Chapter Summaries

Ji Zining defeated the visiting factions’ chosen with one sword strike, leaving their envoys fearful of challenging the Ziwei Holy Land’s divine son. Ji Yan killed his nephew and kowtowed for mercy, but Ji Zining turned to the remaining envoys and asked if they were next.

• Ji Zining’s sword strike wounded the chosen from the various factions, and the envoys found that their injuries were severe but recoverable.
• The envoys recognized Ji Zining’s Saint Manifestation Realm-level strength and considered stepping forward themselves.
• Ji Yan realized the tall young man had caused the confrontation, while the young man feared Ji Zining would kill him.
• Ji Yan smashed his nephew into a paste of flesh, then knelt and kowtowed to Ji Zining, begging to be spared.
• Ji Zining ignored Ji Yan’s pleas, faced the other envoys, and asked whether they were next.

Ji Zining challenged the envoys to fight her, then faced Qianchenzi of the Innate Dao Sect after he accepted. Hua Qianyan sealed Qianchenzi’s cultivation at the Peak Nascent Soul Realm, and the chapter ended as Qianchenzi prepared to attack.

• Ji Zining mocked the envoys for hesitating and demanded that they either fight her or leave.
• Qianchenzi introduced himself as an envoy of the Innate Dao Sect and said he would fight Ji Zining.
• Ji Zining asked Hua Qianyan to seal Qianchenzi’s cultivation at the Peak Nascent Soul Realm, preventing him from revealing his full strength later.
• Hua Qianyan lowered Qianchenzi’s cultivation to match Ji Zining’s, and the other envoys watched anxiously.
• Ji Zining told Qianchenzi to strike first, and he prepared to fight her with all his strength.

Ji Zining defeated and killed Qianchenzi after his soul attack triggered the Primordial Spirit Refining Art, leaving the envoys and Ziwei Holy Land disciples stunned. She challenged the remaining envoys as her unprecedented divine soul and victory promised to make her famous throughout the True Martial Dao Domain.

• Qianchenzi attacked Ji Zining with his horsetail whisk, but she cut through its streamers with the first form of Sword Slashes the Eight Desolations.
• Qianchenzi used a divine soul attack that made Ji Zining’s eyelids grow heavy, but she activated the Primordial Spirit Refining Art and recovered.
• Ji Zining’s sword wounded Qianchenzi, and the Primordial Spirit Refining Art reflected his soul attack, putting him to sleep.
• Ji Zining cut off Qianchenzi’s head, killing the Fifth Level of the Saint King Realm expert.
• Ji Zining challenged the remaining envoys to face her, while Ji Yan, the envoys, and the Ziwei Holy Land disciples stared in disbelief.
• Hua Qianyan realized Ji Zining had condensed a divine soul before reaching the Spirit Transformation Realm and predicted her fame would spread across the True Martial Dao Domain.

Ji Zining killed Qianchenzi and Ji Yan with ease, forcing the assembled envoys to abandon their challenge and leave the Ziwei Holy Land. The chapter ended with the disciples celebrating her victory alongside Hua Qianyan.

• After witnessing Ji Zining defeat Qianchenzi, the envoys decided not to challenge her and apologized through Wang Cheng.
• Ji Zining stopped the envoys from leaving and demanded that Ji Yan fight her before they departed.
• Hua Qianyan suppressed Ji Yan’s cultivation to the peak Nascent Soul Realm, and Ji Yan charged Ji Zining in desperation.
• Ji Zining killed Ji Yan with a single sword strike and told the envoys to take both corpses away.
• The envoys collected the bodies, cleaned the plaza, and departed as the Ziwei Holy Land disciples cheered for Ji Zining.

After defeating her opponents, Ji Zining broke through to the Spirit Transformation Realm and summoned an unusually powerful Five-Nine Heavenly Tribulation. She sat beneath the spreading tribulation clouds, preparing to use the lightning to temper her Nine-Orifice Exquisite Body.

• Ji Zining accepted the Ziwei Holy Land disciples’ cheers, and Hua Qianyan praised her strength before declining her invitation to fight.
• Ji Zining told Hua Qianyan she could break through immediately, then advanced from the Peak Nascent Soul Realm to the Spirit Transformation Realm.
• Hua Qianyan left as a Five-Nine Heavenly Tribulation formed over the square, alarming the disciples with its immense power.
• The tribulation clouds spread across several thousand li, and Ji Zining anticipated using their lightning to advance her Nine-Orifice Exquisite Body to its third layer.
• Ji Zining walked beneath the clouds and sat cross-legged, waiting for the tribulation lightning to descend.

Ji Zining absorbed the lightning from her vast Spirit Transformation Realm tribulation and used it to advance both her spiritual and physical cultivation. She awakened the Innate Divine Ability Eye of Insight as the tribulation clouds dispersed.

• Ji Zining absorbed the first bolts of her 100,000-li Five-Nine Heavenly Tribulation as lightning energy and refined them with her Nine-Orifice Exquisite Body.
• Ji Zining endured the forty-five bolts while accumulating energy, bringing her physical cultivation to the peak of the Nine-Orifice Exquisite Body's second layer.
• Ji Zining used the energy from the final bolt to break through to the third layer and reach the Spirit Transformation Realm First Layer in physical cultivation.
• Ji Zining opened both eye orifices and awakened the Innate Divine Ability Eye of Insight, which let her perceive flaws in the world.
• The tribulation clouds dispersed, leaving the cultivators of the Ziwei Holy Land dazed by Ji Zining's completed tribulation.

Ji Zining adjusted to her breakthrough into the Spirit Transformation Realm and discovered that her divine soul had reached Peak Spirit Transformation. After the Ziwei Holy Land disciples gathered around her, she introduced them to autographs and began signing their robes.

• Ji Zining descended after breaking through to the Spirit Transformation Realm, with her spiritual and physical cultivation at the First Layer and her divine soul at Peak Spirit Transformation.
• Ji Zining noticed Hua Qianyan had left and complained that he had raised the subject before running away.
• The Ziwei Holy Land disciples returned to the square and gazed at Ji Zining with reverence.
• Ji Zining offered to give the disciples autographs, then signed her name on a Saint Manifestation Realm core disciple's robe.
• The disciples realized what an autograph was and eagerly asked Ji Zining to sign their robes, and she promised everyone a turn.

After spending the afternoon signing autographs for hundreds of thousands of Ziwei Holy Land disciples, Ji Zining escaped to the Divine Mountain and reflected on her cultivation and combat abilities. At midnight, she signed in and received the Divine Rank Upper Grade sword Dao divine ability, Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Technique.

• Ji Zining signed autographs for the Ziwei Holy Land disciples until the last one in the square had received one, then flew away before more arrived.
• Late-arriving disciples reached the square and learned that Ji Zining had already left, leaving them disappointed.
• Ji Zining returned to the Divine Mountain, considered her current abilities, and began cultivating toward Saint Realm combat strength.
• At midnight, the system unlocked Ji Zining's sign-in opportunity, and she obtained the Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Technique.

Ji Zining received the Divine Rank Upper Grade Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Technique and began cultivating it. Meanwhile, news of her victories spread across the True Martial Dao Domain, leaving its factions bracing for conflict.

• Ji Zining received and comprehended the Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Technique, a sword art that focused on drawing and sheathing the sword at extreme speed.
• Ji Zining determined that the technique could threaten a Saint Realm expert, but she could use it only three times with her current spiritual power.
• Ji Zining learned that once she could use the technique at will, she could stack its strikes according to her body's strength and spiritual-power reserves.
• News spread that Ji Zining had defeated Spirit Transformation Realm challengers with one sword strike while she was at the Peak Nascent Soul Realm.
• The True Martial Dao Domain learned that Ji Zining had slain two cultivation-suppressed Saint King Realm experts from the Wuji Divine Sect and the Innate Dao Sect, and people feared a storm was coming.

Ji Zining tried to explore Ziwei Holy Land in disguise but fled after seeing disciples wearing robes with her autograph. Li Changsheng interpreted the autograph craze as a deliberate scheme to build Ji Zining’s prestige, while Ji Zining remained unaware and returned to cultivation.

• Ji Zining left Divine Mountain in disguise to look around Ziwei Holy Land and saw inner disciples wearing robes with her autograph.
• Ji Zining fled when more disciples arrived wearing signed robes, then returned to Divine Mountain and resumed cultivating.
• Hua Qianyan told Li Changsheng that disciples, elders, and even counterfeiters had joined the autograph craze.
• Li Changsheng claimed Ji Zining had planned the craze to make disciples revere her and strengthen her future authority.
• Hua Qianyan praised Ji Zining’s supposed schemes, while Ji Zining sneezed during cultivation and wondered if she had caught a chill.

Ji Zining returned to the training ground and discovered that disciples were making imitation robes bearing her signature. After Xiang Qian revealed the bootleg operation to her, she exposed her identity and ordered it to stop, prompting the disciples to greet her as the Divine Son.

• Ji Zining returned to the training ground, embarrassed to see disciples wearing robes signed with her name.
• Xiang Qian told Ji Zining that he and others had made free imitation robes signed by the Divine Son for disciples who lacked genuine ones.
• Ji Zining decided the bootlegging had to stop and removed her disguise, revealing herself as the Divine Son.
• Xiang Qian recognized Ji Zining, fell to his knees, and apologized for promoting the imitation robes.
• The disciples at the training ground recognized Ji Zining and greeted her in unison.

Ji Zining learned about the Ziwei Holy Land’s cultivation sites and sought out the Ziwei Soul Sea to advance her divine soul cultivation. She entered its separate space, where dense divine soul power immediately surged toward her.

• Ji Zining reframed her signed robes as reminders to cultivate, prompting the disciples to feel ashamed of competing over them.
• Ji Zining learned that the Nine Heavens Tower aided spiritual power cultivation, the Primordial Wilderness Gravity Tower aided physical cultivation, and the Ziwei Soul Sea aided divine soul cultivation.
• After hearing that the Ziwei Soul Sea could strengthen her divine soul, Ji Zining decided to find it without asking Li Changsheng for help.
• Ji Zining followed disciples to a spatial passage, learned that entry required an identity token and contribution points, and gave a disciple several hundred supreme-grade spirit stones for answering her question.
• Ji Zining entered the passage and appeared in a blue-black hall, where dense divine soul power surged toward her.

Ji Zining entered the Ziwei Soul Sea and discovered ranking steles recording how deep cultivators of each realm had gone. As she ventured into the sea and absorbed its increasingly pure soul energy, she felt close to advancing her soul cultivation to the Saint Manifestation Realm.

• Mo Xuan opened the spatial passage and let Ji Zining enter the Ziwei Soul Sea without paying contribution points.
• After Ji Zining entered, the disciples rushed to Mo Xuan to pay for access so they could cultivate alongside her.
• Ji Zining arrived at the blue-black sea and examined the ranking steles, finding that the Spirit Transformation Realm record reached three thousand meters.
• Ji Zining stepped into the sea, circulated the Primordial Spirit Refining Art, and moved deeper as the soul energy grew purer.

Ji Zining journeyed deeper into the Ziwei Soul Sea, broke through to the First Level of the Saint Manifestation Realm at two thousand meters, and earned a place on the Spirit Transformation Ranking. The ranking granted her a soul bestowal, which began strengthening her newly advanced soul cultivation.

• Ji Zining passed Nascent Soul Realm disciples in the Ziwei Soul Sea and quietly urged them to continue cultivating without disturbing one another.
• After crossing the thousand-meter mark, Ji Zining adapted to the tremendous soul pressure and pressed deeper through increasingly dense soul energy.
• Ji Zining surpassed Mo Xuan’s recorded depth and reached two thousand meters, where her soul cultivation broke through to the First Level of the Saint Manifestation Realm.
• A voice announced that Ji Zining had placed ninety-eighth on the Spirit Transformation Ranking and granted her a soul bestowal.
• Pure soul energy descended onto Ji Zining and began raising her newly advanced soul cultivation.

Ji Zining refined the soul power from entering the Spirit Transformation Realm rankings and raised her soul cultivation to the Saint Manifestation Realm Third Layer. She pressed deeper into the Ziwei Soul Sea and claimed first place on the Spirit Transformation Realm rankings, leaving the disciples cheering on the shore.

• Ji Zining refined the pure soul power for half an hour, stabilizing her cultivation and advancing to the Saint Manifestation Realm Third Layer.
• Ji Zining decided to keep exploring the Ziwei Soul Sea and aimed to break the Spirit Transformation Realm ranking record of three thousand meters.
• Ji Zining ran past Saint Manifestation Realm core disciples at the two-thousand-five-hundred-meter mark, leaving them stunned by her soul strength.
• Ziwei Holy Land disciples gathered at the ranking stele as Ji Zining advanced to second place at two thousand nine hundred meters.
• Ji Zining reached three thousand and fifty meters and took first place from Wang Haotian, prompting the disciples to cheer for her.

Ji Zining continued through the Ziwei Soul Sea to test her limits and considered exploring beneath its surface. After meeting a core disciple at 3,800 meters, she pushed onward until the pressure stopped her at 4,600 meters.

• Ji Zining decided to challenge her limits after reaching 3,300 meters and considered diving beneath the Ziwei Soul Sea, but postponed the attempt until she was leaving.
• Ji Zining reached 3,800 meters and encountered a Saint Manifestation Realm core disciple cultivating there.
• The core disciple recognized Ji Zining as the new Divine Son and was astonished that she had reached his depth at the Spirit Transformation Realm First Layer.
• Ji Zining reassured the core disciple, then continued deeper to test how far she could go.
• Ji Zining reached her limit at 4,600 meters and struggled to withstand the pressure with the Primordial Spirit Refining Art.

Ji Zining reached 4,600 meters into the Ziwei Soul Sea before returning, and her soul cultivation broke through to the Saint Manifestation Realm Fourth Stage Peak. She left the sea to a crowd of awestruck disciples whose extravagant praise and autographed robes overwhelmed her with embarrassment.

• Ji Zining endured the pressure beyond 4,000 meters, reached her limit at 4,600 meters, and unexpectedly advanced to the Saint Manifestation Realm Fourth Stage Peak after relaxing her thoughts.
• Ji Zining turned back toward the starting point, deciding to return to the Divine Son Hall and wait for her sign-in opportunity to refresh.
• At 3,800 meters, a core disciple noticed Ji Zining's breakthrough, and she encouraged him to advance before she visited the Ziwei Soul Sea again.
• Ji Zining returned to the beach and found a crowd of disciples gathered there to admire her achievement.
• The disciples shouted extravagant praise while wearing autographed robes, leaving Ji Zining overwhelmed by embarrassment.

Ji Zining explored the depths of the Ziwei Soul Sea but turned back when the pressure threatened to injure her soul, then returned to the Divine Mountain to cultivate. At night, she signed in and received Concept Infusion.

• Ji Zining used Sword Intent to descend into the Ziwei Soul Sea and found that the soul pressure intensified with depth while the soul-energy concentration doubled below the surface.
• Ji Zining dove to thirteen hundred meters, found no bottom or treasure, and turned back when her soul could no longer withstand the pressure.
• Ji Zining warned the Ziwei Holy Land disciples that the depths held great terror and that their souls could shatter if they tried to descend.
• Ji Zining returned to the hall, spoke with Mo Xuan, and left after he praised her achievement in the Ziwei Soul Sea.
• Ji Zining resumed comprehending the Seven Orifices Exquisite Immortal Art on the Divine Mountain, then signed in at night and obtained Concept Infusion.

Ji Zining’s Sword Intent surged to seventy percent, and she comprehended the second level of the Seven Orifices Exquisite Immortal Art. Li Changsheng and Hua Qianyan summoned her to explain that the Heavenly Pride Battlefield was where the True Martial Dao Domain’s strongest young cultivators competed.

• A system empowerment raised Ji Zining’s Sword Intent from ten percent to seventy percent, giving her confidence that she could contend with or kill some Saint Realm opponents.
• Ji Zining comprehended the second level of the Seven Orifices Exquisite Immortal Art by sunrise and judged that she had no equal below the fourth layer of the Saint Realm apart from heavenly prides.
• Li Changsheng opened a spatial passage and summoned Ji Zining to the Peach Blossom Forest Small World, where Hua Qianyan explained that the Innate Dao Sect and Wuji Divine Sect had challenged her to enter the Heavenly Pride Battlefield.
• Hua Qianyan told Ji Zining that the Heavenly Pride Battlefield was where the True Martial Dao Domain’s true heavenly prides contended, including the Ziwei Holy Land’s core disciples at the Saint Realm and Great Saint Realm.

Ji Zining decided to enter the Heavenly Pride Battlefield in three days, despite the danger posed by powerful rivals from the Innate Dao Sect and the Wuji Divine Sect. She planned to train before going and revealed that her Sword Intent had reached seventy percent.

• Hua Qianyan explained that the Heavenly Pride Battlefield held great opportunities and ancient Great Emperor inheritance ruins, but also dangerous opponents.
• Ji Zining weighed the risks of entering against the criticism she would face if she stayed out, while Li Changsheng dismissed the importance of public gossip.
• Ji Zining decided to enter the battlefield in three days after raising her cultivation, and said she would revisit the Ziwei Soul Sea first to improve her record.
• Li Changsheng asked about Ji Zining's record of 4,600 meters in the Ziwei Soul Sea, and she said she had not yet reached her limit.
• Ji Zining revealed her seventy-percent Sword Intent, surprising Hua Qianyan, and vowed to show her enemies she was not someone to provoke.