Chapter Summaries

Li Dingguo’s Revival Army ambushed and destroyed Prince Dai’s fleet at Wubao Bay, then began turning Wubao into a fortified river hub. The chapter leaves the army preparing to expand its territory before the Great Ming and Later Jin forces could strike, as Red Plum and Cao Yongxiang planned the Western Legion’s next offensive.

• Wei Yourong and Wu Shuqiang brought Prince Dai’s fleet to Wubao Bay to trade with the Mo Family and underestimated the danger posed by the crowded port.
• Li Dingguo used the Mysterious Yellow Chaos Bell and a Military Killing Formation to kill Wei Yourong, Wu Shuqiang, and nearly all of Prince Dai’s guards, while the Revival Army captured the fleet’s ships.
• Li Dingguo’s forces seized Wubao, began building artillery forts and rebuilding the city, and planned to attack Shangping Pass next.
• Li Dingguo assessed the Revival Army’s limited time to expand before the Great Ming and Later Jin launched their campaigns, and resolved to secure the Yellow River passes and conquer Qin Territory.
• Red Plum told Cao Yongxiang that the Western Legion had captured all of Yansui Town and that the Fire Phoenix Legion and Taotie Legion would be formed to garrison its territory.
• Red Plum and Cao Yongxiang prepared to launch the Western Legion’s next offensive beyond Yansui Town before the government army’s counterattack arrived.

Cao Yongxiang and Red Plum prepared to split the Western Army’s forces while Li Dingguo confronted a shortage of cultivation resources and left to seize the Wang Family’s spirit gardens in the Qinling Mountains. Meanwhile, Kang Siding reunited with Kang Asheng and Kang Younian, and the three set out to hunt Li Dingguo and steal his treasure.

• Cao Yongxiang and Red Plum agreed to divide the Western Army and continue their campaign in separate routes before joining forces in the Qingjian River basin.
• Li Dingguo realized the Revival Army could not support more Combat Soldiers without new sources of cultivation resources, so he decided to seize the Wang Family’s ancient spirit plant gardens and subdue a flock of Seven-Colored Peacocks.
• Li Dingguo informed Cao Yongxiang, Little Bean Sprout, and Red Plum that he would leave the army temporarily, then flew south on the Great Golden Eagle toward the Qinling Mountains.
• Kang Asheng and Kang Younian escaped Yansui Town and reunited with Kang Siding, bringing him news of Li Dingguo’s movements.
• Kang Siding agreed with Kang Younian’s plan to monitor and ambush Li Dingguo, hoping to seize his Natal Innate Divine Artifact, and the three flew toward the Yellow River on their Great Goshawks.

Kang Siding led two allies and two Fifth-Tier Peak Great Goshawks in a planned ambush on Li Dingguo to seize his Natal Divine Artifact. Li Dingguo turned the attack around with the Mysterious Yellow Chaos Bell and Human Emperor Cauldron, capturing four attackers and leaving Kang Siding trapped in the sky as he and Big Gold moved to kill him.

• Kang Siding sent the two Great Goshawks after Li Dingguo, promising them Phoenix Blood Fruits if they killed him and his Great Golden Eagle.
• The Great Golden Eagle warned Li Dingguo that two Great Goshawks and three Fifth-Tier Masters were closing in, and Li Dingguo summoned the Mysterious Yellow Chaos Bell to block their surprise attack.
• Kang Siding recognized Li Dingguo's Natal Divine Artifact and revealed that he wanted to seize it.
• Li Dingguo used the bell's divine ability to immobilize the attackers, then sent the Human Emperor Cauldron to capture Kang Siding's two allies and two Great Goshawks.
• Kang Siding's Treasure Gathering Basin protected him from the cauldron, but Li Dingguo and Big Gold surrounded him while the Mysterious Yellow Chaos Bell continued attacking.

Li Dingguo killed Kang Siding, purified the Treasure Gathering Basin, and discovered that his Human Emperor Cauldron could force captured spirit beasts into service. The newly bound Great Goshawks revealed a rare Phoenix Blood Fruit Tree in the Kang Family’s spirit land, whose fruits could transform Li Dingguo and strengthen the Revival Army.

• Li Dingguo rejected Kang Siding’s offer, destroyed him with the Mysterious Yellow Chaos Bell, and stored the Treasure Gathering Basin in the Human Emperor Cauldron.
• Li Dingguo purified the basin, uncovering and eliminating a hidden remnant soul, then interrogated Kang Asheng and Kang Younian for secrets about the Kang Family and its origins.
• The Human Emperor Cauldron awakened a power that bound two captured Great Goshawks to Li Dingguo as servants.
• The Great Goshawks told Li Dingguo that the Kang Family possessed a spirit land in Mount Beimang containing a Phoenix Blood Fruit Tree with nine fruits due to ripen within three months.
• Li Dingguo realized the Phoenix Blood Fruits could greatly improve his cultivation and aptitude, potentially helping him face Later Jin’s strongest fighters and strengthen the Revival Army.

Li Dingguo found the Wang Family’s hidden spirit land in the Qinling Mountains and led three Fifth-Tier Peak Spirit Birds through its ancient formation. He launched a surprise assault on the Wang Family town to seize the valley and eliminate its defenders.

• Li Dingguo rode Big Gold past Tong Pass and instructed it to search the Qinling Mountains for the Wang Family’s concealed spirit plant gardens.
• Big Gold found a hidden mountain road, and Li Dingguo identified an ancient Five Elements Guardian Great Array concealing a Wang Family stronghold.
• Li Dingguo summoned Big Green and Little Green, then opened a gate through the formation and entered with all three birds.
• Li Dingguo surveyed the vast valley’s Spirit Fields and orchards, recognizing the resources that could support the Revival Army’s expansion.
• Li Dingguo and the three Fifth-Tier Peak Spirit Birds charged toward the Wang Family town to attack before its defenders could organize.

Li Dingguo annihilated the Wang Family in its great spirit land, secured its resources, and reinforced the site with powerful arrays. He then investigated the Seven-Colored Peacock clan, discovered its leaders were Sixth-Tier Spirit Birds, and fled with Big Gold, Big Green, and Little Green.

• Li Dingguo and three Fifth-Tier Peak Spirit Birds attacked the Wang Family’s great spirit land and slaughtered its members.
• Li Dingguo killed the Wang Family’s Third Elder and the Second Young Master of the Third Branch with the Mysterious Yellow Chaos Bell, then exterminated the remaining enemies.
• Li Dingguo burned the corpses, installed two third-grade supreme arrays, and collected the spirit herbs, Spirit Rice, and other resources into his great cauldron.
• Li Dingguo set out with Big Gold, Big Green, and Little Green to investigate the Seven-Colored Peacock clan in the Qinling Mountains.
• Li Dingguo discovered that two Sixth-Tier Peacock Kings led the clan and ordered the group to flee before they could be attacked.

Li Dingguo returned to the Revival Army fleet and ordered an assault on Suide Prefecture, whose defenses were overwhelmed by the army’s cannons. The Vermilion Bird Camp swept into the city while the Black Tortoise Camp moved to seize its docks and ships.

• Li Dingguo returned aboard the Great Golden Eagle with two Great Goshawks and received He Guang’s report on Suide Prefecture’s defenses.
• Li Dingguo ordered the fleet to destroy the City Protection Array, the Vermilion Bird Legion to storm the East City gate, and the Black Tortoise Camp to seize the docks and ships.
• The fleet formed an attack line and fired more than two hundred Spirit Energy Cannons, shattering Suide Prefecture’s City Protection Array.
• The fleet fired again and destroyed the defenders’ Spirit Energy Cannons and Spirit Crossbow Carts on the eastern wall.
• Wu Hong'ai ordered the Vermilion Bird Camp to attack as the Black Tortoise Camp split into fleets to seize the docks and Treasure Ships.
• The Vermilion Bird Camp’s eighteen Military Killing Formations crossed into the city and routed the disorganized defenders.

Li Dingguo and He Guang attacked the Wei Family compound to eliminate Suide Prefecture City’s strongest local force. After the Wei Family was exterminated, the Revival Army finished sweeping the city and took control of Suide Prefecture.

• Li Dingguo spotted a Fifth-Tier Late Stage Wei Family guardian leading the family’s core members toward a secret escape route.
• Li Dingguo used the Mysterious Yellow Chaos Bell to kill the fleeing Wei Family members and defeat the guardian, who had burned his Natal Essence Blood.
• He Guang and the three Fifth-Tier Peak Spirit Birds killed the Wei Family’s Grand Elder and exterminated the family throughout its compound.
• Li Dingguo joined the attack, and the Revival Army eliminated every enemy in the Wei Family residence.
• The Revival Army completed its sweep of Suide Prefecture City, which officially fell under its control.

Cao Yongxiang and Red Plum captured Mizhi City and discussed the Revival Army’s plans to secure northern Qin Territory before Huang Taiji’s invasion, which they believed would target the Revival Army. Meanwhile, Wang Dengku scrambled to fulfill his deal with Huang Taiji and considered exploiting the Kang Family’s apparent crisis, unaware that both families had already suffered major losses at Li Dingguo’s hands.

• Cao Yongxiang’s Western Army captured Mizhi City, and Red Plum reported that Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, and Luo Rucai were contending with the government’s powerful Heavenly Might Army.
• Cao Yongxiang and Red Plum planned to continue south, join Li Dingguo, and seize northern Qin Territory while blocking the Yellow River crossings.
• Cao Yongxiang warned that Huang Taiji would likely divide his invasion into three routes and that two armies would target the Revival Army because of its growing strength.
• Wang Dengku learned that the Revival Army had intercepted his family’s trade fleet and ordered Wang Lu to find Spirit Rice to fulfill their agreement with Huang Taiji.
• Wang Lu reported that Kang Millionaire had disappeared and suggested seizing Kang Family interests, while Wang Dengku doubted that the powerful patriarch could have come to harm.

Wang Dengku ordered the Wang Family to evacuate northern Qin Territory and seek Spirit Grain from the Kang Family as Li Dingguo’s Revival Army expanded across the region. Hong Chengchou learned that the Revival Army was seizing Yellow River strongholds and controlling their protective arrays, and he prepared for a northern expedition as the imperial court’s decree approached.

• Wang Lu reported that the Wang Family and other Great Jin Merchants were moving their northern Qin Territory assets to escape Li Dingguo’s advance.
• Wang Dengku told Wang Lu to wait for definite news about the Kang Family and ask its chief steward to sell the Wang Family Spirit Grain.
• Hong Yuanfeng reported that Revival Army forces had captured Yansui Town, Shenmu, Suide Prefecture, and numerous cities along the Wuding and Yellow Rivers.
• Hong Yuanfeng warned that the Revival Army’s fleet and troops could blockade much of the Yellow River, delaying reinforcements from Xuanfu and Datong Prefecture by at least half a year.
• Hong Yuanfeng reported that captured cities had activated their City Protection Arrays and that the Revival Army appeared to have at least five Star Destiny prodigies.
• Hong Chengchou suspected Li Dingguo held one of the special Star Destinies and ordered preparations for the army’s northern expedition before the imperial decree arrived.

Li Dingguo welcomed Cao Yongxiang's enlarged fleet and ordered a renewed campaign to seize northern Qin Territory, while reorganizing the Black Tortoise Legion's ships and supply lines. Meanwhile, Wan'er joined forces with Liu Zhiqing's fleet and prepared to attack Baode Prefecture, aiming to capture its dock and the Treasure Ships there.

• Li Dingguo praised Cao Yongxiang's fleet and ordered the Western Army to rest before dividing into nine routes to sweep south, while Huang Lan and Huang Zhanglong were tasked with blockading the rivers and supporting the army's redeployments.
• Li Dingguo ordered the Black Tortoise Legion's two naval camps to split their Treasure Ships evenly and coordinate with the logistics department as the Revival Army prepared to secure the Yellow River corridor.
• Pan Jinghua told Wan'er that Liu Zhiqing had captured Fugu City with a surprise cavalry raid, seized more than twenty Treasure Ships, and established a forward position for the attack on Baode Prefecture.
• Liu Zhiqing joined Wan'er and Pan Jinghua with his fleet, which included a High-Grade Treasure Ship, after Wan'er praised his successful operations.
• Wan'er ordered Liu Zhiqing, Pan Jinghua, Liang Hetang, and Liang Qingduo to break Baode Prefecture's City Protection Array and seize its dock before any Treasure Ships could escape.

The Revival Army attacked Baode Prefecture City, trapping the Fan Family’s Spirit Grain convoy and overwhelming the city’s defenses. Wan'er killed the Fan Family’s leaders and guards, while the battle for the city continued in the Revival Army’s favor.

• Fan Da panicked as the Fan Family convoy of nine Treasure Ships and thousands of guards found itself trapped at Baode Prefecture City’s dock.
• Black Tortoise Battalion Three fired a concentrated volley that shattered the city’s protection array, and the Kirin Legion charged into the city.
• Wan'er and Big Fierce found the Fan Family force, and Wan'er killed Fan Da, Fan Desheng, and the other Qi Refining Realm experts.
• Wan'er and Big Fierce hunted down and killed the Fan Family’s Martial Artist guards, burning their remains with Innate Spirit Fire.
• Wan'er surveyed the city and saw the Revival Army nearing victory, though fighting against other merchant convoys’ guards continued.

Wan'er ordered the reorganized Black Tortoise Battalion Three to advance against three northern Yellow River fortresses as the Revival Army prepared a broader campaign. Newly appointed Governor-General Hong Chengchou recognized the Revival Army’s military and economic strength and planned to demand extensive supplies from the Northwest’s great powers before confronting Li Dingguo.

• Pan Jinghua ordered Liu Zhiqing to recruit twenty thousand Martial Artist recruits into Black Tortoise Battalion Three after the army captured the dock and its Treasure Ships.
• Wan'er announced that the army would divide into three routes and attempt to seize Yangtu Fort, Tangjiahu Fort, and Huigouzhai Fort within ten days.
• Wan'er reported that Suide Prefecture had fallen and that the Southern and Western Armies would sweep northern Qin Territory as part of a three-month campaign.
• Hong Chengchou received the imperial appointment as Governor-General of the Three Borders and ordered Hong Yuanfeng to send military summons to commanders across the three provinces.
• Hong Chengchou assessed the Revival Army’s organization, popular support, weapons, and resources, concluding that it had become a formidable threat to the Ming Dynasty.
• Hong Chengchou decided to demand Treasure Ships, weapons, grain, transport, and other supplies from the Northwest’s great powers before sending troops against Li Dingguo.

Li Dingguo completed a new City Protection Array in Qingjian City while explaining how he had refined captured official seals and strengthened his divine artifacts. As the Revival Army’s second offensive advanced across multiple fronts, he planned its next campaigns and looked ahead to confronting Cao Bianjiao.

• Li Dingguo activated the City Protection Array in Qingjian City, using identity tokens to let the Revival Army’s soldiers and civilians pass through safely.
• Li Dingguo reviewed how refining captured official seals had earned Fortune Value, which he spent to unseal the fourth seals of the Human Emperor Cauldron and the Mysterious Yellow Chaos Bell.
• Li Mei reported that the Azure Dragon Legion had captured Yanchuan City, the White Tiger Legion had captured Anding City, and the Vermilion Bird Legion and Black Tortoise Battalion One had seized several Yellow River fortresses.
• Li Mei reported that General Wan’er’s northern army had finished its first sweep and was advancing upriver toward Yanchang before joining Li Dingguo’s forces.
• Li Dingguo explained that new recruit selections would free the main legions for a third offensive, after which he expected to face Hong Chengchou’s army and challenge Cao Bianjiao.

Ma Weixing reported that Li Dingguo had built the mighty Revival Army, conquered much of Qin Territory, and established a powerful force in Jiaozhou Bay. Zhang Xianzhong’s leaders reacted with shock while Lu Xiangcheng worried that the Great Ming Dynasty might be unable to stop Li Dingguo.

• Ma Weixing told Zhang Xianzhong and his leaders that Li Dingguo’s Revival Army had captured much of northeastern Qin Territory and controlled key routes and rivers.
• Ma Weixing reported that the Revival Army had a million soldiers, formidable weapons and mounts, and a powerful navy based on Lingshan Island.
• Ai Nengqi, Zhang Kewang, and Liu Wenxiu left to verify the intelligence, while Zhang Xianzhong and the other leaders considered its implications.
• Lu Xiangcheng read reports about the Revival Army’s growing strength and worried that it could threaten the Great Ming Dynasty’s rule.

Wan'er killed a powerful Fifth-Tier Tian Family shopkeeper during the Revival Army's capture of Yumen Ferry, prompting her and Li Dingguo to investigate the Tian Family's hidden strength. They uncovered a secret chamber containing two peach pits and a letter, leaving Li Dingguo stunned.

• Wan'er defeated and killed the Fifth-Tier Middle Stage Tian Family shopkeeper after her Natal Divine Artifacts protected her from a near-fatal strike.
• The Revival Army routed the defenders at Yumen Ferry, and Li Dingguo killed Prince Qin's Estate guards while the soldiers seized the docks and ships.
• Wan'er told Li Dingguo that the Tian Family shopkeeper's strength was abnormal, and he agreed they should search her trading house for clues.
• Li Dingguo and Wan'er searched the trading house and found a hidden wooden box containing two peach pits and a letter.
• Li Dingguo inspected the contents with his divine sense and was stunned.

After discovering that Tian Shenglan’s family controlled a secret realm and a vast orchard of spirit peach trees, Li Dingguo and Wan'er decided to strike the Tian Family before its peaches ripened. They left Yumen Ferry for Mount Jiwang, while the army prepared to secure the newly captured fortress and continue its campaign.

• Li Dingguo examined two peach pits from Tian Xiaomei and learned from Tian Shenglan’s letter that the peaches came from a secret realm containing a high-grade spirit peach tree.
• Li Dingguo explained that Tian Shenglan had used spirit peaches to strengthen her family and planted thirty peach pits that had grown into mid-grade trees bearing thousands of peaches soon to ripen.
• Li Dingguo identified the Tian Family’s great spirit land at Mount Jiwang and agreed with Wan'er to seize it and eliminate Tian Shenglan if possible.
• Li Dingguo and Wan'er arranged for Wu Hong'ai and Huang Zhanglong to guard Yumen Ferry and lead the army toward other riverbank fortresses.
• Li Dingguo and Wan'er departed on Great Golden Eagles alongside two Great Goshawks, heading east toward Mount Jiwang.

Li Dingguo and Wan'er found the Tian family's hidden stronghold at Mount Jiwang and entered it through a concealed gate in the ancient array. Li Dingguo ambushed Tian Shenglan's gathering, but her Overturning Heaven Seal protected her, and she launched a counterattack against him.

• Li Dingguo and Wan'er searched Mount Jiwang with their spirit birds and found the Tian family's concealed entrance behind a damaged Five Elements array.
• Li Dingguo opened a gate through the array and led Wan'er and the four spirit birds inside without alerting the Tian family.
• Tian Shenglan prepared to award Postnatal High-Grade spirit peaches to ten young clan members and planned to build the Tian family into a force capable of challenging Li Dingguo's Revival Army.
• Li Dingguo burst into the council hall and used the Mysterious Yellow Great Bell to kill most of the Tian family cultivators present, but Tian Shenglan's Overturning Heaven Seal shielded her and her two assistants.
• Tian Shenglan recognized Li Dingguo, blamed him for Xiaomei's death, and ordered the Overturning Heaven Seal to crush him.

Li Dingguo defeated Tian Shenglan and the Tian Family experts by using the Mysterious Yellow Chaos Bell and Human Emperor Cauldron, then joined Wan'er and the four Fifth-Tier Spirit Birds in wiping out the Tian Family forces in the spirit land. After finding the Spirit Peaches and orchard safe, he prepared to harvest them and reserve most for himself and his allies while distributing some through the Revival Army's merit system.

• Li Dingguo used the Mysterious Yellow Chaos Bell to kill Tian Shenglan's two Fifth-Tier maidservants and clash with her Overturning Heaven Seal.
• Li Dingguo trapped the Overturning Heaven Seal inside the Human Emperor Cauldron and used Innate Spirit Fire to refine it, then killed Tian Shenglan with the Mysterious Yellow Chaos Bell.
• Li Dingguo found twenty Post-natal High-Grade Great Spirit Peaches in two chests and stored them in the Human Emperor Cauldron.
• Li Dingguo, Wan'er, and the four Fifth-Tier Spirit Birds slaughtered all the Tian Family cultivators in the hundred-mile spirit land and secured its orchard of thirty Spirit Peach Trees.
• Li Dingguo and Wan'er planned to harvest and store the peaches, reserve most for themselves and their allies, and make some available to Revival Army soldiers in exchange for Military Merit Points.

Li Dingguo and Wan'er searched the Tian Family estate, found more Great Spirit Peaches and treasures, and ate the peaches, triggering Li Dingguo's breakthrough into a Postnatal Five Elements Spirit Body. The chapter left him at Fifth Layer Martial Dao Late Stage with Super First-rate Martial General combat power, while he chose to preserve most of his Fortune Value rather than unseal his artifacts.

• Wan'er urged Li Dingguo to search the Tian Family estate for Great Spirit Peaches, and he told her he had already seized twenty.
• Li Dingguo gave Wan'er the Overturning Heaven Seal, which she refined as her Natal Divine Artifact, and took the Asura Battle Banner to give to Chang Liyun.
• Li Dingguo, Wan'er, and the four Fifth-Tier spirit birds searched the estate, recovered its stored wealth, and found six more Great Spirit Peaches hidden by Tian Shenglan.
• Li Dingguo distributed Great Spirit Peaches to Wan'er and the spirit birds, and they ate two each; Li Dingguo began transforming into a Postnatal Spirit Body and broke through to Fifth Layer Martial Dao Late Stage.
• Li Dingguo checked his Cheat System panel and saw that his physique and spirit had reached 101, giving him an Elementary Postnatal Five Elements Spirit Body and Super First-rate Martial General combat power.
• Li Dingguo decided to keep at least one hundred Fortune Value in reserve instead of removing the fifth seals on the Human Emperor Cauldron and Mysterious Yellow Chaos Bell.