Chapter Summaries

Song Changming survived the insect king’s ambush with the Cloud Emperor and Fox Immortal Granny’s help, and the Cloud Emperor’s victory over Dai Carson helped set the stage for a renewed human campaign to seize Leizhou. Song Changming recovered and refined the Tiger King’s remains as the armies of three human provinces advanced, leaving the second battle for Leizhou underway.

• Song Changming and the Cloud Emperor wounded the Thunder Wheel Tiger Kings, while Yeli Feige fled with the others and Fox Immortal Granny remained after the insect king disappeared.
• The Cloud Emperor returned to Yunzhou, convened a council, and sent envoys to Wind Province and Miao Province to plan another campaign for Leizhou.
• Song Changming reassured Song Ping'an, learned Hya was still secluded at Thunder Marsh, and prepared to recover before the coming war.
• Song Changming used Dai Carson’s heart core and remains to improve his body refinement while assessing the limits of his strength.
• The Emperors of the three provinces agreed to march on Leizhou, and human scouts began clashing with demons before the war erupted in mid-February.

Human forces advanced rapidly through Leizhou toward Thunder Strike Mountain, while a Wind Province volunteer force faced a deadly ambush by Golden Rat Demons. Su Qingqing and Little Phoenix saved them and then continued toward the struggling advance army.

• Human armies and volunteer forces drove north through Leizhou, and Bai Xueyan explained to Shi Chunhua that the three emperors were concentrating their strength to seize the northern region quickly.
• A Grandmaster warned the Wind Province volunteers of an incoming demon attack, and Bai Xueyan sensed Golden Rat Demons emerging from underground.
• Shi Chunhua fought the rat demons while Bai Xueyan used his Ink Flute, but a powerful Golden Rat Demon severely wounded Bai Xueyan and threatened to wipe out the group.
• Su Qingqing and Little Phoenix arrived, and Little Phoenix's Golden Flame burned the demon horde while leaving the humans unharmed.
• Su Qingqing warned Bai Xueyan that the advance army had suffered heavy casualties and urged the volunteers to stay cautious; after she and Little Phoenix departed, Shi Chunhua agreed to follow Bai Xueyan's lead.

Su Qingqing and Little Phoenix joined the battlefield and fought the Lightning Wood Spirit and Thunder Serpent, while Su Fengye was swallowed by the serpent. The chapter ended with Su Qingqing’s sword strike causing the Thunder Serpent’s belly to explode.

• Su Qingqing assessed the battlefield and helped Cang Lin by drawing a Lightning Wood Spirit away from him.
• Gu Xinmiao left to prioritize the Gu Family’s affairs, while Su Fengye went alone to stop the Thunder Serpent from attacking a human squad.
• The Thunder Serpent swallowed Su Fengye and began digesting him with its liquid lightning.
• Su Qingqing and Little Phoenix pursued the fleeing Lightning Wood Spirit, which sought the Thunder Serpent’s help.
• Little Phoenix blocked the two demons’ combined lightning attack, allowing Bai Xueyan to lead his squad to safety.
• The Lightning Wood Spirit hid behind the Thunder Serpent as Su Qingqing attacked, and her sword strike made the serpent’s belly explode.

Su Qingqing reunited with Su Fengye during a battle against two Great Demons, then left him behind after defeating them. At Thunder Strike Mountain, powerful fighters gathered for the final battle, while Su Fengye rejoined the Gu Family group and Jiang He learned about two young inheritors of ancient martial laws.

• Su Qingqing emerged from the Thunder Serpent’s belly and recognized Su Fengye, but she kept her distance as the serpent attacked.
• Su Qingqing shattered the Thunder Serpent’s demon art with Ten Thousand Sword Style, while Little Phoenix devoured the Lightning Wood Spirit and Su Qingqing slew the serpent.
• Su Qingqing and Little Phoenix collected the Great Demons’ cores and flesh-and-blood essence for Song Changming, then departed without speaking to Su Fengye.
• Su Fengye arrived at Thunder Strike Mountain and was rebuked by Gu Xinmiao before Gu Fengling told him to recover for the battle.
• Jiang Zijin discouraged Jiang He from associating with Su Fengye and introduced him to Shen Yan, inheritor of the Untian Sword, and Tong Zhige, inheritor of the Taijia Blade.
• Jiang He observed the gathered Grandmasters and reflected on Song Changming’s growing reputation and the possibility that he would become humanity’s fourth Emperor.

Humanity’s three provincial armies faced the Thunder Wheel Tiger Clan and its demon allies at Thunder Strike Mountain, while the commanders prepared for the decisive battle. Song Changming finally arrived through a spatial gate, drawing Kannan Gray’s attention.

• Situ Ming asked where Song Changming was, and Bian Bohong explained that he could travel through a secret treasure and might have his own reasons for being absent.
• Hua Cangtian, the Cloud Emperor’s paternal clan uncle, stood as Yunzhou’s overall commander while the human forces waited for the agreed time to attack.
• Thunder Wheel Tiger Kings activated a lightning defense around Thunder Strike Mountain and emerged with vast demon forces, but Gongsun Yubo confirmed that the strongest Tiger King was missing.
• Gongsun Jing hoped to prove himself and challenge Song Changming’s reputation, while Kannan Gray demanded that the Cloud Emperor and Song Changming face him.
• Hua Cangtian declined to answer the demons’ threats, and Qin Feihe rejected the ice bird Great Demon King’s demand that humanity withdraw.
• A wolf demon sensed something was wrong as humanity still had not attacked, then Song Changming stepped through a gate of light and Kannan Gray called out to him.

Song Changming and Hya joined the human forces at Thunder Strike Mountain as humanity activated the Ninth-rank Seal God Prison Array across Northern Leizhou. With the array trapping demons and the armies preparing to attack, Song Changming gave Hya permission to pursue her revenge.

• Song Changming and Hya emerged from the light gate, drawing wary attention from Yeli Feige and Gongsun Jing, while Gongsun Xiuyun warned that Jing was no match for Song Changming.
• Song Changming greeted Hua Cangtian and confirmed that humanity could begin its attack.
• The human forces activated the Seal God Prison Array, which trapped the Ice Bird Great Demon King after she attacked one of its runic pillars.
• Song Changming explained that the Ninth-rank array had been created using insights from the Seal Star Grand Array, while Kannan Gray freed the Ice Bird through brute force.
• Hua Cangtian and the commanders of the three provincial camps ordered their forces to begin the battle against the demons.
• Hya prepared to fight, and Song Changming told her to go complete her revenge.

The three Human Emperors received word that the Northern Frontier God Imprisonment Array had launched the decisive battle in Leizhou. On the battlefield, Hya fought her father Yeli Feige while Human Grandmasters defended another approach from a demon force.

• Cloud Emperor, Miao Emperor, and the Empress of Fengzhou discussed the stakes of the Leizhou war and decided not to march there themselves, trusting Senior Xinyuan and Song Changming to help secure victory.
• A Flying General reported that the Northern Frontier God Imprisonment Array had activated and that Humanity and the demon clans had begun an all-out war.
• Hya pursued Yeli Feige through the northern frontier, and the two fought to a standstill as Yeli Feige plotted to seize her bloodline power.
• Xu Yuan, Hu Fanyi, and Meng Kunlun watched the Tiger Kings clash, then moved to intercept a demon force approaching Thunder Strike Mountain.
• Hu Fanyi struck down many demons, and their great demon commander fled before Xu Yuan and the others could engage it.

Song Changming and Hua Cangtian joined forces against the Thunder Wheel Tiger Kings at Thunder Strike Mountain, while the activated Thunder Pools threatened humanity’s ninth-rank formation. They crushed the demons’ resistance, and Yuan San killed Bikearl Ray, leaving the battle still underway.

• The Thunder Wheel Tiger Kings activated the twelve Thunder Pools, making the ninth-rank formation shake as Gongshan Zhi and the talisman masters reinforced it.
• Song Changming killed a great tiger demon and fought Kannan Gray and the Tiger Kings alongside Hua Cangtian, who intercepted their Thunder Light Cannons.
• Song Changming used his Star Domain and Saber Intent of Annihilation to nearly kill Bikearl Ray, while Kannan Gray tried to rescue him.
• Song Changming and Hua Cangtian combined their domains and attacks to overwhelm the Tiger Kings and destroy their phantom thunder tigers.
• Song Changming put demon soldiers and generals to sleep with Dream Invasion, killed a resisting great demon, and absorbed the essence of the fallen demons.
• Yuan San pierced the wounded Bikearl Ray with yin fiend energy, killed him, and took his Demon King Core.

Song Changming endured Sinload’s strongest lightning attacks and killed the Tiger King with the Thunder Seed’s strange lightning, devastating the demon army’s morale. The battle continued as the demons despaired and the human fighters recognized Song Changming’s overwhelming strength, though he had temporarily exhausted the Thunder Seed.

• Yuan San revived Bikearl Ray’s corpse as a Yin baleful ghost, and it fought Sinload.
• Sinload empowered himself with the Thunder Pool’s Smiting Lightning and struck Song Changming, breaking his Thunder Armor but failing to kill him.
• Song Changming countered Sinload’s Thunder Light Cannon with the Thunder Seed, then unleashed a stronger lightning blast that completely annihilated the Tiger King.
• The demons lost much of their fighting spirit after Sinload’s death, while Song Changming regretted destroying the Tiger King’s corpse and temporarily exhausting the Thunder Seed.
• Tong Zhige, Shen Yan, Gongsun Yubo, and others praised Song Changming’s battlefield performance, and Gongsun Jing fell silent before Gongsun Xiuyun’s warning.

Song Changming survived the Thunder Pools’ Smiting Lightning and attacked the pools while the human forces advanced against Leizhou’s demons. The Dragon Turtle then appeared and battered the Seal God Prison Array, and the Fire Monster arrived to aid the trapped demons.

• Song Changming absorbed five bolts of Smiting Lightning, entered Thunder Strike Mountain, and struck at a Thunder Pool, but its golden tiger guardian blocked his Dimensional Slash.
• Pei Xinyuan fought Kannan Gray while tormenting him with the captured cores of his slain descendants, and Qin Feihe urged the Ice Bird Great Demon King to leave the battlefield.
• The Dragon Turtle crashed into the Seal God Prison Array and repeatedly battered it, draining its Spirit Crystals as the demons joined its assault.
• Hua Cangtian explained the Dragon Turtle’s ancient origins to Song Changming, while the array weakened under the combined attacks.
• The Fire Monster emerged outside the array, recognized the Dragon Turtle, and arrived to aid the demons.

Song Changming pressed the Human race’s advantage against the demons of Leizhou, but the ancient Dragon Turtle of Thunder Marsh suddenly appeared and attacked the Seal God Prison Array. The Dragon Turtle and Fire Monster joined the demons in battering the formation, threatening to change the course of the battle.

• Song Changming absorbed five bolts of Smiting Lightning and advanced through the currents around Thunder Strike Mountain, but a golden tiger guardian blocked his Dimensional Slash aimed at a Thunder Pool.
• Pei Xinyuan held Kannan Gray in battle while Qin Feihe urged the Ice Bird Great Demon King to retreat and offered to open a path through the formation.
• The Dragon Turtle of Thunder Marsh crashed into the Seal God Prison Array, and Gongshan Zhi and Zhao Sansheng recognized the ancient beast.
• The Dragon Turtle and the Great Demons attacked the formation together, draining its Spirit Crystals and disrupting its operation.
• Fire Monster emerged from underground and arrived outside the formation, where he recognized the Dragon Turtle.

The grand formation at Thunder Strike Mountain collapsed, allowing the demons to attack the human camp, but an ancient Dragon Turtle unexpectedly turned against the Thunder Wheel Tiger Clan and began assaulting the mountain. As the Tiger Kings summoned their ancestral Thunder Tigers to defend it, Hya kept Yeli Feige pinned down, leaving Thunder Strike Mountain in danger.

• The Great Demon Kings broke the grand formation, and Gongshan Zhi escaped with the injured talisman masters while Qin Feihe blocked the Fire Ape’s attack on the human camp.
• The Dragon Turtle emerged from the ground and fired a Black Water Cannon through Thunder Strike Mountain, killing tiger demons and damaging the mountain’s spiritual foundation.
• The Tiger Kings countered the Dragon Turtle’s next attack with their Thunder Light Cannons, then activated the Thunder Pools and summoned eight ancestral Thunder Tigers.
• Kannan Gray ordered Yeli Feige back to Thunder Strike Mountain, but Yeli Feige could not escape his battle with Hya.
• Hya rejected Yeli Feige’s pleas, struck his face, and drove him into the ground while he worried that Thunder Strike Mountain would fall.

Kannan Gray failed to harm the Dragon Turtle, and Song Changming disrupted the Tiger Kings’ attempt to awaken an Ancestor Tiger before the ancestors drove the Dragon Turtle back. The Ancestor Tigers then turned on Song Changming, who destroyed one with Mind Slash but was wounded by their lightning whips and struggled to escape.

• Kannan Gray’s attacks could not pierce the Dragon Turtle’s defenses, and its Black Water Cannon blasted him into the sky.
• Song Changming intercepted and refined Kannan Gray’s Core Essence Blood, preventing one Ancestor Tiger from awakening, while the other seven Tiger Kings summoned their ancestors.
• The Ancestor Tigers struck the Dragon Turtle and learned it intended to use Thunder Strike Mountain’s Thunder Vein to shed its shell, but they admitted they could not stop it from destroying the mountain.
• Kannan Gray urged the Ancestor Tigers to kill Song Changming, and they joined the Tiger Kings in pursuing him as he fled using his Shaman Seal and lightning arts.
• An Ancestor Tiger’s shout shook Song Changming’s Nether Sea, but Song Changming erased its remnant soul with Mind Slash.
• The remaining Ancestor Tigers struck Song Changming with lightning whips, tearing his flesh and forcing him to fight his way through while he searched for a better movement art.

Song Changming and the human Grandmasters fought off the Tiger Clan’s remnant souls while the Dragon Turtle toppled Thunder Strike Mountain, ending the Tiger Clan’s hold on Leizhou. The Tiger Kings fled as Qin Feihe ordered the humans to finish the battle and reclaim the region.

• Qin Feihe, Hua Cangtian, Pei Xinyuan, and other human powerhouses protected the injured Song Changming, who quickly recovered after taking Hua Cangtian’s Divine Bestowal Pill.
• Song Changming used Mind Slash to destroy another Ancestor Tiger’s remnant soul while the human Grandmasters held the remaining tigers back.
• The Fire Monster and other foreign Demon Kings stopped fighting, and the Ice Beauty declared that her debt to the Tiger Clan had ended.
• The Dragon Turtle smashed Thunder Strike Mountain, causing the Thunder Pools to shut down and the remaining Ancestor Tiger Shadows to scatter.
• Kannan Gray and the other Tiger Kings tried to flee, but Hua Cangtian attacked them as Qin Feihe ordered the troops to slaughter the demons and reclaim Leizhou.
• Xu Yuan, Meng Kunlun, and Hu Fanyi realized Thunder Strike Mountain had fallen and wondered whether the Nine Provinces would now have only seventeen regions.

After the human forces won the battle for Leizhou, Hya defeated and killed Yeli Feige, awakening her bloodline and taking control of the Feige lineage’s Thunder Pool. She survived the fight and remained at Song Changming’s side, while the other Tiger Kings were unlikely to recognize her as their new ruler.

• The Dragon Turtle devoured the Thunder Vein from Thunder Strike Mountain and departed as the fighting continued.
• After two more days of battle, Situ Ming and the human commanders celebrated victory after killing five Great Demon Kings, though Qin Feihe lost an arm.
• Hya pursued Yeli Feige across Leizhou while Song Changming, Su Qingqing, and Little Phoenix watched her fight.
• Yeli Feige drew power from the Thunder Pool, but Hya awakened her bloodline and took control of its Smiting Lightning.
• Hya defeated Yeli Feige, whose strength collapsed after losing his position as Tiger King, and killed him when he claimed to be her father.
• Song Changming praised Hya, who collapsed from exhaustion after avenging herself and gaining Great Demon King-level strength.

After humanity defeated the Thunder Wheel Tiger Clan and claimed Leizhou, the surviving Tiger Kings scattered across the provinces while the other demon clans considered the consequences. The three Human Emperors received confirmation that Leizhou had been taken and celebrated the victory.

• Song Changming congratulated Hya and reminded her that humanity still had to sweep through Leizhou.
• In Frost Province, Kannan Gray learned that Yeli was dead, and the five surviving Tiger Kings split up to seek refuge and rebuild in different provinces.
• Fox Immortal Granny praised the fox clan's alliance with humanity and asked Mu Ye to help deepen conflicts among the other races.
• The Worm King learned that the Thunder Wheel Tiger Clan had lost and considered targeting its Thunder Pools after gathering more information.
• The three Human Emperors learned that humanity had occupied Leizhou, and the Cloud Emperor and Miao Emperor celebrated with the Empress of Fengzhou.

After humanity reclaimed Leizhou, Song Changming returned to Yunzhou and refused public pressure to become its Thunder Emperor, preferring to pursue martial arts and talisman studies. He welcomed Song Ping'an’s marriage plans, then received the Orange-level Mind Weaver Trait, which strengthened his soul and aptitude for deduction.

• Cloud Emperor ordered the Second Reserve Army to help the First Army clear Leizhou, and humanity drove out the demons over more than three months.
• Song Changming continued studying talismans at his manor and declined calls for him to become Leizhou’s Thunder Emperor.
• Song Ping'an reported finding Shattered Sun Gold and other resources in Leizhou, then introduced Lan Jin as the woman he intended to marry.
• Song Changming approved Song Ping'an and Lan Jin’s marriage after speaking with her.
• Song Changming received the Orange-level Mind Weaver Trait, which enhanced his Spirit aptitude and soul-related talents.

Song Changming gained the Orange-level Mind Weaver Trait, which greatly increased his Spirit aptitude and helped him become an Eighth-rank Talisman Master. After declining once more to rule Leizhou, he learned that Pei Xinyuan was being considered as its Thunder Emperor.

• Song Changming gained the Mind Weaver Trait, raised his Spirit attribute to 226, and successfully inscribed the eighth-rank Thunder Seal Cage talisman.
• Song Changming tested the Thunder Seal Cage on Su Qingqing, Hya, and Little Phoenix, and Hya broke it with her Smiting Lightning sword.
• Song Changming went to the Heavenly Dao Academy to discuss talismans with its masters, then remained there for over a month.
• The Cloud Emperor summoned Song Changming and asked again if he would become Leizhou’s emperor, but Song Changming declined.
• The Cloud Emperor revealed that Pei Xinyuan, a descendant of Leizhou’s former royal family, was the likely Thunder Emperor candidate, and noted Song Changming’s improved Grandmaster cultivation.

After gaining ten drops of Grandmaster Essence Blood, Song Changming discussed Leizhou’s future with Cloud Emperor as the human race prepared to develop the reclaimed province. Sixty years later, Nan Wuji and Su Yaoguang arrived in prosperous Three Thunder City and learned that a high-grade Spirit Saber forged by Song Changming was being auctioned.

• Song Changming told Cloud Emperor that he still had time before reaching the pinnacle of martial arts, then asked whether the demon clans planned to attack; Cloud Emperor said their internal conflicts kept them occupied.
• The human race announced Pei Xinyuan as Leizhou’s first emperor, with her official appointment set for half a year later as the province’s development began.
• Sixty years passed, and Nan Wuji and Su Yaoguang traveled through a much-improved Leizhou toward Three Thunder City.
• Nan Wuji and Su Yaoguang heard that a high-grade Spirit Saber forged by Immortal Song was on display at Heavenly Hành and went there together.
• The crowd overwhelmed Heavenly Hành, so its manager brought out the saber and invited everyone present to bid.

Song Changming’s cultivation surged, and humanity began developing Leizhou after appointing Pei Xinyuan its emperor. Sixty years later, Nan Wuji and Su Yaoguang arrived in bustling Three Thunder City and learned that a high-grade Spirit Saber forged by Song Changming was being auctioned.

• Song Changming told the Cloud Emperor that ten drops of Grandmaster Essence Blood had raised his total to seventy-two, and the two discussed the quiet demon clans and Leizhou’s future ruler, Pei Xinyuan.
• Humanity spent sixty years developing Leizhou, dispersing its thunderclouds and turning Three Thunder City into a prosperous hub for settlement and trade.
• Nan Wuji and Su Yaoguang traveled into Leizhou and stopped in Three Thunder City, where they heard that Heavenly Hành was auctioning a high-grade Spirit Saber forged by Song Changming.
• Nan Wuji and Su Yaoguang followed the crowd to Heavenly Hành, and the auction house manager brought the saber outside and invited everyone present to bid.