Chapter Summaries

Liu Bai broke through to the Spirit Movement Realm and activated a system that displayed his cultivation status, though it showed he had no Spirit Veins. He returned to the Liu Domain to choose a cultivation method, where the guards welcomed him as the Young Lord.

• Liu Bai advanced to the Spirit Movement Realm at Northern Spirit Academy, and his system activated after he completed drawing qi into his body.
• Liu Bai examined the system panel and discovered that he had no Spirit Veins, then considered finding a way to address that disadvantage.
• Liu Bai told Instructor Xi that he planned to return to the Liu Domain to choose a cultivation method, and Instructor Xi approved his leave.
• Liu Mubai declined to return with Liu Bai, saying he wanted to break through and catch up to his elder brother.
• Liu Bai traveled through the Teleportation Array to Willow City, where the guards greeted him and reported his return to the Domain Lord.

Liu Bai reunited with the Liu Family, learned that Liu Zong had reached the Divine Soul Realm, and volunteered to join Liu Jingshan's expedition to Black Nether Abyss. His father then took him to the family’s Spiritual Arts collection, where they uncovered a hidden cache of powerful arts.

• Liu Bai returned to Willow Manor and greeted Liu Jingshan, Liu Qingtian, Liu Zong, and Liu Ming.
• Liu Qingtian discovered that Liu Bai had entered the Spirit Movement Realm, while Liu Bai congratulated Liu Zong on reaching the Divine Soul Realm.
• Liu Jingshan announced that he would lead an expedition to Black Nether Abyss to find a suitable Spirit Beast Core for Liu Zong, and Liu Bai insisted on joining them.
• Liu Jingshan agreed to take Liu Bai on the expedition, which would depart in three days.
• Liu Qingtian led Liu Bai to the family’s Spiritual Arts chamber, where Liu Bai examined several scrolls and asked to see the better techniques.
• Liu Qingtian revealed a hidden compartment containing nine jade boxes of the Liu Family’s powerful Spiritual Arts.

Liu Bai chose several powerful Spiritual Arts, then used his system’s Experience Points from killing Green Armored Wolves to rapidly improve his cultivation and combat skills. He prepared to follow his grandfather to Black Nether Abyss the next day, wondering how much he could grow there without drawing too much attention.

• Liu Bai selected Blazing Sun Art, Great Sun Sea Burning Palm, and Blazing Step from the Liu Family’s collection.
• Liu Bai asked Liu Qingtian to send living low-level Spirit Beasts to his courtyard so he could test his system.
• Liu Bai killed five Green Armored Wolves and discovered that they granted Experience Points and Beast Soul Points while still leaving behind Spirit Beast Cores.
• Liu Bai spent Experience Points to advance Blazing Sun Art, reach the Spirit Movement Realm Mid-stage, and improve Blazing Step.
• Liu Bai looked forward to accompanying his grandfather to Black Nether Abyss the next day and considered whether a breakthrough there would attract suspicion.

Liu Bai entered Black Nether Abyss with his family and guards, then fought and killed a lone Nether Wolf in his first battle against a Spirit Beast. After resting, he used the experience he gained to strengthen Wind Breaking Finger, but discovered the skill could not be upgraded beyond Great Accomplishment.

• Liu Jingshan led Liu Bai, Liu Zong, and five experts into Black Nether Abyss after giving Liu Bai a Poison Evasion Pill and warning the group to stay alert.
• Liu Bai spotted a lone Nether Wolf and insisted on fighting it while Liu Jingshan allowed him to face the beast by himself.
• Liu Bai used Blazing Step to evade the Nether Wolf and traded blows with it, suffering a claw wound while his Wind Breaking Finger injured the wolf.
• Liu Bai killed the weakened Nether Wolf with a strike to its waist followed by a blow through its throat, earning 100 experience points and one Beast Soul Point.
• Liu Jingshan led the party away from the scent of blood, and Liu Bai recovered his spiritual energy before upgrading Wind Breaking Finger to Great Accomplishment.
• Liu Bai tested the upgraded skill on bluestone and found that Wind Breaking Finger could no longer be upgraded.

Liu Bai helped his family defeat a high-grade Jade Scale Scorpion and gained experience by delivering the killing blow. After leveling up to the peak of the Spirit Movement Realm, he considered learning Spirit Arrays to overcome the limits of his powerful spiritual arts.

• Liu Jingshan and Liu Zong ambushed the Jade Scale Scorpion, and their coordinated attacks left it near death.
• Liu Bai asked to finish the Jade Scale Scorpion and gained 3000 Experience Points and 5 Beast Soul Points for killing it.
• Liu Jingshan ordered the group to camp in the scorpion's territory while Liu Zong fused with its Spirit Beast Core.
• Liu Bai spent experience to raise the Blazing Sun Art to its fourth layer, improve Blazing Step, and advance the Great Sun Sea Burning Palm.
• Liu Bai realized he could use the Great Sun Sea Burning Palm only a few times and decided that learning Spirit Arrays was imperative.

Liu Bai studied spirit arrays under Wu Yuan, quickly mastering the basics and astonishing the resident Spirit Array Master with his talent. He used his system to learn the Flame Serpent Spirit Breaking Array, leaving himself capable of deploying a powerful array but concerned about its limitations and his lack of experience points.

• Liu Qingtian introduced Liu Bai to Wu Yuan, who began teaching him the fundamentals of spirit arrays.
• Wu Yuan explained Spirit Seals and array diagrams, then gave Liu Bai a Jade Slip containing basic instruction and a method for cultivating Spirit Seals.
• Liu Bai quickly condensed ten Spirit Seals, stunning Wu Yuan, who praised his talent and hurried away.
• Liu Bai used his system to raise the Basic Spirit Array Manual to Great Accomplishment and found he could condense twenty-five Spirit Seals.
• Liu Bai recorded the Flame Serpent Spirit Breaking Array from a Liu Family Jade Slip and raised it to Great Accomplishment, becoming a Level 1 Spirit Array Master.
• Liu Bai noted that the array's combat use was limited by its setup time and his insufficient Array Dao Realm and experience points.

Liu Bai returned to Northern Spirit Academy and agreed to enter the Academy Trial after Teacher Xi promised him a Spirit Grade Spiritual Art. At the trial, Tao Gu challenged him for the title of Earth Tier’s top student, and the chapter ended as Tao Gu launched his Heavenly Frost Palm.

• Liu Bai returned to the academy, where Teacher Xi urged him to join the Academy Trial and was shocked to discover Liu Bai had reached Spirit Movement Realm Peak.
• Teacher Xi offered Liu Bai his choice of a Spirit Grade Spiritual Art from the Spiritual Art Chamber if he participated, and Liu Bai accepted.
• At the trial grounds, Liu Bai faced off against East Academy’s Tao Gu after their students argued over which academy was stronger.
• Tao Gu challenged Liu Bai on a fighting platform, and Liu Bai casually invited him to make the first move.
• Tao Gu attacked Liu Bai with the Heavenly Frost Palm, sending a wave of icy spiritual energy toward him.

After defeating Tao Gu and advancing to the Heaven Tier, Liu Bai met Hong Ling and began exploring the academy’s facilities. With Instructor Xi’s approval, he entered the Heaven Layer of the Spiritual Art Chamber and stopped before a red Jade Slip.

• Liu Bai defeated Tao Gu with a forceful kick, and Instructor Mo learned that Liu Bai had reached Spirit Movement Realm Peak.
• Liu Bai encouraged Liu Mubai, while the Earth Tier Academy Trial ended with Liu Bai, Tao Gu, and Lin Xuan advancing to the Heaven Tier.
• Xu Ling learned of Liu Bai’s rapid cultivation and dismissed him as a rival for the Five Great Academies’ slots.
• Liu Bai met Hong Ling on his way to the Heaven Tier, but left after she congratulated him on taking first place.
• Liu Xing showed Liu Bai the Cultivation Hall and gave him Instructor Xi’s jade pendant, which Liu Bai used to enter the Heaven Layer of the Spiritual Art Chamber.
• Liu Bai passed over the Spirit Grade Spiritual Arts and stopped to examine a red Jade Slip in a stone cabinet.

Liu Bai learned the dangerous Senluo Death Seal, relying on the system-enhanced strength of his right arm and his Blazing Sun Spiritual Energy to withstand its backlash. He then chose Star Shattering Fist from the Spirit Grade arts and left the Spiritual Art Chamber, eager to test his new techniques.

• Liu Bai recorded Senluo Death Seal and raised it to Great Accomplishment with experience points.
• Liu Bai chose his right hand for the Death Seal, and the system strengthened its meridians, bones, and muscles into a Kirin Arm.
• Liu Bai condensed the Senluo Death Seal and used his Blazing Sun Spiritual Energy to suppress its violent backlash.
• Liu Bai selected Star Shattering Fist from the six Spirit Grade Spiritual Arts and raised it to Initiation.
• Liu Bai left the Spiritual Art Chamber to test his new techniques, confusing the Heaven Layer students and drawing disdain from some older students.

Liu Bai joined Northern Spirit Academy’s combat trial in the Northern Spirit Plains and went alone into the forest to hunt Spirit Beasts. He found a Wind Fox, but two figures sprang from the bushes and cast a net over it.

• Instructor Xi warned Liu Bai that Zhang Jie, Zhao Pei, Shi Lin, and others might soon break through to the Spirit Wheel Realm and compete with him for selection to the Five Great Academies.
• Northern Spirit Academy’s students camped near the plains, where Zhang Jie mocked Liu Bai and the Mentors explained the trial’s dangers, team rankings, and rewards.
• The next morning, Liu Bai rejected offers to join a team and entered the forest alone, using wilderness skills learned in the Black Nether Abyss to track Spirit Beasts.
• Liu Bai found a Wind Fox drinking at a stream and prepared to strike before it could escape.
• Two figures burst from the bushes and threw a Great Net over the Wind Fox.

Liu Bai killed four members of the Blood Fiend Adventuring Group after they tried to rob him, then discovered that killing cultivators granted Spirit Vein Awakening Points. The group's leader, Blood Fiend, ordered Lu Ling to find Liu Bai and vowed revenge.

• A Wind Fox escaped the Blood Fiend Adventuring Group's net and rushed toward Liu Bai, who killed it with one strike.
• The Blood Fiend members tried to rob Liu Bai, but he killed two of them in a surprise attack and pursued and killed the other two as they fled.
• Liu Bai collected the Wind Fox's Spirit Beast Core and learned that killing cultivators granted Spirit Vein Awakening Points; his panel showed Spirit Veins at Awakening (4/10).
• Blood Fiend and Lu Ling examined the dead members, and Blood Fiend ordered Lu Ling to find the killer and vowed to punish him.

Liu Bai killed an Earth Splitting Bear and collected more Experience Points before following a strong blood scent to a wolf den, where he watched the Blood Fiend Adventuring Group fight a weakened Crimson Flame Wolf pack. The Crimson Flame Wolf King turned the battle into mutual destruction, crippling Blood Fiend and injuring Lu Ling as it suffered a fatal wound.

• Liu Bai waited out the Earth Splitting Bear’s berserk rampage, killed it with a dagger, collected its Spirit Beast Core, and brought his Experience Points above twelve hundred.
• Liu Bai followed the scent of blood to a concealed valley and discovered the Blood Fiend Adventuring Group attacking a Crimson Flame Wolf den.
• Liu Bai realized the wolves had been weakened before the attack and saw Blood Fiend and Lu Ling join forces against the Crimson Flame Wolf King.
• The Crimson Flame Wolf King tore off Blood Fiend’s arm and injured Lu Ming, while Lu Ling’s sword wounded the wolf king.
• Blood Fiend struck the wolf king’s neck with his ultimate technique, but the dying beast bit off half his lower leg, leaving both sides gravely injured.

Liu Bai killed the Crimson Flame Wolf King, advanced to the Spirit Wheel Realm, and defeated Lu Ling and the remaining fighters and wolves with his martial arts and spirit array. Afterward, he collected the spoils and discovered that he had awakened one Spirit Vein and reached the low-level Heart Array state.

• Liu Bai killed the badly wounded Crimson Flame Wolf King and spent experience to advance to the Spirit Wheel Realm before attacking Lu Ling.
• Lu Ling unleashed the Wind Riding Sword Art, but Liu Bai overcame his sword qi with the Great Sun Sea Burning Palm and killed him.
• Liu Bai used his experience to reach the low-level Heart Array state, then trapped and slaughtered the Blood Fiend Adventuring Group members and the remaining Crimson Flame Wolves with the Flame Serpent Spirit Breaking Array.
• Liu Bai collected the Spirit Beast Cores and killed Blood Fiend, gaining more experience and Spirit Vein Awakening Points.
• Liu Bai checked his status and found that he had one awakened Spirit Vein, 2,225 Experience Points, and 30 Beast Soul Points.

Liu Bai uncovered a hidden chamber in the wolf den and gained the Spirit Muscle Jade Bone physique, the Ice Muscle Jade Bone Art, and the Hundred Scrolls of Array Dao. After returning to camp with his strength greatly enhanced, he prepared to condense a second Senluo Death Seal.

• Liu Bai entered the wolf den, sensed that its stone statue concealed an array entrance, and stepped into a secret chamber.
• Liu Bai found Jade Bone Grass on a jade-white skeleton and recorded the Ice Muscle Jade Bone Art and the Hundred Scrolls of Array Dao.
• Liu Bai consumed the Jade Bone Grass, gained the Spirit Muscle Jade Bone physique, and used experience points to initiate the Divine Art.
• Liu Bai initiated the Hundred Scrolls of Array Dao and fused it with the Basic Spirit Array Manual.
• Liu Bai returned to camp, where Instructor Xi noticed his breakthrough and praised his chances of earning an academy slot.
• Liu Bai studied the Array Dao secrets and prepared to condense a second Senluo Death Seal.

Liu Bai hunted deeper in the Northern Spirit Plains, killed a Four-armed Spirit Ape, and took its Spirit Beast Core. The kill enraged the ape’s powerful parent, forcing Instructor Mo and Instructor Xi to drive it back and leaving the training exercise in doubt.

• Liu Bai condensed three Senluo Death Seals, then set out alone to hunt Spirit Beasts for experience.
• Zhang Jie suspected Liu Bai of cheating, while Zhao Pei and Li Yuan led their teams toward the plains’ depths.
• Liu Bai entered the mid-grade Spirit Beasts’ territory and fought a Four-armed Spirit Ape, killing it with a spirit array and three Senluo Death Seals.
• Liu Bai took the Four-armed Spirit Ape’s Spirit Beast Core and fled before its parent could find him.
• Instructor Xi told Liu Bai that the old ape had gone berserk after its offspring was killed, and warned that the training might be suspended.

Liu Bai reunited with Liu Qingtian as the Nine Domains searched unsuccessfully for the Six-armed Spirit Ape, then revealed that he had killed the Four-armed Spirit Ape and impressed his father with his array talent. After cultivation ended, Liu Bai’s monster-hunting results left the students stunned, and someone objected as his assessment continued.

• Liu Qingtian arrived with the Liu Domain’s contingent and was surprised to find Liu Bai had reached the Spirit Wheel Realm.
• Liu Bai learned that Liu Jingshan had gone exploring with a relic map and had not returned, while Liu Qingtian explained he was also seeking the person who killed the Four-armed Spirit Ape.
• The Nine Domains searched for the Six-armed Spirit Ape but found nothing and departed; Liu Bai showed Liu Qingtian the Four-armed Spirit Ape’s core and asked him to find more array diagrams.
• Liu Bai reviewed his cultivation gains and status before the academy assessed the students’ Spirit Beast cores.
• Liu Bai presented twenty low-level late-stage Spirit Beast cores and the Crimson Flame Wolf King’s core, shocking the assessors and students.
• An unnamed student jumped out in protest as Liu Bai’s results were announced.

Liu Bai won the cultivation trip and gave one of his Spirit Nurturing Pills to Liu Mubai before testing the other at the academy. Cultivating with the pill earned him 2,500 Experience Points in the Blazing Sun Art, confirming that cultivation could improve his attributes.

• Zhang Jie accused Liu Bai of cheating, but Instructor Mo defended Liu Bai's victory, and Liu Bai received two Spirit Nurturing Pills as his prize.
• Liu Bai stayed at the Northern Spirit Academy during the break and gave one pill to Liu Mubai, encouraging him to pursue the Five Great Academies; Hong Ling joined them and praised Liu Bai.
• Liu Bai swallowed his remaining pill in the West Academy's Cultivation Hall and felt his spiritual energy rise, though he did not reach the Spirit Wheel Realm middle stage.
• Liu Bai checked his attribute panel and discovered that cultivating had raised the Blazing Sun Art's Experience Points from zero to 2,500.

Liu Bai defeated the assassin Ji Zong in Northern Spirit City and recruited him, then returned to the Liu Domain to learn that his grandfather had supposedly gone missing. He discovered Liu Jingshan was safe and had faked his disappearance to recultivate with the Mountain God Art, while unrest continued to stir around the Liu Domain.

• Liu Bai trained in the Cultivation Hall until Instructor Xi told him to return to the Liu Domain with Liu Mubai.
• In Northern Spirit City, Ji Zong trapped the brothers in a Spirit Rain Array, but Liu Bai shattered it with his own array and made Ji Zong submit.
• Liu Zong told Liu Bai and Liu Mubai that Liu Jingshan had gone missing, and Liu Bai led them back to Willow Manor.
• Liu Bai met Liu Jingshan and Liu Qingtian in private, learned that Liu Jingshan had faked his disappearance to recultivate, and recorded the Mountain God Art.
• Liu Qingtian suppressed unrest in the Liu Domain as Liu Bai recognized that hidden enemies were probing the family for weakness.

Liu Bai upgraded the Ice Muscle Jade Bone Art and Mountain God Art, gaining two elemental Spirit Wheels and greatly increasing his spiritual energy before advancing to the Spirit Wheel Realm Mid-stage. After returning to Northern Spirit Academy for the Five Great Academies selection, he learned that Zhao Pei, Li Yuan, and others might have reached the Spirit Wheel Realm.

• Liu Bai raised the Ice Muscle Jade Bone Art to Minor Accomplishment, awakening a fire-element Spirit Wheel in his Heart Aperture and increasing his spiritual energy.
• Liu Bai cultivated the Mountain God Art, formed an earth-element Spirit Wheel in his Spleen Aperture, and improved the Mountain Shaking Divine Fist.
• Liu Bai spent half a month cultivating, advanced the Blazing Sun Art to its sixth layer, and reached the Spirit Wheel Realm Mid-stage.
• Liu Qingtian told Liu Bai that the Five Great Academies selection was approaching and gave him three array diagrams, which Liu Bai recorded and learned.
• Liu Bai returned to Northern Spirit Academy, where a young man told him that Zhao Pei, Li Yuan, and others had trained in the Northern Spirit Plains and might have entered the Spirit Wheel Realm.

Liu Bai learned that Northern Spirit Academy had five spots in the Five Great Academies selection and watched the ten qualified students gather for the battles in Northern Spirit City. After drawing lots, he was matched against Zhang Jie, while the first pair began fighting.

• Instructor Xi named Liu Bai, Zhao Pei, Li Yuan, and Zuo Yue as the West Academy students who met the admission requirements, while six East Academy students also qualified.
• Liu Bai saw Liu Qingtian among the Domain Lords and recognized Mu Feng and young Mu Chen, who confidently declared that he would surpass Liu Bai one day.
• Dean Xiao introduced Mr. Lin, the recruiter from the Five Great Academies, and announced that five decisive matches would award five spots, with a possible extra spot for an impressive performance.
• The ten students drew lots, and Liu Bai drew number three alongside Zhang Jie, who panicked at the thought of facing him.
• Dean Xiao started the selection battle, and the two students who drew number one began fighting as Liu Bai assessed their ordinary cultivation methods and spiritual arts.