Chapter Summaries

Huang Shaojie arrived alone to defend Xining City and swiftly overwhelmed Persia’s invading army. After killing Xerxes and shrugging off the magicians’ spells, he manifested a golden Buddha and brought down his Heavenly Buddha Descends attack, leaving the Persian forces beneath his palm.

• Huang Shaojie arrived at Xining City alone, and Zhao Shijie and the soldiers welcomed him as the Pillar of the State Duke.
• Huang Shaojie flew toward the Persian army and killed Xerxes with a single punch, scattering his body as ice fragments.
• Persian magicians attacked Huang Shaojie with spells, but his protective light barrier blocked them all.
• Huang Shaojie manifested an illusory golden Buddha and struck the Persian magicians with the seventh form of Buddha’s Palm, Heavenly Buddha Descends.

Huang Shaojie annihilated the Persian army attacking Xining City and received the Yellow Court True Scripture and Foundation Establishment Pills as system rewards. He began cultivating the scripture, sensing that the world's scarce Spiritual Energy would limit his progress.

• Huang Shaojie used Buddha's Palm and Heavenly Ruined Foot to kill nearly two hundred thousand Persian soldiers.
• He pursued the fleeing cavalry with Ten Thousand Swords Returning to the Origin, killing the army while leaving several dozen survivors to spread word of Great Chu's strength.
• The system rewarded Huang Shaojie with the Yellow Court True Scripture and ten top-grade Foundation Establishment Pills for defeating the Persian invasion.
• Huang Shaojie began cultivating the scripture and sensed a thin thread of Spiritual Energy, realizing that the world's scarcity of it would make advancement difficult.

Huang Shaojie destroyed the Persian cavalry invading Great Chu and returned to Chang'an, where Empress Xiang Qingyang and the court learned that the threat had been eliminated. The ministers praised him as Great Chu’s pillar of stability.

• Old General Zhao led soldiers in clearing the battlefield and gathered three hundred thousand Persian warhorses after Huang Shaojie departed.
• Xiang Qingyang summoned senior officials and told them Persia had invaded with a million cavalry, while Jiayu Pass and its defenders had fallen.
• Zhuge Qingyun named Huang Shaojie and Prince Ning as the only possible commanders against the Persian army, and Xiang Qingyang revealed Huang Shaojie had gone alone to intercept it.
• Huang Shaojie appeared in Qingxiao Palace and said he had taken care of the invading Persian army, which he claimed had numbered four or five hundred thousand elite cavalry.
• Xiang Qingyang and the ministers marveled at Huang Shaojie's victory and praised him as Great Chu's hero and the Empress's pillar of stability.

Huang Shaojie was granted the supreme title of Imperial Lord, placing him above Xiang Qingyang, and attended court as she handled state affairs. After officials discussed rebuilding the cavalry and defending Jiayu Pass, Huang Shaojie decided to go to Persia and force it to submit to Great Chu.

• Cao Kun proposed the title Imperial Lord for Huang Shaojie, and Xiang Qingyang approved a ceremony to confer it.
• Several days later, Huang Shaojie and Xiang Qingyang worshipped Heaven, formally making him Imperial Lord.
• At court, Xiang Qingyang ordered Jiang Cheng to prepare to expand Great Chu's cavalry by one hundred thousand using captured Persian horses.
• Jiang Cheng urged the court to strengthen Jiayu Pass, while Zhuge Qingyun proposed sending spies to warn the capital of Persian military movements.
• Huang Shaojie announced that he would go to Persia and make it submit to Great Chu, then vanished in a streak of white light.

Huang Shaojie arrived in Babylon and went to the Persian royal palace, where King Charles dismissed survivors’ reports of his overwhelming victory over Persia. The Persian guards confronted Huang Shaojie after he demanded that the king come out and kowtow to him.

• Huang Shaojie explored Babylon and brushed off Persian women who flirted with him.
• King Charles heard a Persian general describe Huang Shaojie’s supernatural destruction of the Persian army, but refused to believe him and ordered the survivors beaten.
• Huang Shaojie approached the Persian palace and announced in Persian that he was the Great Chu Emperor, demanding that the Persian king kowtow.
• The Persian General ordered his warriors to seize Huang Shaojie and subject him to the ultimate punishment.

Huang Shaojie fought his way into the Persian royal palace, slaughtering its guards and experts with overwhelming power. He entered King Charles’s council hall, where the king and ministers recognized him as the man who had killed five hundred thousand Persian troops and recoiled in fear.

• Huang Shaojie killed the Persian warriors and general outside the palace gate with a wave of his hand.
• Huang Shaojie destroyed the palace gate tower with one punch and wiped out the Imperial Guards who attacked him.
• Huang Shaojie’s Ten Thousand Swords Returning to the Origin slaughtered nearly one hundred thousand Persian Imperial Guard and killed the palace’s grandmasters and magicians.
• A warrior told King Charles that a Great Chu youth had destroyed the gate tower and slain the palace forces.
• Huang Shaojie walked into the council hall, and the bloodied Persian general identified him as the man who had killed five hundred thousand Persian troops.
• King Charles drew his sword and backed away from Huang Shaojie as the ministers retreated around him.

Huang Shaojie used the Startling Eye Tribulation to make King Charles, Cyrus, and Persia’s ministers submit to Great Chu. Outside the palace, the First and Second Princes arrived with a huge army and prepared to attack Huang Shaojie, even at the risk of killing their father.

• Huang Shaojie struck Cyrus with the Startling Eye Tribulation, causing the Persian officer to kneel and kowtow.
• Huang Shaojie’s gaze made King Charles and the Persian ministers submit to him and declare themselves subjects of Great Chu.
• Huang Shaojie left the palace as more than a hundred thousand troops led by the First Prince and Second Prince surrounded it.
• The Second Prince ordered guards to seize Huang Shaojie, but Huang Shaojie crushed them with an invisible force.
• The First Prince commanded the magicians to attack Huang Shaojie, while the Second Prince ordered tens of thousands of archers to ready their arrows.

Huang Shaojie defeated the Persian princes’ rebellion, destroyed the Persian army, and secured Persia’s surrender to Great Chu. After reaching the peak of the world’s martial limit and receiving Golden Origin Pills, he stayed in Babylon and spent the evening with Princess Melissa and seven other Persian girls.

• The Second Prince ordered the Persian archers and mages to attack Huang Shaojie, but Huang Shaojie destroyed their assault with a palm strike.
• Huang Shaojie used Emperor Heaven Mad Thunder to kill the Persian army, the two princes, the mages, and the Grandmaster generals.
• King Charles and the ministers submitted to Huang Shaojie, and Charles agreed to take Persia’s map and letter of surrender to Chang’an.
• The system rewarded Huang Shaojie with five hundred years of Internal Cultivation and ten Golden Origin Pills, raising him to the peak of the Peak Great Grandmaster realm.
• Huang Shaojie stayed in Babylon, where King Charles assigned Princess Melissa and seven other Persian girls to attend to him.
• Huang Shaojie played in a pool with the eight Persian girls that evening.

Huang Shaojie returned to Chang'an after conquering Persia, where the Empress received King Charles’s surrender and imposed Great Chu’s laws and customs. Melissa joined Huang Shaojie in Chang'an, and he revealed plans to marry six women at once.

• Huang Shaojie spent more than ten days in Persia with Melissa and seven other young women before returning to Chang'an.
• Three months later, King Charles brought Persia’s surrender letter and map to the Empress, who divided Persia into thirteen commanderies and ordered the adoption of Great Chu’s language, standards, laws, and regulations.
• Charles returned to Qingxiao Palace with Melissa, who greeted Huang Shaojie affectionately and asked to stay with him in Chang'an.
• Huang Shaojie welcomed Melissa as a consort, while Xiang Qingyang accepted their relationship and teased him about his time in Persia.
• Huang Shaojie told Xiang Qingyang that he planned to propose to Xiao Qiuyue and send betrothal gifts to the Nangong Family, then revealed he would marry six women at once.

Huang Shaojie and his six brides celebrated their wedding in Chang'an, but the ceremony was interrupted when a mysterious blue-robed elder challenged him to his death. The elder identified himself as Indra, whose cultivation Huang Shaojie could not discern.

• Huang Shaojie brought betrothal gifts to Prince Ning's Residence and formally arranged to marry Xiao Qiuyue.
• Huang Shaojie sent betrothal gifts to the Nangong Family, delighting Nangong Tian and Nangong Feixue.
• On the eighth day of the tenth month, Huang Shaojie married Xiao Qiuyue, Dongfang Bubai, Nangong Feixue, Vermilion Bird, Meilisi, and Xiao He in a grand ceremony.
• As the newlyweds were about to enter their bridal chambers, a voice from the sky demanded that Huang Shaojie come out and die.
• Huang Shaojie and Dongfang Bubai appeared outside the palace, where Huang Shaojie faced a blue-robed elder whose cultivation he could not see.
• The elder told Huang Shaojie that his name was Indra.

Xu Fu, now known as Indra, recounted his rise from Japan’s founder to a cultivator in the Spirit Realm before returning to find Japan destroyed. He learned that Emperor Huang Shaojie was responsible and confronted him during the emperor’s wedding.

• Xu Fu explained how he founded Japan as Indra, cultivated for centuries, and ascended to the Spirit Realm.
• After joining the Ascension Gate and becoming a Soul Severing elder, Xu Fu decided to search the Mortal Realms for talented disciples.
• Xu Fu returned to Eastern Ocean Island and found Japan devastated, with no sign of human life.
• Indra examined the destruction and recognized enormous craters as marks left by peerless divine abilities.
• Indra traveled to Great Chu, learned that Emperor Huang Shaojie had destroyed Japan, and arrived at Chang'an during Huang Shaojie's wedding.
• Huang Shaojie recognized Indra as Xu Fu, the man who had led children to Japan while seeking immortality for the First Emperor.

Huang Shaojie confronted Indra, who revealed that he had reached the early Soul Severing Realm and intended to avenge Japan. Huang Shaojie struck Indra from behind with a teleporting attack, but Indra barely moved, leaving their battle unresolved.

• Huang Shaojie recognized Indra as Xu Fu and questioned him about his age, cultivation, and whereabouts.
• Indra demanded to know why Huang Shaojie had destroyed Japan and declared that he would kill him in revenge.
• Indra revealed that he had reached the early Soul Severing Realm, and the system warned Huang Shaojie that Indra could destroy him with one finger.
• Huang Shaojie asked the system for help and a Soul Severing Realm reward, but the system refused both requests.
• Indra attacked with white spiritual energy, but Huang Shaojie teleported behind him and struck him with a Heavenly Frost Fist.
• Indra's protective energy absorbed most of the punch, and Huang Shaojie retreated a hundred zhang to prepare for Indra's counterattack.

Huang Shaojie learned that the Heavenly Dao had sealed Indra’s power above the Golden Core Realm, giving him a chance to fight the Soul Severing Realm cultivator. He lured Indra away from Chang’an, then startled him by using a movement technique from Indra’s own Sacred Heart Technique.

• Indra discovered that the Heavenly Dao had sealed his cultivation above the Golden Core Realm, while Huang Shaojie learned of the restriction from the system.
• Dongfang Bubai offered to help Huang Shaojie, but he assured her Indra could not kill him and flew away to keep their battle from damaging the imperial palace.
• Indra pursued Huang Shaojie, whose Sword Flight could not match Indra’s speed, and caught up with him after they had flown dozens of li from Chang’an.
• Huang Shaojie used the Carefree Immortal Ascent Steps to move several li in one stride, leaving Indra astonished that he knew a technique from the Sacred Heart Technique.

Huang Shaojie outran Indra with a perfected version of the Carefree Immortal Ascent Steps and lured him toward India, intending to fight him above its capital and destroy the country. Huang Shaojie arrived over Rona City, where residents and nobles watched him descend from the sky in alarm.

• Indra recognized Huang Shaojie's footwork as the Carefree Immortal Ascent Steps and accused him of stealing it.
• Huang Shaojie outran Indra with the Carefree Immortal Ascent Steps and mocked him for being slower than the art's supposed creator.
• After reaching a barren ridge, Huang Shaojie decided to lure Indra to India and battle him there using his strongest techniques.
• Huang Shaojie sped to Rona City, India's capital, and surveyed its crowded streets, lavish estates, and impoverished untouchables.
• Huang Shaojie descended through the air above Rona City, startling the residents and prompting the nobles to hurry back to their estates.

Huang Shaojie fought Indra, whose cultivation was sealed to the Golden Core Realm, while avoiding his Palm Thunder and trying to exhaust his Spiritual Energy. Their battle devastated Rona City, and the chapter ended as a panicked eunuch rushed to warn the King of India.

• Huang Shaojie learned that the Heavenly Dao had sealed Indra's cultivation above the Golden Core Realm, and Indra revealed that he had ascended to the Spirit Realm.
• Indra attacked Huang Shaojie with a spell, but Huang dodged it with Shifting Form and Changing Shadow and countered with Three Points Divine Finger, which Indra's shield blocked.
• Indra repeatedly unleashed Palm Thunder as Huang dodged and waited for Indra to exhaust his Spiritual Energy.
• Indra's missed attacks destroyed buildings and set Rona City ablaze, while fleeing residents filled the streets with chaos.
• Imperial Guards fired arrows at the fighters, but an invisible barrier stopped them, and Indra's spell killed the commander and several thousand soldiers.
• A eunuch rushed into the royal palace to warn the King of India as he drank wine and watched palace maids dance.

Huang Shaojie and Indra battled above Rona City, killing Indian commanders, experts, and soldiers caught in their attacks. Indra recognized several of his own divine techniques in Huang Shaojie’s moves, while Huang Shaojie claimed them as his creations and continued attacking.

• The Indian king learned that two men from Great Chu had devastated the capital and ordered Ham and the Great Mages to kill them.
• Ham attacked Indra, but Indra killed him with a single palm strike.
• Huang Shaojie and Indra exchanged punches, and their clash killed nearby Indian experts and froze several thousand soldiers below.
• Indra blocked Huang Shaojie’s Absolute Profound Ice and asked how he had learned his divine technique.
• Huang Shaojie claimed Absolute Profound Ice and other techniques as his own, then unleashed attacks that killed dozens of Indian experts and tens of thousands of soldiers.

Huang Shaojie defeated Indra with Buddha's Palm, devastating the Indian capital, but Indra survived and fled to the Spirit Realm. Huang Shaojie was left facing the terrified King of India and his kneeling subjects.

• Three senior Indian Great Mages attacked Indra, but he shattered their magic tools and killed them with a single strike.
• Huang Shaojie unleashed Buddha's Palm's tenth move, Buddha Destroys Demons, and clashed with Indra's Golden Core Peak power, reducing much of the capital to ruins and burying Indra in a deep pit.
• Huang Shaojie pulled Indra from the pit, but Indra revived and attacked; Huang Shaojie evaded the spell and prepared another palm strike.
• Indra fled toward the Spirit Realm, warning Huang Shaojie that he would kill him one day.
• Huang Shaojie flew over the ruined palace, where the King of India, his ministers, and guards fell to their knees and begged for mercy.

Huang Shaojie forced India to submit to Great Chu, then learned that reaching the Nascent Soul Stage would bring a tribulation and a chance to ascend to the Spirit Realm. He returned safely to Chang'an, where the court and his family had anxiously awaited him.

• Huang Shaojie gave the King of India and his ministers the choice to submit or die, and they surrendered to Great Chu.
• Huang Shaojie received five top-grade Divine Origin Elixirs from the system for conquering India and asked about ascending to the Spirit Realm.
• The system explained that reaching the Nascent Soul Stage would trigger a lightning tribulation, with roughly a one-in-ten chance of surviving and ascending.
• In Chang'an, Xiang Qingyang, Huang Baiwan, Madam Huang, and the officials anxiously waited for Huang Shaojie's return.
• Huang Shaojie flew back to the imperial palace, and the waiting court and family rejoiced at his safe return.

Huang Shaojie returned after defeating Indra and forcing India to surrender to Great Chu, then celebrated his wedding with six brides. Three days later, he used a Qi Refining Elixir to break through to the fourth level of the Qi Refining Realm.

• Huang Shaojie told the Empress and his six other wives that he had defeated Indra, who escaped.
• Huang Shaojie announced that India had surrendered to Great Chu after he defeated its imperial guards and top experts while fighting Indra in the Indian capital.
• Zhuge Qingyun and the ministers praised Huang Shaojie, while Huang Baiwan and Madam Huang watched proudly.
• Huang Shaojie lifted the red veils of his six brides and spent the wedding night with them.
• Huang Shaojie swallowed a Qi Refining Elixir and circulated the Yellow Court True Scripture in a secluded valley outside Chang'an.
• Huang Shaojie broke through the fourth Qi Refining barrier and advanced to the fourth level of the Qi Refining Realm.

Huang Shaojie advanced to the early Foundation Establishment Realm, then learned at dinner that Xiang Qingyang was pregnant and Xiao Qiuyue might be pregnant as well. He handed out eight Lifespan Fruits to his family and wives, but Meilisi was left without one.

• Huang Shaojie consumed a Foundation Establishment Pill and broke through the Dao Palace gates, reaching the early Foundation Establishment Realm.
• At dinner, Xiang Qingyang revealed that she was almost two months pregnant, delighting Huang Shaojie and his family.
• Xiao Qiuyue also reported nausea and a missed period, leading Huang Shaojie and the others to suspect she was pregnant.
• Huang Shaojie gave Lifespan Fruits to Xiang Qingyang, Xiao Qiuyue, his parents, Dongfang Bubai, Vermilion Bird, Nangong Feixue, and Xiao He.
• After distributing all eight Lifespan Fruits, Huang Shaojie left Meilisi without one.