Chapter Summaries

Ji Yaoyue pushed Luo Chuan and Ji Yaoshen toward a fight by staking her marriage on its outcome, while Zhu Zhuqing urged Luo Chuan to accept. The battle began with Luo Chuan revealing combat power at the fifth level of the God Monarch Realm and summoning the Immortal King Descends to the Nine Heavens.

• Ji Yaoyue said she would marry Luo Chuan if he defeated Ji Yaoshen, and Ji Yaoxing encouraged the match.
• Zhu Zhuqing insisted Luo Chuan fight Ji Yaoshen and warned she would stay in the Great Xia Imperial Palace if he refused.
• Ji Yaoshen agreed to fight, then became conflicted when he realized either victory or defeat could affect his sister's marriage.
• Luo Chuan rose into the sky and increased his combat aura from the seventh level of the God King Realm to the fifth level of the God Monarch Realm.
• Luo Chuan summoned the immense figure of the Immortal King Descends to the Nine Heavens as the battle began.

Luo Chuan and Ji Yaoshen fought in the air, with Ji Yaoshen unleashing Divine Elephant Sky Trample and Luo Chuan copying the technique to counter him. The onlookers weighed Luo Chuan’s importance and chose not to interfere, while Ji Yaoshen continued attacking in fury.

• Luo Chuan summoned the Immortal King phenomenon, prompting Ji Yaoshen to recognize him as a genuine threat and fight for his pride.
• Ji Yaoshen unleashed Divine Elephant Sky Trample, and Luo Chuan used the Immortal King phenomenon to seize the divine elephant phantom and counter the attack.
• Luo Chuan kicked Ji Yaoshen back, then summoned his own divine elephant phantom and used Divine Elephant Sky Trample against him.
• Ji Yaoyue and the imperial observers watched in disbelief as Luo Chuan copied Ji Yaoshen’s divine ability, while Emperor Xia and other powerful figures considered Luo Chuan’s value and avoided provoking him.
• Ji Yaoshen roared that Luo Chuan had stolen his divine ability and sent his divine elephant stomping at him again.

Luo Chuan overwhelmed Ji Yaoshen with relentless divine abilities and superior movement, while onlookers discussed his extraordinary physique and the political purpose of the visit. Ji Yaoshen grew furious and summoned the fearsome Purple-Gold Howler, leaving Luo Chuan wary of the power he had yet to reveal.

• Luo Chuan repeatedly attacked Ji Yaoshen with Divine Elephants and the Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin, then evaded Ji Yaoshen with the "Line" Secret.
• Ji Yaoshen unleashed his full divine power and summoned the Purple-Gold Howler as he vowed to fight back.
• Zhu Zhuqing explained that Luo Chuan's Ancient Desolate Holy Body gave him immense divine power reserves and recovery, astonishing Xia Chang'an and Ji Yaoxing.
• Ji Yaoxing told Xia Longcheng that his trip had achieved its purpose despite the stalled marriage alliance, and remarked that Ji Yaoyue was bolder than Xia Chang'an.
• Ji Yaoshen complained that Luo Chuan had repeatedly thwarted his attacks and trapping formations, while Luo Chuan admitted he had used much of his strength and questioned whether Ji Yaoshen still had more to reveal.

Luo Chuan and Ji Yaoshen agreed to settle their battle in three moves as Ji Yaoshen unleashed the Purple-Gold Howler bloodline and Luo Chuan struggled to enter a mysterious domain. They launched their strongest punches at each other, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Ji Yaoshen revealed that the Purple-Gold Howler phantom concealed more power, and Luo Chuan recognized that Ji Yaoshen’s combat strength exceeded his own.
• Ji Yaoshen proposed deciding the fight in three moves, and Luo Chuan agreed while trying to enter the mysterious domain that could greatly increase his power.
• Zhu Zhuqing explained Luo Chuan’s attempt to the onlookers at the Eastern Palace, while Ji Yaoyue worried that he might be unable to draw on the Dragon Vein.
• Ji Yaoshen fully released his violet-gold power and merged with the Purple-Gold Howler phantom as Luo Chuan summoned his six phenomena and a Five-Clawed Golden Dragon.
• Ji Yaoshen struck with a violet-gold punch, and Luo Chuan answered with Six Paths of Reincarnation, unleashing his strongest punch yet.

Luo Chuan re-entered the God Prohibitions Domain while fighting Ji Yaoshen, then used Ji Yaoshen’s Thunder Tribulation to draw Five-Colored Divine Lightning and refine his fused Dao Weapons. Ji Yaoshen was left to endure the intensified lightning as Luo Chuan tempered the weapons.

• Luo Chuan’s arm was shattered by Ji Yaoshen, but he regenerated it and resumed their fight with the True Dragon Treasure Technique.
• Luo Chuan’s bloodlines ascended during the battle, allowing him to enter the God Prohibitions Domain again and overwhelm Ji Yaoshen with a single punch.
• Luo Chuan’s strike provoked Ji Yaoshen’s Thunder Tribulation, which escalated into Five-Colored Divine Lightning.
• Emperor Xia and the beautiful woman discussed Luo Chuan’s reluctance to marry Chang'an Princess and the danger of sharing his divine abilities.
• Luo Chuan drew the Five-Colored Divine Lightning to a mountain range and used it to temper his two fused Dao Weapons.
• Zhu Zhuqing explained that Luo Chuan had given her his original life-bound weapon for protection and had forged another during the ten years apart.

Luo Chuan used Ji Yaoshen’s Five-Colored Divine Lightning tribulation to temper his weapon, body, and Nascent Soul while Ji Yaoshen endured the ordeal and reached the Saint King Realm. Afterward, Luo Chuan healed Ji Yaoshen with Divine Spring Water, then warned that keeping the bottle for himself would cancel Luo Chuan’s promised reward.

• Xia Longhua praised Ji Yaoshen’s prospects as he faced the Five-Colored Divine Lightning, while Luo Chuan forged a weapon nearby.
• Xia Longcheng and the others saw Luo Chuan expose his Nascent Soul to the tribulation and use the lightning to refine it, his body, and his weapon.
• The Emperor Xia assessed Luo Chuan’s talent and dismissed the gathered elders, leaving the juniors to observe the tribulations.
• Ji Yaoshen completed the shortened but intensified tribulation and reached the Saint King Realm, badly burned.
• Luo Chuan sprinkled Divine Spring Water over Ji Yaoshen, rapidly healing his external injuries, and Ji Yaoshen eagerly kept the bottle.
• Luo Chuan told Ji Yaoshen that taking all the Divine Spring Water for himself would void the thing Luo Chuan had promised him.

After Ji Yaoshen lost to Luo Chuan, the group divided the remaining Divine Spring Water among themselves and discussed entering the Great Xia Secret Realm. Qin WuDao arrived at the Eastern Palace with Qin WuTian and Qin Mingyue, where he reunited with the princes and teased Luo Chuan about attracting princesses.

• Ji Yaoshen returned the Divine Spring Water, and Xia Chang'an divided the remainder among the Xia and Ji siblings.
• Xia Longcheng learned that Qin WuDao had come to visit and sent Xia Longhua to receive him, then invited Ji Yaoyue to enter the Great Xia Secret Realm with Luo Chuan.
• Ji Yaoyue eagerly sat beside Luo Chuan, while Xia Chang'an remained too reserved to approach him.
• Qin WuDao arrived as a Saint King with Qin WuTian and the shy Qin Mingyue, and joked that Luo Chuan had won the attention of several princesses.
• Qin WuDao explained that Great Ming's delegation had been delayed and introduced Qin WuTian, a ninth-level God Monarch who might spar with Luo Chuan.

At a banquet, Qin WuTian challenged Luo Chuan to spar, but the conversation shifted to Luo Chuan’s rapid cultivation and the Divine Prohibition state. Qin WuDao gave Luo Chuan a gift from Great Qin before Luo Chuan explained the mysterious technique.

• Qin WuTian challenged Luo Chuan to exchange moves, while Ji Yaoshen urged Luo Chuan to beat him.
• Luo Chuan revealed that he had advanced to the eighth level of the Divine King Realm after entering Divine Prohibition, surprising Qin WuDao and Qin WuTian.
• Qin WuDao asked about Divine Prohibition and its role in Luo Chuan’s fight against Tang Yin, and Luo Chuan offered to explain it.
• Ji Yaoshen reacted angrily to Qin WuDao, hinting at an unresolved conflict between Ji Yaoshen and Great Qin.
• Qin WuDao presented Luo Chuan with a brocade box as a gift of friendship from Great Qin, and Qin Mingyue delivered it.

Luo Chuan accepted Qin WuDao’s gift of a Quasi-Emperor-level Dark Void Beast Demon Core for Zhu Zhuqing and gave Qin Mingyue an Emperor Script in return. He explained the Eight Prohibitions and God Prohibitions to the gathered prodigies, and Zhu Zhuqing confirmed she had just entered the Eight Prohibitions Domain.

• Qin Mingyue delivered a brocade box containing a Quasi-Emperor-level Dark Void Beast Demon Core, which Luo Chuan accepted for Zhu Zhuqing.
• Luo Chuan transmitted an Emperor Script to Qin Mingyue as a meeting gift, and she offered him a gift in return that he did not accept.
• Ji Yaoshen asked Luo Chuan to explain the God Prohibitions, and Luo Chuan demonstrated his Eight Prohibitions combat strength and described how he had briefly touched God Prohibitions.
• Luo Chuan said he could not maintain God Prohibitions, even though his strength had improved and approached the Saint King realm’s shackles.
• Ji Yaoyue asked Zhu Zhuqing about her combat domain, and Zhu Zhuqing said she had only just reached the Eight Prohibitions Domain.

Zhu Zhuqing tested her newly reached Eight Prohibitions Domain in a spar with Ji Yaoyue, while Luo Chuan explained his Fight Secret to Ji Yaoshen. As the Great Xia Secret Realm approached, princes and prodigies gathered in the imperial city, and Ji Yaoyue asked Luo Chuan to protect her and the others inside.

• Zhu Zhuqing raised her aura into the Eight Prohibitions Domain and sparred with Ji Yaoyue, whose full-moon divine ability Zhu Zhuqing copied and used against her.
• Luo Chuan told Ji Yaoshen that his ability to imitate divine powers came from the Fight Secret, while Ji Yaoxing stopped Ji Yaoshen from pressing him for more secrets.
• Luo Chuan ended the spar when Zhu Zhuqing's aura became disordered after half an incense stick.
• Zhu HuaiRen, Zhu HuaiYun, and Zhu Huaining visited Luo Chuan, while Sword Sect prodigies arrived and Xia Longcheng invited away the Holy King experts.
• Ji Yaoyue asked Luo Chuan to protect her and the others in the Great Xia Secret Realm, making Xia Chang'an uneasy.

Luo Chuan and his companions entered the Great Xia Secret Realm, where Xia Longcheng treated him with unusual respect. Outside the gate, Xia Longcheng revealed that Emperor Xia stood behind Luo Chuan, leaving the Light Holy Land’s Saint King wary of the mysterious genius.

• Xia Longcheng and the Saint Kings opened the Great Xia Secret Realm, and the gathered young geniuses began entering.
• Qin WuDao pushed Qin Mingyue to Luo Chuan, while Xia Longcheng singled Luo Chuan out with a respectful farewell.
• Xia Longhua entered the secret realm alone, and Luo Chuan led Zhu Zhuqing, Ji Yaoyue, and Qin Mingyue inside.
• The Light Holy Son watched Luo Chuan with restrained venom, while the Jade Pool Holy Land’s Yun Yun and Ning Rongrong remained in seclusion.
• A Saint King from the Light Holy Land asked Xia Longcheng about Luo Chuan’s background, and Xia Longcheng said Emperor Xia stood behind him.

Luo Chuan led Ji Yaoyue, Zhu Zhuqing, and Qin Mingyue through the Great Xia Secret Realm, where he recognized a valuable Three Dragons Converging formation. Qin Mingyue revealed that she could sense danger and treasures, and they headed toward the mountain at the formation’s center.

• Luo Chuan entered the Great Xia Secret Realm with the three women and discovered that the Small World suppressed their flight and divine sense.
• Luo Chuan identified the terrain around them as Three Dragons Converging and decided to seek what it guarded.
• Ji Yaoyue told Luo Chuan that the Ancient Emperor Xia's corpse was also in the Small World and had helped it evolve.
• Qin Mingyue warned Luo Chuan of danger ahead and revealed that she could sense treasures within two hundred miles.
• Luo Chuan led the group toward the mountain peak at the center of the three Dragon Veins.

Luo Chuan led Ji Yaoyue, Zhu Zhuqing, and Qin Mingyue into the mountain’s guarded heart, where his blood talismans and power kept the Yin Spirits at bay. After collecting medicinal herbs along the way, they reached a cave filled with powerful unclean things, and Ji Yaoyue warned that the beings inside were dangerous.

• Luo Chuan gave the three women blood talismans that weakened the sinister aura around them.
• As they ventured deeper, Yin Spirits emerged, but Luo Chuan’s Golden Taiji Circle kept them from approaching.
• Qin Mingyue used her keen senses to guide Luo Chuan to King-grade medicinal herbs, which they gathered as they traveled.
• Luo Chuan and the women entered the mountain’s inner region, scattering the few God Monarch-level Yin Spirits that resisted them.
• Qin Mingyue pointed out a cave rich in treasure, while Ji Yaoyue sensed powerful unclean beings within and noted that the surrounding creatures had all died.

Luo Chuan and the others reached a hidden Small World, where a high-level Saint King Yin Spirit challenged him and then invited him to play Go. After the game, the general revealed Luo Chuan’s connection to Emperor Xia and asked for his help, but Luo Chuan wanted to know the Emperor’s true purpose first.

• Luo Chuan led Ji Yaoyue, Zhu Zhuqing, and the others into the cave, using the Golden Taiji Circle to protect them from the Yin Spirits.
• The group reached a peaceful-looking Small World and met a middle-aged general who was a high-level Saint King Yin Spirit.
• The general attacked Luo Chuan, but Luo Chuan blocked his Yin energy with the Golden Taiji Circle and Earth Vein Power.
• The general stopped fighting and invited Luo Chuan to play Go; after their game, both claimed to have lost.
• The general said Luo Chuan had inherited Emperor Xia’s legacy and asked him to help Emperor Xia, but Luo Chuan said he needed to understand the Emperor’s intentions first.
• The general rebuked Luo Chuan’s doubts and described Emperor Xia’s lifelong campaigns against terrifying places.

Luo Chuan learned that Emperor Xia had spent his life suppressing ancient aberrations and would endure for only another hundred years. After receiving the Old General’s inheritance for the women, Luo Chuan left the deadly land, where Ji Yaoyue kissed his cheek in thanks.

• Ji Yaoyue explained that Emperor Xia had campaigned throughout his life and received support from the Shang Emperor.
• The Old General offered Luo Chuan his cultivation arts and divine abilities in exchange for helping Emperor Xia, but Luo Chuan asked that the inheritance go to Ji Yaoyue and the others.
• The Old General revealed that Emperor Xia was suppressing surviving Ancient Emperors and had only a hundred years left; he urged Luo Chuan to reach Saint King and help hold the aberrations back.
• Luo Chuan accepted the Old General’s Saint scripture and divine abilities for the three women, then left without obtaining a weapon.
• Ji Yaoyue embraced Luo Chuan and kissed his cheek to thank him.

Luo Chuan’s group gathered treasures in the Great Xia Secret Realm and later shared a meal with the Sword Sect’s Sword Child and his partner, Liu Qingying. The Sword Child warned Luo Chuan that people might target Qin Mingyue for her special ability.

• Luo Chuan’s group found seven Medicine Kings and other treasures while exploring the secret realm, and Luo Chuan altered some terrain linked to the Yin Spirits.
• By the tenth day, teams in the secret realm had begun killing one another over opportunities, while Luo Chuan’s group continued traveling together.
• Luo Chuan cooked a Divine Lord-level snake in the Profound Yellow Cauldron, and Ji Yaoyue, Zhu Zhuqing, and Qin Mingyue shared the meal with him.
• The Sword Sect’s Sword Child arrived with Liu Qingying, introduced her as his partner, and joined Luo Chuan’s group for dinner.
• The Sword Child asked whether Luo Chuan had faced danger and warned that people might kidnap Qin Mingyue to exploit her special ability.

Luo Chuan warned the Sword Sect's Sword Child away from places where Yin Spirits appeared, then confronted the Light Holy Land party that demanded an apology and Qin Mingyue's company. He sealed the Light Holy Land group in a trapping formation, leaving their next move unresolved.

• Sword Child explained that people might try to kidnap Qin Mingyue, and Luo Chuan warned him not to enter places with cold, gloomy auras.
• Sword Child and Liu Qingying left to travel east, while Luo Chuan and the others finished their meal.
• The Light Holy Son arrived with Xu Mingguang and other Light Holy Land members, and Luo Chuan mocked them.
• Xu Mingguang demanded that Luo Chuan apologize and that Qin Mingyue accompany them for a few days.
• Luo Chuan used the Six Immortal Seals to trap the Light Holy Land group in one area.

Luo Chuan fought the Light Holy Land disciples trapped by the formation, overpowering Nan Yang and then clashing with Xu Mingguang. He left Nan Yang sealed inside the Golden Wheel, the other disciples trapped in Black Lotus cages, and Xu Mingguang wounded as the battle continued.

• Luo Chuan used the Mountain Holding Seal and the Profound Yellow Cauldron to crush Nan Yang, seal his cultivation, and imprison him in the Golden Wheel.
• Xu Mingguang moved to rescue Nan Yang, but Luo Chuan blocked him with the Karma Fire Red Lotus and trapped the Light Holy Land’s first-tier disciples in Black Lotus cages.
• Luo Chuan fought Xu Mingguang with the Profound Yellow Cauldron and Six Paths Reincarnation Fist, while the trapped disciples struggled to escape.
• Luo Chuan summoned Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin and used the Soldier Secret to turn Xu Mingguang’s Holy Light Sword against him, severing one of Xu Mingguang’s arms.
• Xu Mingguang’s Holy Light Armor returned to him after Luo Chuan tried to scatter it, and Luo Chuan’s Profound Yellow Cauldron blocked a disciple’s Holy Light Art.

Luo Chuan defeated and sealed the Light Holy Land cultivators, then shared an inheritance with Xia Longhua and led him toward a dangerous area filled with Yin Spirits. Luo Chuan revealed that the opportunity there could help him reach the Divine Lord Realm and asked Xia Longhua to shed some blood.

• Luo Chuan suppressed the Light Holy Son and the other Light Holy Land cultivators, then tossed them into a beast's latrine rather than kill them.
• Luo Chuan shared the Old General's inheritance with Xia Longhua, who thanked him on Great Xia's behalf.
• Luo Chuan spent three days measuring the terrain before leading Xia Longhua and Qin Mingyue toward a place where Qin Mingyue sensed something good.
• Xia Longhua warned Luo Chuan that the area held powerful Yin Spirits, including Saint King-level ones deeper inside, but Luo Chuan insisted the opportunity could let him break through to the Divine Lord Realm.
• Luo Chuan said Zhu Qing was also due to break through and asked Xia Longhua to shed some blood, threatening to find another Great Xia Disciple if he refused.

Luo Chuan led the group deeper into the Great Xia Secret Realm, using Xia Longhua’s blood to keep Saint King-level Yin Spirits from attacking. After passing a watching Yin Spirit, they continued toward the treasures Qin Mingyue sensed.

• Luo Chuan asked Xia Longhua to lend blood for the Golden Taiji Circle, and Xia Longhua agreed after learning it could protect them from Saint King-level Yin Spirits.
• Luo Chuan infused Xia Longhua’s blood into the Golden Taiji Circle and led the group into the Core Region, where fewer Holy Monarch-level Yin Spirits approached.
• A Saint King-level Yin Spirit watched the group from a dark forest but did not attack, while Xia Longhua hid behind Luo Chuan and worried about attracting its attention.
• Xia Longhua threatened to reveal Luo Chuan’s wish to marry princesses from all Three Great Dynasties, and Luo Chuan ordered him to add more blood to the circle.
• Luo Chuan asked Qin Mingyue to guide them, and she pointed out nearby small treasures before the group continued toward the larger ones.