Chapter Summaries

After the Luo God Clan defeated the Blood God Clan’s main force at Heaven Thunder Cliff, Luo Cang received the casualty report and asked Lu Yuan and Luo Li how to proceed. Lu Yuan proposed resting before reclaiming territory and then exploiting the Blood God Clan’s response to either advance or strike its homeland.

• A logistics officer reported that the Luo God Clan had lost 3,766 personnel, while thousands more were wounded and only about 6,330 retained basic combat power.
• The report stated that the Blood God Clan had lost 14,638 personnel, its vassal families had suffered heavy casualties, and more than 11,300 captives awaited orders under a Spirit Restriction Array.
• Luo Cang asked Lu Yuan and Luo Li to advise him on the next steps after the victory.
• Lu Yuan recommended resting for a day, reclaiming lost territory, and waiting for the First Elder and reinforcements before judging the Blood God Clan’s response.
• Lu Yuan proposed striking the Blood God Clan’s homeland if its left and right legions returned, or advancing to retake the original defensive line if they did not.
• Lu Yuan suggested rewarding loyal small families by letting surviving orphans from annihilated families rule empires formerly controlled by the Blood God Clan.

Luo Cang agreed to Lu Yuan’s plan to counterattack the Blood God Clan, recognizing that Lu Yuan’s strength gave the battered Luo God Clan its best chance of survival. He assigned Luo Li to direct the coming battles and command the Luo River Army, leaving the story poised for her to take charge.

• Luo Cang accepted Lu Yuan’s plan and asked him to handle the Blood God Clan legions on both flanks.
• Luo Cang assessed the Blood God Clan’s intact defenses, Earth Supremes, grand formation, and large allied forces, concluding that the Luo God Clan could not advance without Lu Yuan’s plan.
• Lu Yuan explained that reinforcements would recover the lost territory and replace Luo Cang’s depleted legion at the southern defensive line.
• Luo Cang proposed using the counteroffensive’s gains to support affiliated clans that had fought for the Luo God Clan.
• Luo Cang told Luo Li to direct and coordinate the battles and command the Luo River Army.

Luo Cang and the other commanders yielded authority to Luo Li, making her commander-in-chief so she could prove her leadership and strengthen her claim as the Luo God Clan’s young clan leader. With Lu Yuan’s support and the legion’s confidence, Luo Li began leading the campaign to reclaim the Qian'an Empire and the clan’s lost territories.

• Luo Cang and the other commanders accepted that Luo Li could take control of the legion, since most soldiers would follow her and Lu Yuan had not interfered.
• Luo Cang judged Luo Li’s potential against Lu Yuan’s overwhelming strength and concluded that she needed to build her authority through experience and leadership.
• The commanders saw Luo Li’s relationship with Lu Yuan as a source of support that would not prevent her from ruling the Luo God Clan.
• Luo Li officially became the legion’s highest commander with the commanders’ unanimous agreement.
• Luo Li led the Luo God Clan legion toward reclaiming the Qian'an Empire and their other lost territories.

Luo Li led the streamlined Luo God Clan army back to reclaim its territory, where small families surrendered and influential clans gathered to welcome them. She planned to use the city’s defenses and the testimony of orphaned loyalists to deal with families that had betrayed or abandoned the Luo God Clan.

• A scout reported that thirty-two families were waiting at Ten Li Pavilion outside the city to welcome Luo Li and her army.
• Luo Li’s army advanced in three echelons with 6,500 combat-capable soldiers, while three Supremes remained at Heaven Thunder Cliff.
• The army encountered no resistance as small families surrendered, allowing its exhausted soldiers to recover their strength and morale.
• Luo Li said the small families were useless and ordered that the Third Commander take control of the city defenses and enforce a curfew.
• Luo Li instructed the Third Commander to use noncooperation as grounds to kill families and to ask orphaned descendants of loyal families which clans had sided with the Blood God Clan.

Luo Li used the Luo God Clan’s recovery to reward loyal families and punish those that had stayed neutral, then offered the loyalists a chance to expand into Blood God Clan territory. After the Blood God Clan retreated and reinforced its defenses, neutral families across the Western Heaven Continent tried to stay out of the conflict.

• Luo Li’s support restored loyal families, whose trust in the Luo God Clan grew as they gained access to protection and future rewards.
• Luo Li let loyal families decide which accused clans had betrayed the Luo God Clan, triggering bloodshed across cities in three empires.
• Luo Li offered loyal families the choice to rebuild at home or join an invasion of Blood God Clan territory and claim the lands of its supporters.
• The Luo God Clan turned the Blood God Clan’s methods against it, threatening neutral families that interfered with the loyalists’ expansion.
• The Blood God Clan lost another Lower Earth Supreme, abandoned forward territory, and withdrew behind defensive formations and larger troop numbers.
• Neutral families shut themselves away from the fighting, while the reversal of power drew the attention of the Western Heaven Continent.

The Luo God Clan’s recovery changed the balance of its war with the Blood God Clan, unsettling merchants and nearby factions that had previously avoided supporting the Luo God Clan. As shops and Merchant Guilds shifted away from the Blood God Clan, the Luo God Clan became the rising force, and even a remnant army of six thousand five hundred dared to charge its enemy’s encampment.

• The chapter explained how the Luo God Clan and Blood God Clan’s war affected nearby factions and trade, even though powerful rulers did not intervene directly.
• The Luo God Clan’s earlier weakness had driven merchants away, worsening its shortages of provisions and supplies for its millions of people and border troops.
• The chapter described how factions and businesses feared that the resurgent Luo God Clan might retaliate against those who had abandoned it.
• Shops and Merchant Guilds that had continued operating throughout the war left Blood God Clan territory, causing affiliated clans to cautiously maintain neutrality.
• The Luo God Clan’s sudden rise made it the dominant force, and a remnant army of six thousand five hundred charged into the Blood God Clan’s encampment.

The Blood God Clan’s surviving leaders argued over Xue Gong’s death and the decisions that had brought the clan to the brink of destruction. They revealed that they had called on the clan’s distant relative, Miss, for help, leaving the clan’s fate tied to whether she arrived in time.

• Blood God Clan leaders blamed one another for sending Xue Gong to confront the advancing Luo God Clan army, while Supremes outside the hall grew more fearful as they overheard the argument.
• An elder defended his order for Xue Gong to act according to the situation, but another leader accused him of underestimating the Luo God Clan and failing to stop Xue Gong from going.
• The leaders acknowledged that Xue He and Xue Lingzi had been overwhelmed by Heavenly Sovereigns and could not reasonably have escaped their circumstances.
• A silent Earth Supreme revealed that he had sent word to Miss at the Western Heaven Divine Hall as soon as the crisis was confirmed.
• The leaders decided that calling on Miss was worth using up the clan’s favor, since the Blood God Clan faced destruction if no help came.

The Western Heaven Battle Emperor confronted Xue Ling'er over the conflict between the Blood God Clan and the Luo God Clan, recalling their past and explaining why he had tolerated her actions. He brought her to face the consequences of the war, leaving her kneeling as the Luo God Clan army approached.

• The Western Heaven Battle Emperor reminded Xue Ling'er of how they first met and questioned what his power and years of cultivation had accomplished.
• The Western Heaven Battle Emperor said he had never intended to suppress the Luo God Clan or other clans, but had tolerated Xue Ling'er's actions because she was his Dao Companion.
• The Western Heaven Battle Emperor walked toward the approaching Luo God Clan army, where Lu Yuan and Luo Li stood, and explained that either intervening or staying away would have betrayed someone.
• Xue Ling'er knelt, unable to control the conflict or undo the consequences of her father's death and the Blood God Clan's war.
• The Western Heaven Battle Emperor's intervention sacrificed the Western Heaven Divine Hall's neutrality and credibility, but showed that he had come because of his affection for Xue Ling'er.

As the Luo God Clan army prepared to attack the Blood God Clan headquarters, Lu Yuan sensed the Western Heaven Battle Emperor approaching and warned that the army faced mortal danger. He ordered Luo Li and the others to retreat while he went to confront the Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign alone.

• Lu Yuan interrupted Luo Li and Luo Cang’s battle planning to warn them that an immensely powerful aura was approaching.
• Lu Yuan identified the approaching figure as possibly being the Western Heaven Battle Emperor, and the Luo God Clan leaders reacted with alarm.
• Lu Yuan assessed that the Western Heaven Battle Emperor could kill most of the army with his aura, even if he spared Lu Yuan and Luo Li.
• Lu Yuan ordered everyone to retreat as far as possible and told them to warn First Elder and the others to withdraw too.
• Lu Yuan prepared to meet the approaching enemy alone.

Lu Yuan prepared to face the Western Heaven Battle Emperor while Luo Li insisted on staying nearby to guard against danger. After Lu Yuan met the Battle Emperor on the plain, the two paused before their confrontation began.

• Luo Li ordered Luo Cang to resume command of the Luo River Army and obey orders, while Lu Yuan warned that she could not help him in the coming fight.
• Luo Li refused to leave Lu Yuan, arguing that she could survive the battle’s aftermath and guard against the Battle Emperor’s allies arriving unexpectedly.
• Lu Yuan accepted Luo Li’s decision, drew a protective circle with the Red Dust Threads, and told her to retreat if the danger became too great.
• Lu Yuan traveled across the plain and stopped three thousand meters from the Western Heaven Battle Emperor.
• The Western Heaven Battle Emperor studied Lu Yuan and asked whether he intended to be his enemy.

Lu Yuan confronted the Western Heaven Battle Emperor, who had mistaken him for an ordinary Luo God Clan Supreme and challenged his right to intervene. After Lu Yuan revealed his identity and pointed out the implications of the Battle Emperor’s interference, the Battle Emperor became suspicious that Lu Yuan’s apparent Eighth Grade Supreme realm was a disguise.

• The Western Heaven Battle Emperor dismissed Lu Yuan as an insignificant Supreme and claimed his authority as ruler entitled him to expel outsiders.
• Lu Yuan revealed that he was Lu Yuan and challenged the Battle Emperor’s assumption that he was the one seeking conflict.
• Lu Yuan argued that the Battle Emperor’s intervention signaled hostility to other clans, while Lu Yuan’s own involvement carried little weight because he was only an Eighth Grade Supreme.
• The Western Heaven Battle Emperor rejected Lu Yuan’s reasoning and insisted he had the right to expel him.
• The Western Heaven Battle Emperor questioned whether Lu Yuan was truly an Eighth Grade Supreme and grew guarded, suspecting they were both Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereigns.

Lu Yuan revealed One Qi Transforming into Three Purities, prompting the Western Heaven Battle Emperor to recognize the Ancient Heavenly Emperor’s art and prepare to fight despite Lu Yuan’s claimed Eighth Grade Supreme cultivation. The Western Heaven Battle Emperor launched the opening strike, beginning their battle on the plains before the Blood God Clan.

• Lu Yuan understood the Western Heaven Battle Emperor’s suspicions but chose not to explain his cultivation or intentions.
• Lu Yuan raised a Sword Finger and manifested two identical avatars through One Qi Transforming into Three Purities.
• The Western Heaven Battle Emperor recognized the technique as the Ancient Heavenly Emperor’s ultimate art and considered whether Lu Yuan’s appearance was connected to the Ancient Heavenly Palace.
• The Western Heaven Battle Emperor drew a Dark Gold Great Halberd and unleashed a strike that tore a ten-thousand-mile rift through the sky.
• The Blood God Clan Heiress, Luo Li, Luo Cang, and the Luo God Clan elders watched in alarm as the Western Heaven Battle Emperor and Lu Yuan began fighting.

The Western Heaven Battle Emperor launched a full-force attack at Lu Yuan, the Luo God Clan’s uncrowned king, breaking the unspoken rule that kings did not meet kings. Lu Yuan calmly blocked the strike, and the chapter ended with both sides still poised to reveal their true killing moves.

• The chapter explained why powerful factions usually avoided direct clashes between their strongest members and how the Luo God Clan and Blood God Clan observed that rule.
• The Western Heaven Battle Emperor recognized Lu Yuan’s importance to the Luo God Clan and attacked him at full force.
• Lu Yuan raised his hand and struck the Western Heaven Battle Emperor’s golden halberd light with a vast silver palm.
• The collision opened a black-hole-sized void and unleashed destructive storms across the plains before the Blood God Clan.
• The chapter noted that the exchange had not yet used either Heavenly Sovereign’s decisive Secret Techniques.

Lu Yuan withstood the Western Heaven Battle Emperor’s attack while maintaining the appearance of an Eighth Grade Supreme, prompting the Battle Emperor to unleash the Ancient Battle Emperor’s inheritance and shake the Western Heaven Continent. The eruption alerted Heavenly Sovereigns across the Myriad Heavens, while Qing Yan Jing turned her attention back to mastering the Floating Tu Pagoda.

• Lu Yuan blocked the Western Heaven Battle Emperor’s full-force ordinary strike with a palm formed from Spatial Power, keeping his aura at the Eighth Grade Supreme level.
• The Western Heaven Battle Emperor accused Lu Yuan of provoking him, then recited three battle lines and unleashed a Secret Technique from the Ancient Battle Emperor’s inheritance.
• The Western Heaven Battle Emperor’s spiritual pressure shook the Western Heaven Continent, forced people across it to the ground, and drew the attention of distant Heavenly Sovereigns.
• Heavenly Sovereigns across the Myriad Heavens wondered who had forced the Western Heaven Battle Emperor to reveal his power, since neither Xiao Yan nor Lin Dong had moved.
• Qing Yan Jing withdrew her gaze from the commotion and resolved to master the Floating Tu Pagoda as soon as possible.

Lu Yuan and the Western Heaven Battle Emperor unleashed their trump cards, with the Battle Emperor throwing a devastating Golden Halberd strike and Lu Yuan meeting it with three Red Dust Thread Nets. Their collision tore open vast spatial rifts above the Western Heaven Continent, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• The Western Heaven Battle Emperor gathered spiritual energy into his Golden Halberd and prepared his Nine Tribulations attack.
• Lu Yuan cast a Red Dust Thread Net, then summoned two incarnations to create two more nets and bind the halberd.
• The Western Heaven Battle Emperor hurled the Golden Halberd at Lu Yuan with enough concealed force to kill a Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign.
• Lu Yuan’s three nets clashed with the halberd, and dazzling light and explosions engulfed both fighters.
• The collision opened continent-spanning spatial rifts that swallowed passing travelers and disrupted teleportations.

Lu Yuan used Red Dust Threads and repeated clones to overcome Western Heaven Battle Emperor while keeping his cultivation at Eighth Grade Supreme. He killed the Battle Emperor, and bloody rain over the Western Heaven Continent announced the fall of a Heavenly Sovereign.

• Western Heaven Battle Emperor launched a full-force attack, but Lu Yuan erased its power with layers of Red Dust Threads and emerged unharmed.
• Western Heaven Battle Emperor realized Lu Yuan was exploiting the rule against Heavenly Sovereigns killing one another by fighting him as an Eighth Grade Supreme.
• Lu Yuan sent clones wielding the Years Blade against Western Heaven Battle Emperor, but the Battle Emperor destroyed two clones and resisted their attacks.
• Lu Yuan’s clones multiplied and kept attacking until thirty Years Blades hard-controlled Western Heaven Battle Emperor.
• Lu Yuan pierced Western Heaven Battle Emperor’s body and soul with an illusory Red Thread, killing him as bloody rain fell across the Western Heaven Continent.

Lu Yuan defeated and killed the Western Heaven Battle Emperor, then found the Blood God Clan Heiress dead by her own hand and chose not to search her soul. He returned to Luo Li and explained that the Western Heaven Continent would descend into chaos as a new order had to be established.

• The Western Heaven Battle Emperor's single probing strike began the fight, but Lu Yuan's One Qi Transforming into Three Purities let him overcome the Battle Emperor's strategy and kill him.
• Lu Yuan found the Blood God Clan Heiress and saw that she had taken her own life rather than face him.
• Lu Yuan shattered the Blood God Clan Heiress's soul without searching it, despite knowing she could have revealed the Blood God Clan's secrets and military plans.
• Lu Yuan returned to Luo Li, confirmed that the battle was over, and said killing the Western Heaven Battle Emperor would leave the Western Heaven God Realm and Western Heaven Continent in chaos.
• Luo Li asked whether Lu Yuan had been hurt, and he reassured her that he was unharmed and that she had been safe behind the Red Dust Threads.

Lu Yuan returned after killing the Western Heaven Battle Emperor, and the Luo God Clan leaders learned that a Supreme had slain a Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign. The clan accepted Lu Yuan as its powerful leader and awaited his orders to bring its forces back and destroy the Blood God Clan.

• Lu Yuan explained that his Years Blade and Red Dust Threads gave him immense killing power but left him too fragile to guarantee that he could stop the Blood God Clan from escaping alone.
• Luo Cang and the Luo God Clan elders were stunned when Lu Yuan confirmed that the Western Heaven Battle Emperor was dead.
• The elders recognized the Gold Ancient Halberd in Lu Yuan's hand and accepted it, along with the death omen, as proof that he had killed the Battle Emperor.
• The Luo God Clan elders eagerly awaited Lu Yuan's orders and treated him like a Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign.
• Luo Li alone understood that Lu Yuan had crossed two major realms and seven minor realms to kill the Battle Emperor as a Supreme.

Lu Yuan ordered the Luo God Clan army to destroy the Blood God Clan before confronting the Western Heaven Divine Hall, while forbidding anyone from disparaging the fallen Western Heaven Battle Emperor. With the assembled forces prepared to march and sweep the region, the story left the army gathered aboard nearly one hundred Spatial Spaceships.

• Lu Yuan told the Luo God Clan elders to proceed methodically, target the Blood God Clan first, and leave unresisting factions alone.
• Lu Yuan ordered the army to respect the Western Heaven Battle Emperor and not mock him, and the elders pledged to obey.
• The chapter explained how Luo Tianshen reinforced the sweeping army with Supremes, soldiers, and affiliated-family troops to secure Luo God Clan territory.
• The Luo God Clan army and its allies assembled aboard nearly one hundred Spatial Spaceships, including captured ships and prisoners from the Blood God Clan.

Lu Yuan advised Luo Li to reward the forty-seven loyal forces that had joined the war against the Blood God Clan, arguing that their gains would strengthen the Luo God Clan’s alliances and future forces. He then chose the Western Heaven Divine Hall as the next target, leaving the Luo God Clan poised to expand its power after the Western Heaven Battle Emperor’s fall.

• Luo Li considered whether the Luo God Clan should limit the allied families’ share of the Blood God Clan’s resources.
• Lu Yuan urged Luo Li to let the forty-seven forces that had supported them take their fill, since rewarding their risk would build loyalty and help weaker forces grow.
• Lu Yuan pointed out that most forces without Supremes had supported the Luo God Clan, while many Supreme-led forces had not, and argued that backing the loyal forces would encourage others to join later.
• The Luo God Clan’s elders accepted Lu Yuan’s equation of Luo Li’s interests with the clan’s, seeing his support as a source of protection and authority for her.
• Lu Yuan identified the Western Heaven Divine Hall as the Luo God Clan’s next target.