Chapter Summaries

Fang Xuan fought Hao Cheng Daoren, whose evolved Bone Asura body overwhelmed him until Fang Xuan unleashed his martial arts and turned the battle around. The chapter ended with Hao Cheng Daoren’s body pulverized by Fang Xuan’s Whale Tyrant Killing Fist, though his spine and head remained.

• Hao Cheng Daoren revealed his name as Zhang Hao Cheng and attacked Fang Xuan, crushing his chest with a bone spike.
• Fang Xuan used Thousand Torrent Stream to batter Hao Cheng Daoren and pierce his chest with Azure Lightning Flow Splendor.
• Hao Cheng Daoren survived, strengthened his body with green-patterned bone, and trapped Fang Xuan beneath a storm of bone spikes.
• Fang Xuan used Whale Leap to evade the attack and vanished from Hao Cheng Daoren’s sight.
• Fang Xuan struck from above with Whale Tyrant Killing Fist, pulverizing Hao Cheng Daoren’s body except for the spine connected to his head.

Fang Xuan defeated Hao Cheng Daoren and helped the Azure Sea Cloud Sect eradicate the Lotus Moon Demon Sect, while the Dragon Whale Army seized Xinhua City. When the army reached Golden Courtyard Mountain, Fang Xuan revealed himself as its lord to the shocked sect disciples.

• The Dragon Whale Army attacked Xinhua City while Zhao Ji led the weakened defenders into battle.
• Fang Xuan emerged from the crater with Hao Cheng Daoren's remains, and the Azure Sea Cloud Sect disciples wiped out the Lotus Moon Demon Sect followers.
• Fang Xuan watched the fighting in Xinhua City through his Crimson King Eyes as Ji Yuchen and Gu Chang wondered why he seemed familiar.
• The Dragon Whale Army pursued the Royal Court Army to Golden Courtyard Mountain, where Sikong Jie ordered Zhao Ji's forces attacked and Sikong Xiao greeted the Azure Sea Cloud Sect.
• Fang Xuan ordered the Dragon Whale Army to recruit suitable Royal Court Army soldiers, and Sikong Jie, Sikong Xiao, and their troops knelt to him.
• Fang Xuan restored his original appearance, shocking Ji Yuchen, Gu Chang, and Zhao Zhuzhu.

After Fang Xuan returned to Xinhua City and revealed himself to the Azure Sea Cloud Sect disciples, they settled into the City Lord's Mansion. Ji Yuchen struggled to accept that Fang Xuan had surpassed him, leaving him confused and stripped of confidence.

• Fang Xuan asked Sikong Xiao and Sikong Jie about Fang Li and learned that Fang Li had become a respected commander of the Dragon Whale Army.
• Fang Xuan told Sikong Jie to house the Azure Sea Cloud Sect disciples in the City Lord's Mansion while they rested.
• Gu Chang and Zhao Zhuzhu discussed Fang Xuan's true identity, and Gu Chang urged Zhao Zhuzhu not to tell her father about it.
• Ji Yuchen recalled Fang Xuan's overwhelming strength and lamented that his own ambitions now seemed laughable.

Fang Li directed the Dragon Whale Army’s next moves after Xinhua City fell, planning to intercept the Hai Province Army and seize Ancient City. In Xinhua City, Fang Xuan saw the city recovering from the Lotus Moon Demon Sect’s influence as the Azure Sea Cloud Sect disciples prepared to leave.

• After Xinhua City fell, Fang Li ordered LiuAn City's garrison to reinforce Cloud Mountain and intercept the Hai Province Army, then planned to take Ancient City.
• Fang Li reflected that he could finally help his elder brother, Fang Xuan, instead of relying on his protection.
• Three days after the Dragon Whale Army took Xinhua City, Fang Xuan and Sikong Jie discussed the city’s recovery and the danger posed by the Lotus Moon Demon Sect.
• Fang Xuan departed to attend to the Azure Sea Cloud Sect disciples, who prepared to leave Xinhua City; Gu Chang said Senior Brother Ji had not emerged for three days.
• As the Azure Sea Cloud Sect carriages left, Zhao Zhuzhu saw that Xinhua City had come alive again, while children sang a rhyme welcoming the Dragon Whale King.

Fang Xuan advised Ji Yuchen to move beyond his defeat, entrusted him with the Dragon Whale Jade Token for the Azure Sea Cloud Sect’s Eldest Senior Sister, and departed. As the Dragon Whale Army advanced toward Xinhua City, Wang Ge learned that PingLiao City’s troops had left and faced pressure from Miao Yi to seize the opportunity.

• Fang Xuan met Ji Yuchen outside Xinhua City and urged him not to obsess over reputation or the battle that had unsettled him.
• Ji Yuchen accepted Fang Xuan’s advice, gave him a disciple’s salute, and received the Dragon Whale Jade Token to deliver to the Azure Sea Cloud Sect’s Eldest Senior Sister.
• Fang Xuan departed, while Ji Yuchen regarded him as his Teacher of a Sentence.
• One Line Sky led more than ten thousand garrison troops toward PingLiao City and told Gang Zi they might see Fang Xuan after the coming battle.
• A general reported to Wang Ge that more than twenty thousand troops had left PingLiao City to reinforce Xinhua City.
• Miao Yi urged Wang Ge to take advantage of PingLiao City’s weakened defenses, but Wang Ge rebuked her and studied a map.

Fang Xuan reunited with Fang Li and took a direct role in leading the Dragon Whale Army. Fang Li presented a sand table of Sea Province and set out a plan to capture Ancient City next.

• Fang Xuan arrived at Xinhua City, where the Dragon Whale Army welcomed him, and he joined its leaders in the main tent.
• Fang Xuan met Zheng Chuan, who clarified that he had come for Fang Li rather than joined the army.
• Fang Xuan declared that he would stop being a hands-off commander and promised to face the enemy's Bone Asuras himself.
• Fang Li presented a sand table of Sea Province and explained the Dragon Whale Army's plan to seize the Hai Province Army's cities before the Royal Court Army intervened.
• Fang Li identified Ancient City as the Dragon Whale Army's next target.

Fang Li told Fang Xuan how An Yan had saved him during his flight through Sea Province, then discussed a plan to take Ancient City. The chapter ended with Fang Xuan agreeing to infiltrate the city the next day.

• Fang Lan teased Fang Xuan and Fang Li about marriage, and Fang Li revealed that he hoped to marry An Yan, the Zheng Family's only daughter.
• Fang Li recounted how An Yan had rescued him from Water Bandits after he fled Yan Province and how the Zheng Family head later brought him back to Hai Province.
• Fang Li explained that he had moved elite soldiers from PingLiao City and LiuAn City but could not attack Ancient City outright because of its defenders and nearby Hai Province forces.
• Fang Li shared Spider Web's intelligence on Wang Ge, and Fang Xuan agreed to infiltrate Ancient City the next day.

Fang Xuan learned that an evil fiend had killed a man in the ancient city, prompting Wang Ge to impose a curfew. The chapter left Fang Xuan asking how he could meet Wang Ge.

• An evil creature killed a drunken man in the ancient city and drained his body, becoming the fifth dried corpse found that month.
• Wang Qike reported the deaths to Wang Ge, who ordered stronger patrols and a citywide curfew.
• Miao Yi told Wang Ge that the Golden Winged Phoenix's location had been confirmed and sent to His Highness.
• Fang Xuan sent Bing Si to investigate the killing and learned that Wang Ge had suppressed the Lotus Moon Demon Sect in the city.
• Fang Xuan asked Bing Si whether there was a way to meet Wang Ge.

Fang Xuan learned that Wang Ge had uncovered a lead on the Golden Winged Phoenix, while Empress Zhou Qi sought the clues for herself. As Great Yang’s authority crumbled and the Dragon Whale Army fought the Hai Province Army, Wang Qike finally met the thin man he had been searching for.

• Bing Si told Fang Xuan that Wang Ge had found information about the Golden Winged Phoenix and intended to claim its Inner Core for himself.
• Empress Zhou Qi asked for the clues concerning the Golden Winged Phoenix.
• Li Yuanzheng learned that the Dragon Whale Army had taken Xinhua City and surrounded the ancient city, while the Lotus Moon Demon Sect spread through Sea Province.
• Li Yuanzheng ordered Yang Pu to purge the Lotus Moon Demon Sect from Great Yang’s controlled territories and directed Chu Ying to reinforce Yi Province.
• Wang Qike drank tea with Yang Ke during the curfew, and a thin man carrying a bell sat down and asked whether Wang Qike had been looking for him.

Fang Xuan confronted a woman who used the Soul-Seizing Bell while seeking news of the Golden Winged Phoenix, and beat her when she refused to cooperate. After she fled and attacked him with a powerful sword, he caught it unharmed, leaving her to beg for her life.

• Wang Qike demanded that the disguised woman take him to the Golden Winged Phoenix, but she used the Soul-Seizing Bell to incapacitate the teahouse’s occupants.
• Fang Xuan resisted the bell, made the woman sit, and demanded that she reveal the Golden Winged Phoenix’s whereabouts.
• When the woman refused, Fang Xuan punched her repeatedly, and she escaped to a stream after a brief opening.
• The woman resolved to seek revenge through the Lotus Moon Demon Sect, but Fang Xuan appeared and learned she had ties to the sect.
• The woman attacked Fang Xuan with her Five Qi Gathering Origin Sword, but he caught it unharmed, and she begged him to spare her life.

Fang Xuan obtained a lead to the Golden Winged Phoenix at Lin Feng Valley, while Wang Ge revealed that the treasure was meant to help Wang Qike become a Bone Asura. Fang Xuan headed across Tong Sea toward Lin Feng Valley, where news of the treasure had already spread.

• Wang Qike learned that Pu An Yu had escaped and that someone else had already beaten them to the Golden Winged Phoenix lead.
• Fang Xuan found a golden feather, confirmed Pu An Yu had no great connection to the Lotus Moon Demon Sect, and identified Lin Feng Valley as his next destination.
• Wang Ge told Wang Qike that the Golden Winged Phoenix was intended to give him a foundation in Sea Province, then ordered him to retrieve its Demon Core after receiving a bamboo arrow bearing the words “Lin Feng Valley, Golden Winged Phoenix.”
• Fang Xuan crossed Tong Sea by boat and joined a ship whose passengers were also heading to Lin Feng Valley to seek the rumored treasure.
• Fang Xuan suspected that Pu An Yu had deliberately spread the news about the Golden Winged Phoenix.

Fang Xuan arrived at Lin Feng Valley and headed alone toward its center to pursue the Golden Winged Phoenix’s Inner Core, while upheaval over the Lotus Moon Demon Sect and the Phoenix spread across the Great Yang Dynasty. Deep beneath a collapsing mountain, a giant-like figure awakened a golden creature and hoped to become a Blood Martial Saint.

• Fang Xuan accepted Deng Shang’s medicinal powder, then set off alone toward the heart of Lin Feng Valley.
• Deng Shang led his men toward the eastern shore to scatter beast-repelling powder and urged them to build a good bond with Fang Xuan.
• The Lotus Moon Demon Sect clashed with Gu Kaizhi’s forces in Ji Province, and the battle’s shockwaves destroyed Qingshui County.
• News of the Golden Winged Phoenix’s Demon Core drew martial heroes and powerful factions from across the Great Yang Dynasty, while the Azure Sea Cloud Sect stayed silent.
• In a cliffside cave in Tong Sea, a giant-like figure used Dao Patterns to collapse a mountain and revealed a streak of golden light beneath it.
• The giant-like figure said that raising the creature for a thousand years would be worthwhile if he could become a Blood Martial Saint.

Fang Xuan tracked the Golden Winged Phoenix to Lin Feng Valley as powerful Third Heavenly Gate experts gathered to claim its Inner Core. The experts killed the Phoenix, but before they could decide who would take the Demon Core, a sinister laugh rang through the valley.

• Fang Xuan confirmed the Golden Winged Phoenix's location with its feather and sensed the commotion gathering across Lin Feng Valley.
• Lin Kunya recognized Fang Xuan from their past encounter, while Wang Chenyan promised to help him regain his honor.
• Sima Hongji joined the battle for the Golden Winged Phoenix's Demon Core, and the gathered experts fought fiercely as they pursued it.
• Wang Chenyan proposed that the experts kill the Phoenix first and decide ownership of its Demon Core afterward.
• More than ten experts attacked together and killed the Golden Winged Phoenix, then paused over its corpse as a cold, sinister laugh echoed through the valley.

Fang Xuan watched as Xiao Yan seized the Golden Winged Phoenix's Demon Core and revealed himself as a powerful Bone Asura. Xiao Yan trapped the gathered Third Heavenly Gate experts in the Soul-Stealing Gloom Array to sacrifice them for his breakthrough, and the array's bone birds killed one of them.

• Fang Xuan stayed out of the fight over the Golden Winged Phoenix's Demon Core as more than a dozen Third Heavenly Gate experts battled for it.
• Xiao Yan appeared beside the phoenix's corpse, took the Demon Core, and killed Sima Hongji by piercing his chest and eating his heart.
• Xiao Yan struck down the green-robed cultivator and identified himself as the Iron Blood King, a man banished from the Great Yang Dynasty.
• Xiao Yan crushed the Demon Core and cast the Soul-Stealing Gloom Array, trapping the martial artists in a desolate wasteland.
• An elder of the Supreme Profound Sect tried to escape on his immortal sword, but bone birds devoured him until only bones remained.

Fang Xuan killed two Great Sun Sword Sect cultivators after the Golden Winged Phoenix’s Demon Core was lost in a deadly trap. He realized his actions would lead to a fight to the death with the sect, then sensed a Bone Asura descending toward him.

• Lin Kunya rushed toward the collapsing barrier around the Golden Winged Phoenix’s remains, where a Bone Asura’s formation had trapped more than a dozen Third Heavenly Gate experts and killed eight of them.
• The woman in red fled with Lin Kunya, then turned back to attack Fang Xuan after he spotted them.
• Fang Xuan struck Lin Kunya into a mountain wall and shattered the woman in red’s Crimson Sword with his Whale Tyrant Killing Fist, killing her.
• Fang Xuan found Lin Kunya and the woman in red dead at his feet and accepted that he had begun a fight to the death with the Great Sun Sword Sect.
• Fang Xuan activated his Crimson King Eyes as a black object hurtled toward him with immense force, and he recognized the threat as a Bone Asura.

Wang Ge learned that the city gates had been sealed and confronted a mysterious Bone Asura who demanded he take Xinhua City. In Lin Feng Valley, Fang Xuan encountered the dying Wang Qike and Miao Yi, who threatened to kill him after he overheard their conversation.

• Liu Qian reported that the city gates were sealed and the armies could no longer be contacted, while guards in the City Lord's Mansion had been replaced.
• A black-cloaked Bone Asura revealed that it had replaced Miao Yi and ordered Wang Ge to take Xinhua City, then vanished after warning him about the Golden Winged Phoenix's Demon Core and the Bone Asura.
• At Mingxia City's royal palace, Kuai Yi told a Lotus Moon Demon Sect Daoist that he would answer after that day, as the Hai Province King had entered seclusion.
• Fang Xuan found Wang Qike gravely wounded in Lin Feng Valley, where Miao Yi accused him of conspiring with his father over the Golden Winged Phoenix's Demon Core.
• When Fang Xuan tried to leave, Miao Yi told him he had to leave his life behind.

Fang Xuan fought a Bone Asura woman in Lin Feng Valley and overwhelmed her with his martial arts. After she returned clad in bone armor and unleashed a deadly technique fueled by Wang Qike’s corpse, Fang Xuan prepared to draw his lightning-bearing blade.

• Fang Xuan seized the woman’s blood spear barehanded and shattered it with the Thousand Torrent Stream.
• The woman summoned her Bloodthirsty Demon Shadow, but Fang Xuan destroyed the blood shadows with one punch and blasted her into the sky.
• Fang Xuan descended to Wang Qike’s deep pit and considered burying him, but the woman reappeared wrapped in blood-red bone armor.
• The woman used Wang Qike’s blood qi to form the Nine Nether Heavens Shaking Finger, leaving Fang Xuan sensing grave danger.
• Fang Xuan touched his blade as lightning stirred in the blood-red clouds above the woman.

Fang Li led fifty thousand Dragon Whale Army troops from Xinhua City on an eastern expedition to Ancient City after defeating a Hai Province Army force. In Ancient City, the Lotus Moon Demon Sect spread chaos while Wang Ge confronted one of its shadowy agents, who threatened his family and demanded his cooperation.

• Fang Li and Sikong Xiao departed Xinhua City with the Dragon Whale Army to attack Ancient City after the army routed thirty thousand Hai Province Army troops at Shangjing Valley.
• Fang Lan worried about Fang Li's expedition, while Sikong Jihuai reassured her and praised the prospect of Fang Li and Fang Lan's Eldest Brother fighting together.
• The Lotus Moon Demon Sect spread rapidly through Ancient City, where violence and fear drove citizens to consider joining its ranks.
• A black-cloaked procession passed through Ancient City's streets as a youth urged an old man to join the sect, but the old man rejected the idea.
• Wang Ge confronted a black-cloaked figure over the sect's abuses, then tried to withdraw from the conflict.
• The figure threatened Wang Ge's grandson and the Wang Family, said Miao Yi would escort Qi Ke back, and ordered Wang Ge to act before Ancient City fell.

As the Dragon Whale Army attacked the ancient city, Fang Xuan arrived and confronted the Bone Asura leading the black mist. The enemy trapped Fang Xuan in a cage of black mist and called for Blood Dew Old Demon to appear.

• Wang Ge, stripped of command and despairing over the city's situation, refused to intervene and told the black-robed man to reveal his trump cards.
• Fang Li ordered Sikong Jie and Sikong Xiao to prepare for a Bone Asura's intervention, then declared that the ancient city would fall because Fang Xuan had arrived.
• Fang Xuan appeared on the battlefield carrying Miao Yi's head and challenged the shadow, who recognized her as one of the Hai Province Army's Bone Asuras.
• Fang Xuan struck the shadow and sent him crashing into the earth, but the shadow recovered and summoned a cage of black mist around him.
• The shadow called out to Blood Dew Old Demon from within the black mist.

Fang Xuan faced two Bone Asuras at once and proved he could withstand their combined assault. As both enemies prepared to kill him, he vanished with Whale Leap and struck with Tingyu, declaring the blade could kill them.

• A second Bone Asura, Blood Dew Old Demon, appeared, and Fang Li ordered the Dragon Whale Army to form up.
• Fang Xuan struck Blood Dew Old Demon with Tingyu, wounding him and forcing both Bone Asuras to take him seriously.
• The two Bone Asuras attacked together, but Fang Xuan endured their combined force with only superficial injuries.
• The black shadow unleashed hundreds of slashes, and Fang Xuan vanished with Whale Leap.
• Lightning flashed as Fang Xuan declared Tingyu could kill the Bone Asuras, though it had been nurtured for less than a hundred days.