Chapter Summaries

Nie Hailong hurried back to Eastern Capital as he feared the Ye Family’s plan would force the Federation into conflict with the Martial Maniac and War God Temple. Ye Chen learned that the Ye Family and Federal Authorities would move against the Martial Maniac, but the reopened livestream showed a lone Martial Artist confronting armored cars on a highway.

• Nie Hailong concluded that the Martial Maniac’s collaboration with Gan Jin might signal a broader campaign and ordered his assistant to speed up the flight to Eastern Capital.
• Ye Chen dismissed the War God Temple and Roaring Firmament Temple as a bluff and resolved to eliminate the Martial Maniac before he could grow stronger.
• Ye Chen’s father told him that the plan remained unchanged, that his Second Uncle and Third Uncle had arrived in Dragon Sea, and that he should have Chen Mingshan mobilize the Longhai Sub-bureau.
• The livestream reopened while Nie Hailong was at Eastern Capital Airport, and he watched it as he hurried toward the scene.
• The livestream showed a lone Martial Artist standing on a highway as several heavily modified sedans rushed toward him.
• The Martial Artist stepped forward and punched an oncoming armored car, triggering a blast of flames, dust, and smoke.

Xu Yang ambushed the Ye Family convoy and killed one Foundation Establishment cultivator while leaving another badly wounded, shocking livestream viewers. Nie Hailong considered whether Xu Yang would take the fight to the Ye Family’s Eastern Capital stronghold, and the livestream later revealed the city.

• Xu Yang tore open the wrecked convoy and stopped the Geng Metal Sword and Blazing Flames Seal with his protective force.
• Xu Yang killed one Ye Family Foundation Establishment cultivator and wounded the other, then caught the fleeing cultivator with Dragon Subduing Palm.
• Xu Yang stomped the wounded cultivator to death as Ye Chen watched and livestream viewers reacted in horror.
• Nie Hailong reasoned that the killings could deter the Ye Family but worried that an attack on its Eastern Capital stronghold could provoke the Federation.
• Hours later, the livestream’s image changed to reveal Eastern Capital.

Xu Yang climbed Tanshan Mountain to confront the Ye Family, but two disciples of the Xuantian Sword Sect blocked his way and demanded that he end the feud. Xu Yang ignored their warning and continued toward them.

• Nie Hailong ordered Teams One and Two to watch the Ye Family’s young man and Chen Mingshan as he monitored the livestream.
• Xu Yang reached Tanshan Mountain, where the Ye Family and other powerful cultivators lived in seclusion.
• A young man and woman from the Xuantian Sword Sect blocked Xu Yang at the mountainside, claiming they had come to preserve peace and Eastern Capital’s standing.
• The white-robed man declared that the matter had to end, then drew his sword and cut a ravine across the steps when Xu Yang kept advancing.
• The livestream audience condemned the swordsman for taking the Ye Family’s side, while Xu Yang resumed walking toward the sword mark.

Xu Yang defeated a Xuantian Sword Sect disciple with a bare-handed strike, then confronted Monk Kurong at Fulong Mountain’s gate. Xu Yang offered to settle the matter with one deadly move, but Kurong withdrew before they fought.

• The white-robed Xuantian Sword Sect disciple attacked Xu Yang with Startling Dragon, but Xu Yang shattered the flying sword with his Dragon Subduing Palm and injured him.
• The disciple’s companion treated him as he struggled to retrieve Startling Dragon from the mountain, and the pair watched Xu Yang continue toward the summit.
• Monk Kurong, a Golden Core cultivator, asked Xu Yang to spare the Ye Family and promised they would not trouble him again.
• Xu Yang challenged Monk Kurong to receive Arrogant Dragon Returns to the Sea, explaining that the move allowed no return and meant certain death.
• Monk Kurong declared that he would not take another person’s life to save the Ye Family, then bowed and left.

After Xu Yang destroyed the Ye Family and left, Nie Hailong suspected the conflict was not over. Days later, Shi Jian livestreamed a Heaven-beseeching ritual on Fulong Mountain, summoning lightning that exposed and struck the sect’s Blessed Land as its calamity began.

• Xu Yang killed the Ye Family elder with a single palm strike and departed, while Nie Hailong ordered his team to watch the fleeing Ye Chen.
• Nie Hailong worried that the conflict might reach Fulong Mountain, but several quiet days passed and he prepared to meet Gan Jin.
• Nie Hailong received a notification that Roaring Firmament Temple · Shi Jian had started a livestream from Fulong Mountain.
• Shi Jian performed a solemn ritual atop the mountain, invoking heavenly powers and declaring that Fulong Mountain had earned Heaven and Humanity’s Shared Wrath.
• A pillar of lightning struck the mountain, shattered the void, and revealed Fulong Mountain’s hidden Blessed Land.
• Fulong Mountain’s sect master realized the Heavenly Dao was suppressing the mountain gate, then rushed toward the ancestral hall as lightning struck the sect.

Xu Yang used the Nine Ritual High Altar to bring Fulong Mountain’s tribulation down early and destroy its Blessed Land. After the Fulong Sect Master and the sect’s disciples and ancestors faced overwhelming heavenly punishment, Fulong Mountain was destroyed.

• The Fulong Sect Master left the Blessed Land to attack Xu Yang, but a Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation struck him dead.
• The Fulong Three Ancestors emerged from their coffins, ordered their disciples to attack Xu Yang, and tried to hold the Blessed Land together.
• Xu Yang summoned heavenly lightning and defeated the Fulong disciples, while the ancestors’ attempt to leave the Blessed Land triggered heavenly punishment.
• The Fulong Three Ancestors and the sect’s Nascent Soul and Spirit Transformation cultivators left the Blessed Land to face their tribulations.
• Xu Yang struck down the fleeing disciples, and violet heavenly punishment annihilated the remaining Fulong cultivators and destroyed Fulong Mountain.

After Fulong Mountain was destroyed by heavenly tribulation, Xu Yang used the Golden Light of Merit gained from livestreaming the event to break through into the Immortal Martial Core Realm. He left viewers and the other Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands fearing that he would target them next, then closed the livestream and headed into Fulong Mountain’s ruins.

• The final thunderclap cleared the Calamity Clouds, and spiritual rain restored the land as Fulong Mountain’s shattered gate returned to the world as a ruined mountain.
• Cultivators recognized the Golden Light of Merit surrounding Xu Yang and realized that the livestream had amplified his merit through humanity’s support.
• Xu Yang absorbed the merit and spiritual energy, formed an immaculate Golden Core, and advanced both his Immortal Dao and Martial Dao into the third realm.
• Cultivators feared Xu Yang would destroy other Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands for merit, while ordinary viewers celebrated his breakthrough and tried to reach him.
• Xu Yang shut down the livestream and walked toward the ruins of Fulong Mountain.

Xu Yang claimed Fulong Mountain, salvaged its resources and inherited methods, and recruited mountain beasts as disciples while planning how to develop his new base. As the livestream’s fallout spread, authorities arrested Chen Mingshan and Ye Chen.

• Xu Yang collected the unconscious Fulong Mountain disciples, gathered resources from the ruins, and found the Mysterious Coffin Secret Method among the inherited jade slips.
• Xu Yang taught the Taiyin Refining Form Method to the mountain beasts and accepted them as the first disciples of his second base.
• Xu Yang weighed developing his forces and deciding whether to forge Xuan Yuan or save resources for a Spirit Treasure Mecha, while recognizing the threats posed by Mara Realm Heavenly Demons and the major Blessed Lands.
• After the livestream’s effects spread, a team arrested Chen Mingshan and removed him from his post as Director of the Inspectorate of the East District Security Bureau.
• Ning Qing presented Ye Chen with an arrest warrant listing seventy-two charges, and Security Bureau agents took him away after he tried to speak.

Xu Yang secured Longhai University from the Federation and planned to seal the Heavenly Demon nodes as the world entered a rapid era of martial arts development. Years later, as Zhou Xuan and Li Mu attended a reunion at Longhai University, the moon began turning red while Xu Yang watched from the lakeshore.

• Nie Hailong and Ning Qing sought to repair the Federation’s relationship with Xu Yang, who agreed to resume cooperation in exchange for Longhai University.
• Xu Yang planned to establish Demon Sealing Arrays at Heavenly Demon nodes and use livestreams to recruit others to the task.
• Several years later, Zhou Xuan and Li Mu attended a class reunion at Longhai University, where alumni discussed Gan Jin’s success and the growth of martial arts education.
• After the reunion dinner, the classmates noticed the moon turning red, and Zhou Xuan and Li Mu recognized the alarming change.
• At Longhai University, Xu Yang sat by the lake and silently watched the moon’s reflection.

After the Red Moon returned early, Xu Yang discovered that its influence had strengthened demonic creatures and weakened Heaven’s tribulations, threatening to unleash wider conflict. Half a month later, Qi Ying and Ling Yun confronted Deng Tianqi, who had abandoned Cui Ping Mountain and embraced a demonic path in a Blood Cave.

• Xu Yang watched a lake demon fish absorb the Red Moon’s power, then killed it with a single thrust of his fishing rod after it broke through his array.
• Xu Yang used the Exalted Eye of Heaven and learned that Nascent Soul tribulations had vanished, signaling that Heaven was weakening as it resisted the Realm of Desire.
• Half a month later, Qi Ying and Ling Yun investigated a silent mountain wilderness where an evil demon had devoured the local life.
• Qi Ying and Ling Yun found a blood sea cave and recognized the white-haired, red-robed figure inside as Deng Tianqi, Cui Ping Mountain’s inheritor.
• Deng Tianqi declared that he had chosen the External Demon path and invited Qi Ying and Ling Yun to join his Blood Cave, then sent its waves to swallow their sword lights.

Nie Hailong learned that Deng Tianqi had become a Blood Demon at Yunlai Mountain, while Monk Kurong watched Daoist Master Shi use the livestream to reveal the past. The replay showed the Blood Demon defeating the Xuantian Twin Swords, and Li Qiying escaped after Zhou Lingyun stayed behind to hold him off.

• Nie Hailong dispatched surplus personnel to help elsewhere and told his assistant to have Ning Qing pass news of Deng Tianqi's fall to the Martial Maniac; he also sent a cautious message through the livestream.
• Monk Kurong and other cultivators gathered outside Yunlai Mountain as they awaited aid from the Xuantian Sword Sect and Cui Ping Mountain.
• Daoist Master Shi used the Heavenly Eye and mysterious light on the livestream to reveal Deng Tianqi's fall into demonhood and the creation of the Blood Cave.
• The replay showed the Xuantian Twin Swords attack the Blood Demon, but his sea of blood healed their blows and blood threads pierced them when they fused their swords.
• Zhou Lingyun sacrificed her flying sword and stayed behind to block the Blood Demon, allowing Li Qiying to escape and seek reinforcements.

Xu Yang entered the Blood Cave to confront Deng Tianqi, using overwhelming physical force to drain the Blood Spring and destroy the Blood Demon’s body. After the battle, he shattered Zhou Lingyun’s ice seal and woke her.

• Li Qiying escaped by detonating his flying sword, while Zhou Lingyun sealed herself in the Mysterious Ice Jade Soul and Deng Tianqi carried her into the Blood Sea.
• The Martial Artist volunteered to face Deng Tianqi, and Xu Yang flew to Yunlai Mountain as viewers and cultivators debated whether he could defeat the Blood Demon.
• Xu Yang entered the Blood Cave, broke through the Blood God Threads, and challenged Deng Tianqi, who retreated into the Blood Spring to wear him down.
• Xu Yang churned the Blood Spring with Arrogant Dragon Returns to the Sea, rapidly evaporating it and destroying Deng Tianqi’s blood shadows.
• Xu Yang found Zhou Lingyun inside the Mysterious Ice Jade Soul, shattered the ice with a palm strike, and woke her.

Xu Yang expelled Deng Tianqi’s Blood God Son from Zhou Lingyun and returned to Roaring Firmament Temple, where the White-robed Man announced a final ultimatum against the Blessed Lands. The ultimatum reached Lingyun Mountain, which was given three months to release itself into the world or face an assault, while Monk Kurong urged the cultivators to consider the approaching demonic tribulation.

• Xu Yang used the Martial Scripture to force Deng Tianqi’s Blood God Son out of Zhou Lingyun and destroy it before flying back to Roaring Firmament Temple.
• At Roaring Firmament Temple, the White-robed Man declared that those who refused to dissolve their secluded domains would be killed, and Mingxiao Daoist agreed to issue a final ultimatum.
• Monk Kurong and the Blessed Lands cultivators watched the livestream and understood that the ultimatum threatened their sects with attacks like the destruction of Fulong Mountain.
• A spiritual letter arrived for a cultivator, ordering Lingyun Mountain to release itself into the world within three months or face an assault and lightning that would break its gates.
• The cultivators denounced the threat and discussed appealing to the great Blessed Lands, while Monk Kurong warned that no one could escape the demonic tribulation if the world fell into ruin.
• Monk Kurong departed, leaving the other cultivators to weigh the danger of entering the world against the consequences of remaining secluded.

Mingxiao Daoist launched a Heavenly Dao ritual against Demon Dragon Ridge, drawing out its Integration-stage Old Ancestor and a host of sect cultivators. As Long Yi led a charge toward the altar, a lone swordsman revealed a brilliant blade from the case on his shoulder.

• Cultivators watching the livestream recognized Demon Dragon Ridge and understood that Mingxiao Daoist had chosen to strike the Devil Dao sect before turning to Lingyun Mountain.
• Monk Kurong and the cultivators with him reasoned that Mingxiao Daoist had given Lingyun Mountain three months out of regard for its Daoist lineage, while Demon Dragon Ridge would receive no such leniency.
• Mingxiao Daoist performed the ritual at the Nine Ritual High Altar, summoned tribulation lightning, and exposed Demon Dragon Ridge's hidden Black Abyss Nether Mountain.
• Demon Dragon Son emerged from his coffin, ordered his son Long Yi to lead the lower-ranked cultivators out, and gave Long Yi a True Dragon Scale for protection.
• Long Yi led Nascent Soul and Golden Core cultivators toward Mingxiao Daoist's altar while the lightning continued to strike Demon Dragon Ridge.
• The livestream camera shifted to a lone swordsman on a distant peak, who tilted the long case on his shoulder and unleashed a brilliant blade.

Xu Yang used the White-Clad Swordsman illusion and the Xuanyuan Sword Embryo to destroy Demon Dragon Ridge, killing its leaders and most of its cultivators as they faced the Worldly Tribulation. After the Blessed Land collapsed, Xu Yang fed the merit he had gained into the sword, preparing to use the fearsome swordsman’s reputation to advance his campaign against the other Blessed Lands.

• Long Yi activated the True Dragon Scale, but a sword from the west shattered it and killed him with a single strike.
• Demon Dragon Son and the other senior cultivators charged into the Worldly Tribulation, while the sword light slaughtered the Demon Dragon Ridge disciples left behind.
• Demon Dragon Son and the Void Returning cultivators perished in the tribulation, and the sword light killed a Spirit Transformation elder who had survived it.
• The White-Clad Swordsman returned his sword to the Sword Casket and left as Demon Dragon Ridge’s Blessed Land collapsed into the mortal world.
• Xu Yang poured the Heavenly Dao Merit from destroying Demon Dragon Ridge into the Sword Casket to nourish the Xuanyuan Sword Embryo.
• Xu Yang revealed that the White-Clad Swordsman was a Taiyi projection and that Heavenly Lightning Infusion and Daoist Magic Blessing had let him wield the sword with Nascent Soul-level power.

Nie Hailong faced pressure to support the Federation’s response as Demonic Blessed Lands retaliated against Li Xuanyuan and his allies, while Ning Qing urged him to help restore order. At Lingyun Mountain, the sect agreed to dissolve its Blessed Land to survive the calamity, but a messenger announced that someone had arrived.

• Nie Hailong learned that Li Xuanyuan had destroyed five Demonic Blessed Lands in three months and that their followers’ retaliation was destabilizing the Federation.
• Ning Qing rejected the General Bureau’s demands and urged Nie Hailong to help control the situation, arguing that the Federation had to be protected.
• Nie Hailong asked whether Ning Qing’s plan was Li Xuanyuan’s intention, and she confirmed it while insisting the Security Bureau had to choose its side.
• Lingyun Mountain’s elders and cultivators reviewed the destruction of the five sects and concluded that dissolving their Blessed Land offered their best chance to survive.
• Lingyun Mountain’s Sect Master and disciples urged the white-haired Patriarch to dissolve the Blessed Land, but a messenger rushed in and reported that someone had arrived.

Xu Yang used a Grand Ceremony of Luo Tian to weaken Lingyun Mountain’s heavenly tribulation after its cultivators agreed to dissolve their Blessed Land and enter the world. The sect survived at great cost, and its Sect Master vowed that Lingyun Mountain would Slay Demons and Protect the Dao.

• Lingyun Mountain’s young cultivator begged Xu Yang to withdraw his divine power, and the sect agreed to dissolve its Blessed Land and face the tribulation.
• Xu Yang performed a Grand Ceremony of Luo Tian and petitioned Heaven to lessen Lingyun Mountain’s tribulation, explaining that he could weaken but not erase it.
• Lingyun’s cultivators entered the weakened tribulation, where several Spirit Transformation elders died and the Sect Master’s White Cloud Array Diagram was repeatedly shattered.
• The tribulation ended, Lingyun Mountain’s Blessed Land dissolved into the world, and Xu Yang guided the resulting Sweet Rain and Jade Dew into the Sect Master’s crater.
• The Lingyun Sect Master thanked Xu Yang and pledged that Lingyun Mountain would Slay Demons and Protect the Dao, leaving the people watching the livestream visibly displeased.

Lingyun Mountain received most of the merit after dissolving its Blessed Land, while Lingyun Zi recovered in seclusion. When Cave Heaven Immortal Sects tried to recruit Lingyun Mountain to stop Li Xuanyuan, Martial Maniac, and Daoist Master Shi, Linghu Yun refused, and Lingyun Zi warned that the conflict was only beginning.

• The Daoist vanished after the ritual, and Lingyun Mountain’s Sect Master led his people back to their diminished mountain gate.
• Several days later, disciples from Cave Heaven Immortal Sects visited Lingyun Mountain, criticized its losses, and asked Linghu Yun to persuade Lingyun Zi to oppose Li Xuanyuan, Martial Maniac, and Daoist Master Shi.
• Linghu Yun praised the three men’s strength, rejected the visitors’ offer of the Three Mountains and Five Peaks Diagram, and refused to betray Daoist Master Shi, who had saved Lingyun Mountain.
• The visitors left angrily, vowing to find another way to stop the three men and prevent them from gaining more Heavenly Dao Merit.
• Linghu Yun asked Lingyun Zi how the sect should proceed, and Lingyun Zi told him to slay demons, protect the Dao, and avoid the dispute.

After Xu Yang consolidated control of the East District and advanced the Martial Dao system, he planned to dissolve the remaining Blessed Lands and build strength with Heavenly Dao Merit. Cave Heaven sects began sending disciples into the world: some to kill him, others to compete for merit, while the Xuantian Sword Sect dispatched Xiao to challenge Li Xuanyuan.

• Federation authorities arrested Kong Xiangyuan and other Dongyuan Group executives, who were sentenced to death and had their assets confiscated.
• Gan Jin became Prime Councilor of the East District Council, and the Martial Dao system was formally approved.
• Xu Yang assessed the Federation’s factions and resolved to dissolve Blessed Lands, gain Heavenly Dao Merit, and strengthen himself against the Cave Heaven Immortal Sects.
• Long Yuan ordered Long Teng to cultivate in the world and eliminate the threat to Bei Ming Dragon Abyss.
• The woman in white sent Zhao'er into the world with the Gan Tian Mirror to dissolve Blessed Lands and gain merit for Alliance Heaven Dao.
• The Xuantian Sword Sect ordered Xiao to take the Demon-Slaying Immortal-Refining Sword and bring back Li Xuanyuan’s head.

Bei Ming Long Teng and Yuzhao secured allies among two Blessed Lands by offering help to survive their Worldly Tribulations, while Yuzhao learned that Xuantian Sword Sect had armed its inheritor with a powerful immortal sword. As Yuzhao watched a livestream of the Martial Artist facing a Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, he endured the lightning by tempering his body, and a purple-crystal eye appeared in the clouds.

• Bei Ming Long Teng offered Saduo Demon Dragon Secret Oil and promised the Cave Heavens would help Vajra Temple survive its tribulation, and Saduo agreed to follow him.
• Yuzhao gave Cangran Mountain pills and a plan to dissolve its Blessed Land, then vowed that the sect would join her in slaying demons if it survived.
• Sect Master Li told Yuzhao that he had rejected Xuantian Sword Sect's offer of a Mid-Grade Flying Sword and revealed that its inheritor carried a Demon-Slaying Immortal-Refining Sword.
• Yuzhao and the Cangran Mountain leaders watched a livestream showing the Martial Artist standing atop the Absolute Peak as a Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation gathered.
• The Martial Artist charged into the tribulation and used its lightning to temper his body, while a purple-crystal eye appeared in the clouds during the final trial.