Chapter Summaries

Mu Chen heard how Luo Li had challenged Ji Xuan for his sake, then endured Su Qing and Tang Qian'er teasing him about their relationship and his childhood embarrassments. The chapter ended with Mu Chen recovering when Su Qing played an old recording, only to discover that Su Qing had many more Jade Talismans ready to torment him with.

• Ye Qingling told Mu Chen that Luo Li had fought Ji Xuan in the Spirit Crown Contest and said Mu Chen would come for him himself.
• Su Qing teased Mu Chen about bringing Luo Li home and marrying her, then joined Tang Qian'er in recounting Mu Chen's childhood exploits to Ye Qingling.
• Mu Chen suffered through the teasing until Su Qing played a recording of him speaking to Hong Ling, prompting him to snatch the Jade Talisman.
• Su Qing revealed that he had dozens more Jade Talismans, leaving Mu Chen stunned and despairing.

Su Qing and his companions traveled with Ye Qingling's principled faction through the Northern Cang Realm, while news of Mu Chen's arrival stirred up former Spirit Road rivals. After Su Qing helped Mu Chen and Tang Qian'er break through to the Divine Soul Realm, the group reached a busy trading area, unaware that trouble was approaching.

• Su Qing remembered that Ye Qingling had founded the Ye Gang to protect factionless students and share its gains with them.
• Mu Chen told Su Qing that he had crippled Ge Hai and shattered his mark, while Tang Qian'er kept the Divine Soul Yin-Yang Ganoderma to raise her mark.
• Su Qing teased Mu Chen with news that Luo Li was in the Northern Cang Realm, then confirmed they would meet at the Northern Cang Hall.
• A handsome youth told a level-seven student that Mu Chen, the Blood Calamity, had appeared, prompting varied reactions across the Northern Cang Realm, including a black-skirted girl's delight.
• Su Qing refined the Divine Soul Yin-Yang Ganoderma into two portions, and Mu Chen and Tang Qian'er each reached the Divine Soul Realm.
• Su Qing, Mu Chen, and their companions traveled with the Ye Gang to a crowded trading area, where they unknowingly approached incoming trouble.

Su Qing reunited with Tang Qian'er, then intervened when Chu Lin confronted Mu Chen and demanded that he stay away from Luo Li. Mu Chen defeated Chu Lin, but continued attacking him as a group of onlookers rushed to intervene, only to be stopped by a youth in green.

• Tang Qian'er comforted Su Qing and promised she would wait for him to come home.
• Chu Lin asked Mu Chen to stay away from Luo Li, and Mu Chen mocked him before Su Qing arrived.
• Su Qing defended Mu Chen and urged him to fight Chu Lin.
• Mu Chen defeated Chu Lin with a golden hand seal, then pressed his attack while onlookers hurried to rescue Chu Lin.
• A youth in green drew his sword and blocked the onlookers, declaring that the road was closed.

Su Qing and Mu Chen eliminated Chu Lin and most of the Chu Gang, then spared the last survivor when he offered information about a powerful Spirit Beast. The survivor described an icy region called Ice Valley and a creature believed to be an Ice Profound Spirit Flood Dragon.

• Su Qing stopped Fang Zhong and the Chu Gang members from reaching Chu Lin, then overwhelmed them with his bare hands and eliminated Fang Zhong.
• Mu Chen grew furious at Chu Lin, struck him in the chest, and eliminated him.
• Su Qing defeated the remaining Chu Gang members until one student offered information about a high-tier Spirit Beast, and Nine Nether urged Su Qing to spare him for now.
• The surrendered student told Su Qing and the others that his gang had discovered Ice Valley, where an enormous creature with terrifying spiritual pressure had appeared.
• The student said the Chu Gang believed the creature was an Ice Profound Spirit Flood Dragon.

Su Qing went to Ice Valley to investigate the Ice Profound Spirit Flood Dragon and discovered that it was facing an Earth Core Flame Dragon Lizard, with both spirit beasts at the early stage of the Fusion Realm. He and Nine Nether prepared to fight them while Tang Qian'er, Mu Chen, and Ye Qingling moved to intercept anyone approaching the valley.

• Su Qing sealed the surrendered student's spiritual energy, gave his companions Communication Jade Talismans, and left to investigate the Ice Profound Spirit Flood Dragon.
• At Ice Valley, Nine Nether sensed the flood dragon and another creature underground, so Su Qing hurried toward their location.
• Nine Nether identified the second creature as an Earth Core Flame Dragon Lizard and agreed to fight it while Su Qing faced the Ice Profound Spirit Flood Dragon.
• Su Qing messaged Tang Qian'er, Mu Chen, and Ye Qingling to slow down anyone investigating the valley and told them to keep the captive until the beasts were dealt with.
• Su Qing joked about eating the flood dragon's liver and teased Nine Nether, who angrily cursed at him.

Su Qing and Nine Nether killed the Ice Profound Spirit Flood Dragon and the Earth Core Flame Dragon Lizard as crowds approached Ice Valley. After telling Mu Chen and the others to retreat and meet him at the Northern Cang Hall, Su Qing turned toward the incoming figures with an excited smile.

• Su Qing fought the Ice Profound Spirit Flood Dragon while Nine Nether burrowed underground toward the Earth Core Flame Dragon Lizard, and Mu Chen and the others guarded Ice Valley's entrance.
• As crowds gathered near the valley, Su Qing intensified his attack, and the Ice Profound Spirit Flood Dragon tried to flee.
• Su Qing spent his blood essence to power a sword strike that severed the Ice Profound Spirit Flood Dragon's head, then collected its corpse and spirit beast essence.
• Nine Nether defeated the Earth Core Flame Dragon Lizard, which burned to ash, and returned to Su Qing with its spirit beast essence.
• Su Qing told Mu Chen and the others to retreat and meet him at the Northern Cang Hall, then turned toward the approaching figures and left.

Su Qing lured the pursuers seeking his two high-tier spirit beast essences into a valley and trapped them after devastating the first factions with sword phantoms. He began attacking the surviving factions with the Kunwu Sword as his ink cage sealed the valley.

• Crowds chasing Su Qing gathered in Ice Valley, and news spread that he carried two high-tier spirit beast essences.
• Su Qing led his pursuers into a valley, where three factions surrounded him and argued over how to divide the essences.
• Two more factions arrived and joined the encirclement around Su Qing.
• Su Qing insulted the crowd and summoned more than four hundred transparent sword phantoms, killing most members of the first three factions.
• Su Qing drew the Kunwu Sword and used “Draw the Ground as a Prison!” to seal the valley with an ink cage.
• Su Qing unleashed dense sword intent at the trapped survivors, beginning the slaughter.

Su Qing defeated the Spirit Wheel Realm students while the Divine Soul Realm fighters waited for him to tire, then began attacking them after reaching a level-nine mark. An elder intervened, and Su Qing learned he had to reach the center of the Northern Cang Realm for the Northern Cang Hall to appear.

• Pan Weihao, Shao Huanzhe, Yan Chen, and the other Divine Soul Realm fighters withdrew and let Su Qing eliminate the Spirit Wheel Realm students.
• Su Qing confronted the remaining fighters and mocked them for using their allies to drain his spiritual energy.
• Shao Huanzhe tried to bargain for his group's release, but Su Qing struck at him and damaged his bronze shield.
• Su Qing's next sword attack cut through Shao Huanzhe's shield and shattered the mark between his brows, sending him away.
• An elder from the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy stopped Su Qing and told him to spare the remaining fighters because his mark was already level nine.
• Su Qing asked why the Northern Cang Hall had not appeared, learned it would appear only when he reached the realm's center, and set off there.

Su Qing arrived at the Northern Cang Hall with the old man and learned that his seed quota compensated him for being barred from the Spirit Road. As students gathered in the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy, the Black-Skirted Girl reunited eyes with Mu Chen, while Tang Qian'er joyfully rushed into Su Qing's arms.

• The old man took Su Qing to the Northern Cang Hall and explained that arriving students would have twelve hours to enter after it opened.
• Su Qing entered the palace and learned that the Five Great Academies had denied him a Spirit Road place because they considered him too bloodthirsty, granting him a seed quota instead.
• Students gathered in the hall, and Su Qing used a Draw the Ground as a Prison barrier to shield himself from the girls watching him.
• A Black-Skirted Girl with a level-nine mark entered and repeatedly searched the arriving students for someone she hoped to see.
• Mu Chen entered with Tang Qian'er, Ye Qingling, and the others, and he exchanged a glance with the Black-Skirted Girl.
• Su Qing dispelled his barrier, greeted Tang Qian'er, and she ran to him and threw herself into his arms.

Su Qing and Tang Qian'er reunited with Mu Chen and Luo Li at the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy, where the Shi brothers insulted them. Su Qing struck Shi Hao with the Kunwu Sword, breaking his protective mark and piercing his chest.

• Su Qing recounted what had happened to Tang Qian'er as Mu Chen entered the hall and reunited with Luo Li in a close embrace.
• Shi Jing and Shi Hao mocked Mu Chen, but Mu Chen outargued them and left the brothers red-faced.
• Shi Hao insulted Su Qing and Luo Li, prompting Su Qing to send Tang Qian'er aside and unleash his sword pressure.
• After the old man allowed Su Qing to act, Su Qing used the Kunwu Sword to break through Shi Hao's defenses and protective membrane.
• Su Qing pierced Shi Hao's chest, and sword energy and lightning erupted from the strike.