Chapter Summaries

After Su Xiuyi was condemned for releasing the Heavenly Fox Saintess, Wang Lin sacrificed both arms and offered a demon king’s head to spare his life. Sent to the cursed Literary Saint Courtyard, Su Xiuyi awakened an Invincible Sign-In System and swallowed a pill that could restore his ruined Dao foundation.

• Officials demanded Su Xiuyi’s execution, but Wang Lin gave up both arms and presented a demon king’s head to plead for his disciple.
• The Great Zhou emperor spared Su Xiuyi’s life, stripped him of his top scholar rank, and confined him to the Literary Saint Courtyard for life.
• Su Xiuyi regained consciousness outside the courtyard, realized he had transmigrated into the condemned scholar’s body, and learned the courtyard’s curse had killed powerful figures before him.
• The Invincible Sign-In System activated and rewarded Su Xiuyi with a Heaven-Mending Pill capable of healing his injuries and reforging his Dao foundation.
• Su Xiuyi entered the Literary Saint Courtyard willingly and swallowed the pill.

Su Xiuyi repaired his crippled body, broke through to the Thousand Jun Realm, and used a sign-in reward to defeat a cursed venomous snake in the Literary Saint Courtyard. At dawn, someone outside the courtyard called to ask whether he was still alive.

• Su Xiuyi used the Heaven-Mending Pill to restore his body and open thirteen acupoints, reaching the Thousand Jun Realm.
• A cursed Thousand Jun Realm venomous snake approached Su Xiuyi as the new day allowed him to sign in.
• Su Xiuyi signed in behind the Literary Saint Courtyard’s main gate and obtained the Will Character "Slow."
• Su Xiuyi slowed the snake’s attacks, dodged them, and killed it with the Gentleman's Sword.
• Su Xiuyi survived the night in the courtyard, and a nervous voice outside asked whether he was still alive.

After being imprisoned in the cursed Literary Saint Courtyard, Su Xiuyi discovered that the curse there strengthened his Will Characters instead of killing him. He continued cultivating and signing in, gaining the Clean Will Character and making the courtyard spotless.

• Su Xiuyi taunted Shen Dong, who had crippled his cultivation and branded him a traitor, and learned Shen Dong had taken his Top Scholar Literary Rank.
• Tiezhu delivered Su Xiuyi his favorite foods and reassured him that he was not afraid of the cursed courtyard.
• Su Xiuyi signed in before a poisonous rat and received the Curse Will Character, which let him absorb the power leaking through the courtyard.
• Su Xiuyi cultivated with the curse's power, strengthening his Will Characters and realizing the courtyard was a treasure ground for him.
• Su Xiuyi signed in again and received the Clean Will Character, using it to clean himself and the great hall.

Su Xiuyi cultivated inside the Myriad Text Academy, gained the Three Sabers of the Avici Dao and more will texts, and reached the Skysoar realm over three years. While he was forgotten by the academy, Zhan Wushuang became famous and chose Ji Wuming as his hundredth opponent.

• Su Xiuyi told Tiezhu to visit less often and asked him to spend time with Wang Lin, then resumed cultivating in the great hall.
• Su Xiuyi checked in at Yin Jiuge’s tomb and obtained the Three Sabers of the Avici Dao, a saber technique that required essence blood to cultivate.
• Su Xiuyi checked in at the altar for worshipping heaven and received ten drops of Mountain-Breaking Bull essence blood.
• Over three years, Su Xiuyi repeatedly checked in, opened more than sixty acupoints, obtained several will texts, and reached the Skysoar realm.
• Tiezhu visited less often, while Su Xiuyi and Wang Lin faded from the academy’s attention.
• Zhan Wushuang defeated ninety-nine prodigies and chose Ji Wuming as his final opponent before entering the Sky Traversing realm.

Three years after Su Xiuyi was imprisoned in the Myriad Text Academy, the Southern Heaven Academy tournament exposed the Literary Court’s decline and Shen Dong’s influence. Su Xiuyi gained the Pupil of Void Breaking, saw Tiezhu win one bout before being eliminated, and learned that Shen Dong was favored to defeat Ji Wuming in the final.

• Wang Lin and Tiezhu discussed the Literary Court’s dwindling disciples, and Wang Lin urged Tiezhu not to push himself.
• Su Xiuyi signed in before the remains of an Ancient Race member and obtained the Pupil of Void Breaking, which let him see across a vast area.
• Su Xiuyi watched the tournament and saw Tiezhu defeat his first opponent through a desperate attack.
• Su Xiuyi spotted Shen Dong’s tampering with Tiezhu’s next match, and Tiezhu was eliminated, ending the Literary Court’s run.
• The next day, Tiezhu told Su Xiuyi that Shen Dong was heavily favored to beat Ji Wuming in the final.

Su Xiuyi encouraged Tiezhu to pursue martial cultivation and gave him a character that helped him comprehend the Will Character "Martial." At Southern Heaven Academy, Shen Dong defeated Ji Wuming with the Great River Sword, while Su Xiuyi watched and judged that Shen Dong’s strongest attack still posed no threat to him.

• Su Xiuyi told Tiezhu to focus on martial cultivation and wrote the character "Martial" on a piece of rubble for him.
• Tiezhu comprehended the Will Character "Martial" overnight, and Wang Lin learned that Su Xiuyi had guided him.
• Shen Dong and Ji Wuming faced off at Southern Heaven Academy before a crowd of disciples and senior figures.
• Ji Wuming attacked with the complete set of Will Characters "Wind Forest Fire Mountain," but Shen Dong struck him off the arena with the Great River Sword.
• The academy’s senior figures recognized that Shen Dong had learned the Great River Sword from the Great Zhou Martial Repository.
• Su Xiuyi watched through his Pupil of Void Breaking and concluded that Shen Dong’s attack, empowered by seven Will Characters, was still unimpressive compared with his own strength.

Zhan Wushuang arrived at Southern Heaven Academy after winning ninety-nine consecutive challenges and demanded to fight Ji Wuming. When Ji Zhan explained that Wuming was in seclusion, Zhan Wushuang challenged Shen Dong instead and asked the academy’s disciples to fight while he waited.

• Zhan Wushuang and his Blazing Flame Berserk Lion arrived at Southern Heaven Academy and announced his visit with an amplified Will Character.
• Ji Zhan and the academy elders learned that Wuming was in seclusion after gaining insight from his defeat by Shen Dong.
• Ji Zhan welcomed Zhan Wushuang, who refused to rest and confirmed that he had come to challenge Wuming.
• When Ji Zhan explained Wuming’s absence, Zhan Wushuang challenged Shen Dong and accused him of being a false top scorer who might avoid the fight.
• Ji Zhan sent an institute head to summon Shen Dong, while Zhan Wushuang asked the academy’s disciples to offer him pointers as he waited.

Zhan Wushuang challenged the Southern Heaven Academy’s disciples, expecting Shen Dong to appear after they wore him down, but his mount defeated the academy’s fighters with ease. Ji Wuming finally stepped forward to face him while Shen Dong continued watching from the sidelines.

• Chen Feng challenged Zhan Wushuang, but the Blazing Flame Berserk Lion defeated him in one blow.
• Zhan Wushuang mocked the Southern Heaven Academy, and more disciples were gravely injured or defeated by the lion.
• Zhan Wushuang demanded that Shen Dong come out and fight, angering the academy’s leaders and disciples.
• Ji Wuming appeared with his spear and accepted the challenge, while Su Xiuyi noticed Shen Dong still watching from the sidelines.

Zhan Wushuang challenged Ji Wuming after humiliating Southern Heaven Academy, while Shen Dong's teacher used the academy's disgrace to undermine Ji Zhan. Zhan Wushuang dominated their opening exchanges, and Ji Wuming unleashed his strongest technique, Nine Layers of the Vast Sea, to fight back.

• Zhan Wushuang scorned Southern Heaven Academy, and Ji Wuming arrived to find its students disgraced by the Blazing Flame Berserk Lion.
• Shen Dong's teacher accused Ji Wuming of avoiding Zhan Wushuang's challenge and mocked Ji Zhan, turning the onlookers against them.
• Zhan Wushuang ignored Shen Dong's teacher, took the field himself, and suppressed his cultivation to match Ji Wuming's initial Soaring Sky Ninth Level.
• Ji Wuming attacked with spear intent, but Zhan Wushuang shattered his spear strikes with his battle intent and powerful fists.
• After Zhan Wushuang called him weak, Ji Wuming unleashed Nine Layers of the Vast Sea, summoning nine dragon-like spear shadows.

Zhan Wushuang defeated Ji Wuming and Shen Dong at the Southern Heaven Academy, then used Shen Dong’s rescue by Wang Lin as an excuse to challenge Wang Lin. Su Xiuyi watched from the Myriad Text Academy and flew into a rage when Zhan Wushuang attacked his mentor.

• Zhan Wushuang knocked Ji Wuming into the academy steps and mocked the Southern Heaven Academy before challenging Shen Dong.
• Shen Dong arrived and attacked Zhan Wushuang with Great River Surges to the Heavens, but Zhan Wushuang endured the strike and drove him to the ground with God-Slaying Single-Saber Slash.
• Zhan Wushuang pursued the defeated Shen Dong, so Wang Lin swept him back with one sleeve and intervened to save the top scholar.
• Zhan Wushuang accused the Southern Heaven Academy of having no shame and challenged Wang Lin, then attacked him with Snow Drifts Over the Mortal World.
• Su Xiuyi flew into a rage as he watched Zhan Wushuang attack Wang Lin from the Myriad Text Academy.

Wang Lin unleashed his sealed cultivation after Zhan Wushuang gravely injured Tiezhu, forcing Zhan Wushuang to retreat before Ji Zhan stopped Wang Lin from pursuing him. Angered by the attack on the people who had cared for him, Su Xiuyi created a clone and escaped Myriad Text Academy by transforming into water and then earth.

• Zhan Wushuang struck at Wang Lin, but Shen Dong's teacher blocked Ji Zhan from intervening as Wang Lin's injuries made him cough blood.
• Tiezhu charged Zhan Wushuang to protect Wang Lin, and Zhan Wushuang's saber Qi shattered Tiezhu's muscles and bones.
• Wang Lin unsealed his cultivation and frightened Zhan Wushuang into retreating, but Ji Zhan stopped him from killing Zhan Wushuang to protect Southern Heaven Academy.
• Su Xiuyi became enraged over Wang Lin and Tiezhu's injuries and used Demonic Shadow Clone to leave a duplicate behind.
• Su Xiuyi transformed his true body into water, slipped past the guards, and later changed into earth to disappear.

Su Xiuyi ambushed Zhan Wushuang after he fled the Southern Heaven Academy, killed his Blazing Flame Berserk Lion, and demanded that Zhan cut off both his arms. Zhan refused and attacked, breaking through toward Cloudbreach as Su Xiuyi calmly faced him.

• Su Xiuyi used the Earth Transformation Divine Art to leave the Southern Heaven Academy, then caught up with Zhan Wushuang and his Blazing Flame Berserk Lion in the sky.
• Zhan Wushuang recalled Wang Lin's strength and mocked the Southern Heaven Academy as Su Xiuyi blocked their path.
• Su Xiuyi teleported to the Blazing Flame Berserk Lion and killed it with one strike, then sealed the space around Zhan Wushuang.
• Su Xiuyi demanded that Zhan Wushuang cut off both his arms, but Zhan refused and charged at him with his God-Slaying Single-Saber Slash.
• Zhan Wushuang manifested nine Will Characters, activated his bloodline power, and began breaking through to Cloudbreach while Su Xiuyi remained calm.

Su Xiuyi used Will Characters to stop Zhan Wushuang's attack, then overwhelmed him in a fight. After forcing Zhan Wushuang to sever his own arms, Su Xiuyi left and quietly returned to the Myriad Text Academy.

• Su Xiuyi used the Will Characters "Endure" and "Still" to weaken Zhan Wushuang's attack and immobilize him.
• Su Xiuyi shattered Zhan Wushuang's saber and knocked him into a crater, allowing Zhan Wushuang to break through to the Cloud Soaring Realm.
• Su Xiuyi struck Zhan Wushuang with a punch that broke his protective Gang Qi and severely injured him.
• Su Xiuyi ordered Zhan Wushuang to sever his arms or die, and Zhan Wushuang complied.
• Su Xiuyi left for the Myriad Text Academy, while Zhan Wushuang fled after him.

Su Xiuyi secretly used Divine Phoenix essence blood to heal Tiezhu, while Wang Lin learned that an unknown benefactor had saved him. News then spread across the Great Zhou Kingdom that a Southern Heaven Academy disciple had defeated Zhan Wushuang and severed both his arms.

• Wang Lin begged Yun Ze to save Tiezhu, and Yun Ze gave him a Spirit-Fortifying Pill; after Wang Lin left, Ning Xionglin warned Yun Ze about his earlier instructions.
• Su Xiuyi discovered Ning Xionglin's involvement, left a clone behind, and secretly entered the Literary Court to treat Tiezhu.
• Su Xiuyi protected Tiezhu's heart meridian and fed him Divine Phoenix essence blood, causing his body to burn before his vitality reforged his sinews and bones.
• Wang Lin returned, found Tiezhu healed, and recognized the lingering life force of the Divine Phoenix Race, but chose not to investigate who had helped him.
• News spread that Zhan Wushuang had lost both arms to a younger, mysterious disciple of the Southern Heaven Academy, bringing the academy back to the attention of powerful figures across the Great Zhou Kingdom.

After Meng Zhige confirmed that a Southern Heaven Academy disciple had defeated Zhan Wushuang, he offered to take the hidden genius as his final disciple. Su Xiuyi remained at the Myriad Text Academy, while Ji Zhan vowed to protect the academy’s mysterious talent and Shen Dong seethed with resentment.

• Ji Zhan convened an emergency meeting and feared that the Battle Sect would punish the Southern Heaven Academy for Zhan Wushuang’s defeat.
• Ji Wuming suggested Su Xiuyi might not be the academy’s only hidden genius, but Ji Zhan initially rejected the possibility.
• Meng Zhige traced the fight’s lingering presence, confirmed a Southern Heaven Academy disciple had defeated Zhan Wushuang, and searched the academy without finding him.
• Meng Zhige announced that the Battle Sect would not blame the victor and offered to take him as his final disciple, criticizing the academy for failing to protect Su Xiuyi.
• Su Xiuyi heard Meng Zhige’s offer but chose to remain at the Myriad Text Academy, while Ji Zhan vowed to protect the hidden disciple.
• Shen Dong and Ning Xionglin grew gloomy, and Shen Dong resented that another mysterious disciple had eclipsed him after his schemes against Su Xiuyi.

After Tiezhu recovered, Su Xiuyi continued cultivating inside the Myriad Text Academy and signed in at the ruins of an ancient battle. He obtained the Corpse-Nurturing Great Technique and a ten-thousand-year-old corpse, which he discovered had reached the Sun and Moon Realm.

• Shen Dong and Ning Xionglin ordered a search for the hidden disciple who had saved Tiezhu, while Wang Lin secretly took the recovered Tiezhu away to conceal the divine phoenix blood essence.
• Months later, Tiezhu returned to deliver food and told Su Xiuyi that a Southern Heaven Academy genius had defeated Zhan Wushuang, prompting the imperial family to lift the academy’s ban from the palace examination.
• Su Xiuyi reached the peak of Mountainsea and cautiously entered the ruins of the ancient battle, where terrifying rule power stopped him before he could venture far.
• Su Xiuyi signed in at the site where a Corpse Clan expert had fallen and received the Corpse-Nurturing Great Technique along with a bronze coffin containing a ten-thousand-year-old corpse.
• Su Xiuyi opened the coffin and found that the ancient corpse had reached the Sun and Moon Realm and might eventually develop intelligence.

Su Xiuyi nurtured the ancient corpse for five years while Tiezhu prepared for the palace examination, but Tiezhu worried over Wang Lin’s worsening injuries. With most academy experts away at the examination, seven Mountainsea demons invaded the Southern Heaven Academy to kill Wang Lin, who faced them in the Literary Court.

• Su Xiuyi used the Corpse-Nurturing Great Technique on the ancient corpse and spent five years cultivating as the corpse gained flesh.
• Tiezhu told Su Xiuyi he planned to skip the palace examination because Wang Lin’s injuries were worsening, but Su Xiuyi urged him to go.
• A Sunmoon great demon sent seven Mountainsea demons to Southern Heaven City to avenge their slain demon king by killing Wang Lin.
• The seven demons entered the city disguised as humans, and Lang Qi’s informant reported that only three Mountainsea cultivators remained at the Southern Heaven Academy.
• Lang Qi killed the informant, then led the demons into the Literary Court, where they confronted Wang Lin and announced their revenge.

Wang Lin fought seven Mountain and Sea Realm demons at the Southern Heaven Academy, but his strongest attacks failed and he was left near death. Su Xiuyi arrived as the demons prepared to kill Wang Lin and unleashed a terrifying saber strike.

• Lang Qi and six demons attacked Wang Lin, who burned his essence blood to unleash a powerful sword stroke.
• The demons blocked Wang Lin's strike with a Demon God Shield while the three academy elders were held back and overwhelmed.
• Wang Lin tried to unleash another sword stroke, but his injuries made him spit blood, and the demons knocked him down.
• As Lang Qi and the demons moved to kill Wang Lin, Su Xiuyi appeared behind him with a black saber.
• Su Xiuyi used the Will Characters "Still!" and "Halt!" against the demons, then began a saber strike called Avici Dao.

Su Xiuyi unleashed his Avici Dao Saber Technique against seven Mountain and Sea Realm demons, shattering their divine shield and killing four of them. He pursued the surviving demons, and Lang Qi sacrificed his two companions and begged Su Xiuyi to spare him.

• Su Xiuyi’s blood-red saber Qi overwhelmed the seven demons, forcing them to activate their divine shield while the three Southern Heaven Academy elders retreated.
• The saber Qi shattered the shield, killed four demons, and drove Lang Qi and the other survivors to flee.
• Su Xiuyi used Emperor Treads the Nine Heavens to appear above the three surviving demons and block their escape.
• Lang Qi offered peace and himself as Su Xiuyi’s mount, then killed his two remaining companions to improve his chances of survival.

Su Xiuyi killed Lang Qi despite the demon’s offer to become his mount, but Wang Lin died from his exhausted vitality after warning Su Xiuyi to beware the Great Zhou Emperor. Su Xiuyi returned to Myriad Text Academy as the Silver Wolf Clan was destroyed, while the emperor’s restrained punishment of those responsible left him suspicious of a hidden truth.

• Su Xiuyi rejected Lang Qi’s offer and killed him, wiping out all seven Mountainsea great demons.
• Su Xiuyi found that Wang Lin could not be saved, and Wang Lin died after warning him to beware the Great Zhou Emperor.
• Su Xiuyi escaped to Myriad Text Academy as the city lord and other experts arrived and learned of Wang Lin’s death.
• The city lord vowed to destroy the Silver Wolf Clan, while an old man probed Myriad Text Academy and found Su Xiuyi still alive.
• Great Zhou forces slaughtered the Silver Wolf Clan, and the Great Zhou Emperor banished three academy elders and the city lord to guard the frontier for a hundred years.
• Su Xiuyi questioned why the emperor had spared the officials and wondered whether Wang Lin’s death concealed a deeper truth.