Chapter Summaries

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.

Jiang Fan fought Fusang's Supreme, who revealed his monstrous true form and attacked with regenerating fleshly arms. Jiang Fan escaped the trap with a spatial ability and battered him, but Fusang's Supreme unleashed his Netherworld Poisonous Fog.

• Jiang Fan saw Fusang's Supreme's true form after the old man withdrew his divine manifestation.
• Fusang's Supreme attacked Jiang Fan with countless hard, regenerating fleshly arms, eventually trapping him inside a ball of flesh.
• Jiang Fan escaped using a spatial ability and struck Fusang's Supreme with a rapid series of attacks.
• Fusang's Supreme summoned a dark-green cloud and unleashed his innate divine ability, Netherworld Poisonous Fog, sending poisonous dragons after Jiang Fan.

Jiang Fan defeated and killed Fusang's Supreme after overcoming his living poison clouds with gravity, time, and spatial abilities. The battle devastated Edo City and shattered the people’s faith in their Guardian God, while Zhao Zeyang recognized Jiang Fan and celebrated Huaxia’s victory.

• Jiang Fan used a Gravity Field to scatter and crush Fusang's Supreme's living poisonous clouds, but the Supreme unleashed an even greater poisonous sea with his vital essence.
• Jiang Fan slowed the poisonous sea with his Time Field and struck Fusang's Supreme with a colossal sword coordinated with his Spatial Blade, splitting Edo City apart.
• Fusang's Supreme asked Jiang Fan's name as he lay dying, and Jiang Fan identified himself before killing him.
• The surviving people of Edo City mourned their Guardian God and questioned their belief in his invincibility.
• Zhao Zeyang and Zhao Sirou watched the battle from safety, and Zhao Zeyang recognized Jiang Fan and rejoiced that he had become a Supreme.
• Zhao Sirou asked her father whether he knew Mr. Song, whose name was Jiang Fan.

Zhao Zeyang told Zhao Sirou that Jiang Fan was the same person who had eliminated her brother in the college entrance examination and recounted his rapid rise to Supreme strength. Meanwhile, a golden-haired man learned that Murayama Myōichi had died and decided to investigate personally, leaving Mars dead in the banquet hall.

• Zhao Zeyang and Zhao Sirou walked to the airport after the Fusang Supreme fell and the transportation network stopped.
• Zhao Zeyang revealed that Jiang Fan had eliminated Zhao Sirou’s brother during the college entrance examination and described Jiang Fan’s rise through the martial arts world and military.
• Zhao Sirou recalled meeting Jiang Fan and struggled to reconcile his gentle manner with the force he had shown in battle.
• Mars reported to the golden-haired man that the Fusang Supreme Murayama Myōichi’s fate plate had shattered.
• The golden-haired man ordered an investigation, then said he would go to the Martial Arts Divine Hall himself and killed Mars for disrupting his banquet.

After killing Murayama Myōichi, the Supreme of Fusang, Jiang Fan returned to Huaxia and learned that the Martial Arts Divine Hall had taken notice of the killing. The chapter left him asking about the Strange Stones that Supremes had to hand over to the organization.

• Jiang Fan used his increased perception and Spatial Shuttle to travel from Edo City back to the Military Commission Compound.
• Fei Ming brought Jiang Fan to the underground base, where Xiao Longyuan and the other Supremes questioned him about Fusang.
• Jiang Fan admitted that he had killed Murayama Myōichi, shocking the gathered Supremes, especially Lingxi and Huan Shan.
• Fei Ming explained that the Martial Arts Divine Hall regulated and protected Supremes, so it might hold Jiang Fan accountable for killing Murayama Myōichi.
• Fei Ming said Supremes periodically handed Strange Stones to the Martial Arts Divine Hall, and Jiang Fan asked about the arrangement.

Fei Ming explained the Martial Arts Divine Hall’s hierarchy and power to Jiang Fan, warning him that the Sacred Judges would soon come after him. Jiang Fan refused to submit or join the organization, while Huan Shan dismissed Fei Ming’s efforts to help him.

• Fei Ming told Jiang Fan that Level 9 Supremes paid Strange Stones to the Martial Arts Divine Hall in exchange for cultivation methods and insights, though no one knew how the Hall used them.
• Fei Ming described the Hall’s Imprinted Ones, twelve Sacred Judges, five Elder Council members, and Divine Seat, warning Jiang Fan that even the lowest-ranking Sacred Judges could crush them.
• Jiang Fan asked about Level 9 ranks, and Fei Ming explained that the stages were rough estimates because their martial arts system defined no realms beyond Level 9.
• Fei Ming urged Jiang Fan to accept punishment and join the Hall to protect himself, but Jiang Fan vowed to face its representatives and argued that the Hall had no right to control him.
• Huan Shan mocked Fei Ming for defending Jiang Fan and said the other Huaxia Supremes had already done enough by refusing to help the Hall arrest him.

Jiang Fan agreed to hide away and cultivate while the others bought him time from the Martial Arts Divine Hall. After challenging the ninth level of the Martial Arts Space, he gained a Spirit Gathering Array and activated it at Qingyan Mountain to accelerate his cultivation.

• Zhan Tian argued that Jiang Fan should decide his own course, and the group agreed to help delay the Martial Arts Divine Hall's investigation.
• Jiang Fan traveled to Qingyan Mountain and began absorbing the Strange Stones in seclusion.
• After two weeks, Jiang Fan's blood and qi surpassed two hundred thousand, but he worried that absorbing the remaining Strange Stones would take too long.
• Jiang Fan challenged the ninth level of the Martial Arts Space and received a Spirit Gathering Array as his reward.
• Jiang Fan adapted and activated the array at Qingyan Mountain, where concentrated energy surged into him and stirred his blood and qi.

After a week of secluded cultivation, Jiang Fan emerged from Qingyan Mountain with his blood and qi exceeding 400,000, ready to gather more Strange Stones and see what had changed outside. Meanwhile, three Sacred Judges followed the aura to the mountain range, with Xiao Longyuan and Fei Ming trailing them despite their suspicions.

• Jiang Fan absorbed 100,000 Strange Stones in a week through the Spirit Gathering Array, raising his blood and qi to more than 400,000.
• Jiang Fan left Qingyan Mountain to check on the outside world and find more Strange Stones.
• Three Sacred Judges traced Jiang Fan's aura to the outskirts of the Qingyan Mountain Range.
• Xiao Longyuan tried to redirect the Sacred Judges, but their leader accused him of misleading them during their half-month search across Huaxia.
• The lead Sacred Judge blamed Fei Ming for failing to help capture Jiang Fan and threatened to report him to the Elder Council.
• The three Sacred Judges flew into the mountains to investigate, followed by Xiao Longyuan and Fei Ming.

Hong Tiangan and Xiao Longyuan tried to convince the Sacred Judges that Jiang Fan was not hiding at Qingyan Mountain. Lingxi and Huan Shan arrived and exposed Hong Tiangan's connection to Jiang Fan, prompting the Sacred Judge to grow suspicious.

• The dark-skinned Sacred Judge led his group to Qingyan Mountain, suspecting Jiang Fan was hiding there.
• Hong Tiangan pretended that he had caused the disturbance while Xiao Longyuan supported his story and denied that anyone else was nearby.
• The dark-skinned Sacred Judge decided to withdraw after doubting whether Xiao Longyuan's account was true.
• Lingxi and Huan Shan arrived, and Huan Shan told the Sacred Judge that Hong Tiangan had once been Jiang Fan's teacher.
• The dark-skinned Sacred Judge turned hostile as he looked from Hong Tiangan to Xiao Longyuan and Fei Ming.

The Martial Arts Divine Hall's Sacred Judges forced Hong Tiangan, Xiao Longyuan, and Fei Ming to join their search for Jiang Fan in Qingyan Mountain. They discovered Jiang Fan's former cultivation ground, leaving Hong Tiangan under suspicion.

• The dark-skinned Sacred Judge ordered Lingxi, Huan Shan, Xiao Longyuan, Fei Ming, and Hong Tiangan to help search Qingyan Mountain and warned Hong that he would be punished if they found evidence of Jiang Fan's presence.
• Hong Tiangan told Xiao Longyuan and Fei Ming that Jiang Fan had already left and that he had cleaned the cultivation site to hide the traces.
• After searching for about an hour, Lingxi spotted a flat mountaintop with a stone table, stools, and meditation cushions.
• The group descended onto the mountaintop, and the dark-skinned Sacred Judge accused Hong Tiangan of concealing a cultivation site that appeared to have been used moments earlier.

The Sacred Judges initially prepared to leave Qingyan Mountain after Hong Tiangan explained the disturbance, but Lingxi discovered Strange Stone powder beneath a crooked tree and exposed Hong Tiangan’s cover story. The dark-skinned Sacred Judge seriously wounded Hong Tiangan and threatened to execute him to draw Jiang Fan out.

• Hong Tiangan explained that the noise on Qingyan Mountain came from his cultivation, and the Sacred Judges prepared to withdraw.
• Lingxi found powder beneath the crooked tree and showed it to the Sacred Judge, who recognized it as ground Strange Stone fragments.
• The dark-skinned Sacred Judge struck Hong Tiangan, seriously wounding him, and accused him of hiding Jiang Fan.
• Hong Tiangan refused to reveal Jiang Fan’s whereabouts and declared that he would protect his former student.
• The Sacred Judge stopped Hong Tiangan from taking his own life and summoned a colossal finger attack, threatening to execute him.

Jiang Fan arrived on Qingyan Mountain in time to save Hong Tiangan and faced the Sacred Judges of the Martial Arts Divine Hall. After rejecting their offer to spare him, he shattered one Sacred Judge’s attack with a ripple of energy, and the judge launched a stronger strike.

• Jiang Fan used Spatial Shuttle to appear beside Hong Tiangan and break the giant finger before it struck him.
• Jiang Fan checked Hong Tiangan’s injuries and helped him rest, while Hong Tiangan urged him to accept the Sacred Judge’s offer of mercy.
• Jiang Fan called the Sacred Judges worthless wretches and refused to surrender, prompting the dark-skinned Sacred Judge to attack him.
• Jiang Fan shattered the Sacred Judge’s first energy blade with a ripple from his body.
• The dark-skinned Sacred Judge condensed Heaven and Earth Energy into a compressed vortex and fired it at Jiang Fan.

Jiang Fan shattered the Sacred Judges’ attack and revealed strength far beyond the Martial Arts Divine Hall’s intelligence, then defeated all three Sacred Judges in moments. Lingxi and Huan Shan tried to escape Qingyan Mountain, but Jiang Fan called after them.

• Jiang Fan pierced the energy sphere with one finger, causing it to explode, and emerged unharmed while the three Sacred Judges were left battered.
• The dark-skinned Sacred Judge accused Jiang Fan of concealing his strength and offered him a place in the Martial Arts Divine Hall, but Jiang Fan refused to accept blame for their conflict.
• The three Sacred Judges surrounded Jiang Fan, who mocked them and told them to attack together.
• Jiang Fan used Spatial Shuttle to strike down the two Sacred Judges beside him, then crushed the dark-skinned Sacred Judge’s skull with a palm.
• Lingxi and Huan Shan began retreating toward the edge of Qingyan Mountain, but Jiang Fan called out to them before they could escape.

Jiang Fan killed Huan Shan and Lingxi after they tried to justify betraying him, then looted their Strange Stones. With the Martial Arts Divine Hall likely to retaliate against Huaxia for the deaths of its Sacred Judges, Jiang Fan asked Xiao Longyuan and Fei Ming to help him break through.

• Huan Shan and Lingxi claimed they had leaked Jiang Fan's whereabouts to confuse the Martial Arts Divine Hall, but Jiang Fan rejected their excuses and crushed Huan Shan's throat.
• Lingxi begged Jiang Fan and appealed to Fei Ming and Xiao Longyuan for help, but Jiang Fan killed her as well.
• Jiang Fan searched the five corpses and collected the Strange Stones, estimating that Huan Shan and Lingxi had carried around thirty thousand between them.
• Xiao Longyuan warned that the Martial Arts Divine Hall would retaliate for the Sacred Judges killed in Huaxia, and Jiang Fan said Huaxia would have to stand with him.
• Xiao Longyuan and Fei Ming asked how they could support Jiang Fan, who told them to provide him with Strange Stones as soon as possible.

Jiang Fan secured support from Huaxia’s Supremes and military forces to gather Strange Stones and resist the Martial Arts Divine Hall. While the Divine Seat sent Sailin and six Sacred Judges to capture Jiang Fan and Huaxia’s remaining Supremes, Jiang Fan prepared to refine the ninety thousand Strange Stones he had collected.

• Jiang Fan told Xiao Longyuan and Fei Ming that gathering more Strange Stones would improve their chances against the Martial Arts Divine Hall, and Fei Ming gave him twenty thousand.
• Xiao Longyuan pledged to mobilize the Huaxia military to collect Strange Stones and persuade Lord Zhan Tian to contribute his surplus.
• Jiang Fan chose Lingtai Peak of Lushan Mountain as his new cultivation base and asked Xiao Longyuan and Fei Ming to alert him if the Martial Arts Divine Hall approached.
• After learning that three Sacred Judges and Huaxia Supremes Lingxi and Huan Shan had died, the Divine Seat accepted Sailin’s theory that Huaxia’s Supremes had ambushed the Sacred Judges.
• The Divine Seat ordered Sailin to lead six Sacred Judges to Huaxia, capture Jiang Fan, and bring back the other two Supremes, allowing them to kill anyone who resisted.
• Jiang Fan counted ninety thousand Strange Stones at Lingtai Peak and began forming a Spirit Gathering Array to refine them.

After refining ninety thousand Strange Stones during a week of secluded cultivation, Jiang Fan emerged with nearly six hundred thousand blood qi and confronted Elder Sailin and six Sacred Judges from the Martial Arts Divine Hall. He revealed that he had personally killed the three Sacred Judges in the previous operation, then struck Sailin down with a single finger.

• Jiang Fan finished refining ninety thousand Strange Stones, reached nearly six hundred thousand blood qi, and shattered space with a casual jab.
• Elder Sailin and six Sacred Judges searched Lushan Mountain for Jiang Fan and ordered the mountain sealed off.
• Jiang Fan appeared before the Martial Arts Divine Hall group, and Sailin claimed Huaxia's five Supremes had killed three Sacred Judges in an ambush.
• Fei Ming and Zhan Tian arrived to support Jiang Fan, who told them to stand aside and said he could handle the group alone.
• Jiang Fan corrected Sailin's account, saying he had killed the three Sacred Judges himself, then struck Sailin's forehead with a finger and killed him.