Chapter Summaries

Lin Fan defeated Hu Youxi in the Genius Battle, while several other contenders were eliminated over the following days. The competition narrowed to Lin Fan, Jianxin, Su Jianxi, and Shen Chuzhao, and the chapter ended as Su Jianxi and Shen Chuzhao prepared to fight.

• Su Jianxi defeated Jin Tian and teased Shen Chuzhao about fighting him, then rejoined Lin Fan and the others.
• Lin Fan used the Bloodthirst Sword to defeat Hu Youxi, who transformed into his eight-tailed true form and attacked with claws, tails, and flames; Lin Fan gave him a pill afterward.
• Hu Youxi joked that Lin Fan should let him win, then congratulated Lin Fan on his victory.
• Over the next several days, Bai Luo Xue lost to Shen Chuzhao, Youyue lost narrowly to Ye Ningshuang, and Jianxin defeated Ye Ningshuang.
• Lin Fan, Jianxin, Su Jianxi, and Shen Chuzhao remained in the Genius Battle, and Shen Chuzhao walked onto the arena to face Su Jianxi.

Su Jianxi effortlessly defeated Shen Chuzhao, leaving him unconscious and terrified. Lin Fan and Jianxin then began a fierce, evenly matched duel, which remained unresolved as they faced off after their first clash.

• Su Jianxi stopped Shen Chuzhao’s full-powered spear strike with one finger, then struck him unconscious with a single attack.
• Jianxin gave Shen Chuzhao a healing pill, and he woke in terror from the fight.
• Lin Fan and Jianxin entered the arena and began battling with their swords, shaking the secret realm.
• Jianxin unleashed a devastating sword strike that destroyed the surrounding mountains and rivers, but Lin Fan blocked it with his own sword.
• The two fighters were both thrown back by the clash, then faced each other from a distance as the battle continued.

Lin Fan and Jianxin fought to a standstill before Jianxin conceded, and Lin Fan agreed to face Su Jianxi despite expecting to lose. In the first-place match, Su Jianxi overwhelmed Lin Fan and took the Bloodthirst Sword, leaving their fight unresolved.

• Lin Fan and Jianxin unleashed powerful attacks until Lin Fan called a halt and offered to concede, but Jianxin conceded first and left the arena.
• Su Jianxi challenged Lin Fan for their next match, and after she seized his ear and insisted he fight, Lin Fan agreed.
• Outside the secret realm, Su Chen told Ye Lingxi that Su Jianxi would win, while Ye Lingxi chose not to press him about his sister.
• The next day, Lin Fan awakened his Divine Physique and attacked Su Jianxi, but she dodged his strike and sent him flying with a punch.
• Su Jianxi caught Lin Fan off guard with another punch, knocked the Bloodthirst Sword from his hand, and summoned it to herself.

Su Jianxi overwhelmed Lin Fan in their duel, revealing a vast gap in strength and swordsmanship. She healed him after nearly defeating him, while Jianxin entered a state of enlightenment after witnessing her sword strike.

• Su Jianxi knocked Lin Fan into a crater, and he rose to fight again using his Desolate Ancient Divine Physique.
• Lin Fan attacked with a punch and a powerful Divine Ability, but Su Jianxi dodged his strike and shattered his enormous palm with her sword.
• Su Jianxi's slash sent Lin Fan flying and badly injured him, while Jianxin gained insight into the Sword Dao.
• Su Jianxi caught Lin Fan, gave him a healing pill, and apologized for hitting him too hard.
• Ye Ningshuang, Youyue, and Bai Luo Xue checked on Lin Fan, who reassured them and accepted Su Jianxi's apology.

Su Jianxi won the Genius Battle and received her reward, while Jianxin gained sudden enlightenment after watching her fight Lin Fan. Ye Lingxi revealed that Canglan Star faced an impending invasion from the God Realm, and the gathered cultivators pledged to defend it.

• Ye Lingxi declared Su Jianxi the winner and distributed spatial-ring rewards to the top hundred contestants.
• Jianxin experienced sudden enlightenment, greatly improving his Sword Dao, and returned confident he could defeat Lin Fan without Lin Fan's Bloodline Power.
• Ye Lingxi revealed Canglan Star's true name, the weakening seal, and the threat of an invasion by God Realm powerhouses.
• Lin Fan, Jianxin, Youyue, Ye Ningshuang, Bai Luo Xue, and Su Jianxi vowed to protect Canglan Star.
• Shen Chuzhao, Hu Youxi, Yun Youyou, and the other gathered cultivators joined the pledge to defend Canglan Star to the death.

After Su Jianxi won first place in the genius battle, Su Chen reassured his students that he would intervene during the coming calamity but urged them to grow stronger on their own. He appointed Lin Fan as the academy’s next headmaster, while Lin Fan and Jianxin left feeling that Su Chen was disappointed in them.

• Su Jianxi celebrated winning first place, while Lin Fan and the others worried about the threat from the God Realm.
• Jianxin, Ye Ningshuang, and Youyue voiced doubts about defending Canglan Star, and Su Chen told them to cultivate and become stronger.
• When Lin Fan asked whether Su Chen would fight, Su Chen challenged the group not to rely on him, then agreed to intervene during the calamity if they reached the Immortal Emperor realm.
• Su Chen named Lin Fan the academy’s future headmaster and said they would return to the academy the next day.
• After the others left, Su Chen spoke privately with Su Jianxi, who questioned whether his help would make them dependent on him; he told her to trust him, and she fell asleep in his arms.
• The system warned Su Chen that there were other options, but he remained resolved; later, Lin Fan and Jianxin discussed how disappointed Su Chen seemed in them.

Su Chen learned about the Su Household’s powerful headquarters in the Land of Ancestral Origin and decided to make his disciples face the coming calamity without their families intervening. As he returned to Yingtian Academy, Canglan Star’s seal shook, drawing several God Realm experts toward it.

• Lin Fan and Jianxin vowed to grow stronger and face the great calamity without relying on Master.
• Ye Lingxi and representatives of the races and domains reassured Canglan Star’s people, and Su Chen appointed Lin Fan head of Yingtian Academy.
• Su Chen asked Su Yanche and Qin An about the Land of Ancestral Origin and learned that their household was one of many branches under a powerful headquarters.
• Su Chen told his parents not to seek the headquarters’ help for his disciples unless they were truly unable to endure, and they agreed to support his plan.
• Su Chen left the Mystic Hall, and the seal on Canglan Star trembled as several God Realm experts headed toward the planet.

As Canglan Star prepared for the God Realm’s invasion, Ye Lingxi united its forces, distributed resources, and oversaw the creation of a powerful grand formation. When the seal vanished and the invaders approached, Su Chen told Qin Zixuan his secret plan and asked her to keep it secret.

• Ye Lingxi formed the Cang Alliance with herself as its leader and persuaded the major forces to share their resources.
• Canglan Star’s beings cultivated for several years, and Ye Ningshuang, Youyue, Bai Luo Xue, Shen Chuzhao, Yun Youyou, Hu Youxi, and other geniuses reached the Immortal Emperor realm.
• Ye Lingxi gathered formation masters to create the Thousand Emperor Grand Formation, which could summon a God King phantom for battle.
• Canglan Star’s seal dissipated, exposing its coordinates, and terrifying presences from the God Realm surged toward the star.
• Su Chen told Qin Zixuan his plan and asked her to keep it secret, and they shared a tender kiss.

Experts from the God Realm arrived on Canglan Star searching for the Heart of the Earthfall, and Ye Lingxi confronted them on behalf of the Cang Alliance. After revealing that the High-grade Heart of the Earthfall was not there, she faced the Crimson Flame Baleful God, who attacked her with a giant fire lotus.

• Black spacetime rifts opened above Canglan Star, and experts from different races poured out, terrifying its inhabitants.
• The armored human man and the giant beast argued until the Crimson Flame Baleful God appeared and warned them off with her overwhelming power.
• Ye Lingxi and the Cang Alliance confronted the newcomers, but the armored man and the giant beast demanded proof that the natives could make them leave.
• Ye Lingxi said the High-grade Heart of the Earthfall was not on Canglan Star, and the Crimson Flame Baleful God pressured her to explain how she knew about it.
• The Crimson Flame Baleful God revealed that she had reached God King and hurled a massive fire lotus at Ye Lingxi.

Ye Lingxi fought the Crimson Flame Baleful God while God Realm powerhouses attacked Canglan Star and slaughtered its inhabitants. The Qilin Clan and then the Golden Peng and Kunpeng clans arrived to defend the planet, but Yun Cangming was badly wounded and the invaders still had the upper hand.

• Ye Lingxi used Canglan Star's origin power and the Heavenly Dao's power to clash with the Crimson Flame Baleful God's fire lotus, while onlookers concluded she was the planet's Heavenly Dao.
• The giant beast stomped across Canglan Star, and the God Realm powerhouses began slaughtering its inhabitants as they searched for the Heart of the Earthfall.
• Yun Cangming led the Qilin Clan into battle, but the giant beast tore a chunk from his neck and the Qilin were overwhelmed by the invaders.
• The Kunpeng and Golden Peng clans arrived to aid the defenders, giving Canglan Star's people a glimmer of hope.

The Golden Peng and Kunpeng patriarchs joined the battle and, with Yun Cangming, fought the giant beast, while Cang Yan and Granny Meng confronted the armored man. The armored man revealed that he cultivated both saber and fist, then vanished as a massive saber Qi erupted toward Granny Meng and Cang Yan.

• The Golden Peng and Kunpeng patriarchs arrived to support the Qilin Clan and took on the giant beast, which endured their attacks with little damage.
• Yun Cangming recovered enough to join the patriarchs, but the three Transcendence Realm experts remained suppressed by the giant beast.
• Cang Yan and Granny Meng intercepted the armored man, and Granny Meng pulled Cang Yan clear when the man nearly killed him with a saber strike.
• The armored man countered Cang Yan's punch with greater strength and revealed that he cultivated both the saber and the fist.
• The armored man vanished before Granny Meng and Cang Yan as a ten-thousand-foot saber Qi erupted across the battlefield.

Cang Yan and Granny Meng fought the invading God Realm experts as Canglan Star suffered devastating losses. Cang Yan sacrificed himself to destroy the armored man, but the man survived and vowed to punish everyone on the planet.

• Granny Meng and Cang Yan attacked the armored man, but his Saber Intent overpowered them and sent them flying.
• As the battle spread across Canglan Star, many defenders died, including the Kunpeng Clan patriarch, while more God Realm experts arrived.
• Gravely wounded, Cang Yan ignited his power, seized the armored man, and self-destructed in a massive explosion.
• Granny Meng retreated from the blast, and the War God Hall disciples followed Cang Yan's example by self-destructing and killing many God Realm experts.
• The armored man survived with catastrophic injuries that rapidly began healing, then threatened to make Granny Meng and every being on Canglan Star pay.

Granny Meng self-destructed against the armored man, while Ye Lingxi fought the Crimson Flame Baleful God and summoned Canglan Star’s power into a devastating sword strike. The Crimson Flame Baleful God’s allies joined the battle to seize the High-grade Heart of the Earthfall, leaving Canglan Star’s defenders overwhelmed and its people being slaughtered.

• Granny Meng self-destructed after the armored man survived the earlier blast, and Yun Cangming turned his attention to the giant beast.
• Ye Lingxi summoned Canglan Star’s origin into the Fallen Phoenix Sword and clashed with the Crimson Flame Baleful God’s fire-lotus attack.
• Dozens of powerful nonhuman experts arrived, and the Crimson Flame Baleful God urged them to kill Canglan Star’s experts before claiming the High-grade Heart of the Earthfall.
• The Crimson Flame Baleful God and three God Realm experts attacked Ye Lingxi, while other invaders overwhelmed Canglan Star’s defenders.
• The Golden Peng Clan patriarch fell, Yun Cangming burned his body and divine soul to resist five God Realm experts, and the invaders slaughtered Canglan Star’s inhabitants.

Mei Xi arrived with the Devil Race to defend Canglan Star and fought the winged God Realm expert who had slaughtered its inhabitants. After injuring him and severing one of his wings, she charged again, leaving him desperate for help from the other God Realm experts.

• The winged expert slaughtered a Qilin Clan disciple and approached a terrified Kunpeng Clan disciple.
• Mei Xi arrived with the Devil Race and attacked the winged expert with nine devil dragons and her devil sword.
• The winged expert destroyed the devil dragons, but Mei Xi forced him back and injured his wings with a beam of devil power.
• Mei Xi dodged the winged expert's third-eye beam and golden feathers, then severed his left wing with her devil sword.
• Mei Xi charged at the winged expert again, and he shouted to the watching God Realm experts to save him.

Mei Xi fought three God Realm experts until Liu Qin arrived and saved her from the winged expert’s descending greatsword. The two women prepared to face the three attackers together, while Mei Xi trusted that Su Chen would lead Canglan Star to victory.

• The giant and skeleton expert joined the winged expert’s attack on Mei Xi after he promised them valuable treasures.
• Mei Xi drove the giant back with a powerful sword strike but could not stop the winged expert’s greatsword from descending.
• Liu Qin’s vines caught and shattered the greatsword before it could hit Mei Xi.
• Liu Qin reached Mei Xi, and the two women agreed to confront the three God Realm experts together.

Mei Xi and Liu Qin fought the God Realm experts invading Canglan Star, but reinforcements overwhelmed them despite their desperate resistance. Ye Lingxi also faced a losing battle against the Crimson Flame Baleful God and nine others, leaving the defenders close to defeat.

• Liu Qin bound the black phantoms with endless vines while Mei Xi summoned a black dragon that devastated the army of corpses.
• The skeletal expert attacked Mei Xi, and the winged expert’s six light swords were swallowed by the black dragon.
• The giant destroyed the black dragon, then charged at Mei Xi as Liu Qin intercepted him and the winged and skeletal experts attacked Mei Xi together.
• More God Realm experts arrived, Yun Cangming fell, and Mei Xi and Liu Qin burned their bodies and souls but remained outmatched by eight Transcendence Realm experts.
• Ye Lingxi was driven back and wounded by the Crimson Flame Baleful God and nine other God Realm experts.

Xue Ya, Shen Li, and reinforcements from Yingtian Academy, the God Clan, and rogue cultivators turned the battle against the God Realm invaders, allowing Canglan Star’s fighters to counterattack. As Ye Lingxi and Liu Mengli rejoined the fight, alarming news about Lin Fan reached Yingtian Academy.

• The Crimson Flame Baleful God unleashed a storm of Flame Principle spears, wounding Ye Lingxi, while nine God Realm experts prepared to overwhelm her.
• Xue Ya rescued Ye Lingxi as Shen Li repelled the combined attack, and they told her more reinforcements were coming.
• Transcendence Realm experts from Yingtian Academy, the God Clan, and rogue cultivators arrived and drove back the God Realm forces.
• Xiao Jing, Gong Yuluo, Shen Xiao, and Shen You joined the battle, and Shen Li and Xue Ya charged the Crimson Flame Baleful God.
• Ye Lingxi recovered and returned to battle, while Liu Mengli arrived to help Liu Qin and severed the winged expert’s remaining wing.
• At Yingtian Academy’s bamboo grove, someone urgently announced that something had happened to Senior Brother Lin Fan.

Su Chen allowed Qin Zixuan to join the battle against the God Realm’s forces while Jianxin went to the battlefield and Su Chen stayed to deal with Jianxin’s senior brother, who had suffered Qi Deviation. In the Demon Domain, Ao Fen broke the seal on the Dragon Clan’s forbidden gate, releasing hundreds of thousands of Five-Clawed Golden Dragons onto Canglan Star.

• Jianxin told Su Chen that his senior brother had suffered Qi Deviation after obsessively cultivating, and Su Chen said he would handle him.
• Qin Zixuan pleaded with Su Chen to let her fight, and he finally allowed her to leave after she kissed him.
• Su Chen sent Jianxin to the battlefield and said he would make sure nothing happened to Qin Zixuan.
• Ao Fen went to the Dragon Clan’s forbidden ground, intending to break the seal and return to the side he had chosen over the Dragon Clan patriarch.
• Ao Fen’s punches shattered the chains and runes sealing the stone gate, and hundreds of thousands of Five-Clawed Golden Dragons emerged.

Ao Yin rejected Ao Yan and killed him, then sent the golden dragons to plunder Canglan Star while warning that a powerful being was coming. Su Chen stopped Lin Fan during Qi Deviation and helped him recover, leaving Lin Fan chastened and Su Chen reflecting that he had pushed his disciple too hard.

• Ao Yan asked Ao Yin to let him rejoin the Dragon Clan, but Ao Yin rejected him and the dragons mocked him.
• Ao Yan attacked Ao Yin, who killed him with a single blast.
• Ao Yin warned that a more powerful existence would arrive and ordered the golden dragons to plunder Canglan Star's major factions.
• Lin Fan, suffering from Qi Deviation, attacked Su Chen, who suppressed him and restored his reason.
• Su Chen reprimanded Lin Fan for rushing his cultivation, then admitted he had pushed him too hard as Lin Fan apologized.

Su Chen protected Yingtian Academy from the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon Clan and confronted Ao Yin in the Demon Domain over the clan’s stolen treasures. He offered Ao Yin a chance to save his clan by returning everything it had taken.

• Lin Fan assured Su Chen he would protect Canglan Star with his junior brother, and Su Chen told him he believed in him.
• Over a hundred Five-Clawed Golden Dragon experts arrived at Yingtian Academy to loot its treasury, but Su Chen blocked their way.
• Su Chen killed a Transcendence Eighth Stage attacker with one finger and annihilated the remaining Five-Clawed Golden Dragon experts when they refused to return their stolen goods.
• Su Chen went to the Dragon Clan in the Demon Domain and told Ao Yin to return everything his clansmen had stolen or face the clan’s destruction.