Chapter Summaries

The rulers of Great Ying, Great Xun, and Great Zheng gathered at Yinmi Plaza for the Three Dynasties Gambling Land. Guo Feng proposed wagering ten cities, but Zhong Shan said that was too few, leaving the stakes unsettled.

• Yan Chongzhi and his ghost army arrived at Yinmi Plaza, followed by Guo Feng and the Great Xun army with its Blood Wolf cavalry.
• Guo Feng and Yan Chongzhi discussed the land gamble and dismissed Zhong Shan and the newly risen Great Zheng Imperial Dynasty.
• Zhong Shan led Great Zheng's disciplined army to the plaza, prompting Yan Chongzhi and Guo Feng to take the dynasty more seriously.
• Xianxian and Corpse Mister watched the ghost soldiers, while Sha Po noticed the Blood Face Man and recognized a connection to the wolf race.
• The three emperors exchanged formal greetings, and Guo Feng proposed wagering ten cities; Yan Chongzhi agreed, but Zhong Shan said ten cities was too few.

Zhong Shan wagered fifteen cities for each dynasty and sent the armies into the Yinmi Mountain Range to contest the land, then prepared for the individual battles. The armies entered the mountains, while Xianxian and Sha Po joined the contest against ten contestants each from the Great Xun and Great Ying.

• Zhong Shan proposed that each dynasty wager fifteen cities, and Yan Chongzhi and Guo Feng agreed.
• The three dynasties marked fifteen cities apiece on a map and sent their armies into the Yinmi Mountain Range for a battle with no surrender.
• Zhong Shan toasted Lin Xiao with Hero Wine and quietly warned him to retreat rather than risk his life.
• Wine Old Man rushed toward the wine, was stopped by Sha Po, and later took the remaining wine after Zhong Shan finished his toast.
• Guo Feng sent ten contestants, including the Blood Face Man, and Yan Chongzhi sent Wine Old Man and nine ghost generals for the individual contest.
• Xianxian volunteered to fight, and Zhong Shan sent her with Sha Po; the Great Zheng sent only the two of them.

Xianxian chose Blood Luo for Great Zheng’s opening battle and fought the Blood Wolf leader at the Emperor Realm. She revealed a Ninth Grade Magical Treasure and later displayed Blood Wolf clan Blood Filth, leaving Blood Luo stunned as their fight continued.

• Xianxian selected Blood Luo as her opponent and declared that the wolves of the Netherworld would obey her.
• Blood Luo transformed into a giant Blood Wolf and attacked Xianxian, who blocked his roar with her Ninth Grade Magical Treasure.
• Blood Luo used blood-red ripples and a claw attack to injure Xianxian and send her flying.
• Xianxian transformed into a giant white wolf and resumed fighting Blood Luo as the other battles ended and the armies withdrew.
• Xianxian and Blood Luo exchanged devastating attacks, and Blood Luo discovered that Xianxian could use the Blood Wolf clan’s Blood Filth.
• Xianxian charged at Blood Luo again with her Ninth Grade Murderous Saber, continuing the battle.

Xi Xian defeated Blood Luo after a fierce battle and bound him with a Blood Oath, while Sha Po drove back the Blood Wolves and stopped the Great Xun Imperial Dynasty’s intervention. After Yan Chongzhi called the contest a draw, Sha Po healed Blood Luo, who realized that Zhong Shan commanded powerful wolf clan subordinates.

• Xi Xian fought Blood Luo for a day and night, then detonated energy in her Ninth Grade Murderous Saber to defeat him, damaging the saber in the process.
• Xi Xian began a Blood Oath over Blood Luo, but Sha Po blocked the charging Blood Wolves with a mighty howl and forced them to submit.
• Blood Luo accepted the oath, and Sha Po struck down the nine contestants and repelled the people Guo Feng sent to intervene.
• Sha Po attacked the Great Ying Imperial Dynasty’s group, but the Wine Old Man met his palm; Yan Chongzhi then proposed a draw, which Zhong Shan accepted.
• Xi Xian collapsed from exhaustion, and Zhong Shan treated her and let her sleep on his knees.
• Sha Po gave Blood Luo an Eighth Grade pill, and Blood Luo realized that Sha Po and Xi Xian served Zhong Shan, leaving those present wondering about Zhong Shan’s power and background.

Xianxian awoke and Blood Luo joined Zhong Shan’s Great Zheng forces, while Lin Xiao returned victorious from the Yinmi Mountain Range. As the dynasties departed after the territorial wager, Yan Chongzhi suspected Zhong Shan and his companions had extraordinary origins in the Human Realm, though he could not explain how they had crossed between realms.

• Xianxian woke in Zhong Shan’s arms, accepted Blood Luo as her subordinate, and sent him to join the Great Zheng army with a hundred thousand Blood Wolves.
• Lin Xiao emerged from the Yinmi Mountain Range with his banner after defeating the opposing armies in three days, and Zhong Shan welcomed him and the surviving soldiers.
• Guo Feng withdrew after losing fifteen cities, while Yan Chongzhi conceded the Linjiang Five Cities; Great Zheng gained twenty cities in total.
• Zhong Shan led the triumphant Great Zheng army home as the nation celebrated its expanded territory and strength.
• Yan Chongzhi questioned Wine Old Man about Zhong Shan’s court, then concluded that Zhong Shan, Corpse Mister, Xianxian, and Lin Xiao were likely extraordinary overlords from the Human Realm, though their passage between realms remained unexplained.

After Great Zheng prospered for three years, Zhong Shan set out for Azure Cloud Emperor Dynasty to investigate a golden sun that had descended from the Great Chiliocosm World. At the Great Marsh of the Ghost Realm, he reunited with Yan Chongzhi and Wine Old Man, who warned that danger lay ahead.

• Great Zheng Imperial Dynasty grew stronger, and Zhong Shan learned that a golden sun had vanished in Azure Cloud Emperor Dynasty's Great Marsh of the Ghost Realm.
• Zhong Shan appointed Lin Xiao to hold down Chang Capital with Sha Po's help, then left with Corpse Mister and Xianxian to investigate.
• Yan Chongzhi learned of the golden sun from Wine Old Man, and the two set out for Azure Cloud Emperor Dynasty.
• A month later, Zhong Shan encountered Wine Old Man and Yan Chongzhi near the Great Marsh, and Wine Old Man warned him that danger lay ahead.
• Zhong Shan suspected Wine Old Man could predict fortune and misfortune, as his own true body could.

Zhong Shan traveled with Yan Chongzhi and Wine Old Man to the Great Marsh of the Ghost Realm, where people and powerful beings vanished into its deadly mire. As three men in white arrived, Wine Old Man panicked and begged the others to hide him.

• Zhong Shan believed Wine Old Man’s warning about danger ahead, and Wine Old Man asked him for two more jars of wine.
• In the Great Xun Imperial Dynasty, Guo Feng learned that Zhong Shan and Yan Chongzhi had left and discussed attacking their dynasties.
• Yan Chongzhi questioned Zhong Shan about Gu Shentong, and Zhong Shan revealed he had once been a First-Class Duke of the East of the Great Luo Heavenly Dynasty.
• Zhong Shan’s party found dozens of recently killed travelers whose brains had been sucked out, then reached the Great Marsh of the Ghost Realm.
• At the marsh, specters avoided Yan Chongzhi, while fighters who fell or ventured into the mire disappeared without returning.
• Three men in white robes bearing the character “Heaven” arrived, and Wine Old Man urgently asked everyone to hide him.

Zhong Shan and the gathered experts waited at the Great Marsh of the Ghost Realm until NanGong Sheng used a vast array to draw a hidden creature from beneath the mire. The creature began to emerge as a Qilin, sending the onlookers into alarm.

• Wine Old Man hid his face behind a ghost mask when three men from the Tian Household flew past, and Xianxian scolded him for being frightened.
• Yan Chongzhi explained that the mysterious Tian Household guarded the Ten Thousand Feet Hell and Yellow Springs Road, while experts gathered around the Great Marsh for six days.
• NanGong Sheng descended and covered the entire Great Marsh with Azure Light, driving the ghosts and Black Ghosts beneath the mire.
• NanGong Sheng revealed array patterns across the mire, sent the array beneath its surface, and demanded that whoever was hidden there come out.
• A creature beneath the mire roared and caused the mud to churn before a red pillar of light erupted and golden horns emerged.
• Corpse Mister recognized the emerging creature as a Qilin ranked ninety-sixth on the Great Chiliocosm World's Divine Beast Ranking and warned everyone to run.

Zhong Shan and his companions witnessed NanGong Sheng capture a Fire Qilin carrying a mysterious Iron Book, but a Great Chiliocosm World powerhouse broke into the Small Chiliocosm World to seize it. NanGong Sheng answered the giant green hand reaching for the Qilin by summoning a vast white palm, and the two palms were about to collide.

• Corpse Mister recognized the Fire Qilin, and Zhong Shan, Xianxian, and their companions retreated as its eruption of flames devastated the Great Marsh of the Ghost Realm.
• NanGong Sheng revealed himself as an immortal and subdued the Fire Qilin with a formation after its Purple Flame attacks failed to harm him.
• NanGong Sheng approached the captured Qilin to take the Iron Book from its mouth.
• A Great Chiliocosm World powerhouse opened a crack in the sky and reached through with a gigantic green hand to seize the Fire Qilin.
• NanGong Sheng drew spiritual energy from across the region and formed an enormous white palm to meet the descending green hand.

NanGong Sheng drove off the green palm from the Great Chiliocosm World and pursued the escaping Fire Qilin, but a more dangerous threat then trapped the survivors in the Great Marsh of the Ghost Realm. Corpse Mister identified it as the Brain-Eating Beast, a divine beast ranked above the Fire Qilin, and Zhong Shan ordered everyone to flee.

• NanGong Sheng struck back the green palm with the great formation, suffered backlash, and chased after the Fire Qilin as other powerful experts followed.
• Wine Old Man sensed an even greater danger beneath the marsh, and he and Yan Chongzhi regrouped with Zhong Shan, Xianxian, and Corpse Mister.
• A barrier blocked the survivors from escaping upward, while people across the marsh began attacking their companions under an unseen influence.
• A black shadow lunged at Xianxian before dropping into the marsh, and the mud began surging as clods struck the fleeing experts.
• Corpse Mister recognized the threat as the Brain-Eating Beast, ranked ninety-fourth on the Great Chiliocosm World's Divine Beast Ranking, and Zhong Shan ordered the group to escape.

Zhong Shan and the other survivors fled as the Brain-Eating Beast emerged and took control of the experts trapped inside NanGong Sheng’s self-repairing formation. Zhong Shan briefly immobilized the multiplying beasts with talismans, but they broke free and turned their attention toward him.

• Zhong Shan led Xianxian, Corpse Mister, Wine Old Man, and others away from the Brain-Eating Beast as it emerged and controlled experts with mud specks that devoured their spirits.
• A Golden Skeleton split the Brain-Eating Beast in two, but the halves became two beasts, and the Golden Skeleton was taken over.
• Zhong Shan passed through NanGong Sheng’s formation, but Xianxian and the others could not escape, and the opening left by the Fire Qilin had closed.
• Small Brain-Eating Beasts crawled from destroyed bodies as the creatures overwhelmed thousands of experts, then countless more rose from the marsh to threaten the survivors.
• Zhong Shan scattered talisman shadows across the Brain-Eating Beasts and temporarily immobilized them, but they broke free and focused their fury on him.

Zhong Shan used the Reincarnation Eye to destroy nearly all the Brain-Eating Beasts and opened a vast green tunnel in the marsh. As the remaining main body faced the tunnel’s immense suction, Zhong Shan unleashed Reincarnation World Extinction, shaking NanGong Sheng’s formation.

• The Brain-Eating Beasts overwhelmed the gathered experts, but Zhong Shan protected himself and his companions with the Black Jade Talisman.
• Corpse Mister prepared to sacrifice his Blood-colored Heart to break the formation, but Zhong Shan stopped him and had Corpse Mister render Yan Chongzhi and Wine Old Man unconscious.
• Zhong Shan opened the Reincarnation Eye, causing countless Brain-Eating Beasts to fall and explode under its power.
• The surviving Brain-Eating Beasts converged into a hundred-zhang main body, which resisted the Reincarnation Eye after Zhong Shan reached his limit.
• Zhong Shan created a vast green tunnel in the marsh and activated Reincarnation World Extinction, unleashing a suction force that shook the earth, sky, and NanGong Sheng’s formation.

Zhong Shan used the Reincarnation Tunnel to destroy the Brain-Eating Beast’s body and imprison its divine soul, then recovered and returned toward the Great Zheng Imperial Dynasty. Meanwhile, Guo Feng’s attack on Great Ying failed, and Lin Xiao struck at cities behind the Great Xun army.

• Zhong Shan opened a Reincarnation Tunnel that sucked in the Brain-Eating Beast and shattered NanGong Sheng’s immortal formation, but the beast’s divine soul survived and Corpse Mister sealed it in a Pure Vial.
• Xianxian carried the group away from the devastated Great Marsh of the Ghost Realm, where Wine Old Man and Yan Chongzhi later awoke and returned to find the marsh ruined.
• Corpse Mister pledged to support Zhong Shan, who slept for a month before deciding to keep the Brain-Eating Beast’s soul for his own use and return to Great Zheng.
• Guo Feng attacked Great Ying after learning Zhong Shan and Yan Chongzhi had left, but Lin Xiao counterattacked by sending troops toward cities behind the Great Xun army.

Lin Xiao destroyed the Great Xun Imperial Dynasty and prepared to seize territory from the Great Ying Imperial Dynasty, but Zhong Shan persuaded Yan Chongzhi to surrender the entire dynasty instead. The chapter ended with Zhong Shan appointing Yan Chongzhi as the Great Zheng Imperial Dynasty’s Seventh Legion Commander and Marquis Yingwu.

• Lin Xiao defeated Guo Feng’s forces, captured the Great Xun Imperial Dynasty’s imperial capital, and destroyed the dynasty.
• After Zhong Shan returned, Lin Xiao presented a strategy to seize ten Great Ying cities, but Zhong Shan sent the plan to Yan Chongzhi with an invitation to join him.
• Yan Chongzhi weighed Zhong Shan’s offer in private and consulted Wine Old Man, who judged Zhong Shan stronger and more far-sighted.
• Zhong Shan led his army to the Great Ying border and learned that all twenty-six Great Ying cities had changed their banners to Great Zheng’s.
• Yan Chongzhi and the former Great Ying ministers submitted to Zhong Shan, who appointed Yan Chongzhi Seventh Legion Commander and Marquis Yingwu.

After returning from the Great Chiliocosm World, Mud Bodhisattva told Zhong Shan about the Earth Book and the legendary Heavenly Scriptures, while confessing that he had destroyed Zhong Shan’s Ten Thousand Shadows treasures. Zhong Shan kept his own mastery of the scripture secret, and the chapter ended by introducing an unexpected incident involving Gan Bao Er in the sun realm.

• Mud Bodhisattva returned to Zhong Shan after years away and explained that only his spirit had reached the vicinity of the Netherworld Reincarnation Hall in the Great Chiliocosm World.
• Mud Bodhisattva revealed that the Fire Qilin had been hunted for an Earth Book, and Corpse Mister explained that Earth Books contained powerful cultivation arts capable of leading their holders toward becoming Great Powers.
• Corpse Mister described the Heavenly Scriptures as rarer, destiny-bound treasures and recounted a legend about the Creation Heavenly Scripture and its jade tablet.
• Mud Bodhisattva apologized for destroying the Ten Thousand Shadows Heavenly Scripture and its mirror, and Zhong Shan forgave him while ordering him to keep the matter secret.
• Zhong Shan privately reflected that he had already mastered the Ten Thousand Shadows Heavenly Scripture and concealed that fact from Mud Bodhisattva.
• The underworld Great Zheng Imperial Dynasty continued its recuperation, while an unexpected incident involving Gan Bao Er arose in the sun realm.

Zhong Shan and his companions traveled toward the Ten Thousand Pill Convention, while Zhong Shan quietly brooded over Wei Kui Er’s death near the Grand Sui Heavenly Dynasty. They followed a troop of monkeys into the Azure Flame Emperor Dynasty and witnessed Zhao Suo Xiang challenge the nearly ten thousand apes alone.

• Zhong Shan agreed to accompany Bao Er, Ling Er, and Qian You to the Ten Thousand Pill Convention in the Azure Flame Emperor Dynasty, bringing a group of powerful guards.
• After two and a half years of travel, Zhong Shan admitted to Qian You that he was thinking of Wei Kui Er and said he would not seek revenge yet.
• Blazing Fire drove a troop of nearly ten thousand monkeys away from the group’s camp, and Zhong Shan ordered his party to follow them from a distance.
• The monkeys found their kin’s bodies and charged a white-robed man who announced that he would annihilate the demon monkeys by imperial order.
• Zhong Shan recognized the white-robed spearman as Zhao Suo Xiang.

Zhao Suo Xiang fought ten thousand demon monkeys alone, defeated a Body Integration Realm leader, and broke through to the Body Integration Realm after a day and night of battle. He recognized Zhong Shan and warmly reunited with him after noticing the group watching from the sky.

• Tian Ling'er recognized Zhao Suo Xiang as he charged into the monkey horde and killed hundreds with his spear.
• Zhao Suo Xiang split a Body Integration Realm monkey’s club, killed the giant monkey, and continued fighting while Zhong Shan’s group watched.
• Gu Qian You described Zhao Suo Xiang as a Peerless Fierce General, and Zhong Shan decided not to interfere with his battle.
• Zhao Suo Xiang fought for a day and night, killed more than eight thousand monkeys, and reached the Body Integration Realm as his subordinates drove back the survivors.
• Zhao Suo Xiang sensed the hidden observers, and Zhong Shan revealed himself; Zhao Suo Xiang recognized him and greeted him with delight.

Zhong Shan reunited with Zhao Suo Xiang and learned that Sword Red was pursuing Shen Qitian at the Water Curtain Mountain Range. The group reached the battlefield, where Zhong Shan judged that Sword Red was still at the peak of the Emperor Realm and had yet to defeat the Monkey King and Ape King.

• Zhong Shan and Zhao Suo Xiang caught up on their lives, and Zhao Suo Xiang refused to leave the Azure Flame Emperor Dynasty because he would not betray the dynasty that had saved him.
• Zhao Suo Xiang told Zhong Shan that Shen Qitian had risen to power in the Azure Flame Emperor Dynasty and was now being pursued by Sword Red, who was avenging Xiao Wang.
• Zhong Shan decided to visit the Water Curtain Mountain Range, and Zhao Suo Xiang accompanied him with Zhong Shan's group.
• After flying for two days, Zhong Shan's group saw the destruction Sword Red had caused and found her sword qi still engulfing the battlefield.
• Zhong Shan concluded that Sword Red remained at the peak of the Emperor Realm because the Monkey King and Ape King were still fighting her.

Sword Red endured a grievous injury and broke through to the Emperor Realm, overwhelming the Monkey King and Ape King as Shen Qitian prepared to awaken his sealed beast soul. Zhong Shan and his companions watched from afar, and the chapter ended with Gu Qian You warning that Shen Qitian’s awakened former self had reached the Tian Ji Realm.

• Sword Red fought the Monkey King and Ape King while Shen Qitian watched, and Zhong Shan’s group observed from a distance.
• Shen Qitian secretly summoned a giant staff to ambush Sword Red, but she knocked it aside before the two kings wounded her left arm.
• Sword Red broke through to the Emperor Realm, then severed the Ape King’s staff and sent him flying with a single strike.
• Shen Qitian prepared to activate the Beast Soul Seal as his warriors shielded him and the two kings charged Sword Red.
• Gu Qian You explained that awakening the seal would restore Shen Qitian’s former memories and power, which had reached the Tian Ji Realm.

Shen Qitian unlocked his Beast Soul Seal and recovered his past-life memories and cultivation, then killed the Monkey King and gravely wounded Sword Red. Zhong Shan caught Sword Red and tried to save her with Soul Condensing Fluid as Shen Qitian approached, leaving them facing each other.

• Shen Qitian opened his Beast Soul Seal, recovered his past-life memories, and unleashed a terrifying aura.
• Sword Red killed the Ape King and the Monkey King before Shen Qitian could save them.
• Shen Qitian attacked Sword Red with the Purple-Gold Dragon-Patterned Staff, smashing her into the earth.
• Sword Red rose from the ground and wounded Shen Qitian, but he struck through her heart and destroyed her Violet Palace.
• Zhong Shan caught Sword Red as she was flung toward him and sent three drops of Soul Condensing Fluid into her body.
• Shen Qitian healed his injuries and advanced toward Zhong Shan, who stepped forward to face him.