Chapter Summaries

Yang Zhen claimed he had cultivated a hundred strands of Heavenly Radiance, enraging Yue Yazi and astonishing the people around him. After Yue Yazi left, he doubled down on his boasts, leaving Yun La convinced the whole Western Region would hear of them.

• Yang Zhen claimed he had cultivated a hundred strands of Heavenly Radiance and said he might have managed two hundred if he had trained his body more.
• Yue Yazi grew furious at Yang Zhen's unbelievable claim, while he and Shameless Cat acted wounded that nobody believed him.
• Yue Yazi pretended to accept Yang Zhen's claim and asked to leave, but Yang Zhen teased her before she stormed off.
• Mo Shuiyan laughed at Yang Zhen, and Yun La warned him that Yue Yazi would spread his claim throughout the Western Region.
• Yang Zhen loudly repeated that he had cultivated a hundred strands and boasted that he would someday have a candlelit dinner with the Third Holy Maiden, prompting Yun La to shut himself away.

Yue Yazi told Luo Chengguang, Wan Jian, and the others that Yang Zhen claimed to have cultivated a hundred strands of Heavenly Radiance, but they dismissed him as a braggart. The Jade Pool Grand Assembly was approaching, and Luo Chengguang planned to prove himself while Wan Jian warned him to focus on the Third Holy Maiden’s assessment.

• Yue Yazi kicked open the room’s door and told Luo Chengguang and the others that Yang Zhen was in the area.
• Yue Yazi revealed that Yang Zhen claimed to have cultivated a hundred strands of Heavenly Radiance, shocking the group.
• Wan Jian broke a table in anger and asked where Yang Zhen was, while Luo Chengguang promised to bring him Yue Yazi’s head as revenge.
• Wan Jian warned Luo Chengguang that Yun La might have a plan and urged him to focus on the Jade Pool Grand Assembly and the Third Holy Maiden.
• Luo Chengguang and Junior Sister Yu mocked Yang Zhen and doubted he could pass the Jade Pool Holy Land’s assessment.
• Yang Zhen sneezed beneath the sun and joked that someone was thinking about him because he was handsome.

Yang Zhen tried to find the entrance to the Seven Yin and Seven Yang, but learned it could only be triggered through a special method held by the Jade Pool Holy Land. A Jade Pool successor gave him a token for the Jade Pool Grand Assembly, which Yun La explained was a deadly contest, leaving Yang Zhen shocked by its rules.

• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat searched for the Seven Yin and Seven Yang and learned it was a phenomenon that required the Jade Pool Holy Land's special method to activate.
• Yang Zhen returned to Shield Emperor City and found cultivators gathering as a Jade Pool Holy Land successor arrived.
• A woman in yellow gave Yang Zhen a jade token and told him it qualified him to enter the Jade Pool Holy Land.
• Yun La explained that the Jade Pool Grand Assembly sent seventy competitors from seven teams into a deathtrap, where the competitor with the most tokens won.
• Yang Zhen compared the Jade Pool Grand Assembly to a winner-winner chicken-dinner tournament.

Yang Zhen learned that the Jade Pool Grand Assembly would send seven teams into the dangerous Falling Eagle Cliff, where participants would compete for tokens while unable to fly. As the teams reached the cliff, Yang Zhen broadcast a taunt daring everyone to meet him at the summit ruins, leaving the Jade Pool Holy Land’s elders alarmed.

• Yun La explained that Falling Eagle Cliff was a lifeless ancient battlefield where cultivators could not fly, and Song Chong realized the Nameless Heart Art could help them go without food.
• Yun La warned Yang Zhen that the other teams included powerful young cultivators, including two Central Court teams with experts who had cultivated eight strands of Heavenly Radiance.
• Song Chong and the others planned how to handle being targeted, while Yang Zhen prepared formation plates, high explosives, and pills instead of joining their discussion.
• Seven flying boats carried the teams toward Eaglefall Cliff as sect leaders watched them through the Heaven-Observing Mirror.
• Yang Zhen broadcast a traffic-safety jingle and challenged the other contestants to jump to the summit ruins, shocking the Jade Pool Holy Land elders.

Yang Zhen provoked the trial participants into jumping into Eaglefall Cliff’s mountaintop ruins, then refused to join them while they rushed ahead. He eventually leaped from his flying boat to farm the jungle and level up, leaving the Jade Pool Holy Land’s observers stunned by his shameless tactics and unexpected flattery of the Third Holy Maiden.

• Yang Zhen challenged the trial participants to jump into the mountaintop ruins, and the Jade Pool Holy Land’s elders watched the flying boats converge there.
• Wan Jian’s group and three other teams jumped into the ruins, putting forty trial participants in the coming melee.
• Yang Zhen stayed aboard his flying boat and told his companions that charging into the crowd would be foolish.
• Yang Zhen explained to Song Chong that surviving to the end mattered more than fighting heroically, then jumped from the flying boat to farm the jungle and level up.
• The woman in yellow wondered whether Yang Zhen knew the Holy Land could hear him, while the Shameless Cat praised his flattery of the Third Holy Maiden.

Yang Zhen skipped the summit ruins and landed at Eaglefall Cliff, where he discovered that the spiritual Qi contained the dangerous Common Qi and used ten strands of Heavenly Radiance to counter it. The Jade Pool Holy Land’s observers were stunned by his power, while the woman in yellow found him interesting.

• Yang Zhen jumped past the summit ruins and landed at Eaglefall Cliff, leaving many contestants who had fought over the ruins searching for him in vain.
• Yang Zhen sensed that the spiritual Qi carried Common Qi that could corrupt cultivators, then released ten strands of Heavenly Radiance to burn it away.
• The observers watching through the Heaven-Observing Mirror praised Yang Zhen for noticing the danger, then gaped when he revealed ten strands of Heavenly Radiance.
• Old Man Chi asked Nanny Hu whether Yang Zhen was an illegitimate child of the Jade Pool Holy Land, and she angrily denied it.
• The white-bearded old man warned that Common Qi might adapt to Yang Zhen’s Heavenly Radiance, while Old Man Chi predicted it would soon overwhelm him.
• The woman in yellow laughed as she watched Yang Zhen and said he was interesting.

Yang Zhen adapted to Common Qi quickly, then left the ruins to search Eaglefall Cliff for treasures. At the Jade Pool Holy Land, the Third Holy Maiden showed Elder Jian and the palace master his ten strands of Heavenly Radiance, and they concluded that he offered hope.

• Yang Zhen countered Common Qi in less than the time it took to drink a cup of tea and headed away from the mountain ruins to hunt for treasures.
• Old Man Chi and the observers realized how quickly Yang Zhen had discovered and countered Common Qi, then suspected his success had been rigged.
• The Third Holy Maiden assured the observers that Yang Zhen had never entered Eaglefall Cliff before and went to the Jade Holy Palace to find Elder Jian.
• The Third Holy Maiden opened the Heaven-Observing Mirror and showed Elder Jian and the palace master Yang Zhen's Heavenly Radiance.
• Elder Jian and the palace master saw ten strands of Heavenly Radiance and agreed that there was hope.

The Jade Holy Palace elders watched Yang Zhen bury formation disks and cultivate in sudden enlightenment while Wan Jian approached him. The Third Holy Maiden urged the others to keep watching, confident from having met Yang Zhen that he would protect himself.

• The Third Holy Maiden objected to Lin Haotian, and Elder Jian suggested that Yang Zhen accompany him while the palace master promised to arrange Yang Zhen's protection.
• Elder Jian and the palace master watched Yang Zhen bury pitch-black objects and saint-grade formation disks, puzzled by his preparations.
• On the Cloud Terrace, the old woman and the elders praised Luo Guangcheng and Yu Qing, while Wan Jian drew attention for killing three Heaven-Favored People and collecting their tokens.
• Wan Jian realized Yang Zhen had tricked him about jumping into the summit ruins, then detected someone hiding behind a boulder.
• Yang Zhen entered sudden enlightenment while cultivating a body-tempering method, and the Third Holy Maiden recognized that Wan Jian was approaching him.
• The Third Holy Maiden stopped Elder Jian and the palace master from warning Yang Zhen, saying she had met him and believed he would not disregard his own life.

Yang Zhen cultivated openly on Eaglefall Cliff and entered enlightenment as Wan Jian approached, leaving Wan Jian wary of a possible trap. Yang Zhen woke and greeted him casually, leaving Wan Jian baffled.

• Observers learned that Yang Zhen had cultivated ten rays of Heavenly Radiance but remained at the Peak of the Spirit Transformation Realm.
• Wan Jian sensed Yang Zhen nearby, summoned his companions, and approached him while the observers predicted Yang Zhen would be killed.
• Wan Jian spotted Yang Zhen sitting motionless in enlightenment and hesitated, suspecting traps or an ambush.
• Yang Zhen opened his eyes, grinned at Wan Jian, and said, "Here you are, bro?"

Yang Zhen revealed Wan Jian’s hidden injuries and illness to prove he knew him thoroughly, then hinted that Wan Jian could survive without finding a Heavenly Transformation Fruit. The chapter left Wan Jian and Elder Geng waiting tensely for Yang Zhen to explain, while Yang Zhen wondered whether the Jade Pool Holy Land had noticed his show of strength.

• Yang Zhen greeted Wan Jian casually and recited his reputation, cultivation, and past deeds, leaving Wan Jian and the observers surprised.
• Yang Zhen revealed Wan Jian’s hidden injury and the poison from a giant scorpion, predicting he would die within three years without a Heavenly Transformation Fruit.
• Elder Geng confirmed Yang Zhen was right and declared that Yang Zhen must not die.
• Wan Jian sat down at Yang Zhen’s request and asked him to continue analyzing his condition.
• Yang Zhen said Wan Jian did not have to die even if he could not find a Heavenly Transformation Fruit, prompting Wan Jian and Elder Geng to stand up in alarm.

The Jade Holy Palace elders realized Yang Zhen might have spotted Wan Jian’s hidden injuries and other secrets himself. After Wan Jian offered to obey Yang Zhen in exchange for a cure and handed him five tokens, Yang Zhen agreed to help and waited behind a rock; when four figures approached, he demanded a toll from them.

• The palace master, Elder Jian, and the Third Holy Maiden concluded that Yang Zhen could identify hidden ailments, recalling that he had noticed Wu Tao’s injury.
• Wan Jian offered to obey Yang Zhen if he could save his life, but Yang Zhen initially sat silently while Wan Jian walked away.
• Wan Jian threw Yang Zhen five tokens, and Yang Zhen told him to wait behind a large rock while he prepared to help.
• When four figures approached, Yang Zhen ordered Wan Jian to stay hidden and demanded that the newcomers leave a toll to pass.

Yang Zhen confronted four people from the Central Court's Grievance-Dissolving Valley and revealed that he had secretly placed something in their Divine Sense spaces. As one disciple attacked him, the bewitching woman struck the disciple down, and the Jade Holy Palace suspected Yang Zhen had affected their minds with Common Qi.

• The bewitching woman asked Yang Zhen who he was, and he answered that he intended to rob them.
• Yang Zhen warned the four that something had appeared in their Divine Sense spaces, and they discovered an undetectable poison they could not remove.
• Yang Zhen sat down and claimed he could kill them with a thought, while the bewitching woman tried to expel the poison.
• A male disciple from the Grievance-Dissolving Valley charged at Yang Zhen, but the bewitching woman knocked him to the ground with a ribbon of light.
• The Third Holy Maiden asked what poison could cause such symptoms, and the Jade Holy Palace's palace master and Elder Jian suspected Common Qi had affected the disciple's mind.

Yang Zhen used Common Qi to make the Grievance-Dissolving Valley disciples believe they had been poisoned, then extorted their tokens before giving them a deliberately absurd cure. He left them with the Nameless Heart Art as the supposed remedy, while the Jade Holy Palace onlookers realized how far his scheme had gone.

• Yang Zhen pretended to remember poisoning a Grievance-Dissolving Valley disciple and let the group believe their fear was making the Common Qi take effect.
• The Jade Holy Palace master and Elder Jian recognized Yang Zhen's trick, while Elder Geng praised him and expected Yue Yazi and the others to arrive soon.
• Yang Zhen negotiated with the enchanting woman and took the tokens from her and the other disciples.
• Yang Zhen claimed the poison was called Smile and Go Mad in Half a Step and said there was no antidote.
• Yang Zhen told the group they could cure it by cultivating the Nameless Heart Art in an extreme yin place, prescribing one woman for a man but two men for a woman.

Yang Zhen helped Wan Jian dispel the strange poison before Le Ying and her companions returned and unleashed their Bone Shadow Bees. When the swarm attacked, Yang Zhen summoned a gigantic bird of fire, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Yang Zhen told Wan Jian to release his Heavenly Radiance and circulate the Nameless Heart Art in a heavenly ring pattern to cure the poison.
• Wan Jian realized Yang Zhen had tricked Le Ying and her companions, but they returned before the two could leave.
• Le Ying summoned a box of Bone Shadow Bees, and Wan Jian charged at her while urging Yang Zhen to run.
• Yang Zhen asked Le Ying if the bees were for sale, and she sent the swarm storming toward him.
• Yang Zhen summoned a gigantic bird of fire behind him, startling everyone as the bees attacked.

Yang Zhen used his Companion Heavenly Fire to hold back the Bone Shadow Bees while the four experts from Grievance-Dissolving Valley attacked. He revealed that he had laid a Heaven-Befuddling Grand Formation across the valley, leaving Le Ying and the others stunned and the Jade Holy Palace observers wondering whether his mastery of formations was his greatest strength.

• Yang Zhen summoned a huge bird of flame that kept the Bone Shadow Bees at bay, and Le Ying recognized it as Companion Heavenly Fire.
• Le Ying ordered the other three Grievance-Dissolving Valley experts to attack Yang Zhen and Wan Jian, while the observers feared the pair would be overwhelmed.
• Wan Jian prepared to fight the four Ninth Heaven Spirit Transformation Realm cultivators, but Yang Zhen dismissed the threat and casually waved his hand.
• Yang Zhen introduced himself to Le Ying as the valley erupted with power from countless formation plates, revealing his Heaven-Befuddling Grand Formation and bringing down the Bone Shadow Bees.
• Le Ying and the palace observers were shocked by the formation, while the Third Holy Maiden suspected Yang Zhen's command of formations was his source of confidence.

Yang Zhen trapped Le Ying and her companions in a heaven-and-earth formation, then emerged calmly brewing tea after stripping them of their storage rings and leaving them unconscious. His display impressed the Jade Holy Palace’s leaders and left Wan Jian wary, as Yang Zhen asked what the Jade Pool Holy Land really wanted them to do.

• Elder Jian recognized Yang Zhen’s formation skill as extraordinary, and the Jade Holy Palace’s palace master said he would favor Yang over Lin Haotian if Yang won the assessment.
• The Third Holy Maiden revealed her confidence in Yang and looked forward to his eventual clash with Lin Haotian.
• Yang Zhen’s formation weakened, and he emerged brewing tea while the crowd wondered what had happened to Le Ying and the others.
• Onlookers saw Le Ying and three companions hanging unconscious from trees, stripped of their storage rings, and argued over Yang Zhen’s treatment of them.
• Wan Jian approached Yang Zhen uneasily and asked how he had done it, but Yang Zhen instead asked what the Jade Pool Holy Land wanted them to do.

Yang Zhen learned from Wan Jian that Eaglefall Cliff’s trial led to another place, which he called a hidden dungeon, and decided to leave his safe formation to find it. After criticizing the weak foundations of High Antiquity legacy disciples, he promised to prove that basic knowledge was the foundation.

• Yang Zhen questioned what the Jade Pool Holy Land expected Heaven-Favored People to do, while observers admitted that the Eaglefall Cliff trial had no consistent explanation.
• Wan Jian told Yang Zhen a rumor that collecting more tokens made it likelier to enter another place where the real trial began.
• Yang Zhen called the place a dungeon and asked whether Wan Jian would stay or search for Yue Yazi and the others.
• Yang Zhen decided to leave his formation and seek the hidden dungeon, startling the observers who feared he would be vulnerable outside it.
• Yang Zhen told Wan Jian that High Antiquity legacy disciples had weak foundations and struggled to learn from experience, then promised to demonstrate the importance of basic knowledge.

Yang Zhen combined three foundational arts to locate Mount Sumeru in Eaglefall Cliff, astonishing the Jade Holy Palace and its elders. After they sent for the Holy Lord, Yang Zhen decided to leave his formation behind and search for the place he had found.

• Yang Zhen combined the Essence Condensation Technique, Essence Discrimination Instruction, and Earth Vein Technique to reveal Mount Sumeru’s location on a changing terrain map.
• Elder Jian and the palace master of the Jade Holy Palace marveled that Yang Zhen had found Mount Sumeru without the Sumeru Seal, and the palace master ordered the Holy Lord to be informed.
• The old woman and the people on the Cloud Terrace reacted to Yang Zhen’s discovery, while Old Man Chi’s group vowed to master their foundational arts.
• Wan Jian asked how Yang Zhen had done it, and Yang Zhen told him that his grasp of foundational arts was shallow.
• Yang Zhen drank Wan Jian’s tea and announced that they should leave to search for Mount Sumeru, surprising Wan Jian because Yang Zhen planned to abandon his formation disks.

Yang Zhen left the Heaven and Earth Grand Array, while the Jade Pool Holy Land’s leaders discussed his talent and whether to support him. In the Sacred Hall, Lin Haotian expressed interest in testing Yang Zhen as the leaders watched him on the Heaven-Observing Mirror.

• Yang Zhen walked away from the Heaven and Earth Grand Array, leaving four unconscious members of Grievance-Dissolving Valley hanging from a tree.
• Elder Jian praised Yang Zhen and said he might take him as a disciple, while the Jade Holy Palace master warned that Yang Zhen was destined to clash with Lin Haotian.
• The Jade Holy Palace master, Elder Jian, and the Third Holy Maiden went to the Sacred Hall after learning that Senior Yue and Lin Haotian were there.
• The group joined the Holy Lord and Senior Yue in the Sacred Hall, where the Holy Lord asked whether Yang Zhen had found a way to locate Mount Sumeru.
• Lin Haotian said he wanted to test Yang Zhen himself, prompting Elder Jian to mutter that he was becoming increasingly conceited.

Lin Haotian secured permission to enter Mount Sumeru and challenge Yang Zhen, threatening the Third Holy Maiden’s plan to use Yang Zhen to activate the Heavenly Star Stele. The chapter ended with Lin Haotian setting out with the Sumeru Seal while the others watched him through the Heaven-Observing Mirror.

• Yue Qian doubted that Yang Zhen could accomplish the task tied to Mount Sumeru, and Lin Haotian requested permission to enter Eaglefall Cliff and test himself against Yang Zhen.
• The Third Holy Maiden supported Lin Haotian’s request, and he declared that their contest would be a fight to the death.
• The Third Holy Maiden feared Lin Haotian would kill Yang Zhen and disrupt her plan to use him to activate the Heavenly Star Stele and save herself and the Jade Pool Holy Land.
• The Holy Lord of Jade Pool gave Lin Haotian the Sumeru Seal, and Lin Haotian left for Mount Sumeru after telling the Third Holy Maiden he would await her there.
• The Third Holy Maiden and the others watched the Heaven-Observing Mirror as Yang Zhen and Wan Jian continued searching for Mount Sumeru, then the Holy Lord of Jade Pool shifted its view to Lin Haotian at Eaglefall Cliff.