Chapter Summaries

Zhuge Xiang fought Myriad Flowers Elder, whose Ghost Sword Art and Void Returning Stage cultivation initially gave him the advantage. Zhuge Xiang injured him with a series of skills, forcing Myriad Flowers Elder to acknowledge him as an equal opponent and prepare to fight in earnest.

• Myriad Flowers Elder and Zhuge Xiang met each other’s sword momentum, while onlookers debated Myriad Flowers Elder’s advantage in cultivation and experience.
• Myriad Flowers Elder attacked with Ghost Howl Style, but Zhuge Xiang used his sword soul to resist its influence and countered with Demon Subduing Sword Art.
• Luo Ba raised an ancient bell that formed a barrier around the duel, protecting the Asura Sect’s base from their clash.
• Myriad Flowers Elder rushed Zhuge Xiang with a killing strike, but Zhuge Xiang used Block Prediction and Ice Eye to stop and slow him.
• Zhuge Xiang followed with Three Consecutive Slashes, wounding Myriad Flowers Elder, who blasted him backward with a ghost howl and shattered the ice on his body.
• Myriad Flowers Elder admitted Zhuge Xiang was stronger than he had expected and resolved to treat him as an equal opponent.

Myriad Flowers Elder used his Ghost Sword Art to evade Zhuge Xiang’s attacks and wound him with ghostly Qi, leaving Zhuge Xiang puzzled by the technique’s shifting phantom forms. Zhuge Xiang revealed the hidden Myriad Flowers Elder with the True Sight Vine, exposing the secret behind the attack.

• Myriad Flowers Elder turned ethereal and attacked Zhuge Xiang with a sword strike that passed through his defenses and cut his back.
• Zhuge Xiang was wounded again as Myriad Flowers Elder’s body became a phantom while his attacks remained effective.
• Zhuge Xiang used the minimap radar to notice two red dots associated with Myriad Flowers Elder, one moving and one stationary.
• Myriad Flowers Elder threatened to carve eighty-one wounds into Zhuge Xiang and launched another attack.
• Zhuge Xiang activated the True Sight Vine, which revealed a second, concealed Myriad Flowers Elder in the void.

Zhuge Xiang exposed Myriad Flowers Elder’s hidden body and overcame his Ghost Sword Art with the True Sight Vine and Transfiguration Technique. He purified Myriad Flowers Elder’s cultivation with Heavenly Demon Zen Sound, killed him with one punch, and obtained a Stat Reset Tome.

• Zhuge Xiang used the True Sight Vine to reveal Myriad Flowers Elder’s invisible true body and see through his Ghost Sword Art.
• Myriad Flowers Elder sent his illusory clone at Zhuge Xiang, but Zhuge Xiang used Transfiguration Technique to turn him into a teacup after they switched places.
• Zhuge Xiang unleashed his Demonic True Body, Demon Luo Scripture, and Great Strength Bull Demon Technique to overpower Myriad Flowers Elder.
• Zhuge Xiang targeted Myriad Flowers Elder with Heavenly Demon Zen Sound, causing his cultivation to collapse from the Void Returning Stage to the Golden Core Stage.
• Zhuge Xiang killed Myriad Flowers Elder with a single punch and received a Stat Reset Tome, which could clear his skills and refund his skill points.

After Zhuge Xiang killed the Myriad Flowers Elder and secured Futuo Mountain, Liao Wufa gave him the Yin Yang Demonic Rings as a wedding-style congratulatory gift. Zhuge Xiang settled into his new mountain, where several Deity Transformation Stage disciples arrived.

• Zhuge Xiang killed the Myriad Flowers Elder, advanced to the second layer of the Golden Core Stage, and took her place among the Asura Sect's elders as Futuo Mountain joined the mountain-guarding formation.
• Liao Wufa publicly acknowledged Zhuge Xiang as his sworn younger brother and gave him the Yin Yang Demonic Rings, whose paired wearers could communicate telepathically and gain a 100% increase to overall attributes.
• Luo Ba accepted Liao Wufa's explanation of their sworn brotherhood, and Liao Wufa departed after congratulating Zhuge Xiang.
• Other visiting powerhouses presented gifts, including a Buddhist treasure and a demonic treasure from the Heavenly Dragon Temple, before the assembly ended.
• Zhuge Xiang explored Futuo Mountain, greeted its intelligent creatures, and reflected on fulfilling his old ambition to own a Floating Mountain.
• Several Deity Transformation Stage disciples flew toward Futuo Mountain.

Zhuge Xiang welcomed Zhang Kuang, Niu Geng, and Zi Xiang to Futuo Mountain, then used a Reset Book to rebuild his skill set and sought out new spell techniques. He arrived at the Asura Sect’s Hidden Technique Forest, where he discovered its master, the Second Elder, was a Tribulation Crossing Realm powerhouse.

• Zhuge Xiang congratulated Zhang Kuang on reaching the Spell Control Stage and learned that Niu Geng and Zi Xiang had delayed their cultivation while researching a mysterious poison.
• Zhuge Xiang gave Niu Geng two Spirit Nurturing Pills and invited him and Zi Xiang to cultivate on Futuo Mountain; the four friends drank together, and Niu Geng and Zi Xiang settled there.
• Zhuge Xiang used the Reset Book to refund his skill points, discarded outdated abilities, strengthened the skills he kept, and found himself with more than 60 points left.
• Zhuge Xiang asked Luo Ba for spell-type secret manuals, and Luo Ba directed him to the Hidden Technique Forest.
• Zhuge Xiang visited the Hidden Technique Forest and discovered through his Data Eye that its master, the Second Elder, had reached the Tribulation Crossing Realm.

Zhuge Xiang traded several powerful techniques to the Hidden Technique Forest and received the Second Elder’s signature skill, then learned several formidable spell attacks. While searching for more single-target skills, he discovered an ancient stele signed by the Asura Emperor, the Asura Sect’s Founding Ancestor.

• Zhuge Xiang offered the Hidden Technique Forest Green Blood Evergreen, Ice Barrier, Knockback, and the first layer of the Great Strength Bull Demon Technique.
• The Second Elder praised the Great Strength Bull Demon Technique and taught Zhuge Xiang Transfer Flowers, Graft Wood, which Zhuge Xiang raised to Perfection Level with Skill Points.
• After Zhuge Xiang left, disciples and Void Returning Stage elders discovered the newly recorded techniques and were especially impressed by the Great Strength Bull Demon Technique.
• Zhuge Xiang found Five Thunders Strike Head, Ice Seal Thousand Miles, and Sword Qi Storm, then raised all three skills to Perfection Level.
• After searching for a powerful single-target attack, Zhuge Xiang noticed an ancient stone stele bearing the signature of the Asura Emperor.

Zhuge Xiang discovered that the Heart Fighting Technique could only be practiced by someone reborn through reincarnation, and realized Lu Yuling might qualify. Lu Yuling fused with the Ice Maiden, survived the Heavenly Tribulation, and reached the Void Returning Stage, while Zhuge Xiang trained his reorganized skills before Ying Wushuang arrived at Futuo Mountain.

• Zhuge Xiang examined the Heart Fighting Technique and learned from the system that its cultivation condition was reincarnation through rebirth.
• Zhuge Xiang realized that Lu Yuling's Three Souls Reincarnation might allow her to practice the technique and wondered where she was.
• Lu Yuling learned the truth about the Ice Maiden's past, fused with her, and faced the Heavenly Tribulation at the East China Sea seal.
• Lu Yuling survived the tribulation, transformed her natal lotus seed into a shoot, reached the Void Returning Stage, and headed toward the Asura Sect.
• Zhuge Xiang practiced Five Thunders Strike Head, Ice Seal Thousand Miles, and Sword Qi Storm at Futuo Mountain.
• Ying Wushuang arrived at Futuo Mountain and questioned Zhuge Xiang's grand display.

Ninth Princess Ying Wushuang visited Zhuge Xiang to ask about Wu Xuefei’s suspected theft of a Dragon’s Eye, and he agreed to investigate partly to gain access to the Great Qin royal family. At Demon Hand Mountain, he learned Wu Xuefei had returned injured and discovered that three Asura Kings were pressuring his followers.

• Ying Wushuang reunited with Little Fire Phoenix and asked Zhuge Xiang about Wu Xuefei, who was suspected of gouging out a young dragon’s eyes.
• Zhuge Xiang agreed to help Ying Wushuang investigate Wu Xuefei and admitted he wanted to use her connections to visit the Great Qin royal family.
• After Ying Wushuang left, Zhuge Xiang used the Gate of Rakshasa to return to Demon Hand Mountain, where the Asuras reported Wu Xuefei had visited while injured and then departed.
• Zhuge Xiang found the Dragon’s Eye beside the sealed Demon Left Hand and realized Wu Xuefei had likely gone to seek a Phoenix Feather.
• The leading Asura reported that the Cold Arrow King, the Hegemon Fist King, and the Four-Eyed King had been increasingly pressuring Demon Hand Mountain.

Zhuge Xiang learned that Great Strength King had stirred several Asura Kings to target Demon Hand Mountain and confronted Cold Arrow King at his stronghold. He heavily wounded Cold Arrow King, who used a forbidden technique to force him back, and Zhuge Xiang revealed a miniature pagoda as the fight continued.

• A Demon Hand Mountain scout reported that Great Strength King had visited Cold Arrow King, Hegemon Fist King, and Four-Eyed King, prompting Zhuge Xiang to leave for the arrow forest alone.
• Cold Arrow King dismissed his subordinates' concerns about attacking Demon Hand Mountain and awaited the arrival of the other Asura Kings.
• Zhuge Xiang arrived above the arrow forest and demanded to know whether Great Strength King had revealed Demon Hand Mountain's secret.
• Cold Arrow King denied knowing the secret and sent two subordinates to summon Four Eyes King and Hegemon Fist King.
• Zhuge Xiang struck Cold Arrow King with Three Consecutive Slashes, inflicting a deep wound, but Cold Arrow King used a forbidden technique to knock him back.
• Zhuge Xiang remained undaunted and produced a nine-tiered miniature pagoda.

Zhuge Xiang defeated Cold Arrow King with the Heavenly Demon Zen Sound and sealed him inside the Heavenly Dragon Town Evil Pagoda, earning a new skill. Three other Asura Kings arrived to confront him, and Hegemon Fist King launched the first attack.

• Zhuge Xiang used the Heavenly Demon Zen Sound to weaken Cold Arrow King, then bound him with the Heavenly Dragon Town Evil Pagoda and sealed him on its eighth floor.
• Cold Arrow King discovered that the pagoda held dozens of powerful beings, while the Asuras in Arrow Forest watched Zhuge Xiang in terror.
• Zhuge Xiang gained 65,000,000 experience points and the Instant Slash skill, which he raised to perfection level.
• Hegemon Fist King, Four-Eyed King, and Great Strength King arrived and learned that Zhuge Xiang had captured Cold Arrow King.
• Great Strength King challenged Zhuge Xiang, but Zhuge Xiang mocked his earlier retreat; Hegemon Fist King then punched toward Zhuge Xiang.

Zhuge Xiang fought the Asura Kings to master his skills, then used his abilities and the Heavenly Dragon Town Evil Pagoda to suppress three opponents. After gaining experience and equipment, he returned to the Asura Sect, leaving the Asura Path shaken by news that he had sealed four Asura Kings in one day.

• Zhuge Xiang battled Hegemon Fist King, Four-Eyed King, and Great Strength King for half a day, learning to use his skills while being driven into a disadvantageous position.
• Zhuge Xiang used Transfer Flowers, Graft Wood to turn Four-Eyed King’s lightning attack back on him, then summoned a clone with the Demon Transformation Bottle.
• Zhuge Xiang copied Hegemon Fist King’s Hegemon Killing Fist with his Purple Gold Demonic Eye and used Heavenly Demon Zen Sound and the Heavenly Dragon Town Evil Pagoda to seal the three Asura Kings.
• Zhuge Xiang gained more than 200 million experience, advanced to the fourth layer of the Golden Core Stage, and obtained the Gate of Guarding and Burning Bracer.
• Zhuge Xiang returned to the Asura Sect, and news that he had sealed Four-Eyed King, Hegemon Fist King, Cold Arrow King, and Great Strength King shook the Asura Path.

Zhuge Xiang welcomed Lu Yuling back and confirmed that she remained herself after fusing with Ice Maiden. Lu Yuling then revealed that her Qi deviation had been tied to the Great Qin imperial family, beginning an explanation of why it had targeted her.

• Zhuge Xiang returned to Futuo Mountain, sensed Zi Xiang and Niu Geng nearing breakthroughs, and focused on consolidating his cultivation and investigating Great Qin’s theft of Great Tang’s national fortune.
• Lu Yuling arrived at Zhuge Xiang’s Floating Mountain with first-layer Nascent Soul cultivation and congratulated him on acquiring it.
• Zhuge Xiang teased Lu Yuling until she dropped her cold act, and she confirmed that she and Ice Maiden had always been the same person.
• Lu Yuling explained that the Asura Sect’s weak standing among the Nine Great Sects resulted from the Great Qin imperial family’s long-running suppression of it.
• Lu Yuling told Zhuge Xiang that the Great Elder had caused her Qi deviation to save her, and that the imperial family was ultimately responsible for the crisis.

Lu Yuling revealed that Ice Maiden was the Myriad Monster Kingdom’s saintess and heir, and Zhuge Xiang proposed joining forces to overthrow the Great Qin Imperial Family. After Lu Yuling went to study the Heart Fighting Technique, Zhuge Xiang entered the Heavenly Dragon Town Evil Pagoda to fight its imprisoned Void Returning Stage experts and advance his cultivation.

• Lu Yuling explained that Ice Maiden was the Myriad Monster Kingdom’s saintess and successor to its empress, making her a target of the Great Qin Imperial Family.
• Zhuge Xiang proposed exploiting the Great Tang Dynasty’s recovered national fortune and an alliance with the Myriad Monster Kingdom and Asura Sect to overthrow the Ying clan dynasty.
• Lu Yuling agreed to join Zhuge Xiang’s investigation and went to the Hidden Technique Forest to try the Heart Fighting Technique.
• Zhuge Xiang sought a way to raise his cultivation through combat and entered the eighth floor of the Heavenly Dragon Town Evil Pagoda to challenge its imprisoned experts.
• The Great Strength King, Cold Arrow King, and Hegemon Fist King questioned the human cultivator who had appeared before them.

Wu Xuefei confronted the Netherworld Blood Phoenix to obtain a Phoenix Plume, while Zhuge Xiang recruited fighters from the Heavenly Dragon Town Evil Pagoda to help overthrow the Great Qin imperial family. Lu Yuling arrived at the Asura Sect’s Hidden Technique Forest and sought the Heart Fighting Technique.

• Wu Xuefei revealed her Demonic Realm identity and demanded a Phoenix Plume from the Netherworld Blood Phoenix, which dismissed her and attacked.
• Wu Xuefei called upon the will of the Demonic Way for protection as she fought the Netherworld Blood Phoenix.
• Zhuge Xiang offered the imprisoned demons and ghosts freedom if they helped with his plan, then challenged them individually to select the strongest.
• The Great Strength King recognized Zhuge Xiang as the Strange King, and the battles began with opponents lined up from weaker to stronger.
• Lu Yuling gave the Ice Eye skill to the Hidden Technique Forest and went directly to the Heart Fighting Technique tablet.
• The Second Elder of the Hidden Technique Forest realized Lu Yuling had quietly broken through to the Void Returning Stage.

Lu Yuling went to the Hidden Technique Forest to study the Heart Fighting Technique and, following Zhuge Xiang’s suggestion, finally comprehended its abstruse essence. Her breakthrough astonished the Asura Sect disciples and left the Heart Fighting Technique tablet surrounded by eager cultivators.

• Second Elder noticed Lu Yuling had reached the Void Returning Stage and watched as she headed straight for the Heart Fighting Technique tablet.
• A handsome Golden Core disciple tried to speak with Lu Yuling, but her icy glare drove him away.
• Lu Yuling studied the tablet, sensed its meaning, and became immersed in the Heart Fighting Technique as spiritual Qi gathered into a storm around her.
• Lu Yuling awakened after comprehending the technique and discovered that her cultivation had risen from the first to the fifth layer of the Nascent Soul Stage, reaching the Void Returning Stage.
• Second Elder and the other disciples realized Lu Yuling had comprehended the Heart Fighting Technique, and crowds gathered around its tablet hoping to do the same.

Zhuge Xiang advanced to the Nascent Soul Stage after battling the demons and ghosts in the Heavenly Dragon Town Evil Pagoda, triggering the Greater Heavenly Tribulation. He faced the continuous Lightning Storm and used it to begin the third stage of his Great Strength Bull Demon Technique, leaving only his bare skeleton standing in the storm.

• Zhuge Xiang fought the pagoda’s powerhouses, gained experience, and broke through from the Golden Core Stage to the first layer of the Nascent Soul Stage.
• Zhuge Xiang’s breakthrough summoned the Greater Heavenly Tribulation, so he left the Heavenly Dragon Town Evil Pagoda to face it.
• The demons and ghosts in the eighth level praised Zhuge Xiang’s strength and growth, with the Asura King calling him a born Asura King.
• Zhuge Xiang met the Lightning Storm with his Slaying Luo Sword and towering Demon Body, then let the storm ravage his body.
• The tribulation lightning and gale stripped away Zhuge Xiang’s flesh, leaving his bones exposed as he endured the storm to refine them.

Zhuge Xiang completed the third layer of the Great Strength Bull Demon Technique by letting the lightning tribulation refine his bones, then shattered the tribulation clouds with the Vast Sword Qi. The tribulation escalated into the Thunder God's Hammer, whose giant lightning avatar appeared and declared that Zhuge Xiang must be executed.

• Zhuge Xiang endured the lightning storm until his flesh was destroyed, and the tribulation lightning tempered his bones as the Great Strength Bull Demon Technique advanced.
• Zhuge Xiang completed the technique's third layer, restored his flesh, and gained greatly increased attack power, defense, and maximum HP.
• Zhuge Xiang unleashed the Vast Sword Qi and tore apart the tribulation clouds, shocking cultivators watching from afar.
• The tribulation clouds gathered again and formed a thousand-zhang lightning avatar, causing approaching cultivators to retreat in fear of the Thunder God's Hammer.
• The lightning avatar spoke to Zhuge Xiang and declared him a sinner who must be executed.

Zhuge Xiang survived the Thunder God's Hammer during his greater heavenly tribulation, though the strike destroyed his equipment and Slaying Luo Sword. He reunited with Ao Xiaoyao and learned that Ao Bing had come to confront Wu Xuefei over a young dragon's gouged-out eyes.

• Zhuge Xiang resisted the Thunder God avatar's divine judgment and attacked it, but the avatar repelled his sword qi before vanishing after one strike.
• Zhuge Xiang used Instant Slash to shatter the Thunder God's Hammer, surviving with severe injuries as his equipment and Slaying Luo Sword were destroyed.
• Ao Bing introduced himself to Zhuge Xiang, and Ao Xiaoyao recognized Zhuge Xiang as the cultivator who had helped recover the Dragon Palace's stolen dragon pearl.
• Ao Bing explained that he and Ao Xiaoyao had come to the mainland because someone had gouged out a young dragon's eyes.
• Ao Bing said Chancellor Turtle's calculations implicated Wu Xuefei and that he had brought the Heart Reflecting Mirror to confront her.

After surviving his own Heavenly Tribulation and reaching the Void Returning Stage, Zhuge Xiang watched Niu Geng undergo a tribulation to enter the Transforming Deity Stage. Niu Geng survived the Hundred Strikes of Lightning, but a Sword of Heavenly Punishment appeared as he reached his limit, leaving him facing certain death.

• Ao Bing brought Ao Xiaoyao to the mainland to question Wu Xuefei about the dragon whose eye had been gouged out, and Zhuge Xiang persuaded them to wait until she returned to the Asura Sect.
• Ao Bing gave Zhuge Xiang a Communication Jade Talisman so he could report Wu Xuefei’s whereabouts.
• After returning to Futuo Mountain, Zhuge Xiang recovered from his injuries sustained during his tribulation and breakthrough to the Void Returning Stage.
• Niu Geng began his minor Heavenly Tribulation, shattered the Hundred Strikes of Lightning with his toxin-covered palms, and entered the Transforming Deity Stage.
• Zhuge Xiang warned Niu Geng that his tribulation was not over when a Sword of Heavenly Punishment formed above him.
• Niu Geng realized he was too exhausted to withstand the sword, while Zhuge Xiang watched anxiously, unable to intervene.

Niu Geng survived his heavenly tribulation by drinking Forget-Heart Poison Water, and Zi Xiang explained the rare poison to Zhuge Xiang, who took the final dose and returned Zi Xiang’s Lifebound Gu. Meanwhile, Wu Xuefei obtained Phoenix Feathers and returned to Demon Hand Mountain, where Zhuge Xiang revealed his Void Returning Stage breakthrough and warned her that the East Sea Dragon Clan was coming to confront her.

• Niu Geng drank Forget-Heart Poison Water, forgot his cultivation, and caused the Sword of Heavenly Punishment to lose its target and dissipate.
• Zi Xiang explained the poison’s effects and scarcity, and Zhuge Xiang accepted the last portion and returned her Lifebound Gu.
• Wu Xuefei subdued the Netherworld Blood Phoenix, pulled out a handful of its feathers, and returned injured to Demon Hand Mountain.
• Zhuge Xiang joined Wu Xuefei and told her he had reached the Void Returning Stage and recovered his demonic heart.
• Zhuge Xiang warned Wu Xuefei that the East Sea Dragon Clan had brought the Heart Reflecting Mirror and was preparing to confront her at the Asura Sect.