Chapter Summaries

Ye Qiubai left the Qingming Sea with Lu Changsheng after learning to erase his traces, while Xuanyuan Suxian and Li Che discovered that their guest elders had died and suspected someone had intervened. At Chaotic Spirit Academy, Jiu Bailu stopped Mu Fusheng before his departure and gave him ten rings of resources for his senior sister’s academy.

• Lu Changsheng made Ye Qiubai erase all traces before guiding him toward a spatial node, and Ye Qiubai planned to return to the Mortal Realm to cultivate and compete in the Six Realms Academy Grand Competition.
• The barrier around the Qingming Sea vanished, and Xuanyuan Suxian and Li Che learned that four of their guest elders’ soul tablets had shattered.
• Xuanyuan Suxian suspected someone backing Ye Qiubai had intervened and expected to learn more when the Azure Cloud Sword Master's next inheritance appeared in three years.
• Mu Fusheng and his companions prepared to leave Chaotic Spirit Academy, but Jiu Bailu arrived and teased him about accompanying her sixteen times in thirty days.
• Jiu Bailu bound Mu Fusheng and pulled him into her carriage, where she gave him ten spatial rings of resources for his senior sister’s academy.

Mu Fusheng accepted Jiu Bailu’s gifts and a place in the Six Realms Academy Grand Competition, recognizing the affection behind her offer while struggling with his feelings. He and his companions returned to the Azure Firmament Academy, where Hong Ying asked them to guide the provisional candidates and revealed that Mu Fusheng’s sister-in-law also wanted to compete for a spot.

• Jiu Bailu gave Mu Fusheng ten spatial rings of resources and asked for a place in the competition; she framed her request as a condition to ease his guilt, but Mu Fusheng understood her feelings.
• Xiao Hei, Shi Sheng, and Fang Qiong found Mu Fusheng near a spatial node, and Xiao Hei warned him that he was finished if he did not win Jiu Bailu over.
• Hong Ying and Ning Chenxin told the returning group that Azure Firmament Academy students wanted to enter the Six Realms Academy Grand Competition and asked them to select candidates and provide guidance.
• Mu Fusheng proposed allowing aspiring students to challenge those who already held spots once every seven days, and the group agreed to help at the academy.
• Hong Ying led Ye Qiubai and the others to the headmasters’ grand hall, where ten provisional candidates waited; she told Ye Qiubai that his sister-in-law had joined the academy and wanted to compete for a spot.

Ye Qiubai and the others organized accelerated cultivation for Azure Firmament Academy's competition candidates, and Mu Ziqing earned a place through her own strength. They entered the Fusheng Diagram and reunited with their disciples in Fortune Temple Village, where unexpected changes in the disciples astonished them.

• The Teacher explained Azure Firmament Academy's past second-place finish and linked it to the Divine Realm's plans against the Mortal Realm.
• Mu Fusheng proposed selecting more talented students for intensive cultivation in the Fusheng Diagram after the Teacher confirmed that the competition no longer separated opponents by realm.
• Hong Ying and Ning Chenxin organized a selection tournament, where Ye Qiubai reunited with Mu Ziqing, who had refused preferential treatment.
• Mu Ziqing demonstrated mid-stage God Lord Realm cultivation and stronger bloodline power, securing a place in the Fusheng Diagram.
• Hong Ying brought ninety-seven selected candidates into the Fusheng Diagram, and Ye Qiubai entered hand in hand with Mu Ziqing.
• Mu Shi, Xiaoshu, and Xu Meng welcomed Ye Qiubai and the others to Fortune Temple Village, where changes within the disciples' bodies astonished their visitors.

Mu Shi, Xiaoshu, and Xu Meng had reached the blood transformation realm, and Ye Qiubai’s group arranged for them to use Huang Qian’s bloodline power to advance further. As Lu Changsheng created cultivation plans and secret realms for the group, overwhelming auras descended on Azure Firmament Academy.

• Ye Qiubai saw Mu Shi release his Sword Intent and confirmed that he had reached the sword saint realm, while Mu Wan'er took Xiaoshu to assess her alchemy.
• Ye Qiubai and Hong Ying decided to ask Lu Changsheng for help, and Ning Chenxin went in their place; Lu Changsheng refused to give up his own bloodline power and suggested Huang Qian's instead.
• Huang Qian contributed blood essence for Mu Shi, Xiaoshu, and Xu Meng to help them transform their bloodlines and raise their cultivation limits.
• Ye Qiubai gave Mu Ziqing a mysterious ice spirit rhinoceros bamboo, contained in a crystal jade box so she could absorb its power safely over time.
• Lu Changsheng devised cultivation plans with Willow Tree's suggestions and created training terrain and secret realms in the Fusheng Diagram.
• As Ye Qiubai and the others prepared to begin their training, mighty auras pressed down over Azure Firmament Academy and drew the attention of the Mortal Realm.

Miao Yizhen of the Divine Miracle Academy arrived at the Azure Firmament Academy and urged it to skip the Six Realms Students Exchange, but Ning Chenxin refused and accused the Divine Realm of fearing the academy. Miao Yizhen attacked Ning Chenxin, whose righteous Qi barrier held firm, though a soft green light had secretly joined it.

• Miao Yizhen descended over the Azure Firmament Academy and introduced himself as an elder of the Divine Miracle Academy, the Divine Realm's only academy.
• Miao Yizhen told Ning Chenxin that the Mortal Realm was too weak to enter the Six Realms Students Exchange and should wait until it had recovered.
• Ning Chenxin declared that the Azure Firmament Academy would participate as scheduled, prompting the academy's students and elders to cheer.
• Ning Chenxin challenged Miao Yizhen's claim that the Divine Realm was unafraid, then told him to leave.
• Miao Yizhen attacked Ning Chenxin, but Ning Chenxin's Vast Righteous Qi barrier remained intact, with a soft green light secretly merging into it.

Ning Chenxin withstood Miao Yizhen’s attack with help from Willow Tree, and Lu Changsheng urged him to grow strong enough to change the world’s rules. Ning Chenxin left Azure Firmament Academy to travel to the Wilderness Realm and see how the people once indoctrinated by Buddha Mountain were living.

• Willow Tree secretly sent Ning Chenxin a willow branch that let him block Miao Yizhen’s attack, while Miao Yizhen concluded that a hidden expert protected the Mortal Realm.
• Ning Chenxin showed Miao Yizhen the branch, and Miao Yizhen threatened the Mortal Realm’s students at the Six Realms academy exchange before departing.
• Ning Chenxin questioned whether the weak were destined to face threats, and the master told him that becoming strong was the foundation for avoiding exploitation.
• Lu Changsheng told Ning Chenxin that he would need absolute power to change the world’s rules and advised him to travel and integrate his ideas.
• The master agreed to manage Azure Firmament Academy, and Ning Chenxin set out for the Wilderness Realm to see how the people once indoctrinated by Buddha Mountain lived.

Ning Chenxin returned to the Wilderness Realm and saw that its growth had not changed the hardships faced by ordinary people and weaker factions, leading him to reconsider his master's teachings. He encountered Jiang Chan at a nunnery, where her master invited him inside.

• Ning Chenxin secretly visited the Southern Region Hidden Dao Academy and saw that it upheld Qin Tiannan's rules despite its growing fame.
• Ning Chenxin visited the village where he had met Lu Changsheng and found that the villagers' recitations produced Vast Righteous Qi that entered his body.
• Ning Chenxin spent six months traveling throughout the Wilderness Realm and saw that bullying, exploitation, and conflict persisted among the weak and the powerful alike.
• Ning Chenxin encountered Jiang Chan, who had become a nun, and asked why she was there.
• Jiang Chan's elderly master told her that staying would not help her forget, then invited Ning Chenxin into the nunnery.

Ning Chenxin received a map and a clue directing him to the Buddhist Sect on the Cangxuan Continent, then set off for the Chaos Realm to seek answers about his karmic ties. Jiang Chan chose to remain at the nunnery, accepted the Buddhist name Jingfan, and Ning Chenxin’s journey left Lu Changsheng and the others worried.

• An abbess told Ning Chenxin that he shared a karmic tie with the Buddhist Sect and gave him a map pointing toward the Cangxuan Continent for answers.
• Jiang Chan asked Ning Chenxin about Ye Qiubai, felt relieved to hear he was doing well, and chose not to explain her past to him.
• Ning Chenxin decided to travel to the Cangxuan Continent through a spatial node in the Changsheng Realm to verify what he believed.
• Jiang Chan told her master she would stay at the nunnery, and the abbess bestowed on her the Buddhist name Jingfan.
• News that Ning Chenxin had gone to the Chaos Realm reached Lu Changsheng, Ye Qiubai, Mu Fusheng, and Mo Yu, who noted the dangers of the Cangxuan Continent.

Ning Chenxin entered the Buddhist Sect’s territory to seek answers to his doubts and witnessed how its followers gathered Power of Faith through ritual devotion. He challenged an abbot over whether belief in the Buddha was truly necessary to resolve people’s doubts, beginning a contest of the Dao.

• Ning Chenxin arrived in the Buddhist Sect’s vast territory after seven days of travel and noticed the intense devotion of its pilgrims.
• Ning Chenxin quickly climbed a mountain without bowing at every step, drawing rebukes from pilgrims who called his conduct disrespectful to the Buddha.
• A young monk stopped Ning Chenxin at the temple gate and told him to kneel and bow, but Ning Chenxin asked to meet the abbot to discuss the Dao and debate Zen.
• Ning Chenxin saw pilgrims’ Power of Faith flow into the golden Buddhas before a young monk led him to the abbot.
• Ning Chenxin questioned the abbot’s claim that belief in the Buddha could resolve his doubts, and the abbot opened his eyes as their contest over the Dao began.

Ning Chenxin investigated the Buddhist Sect’s influence in Cold Soil Village and discovered that villagers’ worship generated Power of Faith for a Buddha statue. He left the village’s secret unexplained, with the abbot already viewing him as a threat.

• Ning Chenxin challenged the abbot over the Buddhist Sect’s pursuit of Power of Faith, then left after the abbot denied wrongdoing and privately declared him a grave threat.
• Ning Chenxin searched villages around the Buddhist Sect and reached Cold Soil Village, where most residents kept Buddha statues in their homes.
• Ning Chenxin questioned a youth shunned by the villagers, who said he rejected the Buddha because belief could not improve the village’s barren soil.
• Ning Chenxin used his power to restore vitality to Cold Soil Village’s soil, and the villagers thanked him while mistaking him for someone sent by the Buddhist Sect.
• The youth told Ning Chenxin that a bald monk had once taught the villagers, after which most began believing in the Buddha.
• Ning Chenxin observed the villagers chanting and kowtowing before a large Buddha statue as wisps of Power of Faith flowed into it.

Ning Chenxin confronted the Buddhist Sect’s use of villagers to gather faith and challenged Cold Soil Village to question its worship of the Buddha. When a beast tide threatened the village, he drove the beasts back and revealed that black Qi had been controlling them.

• Ning Chenxin walked out during the villagers’ ritual, defied the Buddha statue, and vowed to expose the Buddhist Sect’s methods.
• Zhu Yan appeared on the statue’s shoulder, and the village chief recalled how its arrival had once preceded a village’s destruction.
• Ning Chenxin restored life to Cold Soil Village’s soil and crops, then asked the villagers whether the Buddha was truly benevolent.
• A beast tide surrounded Cold Soil Village, and Ning Chenxin used the Nine-Character Mantra to send a heavenly general and the Golden Scale Divine Spear into the sky.
• Ning Chenxin’s righteous light dispelled black Qi from the Devil Beasts, and they retreated when he ordered them away from the village.
• The villagers knelt and thanked Ning Chenxin for saving their lives.

Ning Chenxin confirmed that Zhu Yan had appeared and warned that its omen could signal great turmoil, then continued teaching the people of Cold Soil Village. As the Buddhist Sect sent its Buddha Son down the mountain to debate the Dao with him, bells announced the start of a wider contest among powerful sects and clans, and Ning Chenxin waited for the visitor.

• Ning Chenxin showed Lu Changsheng an image of Zhu Yan, and Lu Changsheng identified it as an omen of impending turmoil.
• Ning Chenxin stopped the village chief from kneeling and urged Cold Soil Village's people to follow the principles of the Dao rather than place faith in a person.
• Abbot Jingxuan sent Dabei to meet the person who wished to debate the Dao with the Buddha.
• Bells rang across the Buddhist Sect and the Cangxuan Continent as the Buddha Son descended the mountain, prompting powerful sects and clans to send out their own rising figures.
• Ning Chenxin heard the bells while teaching in Cold Soil Village and looked toward the approaching Buddha Son.

Ning Chenxin debated the Buddhist Sect’s methods with Dabei in Cold Soil Village, questioning whether its pursuit of faith served the people or merely sought power. As their Dao presences clashed, Ning Chenxin’s Vast Righteous Qi suppressed Dabei’s Buddhist light.

• Ning Chenxin stayed in Cold Soil Village to teach its villagers and wait for the Buddhist Sect to respond to his challenge to their influence.
• Dabei appeared beside Ning Chenxin and demanded an explanation, while Ning Chenxin accused the Buddhist Sect of coercing villagers by using Devil Beasts to make them dependent on its protection.
• Dabei sat beneath the Buddha statue and released a Buddhist Dao presence and Power of Faith that pressured the villagers and suppressed Ning Chenxin’s Confucian Dao presence.
• Ning Chenxin resisted with the Dao Scripture and Vast Righteous Qi, then challenged Dabei to explain whether the Buddhist Sect sought to enlighten the world or simply to gain supreme power.
• Dabei said he was still seeking an answer, and Ning Chenxin argued that the Buddhist Sect’s public talk of its good deeds showed attachment to appearances.
• Vast Righteous Qi formed an old Daoist figure behind Ning Chenxin and suppressed Dabei’s golden Buddhist light, leaving Dabei astonished by Ning Chenxin’s understanding of Buddhist teachings.

Ning Chenxin’s debate with Dabei clarified his own path and helped Dabei rediscover the compassion behind his Buddhist name. Ning Chenxin left Cold Soil Village after giving Shanchuan a scroll, while Dabei returned to the Buddhist Sect and questioned Abbot Jingxuan about its conduct.

• Ning Chenxin challenged Dabei’s use of villagers’ faith and argued that strength gained by sacrificing innocents could not lead to true enlightenment.
• Ning Chenxin understood his master’s teaching, broke through to the Late-Stage Ancestor Realm, and explained that great compassion meant saving people from suffering.
• Dabei recovered the meaning of his name, thanked Ning Chenxin, admitted defeat in their debate, and promised to investigate the Buddhist Sect’s actions.
• Ning Chenxin left Cold Soil Village after giving Shanchuan a scroll of his insights and telling him to seek further instruction once he had mastered it.
• Dabei returned to the Buddhist Sect, where Abbot Jingxuan praised his progress, and Dabei asked whether the sect’s actions had gone against the Buddha’s will.

Dabei refused to accept the Buddhist Sect’s methods, but Abbot Jingxuan imprisoned him and drew out his power of faith. Meanwhile, Ning Chenxin returned to Lu Changsheng, and the Cottage’s academy exchange team was finalized with half a year left before the competition.

• Dabei told Abbot Jingxuan that the Buddhist Sect had violated its teachings, and Jingxuan ordered him to hand over the power of faith.
• Jingxuan insisted the Buddhist Sect had to grow stronger, then sealed Dabei beneath a golden bell while elders recited scriptures to influence his mind.
• Ning Chenxin returned to the Mortal Realm and entered the Fusheng Diagram, where he told Lu Changsheng that he might still intervene in the Buddhist Sect’s affairs later.
• Hong Ying finalized the four academy exchange contestants as Mu Ziqing, Hao Tian, Zong Yun, and Ji Qianyao, with Mu Shi, Xiaoshu, and Xu Meng as substitutes.
• Ye Qiubai and the others persuaded Lu Changsheng to train the contestants during the half year remaining before the exchange.

Inside the Fusheng Diagram, Lu Changsheng began instructing the group, giving Mu Ziqing a powerful new cultivation technique and guiding Hao Tian in the Sword Dao. The lesson left Hao Tian mastering the sword Dao law after two days, while Lu Changsheng remained baffled by how easily his casual teaching produced results.

• Lu Changsheng arrived to teach Hao Tian, Mu Ziqing, Ji Qianyao, and Zong Yun, while warning them that he was not skilled at teaching.
• Lu Changsheng offered Mu Ziqing a stack of Creation-grade ice cultivation techniques, and she chose the Nine Meridians Ice God Technique.
• Hao Tian asked Lu Changsheng to guide him in the Sword Dao, and Lu Changsheng agreed to demonstrate a sword routine with a wooden stick.
• Hao Tian interpreted Lu Changsheng's simple swings as a lesson in putting all his strength into one strike, then practiced the sword movements himself.
• After two days of practice, Hao Tian mastered the sword Dao law, leaving Lu Changsheng feeling helpless at his ability to teach without trying.

Lu Changsheng demonstrated his overwhelming command of Dao powers while advising several cultivators, and Ji Qianyao asked why she could not unleash the full might of Hongmeng Purple Qi. After Lu Changsheng’s demonstration accidentally destroyed dozens of mountain ranges, Ji Qianyao believed he had been teaching her how to combine multiple rules.

• Lu Changsheng deliberately avoided Ji Qianyao before asking Zong Yun about his cultivation, then demonstrated a blend of Metal, thunder, and flame Dao Laws that sent Zong Yun into the Celestial Person State.
• Lu Changsheng finally approached Ji Qianyao, who explained that she could use only ten percent of Hongmeng Purple Qi’s power despite expecting to unleash thirty percent.
• Lu Changsheng sent a massive Hongmeng Purple Qi palm strike across the mountains, reducing dozens of ranges to dust and nearly breaking the Fusheng Diagram.
• Ji Qianyao realized the strike had contained multiple powers of rules and asked whether Lu Changsheng had intended to teach her how to use Hongmeng Purple Qi.
• Lu Changsheng accepted Ji Qianyao’s interpretation and praised her comprehension.

Over five months in the Changsheng Realm, Lu Changsheng’s disciples strengthened their cultivation, while Huang Qian began her first Divine Realm lightning tribulation. Ye Qiubai and the others prepared to return to the Chaos Realm, where hidden heirs had reshaped the Cangxuan Ranking and Jiu Bailu had risen to twenty-first place.

• Zong Yun entered the God Emperor Realm, Hao Tian reached the mid God Emperor Realm, Mu Ziqing advanced to the peak God Emperor Realm, and Ji Qianyao mastered five basic Dao Law powers.
• Huang Qian began her first Divine Realm lightning tribulation in the Changsheng Realm, relying on Willow Tree’s power to endure it without defenses.
• Lu Changsheng told Ye Qiubai and the others that Liu Ziru was leading the Dark Domain’s forces in the Chaos Realm, then gave them eighteen new kinds of pills to deliver to him.
• Hong Ying and Ning Chenxin left the Azure Firmament Academy in the care of its teacher and set off for the Chaos Realm with the Mortal Realm’s blessings.
• Hidden heirs from the Cangxuan Continent’s major sects and ancient clans, along with heirs of the four top beast clans, replaced the original top twenty on the Cangxuan Ranking.
• Jiu Bailu rose from forty-sixth to twenty-first on the Cangxuan Ranking after reaching the Demigod Realm, rejected marriage proposals, and received her father the Nine Dragons Emperor’s support.

Liu Ziru briefed Hong Ying and the others on the Six Realms Academy Exchange, then suffered through testing Lu Changsheng’s eighteen new pills. The group reached the Mo Clan, where Jiu Bailu joined Azure Firmament Academy as a substitute and met Mu Fusheng’s senior sisters and Mo Yu.

• Liu Ziru described the strong participants from the Devil Beast Continent, Cangxuan Academy, and Divine Miracle Academy, while Xiao Hei and Shi Sheng revealed Mu Fusheng’s connection to Jiu Bailu.
• Liu Ziru warned that Zuo Xuan intended to pursue Jiu Bailu, and Fang Qiong explained that she would join the competition as a substitute.
• Mu Fusheng gave Liu Ziru Lu Changsheng’s eighteen pills, and Liu Ziru swallowed them all, passed out eighteen times, and wrote his impressions before breaking down in tears.
• Hong Ying, Ning Chenxin, and the others went to the Mo Clan, whose head welcomed them and arranged accommodations.
• Jiu Bailu arrived the next day to see Mu Fusheng, and Hong Ying accepted her as a substitute after she agreed to the arrangement.
• Mo Yu called Jiu Bailu her sister-in-law, and Jiu Bailu urged the group to ask the Mo Clan’s head about the competition.

Ning Chenxin discovered that Cold Soil Village had been destroyed and Shanchuan was dead, then smashed the village’s Buddha statue in fury. He headed toward the Buddhist Sect’s tallest mountain, determined to confront what had caused the massacre despite knowing he was not strong enough.

• The Mo Clan patriarch explained the God Ascension Ruins’ dangers and ranking trial, and Ye Qiubai showed him Mo Xun’s ship, which the patriarch offered to upgrade.
• Ning Chenxin abruptly left the Mo Clan, and Hong Ying and the others decided to wait for news rather than follow him.
• Ning Chenxin reached the Buddhist Sect’s territory and found that its power of faith was tainted with death Qi and an uncanny evil.
• Ning Chenxin found Cold Soil Village in ruins, learned from his shattered jade pendant that Shanchuan had died, and saw Zhu Yan perched on the Buddha statue.
• Ning Chenxin destroyed the Buddha statue with a punch and then resolutely set off toward the Buddhist Sect’s tallest mountain.