Chapter Summaries

Zhu Ying rejected the Tibetan Kingdom’s peace offer and effortlessly killed Huo Du and Dalba, then summoned the Dark Nether Two Elders. In Dadu, Wang Chongyang revealed himself to Qin Hui and told Cheng Shifei he had come to assassinate Zhu Ying, leaving Cheng Shifei proposing an alliance.

• Huo Du asked Zhu Ying to make peace with the Tibetan Kingdom, but Zhu Ying demanded surrender or the kingdom’s destruction.
• Huo Du ordered the concealed Dalba to attack Zhu Ying, who sensed Dalba, dodged his strike, and killed him with One Yang Finger.
• Huo Du begged for his life after seeing Dalba die, but Zhu Ying killed him and ordered Guo Zhen to send both heads to Golden Wheel Dharma King.
• Zhu Ying called the Dark Nether Two Elders out of hiding while Zhu Yuanzhang praised his strength.
• Wang Chongyang appeared before Qin Hui and explained that the Tibetan envoys’ negotiations had gone badly.
• Wang Chongyang confronted Cheng Shifei, identified himself as the Quanzhen Sect leader, and said he had come to assassinate Zhu Ying; Cheng Shifei proposed joining forces.

Wang Chongyang and Cheng Shifei joined forces to confront Zhu Ying after learning that attacks had begun in the imperial palace. Zhu Ying effortlessly defeated the Dark Nether Two Elders, then faced the arriving experts from Ming and Song as Wang Chongyang urged him to withdraw his troops from the border.

• Wang Chongyang agreed to help Cheng Shifei confront Zhu Ying, and the two led the Seven Disciples of Quanzhen toward the imperial palace while Qin Hui urged Wang Chongyang to conceal his identity.
• Deer Staff Elder and Crane Brush Elder attacked Zhu Ying with the Dark Nether Divine Palm, but their strikes could not harm him, and his True Qi blasted them to the ground.
• Cheng Shifei, Wang Chongyang, and the Seven Disciples of Quanzhen witnessed Zhu Ying defeat the Dark Nether Two Elders, and Zhu Yuanzhang declared that the Multi-Martial-Arts World would belong to the Grand Ming Empire.
• Zhu Ying called out Wang Chongyang and Cheng Shifei, who stepped forward with the Seven Disciples of Quanzhen, while a wounded Deer Staff Elder begged Wang Chongyang to save them.
• Zhu Ying said he had intended to spare Wang Chongyang and Cheng Shifei but would show no mercy now that they had confronted him, and Wang Chongyang asked him to withdraw his troops from the border.

Zhu Ying crushed the Seven Disciples of Quanzhen and defeated Wang Chongyang, Cheng Shifei, and the Dark Nether Two Elders with ease. Wang Chongyang lay gravely wounded and Cheng Shifei was left weakened as the battle in the great hall reached its end.

• Wang Chongyang abandoned negotiations and ordered the Seven Disciples of Quanzhen to attack Zhu Ying.
• Zhu Ying blocked the disciples’ swords with his True Qi and killed all seven with the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, earning five attribute points.
• Wang Chongyang and Cheng Shifei joined forces, but Zhu Ying’s True Qi wall stopped their strongest attacks and his counterattack grievously injured them.
• Wang Chongyang tried to strike Zhu Ying with One Yang Finger, but Zhu Ying returned the technique and left Wang Chongyang gravely wounded.
• The Dark Nether Two Elders launched one final Dark Nether Divine Palm, but Zhu Ying killed them with a wave of True Qi and gained two attribute points.

Zhu Ying killed Cheng Shifei, Wang Chongyang, and Qin Hui after defeating the Song Kingdom’s assassination attempt, then declared that the Grand Ming Empire would invade Song. The chapter ended as the Song Emperor learned that Ming forces had begun marching south.

• Cheng Shifei tried to escape Zhu Ying, then attacked him with the Indestructible Vajra Body, but Zhu Ying killed him with the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms.
• Zhu Ying killed Wang Chongyang, while Guo Zhen arrested Qin Hui and the Song officials accompanying him.
• Zhu Ying rejected Qin Hui’s offer to assassinate the Song Emperor and ordered Guo Zhen to behead him, then sent Qin Hui’s attendants back with his head and a warning of invasion.
• Zhu Ying chose the Song Kingdom as the Grand Ming Empire’s next target and ordered Lan Yu and Guo Zhen to prepare the Cavalry Battalion and Imperial Guards to march south in ten days.
• Qin Hui’s attendants delivered his severed head to the Song Emperor and reported Wang Chongyang’s death and Zhu Ying’s threat.
• A guard informed the Song Emperor that the Ming Army at the border had marched south.

The Grand Ming Empire’s army broke through the Song Kingdom’s Great Wall and rapidly conquered northern cities while Zhu Ying ordered its people treated well. As the Song Kingdom’s leaders and martial artists gathered to resist, Zhu Ying’s forces prepared to occupy the rest of the kingdom.

• The Song Emperor called officials and martial arts experts to the capital after learning that the Grand Ming Empire had invaded and Wang Chongyang and Qin Hui were dead.
• Guo Zhen led the Grand Ming army against Han Shizhong’s defenders, using pterosaurs and artillery to capture the Great Wall and inflict heavy losses.
• Zhu Ying ordered Guo Zhen to release the captured Song soldiers with travel money and continue toward the capital.
• Zhou Botong learned that Wang Chongyang had died and vowed revenge, while Guo Jing and Huang Rong set out for the capital to help defend Song Kingdom.
• The Grand Ming army captured more than a dozen northern cities, and Zhu Ying ordered his forces to treat the people kindly and improve their living conditions.
• Guo Zhen and Lan Yu reported that the army expected to occupy half of Song Kingdom within five days, and Zhu Ying reiterated that soldiers must not massacre cities.

Zhu Ying’s Grand Ming forces swept through the Song Kingdom while its martial arts experts and Emperor Zhao Gou prepared to defend the capital. As the Ming Kingdom debated assassinating Zhu Ying, the Song capital learned the invading army was close and saw the deadly power of its firearms firsthand.

• Song citizens rose against the court, while Guo Jing, Huang Rong, Zhou Botong, Hong Qigong, and other martial arts experts gathered in the palace to avenge Wang Chongyang and defend the kingdom.
• Wounded Han Shizhong reported that the Great Wall had fallen to the Grand Ming Empire’s cannons, flying troops, and firearms, and Zhao Gou ordered the regional armies to protect the capital.
• In the Multi-Martial-Arts World, Zhu Houzhao’s court debated how to counter the Grand Ming Empire, and Zhu Wushi and Cao Zhengchun argued over who should try to assassinate Zhu Ying.
• The Grand Ming army captured more than a dozen Song cities and advanced to within twenty li of the capital, where a dying messenger carried a bullet wound.
• Huang Rong removed the bullet and mistook it for an unfamiliar concealed weapon until Han Shizhong explained that Grand Ming soldiers used firearms to fire such metal projectiles.

Han Shizhong and the Song Kingdom’s martial arts masters tried to defend the capital against the Grand Ming Empire, but their forces were overwhelmed by modern weapons. Zhu Ying arrived above the city and confronted the masters, and Zhou Botong charged at him to avenge his senior brother.

• Zhao Gou ordered Han Shizhong to defend the capital with 300,000 troops, while Han Shizhong warned that the Song Kingdom had lost popular support and should surrender.
• Lan Yu led 20,000 cavalry to the capital, where Guo Jing’s attacks injured some riders but Han Shizhong’s 50,000 troops were nearly wiped out by gunfire.
• Guo Zhen brought Imperial Guards, Dinosaur Legion soldiers, and artillery to the capital, but Guo Jing and Hong Qigong used their True Qi to block two artillery barrages.
• Zhu Ying arrived with Wang Wei’s Pterosaur Army and flew up to confront the martial arts masters defending the city.
• Zhu Ying threatened to kill the gathered masters, and Zhou Botong charged at him to avenge his senior brother.

Zhu Ying overwhelmed the Song Kingdom’s martial arts experts, killing several renowned fighters and demonstrating that he could wield their own supreme techniques. By the chapter’s end, only Xu Zhu, Murong Fu, and Xiao Yuanshan remained on the city wall to face him.

• Zhou Botong’s Void Fist failed to injure Zhu Ying, and his Dual-Hand Technique duplicate could not turn the fight around.
• Huang Yaoshi and Hong Qigong joined Zhou Botong, but Zhu Ying’s One Yang Finger killed Huang Yaoshi and left the other two badly wounded; Zhu Ying then killed Huang Rong when she attacked him.
• Guo Jing charged Zhu Ying with the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, but Zhu Ying absorbed the attack with True Dragon Qi; Xiao Feng and Hong Qigong joined Guo Jing, and Zhu Ying killed all three with the One Yang Finger.
• Yang Guo attacked with the Melancholic Soul-Devouring Palm, but Zhu Ying used the same technique to kill him; Duan Yu’s Six Vein Divine Sword also failed, and Zhu Ying killed Duan Yu with it.
• Xu Zhu, Murong Fu, and Xiao Yuanshan remained atop the city wall as the last martial arts experts facing Zhu Ying.

Zhu Ying killed the Song Kingdom’s martial arts defenders and sent Lan Yu to take the capital, which fell to the Ming Army’s modern weapons. As Han Shizhong continued resisting and Zhao Gou tried to flee, Guo Zhen’s Imperial Guards captured the emperor.

• Xu Zhu, Xiao Yuanshan, and Murong Bo attacked Zhu Ying, who opened his martial arts domain and killed all three with golden lightning.
• Zhu Ying returned to the Ming camp, told the generals the Song Kingdom’s martial arts experts were dead, and ordered Lan Yu to breach the capital within an hour.
• Lan Yu’s cannons demolished the city walls, and his troops overwhelmed the Song defenders in the streets.
• Han Shizhong told Zhao Gou the Song Kingdom was defeated and urged him to escape, but Zhao Gou ordered him to keep fighting before secretly disguising himself to flee.
• Guo Zhen’s Imperial Guards blocked Zhao Gou’s escape route and captured him at the palace’s rear gate.

Zhu Ying captured the Song Kingdom’s capital, executed Zhao Gou, and offered Han Shizhong a chance to serve the Grand Ming Empire, but Han refused and was allowed to leave. The Ming armies conquered the rest of the Song Kingdom within five days, and Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao prepared to travel to its capital, which Zhu Ying planned to make their central hub in this Multi-Martial-Arts World.

• Lan Yu captured Han Shizhong, and the Song Kingdom’s capital surrendered to the Grand Ming Empire.
• Zhu Ying questioned Han Shizhong, then had the captured emperor Zhao Gou executed and ordered his head displayed on the city wall.
• Zhu Ying invited Han Shizhong to join the Grand Ming Empire, but Han refused and left with travel money.
• Zhu Ying ordered his generals to conquer the remaining Song Kingdom cities within ten days and summoned Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao to the capital.
• The Grand Ming armies occupied the entire Song Kingdom in five days, and Liu Lei reported the victory to Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao in Dadu.
• Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao agreed to travel to the Song Kingdom’s capital.

After the Grand Ming Empire conquered the Song Kingdom, Zhu Ying ordered modernization and prepared for revenge-seeking martial artists, while Ming Kingdom’s court debated how to face the threat. The chapter ended with Cao Zhengchun urging Zhu Wushi to lead Dragon Guard Manor’s experts in an assassination attempt against Zhu Ying.

• Zhu Wushi learned that the Grand Ming Empire had captured the Song Kingdom’s capital, and Shangguan Haitang and Duan Tianya urged him to strike first, but he refused.
• Zhu Ying ordered officials and scientists to modernize the former Song Kingdom, prioritizing water pipes, electricity, and people’s livelihoods.
• Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao arrived at the capital, and Zhu Ying assured them he would handle the martial artists expected to seek revenge.
• Xuanci ordered Shaolin’s disciples to march on the capital, while Xiaoyaozi, Wuyazi, Heavenly Mountain Child Elder, and other Carefree Sect experts set out to assassinate Zhu Ying.
• Zhu Houzhao questioned his officials about defending Ming Kingdom, rejected Zhu Wushi’s vague proposal, and heard Cao Zhengchun urge Zhu Wushi to attack Zhu Ying with Dragon Guard Manor’s experts.

Cixuan and three Shaolin monks attacked the Grand Ming capital to avenge the fallen Song Kingdom, but Zhu Ying confronted them and proved overwhelmingly powerful. After Zhu Ying’s Six Vein Divine Sword struck down Ci Neng, it hit Ci Hui and Ci Ming as well, leaving Cixuan to face him alone.

• Zhu Houzhao accepted Zhu Wushi’s plan to recruit martial artists to assassinate the Grand Ming imperial grandson.
• Cixuan and the Shaolin monks arrived at the Song capital and blasted a hole through its wall, injuring hundreds of Imperial Guards.
• Zhu Ying met Cixuan, who declared that the Shaolin monks had come to avenge the Song Kingdom and kill him.
• Cixuan, Ci Neng, Ci Hui, and Ci Ming attacked Zhu Ying, but his golden True Qi barrier repelled their strikes and wounded them.
• The four monks charged again, and Zhu Ying’s Six Vein Divine Sword pierced Ci Neng before another volley struck Ci Hui and Ci Ming.

Zhu Ying defeated and killed Cixuan and the other Shaolin monks after they refused to submit to the Ming Empire. He then confronted Xiaoyaozi and the Carefree Sect, whose members had come seeking revenge for the Song Kingdom.

• Cixuan unleashed three Great Vajra Palms at Zhu Ying, but Zhu Ying evaded them and struck him down with the same technique.
• Zhu Ying offered the four wounded Shaolin monks a choice between pledging loyalty and dying; they refused and tried to launch a final attack.
• Zhu Ying used his Martial Dao Domain to disrupt the monks' True Qi, killed all four, and wiped out the Shaolin disciples on the city wall.
• Xiaoyaozi saw Zhu Ying's strength and initially decided to withdraw with the Carefree Sect, but Zhu Ying exposed their hiding place.
• Xiaoyaozi led Li Qiushui, Heavenly Mountain Child Elder, Wuyazi, and the others out of the woods and declared that they had come to avenge the Song Kingdom; Zhu Ying challenged them.

Zhu Ying defeated and killed the Heavenly Mountain Child Elder after she challenged him to avenge Xu Zhu. As the remaining Carefree Sect masters opened their martial domains against him, Xiaoyaozi realized the sect faced annihilation and prepared to intervene.

• The Heavenly Mountain Child Elder attacked Zhu Ying alone while Xiaoyaozi and the other Carefree Sect masters watched to assess his strength.
• Zhu Ying used the Great Shift of Heaven and Earth to redirect her attacks, then struck her down with the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms.
• Zhu Ying trapped the Carefree Sect masters in his martial domain and killed the gravely wounded Heavenly Mountain Child Elder after overpowering her domain.
• Li Qiushui and Wuyazi opened their martial domains to resist Zhu Ying, while Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao watched anxiously from the city wall.
• Xiaoyaozi decided he could no longer hold back and prepared to fight Zhu Ying to prevent the Carefree Sect's destruction.

Zhu Ying defeated the Carefree Sect’s three leaders after they attacked him together, then drained their True Qi and turned them to dust. He returned to Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao, who praised his strength and discussed reaching the Supernatural Realm themselves.

• Xiaoyaozi unleashed his martial domain, while Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao worried about Zhu Ying and offered to intervene; Zhu Ying told them to stay back.
• Wuyazi and Li Qiushui attacked Zhu Ying together, but he used the Great Shift of Heaven and Earth to redirect their strikes without being hurt.
• Wuyazi and Li Qiushui attacked again alongside Xiaoyaozi, and Zhu Ying used True Dragon Qi and two palm techniques to knock all three back and grievously injure them.
• Xiaoyaozi, Wuyazi, and Li Qiushui made a final charge, but Zhu Ying used the Star-Absorbing Technique to drain their True Qi until they collapsed.
• Zhu Ying turned Xiaoyaozi, Wuyazi, and Li Qiushui to dust, then told Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao that the Carefree Sect would no longer threaten them.
• Zhu Yuanzhang praised Zhu Ying and said that he and Zhu Biao should strive to reach the Supernatural Realm.

After the Song Kingdom fell, Zhu Ying focused on consolidating and developing Song Prefecture and Jin Prefecture while ordering Lan Yu to purge the remaining forces. News of the conquest alarmed neighboring rulers, and Duan Zhengchun vowed that Dali would not submit after learning Duan Yu had been killed by Zhu Ying.

• Zhu Ying rejected immediate further expansion, arranged for Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao to cultivate in seclusion, and took charge of state affairs.
• Zhu Ying ordered development projects in Song Prefecture and Jin Prefecture, including public works, a railway, schools, and an academy, while assigning Lan Yu to eliminate remaining forces.
• Lan Yu's army destroyed the Song Kingdom's sects and stormed Shaolin Temple after its monks attacked; the Sweeping Monk then went to ask Patriarch Bodhidharma whether he could seek revenge.
• Jiumozhi and Golden Wheel Dharma King discussed the Song Kingdom's fall, but Jiumozhi chose to fortify the Tibetan Kingdom's border instead of pursuing an alliance.
• Duan Zhengming told Duan Zhengchun that Duan Yu had been killed by Zhu Ying, and Duan Zhengchun rejected submission and vowed revenge.

Zhu Houzhao learned that the Grand Ming Empire had destroyed the Song Kingdom and struggled to find a way to resist its advance. After Zhu Ying completed the occupation and development of Song Prefecture, he set his sights on the Ming Kingdom and brought Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao to its capital, where they headed for Dragon Guard Manor.

• Zhu Houzhao convened his court after learning that Zhu Ying had destroyed the Song Kingdom’s major sects, and Cao Zhengchun warned that the Ming Kingdom might be invaded.
• Zhu Wushi admitted that the Ming Kingdom had no answer to Zhu Ying’s strength, refused Cao Zhengchun’s suggestion to lead an assassination, and left the court.
• A month later, Qin Da reported that the Song-Jin Railway was complete, while other officials described progress on water pipes, electricity, and schools.
• Lan Yu reported that he had eliminated the bandits, gangs, and sects in Song Prefecture, and Zhu Ying announced that the Grand Ming Empire would continue its campaigns.
• Zhu Ying told Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao that the Ming Kingdom was the next target, then flew with them to its capital and took them toward Dragon Guard Manor.

Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Biao, and Zhu Ying visited Dragon Guard Manor, where Zhu Wushi recognized Zhu Yuanzhang as the Hongwu Emperor and agreed to persuade the Ming emperor to submit. Meanwhile, the Sweeping Monk set out to avenge Shaolin, while Zhu Ying began cultivating in hopes of breaking through.

• Zhu Wushi rejected Duan Tianya and the others’ plan to assassinate Zhu Ying, declaring that Ming Kingdom could not resist the Grand Ming Empire.
• Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Biao, and Zhu Ying arrived at Dragon Guard Manor on a Wind God Pterosaur, and Zhu Wushi recognized Zhu Yuanzhang as the Hongwu Emperor after Zhu Ying showed him visions of the Grand Ming Empire’s conquests.
• Zhu Wushi pledged allegiance to Zhu Yuanzhang and agreed to persuade Ming Kingdom’s emperor to submit.
• The Sweeping Monk consulted Patriarch Bodhidharma’s remains, resolved to seek revenge for Shaolin, and left for the Song Kingdom’s capital.
• Zhu Ying returned to the palace in Song Prefecture and entered the cultivation chamber to use the Grand Ming Empire’s national fortune to break through.

Zhu Ying entered seclusion to break through from the Supernatural Realm into the Aura Realm, while Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao watched. He succeeded and began testing his new power, but the resulting clash of aura dragons threatened the people nearby.

• Zhu Ying agreed to let Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao witness his breakthrough, while Liu Lei guarded the secret chamber.
• Zhu Ying gathered his True Qi as golden heat surrounded him and storms spread across the Multi-Martial-Arts World.
• Zhu Ying combined the True Dragon Qi and the Grand Ming Empire’s national strength with his True Qi, which transformed into Aura Qi.
• Zhu Ying released a powerful force and a tangible Giant Dragon, confirming that he had reached the Aura Realm.
• Zhu Ying shaped aura into another Giant Dragon, and the two dragons collided above the imperial palace, creating a storm and striking the onlookers with an invisible force.
• Zhu Biao urged Zhu Ying to stop demonstrating his aura before innocent people were hurt.

After Zhu Ying reached the Aura Realm, the Sweeping Monk and Patriarch Bodhidharma set out for Song Prefecture’s capital, each seeking to challenge him for their own reasons. Zhu Wushi urged Zhu Houzhao to submit Ming Kingdom to the Grand Ming Empire, but when the emperor refused, Zhu Wushi resolved to secretly aid the empire’s invasion.

• Zhu Ying absorbed the two Giant Dragons’ Aura, and Zhu Yuanzhang praised his new power.
• The Sweeping Monk sensed Zhu Ying’s breakthrough and continued toward the Grand Ming capital, determined to avenge Shaolin Temple.
• Patriarch Bodhidharma awakened in Shaolin Temple’s Scripture Repository and left to seek a chance to kill the Aura Realm expert and absorb his Aura.
• Zhu Wushi hurried to Zhu Houzhao and proposed that Ming Kingdom submit to the Grand Ming Empire, revealing that its emperor was Zhu Yuanzhang.
• Zhu Houzhao rejected surrender, and Zhu Wushi decided to secretly join the Grand Ming Empire and open the city gates to its army.