Chapter Summaries

A Heavenly Wolf Tribe youth transformed into a powerful wolf-like corpse and shattered Dragon Tree Monk’s Five-Colored Divine Light with his Corrosion ability. Meng Zhao realized the youth’s awakened bloodline made him an unpredictable threat and hoped he might become a calamity for the Hundred Clans.

• The youth transformed into a twelve-foot Sky Wolf corpse, drew down moonlight, and used Corrosion to break Dragon Tree Monk’s Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Meng Zhao and Dragon Tree Monk were shocked that the Innate-level youth had overcome an attack capable of threatening Celestials.
• Meng Zhao realized that the Green Lamp Nether Coffin, Dragon Tree Monk’s trials, and his own secret techniques had awakened the youth’s unusually pure Sky Wolf bloodline alongside his corpse powers.
• Meng Zhao considered letting the youth grow, hoping his power might weaken the Hundred Clans without requiring Meng Zhao to intervene.

The Heavenly Wolf Corpse repeatedly used its Corrosion Divine Ability to break Dragon Tree Monk’s Five Elements attacks, but the powerful technique rapidly drained its strength. Meng Zhao entered the corpse’s ruined Sea of Consciousness and took command of its body, turning it into a temporary incarnation.

• The Heavenly Wolf Corpse used Corrosion to shatter Dragon Tree Monk’s Five-Colored Divine Light and withstand the Peacock Dharma Form’s Five Elements sword rain.
• Dragon Tree Monk’s Peacock Dharma Form launched another sweeping rain of Five Elements Divine Swords, aiming to exhaust the corpse with sustained attacks.
• The Heavenly Wolf Corpse used Corrosion again to destroy the sword rain, but its body shrank from twelve feet to nine feet as its strength was drained.
• Meng Zhao sent part of his Primordial Spirit into the Heavenly Wolf Corpse’s ruined Sea of Consciousness and took control of it.
• The Heavenly Wolf Corpse gained awareness under Meng Zhao’s command and became his temporary external incarnation.

Meng Zhao possessed the Heavenly Wolf Corpse and used his martial skill to tear Dragon Tree Monk's Peacock Dharma Form apart. Dragon Tree Monk retaliated with the Seven-Layered Exquisite Pagoda, crushing the corpse beneath the rear mountain and leaving its fate unclear.

• Meng Zhao took control of the Heavenly Wolf Corpse and adapted his techniques to its body.
• Meng Zhao drove the Heavenly Wolf Corpse through the Peacock Dharma Form's Five Elements Sword Qi and boosted its strength with its bloodline power.
• Meng Zhao's Heavenly Wolf Corpse landed on the Peacock Dharma Form and tore it apart, causing Dragon Tree Monk to suffer a backlash.
• Dragon Tree Monk raged and sent the Seven-Layered Exquisite Pagoda crashing down on the Heavenly Wolf Corpse.
• The Heavenly Wolf Corpse caught the pagoda but was driven beneath the rear mountain, leaving a human-shaped pit beneath it.

Meng Zhao’s Heavenly Wolf Corpse survived Dragon Tree Monk’s pagoda assault, and Meng Zhao used his crescent moon body to resist Buddhist power. Dragon Tree Monk escalated his attack by summoning a Great Sun Fire Dragon to refine him.

• The Heavenly Wolf Corpse burst out of the ice with only superficial cracks, which its Corrosion Divine Ability quickly healed.
• Dragon Tree Monk saw the corpse withstand the Seven-Layered Exquisite Pagoda and resolved to suppress it to keep Little Cold Mountain Temple’s secrets from spreading.
• Dragon Tree Monk poured Primordial Spirit Power into the pagoda, unleashing Buddhist chimes that drove evil qi, Killing Intent, and Sinful Power from the corpse.
• Meng Zhao transformed his body into a crescent moon, concealing the corpse’s demonic traces and resisting the Buddhist light and sound.
• Dragon Tree Monk confirmed Meng Zhao had awakened memories of a past life and intensified his killing intent.
• Dragon Tree Monk joined the pagoda with a giant Buddha Palm and summoned the Great Sun Tathagata True Fire as a Great Sun Fire Dragon to refine Meng Zhao.

Dragon Tree Monk destroyed Meng Zhao’s Heavenly Wolf Corpse, but sensed hidden Primordial Spirit Power and grew suspicious of Dan Qing. He weighed the danger of confronting or sparing Dan Qing, fearing either choice could expose his actions and turn the Arctic Ice Plains against him.

• Meng Zhao drove the Heavenly Wolf Corpse’s Corrosion Divine Ability to its limit, and its moon-toad form clashed with Dragon Tree Monk’s Great Sun Fire Dragon, destroying the rear mountain’s treasures and the Heavenly Wolf Corpse.
• Dragon Tree Monk sensed a faint trace of Primordial Spirit Power but could not identify its owner.
• Dragon Tree Monk suspected Dan Qing, noting that the Feather Clan disciple was the only one left and had acted strangely around the Green Lamp Nether Coffin.
• Dragon Tree Monk realized that harming Dan Qing could expose his role in the Heavenly Wolf Tribe youth’s death, while leaving him unchecked could also threaten his plans.

Dragon Tree Monk chose to confront Dan Qing rather than risk keeping a suspected enemy at his side. Their meeting ended with Meng Zhao revealing that he was Human Clan-born, prompting Dragon Tree Monk to suspect that Beitang Sheng had sent him.

• Dragon Tree Monk decided to put his safety first and summoned Dan Qing to the rear mountain.
• Meng Zhao suspected Dragon Tree Monk had discovered his identity, then went to meet him after deciding he had learned what he could from their association.
• Dragon Tree Monk examined Meng Zhao with the Five-Colored Divine Light but could not see through him, then demanded to know his identity and purpose.
• Meng Zhao admitted that he had used the Wind Listening Technique but denied being from the Tiantian Clan or being the Six-Eared Listener of Heaven.
• Meng Zhao said he was born of the Human Clan, and Dragon Tree Monk angrily asked whether Beitang Sheng had sent him.

Meng Zhao questioned Dragon Tree Monk about his loyalties and his recent efforts to spread the Peacock King Sutra. Dragon Tree Monk concluded that Meng Zhao was a Northern Lands agent gathering intelligence, but he remained wary of the danger Meng Zhao posed.

• Meng Zhao hinted that his interests conflicted with Beitang Sheng’s, prompting Dragon Tree Monk to ask which family or sacred land he served.
• Dragon Tree Monk warned Meng Zhao that his hidden identity and superior martial skills made him dangerous to keep nearby.
• Meng Zhao explained that he was curious why Dragon Tree Monk, a member of the Beitang Imperial Clan, had recently spread the Peacock King Sutra and recruited disciples.
• Dragon Tree Monk realized Meng Zhao had infiltrated his side to gather intelligence and inferred that he came from the Northern Lands.

Meng Zhao questioned Dragon Tree Monk about his ties to the Beitang Imperial Clan and the purpose of his plans in the Arctic Ice Plains. Dragon Tree Monk explained his break with the clan and revealed that his schemes there had become untenable, while Meng Zhao left him with questions about Zhao Rulíng’s loyalty.

• Meng Zhao challenged Dragon Tree Monk’s claim that he had severed ties with the Beitang Imperial Clan, and Dragon Tree Monk bristled at being pressed for proof.
• Meng Zhao apologized and warned that Dragon Tree Monk’s return to the Land within the Passes could disrupt their plans, concealing that the plans were his own.
• Dragon Tree Monk said Beitang Sheng had secretly asked him to build a force in the Arctic Ice Plains, but he had refused and now could no longer command one after the deaths of his would-be disciples.
• Meng Zhao asked whether Dragon Tree Monk knew Zhao Rulíng, and Dragon Tree Monk described the eunuch’s possible lingering affection for the Beitang Imperial Clan as weaker than his pursuit of the great path.

Meng Zhao questioned the Dragon Tree Monk about his schemes and demanded information about Beitang Sheng’s envoy. The Dragon Tree Monk erupted in anger, but Meng Zhao pointed toward something that immediately made him back down.

• Meng Zhao asked whether Zhao Rulíng truly served the Beitang Imperial Clan and remained wary despite the Dragon Tree Monk’s confirmation.
• The Dragon Tree Monk explained that his chosen heirs had been vessels for creating a Peacock True Body, and he avoided fighting Meng Zhao because he feared the outcome.
• Meng Zhao and the Dragon Tree Monk weighed the risks of battling, with both holding back because neither could guarantee victory or escape without consequences.
• Meng Zhao demanded that the Dragon Tree Monk hand over Beitang Sheng’s envoy or reveal his identity and whereabouts, threatening to kill him otherwise.
• The Dragon Tree Monk summoned his Peacock Divine Form and challenged Meng Zhao, but Meng Zhao pointed in a direction and the Dragon Tree Monk’s aura suddenly collapsed.

Dragon Tree Monk revealed the Great Demon God Statue’s role in Beitang Gong’s ancient plan to sever the Divine Continent’s Martial Dao Fortune. Meng Zhao realized the statue had likely been freed when the array was broken and questioned whether its long use had changed it.

• Dragon Tree Monk discovered the hidden Heavenly Being outside Little Cold Mountain Temple and abandoned any thought of fighting Meng Zhao and his ally.
• Dragon Tree Monk disclosed the identities and locations of those who had secretly contacted him, then explained the Great Demon God Statue’s place in Beitang Gong’s plan.
• Dragon Tree Monk said the Great Demon God had been suppressed during the primordial war between Gods and Devils and transformed into a statue.
• Meng Zhao connected the statue and the broken array to the disasters that had weakened Beitang Gong’s arrangements and made Martial Dao cultivation easier.
• Meng Zhao wondered whether the statue had mutated after serving for more than a century as the core suppressing the Divine Continent’s Martial Fortune.

Meng Zhao learned that the Great Demon God Statue might wield power beyond the Heaven-Illuminating Divine Mirror, then let Dragon Tree Monk leave after confirming he opposed Beitang Sheng. The statue’s purpose and Dragon Tree Monk’s history remained mysteries.

• Dragon Tree Monk told Meng Zhao that the Great Demon God Statue might still possess the power of a Great Demon God and that Beitang Sheng likely knew the most about it.
• Dragon Tree Monk rejected Meng Zhao’s offer to help, killed the remaining monks at Little Cold Mountain Temple to absorb their essence and spirit, and destroyed the temple before fleeing.
• Zhao Rulíng arrived and asked why Meng Zhao had not pursued Dragon Tree Monk; Meng Zhao changed back to his original appearance and recounted their conversation while withholding some details.
• Meng Zhao explained that Dragon Tree Monk and Beitang Sheng were not aligned, so pursuing him risked more than it could gain, and Zhao Rulíng agreed.
• Meng Zhao asked Zhao Rulíng about the Great Demon God Statue, but Zhao Rulíng had never heard of it and thought only the Beitang Imperial Clan’s core members might know of it.

Meng Zhao and Zhao Rulíng decided to return to the Land within the Passes after hunting down Beitang Sheng’s agents in the Arctic Ice Plains. Their final target’s protector confronted them and warned that their killings could bring the Hundred Clans’ wrath down on the Human Clan living there.

• Meng Zhao agreed with Zhao Rulíng that they should return, but first they would eliminate the agents Beitang Sheng had left in the Arctic Ice Plains.
• Meng Zhao and Zhao Rulíng spent several days killing the agents and disguising their deaths as accidents.
• After they killed the last person Dragon Tree Monk had identified, a powerful stranger pursued them across nearly two thousand li.
• The stranger warned Meng Zhao and Zhao Rulíng to stop before the Hundred Clans hunted them and endangered the Human Clan in the Arctic Ice Plains.
• The stranger revealed that he was a Human Clan protector who endured humiliation to safeguard the people living among the Hundred Clans.

Meng Zhao proposed recruiting Humans protected by the mysterious expert, arguing that their opposition to the Beitang Imperial Clan and Great Yong Dynasty could make them valuable allies. The mysterious expert questioned whether Meng Zhao understood the people and risks involved, and Meng Zhao urged him to seize the chance to return within the Passes.

• Meng Zhao reasoned that Humans who had fled to the Arctic Ice Plains might be strong potential allies against the Beitang Imperial Clan and Great Yong Dynasty.
• Meng Zhao explained that Beitang Sheng had paid the men he killed to contact Dragon Tree Monk, then asked the mysterious expert whether he could meet Humans with grievances against the Great Yong Dynasty.
• Meng Zhao proposed making friends with those Humans, and Zhao Rulíng realized he intended to recruit a force in the Arctic Ice Plains.
• The mysterious expert considered whether Meng Zhao had the power and courage to lead such a return, then asked about his identity, his knowledge of the Humans, and the risks ahead.
• Meng Zhao said the Land within Divine Continent Passes was in chaos and asked whether the mysterious expert wanted to seize the opportunity to return.

Meng Zhao revealed his identity as the Lord of the Northern Meng Dragon King to win the mysterious expert’s trust. The expert invited Meng Zhao and Zhao Rulíng to Sifang City to meet its leaders, leaving them curious about how a Human Clan city could survive on the Arctic Ice Plains.

• The mysterious expert doubted Meng Zhao’s proposal because the Human Clan lacked the strength to safely return to Divine Land Passes and challenge the Beitang Imperial Clan.
• Meng Zhao argued that the Beitang Imperial Clan had lost the people’s support and that families should seize the chance to gain influence before the Xin Dynasty was founded.
• Meng Zhao revealed that he was the Lord of the Northern Meng Dragon King, and the mysterious expert recognized him as a peerless Heavenly Being expert.
• The mysterious expert invited Meng Zhao and Zhao Rulíng to Sifang City to discuss cooperation with the city’s higher-ups.
• The mysterious expert explained that Sifang City gathered Human Clan residents to help them survive on the Arctic Ice Plains, while Meng Zhao and Zhao Rulíng wondered how it could withstand the Hundred Clans.

Lord Bei brought Meng Zhao and Zhao Rulíng to Sifang City, revealing a powerful array that transformed the Arctic landscape and a hidden city built into a mountain. He explained that the city was a mobile magical treasure designed to protect its inhabitants, leaving Meng Zhao impressed by its creators’ ingenuity.

• Lord Bei led Meng Zhao and Zhao Rulíng to a snow-covered mountain surrounded by lush vegetation and ferocious beasts.
• Meng Zhao and Zhao Rulíng examined the Nine-Nine Blazing Sun Grand Array, and Lord Bei explained how it altered the climate and helped the Human Clan survive in the Arctic Ice Plains.
• Meng Zhao and Zhao Rulíng discovered that the mountain concealed Sifang City, hollowed out and shaped into a city with a massive gate.
• Lord Bei explained that Sifang City could be uprooted and moved if danger arose.
• Lord Bei revealed that the city’s core was an iceberg of Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice, forged into a sturdy magical treasure and disguised as a snow mountain.

Lord Bei explained Sifang City's origins and introduced Meng Zhao to its ruling families, focusing on the Zhou Family's exile from the Great Yong Dynasty and its power in the Arctic Ice Plains. Meng Zhao learned that the Zhou Family controlled the Nine-Nine Blazing Sun Grand Array through its ancestral Pure Yang Blazing Fire Pearl.

• Meng Zhao asked Lord Bei about Sifang City's builder, and Lord Bei said Master Craftsman Xu had designed the city but left no successors.
• Lord Bei described Sifang City's three major families: the Zhou Family, the Fu Family, and the Zhang Family.
• Lord Bei recounted how the Zhou Family fled to the Arctic Ice Plains after backing the wrong side in the struggle for the throne and falling under the Beitang Imperial Clan's wrath.
• Meng Zhao recalled the Zhou Family's former status as a ducal house, its distant marriage connection to the Meng Family, and its bitter enmity with the Beitang Imperial Clan.
• Lord Bei explained that the Zhou Family retained a veteran army and powerful experts after reaching the Arctic Ice Plains.
• Lord Bei revealed that the Zhou Family's ancestral Pure Yang Blazing Fire Pearl was the key to controlling the Nine-Nine Blazing Sun Grand Array.

Lord Bei explained how the Zhou, Fu, and Zhang Families had come to dominate Sifang City and described their histories in the Arctic Ice Plains. He then told Meng Zhao and Zhao Rulíng that he traveled among the Hundred Clans to build alliances and had warned them to protect Sifang City from being implicated in their killings.

• Lord Bei explained that the Zhou Family controlled Sifang City’s Nine-Nine Blazing Sun Grand Array, while the Fu Family had built and overseen the city through their wealth, connections, and alliance with the Zhou Family.
• Lord Bei recounted how the Zhang Family had fled to the Arctic Ice Plains after Beitang Gong killed its head over a woman, and how the family later survived through its strength and connections.
• Lord Bei described the Zhang Family’s standing in Sifang City and identified himself as one of its members and a guardian of the city.
• Meng Zhao questioned why Lord Bei had pursued him and Zhao Rulíng after they killed the spies Beitang Sheng had bribed.
• Lord Bei said he traveled among the tribes and races to build ties for Sifang City, and had warned Meng Zhao and Zhao Rulíng because their actions might expose and endanger the Human Clan.

Meng Zhao and Zhao Rulíng explored Sifang City and questioned whether its people and resources could make it a useful ally. Lord Bei explained the city’s military system and why its harsh environment shaped everyone toward either Yang Fire or Cold Ice cultivation.

• Meng Zhao and Zhao Rulíng observed Sifang City’s districts, barter market, and harsh standard of living while remaining hidden by an illusion technique.
• Meng Zhao noticed the city had few young adults and children, and that its residents practiced only Yang Fire or Cold Ice cultivation.
• Meng Zhao told Lord Bei that he would not waste time seeking the Zhou, Fu, and Zhang families’ support if Sifang City had no military potential.
• Lord Bei explained that residents served in the military from age fourteen, while Sifang Camp, Pioneer Teams, and Hunting Teams kept young adults occupied.
• Lord Bei said the Nine-Nine Blazing Sun Grand Array and Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice gradually polarized residents’ constitutions, making Yang Fire or Cold Ice the natural cultivation paths.

Meng Zhao learned that Sifang City altered its residents’ physiques and accelerated cultivation, but the city’s Special Physiques were actually flawed pseudo-physiques bound to the city. Lord Bei explained two untested ways they might be improved, leaving the city’s potential uncertain.

• Meng Zhao asked Lord Bei how Sifang City’s altered physiques compared with bloodlines and Human Clan Special Physiques.
• Lord Bei explained that Sifang City residents gained affinity for fire and cold martial arts, faster cultivation, and a chance to develop a personal secret art, but received no Bloodline Divine Abilities.
• Lord Bei described Sifang City’s common pseudo-Special Physiques and noted that most of their bearers failed to advance far, with only one Pure Yang Body reaching the Celestial Being realm.
• Lord Bei said Sifang City’s pseudo-physiques were incomplete and bound to the city, and that residents had speculated about replacing their blood or improving the city itself.
• Lord Bei explained that neither proposal had been tested: the right people for blood replacement could not be found, and Master Craftsman Xu had left no successor to improve Sifang City.

Lord Bei guided Meng Zhao and Zhao Rulíng through Sifang City and explained how its three great families shared control through the City Lord and Elder Council. The chapter ended with Lord Bei revealing that, as a Celestial Realm expert and the city’s guardian, he stood outside the council’s authority.

• Lord Bei privately considered the hidden limitations of Sifang City's pseudo-Special Physiques and chose not to reveal them to Meng Zhao.
• Meng Zhao assessed Sifang City's potential, noting that its Special Physique heirs could eventually become powerful Grandmasters and Great Grandmasters.
• Lord Bei led Meng Zhao and Zhao Rulíng through the Zhang Family grounds toward the City Lord's Mansion.
• The chapter explained that the Zhou, Fu, and Zhang Families rotated the City Lord position under rules governing eligibility, tenure, and cultivation.
• The three families' nine-member Elder Council held authority over matters such as a City Lord's reappointment.
• Lord Bei told Meng Zhao that he was not an Elder Council member because his Celestial Realm status made him Sifang City's guardian.