Chapter Summaries

Zhong Shan’s campaign to ruin Tian Xiao’s reputation pushed Shen Xiu into anxiety and drew Tian Xiao’s attention to Zhong Shan’s plans. As Zhong Shan prepared to leave for the Imperial Capital, the merchant Yi Lan Que arrived and revealed that he knew Zhong Shan’s history and had come seeking the Heavenfall Plan.

• Zhong Shan spread stories claiming Shen Xiu had manipulated Tian Xiao, damaging Tian Xiao’s prestige and making Shen Xiu fear future retaliation.
• Xing Tai Dou showed Shen Xiu the circulating account, and Shen Xiu panicked as he realized it had spread too widely to stop.
• Tian Xiao suspected Zhong Shan had started the rumors and ordered his aides to investigate Zhong Shan’s next moves.
• Zhong Shan told Yin Luo Ri that they would leave for the Imperial Capital and discuss the next stage of the plan there.
• Yi Lan Que visited Zhong Shan and Yin Luo Ri, introduced himself, and explained his interest in the Heavenfall Plan and his knowledge of Zhong Shan’s past.

Zhong Shan used Yi Lan Que’s Merchant Guild to intensify the Star Dou Emperor Dynasty’s collapse, then waited for the right moment to carry out the second step of his plan. As Star Dou City fell into ruin, a citywide fireworks display began, leaving Zhong Shan, Yi Lan Que, and Yin Luo Ri watching from outside the city.

• Zhong Shan told Yin Luo Ri that Yi Lan Que’s motives did not matter as long as his forces could help, and identified him as a member of the Yi Family.
• Yi Lan Que reported that Shen Xiu was urging Ye Qingcheng and Xing Tai Dou to attack the Heavenly Dynasty’s Sage’s House again, and Zhong Shan named his next step “Alone and Unassisted.”
• Xiao Wang discovered that an unknown financial force was worsening the Star Dou Emperor Dynasty’s collapse, and Tian Xiao suspected Zhong Shan was behind it.
• Zhong Shan accelerated the Heaven Collapse First Layer and planned a grand birthday celebration for Ye Qingcheng, with the Eternal Youth Realm Master as the key to his second step.
• The Star Dou Emperor Dynasty collapsed into chaos, and Xing Tai Dou grieved over the ruin of his capital and country.
• Fireworks filled the sky over Star Dou City, soothing Xing Tai Dou and drawing the city’s remaining citizens, Ye Qingcheng, and Shen Xiu outside, while Zhong Shan, Yi Lan Que, and Yin Luo Ri watched from a mountain beyond the city.

Zhong Shan used fireworks celebrating Ye Qingcheng’s birthday to make Xing Tai Dou feel alone and unsupported, driving him toward a desperate confrontation with the Tian Family. The fireworks and Xing Tai Dou’s roar drew attention across the realm, and Tian Xiao suspected Zhong Shan was behind the strange events.

• Yi Lan Que questioned Zhong Shan’s plan to use fireworks, and Zhong Shan explained that he wanted to drive Xing Tai Dou mad enough to fight the Tian Family.
• Fireworks in Star Dou City congratulated Ye Qingcheng on his birthday, making Xing Tai Dou compare Ye Qingcheng’s security and power with his own isolation and vulnerability.
• Xing Tai Dou concluded that the Tian Family had to perish or he would die, then roared so forcefully that the city shook and the fireworks scattered.
• Zhong Shan confirmed that his plan had worked, and Yi Lan Que realized Zhong Shan had led Xing Tai Dou to create the decisive emotion within himself.
• Xing Tai Dou returned with the old Eunuch, while Ye Qingcheng watched him; the next day, reports of the fireworks and roar spread to Tian Xiao.
• Tian Xiao suspected Zhong Shan had caused the fireworks and asked Xiao Wang to examine the report for clues.

Zhong Shan proposed drawing Xing Tai Dou into a joint plan against the Tian Family, and went to meet him in Star Dou City. The chapter ended with Xing Tai Dou demanding to know what strength Zhong Shan could contribute, while Zhong Shan claimed his forces would match Xing Tai Dou’s once they agreed to cooperate.

• At Tian Xiao’s residence, Xiao Wang suspected that Zhong Shan had stirred Xing Tai Dou’s desire to retaliate against the Tian Family, but Tian Xiao remained confident and resolved to recruit Zhong Shan.
• Xing Tai Dou urged Ye Qingcheng to attack the Tian Family again, but Ye Qingcheng refused to rush into another assault without outside help.
• Zhong Shan told Yi Lan Que and Yin Luo Ri that his third step was to use Xing Tai Dou to set off a chain of escalating attacks against the Tian Family.
• As the Star Dou Emperor Dynasty fell into disorder, Xing Tai Dou focused on persuading Ye Qingcheng to wage war against the Tian Family, until a guard announced Zhong Shan and Yin Luo Ri’s arrival.
• Zhong Shan told Xing Tai Dou that he had come to destroy the Tian Family and proposed plotting against it together.
• Xing Tai Dou listed his own potential allies and demanded to know Zhong Shan’s resources; Zhong Shan claimed he could match Xing Tai Dou’s strength, leaving Yin Luo Ri privately doubtful.

Zhong Shan persuaded Ye Qingcheng to consider attacking the Tian Family by claiming he could assemble six Tian Ji Realm experts. He revealed a Memory Crystal of Xuan Yuan’s battle and laid out a plan to recruit the five surviving Earth Immortals, but Ye Qingcheng asked who the eleventh expert would be.

• Zhong Shan told Ye Qingcheng that he could bring six Tian Ji Realm experts, while Ye Qingcheng disclosed that his side had five.
• Ye Qingcheng agreed to consider the alliance after seeing Zhong Shan’s strength, and Zhong Shan showed him a Memory Crystal of Xuan Yuan fighting six Earth Immortals.
• Zhong Shan proposed coercing and enticing the five surviving Earth Immortals with a route to the Yang Realm and the possibility of obtaining the Earth Book.
• Zhong Shan said Yin Supreme and Ao Lie could help negotiate with the Earth Immortals, and Ye Qingcheng asked him to identify the eleventh Tian Ji Realm expert.

Zhong Shan formed the Heaven Overturning Alliance and became its alliance master, assembling experts to attack the Tian Family. As the alliance gathered in the Ten Thousand Feet Hell, Zhong Shan revealed that they were waiting for one final ally: the Heavenly Ghost.

• Zhong Shan sent Yin Luo Ri to find Ao Lie, and Ao Lie agreed with the other four Earth Immortals to join the alliance against the Tian Family.
• Ye Qingcheng refused to become alliance master, so Zhong Shan accepted the title despite the dangers it carried, and the Heaven Overturning Alliance was formally established.
• Ye Qingcheng ordered the Eternal Youth Realm elders to prepare reinforcements, while Tian Xiao learned of the alliance and returned to the Tian Family to assess Zhong Shan.
• Tian Xiao warned Tian Ji Zi that Zhong Shan planned to attack, but Tian Ji Zi dismissed Zhong Shan and refused to prepare.
• After a month, the Star Dou Emperor Dynasty, Eternal Youth Realm, and five Earth Immortals moved into the Ten Thousand Feet Hell under Zhong Shan's direction.
• Zhong Shan led the group toward the secluded place where Corpse Mister was creating the Heavenly Ghost, their final ally.

Zhong Shan began his assault on the Tian Family by sending endless ghostly creatures to surround its stronghold, then brought powerful allies and five enormous azure dragons into battle. The Tian Family mobilized to defend itself as the invasion escalated into a full-scale war.

• Tian Ji Zi received Zhong Shan’s challenge letter announcing an attack on the Tian Family in three months, and Zhong Shan appeared nearby to declare his intentions before departing.
• Tian Ji Zi ordered the Tian Family Disciples to fight the encroaching ghostly creatures, then sent high-generation disciples into battle as the seemingly endless horde overwhelmed the defenders.
• Master Shen Xiu arrived atop a Feng Shui Dragon, and his sword qi clashed with Tian Ji Zi’s before Ye Qingcheng and Female Heavenly Old intervened.
• Xing Tai Dou, the Old Eunuch, a red-robed expert, and five enormous azure dragons joined the assault, prompting Tian Ji Zi and Tian Xiao to lead the Tian Family’s experts in defense.
• The Eternal Youth Realm forces and ghostly creatures pressed inward as an azure dragon struck Luck Peak, shaking the Tian Family’s five peaks.

Zhong Shan’s Heaven Overturning Plan threw the Tian Family into chaos as his allies and a Heavenly Ghost attacked, while he slipped into the family’s interior with Yin Luo Ri and Xuan Yuan. They reached Quiet Wave Pool, where Xuan Yuan began breaking through the formations guarding the Tian Family’s deepest foundation.

• Tian Ji Zi and the Tian Family’s experts struggled against Zhong Shan’s allied forces while ghosts overwhelmed the family’s disciples.
• Corpse Mister’s Wu Dao Heavenly Ghost arrived, summoned more ghosts, and killed Tian Family Disciples with its Black Qi.
• Luck Peak collapsed under repeated attacks, and Yi Lan Que recorded the fourth step of Zhong Shan’s plan as “Strike at the East while Attacking the West, Leaving No Words for Restraint.”
• Zhong Shan, Yin Luo Ri, and Xuan Yuan entered the chaotic Tian Family and made their way toward Quiet Wave Pool.
• Xuan Yuan attacked the formations concealing Quiet Wave Pool with the First Dust Whisk and began forcibly breaking through them.

Zhong Shan entered Quiet Wave Pool and found a hidden space filled with sealed ghosts and twenty-one meditating Tian Household experts. After the experts awakened and restrained him, he claimed to be Tian Xingzi’s disciple and revealed an illusion of the Sky Decree, leaving them stunned.

• Xuan Yuan broke the formation around Quiet Wave Pool, and Zhong Shan urged Xuan Yuan and Yin Luo Ri to hold off the old man while he entered.
• Zhong Shan passed through the pool’s spatial-energy barrier into a black realm where ghosts floated in lanterns and twenty-one Tian Household members meditated on mats.
• Unable to reach the water below because of the realm’s strange spatial laws, Zhong Shan opened the Reincarnation Tunnel, whose ripples awakened all twenty-one experts.
• The lead expert sent ten members away to investigate the disturbance outside, while the remaining eleven restrained Zhong Shan and questioned him.
• Zhong Shan claimed Tian Xingzi had personally taught him and manifested an illusion of the Sky Decree, causing the Tian Household members to stare at the lead expert.

Zhong Shan entered Quiet Ripple Pool using an illusion of the Tian Token and asked the Yin Realm Tian Clan to release two ghosts. He learned that Wei Yinglan had been taken to the Great Thousand World by a Blood Asura, and he continued asking about his friend’s wife.

• Zhong Shan discovered that the phantom Tian Token let him pass unhindered through Quiet Ripple Pool, and Tian Chenzi explained that the Yin and Yang Realm Tian Clans no longer obeyed the token’s restrictions.
• Zhong Shan asked for the release of Wei Yinglan and Xuan Yuan’s wife, and Tian Chenzi agreed to show the Yang Realm guest respect.
• Tian Jizi rushed in to attack Zhong Shan, but Tian Chenzi stopped him, and Zhong Shan used a Memory Crystal to expose Tian Jizi’s earlier words about turning the Tian Clan upside down.
• Tian Chenzi revealed that Wei Yinglan’s blood fiend talent had drawn a Blood Asura from the Great Thousand World, who took her after killing three Tian Clan elders.
• A Tian Clan elder gave Zhong Shan a Memory Crystal showing Wei Yinglan’s capture, and Zhong Shan then asked about the other woman, who was his friend’s wife.

Zhong Shan’s forces escaped the Tian Family after its hidden experts turned the battle around, and he revealed that Ying Lan’s soul had been preserved while Wei Taizhong went searching for her. Half a year later, reports from Great Qin revealed that Duke Wu An Bai Ye had changed his name to Bai Qi.

• Ten Tian Family powerhouses emerged, killed or drove off their enemies, and forced Ye Qingcheng to flee.
• The Tian Family’s Great Elder ordered Xuan Yuan and Yin Luo Ri released, and Zhong Shan led them away from Quiet Wave Pool.
• Zhong Shan gave Xuan Yuan the Jade Tablet containing Ying Lan’s shattered soul, while Wei Taizhong departed to search for her.
• Tian Chen Zi removed Tian Ji Zi as family head and appointed Tian Xiao, who became Tian Xiao Zi.
• Six months later, Shui Jing reported that Xu Fu had quelled a storm of killing intent at Bai Ye’s residence, after which Bai Ye took the name Bai Qi.

Zhong Shan absorbed two powerful artifacts, broke through to the fifth level of the Emperor Realm, and returned to High Heaven Court. Meanwhile, a Black Tortoise youth concealed evidence of his breakthrough, and Ao Lie arrived in the yang world seeking the Dragon Clan Heirloom Imperial Seal.

• Zhong Shan used the Apricot Yellow Flag and shaman artifact scepter to rise from the second to the fifth level of the Emperor Realm, while Eight Extremes Heavenly Tail shattered the island and disturbed space.
• A Black Tortoise youth recognized Zhong Shan in a Memory Fish's recorded vision and ordered Xuan Yan to destroy nearby evidence without informing the Supreme or the Eternal Life Realm.
• Ao Lie and another Earth Immortal visited Ao Si Hai at the East Sea Dragon Palace and learned that Hao Tian had taken the Dragon Clan Heirloom Imperial Seal.
• Ao Lie recognized Zhong Shan's name as belonging to the leader who had destroyed the Tian Family and set out with Ao Si Hai for High Heaven Court to retrieve the seal.

Zhong Shan revealed the Great Whale Devour Plan, a commercial strategy meant to bring the twenty-four southern Emperor Dynasties under Great Zheng’s control, and assigned Yi Yan to prepare it. Nie Qingqing then arrived with an invitation from Nie Fanchen, and Zhong Shan agreed to travel to the Great Li Heavenly Dynasty after making arrangements.

• Zhong Shan told Yi Yan that Great Zheng would use the Great Rong Merchant Guild to carry out the Great Whale Devour Plan against the twenty-four southern Emperor Dynasties.
• Yi Yan studied the plan and concluded that its market upheaval could compel the rival dynasties to surrender, while Zhong Shan ordered him to keep its effects within limits and oversee the preparations.
• Nie Qingqing arrived at the High Heaven Court and told Zhong Shan that Nie Fanchen had sent her to invite him to the Blazing Fire Holy Capital because of a bad premonition.
• After considering the request, Zhong Shan agreed to travel with Nie Qingqing to the Great Li Heavenly Dynasty once he had made arrangements.

Zhong Shan left High Heaven Court in Emperor Xuan Sha’s care, and Ao Lie’s group came seeking the Heirloom Imperial Seal. Emperor Xuan Sha defeated them but spared their lives, so they planned to ask Ying for help before the chapter ended with Li Si reporting on Great Li to Ying.

• Zhong Shan departed for Great Li Heavenly Dynasty with Nie Qingqing and King Skeleton, leaving Emperor Xuan Sha responsible for High Heaven Court.
• Ao Lie, Ao Si Hai, and an Earth Immortal arrived at High Heaven Court and pressured Emperor Xuan Sha to let them retrieve the Heirloom Imperial Seal.
• Emperor Xuan Sha fought the three in the South Sea and badly injured them, but spared them to avoid provoking conflict between Great Zheng and Great Qin.
• Ao Lie and Ao Si Hai concluded that they needed Ying’s help to get past Emperor Xuan Sha and retrieve the seal, then headed for Great Qin Heavenly Dynasty.
• At Xianyang Saintly Capital, Li Si told Ying that the situation in Great Li had changed but that Great Qin was not yet ready to send troops.

Ao Si Hai and Ao Lie sought the Heirloom Imperial Seal and challenged Ying’s refusal, but Bai Qi killed their companion with a single saber stroke. Ying warned Ao Lie that the Dragon Clan Secret Realm belonged to him, and Ao Lie left Xianyang Saintly Capital intending to return to the Great Chiliocosm World.

• Li Si advised Ying to wait before sending Great Qin’s troops north, while Ao Si Hai, Ao Lie, and an Earth Immortal demanded an audience during the Imperial Court Meeting.
• Ao Si Hai told Ying they had come for the Heirloom Imperial Seal, but Ying denied that it was in the High Heaven Court.
• The Earth Immortal threatened Ying and demanded access, so Bai Qi executed him with one stroke of his saber as he fled the hall.
• Ying told Ao Lie to warn his lord that the Dragon Clan Secret Realm belonged to him, then dismissed Ao Lie and Ao Si Hai.
• Ao Si Hai identified the white-robed general as Bai Qi, and Ao Lie decided to return to the Great Chiliocosm World and abandon the search for the Heirloom Imperial Seal.

Zhong Shan and his companions reached the ruined Blazing Fire Holy Capital and learned that Nie Fanchen had died fighting a coalition of enemies, while Wu Jiu Tian had been captured. Zhong Shan pursued the captors with Wu Luo and the others, reasoning that the wounded group was headed somewhere predictable.

• Zhong Shan, King Skeleton, Nie Qingqing, and Wu Luo arrived at the devastated Blazing Fire Holy Capital, where the imperial palace had sunk into magma and the city lay in ruins.
• Wounded phoenixes told Wu Luo that Nie Fanchen had been killed after fighting eight Emperor Realm experts, and that the old eunuch had betrayed Great Li as an Eternal Life Realm infiltrator.
• The phoenixes revealed that Nie Fanchen had slain three attackers and badly wounded others before perishing, while Wu Jiu Tian had been captured and taken southwest by Lu Guitian, Wu Huan, and Gui Shou.
• Wu Luo and Nie Qingqing begged Zhong Shan to rescue Wu Jiu Tian, and he agreed to pursue the captors, believing their injuries had slowed them.
• Zhong Shan set out with Wu Luo carrying the group and explained to King Skeleton that the Eternal Life Realm had helped destroy Great Li to benefit the Grand Sui Heavenly Dynasty.

After confirming that Nie Fanchen’s death and the Phoenix Clan’s troubles were part of a trap, Zhong Shan went to Crow’s Nest to confront the captors of Wu Jiu Tian. He left her rescue unresolved as King Skeleton’s attack drew Wu Huan, Gui Shou, and Lu Guitian into a standoff.

• Zhong Shan comforted Nie Qingqing, concluded that events surrounding Nie Fanchen’s death were a trap, and decided he needed to question Wu Jiu Tian.
• Twenty days later, Zhong Shan reached Crow’s Nest and sent Phoenix King Wu Luo to protect Nie Qingqing while he and King Skeleton advanced.
• At Crow Emperor Palace, Wu Huan, Gui Shou, and Lu Guitian discussed Wu Jiu Tian’s imprisonment and questioned the Sky Splitting Crown Prince’s motives and power.
• Zhong Shan and King Skeleton arrived, and King Skeleton raised vast numbers of buried crow and humanoid skeletons to drive away the living crows.
• Gui Shou, Lu Guitian, and Wu Huan confronted Zhong Shan and King Skeleton while the living crows and bone crows fought around them.

Zhong Shan used the Eight Extremes Heavenly Tail to swallow the volcano and free Wu Jiu Tian, then the fighters split into three battles. Wu Jiu Tian confronted Lu Guitian, King Skeleton pursued Gui Shou, and the Eight Extremes Heavenly Tail attacked Wu Huan.

• Zhong Shan sealed the battlefield with Sky Lightning Transformation and demanded that Lu Guitian, Gui Shou, and Wu Huan release Wu Jiu Tian.
• Zhong Shan summoned the Eight Extremes Heavenly Tail, which swallowed the volcano and spat out Wu Jiu Tian.
• Wu Huan struck the Eight Extremes Heavenly Tail with the Soul Falling Bell, while the beast charged at him after freeing Wu Jiu Tian.
• Wu Jiu Tian moved to fight Lu Guitian, but her headache returned and the Mu character appeared on her forehead.
• King Skeleton engaged Gui Shou with the Bronze Throne, and the two moved away from the others.
• The Eight Extremes Heavenly Tail and Wu Huan exchanged attacks as Wu Huan rang the Soul Falling Bell.

Zhong Shan and Wu Huan fought while the Eight Extremes Heavenly Tail devoured Wu Huan’s Soul Falling Bell and seized him. Wu Huan transformed into a Three-legged Golden Crow and self-detonated, but the monster swallowed him as he exploded.

• Wu Huan evaded the Eight Extremes Heavenly Tail’s enormous maw, then tried to attack as it lunged for the Soul Falling Bell.
• Heavenly tribulation struck, and Wu Jiu Tian trapped the wounded Lu Guitian in her flames as they both faced heaven’s wrath.
• Wu Huan unleashed Strongest Hong Zhong, but the Eight Extremes Heavenly Tail bit the Soul Falling Bell apart and ate both halves.
• Zhong Shan struck Wu Huan with Heavenly Edict: Five Hundred Layers of Waves, buying time for the Eight Extremes Heavenly Tail to coil around him.
• As the monster’s maw closed in, Wu Huan transformed into a Three-legged Golden Crow and began to self-detonate.
• The Eight Extremes Heavenly Tail swallowed Wu Huan whole at the instant of the explosion.

Zhong Shan absorbed Wu Huan and advanced to the sixth layer of the Emperor Realm while Wu Jiu Tian broke free of the divine seal and became an immortal. After Lu Guitian died in the tribulation, Wu Jiu Tian gave Zhong Shan Nie Fanchen’s scroll and the Phoenix Clan Token, then took Nie Qingqing to the Great Chiliocosm World, leaving Zhong Shan troubled by the mystery surrounding Nie Fanchen’s death.

• The Eight Extremes Heavenly Tail swallowed Wu Huan, and Zhong Shan absorbed some of the energy, reaching the sixth layer of the Emperor Realm as Gui Shou fled King Skeleton.
• Zhong Shan reunited with Nie Qingqing and Wu Luo and watched Wu Jiu Tian and Lu Guitian cross their tribulations while crows across the Divine Continent mourned Wu Huan.
• Wu Jiu Tian broke free of the divine seal and became an immortal, then destroyed Lu Guitian with the power of the tribulation.
• Wu Jiu Tian gave Zhong Shan a scroll from Nie Fanchen and the Phoenix Clan Token, reminding him of his promise to protect the Phoenix Clan.
• Wu Jiu Tian took Nie Qingqing to the Great Chiliocosm World, while Zhong Shan remained puzzled about Nie Fanchen’s death and the circumstances surrounding it.