Chapter Summaries

Ren Xiaoyao helped Li Chunfeng defeat the forces that stormed the Imperial Observatory, then gained a powerful fire spell while Li Chunfeng advanced into the Heavenly Human Realm. The chapter ended with Ying Huai revealing that Bai Su and Yao Luochen were in danger because of a ten-thousand-year-old ginseng.

• Li Chunfeng killed Zhao Luoxia with one sword, and Phoenix agreed to have the captured martial artists judged under Great Gan Law after the Empress chose to yield.
• Ren Xiaoyao received and mastered the Fire Control Technique, then comprehended the far more destructive spell Blazing Fire Burns the World.
• Liu Ruyan bid farewell and gave Ren Xiaoyao Aperture Condensing Pills from Bai Su and Yao Luochen, who had secretly married and planned to leave Great Gan.
• Li Chunfeng broke through to the Heavenly Human Realm, and Ren Xiaoyao congratulated him.
• Ying Huai returned from Youzhou and told Li Chunfeng that Bai Su and Yao Luochen had fallen into trouble because Yao Luochen possessed a ten-thousand-year-old ginseng.

Li Chunfeng tried to bring Bai Su and Yao Luochen to safety after rumors spread that they possessed a lifespan-extending Ten Thousand Year Great Medicine. Six Heavenly Human Realm fighters from Qianqiu Pavilion blocked their path, while Ren Xiaoyao received a choice about whether to intervene.

• Li Chunfeng told Ren Xiaoyao that hundreds of dying Martial Artists were hunting Bai Su and Yao Luochen, and Ren Xiaoyao ordered him to bring them to Fulong Mountain.
• Princess Taiping and the Empress learned that Li Chunfeng had left, and the Empress sent Phoenix to Xiagu City on a secret mission.
• Li Chunfeng escorted Bai Su and Yao Luochen on horseback, but Meng Zhongwu of Qianqiu Pavilion confronted them on the road.
• Five more fighters joined Meng Zhongwu, leaving Li Chunfeng facing six Heavenly Human Realm Martial Artists.
• Ren Xiaoyao received a choice to stay out of the crisis or intervene discreetly for a magic item.

Li Chunfeng was overwhelmed by six Qianqiu Pavilion Heavenly Human Realm Martial Artists, then faced the Old Demon Lord he had supposedly killed twenty years earlier. As the seven prepared to kill him, the Great Sun Divine Sword suddenly blazed with light and flew from his hand, and Li Chunfeng laughed that his hexagram had promised he would survive.

• Ren Xiaoyao chose to intervene after learning that Qianqiu Pavilion could threaten even a Heavenly Human Realm master.
• Meng Zhongwu and the Five Elements Venerables surrounded Li Chunfeng, while he urged Bai Su and Yao Luochen to flee.
• Li Chunfeng used the Great Sun Divine Sword and his keen perception to fend off the six attackers, but their ranged True Essence attacks badly wounded him.
• Li Chunfeng severed Wood Venerable's right arm, but an unexpected palm strike from above left him gravely injured.
• The Old Demon Lord of the Demonic Sect appeared, revealed he had survived Li Chunfeng's attack twenty years earlier, and joined the six Qianqiu Pavilion fighters.
• As the seven prepared to kill Li Chunfeng, the Great Sun Divine Sword blazed and flew from his hand, and Li Chunfeng laughed that his hexagram foretold his survival.

Ren Xiaoyao revealed himself as the true master of the Great Sun Divine Sword and slaughtered the Qianqiu Pavilion attackers who had cornered Li Chunfeng. He then obliterated the battlefield with Blazing Fire Burns the World and led Li Chunfeng, Bai Su, and Yao Luochen away, leaving Li Chunfeng shaken by Ren Xiaoyao’s overwhelming power.

• Ren Xiaoyao knocked Bai Su and Yao Luochen unconscious, revealed himself to Meng Zhongwu and the Five Elements Venerables, and took the Great Sun Divine Sword from the air.
• Ren Xiaoyao killed the Old Demon Lord of the Demonic Sect with one sword strike after the Old Demon Lord charged him.
• Meng Zhongwu and the Five Elements Venerables attacked Ren Xiaoyao together, but Ren Xiaoyao killed all six with a single sword strike.
• Ren Xiaoyao rejected Li Chunfeng’s suggestion to claim responsibility for the deaths and used Blazing Fire Burns the World to erase the bodies and destroy the battlefield.
• Ren Xiaoyao led Li Chunfeng, Bai Su, and Yao Luochen away as Li Chunfeng marveled at the destruction and feared Ren Xiaoyao could rival an army.

Ren Xiaoyao received the Universe Bracelet while the Imperial Observatory prepared for a flood of martial artists seeking Yao Luochen’s Ten-thousand-year Ginseng. Liu Ruyan revealed that Xiao Qingfeng, the Dragon Head of the Dragon Capturing Organization, had engineered the crisis to obtain Li Chunfeng’s complete Great Evolution Tome, and warned that the attackers would gather at Fulong Mountain within three days.

• Ren Xiaoyao accepted the Universe Bracelet, whose twelve beads each contained a one-zhang storage space, then resumed cultivating.
• Ying Huai warned Li Chunfeng that powerful martial artists were converging on the Capital City to seize Yao Luochen’s Ten-thousand-year Ginseng, while Li Chunfeng refused to evacuate Ren Xiaoyao and asked Ying Huai to investigate Qianqiu Pavilion.
• Princess Taiping and Phoenix Hall Master learned that seven Qianqiu Pavilion Venerable Envoys had died in the Heavenly Fire, and the Empress decided to stop competing for the Ten Thousand Year Great Medicine and consolidate her authority.
• Liu Ruyan told Ren Xiaoyao that Xiao Qingfeng had taken control of the Dragon Capturing Organization and had driven Bai Su and Yao Luochen to the Imperial Observatory to target Li Chunfeng’s complete Great Evolution Tome.
• Liu Ruyan warned Ren Xiaoyao that the martial world’s legendary figures would gather beneath Fulong Mountain within three days and attack the Imperial Observatory.

As Xiao Qingfeng led more than three hundred powerful martial artists to demand the Ten-thousand-year Ginseng, Li Chunfeng faced them and claimed he might have reached the Martial Saint Realm. Ren Xiaoyao received a choice between fleeing the Imperial Observatory or discreetly resolving the crisis.

• Liu Ruyan told Ren Xiaoyao that Xiao Qingfeng was the Dragon Head and explained the Martial Saint Realm, while Ren Xiaoyao remained confident in his own strength.
• Bai Su and Yao Luochen gave the Ten-thousand-year Ginseng to Li Chunfeng, who passed it to Ren Xiaoyao as he prepared to advance to the Dao Realm Fifth Heaven.
• Lin Ping left the Imperial Observatory to serve Princess Taiping, and Dongfang Ye was taken back by his mysterious lineage.
• Xiao Qingfeng led more than three hundred aging True Man Realm martial artists up Fulong Mountain to claim the Ten-thousand-year Ginseng and the Great Evolution Tome.
• Li Chunfeng confronted Xiao Qingfeng, said the ginseng had already been digested, and suggested he might be a Martial Saint; Ren Xiaoyao then received a system choice to flee or resolve the crisis.

Ren Xiaoyao used Void-Distance Sword Control to empower Li Chunfeng as he faced Xiao Qingfeng and the martial artists gathered at the Imperial Observatory over the Ten-thousand-year Ginseng. The Great Sun Divine Sword killed Xiao Qingfeng and slaughtered the gathered masters, burying an era of Dagān Jianghu.

• Ren Xiaoyao surveyed the gathered martial artists with his spiritual sense and found that Xiao Qingfeng possessed the strength of three ordinary Heavenly Human Realm experts.
• Gu Botong attacked Li Chunfeng with his Indestructible Diamond Divine Skill, but Li Chunfeng wounded him with a single sword strike.
• Li Chunfeng warned the martial artists to leave, then the Great Sun Divine Sword pierced Xiao Qingfeng through the chest when he charged.
• Gu Botong urged the gathered masters to fight for the Ten-thousand-year Ginseng, and Ren Xiaoyao controlled the sword to kill them all.
• Song Duanyang, Bai Su, and Yao Luochen watched as the Great Sun Divine Sword remained aloft, having buried Xiao Qingfeng and an era of Dagān Jianghu.

After Li Chunfeng killed the elders gathered at Fulong Mountain, Ren Xiaoyao gained the Life and Death Palm and comprehended the Life and Death Mark while absorbing the Ten-thousand-year Ginseng. As he prepared to break through to the Dao Realm Fifth Heaven, a thunder tribulation formed, and he had to choose whether to evade it or face it.

• Gu Botong staggered down Fulong Mountain, announced that everyone had died and a Martial Saint had emerged, then died from his injuries.
• Ren Xiaoyao obtained the Life and Death Palm, comprehended the Life and Death Mark, and continued absorbing the Ten-thousand-year Ginseng’s spiritual energy.
• Ren Xuanji saw the dead martial artists and feared Li Chunfeng’s suspected Martial Saint strength, then resolved to separate Ren Xiaoyao from him.
• Princess Taiping learned of the Martial Saint Realm, while the Phoenix Hall Master said Qianqiu Pavilion would deal with Li Chunfeng and urged her to cultivate the demonic art.
• The Empress worried about Li Chunfeng and Qianqiu Pavilion’s political turmoil after Xiao Qingfeng’s death.
• Ren Xiaoyao finished absorbing the ginseng’s energy and discovered a thunder tribulation gathering as he neared the Dao Realm Fifth Heaven, prompting a choice between evading it or facing it.

Ren Xiaoyao survived the Heavenly Tribulation, reached Dao Realm Fifth Heaven, and chose to continue cultivating immortality despite the Heavenly Dao’s opposition. As he learned that Princess Taiping had suddenly reached the True Person realm, his plan to confront her was left unresolved.

• Ren Xiaoyao endured the Heavenly Tribulation, broke through to Dao Realm Fifth Heaven, and received Palm Thunder as a reward.
• Ren Xiaoyao chose to uphold the Immortal Dao, mastered Palm Thunder, and comprehended Divine Firmament Dao Thunder.
• Ying Huai told Ren Xiaoyao and Li Chunfeng that Yuan Tiangang was alive and had retaken control of the Dragon Capturing Organization, and that Qianqiu Pavilion was connected to the Empress and Luo Mengshen.
• Ren Xiaoyao decided to go to the Capital City at night to settle his grudge with Princess Taiping, who had arranged an earlier assassination attempt.
• News arrived that Princess Taiping had comprehended the Dao overnight and risen from Second-Rank Martial Artist to the True Person realm.

Ren Xiaoyao learned that Princess Taiping had reached the True Man Realm through Elder Tang’s Great Absorption Technique and discovered Qianqiu Pavilion was backing her bid for the throne. He confronted her at her residence, where he revealed power far beyond the Martial Saint Realm and struck terror into Elder Tang.

• Li Chunfeng told Ren Xiaoyao that Princess Taiping had advanced into the True Man Realm overnight, and they suspected the news was being promoted to strengthen her claim to the throne.
• Ren Xiaoyao saw that his cultivation had reached Dao Realm Fifth Heaven and went to Princess Taiping’s Residence in disguise.
• Ren Xiaoyao overheard Elder Tang, a Martial Saint of Qianqiu Pavilion, explain that he had taught Princess Taiping the Great Absorption Technique and planned to help her reach the Heavenly Human Realm.
• Elder Tang and Princess Taiping discussed their plans to kill Ren Xiaoyao and their suspicions about Li Chunfeng and the Great Evolution Tome.
• Ren Xiaoyao appeared before them and killed three Heavenly Human Realm Martial Artists with Palm Thunder, leaving Elder Tang terrified as he approached.

Ren Xiaoyao defeated Elder Tang after he attacked him at Princess Taiping’s Residence, then interrogated him about Qianqiu Pavilion and learned that an Inner Cabinet elder had ordered his death, possibly because of his mother, Luo Mengshen. Ren Xiaoyao returned to the Imperial Observatory, and the next day Ying Huai reported that Princess Taiping had been gravely injured in an assassination.

• Princess Taiping and her guards watched as Ren Xiaoyao subdued Elder Tang with Palm Thunder and carried him away from her residence.
• Ren Xiaoyao tortured Elder Tang with a Life and Death Mark and learned that Qianqiu Pavilion’s outer sect was led by a Through Profound Realm expert, while its Pavilion Master was a Land Immortal.
• Elder Tang revealed that Qianqiu Pavilion backed rulers seeking the Son of Heaven Position and had ordered him to help Princess Taiping reach the Heavenly Human Realm.
• After Ren Xiaoyao removed his mask, Elder Tang recognized him and confessed that an Inner Cabinet elder had ordered his assassination, likely due to a grudge against Luo Mengshen.
• Ren Xiaoyao killed Elder Tang and returned to the Imperial Observatory, resolving to reach Dao Realm Sixth Heaven before confronting Qianqiu Pavilion.
• Ying Huai told Ren Xiaoyao that Princess Taiping had been assassinated and gravely injured, leaving her survival uncertain.

Ren Xiaoyao learned that the Empress had staged Princess Taiping’s supposed assassination to warn her away from the throne, while secretly using the Great Absorption Technique to strengthen the Shadow Guards. As the Devil Master’s rebellion against the Imperial Court grew, the wounded Devil Master arrived at Fulong Mountain, and Ren Xiaoyao received a choice to shelter him for the Hundred Herbs Scripture.

• Ying Huai told Ren Xiaoyao and Li Chunfeng about Princess Taiping’s apparent assassination, the Devil Master’s defeat of Yuan Tiangang, and the disappearance of Super-Rank Martial Artists.
• The Empress revealed that she had attacked Princess Taiping as a warning, while Princess Taiping resolved to use the Great Absorption Technique to reach the Heavenly Human Realm and challenge her mother.
• The Empress ordered Phoenix to capture Super-Rank Martial Artists so the Shadow Guards could cultivate the Great Absorption Technique, and warned that Ying Huai might eventually oppose her plans.
• The Devil Master led the Demonic Sect and Dragon Capturing Organization against Imperial forces, drawing more martial artists to his cause despite heavy casualties on both sides.
• A gravely wounded Heavenly Human Realm man reached Fulong Mountain, and Ren Xiaoyao recognized him as the Devil Master and received a choice to protect him in exchange for the Hundred Herbs Scripture.

Ren Xiaoyao sheltered the wounded Devil Master and gained the Hundred Herbs Scripture, from which he comprehended alchemy. When Yuan Tiangang revealed his betrayal of the Devil Master and attacked Ren Xiaoyao, Ren Xiaoyao cut off Yuan Tiangang’s remaining arm.

• Ren Xiaoyao chose to shelter the Devil Master and received the Hundred Herbs Scripture, then comprehended alchemy from it.
• The Devil Master reached the Imperial Observatory seeking Li Chunfeng, while Ren Xiaoyao noticed Yuan Tiangang secretly approaching as well.
• Yuan Tiangang revealed that the supposed Devil Master leading the rebellion in Youzhou was the Empress’s puppet, and confessed that he and the Empress had deceived the real Devil Master.
• The Devil Master learned that Li Chunfeng had left the Imperial Observatory and tried to protect Ren Xiaoyao from Yuan Tiangang.
• Yuan Tiangang threatened to dismember Ren Xiaoyao, but Ren Xiaoyao struck with a Gang Sword and severed Yuan Tiangang’s remaining arm.

Ren Xiaoyao killed Yuan Tiangang, bound the Devil Master with a Life and Death Mark, and agreed to heal him in exchange for his service. The Empress learned that Yuan Tiangang had died and concluded that the Devil Master was responsible, while Phoenix argued that Yuan Tiangang’s experiments had proved Heavenly Human experts could be created in batches.

• Ren Xiaoyao dragged the fleeing Yuan Tiangang back with Spiritual Power, revealed that he was the Imperial Observatory’s strongest person, and killed him with a Gang Sword.
• Ren Xiaoyao spared the Devil Master by placing a Life and Death Mark in his body, then heard how Yuan Tiangang had served as the Empress’s agent and ambushed him.
• The Devil Master pledged to serve Ren Xiaoyao, who stabilized his injuries and sent him to find healing herbs before he left with Yuan Tiangang’s corpse.
• Ren Xiaoyao returned to cultivating and began learning Alchemy while the Devil Master took responsibility for Yuan Tiangang’s death.
• The Empress questioned Phoenix about Yuan Tiangang’s death, and Phoenix argued that Yuan Tiangang had shown that Heavenly Human experts could be created in batches.

Ren Xiaoyao learned more about his mother Luo Mengshen and heard how Li Chunfeng uncovered a massacre in Youzhou linked to the Empress’s Shadow Guard. Clues tied the slaughter to the long-vanished Blood Demon art, and Ying Huai’s confrontation with the Empress left his fate in danger.

• The Empress ordered Phoenix to accelerate the Shadow Guard’s cultivation of Heavenly Human Realm Martial Artists and authorized her to decide matters of life and death.
• Ren Xiaoyao questioned the Devil Master about Luo Mengshen, learning she had helped the Empress rise to power and that her reported death from illness was suspicious.
• Li Chunfeng returned from Great Zhou and told Ren Xiaoyao that Youzhou soldiers had massacred a town, so he had killed more than two hundred of them; he also found Shadow Guard activity across Youzhou.
• Ying Huai asked Li Chunfeng about the victims’ bloodless corpses, connected the deaths to the Blood Demon art, and left the Imperial Observatory shaken.
• The Devil Master reported that Ying Huai had quarreled fiercely with the Empress, who would have seized him if she had not feared Facing Heaven Pavilion.

Ren Xiaoyao sent the Devil Master to protect Ying Huai, then learned Ying Huai faced certain death and rushed to intervene. As the Empress’s allies prepared to kill Ying Huai, a figure wearing a Ghost Face Mask arrived and shattered their attack.

• The Devil Master gave Ren Xiaoyao rare herbs, and Ren Xiaoyao ordered him to keep Ying Huai alive while he refined more than a hundred Qi Gathering Pills.
• The Empress decided to have Phoenix and four supposedly executed princes kill Ying Huai, hoping to avoid responsibility herself.
• The Devil Master followed Ying Huai as he fled the city and discovered that Phoenix and the four princes were top-tier Heavenly Human Realm experts.
• Ren Xiaoyao received a choice to save Ying Huai for the Supreme Yang Divine Art reward and vanished from the Imperial Observatory wearing his Ghost Face Mask.
• The four princes attacked Ying Huai, but a stream of Gale Wind Qi shattered their killing force as the masked figure approached.

Ren Xiaoyao saved Ying Huai from Phoenix and the Four Great Royal Princes, then rejected their offer to join the Empress’s scheme of making Blood Pills from mortals. He killed all four princes with one punch, leaving Phoenix kneeling in terror.

• Ren Xiaoyao descended into the confrontation and sent Phoenix flying with a single gesture.
• Ren Xiaoyao told Ying Huai that he had promised an old friend to protect him, while Prince He tried to recruit him by offering the Empress’s lifespan-extending Blood Pills.
• Ying Huai condemned the Empress’s use of commoners as blood food, and Ren Xiaoyao chose to stand with him.
• The Four Great Royal Princes attacked Ren Xiaoyao, who declared that he was Heaven and destroyed them with one punch that also shattered a mountain.
• Phoenix fell to her knees before Ren Xiaoyao, too terrified to speak.

Ren Xiaoyao rescued Ying Huai, warned the Empress through Phoenix, and assigned the Devil Master to help Ying Huai resist her. After receiving and cultivating new martial skills, Ren Xiaoyao learned that Luo Mengxian of Qianqiu Pavilion wanted to take Liu Ruyan as her disciple, possibly connecting her to his mother, Luo Mengshen.

• Ren Xiaoyao spared Phoenix and ordered her to tell the Empress that he would protect Ying Huai and avenge him if he died.
• Ren Xiaoyao sent the Devil Master to assist Ying Huai, who deduced that the Empress was using the war to capture martial artists and refine Blood Pills.
• Phoenix delivered Ren Xiaoyao's threat to the Empress, who erupted in fury and vowed revenge.
• Ren Xiaoyao received the Supreme Yang Divine Art, comprehended the Radiant Sun Celestial Venerable, and began cultivating it.
• The Devil Master told Ren Xiaoyao that Luo Mengxian of Qianqiu Pavilion had offered to take Liu Ruyan as a disciple, and suggested she might be connected to Ren Xiaoyao's mother, Luo Mengshen.

Ren Xiaoyao learned that Ren Xuanji had reached the Heavenly Human Realm and went to True Martial Sect to confront him, where he discovered Qianqiu Pavilion’s ambush against Tantai Pudu. As Ren Xuanji and Shi Jiuchong prepared to capture her, Ren Xiaoyao received a choice to save the young Martial Saint or let her die.

• The Devil Master told Ren Xiaoyao that Luo Mengxian might be related to Luo Mengshen and suggested that Ruyan join Qianqiu Pavilion; Ren Xiaoyao agreed but warned that the sect held dangers as well as opportunities.
• The Devil Master reported that Ren Xuanji had entered the Heavenly Human Realm, and Ren Xiaoyao suspected the Empress’s demonic technique could produce even stronger experts, though it likely carried serious drawbacks.
• Ren Xiaoyao went to True Martial Sect in disguise and used his Spiritual Sense to find Ren Xuanji and two concealed Martial Saint Realm figures.
• Ren Xuanji exposed Tantai Pudu’s hiding place and revealed that Qianqiu Pavilion’s Shi Jiuchong and several Heavenly Human Realm fighters had surrounded her.
• Ren Xuanji offered Tantai Pudu’s True Essence to Shi Jiuchong, who hoped to use it to challenge the Through Profound Realm.
• Ren Xiaoyao received a choice to save Tantai Pudu and gain her favor or let her die and incur greater enmity from the world’s Heavenly Dao.

Ren Xiaoyao chose to save Tantai Pudu after learning that gaining her favor could weaken his future Heavenly Tribulations. At the True Martial Sect, Shi Jiuchong nearly drained Tantai Pudu’s True Essence, but a mysterious sword intervened, leaving its wielder unknown.

• Ren Xiaoyao decided to help Tantai Pudu rather than let her die, hoping to gain her favor and lessen his future Heavenly Tribulations.
• Ren Xuanji revealed that the Devil Master’s warning had been a trap and that the True Martial Sect had raised Blood Gu for the Empress; Shi Jiuchong and the others surrounded Tantai Pudu.
• Shi Jiuchong attacked Tantai Pudu, and she injured three Heavenly Human Realm martial artists before he used the Blood Shadow Divine Skill to overwhelm her.
• Shi Jiuchong tried to drain Tantai Pudu’s True Essence after preventing her from taking her own life.
• An unseen voice called, “Sword Come!”, and Ren Xuanji’s sword broke Shi Jiuchong’s Great Absorption Technique; Shi Jiuchong recognized the move as possible Void-Distance Sword Control.