Huai was destabilizing the seals and offered to send them out, but Yun Mo insisted they enter and fight.
• Yuan Huai’s blood-red Formation Banners trapped the four while his ritual array neared completion, and their first combined attack failed to break through.
• Yun Mo used the Pseudo-Four-Spirit Essence to fuse with the White Tiger’s baleful power, while Wen Qingxuan, Wu Ling, and Wu Yingying joined their strength in a single attack.
• Yun Mo fired an arrow of baleful energy that shattered the barrier and destroyed Yuan Huai and the ritual array, allowing the Stone Spirit to reinforce the seals.
• As the Stone Spirit merged with the seals and isolated the realm, a hateful mark crossed spacetime and sank into Yun Mo’s brow.

Yun Mo and the others returned to the Spirit Road, where Wen Qingxuan identified the mark on his forehead as the Extraterritorial Evil Clan’s Hate Mark. They learned that Yun Mo had received three Wu Clan legacies, then heard that Mu Chen had been expelled and a final-stage selection would take place in one month.

• Yun Mo, Wu Ling, Wen Qingxuan, and Wu Yingying emerged in the ruins on the Spirit Road and realized they had lost their cultivation.
• Wen Qingxuan recognized the silvery mark on Yun Mo’s forehead as a Hate Mark that would make the Extraterritorial Evil Clan hunt him.
• Yun Mo revealed that the Wu Clan blood essence had given him three legacies, including a body-tempering scripture, the Twelve Capital Gods and Demons Formation, and the primordial heavenly demon body.
• Wu Yingying said Martial Spirit Academy had desolate ancient gold, and Wen Qingxuan offered flowing flame for Yun Mo’s primordial heavenly demon body.
• The Mirror of Judgment announced that Mu Chen had violated the Spirit Road’s rules and was expelled, and that the top one hundred participants would enter a selection at the third Guardian Land in one month.

Yun Mo and his companions headed toward the Guardian Land, where they defeated a wounded alliance that tried to steal their Tokens. After combining the spoils, the four held level six Tokens and continued toward the selection, planning to acquire stronger Tokens along the way.

• Wu Yingying recognized Mu Chen in the Spirit Road announcement, and Wu Ling reminded the group that the Guardian Land selection began in a month.
• After traveling for more than ten days, Yun Mo, Wen Qingxuan, Wu Yingying, and Wu Ling encountered nine wounded travelers who demanded their Tokens.
• Wu Ling, Wen Qingxuan, Wu Yingying, and Yun Mo swiftly defeated the attackers, and their leader surrendered his level five Token.
• Yun Mo combined the group’s Tokens into four level six Tokens, then the group continued toward the Guardian Land.

Yun Mo and his companions defeated Shi Yi’s group and entered the final Guardian Land, where they found dwellings and three elders waiting at a Martial Combat Arena. With the selection still three days away, they planned to find lodging and explore the settlement.

• Shi Yi tried to overwhelm Wu Ling while his companions attacked Yun Mo, Wu Yingying, and Wen Qingxuan, but the four defeated the attackers.
• Wu Yingying challenged Shi Yi to escape past any one of them, and the girl in golden armor struck him down when he charged her.
• Wu Ling collected the attackers’ Tokens and reported that the group’s Tokens had reached level seven but showed no sign of breaking through.
• Yun Mo and the others entered the final Guardian Land and saw a Martial Combat Arena with three elderly men waiting there.
• Wen Qingxuan identified the elders as likely members of the Sacred Spirit Academy and reminded the group that the selection began in three days.
• Yun Mo and Wu Ling planned to explore the Guardian Land the next day, while the others went to find lodging.

Yun Mo and the others explored the Guardian Land and learned that the selection would be a deadly battle in which participants could seize tokens. With the selection two days away, they returned to prepare and agreed to spend their spirit points on Wu Yingying’s preferred weapon.

• Yun Mo told Wu Ling that their stolen tokens had earned nearly two thousand spirit points, enough to cover their lodging and possibly buy supplies.
• Wu Yingying suggested watching a crowd arguing in the Guardian Land, but Wu Ling urged everyone to return and study the Wu Clan Body Tempering Scripture.
• At the Martial Combat Arena, Yun Mo learned that token holders would fight until only around thirty participants remained, and that the final stage would vary by Spirit Academy.
• Back in Yun Mo’s room, Wu Yingying asked for a scarlet Crescent Blade, and Wen Qingxuan and Wu Ling agreed to let her use the group’s spirit points for it.

Yun Mo, Wen Qingxuan, Wu Ling, and Wu Yingying entered the final Spirit Road selection and swiftly killed eleven opponents, stunning the spectators with their strength. After collecting the Tokens, Yun Mo was overcome by intense hatred and killing intent, and the others noticed the mark between his brows had grown more silvery-white.

• The Spirit Road Tokens announced that the selection would end when only a hundred participants remained across the Three Martial Combat Arenas, prompting many to hesitate or withdraw.
• Yun Mo and the other three entered the arena, where their level-seven Tokens immediately drew attacks from two groups.
• Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan killed their five attackers, while Wu Ling and Wu Yingying swiftly defeated the other six.
• Spectators and the white-haired elders marveled at the four companions' extraordinary strength as they gathered their opponents' Tokens.
• Yun Mo urged the others to merge the Tokens and kill their way toward the arena's center, but Wen Qingxuan noticed his sudden bloodlust and the brighter mark between his brows.

Yun Mo and his companions advanced into the center of the Martial Combat Arena, where they overwhelmed the fighters gathered there and drew the attention of the Five Great Academies’ elders. The four continued their sweep, leaving the spectators convinced that they were among the Spirit Road’s strongest contenders.

• Yun Mo decided to endure the Hate Mark for now and led Wen Qingxuan, Wu Ling, and Wu Yingying toward the arena’s center.
• The group defeated another team on the way and reached the central area, where more than thirty competitors were fighting.
• Wen Qingxuan and the others revealed their auras and attacked the fighters with Level Seven Tokens while Yun Mo plunged into a separate battle.
• Wen Qingxuan defeated a Level Seven Token holder, broke his arms, and killed him with a steel needle through the skull.
• The spectators marveled at the four’s strength and noted that the elders from the Five Great Academies had taken notice of them.

Yun Mo and his companions survived the Martial Combat Arena trial and reached the final stretch of the Spirit Road, where Qing He joined them. The group encountered a standoff between Ji Xuan and Luo Li that was tied to Mu Chen.

• Yun Mo and his companions waited as the arena’s astral gales drove the remaining participants toward the center, where everyone agreed to stop fighting.
• The Mirror of Judgment ended the trial and opened a teleportation gate to the Spirit Road’s final stretch, which Yun Mo and his companions entered.
• Qing He reunited with Yun Mo, exchanged gifts with him, and joined the group after learning they would remain at the Five Great Academies.
• Qing He gave Yun Mo a jade pendant from the headmaster and said Weak Water would also attend the Five Great Academies.
• Qing He identified Ji Xuan and Luo Li as strong fighters confronting each other over a grudge connected to Mu Chen.

The final trial began with participants allowed to form groups of no more than three and tasked with raising their Tokens by hunting grade-nine Spirit Beasts or heading to the Central Divine Temple for Spirit Arts. After watching Ji Xuan and Luo Li’s restrained clash, Yun Mo’s group set out to find the beasts and decided to follow Ji Xuan when they spotted him racing toward an unknown destination.

• The Blood-Colored Token announced the final trial’s rules: participants could form groups of up to three, seize Tokens without killing anyone, and obtain grade-nine Tokens by slaying grade-nine Spirit Beasts.
• Wu Ling and Qing He agreed to travel together, while Wu Yingying stayed with Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan.
• Ji Xuan and Luo Li fought in a fierce but cautious clash, and Yun Mo concluded that neither intended to settle their rivalry there.
• Yun Mo, Wen Qingxuan, and Wu Yingying left to search for grade-nine Spirit Beasts, while other participants pursued Spirit Arts or targeted weaker groups for their Tokens.
• After the trio wandered without finding any beasts, Wu Yingying spotted Ji Xuan and two companions racing toward a destination and suggested following them to learn where the beasts were.

Yun Mo, Wen Qingxuan, and Wu Yingying followed Ji Xuan and his companions to a remote canyon where they found a Ninth-Rank Mountain Ghost and the Spirit Jade Ji Xuan wanted. Yun Mo planned to use the fight as cover for Wu Yingying to steal the Spirit Jade, while he and Wen Qingxuan confronted Ji Xuan’s group.

• Yun Mo gave Wen Qingxuan and Wu Yingying cloaks so they could secretly follow Ji Xuan, Qiu Beihai, and Liu Qingyun.
• Ji Xuan told his companions that the remote destination held a Ninth-Rank Spirit Beast and Spirit Jade that could help him advance during Spiritual Energy Empowerment.
• Yun Mo and the two women followed the trio to a canyon and discovered natural treasures and a terrifying aura within.
• Yun Mo, Wen Qingxuan, and Wu Yingying saw Ji Xuan, Qiu Beihai, and Liu Qingyun attacking a Mountain Ghost, and Yun Mo identified its lair as the likely location of the Spirit Jade.
• Yun Mo instructed Wen Qingxuan and himself to confront the trio after the Mountain Ghost weakened, while Wu Yingying sneaked into the lair to take the Spirit Jade.

Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan ambushed Ji Xuan, Qiu Beihai, and Liu Qingyun after they killed a Ninth-Rank Mountain Ghost, taking its Spirit Core and overpowering the three. Ji Xuan and the others escaped when Wu Yingying joined the fight, while Yun Mo suspected Ji Xuan had found the beast through a connection to Dean Tian Sheng.

• Ji Xuan, Liu Qingyun, and Qiu Beihai combined their attacks to kill the wounded Mountain Ghost, and Ji Xuan struck through its skull.
• Yun Mo took the Mountain Ghost's Spirit Core as Wen Qingxuan attacked Ji Xuan, while Yun Mo fought Qiu Beihai and Liu Qingyun.
• Wen Qingxuan kept Ji Xuan on the defensive, and Yun Mo overwhelmed the other two, nearly severing Qiu Beihai's wrist.
• Wu Yingying joined the fight with a volley of arrows, prompting Ji Xuan, Qiu Beihai, and Liu Qingyun to flee.
• Wu Yingying gave Yun Mo ten pieces of Spirit Jade, and the group planned to gather spirit medicines and hunt more Ninth-Rank Spirit Beasts.
• Yun Mo wondered whether Dean Tian Sheng of the Sacred Spirit Academy was related to Ji Xuan, but Wen Qingxuan dismissed the idea.

Yun Mo, Wen Qingxuan, and Wu Yingying discussed the Demon Emperor’s mark and Yun Mo’s plans for a Supreme Dharma Body while searching for a ninth-rank Token. When Lou Ying and his companions threatened them with a ninth-rank Token, they attacked, and Wu Yingying pinned Lou Ying to a tree as he regretted not heading for the Central Divine Temple.

• Yun Mo and Wu Yingying argued about their search, then Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan discussed the mark affecting his mind and the materials he needed for a Supreme Dharma Body.
• The next morning, Yun Mo’s group encountered Lou Ying and two companions, who demanded their Token after seeing Yun Mo raise his own to the ninth rank.
• Wu Yingying, Yun Mo, and Wen Qingxuan attacked Lou Ying’s group, and Lou Ying fled when he sensed their strength.
• Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan threw steel needles to obstruct Lou Ying, and Wu Yingying shot him through the shoulder and pinned him to a tree.
• Lou Ying coughed blood and regretted letting the ninth-rank Token distract him from going to the Central Divine Temple.

Yun Mo, Wen Qingxuan, and Wu Yingying reached the Central Divine Temple and entered its Divine Arts hall. Yun Mo awakened a mysterious broken jade disc identified as the Primordial Ziwei Emperor's Emperor's Seal, which engulfed him and Wen Qingxuan and drew them inside.

• Yun Mo recovered his Level-Nine Token from Lou Ying and set out for the Central Divine Temple with Wen Qingxuan and Wu Yingying.
• The trio entered the temple, where an old man welcomed them and allowed them to pass through the Vermilion Gate with their Tokens.
• Wu Yingying went to search for a Divine Art, while Yun Mo wandered deeper into the rear hall alone.
• A ripple from the mark between Yun Mo's brows summoned a broken jade disc that pressed against his forehead and made him bleed.
• Wen Qingxuan found Yun Mo holding the disc, which he identified as the Primordial Ziwei Emperor's Emperor's Seal.
• The disc released purple light and transported Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan inside it, leaving their silhouettes visible within the floating jade disc.

Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan entered the Emperor Seal Fragment’s Creation Pool, where Ziwei the Great’s imperial will clashed with the Demon Emperor mark in Yun Mo’s mind. Yun Mo learned Ziwei Emperor Art’s Mind Rectification and reached a stalemate with the mark, but collapsed into Wen Qingxuan as his robe dissolved when he tried to stand.

• Yun Mo explained that the jade disc was a fragment of Ziwei the Great’s Emperor Seal and urged Wen Qingxuan to temper her body in the Creation Pool.
• Wen Qingxuan used the pool’s imperial will to cleanse her body while the Emperor Seal Fragment focused its power on Yun Mo’s Demon Emperor mark.
• Yun Mo resisted the mark’s influence and received the Ziwei Emperor Art’s Mind Rectification from the fragment’s remaining consciousness.
• Yun Mo used Mind Rectification to weaken the mark’s power and establish a stalemate that could protect his consciousness during future eruptions.
• Yun Mo awoke and reassured Wen Qingxuan, then lost his vision, toppled toward her, and watched his robe dissolve.

After Wen Qingxuan brought Yun Mo to safety, he awoke at the Five Great Academies’ resting courtyard and learned she had found the illustrated books in his Storage Ring. He reflected on the Evil Clan’s Mark and the Ziwei Emperor’s inheritance, then reunited with his companions and admitted he had obtained an ancient emperor’s treasure.

• Wen Qingxuan dressed the unconscious Yun Mo, escaped the jade disc’s space with him, and examined the illustrated books in his Storage Ring.
• Yun Mo woke after several days and found Wen Qingxuan reading his illustrated books; she teased him before returning the books and his Storage Ring.
• Yun Mo considered how the jade disc and Ziwei the Great’s Emperor’s Seal had protected him, while recognizing that the Evil Clan’s Mark remained a threat.
• Yun Mo left his room and reunited with Wen Qingxuan, Wu Yingying, Qing He, and Wu Ling at the courtyard’s stone table.
• Yun Mo told his companions that he had obtained an ancient great emperor’s treasure.

Yun Mo reunited with Wu Ling and the others, discussed the coming Spiritual Energy Empowerment and academy evaluation, and shared Spirit Jade with them. After peaceful days passed, a bell announced that the final empowerment was near and the Spirit Road was nearing its end.

• Wu Ling and the others ate and drank with Yun Mo, who learned how long he had been unconscious and heard about the upcoming Spiritual Energy Empowerment and Five Great Academies evaluation.
• Wu Ling, Qing He, and the others discussed the possible King rating and a competition after the empowerment, while Yun Mo said he would watch from below.
• Yun Mo gave Spirit Jade to Wu Ling and the others, and they discussed challenging Ji Xuan and his followers after the empowerment.
• Wu Ling and the others returned to their courtyards, while Yun Mo carried the wine-sleepy Wen Qingxuan into the only room and wondered where he would sleep.
• After several peaceful days, a bell rang out, signaling that the final empowerment was approaching and the Spirit Road was drawing to a close.

Yun Mo and his companions emerged from the Spirit Road and joined the other trial participants for the final Spiritual Energy Empowerment. They revealed five Level-Nine Tokens, drawing attention from the academy deans and their enemies as the Mirror of Judgment began the empowerment.

• Yun Mo and his companions passed through the dissolving barrier and returned to the Great Thousand World, where the academy deans explained the Token-based empowerment and the King potential granted by Level-Nine Tokens.
• Dean Tian Sheng manifested the Nine-Tier Platform, and the students took their places according to their Token levels.
• Yun Mo, Wu Ling, and three other companions revealed Level-Nine Tokens, shocking the gathered students and drawing the deans' attention.
• Qiu Beihai, Liu Qingyun, and Ji Xuan recognized Yun Mo and his companions as the people they suspected of taking their opportunities, and Qiu Beihai vowed to confront them after the empowerment.
• The Mirror of Judgment sent refined spiritual energy down to the platform, and the students began absorbing it as Qiu Beihai confirmed that Yun Mo's group were the culprits.