Chapter Summaries

Song Ankang and his allies ambushed Mighty Eagle God Song Shinian near Black Mountain and enslaved him with Spirit Control and the Imperial Order. Song Shinian revealed what he knew and began to grow completely loyal to Song Ankang.

• Song Shinian prepared to lead several thousand Imperial Guards to the Heaven-Human War Front after the Tang Family Old Ancestor refused to go with him.
• Near Black Mountain, Black Mountain Old Demon and three Anomaly Gods and Demon Gods ambushed Song Shinian and incapacitated his Imperial Guards.
• Song Ankang used the Imperial Order to take control of Song Shinian's true soul while the others suppressed him.
• Song Shinian accused Song Ankang of betraying the Human Race, but Song Ankang forced him to slap himself and explained that the Anomaly Gods and Demon Gods served him.
• Song Ankang ordered Song Shinian to reveal what he knew, and Song Shinian obeyed as his spirit and will turned toward complete loyalty.

Song Ankang enslaved Song Shinian, took his treasures, and obtained the Emperor's Secret Technique, which he began cultivating to strengthen himself through its backlash. After Song Shinian returned to Kyoto and visited the Tang Family, Tang Yelan hurried to meet him, uncertain of his intentions.

• Song Ankang took most of Song Shinian's treasures, including two Explosive Spirit Fruits, and learned that four more were in the imperial treasury.
• Song Ankang began cultivating the Emperor's Secret Technique, and the Heavenly Book of Fate Defiance turned its damaging backlash into gains for his body, true qi, and true soul.
• Song Shinian returned to Kyoto with his men and claimed Black Mountain Old Demon and other enemies had attacked them on the road.
• Song Ankang ordered Song Shinian to seek the four Explosive Spirit Fruits and keep watch on Thunder God, the other imperial god stationed in Kyoto.
• Song Shinian went to the Tang Family, and Tang Yelan hurried to meet him while gripping a Spirit Talisman in case she needed to summon her family's ancestor.

Song Shinian apologized to the Tang Family after claiming Tang Batian had saved him, and the story of their reconciliation restored Tang Batian’s reputation. Song Ankang received the title of Marquis within the Passes for his rescue, but ignored the imperial family’s reward and continued living in Kyoto.

• Song Shinian visited Tang Yelan and apologized to the Tang Family, explaining that Tang Batian had saved him from Black Mountain Old Demon, the Pen Immortal, and other enemies.
• Tang Yelan and the Tang Family accepted Song Shinian’s apology and received compensation worth a million High-grade Spirit Stones.
• Song Shinian publicly admitted that he had targeted Tang Batian and spread rumors about him, prompting people across Kyoto to praise Tang Batian’s character.
• The Emperor of Xia Kingdom rewarded Song Ankang for saving Song Shinian and thousands of Imperial Guards by granting him the rank of Marquis within the Passes.
• Song Ankang ignored the reward, as he had previously ignored the territorial marquis benefits granted to his Nine Peaks Sword God identity.

Song Ankang’s rescue of Mighty Eagle God Song Shinian earned him praise and the title Whirlwind Sword God, while Tang Liuli and Tang Yelan both questioned why he had acted so generously. He concealed the truth from them, leaving Tang Liuli secretly hiding in his study as Tang Yelan discussed the family’s good fortune.

• Song Ankang learned that people had named him the Whirlwind Sword God and contrasted his swift swordsmanship with the Nine Peaks Sword God’s fierce style.
• Tang Liuli excitedly asked Song Ankang whether he had truly saved Song Shinian, and he confirmed it while hiding that Song Shinian had become his servant.
• Tang Liuli questioned Song Ankang’s sudden generosity, but he refused to explain his reasons and said he would tell her after she reached the Golden Core Realm.
• When Tang Yelan arrived, Tang Liuli hid in a bookcase, and Song Ankang erased her traces before opening the door.
• Tang Yelan praised the reconciliation with Song Shinian but remarked that their ancestor’s kindness contradicted his usual vengeful nature, while Tang Liuli listened from her hiding place.

Song Ankang reassured Tang Yelan about the ancestor’s decision and claimed he would remain at the White Jade Mulberry Forest until he reached Transcendence. After Tang Liuli rejected a proposed match with the Third Prince and hinted that both younger sisters had found men they liked, Tang Yelan decided to investigate their suitors.

• Song Ankang explained that the ancestor might have spared Mighty Eagle God Song Shinian for the Tang Family’s benefit, and Tang Yelan agreed.
• Song Ankang told Tang Yelan he would stay at the White Jade Mulberry Forest until he advanced to Transcendence, while Tang Liuli secretly listened from inside a bookcase.
• Song Ankang and Tang Yelan became intimate in the top-floor study as Tang Liuli listened from her hiding place.
• Tang Yelan told Tang Liuli that Third Prince Song Yi wished to propose marriage, but Tang Liuli refused and said she already liked someone.
• Tang Liuli told Tang Yelan that her second sister had also found someone she liked, prompting Tang Yelan to investigate both suitors.

Song Ankang infiltrated Hundred Fruits Mountain to seize the weakened World-Muddling Strength Ape and its resources, but his attempt to control it failed. He and the ape then fought fist against fist across the mountain, ending in a stalemate.

• Song Ankang learned that the World-Muddling Strength Ape had been weakened by a Fox God and headed to Hundred Fruits Mountain with the Four Great Divine Servants.
• Song Ankang used the Mysterious Hidden Ring and Heaven Concealing Earth Absorbing Art to bypass the mountain’s formations and reach the World-Muddling Strength Ape in Ancient Ape Cave.
• Song Ankang’s Imperial Order failed when the World-Muddling Strength Ape shattered it by detonating part of its true soul, worsening its injuries.
• The World-Muddling Strength Ape struck Song Ankang and blasted him out of Ancient Ape Cave, revealing that its body-tempering cultivation rivaled a Seventh-Grade Middle-Rank Divine Artifact.
• Song Ankang charged back and fought the World-Muddling Strength Ape with the Seven Injuries Fist, while their clashes sent shockwaves across Hundred Fruits Mountain.
• The World-Muddling Strength Ape relied on its physical strength and fighting skill, and it battled Song Ankang to a standstill.

Song Ankang fought the injured World-Muddling Strength Ape, enduring its powerful axe techniques while learning from its combat experience. After the ape tried to flee, Song Ankang and his Five Divine Servants subdued it, gaining a new servant and control of Hundred Fruits Mountain.

• Song Ankang used his speed to batter the World-Muddling Strength Ape, then traded blows with it using the Two Dragons Sword against its Sky Splitting Axe.
• Song Ankang realized the ape had been badly injured by the Fox God and was fighting at only around sixty percent of its strength.
• Song Ankang struck the ape with the Blood Thunder Technique and gradually unleashed more of his own power as it fought back with increasingly dangerous axe techniques.
• The World-Muddling Strength Ape used Heaven and Earth Shatter to force Song Ankang back and tried to escape.
• Song Ankang summoned five gods, who blasted the ape back toward him, and subdued it with the Emperor's Secret Technique and Spirit Control.

After enslaving the World-Muddling Strength Ape, Song Ankang learned of its divine abilities, immense wealth, and powerful clan connections, then began using Explosive Spirit Fruits to advance his cultivation. After absorbing the first fruit, his true soul grew stronger and his cultivation rose substantially, leaving him ready to continue breaking through.

• The World-Muddling Strength Ape asked Song Ankang how he survived using the Seven Injuries Fist and Blood Thunder Technique, and Song Ankang credited his endurance and Spirit Pills.
• Song Ankang learned that the World-Muddling Strength Ape possessed the Sky Opening Axe Technique and Heavenly Phenomenon Earthly Form, both Innate Divine Abilities.
• Song Ankang took control of Hundred Fruits Mountain's riches, including enough Explosive Spirit Fruits to bring his total to six, and discovered the World-Muddling Strength Ape belonged to a powerful clan whose parents were near the Sixth Grade True Immortal Realm.
• Song Ankang emptied the World-Muddling Strength Ape's resources, then entered Ancient Ape Cave, activated its defensive formations, and had the ape guard him.
• Song Ankang consumed an Explosive Spirit Fruit, and the Heavenly Book of Fate Defiance turned its harmful side effects into benefits that strengthened his foundation and true soul.
• After digesting the fruit, Song Ankang's cultivation surged and stabilized, so he prepared to consume more Explosive Spirit Fruits.

Song Ankang consumed Explosive Spirit Fruits to break through from the Spirit Stabilization Realm to the Shell Eruption Realm. After discovering that his Sacred Heart True Soul could endure the wild spiritual energy outside the Ancient Ape Cave, he sent it out at night and found it was already comparable to an ordinary Night Roaming Middle God’s true soul.

• Song Ankang used Explosive Spirit Fruits to strengthen his Sacred Heart True Soul and carefully attacked the bottleneck shackles leading to the Shell Eruption Realm.
• Song Ankang shattered the bottleneck and advanced to the Shell Eruption Realm, greatly increasing his true soul’s power and purity as well as his bodily and true qi limits.
• Song Ankang sent his Sacred Heart True Soul out of his body and found it stable and comfortable inside the Ancient Ape Cave.
• Song Ankang had the Five Divine Servants guard his true soul as it left the Ancient Ape Cave at night.
• Song Ankang’s Sacred Heart True Soul withstood the violent spiritual energy outside and proved comparable to that of an ordinary Night Roaming Middle God.

Song Ankang stabilized his Sacred Heart True Soul after testing its ability to roam by day, then learned that the notorious Heaven and Earth Rat God was hiding in Hundred Fruits Mountain to steal a rare herb. He turned his attention to the thief, who had remained despite the mountain falling under his command.

• Song Ankang tested his Sacred Heart True Soul outside its shell, discovered it could mobilize far more power, and found it could barely withstand the great sun at dawn.
• Song Ankang returned his True Soul to its shell after stabilizing it through night roaming and his test of the sun’s power.
• The World-Muddling Strength Ape told Song Ankang that the Heaven and Earth Rat God had tormented Hundred Fruits Mountain and stolen dozens of treasures before Song Ankang arrived.
• The World-Muddling Strength Ape explained that the Heaven and Earth Rat God was a famed master thief whose Heaven and Earth Rat Travel ability let it escape danger and breach divine formations.
• Song Ankang learned that the Heaven and Earth Rat God was still hiding in Hundred Fruits Mountain, waiting for its Earth Ganoderma Grass to mature.

Song Ankang tracked down the Heaven and Earth Rat God on Hundred Fruits Mountain and launched an ambush with his Five Divine Servants. The Rat God repeatedly evaded their attacks, but Song Ankang’s Imperial Order reached its True Soul Sea before it could escape.

• Song Ankang searched Hundred Fruits Mountain and discovered the Heaven and Earth Rat God hiding near its edge, still waiting for the Earth Ganoderma Grass to mature.
• Song Ankang secretly approached with the Five Divine Servants and attacked the Heaven and Earth Rat God, but it used its true soul divine artifact and Heaven and Earth Rat Travel to evade them.
• Song Ankang unleashed the Emperor's Secret Technique and several Sacred Heart Manual arts while the Five Divine Servants attacked, but the Rat God escaped their restraints again with only light injuries.
• Song Ankang slowed the Rat God with the Sea Absorbing Sacred Heart Curse, Evil Blood Tribulation, and Heavenly Heart Tribulation, giving the Five Divine Servants time to strike.
• Song Ankang sent his Imperial Order into the Heaven and Earth Rat God's True Soul Sea before it could react.

Song Ankang captured the Heaven and Earth Rat God with the Five Divine Servants’ support and learned that the god had been weakened by a recent fight with a Sixth-Rank immortal beast. He took stock of the Rat God’s remaining divine artifacts and began examining its other treasures.

• Song Ankang and the Five Divine Servants suppressed the Heaven and Earth Rat God’s soul and artifacts, allowing him to capture it with the Imperial Order.
• The Heaven and Earth Rat God explained that it had detonated three divine artifacts while escaping a Sixth-Rank immortal beast, leaving its escape abilities badly weakened.
• Song Ankang inspected the Rat God’s four remaining artifacts and left it its Rat Travel Divine Armor and Heaven and Earth Rat Bow.
• Song Ankang took the Purple Dragon Helmet and the Lightless Sword, recognizing the latter as a powerful weapon suited to his Evil Warding Sword Technique.
• Song Ankang reviewed his four divine artifacts and began taking stock of the Heaven and Earth Rat God’s other treasures.

After defeating the Heaven and Earth Rat God, Song Ankang took its immense fortune and planned to keep the injured god hidden while it recovered. When Tang Kezhong and the First Courtyard’s retainers confronted him over Zhenyifang, Song Ankang ordered the Anomaly God Curse Well to kill them discreetly.

• Song Ankang discovered that the Heaven and Earth Rat God’s remaining treasures were worth more than ten million High-grade Spirit Stones and included ten Explosive Spirit Fruits.
• Song Ankang left Hundred Fruits Mountain with the Heaven and Earth Rat God, leaving the World-Muddling Strength Ape to manage the mountain and gather resources.
• Song Ankang told the World-Muddling Strength Ape to send mature Earth Ganoderma Grass to help heal the Heaven and Earth Rat God.
• Tang Kezhong and several First Courtyard retainers accused Song Ankang of scheming to take Zhenyifang and challenged him to the Life-and-Death Arena.
• Song Ankang recognized that Tang Kezhong’s group resented Tang Yelan’s plan to give Zhenyifang to him, then ordered the Anomaly God Curse Well to kill them discreetly.

After Tang Kezhong and his companions threatened Song Ankang, he used the Anomaly God Curse Well to eliminate them, prompting Tang Batian to abolish the First Courtyard and consolidate the Tang Family under Tang Yelan and her sisters. With his enemies removed, Song Ankang returned to his quiet routine and continued strengthening himself.

• Tang Kezhong and his companions cursed Tang Yelan and plotted against her and Song Ankang after leaving the White Jade Mulberry Forest, and Song Ankang decided to eradicate the First Courtyard.
• At An City's eastern gate, the Anomaly God Curse Well attacked Tang Kezhong's group, destroyed their cultivation, and killed them while Song Ankang's restraint prevented it from slaughtering bystanders.
• The Sun Patrol Division and the Tang Family investigated the deaths and believed an incarnation of the Anomaly God Curse Well had attacked Tang Kezhong's group.
• Tang Batian condemned the First Courtyard and struck it from the family rolls, making Tang Yelan's Second Courtyard the direct main branch and reclaiming most of the First Courtyard's resources.
• The remaining members of the First Courtyard fell into hardship, while Tang Kexiao remained crippled in the dungeon and Tang Quanli lost his servants.
• With the First Courtyard and Pingyao King's Mansion no longer threatening him, Song Ankang resumed his routine and steadily adapted to his growing strength.

Song Ankang cultivated his body, qi, and soul until each approached its limits, then prepared to break through into the Middle God Realm. After gathering his resources and having the Five Divine Servants guard him, he began consuming Explosive Spirit Fruits and struck at the shackles binding his True Soul.

• Song Ankang balanced his cultivation across body-tempering, qi-refining, and soul-refining techniques while improving his combat skills through battles with Cursed God Brush Immortal, Anomaly God Curse Well, Black Mountain Old Demon, World-Muddling Strength Ape, and others.
• Song Ankang raised his Childhood Golden Core to the limit of the Minor God Realm and his physical attributes to the limit of a Seventh-Rank Low-Grade Divine Artifact.
• Song Ankang advanced his Sacred Heart True Soul to the limit of the Out-of-Body Realm, using seven Explosive Spirit Fruits and saving three.
• After consolidating for half a month, Song Ankang prepared to enter the Middle God Realm and arranged for the Five Divine Servants and his protective treasures to guard him.
• Song Ankang consumed Explosive Spirit Fruits to build up True Soul power, then charged at the bottleneck shackles.

Song Ankang used rare medicines and the Heavenly Book of Fate Defiance to break through the bottleneck to the Middle God Realm. He endured the first trial of Heaven and Earth True Fire, which continued tempering and strengthening his Sacred Heart True Soul.

• Song Ankang found that his True Soul power could not shake the bottleneck to the Middle God Realm, so he swallowed four drops of Weakening Divine Water.
• Song Ankang took a Soul Ascension Pill and repeatedly attacked the bottleneck until cracks spread across it.
• Song Ankang swallowed a Soul Restoration Pill, and the Heavenly Book of Fate Defiance turned the medicines’ harmful side effects into benefits.
• Song Ankang broke through the bottleneck, and Heaven and Earth True Fire engulfed his Sacred Heart True Soul.
• Song Ankang followed the Sacred Heart Art to spread the fire through his True Soul and endure its tempering as the soul grew smaller, stronger, and faintly blue.

Song Ankang broke through to the Middle God Realm in soul, qi, and body, becoming a force who could overwhelm other Middle Gods. As the Fang Family crumbled, Fang Jiezong returned and began plotting revenge on the Tang Family.

• Song Ankang’s Sacred Heart True Soul reached the Middle God Realm, and he discovered he could endure daylight and manipulate objects beyond his cultivation level.
• Song Ankang advanced his Ultimate Yin Ultimate Yang Childhood Golden Core and body-tempering cultivation to the Middle God Realm, becoming invincible among Middle Gods.
• The Fang Family’s experts remained crippled and its industries were taken by the Tang Family, leaving the family scattered and destitute.
• Fang Jiezong returned from his travels to find his parents dead and the Fang Family ruined, and he blamed the Tang Family for its downfall.
• Fang Jiezong investigated the Tang Family’s rise and devised a risky scheme that he hoped would let him take revenge.

Fang Jiezong abducted Tang Liuli and dozens of other Tang Family disciples to offer them to Black Mountain Old Demon in exchange for help killing the Tang Family Old Ancestor. Song Ankang mobilized the Five Divine Servants to search for the captives, while Fang Jiezong sought an audience with Lord Black Mountain.

• Fang Jiezong decided to defect to powerful Demonic Creatures and Ghosts, using the Tang Family Old Ancestor as his intended offering and planning to lure her out by abducting Tang Family disciples.
• After watching the Tang Family for half a month, Fang Jiezong ambushed Tang Liuli as she traveled toward the White Jade Mulberry Forest and captured her before she could use Song Ankang's Escape Talisman.
• Fang Jiezong captured dozens more Tang Family disciples and secretly left Kyoto's An City with them.
• The Tang Family discovered the abductions, and Song Ankang flew into a rage and sent the Five Divine Servants to search for Fang Jiezong and the captives.
• Fang Jiezong brought the captives to Black Mountain and told the female ghost there that he could help Lord Black Mountain ambush and kill a god of the Human Race.
• The female ghost doubted Fang Jiezong's claim but agreed to inform her master.

Song Ankang exposed Fang Jiezong’s attempt to defect to Black Mountain Old Demon and ordered him executed. Afterward, Song Ankang resolved to strengthen Tang Liuli and his other loved ones, then returned the unconscious Tang Family members to the Tang Family Mansion.

• Fang Jiezong arrived at Black Mountain and was brought to Black Mountain Old Demon’s study to offer his allegiance.
• Song Ankang revealed himself, and Fang Jiezong realized that Black Mountain Old Demon stood respectfully behind him.
• Song Ankang ordered Black Mountain Old Demon to kill Fang Jiezong and destroy his soul.
• Song Ankang reflected that he needed to protect his loved ones by increasing their strength, including Tang Liuli, Tang Yelan, and Tang Mingyue.
• Song Ankang left Black Mountain with the unconscious Tang Family members and delivered them to the Tang Family Mansion.

After the Ancestor rescued the missing Tang Family disciples, Tang Liuli visited Song Ankang, who used his secret techniques to rapidly raise her cultivation. She reached Qi Nourishing Perfection by dawn but had to stop and consolidate her unstable foundation.

• The missing Tang Family disciples returned unharmed, and the family praised the Ancestor for rescuing them from Fang Jiezong and the Demonic Creatures and Ghosts.
• Tang Liuli concluded that Song Ankang had acted for her sake and secretly went to see him that night.
• Song Ankang brought Tang Liuli to his study and used the Boy Demonic Cultivation Technique and Wedding Dress Secret Technique to infuse her with true qi.
• Tang Liuli advanced through several cultivation levels, reaching Qi Nourishing Perfection before dawn as Song Ankang monitored her progress.
• Song Ankang stopped the infusion because Tang Liuli's foundation was becoming unstable, and she fell asleep exhausted.