Chapter Summaries

At his wedding to Tang Mingyue, Song Ankang defeated the Third Prince in one move, and the news spread widely. Demonic Creatures and Ghosts formed an assassination squad against him, but the Sun Patrol Division and Night Watch Division destroyed it before it could reach Kyoto.

• Song Ankang defeated the Third Prince in one move, then allowed the wedding to continue as the guests praised his strength.
• News of Song Ankang's victory spread, leading Demonic Creatures and Ghosts to plan his assassination before he could grow stronger.
• The Demonic Creatures and Ghosts formed a squad of powerful fighters and discussed how to evade the Human Race's protections.
• The Night Watch Division discovered the conspiracy, and the Sun Patrol Division and Night Watch Division killed nearly the entire squad before it reached Kyoto.
• Song Ankang learned of the squad's destruction and was disappointed that he had lost another chance to deal with enemies himself.

Song Ankang adjusted to the guards assigned to protect him while the Angel Race’s assassination attempts failed, and he continued advancing his cultivation despite an essence-soul bottleneck. By the end, his refined Heavenly Demon Dismantling Secret Technique had become a quasi-immortal-path secret technique whose powerful side effects accelerated his growth.

• The Night Watch Division, Sun Patrol Division, and imperial family stationed experts to protect Song Ankang, making him more cautious about being discovered.
• Song Ankang began a peaceful routine with Tang Yelan, Tang Mingyue, Tang Liuli, and the others, while his fame in Kyoto grew.
• The Angel Race repeatedly tried to assassinate Song Ankang, but its attempts were foiled, so it temporarily abandoned the effort.
• Song Ankang’s essence soul reached 199 points, and Immortal Limit Pills became nearly useless against the bottleneck.
• Song Ankang refined the Heavenly Demon Dismantling Secret Technique into a quasi-immortal-path secret technique that could multiply essence, energy, and spirit by about thirteen times, while its side effects fueled his cultivation.

Song Ankang reached 190 points in essence, qi, and spirit, gaining immense strength while deciding not to risk challenging a Sixth Grade True Immortal yet. He then introduced new gambling games to Demonic Flame Soaring Sky and received ten Limit Breaking Pills.

• Song Ankang raised his essence, qi, and spirit to 190 points and strengthened his Size As You Wish divine ability, which could multiply his strength or speed by three thousand times.
• Song Ankang considered whether he could contend with Sixth Grade True Immortals but chose to focus on cultivation until he was stronger.
• Demonic Flame Soaring Sky complained that he had lost a hundred rounds of cards and gambled away a century's worth of resources.
• Song Ankang taught Demonic Flame Soaring Sky how to play a slot machine and sent him dice and their rules.
• Demonic Flame Soaring Sky rewarded Song Ankang with ten Limit Breaking Pills.

Song Ankang used Limit Breaking Pills to rapidly expand his essence, qi, and spirit limits, pushing two of them close to 200 before their progress slowed. After nearly a month of struggling against the essence soul bottleneck, he finally sensed a breakthrough approaching.

• Song Ankang left the chat group without reading Twelve Wings's offer and took a Limit Breaking Pill, which rapidly expanded his true qi and divine soul limits.
• Song Ankang took several more pills, bringing his true qi and divine soul limits to 199 and his essence soul limit to 199.9, then saved his remaining pills for later.
• Song Ankang used the Heavenly Book of Fate Defiance to work toward the 200-point bottleneck and traded several Immortal Limit Pills with Twelve Wings for more Limit Breaking Pills.
• Twelve Wings questioned Song Ankang about his cultivation, but Song Ankang concealed his progress by claiming he had low potential and was far from triggering a heavenly tribulation.
• After nearly a month of struggling to raise his essence soul limit, Song Ankang sensed the impending backlash and prepared for a breakthrough.

Song Ankang broke through the 200-point limit for his essence soul and learned that the Brocade-furred Rat King was exploiting the Merman Race. He decided to stop the tribute and capture the Rat King, but new intelligence revealed that the task might be more difficult than he expected.

• Song Ankang used the Heavenly Book of Fate Defiance's side effects to break through his essence soul limit to 200 points and began stabilizing his new strength.
• Song Ankang learned that the Brocade-furred Rat King had demanded tribute from the Merman Race every ten years for more than a century.
• Song Ankang decided the Merman Race would stop paying tribute and resolved to make the Brocade-furred Rat King repay its past plunder.
• Song Ankang ordered the Merman Race to investigate the Rat King's backing and hidden strength before he acted.
• The Merman Race uncovered information that made Song Ankang wary, and he considered revealing more of his power to capture the Rat King.

Song Ankang traveled alone into the Chaos Plain to reach the Brocade-furred Rat King's lair, the Brocade-furred Underground Palace. After navigating the disorienting Chaos Mist, he arrived near the Rat King's territory and saw Brocade Fur Rats heading out to raid nearby races.

• Song Ankang learned that the Brocade-furred Rat King had been exiled from the Brocade-furred Rat Clan and possessed a Quasi-Immortal Artifact, the Peace Hat, that could defend against the Imperial Order.
• Song Ankang went alone to the Chaos Plain without informing the Merman Race, keeping open the option of seeking their help if his plan failed.
• Song Ankang entered the Chaos Mist and found that it sharply limited his perception and made travel difficult, though a map from the Merman Race helped him keep his bearings.
• Song Ankang reached the Brocade-furred Underground Palace after several hours and heard the rats while observing Brocade Fur Rats setting out to plunder nearby races.

Song Ankang infiltrated the Brocade-furred Underground Palace and confronted the Brocade-furred Rat King, who resisted his attempt at enslavement with a sixth-rank Immortal Artifact. Song Ankang defeated the Rat King with a single reduced-strength punch and was left surprised by how weak it seemed.

• Song Ankang slipped into the Brocade-furred Underground Palace and enslaved its members to learn his way through the complex.
• Song Ankang enslaved several core elders, including the elder responsible for the palace’s Divine Formation Groups, and approached the Brocade-furred Rat King's secluded cultivation ground.
• Song Ankang attacked the Brocade-furred Rat King with the Soul Seizing Technique, the Startling Eye Tribulation, and an Imperial Order, but the Peace Hat destroyed the order and woke the Rat King.
• The Brocade-furred Rat King transformed into a giant and attacked Song Ankang, who grew even larger and took the blow without injury.
• Song Ankang punched the Brocade-furred Rat King unconscious, shattering its divine armor, then wondered how it had intimidated the Merman Race for so long.

Song Ankang enslaved the Brocade-furred Rat King and claimed the Brocade-furred Underground Palace as a base on the Chaos Plain. When a Three-tailed Wind Cat attacked the rats, Song Ankang learned it had no clan backing and prepared to confront it.

• Song Ankang defeated and enslaved the Brocade-furred Rat King, which pledged its loyalty after waking.
• Song Ankang ordered the Rat King to restore order in the Brocade-furred Underground Palace and planned to use it as a base and trading hub.
• Song Ankang looted the palace but found the Brocade Fur Rats had accumulated fewer treasures than he expected.
• Song Ankang spotted a Three-tailed Wind Cat attacking the Brocade Fur Rats and learned it had repeatedly harassed them over a destroyed treasure.
• The Brocade-furred Rat King told Song Ankang that the Three-tailed Wind Cat had been exiled by its clan and had no backing, so Song Ankang approached it as his divine servants activated the palace’s formation.

Song Ankang enslaved the Three-tailed Wind Cat and learned about its past and the Wind Cat Tribe. He then assured the Merman Race that the Brocade-furred Rat King had been dealt with and told them to keep his control of it secret.

• Song Ankang used the Divine Formation Group, Soul Seizing Technique, and Startling Eye Tribulation to enslave the Three-tailed Wind Cat in one move.
• The Three-tailed Wind Cat submitted to Song Ankang, handed over its wealth, and explained that Wind Cat families were hunting it after it killed several bullies.
• Song Ankang arranged for the Three-tailed Wind Cat to remain in the Chaos Plain and search for suitable targets to enslave.
• Song Ankang visited Green Wave Lake and told the Merman Emperor and Merman Ancestor that the Brocade-furred Rat King would no longer demand tribute from the Merman Race.
• Song Ankang revealed that the Brocade-furred Rat King was now his servant and warned the Merman leaders to keep this secret.

Song Ankang subdued the Brocade-furred Rat King and Three-tailed Wind Cat, then raised his essence, qi, and spirit limits beyond 200 points and began pushing toward 300. As he cultivated, he learned that the potent wine accelerating his essence growth was Blood Dragon Wine, made from a powerful Middle Third Rank dragon race.

• Song Ankang subdued the Brocade-furred Rat King and took the Three-tailed Wind Cat as a servant before returning to An City in Kyoto.
• Song Ankang expanded his essence, qi, and spirit limits to 200 points, gaining the potential to reach Earth Immortal perfection.
• Song Ankang used a Limit Breaking Pill to expand all three limits by 1.5 points and continued cultivating steadily.
• Song Ankang learned from Fine Wine, Delicious Food, Beautiful Women that the unnamed wine was Blood Dragon Wine, brewed using the flesh and blood of the Middle Third Rank Blood Dragon.

Song Ankang watched Twelve Wings boast about earning three Immortal Limit Pills for its Sacred Heart wine, then revealed he did not need its recipe because he was refining a similar one himself. Fine Wine, Delicious Food, Beautiful Women asked Song Ankang to bring more new foods for tasting.

• Fine Wine, Delicious Food, Beautiful Women praised Twelve Wings’s Sacred Heart wine and rewarded it with three Immortal Limit Pills.
• Twelve Wings privately bragged to Song Ankang about its reward and claimed it had created the wine and recipe.
• Song Ankang ignored Twelve Wings’s taunts until it offered to share the recipe for two Immortal Limit Pills.
• Song Ankang told Twelve Wings he had already taken around two hundred Immortal Limit Pills and was no longer interested in them.
• Twelve Wings offered its recipe anyway, but Song Ankang said he was refining a similar wine himself and did not need it.
• Fine Wine, Delicious Food, Beautiful Women asked Song Ankang to bring more interesting foods for tasting.

Song Ankang traded ten new delicacies and their recipes to powerful chat-group members for valuable pills. Twelve Wings revealed his childish rivalry with Song Ankang, who recognized him as Gabriel, while Demonic Flame Soaring Sky returned boasting of a huge haul.

• Song Ankang sent Fine Wine, Delicious Food, Beautiful Women ten dishes and recipes, and Kunlun All-Knowing praised his creativity while inviting him to repair the Kunlun Mountains.
• Fine Wine, Delicious Food, Beautiful Women praised several dishes and offered to take Song Ankang as a disciple, while Twelve Wings despaired at Song Ankang's success.
• Demonic Flame Soaring Sky requested the dishes, and Song Ankang sent her and Flame of Breaking Barriers their prepared sets as well.
• Fine Wine, Delicious Food, Beautiful Women rewarded Song Ankang with ten Limit Breaking Pills, and Demonic Flame Soaring Sky praised the food and called him a treasure rabbit.
• Twelve Wings privately boasted that Demonic Flame Soaring Sky had given him playing cards, and Song Ankang recognized him as Gabriel, the Angel Chief.
• Demonic Flame Soaring Sky logged back in and announced that she had made a haul worth a thousand Immortal Limit Pills in one round.

Song Ankang used Limit Breaking Pills to raise his essence, energy, and spirit above 220 points while his companions secretly advanced as well. He learned that Wang Wenzhi had gotten Zhu Tiedan pregnant, improving the Human Race’s standing with the Demon Boar Race, and was relieved that only Human Race men were being encouraged to marry into it.

• Song Ankang sent a flattering message before Twelve Wings and received three Limit Breaking Pills from Demonic Flame Soaring Sky.
• Song Ankang consumed Limit Breaking Pills and continued cultivating as his companions grew stronger while concealing their cultivation.
• Song Ankang raised his essence, energy, and spirit above 220 points and his essence soul above 230 points.
• Song Ankang learned that Wang Wenzhi had gotten Zhu Tiedan pregnant, prompting some Demon Boar Race citizens to favor the Human Race.
• Song Ankang heard that Human Race men were being encouraged to marry Demon Boar Race women and felt relieved that Human Race women were not being pushed into such marriages.

Song Ankang watched Yue Chulong successfully advance into the Transcendence Realm and brought her and Yue Chimeng to their new home, Misty Residence. The sisters were overwhelmed by its luxury and dense Spiritual Energy, but Song Ankang reassured them that it was modest by his standards.

• Song Ankang sensed Yue Chulong's breakthrough and arrived at the courtyard where Yue Chimeng was standing guard.
• Yue Chimeng explained that Song Ankang's guidance had helped Yue Chulong find her opportunity to advance into the Transcendence Realm.
• Song Ankang worried that Dongxue might never find her own breakthrough opportunity, though he could not overcome her innate limits.
• Yue Chulong completed her breakthrough smoothly, and Song Ankang examined her condition and confirmed that all was well.
• Song Ankang led Yue Chimeng and Yue Chulong to Misty Residence, where they marveled at its size, beauty, and dense Spiritual Energy.
• Yue Chimeng and Yue Chulong hesitated to accept such a fine residence, and Song Ankang told them it was nothing special for someone of his status.

Song Ankang strengthened his cultivation while Yue Chimeng and Yue Chulong trained outside Kyoto and entered the Golden Tomb of True Person Baiyao. The sisters explored carefully and found a medicinal garden stocked with ingredients for Seventh-Rank Spirit Pills.

• Song Ankang raised his essence, qi, and spirit to 240 points, while his essence soul surpassed 250 points.
• Yue Chimeng and Yue Chulong began taking occasional trips outside Kyoto to fight Demonic Creatures and Ghosts, with Song Ankang's permission.
• Yue Chimeng told Yue Chulong that a Golden Core True Person's tomb had appeared nearby and that she had informed Song Ankang of their plans.
• The sisters disguised themselves and joined cultivators entering the tomb, whose self-destruction formation allowed only Qi Nurturing and Foundation Establishment cultivators inside.
• Yue Chimeng and Yue Chulong held hands as they passed through the tomb's formations and discovered a medicinal garden filled with herbs for Seventh-Rank Spirit Pills.

Yue Chimeng and Yue Chulong survived the Divine Tomb’s dangers and found a Seven Orifices Exquisite Heart, which they rushed to bring to Song Ankang. Other cultivators pursued them for the treasure, while Mud Dragon arrived to protect the sisters from the shadows.

• Yue Chimeng and Yue Chulong explored the tomb, discovered it was a Divine Tomb, and were swept into an underground river when its formations activated.
• The sisters endured attacks and depleted most of their Spirit Talismans as they followed the river toward an exit.
• Yue Chulong spotted a Seven Orifices Exquisite Heart on the rock wall, and Yue Chimeng plucked it so they could deliver it to Master.
• Other Human Race cultivators learned of the treasure, sent Communication Talismans for help, and pursued the sisters as they fled toward Kyoto.
• Mud Dragon sensed the sisters’ location and arrived nearby to guard them from the shadows.

Yue Chimeng and Yue Chulong faced a growing crowd seeking to seize their Seven Orifices Exquisite Fruit, while the Mud Dragon secretly protected them. When the Mud Dragon revealed that it served a powerful Human Race lord, the crowd refused to yield, and it began fighting Mad God Zhan Wujiu.

• The Mud Dragon buried pursuing Foundation Establishment cultivators and then suppressed the Golden Core True Persons and stronger pursuers who came after Yue Chimeng and Yue Chulong.
• More than a hundred cultivators, including Lesser Gods and a Middle God, intercepted the sisters near Kyoto and accused them of colluding with Anomalies.
• The Mud Dragon revealed itself and said it had been ordered by a Human Race lord to protect the lord’s two disciples.
• Mad God Zhan Wujiu challenged the Mud Dragon after the crowd rejected its explanation, and the two began a fierce battle.

Mud Dragon protected Yue Chimeng and Yue Chulong from Human Race gods who had attacked them over the Seven Orifices Exquisite Fruit. Song Ankang intervened through the Two Dragons Sword, forcing the Four Iron Banner Gods to back down, and the attackers were sent to face punishment.

• Zhan Wujiu and several other Human Race gods fought Mud Dragon but were soon overwhelmed by its defense and strength.
• Two Great Gods of the Four Iron Banner Gods arrived from Kyoto, and Mud Dragon identified itself as a servant of the Nine Peaks Sword God and contacted Song Ankang.
• Song Ankang sent the Two Dragons Sword to protect Mud Dragon, Yue Chimeng, and Yue Chulong, and its power made the gods kneel and withdraw.
• Mud Dragon left with Yue Chimeng and Yue Chulong while the Two Dragons Sword returned to Kyoto.
• The participants in the robbery were ordered to face punishment, and the factions realized that Yue Chimeng and Yue Chulong were the Nine Peaks Sword God's disciples.

After Yue Chimeng and Yue Chulong returned safely to Misty Residence, Song Ankang revealed that Mud Dragon had secretly protected them and accepted the Seven Orifices Exquisite Fruit they obtained. The sisters resolved to cultivate harder, while Song Ankang gained a treasure that could greatly improve his comprehension.

• Yue Chimeng and Yue Chulong thanked Song Ankang for rescuing them and shared what they had learned during the trial.
• Yue Chimeng gave Song Ankang the Seven Orifices Exquisite Fruit, and he accepted it because it could sharply improve his comprehension.
• Song Ankang told the sisters to focus on reaching the Foundation Establishment Realm and said they could ask Mud Dragon for help.
• Song Ankang revealed that Mud Dragon had secretly protected the sisters, leaving them deeply moved by his care.
• Yue Chimeng and Yue Chulong vowed to cultivate diligently and someday become a support to Song Ankang.

After consuming the Seven Orifices Exquisite Fruit, Song Ankang entered an epiphany and greatly strengthened the Heavenly Demon Dismantling Secret Technique. He tested its new effects and received its side effects through the Heavenly Book of Fate Defiance, while continuing to focus on expanding his limits before pursuing a breakthrough.

• Song Ankang consumed the Seven Orifices Exquisite Fruit and entered an epiphany that rapidly advanced his understanding of the Heavenly Demon Dismantling Secret Technique.
• Song Ankang increased the technique's amplification from twelvefold to fifteenfold, bringing it threefold short of reaching Sixth Grade immortal technique status.
• Song Ankang used the improved technique and found that it supplied seemingly endless power for prolonged combat, though it did not raise his essence, energy, or spirit beyond their current limits.
• Several dozen hours later, the Heavenly Book of Fate Defiance returned the technique's side effects, which mostly expanded Song Ankang's limits rather than directly improving his essence, energy, and spirit.