Chapter Summaries

Zheng Qian arrived in Qingyun City with the Chen Family members and checked into an inn to continue studying Devouring Intent. When Chen Xingze and Chen Xun'er came to see him, he put them off for seven days, planning to leave for Demon Extermination City afterward.

• Zheng Qian traveled toward Qingyun City in a fast carriage pulled by the Chen Family's Snow-Treading Steeds while comprehending Devouring Intent from Snake Mother's Inner Core.
• After three days, Zheng Qian and the Chen Family members reached Qingyun City, where Uncle Fu explained the city's connection to the Chen Family and the Cang Long Dynasty's rules for ranking and controlling forces.
• Zheng Qian's Devouring Intent reached 0.98%, but Snake Mother's Inner Core was becoming less effective, so he decided to stay in Qingyun City for a few days before heading to Demon Extermination City.
• Zheng Qian refused the Chen Family members' invitations and checked into Fu Yuan Inn to avoid distractions and clan formalities.
• Chen Xingze and Chen Xun'er arrived at the inn with a middle-aged man, but Zheng Qian refused to meet them and told them to return in seven days.

Zheng Qian reached the peak of the ninth layer of the Great Grandmaster Realm in six Intents, then began another simulation in The Return of the Condor Heroes world. He was reincarnated as Yin Zhiping and became Qiu Chuji’s first disciple.

• Chen Tianfeng accepted Uncle Fu’s warning, cleared Fu Yuan Inn, and kept people from disturbing Zheng Qian.
• Zheng Qian comprehended the Snake Mother’s Inner Core and raised his Devouring Intent to the extreme peak of the ninth layer.
• With 285 Simulation Points and a day before meeting the Chen Family, Zheng Qian started a simulation and entered The Return of the Condor Heroes world.
• Zheng Qian drew and selected the Blue talent Acupoint Connecting Body.
• The simulation made Zheng Qian a farmer’s son named Yin Zhiping, who grew up strong and became a village children’s leader.
• In his sixth year, Qiu Chuji took Yin Zhiping as his first disciple and founding senior disciple.

Zheng Qian watched his simulation become Qiu Chuji’s founding disciple, then rapidly cultivate to peak Grandmaster while hiding his strength. He controlled powerful factions to gather heavenly treasures and was waiting at Quanzhen Sect as the world’s plot approached.

• Zheng Qian saw that his simulated self had become Qiu Chuji’s founding disciple and began training under the Daoist name Qinghe.
• Qinghe advanced through the Body Tempering Realm and, after awakening his previous-life memories, quickly reached the peak of the Xiantian Realm.
• Qinghe cultivated the Heaven Swallowing Divine Art and became the world’s youngest peak Grandmaster, concealing his cultivation with a secret technique.
• Qinghe left Quanzhen Sect to control powerful figures and factions across the Mongol Empire, Jin State, and Great Song Dynasty, using the Life and Death Talisman to secure their help gathering heavenly treasures.
• Qinghe returned to Quanzhen Sect and waited while the controlled factions gathered treasures; by the ninth year, they had collected seven for two cultivation arts.

The simulated Zheng Qian grew close to the young Li Mochou and became certain she was emotionally dependent on him, while keeping their relationship from crossing his personal boundary because of her age. He continued living at the Quanzhen Sect and pursuing rare heavenly treasures, but his agents found none in the last two years.

• Qiu Chuji took Yang Kang as a disciple, while Zheng Qian revealed his late Houtian Realm strength and became the strongest among his peers at the Quanzhen Sect.
• Zheng Qian met Li Mochou behind the mountain and decided to change her fate; she grew increasingly attached to him as they met and exchanged stories and gifts.
• After Zheng Qian avoided her for five days, Li Mochou came to the Quanzhen Sect, secretly kissed him, and clung to him; he promised to visit and continued meeting her every few days.
• Zheng Qian and Li Mochou grew intimate, but he refused to take their relationship further until she was older.
• Zheng Qian's forces found no rare heavenly treasures for two consecutive years, so he used the Life and Death Talismans to warn them not to slack off.

The narrator traveled to Mongolia with Li Mochou after secretly bringing her expelled master under his control as the Black Sky Demon God. He found the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan and Guo Jing, delivered Qiu Chuji’s letter, and chose not to test Guo Jing’s martial arts.

• Li Mochou joined the narrator on his journey to Mongolia after her master expelled her from the Ancient Tomb Sect.
• The narrator used the Life and Death Talisman to control Li Mochou’s master and ordered her to stay away from the Quanzhen Sect.
• The narrator and Li Mochou traveled together for two months, married, and he taught her his improved Nine Yin Manual techniques.
• The narrator reached the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan and Guo Jing after seven days and delivered Qiu Chuji’s letter.
• The narrator decided not to test Guo Jing because he knew Guo Jing’s weakness was his internal energy and had formed a favorable impression of him.

After establishing himself as a powerful Quanzhen Sect senior and living with Li Mochou as his wife in all but name, the narrator continued his cultivation and watched events in the martial world. When Li Mochou saved him from a Western Regions envoy’s poisoned attack, he decided to find a way around the sect’s ban on marriage.

• The narrator brought Li Mochou home to meet his parents, then returned to Zhongnan Mountain and told Ma Yu about Guo Jing.
• After failing to find a heavenly treasure, the narrator punished his searchers, later rewarded them when they found one needed for the Heavenly Heart Shattering Void Art, and rose into Quanzhen’s upper ranks after revealing his early Innate Realm strength.
• The narrator frequently visited Li Mochou but explained that the Quanzhen Sect’s rules prevented them from formally marrying until he left the sect.
• Qiu Chuji brought the narrator to Jiaxing to witness the match between Yang Kang and Guo Jing, but admitted defeat to the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan after Yang Kang’s conduct disgraced him.
• The narrator fought a Western Regions envoy at the Quanzhen Sect, and Li Mochou intervened to deflect the envoy’s poisoned attack; together they defeated him.
• After the battle deepened their bond, the narrator decided to seek a way to overcome the Quanzhen Sect’s prohibition on marriage.

Yin Guo married Li Mochou, built a family and expanded Tianwen Tower while secretly training orphans and searching for rare treasures. After learning that Guo Jing and Mu Nianci had named their son Yang Guo, Yin Guo waited for the boy to be sent to the Quanzhen Sect, and his own son was born in the twenty-seventh year.

• Yin Guo named his daughter Yin Xinyue, strengthened her meridians, and moved with Li Mochou to a courtyard in Jingzhao Prefecture.
• Yin Guo rescued Guo Jing and his mother from the Mongol Empire, and Guo Jing acknowledged him as his elder brother.
• Yin Guo married Li Mochou and later founded Tianwen Tower, recruiting martial artists and training orphans to search for rare treasures.
• Tianwen Tower expanded across thirty cities as Yin Guo adopted more than two hundred orphans and kept his identity secret.
• Yin Guo learned that Mu Nianci had given birth to Yang Guo, whom Guo Jing and his wife had named, and decided to wait until the boy was sent to the Quanzhen Sect.
• Yin Guo and Li Mochou's son was born and named Yin Xinhuai, while Yin Guo continued punishing his subordinates when they failed to find rare treasures.

Over the years, the narrator expanded Tianwen Tower, trained hundreds of orphans, and searched for heavenly treasures while the Jin State fell and Xiangyang resisted the Mongols. After Mu Nianci died and Yang Guo was sent to the Quanzhen Sect, the narrator became his master.

• The narrator expanded Tianwen Tower and trained twelve hundred orphans, while his forces gathered a few heavenly treasures for his cultivation arts.
• The Jin State fell, and the narrator joined Qiu Chuji and the Quanzhen Sect in helping Guo Jing defend Xiangyang from the Mongol army.
• After training more than one hundred and thirty orphans to the Xiantian Realm, the narrator sent them across the world to search for treasures and bound them with Life and Death Talismans.
• Mu Nianci died, and Guo Jing and Huang Rong took eleven-year-old Yang Guo to Peach Blossom Island.
• Yang Guo injured Guo Jing's disciple with the Toad Skill, so Guo Jing sent him to the Quanzhen Sect, where the narrator became his master.

The narrator trained Yang Guo as a disciple, planned a powerful martial arts curriculum for him, and watched him advance rapidly while continuing to search for treasures and cultivate. The chapter left Yang Guo at the late Houtian Realm and the narrator waiting to break through to the Great Grandmaster Realm.

• Yang Guo acknowledged the narrator as his master, revealed he had reached the peak of the Body Tempering Realm, and began learning Quanzhen internal cultivation.
• The narrator chose to teach Yang Guo the Nine Yang Divine Skill, Lingbo Micro-steps, Dugu Nine Swords, Tianshan martial arts, and Can He Finger, dividing the techniques into stages for him to master.
• Yang Guo broke through to the early Houtian Realm and began training in the selected arts alongside Quanzhen techniques, while the narrator returned to Kunlun Mountain and found no new clues.
• Yang Guo advanced to the peak of the mid Houtian Realm and became capable of defeating stronger opponents, while the narrator sent newly advanced orphans across the world to gather treasures.
• The narrator's agents found another treasure needed for the Blood Undying Body, leaving three more to find, as the narrator continued cultivating the Blood Divine Scripture.
• Yang Guo reached the late Houtian Realm at fourteen, and the narrator assessed the Five Greats and Guo Jing as powerful late Grandmaster experts.

The narrator continued cultivating powerful martial arts, training Yang Guo, and sending adopted orphans across the world to collect heavenly treasures. By the forty-third year, Yang Guo had reached the peak of the Houtian Realm, and the narrator had obtained one needed treasure from Kunlun Mountain but still lacked fifteen to break through to the Great Grandmaster Realm.

• The narrator explained that he had mastered twelve layers of the Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill and judged its thirteenth layer to be fabricated and impossible to cultivate.
• An orphan returned from Europe with a treasure for the Heavenly Heart Shattering Void Art, and the narrator opened his Eight Extraordinary Meridians, raising him to the peak of the Xiantian Realm.
• Yang Guo advanced from the late peak of the Houtian Realm to Houtian Peak, then to the peak, great perfection of the Houtian Realm over the next two years.
• More than one hundred and thirty orphans returned after their three-year mission, but only 108 came back; one had found a treasure for the Blood Undying Body, and the narrator sent the survivors out again after giving them antidotes.
• The second and third groups of orphans returned without finding heavenly treasures; all of the second group survived, while one member of the third group had died.
• The narrator finally found a heavenly treasure on Kunlun Mountain for the Heavenly Heart Shattering Void Art, leaving fifteen treasures still needed for his breakthrough to the Great Grandmaster Realm.

Yang Guo fell in love with Little Dragon Girl, prompting the narrator to plan reforms that would allow Quanzhen disciples to marry. After Ma Yu died, the narrator became Quanzhen Sect Leader and reorganized the sect into inner and outer branches, rapidly expanding its membership and administration.

• Yang Guo broke through to the Xiantian Realm at eighteen, and the narrator discovered he was secretly meeting Little Dragon Girl.
• The narrator planned to divide Quanzhen into inner and outer branches so disciples in the outer branch could marry and live more freely.
• The narrator sent more orphans to search for rare treasures, then Ma Yu died at the beginning of the forty-fifth year.
• The narrator defeated Qiu Chuji and the other senior leaders, became Quanzhen Sect Leader, and established the inner-and-outer branch system despite most disciples rejecting the inner branch.
• The narrator opened recruitment, introduced contribution points and eight major halls, and assigned cultivated orphans to key positions as the sect grew to thousands of disciples.

Yang Guo and Little Dragon Girl traveled the martial world while the narrator’s adopted orphans gathered treasures and advanced in cultivation. Yang Guo returned with more treasures and revealed that the armguards the narrator had given him had saved his right arm from Guo Fu, making them sworn enemies.

• Yang Guo and Little Dragon Girl left Quanzhen Sect to travel, while the narrator’s agents watched over them and collected heavenly treasures.
• Orphans brought back treasures from Europe and South America, and the narrator rewarded them by raising their cultivation and offering freedom for another successful find.
• Yang Guo returned with a treasure for the Heavenly Heart Shattering Void Art after a year of traveling with Little Dragon Girl and overcoming romantic misunderstandings.
• The narrator gave Yang Guo specially made armguards before he and Little Dragon Girl left again, warning him to wear them whenever he was awake.
• Three hundred seventy-two adopted orphans broke through to the Xiantian Realm, and teams returned with treasures that left the narrator needing eleven more for the Great Grandmaster realm.
• Yang Guo returned with another treasure and said the armguards had saved his right arm from Guo Fu, with whom he had become sworn enemies.

Yang Guo married Little Dragon Girl and later found treasures and the divine condor’s tomb, while the narrator continued sending orphans to seek rare treasures needed for a breakthrough. The narrator also arranged Yin Xinyue’s marriage and returned to Liu Family Village after his father died.

• The narrator approved Yang Guo’s marriage to Little Dragon Girl and hosted their wedding, where the Golden Wheel Dharma King’s troublemaking was stopped by the narrator and Guo Jing.
• Yang Guo and Little Dragon Girl settled briefly in the Ancient Tomb Sect, then traveled and found the divine condor, Dugu Qiubai’s tomb, the Mysterious Iron Heavy Sword, and Bodhi Serpent Gallbladders, reaching the peak of the Xiantian Realm.
• Yin Xinyue married a wealthy merchant’s son whom she had rescued, after the narrator’s Tianwen Tower confirmed the man’s character.
• The narrator’s search parties returned with more rare treasures, leaving only seven needed, and he sent his Xiantian Realm orphans across the world to continue searching.
• The narrator returned to Liu Family Village to mourn his father, who had died at seventy-one, while his mother chose to remain there with his younger siblings.

After years of searching, Zheng Qian needed only two heavenly treasures to break through to the Great Grandmaster realm, but the search stalled as Yang Guo and Little Dragon Girl stayed on Zhongnan Mountain for her pregnancy. Zheng Qian relied on his vast network to continue the hunt.

• Yang Guo broke through to the Half-step Grandmaster realm, and Zheng Qian taught him the complete cultivation techniques and martial arts.
• Zheng Qian's people found several heavenly treasures, leaving him needing only two to reach the Great Grandmaster realm.
• Tianwen Tower discovered that imperial relatives, great clans, and martial sects had secretly joined forces to investigate Zheng Qian's identity, but he ordered his subordinates to keep watch without intervening.
• Yin Xinhuai married a restaurant owner's daughter, and his son was born and named Yin Tianxing.
• Yang Guo and Little Dragon Girl became known in the martial world as the Return of the Condor Heroes, then stayed on Zhongnan Mountain because Little Dragon Girl was pregnant.
• Yang Guo and the orphans found no treasures that year, so Zheng Qian planned to rely on his networks and the remaining orphans to locate the final two.

After Yang Guo brought him the last heavenly treasure, the protagonist reached the peak of the Great Grandmaster Realm and began preparing to comprehend the Dao. He then passed the Quanzhen Sect leadership to Yang Guo and chose to secretly support Zhou Kaitai’s Sichuan rebellion as part of a plan to overthrow the Song Dynasty.

• Yang Guo brought back the final heavenly treasure, and the protagonist broke through to the Great Grandmaster Realm before further cultivating the Blood Undying Body.
• The protagonist obtained Wang Chongyang’s Xiantian Gong from Master Yideng, gave it to Yang Guo, and passed the Quanzhen Sect leadership to him.
• The protagonist decided to overthrow the Song Dynasty and secretly support a capable leader rather than claim the throne for himself.
• Tianwen Tower identified Zhou Kaitai’s peasant rebellion in Sichuan, and the protagonist sent agents to assassinate its government officers and help the rebels.
• Zhou Kaitai agreed to join forces with the protagonist, then recruited three thousand government soldiers and seized their supplies.

You helped Zhou Kaitai build a powerful rebellion by seizing Shu, redistributing land, and expanding his army until it defeated the Great Song Dynasty’s million-man force. As Zhou Kaitai began to see you as a threat, you prepared to disappear, while the Mongols invaded and Guo Jing held them outside Xiangyang City.

• With your forceful suggestion, Zhou Kaitai redistributed land in Shu, imposed low taxes on farmers, and rewarded or dealt with officials who opposed his policies.
• You secretly eliminated Zhou Kaitai’s rivals and strengthened ten loyal orphans to the peak of the Grandmaster Realm as his forces expanded.
• Zhou Kaitai’s army defeated the Great Song Dynasty’s million-man force and absorbed most of its surviving troops, leaving him in control of half its territory.
• Zhou Kaitai came to regard you and your subordinates as a threat, while you prepared to make yourselves disappear rather than control or kill him.
• The Great Song Dynasty lost Lin'an Prefecture and much of its territory as the Mongol Empire invaded, but Guo Jing and other martial artists held the Mongols outside Xiangyang City.
• Your Water Intent and Earth Intent continued improving, but you still failed to comprehend a new Intent.

Zhou Kaitai’s army reached Xiangyang, and the two sides agreed to settle the city’s fate through five martial arts duels. The first two matches ended in a loss for Xiangyang and a win for Guo Jing’s side, and Zhou Botong entered the third match as the chapter ended.

• Zhou Kaitai led two hundred thousand troops to Xiangyang, where Guo Jing’s experts had gathered to defend the city.
• Guo Jing proposed a best-of-five generals’ duel, and Zhou Kaitai accepted the terms that the winner would determine whether the army withdrew or the city surrendered.
• Hong Qigong fought one of Zhou Kaitai’s subordinates and was defeated after nearly a hundred exchanges, further lowering Xiangyang’s morale.
• Guo Jing fought Zhou Kaitai’s next subordinate for more than two hundred exchanges and narrowly won by half a move, raising Xiangyang’s morale.
• Zhou Botong stepped forward for Xiangyang’s side in the third match.

After Zhou Kaitai defeated Xiangyang’s champions, he founded Great Gan and conquered the lands within the Great Wall with the narrator’s support. The narrator withdrew from politics to pursue enlightenment, then set out to travel the world with Li Mochou.

• Zhou Kaitai’s fighters defeated Zhou Botong, Yang Guo, and Huang Yaoshi, leaving the Xiangyang contest tied before Huang Yaoshi lost the final match.
• Guo Jing surrendered Xiangyang City and handed over Mu's Legacy in exchange for Zhou Kaitai pardoning the defenders.
• Zhou Kaitai founded Great Gan, then led a northern campaign that reached the Yellow River before winter stopped the advance.
• The narrator ordered Tianwen Tower and his experts to eliminate Mongol leaders, allowing Zhou Kaitai to seize all territory within the Great Wall.
• The narrator withdrew his subordinates, left Zhou Kaitai a letter and high-yield crop seeds, and began pursuing enlightenment as Zhou expanded Great Gan.
• The narrator journeyed with Li Mochou, whose martial arts had brought her to the peak of the mid-stage Grandmaster Realm.

Yin Zhiping comprehended Wood Intent in the Amazon rainforest, advanced both Wood and Water Intents while traveling with Li Mochou, and created the Azure Wood True Scripture. After visiting Antarctica and returning to the Central Plains, he began inspecting Great Gan to judge Zhou Kaitai’s rule.

• Yin Zhiping reached the peak of the ninth layer of the Great Grandmaster Realm in Earth Intent while traveling north with Li Mochou.
• Yin Zhiping comprehended Wood Intent near the Amazon rainforest, then advanced it to the third layer within seven days of entering the jungle.
• Yin Zhiping spent a year exploring the Amazon, advanced his Water and Wood Intents, and created the healing technique Azure Wood True Scripture.
• Yin Zhiping and Li Mochou traveled to Antarctica, where he carved their names and visit onto a massive stone and continued cultivating his Intents.
• Yin Zhiping and Li Mochou returned to the Central Plains after nearly a year of travel, and Yin Zhiping began inspecting Great Gan to assess Zhou Kaitai’s rule.

After years of travel and cultivation, Zheng Qian suspected that Great Grandmasters could comprehend at most nine types of intent and returned home to refine his martial arts. He began fusing intents together and created the first move of a palm technique combining Water Intent and Wood Intent.

• Zheng Qian’s simulated self continued improving Water Intent and Wood Intent but felt he had reached a limit on comprehending new intents.
• Zheng Qian concluded that nine might be the maximum number of intents a Great Grandmaster could comprehend and decided to return home to cultivate.
• Zheng Qian planned to create cultivation techniques and martial arts that fused multiple intents, beginning with pairs that complemented one another.
• Li Mochou grew bored while Zheng Qian cultivated, so he opened a restaurant for her to run.
• Zheng Qian spent months balancing Water Intent and Wood Intent, then created the first move of the Azure Wood Overturning Sea Divine Palm.