Chapter Summaries

Jiang Dali was locked in the seventh level of the Heavenly Prison, where three notorious prisoners tried to torment him. He drained much of their cultivation and spared them so he could question them.

• The jailer sent three prisoners into Jiang Dali’s cell, expecting them to teach him the prison’s rules.
• Ghost Elder of Mount Mang and the other prisoners struck Jiang Dali, but their attacks barely affected him as he mocked their strength.
• The three prisoners attacked Jiang Dali together with their famed martial arts, shattering his Golden Bell protection.
• Jiang Dali used the Great Strength Absorption Skill to drain their qi and accelerate the recovery of his injuries.
• Jiang Dali released the weakened prisoners and told them he had spared them because he wanted answers.

Jiang Dali escaped his shackles by twisting his bones, then tore apart the iron ring around his neck with brute force. After interrogating the prisoners, he learned how to reach the Ninth Level of the Heavenly Prison and triggered a quest to take them there and confront Undefeated Child Gu Santong.

• Jiang Dali dislocated and twisted his bones to slip free of the shackles, leaving Ghost Elder of Mount Mang, Old Man Huang, and Dragon Slaying Fist Hong Shenghai terrified.
• Jiang Dali used alternating heat and cold true qi, then brute force, to break the iron ring around his neck and seized the gaunt Old Man Huang.
• Jiang Dali questioned the prisoners and learned that the sewage outlet led to the Ninth Level, where Undefeated Child Gu Santong had drained other prisoners dry.
• Ghost Elder of Mount Mang, Old Man Huang, and Dragon Slaying Fist Hong Shenghai asked Jiang Dali to lead them to the Ninth Level and help them escape.
• Jiang Dali received the quest “Subdue Heavenly Prison Prisoners,” requiring him to take the three prisoners to the Ninth Level, defeat Undefeated Child Gu Santong, and escape.

Jiang Dali escaped his cell on the seventh level of the Heavenly Prison and descended through a drainage passage to the Ninth Level. He met Undefeated Child Gu Santong, who welcomed him as a meal and threatened to slowly eat him.

• Jiang Dali refused the three prisoners’ offer, killed them, and tied their corpses to an iron pillar.
• Jiang Dali recovered his strength, took the Profound Gold Iron shackles, and smashed through the top of his cell door.
• Jiang Dali found a drainage passage and used the Sun Moon Golden Bell Shield to descend through it.
• Jiang Dali landed on the Ninth Level and recognized the chained old man as Undefeated Child Gu Santong.
• Gu Santong laughed at Jiang Dali’s arrival and threatened to eat his flesh and drink his blood while questioning him about the outside world.

Jiang Dali rejected Gu Santong’s mission and confronted him, demonstrating that he could withstand Gu Santong’s absorbing arts and asking to inherit Adamantine Body Cultivation. He revealed that Gu Santong had a son, provoking Gu Santong into a charge as Jiang Dali unleashed his destructive power.

• Gu Santong asked Jiang Dali about the martial world and Zhu Wushi, while a mission appeared asking Jiang Dali to please him.
• Jiang Dali declined the mission and told Gu Santong he had come to obtain Adamantine Body Cultivation, offering to avenge him by killing Zhu Wushi.
• Gu Santong attacked with the Great Art of Absorbing Qi, but Jiang Dali resisted it with his internal cultivation and the Undying Seal Method.
• Jiang Dali asked whether he had the qualifications to inherit Gu Santong’s cultivation and revealed that Gu Santong had a son.
• Gu Santong demanded to know about his son, but Jiang Dali challenged his qualifications as a father and withheld the information.
• Gu Santong charged at Jiang Dali with his iron ball and chain, and Jiang Dali transformed his body and launched a destructive palm strike.

Jiang Dali clashed with Gu Santong in the Heavenly Prison, first trading powerful strikes and then resisting Gu Santong’s Great Art of Absorbing Qi. Gu Santong unleashed the Adamantine Body Cultivation and gained the upper hand, but both fighters neared exhaustion as Jiang Dali prepared to use a medicinal pellet.

• Jiang Dali and Gu Santong exchanged devastating blows, damaging the Ninth Level of the Heavenly Prison and leaving both injured.
• Gu Santong demanded to know his son’s whereabouts, while Jiang Dali insisted that Gu Santong pass on the Adamantine Body Cultivation.
• Gu Santong used the Great Art of Absorbing Qi against Jiang Dali, but Jiang Dali’s Great Strength Absorption Skill and techniques prevented either man from draining the other.
• Jiang Dali provoked Gu Santong into activating the Adamantine Body Cultivation, which hardened his body and greatly increased his strength.
• Gu Santong battered Jiang Dali with a barrage of martial arts, breaking his left arm, while secretly nearing exhaustion from the technique’s heavy consumption.
• Jiang Dali pressed his tongue against a medicinal pellet containing Thousand Year Yellow Ginseng Sap as Gu Santong continued attacking.

Jiang Dali defeated Gu Santong in a brutal fight, breaking Gu Santong’s pride and prompting him to offer the Adamantine Body Cultivation. Gu Santong asked about his son, and Jiang Dali prepared to receive the art.

• Gu Santong’s Great Strength Vajra Finger pierced Jiang Dali and left him badly injured, but Jiang Dali recovered with the Thousand Year Yellow Ginseng Sap.
• Jiang Dali renewed his assault and battered Gu Santong until his internal strength ran out and he was crushed against a prison wall.
• Gu Santong admitted that Jiang Dali had defeated him openly and fairly, then offered to pass down the Adamantine Body Cultivation if Jiang Dali told him about his son.
• Jiang Dali accepted the mission to tell Gu Santong about his son and dragged the iron ball away from the wall.
• Jiang Dali told Gu Santong to teach him the divine cultivation art first.

Jiang Dali learned Adamantine Body Cultivation from Gu Santong, who died after refusing to reveal Great Art of Absorbing Qi. After using his accumulated points to master the skill, Jiang Dali tested its power by smashing the stone stele blocking the Ninth Level of the Heavenly Prison.

• Gu Santong explained the origins and limits of Adamantine Body Cultivation, and Jiang Dali asked him about its inheritors and other martial arts.
• Gu Santong refused to teach Great Art of Absorbing Qi, then died after shattering his own heart meridians; Jiang Dali realized he had remained imprisoned rather than submit to Zhu Wushi.
• Jiang Dali spent accumulated Cultivation Points and Potential Points to comprehend Adamantine Body Cultivation, gaining 2,000 prestige and 1,000 Qi and Blood.
• Jiang Dali thanked Gu Santong and resolved to destroy the Iron Gallant Marquis stele that had symbolized his imprisonment.
• Jiang Dali activated Adamantine Body Cultivation and punched the stele, shattering part of it without losing any Qi and Blood because of the skill's Blood Lock effect.

Jiang Dali escaped the Heavenly Prison through its sewage outlet while the Black Wind Stronghold fought the Power Gang and its allies. Li Chenzhou ordered an attack on Wuliang Mountain Stronghold, unaware that Jiang Dali had already broken free and was heading toward new trouble.

• Jiang Dali tested his Adamantine Body Cultivation against the Ninth Level's iron gate, found it too sturdy to break, and escaped through the sewage outlet.
• The Power Gang and Slay Black Alliance attacked the Black Wind Stronghold, while Ju Xiushan and Zu Jindian captured its Luoyang Branch.
• Li Chenzhou learned that planted agents in the Black Wind Stronghold had been exposed and ordered his forces at Wuliang Mountain to strike decisively.
• Jiang Dali emerged from the prison passage, killed several jailers, and challenged the remaining guards.

After escaping the Heavenly Prison, Jiang Dali abandoned his plan to explore the Forbidden City and headed for a temple where Dongfang Bubai and Qiao Feng were waiting. He learned that players had recognized his schemes and that Zhu Xiawu’s ambush of the Power Gang had failed, then resolved to confront Li Chenzhou himself after his palace mission.

• Cao Zhengchun ordered a citywide search for Jiang Dali but warned his subordinates not to arrest him, hoping to blame Zhu Wushi for the prisoner’s death.
• Jiang Dali found the Forbidden City too vast and heavily guarded to explore, so he headed toward his arranged meeting place with Dongfang Bubai and Qiao Feng.
• Jiang Dali read forum reports that mysterious fighters had nearly killed Liu Suifeng and Zhao Shirong, while Slay Black Alliance players had failed to find the Tianshan Child Elder at Wuliang Mountain Stronghold.
• Jiang Dali realized players had suspected his Heavenly Prison escape was part of a scheme, but he was pleased that his false information had led their rescuers into a trap.
• Jiang Dali watched footage of the failed ambush and suspected Li Chenzhou had sent a hidden expert to protect Zhao Shirong, then decided to challenge Li Chenzhou himself after his palace mission.
• Jiang Dali reached the temple where he sensed Dongfang Bubai and Qiao Feng nearby.

Jiang Dali, Dongfang Bubai, and Qiao Feng flew back into the Forbidden City to search the Cold Palace for a retired eunuch, while news of Jiang Dali’s escape threw the Power Gang and Slay Black Alliance into disarray. The chapter ends with the three heroes splitting up inside the palace to investigate.

• Jiang Dali told Dongfang Bubai and Qiao Feng what he had discovered in the Imperial Palace, then summoned the Demonic Eagle and transferred some of his heavy gear to Divine Luan.
• The three flew to the Forbidden City, identified the Cold Palace from above, and agreed to search quietly for the old eunuch rumored to be living there.
• News spread that Jiang Dali had escaped the Heavenly Prison, lifting Black Wind Stronghold’s morale and enraging the Power Gang and Slay Black Alliance over their failed campaign.
• Poison Hand Qianluo praised Jiang Dali’s strategy and sent Qian Yun to offer him greater support.
• Li Chenzhou ordered Tao Two to mobilize the Power Gang’s allies and lead a personal campaign to destroy Black Wind Stronghold within seven days.
• Dongfang Bubai, Qiao Feng, and Jiang Dali landed inside the Forbidden City and split into three routes to search the Cold Palace.

Jiang Dali searched the Cold Palace for the former-dynasty eunuch and found Consort Chen, who tried to lure him with wine and seduction before attacking him. After he broke free and drained some of her true qi, an old woman ambushed him with a Short Needle, leaving him wounded as the chapter ended.

• Jiang Dali searched the Evergreen Palace and discovered Consort Chen embroidering in a lit chamber.
• Consort Chen recognized Jiang Dali, offered him powerful wine, and invited him to spend the night with her.
• Consort Chen tried to seduce Jiang Dali, but he grabbed her hand and counterattacked with a force that drained her true qi.
• Consort Chen used Golden Cicada Sheds Its Shell to escape behind the beaded curtain, and Jiang Dali pursued her.
• An old woman ambushed Jiang Dali with a Short Needle that pierced his shoulder, and he retaliated with a Flame Saber strike that missed.

Jiang Dali, Dongfang Bubai, and Qiao Feng confronted the former dynasty’s old eunuch and Consort Chen in the deserted Evergreen Palace. After the old eunuch’s Sunflower techniques overwhelmed them, Jiang Dali used Adamantine Body Cultivation to withstand her attacks and helped land a powerful counterstrike, leaving the fight ongoing.

• Jiang Dali recognized the gaunt old woman as the former dynasty’s old eunuch, while Consort Chen joined her and revealed the old eunuch had scattered a fragment of the Sunflower Manual.
• Qiao Feng warned that Evergreen Palace had fallen eerily silent, and the old eunuch attacked Jiang Dali, Dongfang Bubai, and Qiao Feng at once.
• The old eunuch drove back Jiang Dali and Qiao Feng, then exchanged rapid attacks with Dongfang Bubai before striking Jiang Dali with overwhelming Sunflower force.
• Dongfang Bubai revealed that the old eunuch and Consort Chen were concealing their strength and that their Sunflower True Qi suppressed Jiang Dali’s power.
• Jiang Dali activated Adamantine Body Cultivation and endured the old eunuch’s attacks, then joined Dongfang Bubai’s needle assault to land two heavy palm strikes on the old eunuch.
• Jiang Dali followed up with a suction attack as the wounded old eunuch was blasted backward.

Jiang Dali, Qiao Feng, and Dongfang Bubai fought the old eunuch, who unleashed a powerful Yin-Yang transformation but was ultimately driven off. Dongfang Bubai revealed she had learned that the incomplete Sunflower made its practitioners vulnerable to having their cultivation drained, leaving Jiang Dali to realize the martial world’s coveted art was a trap.

• Jiang Dali, Qiao Feng, and Dongfang Bubai attacked the old eunuch in succession, but he wounded Qiao Feng and resisted their combined assault.
• Jiang Dali struck the old eunuch with Yidao, prompting him to reveal his Yin and Yang in Harmony transformation and recover much of his health.
• The old eunuch unleashed blood needles, but Jiang Dali blocked them while Qiao Feng gathered strength for a coordinated attack.
• Qiao Feng struck the old eunuch with Dragon Fights in the Field, breaking his arm and blasting him through a wall, while Dongfang Bubai sent needles after him as he escaped.
• Dongfang Bubai stopped Jiang Dali from pursuing the weakened eunuch and told him she had discovered how to cultivate the complete Sunflower.
• Jiang Dali realized that practitioners of the incomplete Sunflower had become cultivation furnaces for the old eunuch and asked whether the art was a trap.

Dongfang Bubai explained the Sunflower Manual’s divided Heaven and Earth Chapters, freed Consort Chen from the old eunuch’s control, and escaped with Jiang Dali and Qiao Feng. He resolved to develop a distinct path combining the Sunflower Manual with the Mount Hua Sect’s Purple Haze Divine Skill and planned to meet Yue Buqun.

• Dongfang Bubai explained that the Sunflower Manual had been split into mutually restraining Heaven and Earth Chapters, and that the old eunuch had mastered both.
• Dongfang Bubai drained Consort Chen’s Sunflower Yin True Qi and transformed it into Yang energy, while Jiang Dali and Qiao Feng fought off the imperial forces.
• The three escaped on the Demonic Eagle, leaving the injured old eunuch behind as he vowed revenge and sought another victim to restore himself.
• Jiang Dali and Qiao Feng discussed how Jiang Dali’s Adamantine Body Cultivation had helped them survive the old eunuch’s attacks.
• Dongfang Bubai said he had grasped how Yin and Yang could complete the Sunflower art and suspected the old eunuch had planted cauldrons in other states’ palaces.
• Dongfang Bubai announced that he would study the Purple Haze Divine Skill and go with Jiang Dali to meet Yue Buqun.

As the Power Gang and Black Wind Stronghold fought to a stalemate, Li Chenzhou revealed that he expected Demon Master Pang Ban to aid him against Jiang Dali. Meanwhile, Jiang Dali, Qiao Feng, and Lu Xiaofeng discussed the danger they had encountered in the Ming State palace, leaving Lu Xiaofeng alarmed by Jiang Dali’s account of a formidable old expert.

• The Power Gang and its allies pressed their campaign in Huizhou, but Black Wind Stronghold’s defenses and Sun Moon Divine Cult’s support kept the battle at a stalemate.
• Li Chenzhou told Murong Bo that he had another powerful ally in mind, and Murong Bo realized he meant Demon Master Pang Ban.
• Jiang Dali, Qiao Feng, and Lu Xiaofeng drank wine in a lakeside pavilion while Lu Xiaofeng complained about the trouble Jiang Dali had brought him.
• Jiang Dali described the powerful old expert they had encountered in the Ming State palace and said even Ye Gucheng might not match him.
• Lu Xiaofeng stopped laughing when he saw Jiang Dali and Qiao Feng were serious about the old expert.

Jiang Dali warned Lu Xiaofeng about the Sunflower Manual's hidden master and sent Qiao Feng onward to pursue clues about his leader brother before setting out with Dongfang Bubai toward Huizhou. As the Power Gang's forces gathered and Thunderclap Hall blocked the road to Black Wind Stronghold, Jiang Dali arrived amid a confrontation involving Wanwan.

• Jiang Dali told Lu Xiaofeng that Consort Chen and other Sunflower Manual cultivators might be the hidden eunuch's cultivation furnaces, and Lu Xiaofeng agreed to investigate cautiously.
• Jiang Dali reassured Qiao Feng that Li Chenzhou could not threaten him and urged him to be wary of powerful Shaolin figures as he pursued clues about his leader brother.
• Dongfang Bubai gave Jiang Dali news that Demon Master Pang Ban was heading to Huizhou, and Jiang Dali offered to face Pang Ban himself.
• Two days later, reports said Li Chenzhou was nearing Huizhou, while Thunderclap Hall blocked travelers on the road to Black Wind Stronghold and killed several players with Thunderclap Sky Fire Thunder.
• Two massive birds swooped toward the Thunderclap Hall group as fighters in the forest clashed, and Wanwan refused to leave Black Wind Stronghold or Jiang Dali's side.

Jiang Dali returned to find Thunderclap Hall attacking his territory and defeated them while Black Wind Stronghold bandits revealed themselves among the sect disciples. Wanwan displayed her completed Heavenly Demon Great Law and chose to stay with Jiang Dali, while Bian Bufu and Lin Shihong left to report his message to Zhu Yuyan.

• Jiang Dali arrived on the Demonic Eagle and ordered the Thunderclap Hall disciples to kill themselves after learning they had killed his people.
• Black Wind Stronghold players revealed their bandit identities, and Jiang Dali used his martial arts to devastate the Thunderclap Hall attackers before leaving the remaining enemies to the Eight Desolations disciples.
• Wanwan drove Bian Bufu and Lin Shihong back with her eighteenth-level Heavenly Demon Great Law and greeted Jiang Dali as he arrived.
• Jiang Dali praised Wanwan for reaching great completion and learned she remembered her identity but preferred to remain with him.
• Jiang Dali spared Bian Bufu and Lin Shihong and told them to tell Zhu Yuyan that Wanwan would stay with him.

Jiang Dali prepared Black Wind Stronghold for its coming war with the Power Gang, recruiting Qian Yun to infiltrate Li Chenzhou’s ranks while refusing to expose Wanwan to danger. At Swift Wind Mountain Stronghold, Li Chenzhou awaited Demon Master Pang Ban and announced that the final assault would begin that night, with Zhu Yuyan and the Yin Gui Sect supporting him.

• News and video of Dongfang Bubai supporting Jiang Dali spread across the Jianghu Forum, strengthening Black Wind Stronghold’s morale and worrying the Power Gang.
• Jiang Dali received Qian Yun, accepted her as a useful recruit, and ordered her to seduce one of Li Chenzhou’s brothers in the Power Gang.
• Wanwan questioned why Jiang Dali had assigned Qian Yun rather than her, and Jiang Dali assured her he would not send her into danger as he continued cultivating his Loving Saber Intent.
• Li Chenzhou met Zhu Yuyan at Swift Wind Mountain Stronghold and said he was waiting for Demon Master Pang Ban to arrive that night.
• Li Chenzhou announced that the Power Gang would launch its final assault on Black Wind Stronghold that night, while Zhu Yuyan reaffirmed the Yin Gui Sect’s support and reminded him of their agreement.

Li Chenzhou and the Power Gang advanced on Black Wind Stronghold while Jiang Dali finished reforging his giant saber and rallied his forces. Kou Zhong launched a surprise attack against the first Power Gang troops, and Li Chenzhou arrived as the battle intensified.

• Li Chenzhou learned from the black-and-white servants that Pang Ban was delayed by a meeting with a Jingnian Zen Sect master but still intended to join the attack on Black Wind Stronghold.
• Li Chenzhou gathered the Power Gang and allied sects, then marched toward Black Wind Stronghold as players followed the gathering battle.
• Jiang Dali refused Zhang Tongwei's offer to finish forging the saber, carried the furnace and blade to the cliff, and rallied Black Wind Stronghold's forces by striking the blade like a drum.
• Kou Zhong sent his troops to attack the approaching Power Gang forces before they could regroup, and the two sides clashed fiercely.
• Kou Zhong's Viper Army used iron shields and poisoned spikes to withstand Jiangnan Thunderclap Hall's weapons and inflict casualties.
• Li Chenzhou rode toward the battlefield at the head of a large force, and Jiang Dali seized the red-hot chained saber.

Li Chenzhou arrived with a thousand reinforcements and turned the battle against Black Wind Stronghold, but Jiang Dali joined the fight and crushed the Power Gang’s Twin Wings. Li Chenzhou broke through Jiang Dali’s Golden Bell Shield with two punches, and the chapter ended as the two leaders met in a clash of fist and palm.

• Li Chenzhou led over a thousand experts into the battle, stabilizing the Power Gang and Slay Black Alliance’s forces and forcing Black Wind Stronghold to give ground.
• Jiang Dali arrived on a giant eagle and severely wounded Zuo Tiande and Ying Qitian with one slash.
• Jiang Dali used his Golden Bell Shield to repel the Three Phoenixes and other Power Gang attackers, but Li Chenzhou struck through the defense and drove him back with two punches.
• Li Chenzhou and Jiang Dali faced each other and began fighting, with Li Chenzhou attacking from above and below as Jiang Dali answered with a heavy palm strike.