Chapter Summaries

The Barbarian Princess Pu Yangying agreed to cooperate with Yi Province’s forces against Fang Xuan, while Fang Xuan and Pu An Yu analyzed the remaining Dragon Fate in the Nine Provinces. The chapter ended as a powerful killing intent descended on Fang Xuan and he pulled Pu An Yu out of danger.

• Pu Yangying learned that Yi Province’s men were hunting Fang Xuan, recognized him as the martial artist who had killed Chu Yuanzhen and taken the Blood Essence Pill, and agreed to a temporary alliance against him.
• The Yi Province leader revealed that Fang Xuan was in Jing Province and had absorbed a strand of Dragon Fate, then said Immortal Zi Zhuo of Kunwu Mountain would help deal with him.
• A Kunwu Mountain elder learned Fang Xuan’s location from two disciples and ordered them back to their sect because they could not join a Martial Venerable’s battle.
• In Qiu Ding Town, Chu Kuang and Fang Xuan saw refugees displaced by the wars, while Fang Xuan thought of Fang Li’s former governance.
• Fang Xuan and Pu An Yu discussed where the remaining Dragon Fate lay, and Pu An Yu sensed a coming move from Yi Province.
• Fang Xuan felt killing intent from overhead, seized Pu An Yu’s hand, and darted backward.

Immortal Zi Zhuo of Kunwu Mountain attacked the inn where Fang Xuan and Pu An Yu were staying, and Chu Kuang challenged him. Their clash revealed Chu Kuang had disrupted Zi Zhuo’s fortune with Mystic Feng Shui; Zi Zhuo demanded that Chu Kuang restore it and warned Fang Xuan as the confrontation remained unresolved.

• Immortal Zi Zhuo split the inn apart with his sword, and Fang Xuan watched the destruction while holding Pu An Yu’s hand.
• Chu Kuang confronted Zi Zhuo and attacked him with the Copper Coin Sword, but Zi Zhuo blocked the strike and countered with a powerful punch.
• Chu Kuang met Zi Zhuo’s punch with his sword, and their collision sent force rippling through the town and injured people below.
• Zi Zhuo realized Chu Kuang had used Mystic Feng Shui to disrupt his fortune, while Pu An Yu explained the art’s risks to Fang Xuan.
• Zi Zhuo drew his longsword, demanded that Chu Kuang restore his fortune, and warned Fang Xuan to remain fortunate.

Chu Kuang forced Immortal Zi Zhuo to reveal that someone other than Kunwu Mountain wanted Fang Xuan dead, then released him after Fang Xuan agreed. That night, Pu An Yu secretly used the Tuan Yi Heart Method to divine something, while an old man on a distant island noticed her search.

• Chu Kuang threatened Immortal Zi Zhuo, who admitted that someone else wanted Fang Xuan dead but refused to identify them.
• Fang Xuan agreed to let Chu Kuang remove the Yin-Yang Dual Qi from Immortal Zi Zhuo, and Immortal Zi Zhuo left.
• Fang Xuan invited the clans to meet him at the Mountain God Temple the next evening and said he planned to seek dragon fortune in Central Province.
• At the temple that night, Pu An Yu began a divination with the Tuan Yi Heart Method, and Chu Kuang helped her form a Dragon Vein around the Stone Platform.
• On a solitary island in Tong Sea, an old man saw the stars rearrange and wondered what Pu An Yu was seeking.

Pu An Yu warned Chu Kuang that the Chu Family had to choose a side as Great Yang weakened, while Fang Xuan summoned Jing Province’s prominent clans to offer them what they wanted. The chapter ended with Fang Xuan making clear that the Dragon Whale Army intended to incorporate them.

• Pu An Yu used her divination to tell Chu Kuang that the Chu Family needed to seize the opportunity created by Great Yang’s declining dragon fortune.
• Pu An Yu suffered a heavenly backlash after revealing too much, and Chu Kuang used his brush to help restore her blood and vitality.
• Gongyang Jing gathered Jing Province’s prominent clans at the Mountain God Temple, where they speculated about Chu Kuang and the Primordial Secret Cave.
• Fang Xuan arrived with Chu Kuang and Pu An Yu, introduced himself to the assembled clans, and asked what they intended to do as Great Yang approached collapse.
• Fang Xuan told the clans that the Dragon Whale Army could provide what they wanted and made clear that he had come to incorporate them.

Fang Xuan secured the major clans’ nominal submission to the Dragon Whale Army, while Zhou Yi’s casual talk led Wang Liang to reveal Cloud Palace’s search for Dragon Luck Bearers. The Martial Forest Alliance’s prison chief forced Wang Liang to confess that An Shang was suspected of carrying Dragon Luck.

• Fang Xuan offered the Qiu Ding Town clans the choice to join the Dragon Whale Army or oppose it, and Gongyang Jing led them in declaring submission.
• Chu Kuang warned Fang Xuan that the clans might not be sincere, but Fang Xuan said they would submit in time.
• Zhou Yi told Wang Liang that the newcomer An Shang had broken through after sleeping for one night.
• Wang Liang reported to Senior Sun that An Shang might be a Dragon Luck Bearer, and Senior Sun ordered him to continue investigating.
• The prison chief arrested and interrogated Wang Liang about his questions concerning Zhou Yi and An Shang.
• Wang Liang confessed that Cloud Palace was searching for Dragon Luck Bearers.

The prison chief reported that Cloud Palace was seeking Dragon Luck and that An Ba Tou might be its bearer, while Zhao Yang and Zhou Yi discussed the Alliance’s uncertain political future. In Qiu Ding Town, Gongyang Jing allied with Immortal Zi Zhuo against Fang Xuan, and Fang Xuan learned that the final strand of Dragon Luck lay in Martial Forest Alliance territory at Qu Zuo Mountain.

• The prison chief told Zhao Yang and Zhou Yi that Wang Liang had confessed Cloud Palace was searching for Dragon Luck and that An Ba Tou fit the description of a Dragon Luck Bearer.
• Zhao Yang ordered the Dragon Luck news kept quiet, and he and Zhou Yi discussed Zhou Yi’s affliction and the conflict between the Provincial Governor and the Little Emperor.
• Gongyang Jing offered to report Fang Xuan’s movements to Immortal Zi Zhuo, who threatened him before promising a possible reward if he handled the matter well.
• Gongyang Yiyun witnessed Gongyang Jing’s departure and sent a warning that he had joined forces with Immortal Zi Zhuo.
• Pu An Yu told Fang Xuan and Chu Kuang that the remaining strand of Dragon Luck was at Qu Zuo Mountain, within Martial Forest Alliance territory.

Mister Wei revealed that the Martial Forest Alliance held the core strand of dragon fortune and urged Monk Yun Xin to help secure it while arranging Fang Xuan’s elimination. Meanwhile, Pu An Yu decided to take Fang Xuan and Chu Kuang to the alliance, and two Buddhist monks were ordered to find Fang Xuan.

• Mister Wei told Monk Yun Xin that the Martial Forest Alliance possessed the core dragon fortune and could become a powerful force, though its vanished Spirit Wandering Realm leader might not submit to anyone.
• Mister Wei named Fang Xuan as a threat who had to be eliminated, said Immortal Zi Zhuo had been sent to act, and asked Monk Yun Xin to help win over the Martial Forest Alliance.
• Qing Ning and Qing Xiu discussed the difficulty of Buddhist cultivation and learned that their master wanted them to find Fang Xuan.
• Pu An Yu decided that she, Fang Xuan, and Chu Kuang would go to the Martial Forest Alliance in three days, despite Chu Kuang’s reluctance.
• Chu Kuang admitted that the alliance’s old monster had beaten him before and asked for one day to repay his gambling debts in Qiu Ding Town.

Pu An Yu hid the lifespan backlash from her Tuan Yi Heart Scripture and teased Fang Xuan about becoming Dao companions before rushing to retrieve Chu. Fang Xuan rescued Gongyang Yiyun from Gongyang Jing’s ambush, then faced Immortal Zi Zhuo, whose sword attack began as Fang Xuan prepared to fight with his fist.

• Pu An Yu concealed her fading lifespan from Fang Xuan, joked about becoming Dao companions, and left to drag Chu out of the Gambling House.
• Fang Xuan sensed trouble and flew to the forest, where Gongyang Jing revealed that he had captured Gongyang Yiyun and confessed to killing Yiyun’s father.
• Fang Xuan burned Yiyun’s captors, freed him, and attacked Gongyang Jing, but Immortal Zi Zhuo blocked the fatal strike.
• Immortal Zi Zhuo ordered Gongyang Jing away, then declared that Fang Xuan had to die; Fang Xuan took a boxing stance as Zi Zhuo launched a sword attack.

Fang Xuan fought Immortal Zi Zhuo in the mountains, and the Kunwu elder unleashed Kunwu Mountain’s most powerful Martial Dao Divine Power after failing to recruit him. Immortal Zi Zhuo appeared to defeat the battered Fang Xuan, but Fang Xuan claimed that Zi Zhuo was the one who had lost.

• Fang Xuan and Immortal Zi Zhuo exchanged powerful attacks, with Fang Xuan using his golden dragon might against Zi Zhuo’s Starry Sky Sword Art.
• Fang Xuan countered Immortal Zi Zhuo’s sword strikes with Divine Dragon Tail Swing, and Zi Zhuo offered to take him back to Kunwu Mountain.
• Fang Xuan rejected Zi Zhuo’s offer and proposed that Kunwu Mountain submit to the Dragon Whale Army, so the two resumed fighting.
• Immortal Zi Zhuo unleashed Kunwu Mountain’s Kunwu Sword Array, while Fang Xuan activated Divine Fire Profound Heaven Transformation and charged into the attack.
• Immortal Zi Zhuo’s sword lights sent Fang Xuan flying into the mountain forest, leaving him bloodied as Zi Zhuo declared victory.
• Fang Xuan calmly told Immortal Zi Zhuo that Zi Zhuo was the one who had lost.

Fang Xuan defeated Immortal Zi Zhuo, learned that Xuan Yi King of Yizhou wanted him dead, and headed to the Gongyang Clan. Celestial Master Liu warned Gongyang Jing that Fang Xuan was coming, leaving Gongyang Jing convinced his clan was finished.

• Fang Xuan struck Immortal Zi Zhuo with Ink Abyss but spared him after sensing his killing intent had vanished.
• Immortal Zi Zhuo told Fang Xuan that Xuan Yi King of Yizhou wanted him dead and offered to pass on the Kunwu Sword Array.
• Gongyang Yiyun offered Fang Xuan a place to recover, but Fang Xuan took a pill and ordered him to lead the way to the Gongyang Clan.
• Gongyang Jing learned that his steward could not report the forest battle's outcome, then met with Celestial Master Liu.
• Celestial Master Liu told Gongyang Jing that Fang Xuan had won and was heading for the Gongyang Clan, prompting Gongyang Jing to fear his clan was finished.

Fang Xuan confronted Gongyang Jing at the Gongyang Clan and destroyed the clan after its leader activated the Heavenly Dipper Four Symbols Formation. The chapter ended with Gongyang Jing and half the clan swallowed by Fang Xuan’s golden fist seal.

• Gongyang Yiyun returned to the Gongyang Clan with Fang Xuan, who called for Gongyang Jing and killed the gate guards with his voice.
• Gongyang Jing ordered the Heavenly Dipper Four Symbols Formation activated and sent for other clans to reinforce him.
• Gongyang Jing confronted Fang Xuan as the formation summoned four divine beasts, which trembled under Fang Xuan’s dragon might.
• Fang Xuan shattered the formation and engulfed half the Gongyang Clan, including Gongyang Jing, with a golden fist seal.

After Fang Xuan destroyed the Gongyang Clan’s stronghold, Celestial Master Liu and the surviving clan forces submitted to him, and he installed Gongyang Yiyun as clan head. While Pu An Yu and Chu Kuang searched for Fang Xuan, he recovered from his battle with Immortal Zi Zhuo and discovered that the Kunwu Sword Array had left its legacy within him.

• Celestial Master Liu submitted to Fang Xuan, who named Gongyang Yiyun the new Gongyang Clan head and ordered Bao Feng Temple and the clan to jointly rule south of Jing Province.
• Gongyang Yiyun accepted the kneeling clan forces as the gathered families departed, recognizing that turmoil in Qiu Ding Town had begun.
• Pu An Yu and Chu Kuang searched the mountain forest for Fang Xuan after learning he had fought Immortal Zi Zhuo and badly damaged the Gongyang Clan.
• Fang Xuan treated his injuries in a Mountain God Temple and forced the lingering sword intent from his wounds with true force.
• The expelled sword intent entered Fang Xuan’s Navel Point and revealed the Kunwu Sword Array, placing Kunwu Mountain’s legacy in his hands.

Fang Xuan cultivated the Kunwu Sword Array through the Black Talisman, awakening Ink Abyss and unleashing a sword-intent barrier that Chu Kuang could not break. The barrier faded, and Fang Xuan continued practicing in seclusion while Pu An Yu guarded the temple.

• The Black Talisman drew Fang Xuan's sword intent into the Kunwu Sword Array, revealing forty-nine sword techniques for him to practice.
• Ink Abyss absorbed a warm jade that flew from Fang Xuan's Spatial Item and gained sentience.
• Chu Kuang and Pu An Yu reached the Mountain God Temple, where Chu Kuang failed to break through the sword-intent barrier and Pu An Yu's divination showed Fang Xuan was safe and blessed.
• Ink Abyss flew out of the temple and returned inside, and Chu Kuang and Pu An Yu entered to find Fang Xuan practicing swordsmanship with a branch.
• Pu An Yu set up arrays around the temple while Fang Xuan continued cultivating the Kunwu Sword Array through the Black Talisman and sensing a familiar aura connected to the Dragon Seal.

After completing his seclusion, Fang Xuan reunited with Pu An Yu and Chu Kuang, learned that Ink Abyss had become a Fourth Grade Spirit Sword, and prepared to travel to the Martial Forest Alliance. Meanwhile, Xuan Yi King’s spies and the barbarian tribes’ Pu Yangying joined forces to pursue the Alliance’s dragon fortune, while someone else was assigned to deal with Fang Xuan.

• Fang Xuan exhausted the sword intent Immortal Master Ziyue had left in him and reached Peak of Perfection in the Kunwu Sword Array.
• Fang Xuan emerged from seclusion and told Pu An Yu and Chu Kuang that he had comprehended the complete Kunwu Sword Array from Ziyue’s sword intent.
• Pu An Yu explained that Ink Abyss had developed a spirit and become at least a Fourth Grade Spirit Sword after hunting demonic beasts.
• Fang Xuan said he and Pu An Yu would head to the Martial Forest Alliance now that their business was settled.
• Xuan Yi King’s spies learned that Immortal Master Ziyue had failed and received orders to help Mister Wei seize the dragon fortune held by the Martial Forest Alliance.
• Pu Yangying asked the spies to secure identities for her people, and they agreed to cooperate while leaving the question of who would claim the dragon fortune for later.

Fang Li agreed to find a place in Sea Province for the Azure Sea Cloud Sect, while the Dragon Whale Army weighed its position in the struggle over Central Province. In Jing Province, Yun Xin directed Qing Xiu and Qing Ning to seek dragon fortune through the Martial Forest Alliance as a path to questioning the heart.

• Zhao Yu Ming asked Fang Li to find the Azure Sea Cloud Sect a suitable place in Sea Province, and Fang Li agreed.
• Zhao Yu Ming and Zhao Zhuzhu discussed Lin Da, her future Dao companion, and their hopes for Fang Xuan's return.
• An Yan urged Fang Li to take more guards and let Fang Lan decide for herself about marriage, while Fang Li remained concerned about Fang Xuan.
• Fang Li told Sikong Jihuai that the Dragon Whale Army needed to track who would gain the three hundred thousand Imperial Court Army soldiers, and revealed the Azure Sea Cloud Sect planned to relocate to Sea Province.
• Feng You told Qing Xiu and Qing Ning that the barbarian tribes wanted to enter the Martial Forest Alliance for dragon fortune.
• Yun Xin advised Qing Xiu and Qing Ning not to pursue the Killing Body Status and sent them to the Martial Forest Alliance to seek dragon fortune and question their hearts.

Zhao Yang struggled to decide what to do with the Dragon Fortune hidden in the Martial Forest Alliance as Mister Wei warned him that it would draw enemies and offered to extract it. Meanwhile, Chu Kuang, Fang Xuan, and Pu An Yu arrived in Yongze City and discussed why Jing Province held so much Dragon Fortune.

• Zhao Yang sent agents to investigate Dragon Fortune and secretly asked Gu Chengxuan to mediate, while Sun Fu learned the Martial Forest Alliance had rooted out its planted agents and returned to Central Province.
• Mister Wei appeared before Zhao Yang, pointed out An Shang as the bearer of Dragon Fortune, and warned that rival factions would turn the alliance into a battlefield.
• Zhao Yang refused to decide whether to let Mister Wei extract the Dragon Fortune, saying only the Old Ancestor could make that choice, and Mister Wei vanished after telling him to prepare for the enemy.
• Chu Kuang, Fang Xuan, and Pu An Yu rode through Yongze City, where Chu Kuang joked about brothels and gambling houses before asking why Jing Province had the most Dragon Fortune.
• Pu An Yu explained that Dragon Fortune favored the Martial Forest Alliance because it had the greatest chance of succeeding in a rebellion.

The Martial Forest Alliance gathered at Yongze City after issuing an Ice Jade Jianghu Order, and Zhao Jichun revealed that scattered dragon fortune had drawn the Nine Provinces’ rebel armies and major sects toward them. Zhao Yang called on the branches to prepare to resist, but the meeting ended with Liu Zhu asking what the Old Ancestor intended to do.

• Tong Chun and Chief Liu arrived at the Martial Forest Alliance headquarters, where Liu told her branch’s female disciples to prepare to withdraw if a great enemy appeared.
• Pu Yangying explained to Pu Yangjun why their barbarian forces had come to seek dragon fortune rather than invade other provinces.
• Zhou Yi rebuked Chief Xiao Yan for questioning the Ice Jade Jianghu Order, then Zhao Jichun led the branch chiefs into the manor.
• Zhao Jichun revealed that the key strand of scattered dragon fortune was within the Martial Forest Alliance and that rebel armies and major sects coveted it.
• The branch chiefs debated whether to rebel against Great Yang and how to resist their enemies, while Zhao Yang said the Old Ancestor would decide whether to raise the banner.
• Liu Zhu asked Zhao Yang what stance the Old Ancestor had taken.

As the Martial Forest Alliance faced a gathering of powerful forces seeking its dragon fortune, Fang Xuan and his companions learned that a battle over it was imminent. Allies and rivals converged on Qu Zuo Mountain, while Mister Wei ordered Old Immortal Zi Zhan to return to Kunwu Mountain.

• Zhao Yang told the Martial Forest Alliance branch masters that the Old Ancestor was in seclusion and had not been awakened.
• Fang Xuan left the inn to gather information, while Pu An Yu used the Tuan Yi Heart Scripture and learned that forces from across the Nine Provinces were coming for the Martial Forest Alliance's dragon fortune.
• Pu An Yu said Fang Xuan had never given up since she met him, and Chu Kuang decided to go to the Martial Forest Alliance as she went to find Fang Xuan.
• Feng You traveled toward the Martial Forest Alliance with Buddhist monks and a Martial Venerable, promising the monks a share of the dragon fortune.
• Elder Xu told Sun Fu and the other Cloud Palace members to keep the dragon fortune from the barbarians and not to help Fang Xuan claim more of it.
• Mister Wei confronted Old Immortal Zi Zhan for letting Fang Xuan go and teaching him Kunwu Mountain's secret, then ordered him to return to Kunwu Mountain and stay away from the Martial Forest Alliance.

Fang Xuan, Chu Kuang, and Pu An Yu entered the Martial Forest Alliance’s forbidden Back Mountain to seek the old ancestor’s consent to take the Dragon Fortune, but Zhao Yang confronted them before they could find him. Fang Xuan fought Zhao Yang and revealed his Samadhi True Fire, then prepared to meet Zhao Yang’s devastating Sword River attack with his fifth transformation of Divine Fire Profound Heaven Transformation.

• Chu Kuang revealed that his golden token came from a branch master and explained that the group needed the old ancestor’s consent to take the Dragon Fortune.
• Zhao Yang led branch masters toward the Back Mountain after learning that intruders had entered, while the branch masters stayed outside.
• Zhao Yang confronted the three, then attacked Chu Kuang, whose fortune attack could not penetrate the Dao Patterns left by Zhao Chuanxiong.
• Fang Xuan blocked Zhao Yang’s next attack and learned that Zhao Yang was a fourth-rank Martial Venerable, while Fang Xuan was a third-rank Martial Venerable.
• Fang Xuan used Samadhi True Fire to burn Zhao Yang’s Sword Qi, but Zhao Yang summoned a Sword River and launched a powerful attack.
• Fang Xuan told Chu Kuang to protect Pu An Yu and transformed his flames from crimson to azure with Divine Fire Profound Heaven Transformation’s fifth transformation.

Fang Xuan met the Martial Forest Alliance’s Old Ancestor, Zhao Chuanxiong, who warned him against taking the Alliance’s dragon fortune and asked him to prevent it from falling into anyone else’s hands. Zhao Chuanxiong vanished after giving Fang Xuan a Myriad Spirit Pill, and Fang Xuan suspected the Old Ancestor was nearing Transcending Mortality.

• Zhao Chuanxiong stopped Zhao Yang’s attack on Fang Xuan and sent Fang Xuan, Chu Kuang, and Pu An Yu into the Back Mountain.
• The group encountered Xiao Hong, the mountain’s Suanni-blooded guardian beast, before Chu Kuang called out to the Old Ancestor at the stone door.
• Zhao Chuanxiong offered to make Fang Xuan his Gate of Life disciple and promised him leadership of the Martial Forest Alliance, but Fang Xuan declined because he already had a master.
• Zhao Chuanxiong warned Fang Xuan that dragon fortune could become a shackle after Transcending Mortality and told him to give up the Alliance’s strand.
• Zhao Chuanxiong appeared and asked Fang Xuan to keep the strand of dragon fortune from falling into anyone else’s hands while he continued his seclusion.
• Zhao Chuanxiong left Fang Xuan a Myriad Spirit Pill, and Fang Xuan wondered whether the Old Ancestor was about to enter Transcending Mortality.