Chapter Summaries

Li Hai arrived at Ice Palace, where Xue Feihong had prepared a wedding and planned to make him her groom. He asked to see Feifei, and Xue Feihong led him to her after she had reached the Grandmaster realm.

• Li Hai traveled toward the Central Lands while preparing to create cultivation techniques for every martial path.
• Xue Feihong told her father, Xue Cangqiong, that she intended to marry Li Hai as his bridegroom, and Xue Cangqiong gave up arguing with her.
• Xue Feihong ordered Ice Palace decorated in red for a wedding feast.
• Li Hai arrived at Ice Palace and dodged Xue Feihong's attempt to embrace him as the disciples called him their groom.
• Li Hai asked Xue Feihong to take him to Feifei, and she led him to Feifei, who had advanced to the Grandmaster realm.

Li Hai killed Feifei after concluding that she might have been deceiving him, then followed Xue Feihong to meet her father, Xue Cangqiong. The chapter ended with Li Hai inspecting Xue Cangqiong’s strength and dismissing his cultivation technique as inferior to his own.

• Li Hai struck Feifei dead in the Ice Palace, where no feline creature could help her resurrect.
• Li Hai resolved to trust his own judgment and act only for his own exhilaration, regardless of whether his choices seemed good or evil.
• Xue Feihong questioned Li Hai for killing Feifei, then led him toward her father while Li Hai ignored her attempts to talk.
• Li Hai told Xue Feihong he had brought her father an exciting gift and entered the great hall ahead of her.
• Xue Cangqiong assessed Li Hai’s age, cultivation, and talent, while Li Hai inspected his abilities and judged his Overlord Azure Winter Divine Path inferior to his own technique.

Li Hai explained the power of an Eternal Overlord and then created six Overlord Rank cultivation methods, breaking through to become a Martial Arts Myth at eighteen. Xue Cangqiong celebrated the breakthrough and assumed Li Hai would help the Ice Palace conquer the Hero Alliance, while Han Qinghong, Zhuang Xuanggan, and Xue Feihong watched in shock.

• Li Hai described how an Eternal Overlord could form an Overlord Domain and amplify attacks with vital essence.
• Xue Feihong told Li Hai to pay respects to Xue Cangqiong and present his first-meeting gift, while Han Qinghong and Zhuang Xuanggan watched.
• Li Hai began creating Overlord cultivation methods in the great hall and developed six arts from his existing techniques.
• Li Hai’s cultivation, physique, strength, and spiritual consciousness surged as he broke through to become a Martial Arts Myth.
• Xue Cangqiong celebrated Li Hai’s breakthrough and called him an excellent son-in-law, while Han Qinghong, Zhuang Xuanggan, and Xue Feihong reacted with shock.

After breaking through to become a Martial Arts Myth, Li Hai brutally killed Xue Feihong and overwhelmed Xue Cangqiong, unleashing devastation across Snow God Mountain. The chapter ended with Li Hai tearing Xue Cangqiong’s head and spine from his body.

• Li Hai revealed that he had become a Martial Arts Myth, then killed Xue Feihong by ripping off her head and spine.
• Xue Cangqiong raged over Xue Feihong’s death and unleashed a blizzard that froze the Ice Palace and its inhabitants.
• Li Hai’s blazing power replaced the extreme cold, melting Snow God Mountain’s summit and sending destructive torrents down its slopes.
• Li Hai crushed Xue Cangqiong’s Overlord Domain and pinned him beneath his foot, explaining that his strength far surpassed other Human-ranked Overlords.
• Li Hai mocked Xue Cangqiong for complaining about unfairness, then tore off his head and spine.

Li Hai confirmed that Feifei was actually Anping Play and confronted her about the clues linking her to Granny Zan and the scheme around him. Anping Play admitted there had never been a separate Feifei and Granny Zan, leaving Li Hai facing the true schemer.

• Li Hai completely killed Xue Cangqiong, destroyed the Ice Palace, and raised his Stronger Fragments total to forty-six.
• After the battlefield cleared, Feifei appeared before Li Hai as a ghost and asked why he had killed her.
• Li Hai called her Anping Play and explained that Feifei’s immunity to his charm had first made him suspicious.
• Li Hai recalled Feifei’s unexplained connection to Granny Zan, the missing soul, and other clues that suggested a hidden game.
• Anping Play praised Li Hai’s deductions, then declared that there had never been an “us”—only her.

Anping Play explained that Feifei and Granny Zan were personality masks created from sub-personalities placed in other people, and admitted he had used them to test Li Hai. He asked Li Hai to choose whether to become his friend or enemy.

• Li Hai asked whether Feifei and Granny Zan were Anping Play's Avatars, and Anping Play explained that they were personality masks made from sub-personalities placed in other people's minds.
• Anping Play revealed that Granny Zan had become a mask while she was a slave, and described Feifei's experiments, resurrection, and eventual arrival at Cat King Temple.
• Li Hai accused Anping Play of using the women as tools, and Anping Play insisted that their lives and bond had been real before admitting they were meant to test him.
• Anping Play told Li Hai that his compassion made him predictable and said he had hoped to make him useful.
• Anping Play asked Li Hai whether he would become his friend or enemy, warning that choosing enmity would bring him many dangerous foes.

Li Hai rejected Anping Play’s offer to join the Nameless One Organization and resolved to strike at its infiltrated sects before going to Sword Emperor Mansion. After arriving in a town, he found its people terrified of him and silently let a child attack, knowing that showing kindness could get the boy killed.

• Li Hai refused Anping Play’s offer, and Anping Play vanished after declaring they would go to war.
• Li Hai stored Xue Cangqiong’s head and spine in the Guiyou Grotto-Heaven, then left Snow God Mountain intending to destroy Mechanism Tower and Pure Yang Temple.
• Li Hai reflected that he would follow his own conscience and use decisive force against Black Son of Heaven’s schemes.
• The townspeople fled when Li Hai appeared, and he blamed Anping Play for spreading frightening stories about him before eating at an unattended stall.
• A young boy called Flying Dragon Hero attacked Li Hai with a wooden sword carrying Poison Intent, but the sword passed through him.
• Li Hai ignored the crying boy because he believed that showing kindness would cause Anping Play to have the child killed.

Li Hai left the market town and traveled to the Gobi Desert, where he attacked the Nameless One Organization’s Mechanism Tower by creating a gigantic bone sphere that crashed into the ground. The impact shook the mechanical city and covered it in dust, while its guards struggled to understand what had happened.

• Li Hai left the crying child behind, and a middle-aged woman arrived and remarked that he had changed and was opposing her.
• Li Hai spotted the Mechanism Tower crossing the Gobi Desert and decided to destroy the mechanical city despite admiring its craftsmanship.
• Li Hai flew high into the sky, activated Steel Thorn Bone Spikes, and formed a massive bone sphere that crashed into the earth.
• The impact caused a powerful earthquake and dust storm that shook the Mechanism Tower and covered its dome and craftsmen in dust.
• The bald captain inspected the distant bone sphere, received orders to report to his superiors, and froze when he looked at the sphere again.

Li Hai used the Martial Dao Gundam to destroy Mechanism Tower and kill its defenders. He found two valuable manuals and planned to forge Xue Cangqiong’s skull and spine into a divine weapon to replace his inadequate steel whips.

• Li Hai emerged from the pale shell as the colossal Martial Dao Gundam and advanced toward Mechanism Tower.
• Mechanism Tower’s defenses bombarded the Gundam, but Li Hai endured the attacks and reached the city.
• The Gundam’s lightning beams killed the city’s three Peak Legend defenders.
• Li Hai seized Mechanism Tower with the Gundam and smashed it apart with a knee strike, annihilating the city and its inhabitants.
• Li Hai found the Artifact Crafting and Divine Refinement Manual and the True Mystic Divine Craft Scroll among the ruins.
• Li Hai decided to use the True Mystic Divine Craft Scroll to forge Xue Cangqiong’s skull and spine into a divine weapon.

Li Hai studied the True Mystic Divine Craft Scroll and learned the principles and levels of divine armament forging. After gathering the tools and materials he needed, he forged Xue Cangqiong’s skull and spine into the Sky Spine Hammer, leaving the weapon ready for future use.

• Li Hai learned that divine armaments were created by combining technology and sorcery, and that mystic patterns drew on the vital essence of heaven and earth.
• Li Hai studied the four proposed levels of mystic-pattern engraving, from outer carving and absolute carving to the speculative minute-carved and void-carved levels.
• Li Hai decided to forge Xue Cangqiong’s skull and spine to the absolute-carved level.
• Li Hai searched the area around the destroyed Mechanism Tower and recovered the tools and supplementary materials needed for forging.
• Li Hai spent several hours forging Xue Cangqiong’s head and spine into the blue-and-red Sky Spine Hammer, enhancing its durability and flexibility while preserving its ability to extend and shorten.

Li Hai extracted a Giant God Unit from ancient remains and fused it with the bandit leader Yan Wangye, testing whether killing a newly created Overlord-Rank Gu Immortal would yield a Stronger Fragment. Yan Wangye became a powerful half-human, half-insect Titan Heavenly King, and Li Hai’s experiment was poised to continue.

• Li Hai examined the Firmament Whip Hammer’s immense reach and power, then sensed a band of bloodstained desert bandits approaching.
• Li Hai immobilized the bandits in midair and brought out a crystal containing a Gu Immortal’s remains to test his fragment-farming idea.
• Li Hai failed to extract the immortal seed 362 times before succeeding on his 363rd attempt, revealing a Giant God Unit.
• Li Hai sent the other bandits to North Forest Garden within the Guiyou Grotto-Heaven and fused the Giant God Unit with Yan Wangye.
• Yan Wangye rose as a half-human, half-insect Titan Heavenly King and laughed as he felt his new powers.

Li Hai tested whether defeating users of the Giant God Unit would earn him Stronger Fragments, but neither of his trials succeeded. He abandoned that approach and began considering using the Transformation Technique to create strong people.

• Yan Wangye used his Giant God Unit’s power to destroy a mountain and attacked Li Hai with a gravity sphere.
• Li Hai absorbed Yan Wangye’s gravity sphere into the Guiyou Grotto-Heaven and sent it back before killing Yan Wangye with Heaven-Rending Sword Qi.
• Li Hai found that killing Yan Wangye had earned him no Stronger Fragments and began a second experiment with another bandit fused to a Giant God Unit.
• Li Hai let Test Subject No. 2 rampage in North Forest Garden for half an hour, then brought him outside and killed him with the Little Li Flying Dagger.
• Li Hai again received no Stronger Fragments, abandoned farming them with the Giant God Unit, and considered creating strong people with the Transformation Technique.

Li Hai discovered that the system would not reward him with fragments for creating and killing artificially strengthened fighters, then set out to investigate Pure Yang Temple. After hearing how the temple’s Taoists had made an old woodcutter’s wife disappear and crippled him, Li Hai resolved to go there and clean it out.

• Li Hai upgraded the Transformation Technique to Overlord level with a fragment and used it to raise a bandit to Overlord Rank, then killed him but received no fragments.
• Li Hai’s interface warned that manufacturing or strengthening fighters before killing them counted as cheating and would not produce Stronger Fragments.
• Li Hai decided to stop using that method to farm fragments and chose to visit Pure Yang Temple before going to Sword Emperor Mansion.
• Li Hai asked an old woodcutter for directions to Pure Yang Temple, and the man recounted how his wife had vanished there and the Taoists had beaten and crippled him.
• Li Hai concluded that Pure Yang Temple harbored evil and said he would go there to sweep it clean.

Beneath Pure Yang Temple, Daoists secretly crafted ritual artifacts from children’s remains while boasting about murdering villagers. The entire sect was annihilated when a giant blood-red skull crashed down from the sky.

• Daoist Jingfeng asked Daoist Wuzhen for child skulls to refine a ritual artifact, and Wuzhen directed him to Daoist Jiachen’s supply.
• Jingfeng described how he had murdered villagers and pregnant women to obtain mother-and-child grudge remains, and Wuzhen praised his methods.
• The Daoists ended their shift, clocked out, and emerged from the underground chambers as a blood-red object approached Pure Yang Temple.
• Jingfeng and Wuzhen realized the approaching object was a giant bloody skull, but they could do nothing to stop it.
• The skull smashed Pure Yang Temple and its underground palace, killing every Daoist and destroying the entire sect.

Li Hai destroyed Pure Yang Temple after discovering it was an evil artifact workshop supplying the Nameless One Organization, then learned from the old woodcutter that Sword Emperor Mansion might refer to the distant Sword Imperial Dynasty. The chapter ended with the woodcutter admitting he wanted to die, while Li Hai remained with him.

• Li Hai obliterated Pure Yang Temple and told the old woodcutter that its Daoists were all dead.
• The old woodcutter thanked Li Hai for avenging Little Cui, who had vanished after Pure Yang Temple imprisoned her.
• Li Hai said the temple's underground palace had been an abandoned prison with no one inside.
• The old woodcutter told Li Hai that he knew of the Sword Imperial Dynasty, located about twenty thousand li southeast, but had never heard of Sword Emperor Mansion.
• The old woodcutter refused Li Hai's offer to take him home and said he wanted to visit the ruins to mourn Little Cui.
• The old woodcutter admitted that he wanted to die, and Li Hai recognized his intent.

Li Hai learned about the Sword Imperial Dynasty from Old Hu and heard that its emperor had ruled for a thousand years while abusing conscripted women. When bandits kidnapped Old Hu’s wife, Li Hai used his spiritual power to bring her and the bandits back to the village.

• Li Hai gave the old woodcutter beef and wine, then flew southeast toward the Sword Imperial Dynasty.
• Li Hai paid Old Hu a gold leaf to learn about the dynasty, its long-lived emperor, and the emperor’s cruel treatment of his concubines.
• A villager told Old Hu that mountain bandits had kidnapped his wife and demanded fifteen pairs of cloth shoes and fifty steamed buns as ransom.
• Old Hu decided to exchange Li Hai’s gold leaf for ransom, but Li Hai offered to rescue his wife instead.
• Li Hai located the bandits and Old Hu’s wife more than twenty li away, then lifted them into the air and brought them back to the village.

Li Hai learned that the Sword Imperial Dynasty persecuted disaster survivors and burdened commoners with countless taxes, driving many to flee or rebel. Outraged by the emperor’s cruelty, Li Hai declared that the emperor had to die.

• Li Hai questioned the bandits after they and Old Hu’s wife knelt before him, and the bandit leader explained that they had fled their village after an earthquake and punitive taxes.
• Old Hu explained that the court blamed disasters on local people, provided no relief, and killed survivors who could not pay taxes.
• Old Hu and the old man described how survivors became rebels, but the immortal emperor repeatedly crushed their uprisings.
• Li Hai learned that countless bizarre taxes had forced Old Hu’s family to sell many of their children.
• Li Hai grew furious and declared that the emperor had to die.

Li Hai refused to shelter the disaster victims in his Grotto-Heaven but promised to overthrow the Sword Imperial Dynasty’s emperor and replace him. He reached the capital and confronted Emperor Wu Tianshi, who recognized him as a newly emerged Martial Arts Myth.

• Li Hai declined to take in the disaster victims or the villagers, but offered to send them beyond the border; the villagers and victims begged him to help them escape.
• Li Hai said he would go to the capital, replace the emperor, and abolish the oppressive laws, then asked Old Hu for directions and requested a large meal for his return.
• Old Hu directed Li Hai north, and Li Hai flew toward the capital as the villagers and disaster victims watched.
• In the imperial palace, Wu Tianshi held a cruel archery game in which a consort’s nine clans faced execution if she was struck, and punished the consort who turned her bow on him.
• Wu Tianshi sensed Li Hai arriving above the palace and greeted him as a new Martial Arts Myth; Li Hai mocked him for ruling as emperor for a thousand years.

Li Hai exposed Wu Tianshi as the Black Son of Heaven and killed him with a single flying dagger despite his powerful attacks and resurrection ability. Li Hai froze the surrounding region to prevent Wu Tianshi from reviving, but a tiny flame remained alive eight hundred miles away.

• Li Hai called Wu Tianshi the Black Son of Heaven and revealed what he knew about the Mysterious Principle Memory Nest Book and Wu Tianshi's true body.
• Wu Tianshi unleashed the Heaven-Burial Sword Prison Map, blazing fireballs, and his Bright Star Qilin Phoenix form against Li Hai.
• Li Hai learned Wu Tianshi's techniques and abilities, then killed him with a single Little Li Flying Dagger.
• Li Hai unleashed his Overlord Field and froze the area within a thousand miles to stop Wu Tianshi from resurrecting through fire.
• A tiny dark-red flame continued struggling to burn beneath a stove eight hundred miles away.

Li Hai killed Wu Tianshi and destroyed a vast toad swarm before confronting Lu Qixing, an avatar of the Black Son of Heaven. He slew Lu Qixing instantly, leaving a poisoned swamp where the giant toad had fallen.

• Wu Tianshi's flame went out, adding two Stronger Fragments to Li Hai's total and confirming his death despite Resurrection.
• Li Hai withdrew his Overlord Field, unleashing violent storms, then shattered the hurricanes, terrain, and millions of attacking giant toads with a two-finger sword slash.
• Li Hai spotted a hundred-kilometer-tall poisonous toad crawling ashore and identified it as Lu Qixing, an avatar of the Black Son of Heaven.
• Lu Qixing confirmed he was the Black Son of Heaven's avatar and claimed to be a hegemon of Ancient Continent.
• Li Hai's Little Li Flying Dagger struck Lu Qixing between the eyes, killing him and dissolving his body and accompanying toads into toxic sludge.