Chapter Summaries

Ye Tianming followed Little Pagoda’s advice and traveled to the Milky Way Sect, while Nanling Zhao persuaded her father to help him enter a province despite the dangers facing their clan. Nanling Xun agreed to visit the Central Divine Province, and Nanling Zhao rushed off with him.

• Little Pagoda directed Ye Tianming to seek out the Milky Way Sect, and Ye Tianming persuaded Huo Yan to send him there through the teleportation array.
• Nanling Xun told Nanling Zhao that her support for Ye Tianming had angered the clan and could draw the Nanling Clan into a conflict with powerful privileged factions.
• Nanling Zhao argued that refusing to help Ye Tianming was unfair, while Nanling Xun warned that the wider academy corruption implicated too many influential people.
• Nanling Zhao asked her father to use the clan’s connections to get Ye Tianming into a province, and Nanling Xun agreed to visit the Central Divine Province.
• Nanling Zhao urged Nanling Xun to leave immediately, and he went with her.

Ye Tianming learned the Sword Control Technique from Little Pagoda and traveled through the starry sky to the Milky Way Sect. Little Pagoda asked to meet the sect’s founder, Yang Lianshuang, but Qin Lian refused, and Ye Tianming fled with Little Pagoda before a fight broke out.

• Ye Tianming learned the Sword Control Technique and practiced flying through the starry sky on his sword.
• Little Pagoda claimed that the founder of the Milky Way Sect had once received his guidance, and Ye Tianming traveled to the sect.
• Ye Tianming used Nanling Zhao’s Inspector’s Seal to gain an audience with Qin Lian.
• Little Pagoda demanded that Qin Lian summon Yang Lianshuang, but Qin Lian dismissed him and threatened Ye Tianming.
• Ye Tianming hugged Little Pagoda and left the hall while Little Pagoda angrily urged him to fight.

Ye Tianming reached the Central Divine Province with Nanling Zhao and learned why it had fallen into decline, while Nanling Xun secured him a place at its struggling Guanxuan Academy. Nanling Zhao left him there with a parting gift, and she told her father she planned to unite powerful young allies against the Xiao Family and other lawless factions.

• Ye Tianming and Little Pagoda left the Milky Way Sect after failing to meet its founder, and Nanling Zhao contacted Ye Tianming through the Inspector's Seal and brought him to the Central Divine Province.
• Nanling Zhao explained that the province became known as Sin Province after the Heavenly Dragon Clan was punished and its ancestral land was abandoned.
• Nanling Xun persuaded Song Shi to accept Ye Tianming at Guanxuan Academy by offering one million spirit crystals, and Song Shi agreed.
• Nanling Xun advised Ye Tianming to cultivate his strength, while Nanling Zhao returned the Inspector's Seal and gave him a storage ring before leaving with her father.
• Nanling Xun explained his duties as clan leader and father to Nanling Zhao, who said she would unite young people from prominent backgrounds to oppose the Xiao Family and lawless clans and sects.

Ye Tianming joined the struggling academy and met his mentor, Mu Guanchen, who discovered a flaw in Ye Tianming’s self-created cultivation technique. After Song Shi explained Ye Tianming’s dangerous situation, Mu Guanchen chose to keep and teach him despite the academy’s lack of resources.

• Song Shi warned Ye Tianming to stay inside the academy unless accompanied and sent him to meet his mentor, while Ye Tianming declared he aimed to win first place in the Myriad Provinces Grand Competition.
• Mu Guanchen welcomed Ye Tianming, shared a meal with him, and arranged a makeshift bed in his book-filled hall.
• Ye Tianming cultivated and told Mu Guanchen that he had created his own technique; Mu Guanchen warned that it failed to filter impurities from Spiritual Qi and urged him to devise a filter.
• Mu Guanchen told Song Shi that Ye Tianming was extraordinary, and Song Shi explained that Ye Tianming had passed through the Guanxuan Dao and was targeted by the Xiao Family and Qingzhou Guanxuan Academy.
• Mu Guanchen agreed to teach Ye Tianming despite the academy’s lack of resources, and he and Song Shi discussed Nanling Zhao’s defiance and the danger she faced.

Ye Tianming refined his cultivation, learned from Mu Guanchen about injustice and the Dao, and studied how to summon a Future True Body. His attempt brought a plain-skirted woman from his future into the present, and she destroyed the Guanxuan Universe’s Heavenly Dao.

• Ye Tianming created a cultivation method that filtered sixty percent of Spiritual Qi’s impurities and advanced to the Major Tribulation Realm.
• Mu Guanchen taught Ye Tianming to read, warned him against impatience, and explained why injustice persisted and why resisting it was justified.
• Mu Guanchen taught Ye Tianming to condense a Dharma Aspect, and Ye Tianming proposed borrowing strength from his future self.
• Ye Tianming studied the Book of Time, then used the Future Method and the Sword of Upholding the Dao to enter his future timeline.
• Ye Tianming encountered a plain-skirted woman in his future timeline and woke to find her Future True Body above him.
• The Guanxuan Universe’s Heavenly Dao appeared to punish Ye Tianming, but the plain-skirted woman destroyed it with a single command.

Yang Jia awakened the Mad Demon Bloodline and learned that the Heavenly Dao had collapsed, while Ye Tianming recovered from a mysterious cultivation incident and began training under Mu Guanchen. The chapter ended with Mu Guanchen modifying an Emperor Grade cultivation technique in moments as Song Shi sought ways to fund Ye Tianming’s care.

• Yang Jia absorbed blood and killing intent, awakened the Mad Demon Bloodline, advanced several realms, and revealed that he intended to surpass his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather.
• An elder told Yang Jia that the Heavenly Dao had collapsed, and Yang Jia dismissed the danger as insignificant before absolute strength.
• Mu Guanchen spent his ancestral seal to obtain an Emperor Grade pill for the unconscious Ye Tianming, who later woke without remembering what had happened.
• Ye Tianming recovered, demonstrated a powerful stacked sword strike, and learned from Mu Guanchen how much his resources and strength lagged behind those of elite clans.
• Mu Guanchen advised Ye Tianming to draw on the power of the earth veins, then asked Song Shi to obtain paid martial-technique modification tasks to fund food and medicine.
• Mu Guanchen quickly improved an Emperor Grade cultivation technique with a few changes, leaving Song Shi astonished.

Mu Guanchen arranged costly supplies for Ye Tianming and reflected on equality, while Ye Tianming learned to absorb the earth’s power. After examining Ye Tianming’s sword and speaking with Little Pagoda, Mu Guanchen affirmed that he cared for Ye Tianming as his student regardless of his identity.

• Mu Guanchen asked Song Shi to buy pills, demon beast materials, and Divine Marrow Spirit Liquid for Ye Tianming, and Song Shi proposed taking him on a dangerous archaeological expedition to gain combat experience.
• Mu Guanchen returned to his hall, struggled to write, and quietly said, “Equality...”
• Ye Tianming absorbed the earth’s power, tested it with a punch that shattered the ground, and decided to reserve the Sword of Upholding the Dao for critical moments.
• Mu Guanchen invited Ye Tianming to eat and asked to examine the Sword of Upholding the Dao, then requested a private conversation with Little Pagoda.
• Mu Guanchen recognized that the sword contained a Dao beyond his understanding, but said that neither the sword nor Ye Tianming’s identity would change his view of him as a student.

Ye Tianming discovered how to mobilize the power of the earth veins directly, but overexerted his mental strength and collapsed after destroying a mountain. After waking, he shared his completed cultivation technique with Song Shi for his family, hoping it could help his eldest brother despite his shattered dantian.

• Ye Tianming realized his technique could mobilize earth-vein power without using his body and leveled a distant mountain before collapsing from the strain on his mental strength.
• Mu Guanchen carried Ye Tianming back, then told Song Shi to watch over the Ye Family because the Xiao Family and Qingzhou Guanxuan Academy remained a threat.
• Ye Tianming woke and gave Song Shi his cultivation technique to pass to his eldest brother and Ye Zong, explaining that he wanted them to cultivate it first to avoid drawing calamity upon the clan.
• Little Pagoda realized Ye Tianming had developed the technique so his eldest brother could cultivate despite his shattered dantian.

Ye Nan received Ye Tianming’s unusual cultivation method and learned he might cultivate without a dantian, then became the Daoist-robed bookseller’s ninth disciple. Song Shi rejected the Xiao Family’s attempt to have Ye Tianming expelled and declared that his academy would protect him.

• Ye Nan endured painful body-cultivation training, and Li E treated his injured skin with spirit wood liquid.
• Song Shi delivered Ye Tianming’s cultivation method, reassured Ye Nan about Tianming, and promised to take responsibility for his safety.
• After reading the scroll, Ye Nan realized he could use its method as the foundation for a cultivation technique suited to himself and asked Li E to fetch Ye Zong.
• The Daoist-robed bookseller appeared, accepted Ye Nan as his ninth disciple, and remarked that only Yang Ye in the Yang Family could fight him.
• Li E found Ye Zong training and muttering to someone unseen, then pawned her remaining jewelry to send Ye Tianming more money.
• Xiao Quan asked Song Shi to expel Ye Tianming, but Song Shi slapped him twice, warned the Xiao Family not to target his academy, and took his storage ring.

Xiao Quan returned to report Song Shi’s protection of Ye Tianming, while An Xiao’s branch rejoined the ancestral An Clan and An Qi reflected on her separation from Ye Tianming. At the academy, Ye Tianming learned to form a mental web and control nine earth-vein swords, then saw a silver-haired woman arrive and head toward the main hall.

• Xiao Quan suspected Ye Tianming had gained new value and left to report Song Shi’s actions to the Xiao Clan.
• An Xiao led his branch through the ancestral rites and returned them to the Martial God Family’s An Clan because of An Yan’s standing in the White Robe Pavilion.
• An Xiao told An Qi that Ye Tianming was only at the Major Tribulation Realm, and An Qi said their worlds had diverged sooner than she expected.
• Ye Tianming practiced manipulating earth-vein power, and Little Pagoda taught him a method for perceiving and condensing mental power.
• Ye Tianming formed a mental web, used it to control earth-vein power, and wielded nine earth-vein swords with his mental power and the Sword Control Technique.
• A silver-haired woman entered the academy, ignored Ye Tianming, and walked toward the main hall.

Ye Tianming welcomed Fu Zang as a new academy student and saw her destroy a hall to claim a place to sleep. Later, Mu Guanchen prepared Ye Tianming for painful body tempering with heavenly lightning and urged him to accept kindness while keeping hope in the world.

• Mu Guanchen gave Ye Tianming king-tier demonic beast meat, whose nourishing energy filled him with strength.
• Song Shi introduced Fu Zang as a new student, and she declared Ye Tianming could either be her junior brother or take one punch from her.
• Fu Zang smashed Ye Tianming’s hall, gave him two thousand spirit crystals, and claimed the neighboring hall as her own.
• Song Shi told Mu Guanchen that Fu Zang had appeared unexpectedly and might be seeking a place in the Myriad Provinces Grand Competition.
• Mu Guanchen gave Ye Tianming an Extreme Attainment Pill and Divine Flint Spirit Liquid for body tempering with heavenly lightning, then told him to accept kindness and keep hope in the world.

Ye Tianming strengthened his body by absorbing second-level heavenly lightning with the help of Divine Flint Spirit Liquid, then shared a meal and wine with Mu Guanchen. Mu Guanchen urged him to hold on to his conscience and ideals, and named his own ideal before passing out drunk.

• Ye Tianming endured the Divine Flint Spirit Liquid’s painful effects, swallowed the Great Tribulation Pill, and absorbed hours of second-level heavenly lightning.
• Ye Tianming’s Glazed Body became a Vajra Glazed Body, and Mu Guanchen gave him five demonic beast inner cores to help stabilize it.
• Mu Guanchen told Ye Tianming to prepare for an upcoming actual-combat outing led by the academy master.
• Ye Tianming brought dinner to Fu Zang, who paid him a thousand spirit crystals, then ate with Mu Guanchen.
• Ye Tianming worried about Nanling Zhao and spoke with Mu Guanchen about injustice, human nature, and the danger of becoming an evil dragon.
• Mu Guanchen told Ye Tianming never to abandon his conscience or ideals, declared his ideal was for everyone under heaven to be like dragons, and then collapsed after drinking.

Ye Tianming practiced controlling earth-vein power and told Little Pagoda he wanted to establish his own cultivation system. After Song Shi summoned him for a trip, Ye Tianming discovered that Fu Zang would join them and watched her tear through space with a single burst.

• Ye Tianming practiced the Sword Control Technique with earth-vein power, destroying a boulder and opening a deep fissure while learning to control multiple swords.
• Ye Tianming told Little Pagoda that he wanted to master earth-vein power and forge his own cultivation system, and Little Pagoda encouraged him to pursue the idea.
• Song Shi told Ye Tianming to leave with him the next morning, and Mu Guanchen confirmed the plan when Ye Tianming returned to their room.
• Ye Tianming met Song Shi and Fu Zang at the mountain gate and was surprised that his senior sister was joining them.
• Fu Zang tore through space with a burst of speed, leaving Ye Tianming stunned by her strength.

Song Shi sent Ye Tianming and Fu Zang into the Transcendent Dao Field to prepare them for the Myriad Provinces Grand Competition, warning Ye Tianming to survive. After entering the dangerous ruin, Ye Tianming encountered a flamboyant young man traveling in a sedan chair.

• Song Shi paid for discounted teleportation to the Transcendent Dao Field and dismissed a suggestion that the Immortal Treasure Pavilion should inform the Xiao Family about Ye Tianming.
• Song Shi explained that Ye Tianming and Fu Zang would enter the beginner region, assigned Fu Zang to obtain a dragon vein, and told Ye Tianming to come back alive.
• Ye Tianming gave Song Shi his spirit crystals for his eldest brother, Ye Nan, then entered the secret realm with Fu Zang.
• Fu Zang crushed a Divine Being Realm demonic beast with one stomp, while Ye Tianming traveled through the forest and discussed survival and taking treasures with Little Pagoda.
• A brocade-robed man arrived in a sedan chair carried by four women after a dead Immortal Realm demonic beast crashed near Ye Tianming, then asked whether Ye Tianming had come to temper himself.

Ye Tianming took the demonic beast gifted to him by a powerful stranger and pressed deeper into the forest, where he survived another encounter before meeting a seemingly injured fellow student. He saw through her disguise and learned that Xiao Xue of the Xiao Family had come to kill him, just as she summoned her Dharma Aspect.

• The man on the sedan chair gave Ye Tianming his Dharma Aspect Realm demonic beast, and Ye Tianming salvaged its valuable parts before continuing onward.
• Ye Tianming unleashed his full earth-vein technique when an unknown demonic beast charged him, frightening it into fleeing, then rested before moving deeper into the forest.
• Ye Tianming encountered a wary woman in a red dress who claimed to be gravely injured and warned him about a powerful beast's territory.
• The woman introduced herself as Zhou Xue of Northern Prefecture Guanxuan Academy, and Ye Tianming agreed to take her somewhere safe.
• Ye Tianming struck at Zhou Xue when he realized she was pretending to be injured, then accused her of being sent by the Xiao Family to kill him.
• Zhou Xue admitted she was Xiao Xue of the Xiao Family and summoned a gigantic Dharma Aspect.

Ye Tianming defeated Xiao Xue by unleashing earthly vein power against her Dharma Aspect, then took her spirit crystals and pills. After recovering, he realized the Xiao Family’s Immortal Realm experts were the real trial ahead and considered forming his own Dharma Aspect from earthly vein power, but a sudden arrival interrupted him.

• Ye Tianming overwhelmed Xiao Xue’s Dharma Aspect with successive torrents of earthly vein power, then killed her with a sword of earth and a punch.
• Ye Tianming took Xiao Xue’s storage ring, found more than thirty-six thousand spirit crystals and several bottles of pills, and used a spirit-nourishing pill to recover.
• Ye Tianming buried Xiao Xue’s body to hide the evidence and continued onward, recognizing that the Xiao Family’s experts posed the true threat in the secret realm.
• Ye Tianming assessed his strength and wondered whether he could use earthly vein power to form a Dharma Aspect, but lacked the necessary cultivation method.
• A figure burst from a collapsing forest, crashed into a crater before Ye Tianming, and he recognized the person.

Ye Tianming rescued the injured Mu Yong from an Immortal Realm demonic beast, but the two ended up trapped among ruins while the beast watched them. As they rested and exchanged stories, Mu Yong asked about Ye Tianming’s mother, and Little Pagoda began to answer.

• Ye Tianming carried the wounded Mu Yong away from the pursuing demonic beast and fought it with earth-vein power before escaping with him.
• The beast stopped at the edge of the ruins, leaving Ye Tianming and Mu Yong puzzled about why they could not safely go farther.
• Ye Tianming shared half a Blood-Healing Pill with Mu Yong, who introduced himself and said his storage ring had been stolen.
• Ye Tianming told Mu Yong that his Tower Ancestor had taught Great Emperors and that he had created the Heavenly Mandate Art himself.
• After reading the art, Mu Yong asked Ye Tianming for his mother’s name, and Little Pagoda began to answer.

Ye Tianming studied Mu Yong’s Dao Star Art and used its method of condensing a Dharma Aspect with the power of the earth veins. He badly wounded the pursuing Immortal Realm demon beast, but exhausted his mental strength, and Mu Yong’s taunt prompted the beast to charge at them.

• Mu Yong taught Ye Tianming the Dao Star Art, explaining that it required costly Star Core Crystals and could condense a Star Dharma Aspect.
• Ye Tianming adapted the art’s Dharma Aspect method to the power of the earth veins and formed a two-hundred-zhang Earth Dharma Aspect.
• Ye Tianming struck the demon beast with the Earth Dharma Aspect, splitting its skull and damaging its body, then collapsed from mental exhaustion.
• Mu Yong carried Ye Tianming behind the rocks while Ye Tianming swallowed pills to recover.
• The demon beast demanded that Ye Tianming come out, and Mu Yong taunted it into charging toward them.

Ye Tianming and Mu Yong were transported to the Transcendent Sacred Hall, where its dying guardian offered them the Transcendent Civilization’s inheritance if they survived. He announced the inheritance to the entire Transcendent Holy Land and released a Civilization Ancestral Artifact, leaving the two men facing an unknown danger.

• Ye Tianming and Mu Yong fled from the demonic beast, but a passage opened beneath them and a force pulled them underground.
• Ye Tianming and Mu Yong found themselves in the Transcendent Sacred Hall, where Mu Yong recognized it as the core region of the Transcendent Civilization.
• Mu Yong tried to persuade the silent old man to grant them an inheritance, then attempted to flee when Ye Tianming raised the possibility of possession.
• The old man questioned Mu Yong about the Myriad Stars Civilization and offered Ye Tianming a task in exchange for the Transcendent Civilization’s inheritance.
• Ye Tianming and Mu Yong accepted the task, and the old man released a Civilization Ancestral Artifact and announced their inheritance to the entire Transcendent Holy Land.
• The old man told Ye Tianming and Mu Yong to survive if they wanted the inheritance.

Ye Tianming staged an apparent betrayal of Mu Yong to draw the pursuing experts away, allowing Mu Yong to claim the Transcendent Civilization’s inheritance and escape. Outside the secret realm, rumors branded Ye Tianming a backstabber, while An Qi lost her remaining sympathy for him.

• Ye Tianming led Mu Yong to the hall entrance, where countless experts converged, and said one of them had to be sacrificed.
• Ye Tianming struck Mu Yong and publicly claimed the inheritance, drawing the experts into pursuit while Mu Yong went to collect it.
• The old man gave Mu Yong a crimson-gold seal and nineteen storage rings, and Mu Yong left the secret realm safely.
• Onlookers spread the story that Ye Tianming had betrayed Mu Yong, and Mu Yong hurried toward arriving reinforcements from the Myriad Stars Civilization.
• An Qi heard the rumors, decided Ye Tianming might have changed for the inheritance, and felt her guilt over their breakup disappear.