Chapter Summaries

Director Li Changsheng overpowered Huaqing’s visiting teacher, Lin Qinghua, then announced an elimination contest in which each school would field five students and the winner would take all. Ning Yue prepared for the coming matches as Xinyuan Middle School began selecting its team.

• Li Changsheng praised Ning Yue and shielded him from Lin Qinghua’s pressure before defeating Lin’s starlight vision with a flash of sword light.
• Li Changsheng revealed his past as a Fifth-Rank martial artist at twenty-one and used his sword aura to force Lin Qinghua to admit defeat.
• Li Changsheng told Ning Yue to prepare to fight Huaqing’s students, and Ning Yue returned to Wang Xueqing, reflecting on the gap between their abilities.
• Li Changsheng announced that five students from each school would compete in one-on-one elimination battles, with any means allowed to win but no deliberate serious injury or killing once an opponent could no longer fight.
• Li Changsheng assigned Zuo Tianchang to select Xinyuan Middle School’s five competitors, then sat beside Lin Qinghua below the stage.

Ning Yue volunteered to fight alone so he could test his strength and gain combat experience. He defeated Liao Siyuan in the opening match, leaving the spectators stunned.

• Zuo Tianchang selected Ning Yue, Wang Xueqing, Zhao Hu, and two other students for Xinyuan City's team, and Ning Yue appointed himself captain.
• Ning Yue ran onto the arena alone, while Wang Xueqing and the others stayed behind to watch.
• Liao Siyuan challenged Ning Yue, and Yang Yifei agreed to let the two fight.
• Ning Yue activated his indestructible vajra physique, then deactivated it as Liao Siyuan attacked.
• Ning Yue dodged Liao Siyuan's axe and struck him with Eighteen Hammer Strikes of Hating Heaven for Having No Handle and Earth for Having No Ring, knocking him off the arena.

Ning Yue defeated Liao Siyuan by repeatedly sending him out of the arena, then faced Yang Zihan, Huaqing High School’s next contestant and an admirer who asked to add him as a friend. Yang Zihan abruptly transformed into a taller, more mature-looking fighter and attacked him with her heavy hammers.

• Ning Yue used his newly discovered control to send Liao Siyuan flying repeatedly without seriously hurting him.
• Yang Yifei stopped Liao Siyuan from continuing the match and told him to accept his loss, while Yang Zihan thanked her brother for letting her meet Ning Yue.
• The referee declared Xinyuan Middle School the winner of the first match and called for Huaqing High School’s next contestant.
• Yang Zihan entered the arena, approached Ning Yue, and asked to add his martial artist number; Ning Yue accepted her friend request.
• Yang Zihan drew a heavy hammer, announced her attack, and transformed as she began using the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer Technique.

Ning Yue countered Yang Zihan’s attack, but she staged a dramatic injury that led the teachers to discuss recruiting her. Yang Yifei then charged Ning Yue in a rage, and their battle reached a head-on clash between Ning Yue’s combined techniques and Yang Yifei’s spear.

• Ning Yue redirected Yang Zihan’s hammers, but hesitated before striking and gave her room to act.
• Yang Zihan pretended Ning Yue had struck her, tearing her outer clothes and falling to the ground as the students misread the scene.
• Li Changsheng and the Xinyuan Martial Arts High School teachers suggested that Yang Zihan transfer, while Lin Qinghua reluctantly said he would consider it.
• Yang Yifei leaped into the arena and attacked Ning Yue with his spear, enraged over his sister’s apparent injury.
• Ning Yue activated Indestructible Vajra Physique and prepared the Fist of Origin, but dispersed the Divine Elephant Prison-Suppressing Force when its backlash weakened him.
• Ning Yue combined Indestructible Vajra Physique, Ninefold Thunder Force, and the Fist of Origin against Yang Yifei’s Yang Family Spear Technique as the two attacks met.

Ning Yue defeated Yang Yifei in the challenge match, prompting Huaqing City to concede so Yang Yifei could receive treatment as his spirit body began awakening. Director Li offered Ning Yue a reward and explained that Fifth-Rank Martial Artists could open special apertures, including one that created storage space within the body.

• Ning Yue struck Yang Yifei with overwhelming force, sending him flying and severely injuring him.
• Lin Qinghua retrieved the unconscious Yang Yifei, announced Huaqing City's concession, and rushed him away to protect his spirit body awakening.
• Yang Zihan indicated to Ning Yue that they should keep in touch before leaving with the Huaqing High School students.
• Director Li praised Ning Yue and asked him to choose a reward, but Ning Yue requested a hundred million and left the choice to him.
• Director Li presented Ning Yue with pills, jade boxes, and golden cards, then explained that special apertures in the Fifth-Grade Realm could store objects.

After receiving rewards from Li Changsheng, Ning Yue learned that the school’s third martial mock exam would take place outside the city in three days. He secretly worked to fuse two cultivation arts, while his parents grew worried when he became absorbed in his thoughts.

• Ning Yue chose a jade box and a medicine bottle from Li Changsheng, who encouraged Wang Xueqing and the other team members before leaving.
• Zuo Tianchang announced that the third martial mock exam would take place outside the city in three days, and Liao Dong reflected on Ning Yue’s growing strength.
• Ning Yue pondered how to fuse the Bitter Bamboo Scripture and the Heaven-Breaking Scripture, outlining a new art meant to refine an indestructible true body.
• Ning Yue continued his work at home without speaking, worrying Mo Zini and Ning Baichuan, who messaged Lei Zhan and said their son seemed possessed.

Ning Yue fused the first layers of the Bitter Bamboo Scripture and Heaven-Breaking Scripture into a new art, the Three Lives and Three Deaths Reincarnation Art, which he named the Primordial Scripture. After his parents and Lei Zhan arranged three days of special training, Lei Zhan reassured them Ning Yue was not possessed and told them about his extraordinary talent, leaving Ning Baichuan eager to fund his training.

• Ning Yue fused the first layers of his cultivation arts and formed the Three Lives and Three Deaths Reincarnation Art, which he recorded as the first layer of the Primordial Scripture.
• Ning Baichuan and Lei Zhan told Ning Yue that Lei Zhan would begin three days of special training with him the next day.
• Lei Zhan assured Ning Baichuan and his wife that possession was beyond even Grandmasters and that Ning Yue was not a likely target for a divine-grade expert.
• Lei Zhan revealed Ning Yue's spirit physique, victories, combat strength, and mastery of his cultivation arts, astonishing his parents.
• Ning Baichuan offered to pay for Lei Zhan's Mad Battle Hunting Team to help train Ning Yue.

After learning that an Azure Ghost had massacred the Vast Sea Residential Complex, Ning Yue advanced his cultivation and headed for the martial artist exchange for special training. On the way, he encountered the Azure Ghost Aba Aba, wounded him, and attacked as he tried to escape.

• Lei Zhan left to investigate the Azure Ghost massacre at the Vast Sea Residential Complex, worrying Ning Baichuan and Mo Zini.
• Ning Yue practiced the Three Lives and Three Deaths Reincarnation Art and formed his eighth heavenly meridian, strengthening his foundation in the First-Rank Realm.
• Ning Baichuan told Ning Yue that Lei Zhan had arranged special training at the martial artist exchange, and Ning Yue set out for it.
• Near Smoke Alley, Ning Yue heard an eerie voice and attacked an old man who revealed himself as Aba Aba of the Azure Ghost Race.
• Ning Yue wounded Aba Aba, recognized the Azure Ghost from the Eye of Heaven Observation, and unleashed several martial techniques as Aba Aba fled in the form of bats.

Ning Yue defeated the Azure Ghost Race’s bat clones but failed to catch the fleeing old man. At the Martial Artist Exchange, Lei Zhan introduced him to Zhang Chun and Lei Ren, then led them underground with the mission to spend money wisely.

• Ning Yue killed the Azure Ghost Race’s bat clones until the old man made them self-destruct, allowing the last bat to escape.
• Ning Yue met Lei Zhan, Zhang Chun, and Lei Ren at the Martial Artist Exchange.
• Lei Zhan introduced Zhang Chun as his niece and Lei Ren as his sixteen-year-old nephew, who had awakened the Thunder Physique.
• Ning Yue told Lei Zhan about his encounter with the Azure Ghost Race, and Lei Zhan relaxed after confirming he was safe.
• Lei Zhan led the group underground and told Ning Yue that his mission was to spend money on the best goods.

Ning Yue, Zhang Chun, and Lei Ren explored the underground martial artist exchange after Lei Zhan gave each of them three million for their special training. At the Pavilion of Wonders, Ning Yue’s Eye of Heaven Observation revealed that the Golden Blade Sky-Breaking Slash could fuse with his Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Technique into the Ten Directions Ultimate Slash.

• Lei Zhan transferred three million to each of the three and called wise resource allocation their first special-training lesson.
• Ning Yue, Zhang Chun, and Lei Ren toured the exchange and browsed its crowded street stalls, where Zhang Chun admired an ice crystal fire lotus but left it behind because of its price.
• Zhang Chun and Lei Ren said they had found what they wanted, while Ning Yue remained undecided about which weapon and other equipment to buy.
• Zhang Chun led Ning Yue and Lei Ren to the Pavilion of Wonders, which displayed an array of bloodstained weapons.
• Ning Yue felt drawn to a mysterious aura, and his Eye of Heaven Observation identified the Golden Blade Sky-Breaking Slash as a skill that could fuse with the Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Technique to create the Ten Directions Ultimate Slash.