Chapter Summaries

Lin Ke fought Nan Shang in a fierce Sword Domain clash, then joined forces with the Dream-Eating Gecko and Lin Xuanyuan to defeat him. Nan Shang collapsed, leaving Lin Ke the victor as the arena erupted in an uproar.

• Nan Shang unleashed Sword Storm against Lin Ke, who transformed his Sword Net into threads to meet the attack.
• Lin Ke and Nan Shang continued battling across the shattered arena while the Dream-Eating Gecko and Lin Xuanyuan tried to disrupt Nan Shang.
• The Dream-Eating Gecko struck Nan Shang with a mental assault, but Nan Shang briefly resisted it.
• The Dream-Eating Gecko and Lin Xuanyuan coordinated mental and sonic attacks that left Nan Shang vulnerable.
• Lin Ke struck Nan Shang with his Sword Domain and Dragon-Elephant Prison-Suppressing Force, and Nan Shang collapsed after losing the fight.

Lin Ke easily defeated Nan Shang, securing the Heavenly Prodigy Showdown for the Golden Wing Sect. The focus then shifted to Zhuge Qi Tian and Fu Tan, whose duel began with Zhuge Qi Tian redirecting Fu Tan’s overwhelming attack.

• Lin Ke defeated Nan Shang with his spiritual techniques and left the Arena, surprising the gathered prodigies.
• The Imperial Sovereign of the Dali Domain declared Lin Ke the winner, and Lin Ke returned to his seat.
• Fu Tan and Zhuge Qi Tian entered the Arena as the crowd prepared to watch the showdown between the foremost prodigies of their sects.
• Fu Tan enlarged his body with crimson fire spirit power and charged Zhuge Qi Tian with a crushing punch.
• Zhuge Qi Tian used a supple technique to drain and redirect Fu Tan’s force, sending Fu Tan hurtling backward.

Zhuge Qi Tian faced Fu Tan in the Arena and revealed a yin-and-yang technique that turned aside Fu Tan’s metal power. Their battle intensified into an even contest between Fu Tan’s metal domain and Zhuge Qi Tian’s Taiji domain.

• Fu Tan asked about Zhuge Qi Tian’s technique, and Zhuge Qi Tian explained that he had derived it from contemplating yin and yang.
• Fu Tan attacked with Metallic Tide, using metal power to form a domain that restrained Zhuge Qi Tian.
• Zhuge Qi Tian used a Taiji pattern to deflect Fu Tan’s metal resonance field, then met him in close combat.
• Fu Tan unleashed his metal-infused body-tempering techniques, while Zhuge Qi Tian formed a Taiji defensive domain that neutralized the attacks.
• The two prodigies continued their increasingly perilous fight, with neither gaining a clear advantage.

Fu Tan’s Metal Extremity attack was swallowed and transformed by Zhuge Qi Tian’s Taiji technique, but Fu Tan refused to concede and unleashed a vast manifestation of Geng Metal Qi. The battle remained unresolved as Fu Tan’s new attack gathered above the arena.

• Fu Tan struck Zhuge Qi Tian with Metal Extremity-Void Shattering, a concentrated attack that tore through space.
• Zhuge Qi Tian used Calming the Storm to absorb Fu Tan’s strike into his Taiji diagram and transform its destructive energy.
• Zhuge Qi Tian explained that Fu Tan’s one-sided reliance on hardness made his power unsustainable, and Fu Tan acknowledged Zhuge Qi Tian’s strength without conceding.
• Fu Tan challenged Zhuge Qi Tian’s understanding of the Power of Laws and summoned Geng Metal Qi from across the heavens and earth.
• Fu Tan manifested Metal Qi Piercing the Sky as a vast platinum vortex formed over the arena.

Fu Tan unleashed a devastating Metal Dao strike against Zhuge Qi Tian, who answered by manifesting rainwater true meaning. The chapter ended as the rain domain revealed Zhuge Qi Tian’s grasp of the cycle of life and death.

• Fu Tan absorbed the surrounding Gengjin energy, transforming his body and gathering it into a powerful divine fist.
• Fu Tan struck Zhuge Qi Tian with a platinum pillar that wielded the Metal Element Law and threatened to destroy an early-stage Nascent Soul cultivator.
• Zhuge Qi Tian faced the attack without retreating and formed seals as his yin-yang power receded.
• Zhuge Qi Tian summoned rain born from the void, creating a domain whose droplets formed shifting paths of Dao resonance.
• Yin Jue recognized Zhuge Qi Tian’s rainwater true meaning as a manifestation of life-and-death mysteries and was astonished that a Golden Core cultivator had grasped its fundamentals.

Zhuge Qi Tian revealed the power of his Rainwater True Meaning as he fought Fu Tan, whose Gengjin Divine Light could destroy spiritual energy. Their opposing Dao Arts repeatedly clashed, and the battle remained unresolved after several exchanges.

• Zhuge Qi Tian’s strength impressed Hua Wujiang, True Lord Zheyu, Howling Ape Old Ghost, Yin Jue, and the Imperial Sovereign of the Dali Domain.
• Zhuge Qi Tian’s curtain of rain slowed and weakened Fu Tan’s platinum pillar of light through a cycle of rain, vapor, life, and death.
• Fu Tan increased his Metal Power and tried to evaporate the rain with overwhelming force.
• Zhuge Qi Tian used Yin-Yang Reversal, Seeking Life Through Death, to corrode Fu Tan’s light with an intent of death before unleashing a surge of vital raindrops.
• The rain struck Fu Tan’s body and pressured his Spirit Runes as the two cultivators’ Dao Arts continued to clash across the arena.

Zhuge Qi Tian overcame Fu Tan’s Gengjin attacks by awakening the embryonic form of a Life-and-Death Intent Realm. His will shattered Fu Tan’s Black Gold Dao Arts Body, leaving the match unresolved as Fu Tan struggled in vain to resist.

• Zhuge Qi Tian and Fu Tan paused after their first clash, and the crowd recognized that Zhuge Qi Tian had suppressed Fu Tan despite being drained.
• Fu Tan restored his power with Myriad Transformations Gengjin and summoned two platinum Gengjin Giant Dragons to attack Zhuge Qi Tian.
• Zhuge Qi Tian described his understanding of rain, life, and death, then transformed his rainwater true meaning into an embryonic Life-and-Death Intent Realm.
• Zhuge Qi Tian’s intent realm immobilized the dragons, severed Fu Tan’s connection to metal energy, and drew astonished reactions from the powerful spectators.
• Zhuge Qi Tian commanded Fu Tan to be still, causing cracks to spread across Fu Tan’s Black Gold Dao Arts Body as the dragons disintegrated and Fu Tan’s attempts to resist failed.

Zhuge Qi Tian defeated Fu Tan at the Heavenly Pride Gathering, overcoming his Metal Element Law Technique and damaging his Natal Metal Source. The victory shook the other sects and ended with Fu Tan acknowledging his defeat and promising to seek Zhuge Qi Tian’s instruction again.

• Zhuge Qi Tian’s power overwhelmed Fu Tan, shattered his Metal Element Body, and left him unable to continue fighting.
• Hua Wujiang celebrated the Golden Wing Sect’s victory, while Howling Ape Old Ghost argued that one match would not decide the gathering.
• The Imperial Sovereign of Dali Domain declared Zhuge Qi Tian the winner, and the assembled prodigies grew wary of him.
• Fu Tan praised Zhuge Qi Tian’s Dao Arts, said he would remember the defeat, and promised to challenge him again if the opportunity arose.

Lin Ke advanced through the second round and spotted several suspected Shu Frontier spies among the duels. In arena thirty-six, Luo Ya revealed his Black Sun Divine Ability against a suspected spy, whose sinister energy was pulled into it.

• The second-round draw paired Lin Ke with a lower-ranked Jade Great Radiance Church prodigy, whom he quickly defeated.
• While watching the other duels, Lin Ke noticed suspicious auras around fighters in arenas thirty-six, forty-three, and eighty-eight.
• Luo Ya confronted his Jade Great Radiance Church opponent, suspecting him of being an Outer Domain spy.
• Luo Ya unleashed his Black Sun Divine Ability, which drew in the opponent's sinister black energy.

Luo Ya fought a Jade Great Radiance Church prodigy who revealed himself as a Shu Frontier spy and summoned a powerful ghostly figure. As both prepared to die in a mutual explosion, time and power froze, and an unknown voice challenged the spy.

• Luo Ya trapped the prodigy with his Black Sun, which overwhelmed the arena and threatened to tear him apart.
• The prodigy sacrificed his flesh, bones, and soul to summon a giant ghostly figure that resisted the Black Sun.
• Luo Ya burned his Golden Core's essence to strengthen the Black Sun and began consuming the ghostly figure.
• The ghostly figure prepared to self-detonate and take Luo Ya with him, while Lin Ke warned Luo Ya to retreat.
• Heaven and earth suddenly fell still, and a calm voice asked the ghostly figure whether he had the strength to take everyone down with him.

The Imperial Sovereign of the Dali Domain sealed the Shu Frontier Spy and tried to force him to reveal the identities of his allies. When the Imperial Sovereign attempted to search his soul, a mysterious darkness erased the spy and overcame even Spirit Transformation power, leaving a void in the arena.

• The Imperial Sovereign of the Dali Domain sealed the arena space around the Shu Frontier Spy, suppressing his cultivation and demanding to know who he was and how many others there were.
• The Shu Frontier Spy refused to answer despite the crushing pressure, so the Imperial Sovereign decided to search his soul with Divine Sense.
• A dormant seed of darkness inside the Shu Frontier Spy activated when the Imperial Sovereign's Divine Sense touched his Sea of Consciousness.
• The darkness melted the spatial seal and began dissolving the Shu Frontier Spy into nothingness.
• The Imperial Sovereign tried to suppress the spreading emptiness with his Dragon Qi and Laws, but his power was erased, and the spy and sealed space vanished completely.

The Imperial Sovereign identified the force that erased the Shu Frontier spy as Spirit Transformation power, raising fears that Shu Frontier’s infiltration could lead to a Domain War. The Heavenly Prodigy Trial continued, and the 137 remaining participants prepared for a final arena-defense contest to determine the top 100.

• The Imperial Sovereign said the power that erased the Shu Frontier spy belonged to the Spirit Transformation realm, alarming the prodigies with the possibility of a larger conspiracy and Domain War.
• Lin Ke noticed that the battles in arenas thirty-four and forty-eight had ended, and the contenders there had left their arenas.
• The Imperial Sovereign told the sect prodigies to handle any remaining spies themselves, and they respectfully agreed.
• The Heavenly Prodigy Trial continued until 137 participants had advanced from the 274 contestants.
• The organizers set a final arena-defense contest in which lower-ranked prodigies could challenge higher-ranked ones, with the round ending when only the top thirty remained.

Lin Ke rested while the Heavenly Prodigy Showdown began and watched prodigies from several sects fight across the Arenas. The Giant Strength Fire Prison Sect’s overwhelming victories left him worried about his own sect’s standing.

• Lin Ke received twelfth place and waited to be challenged as lower-ranked prodigies began fighting for higher rankings.
• Wu Dao lost to a Jade Great Radiance Church cultivator whose water-attribute spell arts countered his insect swarms.
• A Jade Great Radiance Church prodigy defeated a Golden Wing Sect opponent, continuing the church’s winning streak against the sect.
• A Giant Strength Fire Prison Sect disciple defeated a Golden Wing Sect prodigy by overpowering its insect defenses with flames and physical strength.
• A Giant Strength Fire Prison Sect prodigy broke through a Jade Great Radiance Church disciple’s defenses and won, prompting Lin Ke to recognize the sect’s formidable strength.

Lin Ke assessed the major sects’ methods and worried that the unseen Great Fate Officer would target him when the Cloud Dragon Secret Realm opened. Before he could investigate the threat, an unfamiliar Imperial Clan prodigy approached and challenged him.

• Lin Ke studied the Giant Strength Fire Prison Sect, Jade Great Radiance Church, Cloud Ink Sect, and Imperial Clan prodigies, noting how each sect’s methods could make them dangerous opponents.
• Lin Ke concluded that he feared no sect’s prodigies in a direct fight, but remained wary of the Great Fate Officer, who wanted Lin Xuanyuan’s Dragon Qi and had not revealed himself.
• Lin Ke reasoned that the Great Fate Officer would likely attack after the winners entered the Cloud Dragon Secret Realm, and decided to question someone from the Imperial Clan about him.
• An unfamiliar young woman dressed in Imperial Clan attire approached Lin Ke and asked to challenge him.
• Lin Ke asked the young woman who she was.

Murong Yue challenged Lin Ke to avenge Duan Yuyan, and Lin Ke accepted after she accused him publicly of looking down on her. They began their duel, with Murong Yue launching the first attack as Lin Ke countered with a punch.

• Murong Yue introduced herself as the granddaughter of the Ninth Prince of the Dali Domain and demanded Lin Ke's ranking.
• Murong Yue said she wanted to avenge Duan Yuyan, but Lin Ke initially refused to fight because he believed she was weaker.
• Murong Yue accused Lin Ke of looking down on her, drawing the other sects' attention and provoking them to taunt the Golden Wing Sect.
• Lin Ke accepted Murong Yue's challenge to protect the Golden Wing Sect's reputation, and Murong Yue took her place opposite him in the arena.
• Murong Yue attacked Lin Ke with a palm seal, and Lin Ke met it with a punch.

Lin Ke overwhelmed Murong Yue in the arena by destroying her Spirit Sacrifice techniques with his body-tempering strength. He appeared to finish his attack with a palm pressed to her shoulder, leaving the outcome unclear.

• Lin Ke shattered Murong Yue's great seal with a single punch, surprising her with his physical strength.
• Murong Yue summoned a mountain phantom with her Spirit Sacrifice art, but Lin Ke smashed it apart with the Dragon-Elephant Prison-Suppressing Force.
• Murong Yue unleashed a water dragon, but Lin Ke's golden-light barrier stopped it without moving him.
• Lin Ke appeared before Murong Yue and pierced through her stone and vine defenses with a golden finger sword.
• Lin Ke changed the finger sword into a palm and pressed it onto Murong Yue's shoulder, after which nothing further happened.

Lin Ke decisively defeated Murong Yue, establishing his dominance and deterring others from challenging him. With no one stepping forward, he watched the ongoing duels, including Dongfang Yao's noisy fight against a Giant Strength Fire Prison Sect prodigy.

• Lin Ke crushed Murong Yue with a single attack, leaving her unable to rise and shocking the audience.
• The officials treated Murong Yue, while Lin Ke left the arena after his show of strength frightened potential challengers into staying put.
• Lin Ke watched the other prodigies battle as they fought to secure a place in the trial's third stage.
• Dongfang Yao harassed his Giant Strength Fire Prison Sect opponent with a swarm of Stealth Stinger Bees while mocking his techniques without stopping his attacks.
• The body cultivator grew furious and launched powerful but disorderly attacks that failed to hit Dongfang Yao.

Dongfang Yao defeated the Giant Strength Fire Prison Sect prodigy by distracting him with constant taunts while his Stealth Stinger Bees exploited a weakness in his defenses. The prodigy surrendered and then fainted from rage, while the watching prodigies admired Dongfang Yao's tactic.

• Dongfang Yao evaded the prodigy's Mountain-Crushing Earth-Splitting attack and directed his bees to sting the prodigy's shoulder, disrupting his Spirit Power.
• Dongfang Yao's swarm concentrated its spiraling attack on the injured shoulder, breaking the prodigy's stone armor and paralyzing him with venom.
• Dongfang Yao sent the Queen Bee to strike between the prodigy's brows, and the prodigy surrendered before the needle hit.
• Dongfang Yao recalled his bees and taunted the defeated prodigy, who collapsed unconscious in rage.
• The watching prodigies discussed Dongfang Yao's chatterbox tactic and said they wanted to learn it.

Lin Ke watched Shen Wei defeat a prodigy from the Jade Great Radiance Church by devouring his Sun-Gathering Scripture attacks. Shen Wei ended the fight by spitting the swallowed sun back at his opponent, who died in the arena.

• Lin Ke turned his attention from Dongfang Yao's victory to Shen Wei's battle with a Jade Great Radiance Church prodigy.
• Shen Wei devoured the prodigy's Blazing Yang Arrow Technique and Radiant Cage, growing stronger as he dismissed their flavor.
• The prodigy unleashed his Great Sun Heaven-Burning Palm, but Shen Wei swallowed the miniature sun with Toad Swallowing the Sun and Moon.
• Shen Wei appeared before the nearly exhausted prodigy and spat out the great sun, blasting him across the arena and killing him.

After Shen Wei stunned the crowd by eating his opponent’s attack, Lin Ke accepted a sparring challenge from the spy Wang Rui. Wang Rui unleashed a swarm of venomous Dark Blue Spiders, but Lin Ke’s Dream-Eating Gecko disrupted them and Lin Xuanyuan charged into the tide.

• Shen Wei’s bizarre victory left the crowd wondering whether the Golden Wing Sect’s remaining prodigies were equally unusual.
• Wang Rui approached Lin Ke and challenged him to a spar, while Lin Ke recognized him as the Shu Frontier Spy and accepted.
• Wang Rui filled the arena with thousands of corrosive Dark Blue Spiders that surged toward Lin Ke.
• Lin Ke summoned the Dream-Eating Gecko, which used mental interference to confuse the spiders and turn them against one another.
• Lin Xuanyuan charged into the swarm, crushing thousands of spiders beneath his limbs while their fangs failed to pierce his scales.