Chapter Summaries

Xu Yang claimed first place on both the first-rank Rookie and Prestige Rankings, becoming the Dual Crown and earning a series of rewards. After choosing upgrades to his attributes, territory, skills, and civilization, he unlocked Mana and lightning-law skills, leaving him eager to test his new power.

• Gongshu Ling became a Peerless Hero, gaining attributes and the Heaven Shaking Earth Shattering ultimate skill.
• Xu Yang held first place on the Prestige Ranking as the annual rankings settled, and he chose Mad Hegemon and Heaven's Favor from his rewards.
• Xu Yang gambled on the Unrestrained skill reward, upgrading plainclothes, Teacher, and Skilled Chef into Cloth-Clad Son of Heaven, Teacher's Example, and Peerless Divine Chef.
• Xu Yang chose the Heavenly Book of Taiping over two Mythical equipment rewards and used it to unlock Mana, Great Teacher of Worthiness, and Peaceful Lightning Law.
• Xu Yang summoned lightning in his hand after receiving his Dual Crown rewards, ready to wield his newly unlocked power.

A year after building Myriad Treasures Pavilion, Xu Yang cultivated new lightning skills and advanced to Tier 2, reaching the level cap with formidable attributes. Tongtian Academy delivered an ultimatum through Senior Zhou, while Xu Yang began preparing his territory and forces during his new one-year Safety Period.

• Senior Zhou and a woman visited Myriad Treasures Pavilion, where he offered Xu Yang the choice to return to Tongtian Academy or become its enemy.
• Senior Zhou explained that the academy and his Zhou Family would not tolerate Xu Yang setting a precedent by acting independently, and he claimed he had come prepared to handle him.
• Xu Yang completed a spell cultivation session and gained Heavenly Thunder Body Tempering, Heaven's Heart Righteous Law, and Five Thunders Strike the Top.
• Xu Yang completed the Peaceful Yellow Heaven advancement task, became a Tier 2 Lord, and received a one-year Safety Period along with an obligation to attack Demon Abyss territories.
• Xu Yang used accumulated experience to reach Level 20, assessed his new strength and territory's defensive weaknesses, and summoned Hua Mulan and his other main heroes.

Xu Yang canceled his planned attack on a lower-rank Lord after seeing Tongtian Tower’s severe penalties for bullying the weak, then gathered his heroes to discuss advancement preparations. He ended by offering Hua Mulan and Lu Qiling a cultivation method to help them break through.

• Xu Yang reviewed Tongtian Tower’s restrictions on attacking lower-rank Lords and canceled the Conquest Order after seeing the costs and penalties.
• The Yellow Turban Warrior brought Hua Mulan, Lu Qiling, Gongshu Ling, Li Cunxiao, and the other heroes to meet Xu Yang.
• Xu Yang told the heroes to prepare for the coming year and asked about their advancement progress; Hua Mulan and Lu Qiling were ready to break through, while Gongshu Ling still had major construction requirements to fulfill.
• Xu Yang dismissed the meeting and kept Hua Mulan and Lu Qiling behind, prompting their favorability to rise and Gongshu Ling’s to fall.
• Xu Yang told Hua Mulan and Lu Qiling that his cultivation had yielded a method to aid their advancement and offered to use Lightning Induction and Qi Transfer to help them break through.

Xu Yang used Heavenly Thunder Body Tempering to help Hua Mulan and Lu Qiling break through to Legendary hero grade. Hua Mulan completed her advancement and Lu Qiling began hers, gaining new skills and Mana as the chapter ended.

• Xu Yang used the Spring of Eternal Youth to guide Hua Mulan and Lu Qiling through three months of gradual lightning cultivation.
• Hua Mulan endured Xu Yang's thunder essence and broke through to second rank and Legendary hero grade.
• Hua Mulan gained the Heroine Guards skill, Mana, and the Lightning Dual Cultivation combination skill with Xu Yang.
• Xu Yang instructed Hua Mulan to consolidate her new power, then began guiding Lu Qiling through the same cultivation.
• Lu Qiling completed her breakthrough to second rank and Legendary hero grade, gaining Spirit Ghost Battle Intent and Mana.

Xu Yang reviewed Lu Qiling’s strengthened abilities after her advancement and considered how to help his other heroes without exhausting his time and resources. A year later, his territory stood ready for war, but the Safety Period ended with a Han Dynasty coalition attacking under Liu Xiu’s skill, which sealed the Yellow Turban forces and left the enemy army three hours from arrival.

• Lu Qiling completed her advancement, reached Level 20, and became Xu Yang’s strongest general for the time being.
• Xu Yang decided to pursue Alchemy Skill so he could make breakthrough pills for his heroes, while also seeking new sources of income.
• Nine months passed as Gongshu Ling and her team helped expand Xu Yang’s territory, buildings, and forces ahead of the Safety Period’s end.
• Xu Yang’s territory reached first place on the Tier 2 Rookie Ranking and fiftieth on the Prestige Ranking.
• The Safety Period ended, and Zhou Tianqi launched a conquest alongside allied Zhou family lords.
• Liu Xiu used Restore the Han Dynasty, sealing the Yellow Turban territory and boosting the enemy forces; their army was due to arrive in three hours.

Tongtian Academy and its allies surrounded Xu Yang’s Huang Tian City with a million troops, forcing him to prepare for a siege. Xu Yang used Spiritual Eye Mysterious Light to inspect the enemy’s strongest lords and heroes, discovering that Liu Xiu (Guangwu) posed the greatest threat.

• Tongtian Academy assembled ten lords and a million troops, including reinforcements led by Zhou Tianqi, Ning Bonzhong, and Dantai Qin, and surrounded Huang Tian City.
• Xu Yang chose to defend Huang Tian City rather than attack the enemy, while Hua Mulan and Li Cunxiao remained inside to hold the city.
• The allied army built camps and began constructing siege weapons as Zhou Tianqi and his allies agreed to eliminate Xu Yang.
• Xu Yang went to Taiping Temple and used Spiritual Eye Mysterious Light to inspect the enemy’s forces within his territory.
• Xu Yang assessed the strengths of Zhou Tianqi, Ning Bonzhong, and Dantai Qin, then identified Liu Xiu (Guangwu) as the enemy’s greatest threat.

Xu Yang lured Liu Xiu into using Heavenly Mandate Strike, sacrificing part of Huang Tian City to bring down the meteorite before his army was fully committed to battle. As the allied forces attacked the ruined city and Huang Tian City’s troops charged out, Xu Yang activated his Imperial Seal’s enhanced Divine Martial Descends skill.

• Xu Yang concluded he had to let Liu Xiu use his meteorite strike and prepared Huang Tian City’s troops to take cover.
• Dantai Qin’s allies advanced on Huang Tian City, but Gongshu Ling’s Thunderbolt Catapults bombarded their siege weapons from the city walls.
• Zhou Tianqi unleashed the Coiled Dragon Seal against the eastern defenses, while Ning Bonzhong released Yin Souls to harass the northern defenders.
• Liu Xiu used Heavenly Mandate Strike, and the meteorite shattered Huang Tian City’s walls and killed or wounded nearly one hundred thousand soldiers.
• The allied army bombarded the damaged city as its troops charged out through the gates, and Xu Yang activated Divine Martial Descends with the Imperial Seal.

Hua Mulan, Li Cunxiao, and Lu Qiling struggled to hold Huang Tian City against powerful allied armies until Xu Yang’s storm magic turned the northern and southern battlefields against their enemies. As the eastern and western fronts remained close to collapse, Xu Yang led the Array-Splitting White Dragon Army into battle.

• Hua Mulan’s lightning-charged arrows devastated Ning Bonzhong’s Netherworld Dao Army, but Ning Bonzhong used the Hundred Ghosts Ten Thousand Souls Banner to summon a ghost realm and protect his troops.
• Li Cunxiao’s Flying Tiger Iron Cavalry was stalled by the Zhou Tian Sword Heroes, while Lu Qiling’s charge was checked when the resurrected Gongsun Yang struck her down and threatened her Yellow Turban cavalry.
• Xu Yang’s Summon Wind and Rain brought a vast storm that ravaged the Netherworld Dao Army and destroyed many of the Zhou Tian Sword Heroes’ flying swords, allowing Li Cunxiao to counterattack with Twin Dragon Calamity.
• The eastern and western fronts remained in danger, with Lin Chong and Yang Zhi unable to turn the tide and Gongsun Yang continuing to overpower Lu Qiling.
• As Yellow Turban Sorcerers amplified the storm from Taiping Temple, Xu Yang mounted Red Hare and led twelve hundred Array-Splitting White Dragon Army soldiers toward the battlefield.

Ning Bonzhong reversed yin and yang to weaken the storm on the northern battlefield, but Xu Yang saved Lu Lingqi and overwhelmed the coalition forces in the west. As Huang Tian City launched a counterattack and the coalition’s morale collapsed, Xu Yang used Wrath of Yellow Heaven to seal the territory and prevent the reinforcements from retreating.

• Ning Bonzhong activated Yin Yang Reversal, weakening the storm and lightning over the northern battlefield while leaving the other fronts exposed.
• Gongsun Yang defeated Lu Lingqi, but Xu Yang caught and healed her before blasting Gongsun Yang away with one strike.
• Zhou Tianqi ordered Coiling Dragon, Ning Bonzhong’s Ten-Thousand-Soul Ghost King, and Dantai Qin’s phoenix bird to reinforce the western battlefield, but Xu Yang destroyed the Ghost King and fought off the allied generals and summoned creatures.
• Xu Yang killed Gongsun Yang and several Yuntai Generals, breaking the formations as Gongshu Ling led a counterattack from Huang Tian City.
• Ning Bonzhong, Dantai Qin, and another lord attempted to retreat, but Xu Yang used the Legendary Conquest Order Wrath of Yellow Heaven to seal the territory and nullify their retreat orders.

Zhou Tianqi and the allied lords found their retreat sealed by Xu Yang’s Yellow Heaven’s Wrath Order and decided to fight their way out. Liu Xiu charged into battle to hold Xu Yang back, but their clash killed many Yuntai generals, and Ning Bonzhong launched his stored Netherworld magic as the chapter ended.

• After the Yellow Heaven’s Wrath Order sealed their retreat, Zhou Tianqi told the allied lords to risk everything in a desperate fight, while Ning Bonzhong and Dantai Qin agreed to delay Xu Yang as Zhou Tianqi prepared the Zhou Tian Sword Array.
• Dantai Qin sent Liu Xiu into battle as the final general, and he rode in wearing his Hundred Kings divine equipment.
• Liu Xiu saved a Yuntai General from Xu Yang’s Peerless Halberd, then charged Xu Yang with Wind and Cloud Dual Absolutes.
• Xu Yang countered Liu Xiu’s sword storm with a thunderstorm from his halberd, and their clash killed Li Zhong, Wang Ba, Ma Cheng, and many other Yuntai troops.
• Ning Bonzhong unleashed Ten Thousand Souls Devouring Heaven from the rear camp.

Xu Yang broke Ning Bonzhong’s Netherworld attack and destroyed Zhou Tianqi’s sword array, then defeated the allied lords and forced their surrender. The victory earned him major rewards and left him first in the Tier 2 Rookie and Reputation rankings.

• Ning Bonzhong unleashed Ten Thousand Souls Devouring Heaven, but Xu Yang charged out of the Nether Souls with Lu Lingqi and the White Dragon Army.
• Ning Bonzhong tried to summon help with a Netherworld Ushering Order, but the Power of Yellow Heaven sealed the Territory World.
• Zhou Tianqi and the Zhou Tian Sword Cultivators formed the Circulating Stars Sword Array, but Xu Yang’s Seven Limits of Divine Martial Arts shattered it and severely injured Zhou Tianqi.
• Xu Yang pursued Zhou Tianqi into the allied camp, stopped his escape, and demanded that the armies surrender.
• Dantai Qin, Ning Bonzhong, Zhou Tianqi, and the other enemy forces surrendered, giving Xu Yang a decisive victory and substantial rewards.

After capturing hundreds of thousands of troops and numerous heroes, Xu Yang turned to the surviving enemy lords and demanded ransom for their lives. He rejected their claims to reclaim their territories and left them facing the prospect of surrendering nearly everything they owned.

• The defeated armies became Captive Cards, while Huang Tian City and Xu Yang's forces suffered devastating losses.
• Xu Yang counted Liu Xiu and the captured troops and heroes among his immense gains, and decided to sell Liu Xiu rather than risk forcing him to serve.
• Xu Yang confronted Zhou Tianqi, Ning Bonzhong, Dantai Qin, and other captured lords, asking what they would pay to redeem their lives.
• A captured lord offered his territory as ransom, but Xu Yang said the territory already belonged to him.
• Xu Yang demanded the lord's possessions and equipment as well, and the lord reluctantly agreed while glaring at Zhou Tianqi.

After defeating the outside lords, Xu Yang collected their equipment and divided the battle spoils among his heroes. He used a Mythological Hero Soul Contract to recruit Ao Chi, then revealed a connection between them that left her calling him “Dragon Lord.”

• Xu Yang negotiated ransoms with the captured lords, while Zhou Tianqi, Ning Bonzhong, and Dantai Qin agreed after he offered to auction unwanted spoils through Myriad Treasures Pavilion.
• Xu Yang claimed eleven pieces of Mythological Equipment and other resources, then distributed ordinary spoils among his heroes.
• Xu Yang kept the Coiled Dragon Earth Vein, Heaven’s Mandate Talisman, and Peach Tree Root, and assigned Yellow Heaven’s Blessings and Liu Xiu’s Hundred Kings Set to his heroes.
• Xu Yang used the Mythological Hero Soul Contract and recruited Ao Chi, a young woman with golden horns and pupils.
• Xu Yang sent everyone else away, touched the cinnabar mark between Ao Chi’s brows, and prompted her to recognize him as the Dragon Lord.

Xu Yang reunited with Ao Chi, his former disciple, in the Tongtian Tower and learned how she survived the fall of the Blackwater Divine Mansion and became a Mythological Hero. After Ao Chi joined him, Xu Yang was left wondering about the forces behind the Tongtian Tower and the Myriad Demon Abyss.

• Xu Yang recognized Ao Chi as his former disciple and saw that the Tongtian Tower had made her a Mythological Hero with Chi Dragon bloodline and powerful skills.
• Ao Chi embraced Xu Yang, and he comforted her before asking what had happened to the Blackwater River after his death.
• Ao Chi recounted how the Blood Sea demonic army destroyed the Blackwater Divine Mansion, forcing her to flee toward the East Sea and seek refuge in a dragon clan hidden realm.
• Ao Chi described surviving for nearly a thousand years, becoming a Tier 9 immortal, and ultimately self-destructing her dragon pearl against a Mara Realm demon god before the Tongtian Tower brought her there.
• Xu Yang pondered the Tongtian Tower and the Myriad Demon Abyss, then asked Ao Chi to call him Master, and she happily accepted.

Xu Yang learned the Profound Yellow Realm’s history and the Heavenly God Earthly Deity Method from Ao Chi, then resolved to help her rebuild her cultivation foundation. The chapter ended with an anxious youth telling a calm white-robed man that someone had surpassed him.

• Ao Chi recounted how the Desire Realm conquered the Profound Yellow Realm and how the Tongtian Tower later disrupted its rule.
• Xu Yang questioned Ao Chi about attaining Immortal God cultivation and learned that she had relied mainly on Dragon Clan body refinement and the Immortal Dao Primordial Spirit Method.
• After studying the Heavenly God Earthly Deity Method, Xu Yang concluded that territory development and Dao Soldier empowerment would be crucial at higher ranks.
• Xu Yang identified Ao Chi’s unstable foundation and told her to cultivate anew so she could fulfill her potential as an Immortal Spirit Hero.
• A youth rushed to a spirit mountain cave dwelling and told the white-robed man emerging from it that someone had surpassed him.

Ji Xingyue learned that Xu Yang had seized the top spot on the Tier 2 Prestige Ranking after defeating ten lords and extracting a huge ransom, then agreed to attend Xu Yang’s auction. At the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, factions and lords gathered to bid on a Mythological Hero, while they debated the risks of using the Pavilion’s Myriad Dao Points.

• Ji Xingyue learned that newly advanced Xu Yang had overtaken him on the Prestige Ranking by a vast margin.
• A youth told Ji Xingyue that Xu Yang had defeated Zhou Tianqi, Ning Bonzhong, Dantai Qin, and seven other lords, seized their forces and resources, and demanded ransoms from major factions.
• Ji Xingyue heard that Netherworld Mansion and Kunlun Immortal Realm were seeking to mend relations with Xu Yang, then agreed to visit Xu Yang’s auction with the youth.
• Lords crowded the Myriad Treasures Pavilion to bid on a Mythological Hero and argued over exchanging resources for Myriad Dao Points.
• Attendees debated whether Xu Yang’s Tier 2 Pavilion could make its private currency trustworthy as major factions arrived for the auction.

At Myriad Treasures Pavilion’s first Myriad Dao Convention, Zhang Yan auctioned off treasures that had been taken from Zhou Tianqi, Ning Bonzhong, and Dantai Qin. The major factions realized that the auction’s appeal to independent lords strengthened Myriad Treasures Pavilion and Myriad Dao Points, but they could neither outbid it without aiding its strategy nor use their usual solution of killing its orphan lord.

• Zhang Yan opened the convention by auctioning Ning Bonzhong’s Hundred Ghosts Ten Thousand Souls Banner, and Jiang Tao drove the price up before withdrawing.
• Ning Bonzhong won back the banner for twenty-eight thousand Myriad Dao Points because it was essential to advancing his Netherworld Ghost Domain.
• Zhang Yan offered the Star Sword Token, and independent lords outbid one another until it sold for three thousand Myriad Dao Points.
• The major factions refrained from bidding, recognizing that competing would undermine their image while boosting Myriad Treasures Pavilion’s reputation and commercial system.
• The factions concluded that Myriad Treasures Pavilion’s orphan lord threatened their interests, but they could not use their usual tactic of killing him.

The Myriad Dao Convention continued with independent lords competing for valuable lots while major factions watched the Myriad Treasures Pavilion’s growing influence with unease. Dantai Qin won the final lot, the Mythological Hero Liu Xiu, and Zhang Yan ended the convention by announcing the Pavilion’s plans for Myriad Dao Points and future trade.

• Independent lords discussed the value and risks of investing in Myriad Dao Points as mid-range lots sold cheaply.
• Zhou Tianqi bought the Circulating Stars Diagram for five hundred million Myriad Dao Points without competition, drawing notice to his conflict with the Zhou Clan and Tongtian Immortal Palace.
• Independent lords competed for the Domineering Mechanism Carriage and other goods produced by the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, while the major factions worried about its expanding influence.
• Dantai Qin outbid the major powers and ransomed the Mythological Hero Liu Xiu for two hundred and ten thousand Myriad Dao Points.
• Zhang Yan closed the convention, announced another auction in ten years, and said the Pavilion would continue trading rare goods for Myriad Dao Points.

Ten years after the second Myriad Dao Convention, Xu Yang claimed the Tier 2 Rookie and Prestige Ranking crowns and selected comprehensive rewards, including the authority to create a personal guard troop type. He named the new troop the Ming Xiao Daoists, leaving them weak but with extraordinary potential.

• At the end of the convention, Ji Xingyue reflected on being surpassed by Xu Yang again and took satisfaction in the prospect that Meng Huaian would face the same predicament.
• Onlookers discussed Xu Yang’s rapid rise, his wars against the Myriad Demon Abyss, and the enemies he had made through the Myriad Treasures Pavilion.
• Xu Yang received the Tier 2 Dual Crown rewards after ranking first on both the Rookie and Prestige Rankings.
• Xu Yang chose Erudite of Heaven and Man, Xuanyuan’s Blessing, and Unity of Heaven and Man to strengthen his attributes, territory, and skills comprehensively.
• Xu Yang chose Lord of Creation and gained authority to create a personal guard troop type.
• Xu Yang named the troop the Ming Xiao Daoists, whose initial profile showed basic attributes and skills but no special skill.

Xu Yang discovered that the Ming Xiao Daoists were a Self-Built Troop Type whose terrible starting attributes concealed enormous customization potential. He learned that developing them required vast resources and concluded he would need to make the Demon Abyss suffer more to fund their growth.

• Xu Yang inspected the Ming Xiao Daoists and found they had poor attributes, weak equipment, and no Troop Special Skills.
• Xu Yang read the Self-Built Troop Type details and learned he could raise their tier and attributes, replace their equipment, and grant them skills.
• Xu Yang saw that upgrading the troop type required enormous amounts of Experience Points, Prestige Points, and Tongtian Coins.
• Xu Yang checked the Lord's Armory and found Yellow Turban equipment, which could be used to re-equip the Ming Xiao Daoists once unlocked.
• Xu Yang recognized that fully developing the troop type would demand massive investment and decided to make the Demon Abyss bear more of the cost.