Chapter Summaries

After consuming a pill, Zhong Shan fought Liu Dao with overwhelming physical strength and powerful saber techniques. Liu Dao threatened Gan Bao Er and used a mirror to create eighteen indistinguishable clones, but Zhong Shan answered by producing clones of his own.

• Zhong Shan and Liu Dao traded devastating punches that shattered mountains, and Liu Dao's attacks failed to injure Zhong Shan through his Glass Heart Guard.
• Zhong Shan drew Nightmare and struck Liu Dao with Tear Wind and lightning, driving him into the ground.
• Liu Dao claimed he had arranged for Xuan Yan to kill Gan Bao Er, provoking Zhong Shan's fury.
• Liu Dao used a mirror from the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss to create eighteen indistinguishable copies and attacked Zhong Shan.
• Zhong Shan created two identical copies of himself, which multiplied further as Liu Dao watched in astonishment.

Zhong Shan fought Liu Dao with his Shadow Clones while Hao Meili confronted the Great Empress near Jinling City. As the Black Tortoises advanced, Bao Er took command of the Great Zheng army and ordered an attack to protect Ying Lan.

• Zhong Shan overwhelmed Liu Dao with 128 real Shadow Clones, destroyed Liu Dao's mirror, and resumed fighting him after Liu Dao used the Great Restriction Technique.
• Hao Meili flew to Jinling City, killed Du Xiu with the Curse Technique, and provoked the Great Empress into following her into the city.
• Crown Prince Qi Ye ordered the Black Tortoises to advance toward the Great Zheng Dynasty.
• Yi Yan and Lin Xiao asked Bao Er to lead the army in Zhong Shan's absence, and Bao Er accepted command.
• Bao Er ordered Lin Xiao to unite the three legions and directed the army to kill the Black Tortoise Generals threatening Ying Lan.

Bao Er directed the army and Emperor Realm allies against ten Black Tortoise Generals, while Lin Xiao used volleys of Armor Piercing Arrows to kill two of them. As the remaining forces engaged the Black Tortoises, Xuan Yan agreed to assassinate Bao Er and approached Bronze Battle Island.

• Bao Er ordered Lin Xiao to assemble the archers and sent Iron Blood, Yao Yu, Yao Chen, Yao Lu, Gu Qian You, and Qingyun to help confront the Black Tortoise Generals.
• Lin Xiao organized two million archers, whose Armor Piercing Arrows killed the first Black Tortoise General and then destroyed a second after it attacked the army.
• Six Black Tortoise Generals charged toward Bronze Battle Island, where Iron Blood, Yao Chen, Yao Yu, Yao Lu, Gu Qian You, and Qingyun met them, while the wolves attacked another.
• A Black Tortoise General pursued Lin Xiao, but the Dark Emperor ambushed it and severed its leg, allowing Lin Xiao to escape.
• Crown Prince Qi Ye persuaded Little Black Tortoise to ask Xuan Yan for help, and Xuan Yan agreed to kill Bao Er before flying toward Bronze Battle Island with the Black Tortoise Generals behind him.

Xuan Yan attacked Gan Bao Er under the pressure of the Emperor Realm, but a mysterious woman reached through space and shattered his defenses. After Xuan Yan fled, Bao Er ordered the conquest of Jinling City and the destruction of the Yin Moon Imperial Dynasty’s imperial clan.

• Xuan Yan arrived at Bronze Battle Island and used his aura to immobilize the battlefield before announcing he had come to kill Gan Bao Er.
• Gan Bao Er defied Xuan Yan and ordered her forces to continue Zhong Shan’s undertaking and slaughter Jinling City if she died.
• The Dark Emperor killed Crown Prince Qi Ye and seized the Black Tortoise Young Master, but Xuan Yan defeated him with a glance and resumed his attack on Bao Er.
• A mysterious woman’s hand emerged through space, shattered Xuan Yan’s crystal shield and shell, and forced him to flee with the Black Tortoise Generals.
• Gan Bao Er recognized the black mole on the hand as matching her own, then ordered Lin Xiao to take Jinling City and exterminate the Yin Moon Imperial Dynasty’s imperial clan.
• Emperor Xuan Sha appeared near the battlefield and realized he might have missed what had happened.

Zhong Shan defeated Liu Dao by dragging him into heavenly lightning, breaking through to the second level of the Nascent Soul Stage as he won. After Liu Dao and the Great Empress Ming Ming died together, Zhong Shan took Jinling City and was hailed as emperor, leaving the Great Zheng Dynasty poised to advance.

• Emperor Xuan Sha sensed a powerful expert's aura and called for Qing Yun after the newcomer had already left.
• Zhong Shan used heavenly lightning to attack Liu Dao, and both were severely injured when the lightning sphere crashed to the ground.
• Yin Moon Imperial Dynasty providence flowed into Zhong Shan, confirming his victory and helping him recover as he advanced to the second level of the Nascent Soul Stage.
• Zhong Shan carried the dying Liu Dao to Jinling City, where he reunited with the dying Great Empress Ming Ming.
• Liu Dao and Ming Ming embraced, confessed their love, and died together, and Zhong Shan ordered them buried side by side.
• Zhong Shan entered the captured Jinling City and was acclaimed as emperor as the Great Zheng Dynasty prepared for its next advancement.

Zhong Shan completed the Feng Chan Ceremony, refined the Great Zheng Dynasty’s gathered destiny through the Square Heaven Jade Seal, and proclaimed the Great Zheng Imperial Dynasty with himself as Emperor of Heaven. Ten days later, he heard Lu Jianping propose building Lingxiao Immortal City, a colossal city above the Nine Heavens.

• Zhong Shan began the Feng Chan Ceremony at Xuan Capital, drawing the Great Zheng Dynasty’s vast National Destiny to the altar through the Investiture of the Gods.
• Zhong Shan buried the Square Heaven Jade Seal beneath the Five-Colored Earth altar and absorbed the gathered destiny, astonishing Emperor Xuan Sha and Corpse Mister.
• The refined destiny surged through Zhong Shan, washing over him and advancing his cultivation to the third level of the Nascent Soul Stage.
• Zhong Shan proclaimed the Great Zheng Imperial Dynasty and established himself as Emperor of Heaven, while the five million soldiers acclaimed him.
• Ten days later, Lu Jianping told Zhong Shan that he had chosen a design for Number One City Under Heaven and proposed building Lingxiao Immortal City above the Nine Heavens.

Zhong Shan commissioned Lu Jianping to build the Lingxiao Immortal City and agreed to help Hao Meili retrieve the remaining Immortal Steles. He returned to the Divine Continent with Princess Qian You, Lin Xiao, and Corpse Mister, arriving at the Ancient Saintly Capital with half a year left on his leave.

• Zhong Shan ordered Lu Jianping to build the Lingxiao Immortal City using the meteorites he had collected and told him to have the Crown Prince gather more.
• Yi Yan reported that the Great Zheng Imperial Dynasty's destiny had greatly accelerated his cultivation, and Zhong Shan attributed the unusual effect to the Red Ball above the Square Heaven Jade Seal.
• Zhong Shan told his companions he would return to the Divine Continent, then agreed to help Hao Meili retrieve forty-four Immortal Steles from four powerful realms and dynasties.
• Hao Meili said she would leave the next day, and Zhong Shan spent the following ten days with Bao Er before traveling back to the Divine Continent.
• Zhong Shan, Princess Qian You, Lin Xiao, and Corpse Mister arrived at the Ancient Saintly Capital and went to the Eastern Manor, where Zhong Shan introduced Lin Xiao and Corpse Mister to his subordinates.

Zhong Shan asked Corpse Mister to help him openly reclaim Tian Ling'er from the Great Li Heavenly Dynasty, and Corpse Mister agreed. Princess Qian You prepared to study at Seven Stars Hall, while Zhong Shan was summoned to meet the Great Luo Sage Emperor.

• Zhong Shan told Corpse Mister that Tian Ling'er was his wife and that he would bring her back openly from the Great Li Heavenly Dynasty.
• Corpse Mister warned that the plan would be dangerous but agreed to stand by Zhong Shan.
• Princess Qian You told Zhong Shan that the Seven Stars Hall Master had requested her presence and asked her to bring the Wind God Bow.
• Zhong Shan urged Princess Qian You to be careful and accepted that A Da and A Er would accompany her.
• A eunuch summoned Zhong Shan to court, and Zhong Shan flew to the Ancient Saintly Palace to meet the Great Luo Sage Emperor.

Gu Shentong revealed that he knew Zhong Shan was also the sovereign of Great Zheng, then appointed him envoy to the Great Li Heavenly Dynasty to deliver a bamboo flute and sealed Jade Slip to Nie Fanchen and seek a Thousand Autumns Fruit. As Zhong Shan prepared for the journey, Tian Ling'er pondered her recurring vision of “Osmanthus Cake,” while Zhong Shan led his troops toward a mountain region.

• Gu Shentong recognized Zhong Shan as the sovereign of Great Zheng and allowed him to continue serving as a Great Luo official.
• Gu Shentong sent Zhong Shan as a secret envoy to Nie Fanchen with a bamboo flute and sealed Jade Slip, and gave him the public mission of obtaining a Thousand Autumns Fruit.
• Tian Ling'er complained to Xiao Hong that she kept seeing the back of “Osmanthus Cake” in her thoughts, then withheld the sparrow’s Gathering Fire Rice to make it speak.
• Zhong Shan received the imperial decree to travel to the Great Li Heavenly Dynasty with gifts, while Princess Qian You took A Da and A Er to the Seven Stars Hall.
• Zhong Shan led eight hundred thousand soldiers and fifty thousand wolves toward a desolate mountain region after Shui Wuhen identified the direction.

Five months after setting out, Zhong Shan met King Taizong at the Great Luo border and later reunited with Sword Pride, who had been honing his swordsmanship in Taizong’s army. Sword Pride gave Zhong Shan an invitation to the Great Nirvana Assembly, and Zhong Shan decided he wanted to attend but did not know the way to the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss.

• Zhong Shan’s army approached King Taizong’s camp, where King Taizong welcomed him with a banquet and later ordered his people to stop investigating Zhong Shan’s origins.
• Sword Pride and Chu Jiu arrived at the banquet to thank King Taizong and bid him farewell after Sword Pride finished training in the army.
• Five days later, Sword Pride and Chu Jiu visited Zhong Shan’s camp, and Sword Pride said he was waiting for the right time to challenge Zhong Shan again.
• Sword Pride revealed that he had rapidly advanced his cultivation after years of suppressing it to perfect his swordsmanship.
• Sword Pride gave Zhong Shan his invitation to the Great Nirvana Assembly, and Zhong Shan admitted that he wanted to attend but did not know the route.

Zhong Shan and his companions discovered the Nightmare Legion slaughtering a town and collecting the victims’ souls. Zhong Shan and Sword Pride attacked the legion, and Zhong Shan began fighting a seemingly pain-proof warrior.

• Shui Wuhen recalled Zhong Shan placing Lin Xiao under his command as strategist and giving him authority to take control in a crisis.
• Zhong Shan, Corpse Mister, Sword Pride, and Chu Jiu encountered a town ravaged by roughly ten thousand Nightmare Legion members.
• Chu Jiu explained that the Nightmare Legion was a vast, mysterious force whose riders used legendary steeds and slaughtered without fear of pain.
• Corpse Mister recognized a green crystal held by the legion’s leader as an object collecting souls from the dead.
• Sword Pride challenged Zhong Shan to see who could kill the Nightmare Legion faster, and they charged into the town from opposite directions.
• Zhong Shan killed a rider after severing his Nightmare, striking him, and cutting off his leg failed to stop him.

Zhong Shan and Sword Pride slaughtered the demon-nightmare men, with Zhong Shan forcing his way toward their leader while Corpse Mister collected corpses. Nian Youyou watched with her senior brother, who dismissed Zhong Shan as a crude butcher, and the chapter left them observing the battle.

• Zhong Shan brutally cut down the Golden Core Stage demon-nightmare men, while Sword Pride killed them with Azure Sword Lotus Sword Qi.
• Chu Jiu told Corpse Mister that Zhong Shan suppressed a vast hatred that fueled his Overbearing Aura, and mentioned the bloodshed once caused by Xuan Yuan.
• Zhong Shan unleashed a devastating saber attack that killed four Nascent Soul Stage fighters and charged toward the Ferocious Han Leader holding the strange crystal.
• Sword Pride and Zhong Shan killed nearly half the attackers, while Corpse Mister gathered suitable corpses and the commoners watched in terror.
• Nian Youyou and the Blue-Haired Man observed the battlefield; she expressed interest in Zhong Shan, while he mocked him and focused on Sword Pride.

Zhong Shan and Sword Pride defeated the Nightmare Legion and met Se Kong, a monk who agreed to guide Zhong Shan and Corpse Mister to the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss. As they entered the Buddha Forbidden Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, Zhong Shan sensed the region’s strange power and heard faint chanting.

• Zhong Shan summoned thunder to destroy the Bloodthirsty Bats and killed the Ferocious Han Leader, taking his black pouch and green crystal.
• Sword Pride slaughtered the remaining Nightmare Legion, and the group learned that Nian Youyou found the captured bats interesting.
• Se Kong introduced himself as a monk from Kong Peak Temple and offered to guide Zhong Shan and Corpse Mister to the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss.
• Sword Pride and Chu Jiu departed, while Nian Youyou secretly followed Zhong Shan and Corpse Mister as Se Kong led them north.
• After two and a half days, Se Kong explained that the Buddha Forbidden Hundred Thousand Great Mountains suppressed non-Buddhist cultivators and strengthened Buddhist cultivators.
• Zhong Shan sensed an uncanny force in the mountains and heard the faint chant, “Om, ma, ni, pad, me, hum.”

Zhong Shan and Corpse Mister discovered that Se Kong had lured them into a trapped Zen Courtyard and tried to drug them for their treasures. After Zhong Shan escaped, Se Kong revealed that he and the monks were allied with the Nightmare Legion and empowered by the Divine Seal, while Corpse Mister remained trapped inside.

• Se Kong brought Zhong Shan and Corpse Mister to Kong Peak Temple and settled them in a secluded Zen Courtyard.
• Zhong Shan detected sleeping incense and concluded that Se Kong had set a trap; Corpse Mister identified the green crystal as a Soul Searching Stone and warned him about the Bat Pouch.
• Zhong Shan and Corpse Mister planned to escape the formation, but Zhong Shan burst through the door alone when Se Kong came to check on them.
• Se Kong and the monks revealed black marks bearing the character "Mo" and attacked, while Corpse Mister remained inside the courtyard formation.
• Se Kong demanded the Bat Pouch and Soul Searching Stone, then explained that the Divine Seal raised his strength to the Body Integration Realm and that the Nightmare Legion wanted to recover the treasures.

Zhong Shan destroyed Kong Peak Temple and defeated Se Kong, but the Yellow-Brow Man arrived and blocked Zhong Shan’s attack. Se Kong fled to seek help, leaving Zhong Shan and Corpse Mister trapped with the powerful newcomer.

• Zhong Shan killed Se Jie and the monks surrounding him, then freed Corpse Mister as Kong Peak Temple collapsed.
• Corpse Mister revealed how to break the Twenty-Four Mountains Array, and Zhong Shan shattered it and brought Se Kong down with a saber strike.
• The Yellow-Brow Man appeared and blocked Zhong Shan’s lightning attack, while Se Kong warned him about Zhong Shan and their stolen Soul Searching Stone and Bat Pouch.
• Zhong Shan stepped in front of Corpse Mister as Se Kong fled to seek help from his Martial Uncle.
• The Yellow-Brow Man raised the ruins’ broken stones into the air, surrounding Zhong Shan and Corpse Mister and cutting off their escape.

Zhong Shan and Corpse Mister reached the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss with Nian Youyou after she saved them from the Yellow-Brow Man and asked Zhong Shan to help catch a beast. The chapter left them outside the sacred site, where token holders could enter but their uninvited protectors had to wait outside.

• The Yellow-Brow Man attacked Zhong Shan and Corpse Mister, but Nian Youyou killed him with her whip and Corpse Mister collected his Primordial Spirit.
• Nian Youyou joined Zhong Shan and Corpse Mister on their journey to the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss after recognizing their Eighty-One Tokens.
• Nian Youyou explained that the Pure Land had three Buddhas, including Future Golden Cicada Buddha, who had given Zhong Shan one of his tokens.
• Nian Youyou asked Zhong Shan to help her catch a little beast inside the Pure Land, and Zhong Shan agreed to do his best.
• Five days later, Zhong Shan, Corpse Mister, and Nian Youyou arrived at the Pure Land and saw its small Zen Courtyard and the groups of uninvited protectors waiting outside.

Zhong Shan entered the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss with Nian Youyou and learned about the Buddha Tomb and Fragrant Aroma Bodhisattva’s roses. When he saw a black-robed man being beaten, Zhong Shan stepped in and claimed to be the man’s father, and the man accepted him as such.

• Nian Youyou led Zhong Shan and Corpse Mister through the great hall into the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss, where they were assigned rooms to await the Great Nirvana Assembly in two months.
• Nian Youyou told Zhong Shan that the golden mountain forest held the Buddha Tomb and that Fragrant Aroma Bodhisattva guarded it and kept the world’s only Seven-Colored Roses.
• A Yellow Robed figure beat a black-robed man from the Great Ming Temple while the surrounding spectators watched without intervening.
• Zhong Shan rushed in and stopped the Yellow Robed figure’s pestle with a saber strike.
• Zhong Shan declared that the black-robed man was his son, and the man excitedly called him Father.

Zhong Shan flew into a fury after his son was attacked, nearly killed the yellow-robed man, and then turned his rage on Zhi Guang Arhat when the monk intervened. The yellow-robed man died at Zhong Shan's son's hands, while Zhong Shan remained locked in a seemingly personal battle with Zhi Guang Arhat.

• Zhong Shan's son called him Father, and Zhong Shan attacked the yellow-robed man for insulting his family.
• Zhong Shan overwhelmed the yellow-robed man, severed his arm, and drove him to flee in terror.
• Zhi Guang Arhat stopped Zhong Shan's killing strike, and Zhong Shan erupted into greater fury and attacked the monk after taking a Berserk Pill.
• Corpse Mister ambushed the yellow-robed man and kicked him toward Zhong Shan's son, who smashed the man's head and told Zhong Shan he had killed him.
• Zhi Guang Arhat caught Zhong Shan's saber again and asked whether there was a misunderstanding, while Zhong Shan laughed through his tears.

Zhong Shan attacked Zhi Guang Arhat after recognizing him as one of the accomplices in Wei Kui Er’s murder, and Nian Youyou rescued him before Zhi Guang could kill him. After revealing his revenge plans to Zhong Tian, Zhong Shan asked Nian Youyou for information about Zhi Guang’s movements, hinting that he intended to pursue him in the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss.

• Zhong Shan fought Zhi Guang Arhat in a grief-fueled rage until Nian Youyou pulled him back into her courtyard and shut him away from the crowd.
• Zhong Tian told Zhong Shan that the yellow-robed man he had tried to kill had murdered Zhong Tian’s master, and Zhong Shan revealed that Zhi Guang had also helped kill Wei Kui Er.
• Zhong Shan and Zhong Tian vowed to hunt the people responsible for Wei Kui Er’s death, while Zhong Shan claimed Zhi Guang for himself and forbade Zhong Tian from pursuing the Sky Splitting Crown Prince.
• Nian Youyou explained that the Sky Splitting Crown Prince held the titles of Crown Prince in both the Great Li and Grand Sui Heavenly Dynasties and could summon powerful Emperor Realm beasts.
• Zhong Shan sent Corpse Mister and Zhong Tian away, then asked Nian Youyou where Zhi Guang lived and where he might go, prompting her to ask if he meant to kill Zhi Guang in the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss.

Zhong Shan agreed to help Nian Youyou capture a mysterious creature in the Refining Heart Blue Sea in exchange for her help arranging a chance to confront Zhi Guang Arhat. After passing through the sea’s illusions, he waited in a secluded valley for Nian Youyou to lure Zhi Guang Arhat to him.

• Zhong Shan insisted that Zhi Guang Arhat must die, and Nian Youyou agreed to guide him to a secluded place in the Refining Heart Blue Sea.
• Nian Youyou explained that a hidden creature there fed on merit and destiny, and Zhong Shan promised to help capture it.
• Five days later, Zhong Shan entered the Refining Heart Blue Sea while leaving his son with Corpse Mister, and he calmly walked through its illusions.
• Zhong Shan broke free of an illusion in which police officers ordered him to surrender and then opened fire.
• Nian Youyou left to lure Zhi Guang Arhat to the secluded valley, while Zhong Shan set up a palace and prepared to fight him alone.