Chapter Summaries

Jiang Chen helped the allied army turn the battle against the Yin Corpse Sect by killing Tian Yu and many other enemies. He then joined Murong Ting’s group as they struggled against the Soul Fiend Corpse.

• After killing Tian Lei, Jiang Chen joined Shi Yun Jun and the other Martial Emperor Realm experts in attacking Tian Yu.
• Jiang Chen’s Sky Annihilation Strike sent Tian Yu flying, and the group killed him while he was badly wounded.
• Jiang Chen absorbed blood-qi to recover as he continued killing Yin Corpse Sect cultivators across the battlefield.
• Jiang Chen saw that Murong Ting and the allied army were under heavy pressure from the Soul Fiend Corpse and went to help them.
• The allied fighters recognized Jiang Chen as the masked mercenary who had destroyed a Yin Corpse Sect stronghold.

Jiang Chen joined Murong Ting in fighting Tang Dongfeng and neutralized the powerful Soul Fiend Corpse by draining its spiritual energy. After their combined attacks left Tang Dongfeng gravely wounded, Jiang Chen killed him and claimed the bounty.

• Tang Dongfeng confronted Jiang Chen and sent the Soul Fiend Corpse to attack him.
• Jiang Chen dodged the Soul Fiend Corpse and used Devouring Black Hole to drain its spiritual energy until it collapsed.
• Murong Ting struck the distracted Tang Dongfeng, and Jiang Chen's saber attack worsened his injuries.
• Jiang Chen hit Tang Dongfeng with a Soul Attack, leaving him unable to escape Murong Ting's Burning Annihilation Palm.
• Jiang Chen rushed to the wounded Tang Dongfeng and severed his head before Murong Ting could finish him.

Jiang Chen helped Murong Ting and the allied army defeat the Yin Corpse Sect’s elite and destroy its stronghold in Da'an Commandery. The remnants were largely wiped out, though some escaped through a teleportation formation, and Murong Ting and the other leaders thanked Jiang Chen for his help.

• Jiang Chen and Murong Ting killed Tang Dongfeng and the Yin Corpse Sect’s other top experts, turning the battle in the allied army’s favor.
• Murong Ting led the allied army in pursuing the retreating Yin Corpse Sect forces to their main stronghold, where a little over seven hundred survivors fled inside.
• Murong Ting ordered ten sixth-tier Spirit Cannons to bombard the stronghold’s walls and gate, then led the allied army through the breach.
• Jiang Chen fought alongside the allied army as it killed the Yin Corpse Sect remnants in the stronghold and surrounding city.
• The allied army discovered a teleportation formation that some Yin Corpse Sect members had used to escape, but counted its mission as complete.
• Murong Ting and experts from the other major sects thanked Jiang Chen, who said he had only fulfilled his mission.

After the allied forces defeated the Yin Corpse Sect remnants in Da'an Commandery, Jiang Chen declined invitations to join major factions but agreed to help fight in the other commanderies. He Yushi visited him, and An Qingyue grew suspicious of their closeness before He Yushi persuaded her to stop prying.

• Murong Ting and leaders of the Four Great Sects invited Jiang Chen to join their factions, but he refused and agreed to accompany them to the other commanderies.
• The allied forces collected spoils and rested after the battle while Jiang Chen considered the coming fights.
• He Yushi visited Jiang Chen, and they chatted while An Qingyue watched them and suspected they knew each other well.
• An Qingyue questioned Jiang Chen and He Yushi, prompting Jiang Chen to warn her against prying.
• He Yushi led An Qingyue away and warned her that Jiang Chen was dangerous, so An Qingyue agreed to stop asking about his identity.

After wiping out the Yin Corpse Sect's remnants in Da'an Commandery, Murong Ting's allied army entered Heyun Commandery and joined its forces to plan their next attack. Jiang Chen learned that the Yin Corpse Sect was also behind Great Chu and Great Wu's troop buildup against Great Zhou, leaving the dynasty threatened by war.

• Murong Ting led the allied army from Da'an Commandery toward Heyun Commandery, then had them continue on foot to conceal their movements.
• After receiving word that Heyun Commandery's army was stalemated against the Yin Corpse Sect, Murong Ting led her forces to join them.
• The two allied armies joined forces and their leaders met to plan an attack on the Yin Corpse Sect's stronghold.
• Jiang Chen spoke with He Yushi while they rested, and she told him that Great Chu and Great Wu were mobilizing troops at the Yin Corpse Sect's instigation.
• Jiang Chen became concerned that a war could devastate Great Zhou and resolved to support the dynasty if fighting began.

Jiang Chen learned about Ye Yuntian’s strength while planning to grow powerful enough to settle old scores and survive the coming conflicts. Meanwhile, Lu Haozhan secretly united Yin Corpse Sect forces in Heyun Commandery and launched a four-direction assault on the Great Zhou Allied Army.

• Jiang Chen asked He Yushi about Ye Yuntian and learned that the Chaohai Sect prodigy had reached the Martial Emperor Realm and recently advanced again.
• Lu Haozhan revealed that Yin Corpse Sect forces from Shifeng Commandery were secretly heading to Heyun Commandery to join his troops.
• The Yin Corpse Sect gathered more than seventy thousand fighters, including Blood Corpses, while deceiving the Great Zhou Allied Army in Shifeng Commandery about its main force’s location.
• Wang Tianqing divided the united Yin Corpse Sect army into four groups to attack the Great Zhou Allied Army from different directions.
• The allied army’s scouts spotted the incoming forces and sent warnings, while Yin Corpse Sect experts pursued them and killed many scouts.
• Murong Ting and the other commanders received reports that the Yin Corpse Sect was attacking from four directions.

Jiang Chen proposed luring the Yin Corpse Sect into a canyon and took on its Blood Corpse horde to help the allied army. After draining and burning the Blood Corpses, he advanced to the ninth level of the Martial King Realm and faced three enraged Martial Emperor Realm enemies.

• The Yin Corpse Sect shattered the Great Zhou Allied Army's formation, and the ensuing battle left the allied forces suffering heavy casualties.
• Jiang Chen showed Murong Ting a map and proposed using a canyon as a trap; Murong Ting agreed to lead the allied army there in an hour and assigned He Yushi to gather several dozen helpers.
• Jiang Chen went to deal with the Blood Corpse horde before setting up the formation, using his Devouring Black Hole to drain the Blood Corpses of spiritual power.
• Jiang Chen absorbed the drained power, advanced to the ninth level of the Martial King Realm, and set the disabled Blood Corpses ablaze.
• Three Yin Corpse Sect experts, one at the fourth level and two at the third level of the Martial Emperor Realm, charged at Jiang Chen.

Jiang Chen destroyed the Blood Corpse horde and killed three Yin Corpse Sect Martial Emperor Realm experts before joining He Yushi in the canyon to prepare a trap for the pursuing enemy. The Great Zhou Allied Army reached the canyon with only around four thousand survivors, and its chance of turning the battle around depended on the formations Jiang Chen had set.

• Jiang Chen burned the Blood Corpses, killed three Martial Emperor Realm experts, and left the Yin Corpse Sect forces at a disadvantage.
• Jiang Chen met He Yushi and fifty Martial Grandmaster Realm disciples in the canyon, then inspected the terrain and directed them to prepare the defenses.
• Jiang Chen and the disciples set up several powerful killing formations intended to attack enemies entering the canyon.
• Murong Ting and the retreating Great Zhou Allied Army withdrew toward the canyon as Yin Corpse Sect members pursued them.
• Jiang Chen saw that only around four thousand of the original thirteen thousand allied soldiers remained, and the formations' success became crucial to their survival.

Jiang Chen lured the Yin Corpse Sect into a canyon with a hidden grand formation, turning the Allied Army’s apparent retreat into an ambush. The formation trapped the pursuers as the Great Zhou Allied Army blocked their escape and unleashed arrows.

• Jiang Chen led the Great Zhou Allied Army into the canyon while allowing the Yin Corpse Sect’s aerial scouts to report that they were fleeing without setting an ambush.
• Lu Haozhan and Wang Tianqing ordered the Yin Corpse Sect to pursue, sending Corpse Puppets ahead and dividing off two teams to circle the canyon.
• Jiang Chen told Murong Ting and the other experts to eliminate the aerial scouts, and Murong Ting led Martial Emperor Realm experts in killing them.
• Jiang Chen activated the hidden grand formation after tens of thousands of Yin Corpse Sect troops entered the canyon, trapping them behind rising barriers and a sea of flames.
• The Great Zhou Allied Army returned to block the path and fired a rain of arrows into the trapped Yin Corpse Sect troops.

Jiang Chen’s formations devastated the Yin Corpse Sect army in the canyon, allowing the Great Zhou Allied Army to turn the battle around. After Jiang Chen joined the aerial fight with his newly acquired Magic Dragon Wings, Lu Haozhan and Wang Tianqing retreated, leaving their remaining troops to be wiped out.

• Wang Tianqing ordered the Yin Corpse Sect’s Martial Emperor Realm experts to break through the canyon, but Jiang Chen’s wind, ice, fire, and lightning formations struck them and slaughtered tens of thousands of soldiers.
• Murong Ting and the Great Zhou Allied Army’s experts intercepted Lu Haozhan and the other Yin Corpse Sect powerhouses after they escaped the formation, and the two sides began fighting.
• Jiang Chen received the Magic Dragon Wings technique through the Sky Devouring Dragon Pearl, took flight, and killed a Martial Emperor Realm, Third Level expert before helping his side gain the advantage.
• Lu Haozhan and Wang Tianqing, seeing their wounded forces outmatched, ordered the surviving Yin Corpse Sect experts to retreat, while Murong Ting told her forces not to pursue them.
• The Great Zhou Allied Army stormed the canyon and finished off the surviving Yin Corpse Sect soldiers.

After the Yin Corpse Sect’s army was routed, Jiang Chen prepared to leave, entrusting He Yushi with his reward and giving her pills before departing. An Qingyue then confronted He Yushi about her relationship with Magic Dragon, leaving He Yushi worried that her secret might be exposed.

• Murong Ting thanked Jiang Chen for helping defeat the Yin Corpse Sect army and promised him one billion spirit stones.
• Jiang Chen told Murong Ting he would leave and asked him to entrust the reward to He Yushi.
• Jiang Chen gave He Yushi pills to strengthen her cultivation and said he would attend the Great Zhou Martial Competition.
• Jiang Chen departed, and He Yushi returned toward the allied army.
• An Qingyue questioned He Yushi about her closeness to Young Master Magic Dragon, but He Yushi said they were only friends.

After helping He Yushi keep Jiang Chen’s identity secret, the Great Zhou Allied Army swept through Heyun Commandery and Shifeng Commandery to hunt Yin Corpse Sect remnants. Jiang Chen intercepted Lu Haozhan and the other escaped experts as they tried to flee the Great Zhou Dynasty, and began fighting them alone.

• An Qingyue questioned He Yushi about Jiang Chen, but He Yushi refused to reveal his identity and An Qingyue stopped asking.
• The Great Zhou Allied Army joined Murong Ting and others in purging Yin Corpse Sect remnants and destroying their strongholds across Heyun Commandery and Shifeng Commandery.
• Jiang Chen waited for seven days on a road leading out of the Great Zhou Dynasty, tracking the auras of Lu Haozhan and the other escaped Yin Corpse Sect experts.
• Lu Haozhan and more than a dozen Yin Corpse Sect experts disguised themselves as a merchant caravan to pass through a checkpoint, but Jiang Chen confronted them on the road.
• Lu Haozhan attacked Jiang Chen, who drew the Demonic Soul Blade and activated Entering Demonic State and Magic Dragon Possession.

Jiang Chen killed Lu Haozhan and fought off the Yin Corpse Sect’s forces, leaving only Wang Tianqing alive. Wang Tianqing revealed that the sect had secretly encouraged the Great Chu and Great Wu Dynasties to threaten Great Zhou, and Jiang Chen charged to finish him.

• Jiang Chen used his speed and the Demonic Soul Blade to slay Lu Haozhan, a Seventh-Level Martial Emperor Realm cultivator.
• Wang Tianqing rallied the Yin Corpse Sect experts against Jiang Chen, who broke their combined attack with a twentyfold-strengthened Burning Annihilation Palm.
• Jiang Chen cut down the injured Yin Corpse Sect fighters while battling Wang Tianqing, until Wang Tianqing was the only one left alive.
• Wang Tianqing revealed that the Yin Corpse Sect had secretly supported the Great Chu and Great Wu Dynasties against Great Zhou and threatened the dynasty with destruction.
• Jiang Chen confirmed his suspicions and charged at Wang Tianqing to kill him.

Jiang Chen killed Wang Tianqing, recovered from the battle, and returned to the Beihai Prefecture Mission Hall to claim his reward. He revealed that he had killed more than two thousand Yin Corpse Sect members and presented their heads and identity tokens for verification.

• Jiang Chen used the Sky Annihilation Strike secret art to overpower Wang Tianqing and kill him, then dispelled his enhanced states and rested.
• Jiang Chen devoured the Yin Corpse Sect experts’ blood-qi, raising his physical body to Martial Emperor Realm, First Level while his cultivation remained at Martial King Realm, Ninth Level.
• Jiang Chen collected the heads and storage bags, burned the corpses, and returned to the Mission Hall in Beihai Prefecture.
• Miss Mo welcomed Jiang Chen and was astonished when he said he had killed more than two thousand Yin Corpse Sect members.
• Miss Mo led Jiang Chen to the Mission Hall’s underground palace, where Jiang Chen produced a mountain of heads and a pile of identity tokens for the staff to count.

Jiang Chen submitted thousands of Yin Corpse Sect heads and spoils to the Mission Hall, while Mo Qingyan paid him the proceeds from selling his Taiyin Profound Iron. The count confirmed an unprecedented bounty of over 13.4 billion spirit stones, and Mo Qingyan went to report the results to Jiang Chen.

• Jiang Chen presented hundreds of Martial King Realm heads and other spoils to Mo Qingyan’s Mission Hall for verification.
• Mo Qingyan gave Jiang Chen a storage bag containing more than 2.6 billion spirit stones from selling the Taiyin Profound Iron.
• Jiang Chen told Mo Qingyan and Xiao Feng that he had reached the Martial King Realm, Ninth Level, astonishing them.
• Mission Hall staff spent until noon the next day counting and checking 4,236 heads, including 857 people above the Martial King Realm.
• Mo Qingyan learned the verified bounty totaled 13.458 billion spirit stones and that Jiang Chen had killed three Yin Corpse Sect hall masters at the Martial Emperor Realm, Seventh Level.
• After a final check found no discrepancies, Mo Qingyan kept the report and went to meet Jiang Chen.

Jiang Chen collected part of his bounty for the Yin Corpse Sect mission and secretly returned to Yunluo City to visit his family. He left his parents with pills and warned them to prepare for the Great Chu and Great Wu Dynasties’ impending attack on the Great Zhou Dynasty.

• Mo Qingyan told Jiang Chen that his bounty exceeded thirteen billion spirit stones, paid him more than three billion, and agreed that the Mission Hall would owe him the rest until he returned in half a month.
• Jiang Chen returned to Yunluo City and saw that the Jiang Family’s businesses and strength had grown under City Lord Tang’s and the Tianyun Sect’s support.
• Jiang Chen secretly visited Jiang Yunfeng and Li Huirong, who were relieved to see him alive.
• Jiang Chen gave his parents many high-grade pills for the family and warned them to be ready to evacuate if the Great Chu and Great Wu Dynasties attacked.

Jiang Chen warned Jiang Yunfeng that war between Great Zhou, Great Chu, and Great Wu was likely, and gave the Jiang Family two billion spirit stones to prepare ships for a possible evacuation. After sharing a family meal, he learned that he was about to become a big brother and prepared to leave.

• Jiang Chen explained that the Yin Corpse Sect was manipulating Great Chu and Great Wu to destroy Great Zhou, and told Jiang Yunfeng to prepare the Jiang Family for war or evacuation.
• Jiang Chen gave Jiang Yunfeng two billion spirit stones to buy several large ships and keep the family prepared for emergencies.
• Jiang Chen said he would leave in an hour and promised to fight at the border if Great Chu and Great Wu invaded.
• Li Huirong prepared a family meal, and Jiang Yunfeng revealed that she was expecting a child, meaning Jiang Chen would soon become a big brother.
• Jiang Yunfeng and Li Huirong urged Jiang Chen to protect himself, and he thanked them before leaving.

Jiang Chen collected ten billion spirit stones from Mo Qingyan, who told him that his deeds had made him famous and that she was being transferred to the Great Zhou Royal Capital. She warned him that the Great Chu and Great Wu had attacked the Great Zhou Dynasty and urged him to join the Mission Hall if the dynasty fell.

• Jiang Chen left his parents after giving them spirit stones, pills, spirit weapons, and other useful items.
• More than half a month later, Jiang Chen met Mo Qingyan at the Beihai Prefecture Mission Hall and received ten billion supreme-grade spirit stones.
• Mo Qingyan told Jiang Chen that his name, Demonic Dragon, had spread throughout the Great Zhou Dynasty and that she had been promoted to hall master of the royal capital's main hall.
• Mo Qingyan revealed that the Great Chu and Great Wu had launched probing attacks five days earlier, causing about one hundred thousand Great Zhou casualties.
• Mo Qingyan warned Jiang Chen that the Great Zhou Dynasty faced a dangerous war and suggested he join the Mission Hall if the dynasty could not hold out.

Jiang Chen accepted a Mission Hall bounty to fight Great Chu and Great Wu forces and ordered fifty Sixth-tier Spirit Cannons from Mo Qingyan. He left for the border while Mo Qingyan prepared the cannons and headed to the Great Zhou royal capital to take up her new post.

• Jiang Chen declined Mo Qingyan’s offer to join the Mission Hall and accepted the mission to hunt Great Chu and Great Wu soldiers and generals.
• Jiang Chen ordered fifty Sixth-tier Spirit Cannons for five billion spirit stones, and Mo Qingyan gave him a token to collect them in a month.
• Jiang Chen paid Mo Qingyan and hurried from Beihai Prefecture toward the Great Zhou border.
• Mo Qingyan ordered her subordinates to prepare the cannons and set out for the royal capital to become Grand Hall Master of Great Zhou.

Jiang Chen traveled to the Great Chu–Great Zhou border to take a mercenary mission, where soldiers recognized him as Demonic Dragon and allowed him to pass. He reached a mercenary settlement near the Great Zhou Army’s main camp and received rules and a map for operating near the front lines.

• Jiang Chen flew toward the border as the Great Zhou Dynasty mobilized forces and experts for its tense war with Great Chu.
• Border guards stopped Jiang Chen, but he showed his Mission Hall token and identified himself as the mercenary Demonic Dragon.
• The soldiers recognized Demonic Dragon’s reputation for defeating the Yin Corpse Sect and gave him a pass into the military zone.
• Jiang Chen passed several checkpoints by showing his pass and proving he was a mercenary.
• A squad captain escorted Jiang Chen to a mercenary settlement, gave him a map of approved routes, and warned him against causing trouble.