Recaps

Ning Chuan comprehended the Wind Shadow Dharma Aspect during his climb up Storm Mountain, then faced a more difficult assessment ordered by Galaxy University president Wei Chen. He reached the summit with the Phantom Mystic Truth at 66% progress, leaving Zi Yun'er and Wang Ke astonished that he had gained such mastery through enlightenment.

• Ning Chuan used a Shadow Clone to block Qin Ya's wind blade, revealing that he possessed both the Wind Shadow Dharma Aspect and the Wisdom King Dharma Form.
• Wei Chen told Qin Ya to increase the assessment's difficulty because Ning Chuan's enlightenment had not ended, and she sent pursuing wind blades after him.
• Ning Chuan's speed and number of Shadow Clones increased as his enlightenment continued, until he formed more than thirty clones and approached the sound barrier.
• Qin Ya stopped the wind blades, and Ning Chuan reached the summit as his enlightenment ended; his system showed 66% progress in both Three Thousand Wind Shadows and the Wind Shadow Dharma Aspect.
• Wang Ke asked where Ning Chuan's Wind Shadow Dharma Aspect had come from, and he said he had just comprehended it through enlightenment, leaving her and Zi Yun'er stunned.

Ning Chuan accepted Heavenly King Wei Chen’s offer to become Galaxy University’s World Walker, choosing the perilous path toward the King Realm. His appointment stirred the university, while Wu Guangzhi encouraged Wu Hanhai to compete against Ning Chuan for the teaching assistant position.

• Qin Ya offered to take Ning Chuan as her disciple, but Heavenly King Wei Chen appeared and proposed that Ning Chuan become Galaxy University’s World Walker.
• Zi Yun'er and Wang Ke explained the World Walker’s status, privileges, and deadly path to the King Realm, while Wei Chen clarified that Ning Chuan would receive no special treatment on campus.
• Ning Chuan chose to become World Walker and declared that he would ascend to the King Realm.
• Wei Chen announced Ning Chuan’s appointment across campus, prompting varied reactions from students and instructors, including disappointment from Hua Gangyi, Zhou Yang, and Tang Qianjun.
• Wu Hanhai worried that Ning Chuan’s appointment would prevent him from taking the teaching assistant position, but Wu Guangzhi told him to compete fairly and urged him to claim it.

Ning Chuan learned that Qin Ya's distance stemmed from her father's disastrous fate as the previous World Walker, while his own appointment disrupted the freshmen's mentor selection. He continued his training, chose courses to address his weaknesses, and greeted the first day of classes with Song Shiyu and Shi Feng.

• Wang Ke told Ning Chuan that Qin Ya's father, the Thunderfire Divine General, had lost self-awareness after a failed breakthrough and that Qin Ya had offered marriage and her assets to anyone who could save him.
• Ning Chuan's appointment as the World Walker dampened the mentors' interest in other disciples, and the Mentor Selection Conference ended with unusually small gifts for the freshmen.
• Ning Chuan repaired twenty percent of the Eight Wonders Saber imprint and realized that strengthening his thirty-seven Divine Weapons would exhaust his Sharpness Qi supplies in less than ten days.
• Ning Chuan browsed courses to improve his theoretical knowledge, including Force manipulation, Force Apertures, and sciences needed for creating martial arts.
• Song Shiyu and Shi Feng visited Ning Chuan before their first class in suits and watches, and Ning Chuan joked that a truly mature man wore a bathrobe and a locker wristband instead.

Ning Chuan accepted Song Shiyu and Shi Feng as followers after they swore loyalty and pledged to support his path to becoming a Heavenly King. The three headed to their first class, where they saw Wind Blood Divine General Qin Ya preparing to teach Force Manipulation Theory.

• Ning Chuan, Song Shiyu, and Shi Feng left the Stargazing Tower and drew attention from students who discussed their competition rankings and new masters.
• Song Shiyu asked whether Ning Chuan planned to take followers, and he and Shi Feng explained that they had carefully chosen to follow him.
• Song Shiyu and Shi Feng swore martial oaths of loyalty to Ning Chuan in the teaching building corridor.
• Ning Chuan accepted them, helped them to their feet, and told them to keep addressing him by his name.
• Ning Chuan, Song Shiyu, and Shi Feng entered a packed lecture hall for Force Manipulation Theory, taught by Qin Ya.

Ning Chuan attended a week of classes at Galaxy University and rapidly filled gaps in his theoretical knowledge while continuing to cultivate. During a lecture on mental power, he learned that prehistoric ruins held incomplete cultivation methods and decided to visit the Ancient Martial Arts Research Institute on Saturday.

• Qin Ya taught Force manipulation and challenged Ning Chuan to match the previous World Walker’s control before the semester ended; Ning Chuan agreed.
• Ning Chuan attended packed classes and cultivated each night, using his strong memory and learning ability to make rapid progress.
• Yang Wanli explained that mental power came from the soul and that existing prehistoric cultivation methods remained incomplete.
• Ning Chuan considered whether his perfected mental power martial arts could repair themselves and planned to visit the Ancient Martial Arts Research Institute the next day.

Ning Chuan met with Di Shanjie to discuss selling twenty thousand credits and learned how market timing or a black-market credit company could raise their value. He and Song Shiyu decided to investigate setting up a company but wait until Wu Hanhai and the other targets took the bait.

• Ning Chuan and Song Shiyu met Di Shanjie and Wang Ke to discuss offers for Ning Chuan’s twenty thousand credits.
• Di Shanjie said dealers offered up to twenty-five million yuan per credit for a limited amount and explained that major auctions could push prices higher.
• Di Shanjie proposed selling credits directly to students through a black-market company, but warned that it would require school protection and five thousand credits in bribes.
• Song Shiyu privately asked Ning Chuan whether they should establish a credit company, and Ning Chuan agreed they should explore it but wait until Wu Hanhai and the others took the bait.
• Ning Chuan told Song Shiyu to research the company’s requirements discreetly and quickly.

Ning Chuan visited the Ancient Martial Arts Research Institute to learn how restored martial arts earned rewards and credits, then discovered Xie Lian had restricted him to restoring the Eight Wonders Saber. As he considered appealing to the committee, someone shouted reproachfully from the entrance.

• Ning Chuan asked the reception staff about the process and rewards for restoring martial seals.
• The staff explained the one-time rewards and ongoing martial seal credits researchers earned when others inherited their restored arts.
• Ning Chuan realized the Eight Wonders Saber could bring him substantial credits and imagined building a profitable martial arts ecosystem.
• Ning Chuan learned that Xie Lian had labeled him technically unskilled, preventing him from restoring other martial arts without permission.
• Ning Chuan considered appealing to the committee, but a reproachful shout suddenly came from the entrance.

Ning Chuan wagered his assistant instructor position against Xie Lian’s claim that the Eight Wonders Saber could not be restored. The detector confirmed the martial seal was 100% complete, leaving Xie Lian’s bet unresolved.

• Xie Lian and Wu Hanhai accused Ning Chuan of abandoning the Eight Wonders Saber too soon, but Ning Chuan said he had restored its martial seal.
• Xie Lian bet that he would kneel and apologize if Ning Chuan had restored it, while Ning Chuan agreed to give up his assistant instructor position if he had not.
• Xie Lian took Ning Chuan to the assessment room, where a crowd gathered to watch the test.
• Ning Chuan placed the Eight Wonders Saber martial seal in the detector, which declared its completeness to be 100%.

After Ning Chuan repaired the crippled Eight Wonders Saber, Xie Lian challenged the result and tried to avoid kneeling by claiming Ning Chuan had used a complete martial seal. Qin Ya defended Ning Chuan’s status as the World Walker, and Xie Lian offered a new bet and ten thousand credits, but Ning Chuan said he did not need the money.

• The monitor confirmed that Ning Chuan had repaired the Eight Wonders Saber, shocking the researchers and leaving Xie Lian terrified of paying his bet.
• Xie Lian claimed Ning Chuan must have possessed another complete Eight Wonders Saber martial seal, but Ning Chuan asked him for evidence.
• Qin Ya threatened to kill Xie Lian for publicly accusing the World Walker without proof, while Tang Qianjun secretly offered Ning Chuan twenty Firmament martial arts.
• Xie Lian proposed a martial-art repair contest to cancel his obligation to kneel and offered Ning Chuan ten thousand credits regardless of the outcome.
• Ning Chuan told Xie Lian that he was not short of credits.

Ning Chuan negotiated with Xie Lian over their repair competition and secured the promise of a High Star Tier martial art inheritance alongside thirty thousand credits if he won. The competition began in the martial seal warehouse, where Ning Chuan chose to repair a spear technique.

• Xie Lian raised his offer to thirty thousand credits, but Ning Chuan still refused to compete without better terms.
• Tang Qianjun told Ning Chuan that Xie Lian had an unused inheritance slot for a High Star Tier martial art and urged him to demand it.
• Xie Lian agreed to put up the inheritance and thirty thousand credits, but said Ning Chuan could claim both only if he won.
• Xie Lian set the competition rules: they would each repair a Thick Earth-grade martial art with no more than twenty percent missing, under judges' supervision.
• Ning Chuan and Xie Lian went to the martial seal warehouse, where Ning Chuan chose a fast, fierce spear technique.

Ning Chuan chose Nine Blood Dragon Spears for his wager against Xie Lian and restored it during the inheritance session. When the competition rules were announced, he stunned the gathered researchers by claiming he had already completed the martial art.

• Ning Chuan selected Nine Blood Dragon Spears after learning it contained the Slaughter Mystic Truth, while Xie Lian chose Rock Wave Shield.
• Ning Chuan inherited Nine Blood Dragon Spears and used insights from his other martial arts to restore it and raise it to the Perfect Realm.
• News of the wager spread across campus, where most students and researchers expected Xie Lian to win.
• After Ning Chuan and Xie Lian returned from the transmission rooms, the referees set a half-month competition period and required monitors to prevent cheating.
• Ning Chuan said he had no use for a monitor and announced that he had already completed Nine Blood Dragon Spears.

Ning Chuan proved he had completed the Nine Blood Dragon Spears, forcing Xie Lian to honor their bet in public. As the crowd recognized Ning Chuan's talent, Wu Hanhai challenged him for the teaching assistant position, offering 100,000 credits if he lost.

• Ning Chuan tested the Nine Blood Dragon Spears martial seal, and the detector confirmed it was 100% complete.
• Xie Lian pretended to faint, but Tang Qianjun struck him with lightning and exposed the act.
• Ning Chuan refused to let Xie Lian escape the bet, so Xie Lian knelt, kowtowed, apologized, and promised to transfer 30,000 credits and a Stars martial art inheritance.
• Tang Qianjun promised Ning Chuan another forty Divine Weapons, while Qin Ya suggested that an epiphany had let him complete the martial arts.
• Wu Hanhai challenged Ning Chuan for the teaching assistant position and offered 100,000 credits if he lost.

Ning Chuan accepted Wu Hanhai’s challenge after Wu invoked the World Walker’s reputation, though Ning Chuan had been trying to keep other students interested in wagering for the teaching assistant position. They scheduled the fight for three days later, leaving Ning Chuan time to prepare his plans.

• Wu Hanhai challenged Ning Chuan and offered to wager 100,000 credits, while onlookers judged Wu Hanhai the stronger fighter.
• Ning Chuan initially refused, wary that accepting too quickly would discourage other students from wagering on the teaching assistant position.
• Wu Hanhai invoked Ning Chuan’s World Walker status and compared him to Qin Lang, who had accepted challenges from Heroes Ranking geniuses.
• Ning Chuan accepted the challenge to protect the World Walkers’ renown, then rejected Wu Hanhai’s demand to fight immediately.
• Ning Chuan and Wu Hanhai agreed to fight at eight on Tuesday evening, three days later, as the crowd anticipated Ning Chuan’s likely defeat.

After wagering a fight with Wu Hanhai, Ning Chuan accompanied Tang Qianjun to the school's hidden Stars Treasury to receive a Stars martial art inheritance. The chapter ended with Tang Qianjun explaining that the two elders guarding the treasury could jointly hold off a Heavenly King.

• Wu Hanhai signed a contract with Ning Chuan for their fight, and Qin Ya offered Ning Chuan her help if he faced difficulties at the academy.
• Ning Chuan asked Tang Qianjun to take him to receive a Stars martial art inheritance, and Tang Qianjun obtained the matching half of a hidden key from Zhou Yang.
• Tang Qianjun used the completed key to reveal the Stars Treasury's shifting entrance beside a campus lake and led Ning Chuan inside.
• Elders Li and Nie examined Ning Chuan at the gateway, and Elder Li recognized that Ning Chuan had mastered the Ultimate Weapon Art.
• Tang Qianjun guided Ning Chuan through the gateway and explained that the two elders could hold off a Heavenly King if they fought together.

Ning Chuan received the Eight Heavenly Gates inheritance, a support martial art that could multiply his physical abilities and Force. His existing insights rapidly advanced his cultivation to the eighth heavenly gate, which he had nearly mastered.

• Tang Qianjun brought Ning Chuan into a restricted room in the Stars Treasury and showed him the High Star Tier Eight Heavenly Gates martial seal.
• Tang Qianjun explained that the art could open eight gates, each strengthening the body and Force, and described the Heavenly God Descends to the Mortal World Dharma Aspect.
• Tang Qianjun warned Ning Chuan that opening too many gates could damage his body, even if he had comprehended them.
• Ning Chuan received the Eight Heavenly Gates inheritance from the martial seal.
• The system absorbed insights from Ning Chuan's Ancient Dragon Elephant Scripture and Vajra Body, advancing him to the eighth heavenly gate at 88% progress.

Ning Chuan learned the rewards for inscribing a new Eight Heavenly Gates martial seal and decided to cultivate the art to completion. Back at his apartment, he opened the first four gates and found that they greatly boosted his strength without damaging his body.

• Tang Qianjun told Ning Chuan that the Eight Heavenly Gates martial seal was close to exhaustion and explained the merits and free martial arts awarded for inscribing a new seal.
• Ning Chuan decided to complete the Eight Heavenly Gates by seeking an epiphany from the academy's instructors.
• Ning Chuan left the Stars Treasury with Tang Qianjun, then contacted Song Shiyu and Shi Feng about meeting at his apartment.
• Ning Chuan opened the first heavenly gate and confirmed that it increased his strength by fifty percent with negligible physical strain.
• Ning Chuan opened four heavenly gates at once, doubling his strength, and found that the strain caused no damage to his body.

Ning Chuan opened all eight heavenly gates to test their strain, injuring himself before his Force ran out. Song Shiyu and Shi Feng planned to use his battered appearance to lure students who wanted the teaching assistant position, and Han Chen arrived as their first major prospect.

• Ning Chuan opened all eight heavenly gates and found their amplification fell just short of fourfold while the accumulated strain injured his body.
• Ning Chuan's Force ran out before his injuries noticeably affected his movements, leaving him pale, sweaty, and weakened.
• Song Shiyu and Shi Feng visited, and Ning Chuan assured them his injuries would heal overnight and would not affect his fight with Wu Hanhai.
• Song Shiyu proposed secretly photographing Ning Chuan's injured appearance to attract students coveting the teaching assistant position, and Ning Chuan agreed.
• Han Chen, a sixth-year student ranked 769th on the Heroes Ranking, arrived, and Ning Chuan opened the door while appearing pale and weak.

Han Chen challenged Ning Chuan for the teaching assistant position, hoping to keep Wu Hanhai from claiming it. Ning Chuan agreed only if Han Chen staked 30,000 credits, and Han Chen accepted.

• Han Chen visited Ning Chuan and proposed a fight with the teaching assistant position at stake.
• Ning Chuan revealed he had already agreed to fight Wu Hanhai, but Han Chen explained that multiple challengers could compete for the position.
• Song Shiyu and Shi Feng privately recognized that Han Chen was following the plan Ning Chuan had devised to attract challengers.
• Ning Chuan demanded 100,000 credits from Han Chen, then lowered the stake to 30,000 when Han Chen refused.
• Ning Chuan warned that challengers would be placed in order and that he would fight only two matches each week.
• Han Chen agreed to stake 30,000 credits on the fight.

Ning Chuan arranged a series of challenge matches while revealing that he had mastered all eight heavenly gates and planned to launch a black-market business. By night, he had signed 32 contracts worth a total of 1.06 million credits, leaving him eager to spend the fortune on Sharpness Qi for his Divine Weapons.

• Han Chen warned Ning Chuan that challenge matches allowed only treasures a student owned outright, then left after signing their contract.
• Ning Chuan told Song Shiyu and Shi Feng that he had reached the Gate of the Heavenly God realm of the Eight Heavenly Gates and could open all eight gates.
• Ning Chuan assigned Song Shiyu to smooth the way for their black-market company and Shi Feng to find a location and recruit employees.
• Jia Tianzong visited after buying challenge-line information from Han Chen, and Ning Chuan scheduled him for the Tuesday after next for 30,000 credits.
• Students arrived throughout the day and signed 32 challenge contracts with Ning Chuan, bringing the total value to 1.06 million credits.

An online argument over Ning Chuan’s injuries and chances against Wu Hanhai erupted into a feud between freshmen and upperclassmen. Several top freshmen challenged Heroes Ranking students, but Ji Hao, Xiao Fenghua, and Hong Yan were swiftly defeated, leaving Zi Yun’er’s match against Wu Hanhai next.

• Anonymous photos showed Ning Chuan injured while arranging fights for credits and the teaching assistant position, sparking debate on the Fenghua Forum.
• Ning Chuan’s fans clashed with other students over whether he could defeat Wu Hanhai and other Heroes Ranking experts.
• Ji Hao challenged Ye Juncai, and Xiao Fenghua and Hong Yan followed with challenges that Ye Juncai accepted.
• Zi Yun’er challenged Wu Hanhai, who accepted, and students rushed to Yuying Training Ground to watch the fights.
• Ning Chuan watched the broadcast from his apartment as Ye Juncai defeated Ji Hao, Hong Yan, and Xiao Fenghua in one move each.

Ning Chuan faced Wu Hanhai in their highly anticipated battle, after Wu Hanhai had demonstrated his strength by breaking Zi Yun'er's Dharma Aspect. Ning Chuan stopped Wu Hanhai's opening Falling Star Staff with the Destruction Heavenly Art, leaving the crowded audience stunned and Wu Hanhai reassessing Ning Chuan's rapid progress.

• Wu Hanhai shattered Zi Yun'er's Wings of the Cold Blade with one Falling Star Staff strike, breaking her arms and shocking the freshmen.
• After several days of rain, Galaxy University gave students and instructors a holiday for Ning Chuan and Wu Hanhai's September 27 match.
• More than a million spectators overwhelmed the Soaring Dragon Auditorium, so the university moved the fight to an open-air square in the commercial district.
• Wu Hanhai opened the match by attacking Ning Chuan with Falling Star Staff, a technique that had previously broken Zi Yun'er's Dharma Aspect.
• Ning Chuan summoned the Destruction Heavenly Art's Golden Blazing Sun, which swallowed Wu Hanhai's Force staff without being damaged.
• Wu Hanhai sensed Ning Chuan's Force had grown far denser in two weeks and wondered how quickly he had improved.

Ning Chuan fought Wu Hanhai, using his Golden Blazing Sun and Wisdom King Dharma Form against Wu Hanhai’s Demonic Ape Seven Kills Art and Dharma Aspect. Ning Chuan’s Wisdom King Dharma Form repelled Wu Hanhai’s decisive attack, leaving the match’s outcome poised in Ning Chuan’s favor.

• Wu Hanhai unleashed the Demonic Ape Seven Kills Art, and Ning Chuan used Airspace Lockdown and the Golden Blazing Sun to meet it.
• The Golden Blazing Sun exploded after engulfing the black Demonic Ape, but Wu Hanhai’s remaining Force hand struck at Ning Chuan.
• Ning Chuan summoned the Wisdom King Dharma Form, which shattered Wu Hanhai’s Force hand.
• Wu Hanhai enveloped himself in his Demonic Ape Dharma Aspect and launched a kick at Ning Chuan.
• Ning Chuan strengthened his Wisdom King Dharma Form, which withstood Wu Hanhai’s attack and sent him flying backward.

Ning Chuan used the Destruction Heavenly Art to draw Wu Hanhai into a fierce fight, then prepared to show that his Eight Wonders Saber could overcome Wu Hanhai where the Destruction Heavenly Art could not. The battle continued with Wu Hanhai’s Demonic Ape Dharma Aspect attacking Ning Chuan’s intact Wisdom King Dharma Form.

• Wu Hanhai was shocked when his Demonic Ape Dharma Aspect failed to break Ning Chuan’s defenses, while spectators argued over Ning Chuan’s chances of winning.
• Ning Chuan caught up to Wu Hanhai and trapped him inside a Golden Blazing Sun created by the Destruction Heavenly Art, but Wu Hanhai broke free unharmed.
• Ning Chuan decided to use the fight to demonstrate the Eight Wonders Saber’s strength and thought that Uncle Lu would understand why he was putting the Destruction Heavenly Art aside.
• Ning Chuan sent another Golden Blazing Sun at Wu Hanhai, who dodged it and destroyed it with his Demonic Ape Dharma Aspect.
• Wu Hanhai repeatedly struck Ning Chuan’s Wisdom King Dharma Form, but it remained intact as they continued fighting across the arena.

Ning Chuan and Wu Hanhai fought in the arena, where Wu Hanhai discovered that his shockwave technique could knock the Wisdom King Dharma Form out of position. Ning Chuan countered with explosive decoys and a surprise attack, then revealed a second Dharma Aspect as multiple copies of him closed in on Wu Hanhai.

• Wu Hanhai repeatedly attacked Ning Chuan's Wisdom King Dharma Form but could not break through its defense.
• Wu Hanhai used the Demonic Ape Seven Kills Art's shockwave technique to send Ning Chuan and his Dharma Form flying, then decided to win by knocking him out of the arena.
• Wu Hanhai charged again, but the Ning Chuan in front of him exploded and sent him staggering.
• Ning Chuan dropped from above and struck Wu Hanhai with his knee, knocking him to the ground.
• Wu Hanhai counterattacked, but another Ning Chuan exploded before more than ten Ning Chuans appeared around him, revealing Ning Chuan's Wind Shadow Dharma Aspect.

Ning Chuan overwhelmed Wu Hanhai by opening all eight Heavenly Gates and revealing the Eight Wonders Saber, then won their match with Torrential Rain. Wu Guangzhi conceded on his son's behalf, and the referee declared Ning Chuan the winner.

• Ning Chuan used his Wind Shadow Dharma Aspect and Shadow Clones to keep Wu Hanhai on the defensive, while Wu Guangzhi argued that Hanhai's Demonic Ape Dharma Aspect could outlast him.
• Ning Chuan opened all eight Heavenly Gates, astonishing the crowd and frightening Wu Hanhai.
• Ning Chuan summoned the Divine Weapon Torrential Rain and used the Eight Wonders Saber to cut through Wu Hanhai's Demonic Ape Dharma Aspect and wound him repeatedly.
• Ning Chuan's saber shattered the Demonic Ape Dharma Aspect, and he cut off both of Wu Hanhai's arms when Hanhai charged at him in desperation.
• Wu Guangzhi conceded on Wu Hanhai's behalf and healed his wounds, and the referee announced Ning Chuan as the winner.