Chapter Summaries

Fan Lang gave Li Yunyan the Nebula Merit Record and helped her rise to Mystic Venerable Level Seven by hunting demonic beasts. When the Wanzhou army encountered Qian Wantong’s Bazhou forces, Fan Lang accepted the Gold Jade Prince’s invitation to talk at a nearby lake.

• Fan Lang copied the Nebula Merit Record into Li Yunyan’s mind and explained its effects, then Hou Guangzu demonstrated that he had become a Mystic King.
• Fan Lang took Li Yunyan to hunt demonic beasts, and she rapidly advanced to Mystic Venerable Level Seven.
• Fan Lang received Hou Guangzu’s message that Qian Wantong had blocked the Wanzhou army’s path and requested a meeting.
• Fan Lang returned to the army and met Qian Wantong, who invited him to a nearby lake to discuss their concerns.
• Fan Lang accepted Qian Wantong’s invitation and agreed to go to the lake.

Fan Lang and Qian Wantong negotiated the fate of Bazhou and agreed to settle the dispute in a duel, with Bazhou and compensation at stake. At the lake, Fan Lang destroyed Qian Wantong’s hidden array, and Qian Wantong unleashed his power to begin the fight.

• Qian Wantong led Fan Lang to a lakeside pavilion, where they discussed Bazhou and the terms of a one-on-one duel.
• Qian Wantong proposed that the winner decide Bazhou’s fate, while Fan Lang objected to paying him for the territory.
• Fan Lang accepted the duel and walked onto the lake, where Qian Wantong revealed himself as a Mystic Emperor and equipped several treasures.
• Fan Lang detected and destroyed the hidden array beneath the lake, ruining Qian Wantong’s plan to gain an advantage.
• Qian Wantong unlocked eighty Acupoints and unleashed his power, causing the lake beneath him to explode.

Fan Lang defeated Qian Wantong in a fierce battle over Bazhou and forced him to accept a transfer price of ten thousand Spirit Coins. Qian Wantong agreed, leaving Bazhou under Fan Lang’s control.

• Qian Wantong attacked Fan Lang with waves and golden projectiles, but neither fighter gained the upper hand.
• Qian Wantong’s mechanical bird struck at Fan Lang, who knocked it away before catching Qian Wantong’s enormous Gold Ingot with one hand.
• Fan Lang unleashed the Blood Sea Demon Embryo’s power, shattered the Gold Ingot, and wounded Qian Wantong with bloody energy.
• Qian Wantong summoned towering gold and silver mountains, but Fan Lang’s Sword Qi Giant Lotus crushed them and trapped him.
• Fan Lang declared Qian Wantong defeated and demanded Bazhou under their agreement.
• Qian Wantong reluctantly accepted Fan Lang’s offer of ten thousand Spirit Coins for Bazhou.

Fan Lang negotiated with Qian Wantong to take control of his territory and industries in Ba Province, then considered the coming Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth. The system rewarded Fan Lang for ending the battle, and Li Yunyan rose to level seven Mystic King.

• Fan Lang made Qian Wantong identify the territory and assets he controlled in Ba Province and marked them on a map.
• Fan Lang caught Qian Wantong concealing several locations, and Qian Wantong agreed to hand over what he controlled while leaving Xiahou Family territory unresolved.
• Qian Wantong warned Fan Lang that Ba Province would be difficult to control, but Fan Lang said he would bring a new era to the province.
• Fan Lang withdrew and absorbed the Sword Qi Giant Lotus, then reflected that he would eventually need to prevent the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth.
• The system awarded Fan Lang sixty million Experience Points for defeating Qian Wantong and converted them into battle merits for Li Yunyan.
• Li Yunyan broke through to level seven Mystic King in the Wan Province army and startled both armies with her cry.

Fan Lang took control of Ba Province’s royal city and attended a victory banquet, where the famed dancer Yu Ji sought a private meeting with him. He exposed her as a princess with a hidden identity and challenged her about her intentions.

• Qian Wantong surrendered Ba Province, its royal city, and its troops to Fan Lang after admitting defeat.
• Fan Lang encouraged Li Yunyan as she broke through into the Mystic King realm, then led his army to Ba Province’s royal city and entrusted its administration to He Buming.
• Fan Lang’s forces celebrated Ba Province becoming a subordinate territory of Wan Province at a banquet featuring the dancer Yu Ji.
• Hou Guangzu told Fan Lang that Yu Ji wanted to meet him privately, and Fan Lang agreed to receive her.
• Fan Lang revealed that Yu Ji was also Hua, the emperor’s seventh daughter, and accused her of approaching him with a Honey Trap.

Fan Lang exposed Yu Ji’s identity as a princess and captured her when she tried to use a Honey Trap against him. He imprisoned her aboard the Pengcheng (Great Journey) Ship, leaving Yu Ji furious and vowing her hatred.

• Fan Lang saw through Yu Ji’s disguise and identified her as a princess who had come to seduce and scheme against him.
• Fan Lang restrained Yu Ji with Mystic Extinction Handcuffs and confiscated her Card Pack, weapons, and belongings.
• Fan Lang told Yu Ji he would use her as a hostage against Hua Xiongjiao, while Yu Ji denied having any admiration for him.
• Yu Ji shouted that Fan Lang was molesting her, so Fan Lang silenced her with a Silence Card.
• Fan Lang locked Yu Ji in a Prison Cell aboard the Pengcheng (Great Journey) Ship and ordered guards to protect her and deliver meals.
• Yu Ji watched Fan Lang leave and wrote his name on the cell floor, drawing circles around it in hatred.

As the Xiahou Family and its allies launched attacks across Bazhou, Fan Lang sent Wanzhou and Star Cloud Alliance forces to retaliate and destroy several hideouts. The next day, a man claiming to know the Xiahou Family’s secrets asked Fan Lang for a deal in exchange for the family’s hideouts and assets.

• Xiahou Family forces and other remnants attacked Wanzhou-held sites in Bazhou, burning a medicinal garden and killing defenders.
• Hou Guangzu identified the Xiahou Family as the attackers’ leader and showed Fan Lang a map of its known hideouts.
• Old Man Hai, Han Beijing, and other Wanzhou and Star Cloud Alliance experts struck back, killing attackers and destroying several Xiahou Family hideouts.
• Fan Lang spared children and non-martial artists while ordering the adult Mystic Warriors among the attackers killed.
• Hou Guangzu brought a man claiming to know the Xiahou Family’s hideouts and assets to meet Fan Lang, and the man offered that information in exchange for a future.

Fan Lang followed a traitor’s information to the Xiahou Family’s hidden headquarters and broke through its layered defenses in ghost hero form. He summoned an army from the Yellow Springs World and led the charge against the family.

• Fan Lang paid the traitorous man for information about the Xiahou Family’s hiding place and assets.
• Fan Lang took Old Man Hai, Hou Guangzu, Li Yunyan, and the traitor aboard Han Beijing’s Mist Hidden Ship to the valley.
• Fan Lang used the Eye of the Dragon to see through the optical illusion and confirm the Xiahou Family was hiding there.
• Fan Lang transformed with the Ghost Hero Card and shattered the valley’s barriers with the Dragon Scale Sword and his bone spines.
• A Xiahou Family elder organized the defenders and activated three formations as Fan Lang broke through the final barrier.
• Fan Lang opened the Hell Gate, summoned Ghost Soldiers and ghost generals, mounted a Skeleton Warhorse, and ordered his forces to kill.

Fan Lang led the Star Cloud Alliance into battle against the Xiahou Family, while Old Man Hai, Hou Guangzu, and Li Yunyan fought the enemy formations and guards. Fan Lang killed the traitor and broke the Black Tortoise Grand Formation, leaving the battle raging in the valley.

• Fan Lang charged into the valley with the Ghost Soldiers and Ghost Generals, then confronted the Black Tortoise Grand Formation as the Star Cloud Alliance joined the fight.
• Old Man Hai attacked the flaming giant with a Water Dragon, weakening its flames, while Hou Guangzu and Li Yunyan fought Xiahou Family guards and gained battle merit.
• Fan Lang struck the Black Tortoise Grand Formation’s snake tail and was blasted backward, then killed the traitor with a sword strike and dismissed it as an accident.
• Fan Lang unleashed the Hell-Breaking Sword against the Black Tortoise Grand Formation, cracking its shell, injuring the people inside, and breaking the formation.

Fan Lang destroyed the Xiahou Family’s formation and was ambushed by the newly ascended Mystic Sovereign Xiahou Ri. He drew Xiahou Ri into the world inside the Extreme Evil Demonic Path True Scroll and unleashed a tenfold attack boost, leaving their battle poised to begin in earnest.

• Fan Lang shattered the Black Tortoise Grand Formation, killed its commanding Mystic Emperor elder, and helped decimate the Xiahou Family.
• Xiahou Ri ambushed Fan Lang after returning from the Tower of Heaven as a Mystic Sovereign, seeking revenge for his family.
• Fan Lang challenged Xiahou Ri and opened the Extreme Evil Demonic Path True Scroll, pulling them both into its Independent Space.
• Fan Lang activated the Temporary Burst Device for tenfold attack power, and Xiahou Ri was shocked by the strength of his aura.

Fan Lang killed Xiahou Ri inside the Demonic Path True Scroll and emerged with his corpse, leaving the Xiahou Family defeated and at his mercy. He ordered his allies to kill every Mystic Warrior in the family, sparing only women and children.

• Fan Lang used his Sword Qi Giant Lotus to destroy Xiahou Ri’s counterfeit Tower of Heaven and grind him into bloody fragments.
• Fan Lang gained experience, rose to Mystic Lord Level 7, and waited inside the Demonic Path True Scroll for his system to restart.
• The Xiahou Family watched the battle continue outside and hoped Xiahou Ri would defeat Fan Lang.
• Fan Lang emerged from the scroll holding Xiahou Ri’s corpse, and the Xiahou Family collapsed into despair and surrender.
• Fan Lang ordered his allies to kill every Mystic Warrior in the Xiahou Family, sparing women and children.

Fan Lang wiped out the Xiahou Family’s core forces and helped Wan Province take control of Ba Province. After reassuring the Phoenix Woman and refusing to release Yu Ji, he learned that Demon Xiaoyao had returned to rule the Carefree Demon Kingdom, raising doubts about what the unpredictable ruler planned next.

• Fan Lang and his Death Army slaughtered the Xiahou Family’s forces, killed Xiahou Ri, and seized the family’s substantial wealth.
• The Star Cloud Alliance and Wan Province’s armies crushed remaining resistance and established control over Ba Province.
• Fan Lang warned the Phoenix Woman not to believe attempts to sow discord and told her he would not compete with her for the throne.
• Ying Longxiang reported that the imperial family wanted Yu Ji released, but Fan Lang refused and offered to compensate Ying Longxiang for returned gifts.
• Ying Longxiang reported that Demon Xiaoyao had reclaimed the Carefree Demon Kingdom’s throne, and Fan Lang wondered what new purpose had brought him back.

Fan Lang increased his Experience gain to six times its normal amount while traveling to Hai Province to restore Old Man Hai to power. At Hai Jingfan’s celebration banquet, Hai Wuya returned and revealed his identity.

• Fan Lang completed the mission to conquer Hegemon Province and gained equipment and 120 million Experience Points.
• Fan Lang set out for Hai Province in a Wind Chasing Iron Colt, intending to reveal Old Man Hai’s identity and deal with a matter involving the Golden Sun War Lion.
• Fan Lang used the Automatic Cracker to increase his Experience gain from three times to six times its normal amount.
• Hai Jingfan held a banquet to celebrate reaching Mystic Emperor Level Eight, and an overwhelming Mystic Sovereign pressure interrupted the festivities.
• Fan Lang arrived with an elderly man in an iron mask, who removed it and announced himself as East Pacifying King Hai Wuya.

The Pacifying East King returned to Hai Province as a Mystic Emperor and, under Fan Lang’s control, punished Hai Jingfan for mistreating Fan Lang. He forced Hai Jingfan to choose between kneeling to Fan Lang and death, and Hai Jingfan finally agreed to kneel.

• Hai Jingfan and the assembled experts welcomed the Pacifying East King, who said he had broken through to the Mystic Emperor realm.
• The Pacifying East King condemned Hai Jingfan for offending Fan Lang, his savior, and seized him with a Water Great Hand.
• He crushed Hai Jingfan’s bones and demanded that he kneel to Fan Lang and apologize.
• The Sea King arrived, rejoiced at his father’s return, and pleaded for Hai Jingfan’s life.
• The Pacifying East King refused to relent and increased the pressure until Hai Jingfan’s body was nearly crushed, prompting him to agree to kneel.

Fan Lang used Old Man Hai to force Hai Jingfan to kneel and secure Hai Province’s alliance with Wan Province. After the feast, the Sea King discussed opposition within Hai Province with his father, while sensing that the Pacifying East King had become distant and unfamiliar.

• Old Man Hai forced Hai Jingfan to kneel on both knees, and Fan Lang forgave him while warning him not to provoke him again.
• The Sea King welcomed Old Man Hai and Fan Lang to the royal palace and offered to return power to his father.
• Speaking under Fan Lang’s control, Old Man Hai let the Sea King remain in charge but ordered Hai Province to support Wan Province and its hunt for the Golden Sun War Lion.
• After the feast, Old Man Hai asked the Sea King to name the factions opposing the Hai Family and declared that he would sweep through them the next day.
• The Sea King left after sensing that his father had become cold and distant, while Old Man Hai remained alone at the window.

Fan Lang attacked Star Net Mountain with the Wind Chasing Iron Colt, then personally killed the Blood Serpent Twin Killers and wiped out the bandit stronghold. The battle earned him a level and completed his rapid assault mission.

• Fan Lang led an alliance force into Hai Province and drove the Wind Chasing Iron Colt toward Star Net Mountain.
• Fan Lang broke through the bandits’ traps and formations, transforming the vehicle and rampaging through their stronghold.
• The Blood Serpent Twin Killers attacked Fan Lang, but he killed both Mystic Emperors with a single sword strike.
• Fan Lang slaughtered tens of thousands of bandits and completed the mission within an hour.
• Fan Lang gained enough Experience Points to reach Mystic Lord Level 8.

Fan Lang finished crushing Hai Province's rebel forces and prepared to sail to the Treasure Island Auction, bringing a seemingly ordinary man whose identity he believed would help him there. On the voyage, the Pengcheng (Great Journey) Ship reached a sea demon nest and spotted a fleet bearing the Hundred Refinements Sect's banner.

• Fan Lang remotely directed Old Man Hai as he destroyed a rebel force, earning Fan Lang Experience Points and restoring the Hai Family's prestige.
• Fan Lang's forces swept through Hai Province's remaining rebel groups, which fled or surrendered.
• Fan Lang had Hou Guangzu bring him an ordinary-looking man and told him the man's identity would be useful at the Treasure Island Auction; the man reacted with fear when he heard its name.
• Fan Lang boarded the Pengcheng (Great Journey) Ship with Old Man Hai and other Star Cloud Alliance experts, and the Sea King saw them off.
• After several days at sea, Fan Lang spotted a fleet from the Hundred Refinements Sect near the sea demon nest.

Fan Lang attacked the Storm Sea Demons beneath the sea and slaughtered them all, gaining enough experience to reach Mystic Lord Level 9. The Hundred Refinements Sect’s crew witnessed his power and feared what he might do next.

• The Hundred Refinements Sect sent a diving vessel to trade a palace for Sea Crystal Stones with the Storm Sea Demons.
• Fan Lang arrived and killed a Storm Sea Demon, then began attacking the rest.
• The Storm Sea Demons blamed the Hundred Refinements Sect and attacked both Fan Lang and the vessel.
• Fan Lang used the Blood Sea Demon Embryo to shield the vessel and killed every Storm Sea Demon.
• Fan Lang advanced to Mystic Lord Level 9, then turned toward the frightened Hundred Refinements Sect crew.

Fan Lang secured the Hundred Refinements Sect’s neutrality with a gift of Sea Crystal Stones and a threat, then continued toward Treasure Island for its upcoming auction. As the Pengcheng Ship arrived, he reassured an unnamed ordinary-looking man that he would only need to step forward at a crucial moment.

• Fan Lang met the Hundred Refinements Sect’s master and offered her three thousand jin of Sea Crystal Stones in exchange for the sect staying out of the Seven Heroes Kingdom’s conflict.
• The Hundred Refinements Sect’s master agreed to remain neutral and promised friendly cooperation with Fan Lang.
• Fan Lang gathered fifty thousand jin of Sea Crystal Stones and continued aboard the Pengcheng Ship toward Treasure Island.
• As the ship approached Treasure Island, Fan Lang told the ordinary-looking man to rest until he was needed, while the man questioned whether Fan Lang could restore his former position.

Fan Lang arrived on Treasure Island, where he met auction president Shen Junlang, whom he intended to kill and replace. While waiting for the auction, Fan Lang cultivated the Lapis Lazuli Illuminating Heaven Skill and began studying its Second Volume; he later discovered a potentially better way to earn experience.

• Fan Lang paid the fees to dock and stay on Treasure Island, rented an entire building, and met Shen Junlang, the auction president he planned to kill.
• Fan Lang settled his group into the building while others stayed aboard the Pengcheng (Great Journey) Ship, and they waited for the large auction in seven days.
• Fan Lang cultivated the First Volume of the Lapis Lazuli Illuminating Heaven Skill and drew Cosmic Spiritual Energy from a space beyond God Vast Star.
• The Lapis Lazuli Fragment alerted the Wandering Lapis Lazuli Immortal, who praised Fan Lang for mastering the First Volume; after the phantom vanished, Fan Lang began learning the Second Volume.
• Fan Lang spent the following days cultivating and hunting sea demons, then discovered a potentially more effective way to earn experience.