Chapter Summaries

Dongfang Yueming killed five Foundation Establishment experts who attacked him, then demanded spirit stones from the Ma Clan as his fee for intervening. After he left, Ma Qianqian chose to attend Dragon Firmament Academy, while Ma Yuanhong resolved to keep the treasure’s secret.

• The Song Clan patriarch and four other Foundation Establishment experts attacked Dongfang Yueming, who used Myriad Phenomena and Great Five Elements Annihilation Divine Light to kill them all.
• Dongfang Yueming killed Song Qi, collected six storage rings, and demanded payment from Ma Yuanhong for intervening.
• Ma Yuanhong gathered more than nine thousand low-grade spirit stones from the Ma Clan members and gave them to Dongfang Yueming, who then left.
• Ma Qianqian told Ma Yuanhong she wanted to go to Dragon Firmament Academy, and he agreed.
• Ma Yuanhong decided to guard the treasure’s secret and try to forget it himself.

Dongfang Yueming collected twenty-seven thousand spirit stones from Lin Bo'an and converted them into points while dismissing his concerns about the Heavenly Star Sect. Beneath the Dragon Firmament Academy, the possessed dean Lin Changsheng lost control of his body to a heavenly demon, which transformed into a beautiful woman and planned to find a vessel and retrieve its other “little darlings.”

• Lin Bo'an gave Dongfang Yueming the proceeds from selling the spirit artifacts and the Ma Clan’s gift, totaling twenty-seven thousand low-grade spirit stones.
• Dongfang Yueming accepted the stones, recycled them for points, and told Lin Bo'an not to worry about the Heavenly Star Sect.
• Lin Bo'an recalled that Dragon Firmament Academy’s dean Lin Changsheng had changed after returning from a journey and entered death seclusion, and hoped he might be pursuing a Golden Core breakthrough.
• In the academy’s underground chamber, Lin Changsheng resisted a heavenly demon that urged him to surrender his consciousness.
• The heavenly demon overpowered Lin Changsheng and transformed his body into a seductive woman, then planned to seek a suitable vessel and retrieve its other “little darlings.”

Li Qingtian rushed toward Dragon Firmament City, intent on settling the matter at Dragon Firmament Academy and seeking an opportunity to test Dongfang Yueming. At the Martial Sect, Hong Ling ordered Qin Rushuang to bring Dongfang Yueming to her and announced that he had been accepted into the sect.

• Li Qingtian intimidated the Foundation Establishment cultivators of Boulder City with his Golden Core aura and continued toward Dragon Firmament City.
• Li Qingtian considered the Astral Battlefield as a chance to improve his Golden Core, then decided to investigate Dongfang Yueming's strength after dealing with Dragon Firmament Academy.
• Qin Rushuang returned to the Martial Sect and told Hong Ling about the Dao-Grade Foundation Establishment and Dongfang Ri's deeds.
• Hong Ling ordered Qin Rushuang to bring Dongfang Yueming to her and tell him he had been formally accepted into the Martial Sect.
• Hong Ling remembered Dongfang Yueming and wondered whether he still remembered her.

Dongfang Yueming killed Li Qingtian, the Golden Core sect master of the Heavenly Star Sect, after he demanded Dongfang Ri and the Dragon-Elephant Suppresses Hell Art. Dongfang Yueming descended to the stunned Dragon Firmament Academy, while the Heavenly Demon watched from the underground chamber.

• Li Qingtian arrived above Dragon Firmament City, shattered Dragon Firmament Academy's protective formation, and threatened to kill everyone unless they handed over Dongfang Ri.
• The Heavenly Demon watched Li Qingtian and Dongfang Yueming from the underground secret chamber, curious to see the strength of the era's heaven's chosen.
• Li Qingtian demanded the Dragon-Elephant Suppresses Hell Art and Dongfang Yueming's death, but Dongfang Yueming told him to shut up and destroyed his Heavenly Star Finger with the Great Five Elements Annihilation Divine Light.
• Dongfang Yueming struck Li Qingtian with a Martial Dao divine ability, then erased him and his Golden Core and divine soul with Two Aspects Annihilation as he tried to flee.
• Dongfang Yueming searched Li Qingtian's storage ring but found no Golden Core cultivation method, then descended as the academy's teachers and students watched in awe and fear.

After Dongfang Yueming killed the Heavenly Star Sect's master, he prepared to leave Dragon Firmament Academy, but Hua Qianzui arrived with Shangguan Wan'er seeking revenge. The Heavenly Demon recognized that Hua Qianzui was far stronger than the previous Golden Core opponent, leaving Dongfang Yueming's fate uncertain.

• Dongfang Yueming told Lin Bo'an that matters were settled and turned to leave Dragon Firmament Academy.
• The Heavenly Demon spotted Qu Yutang and recognized her Nine Yin Mystic Physique as a perfect vessel.
• Shangguan Wan'er and Hua Qianzui rushed toward Dragon Firmament City, and Hua Qianzui vowed to avenge his son Feng'er after revealing that the Pleasure Sect had contacted the Upper Realm.
• Qin Rushuang also hurried toward Dragon Firmament City, worrying about Dongfang Yueming and planning to drag him back to the Martial Sect.
• Hua Qianzui and Shangguan Wan'er arrived at Dragon Firmament Academy, where Shangguan Wan'er accused Dongfang Yueming of killing Feng'er and Hua Qianzui threatened him.
• The Heavenly Demon sensed that Hua Qianzui had condensed a divine ability and reached at least Golden Core Seventh Layer, and she feared Dongfang Yueming might be in trouble.

Dongfang Yueming faced Hua Qianzui, who sought revenge for his son and revealed that an envoy from the upper realm would soon take Su Wurao away. Dongfang Yueming’s Dao-Grade Dao Foundation let him withstand Hua Qianzui’s powerful technique, but the Heavenly Demon judged that Dongfang would eventually lose.

• Hua Qianzui unleashed his Golden Core Seventh Layer pressure over Dragon Firmament Academy and declared that he belonged to the Pleasure Sect.
• Dongfang Yueming said he was friends with Su Wurao, causing Hua Qianzui to hesitate until Shangguan Wan'er reminded him of his murdered son, Feng'er.
• Hua Qianzui revealed that an upper-realm envoy would soon take Su Wurao away, and Dongfang Yueming felt a new urgency to grow stronger.
• Hua Qianzui attacked with Ten Thousand Flowers Bury the Soul, but Dongfang Yueming countered with Great Five Elements Annihilation Divine Light, and the two techniques canceled each other out.
• Hua Qianzui and Shangguan Wan'er were stunned by Dongfang Yueming's defense, while the Heavenly Demon predicted that Hua Qianzui's superior power would eventually overwhelm him.

Dongfang Yueming killed Shangguan Wan'er and defeated Hua Qianzui by revealing his perfected Two Aspects Annihilation divine ability. Qin Rushuang arrived as he remained resolved to grow stronger against the threat from the upper realm.

• Hua Qianzui threatened to slaughter Dragon Firmament Academy's people, so Dongfang Yueming seized Shangguan Wan'er and killed her when Hua Qianzui refused to back down.
• Enraged by Shangguan Wan'er's death, Hua Qianzui unleashed his Yellow-rank divine ability, Hundred Flowers in Disarray.
• Dongfang Yueming countered with perfected Two Aspects Annihilation and erased Hua Qianzui, his Golden Core, and his soul.
• Dongfang Yueming collected Hua Qianzui's ownerless storage rings and worried that he still needed more strength to face the upper realm.
• Qin Rushuang arrived and urgently called out to Dongfang Yueming.

Dongfang Yueming reunited with Qin Rushuang, who brought him to the Martial Sect at her master's request because he was the one chosen by destiny. As he arrived at the sect's mountain, a little girl asked whether he still remembered her, while Qu Yutang was approached by a mysterious woman promising to help her get what she wanted.

• Qin Rushuang reunited with Dongfang Yueming and revealed that she had become a Golden Core expert after returning to the Martial Sect.
• Qin Rushuang told Dongfang Yueming that the Martial Sect's sect master wanted to see him, and he agreed to go with her.
• After Dongfang Yueming and Qin Rushuang departed, Dragon Firmament Academy celebrated its survival, while Qu Yutang withdrew to her cave abode feeling lonely.
• A mysterious, alluring woman approached Qu Yutang and said she had come to help her get everything she wanted.
• Qin Rushuang explained that the Martial Sect was one of eight holy lands, had only three members, and considered Dongfang Yueming the one chosen by destiny.
• At the Martial Sect's thatched cottage, a little girl approached Dongfang Yueming and asked if he still remembered her.

Dongfang Yueming discovered that Hong Ling was the Martial Sect’s master, while Qin Rushuang explained the sect’s cultivation and divine abilities. The chapter ended with Qin Rushuang revealing her Nine-Transformation Golden Core and challenging him to a fight.

• Dongfang Yueming recognized Hong Ling, who welcomed him into the Martial Sect and dodged his questions about her identity and the sect’s small membership.
• Hong Ling sent Qin Rushuang to show Dongfang Yueming around and demonstrate the Martial Sect’s abilities.
• Qin Rushuang explained Golden Core transformations, divine ability grades, and the Martial Sect’s focus on cultivating the body.
• Dongfang Yueming warned Qin Rushuang that he might hurt her, but she revealed her Nine-Transformation Golden Core at Golden Core Perfection and challenged him.

Dongfang Yueming sparred with Qin Rushuang and lost after she revealed her embryonic Law Domain, then sought a Golden Core cultivation art by comprehending the Martial Dao Stele. The stele showed him memories of his past connection to Qin Rushuang and gave him the Martial Extremity Golden Body Art.

• Dongfang Yueming and Qin Rushuang exchanged spirit arts and divine abilities, with Qin Rushuang overpowering him through her Ice Phoenix Battle Body.
• Qin Rushuang revealed her embryonic Law Domain, freezing the surroundings and suppressing Dongfang Yueming before he admitted defeat.
• Dongfang Yueming asked Qin Rushuang for a Golden Core cultivation art, and she brought him to the Martial Dao Stele to comprehend it.
• Dongfang Yueming touched the stele and saw memories of taking in a lonely little girl, teaching her, and bringing her to the Immortal-Abandoned Continent.
• The memories showed Dongfang Yueming creating the Martial Dao Stele for the girl and telling her to found a sect and wait for his return.
• Dongfang Yueming emerged from the vision with the Martial Extremity Golden Body Art in his mind.

Dongfang Yueming began cultivating the Martial Extremity Golden Body Art and started forming a Golden Core, while the death of Li Qingtian threw the Heavenly Star Sect into chaos. As onlookers from Storm Mountain mocked the Martial Sect, Dongfang Yueming’s breakthrough produced six Golden Core transformations, and the process continued.

• Li Qingtian’s life-soul jade slip shattered, confirming that the Heavenly Star Sect’s sect master had died and plunging the sect into chaos.
• The Crimson Realm prodigy feared another otherworldly expert might be pursuing the Dragon-Elephant Suppresses Hell Art, but relaxed when two Golden Core guards arrived and vowed to return after strengthening his cultivation.
• Dongfang Yueming studied the Martial Extremity Golden Body Art, spent 100,000 points to initiate it, and began merging his perfected Dao Foundation and Dao-Grade Innate body.
• Hong Ling watched Dongfang Yueming’s transformation begin, while Qin Rushuang worried that he was rushing his breakthrough until a mysterious female voice told her to relax.
• Storm Mountain disciples mocked the Martial Sect as they watched a spiritual-energy tornado gather over its sacred mountain, but their amusement faded as Dongfang Yueming formed a Six-Transformation Golden Core.

A nine-transformation golden core appeared at the Martial Sect, shocking cultivators across the Immortal-Abandoned Continent and drawing the attention of Azure Realm powers. The Supreme Unity Sect master and the Ten Thousand Dragons' Nest master discussed the contest for dao-grade foundation establishment, as a Supreme Unity Sect disciple prepared to pursue a dao-grade golden core.

• A seventh golden halo descended at the Martial Sect, and the Storm Mountain leader and Qin Rushuang realized that a high-grade golden core was forming.
• An eighth and then a ninth halo appeared, revealing a supreme-grade, nine-transformation golden core and startling cultivators and holy-land masters across the Immortal-Abandoned Continent.
• Hong Ling watched the onlookers' shock with confidence in her little brother's potential.
• In the Azure Realm, the Supreme Unity Sect master and the Ten Thousand Dragons' Nest master discussed the dao-grade foundation establishment contest and criticized those who had suppressed their cultivation for it.
• The Ten Thousand Dragons' Nest master noted that a Supreme Unity Sect disciple was aiming for a dao-grade golden core, and the Supreme Unity Sect master said it was the disciple's own opportunity.

Dongfang Yueming formed a supreme Golden Core and fused his martial divine abilities, triggering a further transformation that left his cultivation technique reset and awaiting more point allocation.

• Dongfang Yueming formed a supreme Golden Core but failed to create a Law Domain, then comprehended the earth-grade Martial Dao Dharma Form.
• Dongfang Yueming raised Dragon-Elephant Suppresses Hell and Martial Dao to perfection, fusing them into the earth-grade War God Illustrated Manual.
• Dongfang Yueming perfected Martial Dao Dharma Form, and it began fusing with the War God Illustrated Manual as the sacred mountain shook and Hong Ling and Qin Rushuang reacted.
• Dongfang Yueming felt the Martial Extremity Golden Body Art sublimate, saw its progress reset to not yet initiated, and spent points to advance it.

Li Changsheng in the Azure Realm and a young man in the Crimson Realm each formed a Dao-Grade Golden Core, while Dongfang Yueming completed the heaven-grade divine ability [My Dao Is the Only One] and transformed his Martial Dao True Body. His breakthrough drew heavenly punishment, leaving Qin Rushuang terrified and Hong Ling eagerly anticipating what he would do.

• Li Changsheng formed a Dao-Grade Golden Core in the Azure Realm, and a Crimson Realm cultivator formed one as well, bringing their battle intents into collision.
• The Azure and Crimson Realm experts argued over the two cultivators’ strength, while observers on the Immortal-Abandoned Continent wondered whether its Dao-Grade Innate and Dao-Grade Foundation Establishment belonged to the same person.
• Dongfang Yueming completed the fusion of his divine ability and obtained [My Dao Is the Only One], transforming his Golden Core and merging his battle god’s dharma form into a more powerful Martial Dao True Body.
• Heavenly punishment descended as a world-destroying sea of lightning gathered above Dongfang Yueming.
• Qin Rushuang feared for Dongfang Yueming, while Hong Ling watched with excitement.

Dongfang Yueming survived heavenly punishment by using his new divine ability, then learned that two other cultivators had jointly achieved a Dao-Grade Golden Core. His status panel revealed that his own Golden Core and divine ability were unusually advanced, and he turned his attention to gaining more strength and spirit stones.

• Dongfang Yueming used My Dao Is the Only One to shatter the divine lightning, surviving the tribulation as the Martial Sect's divine mountain was left in ruins.
• Qin Rushuang watched Dongfang Yueming in shock, while Hong Ling rushed to his side and praised him.
• Dongfang Yueming claimed he had merely gained insight into a new divine ability, and Qin Rushuang explained that the vanished phenomenon had been a Dao-Grade Golden Core.
• Hong Ling said two cultivators had jointly won the place for a Dao-Grade Golden Core, leaving Dongfang Yueming confused about his own Golden Core.
• Dongfang Yueming checked his status panel, noticed his Dao-Grade Golden Core and Heaven-grade divine ability, and resolved to grow stronger and earn more spirit stones.
• Dongfang Yueming asked where the two cultivators were from and whether they belonged to holy lands.

Qin Rushuang told Dongfang Yueming that the Immortal-Abandoned Continent was an earth-grade world and that the Azure Realm and Crimson Realm were heaven-grade worlds. Alarmed by the strength waiting beyond his world, Dongfang Yueming spent his points to complete the Martial Extremity Golden Body Art and headed for the thatched cottage to seek a Nascent Soul cultivation art.

• Qin Rushuang explained that worlds were graded by the power they could sustain and revealed that the Azure Realm and Crimson Realm were heaven-grade.
• Hong Ling took Qin Rushuang back toward the thatched cottage while Dongfang Yueming pondered how much stronger he needed to become.
• Dongfang Yueming recycled spirit stones from the Pleasure Sect elders' storage rings and raised his total to 5,842,000 points.
• Dongfang Yueming spent points to advance his cultivation to the ninth level of Golden Core and formed a Martial Dao Domain.
• Dongfang Yueming completed the Martial Extremity Golden Body Art, solidified his Martial Dao Domain, and went to the thatched cottage to seek a Nascent Soul cultivation art.

Dongfang Yueming received the Martial Sect’s only Nascent Soul cultivation method, while Hong Ling explained the Nascent Soul realm and how Golden Core cultivators might challenge opponents beyond their level. Qin Rushuang learned that she was close to breaking through and considered how powerful an earth-grade divine ability could make her.

• Dongfang Yueming asked Hong Ling for a Nascent Soul cultivation method, and she gave him the Martial Sect’s only one.
• Hong Ling told Dongfang Yueming that he would need to steal other Nascent Soul methods if he wanted more.
• Hong Ling recognized that Qin Rushuang was nearing the Nascent Soul bottleneck and instructed both disciples on how Golden Cores become Nascent Souls, the four Nascent Soul grades, and their new abilities.
• Hong Ling explained that Nascent Soul cultivators wield law-based great spells and that Golden Core cultivators could challenge them only by countering laws with divine abilities.
• Qin Rushuang assessed her chances against different Nascent Soul grades and realized she might need a major-accomplishment earth-grade divine ability to overcome a Treasure-Grade opponent.

Hong Ling sent Dongfang Yueming with Qin Rushuang to the Astral Battlefield to seek divine abilities and then collect tribute from a subordinate world. After learning they were headed there, Feng Xiaotian ordered Storm Mountain's strongest Golden Core elders to intercept and kill Dongfang Yueming.

• Hong Ling promised Dongfang Yueming the tribute from a subordinate world and told Qin Rushuang to take him to collect it.
• Dongfang Yueming asked for more divine abilities, and Hong Ling explained that he could plunder Law Fragments by killing cultivators on the Astral Battlefield.
• Hong Ling assigned Qin Rushuang to take Dongfang Yueming to the Astral Battlefield for practice before collecting tribute, and the pair left the Martial Sect.
• Feng Xiaotian learned from his ancestor that a new great age was beginning and that a Wind Envoy would soon arrive from Storm Mountain's ancestral court.
• Feng Xiaotian ordered Storm Mountain to recruit the Martial Sect's Nine-Transformation Golden Core genius or kill him if he refused.
• After hearing that Dongfang Yueming and Qin Rushuang had gone to the Astral Battlefield, Feng Xiaotian sent two Golden Core Perfection elders and six Late Golden Core elders to intercept and kill him.

Dongfang Yueming and Qin Rushuang entered the Astral Battlefield, but a Purple Thunder Sect elder secretly altered the teleportation array and sent them to separate locations. Storm Mountain’s assassins followed, intending to kill Qin Rushuang and Dongfang Yueming.

• Dongfang Yueming studied the I Alone Am Supreme Technique and balked at its 400,000-point initiation cost.
• Qin Rushuang warned Dongfang Yueming about the Astral Battlefield’s dangers and told him to kill Storm Mountain cultivators without mercy.
• Qin Rushuang and Dongfang Yueming reached the Purple Thunder Sect’s entrance and entered its teleportation array.
• A Purple Thunder Sect Nascent Soul cultivator tampered with the array, separating Dongfang Yueming and Qin Rushuang across the battlefield.
• Qin Rushuang realized the teleportation had been sabotaged and began searching for Dongfang Yueming with her Divine Sense.
• A Storm Mountain assassination squad entered the battlefield, planning for its leaders to kill Qin Rushuang while the others hunted Dongfang Yueming.

The Water and Fire Sect’s master learned that Shui Yan'er had encountered Dongfang Ri, a Heaven-Grade Foundation Establishment prodigy, and realized he might also be the Martial Sect’s new nine-transformation golden core prodigy. The chapter ended with news that Qin Rushuang and a young man had gone to the Astral Battlefield, where the Purple Thunder Sect and Storm Mountain had reached an agreement, leaving Shui Yan'er and her mother alarmed for their safety.

• The Water and Fire Sect’s master rejected her Upper Realm senior sister’s request for support and worried about the sect’s future.
• Shui Yan'er told her mother about meeting Dongfang Ri and his Heaven-Grade Foundation Establishment, but admitted she had let him leave.
• The sect master told Shui Yan'er that a new Martial Sect prodigy had achieved a nine-transformation golden core, and they suspected he was Dongfang Ri.
• The sect master sent Shui Ling'er and Huo Ling'er into seclusion to prepare for their Golden Core breakthroughs.
• A disciple reported that Qin Rushuang had gone to the Astral Battlefield with a young man, while the Purple Thunder Sect and Storm Mountain had reached an agreement.
• Shui Yan'er and her mother feared Qin Rushuang and the young man were in danger.