Chapter Summaries

Zhang Wan plundered the Cloud Sun Sect, refined Stark Sun Old Ancestor’s remains, and advanced to the Ninth Level of Dharma Aspect while gathering resources and intelligence. As news spread that Fei Qian possessed the Great Bright Light Heaven Song Art, Zhang Wan learned that the newly exposed inheritance had made Fei Qian a target for powerful experts.

• Zhang Wan defeated and extorted the Cloud Sun Sect’s two Dharma Aspects, took its accumulated treasures, and released them; the elders concluded that Stark Sun Old Ancestor was likely gone.
• Zhang Wan found no valuable comprehension treasure in the Cloud Sun Sect’s spoils, then refined Stark Sun Old Ancestor’s soul, body, and damaged Dharma Aspect while discarding the broken Scarlet White Bone Sword into the Demonic Flame Furnace.
• Zhang Wan reached the peak of the Eighth Level Dharma Aspect after a month, then used accumulated experience points to break through to the Ninth Level and absorbed the remaining stored essence.
• Zhang Wan plundered other Dharma Aspect forces and learned that their Void Glimpse inheritances were incomplete, while spiritual energy declined and the Flesh and Blood Heaven Domain became embroiled in a war with the Primal Demon Domain and Chaos Black Domain.
• News spread that Fei Qian had cultivated the Great Bright Light Heaven Song Art and reached the Fifth Layer of Dharma Aspect, drawing the attention of experts across the domains.
• Zhang Wan learned that Fei Qian had exposed himself after killing a Pill Saint Sect Dharma Aspect in pursuit of revenge for his slaughtered family.

After a near-fatal pursuit by Chu Xuntian, Zhang Wan made major gains in cultivation and martial arts but had to conceal most of his power to avoid detection. He returned to the Jade Bone Sect to prepare for a breakthrough, planning to stay away from Xu Xiaozi until he reached the Void Glimpse realm.

• Zhang Wan survived several setbacks, including Chu Xuntian's hunt, and used the pressure of the pursuit to advance his eight complementary martial arts techniques and cultivation.
• Zhang Wan used two enlightenment-type treasures and the Longevity Cushion to deduce his Great Sun Five Elements Melting Furnace Cultivation to the Void Glimpse First Level and improve restrictions in the Great Sun Source Heart.
• Zhang Wan realized that using his true mana or full physical strength would alert Chu Xuntian, limiting the power he could safely reveal to roughly that of a Sixth Layer Dharma Aspect martial artist.
• After recovering and digesting his gains, Zhang Wan decided to return to the Jade Bone Sect, where he could cultivate until he had enough experience and reached the Ninth Level Dharma Aspect Peak.
• Zhang Wan traveled back by flying boat, defeated several weak martial artists who targeted him, and replenished his fake body's mana at the True Martial Sect.
• Zhang Wan returned to the Jade Bone Sect and decided not to meet Xu Xiaozi with his true body before breaking through to the Void Glimpse realm.

After Tie Jinge advanced to the True Core realm, Zhang Wan prepared the Jade Bone Sect for a confrontation with the other four sects while buying time to reach the Void Glimpse Realm. He shared Pure Yang Grass with those closest to him and began secluding himself, but left when Old Ancestor Jade Bone neared death.

• Tie Jinge broke through to the True Core realm, bringing the Jade Bone Sect to four True Core experts, and Old Ancestor Jade Bone, Tie Jinge, and Ji Ci told Zhang Wan they planned to deal with the other four sects.
• Zhang Wan agreed to prepare for a conflict but urged the three ancestors to delay their plans for two years while he cultivated toward the Void Glimpse Realm.
• Zhang Wan gave Pure Yang Grass to Zhang Lingshu, Zhao Qixin, Li Wenxing, Wan Yunfei, and Zhang Shifeng, improving their aptitudes; Zhang Lingshu and Zhao Qixin also advanced a minor cultivation realm.
• Zhang Wan expounded the Dao to the five for ten days, then entered seclusion to build his magical power and save experience points for breaking through the Void Glimpse bottleneck.
• Old Ancestor Jade Bone reached the end of his lifespan, and Zhang Wan left seclusion to accompany him through his final journey.

After Old Ancestor Jade Bone died, Zhang Wan took charge of the Jade Bone Sect while secretly delaying its rivals and pursuing his own cultivation. He broke through into Void Insight far from the Wu Kingdom, then fled as Chu Xuntian arrived at the site.

• Zhang Wan secretly collected Old Ancestor Jade Bone’s soul, and the sect buried the patriarch and promoted Zhang Wan, Ji Ci, and Tie Jinge to its three Supreme Elder positions.
• Ji Ci took over the sect’s affairs while Zhang Wan and Tie Jinge focused on cultivation, and Zhang Wan secretly helped delay the four rival sects.
• Zhang Wan realized the Corpse Demon Sect was likely occupied with a major undertaking, and he spent two years and one month cultivating to the peak of the Ninth Level Dharma Aspect.
• Zhang Wan traveled far from the Wu Kingdom, used 2,430 experience points to break through the Void Insight bottleneck, and fled when the breakthrough’s disturbance drew attention.
• Dozens of Dharma Aspect martial artists reached the site and assumed Zhang Wan had died, but Chu Xuntian arrived after his jade tablet reacted to the aura of his son’s killer.

After completing his delayed breakthrough to the Void Glimpse Realm, Zhang Wan discovered that the Void Mirror concealed a powerful magical strand and tracking mark. He then spied on the Thousand Corpse Sect and found a grand formation draining its experts and treasures to nurture an unknown power, leaving him to wonder what the sect was trying to achieve.

• Chu Xuntian searched for the person who killed his son but found no trace and decided to let the matter go rather than risk confronting a newly advanced Void Glimpse expert.
• Zhang Wan waited outside for two months to finish his interrupted transformation, then adapted to his new Void Glimpse Realm strength.
• Zhang Wan examined the Void Mirror with his transformed Great Sun Golden Eyes and found hidden Void Glimpse magical power and a tracking mark inside it.
• Zhang Wan saw that the Thousand Corpse Sect's concealed Void Glimpse-level formation drew energy from twenty-four Dharma Aspect martial artists and drained high-grade treasures toward a central point.
• The power at the formation's center sensed Zhang Wan watching, so he withdrew his gaze and wondered whether the sect was nurturing a martial artist or pursuing another purpose.

Zhang Wan revealed his ninth-tier True Core cultivation and led the Jade Bone Sect to attack the Book Sword Sect. The chapter left Feng Xinshu shocked and unable to resist Zhang Wan’s demand that his sect merge into the Jade Bone Sect.

• Zhang Wan summoned Ji Ci and Tie Jinge, revealed his ninth-tier True Core cultivation, and ordered the Jade Bone Sect to attack the four sects first.
• Ji Ci and Tie Jinge mobilized the Jade Bone Sect’s forces while Zhang Wan and Tie Jinge led its army toward the Book Sword Sect.
• The Book Sword Sect prepared to defend itself as the Hundred Flower Palace, Blazing Fire Sect, and Mountain Moving Hall sent their armies toward it.
• Zhang Wan offered Feng Xinshu the chance to merge the Book Sword Sect into the Jade Bone Sect as Book Sword Hall or be destroyed.
• Zhang Wan released his ninth-tier True Core aura, leaving Feng Xinshu horrified and the Book Sword Sect’s forces trembling.

Zhang Wan forced Feng Xinshu to submit to the Jade Bone Sect, then moved to subdue the Blazing Fire Sect, Mountain Moving Hall, and Hundred Flower Palace. He overwhelmed their leaders and left their fate unresolved as they resisted surrender.

• Zhang Wan struck Feng Xinshu twice, severely injuring him and compelling him to accept the role of Book Sword Hall Master under the Jade Bone Sect.
• Zhang Wan arranged for the Jade Bone Sect to take over the Book Sword Sect and offered its martial artists five days to challenge opponents of the same realm.
• Zhang Wan left Zhang Lingshu and Zhao Qixin in charge of the Book Sword Sect and led Feng Xinshu and Tie Jinge to meet the three arriving sects.
• When the five True Core cultivators from the Blazing Fire Sect, Mountain Moving Hall, and Hundred Flower Palace demanded to know the Jade Bone Sect's secret, Zhang Wan attacked their three strongest leaders.
• Zhang Wan wounded the three leaders with his palm strikes, then used a top-grade True Core blade to break their defenses when they refused to surrender.

Zhang Wan’s false body subdued the three sects’ forces while his true body confronted Thousand Corpse Sect’s experts under a Void Glimpse disguise. He met Xu Tianzi of Corpse Demon Sect to negotiate over Jade Bone Sect’s expansion and the secret breakthrough being prepared at Thousand Corpse Sect, leaving their standoff unresolved.

• Zhang Wan’s false body defeated and subdued five True Core experts, then led Jade Bone Sect’s forces toward Blazing Fire Sect, Mountain Moving Hall, and Hundred Flower Palace.
• Zhang Wan’s true body used void power to bring six Thousand Corpse Sect experts, including Li Kuxin, before him and revealed his knowledge of her Corpse Demon Sect inheritance.
• Li Kuxin contacted Corpse Demon Sect, while Zhang Wan realized the expert she summoned might be connected to the Void Mirror and the impending breakthrough at Thousand Corpse Sect.
• Xu Tianzi’s magical-power avatar arrived through two Void Mirrors, and Zhang Wan claimed that Jade Bone Sect was under his protection as its founder’s master.
• Zhang Wan demanded that Xu Tianzi address the secret Void Glimpse formation and warned that he would fight if Thousand Corpse Sect disrupted his plans or drew Sacred Origin Sect’s attention.
• Xu Tianzi threatened that Corpse Demon Sect could kill a Void Glimpse expert, and Zhang Wan countered that Corpse Demon Sect could not gather openly in Martial Spirit Domain without attracting Sacred Origin Sect.

Zhang Wan negotiated a truce with Xu Tianzi, consolidated the Jade Bone Sect’s new territory, and spent nearly two years refining a powerful clone while improving his techniques. After emerging from seclusion, he took over the sect’s mounting administrative problems from an overwhelmed Ji Ci.

• Zhang Wan and Xu Tianzi agreed that the Thousand Corpse Sect could expand without interference, while Zhang Wan warned Xu Tianzi not to abandon the region and leave him exposed to the Sacred Origin Sect.
• After exchanging martial insights for two days and two nights, Xu Tianzi left as Zhang Wan reviewed the clone’s successful subjugation of four sects and allowed their resentful disciples five days to settle scores in open combat.
• Zhang Wan assessed the slow path to advancing in the Void Glimpse Realm and studied inherited clone techniques, deciding against splitting his spiritual soul to create a second body.
• Zhang Wan spent nearly two years refining a durable clone with strength comparable to the Ninth Level Dharma Aspect Peak, then sent it to manage the Jade Bone Sect.
• Ji Ci, overwhelmed by the enlarged sect and the resistance of its new True Elixir members, handed Zhang Wan the difficult administrative matters after he emerged from seclusion.

Zhang Wan disciplined the True Core cultivators from the four annexed sects, reorganized Jade Bone Sect’s disciple cultivation and resources, and began cultivating promising candidates for the True Core realm. After Xu Xiaozi unexpectedly contacted him, Zhang Wan went to True Martial Sect, where Xu Xiaozi brought out the Sky Nether Mirror and proposed an honest talk.

• Zhang Wan beat the four sects’ True Core cultivators and had Tie Jinge and Ji Ci teach them, prompting Feng Xinshu and the others to cooperate with Jade Bone Sect.
• Zhang Wan took charge of the academies, Mortal Affairs Hall, and disciple cultivation, then delegated routine work and established merit-point and loyalty requirements for exchanging for True Core breakthrough treasures.
• Zhang Wan gave Zhang Lingshu and Zhao Qixin Martial Intent Pills and later added Feng Tianshu, Hua Baiqiu, and Wu Yiqi to the candidates he focused on cultivating.
• Zhang Wan sent a false body to replace his teaching clone, disguised himself as True Martial Old Ancestor, and traveled to True Martial Sect after Xu Xiaozi used their communication jade slip.
• Xu Xiaozi sensed Zhang Wan nearby only after activating his jade pendant, then invited him into the True Martial Cave Abode and produced the Sky Nether Mirror to begin an honest talk.

Zhang Wan concealed his identity by claiming that True Martial Old Ancestor worked for Mang Ji, convincing Xu Xiaozi that he was an ally. Xu Xiaozi sought Zhang Wan’s help in eliminating Old Ancestor Pagoda-Holding, but Zhang Wan explained that he needed Pagoda-Holding alive to keep Arid South’s factions in check.

• Xu Xiaozi threatened to expose True Martial Old Ancestor to Mang Ji unless Zhang Wan discussed his origins.
• Zhang Wan decided to claim that True Martial Old Ancestor worked for Mang Ji, and Xu Xiaozi identified himself as belonging to the Corpse Demon Sect.
• Xu Xiaozi revealed that Old Ancestor Pagoda-Holding had reached the Ninth Level Dharma Aspect Realm and argued that he should be eliminated as a threat to Mang Ji’s plans for Arid South.
• Zhang Wan refused to kill Pagoda-Holding, explaining that he used him as a public target to suppress Arid South’s martial factions until Zhang Wan was ready to control the region.
• Zhang Wan dismissed the possibility that Pagoda-Holding would reach the Void Glimpse Realm before Zhang Wan’s true body grew far stronger.

Xu Xiaozi and Zhang Wan negotiated how to handle Old Ancestor Pagoda-Holding and agreed to keep the secrets of Thousand Corpse Sect hidden. Zhang Wan then appeared with his clone in Old Ancestor Pagoda-Holding’s cave, where the Ninth Level Dharma Aspect ancestor cowered before his Void Glimpse aura.

• Xu Xiaozi and Zhang Wan discussed Old Ancestor Pagoda-Holding and agreed that Zhang Wan’s faction would take charge of him, with his freedom ending in two months.
• Xu Xiaozi and Zhang Wan agreed not to reveal Thousand Corpse Sect or the secrets surrounding Mang Ji before the sect’s plan was complete.
• Zhang Wan decided his true body would personally subdue Old Ancestor Pagoda-Holding because his clone lacked the power to make him submit.
• Old Ancestor Pagoda-Holding sensed someone spying on him in his cave abode, then discovered Zhang Wan’s true body and clone sitting before him.
• Zhang Wan released a wisp of Void Glimpse aura, and Old Ancestor Pagoda-Holding immediately sat down in fear.

Zhang Wan forced the Old Ancestor Pagoda-Holding to join Mang Ji’s alliance and had his avatar win the elder’s submission through guidance and combat. After the Arid South remained in turmoil without threatening the Thousand Corpse Sect, Zhang Wan continued cultivating and advanced several techniques and his artifact-refining skills to the Void Refinement low-grade level.

• Zhang Wan threatened to kill the Old Ancestor Pagoda-Holding if he refused to join, then placed a soul seal in his soul when he agreed.
• Zhang Wan’s avatar, calling himself Chen Yang, explained Pagoda-Holding’s role in keeping the Arid South from falling into complete ruin and discussed the Dao with him for more than two months.
• Chen Yang defeated Pagoda-Holding in a sparring match, leaving the elder fully submitted and grateful for his guidance.
• Xu Xiaozi stayed in hiding as the Arid South remained chaotic but posed no threat to the Thousand Corpse Sect.
• In his fourth year after breaking through to Void Refinement, Zhang Wan advanced the Great Sun Five Elements Melting Furnace True Body, the Great Sun Furnace Refining Spirit Method, and his artifact-refining skills to the Void Refinement low-grade level.

Zhang Wan upgraded the Longevity Cushion to Void Glimpse level and welcomed two recovered spirit pets before sending his clone to renovate the Yindi Secret Realm. The chapter ends as Zhang Lingshu and Zhao Qixin begin breaking through to the True Core realm.

• Zhang Wan used Spirit Heart Grass and other comprehension treasures to refine the Longevity Cushion to Void Glimpse level, though the upgrade exhausted most of his rare materials.
• The White Bone Scorpion and Dream Blood Butterfly awakened after recovering their origin essence, and Zhang Wan arranged for his clone to care for them while he sought suitable Demon Race cultivation techniques for them.
• Zhang Wan's clone renovated the Yindi Secret Realm over half a year, making it suitable for cultivating True Core- and Dharma Aspect-level spiritual plants.
• After the clone returned to the Jade Bone Sect's mountain gate, Zhang Lingshu and Zhao Qixin began breaking through to the True Core realm.

Zhang Lingshu and Zhao Qixin comprehended different martial intents and broke through to the True Core realm, strengthening the Jade Bone Sect. Zhang Wan welcomed their insights being shared across the sect as its growing power squeezed Rogue Cultivators and small martial forces out of Wu Kingdom, while he planned to elevate the sect’s organ department into a hall.

• Zhang Lingshu comprehended martial intents of endurance and persistence, while Zhao Qixin comprehended a domineering intent that destroyed all laws.
• Zhang Lingshu and Zhao Qixin each broke through to the True Core realm, and Zhang Wan held a banquet for them with the sect’s available True Core cultivators.
• After the banquet, Zhang Lingshu and Zhao Qixin taught their insights into the breakthrough to Prenatal martial artists from the Jade Bone Sect and its affiliated forces.
• The Jade Bone Sect expanded across Wu Kingdom and into Ming Kingdom, leaving Rogue Cultivators and small martial forces with little room to survive unless they integrated or left.
• As the sect’s supply of martial artists’ organs dwindled, Zhang Wan planned to raise the organ department to hall-level and place a True Core cultivator in charge.

Zhang Wan organized the Jade Bone Sect after its annexation of four sects, assigning new leadership and establishing the Righteous Village Hall. Three years later, the True Core forces of Northern Liang Kingdom and Gan Kingdom joined forces to declare war on the now-dominant Jade Bone Sect.

• Zhang Wan established the Righteous Village Hall to oversee the purchase of mortal bones and martial artists' remains and to stop people from killing for profit.
• Zhang Wan appointed Zhang Lingshu to lead the Righteous Village Hall, Zhao Qixin to lead the Enforcement Hall, and Tie Jinge to oversee the Mission Hall and Inheritance Hall.
• The Jade Bone Sect stabilized and rapidly absorbed the people and territory gained from the four sects it had annexed.
• Three years later, the True Core forces of Northern Liang Kingdom and Gan Kingdom joined forces and declared war on the Jade Bone Sect.
• The neighboring kingdoms' forces feared the Jade Bone Sect's sudden rise, which had made it stronger than every True Core force in either kingdom.

The Bone Annihilation Alliance attacked the Jade Bone Sect, and Zhang Wan divided his forces to meet its armies at the border. He led the force facing Northern Liang, confident he could crush its True Core fighters, and began the battle with a strike at all thirteen of them.

• After years of negotiation, the True Core powers of Northern Liang and Gan formed the Bone Annihilation Alliance and attacked the Jade Bone Sect.
• Zhang Wan divided the Jade Bone Sect's forces, sending nearly four hundred thousand martial artists against Gan's army while he led three hundred thousand against Northern Liang.
• Feng Xinshu and the others worried that Zhang Wan would face thirteen True Core martial artists, but he refused to change his plan and treated the battle as a test of their loyalty.
• Zhang Lingshu trusted Zhang Wan's confidence and suspected he had a plan, while Zhao Qixin shared some of her suspicion.
• Zhang Wan's army met Northern Liang's at the border, where the two forces clashed and devastated the landscape.
• Zhang Wan charged the Northern Liang army, locked his divine sense onto its thirteen True Core martial artists, and struck at them.

Zhang Wan led the Jade Bone Sect against the Northern Liang Kingdom's allied forces, overpowering thirteen True Core experts before withdrawing with his army. News of his strength unsettled the Gan Kingdom's forces and gave Feng Xinshu, Zhang Lingshu, and their allies a chance to exploit their opponents' anxiety.

• Zhang Wan used his Mixed Yang Saber Palm and Five Elements Secret Flame to suppress thirteen Northern Liang Kingdom True Core experts and bolster the Jade Bone Sect army's morale.
• The Northern Liang Kingdom's larger army pushed the Jade Bone Sect's troops back, but Zhang Wan then struck hard, killed over a thousand martial artists, and forced the enemy to retreat.
• Zhang Wan feigned exhaustion and withdrew across the border, leaving Li Wenxing, Wan Yunfei, Feng Tianshu, Hua Baiqiu, Wu Yiqi, and others to reorganize the Jade Bone Sect army.
• News of Zhang Wan's victory reached Feng Xinshu and Zhang Lingshu, easing pressure on their force while making the Gan Kingdom's True Core experts anxious to defeat them quickly.
• Feng Xinshu, Zhang Lingshu, and their allies used the Gan Kingdom's urgency to devise a trap for its allied forces.

The Northern Liang Kingdom’s allied forces launched a second full-scale battle after realizing the Jade Bone Sect could heal and return its wounded to the fight. Zhang Wan’s hidden strength and four top-grade True Core artifacts routed the attackers, and the chapter ended with two powerful experts secretly watching nearby.

• The Northern Liang Kingdom’s allied forces tried to wear down the Jade Bone Sect through repeated skirmishes, but the sect’s superior healing let its fighters recover and grow stronger.
• The Northern Liang Kingdom’s True Core experts recognized that their attrition strategy was backfiring and hurriedly launched a second full-scale battle.
• The Northern Liang Kingdom’s experts sent two of their thirteen True Core fighters toward the Jade Bone Sect’s army while the other eleven engaged Zhang Wan.
• Zhang Wan brought out four top-grade True Core artifacts and swiftly wounded the eleven fighters, forcing the other two to turn back and support them.
• With Zhang Wan holding back, the Jade Bone Sect pursued the retreating forces, killing more than two thousand Northern Liang martial artists and capturing more than six thousand.
• Two powerful experts secretly watched the battle from nearby.

Zhang Wan, disguised as Chen Yang, watched the battle with Old Ancestor Pagoda-Holding and assigned him to suppress the Arid South’s Dharma Aspect powers. After Old Ancestor Pagoda-Holding left, Xu Xiaozi emerged from the airship’s cabin, where he had been hiding.

• Zhang Wan and Old Ancestor Pagoda-Holding discussed the Bone Annihilation Alliance’s battle and the restless Dharma Aspect powers in the Arid South.
• Zhang Wan tasked Old Ancestor Pagoda-Holding with keeping the Dharma Aspect powers quiet and warned him about the Golden Sword Talismans and the forces connected to the Wind Snow Sect.
• Zhang Wan explained that the Arid South’s hidden powers ran deep, leaving Old Ancestor Pagoda-Holding cautious as he departed to carry out the task.
• Old Ancestor Pagoda-Holding sensed something unusual in the airship’s cabin but chose not to ask about it.
• Xu Xiaozi came out of the cabin and praised Old Ancestor Pagoda-Holding’s perceptiveness, prompting Zhang Wan to roll his eyes at Xu Xiaozi’s comparison of their strength.