Chapter Summaries

Chai Chuanxin used the Dragon Pearl to weaken the Demon Race instead of empowering them, and the human experts fought over it until the Grand Eunuch shattered it. As the fragments scattered, Zhang Chen discovered that his True Dragon Qi attracted them and began absorbing them.

• Chai Chuanxin’s Dragon Pearl weakened the Demon Race by thirty percent, prompting Bai Cang and the other Demon Kings to flee while the humans fought over the treasure.
• The human experts battled for the Dragon Pearl through the night, and Gu Mingyue claimed it for Yellow Heaven Dao by threatening the other factions.
• The Grand Eunuch struck the Dragon Pearl with the Punishment Spear and shattered it, sending its fragments flying across the land.
• Zhang Chen found that True Dragon Qi drew nearby fragments to him, and his golden Dragon Pearl absorbed the first fragment.
• More than a dozen additional fragments flew to Zhang Chen, who began feeding them to his True Dragon Qi.

Zhang Chen collected Dragon Pearl fragments before Bai Cang trapped him in an Illusion Domain and pursued him for his Five Elements Escape Technique. The chapter left Zhang Chen planning to use Water Control to pin Bai Cang down and strike him with the Buzhou Seal.

• Zhang Chen collected more than a hundred Dragon Pearl fragments, then gave Bai Cang one when Bai Cang claimed it belonged to him.
• When more Dragon Pearl fragments flocked to Zhang Chen, Bai Cang trapped him in a Seventh Order Illusion Domain and urged him to join the Demon Race and reunite with Chen Sanliang.
• Zhang Chen saw through the illusion and escaped, prompting Bai Cang to chase him because he suspected Zhang Chen possessed a powerful secret.
• Zhang Chen used the Five Elements Escape Technique to evade Bai Cang, but Bai Cang kept tracking him and demanded to know how he passed through rocks.
• Zhang Chen suspected Bai Cang could use Void Transformation to follow his escape path, then planned to trap him with Water Control and strike with the Buzhou Seal.

Zhang Chen lured Bai Cang into striking at him, wounded the Fox Spirit with the Blood Transformation Divine Blade, and countered her mind powers with the Light of the Righteous God. The chapter left Bai Cang injured and shaken as Zhang Chen prepared to kill her.

• Zhang Chen stopped at a great river and refused Bai Cang's offer to join the Demon Race.
• Bai Cang used her mind power to immobilize Zhang Chen, but he broke free and cut her wrist with the Blood Transformation Divine Blade.
• Bai Cang recognized the blade and demanded that Zhang Chen hand it over, but he fled using the Water Escape Technique.
• Bai Cang caught Zhang Chen and disrupted his escape, while Zhang Chen used the Water Control Technique to attack her with a whirlpool and a water dragon.
• Bai Cang's mind power failed against the Light of the Righteous God, leaving her vomiting blood as Zhang Chen asked how she wanted to die.

Zhang Chen pursued Bai Cang after defeating him by the river and used a slingshot ambush to take another of the Fox Spirit’s lives. Their battle continued as Zhang Chen countered Bai Cang’s Void Transformation and earth attacks, while planning to use the God Smashing Whip to capture him.

• Zhang Chen used water dragons and the Buzhou Seal to strike Bai Cang into the river, but Bai Cang escaped by sacrificing a tail and a life.
• Zhang Chen tracked Bai Cang with the Blood Transformation Divine Blade, ambushed him with a dragon pearl from the slingshot, and severed another tail.
• Bai Cang tried to sneak up on Zhang Chen underground, but Zhang Chen evaded the attack and refused Bai Cang’s offer to end their grudge.
• Zhang Chen sensed Bai Cang through the earth and wounded him when he had to become tangible to attack.
• Bai Cang hurled rocks at Zhang Chen, who blocked them with an Earth Wall, then considered using the God Smashing Whip while baiting Bai Cang into lowering his guard.

Zhang Chen outwitted Bai Cang, struck his Yin Spirit with the God Smashing Whip, and trapped his body in a stone coffin sealed with Buddhist scripture. He carried Bai Cang’s body to the Pacifying Border Prince’s Mansion’s ancestral vein and set the Nine Bends Yellow River Grand Formation, where Bai Cang’s allies soon arrived.

• Bai Cang concealed a Coffin Nail in the Black Wind and struck Zhang Chen, who faked his death after his crystal core blocked the blow.
• As Bai Cang bent to loot Zhang Chen’s body, Zhang Chen sprang his trap with the God Smashing Whip and blasted Bai Cang’s Yin Spirit from his body.
• Zhang Chen sealed Bai Cang’s body in a stone coffin with the Six-Word Mantra Calligraphy, while the Coffin Nail entered Bai Cang’s soul and Bai Cang failed to reclaim his body.
• Bai Cang’s Yin Spirit fled when Zhang Chen attacked with the Buzhou Seal, and Zhang Chen carried the sealed body away to prepare the Nine Bends Yellow River Grand Formation.
• Zhang Chen placed Bai Cang’s body in the formation and let the Blood God Sons drain it, but Bai Cang’s body repeatedly regenerated as his tails fell off.
• Bai Cang and the Bear Demon King appeared outside the formation, and the Bear Demon King wondered whether it was a Feng Shui Array.

Zhang Chen weighed Bai Cang’s offer to help destroy the Pacifying Border Prince’s Mansion in exchange for restoring his body, while learning the Demon Race had occupied the White Bone Great Wall. He agreed to cooperate against the Pacifying Border King and summoned Chen Sanliang, whose hatred of the Confucian school drove the invasion.

• Bai Cang warned Zhang Chen that the Nine Bends Yellow River Grand Formation was too dangerous to attack and offered to help him deal with the Pacifying Border Prince’s Mansion.
• Bai Cang revealed that the Pacifying Border King had secretly withdrawn three million White Bone Great Wall troops, allowing the Demon Race to occupy the wall and prepare to invade human territory.
• Zhang Chen rejected Bai Cang’s offer at first because he would not aid an invasion that could make human civilians into Blood Food, but he later agreed to cooperate against the Pacifying Border King.
• Bai Cang proposed Chen Sanliang as guarantor and revealed that Chen commanded the Demon Race’s invasion and had helped arrange its alliance with the Pacifying Border Prince’s Mansion.
• Chen Sanliang arrived, and Zhang Chen learned that he had led the invasion to avenge his beloved by making the Confucian school die with her.

Zhang Chen returned Bai Cang’s body after capturing his aura with the Heaven and Earth Treasure Mirror, while Chen Sanliang enforced their agreement and explained his Education for All Dao. After learning Chen Sanliang’s plans depended on the northern lands, Zhang Chen asked how to spare their commoners, and Chen Sanliang pointed him toward the missing Tiger Great King.

• Zhang Chen absorbed a Seventh Order Blood God Son, recorded Bai Cang’s source aura with the Heaven and Earth Treasure Mirror, and dismantled the Nine Bends Yellow River Grand Formation.
• Bai Cang reclaimed his body and angrily accused Zhang Chen of cutting off six of his lives, but Chen Sanliang insisted he honor their deal, and Bai Cang departed.
• Chen Sanliang told Zhang Chen that he cultivated Education for All and intended to use the northern lands to build the foundation for advancing to higher Orders.
• Zhang Chen urged Chen Sanliang to spare the northern lands’ commoners, but learned that the region was essential to Chen Sanliang’s plans.
• Chen Sanliang said Bai Cang could restrain the Demon Race but was unlikely to help Zhang Chen, then revealed that the missing Tiger Great King might be persuaded to protect the northern humans.

Zhang Chen entered the Demon Race's hidden base and learned that Bai Cang planned to use a divine weapon and a sacrificial ritual to steal the Pacifying Border Prince's Mansion's Dragon Qi. Bai Cang lured Zhang Chen into his tent and deliberately let him kill him, leaving Zhang Chen baffled as Bai Cang's Yin Spirit vanished with the blade's aura.

• Chen Sanliang led Zhang Chen to the Demon Race's hidden valley, where tens of thousands of troops were stationed, and arranged for him to meet Bai Cang the next day.
• Bai Cang swallowed his six tails and performed a ritual, planning to sacrifice seven tails, use Zhang Chen's Blood Transformation Divine Blade, and possess Zhang Xiaolan to steal Dragon Qi.
• Zhang Chen and Chen Sanliang spoke about Chen Sanliang's lack of a way back to humanity and Zhang Chen's refusal to join the Demon Race.
• After Chen Sanliang left to meet the Bear Demon King, a badger summoned Zhang Chen to Bai Cang's tent to discuss cooperation.
• Bai Cang suddenly attacked Zhang Chen, then deliberately charged into the Blood Transformation Divine Blade and was decapitated; his Yin Spirit disappeared with a wisp of the blade's aura.

After killing Bai Cang, Zhang Chen fled and struggled with his decision not to kill Chen Sanliang, then discovered that Bai Cang had possessed Zhang Xiaolan. Zhang Chen tracked her to the Pacifying Border Prince's Mansion and confronted her, unaware that her possession was not yet complete.

• Zhang Chen fled after Bai Cang threw himself onto the Blood Transformation Divine Blade, then visited Han Su Zhen's grave and wondered whether sparing Chen Sanliang had been the right choice.
• Bai Cang's yin spirit slipped past the mansion's dragon qi and possessed Zhang Xiaolan, intending to refine the Pacifying Border King's unborn child and steal dragon qi.
• Zhang Chen used the Heaven and Earth Treasure Mirror to trace Bai Cang's bloodline and saw Zhang Xiaolan, then traveled to the Pacifying Border Prince's Mansion.
• Zhang Chen learned that Zhang Xiaolan had miscarried and suspected Bai Cang's possession had been disrupted by the mansion's fate.
• Zhang Chen entered Zhang Xiaolan's room, sensed that she was awake, and asked her to come out and talk.

Zhang Chen discovered that Bai Cang had possessed Zhang Xiaolan’s body but concealed his knowledge and escaped the Pacifying Border Prince’s Mansion. After warning Xie Lingyun about the Demon Clan Army and giving her its location, he left the demons blaming him for Bai Cang’s death as the Inspection Directorate surrounded their camp.

• Zhang Chen confronted Bai Cang in Zhang Xiaolan’s body, confirmed his identity with the Heaven and Earth Treasure Mirror, and pretended not to know before escaping.
• Zhang Chen decided to wait seven days before marking Bai Cang, while Bai Cang coveted the secret behind Zhang Chen’s ability to use divine powers inside the mansion.
• Xie Lingyun brought Zhang Chen a fragment of an Eleventh Order true dragon’s dragon pearl, and Zhang Chen warned her that the Pacifying Border King had handed the White Bone Great Wall to the Demon Clan Army.
• Zhang Chen told Xie Lingyun where a hidden army of one hundred thousand demons was stationed, and she hurried off to investigate.
• The demon leaders accused Zhang Chen of killing Bai Cang, but Chen Sanliang doubted the claim; a rabbit demon then reported that the Inspection Directorate had surrounded their camp.

Zhang Chen shared Dragon Meat and treasures from the fallen dragon with Zhou Chuan, then taught him the later stages of martial arts cultivation. Zhou Chuan corrected his path and bowed in gratitude, but the Gong Family's Black and White Duo appeared outside to confront him.

• Zhou Chuan arrived at Zhang Chen's teahouse carrying Dragon Meat, organs, and two pieces of Dragon Horn taken from the dragon at Heavenly Pool.
• Zhang Chen ate Dragon Meat, and Zhou Chuan shared the dragon's organs and a Dragon Horn with him.
• Zhang Chen taught Zhou Chuan how to open 1,226 acupoints and cultivate the Dharma Idol Golden Body.
• Zhou Chuan followed the teaching, healed his wounds, and realized his previous martial arts path had been wrong.
• Zhou Chuan kowtowed to Zhang Chen in gratitude, then recognized the Gong Family's Black and White Duo waiting outside in the rain.

Zhang Chen faced Gong Bai after Zhou Chuan fled from two Gong Family elders, and Gong Bai tried to compel him to help capture Zhou Chuan. Zhang Chen resisted Gong Bai’s Bewitching Wind and used the Blood Transformation Divine Blade to lure him into revealing his greed, leaving Gong Bai poised to take the blade as Zhang Chen secretly attached his Blood God Sons to its hilt.

• Zhou Chuan warned Zhang Chen to flee, then raced into the rain while Gong Hei pursued him and Gong Bai stayed behind.
• Gong Bai demanded that Zhang Chen help capture Zhou Chuan and threatened to control him with Bewitching Wind.
• Zhang Chen attacked Gong Bai with the Blood Transformation Divine Blade, but Gong Bai escaped using Wind Escape and identified the weapon.
• Gong Bai’s Bewitching Wind struck Zhang Chen, but the Wind Stabilizing Pearl restored his control; Zhang Chen pretended to be enthralled and claimed to be Chen Zhifei’s son from the White Lotus Sect.
• Zhang Chen falsely said he had found the blade and had no connection to Xie Xuan, prompting Gong Bai to demand it.
• As Zhang Chen appeared to struggle over surrendering the blade, he secretly attached his Blood God Sons to its hilt.

Zhang Chen used the Blood God Sons and a Wind Immobilization Pill to take over Gong Bai’s body, then sent the Blood God Sons to slaughter the Demon Clan Army. After Xie Lingyun sought information about the mysterious fighter, she arrived at Zhang Chen’s inn.

• Zhang Chen tricked Gong Bai into taking the Blood Transformation Divine Blade, letting a Blood God Son enter his body, then incapacitated him with a Wind Immobilization Pill.
• Zhang Chen refused Gong Bai’s pleas for ransom, and the Blood God Sons took control of Gong Bai’s body, turning him into Zhang Chen’s puppet.
• Zhang Chen sent the Blood God Sons to the battlefield, where they helped the Inspection Directorate defeat and slaughter the Demon Clan Army.
• Xie Lingyun asked the Blood God Sons to identify themselves, but they left without answering, so she ordered an investigation.
• Xie Lingyun entered Zhang Chen’s inn, drawing his attention with the scent of blood.

Zhang Chen spoke with Xie Lingyun about the Demon Race's advance and her plans to reclaim the White Bone Great Wall, then discovered that his bumblebee and peregrine falcon had transformed into demon beasts. He later found Chen Xu, now a wounded Ba Snake, surrounded by martial artists who wanted to kill him for his blood.

• Xie Lingyun told Zhang Chen that she had killed a hundred thousand Demon Race troops, sent fifty thousand soldiers toward the White Bone Great Wall, and invited him to explore the Spring Courtyard Lake Dragon Palace in seven days.
• Zhou Chuan returned after escaping Gong Hei, learned that Gong Bai had become Zhang Chen's man, and warned Zhang Chen that a great danger was lurking in the northern lands.
• Zhang Chen found that the bumblebee had turned entirely golden and the peregrine falcon had grown to twice its former size, and he prepared them to leave the northern lands with him.
• Zhang Chen went to inspect the Pacifying Border King's ancestral tomb and heard fighting near the fallen Ascension Pool.
• Zhang Chen recognized Chen Xu as a Ba Snake under attack by more than a dozen martial artists seeking to drink his blood and gain Mysterious Power.

Zhang Chen rescued Chen Xu from White Lotus Sect fighters and stayed to guard him while he shed his skin. Meanwhile, the Pacifying Border King deliberately broke the Heavenly Pool’s dam to drown the northern lands and trap Xie Lingyun’s army, and Zhang Chen witnessed the resulting flood.

• Zhang Chen buried the White Lotus Sect experts with his Earth Control Technique and learned that they had come after Chen Xu, who was transforming into a Ba Snake.
• Zhang Chen accompanied Chen Xu to a concealed cave and guarded him as he slept and shed his skin.
• At Heavenly Pool, the Pacifying Border King ordered Five Six Teacher and eight Mountain Moving Hercules to release the flood, intending to drown Xie Lingyun’s army and turn the displaced people into rebels.
• The Pacifying Border King ordered Five Six Teacher to have the Demon Race’s Old Ancestor kill Xie Xuan in the northern lands.
• Zhang Chen sensed the flood, flew to a mountain, and saw the Pacifying Border King unleash the Heavenly Pool’s waters across the land.

Zhang Chen used his upgraded Water Control Technique to halt the flood before it could destroy Xie Lingyun’s Inspection Directorate army. After helping the fifty thousand soldiers escape, he heard Xie Lingyun propose turning the flood against the Pacifying Border King’s three million troops.

• Zhang Chen upgraded his Water Control Technique and expanded his control over water to a radius of four thousand meters.
• Zhang Chen found Xie Lingyun and the fifty thousand Inspection Directorate soldiers facing the flood, then stopped the water before it reached them.
• Zhang Chen urged Xie Lingyun to lead the soldiers to safety, and she ordered them to flee toward ships she had prepared.
• Xie Lingyun asked Zhang Chen to redirect the flood and drown the Pacifying Border King’s three million troops.

Zhang Chen changed the flood’s course at Xie Lingyun’s direction, diverting it toward the Pacifying Border Prince’s Mansion’s three million troops while worrying about the resulting Karma. The Pacifying Border King’s naval fleet arrived to rescue them, but Zhang Chen’s new Earth Wall blocked its route, leaving the commander puzzled.

• Xie Lingyun persuaded Zhang Chen that the withdrawn troops were threats and showed him where to redirect the flood toward the Pacifying Border Prince’s Mansion’s forces.
• Zhang Chen raised a massive Earth Wall and lowered a mountain at the Three-way Intersection, sending the flood down a new waterway.
• Zhang Chen reasoned that the Pacifying Border Prince’s Mansion’s troops and people shared responsibility with the mansion, then widened the channel to increase the flood’s force.
• Xie Lingyun investigated and learned that the Pacifying Border King had prepared a naval force to rescue the troops, but Zhang Chen’s altered waterway would leave the fleet too late.
• Ten thousand warships arrived at the Earth Wall, and their commander wondered why the route shown on his map ended at an apparent man-made barrier.

Zhang Chen watched the flood destroy the Pacifying Border King's three-million-strong army and struggled with pity for the soldiers, though he did not try to save them. At Heavenly Pool, karmic fire killed eight gods who had moved the mountain, and heaven's punishment then descended on the Pacifying Border King.

• Zhang Chen and Xie Lingyun followed the flood downstream and saw it swallow the retreating army, killing countless soldiers.
• Zhang Chen admitted he felt unsettled by the deaths but stood aside when a drowning soldier begged for help.
• The eight gods who had moved the mountain burst into karmic fire and burned to ash despite plunging into the water.
• Gu Mingyue explained that the gods had incurred karmic fire by causing calamity in the northern lands, frightening the Pacifying Border King's remaining experts.
• Purple divine lightning descended toward the Pacifying Border King, whose Dragon Qi rose to meet it as Zhang Chen recognized heaven's punishment.

Zhang Chen saw the heavenly punishment damage the Pacifying Border King’s fate, while the flood destroyed three million of his troops. The Pacifying Border King sent Gu Mingyue to capture Xie Xuan, but Zhao Lie intercepted Xie Xuan and forced him into a conversation.

• Zhang Chen watched the Pacifying Border King use Dragon Qi to block the heavenly punishment, which weakened the mansion’s fate and left the king injured.
• The Pacifying Border King learned that a flood had killed three million troops and ordered Gu Mingyue to capture Xie Xuan and seize the Inspection Directorate’s army.
• Xie Xuan forged a Dragon Horn into a staff at the Inspection Directorate Office, then sensed a powerful foe approaching and tried to escape.
• Zhao Lie intercepted Xie Xuan, revealing himself as the childlike Tiger Strength Great Immortal, and invited him to talk under threat of force.
• Xie Xuan entered a nearby pavilion with Zhao Lie and examined the tiger demon’s unexpectedly humanlike form.

Xie Xuan fled Zhao Lie and sought protection from Zhang Chen, only for Zhao Lie to catch up with them on Zhang Chen’s ice boat. Zhang Chen recognized a mark from a tiger he had once raised on Zhao Lie, while Zhao Lie remembered his humiliating past as Zhang Chen’s pet.

• Xie Xuan bluffed that he could kill Zhao Lie and challenged him, then vanished while Zhao Lie watched.
• Zhao Lie saw through Xie Xuan’s bluff and pursued him through the forest.
• Xie Xuan appeared on Zhang Chen’s ice boat and asked him to protect him from Zhao Lie.
• Zhao Lie caught up with the boat, and Zhang Chen noticed that his old mark was on the Demon King.
• Zhang Chen called Zhao Lie a little tiger and asked whether he had seen his lackey, enraging Zhao Lie as Xie Xuan learned that Zhang Chen had once raised a pet tiger.