Chapter Summaries

Nan Feng fought Di Yuan, who used poison and powerful attacks to overwhelm him, and tried to lure him toward a prepared trap. Meanwhile, Zhao Jiu sent two level 42 fighters to support Tian Yuan, and Yan Xiaoliu set out to rescue Lu Xiaobu.

• Di Yuan's poison failed to weaken Nan Feng, who retreated after learning it could enter through his pores.
• Di Yuan struck Nan Feng with a poisonous palm, but Nan Feng shot him at close range and fled toward his trap.
• Di Yuan pursued Nan Feng, healed his wounds, and demanded to know how Nan Feng could wield so many Destined Divine Weapons.
• Zhao Jiu saw Tian Yuan's Black and White Chessboard persist for ten minutes and ordered Zhao Yuan and Zhao De to support him.
• Yan Nujiao failed to persuade Yan Xiaoqi to intervene, so Yan Xiaoliu took his sword and promised to bring Lu Xiaobu back.

Yan Xiaoliu and Yan Xiaoqi went to rescue Lu Xiaobu on orders from the Yan Family head, but Zhao Jiu and Ning Wuya confronted them outside Flowing Cloud City. Yan Xiaoqi was gravely wounded, and Yan Xiaoliu resumed fighting while telling Yan Nujiao to care for her Seventh Great-Uncle.

• Yan Xiaoliu left Yan Manor to rescue Lu Xiaobu, and Yan Xiaoqi and Yan Nujiao followed him.
• Ning Wuya noticed the Yan and Zhao Families were heading toward a fight, then spotted carpenters building towers along Flowing Cloud City’s walls before rushing toward the battle.
• Zhao Jiu confronted Yan Xiaoliu, but Yan Xiaoqi revealed that Yan Shuangying had ordered the rescue and joined the fight against him.
• Zhao Jiu sent Zhao Yuan to warn the Fallen Sun Empire families, while Yan Xiaoliu wounded Zhao De and Yan Xiaoqi chased after Zhao Yuan.
• Ning Wuya stopped Yan Xiaoqi with throwing knives and joined Zhao Jiu against the Yan brothers.
• Zhao Jiu wounded Yan Xiaoqi in the throat, and Yan Xiaoliu told Yan Nujiao to care for him before attacking again.

Nan Feng fought Di Yuan with several Destined Divine Weapons, but Di Yuan survived his attacks and snapped his neck. Amitabha's Mercy then healed Nan Feng, leaving Di Yuan shocked by the unexpected weapon.

• Nan Feng tried to lure Di Yuan into a trap, but Di Yuan dragged him back and dodged the Black Flash.
• Nan Feng detonated a High-Explosive Grenade and aimed an RPG Rocket Launcher at Di Yuan, who remained unharmed and seized him by the throat.
• Nan Feng stabbed Di Yuan in the heart with the Nether Spike, escaped his grip, and wounded him before firing the Gatling and RPG.
• Di Yuan emerged from the flames unharmed, grabbed Nan Feng, and snapped his neck.
• Amitabha's Mercy triggered and restored Nan Feng to peak condition, astonishing Di Yuan.

Nan Feng fought Di Yuan with his Indestructible Body, but Di Yuan pinned him down and bound him with poisonous vines. With his enhanced state nearly over, Nan Feng realized his only chance to survive was to break through to level 40.

• Nan Feng attacked Di Yuan with the Nether Spike, relying on his Indestructible Body to withstand Di Yuan’s strikes.
• Di Yuan evaded Nan Feng with multiple phantoms, but Nan Feng triggered hidden grenades and used a flash to expose Di Yuan’s real body.
• Nan Feng caught Di Yuan with the Grappling Hook and stabbed toward his weak point, but Di Yuan blocked the blow and pinned him down.
• Nan Feng detonated a grenade at close range, but Di Yuan healed himself with a pill and bound Nan Feng with poisonous vines.
• As his Indestructible Body neared its end, Nan Feng decided he had to break through to level 40 to survive.

Nan Feng reached level 40 after realizing he needed to control his unruly magic power, then turned the fight against Di Yuan with his enhanced abilities. Di Yuan escaped into the forest after claiming that he and Sikong Boxue had arranged the battle to help Nan Feng break through, and Nan Feng pursued him.

• Nan Feng entered a state of enlightenment during his fight with Di Yuan and discovered that his magic power was too violent to use efficiently.
• Di Yuan attacked Nan Feng with poisons, but an invisible barrier around Nan Feng's skin kept him unharmed as his aura rose.
• Nan Feng reached level 40, grabbed Di Yuan, and shot him in the forehead with the Desert Eagle, but Di Yuan healed and escaped his grasp.
• Nan Feng used Frozen Domain to slow Di Yuan and blasted him through trees with his laser cannon.
• Di Yuan fled after telling Nan Feng that he and Sikong Boxue had planned the fight to help him level up, and Nan Feng chased after him using the Levitation Art.

Nan Feng pursued Di Yuan as Di Yuan fled toward Tian Yuan, while Yan Shuangying intervened in Yan Xiaoliu’s fight near Flowing Cloud City. Yan Shuangying left Yan Nujiao to bring the wounded home and went to check on Lu Xiaobu and Di Yuan’s side of the battle.

• Di Yuan used repeated flashes to evade Nan Feng, who shot him once but had to leave the sky when the Liuyun Beast approached.
• Nan Feng learned from Xiao Luo that Long Wudi had a slight advantage over Tian Yuan, then continued following Di Yuan toward their expected rendezvous.
• Zhao Jiu, Ning Wuya, and Zhao De overwhelmed Yan Xiaoliu until Yan Shuangying arrived and struck all three down with his Red Tasseled Spears.
• Yan Nujiao urged her father to help the wounded Yan Xiaoliu, and Yan Shuangying told her to take them back to Flowing Cloud City while he went to check on Lu Xiaobu and Di Yuan.

Yan Shuangying hurried toward Nan Feng while Yan Xiaoliu led the others back to Flowing Cloud City, and Xiao Luo and Huang Yuanming watched Long Wudi fight Tian Yuan from a distance. Long Wudi battered through Tian Yuan’s chessboard, but the fight shifted when Di Yuan arrived and Nan Feng struck Tian Yuan from afar.

• Yan Shuangying recalled the three Red Tasseled Spears and ran toward Nan Feng, while Yan Xiaoliu killed Zhao Jiu and carried Yan Xiaoqi toward Flowing Cloud City with Yan Nujiao following.
• Xiao Luo and Huang Yuanming watched the battle from behind a tree, and Huang Yuanming began broadcasting a comic live commentary in the Cross-World Chat Channel.
• Long Wudi smashed Tian Yuan’s chessboard and broke through his attempt to trap him with four chess pieces.
• Tian Yuan secretly crushed a token, and Di Yuan appeared, urging him to join forces against Famous Hero.
• Tian Yuan argued that Long Wudi was the greater threat, but Nan Feng’s pale blue beam pierced Tian Yuan’s kidney as he called for the brothers to be killed.

Nan Feng and Long Wudi fought Tian Yuan and Di Yuan inside the Black and White Chessboard, and Nan Feng killed Di Yuan after Long Wudi struck him down. As Tian Yuan mourned his brother, the Emperor approached amid a thunderstorm and a stampede of Liuyun Beasts.

• Nan Feng joined Long Wudi in the Black and White Chessboard, and they attacked Tian Yuan and Di Yuan while Huang Yuanming broadcast the battle.
• Xiao Luo and Huang Yuanming fled after Xiao Luo sensed movement, and Yan Shuangying took their place to watch the fight.
• Long Wudi struck Di Yuan with Double Peak Strike, and Nan Feng finished him with a laser-cannon blast.
• Tian Yuan unleashed his mana in grief, causing the Black and White Chessboard to collapse as he held his dying brother.
• Lightning and thunder rolled across the sky, and several Liuyun Beasts raced toward the battlefield as Yan Shuangying announced that the Emperor had arrived.

The Emperor Sovereign arrived too late to save Di Yuan and vowed to kill everyone in Flowing Cloud City in revenge. He pursued Nan Feng and Long Wudi, but Yan Shuangying intervened, and Tang Xiaobao appeared as the Emperor Sovereign challenged him to fight.

• The Emperor Sovereign healed Di Yuan’s wounds but found that he was dead, then promised to make Flowing Cloud City pay.
• The Emperor Sovereign chased Nan Feng and Long Wudi, whose Teleportation Array was disabled by his domain, while a mysterious voice offered to hold him back.
• Nan Feng and Long Wudi tried to escape, but the Emperor Sovereign caught them and crushed them into the ground with his power.
• Yan Shuangying attacked the Emperor Sovereign with his Twin Pistols and ninety-nine Red Tasseled Spears, but could not even pierce his eyelid.
• The Emperor Sovereign called out the person hiding in the forest, and Tang Xiaobao emerged, nervously claiming he was only passing by.

Tang Xiaobao stumbled upon the Imperial Sovereign pursuing Nan Feng and Long Wudi, while Tang Chengyun and Xiao Nan arrived to protect them. Xiao Nan warned that they could not defeat the Imperial Sovereign, and the chapter ended as she charged him while Tang Chengyun urged Xiaobao to flee.

• Tang Xiaobao fled deeper into the forest after witnessing Yan Shuangying kill Zhao Jiu and Ning Wuya, then ran into the Imperial Sovereign pursuing Nan Feng and Long Wudi.
• Tang Chengyun emerged from hiding and refused the Imperial Sovereign's offer to let the Tang Family leave, insisting he would take the two Chosen Ones.
• Xiao Nan appeared, eased the pressure on Nan Feng and Long Wudi, and warned Nan Feng that they needed to run because they could not defeat the Imperial Sovereign.
• The Imperial Sovereign challenged the group to attack and claimed they could help him break through to Level 46.
• Tang Chengyun's blade strike shattered against the Imperial Sovereign's finger, so he told Xiaobao to flee as Xiao Nan charged the Imperial Sovereign in flames.

Nan Feng, Long Wudi, and Tang Xiaobao fled toward Flowing Cloud City while Xiao Nan, Tang Chengyun, and Yan Shuangying fought the Emperor, whose sleeve mirror could copy and reflect their attacks. Xiao Nan immobilized him with a talisman and escaped to Flowing Cloud City, where she expected another ally to confront him; the Emperor soon recovered and pursued them.

• Nan Feng led Long Wudi and Tang Xiaobao toward Flowing Cloud City as the Emperor threatened to slaughter the city.
• Xiao Nan identified the mirror in the Emperor’s sleeve as the source of his ability to copy and reflect attacks, and the Emperor unleashed lightning against her, Tang Chengyun, and Yan Shuangying.
• The Emperor reflected Xiao Nan’s Solar True Fire and Lunar True Fire, copied the Solar True Fire, and revealed that he had strengthened his golden bodyguard by devouring Arnoldo Leopard’s Destined Divine Weapon.
• Yan Shuangying noticed that the Emperor’s copied skills were weaker than the originals, but he was badly wounded when the Emperor attacked with a barrage of Red Tasseled Spears.
• Xiao Nan stuck a yellow talisman to the Emperor, temporarily paralyzing him, then escaped with Tang Chengyun and Yan Shuangying toward Flowing Cloud City.
• The Emperor recovered, learned the talisman could restrain him, and flew after them toward Flowing Cloud City.

After the Dream God took back the Mirror of Dreams and killed the Sovereign, he awoke as eight-year-old Di Xin, reborn before Di Yuan’s death. A year later, he used his past-life knowledge to prepare for First Prince Di Ming’s plot against him, while Di Yuan unknowingly helped set the trap in motion.

• The Dream God reclaimed the Mirror of Dreams, severed its bond with the Sovereign, and struck him down after showing him a vision of his future.
• The Sovereign awoke as a child at Wuxin Lake and realized he had returned to age eight, before Di Yuan’s death.
• Di Xin rescued young Di Yuan from a fish and promised himself that he would save him in this life.
• Six months later, nine-year-old Di Xin reached level 9 peak, and he anticipated that First Prince Di Ming would target him that night.
• Di Yuan suggested they go watch palace maids bathe at Wuxin Lake, and Di Xin agreed; Di Ming’s personal guard reported that the Nineteenth Prince had taken the bait.

The Sovereign used his memories of his previous life to turn the First Prince’s trap against him and frame him for spying on Consort Ling. After the First Prince was nearly beaten to death, the Sovereign ordered little Di Yuan to kill two palace maids with Bone-Melting Powder.

• The Sovereign warned little Di Yuan that the First Prince had lured them toward Wuxin Lake to frame them for peeping at Consort Ling.
• The Sovereign left the First Prince Di Ming’s stolen jade pendant near the lake, then returned to the palace with Di Yuan.
• A bribed palace maid alerted the old Sovereign to the pendant, and he blamed Di Ming for spying on Consort Ling.
• The next day, Di Yuan told the Sovereign that Di Ming had been nearly beaten to death.
• The Sovereign gave Di Yuan Bone-Melting Powder and ordered him to kill two palace maids in the Imperial Kitchen’s back courtyard that night.

At fifteen, Di Xin reached level 19 and earned the Di family ancestor’s backing, then became the fastest cultivator in nearly ten thousand years and entered the Royal Treasury at level 30. He recognized the Mirror of Dreams from his previous life, resisted the Dream God’s deception, and tore through the illusion to return outside Flowing Cloud City.

• Di Wusheng emerged from his coffin, praised Di Xin’s talent, and declared that Di Xin would inherit the throne upon reaching level 40.
• Di Xin’s siblings stopped competing for the throne, and he reached level 30 at age twenty-three, five years earlier than in his previous life.
• The old Emperor opened the Royal Treasury, and Di Xin entered to choose a Destined Divine Weapon while promising Di Yuan that he could choose one after Di Xin became Emperor.
• Di Xin recognized the Mirror of Dreams, saw an apparent vision of the Dream God attacking him, and decided that he could not contract the weapon.
• Di Xin realized the Dream God had used an illusion to make him abandon the Mirror of Dreams, seized it, and tore apart the collapsing illusion.
• Di Xin returned outside Flowing Cloud City, where only four minutes had passed since he had last seen the silver clock.

The Imperial Sovereign escaped Soyana’s dream and realized the Mirror of Dreams could create dreams, then used it to conjure attacks against Flowing Cloud City. Soyana and the others prepared to cooperate against him as he continued testing his new power outside the city.

• The Imperial Sovereign reflected on his dream of rebirth, resolved to use the Dream God as a stepping stone, and began studying the Mirror of Dreams.
• Soyana’s dream ended without trapping the Imperial Sovereign, and she admitted that her remaining soul had been too weak to take the Mirror of Dreams.
• Soyana warned Nan Feng and Long Wudi that fleeing would endanger their cities, families, and fellow Chosen Ones, then asked them to bring her statue to Flowing Cloud City.
• Nan Feng agreed to trust Soyana and sent Xiao Luo to wait while he returned to South City to retrieve her statue.
• The Imperial Sovereign discovered that the Mirror of Dreams could make dreams come true and conjured a thunder dragon and two immense fireballs, which Soyana dispelled.

Nan Feng restored Soyana’s statue, allowing her remnant soul to fight the Sovereign in a dream. As Soyana overwhelmed him with attacks that fit the starry setting, Nan Feng and Long Wudi realized the Sovereign’s own dream attacks failed because they seemed unrealistic.

• Nan Feng returned Soyana’s statue intact, and her remnant soul entered it so she could fight the Sovereign.
• Soyana and the Sovereign faced off in a starry dream while Nan Feng and the others watched from a distant planet.
• The Sovereign summoned a giant qilin and a dragon, but Soyana easily destroyed his attacks and sent planets against him.
• Nan Feng asked Long Wudi why Soyana did not seem to be gaining ground, and Long Wudi explained that she was still only a remnant soul without her Destined Divine Weapon.
• Xiao Nan and Long Wudi explained that the Sovereign’s attacks felt unrealistic in outer space, while Soyana’s use of planets fit the dream’s setting.

Soyana fought the Emperor in her dream realm but failed to reclaim the Mirror of Dreams before the collapsing realm returned everyone to Flowing Cloud City. The badly wounded Emperor escaped, while the others prepared to leave the city and grow stronger before he returned.

• Soyana attacked the Emperor and tried to reclaim the Mirror of Dreams, but their battle and competing black holes shattered her dream realm before she could break the last contract threads.
• The Emperor escaped to the Sun Moon Mountains after threatening to kill Soyana once he reached level 46, and Soyana admitted that his escape was a pity.
• Tang Chengyun and Yan Shuangying worried that their families would be destroyed for opposing the Emperor, while Xiao Nan promised to help Tang Chengyun reach level 46 within a year.
• Nan Feng, Long Wudi, and Xiao Luo discussed how slowly leveling would become, and Xiao Luo left to train as the others planned to evacuate Flowing Cloud City.
• Long Wudi asked Soyana about food, then vowed to challenge her again after reaching her level, and Soyana called him arrogant.

Xiao Nan stayed behind to escort the Tang Family and spoke with Soyana, who warned her not to grow stronger and hinted at becoming the new Creator God. Nan Feng returned to Black Crow City, where Su Ziran showed him the rebuilt city and its new businesses and strict street-cleaning rules.

• Xiao Nan refused to return home with Nan Feng and chose to escort the Tang Family in case the Imperial Sovereign ambushed them.
• Xiao Nan questioned Soyana about the Imperial Sovereign's escape and learned that the Mirror of Dreams was a fragment of Soyana's shattered Destined Divine Weapon.
• Soyana warned Xiao Nan not to increase her strength because a dangerous figure would notice her, and said she planned to become the new Creator God.
• Xiao Nan realized Soyana might want to possess the Imperial Sovereign's body, then rested beside the statue as Soyana fell silent.
• Nan Feng arrived in Black Crow City and toured its rebuilt streets with Su Ziran, who showed him the new shops and explained the city's stricter cleanliness enforcement.

Nan Feng and Su Ziran dealt with a hunter who refused to pay Black Crow City's fine and insulted its City Lord. When Nan Feng was recognized as the true City Lord, the residents welcomed him, and he praised Su Ziran for managing the city well.

• Su Ziran told Nan Feng that offenders could have the tools used in their crimes confiscated, and Nan Feng learned Su Ziran had been issuing orders as City Lord in his absence.
• Su De spat on the ground, refused to pay the fine, and insulted the City Lord, prompting an on-duty auntie and the gathered residents to confront him.
• Wang Defa arrived as a Black Crow Guard and fined Su De for spitting and insulting the City Lord.
• Su De falsely accused Nan Feng and Su Ziran, but Wang Defa recognized Nan Feng and greeted him as City Lord.
• The residents knelt to welcome Nan Feng, who told them they no longer needed to kneel and heard them praise his leadership.
• Nan Feng praised Su Ziran for managing Black Crow City well and said Su Ziran was more suited to be City Lord.

Nan Feng and the South City group celebrated Black Crow City's growth and decided to expand north by destroying Black Crow Peak. He assigned Xiao Luo, Wu Yuansheng, Xu Ming, Cheng Mo, and Xiao Angran to lead the assault while he provided cover.

• Nan Feng toured Black Crow City with Su Ziran and considered how the city’s growth depended on him becoming strong enough to match the Emperor.
• The South City group gathered for a feast, and they rushed to the backyard after hearing loud crashes, only to find Xiao Luo preparing a Gold Crystal Demonic Bull for lunch.
• During their development discussion, Su Ziran explained that Black Crow Peak blocked the routes north and had to be eliminated for Black Crow City to expand.
• Nan Feng recalled Black King’s involvement in the ambush that killed more than seventy South City brothers, and Huang Yuanming said Shen Pan was doing well in White Water City.
• Nan Feng ordered Xiao Luo, Wu Yuansheng, Xu Ming, Cheng Mo, and Xiao Angran to lead the attack on Black Crow Peak while he covered them from behind.