Chapter Summaries

Venerable Redfire’s overwhelming display above Hundred Refinement City made Falling God Peak’s enemies fear for Li Musheng while its disciples celebrated, believing victory was assured. Wu Yong, Sui Zhen, Lin Tang, and the others halted on their way to the city, stunned by the flames.

• Fu Qiwen and Hu Ruian saw Redfire’s pillar of fire and feared for Li Musheng, but Fu Qiwen decided they were too far away to help and put away an azure jade box.
• Falling God Peak’s disciples regained their spirits after Redfire acted, while the six peak masters watched the flames from afar.
• Jade-Faced Beauty asked Ouyang Mingqi to help her deal with the Heavenly Brocade Guard’s former commander, and he agreed in exchange for a Divine Origin Pill.
• Ouyang Mingqi judged the Young Sect Master arrogant for not waiting for Redfire to act.
• Wu Yong stopped Sui Zhen, Lin Tang, and their companions as they approached Hundred Refinement City, and all four stared in disbelief at Redfire’s display.

Momo ignored the warnings of Lin Tang, Lin Yue Ru, Wu Yong, and Sui Zhen and headed toward Hundred Refinement City, while they abandoned their plan to infiltrate Falling God Peak. There, Li Musheng faced Scarlet Fire Venerable, whose powerful flame attacks repeatedly vanished three feet from him.

• Momo plunged into the shrubs toward Hundred Refinement City despite the group’s warnings, and Lin Tang, Lin Yue Ru, Wu Yong, and Sui Zhen withdrew.
• Scarlet Fire Venerable filled the sky above Hundred Refinement City with flames and demanded to know whether Li Musheng had killed his senior brother’s disciple.
• Li Musheng studied Scarlet Fire Venerable’s divine fire ability and reflected on how Divine-Natured People commanded the power of heaven and earth.
• Scarlet Fire Venerable attacked Li Musheng with spiraling flames, fire crows, and faster scarlet flames, but every attack vanished three feet from Li Musheng.

Li Musheng effortlessly endured Scarlet Fire Venerable’s increasingly powerful flames, then seized the Earthheart Flame Core and killed him. Afterward, Li Musheng tested the core against his Indestructible Golden Body and considered how to strengthen it further.

• Scarlet Fire Venerable gathered the flames above Hundred Fragrances Pavilion into a massive fire form and repeatedly attacked Li Musheng, but neither he nor the pavilion was harmed.
• Scarlet Fire Venerable condensed his flames into a smaller, more powerful form and unleashed the Earthheart Flame Core, but Li Musheng appeared unharmed beside him.
• Li Musheng explained that Scarlet Fire Venerable lacked understanding of the deeper principles behind martial power, then took control of the flame core and drained away Scarlet Fire Venerable’s flames.
• Scarlet Fire Venerable attacked Li Musheng with martial true qi, but Li Musheng’s Indestructible Golden Body repelled him, and Li Musheng killed him with a thread of true qi.
• Li Musheng tested the Earthheart Flame Core against his Indestructible Golden Body; it warmed his palm but caused no injury, and its black flame patterns merged with his golden radiance.

Li Musheng killed Scarlet Fire Venerable and absorbed his divine blood, leaving Lin Xun'er and her grandfather stunned by his strength. A black-clad elder reported Scarlet Fire Venerable’s death to Falling God Peak, and its sect leader noticed the signal as the chapter ended.

• Li Musheng crushed Scarlet Fire Venerable’s black fire core, drew out his divine blood, and returned to the roof of Hundred Fragrances Pavilion to cultivate.
• Lin Xun'er and the old man in hemp clothes discussed Li Musheng’s overwhelming strength and anticipated revenge against Falling God Peak.
• An old man in black sensed Scarlet Fire Venerable’s death and decided not to enter Hundred Refinement City without the sect leader and two Martial Uncles.
• The old man in black sent a cloud of cyan rock dust toward Falling God Peak’s main peak as a signal.
• Falling God Peak’s sect leader saw the distant plume of dust and looked toward Hundred Refinement City.

The Falling God Peak Master tried to persuade the woman in green to defend Falling God Peak after Redfire’s death, but she escaped into the void. He then summoned two elders and planned a joint attack on the Great Li Court forces.

• The woman in green told the Falling God Peak Master that Redfire was dead and that she intended to flee before Falling God Peak fell.
• The Falling God Peak Master begged her to stay and join him against the Great Li Court, but she reminded him that she owed the sect nothing.
• The woman in green pretended to approve of his plan, then escaped into the void before he could seize her.
• The Falling God Peak Master summoned two white-haired elders and ordered them to meet Black Mountain and attack the Great Li expert in Hundred Refinement City.
• The Falling God Peak Master proposed that they then destroy the Heavenly Brocade Guard forces at the four peaks, assuring the elders that their combined strength would be enough.

The Black Yin Three Elders, the All-Under-Heaven Alliance leaders, and Silver Moon Sword Lord watched Hundred Refinement City and assumed Scarlet Fire Venerable had defeated the Great Li expert. When storm clouds gathered over the city, the old man in white realized Scarlet Fire Venerable might have met with trouble.

• The headmaster of Falling God Peak led his two martial uncles toward Hundred Refinement City.
• The Black Yin Three Elders and the All-Under-Heaven Alliance leaders concluded that Scarlet Fire Venerable had eliminated the Great Li expert and discussed joining the four great sects to dominate Great Li.
• The old man in white questioned the Black Yin Three Elders' ambitions, then prepared to leave despite suspecting something was wrong in the city.
• An All-Under-Heaven Alliance disciple spotted black clouds gathering over Hundred Refinement City, with lightning flashing and thunder roaring.
• The old man in white reasoned that Scarlet Fire Venerable would have continued attacking the Heavenly Brocade Guard if he had won, and concluded that Scarlet Fire Venerable had likely encountered trouble.

Fu Qiwen and Hu Ruian saw the storm over Hundred Refinement City and realized that Li Musheng had likely defeated Scarlet Fire Venerable, though Falling God Peak's leaders were now attacking him. Fu Qiwen rallied the Heavenly Brocade Guard with an order to fight on, then left Hu Ruian in command while he headed to Hundred Refinement City.

• Hu Ruian concluded that Li Musheng had defeated Scarlet Fire Venerable, and Fu Qiwen recognized that the storm over Hundred Refinement City supported his guess.
• Fu Qiwen cautioned Hu Ruian that Li Musheng might be injured and still faced Falling God Peak's sect master and Venerables, but reassured him that Li Musheng could likely escape if needed.
• Fu Qiwen ordered a signal officer to tell every Heavenly Brocade Guard that Li Musheng had slain Scarlet Fire Venerable and that the troops must not retreat.
• Fu Qiwen appointed Hu Ruian to command the force, ordered him to take Star-Control City without hurrying to Star-Commanding Peak, and said he was going to Hundred Refinement City.

As the Falling God Peak sect leader and the other powerful fighters prepared to face Li Musheng, those watching from afar began to suspect that Li Musheng had defeated Scarlet Fire Venerable and might be strong enough to destroy the sect. Li Musheng rejected the sect leader’s accusations and conjured a huge stone dragon, beginning the decisive battle above Hundred Refinement City.

• Jade-Faced Beauty and Ouyang Mingqi worried that Falling God Peak’s strongest fighters might not defeat the Great Li expert, and decided to watch the battle.
• Lin Tang, Wu Yong, Sui Zhen, and Lin Yue Ru realized that Momo’s claim about the prince being number one under heaven might be true, and chose to wait and see what happened.
• The old man in hemp robes and Lin Xun'er watched the storm from an inn as Li Musheng’s large black cat arrived and settled down to observe the battle.
• The Falling God Peak sect leader appeared among the storm clouds, questioned Li Musheng about Scarlet Fire Venerable’s death, and condemned the Great Li Court.
• Li Musheng dismissed the sect leader’s accusations, reached toward the ground, and raised a stone dragon dozens of zhang long.

Li Musheng overwhelmed four Falling God Peak elders, killing two who tried to flee and pursuing the remaining pair. The chapter ended with the Falling God Peak Sect Master asking what Li Musheng would require to spare him.

• The old man in black attacked Li Musheng with a stone dragon and earth-forged beasts, but Li Musheng restrained him and repelled the attacks of the Falling God Peak Sect Master and two other elders.
• Li Musheng killed the old man in black with a finger strike, then pursued and killed the gray-eyed elder who fled.
• Li Musheng caught the azure-radiant elder despite his speed, pierced his head, and continued after the fleeing Falling God Peak Sect Master.
• Li Musheng intercepted the Sect Master in the clouds and dispelled his lightning, prompting the Sect Master to ask what it would take for Li Musheng to spare him.

Li Musheng killed the Falling God Peak sect leader after forcing him to reveal a secret about gifted divine abilities, then turned toward the sect’s main peak to retrieve a crucial item. As Fu Qiwen arrived and saw the bodies, Li Musheng asked whether any powerful enemies had escaped.

• The Falling God Peak sect leader offered Li Musheng a method to surpass Martial Gods, but Li Musheng imprisoned and tortured him with the Life-Death Seal until he revealed everything, then killed him.
• Li Musheng confirmed the Falling God Peak leaders were dead, extracted the Divine-Natured Blood from the four Venerables, and headed toward the sect’s main peak for a crucial item.
• The old man in hemp robes and Lin Xun'er watched the destruction of Falling God Peak, and Lin Xun'er prepared to seek revenge at Hundred Refinement Peak.
• Fu Qiwen arrived above Hundred Refinement City, saw the bodies in the ravine, and asked Li Musheng whether he had killed them.
• Li Musheng asked Fu Qiwen whether any powerful Falling God Peak stragglers had escaped.

After defeating Falling God Peak’s sect master and Venerables, Li Musheng left the remaining cleanup to Fu Qiwen and headed for Falling God Peak’s main peak to investigate the sect master’s rumored martial uncle. Across the surrounding territory, observers saw distress signals from Hundred Refinement City and began to realize that Falling God Peak had suffered a devastating defeat.

• Fu Qiwen praised Li Musheng for eliminating Falling God Peak’s strongest fighters and warned him that the sect master might have a Divine-Natured martial uncle.
• Li Musheng said he would visit Falling God Peak’s main peak to look for the rumored martial uncle, then invited the old man in hemp robes and Lin Xun'er to travel with him.
• Fu Qiwen departed to lead the Heavenly Brocade Guard against Falling God Peak’s remaining forces, while Li Musheng left Hundred Refinement City by carriage with the big black cat.
• The Black Yin Three Elders and Silver Moon Sword Lord sent two All-Under-Heaven Alliance subordinates to investigate Hundred Refinement City after its skies fell quiet.
• Distress signals rose from Hundred Refinement City, leading the observers to suspect Falling God Peak’s sect master and Venerables had been defeated.
• Falling God Peak’s remaining experts and disciples in the City Lord’s Manor panicked and sent distress signals as Li Musheng rode away without pursuing them.

After the Eighth Prince defeated Falling God Peak’s Sect Master and Venerables, the surviving peak masters weighed whether to flee or surrender as the Heavenly Brocade Guard prepared to finish the campaign. Sikong Xuan ordered an assault on Jade Ripple Peak, but learned that the peak had already sent someone to surrender.

• Falling God Peak’s reinforcements and six remaining peak masters saw the distress signal from Hundred Refinement City and realized their sect’s cause was likely lost.
• Ouyang Mingqi told Jade-Faced Beauty that he intended to surrender to the Great Li Court, arguing that its need for manpower might spare them; she hesitated over his proposal.
• Sikong Xuan’s messenger read Fu Qiwen’s report that the Eighth Prince had killed Falling God Peak’s Sect Master and four Venerables, and ordered the Heavenly Brocade Guard to take the four peaks before dawn.
• Sikong Xuan ordered his forces to prepare for battle and march on Jade Ripple Peak, determined to witness Falling God Peak’s downfall.
• A Heavenly Brocade Guard officer reported that Jade Ripple Peak had sent someone to surrender, leaving Sikong Xuan stunned.

After Li Musheng killed Falling God Peak’s leader and four Venerables, the peak’s forces collapsed, allowing the Heavenly Brocade Guard to seize its strongholds with little resistance. The surviving great sects recognized that Great Li would likely turn against them next and began considering an alliance.

• Sikong Xuan ordered Jade-Faced Beauty to kneel and take a palm strike before he would accept Jade Ripple Peak’s surrender, while he spread Fu Qiwen’s news among the Heavenly Brocade Guard.
• Dragon Mountain Marquis and Gu Shengfeng learned that Li Musheng had killed Falling God Peak’s leaders, then received news that the Fourth Peak’s master had surrendered.
• Three of Falling God Peak’s six peak masters surrendered and three fled, while its elders and disciples scattered, leaving the Heavenly Brocade Guard to capture four peaks with little resistance.
• The Black Yin Three Elders, Silver Moon Sword Lord, and two All-Under-Heaven Alliance branch masters confirmed that Falling God Peak’s leaders were dead and feared Great Li would target their sects next.
• The Black Yin Three Elders urged the Great Yan Sword Sect and All-Under-Heaven Alliance to unite, and Silver Moon Sword Lord agreed that his sect should consider joining forces and report the threat promptly.

After the Great Li Heavenly Brocade Guard killed Falling God Peak’s sect leader and Four Great Venerables, Mountain-Cleaving Peak’s disciples learned of the disaster and fled while their Peak Lord and elders remained in seclusion. Sikong Xuan’s force reached the peak, where he mistook the unmoving leaders for steadfast defenders and Ouyang Mingqi explained that Peak Lord Yuwen was trying to break through.

• The Black Yin Three Elders departed after telling the All-Under-Heaven Alliance helmsmen to follow their instructions, and the Silver Moon Sword Lord asked them to report the identity of the Great Li expert.
• Fleeing disciples alerted Mountain-Cleaving Peak’s gate guards that Falling God Peak’s leaders were dead, prompting the guards to report the news.
• A steward warned Lady Ni that the sect was about to fall, and she and her lover gathered valuables and fled without notifying the Peak Lord or elders.
• As the news spread, Mountain-Cleaving Peak’s disciples and families tried to escape or find the hidden seclusion grounds, while the Peak Lord and elders remained unaware.
• Sikong Xuan arrived at Mountain-Cleaving Peak with Jade-Faced Beauty, Ouyang Mingqi, Heavenly Brocade Guard troops, and Jade Ripple Peak disciples.
• Sikong Xuan praised Mountain-Cleaving Peak’s apparent resistance, while Ouyang Mingqi said Peak Lord Yuwen was still in seclusion attempting a breakthrough and noted that Li Musheng had killed Falling God Peak’s leaders.

Yuwen Chengqing emerged from seclusion to find Falling God Peak defeated and tried to surrender, but Sikong Xuan pursued him, mistaking his intentions for a trick. Meanwhile, Li Musheng reached a hidden cave on Falling God Peak’s main peak and broke through its traps to enter its depths.

• Yuwen Chengqing learned that Falling God Peak’s Sect Master and Four Venerables were dead, and discovered that his wife and most of the disciples had fled.
• Sikong Xuan challenged Yuwen Chengqing, who began to attack but withdrew when he remembered the Great Li Court’s power.
• After Ouyang Mingqi urged Yuwen Chengqing to surrender, Yuwen hid briefly, then went down the mountain and declared his allegiance to the Great Li Court.
• Sikong Xuan refused to believe Yuwen Chengqing and chased him, while Jade-Faced Beauty and Ouyang Mingqi followed after them.
• Li Musheng and the large black cat reached the hidden cave on Falling God Peak’s main peak, where Li Musheng blasted through its traps and entered its depths.

Li Musheng uncovered the Divine Talent Stele’s hidden jade core and discovered that its radiance greatly accelerated his absorption of Divine-Natured Blood. He took the stele and the unusually affected black cat with him, leaving its deeper secrets for later.

• Li Musheng entered Falling God Peak’s hidden cave and found the Divine Talent Stele, while the large black cat read the God-Devouring Method inscribed on it.
• Li Musheng broke away the stele’s black outer layer, exposed its dark-cyan jade core, and split it open to reveal strange patterns that drew the two halves together.
• Li Musheng discovered that touching the patterns accelerated his absorption of Divine-Natured Blood, improving his constitution and revealing a connection between divine power and the forces of heaven and earth.
• Li Musheng let the jade halves reunite, took the restored Divine Talent Stele, and noticed that the large black cat had grown slightly after absorbing its radiance.
• Li Musheng stroked the cat and left the hidden cave with it and the stele.

Li Musheng wandered Falling God Peak’s main peak with the Bluish-Black Jade Stele while Sikong Xuan pursued Yuwen Chengqing to a secluded ancestral hall. When their clash threatened the hall, a blind old man emerged from inside.

• Li Musheng carried the Bluish-Black Jade Stele around the main peak, killing those who challenged him, and let the big black cat carry the stele on its back.
• Sikong Xuan chased Yuwen Chengqing to Falling God Peak’s main peak, while Jade-Faced Beauty and Ouyang Mingqi followed behind.
• Yuwen Chengqing went to a remote ancestral hall where he believed a hidden martial arts master might help him, but no one answered his call.
• Sikong Xuan attacked Yuwen Chengqing and deliberately included the ancestral hall in his strike, prompting Yuwen Chengqing to counter with waves of true qi.
• A sigh from inside the hall restored its steps and pillars to their places and stopped the fighters’ attention; a blind old man in gray robes then emerged, leaning on a cane.

Yuwen Chengqing sought help from a hidden blind expert at Falling God Peak, but the old man refused to intervene in the sect’s conflict and challenged Sikong Xuan and his companions. As the old man’s sword was about to kill them, a black cat carrying a jade stele appeared and abruptly froze the sword strike.

• Yuwen Chengqing asked the blind old man to protect Falling God Peak, but the old man said he already knew what had happened and did not want to join the conflict.
• The blind old man ordered Sikong Xuan, Jade-Faced Beauty, and Ouyang Mingqi to leave, then warned that they could barely withstand one of his swords even if they attacked together.
• Sikong Xuan refused to retreat and unleashed a powerful palm strike against the blind old man.
• The blind old man summoned a sword domain that overwhelmed Sikong Xuan and trapped Jade-Faced Beauty and Ouyang Mingqi, leaving all three moments from death.
• A black cat carrying a blue-black jade stele appeared, and the blind old man’s sword stopped half an inch above the three captives.
• The black cat turned toward the darkness behind it and meowed as Yuwen Chengqing and the blind old man watched.

Li Musheng arrived at Falling God Peak and overwhelmed the blind old man, forcing him to withdraw his sword prison and deny any connection to the sect leader. After learning more about the hidden martial uncle and welcoming Ouyang Mingqi and Jade-Faced Beauty into the Heavenly Brocade Guard, Li Musheng turned to Yuwen Chengqing and the blind old man and demanded they speak.

• Li Musheng emerged from the darkness, and the big black cat hurried to his side and complained about the blind old man.
• Li Musheng and the cat walked into the Netherworld Sword Prison, causing its sword qi and sword phantom to tremble and retreat.
• The blind old man withdrew the sword prison, retreated into the small hall, and claimed he was merely a menial disciple with no connection to the sect leader.
• Sikong Xuan, Jade-Faced Beauty, and Ouyang Mingqi recognized Li Musheng as the Eighth Prince, and Ouyang Mingqi explained that the sect leader's elusive martial uncle could escape unseen.
• Ouyang Mingqi and Jade-Faced Beauty declared their loyalty to the Heavenly Brocade Guard, while Sikong Xuan thanked Li Musheng for saving him.
• Li Musheng turned toward Yuwen Chengqing and the blind old man and asked whether they had anything to say.

Li Musheng effortlessly stopped the blind old man's ultimate sword strike and accepted him and Yuwen Chengqing into Great Li's Heavenly Brocade Guard. The chapter ended with Li Musheng questioning whether Yuwen Chengqing could truly be indifferent to the death of his only son, while noting the older man's age and appearance.

• Yuwen Chengqing asked the blind old man to join Great Li's Heavenly Brocade Guard, and the blind old man agreed on the condition that he could strike Li Musheng once more.
• The blind old man recalled his decades of diligent sword practice, the green-clad woman's gift of a fragmentary scripture, and how he had blinded himself to pursue the Blind Sword Saint's path.
• The blind old man unleashed a devastating sword strike, but Li Musheng caught the blade between two fingers and returned it unharmed.
• The blind old man sensed many different sword intents left by Li Musheng and realized that Li Musheng's swordsmanship surpassed his own by an unimaginable margin.
• Yuwen Chengqing surrendered to Li Musheng and denied wanting revenge for his son Yuwen Feng, claiming his son had deserved death and that he could have more children.
• Li Musheng questioned whether Yuwen Chengqing's words were sincere, then frowned as he considered the man's advanced age and appearance.