Chapter Summaries

Xia Wushuang destroyed the Ning Family’s General’s Residence, forced its survivors and the Southern Territory army to submit, and conquered territories across Great Xia with overwhelming brutality. As his eighteen armies advanced on the imperial city, Princess Fuyao woke beside Xiao Yang in Changle Palace.

• Xia Wushuang annihilated most of the Ning Family’s leadership with one palm and forced the survivors and three hundred thousand Southern Territory troops to join his rebellion.
• Xia Wushuang defeated the King of East Sea and destroyed his flagship and warships, compelling the Eastern Sea to surrender.
• Xia Wushuang crushed the Western Desert cavalry, destroyed the governor’s residence in Cangwu, and burned the poisonous forest and sects in Yundian, forcing each region to submit.
• Xia Wushuang gathered eighteen armies numbering in the millions and led them toward the Great Xia imperial city.
• At dawn in Changle Palace, Princess Fuyao lay against Xiao Yang and remarked that he had been tireless.

After Princess Fuyao told Xiao Yang that An Miaoyu had shut herself away after a possible qi deviation, he suspected her ten-year Inner Demon Tribulation had erupted and went to investigate Sanqing Temple. He found her in a frozen meditation chamber, and when she woke to see him at the doorway, she accused him of being a lecher and threatened him.

• Princess Fuyao told Xiao Yang that An Miaoyu had secluded herself in Sanqing Temple for half a month after something went wrong with her cultivation.
• Xiao Yang recalled An Miaoyu's Inner Demon Tribulation and suspected it had begun around the time of her disappearance.
• Xiao Yang left Changle Palace and entered the deserted, unnaturally cold Sanqing Temple, where a chaotic force blocked his Spiritual Sense.
• Xiao Yang followed the strange cold to An Miaoyu's meditation chamber and opened its icy door.
• Xiao Yang saw An Miaoyu lying unconscious on the ice bed, but she woke and fixed him with a furious gaze.
• An Miaoyu called Xiao Yang a lecher and threatened to kill him.

An Miaoyu awakened her past-life memories as the Saintess of the Cloud Mist Sect and attacked Xiao Yang, demanding that he become her servant. As she sent the God-Beating Whip and Immortal Binding Rope after him, Xiao Yang invoked the Soldier Seal to seize control of the weapons.

• An Miaoyu revealed Martial God power and exchanged a powerful palm strike with Xiao Yang, with both of them forced back three steps.
• An Miaoyu dismissed Xiao Yang as a lower-realm creature and revealed that she was the Cloud Mist Sect’s Saintess, reborn after a sect member poisoned and attacked her in the Immortal Realm.
• An Miaoyu demanded that Xiao Yang kneel and offer his Divine Soul mark, then summoned the God-Beating Whip and Immortal Binding Rope to attack him.
• Xiao Yang stood against the immortal treasures and used the Nine Secrets—Soldier Seal, declaring that all weapons would obey his command.

Xiao Yang subdued An Miaoyu’s Immortal Gate treasures with the Nine Secret: Bing and revealed that he planned to enter the Immortal Realm to find his father, Xiao Wuji. An Miaoyu refused to discuss the Eastern Emperor Hall and the Supreme Dao Field, so Xiao Yang attacked her with the God-Beating Whip.

• Xiao Yang used the Nine Secret: Bing to seize control of An Miaoyu’s God-Beating Whip and Immortal Binding Rope.
• Xiao Yang told An Miaoyu that he was King Zhenbei’s Ninth Young Master and planned to find his father, Xiao Wuji, in the Immortal Realm.
• An Miaoyu recognized Xiao Wuji’s name from the Cloud Mist Sect’s secret archives and recalled his ties to the Eastern Emperor Hall and the Supreme Dao Field.
• Xiao Yang asked An Miaoyu to explain the Eastern Emperor Hall and the Supreme Dao Field, but she refused, citing her pride and fear of the Eastern Emperor Hall.
• Xiao Yang ordered the God-Beating Whip to lash An Miaoyu across her shoulder and back.

Xiao Yang overpowered and bound An Miaoyu, whipping her until she was forced to face his demand to become his maid. Before she could answer, someone urgently knocked at the door and called for Imperial Preceptor An.

• An Miaoyu attacked Xiao Yang with two Immortal Gate secret arts, but he effortlessly destroyed them.
• Xiao Yang struck An Miaoyu repeatedly with the God-Beating Whip and demanded that she submit.
• When An Miaoyu continued to resist, Xiao Yang bound her with the Immortal Binding Rope, sealing her power.
• An Miaoyu broke down in fear as Xiao Yang said he would stop if she admitted defeat and became his maid.
• Someone knocked urgently on the door and called for Imperial Preceptor An.

Xiao Yang used An Miaoyu’s fear of Emperor Xia seeing her bound and wounded to make her drive him away, then continued whipping her until she submitted and called herself Xiao Yang’s maid.

• Emperor Xia arrived outside Sanqing Temple with rare treasures and asked An Miaoyu to let him in, offering to practice dual cultivation with her.
• An Miaoyu pleaded with Xiao Yang to release her, but he taunted her with the prospect of Emperor Xia seeing her bound and beaten.
• An Miaoyu furiously insulted Emperor Xia and ordered him to leave, and he fled with his attendants.
• After Emperor Xia left, Xiao Yang whipped An Miaoyu and demanded that she submit.
• An Miaoyu identified herself as the Cloud Mist Sect Saintess, so Xiao Yang struck her again and asked who she was.
• An Miaoyu broke down and said she was Xiao Yang’s maid.

An Miaoyu revealed how the Eastern Emperor betrayed the Supreme Dao Field and became ruler of the Eastern Profound Region, prompting Xiao Yang to vow revenge for his father, Xiao Wuji. As Xiao Yang prepared to leave, An Miaoyu’s suppressed inner demon resurfaced.

• Xiao Yang stopped whipping An Miaoyu after she begged for mercy and agreed to tell him what she knew.
• An Miaoyu explained that the Eastern Emperor had betrayed the Supreme Dao Field, founded the Eastern Emperor Hall, and destroyed the Field after becoming an Immortal Venerable.
• Xiao Yang realized his father, Xiao Wuji, had been a loyal Supreme Dao Field disciple hunted for protecting its inheritance, and he swore vengeance against the Eastern Emperor.
• As Xiao Yang turned to leave, An Miaoyu began writhing as her Inner Demon Tribulation returned.

Xiao Yang used the Great Yin-Yang Art to help An Miaoyu suppress her Inner Demon Tribulation. As Xia Wushuang’s forces seized much of Great Xia, Fuyao prepared the imperial city to resist the approaching rebellion.

• An Miaoyu begged Xiao Yang to save her from her Inner Demon Tribulation, and he agreed to guide her with the Great Yin-Yang Art.
• Xiao Yang and An Miaoyu circulated their opposing Chaos Divine Power and Ice Soul True Essence, joining their Divine Souls to overcome the tribulation.
• Urgent reports told Fuyao that Xia Wushuang’s rebellion had captured territories across Great Xia and gathered millions of troops.
• Fuyao learned that Xiao Yang was missing and that Ning Hongye could not investigate the sealed, chaotic area around Sanqing Temple.
• Fuyao ordered the Jingyang Bell rung, the city sealed, and the gates fortified, then went with Ning Hongye to defend the walls.

Xia Wushuang led a million rebels against the imperial city, overwhelming its defenders and demanding that Emperor Xia abdicate. When Xia Wushuang attacked his father, Ning Hongye intervened and challenged him, leaving their confrontation poised to begin.

• Xia Wushuang announced that his rebel army would seize the imperial city and ordered its defenders to surrender.
• Xia Wushuang sent his experts against the imperial forces, and they broke through the defenders on the battlements.
• Emperor Xia appeared and confronted Xia Wushuang, who demanded the throne and threatened to kill him.
• Xia Wushuang attacked Emperor Xia, but Ning Hongye burst through the flames and forced him back.
• Xia Wushuang boasted of his Martial God realm and offered Ning Hongye the position of Empress, but Ning Hongye scorned him and praised Xiao Yang instead.

Ning Hongye fought Xia Wushuang and defeated him in a contest of divine power, but he threatened to starve and poison the imperial city into submission. He also claimed that his master, Nine Luminaries Mister Xiao, would arrive and defeat Xiao Yang, then ordered his army to retreat and tighten the siege.

• Xia Wushuang attacked Ning Hongye with the Giant Spirit God's power, but she countered with her Red Lotus Karmic Fire and revealed she was a Martial God.
• Ning Hongye and Xia Wushuang clashed in a fierce battle, and her crimson flames eventually overwhelmed his dark-gold divine power.
• Ning Hongye's red lotus struck the Giant Spirit God's phantom, sending Xia Wushuang flying and leaving him injured.
• Xia Wushuang announced that his million-strong army had surrounded the imperial city and claimed its water sources were poisoned with Bone-Corroding Soul-Destroying Powder.
• Xia Wushuang boasted that his master, Nine Luminaries Mister Xiao, would defeat Ning Hongye and Xiao Yang when he arrived.
• Xia Wushuang ordered his army to retreat thirty miles, block every escape route, and besiege the city while cutting off its food and water.

As Xia Wushuang’s rebel armies surrounded the imperial capital and its people faced starvation and poisoned water, Princess Fuyao refused to surrender. Xiao Yang returned from Sanqing Temple, brought An Miaoyu into his plans to travel to the Eastern Profound Region, and vowed to kill Xia Wushuang if he came, but Fuyao warned that he had a mysterious master called Nine Luminaries Mister Xiao.

• Princess Fuyao rejected the ministers’ pleas to surrender and ordered the remaining food and clean water distributed to the most vulnerable people.
• At Sanqing Temple, Xiao Yang asked An Miaoyu to accompany him to the Eastern Profound Region and offered to help her settle old scores with the Yunlan Sect; she agreed.
• Xiao Yang returned to Changle Palace, where Princess Fuyao and Ning Hongye told him that Xia Wushuang had surrounded the capital and claimed to have become a first-tier Martial God.
• Xiao Yang dismissed Xia Wushuang’s strength and vowed to take his life with his own hands if he came.
• Princess Fuyao warned Xiao Yang that Xia Wushuang also claimed to have a mysterious master known as Nine Luminaries Mister Xiao.

Xiao Yang convinced Princess Fuyao and Ning Hongye to let Xia Wushuang's rebel army enter the imperial palace, assuring them he had a plan to kill him. At the rebel camp, Xia Wushuang greeted his adoptive father, Nine Luminaries Mister Xiao, then asked him to test his newly gained strength.

• Princess Fuyao warned Xiao Yang about the terrifying reputation of Nine Luminaries Mister Xiao, but Xiao Yang said he had a bloodless plan to deal with him.
• Xiao Yang told Princess Fuyao to order her people not to resist when Xia Wushuang's forces entered the palace, and she and Ning Hongye agreed to trust him.
• At the rebel camp, Xia Wushuang recovered from his injuries and reveled in his new power as a first-stage Martial God.
• Nine Luminaries Mister Xiao appeared in Xia Wushuang's tent and demanded that Xia Wushuang kneel to welcome his adoptive father.
• Xia Wushuang prostrated himself and asked Nine Luminaries Mister Xiao to assess his strength after gaining Fortune in the Kunlun Ruins.
• Nine Luminaries Mister Xiao agreed to spar with Xia Wushuang and test the power of the Giant Spirit God's legacy.

Xiao Yang overwhelmed Xia Wushuang in a brutal fight, then demanded the treasures Xia Wushuang had promised him. Xia Wushuang handed over several rare items from the Kunlun Ruins.

• Xia Wushuang awakened the Giant Spirit God’s power and attacked Xiao Yang with the Giant Spirit Moves Mountain technique.
• Xiao Yang stopped Xia Wushuang’s punch with one hand, then beat and hurled him into a mountainside.
• Xia Wushuang begged for mercy and praised Xiao Yang, while Xiao Yang blocked outsiders from seeing the fight.
• Xiao Yang asked Xia Wushuang to honor his promise, and Xia Wushuang produced Ten Thousand Year Deep Sea Mysterious Iron Essence, Spirit Returning Jade Infant Fruit, and Void Mark Jade.

Xia Wushuang offered Kunlun Ruins treasures to Xiao Yang and prepared to invade the imperial city with the Black Dragon Guards. After the gates opened without resistance, he entered the city convinced that Princess Fuyao and the court feared him.

• Xia Wushuang gave Xiao Yang his treasures and said he had heard no news of Xiao Yang while in the Kunlun Ruins.
• Xiao Yang ordered Xia Wushuang to leave his larger army outside the city and bring only his elite personal guards into the imperial palace.
• Xia Wushuang boasted that he would subdue Princess Fuyao, then revealed that Emperor Xia was not his biological father and Fuyao was not his aunt.
• Xiao Yang dismissed Xia Wushuang, who crawled away to treat his wounds and await the attack.
• The next day, Xia Wushuang and Xiao Yang approached the imperial city with three thousand Black Dragon Guards, and the gates fell open without a fight.
• Xia Wushuang led the guards into the silent city and mocked Fuyao and the officials for offering no resistance.

Xiao Yang, disguised as Nine Luminaries Mister Xiao, turned his overwhelming attack against Xia Wushuang instead of Fuyao and her defenders. His punch shattered Xia Wushuang’s divine shield and struck him in the chest, leaving the palace confrontation at its turning point.

• Xia Wushuang led his Black Dragon Guard to Xuanwu Gate, where Fuyao, Ning Hongye, court officials, and Dragon Guard Pavilion elites stood ready to resist.
• Xia Wushuang introduced the black-robed Nine Luminaries Mister Xiao as a Martial God of the Third Heaven and threatened to take Fuyao and Ning Hongye as concubines.
• Fuyao and Ning Hongye resisted Xia Wushuang’s humiliation while the pressure from Mister Xiao left the defenders unable to move.
• Xia Wushuang asked Mister Xiao to demonstrate his power, and Xiao Yang answered by unleashing a punch amplified by the All Characters Seal of the Nine Secrets.
• Xiao Yang’s punch destroyed Xia Wushuang’s bronze shield and smashed into his chest, hurling him away.

Xiao Yang revealed that he was Nine Luminaries Mister Xiao after striking down Xia Wushuang, who had believed him to be his foster father and ally. With Ning Hongye and Princess Fuyao at his side, Xiao Yang subdued the Black Dragon Guards and demanded their surrender.

• Xiao Yang struck Xia Wushuang through the palace wall, leaving him gravely wounded and bewildered that his foster father had attacked him.
• Xiao Yang removed his cloak and mask, revealing himself as Nine Luminaries Mister Xiao and shocking everyone at Xuanwu Gate.
• Xia Wushuang cursed Xiao Yang and realized he had repeatedly knelt before his greatest enemy and called him Foster Father.
• Ning Hongye and Princess Fuyao joined Xiao Yang, who said he had anticipated Xia Wushuang's plans and learned that he was illegitimate.
• Xiao Yang released the pressure of a Third-Heaven Martial God, forcing the three thousand Black Dragon Guards to their knees, and ordered them to surrender their weapons.

Xiao Yang exposed Xia Wushuang’s crimes and secrets before the court and prepared to execute him. Xia Wushuang escaped with a blood-shadow technique, but Xiao Yang sent a sword strike after him.

• The three thousand Black Dragon Guards surrendered, and Xiao Yang pinned the wounded Xia Wushuang beneath his foot.
• Xia Wushuang threatened Xiao Yang with his status as Crown Prince, but Xiao Yang revealed that he was not Emperor Xia’s son and had reincarnated eight times already.
• Xiao Yang publicly listed Xia Wushuang’s crimes, prompting Ning Hongye, the Dragon Guard Pavilion, and the court officials to call for his execution.
• Xia Wushuang used Blood Shadow Escape to break free and flee from the imperial city.
• Xiao Yang sent a Sword Light after the fleeing Xia Wushuang.

Xiao Yang shattered Xia Wushuang’s divine spark and prepared to kill him, but a powerful voice from a rift in the sky demanded that he spare its son. The Nine Nether Demon Lord appeared and revealed Xia Wushuang was one of his scattered offspring, then threatened Xiao Yang and everyone present.

• Xiao Yang’s Sword Light struck Xia Wushuang’s blood shadow and shattered the Giant Spirit God’s divine spark.
• As Xia Wushuang fell, a rift tore open the sky and an overwhelming voice ordered Xiao Yang not to harm its son.
• Xiao Yang challenged the unseen speaker, whose black Qi erupted from the rift and formed a towering demonic figure.
• The figure identified itself as the Nine Nether Demon Lord of the Eastern Profound Region and said Xia Wushuang was one of countless offspring it had scattered across the Myriad Worlds.
• The Nine Nether Demon Lord blamed Xiao Yang for ruining its plans and threatened to kill everyone present.

Xiao Yang faced the Nine Nether Demon Lord, who offered to make him his direct disciple after recognizing his Chaos God-Demon Body. Xiao Yang rejected the offer and challenged the Demon Lord, leaving the confrontation poised to escalate.

• An Miaoyu explained that the Nine Nether Demon Lord was one of the Eastern Profound Region's Ten Venerables and described the Immortal Realm's cultivation levels.
• Xia Wushuang realized the Nine Nether Demon Lord was his father and begged him to kill Xiao Yang.
• The Nine Nether Demon Lord ignored Xia Wushuang and offered Xiao Yang the status and resources of his direct disciple.
• Xiao Yang summoned the Golden Cudgel and declared that the Nine Nether Demon Lord was not worthy of taking him as a disciple.

Xiao Yang refused the Nine Nether Demon Lord and fought back when the demon lord attacked the Great Xia Dynasty. As their powers clashed above the imperial city, Ning Hongye joined the battle with divine fire that weakened the demonic energy.

• The Nine Nether Demon Lord unleashed a soul- and blood-devouring net over the Great Xia Dynasty and threatened to refine its people into a blood pill.
• Xiao Yang rebuked the panicked citizens and raised the Heavenly Emperor Cauldron to shield the imperial palace from the net.
• Xiao Yang summoned the Ten Fiends, activated the Nine Secrets, combined the powers of his Supreme Bone and Immortal Bone, and wielded Anlan's Spear and the Broken Sword against the demon lord's claw.
• Xiao Yang's strike collided with the demon lord's attack, leaving the forces locked in a destructive stalemate above the imperial city.
• Ning Hongye released a sacred fire phoenix that burned away demonic mist, surprising the Nine Nether Demon Lord.