Chapter Summaries

Lu You followed Old Principal Kaguya Daoyin to a remote snowy realm, where he found the Old Principal’s enormous body pierced by the Grand Red Item called the Nail of the Frozen Sky. Kaguya Daoyin revealed that the Divine Envoys had attacked him and warned that learning more could expose Lu You to them, leaving Lu You to ask whether his parents had also offended them.

• Lu You entered Kaguya Daoyin’s Teleportation Array and arrived in a desolate snowy mountain range.
• Lu You discovered that the Nail of the Frozen Sky, a weapon that had destroyed dozens of civilizations, pierced Kaguya Daoyin’s chest.
• Kaguya Daoyin appeared beside Lu You and explained that the Divine Envoys had attacked him five hundred years earlier.
• Kaguya Daoyin said the Divine Envoys came through the Star Gate as representatives of a civilization with advanced Psychic Energy technology and the power to cross the Astral Realm.
• Kaguya Daoyin warned that learning certain secrets could create a causal connection that would let the Divine Envoys discover Lu You.
• Lu You asked whether his parents had also offended the Divine Envoys.

The Old Principal told Lu You about his parents, the Star Gate, and the factions shaping the Sakura Continent. He warned Lu You that he could learn the truth about why people wanted him dead only after reaching the third tier, and Lu You chose to identify with the Academia Faction, though the Old Principal said it would not accept him.

• The Old Principal revealed that Lu You's parents, Fujimoto Shizuru and Lu Feng, disappeared into the depths of the Star Gate, and that they had displeased the Divine Envoys.
• The Old Principal said Lu You could learn why people wanted him dead after he broke through to the third tier, and Lu You promised to reach it quickly.
• The Old Principal explained that he stayed in Fuyuki City to protect the area and keep an equally powerful old adversary from the Fanghuyuan Family occupied.
• The Old Principal outlined the Academia Faction, Star Gate Faction, Celestial God Faction, and several independent organizations on the Sakura Continent.
• Lu You declared himself part of the Academia Faction, but the Old Principal awkwardly said the faction would not dare accept him.

The Old Principal warned Lu You about Sakura State's factions and urged him to leave Fuyuki City for Kyoto, where he could grow amid open competition. Kaguya Ruri decided to follow him, while Lu You returned to his dorm and remembered he had yet to ask for the Nail of the Frozen Sky.

• The Old Principal explained that the Star Gate Association was the greatest threat because it monopolized Sakura State's Star Gates and maintained a delicate balance with the Divine Envoys.
• The Old Principal told Lu You to leave Fuyuki City and recommended Kyoto, where the independent governor would prevent underhanded interference and a new top-tier high school was being planned.
• The Old Principal said someone from Kyoto would come to recruit students, and Lu You left the Little Yellow Building for the teachers' dormitory.
• After Lu You departed, Kaguya Dōin learned that Kaguya Ruri wanted to go to Kyoto and teased her about having feelings for Lu You; she claimed she only wanted her necklace back.
• Back in his dorm room, Lu You sneezed and remembered that he had not tried asking for the Nail of the Frozen Sky.

Masaomi Kishimoto and three Kyoto psychics visited Pure Heart Temple in Fuyuki City to recruit Huayama Seishū as a teacher for Kyoto High School. They left after Huayama declined, having witnessed his Third Tier power and mysterious charred arm.

• Masaomi Kishimoto warned Yūsuke Yoshikawa, Mayu Matsumoto, and Ayano Hoshino to show respect in Fuyuki City, then led them to Pure Heart Temple.
• The four sensed an otherworldly divide at the temple entrance and found a warm courtyard beneath a massive ginkgo tree.
• They saw Huayama Seishū meditating with a badly charred arm, and recognized that he was a Third Tier psychic.
• Masaomi Kishimoto offered Huayama a senior teacher position at Kyoto High School on behalf of Kyoto's governor.
• Huayama Seishū declined the appointment, and Masaomi Kishimoto led the group out of the temple.

Masaomi Kishimoto brought Yūsuke Yoshikawa, Ayano Hoshino, and Mayu Matsumoto to the Hōkohara residence, where Kureha Hōkohara agreed to travel to Kyoto with them. Before leaving, Kureha said she would accompany them to Fuyuki High School to deal with someone who had upset her master.

• Masaomi Kishimoto told the others that Master Huayama was not the being who had earned the Kyoto Prefectural Lord's deference, then led them to another destination.
• Masaomi Kishimoto bowed before the Hōkohara residence and announced that he had come at the Kyoto Prefectural Lord's request.
• The doors opened, revealing Kureha Hōkohara in a thriving courtyard, and Mayu Matsumoto could not sense her Psychic Energy.
• Kureha Hōkohara said she was her master's disciple and agreed to go to Kyoto with Masaomi Kishimoto's group.
• Kureha Hōkohara learned they were heading to Fuyuki High School and said she would go with them to deal with someone who had upset her master.

After encountering powerful figures at the Fanghuyuan Family's compound, the Kyoto visitors toured Fuyuki High School and found its teaching unimpressive. Dean Nakamura then led them toward Kaguya Ruri's class, and her surname made Masaomi Kishimoto take notice.

• Yūsuke Yoshikawa and the others left the Fanghuyuan Family's compound shaken by the fourth-tier presence that had ordered them to leave.
• Masaomi Kishimoto led the visitors to Fuyuki High School, where Dean Nakamura described the school's teachers and promising students.
• The visitors observed three classes and judged the instruction and students to be ordinary.
• Dean Nakamura pointed out Kaguya Ruri's classroom, and Kishimoto grew serious when he heard her surname.

Masaomi Kishimoto and the Kyoto visitors toured Fuyuki High School, where Kaguya Ruri impressed them with her teaching and Lu You’s overwhelming presence stunned them. Lu You and Kureha Hōkohara met each other’s gaze in a tense clash of presence, and he welcomed the visitors with a pointed proverb.

• Masaomi Kishimoto watched Kaguya Ruri teach and recognized her potential as a teacher from one of the Academia Faction’s founding families.
• Yūsuke Yoshikawa, Ayano Hoshino, and Mayu Matsumoto also observed Kaguya Ruri, while Kureha Hōkohara murmured that she looked delicious.
• Director Nakamura led the Kyoto visitors to Lu You’s classroom, where Masaomi sensed that Lu You’s strength was beyond his own second-tier peak.
• Lu You’s killing aura swept through the corridor, leaving Yūsuke, Ayano, and Mayu shaken as the visitors shielded the students.
• Lu You and Kureha Hōkohara faced each other without yielding, their presences colliding until Lu You smiled and quoted an old saying about testing friends who came from afar.

The Old Principal moved Lu You and Kureha Hōkohara to an empty wilderness so they could settle their challenge without endangering the school. As Kureha prepared to fight, Lu You rapidly restored his strength to the peak of the Second Tier and invited her to attack.

• Lu You and Kureha Hōkohara faced off in the corridor until the Old Principal’s Psychic Energy Projection intervened and recognized her as a disciple of his rival.
• Kureha Hōkohara said her master had sent her to seek instruction from Lu You, and the Old Principal urged him to teach her a lesson.
• The Old Principal transported Lu You, Kureha, and the Kyoto visitors to an empty wilderness for their confrontation.
• A gigantic face formed in the clouds above Fuyuki City, and Kureha addressed the Fourth Tier figure as her master.
• Lu You paused the fight to restore his strength, reaching the peak of the Second Tier before telling Kureha to take him head-on.

Lu You summoned Tensa Zangetsu and unleashed Getsuga Tenshō, but Kureha Hōkohara casually knocked it aside. He then trapped them in his Sword Ruins Dao Realm and wounded her with Ryūjin Jakka, only for Kureha to devour the flames and heal herself.

• Lu You formed Tensa Zangetsu and fired Getsuga Tenshō at Kureha Hōkohara, who slapped the attack into the sky with her bare hand.
• Lu You opened Sword Ruins Dao Realm, leaving the Old Principal outside as the domain transformed the battlefield into a world of broken swords and dead stars.
• Kureha recognized the barrier’s extraordinary scale, while the Old Principal noted its connection to the Astral Realm.
• Lu You summoned a purple tachi and struck Kureha with Scorching Hell, burning her shoulder and scorching her dress.
• Kureha swallowed the remaining flames and rapidly healed her injury, leaving Lu You surprised.

Lu You fought Kureha Hōkohara in his Sword Ruins Dao Realm, switching from flames to ice after realizing she could absorb energy. He trapped her beneath the ice until the Old Principal ended the spar, and the group returned to the school, where Kaguya Ruri arrived to find Lu You.

• Lu You switched from Ryūjin Jakka to Hyōrinmaru and filled the domain with physical ice and snow to counter Kureha Hōkohara’s devouring ability.
• Lu You struck Kureha Hōkohara with Hyōrinmaru and sent her crashing into an iceberg, then buried her beneath hundreds of meters of ice to restrict her movement.
• Kureha Hōkohara continued punching at the ice, but neither she nor Lu You could overcome the other, so the Old Principal called off the spar.
• The Old Principal ended the Sword Ruins Dao Realm, and Kureha Hōkohara asked Lu You to look after her in Kyoto before leaving for Fuyuki City.
• The Old Principal returned Lu You and the Kyoto group to the school, where Kaguya Ruri arrived to find Lu You.

Lu You and Kaguya Ruri agreed to go to Kyoto to help establish Kyoto High School, though their conversation about her necklace left their relationship strained. Expecting Kyoto to conceal a larger contest, Lu You used his last Astral Transit and received five character Templates.

• Lu You apologized to Kaguya Ruri for losing her necklace and offered to repay her, prompting her to storm off and declare she would stop cooking for him and go to Kyoto alone.
• Masaomi Kishimoto asked Principal Kaguya to send outstanding teachers and students to help establish Kyoto High School, and Lu You and Kaguya Ruri agreed to go.
• Principal Kaguya negotiated their terms with Kishimoto, and Kaguya Ruri left while Lu You returned to his dorm.
• Lu You considered the dangers and mysteries surrounding Kyoto, then used his remaining Astral Transit to draw five character Templates: Wenren Yixuan, Dongfang Yuechu, Satoru Gojo, Inuyasha, and Illumi Zoldyck.

Lu You chose and installed Wenren Yixuan’s purple template to strengthen his close-combat abilities, then crossed into another world. He woke in the body of a ninety-nine-year-old Daoist with no unusual energy.

• Lu You compared the available templates and decided Wenren Yixuan would address the gaps in his hand-to-hand combat.
• Lu You selected Wenren Yixuan and received a panel listing seven purple traits and a range of other abilities.
• Lu You installed the template and activated Astral Transit to enter another world.
• Lu You awoke with severe aches in an aged body and saw in a mirror that he had become a frail, white-haired Daoist.
• Lu You checked his body, found no unusual energy, and questioned the system after realizing he was an ordinary old man near death.

Lu You traveled into the body of a ninety-nine-year-old Taoist swindler in the world of The Outcast, a month before the Luotian Grand Ceremony. After unlocking a top-tier physique, he used his templates to develop a Chinese martial arts cultivation system, and the chapter left him refining it at the foot of Mount Longhu.

• Lu You examined the old Taoist's belongings and learned from the internet that he was in Huaxia in 2015, shortly before the Luotian Grand Ceremony on Mount Longhu.
• Lu You discovered that his new body had no special identity or innate ability, then unlocked a top-tier physique that drew out his accumulated Innate Qi and restored some vitality.
• Lu You spent the following month developing Chinese martial arts by combining theories of bodily strength and essence cultivation with his templates.
• Lu You sat beneath a fortune-telling banner on a street near Mount Longhu, refining his body and qi as pedestrians passed by.

After forming his core and gaining two traits, Lu You went to Mount Longhu to earn money and encountered Zhang Chulan’s group from Express Delivery Everywhere. Feng Baobao insisted on getting her fortune told, while Lu You demanded payment before reading Zhang Chulan’s palm.

• Lu You trained in Chinese Martial Arts, progressing through manifest force, hidden force, and transforming force before forming his core and sealing in his vitality.
• Lu You gained the traits Chinese Martial Arts core formation and Fire-Style Control, then went to Mount Longhu to make money at a fortune-telling stall.
• Zhang Chulan, Feng Baobao, Xu Si, and Xu San passed Lu You’s stall on their way to the mountain.
• Feng Baobao stopped and insisted on getting her fortune told despite Zhang Chulan and Xu San calling Lu You a swindler.
• Lu You quoted Zhang Chulan 1,998 for a palm reading and presented his payment QR code, leaving Zhang Chulan stunned.

Lu You charged Zhang Chulan and the others for fortunes, revealing clues about Zhang Chulan’s trip and Feng Baobao’s family. Before leaving, he asked Zhang Chulan to write down Qi-State Origin-Flow, making the others wary.

• Zhang Chulan paid Lu You to divine whether he would get what he wanted on his trip, and Lu You said he would not become the Celestial Master.
• After Xu San paid extra, Lu You said Zhang Chulan’s grandfather’s fate was tied to the Celestial Master succession and that Zhang Chulan would reach the end of the Luotian Grand Ceremony but refuse the title.
• Feng Baobao asked about her family, and Lu You said they loved her and offered clues linking them to Quanxing, the Jiashen Rebellion, and the Eight Extraordinary Skills.
• Xu Si paid Lu You to ask whether Feng Baobao’s family was alive, and Lu You said their fate was unknown but he leaned toward them being dead.
• Lu You announced that he also wanted the Eight Extraordinary Skills and asked Zhang Chulan to write down Qi-State Origin-Flow, prompting Xu San and Xu Si to challenge him.

Lu You offered to help Zhang Chulan uncover his grandfather’s secrets in exchange for Qi-State Origin-Flow, then vanished as the Luotian Grand Ceremony approached. Zhang Chulan met Wang Ye and the Old Celestial Master, who confirmed Zhang Huaiyi’s identity but said the truth depended on Zhang Chulan winning the right to succeed him.

• Lu You told Zhang Chulan and the Xu brothers he could eliminate Quanxing and reveal the truth in exchange for Qi-State Origin-Flow, then disappeared after warning that he would collect later.
• Feng Baobao sensed that Lu You was extremely dangerous, while Zhang Chulan accepted the possibility of giving him Qi-State Origin-Flow if he helped.
• Wang Ye introduced himself to Zhang Chulan and pointed out the Old Celestial Master, Zhang Zhiwei, at the entrance to Mount Longhu.
• Zhang Zhiwei recognized Zhang Chulan as his grand-disciple and took him to the Celestial Master Mansion to talk privately.
• Zhang Zhiwei revealed that Zhang Chulan’s grandfather was Zhang Huaiyi, who had used the alias Zhang Xilin, but said Zhang Chulan had to win the right to succeed as Celestial Master to learn the rest.
• Zhang Chulan recalled the fortune-teller’s predictions that he would reach the end of the Luotian Grand Ceremony but refuse the Celestial Master position, and wondered why he would turn it down.

Lu You watched Zhang Chulan win his matches through shameless tactics and later joined a group of young practitioners in getting him drunk. The chapter ended with Zhang Chulan stripping and using the Golden Light Mantra to make a spectacle of himself while Lu You took photos.

• Lu You watched Feng Baobao's opponent surrender and followed several early Luotian Grand Ceremony matches before taking an interest in Zhang Chulan's fight.
• Zhang Chulan provoked his three opponents into fighting each other, then attacked the exhausted winner and claimed victory, earning the spectators' anger and the nickname "Shameless Bastard."
• After watching Zhang Chulan continue to win through underhanded tactics, Lu You stopped attending the matches and spent several days away from Mount Longhu.
• Lu You found Canglong, Zhi Jinhua, Lu Linglong, Feng Xingtong, and Wang Ergou plying Zhang Chulan with alcohol and urging him to show his chastity mark.
• Lu You heckled the drunken Zhang Chulan, who stripped, activated the Golden Light Mantra around his lower body, and posed as Lu You took photos.

Wang Ye defeated Zhuge Qing in the Luotian Grand Ceremony and revealed that he possessed Feng Hou Qimen. That night, Lu You visited Wang Ye's room and directly asked him for Feng Hou Qimen.

• Zhang Chulan arrived at the arena, where Feng Shayan and Feng Xingtong teased him about the previous night until Feng Baobao threatened him with a cleaver.
• Zhuge Qing opened his Qimen array and attacked Wang Ye with fire and earth techniques.
• Wang Ye used his Qimen Escape Technique to defeat Zhuge Qing, while Lu You watched and recognized Feng Hou Qimen.
• Wang Ye sensed danger from Lu You in the stands, then left the arena after their eyes met.
• Lu You entered Wang Ye's room that night and asked him for Feng Hou Qimen.

Lu You traded a martial arts cultivation system for Wang Ye’s Feng Hou Qimen and studied the Eight Extraordinary Skill after returning to his hotel. Wang Ye was left with a new method to cultivate, while Lu You concluded that Feng Hou Qimen surpassed the limits of The Outcast’s world.

• Wang Ye willingly handed Lu You a booklet containing Feng Hou Qimen after realizing he could not resist him.
• Lu You transferred his Chinese martial arts system into Wang Ye’s mind, and Wang Ye thanked him for the valuable instruction.
• Wang Ye recalled how he had used his Inner Landscape to foresee the night’s calamity and confirm he had no way to defeat Lu You.
• Lu You returned to his hotel and examined Wang Ye’s carefully prepared Feng Hou Qimen notes.
• Lu You studied Feng Hou Qimen’s control over time, space, and the Qimen array, then judged that the Eight Extraordinary Skills had been driven beyond the world’s natural limits.

Lu You reviewed the Eight Extraordinary Skills and planned to acquire more of them while Mount Longhu hosted several inheritors. He went to watch Wang Bing face Feng Xingtong, whose families both possessed Spirit Summoning and Sending, as the match began.

• Lu You reflected on how Wu Gensheng and the Thirty-Six Thieves had discovered the Eight Extraordinary Skills, then considered the powers and creators of each art.
• Lu You noted that Mount Longhu held six of the Eight Extraordinary Skills and resolved to take advantage of the gathering to obtain some.
• Lu You tracked the Luotian Grand Ceremony and saw that Wang Bing and Feng Xingtong had both advanced.
• Lu You learned that Feng Tianyang had given Spirit Summoning and Sending to the Wang family to protect the Feng family, and planned to obtain both versions.
• Lu You arrived at the arena as Wang Bing and Feng Xingtong faced each other, while the other spectators of importance watched Feng Baobao fight Feng Shayan.