Chapter Summaries

A snowbound temple brought together a young man of the Tianwu bloodline, Blood Scholar, and Ageless Divine Beggar as they contended over the Sacred Sarira and Profound Ice Coffin. After the old man recounted Emperor Tianwu’s history, a new arrival burst into the temple, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• A young man in white and his two guards sheltered in a ruined temple, where he gave a dusty steamed bun to a Little Beggar seeking refuge.
• An old man and his granddaughter Huan'er entered, and the old man worshipped the statue of Emperor Tianwu while the Little Beggar identified it.
• The old man told Huan'er how Xu Qingyang rose from a beggar to become Emperor Tianwu, founded the Zhou Dynasty, and laid the foundations for the Divine Martial Era.
• The old man revealed himself as Blood Scholar and demanded the Sacred Sarira and Profound Ice Coffin from the young man, who drew his sword in anger.
• The Little Beggar revealed himself as Ageless Divine Beggar and offered Blood Scholar a share, but Blood Scholar refused to surrender either treasure.
• A new arrival roared into the temple, shaking the building before Blood Scholar and Ageless Divine Beggar could settle their dispute.

Chen Pojun attacked the Sacred Sect emissaries and triggered a chaotic battle over the treasures. As Su Shaoqing fell across the Profound Ice Coffin, the sleeping man inside opened his eyes.

• Chen Pojun rejected Zhang Ren and Du Xinyu's terms, then struck at them and ordered the Mysterious Iron Divine Soldiers to attack the others.
• Zhang Ren and Du Xinyu invoked the Heavenly Demon Great Law against Chen Pojun's Sha Po Lang, while Shi Wei used Dragon Subduing Tiger Taming to break through the soldiers' formation.
• Shi Wei's attack wounded Su Shaoqing and his companions, breaking open a Profound Ice Coffin and revealing Emperor Tianwu holding the Sacred Sarira.
• Su Shaoqing shielded the coffin from Shi Wei's attack, but was badly wounded and collapsed across it.
• As Shi Wei approached the coffin, Emperor Tianwu opened his eyes and met Su Shaoqing's gaze.

Xu Yang awoke in the Profound Ice Coffin, returned to Xu Qingyang’s body and found himself facing Su Shaoqing, Shi Wei, Chen Pojun, and the Demonic Sect Twin Envoys. After restoring some of Su Shaoqing’s life, Xu Yang confronted Chen Pojun, who attacked him for the Sacred Sarira; the chapter ended as Xu Yang raised his hand and fused Dao and martial arts.

• Xu Yang emerged from the Profound Ice Coffin and stopped Shi Wei’s attack on the gravely wounded Su Shaoqing.
• Chen Pojun and the Demonic Sect Twin Envoys arrived after their clash and were stunned to see Xu Yang, whom they recognized as Emperor Tianwu.
• Xu Yang realized he had returned to the world in Xu Qingyang’s body with his Embracing the Dan cultivation, skills, and Attribute Panel intact.
• Xu Yang used the Life Scroll and his other methods to stabilize Su Shaoqing’s shattered body and severed heart meridians.
• Chen Pojun dismissed Xu Yang as a possible body-snatching grandmaster and attacked, seeking to seize the Sacred Sarira.
• Xu Yang raised his hand against Chen Pojun’s blade, unleashing a power that joined Dao and martial arts.

Xu Yang defeated Chen Pojun by using Daoist lightning arts against his War God True Martial, then killed Shi Wei and attempted to search his soul. Shi Wei’s soul contained a Dragon Subduing Tiger Taming restriction that killed him and rebounded against Xu Yang, leaving the secrets he sought undiscovered.

• Xu Yang trapped Chen Pojun in a Lightning Prison and shattered his Po Jun Blade Dragon with a Lightning Giant Palm.
• Chen Pojun unleashed Sha Po Lang from the War God's Catalogue, but Xu Yang defeated it with eighteen lightning bulls summoned through the Divine Firmament Jade Purity Method.
• Wounded and nearly drained, Xu Yang drew on the Evil Emperor's Sarira as Chen Pojun fled behind the protection of the seventy-two Mysterious Iron Divine Weapons.
• Xu Yang broke the Earthly Fiend Array with six lightning dragons, killing the Mysterious Iron Divine Weapons and Blood Scholar Zhang Ren as Du Xinyu escaped.
• Xu Yang intercepted Shi Wei, pierced his heart with Lightning Sword Qi, and killed him before attempting to search his soul.
• A Dragon Subduing Tiger Taming restriction destroyed Shi Wei's soul and struck Xu Yang with a backlash, foiling the soul search.

Chen Pojun escaped after Emperor Tianwu returned to life and reported the news to Iron Heart Fortress, while the Sacred Sect ordered its forces to pursue Tianwu and seize the Sacred Sarira. In a cave, Xu Yang healed Su Shaoqing, revealed that he knew Su Beixuan, and placed a protective Daoist blessing on Su Shaoqing before preparing to change clothes.

• Chen Pojun reached his brothers and the Heavenly Gang Divine Weapon soldiers, then told Chen Feihu and Chen Lianzhen that Emperor Tianwu had returned to life and defeated him.
• Chen Feihu decided that Iron Heart Fortress still had to seize the Sacred Sarira, and Chen Pojun proposed using rival factions against one another.
• The Sacred Sect leaders ordered their followers to search for the Tianwu descendants, retrieve the Sacred Sarira, and alert the Heavenly Mechanism Tower about Tianwu's return.
• Xu Yang healed Su Shaoqing's severe injuries and learned that Su Beixuan was Su Shaoqing's ancestor.
• Xu Yang inscribed a Six Ding Six Jia protective blessing on Su Shaoqing to guard him and conceal him from Heavenly Mechanism Art divinations.

Xu Yang learned from Su Shaoqing how Great Zhou fell, how the War God inheritance reshaped the world, and how the Thousand Autumn Great Tribulation destroyed much of its civilization. Su Shaoqing explained that her family had preserved Xu Yang’s body and revived him, but the Su Family was slaughtered after their identities were exposed.

• Xu Yang questioned Su Shaoqing about the world after his death and listened as she described Great Zhou’s collapse eight hundred years after he entered the War God Temple.
• Su Shaoqing recounted how Martial Artists seized the War God Catalogues, advanced into the Divine Martial Realm, and ushered in the Divine Martial Era.
• Su Shaoqing described the battle of one hundred Divine Martial experts, the resulting disasters and demonic aberrations, and the Thousand Autumn Great Tribulation that broke civilization and caused technology to be abandoned.
• Su Shaoqing revealed that Great Zhou’s surviving bloodline preserved Xu Yang’s body in a Profound Ice Coffin and infused it with generations of imperial Martial Artists’ cultivation to revive him.
• Su Shaoqing said that after the Su Family’s identities were exposed, martial-world powers slaughtered her family, and she escaped with two clansmen and Xu Yang’s body through her father’s tunnel.

Xu Yang learned that the War God's Catalogues were powerful treasures that could grant martial arts, alter the land and a person's constitution, and greatly enhance combat strength. He learned where the catalogues were held and discovered that the Divine Martial Ranking and Jiazi Wind and Cloud Battle he had established still endured.

• Xu Yang questioned Su Shaoqing about the War God's Catalogues and learned that they contained powerful martial arts and secret arts.
• Su Shaoqing explained that the catalogues could alter the environment, produce rare materials, grant stellar bodies, and enhance or arm their wielders.
• Su Shaoqing told Xu Yang that all the catalogues except Shattering the Void had been taken from the War God Temple and distributed among thirty-six major factions.
• Su Shaoqing said the Six Great Sacred Lands led the righteous path, while the Heavenly Demon Sect held five catalogues and was led by its envoys after Leng Aotian disappeared.
• Xu Yang learned that Leng Aotian had ranked first on the Divine Martial Ranking and that the Jiazi Wind and Cloud Battle and ranking he had established still continued.

Xu Yang learned how the Divine Martial Ranking and the Jiazi Wind and Cloud Battle shaped the martial world, then concluded that he could not safely rebuild Great Zhou’s power without first becoming stronger. He used the remaining Essence in the Evil Emperor's Sarira to prepare for a breakthrough to the Primordial Dan Realm.

• Su Shaoqing explained the martial rankings and described Leng Aotian’s dominance over six righteous holy lands across nine Jiazi Wind and Cloud Battles.
• Xu Yang learned that the Divine Martial Realm might not be the true limit of power and considered whether the major factions had combined War God's Catalogues to pursue greater realms.
• Su Shaoqing proposed rallying Great Zhou’s surviving bloodlines and allies, but Xu Yang rejected rebuilding openly because it would invite suppression from the great powers.
• Xu Yang decided to muddy the waters after raising his strength enough to contend with Heaven Ranking Grandmasters, and he identified scarce resources as the obstacle.
• Xu Yang examined the Evil Emperor's Sarira and found that its remaining Essence could help him break through from the Dan Embrace stage to the Primordial Dan Realm.

Xu Yang advanced to the Origin Dan Realm and planned to develop martial arts and Daoist cultivation together despite lacking Divine Bridge techniques. He refined the fallen Iron Heart Fortress warriors into seventy-two Iron Armored Corpses, gaining a force that could help him survive against stronger opponents.

• Xu Yang formed a Martial Dao Origin Dan and discussed with Su Shaoqing how it could coexist with a Primordial Spirit Golden Dan.
• Su Shaoqing explained that Divine Bridge techniques were guarded by the major powers and inherited through the War God's Catalogue, so Xu Yang planned to strengthen himself through immortal cultivation instead.
• Xu Yang buried Su Shaoqing's two cousins after dispelling the Soul Sealing Curses from their bodies and the other fallen warriors.
• Xu Yang used Daoist magic to bind the Yin Ghosts within seventy-two Mysterious Iron Divine Weapons and raise them as Iron Armored Corpses.

Xu Yang used the Mystic Light Eye Technique to evade the search for him and Su Shaoqing, while Dao Wuya tried to divine Xu Yang’s whereabouts but could not pierce his heavenly protection. Dao Wuya warned that Xu Yang was a grave threat and urged Iron Heart Fortress and the Heavenly Demon Sect to set aside their conflict and eliminate him.

• Xu Yang collected the seventy-two newly refined Earth Fiend Ironclad Corpses and led Su Shaoqing out of the cave to escape their pursuers.
• Xu Yang used the Mystic Light Eye Technique to choose a route away from the search, while Su Shaoqing worried about relying on his Ghost God Arts.
• After searching tens of thousands of li for three days, the Four Great Dharma Kings failed to find Xu Yang and debated whether only a Divine Martial Venerable could track him.
• Dao Wuya used Heaven and Earth Bagua to investigate Xu Yang, but the Six Ding Six Jia and True Martial’s protection stopped him from seeing through Xu Yang’s origins.
• Dao Wuya learned that the Heavenly Demon Sect and Iron Heart Fortress had arrived to complain, then sent them letters urging them to cooperate against Xu Yang.
• Dao Wuya told his chief disciple that Xu Yang’s Heavenly Mechanism Art matched his own and warned that the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion could not tolerate him.

At a Hundred Flowers Heavenly Fragrance Gathering in South Mountain City, guests discussed the shocking report that the Great Zhou Tianwu Emperor had returned from the dead and defeated several powerful martial artists. In an upstairs loft, Fairy Qionghua and two guests considered how the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion was turning the world against him as the gathering prepared to begin.

• Guests at Hundred Flowers Tower discussed the revival of the Great Zhou Tianwu Emperor and his defeat of Chen Pojun, Shi Wei, Zhang Ren, and other opponents.
• The crowd feared Tianwu’s return would provoke a conflict with the righteous and demonic powers, many of which had old grievances against him.
• Fairy Qionghua spoke with a white-robed man and Zhang of Listening Sword Sea Pavilion about the rumors surrounding Tianwu.
• The white-robed man said Iron Heart Fortress and the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion were spreading the story to draw other powers into confronting Tianwu.
• Fairy Qionghua predicted that the gathered powers might send Divine Martial Venerables to capture Tianwu, then excused herself as the gathering was about to begin.

At the Hundred Flowers Heavenly Fragrance Grand Gathering, Fairy Qionghua auctioned rare medicines as guests discussed the Tianwu incident and the coming War God Contest. The gathering was suddenly attacked by Mysterious Iron Divine Weapons, and as Fairy Qionghua called for Senior Zhou, Earthly Element Limitless began to affect the attackers.

• Fairy Qionghua opened the auction and sold the Hundred Flowers Heavenly Fragrance Liquid to a wealthy bidder from the demonic sects.
• Qionghua auctioned an Evergreen Pill that could extend the lifespan of Divine Bridge Grandmasters and Yuan Dan Martial Artists, and it sold for nine hundred High-grade Spirit Crystals.
• Armored soldiers smashed into the Hundred Flowers Tower and attacked the guests and guards without explanation.
• Qionghua, Chu Lingfeng, and a green-robed swordsman fought the attackers but could not pierce their Mysterious Iron Divine Weapons.
• Qionghua called for Senior Zhou, and Earthly Extreme Yuan Magnetism formed to act upon the armored soldiers.

Zhou Fengyu restrained the seventy-two Mysterious Iron Divine Weapons, but yellow talismans empowered them with lightning and a dark formation trapped the guests outside Hundred Flowers Tower. As the fleeing Martial Artists were pinned down, a blue-robed figure emerged from the mist and walked toward Hundred Flowers Heavenly Fragrance.

• Zhou Fengyu used Earthly Extreme Yuan Magnetism to immobilize the seventy-two Mysterious Iron Divine Weapons and identified Emperor Tianwu as the one behind the attack.
• Yellow talismans transformed into lightning sigils, freed the iron-armored corpses, and let them resist Zhou Fengyu's Earth Element Heavy Mountain Grand Hand Seal in formation.
• The guests escaped Hundred Flowers Tower into Great Dark Heaven, where a mist-filled array surrounded them and yellow talismans filled the sky.
• The guests argued over who should break through, then the major factions and the crowd charged in different directions.
• Daoist talismans formed a technique that crushed the fleeing Martial Artists to the ground, and a blue-robed figure emerged from the mist and headed toward Hundred Flowers Heavenly Fragrance.

Xu Yang entered Hundred Flowers Tower and defeated Zhou Fengyu with a soul-targeting lightning curse and five Mysterious Iron swords. He subdued the fleeing fighters and captured more than a hundred martial artists, leaving the tower’s defenders in his hands.

• Xu Yang arrived at Hundred Flowers Tower, where Zhou Fengyu cast off his act and faced him while Chu Lingfeng and the others held back.
• Xu Yang challenged Zhou Fengyu to make one move, then struck him with the Five Thunders Destroying Spirit Curse.
• Xu Yang’s five Mysterious Iron flying swords pierced Zhou Fengyu’s vital acupoints and sealed his blood, qi, and Martial Dao Origin Core.
• Xu Yang followed up with a Five Elements attack that sent Zhou Fengyu crashing into the tower platform’s ruins.
• Chu Lingfeng, the green-robed man, Qionghua, and the other defenders tried to flee, but Xu Yang’s Thousand Jin Mountain Crushing Technique forced them down and the Iron Armored Corpses subdued them.
• Xu Yang pulled Zhou Fengyu from the ruins and stored him and more than a hundred captured martial artists in Beast Taming Bags.

Xu Yang examined the spoils from his raid on South Mountain City and resolved to seize the War God's Catalogue for its ability to refine origin spirit resources. He began forcing the captives to contribute their cultivation to the Evil Emperor's Sarira, ending with Zhou Fengyu asking why Xu Yang feared neither pursuit nor condemnation.

• Su Shaoqing identified the captured Martial Artists and appraised their possessions, including High-grade Spirit Crystals and rare treasures.
• Xu Yang recognized the War God's Catalogue's resource-refining technology as valuable to the Myriad Dao Academy and gave Su Shaoqing a bottle of Hundred Flowers Heavenly Fragrance Liquid.
• Xu Yang loosened the captives' restraints, and Zhou Fengyu mistook his spatial methods for the War God's Catalogue's Shattering the Void legacy.
• Zhang Shaobai denounced Xu Yang for planning to use the captives' cultivation, but he fell quiet after Xu Yang revealed they might survive if they cooperated and Divine Martial reinforcements arrived.
• Xu Yang asked Zhou Fengyu for the Divine Bridge cultivation technique of Earthly Element Limitless, learned that Ren Weidao created the Divine Martial Restriction, and put the Evil Emperor's Sarira before him.
• When Zhou Fengyu asked whether Xu Yang feared becoming the enemy of the world, Xu Yang answered that he trusted the human heart.

At Dao Yin Peak, the factions refused to unite against Xu Yang, while Dao Wuya predicted that Xu Yang would target a Divine Martial expert and seize a War God's Catalogue. Meanwhile, Xu Yang gathered nearly a thousand captives and began teaching them the Daoist Magic Primordial Spirit True Formula, apparently seeking to win their loyalty.

• Yun Mengyao and Ning Xinghe arrived at Dao Yin Peak and joined a tense gathering of righteous, dark, and neutral factions arguing over the attacks across the Forty-Eight Regions.
• Li Zeshan urged the factions to set aside their disputes and summon the Divine Martial Venerables, but they offered no firm commitment and soon left.
• Dao Wuya told Li Zeshan that the factions prioritized immediate interests, then predicted Xu Yang would attack Chen Tianjie at Iron Heart Fortress and take the Sha Po Lang Heavenly Tribulation.
• Zhou Fengyu replenished the Evil Emperor's Sarira as nearly a thousand captured martial artists gathered in Xu Yang's prison.
• Xu Yang silenced the captives and began teaching them the Daoist Magic Primordial Spirit True Formula, prompting Zhou Fengyu to suspect he was trying to win their hearts.

Thirty-eight years after Tianwu spread the Dao Scripture and destabilized the martial world, the righteous path gathered at Blood Tribulation Mountain for Iron Heart Fortress and Earth Element Mountain’s marriage alliance. Ning Xinghe feared that the demonic sect or Tianwu would sabotage the alliance before it could create a new Divine Martial Apex expert.

• Ning Xinghe and Yun Mengyao watched guests arrive at Blood Tribulation Mountain and discussed the demonic sect’s likely opposition to the marriage alliance.
• Ning Xinghe lamented how Tianwu’s Dao Scripture had fueled unrest, resource raids, and conflict between the world’s factions.
• Yun Mengyao said the alliance could unite Heavenly Tribulation Sha Po Lang with Earthly Element Limitless Art and strengthen the righteous path.
• Ning Xinghe warned that Tianwu would not allow the alliance to succeed, while Yun Mengyao said Iron Heart Fortress and Chen Tianjie could not be avoided.
• The chapter explained that Chen Tianjie had arranged the alliance with his old friend Zhou Buji so Zhou would protect the Chen Clan and cultivate a successor after Chen Tianjie’s death.

At the wedding joining Iron Heart Fortress and Earth Element Mountain, Chen Tianjie revealed that he had secretly allied with the demonic sect and lured the righteous path into a trap. As fighting erupted across the fortress, Ning Xinghe led Carefree Peak in a breakout and wondered how the person he feared would intervene.

• During the wedding banquet, Chen Tianjie accused Zhou Buji of conspiring with Zhou Jingfan, and Zhang Longyuan appeared to confront him.
• Chen Tianjie exposed the gathering as a trap, rejected Zhou Buji’s plea to return to the righteous path, and transformed into battle armor as he prepared to fight Zhang Longyuan.
• Mysterious Iron Divine Weapons attacked the wedding guests, while Chen Bubai’s appearance revealed that Iron Heart Fortress had joined the demonic sect.
• Ning Xinghe recognized that Chen Tianjie had spent decades deceiving the righteous factions and led the people of Carefree Peak in a breakout.
• As the righteous forces struggled to escape the demonic sect’s ambush, Ning Xinghe wondered how the person he was watching would exploit the chaos.

Shi Jinglong sensed an approaching threat at the Dragon Tiger Platform and activated its Dragon Tiger Grand Array, but the attacker’s thunder magic shattered it. As Xu Qingyang descended into the ruins, Shi Jinglong recognized him as Tianwu.

• Shi Jinglong felt an unexplained unease while guarding Dragon Chapter City in the absence of Platform Lord Shi Huxiong.
• A supernatural thunderstorm gathered over the city, and Shi Jinglong activated the Dragon Tiger Grand Array to defend against the unknown attacker.
• The storm wrested control of the Heaven and Earth Origin Spirit from the array, and the Thunder Ancestor’s magic struck down the dragon and tiger phantoms, breaking the array.
• Shi Jinglong suffered the array’s backlash and sent the Dragon Tiger Protectors to lead troops against the enemy’s surrounding forces.
• Shi Jinglong drew the Dragon Subduing Tiger Taming Stele into his body as Xu Qingyang descended in a storm and smashed into the Dragon Tiger Platform.
• Shi Jinglong recognized the attacker as Tianwu—Xu Qingyang.

Xu Yang defeated Shi Jinglong on the Dragon Tiger Platform with the Later-Heaven Five Elements Lightning Strike Fist, then trapped him and seized the War God's Catalogue. He collected Shi Jinglong and began looting the battlefield with Dharma artifacts.

• Shi Jinglong stalled Xu Yang with probing words while secretly restoring the Dragon Tiger Grand Array.
• Xu Yang struck Shi Jinglong with the Earth Kirin Seal, then advanced and dissolved his dragon-tiger attack with the Tai Chi Origin-Transforming Art.
• Xu Yang unleashed the Later-Heaven Five Elements Lightning Strike Fist, breaking Shi Jinglong's defense and severely wounding him.
• Shi Jinglong fled in the dragon-tiger phantom, but Xu Yang's Five Elements True Spirit Diagram formed an array that sealed every direction and brought him down.
• Xu Yang collected the War God's Catalogue and Shi Jinglong with the Five Elements Divine Light, then brought out Dharma artifacts to loot the battlefield.