Chapter Summaries

Lu Zhengran revealed his Heavenly Grief Emperor Position, drawing Yin Lihua’s interest in recruiting him and Lu Miaomiao to Yin Realm Academy. Su Ming arrived with Bai Yingying and revealed the related Heavenly Sorrow Emperor Position, then challenged Lu Zhengran’s strength as the two prepared to test their combat abilities.

• Lu Zhengran’s test showed he was fourteen, in the early Profound Heaven Emperor Realm, and possessed the Heavenly Grief Emperor Position.
• Yin Lihua invited Lu Miaomiao to attend Yin Realm Academy with Lu Zhengran, and Lu Miaomiao said her brother had already chosen it.
• Bai Yingying arrived with Su Ming, whom Feng Li introduced as her cousin and praised as stronger than Lu Zhengran.
• Su Ming’s test revealed the Heavenly Sorrow Emperor Position, prompting Yin Lihua to take interest in him as well.
• Su Ming belittled Lu Zhengran’s cultivation and accepted his offer to compare combat strength, while Lu Zhengran calmly agreed.

Su Ming and Lu Zhengran tested their combat strength in the academy’s formation, and Lu Zhengran’s performance stunned the onlookers. The chapter left Dan Yun reflecting nervously on the strength of Lu Qing'an’s children.

• Su Ming entered the formation and reached Middle Tribulation Heaven Emperor combat strength, then boasted that his Divine Ability could raise it further.
• Lu Zhengran entered the formation and rapidly overwhelmed the multiplying liquid puppets with his saber, surpassing Su Ming’s demonstrated strength despite his lower cultivation realm.
• Feng Li fell silent as Lu Miaomiao continued eating and watched Lu Zhengran show off.
• Bai Jingjing marveled at Lu Zhengran’s strength, while Lu Zixuan and Sun Minzi implied that their family members were stronger still.
• Dan Yun watched from afar and worried that Lu Qing'an’s children might challenge the continent’s geniuses and affect its fortune.

Lu Zhengran stunned the Pill Cloud Continent crowd by displaying combat strength far beyond his cultivation and earning recruitment offers from both academies. After rebuffing Su Ming, he challenged Bai Yingying and left the story facing her condition that he first reach the Heaven Ranking’s top ten.

• Lu Qing'an watched his children through the array and used their performance to keep Dan Yun’s attention away from Xue Tianfei, Li Cangxuan, and the others.
• Lu Zhengran wiped out the liquid puppets with his Great Dao Annihilation Saber and ended the combat strength test.
• The test revealed that Lu Zhengran had Peak Tribulation Heaven Emperor Realm combat strength, astonishing the crowd and prompting Yin Lihua and Yang Zhenghao to invite him and Lu Miaomiao to their academies.
• Lu Zhengran taunted Su Ming after surpassing him, then challenged Bai Yingying to a spar.
• Bai Yingying told Lu Zhengran he had to reach the Heaven Ranking’s top ten before he would qualify to challenge her, and Lu Zhengran said he expected to manage it.

After Lu Zhengran joined the academy, his older sister Sun Minzi took the test and revealed the powerful Burning Heaven Emperor Position. The crowd marveled at the siblings’ talents, and Yin Lihua eagerly welcomed another exceptional recruit.

• Su Ming swallowed his anger after losing to Lu Zhengran, while Feng Li grew upset when Lu Miaomiao ignored her.
• Lu Zhengran agreed to join Yin Lihua’s academy and told Sun Minzi it was her turn to take the test.
• The crowd recognized Sun Minzi as the woman who had defeated Wu Yuhao, and Yin Lihua eagerly anticipated recruiting her.
• Sun Minzi entered the testing pillar, which revealed her age, cultivation, and Burning Heaven Emperor Position.
• Yin Lihua celebrated Sun Minzi’s rare Emperor Position, whose power grew by burning things and could be strengthened with powerful Divergent Flames.

Sun Minzi passed the assessment with her fused Five Elements Divergent Flame and confirmed that she and her siblings would join Yin Realm Academy. The crowd then turned its attention to Lu Zixuan, whose presence made Bai Yingying fear that she might lose her place atop the Heaven Ranking.

• Sun Minzi destroyed the liquid puppet with her fused Five Elements Divergent Flame and passed the assessment.
• Yin Lihua and Yang Zhenghao competed to recruit Sun Minzi, but she chose Yin Realm Academy with her siblings.
• Sun Minzi went to wait and told Lu Zixuan it was her turn, prompting the crowd to realize there might be another exceptional sibling.
• Bai Jingjing yielded the assessment to Lu Zixuan, and the crowd learned that they were friends rather than family.
• Bai Yingying sensed a dangerous aura from Lu Zixuan and worried that she could lose her Heaven Ranking position.

Lu Zixuan revealed her supposedly ordinary Soul Hall Emperor Position, drawing mockery from the crowd, then easily froze the liquid puppet during her combat test. She asked Yin Lihua whether her result meant she had passed and could join Yin Realm Academy.

• Lu Zixuan revealed her Soul Hall Emperor Position, and onlookers dismissed it as ordinary compared with the rare Emperor Positions of Lu Zhengran and the others.
• Bai Yingying and Yang Zhenghao felt relieved by Lu Zixuan's Emperor Position, while Yin Lihua remained interested in recruiting her.
• Lu Zixuan entered the formation and stopped the liquid puppet by narrowing her eyes, then received a combat-strength result of Middle Profound Heaven Emperor Realm.
• Lu Zixuan asked Yin Lihua whether she had passed the assessment and could join Yin Realm Academy.

Lu Zixuan passed the recruitment assessment and joined Yin Realm Academy, while Bai Jingjing also passed and was recruited by Yin Lihua. After learning how the academy’s rankings and resources worked, Lu Zixuan asked whether new students could challenge others immediately.

• Lu Zixuan explained that she had combined her soul with a Divine Ability to defeat the liquid puppet, then joined her siblings while planning to challenge academy members.
• Feng Li disparaged Lu Zixuan, prompting Lu Miaomiao to vow to challenge Feng Li and Lu Zhengran to challenge Su Ming.
• Dan Yun watched the assessment and speculated that Lu Zixuan was Lu Qing'an’s adopted daughter, while Lu Qing'an admired his daughter's decisive performance.
• Bai Jingjing passed her assessment with the Pure Yin Emperor Position, and Yin Lihua won her recruitment over Yang Zhenghao.
• Yin Lihua brought Lu Zixuan and the others to Yin Realm Academy, explained its rankings, and heard Lu Zixuan ask if new students could challenge people right away.

Lu Zixuan and her companions rapidly climbed the academy rankings, defeating Earth Ranking students and then taking four consecutive places near the top of the Heaven Ranking. Their sudden success alarmed Su Ming and Bai Yingying, who watched from her cave abode and struggled to understand how Lu Zixuan and Lu Miaomiao had beaten Fang Yuan.

• Yin Lihua explained the ranking challenge rules, and Lu Zixuan and her companions set out to climb the Earth Ranking.
• Lu Zixuan challenged the student ranked 190th, while Lu Zhengran searched for Su Ming and Lu Miaomiao looked for someone else.
• Feng Li and Su Ming hid in the academy, afraid Lu Zhengran would find them and beat them up.
• Lu Zixuan and her companions defeated successive Earth Ranking opponents and quickly rose high enough to challenge the Heaven Ranking.
• Lu Zixuan, Sun Minzi, Lu Zhengran, and Lu Miaomiao took the twentieth through twenty-third places on the Heaven Ranking after each defeated Fang Yuan.
• Su Ming and Bai Yingying watched the rankings from Bai Yingying's cave abode, and Su Ming questioned how Lu Zixuan and Lu Miaomiao had defeated Fang Yuan.

Lu Zixuan and her companions continued their rapid climb up the Heaven Ranking, reaching Chen Hong, who prepared to defend her tenth-place position. Lu Zixuan challenged Chen Hong, and the two entered the array to begin their fight.

• Su Ming warned Bai Yingying that Lu Zixuan and her companions were closing in on her, and Bai Yingying summoned Chen Hong for help.
• Lu Miaomiao finished eating after defeating Fang Yuan, while the group confirmed Chen Hong as their next target.
• Lu Zixuan and the others flew to Chen Hong's cave abode, drawing a crowd of students and Bai Yingying.
• Chen Hong welcomed Yin Lihua and explained that defeating the newcomers could earn her fame and a place in Bai Yingying's mysterious faction.
• Lu Zixuan challenged Chen Hong, and the two activated their tokens and entered the array to fight.

Lu Zixuan faced Chen Hong, whose soul treasure blocked Lu Zixuan’s soul attack, and Chen Hong summoned five Shadow War Gods. Lu Zixuan revealed a hidden ability of her Soul Hall Emperor Position, transforming twenty spirit soldiers into powerful, perfectly ordered warriors as the fight continued.

• Lu Zixuan’s soul attack failed against the special soul treasure Chen Hong carried, which Bai Yingying had lent her.
• Chen Hong revealed her Phantom Shadow Emperor Position and summoned five Late Tribulation Heaven Emperor Realm Shadow War Gods.
• Lu Zixuan summoned twenty spirit soldier followers, each initially at the Middle Profound Heaven Emperor Realm, astonishing the spectators.
• The spirit soldiers entered the Soul Hall, transformed into armored giants, and emerged at the Peak Profound Heaven Emperor Realm with halberds in hand.

Lu Zixuan defeated Chen Hong and secured tenth place by commanding enhanced spirit soldiers, stunning the spectators and changing Dan Yun’s view of Lu Qing'an. Dan Yun served Lu Qing'an tea made from leaves of a Peak Reincarnation Realm Demon God Male Tree, leaving him puzzled by the creature’s name.

• Lu Zixuan ordered twenty empowered spirit soldiers to attack Chen Hong and her five Shadow War Gods.
• The spirit soldiers overwhelmed Chen Hong’s group, losing ten of their own before Chen Hong admitted defeat.
• Lu Zixuan recalled her surviving soldiers, and the formation raised her ranking to tenth place.
• Dan Yun watched the battle and concluded Lu Qing'an’s daughter had an extraordinary future, becoming more respectful toward him.
• Dan Yun offered Lu Qing'an tea brewed from leaves of a Peak Reincarnation Realm Demon God Male Tree, and he wondered what it was.

Lu Qing'an accepted Dan Yun's offer of the Demon God Male Tree after revealing that he had a Demon God Mother Tree. At the Yin Realm Academy, Lu Zhengran overwhelmed Chen Hong with a rain-and-lightning technique, and Sun Minzi's challenge trapped Chen Hong in a domain of deadly flames.

• Lu Qing'an told Dan Yun that he had a Demon God Mother Tree on the Cangyun Continent, and Dan Yun offered him the Demon God Male Tree to build goodwill.
• Lu Qing'an accepted Dan Yun's offer but left the tree where it was until his children finished training.
• Lu Zhengran challenged Chen Hong and summoned a storm whose rain blades carried the power of the Middle Profound Heaven Emperor Realm.
• Yin Lihua declared Chen Hong defeated before Lu Zhengran's technique could endanger her or the academy, and Chen Hong admitted defeat.
• Sun Minzi challenged Chen Hong and pulled her into a domain surrounded by five kinds of deadly flames, making Chen Hong scream that she would not fight anymore.

Sun Minzi and Lu Miaomiao defeated Chen Hong in succession, leaving the crowd stunned by the children’s overwhelming strength. The chapter ended with Feng Li, hiding in Bai Yingying’s cave abode, so frightened that she wet herself.

• Sun Minzi used her flame domain to break Chen Hong’s will, then withdrew it after Chen Hong admitted defeat and claimed thirteenth place.
• Lu Miaomiao challenged Chen Hong and charged at her with her giant hammer as Chen Hong sent five Shadow War Gods to intercept her.
• Lu Miaomiao’s hammer destroyed the five Shadow War Gods and nearly struck Chen Hong before the array intervened and ended the challenge.
• Lu Miaomiao claimed fourteenth place and happily ate a pill while the crowd and Yin Lihua marveled at her strength.
• Bai Yingying feared she might lose to Lu Miaomiao, while Feng Li hid in Bai Yingying’s cave abode and wet herself from fright.

Lu Zixuan challenged Bai Yingying after reaching the top ten, and Bai Yingying used her Judgment Emperor Position to weaken and destroy Lu Zixuan’s fifty spirit soldiers. Lu Zixuan then revealed a force of more than a thousand spirit soldiers, who bowed and hailed her as the Empress, leaving Bai Yingying and the spectators stunned.

• After Lu Miaomiao’s victory over Chen Hong, Lu Zixuan challenged Bai Yingying, who was ranked first in the academy.
• Chen Hong returned Bai Yingying’s soul-defense jade plaque, and Bai Yingying manifested her Judgment Emperor Position.
• Lu Zixuan summoned fifty spirit soldiers, but Bai Yingying judged them, weakened them, and destroyed them.
• Bai Yingying declared that Lu Zixuan had no other tricks, but Lu Zixuan summoned more than a thousand spirit soldiers from the void.
• The spirit soldiers knelt before Lu Zixuan and hailed her as the Empress, stunning Bai Yingying and the watching students.

Lu Zixuan overwhelmed Bai Yingying with her spirit weapons, then her younger siblings challenged Bai Yingying in turn. After Lu Zhengran and Sun Minzi defeated her, Lu Miaomiao's hammer blow triggered the formation and dropped Bai Yingying to fifth place.

• Lu Zixuan summoned more than a thousand spirit weapons to attack Bai Yingying until the formation intervened and declared Lu Zixuan the winner, raising her rank to first.
• Lu Zixuan challenged her younger brother Lu Zhengran to fight Bai Yingying, who reluctantly accepted.
• Lu Zhengran used his Heavenly Grief Emperor Position and Water God's Teasing ability to defeat Bai Yingying with a barrage of tricks.
• Sun Minzi challenged Bai Yingying next and defeated her despite Bai Yingying's Judgment Emperor Position restricting her fire attacks.
• Lu Miaomiao fought Bai Yingying and triggered the formation with a second-stage Star-Exploding Rage hammer blow, leaving Bai Yingying in fifth place.

Lu Miaomiao defeated Yin Lihua’s formation, and Lu Zixuan’s group decided to visit the Yang Realm Academy to challenge its geniuses. At the Yang Realm Academy, Long Xu and Yang Zhenghao learned the group was on its way and rushed to greet them.

• Lu Miaomiao won her match against Yin Lihua’s formation and confirmed that her token showed four victories.
• Lu Zixuan told Yin Lihua that the group wanted to visit the Yang Realm Academy, and Sun Minzi explained they were seeking stronger opponents.
• Yin Lihua persuaded Lu Zixuan to return afterward by offering to take the group on training journeys and become their guardian.
• Lu Zixuan exchanged voice transmission imprints with Yin Lihua and handed the first-place title back to Bai Yingying before leaving.
• Long Xu and Yang Zhenghao heard from their spy that Lu Zixuan’s group was heading to the Yang Realm Academy and hurried to the gates.

Lu Zixuan and her companions arrived at Yang Realm Academy, where the gate guards harassed them and provoked Lu Zhengran. Long Xu and Yang Zhenghao stopped the confrontation and tried to appease the group, while a message revealed that Lu Zixuan and her companions had transferred to the academy.

• A guard leader flirted with Lu Zixuan and arranged for Xiao Wu to spar with Lu Zhengran after the guards mocked them.
• Long Xu and Yang Zhenghao appeared at the gates and found Lu Zhengran preparing to fight the Divine Realm guards.
• Lu Zhengran pretended to be traumatized and threatened to return to Yin Realm Academy, prompting Long Xu and Yang Zhenghao to promise to deal with the guards he named.
• Long Lin and the other top-ranked students received messages announcing that Lu Zixuan and her three companions had transferred to Yang Realm Academy.

Lu Qing'an watched Xue Tianfei and her companions encounter a Blood Flame Sect hunting party while training on the Pill Cloud Continent. After the attackers threatened them, Xue Tianfei, Hu Xinxin, and Wu Ciren completed their Divine Transformations and launched their first attacks.

• Lu Qing'an checked on Xue Tianfei and found her, Hu Xinxin, and Wu Ciren surrounded by fifteen Blood Flame Sect members who planned to capture and kill them.
• Xue Tianfei, Hu Xinxin, and Wu Ciren discussed the likely threat to the Pill Azure Sect and decided to focus on their own training.
• Hu Xinxin underwent Divine Transformation, manifesting a fox-themed Emperor Ring and battle form.
• Xue Tianfei underwent Divine Transformation, summoning her Bingli Emperor Ring and a vast domain of ice and snow.
• Wu Ciren completed his Divine Transformation as a forest-like ruler surrounded by intense life force.
• Xue Tianfei, Hu Xinxin, and Wu Ciren attacked the transformed Blood Flame Sect members with their divine abilities.

Xue Tianfei, Hu Xinxin, and Wu Ciren killed Blood Flame Sect fighters and decided to train near the sect, while Zhu Qingtian followed them in secret. Meanwhile, Lu Qing'an's groups began competing across Pill Cloud Continent to plunder luck, and Dan Yun suddenly sensed something was wrong.

• Hu Xinxin's charm made Blood Flame Sect members attack one another, while Xue Tianfei and Wu Ciren struck down the remaining fighters.
• Xue Tianfei, Hu Xinxin, and Wu Ciren finished off the Blood Flame Sect group and chose to seek more fights near the sect.
• Zhu Qingtian secretly followed the trio, hoping to protect them and earn Lu Qing'an's approval.
• Li Cangxuan and his companions split into groups to challenge Divine Realm fighters, array experts, artifact refiners, and alchemists to plunder luck.
• Xu Xuanyu agreed to take Xiao Qingyi to the Alchemist Guild, where they planned to compete in alchemy.
• Lu Qing'an watched the groups begin their work, then Dan Yun's expression changed as she sensed something alarming.

Dan Yun received word from Li Wensong that he had failed to reach the Eternal Realm but would come to form a contract with her in about half a month. Lu Qing'an worried the timing would disrupt his plans, then claimed that reaching the Eternal Realm had been as easy for him as drinking water.

• Dan Yun used her jade token to contact Li Wensong, a Peak Sovereign Realm expert she had known for hundreds of millions of years.
• Li Wensong told Dan Yun he had failed to break through to the Eternal Realm and had decided to retire from cultivation.
• Li Wensong said he would visit Dan Yun in about half a month to form a contract with her.
• Lu Qing'an calculated that Li Wensong might arrive before his operation was finished and considered accelerating his plans.
• Dan Yun asked Lu Qing'an whether his own breakthrough to the Eternal Realm had been difficult, and he said it had been as easy as drinking water.