Chapter Summaries

Ji Wuchang found a sealed Vermilion Bird Arrow at the Ji Family's Hundred Treasures Pavilion and offered a Heaven Rank Supreme Grade combat technique to acquire it. Princess Aorou's party tried to claim the arrow, but Ji Wuchang refused to yield, leaving the shopkeeper to assess his offer as onlookers watched.

• Ji Wuchang toured the pavilion and saw four Supreme Weapons on display on its second floor.
• Ji Wuchang spotted the sealed Vermilion Bird Arrow and asked the shopkeeper its price.
• The shopkeeper said the consignor would exchange the arrow for a Heaven Rank Supreme Grade combat technique.
• Princess Aorou's party arrived, and one of her companions threatened that Ji Wuchang should give up the arrow.
• Ji Wuchang ignored them and handed the shopkeeper a scroll containing a Heaven Rank Supreme Grade combat technique for assessment.

Ji Wuchang secured the Vermilion Bird Arrow after refusing Princess Aorou’s demand, then left the Ji Family Hundred Treasures Pavilion. When an imperial guard squad pursued him into an alley, he killed them all, setting off a storm in Kaiyuan City.

• Ji Wuchang refused Princess Aorou’s proposal, and a Supreme Realm Sixth Level middle-aged man stopped her companion from attacking him.
• The old man verified Ji Wuchang’s Heaven Rank Supreme Grade combat technique, and the shopkeeper approved the trade for the Vermilion Bird Arrow.
• Ji Wuchang left the pavilion and noticed several people following him, so he led them into an alley.
• Ji Wuchang used the Great Void Phantom Technique to disappear, then killed the pursuing imperial guard squad with sword attacks and Divine Soul Spikes.
• An old man recognized the likely connection between Ji Wuchang and the slaughter, then hurried away to spread the news.

After learning that Princess Aorou had put a price on his head, Ji Wuchang planned to leave Kaiyuan City and travel to Heavenly Chen Academy. As he and Ji Yongming approached the gates, a blood-red bird sent by the princess’s pursuers appeared before him.

• News spread across Kaiyuan City that Ji Wuchang had killed Princess Aorou’s ten guards, and the emperor ordered her to resolve the trouble within two days.
• Princess Aorou sent a Supreme Realm expert and other followers to find Ji Wuchang.
• Ji Yongming told Ji Wuchang that Yu Ling was at Heavenly Chen Academy and that Zhen Miaoqing might be in the Xia Family’s secret realm for a month.
• Ji Wuchang gave Ji Yongming a Xia Family token to return and decided to leave for Heavenly Chen Academy.
• A black-clad old man used a mirror to track Ji Wuchang, created a blood-red bird, and led a group of pursuers after it.
• As Ji Wuchang and Ji Yongming headed for the city gates, Ji Wuchang noticed the blood-red bird.

Ji Wuchang lured the Nan Family pursuers away from Kaiyuan City and slaughtered their leaders and followers. After destroying the group with Ji Yongming’s Jade Slip and taking their souls, he left Kaiyuan City.

• Ji Yongming warned Ji Wuchang that the Nan Family’s blood-red bird could track his true body, then went to prepare a killing formation while giving him a Jade Slip containing an all-out strike.
• Ji Wuchang used Shrinking the Ground to an Inch to lure Nan Dusheng and the other pursuers toward a secluded mountain outside the city.
• Ji Wuchang immobilized Nan Dusheng, killed him with his soul and lightning techniques, and used the earthenware jar to swallow the pitch-black mirror.
• When dozens of pursuers arrived, Ji Wuchang crushed Ji Yongming’s Jade Slip and unleashed its sword strike, killing the woman at the Supreme Realm Second Layer and most of her group.
• Ji Wuchang captured the woman’s soul with the Myriad Souls Banner, killed the survivors, burned the scene, and departed Kaiyuan City.

Princess Aorou sought the Great Immortal Dynasty’s help after a mysterious attacker killed Nan Family cultivators, and the dynasty sent reinforcements to pursue him. Xia Guojiang recognized Ji Wuchang’s token and suspected he was the attacker, while Ji Yongming’s forces completed the deadly Samsara Formation outside Kaiyuan City.

• A survivor told Princess Aorou that a powerful man had killed Nan Dusheng, Nan He, and their companions with a colossal sword, and Aorou vowed to hunt him down.
• Aorou appealed to an imposing figure in the imperial palace, who sent two Supreme Realm Fifth Level experts to assist her and revealed that he had directed her to procure men for his cultivation.
• Aorou dispatched three Supreme Realm cultivators and a hundred Celestial Phenomenon Realm cultivators to pursue the attacker, while the Xia Family, Yu Clan, and Nangong Family sent people to observe.
• Xia Guojiang showed Zhen Miaoqing the token he had given Ji Wuchang and suspected Ji Wuchang had killed Aorou’s guards; he agreed to go with her to look for him.
• Ji Yongming’s Ji Family Army completed the Samsara Formation southeast of Kaiyuan City, unleashing its terrifying murderous intent.

Ji Wuchang and Ji Yongming prepared a concealed Samsara Formation to trap Princess Aorou’s pursuers, but learned that Elder Chai was on his way to support them. Ji Wuchang lured Aorou’s party away from the formation, while other powerful onlookers followed, and Aorou ordered her men to kill him despite warnings about his formidable background.

• Ji Yongming ordered Ji Mo, Ji Chu, and the other cultivators to retreat while he and Ji Wuchang prepared to face their pursuers.
• Ji Yongming received word that Elder Chai Wuzong would arrive in about an incense stick’s time, then concealed the Samsara Formation and withdrew with the others.
• Ji Wuchang left a trace of his presence near Kaiyuan City and raced away, drawing Princess Aorou’s party after him.
• Aorou’s men tracked Ji Wuchang’s presence, and Xia Guojiang, Zhen Miaoqing, and several groups of powerful spectators also pursued the spectacle.
• As Aorou’s giant sword closed in, one of her supreme realm fifth level cultivators warned that Ji Wuchang’s speed and potential suggested a powerful lineage.
• Princess Aorou dismissed the warning and ordered her party to kill Ji Wuchang.

Ji Wuchang lured two Supreme Realm Fifth Level cultivators into a prepared Samsara Formation after evading their pursuit with Shrinking the Ground to an Inch. As the formation battered them, Ji Wuchang asked Ji Yongming whether it could hold them until Elder Chai arrived.

• Ji Wuchang repeatedly escaped the two Supreme Realm Fifth Level cultivators and led them toward the prepared formation.
• Ji Wuchang used a Soul Division clone to draw the pursuers close, while his true self waited nearby with Ji Yongming and the others.
• One pursuer used a Supreme Decree to pin the clone, but Ji Wuchang activated the Samsara Formation and trapped both cultivators.
• The Samsara Formation assaulted the trapped cultivators with black Qi, Yin and Yang, lightning, flames, and spatial blades.
• Ji Yongming explained that the formation was a simplified version that could draw on the Principle of Space, and Ji Wuchang asked whether it could hold until Elder Chai arrived.

Ji Wuchang and Ji Yongming ambushed Princess Aorou’s party while two of her strongest escorts remained trapped in the Samsara Formation. Ji Wuchang captured Aorou alive, and Xia Guojiang confirmed that the attackers belonged to the Ji Family.

• Ji Wuchang ordered his men to kill everyone approaching with Princess Aorou except Aorou herself, whom he intended to kill personally.
• Ji Yongming and four other Ji Family experts attacked the gigantic sword with their strongest techniques, killing the party and destroying the bodies and souls of its Supreme Realm first-level experts.
• A surviving Supreme Realm third-level expert pushed Princess Aorou away before his body was torn apart, but Ji Wuchang seized her by the throat.
• Xia Guojiang identified the attackers’ techniques as belonging to the Ji Family, while Zhen Miaoqing worried that the Nan Family would retaliate.
• Xia Guojiang told Zhen Miaoqing that the Nan Family would not dare attack once it learned the Ji Family was involved.

Ji Wuchang captured Princess Aorou and brutalized her while delaying her execution to avoid alerting the Nan Family. He then ordered Ji Yongming and three others to intensify the Samsara Formation against two trapped Supreme Realm Fifth Level cultivators, whose defenses began to fail.

• Ji Wuchang tore off Princess Aorou’s arm, threatened to cripple her if she made another sound, and handed her to Ji He.
• Ji Yongming warned Ji Wuchang that nearby onlookers were reporting the clash to Kaiyuan City, so Ji Wuchang hurried to finish the fight.
• Ji Wuchang ordered Ji Yongming and three others to pour their spiritual power into the Samsara Formation and unleash its full force.
• The intensified formation shattered one of the four Supreme Weapons protecting the two trapped cultivators, leaving them exposed to its attacks.
• One Supreme Realm Fifth Level cultivator used his Supreme Power of Principle to halt the incoming attacks temporarily, damaging his origin in the process.

Ji Yongming and Ji Wuchang used the Samsara Formation and their techniques to overwhelm two Supreme Realm Fifth Level cultivators. The Yin-Yang Space reduced the trapped opponents to skeletons, though they continued to regenerate.

• One Supreme Realm Fifth Level cultivator tried to collapse the ground and break the Samsara Formation, but Ji Yongming transformed it into rotating yin-yang fish that stripped away the opponents’ defenses.
• The two cultivators prepared to detonate their weapons, but Ji Wuchang briefly disrupted their spiritual power and prevented them from escaping the Yin-Yang Qi.
• Ji Wuchang used Heart-Treading Steps to disrupt their spiritual power as Ji Yongming drew the yin-yang fish together.
• Ji Wuchang’s Six Yang Soul-Splitting Instruction backfired against one cultivator, but he used the Demonic Dao Law-Disrupting Immobilization Art again as the Yin-Yang Space formed.
• The Yin-Yang Space continuously stripped flesh from both cultivators until they were reduced to skeletons, while their bodies kept regenerating.

Ji Wuchang and Ji Yongming killed the two remaining Nan Family Supremes and captured their Primordial Spirits for the Myriad Souls Banner. Princess Aorou escaped with a protective jade token, and Nan Xiaotian arrived afterward, learned what had happened, and chose not to pursue the Ji Family.

• Ji Yongming’s Samsara Formation ground the two Supreme Realm fifth-level cultivators’ bodies apart, and Ji Wuchang ordered their Primordial Spirits captured for the Myriad Souls Banner.
• Princess Aorou’s jade token activated a barrier that protected her from Ji Wuchang, while its force sent Ji He flying and left him badly injured.
• Ji Wuchang warned Aorou that he would return to Kaiyuan City and kill her, then left through a void rift with Ji Yongming and the others.
• Nan Xiaotian arrived, searched Aorou’s memories, and learned that the Ji Family had attacked her.
• Nan Xiaotian recognized the lingering pressure of a Supreme Realm eighth-layer cultivator, considered pursuing the Ji Family, but ultimately let them go.

After escaping Nan Xiaotian, Ji Wuchang reunited with Xia Guojiang and Zhen Miaoqing, who had erased their traces and helped him avoid the Nan Family. Zhen Miaoqing decided to join him at Heavenly Chen Academy after leaving her secret realm, while Ji Wuchang agreed to leave the Nan Family dispute behind unless they pursued him.

• Nan Xiaotian carried Aorou away instead of pursuing Ji Wuchang, fearing the consequences if Ji Wuchang belonged to the Ji Family.
• Ji Wuchang and his companions emerged six thousand li away and prepared for possible pursuers, but Xia Guojiang and Zhen Miaoqing appeared instead.
• Ji Wuchang greeted Xia Guojiang and reunited warmly with Zhen Miaoqing, who was surprised that his cultivation had surpassed hers.
• Zhen Miaoqing told Ji Wuchang she would go to Heavenly Chen Academy after her secret-realm training to regain her edge.
• Zhen Miaoqing warned Ji Wuchang about the Nan Family's Supreme Realm Ninth Level expert and urged him to leave the Great Immortal Dynasty; Ji Wuchang agreed not to escalate the conflict.

Ji Wuchang arrived in Heavenly River City and decided to enter Heavenly Chen Academy under a false identity so he could avoid attention and experience the outer court. He chose the name Chai Wudi, while Ji Yongming urged him to seek out the academy’s hidden powerful elders.

• Ji Yongming told Ji Wuchang that the Heaven-Ascending Ladder would open in about a month.
• Ji Wuchang asked Ji Yongming for a way to enter Heavenly Chen Academy without revealing his identity.
• Chai Wuzong recommended that Ji Wuchang join the outer court under a new name, using his connection to a master there.
• Ji Wuchang agreed and chose the name Chai Wudi, and Chai Wuzong left to arrange his entry.
• Ji Yongming told Ji Wuchang that the academy’s hidden elders possessed powerful methods and that Ji Yuan wanted him to seek them out.
• Ji Wuchang settled into an inn in Heavenly River City and decided to explore the city.

Ji Wuchang examined an ancient scroll called the Soul-Disordering Great Method and discovered that it could turn a cultivator’s six illusory Soul Division avatars into Primordial Spirits. The scroll’s history and dangerous technique left him and Ji Yongming stunned, while the seller awaited Ji Wuchang’s decision.

• A sleazy-looking man tried to sell an ancient combat technique to an old man, who recognized the familiar scam and walked away.
• Ji Wuchang approached the man, said he would judge the technique for himself, and agreed to inspect it despite the seller’s price of one million Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Ji Wuchang saw the scroll’s title, Soul-Disordering Great Method, and Ji Yongming recognized it as a technique sought by the Myriad Souls Hall.
• Ji Wuchang read that Soul-Chaos Supreme, a Supreme Realm Ninth Level expert, had gone berserk after creating the technique and died after a battle against six opponents of the same realm.
• Ji Wuchang learned that the method aimed to make a cultivator’s six Soul Division avatars into Primordial Spirits, leaving seven Primordial Spirits to fight for control of one body.

Ji Wuchang bought six sealed levels of the Soul-Disordering Great Method after learning it was incomplete and dangerous. He received a map to the secret realm where it was found, located in the Heavenly River Mountain Range, and left with Ji Yongming to investigate.

• Ji Wuchang paid the sleazy-looking man one million low-grade spirit stones for the incomplete technique after hearing that its six levels were sealed and the seventh was missing.
• Ji Yongming warned Ji Wuchang against practicing the technique, and Ji Wuchang said he only wanted to keep it from becoming a threat to them.
• The sleazy-looking man led Ji Wuchang and Ji Yongming to a dilapidated house, where his three injured companions reluctantly agreed to sell the technique.
• Ji Wuchang inspected the six scrolls and confirmed that even his powerful soul sense could not break their seals.
• Ji Wuchang offered three medicinal pills to heal the injured companions in exchange for the secret realm’s location, and the sleazy-looking man gave him a map and warned that two Celestial Phenomenon Realm experts had died there.
• Ji Wuchang discovered that the secret realm lay in the Heavenly River Mountain Range and left with Ji Yongming.

Ji Wuchang concealed his knowledge of the Soul-Disordering Great Method and took the Dark Night Beast to the Heavenly River Mountain Range to undergo its tribulation. The beast survived and emerged as a smaller, kitten-like creature, while powerful cultivators arrived too late to identify it.

• Ji Wuchang ordered Ji Yongming to erase the memories of the people who had learned about the Soul-Disordering Great Method and send them away from Heavenly River City.
• Ji Wuchang discovered that the Dark Night Beast had awakened and was close to becoming an eighth-tier ferocious beast.
• Ji Yongming led Ji Wuchang and the Dark Night Beast to a secluded valley in the Heavenly River Mountain Range for the beast's Lightning Tribulation.
• The Dark Night Beast endured several hours of lightning with Ji Wuchang's medicinal pills supporting it, then completed its breakthrough and shrank to the size of a black kitten.
• Supreme Realm experts arrived after Ji Wuchang and Ji Yongming had left, but they could not identify the beast; later arrivals also found nothing and departed.

Ji Wuchang met Song Qianshang, a powerful outer court teacher whom Chai Wuzong persuaded to take him on under a condition tied to the upcoming competition. As Ji Yongming prepared to leave, he gave Ji Wuchang the Ji Family Patriarch Token and warned him about the academy’s dangers.

• Ji Wuchang spent two days in Heavenly River City learning about Heavenly Chen Academy and nearby Heavenly Water City.
• Chai Wuzong returned with Song Qianshang, a Supreme Realm Sixth Level cultivator, and asked him to teach Ji Wuchang.
• Song Qianshang agreed to take Ji Wuchang if he placed in the top hundred of the upcoming Outer Court Grand Competition.
• Ji Yongming told Ji Wuchang that he and his group would return to the Lineage while Chai Wuzong stayed to protect him.
• Ji Yongming gave Ji Wuchang the Ji Family Patriarch Token and warned him that the academy’s internal struggles were dangerous.

Ji Wuchang traveled with Song Qianshang to Heavenly Chen Academy, where he saw the Heavenly Chen Cauldron and learned about the eight outer courtyards. Song Qianshang offered him the chance to choose which courtyard to join.

• Ji Yongming left with the Ji Family Army, while Chai Wuzong departed after placing Ji Wuchang in Song Qianshang's care.
• Song Qianshang tested Ji Wuchang's speed on the journey, then apologized when Ji Wuchang stopped following him.
• Song Qianshang opened a teleportation formation on Heavenly River Mountain, and he and Ji Wuchang traveled through it to Heavenly Chen Academy.
• Ji Wuchang saw the enormous Heavenly Chen Cauldron surrounded by eight distinct outer-courtyard peaks.
• Song Qianshang explained the eight courtyards and offered Ji Wuchang his choice, though Ji Wuchang had not yet entered the outer academy.

Ji Wuchang chose Li Courtyard and learned that its entrance assessment required surviving for three days inside a volcanic space filled with eruptions and Fire Qilin Beasts. After Song Qianshang left him with Yan Liang and Yang He, they escorted him toward the assessment, while Ji Wuchang looked forward to proving himself at Heavenly Chen Academy.

• Ji Wuchang chose Li Courtyard because his Purple Qi Heaven-Burning Art suited its fire attribute, and Song Qianshang warned him he would have to pass its assessment alone.
• Song Qianshang explained that the assessment required Ji Wuchang to remain inside Li Courtyard's volcano for three days while facing eruptions and powerful Fire Qilin Beasts.
• Two Celestial Phenomenon Realm Ninth Level disciples, Yan Liang and Yang He, greeted Song Qianshang, who instructed them to take Ji Wuchang to Master Wu for the assessment before departing.
• Yan Liang and Yang He questioned Ji Wuchang about his connection to Song Qianshang, and Ji Wuchang explained that an elder in his family had known the headmaster.
• As Yan Liang and Yang He escorted Ji Wuchang toward the volcano, he observed Li Courtyard's cultivators and felt eager to test himself.

Ji Wuchang was brought to Master Chen for Li Courtyard’s assessment, where he chose to endure three days inside a sealed volcano despite warnings about its lethal heat and an eighth-tier Fire Qilin Beast. He entered the volcano, and the barrier closed behind him.

• Yang He and Yan Liang brought Ji Wuchang to Master Chen instead of Master Wu, claiming the headmaster had ordered an assessment.
• Yang He and Yan Liang left, revealing they hoped the volcano’s danger would kill Ji Wuchang and dismissing him as too weak to matter.
• Master Chen warned Ji Wuchang that he would have to endure three days inside the volcano, where an eighth-tier Fire Qilin Beast and extreme heat threatened his life.
• Ji Wuchang decided to enter because the volcano’s fire could benefit his cultivation and several of his powers.
• Master Chen opened the barrier, and Ji Wuchang entered the volcano before the opening closed.