Chapter Summaries

The Emperor defeated and crippled Zhu Wushi, then imprisoned him and freed the people Zhu Wushi had held captive. Over the following years, the Emperor expanded Great Ming, strengthened the country, and gathered the heavenly treasures he needed, reaching the peak of the ninth level of the Great Grandmaster Realm.

• The Emperor used the Indestructible Vajra Divine Skill to defeat Zhu Wushi, drained his cultivation and vitality with the Great Absorption Technique, and imprisoned him.
• The Emperor freed the captives; Shangguan Haitang chose Guihai Yidao, Duan Tianya and Ryūgen Hyōjo retired together, and Suxin stayed with Zhu Wushi.
• Cheng Shifei, Duan Tianya, Guihai Yidao, Shangguan Haitang, and Wan Sanqian found heavenly treasures for the Emperor as Great Ming conquered the Korean Peninsula, the southwestern peninsula, and Xinjiang.
• The Emperor personally led troops against the Mongol Little Prince, killed him, and routed the invading army near Yingzhou in Shanxi.
• The Emperor introduced new policies, brought corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes from North America, expanded education, and suppressed clans that resisted the literacy campaign.
• Wan Sanqian found the final heavenly treasure in the thirty-ninth year, and the Emperor used it to reach the peak of the ninth level of the Great Grandmaster Realm.

The emperor strengthened his martial arts, expanded his family, and enacted policies that supported Great Ming’s prosperity. By the forty-eighth year, his decree had sharply reduced imperial stipends, freeing funds for public works and education as he continued advancing toward the limit of the Great Grandmaster Realm.

• After reaching the ninth-heaven peak of the Great Grandmaster Realm and cultivating the Blood Undying Body, the emperor sought new consorts to produce an heir.
• The emperor selected fifteen consorts, who later gave birth to seven princes and eight princesses; he promoted their mothers according to whether they had borne sons or daughters.
• The emperor’s new policies helped Great Ming prosper, and he established the Academy of Heavenly Crafts to foster inventions such as the steam engine.
• Zhu Wushi died in prison, and Cheng Shifei and Yunluo brought Suxin to live at the Prince Consort’s residence.
• The emperor decreed that Zhu descendants beyond the fifth generation would no longer receive imperial stipends, despite opposition from imperial relatives.
• After the decree reduced state-supported Zhu clansmen from over 180,000 to fewer than 30,000, the emperor directed the savings toward waterworks, roads, bridges, and compulsory education.

Over decades, you created and refined Crimson Flame Divine Palm and Divine Lightning Body Tempering Art while advancing your Fire Intent and physical strength. After reaching the seventh stage of the Great Grandmaster Realm with the body-tempering art, you comprehended Devouring Intent and began creating a technique around it.

• In the fifty-second year, you reached the peak of the ninth stage of the Great Grandmaster Realm in Destruction Intent, and your Empress Dowager died at seventy-two.
• You created Crimson Flame Divine Palm by combining fire-element martial arts and advanced your Fire Intent, while using a generator and your Blood Undying Body to develop Divine Lightning Body Tempering Art.
• You tested your growing physical strength against Cheng Shifei, whose attacks left you unharmed, and named your lightning-based technique Divine Lightning Body Tempering Art.
• Over the following years, you advanced Divine Lightning Body Tempering Art to the seventh layer and Crimson Flame Divine Palm toward its ninth strand of Fire Intent Power.
• After evaluating your sons’ performance in government, you chose three to nurture and sent the others away as idle commandery princes.
• In the seventy-first year, you comprehended Devouring Intent while perfecting Great Absorption Technique and Northern Darkness Divine Skill, then began creating a technique based on them.

You created and strengthened the Heaven Swallowing Divine Art, passed the throne to Zhu Danxin, and retired to travel in search of insights into three intents. Years of observing fire, lightning, and a vast sea whirlpool gradually advanced your comprehension, culminating in a third strand of Devouring Intent.

• You created the Heaven Swallowing Divine Art from the Great Absorption Technique, Northern Darkness Divine Skill, and Devouring Intent, then strengthened it with a complete strand of Devouring Intent.
• You passed the throne to Zhu Danxin, elevated him to the peak of the Grandmaster Realm, and left him four peerless martial arts before retiring from public life.
• You traveled to Flame Mountain and spent more than three years cultivating Fire Intent, advancing it to about one-quarter of its ninth strand.
• You gained insights from earthly fire and thunderstorms, advancing Fire Intent and Lightning Intent while condensing a second strand of Devouring Intent and incorporating it into your divine art.
• You encountered a vast whirlpool during a sea storm and gained an insight that allowed you to condense a third strand of Devouring Intent.

Over two hundred years, you advanced your Fire, Lightning, and Devouring Intents, entered sudden enlightenment during a massive fire, and comprehended Earth Intent in the Sahara. You returned to a transformed Great Ming in the steam age, where your great-grandson Zhu Kangtai sat on the throne and your aging son Zhu Danxin neared the end of his life.

• After surviving a storm, you incorporated the third strand of Devouring Intent into your Heaven Swallowing Divine Art and began comprehending Fire Intent.
• You spent decades in a thunder-ravaged region, condensed the eighth strand of Lightning Intent, and advanced more than halfway through the ninth strand.
• You condensed the ninth strand of Fire Intent underwater and the fourth strand of Devouring Intent in the Amazon rainforest.
• A massive fire on the African savanna sent you into sudden enlightenment, allowing you to perfect the tenth strand of Fire Intent, though you failed to break through to a higher level.
• After six months in the Sahara, you comprehended Earth Intent and condensed its first complete strand, then formed a second strand several years later.
• You returned to Great Ming in the two hundredth year and found it transformed by steam-age technology, with Zhu Kangtai ruling and Zhu Danxin nearing the end of his life.

After Zhu Danxin tried to poison him for the secret of immortality, the narrator left the capital and lived in seclusion in Anyang Town, where he ran a tavern and raised his adopted daughter, Zheng Xue. By 215, Zheng Xue had grown into a young woman, and he had rejected a marriage proposal for her.

• The narrator returned to the capital, settled in a royal estate, and cultivated the eighth layer of the Divine Lightning Body Tempering Art with generators Zhu Danxin provided.
• Zhu Danxin moved in seeking immortality, then secretly poisoned the narrator to suppress his astral qi; the narrator dispelled the poison, reclaimed the cultivation he had given his son, and left him alive.
• The narrator left the capital and opened a tavern in Anyang Town to observe ordinary life and comprehend Earth Intent.
• After Zhu Danxin died of old age, the narrator took in a homeless girl, named her Zheng Xue, and taught her reading, painting, chess, and proper conduct.
• The narrator condensed the third thread of Earth Intent while living with Zheng Xue, and later rejected a marriage proposal for her.

After Zheng Xue reunited with her father and returned to the Wushan Tribe, the tavern owner resumed his quiet life and continued cultivating his Intent Powers. When Chen Mengxue was murdered by the Black Mountain Tribe, he slaughtered all 7,832 of its people, and decades later his lifespan was nearly over.

• In the 219th year, the tavern owner condensed his third strand of Earth Intent and advanced his Lightning Intent, while uninvited guests arrived seeking Zheng Xue, whose true name was Chen Mengxue and who was the Wushan chief’s daughter.
• Chen Mengxue returned to the Wushan Tribe with her father, and the tavern owner gave her a jade pendant and told her to seek him if she needed help.
• Chen Mengxue married in the 221st year, while the tavern owner continued his retirement; in the 225th year, he condensed his ninth strand of Lightning Intent and created the ninth layer of the Divine Lightning Body Tempering Art.
• In the 230th year, a landslide triggered the tavern owner’s sudden enlightenment, allowing him to condense the fifth and sixth strands of Devouring Intent.
• In the 245th year, after learning Chen Mengxue had been murdered by the Black Mountain Tribe’s young chief, the tavern owner impaled all 7,832 members of the tribe on sharpened stakes.
• Over the following decades, the tavern owner slowly advanced his Earth, Lightning, and Devouring Intents, but by the 326th year his lifespan was nearly at its end.

After the simulation ended with Zheng Qian living to 340, he concluded that the Divine Lightning Body Tempering Art had extended his lifespan. He chose five rewards, and the infusion brought his cultivation and several intents to the peak of the Great Grandmaster Realm.

• Zheng Qian left Anyang Town in the 327th year and spent his final years traveling across Great Ming.
• In the 340th year, Zheng Qian died in his imperial mausoleum, ending the simulation.
• Zheng Qian realized this simulation’s longer lifespan might have resulted from the Divine Lightning Body Tempering Art.
• Zheng Qian selected peak ninth-layer cultivation, Innate Divine Strength, the Primordial Heaven-Connecting Scripture, the Divine Lightning Body Tempering Art, and the Blood Divine Scripture as rewards.
• The Simulator infused Zheng Qian with power, strengthening his body and raising his Destruction, Fire, Lightning, Devouring, and Earth Intents to the limits of the Great Grandmaster Realm.

Zheng Qian absorbed the latest fusion’s gains, reaching unprecedented strength as a ninth-layer peak Great Grandmaster, but concluded that the path beyond the realm was severed in the simulation. With his Simulation Points exhausted, he decided to leave the Xingyang Dynasty and seek answers in the wider world.

• Zheng Qian examined the Intent Powers on his Heaven and Earth Bridge and found his qi and blood, refined Divine Blood, and physical strength had increased after fusing with the Blood Divine Scripture and inheriting the Divine Lightning Body Tempering Art.
• Zheng Qian received the final Primordial Heaven-Connecting Scripture, which incorporated his martial arts and techniques from the Number One Under Heaven world and gave each of his Intents a corresponding Great Grandmaster-level art or technique.
• Zheng Qian reviewed his new Attribute Panel and saw that he had exhausted his Simulation Points while reaching ninth-layer peak with multiple Intent Powers.
• Zheng Qian realized that he could not break through the Great Grandmaster Realm in the simulation and believed he would need to find a solution in the real world.
• Zheng Qian decided to leave the Xingyang Dynasty, explore the Three Great Dynasties’ libraries, and search for a way beyond the Great Grandmaster Realm.

Zheng Qian sensed a deadly threat from the depths of the Death Sand Sea and chose to leave it unexplored, then tested his immense strength and prepared to help Song Yanran and Zhou Meier avenge their sect. Three days later, the three set out for the Anliang Dynasty, and their journey proceeded with little delay.

• At the edge of the Death Sand Sea, Zheng Qian felt danger emanating from its depths, withdrew without entering, and headed to the Falling Dragon Mountain Range.
• Zheng Qian replaced Little Black’s Life and Death Talismans, fed it, and then tested his strength by blasting apart several mountain peaks.
• Zheng Qian returned to his Carefree King’s Mansion, gave the steward orders, and told Song Yanran and Zhou Meier he would help them avenge their Feiyun Sect, revealing that he had reached the peak of the Grandmaster Realm.
• After preparing for three days, Zheng Qian, Song Yanran, and Zhou Meier rode toward the Anliang Dynasty, handling the few obstacles they encountered along the way.

Zheng Qian accompanied Song Yanran and Zhou Meier to Pingyun City, where they avenged the Feiyun Sect by killing one of the men responsible for its destruction. They reclaimed the city as Feiyun City and planned to draw the sect’s other enemies to them.

• Zheng Qian, Song Yanran, and Zhou Meier entered Pingyun City, whose new name angered the two surviving Feiyun Sect members.
• Song Yanran and Zhou Meier attacked the city lord’s residence, killing guards as the survivors fled inside.
• Zheng Qian killed a peak Xiantian Realm scholar with a flick of his finger and crippled Xiao Xingguo, the Half-step Grandmaster known as the “Blood Hand Butcher.”
• Song Yanran and Zhou Meier cut Xiao Xingguo apart piece by piece until he died, while the others escaped.
• Song Yanran and Zhou Meier revealed their identities, renamed Pingyun City as Feiyun City, and stayed there to lure their remaining enemies into a trap.

Zheng Qian started a new simulation in the Ode to Gallantry world and drew the Blue talent Sword Dao Prodigy. The simulation revealed that he was born as Zheng Yutian and became Bai Wanjian’s disciple, leaving Zheng Qian intrigued by his powerful new connections.

• Liang Zhengshan reported Xiao Xingguo’s death to the three Imperial Ancestors, who suspected Song Yanran and Zhou Meier had Ling Yunshuang’s secret method.
• Liang Pingchuan ordered Liang Zhengshan to send letters to the Blood Wolf Gang and the Truth Cult.
• Zheng Qian used 100 Simulation Points to begin a Mid Martial World simulation and selected the Blue talent Sword Dao Prodigy.
• Zheng Qian’s simulated self, Zheng Yutian, was born to merchant parents in Lingxiao City and showed unusual strength and intelligence as a child.
• Bai Wanjian noticed Zheng Yutian’s exceptional talent and took him as his personal disciple in the Snow Mountain Sect.

The narrator advanced from a young martial artist to a concealed late Grandmaster Realm expert while Shi Zhongyu arrived at the Snow Mountain Sect and later fled after attempting to assault Bai Axiu. Bai Axiu and Shi Xiaocui disappeared after falling off a cliff, leaving the story at the same turning point as the original events.

• The narrator awakened his innate memories at age six, reached the peak of the Xiantian Realm, and concealed his cultivation while preparing for the world's plot to begin.
• The narrator became a Grandmaster before age eight and continued opening major acupoints as his strength and physical abilities grew.
• Shi Zhongyu joined the Snow Mountain Sect as Feng Wanli's disciple, and the narrator ignored his disruptive behavior.
• The narrator reached the late Grandmaster Realm after opening seventy-two major acupoints.
• Shi Zhongyu attempted to assault Bai Axiu while the narrator cultivated in seclusion, then fled after being discovered.
• Bai Axiu and Shi Xiaocui fell off a cliff and vanished.

After reaching the peak of the Grandmaster Realm, you left the Snow Mountain Sect and secretly took control of the imperial court, aristocratic clans, and martial factions to make them search for rare treasures. By the nineteenth year, you had cultivated the Grandmaster Chapter of the Blood Divine Scripture, and your followers were still gathering the remaining treasures.

• In the tenth month of the seventeenth year, you opened your eighty-first major acupoint and reached the peak of the Grandmaster Realm.
• After returning home for the New Year, you left Lingxiao City and traveled to the imperial palace to recruit people to search for rare treasures.
• You used the Life and Death Talisman to control Jiajing, Yan Song, Lu Bing, the leaders of the great aristocratic clans, and most martial faction leaders, promising rewards for their service.
• In the twelfth month of the eighteenth year, you opened your ninetieth major acupoint, cultivated the first three stages of the Blood Divine Scripture, and received seven rare treasures from your followers.
• In the nineteenth year, you cultivated the Grandmaster Chapter of the Blood Divine Scripture, while Jiajing, the officials, the clans, and the martial factions found five more rare treasures for you.

You completed all 108 major acupoints and reached peak perfection in the Grandmaster Realm, then searched for Shi Potian to enlist his help gathering heavenly treasures. After following his trail to Bioluo Island, you found him with Shi Xiaocui and Bai Axiu and joined them.

• You opened the final nine major acupoints and reached peak perfection in the Grandmaster Realm.
• Bei Haishi reported that the Changle Gang had found Shi Zhongyu, but you knew the person was his twin brother, Shi Potian.
• You learned that Shi Potian had been abducted from the Snow Mountain Sect party, then pursued rumors that led you to Bioluo Island.
• You found Shi Potian, Shi Xiaocui, and Bai Axiu on Bioluo Island and watched Shi Xiaocui teach Shi Potian the Golden Crow Saber Art.
• You revealed yourself after their lesson, and Shi Xiaocui and Bai Axiu welcomed you.

The narrator befriended Shi Potian and taught him two powerful martial arts before intervening when Ding Busen and Ding Busi attacked the Snow Mountain Sect on Bioluo Island. After they killed two disciples and wounded Bai Wanjian, the narrator crippled Ding Busen and killed Ding Busi, leaving the battle’s aftermath unresolved.

• The narrator treated Shi Xiaocui, befriended Shi Potian, and taught him the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms and Killing God's One Slash.
• Bai Axiu and Shi Potian heard fighting and found Bai Wanjian and the Snow Mountain Sect disciples battling Ding Busi; Ding Busen arrived and joined the fight.
• Ding Busen disarmed the Snow Mountain Sect disciples, then killed two of them as they tried to help Bai Wanjian.
• The narrator stopped Ding Busen from killing another disciple and severed all five of his limbs.
• Ding Busi attacked the narrator with his nine-section whip, but the narrator cut both Ding Busi and the whip in two, killing him.

After Shi Potian defeated Bai Wanjian and left Bioluo Island, the narrator accompanied him back to the Central Plains, where they encountered Zhang San and Li Si of Xiake Island. Shi Potian refined the Yin Yang Poison Wine into a major breakthrough, and the four men swore brotherhood.

• The narrator stopped Bai Wanjian and the Snow Mountain Sect disciples from mistaking Shi Potian for Shi Zhongyu, then watched Shi Potian defeat Bai Wanjian in a duel.
• The narrator persuaded Shi Potian to leave Ding Busen to face punishment, then followed him from Bioluo Island after Shi Xiaocui departed and Shi Potian failed to find Bai Axiu.
• The narrator and Shi Potian returned to the Central Plains and found a dead Flying Fish Gang disciple; at the gang's headquarters, they discovered Zhang San and Li Si's Reward and Punishment Order among the corpses.
• Zhang San and Li Si joined the narrator and Shi Potian by the river, where Shi Potian drank their Yin Yang Poison Wine and the narrator drank some as well.
• Shi Potian refined the poison wine, became a Half-step Grandmaster, and developed Yin-Yang Poison Palms, while the narrator's Heaven Swallowing Divine Art absorbed the wine's power without improving his cultivation.
• Shi Potian invited Zhang San, Li Si, and the narrator to swear brotherhood, and they agreed, with Zhang San as eldest, Li Si second, the narrator third, and Shi Potian fourth.

Shi Potian traveled with you, accidentally killed the Tiecha Association members with poison, and helped you find two heavenly treasures before returning to the Changle Gang. He agreed to accept the Reward and Punishment Order, while Bei Haishi deceived the Four Heroes of Guandong about their demands.

• Shi Potian poisoned the Tiecha Association members while trying to stop them from attacking Zhang San and Li Si, then continued traveling with you after the two envoys fled.
• You and Shi Potian searched remote places, where he found two of the heavenly treasures you needed over the next two months.
• Members of the Changle Gang found Shi Potian and persuaded him to return as their chief and accept the Reward and Punishment Order.
• Three days later, the Four Heroes of Guandong came to investigate Situ's death and demand Huanhuan Lele's return, and Bei Haishi deceived them.

You beat Shi Zhongyu after Zhang San and Li Si revealed his identity and Shi Potian accepted the Reward and Punishment Order in his place. You then took Shi Potian to Lingxiao City, where Bai Axiu awaited him, and anticipated turmoil within the Snow Mountain Sect.

• Zhang San and Li Si revealed that Shi Zhongyu was the real culprit and delivered the Reward and Punishment Order to the Changle Gang, prompting Shi Potian to accept it.
• You beat Shi Zhongyu and used hidden internal-energy threads to make his injuries flare whenever he moved or was treated.
• Shi Qing and Min Rou attacked you after learning what you had done, but you defeated them and told them to take Shi Zhongyu to Lingxiao City for punishment and treatment.
• You took Shi Potian away from the Changle Gang and told him Bai Axiu had returned to Lingxiao City, and he agreed to go with you.
• You and Shi Potian set off for Lingxiao City as you expected the Snow Mountain Sect to be in turmoil over Bai Zizai's confinement and the elders' struggle for leadership.

After returning to Lingxiao City, the narrator and Shi Potian entered the Snow Mountain Sect’s struggle over who would lead it. Zhang San and Li Si ordered the strongest contender to become sect leader, and the chapter ended as the narrator and Shi Xiaocui prepared to compete.

• The narrator and Shi Potian reached Lingxiao City, where disciples of the four branches attacked them, and the narrator knocked the guards unconscious.
• The narrator met Shi Xiaocui and Bai Axiu, and Shi Xiaocui sent Shi Potian and Bai Axiu to rescue Bai Zizai while she investigated the unrest.
• The narrator went to the Lingxiao Treasure Hall as the Four Great Elders and Feng Wan argued and fought over Bai Zizai and the sect leadership.
• Zhang San and Li Si arrived with the Reward and Punishment Order and demanded that the strongest person present become sect leader.
• The narrator claimed the leadership, Shi Xiaocui challenged that claim, and Zhang San summoned Shi Potian and Bai Axiu before ordering a martial contest to decide the strongest.