Chapter Summaries

Zhang Guangmu killed Feng Yunxian in three moves on Longbei Cliff, then broke the Country of Sakura army by hunting down its officers. As the battle turned in his side’s favor, he felt Usable Ability Points being credited while preparing to write in the Martial Way Diary (Yang).

• Zhang Guangmu blocked Feng Yunxian’s spear attack, reversed the momentum with the Bai Yue Demon Blade, and closed in bare-handed.
• Feng Yunxian’s fear overwhelmed him as Zhang Guangmu struck his heart with an iron fist, killing him before he could transform into a rainbow.
• The Country of Sakura troops panicked and their formation collapsed after Feng Yunxian’s death.
• Zhang Guangmu mounted the Bone-Piercing Wulong Steed and killed the enemy’s mid-level officers while Lu Mohan and Jiang Jiuxiao led the Lie Wu Battalion survivors and martial heroes.
• Zhang Guangmu took out the Martial Way Diary (Yang) and felt Usable Ability Points being credited.

After winning the battle at Longbei Cliff, Zhang Guangmu used a new ability point to improve his Driving skill and develop a flying secret technique. As the survivors dealt with the aftermath of the battle, he tested the technique by taking to the sky.

• Zhang Guangmu saw the Martial Way Diary depict him riding through the battlefield with an ancient book, then gained a Usable Ability Point.
• Zhang Guangmu spent both available points on Driving, improving his control of internal force and his ability to adapt transcendent knowledge into martial secret techniques.
• The Lie Wu Battalion and martial heroes hunted the defeated Country of Sakura forces for four hours, killing fourteen thousand and capturing more than five thousand soldiers.
• Zhang Guangmu organized the postwar work at Longbei Cliff, while Lie Wu Battalion soldiers tracked down the remaining escaped enemies.
• Zhang Guangmu completed the secret technique “Airborne” and flew into the clouds as the Little White Balls cried out in surprise.

Zhang Guangmu used his wind-based technique to fly, then recorded his battlefield achievements in the Martial Way Diary and received a major increase in internal force. While observing the production crew from the sky, he overheard Director Kurt Chesterton reveal that the mysterious figure in the Country of Sakura was the legendary Martial Ancestor.

• Zhang Guangmu used Wind Riding to fly above the clouds, surprising viewers and the production crew.
• Zhang Guangmu recorded his battlefield victory in the Martial Way Diary (Yang) and received rewards that more than doubled his internal force.
• Zhang Guangmu reviewed his abilities and realized he could see the production crew and Director Kurt Chesterton from above.
• Zhang Guangmu pretended to mourn Zhao Zhengrong while listening to Director Kurt Chesterton discuss the Martial Way world and the Martial Ancestor.
• Zhang Guangmu learned that the mysterious person who had appeared in the Country of Sakura was the legendary Martial Ancestor.

After killing Feng Yunxian, Zhang Guangmu strengthened his internal force and used the Martial Way Diary to warn Oda Marina that he would cross the sea to the Country of Sakura. He reached the advanced Third Realm but still worried he was not strong enough to face the mysterious Martial Ancestor.

• Zhang Guangmu’s internal force more than doubled after his battle with Feng Yunxian, and he began a new operation by writing in his diary.
• Oda Marina read Zhang Guangmu’s claims that he had regained the Wind Riding ability and would come to the Country of Sakura to kill the Emperor and Shogun.
• Oda Marina realized Zhang Guangmu might discover the Oda Family’s control of the island nation, so she resolved to prepare a fatal blow.
• Zhang Guangmu’s internal force rose to about 2.2 times its earlier level, and he reached the advanced stage of the Third Realm.
• Zhang Guangmu planned to target the leaders of the Country of Sakura but feared being defeated by the Martial Ancestor and embarrassed by being asked who he was.

Zhang Guangmu exposed Oda Marina as the owner of the Martial Way Diary (Yin) and threatened to kill her, while she tried and failed to negotiate peace. Their exchange ended when Zhang Guangmu gave an unexpected answer to her question about what he would gain by killing her.

• Zhang Guangmu wrote a threat against the Oda Family in the Martial Way Diary (Yang), prompting Oda Marina to panic over her exposed identity.
• Oda Marina replied to Zhang Guangmu, admitted who she was, and addressed him respectfully as Senior.
• Zhang Guangmu acknowledged her honesty but maintained that he intended to kill her.
• Oda Marina tried to change the subject, then offered concessions and half of the Country of Painting to avoid war, but Zhang Guangmu refused.
• Oda Marina asked what benefit Zhang Guangmu would gain from killing her, and he answered in a way she had never expected.

Oda Marina recovered her confidence by deciding that Zhang Guangmu’s vanity was his fatal weakness and that time would let her technological martial way surpass him. At Longbei Cliff, Zhang Guangmu reclaimed the Martial Way Diary (Yang) from Jiang Jiuxiao and used its accumulated feedback to approach a breakthrough beyond the Innate Realm.

• Zhang Guangmu told Oda Marina he planned to end the war, kill the Country of Sakura’s high-ranking officials, and establish the Martial Way Alliance in pursuit of immortality.
• Zhang Guangmu and Oda Marina became hostile pen pals, while Oda Marina spent the night distressed by his threats.
• Oda Marina used the Script Hint to identify Zhang Guangmu’s vanity as his weakness and resolved to use her wealth and technology to defeat him over time.
• Jiang Jiuxiao returned the Martial Way Diary (Yang) to Zhang Guangmu at Longbei Cliff and wondered why Zhang Guangmu had shown him its new content.
• Zhang Guangmu absorbed feedback from Oda Marina and Jiang Jiuxiao, causing his internal force to surge as he neared a breakthrough beyond the Innate Realm.

Zhang Guangmu broke through to the Transcendent Fourth Realm without entrusting his Martial Way Will to anything, relying on his control and accumulated abilities to tame his surging internal force. He reached the martial ceiling of the world, and his Martial Way changed from Steel to Lead.

• Zhang Guangmu considered whether to entrust his Martial Way Will to Zhao's Steel Fist or to vanity as time stopped for the worldview narration.
• The narrator explained that choosing the world or humanity could cause severe flaws, while Zhang Guangmu recognized the dangers of relying on either Zhao's Steel Fist or vanity.
• Zhang Guangmu rejected both options and declared that he would break through without entrusting his Martial Way Will to anything.
• Zhang Guangmu's internal force surged more than tenfold, but he used his Control, Acting Skill, and Imperial Body Forging Technique to bring it under control.
• Zhang Guangmu reached the Transcendent Fourth Realm, absorbed energy from those around him, and saw his Martial Way change from Steel to Lead.

After reaching Heaven Meridian Connection, Zhang Guangmu discovered that his Innate Authority let him draw life force from weaker living beings, making him nearly inexhaustible. He delegated affairs at Longbei Cliff and traveled to the Country of Sakura, where its forces recognized him as the Great Demon of the Central Continent.

• Zhang Guangmu realized he could draw energy and life force from any living being whose realm was below his own.
• He concluded that Heaven Meridian Connection was the highest martial realm in the world and believed technology would be needed for further growth.
• Zhang Guangmu put Lu Mohan in charge of Lie Wu Battalion affairs and preparations at Longbei Cliff.
• Zhang Guangmu took Jiang Jiuxiao across the sea to Yingzhou aboard a flying boat, replenishing his energy from marine creatures along the way.
• Armed samurai, Onmyoji, and ninja on the Country of Sakura's coast recognized Zhang Guangmu and called him the Great Demon of the Central Continent.

Zhang Guangmu faced Miyajima Manshu and the assembled forces of the Country of Sakura at the start of the Great Battle of Zhongying. He ignored their attempts to lure him down from his airship and began cutting through the crowd with beams from his eyes.

• Jiang Jiuxiao identified Miyajima Manshu as the Country of Sakura’s strongest person on land and warned Zhang Guangmu about him.
• Miyajima Manshu challenged Zhang Guangmu and tried to provoke him into descending for a sword fight.
• A young relative of the Shiina family demanded revenge for his father and called on Zhang Guangmu to fight on the ground.
• Jiang Jiuxiao recognized the Shiina family members and urged Zhang Guangmu not to let them escape.
• Zhang Guangmu declared that everyone below had to die and swept the crowd with blood-red beams from his eyes.

Zhang Guangmu annihilated Shiina Hayate and continued cutting down the Country of Sakura’s forces with his Crimson Laser. Miyajima Manshu ordered the remaining Three Thousand Demon Tribulation Troops to shatter like jade.

• Zhang Guangmu sliced Shiina Hayate in half, and Shiina survived briefly underwater by using his strange crimson power to feed on sharks.
• Zhang Guangmu spotted Shiina Hayate in the sea and erased him with a thickened Crimson Laser beam.
• Zhang Guangmu continued firing his Crimson Laser across the coastline, killing many soldiers as Jiang Jiuxiao watched without intervening.
• Miyajima Manshu realized his plans had failed after three hundred of his three thousand elite troops died, then ordered the Three Thousand Demon Tribulation Troops to shatter like jade.

Zhang Guangmu effortlessly annihilated the Demon Tribulation Three Thousand, only to learn that Miyajima Manshu and the ambushers had been a decoy for the Oda Clan’s long-range weapons. The chapter ended as three thousand Super-Range Shockwave Martial Bombs raced toward him.

• Miyajima Manshu ordered the Demon Tribulation Three Thousand to attack Zhang Guangmu and distract him with a chaotic assault.
• Zhang Guangmu protected Jiang Jiuxiao and their floating boat, then used ice and fire to slaughter the attackers along the coastline.
• After the ambushers were wiped out, Miyajima Manshu revealed that they had served as a smokescreen while the long-range weapons were the real threat.
• Three thousand Super-Range Shockwave Martial Bombs appeared on the horizon and flew toward Zhang Guangmu.

Zhang Guangmu turned Miyajima Manshu’s Demon Tribulation Three Thousand missiles against him and killed him, destroying the Divine Artifact Takamagahara as well. A mysterious masked figure then appeared before Oda Marina at Azuchi Castle.

• Miyajima Manshu used the Divine Artifact Takamagahara to immobilize Zhang Guangmu and sent Demon Tribulation Three Thousand missiles toward him.
• Zhang Guangmu secretly damaged the missiles from within, disabling about half and redirecting the rest toward Miyajima Manshu.
• The missiles blasted Miyajima Manshu to ash and shattered the Takamagahara, leaving no intact trace of him.
• A mysterious figure wearing a strange mask appeared before Oda Marina at Azuchi Castle.

Oda Marina met the mysterious Jiang Shen, who claimed to be the Martial Ancestor and revealed that she and Jiang Jiuxiao were keys to a treasure vault. As Jiang Shen waited for Zhang Guangmu and Jiang Jiuxiao to arrive, Jiang Jiuxiao asked Zhang Guangmu whether he was the Martial Ancestor.

• Oda Marina learned that Miyajima Manshu had died and feared Zhang Guangmu, who had survived the attack.
• Jiang Shen appeared before Oda Marina, claimed he created the Martial Way Diary Yin Edition, and identified himself as Martial Ancestor Jiang Shen.
• Jiang Shen said Oda Marina and Jiang Jiuxiao were his two special descendants and keys to a treasure vault, and that he would keep them alive until the time was right.
• Oda Marina warned Jiang Shen about Zhang Guangmu, but Jiang Shen dismissed him as someone he wanted to test as a potential subordinate.
• Aboard the flying vessel, Jiang Jiuxiao asked Zhang Guangmu whether he was the Martial Ancestor.

Jiang Jiuxiao convinced himself that Zhang Guangmu was Jiang Tian Guang, the reincarnated Martial Ancestor, while Zhang Guangmu prepared for his next fight. Zhang Guangmu and Jiang Jiuxiao then flew toward the heart of Yingzhou.

• Jiang Jiuxiao concluded that Zhang Guangmu was the Martial Ancestor Jiang Tian Guang and regarded himself as Zhang Guangmu’s descendant.
• Zhang Guangmu denied Jiang Jiuxiao’s claim but left him to prepare for the final battle.
• Jiang Jiuxiao recorded that Zhang Guangmu had killed Miyajima Manshu with a snap of his fingers.
• Zhang Guangmu summoned the Golden Neck Bai Yue twin blades and set off with Jiang Jiuxiao toward the heart of Yingzhou.

Zhang Guangmu arrived at Azuchi Castle and began slaughtering its defenders, while Jiang Jiuxiao discovered that the Country of Sakura could mass-produce low-level warriors. The last remaining Fourth-Realm powerhouse, Matsudaira Motoharu, surrendered to Zhang Guangmu and offered to become his servant.

• Zhang Guangmu flew toward Azuchi Castle with Jiang Jiuxiao aboard the wooden boat as the Little White Balls criticized the Subconscious Actors and discussed the story.
• Jiang Jiuxiao saw that Azuchi Castle was filled with formidable First-Realm and Second-Realm warriors who seemed to have been ordinary civilians only months earlier.
• Zhang Guangmu abandoned the wooden boat and charged into Azuchi Castle, leaving Jiang Jiuxiao to crash-land outside as the city fell into flames and bloodshed.
• Jiang Jiuxiao entered the burning city and found the Dragon Slayer Matsudaira Motoharu blocking Zhang Guangmu's path.
• Matsudaira Motoharu set aside his great sword, bowed three times, and declared that he would acknowledge Zhang Guangmu as his master and serve him.

Zhang Guangmu rejected Oda Marina and Matsudaira Motoharu’s attempts to win his favor, killing Matsudaira and cornering Oda Marina at Azuchi Castle. A masked figure appeared, explained the origins of the Martial Way Diary and the Fruits of Martial Way, and declared that Zhang Guangmu was not an ancient survivor.

• Matsudaira Motoharu offered to serve Zhang Guangmu as a coachman if he spared Azuchi Castle’s people, and Oda Marina offered to become his maid to end the war.
• Zhang Guangmu dismissed their offers and killed Matsudaira Motoharu with White Moon and Golden Neck, breaking the defenders’ will to resist.
• Zhang Guangmu turned his killing intent on Oda Marina, who screamed for her ancestor to save her.
• A masked figure appeared between Zhang Guangmu and Oda Marina, holding Matsudaira Motoharu’s Fruit of Martial Way and calling it a Golden Elixir, Sarira, or Treasure Medicine.
• The masked figure revealed how the Martial Way Diary’s Yin and Yang Scrolls were made from Fruits of Martial Way and concluded that Zhang Guangmu was not an ancient survivor.

Jiang Shen revealed himself as the Martial Ancestor and tried to recruit Zhang Guangmu into his plan to rule humanity and harvest the Fruits of Martial Way. Zhang Guangmu refused, fought Jiang Shen, and identified his supposed fifth realm as a body-snatching technique.

• Jiang Shen removed his mask, unleashed an aura that killed the weaker people in Azuchi Castle, and revealed his plan to establish a Divine Dynasty that harvested martial artists' Fruits of Martial Way.
• The Director's Script Hint urged Zhang Guangmu to submit to Jiang Shen or join his cause, but Zhang Guangmu rejected both choices and refused.
• Jiang Shen claimed he had created the fifth realm, Will Infusion, and attacked Zhang Guangmu with natural forces and more than a hundred Divine Artifacts.
• Jiang Shen said that a drop of his blood could let him seize Zhang Guangmu's body, while Zhang Guangmu defended himself with the Bai Yue Demon Blade and Golden Neck Firm Blade.
• After they separated, Zhang Guangmu called Will Infusion a secret martial technique for body snatching rather than a true fifth realm.

Zhang Guangmu defeated Jiang Shen and Oda Marina, joined their halves of the key, and gained the power of World Modulation, which let him rewrite the world and send the story back to its beginning. After the film ended, he received an Excellent evaluation and learned he was one film away from becoming a Four-Star Subconscious Actor.

• Zhang Guangmu overwhelmed Jiang Shen with lightning, challenged his claim to be the Martial Ancestor, and blasted him into dust, leaving half of a key behind.
• Zhang Guangmu killed Oda Marina with lightning, joined the half-keys, and absorbed the complete key to gain World Modulation.
• Zhang Guangmu rewrote the world, and the narration showed Young Master Mu setting out with Jiang Jiuxiao for the first day of classes at Jixia Academy.
• The film froze and ended, and Zhang Guangmu received an Excellent evaluation and learned he was one film away from becoming a Four-Star Subconscious Actor.
• Li Xiaoxiao, Chu Fan, Tang Lanshan, Luo Zhuan, and Jiang Ling gathered around Zhang Guangmu after he exited the Infiltration Pod.

After filming, Zhang Guangmu celebrated with the Endless warship crew and learned that he was nearing four stars and would soon face the veterans competing for the Thirteen Dragon Generals. Magistrate Lian then offered to promote Liufeng County as Zhang Guangmu’s hometown or Tian Guang’s residence, making Zhang realize he had become a minor celebrity.

• Zhang Guangmu received his 498 Dragon Shield payment and joined his friends for a meal after Jiang Jiuxiao warned him about the coming Dragon General competition.
• The group picked up Mooncake and went to a restaurant, where Magistrate Lian paid for their meal and enthusiastically praised Zhang Guangmu.
• Magistrate Lian explained that his county’s Think Tank expected tourism revenue to rise sharply if Liufeng County promoted its connection to Zhang Guangmu or Tian Guang.
• Zhang Guangmu realized that his ten Subconscious Films had made him a minor celebrity with enough fame to attract local officials.

Zhang Guangmu negotiated a deal to become Liufeng County’s image ambassador, earning an annual subsidy for limited promotional work. As the group dinner aboard the Endless warship began, he sensed that his Usable Ability Points had arrived.

• Magistrate Lian invited Zhang Guangmu to become Liufeng County’s image ambassador and explained that the county had secured permission to approach him.
• Zhang Guangmu agreed to set aside up to two hours each year for promotional activities in exchange for 1,000 Dragon Shields.
• Zhang Guangmu and Magistrate Lian finalized their obligations and signed the contract with the Black jade bracelet.
• Magistrate Lian left the restaurant delighted, and the members of the Endless warship began their group dinner.
• While serving Mooncake some Small dried fish, Zhang Guangmu sensed that his Usable Ability Points had arrived.