Chapter Summaries

Gai Nie and Wei Zhuang demonstrated a devastating combination skill before reuniting with Chen Cheng, who gathered his companions in Wutan City and announced their return to the Chen Family. The chapter ended with Chen Cheng receiving a new monthly copying chance and deciding to save it for another use.

• Gai Nie and Wei Zhuang combined their techniques into a rain of explosive droplets that devastated the surrounding area, then greeted each other as senior brother and junior brother.
• Gai Nie joined Chen Cheng’s group, and Chen Cheng and his companions flew back to Wutan City with Gai Nie and Wei Zhuang following.
• Chen Cheng returned to the inn, where Yan Lingji greeted him, then told Xing Hun and the others to prepare to leave for the Chen Family in two days.
• Chen Cheng invited Xiao Yi Xian to come with him to find a way to resolve her physique, while Murong Zhi stayed behind to manage the inn and pursue Ya Fei.
• Chen Cheng spent the night with Yan Lingji, then received his monthly copying chance and decided not to use it on Qing Lin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils yet.

The Chen Family’s rebellion pushed the Chu Yun Royal Family to the brink as the Izumo Empire’s forces suffered defeat and betrayal. Chen Zihang intercepted Prince Yu Feng Ting at Blood Moon Valley, where their clash began amid a cavalry charge.

• The Chen Family rallied ten counties to rebellion, and its forces captured most of the Izumo Empire while Wind God County resisted amid devastating battles.
• The Izumo Emperor learned that Chen Yuan had poisoned Holy Compare City and that He Prince had died, then heard that Ling Long had abducted Xiao Imperial Concubine and turned against him.
• Chen Zihang prepared to block Feng Ting’s suspected route to the Chen Family’s base, but Feng Ting led three thousand soldiers through Blood Moon Valley.
• Feng Ting’s golden dragon attack scattered the Black Armor Guards’ formation, and Chen Zihang used blue lightning to take flight and engage him.
• A Dou Ling commander ordered the cavalry to charge, and the Black Armor Guards shot down more than five hundred riders before the two forces collided.

Chen Zihang fought Feng Ting while their armies clashed, but his strength and stamina could not match the Dou Wang for long. Feng Ting withdrew after his forces suffered heavy losses, and Chen Zihang stayed to secure the Chen Family camp.

• Chen Zihang used lightning attacks against Feng Ting, who dodged them with his Dou Qi Wings and countered with powerful sword techniques.
• The Black Armor Guards surrounded Feng Ting's cavalry, while the Chen Family Dou Ling Steward and Chen Zihang's trusted subordinates fought the enemy Dou Ling general.
• Feng Ting and Chen Zihang's attacks clashed in the sky as both sustained injuries, and Chen Zihang recognized that his low-grade Cultivation Method limited his strength.
• After losing about half of his three thousand soldiers, Feng Ting ordered a retreat, and the Dou Ling Steward told the Chen Family forces not to pursue.
• Chen Zihang arranged care and pensions for the casualties, continued setting up camp, and chose not to inform Chen Li about the attack.

Chen Cheng encountered Chen Zihang’s troops while traveling through the Izumo Empire and learned that Prince Yu’s force planned to attack the Chen Family. After Chen Zihang asked for help stopping Feng Ting, Chen Cheng agreed to leave Gai Nie behind to assist.

• Chen Cheng descended into a Chen Family camp and showed the Supreme Calamity Origin Token to its soldiers.
• Chen Zihang recognized Chen Cheng and his powerful companions, then sincerely saluted him as the Young Master.
• Chen Zihang explained that the Chen Family had seized most of the Izumo Empire while Prince Yu’s forces planned to strike the clan from the border.
• Chen Cheng learned that Chen Yuan was attacking Wind God County and Chen Ye was guarding against the Myriad Scorpion Gate, leaving the Chen Family headquarters lightly defended.
• Chen Zihang asked Chen Cheng to leave Gai Nie to help intercept Feng Ting, and Chen Cheng agreed.

Chen Cheng sent several groups to pursue the enemy forces, while Yuwen Tuo found Feng Ting’s cavalry and killed him with a single strike. Feng Ting’s death and the destruction of his fifteen hundred soldiers left the Izumo Empire without hope of resisting Chen Yuan’s army.

• Chen Cheng sent Gai Nie and Wei Zhuang, then Yuwen Tuo, Ao Bing, Li Xiaoyao, and Nameless, to search for the border army and recruit or destroy it.
• Chen Cheng ordered Chen Zihang, Zhu Wu Shi, Xing Hun, Tian Yan, and Jiang Yu Yan to lead two thousand elite soldiers in pursuit of the enemy.
• Chen Zihang and Tian Yan spoke as their group set out, and Chen Zihang learned that Xing Hun and Zhu Wu Shi were both six-star Dou Ling.
• Yuwen Tuo found Feng Ting’s fifteen hundred cavalry resting on a plain and declared that Feng Ting would live only if he survived one attack.
• Yuwen Tuo struck with the Xuanyuan Sword, killing Feng Ting and all fifteen hundred soldiers in a massive trench.

Chen Zihang confirmed Feng Ting’s death and sent word that the threat had been removed. Meanwhile, Gai Nie and Wei Zhuang tried to persuade a two-hundred-thousand-strong army to surrender, but its soldiers chose to fight.

• Chen Zihang and Tian Yan examined the ravine and identified it as the work of powerful Sword Qi, while Zhu WuShi described the cultivation of Chen Cheng’s companions.
• Black Armor Guards recovered Feng Ting’s corpse and spoils, and Chen Zihang handed Feng Ting’s Storage Ring to Tian Yan for Chen Cheng.
• Chen Zihang sent soldiers to notify Chen Li and Shen Ye that Feng Ting had been killed, then ordered the corpses burned.
• Gai Nie and Wei Zhuang blocked Guan Yi’s army and offered surrender on Chen Cheng’s behalf.
• Guan Yi rallied his soldiers, who shouted that they would fight and gathered their battle intent against Gai Nie and Wei Zhuang.

Gai Nie and Wei Zhuang fought the Wind Battle Army after its commander, Guan Yi, refused to join the Chen Family, and their joint attack annihilated the two hundred thousand troops. Wei Zhuang absorbed the battlefield’s blood energy and, after Gai Nie helped him refine it, emerged as a Dou Wang.

• Guan Yi refused Gai Nie and Wei Zhuang’s offer, and Wei Zhuang activated his secret technique before the two attacked the army.
• Gai Nie and Wei Zhuang killed the archers and several Dou Ling generals, then unleashed a joint sword technique that destroyed the entire two hundred thousand-man army.
• The blood energy and resentment from the dead entered Wei Zhuang, and Gai Nie used his Ethereal Sword Manual to suppress it while Wei Zhuang refined the energy.
• Chen Zihang and his companions arrived at the blood lake, and he sent Tian Yan and Jiang Yu Yan back to camp before ordering the Black Armor Soldiers to guard Gai Nie and Wei Zhuang.
• After refining the blood energy through the day, Wei Zhuang spread blood-colored wings and broke through to Dou Wang.

Chen Cheng returned to Anyang City with Xiao Yi Xian and the others, bringing them to the Chen Family residence and arranging their stay at Linjiang Courtyard. After reuniting with Feng Ruoxue, he drew her into his arms and they were left alone together.

• Chen Cheng arrived at the Chen Family's main gate, where the guards recognized and welcomed him.
• Chen Cheng told Xiao Yi Xian to bring her Blue Eagle inside and assigned Zhu WuShi to turn a captured flying beast over to the city's flight point.
• Chen Cheng led the group through the expansive Chen Family compound to Linjiang Courtyard and asked Yan Lingji to arrange rooms.
• Feng Ruoxue hurried to see Chen Cheng after hearing he had returned, while Hong Luan followed her into his room.
• Chen Cheng pulled Feng Ruoxue into his arms, and Hong Luan quietly left and stood guard outside.

Chen Cheng arrived at the siege of Wind Cloud City with Ao Bing and Yuwen Tuo, and his presence suppressed the battle between Chen Yuan and Feng ZhengTian. He revealed himself as a member of the Chen Family, leaving Feng ZhengTian facing the Chen heir and his powerful companions.

• The Chen Family besieged Wind Cloud City while the Izumo Emperor and Feng ZhengTian defended its final line of defense.
• Chen Yuan and Feng ZhengTian fought in the sky until they sensed a Dou Zong's pressure and stopped.
• Ao Bing and Yuwen Tuo arrived with Chen Cheng, and the pressure from their approach knocked Chen Yuan from the sky.
• Chen Yuan recognized Chen Cheng and rejoiced, believing he had acquired the Calamity Poison Body.
• Feng ZhengTian greeted the arrivals as seniors, and Chen Cheng identified himself as Chen Cheng of the Chen Family.

Chen Cheng and his Dou Zong companion Yuwen Tuo crushed the Izumo Empire’s resistance by defeating Feng ZhengTian, leaving the defenders ready to surrender. After draining Feng ZhengTian’s Dou Qi and having Yuwen Tuo kill him, Chen Cheng confronted the terrified Izumo Emperor and asked whether he still refused to surrender.

• Feng ZhengTian realized Chen Cheng was the Chen Family’s Young Family Head and braced himself against the threat posed by Chen Cheng and the two Dou Zong experts beside him.
• At Chen Cheng’s command, Yuwen Tuo shattered Feng ZhengTian’s defenses, severely injured him, and carried him back alive.
• The soldiers on the city wall lost their will to fight after Feng ZhengTian’s swift defeat, while the Chen Family’s troops celebrated.
• Chen Cheng used the Star Absorbing Great Art to drain Feng ZhengTian’s Dou Qi, then ordered Yuwen Tuo to kill him.
• The defenders knelt as Chen Cheng, Yuwen Tuo, and Ao Bing landed on the city tower, where Chen Cheng asked the terrified Izumo Emperor whether he still refused to surrender.

Chen Cheng captured Wind Cloud City and defeated the Izumo Emperor, who revealed that he had caused Chen Yuan's Only Son to disappear eleven years earlier before killing himself. Chen Cheng welcomed the Chen Family army into the city and reunited with Chen Yuan, who learned that Chen Cheng had obtained the Calamity Poison Body.

• The Izumo Emperor attacked Chen Cheng, but Chen Cheng subdued him with Curse Poison Power and had soldiers tie him up.
• Chen Cheng offered to spare the Izumo Emperor's life while crippling his cultivation, but the emperor revealed his role in the disappearance of Chen Yuan's Only Son and jumped from the city wall to his death.
• Chen Cheng realized the Izumo Emperor had arranged the disappearance eleven years earlier, then ordered the city gates opened for the Chen Family army.
• The Chen Family army entered Wind Cloud City and took the surrendered Izumo soldiers prisoner.
• Chen Yuan, Chen Yang, and Chen Ming met Chen Cheng on the city wall, where Chen Yuan recognized that Chen Cheng had obtained the Calamity Poison Body and met his Dou Zong subordinates, Yuwen Tuo and Ao Bing.

Chen Yuan’s forces captured Izumo Holy City and looted its imperial palace while Chen Cheng refined a pill and revealed his alchemy skills to his father. After giving Chen Yuan pills and obtaining a rare magic core, Chen Cheng prepared to visit his grandfather at Ten Thousand Scorpions Mountain and pursue the evolution of his Calamity Poison Body.

• Chen Yuan’s army took Izumo Holy City, and Chen Yang and Chen Ming searched and looted the palace, finding that Feng Ruolin had burned the Royal Treasury.
• Chen Cheng refined the Dou Qi he had absorbed from Feng ZhengTian and made a perfect-quality Imperial Extreme Pill.
• Chen Cheng gave Chen Yuan an Imperial Extreme Pill and two Dou Ling Pills, then demonstrated his cyan Heavenly Flame and revealed that he was a high-grade seventh-rank alchemist.
• Chen Yuan gave Chen Cheng a sixth-rank poison-attribute magic core that he needed for a pill formula.
• Chen Yuan told Chen Cheng to visit his grandfather near Ten Thousand Scorpions Mountain so his grandfather could help him evolve his Calamity Poison Body.

Chen Ye’s army maintained a standoff around Ten Thousand Scorpions Mountain to keep the Myriad Scorpion Gate from interfering with Chen Yuan’s campaign. As two disciples descended to buy supplies, a powerful aura rose from the mountain, and Chen Ye recognized Xie Biyan.

• The Chen Family’s troops surrounded Ten Thousand Scorpions Mountain while Chen Ye and the Myriad Scorpion Gate avoided open conflict.
• Two Myriad Scorpion Gate disciples discussed the army’s strength and their hope that the secluded Xie Biyan would return.
• Li Ergou and Chen Daniu presented their approved application and passed the soldiers’ inspection to go buy vegetables.
• A tremendous aura surged from Ten Thousand Scorpions Mountain, putting the disciples and soldiers on alert.
• Chen Ye opened his eyes in his tent, looked toward the mountain, and said, “Xie Biyan.”

Chen Ye led the Chen Family army to attack Myriad Scorpion Gate while he fought its newly revealed Dou Zong, Xie Biyan. The Chen Family drove the sect’s forces back behind their protective formation, and both sides suffered heavy losses as the battle paused at the barrier.

• Chen Ye ordered Chen Mian to prepare the army to attack Myriad Scorpion Gate, then flew to confront Xie Biyan above Ten Thousand Scorpions Mountain with Nie Shan He and Duan Jianghai.
• Xie Biyan attacked Chen Ye, who fought back with black Dou Qi and soul attacks while Nie Shan He and Duan Jianghai combined their strength against him.
• After learning that Chen Mian’s army had attacked, Xie Shan led Myriad Scorpion Gate’s elders and disciples down the mountain to meet the advancing Chen Family forces.
• The Chen Family’s crossbows, archers, and coordinated battle formations forced Myriad Scorpion Gate to retreat toward its summit, where Xie Shan activated the sect-protecting grand formation.
• The Chen Family surrounded the barrier and bombarded it, while both sides suffered heavy casualties, including nearly forty thousand ordinary Chen Family soldiers and thousands of Myriad Scorpion Gate disciples.

Chen Ye and Xie Biyan ended their battle in a ceasefire after the Chen Family army nearly overwhelmed Myriad Scorpion Gate. A detection device then revealed that a powerful Calamity Poison Body had arrived at Ten Thousand Scorpions Mountain, near the Chen Family camp.

• Chen Ye sent Nie Shan He and Duan Jianghai to help the army attack Myriad Scorpion Gate’s protective formation while he held off Xie Biyan.
• The army’s assault battered the formation, but Myriad Scorpion Gate’s disciples held on until Xie Biyan agreed to a ceasefire and the Chen Family forces withdrew down the mountain.
• Xie Biyan admitted that Chen Ye’s cultivation method suppressed him, then went into seclusion to stabilize his realm and expel the poison in his body.
• Chen Ye announced that the army would withdraw in three days after learning that the Feng Family’s emperor had died, but a sudden pressure interrupted his cultivation and made him suspect the Calamity Poison Body had appeared.
• Myriad Scorpion Gate’s detection device tracked a fast-moving Calamity Poison Body to Ten Thousand Scorpions Mountain, where the signal stopped near the Chen Family camp.
• Xie Shan ordered the device’s steward to keep watching the signal and set out to search for the Calamity Poison Body.

Chen Cheng arrived at the Black Armor Guard camp with Yuwen Tuo and Ao Bing, reuniting with Chen Ye and revealing that the two Dou Zong experts served under him. After explaining Xiao Yi Xian’s Calamity Poison Body and promising to find a way to create an Acquired Calamity Poison Body, Chen Cheng noticed Chen Ye was injured, but an unexpected guest arrived before he could examine him.

• Chen Cheng landed at the camp with Yuwen Tuo and Ao Bing, and Chen Ye recognized his grandson’s strength and Calamity Poison Body.
• Chen Cheng greeted the Black Armor Guard soldiers and introduced Yuwen Tuo and Ao Bing as his subordinates, shocking Chen Ye and the others.
• Chen Cheng explained that he had taken Xiao Yi Xian’s Calamity Poison Body without endangering her and asked Chen Ye not to harm her.
• Chen Cheng promised to find a method for an Acquired Calamity Poison Body, and Chen Ye and Chen Mian teased him about Xiao Yi Xian.
• Chen Cheng noticed Chen Ye’s injuries and sensed an approaching guest, then ordered Yuwen Tuo to invite the visitor inside.

Yuwen Tuo captured Xie Shan and brought him to the Chen Family camp, where Chen Cheng absorbed his Dou Qi and prepared to use it to seek a breakthrough. Yuwen Tuo killed Xie Shan, leaving Chen Cheng with the spoils of the encounter.

• Xie Shan investigated the Chen Family camp, but Yuwen Tuo found him and captured him after knocking him from the sky.
• Yuwen Tuo brought Xie Shan into Chen Ye's tent, where Chen Ye handed him over to Chen Cheng.
• Xie Shan tried to attack Chen Ye, but Chen Cheng stopped him and absorbed his Dou Qi.
• Chen Cheng explained that his constitution let him absorb energy, and Chen Ye accepted the explanation after Chen Mian supported him.
• Yuwen Tuo took Xie Shan's Storage Ring and killed him.

Chen Cheng helped the Chen Family attack the Myriad Scorpion Gate and shattered its weakened protective formation after Xie Biyan escaped. The Myriad Scorpion Gate’s remaining forces were left badly injured and unable to resist.

• Chen Cheng healed Chen Ye and learned that the Chen Family was preparing to attack the Myriad Scorpion Gate.
• Chen Mian led the Chen Family army back up the mountain, forcing the Myriad Scorpion Gate’s disciples to retreat behind their grand formation.
• Chen Cheng ordered Yuwen Tuo and Ao Bing to attack Xie Biyan, who fled after they struck him down through the mountain peak.
• Chen Cheng and his companions searched for Xie Biyan but could not find him.
• Chen Cheng used Heavenly Flames to shatter the Myriad Scorpion Gate’s protective formation, and the backlash left its defenders gravely injured.

The Chen Family overwhelmed the Myriad Scorpion Gate after its formation shattered, and Chen Cheng survived the Four-Winged Demonic Scorpion’s life-ending poison attack. With the sect defeated and its disciples captured, Chen Cheng ordered the beast’s valuable remains collected and asked Chen Mian to search its stores for ingredients he needed.

• The Four-Winged Demonic Scorpion launched its life-powered poisonous stinger at Chen Cheng, but it barely pierced his skin and its poison was absorbed by his Calamity Poison Body.
• The Four-Winged Demonic Scorpion collapsed after using up its strength, while its attempt to rally the Myriad Scorpion Gate disciples failed.
• Chen Mian led the Chen Family army into the square, where the soldiers captured one thousand Myriad Scorpion Gate disciples and killed those who resisted.
• The Four-Winged Demonic Scorpion died after Yuwen Tuo jumped onto its back, and Chen Cheng ordered Yuwen Tuo to retrieve its magical core and wings without damaging its shell.
• Chen Mian told Chen Cheng that the Chen Family had eliminated the Myriad Scorpion Gate and was searching for its treasure hoard.
• Chen Cheng gave Chen Mian a list of ingredients for the Beast Fire Saint Spirit Pill and asked him to check whether the sect had collected them.

After the Chen Family seized the Myriad Scorpion Gate’s treasures, Chen Cheng found a valuable breakthrough pill formula and nearly completed his collection of ingredients for the Beast Fire Saint Spirit Pill. At the army’s victory celebration, he revealed his Nine Star Dou Huang cultivation and offered rare pills as prizes, strengthening the soldiers’ loyalty as he prepared to return home before attempting a breakthrough.

• The Chen Family took the Myriad Scorpion Gate’s cultivation methods, pills, and other treasures, and Chen Cheng discovered the Advancement Emperor Pill formula.
• Chen Cheng selected medicinal ingredients, while Chen Mian searched the mountain for several days; Chen Cheng refined the energy of Xie Shan and the Four-Winged Demonic Scorpion but remained below Dou Zong.
• Chen Ye held a victory celebration for the army, where soldiers gathered to eat, drink, and compete in arena fights.
• Chen Cheng joined the arena, announced that he was a Nine Star Dou Huang, and drew excited cheers from the soldiers.
• Chen Cheng offered six bottles of rare pills as prizes for soldiers who won ten consecutive arena bouts, and Chen Ye praised his move for raising the army’s morale and Chen Cheng’s prestige.