Chapter Summaries

Mu Yong returned with the Transcendent Civilization’s inheritance, but Mu Geng refused to rescue Ye Tianming to avoid antagonizing powerful factions. Mu Qingmiao promised to protect Ye Tianming while sending Mu Yong to seek the Star Ancestor, and she questioned whether the inheritance and destiny truly favored the people everyone expected.

• Mu Yong presented Mu Geng and the Myriad Stars Civilization’s elders with the inheritance and begged them to rescue Ye Tianming, who had sacrificed himself to help him obtain it.
• Mu Geng refused, warning that rescuing Ye Tianming would make the civilization enemies of powerful families and sects; after Mu Yong denounced him, Mu Geng struck him and restrained him when he tried to leave.
• Mu Qingmiao told Mu Yong to seek the Star Ancestor in the True World and said she would do her best to protect Ye Tianming.
• After Mu Yong left, Mu Qingmiao told her Second Uncle that the Transcendent Civilization had likely chosen Ye Tianming, not Mu Yong, and that its inheritance given to Mu Yong might not be genuine.
• Mu Qingmiao warned that betraying Ye Tianming could bring terrible consequences if he rose to power, then questioned whether destiny had truly chosen Yang Jia.

Mu Qingmiao concluded that Ye Tianming was not truly a member of the Ye Family and sent Second Uncle to Qingzhou to investigate. In the Transcendent Holy Land ruins, Ye Tianming defeated Gu Qi, who had lowered his realm, and Gu Qi accepted Ye Tianming’s offer to fight again in the future.

• Mu Qingmiao reasoned that the Nanling Clan and the Central Divine Province academy master had helped Ye Tianming because he had value, then sent Second Uncle to Qingzhou to investigate his identity.
• Ye Tianming was surrounded in the Transcendent Holy Land ruins, where Gu Qi challenged him and a man in brocade insisted the inheritance should belong to everyone.
• Gu Qi lowered his realm to the Major Tribulation Realm and attacked Ye Tianming, who unleashed earth-vein power and defeated him.
• Ye Tianming said Gu Qi had lost because he underestimated him and proposed a fair rematch when he reached the Divine Being Realm.
• Gu Qi accepted the explanation, introduced himself as being from the Other Shore Civilization, and suggested they get acquainted.

Ye Tianming presented Little Pagoda as the Transcendent Civilization’s legacy and claimed it could withstand any Dao or technique. After the gathered cultivators failed to damage or seal it, they accepted that it was extraordinary, and Little Pagoda asked Ye Tianming not to let it be humiliated like that again.

• Ye Tianming offered Zhou Yun Little Pagoda in exchange for a chance to live, then claimed it was the Transcendent Primordial Chaos Pagoda.
• When a man challenged him to prove the pagoda’s identity, Ye Tianming told him to call him Dad and invited everyone to test it.
• A young man struck Little Pagoda with repeated bolts of divine lightning, but it remained unharmed.
• Other cultivators attacked Little Pagoda with a flaming python, a cleaver, and a sealing formation, but none could damage or capture it.
• The gathered cultivators concluded that Little Pagoda was extraordinary, and Ye Tianming took it back into his arms.
• Little Pagoda asked Ye Tianming not to let others humiliate it like that again.

Ye Tianming persuaded the gathered factions to form an alliance and develop Little Pagoda together, but Xiao Lin arrived and threatened to settle the Xiao Family’s score with him. Ye Tianming and Li Zheng turned the confrontation toward the Xiao Family, and the crowd rallied behind Li Zheng.

• Ye Tianming proposed that the crowd establish the Transcendent Civilization Development Alliance, with him overseeing Little Pagoda and shares based on each faction’s contributions.
• Gu Qi and Zhou Yun supported the proposal, and the assembled factions agreed to cooperate in developing Little Pagoda.
• Xiao Lin arrived with Xiao Family members, accused Ye Tianming of killing Xiao Xue, and moved to attack him; Gu Qi challenged Xiao Lin on behalf of the Other Shore Civilization.
• Ye Tianming pretended to fear the Xiao Family and offered Little Pagoda to them, prompting Li Zheng to reclaim it and reveal that he belonged to a second-tier family.
• Li Zheng agreed to support Ye Tianming after he promised to share special items from the Transcendent Civilization, then called on the crowd to oppose the Xiao Family; many people rallied behind him.

Ye Tianming secured protection from Li Zheng and the others, then learned the Transcendent Civilization's true inheritance had been entrusted to Mu Yong. The old man revealed that Ye Tianming was the civilization's chosen inheritor and rewarded him and his allies.

• Li Zheng and Gu Qi stopped Xiao Lin from attacking Ye Tianming, and Xiao Lin withdrew after realizing the crowd was against his family.
• Ye Tianming asked the gathered clans to meet him at Guanxuan Academy in the Central Divine Province, then led Li Zheng and Gu Qi back to the hall.
• Xiao Lin learned Ye Tianming's combat strength could rival an Immortal Realm expert and ordered his family to eliminate him.
• The old man revealed that Ye Tianming had drawn the crowd away so Mu Yong could take the Transcendent Civilization's inheritance, and confirmed Ye Tianming did not possess it.
• After the old man gave Ye Tianming a storage ring, Ye Tianming offered it to Li Zheng, who returned it after revealing it contained the true inheritance.
• The old man declared Ye Tianming the Transcendent Civilization's inheritor and gave storage rings to Li Zheng and Gu Qi in thanks for helping him.

Ye Tianming followed Huai Shu to the Transcendent Civilization’s ancestral hall, where he learned why they had chosen him and promised to repay their help. The civilization’s founding ancestor awakened and questioned whether the civilization itself was worthy of Ye Tianming.

• Li Zheng invited Gu Qi to join the United Fellowship, and Gu Qi accepted.
• Huai Shu led Ye Tianming through a teleportation array to the Transcendent Civilization’s enormous ancestral hall and described its decline from a supreme civilization.
• Ye Tianming asked why he had been chosen, and Huai Shu said his poor background was part of the reason while praising his sincerity.
• Huai Shu awakened the founding ancestor’s statue, and she took the Sword of Upholding the Dao from Ye Tianming.
• When Huai Shu defended Ye Tianming’s worthiness, the ancestor clarified that she was asking whether the Transcendent Civilization was worthy of him.

Ye Tianming received the Transcendent Divine Seal and the Transcendent Sacred Hall from the Transcendent Civilization’s ancestor, who charged him with preserving the civilization and finding a close relative to inherit its legacy. After three days of training, he greatly strengthened his spiritual power and divine soul and discovered that his earth-vein Dharma Aspect could wield sword techniques.

• The Transcendent Civilization’s ancestor gave Ye Tianming the Transcendent Divine Seal and Transcendent Sacred Hall, though she said he was not suited to inherit the civilization’s legacy.
• Ye Tianming promised to keep the Transcendent Civilization alive and find a true inheritor among his closest kin; the ancestor rewarded the locust tree and warned him that asking about Ye Tianming would get him killed.
• Suspecting the Xiao Family was waiting outside to attack him, Ye Tianming flew to a secluded cave and began cultivating with the Transcendent Divine Seal.
• After accidentally turning up the Transcendent Dao Fire too high, Ye Tianming let the seal regulate it and spent three days tempering his spiritual power and divine soul.
• Ye Tianming formed a towering earth-vein Dharma Aspect and made it conjure a sword, then watched it wield sword techniques and crack spacetime.

Ye Tianming tested drawing earth vein power from the air, killed Xiao Lin and the Xiao Family disciples, and reflected on the need for restraint before fleeing toward Guanxuan Academy. At the academy’s foot, a Xiao Family swordsman confronted him and threatened to kill him before Song Shi and his teacher.

• Ye Tianming drew earth vein power from underground while airborne, then used a massive Earth Dharma Aspect to crush Xiao Lin and the Xiao Family disciples who confronted him.
• Ye Tianming discussed confidence, restraint, and his Dao with Little Pagoda, then asked about his mother and heard that she was gentle.
• Ye Tianming collected the fallen disciples’ storage rings, found over ninety thousand Spirit Crystals, and decided to return to Guanxuan Academy before the Xiao Family could pursue him.
• Ye Tianming disguised himself, used a teleportation array to reach the Central Divine Province, and traveled by mountain paths to Guanxuan Academy.
• A black-robed Xiao Family swordsman stopped Ye Tianming at the foot of the academy and said his family planned to kill him in front of Song Shi and his teacher.

Ye Tianming fought off a black-robed Xiao Family attacker by drawing on earth vein power, but Xiao Bei arrived and challenged him with a vastly stronger Dharma Aspect. As Xiao Qun and Song Shi watched from inside the academy, Xiao Bei unleashed a time-powered attack and vowed to kill Ye Tianming with one finger.

• Ye Tianming clashed with the black-robed man, who wounded him and said Song Shi could not come to his aid.
• Ye Tianming enlarged his Dharma Aspect with earth vein power and sent the black-robed man flying, but a stone thrown by Xiao Bei shattered the earth sword aimed at the attacker.
• Xiao Bei arrived and formed a three-thousand-zhang Dharma Aspect, revealing himself as a sixteen-year-old Time Immortal from the Guanxuan Realm Main Academy.
• Inside the academy, Xiao Qun warned Song Shi that the Xiao Family would destroy Ye Tianming and his backing force, while Song Shi stood his ground.
• Xiao Bei gathered time power into his Dharma Aspect and declared that he would kill Ye Tianming with one finger before bringing the finger down.

Ye Tianming endured Xiao Bei’s attack despite being six realms weaker, then gathered earth-vein power to prepare a Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Technique. The chapter ended as his Earth Dharma Aspect drew its sword and slashed at Xiao Bei.

• Ye Tianming summoned the Transcendent Divine Seal and used earth-vein power to make his Dharma Aspect collide with Xiao Bei’s giant finger, leaving both fighters injured.
• Xiao Qun suspected that someone powerful was backing Ye Tianming, while Song Shi challenged Xiao Qun to attack him.
• Xiao Bei decided Ye Tianming had to die before he could grow stronger and began rebuilding his Time Dharma Aspect with the power of time.
• Ye Tianming gathered earth-vein power into a giant sword and scabbard, then ordered his Dharma Aspect to unleash the Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Technique.