Chapter Summaries

Liu Bai obtained the Five Elements Divine Thunder Art, but its Guardian required him to withstand three attacks using Five Elements Fusion. He raised the Ice Muscle Jade Bone Art to its highest level, fused his five elemental spiritual energies, and faced the Guardian’s first strike, which clashed with his punch and tore open a Space Rift.

• Liu Bai received the Five Elements Divine Thunder Art after the Spiritual Art Hall guided him to it, while Elder Zhu Tian learned that the chosen freshman was Liu Bai.
• The Guardian told Liu Bai he had to endure three attacks and warned that he would die from one strike if he could not achieve Five Elements Fusion.
• Liu Bai spent 22,000 Experience Points to raise the Ice Muscle Jade Bone Art to its highest level, gaining the Ice Muscle Jade Bone physique and a further 20% reduction in Experience Point requirements.
• Liu Bai merged his five types of spiritual energy into a chaotic-colored sphere and told the Golden Light Shadow to attack.
• The Golden Light Shadow struck Liu Bai, whose punch met its palm without an explosion; their collision produced a Space Rift that shocked Elder Zhu Tian and the other observers.

Liu Bai raised his cultivation during a brutal three-move trial, defeated the Golden Light Shadow, and obtained the Five Elements Divine Thunder Art. After the Freshman Assembly ended, he and Su Xuan went to the Level Six Spirit Gathering Array to recover and cultivate.

• Liu Bai spent Experience Points to strengthen his spiritual energy, then attacked the Golden Light Shadow and survived its three moves despite severe injuries.
• Liu Bai claimed the Five Elements Divine Thunder Art after passing the Guardian's test, and Elder Zhu Tian warned him to cultivate it cautiously.
• Su Xuan, Li Xuantong, Shen Cangsheng, and Crane Demon returned to the Spiritual Art Hall, where Elder Zhu Tian announced that three freshmen had obtained Divine Arts and two had obtained quasi-Divine Arts.
• Elder Zhu Tian credited the five freshmen with Spirit Value and declared the Freshman Assembly over.
• Liu Bai and Su Xuan chose to cultivate in the Level Six Spirit Gathering Array, where Liu Bai rapidly absorbed spiritual energy as his injuries began to heal.

Liu Bai mastered the Five Elements Divine Thunder Art, recovered and strengthened his cultivation, then learned that Guo Xiong had built the Liu Shen Society. Elder Chi Huo recruited him for a dangerous Earth Grade High Rank investigation in Azure Cloud City, and Liu Bai accepted the mission and set out.

• Liu Bai used Experience Points to bring the Five Elements Divine Thunder Art to Initiation and later raised his Flowing Gold Spirit Transformation Art to the seventh layer while recovering from his injuries.
• Liu Bai returned to the Freshman District and found Guo Xiong had organized nearly a thousand students into the Liu Shen Society.
• Li Jing told Liu Bai that Elder Chi Huo had requested to see him, so Liu Bai went to the Spirit Artifact Courtyard and watched the elder forge Mysterious Crow Iron Essence.
• Elder Chi Huo offered Liu Bai an Earth Grade High Rank mission to investigate the Xie Family's destruction and the sale of its goods at an auction in Azure Cloud City.
• Liu Bai accepted the mission for one million Spirit Value, completed the procedures, exchanged for life-saving pills, and departed.

Liu Bai traveled to Azure Cloud City to investigate the Xie Family items being sold at the annual auction. After identifying a shill bidding on the Origin Opening Moon Chasing Bow, he watched another buyer win it and left the auction with that person in his sights.

• Liu Bai reached the boundary of the Northern Azure Spirit Academy and probed its protective array before continuing toward Azure Cloud City.
• Liu Bai arrived in Azure Cloud City, disguised himself, and entered the Nine Summers Merchant Guild auction to look for items from the Xie Family.
• Liu Bai watched the auction and learned that Spiritual Artifacts could sell for far more Spirit Coins than their academy Spirit Value equivalents.
• Liu Bai recognized that a bidder was acting as a shill for the Origin Opening Moon Chasing Bow and tested him with a bid.
• An unidentified buyer bid 4 million Spirit Coins for the bow, and Liu Bai left the auction focused on the person who had won it.

Liu Bai ambushed Fan Jiu and Elder Lin after they tried to kill him, then captured Fan Jiu and tortured him for information about the Xie Family’s destruction. Fan Jiu finally named Yu Yuan as the person who ordered Twilight City to help destroy the Xie Family.

• Fan Jiu ordered Elder Lin to attack Liu Bai, who had followed them from the auction, and Elder Lin struck him down.
• Liu Bai used Five Elements Divine Lightning to cripple Elder Lin, then shot Fan Jiu with the Gale Bow and shattered his qi sea.
• Liu Bai killed Elder Lin, earning a first-kill reward of 100,000 Experience Points and one Spirit Vein point, then took Fan Jiu away to question him.
• Fan Jiu denied that Twilight City had any part in the Xie Family’s destruction, so Liu Bai tortured him with Wood Thunder to attack his Divine Soul.
• Liu Bai posed as an envoy of Dragon Demon Palace, and Fan Jiu revealed that Yu Yuan had asked his father to help destroy the Xie Family.

After killing Fan Jiu, Liu Bai completed the Five Elements Fusion of his spiritual energy but was exposed by a trace left by Fan Jiu’s father, Fan Tong. As Liu Bai neared the Northern Azure Spirit Academy, Fan Tong intercepted him and began fighting in earnest, determined not to let him escape.

• Liu Bai killed Fan Jiu, gained Experience Points and Spirit Vein Points, and raised the Azure Wood Spiritual Art to the seventh level, triggering independent Five Elements Fusion.
• A spiritual trace from Fan Jiu’s corpse revealed Liu Bai as the killer to Fan Tong, who burned to avenge his son and set out from Twilight City with powerful experts.
• Liu Bai burned Fan Jiu’s corpse and hurried toward the Northern Azure Spirit Academy while Fan Tong and his men searched the route in a Wind God Boat.
• Fan Tong caught up with Liu Bai and attacked after Liu Bai tried to pass himself off as Lin Hei of the Lin Family.
• Liu Bai used Wood Thunder to break through Fan Tong’s Blood Demon Sky, then relied on his Ice Muscle Jade Bone Body to purge the Blood Demon Hand’s impurities and shattered it with Geng Metal Divine Thunder.
• Fan Tong realized Liu Bai had killed Fan Jiu and Elder Lin by himself, then prepared to use his full strength to capture him before he could reach the academy.

Liu Bai fought Fan Tong, raised his cultivation during the battle, and forced Fan Tong to flee before reaching Northern Azure City. Safe at last, he inspected the spoils taken from Fan Jiu and Elder Lin and found a fragmented Blood Demon Secret Codex that might be valuable to the academy.

• Fan Tong overwhelmed Liu Bai with Crimson Spiritual Energy, but Liu Bai countered with Five Elements Fusion and fought him at close range.
• Liu Bai used experience points to raise five Cultivation Methods, advanced to the middle stage of the Heaven Fusion Realm, and attacked Fan Tong with the Great Sun Sea Burning Palm and Five Elements Divine Thunder Art.
• Fan Tong escaped through the thunderclouds, and Liu Bai changed routes before reaching Northern Azure City and recovering his spiritual energy.
• Liu Bai inspected the Cosmic Bracelets from Fan Jiu and Elder Lin, finding three High-grade Spirit Artifacts, millions of Spirit Coins, pills, and three Spirit-grade High-tier Spiritual Arts.
• Liu Bai identified the Blood Demon Secret Codex fragment as a possible Divine Art and considered completing it with the system before exchanging it with the academy.

After completing his mission, Liu Bai collected his reward, exchanged for and fused with a Golden Lion-Tiger Beast Spirit Beast Core, then evolved the Three-Headed Stone Flood Dragon into a Four-Winged Flying Flood Dragon. Zhang Heng arrived to report that older students had surrounded Su Xuan and the others, prompting Liu Bai to rush to their aid.

• Liu Bai told Elder Chi Huo about his dangerous mission, and Elder Chi Huo upgraded it to a Heaven-grade Low-tier mission and rewarded him with Spirit Value and forging materials.
• Liu Bai submitted the mission at the Mission Hall and received the remaining Spirit Value, bringing his total above two million.
• Liu Bai spent two million Spirit Value on a Golden Lion-Tiger Beast Spirit Beast Core, returned to his residence, and fused with it.
• Liu Bai learned that the Golden Lion-Tiger Beast could evolve into an Ancient Golden Lion-Tiger Beast, while his Three-Headed Stone Flood Dragon could evolve into a Four-Winged Flying Flood Dragon for three hundred Beast Soul Points.
• Liu Bai used three hundred Beast Soul Points to evolve the Three-Headed Stone Flood Dragon into a Four-Winged Flying Flood Dragon.
• Zhang Heng told Liu Bai that older students had surrounded Su Xuan and the others in the Level Six Spirit Array area, and Liu Bai reacted with alarm.

Su Xuan’s group was cornered by the Black Tortoise Pavilion and Iron Cavalry Society over the Heavenly Spirit Lotus Seeds until Liu Bai arrived and overwhelmed their members with Golden Lightning. He demanded compensation, and the chapter ended with Liu Xuan and Bai Ran facing him above the Spirit Gathering Array as the crowd awaited their response.

• Liu Feng demanded Su Xuan’s Heavenly Spirit Lotus Seeds, and Guo Xiong was wounded while defending her group.
• Huo Yun arrived with the Iron Cavalry Society and joined Liu Feng in pressuring Su Xuan’s group.
• Liu Bai arrived, rejected Liu Feng’s offer to recruit him, and demanded one million Spirit Value from each group after seeing Guo Xiong’s wound.
• Liu Bai struck down members of both forces with Golden Lightning, then demanded that their leaders come and pay compensation.
• Bai Ran and Liu Xuan arrived, and Liu Bai faced them above the Spirit Gathering Array.

Liu Bai fought Liu Xuan after the Iron Cavalry Society withdrew, gaining the upper hand with his Spirit Beast Core. Liu Xuan summoned the Black Tortoise Divine Art, and Liu Bai prepared to counter with Earth Thunder.

• Bai Ran agreed that the Iron Cavalry Society had been at fault and paid Liu Bai five hundred thousand Spirit Value before leaving with his group.
• Liu Xuan refused to back down and attacked Liu Bai, but Liu Bai gained the advantage in their first exchange.
• Liu Xuan summoned his Dragon Turtle, while Liu Bai revealed a Four-Winged Flying Flood Dragon and the two Spirit Beasts collided.
• The resulting blast sent Liu Xuan into a mountain and left Liu Bai battered, though Liu Xuan realized he had lost the exchange.
• Liu Xuan used the Black Tortoise Divine Art to transform his Dragon Turtle’s manifestation, and Liu Bai prepared to counter with the Five Elements Divine Thunder Art’s Earth Thunder.

Liu Bai defeated Liu Xuan and rose to thirteenth on the Heavenly Ranking, drawing attention across Northern Azure Spirit Academy. After sharing his Spirit Value with Su Xuan and the others, he planned to move out of the Freshman District, strengthen his combat abilities, and pursue a dangerous Heaven-grade mission.

• Liu Bai defeated Liu Xuan, who accepted his loss and transferred him one million Spirit Value.
• Liu Bai's victory placed him thirteenth on the Heavenly Ranking, prompting celebration among the Liu Shen Society and reactions from Li Xuantong, Crane Demon, Elder Chi Huo, and the bald old man.
• Liu Bai gave one million Spirit Value equally to Su Xuan and the other three, then decided that his fame and need for stronger cultivation arrays made it time to leave the Freshman District.
• Liu Bai searched the Spirit Value Hall for a fifth-grade array diagram and chose the Divine Cauldron Refining Heaven Array for 1.3 million Spirit Value.
• Liu Bai planned to exchange several Spiritual Arts and Spirit Artifacts for Spirit Value and prepare for a dangerous Heaven-grade mission, then returned to the Spirit Value Hall and saw a familiar face.

Liu Bai exchanged Spirit Value for an Ancient Golden Crow core and the Divine Cauldron Refining Heaven Array, then spent ten days fusing with the Golden Crow. After accepting a mission to exterminate the Fan Family of Twilight City, he began assembling a squad and recruited Li Xuantong.

• Northern Sea Dragon Kun recognized Liu Bai's plans to build Innate Five Spirits and promised guidance in exchange for future help after Liu Bai grew stronger and mastered the Five Elements Divine Thunder Art.
• Liu Bai exchanged Spirit Arts and High-grade Spirit Artifacts for the Ancient Golden Crow core and Divine Cauldron Refining Heaven Array, leaving him with one million Spirit Value.
• Liu Bai spent ten days suppressing and fusing with the Ancient Golden Crow, then raised the array to Initiation level.
• At the Mission Hall, Liu Bai accepted an upper heaven-grade team mission to exterminate the Fan Family of Twilight City, joining a squad led by Chu Lin and promising to gather his own five-person team.
• Liu Bai asked Li Xuantong to join his squad, explained the mission's danger and reward, and Li Xuantong agreed.

Liu Bai assembled a five-person team for a dangerous mission against the Fan Family of Twilight City and joined Chu Lin’s stronger team. After Liu Bai revealed his past victories and his ability to use a Grade Five spiritual array, the group agreed to plan their attack after gathering more information near Twilight City.

• Liu Bai recruited Shen Cangsheng and Xu Huang, completing his team with Su Xuan and Li Xuantong.
• Liu Bai’s team met Chu Lin’s group at the Mission Hall, where the older students doubted the freshmen could handle the mission.
• The Mission Hall elder revealed that Liu Bai had killed a Heaven Transformation Realm elder and the young city lord, then driven back Fan Tong.
• Liu Bai described the Fan Family’s remaining strength and said its losses from attacking the Xie Family had weakened it considerably.
• Liu Bai revealed that he had a Grade Five spiritual array that could help defeat the Fan Family if they prepared and lured the targets into position.
• Chu Lin proposed gathering more information near Twilight City before deciding on a detailed plan.

Liu Bai devised a plan to draw out the Fan Family and prepared a concealed fifth-grade array near Twilight City. Shen Cangsheng and Li Xuantong returned safely after being watched, but a pursuer followed them to the forest as Fan Tong ordered Twilight City's experts to assemble.

• Liu Bai warned Xu Huang to rest, and the two teams traveled for nearly ten days before stopping in a forest near Twilight City.
• Liu Bai proposed sending only one or two people to scout the city, and Shen Cangsheng and Li Xuantong volunteered to lure the Fan Family.
• Liu Bai set up the Divine Cauldron Refining Heaven Array across the forest and showed the others where they would be safe when it activated.
• Shen Cangsheng and Li Xuantong entered Twilight City, attracted the attention of hidden watchers, then left without being attacked directly.
• A hidden pursuer followed Shen Cangsheng and Li Xuantong and reported their accomplices to Fan Tong, who ordered Twilight City's experts to assemble.
• Liu Bai sensed an unfamiliar aura entering the forest after Shen Cangsheng and Li Xuantong returned.

Liu Bai secretly killed a scout, then activated the Divine Cauldron Refining Heaven Array to trap and incinerate Fan Tong and the Twilight City attackers. The array left the Northern Azure Spirit Academy group alive but exhausted, and the chapter ended with them guarding Liu Bai as he recovered.

• Liu Bai killed the late Heaven Fusion Realm scout with his Ghost Soul Arrow Art before the scout could reveal anything suspicious about the array.
• Fan Tong arrived with his experts and ordered them to attack Chu Lin and the Northern Azure Spirit Academy group, who sheltered behind Chu Lin’s Mysterious Sky Mirror.
• Liu Bai activated the hidden Divine Cauldron Refining Heaven Array, which formed a giant flaming cauldron around the battlefield.
• Fan Tong tried to escape in his spirit boat, but the cauldron wall stopped him and the array’s flames burned him and most of his forces to death.
• Liu Bai earned 150,000 Experience Points and 100 Spirit Vein Points, then ended the array and took pills to restore his spiritual energy.
• Chu Lin and the others left the magma lake and guarded Liu Bai while he recovered.

Liu Bai led his team to Twilight City, broke the Fan Family’s protective array, and helped wipe out the family’s forces before leaving to report their mission. The team rested by a lake, where Su Xuan and the other new students remained shaken by the slaughter.

• After gaining 380,000 Experience Points from the battle, Liu Bai led the group of ten toward Twilight City to finish exterminating the Fan Family.
• Yu Yuan faced Gu Tianyan and the Punishment Hall squad, but Gu Tianyan discovered that he had fought only a Blood Demon Clone and Yu Yuan had escaped.
• Liu Bai found the weak point in Twilight City’s blood-red barrier and destroyed the grand array with Geng Metal Divine Thunder.
• Chu Lin and the others charged into the inner city while Liu Bai guarded the sky and killed the Fan Family’s mid-stage Heaven Transformation Realm expert with his bow.
• The team finished off the Fan Family’s remaining forces, bringing Liu Bai’s Experience Points to 400,000, then left Twilight City to report the mission.
• Liu Bai and the team rested by a lake a thousand li from Twilight City while Su Xuan and the other new students silently struggled with the aftermath of the slaughter.

After returning from the mission, Liu Bai shared the rewards with his team and watched his companions prepare to cultivate harder. He then inspected a lakeside site for the Liu Shen Society’s new base and decided to build a Level Five Spirit Gathering Array there.

• Liu Bai and his group returned safely to the academy, collected four million Spirit Value for each team, and Liu Bai refused Chu Lin’s offer to give his team an extra million.
• Liu Bai divided his team’s Spirit Value among its members, and Xu Huang thanked him for the generous share.
• Shen Cangsheng gave Liu Bai a Jade Slip for contacting him in seclusion, while Su Xuan chose to continue cultivating in the Spirit Gathering Array.
• Guo Xiong told Liu Bai he had bought a lakeside faction base for fifty thousand Spirit Value, and Liu Bai approved it as the Liu Shen Society’s new home.
• Liu Bai ordered Guo Xiong to gather materials so the society could build its own Level Five Spirit Gathering Array, and said he would handle the academy’s approval.

Liu Bai forged a mid-grade Spiritual Artifact to persuade Elder Chi Huo to seek the dean’s approval for a Spirit Gathering Array, then spent most of his Experience Points mastering the Five Elements Divine Thunder Art. Confident that its perfect level would conceal him in the Thunder Domain, he headed there to pursue the Thunder God Pill.

• Liu Bai asked Elder Chi Huo to obtain the materials and blueprint for a Spirit Gathering Array, then forged a Splendor Spirit Sword to prove his artifact-forging skill.
• Elder Chi Huo praised Liu Bai’s talent, pointed out a flaw in the sword’s restriction, accepted Liu Bai as his student, and agreed to approach the dean about the array.
• Liu Bai returned to the Liu Shen Society headquarters and used Experience Points to raise the Mountain God Art to the seventh layer, reaching the limit of the Heaven Fusion Realm.
• Liu Bai advanced the Five Elements Divine Thunder Art to perfect level and found that its thunder aura could conceal his presence from others in the Thunder Domain.
• Liu Bai arrived at the crowded entrance to the Thunder Domain and passed through the academy’s protective barrier into the warped space.

Liu Bai entered the Thunder Domain to test how far his strength could carry him and advanced through the seventh-level barrier. His Five Elements Divine Lightning attracted the domain’s lightning, drawing the Northern Sea Dragon Kun’s attention and giving him hope of obtaining the Thunder God Pill ahead of schedule.

• Liu Bai passed through the Thunder Domain’s first levels and entered the seventh level despite being only half-step Heaven Transformation Realm.
• Liu Bai endured the seventh level’s lightning rain and activated a lightning-attracting platform, causing a powerful thunderstorm to strike him.
• Liu Bai drew out the lightning within his Five Elements Spiritual Aperture, provoking the thunderclouds to unleash a torrent of lightning that enveloped him without harming him.
• A massive eyeball rose from the lightning ocean deep within the Thunder Domain as the disturbance intensified.
• The Northern Sea Dragon Kun arrived and recognized Liu Bai’s Five Elements Divine Lightning, concluding that its attraction could help him obtain the Thunder God Pill ahead of schedule.

Liu Bai agreed to help Northern Nether Dragon Kun retrieve the Thunder God Pill from the final level of the Thunder Domain in exchange for a powerful Divine Art. As Northern Nether Dragon Kun drew the Thunder Spirit into battle, Liu Bai waited for an opening to enter the black lightning sea.

• Liu Bai confirmed his perfected Five Elements Divine Thunder Art gave him powerful lightning immunity, and Northern Nether Dragon Kun judged him ready to honor their agreement.
• Northern Nether Dragon Kun brought Liu Bai to the final level of the Thunder Domain and asked him to retrieve the Thunder God Pill from its black lightning sea.
• Northern Nether Dragon Kun explained that a Thunder Spirit guarded the pill and that he could not attack it directly without risking the pill's destruction.
• Liu Bai agreed to enter the lightning sea while Northern Nether Dragon Kun drew the Thunder Spirit's attention, using his Five Elements Divine Lightning to conceal his aura.
• Northern Nether Dragon Kun revealed his enormous true form, provoking the Thunder Spirit into appearing and unleashing its destructive power.
• Liu Bai watched the two beings begin their confrontation and waited for the Thunder Spirit to focus entirely on Northern Nether Dragon Kun.