Chapter Summaries

Dragon City used the Yin-Yang Inverted Chaotic Jade Ring Steps to evade Zhuo Mufeng’s attacks, then revealed thin gloves and began fighting the Phoenix Wing Censer head-on. Zhuo Mufeng condensed the Fire Phoenix’s power into a smaller, faster, more destructive form, leaving their clash unresolved.

• Li Li asked the martial arts masters to identify Dragon City’s footwork, but only Liang Muqiu recognized it as the Yin-Yang Inverted Chaotic Jade Ring Steps.
• As the Phoenix Wing Censer grew stronger and Zhuo Mufeng’s momentum increased, Dragon City decided that evasion alone would not win the fight.
• Dragon City revealed his hands and struck the Golden Phoenix with qi radiance, shocking the onlookers with his ability to meet the Divine Weapon’s attacks.
• A spectator noticed that Dragon City wore thin, skin-colored gloves, and Dragon City used his gloves and footwork to repel the Phoenix Wing Censer’s assaults.
• Zhuo Mufeng shrank the Fire Phoenix while concentrating its flames, making it more agile and destructive as the battle continued.

Dragon City and Zhuo Mufeng continued their deadly duel, with Zhuo relying on the Phoenix Wing Censer while its strain weakened his control. Dragon City led the fight onto Mingxiu Lake, where the terrain favored his water-based cultivation, and the battle raged on through thick fog.

• After more than forty exchanges, Dragon City sensed that his superior stamina and reserves gave him the advantage over Zhuo Mufeng.
• Dragon City knocked away the Phoenix Wing Censer and moved onto Mingxiu Lake, prompting Zhuo Mufeng to pursue him despite the water's disadvantage to his fire-based weapon.
• As Zhuo Mufeng's mental strength dwindled, the Phoenix Wing Censer's Weapon Spirit began to awaken and his control over the weapon weakened.
• On the lake, Dragon City used the Jade Ring Steps and his water-related cultivation to conserve strength, while Zhuo Mufeng's fire techniques produced thick steam and drained him further.
• Their battle continued amid dense fog and crashing waves as the hundreds of spectators followed the fight by listening and sensing the fighters' auras.

Dragon City defeated and killed Zhuo Mufeng in their life-and-death battle, then returned the Phoenix Wing Censer and Zhuo Mufeng’s head to the Zhuo Family. Meng Zhao learned that Dragon City’s strange saber technique might be the Dragon-Slaying Saber, which he feared could restrain his Purple Origin Dragon Body.

• Meng Zhao sensed a sharp aura from the battle and asked Liang Muqiu what she had detected.
• Liang Muqiu identified the aura as a living saber technique that drew on its victims’ life force, and Meng Zhao suspected it was the Dragon-Slaying Saber.
• The fog cleared to reveal Dragon City holding Zhuo Mufeng’s severed head and the Phoenix Wing Censer after winning the fight.
• Dragon City returned Zhuo Mufeng’s head and the divine weapon to the Zhuo Family and offered an apology.
• The two Old Men in Silver Robes declared Dragon City the winner and warned both families against seeking revenge.

Dragon City confronted Liang Muqiu about her connection to the Lei Family while ignoring Meng Zhao, who chose to leave rather than answer him. After a spectator called Meng Zhao a coward, Han Pu killed the man with a silent blade strike, leaving the crowd horrified.

• Dragon City approached Meng Zhao's group and questioned Liang Muqiu about being Mu Qing, Eldest Brother of the Seven Freaks of Minshan, subordinates of the Lei Family of Ji Prefecture.
• Liang Muqiu looked to Meng Zhao for guidance, and Meng Zhao, suspecting the Ding Family might be backing Dragon City, told his group to leave.
• A young man mocked Meng Zhao as a coward, hoping to damage his reputation and spite the Meng Family.
• Han Pu killed the young man with a silent blade qi strike, splitting him at the waist and horrifying the gathered crowd.

After Han Pu killed a young man who insulted Meng Zhao, Meng Zhao defended his subordinate while warning the dead man's family not to provoke him. Wang Xuanjing then demanded that Han Pu apologize publicly, revealing that powerful forces in Lingwu City were moving against Meng Zhao.

• Han Pu killed the foul-mouthed youth with a brutal strike, and the gathered forces reacted with hostility and alarm.
• An elder condemned Han Pu to Meng Zhao, who said he would punish his subordinate but warned that the youth had brought the consequences upon himself.
• Meng Zhao's icy warning frightened the head of the small family, whose supposed allies refused to help him.
• The Old Man in Silver Robes swallowed his displeasure rather than openly challenge Meng Zhao.
• Wang Xuanjing demanded that Han Pu apologize publicly, and Lü Yue identified him as a powerful Wang Family leader close to the Ding Family.
• Meng Zhao realized Wang Xuanjing and the others were using the killing as a pretext to curb his growing influence.

Meng Zhao rejected demands to make Han Pu apologize and instead challenged Wang Xuanjing, invoking his uncle’s power as Earl of Nan'an. The confrontation left the crowd shaken, and several forces reconsidered joining the Wang Family against him.

• Meng Zhao decided that publicly condemning Han Pu would undermine his authority and chose not to compromise.
• Liang Muqiu, Han Pu, Lü Yue, Han Lu, and the others showed their trust in Meng Zhao, while Li Li, Zhai Hao, and Kui Gang worried about the danger he faced.
• Wang Xuanjing demanded that Meng Zhao discipline Han Pu, but Meng Zhao told him the Wang Family should declare war if it was dissatisfied.
• Wang Xuanjing threatened to drive Meng Zhao from Lingwu City unless he apologized, and Meng Zhao mocked him and warned that his uncle could destroy the Wang Family.
• Wang Xuanjing prepared to order his experts to attack, but onlookers reconsidered joining his camp to suppress Meng Zhao.

Meng Zhao rejected the Old Man in Silver Robes’ attempt to make him discipline Han Pu, while Han Pu unexpectedly froze after meeting a Wang Family girl’s gaze. Han Lu suspected her second brother had fallen for the girl and quietly shared her guess with Meng Zhao.

• Wang Xuanjing ordered his experts to seize Meng Zhao, but the Old Man in Silver Robes struck an acupoint to calm him and then urged Meng Zhao to punish Han Pu.
• Han Pu privately admitted that the elder’s criticism might be right, but Meng Zhao stopped him with a cold look and rejected the proposed compromise.
• A Wang Family girl objected that Han Pu had killed someone in public, then feared his reaction and looked at him pleadingly.
• Han Pu met the girl’s gaze, lost his killing intent, and lowered his head as his heart pounded.
• Han Lu noticed Han Pu’s reaction, guessed he had fallen for the Wang Family girl, and quietly transmitted her suspicion to Meng Zhao.

Meng Zhao invoked his authority as a Heavenly Dipper Guard to justify the execution and threatened to portray the dead man's clan as traitors. His threats frightened Lingwu City's factions into backing away, while Han Pu's feelings for the Wang Family girl remained apparent.

• Meng Zhao explained to the Wang Family girl that martial-world killings fell outside ordinary law and that his imperial rank gave him authority to order the execution.
• The girl challenged Meng Zhao because Han Pu had killed the man, but she backed down when Meng Zhao claimed responsibility for giving the order.
• Meng Zhao told the Old Man in Silver Robes that slandering him amounted to treason against the Great Emperor and suggested the dead man had ties to the southern rebels.
• The dead man's clan panicked as Meng Zhao's threat of accusing them of treason became clear.
• The Zhuo Family, Ding Family, Xun Family, and other factions grew wary and abandoned their plans to provoke Meng Zhao and the Meng Family.

Meng Zhao confronted Dragon City over his hostility and his questions about the Seven Freaks of Minshan. He confirmed that the Seven Freaks now served him and openly challenged Lei Wanche, leaving Lingwu City’s onlookers stunned by his defiance.

• Dragon City accused Meng Zhao of driving people to extinction, and Meng Zhao challenged him over his hostility and his rude treatment of Liang Muqiu.
• Dragon City explained that he had asked about the Seven Freaks of Minshan because Marquis Bei Ning wanted his former retainers seized and punished.
• Meng Zhao confirmed that the Seven Freaks worked under him and argued that they had chosen a better lord after leaving the Lei Family.
• Meng Zhao told Dragon City to relay to Lei Wanche that he remembered the assassination attempt and would come to challenge him in person.
• The crowd and Dragon City were stunned by Meng Zhao’s fearless declaration.

Meng Zhao confronted Dragon City over the Lei Family’s treatment of the Seven Freaks of Minshan, but Dragon City revealed that the Lei Family had prepared an ambush. Twelve powerful experts emerged from Mingxiu Lake and surrounded Meng Zhao’s party, leaving his allies fearing they had no way out.

• Meng Zhao argued that the Seven Freaks had repaid the Lei Family’s kindness and warned Dragon City not to stand in his way.
• Dragon City said the Lei Family intended to clean house, then roared and summoned twelve experts from Mingxiu Lake.
• The twelve experts surrounded Meng Zhao, Liang Muqiu, and the others, forming an array of scarlet lightning.
• Dragon City warned Lingwu City’s assembled forces not to interfere in the dispute between the Lei and Meng families.
• Han Lu, Zhu’er, Lü Yue, Han Pu, Cao Zhan, and Zhou Hu feared for Meng Zhao and prepared themselves for the possibility of death.

Meng Zhao realized Dragon City and the Lei Family had lured him into a trap and prepared his companions to stay safe while he faced the attackers. He then tore apart the array reinforced by the Lei Family’s twelve Innate Realm Warriors, leaving all twelve injured and flying through the air.

• Meng Zhao suspected Dragon City and the Lei Family had arranged the confrontation to kill him, and he instructed his companions to protect one another while he handled the fight.
• Meng Zhao urged Lü Yue, Cao Zhan, and Zhou Hu to grow stronger after they felt ashamed at being unable to fight beside him.
• Meng Zhao’s battle intent spread across Mingxiu Lake as he declared his ambition to make the world recognize his rise.
• Meng Zhao vanished and reappeared before the array’s scarlet lightning Energy Wall, then ripped it apart with his bare hands.
• The array’s twelve Innate Realm Warriors suffered a powerful backlash and were sent flying as they spat blood.

Meng Zhao shattered the Lei Family warriors’ formation and killed one of them after the man transformed his arms into beast claws. Studying the corpse, Meng Zhao suspected the Lei Family had developed a method to imitate the powers of a Special Physique, leaving the secret behind the transformation unresolved.

• Meng Zhao found the flaw in the Bloodlight Nether Spring Formation and broke it with one strike, injuring all twelve Lei Family warriors.
• Meng Zhao pursued one wounded warrior as the man’s arms transformed into furred beast claws and he attacked with bloodlight.
• Meng Zhao shattered the warrior’s claws, tore apart his arm, and killed him with a strike to the forehead.
• Meng Zhao examined the severed arm and sensed that its lingering power came from the blood rather than true qi.
• Meng Zhao suspected the Lei Family had developed a secret method to imitate Special Physique powers.

Meng Zhao defeated one of the Lei Family’s transformed Innate Realm Warriors and set his sights on taking their secret art for his forces. The remaining warriors had transformed into monstrous forms, and Meng Zhao captured the stone-bodied fighter alive.

• After the first warrior’s blood power drained away, Meng Zhao examined his altered arms and decided the Lei Family’s secret art could strengthen his followers.
• The remaining eleven Lei Family warriors transformed into beasts and monsters, drawing shocked reactions from the gathered onlookers.
• A great monk from Qianhuan Temple condemned the Lei Family’s method, while Meng Zhao resolved to seize its research findings.
• Meng Zhao attacked the stone-bodied warrior with his North Sea Dragon Fighting Hand, then reshaped his palm strike into chains of qi that cracked the warrior’s rocky form.
• The stone-bodied warrior shrank back to normal, and Meng Zhao announced that he had captured him.

Meng Zhao overwhelmed the Lei Family’s remaining Innate Realm Warriors after they attacked him together, revealing a colossal True Dragon Dharma Form. The crowd was left stunned by its immense size and power, while the source of the energy sustaining it remained unknown.

• Meng Zhao captured a second Lei Family warrior alive and drew admiration from Dragon City's young spectators, while Dragon City grew wary of him.
• Dragon City ordered the ten remaining Lei Family warriors to attack Meng Zhao together so he could not defeat them one by one.
• Meng Zhao summoned a fifteen-zhang True Dragon Dharma Form infused with true qi, dragon blood, and Ziwei Star Power.
• Meng Zhao used Divine Dragon Tail Sweep to crush all ten opponents’ Dharma Forms and severely injure them, then had them pulled to Han Pu's side.
• The crowd reacted with shock as Meng Zhao's Dharma Form dwarfed and outclassed the warriors', and onlookers wondered how he could sustain its immense energy cost.

Meng Zhao effortlessly defeated the Lei Family’s Twelve Innate Realm Warriors and revealed a foundation that astonished the gathered powers. As Dragon City warned that the Lei Family would not let him go, a strange beast erupted from Mingxiu Lake and sent the lakeshore into turmoil.

• Meng Zhao dispersed his immense True Dragon Dharma Form after defeating the Lei Family’s Twelve Innate Realm Warriors, while Song Zhiwen and Li Li marveled at his foundation.
• Meng Zhao remained wary that the Lei Family still had hidden strength, and Dragon City praised his martial arts before denying involvement in his conflict with the Lei Family.
• Dragon City warned Meng Zhao that the Lei Family would not spare him, and a black shadow suddenly lunged from Mingxiu Lake at Meng Zhao’s chest.
• Meng Zhao’s brow eye summoned illusory armor that repelled the attack, wounding the creature and forcing it back into the lake.
• Mingxiu Lake and its shore began to shake as the unseen beast howled, and Wang Xuanjing asked the Old Man in Silver Robes what it was.

A Green Frog Poison Newt attacked Meng Zhao with its poisonous tongue, and the onlookers wondered how he had stopped it. Meng Zhao recognized the creature as a rare resource for Young Flood Dragon Little Nine and hoped to claim its poison pellet.

• The Old Man in Silver Robes identified the green blood and corroded ground as signs of a Green Frog Poison Newt’s poisonous tongue.
• Wang Xuanjing and the crowd withdrew from Mingxiu Lake as they discussed how the Lei Family could have captured or tamed such a beast.
• Dragon City concluded that Meng Zhao had powerful hidden defenses and considered whether Sleeve Green Dragon could kill him.
• Meng Zhao realized the Green Frog Poison Newt’s poison pellet could accelerate Young Flood Dragon Little Nine’s growth and provide him with another trump card.

Meng Zhao plunged into Mingxiu Lake to fight the Green Frog Poison Newt while his allies guarded the shore. Han Pu foiled a hidden-needle attack and revealed the Changyang Divine Saber’s formidable power.

• Meng Zhao dove into Mingxiu Lake, and the Old Man in Silver Robes warned Wang Xuanjing that Meng Zhao’s subordinates could be vulnerable.
• Liang Muqiu’s group took up defensive positions on the shore, understanding that Meng Zhao intended to conceal Young Flood Dragon Little Nine.
• Han Pu sensed silver Heart-piercing Needles flying from the crowd and knocked them aside with the Changyang Divine Saber.
• A Heart-piercing Needle struck a Ding Family junior, and a Ding Family expert cut it out before it could reach the young man’s heart.
• Han Pu detected the attackers and unleashed a saber strike that overwhelmed the crowd, revealing the Changyang Divine Saber as an authentic Earth-tier Divine Weapon.

Han Pu used the Changyang Divine Saber and Star Power to protect Han Lu, Zhu'er, and Liang Muqiu from the Lei Family’s attackers. The chapter left him clashing alone with three powerful Innate Masters as their strike tore open the earth and sent water rushing from Mingxiu Lake.

• Han Pu killed two hidden Lei Family attackers with his saber, frightening the Wang Family’s young lady and drawing the attention of Lingwu City’s saber masters.
• Three Lei Family Innate Masters revealed their lightning Real Forms and charged toward Han Lu and Zhu'er.
• Han Pu held back Liang Muqiu, fearing more enemies might still be concealed nearby, and drew strength from the stars as the Changyang Divine Saber responded to him.
• Han Pu unleashed Burning Heaven Five Absolutes, Burning Mountain Form, raising a blazing phantom mountain to block the three attackers.
• The three lightning Real Forms smashed into Han Pu’s blazing mountain, ripping open a ravine that reached Mingxiu Lake and unleashing a tremendous blast and hurricane.

Han Pu defended Han Lu and the others from three Lei Family Innate Masters while Liang Muqiu guarded against hidden attackers. The Lei Family’s strongest backup, Sixth Uncle Lei, was found dead in the crowd, leaving his killer unknown.

• Han Pu blocked the three Lei Family Innate Masters’ combined attack but suffered internal injuries, while Liang Muqiu stayed behind to guard Han Lu and the others.
• The leading Lei Family expert offered Han Pu a place in the family, but Han Pu refused and stood ready to protect the group.
• The Lei Family expert called for Sixth Uncle Lei, a Half-step Grandmaster, but received no answer, and the crowd began searching for signs of him.
• A youth spotted an elderly man in black brocade robes who had died without visible wounds, and the crowd cleared around him.
• The three Lei Family Innate Masters recognized the corpse as Sixth Uncle Lei, and their leader confirmed that he was dead.

Meng Zhao returned from Mingxiu Lake to find Sixth Uncle Lei dead and learned that the Lei Family had attacked Han Pu and the others. With the Lei Family’s strongest fighter gone and the Ding Family refusing to help, Meng Zhao prepared to finish off the three remaining Innate experts.

• The Lei Family blamed the Meng Family for Sixth Uncle Lei’s unexplained death, while Han Pu and the others gained a moment to recover.
• Meng Zhao emerged from Mingxiu Lake after defeating the Green Frog Poison Newt and left Young Flood Dragon Little Nine to feed on its remains.
• Liang Muqiu told Meng Zhao what had happened, and Meng Zhao treated Han Pu’s injuries before sizing up the Lei Family survivors.
• Meng Zhao connected the Lei Family’s trap to its failed attack and resolved to kill the three remaining Lei Family experts.
• The Lei Family’s leader appealed to the Ding Family for aid, but they stayed out of the fight as Meng Zhao unleashed the North Sea Dragon Fighting Hand.