Chapter Summaries

Shen Lang married Zhang Chunhua, Ning Yan, and Xiao Bing before Princess Ning Han appeared with terrifying new powers and vowed to destroy Raging Tide City. As the Great Qian Dynasty was formally established and the Great Yan forces gathered to invade the southern kingdoms, Shen Lang’s army unexpectedly marched south to attack Horizon Sea Pavilion.

• Zhang Chong brought his grandchildren to Leizhou Island, where Zhang Yun reunited with Zhang Chunhua and joined the children at the academy.
• Shen Lang married Zhang Chunhua, Ning Yan, and Xiao Bing in a small ceremony in Raging Tide City.
• Princess Ning Han interrupted the wedding, revealed her transformed bloodline and powers, survived the city’s weapons and Chou Yao’er’s attack, and threatened to destroy Raging Tide City.
• The Wu King and Chu King broke from the Great Yan Dynasty and joined the Great Qian Dynasty, which was formally established with Raging Tide City as its temporary capital.
• As armies assembled to invade the southern kingdoms, Shen Lang declared that Great Qian would defend them, then withdrew his forces before sending them south by land and sea.
• Pavilion Master Zuo Ci ordered Princess Ning Han to prepare to attack Raging Tide City, but a report arrived that Shen Lang’s army was already attacking Horizon Sea Pavilion.

Zuo Ci and Ning Han planned Horizon Sea Pavilion’s development of the Ten Thousand Li Great Desert as Shen Lang prepared to confront them. Shen Lang’s artillery bombardment failed to penetrate Horizon Sea Pavilion’s defenses, leaving the attack’s next step unresolved.

• Zuo Ci and Ning Han chose the Ten Thousand Li Great Desert as Horizon Sea Pavilion’s development priority and urged a swift resolution to Shen Lang’s interference.
• The Wu King opened Wu Kingdom’s city gates to civilians and soldiers who wished to flee, while preparing his remaining loyalists to fight.
• Shen Lang completed most of the assembly of Dragon’s Regret’s enormous launching device and saw Ning Yuanxian, Ning Yan, and the children depart for Paradise Manor.
• Shen Lang’s land army and fleet reached Horizon Sea Pavilion and bombarded it with artillery, but its Ancient Arrows intercepted the first shells.
• Shen Lang fired timed shells that survived the aerial interception, but an invisible barrier bounced them away before they reached Horizon Sea Pavilion.

Horizon Sea Pavilion prepared its technologically advanced fleet and elite warriors to destroy Raging Tide City and intimidate the other transcendent powers. As Ning Han’s fleet approached, Shen Lang finished testing the Dragon Force strategic launcher and eagerly anticipated taking the enemy’s weapons and energy supplies.

• Shen Lang’s bombardment failed to damage Horizon Sea Pavilion’s visible complex, while Zhang Yuyin worried that supporting him would bring her a terrible punishment.
• Horizon Sea Pavilion demonstrated new armor, Nightmare Stone weapons, five hundred elite warriors, and an ancient warship to Princess Ning Han and its observers.
• Pavilion Master Zuo Ci ordered Ning Han to destroy Raging Tide City chiefly to deter the other powers from interfering with Horizon Sea Pavilion’s plans for the Ten Thousand Li Great Desert.
• Ning Han led a fleet of five hundred warships and more than eighty thousand people toward Raging Tide City, while Shen Lang withdrew his forces from the visible Horizon Sea Pavilion.
• Shen Lang completed the Dragon Force launcher and tested it by firing a giant arrow through a target ship from thirteen thousand meters away.
• After learning that Ning Han’s fleet carried abundant secret weapons, Nightmare Stones, and Energy Cores, Shen Lang said his forces were about to strike it rich.

As armies across the Eastern World prepared for war, Shen Lang’s allies sent troops to defend Wu, Chu, and Yue while Horizon Sea Pavilion’s Destruction Fleet advanced on Raging Tide City. Shen Lang launched Dragon’s Regret at Ning Han’s fleet, and the strategic weapon annihilated the fleet in a colossal blast.

• The Chu King marched west with more than three hundred thousand troops to defend Chu’s borders, while the Queen stayed behind with their children.
• Ning Zheng dispatched Yue’s armies to support Chu, Wu, and Yan Province, then left Tianyue City under Yan E’s watch.
• Ning Han’s fleet destroyed a damaged Great Qian warship, demonstrating its overwhelming superiority over Shen Lang’s conventional ships.
• Princess Dora’s hot-air balloon located Ning Han’s fleet and relayed its position to Shen Lang, who calculated Dragon’s Regret’s launch timing and target.
• Ning Han ordered her fleet to attack Raging Tide City, while Shen Lang activated Dragon’s Regret and launched it toward the fleet.
• Dragon’s Regret struck the heart of Horizon Sea Pavilion’s fleet, and the resulting blast annihilated the entire force.

Shen Lang’s Dragon's Regret annihilated Horizon Sea Pavilion’s Destruction Fleet, leaving Ning Han to flee as the surviving ships surrendered. Shen Lang recovered an enormous haul of Ancient Energy Cores and an Ancient Warship, then resolved to destroy Horizon Sea Pavilion’s buildings to finish the battle.

• Dragon's Regret struck Horizon Sea Pavilion’s fleet despite Ning Ba’s attempts to intercept it, and its explosion destroyed the ships and killed most of the people aboard.
• Ning Han survived the first blast inside her Ancient Warship, but a damaged Ancient Energy Core exploded as she fled, engulfing her in flames.
• Ning Yuanxian watched the distant explosion with Consort Bian and was relieved when he saw that Shen Lang’s weapon had worked.
• Shen Lang’s fleet reached the blast site, defeated the remaining Blood Soul Army soldiers, and accepted the surrender of nearly ten thousand survivors.
• Shen Lang ordered his forces to find Ning Han and recovered the crippled Ancient Warship and eight Ancient Energy Cores.
• Shen Lang announced that his forces would destroy Horizon Sea Pavilion’s buildings to complete the battle.

After defeating Horizon Sea Pavilion’s surviving warriors, Shen Lang returned to Raging Tide City and prepared to destroy its coastal complex. He launched a self-destructing Energy Core from a Dragon Force Launch Device, and the resulting explosion leveled Horizon Sea Pavilion’s Great Library.

• Chou Yao'er, Big Fool, and the Grandmasters killed the thirty surviving special warriors, while Shen Lang’s forces captured several observers and returned with salvaged equipment.
• Shen Lang ordered the prisoners’ meridians destroyed and sailed back to Raging Tide City with captured warships and spoils; Ning Han remained missing.
• Shen Lang placed a dummy Dragon’s Regret on the castle launcher and used his blood to unlock an Energy Core for a planned strike on Horizon Sea Pavilion.
• Shen Lang assembled the Dragon Force Launch Device aboard a warship, equipped an escort fleet, and sailed toward Horizon Sea Pavilion.
• Shen Lang fired the Energy Core at the Great Library, where it detonated and obliterated the Horizon Sea Pavilion complex before the watching crowds.

Shen Lang destroyed Horizon Sea Pavilion and Ning Han’s Destruction Fleet with a strategic weapon, then brought Zhang Yuyin back to Raging Tide City, where she revealed information about Horizon Sea Pavilion’s secret departments. After learning of the fleet’s destruction and the attack on the Pavilion, Zuo Ci set out to meet Shen Lang.

• Shen Lang’s Energy Core obliterated Horizon Sea Pavilion, killing nearly everyone inside while Zhang Yuyin and several dozen scholars survived in an underground fortress.
• Shen Lang searched the ruins, recovered two Ancient Energy Cores, rescued the survivors, and ordered the ancient texts collected before returning to Raging Tide City.
• Zhang Yuyin surrendered to Shen Lang and explained Horizon Sea Pavilion’s three secret research departments, while admitting she did not know where its true Underground City was.
• Zuo Ci told Zhu Hongxue that he was a Remnant of Jiang Li and urged him to focus on Horizon Sea Pavilion’s plans in the Ten Thousand Li Great Desert.
• Zuo Xin reported that Shen Lang had destroyed Ning Han’s entire fleet with a strategic weapon, and another messenger reported that Horizon Sea Pavilion had been razed.
• Zuo Ci read Shen Lang’s warning, rejected calls to mobilize Horizon Sea Pavilion’s forces, and prepared to meet Shen Lang.

Shen Lang’s forces developed a steam engine and Blazing Fire Guns while preparing for war, but Pavilion Master Zuo Ci arrived and proved powerful enough to repel every weapon aimed at him. Zuo Ci signed a ceasefire without conditions and announced Horizon Sea Pavilion’s withdrawal from Yue Kingdom, leaving Shen Lang facing Ying WuMing and Floating Pagoda Mountain.

• Zhang Yuyin gave Shen Lang detailed notes about her capture, and he learned that the Floating Pagoda Mountain observer had confirmed the force possessed Dragon’s Regret but knew little else.
• Shen Lang inspected the first steam engine and tested the new Blazing Fire Guns, which his scholars and craftsmen had made ready for battlefield use.
• Zuo Ci arrived on a white eagle and effortlessly evaded Raging Tide City’s weapons, prompting Shen Lang to order preparations for Extinction Bomb Number Two.
• Zuo Ci told Shen Lang that Horizon Sea Pavilion had no personal grudge against him and proposed a ceasefire while withdrawing from Yue Kingdom.
• Zuo Ci pardoned Horizon Sea Pavilion’s captives, asked Shen Lang to return Ning Han, and said he would take Zhu Hongxue away to the Ten Thousand Li Great Desert.
• Shen Lang and Zuo Ci signed a ceasefire agreement, and Zuo Ci warned that Ying WuMing and Floating Pagoda Mountain would be Shen Lang’s next opponents.

Shen Lang received news from the Western World and the Fire God Sect, including a warning that a comet would strike Chu Kingdom in twenty-nine days and bring valuable materials. The chapter ended with Yue King Ning Zheng announcing that Horizon Sea Pavilion had conceded defeat and withdrawn from Yue Kingdom.

• Shen Lang watched the comet split with Ning Yuanxian and the children, and learned that it had appeared on the day Dragon's Regret was detonated.
• Princess Dora summoned Shen Lang to meet envoys, and Talun presented news of Duke Deborah's son Loki Jiang Russo and received an imperial decree naming Deborah Noble Consort Bi and her son Prince Yu.
• High Priest Shelley delivered Queen Eda's infant-hair brush and news of their daughter Ellen Shen, then proposed diplomatic relations and a joint effort to recover comet fragments expected to strike Chu Kingdom.
• Shen Lang agreed to cooperate with the Fire God Sect and said he would calculate the comet's trajectory before setting out for Chu Kingdom.
• Pavilion Master Zuo Ci publicly announced that Horizon Sea Pavilion had ceased hostilities with Shen Lang and withdrawn from Yue Kingdom.
• Yue King Ning Zheng read Zuo Ci's proclamation and told his court that Shen Lang had won a complete victory.

Yue Kingdom celebrated Shen Lang’s destruction of Horizon Sea Pavilion and Zuo Ci’s withdrawal, while the news revived Wu Kingdom’s hope against the advancing Great Yan forces. Great Yan’s Emperor dismissed warnings about Shen Lang’s strength and ordered an invasion of Chu Kingdom, as Zuo Ci found Ning Han’s charred body in an ancient undersea ruin.

• Ning Zheng received Zuo Ci’s confirmation that Horizon Sea Pavilion had been defeated and would withdraw from Yue Kingdom, and the news sent Yue Kingdom’s court and people into celebration.
• Yan E showed Zhu Hongzhu Zuo Ci’s letter, leaving Zhu Hongzhu stunned before he convinced himself that Shen Lang was bluffing and that Yan Capital could still save the Zhu Family.
• The Wu King learned from Zhong Yao and Ning Zheng’s envoys that Shen Lang had defeated Horizon Sea Pavilion, and Wu Kingdom’s despairing troops celebrated the victory.
• Zuo Ci enlisted a giant octopus to search the seabed, entered an ancient ruin, and found Ning Han’s charred body before declaring that she had no ties to the Jiang Clan.
• Great Yan’s Emperor heard Lian Prince and others argue that Shen Lang possessed only one Dragon’s Regret, then ordered the Western Route Army to invade Chu Kingdom.
• Jin Kingdom’s Western Route Army surged into Chu Kingdom to kill the Chu King and expose what Great Yan’s leaders believed was Shen Lang’s false strength.

The Crown Prince and Ying Guang discussed their alliance and the coming Transcendent Forces Council while Shen Lang prepared to counter the Jin Kingdom’s invasion of Chu Kingdom. As the decisive battle for Dingyuan City began, Shen Lang raced toward the city with a small force, leaving his plan to save Chu Kingdom unrevealed.

• The Crown Prince met Ying Guang, confirmed their shared understanding, and said that Ying WuMing’s appearance at the Transcendent Forces Council would expose the alliance between the New Qian Kingdom and Floating Pagoda Mountain.
• Shen Lang calculated that the Fire Dragon Comet would strike near the Gobi west of Chu Kingdom and prepared to destroy the Jin Kingdom’s army either with the impact or by igniting a vast natural gas deposit.
• Zhang Yuyin warned Shen Lang that Jin Kingdom would test his apparent Dragon’s Regret strength by attacking Chu Kingdom, and Shen Lang acknowledged that he needed another overwhelming victory to deter the Great Yan Dynasty.
• The Chu King rallied Chu Kingdom’s three hundred thousand troops to defend Dingyuan City, and they repelled the Jin Kingdom Crown Prince’s attacks for three days before reinforcements from the northern nations, Heavenly Execution Pavilion, and Reaching Heaven Temple arrived.
• The Jin Kingdom Crown Prince launched a final assault to destroy Chu Kingdom, while Shen Lang raced toward Dingyuan City with several hundred people.

The Chu King defended Dingyuan City against the Jin Western Route Army’s secret legions, breaking through to Grandmaster before exhaustion left him near death. Shen Lang arrived with a small, heavily armed force, saved the Chu King, and forced the Jin army to retreat, while the Fire Dragon Comet neared a potentially catastrophic impact.

• The Chu King led his elite guards into battle, broke through to Grandmaster, and held back the secret legions until he and his remaining troops were overwhelmed.
• Prince Aslan of the Yulan Kingdom moved to kill the exhausted Chu King, but Chou Yao'er appeared and killed Aslan with one palm.
• Shen Lang’s Ancient Giant Ballistae bombarded the Jin army, and the Crown Prince of Jin ordered a retreat after mistakenly fearing Shen Lang had brought a massive force.
• Shen Lang operated on the Chu King and saved his life, prompting more than a hundred thousand people to acclaim Shen Lang and the Great Qian Empire.
• Shen Lang learned that the Fire Dragon Comet was nearing its final passage and could impact in as little as twenty-one double-hours, with an explosion more destructive than expected.
• The Crown Prince of Jin learned Shen Lang had brought only a few hundred men and several dozen ballistae, and resolved to attack again.

The Crown Prince of Jin Kingdom assembled a massive army and decided to kill Shen Lang, while Shen Lang waited for the delayed Fire Dragon Comet to strike. After the Crown Prince’s troops crossed into Great Qian territory, the comet shattered overhead and its meteor shower began annihilating the invading army.

• Wei Yixin persuaded the Crown Prince of Jin Kingdom to kill Shen Lang, and Reaching Heaven Temple agreed to provide an Energy Core for the attack.
• Heavenly Execution Pavilion and Reaching Heaven Temple sent elite troops, bringing the Crown Prince’s Western Route Army to more than six hundred and fifty thousand soldiers.
• As the Fire Dragon Comet’s impact was delayed, Shen Lang ordered the Chu Army to retreat from Dingyuan City and warned the Crown Prince to keep his forces out of Great Qian territory.
• The Crown Prince mocked Shen Lang’s warning, crossed the border, and ordered his army to advance into Great Qian.
• The comet broke apart above the battlefield, and its meteors struck the Gobi, erasing the Crown Prince’s invading troops in waves of explosions.

Shen Lang’s meteor strike annihilated the Western Route Army at Dingyuan City, shocking the forces waiting to invade Great Qian Dynasty. The enemy commanders halted their attacks, while the Empire’s Crown Prince rushed to inform the Emperor in seclusion.

• More than six hundred thousand troops led by the Crown Prince of Jin Kingdom were killed when the meteorites struck around Dingyuan City, and Shen Lang’s army escaped the devastation.
• The Chu Army witnessed the destruction from a distance and hailed Shen Lang, while Heaven’s Execution Pavilion eagle riders fled to spread the news.
• At Yan Province, Lan Mo held back his forces after an eagle rider reported the Western Route Army’s annihilation, and Bian Miao warned the Great Yan army not to cross the border.
• At the Wu Kingdom border, an eagle rider told the Martial Prince that the Western Route Army had been utterly annihilated.
• In Yan Capital, Ying Guang left after hearing the report, and the Empire’s Crown Prince went to inform the Emperor in seclusion.

After Shen Lang destroyed the Jin Kingdom crown prince’s army, the Emperor of Great Yan ordered his million troops to withdraw, preventing a world war. Shen Lang’s party scavenged extraordinary materials from the comet’s impact craters and descended with Chou Yao'er into the final abyss, where a potentially world-changing treasure awaited.

• The Emperor of Great Yan let Ying Guang leave and ordered the million troops surrounding Wu, Chu, and Yue to withdraw.
• The Chu King awoke, learned Shen Lang had annihilated the Western Route Army, and pledged to shoulder the Great Qian Dynasty’s burden.
• Shen Lang warned Princess Dora and the others that the clash between the Emperor of Great Yan, Ying Guang, and Floating Pagoda Mountain was only beginning.
• Shen Lang and his allies explored the impact craters, recovering vast quantities of Nightmare Stone Crystals, secret metals, and strange specimens.
• High Priest Shelley ceded the final crater’s treasure to Shen Lang in exchange for the chance to have a child with an extraordinary bloodline.
• Shen Lang and Chou Yao'er leaped into the deepest crater together, seeking the treasure as Chou Yao'er asked whether it could change the world.

Shen Lang and Chou Yao'er found a dragon egg in the final impact crater, but Ying WuMing defeated Chou Yao'er, took the egg, and captured Shen Lang. A second Shen Lang traveled toward Raging Tide City with Princess Dora, while the Emperor of Great Yan tended a sleeping dragon beneath the Forbidden Tower.

• Shen Lang and Chou Yao'er reached the bottom of the deepest crater and found a scaled egg that Shen Lang believed could be a dragon egg.
• Ying WuMing appeared, claimed to be Jiang Li's true heir, and demanded the egg and Shen Lang; he defeated Chou Yao'er in a silent, destructive battle.
• Shen Lang persuaded Ying WuMing to spare Chou Yao'er by warning that harming her could make him retaliate against the New Qian Kingdom, and Ying WuMing took the egg and captured him.
• Ying WuMing knocked Shen Lang unconscious and escaped with him and the egg, while Shen Lang's people fought above the crater.
• A second Shen Lang rode toward Raging Tide City with Princess Dora, carrying a box containing a scaled egg and saying that the captured Shen Lang was fine.
• Beneath the Forbidden Tower, the Emperor of Great Yan wiped the eyelid of a giant dragon and wondered whether it would awaken after the comet's destruction.

Shen Lang’s Dragon Egg ruse let his supplies reach Raging Tide City, but Ji WuShuang stole the fake egg and Big Fool rescued Shen Lang from the Heavenly Execution Pavilion. Shen Lang revealed that both eggs were radioactive traps meant to target Ying Guang’s faction and the Heavenly Execution Pavilion, while the Shen Lang captured by Ying WuMing woke in an unfamiliar place.

• Ji Wulian ambushed the disguised Shen Lang’s party and demanded the Dragon Egg, but Shen Lang used a Nightmare Stone bomb to make him escort the box east.
• At the coast, Shen Lang freed Princess Dora and his warriors, dismantled the bomb, and then claimed that he and Ji Wulian had been infected with the Black Death.
• Big Fool rescued Shen Lang as the box exploded, but Ji WuShuang seized the Dragon Egg and escaped on a snow eagle.
• Ji Wulian abandoned the pursuit and returned to the Heavenly Execution Pavilion, while Big Fool took Shen Lang away by boat.
• Shen Lang explained that both Dragon Eggs were fakes containing radioactive material and that he had used them to distract enemies while his supplies reached Raging Tide City.
• The Shen Lang captured by Ying WuMing woke naked in an unfamiliar place and demanded to know where he was and who stood beside him.

Shen Lang deliberately allowed Ying WuMing to capture him so he could obtain a Dragon's Regret and protect Raging Tide City, while Ying Guang and Ying WuMing studied the fake Dragon Egg and prepared to challenge the Great Yan Empire. After nineteen days in captivity, Shen Lang was brought before Floating Pagoda Mountain's princess, who threatened Kutou Huan to force him to explain his plan.

• Shen Lang decided that he would make himself a strategic weapon by entering Ying Guang and Ying WuMing's hands, hoping to seize a Dragon's Regret and weaken their alliance with Floating Pagoda Mountain.
• Ying Guang and Ying WuMing examined Shen Lang's fake Dragon Egg and discussed Ying WuMing representing Floating Pagoda Mountain at the Transcendent Forces Council.
• A brawny Floating Pagoda Mountain warrior kept Shen Lang confined for nineteen days before taking him through an underground city to meet an unseen woman.
• The woman revealed Kutou Huan chained in a cage and threatened to execute him if Shen Lang lied or refused to answer her questions.
• Shen Lang admitted he had deliberately let Ying WuMing capture him, then claimed his real purpose was to conquer Ying WuMing's fiancée, the Floating Pagoda Mountain Princess.

Shen Lang spent more than two months imprisoned in Floating Pagoda Mountain, relentlessly provoking Princess Ren Yingying through surveillance reports until she summoned him again. He predicted that the Great Yan Empire would destroy Still Dew City with Dragon’s Regret within five days, and the chapter ended with Ren Yingying betting one of his fingers against his claim.

• Shen Lang admitted that he intended to steal Dragon’s Regret, then was returned to his room without meeting Ren Yingying.
• Shen Lang repeatedly mocked Ren Yingying, insulted Ying WuMing, and claimed he could cure her while the burly female warrior guarded him and listeners recorded his words.
• Ren Yingying received the surveillance reports but remained silent as Shen Lang continued provoking her for more than two months.
• Shen Lang finally announced that Great Yan would fire Dragon’s Regret within five days, prompting Ren Yingying to summon him.
• Shen Lang predicted Still Dew City would be destroyed, and Ren Yingying wagered that he would lose a finger if he was wrong, while agreeing to honor his wish if he was right.

As Ying WuMing entered Yan Capital with an extravagant welcome, Dragon's Regret destroyed Still Dew City, confirming Shen Lang's prediction and exposing Ying Guang's secret base beneath it. The Floating Pagoda Mountain Princess summoned Shen Lang, acknowledged his wager, and revealed that her body was transparent like crystal.

• Ying WuMing arrived outside Yan Capital, where the Imperial Crown Prince welcomed him with elaborate ceremony and the two princes publicly condemned Shen Lang's Great Qian Dynasty.
• Dragon's Regret struck Still Dew City and reduced the city and its inhabitants to ash.
• The Great Yan Crown Prince mourned Still Dew City and called for Shen Lang to answer for the attack, while Ying Guang realized the blast had destroyed his secret base beneath the city.
• The Floating Pagoda Mountain Princess learned that Shen Lang's prediction had come true and summoned him from house arrest.
• Shen Lang claimed his victory in their wager, and the Princess led him into her chamber and revealed her transparent, crystal-like body.