Chapter Summaries

Qu Liang and Jian Yuan identified the three people in the Soul-Returning Mirror as the thieves who had robbed the cities, and Hua Gao ordered a covert search of Fourth City. Meanwhile, Yun Mo, Wen Qingxuan, and Lin Jing stayed in a City Lord's Manor courtyard to cultivate and avoid the arriving pursuers, until a knock interrupted them.

• Qu Liang and Jian Yuan showed Hua Gao and Yan Man the Soul-Returning Mirror and explained why they suspected the three figures were behind the thefts.
• Hua Gao ordered a discreet search of Fourth City and arranged to alert Fifth City if the suspects had already left.
• Lin Jing, Wen Qingxuan, and Yun Mo decided to cultivate in a City Lord's Manor courtyard and remain wary of the divine soul tribulation pursuer.
• Yun Mo failed to learn talisman-making from Lin Jing, who teased him about becoming a Beast Tamer instead.
• Someone knocked at the courtyard door while Lin Jing and Yun Mo were talking.

Hua Gao’s group searched Fourth City for Yun Mo, Wen Qingxuan, and Lin Jing, then discovered a talisman trace near their courtyard. After the three decided to leave for Fifth City, Qu Liang recognized them and prepared to trap them at the city gate.

• Yan Man, Qu Liang, and Xie Chunyi searched Fourth City after paying a City Lord’s Manor official for information about long-term courtyard residents.
• Lin Jing turned away Qu Liang and Yan Man when they claimed the City Lord’s Manor could mediate disputes with natives.
• Xie Chunyi detected a faint talisman aura near Lin Jing’s courtyard, and Yan Man told Qu Liang to summon reinforcements while he searched elsewhere.
• Lin Jing told Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan about the visitors, and the group decided to pack up and head for Fifth City.
• Qu Liang spotted the disguised Lin Jing with Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan, then ordered his allies and Hua Gao’s group to prepare an ambush at the city gate.

Yun Mo, Wen Qingxuan, and Lin Jing discovered that the Fourth City’s forces had trapped them at a gate and prepared to fight their pursuers. Yun Mo challenged the Divine Soul Tribulation expert Hua Gao, weakening him with a Quasi-Divine Artifact before launching another attack.

• Yun Mo and the two women sensed concealed watchers and found a sixth-grade Spirit Array blocking the city gate, which Lin Jing linked to the City Lord's Manor.
• Hua Gao, Qu Liang, Jian Yuan, Yan Man, and other cultivators surrounded the trio, and Hua Gao declared that they would kill them.
• Yun Mo, Wen Qingxuan, and Lin Jing readied their weapons and powers to fight the attackers without the protection of the city’s rules.
• Yun Mo punched Hua Gao and was injured by Hua Gao’s counterattack, but the Rain of Time gradually healed him.
• Yun Mo used a Quasi-Divine Artifact and the Ziwei Emperor Fist to wound Hua Gao and reduce his cultivation to the Spiritual Power Tribulation level.
• Yun Mo prepared another strike as Hua Gao summoned a Battle Halberd and charged at him.

Wen Qingxuan and Lin Jing fought off the men surrounding them, turning the battle in their favor with nirvana fire and powerful talismans. Yan Man and Qu Liang were badly wounded, while the City Lord’s Manor guards feared their involvement would be exposed.

• Wen Qingxuan overwhelmed the Heaven-reaching Realm fighters with her Golden Phoenix Divine Spear, forcing Yan Man to join the battle.
• Wen Qingxuan used her speed and nirvana fire to burn Yan Man’s right arm, then pressed her attack as his men moved to protect him.
• Lin Jing’s talismans crushed Xie Yichun’s attacks and injured Jian Yuan, while her sword and talismans kept the others at bay.
• Lin Jing’s ice-blue talisman became an ice sword wreathed in lightning and pinned Qu Liang’s right shoulder to the city wall, damaging its sixth-grade Spirit Array.
• The City Lord’s Manor guards worried that the battle would expose their role in the Supreme Road struggle and implicate Young Master Xiang Xuan.

Yun Mo and his companions fought Hua Gao and the natives while guards from the City Lord's Manor joined the battle. Xiang Xuan emerged and demanded their surrender, and Yun Mo prepared to face him as Lin Jing and Wen Qingxuan lent him their weapons and support.

• Yun Mo struck Hua Gao's Battle Halberd and kicked him back, while their clash sent nearby attackers flying and left Hua Gao unable to gain the upper hand.
• Guards from the City Lord's Manor joined the fight, and Hua Gao accused Yun Mo and his companions of breaking the Supreme Road's rules as spectators argued over what had happened.
• Lin Jing and Wen Qingxuan regrouped with Yun Mo and said they would keep fighting, while Yun Mo sensed the Supreme of the City Lord's Manor approaching.
• Xiang Xuan appeared, accused the three of attacking natives and provoking the City Lord's Manor, and demanded that they surrender.
• Lin Jing handed Yun Mo her sword and talismans, and Wen Qingxuan cloaked him in nirvana fire as he faced Xiang Xuan.

Yun Mo defeated Xiang Xuan with his spacetime-based Yin-Yang Dusting technique, but the city lord intervened and struck him down. As Lin Jing and Wen Qingxuan came to Yun Mo’s aid, a powerful voice challenged the city lord from the heavens.

• Xiang Xuan attacked Yun Mo with his Battle Halberd, but their clash weakened Xiang Xuan’s cultivation.
• Xiang Xuan unleashed the Azure Flood Dragon God-Transforming Halberd, Wind of the Enlightened God, and Yun Mo erased its flood-dragon hurricanes with Yin-Yang Dusting.
• Yun Mo’s xuan guang shattered Xiang Xuan’s Quasi-Divine Artifact robe and began turning his arm to dust.
• Yun Mo moved to finish Xiang Xuan, but the city lord struck him with a giant hand and sent him flying.
• Lin Jing and Wen Qingxuan caught the wounded Yun Mo as the city lord accused them of breaking the Supreme Road’s rules.
• A voice from the heavens warned the city lord that he would not leave either, alarming the strongest beings on the Martial Dao Continent.

A mysterious powerhouse intervened when Xiang Ji attacked Yun Mo and his companions, then Lin Diao healed Yun Mo and examined the dangerous mark fused with his soul. Yun Mo woke with the mark still intact and thanked Lin Diao for saving him.

• Xiang Ji watched the colossal hand descend and realized too late that Yun Mo had a terrifying backer.
• The hand swept past the Fourth City gates, leaving the space there obliterated, while the Lord of the Ninth City warned that the Supreme Road would face a cleansing.
• Lin Diao arrived with Lin Jing and examined Yun Mo, discovering that the mark on his forehead carried the aura of the Outer Realm Evil Clan and was fused with his divine soul.
• Lin Diao sealed the mark and healed Yun Mo's injuries but could not erase it without damaging his soul.
• Lin Diao awakened Yun Mo, who thanked him for intervening.

Yun Mo received a temporary seal to suppress the Evil Emperor's Mark, while Lin Diao accelerated the Heavenly Evolution Divine Stone's growth and revealed the Stone Book within. After Lin Jing and Lin Diao departed, Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan chose to return to the Spirit Academy with Elder Wu Zhang.

• Lin Diao told Yun Mo that removing the Evil Clan's mark required an Earthly Sovereign-level divine soul and placed a seal on it that he claimed would last only two years.
• Lin Diao used immense spiritual energy to evolve the Heavenly Evolution Divine Stone, revealing the law-born Stone Book for Yun Mo.
• Lin Jing said goodbye to Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan, then left with Lin Diao, who privately admitted the seal's two-year limit was a bluff to motivate Yun Mo.
• Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan decided to return to the Spirit Academy and waited for Elder Wu Zhang, while discussing their next meeting and Wen Qingxuan's return to her own academy.
• Wen Qingxuan caught Yun Mo with his arm around her waist, but Elder Wu Zhang arrived and told them to return to the Martial Spirit Academy and digest the insights they had gained.

A year after returning from the Supreme Road, Yun Mo developed a powerful spacetime technique and sparred with Elder Wu Zhang in the Martial Dao Tower. He then learned that the Martial Spirit Academy would hold a solo selection to choose ten students for the Spirit Academy Competition.

• After reports of corruption on the Supreme Road spread, the continent's foremost powers investigated and purged the compromised City Lord's Manors and natives.
• Yun Mo named his new spacetime technique A Step Away, Worlds Apart, and demonstrated that it could reach Elder Wu Zhang despite his attempts to block it.
• Elder Wu Zhang praised Yun Mo's technique, called him the academy's strongest current disciple, and sent him out of the Martial Dao Tower owing thirty thousand Battle Spirit Points.
• Wu Ling told Yun Mo that Tan Feng and Tan Yin had joined the Martial Spirit Academy and complained that Yun Mo had neglected the Heavenly Terrace.
• Wu Ling explained that nearly a thousand students would compete individually in a selection, with the top ten representing the academy, and rejected Yun Mo's offer to team up.

Yun Mo reunited with Qing He, Weak Water, and Wu Yingying as they prepared for the Spirit Academy Competition selection trials. The group discussed their opponents and planned to avoid the strongest contender while collecting points from weaker teams.

• Yun Mo and Wu Ling talked about Yun Mo's standing among the Heavenly Terrace students before Qing He brought Weak Water and Wu Yingying back to the courtyard.
• Wu Yingying gave Yun Mo pills refined with Wen Qingxuan, and Weak Water explained that pill-making had helped her and Wu Yingying cultivate.
• Wu Ling supplied ingredients for Wu Yingying's daily cooking task, and Yun Mo and the others worried about having to eat what she made.
• That night, Wu Ling said the selection trials would likely begin within days, and the group reviewed the Martial Dao Tower ranking and discussed how to avoid the Divine Soul Tribulation contender while taking points from weaker opponents.

The Martial Spirit Academy began its selection for the Spirit Academy Competition, sending students into the Martial Dao Tower to fight for points and a place among the final ten. Yun Mo entered a battle zone where several students challenged him, while the academy’s leaders watched and worried about the Sacred Spirit Academy’s ambitions.

• Dean Tianwang announced that students would fight through the Martial Dao Tower, earn points, and compete for ten places in the Spirit Academy Competition.
• Yun Mo, Wu Ling, Qing He, Weak Water, and Wu Yingying entered the tower, while the academy elders discussed Yun Mo’s prospects and the Sacred Spirit Academy’s ambitions.
• Yun Mo appeared on the tower’s fifth floor, where students could be removed after fatal injuries and qualifying points could grant access to a hidden secret realm.
• Students in Yun Mo’s battle zone recognized him and, despite knowing his reputation, several stepped forward to challenge him.

Yun Mo overwhelmed his opponents in the Martial Dao Tower, clearing his battle zone with ease. The tower then sent him to an ancient secluded chamber where the Tower Spirit revealed that a supreme powerhouse had left insights there.

• Yun Mo defeated the Body Tribulation senior student and rapidly eliminated the attackers who had surrounded him.
• A Spirit Array Master used his Galaxy Collapse Array against Yun Mo, but Yun Mo warped space to keep it from reaching him and then eliminated him.
• Yun Mo collected the remaining opponents' points and was transported to another battle zone after clearing the others.
• The Martial Dao Tower sent Yun Mo to an unopened secluded chamber, where the Tower Spirit explained that a supreme powerhouse's insights had settled there over time.

Yun Mo used the Heavenly Evolution Stone Book to gather a supreme expert’s lingering insights and reproduce a desolation martial art, then returned to the selection battle and defeated his second group. The battle continued, and Wu Ji and the others reacted with concern when Yun Mo and Bian Yu were grouped together.

• Yun Mo collected the meditation chamber’s lingering insights with the Heavenly Evolution Stone Book, which formed a hazy figure that demonstrated a desolation finger technique.
• Yun Mo returned to the selection battle as a supreme expert in the Great Thousand World remarked that Yun Mo’s discovery was his own fortuitous opportunity, not discipleship.
• Yun Mo entered a second Battle Zone and overwhelmed its stronger contestants, leaving the two Body Tribulation students to face him together.
• Kong Tianlei and the other Body Tribulation student attacked Yun Mo once more, and Yun Mo eliminated them in a clash of power.
• Wu Ji, Zongfang, and the others saw that Yun Mo and Bian Yu had been grouped together and worried about the academy’s losses.

Yun Mo overwhelmed Yue Bianyu and three other veteran students during the Martial Spirit Academy selection, exposing the danger of Yue Bianyu’s unstable cultivation. The encounter left Yue Bianyu’s cultivation diminished and his foundation cracked, while Yun Mo turned his attention to the remaining challengers and considered refining a signature Finger Technique.

• Yue Bianyu and three veteran students joined forces to challenge Yun Mo and Yue Bianyu, but Yun Mo’s spatial domain blocked their attacks and sent the three students flying.
• Elder Wu Ji and Elder Zongfang explained that Yun Mo had reshaped the space around himself into a domain that could reject attacks.
• Yun Mo pointed out that Yue Bianyu’s spiritual power had not kept pace with his first-level Divine Soul Tribulation cultivation, but Yue Bianyu insisted on fighting for a place in the Spirit Academy Competition.
• Yun Mo imprisoned Yue Bianyu in space and struck him with the essence of desolation, causing Yue Bianyu’s cultivation to fall to the Spiritual Power Tribulation stage and cracking his foundation.
• After Yue Bianyu’s figure dissipated, Yun Mo turned toward the three remaining students and thought about using the Heavenly Evolution Stone Book to develop his own version of the Finger Technique.