Chapter Summaries

Mu Fusheng reunited with his companions and tried to avoid Jiu Bailu as they entered the main burial chamber. There they found Prince Purple Firmament, whose skeleton began regaining flesh through accumulated soul power, though his body and soul remained incomplete.

• Mu Fusheng claimed he had found the talisman brush on the ground, while Tan Zongzhao and the crown prince suspected he was hiding his strength.
• Mu Fusheng repeatedly moved away from Jiu Bailu until Xiao Hei pulled him beside her, and Jiu Bailu told him she would not become his enemy.
• The group entered the main burial chamber and found it filled with supreme treasures and a skeleton seated on a throne beside a stele naming Prince Purple Firmament.
• Prince Purple Firmament spoke, then used white smoke from his greatsword to regrow flesh on his bones.
• Mu Fusheng and Jiu Bailu realized that the tomb's traps had gathered soul power to restore the prince, but his soul and body were still incomplete.

Prince Purple Firmament revealed that the tomb was a trap meant to absorb the divine souls of the prodigies and restore him to life. Mo Ling of the Mo Clan brought out a powerful puppet to oppose him, while Mu Fusheng remained wary as the others joined the fight.

• Prince Purple Firmament explained that he had lured the prodigies into the tomb to absorb their divine souls and revive himself.
• Mo Ling revealed his Mo Clan identity and confronted Prince Purple Firmament, who vowed to begin his revenge by killing him.
• Mo Ling summoned a humanoid puppet and asked everyone to fill its three openings with Immortal Qi.
• Prince Purple Firmament charged at Mo Ling, but dozens of Late-Stage Ancestor Realm puppets blocked his path as Jiu Bailu attacked with karmic power.
• Mu Fusheng held back from joining the fight and warned the others to reserve some Immortal Qi because he sensed something was wrong.

Xiao Hei, Jiu Bailu, and Mu Fusheng fought Prince Purple Firmament as he cut through Mo Ling’s puppets. After Xiao Hei was badly wounded, Prince Purple Firmament hurled his sword at him, and Jiu Bailu and Mu Fusheng unleashed their powers to intervene.

• Mu Fusheng noticed the puppets’ Immortal Qi was filling unusually slowly, while Xiao Hei and Jiu Bailu chose to face Prince Purple Firmament instead of charging one.
• Jiu Bailu bound Prince Purple Firmament with karmic power, and Xiao Hei used his Devil God bloodline and Eternal Devil Body to punch the prince back before being blasted away.
• Xiao Hei healed and charged again as Jiu Bailu restrained Prince Purple Firmament and Mu Fusheng joined the fight with peak Ancestor Realm lightning talismans.
• Mu Fusheng’s talismans and Jiu Bailu’s karmic silk helped Xiao Hei land repeated punches, but Prince Purple Firmament broke free and blasted Xiao Hei back with his sword’s shock wave.
• Prince Purple Firmament hurled his enormous double-edged sword at the injured Xiao Hei, and Jiu Bailu and Mu Fusheng simultaneously unleashed their powers toward it.

Jiu Bailu and Mu Fusheng helped Xiao Hei survive Prince Purple Firmament’s attack, buying time for Mo Ling’s puppet to finish absorbing everyone’s Immortal Qi. After the puppet killed Prince Purple Firmament, Mo Ling claimed the treasures and revealed that he had weakened the other factions so they could not challenge him.

• Mu Fusheng used Divine Talismans of Creation to raise Jiu Bailu’s cultivation, and together they restrained Prince Purple Firmament’s enormous sword and redirected it toward him.
• Jiu Bailu and Mu Fusheng’s combined attacks burned Prince Purple Firmament’s palm, but he regained control of his sword and charged at them.
• Mo Ling announced that the puppet’s Immortal Qi infusion was complete, and the puppet blocked Prince Purple Firmament while Jiu Bailu and Mu Fusheng retreated.
• Mo Ling ordered the puppet to attack, and it wore down and killed Prince Purple Firmament before Mo Ling collected his soul in a jade purification bottle.
• Mo Ling told the others to leave the treasures behind, revealing that he had arranged for the puppet to drain their Immortal Qi and leave them too weak to compete.
• Huang Jun challenged Mo Ling, but Mo Ling invoked the Mo Clan’s influence, and the others fell silent.

Mo Ling revealed his friendship with Jiu Xuan and allowed Ye Qiubai’s group to choose treasures from the tomb. After the others left empty-handed, the group finished selecting their rewards, and Mo Ling gave them a Mo Clan token before departing with Prince Purple Firmament’s soul.

• Xiao Hei challenged Mo Ling, who explained that Jiu Xuan’s friends could share the treasures and privately revealed his friendship with the crown prince.
• The crown prince explained how Mo Ling had helped him use the puppet, then asked the group to keep their friendship secret.
• Huang Jun and the other guests left the tomb resentful after Mo Ling ignored their complaints and let Ye Qiubai’s group choose treasures.
• Ye Qiubai chose eleven peak Ancestor Realm swords, Shi Sheng took two star treasures, Xiao Hei took pills and an ice flower, Mu Fusheng gathered lightning treasures and primordial stones, and Fang Qiong selected formation scrolls.
• Mo Ling praised the group for taking only what they needed, gave them a Mo Clan token, and left with Prince Purple Firmament’s soul.

After the mausoleum expedition, Ye Qiubai left the Chaotic Spirit Academy alone to seek the Azure Cloud Sword Master's remaining inheritances, while his companions stayed behind to cultivate. Their seclusion brought major gains, and Fang Qiong's progress astonished Lian Zhi.

• The Grand Elder warned Ye Qiubai and the others to stay inside the academy because their treasures had drawn covetous attention, but Ye Qiubai insisted on leaving to pursue the remaining inheritances.
• The crown prince, who asked to be called Jiu Xuan, told Ye Qiubai he could seek help from the Mo Clan using Mo Ling's token.
• After returning to the Chaotic Spirit Academy, Ye Qiubai disguised himself with Lu Changsheng's black robe and a jade pendant, took Fang Qiong's formation scrolls and Mu Fusheng's talismans, and departed alone.
• Xiao Hei absorbed an ice flower and body-tempering pills, reaching the mid-stage Ancestor Realm, while Shi Sheng entered the half-step Ancestor Realm.
• Mu Fusheng trained in the Raging Lightning Sea, absorbed flawless primordial stones, and began studying the demigod-grade Brush of Divine Miracles.
• Fang Qiong absorbed formation spirits, reached the Ancestor Realm, and perfected the fourth level of the Holy Array Prison Body Art, astonishing Lian Zhi.

With less than three years until the Six Realms Academy Exchange, Hong Ying and the others began training Azure Firmament Academy’s chosen students, while Lu Changsheng secretly prepared ways to reach the Chaos Realm quickly if his disciples needed help. Just as Lu Changsheng tried to return home after learning he had been promised to give a lecture, the system assigned him a quest to take Mo Yu as a disciple.

• Hong Ying told ten selected students that four would represent Azure Firmament Academy and the Mortal Realm, promising them a private lecture from Lu Changsheng if they achieved results.
• Hong Ying, Huang Qian, Ning Chenxin, and the teacher began training the students in combat, physical strength, state of mind, and cultivation methods.
• Lu Changsheng secretly set up concealed spatial nodes and protective arrays on the Heavenly Mystery Continent so he could reach the Chaos Realm quickly if his disciples were in danger.
• Ning Chenxin told Lu Changsheng that he had been promised to give four students a private lecture on the Dao, and Lu Changsheng learned Hong Ying had blamed the promise on Ye Qiubai.
• As Lu Changsheng stepped into a spatial node to leave, the system ordered him to visit the Mo Clan and take Mo Yu as a disciple, prompting him to ask if he could refuse.

Lu Changsheng followed Mo Yu to a Mo Clan outpost, where she inspected its puppet production and questioned the old man in charge about a shortfall. The old man’s young associate had already aroused Lu Changsheng’s suspicion, and Mo Yu’s pointed question left the inspection poised to uncover what had happened to the requested materials.

• Lu Changsheng met Mo Yu at a Mo Clan outpost and agreed to pose as her guard on the way to the clan.
• Mo Yu guided Lu Changsheng past the outpost’s formations, while he pretended to be weak and blundered into them.
• At the village entrance, Mo Yu introduced Lu Changsheng as her guard despite the young man’s objections.
• The old man led Mo Yu and Lu Changsheng into an underground cavern filled with puppets and reported the year’s production totals.
• Mo Yu questioned the old man about why the outpost had produced so few puppets despite receiving a large quantity of materials.

Mo Yu confronted the old man over the Mo Clan outpost’s stolen materials, but he trapped her and Lu Changsheng underground and ordered his puppets to attack. Lu Changsheng took control of Mo Yu’s enormous puppet and began examining its crude design, leaving Mo Yu and the old man stunned.

• The old man admitted that his outpost had been stealing materials from the Mo Clan and revealed he intended to kill Mo Yu and Lu Changsheng.
• The old man activated a formation that suppressed Mo Yu’s soul power, then sent thousands of puppets to attack them.
• Mo Yu tried to shield Lu Changsheng and told him to escape, but he stepped forward and assured her they would both survive.
• Lu Changsheng focused a beam of golden light on Mo Yu’s enormous puppet and made it raise its hand.
• Lu Changsheng remarked that he understood how to operate the puppet and criticized its crude internal structure, shocking Mo Yu and the old man.

Lu Changsheng took control of a Mo Clan puppet and used it to destroy the puppet army and its controllers. After Mo Yu thanked him and offered a favor, he asked her to become his disciple.

• Lu Changsheng seized control of the giant puppet, shocking Mo Yu and the old man.
• The old man ordered the puppet army to attack, and Lu Changsheng used the giant puppet to destroy the first wave.
• Lu Changsheng poured his power of rules into the puppet, tore off its right arm, and hurled it into the army, wiping out the puppets and their controllers.
• Mo Yu thanked Lu Changsheng and offered him a favor, and he asked her to become his disciple.

Lu Changsheng accepted Mo Yu as his disciple and gave her powerful soul-control and puppet techniques along with puppet-making notes. After trapping the stronghold’s occupants and erasing the cave’s traces, he left with Mo Yu, who chose to follow him.

• Mo Yu accepted Lu Changsheng as her master, completing his mission and earning him its rewards.
• Lu Changsheng passed Mo Yu the Heavenly Pivot Soul-Control Technique, the Hundred-Mechanism Manipulation Technique, and his Puppet Notes.
• Mo Yu swore not to reveal the techniques or notes to anyone, including her clan.
• Lu Changsheng trapped the stronghold’s occupants in one room and caused the cave entrance and surrounding ground to collapse, erasing the traces.
• Mo Yu agreed to travel with Lu Changsheng.

Mo Yu learned Lu Changsheng’s lesson about caution as they traveled across the Heavenly Mystery Continent, while the Xuanming Holy Son recovered and Jiu Bailu anticipated a reunion. The Chaotic Spirit Academy announced an upcoming exchange that would help select contestants for the Six Realms Academy Grand Competition.

• Mo Yu learned that Lu Changsheng had created the isolation formation at the outpost, and he warned her to investigate dangers and conceal her strength before acting.
• Lu Changsheng declined Mo Yu’s suggestion to visit her senior siblings and chose to explore the Heavenly Mystery Continent while setting up spatial nodes.
• The Xuanming Holy Son awoke in a stronger body rebuilt by the Black Tortoise divine statues, and a burly man urged him to resolve his resentment.
• Jiu Bailu told Jiu Xuan that she and Brother Mu would meet again soon, and a maid summoned them to an unspecified matter.
• An old man appeared at the Chaotic Spirit Academy and announced that its upcoming exchange would help select participants for the Six Realms Academy Grand Competition.

Chaotic Spirit Academy selected its competitors for the Six Realms Academy Exchange, naming Gu Sheng among the main participants and Xiao Hei, Shi Sheng, Mu Fusheng, and Fang Qiong as substitutes. Tan Zongzhao explained that their substitute status was temporary, and Mu Fusheng returned to Heaven Character Courtyard No. 1 with Xiao Hei and Fang Qiong, preparing talismans as he eyed the courtyard warily.

• Tan Zongzhao and Feng Ye explained that the academy exchange required Chaotic Spirit Academy to win the northern region’s preliminaries before competing at the continental level.
• Dean Zhao Jinshan named Gu Sheng, Qin Chi, Tan Zongzhao, Feng Ye, Si Tingyu, Ling Yu, Xing Wei, Zeng Huan, Qi Mo, and Xiang Shu as the main competitors.
• Tan Zongzhao described Gu Sheng’s reputation as a powerful former student who had returned to compete, while Xiao Hei hoped to fight him.
• Zhao Jinshan selected Xiao Hei, Shi Sheng, Mu Fusheng, and Fang Qiong as substitutes, and Tan Zongzhao explained that the arrangement would help protect their reputations if they later represented Azure Firmament Academy.
• Zhao Jinshan announced that the academy would depart in three days, and Tan Zongzhao took Shi Sheng away at the dean’s request.
• Mu Fusheng returned to Heaven Character Courtyard No. 1 with Xiao Hei and Fang Qiong, caught hold of them, and prepared talismans while staring into the courtyard.

Mu Fusheng, Xiao Hei, and Fang Qiong found Gu Sheng inside Heaven Character Courtyard No. 1, and Xiao Hei challenged him to a fight. Gu Sheng revealed his extraordinary combat ability, but Xiao Hei pressed the battle until a gale and a Devil God phantom faced off in the courtyard.

• Mu Fusheng recognized the barefoot man in the courtyard as Gu Sheng, who confirmed his identity and started to leave.
• Xiao Hei blocked Gu Sheng and challenged him to a spar because he wanted to test himself against a strong opponent.
• Gu Sheng dodged Xiao Hei’s punch without visibly moving, then caught his elbow and knee and sent him flying with a forceful vibration of his hands.
• Xiao Hei emerged in his Devil God form and charged again, so Gu Sheng threw a stick that pierced his fist before breaking.
• Gu Sheng spun rapidly and unleashed a tremendous gale as Xiao Hei’s towering Devil God phantom faced him, drawing shocked looks from people outside the courtyard.

Gu Sheng defeated Xiao Hei in a fight, then explained that Xiao Hei relied too much on brute force and needed to learn finesse. After Gu Sheng left, Zhao Jinshan confirmed Xiao Hei might still fight in the academy exchange and revealed that Shi had already entered the Star Tower.

• Vice Dean Ming sent Tan Zongzhao to watch Gu Sheng and Xiao Hei's fight and intervene if Xiao Hei was in danger.
• Xiao Hei unleashed the nine layers of the Eternal Devil Body, but Gu Sheng's gale dispersed his strength and swept him into the sky before dropping him onto the pavilion.
• Mu Fusheng and Fang Qiong checked Xiao Hei, who emerged with only minor injuries, and Gu Sheng praised his strength while advising him to learn finesse.
• Xiao Hei said he was only a substitute for the academy exchange, and Gu Sheng questioned the academy's decision before awkwardly excusing himself from Zhao Jinshan and the elders.
• Zhao Jinshan told Xiao Hei to rest because he might still have to fight, then told Fang Qiong that Shi had already entered the Star Tower.

Shi Sheng explored Star Tower, where the Star God Emperor said he could cultivate and restore his soul quickly. Following a river through the starry realm, Shi Sheng entered the Celestial Person State and began seeing traces of the tower master's cultivation, where the inheritance seemed to be hidden.

• After Xiao Hei sparred with Gu Sheng, Mu Fusheng noted Gu Sheng's combat experience, and Tan Zongzhao explained that Gu Sheng had spent years seeking fights to improve.
• Xiao Hei went to cultivate, Mu Fusheng replenished his talismans, and Fang Qiong continued studying formations.
• Zhao Jinshan and the vice deans discussed Shi Sheng's progress inside Star Tower and the possibility that he would inherit Chu Xinghe's legacy.
• Inside Star Tower, the Star God Emperor praised the realm's rich star power and said it would accelerate cultivation and restore his soul.
• Shi Sheng followed the starry river until his mind settled and he entered the Celestial Person State.
• Shi Sheng saw visions of a man practicing among the stars, controlling the river, and cultivating on the bank, then sat where the man had sat.

Shi Sheng mastered the control of star power and used it to form the Starry Sky Domain while undergoing the second trial. A man in the Starry Sky Hall recognized his progress and considered him a potential inheritor of the power of the starry sky.

• Shi Sheng entered the Celestial Person State, and star power flowed through his body as he grasped how to control it freely.
• The Star Core's guardian spirit realized Shi Sheng was mastering a fundamental skill that even the Star God Emperor had never achieved.
• A middle-aged man in the Starry Sky Hall on the Cangxuan Continent learned that Shi Sheng had quickly understood the first trial's insight.
• Shi Sheng entered the heavy river and, after recalling the vision from his Celestial Person State, used star power to slow and redirect its current.
• After a day of practice, Shi Sheng stood steadily on the river and formed a domain where he could use star power to suppress things and alter their movement.
• The middle-aged man recognized Shi Sheng's Starry Sky Domain and declared that he might become an inheritor of the power of the starry sky.

Shi Sheng mastered the Star Tower’s remaining insights, including the Starry Sky Domain and the Nine Stars of Heavenly Profundity, in less than three days. He then joined the Chaotic Spirit Academy’s delegation heading to the Black Tortoise Divine Dynasty for the northern academy exchange, where Gu Sheng warned that rival academies had recruited powerful outsiders.

• Shi Sheng comprehended the Nine Stars of Heavenly Profundity, a Divine Realm fist technique that could summon the power of up to nine falling stars.
• After Shi Sheng left the Star Tower, an enormous eye appeared among the stars and wondered how to break the unchanged course of time.
• Shi Sheng told Zhao Jinshan and the vice deans that he had finished comprehending Chu Xinghe’s insights, astonishing them with his speed.
• Zhao Jinshan led the academy delegation, including Shi Sheng, Gu Sheng, and Mu Fusheng, to set out for the Black Tortoise Divine Dynasty under Vice Dean Ming’s leadership.
• Gu Sheng warned the group that the Moon Gazing Academy and Tranquil Mountain Academy had recruited powerful experts, including the Black Tortoise Divine Dynasty’s Xuanming Holy Son.

Vice Dean Ming explained that the Six Realms Academy Exchange would take place at the Martial God Tomb, where academies would compete to occupy nine platforms. Before Chaotic Spirit Academy could reach the Black Tortoise Divine Dynasty, masked forces ambushed them, and Vice Dean Ming prepared to break through their encirclement.

• Vice Dean Ming said the exchange would last seven days at the Martial God Tomb, and the academy holding the most Martial God Platforms would represent the north.
• Mu Fusheng sensed an ambush, and Vice Dean Ming stopped the immortal crane as black-robed attackers surrounded them.
• Vice Dean Ming identified three Demigod experts and numerous lower-realm fighters among the attackers, who demanded Chaotic Spirit Academy withdraw from the exchange.
• Mu Fusheng told Gu Sheng that he had a way to escape but that the three Demigod experts could disrupt it.
• Vice Dean Ming ordered everyone to break through toward the Black Tortoise Divine Dynasty and told the immortal crane to give everything it had.

Vice Dean Ming sacrificed the immortal crane to help Chaotic Spirit Academy's students escape, then stayed behind to hold off three Demigod pursuers. Mu Fusheng's group raced toward the Black Tortoise Divine Dynasty and encountered an ambush, forcing them to prepare a way through without exposing their strongest methods.

• Vice Dean Ming empowered the immortal crane with its bloodline and formations, and it carried the students away at tremendous speed before dying in a forest.
• Vice Dean Ming sent the students toward the Black Tortoise Divine Dynasty and stayed behind to delay three approaching Demigod experts.
• Tan Zongzhao joined Mu Fusheng's group, while Gu Sheng and Qin Chi led separate groups along different routes.
• Mu Fusheng urged his group to hide their presence and avoid fights, but Xiao Hei proposed ambushing their pursuers.
• Mu Fusheng detected an ambush ahead and warned that the group behind them was catching up, so he began outlining a plan to break through without using the Heavenly Lightning Escape Talismans.