Chapter Summaries

Xu Xuan entered the Divine Ability Pavilion seeking a Heaven-grade manual fragment and met Luo Xiaotian, a powerful inner disciple whom the system identified as a Son of Heaven's Dao. Luo Xiaotian gave Xu Xuan the fragment he wanted and then asked him to help secure Elder Mo as his own master.

• Xu Xuan entered the Divine Ability Pavilion and searched the second floor for the Heaven-grade fragment predicted by his system.
• Luo Xiaotian introduced himself to Xu Xuan, and the system revealed that Luo was a Son of Heaven's Dao with a God-Devouring Spirit Body.
• Xu Xuan shook Luo Xiaotian's hand, gaining 1,450 Fate Points as Luo declared him his friend.
• Luo Xiaotian handed Xu Xuan the Heaven-grade Spirit-Burning God-Slaying Art, whose first level, Heaven-Burning, could be cultivated up to the Purple Mansion Realm.
• Luo Xiaotian explained the sect's mission requirements, learned Xu Xuan was Elder Mo's disciple, and asked Xu to recommend him to Elder Mo.

Xu Xuan and Luo Xiaotian took an S-Rank mission to eliminate the bandits terrorizing Black Dragon Town and rescue its abducted women. After reaching the town, they learned that the bandit chief had defeated even a ninth-heaven Heavenly Mansion expert, but Xu Xuan resolved to continue after learning Heaven-Burning aboard the spirit ship.

• Luo Xiaotian accompanied Xu Xuan to the Mission Hall, where Xu Xuan received an S-Rank mission to defeat the bandits in Black Dragon Town.
• Luo Xiaotian protested that the mission was too dangerous, then decided to go with Xu Xuan to protect him.
• Three days later, Luo Xiaotian and Xu Xuan arrived in the Black Dragon Empire aboard Luo Xiaotian's imperial-family spirit ship, and Black Dragon Town's mayor, Hu Lie, mistook them for imperial visitors.
• Luo Xiaotian explained that they had come on a mission from the Mystic Universe Heavenly Palace, and Hu Lie warned them that the bandit chief had killed a ninth-heaven Heavenly Mansion expert.
• After learning Heaven-Burning aboard the spirit ship, Xu Xuan resolved to help Black Dragon Town.

Xu Xuan and Luo Xiaotian investigated the bandits who had attacked Black Dragon Town, but Xu Xuan realized Mayor Hu Lie was plotting against them. After Hu Lie’s poisoned wine was exposed, he begged Luo Xiaotian for mercy, and Luo Xiaotian demanded to know whether his eldest brother Luo Feng had ordered the attempt on his life.

• Hu Lie explained that bandits had raided Black Dragon Town to seize a Ten-Thousand-Year Heavenly Mountain Snow Lotus and had imprisoned the town’s women.
• Hu Lie showed Xu Xuan and Luo Xiaotian a map of the bandits’ hideout, and Xu Xuan postponed their rescue plan until the next day.
• After Hu Lie left, Xu Xuan warned Luo Xiaotian that the mayor seemed suspicious and questioned his connection to the Black Dragon Empire.
• Luo Xiaotian admitted he was the empire’s third prince and had joined the Mystic Universe Heavenly Palace to escape imperial infighting.
• Xu Xuan recognized that Hu Lie’s wine was poisoned, and Luo Xiaotian forced the mayor to drink first.
• Hu Lie fell to his knees and confessed he had acted on someone’s orders, prompting Luo Xiaotian to ask whether Luo Feng was behind the plot.

Luo Xiaotian and Xu Xuan discovered that Qian Ren was working with the bandits at Black Wind Cave, where two young women were being held. Luo Xiaotian attacked the cave to distract the bandits while Xu Xuan went to rescue them.

• Luo Xiaotian spared Hu Lie but warned him to tell Luo Feng not to provoke him again.
• Xu Xuan and Luo Xiaotian entered the Ten Thousand Demon Mountains and located Black Wind Cave.
• At Black Wind Cave, Qian Ren ordered the bandit leader to kill Mystic Universe Heavenly Palace disciples who came to the mountains.
• Luo Xiaotian recognized Qian Ren and learned that two captured young women had been sent to his room, so he rushed toward the cave and told Xu Xuan to rescue them.
• Luo Xiaotian unleashed Dragon Shadow Chasing the Heavens, blasted a huge crater outside Black Wind Cave, and fled as the bandits poured out.

Xu Xuan and Luo Xiaotian escaped Black Wind Cave after the imprisoned women refused to leave, but the scarred man pursued them to the edge of the Ten Thousand Demon Mountains. Luo Xiaotian stayed behind to confront the bandit leader while Xu Xuan hid nearby and prepared to flee.

• Xu Xuan opened the prison cell, but the women refused to escape, saying they had no strength or hope left.
• As the bandits rushed toward the prison, Xu Xuan and Luo Xiaotian fled, and Luo Xiaotian used a Rune explosion to help them escape the Ten Thousand Demon Mountains.
• Luo Xiaotian reassured Xu Xuan that the women had made their own choice and promised to hold off the pursuers so Xu Xuan could escape.
• When the scarred man and his bandits caught up, Xu Xuan hid behind a tree while Luo Xiaotian stepped forward to challenge the leader to a fight.

Luo Xiaotian defeated the scarred bandit leader and revealed himself as the Black Dragon Empire’s Third Prince, prompting the bandits to release their captives and submit. Back in Black Dragon Town, Luo Xiaotian told Xu Xuan he had decided to confront his eldest brother, the crown prince, under the empire’s rules for challenging its ruler.

• The scarred man attacked Luo Xiaotian with Asura Slash, but Luo Xiaotian struck him with the Black Dragon Sword and defeated him without killing him.
• The scarred man recognized Luo Xiaotian as the Black Dragon Empire’s Third Prince and ordered his underlings to take the women to Black Dragon Town, marry those they had harmed, and bring Qian Ren to him as proof of allegiance.
• Luo Xiaotian assured Xu Xuan that the women would be brought back safely, and the two returned to Black Dragon Town.
• On a rooftop, Luo Xiaotian told Xu Xuan he would stop running from his eldest brother and explained that the empire allowed challengers to be expelled or killed after losing.

Luo Xiaotian left Black Dragon Town to keep Luo Feng’s pursuit from endangering others, and Xu Xuan followed him. Luo Feng confronted his younger brother with the Black Dragon Army and ordered his men to kill him, but Luo Xiaotian showed strength that startled him.

• Luo Feng believed Hu Lie’s report that Luo Xiaotian had visited Black Dragon Town and led the Black Dragon Army there to crush supposed rebels.
• The scar-faced man returned Black Dragon Town’s missing young women, apologized with his bandits, and offered to protect the town as its sons-in-law.
• Luo Xiaotian left Black Dragon Town to avoid bringing trouble to its people, and Xu Xuan pursued him after learning Luo Feng was coming to capture him.
• Luo Xiaotian met Luo Feng and asked why his brother was hunting him despite already being crown prince.
• Luo Feng offered his soldiers rewards for killing Luo Xiaotian, whose attack knocked more than a dozen charging men back and revealed his increased strength.

Luo Xiaotian defeated Luo Feng’s army and was about to kill him when Sun Fang intervened, but Xu Xuan used Mo Tianji’s token to force Sun Fang to retreat. Xu Xuan and Luo Xiaotian completed their mission and left, while Luo Feng returned to the Black Dragon Empire still consumed by resentment.

• Luo Xiaotian annihilated the Asura Army with Galaxy Burst and subdued Luo Feng, who begged for his life.
• Sun Fang arrived to protect Luo Feng, but Xu Xuan claimed Mo Tianji as his master and showed Sun Fang a token bearing Mo Tianji’s authority.
• Sun Fang took Luo Feng away, and Xu Xuan confirmed that his Token had gained ten thousand mission points before preparing to return.
• Back in the Black Dragon Empire, Sun Fang warned Luo Feng not to provoke Luo Xiaotian again because Mo Tianji was a legendary figure.
• Luo Feng rejected Sun Fang’s advice and vowed to remember his grudge against Luo Xiaotian.

Mo Tianji brought Yun Qingxue and Xu Xuan to the Nine-Story Treasure Pagoda trial, where they encountered the Mystic Universe Heavenly Palace’s core disciples and the hostile Zi Yun. The palace master made Luo Xiaotian his personal disciple, and Xu Xuan and Yun Qingxue headed into the trial as the pagoda’s first three floors lit up.

• Mo Tianji took Yun Qingxue and Xu Xuan to the Nine-Story Palace for the annual trial, noting that Yun Qingxue and Xu Xuan had advanced rapidly in cultivation.
• The ten Purple Mansion Realm Core Disciples entered first, and Xu Xuan sensed hostility from Zi Yun, whom Mo Tianji identified as Elder Bai’s eldest disciple and a Holy Son.
• Luo Xiaotian approached Mo Tianji about becoming his disciple, but the palace master recognized his extraordinary fate points and offered to take him as his sole personal disciple.
• Luo Xiaotian questioned the palace master’s strength, then accepted him as his master after Mo Tianji declined to take him as a disciple.
• The palace master told Luo Xiaotian to visit after the trial, while Xu Xuan and Yun Qingxue prepared to enter the pagoda as its first three floors lit up.

Luo Xiaotian, Yun Qingxue, and Xu Xuan entered the Nine-Story Heavenly Tower and faced its trials as the palace master and Mo Tianji argued over who would be sent to a dangerous place. On the second floor, Xu Xuan confronted an illusion of the Evolutionary Spirit Sect’s destruction and his father Xu Xiao’s death.

• Luo Xiaotian used his sight in the first floor’s darkness to defeat a puppet, then explained the trial and led the others onward.
• The palace master of the Mystic Universe Heavenly Palace said Zi Yun, Luo Xiaotian, and Ye Qin would be chosen to enter the dangerous place, rejecting Mo Tianji’s plea for his disciples.
• Mo Tianji confronted Bai Jie over the decision, and the palace master admitted the Heavenly Palace was responsible for Long Ao’s death and Mo Tianji’s suffering.
• Many disciples were expelled after failing the second floor’s test of mind and heart, which took the form of an illusory realm.
• Xu Xuan saw the ruined Evolutionary Spirit Sect and his father Xu Xiao’s severed head, then collapsed to his knees.

Xu Xuan endured an illusion in which the Purple Moon Wolf Clan slaughtered his family and he avenged them with a powerful divine art, leaving him unconscious. After Yun Qingxue and Luo Xiaotian carried him onward, Luo Xiaotian defeated the third-floor guardian, and Xu Xuan learned his ordeal had been an illusion.

• Xu Xuan saw the Purple Moon Wolf Clan destroy his home and kill his father and companions, then vowed revenge.
• Xu Xuan used Heaven-Burning to incinerate the Purple Moon Wolf Clan and the Purple Moon Wolf Emperor, but collapsed from the strain.
• Yun Qingxue carried the unconscious Xu Xuan through the door to the third floor with Luo Xiaotian.
• The old man guarding the third floor attacked Luo Xiaotian and tried to strike Xu Xuan, but Luo Xiaotian defeated him.
• Xu Xuan woke and learned that his battle against the Purple Moon Wolf Clan had been an illusion.

The Palace Master of the Mystic Universe Heavenly Palace dismissed the possibility that Xu Xuan could reach the seventh floor and cut resources for disciples who had failed. On the fourth floor, Xu Xuan eliminated a disciple who threatened Yun Qingxue, then faced Xing Yun’s attempt to have him eliminated before Luo Xiaotian intervened.

• The Palace Master of the Mystic Universe Heavenly Palace ordered Ouyang Quede to dismiss failed disciples and withhold major resources from those who had failed the first or second floor.
• Xu Xuan, Yun Qingxue, and Luo Xiaotian arrived on the fourth floor, where a disciple tried to recruit Yun Qingxue and threatened Xu Xuan with a saber.
• Xu Xuan knocked the disciple down, and the Nine-Story Palace teleported him out.
• Xing Yun arrived with dozens of Inner Disciples and demanded that Xu Xuan kneel, then ordered the group to eliminate him when Xu Xuan refused.
• Luo Xiaotian revealed his Ninth Heaven of the Heavenly Mansion cultivation and declared his status as Young Palace Master, making the Inner Disciples stand down.

Xing Yun was blasted out of the nine-story palace and falsely accused Xu Xuan, while Mo Tianji sacrificed some of his potential to regain power. He returned to the Mystic Universe Heavenly Palace at the Half-Saint Realm, ready to face its palace master.

• Xing Yun used a talisman to blast himself and nearby disciples out of the palace, then falsely claimed Xu Xuan had attacked him with a concealed weapon.
• Elder Bai silenced the eliminated disciples with promises of Accompanying Origin Pills, while Bai Jie ordered Xing Yun to leave.
• Mo Tianji met an old man beyond the Grand Mystic Dao Province and learned his body was in the Endless Sea, where Saint Realm sea beasts guarded it.
• Mo Tianji crippled himself to draw out power, and the old man helped him regain strength despite warning him about the cost.
• Mo Tianji returned to the Mystic Universe Heavenly Palace as a Half-Saint and dismissed Elder Chen's warning that Elder Bai planned to confiscate his disciple's gains.

Xu Xuan was bitten by an Ice Snake while the group tried to claim a Millennium Ice Flower, and the venom left him close to death. He learned that drinking the snake’s blood could save him, and Luo Xiaotian killed it with ease, revealing that his words had a ninety-five percent chance of coming true.

• Luo Xiaotian identified a Millennium Ice Flower and offered to share its refined pills before an Ice Snake attacked him.
• Luo Xiaotian proposed killing the snake and giving its gallbladder to Yun Qingxue, then provoked it into lunging at Xu Xuan.
• Xu Xuan punched the snake away but was bitten, and Luo Xiaotian warned that its venom would kill him within seven days.
• Xu Xuan learned from the system that drinking the Ice Snake’s blood would cure him, so he asked Luo Xiaotian to kill it in exchange for the flower.
• Luo Xiaotian called the snake over and beheaded it, then explained that his words had a ninety-five percent chance of coming true.

Xu Xuan and Luo Xiaotian watched Yun Qingxue awaken a Frost Divine Body after swallowing the ice snake’s gallbladder. The three passed the fourth floor’s Go trial and entered the gate to the fifth floor.

• Xu Xuan recovered by draining the ice snake’s blood, then fed its gallbladder to Yun Qingxue.
• Yun Qingxue’s constitution transformed into the legendary Frost Divine Body, and she froze the lake as she awakened.
• Luo Xiaotian explained that the three had to pass the fourth floor’s trial before proceeding to the fifth.
• Xu Xuan challenged the invisible guardian to Go and defeated it with a decisive white-stone move.
• The guardian recognized Xu Xuan as Elder Mo Tianji’s disciple, opened a gate of light, and the three stepped through.

The Chess Sage was delighted by Xu Xuan’s chess skill and ordered Zhao Xiaolong to invite him as a martial uncle. On the fifth floor, Lin Ru challenged Xu Xuan, who unleashed his Heaven-Burning Divine Ability and engulfed him in heavenly fire.

• The Chess Sage praised Mo Tianji’s disciple Xu Xuan and told Zhao Xiaolong to invite him politely and address him as martial uncle.
• The Chess Sage tore open space and left to speak with Tianji, while Zhao Xiaolong flew toward the Nine-Story Palace.
• Xu Xuan and his companions arrived on the chaotic fifth floor, where Lin Ru had been waiting to eliminate them.
• Lin Ru taunted Xu Xuan and demanded a one-on-one fight, then attacked him with a deadly punch.
• Xu Xuan dodged Lin Ru’s punch, opened the third eye on his forehead, and unleashed heavenly fire that swallowed Lin Ru.

Xu Xuan defeated Lin Ru by copying his Yin-Yang Twin Dragons divine ability and striking him with Heaven-Burning, earning a mysterious spatial ring and the chance to enter the sixth floor. Inside, Xu Xuan and his companions faced three armored puppets, and Luo Xiaotian charged the strongest one while assigning the other two to the inner disciples.

• Xu Xuan endured Lin Ru's Yin-Yang Twin Convergence attack, and his serpent blood helped him comprehend the Yin-Yang Twin Dragons divine ability.
• Xu Xuan used Yin-Yang Twin Dragons and Heaven-Burning to defeat Lin Ru across a major realm gap, earning a mysterious spatial ring.
• Xu Xuan bound the ring with his blood, discovered it held a thousand square meters of space, and gained Fate Points from Yun Qingxue's admiration.
• A projection announced that the ninety-one disciples present could enter the sixth floor if they passed its trial, and Xu Xuan entered with Yun Qingxue and Luo Xiaotian.
• Xu Xuan's group encountered one half-step Purple Mansion Realm Golden-Armored Puppet and two Silver-Armored Puppets, so Luo Xiaotian attacked the strongest while leaving the others to the inner disciples.

Xu Xuan, Yun Qingxue, and Luo Xiaotian cleared the fifth floor and entered a forest on the sixth, where a powerful Tree Spirit captured Xu Xuan. After the system warned that attacking the Tree Spirit would kill him, Xu Xuan stopped Yun Qingxue’s Ice Snake and prepared to handle the danger himself.

• Yun Qingxue froze the Golden-Armored Puppet’s flames, and Xu Xuan and Luo Xiaotian destroyed the Silver-Armored Puppets and the Golden-Armored Puppet.
• The three reached the sixth floor, where Xu Xuan sensed powerful demonic beasts in a dense forest and feared a Purple Mansion Realm beast waited deeper inside.
• Xu Xuan took Yun Qingxue into the forest, but Luo Xiaotian disappeared from sight.
• A talking great tree called itself a Tree Spirit, offered Xu Xuan its wood essence if he defeated it, and bound him in its branches.
• Yun Qingxue summoned an Ice Snake to attack the Tree Spirit, but Xu Xuan stopped her after the system warned that either outcome would kill him.

Xu Xuan and Yun Qingxue forced the Ten-Thousand-Year Tree Spirit to release him and hand over half its wood essence. Elsewhere, Luo Xiaotian defeated his opponent on an icy plane and took the Ice Pillar.

• Xu Xuan discovered that the tree spirit’s suspension had sealed his divine abilities, leaving him able to use only cultivation techniques.
• Xu Xuan urged Yun Qingxue to attack despite the danger to him, and she used the threat of her ice ability to bargain with the tree spirit.
• The tree spirit explained that Yun Qingxue’s ice snake gallbladder was its natural bane, then agreed to release Xu Xuan and give them half its wood essence.
• Xu Xuan accepted the wood essence and left with Yun Qingxue.
• Luo Xiaotian was teleported to an icy plane, where he killed a masked challenger with one dagger strike.
• Luo Xiaotian retrieved the Ice Pillar from the frozen lake and left.

Xu Xuan protected Yun Qingxue from Gao Gang, then entered the sixth-floor trial and learned its three tests. The trial separated them into different spaces, leaving Xu Xuan facing a mysterious old man beneath a door to the seventh floor.

• Gao Gang threatened Xu Xuan over Yun Qingxue, so Xu Xuan used heavenly fire to eliminate him in one move.
• Xu Xuan and Yun Qingxue entered the sixth-floor trial and were assigned separate spaces.
• Xu Xuan found himself in a vast starry expanse and met a plain-clothed old man.
• The old man explained that the trial required reaching the Heavenly Mansion Realm, touching him, and flying to the door above to reach the seventh floor.