Chapter Summaries

Prince Ning revealed that he intended to leave the capital with his family and seize the throne amid an expected coup by Prince Han. Meanwhile, Xiang Qingyang arrived in Annam with a 500,000-strong army and met the battered Ye Chen, whose forces had suffered defeats against India's invasion.

• Prince Ning told the Princess Consort that Prince Han might launch a coup and that she, You'er, and Zuo'er's families should leave the capital with him.
• Prince Ning declared that he intended to overthrow Prince Qi or Prince Han and claim the throne, while the Princess Consort accepted his decision.
• After a month of forced marches, Xiang Qingyang led 500,000 troops into Annam, accompanied by Divine Moon Cult disciples and members of the Seven Peaks Sect.
• Ye Chen welcomed Xiang Qingyang at Jiuzhen Commandery with several thousand bloodied soldiers and knelt to greet her.
• Xiang Qingyang helped Ye Chen rise and asked whether India's army had already occupied more than half of Annam.

Xiang Qingyang arrived in Jiuzhen City to reinforce Ye Chen and learned that India's army had nearly conquered Annam, backed by two Great Grandmasters and two Great Mages. She revealed that Dongfang Bubai had accompanied her as a Great Grandmaster, steadying the generals as they prepared to face the invasion.

• Ye Chen begged Xiang Qingyang to punish him for losing most of Annam, but she pardoned him and entered Jiuzhen City with the senior generals.
• At a military council, Ye Chen reported that India's roughly seven hundred thousand troops had taken four commanderies and reduced his five hundred thousand defenders to fewer than one hundred thousand.
• Ye Chen explained that he had recruited two hundred thousand discharged Annam soldiers after India's invasion began.
• Ye Chen asked whether Huang Shaojie had come, and Xiang Qingyang said he had gone southeast to fight the Japanese pirates.
• Xiang Qingyang introduced Dongfang Bubai as a Great Grandmaster, surprising the generals who had mistaken her for a maidservant.

Princess Pingyang Xiang Qingyang arranged an ambush at Leprosy Ridge to destroy the pursuing India Army. Ye Chen lured Mohan and Jagadish’s forces into the mountain pass, where arrows began raining down on them.

• After a scout reported that over a hundred thousand India soldiers were approaching Jiuzhen City, Xiang Qingyang ordered Ye Chen to defend the city and retreat toward Leprosy Ridge, while Tang Feng, Meng Xing, and Xiang Qingyang’s own troops prepared ambushes.
• Mohan led the India Army’s assault on Jiuzhen City, where Ye Chen fought him and Li Chengbiao and Zhang Xian faced Great Mage Jagadish.
• Mohan defeated Ye Chen and smashed a section of the city wall, allowing the India Army to break into Jiuzhen City.
• Ye Chen ordered a retreat and led the surviving Chu soldiers toward Leprosy Ridge as Mohan and Jagadish pursued them, killing many along the way.
• After Mohan and Jagadish noticed the ambush, arrows poured from the forests on both sides of the pass and struck at the pursuing India Army.

Dongfang Bubai joined the Chu Army’s ambush and killed India’s Great Grandmaster Mohan and Great Mage Jagadish. With their leaders dead, the India Army broke and fled toward Jiuzhen City under the Chu Army’s pursuit.

• The Chu Army, Divine Moon Cult disciples, and Seven Peaks Sword Sect disciples attacked the India Army from three directions.
• Mohan wounded Tang Feng before the Purple Eyed Dragon King and Golden Haired Tiger King joined the fight.
• Dongfang Bubai struck Mohan with her Mystic Goddess Palm and beheaded him in one attack.
• Dongfang Bubai appeared before Jagadish and killed him with a single palm strike.
• Dongfang Bubai and the allied martial artists slaughtered India soldiers, and the defeated army fled toward Jiuzhen City.

Dongfang Bubai helped the Chu Army annihilate the India Army’s vanguard in Annam, and Xiang Qingyang led the victorious forces onward. Huang Shaojie then sailed from Taizhou with one hundred thousand troops and Japan’s captured ships, beginning Chu’s invasion of Japan.

• Xiang Qingyang learned that Dongfang Bubai had killed Mohan and Jagannadi in one move and praised her strength.
• Dongfang Bubai and the Chu Army pursued the fleeing India Army, killing most of its more than one hundred thousand soldiers.
• Xiang Qingyang celebrated the victory in Jiuzhen City, then led more than four hundred thousand troops toward Annam’s former capital.
• Huang Shaojie departed Taizhou with one hundred thousand troops aboard more than one thousand captured Japanese tower ships.
• Huang Shaojie recited a poem as the fleet sailed toward Japan, and the generals and guards cheered.

Huang Shaojie used his Sea God abilities to command sea creatures and calm the waters as he led Chu’s fleet to Japan, where he destroyed the Japanese ships defending Honshu. Meanwhile, Prince Ning’s army approached Western Shu, where Xiao Qiuyue had ascended the throne as ruler of Later Shu.

• Huang Shaojie explored the sea, summoned a blue whale, and rode it while hundreds of sea creatures followed him.
• Huang Shaojie calmed the rough seas with Sea God's Wave Control as his fleet sailed for twelve days and nights toward Honshu.
• Japanese naval soldiers recognized Chu’s army aboard their ships and tried to flee to shore, but Huang Shaojie’s golden palm destroyed their warships and killed them.
• Prince Ning led two hundred thousand troops toward Western Shu and arrived near the region twenty days after leaving the capital.
• Xuan Wuji and the former officials of Western Shu installed Xiao Qiuyue as empress of Later Shu, appointed Xuan Wuji Grand Tutor and commander of the troops, and made Black Tortoise Chief Eunuch.

Later Shu learned that Huang Shaojie had destroyed the Japanese invasion, and Prince Ning soon advanced on Lizhou with a massive Chu army. Prince Ning shattered Lizhou’s defenses with divine martial power and captured General Jiang Yang, leaving the Shu soldiers stunned.

• Xuan Wuji reported that Huang Shaojie had killed Yagyu Muneyoshi and annihilated the Japanese forces, while Xiao Qiuyue worried Great Chu would now turn against Later Shu.
• A scout announced that Prince Ning was approaching Western Shu, and Xuan Wuji led the generals out to fight him as Xiao Qiuyue feared for his life.
• Jiang Yang learned Prince Ning had brought three hundred thousand troops to Lizhou and led his generals to defend the city.
• Prince Ning urged the Shu soldiers to surrender, but Jiang Yang refused and Prince Ning’s palm strike smashed part of the city wall, killing thousands.
• Jiang Yang attacked Prince Ning with his strongest sword technique, but Prince Ning crushed the strike with a giant white hand and trapped Jiang Yang in its grip.

Prince Ning used his divine skill to force Jiang Yang’s army to surrender, then faced Xuan Wuji in Pingwu County and arranged a duel whose winner would receive the other side’s troops. Both men believed the wager favored them, and the chapter ended as they prepared to fight.

• Prince Ning killed Jiang Yang with a glowing giant palm and made the one hundred thousand Shu soldiers surrender.
• Prince Ning left the surrendered soldiers in Lizhou and led two hundred thousand Chu Army troops toward the Shu Kingdom’s capital.
• Prince Ning and Xuan Wuji met with their armies in Pingwu County, and Prince Ning concealed his true cultivation to make himself seem weaker.
• Prince Ning proposed that the losing side’s soldiers surrender to the winner, and Xuan Wuji accepted, believing he had the advantage.
• Xuan Wuji and Prince Ning announced the wager to their armies, whose soldiers welcomed the chance to avoid fighting one another.

Prince Ning defeated Xuan Wuji and forced the Western Shu army to surrender, then news of the defeat reached Xiao Qiuyue’s court as Prince Ning advanced on the capital. Xiao Qiuyue refused Black Tortoise’s offer to escort her into hiding and stayed behind.

• Xuan Wuji unleashed the twelfth level of the Dragon-Elephant Divine Skill, but Prince Ning shattered the dragons and elephants with a single palm and revealed his superior cultivation.
• Xuan Wuji ambushed Prince Ning, was defeated and captured, then rejected an offer to submit and killed himself to prove his loyalty to Western Shu.
• Prince Ning called on the Shu Army to surrender, and all three hundred thousand soldiers threw down their weapons and knelt.
• A scout reported Xuan Wuji’s death, the Shu Army’s surrender, and Prince Ning’s advance on the capital to Xiao Qiuyue and her ministers.
• Black Tortoise urged Xiao Qiuyue to flee into the mountains, but she refused and told the others to leave.

Xiao Qiuyue stayed in the capital to face Prince Ning, learned why he had spared and raised her, then ended their father-daughter bond and attacked him. Her sword pierced his heart, leaving everyone shocked and unsure whether he would survive.

• Xiao Qiuyue refused to flee Western Shu, and Black Tortoise chose to remain with her as the ministers abandoned the palace.
• Prince Ning arrived with an army of five hundred thousand, and Xiao Qiuyue confronted him on the city wall before leaping down to face him.
• Xiao Qiuyue demanded to know why Prince Ning had spared and adopted her, and he explained that she reminded him of his daughter who had died young.
• Xiao Qiuyue thanked Prince Ning with three kowtows, declared their father-daughter bond ended, and raised her sword against him.
• Xiao Qiuyue's sword pierced Prince Ning through the heart, and she asked why he had let her kill him.

Xiao Qiuyue stabbed Prince Ning but could not bring herself to kill him, and he ordered her taken back to the Capital City. Meanwhile, Prince Han prepared a coup against Emperor Xuande, and an imperial edict arrived for Crown Prince Xiang Hong.

• Prince Ning allowed Xiao Qiuyue to stab him, but she could not strike him again and tried to take her own life.
• Prince Ning disarmed and sealed Xiao Qiuyue’s martial arts, then ordered guards to take her back to the Capital City and reminded her she could see Huang Shaojie.
• Prince Han and his confidants planned a coup, deciding to deal with Liu Jiankong through Qin Tao’s surprise attack and eliminate Prince Qi before Cao Kun could choose sides.
• Prince Han visited Cao Kun at the Imperial Surveillance Bureau, concealing his purpose behind an invitation to share tea.
• Crown Prince Xiang Hong dismissed his entertainers after learning an Edict-Delivering Eunuch had arrived from the palace.

Prince Han used the Crown Prince’s supposed rebellion as a pretext to seize control of the palace, killing Xiang Hong at Divine Martial Gate. As Prince Han’s forces advanced on Qingxiao Palace, Liu Jiankong realized a coup was underway and faced the choice of how to protect the Emperor.

• Xiang Hong entered the palace with his guards after hearing that Emperor Xuande was critically ill, but Yuchi Yu accused him of rebellion and attacked him at Divine Martial Gate.
• Yuchi Yu and the Tiger Swift Guard killed Xiang Hong and his personal guards, then Yuchi Yu took the Crown Prince’s head.
• Prince Han claimed he was going to rescue Emperor Xuande and brought Cao Kun and Imperial Surveillance Bureau experts to Divine Martial Gate.
• Prince Han and Yuchi Yu presented Xiang Hong’s death as the punishment for an attempted coup, and Cao Kun reluctantly sided with Prince Han.
• A guard told Liu Jiankong that Prince Han’s forces had killed the Crown Prince and were heading for Qingxiao Palace, and Liu Jiankong recognized the attempted coup.

Prince Han seized the palace after executing Prince Qi, and Emperor Xuande died upon learning that the Crown Prince had been killed. In Annam, Marshal Anil learned that Chu forces had destroyed his vanguard and killed Mohan and Jagadish, then vowed to capture the woman responsible.

• Liu Jiankong abandoned his resistance and pledged allegiance to Prince Han as Prince Han entered Qingxiao Palace with Yuchi Yu, Cao Kun, and their troops.
• Prince Han showed Emperor Xuande the Crown Prince’s severed head and demanded that the emperor appoint a new Crown Prince.
• Emperor Xuande spat blood, fell from the dragon throne, and was declared dead by An Fu.
• Marshal Anil’s generals debated whether to wait for Chu reinforcements or advance into Yong Prefecture and attack Chang’an.
• A surviving general reported that Chu forces had wiped out Mohan’s 150,000 vanguard troops and that a Chu woman had killed Mohan and Jagadish.
• Marshal Anil resolved to take the field and capture the woman, threatening to torment her for every India soldier she had killed.

Xiang Qingyang’s Chu Army battled Anil’s India Army at Daxin, where Dongfang Bubai killed the mage Ashish and defeated Anil. The India forces lost their marshal as the battle continued.

• Anil and Xiang Qingyang led their armies toward Jiuzhen and Jiaozhi, and their forces met at Daxin five days later.
• Xiang Qingyang ordered Tang Feng to engage the India Army from the front while Meng Xing and Chou Sihai attacked its flanks.
• Great Mage Ashish showered the Chu troops with flaming stones, and Deep fought Tang Feng until the Purple Eyed Dragon King and Golden Haired Tiger King joined the battle.
• Dongfang Bubai killed Ashish with a five-colored sphere, prompting Anil to attack her.
• Dongfang Bubai used Shifting Form and Changing Shadow to strike Anil from behind, then severed his head with a five-qi blade aura.

Dongfang Bubai routed the India Army, killed its leaders, and broke through to the Intermediate Great Grandmaster realm as Xiang Qingyang ordered the pursuit to reclaim Annam. Huang Shaojie then led the Chu Army into Japan, captured Saka Castle, and gained two Lifespan Fruits.

• Dongfang Bubai killed Marshal Anil and Great General Deep, while Ye Chen and Meng Xing led reinforcements that helped rout the India Army.
• Dongfang Bubai’s Mystic Goddess Divine Skill reached its sixth level, and she broke through to the Intermediate Great Grandmaster realm before killing more than a thousand soldiers with one palm.
• Xiang Qingyang ordered the Chu Army to pursue the fleeing India Army and reclaim the lost territory across Annam.
• Huang Shaojie eliminated Japan’s remaining naval forces on Honshu, received two Lifespan Fruits, and led ninety thousand soldiers toward Kyoto.
• Huang Shaojie destroyed part of Saka Castle’s wall with Buddha’s Palm, and the Chu Army killed its defenders and captured the city, earning two more Lifespan Fruits.

Huang Shaojie led the Chu Army toward Kyoto and shattered Japan’s defense by killing Miyamoto Hōzō and unleashing his newly acquired Divine-level martial art. The surviving Japanese troops fled in panic, leaving the battle in chaos.

• Huang Shaojie looted Osaka for three days, sent the seized wealth and Japanese women back to the warships, and marched toward Kyoto.
• The Japanese Emperor learned that hundreds of thousands of Chu troops were near Kyoto and sent Miyamoto Hōzō to confront them with the city’s eighty thousand soldiers.
• Huang Shaojie destroyed Miyamoto Hōzō’s sword attack with Buddha’s Palm and killed him with a single strike, earning the Heavenly Ruined Foot martial art and reaching peak Advanced Great Grandmaster.
• Huang Shaojie used Heavenly Ruined Foot’s first form, Heaven and Earth Ruthless, crushing more than a thousand Japanese soldiers and throwing the rest into disarray.
• The Japanese soldiers fled in terror while the Chu troops stared in shock at Huang Shaojie’s devastating attack.

Huang Shaojie annihilated the Japanese army with Heavenly Ruined Foot and Heavenly Frost Fist, then led the Chu Army toward the imperial palace. The Japanese Emperor agreed to surrender, while his ministers wondered why Xu Fu, revered as the Heavenly Emperor, had not appeared to defend Japan.

• Huang Shaojie used Heavenly Ruined Foot and Heavenly Frost Fist to kill the Japanese troops, earning the Divine-level martial art Ten Thousand Swords Returning to the Origin.
• Huang Shaojie led ninety thousand Chu Army soldiers toward the Japanese imperial palace.
• A scout reported that Miyamoto Hōzō and all eighty thousand Japanese troops had been killed.
• The Japanese Emperor agreed to leave the city and surrender with white flags, despite ministers fearing the Chu Army might kill them.
• The Japanese ministers pleaded for the Heavenly Emperor to appear, and the chapter explained that Xu Fu had founded Japan after sailing east from Qin.

Asō Ukyō disguised himself as the Japanese Emperor and tried to lure Huang Shaojie into a surprise attack by surrendering. Huang Shaojie saw through the disguise and ended the chapter ordering Asō Ukyō to crawl like a dog.

• Asō Ukyō proposed disguising himself as the Japanese Emperor and surrendering so he could get close enough to control Huang Shaojie.
• Asō Ukyō led the Japanese ministers out with white flags and claimed to surrender to Huang Shaojie, who recognized him as a powerful master in disguise.
• Huang Shaojie ordered Asō Ukyō to slap himself a hundred times, then struck him twice with inner force and knocked out his teeth.
• Asō Ukyō endured the humiliation without revealing his identity, while the real Japanese Emperor and ministers watched.
• Huang Shaojie ordered Asō Ukyō to crawl like a dog and threatened to kill them all if he refused.

Huang Shaojie humiliated Asō Ukyō until the Peak Divine Ninja attacked, then killed him and gained the completed Sacred Heart Technique, which raised him to Peak Great Grandmaster. With Asō Ukyō dead, the Japanese ministers exposed their disguised Emperor, whom Huang Shaojie ordered to crawl and bark like a dog.

• Huang Shaojie forced Asō Ukyō to crawl and bark, then mocked him by ordering soldiers to prepare piles of shit for him to eat.
• Asō Ukyō lost his patience, used invisibility and teleportation to attack Huang Shaojie, and was killed by a Heavenly Frost Fist.
• The system rewarded Huang Shaojie with the Sacred Heart Technique, granting him a thousand years of Internal Cultivation and advancing him to Peak Great Grandmaster.
• Huang Shaojie demanded to know which kneeling minister was the Japanese Emperor, and more than a dozen ministers exposed the Emperor disguised as a guard.
• The Japanese Emperor crawled out, and Huang Shaojie ordered him to crawl and bark like a dog.

Huang Shaojie forced the Japanese Emperor and ministers to eat shit or face execution, then seized their wealth and women for Great Chu. He later destroyed Japan by triggering a supervolcano, earning a system reward of 100 Supreme Qi Refining Elixirs and considering how they could advance his cultivation.

• Huang Shaojie forced the Japanese Emperor to eat shit and threatened the ministers with execution unless they did the same; one official was executed by a thousand cuts, while some ministers chose seppuku.
• Huang Shaojie detained the surviving Japanese Emperor and ministers and ordered their wealth and women collected for transport to Great Chu.
• As the fleet neared Zhejiang, Huang Shaojie told his generals to return home and flew back to Japan alone.
• Huang Shaojie crushed an active supervolcano with the Heavenly Ruined Foot, triggering eruptions, earthquakes, and a tsunami that destroyed Japan's four islands.
• The system rewarded Huang Shaojie with 100 Supreme Qi Refining Elixirs, and he considered using them to raise his cultivation or share them with his wives.