Chapter Summaries

Mu Shang selected thirty martial artists, including Xia Fanbai, to serve the Mechanical Empire and had them injected with nanobots. After demonstrating the nanobots’ deadly effects, he sent the group to the Yinlei Mountain Range with Jiang Yuanjiu in charge.

• Mu Shang selected thirty martial artists, including Xia Fanbai, to leave the cages, while Xia Fanbai threatened Jiang Yuanjiu and ignored Zhan Tiancheng’s accusations.
• Members of the Mechanical Empire injected the selected martial artists with an unknown liquid, and electric collars killed two escapees who tried to flee.
• Mu Shang ordered the collars removed, then had a martial artist killed by nanobots to show the others what would happen if they escaped or refused to work.
• Mu Shang ordered Jiang Yuanjiu to take the thirty martial artists to the Yinlei Mountain Range and explain their mission on the way.

Xia Fanbai searched for Fang Mo to warn him that the Mechanical Empire was mobilizing against Yinlei Mountain, while Fang Mo advanced his blade cultivation in Red Flame Gorge. Fang Mo’s strike unleashed a tremendous wave of blade momentum that drove Mu Shang’s flying craft away before it could investigate the gorge.

• Jiang Yuanjiu assured Mu Shang that Fang Mo was likely near Red Flame Gorge, and Mu Shang ordered the flying craft toward it.
• Xia Fanbai avoided heading straight for Red Flame Gorge as he searched for Fang Mo and planned to warn him about the Mechanical Empire’s forces.
• Fang Mo comprehended deeper Blade Intent and unleashed his Burning Heaven Splitting Mountain Slash, shaking Red Flame Gorge and sending blade momentum into the sky.
• The shockwave buffeted Mu Shang’s flying craft near the gorge, forcing Mu Shang to activate its defenses and escape the violent air currents.
• Mu Shang mistook the blade momentum for a natural phenomenon and ordered the craft to leave, while Jiang Yuanjiu privately suspected Fang Mo had caused it.

Fang Mo mastered the Wind Fiend Void Splitter Saber Art and prepared to confront Lei He. A message on his Communication Talisman interrupted him, and he left Red Flame Gorge without revealing what it said.

• Fang Mo reached Great Accomplishment in the Burning Heaven Splitting Mountain Slash and gained confidence that he could face Lei He.
• Fang Mo studied the Seven Fiends Saber Art and rejected the Blood Fiend God Slayer and Prison Fiend Soul Suppressor techniques, choosing the Wind Fiend Void Splitter Saber Art.
• Fang Mo quickly advanced the Wind Fiend Void Splitter Saber Art and fused it with his perfected Wind Riding Saber Art.
• Fang Mo absorbed the Bronze Mirror's inheritance, raising the Wind Fiend Void Splitter Saber Art to a level beyond Lesser Accomplishment.
• Fang Mo decided to settle accounts with Lei He, but a message arrived on his Communication Talisman, and he flew away from Red Flame Gorge.

Fang Mo pursued Huang Mu into Red Flame Gorge after Huang Mu captured and tortured Xia Fanbai for information about Fang Mo’s hiding place. Fang Mo drew Huang Mu away from Xia Fanbai, then turned to face him in the gorge’s depths.

• Tao Shang told Fang Mo that the Mechanical Empire was searching the Yinlei Mountain Range and had captured some of their people, so Fang Mo left to investigate.
• Xia Fanbai hurried to Red Flame Gorge hoping to find Fang Mo, while Huang Mu secretly followed him.
• Huang Mu attacked Xia Fanbai, questioned him about Fang Mo, and used Nanobots to torture him when he refused to answer.
• Fang Mo struck Huang Mu with a blade force and fled, drawing Huang Mu away from Xia Fanbai.
• Fang Mo stopped atop a rock in the depths of Red Flame Gorge and attacked Huang Mu with his blade.

Fang Mo fought Huang Mu in Red Flame Gorge, where Huang Mu activated his Level Three Seal and transformed his armor. Fang Mo unleashed the Burning Heaven Splitting Mountain Slash, shattered Huang Mu’s defenses, and left the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Fang Mo and Huang Mu exchanged hundreds of blows, while Xia Fanbai watched from a safe distance.
• Huang Mu activated his Level Three Seal and blasted Fang Mo back with an energy cannon.
• Huang Mu transformed his armor and released an orange sword light as Fang Mo gathered Heaven and Earth Momentum.
• Fang Mo struck with the Burning Heaven Splitting Mountain Slash, crushing Huang Mu’s sword light and breaking his shield.

Fang Mo defeated and killed Huang Mu, then learned from Xia Fanbai that the Mechanical Empire had planted Nanobots in him and prepared to test whether lightning could destroy them. The chapter ended as Fang Mo and Xia Fanbai reached a lightning-dense area of the Yin Lei Cloud Zone and got ready to begin.

• Xia Fanbai ran toward the battlefield after a shockwave struck, where Fang Mo had grievously wounded Huang Mu with a blade strike.
• Fang Mo killed Huang Mu, captured the Liquid Metal Battle Armor that escaped from his body, and burned the corpse.
• Xia Fanbai warned Fang Mo that Red Rock City had powerful weapons and a huge mech ready to ambush the sect.
• Fang Mo took Xia Fanbai to the Yin Lei Cloud Zone to try to destroy the Nanobots inside him with lightning.
• Xia Fanbai agreed to risk the attempt, and Fang Mo prepared to begin in the region where lightning was most concentrated.

Lei He confirmed that Fang Mo had killed Huang Mu and taken the Liquid Metal Battle Armor, then ordered the Mechanical Empire’s mechs to search the Yinlei Mountain Range. Their sudden departure gave the imprisoned martial artists a chance to act.

• Zhan Tiancheng and Ji Changming watched mechs leave Red Rock City and wondered whether Fang Mo was involved.
• Lei He reached Red Flame Gorge, examined the battle marks, and identified Fang Mo as the fighter who had defeated Huang Mu.
• Lei He found Huang Mu’s identification insignia among his burned remains and learned that the Liquid Metal Battle Armor was missing.
• Lei He ordered every mech to search the Yinlei Mountain Range for Fang Mo and the armor.
• As the mechs left Red Rock City, Ji Changming told Zhan Tiancheng that their opportunity had arrived.

Fang Mo used Yin Lei Mountain’s lightning to destroy the Nanobots inside Xia Fanbai, guiding him through the ordeal and shielding him from a devastating bolt. Xia Fanbai survived and broke through to the Late Xiantian stage, but a more powerful lightning strike hit Fang Mo as Xia Fanbai fled to safety.

• Fang Mo brought Xia Fanbai into Yin Lei Mountain’s thunderclouds and warned him that lightning might destroy the Nanobots but could also kill him.
• Fang Mo guided lightning through Xia Fanbai’s body with his true essence while Xia Fanbai circulated his cultivation technique, and the Nanobots began to break apart.
• Fang Mo took Xia Fanbai deeper into the lightning and intercepted a powerful bolt, allowing the last Nanobots to be destroyed as Xia Fanbai lost consciousness.
• Xia Fanbai regained consciousness, learned the Nanobots were gone, and discovered he had advanced to the Late Xiantian stage.
• When an even stronger bolt gathered, Fang Mo blasted Xia Fanbai out of range, and Xia Fanbai watched the lightning strike Fang Mo.

Fang Mo endured repeated lightning strikes at Thunder Prison Peak to refine his body and strengthen himself after killing Huang Mu. Meanwhile, Mu Shang and Jiang Yuanjiu learned that Fang Mo was at Thunder Prison Peak and ordered the mechs to converge there.

• Fang Mo shoved Xia Fanbai away and endured a powerful lightning strike, circulating the Taichu Qi Cultivation Chapter and practicing the Twelve Diamond Forms to repair and temper his body.
• Xia Fanbai watched Fang Mo survive the strike and continue cultivating as the thunderclouds gathered for another attack.
• Mu Shang and Jiang Yuanjiu learned from Lord Ze You that Fang Mo had killed Huang Mu in Red Flame Gorge.
• Mu Shang and Jiang Yuanjiu realized that Fang Mo had brought Xia Fanbai to Thunder Prison Peak, where the lightning had destroyed Xia Fanbai's Nanobots.
• Mu Shang ordered the mechs to abandon the hunt and head for Thunder Prison Peak, and told the operator to inform Lord Ze You of Fang Mo's location.

Lei He abandoned his attack on Thunder Prison Peak after learning that Tianli Sect’s reinforcements had arrived, and ordered the Dark Energy Pulse Cannon to destroy the peak. Meanwhile, Chu Shan’s Heavenly Vessel broke through a storm and reached the coast of Red Rock Continent.

• Lei He led his mechs toward Thunder Prison Peak to surround Fang Mo, but halted after receiving a message and ordered forces to defend the coast and return to Red Rock City.
• Mu Shang told Jiang Yuanjiu that Tianli Sect’s reinforcements had arrived, activated the Nano Insects against the red-dotted people, and warned Jiang Yuanjiu to remain loyal to the Mechanical Empire.
• Lei He ordered Red Rock City to fire its Dark Energy Pulse Cannon at Thunder Prison Peak, and Mu Shang told Jiang Yuanjiu that Fang Mo was as good as dead.
• Chu Shan guided the Heavenly Vessel through a violent storm while the Tianli Sect martial artists held on aboard.
• The Heavenly Vessel emerged from the storm, and its passengers spotted the coast of Red Rock Continent.

Fang Mo survived his lightning body refinement breakthrough, but the Bronze Mirror warned him of danger, and he fled with Xia Fanbai as a superweapon struck Thunder Prison Peak. Meanwhile, Chu Shan led the Tianli Sect’s forces through the grand array to the Red Rock Continent, where three energy attacks ambushed their unprepared Heavenly Vessel.

• Fang Mo’s charred skin peeled away after he reached the ninth level of the Indestructible Diamond Body, revealing that he had survived the lightning.
• The Bronze Mirror warned Fang Mo of danger, so he grabbed Xia Fanbai and fled as a superweapon tore through the thunderclouds and exploded behind them.
• Chu Shan brought the Tianli Sect’s armed forces across the Sea of Fog and activated the Heavenly Vessel’s Transit Array to enter the Red Rock Continent.
• Chu Shan sensed danger as soon as the Heavenly Vessel arrived and ordered its defensive array activated.
• Three streaks of energy launched from a distant mountain toward the Heavenly Vessel before its defenses were ready.

The Tianli Sect's Heavenly Vessel fought off the Mechanical Empire's attacks, while Chu Shan faced a powerful enemy arriving from the sky. After the Dark Energy Pulse Cannon devastated Thunder Prison Peak, Fang Mo and Xia Fanbai survived the blast, and Fang Mo hurried away on urgent business.

• Chu Shan used Heaven Shaking Arrows and Transcendent Realm warriors to defend the Heavenly Vessel from energy attacks launched from the mountains.
• Lei He ordered the mech forces to attack the Heavenly Vessel while the Dark Energy Cannon recharged, and Chu Shan recognized the mechs as remnants of the Mechanical Empire.
• The Tianli Sect warriors clashed with the mechs, and armor-piercing arrows brought down two of them.
• Chu Shan met a blazing sword strike in the sky and was knocked back as a tall figure fell to the ground.
• Fang Mo and Xia Fanbai emerged from the rubble near Thunder Prison Peak's enormous crater after surviving the cannon blast.
• Fang Mo told Xia Fanbai to call him martial uncle, explained that Gu Lingfeng had accepted him as a disciple, and then flew away on urgent business.

Chu Shan and the Tianli Sect fought a growing Mechanical Empire assault, while Lei He sent fresh waves of mechs to destroy their retreat aboard the Heavenly Vessel. As the vessel’s defenses faltered, Chu Shan unleashed his merged swords against the Level 3 Mech.

• Chu Shan battled a powerful Level 3 Mech while self-destructing mechs shattered the Heavenly Human Realm warriors’ Sword Array.
• Lei He ordered the Hells to attack, and three mechs emerged from the sea to bombard the Heavenly Vessel.
• Chu Shan drove the Level 3 Mech back with his flying sword and ordered the Tianli Sect disciples to retreat to the vessel.
• More than twenty mechs arrived as three Level 2 Mechs continued striking the vessel’s defensive formation.
• Chu Shan merged his three swords and launched Li Sword Art—Chasing Stars at the Level 3 Mech.

Fang Mo reached Black Water Marsh and witnessed Chu Shan and the Tianli Sect forces clash with the mechs. Chu Shan used the Tianli Sword Array to shield the Heavenly Vessel and make it vanish, while Lei He blamed Fang Mo for ruining the plan.

• Fang Mo inspected his ninth-level Indestructible Diamond Body and hurried to Black Water Marsh, believing Tianli Sect reinforcements had arrived.
• Fang Mo reached the battlefield and saw a giant sword collide with a mech’s flame sword aura, creating a devastating explosion that wounded Chu Shan and damaged his flying swords.
• The mechs attacked the Heavenly Vessel as the surviving martial artists retreated, and Chu Shan raised the Tianli Sword Array to protect the vessel from their Particle Cannons.
• Chu Shan poured energy into the Heavenly Vessel and used Shifting Forms, Changing Shadows to make it disappear, leaving the mechs firing at empty air.
• Lei He angrily blamed Fang Mo for the Tianli Sect’s escape and vowed his fury aloud.

After surviving the attack on Thunder Prison Peak, Fang Mo headed to Red Rock Valley to take revenge on Lei He. He ambushed Glaireo and three Mech Warriors, and Glaireo escaped after recognizing him.

• Fang Mo saw the Tianli Sect forces retreat after losing the battle and left the area before the mechs searching for them arrived.
• Fang Mo sensed that the Tianli Sect had escaped too far for Gu Lingfeng's token to detect and decided to attack Red Rock Valley while its forces were away.
• Glaireo learned that the Tianli Sect had been driven off and took three Mech Warriors on patrol, believing Fang Mo had died at Thunder Prison Peak.
• Fang Mo ambushed the patrol with blade force and a Sword of Nascent Soul attack, disabling the mechs and injuring their pilots.
• Glaireo recognized Fang Mo and fled, while Fang Mo turned to face the remaining Mech Warriors.

Fang Mo killed two more Mech Warriors after disabling their mechs, then followed Gu Lingfeng's identity token toward the Tianli Sect members. Lei He mobilized to hunt Fang Mo, while Zhan Tiancheng and Ji Changming continued trying to escape their cage from inside.

• Fang Mo killed the pilots in two damaged mechs and examined the wreckage of the three-mech patrol squad.
• Fang Mo sensed Gu Lingfeng's identity token resonating and rushed toward the Tianli Sect members as Glaireo fled and called for support.
• Lei He heard Glaireo's warning, left the formation, and raced after Fang Mo.
• Zhan Tiancheng and Ji Changming believed the missing mechs signaled that reinforcements had arrived, but continued working to break out of the cage.
• Lei He found the wrecked mechs, detected a faint trace of Fang Mo, and pursued it.

Lei He repeatedly failed to catch Fang Mo, who destroyed several mechs and escaped into the Nine Heavens Wind Barrier. After Lei He ordered the mechs to operate in groups, Fang Mo wiped out a five-mech squad and survived a Thunder Blast, leaving Lei He pursuing his southbound trail.

• Lei He lost Fang Mo's trail in the Nine Heavens Wind Barrier after pursuing him for a hundred li.
• Lei He found two destroyed mechs and watched recorded footage showing Fang Mo attack and kill their pilots.
• Lei He ordered Level 1 Mechs to operate in groups of at least five and to avoid prolonged combat with Fang Mo.
• Fang Mo attacked a five-mech squad and destroyed all five, while one mech detonated its Power Core in a Thunder Blast.
• Lei He found no sign of Fang Mo at the blast site, but his system locked onto Fang Mo fleeing south, and Lei He resumed the pursuit.

Fang Mo confronted Lei He in the Nine Heavens Wind Barrier, where their battle escalated as Lei He unleashed the Level Three Seal and Fang Mo used his Burning Heaven Splitting Mountain Slash. Lei He survived the attack, but Fang Mo escaped, leaving Lei He in pursuit.

• Fang Mo lured Lei He into the Nine Heavens Wind Barrier and began fighting him.
• Fang Mo and Lei He exchanged blows, with Fang Mo gradually falling behind Lei He's strength and speed.
• Fang Mo unleashed Burning Heaven Splitting Mountain Slash, and Lei He opened the Level Three Seal to counter it.
• The clash shattered Lei He's shield and badly damaged his Liquid Metal Battle Armor, but Fang Mo was also blasted away.
• Lei He's intelligent system reported that Fang Mo had escaped, and Lei He chased after him.

After escaping the Mechanical Empire, Chu Shan concealed the injured Heavenly Vessel in a valley and debated how to respond to the enemy’s return. While his group began recovering and planning to resist, Red Rock City detected energy fluctuations near the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range.

• Chu Shan and the battered survivors forced the Heavenly Vessel out of space and activated stealth mode as they descended into the forest.
• Chu Shan concealed the Heavenly Vessel in a valley and realized that nine of his thirty-six Heavenly Human Realm experts had fallen, while the survivors were badly injured.
• Lu Cangshan urged Chu Shan to split their forces, attack the Mechanical Empire’s mechs, and send people beyond the grand array to warn the sect.
• Chu Shan agreed to recover first and sent uninjured Heavenly Human Realm experts to gather intelligence.
• Red Rock City’s radar operators detected energy force-field fluctuations toward the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain and alerted the search teams.

Ji Changming and Zhan Tiancheng escaped their cages by bending a steel bar, then used the city pool to destroy their electric collars. With guards pursuing them, Ji Changming drew away a guarding mech while Zhan Tiancheng entered the formation’s control building and reached for the Jade Talisman.

• Ji Changming and Zhan Tiancheng bent open a cage and fled, prompting the other prisoners to scramble after them.
• Guards activated the collars and shocked the escapees, but Ji Changming and Zhan Tiancheng survived by using water to destroy their collars.
• Ji Changming and Zhan Tiancheng entered a steel building and headed toward the grand formation’s control center.
• After guards discovered the destroyed collars and sounded an alarm, Ji Changming lured away the mech guarding the control building.
• Zhan Tiancheng entered the underground formation space, rushed past a pursuer, and reached for the Jade Talisman in the formation’s foundation.