Chapter Summaries

Chen Haoran destroyed the Mount Mang Ghost King and helped the Human Race turn the tide against the Weird beings. As he recited the classics for three years, his Righteous Qi spread across the nation and his realm advanced toward that of a Sub-Saint.

• Chen Haoran shot a Righteous Qi arrow through the torn space, then destroyed the Mount Mang Ghost King with the Ruler.
• Zhou Meng and the others wondered whether Chen Haoran had entered the Forbidden Realm, while the Town Evil Department celebrated his victory and planned to remove the things inside their bodies.
• After three months, Righteous Qi cleansed the Capital City, statues spread the Literary Path, and Town Evil Department members swept away most of the Weird beings.
• Chen Haoran entered a vast space, saw a sphere of light resisting darkness, and gained clarity as it shone upon him.
• Chen Haoran recited the classics for three years, illuminating the entire nation and purifying or driving away its Weird beings.
• Chen Haoran entered Dao comprehension and quietly advanced toward the Sub-Saint realm as others listened at the foot of the mountain.

After three years of fighting the Weirds, Chen Haoran followed Jiang Zhen’s guidance and traveled across the world to reach the Sage Realm and confront the calamity’s source. He destroyed the last Weirds and entered the mysterious space where their power originated, while Jiang Zhen watched from outside; afterward, Chen Haoran asked his teacher if he was really leaving.

• After three years of expansion by the Town Evil Department, Jiang Zhen appeared to Chen Haoran and told him to travel the world, eradicate every Weird, and reach the Sage Realm.
• Chen Haoran left the Department Master in charge of the Town Evil Department and departed to hunt the Weirds.
• Chen Haoran destroyed forbidden zones and their masters, then continued across the world until the last Weird disappeared.
• Chen Haoran sensed a connection to the world, saw a vast Long River of Righteous Qi, and entered a mysterious space to attack the source of the Weirds.
• Jiang Zhen watched Chen Haoran confront the source, and people across the world rejoiced that the Weirds had been completely destroyed.
• Outside the world, Chen Haoran asked Jiang Zhen whether he was really leaving.

Jiang Zhen said farewell to Chen Haoran after giving him the Martial Path method and a sword, then found Tongtian training the gifted A Qing. Tongtian wanted to strengthen her weak foundation, and Jiang Zhen offered an Innate Creation Green Lotus seed as a possible solution.

• Jiang Zhen revealed that Chen Haoran was still too weak to leave his world, taught him the Martial Path, and gave him a Houtian Spiritual Treasure sword.
• Chen Haoran bowed farewell as Jiang Zhen left the Martial Arts World and arrived where Tongtian was teaching A Qing.
• Tongtian told Jiang Zhen how he had gathered talented swordsmen into the Heaven-Cutting Sect and chosen A Qing as the inheritor of his Heaven-Cutting Sword Path.
• Tongtian asked Jiang Zhen for a superior Innate Spiritual Root to improve A Qing's weak foundation and offered the Purple Lightning Hammer in exchange.
• Jiang Zhen produced a seed filled with Innate Creation Qi, and Tongtian recognized it as a seed of the Innate Creation Green Lotus.

Jiang Zhen gave Tongtian a Creation Green Lotus seed and a secret technique for nurturing it as a Companion Spirit Treasure, then urged him to join forces against their enemies during the Journey to the West Tribulation. They returned to the secret realm, where Jiang Zhen supplied Houtu with Sha Qi to use in her great array.

• Tongtian recognized Jiang Zhen's Creation Green Lotus seed, and Jiang Zhen explained how the seed could mature as a Companion Spirit Treasure at enormous resource cost.
• Tongtian gave Jiang Zhen the Purple Lightning Hammer in exchange for the seed and technique, and said he would take A Qing back to face the Journey to the West Tribulation.
• Jiang Zhen warned Tongtian that rescued Interception Sect disciples and other powerful factions could disrupt the Journey to the West, then proposed that they join forces and exploit the conflict.
• Tongtian agreed to return with Jiang Zhen to discuss the plan, and they arrived at the secret realm less than three days later.
• Jiang Zhen gave Houtu pure Sha Qi left from a destroyed world, and Houtu placed it in her great array as phantoms appeared amid deafening roars.

Jiang Zhen proposed sealing the eleven weakened Ancestral Witches and sending them to lower worlds to rebuild their strength, then asked the Starry Sky Chat Group for help arranging their ascension paths. The group members reacted to the upheaval their return could cause, and Jiang Zhen asked powerful friends to come in person.

• Jiang Zhen explained that the Ancestral Witches had revived with only a fraction of their former strength and asked Houtu what she planned to do.
• Jiang Zhen proposed sealing the eleven Ancestral Witches and guiding them through weaker worlds where they could cultivate and replenish their origins.
• Houtu agreed to the plan, and Jiang Zhen said he would recruit friends to help oversee the eleven ascension paths.
• Jiang Zhen summoned the Starry Sky Chat Group and explained the plan, telling Monkey that it concerned his future journey to the west.
• Nezha warned that the return of ancient powers could plunge Monkey's world into chaos, while Jiang Zhen welcomed the prospect and asked Taiyi Golden Immortals to come in person.

Jiang Zhen and the group assigned people to guide several of the Twelve Ancestral Witches, matching each person to a suitable path. After the choices were settled, Jiang Zhen called them to the Underworld of the Journey to the West World.

• Zhang Chulan volunteered to guide Qiangliang, while Uncle Jiu declined and Li Lianhua chose Jumang.
• Su Wuming agreed to guide Tian Wu after Jiang Zhen said he only needed to help him reach the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm.
• Esdeath chose Xuan Ming, and Xiao Huo chose the Fire Ancestral Witch, while Daegu, Natsu, Ace, Madara, and Long Kui declined to participate.
• Yang Jian chose the Metal Ancestral Witch, Nezha chose the Lightning Ancestral Witch, and Little Stone chose the Space Ancestral Witch.
• Jiang Zhen warned Little Stone that the Ancestral Witches could help him in the future, then told everyone to go to the Underworld of the Journey to the West World.

Houtu agreed to have the Ancestral Witches reincarnate into Wuxia Worlds to cultivate the Martial Path, while Jiang Zhen and Ma Xiaoling began a battle in the Zombie Contract World to draw out Fate. Ksitigarbha brought the Earthly Book to stop the fight, but Jiang Chen struck him down and knocked the book away, catching Fate’s attention.

• Houtu agreed with Jiang Zhen’s plan to send Zhu Jiuyin and the other Ancestral Witches into Wuxia Worlds to strengthen themselves through martial arts.
• Jiang Zhen took Zhu Jiuyin away, then split into two, while the others used Houtu’s Reincarnation power to travel to their chosen worlds.
• Jiang Zhen and Ma Xiaoling arrived in the Zombie Contract World, where Ma Xiaoling led Jiang Chen into a battle with Human King Fuxi and Queen Mother of the Jade Pool.
• The four fighters’ clash awakened Fate, and Jiang Zhen contacted Ksitigarbha to obtain the Earthly Book and draw Fate out completely.
• Ksitigarbha tried to stop the battle with the Earthly Book, but Jiang Chen struck him away and knocked the book from his hand, making Fate stare at it.

Jiang Zhen captured and erased Fate, restored the Heavenly Book to the laws of the world, and ended the Pangu Clan’s mission before leaving for Journey to the West with Ma Xiaoling. The chapter then shifted to Mount Hua, where Yue Buqun welcomed the birth of his son.

• Fate rushed toward the Earthly Book, but Jiang Zhen froze the world and captured it along with Fate’s true body, the Heavenly Book.
• Jiang Zhen erased Fate’s will and returned the Heavenly Book to the sky to become part of the world’s rules.
• Jiang Zhen told Jiang Chen that the Pangu Clan’s mission had ended, returned Nuwa’s body, and offered to take Ma Xiaoling with him.
• Three days later, Jiang Zhen and Ma Xiaoling left the My Date with a Vampire World, and he entrusted her to Sun Wukong before departing to become his own Golden Finger.
• On Mount Hua, Yue Buqun learned that his wife had given birth to a son and sent Yue Lingshan to check on the ginseng soup.

Five-year-old Yue Lingzhu asked his teacher, Jiang Zhen, to begin teaching him martial arts, and Jiang Zhen explained three possible Martial Paths. Yue Lingzhu chose the Path of Fleshly Sainthood and received an Ancient Divine Art, whose first stage required enduring the force of a great waterfall.

• Yue Lingzhu asked Jiang Zhen to begin teaching him martial arts now that he had turned five.
• Jiang Zhen described the paths of qi cultivation, mind cultivation, and Fleshly Sainthood, then asked Yue Lingzhu which he wanted to follow.
• Yue Lingzhu chose the Path of Fleshly Sainthood because he wanted to cultivate the strongest path.
• Jiang Zhen gave Yue Lingzhu an Ancient Divine Art with nine stages, each divided into nine levels.
• Yue Lingzhu questioned whether anyone besides him could cultivate the Art, and Jiang Zhen explained that its first level required being scourged by a great waterfall.

Yue Lingzhu rejected Yue Buqun and Ning Zhongze’s objections and pursued body refinement, demonstrating remarkable strength before training beneath a waterfall. Afterward, he revealed that an Art had appeared in his mind, leaving Ning Zhongze waiting to hear more.

• Yue Lingzhu told Yue Buqun and Ning Zhongze he had chosen Hardening Technique cultivation, but Yue Buqun tried to stop him with his cane.
• Yue Lingzhu broke Yue Buqun’s cane with a punch and sent him staggering back, astonishing Yue Buqun and Ning Zhongze.
• Yue Buqun asked Ning Zhongze to watch Yue Lingzhu while he searched the Scripture Repository for a safer Hardening Technique method.
• Ning Zhongze found Yue Lingzhu training beneath a waterfall and, remembering his stubbornness, chose not to force him to stop.
• Yue Lingzhu emerged from the pool and practiced several stances, telling Ning Zhongze an Art had appeared in his mind; he continued cultivating before explaining further.

Ning Zhongze told Yue Buqun that Yue Lingzhu had gained an extraordinary Body Hardening Technique and was training with astonishing physical resilience. Yue Buqun concealed his son’s talent by announcing that Yue Lingzhu had a strange illness, while Yue Lingzhu continued training in the back mountain.

• Ning Zhongze described Yue Lingzhu’s unusual technique and mountain-smashing training, and Yue Buqun warned her to keep his abilities secret.
• Yue Buqun arranged for Ning Zhongze to care for Yue Lingzhu in the back mountain and proposed disguising his training as an illness that made him dangerously hot and dependent on water.
• Yue Buqun announced Yue Lingzhu’s illness, and Yue Lingshan and Linghu Chong believed the explanation after seeing him beneath the waterfall.
• Rumors spread that Yue Buqun sought physicians and herbs for his son, distracting rivals and easing the Songshan School’s suspicion of Mount Hua.
• Yue Lingzhu remained unaware of the deception and devoted himself to training in the back mountain.

After reaching a cultivation bottleneck, Yue Lingzhu decided to join the army at the Border to advance his strength and secure official recognition for the Mount Hua Sect. His parents accepted his decision, and he prepared to leave Mount Hua.

• Jiang Zhen told Yue Lingzhu to seek battlefield experience and murderous aura to overcome his cultivation bottleneck and help Mount Hua gain the emperor’s recognition.
• Yue Lingzhu told Ning Zhongze he planned to join the army at the Border, explaining that military service could strengthen him and help the Mount Hua Sect.
• Yue Lingzhu broke Ning Zhongze’s treasured sword and kneaded it into an iron ball to demonstrate his immense strength.
• Ning Zhongze asked to consult Yue Buqun before agreeing to let Yue Lingzhu go.
• One month later, Yue Buqun saw Yue Lingzhu off at the foot of Mount Hua and told him to listen to Ning Zhongze and protect her.

Yue Lingzhu conquered the lands beyond Great Ming's borders and reached the ninth level, prompting Jiang Zhen to warn him to surrender his military power before Zhu Houzhao grew wary. As Yue Lingzhu returned to the capital for his reward, Zhu Houzhao rejected a eunuch's suggestion to prevent his return and ordered the eunuch arrested.

• Yue Lingzhu drove back an invading army, then spent five years conquering the frontier states and Grassland with Zhu Houzhao's support.
• Yue Lingzhu reached the ninth level and told Jiang Zhen he had broken through; Jiang Zhen advised him to relinquish power and carefully divide the merits of his followers.
• Yue Lingzhu received an imperial summons and led his Eight Thousand Iron Cavalry toward the Capital City.
• Zhu Houzhao lamented that Yue Lingzhu's achievements left him with no suitable reward to grant.
• A eunuch suggested preventing Yue Lingzhu from returning, and Zhu Houzhao ordered guards to drag the eunuch away.

Yue Lingzhu revealed his true identity and explained Mount Hua’s decline and Zuo Lengchan’s effort to unite the Five Peaks. He asked Zhu Houzhao for help and permission to relinquish his military authority and return to Mount Hua, and Zhu Houzhao agreed to announce his conferment in court.

• Yue Lingzhu told Zhu Houzhao that his real name was Yue Lingzhu and that his parents were Yue Buqun and Ning Zhongze of Mount Hua.
• Yue Lingzhu explained how Mount Hua had been weakened by the Sword Qi Dispute and how Zuo Lengchan sought to unite the Five Peaks.
• Yue Lingzhu asked Zhu Houzhao to help protect Mount Hua and let him give up his military authority to return home.
• Zhu Houzhao initially objected to losing his Great General, but accepted Yue Lingzhu’s request and said he would announce his conferment in court.

Zhu Houzhao named Yue Lingzhu Duke Zhenyue and granted him a vast fief, the Mount Hua Sect’s recognition, and command of the Eight Thousand Iron-Blooded Cavalry. He then asked Yue Lingzhu to train his favored son, revealing that he hoped Yue Lingzhu would protect the imperial line and preserve its military power.

• Zhu Houzhao bestowed Yue Lingzhu the title of Duke Zhenyue, a fief centered on Mount Hua, and numerous other rewards.
• Zhu Houzhao gave Yue Lingzhu the Eight Thousand Iron-Blooded Cavalry, despite Yue Lingzhu’s protests that the emperor needed them for his own protection.
• Jiang Zhen told Yue Lingzhu that Zhu Houzhao was likely entrusting him with a military legacy to guard against civil officials taking control after the emperor’s death.
• Zhu Houzhao introduced his favored eight-year-old imperial son and asked Yue Lingzhu to teach him.
• Zhu Houzhao explained that he wanted Yue Lingzhu and the cavalry to give his descendants a chance to withstand the civil officials and retain military authority.

Zhu Houzhao entrusted the Eight Thousand Iron Cavalry to Yue Lingzhu and arranged for his son to become Yue Lingzhu’s disciple, with the prince set to learn Mount Hua’s Purple Haze Divine Skill. A month later, Yue Lingzhu and Ning Zhongze prepared to leave for Mount Hua, where the emperor had ordered a new manor built.

• Zhu Houzhao stationed the Eight Thousand Iron Cavalry at Mount Hua under Yue Lingzhu’s command and set rules for when the force could be mobilized.
• Zhu Houzhao made his son Yue Lingzhu’s disciple and told him that only the Zhu Family could use the cavalry, which future emperors could not disband or support.
• Yue Lingzhu offered to teach the prince Mount Hua’s Purple Haze Divine Skill, while explaining that his own dangerous Hardening Technique was unlikely to be passed on.
• Yue Lingzhu told Zhu Houzhao he would return to Mount Hua in a month, and Zhu Houzhao agreed to make the necessary arrangements.
• A month later, Yue Lingzhu found Ning Zhongze packing for their departure and reassured her that servants and a newly built manor would be waiting for them at Mount Hua.

Yue Lingzhu and Ning Zhongze decided to travel to Mount Heng for Liu Zhengfeng’s Golden Basin Handwashing ceremony before returning to Mount Hua. During the journey, Yue Lingzhu learned that Yu Canghai planned to hold Mount Hua accountable over Linghu Chong and that the dispute involved his Elder Sister, and he prepared to demand an explanation.

• Yue Lingzhu told Ning Zhongze about the ceremony at Mount Heng and explained how the Eastern Bureau sold minor official titles to raise funds.
• Ning Zhongze agreed to visit Mount Heng, where they could meet Yue Lingzhu’s Father, and Yue Lingzhu said Mount Hua would leave the Five Peaks Sword Sect and join the Daoist Sect.
• A day later, a large convoy set out toward Mount Hua while Yue Lingzhu and Ning Zhongze traveled toward Mount Heng with three thousand armored cavalry.
• At their nighttime camp, Yue Lingzhu told Ning Zhongze that Yu Canghai intended to hold Mount Hua accountable over Linghu Chong and that the matter involved his Elder Sister.
• Yue Lingzhu said he would send someone to demand an explanation if Ning Zhongze had no objection.

Yue Lingzhu arrived near Mount Heng with her army and prepared to settle a dispute involving Yu Canghai’s disciple. Yue Lingshan arrived in the city with Laodeno, then followed a messenger carrying her mother’s token to the heavily guarded estate where Ning Zhongze awaited her.

• Yue Lingzhu told Ning Zhongze that the matter involved Yu Canghai’s disciple and that Yu Canghai might come to answer for it.
• Yue Lingzhu reached the city near Mount Heng with her iron cavalry, arranged for the army to camp outside, and entered a temporary residence with Ning Zhongze.
• Yue Lingzhu learned that Yue Lingshan and Laodeno had arrived, while Linghu Chong had left the group to look for wine.
• Laodeno advised Yue Lingshan to wait for their Master before going up the mountain, then went to look for an inn.
• A Black-Clad Man showed Yue Lingshan a token from her mother and led her to a guarded estate, where an old man said Ning Zhongze had been waiting for her.

Yue Lingshan reunited with Ning Zhongze and discovered that the noble young man beside her was her transformed younger brother, Yue Lingzhu. Ning Zhongze explained how Yue Lingzhu had secretly trained, joined the army, conquered the Grassland, and helped the Emperor purge the Imperial Court, before warning Yue Lingshan to prepare for their return to Mount Hua.

• An old man brought Yue Lingshan to Ning Zhongze, and mother and daughter reunited in the courtyard.
• Ning Zhongze introduced Yue Lingshan to Yue Lingzhu, and Yue Lingshan was shocked by his changed appearance and recovery.
• Yue Lingzhu suggested they talk, saying he had things to tell Yue Lingshan and that she would need to change before returning to Mount Hua.
• Ning Zhongze explained that Yue Lingzhu had secretly trained in the Hardening Technique while pretending to be ill.
• Ning Zhongze said Yue Lingzhu joined the army at thirteen, conquered the Grassland, and gained the Emperor's support.
• Ning Zhongze recounted how Yue Lingzhu and the Emperor purged the Civil Official Group and restored the Emperor's power.

Yue Lingzhu told Yue Lingshan how he had helped the emperor purge corrupt officials and lead Great Ming’s expansion, earning his family powerful titles and privileges. He planned to wait for their father before deciding Laodeno’s fate and said he wanted to restore Mount Hua Sect, join the Daoist Sect, and withdraw from the Five Peaks Sword Sect.

• Yue Lingzhu explained that he had advised the emperor to purge corrupt officials after discovering that the emperor had been poisoned, leading to more than a hundred thousand deaths.
• Yue Lingzhu recounted leading a Million-Man Army to conquer more than a hundred small countries, expanding Great Ming by more than double in just over five years.
• Yue Lingzhu told Yue Lingshan that he had resigned as Great General and received the title of Duke Zhenyue, while Yue Lingshan became a County Princess with her own residence and fief.
• Ning Zhongze told Yue Lingshan that she would need to learn how to behave according to her new status.
• Yue Lingzhu said their father had not arrived yet and suggested killing Laodeno, but Ning Zhongze left the decision to him.
• Yue Lingzhu decided to wait for their father and planned to restore Mount Hua Sword Sect as Mount Hua Sect, join the Daoist Sect, and withdraw from the Five Peaks Sword Sect.