Chapter Summaries

Hong Zai and Situ Yanbei forced the Capital Region’s martial forces into an army to resist the Holy Demon Gate. When Lu Changfeng and Qiankun Daoist arrived, Qiankun Daoist’s martial arrays slaughtered the capital’s strongest fighters, and Lu Changfeng pursued the fleeing Hong Zai.

• Hong Zai appointed Situ Yanbei First Supervisory Battle Officer and authorized him to kill martial artists who refused to fight.
• Situ Yanbei’s squad killed two Fetal Transformation Realm experts and assembled a Capital Guard Army with fifty-three Fetal Transformation Realm and more than six hundred Bone Refining Realm martial artists.
• Lu Changfeng and Qiankun Daoist appeared before the capital’s southern gate, where Situ Yanbei led the Capital Guard Army to attack them.
• Qiankun Daoist used martial arrays to destroy the attacks, kill Situ Yanbei, and slay more than fifty Fetal Transformation Realm experts.
• Hong Zai and the capital’s soldiers fled, and Lu Changfeng ordered the Fire Qilin to catch and kill the Great Song Emperor.

Qiankun Daoist’s formation shattered Great Song’s defenses, and Hong Zai killed himself rather than survive the fall of his dynasty. Lu Changfeng secured Cloud Buddha Temple’s withdrawal and the Holy Demon Gate seized the Capital Region, renaming it Beiyuan Prefecture.

• Qiankun Daoist slaughtered the capital’s Fetal Transformation Realm Martial Artists, while Ling Kong carried Hong Zai to Cloud Buddha Temple.
• Hong Zai refused Ling Kong’s offer to ordain him and struck himself dead as Lu Changfeng watched.
• Ling Kong gave Lu Changfeng twelve Origin Stones and died, buying Cloud Buddha Temple time to leave the capital.
• Lu Changfeng killed a monk who insulted him and ordered Cloud Buddha Temple to leave within three days.
• The Holy Demon Gate’s army took the Capital Region with help from defecting lineages and suffered few casualties.
• Lu Changfeng renamed the conquered Capital Region Beiyuan Prefecture, ending Great Song’s rule.

Lu Changfeng spent ten years securing Corpse Mountain, founding the Holy Kingdom, and raising his son Shenghong while delaying the Demon Corpse Body’s escape. The chapter ended with Lu Changfeng visiting Chun Zhu, whose health was failing, and another attempt to give her a compatible Demon Bloodline failed.

• Yu Ya and Zi Long supervised construction near the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains while Lu Changfeng and Qiankun Daoist planned to contain the Demon Corpse Body at Corpse Mountain.
• Lu Changfeng completed the Corpse Mountain watch post, copied Qiankun Daoist’s Heroic Bone Structure, and founded the Holy Kingdom with Holy City as its capital.
• Lu Changfeng and Qiankun Daoist spent ten years pretending to weaken the Demon Corpse Body’s seal while secretly ensuring it would remain contained.
• Lu Changfeng returned to Holy City for Shenghong’s eighth birthday, and Qiankun Daoist gave the boy a protective martial-formation pendant.
• Lu Changfeng visited Chun Zhu at the Lu Mansion and failed to match her with another Demon Bloodline.

Lu Changfeng returned with Chun Zhu to their old courtyard in Fengcheng, where she died peacefully and he burned the place before returning to the Sacred Hall. He continued preparing to leave the Mystic Realm, and the chapter ended with him reaching the pinnacle of the True Spirit Body at age fifty-three.

• Lu Changfeng took the weary Chun Zhu to their old Small Courtyard in Fengcheng and restored it while she recalled their early years together.
• After Chun Zhu died, Lu Changfeng placed her remains in Dragon Space and burned the Small Courtyard, then returned to the Sacred Hall.
• Lu Changfeng told Hua Yiran what he had learned about Domain Breaking and the Outer Realm Chaos Great World, and reviewed his accumulated talents and preparations for escape.
• Hua Yiran asked what would happen to her and Hong'er if Lu Changfeng left the Mystic Realm, and Lu Changfeng said Hong'er could decide his own path when he learned its secrets.
• Lu Changfeng continued cultivating and traveling with Hua Yiran, reaching the True Spirit Body realm at forty-one and its pinnacle twelve years later.

Lu Changfeng and Qiankun Daoist discussed the Mystic Realm’s decline and prepared an independent refuge while Shenghong defeated Daliang’s forces and expanded the Sheng Kingdom. The chapter ended with Shenghong unifying the world under nine prefectures.

• Lu Changfeng and Qiankun Daoist discussed the falling Heaven and Earth Origin Energy, the dormant Three Human Kings, and preparations for the Realm within a Realm, which Qiankun Daoist said would be ready in about thirty years.
• Shenghong confronted Pei Yuanshi at the border and defeated him using the Primordial Chaos Demon Dragon bloodline, though the third stage left Shenghong injured.
• Shenghong ordered the Demon Dragon Guards to eliminate Daliang’s key figures, and the Holy Kingdom’s forces took control of Jiangnan Prefecture within ten days.
• Shenghong unified Song Land in two months, then crossed the ocean with his army and conquered Daliang Kingdom after it offered little resistance.
• Shenghong divided Daliang’s territory into two prefectures, bringing all nine prefectures under the Sheng Kingdom.

Lu Changfeng revealed the Mystic Realm’s dwindling Heaven and Earth Origin Energy to Shenghong, who imposed controls on martial arts and began expanding the Sacred Kingdom into the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains. More than twenty years later, Hua Youran led the Far North Army along a rediscovered ancient road, where Sikong Jue, Teng Xiaofan, and Zhi Sha defeated a demon python.

• Qiankun Daoist suggested killing Fetal Transformation Realm experts to conserve Origin Energy, but Lu Changfeng rejected the idea and decided to tell Shenghong about the Mystic Realm’s crisis.
• Lu Changfeng explained the Mystic Realm’s origins and declining energy to Shenghong, who chose to limit advancement and control the spread of his bloodline.
• Shenghong forbade private martial arts training without approval, placed talented people under state supervision, and formed the Icefield Army and Far North Army to reopen ancient roads.
• More than twenty years later, Hua Youran found a map of an ancient road through the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains and led the Far North Army north.
• Sikong Jue sensed a demon’s spiritual probe, and Teng Xiaofan and Zhi Sha joined him to pursue the demon.
• Sikong Jue, Teng Xiaofan, and Zhi Sha worked together to kill a demonic python of the early Lesser Demon stage.

The Extreme North Army’s advance slowed under attacks from demons, so Shenghong sent two Demon Dragon Guards to clear the route. Meanwhile, Bai Yimeng led the Ice Plains Army beyond the extreme-frost region to Zhao Kingdom, where he planned to use Yun Tianming’s bid to marry the princess to bring the kingdom under Holy Kingdom control.

• Sikong Jue, Teng Xiaofan, and Shenghong’s other veteran general killed a demon python, and Hua Youran warned them to report future encounters before acting.
• As demons increasingly harassed the Extreme North Army, Hua Youran requested help, and Shenghong dispatched two Demon Dragon Guards who killed twelve demons in an hour.
• Bai Yimeng led the Ice Plains Army out of the extreme-frost region and learned that nineteen kingdoms occupied the northern lands, including Zhao Kingdom.
• Bai Yimeng sent his soldiers to gather intelligence and urged Yun Tianming to enter Zhao Kingdom’s martial competition for its Grand Princess.
• After assessing Zhao Kingdom’s divided power structure, Bai Yimeng planned to use Yun Tianming’s marriage and the imperial family’s support to eliminate rival aristocratic experts and take control of the kingdom.

Lu Changfeng set out for the Northern Ice Plains after spending time with Hua Yiran and his grandson Sheng Qi. In the Zhao Kingdom, Yun Tianming entered the competition to become Grand Princess Zhao Min’s Prince Consort, where his sword-realm power secured him a victory and caught her attention.

• Lu Changfeng learned that the Ice Plains army had reached the Northern Ice Plains, then decided to go there after visiting Hua Yiran and spending several days with his grandson Sheng Qi.
• Yun Tianming registered for the Prince Consort competition under the identity of the Hermit of the Wilds and joined 129 other contestants in the Zhao Kingdom capital.
• At the Palace Plaza, Fu Haoran pressured the Minister of Rites to reveal the identities and backgrounds of the other Bone Refining Realm contestants, while Zhao Song watched Fu Haoran’s influence threaten his authority.
• Yun Tianming won his first two matches easily, and Zhao Min watched him enter the arena for the third round.
• When a Bone Refining Realm saber wielder’s Intermediate Saber Intent put him at a disadvantage, Yun Tianming used the power of the sword realm to shatter his opponent’s saber and knock him unconscious.
• Yun Tianming winked at Zhao Min as he left the arena, and she blushed and wondered about the unfamiliar technique.

Yun Tianming won the competition and was named Zhao Min’s Prince Consort, then faced Prime Minister Fu Haoran’s attempt to recruit him. Bai Yimeng prepared a plan to provoke Fu Haoran, while Zhao Song sent Zhao Min to visit Yun Tianming that night.

• Fu Haoran threatened contestants into forfeiting, but Yun Tianming defeated Shangguan Xiong and Zhao Song declared him the winner and arranged his wedding to Zhao Min in three days.
• Bai Yimeng met Yun Tianming in the palace and explained their plan to use a false master to draw Fu Haoran into attacking them.
• Chief Eunuch Zhang Rang led Yun Tianming to meet Fu Haoran, who tried to recruit him and asked about his master, but Yun Tianming refused to join him.
• Zhao Song learned that Fu Haoran had summoned Yun Tianming and ordered the Grand Eunuch to send Zhao Min to visit him that night.
• Bai Yimeng chose Zhao Xiaoxing to impersonate Yun Tianming’s master and provoke Fu Haoran, then returned to the palace as Zhao Min arrived at Yun Tianming’s door.

At Yun Tianming and Zhao Min’s wedding, Fu Haoran tried to seize power, but Bai Yimeng killed him and crushed his faction. Zhao Min accepted the end of her family’s rule, and Yun Tianming became emperor as Zhao was renamed the Yun Kingdom.

• Zhao Min visited Yun Tianming before the wedding and offered herself to prevent him from colluding with Fu Haoran.
• At the wedding, Fu Haoran provoked Zhao Xiaoxing into a duel, and Zhao Xiaoxing defeated the Commander of the Imperial Guards.
• Fu Haoran ordered his men to attack, but Bai Yimeng arrived, killed two generals, and used Cloud Dream Marsh to subdue the ministers.
• Fu Haoran killed Zhao Song, and Bai Yimeng then killed Fu Haoran and eliminated the remaining rebels.
• Bai Yimeng proposed Yun Tianming as the new emperor, and Zhao Min agreed to let the Zhao dynasty end.
• Three days later, Yun Tianming ascended the throne, Zhao was renamed the Yun Kingdom, and its banners and insignia were replaced.

Wu Kingdom agreed to join Yun Kingdom in a planned attack on Jin Kingdom, while Lu Changfeng arrived in the Northern Region and secretly looted Wu Kingdom’s imperial treasury. He reached Jin Kingdom’s capital next, already sorting his stolen treasures as he ate.

• Sima Hui told Wu Hao how Yun Tianming had seized Zhao Kingdom and renamed it Yun Kingdom, and Wu Kingdom’s leaders agreed to join Yun Tianming in attacking Jin Kingdom in one month.
• Yun Tianming and Bai Yimeng confirmed the alliance with Wu Kingdom and set the attack date through secret correspondence.
• Lu Changfeng arrived in Wu Kingdom, learned about the Northern Region, and infiltrated the imperial palace treasury in search of Origin Stones and sword techniques.
• Lu Changfeng stole weapons, armor, valuables, and eleven Origin Stones from Wu Kingdom’s treasury before leaving for Jin Kingdom.
• Wu Hao learned of the robbery and flew into a rage, while Lu Changfeng reached Jin Kingdom’s capital and sorted his loot as he ate soup dumplings.

Lu Changfeng opened Swordplay House in the Jin Kingdom capital, traded for sword manuals, and hired Ye Yin Zhu to run the shop. He recruited Wang Changsheng as the Northern Region General Agent, then learned that the Yun and Wu Kingdoms were attacking Jin and decided to aid Bai Yimeng by looting the royal treasury and killing Jin’s ancestor.

• Lu Changfeng exchanged a sword manual with a young swordsman for silver and Exotic Beast Meat, then posted a hiring notice outside Swordplay House.
• After dismissing dozens of applicants, Lu Changfeng hired Ye Yin Zhu, marked him with runes, and left him in charge of the shop.
• Lu Changfeng searched the capital for a powerful agent and chose Wang Changsheng, a concealed Fetal Transformation Realm expert serving as chief of the royal kitchen.
• Lu Changfeng used Soul Snatch and a Dragon Scale Clone to turn Wang Changsheng into his agent, restoring his memories and instructing him to collect sword techniques.
• Wang Changsheng warned Lu Changfeng that the Yun and Wu Kingdoms had attacked Jin and were advancing toward its capital.
• Lu Changfeng decided to loot Jin’s royal treasury that night and help Bai Yimeng kill Jin’s True Spirit Body Realm ancestor.

Lu Changfeng took Ye Chunzhen beyond the Mystic Realm’s Domain Membrane, revealed the world outside, and recruited him into the [Domain Breaking] organization. After returning, Lu Changfeng looted the Jin Kingdom’s royal treasury and waited in the clouds for Ye Chunzhen.

• Lu Changfeng secretly confronted Ye Chunzhen at the Jin Kingdom’s royal palace and overpowered him, offering to show him what lay beyond the world.
• Lu Changfeng used [Extreme Dao Breaking Domain] to take Ye Chunzhen outside the Domain Membrane and explained that he needed Origin Stones to travel to other worlds.
• Lu Changfeng recruited Ye Chunzhen into [Domain Breaking], assigning him to gather Origin Stones and avoid interfering in worldly affairs.
• Lu Changfeng brought Ye Chunzhen back into the Mystic Realm and told him to contact the Sword Lord at the [Swordplay House].
• Lu Changfeng entered the royal treasury, moved its contents into Dragon Space, and found over thirty Origin Stones.
• Lu Changfeng hid in the clouds above the side hall and waited for Ye Chunzhen to return.

Ye Chunzhen abandoned the Jin Kingdom to follow Lu Changfeng’s rules and take his talented descendants away, while Bai Yimeng conquered the Jin and Wu kingdoms for the Yun Kingdom. Wang Changsheng took charge of [Swordplay House] and sent its collected sword techniques to Lu Changfeng, who continued expanding the business in the Qi Kingdom.

• Ye Chunzhen found the royal treasury robbed, then refused to fight the Yun-Wu allied army and chose to evacuate his talented descendants from the capital.
• The King of Jin stayed behind to face the kingdom’s fall, while Ye Chunzhen took the descendants away and promised the Ye Family could grow stronger elsewhere.
• Bai Yimeng captured the Jin capital, forced the Wu Kingdom’s army to surrender, and oversaw the Wu Kingdom’s submission to Yun Tianming.
• The Yun Kingdom moved its capital to the former Jin capital, while the allied kingdoms of Qi and Chu formed a pact to resist its northward expansion.
• Wang Changsheng took over [Swordplay House], collected its sword manuals from Ye Yin Zhu, and sent their contents to Lu Changfeng through his clone.
• Lu Changfeng absorbed the manuals and resolved to keep expanding [Swordplay House] across the Chaos Great World.

Lu Changfeng completed his Northern Domain treasury raids and encountered a Spirit Condensation-level Array Immortal who demanded his Origin Stones. After escaping the Four Symbols Array, Lu Changfeng fled toward Human King Fu Huo’s sleeping place, and he discovered a hidden space inside a mountain as his pursuer closed in.

• Lu Changfeng left the Swordplay House branch in Qi Kingdom’s capital in the care of its young attendant, then began opening branches and looting royal treasuries across the Northern Domain.
• The Northern Domain’s royal families strengthened their treasury defenses, but Lu Changfeng still plundered them all and amassed more than five hundred Origin Stones.
• In Chu Kingdom’s capital, a mysterious young Array Immortal confronted Lu Changfeng, claimed the Northern Domain’s treasures, and demanded four hundred Origin Stones.
• The Array Immortal trapped Lu Changfeng in a Four Symbols Array, but Lu Changfeng copied his Array Immortal talent, transformed using his Primordial Chaos Demon Dragon bloodline, and blasted his way free.
• The Array Immortal pursued Lu Changfeng toward Fu Huo’s sleeping place, using rune-powered wings to catch up while Lu Changfeng repeatedly teleported through the mountains.
• As the Array Immortal closed in, Lu Changfeng found a hidden space inside an enormous mountain.

Lu Changfeng remained trapped in Human King Fu Huo’s resting place for a hundred years, cultivating the lower section of [Fuxi Formation Diagram Record] while the Mystic Realm changed under the decline of Heaven and Earth Origin Energy. After Qiankun Daoist finally reached him, Lu Changfeng emerged at the peak of the Heavenly Spirit Body, ready to face the Array Immortal youth who had guarded the mountain all this time.

• Lu Changfeng entered Fu Huo’s resting place and received the lower section of [Fuxi Formation Diagram Record] after completing its formation-drawing test.
• Lu Changfeng cultivated in seclusion and advanced to the Heavenly Spirit Body while the Array Immortal youth waited outside the mountain.
• Bai Yimeng and the Holy Kingdom unified the Northern, Eastern, and Southern Domains as Lu Changfeng remained missing.
• Over the next fifty years, Heaven and Earth Origin Energy declined, black gunpowder spread, and Shenghong abdicated to Sheng Qi before becoming the Holy Gate’s Second Holy Lord.
• Qiankun Daoist contacted Lu Changfeng after the Demon Corpse Body threatened to destroy the Mystic Realm in ten days, and Lu Changfeng told him to wait at Corpse Mountain.
• Lu Changfeng emerged from Fu Huo’s resting place after a hundred years, having mastered the lower section of [Fuxi Formation Diagram Record] and gained the power to instantly kill the Array Immortal youth.

After a hundred years of secluded cultivation, Lu Changfeng emerged stronger and killed the Array Immortal youth who had trapped him. He returned to Corpse Mountain and destroyed the headless Demon Corpse Body, leaving Qiankun Daoist convinced of his strength.

• Lu Changfeng discovered he had spent a hundred years in seclusion and assessed his increased power, including his ability to wield thousands of points of Annihilation Value.
• The Array Immortal youth activated the Four Symbols Spirit Restraining Array, but Lu Changfeng broke through it and killed him with an Annihilation Heaven Slaying Blade.
• Lu Changfeng traveled to Corpse Mountain, absorbed the memories and gains of his clones, and met Qiankun Daoist, who learned that Lu Changfeng had killed another inheritor of Human King 'Fu Huo.'
• Lu Changfeng and Qiankun Daoist drew the headless Demon Corpse Body out of Corpse Mountain, and Lu Changfeng annihilated it with another thousand-point slash.

Lu Changfeng returned to the Mystic Realm, reunited with Hua Yiran and Shenghong, and learned how the world had changed during his hundred-year absence. After Shenghong revealed his plan to break through the Domain Membrane, he left the Mystic Realm to seek his own path in the Chaos Great World.

• Lu Changfeng destroyed the Demon Corpse Body's seal, captured it as a Dragon Clone, and learned from its memories that the Three Human Kings would awaken after the Mystic Realm's energy was exhausted.
• Lu Changfeng retrieved the White Tiger Guardian's dragon scale, visited the transformed Holy City, and reunited with Hua Yiran at the Holy Palace.
• Shenghong told Lu Changfeng he had gathered Origin Stones and created Sky-Shattering Thunder to break the Domain Membrane, then received his father's blessing to leave the Mystic Realm.
• Months later, Shenghong passed the Saint Lord position to Sheng Qi and entered secluded cultivation before breaking through the Domain Membrane and departing for the Chaos Great World.

Lu Changfeng lived quietly with Hua Yiran in Dragon City until Sheng Ming came to ask him to awaken his Primordial Chaos Demon Dragon Bloodline. After Lu Changfeng awakened it, Sheng Ming joined the Eastern Domain Monster Extermination Division, rose to lead the White Fox Brigade, and returned years later to visit his great-grandparents.

• Lu Changfeng helped Qiankun Daoist conceal Southern Kingdom Islet within a Realm within a Realm, then left him to continue developing it.
• Lu Changfeng and Hua Yiran ran the Swordplay House in Dragon City for decades, living quietly while Sheng Qi's descendants governed the Holy Kingdom.
• Sheng Ming visited Lu Changfeng and asked him to activate his Primordial Chaos Demon Dragon Bloodline, which Lu Changfeng awakened after their meal.
• Sheng Qi sent Sheng Ming undercover to train in the Eastern Domain Monster Extermination Division, where Sheng Ming rose to lead the White Fox Brigade after eight years of combat.
• Sheng Ming returned to the Swordplay House, where Lu Changfeng startled him and Hua Yiran welcomed him warmly.

Sheng Ming stayed with Lu Changfeng, completed his Jade Bone, and trained in formations designed to awaken the Super-grade Talent [Cosmic Void Crossing]. As Sheng Ming began Lu Changfeng’s hundred-stage virtual training formation, a group led by a young man resembling Lu Changfeng arrived in Dragon City.

• Lu Changfeng brought Sheng Ming into a bamboo grove rich in Heaven and Earth Origin Energy, helping him advance to the Jade Bone stage of the Bone Refining Realm.
• Sheng Qi agreed to let Sheng Ming stay at the [Swordplay House], while worrying that the Tenth Prince’s Ancient Grade Demon Bloodline might challenge the imperial family’s Primordial Grade Demon Bloodline.
• Lu Changfeng trained Sheng Ming on the Plum Blossom Stakes Formation, hoping to evolve his [Flying Swallow] talent into [Cosmic Void Crossing].
• After three years, Sheng Ming completed his Jade Bone and broke through to the Bronze Bone Realm, then entered Lu Changfeng’s [Virtual Simulation Qiankun Formation (Level 2)].
• Sheng Ming began the formation’s hundred mini-games, while a group arrived in Dragon City and a young man resembling Lu Changfeng remarked that Sheng Ming had secretly stayed beside the Great-Grand Emperor for so long.