Chapter Summaries

Chen Yi secretly manipulated the chaos at the Golden Tent, helping Erilisen rescue Muhage and Longge Huazhuo before poisoning Longge Mowang’s guards and escaping. Longge Shiying arrived at the ruins and demanded to know what had happened to her family.

• Longge Mowang offered Erilisen and the other rebels a chance to surrender, but Erilisen refused and the fighting split into three battles.
• Muhage charged Longge Mowang, but a giant tiger and Longge Beichen drove him back while Meng Xingdu’s saber killed many Barbarian guards.
• Chen Yi used his Chess Dao divine intent to make silver-armored guards attack Muhage, throwing the Golden Tent’s forces into confusion.
• Erilisen used his vines to pull Muhage, Longge Huazhuo, and several tribesmen beyond the encirclement, then led the escape.
• Chen Yi scattered poison bottles across the ruins, knocking out Longge Mowang and many guards before fleeing a hundred li away.
• Longge Shiying arrived at the ruined Golden Tent and questioned the Asa about her brothers, the rebellion, and her father.

Longge Mowang prepared to claim the throne while Muhage, Erilisen, and Longge Huazhuo fled the Golden Tent’s forces. Chen Yi killed Meng Xingdu through an illusion and returned to the Black Bear Tribe, where a system reward raised his Body Dao to the extreme realm.

• Longge Mowang resolved to seek Great Asa’s blessing, capture Huazhuo and the other princes, and replace Muhage as Left King.
• Muhage fought Longge Beichen’s pursuers while Chen Yi secretly obstructed the Golden Tent guards and then went to aid Longge Huazhuo.
• Erilisen held off Longge Louye while Meng Xingdu tried to protect Longge Huazhuo from Hu Ning’s forces.
• Chen Yi trapped Meng Xingdu in an illusion, convinced him he had been beheaded, and killed him; Meng Xingdu identified Chen Yi to Erilisen before dying.
• Chen Yi reached the Black Bear Tribe and prompted its commanders to ride out to reinforce Muhage, then received a reward that advanced his Body Dao to the extreme realm.

After the Barbarian Emperor died and Muhage opposed Longge Mowang, Chen Yi warned the Black Bear Tribe to prepare for war and advised Muhage on three possible strategies. Muhage chose to defend his territory, while Chen Yi planned to return to Mengshui Pass and awaited Wenkela's arrival.

• Chen Yi told Asutai that Longge Mowang was likely to attack the Black Bear Tribe, and Muhage returned wounded and ordered the tribe to prepare for war.
• Muhage asked Chen Yi what had happened at the Golden Tent, and Chen Yi argued that Longge Sihuang's death was suspicious and that Longge Mowang would soon send troops against them.
• Chen Yi offered Muhage three strategies: retreat north to join Erilisen, attack the Golden Tent, or defend the Black Bear Tribe; Muhage chose to hold his territory and requested supplies from Mengshui Pass.
• Muhage said Yuan Jingxuan would escort Chen Yi to Mengshui Pass after dealing with Xiao Jinghong, and Yuan Jingxuan reported that King Landu had withdrawn his troops from the Poshushuo Kingdom.
• Chen Yi learned that Wenkela, the Great Grandmaster who had wounded Xiao Fengchun and Fu Wanqing, was expected to arrive.

Chen Yi foresaw a bloody calamity, learned Yi Dao, and hurried to leave the Black Bear Tribe with Fu Wanqing and Xiao Fengchun. After they departed, Muhage learned that the Great Asa wanted Chen Yi taken to the Divine Mountain and realized it was already too late.

• Chen Yi raised Painting Dao to perfection, learned Yi Dao, and used divination to foresee himself bathed in blood during the journey to Mengshui Pass.
• Chen Yi convinced Muhage and Yuan Jingxuan to depart promptly, then assured Asutai that Fu Wanqing would be safe and said farewell to him.
• Chen Yi, Yuan Jingxuan, Ji Feng, Mingke, Boxiong, Fu Wanqing, and Xiao Fengchun left the Black Bear Tribe for Mengshui Pass, with Chen Yi driving the carriage.
• Muhage watched them leave and privately considered how the Xiao Family's disgrace could help the Barbarian Tribe conquer Mengshui Pass.
• Two messengers from the Barbarian God Grotto told Muhage that the Great Asa had identified Chen Yi as a dangerous Wei genius and ordered him sent to the Divine Mountain.
• Muhage admitted Chen Yi had already left for the Central Plains, and the messengers hurried after him.

Muhage learned from the Great Asa that the Wei man known as “Song Jin Jian” was a powerful genius and ordered his capture, while the Great Asa urged him to take the man alive. Meanwhile, Chen Yi and Chu Xiudao had abducted Yuan Jingxuan and rescued Fu Wanqing, who accepted Chen Yi’s identity after reading letters from the Xiao family.

• Muhage refused to pursue the departing Wei man until the Great Asa explained that Longge Mowang’s seizure of the throne was part of a foretold calamity and that the Wei man was an extraordinary martial genius.
• Asutai recognized Chen Yi as the masked man who had saved him, and Muhage realized Chen Yi had infiltrated the tribe to rescue Fu Wanqing and Xiao Fengchun.
• Muhage gathered Black Bear Cavalry and rode north to capture Chen Yi, while the Great Asa warned him to take the man alive and promised to restrain the Golden Tent from pressuring Muhage and Erilisen.
• Far from Muhage’s riders, Chen Yi and Chu Xiudao held Yuan Jingxuan and three commanders captive in a cave after ambushing their party with Immortal’s Draught.
• Chen Yi gave Fu Wanqing letters from Elder Master Xiao and Xiao Jinghong and a Xiao Manor Token, convincing her that he was Chen Yu and had come to bring her and Xiao Fengchun back to Shuzhou.
• Fu Wanqing thanked Chen Yi for rescuing her, and he began explaining what she should do next.

Chen Yi used divination to foresee danger and sent Chu Xiudao, Fu Wanqing, and the recovering Xiao Fengchun west while he continued north with Yuan Jingxuan and the Barbarians. After treating Xiao Fengchun and Fu Wanqing, he created doubles of them to conceal the group’s split and set off toward Mengshui Pass, facing the bloodshed foretold for him.

• Chen Yi interpreted Fu Wanqing’s hexagram as hardship followed by safety, while his own divination warned of a bloody calamity and led him to suspect the Barbarians were targeting him.
• Chen Yi trapped Yuan Jingxuan in a Chess Dao illusion, then used the Nine Needles Method to restore Xiao Fengchun’s vitality and treat Fu Wanqing’s injuries.
• Xiao Fengchun awoke after five years unconscious, learned that the war had ended, and thanked Chen Yi for rescuing him and Fu Wanqing.
• Chen Yi sent Chu Xiudao, Fu Wanqing, and Xiao Fengchun west toward Shuzhou while he remained behind to continue north.
• Chen Yi prepared the bear carriage, created doubles of Xiao Fengchun and Fu Wanqing from wooden plaques, and set off north with Yuan Jingxuan and the other Barbarians.

Chen Yi used Yuan Jingxuan’s authority to redirect Barbarian tribes and delay Muhage while trying to protect his allies. After the Great Asa ordered Wenkela to capture him alive, Chen Yi was intercepted by the towering Great Grandmaster.

• Chen Yi changed course northeast, then intercepted a message from Muhage asking about Yuan Jingxuan and realized his pursuers had moved ahead of him.
• Chen Yi ordered the North Wolf and Wind Valley Tribes to prepare to attack the Golden Tent, then sent a disguised Song Jin Jian onward and vanished.
• Muhage learned that Chen Yi had issued false orders in his name, but decided the plan could help the Black Bear Tribe and ordered Mu Huaixu to continue north.
• The Great Asa told Muhage that Wenkela was going to capture Chen Yi alive because the approaching Hidden Immortal Competition made his death dangerous.
• Chen Yi used Meteor Butterfly Steps toward Mengshui Pass, but his daily intelligence warned that Wenkela would intercept and kill a visitor from the Wei Dynasty.
• A thirty-foot-tall Barbarian appeared on a tree and asked Chen Yi whether he was the visitor from the Central Plains.

Chen Yi fought Wenkela, the Barbarian Tribe Great Grandmaster sent to take him to the Divine Mountain, and revealed strength in both the Spear Dao and Body Dao. As Wenkela unleashed his Spirit Fusion Method, Chen Yi rose into the air and gathered a fearsome spear strike, leaving their battle poised to escalate.

• Wenkela told Chen Yi that the Great Asa had ordered him to bring Chen Yi to the Divine Mountain, but Chen Yi refused and chose to fight.
• Wenkela attacked with overwhelming speed, and Chen Yi used his spear to counter him, forcing Wenkela to recognize the power of Chen Yi’s Spear Dao.
• Chen Yi drew on his Body Dao as well as his Spear Dao, and his attacks pushed Wenkela back and made him realize Chen Yi had reached the Body Dao extreme realm.
• Wenkela praised Chen Yi’s strength, then merged his tiger spirit into his body and grew stronger.
• Chen Yi gathered the energies of heaven and earth, rose into the air, and prepared a powerful spear strike as Wenkela declared that Chen Yi was still no match for him.

Chen Yi fought Wenkela and revealed a level of control over heaven and earth that made Wenkela identify him as an Earthly Immortal. Chen Yi’s Sunlit Day spear strike devastated Wenkela but failed to kill him, while Chen Yi’s weapon shattered and Muhage’s forces arrived.

• Muhage and Asutai hurried toward Chen Yi and Wenkela, with Muhage insisting that Wenkela would defeat the Wei man.
• Wenkela attacked Chen Yi, but Chen Yi met his blows with the Falling Dragon Spear and wounded Wenkela’s palm.
• Wenkela resolved to kill Chen Yi, while Chen Yi gathered Heaven and Earth Spirit Qi and displayed an Earthly Immortal’s control over heaven and earth.
• Chen Yi unleashed Sunlit Day, which shattered Wenkela’s tiger spirit and drove him into a deep pit, but Wenkela survived.
• Chen Yi’s Five-Fold Spear broke apart, and Muhage arrived with hundreds of warriors, accusing Chen Yi of deceiving him.

Chen Yi defeated Wenkela, then escaped the Barbarians by concealing his presence and using a painted decoy while Great Asa tracked him. He headed toward Lal Mountain to rescue Xiao Fengchun and the others, as Muhage and Wenkela split up to pursue him.

• Muhage arrived with Black Bear Tribe warriors and found Wenkela bloodied after Chen Yi struck him down, then Wenkela recovered and joined Muhage in confronting Chen Yi.
• Chen Yi revealed his identity as Chen Yu, and Great Asa disclosed that Xiao Fengchun and Fu Wanqing had been intercepted and returned to Lal Mountain.
• Chen Yi fought Wenkela with the Uncontested Sword while Great Asa and Muhage discussed keeping him on the Divine Mountain.
• Chen Yi concealed his presence with Medicine Formations and Yi Dao, fled toward Lal Mountain, and sent a painted illusion in another direction to mislead his pursuers.
• Wenkela and Muhage chased the decoy before realizing it was fake, then split up; Wenkela continued toward Lal Mountain while Muhage turned east after a Ten-Thousand-Man Commander reported that Chen Yi had attacked.

Chu Xiudao fought Tuluo while Xiao Fengchun and Fu Wanqing fled toward Mengshui Pass, only to be cornered by Barbarian Tribe scouts. Chen Yi arrived just as the couple faced defeat, leaving their rescue underway.

• Chu Xiudao confronted Tuluo, who said the Great Asa had ordered him to bring Chu Xiudao, Xiao Fengchun, and Fu Wanqing to Divine Mountain.
• Chu Xiudao wounded Tuluo with a saber strike and engaged him in battle while Xiao Fengchun and Fu Wanqing ran toward Mengshui Pass.
• Xiao Fengchun and Fu Wanqing spotted Barbarian scouts, tried to signal the pass, and chose to face the pursuers together rather than separate.
• Xiao Fengchun and Fu Wanqing fought the scouts with branches until a Thousand-man Commander overwhelmed them and broke Xiao Fengchun's wooden spear.
• Chen Yi's crimson longsword pierced the Barbarian commander, and Chen Yi appeared hovering above the scouts as the couple recognized their rescuer.

Chen Yi rescued Xiao Fengchun and Fu Wanqing, then drew Tuluo and Wenkela away while Chu Xiudao escorted them to Mengshui Pass. Xiao Jinghong reunited with her parents and flew back with Chu Xiudao to help Chen Yi, who was still being pursued by the barbarians.

• Chen Yi found Xiao Fengchun and Fu Wanqing, saved them from the barbarian scouts, and sent them toward Mengshui Pass with Chu Xiudao.
• Chen Yi slaughtered the scouts and lured Tuluo away, evading his attacks as Wenkela arrived and joined the pursuit.
• Great Asa ordered Wenkela and Tuluo to delay Chen Yi until Yu Yueren arrived, and Chen Yi called for help as Muhage’s forces approached.
• Xiao Jinghong put Mengshui Pass under wartime orders and flew south, where she found Xiao Fengchun and Fu Wanqing with Chu Xiudao.
• Xiao Jinghong and Chu Xiudao flew to help Chen Yi while Xiao Fengchun and Fu Wanqing prepared to return to Mengshui Pass.

Xiao Fengchun reunited with Fu Wanqing and learned alarming rumors about Xiao Jinghong’s matrilocal husband, Chen Yi. As Xiao Jinghong and Chu Xiudao joined the battle against the Barbarian Tribe, Chen Yi faced Wenkela alone and hoped his senior would arrive before he was killed.

• Fu Wanqing told Xiao Fengchun that Xiao Jinghong had married Chen Yi, a third son of the Chen Family of Jiangnan, and relayed rumors about his conduct.
• Xiao Fengchun vowed that the Xiao Family would no longer suffer humiliation at outsiders’ hands.
• Chu Xiudao intervened to fight Tuluo while Wenkela continued pursuing Chen Yi.
• Xiao Jinghong arrived, failed to pierce Wenkela’s defenses with her Sword Intent, and thanked Chen Yi for helping rescue her parents.
• Chen Yi borrowed Xiao Jinghong’s spear and asked her to intercept Muhage and the others while he fought Wenkela alone.

Xiao Jinghong confronted Muhage and overwhelmed his elite warriors, revealing how much her Sword Dao and cultivation had advanced. Muhage absorbed the spirit souls of his black bears and struck back hard enough to injure her, leaving their fight unresolved.

• Xiao Jinghong confronted Muhage over his imprisonment of her parents and fought off his hundred-odd Barbarian warriors.
• Xiao Jinghong killed or severely wounded thirteen elite Barbarian commanders with her Extreme Realm Sword Dao.
• Muhage charged Xiao Jinghong, but her enormous Sword Intent repelled him and revealed that her strength had grown close to the Rank One Realm.
• Muhage killed several black bears and had his Bear Spirit devour their spirit souls, greatly increasing his power.
• Muhage caught Xiao Jinghong with a burst of blood qi, injured her, and shattered the half armor covering her face.

Xiao Jinghong kept Muhage occupied while Chen Yi used his improved spear art to overwhelm Wenkela and kill dozens of Barbarian Tribe commanders. As Wenkela and Tuluo closed in on Chen Yi, an aged voice revealed that Yu Yueren had arrived, and a terrifying aura rapidly approached.

• Muhage used a secret art to strengthen himself, but Xiao Jinghong evaded his attacks and kept him occupied while waiting for Chen Yi to finish fighting Wenkela.
• Chen Yi wounded Wenkela with his newly strengthened, concealed spear art, while Chu Xiudao exploited Tuluo’s distraction to strike him repeatedly.
• Wenkela called for the barbarians to attack Chen Yi, and Chen Yi killed dozens of approaching Ten-Thousand-Man Commanders with a flurry of spear thrusts.
• Enraged by the deaths, Wenkela burned his soul and attacked Chen Yi with a storm of blood-energy fists, but Chen Yi evaded him and continued to wound him.
• Tuluo rushed toward Chen Yi, and an aged voice announced that Yu Yueren had arrived as a terrifying aura rapidly approached.

Yu Yueren arrived on Great Asa’s orders to take Chen Yi to the Divine Mountain, but Chen Yi refused and Yu Yueren attacked him. After Chen Yi, Xiao Jinghong, and Chu Xiudao fought back, Ye Guxian arrived and struck at Yu Yueren’s mountain.

• Yu Yueren reached Chen Yi and ordered him to come to the Divine Mountain, while Great Asa said the Golden Tent’s people had to settle their own affairs.
• Chen Yi refused to go, accused Great Asa of breaking the Hidden Immortals’ rules, and was attacked by Yu Yueren after Great Asa stayed silent.
• Chen Yi fought Yu Yueren and wounded his calf, but Yu Yueren’s mountain crushed Chen Yi until Xiao Jinghong’s sword helped him escape.
• Xiao Jinghong and Chu Xiudao stood with the badly injured Chen Yi, who prepared to keep fighting rather than leave them behind.
• Ye Guxian arrived, declared Yu Yueren had broken the rules by attacking Central Plains cultivators, and slashed at the mountain as Yu Yueren shouted, “Suppress!”

Ye Guxian defeated Yu Yueren in their duel, and Great Asa stopped the fight before it became a battle to the death. Chen Yu revealed his identity and accepted the Barbarian Tribe’s challenge, while Great Asa later received a visit from Gongye Bai.

• Ye Guxian cut through Yu Yueren’s mountain-shaped defense with his sword and sent him crashing into the damaged mountain.
• Ye Guxian severed the upper half of Yu Yueren’s mountain, but Great Asa intervened and arranged for Yu Yueren to fight him again at the Hidden Immortal Competition in two years.
• Chen Yi accepted the Barbarian Tribe’s future challenge, and Great Asa ordered Muhage, Tuluo, and Wenkela to leave with Yu Yueren.
• Chen Yi revealed that he was Chen Yu, and Muhage vowed to settle accounts with him over the golden figure.
• Ye Guxian took Chen Yi, Xiao Jinghong, and Chu Xiudao away, while Xiao Jinghong resolved to bring her parents home.
• Great Asa reflected on his failed attempt to capture Chen Yu, then welcomed Gongye Bai of the Central Plains to the Divine Mountain.

Gongye Bai met with the Great Asa and moved the Hidden Immortal Competition to the East Sea, while the Great Asa planned to consolidate the Barbarian Tribe and eliminate Chen Yi. After a farewell meal with the Xiao family, Chen Yi warned Xiao Jinghong about threats from the Cui Family and the Barbarian Tribe, then escaped when Xiao Fengchun tried to arrange a match between him and Xiao Wan'er.

• Gongye Bai thanked the Great Asa for sparing Chen Yi, then persuaded him to move the Hidden Immortal Competition from the South Sea to the East Sea so the Central Plains could confront the Wa Kingdom.
• After Gongye Bai left, the Great Asa ordered Yu Yueren to meet Longge Mowang and urged Muhage and Erilisen to find a way to destroy Chen Yi.
• Xiao Fengchun and Fu Wanqing thanked Ye Guxian and Chen Yi for rescuing them during a farewell meal with Xiao Jinghong and Chu Xiudao.
• Chen Yi warned Xiao Jinghong that a man called Mr. Cui had conspired with Muhage and that the Barbarian Tribe might soon unite under Longge Mowang and threaten Mengshui Pass.
• Chen Yi told Xiao Jinghong that King Landu had withdrawn from the Poshushuo Kingdom after Chen Yi's intervention, surprising her with how much he had accomplished.
• Xiao Fengchun tried to arrange a marriage between Chen Yi and Xiao Wan'er, so Chen Yi hurried away with Ye Guxian, Chu Xiudao, and their companion.

Xiao Fengchun and Fu Wanqing returned to the Xiao Family estate after five years among the Barbarian Tribe, where they reunited with Elder Master Xiao and learned how the Qinghe Cui Family had helped trap them. They chose to keep their survival secret while Xiao Fengchun took over the Dark Hall, then set out to see their son Xiao Wuge.

• After Xiao Jinghong corrected her parents’ mistaken impression of Chen Yi, she told Xiao Fengchun and Fu Wanqing that the Qinghe Cui Family had worked with the Black Bear Tribe and helped cause their capture.
• Xiao Jinghong secretly brought Xiao Fengchun and Fu Wanqing into Xiao Manor, where they reunited with Elder Master Xiao.
• Xiao Fengchun and Elder Master Xiao discussed reporting his return and confronting Cui Mao, but Xiao Fengchun proposed keeping his survival secret to thwart the Cui Family’s plans.
• Xiao Jinghong agreed to the secrecy, and Xiao Fengchun announced that he would take over the Dark Hall.
• Xiao Fengchun and Fu Wanqing asked Xiao Jinghong to conceal them as they went to see Xiao Wuge, their son whom they had never met.

Xiao Fengchun and Fu Wanqing returned to Chunhe Garden, secretly saw their sleeping son Xiao Wuge, and began assessing the family and Shuzhou before deciding to meet Chen Yi. Meanwhile, Chen Yi learned about recent events in Shuzhou and the Nine Orchid Lineage’s competition with Hundred Herbs Hall, then headed back to Tonglin Town with Ye Guxian and checked his Light Screen rewards.

• Xiao Fengchun and Fu Wanqing visited Chunhe Garden, saw Chen Yi’s animated painting greet Xiao Jinghong as a rare visitor, and learned that Chen Yi was with Xiao Wan'er in Tonglin Town.
• Xiao Fengchun and Fu Wanqing saw Xiao Wuge sleeping, decided not to wake or acknowledge him yet, and asked Xiao Jinghong for five hundred trustworthy soldiers and Dark Hall intelligence.
• Xiao Fengchun told Fu Wanqing he suspected the Chen Family had arranged Chen Yi’s marriage to Xiao Jinghong for a reason and planned to meet him soon.
• Chen Yi brought Chu Xiudao and Ye Guxian to his residence, where One Finger welcomed them and recounted Liu Lang’s boasts about his Blade Dao talent.
• One Finger briefed Chen Yi on Shuzhou’s situation, including the dispute between Li Changqing and Chen Yunfan and the Nine Orchid Lineage’s competition with Hundred Herbs Hall in Guang County.
• Chen Yi and Ye Guxian set off for Tonglin Town, and Chen Yi checked his Light Screen to find a Fortune reward of 1200 for his battles and escape from Wenkela.