Recaps

Jiang Fan killed Old Ancestor Sami and the Sarma Family’s core heirs, then offered to escort Sang Bo and Sang Yiyi back to Huaxia. Robby Josie asked Jiang Fan to let his family stabilize White Elephant Country, and Jiang Fan agreed to hear him out.

• Old Ancestor Sami attacked Jiang Fan with a fire-dragon sword, but Jiang Fan dispersed it and killed him with a single strike.
• Jiang Fan’s show of force silenced the crowd, and he asked Sang Bo and Sang Yiyi whether they were satisfied with the outcome.
• Sang Bo said he wanted to return to Huaxia with Sang Yiyi, and Jiang Fan offered to take them there when he returned.
• Robby Josie asked Jiang Fan to authorize the Josie Family to maintain stability in White Elephant Country and invited him to a nearby courtyard.
• Jiang Fan agreed to hear Robby Josie’s explanation and followed him toward the courtyard.

After Sami Sarma’s death, Robby Josie asked Jiang Fan to become the power behind White Elephant Country and help him take control. Jiang Fan agreed in principle but demanded 50,000 Strange Stones per year, leaving Robby to respond to the higher price.

• After Robby left, people debated his respectful treatment of Jiang Fan, and some realized he might be positioning the Josie Family to rule White Elephant Country.
• Robby privately asked Jiang Fan whether he had surpassed Level 8 and proposed that Jiang Fan support the Josie Family in taking control of White Elephant Country.
• Robby explained that Sami Sarma had kept the country stable through his dealings with Supreme experts, but no one could fill that role after his death.
• Robby offered Jiang Fan 2,000 Strange Stones immediately and promised an annual tribute of 20,000 if Jiang Fan backed his rise to power.
• Jiang Fan recognized the value of Robby’s offer but countered with a demand for 50,000 Strange Stones each year in exchange for securing White Elephant Country.

Jiang Fan secured the transfer of White Elephant Country’s power to the Josie Family in exchange for fifty thousand Strange Stones. After storing the stones with his spatial bracelet, he prepared to leave for Huaxia with Jiang Qinian the next morning.

• Jiang Fan refused Robby Josie’s attempt to bargain down the demand and accepted fifty thousand Strange Stones in exchange for his promised support.
• Jiang Fan announced that the Josie Family would take over everything belonging to the Sarma Family, and Robby Josie restrained those who resisted.
• Robby Josie completed the transfer of White Elephant Country’s power within three days and delivered all fifty thousand Strange Stones to Jiang Fan.
• Jiang Fan discovered that some Strange Stones held more energy than others and used his bracelet’s spatial skill to store the boxes.
• Jiang Qinian asked Jiang Fan which outfits to take, and Jiang Fan told him to bring both before they set out for Huaxia the next morning.

Jiang Fan brought Sang Bo and Yiyi back to Huaxia after arranging a convoy from White Elephant. In Ning City, he introduced them to Commander Qu Shaohua, who promised to arrange their return and settlement.

• Jiang Qinian prepared a three-vehicle convoy, and Jiang Fan agreed to take the longer route around White Elephant’s mountains.
• Jiang Fan asked Sang Bo about his plans in Huaxia, offered his contact information, and promised to help if the grandfather and granddaughter faced difficulties.
• After two days of travel, the convoy reached the outskirts of Ning City, where Sang Bo and Yiyi thanked Jiang Fan for bringing them home.
• Jiang Fan summoned Ning City Base Commander Qu Shaohua and explained that Sang Bo needed help finding a home and settling in Ning City.
• Qu Shaohua promised to make arrangements for Sang Bo and Yiyi, and Jiang Fan handed Sang Bo a purple banknote.

Jiang Fan arranged for Qu Shaohua to help Sang Bo and Sang Yiyi settle in Ning City, then returned to the capital and focused on cultivation. Just as he reached the Military Commission Compound gate, Xiao Longyuan told him that Lord Lingxi wanted to see him.

• Jiang Fan gave Sang Bo money and asked Qu Shaohua to arrange housing and schooling for Sang Yiyi in Ning City.
• Qu Shaohua explained Jiang Fan's status and achievements to Sang Bo and Sang Yiyi as he escorted them to the base.
• Jiang Fan told Jiang Qinian that helping Sang Yiyi reminded him of Xiao Ning's difficult childhood, and Jiang Qinian apologized for the hardships his family had endured.
• Jiang Fan accompanied his family to reunions in the capital and Peng City, then returned to the capital to cultivate with strange stones until his vitality and blood value reached 120,000.
• Xiao Longyuan called Jiang Fan and told him that Lord Lingxi was looking for him.

Jiang Fan confronted Lingxi, who accused him of destabilizing the White Elephant Country and demanded he go there to atone. He exposed her suspected interest in the fifty thousand Strange Stones and refused to give them up, leaving Xiao Longyuan alarmed by his defiance.

• Jiang Fan arrived at Xiao Longyuan's office and traded insults with Lingxi, whom Xiao Longyuan introduced as a Supreme.
• Lingxi questioned Jiang Fan about visiting the White Elephant Country, and he explained he had gone there while searching for his father, Jiang Qinian.
• After Xiao Longyuan explained Jiang Qinian's history, Lingxi accused Jiang Fan of causing political upheaval and threatened to take him to the White Elephant Country.
• Jiang Fan accused Lingxi of backing the Sarma Family and seeking the fifty thousand Strange Stones after the Sarma Family's destruction.
• Jiang Fan refused to return the Strange Stones, while Xiao Longyuan grew anxious at his repeated insults toward Lingxi and Huan Shan.

Jiang Fan fought Lingxi after she tried to punish him, revealing that he had reached Level 9 and could overpower her control of space. The chapter ended with Jiang Fan chasing Lingxi through repeated spatial flashes as Xiao Longyuan realized Jiang Fan had become a Supreme.

• Lingxi attacked Jiang Fan, but he blocked her strike and proposed moving their fight away from the military building.
• Lingxi ignored Xiao Longyuan’s attempt to stop the fight and trapped Jiang Fan inside a spatial domain filled with Spatial Rifts.
• Jiang Fan covered Lingxi’s domain with his own space, broke it apart, and struck her hard enough to send her flying.
• Lingxi recognized that Jiang Fan was Level 9, and he confirmed it before pursuing her through space.
• Xiao Longyuan watched Jiang Fan chase Lingxi and realized that Jiang Fan had become a Level 9 Supreme.

Jiang Fan defeated Lingxi in their clash and demanded the Strange Stones she had taken from Jiang Qinian. He realized he could absorb the stones because of his Innate Qi Absorption and Guidance Technique, but an unseen speaker challenged whether he would dare kill a Level 9 Supreme.

• Xiao Longyuan decided to stop Jiang Fan and Lingxi from fighting, but Jiang Fan struck Lingxi first and sent her retreating in pain.
• Jiang Fan demanded that Lingxi return the Strange Stones she had obtained from Jiang Qinian, and she said she had given them to someone else.
• Jiang Fan realized the Supreme Beings could not absorb Strange Stones, while his Innate Qi Absorption and Guidance Technique let him use them to strengthen himself.
• Jiang Fan threatened Lingxi over the stones, and a cold voice from the sky questioned whether he had the strength or courage to kill a Level 9 Supreme.

After Lingxi summoned the other Huaxia Supreme Beings, Jiang Fan fought Huan Shan and overwhelmed him with relentless attacks. Fei Ming stopped the battle with his Domain, and both men agreed to talk.

• Lingxi's distress signal brought Huan Shan, Fei Ming, and Zhan Tian to the fight.
• Huan Shan confronted Jiang Fan, who insulted him and struck first, knocking him backward.
• Huan Shan attacked Jiang Fan's mind, but Jiang Fan resisted and shattered the mental assault.
• Jiang Fan formed a massive saber from Heaven and Earth Energy and drove Huan Shan into repeated evasive maneuvers.
• Fei Ming used his Domain to slow the fighters and urged them to sit down and talk.
• Jiang Fan dismissed his saber, and Huan Shan stopped retaliating.

Fei Ming mediated between Jiang Fan and Lingxi over their dispute about Strange Stones and the Sarma Family. Lingxi agreed to let the matter rest if Jiang Fan abandoned his claim to the twenty thousand Strange Stones, but Fei Ming had yet to secure Jiang Fan’s agreement.

• Xiao Longyuan moved the Supremes to an underground conference room and proposed that Jiang Fan and Lingxi put their conflict behind them, but both refused.
• Xiao Longyuan explained the dispute, and Fei Ming offered to mediate by treating Lingxi’s taking of Jiang Qinian’s Strange Stones and Jiang Fan’s destruction of the Sarma Family as separate wrongs.
• Jiang Fan and Lingxi rejected Fei Ming’s proposal to call the matter even, while Huan Shan raised his own grudge against Jiang Fan and Zhan Tian told him to wait.
• Lingxi argued that the Sarma Family’s annual payments were worth more than the twenty thousand Strange Stones she had taken, while Jiang Fan demanded their return and defended his actions in White Elephant Country.
• Fei Ming urged Lingxi to avoid further upheaval and promised to persuade Jiang Fan to drop his claim to the twenty thousand Strange Stones, and Lingxi agreed to let the matter rest if he did.

Jiang Fan agreed to let his dispute with Lingxi go after Emperor Fei explained that becoming a Supreme of Huaxia required passing certain thresholds and that the Strange Stones were part of a Supreme secret. Xiao Longyuan then assigned Jiang Fan a mission to eliminate the Fusang forces tied to Fang Polu, prompting Jiang Fan to glance at Huan Shan, who was connected to Fusang.

• Lingxi accepted that she could not return Jiang Fan’s 20,000 Strange Stones, and Emperor Fei urged Jiang Fan to drop the dispute.
• Emperor Fei explained that Jiang Fan needed to meet Huaxia’s contribution requirements to become a Supreme of Huaxia and learn the rules of the Supreme realm.
• Jiang Fan agreed to let his dispute with Lingxi go, and Emperor Fei stopped Huan Shan and Jiang Fan from fighting again.
• Xiao Longyuan told Jiang Fan that the Huaxia military would symbolically assign him a mission because of his military record.
• Xiao Longyuan tasked Jiang Fan with eliminating the Fusang forces connected to Fang Polu’s reactionary faction, and Jiang Fan looked toward Huan Shan.

Jiang Fan accepted a Huaxia military mission to eliminate factions in Fusang while keeping his new status as a Level 9 Supreme secret. After he left to prepare, Lingxi questioned why the other Supremes had sided with him, and Fei Ming told her to accept that Huaxia would soon have a fifth Supreme.

• Jiang Fan examined Xiao Longyuan’s dossier of factions tied to the case and agreed to eliminate them.
• Xiao Longyuan explained that Jiang Fan could act without violating the Supreme Covenant because his advancement had not yet been announced, and warned him that Fusang had its own Supreme Being.
• Xiao Longyuan arranged for Jiang Fan to spend two days in Kyoto while the military gathered more information, and Jiang Fan agreed.
• Xiao Longyuan assured the Supremes that their annual Strange Stone allocations would remain unchanged after Jiang Fan became Huaxia’s fifth Supreme.
• Lingxi accused Fei Ming and the others of abandoning her plan to suppress Jiang Fan, and Fei Ming said they could not oppose someone who had already reached Level 9 Supreme.

Jiang Fan prepared for his mission to Fusang, where he would infiltrate Plum Blossom Hall and eliminate hidden forces, then departed for Edo City under the identity of Song Jun. On the flight, he met Zhao Zeyang and his daughter, who were also traveling to the Edo Auction House, and Zhao Zeyang wondered whether Jiang Fan belonged to the Song Family.

• Jiang Fan increased his qi and blood through intensive cultivation and reviewed the danger posed by Fusang's Supreme.
• Xiao Longyuan arranged for Jiang Fan to travel as Song Jun of the Luo City Song Family and use the Edo Auction House to contact Plum Blossom Hall's key figure.
• Jiang Fan agreed to follow the plan and departed from Hu City on flight CZ5328 for Edo City.
• Zhao Zeyang asked Jiang Fan to exchange seats so he could sit near his daughter, Zhao Sirou, and Jiang Fan agreed.
• Jiang Fan introduced himself as Song Jun, and Zhao Zeyang suspected he might be a member of the Song Family.

After landing in Edo, Jiang Fan refused Zhao Zeyang’s offer of a ride and went on alone. Zhao Zeyang and Zhao Sirou concluded that he was a powerful scion of the Luo City Song Family, one of the Thirteen Noble Families.

• Zhao Zeyang hurried after Jiang Fan at Edo Airport and offered to treat him to a meal and give him a ride.
• Jiang Fan declined, saying he and Zhao Zeyang were not headed in the same direction, then left.
• Zhao Sirou asked why Jiang Fan had refused their car, and Zhao Zeyang guessed that he had other plans.
• Zhao Zeyang told Zhao Sirou to use the Golden Feather Phoenix Bird blood essence they hoped to win at auction to strengthen herself.
• Zhao Zeyang explained that he believed Jiang Fan was Song Jun from the Luo City Song Family and likely already as strong as a level-five fighter.

Jiang Fan spent two weeks in Edo quietly identifying Plum Blossom Hall members while avoiding the attention of a powerful Fusang Supreme. He headed to the Edo Auction House to confirm the last two leaders, while Zhao Zeyang and Zhao Sirou sat among the auction’s rear seats.

• Jiang Fan checked into his Edo hotel, searched the city with his perception, and sensed a keen energy that might belong to Fusang's Supreme.
• Jiang Fan spent the next two weeks cultivating, sightseeing, and tracing Plum Blossom Hall members, confirming No. 3 and narrowing his search to No. 1 and No. 2.
• Jiang Fan recognized a familiar Huaxia tea flavor at a teahouse and confirmed that its owner was Plum Blossom Hall No. 3.
• Jiang Fan went to the Edo Auction House, where he received the most prestigious VIP seat as the bidder for the evening's centerpiece.
• Zhao Zeyang and Zhao Sirou sat cautiously in the rear of the auction hall, and Zhao Zeyang privately blamed their seats on their limited funds.

At the Edo Auction House, Zhao Zeyang and Zhao Sirou worried that wealthy bidders might outbid them for Golden Feather Phoenix Bird blood essence. After a burly Fusang man struck Zhao Sirou and insulted them, Jiang Fan noticed the dispute and ordered an attendant to silence him.

• Zhao Zeyang reassured Zhao Sirou that they might still win the blood essence, though he could not promise it.
• A burly man shoved into Zhao Sirou, nearly knocking her over, then mocked Zhao Zeyang for being Huaxia.
• Zhao Zeyang stood up to confront the man, angered by his insult and the history between Huaxia and Fusang.
• Jiang Fan saw the dispute from the second floor and told an attendant to make the burly man quiet.

Jiang Fan’s intervention prompted the Edo Auction House to stop a group of Fusang men from provoking Zhao Zeyang and Zhao Sirou. The manager apologized and promised them a gift, while the crowd wondered about Jiang Fan’s identity, and Zhao Sirou recognized him upstairs.

• Zhao Zeyang calmed himself when Zhao Sirou begged him not to fight, despite the men taunting him.
• The venue manager confronted the burly man, cited the auction house’s rules, and made him apologize and return to his seat.
• The manager apologized to Zhao Zeyang and Zhao Sirou and offered them a gift on behalf of the auction house.
• The manager bowed toward Jiang Fan upstairs, drawing the crowd’s attention and speculation about his status.
• Zhao Sirou spotted Jiang Fan and told her father, “Daddy, it’s him!”

Jiang Fan watched the Edo Auction House begin its auction after his intervention saved Zhao Zeyang and Zhao Sirou from the Fusang man. When the second half opened with Golden Feather Phoenix Bird blood essence, Jiang Fan realized it was the item Zhao Zeyang had planned to bid on.

• Zhao Zeyang recognized Jiang Fan as the person who had pressured the Edo Auction House to protect him and Zhao Sirou, then bowed to thank him from afar.
• Jiang Fan watched the auction begin and considered how to deal with the Edo Auction House's higher-ups.
• The host unveiled the Crimson Flame Demonic Blade, and the auction house sold it for twenty-two million Blue Star Coins.
• The first half of the auction continued with various items before the venue paused for an intermission.
• The host opened the second half with Golden Feather Phoenix Bird blood essence, and Jiang Fan recognized it as the item Zhao Zeyang wanted to bid on.

Zhao Zeyang tried to win a bottle of Golden Feather Phoenix Bird exotic beast essence for Zhao Sirou, but a burly Fusang man drove the price to ten million and ended up buying it after Zhao Zeyang withdrew. When the man insulted Huaxia people and threatened Zhao Zeyang and Zhao Sirou, Jiang Fan intervened from the second floor, leaving the attacker pierced through his hands and feet.

• Zhao Zeyang bid on the exotic beast essence, hoping to obtain it as treatment for Zhao Sirou.
• A burly man repeatedly outbid Zhao Zeyang, raising the price to ten million.
• Zhao Zeyang gave up, and the burly man won the bottle for ten million, realizing he had spent the money he had saved for a cultivation technique.
• The burly man accused Zhao Zeyang of tricking him, threatened Zhao Zeyang and Zhao Sirou, and insulted Huaxia people.
• Jiang Fan had the service staff translate the insult, then used a finger gesture to pierce the burly man's hands and feet.

Jiang Fan broke the stocky man's limbs after he insulted a Huaxia person, then spared his life in consideration of the Edo Auction House. The venue manager recognized Jiang Fan as an honored guest and ordered the stocky man removed and blacklisted, leaving the crowd stunned.

• Jiang Fan told the stocky man that he had broken all four of his limbs for insulting a Huaxia person and warned him not to do it again.
• Jiang Fan ordered a service worker to translate his words for the crowd.
• The Edo Auction House's security team surrounded the staircase to the second floor, prompting the crowd to expect Jiang Fan's punishment.
• The venue manager arrived, identified Jiang Fan as an honored guest, and berated the hall supervisor for allowing the confusion.
• The venue manager sent the security team away, then ordered them to drag out the stocky man, clean the floor, and blacklist him permanently.

Jiang Fan dismissed the Edo Auction House official after the dispute and won the Thousand-Year Medicine King for 500 million Blue Star Coins. As he prepared to meet its owner, he warned Zhao Zeyang and his daughter to leave Fusang quickly because the injured man might seek revenge.

• The Edo Auction House official apologized to Jiang Fan and explained that he had dealt with the burly man, and Jiang Fan chose not to pursue the matter.
• The auction resumed, and the host introduced a Thousand-Year Medicine King as the grand finale, describing its exceptional medicinal power.
• Jiang Fan bid 500 million Blue Star Coins, and no one else raised the price, so he won the medicine king.
• The organizers invited Jiang Fan to meet the medicine king's owner, and Zhao Zeyang and his daughter thanked him as he passed through the hall.
• Jiang Fan warned Zhao Zeyang and his daughter that the injured Fusang man might retaliate and advised them to leave Fusang as soon as possible.

Jiang Fan met Dongshan Tsuchihabara, Plum Blossom Hall No. 2, after two weeks of surveillance and pressed him to discuss their cooperation. Dongshan refused to arrange a meeting with Plum Blossom Hall No. 1 yet, and Jiang Fan threatened to end the deal as Dongshan warned that leaving Fusang might not be safe.

• Jiang Fan followed the venue manager through the Edo Auction House to a hidden room and met Dongshan Tsuchihabara.
• Dongshan apologized for Plum Blossom Hall's surveillance and said they had confirmed Jiang Fan came for the transaction.
• Dongshan praised Jiang Fan's strength after he subdued a Level 5 man, while Jiang Fan challenged him for continuing to question his identity.
• Jiang Fan demanded to discuss cooperation and meet Plum Blossom Hall No. 1, but Dongshan said the deal was not important enough to involve No. 1 yet.
• Jiang Fan threatened to end the deal, and Dongshan warned that the Fusang military might prevent him from leaving Fusang safely.

Jiang Fan subdued General Dongshan Tsuchihabara and used a spiritual secret method to uncover Plum Blossom Hall No. 1’s identity and the locations of his targets. After locating everyone he had identified in Fusang, Jiang Fan began his attack by destroying the Edo Auction House and triggering explosions across Edo City.

• Jiang Fan revealed that he was stronger than Level 6, overpowered General Dongshan Tsuchihabara, and destroyed the general’s communicator when he tried to call for help.
• General Dongshan Tsuchihabara tried to bargain by offering to arrange a meeting with Plum Blossom Hall No. 1, but Jiang Fan used a spiritual secret method to extract the information he needed.
• Jiang Fan discovered that Plum Blossom Hall No. 1 was the owner of the teahouse he had visited and learned where the hall had hidden confidential documents.
• Jiang Fan killed General Dongshan Tsuchihabara, spread his perception across Edo City, and located every target he had identified in Fusang.
• Jiang Fan condensed an energy attack that destroyed the Edo Auction House, then explosions erupted across Edo City and mushroom clouds rose in multiple locations.

Jiang Fan stayed in Edo City after killing his targets and destroying the auction house, then challenged the Fusang Supreme when the Supreme manifested. The Fusang Supreme attacked, but Jiang Fan shattered his giant hand, leaving the Supreme demanding to know his identity and invoking the Supreme Covenant.

• The Fusang Supreme manifested over Edo City, and Zhao Zeyang and Zhao Sirou prepared to flee before spotting Jiang Fan rising into the sky.
• Jiang Fan decided to confront the Fusang Supreme, confident he could test his strength and escape if necessary.
• Jiang Fan taunted the Fusang Supreme and accused him of violating the Supreme Covenant by interfering in mortal affairs.
• The Fusang Supreme attacked Jiang Fan with a colossal hand, but Jiang Fan shattered it with an energy beam.
• The Fusang Supreme regenerated his hand and demanded to know who Jiang Fan was, asking whether he had considered the Supreme Covenant.

Jiang Fan revealed that he was Huaxia’s newly ascended Supreme and defeated Fusang’s Supreme in a brutal battle that devastated Edo City. After Fusang’s Supreme emerged from the remains of his manifestation, Jiang Fan’s next move remained unresolved.

• Jiang Fan explained that he was not yet bound by the Level 9 Supreme Convention, and Fusang’s Supreme attacked him in anger.
• Jiang Fan’s manifestation matched Fusang’s Supreme, and he shattered the giant finger in their first clash.
• Jiang Fan battered Fusang’s Supreme’s manifested golden body until it collapsed, sending fragments crashing into Edo City.
• The people of Fusang mourned the destruction and feared Huaxia’s strength, while Zhao Zeyang suspected Jiang Fan might be the young general who had destroyed the Duan Family in Peng City.
• Fusang’s Supreme destroyed the remaining fragments of his manifestation and stepped out from a corner of Edo City.