Chapter Summaries

Li Musheng effortlessly stopped the Jiang Family Head’s attacks and offered Jiang Si a choice between her father’s life and death. Jiang Si begged him to spare her father, accepting the choice that bound her to become Li Musheng’s disciple, then knelt to make one more request.

• The Jiang Family Head ambushed Li Musheng, but both of his palm strikes stopped before they could reach him.
• Li Musheng asked Jiang Si whether she wanted her father dead or alive, while the Jiang Family Head found himself unable to move.
• Jiang Si pleaded for Li Musheng to spare her father, and Li Musheng sent the Jiang Family Head flying, scattering his runes and revealing his original appearance.
• Li Musheng told Jiang Si to come with him, and she understood that her plea meant agreeing to become his disciple.
• Jiang Si knelt before Li Musheng and said she had one more request.

Jiang Si told Li Musheng that her mother was imprisoned in the hidden ground and asked him to help rescue her. He revealed how to reach her, and Jiang Si and Jiang Wang freed their mother, Ao Zhu'er, who vowed to destroy the Jiang Family.

• Jiang Si explained that the Jiang Family Head had imprisoned her mother and asked Li Musheng for help rescuing her.
• Li Musheng used the Soul-Seizing Technique on the Jiang Family Head, crippled him, and told Jiang Si how to reach her mother and undo the mechanisms.
• After Li Musheng left, Jiang Si told Jiang Wang the truth, and the siblings agreed to save their mother before confronting their father.
• Jiang Si and Jiang Wang entered the hidden ground, found Ao Zhu'er, and brought her out, but the unconscious Jiang Family Head had disappeared.
• Ao Zhu'er refused Jiang Si's offer to recuperate at the Jiang Residence and vowed to destroy the entire Jiang Family.

Ao Zhu'er left the Jiang Residence with Jiang Si and Jiang Wang, agreeing to settle her grievance with the Jiang Family herself. The siblings followed Li Musheng for protection and considered accepting him as their master, while the surviving Mirage Tower Master escaped from the grounds.

• Jiang Si persuaded Ao Zhu'er to leave the Jiang Residence rather than attack the Jiang Family, and Ao Zhu'er said she would settle the grievance herself.
• Jiang Wang resisted becoming Li Musheng's disciple, but Jiang Si explained that Li Musheng had defeated the Jiang Family head and helped rescue their mother.
• Ao Zhu'er said Li Musheng had the potential to become a Martial God and offered to repay his favor, while Jiang Si suggested staying under his protection as their mother recovered.
• Jiang Wang reluctantly accepted Jiang Si's choice, and the siblings left the Jiang Residence with Ao Zhu'er to follow Li Musheng, Cang Yinyue, and Shen Anran.
• The Mirage Tower Master crawled out of the crater after surviving Li Musheng's strike with the Mirage Tower Divine Art and fled toward the horizon.

The White Tiger Divine Hall Lord captured the wounded Mirage Tower Lord after Li Musheng drove him from White Emperor City, and revealed that he considered Li Musheng the martial world’s fourth Martial God. Meanwhile, Li Musheng searched for the Green Mountain Tower Lord and his Heavenly Revelation Secret Treasury key, then gave the White Tiger Divine Hall two days to find them.

• The Mirage Tower Lord fled White Emperor City after Li Musheng defeated him, but the White Tiger Divine Hall Lord trapped and sealed his martial cultivation outside the city.
• The White Tiger Divine Hall Lord told the Mirage Tower Lord that Li Musheng was the martial world’s fourth Martial God, then took him to the White Tiger Divine Hall as a captive.
• Li Musheng’s group settled into a nearby courtyard, while Lian Xing reported that the Green Mountain Tower Lord and his companions remained missing.
• Li Musheng tried to use his five Keys to the Heavenly Revelation Secret Treasury to locate the sixth key but received no response.
• Li Musheng ordered Lian Xing to give the White Tiger Divine Hall two days to find the Green Mountain Tower Lord before he came to demand answers himself.

Li Musheng studied Dream of a Thousand Autumns after the Big White Cat returned from its failed attempt to steal Yi Yangzi’s Purple Jade Gourd. Meanwhile, overseas Mount Qi’s agents hid in White Emperor City to reclaim the treasure, but strict searches began closing in on them.

• Lian Xing delivered Li Musheng’s orders to the White Tiger Divine Hall, and the Big White Cat returned after Yi Yangzi had trapped it in the Purple Jade Gourd and released it.
• Li Musheng reviewed his gains from White Emperor City and began studying Dream of a Thousand Autumns to prevent another escape through its dreamscape.
• Rumors spread that Li Musheng had captured the Jiang Family’s two martial arts prodigies.
• The overseas Mount Qi agents discussed reclaiming Dream of a Thousand Autumns and worried that Li Musheng’s growing strength would make him harder to oppose.
• The agents sensed that the Hidden Kill Pavilion and White Tiger Divine Hall were watching their hideout, then heard the innkeeper order all guests to come out for questioning.

The White Tiger Divine Hall and the Hidden Kill Pavilion seized thousands of people across White Emperor City while searching for the Green Mountain Tower Master. Two White Tiger Venerables arrived at the confinement area with an ancient stone cup from the White Emperor’s Tomb, but its purpose remained unexplained.

• The White Tiger Divine Hall sealed the meridians of guests at inns throughout White Emperor City and took them away, including the three from Mount Qi overseas.
• The White Tiger Divine Hall and the Hidden Kill Pavilion seized suspected individuals across the city, leaving its streets deserted and its residents afraid to venture outside.
• A White Tiger Divine Hall elder and administrator discussed the Hall Master’s order and his unusual deference to the new Hidden Kill Pavilion Master.
• Two White Tiger Venerables arrived at the area holding several thousand captives and said the Hall Master had entrusted them with an ancient stone cup from the White Emperor’s Tomb.
• The White Tiger Divine Hall elder and administrator asked the Venerables what the stone cup was used for.

The White Tiger Venerables used the Heart-Knocking Gu to screen several thousand captives for information about the Green Mountain Tower's Tower Master. They uncovered an old man who could resist the Gu, and one Venerable seized him as he tried to escape.

• A White Tiger Venerable explained the Heart-Knocking Gu's powers, and the Venerables sealed the area where several thousand people were held.
• The Venerables used the Gu to identify people who had lied and those who knew the Green Mountain Tower's Tower Master's whereabouts.
• Two captives claimed they had seen the Tower Master flee White Emperor City, but could provide no useful details.
• The Venerables questioned the remaining crowd and identified an old man who appeared to have tampered with the two captives.
• Ancient patterns helped the old man break free of the Heart-Knocking Gu's influence, but a White Tiger Venerable caught him as he fled.

The White Tiger Venerables captured the old man and questioned him about the Green Mountain Tower Master. After the old man awakened an ally and they fought back, a third accomplice unleashed a vast shadow that swallowed the crowd, leaving the White Tiger Venerables to suspect all three were connected to the Tower Master's disappearance.

• A White Tiger Venerable recognized the old man as a Divine-Natured Person and demanded to know why he had tampered with two people and where the Green Mountain Tower Master was.
• The old man denied knowing the Tower Master's whereabouts, then pointed out a middle-aged man in embroidered robes as someone who might know.
• The old man used Blue Sea Tide Awakening to revive the middle-aged man, and their wave bridge blocked a strike from a White Tiger Venerable before breaking apart.
• The White Tiger Venerable controlling the Heart-Knocking Gu moved to interrogate both men, but the old man called for help.
• A person among the crowd turned into an inky-black shadow and unleashed a darkness that swallowed the thousands below.
• A White Tiger Venerable split the shadow with a rift in space and suspected the three Divine-Natured People were involved in the Green Mountain Tower Master's disappearance.

A man in white learned that the White Tiger Divine Hall had captured his companions and went to rescue them in White Emperor City. The two White Tiger Venerables captured the remaining Mount Qi men and uncovered their origins and their pursuit of the Dream Clan treasure.

• The man in white learned that the White Tiger Divine Hall had captured their people and left to save them, telling the gray-clad elder to evacuate the others.
• The White Tiger Venerables broke the merchant-dressed man's Shadow Tide and used the Heart-Knocking Gu to interrogate the elder and the middle-aged man in brocade.
• The middle-aged man in brocade urged the merchant-dressed man to flee, but the merchant-dressed man attacked the White Tiger Venerables again instead.
• The Venerable with the Heart-Knocking Gu learned where the man in white had hidden the Green Mountain Tower people, while the other Venerable captured the merchant-dressed man.
• The White Tiger Venerables interrogated all three men and learned about Mount Qi overseas, its Divine-Natured Persons, and its search for the Dream Clan supreme treasure.

A cloud-robed middle-aged man from Mount Qi arrived to rescue three clansmen captured by the White Tiger Venerables. He used his water-based innate divine ability to replace them with puddles and escaped White Emperor City with them.

• The two White Tiger Venerables prepared to take the old man and his two companions to the White Tiger Divine Hall after interrogating them.
• A cloud-robed middle-aged man appeared and demanded that the White Tiger Venerables release his three clansmen, but they refused and attacked him.
• The middle-aged man turned into water to evade an attack, then transformed the space around the White Tiger Venerables into an ocean before they shattered it.
• The middle-aged man warned the White Tiger Venerables not to pursue him, and the Heart-Knocking Gu Venerable discovered that the three captives were sweating profusely.
• The three captives collapsed into puddles of murky water, revealing that the middle-aged man had secretly replaced them with his innate divine ability.
• The middle-aged man escaped toward the outskirts of White Emperor City with the rescued clansmen, leaving the two White Tiger Venerables to search for them.

Li Musheng learned that the white-robed middle-aged man had rescued the captives and began tracking the lingering divine power left behind. Meanwhile, the man led the old man and two others deep into the desert and hid them in a concealed rock cave, where they waited to see if the White Tiger Divine Hall had followed.

• The two White Tiger Venerables split up: one pursued the white-robed middle-aged man while the other returned to report to the White Tiger Divine Hall's Hall Master.
• Hidden Kill Pavilion assassins reported the events to Lian Xing, who informed Li Musheng, and Li Musheng went to the site to investigate.
• Li Musheng learned that the white-robed middle-aged man had rescued the old man and three others, then used his martial heart and spirit to track the man's residual divine power.
• The white-robed middle-aged man awakened the old man and two others while fleeing with them toward the desert, reassuring them that he had arranged for the others to withdraw.
• After traveling nearly a hundred li and detecting no pursuers, the white-robed middle-aged man hid the four of them in a rock cave behind a water barrier and proposed waiting half a day before moving on.

Li Musheng tracked the white-robed middle-aged man and his companions to a rock cave in the Gobi and demanded they come out. The group emerged before he could attack, and Li Musheng confronted them on the hill.

• Li Musheng followed traces of Divine-Natured power across a hundred li and located the group hiding in a rock cave.
• Li Musheng called for the group to come out, while the others suspected he was bluffing and the white-robed middle-aged man recognized him as the Eighth Prince of Great Li.
• Li Musheng explained that he wanted them alive and held back from breaking apart the area where they were concealed.
• The white-robed middle-aged man sensed imminent danger, dispelled his Water God concealment, and led the other three out of the cave.
• Li Musheng landed before the group and said they had come out just in time to avoid being dragged out lying down.

Li Musheng found the group that had rescued the Green Mountain Tower Master and demanded they take him to the captive. The Tower Master gave Li Musheng a ring containing a map to the Key to the Heavenly Revelation Secret Treasury, whose location lay outside the Western Desert.

• Li Musheng confronted the white-robed middle-aged man, who admitted rescuing the Green Mountain Tower Master and agreed to lead him to the hidden camp.
• The white-robed middle-aged man guided Li Musheng and the others to a desert hideout, where the gray-robed old man used a blue ice stone to open the restriction.
• The gray-robed old man brought out the Green Mountain Tower Master and the three clan elders of the Exquisite Ancient City Remnant Clan.
• Li Musheng pulled the Green Mountain Tower Master before him, but the Tower Master offered to hand over what Li Musheng wanted.
• The Green Mountain Tower Master gave Li Musheng a ring with a map marking the location of the Key to the Heavenly Revelation Secret Treasury outside the Western Desert.

Li Musheng secured the Green Mountain Tower Master’s cooperation and took the three elders of the Exquisite Ancient City Remnant Clan back to White Emperor City, while warning the group seeking Dream of a Thousand Autumns to leave the Western Desert. The white-robed middle-aged man led his companions back to Mount Qi to prepare for Li Musheng’s future arrival, and Li Musheng questioned the elders on the way to White Emperor City.

• Li Musheng warned the Green Mountain Tower Master against betraying him, then said he would take the three elders of the Exquisite Ancient City Remnant Clan to White Emperor City for questioning.
• The white-robed middle-aged man admitted that his group had come for Dream of a Thousand Autumns and promised to leave the Western Desert.
• Li Musheng told the group he would seek them out at Mount Qi and warned that none of them would escape if they met again.
• The white-robed middle-aged man ordered his companions to return to Mount Qi, explaining that they could not defeat Li Musheng and would not survive another confrontation.
• The white-robed middle-aged man and his companions left the Western Desert, while Li Musheng took the Green Mountain Tower Master and the three elders to White Emperor City and questioned the elders along the way.

Li Musheng arranged his next moves before leaving White Emperor City: he sent Lian Xing to retrieve the Heavenly Revelation Secret Treasury Key and ordered the others to prepare for the journey to Great Chu. He also decided that the Jiang Family’s two prodigies would become disciples of Cang Yinyue and Shen Anran, one each, or pay a price if they refused.

• Sixth Ancestor warned Li Musheng that Emperor Tianqi’s destruction of Exquisite Ancient City might have been part of a vast scheme, but Li Musheng remained interested in opening the Heavenly Revelation Secret Treasury.
• Li Musheng sent Lian Xing to retrieve the Treasury Key in Great Wu, planted martial intent in her as protection, and told her to meet him in the Great Li Imperial Capital.
• Li Musheng gave the Nethersea Sage Lord two hours to gather the remaining Sage Lords of the Yellow Springs Tribe and placed a Life-Death Seal in his body.
• Li Musheng told Cang Yinyue and Shen Anran to prepare to leave for Great Chu and arrange their departure with the Xun King.
• Li Musheng ordered Cang Yinyue and Shen Anran to take the Jiang Family’s two martial prodigies as disciples, warning that a refusal would require them to pay a price.

Li Musheng secured the Heavenly Revelation Secret Treasury Key and the Yellow Springs Holy Method Seal before leaving White Emperor City for Great Chu. Jiang Si accepted Cang Yinyue and Shen Anran as her masters, while the Jiang Family head was left to flee from the consequences of offending Li Musheng.

• Cang Yinyue and Shen Anran agreed to tell Jiang Si and the others about Li Musheng's demand before leaving White Emperor City.
• The master of the White Tiger Divine Hall warned the master of Green Mountain Tower not to provoke Li Musheng and told the Jiang Family head to flee.
• Li Musheng departed White Emperor City with the Heavenly Revelation Secret Treasury Key and the Yellow Springs Holy Method Seal after Nether Mountain Holy Lord and Ghost Prison Holy Lord fled.
• Jiang Si chose Cang Yinyue and Shen Anran as her masters, while Jiang Wang refused discipleship and Ao Zhu'er accepted Li Musheng's protection.
• The Xun King of Great Chu and the Earth-Attracting Ancestor joined Li Musheng's party as they traveled toward Great Chu.

Li Musheng and his companions traveled through the Western Desert toward Great Chu, where he planned to pursue several leads. As he studied the Yellow Springs Holy Method, he sensed that the five Holy Lords’ techniques concealed a strange secret.

• Li Musheng’s group reached the edge of the Western Desert, and Cang Yinyue said they would reach Great Chu’s border in about three days.
• Li Musheng told Big White Cat to contact the Divinity Church in Great Chu and learn what its members had discovered from the Divine Talent Stele.
• Big White Cat promised to help Li Musheng investigate the Divinity Church’s findings.
• Li Musheng studied the blood-red seal containing the Yellow Springs Holy Method and questioned what its strange properties meant.
• Li Musheng considered how the techniques of Rakshasa, Blood Spring, Ghost Prison, Youhai, and Mingshan might combine to produce an uncanny aura.

Li Musheng used the Yellow Springs Holy Method to confirm that Yellow Springs existed and that ghostly beings dwelled there, though he could not locate the region. After joking with Cang Yinyue and Shen Anran about meeting them there after death, he received a letter reporting that the Great Chu imperial family planned to submit to the Great Wu Dynasty.

• Li Musheng saw ghostly phantoms emerge around him as he examined the blood-red seal containing the Yellow Springs Holy Method, then dispersed them with his martial intent.
• Li Musheng told Cang Yinyue and Shen Anran that the phantoms were ghosts from Yellow Springs, whose location and origins he could not determine.
• Shen Anran and Cang Yinyue spoke wistfully about meeting Li Musheng in Yellow Springs after they died, and Li Musheng lightened their mood with a joke.
• A black-feathered eagle delivered a sealed letter to Li Musheng, who passed it to the Xun King of Great Chu and the Earth-Attracting Ancestor.
• The Xun King of Great Chu and the Earth-Attracting Ancestor learned that the Great Chu imperial family intended to submit to the Great Wu Dynasty and reacted with disbelief.

Li Musheng’s group entered Great Chu amid rumors that its imperial family had surrendered to Great Wu, prompting Xun King of Great Chu and Earth-Attracting Ancestor to suspect a serious crisis. Ao Zhu'er revealed that Great Chu’s founding emperor had a hidden secret and urged Xun King of Great Chu to investigate him, while Li Musheng kept the group focused on reaching the imperial capital.

• Li Musheng advised Xun King of Great Chu and Earth-Attracting Ancestor to prepare for what awaited them in Great Chu after receiving Han Meiyan’s letter.
• Li Musheng’s group entered Great Chu through Garrison Pass and learned that the Great Chu imperial family had submitted a surrender memorial to Great Wu.
• Earth-Attracting Ancestor suspected that a grave problem had arisen within Great Chu, and Xun King of Great Chu agreed that the surrender news might conceal a deeper cause.
• Ao Zhu'er said her father had known Great Chu’s old emperor and believed a heaven-shaking secret lay behind the Chu Clan; Li Musheng confirmed that her father was a Martial God.
• Ao Zhu'er revealed that her father had repaid his favor to Great Chu’s old emperor and urged Xun King of Great Chu to investigate him, while Li Musheng directed the group to proceed to the imperial capital.

Li Musheng's group arrived in Great Valley City, where a Great Wu martial wanderer provoked the locals and revealed his strength. The wanderer then approached the Six Desires Demon Sect's Holy Maiden and delivered a message from Mountain-Sea Hall.

• Li Musheng's group reached Great Valley City and stopped at an inn before their planned meeting with Han Meiyan.
• A black-clad martial wanderer mocked Great Chu's citizens for becoming Great Wu vassals and threatened that Great Valley might soon belong to Great Wu.
• When a middle-aged man attacked the wanderer, the man's arm exploded into blood mist without the wanderer moving.
• Earth-Attracting Ancestor prepared to intervene, but Xun King of Great Chu urged him to stay his hand for Li Musheng's sake.
• A red-clad woman descended from the inn's second floor, and the wanderer approached her, addressed her as the Six Desires Demon Sect's Holy Maiden, and delivered a wooden box on behalf of Mountain-Sea Hall of the All-Under-Heaven Association.