Chapter Summaries

Wang Ming took control of Sword Casting City and established laws to curb martial factions’ violence while delegating governance to his followers. Two months later, he remained in Sword Casting Palace forging a weapon as the newly enforced laws stirred fear and unrest across the martial world.

• Wang Ming dismissed the plan to pursue Yan Zangfeng and announced that he would stay in Sword Casting City to forge a weapon.
• Wang Ming assigned Bai Yuer to oversee Supreme Alliance affairs, Lian Chixue to gather evidence against lawbreakers, and Ren Qianxing to arrest them.
• Wang Ming allowed Ren Qianxing to preside over the Supreme Alliance while assuring Sword Master that Sword Casting City remained under the Jian family’s control.
• Over two months, Wang Ming stayed in Sword Casting Palace, and Sword Master found that the city remained under his family’s authority.
• Ren Qianxing enforced Wang Ming’s new laws by publicly announcing the crimes of several sects before executing their members, leaving martial factions across the world afraid of Supreme Alliance reprisals.

Wang Ming re-established order through the Supreme Alliance, which began investigating martial artists and uncovered widespread crimes. Bai Yanluo recruited several notorious criminals into a plan to overthrow the Alliance and test whether Guan Yutian could kill Yan Zangfeng.

• Wang Ming became the world's ruler again and ordered the Supreme Alliance to establish laws and investigate martial artists.
• Lian Chixue uncovered extensive evidence that many martial artists had committed crimes against ordinary people.
• Bai Yanluo met Gao Yanghe, Yin Xiaojing, and Feng Songhua, all criminals under investigation by the Supreme Alliance.
• Bai Yanluo urged the three men to strike first and join an uprising against the Supreme Alliance.
• Bai Yanluo told them to defect to Yan Zangfeng at the Gourmet's Abode, claiming Guan Yutian dared not kill him.
• Liao Ru Shen arranged the uprising to test whether Guan Yutian truly could not kill Yan Zangfeng.

Wang Ming was forced to confront Yan Zangfeng and hundreds of rebels after Ren Qianxing was driven from the Supreme Alliance. Yan Zangfeng, convinced he could defeat Wang Ming, declared that the emperor’s death had come.

• Wang Ming explained that he had hoped to kill Helian Ba and retire, but took power to restore order and gather faith.
• Yan Zangfeng attacked the Supreme Alliance, where Ren Qianxing challenged him and was overwhelmed when the alliance’s fighters turned against their own leader.
• Ren Qianxing retreated to Sword Casting City, and Wang Ming reassured him while privately blaming Yan Zangfeng’s protagonist fate for the defeat.
• Yan Zangfeng accused Guan Yutian of tyranny and urged his followers to kill him.
• Yan Zangfeng’s self-hypnosis and Liao Ru Shen’s persuasion had convinced him he was strong enough to challenge Wang Ming.

Wang Ming effortlessly defeated Yan Zangfeng and the rebels, then handed Yan Zangfeng control of the Supreme Alliance. The chapter left Yan Zangfeng confused as Wang Ming announced he would step down and make him ruler of the world.

• Yan Zangfeng attacked Wang Ming with the Ling Shuang Sword, but Wang Ming's Innate Stellar Qi blocked every strike.
• Gao Yanghe, Feng Songhua, and Yin Xiaojing discussed Yan Zangfeng's strength and coveted the Ling Shuang Sword.
• When Yan Zangfeng's allies joined the attack, Wang Ming ordered the Sword Master to deal with them, and the Sword Master mobilized Sword Casting City against the rebels.
• Wang Ming unleashed his protective barrier and Sonic Power Skill, knocking down and stunning Yan Zangfeng and the attackers.
• Wang Ming declared Yan Zangfeng the new leader of the Supreme Alliance and told Lian Chixue to announce the change across the world.
• Yan Zangfeng questioned Wang Ming's decision, and Wang Ming said it was what Yan Zangfeng had wanted.

Wang Ming explained why he had spared Yan Zangfeng and handed him the Supreme Alliance, warning that the chosen son of destiny brought death to those around him. The chapter ended with Wang Ming telling Ren Qianxing that he could deal with Yan Zangfeng.

• Ren Qianxing angrily challenged Wang Ming for letting Yan Zangfeng leave and giving him the Supreme Alliance, and Wang Ming told him to obey.
• Wang Ming revealed that Yan Zangfeng was the chosen son of destiny and that an unseen expert would have intervened if Wang Ming had tried to kill him.
• Wang Ming warned that Yan Zangfeng's companions would die in accidents as his fortune was drained, citing the deaths connected to his family and Sword Casting City.
• Sword Master, Jian Xiong, Bai Yuer, and Lian Chixue reacted with alarm as Wang Ming warned them against following Yan Zangfeng.
• Ren Qianxing complained that heaven favored Yan Zangfeng, and Wang Ming said Ren Qianxing could deal with him.

Wang Ming explained how intertwined fortune could change the balance between Ren Qianxing and Yan Zangfeng, then took Jian Xiong as a disciple and taught her, Bai Yuer, and Lian Chixue a powerful new martial art. The three women quickly grew stronger after learning the Sunflower Manual.

• Wang Ming told Ren Qianxing that marrying Bai Yuer or Jian Xiong could raise his fortune, but only if they truly loved each other, and warned that they could die if they married Yan Zangfeng instead.
• Ren Qianxing vowed to find a way to kill Yan Zangfeng, while Sword Master worried that Jian Xiong might sacrifice herself for him.
• Wang Ming asked Sword Master to let Jian Xiong become his disciple, then announced that he would teach her, Bai Yuer, and Lian Chixue together.
• Wang Ming taught the three women a technique that he said would not conflict with their existing martial arts and could greatly increase their speed and strength.
• Bai Yuer, Lian Chixue, and Jian Xiong broke through the first layer after a short time practicing, and Wang Ming named the technique the Sunflower Manual.

At Sword Casting Palace, Ren Qianxing asked Wang Ming to teach him the Sunflower Manual so he could defeat his rivals. Wang Ming revealed its horrifying cost and the role Bai Yuer and Jian Xiong played in Ren Qianxing’s downfall, leaving Ren furious but unable to act.

• Ren Qianxing complained that Lian Chixue kept opposing him and asked Wang Ming to teach him the Sunflower Manual.
• Wang Ming recited the manual’s requirement of self-castration, frightening Ren into refusing to learn it.
• Wang Ming told Ren that Bai Yuer and Jian Xiong had helped Yan Zangfeng defeat him.
• Ren vowed to kill Bai Yuer and Jian Xiong, but admitted he could not beat them.
• Wang Ming warned that killing them would strengthen Yan Zangfeng’s destiny and bring him against Sword Casting City, and Ren reconsidered.

Wang Ming explained to Ren Qianxing how the Sunflower Manual had changed Lian Chixue, Bai Yuer, and Jian Xiong’s feelings, weakening their ties to the men they once loved. Ren Qianxing saw this as a chance to overcome Yan Zangfeng, while Wang Ming remained focused on reducing Yan’s fortune.

• Ren Qianxing asked Wang Ming why Lian Chixue had stopped helping him, and Wang Ming explained that she no longer liked him.
• Wang Ming revealed that he knew Ren Qianxing had been monitoring his movements and chose not to punish him for it.
• Wang Ming told Ren Qianxing that the Sunflower Manual had changed Lian Chixue’s temperament and ended her passion for him.
• Wang Ming confirmed that Bai Yuer and Jian Xiong had also lost interest in Yan Zangfeng, though their shared fortune had not completely severed.
• Ren Qianxing celebrated the weakening of Yan Zangfeng’s fortune and believed killing him would become easier.
• Wang Ming reflected that he had created his own version of the Sunflower Manual to diminish Yan Zangfeng’s fortune and that he gathered martial arts mainly to absorb and fuse their essence.

Yan Zangfeng’s crusade against corrupt martial artists let Liao Ru Shen take control of the Supreme Alliance, but someone executed all three hundred of Liao Ru Shen’s infiltrators. Liao Ru Shen suspected Guan Yutian’s hand in the events and realized he had overlooked a deeper purpose behind Guan Yutian giving up leadership.

• Yan Zangfeng resolved grievances brought by ordinary people and executed martial artists he found guilty, while Liao Ru Shen encouraged him and used the vacancies to install Azure Eagle Fortress followers.
• Liao Ru Shen’s agents took over the Supreme Alliance, and the faction became the Azure Eagle Alliance as former members surrendered or were defeated.
• Ren Qianxing considered helping the Supreme Alliance’s former members reclaim it, but Lian Chixue chased away their messenger.
• Liao Ru Shen learned that all three hundred of his infiltrators had been executed and went to question Yan Zangfeng.
• After seeing Yan Zangfeng’s familiar foolish behavior, Liao Ru Shen concluded that Guan Yutian’s departure as leader had concealed a deeper plan.

Yan Zangfeng’s efforts to deliver justice for commoners had angered the martial world and destabilized the Supreme Alliance. Liao Ru Shen warned that Guan Yutian had secretly manipulated Yan Zangfeng into eliminating his chosen targets.

• Liu Yiyi kept Gourmet's Abode open while Yan Zangfeng handled grievances, though the crowds blocked customers from entering.
• Liao Ru Shen summoned Yan Zangfeng and their friends to warn them that the entire martial world might turn against them.
• Liao Ru Shen explained that Yan Zangfeng’s investigations had frightened martial artists and provoked unrest among Supreme Alliance disciples.
• Liao Ru Shen warned that a mutiny could plunge the martial world and the realm into chaos.
• Liao Ru Shen revealed that Guan Yutian had secretly guided Yan Zangfeng’s recent actions and chosen the people he killed.

After investigating the grievances against martial artists, Yan Zangfeng realized he had been manipulated and withdrew from acting against them to preserve order. Ren Qianxing and Lian Chixue discussed how Guan Yutian had used Yan to purge the Supreme Alliance, while Lian Chixue prepared to return to Sword Casting City.

• Yan Zangfeng realized that the true cases presented to him had made him a tool in someone else's hands, and he stopped pursuing action against martial artists to avoid destabilizing the Supreme Alliance.
• Ren Qianxing and Lian Chixue played chess while discussing what Yan Zangfeng would choose and whether he could be killed.
• Lian Chixue explained that Guan Yutian had given Yan control of the Supreme Alliance so he could root out its corrupt members.
• Ren Qianxing doubted that praise alone would persuade Yan to attack the alliance's management, while Lian Chixue said he had already entered their trap by handling the first grievance.
• Lian Chixue said she wanted to finish their work and return to Sword Casting City to cultivate, then defeated Ren Qianxing at chess.

Yan Zangfeng fled Gourmet's Abode with his companions as angry commoners demanded justice, but the crowd followed them to the Supreme Alliance. Lian Chixue explained that Guan Yutian’s plan had forced Yan Zangfeng into a choice that would weaken him either way, and Liao Ru Shen revealed that the martial arts world wanted assurance that Yan Zangfeng would stop punishing them for harming ordinary people.

• Yan Zangfeng decided to leave Gourmet's Abode rather than hand over Yin Xiaojing, Feng Songhua, and Gao Yanghe, whom Liao Ru Shen had forbidden him to kill.
• Ren Qianxing and Lian Chixue watched Yan Zangfeng slip away, and Lian Chixue explained that Guan Yutian had used public praise and outrage to force a damaging choice upon him.
• Yan Zangfeng, Liu Yiyi, Xiaoyao Lang, and Wu Xin reached the Supreme Alliance, but the commoners soon surrounded it as well.
• Yan Zangfeng asked Liao Ru Shen to punish the three villains after reviewing their crimes, but Liao Ru Shen refused and said the Supreme Alliance’s martial artists wanted an assurance that Yan Zangfeng would no longer kill them to protect ordinary people.

Liao Ru Shen tried to stop Yan Zangfeng from punishing three Supreme Alliance hall masters whose horrific crimes had outraged him. Yan Zangfeng remained furious, but Liao Ru Shen argued that executing his own subordinates would destabilize Supreme Alliance and plunge the realm into chaos.

• Liao Ru Shen suspected Guan Yutian was secretly manipulating events and watched Yan Zangfeng with concern.
• Yan Zangfeng asked Liao Ru Shen whether they could punish Yin Xiaojing and his companions after hearing accounts of their crimes.
• Liao Ru Shen explained that he had recruited the three powerful criminals as hall masters and feared their deaths would provoke unrest within Supreme Alliance.
• Yan Zangfeng insisted that their victims and families had suffered terribly, while Liao Ru Shen urged him to prioritize peace and stability.

Ren Qianxing and Lian Chixue discussed how Yan Zangfeng's choices over the condemned men could let Ren seize control of the Supreme Alliance. Lian Chixue revealed she had knowingly cultivated the Sunflower Manual to suppress her love for Ren and told him that Guan Yutian already knew of his plans but would let him act.

• Ren Qianxing explained how either choice Yan Zangfeng made about the condemned men would weaken his standing and benefit Ren.
• Lian Chixue challenged Ren over betraying his father, and Ren claimed the Sunflower Manual had altered her feelings for him.
• Lian Chixue revealed she had knowingly cultivated the Sunflower Manual to forget Ren after seeing him look at Liu Yiyi.
• Ren asked whether Lian Chixue would stop his bid for the Supreme Alliance, and she said she would not.
• Lian Chixue revealed Guan Yutian had learned of Ren's plans and had decided to let him do as he pleased.

Yan Zangfeng agreed to protect Gao Yanghe and the other three men, planning to explain his position to the Supreme Alliance the next morning. Ren Qianxing and Lian Chixue prepared to use the decision to undermine Yan Zangfeng and seize control of the alliance.

• Yan Zangfeng agreed to summon the Supreme Alliance members to the training grounds the next morning and state why he would protect the three men.
• Lian Chixue received word that Yan Zangfeng would shield Gao Yanghe and the others, and Ren Qianxing told her to spread the news and gather onlookers to weaken Yan Zangfeng's destiny.
• Ren Qianxing listed the people he expected to face and persuaded Lian Chixue to help by revealing that he was Guan Yutian's only son.
• Yan Zangfeng drank with Xiaoyao Lang and questioned why he could not punish the three villains despite being alliance leader.
• Xiaoyao Lang told Yan Zangfeng that preserving peace made the unfair decision worthwhile.

Yan Zangfeng addressed the Supreme Alliance members after their strike, then abruptly turned on Feng Songhua and his allies, killing them as they tried to flee. Yin Xiaojing was left trapped and defeated, but he died still trying to assault Liu Yiyi.

• Yan Zangfeng assured the gathered Supreme Alliance members that he would overlook their past misdeeds but execute anyone who offended again.
• Ren Qianxing celebrated Yan Zangfeng’s decision to protect Feng Songhua, while Lian Chixue warned him against acting too soon.
• Yan Zangfeng suddenly decapitated Feng Songhua and attacked Yin Xiaojing and Gao Yanghe.
• Liao Ru Shen struck Gao Yanghe down when he begged for help, and Gao Yanghe died revealing that a child remained in his secret chamber.
• Yan Zangfeng, Liao Ru Shen, and their allies cornered Yin Xiaojing, who grabbed Liu Yiyi’s foot and tried to assault her before Yan Zangfeng cut off his hand.

Ren Qianxing disrupted Yan Zangfeng’s speech at the Supreme Alliance’s Grand Training Field, confident that his mastery of the World Separating Sword would let him defeat Yan Zangfeng. He accused Yan Zangfeng of tyranny and called on the alliance disciples to overthrow him.

• Lian Chixue warned Ren Qianxing that opposing Yan Zangfeng was dangerous, but Ren Qianxing declared he would defy fate.
• Ren Qianxing’s sword strike shattered the wooden platform without harming the people on it, and he leapt to a vantage point as the disciples recognized him.
• Yan Zangfeng and Liu Yiyi reacted to Ren Qianxing’s sudden appearance, while Liu Yiyi said she hated him for causing trouble.
• Ren Qianxing, certain that his World Separating Sword made him powerful enough to win, accused Yan Zangfeng of tyranny and demanded justice for the Supreme Alliance’s fallen members.

Ren Qianxing’s speech turned the Supreme Alliance disciples against Yan Zangfeng, but Liu Yiyi restored Yan Zangfeng’s resolve by persuading him that the Alliance was evil. Yan Zangfeng vowed to destroy the Supreme Alliance, and Ren Qianxing drew his sword to attack; the chapter ended with an author’s note about accidentally publishing an unfinished draft.

• The Supreme Alliance disciples shouted for Ren Qianxing to punish Yan Zangfeng and drive him out.
• Yan Zangfeng began doubting himself as the crowd condemned him, but Liu Yiyi took his hand and urged him to stay firm.
• Liu Yiyi convinced Yan Zangfeng that the Supreme Alliance was evil because Guan Yutian had founded it.
• Yan Zangfeng regained his confidence, denounced Ren Qianxing, and declared that he would destroy the Supreme Alliance.
• Ren Qianxing gave up arguing and drew his sword, unleashing World Separating Sword.
• The author added a note explaining that an unfinished draft had been published accidentally.

Ren Qianxing overwhelmed Yan Zangfeng and the Supreme Alliance fighters with his peerless sword skills. As the battle continued, Liao Ru Shen watched from the sidelines, realizing that Guan Yutian’s scheme threatened both Yan Zangfeng and himself.

• Ren Qianxing suppressed Yan Zangfeng despite his Ling Shuang Sword, and Sai Hua Tuo judged Ren’s internal energy and mastery of his surroundings to have reached the peerless expert tier.
• Liu Yiyi feared for Yan Zangfeng, so Xiaoyao Lang and the others joined the fight, but Ren Qianxing drove them back with his sword qi.
• Liao Ru Shen recalled that an ominous divination had led him to sacrifice Gao Yanghe and the others to protect Yan Zangfeng’s luck.
• Liao Ru Shen watched from the edge of the battlefield and concluded that Guan Yutian had used righteousness and authority to conceal a scheme against both him and Yan Zangfeng.
• Ren Qianxing continued fighting the group while keeping his attention on Liao Ru Shen, whom he considered especially dangerous.

Ren Qianxing captured Liu Yiyi and attacked Yan Zangfeng’s group, but Drunken Immortal took the force of his World Separating Sword and was gravely injured. As the Ling Shuang Sword began healing Drunken Immortal, Ren Qianxing struck the distracted group, leaving Yan Zangfeng, Sai Shi Shi, Sai Hua Tuo, and Xiaoyao Lang on their knees.

• Ren Qianxing feinted at Yan Zangfeng, seized Liu Yiyi, sealed her acupoints, and sent her away from the battlefield.
• Ren Qianxing unleashed his World Separating Sword, and Drunken Immortal absorbed the attack to protect Yan Zangfeng, Sai Shi Shi, Sai Hua Tuo, and Xiaoyao Lang.
• Sai Hua Tuo found Drunken Immortal gravely wounded, and Sai Shi Shi suggested using the Ling Shuang Sword to heal him.
• Yan Zangfeng placed Drunken Immortal’s hand on the Ling Shuang Sword, whose energy began healing his injuries.
• Ren Qianxing suddenly attacked the distracted group, and Yan Zangfeng, Sai Shi Shi, Sai Hua Tuo, and Xiaoyao Lang dropped to their knees.