Chapter Summaries

Ning Chuan and his companions traveled to Galaxy University after he used his Federation major general status to free Shi Feng, who had been detained for bringing a bomb through airport security. On the flight, they discussed the university’s departments and mentor selection, and Wang Ke began explaining how the Freshman Exchange Competition could help students.

• At Qingshan Airport, security officers detained Shi Feng after his space ring triggered an alarm, and Shi Feng admitted he had brought a high-explosive bomb to deter terrorists.
• Ning Chuan showed his officer’s ID and claimed Shi Feng’s actions were part of a security test, securing Shi Feng’s release.
• Aboard the flight, Shi Feng told Wang Ke that he had entered Galaxy University through a special-talent spot despite his low overall ranking.
• Song Shiyu explained Galaxy University’s divisions and Martial Arts Academy departments, while Wang Ke described how students chose mentors after the Mentor Selection Conference.
• Wang Ke said the Freshman Exchange Competition offered students an important opportunity.

Ning Chuan learned about the Freshman Exchange Competition’s unpredictable restrictions and remained confident he could win despite them. After a day of travel, he and his companions arrived in the Northern Territory, where Galaxy University stood high on the plateau.

• Wang Ke and Song Shiyu explained the Freshman Exchange Competition, its rewards, and how its changing rules could disadvantage powerful freshmen.
• Wang Ke recalled past competitions that banned Force or limited participants to spiritual power martial arts, producing chaotic or exhausting contests.
• Song Shiyu warned that the university might ban Ning Chuan’s Divine Weapons, but Ning Chuan trusted his broad range of powerful abilities.
• Ning Chuan, Wang Ke, Song Shiyu, and Shi Feng talked late into the night, then returned to their bedrooms.
• On September 2, the four spent the day flying across the Federation and reached the Northern Territory, where Galaxy University stood at an elevation of 25,000 meters.

Ning Chuan arrived at Galaxy University and learned how its brutal competition shaped student housing and status. Dean Tang Qianjun took him on a campus tour and planned to help him collect his top-ten freshman rewards, while the crowd recognized Ning Chuan.

• Ning Chuan arrived at Galaxy University with Wang Ke, Song Shiyu, and Shi Feng and saw that the campus was a vast, crowded city.
• Wang Ke explained that martial arts and mecha freshmen would compete for housing, with only stronger students earning single rooms.
• Ning Chuan agreed to help Song Shiyu secure better accommodations, and Wang Ke described Galaxy University's harsh hierarchy and focus on cultivating powerful fighters.
• Tang Qianjun told Ning Chuan that his teaching assistant position came with a luxury apartment and offered to show him around campus before collecting his top-ten freshman rewards.
• Students at the airport noticed Tang Qianjun and recognized Ning Chuan for breaking the Federation's combat-power record.

Ning Chuan arrived at Galaxy University, where students reacted to his fame and Tang Qianjun and Wang Ke showed him around campus. He learned how the university’s credits worked and began considering ways to profit from them before they reached the secret realm district, which Wang Ke called the university’s true foundation.

• Freshmen at the airport discussed Ning Chuan’s reputation, and some voiced their hopes of defeating him in the Freshman Exchange Competition.
• Tang Qianjun agreed to drive Ning Chuan around campus with Wang Ke as their guide, while Song Shiyu and Shi Feng went to report to the freshman reception area.
• Wang Ke explained the university’s commercial district and described the various ways students could earn credits.
• Ning Chuan learned that valuable resources and services required credits and considered earning more by exploiting the gap between credit and cash values.
• The hovercar entered the secret realm district, where Wang Ke explained that its secret realms helped Galaxy University nurture powerful students.

Ning Chuan toured Galaxy University's secret realms and visited the Ten Thousand Martial Arts Pavilion to claim his freshman rewards. He chose Three Thousand Wind Shadows, received twenty-two additional martial arts, and learned about the benefits of his new teaching assistant position at the Ancient Martial Arts Research Institute.

• Wang Ke explained the Origin Tower, Chaos Mountain, Book Mountain Realm, and gravity chamber, while Tang Qianjun told Ning Chuan about the King of Freshmen's five days of free cultivation in the Origin Tower.
• Ning Chuan visited the Ten Thousand Martial Arts Pavilion and chose the High Firmament Tier movement technique Three Thousand Wind Shadows, though he was also tempted by Nine Nether Thunder Saber.
• Tang Qianjun let Ning Chuan count the value of his Mid and Low Firmament Tier martial art rewards toward the cost of a High Firmament Tier martial art.
• Ning Chuan kept his twenty High Heavenly Mountain Tier martial art rewards and asked for powerful weapon arts created by university instructors, then received twenty-two martial seals and a booklet.
• Tang Qianjun took Ning Chuan to complete his Ancient Martial Arts Research Institute employment formalities and reassured him that teaching assistants could work independently.
• Wang Ke told Ning Chuan that researchers could add assistants to martial art repair credits, which could eventually earn them a Stars-level martial art inheritance.

Ning Chuan learned that his teaching assistant position had attracted interest from students seeking access to rare martial arts, then completed his hiring formalities at the Ancient Martial Arts Research Institute. Researcher Xie Lian summoned Wu Hanhai to challenge him for the position, leaving Ning Chuan ready to see what his first potential rival would do.

• Wang Ke and Tang Qianjun explained that only a few Heroes Ranking students wanted Ning Chuan's position because they feared his future strength, though those interested had powerful backgrounds.
• Ning Chuan saw the institute's lavish rewards for Dong Gaoyuan's restoration of the spiritual power martial art Invigoration Art and learned that the Federation lacked a complete spiritual power cultivation method.
• Ning Chuan completed his hiring paperwork and was assigned to Researcher Xie Lian, whose status and authority exceeded even that of a Divine General.
• Xie Lian set aside Ning Chuan's application and summoned Wu Hanhai, a strong Heroes Ranking student who wanted Ning Chuan's teaching assistant position.

Ning Chuan refused Wu Hanhai’s offer to trade for his assistant position and secured his appointment despite Xie Lian’s hostility. After inheriting several weapon martial arts, he discovered that their insights let his system automatically repair the heavily damaged Eight Wonders Saber, leaving it 91% complete.

• Wu Hanhai offered Ning Chuan 120 High Heavenly Mountain Tier martial arts and a favor for the assistant position, then threatened to force him into a wager match when Ning Chuan refused.
• Ning Chuan demanded that Xie Lian seal his appointment; Xie Lian reluctantly did so and restricted Ning Chuan to heavily damaged martial seals.
• Ning Chuan chose the Eight Wonders Saber, toured Galaxy University, and later inherited the Nine Nether Thunder Saber, Three Thousand Wind Shadows, and twenty High Heavenly Mountain Tier weapon martial arts.
• Ning Chuan inherited the Eight Wonders Saber and found that insights from his other saber arts automatically repaired its imprint.
• Ning Chuan saw that the Eight Wonders Saber had reached 91% completeness and realized his martial arts insights could make repairing it easy.

Galaxy University banned Divine Weapons and weapon martial arts from the Freshman Exchange Competition, prompting doubts about Ning Chuan’s chances. Ning Chuan revealed several hidden abilities to Song Shiyu and Shi Feng and remained certain he would win King of Freshmen.

• Galaxy University announced that Divine Weapons from the Ultimate Weapon Art and all weapon martial arts were prohibited in the competition.
• The Wind and Rain Pavilion argued that Ning Chuan would lose his overwhelming advantage without his weapons and weapon martial arts.
• Song Shiyu and Shi Feng urged Ning Chuan to prioritize his own chance at becoming King of Freshmen instead of sticking to their plan.
• Ning Chuan said he had more than one trump card and formed a golden Wisdom King Dharma Form, displayed blood-red soul needles, and revealed the darkness in his eyes.
• Ning Chuan declared that he would be King of Freshmen unless Galaxy University banned him.

Freshmen fought for advantageous positions near Ning Chuan ahead of Galaxy University's Freshman Exchange Competition, while several top students publicly vowed to defeat him. On September 5, Federation leaders and powerful figures arrived at the university to watch the competition.

• Freshmen battled across the reception area for positions near Ning Chuan, and Ji Hao defeated Jiang Wang before declaring that he would catch up to Ning Chuan.
• Song Shiyu explained that Ji Hao was using Ning Chuan's fame to attract mentors, while Ning Chuan welcomed the challengers as whetstones.
• Hong Yan defeated two top-ten freshmen with his Burning Heaven ability and declared that he would suppress Ning Chuan.
• Xiao Fenghua swept aside more than thirty specially recruited students and publicly challenged Ning Chuan.
• Other top freshmen fought through the night and vowed to defeat Ning Chuan before the reception area finally grew quiet after midnight.
• On September 5, prominent Federation figures arrived at Galaxy University to watch the Freshman Exchange Competition.

At the Freshman Exchange Competition, the freshmen rushed Ning Chuan, but Ji Hao, Hong Yan, and Xiao Fenghua drove them back so they could each challenge him alone. Ning Chuan used Dark Night Abyss to defeat all three instantly, leaving the auditorium stunned.

• Zhou Yang announced that the freshman with the most points who could sit on the Throne would become King of Freshmen.
• More than half the freshmen charged toward Ning Chuan, hoping to defeat him for points.
• Ji Hao, Hong Yan, and Xiao Fenghua struck down the other challengers and demanded the right to fight Ning Chuan alone.
• Ji Hao, Hong Yan, and Xiao Fenghua argued over who would face Ning Chuan first.
• Ning Chuan used Dark Night Abyss to make all three top freshmen collapse at his feet.

Ning Chuan used Dark Night Abyss to incapacitate the top freshmen and then overwhelmed the crowd of challengers as he climbed toward the black throne. He sat on the throne and asked the university officials whether the Freshman Exchange Competition would continue.

• Ning Chuan's Dark Night Abyss knocked Ji Hao, Hong Yan, and Xiao Fenghua unconscious, and Song Shiyu and Shi Feng claimed credit for helping defeat them.
• Ning Chuan advanced toward the platform as freshmen rushed him, but those who came within ten zhang fell unconscious and woke in terror.
• The freshmen tried to attack Ning Chuan from a distance with Force, but he evaded their attacks with Three Thousand Wind Shadows.
• Ning Chuan sat on the black throne and asked the university officials whether the competition would continue.

After Ning Chuan became King of Freshmen, Zhou Yang added new rules to keep the competition going and barred control-type spiritual power martial arts. Ning Chuan used Blood Soul Needle to stop more than two hundred freshmen from reaching the throne, leaving them temporarily incapacitated as he remained seated alone.

• Zhou Yang added a rule allowing the highest-scoring competitor to share the King of Freshmen reward with Ning Chuan.
• After Tang Qianjun warned him against explicitly banning Dark Night Abyss, Zhou Yang barred all control-type spiritual power martial arts instead.
• More than a thousand freshmen rushed toward Ning Chuan's platform, hoping to defeat him without Dark Night Abyss.
• Ning Chuan unleashed Blood Soul Needle, striking more than two hundred freshmen before they could reach the platform.
• The referees carried the injured freshmen away after a Divine General confirmed their soul injuries were minor, while Ning Chuan remained alone on the throne.

After the Martial Arts Academy banned all spiritual-force martial arts, the freshmen hesitated to challenge Ning Chuan. Zi Yun’er stepped forward, revealed her powerful Dharma Aspect, and called him out, but Ning Chuan remained seated on the Throne.

• Zhou Yang announced that all spiritual-force martial arts were banned after another supposed staff error, and resumed the competition.
• The freshmen stayed back, unwilling to be the first to face Ning Chuan.
• Zi Yun’er challenged Ning Chuan to a one-on-one fight and dismissed a tall young man who questioned her cultivation progress.
• Zi Yun’er manifested the Wings of the Cold Blade Dharma Aspect, impressing the spectators with its Black Ice Mystic Truth.
• Zi Yun’er reached the platform stairs and asked Ning Chuan if he was ready, but he only looked at her from the Throne.

Ning Chuan effortlessly defeated Zi Yun'er, prompting Zhou Yang to impose new restrictions and offer a reward for knocking him off the platform. When the freshmen swarmed him, Ning Chuan rose from the throne and revealed a blazing golden sun, ready to fight.

• Zi Yun'er attacked Ning Chuan with her Wings of the Cold Blade, but his Wisdom King Dharma Form stopped her and he knocked her unconscious with a kick.
• The audience learned Ning Chuan had comprehended the Wisdom King Dharma Form, while academy leaders argued over who should take him as a disciple.
• Zhou Yang banned Dharma Aspects and active body-tempering arts, then offered his personal discipleship to anyone who could push Ning Chuan off the platform before sunset.
• Zhou Yang promised Ning Chuan ten times the King of Freshmen credit reward if he remained on the platform until sunset.
• The freshmen charged Ning Chuan together, but a burst of light and a shock wave blasted them away as Ning Chuan stood beneath a blazing golden sun.

Ning Chuan used the Destruction Heavenly Art to overpower the freshmen challenging him, including a coordinated attack by four top-ten contestants. He remained on the platform until the Freshman Exchange Competition ended at seven in the evening, while other freshmen turned to fighting for points below.

• The audience and academy officials recognized Ning Chuan’s golden sun as the Destruction Heavenly Art and were shocked that he had cultivated it to the Perfect Realm.
• Ning Chuan used the golden sun to stagger waves of freshmen, then knocked them off the platform with Three Thousand Wind Shadows and his physical strength.
• Jiang Wang, Qu Tianyi, Zhao Qianjun, and Yun Yao joined forces against Ning Chuan, but the Destruction Heavenly Art swallowed their attacks and Ning Chuan defeated them.
• Ning Chuan burned through Yun Yao’s ice shield and nearly injured her before a referee declared her out; he then used Airspace Lockdown to slow Jiang Wang, Zhao Qianjun, and Qu Tianyi and knock them off the platform.
• Ning Chuan fought off the remaining freshmen as Song Shiyu, Shi Feng, and others collected points below, eventually sparking a free-for-all over injured contestants.
• The competition ended at seven in the evening with Ning Chuan still standing on the platform.

After Ning Chuan won the Freshman Exchange Competition and was named King of Freshmen, Galaxy University offered him special recognition and an immediate reward. The chapter ended with instructors preparing to connect him to the Origin Bell when he cultivated in the Origin Tower.

• Ning Chuan stood exhausted after defeating thousands of freshmen, and Zhou Yang declared him King of Freshmen to thunderous applause.
• Zhou Yang offered Ning Chuan a nominal chance to become Heavenly King Wei Chen's disciple, then promoted himself as a strong instructor while other academy leaders mocked him through Force transmissions.
• Ning Chuan said he planned to bathe and cultivate at the Origin Tower, and Zhou Yang arranged for his King of Freshmen reward to be credited immediately.
• Tang Qianjun and the instructors agreed to connect Ning Chuan to the Origin Bell, which would announce whenever he opened a Force Aperture.
• Song Shiyu explained that the connection marked Ning Chuan as one of Galaxy University's own and would give the university's protection, while the instructors predicted how many times his cultivation might ring the bell.

After winning the Freshman Exchange Competition, Ning Chuan went to the Origin Tower and discussed his prospects for the Heroes Ranking with Wang Ke. Wang Ke analyzed his strengths and weaknesses, then suspected he had more than one Dharma Aspect.

• Spectators leaving the Soaring Dragon Auditorium speculated that Dean Zhou Yang wanted Ning Chuan as his disciple and envied his ability to bind the Origin Bell.
• Ning Chuan returned to his apartment, discarded his damaged combat suit, and changed into a Galaxy University school uniform.
• Ning Chuan went to the Origin Tower, where he met Wang Ke, who praised his Wisdom King Dharma Form.
• Wang Ke told Ning Chuan he could likely reach the lower end of the Heroes Ranking but would struggle to break into the top nine hundred, and Ning Chuan said he might challenge the ranking within a month or two.
• Wang Ke assessed Ning Chuan's defense and offense, suggested he comprehend an offensive Dharma Aspect, and asked if he had more than one.

Ning Chuan entered the Origin Tower to use his five-day King of Freshmen cultivation reward, while Wu Hanhai tried to pressure him over his teaching assistant position. Ning Chuan’s Ultimate Weapon Art rapidly advanced as he absorbed nearly all the dark energy, and another Origin Bell rang after he opened another Force Aperture.

• Wang Ke explained the Origin Tower’s cultivation rooms and warned Ning Chuan that nearby students could compete with him for dark energy.
• Wu Hanhai followed Ning Chuan and threatened him over the Ancient Martial Arts Research Institute teaching assistant position, while Ning Chuan asked Wang Ke to publicize the dispute.
• Ning Chuan entered a cultivation room and used his King of Freshmen reward, causing the Ultimate Weapon Art to enter enlightenment and advance to the Proficiency Realm.
• Wu Hanhai discovered that more than ninety percent of the dark energy in his room was being drawn into Ning Chuan’s neighboring room.
• Ning Chuan opened a Force Aperture in under two hours, then began cultivating another while browsing his phone; a second bell toll left Galaxy University silent.

Ning Chuan’s astonishing cultivation speed set off the Origin Tower’s bell repeatedly, turning him into the focus of Galaxy University as mentors competed to claim him. After opening fifty-seven Force Apertures in just over four days, he decided to refine his Force further and spent heavily on cultivation resources.

• Zhou Yang and other senior officials heard the Origin Bell ring repeatedly and argued over who would become Ning Chuan’s mentor.
• Galaxy University clarified that Ning Chuan’s Force Apertures caused the bells, and students learned that mentors were focused on recruiting him.
• Mentors at the Martial Arts Academy argued fiercely over who had the strongest claim to teach Ning Chuan and what initiation gifts they would offer.
• Wu Hanhai and the other Ninth-Grade Martial Artists kept cultivating in the Origin Tower to compete with Ning Chuan for dark energy, unaware that Ning Chuan was asleep.
• On September 10, Ning Chuan woke after opening fifty-seven Force Apertures, decided to improve the quality of his Force, and ordered Moonlight energy liquid and Sharpness Qi.

Ning Chuan ended his five-day cultivation session looking refreshed, reached seventh grade, and discovered that Moonlight Energy Liquid greatly accelerated his cultivation. He and Wang Ke then went to the Mentor Selection Conference, where Ning Chuan planned to consider his options.

• Ning Chuan declined to pay for more Origin Tower time and left after developing 61 Force Apertures during five days of cultivation.
• Wu Hanhai confronted Ning Chuan about the teaching assistant position, but Ning Chuan left without responding; Wu Hanhai learned he had advanced to seventh grade and resolved to force him into a wager match.
• Ning Chuan drank Moonlight Energy Liquid, which boosted the Ultimate Weapon Art's cultivation speed by 190%.
• Wang Ke told Ning Chuan she had publicized Wu Hanhai's demand across campus, and Ning Chuan said that making students aware was enough for now.
• Ning Chuan and Wang Ke went to Yuying Training Ground, where the Mentor Selection Conference was underway, and Ning Chuan began looking over the mentors.