Chapter Summaries

Zhao Hongming approved Fan Qie's plan to secure peace with Qi and Chu while preparing to attack Zhao Country. Wei Country's court appointed envoys and generals, and the army launched its campaign against Zhao before the autumn harvest.

• With Chu Country weakened by King Lie's death and internal unrest, Wei Country took ten cities that Chu had promised to cede.
• At court, Cen Xiu urged an immediate attack on Chu, while Xiao Boling proposed negotiating with Chu and attacking Qi, and Li Li advised consolidating the new cities first.
• Fan Qie proposed befriending distant Qi and Chu while concentrating Wei's forces against Zhao Country.
• Zhao Hongming approved Fan Qie's strategy and ordered Fan Qie and Zhang Yi to stabilize relations with Qi and Chu while General Wu and others prepared for war against Zhao.
• After preparations, Wei Country launched an attack on Zhao Country before the autumn harvest.

Zhao Hongming advanced his cultivation and decided to focus on the Thunder Annihilation Dharma Body, which could lead to the Forging Furnace Realm. He received news that Wei’s forces were preparing to attack Zhao, then visited Chen Xuerong and Zhao Yinche at Yaohua Palace.

• Zhao Hongming’s cultivation improved, and he recognized that the Eight Desolations Eternal Youth Technique had reached its limit while the Thunder Annihilation Dharma Body offered a path to the Forging Furnace Realm.
• Gao Yanshi reported that General Cen and General Wu had taken command of the Eastern Army and that 150,000 Wei Elite Soldiers were heading toward Ying Commandery.
• Zhao Hongming ordered Gao Yanshi to monitor Zhao Country and report any developments immediately.
• Zhao Hongming changed course to visit Chen Xuerong and Zhao Yinche at Yaohua Palace.
• Chen Xuerong prepared Zhao Yinche to meet his father, and the two welcomed Zhao Hongming when he arrived.

Zhao Hongming learned about the Forging Furnace Realm from Chen Xuerong while their son Zhao Yinche displayed extraordinary martial talent. A year later, Wei Country had devastated Zhao Country, and Pang She and Zuo Jian began a mass sacrifice to summon a god as a desperate gamble.

• Zhao Yinche demonstrated that he had reached the Aperture Opening Realm at only four years old, astonishing Zhao Hongming.
• Chen Xuerong explained that the Forging Furnace Realm involved forging a furnace from one's True Seal and transforming True Intent into fire to cultivate with Spiritual Qi.
• Over the next year, Wei Country captured twenty-seven Zhao cities, forcing Zhao Country to move its capital to Yangluo as war crippled its people and strength.
• Pang She sought Zuo Jian's help, and they agreed to use the God Worshiping Method to sacrifice roughly two hundred thousand people and empower seven or eight thousand Zhao soldiers.
• Pang She and Zuo Jian began the ritual in two border cities, and mysterious power covered one city as a pair of eyes appeared in the sky.

Pang She and Zuo Jian sacrificed Zhao cities to empower a vast army, then sent it against Wei, where Tang Zihao’s forces were ambushed and overwhelmed. Tang Zihao prepared a scout to carry a warning to General Wu as he led a desperate breakout.

• Zuo Jian and Pang She activated a formation that drained a hundred thousand people in a city, then empowered four thousand Zhao soldiers with increased strength.
• Pang She ordered four more cities sacrificed, producing two thousand Innate Realm fighters and sixteen thousand Aperture Opening Realm fighters.
• Tang Zihao led thirty thousand Wei soldiers toward Ye Yang City and found it empty, with sand and clothing scattered through its streets and houses.
• After several quiet days, more than ten thousand Zhao soldiers launched a surprise attack on the Wei camp and routed its defenders with their superior strength.
• Tang Zihao recognized the Zhao soldiers’ Innate Realm power, altered his report, and ordered a scout to warn General Wu while he led a charge to break out.

Tang Zihao and thirty thousand Wei troops were destroyed by the Zhao Army’s God Worshipping Army, while a scout escaped to deliver Tang’s report to Wu Qi. Wu Qi was shocked by the defeat and summoned his generals, then found fine sand in the sealed bamboo tube accompanying the report.

• Tang Zihao led the Wei Army against the Zhao Army, but its stronger soldiers surrounded his force and killed him after he helped a scout break through.
• Pang She and Zuo Jian surveyed the Zhao victory, celebrated the God Worshipping Act’s role in it, and discussed recovering blood qi from the Wei corpses.
• Zhao pursuers nearly caught the fleeing Wei scout, but Ma Chuanping killed them and received Tang Zihao’s battle report and bamboo tube.
• The wounded scout urged Ma Chuanping to deliver Tang’s report to Wu Qi, who read it and reacted with shock at the Wei defeat.
• Wu Qi ordered an immediate council of generals and opened the bamboo tube, finding fine sand inside.

Wu Qi learned that the Zhao Army had gained an extraordinary advantage, while Zhao Hongming broke through the Thunder Annihilation Dharma Body and merged its primal lightning with his Mountain and River World. After recognizing sand sent back from the front as evidence of god-worship, Zhao Hongming prepared to go out and confront the threat.

• Wu Qi received Tang Zihao’s report that the Wei force had been defeated by a suddenly strengthened Zhao Army, then ordered scouts to investigate and the Wei troops to prepare for battle.
• Zhao Hongming broke through the Thunder Annihilation Dharma Body, merged its primal lightning into his Mountain and River World, and gained a Thunder Spirit Body with greater Talent Enhancement.
• A Wei messenger delivered Wu Qi’s urgent report to Zhao Hongming, describing the Zhao Army’s strength and the deserted, sand-covered Ye Yang City.
• Zhao Hongming examined the sand Tang Zihao had sent and recognized it as the remains of people consumed in a god-worship ritual.
• Zhao Hongming suspected Zuo Jian was behind the Zhao Army’s new power and ordered his treasured armor and God-Demon Weapon prepared before going out.

Zhao Hongming armed himself with newly reforged True Dragon armor and a God-Demon Weapon as the Zhao and Wei armies clashed. After Pang She’s God Worshipping Army destroyed a Wei force and launched a surprise attack on Wu Qi’s camp, Wu Qi watched the fighting unfold as his troops struggled against the stronger Zhao soldiers.

• Zhao Hongming donned his new armor, took up the God-Demon Weapon, and transformed into lightning as he raced east.
• The Zhao Army defeated the Wei Elite Soldiers attacking Linye City, wiping out the entire force.
• Pang She asked Zuo Jian to help create another ten thousand God Worshipping Army soldiers, requiring the sacrifice of about two hundred thousand people.
• Wu Qi halted his other two armies and ordered night raids on Zhao supply lines, slowing Pang She’s advance.
• Pang She arranged a surprise attack on Wu Qi’s camp with more than twenty thousand God Worshipping Army soldiers.
• The Zhao soldiers set fires and threw the Wei camp into chaos while Wu Qi observed that several Wei Elite Soldiers were needed to kill one Zhao soldier.

Wu Qi’s Wei Army gained the upper hand against the Zhao surprise force until Pang She and Zuo Jian invoked a god, sacrificing the wounded and dead to empower three Zhao warriors. As the newly elevated Martial Courage Realm warriors charged Wu Qi, Zhao Hongming arrived and struck one down.

• Wu Qi organized the Wei Army’s superior numbers and elite formations to divide and surround the Zhao raiders, gradually turning the battle in Wei’s favor.
• Pang She and Zuo Jian began a blood sacrifice that made wounded soldiers and fallen troops from both sides rise and become offerings.
• The ritual empowered three Zhao Innate Realm warriors, raising them to the Martial Courage Realm as their sacrifice consumed battlefield casualties.
• The three empowered warriors broke through Wu Qi’s guards and charged toward him while Zhao troops held back the Wei reinforcements.
• Zhao Hongming appeared beside Wu Qi in Thunder Battle Armor and cleaved one of the attackers in two.

Zhao Hongming crushed the Zhao Army’s God Worshipping Army, captured Pang She, and pursued Zuo Jian to Sword Casting Villa. He broke through the villa’s Slaughter Sword Array, but Zuo Jian escaped into its buildings.

• Zhao Hongming killed two Zhao Country Martial Courage Realm warriors and ordered Wu Qi to rally the Wei Army.
• Zhao Hongming found Zuo Jian and Pang She with his Divine Sense and cut through the Zhao Army soldiers blocking his path.
• Zuo Jian threw Pang She at Zhao Hongming to escape, but Zhao Hongming trapped Pang She inside the Mountain and River Diagram manifestation.
• Zhao Hongming pursued Zuo Jian to Sword Casting Villa, where Zuo Jian activated the Slaughter Sword Array.
• Zhao Hongming took control of the Sword Array and forced Zuo Jian toward a dead end, but Zuo Jian exploded his Flying Sword and escaped into the villa’s buildings.

Zhao Hongming pursued Zuo Jian into Sword Casting Villa, broke its defenses, and slaughtered the disciples who had embraced the Way of Worshiping Gods. He found Zuo Jian preparing a blood-pool ritual to forge a Blood Pill, and the chapter ended as the pool began to churn.

• Zhao Hongming discovered Sword Casting Villa’s hidden iron veins and followed Zuo Jian into the villa.
• Zhao Hongming broke the Sword Array and killed the disciples who threatened him, condemning them for their sacrifices and worship of gods.
• Zhao Hongming pursued Zuo Jian through the mines to the villa’s underground core and forced open a stone door.
• Zhao Hongming found Zuo Jian beside a blood pool and recognized that the Array Flags resembled a method for refining Longevity Pills.
• Zuo Jian explained that he planned to use Eternal Life Heaven’s power to forge a Blood Pill, then formed seals and stirred the pool.

Zhao Hongming confronted Zuo Jian as he used the Four Spirits Blood Array to create a Blood Pill and transform his cultivation. Zhao Hongming defeated and killed him, then found a mysterious bronze boat at the bottom of the blood pool and left with it.

• Zuo Jian activated the Four Spirits Blood Array, and Zhao Hongming failed to break through its resistance as Zuo Jian condensed a Blood Pill.
• Zuo Jian swallowed the Blood Pill, rose to the Creation Realm, and challenged Zhao Hongming, claiming he would use him to advance toward the Eternal Life Realm.
• Zhao Hongming and Zuo Jian exchanged blows, but Zuo Jian vomited blood and had to draw power from the blood pool to recover.
• Zhao Hongming trapped Zuo Jian in the Mountain and River Phenomenon and overwhelmed him with True Lightning.
• Zhao Hongming cut off Zuo Jian's head, killing him, then found a mysterious bronze boat at the bottom of the blood pool and took it with him.

After destroying Sword Casting Villa and helping Wei defeat Zhao’s army, Zhao Hongming ordered a final offensive against Zhao Country and went to Qi Country to destroy Xuantian Manor. He killed Manor Lord Luo Shouping, leaving Xuantian Manor defeated.

• Zhao Hongming left the ruined Sword Casting Villa and returned to the Wei Army camp after its troops had defeated the God-Worshiping Army.
• Zhao Hongming praised Wu Qi, ordered him to seize Sword Casting Villa’s iron mines, and commanded Wei to launch its final offensive against Zhao Country in three days.
• Zhao Hongming decided to destroy Xuantian Manor before campaigning against Qi Country and flew to its mountain gate.
• Zhao Hongming crushed Xuantian Manor’s gate guards and broke its Mountain Protection Array with Thunder True Intent and the Array Dao Scripture.
• Luo Shouping confronted Zhao Hongming, but Zhao Hongming overpowered him with the God-Demon Weapon and killed him with a punch through the chest.

Zhao Hongming destroyed Xuantian Manor and several other martial arts forces, then examined the bronze skiff he had taken from Sword Casting Villa. He discovered it was the legendary World-Breaking Boat, though its path to Eternal Life Heaven remained unclear.

• Zhao Hongming killed Luo Shouping, destroyed Xuantian Manor, and used his Mountain and River Phenomenon to take the manor and its accumulated treasures.
• Zhao Hongming killed Pang She with True Lightning, while one Xuantian Manor disciple survived by hiding underground.
• Qi Country's guards found Luo Shouping dead and reported Xuantian Manor's destruction to King Xuan of Qi, who ordered border defenses reinforced and envoys sent to Wei Country.
• Zhao Hongming returned to Great Liang City after destroying more martial arts forces, then suppressed the surviving Xuantian Manor disciples inside his Mountain and River Phenomenon and inspected the manor's storehouse.
• Zhao Hongming used True Lightning to subdue the bronze skiff, which expanded into a vessel inscribed with ancient characters.
• Zhao Hongming recognized the vessel as the World-Breaking Boat capable of reaching Eternal Life Heaven and began reading its Tadpole Script.

Zhao Hongming learned from Chen Xuerong that the World-Breaking Boat’s Tadpole Script described a blood-sacrifice ritual whose Blood Pills could help travelers cross spatial rifts to Eternal Life Heaven, though at a terrible cost. Two years later, Wei’s conquest of Zhao ended with the Zhao King surrendering, and Zhao Hongming summoned him into the hall.

• Zhao Hongming brought the World-Breaking Boat to Chen Xuerong and asked her to decipher its Tadpole Script.
• Chen Xuerong identified the Blood Sacrifice God Worshiping Method and explained that Blood Pills’ gathered wishes could anchor a route through spatial rifts, but might contaminate anyone who retained wish power after breaking through.
• Zhao Hongming judged the ritual’s blood sacrifice and dangers too grave to decide on immediately, then shared an intimate moment with Chen Xuerong in the sealed courtyard.
• Two years later, Wei’s five-hundred-thousand-strong army conquered Zhao after prolonged fighting, and the Zhao King surrendered with his clansmen.
• Zhao Hongming had the imprisoned Zhao King brought into the main hall before the Han King.

Chengxiang Emperor of Zhao Country surrendered Zhao Country’s Imperial Jade Seal to Zhao Hongming, who confined the former royal family and ordered a defiant clan elder executed. Suspecting the Six Kingdoms’ Founding Kings’ preserved corpses concealed a secret, Zhao Hongming postponed refining the seal, warned Han King An to behave, and broke through to Second Rank of Creation.

• Chengxiang Emperor of Zhao Country offered Zhao Country’s Imperial Jade Seal and accepted Zhao Hongming’s terms of confinement in Great Liang City.
• A Clan Elder of Zhao Country challenged Zhao Hongming and tried to kill himself, but Zhao Hongming had him taken away for execution by a thousand cuts.
• Gao Yanshi confirmed that Zhao Country’s Founding King’s corpse had been preserved intact, prompting Zhao Hongming to suspect the Founding Kings’ deaths were tied to immortality; Zhao Hongming chose not to refine the seal yet.
• Zhao Hongming questioned Han King An about his activities in Daliang and warned him against improper conduct.
• Zhao Hongming entered the Practice Room, used Heaven’s Reward to break through, and reached Second Rank of Creation.

After breaking through to the second grade of the Creation Realm, Zhao Hongming realized that the Martial Path was severed and resolved to unify the realm to gather resources for further cultivation. Wei then defeated the Chu-Qi alliance, leaving Chu and Qi’s armies shattered and their prisoners facing execution.

• Zhao Hongming tested his new strength by leveling mountains, then accepted that his combat power and lifespan had barely changed because the Martial Path was severed.
• Zhao Hongming resolved to conquer Chu and Qi, ordered preparations for war, and dismissed ministers who urged caution.
• In the fifth year of the Jianwu Era, Wei sent six hundred thousand troops against Qi as Chu and Qi formed an alliance and fielded seven hundred thousand soldiers.
• Wu Qi led the Wei Army against the Chu-Qi alliance, whose generals restored their troops’ morale by promising rewards, and the armies fought for ten days and ten nights.
• Wei crushed the alliance and captured nearly four hundred thousand soldiers; Chu and Qi both slit their own throats, and Wu Qi ordered the prisoners buried alive.

After Wu Qi annihilated the Chu-Qi allied army, Zhao Hongming led Wei through the conquest of Qi and Chu, unifying the realm. He then secretly ordered the former rulers of the Five Nations killed and their descendants wiped out.

• Wu Qi buried the four hundred thousand captured Chu-Qi soldiers alive, and news of the allied army's destruction reached Wei.
• Zhao Hongming appointed Wu Qi Supreme General, then ordered an invasion of Qi after King Xuan of Qi refused to receive Wei's envoy.
• Wu Qi and Cen Xiu bypassed Qi's western army, captured the capital, and forced King Xuan of Qi to surrender.
• Wu Qi spent a year advancing through Chu, surrounded Yingdu, and entered the capital after the Chu King immolated himself and Chu's National Destiny vanished.
• After Wei unified the realm, Zhao Hongming ordered the former rulers killed discreetly, and the descendants of the Five Nations were exterminated.

After consolidating Great Wei’s rule and suppressing resistance from the former nations’ martial forces, Zhao Hongming refined the remaining Imperial Jade Seals to gather the realm’s National Destiny. The Four Directions Ancient Seal awakened, and as Zhao Hongming struggled under its immense pressure, the long-dead First Generation King Zhao Xuancheng opened his eyes.

• Zhao Hongming ordered nobles of the former Five Nations relocated to guard the former kings’ mausoleums, weakening their clans and fiefs.
• Zhao Hongming approved the expansion of the Wei Country Zhao Clan’s Ancestral Temple, where the Clan Elder enshrined the First Generation King’s undecayed body.
• Zhao Hongming divided the realm into Thirty-Six Prefectures, and the Wei Elite Soldiers crushed martial forces that resisted his rule.
• Zhao Hongming ordered martial techniques surrendered to the court, then established the Royal Armory and Imperial Academy as the remaining martial forces submitted.
• After reaching Creation Fourth Grade, Zhao Hongming refined the Imperial Jade Seals of Chu, Zhao, and Qi, causing the Four Directions Ancient Seal to absorb the realm’s National Destiny.
• The awakened Four Directions Ancient Seal overwhelmed Zhao Hongming with pressure, three streams of dragon qi helped him resist, and Zhao Xuancheng opened his eyes in the Ancestral Temple.

The First Wei King Zhao Xuancheng awakened in the Ancestral Temple and began devouring his descendants’ bloodlines and National Destiny to pursue immortality. When he discovered his Three Dragon Veins were missing, he turned on the Zhao Clan and confronted Zhao Hongming, whose cultivation stunned him.

• Zhao Xuancheng awakened in the Ancestral Temple, restored his vitality with National Destiny, and killed the Clan Elder by draining his Qi and Blood.
• Zhao Xuancheng secretly harvested Zhao Clan descendants in the Imperial Palace, then searched the dry well for his Three Dragon Veins and found them gone.
• Furious over the missing Dragon Veins, Zhao Xuancheng slaughtered Zhao Clan relatives in Great Liang City and activated the Seven Stars Sky Severing Formation to drain the Imperial Family.
• Zhao Hongming halted his seclusion and confronted Zhao Xuancheng, learning that the First Wei King was killing his descendants to gain immortality.
• Zhao Xuancheng claimed his restored Creation Realm cultivation made him unbeatable, but Zhao Hongming revealed his own overwhelming power and left him stunned by his Fourth Grade Creation Realm cultivation.

Zhao Hongming defeated the First Wei King, uncovered the truth behind National Destiny and the Collapse of the Heavenly Dao, and guided Wei Country into a new era of martial cultivation. After passing the throne to Zhao Yinche, he cleaved open a path through the void and departed for the Eternal Life Realm.

• Zhao Hongming defeated the First Wei King with the Human Emperor Seal, killed him, and learned that the seal had once been used to suppress Space-Time Storms.
• Gao Yanshi told Zhao Hongming that Zhao Yongxu had died, and Zhao Hongming ordered a state funeral after finding Chen Xuerong and Zhao Yinche safe.
• Chen Xuerong spent fifteen years investigating the Collapse of the Heavenly Dao and explained that National Destiny could stabilize a passage through the Space-Time Rift to the Eternal Life Realm.
• Zhao Hongming and Chen Xuerong created a Martial Scripture, and Zhao Hongming retired and passed the throne to Zhao Yinche, the Vast Literary Radiance Emperor.
• Zhao Hongming used Heaven Opening to cleave the void, boarded the World-Breaking Boat, and entered the Space-Time Rift as Zhao Yinche, the officials, and Chen Xuerong bade him farewell.