Chapter Summaries

Zombie The Emperor arrived and effortlessly subdued Great Might Heavenly Dragon and devoured the Evil Demon, leaving the witnesses stunned. After he departed, Zhong Shan decided to return to the Da Guang battlefield and revealed that he had given White Emperor City to Xiao Wang.

• Bai Ye used the Ninth Grade Murderous Saber to cleave the Evil Demon apart, but it quickly reformed while Great Might Heavenly Dragon recovered.
• Zombie The Emperor appeared atop Great Might Heavenly Dragon, suppressed him, and made him the fourth dragon pulling his Dragon Carriage.
• Zombie The Emperor dragged the fleeing Evil Demon from the ground, refined it into its pure blood, and absorbed it before departing with Bai Ye.
• Zhong Shan and A Da discussed Zombie The Emperor's power, then Zhong Shan ordered their group to return and pacify the Da Guang battlefield.
• Zhong Shan told A Da that they would not return to White Emperor City because he had given it to Xiao Wang.

Zhong Shan returned to Radiance City after Shui Wuhen captured three cities, then reunited with Princess Qian You and received a protective treasure from her. A month later, Zhong Shan confirmed his predictions about the rival armies and questioned reports that Yi Yan had spent half a year merely restoring Great Yu’s morale.

• Zhong Shan arrived at Radiance City, where Shui Wuhen and Zhao Chuan welcomed him and reported that they had captured three cities.
• Shui Wuhen explained Zhong Shan’s strategy for exploiting Xiao Wang’s decision to abandon Moonbright City and Moonsparse City.
• Zhong Shan reunited with Princess Qian You, shared tea with her, and heard about her choice of an Eighth Grade Magical Treasure, the Glass Heart Guard, for his protection.
• A month later, Shui Wuhen reported that Xiang Bu had taken Moonbright City and Moonsparse City while Xiao Wang seized three of Xiang Bu’s cities and White Emperor City.
• Zhao Chuan reported that Yi Yan had stabilized Great Yu’s defenses but had not advanced, and Zhong Shan demanded details of Yi Yan’s movements and deployments.

Zhong Shan predicted that Yi Yan and Xiao Wang would coordinate their dynasties through a secret war code, then left Princess Qian You to impersonate him in Radiance City. Two months later, he met Yi Yan alone on a Snow Mountain and began discussing the Great Yu Emperor Dynasty’s future, ending by proposing a wager.

• Zhong Shan explained his prediction to Princess Qian You and asked her to impersonate him and hold down Radiance City while he traveled.
• Zhong Shan sent a letter to Yi Yan in Jing City, and Yi Yan recognized that Zhong Shan had outmaneuvered him and went to their arranged meeting without troops.
• Three days after Yi Yan set out, Zhong Shan welcomed him to the Snow Mountain pavilion and sent their attendants away so they could speak alone.
• Zhong Shan argued that the Great Yu Emperor Dynasty’s fate depended on Yi Yan and challenged him about how much time he had left.
• Zhong Shan proposed a wager to Yi Yan.

Zhong Shan wagered that Da Luo would destroy the Great Yu Emperor Dynasty within ten years and gave Yi Yan a Heavenly Essence Divine Pill so he could recover and face the coming war. He then traveled to Great Xuan City and presented King Da Xuan with a plan he claimed would destroy Great Yu within five years.

• Zhong Shan and Yi Yan wagered that Da Luo would destroy Great Yu within ten years, with the loser serving the winner for the rest of his life.
• Zhong Shan gave Yi Yan the Heavenly Essence Divine Pill, and Yi Yan accepted the wager and promised to wait ten years.
• Zhong Shan left with A Da and Blazing Fire and headed to Great Xuan City instead of returning to Radiant City.
• King Da Xuan and his strategists discussed the difficult war against Great Yu and the need for a swift, unconventional victory.
• Zhong Shan met King Da Xuan and presented a Jade Slip containing his Heavenfall Plan, which he said could annihilate Great Yu within five years.

Zhong Shan presented King Da Xuan with the secret Heavenfall Plan to destroy the Great Yu Emperor Dynasty within five years, and the First Strategist judged it feasible. Zhong Shan then returned to Radiance City and revealed to Princess Qian You that he would trigger a financial tsunami, while Zhong Zheng received a letter suggesting the long-prepared operation was about to begin.

• Zhong Shan gave King Da Xuan the Heavenfall Plan and requested command of the Great Yu battlefield, the Great Luo court’s cooperation, and five hundred million High-Grade Spirit Stones.
• King Da Xuan and the First Strategist studied the plan, deemed it feasible, and agreed to keep it secret while King Da Xuan prepared to seek The Emperor’s approval.
• Zhong Shan returned to Radiance City and told Princess Qian You that the imperial edict might arrive within four months.
• Zhong Shan explained that he planned to use a financial tsunami to collapse the Great Yu Emperor Dynasty, funded by the requested Spirit Stones.
• Zhong Zheng read a letter in City in the Sky and wondered whether Zhong Shan was finally beginning the plan they had prepared for six years.

Zhong Shan launched the Heavenfall Plan by destabilizing markets across the Great Yu Emperor Dynasty, using coordinated buying and selling to draw merchants into risky speculation. After three months of groundwork, he prepared to trigger the first major market collapse in three days.

• The imperial edict appointed Zhong Shan to command the Heavenfall Plan, granted him six hundred million high-grade spirit stones, and assigned Fan Yipin to assist him with fifteen hundred loyal workers.
• Zhong Shan trained the workers for months, then began the plan on the Night of the Full Moon by having them buy up Flowing Flame Copper in one hundred and fifty cities.
• The coordinated trades drove material prices sharply up and down, disrupted weapon-refining and medicinal-pill shops, and encouraged merchants and cultivators to speculate wildly.
• After three months, major Lineages and merchants joined the market struggle, but Zhong Shan said his funds had multiplied and that he had anticipated their challenge.
• Zhong Shan told Fan Yipin that the groundwork was complete and that he would trigger the first Great Collapse of the Great Yu market in three days.

Zhong Shan’s scheme drove Sumeru Stone prices through repeated booms and crashes, bankrupting merchants and crippling commerce across the Great Yu Emperor Dynasty. As cities emptied and tax revenue collapsed, Yi Yan recognized that the vanished Sumeru Stone threatened to worsen the crisis.

• Zhong Shan’s subordinates hoarded Sumeru Stone, helping drive its price from twice its original value to ten times before the first crash bankrupted merchants.
• Zhong Shan’s shops bought Sumeru Stone during the collapse, then sold as its price surged to twenty times its original value and plunged again.
• The Sumeru Stone crashes drained merchants and citizens of money, shut down shops, emptied markets, and triggered unrest and departures across the dynasty’s one hundred and fifty cities.
• A month later, Sumeru Stone had disappeared from the market, leaving the Great Yu Emperor Dynasty unable to collect taxes or sustain its officials and army.
• Great Emperor Nalan ordered an investigation after learning that tax revenue had fallen below one percent of its former level.
• Yi Yan told Iron Blood that Zhong Shan’s scheme had stirred up the merchants and warned that the disappearance of Sumeru Stone was intensifying the crisis.

Yi Yan assessed how the Great Luo Heavenly Dynasty’s trade ban and the Great Yu Emperor Dynasty’s economic collapse would leave Great Yu isolated, while other dynasties moved to protect their markets. Three months later, Zhong Zheng shipped Sumeru Stones toward Sky Wolf Island, and Fan Yipin suspected Zhong Shan had secretly directed another hand in the market before going to ask him about the Heavenfall Plan’s next step.

• Yi Yan warned Iron Blood that Great Yu could not obtain enough Sumeru Stones from Great Radiance for at least half a year, then returned to the City in the Sky to address the crisis.
• The Great Luo Heavenly Dynasty banned trade with Great Yu, while other dynasties stockpiled resources and regulated prices; three months later, Xiao Wang praised the commercial attack but believed Yi Yan could still save Great Yu.
• Zhong Zheng arranged for the Qingyun Wolf General to escort more than a thousand ships carrying Sumeru Stones to Sky Wolf Island, while he stayed behind to continue the Great Rong Merchant Guild’s operations.
• Fan Yipin heard that an unidentified force may have secretly stabilized the Great Yu market at key moments and concluded that Zhong Shan was likely behind it.
• Fan Yipin went to ask Zhong Shan when the Heavenfall Plan’s third step would begin and found him fishing with Princess Qian You.

Zhong Shan launched the third step of the Heavenfall Plan, aiming to destroy the Great Yu Emperor Dynasty after Yi Yan restored the Sumeri Stones market. The chapter ended with Yi Yan realizing that a new crisis was underway and urgently sending soldiers to investigate a spreading rumor.

• Fan Yipin told Zhong Shan that Great Yu’s four armies had won victories, but warned Yi Yan might restore the Heavenfall’s damage; Zhong Shan said Yi Yan was already too late and promised another Heavenfall in two months.
• Two months later, Yi Yan reported that Sumeri Stones were available again in City in the Sky, while Great Emperor Nalan and his ministers discussed where the missing stones had gone.
• Yi Yan concluded that the missing Sumeri Stones were still within Great Yu and could have been hidden, prompting the ministers to call for a search.
• In Radiance City, Zhong Shan declared the third step of the Heavenfall Plan had begun and sent Fan Yipin to tell King Da Xuan that Great Yu would be annihilated in one month.
• Zhong Shan ordered Zhao Chuan to defend Radiance and sent Shui Wuhen and Liu Wushuang east with troops to seize Great Yu cities and advance toward City in the Sky.
• Yi Yan suddenly ordered his soldiers to find the source of a major rumor spreading through the city.

Zhong Shan’s scheme flooded Great Yu with rumors and treasure maps, driving its people and soldiers to abandon order in pursuit of Sumeru Stones and spirit stones. Yi Yan realized that the dynasty’s hearts had fallen into chaos, leaving Great Yu’s cities in disarray.

• A drunkard spread the claim that Great Luo had hidden Great Yu’s stolen Sumeru Stones, and word spread after the Zhao Family found and sold a huge cache.
• The Head of Zhao Family told Yi Yan that he had found a sheepskin treasure map, prompting Yi Yan to realize the discovery was part of a larger crisis.
• After the Zhou Family was wiped out over another treasure map, countless identical and conflicting maps appeared across the City in the Sky.
• Twenty treasure hunters returned with Sumeru Stones worth ten million High-Grade Spirit Stones, convincing people that some maps were genuine and sending them out of the cities.
• Yi Yan had dispatched trusted troops to map locations, but generals and ordinary people across Great Yu joined the treasure hunt despite orders.
• After months of agitation, Zhong Shan’s treasure-map scheme made Great Yu’s people lose their hearts and threw the dynasty into chaos.

King Da Xuan launched a massive offensive against the Great Yu Emperor Dynasty as Zhong Shan continued the Heavenfall Plan and trained Shui Wuhen’s army. With Great Yu’s cities collapsing, Yi Yan headed to Great Yu City to make a stand while the Great Radiance Emperor Dynasty waited to judge whether he could hold the enemy back.

• Fan Yipin warned King Da Xuan that Zhong Shan had a rare advantage that would make him difficult to defeat, and King Da Xuan announced an all-out expedition against the Great Yu Emperor Dynasty.
• Zhong Shan traveled with Princess Qian You and others toward Shui Wuhen’s army, explaining that he was using the war to train troops and build a powerful household army.
• Zhong Shan and Princess Qian You identified the campaign as the fourth step of the Heavenfall Plan, with a fifth step still dependent on the Will of Heaven.
• Yi Yan told Nalan Piaoxue that Great Yu’s people and army were in chaos, then left to defend Great Yu City and urged the emperor to avoid further slaughter.
• Xiao Wang rejected an immediate rescue of Great Yu, deciding that the Great Radiance Emperor Dynasty would intervene only if Yi Yan proved he could stop the advancing troops.

Shui Wuhen and the other Da Luo armies rapidly captured four cities before Yi Yan’s defenses halted their advance. Zhong Shan then explained to Princess Qian You that the campaign was a struggle for dynastic destiny, while the fifth step of the Heavenfall Plan was set to begin in a month.

• Xiao Wang ordered Xiao Yuanfeng to lead a million troops on a small-scale attack against the Great Luo Army and assess its strength.
• Shui Wuhen and the other fourteen armies captured the first two cities quickly, then found the third and fourth cities nearly undefended after Yi Yan transferred their troops away.
• King Da Xuan and Fan Yipin realized Yi Yan had abandoned sixty cities to establish a powerful defensive position.
• Yi Yan’s command flags appeared over the fifth cities, where his trained troops and ambushes stopped the fifteen Da Luo armies and inflicted heavy casualties.
• Zhong Shan told King Da Xuan that the fifth step of the Heavenfall Plan would begin in a month and urged him to prepare Water Mirror and Xiang Bu to attack the Great Radiance battlefield.
• Zhong Shan explained to Princess Qian You that the war had to defeat Great Yu as a dynasty to seize its destiny, rather than simply killing Yi Yan.

As Yi Yan’s defenses held off the Great Luo Heavenly Dynasty, Zhong Shan’s Heavenfall Plan turned Great Yu’s internal corruption and panic against it. Nalan Piaoxue executed Zhu Cunli and drove other officials to flee, leaving Yi Yan to realize the resulting rumors could trigger the collapse of nearly sixty more cities just as Xiao Wang prepared to reinforce him.

• Yi Yan noticed that Zhong Shan and other senior commanders were absent from the defeated Great Luo armies, while Xiao Wang agreed to wait another month before sending reinforcements.
• Nalan Piaoxue celebrated Great Yu’s recovery and ordered an edict urging the people to unite against foreign enemies.
• A detailed public list exposed Zhu Cunli’s family’s profiteering and predatory loans, prompting a petition that grew to fifty thousand signatures; Nalan Piaoxue executed Zhu Cunli and exterminated his nine clans.
• Evidence implicating other officials’ families appeared, prompting many prominent clan leaders to flee the City in the Sky; Nalan Piaoxue branded them traitors and ordered them hunted.
• Iron Blood told Yi Yan that Xiao Wang would send reinforcements in two days, but Yi Yan warned that the fleeing officials would validate Zhong Shan’s rumors that the City in the Sky had fallen and could cost Great Yu nearly sixty more cities.

As Great Yu collapsed under defections, Great Luo’s invasion, and Great Radiance’s betrayal, Yi Yan’s remaining resistance crumbled. Zhong Zheng arrived to meet him under Zhong Shan’s ten-year agreement and revealed that Zhong Shan had devised the Heavenfall Plan that hastened Great Yu’s destruction.

• Xiao Wang ordered the Great Radiance army to seize Great Yu’s cities, and his forces captured three cities before taking ten in total.
• Great Yu’s city lords received Great Luo envoys; eight cities first submitted, and the number later rose to fifty as more cities fell to Great Radiance.
• Nalan Piaoxue withdrew into the palace for ten days after Great Yu’s collapse, then vanished from the hall.
• Yi Yan despaired as Great Yu City became isolated, while Iron Blood offered to escort him to safety.
• Zhong Zheng met Yi Yan under Zhong Shan’s ten-year agreement and gave him a Jade Slip explaining the Heavenfall Plan.
• Yi Yan read the Jade Slip, while Iron Blood realized that Zhong Shan had caused Great Yu’s destruction.

Yi Yan accepted that Zhong Shan had won their ten-year wager and agreed to join his service, while preparations continued for the final assault on Great Yu City. As King Da Xuan’s army faced Nalan Piaoxue, the two rulers prepared for a duel as Yi Yan and Nalan Piaoxue settled the last of their grievances.

• Zhong Zheng told Yi Yan that their father had summoned him to meet the Zhong family east of Great Pool City three months later, and Yi Yan agreed to bring his family and attendants.
• Yi Yan admitted that Zhong Shan had won their wager, and Iron Blood vowed to follow Yi Yan into service under Zhong Shan.
• Two days later, King Da Xuan gathered the marshals and led the army toward Great Yu City after the Heavenfall Plan had broken the dynasty’s resistance; Zhong Shan noticed Marquis Qitian was missing.
• Yin Sha Tian appeared as King Da Xuan’s mount, and the army began its advance before stopping when Nalan Piaoxue appeared on Great Yu City’s walls.
• Nalan Piaoxue told Yi Yan that his service to the dynasty had ended, and Yi Yan asked whether Nalan had known someone poisoned him during his breakthrough; Nalan admitted he had.
• Yi Yan and Nalan Piaoxue each said their lingering grievances had been settled, then Nalan turned his attention back to King Da Xuan.

After King Da Xuan left to fight Nalan Piaoxue, Zhong Shan led the Great Luo Heavenly Dynasty’s armies through the surrendered cities and reached the City in the Sky. He burned Great Yu’s imperial palace to seize its Qi Luck and declared the dynasty struck from the Divine Land, prompting its weakened Qi Luck Golden Dragon to attack him.

• King Da Xuan and Nalan Piaoxue exchanged a spiritual clash, then flew away to fight far from the battlefield.
• King Da Xuan entrusted command of the three armies to Zhong Shan, who divided them into fifteen routes and advanced on Great Yu’s cities.
• Zhong Shan found Great Yu City surrendered and no trace of Yi Yan or Iron Blood, then led his forces south toward the City in the Sky.
• After a month and a half, Zhong Shan reached the City in the Sky, where the defenders surrendered and Great Yu’s Qi Luck Golden Dragon lingered weakly overhead.
• Zhong Shan ordered the imperial palace burned to sever Great Yu’s foundation and Qi Luck, then declared the dynasty struck from the Divine Land.
• The Qi Luck Golden Dragon mourned, glared at Zhong Shan, and plunged toward him.

After Zhong Shan absorbed the Great Yu Emperor Dynasty’s Qi Luck and broke through to Golden Core Ninth Stage, the story shifted to his welcome of Yi Yan and Lu Jianping in the Great Zheng Dynasty. General Iron Blood challenged the dynasty’s military strength, and Zhong Shan arranged a simulated battle to prove it.

• Zhong Shan swallowed the Qi Luck Golden Dragon with Eight Extremes Heavenly Tail, used its energy to break through, and ordered the former Great Yu cities brought under Great Luo control.
• Three and a half months later, Zhong Zheng led Yi Yan, Lu Jianping, and General Iron Blood to Xuan Capital, where Zhong Shan and Great Zheng’s officials welcomed them.
• Zhong Shan appointed Lu Jianping City Overseer and named Yi Yan commander of the Third Legion.
• General Iron Blood objected to Yi Yan’s appointment, so Zhong Shan offered to hand over Great Zheng’s military authority if Iron Blood could defeat Lin Xiao or Ying Lan in a military contest.
• Zhong Shan set up a Sand Table Demonstration Platform for a simulated battle, with Yi Yan and Zhong Shan as judges, and invited General Iron Blood to choose an opponent.

Zhong Shan watched Lin Xiao decisively defeat Iron Blood in repeated military simulations, then appointed Yi Yan as the Great Zheng Dynasty’s Third Legion Commander with Iron Blood under his command. Three and a half months later, after Great Yu’s remaining cities had fallen and Zhong Shan had stabilized his Golden Core Ninth Stage, he learned that King Da Xuan had used the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Array to wear down and kill Nalan Piaoxue.

• Iron Blood chose Lin Xiao for a battlefield command contest, and Lin Xiao defeated him in successive simulations while conserving most of his troops.
• Yi Yan explained that Lin Xiao had used a fraction of his forces and triggered volcanic eruptions to destroy Iron Blood’s army; Iron Blood accepted Lin Xiao’s superiority.
• Zhong Shan appointed Yi Yan as Third Legion Commander and placed Iron Blood under his command.
• Three and a half months later, the Great Yu Emperor Dynasty’s remaining cities had been conquered, and Zhong Shan had stabilized his Golden Core Ninth Stage.
• Princess Qian You told Zhong Shan that King Da Xuan had worn down Nalan Piaoxue with Great Xuan City’s Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Array, prompting Zhong Shan to ask about the array.

After learning that Xiao Wang had been killed, Zhong Shan suspected that Marquis Qitian and Xiang Bu had ambushed him and wondered about the Red-Clothed People connected to Xiao Wang’s grandson. At the Sword God Palace, Xiao Wang’s wife learned of his death, erupted in grief and fury, and set out for Moonbright City to seek vengeance.

• Zhong Shan received King Da Xuan’s decree announcing Xiao Wang’s death and ordering him to prepare to join the attack on the Great Radiance Emperor Dynasty.
• Princess Qian You explained that Gu Lin was the reincarnation of Shen Qitian, leading Zhong Shan to suspect that Gu Lin had used powerful apes to kill Xiao Wang.
• Zhong Shan recalled the Red-Clothed People who had collected Xiao Qiu Shui’s body and connected them to the Sword God Palace.
• The Sword God Palace Master learned from her son that Xiao Wang and his two adopted sons had died, then viewed a Memory Crystal showing Xiao Wang’s displayed corpse.
• The Sword God Palace Master unleashed her Sword Intent, took up a black sword from the secluded spring, and flew toward Moonbright City.

Sword Red reached Moonbright City and annihilated its forces after finding Xiao Wang and two others displayed as corpses on the wall. After hearing Xiao Wang’s final message, she collected the bodies and pursued Xiang Bu’s fleeing army, leaving her grief transformed into a single-minded resolve for revenge.

• Zhong Shan, Princess Qian You, A Da, and A Er traveled toward Moonbright City while discussing Shui Wuhen and the army.
• Xiang Bu displayed Xiao Wang, Xiao Yuanfeng, and Xiao Yuandeng’s corpses on Moonbright City’s wall to demoralize the Great Radiance forces and lure out avengers.
• Sword Red arrived and killed more than a hundred thousand soldiers with her sword, then caught Xiao Wang’s corpse when it fell from the wall.
• Sword Red recovered Xiao Wang’s recorded final words, in which he confessed his love for her and Ru Yan and expressed his regret at dying.
• Sword Red placed Xiao Wang’s body in an Ice Coffin, collected Xiao Yuanfeng and Xiao Yuandeng’s bodies, and pursued Xiang Bu’s army eastward.