Chapter Summaries

Li Musheng weighed the Green Mountain Tower Lord’s offer to hold off the tower’s guardians while the group broke the seventh-floor formation, but grew wary after learning they had killed the maid who guided them. He chose to go to the eighth floor with the maid, whose claim that she could take him there contradicted what she had told A Xiu earlier.

• The Green Mountain Tower Lord asked Li Musheng to keep the tower’s guardians at bay while he and the three clan elders broke the seventh-floor formation.
• The maid revealed that the elders had killed her after she guided them, and the elders suspected she was a dangerous being hiding a secret of the tower.
• Li Musheng refused to attack the maid and chose to explore the eighth floor while the others worked on the formation.
• The maid said she could take Li Musheng to the eighth floor, and A Xiu challenged her because she had previously claimed she could not go even to the second floor.

Li Musheng followed the maid toward the eighth floor of White Emperor Tower, secretly trapping the people in the hall in an illusion and marking the Green Mountain Tower Master as a safeguard. As the ancestors worked to break the Coiling Dragon Formation, the maid opened the entrance to the eighth floor, leaving Li Musheng poised to enter.

• Li Musheng left the hall with the maid, secretly cast Dream of a Thousand Autumns over the four people inside, and marked the Green Mountain Tower Master with the Formless Puppet Technique.
• After Li Musheng departed, Seventh Ancestor complained about him, while Sixth Ancestor and Fifth Ancestor discussed the maid's apparent immortality and the dangers of the eighth floor.
• The ancestors brought the young man in green and the girl in red into the hall, ordered them to stay, and warned them not to follow Li Musheng to the eighth floor.
• The maid led Li Musheng, A Xiu, and Big Black Cat to the eighth-floor entrance and asked what Li Musheng wanted from White Emperor Tower.
• Li Musheng said he wanted any good thing that caught his eye, and the maid transformed into seven-colored light that opened a radiant crack in the entrance.

Li Musheng, A Xiu, and Big Black Cat reached the eighth floor of White Emperor Tower and met a mysterious woman in white whose appearance differed in their eyes. The woman hinted that her younger sister had spent a thousand years trying to replace her, leaving Li Musheng to learn more about their conflict.

• Li Musheng led A Xiu and Big Black Cat through a glowing crack to the eighth floor of White Emperor Tower.
• A cold voice guided them through the plain corridor to a candlelit house, where A Xiu and Big Black Cat saw a monstrous shadow while Li Musheng saw a beautiful woman in white.
• Li Musheng identified the woman as possibly a White Tiger, and Big Black Cat's vision shifted after the woman looked at it.
• Li Musheng entered the house and asked whether the woman was the Imperial Princess, while Big Black Cat hid behind him.
• The woman said that a thousand years had passed and her younger sister was still determined to replace her, then tapped the table and made it turn illusory.

Li Musheng learned that the Imperial Daughter’s natal domain had once been her weakness, while her sister tried to persuade him to exploit it. The Imperial Daughter claimed that weakness was no longer hers, and Li Musheng declined to get involved in their conflict, asking instead to inspect White Emperor Tower’s treasures.

• The woman in the Mystic Ice Crystal Coffin revealed that the Imperial Daughter was once vulnerable inside her natal domain and urged Li Musheng to take advantage of her.
• Big Black Cat considered exploiting the Imperial Daughter’s weakness but stayed cautious because it felt watched inside White Emperor Tower.
• The Imperial Daughter confirmed her sister’s claim had been true a thousand years earlier, prompting her sister to challenge her confidence.
• Li Musheng recognized that the younger sister was trying to turn him against the Imperial Daughter and refused to take the bait.
• Li Musheng suggested that the Imperial Daughter show him the tower’s treasures so he could choose what he wanted.

Li Musheng broke through the Imperial Daughter’s natal domain and found her lifeless body lying in a bronze coffin in an ancient hall. When the coffin reacted to his martial aura and tried to close itself, he sent its lid flying away again.

• The Imperial Daughter offered to let Li Musheng leave, while the woman in the Mystic Ice Crystal Coffin urged him to attack her.
• Li Musheng refused to leave yet and cut through the Imperial Daughter’s domain, then stepped through the collapsing darkness into an ancient bronze hall with Big Black Cat.
• Li Musheng opened the huge bronze coffin and found the Imperial Daughter’s lifeless body inside.
• Li Musheng tested the bronze coffin with martial aura, causing it to glow and summon chains that pulled its lid toward it.
• Li Musheng waved away the coffin lid when it tried to close.

Li Musheng subdued the Imperial Maiden in White Emperor Tower and demanded information about its treasures. Their exchange was interrupted when a mysterious middle-aged man entered the bronze hall.

• Li Musheng extinguished the bronze radiance around the Imperial Maiden, drew her from the coffin, and resisted her attempt to keep him at a distance.
• The Imperial Maiden said she could provide only one important treasure, but Li Musheng demanded that she reveal where all the treasures were hidden.
• Li Musheng dismissed the Imperial Maiden's hypnotic attempt to make him release her and asked Big Black Cat to explain his standing among the world's experts.
• The Imperial Maiden called Li Musheng the strongest under heaven and warned that someone might be interested in Big Black Cat.
• A middle-aged man entered the bronze hall, and Big Black Cat retreated behind the coffin.

Li Musheng defeated the White King in a wager inside the bronze hall, then released the Imperial Daughter. The White King sealed her safely in her coffin for another hundred years and prepared to show Li Musheng what he could do.

• The White King asked Li Musheng to release the Imperial Daughter and wagered that Li Musheng could choose anything in the White Emperor Tower if he survived ten moves.
• Li Musheng accepted the wager, and the White King attacked with his Mountain-Turning palm, which Li Musheng dispersed with a single strike.
• Li Musheng struck the air nine times, trapping the White King in destructive spatial ravines; the White King stopped his attack and admitted defeat.
• The White King learned Li Musheng was not yet twenty and had reached the Martial God Realm, while Li Musheng released the Imperial Daughter from his arms.
• The White King repaired and resealed the Imperial Daughter’s coffin to keep her safe for another hundred years, then agreed to show Li Musheng his abilities.

After winning his wager with the middle-aged man, Li Musheng was taken to a hidden treasury in the true heavenly secret realm of the White Tiger. He rejected the vast collection, including the White King's divine weapons, leaving the middle-aged man to realize that Li Musheng wanted something greater.

• The middle-aged man brought Li Musheng and Big Black Cat back to the eighth-floor room, where A Xiu welcomed them and the younger Imperial Daughter accused the man of hiding the truth about her mother's death.
• The middle-aged man erased the younger Imperial Daughter's projection and honored his wager by leading Li Musheng toward his collection.
• An invisible hand pulled A Xiu through the wall after Li Musheng and Big Black Cat followed the middle-aged man into the village that held the true White Tiger secret realm.
• The middle-aged man showed Li Musheng a hidden treasury filled with martial treasures, including the Mountain-Turning Seal and the Gate-Slayer Sword.
• Li Musheng said none of the treasures appealed to him, and the middle-aged man realized he was seeking something greater.

Li Musheng and the Big Black Cat took the Mountain-Turning Seal and Gate-Slayer Sword from the middle-aged man's collection before Li Musheng discovered that a jade brush was linked to the White Tiger's burial ground. The middle-aged man invited Li Musheng and the cat to visit the burial ground, revealing that the Divine-Natured Person behind the cat had a profound connection to the ancient ferocious beast White Tiger.

• Li Musheng let the Big Black Cat choose a treasure, and it took the Mountain-Turning Seal.
• Li Musheng seized the Gate-Slayer Sword as well, relying on their earlier wager.
• In another room, Li Musheng took a white jade brush and learned its material came from near the White Tiger's burial ground.
• The middle-aged man explained that rumors about the White Tiger's Fang and its inheritance were false, then invited Li Musheng and the Big Black Cat to the burial ground.
• Li Musheng said the cat's Divine-Natured Person was a little girl who could inhabit animals, and the middle-aged man sensed her profound connection to the White Tiger.

Li Musheng entered the White King's Tomb Chamber with the middle-aged man and discovered the remains of the ancient White Tiger. After the bones awakened and granted Big Black Cat the White Tiger’s inheritance, Li Musheng attacked the beast’s remains and demonstrated overwhelming strength.

• The middle-aged man led Li Musheng and Big Black Cat into a hidden canyon where the White Tiger’s enormous skeleton lay.
• Big Black Cat burned with silver flames and transformed into a huge white cat as the White Tiger’s remaining power acted upon it.
• Li Musheng tried to draw power from the White Tiger’s bones, awakening them into a towering silver White Tiger.
• The silver White Tiger struck the white cat with two rune-filled spheres, and the cat fell unconscious after receiving the beast’s complete inheritance.
• Li Musheng appeared above the silver White Tiger and crushed its skull with a stomp, then caught and pulverized its attacking claw bones.

Li Musheng defeated and sealed the ancient White Tiger skeleton, whose rampage caused White Emperor Tower and the underground White Emperor City to collapse. The middle-aged man recognized Li Musheng’s extraordinary sealing art and suspected his power included something beyond martial arts.

• Li Musheng pierced the White Tiger’s spine with a finger, then broke its bones, tore out its spine, and smashed its skeleton into the collapsing canyon.
• The White Tiger’s destruction triggered earthquakes and bursts of deadly white light in the underground White Emperor City, while White Emperor Tower began collapsing from its lower floors upward.
• Sixth Ancestor realized the failing formation restriction might help them, but warned that they might not survive; Fifth Ancestor pulled the blue-clad youth and red-clad girl into the formation domain, and the elders prepared to make a desperate attempt.
• Li Musheng emerged from the sinkhole carrying the White Tiger skeleton and explained that it had been nothing special.
• Li Musheng sealed the White Tiger’s remaining destructive power, reattached its head, and declared that a living ancient White Tiger might have forced him to get serious.

Li Musheng devoured the power remaining in the White Tiger skeleton and discovered that absorbing the powers of legendary beasts could help him advance beyond the limits of martial cultivation. He questioned the middle-aged man, the White King of Great Qi, about other beast powers, but his Soul-Seizing Technique failed, and the White King offered to tell him something of interest instead.

• Li Musheng used the Heaven-Devouring Demon Art to devour the power in the sealed White Tiger skeleton and gathered it into a small phantom.
• Li Musheng absorbed the White Tiger phantom, endured its destructive power with his Indestructible Golden Body, and refined it through the Divine Beast Power Devouring Method.
• Li Musheng sensed his power limits loosening and concluded that absorbing divine-beast and ferocious-beast powers might let him transcend.
• Li Musheng asked the middle-aged man whether the White Tiger had left anything else, then learned that he could also absorb powers from beasts such as the Fire Qilin and Black Tortoise.
• Li Musheng identified the middle-aged man as Great Qi's White King and tried to use the Soul-Seizing Technique, but it failed.
• The White King said he had no beast power to offer but knew something that would interest Li Musheng.

A middle-aged man told Li Musheng that Emperor Tianqi pursued immortality by gathering the remains of five divine and ferocious beasts, and warned that the Heavenly Revelation Secret Treasury was both a trap and an opportunity. He left Li Musheng uncertain whether Tianqi had achieved immortality before his death.

• The middle-aged man sensed that Li Musheng possessed four Heavenly Revelation Secret Treasury Keys and warned that the treasury might be a deadly trap.
• The middle-aged man explained that Emperor Tianqi sought immortality and used Great Qi’s resources to search for it.
• The middle-aged man said Emperor Tianqi believed devouring the origins of divine beasts and ferocious beasts could grant him greater power and a near-endless lifespan.
• The middle-aged man revealed that Emperor Tianqi gathered the remains of the Fire Qilin, Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, Black Tortoise, and White Tiger, though he later brought the White Tiger bones back from the imperial capital.
• The middle-aged man told Li Musheng that Emperor Tianqi had already died by the time he retrieved the White Tiger remains, leaving it unknown whether Tianqi had achieved his goal.

Li Musheng accepted a meteorite fragment that could serve as a key to Emperor Tianqi’s secret treasury, then left the Tomb of the White Emperor with A Xiu and the Big White Cat. He planned to find the Green Mountain Tower Master’s key, while remaining wary of the White King’s claims.

• The White King gave Li Musheng a meteorite fragment and explained that it could open the Heavenly Revelation Secret Treasury like the seven known keys.
• Li Musheng questioned whether Emperor Tianqi had truly died and learned that the White King had lived for a thousand years using an immortality method discovered by Emperor Tianqi.
• Li Musheng woke the Big White Cat, and the White King escorted him and the cat back to the earthquake-damaged village, where A Xiu awaited them.
• The White King asked Li Musheng to protect the White Tiger Divine Hall, and Li Musheng promised to spare it so long as it did not provoke him.
• Li Musheng found White Emperor Tower in ruins, realized the clan elders and Green Mountain Tower Master had escaped, and used Gate-Slayer to take A Xiu and the Big White Cat out.
• Li Musheng offered to seize something for A Xiu during their next search, while privately admitting that he had never fully trusted the White King.

Li Musheng searched the ruined underground White Emperor City for the missing experts and the Green Mountain Tower Master, but found no one and suspected something was wrong. The White Tiger Divine Hall Master ordered his people to avoid Li Musheng, while the Hidden Kill Pavilion’s search also failed to locate the missing figures.

• Li Musheng returned to the ruined underground White Emperor City with A Xiu and the large white cat, but found the Green Mountain Tower Master, the Exquisite Ancient City Remnant Clan elders, and the other experts missing.
• The White Tiger Divine Hall Master appeared with several elders and ordered them to avoid Li Musheng and sever all ties with the Hidden Kill Pavilion.
• Li Musheng returned to his residence and ordered the Hidden Kill Pavilion to search for the missing people, then considered why his Dream of a Thousand Autumns illusion had failed.
• At dawn, Lian Xing reported that the search had found none of the missing experts, though the Hidden Kill Pavilion had located and taken control of the Exquisite Ancient City Remnant Clan and Green Mountain Tower bases in White Emperor City.

Li Musheng ordered Lian Xing to demand the return of several captives from the White Tiger Divine Hall, then heard Xun King of Great Chu describe a plot to control the martial world’s strongest figures inside the Tomb of the White Emperor. Xun King did not know where the captives had been taken, but believed they would soon be released.

• Li Musheng sent Lian Xing to retrieve the Green Mountain Tower Master, the Exquisite Ancient City Remnant Clan elder, and the Hidden Kill Pavilion’s former Pavilion Master from the White Tiger Divine Hall.
• A bloodied Xun King of Great Chu arrived to see Li Musheng, who suppressed his injuries and asked what had happened in the tomb.
• Xun King explained that he and the Earth-Attracting Ancestor had lost their way and discovered a hidden cavern beneath the Tomb of the White Emperor.
• Xun King reported that Green Mountain Tower and the White Tiger Divine Hall had conspired to lure martial world experts and the Exquisite Ancient City Remnant Clan into the tomb and control them with an ancient curse.
• Xun King told Li Musheng that he did not know where the controlled people were, but believed the conspirators planned to release them rather than kill them.

Prince Xun of Great Chu begged Li Musheng to save his mortally wounded uncle, Earth-Attracting Ancestor, and offered his service in return. After revealing that he was the former heir to Great Chu’s throne and promising to help rescue Li Musheng’s adoptive younger sister, he had his memories examined, leaving Li Musheng considering a plan.

• A Hidden Kill Pavilion assassin reported that martial world experts had begun appearing in White Emperor City, and Li Musheng ordered covert surveillance while prioritizing the search for the Green Mountain Tower Master.
• Prince Xun of Great Chu knelt before Li Musheng and asked him to save Earth-Attracting Ancestor, who had been gravely injured in the Tomb of the White Emperor.
• Li Musheng said he would consider helping if Prince Xun gave him a compelling reason, so Prince Xun pointed to Great Chu’s marriage alliance involving Li Musheng’s adoptive younger sister, Li Yuanling.
• Prince Xun revealed that he was former Great Chu royalty, that the current emperor had seized his throne, and that he and the Divine Strategy General planned to return for revenge.
• Prince Xun promised to help rescue Li Yuanling if Li Musheng saved the general, and Li Musheng used the Soul-Seizing Technique to verify his memories.
• After confirming Prince Xun’s story, Li Musheng considered how the former prince and Earth-Attracting Ancestor might fit into his plans for Great Chu.

Li Musheng healed Earth-Attracting Ancestor, learned the Green Mountain Tower Master and the three elders of the Exquisite Ancient City Remnant Clan were still missing, and drove White Cloud Fairy away after exposing her identity. Meanwhile, the missing four were revealed to be prisoners of two ancient clans from overseas Mount Qi, who planned to use them to reclaim Dream of a Thousand Autumns from the Eighth Prince of Great Li.

• Li Musheng removed the curse inscriptions from Earth-Attracting Ancestor, while Lian Xing reported that the White Tiger Divine Hall had no news of the Green Mountain Tower Master or the three elders.
• Li Musheng ordered his guard to turn away Yun'er, whom he recognized as White Cloud Fairy, and released the restraint on her martial cultivation as she fled.
• In a hidden cave near White Emperor City, a group from two overseas ancient clans held the Green Mountain Tower Master and the three elders in crimson-gold chains.
• The middle-aged man in white revealed that his group had rescued the four and wanted their help reclaiming Dream of a Thousand Autumns, a treasure taken by Li Musheng.
• The Fifth Ancestor agreed to help if possible but warned that the four were badly injured, and the captors presented them with an oath contract.

The Green Mountain Tower Master and the three elders of the Exquisite Ancient City Remnant Clan were forced to swear through the Heart Demon ability to recover the Jiang family's supreme treasure, then remained captive to heal. Meanwhile, Li Musheng headed to the Jiang Family's disciple acceptance assembly, giving Shen Anran the Gate-Slayer Sword along the way, as crowds gathered outside the residence to watch.

• The white-robed middle-aged man used the Heart Demon ability to bind the Green Mountain Tower Master and the three elders to an oath to recover the family's supreme treasure, then left them to recover while captive.
• The Green Mountain Tower Master considered sending word about his situation but chose not to abandon his cultivated body.
• Unable to find the missing men or the Heavenly Revelation Secret Treasury Key, Li Musheng accepted Shen Anran and Cang Yinyue's suggestion to visit the disciple acceptance assembly.
• Li Musheng gave Shen Anran the Gate-Slayer Sword, prompting the large white cat to resentfully ask for it before Li Musheng rebuked the cat's greed.
• Cao Gaoshan brought a carriage for Li Musheng, Shen Anran, and Cang Yinyue, while the large white cat followed on foot toward the Jiang Family residence.
• Crowds packed the streets around the Jiang Family residence, while ordinary martial artists watched from walls, trees, and rooftops because only renowned experts and faction representatives could enter.

Li Musheng arrived late at the Jiang Family’s disciple-selection assembly, drawing attention as he entered with the imposing Big White Cat. At the arena, Jiang Wang was asked whether he would take Li Musheng as his master, but the gathering continued without a decision.

• Li Musheng and his companions entered the Jiang Family residence after most of the martial masters had already displayed their skills.
• Martial artists outside admired Big White Cat as Li Musheng and the two ladies, Shen Anran, were escorted to the arena.
• The Jiang Family Head learned of Li Musheng’s arrival but instructed the steward to attend to him rather than greeting him himself.
• Jiang Wang asked his father whether Li Musheng had arrived, and the Hall Master of the White Tiger Divine Hall asked whether Jiang Wang wanted Li Musheng as his master.
• Jiang Wang praised Li Musheng’s strength and said he lacked the knowledge to judge him; the Hall Master commended his humility and counseled him about martial cultivation.