Chapter Summaries

Xu Yunfan confronted Tuoba Lie in the rift valley, using his Mystic Steel armor and newly mastered force dissipation to withstand the powerful warrior’s attacks. The two continued trading heavy blows, and Tuoba Lie’s hidden blades began denting Xu Yunfan’s armor.

• Xu Yunfan descended in his Mystic Steel armor and stopped Tuoba Lie’s attack, while Fu Jin recognized him and confirmed that his injuries were not life-threatening.
• Tuoba Lie burst from the crater and attacked Xu Yunfan, who struck him with Cloud Gate Mountain Lock and sent him crashing into a rock wall.
• Xu Yunfan used force dissipation to absorb Tuoba Lie’s punch, then told Fu Jin that he had accidentally broken through into the Flesh Refining Realm.
• Tuoba Lie pulled his axe from the rock wall and launched Mountain Splitting, beginning a series of direct clashes with Xu Yunfan’s hammer.
• Fu Jin and the surviving Rangers led civilians away as Xu Yunfan kept Great Qian’s Web from attacking them.
• Tuoba Lie revealed nine hidden blades in his axe, and their stacked attacks carved dents into Xu Yunfan’s armor.

Xu Yunfan killed Tuoba Lie and the Great Qian soldiers, then learned Fu Jin and the surviving rangers intended to escort the civilians to Yanbei City despite the danger. Xu Yunfan refused to abandon them and prepared to face the Great Qian army’s retaliation.

• Xu Yunfan defeated Tuoba Lie with the Thunder Fire Qilin Hammer and killed him after hearing his identity as the third son of the Tuoba Clan and Tiger Marquis of Great Qian.
• Xu Yunfan killed the remaining Great Qian soldiers, and Fu Jin said their only chance was to reach Yanbei City.
• Xu Yunfan warned Fu Jin that killing Tuoba Lie would bring retaliation and doom everyone on the road.
• Fu Jin and the surviving rangers resolved to escort the civilians, honoring the sacrifices of their fallen companions and He Laoliu’s final wish.
• Xu Yunfan said he could not help Fu Jin, but declared that he was not afraid to face the Great Qian army.

Xu Yunfan left the mountain to test his strength and killed Tuoba Lie’s soldiers, claiming to be Su Zhenhe of the Mystic Truth Sect. In Emerald Wave City, Qi Wanshan learned of Tuoba Lie’s death and moved to inform the Tuoba Clan while seeking an advantage from the crisis; Xu Yunfan continued toward Qingzhou the next morning.

• Xu Yunfan told Fu Jin he would descend the mountain alone, then attacked a Great Qian army unit to test his strength.
• Xu Yunfan defeated the thirty-man unit, captured its captain, and claimed that Su Zhenhe of the Mystic Truth Sect had killed Tuoba Lie.
• Qi Wanshan examined Tuoba Lie’s corpse and learned from the captain that the killer had named himself Su Zhenhe.
• Qi Wanshan ordered an urgent dispatch to the Tuoba Clan and prepared to write to Tuoba Li of the Dark Halberd Army.
• Xu Yunfan cultivated with the Ginseng Baby’s qi in a mountain forest and rode toward Qingzhou.

Xu Yunfan drew Great Qian’s forces to Azure Wood Ridge and slaughtered the troops sent after him, then faced Shi Ze, the Mystic Peak Sect’s sect master and a member of the Great Qian Web. Their clash began as Xu Yunfan launched the Star Shattering Mace Technique.

• Xu Yunfan used the surviving commandant to draw Great Qian’s military forces toward him as he fought at Azure Wood Ridge.
• Xu Yunfan killed Wang Ben and defeated three assassins, declaring that Great Qian would need to send someone from the Blood Exchange Realm to kill Su.
• Xu Yunfan broke through the pass and continued onward, leaving hundreds of dead soldiers behind.
• At night, Shi Ze confronted Xu Yunfan and recognized his Divine Weapon Ridge heritage, while Xu Yunfan identified Shi Ze as the Mystic Peak Sect’s sect master.
• Shi Ze revealed his hatred of Great Zhou and his intention to confront the Demon Hag in Jade Capital City, and Xu Yunfan answered by unleashing the thirty-six forms of the Star Shattering Mace Technique.

Xu Yunfan defeated Shi Ze in a brutal hammer-and-mace battle, then raced onward and attacked a Great Qian supply convoy near Divine Weapon Ridge. He left freed captives with a message from Su Zhenhe as the road behind him filled with the dead.

• Xu Yunfan endured Shi Ze’s attacks and countered with his Thunder Fire Qilin Hammer, ultimately disarming and burying the Blood Exchange Realm warrior in a deep pit.
• Xu Yunfan received a proficiency increase for the Thousand Jun Mountain Shaking Hammer Technique after killing Shi Ze.
• Over the next three days, Xu Yunfan outran three Great Qian True Blood pursuers and reached the Post Road near Divine Weapon Ridge.
• Xu Yunfan slaughtered the Great Qian soldiers guarding a supply convoy, freed local captives, and told them to take grain seeds south and seek help by naming Su Zhenhe of the Mystic Truth Sect.
• Xu Yunfan killed a soldier who reached for a crossbow and left the Post Road strewn with severed Great Qian banners.

Xu Yunfan fought Tuoba Li, a Great Qian general seeking revenge for his brother, and appeared to defeat him with the Gilded Mace. Tuoba Li rose again in the fifth step of the True Blood Realm, but Xu Yunfan unleashed the Lin Stance and killed him with a perfected Nine Profound Dragon Subduing Mace Art.

• Xu Yunfan slipped hemostatic powder into a refugee boy’s bundle as he realized the Tuoba faction was tracking him.
• Tuoba Li confronted Xu Yunfan, identified himself as the commander of Great Qian’s Greedy Wolf Battalion, and attacked to avenge his younger brother and reclaim the grain route.
• Xu Yunfan and Tuoba Li exchanged fierce blows, and Xu Yunfan knocked Tuoba Li off a cliff with the Thunder Fire Hammer.
• Tuoba Li climbed back up with a blood-colored bone blade and revealed his Blood Burning power, while Xu Yunfan drew the Gilded Mace and formed the Lin Character Secret.
• Xu Yunfan struck Tuoba Li with the Nine Profound Dragon Subduing Mace Art, killed him, and reached great completion in the technique.

After Tuoba Li's death, Great Qian commander Yuwen Zhuo sent the Heavenly Net and Earthly Trap to hunt Xu Yunfan. Xu Yunfan reached Qingzhou, cultivated with Spiritual Marrow from the Ginseng Baby, and faced an ambush near Divine Weapon Ridge.

• At the Mystic Truth Sect, Su Zhenhe learned that Xu Yunfan had killed a Blood Exchange Realm opponent and worried that Wen Tianyou was still in the Mystic Truth Secret Realm.
• Yuwen Zhuo learned Tuoba Li had been slain and ordered the Heavenly Net and Earthly Trap to bring him Xu Yunfan's head.
• Xu Yunfan reached a ruined temple near Divine Weapon Ridge and swallowed Spiritual Marrow from the Ginseng Baby to cultivate his Pure Yang One Qi Art.
• A Giant Kite mechanical bird warned Xu Yunfan of approaching enemies, and seven Bone Piercing Needles shot through the temple roof at him.
• Xu Yunfan let the seven Bone Piercing Needles strike his body, where they rang against him.

Xu Yunfan used the Lin Stance and his body-tempering techniques to kill two Blood Exchange Realm attackers in the ruined temple. He sensed armored cavalry gathering near Divine Weapon Ridge and judged the dead fighters weaker than Tuoba Li.

• The beautiful woman’s Seven Absolute Vein Sealing Needles failed to pierce Xu Yunfan, and the old man attacked him with a heavy sword.
• Xu Yunfan trapped the old man’s sword with his muscles and fought back with the Thunder Fire Qilin Hammer as the beautiful woman joined the assault with her whip.
• Xu Yunfan activated the Lin Stance, used the hammer to fling the beautiful woman through the roof, and killed her with its hidden spear tip while enduring the old man’s sword strike.
• Xu Yunfan defeated the old man with the Starfall Heavenly River hammer technique, then struck down the beautiful woman as she tried to attack again.
• Xu Yunfan sensed at least three units of armored cavalry assembling near Divine Weapon Ridge and compared the dead attackers unfavorably to Tuoba Li.

Xu Yunfan defeated two Blood Exchange Realm attackers at a ruined temple, then spotted Divine Weapon Ridge burning and rushed toward it. He smashed through a Great Qian army checkpoint on the way there.

• Xu Yunfan used his hammer, body techniques, and Crimson Dragon Coiling Mountain Strength to overcome the elder and the beautiful woman's attacks.
• The elder and the beautiful woman tried to bargain with information about the Great Qian army and a northern secret realm, but Xu Yunfan killed them with two hammer blows.
• Xu Yunfan gained eight points of proficiency in the Thousand Jun Mountain Shaking Hammer Technique after slaying the pair.
• Xu Yunfan smelled fire oil and burning pine resin and saw the night sky above Divine Weapon Ridge glowing dark red as someone shouted, "Senior Brother!"
• Xu Yunfan raced toward Divine Weapon Ridge, smashed through a Great Qian army barricade, and sent three armored soldiers flying.

Xu Yunfan fought his way through Great Qian’s forces to join Zhan Yan at Divine Weapon Valley, where the two defended the valley’s disciples and Iron Forging Platforms. As they battled the encirclement, a Silver Armor General who had ambushed Xu Yunfan before fired at his back, and Xu Yunfan leapt toward him.

• Xu Yunfan broke through the mountain defenses and reached Divine Weapon Valley, where he saw Zhan Yan gravely wounded and the disciples besieged by Great Qian’s army and Web martial experts.
• Zhan Yan told Xu Yunfan that soldiers were about to slaughter women and children in the northwest corner, so Xu Yunfan charged to rescue the defenders there.
• Xu Yunfan used two armored soldiers as makeshift hammers and killed a True Blood general with a vibrating strike of the Thunder Fire Qilin Hammer.
• Xu Yunfan and Zhan Yan fought together, holding back the enemy army as corpses piled into a barricade and Xu Yunfan overwhelmed the True Blood generals and Web experts who attacked.
• A Silver Armor General fired three armor-piercing crossbow bolts at Xu Yunfan, who blocked them with his hammer and recognized the man from their clash at Falling Goose Gorge.
• Xu Yunfan gathered force in his feet and leapt from the wall of corpses toward the retreating Silver Armor General.

Xu Yunfan saved Zhan Yan from the True Blood General and defeated him with the Thunder Fire Qilin Hammer, but the general survived through his Azure Wolf True Blood. Xu Yunfan then drew the Gilded Mace and began overwhelming the general with its divine power.

• Xu Yunfan killed the Silver Armor General, then intercepted the True Blood General's spear to save Zhan Yan.
• Xu Yunfan battled the True Blood General, endured his attacks, and used Eight Desolations Return to Origin to blast a hole through his chest.
• The True Blood General emerged alive from his charred body and claimed his Azure Wolf True Blood would grow stronger under the full moon.
• Xu Yunfan drew the Gilded Mace, revealed its divine power, and shattered the True Blood General's meteoric-iron spear with Mountain Shattering Stance.
• Xu Yunfan followed with Sweep the Six Directions, whose dragon flames melted the True Blood General's wolf smoke.

Xu Yunfan killed the Trueblood general with the Gilded Mace’s nine strikes, then reached Minor Mastery in the Thousand Jun Mountain Shaking Hammer Technique and underwent a powerful physical transformation. He returned to his dying master Zhan Yan, who praised him, and Xu Yunfan summoned Ginseng Baby.

• Xu Yunfan used the Gilded Mace’s nine strikes to annihilate the Trueblood general and the Great Qian elites and Web experts in Divine Weapon Valley.
• Zhan Yan recognized that Xu Yunfan had forged the Concealed Mechanism Qi Gathering Art and was wielding a divine weapon that had not acknowledged a master.
• Xu Yunfan reached Minor Mastery in the Thousand Jun Mountain Shaking Hammer Technique, healing his injuries and strengthening his body.
• Xu Yunfan found Zhan Yan gravely wounded, and Zhan Yan praised him as a worthy disciple.
• Xu Yunfan opened the Mystic Steel Mechanism Box and summoned Ginseng Baby, which popped out and cursed at him.

Xu Yunfan gave Zhan Yan a Ginseng Baby rootlet, which overwhelmed the injured master but stabilized his condition. As a Marrow Cleansing Realm threat arrived, Xu Yunfan took Zhan Yan through a secret passage while Lü Cheng stayed behind to face Qin Lie, a former disciple now serving Great Qian.

• Xu Yunfan fed Zhan Yan a Ginseng Baby rootlet, and its powerful qi repaired his injuries before he fainted.
• Lü Cheng rushed to Zhan Yan, but Xu Yunfan told him his senior brother was still alive and warned him not to disturb him.
• Xu Yunfan and Lü Cheng sensed three powerful visitors approaching, including a Marrow Cleansing Realm expert.
• Lü Cheng gave Xu Yunfan a map and told him to take Zhan Yan through the rear mountain's secret passage while he remained with the women and children.
• Xu Yunfan carried Zhan Yan away, and Lü Cheng faced three arrivals, recognizing the imperial-clan insignia and Qin Lie, a former Divine Weapon Valley disciple who had joined Great Qian.

Qin Lie, Chu Mo, and a White-Robed Young Master tortured Lü Cheng for the hidden treasure armor of Divine Weapon Valley and its other secrets. Qin Lie killed Lü Cheng and the gathered women and children, while Chu Mo revealed that he knew of a secret passage containing Divine Weapon Ridge’s accumulated treasures.

• The White-Robed Young Master demanded the treasure armor, and Lü Cheng accused Qin Lie and Chu Mo of betraying their master decades earlier.
• Qin Lie attacked Lü Cheng, but Chu Mo stopped him and displayed the head of Lü Cheng’s Second Senior Sister, whose torture had exposed the treasure armor’s existence.
• The White-Robed Young Master threatened the villagers, and Lü Cheng gave Qin Lie clues about weapons left by his elder brother and the survival of Qin Lie’s nephew.
• Lü Cheng taunted Qin Lie and Chu Mo, but Qin Lie silenced him, then beheaded him and killed the women and children.
• Chu Mo told the White-Robed Young Master that a secret passage beneath Divine Weapon Ridge held the sect’s thousand-year accumulation, and offered to help find it.

Xu Yunfan carried the unconscious Zhan Yan through Divine Weapon Ridge’s hidden, earthfire-warmed passage, using his mining skills and strength to break through a collapse. After they reached a junction of twelve tunnels, Zhan Yan woke and told Xu Yunfan to take the leftmost path.

• The White-Robed Young Master dismissed Qin Lie’s concern about continuing his family line and followed Chu Mo toward the back mountain.
• Xu Yunfan carried Zhan Yan into the sinkhole behind Divine Weapon Ridge and descended into its concealed passage.
• Xu Yunfan used his mining knowledge and bare hands to break through the collapsed tunnel, finding signs of old and recent activity along the way.
• Xu Yunfan reached a junction of twelve tunnels and examined their strata, echoes, and earth veins to identify the routes.
• Zhan Yan woke, asked Xu Yunfan what he had fed him, and directed him to take the leftmost tunnel.

Xu Yunfan and Zhan Yan descended into Divine Weapon Ridge’s hidden weapon-forging grounds, where Zhan Yan revealed the Dragon Scale Armor, an Eighth Order Divine Weapon forged from a crimson Jiaolong’s scales. The armor remained bound on its platform, waiting for someone capable of suppressing the Jiaolong’s soul.

• Xu Yunfan told Zhan Yan that a Marrow Cleansing Realm grandmaster had arrived, and they hurried deeper into the tunnels.
• Zhan Yan opened a hidden passage beneath a Taotie relief, and he and Xu Yunfan fell through the Crimson Mist into the ancient forging cavern.
• Zhan Yan redirected surging molten iron into the bronze cauldrons and pulled the mechanisms that raised the armor platform from the earthfire pool.
• The chains around the Dragon Scale Armor snapped, revealing its dark gold scales and 1,720 Inverse Scales.
• Zhan Yan explained that Ouyezi had forged the Eighth Order Divine Weapon from a crimson Jiaolong’s scales at the cost of hundreds of swordsmiths’ lives.

Xu Yunfan donned the Dragon Scale Armor after Zhan Yan explained that its hidden Six Divine Weapon Arts might let him control it. The armor fitted itself to Xu Yunfan and revealed a force he had lacked, but then its golden threads began draining his blood and qi as Zhan Yan watched in alarm.

• Zhan Yan told Xu Yunfan that the Dragon Scale Armor held Patriarch Ouyezi’s Six Divine Weapon Arts and invited him to try wearing it.
• Xu Yunfan prepared himself with Ginseng Qi and used his strength to snap the armor’s chains.
• Xu Yunfan slipped into the armor, whose scales locked around him and adjusted to his movements and breathing.
• The armor’s footplates transmitted recoil through Xu Yunfan’s body, supplying the Spiral Force needed for the final form of his hammer technique.
• Golden threads pierced Xu Yunfan’s vital acupoints and began drawing out his blood and qi, prompting Zhan Yan to shout his name.

Xu Yunfan survived the Dragon Scale Armor’s searing heat when the Apex Path Remains vest’s icy aura checked it, then used the Lin Character Secret to suppress and refine the evil jiaolong’s will. His Lin Character Secret reached Minor Mastery, and the chapter ended with him returning to normal perception as Zhan Yan asked if he was all right.

• Xu Yunfan stopped Zhan Yan from interfering as the Apex Path Remains vest released icy qi that restrained the Dragon Scale Armor’s blood-devouring golden threads.
• Xu Yunfan formed a Lin Word Seal and sent his Self-God into his sea of consciousness to confront the red jiaolong’s remnant will.
• Xu Yunfan’s Self-God bound the jiaolong with starlit chains and suppressed it beneath ice peaks, while the Bronze Bell Chimes devoured its remnant soul.
• Xu Yunfan received enough proficiency from refining the jiaolong’s will to raise the Lin Character Secret to Minor Mastery.
• Xu Yunfan experienced heightened senses and detected a splatter of lava before it hit him, then returned to normal perception when Zhan Yan asked how he was.

Xu Yunfan subdued the Dragon Scale Armor and demonstrated its power to Zhan Yan, who celebrated Divine Weapon Ridge’s inheritance. Qin Lie, Chu Mo, and Yuwen Chengji arrived as betrayers and demanded the armor, leaving Xu Yunfan fighting Qin Lie.

• Xu Yunfan used the Lin Character Secret to control the Dragon Scale Armor, then tested its strength and secured his weapons and mechanism boxes to it.
• Zhan Yan examined the armor and declared that Xu Yunfan had fulfilled his long-cherished wish for Divine Weapon Ridge’s ultimate inheritance.
• Qin Lie, Chu Mo, and Yuwen Chengji emerged from the crimson mist, and Zhan Yan realized they had betrayed him and asked where Junior Brother Lü was.
• Yuwen Chengji demanded that Xu Yunfan’s armor be taken, and Xu Yunfan formed the Lin Word Seal and prepared to fight.
• Xu Yunfan met Qin Lie’s Wild Goose Feather Blade with the Thunder Fire Qilin Hammer and drove a knee into him, forcing him back three steps.

Xu Yunfan overwhelmed Qin Lie and Chu Mo with the Dragon Scale Armor, then revealed the Gilded Mace and unleashed its power. The fight ended with Chu Mo gravely maimed while Qin Lie faced Xu Yunfan’s devastating attack.

• Xu Yunfan used the Dragon Scale Armor and his refined body to deflect Qin Lie’s blade and Chu Mo’s whip, forcing both men to retreat.
• Xu Yunfan declared the test over and opened the Mystic Steel Mechanism Box, revealing the divine Gilded Mace.
• Qin Lie and Chu Mo realized Xu Yunfan possessed two divine weapons, while Yuwen Chengji was shaken by the disparity between their weapons.
• Qin Lie roared for a retreat and attacked, but Xu Yunfan drew the Gilded Mace and shattered Chu Mo’s Nine Section Whip.
• Xu Yunfan’s mace strikes broke Chu Mo’s right arm and then shattered his raised left arm, while the weapon’s vortex deflected Qin Lie’s blade qi.