Chapter Summaries

Sword Red forced Xiang Bu back to Moonbright City, learned from his Memory Crystal that Marquis Qitian had killed Xiao Wang, and killed Xiang Bu before heading for Ten Thousand Ape Valley. There, Zhong Shan and Princess Qian You met Marquis Qitian, who welcomed them to a feast while Zhong Shan discovered that their wine contained a powerful aphrodisiac.

• Sword Red drove Xiang Bu to Moonbright City, where he revealed that Marquis Qitian had used the Hundred Apes Grand Formation to kill General Xiao and handed her a Memory Crystal.
• Sword Red learned that Marquis Qitian was at Ten Thousand Ape Valley, then killed Xiang Bu for desecrating Xiao Wang and set off toward the valley.
• Ape General intercepted Zhong Shan, Princess Qian You, A Da, and A Er and led them into Ten Thousand Ape Valley to meet Marquis Qitian.
• Marquis Qitian welcomed the group into Ten Thousand Apes Hall, introduced Yuan Fei and Yuan Xin, and invited them to a feast.
• Zhong Shan noticed that the wine Marquis Qitian served contained concentrated, colorless, odorless Red Phoenix Mist.

Marquis Qitian drugged Princess Qian You and her companions, then tried to force her to choose between becoming his woman and Zhong Shan’s death. Zhong Shan freed them, but Marquis Qitian trapped them in the Hundred Apes Grand Formation, where Sword Red appeared and the Eight Extremes Heavenly Tail devoured an attack aimed at Zhong Shan.

• Marquis Qitian drugged the wine and demanded that Princess Qian You become his woman, threatening to kill Zhong Shan when she refused.
• Yuan Fei and Yuan Xin restrained A Da, A Er, and Princess Qian You while the Red Phoenix Mist took effect.
• Zhong Shan used his Purple Cotton Kasaya to repel Yuan Fei, drew the drug’s power out of Princess Qian You and restored A Da and A Er.
• Marquis Qitian surrounded Zhong Shan and the others with the Hundred Apes Grand Formation after Princess Qian You declared him her enemy.
• Sword Red appeared inside the formation and blocked Yuan Xin’s attack with her sword.
• The Eight Extremes Heavenly Tail emerged from Zhong Shan and devoured the staff shadows attacking him within the Spiritual World.

Zhong Shan used Red Phoenix Mist to collapse Yuan Xin’s Hundred Apes Grand Formation and escape the Spiritual World. Sword Red then slaughtered Yuan Xin and the apes before pursuing Yuan Fei and Marquis Qitian, while Zhong Shan and Princess Qian You returned to the ruined valley.

• Princess Qian You explained that the Hundred Apes Grand Formation trapped everyone in an incomplete Spiritual World where only Ninth Grade Magical Treasures and Root Divine Sense could be used.
• Zhong Shan released Red Phoenix Mist, disrupting the apes’ minds and collapsing the Spiritual World as Sword Red fought Yuan Xin.
• Sword Red wounded Yuan Xin, while Yuan Fei fled with Marquis Qitian and A Da and A Er carried Zhong Shan and Princess Qian You out of the valley.
• Sword Red unleashed her sword qi across the valley, killing Yuan Xin, the Ape Generals, and the great apes.
• Sword Red pursued Yuan Fei and Marquis Qitian, while Zhong Shan, Princess Qian You, A Da, and A Er returned to Ten Thousand Ape Valley.

Zhong Shan’s army regrouped at Radiance City as Water Mirror’s swift capture of twenty cities weakened the Great Radiance Emperor Dynasty. With Great Luo Heavenly Dynasty’s invasion threatening Aurora City, Han Jiguang welcomed the new Mud Bodhisattva, who planned to activate the Netherworld Reincarnation Hall and identified Han Jue as its crucial exception.

• Zhong Shan praised Zhao Chuan for defending Radiance City and explained that Water Mirror had spent years preparing to seize twenty cities before urging the generals to advance toward Aurora City.
• Six months later, twenty Great Luo Heavenly Dynasty armies launched a full-scale assault, leaving the Great Radiance Emperor Dynasty in grave danger.
• Han Jiguang told his three Crown Princes that the dynasty had lost sixty-five cities and assured them that a countermeasure was coming.
• The new Mud Bodhisattva arrived and revealed that he would activate the Netherworld Reincarnation Hall using sixty-four cities arranged according to the Sixty-Four Trigrams.
• Mud Bodhisattva identified Han Jue’s Netherworld Ehuang as the exception that could thrive in the formation, and Han Jiguang appointed him Grand Commandant.

Zhong Shan and his forces found themselves trapped inside a strange feng shui Grand Formation that shrouded all sixty-four cities of the Great Radiance Emperor Dynasty in disorienting fog. Outside the formation, King Da Xuan recognized its nature and awaited Heavenly Old, whom he had summoned from the Ancient Saintly Capital.

• Zhong Shan noticed that the Great Radiance Emperor Dynasty’s retreat and decrees seemed suspicious, but he could not identify the conspiracy behind them.
• Clouds darkened the sky as dense fog surrounded Zhong Shan’s city, blocking sight and divine senses beyond a short distance.
• Zhao Chuan and Liu Wushuang tried to fly upward but crashed into the ground, revealing that the formation distorted their sense of direction.
• Zhong Shan learned the next day that scouts could not return and that all sixty-four cities, along with armies in the surrounding wilderness, were trapped in the fog.
• King Da Xuan identified the fog as a feng shui Grand Formation and said he had summoned Heavenly Old from the Ancient Saintly Capital.

Zhong Shan tested the fog-bound formation, prepared the city’s defenses, and repelled an attack led by the Cold Abyss Crown Prince. He then ordered the army to escape by following unintelligent wolves, while Heavenly Old finally arrived at King Da Xuan’s camp.

• Zhong Shan’s Kongming Lantern failed to pass through the clouds, so he ordered sentries and ropes to protect the city from an attack.
• The Cold Abyss Crown Prince used his Netherworld Ehuang’s Heart to command moths and led Great Radiance troops through the fog toward the city.
• After three months, the Cold Abyss Crown Prince’s soldiers attacked but were ambushed by Zhong Shan’s prepared defenses, suffering heavy losses before retreating.
• Zhong Shan ordered his army to abandon the city and planned to use Chihuo to summon unintelligent wolves to guide them through the fog.
• One month later, Heavenly Old arrived at King Da Xuan’s battlefield camp.

Zhong Shan led nearly a million people out of the white-mist formation, disproving Fan Yipin and Heavenly Old’s claim that no one could escape. At the camp, Heavenly Old planned to enter the formation the next day, while Ying Ning probed Qian You about her relationship with Marquis Qitian and Zhong Shan.

• Heavenly Old identified the white mist as an effect of a feng shui formation spanning sixty-four cities and said those who entered could not escape.
• Zhong Shan emerged from the mist with Princess Qian You, his companions, and nearly a million soldiers, with a pack of wolves following them out.
• Zhong Shan ordered Chihuo to release the wolves and told Shui Wuhen to organize the army before meeting King Da Xuan, Fan Yipin, and Heavenly Old.
• Heavenly Old agreed to enter the formation at the hour of Chen the next day with Ying Ning and Qian You, and Zhong Shan asked to accompany them.
• Ying Ning told Qian You that Marquis Qitian had entered the Ancient Saintly Capital and asked why they had fallen out, then implied Qian You had chosen Zhong Shan over him.

Heavenly Old led Zhong Shan, Princess Qian You, and Ying Ning into Reincarnation Hall, a ghost city inside a feng shui Derivative Realm. There, the Ghost King recognized Princess Qian You, and Heavenly Old explained that the netherworld city and its inhabitants were real, though they existed beyond the mortal world.

• Five Ghost Attendants reported that they had found a vast ghost city in the northwest, and Heavenly Old led the group toward it.
• Cold Abyss Crown Prince blocked their path, but Heavenly Old struck him down and sent him fleeing with a warning for the feng shui Master.
• Heavenly Old led the group through 108 footprints into the Derivative Realm of Reincarnation Hall, where Zhong Shan fought off approaching ghosts and zombies.
• The Ghost King recognized Princess Qian You, but fled when Heavenly Old looked at him.
• Heavenly Old explained that Derivative Realms recreated real places and beings, and confirmed that Fengdu Ghost City and Reincarnation Hall existed in the netherworld.

Heavenly Old created an Ancient Saintly Capital Derivative Realm to oppose the Netherworld Reincarnation Hall and appointed Zhong Shan commander of its army. The battle began with Zhong Shan facing twice as many enemy soldiers, and he ordered his troops into the Eight Gates Golden Lock formation.

• Heavenly Old explained that the Reincarnation Hall could only be broken with a formation and created a golden Ancient Saintly Capital Derivative Realm using The Emperor's Flat Sky Crown and nine qi-luck dragons.
• Heavenly Old and the opposing feng shui Master declared themselves Gu Shentong and the Reincarnation King, then ordered their forces to seize each other's qi luck.
• Heavenly Old appointed Zhong Shan Ancient Supreme Commander, giving him control of ten million golden-armored soldiers against the enemy's ten million zombies and ten million evil spirits.
• Ying Ning taunted Princess Qian You about Zhong Shan's danger, while Heavenly Old warned Zhong Shan that losing would mean his death.
• Cold Abyss and Ghost Yellow led their armies into battle as the boundary between the two realms advanced, and Zhong Shan ordered the Eight Gates Golden Lock formation.

Zhong Shan used the Eight Gates Golden Lock Array to crush the Corpse Soldiers and Ghost Soldiers and drive back the Reincarnation Hall’s territory. When the Reincarnation King unleashed Fate Turbidity, it destroyed the array’s army and began consuming the Ancient Saintly Capital, leaving Zhong Shan fleeing as Heavenly Old called for the Great Luo Heavenly Stars Formation.

• Zhong Shan formed the Eight Gates Golden Lock Array and used its gates to devour and defeat the Corpse Soldiers and Ghost Soldiers.
• The array trapped Cold Abyss Crown Prince, Ghost Yellow, and their forces while the Ancient Saintly Capital expanded into the Reincarnation Hall’s territory.
• A feng shui master in the Reincarnation Hall summoned Fate Turbidity, and Zhong Shan withdrew from the array.
• Fate Turbidity engulfed the array, turned the Great Luo Heavenly Dynasty’s golden-armored army to smoke, and aged Cold Abyss Crown Prince to death.
• Fate Turbidity drove the boundary back toward the Ancient Saintly Capital, and Zhong Shan fled as Heavenly Old called for the Great Luo Heavenly Stars Formation.

Heavenly Old used the Great Luo Heavenly Stars Formation to destroy Turbid Fate, but the Reincarnation King opened the Reincarnation Tunnel and began pushing the Yin-Yang boundary back toward the Ancient Saintly Capital. Zhong Shan rode the Heavenly Wood Staff toward the Netherworld Reincarnation Hall to stop the tunnel, leaving Princess Qian You worried and Ying Ning ready to flee.

• Heavenly Old activated the Great Luo Heavenly Stars Formation, which halted the Yin-Yang boundary and destroyed Turbid Fate and millions of Corpse Soldiers and Ghost Soldiers.
• The Reincarnation King opened the Reincarnation Tunnel, whose spreading blue waves erased the formation and drove the boundary toward the Ancient Saintly Capital.
• Heavenly Old sent his Heavenly Wood Staff to carry one person to stop the Reincarnation King, and Ying Ning pushed Zhong Shan onto it.
• Heavenly Old warned Ying Ning and Princess Qian You that Zhong Shan might only stop the tunnel temporarily, while Ying Ning asked to be sent away and Qian You insisted on staying.
• Zhong Shan reached the Netherworld Reincarnation Hall and faced the Reincarnation King as he manipulated the tunnel.

Zhong Shan realized the feng shui Master was Mud Bodhisattva after he vanished and the Yin and Yang realms collapsed. With the formation broken, Zhong Shan and King Da Xuan moved to seize the sixty-four cities, while Zhong Shan sent A Da and A Er back to protect Princess Qian You and warned her not to force her feng shui studies.

• Zhong Shan tried to persuade the feng shui Master to stop, but the Master vanished after saying Zhong Shan had come and had not discovered him.
• Zhong Shan recognized the feng shui Master as Mud Bodhisattva as the Yin Realm collapsed and the Ancient Saintly Capital's formation dispersed.
• Zhong Shan told Heavenly Old that the Master had reacted to his Purple Cotton Kasaya, and Heavenly Old guessed the Master might be Guigu, successor of the Ghost Vein.
• Heavenly Old confirmed that the feng shui Grand Formation had been broken and said the white mist would disperse within a hundred days.
• Zhong Shan reported the opportunity to King Da Xuan, who ordered the troops to seize the sixty-four cities.
• Zhong Shan sent A Da and A Er to protect Princess Qian You and told them to warn her not to force herself to compete with Ying Ning in feng shui studies.

After losing most of Great Radiance Emperor Dynasty, Han Jiguang refused to surrender and planned to preserve his forces and rebuild after Great Luo Heavenly Dynasty fell. As King Da Xuan challenged Han Jiguang and Zhong Shan led the armies toward Aurora City, Water Mirror delivered a secret report that could aid the final assault.

• Han Jiguang told his Crown Princes that he would abandon Great Radiance Emperor Dynasty’s cities, preserve its Frost Ice Army, wealth, and talents, and rebuild when Great Luo Heavenly Dynasty collapsed.
• Two months later, King Da Xuan led twenty armies toward Aurora City and appointed Zhong Shan to command the assault while he went to face Han Jiguang.
• Zhong Shan halted the armies outside Aurora City and studied its weakened Qi Luck Golden Dragon instead of attacking at once.
• Water Mirror arrived with a secret report from scouts he had planted in Aurora City ten years earlier, and Zhong Shan declared the letter worth ten million troops.

Zhong Shan conquered the Great Radiance Emperor Dynasty, received an imperial order to return to the Ancient Saintly Capital, and led his army home. Near the capital, he encountered A Da fleeing court officials and stopped them from taking him.

• Zhong Shan devoured Aurora City's Qi Luck Golden Dragon and advanced to Golden Core Tenth Stage, then ordered his commanders to seize the Great Radiance Emperor Dynasty's remaining cities.
• After the dynasty fell, Zhong Shan bid farewell to Zhao Chuan, ordered the Zhong Family Army's training continued, and released the captured First Crown Prince.
• An imperial edict summoned Zhong Shan to the Ancient Saintly Capital to receive rewards for his military merits.
• Five months later, Zhong Shan led the eight hundred thousand Zhong Family Army toward the capital and saw A Da fleeing five officials from the Ministry of Justice.
• Zhong Shan ordered the officials to leave, and they withdrew after he counted to four.

Zhong Shan learned that Princess Qian You had been accused of killing Ying Ning and promised to help prove her innocence. After reaching the Ancient Saintly Capital, he defended A Da from Vice Minister of Justice Ma Zhuiyue by ordering his army to attack.

• A Da told Zhong Shan that Princess Qian You had been imprisoned for allegedly killing Ying Ning, and that the accusation had witnesses, evidence, and a supposed motive.
• Zhong Shan learned that the Emperor would delay judgment until the Four Great Crown Princes returned, while King Zheng Yi and Marquis Qitian had failed to support Qian You.
• A Da relayed Qian You's message that she had killed no one, and Zhong Shan promised to help her before sending A Da back to the Princess Manor.
• Zhong Shan arrived at the Ancient Saintly Capital with his eight hundred thousand troops and was directed to wait at Eastern Manor for the Emperor's summons.
• Ma Zhuiyue arrived to arrest A Da, but Zhong Shan ordered his army to fire on him and his men, forcing them to flee under a volley of arrows.

After entering the Ancient Saintly Capital, Zhong Shan prepared to use public opinion to help Princess Qian You and faced the Emperor of the Great Luo Heavenly Dynasty. The chapter ended as Zhong Shan entered the Ancient Saintly Palace and sensed Gu Shentong as the dynasty’s Heaven.

• Zhong Shan led his army into the Ancient Saintly Capital after driving Ma Zhuiyue and his wounded subordinates away, then settled at the Eastern Manor.
• Zhong Shan sent Liu Wushuang to deliver a letter to the Luck Inn and arranged for rumors about the army’s encounter with the attempted robbers to spread.
• Ma Zhuiyue told Marquis Qitian that Zhong Shan had tried to kill him, and Marquis Qitian planned to use the incident against Zhong Shan at court.
• Zhong Shan explained that he would turn the rumors into a public show of his army’s uprightness and use his reputation to help clear Princess Qian You’s name.
• Zhong Shan climbed Ancient Saintly Mountain after the Emperor summoned him and entered the Ancient Saintly Palace.
• Zhong Shan saw Gu Shentong seated on the Nine Dragon Heavenly Throne and sensed him as the Heaven of the Great Luo Heavenly Dynasty.

Zhong Shan entered the Ancient Saintly Palace, resisted the Emperor’s spiritual pressure, and heard his extensive military achievements praised as the court debated promoting him. Ma Zhuiyue then accused him of shielding a fugitive and attacking Ministry of Justice officials, and Zhong Shan admitted the confrontation before declaring he would have killed Ma Zhuiyue regardless.

• Zhong Shan resisted the Ancient Saintly Palace’s pressure to kneel, then bowed to Emperor Gu Shentong.
• A Eunuch recited Zhong Shan’s military achievements, and Huan Tu Long proposed promoting him to Duke while King Da Xuan recommended making him Vice Minister of War.
• Ma Zhuiyue accused Zhong Shan of shielding A Da and ordering his soldiers to attack Ministry of Justice officials.
• Zhong Shan admitted the events but said he had not known A Da was a fugitive or Ma Zhuiyue was a court official.
• Zhong Shan declared that he would have killed Ma Zhuiyue even if Ma Zhuiyue had proved his identity, making Ma Zhuiyue recoil.

Zhong Shan pledged his military merits to secure an Imperial investigation into Princess Qian You’s alleged murder of Princess Ying Ning, and Gu Shentong appointed him Imperial Commissioner for one month. Armed with the Saintly Sword, Zhong Shan headed to Princess Qian You’s Residence as stories about him began spreading through the capital.

• Zhong Shan argued that Ma Zhuiyue had attacked guards transporting Imperial Spirit Stones, and Gu Shentong ordered Ma Zhuiyue back to his place.
• Zhong Shan pledged all his military merits as collateral and asked to investigate Princess Ying Ning’s murder and give Princess Qian You a chance to clear her name.
• Gu Shentong granted Zhong Shan one month to investigate, appointed him Imperial Commissioner, and lent him the Saintly Sword.
• Marquis Qitian warned Zhong Shan not to interfere, but Zhong Shan said he would record the threat as evidence.
• Zhong Shan gave the Saintly Sword to Blazing Fire for protection and went with him to Princess Qian You’s Residence.
• Stories of Zhong Shan’s achievements began spreading through the Ancient Saintly Capital as Luck Inn promoted his reputation.

Zhong Shan reached Princess Qian You and comforted her, realizing that he loved her before turning to investigate her case. As Qian You began recounting what happened, the story shifted to the banquet a month earlier, where Ying Ning drew her aside and revealed the Wind God Bow.

• Zhong Shan used the Imperial Sword to enter Princess Qian You's Residence and reunited with the haggard princess.
• Princess Qian You embraced Zhong Shan, fell asleep in his arms, and rested for a day while he stayed beside her.
• After Qian You awoke, Zhong Shan explained that the Emperor had granted him one month to investigate and had given him the Imperial Sword.
• Zhong Shan asked Qian You for a detailed account, and the story moved back to Ying Ning's banquet a month earlier.
• Ying Ning took Princess Qian You to an empty courtyard, asked about her Xun Cauldron Body, and produced the Wind God Bow.

Princess Ying Ning was killed by a Wind God Arrow, and Princess Qian You was accused after being found holding the Wind God Bow. Zhong Shan began investigating to clear her name, narrowed the manor’s occupants to fifty suspects, and examined the bow and arrow.

• Princess Ying Ning tested the Wind God Bow on Princess Qian You, then an unseen archer shot Ying Ning through her Violet Manor with a Green Arrow.
• Ma Zhuiyue and Marquis Qitian arrived, and Ma Zhuiyue identified the Wind God Arrow while Marquis Qitian accused Princess Qian You of killing Ying Ning.
• Princess Qian You told Zhong Shan that the archer had escaped into the crowd, and Zhong Shan promised to clear her name before her one-month deadline.
• Zhong Shan confronted Ma Zhuiyue at the Ministry of Justice and demanded records of everyone who had been in the Princess Manor.
• Zhong Shan reviewed the records, eliminated 184 of the 234 people present, and demanded the Wind God Bow and Wind God Arrow for his investigation.
• Ma Zhuiyue brought Zhong Shan the Wind God Bow and Wind God Arrow, leaving fifty suspects under consideration.