Chapter Summaries

Chen Sanshi escaped the collapsing secret realm with Jiang Xiyue, resisted the Witch’s attempt to bind them with Love Poison, and fought off cultivators who accused him of harming her. He reached the Great Han Military Camp and found the soldiers in mourning, leaving him to discover what had happened during his absence.

• Chen Sanshi repaired the damaged Teleportation Array while the secret realm collapsed, and the Witch used Love Poison in an attempt to make him and Jiang Xiyue Life and Death Linked.
• Chen Sanshi used the Great Compassion Womb Soul Suppressing Bell to dispel the poison, then carried the unconscious Jiang Xiyue through the array to Yufang Mountain.
• True Person Jiuhuan and other cultivators accused Chen Sanshi of harming Jiang Xiyue, so Chen Sanshi revealed his disguise as Lu Shengzhi and claimed he had killed him.
• Zinan gave Chen Sanshi a Storage Bag of jade-forged arrows, which he used to repel the cultivators before fleeing toward the Great Han Military Camp.
• Chen Sanshi arrived at the camp and found its officers and soldiers dressed in mourning white, then asked Little Bamboo what had happened.

Chen Sanshi learned that Xu Wencai had died from divining the Heavenly Machine and realized Cao Xie was trying to reach the Eastern Continent. As Chen rushed back to protect his family, Cao Xie broke through the Nascent Soul cultivators guarding the Ancient Teleportation Array and entered the Eastern Continent.

• Chen Sanshi mourned Xu Wencai, learned his divinations had cost him his life, and suspected the danger foretold by Huohuo Guarding Heart had not passed.
• Qi Cheng began cultivating Xu Wencai’s Heluo True Explanation to forge a Heluo Chessboard and help Great Han divine the Heavenly Machine.
• Qi Cheng reported that Cao Xie was fighting Nascent Soul cultivators in Beiyang Dao and trying to enter Great Han, so Chen ordered the cultivators to assemble and raced back toward the Eastern Continent.
• Cao Xie fought Wang Shouzhi, Shen Junzhuo, and True Lord Lianhua at the Ancient Teleportation Array, wielding an Ultimate Divine Ability and his Odd Gates formation.
• Cao Xie evaded the three cultivators, activated the Ancient Teleportation Array with a jade token, and teleported into the Eastern Continent.

Cao Xie broke through the Heaven and Earth Seal at Mang Mountain and unleashed his power against the Great Han soldiers, while Old Man Li led the Hongze veterans against him. Chen Sanshi reconsidered his reckless return, chose Guiyuan Sect as the target for his plan to use All Laws Forbidden, and left the ambush waiting at the gorge to strike the sect instead.

• Cao Xie crashed onto Mang Mountain, killed thousands of soldiers, and used the Two Forms Sky Covering Plate to establish a barrier that let him unleash his cultivation.
• Old Man Li led the Hongze Camp veterans in a charge against Cao Xie, but Cao Xie destroyed the troops and spared the old general.
• Chen Sanshi calmed himself, resolved to use the Spirit Extinguishing Great Formation to activate All Laws Forbidden, and chose Guiyuan Sect as his target.
• Chen Sanshi ordered Bluebird to notify the army to march on Guiyuan Sect and changed course toward the sect.
• Huang Lao Jiu, True Person Fengzhi, and Guiyuan Sect’s other leaders prepared a Lightning Tribulation Great Formation to ambush Chen Sanshi at the gorge.
• Guiyuan Sect’s disciple reported that Chen Lei had avoided the gorge and was heading straight for the sect.

Chen Sanshi attacked Guiyuan Sect, destroyed Jinyu Peak’s spirit vein, and fought the returning sect elders. Huang Lao Jiu joined the battle and revealed he had prepared a countermeasure, leaving the clash unresolved.

• Chen Sanshi exposed himself to Lin Cangwu, declared that he would wipe out Guiyuan Sect, and killed the elder in a surprise attack.
• Chen Sanshi activated the Spirit Extinguishing Great Formation, killed Jinyu Peak’s Pulse Spirit, and destroyed its spirit vein.
• Huang Lao Jiu returned with Guiyuan Sect’s cultivators, and Murong Chu, True Person Fengzhi, and Helian Shan attacked Chen Sanshi.
• Murong Chu activated the Nine Heavens Golden Light Sword Formation, but Chen Sanshi defended against its swords and fought back against the three Golden Core cultivators.
• Huang Lao Jiu struck Chen Sanshi with the Qingming Nine-Toothed Rake, but Chen Sanshi burned through Huang Lao Jiu’s Vine Armor Shield and resisted his wood spells.
• Huang Lao Jiu said he had come prepared, leaving his next move unrevealed.

Chen Sanshi endured the Guiyuan Sect elders’ assault until the Great Han army arrived and broke through the sect’s defenses. As Huang Lao Jiu transformed into a half-demon and overpowered him again, Chen Sanshi summoned the Imperial Seal and gathered thousands of Official Seals into the Jade Emperor Sky-Turning Seal.

• Huang Lao Jiu, Murong Chu, Fengzhi, and Helian Shan joined forces and repeatedly wounded Chen Sanshi, while Huang Lao Jiu condemned his devotion to mortal ties.
• Chen Sanshi revealed that reinforcements were coming, used a Great Compassion Womb Soul Suppressing Bell to drive Huang Lao Jiu back, and shattered Murong Chu’s formation token.
• Qi Cheng led Tianyong City’s immortal officials and soldiers into battle, and their fire-powered army overwhelmed the Guiyuan Sect disciples.
• Huang Lao Jiu bound the Soul Suppressing Bell, fused with the Crimson Wutong Bronze Wood, and sent Chen Sanshi crashing into a cliff despite Chen’s Burning Blood Tribulation.
• Chen Sanshi produced the Imperial Seal as more than ten thousand Official Seals gathered around it, forming the Map of the Nation and its Altars and empowering the Jade Emperor Sky-Turning Seal.

Chen Sanshi defeated True Person Fengqi and helped destroy the Guiyuan Sect while rushing back toward the Eastern Continent. After learning that the Three Great Sects might block him, he accepted a mysterious stranger’s route to an Ancient Teleportation Array and activated it, despite suspecting the stranger was helping Cao Xie lure him to his death.

• Chen Sanshi used the Jade Emperor Sky-Turning Seal to defeat True Person Fengqi, who died after warning the others to run.
• True Person Fengzhi and Helian Shan tried to hold off Chen Sanshi, but Chen Sanshi killed them and then impaled the fleeing Murong Chu.
• Chen Sanshi left Qi Cheng to finish occupying the Guiyuan Sect and flew toward the Eastern Continent.
• Shen Junzhuo, True Lord Lianhua, and Wang Shouzhi discussed stopping Chen Sanshi from returning, while Wang Shouzhi secretly activated a talisman.
• Chen Sanshi prepared to reach Beiyang Dao, but a mysterious man redirected him to an abandoned Blessed Land with an Ancient Teleportation Array.
• Chen Sanshi suspected the mysterious man was helping Cao Xie, but stepped onto the array and activated it anyway.

Chen Sanshi confronted Cao Xie at Mang Mountain, where the Common People Praying to Heaven Bead unleashed All Laws Forbidden and stripped them of their cultivation. Their fight continued with weapons and martial techniques alone, and Chen Sanshi’s injuries left him at a growing disadvantage.

• The Ancient Teleportation Array sent Chen Sanshi to Mang Mountain, while Shen Junzhuo and the others feared he was heading into certain death.
• Cao Xie confronted Chen Sanshi beneath the Two Forms Sky Covering Plate and offered to spare him if he surrendered Great Han’s Imperial Seal and Common People Praying to Heaven Bead.
• Cao Xie attacked, but Chen Sanshi activated All Laws Forbidden, nullifying their cultivation, spells, and magical weapons.
• Chen Sanshi and Cao Xie fought through the rain with swords and spear, and Chen Sanshi realized Cao Xie had mastered his Ultimate Divine Ability.
• Chen Sanshi’s injuries worsened, allowing Cao Xie to wound his shoulder, strike his chest, and knock away the Dragon Abyss Sword.

Chen Sanshi fought Cao Xie on a rain-soaked cliff and turned the battle around after realizing Cao Xie feared his potential and doubted his own Ultimate Divine Ability. Chen Sanshi defeated Cao Xie with a newly awakened spear intent and left him at his mercy.

• Cao Xie pressed his attack while Chen Sanshi, gravely wounded and stripped of his traits by All Laws Forbidden, struggled to defend himself near the cliff.
• Chen Sanshi accused Cao Xie of fearing that he would eventually surpass him, and Cao Xie’s hesitation revealed that the accusation had struck home.
• Chen Sanshi challenged Cao Xie to face his inner demon, disrupting his sword technique and creating an opening for a counterattack.
• Chen Sanshi displayed supreme spear intent and overwhelmed Cao Xie, landing several wounds before knocking him into the mud and pressing the spear to his throat.
• Cao Xie accepted his defeat and asked whether he had only grasped the surface of Ultimate Divine Ability, and Chen Sanshi explained that doubt had undone his stolen technique.

Su Yao and Zhao Lei traveled to the Northern Wasteland Snow Region to stop a force of law-infused ice that was freezing the land. After defeating an Ice Soul Dragon and an ancient sealed Ice Cultivator, they restored the region and continued their journey.

• Su Yao and Zhao Lei followed the distress clues to an ice mountain and discovered that its strange power was freezing the region.
• Su Yao opened a fissure in the mountain with a pattern of law-infused arrows, releasing the Ice Soul Dragon.
• Zhao Lei found the crystal powering the Ice Soul Dragon, and Su Yao destroyed it with an arrow combining fire, lightning, and wind laws.
• An ancient Ice Cultivator emerged after the dragon fell and attacked Su Yao and Zhao Lei for breaking his seal.
• Su Yao destroyed the Ice Cultivator's essence, causing the region's ice power to subside and life to return.
• Su Yao and Zhao Lei left the Northern Wasteland Snow Region and continued their journey.

Chen Sanshi killed Cao Zhi and the surviving Cao clan members, then returned to the Eastern Continent to mourn his senior brother and Xu Wencai. After the funeral, he ordered Sun Li and his other family members and disciples to train rigorously, leaving them confused by his sudden anger.

• Chen Sanshi told Shen Junzhuo and the others that Jiang Xiyue had escaped, then left after they accepted his explanation and discussed investigating her and the Qingxu Sect.
• Wang Shouzhi met Rong Roujun, who swore to avenge Cao and left to hide in the Demon Realm.
• True Lord Lianhua led an attack on the Xie family, and Chen Sanshi killed Cao Zhi as the Cao clan was wiped out.
• Chen Sanshi offered Huang Ninth Brother's head at his senior brother's grave and later held a state funeral for Xu Wencai.
• Chen Sanshi ordered Sun Li to train for six hours daily and demanded rigorous training from his daughters and disciples, startling everyone at the family banquet.

Chen Sanshi used the Sky-Mending Stone Spirit Liquid to break through to Mid Golden Core and advanced his martial arts while cultivating in Tianyong City. He watched as his Spirit Pets overcame their tribulations and his Law-Devouring Cicadas advanced into Golden Core realm Gu Worms.

• Chen Sanshi refined the Sky-Mending Stone Spirit Liquid, broke through to Mid Golden Core, and comprehended the Eight Desolations Fiery Armor.
• Chen Sanshi advanced his Dragon Scripture cultivation and reviewed the progress of his other arts and skills.
• Qianxun overcame her tribulation and gained a golden mark, while Azurebird also survived her tribulation and learned to change her size.
• The White Jade Spirit Snake nearly failed her tribulation, but Chen Yunxi protected her with a talisman, and she underwent ancestral awakening after surviving the final lightning strike.
• Chen Sanshi discovered that the insect king and insect queen had advanced into Golden Core realm Cracked Core Cicadas, whose offspring would each contain a Miniature Golden Core.

Chen Sanshi left Great Han for Tianshui and learned that the Three Heavenly Sects had defended his actions against Guiyuan Sect, while secretly investigating Jiang Xiyue and the possible demonic seed within her. He returned to Qingxu Sect to find Master's Wife, but a Nascent Soul-level tribulation suddenly began overhead.

• Chen Sanshi checked on Sun Li, considered the progress of his disciples and children, then departed Great Han for the Tianshui border in June of the twenty-eighth year of Tianwu.
• Elders from the Thirty-Six Heavenly Sects accused Great Han and Qingxu Sect of responsibility for Guiyuan Sect's destruction, but Chongxu Zhenren said Tianwu had acted on his orders and ordered the dispute ended.
• Chongxu Zhenren, Qin Zhaozhi, and Wang Shouzhi questioned True Person Jiuhuan about Jiang Xiyue and debated whether she carried a sword demon or a demonic seed.
• The Three Heavenly Sects learned that Zhang Huaiqing had been added to the Supreme Profound Immortal Record, so Chongxu Zhenren warned Wang Shouzhi against provoking him; Wang Shouzhi left to investigate the demonic seed.
• Chen Sanshi disguised himself as a Foundation Establishment disciple and entered Qingxu Sect to find Master's Wife, but found Young Taoist Sixteen asleep at her cave abode instead.
• Black tribulation clouds formed above Qingxu Sect, and Chen Sanshi realized someone was undergoing a Nascent Soul-level heavenly tribulation.

Chen Sanshi watched Xu Taisu survive his Nascent Soul tribulation, then reported Xiyue’s safety to True Person Yuling and visited Mu Chutai, who taught him about the Fourth Realm of martial arts. While training in a baleful valley, Chen Sanshi was ambushed by Dongwei and Rong Roujun, leaving him facing two enemies.

• Xu Taisu completed his Nascent Soul tribulation with little danger while Chen Sanshi watched from Hundred Flowers Valley.
• Chen Sanshi told True Person Yuling and Jiang Qiongsu that Xiyue was safe, and learned more about her origins and Mu Chutai’s past.
• Chen Sanshi visited Mu Chutai, who tested his Dragon Scripture progress and explained that the Fourth Realm of martial arts was Heavenly Manifestation of Earth.
• Chen Sanshi trained in a baleful valley, opened his Yang Orifice, and advanced his Dragon Scripture to Early Stage progress 200/300.
• Dongwei attacked Chen Sanshi with the Qianyuan Taiji Fan, and Chen Sanshi recognized him as the cultivator whose body he had destroyed in Luoxiao Immortal Palace.
• Rong Roujun ambushed Chen Sanshi with a Heavy Ruler, and the two enemies confronted him together.

Chen Sanshi survived Rong Roujun’s attack when Xu Taisu intervened, while Rong and her allies grew suspicious of Qingxu Sect and continued investigating Jiang Xiyue. After Qingxu Sect released Xue Jingfeng from punishment, he joined Wang Shouzhi and revealed that the sect concealed three Blessed Lands.

• Rong Roujun nearly killed Chen Sanshi, but Xu Taisu arrived, drove her off, and saved him.
• Xu Taisu asked Chen Sanshi about repairing his fifth-grade formation disk before leaving, and Lord of Mount Tai returned to dismiss Chen.
• Rong Roujun and Daoist Master Dongwei told Wang Shouzhi that Xu Taisu had reached the Mid Nascent Soul Stage, and Wang ordered them to keep investigating Jiang Xiyue.
• True Person Xuancheng released Xue Jingfeng from Siguo Cliff and urged him to stop opposing Zhang Huaiqing, but Xue rejected his advice and left Qingxu Sect.
• Xue Jingfeng offered to help Wang Shouzhi and revealed that Qingxu Sect concealed three Blessed Lands held by Zhang Huaiqing, Xu Taisu, and Jade Spirit from Hundred Flowers Valley.

Chen Sanshi led the Great Han through a costly defense of the Great Wall, repelled the Blood Demon Army, and received a threat from the Ancient Demon Suili Clan. After half a year of stalemate, he opened his Central Palace Orifice and gained the Soul Refining True Fire.

• Qi Cheng ordered the Great Han forces to use the Xun Feng Tiangang Formation, and the rising gale empowered their arrows against the advancing Blood Demon Army.
• An Ancient Demon Golden Core cultivator attacked Zhou Weizhen, but Chen Sanshi arrived and killed it with a Fire Dragon before driving into the enemy ranks.
• Chen Sanshi burned a Blood Demon mother and child, then used his bow and Cracked Core Cicadas to devastate the Blood Demon Army, which retreated at dusk after losing one hundred thousand troops.
• Young Master Suili returned the Liquan Spear and demanded that Chen Sanshi join the Ancient Demon Clan with the Common People Praying to Heaven Bead; Chen Sanshi refused the offer and threat.
• Chen Sanshi and Qi Cheng organized the defense of Guangren Dao, and the armies remained in a prolonged standoff for half a year.
• Chen Sanshi exhausted the Sky-Mending Stone Spirit Liquid, opened his Central Palace Orifice, and gained the Soul Refining True Fire, which could burn spiritual senses and souls.

Chen Sanshi finished preparations for the looming war and received reinforcements at Guangren Dao, where tensions between Qingxu Sect and Qingxuan Mountain surfaced. The demonic army began preparing a formation against the Great Wall of Demon Suppression, while Chen Sanshi learned that Senior Sister Xiyue had also arrived.

• Chen Sanshi completed the Spirit Extinguishing Great Formation and refined two pills to support his cultivation.
• At the start of Tianwu Year Twenty-Nine, Chen Sanshi ordered soldiers to reclaim farmland and establish garrison settlements; four years later, Deng Wuchang reported that demonic Nascent Soul Cultivators would reinforce the enemy.
• Qi Cheng advised Chen Sanshi to request reinforcements, and the Heavenly Sword Sect sent Qingxu Sect and three Early Nascent Soul Cultivators to Guangren Dao.
• Chen Sanshi gave Qi Cheng a Tier 5 formation inheritance and urged him to prove himself as a commander.
• Feng Qingyan, Shangguan Yunzhi, Xiao Boxu, and Qingxu Sect's disciples arrived; Xiao Boxu and True Person Xuancheng argued over Danxia Mountain before Chen Sanshi sent the elders to inspect the front line.
• Chen Sanshi told True Person Xuancheng that Jiang Xiyue had vanished after the Sword Demon seized her body, then asked the Blind Woman whether she wanted to see Senior Sister Xiyue.

Chen Sanshi and the cultivators faced a massive demonic army assembling beyond the Great Wall, while True Person Yuling confronted Mu Chutai over his past betrayals. The chapter ended with the Great Song Emperor and Ancient Demon leaders demanding that the defenders surrender or be destroyed.

• Jiang Xiyue told True Person Yuling that the demon seed had not taken over her body, and Chen Sanshi asked about the seed’s purpose.
• Mu Chutai barged into the tent looking for Jiang Xiyue, and True Person Yuling rebuked him for abandoning Qingyao and betraying Chen Sanshi before sparing his life.
• Chen Sanshi and several Nascent Soul cultivators saw millions of Blood Demon soldiers, demonic cultivators, and warships gathering beyond the Great Wall.
• Xiao Boxu and Shangguan Yunzhi identified the Nine Abyss Malevolent Qi Dragon Drawing Formation and warned that it could severely damage the Great Wall’s defenses.
• Suili Yan, Qu Sanyuan, and Great Song Emperor Zhao approached the wall, where Zhao tried to recruit Chen Sanshi and the other defenders into the demonic alliance.
• Chen Sanshi rejected Zhao’s justification for turning civilians into Blood Demons, and Young Master Suili threatened the defenders unless they joined the Ancient Demon Celestial Clan.

Great Han Tianwu’s forces struggled against the demonic army’s formation as the righteous Nascent Soul cultivators fell into a worsening disadvantage. Chen Sanshi charged into the formation alone, while the Han martial cultivators watching remained confident that their emperor knew what he was doing.

• Xiao Boxu, Shangguan Yunzhi, and Feng Qing fought the demonic Nascent Soul cultivators as the armies clashed.
• Young Master Suili’s Golden Core cultivators activated a warship formation that filled the battlefield with corrosive black mist and trapped the righteous cultivators.
• Chen Sanshi decided to breach the formation himself, activated the Blood Burning Method, and charged into the enemy ranks despite receiving no support from the other Golden Core cultivators.
• True Person Yuling tried to follow Chen Sanshi, but Dongfang Jingxing stopped her and Jiang Xiyue from going after him.
• Zhu Tong, Xiong Qiuan, Liu Jinkui, and the other Han martial cultivators told He Yuan that Chen Sanshi’s solo charge was nothing unusual for their emperor.

Chen Sanshi, appearing as Emperor Tianwu, attacked the demonic army alone and overwhelmed its cultivators with his endless-recovering true force and spirit beasts. After reaching Young Master Suili’s flagship, he faced Suili’s formidable counterattack, and their battle began in earnest.

• Young Master Suili ordered the demonic cultivators to attack Chen Sanshi, who had arrived alone to breach their formation.
• Chen Sanshi killed Corpse Cultivator Deng Ye and turned the tide against more than twenty Golden Core cultivators as his fighting strength grew during battle.
• Chen Sanshi summoned Azurebird, Qianxun, White Jade, and his other spirit beasts to kill two Late Golden Core cultivators and rout the demonic forces.
• Chen Sanshi cut through the demonic army and attacked the flagship, while Young Master Suili transformed and drove him back with his Abyssal Demon Blade.
• Chen Sanshi changed his flames into Soul Refining True Fire as he continued fighting Young Master Suili.

Chen Sanshi used Soul Refining True Fire to rout Young Master Suili, set the demonic fleet ablaze, and relieve pressure on the Orthodox Path Nascent Soul cultivators. The demonic army then resumed its assault with the Blood Demon Army and the Sha-Devouring Dragon-Drawing Formation, leaving the defenders at the Great Wall of Demon Suppression in an increasingly worsening position.

• Chen Sanshi overwhelmed Young Master Suili with Soul Refining True Fire, destroyed his armor, and set the demonic warships ablaze with a Cracked Core Cicada.
• Elder Suili interrupted Chen Sanshi before he could kill Young Master Suili, and Chen Sanshi withdrew as the demonic Nascent Soul cultivators retreated.
• Emperor Tianxi ordered the Blood Demon Army to attack while the fleet regrouped, and Chen Sanshi joined the Great Wall's defense.
• Two days later, the demonic army unleashed the Sha-Devouring Dragon-Drawing Formation against the Great Wall, and Chen Sanshi assigned the three Orthodox Path Nascent Soul cultivators to guard its formation eyes.
• The demonic army repeatedly attacked with the Blood Demon Army and the Sha-Devouring Dragon-Drawing Formation, gradually worsening the defenders' position.