Chapter Summaries

The chapter revealed the origin of the three statues in Luohe Square and the Mysterious Yang Heaven-Slaying Technique they contained. When the statues erupted with light and trapped people in a dark barrier, Feng Yuanfu recognized that the agreement protecting them had ended, as thunder and lightning descended over Luohe City.

• The three survivors of the Mysterious Heaven Sect hunted down a clay-jar holder in Luohe Province, learned his jar had gone to a stronger expert, and decided to establish a new sect while leaving their legacy behind.
• The three placed the Mysterious Yang Heaven-Slaying Technique, divided among their statues, in Luohe Square under Luohe Academy's protection.
• The three statues erupted with light and formed a barrier around the square, trapping Qin Weiping and others inside as black mist blocked sight and soul-probing.
• Powerful lineage ancestors gathered above the square, and Feng Yuanfu arrived as the dean of Luohe Academy.
• Feng Yuanfu realized the light dome meant the old dean's agreement had ended, then dark clouds covered Luohe City and lightning struck from the sky.

Ji Wuchang received the Mysterious Yang Heaven-Slaying Technique and began tempering his body with lightning inside the barrier. As a Thunder Dragon formed from Lightning Origin emerged and devoured the others, a Supreme attacked to seize it.

• Ji Wuchang learned the three techniques that formed the Mysterious Yang Heaven-Slaying Technique and used lightning and Mysterious Heaven Qi to temper his body.
• Feng Yuanfu told those gathered that someone had likely triggered the inheritances of all three statues, but he could not identify who.
• A Supreme sent a young man to report the event to his master, who had waited over a thousand years.
• Ten Thunder Dragons appeared in the storm over Luohe City, and one emerged from the barrier and devoured the others.
• A Supreme recognized the dragon as Lightning Origin and reached toward the sky to seize it.

Ji Wuchang reclaimed the Lightning Origin as it devastated the Supremes who tried to seize it, then discovered the three statues’ power was fading and the barrier’s illusion was ending. The cultivators began to awaken as the thunderclouds dispersed after only two hours.

• A Supreme who reached for the Lightning Origin was blasted into a crater by lightning, and his arm regrew as he recovered.
• The Lightning Origin devoured the remaining Thunder Dragons and descended toward the barrier; several Supremes attacked it, but red lightning struck them and weakened one by an entire minor realm.
• Feng Yuanfu retreated, and the Thunder Dragon passed through the barrier and returned to Ji Wuchang’s Purple Mansion, strengthening his Lightning Origin and Golden Skin.
• Ji Wuchang saw cracks in the three statues and realized their dwindling power had sustained the barrier and mist, while the trapped cultivators began to awaken.
• Qin Weiping awoke first and recalled an illusion of his deceased parents, while the other cultivators emerged from their own personal illusions and the thunderclouds dispersed.

After Ji Wuchang claimed the inheritance, the barrier collapsed and four Supremes tried to seize everyone who had been trapped inside. Ji Wuchang escaped their search in disguise, but the Supremes placed a bounty on the masked face he had used, sending cultivators across Luohe City to hunt for him.

• The barrier shattered and the three statues crumbled, prompting a Supreme Realm Fourth Level expert and three other Supremes to surround the people who had been inside.
• Feng Yuanfu took the Luohe Academy members away, while Ji Wuchang used Yaoyao’s concealment and the Great Void Phantom Technique to slip away with the inheritance.
• Ji Wuchang reflected on the Mysterious Heaven Sect’s destruction and the clay jar, deciding not to use it unless absolutely necessary.
• The four Supremes searched Luohe City for Ji Wuchang’s masked appearance, found his original inn empty, and offered ten million low-grade spirit stones for information.
• Cultivators began searching the city and its outskirts for the man in the portrait, while Ji Wuchang watched them from a new inn and smiled.

Ji Wuchang finished refining the Myriad Souls Banner and opened his final hidden acupoint while cultivating in seclusion. He discovered that the black-hole-like acupoint compressed spiritual power and began testing how it amplified different attributes.

• Ji Wuchang used his Supreme puppet to draw the four Supremes away from Luohe City, then completed refining the Myriad Souls Banner and began feeding it the black saber he had taken from Zhou Debiao.
• Ji Wuchang entered seclusion and spent five days breaking through the barrier around his ninth and final hidden acupoint.
• Ji Wuchang found that the newly opened acupoint looked like a black hole and had no visible attribute until he sent fire-attribute spiritual power into it.
• Ji Wuchang tested the compressed flame power on a Low-Grade Spirit Weapon and shattered it, discovering that the acupoint amplified the power more than twentyfold.
• Ji Wuchang confirmed that the acupoint could also compress lightning power, then sent earth-attribute power into it to test another transformation.

Ji Wuchang discovered that a hidden acupoint could greatly amplify his spiritual power, while a mysterious figure warned Luohe City's six lineages about the Saint King Tomb and ordered them to watch Luohe Academy for Mysterious Heaven Sect remnants. The Cao Household ancestor proposed seeking a costly divination at Luohe Temple to find those remnants.

• Ji Wuchang realized his hidden acupoint could compress spiritual power more than twentyfold and was ready to advance to the Dao Severing Realm Ninth Level.
• A mysterious figure confronted the six lineages' ancestors at the Cao Household over their failure to identify who took the statues' inheritance.
• The figure told the ancestors to prepare for the Saint King Tomb's opening in two years and to monitor Luohe Academy for Mysterious Heaven Sect remnants.
• The figure explained that the imperial preceptor had linked a future threat to the Mysterious Heaven Sect, then departed after promising rewards for those who served the household head well.
• The Cao Household ancestor proposed visiting Luohe Temple to divine the remnants' whereabouts, and the Zhao Family ancestor cautioned that the price would be severe.

Six household patriarchs sought a divination at the Luo God Temple, but the old man warned them that the person they wished to target was protected by heaven's secrets and that leaving Luohe City would mean certain death. Ji Wuchang encountered a Zhan Clan member outside the city and followed him, intending to kill him and learn about the clan.

• The six patriarchs agreed to offer their essence blood and carry out a task in exchange for a divination, then went to the Luo God Temple.
• The patriarchs each sacrificed a year of their lifespan to the headless statue before meeting the old man.
• The old man refused to divine their target, warned that their lineages faced calamity if they provoked him, and told them not to leave Luohe City.
• After the patriarchs left, the old man opened his eyes, revealing silver light in his pupils.
• Ji Wuchang spotted a Zhan Clan member, and Ji Yaoyao ordered him to follow and kill the man to learn about the clan.
• Ji Wuchang followed the man out of Luohe City, eager to test his newly unlocked hidden acupoint and obtain Zhan Clan techniques.

Ji Wuchang secretly followed Zhan Guiping and overheard his meeting with Wengu Shaohua, who offered the Zhan Clan’s Flying Dragon Saber in exchange for killing Wengu Qingshuang. After Wengu Shaohua left, Ji Wuchang and his allies ambushed Zhan Guiping, killed him once, and forced him to revive using the Zhan Clan’s Three Lives Technique.

• Ji Wuchang concealed himself and followed Zhan Guiping, who met Wengu Shaohua from the Myriad Souls Hall.
• Wengu Shaohua asked Zhan Guiping to arrange Wengu Qingshuang’s death and offered the Flying Dragon Saber as payment.
• Zhan Guiping refused to commit immediately and said he would report the proposal to his superiors.
• After Wengu Shaohua departed with a Supreme Realm Fifth Level old man, Ji Wuchang and his allies attacked Zhan Guiping.
• The ambush killed Zhan Guiping, but he revived with the Three Lives Technique and confronted Ji Wuchang and the Supreme puppet.

Ji Wuchang battled Zhan Guiping near Luohe City, copying his powerful techniques and ultimately destroying his body. Zhan Guiping revived with the Zhan Clan Three Lives Technique, but Ji Wuchang seized his fleeing Primordial Spirit.

• Ji Wuchang sent his Supreme puppet to attack Zhan Guiping, then struck him with the Night Phantom Soul Severing Technique and Heavenly Dipper Demon-Suppressing Claw.
• Zhan Guiping countered with the Battle Dragon Heaven-Overturning Seal, and Ji Wuchang copied the technique using 2,000 Fortune Points.
• Ji Wuchang used the Hundredfold Sublimation Instant Kill Technique and Primordial Jade Shattering Finger to overwhelm Zhan Guiping's defenses and blast his body apart.
• Zhan Guiping revived using the Zhan Clan Three Lives Technique, which Ji Wuchang copied for 4,000 Fortune Points.
• Ji Wuchang used Zhou Debiao's great seal and the Demonic Dao Law-Disrupting Immobilization Art to decapitate Zhan Guiping, then seized his escaping Primordial Spirit.

Ji Wuchang escaped after killing Zhan Guiping, and the Zhan Clan mistakenly attacked Wengu Shaohua, who fled with his companion. Back in Luohe City, Ji Wuchang began cultivating the Battle Dragon Heaven-Overturning Seal and reached full perfection.

• Ji Wuchang took Zhan Guiping's storage ring and Primordial Spirit, then left the battlefield as Wengu Shaohua and his companion arrived.
• A Zhan Clan expert attacked Wengu Shaohua, mistaking him for Zhan Guiping's killer, but the old man helped him escape.
• Wengu Shaohua blamed Wengu Qingshuang for the attack, while the Zhan Clan expert pursued him and the Cao Household's ancestor realized the Myriad Souls Hall might be involved.
• Ji Wuchang returned to Luohe City, gave Zhan Guiping's Primordial Spirit to Ji Yaoyao, and learned the city's teleportation array was closed.
• Ji Wuchang set up barriers at the inn and used the system to cultivate the Battle Dragon Heaven-Overturning Seal to full perfection, forming a purple Battle character on his Dao Platform.

Ji Wuchang learned the secrets of the Zhan Clan Three Lives Technique, cultivated a divided soul, and passed the technique to Ji Yaoyao. After hearing how the Ji Clan had fallen under the Zhan Clan’s power, he used a Reincarnation Dream Experience Card to deepen his understanding of the Seven Sha Cloud-Severing Palm.

• Ji Wuchang studied the Zhan Clan Three Lives Technique and formed his first divided soul.
• Ji Yaoyao told Ji Wuchang that the Zhan Clan head was a Supreme Realm Eighth Layer Peak expert and that the Ji Clan had split, with one faction missing and the other serving the Zhan Clan.
• Ji Wuchang promised to help Ji Yaoyao take revenge and transmitted the Zhan Clan Three Lives Technique to her.
• Ji Wuchang explained that a special method had let him bypass the soul seals and obtain the technique, and Ji Yaoyao warned him to keep the method secret.
• Ji Wuchang used a Reincarnation Dream Experience Card and gained deeper insight into the Sha Qi behind the Seven Sha Cloud-Severing Palm.

Qing Banshuang arrived at Luohe Academy early to recruit fighters for Jiangshan Academy ahead of a grand competition tied to the entrances of the Saint's tomb. She arranged an assessment for the next day and discussed the growing tensions in Jiangshan Province, while Feng Yuanfu teased her about Zhou Haotian and she worried about Qing Bingxia's future at Heavenly Chen Academy.

• Qing Banshuang told Feng Yuanfu that the old dean had sent her to recruit disciples early and that she would assess new arrivals herself, prioritizing combat strength for the upcoming grand competition.
• Qing Banshuang explained that sixteen entrances to the Saint's tomb had appeared and that major powers were competing to divide access, while Jiangshan Province remained relatively stable amid growing tensions.
• Feng Yuanfu told Qing Banshuang that the Zhan Clan was moving to control Luohe Province and that someone had taken an inheritance from Luohe Square.
• Qing Banshuang learned that the person at the Luo God Temple had already left Luohe City, then discussed Zhou Haotian's new disciple and his other rumored disciple with Feng Yuanfu.
• Qing Banshuang said Qing Bingxia would assess the recruits, requiring them to last ten moves, and acknowledged Feng Yuanfu's suggestion that she planned to send Qing Bingxia to Heavenly Chen Academy.

At Luohe Academy’s recruitment, Ji Wuchang watched Qing Bingxia test challengers and copied Yuan Ling’s movement method after she entered the arena. As Yuan Ling kept Qing Bingxia at a distance with her afterimages, Ji Wuchang realized he had found a way to deal with her.

• Ji Wuchang sensed the married woman’s formidable presence and hesitated to challenge Qing Bingxia, who had been defeating applicants at Celestial Phenomenon Realm Eighth Level.
• Feng Yuanfu questioned the harsh ten-move requirement, but Qing Banshuang explained that the academy was recruiting battle generals and agreed to have Bingxia suppress her cultivation.
• Yuan Ling of the Carefree Sect challenged Qing Bingxia and used the Carefree Movement Method to fill the arena with afterimages.
• Ji Wuchang used his Thousand Illusion Spirit Pupil to identify Yuan Ling’s real position and copied her Carefree Divine Method, though he found he could not cultivate it himself.
• Qing Bingxia released the pressure of her full cultivation to keep Yuan Ling away, and Ji Wuchang realized he had a way to deal with her.

Yuan Ling passed Jiangshan Academy’s assessment after Qing Banshuang recognized her as Yuan Zhenshan’s granddaughter. Ji Wuchang then challenged Qing Bingxia and repeatedly evaded her sword attacks with his extraordinary movement technique, impressing the academy’s observers as the duel continued.

• Qing Banshuang stopped Yuan Ling and Qing Bingxia’s fight, learned Yuan Ling was Yuan Zhenshan’s granddaughter, and accepted her into Jiangshan Academy.
• Ji Wuchang walked onto the platform despite the crowd mocking his cultivation and asked Qing Bingxia to instruct him.
• Ji Wuchang evaded Qing Bingxia’s first sword attack so quickly that she and the observers were surprised.
• Qing Bingxia unleashed a field of sword light, but Ji Wuchang used Spirit Snake Steps combined with the Star Movement movement method to dodge it.
• Qing Bingxia sent a rain of Sword Qi at Ji Wuchang, who continued to slip through the attacks as Feng Yuanfu and Qing Banshuang recognized his potential.

Ji Wuchang passed Qing Bingxia’s trial by dodging her attacks, and the next challengers quickly revealed how difficult the competition was. Daoist Guiyi then stepped onto the platform with a Supreme weapon, setting up a serious match against Qing Bingxia.

• Ji Wuchang used his shield and movement method to withstand Qing Bingxia’s attacks until Feng Yuanfu declared him qualified to enter Jiangshan Academy.
• The ancestors of the six families discussed whether Ji Wuchang was the person who had escaped them, then decided to avoid provoking Jiangshan Academy.
• Qing Bingxia defeated or drove off several Celestial Phenomenon Realm challengers, causing the crowd’s confidence to collapse.
• Daoist Guiyi arrived from the Luo God Temple and revealed that his broom was a Supreme weapon transformed into a horsetail whisk.
• Ji Wuchang used his Thousand Illusion Spirit Pupil to sense Guiyi’s extraordinary power, while Qing Bingxia readied her own Supreme longsword.

Guiyi defeated Qing Bingxia in a restricted arena match and was selected to join Luohe Academy, where he later sought out Ji Wuchang. Guiyi offered Ji Wuchang a storage ring from his master, but Ji Wuchang questioned the gift’s purpose and refused to take it immediately.

• Guiyi and Qing Bingxia fought with their full strength until Feng Yuanfu ended the match and declared Guiyi passed.
• Qing Banshuang welcomed Guiyi as a valuable recruit, and he said his master had sent him to help the academy.
• Feng Yuanfu selected thirty people to enter Luohe Academy, while Qing Bingxia planned to challenge Guiyi again.
• Ji Wuchang explored Luohe Academy as he sensed powerful presences near the Cao Household’s patriarch and his companions.
• Guiyi found Ji Wuchang and offered him a storage ring from his master, but Ji Wuchang asked what the master wanted in return.

Ji Wuchang learned that the earthenware jar’s remaining pieces and maps were divided among the Yu, Zhan, and Ji Clans, and received a tortoise shell said to reveal a glimpse of the future. He and the others departed for Jiangshan Province to face Jiangshan Academy’s final test, while Feng Yuanfu received a dire warning to leave Luohe City.

• Guiyi gave Ji Wuchang a storage ring and said his master wanted only to form a good karmic connection with him.
• Ji Wuchang read a jade slip explaining that the jar’s three remaining pieces were with the Yu Clan, the Zhan Clan, and the Ji Clan, and that he and Zhan Wuyuan each held two maps.
• Ji Wuchang found a rune-covered tortoise shell in the ring that could offer a glimpse of the future, inspected it, and put it away.
• Ji Wuchang, Yuan Ling, Guiyi, Qing Banshuang, and the others entered the teleportation formation to travel to Jiangshan Province and reach Jiangshan Academy on their own.
• After the five vanished, Feng Yuanfu confronted the old man from Luo God Temple, who warned him to leave Luohe City if he wanted to live.

After a void storm separated him from Qing Banshuang and the others, Ji Wuchang escaped to Jiangshan Province badly injured and drained of spiritual power. He ambushed an old man who tried to steal his storage ring, beat him into submission, and learned they were near Dragon-Tiger Stronghold.

• A void storm split the passage and swept Ji Wuchang away from Qing Banshuang, Yuan Ling, Qing Bingxia, and Guiyi.
• Ji Wuchang used his Lightning Wings and Great Void Phantom Technique to escape the void, then crashed into a forest with his spiritual power nearly exhausted.
• An old man at the Celestial Phenomenon Realm Third Level approached and reached for Ji Wuchang's storage ring, so Ji Wuchang grabbed him and beat him down.
• Ji Wuchang demanded to know where he was, and the old man identified the area as Gentle Wind Mountain in Jiangshan Province, near Dragon-Tiger Stronghold.

Ji Wuchang recovered his spiritual power, advanced to the Dao Severing Realm Ninth Level, and discovered that a hidden acupoint held the power of a void storm. After learning about the turmoil in Jiangshan Province, he decided to join the Dragon-Tiger Stronghold and explore the region before seeking Jiangshan Academy.

• Ji Wuchang used a check-in reward and five years of cultivation to restore his strength and break through to the Dao Severing Realm Ninth Level.
• Ji Wuchang discovered void-storm power inside his pitch-black hidden acupoint and tested it by unleashing a devastating strike that carved a frozen pit and furrows into the ground.
• Ji Wuchang asked the old man for information about Jiangshan Province and learned that the jade slip covered only its western and southern regions.
• Ji Wuchang learned that the Dragon-Tiger Stronghold was under pressure from rival factions amid turmoil over an ancient tomb entrance.
• Ji Wuchang decided to join the Dragon-Tiger Stronghold and explore Jiangshan Province before going to Jiangshan Academy.

Ji Wuchang learned Dragon-Tiger Stronghold was under attack by three rival sects and agreed to visit, hoping its people could help him gather information. At the stronghold, Wang Shuofan challenged him, and Ji Wuchang answered the challenge with a soul attack before Wang launched a punch.

• Huang Xingli told Ji Wuchang that the Water Mirror Sect, Thunder Sound Sect, and Cloud Hidden Sect had wounded Lou Qihong and killed two chiefs while trying to force Dragon-Tiger Stronghold to submit.
• Ji Wuchang agreed to visit the stronghold and recruit its people to help him search for the Five Aggregates precious blood and other information.
• Huang Xingli led Ji Wuchang to Dragon-Tiger Stronghold, a town-sized settlement surrounded by a defensive barrier.
• Wang Shuofan emerged from the barrier and sent his divine soul power toward Ji Wuchang.
• Ji Wuchang struck Wang Shuofan with a small sword formed from Divine Soul Spikes, but Wang Shuofan recovered and attacked with his Dharma Aspect.