Chapter Summaries

Fang Qingyu emerged from a five-day breakthrough with the Formless Heart Sutra in the Transcendent Realm and Immaculate perfected, then arrived to open the newly completed City of Dawn. After touring its defenses and hearing about its shortage of experienced combat personnel, he began advancing Immaculate to the Fourth Limit Break.

• Fang Qingyu broke through to the Transcendent Realm and discovered that Immaculate had reached 99 points, but realized five days had passed during his cultivation.
• Fang Qingyu arrived as the City of Dawn’s hundred-meter gate opened, and he welcomed the gathered crowd into their new city.
• Shen Zhou guided Fang Qingyu and the others through the city and showed them its concealed deep-sea combat cluster and rapid mobilization hub.
• Shen Zhou warned Fang Qingyu that the city lacked enough personnel, especially experienced combat fighters, and Fang Qingyu said he had an idea to address the problem.
• Fang Qingyu went into seclusion atop the City Lord’s Mansion and spent his reserved Attribute Point to raise Immaculate beyond 99.

Fang Qingyu formed a Spirit Platform and eternal primordial spirit, then activated the Stratagem of Primordial Heaven Splitting and broke through to the Fourth Limit Break in Starfall. His heaven-splitting strike split the Arctic sky, drawing the attention of allies and the Life Spirits and prompting Black Duke to order the royal court to descend ahead of schedule.

• Fang Qingyu formed his Spirit Platform and primordial spirit, which could cultivate and comprehend techniques continuously alongside his physical body.
• Fang Qingyu activated the Stratagem of Primordial Heaven Splitting and experienced a primordial figure cleaving chaos to create light and divide heaven and earth.
• Fang Qingyu's body broke through to the Fourth Limit Break in Starfall, and he imitated the primordial strike with Dragon Sparrow Slayer of Calamity, splitting the Arctic clouds across hundreds of miles.
• Wei Banmeng, Chu Kuanglan, and the City of Dawn's residents witnessed Fang Qingyu's strike, while Hong Qitian recognized the Stratagem of Primordial Heaven Splitting and celebrated his success.
• Black Duke identified Fang Qingyu as favored by the world's fortune and ordered the royal court to descend ahead of schedule, regardless of the cost.
• Jiang Wei recognized Fang Qingyu's Invincible Law and believed he was destined to become Number One Under Heaven, then quietly told her father that he no longer needed to worry.

Fang Qingyu completed the Stratagem of Primordial Heaven Splitting, revealed his achievement to City of Dawn’s leaders, and ordered the city to mobilize for the worsening Arctic front. As recruits flocked to the city, Lin Kang, Duan Ling, and Qu Zhe traveled toward it, where Lin Kang reflected on Fang Qingyu’s astonishing rise.

• Fang Qingyu examined his Glazed Body and new Heaven-Splitting skills, then told his companions he had successfully cultivated the Invincible Law.
• Fang Qingyu ordered City of Dawn to recruit people and mobilize its army, and its leaders organized battle groups, supplies, equipment, and a route to the front.
• News of Fang Qingyu’s sky-cleaving strike drew recruits from across the Arctic, and Lin Kang, Duan Ling, and Qu Zhe chose to join City of Dawn.
• A scar-faced recruit told passengers that Fang Qingyu had mastered the Invincible Law and advised them to reserve homes in City of Dawn.
• As the Snow Rhino carried them toward the Great Wall, Duan Ling remarked on Fang Qingyu’s rise, and Lin Kang reflected on how far she had come.

Lin Kang, Duan Ling, and Qu Zhe arrived at the City of Dawn, reunited with Fang Qingyu, and agreed to stay and help him. Several days later, Wei Banmeng prepared to address reporters before the city’s first major offensive.

• Zhou Yi guided Lin Kang and the other supporters beyond the Great Wall, told them about the City of Dawn’s coming offensive and rewards, and led them to the city.
• Qi Hao recognized Lin Kang, Duan Ling, and Qu Zhe at the city gate and brought them to Fang Qingyu’s residence.
• Fang Qingyu reunited with his old friends, offered them resources, and asked them to stay and help lead teams; Lin Kang accepted and asked for the Training Room.
• Several days later, reporters gathered in the City Lord’s Mansion square to cover the City of Dawn’s expedition, and Wei Banmeng announced that the army would set out in thirty minutes.

Wei Banmeng turned a brief press interview into a dramatic departure ceremony as the thirty-thousand-strong Dawn Army set out for the Frostbone Fjord battlefield. After the reporters regretted missing their chance to ask questions, Chen Lan explained the Ring Line and told Hua Jing that she would need to stay alive and wait for the front to become safer before reporting from the battlefield.

• Wei Banmeng announced that reporters had only ten minutes for questions, then arranged a surprise ceremony after Hua Jing asked whether Dawn would hold one.
• The City of Dawn opened a path for sunlight, and platforms rose beneath the square carrying the silent ranks of the Dawn Army.
• Chu Kuanglan led the thirty thousand warriors out of the city, and the reporters followed the army to the gate as it joined its supply convoy.
• Little Wang realized that the ceremony had consumed nearly all the interview time, leaving the reporters frustrated that they had asked almost nothing.
• Hua Jing asked Chen Lan when trainee reporters could reach the front, and Chen Lan explained that reporters had to wait until the Ring Line became safer.
• Chen Lan showed Hua Jing and A Lin a map of the Arctic battlefield and said Dawn was heading to reinforce the Frostbone Fjord battlefield and push forward along the Ring Line.

Dawn’s 30,000-strong army arrived at Frostbone Fjord, and Fang Qingyu revealed that his vanguard had cleared the enemy strongholds along the route. After Wei Banmeng persuaded the commanders to support a bold advance toward Bone King's Court, Hong Qitian’s son appeared at the Great Wall and warned his father that they might not survive until the New Year.

• A recruit spotted Dawn’s army approaching Frostbone Fjord, and the news brought relief to the exhausted defenders and Ji Wuya.
• Fang Qingyu arrived with 30,000 Dawn Warriors, met Ji Wuya, and took command of the counteroffensive planning.
• Fang Qingyu disclosed that Dawn had cleared every Life Spirit stronghold between the Great Wall and Frostbone Fjord, opening a safer supply route.
• Fang Qingyu proposed advancing directly to Bone King's Court, and Wei Banmeng persuaded the skeptical commanders by explaining the strategic opportunity and Dawn’s strength.
• Ji Wuya ordered Frostbone Fjord’s soldiers to join the Dawn Legion and advance toward Bone King's Court.
• Hong Qitian’s son appeared in his father’s office, exhausted, and apologized as he warned that they might not make it to the New Year.

Hong Qitian reassured his son that humanity could abandon the Frostbone Fjord line if necessary, trusting Fang Qingyu to lead a decisive victory and inspire humanity with a film called Dawn. As Fang Qingyu’s army marched toward the Bone King’s Court, he rescued a lost supply battalion whose impossible journey suggested a hidden threat, then sent Su Wanqing to investigate while he and Jiang Wei continued north.

• Hong Qitian told Hong Qitian to hold the defensive line as long as possible but let the gods through if it became impossible, and proposed releasing footage of a major victory as a film called Dawn.
• Fang Qingyu led sixty-three thousand troops from the City of Dawn and Frostbone Fjord toward the Bone King’s Court after declaring that victory was certain.
• Fang Qingyu and his vanguard encountered several hundred battered Federation soldiers pursued by more than a thousand Life Spirits, and he destroyed the pursuers with a single punch.
• Liu Zhenguo told Fang Qingyu that his supply battalion had been ambushed near Blackstone Fortress and somehow retreated more than 1,200 kilometers to the far side of Frostbone Fjord in just over an hour.
• Fang Qingyu sent Zhao Mang and Sun Qi to escort Liu Zhenguo’s soldiers to the City of Dawn and assigned Su Wanqing to investigate how they had arrived there.
• Su Wanqing departed to investigate while Fang Qingyu and Jiang Wei resumed their advance toward the Bone King’s Court.

Fang Qingyu’s army captured White Bone Sentry Post with almost no casualties, but he discovered its Royal Life Spirits had fled under orders connected to a higher royal species. After setting out to strike the next stronghold, his forces rapidly captured five more, leaving General Shi Gandang stunned by their advance toward the Bone King's Court.

• Wei Banmeng and Ji Wuya led the allied army to White Bone Sentry Post, where Wasteland Battle Chief and the Scoundrel-Tongued One had already departed with the other high-ranking Life Spirits.
• The Dawn Legion and Frostbone Fjord forces overwhelmed the disorganized defenders, while Fang Qingyu searched the empty command hall and realized the Royal Bloodline had fled in advance.
• Fang Qingyu questioned a Black Mane Fiend, learned the retreat was likely connected to the royal species, and left before Chu Kuanglan killed the captive.
• Fang Qingyu ordered the army to rest for an hour, leave two thousand soldiers behind, and march with the remaining force toward Wailing Ice Fjord Stronghold.
• Shi Gandang received reports that Fang Qingyu’s forces had captured six strongholds in less than twenty-four hours and wondered whether Fang Qingyu meant to tear the heavens apart.

After Fang Qingyu’s allied army conquered six strongholds, he ordered a ten-hour rest before a rapid advance on the Bone King's Court. Meanwhile, Black Marquis was pressured by the Supreme King to bring more humans, Hong Qitian persuaded Luo Qinglian to set out, and war correspondents reached the front, where Chu Kuanglan recognized his wife.

• Fang Qingyu ordered the army to rest for ten hours, gather its forces, and then sweep through the five remaining strongholds.
• Black Marquis reported that Fang Qingyu’s advance hindered the capture of human sacrifices, and the Supreme King demanded that he bring more people.
• Black Marquis told an elderly royal clan member to hasten the enemy’s general offensive because he could barely keep the situation under control.
• Hong Qitian urged Luo Qinglian to leave early, citing Fang Qingyu’s rapid advance and the possibility that the gods would descend soon; Luo Qinglian agreed to go.
• Team Leader Chen Tao’s frontline documentary group, including Hua Jing and A Lin, entered the conquered stronghold to record the battlefield and resting soldiers.
• Chu Kuanglan spotted Hua Jing among the reporters and exclaimed in surprise that his wife had come.

Chu Kuanglan reunited with Hua Jing as Fang Qingyu’s army swept through the outer Life Spirit outposts with few casualties, while reporters documented the victories. As the army advanced toward the final stronghold, Spine-Breaking Gate, the Life Spirit Royalty prepared a massive sacrifice and planned to hold the fort themselves.

• Chu Kuanglan greeted Hua Jing as his wife, and she explained that she had joined the frontline documentary team; he warned her to stay with security and later promised her a wedding after the war.
• Fang Qingyu’s sixty-thousand-strong army attacked the Seventh Stronghold, annihilated its Life Spirits with only three soldiers killed, and immediately moved on to the next outpost.
• The army captured the eighth, ninth, and tenth outposts in rapid succession as the reporters recorded its victories and Chu Kuanglan shared a tender moment with Hua Jing.
• Fang Qingyu’s commanders prepared to advance on the final outpost while Hua Jing encouraged Chu Kuanglan before he left with the army.
• At the eleventh outpost, the Life Spirit Royalty learned the blood-qi ritual was only twenty-one percent complete and resolved to gather low-tier troops and personally defend Spine-Breaking Gate.

At Spine-Breaking Gate, a massive Life Spirit army ambushed the human force while more than a hundred Life Spirit Royals surrounded Fang Qingyu. Hua Jing and the reporters broadcast the battle across the Federation as Fang Qingyu attacked a Royal, and Hong Qitian declared that everyone had underestimated the Invincible Law.

• Fang Qingyu confirmed there were no high-level enemies at Spine-Breaking Gate, and the sixty-thousand-strong army attacked the fortress.
• Hua Jing and A Lin sensed a tremor, spotted the approaching Life Spirit army, and warned the battlefield; Chu Kuanglan ordered the Dawn Legion to form an outward-facing defensive ring.
• Fang Qingyu discovered more than a hundred Life Spirit Royals concealed around him and chose to fight rather than retreat; Ji Wuya cleared the fortress and led his troops into the countercharge.
• Fang Qingyu blasted a Rock Colossus Royal out of the sky, revealing the encircling Royals to the reporters.
• Hua Jing and Chen Tao activated an emergency broadcast, telling the Federation that the Life Spirits feared Fang Qingyu as civilians watched the battle across the Arctic cities.
• Hong Qitian watched the broadcast with Luo Qinglian and said that everyone had underestimated the Invincible Law.

Fang Qingyu survived the Hundred Kings’ assault, killed two Royal clansmen, and drove the others to retreat when human reinforcements arrived. As the fleeing Royals neared the horizon, he gathered his fused powers into the Dragon Sparrow Slayer of Calamity and challenged them.

• Fang Qingyu evaded the Hundred Kings’ combined attack by fusing his three systems and ascending through the storm of attacks.
• Fang Qingyu turned on the two Royals pursuing him most closely and killed them with a single three-colored strike.
• The Mammoth Royal ordered the remaining Royals to keep Fang Qingyu occupied from a distance, while the human army below continued advancing under Chu Kuanglan and Ji Wuya.
• Shi Gandang arrived with reinforcements, and the Mammoth Royal ordered the Royals to withdraw toward the Bone King’s Court.
• Fang Qingyu watched the Royals flee and charged his Dragon Sparrow Slayer of Calamity, asking whether they thought they could come and go as they pleased.

Fang Qingyu annihilated the fleeing royal Life Spirits with a heaven-splitting slash, turning the battle at Spine-Breaking Gate into a decisive human victory, though a shadow hand diverted the blow from the Bone King's Court. Hong Qitian arrived to lead the coming assault, while the Life Spirit King prepared to emerge; the chapter ended as a violent crimson pillar erupted above the Court.

• Fang Qingyu unleashed a colossal Starlight Blade Mark that killed the fleeing royal Life Spirits, but a giant shadow hand deflected it past the Bone King's Court and into the Arctic, leaving a vast canyon.
• Hua Jing broadcast the victory as Chu Kuanglan rallied the allied army, which routed the panicked Life Spirit forces and secured Spine-Breaking Gate.
• After the battle, Wei Banmeng told the commanders that the encircling Life Spirits had been weak forces used in a Blood Sacrifice, and Fang Qingyu yielded command to the arriving Hong Qitian.
• Hong Qitian rebuked the Fourth Order Generals for their cautious advances and declared that the decisive battle against the Life Spirits was beginning.
• Black Duke reported the defeat to the Life Spirit King, who spared him temporarily and considered leading the intact elite legion against the humans.
• As Chu Kuanglan and Hua Jing watched the aurora, they saw a blazing crimson pillar rise above the Bone King's Court.

The Bone King's Court unleashed its elite Life Spirit army and a towering Flame Giant, prompting Luo Qinglian to lead the million allied troops into battle. Meanwhile, Su Wanqing's search for a missing Federation squad led her team into a strange ice cavern, where Su Huan vanished and was found amid a vast blood-red place.

• Chu Kuanglan warned Hua Jing to retreat if the battle turned dangerous, then alerted the outpost to the crimson pillar as a million allied troops mobilized.
• Hong Qitian and the others saw the King Seed emerge as a Flame Giant with an elite Life Spirit army, and Hong ordered the generals to prepare for battle.
• Drought Ba arrived and persuaded Fang Qingyu to let her take Jiang Wei away to refine the reincarnation power within her; Jiang Wei left with her.
• Luo Qinglian asked Fang Qingyu not to target the Luo family after her death, and he agreed before she led the allied forces in a charge against the Life Spirits.
• Su Wanqing and three Su family guards followed the missing squad's route into a strange ice cavern, where Su Huan disappeared without warning.
• Su Wanqing contacted Su Huan, who reported being in a vast place filled with blood-red light, and an unknown person took the communicator and told him to release his vital energy.

Luo Qinglian admitted that she had sacrificed 136 people to prolong her life, then invoked her power to declare that no Life Spirits would remain in the Arctic. As her blue radiance engulfed the wounded Molten Lava Giant and erupted above the battlefield, Fang Qingyu fought Black-Jue inside a darkness domain while the human forces struggled to hold the line.

• Luo Qinglian trapped the Molten Lava Giant in a blue water sphere and hurled it into the sky, while the human generals led their army into battle below.
• Black-Jue isolated Fang Qingyu in a darkness domain, but Fang Qingyu donned a shadow coat and used his mastery of darkness to take control of the space.
• The human army suffered heavy losses as the Life Spirits broke through defensive lines, while the Deep Blue Dawn Legion held its ground under Ji Wuya, Chu Kuanglan, and the others.
• Hua Jing and A Lin began broadcasting the brutal battle to the Federation, and the guards protected them as they filmed.
• The Molten Lava Giant crashed back into the Life Spirit army and accused Luo Qinglian of harming 136 people to extend her life; Luo Qinglian admitted the accusation was true.
• Luo Qinglian declared that no Life Spirits would remain in the Arctic, then unleashed a vast ice-blue radiance that engulfed the Molten Lava Giant and exploded above the battlefield.

Luo Qinglian sacrificed herself to erase the Life Spirit army at the Arctic Frontline, while Ji Wuya died protecting the Dawn Legion. After Fang Qingyu defeated Black Duke and Hong Qitian stopped his summoning formation, Hong asked whether Fang could accept that Luo Qinglian might still be alive; Fang said she was already dead to him and left for the Dawn Legion.

• Luo Qinglian's Ice Blue radiance erased the Life Spirit army, and soldiers mourned her as a hero while Shi Gandang ordered the battlefield cleared.
• Chu Kuanglan discovered that Ji Wuya had died after exhausting his Mental Energy to protect the Dawn Legion, and he arranged for the old general's remains to be carried away.
• Chu Kuanglan and Wei Banmeng realized Fang Qingyu was missing, then saw him emerge from a fight with Black Duke as the battlefield's Scarlet Light spread across the ice.
• Black Duke's summoning formation was stopped by an invisible barrier, and Hong Qitian revealed that he had altered the magic array before ordering a Fourth Order General to capture Black Duke alive.
• Hong Qitian asked Fang Qingyu whether he could accept that Luo Qinglian was still alive, and Fang replied that she was already dead to him.
• Fang Qingyu headed back to the Dawn Legion after telling Hong Qitian he could use his portrait rights as long as he did not put him in the film.

After the Arctic battle, a seven-day countdown appeared across supernaturalist apps, and Hong Qitian announced that the gods and the entire Life Spirit race would descend when it ended. Fang Qingyu urged the Dawn Legion to rest and grow stronger, while the military prepared to reveal the hidden truths to the public in three days.

• A bright red 168-hour countdown appeared on supernaturalist apps across the Arctic camp, and soldiers began searching for an explanation.
• Fang Qingyu and the Dawn Legion watched Hong Qitian’s video, in which he admitted that official accounts of the Life Spirits’ origins were fabricated and explained humanity’s long conflict with the gods and Life Spirits.
• Hong Qitian declared that the gods posed an even greater threat than the Life Spirits and announced that both groups would descend when the seven-day countdown ended.
• Fang Qingyu told Chu Kuanglan, Wei Banmeng, and the others to rest and cultivate, explaining that they would need to replace the older generation on the front line.
• A Fourth Order General announced that confidentiality rules about the gods, Fate Demons, and countdown would expire in three days.

After the Dawn Legion returned victorious to the City of Dawn, Fang Qingyu learned that Hong Qitian had released a movie depicting the Arctic battle as fiction, while Wei Banmeng reported the casualties and arranged for the soldiers to rest. With the countdown to the gods’ descent nearly over, Fang Qingyu prepared to protect his loved ones and ordered Xu Fu to monitor the city’s cultists and hunt dangerous people elsewhere in the Federation.

• At Chenfeng Martial Hall, Zheng Lin heard students praise a movie starring Fang Qingyu and checked the Divine Management Bureau APP, where she saw a blood-red countdown.
• Fang Qingyu led nearly seventy thousand soldiers back to the City of Dawn, where citizens welcomed them and Wei Banmeng announced the Dawn Legion’s dead and wounded before sending the troops to underground rest and medical facilities.
• Fang Qingyu discovered that Hong Qitian had made Dawn: Oath of the Ice Field, and his companions laughed at the film’s portrayal of their battle as they discussed the coming end of the countdown.
• Fang Qingyu confirmed that his companions’ families were arriving in the City of Dawn and urged everyone to spend time with them while continuing to cultivate.
• Xu Fu reported that about one-tenth of the city’s believers were cultists, including roughly thirty thousand extremists; Fang Qingyu ordered him to watch them and sent him to hunt dangerous people across the Federation.
• Fang Qingyu answered messages about the movie, considered the looming revelation of the real Arctic battle, and resolved to protect the people gathered in the City of Dawn when the chaotic era began.

Zhao Zhe and the members of Qingjian University's Supernatural Society watched Hong Qitian reveal that Dawn: Oath of the Ice Field documented real events and that the Federation had defeated the main Life Spirit army in the Arctic. Hong Qitian opened Transcendent World apps to the public, then warned that the ghost gods would descend in full force in four days.

• Zhao Zhe and the other society members examined posts, photographs, and video showing that the movie's ice-blue sky had appeared over Norton City before the film premiered.
• Liu Kai rushed into the dormitory and told the group that the Federation had begun an emergency livestream about the movie.
• Hong Qitian introduced himself as a Federation Military minister and commander-in-chief of operations concerning Life Spirits, then declared that Dawn: Oath of the Ice Field was a documentary based on real events.
• Hong Qitian explained that Life Spirits had threatened humanity for centuries and that Colonel Fang Qingyu's forces had won a decisive Arctic battle against the main Life Spirit army.
• Hong Qitian announced that Federation-approved Transcendent World apps would become available to all citizens.
• Hong Qitian warned that the ghost gods would descend in full force when the countdown reached zero, four days later.

Hong Qitian announced that the Life Spirits’ arrival would not end human society and urged people to enlist or train, prompting Zhao Zhe and his roommates to head for Chenfeng Martial Hall. As City of Dawn prepared for the descent, Fang Qingyu watched the countdown reach zero in Qingjian City, where the Ghost of Fate appeared in the sky.

• Hong Qitian reassured the Federation that the Life Spirits would not destroy humanity and invited volunteers to join martial halls or the military.
• Zhao Zhe found Fang Qingyu’s official profile, resolved to train and enlist in City of Dawn, and persuaded his four roommates to go with him to Chenfeng Martial Hall.
• At a family banquet, Fang Qingyu was overwhelmed by the elders’ matchmaking questions until Qin Feng distracted them and helped him escape.
• Fang Qingyu reviewed City of Dawn’s readiness for the descent and told his core members to focus on defending the city and preparing for the coming struggle.
• Fang Qingyu watched the North Pole APP countdown reach zero outside a Qingjian City theater, and the Ghost of Fate appeared above the city.