Recaps

Chen Sanshi discovered that the Daqing Empress, Shen Guiyi, was Gu Xinlan’s younger sister and learned that the Luotian Mountain Range threatened the whole world. After seeing immortals gather around the source of the baleful qi, he sent Gu Xinlan away with Shen Guiyi and received a pouch of spiritual energy.

• Chen Sanshi returned home, met Shen Guiyi, and learned that she was the Daqing Empress and Gu Xinlan’s younger sister, while Gu Xinlan recounted their family’s fall from power.
• Shen Guiyi warned Chen Sanshi that Liangzhou might become a wasteland, and he handled military affairs before refining medicine with almost all its toxins removed for his soldiers.
• Chen Sanshi visited Ningxiang, acquired Mysterious Iron, and learned that she and Zhaozhao were in danger from the Immortal Seeking Tower and wanted Sun Xiangzong’s protection.
• Chen Sanshi entered the Luotian Mountain Range, felled Ghost Vein Wood, hunted exotic beasts, and saw a column of baleful qi and many otherworldly immortals gathering near the Twelfth Mountain.
• Chen Sanshi returned and agreed to let Shen Guiyi take Gu Xinlan away for safety, leaving Duhe behind; Shen Guiyi gave him a pouch filled with dense Azure Profound Qi.

Chen Sanshi reached the Mystic Elephant Realm, forged a top-grade mystic Liquan Spear, and began cultivating with an inferior mixed spiritual root. After meeting Mei Xiao and receiving Azure Profound Qi for the mysterious pearl, he prepared to travel to the End of the World, recruited Ningxiang and Zhaozhao as companions, and began teaching them an immortal array.

• Chen Sanshi broke through to the Mystic Elephant Realm, gained the Breath of the Black Tortoise, and forged a top-grade mystic Liquan Spear.
• Fang Qingyun told Chen Sanshi that his master had approved his journey to the End of the World and arranged two companions for him.
• Mei Xiao met Chen Sanshi, added Azure Profound Qi to the mysterious pearl, and warned him about the meaning of immortals before vanishing.
• Chen Sanshi used a spirit stone to begin cultivating the Five Elements Art and discovered that he had an inferior mixed spiritual root.
• Ningxiang agreed to sign a Blood Contract, and Chen Sanshi redeemed her from the Crimson Sleeve Tower for two million taels so she and Zhaozhao could travel with him.
• Chen Sanshi began teaching Ningxiang and Zhaozhao an immortal array, and the System Panel displayed the Divine Ability Immortal Taming.

Chen Sanshi traveled south toward the Cultivation World, broke through to Qi Refining Layer 1, and learned that immortals were gathering near the coast. After a battle with Liangshan Marsh rebels, he reunited with Zhang Shun and reached Nanling Town, where he found a wanted poster for a fiend who had killed an immortal.

• Chen Sanshi practiced cultivation and the Three Flowers Gathering Spirit Formation during his journey, then learned Thick Earth Art and reached Qi Refining Layer 1.
• On Liangshan Marsh, Jin Zhaofu attacked Chen Sanshi’s ship, and Chen Sanshi killed him before Zhang Shun arrived and recognized his old friend.
• Zhang Shun told Chen Sanshi that an immortal had taken him as a disciple and warned him about immortals and a fiend who killed them in the southeast.
• Chen Sanshi continued south with Ningxiang, Mohua, and Qianxun, whose Horse Control skill revealed that it could open its spirit apertures and cultivate.
• In Nanling Town, Chen Sanshi heard reports of immortals and monsters, then saw a wanted poster for the fiend who had killed an immortal.

Chen Sanshi investigated the strange bounty and sudden abundance of exotic beasts in Nanling Town, then learned that a Spirit Vein Revival had drawn cultivators to seek a Pulse Spirit. He boarded a cultivator ship toward End of the World and discovered that the Ghost-Faced Devil was aboard, asking him to keep quiet about a killing.

• Chen Sanshi spotted disguised cultivators searching Nanling Town and found that its mountains and seas had recently begun producing valuable exotic beasts, including spirit beasts.
• A bearded cultivator seized the spirit fish Chen Sanshi wanted, and Chen Sanshi chose to leave town quickly rather than risk getting caught up in the cultivators' dispute.
• The Ghost-Faced Devil killed four cultivators who demanded the Pulse Spirit, while Chen Sanshi watched from a nearby roof.
• Mo Zhu explained that a Spirit Vein Revival had drawn cultivators to Nanling Town and that Chen Sanshi needed a cultivator ship to reach End of the World; Chen Sanshi paid him for directions and joined the midnight voyage with Ningxiang and Zhaozhao.
• On board the ship, Chen Sanshi sensed someone using martial arts gang qi to kill a passenger, and the Ghost-Faced Devil asked him to stay silent until they reached their destination.

Chen Sanshi reached the Cultivation World through an ancient Teleportation Array and separated from the suspicious group he traveled with. He found a poor village under the Nine Heavens Sect, took Li Ping'an as a disciple, and learned that spirit rice was paid as tax to the immortal sects.

• Chen Sanshi befriended Ghost Seven aboard the Walnut Boat, who revealed that he intended to destroy the spirit vein, then reached the End of the World with the other cultivators.
• Xu Youliang accepted a youth with Three Spiritual Roots as his disciple, while Mo Zhu explained how jade tokens and the Ancient Teleportation Array allowed travel to the Cultivation World.
• Chen Sanshi joined Lu Boqin and the other jade-token holders to use the array, but left their group after Lu Boqin forced Tang Ao to test the array's protection.
• The White Swan Horse, Qianxun, unexpectedly crossed through the array and appeared beside Chen Sanshi, who discovered that Beast Taming had become available in his System Panel.
• Chen Sanshi reached Little Stone Village, learned that the Nine Heavens Sect ruled the region and collected spirit rice, and accepted Li Ping'an as his disciple.

Chen Sanshi entered Great Marsh Market, learned how costly cultivation was, and chose to return to Liang Province with pills to advance his martial arts. As he left, a new seeker named Sinan was murdered for his jade token by Li Huizi, who had been preying on travelers.

• Chen Sanshi and Lu Boqin’s group paid Mo Zhu to guide them through the Lost Trail Formation into Great Marsh Market, where they registered and learned that surrendering jade tokens would sever their return to the Mortal World.
• Lu Boqin and the others exchanged their jade tokens for high-grade cave mansion rights, while Chen Sanshi kept his and sought ways to earn Spirit Stones.
• Chen Sanshi bought four Meridian Nourishing Pills, left the market, and used one to advance his Dragon Spear of the Nation technique to Mystic Elephant mastery in Little Stone Village.
• Chen Sanshi gave Li Ping'an a complete sword manual, promised to return in a few years, and rode Qianxun back toward Liang Province.
• Sinan traveled toward the Cultivation World with Li Huizi, who killed him and took his jade token after learning of his Heavenly Grade Lightning Spiritual Root and Supreme Bone.
• Li Huizi and his accomplice prepared to divide Sinan’s jade token, but the Ancient Teleportation Array lit up as another person arrived.

Chen Sanshi and his companions returned to the Cultivation World, where he killed two cultivators who tried to rob him, sold their jade plaques, and bought alchemy supplies before preparing to leave. At End of the World, Ghost Seven forced Chen Sanshi to help destroy a newly revived spirit vein, and the chapter ended with the spirit pearl absorbing much of its power.

• Li Huizi and Tree Daoist ambushed Chen Sanshi for his jade token, but he defeated them with repeated spells and martial attacks, then found two jade plaques and a damaged flying dagger on their bodies.
• Chen Sanshi sold the jade plaques to Xu Youliang for spirit stones, bought an alchemy furnace, pill formulas and materials, and a Storage Bag, then returned to End of the World with Ningxiang, Zhaozhao, and Qianxun.
• Cultivators sealed off End of the World while searching for Ghost Seven, who appeared beside Chen Sanshi, took Zhaozhao hostage, and ordered Chen Sanshi to use a bead and talisman to locate a spirit vein.
• Chen Sanshi followed the bead to a valley and activated it inside a barrier, causing a grand formation to revive the spirit vein and then destroy it.
• The Pulse Spirit crumbled as the formation ended, and the spirit pearl returned to Chen Sanshi carrying enough of the vein's power to be equivalent to a first-tier spirit vein.

Chen Sanshi and Ningxiang escaped the End of the World aboard Ghost Seven’s Spirit Boat while Sun Xiangzong fought the cultivators pursuing him. Trapped in Nanling Town, Chen recognized Emperor Longqing, who set out for the Cultivation World and was caught in a trick that left him stranded in the fog.

• Sun Xiangzong revealed himself as the Human Realm Guardian Envoy, destroyed the giant sword and the attacking cultivators, then entered the Great Marsh Market Teleportation Array to draw pursuit away from Chen Sanshi and the others.
• Chen Sanshi and Ningxiang fought off cultivators who attacked them in the valley, then escaped with Zhaozhao and Qianxun on Ghost Seven’s Spirit Boat.
• After reaching Southern Xu, Chen Sanshi and his companions became trapped in Nanling Town while the authorities searched for Sun Xiangzong.
• Emperor Longqing left the capital in disguise and traveled to Nanling Town, where Chen Sanshi recognized the Dragon Abyss Sword but concealed his identity.
• Emperor Longqing paid a young cultivator to take him toward the End of the World, but the Spirit Boat vanished in the fog and left him facing an approaching vessel.

Chen Sanshi returned to Liangzhou after Sun Xiangzong used a Jade Talisman to reinforce the seal over the Eastern Continent and drive the cultivators away. Back home, Chen Sanshi reunited with Chen Yunxi, read Gu Xinlan’s letters, and learned that Hongze Camp had reached full strength and was ready for training before the grasslands campaign.

• Chen Sanshi escaped Nanling Town with the Ningxiang while Emperor Longqing fought the Nine Heavens Sect cultivators at sea.
• Cao Kai joined Sun Xiangzong, and the two old friends prepared to fight their way out of Great Marsh Market as Chen Sanshi cultivated his Body Protecting Gang Qi to minor success in the Mystic Elephant Realm.
• Fan Shuzhen and Fan Jiaxiao learned their spiritual-root grades, while Sun Xiangzong confronted the cultivators and used a Jade Talisman to repair the Eastern Continent’s seal.
• Sun Xiangzong’s Jade Talisman trapped and killed cultivators as it reinforced the seal, then shattered after the upper sect’s Ancestor failed to stop it; Sun Xiangzong escaped the surrounding army.
• Chen Sanshi returned to Liangzhou, found Chen Yunxi safe, read Gu Xinlan’s letters, and learned from intelligence reports that Hongze Camp had reached its full strength of fifteen thousand men.

Chen Sanshi returned from seclusion, took command of Hongze Camp, and resisted efforts to remove his Poyang veterans as the court tightened its control over the Northern Liang Army. As the grassland campaign approached, news arrived that Xu Wencai had conquered Wei, and Chen Sanshi began strengthening his own officers with Spirit Grain before leading his troops to the Great Wall.

• Chen Sanshi returned to Hongze Camp, announced that he had reached minor accomplishment in the Mystic Elephant Realm, and joined preparations for the grand muster.
• Wang Zhi told Chen Sanshi that the court had broken up the Eight Great Camps and reassigned many of their commanders and soldiers.
• Chen Sanshi ordered Deputy General Chu Shixiong to keep the Poyang veterans in Hongze Camp and refused to let them be transferred to Tianlang Camp.
• The grand muster assembled fourteen camps and 210,000 soldiers, while news arrived that Xu Wencai had captured Wei's capital and taken its emperor prisoner.
• Fang Qingyun told Chen Sanshi about Master’s expedition to a battlefield beneath a Far North glacier and hinted that Chen would have to shoulder the Eight Great Camps’ future.
• Chen Sanshi gave Spirit Grain-enhanced tonics to the Poyang officers and set cultivation targets for them before leading Hongze Camp to the Great Wall, where Xia Cong reported that more than 400,000 troops from the four barbarian tribes faced their 200,000-man army.

Chen Sanshi investigated the silent killings of sect disciples and discovered that the sect masters, including Wen Zhi and Shao Yujing, had been controlled and turned against their own people. As Wen Zhi fled after briefly resisting his control, beacon fires signaled a barbarian attack and Liangzhou erupted into chaos.

• Chen Sanshi refined Grain Abstinence Pills, then entered the Luotian Mountain Range, sensed a reviving baleful vein, killed a poisonous beast and the Zouwu, and returned to Liangzhou.
• After Chen Sanshi visited Sun Li, Wen Zhi went berserk over his second son's death, and Chen Sanshi confronted Shao Yujing about the sects' past abuses before beginning an investigation.
• Chen Sanshi searched the sects and, suspecting the leaders were responsible for the silent deaths, secretly arranged to watch Wen ChengRui's room.
• Wen Zhi attacked Wen ChengRui with a Vajra Pestle, and Chen Sanshi fought him as other controlled sect masters attacked their disciples, including Shao Yujing attacking Lu Ji.
• Wen Zhi briefly regained control, begged Chen Sanshi to preserve Cleaving Moon Villa's last inheritance, and fled as beacon fires announced an enemy attack and turmoil across Liangzhou.

Chen Sanshi helped repel a barbarian raid on Fengxi Village, then joined Northern Liang’s generals in deciding to attack the grasslands ahead of schedule. As Sun Xiangzong’s health failed, he gathered his disciples to settle their affairs, gave Chen Sanshi a spirit vein and the Dragon Gallant Bright Silver Spear, and entrusted the coming war to them.

• Chen Sanshi led troops to Fengxi Village, killed the invading Barbarian Cavalry, and remained at the Great Wall as scouts reported enemy camps along the northern frontier.
• After unrest among Liangzhou’s sects was suppressed, Cao Huan convened the generals, and they agreed to prepare for a campaign against the grasslands in one month, beginning with Tiger Hill Mountain.
• Sun Xiangzong appeared at a family gathering looking gravely aged, corrected his disciples’ martial arts, and gave them gifts and personal instructions.
• Sun Xiangzong named Chen Sanshi as the recipient of a spirit vein, cultivation techniques beyond Martial Saint, and the Dragon Gallant Bright Silver Spear, while asking him to care for Sun Buqi and Sun Li.
• Chen Sanshi openly asked to marry Sun Li, and Sun Xiangzong told Lu Ji that the cultivation method he had sought had been buried beneath a memorial stele for ten years.
• Sun Xiangzong announced that he could no longer fight and left the coming war to his disciples.

Chen Sanshi broke through to Great Accomplishment of Mystic Elephant, then led eight hundred light cavalry to attack the Yuwen Tribe’s camp at Tiger Hill Mountain after learning the barbarians had concentrated their main force in Youzhou. He left Cao Huan shocked by his decision as his men charged into the enemy camp under heavy snow.

• Lu Ji learned that Sun Xiangzong had passed the Dragon Gallant Bright Silver Spear and a higher technique to Chen Sanshi, then resolved to prove himself in the coming war.
• Chen Sanshi refined a good-quality Meridian Nourishing Pill, freed Ningxiang from her contract, and watched her swear a Heavenly Dao Oath to serve as his Dao protector.
• Chen Sanshi reached Great Accomplishment of Mystic Elephant and mastered the Martial Saint Realm technique before setting out to scout Tiger Hill Mountain with eight hundred light cavalry.
• Chen Sanshi learned that the barbarians had sent one hundred and fifty thousand troops to attack Youzhou while leaving roughly forty thousand outside Liangzhou, and suspected their plans involved the Luotian Mountain Range.
• Chen Sanshi’s scouts discovered twenty thousand elite troops at Tiger Hill Mountain under Yuwen Chengzhao, while Yuwen Chengzhao and his generals discussed a plan to use Youzhou and a Blood Sacrifice Grand Array against Liangzhou.
• Chen Sanshi ordered his eight hundred light cavalry to charge the enemy camp and sent Bluebird to summon Hongze Camp, while Cao Huan received the news and was stunned.

Chen Sanshi led eight hundred light cavalry to raid Yuwen Chengzhao’s camp at Tiger Hill Mountain, where he killed three great generals and slaughtered the barbarian army until ten thousand survivors surrendered. Cao Zhi and Wang Zhi arrived with Hongze Camp and found Tiger Hill Mountain already captured, its banners replaced by Sheng and Chen.

• Cao Huan ordered Hongze Camp to ride for Tiger Hill Mountain, and Cao Zhi joined the expedition while Chen Sanshi was away leading eight hundred scouts.
• Chen Sanshi killed Haribari and Tengger, then fought through the encircled camp as his cavalry attacked from the flanks.
• Chen Sanshi killed Daria Chi, disarmed and captured Yuwen Chengzhao, and demanded that the twenty thousand barbarians surrender.
• The barbarians tried to flee, but Chen Sanshi and the eight hundred cavalry trapped them and slaughtered them through the night until the survivors surrendered.
• Cao Zhi and Wang Zhi reached Tiger Hill Mountain and found the camp captured, its banners changed to Sheng and Chen, and the barbarian prisoners marching toward Great Sheng.

After Chen Sanshi’s victory at Tiger Hill Mountain, a blizzard and a blood-sacrifice formation threatened Liangzhou, while the emperor and Sun Xiangzong fought to stop the baleful vein’s revival. The chapter ended with Liangzhou sealed off and Chen Sanshi and Lu Ji’s three camps facing 150,000 barbarians near Youzhou.

• Cao Zhi learned that Chen Sanshi and eight hundred scouts had defeated the Tiger Hill Mountain garrison, and Chen Sanshi urged Liangzhou to send two more battalions beyond the Great Wall despite the worsening blizzard.
• Yuwen Jingwen learned that Chen Sanshi had captured Yuwen Chengzhao, while Cao Huan’s council ordered Lu Ji to lead the Xuanwu Camp and White Tiger Camp north to join Chen Sanshi.
• At Twelfth Mountain, Sun Xiangzong and Cao Kai attacked the Witch God Cult and Ancient Demon cultivators, but the Blood Sacrifice Grand Array blocked the Spirit Extinguishing Great Formation and trapped them beneath a barrier.
• Sun Xiangzong determined that the formation’s other cores lay near Langjuxu Mountain and Zhuotuo Pass, and Emperor Longqing sent orders for the army to seek the gate of life at Youzhou.
• The blood mist spread around Liangzhou and dissolved a soldier who touched it, while Cao Huan realized that only Chen Sanshi and Lu Ji’s three camps stood outside the barrier against 150,000 barbarians.

After Liangzhou was trapped by the Blood Sacrifice Grand Array, Chen Sanshi rejected the order to reinforce Youzhou and led Hongze Camp toward the Barbarian Capital, betting that destroying the main array core would save more lives. The chapter ended with news of his defiance reaching Liangzhou City as Lu Ji led the other two camps toward Youzhou.

• The Blood Sacrifice Grand Array sealed Liangzhou, and Lu Ji and Nie Yuan learned that arrows could carry messages through the barrier.
• Chen Sanshi received intelligence that Youzhou had fallen and argued that marching on the Barbarian Capital was a better way to stop the sacrifice than attacking Zhuotuo Pass.
• Lu Ji received the emperor’s decree to go to Youzhou, but Chen Sanshi ordered Hongze Camp to turn north and attack the Barbarian Capital.
• Hongze Camp’s soldiers and deputy generals chose to follow Chen Sanshi, and Cao Zhi pledged to share the consequences of his defiance.
• Lu Ji and Nie Yuan led the remaining two camps toward Youzhou as Chen Sanshi’s force entered the northern desert.
• Cao Huan received a report that Chen Sanshi had defied the imperial order and was marching on the Barbarian Capital.

Chen Sanshi led Hongze Camp deep into the Northern Desert, aiming to destroy the formation eye on Langjuxu Mountain and save Liang Province. After capturing Frost City for supplies, he prepared to cross the Agate River despite Yuwen Jingwen’s overwhelming forces, leaving the story with his army poised to fight with its back to the river.

• Cao Huan and Emperor Longqing learned that Chen Sanshi had defied orders and marched north, while Chen Sanshi’s letter explained his plan and Emperor Longqing ordered Lu Ji to attack Zhuotuo Pass.
• Chen Sanshi explained his strategy to Cao Zhi and captured Frost City, where Duan Zhe fled with his troops and Chen Sanshi’s arrow nearly killed Murong Chao before Hongze Camp routed the defenders.
• Chen Sanshi told his officers he would seize Yuwen Jingwen’s stronghold, then secretly assigned Wang Zhi two thousand soldiers to cross the Agate River and await a signal to attack the stronghold.
• Chen Sanshi failed in his first attempt to refine a True Martial Pill, caught up with Hongze Camp, and continued north while rejecting repeated appeals to turn back.
• After learning that Yuwen Jingwen had gathered more than one hundred thousand troops near the Agate River, Chen Sanshi ordered his army to build a pontoon bridge and announced that they would fight with their backs to the river.

Chen Sanshi led Hongze Camp across the Agate River, destroyed the pontoon bridge, and committed his fifteen thousand soldiers to a desperate battle against Yuwen Jingwen’s vastly larger army. As Wang Zhi seized the barbarian camp, Hongze Camp held its formation under heavy losses, and Chen Sanshi and Yuwen Jingwen prepared to settle the battle by killing each other.

• Yuwen Jingwen gathered nearly a hundred thousand troops to stop Chen Sanshi at Agate River, while Cao Huan and Lu Ji learned that Chen had refused to turn back.
• Lu Ji entered Youzhou with a thousand Elite Assault Army soldiers, broke the barbarian garrison at the Great Wall breach, and joined the other Sheng forces.
• Chen Sanshi crossed Agate River with Hongze Camp, ordered the pontoon bridge destroyed, and formed his army on the riverbank despite Chu Shixiong’s doubts.
• Yuwen Jingwen led his army out to fight Chen Sanshi, while Wang Zhi attacked and captured the barbarian main camp, killing Magatala.
• Hongze Camp’s formation and combat traits helped its soldiers withstand the larger force, and Chen Sanshi and Yuwen Jingwen turned toward one another for a decisive duel.

Chen Sanshi defeated and killed the Martial Saint Yuwen Jingwen, then led Hongze Camp to victory at Agate River. After honoring the fallen and rallying his soldiers, he marched into the desert toward Langjuxu Mountain while a blue bird carried Yuwen Jingwen’s head toward Liangzhou.

• Chen Sanshi used his spells, strange flames, spear, and sword to exhaust and kill Yuwen Jingwen in a prolonged battle, then captured Yuwen Xin with Cao Zhi’s help.
• Chen Sanshi returned to the battlefield with Yuwen Jingwen’s head, and the barbarian army broke into a rout after learning their commander was dead and their main camp had fallen.
• Hongze Camp killed over twenty thousand enemy soldiers, suffered two thousand casualties, and secured a decisive victory at Agate River.
• Chen Sanshi addressed his exhausted troops, vowed to eliminate the barbarian tribes south of Yin Mountain, and ordered them to march toward Langjuxu Mountain.
• Hongze Camp crossed the Agate River stronghold and disappeared into the desert, while a blue bird carried Yuwen Jingwen’s frozen head toward Liangzhou.

Chen Sanshi’s Hongze Camp advanced toward Yin Mountain after he slew Yuwen Jingwen, while Lü Ji’s army captured Licheng Prefecture but struggled against an Ancient Demon cultivator. As the Blood Sacrifice Grand Array neared completion, Lu Ji prepared to use the Evil God Path to grow stronger, and Chen Sanshi refined a True Martial Pill that brought him close to becoming a Martial Saint.

• Tuoba Deyu found densely packed corpses at Agate River and sent urgent word to the capital, where Cao Huan and Emperor Longqing learned that Chen Sanshi had killed Yuwen Jingwen and was marching toward Yin Mountain.
• Lü Ji’s forces captured Licheng Prefecture, but an Ancient Demon cultivator defeated Lü Ji and escaped after Fan Hailing and Pei Tiannan joined the fight.
• Lu Ji decided to sacrifice captured Barbarian soldiers through the Evil God Path to hasten his Incense Godhood breakthrough before the battle at Zhuotuo Pass.
• The Daqing Empress agreed to go to Langjuxu Mountain and try to save Duhe, while the Barbarian khans began preparing their forces to stop Chen Sanshi.
• Chen Sanshi had Yuwen Xin persuade a small Yuwen camp to surrender, then refined and swallowed a True Martial Pill that strengthened his meridians and brought his Martial Saint breakthrough closer.

Chen Sanshi broke through to the Martial Saint Realm and led Hongze Camp toward the barbarians’ main array eye, while the Northern Liang Army fought desperately to reach the auxiliary array eye at Zhuotuo Pass. As the Blood Sacrifice Grand Array neared completion, Emperor Longqing revealed he had withheld a way to escape and asked Sun Xiangzong for the Spirit Extinguishing Great Formation.

• Chen Sanshi fused the Four Symbols Divine Beasts with his spear and body, becoming a Martial Saint with battle intent that grew stronger the longer he fought.
• Cao Huan ordered Liangzhou’s soldiers and civilians to evacuate toward the Luotian Mountain Range as the blood mist descended, while Yuwen Xin returned to Langjuxu Mountain and reported Chen Sanshi’s threat.
• The Empress of Daqing tried to persuade Chen Sanshi to leave, but he explained that the common people had paid for the army’s protection and chose to stay and fight.
• Chen Sanshi formed Hongze Camp into the Great Snow Dragon Cavalry Heavenly Gate Formation as the barbarian army charged, while Lu Ji and the Northern Liang Army fought to destroy the auxiliary array eye near Zhuotuo Pass.
• Lu Ji broke through with the Evil God Path and defeated one Ancient Demon cultivator, but Wen Ji stopped him near the array eye and the Northern Liang forces became surrounded as the blood mist neared the ground.
• Emperor Longqing admitted he had kept an escape method within the Dragon Abyss Sword and asked Sun Xiangzong to use the Spirit Extinguishing Great Formation, but Sun Xiangzong said it was too late and demanded the emperor surrender the formation and his other possessions.

Chen Sanshi led Hongze Camp through the barbarian army with the Great Snow Dragon Cavalry formation and reached the altar atop Langjuxu Mountain after slaying more than ten thousand enemies. He killed the barbarian Martial Saints who tried to stop him and advanced toward the Witch God Cult High Priest as the Blood Sacrifice Grand Array neared completion.

• Chen Sanshi completed the Ice and Snow Giant Dragon formation, and Hongze Camp charged through the storm as avalanches devastated the barbarian army.
• Chen Sanshi killed Murong Huatuo with a single spear strike, while Hongze Camp overpowered the Iron Pagoda and drove into the enemy ranks.
• Chen Sanshi fought four barbarian Martial Saints, killed the dual-blade Martial Saint, and pressed on toward Langjuxu Mountain as the Blood Sacrifice Grand Array neared completion.
• The Witch God Cult High Priest unleashed Black Mist that drove the barbarian soldiers into a frenzy, but Chen Sanshi cleared a path through them and reached the altar after slaying more than ten thousand enemies.
• Three barbarian Martial Saints attacked Chen Sanshi at the altar, and he killed them before advancing toward the Witch God Cult High Priest.

Chen Sanshi destroyed the Blood Sacrifice Grand Array’s main formation eye at Langjuxu Mountain, saving Liangzhou and defeating the invading barbarians. Hongze Camp sealed Wolf Ju Xu, the four barbarian khans submitted to Great Sheng, and the surviving tribes retreated north under a pact never to invade again.

• Chen Sanshi and Hongze Camp broke through to the altar at Langjuxu Mountain, where Chen destroyed the formation eye and killed the Witch God Cult High Priest.
• Lu Ji invoked a shrine’s power and damaged the auxiliary array core, opening a brief gate of life, but the gate closed before he could reach Liangzhou.
• The blood mist stopped and receded, saving Liangzhou’s people; Emperor Longqing then fought alongside Lu Ji and sealed the baleful vein as the barbarian army collapsed.
• Chen Sanshi confronted the voices beyond the seal, killed the High Priest, and routed the remaining barbarian forces; the four barbarian khans surrendered to him.
• After Hongze Camp rested, Chen Sanshi performed the Seal Wolf Ju Xu rite at Langjuxu Mountain and the Abdicate in the Barbarian Capital rite, and the four tribes signed a pact never to invade Great Sheng again.

Chen Sanshi returned to Liangzhou after destroying the Blood Sacrifice Grand Array and forcing the barbarian tribes to submit, earning immense fame but stirring suspicion at court. Sun Xiangzong then offered him a choice between leaving to live in seclusion or staying in Liangzhou to face the troubles ahead.

• Wen Zhi and Shao Yujing killed Immortal Master Deng, the Witch God Cult High Priest, and the remaining enemies after Emperor Longqing and Sun Xiangzong sealed the baleful vein.
• Reports confirmed that Chen Sanshi had destroyed the formation eye, defeated the barbarian forces, and secured the surrender of the four tribes; Lu Ji and Chen Sanshi's allies learned that he had survived.
• Emperor Longqing received Hongze Camp's battle report and ordered Yan Liang to consider Chen Sanshi's reward, while privately worrying about Sun Xiangzong's deception and Chen Sanshi's growing power.
• The Daqing Empress told Gu Xinlan that Chen Sanshi was alive and suggested bringing him to Daqing as an imperial son-in-law; Chen Sanshi installed Yuwen Xin as Great Khan before leading Hongze Camp south.
• Chen Sanshi returned to Liangzhou, honored the fallen soldiers, and was welcomed by the people before visiting Sun Xiangzong at the Governor's Mansion.
• Sun Xiangzong offered Chen Sanshi two choices: leave Liangzhou and live in seclusion, or stay, lead his soldiers, and face future troubles.

Chen Sanshi received Sun Xiangzong’s Dragon Gallant Bright Silver Spear and instruction in the True Force Realm before marrying Sun Li. In the capital, Emperor Longqing’s ministers debated how to reward Chen Sanshi while preventing him from gaining lasting control over Northern Liang, and decided to grant him the title Marquis Champion and bring him to the capital.

• Chen Sanshi agreed to remain in Liangzhou, and Sun Xiangzong urged him to marry Sun Li before the old man’s death.
• Sun Xiangzong presented the Dragon Gallant Bright Silver Spear to Chen Sanshi before the Northern Liang Army and hosted officials who pledged to support Chen Sanshi’s appointment as Governor-General.
• Sun Xiangzong gave Chen Sanshi the Dragon Scripture and spiritual pearls, explained the True Force Realm, and warned him that Emperor Longqing and other cultivators posed future dangers.
• Chen Sanshi and Sun Li married, and he began cultivating with a spiritual pearl and studying the Dragon Scripture.
• Emperor Longqing’s ministers debated Chen Sanshi’s reward and the risks of letting him command Northern Liang; Yan Liang proposed giving him a marquisate and transferring him to the capital.
• Emperor Longqing approved the plan and chose the title Marquis Champion for Chen Sanshi.