Chapter Summaries

Shen Ye won Zhao Yibing’s wager and agreed to a new duel with the Skinner in seven days, with the list of his attackers at stake. Meanwhile, the exam hall learned that a Calamity had targeted him, and Kunlun activated an emergency response.

• The Human Effigy died, and Wooden Block absorbed water from the void as the water dragon transformed into a living dragon.
• Zhao Yibing revealed that a list connected the killings of Shen Ye’s friend, Xiao Mengyu’s older brother, and thousands of others, then wagered the list against Shen Ye’s soul in a duel with the Skinner seven days later.
• The water dragon told Shen Ye that the Dharma Realm’s blessing protected him during the trial, and Shen Ye resolved to buy time and seek a way to counter Zhao Yibing.
• At the exam hall, Xiao Mengyu and her friends searched for Shen Ye while Aristocratic Family scions mocked him as an examinee who had been eliminated.
• Nangong Sirui reported that a Calamity had entered the exam and targeted Shen Ye, prompting Kunlun to activate its response sequence and order everyone to stay put.

Shen Ye returned from the Dharma Realm after winning a wager against the Calamity, but his survival and actions were questioned until Kunlun verified the evidence and confirmed the threat at Cloud Mountain Port. When the examiners moved to investigate and disqualify him, an ancient trial recognized him as a True Inheritor of Huntian Gate.

• Shen Ye appeared at the examination venue, and Cang Nanyan protected him from the Jialan Exam Proctor while Qian Rushan asked whether he had contracted with the Calamity.
• Shen Ye explained that he had won a wager against the Calamity, and Kunlun retrieved his phone video, verified his account, and began investigating the bombs at Cloud Mountain Port.
• Madam An requested a public review, and Shen Ye's video showed Zhao Yibing explaining that humans had prepared the Dharma Realm ordeal and revealed the wager Shen Ye had won.
• Xiao Mengyu told Shen Ye that defeating a Calamity could earn recognition from the Dharma Realm, while the examiners argued over his elimination and possible admission.
• Shen Ye refused to attend the three elite universities and revealed a wooden statue, which summoned a flying dragon that named him a True Inheritor of Huntian Gate and presented him with a jade plaque.

After Shen Ye received a token confirming his admission to the ancient Huntian Sect, Xirang High School recruited him and several other examinees. A large-scale Curse struck Cloud Mountain Port, and while Shen Ye proved immune, the schools began evacuating their students.

• Kunlun upgraded Shen Ye's access privileges after the Dharma Realm confirmed his admission to the Huntian Sect, and Xirang High School offered to enroll him as a visiting student.
• Shen Ye chose Xirang High School, and Xiao Mengyu, Zhang Xiaoyi, Guo Yunye, Nangong Sirui, and many other examinees joined him there.
• Kunlun announced an explosion and an unknown Calamity at Cloud Mountain Port, prompting Cang Nanyan and other experts to protect the examinees as the schools prepared to evacuate.
• A Curse named Soul-Weeping Delusional Shadow struck 328,761 people, but Shen Ye learned that his wager with the Lord of the Weeping Demon Prison made him immune.
• The Jialan High School Exam Proctor opened a stairway through the hall's ceiling and led Jialan's examinees toward the Sky Ruins as the other schools began their evacuations.

Zhao Yibing and the Skinner prepared to harvest the souls of Cloud Mountain Port, while the girl cursed the child who gave her a rose. As the Floating Island was destroyed and an S-rank anomaly descended, Zhao Yibing began devouring its inhabitants and challenged them to beg for her help.

• The girl accepted a rose from a little girl, cursed her with a lifetime of suffering, and promised to return if she still remembered her at ninety-nine.
• Zhao Yibing told the Skinner to absorb the power of a hundred thousand souls and capture a human opponent, warning that she would torture his soul if he failed.
• The Skinner pressed a button that triggered explosions across the Floating Island, while an awning carried the little girl away from the blasts.
• Zhao Yibing remained at the fountain as the Altar of Light drew in the island's terrified inhabitants, and she revealed herself to arriving fighters as the Lord of the Weeping Demon Prison.
• Zhao Yibing summoned a fiery landscape across Cloud Mountain Port, prompting Kunlun to declare an S-rank anomaly, and urged the humans to chant her name and beg for relief.

The examinees escaped the hall through routes prepared by their proctors and rode across the Dharma Realm, where Curse shadows attacked them. Shen Ye helped defeat the shadows, then lent Flying Snow his sword art and lightning power so the steed could charge toward the proctor’s battle.

• The Guixu examinees escaped through a pool of water, while the Xirang examinees entered a painting of galloping horses.
• Shen Ye mounted Flying Snow, a renowned divine steed that recognized him as a Huntian Gate disciple, and followed the proctor across the Dharma Realm.
• Curse shadows emerged and attacked the riders; Shen Ye and Xiao Mengyu defeated their shadow, then helped the others destroy the remaining shadows.
• The proctor flew off to fight his powerful Curse shadow, while Shen Ye became too drained to fight and Nangong Sirui rode out to assist the proctor.
• Shen Ye approved Flying Snow’s use of his Great White sword art and lightning power, and Flying Snow charged toward the distant battle with Shen Ye riding him.

Shen Ye and Nangong Sirui helped the Exam Proctor destroy their curse shadow, then hurried to Xirang High School, which was hidden inside the World Museum. Before entering, Shen Ye learned that Song Qingyun had been in seclusion and would explain the mystery surrounding the video soon; the school then announced that new-student training would begin early because Cloud Mountain Port had fallen.

• Nangong Sirui trapped the curse shadow with the Ancient Divine Shield, and Shen Ye struck it before the Exam Proctor tore it apart.
• A bird reported that Cloud Mountain Port had fallen and Kunlun was mobilizing more people, so the Exam Proctor led the examinees toward Xirang High School.
• The Exam Proctor sent the examinees through a red fire hydrant, but stopped Shen Ye because someone wanted to meet him.
• Two women told Shen Ye that Song Qingyun had been in seclusion in Jialan Sky and would contact him after emerging that night or the next day.
• Shen Ye entered the World Museum and learned from Xiao Mengyu that Xirang High School was hidden there and studied the vast tomb beneath it.
• Yang Yingzhen announced that new-student intensive training would begin early because of Cloud Mountain Port's fall, while Shen Ye noticed her Secret Language Art made ordinary visitors hear a different tour.

Yang Yingzhen took the new students to a controlled historical anomaly for intensive training, where Officer Wu began drilling them. Shen Ye earned special treatment after showing his Huntian Gate identity token, but he suspected the barracks might hide a further test.

• Yang Yingzhen explained that the students would undergo five days of intensive training, face their first Class Advancement attempt, and attend a Three-School Joint Welcome Party.
• The students put on battered leather armor, and Yang Yingzhen transported them to a controlled anomaly depicting an ancient military camp.
• Yang Yingzhen explained the anomaly's rules and left the students with Officer Wu, who ordered them to run ten laps around the drill ground.
• Officer Wu reprimanded Nangong Sirui for speaking out of turn and then called Shen Ye over after noticing his Haoran True Qi.
• Shen Ye showed Officer Wu his Huntian Gate identity token, and Officer Wu excused him from the run and sent him to rest in the barracks.

After the examination, Shen Ye settled into his new barracks and learned that he had become a six-star Huntian True Inheritor Disciple and a prospective student of the Three Great High Schools. He trained to improve his skills and advanced Thunderclap Palm to the Dharma Realm, unlocking a path toward Huntian Gate’s legacy item.

• A soldier escorted Shen Ye to a comfortable barracks room, where he enjoyed the hot spring and learned that the examination had ended.
• Shen Ye’s Newcomer Card updated his status to Huntian True Inheritor Disciple and Xirang High School freshman, with a six-star strength rating.
• Shen Ye checked Nangong Sirui’s and Xiao Mengyu’s card information and saw that both were also rated six stars.
• After speaking with Big Skeleton, Shen Ye practiced Frost Moon Shakes Heaven and decided to keep training rather than rest.
• Shen Ye used his attribute points to bring Thunderclap Palm to its pinnacle and advanced it to Dharma Realm First Layer.
• The Moonlit System told Shen Ye that advancing Frost Bite, Heavenly Shadow, and Flowing Moon to Dharma Realm First Layer would reveal information about the Huntian Gate Dharma Realm Legacy Item.

Shen Ye chose two military classes, including the secret Huntian Gate class Night Roamer, and discovered the Human Martial Arts Group was incubating a combat clone of him. After eating and deciding to rest instead of entering the Nightmare World, he watched his classmates continue their training.

• Officer Wu brought Shen Ye four class options and explained their requirements and coursework.
• Shen Ye chose both Night Roamer and Demon Subduing, and Officer Wu agreed to keep the Huntian Gate class confidential.
• Shen Ye opened a crate from the Human Martial Arts Group and learned it contained an incubating biochemical clone designed to resemble him exactly.
• Shen Ye read that the Dharma Realm would briefly close at midnight, giving him a chance to contact the outside world, and ate the meal sent to him.
• Shen Ye told Big Skeleton he would skip the Nightmare World and rest, then heard his classmates training outside and remarked on their youthful energy.

Shen Ye learned that Skinner had once opposed the Archaeological Association’s effort to pass off an unknown statue as an ancient human deity, then discovered the statue belonged to the Undead Clan and suspected a scheme linking the Nightmare World to human history. As he prepared for his duel with Skinner and tried to sleep, Song Qingyun called him through the Cards.

• Shen Ye learned that six days remained until his one-on-one duel with Skinner and reassured his family after they celebrated his admission to Xirang High School.
• Shen Ye used his upgraded permissions to watch a confidential video of Skinner protesting that officials had opened an altar and were falsely presenting a replica statue as a deity from humanity’s past.
• Shen Ye questioned Kunlun about why it had shown him the video, and Kunlun said he was qualified to know the world’s secrets while promising not to interfere in human actions.
• After the anomaly returned, Big Skeleton recognized the statue as an ancient deity of the Undead Clan, and Shen Ye feared someone was trying to make humanity accept a deity from another world.
• The Cards repeatedly vibrated until Shen Ye saw that Song Qingyun had sent him a call request.

Shen Ye spoke with Song Qingyun, who promised to explain the truth at a welcome party, then attended curse-suppression training and learned that the battle at Cloud Mountain Port had ended in victory. He suspected the Demon God and the Skinner survived, leaving Xiao Mengyu in danger as well.

• Song Qingyun told Shen Ye she had never loved him and arranged to meet him at the joint welcome party to explain what happened.
• Shen Ye learned he had been spared the nighttime run, then listened to the strange voices inside his Tomb-Suppressing Pillar during morning training.
• Xiao Mengyu told Shen Ye that the battle at Cloud Mountain Port had ended after the Aristocratic Families suffered heavy casualties and at least half the civilians were rescued.
• Shen Ye saw that the six Crimson Vertical Marks remained and concluded that the Demon God and the Skinner were probably still alive.
• Shen Ye warned Xiao Mengyu that the being behind the attack could resurrect people, suggesting the danger had not passed.

Shen Ye and Xiao Mengyu identified the Zhongli Family as a lead in the exam-site killings, while Song Yinchen was forced to take the blame for her sister Song Qingyun’s remarks about Shen Ye. The chapter left Song Yinchen bound for a meeting with Shen Ye at the Three-School Joint Welcome Party, where she was expected to apologize.

• Shen Ye told Xiao Mengyu about the old man who had tried to kill him, and she identified him as Sun Baihe, the Zhongli Family’s Grand Enshrined Elder.
• Shen Ye and Xiao Mengyu realized that a Zhongli Family member was among the aristocratic children tied to the exam-site disaster.
• Officer Wu dismissed the class and told Shen Ye that someone carrying military orders was waiting for him at his quarters.
• Song Yinchen’s father and the Song Family advisers ordered her to claim that she, rather than Song Qingyun, had made the remarks about Shen Ye.
• Song Qingyun told Song Yinchen to attend the Three-School Joint Welcome Party and apologize to Shen Ye the following night.

Song Yinchen felt abandoned as her family decided to make her take the blame for Song Qingyun, while Shen Ye gave the little girl the Divine Compassion Diamond to help her young lady. After learning the twins’ distinguishing signs and that Song Qingyun may have orchestrated the disaster, Shen Ye prepared to confront her at the three schools’ welcome party.

• Song Yinchen remembered how her family had overlooked and punished her after her sister’s talent test, and she was taken back to her room to await an apology.
• The little girl visited Shen Ye in the Dharma Realm, and he gave her the Divine Compassion Diamond to take to her young lady and try to ease her curse.
• The little girl told Shen Ye that the Song Family planned to make Song Yinchen take the blame for Song Qingyun, and that the evil god from Cloud Mountain Port had survived.
• The little girl warned Shen Ye that the three schools’ welcome party was his last chance for revenge and explained how to distinguish Song Qingyun from Song Yinchen.
• After the little girl left, Shen Ye spotted the icy-blue flash in Song Qingyun’s eyes in the video and wondered whether he could defeat her.

Shen Ye learned how class advancement draws power from the Dharma Realm and how rare class holders with a name can become stronger. He realized the appraisal traits he sees may be those names, including the two above his own, while Officer Wu continued praising the Huntian Gate.

• Xiao Mengyu told Shen Ye that Second Miss Song had been bullied at school and had suffered poor health after a dispute with her sister and father.
• Officer Wu demonstrated the Miner Soldier skill and explained the class’s attribute requirements and the importance of mining underground.
• Shen Ye saw a pangolin emerge from Officer Wu’s pickaxe and realized Nangong Sirui also recognized it, so he asked Officer Wu to explain the Dharma Realm.
• Officer Wu explained that class advancement grants a stellar Dharma Form and a first skill, while a Dharma Realm name allows a class holder to draw more power.
• Shen Ye recognized Xiao Mengyu’s “Sword Saint” appraisal trait and his own two traits as possible Dharma Realm names, then wondered if they strengthened his Thunderclap Palm.
• Officer Wu ranked classes by strength and began praising Shen Ye’s Huntian Gate.

Shen Ye learned how the Dharma Realm’s levels worked, then entered a Huntian Gate legacy left in a ruined bow. The legacy showed him the world’s dying state and began teaching him the Flying Shot skill.

• Officer Wu explained the Dharma Realm’s levels, including spell spirits, and told the students to choose classes.
• Xiao Mengyu chose Swordswoman, while Shen Ye chose Demon Subduing and was directed to investigate a warehouse connected to Night Roamer.
• Shen Ye found a rotted bow in the warehouse and used his Identity Jade Token and Night Roamer nameplate to activate its legacy.
• A spell-recording showed Shen Ye a Huntian Gate predecessor explaining that their world was dead and its Dharma Realm field trapped invading enemies.
• The predecessor demonstrated how he and his beloved had shot down nine foreign suns, then began teaching Shen Ye the Flying Shot skill.

Shen Ye endured the dangerous Flying Shot inheritance with Big Skeleton sharing the mental impacts, then learned he had three days to improve his Dharma Eye and qualify for the Night Roamer class. The exhausted Big Skeleton nearly fell apart in the hot spring, and Shen Ye tried to save him by suggesting he absorb the pork rib soup.

• The inheritance bearer passed the Flying Shot teachings to Shen Ye and warned him to improve his Dharma Eye and master Frost Moon Shakes Heaven within three days to advance to Night Roamer.
• Shen Ye poured his Attribute Points into Comprehension, but the inheritance overwhelmed him until he accepted Big Skeleton's Mental Resonance Technique to share the impacts.
• Big Skeleton took the converted impacts in the hot spring, while Shen Ye survived the ordeal and gained two points in each base attribute through Boy Who Survived.
• After half an hour, Shen Ye finished receiving the Flying Shot teachings, and the wooden bow crumbled to ash when he touched it.
• Shen Ye found Big Skeleton reduced to a cracked, shrinking skull in the hot spring and suggested that he absorb the pork rib soup to recover.

Shen Ye recovered from his headache, escaped a crowd of soldiers celebrating him as Saint Page, and learned that the mysterious voice was falling into eternal slumber. After returning to the Main World to practice the Flying Shot Method, he gained a Dine-and-Dasher evaluation trait.

• Big Skeleton absorbed the pork rib soup, restored his body, and gave Shen Ye a bow and arrows for his class trial.
• Shen Ye used Thunderclap Palm to clear the collapsed passage and emerged among human soldiers, who hailed him as Saint Page and told him to report to the Military Camp.
• Shen Ye visited the Field Hospital, where an elderly priest used Divine Massage Technique to cure his headache.
• Shen Ye found the mysterious voice's frosty message, which said it was entering eternal slumber and that learning the world's secrets might save it and his world.
• Shen Ye returned to the Main World to practice the Flying Shot Method and gained the Dine-and-Dasher evaluation trait.

Shen Ye sought the Imperial Clan’s Flight Technique so he could use his new Flying Shot legacy, while Yun Ni was approached by a wooden imp offering an alliance. Yun Ni followed Song Qingyun, whose rabbit hair clip seemed connected to the imp’s instructions.

• Shen Ye learned that he needed to fly to use the Flying Shot legacy and went to Prince Norton to request the Royal Family’s Flight Technique.
• Prince Norton refused to teach Shen Ye outright and offered him a choice between uncovering a traitor in the Undead Kingdom or studying at the Imperial Military Academy.
• Yun Ni wondered why summoned creatures had died rather than returning to the Demon Prison, then spoke with a wooden imp that proposed cooperating to corrupt the Dharma Realm and break the world’s seal.
• After classmates thanked Yun Ni for saving them during a curse outbreak, Song Qingyun invited her to meet senior girls and share information about choosing a class.
• Yun Ni noticed the rabbit hair clip on Song Qingyun and agreed to follow her.

Shen Ye accepted Prince Norton's mission to investigate the Undead Race's new faith and joined Big Skeleton in planning a return to the Undead Empire. Prince Norton agreed to fund their journey and supplied them with bone coins, armor, and a cloak to conceal Shen Ye's living aura.

• Shen Ye learned that the Undead Race's leaders had abandoned their former deities and were preparing a new faith, and Prince Norton asked him to investigate.
• Shen Ye and Big Skeleton discussed the preparations needed to enter the Undead Empire, including money, a disguise, and influence.
• Shen Ye presented Big Skeleton as Feren, an undead noble seeking to return to society, and Prince Norton tested his knowledge of undead customs and politics.
• After Big Skeleton answered the prince's questions, Prince Norton pledged his support and gave Shen Ye a ring containing nearly 39 million bone coins.
• Prince Norton also offered them Undead Armor and the Death Disguise Cloak, which could conceal Shen Ye's life force and make him seem like a vampire.

Shen Ye entered the undead capital with Big Skeleton and used the skeleton’s hidden connections to reach a secret storage room. There, they discovered a stack of parchment that gave Shen Ye a familiar sense of power.

• Prince Norton gave Shen Ye a Nightmare Crystal containing the Flight Technique and sent him with Big Skeleton through a teleportation array to the undead capital’s sewers.
• Prince Norton revealed that a traitor near him had nearly killed him and that undead spies might have infiltrated the highest levels of the Human Race.
• Big Skeleton had Shen Ye recite a declaration that caused seven armored skeletons to recognize him as a returning heir and kneel before him.
• Shen Ye disguised himself as a vampire, flew through the sewers, and followed Big Skeleton’s directions to a Holy Soul Bank storage room.
• Shen Ye opened storage room 7134 and found parchment that seemed to radiate familiar power.