Chapter Summaries

Liu Bai and his companions entered the Northern Cang Hall after Li Xuantong used a Level Nine Mark to summon it, and received Spirit Value tokens for passing the Northern Azure Spirit Academy's test. The white-haired elder announced an optional challenge tournament for students with Level Seven Marks or higher, leaving Liu Bai and his peers facing a team of powerful senior students.

• Liu Bai learned that his Array Dao manual had reached its limit, then saw a purple-gold beam summon the Northern Cang Hall.
• Li Xuantong revealed that he had used a Level Nine Mark to summon the hall, whose doors opened to admit students with marks of Grade Four or higher.
• The white-haired elder welcomed the candidates and distributed Spirit Value tokens; Liu Bai and Su Xuan each received three thousand Spirit Value.
• The elder announced an optional challenge tournament that would reward five thousand Spirit Value to students with Level Seven Marks or higher.
• More than a dozen senior students appeared, and they reacted with surprise after discovering that Li Xuantong, Zhou Fan, and Su Xuan had reached the Heaven Fusion Realm.

Liu Bai challenged Northern Azure Spirit Academy’s senior students and defeated Li Ling with Spirit Arrays and martial arts, earning additional Spirit Value. Li Xuantong also defeated Yan Mo, while Li Jing and Guo Xiong lost their matches.

• Yan Mo introduced the challenge, and Su Xuan, Liu Bai, Li Jing, Guo Xiong, and others decided whether to compete or withdraw.
• The freshmen drew opponents, matching Liu Bai against Li Ling and Yan Mo against Li Xuantong.
• Liu Bai used five golden wheels, the Senluo Death Seals, and Star Shattering Fist to defeat Li Ling.
• Elder Bai raised Liu Bai’s Spirit Value from three thousand to eight thousand, while Li Jing and Guo Xiong lost their matches.
• Li Xuantong defeated Yan Mo after a difficult battle, leaving Yan Mo pale and disheveled.

Liu Bai and the other freshmen entered Northern Azure Spirit Academy and saw its vast grounds, rankings, and many gifted students. After Elder Bai announced a Freshman Assembly in a month, mentor Qiu Zongsheng led Liu Bai’s group to their new residence, a lakeside district covered by a fourth grade Spirit Gathering Array.

• Liu Bai and the freshmen passed through the academy gates and saw the Divine Soul Ranking, Heavenly Ranking, and the academy’s expansive grounds.
• Yan Mo explained the rankings and advised the freshmen to focus on adapting to academy life before challenging them.
• The remaining freshmen arrived, including Shen Cangsheng and Crane Demon, who greeted Su Xuan.
• Elder Bai welcomed the freshmen, announced the Freshman Assembly in a month, and explained that they would compete for the title of number one freshman.
• Mentor Qiu Zongsheng led Liu Bai and roughly two thousand other students to their lakeside residence in the Freshman District.
• Liu Bai identified the surrounding spiritual array as a fourth grade Spirit Gathering Array, and Qiu Zongsheng confirmed it.

Qiu Zongsheng explained how Northern Azure Spirit Academy charged Spirit Value for better housing, advanced cultivation arrays, and access to the Thunder Domain, then Liu Bai and several companions chose the free Grade C Area. Liu Bai browsed the Spirit Value Hall catalog and found the items he wanted were far beyond his means, including the Ancient Golden Crow Spirit Core he hoped to use.

• Qiu Zongsheng described the academy’s housing fees, Spirit Value rewards, and the cost of entering the Thunder Domain.
• Liu Bai chose the free Grade C Area, and Guo Xiong, An Ran, Li Jing, and others chose nearby residences.
• Liu Bai opened the Spirit Value Hall catalog and reviewed the prices of spiritual arts, artifacts, arrays, and Heavenly Thunder Beads.
• Liu Bai considered the Golden Crow Blazing Flame Art as a match for the Ancient Golden Crow Spirit Core.
• Liu Bai saw that the Ancient Golden Crow Spirit Core cost four million Spirit Value and realized it would be difficult to obtain.

Liu Bai chose the cultivation method, array, and foundational manuals he wanted to buy, then challenged the Divine Soul Ranking to earn the Spirit Value he needed. He took first place on his first day at the Northern Azure Spirit Academy, leaving the academy stunned and Huo Yun displaced from the ranking.

• Liu Bai selected the Golden Crow Blazing Flame Art, the Hundred Spirit Sword Array, and manuals on artifact forging and pill refining, planning to obtain the Spirit Value through the ranking.
• Liu Bai poured his spiritual energy into his Spirit Value Token to challenge the Divine Soul Ranking as Guo Xiong, Li Jing, and An Ran watched.
• A golden light climbed rapidly through the Divine Soul Ranking, passing the top ten and then the top three.
• Liu Bai's name appeared in first place, identified as having cultivated at the Northern Azure Spirit Academy for one day.
• Students across the academy reacted with shock and excitement as Liu Bai displaced Huo Yun and checked the Spirit Value on his token.

After taking first place on the Divine Soul Ranking, Liu Bai spent his Spirit Value on cultivation and crafting resources, then used his system to rapidly improve his skills and cultivation. He broke through toward the Heaven Fusion Realm, leaving the Freshman District stunned by the upheaval.

• Liu Bai visited the Spirit Value Hall and exchanged fifty-one thousand Spirit Value for the Golden Crow Blazing Flame Art, the Hundred Spirit Sword Array, and basic spirit artifact forging and pill refining texts.
• Liu Bai merged the Golden Crow Blazing Flame Art, gained a Golden Crow manifestation, and raised his array and crafting skills to Great Accomplishment.
• Liu Bai spent eighteen thousand Experience Points on the Mountain God Art, causing him to begin a breakthrough as spiritual energy surged into his residence.
• An Ran and Li Jing watched the disturbance, and Li Jing concluded that Liu Bai was attempting to break through to the Heaven Fusion Realm.
• After more than ten minutes, the spiritual energy fluctuations subsided, and Liu Bai opened his eyes with a dramatically transformed aura.

Liu Bai broke through to the Heaven Fusion Realm and demonstrated his strength after an Iron Cavalry Society member challenged him. The chapter ended with his companions weighing how to respond to the powerful faction backing Huo Yun.

• Liu Bai reached the Heaven Fusion Realm, raised his Golden Crow Blazing Flame Art to the sixth level, and successfully formed five Senluo Death Seals.
• Li Jing, Guo Xiong, and the others congratulated Liu Bai, who urged Li Jing and Guo Xiong to obtain Divine Soul Pills and predicted Spirit Value would soon come their way.
• An Iron Cavalry Society member confronted Liu Bai in the Freshman Square, and Liu Bai defeated him with a punch carrying four Senluo Death Seals.
• Crane Demon watched Liu Bai's display, while Li Xuantong recognized him as a formidable rival and left with Ye Tian.
• Zhang Heng and Shao Rui reported that the Iron Cavalry Society had thousands of members and was led by Bai Ran, a Heavenly Ranking expert ranked thirty-second; Liu Bai rewarded them with Spirit Value.
• Li Jing suggested discussing the Iron Cavalry Society with Su Xuan and contacting Li Xuantong, while Guo Xiong worried that their group was outnumbered.

Liu Bai gathered the freshmen’s leading factions to challenge the older students monopolizing the Divine Soul Ranking. After demonstrating his precise control of Earth Element Spiritual Energy, he explained the ranking’s Spirit Value rewards and mission-access benefits, leaving the assembled leaders to realize his plan could inflame relations between freshmen and older students.

• Liu Bai recruited Guo Xiong to invite Li Xuantong, Shen Cangsheng, and Crane Demon to discuss uniting the freshmen.
• Li Xuantong, Crane Demon, and leaders of many freshman factions accepted the invitation and gathered at the island in the lake.
• Liu Bai shaped the island into a stone meeting ground with a display of Earth Element Spiritual Energy control that impressed the gathered experts.
• Liu Bai announced that he wanted the freshmen to contest the Divine Soul Ranking, which older students currently occupied.
• Liu Bai described the Spirit Value rewards and the better missions available to ranked students, stirring the freshmen’s anger at being excluded.
• Li Xuantong and Crane Demon recognized that Liu Bai’s proposal could provoke a serious conflict between freshmen and older students.

Liu Bai united the freshmen to challenge the senior students for control of the Divine Soul Ranking, leading to a best-of-five match between their strongest fighters. The five battles began, and Liu Bai and Huo Yun’s opening exchanges ended in a draw before they charged at each other again.

• Liu Bai lent Li Jing eight thousand Spirit Value so she could exchange for a Divine Soul Pill and enter the Thunder Domain to advance her cultivation.
• Ye Tian, Mo Feng, Li Jing, Ling Yu, Xu Huang, and Jiang Tai helped freshmen claim more than half of the Divine Soul Ranking’s top ten places.
• Liu Bai challenged the senior students who had been pushed out of the top ten to a five-on-five match, and Dean Taicang allowed the match to proceed.
• Huo Yun and four other former top-ten seniors accepted the challenge, and the two teams gathered in the Freshman District three days later.
• Liu Bai, Su Xuan, Shen Cangsheng, Li Xuantong, and Crane Demon each chose a senior opponent and began fighting in separate battlefields.
• Liu Bai and Huo Yun exchanged punches, drew even, and then charged at each other again, shattering the square’s ground with their collision.

Liu Bai defeated Huo Yun with the Hundred Spirit Sword Array, and Li Xuantong also won his match, securing the new students’ victory. As Crane Demon unleashed a powerful technique against his opponent, he was left standing while the old student was knocked unconscious.

• Liu Bai surprised Huo Yun by revealing a fifth Senluo Death Seal, then countered Huo Yun’s sword art with a Hundred Spirit Sword Array he had secretly formed during their fight.
• Liu Bai halted the array’s sword-qi torrent just before it struck Huo Yun, and the Punishment Hall declared Liu Bai the winner.
• Li Xuantong defeated Xiao Jian, who conceded and handed over his Spirit Value; Liu Bai learned that Li Xuantong had fused with an Ancient Suanni core.
• Shen Cangsheng defeated his opponent, giving the new students the two wins they needed to win the challenge.
• Crane Demon unleashed a giant crane shadow against his opponent’s Golden Lion, and the collision knocked the old student unconscious while Crane Demon was dragged backward across the ground.

After the freshmen defeated the senior students, Liu Bai collected his winnings and spent much of his Spirit Value on three new elemental arts and two crafting tools. He completed the gathering of all five elements in his body and left determined to develop his abilities before the Freshman Assembly.

• The freshmen won four of their five matches, and Huo Yun handed Liu Bai his Spirit Value Token after losing their bet; it held five hundred thousand Spirit Value.
• Liu Bai distributed some of the winnings to Guo Xiong, An Ran, and his allies, then considered using his remaining Spirit Value to strengthen himself before the Freshman Assembly.
• At the Spirit Value Hall, Liu Bai exchanged three hundred and twenty-five thousand Spirit Value for the Flowing Gold Spirit Transformation Art, the Profound Water Art, the Azure Wood Spiritual Art, a Fire Cloud Furnace, and a Two Poles Cauldron.
• The white-haired old man warned Liu Bai against pursuing too many paths at once, but Liu Bai thanked him and went ahead with the exchange; the old man watched him leave and wondered whether he could fulfill his ambition.
• Liu Bai used his remaining Experience Points to bring the three new arts to Initiation, opening acupoints that gathered metal-, water-, and wood-element spiritual energy alongside his fire and earth elements.

Liu Bai accepted a mission to hunt an Armored Earth Dragon and discovered a nest of five, including a powerful Armored Earth Dragon King. He ambushed them with the Hundred Spirit Sword Array, killing the four smaller beasts and badly wounding the king, which prepared one last desperate attack.

• Liu Bai inspected the Bounty Board in the Mission Hall and learned which dangerous criminals were wanted by the academy.
• Liu Bai persuaded a mentor to approve his Human Grade upper mission to hunt an Armored Earth Dragon, citing his strength and recent victory over Huo Yun.
• Liu Bai spent two days searching before finding five Armored Earth Dragons gathered in a valley.
• Liu Bai secretly set up the Hundred Spirit Sword Array, but the Armored Earth Dragon King attacked before it was complete.
• Liu Bai blocked the king’s strike with a divine mountain and the Three-Headed Stone Flood Dragon’s power, then brought down the array and killed the four smaller dragons.
• The array pierced the Armored Earth Dragon King with dozens of swords, and the badly wounded beast gathered its strength for a final attack.

Liu Bai returned to Northern Azure Spirit Academy after defeating an Armored Earth Dragon King and brought five dragon corpses to complete his mission. Elder Chi Huo took him to the Artifact Forging Institute to test his claimed skill, and Liu Bai began refining Purple Crow Gold with unexpectedly strong fundamentals.

• Liu Bai used his Three-Headed Stone Flood Dragon’s bloodline pressure to break the Armored Earth Dragon King’s will, then killed it and collected the five dragons’ cores and corpses.
• Liu Bai returned to Northern Azure Spirit Academy in three days and told the middle-aged mentor that one of the five corpses was an Armored Earth Dragon King.
• Elder Chi Huo arrived, offered Liu Bai three hundred thousand Spirit Value for the corpses, and agreed to test Liu Bai after he asked to trade the reward for artifact-forging blueprints.
• Elder Chi Huo brought Liu Bai to the Artifact Forging Institute, where Liu Bai inspected the metals and identified the quality and forging stage of a piece of Purple Crow Gold.
• Liu Bai began the metal’s second and third forging, and Elder Chi Huo watched in growing astonishment at his control and increasingly practiced movements.

Liu Bai impressed Elder Chi Huo with his artifact forging and array skills, earning valuable blueprints, materials, and a Universe Ring before returning to the Freshman District to strengthen his abilities. He spent his Spirit Value on the Ghost Soul Arrow Art and planned to forge his own bow.

• Liu Bai refined the metal to Elder Chi Huo's satisfaction, but declined the offer to join the Artifact Forging Institute and demonstrated his array skills instead.
• Elder Chi Huo gave Liu Bai artifact blueprints, forging insights, a Universe Ring, and the refined materials, and Liu Bai left feeling indebted to him.
• Liu Bai spent Experience Points to advance his Cultivation Methods and Spiritual Arts, absorbed Purple Crow Gold to form Metal Qi, and shaped it into a sword and then an arrow.
• Liu Bai went to the Spirit Value Hall, exchanged five Armored Earth Dragon Spirit Beast Cores for five hundred and fifty thousand Spirit Value, and bought the Ghost Soul Arrow Art.
• When a senior asked how he would use the archery art without a bow, Liu Bai said he would make one himself.

Liu Bai perfected several Spiritual Arts, gaining powerful special abilities, then forged the Gale Bow with Li Jing watching. As the Freshman Assembly approached, Crane Demon resolved to defeat Liu Bai and prove himself the freshmen’s true number one.

• Liu Bai perfected Ghost Soul Arrow Art, Great Sun Sea Burning Palm, and Mountain Shaking Divine Fist, gaining Soul Seize, Sea Burning, and Mountain Shaking.
• Liu Bai recorded Elder Chi Huo’s artifact blueprints and chose materials to forge a Gale Bow suited to his Ghost Soul Arrow Art.
• Liu Bai forged the Gale Bow and tested it by shattering a distant boulder with a Golden Qi Arrow, impressing Li Jing.
• Liu Bai and Li Jing discussed the Freshman Assembly, which was three days away, as the Freshman District grew excited for the competition.
• Crane Demon decided he would defeat Liu Bai at the Freshman Assembly and establish himself as the freshmen’s true number one.

Liu Bai and the other freshmen began the Freshman Assembly, whose new challenge was to reach the summit of Northern Spirit Mountain and claim a flag. The top five would receive Spirit Value and a chance to enter the Spiritual Art Divine Hall, while an undisclosed formidable creature awaited them at the summit.

• Guo Xiong proposed forming a faction, and Liu Bai agreed on the condition that he would be a hands-off boss.
• Su Xuan and the others revealed their breakthroughs, and Qiu Zongsheng led them with the other freshmen to the assembly grounds.
• Heaven Seat Elder Zhu Tian announced that the assembly had changed from an arena competition to a race for a flag atop Northern Spirit Mountain, with the top five earning rewards and access to the Spiritual Art Divine Hall.
• Zhu Tian began the assembly, and Liu Bai's group entered the mountain range while Su Xuan voiced suspicion that the challenge was not as simple as it seemed.
• One elder reminded Zhu Tian that a formidable creature lived at the summit, and Zhu Tian admitted he had deliberately left it out.

Liu Bai and the other freshmen fought through the Spirit Beast tide and climbed Northern Spirit Mountain, where Heaven-grade beasts threatened their progress. After Liu Bai killed a Purple Thorn Leopard, Elder Zhu Tian and the other elders watched him with growing surprise as the race toward the summit continued.

• Liu Bai led his group through the beast tide, and Zhang Heng, Su Ling'er, Shao Rui, and the others fell behind near the foot of Northern Spirit Mountain.
• Liu Bai used Mountain Shaking Divine Fist to kill several hundred high-level Spirit Beasts, astonishing the older students and elders watching.
• Liu Bai's group encountered blood-colored vines, and Liu Bai burned them away before luring out and killing the vine-controlling Purple Thorn Leopard with a golden arrow.
• Liu Bai and his companions heard powerful roars from across Northern Spirit Mountain and continued climbing as other strong freshmen fought Heaven-grade Spirit Beasts.
• Elder Zhu Tian observed Liu Bai's earth- and fire-element spiritual arts and unusual arrow, remarking that the freshman continued to surprise him.

Liu Bai and his companions fought through Ghost Leopards and raced toward the mountaintop as a massive horde of Heaven Tier Spirit Beasts pursued the freshmen. Near the stone platform, with Guo Xiong exhausted and danger closing in, Liu Bai told the others to choose whether to continue uphill or retreat downhill.

• Guo Xiong struck a Ghost Leopard, and Liu Bai’s group discovered six more before fleeing toward the mountaintop.
• The five combined their abilities to trap three Ghost Leopards, while Liu Bai killed two and Guo Xiong held off the others.
• Liu Bai saw at least thirty Heaven Tier Spirit Beasts pursuing other freshmen, including Li Xuantong, Shen Cangsheng, and Xu Huang, and urged his group toward the stone platform.
• Lin Zheng, Zhou Qingshan, and Gu Tianyan watched the Freshman Assembly and discussed the Punishment Hall’s invitation.
• Liu Bai led his group straight past the stone platform toward the mountaintop, while Li Xuantong and the others suspected they had been left to face the beast horde.
• As Guo Xiong said he could no longer continue, Liu Bai warned that they could not stop and asked the group to choose between going uphill and retreating downhill.

Liu Bai won the Freshman Assembly after reaching the summit first and taking the spirit flag while a mysterious Spirit Beast unleashed magma across Northern Spirit Mountain. After recovering, he entered the Level Six Spirit Gathering Array to test whether his Earth Element Spiritual Energy could strengthen his metal-element cultivation.

• A mysterious Spirit Beast caused magma pillars and giant molten hands to erupt across the mountain, forcing Liu Bai, Su Xuan, and the other competitors to flee or press onward.
• Shen Cangsheng, Li Xuantong, and Crane Demon broke through a towering magma waterfall, but Liu Bai had already reached the summit and claimed the spirit flag.
• Elder Zhu Tian declared Liu Bai first in the Freshman Assembly and ranked the remaining top five by their arrival at the summit.
• After several days of recovery, Liu Bai reviewed his rewards, including more than one hundred thousand Experience Points, 510 Beast Soul Points, five hundred thousand Spirit Value, and a chance to choose a Divine Art.
• Liu Bai spent four thousand Spirit Value to enter the Level Six Spirit Gathering Array and settled on a quiet peak to test using Earth Element Spiritual Energy to enhance his metal-element spiritual energy.

Liu Bai entered the Spiritual Art Hall to choose a spiritual art and followed a mysterious summons to its core. He obtained a five-colored scroll connected to the Five Elements, though its identity and power remained unknown.

• Liu Bai checked his cultivation progress and decided to save his Experience Points until after choosing a Divine Art.
• Liu Bai met Su Xuan, Li Xuantong, Shen Cangsheng, and Crane Demon outside the Spiritual Art Hall, where Elder Zhu Tian explained that powerful spiritual arts had Guardians they needed to defeat or pass.
• Liu Bai entered a river of light, briefly found a Spirit-grade High-tier Sky Burning Fire Spiritual Art, and continued deeper instead of taking it.
• Liu Bai sensed his Five Elements Spiritual Energy guiding him toward the core, where a five-colored vortex repelled the powerful balls of light.
• Liu Bai used his Five Elements Spiritual Energy to dissolve the vortex and reveal a five-colored scroll, which descended into his hand.