Chapter Summaries

Li Yun revealed that he had reached the hundredth step of the Martial Dao Ladder and would leave Blue Star for the Hengwu Domain after the Supreme Mountain Showdown. Before departing, he prepared to strengthen China's Martial Dao by offering a month-long Dao Lecture, drawing more than a hundred thousand Martial Artists to the True Martial Platform's Jade Capital Headquarters.

• Li Yun stunned the Martial Emperors by revealing he was an Ultimate Martial God, only one step from becoming a Martial Saint.
• Li Yun explained that he would leave for the Hengwu Domain and urged the Martial Emperors to build up the True Martial Platform and protect the Through-Ancient Portal.
• Xiao Dingtian and the other Martial Emperors pledged to follow Li Yun and guard China's Martial Dao.
• Li Yun announced a month-long Dao Lecture at the True Martial Platform's Main Hall square, and Xiao Dingtian arranged to prepare the headquarters and summon talented Martial Artists.
• Three days later, more than a hundred thousand Martial Artists had gathered at the Jade Capital Headquarters.

Li Yun gathered more than one hundred thousand of China's elite Martial Artists at the True Martial Platform's Jade Capital Headquarters to teach them the Martial Dao before he left Blue Star. As he began his lecture, many attendees gained breakthroughs and the gathering set China's Martial Dao on the path to a sweeping transformation.

• The True Martial Platform assembled more than one hundred thousand Martial Artists at its Jade Capital Headquarters, while Li Yun sealed the gathering off from the outside world.
• Xiao Dingtian told the crowd that Li Yun had reached the Extreme Martial God Realm and would pass through the Heavenly Gate after becoming a Martial Saint.
• Li Yun explained that he would teach the Martial Dao before leaving and asked the attendees to look after his friends and family on Blue Star.
• Li Yun began his lecture, covering cultivation foundations, realms, the Martial Dao Ladder, and the laws of different planes.
• Grandmasters broke through, Martial Kings and Martial Emperors gained insights, and spiritual energy gathered above the headquarters as the lecture began transforming China's Martial Dao.

After Li Yun's month of teaching transforms the True Martial Platform's strength, Xiao Dingtian secretly disperses the newly empowered Martial Artists before other powers can discover what happened. At Supreme Mountain, the King of All Gods dismisses China's threat in public but privately wonders whether the True Martial Platform has prepared something.

• Li Yun finishes thirty days of teaching, and 33,000 Martial Artists become Martial Kings, 387 become Martial Emperors, and nine veteran Martial Emperors ascend to the Martial Deity Realm.
• Xiao Dingtian orders the hundred thousand Martial Artists to leave Jade Capital in batches and conceal the teaching from outsiders.
• Spies report China's secret gathering to other powers, whose leaders grow alarmed and travel to Supreme Mountain.
• The King of All Gods tells the gathered leaders that he will crush the True Martial Platform and orders them not to worry about the showdown.
• After the leaders leave, the King of All Gods privately wonders whether China and the True Martial Platform have something prepared.

The King of All Gods suspected Li Fenghua was behind the Huaxia True Martial Platform’s secret preparations and opened the Through-Ancient Transmission Gate to request reinforcements. The Transmission Herald agreed to send three Martial Gods to Blue Star within a month, leaving the King of All Gods stunned by the excessive support.

• The King of All Gods worried that the Huaxia True Martial Platform’s secret mobilization was connected to Li Fenghua.
• He recalled how Li Fenghua had helped destroy Divine Domain’s China branch and resolved to report the new developments to the Imperial Dynasty.
• The King of All Gods opened the Through-Ancient Transmission Gate and asked the Transmission Herald for two Martial Deities to help secure Blue Star.
• The Transmission Herald angrily promised to send three Martial Gods within a month and insisted they would make the takeover foolproof.
• The King of All Gods thanked the Transmission Herald but privately wondered whether sending three Martial Gods was an overreaction.

The Supreme Mountain Showdown began as Xiao Dingtian led China’s delegation of nearly a hundred Martial Emperors onto the summit, shocking the assembled factions. Foreign powers secretly agreed to target the Chinese fighters, while the King of All Gods awaited the arrival of three Martial Gods from the Through-Ancient Dynasty.

• The Supreme Mountain Showdown began, drawing thousands of high-ranking Martial Artists from across Blue Star to the summit.
• Xiao Dingtian arrived with Shen Qingyun, Shen Qingyi, and fewer than a hundred Chinese Martial Artists, prompting foreign factions to mock the delegation’s small size.
• Xiao Dingtian’s group revealed that every member was a Martial Emperor, with Xiao Dingtian, the two Shen deputies, and seven others concealing Martial Deity auras.
• The gathered factions realized China possessed overwhelming strength, and foreign leaders agreed to join forces and kill as many Chinese Martial Emperors as possible.
• The King of All Gods watched from the forbidden-area entrance and resolved to rely on three Martial Gods from the Through-Ancient Dynasty, expected to arrive within three days.

The Supreme Mountain Showdown began as fighters battled for places among the ten arena champions. China's large Martial Emperor contingent stayed out of the opening fights, and Qingchuanzi challenged them publicly, leaving the square waiting for their response.

• A blond Martial Emperor announced the showdown's rules and raised ten Frost Arenas for the competition.
• Lie Xiong and Lopez fought for Arena One, while fighters from several powers claimed the other arenas; after half an hour, all ten initial champions were from outside China.
• Challengers entered the arenas, producing fierce matches as champions were defeated and replaced.
• Xiao Dingtian, Shen Qingyun, Shen Qingyi, and China's ninety-six other Martial Emperors remained on the sidelines, drawing suspicion from rival powers.
• Qingchuanzi taunted the Chinese contingent for staying back, and the crowd turned to await their reply.

Zhang Shenwei answered Qingchuanzi’s challenge at the Supreme Mountain Showdown and killed the Sakura Hall Martial Emperor with a single slash. After Sakura Hall’s accusations failed to sway the crowd, Chiba Takuya entered the arena to avenge Qingchuanzi.

• Xiao Dingtian sent Zhang Shenwei to face Qingchuanzi on the Number Two Ice Arena.
• Qingchuanzi attacked Zhang Shenwei with a storm of ice blades, but Zhang Shenwei cut through them with his White Tiger Heaven-Slaying Blade and killed him in one strike.
• Sakura Hall’s Martial Artists accused Zhang Shenwei of cruelty, but he cited the rules that fighters bore responsibility for their own deaths.
• The First Venerable of Sakura Hall declared that Sakura Hall would seek justice, and Chiba Takuya entered the arena to avenge Qingchuanzi.

After Zhang Shenwei killed Chiba Takuya, foreign powers united to challenge China across all ten Frost Arenas. China won every match and claimed all ten arena championships, leaving the King of All Gods watching in fury.

• Zhang Shenwei defeated and killed Chiba Takuya with his White Tiger Heaven-Slaying Blade, after having already slain another Sakura Hall Martial Emperor.
• Foreign fighters from the Northern European War Division, the Western Holy See, the Northern Ice Bear, and the South American Ancient Martial Clan challenged China in concert.
• Xiao Dingtian accepted the challenges, and Chinese Martial Emperors took the arenas to face the foreign champions.
• A Black Martial Emperor from North America attacked Zhang Shenwei as battles broke out across all ten arenas.
• After a day of fighting, Chinese Martial Artists stood as champions on all ten Frost Arenas, and the foreign powers realized China’s fighters outmatched them.
• The King of All Gods watched the Chinese champions from the shadows, seething at their strength.

China’s Martial Emperors held all ten Frost Arenas through two days of attacks, forcing the foreign factions into despair. The King of All Gods deployed his hidden Shadow Guard, while Xiao Dingtian and the other nine Martial Deities appeared confident about what was coming.

• The foreign factions sent their strongest reserve Martial Emperors to attack the Chinese arena holders, and they captured arenas three, five, and seven by taking turns.
• More Chinese Martial Emperors replaced the fallen defenders and fought the foreign challengers off the arenas.
• At the end of two days, Chinese Martial Emperors occupied all ten Frost Arenas and challenged the other factions to keep fighting.
• The King of All Gods ordered his ten disguised Shadow Guard members, top Martial Emperors from the Divine Domain, to attack the Chinese defenders.
• The Shadow Guard launched lethal attacks at the ten arenas, while Xiao Dingtian and the other nine Martial Deities smiled.

The Chinese Martial Emperors killed all ten Divine Domain Shadow Guards, prompting the King of All Gods to attack the Chinese contingent himself. Xiao Dingtian and nine others revealed their Martial Deity Wills and stopped his strike, shocking everyone.

• The Chinese Martial Emperors unleashed their full strength and killed the ten Divine Domain Shadow Guards across the Frost Arenas.
• The King of All Gods appeared above the arenas and threatened to kill every Martial Emperor in China.
• The King of All Gods formed a giant black hand to attack the Chinese contingent.
• Xiao Dingtian signaled Shen Qingyun, Shen Qingyi, and the others, and ten Chinese Martial Deity Wills joined to stop the black hand.
• The King of All Gods cried out in shock when he realized China had ten Martial Deities.

China’s ten Martial Deities used the Ten-Direction God Suppression Array to overwhelm the King of All Gods, but their attempt to kill him was interrupted when three Martial Gods from the Through-Ancient Dynasty descended through a Portal.

• Xiao Dingtian and China’s other nine Martial Deities revealed themselves and formed the Ten-Direction God Suppression Array against the King of All Gods.
• The ten Martial Deities battered the King of All Gods, breaking his defenses and driving him close to death.
• The King of All Gods warned that killing him would provoke the Through-Ancient Dynasty, but Xiao Dingtian ordered the attack to continue.
• A golden pillar and Portal appeared in Supreme Mountain’s forbidden ground, forcing China’s ten Martial Deities to halt their attack.
• Three Martial Gods from the Through-Ancient Dynasty stepped through the Portal, their pressure overwhelming everyone present.

Li Yun arrived at Supreme Mountain as the Through-Ancient Dynasty's three Martial Gods threatened China’s Martial Deities. He effortlessly killed all three, leaving the gathered Martial Artists of Blue Star stunned by his power.

• The three Martial Gods threatened the King of All Gods and China's ten Martial Deities, intending to destroy them.
• Li Yun appeared and revealed that he had destroyed the Through-Ancient Dynasty's forces on the Purple Moon Continent.
• The three Martial Gods blamed the King of All Gods for failing to warn them about Li Yun and killed him.
• The three Martial Gods attacked Li Yun with a divine seal, a blade, and a Divine Soul Secret Art, but he shattered their attacks and struck their dantians.
• Li Yun closed his hand and instantly destroyed the three Martial Gods' bodies and Divine Souls, stunning the gathering.

After killing the three Martial Gods of the Through-Ancient Dynasty, Li Yun executed Sakura Hall’s remaining Martial Emperors and doomed Sakura Country’s Martial Kings. He ended the Supreme Mountain Showdown with all ten Top Ten Supremes belonging to the Huaxia True Martial Platform, while the forces beyond China submitted to him.

• Li Yun accused Sakura Hall’s First Venerable and four remaining Martial Emperors of hostility, then killed them with a golden blade shadow.
• Li Yun planted Martial God’s Will in every Martial King from Sakura Country, causing their wills to erode until they would die within six months to a year.
• Li Yun declared the Supreme Mountain Showdown over and revealed a Supreme Rankings listing ten Martial Deities of the Huaxia True Martial Platform.
• Xiao Dingtian and the Chinese contingent bowed to Li Yun as Saint Lord Li.
• The forces beyond China knelt and kowtowed to Li Yun and the Chinese contingent.

Li Yun took control of the Bronze Portal and connected Blue Star with the Purple Moon Continent, ushering in two years of peace and Martial Dao growth. He then departed through the Heavenly Gate for the Hengwu Domain to seek the Primordial Demon Lord and remove the threat of the Beast-Grazing Land.

• Li Yun seized control of the Bronze Portal on Supreme Mountain and connected it to the Portal on Imperial Court Mountain, creating a stable passage between Blue Star and the Purple Moon Continent.
• Li Yun announced the connection, and Xiao Dingtian and the others celebrated as the news spread and the people’s faith and fortune gathered around Li Yun.
• Over the next two years, Martial Artists traveled freely between the worlds, both Martial Dao traditions flourished, and the Beast-Grazing Land’s expansion slowed.
• Li Yun decided to leave for the Hengwu Domain to seek higher-level beings and the Primordial Demon Lord, while his friends, family, and followers gathered to see him off.
• Li Yun opened the Heavenly Gate and passed through it, while its higher-plane aura flowed into Blue Star and the Purple Moon Continent.

Li Yun arrived in the Hengwu Domain and discovered that his Martial Saint strength was only Lower Sage here, leaving him unable to climb the Martial Dao Ladder or fly freely. After learning he stood on Black Ice Star under the Through-Ancient Dynasty, he decided to keep a low profile and travel on foot.

• Li Yun entered the Hengwu Domain, found its Martial Dao Ladder, and was hurled back when he tried to touch its first rung.
• Li Yun used the Gate of Myriad Wonders to gather information and found it still received fortunes and faith from Blue Star and the Purple Moon Continent as Myriad Wonders Points.
• Li Yun learned he had landed on Black Ice Star, ruled by the Great Sage Black Ice Star Lord, who had climbed to the forty-third rung of the Martial Dao Ladder.
• Li Yun realized his Martial Saint realm ranked only as Lower Sage in the Hengwu Domain and resolved to hide his identity until he grew stronger.
• Li Yun tried to fly across the Icefield but could barely rise or glide, so he continued on foot.

Li Yun crossed the Icefield, killed a few Ice Wolves, and fled a much larger pack before encountering people from Carter City and then a solitary young hunter. The chapter left him asking the young man for advice on where to go.

• Li Yun killed several Martial God Realm Ice Wolves, then ran from a pack of hundreds led by five Lower Sages.
• After escaping the wolves, Li Yun met a wary beast-hunting team from Carter City, whose leader told him to leave them alone.
• Li Yun parted from the team and encountered a young Martial God Realm hunter resting beside a Demon Beast carcass.
• The young hunter explained that poverty had driven him to hunt on the Icefield and asked if Li Yun was heading to Carter City.
• Li Yun claimed he had fallen out with his family and asked the young man where he should go.

Li Yun accepted Xu An’s invitation to Carter City after rescuing him from a pack of Ice Wolves, including a Lower Sage leader. Using the name Lin Zishan, Li Yun entered the city with Xu An and learned about its hunting trade and growing dangers.

• Xu An invited Li Yun to come with him to Carter City, but a pack of thirty or forty Ice Wolves surrounded them.
• Li Yun protected Xu An and killed the Ice Wolf leader and the rest of the pack with the Heaven-Slaying Treasure Blade.
• Li Yun introduced himself to Xu An as Lin Zishan, and Xu An invited him home to repay him for saving his life.
• Li Yun and Xu An collected the Ice Wolf corpses and traveled toward Carter City, discussing combat techniques along the way.
• Xu An described Carter City’s hunting trade, powerful factions, and recent increase in Demon Beast attacks.
• Li Yun and Xu An passed the identity check at the gate and entered Carter City together.

Li Yun entered Carter City with Xu An, where a corrupt guard fined them for lacking an Identity Token. After selling Ice Wolf carcasses, they went to Baichuan Bookshop so Li Yun could learn about the region, and the chapter ended as they met its elderly owner.

• Xu An led Li Yun through Carter City and explained that the city was full of powerful Martial Artists.
• Xue Tai stopped Li Yun for lacking an Identity Token and forced Xu An to pay ten Middle-Grade Frost Crystals.
• Li Yun asked Xu An where he could find books about local customs, and Xu An recommended Baichuan Bookshop.
• Li Yun and Xu An sold dozens of Ice Wolves to the Ten Thousand Beasts Pavilion for fifty Middle-Grade Frost Crystals, which Li Yun let Xu An keep.
• Li Yun and Xu An entered Baichuan Bookshop, where its elderly owner looked up from his book.

Li Yun visited Zhao Baichuan’s bookshop with Xu An and read about Black Ice Star before discovering that the Gate of Myriad Wonders could restore a fragment of the High-Grade Sage Art Cold Mountain Art. The chapter ended as Xu An returned with food and wine and invited Li Yun to leave for the night.

• Xu An introduced Li Yun to Zhao Baichuan as his cousin Lin Zishan and paid the reading fee.
• Li Yun sensed that Zhao Baichuan might be powerful but chose not to investigate him.
• Li Yun read books about Black Ice Star and then browsed the incomplete Cultivation Techniques.
• The Gate of Myriad Wonders identified the fragmentary Cold Mountain Art as a High-Grade Sage Art and offered to restore it with Myriad Wonders Points.
• Zhao Baichuan explained that a complete Cold Mountain Art could let someone reach Upper Sage, and Xu An returned with food and wine to take Li Yun home.

Li Yun visited Xu An’s poor but welcoming home, then repaired the incomplete Cold Mountain Art with the Gate of Myriad Wonders. After discovering ordinary cultivation would take too long, he decided to spend his remaining points to accelerate it.

• Xu An brought Li Yun to his home and shared a meal with him and his grateful mother.
• After retiring to his room, Li Yun checked the Gate of Myriad Wonders and found he had accumulated 1.2 billion Myriad Wonders Points.
• Li Yun spent one billion points to fully repair the high-grade Saint Art Cold Mountain Art and learned its twelve-level path to Upper Sage.
• Li Yun found that cultivating the art normally would take nearly a hundred years to reach the first level’s Perfection Realm.
• The Gate of Myriad Wonders offered cultivation acceleration up to 100×, and Li Yun activated it despite the high cost.