Chapter Summaries

Murong Xiaoya fused with the Vermilion Bird Bone and gained powerful true flames, then killed Murong Fu after discovering he lied about the Murong Family’s destruction. She turned her attention to the stone door he had indicated.

• Murong Xiaoya placed the stone pearls in the Vermilion Bird’s eyes, and the sarcophagus dragged her inside as flames erupted through the cavern.
• A segment of Vermilion Bird Bone pierced Murong Xiaoya’s chest and fused with her, leaving her surrounded by scarlet-gold flames.
• Murong Xiaoya asked Murong Fu whether he had a role in the Murong Family’s destruction and attacked when her ability to detect lies revealed his denial was false.
• Murong Fu admitted defeat and pointed out a stone door, but Murong Xiaoya crushed his heart and absorbed the blood essence that flowed into her wound.
• Murong Xiaoya burned the drained Vermilion Bird sarcophagus to ash and looked toward the stone door.

Murong Xiaoya found her tortured elder brother imprisoned in the secret chamber and learned that Second Uncle had turned him into a vessel containing martial cultivation meant for her. After killing him at his request, she absorbed his blood essence and martial true qi, causing her power to rise dramatically.

• Murong Xiaoya blasted open the stone door and discovered her severely tortured elder brother chained to a rack.
• Her elder brother begged Murong Xiaoya to kill him and revealed that Second Uncle had filled his body with incompatible martial true qi to make him a cultivation vessel for her.
• Murong Xiaoya said the Murong Family was gone and told her elder brother she had already killed Second Uncle.
• Murong Xiaoya crushed her elder brother's heart, granting his wish for death, and his final warning was to watch out for Second Uncle.
• Murong Xiaoya absorbed her elder brother's blood essence and martial cultivation, causing her aura to surge and crimson-gold lava wings to form.

Murong Xiaoya emerged from the ruins of the Murong Estate with overwhelming power and killing intent. As Li Musheng and his companions headed for the Heavenly Brocade Guard Branch Office, she confronted the old man in brocade robes and the four great families’ disciples.

• Murong Xiaoya blasted through the cavern, donned a black robe, and vanished toward the ruins below.
• Hu Ruian and the others sensed Murong Xiaoya’s aura, and Li Musheng recognized it as hers but said she had changed drastically.
• Li Musheng proposed staying at the Heavenly Brocade Guard Branch Office and investigating its ghostly apparition, and the group set off there.
• The old man in brocade robes learned that Murong Xiaoya was the only member of the Murong Estate not yet dealt with.
• Murong Xiaoya appeared before the old man, who attacked her with a palm seal of true qi.

After the Murong Family’s destruction, Murong Xiaoya awakened a terrifying power, killed the men who remained at the estate, and vowed revenge on the four great families and Han Chuiyuan. At the Yuan Family estate, the survivors discussed dividing the Murong holdings and agreed to rebuild their strength, unaware of Murong Xiaoya’s threat.

• Murong Xiaoya killed the old man in brocade robes and the others by crushing their hearts, absorbed their essence blood, and burned their corpses to ash.
• Murong Xiaoya watched Li Musheng’s carriage leave, then swore to kill every member of the four great families and Han Chuiyuan before vanishing from Murong Estate.
• The Yuan Family’s elders debated dividing the Murong Family’s assets, and the Yuan Family head warned that further fighting would leave them vulnerable to outside forces.
• The Yuan Family Patriarch said Murong Hong’s final secret technique had only caused minor injuries and noted that the Murong Family’s two elders had already died.
• The Yuan Family head said Han Chuiyuan believed Li Musheng’s group came from the Great Li imperial court and would probably avoid martial-world disputes, while the Yuan Family Patriarch remained wary of the expert who had killed Baili Changfeng.

Murong Xiaoya slaughtered her way through the Yuan Residence, absorbing the blood essence of its members as her power grew. After she killed the Yuan Family head and ancestor, crimson-gold flames spread across the residence, trapping the fleeing elders and higher-ups.

• Murong Xiaoya entered the Yuan Residence and killed its members, absorbing their blood essence as she advanced toward its depths.
• The Yuan Family head discovered his dead wife and children and confronted Murong Xiaoya, who identified herself as Murong Hong's daughter and attacked him.
• Murong Xiaoya pierced the Yuan Family head's heart and absorbed his blood essence before the Yuan Family ancestor attacked her.
• Murong Xiaoya's crimson-gold flames consumed the ancestor and absorbed his blood essence, causing her aura to rise further.
• The Yuan Family higher-ups and elders fled as flames spread across the residence, but their hearts burst before they could escape the council hall courtyard.

Murong Xiaoya continued her vengeance by destroying the Yuan, Zhu, and Cen Families, then confronted the Baili Family and overwhelmed its members with her power. The Baili Family ancestor and Baili Changfeng’s younger brother were left suspended and helpless before her.

• Murong Xiaoya left the burning Yuan estate and soon exterminated the Zhu and Cen Clans, killing everyone there.
• A messenger told the Baili Family that the Yuan, Zhu, and Cen estates were burning and no one had emerged from them.
• Murong Xiaoya appeared outside the Baili Family hall after a clansman's heart suddenly exploded.
• Murong Xiaoya told the Baili Family that she had wiped out the other three great families.
• Murong Xiaoya lifted Baili Changfeng's younger brother into the air and burned away the Baili Family ancestor's ability to draw on surrounding true qi.
• Murong Xiaoya restrained both men and left them asking in shock who she was.

Murong Xiaoya trapped Mei Yanyu and a Falling God Peak man in the burning Baili Estate, killed the Baili Family ancestors and absorbed the estate’s essence blood. She demanded to know the connection between the Mei family and Falling God Peak, and the middle-aged man finally revealed that they were secretly allied.

• Murong Xiaoya killed the Baili Family ancestors and drew their essence blood, along with blood from across the estate, into herself.
• Murong Xiaoya set the Baili Estate ablaze and demanded that Mei Yanyu explain the relationship between the Mei family and Falling God Peak.
• Mei Yanyu tried to plead for mercy, but Murong Xiaoya sent flames after him and the middle-aged man as an old man’s silver true-qi hand descended to intervene.
• Murong Xiaoya’s fire python shattered the silver hand, and Elder Mu appeared beside Mei Yanyu.
• The middle-aged man, burned by Murong Xiaoya’s flames, revealed that Falling God Peak and the Mei family were secretly allied.

Hu Ruian led Li Musheng and the others into the Heavenly Brocade Guard Branch Office to investigate the ghosts he had seen, but their search of the hall revealed nothing unusual. Li Musheng then spotted cat paw prints on a wall and asked the others to examine them.

• Cao Gaoshan opened the gates, and Hu Ruian led the group to the little hall where he had seen a ghostly shadow and heard laughter.
• A large black cat emerged from the hall, and Li Musheng petted it while Hu Ruian and Shen Anran suspected it might be connected to the ghosts.
• Hu Ruian opened the hall and searched its storeroom with the others, but they found no clues or signs that anything had been disturbed.
• Li Musheng noticed cat paw prints on a wall and asked Hu Ruian and the others what seemed wrong about them.

Hu Ruian and the others followed a mysterious black cat into the Heavenly Brocade Guard dungeon, where they found an old woman and a bloodstained booklet. The chapter ended with Hu Ruian identifying the booklet as a list of the dead.

• Shen Anran noticed the cat paw prints led upward, and the black cat retrieved a bundle from a hidden opening in the beams.
• Hu Ruian tried to seize the cat with martial true qi, but the attack vanished, and Li Musheng told the group to follow it.
• The black cat led Hu Ruian, Li Musheng, Wu Shang, and the others into the Heavenly Brocade Guard dungeon and stopped at a cell containing an old woman.
• Hu Ruian asked whether the old woman had staged the ghostly appearances, and she denied being a ghost or monster.
• Hu Ruian opened the bundle and found a bloodstained booklet that he identified as a list of the dead.

Hu Ruian and Li Musheng questioned an old woman about a bloodstained list of villages and towns the Heavenly Brocade Guard had wiped out. She claimed the victims were innocent people hunted because they might include Divine-Natured Persons, and said Falling God Peak had been founded to kill them; Li Musheng doubted her story.

• Hu Ruian explained that the death list named nearly thirty places in Sheng Province that Heavenly Brocade Guard experts had eradicated over five years.
• The old woman offered to explain the list, and Li Musheng agreed to hear her out while the large black cat settled beside him.
• The old woman said the dead were innocent people, but the Heavenly Brocade Guard had killed entire communities to ensure it eliminated any Divine-Natured Persons among them.
• The old woman asked whether the group knew Falling God Peak's origins, and Wu Shang recounted the common tale of its founder killing a peerless Martial God.
• The old woman said Falling God Peak's name referred to Divine-Natured Persons and claimed its founder had ordered their extermination after learning the sect would be destroyed by one.
• Li Musheng questioned the reliability of the old woman's account.

The old woman explained that the Heavenly Brocade Guard had hunted people with divine nature and that its hauntings were tied to survivors seeking revenge. She admitted she was one of them and said her group was also searching Sheng Province for a hidden person with divine nature, leaving Li Musheng demanding proof of her innate abilities.

• The old woman claimed Falling God Peak secretly ordered the killing of people with divine nature, which the Heavenly Brocade Guard carried out using records of strange heavenly phenomena.
• Hu Ruian questioned how the old woman knew about the secret and asked whether the hauntings and her imprisonment were connected to people with divine nature.
• The old woman said the Heavenly Brocade Guard had killed nearly all the young people with divine nature over five years, provoking survivors to seek revenge.
• The old woman admitted she was a person with divine nature and said her group had come to Sheng Province both to take revenge and to find another hidden person with divine nature.
• The old woman accused Mei Yan and the Mei family of aiding Falling God Peak, while Cheng Zhong asked why the group had not attacked them that day.
• Li Musheng asked the old woman to demonstrate her innate divine abilities so they could verify her claims.

Li Musheng and Hu Ruian heard an old woman’s explanation about the people of divinity and her claims about Falling God Peak and the Mei family. After she demonstrated her ability by apparently dying and sending a strange power away, Li Musheng decided they would resolve the Heavenly Brocade Guard’s affairs that night.

• The old woman asked whether the Great Li court had ordered the Heavenly Brocade Guard in Sheng Province to advance toward Lanzhou to target Falling God Peak, and Li Musheng confirmed it.
• Hu Ruian suggested that the old woman’s people could help the Heavenly Brocade Guard take revenge on Falling God Peak, while Li Musheng challenged Hu Ruian’s attempt to seek allies.
• The old woman fell dead, and Li Musheng sensed a strange power leave her body and concluded that she likely controlled others or corpses through her soul.
• Hu Ruian and Cheng Zhong doubted that they could trust the old woman’s claims, but agreed to investigate the alleged ties between Falling God Peak and the Mei family.
• Hu Ruian planned to handle the deployment order the next day, but Li Musheng said they would settle everything that night.

Li Musheng agreed to help Hu Ruian resolve Sheng Province’s affairs quickly and headed with the others to confront the Mei family. Elsewhere, a group of disguised figures learned that a powerful young man involved in the campaign against Falling God Peak was a Great Li prince, though they did not know which one.

• Li Musheng decided to help settle Sheng Province’s affairs and agreed to visit the Mei family, while the large black cat followed him out of the dungeon.
• Hu Ruian, Shen Anran, and the others rode with Li Musheng toward the Mei Residence, where he allowed the cat to join them.
• A plump woman reported to her companions that she had explained everything to Li Musheng and that their Little Sister was likely with him.
• The plump woman revealed that Great Li intended to move against Falling God Peak and that a prince was personally involved.
• The elder questioned whether the young man could truly be a Great Li prince, since his formidable martial cultivation had no known reputation in the martial world.

Wu Yong, Sui Zhen, Lin Tang, and Lin Yue Ru discussed the Great Li court’s possible move against Falling God Peak and planned to report it to their cult. At the Baili Family residence, Murong Xiaoya killed Mei Yanyu and a Falling God Peak man, then confronted Mei Yanyu’s old servant as he attacked her.

• Sui Zhen suggested that the cult exploit a conflict between the Great Li court and Falling God Peak to seize the divine blood stored at the peak.
• Wu Yong ordered the group to report the news and have Momo secretly monitor the prince’s party, though Lin Tang warned that their little sister might not cooperate.
• Mei Yanyu explained the relationship between the Mei family and Falling God Peak to Murong Xiaoya and denied that the Mei family had joined the siege of the Murong Family.
• Murong Xiaoya killed the burned Falling God Peak man and then exposed Mei Yanyu’s lies before exploding his heart; her flames burned his old servant’s attempt to save him to ash.
• Mei Yanyu’s old servant attacked Murong Xiaoya, but she summoned a Vermilion Bird phantom whose flames began burning his raised hand to ash.

Murong Xiaoya killed the old servant and set her sights on Han Chuiyuan, while her uncle watched the destruction of the Yuan Family estate and plotted to steal her Vermilion Bird Bone. Li Musheng arrived at Mei Residence, stopped Mu Qingxia from rushing to her son’s aid, and ordered the Heavenly Brocade Guard transfer to proceed that night.

• Murong Xiaoya killed the old servant, absorbed his essence blood, and declared that Han Chuiyuan was her remaining target.
• A coarse-clothed old man watched the burning Yuan Family estate and plotted to devour Murong Xiaoya’s Vermilion Bird Bone and claim her power.
• Li Musheng arrived at Mei Residence and immobilized the martial artists attempting to flee.
• Hu Ruian identified Mu Qingxia as Cloud-Rainbow Lady and learned that she was rushing to save her son, Mei Yanyu.
• Li Musheng revealed that he had sealed Mu Qingxia’s acupoints and ordered Hu Ruian to take her back to Mei Residence and arrange the transfer to Lanzhou that night.

Li Musheng and Hu Ruian forced their way into Mei Residence to make Mei Yan order the Heavenly Brocade Guard of Sheng Province to depart for Lanzhou. Li Musheng began torturing Mei Yan when he resisted, leaving Hu Ruian and the others to handle the demands while he watched from a pavilion.

• Li Musheng immobilized Mu Qingxia, and Hu Ruian carried her into Mei Residence with Li Musheng and the others following.
• The household guards surrounded Hu Ruian and his companions, then Mei Yan arrived and offered to discuss matters if they released Mu Qingxia.
• Hu Ruian demanded that Mei Yan order the Heavenly Brocade Guard of Sheng Province to leave for Lanzhou overnight.
• Mei Yan refused to agree before Mu Qingxia was released, so Li Musheng lifted him into the air and inflicted agonizing pain with a talisman.
• Li Musheng left Hu Ruian, Shen Anran, Wu Shang, and the others to deal with Mei Yan while he sat in a pavilion with the black cat.

With Mei Yan under the Life-Death Seal, his orders sent the Heavenly Brocade Guard toward Lanzhou while Sheng Province’s great families burned. Han Chuiyuan sent a messenger away with a letter and faced Murong Xiaoya, who overwhelmed his spear and began burning him alive.

• Mei Yan confessed everything under the Life-Death Seal, and orders issued in his name sent the Heavenly Brocade Guard toward Lanzhou.
• An attendant told Han Chuiyuan that the Yuan, Zhu, and Cen families had been wiped out, and a blaze rose over the Baili Family.
• Han Chuiyuan sent a subordinate to deliver a letter to the imperial palace and watched disguised people escort women, children, and elders out of the city.
• Han Chuiyuan summoned his Azure-Gold Coiling Dragon Spear and charged toward the Baili Family as Murong Xiaoya turned to confront him.
• Han Chuiyuan attacked Murong Xiaoya with his spear, but she dissolved it with her Vermilion Bird flames and set his body ablaze.

Murong Xiaoya burned Han Chuiyuan to death, but her thirst for revenge remained, and she headed for the Han Residence. Elsewhere, Han Chuiyuan’s sons learned of his apparent death, while Hu Ruian and the others discussed Murong Xiaoya’s sudden rise in strength and the Heavenly Brocade Guard’s transfer.

• Murong Xiaoya burned Han Chuiyuan to ashes, absorbed the essence blood that remained, and declared that his death was not enough before setting off toward the Han Residence.
• On the road outside the provincial city, Han Song and Han Fu discussed their father’s orders and Han Fu’s master, Old Man Wuxiang.
• The old man sensed that something had happened to General Han, and Han Song, Han Fu, and Xu Qingcang saw the spear light above the city disappear beneath crimson-gold flames.
• At the Mei Residence, Wu Shang and Hu Ruian recognized Murong Xiaoya’s terrifying power, and Li Musheng speculated that a treasure might be behind her transformation.
• Hu Ruian told Mei Yan and his wife that the Heavenly Brocade Guard of Sheng Province would transfer to Lanzhou and asked how to deal with the two of them.

Li Musheng ordered Mei Yan and Mu Qingxia killed, and the black cat swiftly killed Mei Yan while Hu Ruian struck down Mu Qingxia. After Hu Ruian discussed the consequences with the others, Cheng Zhong suddenly attacked him with an icy burst of true qi.

• Li Musheng told Hu Ruian to kill Mei Yan and Mu Qingxia rather than waste time dealing with their crimes.
• The black cat slashed Mei Yan's throat and killed him as the others watched.
• Hu Ruian killed Mu Qingxia with a palm strike, then worried that Mu Tianxing would seek revenge.
• Li Musheng and the others reassured Hu Ruian about the consequences of killing Mu Qingxia.
• Cheng Zhong spat an icy glint of true qi at Hu Ruian, and its explosion split Hu Ruian's palm.

Li Musheng foiled Old Man Wuxiang’s attempt to control Shen Anran, Wu Shang, and Cheng Zhong, then captured him and recognized his Formless Puppet Technique. Old Man Wuxiang learned that Li Musheng himself was the powerful expert he had feared, while Li Musheng imposed the Life-Death Seal on him.

• Hu Ruian was caught off guard by Cheng Zhong’s attack as Wu Shang struck at Shen Anran, but Shen Anran deflected Wu Shang’s sword and Li Musheng caught her.
• Shen Anran suddenly attacked Li Musheng, but he seized the hidden servant with a palm of true qi and pinned him to the ground.
• Shen Anran, Wu Shang, and Cheng Zhong realized they had been controlled and could not remember choosing to attack.
• Li Musheng recognized the captive as Old Man Wuxiang, identified his Formless Puppet Technique, and struck him with the Life-Death Seal.
• Old Man Wuxiang realized that Li Musheng was the expert who had killed Baili Changfeng and marveled at the prince’s strength.