Chapter Summaries

Cao Youqian completed eighty-one days of body cultivation in the Thousand-Year Cold Pool, surpassing Jin Gang’s record and drawing the attention of several academy institutes. As he left the pool, elders from those institutes blocked his path to speak with him.

• Elders Niu and Hong watched Cao Youqian temper his flesh and meridians, then agreed to monitor him discreetly.
• Deacon Han confirmed that Cao Youqian was still cultivating after forty-nine days and sold the news to inner disciples from three institutes.
• The Heavenly Spirit Institute, the Pill Dao Institute, and the Body Cultivation Institute began investigating Cao Youqian as his days in the pool mounted.
• Cao Youqian cultivated for eighty-one days, shattered the ice around himself, and walked out of the cold pool.
• Several figures landed in front of Cao Youqian as he left the mountain, and he respectfully asked why they had blocked his path.

Cao Youqian refused offers from three elders to join their institutes and declared his faith in Chu Feng and the inheritance he had received. Back at the Miscellaneous Dao Institute, Chu Feng helped him prepare for further body tempering and revealed enough power to cleave the clouds with Sword Qi.

• Elder Hong, Elder Cao, and Elder Gao offered to take Cao Youqian as their disciple, but Cao Youqian refused and said he would follow Chu Feng.
• The Profound Fire Pill King praised Cao Youqian’s choice and ordered Elder Cao to provide him with whatever he needed.
• The Sword Martial King heard the news and worried that Cao Youqian’s refusal would make it harder for Chu Feng to recruit disciples.
• Elder Bing persuaded Elder Gao to have his accomplished disciples spar with Rou'er in exchange for helping her cause.
• Chu Feng drained Cao Youqian’s spiritual power with Sword Rushing Through Disabled Acupoints, then demonstrated a massive Sword Qi slash that split the clouds.

Cao Youqian reunited with the Profound Fire Pill King and arranged to seek Qi of Earth Sha, while Chu Feng wondered how Xiao Chen was doing. Xiao Chen returned to the Great Liang Kingdom, avoided its palace banquet, and flew home with Liu Yue'er.

• Chu Feng told Cao Youqian to temper his body with Qi of Earth Sha and explained that his ancestor had secretly cared for him.
• Chu Feng and Cao Youqian visited the Profound Fire Pill King, who agreed to take Cao Youqian to a place where Qi of Earth Sha gathered the next day.
• Cao Youqian asked to go alone with his ancestor to gain experience, and Chu Feng agreed before returning to the Miscellaneous Dao Institute.
• The Dao-Seeking Academy envoys arrived in Great Liang, where Xiao Chen recognized his estranged father among the welcoming officials.
• Liu Yue'er said Xiao Chen seemed tired, and Xiao Chen left with her to return home instead of attending the palace banquet.
• Elder Huang canceled the banquet and announced that the Dao-Seeking Academy's recruitment ceremony would begin at the palace in three days.

Xiao Chen and Liu Yue'er returned to Prince Ding's Estate, where servants treated Xiao Chen with contempt despite recognizing him as the sixth prince. After Steward Qiu barred him from using the main gate, Xiao Chen insisted on entering through it.

• Xiao Chen and Liu Yue'er arrived at Prince Ding's Estate, whose decorations were meant for an unknown honored guest.
• A servant mistook Xiao Chen and Liu Yue'er for wandering martial artists and ordered them to leave, so Xiao Chen slapped him.
• Steward Qiu came out, apologized to Xiao Chen as the sixth prince, and ordered the servants to withdraw.
• Steward Qiu told Xiao Chen that the main gate was not for him to use.
• Xiao Chen declared that he would use the main gate and challenged Steward Qiu to stop him.

Xiao Chen returned to Prince Ding's Estate and revealed his restored strength when he cut down the guards who tried to stop him. He killed Senior Brother Zhao in a duel and confronted Elder Bai, leaving the Supreme Purity Sword Sect to decide whether to challenge the Dao-Seeking Academy's student.

• Steward Qiu ordered the estate guards and servants to seize Xiao Chen, but Xiao Chen killed them with a single sword strike and spared Steward Qiu.
• Xiao Shili arrived with Elder Bai and Senior Brother Zhao, and Senior Brother Zhao attacked Xiao Chen after Xiao Chen dismissed him.
• Xiao Chen killed Senior Brother Zhao with a sword strike that Elder Bai could not stop.
• Elder Bai attacked Xiao Chen, but Xiao Chen blocked his strike and revealed that he was from the Dao-Seeking Academy.
• Xiao Chen told Elder Bai that Senior Brother Zhao had attacked first and challenged him to fight if he refused to accept the killing.

Xiao Chen defeated Elder Bai of the Supreme Purity Sword Sect with Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Origin, then watched Elder Bai leave under Elder Huang’s warning. As Xiao Chen prepared to settle affairs with his family, his father returned to Prince Ding’s Estate.

• Xiao Chen challenged Elder Bai and insisted that Elder Bai draw his sword first.
• Elder Bai attacked with one of the Supreme Purity Sword Sect’s three Supreme Purity swords, but Xiao Chen overwhelmed him with Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Origin until Elder Bai admitted defeat.
• Elder Huang praised Xiao Chen’s sword technique and warned Elder Bai that the Dao-Seeking Academy would retaliate if Xiao Chen were harmed.
• Elder Bai apologized to Elder Huang, gathered his disciple’s corpse, and left with his followers, while Xiao Shili remained behind.
• A mounted party bearing the Ding banner approached Prince Ding’s Estate, and Xiao Chen recognized his returning father.

Xiao Chen returned to the Prince Ding Residence with Elder Huang and his Dao-Seeking Academy companions after defeating Elder Bai of the Supreme Purity Sword Sect. He reunited with his mother and asked her to move with him to Dao-Seeking City, leaving Prince Ding visibly alarmed.

• Prince Ding arrived after witnessing Xiao Chen defeat Elder Bai, then welcomed Xiao Chen and his academy companions through the residence's front gate.
• Xiao Chen led the group inside, while Prince Ding ordered a trusted subordinate to execute Steward Qiu and the others who had barred Xiao Chen.
• Chuntao told Xiao Chen's mother that he had returned and defeated an elder, prompting her to prepare to see him.
• Xiao Chen went to Orchid Courtyard with Liu Yue'er and Prince Ding, reunited with his mother, and introduced Liu Yue'er to her.
• Xiao Chen asked his mother to move with him to Dao-Seeking City, and Prince Ding's expression changed dramatically.

Xiao Chen secured better treatment for his mother at Prince Ding's residence, then left to temper himself with Liu Yue'er. At the Dao-Seeking Academy, Chu Feng decided to use his new recruitment quota and went to Dao-Seeking City, where he headed to watch a duel at the Life and Death Arena and was recognized as Head Chu.

• Xiao Chen offered to take his mother to Dao-Seeking City, but she chose to stay at Prince Ding's residence.
• Prince Ding promised to treat Xiao Chen's mother properly, while Xiao Chen warned him to account for those who had bullied her.
• Princess Ding apologized to Xiao Chen's mother, who forgave her, and Prince Ding executed the servants who had mistreated the secondary consort.
• After the disciple-recruitment ceremony, Xiao Chen went to temper himself with Liu Yue'er instead of joining the Dao-Seeking Academy's trip to Great Wei.
• Chu Feng decided to use his special recruitment quota and traveled to Dao-Seeking City, where he heard about Kuang Sandao and Young Hero Ling's duel.
• At the teahouse by the Life and Death Arena, two people asked Chu Feng for his identity token, but a voice identified him as Head Chu.

Chu Feng watched Kuang Sandao and Ling Zitong spar at the life-and-death platform while considering candidates for his remaining disciple position. Kuang Sandao won with a saber strike that showed a trace of saber intent, but Chu Feng said he would choose Ling Zitong because he was handsome.

• Two Dao-Seeking Academy disciples apologized to Chu Feng for failing to recognize him, and he forgave them.
• Chu Feng told Deacon Han that he had come to watch the duel and was looking for a disciple to recruit.
• Kuang Sandao and Ling Zitong arrived at the platform and exchanged powerful saber and spear attacks.
• Kuang Sandao used Frenzied Wave Slash and defeated Ling Zitong with a strike that revealed his saber intent.
• Deacon Han asked Chu Feng which fighter he would recruit, and Chu Feng chose Ling Zitong because he was handsome.

Chu Feng visited the Pavilion of Fragrant Beauties to observe Kuang Sandao and Ling Zitong, whose character he was considering before choosing a disciple. As he listened to music and watched Miss Qin’s performance, Ling Zitong bid for an encore, but Chu Feng raised the offer from upstairs.

• Chu Feng entered the Pavilion of Fragrant Beauties and asked Yuan Shuxiao where Kuang Sandao and Ling Zitong were seated.
• Chu Feng rented a private room and listened to two courtesans perform while keeping an eye on the two men below.
• Deacon Han sent word to the Dao-Seeking Academy that Chu Feng favored Ling Zitong, hoping to earn a reward.
• Miss Qin arrived, performed a spiritual-power-infused piece on the guqin, and left the guests impressed.
• Ling Zitong bid one thousand low-grade spirit stones for Miss Qin to play again, and Chu Feng countered with two thousand.

Chu Feng outbid Ling Zitong for a private audience with Qin Qin, while Han An concluded that Chu Feng was deliberately provoking Ling Zitong to spur his growth. After Qin Qin played a tune that told of a girl surviving the slaughter of her family, Chu Feng asked to hear the rest of her story.

• Chu Feng bid two thousand spirit stones for the chance to hear Qin Qin play, and Ling Zitong let him have it despite his anger.
• Chu Feng paid in advance and followed Qing'er to the fifth floor, while Kuang Sandao offered to teach him a lesson and Ling Zitong refused.
• Han An told his disciple that Chu Feng was making Ling Zitong suffer setbacks to draw out his potential, and declared Ling Zitong the disciple Chu Feng intended to take.
• Qing'er brought Chu Feng to Qin Qin's room, where he asked her to tell her story through music.
• Qin Qin played a mournful tune that showed Chu Feng a girl hiding in a dry well while cultivators slaughtered her family and destroyed her home.
• Chu Feng asked Qin Qin for wine and the rest of the story, startling her by recognizing the tale in her music.

Chu Feng used Qin Qin’s Zither Dream Technique to witness the destruction of her family and sect, then learned she had been born with extraordinary pupils that were injured by attackers seeking her eyes. He offered to take her away in exchange for a healing spirit herb, and Qin Qin asked him to prove he could provide one.

• Chu Feng listened to Qin Qin’s zither and saw a girl escape the slaughter of her sect before returning to find it in ruins.
• Chu Feng heard Qin Qin’s final piece and saw black-clad attackers pursue her for her extraordinary pupils, then broke free of the Zither Dream Technique.
• Qin Qin explained that her parents had protected her, that she found the Zither Dream Technique during a training expedition, and that her pupils had been injured when she used their power once.
• Chu Feng asked whether Qin Qin would leave the Pavilion of Fragrant Beauties for enough in return, and she said she wanted a spirit herb to heal her pupils.
• Chu Feng said a saint herb was no problem, and Qin Qin asked him to demonstrate his strength.
• Chu Feng placed his identity token on the table and asked whether it would prove his strength.

Chu Feng persuaded Qin Qin that he was one of the Dao-Seeking Academy’s ten chief elders, and she agreed to walk through the city with him. Outside the Pavilion of Fragrant Beauties, Elder Qi offered to take Ling Zitong as his disciple, and Chu Feng congratulated him, drawing everyone’s attention.

• Qin Qin saw Chu Feng’s chief elder token and agreed to verify his identity by walking with him through the city the next day.
• Qin Qin left the Pavilion of Fragrant Beauties with Chu Feng, telling Yuan Shuxiao she had not decided whether to leave.
• Ling Zitong and Kuang Sandao encountered Dao-Seeking Academy elders outside the pavilion and bowed to them.
• Elder Qi offered to take Ling Zitong as his disciple, and Ling Zitong accepted.
• Chu Feng congratulated Elder Qi on gaining a disciple, prompting everyone to turn their attention to him.

Chu Feng rejected Kuang Sandao and took Qin Qin, a courtesan from the Pavilion of Fragrant Beauties, as his disciple. After bringing her to Dao-Seeking Academy and registering her, he encountered Elder Qi, who mocked his choice.

• Elder Qi told Chu Feng that Dao-Seeking Academy believed he had praised Ling Zitong, and Ling Zitong was taken away with Elder Qi’s group.
• Kuang Sandao and Qin Qin both asked Chu Feng to accept them as disciples, but Chu Feng rejected Kuang Sandao and chose Qin Qin.
• When Kuang Sandao protested that Qin Qin was a courtesan, Chu Feng refused to explain his choice and left with her.
• Chu Feng took Qin Qin back to the Pavilion of Fragrant Beauties, then brought her to Dao-Seeking Academy and urged her to earn respect through her own strength.
• After Chu Feng registered Qin Qin, Elder Qi and Ling Zitong’s group encountered them, and Elder Qi mocked Chu Feng for choosing a courtesan.

Chu Feng brought Qin Qin to the nearly empty Miscellaneous Dao Institute and promised to create a cultivation method suited to her special eyes. After receiving his Eye of World Destruction Cultivation Method, Qin Qin found it far better than any eye cultivation text she had encountered and decided joining him had been the right choice.

• Chu Feng told Elder Qi he had never intended to take Ling Zitong as his disciple and left with Qin Qin, while Elder Qi dismissed his explanation.
• At the Miscellaneous Dao Institute, Chu Feng explained that his two senior disciples were away, and Qin Qin worried she had joined the wrong sect.
• Qin Qin chose to cultivate an ocular technique, and Chu Feng spent hours devising a method based on observing the Great Dao.
• Chu Feng gave Qin Qin the Eye of World Destruction Cultivation Method and warned her to practice carefully.
• After reading the method, Qin Qin recognized its power and concluded that becoming Chu Feng's disciple was the right choice.

Chu Feng guided Qin Qin in cultivating the Eye of World Destruction, and she discovered how to absorb Yin and Yang essence to awaken her Double Pupils. Her progress rewarded Chu Feng with the technique at great perfection, though he realized his spiritual sense was too weak to unleash its full power.

• Chu Feng told Qin Qin to observe the sun and moon with her mind's eye after she struggled to make progress with the Eye of World Destruction.
• Qin Qin used the guidance to perceive the moon's Yin Qi, then balanced its essence with the sun's Yang essence and set a cultivation schedule.
• Seven days later, Qin Qin got started with the Eye of World Destruction and planned what food to make for Chu Feng.
• The system rewarded Chu Feng with the Eye of World Destruction at great perfection, but he found his spiritual sense could only shatter a boulder with a glance.
• Chu Feng woke at noon, smelled food in the courtyard, and asked Qin Qin if she had gotten started with the technique.

Qin Qin learned that the Great Evolution Holy Land had destroyed her clan and vowed to grow strong enough to take revenge, while Chu Feng encouraged her and promised support. Nearly two months later, Cao Youqian returned to the Miscellaneous Dao Institute, met his new junior sister, and told them he was ready to continue his body tempering.

• Qin Qin told Chu Feng that the Great Evolution Holy Land had wiped out her clan after her parents refused to let an old Daoist take her away.
• Chu Feng explained that Qin Qin would need to awaken a Divine or Saint Physique and eventually become a saint to defeat the Great Evolution Holy Land, and he promised that he and her senior brothers would support her.
• Over the next two months, Qin Qin's Double Pupils fully recovered and her cultivation advanced as Chu Feng guided her.
• Cao Youqian returned to the Miscellaneous Dao Institute, met Qin Qin, and gave her a bottle of True Essence Pills as a first-meeting gift.
• Cao Youqian told Chu Feng that he had completed Body Tempering with the Qi of Earth Sha, and Chu Feng said he was ready for Sword Qi Body Tempering.
• Cao Youqian sat down to eat with Chu Feng and Qin Qin and said he looked forward to continuing his Five Elements Body Tempering.

Cao Youqian completed Sword Qi body tempering while Lin Ping'an awakened a Saint Physique and became the Sword Martial King's disciple. Cao Youqian, Chu Feng, and Qin Qin secretly left the academy so Cao Youqian could break through to the True Fate Realm away from prying eyes.

• Chu Feng tempered Cao Youqian with Sword Qi for eighty days as Qin Qin watched and resolved to persevere in her own cultivation.
• Lin Ping'an awakened a Saint Physique, and the Sword Martial King accepted him as a disciple and planned a ceremony.
• The Sword Martial King invited Chu Feng to Lin Ping'an's disciple-taking ceremony, and Chu Feng accepted.
• Cao Youqian revealed that Lin Ping'an had once humiliated him and asked Chu Feng to guard his secret breakthrough to the True Fate Realm.
• Chu Feng agreed to take Cao Youqian and Qin Qin down the mountain, and the three found a beast's cave where Cao Youqian began his breakthrough.

After Cao Youqian awakened the Tyrant Divine Physique and reached the True Fate Realm, cultivators broke into his cave, hoping to seize its treasures. Cao Youqian faced their leader, Old Monster Blood Saber, as the man drew his weapon and threatened to make him the saber’s thousandth victim.

• Cao Youqian awakened the Tyrant Divine Physique, and Chu Feng gained twenty years of cultivation from his breakthrough.
• Cultivators broke the cave’s formation and attacked, prompting Cao Youqian to stride out and confront them.
• Cao Youqian’s five-colored barrier blocked the weapons of more than a dozen cultivators, and they called on their leader, Old Monster Blood Saber.
• Old Monster Blood Saber revealed his Heavenly Origin Realm strength and drew his blood-red saber, while Cao Youqian showed no fear.

Cao Youqian defeated Old Monster Blood Saber with a punch, while Chu Feng killed the fleeing enemy with a sword strike. Back at the Dao-Seeking Academy, Chu Feng began creating a fist technique for Cao Youqian and named it Extreme Dao Divine Fist.

• Cao Youqian broke Old Monster Blood Saber's Blood Saber Slash and forced him to flee.
• Chu Feng sent a sword strike from the cave that killed Old Monster Blood Saber, prompting the crowd to kneel and beg for mercy.
• Cao Youqian took the crowd's storage bags after Chu Feng told him to do as he pleased.
• Cao Youqian admitted he needed a suitable fist technique and more combat experience, and Chu Feng promised to help him train.
• Chu Feng returned to the Dao-Seeking Academy and, after testing the fist techniques he remembered, began writing the Extreme Dao Divine Fist.