Chapter Summaries

After the tournament, Ji Wuchang entered the spirit pool and underwent a dramatic transformation as his cultivation, bloodline, and mysterious mark advanced. He discovered that the Myriad Souls Hall contestant carried a concealed Primordial Spirit at the supreme realm ninth level peak.

• Ji Huacai used a secret method to defeat the Myriad Souls Hall contestant, though both fighters suffered grievous injuries.
• A clan elder led Ji Wuchang, Ji Huacai, and the contestant to Northern Extremity Hall, where four elders opened the formation-protected entrance to the spirit pool.
• Ji Wuchang entered the spirit pool, where a transparent fifth leaf sprouted from his mysterious mark as his bloodline, powers, and cultivation grew.
• Ji Wuchang asked the Myriad Souls Hall contestant how long he planned to hide, prompting an aged Primordial Spirit with supreme realm ninth level peak power to emerge.
• Ji Huacai was shocked by the Primordial Spirit’s strength but drew some comfort from Ji Wuchang’s calm demeanor.

Ji Wuchang was ambushed by a powerful Primordial Spirit from Myriad Souls Hall, who tried to devour his soul and seize his body. Instead, Ji Wuchang’s Divine Soul Dao Platform refined the attacking remnant souls into pure soul power, rapidly strengthening his Primordial Spirit as he pretended to suffer.

• Ji Wuchang revealed that he had suspected Myriad Souls Hall’s scheme and identified its target as himself.
• The Primordial Spirit at the supreme realm ninth level peak demanded Ji Wuchang’s body, while a Supreme Realm Sixth Level man attacked Ji Huacai.
• Ji Huacai flew out of the spirit pool to fight the man as a barrier concealed their battle from outsiders.
• The Primordial Spirit sealed Ji Wuchang in place and unleashed ten thousand remnant souls to devour his soul and prepare to possess his body.
• Ji Wuchang’s Divine Soul Dao Platform devoured the remnant souls and turned them into pure soul power, strengthening his Primordial Spirit while he feigned agony.
• Ji Wuchang’s body gradually went still as the Myriad Souls Hall Primordial Spirit believed his attack was succeeding.

Ji Wuchang endured the Myriad Souls Hall spirit’s attempt to seize his body while the Divine Soul Dao Platform flooded him with power, and the Nine-Leaf Immortal Herb merged with his Primordial Spirit. He broke free of his restraints and turned the spirit’s Divine Soul Spikes against him, leaving the stunned enemy to realize his possession had failed.

• The Myriad Souls Hall spirit taunted Ji Wuchang and revealed that Ji Feng, Ji Tong, and Ji Chengshan had secretly made contact with the hall.
• As Ji Wuchang’s Primordial Spirit nearly burst from the incoming divine soul power, the Nine-Leaf Immortal Herb entered it and made it grow stronger.
• Ji Wuchang discovered that the herb had merged with his Primordial Spirit, which shone with nine-colored light and drew the power into a sphere formed from the Power of Principle.
• The Myriad Souls Hall spirit noticed Ji Wuchang’s pain had eased and launched Divine Soul Spikes at him.
• Ji Wuchang stopped the spikes, shattered the spatial restraints, and declared that he had accepted the remnant souls before the enemy realized he was not under control.

Ji Wuchang captured a supreme realm ninth level peak Primordial Spirit with the Myriad Souls Banner and defeated the Myriad Souls Hall cultivator fighting Ji Huacai. After searching the surviving enemy’s soul, he learned that Ji Feng had hired the Myriad Souls Hall to kill him and had promised them a wisp of the World-Destroying Millstone’s essence.

• Ji Wuchang used the Myriad Souls Banner’s black mist and chains to trap the supreme realm ninth level peak Primordial Spirit, while the Myriad Souls Hall’s supreme realm sixth level man attacked him.
• Ji Wuchang blasted the sixth-level man into blood mist with his Supreme Bone and told Ji Huacai to keep him occupied.
• Ji Wuchang wounded the ninth-level Primordial Spirit with the Soul Annihilation Technique and Thousand Illusions Soul-Shattering Eye, then dragged him into the Myriad Souls Banner.
• Ji Huacai continued fighting despite his injuries until Ji Wuchang immobilized and killed the sixth-level man, capturing his Primordial Spirit.
• Ji Wuchang searched the captive’s soul, discovered Ji Feng’s dealings with the Myriad Souls Hall, and sealed the Primordial Spirit in a porcelain bottle.

Ji Wuchang continued absorbing power in the spirit pool until his cultivation reached the Supreme Realm Fourth Level Peak and his Primordial Spirit transformed, while Ji Huacai left after reaching the Supreme Realm Fifth Level. After Ji Yuan learned of the Myriad Souls Hall’s scheme and killed its elder, Ji Wuchang left the pool and headed to the Heavenly Secrets Hall, collecting a check-in reward on the way.

• Ji Huacai advanced to the Supreme Realm Fifth Level, then left the spirit pool and told the clan elders about the Myriad Souls Hall’s plot.
• Two Ji Family elders fought a Supreme Realm Ninth Level Myriad Souls Hall elder, and Ji Yuan seized and killed the enemy after searching his soul.
• Ji Wuchang kept absorbing spiritual power, reaching the Supreme Realm Fourth Level Peak as his Dantian and Primordial Spirit grew dramatically.
• Ji Wuchang left the spirit pool, greeted the clan elders, and learned that the imperial preceptor was waiting for him at the Heavenly Secrets Hall.
• Ji Wuchang checked in at the Northern Extremity Hall and received sixteen years of cultivation and sixteen Fortune Points.

Ji Wuchang confronted the State Preceptor about their familiar connection and learned that she was the woman from the secret realm, Qing Shiwei, who had erased his memories. She restored them, revealing that he had died protecting their bond and was now living a second life to heal his Primordial Spirit.

• Ji Wuchang visited the State Preceptor and asked why they felt like old friends.
• The State Preceptor removed her veil, and Ji Wuchang recognized her as the woman from the secret realm.
• The State Preceptor admitted that she had erased part of Ji Wuchang's memories and touched his forehead to restore them.
• Ji Wuchang remembered growing up with Qing Shiwei, loving her, and leaving the Ji Family after she refused to marry him.
• Ji Wuchang remembered being ambushed and killed, after which Qing Shiwei gathered his scattered soul and erased his memories so he could live a second life and recover.

Ji Wuchang recovered his memories and learned why Qing Shiwei had kept her distance, then awoke after an unexplained seven-day stay in the Heavenly Secrets Hall. As he set out to wait for Qing Shiwei at the Ji Family, Ji Zhiyi returned and reunited with him.

• Ji Wuchang remembered his past and Qing Shiwei explained that her Heavenly Secrets Clan heritage and karmic ties had kept them apart.
• Qing Shiwei revealed that she and Ji Wuchang's father had arranged his second life and the beginning of his third, but his later path was beyond their ability to divine.
• Ji Wuchang lost consciousness and later awoke in his courtyard, where he learned that half a month had passed and his cultivation had reached the fifth level of the Supreme Realm.
• Ji Wuchang went to the Heavenly Secrets Hall and learned Qing Shiwei had left the Capital, so he told her attendants he would wait for her at the Ji Family.
• Ji Zhiyi arrived on a giant dragon, and Ji Wuchang flew up and pulled her into his arms.

Ji Zhiyi reunited with Ji Wuchang and told him about their daughter, Ji Qinglan, as they began the journey back to the Ji Family. She explained the family’s power and its internal situation, while Ji Wuchang prepared to deal with three captured elders and faced the growing threat of the Nine Nether Lineage.

• Ji Zhiyi embraced Ji Wuchang and told him she had come to take him home, then said their daughter Ji Qinglan was asleep and eager to meet her father.
• Ji Shen welcomed Ji Zhiyi and advised Ji Wuchang about becoming the Ji Family’s young master, the coming Saint King Tomb, and handling rebellious family branches as he saw fit.
• Ji Wuchang and Ji Zhiyi left with two Ji Family senior elders, who told Ji Wuchang that Ji Feng, Ji Tong, and Ji Chengshan had been imprisoned for betrayal.
• Ji Zhiyi explained the Ji Family’s ancestors, elders, hidden forces, and younger generation to Ji Wuchang, who considered the family’s strength and the greater threat posed by the Nine Nether Lineage.
• The giant dragon emerged from the void with an enormous city in the sky before Ji Wuchang.

Ji Wuchang returned to the Ji Family and faced the trial of its guardian, the World-Destroying Millstone, which he had to win to become the family’s young master. As he began climbing the millstone’s ninety-nine steps, its power entered his divine soul and strengthened an illusory millstone within it.

• Ji Wuchang arrived at the Ji Family’s grand plaza with Ji Zhiyi and greeted Ji Yuan and the elders.
• Ji Boshang told Ji Wuchang that he needed the World-Destroying Millstone’s recognition, and Ji Wuchang received a system mission to win that recognition and become the young master.
• Ji Yuan summoned the World-Destroying Millstone, which appeared above the plaza and formed a passage of ninety-nine steps.
• Ji Wuchang stepped onto the first and second steps, where the millstone’s presence entered his divine soul and strengthened the illusory millstone there.

Ji Wuchang climbed the World-Destroying Millstone staircase, proving the strength of his Ji Family bloodline and soul before the stunned clan. After reaching the first-generation ancestor’s record of ninety-six steps, he stepped onto the ninety-seventh as the Ji Family ancestors gathered to watch.

• Ji Wuchang climbed to the sixtieth and then eightieth steps as the millstone’s pressure on his soul intensified.
• Ji Wuchang reached the ninetieth step, relying on the flaming lotus and Nine-Leaf Immortal Herb to withstand the pressure.
• Ji Wuchang climbed to the ninety-sixth step, matching the height once reached by the Ji Family’s first-generation ancestor and shocking the clan.
• Ji Family ancestors emerged from the estate and gathered in the square as Ji Wuchang stepped onto the ninety-seventh step, feeling a sharp pain in his soul.

Ji Wuchang climbed the ninety-ninth step and earned the World-Destroying Millstone’s recognition, learning its techniques and origins. The Ji Family prepared to formally appoint him as its young master in three months.

• Ji Wuchang used the Divine Soul Dao Platform, the Heavenly Chen Cauldron, and his Bloodline Power to withstand the pressure and step onto the ninety-ninth step.
• The World-Destroying Millstone appeared above Ji Wuchang, marked him with its rune, and imparted two combat techniques and a cultivation method.
• Ji Wuchang learned that the World-Destroying Millstone was born in primordial chaos and that primordial savage beasts supported the Nine Nether Lineage.
• Ji Wuchang used check-in cultivation to reach minor attainment in the Millstone’s Secret Method, then revealed a presence that suppressed the Ji Family members around him.
• Ji Yuan ordered the elders to invite the major factions to Ji Wuchang’s formal appointment as young master three months later.

Ji Wuchang reunited with Ji Zhiyi and their daughter, Ji Qinglan, and learned that he would soon lead the Ji Family. Ji Yuan gave him the family’s shadow guard token and a pair of Myriad Souls Banners as a first meeting gift.

• Ji Wuchang met the Ji Family’s elders and followed Ji Zhiyi to his courtyard, where he reunited with Ji Qinglan.
• Ji Wuchang and Ji Zhiyi grew closer as she told him about their daughter, and they spent the night together.
• The Ji Family’s branch leaders worried that Ji Wuchang would take over and move against them.
• Ji Yuan told Ji Wuchang that the family had unanimously named him young master and gave him the shadow guard token.
• Ji Yuan said he would attempt to break through to the Saint King Realm within six months, then handed Ji Wuchang two Myriad Souls Banners.

Ji Wuchang received the Myriad Souls Banner’s two remaining auxiliary banners from Ji Yuan and argued that the Ji Family should execute the traitors and their branches. When he proposed using himself as bait to expose other conspirators, the Eighth Ancestor unexpectedly supported his call for a thorough purge.

• Ji Yuan gave Ji Wuchang two auxiliary banners he had seized from the Myriad Souls Hall and explained that uniting all three could let him challenge the main banner.
• Ji Wuchang declared that Ji Feng, Ji Tong, Ji Chengshan, and everyone in their branches should be killed for betraying the Ji Family.
• Ji Wuchang proposed leaving the Ji Family to lure hidden enemies into attacking him, but Ji Yuan called the plan too dangerous and said he would consult the ancestors.
• Ji Yuan took Ji Wuchang to meet the ten ancestors, where Ji Wuchang defended punishing the three branches to preserve the Ji Family’s unity and bottom line.
• The Eighth Ancestor, who came from a collateral branch, voiced his support for Ji Wuchang’s plan to cleanse the Ji Family.

Ji Wuchang secured the ancestors’ support for punishing Ji Family members who colluded with outside enemies, then used the Marrow-Cleansing Pool to strengthen his body and consolidate his cultivation. After returning to Ji Zhiyi and Ji Qinglan, he was summoned by the Grand Elder.

• The Sixth and Eighth Ancestors agreed to personally execute the Ji Family members who had colluded with outside enemies, with the other ancestors supporting Ji Wuchang’s proposal.
• Ji Wuchang spent several days with Ji Zhiyi and Ji Qinglan before Ji Yuan escorted him to the Marrow-Cleansing Pool.
• Ji Wuchang endured the pool’s growing gravity and painful force, reached its end after three days, and compressed his spiritual power while strengthening his bloodline and combat ability.
• Ji Wuchang reunited with Ji Qinglan and told Ji Zhiyi that the pool had greatly improved his strength and consolidated his foundation.
• A maid told Ji Wuchang that the Grand Elder wished to see him, and he left the courtyard to meet him.

Ji Wuchang was appointed the Ji Family's young master with full authority to manage the family when its head was absent. At his appointment ceremony, the First Ancestor announced that three branch lineages would be executed for colluding with Myriad Souls Hall.

• Ji Wushuang told Ji Wuchang that the family would announce his appointment the next day and sentence the branches of Ji Feng, Ji Tong, and Ji Chengshan.
• Ji Wuchang spent ninety years of cultivation to advance his World-Destroying Millstone activation secret method to major accomplishment.
• Ji Yuan, the ten ancestors, eight clan elders, and Ji Wuchang gathered with the family cultivators in the great square.
• The First Ancestor announced Ji Wuchang as the Ji Family's young master, and the elders bowed to him.
• Ji Wuchang vowed to protect the family and warned that anyone who colluded with outside enemies would have their entire branch destroyed.
• The First Ancestor announced that Ji Feng, Ji Tong, and Ji Chengshan had leaked Ji Family secrets to Myriad Souls Hall and that their three branch lineages would be executed.

Ji Wuchang oversaw the execution of traitors and uncovered the Nine Nether Lineage’s presence within the Ji Family. After Ji Yuan ordered a full investigation, Ji Wuchang captured three fleeing Primordial Spirits with the Myriad Souls Banners.

• Ji Yuan activated the Lightning Punishment Platform and executed Ji Feng, Ji Tong, Ji Chengshan, and thousands of others.
• Several powerful Primordial Spirits emerged from the punished prisoners, revealing that members of the Ji Family had colluded with the Nine Nether Lineage.
• Ji Wuchang urged the Ji Family to test everyone with the Soul-Illuminating Mirror, and Ji Yuan ordered the clan sealed for a thorough investigation.
• Three figures tried to flee, but Ji Yuan pulled them back, and they self-destructed to send their Primordial Spirits toward a rift.
• Ji Wuchang used the Myriad Souls Banners and the Law of Time to capture all three Primordial Spirits.

After Ji Wuchang exposed infiltrators within the Ji Family, the family investigated the Heavenly Chen Imperial Dynasty and uncovered more than a hundred suspects. The Ji Family prepared to retaliate against the Zhan Clan, with Ji Wuchang set to command the campaign and hoping to visit Ji Yaoyao.

• Ji Wuchang defeated three Supreme Realm Ninth Level Primordial Spirits, and the Lightning Punishment Platform destroyed them.
• The Ji Family used the Soul-Illuminating Mirror to uncover infiltrators from the Nine Nether Lineage, the Myriad Souls Hall, the Zhan Clan, and other powers.
• After the investigation spread through the Heavenly Chen Imperial Dynasty, the Ji Family elders agreed that they had to retaliate.
• Ji Wuchang urged the Ji Family to attack the Zhan Clan secretly, warning that it might be allied with the Myriad Souls Hall and the Nine Nether Lineage.
• Ji Yuan and the elders approved the plan to wipe out the Zhan Clan, and the Ji Family began gathering its forces.

Ji Wuchang took command of the Shadow Guards and sent Azure Dragon to watch the Zhan Clan and protect Ji Yaoyao. Before leaving to deal with the Zhan Clan, he told Ji Zhiyi she was pregnant again.

• Azure Dragon introduced himself as a deputy commander of the Shadow Guards and reported the strength of his 263 subordinates to Ji Wuchang.
• Ji Wuchang accepted the Shadow Guards' soul jade tokens and ordered Azure Dragon to bring him the tokens for all members in the supreme realm.
• Ji Wuchang assigned Azure Dragon to recruit his companions into the Shadow Guards, monitor the Zhan Clan in Yan Province, and secretly protect Ji Yaoyao.
• Ji Wuchang visited Ji Zhiyi and Ji Qinglan, then told Ji Zhiyi that the Ji Family would move against the Zhan Clan and that he would be leaving.
• Ji Wuchang told Ji Zhiyi she was pregnant again, and she said she sensed the child was a boy.

Ji Wuchang led the Ji Family to the Zhan Clan headquarters and issued a Supreme Decree ordering the clan’s extermination. The Ji Family broke through the Zhan Clan’s defenses and began slaughtering its members, while Ji Yuan appeared to kill the Zhan Clan’s supreme realm ninth-level ancestors.

• Ji Wuchang and the Ji Family force arrived above the Zhan Clan headquarters on two guardian dragons.
• Ji Wuchang demanded that Zhan Wuyuan appear, accused the Zhan Clan of possessing a Ji Family disciple and planting a spy, and displayed a Supreme Decree ordering the clan’s extermination.
• Ji Family disciples attacked and shattered the Zhan Clan’s defensive barrier, then charged into its grounds as the guardian dragons unleashed lava and flames.
• Ji Wuchang used a Myriad Souls Banner Auxiliary Banner to devour the Primordial Spirits of fallen Zhan Clan members.
• Several Zhan Clan ancestors attacked Ji Wuchang, but Ji Yuan struck them down with a powerful palm and left their weakened Primordial Spirits for the banner.

Ji Wuchang killed Qu Xingtian during the Ji Clan’s assault on the Zhan Clan and learned that Zhan Wuyuan was colluding with the Myriad Souls Hall. After Ji Yuan left to pursue Zhan Wuyuan, Ji Wuchang reunited with Ji Yaoyao, who was shocked by his rapid cultivation and described the turmoil within the Ji Clan.

• Ji Wuchang recognized Qu Xingtian as the Seven Sha Venerable’s betrayer and killed him with the Seven Sha Cloud-Severing Palm.
• Qu Xingtian begged for his life by revealing Zhan Wuyuan’s location, and Ji Wuchang searched his soul and confirmed Zhan Wuyuan’s collusion with the Myriad Souls Hall.
• Ji Yuan took the information and left to kill Zhan Wuyuan, while Ji Wuchang stored Qu Xingtian’s Primordial Spirit in the Myriad Souls Banner.
• As the Zhan Clan’s defeat neared, Ji Wuchang waited for Ji Yaoyao and greeted her when she arrived.
• Ji Yaoyao was shocked that Ji Wuchang had reached the Supreme Realm fifth layer in a few months, then told him the Zhan Clan had influenced members of the Ji Clan and pushed for a merger.