Chapter Summaries

Xiao Xian gave Yang Guo the martial arts manual Three Points Return to Origin, and Yang Guo accepted it despite Guo Jing’s objections. Guo Jing abandoned his plan to send Yang Guo to the Quanzhen Sect, leaving Yang Guo free to stay in Xiangyang.

• Xiao Xian refused to take back the manual, arguing that Yang Guo should decide whether to keep his gift.
• Guo Jing handed the manual to Yang Guo and signaled him to refuse it, but Yang Guo accepted it and thanked Xiao Xian.
• Yang Guo saw the gift as a way to avoid joining the Quanzhen Sect and remain in Xiangyang, where he enjoyed teasing Da Wu and Xiao Wu.
• Guo Jing reluctantly accepted Yang Guo’s choice, knowing that refusing the gift would insult Xiao Xian.
• Xiao Xian asked whether Guo Jing still planned to send Yang Guo to the Quanzhen Sect, and Guo Jing said he no longer would.

Xiao Xian discovered that the Ancient Tomb Sect was holding an open recruitment ceremony and listened to Quanzhen Daoists gossip about Little Dragon Girl and the sect’s history. The recruitment ended with several talented women accepted, while the others received money for their journey home.

• Xiao Xian bypassed Quanzhen Sect and arrived at the busy back mountain, where the Ancient Tomb Sect was recruiting disciples.
• Quanzhen Daoists gathered outside the forbidden grounds and discussed whether Little Dragon Girl would appear and why Wang Chongyang and Lin Chaoying had separated.
• Xiao Xian questioned the Daoists’ account and reflected that the world’s history differed greatly from the story he remembered.
• The Ancient Tomb Sect selected several talented women from more than a thousand candidates and gave the rest two taels of silver each for travel expenses.

Xiao Xian appeared at the Ancient Tomb Sect’s recruitment ceremony and forcibly crippled Little Dragon Girl’s true qi, restoring her emotions but leaving the sect vulnerable. He then immobilized the young disciples who tried to attack him.

• Little Dragon Girl emerged before the gathered disciples, and Xiao Xian decided to break the martial art that had suppressed her emotions.
• Xiao Xian pressed his hand to Little Dragon Girl’s head and violently drained away her true qi.
• Little Dragon Girl regained her emotions and became furious, fearing that her weakened sect could not withstand Li Mochou.
• The Quanzhen Sect Taoists glared at Xiao Xian, while the Ancient Tomb Sect’s young disciples drew their swords against him.
• Xiao Xian immobilized the young disciples with a wave of his hand and mocked them for wielding swords.

Xiao Xian gave Little Dragon Girl the Bright Jade Skill after destroying her previous cultivation, then agreed to restore her lost true qi. He left to gather medicinal herbs while Little Dragon Girl waited, having mistakenly feared he was running away.

• Xiao Xian gave Little Dragon Girl the Bright Jade Skill as compensation for crippling her martial arts, and she recognized it as an exceptional divine skill.
• Little Dragon Girl asked Xiao Xian to restore the true qi she had lost, and he agreed after she coaxed him.
• Xiao Xian vanished before Little Dragon Girl could react, prompting her to angrily order the loser Daoists to leave.
• Little Dragon Girl reconsidered and concluded that Xiao Xian had left to handle something related to restoring her cultivation.
• Xiao Xian traveled through Zhongnan Mountain, digging up medicinal herbs.

Xiao Xian refined a pill to compensate Little Dragon Girl for her crippled martial arts, then left Zhongnan Mountain to explore the martial world. Little Dragon Girl vowed to find him, while Xiao Xian traveled on, learning about the strength of this fused world.

• Xiao Xian used Emperor Flame and gathered herbs to refine a pill that could grant about fifty years of cultivation.
• Xiao Xian gave the pill to Little Dragon Girl and left without saying goodbye, expecting it to restore her martial arts within three days.
• Little Dragon Girl watched Xiao Xian depart and vowed to find him someday.
• Xiao Xian rode along the official road, drinking wine and learning that this world's martial artists ranged from Acquired and Innate experts to Masters, Great Grandmasters, and Celestials.

Guo Jing and Qiao Feng summoned martial artists to Great Victory Pass after Later Jin’s Ao Bai reached the Peak Great Grandmaster Realm, while Great Xia faced unrest and mounting military setbacks. At Great Victory Pass, Guo Jing warned that the isolated stronghold had only a month of provisions left as Later Jin besieged it.

• Passerby A explained that Ao Bai’s breakthrough had made Later Jin a greater threat and that Guo Jing and Qiao Feng had called for martial artists to gather at Great Victory Pass.
• Xiao Xian heard about the Heroes Gathering and rode his Black Cloud Treading Snow Colt toward Xiangyang Commandery.
• The chapter described how Later Jin had seized nearby cities, isolating Great Victory Pass and worsening the war against Great Xia.
• Guo Jing told his elder brother that the garrison’s provisions would last only one month and that Later Jin intended to wait until the defenders ran out of supplies and ammunition.

With Great Victory Pass surrounded and its supplies dwindling, Qiao Feng and Guo Jing planned to use the Heroes Gathering to rally martial artists against Later Jin. Xiao Xian arrived in Xiangyang after rescuing martial heroes from Later Jin troops, and his overwhelming power led them to call him a Celestial Being.

• Qiao Feng explained that Later Jin had trapped the surrounding cities as bait, leaving him with no safe way to send reinforcements.
• Qiao Feng told Guo Jing that they would use the Heroes Gathering and the Martial Arts Alliance Chief's authority to gather martial heroes and attack Later Jin's forces.
• Xiao Xian rode through the desolate streets of Xiangyang with martial heroes he had rescued from Later Jin's blockade.
• Xiao Xian killed thousands of Later Jin soldiers with a handful of palm strikes, frightening their troops and astonishing the martial artists.
• The martial artists hailed Xiao Xian as a Celestial Being, while the Later Jin soldiers feared his strength.

Xiao Xian’s presence frightened the Later Jin forces into retreat, and he dismissed the martial heroes who had followed him into Xiangyang. In the besieged city, Guo Jing studied the military situation before a mature young woman entered with food and wine.

• The Great Xia heroes urged Xiao Xian to kill the fleeing Later Jin soldiers, but he refused and continued on his way with them following behind.
• Xiao Xian’s attacks on Later Jin troops spread fear through the army, prompting Nurhaci to order a retreat of thirty li and reprimand the city generals.
• Xiao Xian dismissed the heroes near Xiangyang and warned them to keep his identity secret.
• Xiangyang’s residents faced a looming grain shortage as merchants withheld their supplies, while Guo Jing and Qiao Feng waited before taking action against them.
• Guo Jing studied a military deployment map in the Prefectural Governor’s Residence, and a mature young woman entered carrying food and wine.

Guo Jing worried that Xiangyang’s dwindling supplies and the enemy’s superior strength would lead to its fall, but Huang Rong brought news of reinforcements and preparations for the Heroes Gathering. The chapter left Guo Jing encouraged by the city’s improved chances of repelling the attack.

• Guo Jing told Huang Rong that Xiangyang’s provisions would last less than a month and that he had found no way to break the deadlock.
• Guo Jing lamented that Huang Yaoshi and Hong Qigong could not be found to help defend the city.
• Huang Rong told Guo Jing that Qiu Chuji would bring twenty thousand Quanzhen Sect disciples and that Lu Chengfeng could gather four hundred thousand Salt Gang troops.
• Guo Jing said the reinforcements raised his confidence of repelling the enemy to sixty percent.
• Huang Rong assured Guo Jing that she had arranged lodging for the Heroes Gathering, and Guo Jing began eating the meal she had prepared.

As the Heroes Gathering began in Xiangyang, Guo Jing and Huang Rong strengthened the city's forces by treating arriving martial artists and recruiting thousands of them. Guo Jing and Qiao Feng welcomed Xiao Xian, whose power impressed Qiao Feng, and Guo Jing introduced him to his family and disciples.

• Guo Jing ordered Xiangyang's physicians to treat injured martial artists, and Huang Rong recruited several thousand people to support the city.
• Guo Jing and Qiao Feng welcomed Xiao Xian at the Prefectural Governor's Residence shortly before the Martial Arts Tournament began.
• Guo Jing introduced Qiao Feng, Huang Rong, Guo Fu, Wu Xiuwen, and Wu Dunru to Xiao Xian.
• Xiao Xian praised Qiao Feng and Huang Rong, while Qiao Feng sensed that Xiao Xian was a formidable expert.
• Guo Jing urged Guo Fu, Wu Xiuwen, and Wu Dunru to greet Xiao Xian, and Xiao Xian used an invisible force to stop them from bowing further.

Xiao Xian accompanied Guo Jing into the Reception Hall, where powerful martial artists questioned why Guo Jing treated him with such respect. Xiao Xian unleashed his mental energy and trapped the assembled Grandmasters in an illusion, leaving them kneeling and begging for mercy.

• Guo Jing brought Xiao Xian into the Reception Hall to introduce him to the martial arts experts gathered there.
• The experts questioned why Guo Jing showed such deference to the young, unknown Xiao Xian, and many watched with dissatisfaction.
• Xiao Xian stopped Guo Jing from answering and confronted the experts for daring to question him.
• Xiao Xian's pressure and mental energy swept through the hall and pulled everyone into an illusion of lava and thousands of Grandmaster-level monsters.
• The terrified experts recognized they were trapped in a Mental World and knelt to beg Xiao Xian to spare them.

Xiao Xian revealed overwhelming spiritual power by trapping the gathered martial artists in a terrifying Mental World, then released them after they begged for mercy. Guo Jing and Qiao Feng treated him as a likely Celestial Realm expert, and the chapter ended with the Quanzhen Sect apologizing for Ma Yu’s earlier offense.

• Xiao Xian withdrew his spiritual energy, freeing the shaken experts from the Mental World without destroying their minds.
• Guo Jing and Qiao Feng recognized Xiao Xian’s immense power and suspected he had reached the Celestial Realm.
• Xiao Xian asked Guo Jing and Qiao Feng to keep treating him as a friend, and both apologized for becoming distant.
• Guo Jing introduced the Wudang Seven Heroes, their disciples, and the Quanzhen Seven Masters to Xiao Xian.
• Qiu Chuji apologized for Ma Yu’s disrespect and pleaded with Xiao Xian not to punish the Quanzhen Sect.

At the Heroes Gathering, Guo Jing explained the threat Later Jin posed to Xiangyang and proposed choosing a Martial Arts Alliance Chief through nominations and contests in martial arts and military strategy. Xiao Xian declined to compete, leaving Guo Jing and Qiao Feng as the leading candidates as the heroes began naming their choices.

• Xiao Xian spared Qiu Chuji and the Quanzhen Sect once, warning that he would not show mercy if they offended him again.
• Guo Jing introduced Prince Zhennan Duan Zhengchun and described Great Li's support for the defense of Xiangyang.
• Guo Jing told the gathered heroes that Later Jin threatened Xiangyang and proposed selecting a Martial Arts Alliance Chief through nominations and contests.
• Xiao Xian refused to enter the competition, leaving Guo Jing and Qiao Feng as the main contenders.
• Song Yuanqiao nominated Qiao Feng, while Qiu Chuji nominated Guo Jing, and the heroes began announcing their choices.

Guo Jing became Martial Arts Alliance Chief and planned a strike to reclaim the four cities surrounding Xiangyang. After his forces recaptured them, Nurhaci flew into a rage and asked his ministers how to respond.

• Guo Jing won the Martial Arts Alliance Chief position, and Qiao Feng yielded it to him.
• Guo Jing studied Xiangyang’s defenses and organized secret teams to kill the enemy commanders and set fires in the four occupied cities.
• Guo Jing’s teams left Xiangyang at night and recaptured the four cities before Later Jin could react.
• Nurhaci learned that the four cities had fallen, ordered several spies beheaded, and demanded a strategy from his ministers.
• Fan Wencheng advised Nurhaci against trying to assassinate Guo Jing again.

Fan Wencheng advised Nurhaci to exploit Xiangyang’s weakened defenses and launch an assault, while Guo Jing celebrated the recovery of four cities despite recognizing the strain they placed on his forces. The chapter left Later Jin preparing to attack Xiangyang at dawn, with Guo Jing unable to count on Xiao Xian for help.

• Fan Wencheng urged Nurhaci to attack Xiangyang, arguing that its troops were stretched thinner by the need to garrison the four recovered cities.
• Nurhaci praised Fan Wencheng, promised him high rank, and ordered the Later Jin army to prepare for a dawn assault on Xiangyang.
• Guo Jing celebrated the recovery of the four cities and ordered the news shared throughout Xiangyang.
• Huang Rong warned Guo Jing that garrisoning the four cities would further divide Xiangyang’s much smaller forces.
• Guo Jing explained that recovering the cities had been necessary to break Later Jin’s blockade and restore communication with the Central Plains.
• Guo Jing lamented that Xiao Xian had refused to join the war, leaving him to seek another solution.

Later Jin launched a massive assault on Xiangyang, using arrow volleys and catapults to send soldiers gliding toward its towering walls. Guo Jing and Qiao Feng directed the defenders as they repelled the first airborne assault and inflicted casualties on Later Jin’s archers and catapult crews.

• Later Jin advanced on Xiangyang with more than two million soldiers and prepared to launch troops onto the walls with catapults.
• Guo Jing organized the defenders’ archers, bladesmen, axemen, and spearmen, while Qiao Feng directed the cultivators to conserve their strength.
• Later Jin’s archers fired a dense volley as its catapults launched the first wave of paratroopers, and Guo Jing deflected arrows aimed at him.
• At Guo Jing’s order, Xiangyang’s archers shot down every soldier in the first airborne wave before they could reach the walls.
• Xiangyang’s spearmen hurled volleys at Later Jin’s archers and catapult crews, while Later Jin’s generals urged their troops to keep fighting despite mounting casualties.

Guo Jing and Xiangyang’s defenders repelled Later Jin’s daylong assault, but both sides suffered heavy casualties and Xiangyang lost a large share of its supplies. After Later Jin asked to collect its dead, Guo Jing ordered his troops to salvage the battlefield first, leaving the enemy’s recovery effort delayed.

• Later Jin attacked Xiangyang from sunrise to sunset, losing more than two hundred thousand troops while the defenders suffered heavy casualties.
• Qiao Feng led the Cultivator unit into the fighting and helped eliminate Later Jin’s vanguard after enemy soldiers breached parts of the wall.
• Guo Jing ordered his troops to count supplies and casualties, tend to the wounded, and cremate the fallen.
• The casualty report showed that Xiangyang had lost more than fifty thousand soldiers outright and used up one-sixth of its stores.
• When Later Jin requested permission to retrieve its dead, Guo Jing ordered the messenger to refuse until Xiangyang had finished salvaging the battlefield.

Nurhaci renewed Later Jin’s assault on Xiangyang after Guo Jing refused to surrender the battlefield’s supplies, using flaming stones to devastate the city before attacking its walls and gates. Guo Jing rallied the defenders and led a fierce counterattack, but the battle became a deadly war of attrition that threatened Later Jin’s scarce manpower.

• Nurhaci rejected Guo Jing’s demands and ordered Later Jin’s army to resume the siege.
• Later Jin launched five volleys of stones soaked in Fierce Fire Oil, killing and wounding defenders and setting parts of Xiangyang ablaze.
• Guo Jing withdrew his troops from the city wall to limit casualties as fires spread through the nearby districts.
• Nurhaci used the catapults’ pause to send troops and battering rams toward Xiangyang’s walls and gates.
• Guo Jing sent cultivators up to reinforce the battlements and struck Later Jin’s ranks with a golden dragon of true qi.
• Both armies poured fresh troops into a bloody struggle, while Nurhaci worried that Later Jin could not replace its growing losses.

Xiao Xian calmed Yang Guo by teaching him the Ice Heart Spell while Guo Jing fought Later Jin’s Ao Bai outside Xiangyang. The two peak Great Grandmasters clashed with powerful martial arts, and the chapter ended as Guo Jing met Ao Bai’s Overlord Fist with Dragon Battles in the Wild.

• Xiao Xian taught Yang Guo the Ice Heart Spell, and Yang Guo quickly entered a tranquil state.
• Xiao Xian continued monitoring the battle while Guo Jing fought Later Jin’s forces outside Xiangyang.
• Ao Bai attacked Guo Jing with a spiked mace and then challenged him to a duel.
• Guo Jing evaded Ao Bai’s powerful punch and answered with Dragon Regrets.
• Ao Bai used his modified Golden Bell Shield and Overlord Fist as Guo Jing unleashed Dragon Battles in the Wild.

Guo Jing and Ao Bai fought fiercely amid the destruction of Xiangyang’s walls, with Guo Jing gaining the upper hand before Ao Bai recovered and pressed the attack. Guo Jing avoided Ao Bai’s frontal charge and continued fighting cautiously, while Ao Bai raged at his refusal to face him head-on.

• Guo Jing struck Ao Bai in the chest with Divine Dragon Swings Tail, sending him deep into Xiangyang’s city wall.
• Ao Bai healed his broken bones with his powerful blood and qi, then challenged Guo Jing to fight again.
• Ao Bai concluded that Guo Jing was weakening after an earlier battle and charged with Overlord Fist.
• Guo Jing used Golden Goose Skill to evade Ao Bai’s attack and countered with Flying Dragon in the Sky, blasting a crater into the ground.
• Ao Bai called Guo Jing a coward for dodging, but Guo Jing ignored his taunts and kept avoiding a direct clash.