Chapter Summaries

After more than a century, Wang Ming’s Blood Qi Martial Path had transformed the world into a chaotic age ruled by martial artists, while immortal cultivation faded into legend. The Netherworld Blood Demon emerged in a vast sea of blood and headed for Mount Shu, where three thousand disciples prepared to fight to protect their path to longevity.

• Wang Ming publicly spread the Blood Qi Martial Path, upending the old dynastic order as talented martial artists from commoner families rose against the bureaucrats.
• A tremendous quake and explosion shook the world, and a man meditating on a frost-blue throne opened his eyes and wondered whether the curtain had risen.
• An old monk left the Great Hero Hall as a Blood River poured from a cave in a bald mountain and expanded into a vast sea of blood carrying a figure toward a destination.
• Three thousand Mount Shu disciples recognized the approaching Netherworld Blood Demon and readied themselves to defend the sect’s spiritual vein.
• The Mount Shu disciples understood that both martial paths still depended on spiritual energy or accumulated spiritual materials, so Netherworld’s survival would only postpone their deaths.

Netherworld attacked Mount Emei with a vast blood sea, but its three thousand Blood Qi Martial Path disciples repelled the waves while Wang Ming protected the mountain with a Tong Clan spell. Netherworld demanded that Dan Chenzi come out and fight, but the chapter ended with him still wary of Mount Emei and unwilling to merge his primordial spirits.

• Netherworld called Dan Chenzi out above Mount Emei, then unleashed the Blood Cloud Array and sent demons and blood-sea waves toward the mountain.
• More than three thousand Mount Emei disciples met the attack with their Blood Qi Martial Path, vaporizing the waves but leaving Mount Emei itself close to collapse.
• Li Yingqi and Cheng Letian asked Wang Ming to act, and he sent a beam from the Three Primes Palace that formed a Thick Earth Barrier around Mount Emei.
• Netherworld recognized the Tong Clan spell and remembered that Wang Ming had used the same barrier to contain him outside the Blood Cave.
• Netherworld challenged Dan Chenzi again but refused to merge the blood sea's primordial spirits into his body, wary of another ambush.

Youquan tried to provoke Wang Ming into fighting, but Wang Ming watched the battle between the blood sea and Mount Shu’s disciples while researching how to create a body for himself. The chapter ended with Wang Ming still pursuing a way to cultivate the Southern Bright Fire needed for the spell.

• Youquan taunted Wang Ming and challenged him to fight, while Duan Lei insulted Youquan and stood with the Mount Shu disciples.
• Youquan suspected Wang Ming was using the three thousand disciples as bait and sent blood-sea creatures to attack them.
• The Mount Shu disciples combined their blood-qi martial force to clash with Youquan’s blood sea, and the two powers annihilated one another.
• Wang Ming observed the battle without trying to lure Youquan, focusing instead on his research into resurrection and body creation.
• Wang Ming explained that he needed the Southern Bright Fire and other materials to forge a body, and that he was cultivating his own fire seed rather than taking Xuan Tianzong’s.

Netherworld used the blood sea’s mirror-like surface to create copies that attacked the Shushan disciples, Venerable Xin Master, and Xuan Tianzong. The disciples survived their hearts being crushed thanks to the Blood Qi Martial Path, and they rose to fight back as Netherworld became interested in their new cultivation method.

• Venerable Xin Master arrived to aid the Shushan disciples, and Duan Lei led the charge against Netherworld.
• Netherworld turned the blood sea into a still mirror, and Xuan Tianzong warned everyone to flee its range.
• Mirror copies attacked from behind, crushing the hearts of the Shushan disciples and fighting Venerable Xin Master and Xuan Tianzong.
• The Shushan disciples rose again as their wounds regenerated, revealing the resilience granted by the Blood Qi Martial Path.
• Netherworld realized that the disciples’ new cultivation method had thwarted his attack and grew interested in it.

Netherworld Blood Demon’s mirror clones slaughtered the Mount Shu disciples, while Venerable Xin Master arrived and destroyed the demon’s physical body. Netherworld then killed Xuan Tianzong, but Venerable Xin Master struck him again, leaving the battle unresolved.

• The Mount Shu disciples shattered Netherworld Blood Demon’s sea-of-blood mirror, but mirror clones emerged and attacked them.
• The disciples discovered their blood could suppress the clones and fought back, until Netherworld increased his power and shattered their bones, killing all three thousand, including Duan Lei and Lian Xing.
• Venerable Xin Master arrived and destroyed Netherworld Blood Demon’s physical body while Li Yingqi and Cheng Letian mourned their fallen companions.
• Netherworld revived, restrained Xuan Tianzong, tore off his limbs, and crushed him into pulp.
• Venerable Xin Master attacked Netherworld from behind and shattered his physical body again.

Netherworld seized Xuan Tianzong and Venerable Xin Master’s bodies, hoping to use their strength to kill Wang Ming. Wang Ming’s tampering with the Qi Blood Technique then left Netherworld powerless and bound, revealing that he had turned the cultivators’ bodies into a trap.

• Netherworld targeted Xuan Tianzong’s powerful body and engulfed Xuan Tianzong and Venerable Xin Master in a sea of blood.
• Netherworld invaded their bodies as Wang Ming emerged from Three Primes Palace, and he completed the seizure.
• Netherworld used Xuan Tianzong’s body to demonstrate its power and then ordered both seized bodies to attack Wang Ming.
• Netherworld found himself unable to move or use his power, and he accused Wang Ming of tampering with the Qi Blood Technique.
• Runes bound Xuan Tianzong and Venerable Xin Master as Netherworld fell to the ground, while Li Yingqi and Cheng Letian arrived.

Wang Ming thwarted Netherworld’s attempt to manipulate Li Yingqi and Cheng Letian, then called on Xuan Tianzong and Venerable Xin Master to restore themselves from blood and flesh. They survived, but their strength fell to the Qi Refining Stage, while the others were confirmed dead.

• Netherworld taunted Wang Ming and tried to persuade Li Yingqi and Cheng Letian to attack him, hoping to damage his Dao heart.
• Wang Ming recognized Netherworld’s plan and dismissed the danger of a possible backstab.
• Wang Ming called out to Xuan Tianzong and Venerable Xin Master, who restored their bodies from blood and flesh.
• Wang Ming told Cheng Letian that Duan Lei and the others were dead.
• Wang Ming discovered that Xuan Tianzong and Venerable Xin Master had fallen to the Qi Refining Stage after their rebirth.

Wang Ming killed the Netherworld Blood Demon's manifested primordial spirit, then used a giant energy whale to consume the bodies of Xuan Tianzong and Venerable Xin Master and resurrect the fallen Mount Shu disciples. He sealed the Blood Cave again and returned to the Three Primes Palace, intending to refine the Blood Qi Martial Path.

• Wang Ming executed the Netherworld Blood Demon's primordial spirit with Sword Twenty-Three, leaving Xuan Tianzong's and Venerable Xin Master's bodies as empty shells.
• Li Yingqi prepared to destroy the bodies, but Wang Ming summoned an energy whale that decomposed them and released the remaining blood sea power as life-giving light rain.
• The light rain restored the battlefield's plants and resurrected the dead Mount Shu disciples, who gathered before Wang Ming.
• Wang Ming warned the disciples that the Netherworld Blood Demon remained uneradicated and told them to keep cultivating.
• Wang Ming resealed the Blood Cave with a Thick Earth Barrier, returned to the Three Primes Palace, and considered adjustments to the Blood Qi Martial Path.

Fifty years after their resurrection, the Mount Shu disciples were aging and unable to advance because spiritual energy and cultivation resources had vanished. Wang Ming revealed the Path of Luck as a new way to cultivate without energy, but warned that it carried a dangerous backlash and was a path of no return.

• The three thousand Mount Shu disciples gathered outside Three Primes Palace after fifty years of failed re-cultivation left them stuck at Flesh Refining and growing old.
• Wang Ming emerged from seclusion and announced he had created a cultivation technique for the Era of Severed Spiritual Energy.
• Venerable Xin Master and the disciples questioned how cultivation could continue without spiritual energy or natural treasures.
• Wang Ming explained that the Dao remained as the world's rules and named his energy-free technique the Path of Luck.
• Wang Ming warned that altering luck could cause backlash, and Duan Lei urged him to bestow the technique despite the risk.
• Wang Ming told the disciples the choice was theirs and that advancing along the Path of Luck was a path of no return.

Cheng Letian and Duan Lei prepared to worship Heaven after ten years of building a Qi Luck Dynasty in Shu, while Wang Ming planned to test his own reconstructed Path of Luck. The chapter ended with Wang Ming wary of upgrading his system as he investigated the path’s potential.

• Three thousand Mount Shu disciples conquered the Bashu warlords, then disbanded their armies and spent a decade building roads, schools, and a towering altar.
• Wang Ming chose Cheng Letian, the only disciple with humanistic Qi luck, to become monarch and lead the Qi Luck Dynasty.
• Cheng Letian and Duan Lei stood atop the altar as they prepared to worship the world’s Heavenly Dao.
• Wang Ming reflected that the dynasty’s Qi luck could empower officials and suppress cultivators, but its destruction would cause backlash for those bound to it, especially the monarch.
• Wang Ming decided to test his reconstructed Path of Luck and remained suspicious that his system might be taking more than Qi luck.

Cheng Letian established the Great Shu Divine Dynasty through a ceremony on the altar, with the Shu Region’s people and Shu Mountain disciples witnessing the event. The chapter ended with her image appearing across the world and a disciple recalling that the sect master had never lied.

• Cheng Letian ascended the altar before a crowd of commoners and officials in the prosperous Shu Region.
• Xuan Tian sect announced that the auspicious hour had arrived, and Cheng Letian stepped to the altar’s summit beside Duan Lei.
• Cheng Letian drew her crude broadsword, whose golden radiance spread across the entire Shu Region.
• Cheng Letian declared the establishment of the Great Shu Divine Dynasty, and a detached eye appeared amid auspicious clouds before fading away.
• Cheng Letian’s image appeared across the world, while the crowd knelt and Shu Mountain’s disciples celebrated.

Wang Ming watched Cheng Letian establish the Great Shu Divine Dynasty and realized that cultivating the Dao of Luck as a transmigrationist would draw the Heavenly Dao’s attention. He left behind his plan to build Qi Luck dynasties across worlds, while reflecting on his system’s theft of his luck.

• Wang Ming stayed away from Cheng Letian’s coronation because the Heavenly Dao’s appearance could expose him.
• Wang Ming deduced that his system had been consuming his luck as payment for its services.
• Wang Ming explained that Cheng Letian’s father’s sword had become the Sword of the Human Emperor through her unyielding spirit.
• Cheng Letian named her dynasty the Great Shu Divine Dynasty partly to signal her continued loyalty to Mount Shu and Wang Ming.
• Wang Ming abandoned his plan to establish Qi Luck dynasties in other worlds after concluding that a transmigrationist who cultivated the Dao of Luck would invite destruction.

After unifying the Central Plains, Cheng Letian prepared to enfeoff the Shushan disciples and convert the conquered territories’ qi luck. She feared the disciples would drain the dynasty’s power for cultivation, but Duan Lei urged her to honor their agreement and give Sect Master Dan Chenzi an explanation.

• Cheng Letian sent 700,000 troops and 600,000 administrative personnel to expand Shu’s rule, and the army conquered the Central Plains in three years.
• Cheng Letian and Duan Lei discussed preparations for a grand sacrifice to heaven and the conversion of the conquered territories’ qi luck.
• Cheng Letian admitted she feared enfeoffing 3,000 Shushan disciples would weaken her rule and turn her into a puppet emperor.
• Cheng Letian revealed that disciples were using dynastic qi luck to cultivate immortal techniques, causing the dynasty’s qi luck to dissipate.
• Duan Lei urged Cheng Letian to honor the agreement with the disciples and satisfy Sect Master Dan Chenzi, and she accepted that enfeoffment would cost eighty percent of the qi luck.

Cheng Letian completed a heavenly ritual and formally began the Great Shu Divine Dynasty by enfeoffing three thousand Mount Shu disciples. Wang Ming watched from Mount Shu and remained wary of the dynasty’s fate, turning his attention to experimenting with faith cultivation instead.

• Cheng Letian burned maps at the altar, endured a lightning strike, and received a golden scroll after the Eye of the Heavenly Dao vanished.
• Cheng Letian enfeoffed Xuan Tianzong as the Prince of Qi and bestowed royal titles on three thousand Mount Shu disciples.
• The golden scroll empowered the disciples’ seals, giving them access to dynastic luck and restoring their bodies to their prime.
• Wang Ming watched the ceremony through a water mirror and explained that accepting an enfeoffment would bind him to the dynasty through karma.
• Wang Ming doubted the Great Shu Divine Dynasty could survive the Immortal Realm’s opposition and considered experimenting with faith cultivation.

Netherworld Blood Demon attacked the world with his laughter, but the Great Shu Divine Dynasty’s power and Mount Shu’s resurrected disciples confronted him. Netherworld recognized the divine swords that had killed him before, while Dan Chenzi remained absent.

• Netherworld Blood Demon’s laughter harmed people across the world until cultivators raised golden seals to protect them.
• Netherworld attacked the earth, but its golden energy repelled his palm and alarmed him.
• Three thousand Mount Shu disciples appeared with Xuan Tianzong, Li Yingqi, and Lian Xing, wielding the Southern Brilliance Separation Sword, Skystrike Sword, and Thunderflame Sword.
• Li Yingqi explained that the disciples had used their seals’ national fortune to cultivate the immortal dao and had helped Cheng Letian expand the Great Shu Divine Dynasty.
• Netherworld saw Cheng Letian and Duan Lei among the assembled forces, then realized the Mount Shu disciples had been resurrected.
• A Mount Shu disciple declared that Dan Chenzi had revived them and challenged Netherworld to surrender.

Wang Ming watched Netherworld Blood Demon battle the Mount Emei forces while relaxing at Three Primes Palace with the Fire Qilin cub he had created. Netherworld Blood Demon revealed that studying the blood-and-qi cultivation method from Xuan Tianzong’s memories had made him more than twice as strong, leaving the defenders struggling to suppress him.

• Netherworld Blood Demon taunted Dan Chenzi, and Duan Lei led the disciples into battle after Wang Ming failed to appear.
• Wang Ming watched the fight remotely from Mount Emei and stroked the Fire Qilin cub he had made from Qilin blood and empowered with Martial Dao Intent.
• Wang Ming observed that Netherworld Blood Demon was suppressing Xuan Tianzong’s sword and the Twin Thunder Swords despite Cheng Letian’s use of destined fortune.
• Xuan Tianzong asked Netherworld Blood Demon why he had become so powerful, and Netherworld Blood Demon said he had spent a century cultivating the blood-and-qi method learned from Xuan Tianzong’s memories.
• Netherworld Blood Demon claimed the method had more than doubled the strength he could unleash.

The Netherworld revealed that he had adapted Wang Ming’s Blood Qi technique to strengthen himself and battled Xuan Tianzong and his allies. Cheng Letian used the Human King Sword and the people’s Qi luck to turn the fight, but a sudden burst of dazzling light left the heroes injured and the Netherworld’s fate unresolved.

• The Netherworld explained that he had created his own version of Wang Ming’s technique and concentrated the power of his primordial spirits to increase his strength.
• Cheng Letian rose with the support of nine Qi luck dragons and challenged the Netherworld.
• Cheng Letian drew the Human King Sword, whose influence weakened the Netherworld’s grip and let the Twin Thunder Swords and Southern Bright Fire Sword destroy his body.
• The Netherworld resurrected from the sea of blood, while Cheng Letian rallied the people’s thoughts into the Human King Sword and attacked alongside Xuan Tianzong, Li Yingqi, and Lian Xing.
• A dazzling radiance erupted as the swords closed in, and Xuan Tianzong, Li Yingqi, Lian Xing, and Cheng Letian collapsed, coughing up blood.

Netherworld Blood Demon used the Haotian Mirror to overpower Xuan Tianzong and the others, then faced Wang Ming across the sea of blood. Wang Ming unleashed sword projections from the Martial Dao Throne and wounded Netherworld Blood Demon, but the demon revived and counterattacked with the mirror, leaving Wang Ming under heavy fire.

• Netherworld Blood Demon revealed that he had refined Mount Shu's Haotian Mirror and used it to defeat Xuan Tianzong, Li Yingqi, and the others.
• Wang Ming confronted Netherworld Blood Demon and summoned a rain of sword projections from the Martial Dao Throne.
• Netherworld Blood Demon used the Haotian Mirror to erase the first wave of sword phantoms, but three powerful swords pierced his heart, dantian, and head.
• Netherworld Blood Demon revived, resisted Wang Ming's repeated sword attack, and blasted him with the Haotian Mirror.
• Netherworld Blood Demon fired three more energy beams at Wang Ming as the onlookers watched in fear.

Wang Ming repeatedly killed Youquan and nearly seized the Haotian Mirror, but the mirror’s control light trapped him as a sudden colorful strike hit. The chapter left Wang Ming’s fate uncertain.

• Youquan attacked Wang Ming with the Haotian Mirror, but Wang Ming redirected the beams through space and went to take the mirror.
• The Haotian Mirror fired at Wang Ming, who escaped by transforming into energy with the Seven Five Desperate Realm before returning to the Martial Dao Throne.
• Wang Ming opened the Limitless Sword Domain and used his Inherited Path Demon Body attacks to destroy Youquan’s Dharma Appearance and kill him again.
• Wang Ming’s sword attacks continued to shrink Youquan’s blood sea as an Inherited Path Demon Body brought him the Haotian Mirror.
• The Haotian Mirror trapped Wang Ming in control-type light, and a brilliant colorful streak struck toward him as Lian Xing, Li Yingqi, and Cheng Letian watched in alarm.

Xuan Tianzong attacked Wang Ming after exposing him as an Extraterrestrial Demon, while the Mount Shu disciples split over whether to join the fight. Wang Ming disappeared after Xuan Tianzong struck the Martial Dao Throne, leaving his fate uncertain.

• The Haotian Mirror restrained Wang Ming, and Xuan Tianzong struck him with the Southern Bright Fire Sword, badly wounding him.
• Xuan Tianzong told the Mount Shu disciples that Wang Ming was an Extraterrestrial Demon who had possessed Dan Chenzi, and Wang Ming admitted that he was not Dan Chenzi.
• Duan Lei refused to fight Wang Ming and left with Cheng Letian, who also withdrew; about half of the Mount Shu disciples chose neutrality.
• Youquan stayed to watch the conflict, while Xuan Tianzong attacked Wang Ming again with the Southern Bright Fire Sword.
• The smoke cleared to reveal that Wang Ming had vanished from the Martial Dao Throne, alarming Xuan Tianzong.