Chapter Summaries

Gu An explained why Qingyuan Sect had to accept the Great Zhou Dynasty’s conscription and why Yang Chan had been ordered to the border. He arranged for Yang Chan to escape to Tianxuan Holy Land if the war turned against them, while they waited for the Holy Land to reply.

• Gu An weighed Qingyuan Sect’s weak position against the risks of defying the Great Zhou Dynasty and accepted its conscription to preserve the sect.
• Gu An explained that the major sects had agreed to comply because the Martial Saint patriarch would fight at the border, but they might turn against the Imperial Family if Great Zhou lost.
• Yang Chan asked whether the Martial Saint patriarch would lead the conscripted sect members to the front.
• Gu An told Yang Chan that elders would protect him and that he should flee to Tianxuan Holy Land if the situation became dangerous.
• Gu An said Qingyuan Sect could not oppose the Great Zhou Dynasty without support from Tianxuan Holy Land, whose silence left their plans uncertain.

Yang Chan agreed to support the Qingyuan Sect’s response to the Great Zhou Dynasty’s third conscription while prioritizing his own safety. He arranged for Han Bingyu to remain at the sect and gather intelligence as he prepared to head for the borderlands.

• Yang Chan accepted Gu An’s plan to wait and observe the war’s course before deciding whether to join Tianxuan Holy Land.
• Yang Chan left Gu An’s meeting and told Han Bingyu about the harsh third conscription and the Qingyuan Sect’s plans.
• Han Bingyu volunteered to accompany Yang Chan to the borderlands, but he told her to stay behind and gather intelligence instead.
• Yang Chan assigned Han Bingyu to watch Princess Lanyue and explained that they could reunite in Tianxuan Holy Land if the situation became dire.

Yang Chan traveled with Qingyuan Sect’s procession toward Jinyun City, where the Great Zhou Dynasty had assigned them to fight the Golden Meng Empire. He prepared to survive the coming battle while gaining Potential Points on the slow journey.

• Qingyuan Sect accepted the Great Zhou Dynasty’s final conscription after the dynasty offered terms the sects could accept.
• Yang Chan traveled with Liu Qing and Fang Yun, while Han Bingyu and Gu Shiqing remained behind in Qingyuan Sect.
• The procession headed from Qingzhou toward Jinyun City in Lanzhou alongside conscripted people from other sects and ordinary civilians.
• Yang Chan shifted his point allocation toward survival and continued earning Potential Points while traveling, though his cultivation progress slowed.
• The procession moved at a measured pace, and Yang Chan cultivated the Flood Dragon Demon Breath Method after checking the travelers’ cultivation levels.

Yang Chan traveled with Qingyuan Sect and other forces toward Jinyun City, reflecting on the political tensions behind the war and the dangers facing the conscripted sects. The procession resisted the imperial cavalry’s demands to hurry, then stopped for the night with Yang Chan keeping a low profile.

• Yang Chan considered how the Great Zhou Dynasty’s coercion had united the major sects and could provoke rebellion if the war dragged on.
• Yang Chan stayed cautious in the carriage, relying on Gu An’s promise that he and an Internal Refinement Grandmaster would flee to Tianxuan Holy Land if the situation turned against them.
• Yang Chan saw Di Qiu and other Intermediate Alchemists traveling toward the front lines, worried after earlier alchemists had died in secret ambushes.
• Iron cavalrymen urged the procession to move faster, but the major sects ignored them and their Internal Refinement Grandmasters pressured the soldiers into stopping.
• Fang Yun told Yang Chan that the group would camp for the night, and Yang Chan agreed as he watched the sunset.

Yang Chan’s group traveled through the bitter cold toward Jinyun City, where a Pharmacist had recently been assassinated. The city remained under Great Zhou control, but the danger there awaited the arriving group.

• Yang Chan wore winter clothes to blend in with the other travelers and avoid drawing the attention of border assassins.
• Yang Chan reflected on the freezing weather and watched snow fall as the group continued toward Jinyun City.
• The chapter explained that a Pharmacist had been assassinated in Jinyun City, prompting concern among the major sects because Pharmacists were difficult to train.
• Fang Yun told Yang Chan that Jinyun City was just ahead, and Yang Chan saw its weathered gate.
• The major sects’ slow travel pace and shared medicinal soup gave conscripted civilians time to recover from the cold.

Yang Chan and the Qingyuan Sect group arrived in Jinyun City, where the grim atmosphere reflected the war’s heavy losses. After settling into the sect’s protected residence, Yang Chan turned aside Liu Qing’s attempt to spend the night with him and sent her back to rest.

• Yang Chan entered Jinyun City with the others and sensed the city’s tense, battle-worn atmosphere.
• The group settled into the Qingyuan Sect residence, where Yang Chan and the other Pharmacists received rooms in the protected center.
• Fang Yun tried to ingratiate himself with Yang Chan and offered to help, then left when Yang Chan told everyone to rest.
• Liu Qing asked to stay in Yang Chan’s room because she lacked quilts, hoping to get closer to him.
• Yang Chan offered to have thick quilts brought to Liu Qing and sent her back to her room.

Yang Chan endured the brutal fighting and repeated assassination attempts in Jinyun City while preparing to escape with Song Yunxiang. They planned to leave in three days for Tianxuan Holy Land, and Yang Chan ended the chapter resting under Song Yunxiang’s vigilant protection.

• Yang Chan treated wounded Qingyuan Sect disciples in Jinyun City and survived three assassination attempts by relying on his hidden strength, traps, and Song Yunxiang’s protection.
• Yang Chan and Song Yunxiang discussed Gu An’s order to retreat after the Great Zhou Dynasty and Golden Meng Empire continued wasting soldiers and sect disciples in suspicious battles.
• Song Yunxiang confirmed their preparations were complete and said they would leave in three days with substitute corpses, posing as people killed in Jinyun City.
• Yang Chan promised to help Song Yunxiang after they reached Tianxuan Holy Land and admitted that leaving the dangerous city would let him resume cultivation.
• Song Yunxiang kept watch while Yang Chan slept, and Yang Chan sensed his movements and remained confident in his protection.

Yang Chan learned that Yang Sheng, the Great Zhou Dynasty’s Martial Saint patriarch, had arrived in Jinyun City and sealed its gates, disrupting Yang Chan’s plan to leave. He postponed his departure and asked Song Yunxiang to investigate Yang Sheng’s intentions while he returned to treating patients.

• Yang Chan spent his refreshed Potential Points, then woke briefly when he sensed Song Yunxiang nearby before going back to sleep.
• Song Yunxiang warned Yang Chan that Yang Sheng had arrived in Jinyun City with troops and taken control of the city gates.
• Yang Chan asked whether Yang Sheng planned to act in Jinyun City or leave for another border region, and Song Yunxiang said he had just sent people to investigate.
• Yang Chan postponed their original plan and asked Song Yunxiang to gather information so they could revise their arrangements.
• Yang Chan went to the wards, where Liu Qing and the other assistants continued caring for the exhausted patients.

Yang Chan treated wounded disciples in Jinyun City as the Great Zhou and Golden Meng Martial Saint experts prepared to contend over national fortune. Unable to leave because the city was guarded, Yang Chan and Song Yunxiang waited for a chance to escape when the fighting began.

• Liu Qing told Yang Chan about the infirmary’s worsening situation and the dangers facing Pharmacists, and Yang Chan began examining the most seriously wounded disciples.
• Old Emperor Yang Yu asked Yang Sheng when they would act, and Yang Sheng said they would wait until the Golden Dragons of National Fortune gathered momentum and their struggle reached its critical moment.
• Yang Sheng explained that the power of national fortune could give Yang Yu his best chance to break through, and Yang Yu vowed not to waste the opportunity.
• Song Yunxiang confirmed that the Great Zhou and Golden Meng Martial Saint experts would soon act, while Yang Chan asked whether they had a route out of Jinyun City.
• Song Yunxiang said the guards would not let them leave, so they agreed to wait for the chaos of the coming clash and conserve their strength.

Yang Chan recognized the golden dragons over Jinyun City and the Golden Meng Empire as embodiments of national fortune, then watched them clash in a battle whose shockwaves devastated the city. Song Yunxiang carried the recovering Yang Chan toward the gates as sect experts fled the deadly battlefield.

• A Golden Giant Dragon appeared over Jinyun City, and officials hailed it as proof that the Great Zhou Dynasty would win.
• Yang Chan used his soul body to identify the dragon as the Great Zhou Dynasty's Golden Dragon of National Fortune and spotted its counterpart over a Golden Meng Empire border city.
• The two Golden Dragons of National Fortune rushed together and clashed between the nations, unleashing roars and shockwaves that injured people across Jinyun City.
• Yang Chan's soul body returned to his body after the soundwaves overwhelmed him, and he saw Liu Qing and Fang Yun screaming with blood streaming from their ears.
• Song Yunxiang carried Yang Chan toward the city gates while experts from the sects fled, and Yang Chan recovered enough to ask what was happening.

The Great Yin Saintess sensed a familiar aura and focused on finding its owner, while in Jinyun City the sects threatened to fight their way out after the Great Zhou Dynasty barred the gates. Old Emperor Yang Yu appeared and promised to open them, trying to prevent the unrest from weakening the Great Zhou Dynasty’s Golden Dragon of National Fortune.

• The Great Yin Saintess watched the Golden Dragons of National Fortune clash and reflected on the dangers their power posed to imperial dynasties and holy lands.
• The Great Yin Saintess sensed a familiar aura, stopped watching the battle, and resolved to capture the person she believed could help her cultivation.
• The defending general refused to let the sect members leave Jinyun City, prompting them to gather at the gates and threaten to attack.
• Song Yunxiang carried Yang Chan to the city gates, where Yang Chan recognized the powerful aura of the Great Zhou Dynasty’s Old Emperor.
• Old Emperor Yang Yu appeared, promised that the gates would open for anyone who wished to leave, and sought to calm the sects before their revolt harmed the Great Zhou Dynasty’s national fortune.

Yang Chan and the Qingyuan Sect left Jinyun City after Old Emperor Yang Yu opened its gates, while the Great Zhou and Golden Meng ancestors waited for the Golden Dragons of National Fortune to weaken. Far from the city, Yang Chan urged Song Yunxiang to move away from the watching crowd and toward nearby woods to avoid danger.

• Old Emperor Yang Yu opened Jinyun City's gates, and Yang Chan waited until others had left safely before departing with Song Yunxiang and the Qingyuan Sect disciples.
• After the sects had evacuated, Old Emperor Yang Yu demoted a general and turned his attention to the battle between the two Golden Dragons of National Fortune.
• Grand Ancestor Yang Sheng told Old Emperor Yang Yu to wait for the moment when the dragons drew upon the fundamental national fortune, while Wulan Tianjue also watched for an opportunity.
• Song Yunxiang led the group a hundred li from Jinyun City, where Yang Chan asked what would happen if a Golden Dragon of National Fortune died.
• Yang Chan agreed to watch the battle but persuaded Song Yunxiang to move toward nearby woods, away from the gathered sects, to reduce the risk of ambush or collateral danger.

Yang Chan and the Qingyuan Sect survivors watched from a distance as two Martial Saint ancestors attacked the Golden Dragons of National Fortune to seize their source power. The dragons’ power became a golden lotus, and the two Pillar-Supporting Martial Saints appeared to fight over it while a formation protected Jinyun City.

• Yang Chan stayed with the recovering Qingyuan Sect disciples and watched the Golden Dragons clash from afar.
• Two Martial Saint wills struck the dragons, and Song Yunxiang and the other Grandmasters realized the ancestors were attacking them.
• Yang Chan understood that the Great Zhou Dynasty and Golden Meng Empire had driven the war to expose the dragons’ source national fortune.
• After the dragons weakened, their scattered golden light merged into a golden lotus, and the two Pillar-Supporting Martial Saints appeared to seize it.
• A formation shielded Jinyun City from the battle’s aftershocks, leaving Qingyuan Sect’s elders to regret moving away while Yang Chan was glad to remain at a distance.

Yang Chan and the Qingyuan Sect fled the battlefield between the two Golden Dragons of National Fortune and the Pillar-Supporting Martial Saints, only to discover that the Great Zhou Dynasty had trapped them inside an Invisible Magic Array. They remained stranded near the battle, fearing both the fighting and the consequences of the dynasty’s plot.

• The Great Zhou and Golden Meng forces wounded the Golden Dragons of National Fortune through their betrayal, provoking the dragons to roar and attack the golden lotus.
• The Golden Dragons fought the two Pillar-Supporting Martial Saints, and the clash devastated Jinyun City and the Golden Meng border city.
• Yang Chan urged Song Yunxiang and the others to retreat from the battlefield, and the group hurried deeper into the Great Zhou Dynasty.
• Yang Chan sensed an invisible barrier ahead, and several Internal Refinement Grandmasters crashed into it while running.
• An Internal Refinement Grandmaster identified the barrier as an array set up by the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the trapped cultivators cursed the Imperial Family and feared the battlefield might reach them.

Yang Chan and the other sect disciples were trapped behind an invisible barrier as the battle between two Golden Dragons of National Fortune and two Martial Saints spread like a natural disaster. When the battlefield moved closer, Yang Chan disguised himself and fled alone in the opposite direction, seeking to avoid the conscious Golden Lotus and the fighting.

• Yang Chan and the other sect members tested the invisible barrier and realized its rebounding force made it difficult to break through.
• The battle's expanding aftermath shook the region, while the Golden Lotus shifted position and drew the four combatants across the landscape.
• Song Yunxiang led the Qingyuan Sect disciples away as the battlefield moved toward them, and other sects also fled.
• Yang Chan disguised himself, concealed his aura with the Calm Heart Breath Holding Method, and headed away from the crowd.
• Yang Chan used his soul body's observations to avoid the Golden Lotus and flee from the natural-disaster-level battle.

Yang Chan encountered the Great Yin Saintess, who tracked him using the lingering traces of their previous intimacy and claimed he possessed the Azure Emperor Longevity Dao Body. She proposed marriage and promised her sect’s help, while Yang Chan focused on understanding the limits of her tracking ability.

• Yang Chan watched the Golden Lotus move away from him and continued fleeing across the battlefield.
• The Great Yin Saintess found Yang Chan and explained that she had searched for him since their meeting in Star River City.
• The Great Yin Saintess claimed Yang Chan’s vitality proved he possessed the Azure Emperor Longevity Dao Body, but Yang Chan denied having a special physique.
• The Great Yin Saintess asked Yang Chan to become her husband and promised that her sect would help him reach the Divine Aperture realm.
• Yang Chan asked how she had located him, and the Great Yin Saintess said her Nine Nether Primordial Body could sense his aura and traces left in her body.
• Yang Chan concluded that her tracking method had a limited range because she had not found him sooner.

The Great Yin Saintess found Yang Chan and demanded that he become her husband, but he chose to fight her under the alias Li Feiyu. Their clash ended with both recognizing the other's strength, and neither had yet won.

• The Great Yin Saintess told Yang Chan he could either agree to become her husband or be subdued, and Yang Chan gave her the alias Li Feiyu.
• Yang Chan attacked the Nether Beast Ancient Worm, sending it flying, and the Great Yin Saintess drew her whip to fight him.
• Yang Chan used poison and Sword Momentum against the Great Yin Saintess, but she escaped the poison with the Nether Beast Ancient Worm.
• The Great Yin Saintess struck with Nine Nether Seeker, and Yang Chan answered with a Sword Momentum slash that shook the earth.
• The Great Yin Saintess coughed after being driven back, while both she and Yang Chan recognized the other's formidable combat strength.

Yang Chan and the Great Yin Saintess stopped fighting as a Martial Saint-level battle and its drifting golden lotus threatened to draw them in. As they fled, an outside force began striking the formation, leaving Yang Chan surprised and excited.

• Yang Chan warned the Great Yin Saintess to retreat, while she offered her Nine Nether Primordial Body’s support and urged him to cultivate with her; he rejected her and proposed that she follow him instead.
• The golden lotus continued drifting toward them, so Yang Chan and the Great Yin Saintess fled sideways from the Martial Saint-level battlefield and its dragon-roar shock waves.
• The Great Yin Saintess explained that the formation contained the battle’s effects to protect both nations’ national fortune, then repeatedly offered to take Yang Chan somewhere safe in exchange for accepting her conditions.
• Yang Chan concealed a Flying Needle and planned to strike the Great Yin Saintess when an opening arose, while she continued following him and offering refuge in the Golden Meng Empire’s remaining safe area.
• After another distant impact, Yang Chan and the Great Yin Saintess saw ripples spreading across the formation from outside it, indicating that someone else had begun attacking.

The Great Yin Saintess explained that a Dragon Slayer had appeared on the battlefield to kill the Golden Dragon of National Fortune and seize the chance to found a dynasty. As the formation weakened, she tried to control Yang Chan with her Mind-Confounding Method, but he resisted and prepared to kill her.

• The Great Yin Saintess explained that Dragon Slayers could kill an imperial dynasty's Golden Dragon of National Fortune, gain national fortune, and establish a new dynasty.
• Yang Chan asked whether the Great Yin Saintess would intervene to protect the Golden Meng Empire, but she said doing so would entangle her in imperial fortune and cost her position as Saintess.
• The Great Yin Saintess used her Mind-Confounding Method on Yang Chan, but his strong spiritual power let him recover quickly.
• The Great Yin Saintess offered Yang Chan power, beauties, and cultivation resources if he followed her, while revealing she wanted to use his Azure Emperor Longevity Dao Body to aid her cultivation.
• Yang Chan rejected her offer, unleashed his aura, and prepared to attack with Sword Momentum and a Flying Needle.

A Dragon Slayer broke through the Invisible Magic Array and killed the Golden Dragon of National Fortune of the Golden Meng Empire, causing the Great Zhou Great Ancestor and the remaining Pillar-Supporting Martial Saint to weaken. As the Dragon Slayer prepared to slay Great Zhou’s dragon, Yang Sheng called on Yang Yu, and a protective barrier formed over the Golden Dragon.

• The Dragon Slayer shattered the Invisible Magic Array and attacked both Golden Dragons of National Fortune, forcing the two Pillar-Supporting Martial Saints to join forces against him.
• Yang Sheng struck at the Dragon Slayer with martial will, but the Dragon Slayer evaded the attack and appeared before the weakened Golden Dragons.
• The Dragon Slayer ignored the Golden Dragons’ roars and used the Dragon-Engraved Blood Saber to slay the Golden Meng Empire’s dragon, absorbing its golden light.
• The Dragon Slayer unleashed Endless Blade Intent against Great Zhou’s Golden Dragon, while Yang Sheng called for Yang Yu to act.
• Golden light gathered above Jinyun City and formed a protective barrier around Great Zhou’s flickering Golden Dragon of National Fortune.