Chapter Summaries

Lin Shen practiced the Slag Blade Art against the blade winds on Blade Wind Star while Lin Wan watched and judged his unusual adaptation of her Inverted Universe Positive and Negative Hands. After he handled increasingly powerful blade qi, Lin Shen challenged a massive strand comparable to a first-rate Nirvana Realm Expert, and Lin Wan chose not to intervene.

• Lin Shen practiced his blade technique in Ascension Level blade winds while Lin Wan watched from a thousand miles away and criticized his defensive style.
• Lin Wan intensified the blade wind, but Lin Shen discovered that his Slag Blade Art could saw apart even blade qi with Nirvana Level destructive power.
• Lin Wan recognized traces of Particle Oscillation Technique in Lin Shen's blade work and could not decide whether his adaptation was right or wrong.
• Lin Shen flew into the sky, where the Slag Blade Skill and Blood Life Blade Technique fused as he cut through the stronger blade winds.
• Lin Shen charged at a blade qi over ten meters long, and Lin Wan decided not to intervene despite its power.
• Lin Shen crossed his blade and sheath, pulled them apart, and split the massive blade qi in two.

Lin Shen completed his Blood Life Blade Technique and received an order to escort Yun Xiang Imperial Son to Lofty Star, where she would study at Lofty Academy. Tian Bu Luo revealed that the Heavenly Emperor likely intended Lin Shen to challenge Yun Xiang’s obsession with Di E Si, leaving Lin Shen unsure how he could measure up to him.

• Lin Wan watched Lin Shen practice and considered how to earn his trust so she could learn why her Death Tribulation had vanished.
• Lin Shen finished practicing on Blade Wind Star and returned to Celestial Star with Tian Bu Luo, deciding to investigate Gourd Mountain before visiting the Underground Space again.
• Tian Congyun delivered the Heavenly Emperor’s order for Lin Shen and the Celestial Master Academy to escort Yun Xiang Imperial Son to Lofty Star.
• Lin Shen chose Ouyang Yudu and Wei Wufu to accompany him and planned to keep the escort mission secret.
• Tian Bu Luo told Lin Shen that Yun Xiang was obsessed with Di E Si and suggested the Heavenly Emperor wanted Lin Shen to change her view of him.
• Lin Shen doubted he could prove himself against Di E Si.

Lin Shen escorted Yun Xiang Imperial Son toward Lofty Star and struggled with her blind admiration for Di E Si. Near Heavenly Pure Mountain, her criticism of his brother Lin Xiangdong sparked an argument that left them at odds.

• Lin Shen met Yun Xiang Imperial Son and privately judged her naive after learning of her sheltered upbringing and devotion to Di E Si.
• Lin Shen arranged for the four Night Ghost Race sisters to join the escort, and the group traveled through multiple teleportations to Lin Yuan.
• Yun Xiang Imperial Son spent the journey practicing how she would introduce herself to Di E Si, while Lin Shen gave up trying to change her views.
• As their spaceship neared Lofty Star, Yun Xiang Imperial Son criticized Lin Xiangdong for challenging Di E Si, angering Lin Shen.
• Lin Shen challenged Yun Xiang Imperial Son's claims about Lin Xiangdong and Di E Si, and she grew furious as their argument escalated.

Heaven Cloud Incense arrived on Lofty Star expecting Di E Si to welcome her, but he focused on Lin Shen instead. As the group settled in, Lin Shen learned that Heaven Cloud Incense would take Lofty Academy’s entrance examination the next day and still hoped to study under Di E Si’s teacher.

• Heaven Cloud Incense nervously prepared to meet Di E Si as her aircraft landed on Lofty Star.
• Hua Li Na greeted Heaven Cloud Incense, while Di E Si walked past her to shake hands with Lin Shen.
• Heaven Cloud Incense interpreted Di E Si’s attention to Lin Shen and his distance from her as signs of his gentlemanly consideration.
• Di E Si told Lin Shen he had been looking forward to their battle, but Lin Shen declined, citing his duty to protect Yun Xiang Imperial Son.
• Hua Li Na arranged the group’s accommodations, and Lin Shen told Heaven Cloud Incense she would take Lofty Academy’s entrance examination the next day.

Lin Shen and his companions accompanied Heaven Cloud Incense to Lofty Academy, where they explored the campus and encountered a student who mocked them for their ignorance. The student challenged them to solve “Please Enter the Jar,” one of the universe’s long-standing unsolved techniques, and the chapter ended as they examined the problem.

• Heaven Cloud Incense arrived at Lofty Academy for her entrance test while Lin Shen and his companions explored the campus.
• Lin Shen and Ouyang Yudu discussed how Lofty Academy admitted only natural Ascenders and how humans could not qualify.
• A dragon-winged student insulted Lin Shen and his companions, then challenged them to solve the problem on his blackboard.
• Ye Xing studied the problem, and Lin Shen and the others joined her at the board.
• The student’s problem was revealed to be “Please Enter the Jar,” one of the remaining unsolved techniques in Lofty Academy’s collection.

Lin Shen recognized that Lofty Academy’s theoretical technique Please Enter the Jar was essentially the Catching Loaches method Chi Xin Huo had taught him, and he photographed the blackboard to study its theory. After leaving with Wei Wufu and Ouyang Yudu, he encountered Di E Si and agreed to follow him when he noticed a mysterious person carrying a Fire Seed.

• Lin Shen, Wei Wufu, and Ouyang Yudu examined Please Enter the Jar but could not find a conventional way to break it.
• Lin Shen realized the theory behind Please Enter the Jar matched Chi Xin Huo’s Catching Loaches method, and E Qianchun challenged him to demonstrate it.
• Lin Shen photographed E Qianchun’s blackboard before leaving with Old Wei and the others.
• Di E Si offered to take Lin Shen somewhere inside Lofty Academy, and Lin Shen initially considered refusing.
• Lin Shen saw a heavily censored person carrying a Fire Seed and agreed to go with Di E Si.

Lin Shen followed Di E Si and Lou Ran to a laboratory, where they witnessed experiments on the Peony Flower King and its Peony Fairy. Wei Wufu sensed rules in the light ribbons produced by the Fairy, impressing Di E Si, who asked him to stay behind and talk.

• Lin Shen realized Lou Ran was the person Demon Master Yao Gu had asked him to find, and followed her with Di E Si into a restricted courtyard.
• Di E Si showed Lin Shen and the others the Immortal-level Peony Flower King and explained that the lifeform inside it was called the Peony Fairy.
• Lou Ran drew blood from the Peony Fairy, and she and Di E Si examined the flower before Di E Si injected something into the Fairy.
• The Peony Fairy released ribbons of light before falling asleep, and Di E Si asked Lin Shen whether he understood what they had seen.
• Wei Wufu identified rules in the light ribbons, impressing Di E Si and Lou Ran, and Di E Si asked him to stay while Lin Shen headed back.

Lin Shen rescued He Liansheng’s falling fishbowl and impressed the old man, who later revealed himself to be a respected researcher working with Lou Ran. After witnessing an experiment that restored dissected goldfish, He Liansheng urged Lou Ran to recruit Lin Shen, but Lou Ran suspected he meant E Qianchun.

• Lin Shen caught He Liansheng’s falling fishbowl, and He Liansheng recorded Lin Shen’s name and learned he was human and had no teacher.
• Lin Shen and his companions arrived at the examination site and waited outside for the test to end.
• He Liansheng joined Lou Ran and other researchers in a laboratory, where an experiment restored dissected goldfish to life.
• He Liansheng told Lou Ran about Lin Shen’s mastery of Please Enter the Jar and suggested she take him as a student.
• Lou Ran guessed He Liansheng was referring to E Qianchun and decided to bring him over for He Liansheng to identify.

Lou Ran questioned E Qianchun about his research into Please Enter the Jar, then learned the student He Liansheng had seen using it was Lin Shen. Lou Ran decided to meet Lin Shen before considering He Liansheng’s offer to arrange special admission for him.

• E Qianchun hurried to Lou Ran’s office, hoping she wanted him to join her class.
• Lou Ran learned that E Qianchun had only made limited progress researching Please Enter the Jar and had not visited Flower Road.
• E Qianchun told Lou Ran that no other academy student he knew had mastered the technique.
• He Liansheng called Lou Ran and identified the student he had seen as Lin Shen, a human.
• Lou Ran declined to arrange special admission immediately and decided to meet Lin Shen first.

Lou Ran discovered that Lin Shen had mastered Please Enter the Jar and tried to recruit him into the academy. Lin Shen refused the offer, though Lou Ran continued adding incentives to persuade him.

• Lou Ran concluded that Lin Shen was likely the person who used Please Enter the Jar on He Liansheng and went to find him with E Qianchun.
• Lou Ran brought Lin Shen and E Qianchun to a meeting room and asked whether Lin Shen had visited Flower Road and encountered an old man.
• Lin Shen explained that he had caught the old man's falling fish tank, and Lou Ran revealed that the man was her teacher, He Liansheng.
• Lou Ran asked Lin Shen to demonstrate Please Enter the Jar and offered him a specially recruited place at the academy, but Lin Shen refused because he had no time to study.
• Lou Ran offered Lin Shen a second specially recruited place that he could use to recommend someone else for admission.

Lin Shen demonstrated Please Enter the Jar for Lou Ran and received an Ashes of Reincarnation, while E Qianchun realized Lin Shen had mastered the technique. After sparring with Wei Wufu, Di E Si misread Wei Wufu’s loyalty to Lin Shen as self-doubt and resolved to challenge Lin Shen.

• Lin Shen rejected Lou Ran’s academy offer but agreed to demonstrate Please Enter the Jar in exchange for an Ashes of Reincarnation.
• Lin Shen used Please Enter the Jar to pull the Ashes of Reincarnation into his hand, and Lou Ran recognized the technique.
• E Qianchun left Lou Ran and went to find Lin Shen and the others.
• Wei Wufu sparred with Di E Si, impressing him with his technique, then refused Di E Si’s invitation to stay at the academy and said he followed Lin Shen.
• Di E Si interpreted Wei Wufu’s words as evidence that Lin Shen had made him underestimate himself and vowed to prove his superiority to Lin Shen.

Lin Shen spoke with E Qianchun, who was discouraged to learn that Lin Shen had mastered Please Enter the Jar after only half a year of intermittent practice. After Heaven Cloud Incense emerged from the entrance examination looking unhappy, Di E Si challenged Lin Shen and offered him a chance to use the Supreme Land regardless of who won.

• E Qianchun asked how long Lin Shen had practiced Please Enter the Jar, then left dejected when Lin Shen said it had taken about half a year on and off.
• Lin Shen and his companions waited for Heaven Cloud Incense, whose strained expression suggested that her examination results had gone poorly.
• Lin Shen teased Heaven Cloud Incense about her results, and she left for the hotel while the Ye Xing Four Daughters followed to protect her.
• Lin Shen spotted Di E Si, who ignored Heaven Cloud Incense and challenged Lin Shen to fight.
• Di E Si offered Lin Shen a chance to use the Supreme Land whether he won or lost, stunning Lin Shen and the gathered crowd.

Lin Shen accepted Di E Si’s challenge in exchange for a chance to enter the Supreme Land, then faced him in a private duel on Thousand Island Star. Di E Si defeated Lin Shen with his Dust Life Foundation, leaving the onlookers stunned.

• Di E Si gave Lin Shen a Safe Jade Token and offered to register it for him in return for a fight.
• Lin Shen required the duel to be private, then allowed E Qianchun to watch under strict conditions.
• Di E Si took Lin Shen and their companions to Thousand Island Star, where he had arranged for the duel to take place without an audience.
• Lin Shen used his strongest Treading Fist Five-Hit Combo against Di E Si’s Dust Life Foundation, but the torrent of stars shattered his attack and knocked him down.
• Lin Shen admitted defeat and spat blood as the witnesses and hidden spectators stared in shock.

Lin Shen stopped pretending to lose and used his life bases and the Ye Xing Four Daughters’ War Song to fight Di E Si in their life-and-death duel. The chapter ended as Di E Si sent a galaxy of dust against Lin Shen’s amplified Surging Wave Triple Strike.

• Lin Shen admitted that Di E Si had defeated him in one move, but Di E Si refused to let him leave and attacked again.
• Lin Shen asked whether their duel required them to use every possible method to kill each other, and Di E Si agreed.
• Lin Shen summoned the Folding Fan and Mutated Exquisite Heart to weaken Di E Si, who welcomed the challenge.
• Lin Shen ordered the Ye Xing Four Daughters to perform, and their War Song strengthened him.
• Lin Shen unleashed an empowered Surging Wave Triple Strike as Di E Si countered with a galaxy of dust.

Lin Shen used the Ye Xing Four Daughters’ musical accompaniment to amplify his attacks and overwhelm Di E Si. Di E Si conceded defeat, and Lin Shen ended the battle by stopping the band and telling him, “You let me win.”

• The Ye Xing Four Daughters’ War Song greatly strengthened Lin Shen’s Wave Treading Triple Punch, driving Di E Si’s dust attacks back toward him.
• Lin Shen unleashed repeated Surging Wave Fists, forcing Di E Si to rely on his Holy Eye Divine Light to defend himself.
• As the Holy Eye Divine Light weakened, Lin Shen’s fist waves forced Di E Si backward and prevented him from breaking through.
• E Qianchun watched the battle and reconsidered the value of relying on a larger clan rather than individual strength alone.
• Di E Si withdrew from the battlefield, admitted defeat, and accepted that Lin Shen had used any means available in their life-and-death duel.
• Lin Shen pointed his Folding Fan, stopped the Ye Xing Four Daughters’ performance, and told Di E Si, “You let me win.”

After Lin Shen defeated Di E Si with help from the band, Di E Si accepted the loss while Heaven Cloud Incense objected. Before anyone could leave Thousand Island Star, a Mutated Lightning Kun Peng appeared, and its lightning disabled their teleportation devices.

• Lou Ran defended Di E Si’s loss as a useful setback, while Heaven Cloud Incense protested that Lin Shen had used numbers to win.
• Lin Shen challenged Heaven Cloud Incense to explain her objection, and Di E Si acknowledged his defeat and vowed to win next time.
• A Mutated Lightning Kun Peng burst from the sea, prompting the watching big shots to rush toward the teleportation array.
• Lin Shen urged everyone to teleport away, but their watch inheritance devices failed as lightning swept across the sky.
• Di E Si gathered glittering dust around his hand as the lightning descended.

A mutated Lightning Kunpeng overwhelmed the group with lightning, destroying their spirit foundations and pinning Ye Xing Four Daughters' life foundations. As Lin Shen prepared to attack beneath Ouyang Yudu's umbrella, Fei Zai appeared on his shoulder, and the creature suddenly fled into the clouds, taking the lightning with it.

• Di E Si's light-sword attack and the group's spirit foundations were destroyed by the Lightning Kunpeng's lightning.
• The Lightning Kunpeng pinned Ye Xing Four Daughters' life foundations and shattered Di E Si's Divine Light attack.
• Di E Si revealed that the creature was a mutated Lightning Kunpeng and said the group could not outrun it.
• Wei Wufu, Ye Xing Four Daughters, Ouyang Yudu, Di E Si, and Heaven Cloud Incense sang the War Song to support Lin Shen as he prepared to attack.
• Fei Zai climbed onto Lin Shen's shoulder and cried softly, and the Lightning Kunpeng abruptly flew into the clouds as the lightning disappeared.

Lin Shen and Di E Si survived their duel after Fei Zai frightened off the Lightning Kunpeng, though everyone mistakenly believed Lin Shen had driven it away with a gesture. The academy declared Lin Shen the winner and escorted him and Heaven Cloud Incense to safety, while E Qianchun was left to answer questions about Thousand Island Star.

• Fei Zai cried out, and the Lightning Kunpeng fled, leaving Lin Shen and the others unharmed.
• Ouyang Yudu put Fei Zai back in Lin Shen's backpack, while Wei Wufu dismissed his white robe and stored the Questioning Heart Wooden Fish.
• Lou Ran and the academy bigwigs arrived, and Di E Si told them that Lin Shen had scared off the Lightning Kunpeng with one finger.
• Lou Ran announced that Lin Shen had won the duel and escorted Lin Shen, Heaven Cloud Incense, and the others back to the hotel.
• After the bigwigs left, students surrounded E Qianchun and asked him what had happened on Thousand Island Star.

Lin Shen learned that Demon Master Yao Gu had demanded Lou Ran fulfill the last of three obligations from her apprenticeship, but Lou Ran refused because of his horrific crimes. Lin Shen returned to Sky Peak Star with an unusually cooperative Heaven Cloud Incense, who then asked him to teach her his finger techniques.

• Lin Shen asked Lou Ran about Yao Gu and passed on his question about whether their old agreement still counted; Lou Ran said it no longer did.
• Lou Ran explained that Yao Gu's students owed him three favors and that he kept a weakness in each of them, then refused to help him again.
• Lin Shen searched for the Demon-Infected Star incident and learned that Yao Gu had exterminated the planet's billions of inhabitants.
• Heaven Cloud Incense agreed to return to Sky Peak Star and remained obedient throughout the trip.
• After they arrived, Heaven Cloud Incense gently asked Lin Shen to teach her his finger techniques.

Lin Shen, Wei Wufu, and Ouyang Yudu investigated a strange hole on Gourd Mountain and discovered it led to a dead planet filled with ruins. They found a Nüwa Temple there, where a desecrated statue and neatly severed spirit tablets hinted that someone had deliberately destroyed the shrine.

• Lin Shen took Wei Wufu and Ouyang Yudu to Gourd Mountain to investigate its secrets and found a pitch-black hole in the summit cave.
• Ouyang Yudu jumped into the hole, and Lin Shen and Wei Wufu followed after he failed to respond.
• Lin Shen and Wei Wufu arrived on a lifeless ruined planet, found Ouyang Yudu and Lin Shen's missing pets, and realized they had teleported there but had no way back yet.
• Ouyang Yudu pointed out a plaque identifying the ruined building as a Nüwa Temple, and the three entered its courtyard and main hall.
• Lin Shen found the Nüwa statue hanging from a beam and examined a spirit tablet that had been cut cleanly in half.