Chapter Summaries

An Le watched Hui Kong and Gu Huangquan fight for the Fourth Mountain Lord’s incomplete token, then intervened when Gu Huangquan tried to kill the blinded monk. An Le’s sword shattered Gu Huangquan’s Seventh Realm blood mountain and destroyed his remaining arm, leaving their battle unresolved.

• An Le, Hui Kong, and Gu Huangquan met under the Fourth Mountain Lord’s trial rules, and Gu Huangquan persuaded Hui Kong to fight him rather than An Le.
• Gu Huangquan attacked Hui Kong, and the two clashed as Buddha and demon while An Le watched and drew insight for his own cultivation.
• Hui Kong used Lanke Temple’s Eye of the Time Buddha to trap Gu Huangquan, but stopped its halos before they reached An Le and sacrificed his eyes.
• Gu Huangquan used An Le as a shield to escape the halos, then attacked the weakened Hui Kong after the monk’s power faded.
• An Le stepped between Gu Huangquan and Hui Kong, and Hui Kong agreed to withdraw from the token contest if An Le defeated the demon.
• An Le attacked with Green Mountain and split Gu Huangquan’s Seventh Realm blood mountain, cutting off his remaining arm with Sword Qi.

An Le killed Gu Huangquan with Time Qi on Fú Sōng Mountain, while Xiliang Crown Prince Gu Chenglin swallowed his son’s lost soul and vowed revenge. At the Third Mountain Lord’s trial, An Le defeated Wo Tai with his sword and Battle Puppet, then challenged Tie Lie over the Yuan Meng Empire’s hostility.

• An Le shattered Gu Huangquan’s Bone Demon arms with a sword infused with Time Qi, killing him and leaving Hui Kong to deliver the freed souls.
• An Le met the Fourth Mountain Lord, Li Xuanji, and continued climbing as Gu Naihe learned of Gu Huangquan’s death and celebrated.
• The Zhao Family Emperor ordered Qin Lishi to permit Xiliang’s Hell Manor forces into Great Zhao, while Gu Chenglin confronted Li You'an and devoured Gu Huangquan’s lost soul.
• At the Third Mountain Lord’s trial, eight cultivators were paired for combat, and Wo Tai challenged An Le while Tie Lie watched.
• An Le used his Battle Puppet and a Heart Sword-enhanced strike to break Wo Tai’s Wave Saber Array and kill him, absorbing the collapsing Dragon Vein Power into his Invincible Momentum.
• An Le took Wo Tai’s half of the Mountain Lord Token, then told Tie Lie he was unworthy to hear about the Sacred Teacher and offered to show him the puppet.

An Le killed Wo Tai on the climb to Fú Sōng Mountain, then reached the Second Mountain Lord’s checkpoint and joined a trial based on roasting meat while balancing one’s powers. Tie Lie completed his roast, but An Le added a mysterious sixth power, leaving the Second Mountain Lord and Tie Lie stunned as his meat began to undergo a transformation.

• An Le beheaded Wo Tai, and Bo Qi threatened him before An Le continued up the mountain.
• Tie Lie tried to attack Gu Naihe after she conceded, but the Third Mountain Lord’s Enduring Righteousness stopped him; Young Guanyin defeated Bo Qi, while Ge Xiao'e also conceded.
• An Le met the Second Mountain Lord, Su Zhanxian, who set a trial requiring the contenders to roast Suoluo Immortal Beast Meat by balancing their powers within it.
• The True Martial Temple Daoist failed when his roast exploded, and Young Guanyin’s attempt forged her Heart Sword but did not pass the trial.
• Tie Lie completed a five-power roast, while An Le continued adding power to his meat and produced a sixth force that made it tremble and release an overwhelming fragrance.

An Le and Tie Lie reached Fú Sōng Mountain’s summit, where First Mountain Lord made them fight to the death for the Seventh Mountain Lord’s position. An Le gained the upper hand by evading Tie Lie’s arrows and cutting off his bow arm, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• An Le and Tie Lie both passed Su Zhanxian’s grilled-meat trial, and An Le’s six-power roast earned his praise and helped An Le break through the Body Forging Sixth Realm.
• Su Zhanxian gave An Le and Tie Lie their incomplete Mountain Lord Tokens, and the two continued climbing toward the summit as Tie Lie’s intent to kill An Le grew.
• First Mountain Lord declared that only one of them could survive the final trial and become Seventh Mountain Lord, and An Le and Tie Lie accepted the fight.
• Tie Lie attacked with his Qi and Blood Mountain and a barrage of arrows, but An Le blocked the mountain with an Ancient Demon form and calmly dodged the arrows.
• An Le summoned the Youth Yuan Emperor Battle Puppet to exchange arrows with Tie Lie, then closed in and severed Tie Lie’s bow arm with his sword.

An Le defeated and killed Tie Lie in the trial for Seventh Mountain Lord, prompting the First Mountain Lord to turn Tie Lie’s corpse into a final test. A figure formed from Dragon Vein Power stopped the attack and appeared to be the Yuan Meng Emperor, while the First Mountain Lord declared that the Chosen One’s death had thrown the future into chaos.

• An Le and the Battle Puppet overwhelmed Tie Lie, and An Le pierced Tie Lie’s heart with his sword.
• The Yuan Meng Emperor and the Zhao Family Emperor recognized the political upheaval Tie Lie’s death could bring, while Young Guanyin and the True Martial Temple Dao Child accepted An Le’s victory.
• Tie Lie acknowledged his defeat and asked An Le for a quick death, and An Le beheaded him with Green Mountain.
• The First Mountain Lord scattered incense ash over Tie Lie’s corpse, reviving it as a final trial to prevent An Le from becoming Seventh Mountain Lord.
• An Le prepared to use Flowing Gold Time Qi, but a figure formed from Dragon Vein Power subdued Tie Lie’s corpse and stopped the attack.
• Tie Lie recognized the figure as the Yuan Meng Emperor and died peacefully as the First Mountain Lord said the Chosen One’s death had thrown the future into chaos.

An Le became the Seventh Mountain Lord and received the Sacred Teacher’s gift: the chance to refine the ancient cauldron hidden inside his mountain. As the Yuan Meng Emperor’s arrow drove Yan Tongshu from Sacred Mountain, An Le used the Emperor Dao Fruit to awaken the cauldron and lift it in his hand.

• The Yuan Meng Emperor descended through Tie Lie’s Dragon Vein Power, stopped the First Mountain Lord’s test, and confronted Yan Tongshu over his use of Tie Lie’s corpse.
• An Le completed the Seventh Mountain Lord Token as the Sacred Teacher acknowledged his appointment and granted him the right to refine the ancient cauldron beneath the mountain.
• Yan Tongshu relinquished his position and left Sacred Mountain after the Sacred Teacher permitted his departure.
• The Yuan Meng Emperor fired a purple lightning arrow across the world and struck at Yan Tongshu, who vanished after his incense burner was destroyed.
• An Le entered the mountain’s belly and found that his Emperor Dao Fruit made the ancient cauldron tremble.
• An Le manifested the Emperor Dao Fruit in the cauldron’s presence, causing it to shrink until he could raise it with one hand.

An Le refined the Mountain River Cauldron and gained the Demon Hunting and Asking for the Cauldron Dao Fruits, learning more about the Sacred Teacher’s past battle with the immortals. At the Canglang River, Li You'an rejected Zhao Tianyan’s edict allowing Xiliang’s evil cultivators into Great Zhao and declared that the Flying Tiger Army would choose another lord.

• An Le lifted and refined the Mountain River Cauldron, then drew Time Qi from Tie Lie and gained the Demon Hunting Dao Fruit after witnessing Tie Lie kill an eight-hundred-year Raccoon Dog Demon in Kunpeng Mountain.
• An Le watched the Sacred Teacher’s Time scene, witnessing him fight the immortals, protect the human world’s cauldrons and Dragon Veins, and cast a giant being’s corpse into the Canglang River.
• An Le gained the Asking for the Cauldron Dao Fruit, which accelerated his cauldron refinement and revealed a path toward forging the Nine Cauldrons Divine Body.
• Zhao Tianyan issued an edict allowing Xiliang’s Hell Manor ghost messengers and Yamas into Great Zhao to avenge Gu Huangquan, prompting Li You'an to condemn the order before the Flying Tiger Army.
• Li You'an declared that the Flying Tiger Army would no longer guard Great Zhao’s gates and would choose another lord, then split Zhao Tianyan’s edict with Thousand Times and announced his rebellion against Zhao.

Li You'an rebelled against Great Zhao after the Zhao Family Emperor's decree allowed Xiliang's Hell Manor cultivators to cross into Great Zhao, and he offered the Flying Tiger Army's tiger tally to An Le. An Le accepted it and began gathering fortune for the army, while Xiliang's forces launched their crossing and the Flying Tiger Army knelt to him as their lord.

• Li You'an cut apart the Zhao Family Emperor's decree, declared his rebellion, and led every Flying Tiger Army soldier to draw a blade against Great Zhao's national fortune.
• Gu Chenglin ordered Hell Manor's cultivators to cross the Canglang River under cover of the Evil Ghost Navy, while a lone old fisherman drifted toward the advancing ghosts.
• Ye Longsheng chose to keep his forces focused on stopping the Yuan Meng Army, and the Zhao Family Emperor suspected An Le was the ruler Li You'an had chosen.
• Li You'an sent Thousand Times and the Flying Tiger Army's tiger tally to An Le, explaining his rebellion and asking An Le to establish fortune for the army.
• An Le accepted the tiger tally and sent fortune through it, giving the Flying Tiger Army a new foundation as Li You'an and the soldiers knelt to him.

An Le accepted Li You'an’s tiger tally, forged a sovereign-minister pact, and gained the Flying Tiger Army’s allegiance as the Mountain River Cauldron’s fortune strengthened their resolve. As Third Master Wang Banshan’s Enduring Righteousness exposed Hell Manor’s hidden forces on the Canglang River, Li You'an seized the opening and killed two Yan Wangs.

• An Le accepted Li You'an’s tiger tally, linked the Flying Tiger Army to the Mountain River Cauldron’s fortune, and agreed that Li You'an would command the army until An Le grew strong enough to take over.
• Li You'an warned An Le about Hell Manor’s powerful fighters and suggested relocating Seventh Mountain, while the Zhao Family Emperor ordered two Ninth Realm generals to watch An Le and kill him if he left the mountain.
• The Yuan Meng Emperor sensed An Le’s new sovereign fortune, then found the ninth Dragon Vein Power within Mount Li Mausoleum and continued seeking a breakthrough to the Eleventh Realm.
• Li Qingchuan carried An Le’s courtyard, Old Scholar Tree, and two jars of Old Yellow Wine from Lin'an to Seventh Mountain, where An Le moved in and sensed the Flying Tiger Army’s battle through the tiger tally.
• Third Master Wang Banshan released his Enduring Righteousness over the Canglang River, revealing Hell Manor’s hidden forces and weakening them as the Flying Tiger Army attacked.
• Li You'an used Past Sword Qi and Present Sword Qi to kill Song Emperor and Wuguan Wang, destroying their Primordial Spirits and Immortal Platforms.

An Le used the Canglang River battle to refine the Mountain River Cauldron faster, then created a body-tempering method to fuse the Nine Cauldrons into his spine. The chapter ended as he began the dangerous first step, opening his spine beneath the cauldron’s pressure.

• Li You'an killed two Kings of Hell with one sword while Third Master Wang Banshan’s Enduring Righteousness suppressed Hell Manor’s forces and helped the Flying Tiger Army defeat the Evil Ghost Navy.
• Gu Chenglin crushed a finger bone to summon the Hell Manor Lord’s power, whose Tenth Realm palm broke Wang Banshan’s defense and allowed three wounded Kings of Hell to cross into Great Zhao.
• At Seventh Mountain, An Le asked the Mountain Lords for advice on cultivation methods, and Su Zhanxian urged him to create a method suited to himself.
• An Le decided to use the Green Mountain Ancient Scripture and the Mountain River Cauldron as the basis for a body-tempering method, merging the Ancient Demon Five Animals into his five viscera and selecting his spine for the Nine Cauldrons.
• An Le began fusing the Mountain River Cauldron into his body, enduring its immense pressure as his spine started to open.

An Le created the Melding Soldier Art by fusing the Mountain River Cauldron into his spine, survived the heavenly lightning, and prepared to move Seventh Mountain. After the First Emperor's Mausoleum opened, An Le climbed Green Mountain and slew the immortal wills on its steps, leaving off as the Imperial Stone Effigy finally stirred and told him to stop.

• An Le fused the Mountain River Cauldron into his spine, advanced to the late stage of the Body Forging Sixth Realm, and survived a bolt of heavenly lightning.
• An Le explained that other magical treasures and weapons could be fused into the body, named the scripture the Nine Cauldrons Soldier Lord Scripture and the method the Melding Soldier Art, and agreed to move Seventh Mountain with the Mountain Lords.
• The Yuan Meng Emperor used eight dragon veins to open the First Emperor's Mausoleum at Mount Li and entered through its gate.
• An Le sensed the mausoleum opening, then entered Green Mountain with the Imperial Stone Effigy and defeated the immortal will on the eleventh step.
• An Le climbed as far as the twentieth step, defeating increasingly powerful immortal wills and gathering sword-intent golden cores, but the Imperial Stone Effigy finally trembled and told him to stop.

An Le learned from the Imperial Stone Effigy how Heaven and Earth Will shaped the Eighth through Tenth Realms and learned that the First Emperor’s Mausoleum held opportunities and a Mountain River Cauldron. He moved Seventh Mountain from Lin'an to Shu, where the Old Sword Saint welcomed its arrival, while Zhao Huangting chose not to bid An Le farewell.

• An Le told the Imperial Stone Effigy about his Melding Soldier Art, and the effigy helped him refine the method while warning that it required all nine Mountain River Cauldrons to reach completion.
• The Imperial Stone Effigy explained the cultivation realms, the three palace cities in the Mount Li Mausoleum, and the Mountain River Cauldron hidden inside it, then urged An Le to prepare before challenging the twenty-first step.
• Experts from across the world headed toward Mount Li after the First Emperor’s Mausoleum opened, while generals Ye Longsheng, Zhong Shi Ji, and Di Zang crossed the Canglang River to seek its opportunities.
• An Le chose to move Seventh Mountain to the mountains outside Jinguan City in Shu, and the Mountain Lords used the Mountain River Cauldrons to transport it from Lin'an.
• The Old Sword Saint emerged from Sword Lake to greet An Le beneath the Mountain River Cauldron phantoms, as Sword Pool Palace’s cultivators recognized him on the mountain summit.
• Zhao Huangting refused Su Muzhe’s suggestion to say farewell to An Le and asked her to watch over him after he was gone.

Zhao Huangting died peacefully in the Imperial Ancestral Temple, and Zhao Tianyan and Qin Lishi plotted to use his death to lure An Le into Lin'an. After Green Mountain mourned its former wielder, An Le resolved to return to Lin'an to bid Zhao Huangting farewell, accompanied by the Old Sword Saint.

• Zhao Huangting told Su Muzhe not to let An Le know of his impending death, then died peacefully as monks chanted the Rebirth Sutra.
• Pang Ji and Qin Lishi sensed Zhao Huangting's death and the resulting change in Great Zhao's fortune, while Qin Lishi proposed using the funeral to draw An Le into Lin'an.
• Zhao Tianyan resented Zhao Huangting for giving Green Mountain to An Le, and he considered Qin Lishi's plan to lure An Le into Lin'an and kill him.
• An Le completed Seventh Mountain's relocation, thanked the Mountain Lords, and discussed Melding Soldier Art and spatial travel with the Old Sword Saint.
• Green Mountain mourned Zhao Huangting, and An Le realized the old man had kept his death from him to protect him from Lin'an's danger.
• An Le resolved to enter Lin'an to see Zhao Huangting off, and the Old Sword Saint offered to accompany him.

An Le returned to Lin'an with the Old Sword Saint Pei Min to pay tribute to Zhao Huangting, despite the Zhao Family Emperor’s trap. As Pei Min intervened against Lin'an’s forces, An Le killed the Jinwu Guard Generals and prepared to continue toward the Imperial Ancestral Temple.

• Pei Min carried An Le from Jinguan City to Lin'an, where King Zhao Xi learned that Zhao Huangting had died and anticipated An Le’s return.
• Su Muzhe and Fourth Master Lin recognized the forces surrounding the Imperial Ancestral Temple and prepared to defend An Le if he came.
• An Le entered Lin'an and killed the Seventh Realm military officer, his squad, and the civil official who tried to obstruct him at the city gate.
• The Zhao Family Emperor ordered An Le detained, and Lin'an’s forces surrounded him on Qingbo Street as he asked to pay tribute to Zhao Huangting.
• Su Muzhe and Fourth Master Lin fought the forces opposing An Le, while Grand Master Zhu Huoxi clashed with Second Master Pang Ji.
• An Le used his Heroic Spirit power against the Golden Guards, then Pei Min revealed his Tenth Realm strength and restrained the Left and Right Jinwu Guard Generals, whom An Le beheaded.

An Le, aided by Old Sword Saint Pei Min, advanced through Lin'an toward the Imperial Ancestral Temple after killing the two Jinwu Guard Generals. When Zhao Tianyan sent three thousand Golden Guards to stop him, An Le cut through their ranks and reached the temple to pay respects to Zhao Huangting.

• An Le killed the Left and Right Jinwu Guard Generals as Pei Min suppressed the other powerful cultivators, and Su Muzhe recognized her teacher.
• Qin Lishi questioned Pei Min’s intervention, but Pei Min dismissed the threat of criticism and held the Ninth and Eighth Realm experts at bay.
• Zhao Tianyan ordered the Golden Guards to attack An Le while forbidding Ninth and Eighth Realm cultivators from intervening, and Pei Min agreed to keep those experts restrained.
• An Le charged through the three thousand Golden Guards, killing their Seventh Realm deputy commanders and shattering their formation despite their attempts to wear him down.
• The Golden Guards fled and opened a path, and An Le entered the Imperial Ancestral Temple with incense to pay respects to Zhao Huangting.

An Le entered Lin'an’s Imperial Ancestral Temple after cutting through three thousand Golden Guards and honored Zhao Huangting with an ink painting. Zhao Tianyan summoned the Great Zhao founder, Zhao Taizu, whose Half-Immortal power held off the Old Sword Saint as Lin’an’s forces attacked An Le, leaving him surrounded but eerily calm.

• An Le broke through the three thousand Golden Guards, entered the Imperial Ancestral Temple, and the Old Sword Saint recognized the strength of his Melding Soldier Art.
• Zhao Tianyan raged at the Golden Guards’ failure and awakened the Zhao imperial clan’s hidden trump card on Phoenix Mountain.
• An Le offered incense to Zhao Huangting and painted a Withered Bamboo Fighting Winter scene that moved the onlookers.
• Zhao Taizu emerged as a Half-Immortal, learned that Great Zhao had abandoned its former capital and the Central Plains, and confronted Zhao Tianyan over summoning him to kill An Le.
• Zhao Taizu fought the Old Sword Saint while Lin’an’s experts attacked An Le; Qin Lishi joined the assault, hoping to use An Le’s Invincible Momentum and Great Zhao National Fortune to reach the Tenth Realm.

An Le faced Qin Lishi and a host of Ninth Realm experts in Lin'an while the Old Sword Saint Pei Min and the Old Celestial Master battled powerful foes above the city. As Qin Lishi trapped An Le in a Primordial Spirit Array, An Le summoned the Martial Champion Stone with the Blood Guanyin Dao Fruit, and the Successive Martial Champions appeared around it.

• Half-Immortal Zhao Taizu emerged from the imperial mausoleum and stopped Pei Min, leaving An Le exposed to Lin'an’s Ninth Realm experts.
• The Sixth Mountain Lord tried to rush to An Le but Du Hai blocked his way under the Buddha Ancestor’s command.
• The Xiao Lian Sword held back Qin Lishi, Duke Wang, and four Ninth Realm soldiers until a white-cloaked Tenth Realm figure appeared and knocked it aside.
• The Old Celestial Master confronted the white-cloaked figure, identified as former First Mountain Lord Yan Tongshu, and the two began fighting in another space.
• Qin Lishi trapped An Le in a Primordial Spirit Array and prepared to kill him, but An Le used the Blood Guanyin Dao Fruit to summon the Martial Champion Stone from the Martial Temple.
• The Martial Champion Stone smashed through Qin Lishi’s array and landed between him and An Le as the Successive Martial Champions appeared.

An Le used the Martial Champion Stone, Blood Guanyin, and Time Qi to overcome Qin Lishi’s spiritual assault and suppress his Primordial Spirit. After breaking Qin Lishi’s hold on the Fortune Divine Dragon, An Le defeated him and left him nailed to the Stone Tablet Jade Workshop of Lin Manor.

• The Martial Champion Stone arrived in Lin'an and its Successive Martial Champion wills emerged, while the Old Sword Saint fought Zhao Taizu above the city to keep him from reaching An Le.
• An Le drew on the Blood Guanyin Dao Fruit and the Martial Champion wills to strengthen his spiritual power, then infused Flowing Gold Time Qi into Blood Guanyin to overwhelm Qin Lishi’s Primordial Spirit.
• Blood Guanyin entered Qin Lishi’s Niwan Palace and climbed his Immortal Platform, while An Le attacked his physical body with the Red Heart Mountains and Rivers Sword.
• Qin Lishi used Great Zhao’s Fortune Divine Dragon to repel An Le and halt Blood Guanyin, but An Le summoned the Mountain River Cauldron and shattered the dragon’s head.
• Blood Guanyin seized Qin Lishi’s Primordial Spirit and An Le trapped it in his spiritual sword furnace, crippling Qin Lishi’s Spirit Refining cultivation.
• An Le struck Qin Lishi with the Mountain River Cauldron, then sent the Bamboo Breaking Sword through his chest and nailed him to the Stone Tablet Jade Workshop of Lin Manor.

An Le killed Qin Lishi in Lin'an and left the city with Su Muzhe, Wan Jieliu, Fourth Master Lin, and the Old Sword Saint. After An Le fell into a restorative slumber, his consciousness entered the Dao Fruit space and reached the River of Time.

• An Le used the Blood Guanyin to suppress Qin Lishi's Primordial Spirit and pierced his heart, killing him before Lin Manor.
• Qin Lishi's death halted the fighting in Lin'an, while the Zhao Family Emperor returned to the Heavenly Profound Palace and resolved to fuse with immortal blood.
• The Old Sword Saint and the Old Celestial Master ended their battles, and An Le departed Lin'an alongside Su Muzhe, Wan Jieliu, Fourth Master Lin, and the Old Sword Saint.
• After An Le collapsed from mental exhaustion, the Old Sword Saint and Old Celestial Master entrusted Su Muzhe and Wan Jieliu with taking him to Jinguan City and warned them about dangers along the route.
• An Le's consciousness entered the Dao Fruit space, passed through its light screen, and received a prompt welcoming him to observe the River of Time.

An Le observed the River of Time and began creating a Spirit Refinement Method, using its visualization to refine Qin Lishi’s Ninth Realm Peak Primordial Spirit. As Tenth Realm experts entered the Mount Li Ancient Tomb, Xiliang and the King of Jiangling prepared attacks that left An Le and Great Zhao in danger.

• An Le used his stored Time Qi to observe the River of Time, conceived a visualization-based Spirit Refinement Method, and created a crude River of Time phenomenon in his mental space.
• An Le used the phenomenon to refine Qin Lishi’s Primordial Spirit and strengthen his own mind.
• Tenth Realm experts, including the Old Celestial Master and the Old Sword Saint, entered the Mount Li Ancient Tomb, while cultivators gathered outside awaited the chance to enter.
• Gu Chenglin rallied Xiliang’s army to break through the Yuan Meng blockade and spread Hell Manor’s influence, as Li You’an and Wang Banshan prepared to defend the Canglang River.
• Su Muzhe detected Death Qi and black mist near Jiangling Prefecture while guarding the sleeping An Le, and the King of Jiangling revealed his plan to seize Sword Lake and become the new Son of the Underworld.