Chapter Summaries

Ji Wuchang agreed to fight a lineage disciple in White Ram City's challenge, while Zhou Guangrong and Li Xiongdong discussed their plans to use Jia Yi and obtain the Heavenly Star Dynasty royal blood essence and Thousand Star Flame. Ji Yaoyao found bone-clinging powder hidden in the Seven Star Pill Zhou Guangrong gave Ji Wuchang, confirming that the City Lord intended to take the flame from him.

• Zhou Guangrong asked Ji Wuchang to challenge a prominent lineage disciple the next day, whose cultivation was at the fifth level of the Six Spirits Realm, and Ji Wuchang agreed to try.
• After Ji Wuchang left, Li Xiongdong told Zhou Guangrong that Jia Yi was Ying Rou, an assassin from the Ancient Xuan Pavilion who planned to take revenge on the Heavenly Star Dynasty.
• Zhou Guangrong said Jia Yi was more suitable than Ji Wuchang for his scheme to obtain the royal family's blood essence and the Thousand Star Flame.
• Ji Wuchang asked Ji Yaoyao to examine the Seven Star Pill Zhou Guangrong had given him.
• Ji Yaoyao identified bone-clinging powder in the pill that could contaminate Ji Wuchang's soul and dantian and help strip an extraordinary flame from his body.
• Ji Wuchang realized Zhou Guangrong planned to help him open his Star Meridian before taking the Thousand Star Flame, and resolved to find a way to kill him.

Ji Wuchang swallowed the Seven Star Pill, but the powers within his body devoured its medicinal energy before it could open a Star Meridian. He then cultivated Grinding Thunder and Fire, gained lightning origin power, and broke through to Soul Splitting Realm Eighth Level.

• Ji Yaoyao told Ji Wuchang that he would need ten-thousand-year cold marrow to weaken and subdue an extraordinary flame, but it was extremely rare and had to be bought.
• Ji Wuchang swallowed the treated Seven Star Pill, but the powers in his body consumed its medicinal energy before he could use it to open a Star Meridian.
• Ji Wuchang used cultivation to practice Grinding Thunder and Fire, reaching great perfection and comprehending the Dao of transforming lightning and fire.
• Lightning origin power flowed into Ji Wuchang and strengthened the lightning dragon in his body as he endured severe pain.
• Ji Wuchang used his remaining cultivation to practice the Purple Qi Heaven-Burning Art and broke through to Soul Splitting Realm Eighth Level.

Jia Yi visited Ji Wuchang and revealed that she had secretly helped him against the Ancient Xuan Pavilion before asking him to cooperate with her in the Thousand-City Battle. She disclosed that she was Ying Rou, had only three years to live, and planned to avenge her father by killing a member of the Heavenly Star Dynasty's royal family.

• Ji Wuchang checked his status and planned to advance his cultivation before refining Yu Ling's Fire Phoenix Essence Blood.
• Jia Yi visited Ji Wuchang, who was alarmed by how much his cultivation had risen since their last meeting.
• Jia Yi explained that she had poisoned the Ancient Xuan Pavilion assassins with Tendon-Weakening Powder and had killed Bai Chongguang.
• Jia Yi asked Ji Wuchang to cooperate with her in the Thousand-City Battle and swore she would not harm him.
• Jia Yi revealed that her real name was Ying Rou and that she intended to avenge her father, Ying Zhanguang, without relying on Ji Wuchang to kill the royal family member responsible.
• Jia Yi showed Ji Wuchang a black mark in her palm and explained that a bloodline-depleting poison had left her no more than three years to live.

After Ji Wuchang agreed to cooperate with Jia Yi, he left the city lord's manor to seek information about the Heavenly Star Dynasty. Zhou Guangrong received the queen's decree ordering arena tournaments across the cities, and White Ram City was soon swept up in a rush of contestants seeking official posts and other rewards.

• Ji Wuchang left the city lord's manor to learn more about the Heavenly Star Dynasty.
• Li Chongshan delivered the queen's decree to Zhou Guangrong, ordering every city to select ten contestants for the Hundred-City Battle and promising rewards for top performers.
• Li Chongshan warned Zhou Guangrong that the genius who established nine Dao Platforms could shift the balance among the province's powers.
• Zhou Guangrong posted the tournament notice, prompting White Ram City's lineages to seek places for their disciples.
• Aristocratic families and rogue cultivators rushed to sign up, and more than three hundred contestants had registered by evening.

Ji Wuchang learned about the factions of the Heavenly Star Dynasty and Heavenly Star Province, then became interested in a box the Phoenix Treasure Pavilion had undervalued. He offered its owner five hundred low-grade spirit stones, and the burly man asked him to pay more to cover his injured companions’ expenses.

• Ji Wuchang bought introductions to the factions of the Heavenly Star Dynasty and Heavenly Star Province at the Phoenix Treasure Pavilion.
• Ji Wuchang recognized the beast carved on a box as a Zheng while its owner argued with Steward Zhou over the Pavilion’s offer of a hundred low-grade spirit stones.
• The burly man rejected the Pavilion’s offer and left, while Ji Wuchang decided to obtain the box.
• Ji Wuchang caught up with the burly man and offered five hundred low-grade spirit stones for the box.
• The burly man explained that his four companions had been seriously injured retrieving the box and asked Ji Wuchang to raise his offer.

Ji Wuchang declined to compete for the five official posts in the Hundred-City Grand Battle and discovered that an ancient box he had bought contained a pattern of Zheng. The pattern entered his Purple Mansion, where Zheng began to take shape, and Ji Wuchang ended the chapter studying Heavenly Star Province’s powers before cultivating.

• Ji Wuchang paid six hundred low-grade spirit stones for an ancient box and went to the city lord’s residence after hearing about the queen’s decree.
• Zhou Guangrong told Ji Wuchang, Jia Yi, and three others that they could enter a selection tournament for five official posts; Ji Wuchang and Jia Yi declined, while the other three agreed to compete.
• Ji Wuchang examined the box in his courtyard until his Purple Mansion released purple Qi and activated its pattern of Zheng.
• The pattern vanished from the box and appeared as an insubstantial Zheng in Ji Wuchang’s Purple Mansion, where purple Qi began making it more solid.
• Ji Wuchang destroyed the now-ordinary box, studied a jade slip about Heavenly Star Province’s major forces, and began cultivating the purple Qi Heaven-Burning Art.

As Ji Wuchang attended the city matches, Li Xiaoyuan killed Myriad Souls Hall followers who were tracking him. Ji Wuchang learned nothing of the threat but found a blood-red “kill” character in his room, leaving him aware that a powerful enemy had targeted him.

• Li Xiaoyuan seized and killed the Myriad Souls Hall members following Ji Wuchang, then reported the incident to Ji Yongming.
• Ji Yongming told Li Xiaoyuan that the Ji Family had begun Ji Wuchang’s young patriarch trial, which would determine whether he could return to the family.
• Ji Yongming warned that eleven Ji Family members had arrived to test Ji Wuchang and that an elder was secretly observing him.
• Ji Wuchang sensed someone following him but found no pursuer and returned to the City Lord’s Manor.
• Ji Wuchang discovered a blood-red character for “kill” on his table, destroyed it with lightning, and questioned a maid, who said no one had visited his room.

Ji Wuchang became the target of assessment and pursuit by the Ji Family, Myriad Souls Hall, and the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall as he prepared for the Thousand-City Battle. In White Ram City, he discovered that the scroll Gu Sheng had given him contained the Nirvana Technique, a risky method that revived the Primordial Spirit but ultimately caused rapid aging.

• Ji Boshang arranged for eleven Ji Family members to test Ji Wuchang in the Hundred-City and Thousand-City Battles, offering the victor a place as a core disciple.
• The Hall Master of Myriad Souls Hall sent three Six Spirits Realm Ninth Level fighters to retrieve Ji Wuchang's Primordial Spirit.
• The Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall sent seven people to capture Ji Wuchang during the Hundred-City Grand Battle.
• Ji Wuchang examined the beast-carved seal from Gu Sheng but found no way to activate it.
• Ji Wuchang opened Gu Sheng's scroll and read the Nirvana Technique's account of a temporary revival that greatly strengthened the Primordial Spirit before causing the body to age rapidly.

Ji Wuchang studied the Nirvana Technique and discovered that the Great Seal of Ten Thousand Ferocities concealed a powerful formation and a method of activation. He realized the seal could absorb Sha Qi on battlefields and looked forward to testing it in the Hundred-City Grand Battle.

• Ji Wuchang read the Nirvana Technique, which described creating a split soul that would eventually battle his main soul for control of his body.
• Ji Wuchang examined the seal from different angles and saw images of four ferocious beasts, then copied their images and surrounding patterns onto silk.
• Ji Wuchang discovered that the copied patterns formed six interlocking formations and added the seal's sun-and-moon inscription to their center.
• Flames consumed the silk and sent the Great Seal of Ten Thousand Ferocities' teachings into Ji Wuchang's mind.
• Ji Wuchang realized the seal required ferocious Sha Qi to activate and that the Hundred-City Grand Battle would provide it.

Ji Wuchang’s place among White Ram City’s top ten was challenged by Li Chongshan, who demanded that he fight Jiang Yuan for the spot. Ji Wuchang defeated Jiang Yuan in a single swift attack, and Li Chongshan left after handing over his promised apology pill.

• Li Chongshan questioned Ji Wuchang’s low cultivation and proposed replacing him with Jiang Yuan, but Zhou Guangrong defended Ji Wuchang’s selection.
• Li Chongshan invoked the queen’s authority and demanded a match between Ji Wuchang and Jiang Yuan, wagering a pill as an apology if he was wrong.
• Jiang Yuan arrived and accepted Li Chongshan’s order to fight Ji Wuchang for a place in the Hundred-City Grand Battle.
• Ji Wuchang struck before Jiang Yuan could react, piercing his eyelid with a small sword and knocking him out of the hall with a punch.
• Li Chongshan admitted defeat by giving Zhou Guangrong the pill, then left the city lord’s estate.

Ji Wuchang and the White Ram City team traveled to Star-Chasing Mountain for the Hundred-City Grand Battle, where they faced mockery from Heavenly Willow City's lord. Ji Wuchang remained wary of Zhou Guangrong and learned that Ji Yaoyao needed three rare treasures to resurrect, while the story left the teams gathered at the competition site.

• Zhou Guangrong announced that two hundred cities would compete at Star-Chasing Mountain and advised the ten members of White Ram City to cooperate and form pairs.
• Ji Yaoyao told Ji Wuchang she had refined the Supreme's remains and needed Heavenly Pole Lingzhi, Five Aggregates Precious Blood, and Heavenly Dragon Mystic Lotus to resurrect.
• Ji Wuchang checked in for five years of cultivation, then traveled with the White Ram City team by flying boat to Star-Chasing Mountain.
• At the mountain, Ji Wuchang saw that most competitors had Six Spirits Realm cultivation, making his Soul Splitting Realm cultivation unusual.
• Huo Xingdong mocked White Ram City's team, but Zhou Guangrong ignored him and privately regarded Ji Wuchang as a trump card.

Ji Wuchang signed in on the outskirts of Star-Chasing Mountain and watched the hundred cities gather for the competition. Ninth Princess Li Xueqin announced the rules, revealing that contestants would compete for tokens across the mountain and could face participants from another hundred cities.

• Ji Wuchang successfully signed in on the outskirts of Star-Chasing Mountain and gained three years of cultivation and three Fortune Points.
• Li Qiankun, the second-level Celestial Phenomenon Realm city lord of Heavenly Dragon City, arrived with his people, and Ji Wuchang noticed that many competitors had reached the Six Spirits Realm.
• Ji Wuchang sensed someone watching him but could not identify them.
• Li Xueqin arrived with Li Chongshan, and the hundred city lords greeted her as the Ninth Princess.
• Li Xueqin announced that contestants had to obtain tokens on Star-Chasing Mountain and defeat another token holder to qualify among the top hundred, while warning that competitors from another hundred cities would also be present.

Ji Wuchang and Jia Yi entered Star-Chasing Mountain with the White Ram City group and encountered Lin Chengfei and Sweet Rain City, who demanded their storage rings. As Zhou Lin and Lan Chenxuan hesitated to fight or pay, Ji Wuchang and Jia Yi walked away, and Lin Chengfei ordered them to stop.

• Ji Wuchang entered Star-Chasing Mountain with Jia Yi and the other selected cultivators from White Ram City.
• Ji Wuchang noticed Jia Yi briefly show killing intent toward Li Xueqin, then hide her expression.
• Lin Chengfei and more than twenty cultivators from Sweet Rain City blocked the White Ram City group and demanded their storage rings.
• Lin Chengfei mocked Zhou Lin and Lan Chenxuan, then demanded a million low-grade spirit stones from the ten cultivators.
• Ji Wuchang and Jia Yi left the group, and Lin Chengfei shouted for them to stop.

Ji Wuchang intervened when Sweet Rain City threatened White Ram City’s group and swiftly killed several attackers. After the Great Seal of Ten Thousand Ferocities devoured two Primordial Spirits, Ji Wuchang vanished again and began killing another foe.

• Ji Wuchang warned Sweet Rain City not to drag him into its conflict, but Qiu Zhen attacked him.
• Ji Wuchang appeared beside Qiu Zhen and killed him, destroying his Primordial Spirit as Lin Chengfei shouted a warning.
• Two Sweet Rain City cultivators attacked Ji Wuchang, and Jia Yi used the Great Void Phantom Technique to disappear.
• Ji Wuchang reappeared and killed Huang Gaowen and Lin Dafei, then the Great Seal of Ten Thousand Ferocities devoured their Primordial Spirits.
• Ji Wuchang vanished amid Lin Chengfei’s furious roars and reappeared with his sword buried in another man’s throat.

Ji Wuchang used a Position Swap Card to turn Lin Chengfei’s attack against an enemy and killed several cultivators, drawing the attention of Ji Boshang and Ji Yongming. Outside Star-Chasing Mountain, Li Xueqin chose not to investigate a mist-covered area in the viewing mirror, leaving Ji Wuchang’s battle hidden from the observers.

• Lin Chengfei attacked Ji Wuchang with an enormous iron staff, but Ji Wuchang dodged and struck him with three Divine Soul Spikes.
• Lin Chengfei split into six figures and surrounded Ji Wuchang with a full-powered attack, so Ji Wuchang used a Position Swap Card to exchange places with a nearby man from Sweet Rain City.
• The iron staffs crushed the exchanged man, while Ji Wuchang killed another nearby cultivator, seized two Primordial Spirits, and devoured them with the Great Seal of Ten Thousand Ferocities.
• Ji Boshang and Ji Yongming watched Ji Wuchang’s battle from the sky, and Ji Boshang decided to record his actions for the Ji Family because Ji Wuchang had not activated his bloodline power.
• Li Xueqin saw that a section of Star-Chasing Mountain was obscured in the viewing mirror and declined to send anyone inside, saying that the contestants had entered a blood-soaked trial.

Ji Wuchang used a puppet clone to deceive Sweet Rain City’s fighters, then ambushed and killed several of them. As Zhou Lin and Lan Chenxuan led White Ram City’s cultivators into the battle, Ji Wuchang confronted Lin Chengfei and struck him down.

• Ji Wuchang killed Li Zhangchun, then escaped the attack of Lin Chengfei and Sweet Rain City’s fighters by using a puppet clone as a decoy.
• Ji Wuchang ambushed the group from behind, killed Niu Aimei, Li Xiangbai, and Fang Xiangmeng, and wounded another cultivator.
• Lan Chenxuan urged Zhou Lin to attack Sweet Rain City, and Zhou Lin led White Ram City’s cultivators into the fight.
• Ji Wuchang killed the wounded Fang Haiyang and challenged Lin Chengfei to face him.
• Ji Wuchang attacked Lin Chengfei with Divine Soul Spikes and the Hundredfold Sublimation Instant Kill Technique, and a sword strike severed Lin Chengfei’s head.

Ji Wuchang and Jia Yi helped wipe out Sweet Rain City’s attackers after Lin Chengfei was killed, and Ji Wuchang slew the fleeing Jiang Yuanfei with a puppet clone. Ji Wuchang’s Fortune Points rose above twelve thousand, while Jia Yi recognized how frightening his strength had become.

• Ji Wuchang killed Lin Chengfei, and the startled Sweet Rain City cultivators fled as Zhou Lin, Lan Chenxuan, and the others pursued them.
• Jia Yi killed two fleeing cultivators with sword strikes, while Ji Wuchang killed two more in the forest.
• Jiang Yuanfei escaped the fighting, but Ji Wuchang ambushed him, severed his arm, and killed him using a puppet clone as a decoy.
• Ji Wuchang gained 470 Fortune Points for killing Jiang Yuanfei and checked his system panel, which showed 12,739 Fortune Points.
• Jia Yi appeared beside Ji Wuchang and wondered how his sword strike could possess such overwhelming power.

Ji Wuchang and Jia Yi watched a battle between Mianhe City and Lifeng City as Bai Qianqian and Song Zhengming fought over a token. After they both suffered grievous injuries, dozens of newcomers arrived and surrounded the two groups.

• Ji Wuchang and Jia Yi hid in the forest and watched Mianhe City fight Lifeng City over a token.
• Bai Qianqian attacked Song Zhengming with her split-soul clones, and Song Zhengming injured one clone but took five sword strikes to the back.
• Song Zhengming threw three fifth-grade Berserk Pills at Bai Qianqian, who survived the explosions and severed his left arm with a sword strike.
• Bai Qianqian and Song Zhengming remained grievously injured as dozens of figures arrived and surrounded both groups.

After a Dao Severing Realm expert from Heavenly Stem City forced Bai Qianqian to surrender her token, Ji Wuchang used the system to reach the Soul Splitting Realm Ninth Level. He sought a secluded place to break through to the Six Spirits Realm and prepared to refine Yu Ling’s Fire Phoenix Essence Blood.

• A group from Heavenly Stem City arrived, led by a Dao Severing Realm First Level expert, and demanded Bai Qianqian’s token.
• Bai Qianqian handed over token 187, and the Heavenly Stem City group left after noticing Ji Wuchang and Jia Yi.
• Ji Wuchang used six years of cultivation through the system and broke through to the Soul Splitting Realm Ninth Level.
• Ji Wuchang and Jia Yi found a secluded place, where Jia Yi and Ji Yaoyao took turns guarding him as he prepared to enter seclusion.
• Ji Wuchang took out the Fire Phoenix Essence Blood Yu Ling had given him, intending to refine it to reach the Six Spirits Realm.

Ji Wuchang refined the Fire Phoenix Essence Blood with the help of a strange mark and an immense surge of spiritual power, awakening bloodline pressure that shocked Ji Boshang and Ji Yongming. After five days, he broke through to the Six Spirits Realm and produced twelve figures, leaving the onlookers alarmed by what it might mean.

• Ji Boshang and Ji Yongming watched Ji Wuchang enter seclusion, and Ji Boshang sent spiritual power to help him.
• Ji Wuchang swallowed the Fire Phoenix Essence Blood and struggled to contain its scorching power until a rune in his soul absorbed the excess flames and spiritual power.
• A towering phantom of Ji Wuchang's mark appeared, suppressing Jia Yi, Ji Boshang, and Ji Yongming with its bloodline pressure.
• Ji Wuchang refined the Fire Phoenix bloodline for five days, strengthening his body and manifesting a Fire Phoenix inside his Purple Mansion.
• Thunderclouds gathered as Ji Wuchang broke through to the Six Spirits Realm, and his split souls caused twelve figures to appear.
• Ji Boshang and Ji Yongming stared in shock, fearing the deeper meaning behind Ji Wuchang's twelve figures.