Chapter Summaries

Huang Shaojie traveled to Dazhou City to reunite with Xiao Qiuyue, while Xuan Wuji secretly watched them. Xiao Qiuyue refused to return to the Capital City with Huang Shaojie because she could not ignore her fallen country and slaughtered clan.

• Huang Shaojie told Vermilion Bird that he had to return to Western Shu to capture Black Tortoise, then promised to come back within a month.
• Huang Shaojie left Huang Manor and reached Dazhou City three days later, where an innkeeper recognized him from a portrait.
• Xiao Qiuyue came to Huang Shaojie's room, and the two reunited while Xuan Wuji secretly eavesdropped from a nearby rooftop.
• Huang Shaojie asked Xiao Qiuyue whether the Witch God Sect treated her well, and she said its members were respectful but she was unsure of Xuan Wuji's intentions.
• Huang Shaojie asked Xiao Qiuyue to return to the Capital City with him, but she refused because she could not set aside her fallen country's hatred and her clan's slaughter.

Huang Shaojie pretended to agree to help Xiao Qiuyue restore the nation, while secretly intending to wait and grow stronger. After parting with her in Dazhou, he traveled to Black Cliff Peak to challenge Dongfang Bubai, where the Divine Moon Cult disciples confronted him.

• Xiao Qiuyue asked Huang Shaojie to join the Western Shu Restoration Organization, but he explained that Great Chu far outweighed it in strength.
• At Xiao Qiuyue's urging, Huang Shaojie pretended to agree to help Western Shu rise up after two years, and Xuan Wuji listened from the rooftop before leaving.
• Huang Shaojie stayed in Dazhou for three days, spending the nights with Xiao Qiuyue before they parted.
• Huang Shaojie decided to seek out Dongfang Bubai and challenge her after reaching the Great Grandmaster Realm.
• Huang Shaojie arrived at Black Cliff Peak and told the Divine Moon Cult disciples to call Dongfang Bubai out.

Huang Shaojie learned that Dongfang Bubai had gone to besiege Shaolin and rushed there, while Dongfang Bubai confronted Shaolin to seize Master Xuan Ming. Their clash left Xuan Ming badly injured, with Dongfang Bubai still standing firm.

• Huang Shaojie killed a Divine Moon Cult steward with one palm and demanded to see Dongfang Bubai.
• A Divine Moon Cult Altar Master told Huang Shaojie that Dongfang Bubai had led the cult to besiege Shaolin, so Huang Shaojie sped toward Mount Song.
• Dongfang Bubai arrived at Shaolin with thousands of disciples, and the Golden Haired Tiger King injured the temple's two guards.
• Abbot Xuan Kong gathered Shaolin's abbots and martial monks to confront Dongfang Bubai at the foot of the mountain.
• Dongfang Bubai demanded that Shaolin surrender Master Xuan Ming, then attacked him when he refused.
• Xuan Ming, Xuan Ji, and Xuan Nan joined forces against Dongfang Bubai's palm, but Xuan Ming was thrown more than ten zhang and badly injured.

Dongfang Bubai overwhelmed Shaolin’s abbots and demanded that the temple submit to the Divine Moon Cult and surrender Xuan Ming. Abbot Xuan Kong refused, leaving Shaolin facing destruction as Dongfang Bubai accused it of harboring filth and corruption.

• Dongfang Bubai ordered the Four Great Protectors to seize the gravely injured Xuan Ming, and they battled Xuan Ji and Xuan Nan as they tried to reach him.
• Dongfang Bubai fought off Xuan Kong and Xuan Guan, then struck Xuan Kong with a punch that sent him crashing through trees.
• Dongfang Bubai demanded Shaolin’s submission and warned she would slaughter the monks if they refused.
• Dongfang Bubai pierced Xuan Nan’s chest with a golden finger strike, leaving all of Shaolin’s abbots unable to fight.
• Xuan Kong refused to submit despite his injuries, and Dongfang Bubai sneered that Shaolin harbored filth and corruption.

Dongfang Bubai tried to seize Xuan Ming as Shaolin monks and Divine Moon Cult disciples prepared to clash, but Shaolin’s three secluded patriarchs emerged and stopped her. Wujing attacked Dongfang Bubai, whose counterstrike continued toward his chest.

• Xuan Ming ordered the Shaolin monks to fight the Divine Moon Cult while secretly attempting to escape, and Dongfang Bubai pursued him.
• Three gray-robed Shaolin patriarchs—Wukong, Wuneng, and Wujing—intercepted Dongfang Bubai’s attacks and revealed themselves as Beginner Great Grandmasters.
• Wukong asked why Dongfang Bubai had come to Shaolin, and Xuan Ming accused her of seeking to destroy Shaolin and unify the martial world.
• Wujing attacked Dongfang Bubai with Arhat Vajra Fist, and she split his golden fist with a ray of light that kept flying toward his chest.

Dongfang Bubai was overwhelmed by Shaolin's three Great Grandmasters and grievously wounded by Wukong's palm. Huang Shaojie caught her as she fell and faced the three monks hovering before him.

• Wujing gained the upper hand against Dongfang Bubai, but Wuneng joined the fight when Wujing began to lose.
• Wukong attacked as well, and the three Shaolin patriarchs fought Dongfang Bubai together while the Divine Moon Cult's followers watched helplessly.
• After enduring many attacks, Dongfang Bubai tried to flee, but Wukong struck her back with a Prajna Palm and shattered her internal organs.
• Huang Shaojie caught the badly wounded Dongfang Bubai in his arms, and she recognized him as she struggled to speak.
• Wukong, Wuneng, and Wujing confronted Huang Shaojie from five zhang away.

Huang Shaojie intervened when the Shaolin patriarchs tried to take the injured Dongfang Bubai, offering to endure three attacks in her place. The patriarchs accepted his wager, and Huang Shaojie tossed Dongfang Bubai down as the test was about to begin.

• Wukong demanded that Huang Shaojie hand Dongfang Bubai over to Shaolin, while the Four Great Protectors realized he was carrying their wounded Cult Leader.
• Huang Shaojie declared Dongfang Bubai was his woman and reminded her of their wager, startling her when she discovered he had reached the Great Grandmaster realm.
• Huang Shaojie questioned the Shaolin patriarchs’ claim that Dongfang Bubai was guilty of grievous sins and proposed that they settle the conflict peacefully.
• Huang Shaojie offered to take three moves from the patriarchs; if they could not injure him, he would take Dongfang Bubai away and restrain her from attacking Shaolin again.
• Wukong accepted the wager on behalf of the three patriarchs, and Huang Shaojie tossed Dongfang Bubai down as the confrontation began.

Huang Shaojie faced Shaolin’s three old masters after defeating Dongfang Bubai, and survived two devastating attacks without injury. As the masters prepared their final move, Xuan Ming feared Dongfang Bubai would escape and later take revenge on him.

• Dongfang Bubai waved away the Four Great Protectors and began healing her shattered body with the Mystic Goddess Divine Skill.
• Wujing struck Huang Shaojie with the Arhat Vajra Fist, but Huang Shaojie returned completely unharmed despite everyone believing he had been killed.
• Wuneng hit Huang Shaojie with the Vajra Prajna Palm, sending him flying, but he again returned without a scratch.
• The Shaolin disciples and leaders were stunned, while the Divine Moon Cult disciples cheered at Huang Shaojie's survival.
• Xuan Ming worried that the third attack might fail and resolved to flee with Dongfang Bubai if she survived.

Huang Shaojie survived Wukong’s final palm strike, forcing Shaolin to concede the wager and let Dongfang Bubai leave. As Huang Shaojie prepared to take her back to Black Cliff Peak, Dongfang Bubai declared that she would kill Xuan Ming first.

• Wukong struck Huang Shaojie with his full power, sending him flying hundreds of zhang.
• Huang Shaojie returned unharmed, and the Divine Moon Cult disciples cheered as the Shaolin monks stared in shock.
• Wukong conceded defeat and agreed to let Huang Shaojie take Dongfang Bubai away.
• Xuan Ming urged the three old monks to kill Dongfang Bubai, but they rejected his proposal and upheld the wager.
• Dongfang Bubai rose and named Xuan Ming as the person she intended to kill before leaving.

Huang Shaojie protected the wounded Dongfang Bubai after she accused Xuan Ming of murdering her family, and confronted the Shaolin monks when they refused to believe her. The three elderly monks attacked Huang Shaojie, leaving him facing Wuneng and Wujing in close combat.

• Dongfang Bubai revealed that she wanted to kill Xuan Ming because he had murdered her entire family.
• Xuan Ming denied the accusation, but Huang Shaojie's Insight Technique confirmed that Xuan Ming had been responsible.
• Wujing attacked the badly wounded Dongfang Bubai, and Huang Shaojie blocked his Vajra Arhat Fist with a Heavenly Frost Fist.
• Huang Shaojie challenged the three elderly monks for defending Xuan Ming, and Wuneng and Wujing attacked him from both sides.

Huang Shaojie defeated Shaolin’s three ancient monks in a fierce aerial battle and captured Xuan Ming as Dongfang Bubai accused him of murdering her family eighteen years earlier. Abbot Xuan Kong recognized Dongfang Bubai as Dongfang Jian’s daughter, leaving Shaolin and the others facing the truth of the old massacre.

• Huang Shaojie pierced Wujing’s chest with his Three Points Divine Finger, then drove Wukong and Wuneng back with Three Points Return to One Qi.
• Huang Shaojie defeated Wukong and Wuneng, while Shaolin and Divine Moon Cult disciples watched in shock.
• Huang Shaojie seized Xuan Ming as he tried to flee and threw him at Dongfang Bubai’s feet.
• Dongfang Bubai accused Xuan Ming of slaughtering her family eighteen years earlier to steal their sword manual, but Xuan Ming denied it.
• Abbot Xuan Kong asked whether Dongfang Bubai was Dongfang Jian’s daughter, and Dongfang Bubai confirmed she was.

Huang Shaojie forced Xuan Ming to confess that he had massacred Divine Sword Manor and committed other crimes, clearing Dongfang Bubai’s name before Shaolin. After Xuan Ming was taken away, Huang Shaojie joined Dongfang Bubai in her palanquin, and she accepted that she owed him the promise to become his woman.

• Dongfang Bubai accused Xuan Ming of murdering her family, but Xuan Ming denied the crime and Shaolin’s leaders asked her for proof.
• Huang Shaojie tortured Xuan Ming with the Bone-Dislocating Muscle-Splitting Technique until Xuan Ming confessed to the massacre and other crimes, including murdering Master Xuan Chen.
• Abbot Xuan Kong and Shaolin’s monks learned that Xuan Ming had planned to seize the abbot’s position, and Xuan Kong allowed Dongfang Bubai to take him away.
• Dongfang Bubai thanked Huang Shaojie with a grateful look, and the Divine Moon Cult escorted Xuan Ming away.
• Huang Shaojie entered Dongfang Bubai’s palanquin and claimed her as his woman, while Dongfang Bubai accepted that she should fulfill their wager.

Huang Shaojie received Shifting Form and Changing Shadow after resolving the Shaolin and Divine Moon Cult conflict, then helped Dongfang Bubai recover from her injuries. Dongfang revealed how she found the Mystic Goddess Divine Skill and learned that Xuan Ming had murdered her family, while Huang Shaojie challenged her extreme view of the righteous sects.

• Huang Shaojie received the Divine-level martial art Shifting Form and Changing Shadow, which let him teleport within a hundred zhang in a millisecond.
• Dongfang Bubai ordered Xuan Ming executed as an offering to her family, then brought Huang Shaojie to her sleeping chamber and became his woman.
• Huang Shaojie used the Nine Yang Divine Skill to heal Dongfang Bubai's internal injuries, and she asked about his healing technique.
• Dongfang Bubai told Huang Shaojie that she discovered the Mystic Goddess Divine Skill in a Kunlun cave and later became leader of the Divine Moon Cult.
• Dongfang Bubai revealed that Xuan Ming had murdered her family and explained her plan to unify the martial world and expose the righteous sects.
• Huang Shaojie told Dongfang Bubai that she was wrong to condemn all members of the righteous sects as hypocrites.

Huang Shaojie spent a month with Dongfang Bubai at the Divine Moon Cult before returning to the Capital City and being appointed Northern Pacification Commissioner. He left for his new post with orders to protect and investigate a Persian envoy group, then reunited with Vermilion Bird and Xiao He at Huang Manor.

• Huang Shaojie told Dongfang Bubai he served in the Imperial Guard, and she teased him about being a court official.
• Huang Shaojie stayed at the Divine Moon Cult for a month, healed Dongfang Bubai, and taught her Shifting Form and Changing Shadow.
• Huang Shaojie left Black Cliff Peak for the Capital City, and Dongfang Bubai promised to visit him there.
• Huang Shaojie reported to Ling Xiaotian, who appointed him Northern Pacification Commissioner under the codename Qilin and ordered him to protect and monitor the Persian Envoy Group arriving next month.
• Huang Shaojie returned to Huang Manor and spent the night with Vermilion Bird and Xiao He, while Eight Lord watched from the window.
• Vermilion Bird asked Huang Shaojie whether he had met a beautiful confidante during his trip.

Huang Shaojie took up his post as Pacification Commissioner of the Northern Pacification Office and later led Imperial Guards to welcome the Persian Empire’s envoy group to Chang’an. When the convoy arrived, Prince William asked which Great Chu official had come to receive him.

• Huang Shaojie told Vermilion Bird that he would take up his new post at the Northern Pacification Office and protect the Persian envoy group when it arrived.
• Huang Shaojie arrived at the Northern Pacification Office, where its officials and Imperial Guards welcomed him as their new Pacification Commissioner.
• Huang Shaojie assigned office affairs to his subordinates and oversaw the Northern Pacification Office’s duties in Taiyuan Quarter and the Capital City.
• More than a month later, Huang Shaojie led eight hundred Imperial Guards alongside Zhao Guoan and the Court of State Ceremonials officials to welcome the Persian envoy group outside the inner city.
• Prince William asked which official Great Chu had sent to welcome his envoy group, and the Persian interpreter introduced Zhao Guoan as the Minister of the Court of State Ceremonials.

Zhao Guoan and Huang Shaojie welcomed Prince William’s Persian envoy group, whose powerful warriors recognized Huang Shaojie’s strength and accepted the reception as a high honor. The delegation then met Emperor Xuande at the Hall of Supreme Harmony, where Prince William greeted him through an interpreter.

• Zhao Guoan explained that the Court of State Ceremonials and General Who Guards the Army, Huang Shaojie, had come to welcome Prince William’s envoy group.
• Huang Shaojie sensed that the delegation included many Grandmasters, two Great Grandmasters, the Golden Knight Austin, and the Great Magician Adrian, while they recognized his formidable cultivation.
• The Persian officials thanked Huang Shaojie for welcoming them, and Prince William approved of Great Chu’s reception.
• Huang Shaojie assigned five hundred Imperial Guards to protect and monitor the delegation at its quarters in the Capital City.
• Emperor Xuande received Prince William and his officials at the Hall of Supreme Harmony, where Prince William greeted him through an interpreter.

Prince William led a Persian delegation to Great Chu to establish friendly relations and trade, while Prince Qi’s demand that they kneel provoked a dispute over the two empires’ equal status. Emperor Xuande welcomed the Persian goods and ten beauties, then offered Prince William eighteen palace maids in return.

• Prince Qi rebuked the Persian envoys for not kneeling, but Austin insisted that Persia and Great Chu were equals and owed each other no such rites.
• Emperor Xuande waived the kneeling rites and asked Prince William why he had come to Great Chu.
• Prince William proposed friendly diplomatic relations and trade, then described Persian goods brought by the delegation.
• Prince William presented ten Persian beauties, and Emperor Xuande ordered An Fu to take them to the Palace of Compassionate Tranquility.
• Emperor Xuande thanked Prince William by offering him eighteen palace maids.

Prince William asked Emperor Xuande to marry Princess Pingyang to him, but she rejected him and accepted his challenge to a wager. The Persian prince and Princess Pingyang agreed to hold a three-day arena in Chang'an, where Great Chu’s defeat would cost her freedom and Persia’s defeat would force William to kneel before Emperor Xuande.

• Prince William refused palace maids and asked Emperor Xuande to marry Princess Pingyang to him, but Emperor Xuande refused and offered other princesses instead.
• Princess Pingyang told Prince William he was unworthy of marrying her, and he proposed a wager involving a three-day arena in Chang'an.
• Prince William declared that Great Chu would have to give him Princess Pingyang if none of its fighters defeated his subordinates.
• Ling Xiaotian and Cao Kun sensed that Austin and Adrian were formidable, with the Golden Knight near the Advanced Great Grandmaster realm and the black-robed Great Magician a powerful opponent.
• Princess Pingyang accepted the wager and demanded that William kneel before Emperor Xuande if Persia lost; William agreed, confident in Austin and Adrian.

Emperor Xuande agreed to Prince William’s three-day martial contest at Donghua Gate Plaza, wagering Pingyang’s marriage after learning that the Persian envoy group included two formidable experts. As notices spread through Chang’an and the contest drew public attention, Xuande spent the night with Persian beauties in Cian Palace.

• Emperor Xuande accepted Prince William’s challenge and ordered the arena to open at Donghua Gate Plaza in five days, with Pingyang promised as William’s consort if no one defeated the Persians.
• Emperor Xuande asked Ling Xiaotian and Cao Kun about their chances, and both warned that Austin and the Black Robed Mage were stronger than they were.
• Emperor Xuande directed the Imperial Guard, the Imperial Surveillance Bureau, and common martial artists to challenge the Persians before Ling Xiaotian and Cao Kun acted.
• Emperor Xuande visited Cian Palace, watched ten Persian beauties dance, and spent the night with them.
• Soldiers posted notices throughout Chang’an, and townspeople discussed the contest and planned to watch or challenge the Persian experts.

Huang Shaojie learned that Prince William’s Persian Envoy Group had brought powerful martial artists to challenge Great Chu, and he reassured Vermilion Bird that they would not take Princess Pingyang. Five days later, the arena tournament began at Donghua Gate Plaza, where the Persian warrior Parker issued the first challenge.

• Huang Shaojie told Wu Zhen and Lu Changkong that Prince William’s Persian Envoy Group included several peerless experts and would be difficult for Great Chu to defeat.
• Vermilion Bird worried that Princess Pingyang might have to marry Prince William if Great Chu’s strongest fighters lost, while Xiao He insisted Huang Shaojie would defeat the Persians.
• Huang Shaojie declared that Prince William would never marry Princess Pingyang, then joked that pursuing her would cost him his freedom with Vermilion Bird and Xiao He.
• Five days later, the Persian Envoy Group’s arena tournament began at Donghua Gate Plaza as Emperor Xuande and Great Chu officials watched from the imperial city wall.
• Prince William sent Parker, a Fifth Rank Grandmaster, to take the arena first, and Parker challenged the Great Chu spectators to fight him.