Chapter Summaries

Wan'er, Red Plum, and Li Dingguo traveled toward Jiexiu City aboard the Great Golden Eagle, enjoying the flight before learning more about the Fan Family’s power there. Li Dingguo planned to descend directly into the Fan Family’s main residence before the city’s protection array activated and take them by surprise.

• Wan'er loaded spirit fruits and supplies onto the Great Golden Eagle while Red Plum questioned whether they needed so much food.
• Li Dingguo, Wan'er, and Red Plum flew south and southeast aboard the Great Golden Eagle, protected by its Gang Qi and Li Dingguo’s specially designed saddle array.
• The three enjoyed the high-speed flight and discussed the dangers of the skies above a thousand li.
• Li Dingguo learned from an old farmer that Jiexiu City was dominated by the Fan Family, whose members controlled many shops and city offices.
• Li Dingguo decided to fly into Jiexiu City before dusk and descend directly into the Fan Family’s main residence, then the group set off again.

Fan Ming’s attempt to investigate his missing son’s fate was interrupted when Wan’er and Red Plum raided the Fan Family’s council hall. They killed Fan Ming and Fan Maocai, while Li Dingguo and the Great Golden Eagle dealt with the Fan Family’s hidden elder and spirit eagles.

• Fan Maocai told Fan Ming that Fan Yongdou’s party had traveled south with forty thousand Mongol troops and was likely lost, possibly because of Li Dingguo’s band.
• Fan Ming considered traveling Beyond the Pass himself, but Fan Maocai urged him to ask Later Jin to destroy the suspected enemies instead.
• Wan’er and Red Plum burst into the council hall, and Red Plum’s arrows killed Fan Yupeng, Fan Yuxiao, and Fan Maocai’s two grandsons.
• Wan’er ambushed Fan Ming with her White Tiger Manifestation and giant hammers, then battered him to death.
• Wan’er joined Red Plum against Fan Maocai and helped hammer him to death.
• Li Dingguo and the Great Golden Eagle went to confront Fan Li and kill the Fan Family’s Big Black Eagle spirit birds.

Wan'er captured three Spirit Eagle chicks while Red Plum and Li Dingguo continued their assault on the Fan Family estate. Li Dingguo and the Great Golden Eagle killed the Fan Family's guardian eagles and First Elder Fan Li, as the attack on the clan continued.

• Wan'er caught three Spirit Eagle chicks and tied them to a pillar before leaving the council hall to kill Fan Family members.
• The Great Golden Eagle carried Li Dingguo to the rear courtyard, where he discovered the Fan Family's Golden Bodhi Tree.
• Li Dingguo ordered the Great Golden Eagle to attack the fourth-level Big Black Eagles while he rushed toward Fan Li.
• The Great Golden Eagle slaughtered the Big Black Eagles as Li Dingguo wounded Fan Li with his spear and disrupted him with the Mysterious Yellow Chaos Bell.
• Li Dingguo and the Great Golden Eagle surrounded Fan Li and killed him in a combined attack.

Li Dingguo and his companions wiped out the Fan Family in Jiexiu and discovered a vast underground vault filled with wealth and spiritual treasures. Unable to carry it away, they planned to use Earth Spirit Technique to hide it beneath the nearby Spirit Fruit Orchard.

• Li Dingguo ordered the Great Golden Eagle to patrol the skies and kill anyone fleeing the Fan Family estate while he hunted enemies on the ground.
• Li Dingguo, Wan'er, Red Plum, and the Great Golden Eagle slaughtered the remaining Fan Family members, then the Great Golden Eagle intercepted outsiders who entered the estate.
• Li Dingguo, Wan'er, and Red Plum explored the Fan Family's enormous vault and found mountains of gold and silver, along with chests of Soul Beads, Demon Beast Inner Cores, and spirit stones.
• Wan'er asked how they could transport the vault's treasures back to the Revival Army, and Li Dingguo explained that he could use Earth Spirit Technique to conceal them underground.
• Red Plum suggested hiding the treasures beneath the nearby Spirit Fruit Orchard, and Wan'er and Red Plum offered to help with the earth-element magic.

After finishing their cleanup of the Fan Family stronghold, Li Dingguo, Wan'er, and Red Plum gathered rare spirit plants to take back to Lake Heart Island. They prepared to leave Jiexiu City after discovering a Golden Bodhi Tree and legendary Dragon Tooth Rice seedlings.

• Li Dingguo, Wan'er, and Red Plum finished removing valuables from the Fan Family stronghold and erased their traces.
• Li Dingguo led Wan'er and Red Plum to the Fan Family's gardens to collect spirit plants and decided to transplant the Golden Bodhi Tree to Lake Heart Island.
• Li Dingguo used the Earth Spirit Technique to uproot the Golden Bodhi Tree, and the three wrapped and secured its roots for transport.
• Red Plum discovered Dragon Tooth Rice seedlings in the spirit herb garden, and Li Dingguo identified them as a legendary top-grade spirit rice.
• Li Dingguo, Wan'er, and Red Plum dug up the Dragon Tooth Rice and other rare plants, then waited for nightfall to leave Jiexiu City on Great Golden Eagle.

Li Dingguo and his companions left Jiexiu City with the Fan Family’s spirit vegetables and other spoils. Back at a military meeting, Li Dingguo prepared the Revival Army’s major plan to bring displaced people through the passes, as the Later Jin invasion drew closer.

• Wan'er, Red Plum, and Li Dingguo feasted on spirit vegetables and packed them to take back to Lake Heart Island.
• Li Dingguo and his companions gathered their supplies, then flew northwest on the Great Golden Eagle after nightfall.
• Wei Jinfan reported that the Military Intelligence Department had bribed Deshengbao Fort’s commander to open a trade route through the passes.
• Wei Jinfan outlined plans for merchant caravans and twenty Treasure Ships to bring displaced people out of the Northwest Three Provinces.
• Li Dingguo allocated more than ten million taels of silver to the population intake plan and ordered officials or troops who obstructed it to be removed by any means necessary.

Li Dingguo finalized the Revival Army’s preparations for its northern expedition, then learned that the Yijin and Huoluo tribes worshipped mysterious beings in guarded temples. He ordered Red Plum to lead the army out as planned while he and Wan'er flew ahead to investigate the temples.

• Chang Liyun accepted Li Dingguo’s order to screen refugees carefully for enemy spies.
• Red Plum reported that the army’s logistics, forces, and eighty-one sub-bases were prepared for the expedition and continued development.
• Li Dingguo ordered the northern expedition army to depart the next morning according to plan.
• Wei Jinfan reported that the Yijin and Huoluo tribes had immense temples that He Guang suspected housed Demons and Monsters.
• Li Dingguo decided to investigate both tribes with Wan'er aboard the Great Golden Eagle while Red Plum led the army north.

Li Dingguo and Wan'er traveled north on Big Gold to investigate the strange Blood Fiend Qi surrounding the Huoluo Tribe’s temple. After Big Gold sensed no immediate threat, they concealed their auras and approached the temple’s main hall.

• Wan'er told Li Dingguo that Big Fierce and Little Gold had grown rapidly on the Five-Colored Divine Tree and had reached Early Fourth Level Spirit Bird.
• Li Dingguo explained the intelligence about the Yijin Tribe and Huoluo Tribe and decided to investigate before the Revival Army’s northern expedition.
• Li Dingguo prepared Big Gold and departed with Wan'er, leaving Big Fierce and Little Gold on Lake Heart Island.
• Li Dingguo and Wan'er arrived at the Huoluo Tribe’s temple, where Blood Fiend Qi surged into the sky.
• Big Gold sensed no aura of mortal danger, and Li Dingguo, Wan'er, and Big Gold concealed their auras before Big Gold found the temple’s main hall and swooped toward it.

Li Dingguo and Wan'er confronted the remnant soul of Great Brahma in the Huoluo Tribe’s temple, destroyed it, and claimed its divine treasures. After learning the Blood-Colored Lotus Platform reacted to something near the Yijin Tribe, they hurried west to investigate a similar danger.

• Li Dingguo and Wan'er entered the Huoluo Tribe’s central temple, where the Blood-Colored Lotus Platform attacked them with a crimson beam.
• Li Dingguo used the Mysterious Yellow Chaos Bell’s avatar to destroy Great Brahma’s remnant soul while the Asura Battle Banner absorbed the blood pool’s contents.
• Li Dingguo purified the Asura Battle Banner and gave it to Wan'er, then refined the Ninth-Grade Blood-Colored Lotus Platform as his own Natal Magic Weapon.
• The lotus platform revealed that Great Brahma had controlled Huoluo Tribe leaders and used their blood sacrifices to restore his remnant soul.
• Li Dingguo sensed the lotus platform reacting toward the Yijin Tribe and took Wan'er west on the Great Golden Eagle to investigate.
• Huoluo Tribe leaders arrived at their temple and found the blood pool empty and their sacred treasure missing.

Li Dingguo and Wan'er reached the Tatar Yijin tribe's temple district, where Li Dingguo destroyed another fragment of Great Brahma's remnant soul and Wan'er strengthened her Asura Battle Banner by purifying the temple's blood pool. As thousands of Tatar soldiers formed a Military Killing Formation, they escaped on Da Jin and headed to rendezvous with their army.

• Wan'er spotted a blood-red third-grade Blood-Colored Lotus Platform fleeing the temple, and Li Dingguo recognized it as carrying another fragment of Great Brahma's remnant soul.
• Da Jin caught the lotus platform, and Li Dingguo trapped and destroyed its remnant soul inside the Human Emperor Cauldron using Innate Spirit Fire and his Martial Dao Avatar's sonic attack.
• Li Dingguo and Wan'er entered the main temple hall, where Wan'er absorbed the bloodwater in its pool into her Asura Battle Banner and Li Dingguo purified the banner in the Human Emperor Cauldron.
• Da Jin slaughtered Tatars around the temple to keep them away while Li Dingguo and Wan'er completed the purification, but thousands of soldiers gathered and began forming a Military Killing Formation.
• Li Dingguo called Da Jin back, and he and Wan'er flew southeast across the Great Salt Lake to rendezvous with their army.

Li Dingguo learned that Huang Taiji planned to buy more than a million Demon Cores from Portuguese traders at Jiaozhou Bay, strengthening Later Jin’s naval and siege forces. He left the northern expedition in Red Plum’s hands and flew south with the Great Golden Eagle to sabotage the deal.

• Wan'er reported that she and Li Dingguo had eliminated hidden threats in the Yijin and Huoluo tribes.
• Wei Jinfan told Li Dingguo that the Later Jin Tartars and Portuguese traders planned to exchange more than a million Demon Cores at Lingshan Guard in Jiaozhou Bay.
• Li Dingguo decided the transaction had to be stopped and entrusted the northern expedition to Red Plum, assisted by Wan'er, Wei Jinfan, Chang Liyun, and Cao Yongxiang.
• Li Dingguo ordered the others to claim he was cultivating in seclusion on Lake Heart Island and to keep its circumstances secret.
• Li Dingguo mounted the Great Golden Eagle and flew south to prepare to disrupt the transaction.

Li Dingguo repaired the Blood-Colored Lotus Platform into a top-grade Innate Divine Artifact, then set out with Da Jin for Jiaozhou Bay. Along the way, the devastation across the Great Ming hardened his resolve to punish the elites he blamed, and he continued toward the coast to prepare for the White Barbarians' fleet.

• Li Dingguo spent twenty Fortune Value to repair the broken lotus platforms, restoring the Twelve-Grade Karmic Fire Red Lotus and lifting its first seal.
• Li Dingguo packed supplies, instructed Da Jin to fly to Jiaozhou Bay, and departed Lake Heart Island.
• After six days and nights of travel, Li Dingguo reached Li Mountain near Jinan Prefecture and was shaken by the starving refugees and widespread ruin he had witnessed.
• Li Dingguo vowed to hold the upper-class elites responsible for the suffering accountable when he marched south with the Revival Army.
• Li Dingguo urged Da Jin to hurry toward Jiaozhou Bay, hoping to arrive before the White Barbarians' fleet and prepare to confront them.

Li Dingguo reached Lingshan Island while investigating a planned trade between the Later Jin barbarians and the White Barbarians, and rescued Liang Liping and Little Stone from Jia Zhisong’s men. Liang Liping revealed that the pirates controlling the island were backed by the powerful Ye Family, leaving Li Dingguo facing a politically connected force as he pursued the trade.

• Liang Liping and Little Stone gathered shellfish on Lingshan Island while Ringworm Head demanded that Liang Liping be taken to Young Master Jia.
• Little Stone refused, and Ringworm Head ordered Lai Youlu and Meng Jian to seize Liang Liping.
• Li Dingguo appeared and killed Ringworm Head, Lai Youlu, and Meng Jian with his spear.
• Liang Liping and Little Stone thanked Li Dingguo, who asked about the force occupying the island and its harbor.
• Liang Liping explained that Jia Shuisheng’s pirate force was backed by the Fuqing Ye Family of Ye Xianggao.
• Li Dingguo listened to Liang Liping’s account with a solemn expression and killing intent.

Li Dingguo hid near Lingshan Island’s harbor and watched the Jia Family’s pirate fleet welcome Ye Family guests and a powerful White Barbarian fleet. Seeing their ships and weapons revealed how far the Revival Army lagged behind, leaving Li Dingguo resolved to adapt his plans while waiting for a chance to disrupt the coming transaction.

• Liang Liping warned Li Dingguo that the Jia Family and its Ye Family patrons had formidable forces, but he told her and Little Stone to hide while he prepared to destroy the pirate base.
• Li Dingguo buried the three men he had killed, then hid on a cliff overlooking the harbor and waited for the enemy fleets.
• A fleet carrying more than ten Jia Family Treasure Ships docked, and Li Dingguo realized the Ye Family’s resources greatly exceeded his expectations.
• Ye Family guests arrived at the pirate fortress, while Li Dingguo stayed hidden as pirates searched unsuccessfully for Ringworm Head and the two Household Guards.
• At night, a White Barbarian fleet entered the harbor with a Supreme-Grade Treasure Ship, six High-Grade Treasure Ships, and more than twenty Mid-Grade Treasure Ships, astounding Li Dingguo.

Li Dingguo and the Great Golden Eagle launched a surprise night raid on the fleets gathered at Lingshan Island, exploiting the enemy’s lack of preparation to seize their ships. After wiping out the crews aboard the Treasure Ships, they moved to take control of the Great Wharf before the enemy’s main forces could respond.

• Li Dingguo waited for the White Barbarian and Later Jin Tartar fleets to gather at the Great Wharf while the leaders and most Qi Refining Realm experts went to a banquet.
• Li Dingguo ordered the Great Golden Eagle to attack the Treasure Ships while he killed the soldiers at close range and used his Mysterious Yellow Chaos Bell against the enemy ranks.
• Li Dingguo and the Great Golden Eagle killed the crews aboard the Peak-Grade, High-Grade, and Mid-Grade Treasure Ships before the enemy could activate their formation barriers.
• The Great Golden Eagle killed the two Fourth Layer commanders who tried to organize a counterattack, and Li Dingguo and the eagle cleared every Treasure Ship of its crew.
• Li Dingguo and the Great Golden Eagle attacked the Great Wharf, aiming to secure it before the enemy’s main forces could leave the fortress and counterattack.

Ye Guodong hosted Nasri and Yuetuo as the Ye Family arranged to trade wine and other gifts for Arabian Demonic Dragon Horses, but a sudden attack disrupted the gathering. The commanders rushed to the grand dock after learning that one man and one eagle had nearly wiped out its defenders and the crews aboard their ships.

• Ye Guodong offered Nasri and Yuetuo thousands of jars of Autumn Dew White while pursuing a deal for Arabian Demonic Dragon Horses for the Ye Family.
• Nasri and Yuetuo offered gifts for Ye Guodong and his family, including horse foals and a Thousand-Year Blood Ginseng for Ye Xianggao.
• Yuetuo sensed an attack at the grand dock and accused Jia Shuisheng of arranging it, but Jia denied knowing anything.
• A Ye Family guard captain reported that one man and one eagle had killed the Treasure Ship crews and nearly all the dock guards.
• Ye Guodong, Nasri, Yuetuo, Geng Zhongming, and Geng Jingzhong hurried to the grand dock, fearing the attackers might seize or destroy their fleets.

Li Dingguo and the Great Golden Eagle restored their strength with precious pills before attacking the enemy commanders gathered at Lingshan Island’s great dock. Dajin killed Nasri and other White Barbarian experts, while the surviving commanders fled, leaving Li Dingguo guarding the treasure ships as the enemy scattered.

• Li Dingguo and the Great Golden Eagle took Qi Recovery Pills and recovered to peak condition as enemy commanders and soldiers rushed toward the great dock.
• Li Dingguo ordered Dajin to target the Qi Refining Realm experts while he guarded the treasure ships at the dock.
• Dajin killed Nasri and several White Barbarian Qi Refining Realm experts, then turned toward Geng Zhongming and Geng Jingzhong.
• Geng Jingzhong fled, and Geng Zhongming followed him, taking his son around the dock and escaping into the sea.
• Ye Guodong threw Jia Shuisheng at Dajin, then fled with the Ye family Martial Artists toward the shore.
• Yuetuo led his remaining elite Tartar soldiers away from the dock as the enemy forces scattered.

After the enemy leaders fled, Li Dingguo and the Great Golden Eagle finished hunting down the remaining Martial Artists on Lingshan Island. Li Dingguo then entered the Jia Family estate, recruited the servants to expose hidden enemies, and set out to find Jia Zhisong.

• The fleeing pirate, Tartar, and White Barbarian forces plunged into the sea, while Li Dingguo ordered the Great Golden Eagle to kill every enemy Martial Artist remaining on the island.
• The Great Golden Eagle hunted down and killed hundreds of Martial Artists, while Li Dingguo killed intruders who tried to steal the Treasure Ships.
• Li Dingguo entered the fortress town and questioned the Jia Family servants, killing those they identified as habitual abusers and loyal accomplices.
• A maid told Li Dingguo that Jia Zhisong was hiding in a secret chamber, while other servants revealed a tunnel, the treasure vault, and Jia Zhilin's escape route.
• Li Dingguo promised rewards and work to the servants, then followed the maid to find Jia Zhisong and kill him.

After clearing Lingshan Island of the Jia lineage and other enemies, Li Dingguo decided to establish the Revival Army there as a naval base. He recruited the island’s civilians and organized them into a new force, leaving the army poised to grow and defend its captured ships and supplies.

• Li Dingguo used Wei Ying’s clues to find and kill Jia Zhisong, other Jia lineage survivors, and the island’s remaining hostile forces.
• Li Dingguo brought Liang Liping and Little Stone back to the Jia residence and invited them and Wei Ying to join him.
• Li Dingguo named his new force the Revival Army, appointed Wei Ying and Liang Liping to lead teams, and ordered them to recruit people, clear the city, and record its supplies.
• Wei Ying, Liang Liping, and Little Stone organized the Jia residence’s survivors, buried the dead, and began recruiting civilians across Lingshan City.
• Li Dingguo offered recruits meals, wages, and martial cultivation, drawing nearly all the city’s civilians into the Revival Army.
• Li Dingguo formed the Logistics Camp and Artisan Camp and began arranging the new army’s development on Lingshan Island.

After inspecting the captured treasure ships, Li Dingguo discovered enormous stores of supplies and Demon Cores that could strengthen the Revival Army and secure Lingshan Island. He began organizing martial training and preparations to turn the island into a fortified naval base for future expansion.

• Li Dingguo tamed three Arabian Demonic Dragon Horse foals and promised Little Stone one if he became a Martial Artist within seven days.
• Li Dingguo planned to train two hundred promising recruits in martial arts and provide cultivation resources, including pills refined from the captured Spirit Medicine.
• Li Dingguo ordered Wei Ying to arrange guards for the treasure ships and barred others from boarding them.
• Li Dingguo inspected the captured ships and found supplies worth more than everything the Revival Army had acquired since its founding.
• Li Dingguo discovered roughly three million Demon Cores and planned to use them, along with upgraded ship weapons and formations, to defend Lingshan Island and build a powerful navy.