Recaps

Lu Zhen dealt with a market disturbance and suspected Zhao Rui was helping the Lin Family infiltrate the Punishment Hall. Back at Snow-Listening Cliff, Guga revealed to Jiang Li that she had saved her in the gray mist.

• Zhao Rui recognized Lu Zhen as Direct Disciple Gu, slapped Captain Wang, and knelt to ask Lu Zhen to leave the matter to him.
• Lu Zhen recalled Zhao Rui's role in the Lin Wanshan case and suspected the Lin Family had planted people in the Punishment Hall, so he decided to keep Zhao Rui under observation.
• Zhao Rui arrested Captain Wang and the thugs, then arranged housing for the blind old man and his granddaughter while hoping to use the girl to get close to Lu Zhen.
• Lu Zhen returned to Snow-Listening Cliff, where Jiang Yun greeted him more mildly after witnessing his courage at Plain River City.
• Jiang Li questioned Lu Zhen about his absence, and he claimed he had been delayed by mutated beasts near the gray mist.
• Guga drank tea at Jiang Li's table and said she had saved Jiang Li in the gray mist, freezing the room with her revelation.

Jiang Li learned that Lu Zhen had saved her in the gray mist and fought as Faceless Asura, then revealed her plan to risk a breakthrough to Spirit Fusion before the Mount Tai Debate. With the Eight-Nation Allied Army gathering and only a month to prepare, Lu Zhen sought a way to gain strength and turn his hidden spoils into resources.

• Lu Zhen admitted to Jiang Li that he had saved her and fought outside Plain River City as Faceless Asura, asking her to keep his identity secret.
• Jiang Li thanked Lu Zhen for saving her and explained that the Eight-Nation Allied Army had assembled along the coast while Spirit Fusion experts would likely attend the Mount Tai Debate.
• Jiang Li said she would enter closed-door cultivation and attempt to break through to Spirit Fusion, despite Lu Zhen warning that the attempt could kill her.
• Lu Zhen left Jiang Li and considered how to prepare for the Mount Tai Debate and the approaching invasion, deciding he could not safely trade his spoils at the sect.
• Lu Zhen remembered Pei Yuan and the Martial God Stele, judged that his achievements might now qualify him to see it, and headed for the Myriad Stars Tower in Three Sects City.

Lu Zhen traded two profound-grade materials to Pei Yuan for a rare spirit liquid, then asked to see the Martial God Stele and learned what qualified someone for a headquarters bestowal. The chapter ended with Lu Zhen questioning Pei Yuan about the Eight-Nation Alliance, the Myriad Stars Tower headquarters, and other worlds.

• Lu Zhen showed Pei Yuan a lightning-flickering mech core and a strange jade-like bone, and Pei Yuan identified them as profound-grade materials.
• Lu Zhen traded both materials to the Myriad Stars Tower for twenty drops of profound-entry-grade spirit liquid, whose scent stirred an intense hunger in his body.
• Lu Zhen asked to see the Martial God Stele, and Pei Yuan explained that only a Grade-A Genius could receive martial true intent from headquarters across worlds.
• Pei Yuan said Grade-A status required reaching perfected transformation force, fusing spirit with heaven and earth, and taking first place on the Heavenly Abyss Ranking before forty.
• Pei Yuan warned Lu Zhen that the Eight-Nation Alliance's pressure concealed a greater threat, and Lu Zhen asked him to explain the headquarters and the existence of other worlds.

Lu Zhen learned from Pei Yuan that gray mist concealed other worlds and that hidden remnants targeted native geniuses, then used Profound Entry-grade spirit liquid to train for the Mount Tai Debate. The chapter ended with Lin Wanhe arriving in Constantinople to seek families tied to the remnants’ bloodline legacies.

• Pei Yuan explained the gray mist, the deadly routes through it, and his offer to help Gu Chen reach Myriad Stars Tower headquarters if he proved his potential.
• Pei Yuan warned Lu Zhen that remnants from before the mist appeared had assassinated native geniuses and urged him to attend the Mount Tai Debate, where they might reveal themselves.
• Lu Zhen returned to the Mystic Sword Sect, noticed Guga seemed to be cultivating, and consumed a drop of Profound Entry-grade spirit liquid before beginning intensive training.
• Lu Zhen trained for days with the Bright God Martial Canon, Eight Wastes Wandering Dragon Step, True Manual of Sword Control, and Great Execution Tribulation Blade, using more spirit liquid to sustain himself.
• Lin Wanhe reached Constantinople, where he sought families whose bloodline legacies had been left behind by remnant experts.

Lin Wanhe persuaded Augustus and the hidden survivors to target Gu Chen, suspecting he was the Faceless Asura. Back at Three Sects City, a golden pillar of light erupted from Snow-Listening Cliff, startling everyone in the Punishment Hall courtyard.

• Lin Wanhe met Augustus and asked why the survivors watched peerless geniuses, then suggested Gu Chen might be the Faceless Asura.
• After consulting the hidden lord, Augustus agreed to kill Gu Chen at the Mount Tai Debate and ordered the Lin Family to isolate him from the Mystic Sword Sect.
• Lin Wanhe left pleased that Augustus, whose strength reached five thousand dragons, would handle Gu Chen.
• At the Punishment Hall, Zhao Rui told Qin Wei, Yan Min, Lei Zhen, and Fang Wen that he had housed the blind street performer and his granddaughter, prompting Yan Min to rebuke him for acting without Gu Chen's permission.
• A thunderous crash came from Snow-Listening Cliff as a pillar of golden light pierced the clouds, leaving the courtyard stunned.

Jiang Li survived the perilous breakthrough to Spirit Fusion, condensed an imperishable golden body, and was named the Mystic Sword Sect’s fourth Grand Supreme Elder. As the sect’s leaders and rivals reacted to her rise, Lu Zhen reflected on her perseverance and resolved not to underestimate the talents of the world.

• After ten days of relentless cultivation, Lu Zhen sensed Jiang Li’s breakthrough as a pillar of golden light rose over Snow-Listening Cliff.
• Zhao Yan, Li Changfeng, and Heaven Sword Peak’s mountain lord reacted with shock and unease as Jiang Li’s Spirit Fusion breakthrough transformed the sect’s balance of power.
• Yan Nantian announced that Jiang Li had condensed her golden body and appointed her the Mystic Sword Sect’s fourth Grand Supreme Elder.
• Jiang Li emerged from her retreat, received the crowd’s kneeling greetings, and walked to the summit, where she bowed to the mountains and remembered her grandfather and elder brother.
• Watching Jiang Li from his courtyard, Lu Zhen reflected on her perseverance and recognized that his own rise depended on his panel, resolving not to become arrogant or underestimate others.

Lu Zhen strengthened his spirit and advanced three martial techniques to Profound Penetration, gaining destructive blade intent and greater control over movement and swordsmanship. Jiang Yun summoned him to meet Jiang Li, leaving the assembled sect and family leaders speculating about why he had been called first.

• Lu Zhen raised Nameless Spirit-Refining Art to Lv.12 and assessed that his full power could reach twelve thousand dragons, still far below a Spirit Fusion expert’s strength.
• Lu Zhen advanced Great Execution Tribulation Blade to Profound Penetration and used its blade intent to crack the Gilded Armor that had withstood Old Demon Chiba’s strike.
• Lu Zhen advanced Eight Wastes Wandering Dragon Step and True Manual of Sword Control to Profound Penetration, gaining elusive movement and sharper command of his Azure Frost Flying Sword.
• Jiang Yun arrived at Lu Zhen’s door and invited him to speak with Jiang Li, who had requested him after ascending to Grand Supreme Elder.
• Jiang Yun led Lu Zhen across Snow-Listening Cliff, where the gathered elders, stewards, and family leaders fell silent and wondered why Jiang Li had summoned him before the sect master.

Lu Zhen met Jiang Li after her breakthrough to Spirit Fusion, and she gave him her handwritten insights before explaining the three rounds of the upcoming Mount Tai Debate. The debate would decide which side claimed the legitimacy and grand momentum needed to unite the martial world against the Eight-Nation Alliance.

• Lu Zhen praised Jiang Li’s formal ceremonial robes, and she gave him a booklet about her breakthrough to the Spirit Fusion realm.
• Jiang Li explained that the Mount Tai Debate would begin with a thousand-person battle in the Treasure Land’s dangerous grounds, where teams would fight over nine Earth Vein Array Flags.
• Jiang Li said the earth round would pit defenders and challengers against each other on five Dao Inquiry Platforms, and she expected Lu Zhen to secure a defender slot.
• Jiang Li described the heaven round as a clash of Spirit Fusion experts at Jade Emperor Peak, with victory determined by whose martial will crushed the other’s.
• Lu Zhen questioned whether the losing side would actually submit, and Jiang Li explained that the winner would gain Heaven and Earth’s grand momentum while the loser would face severe suppression.
• Lu Zhen left to prepare for the debate, keeping Jiang Li’s booklet close to him.

As the Mystic Sword Sect prepared for the Mount Tai Debate, its leaders weighed the threats facing their teams and Jiang Li trusted Gu Chen to secure the Earth Round. Lu Zhen studied Jiang Li’s booklet but could not grasp how to fuse his spirit with heaven and earth, and he prepared to spend his saved experience before the debate.

• Talk in Three Sects City focused on the formidable contenders expected at the Mount Tai Debate, including Huo Tianzong, Tang Zhan, Tu Gang, and Merlin.
• Yan Nantian and Chen Kurong discussed Duan Tianlang and Xiang Kunlun entering the fray and Zhang Daoxuan’s absence from the Heaven Round.
• Jiang Li assigned elite disciples to train with the Iron-Blood Battle Formation for the Human Round and said Gu Chen would secure the Earth Round.
• After five days of studying Jiang Li’s booklet, Lu Zhen tried to fuse his soul with heaven and earth but realized he could only borrow its power.
• Lu Zhen checked his panel, noted that his spiritual liquid was exhausted and the debate was only days away, and prepared to spend his saved general experience.

Lu Zhen advanced the Heavenly Gang Fiend-Invoking Secret Art to Profound Entry, gaining a tenfold strength boost and a powerful baleful astral armor. As the Mystic Sword Sect set out for the Mount Tai Debate, he learned that the Heaven Match offered a vast blessing tied to the hearts of the people and wondered whether he could claim a share.

• Lu Zhen traveled to Kunlun Treasure Land and spent 39,250,000 general experience to advance the Heavenly Gang Fiend-Invoking Secret Art to initial Profound Entry.
• Lu Zhen invoked the secret art, condensing his tenfold strength into a four-thousand-meter Dharma body covered in Baleful Astral Armor.
• Lu Zhen asked Guga whether he could defeat Jiang Li, and Guga encouraged him before they set out for Mount Tai.
• Several days later, the Mystic Sword Sect departed for the Mount Tai Debate with more than a hundred elite disciples, and Lei Zhen, Yan Min, Qin Wei, and Fang Wen discussed the dangerous competitors awaiting them.
• Yan Min explained that the Heaven Match’s victor would receive a tremendous blessing from the momentum of heaven and earth, and Lu Zhen considered whether he might claim part of it.

Lin Wanhe and Augustus set a trap for Gu Chen to test whether he was the Faceless Asura, using Xiao Ya and Zhao Rui as bait. Lu Zhen recognized the scheme but went to the woods anyway, where he faced the two men and hinted that his recent breakthrough had made him too powerful to bother playing along.

• Lin Wanhe ordered Zhao Rui to lure Gu Chen away from the convoy, promising him the position of deputy master of the Punishment Hall.
• Zhao Rui arranged for Xiao Ya and the blind old man to be moved to Jiangxia City, where Lin Family deathsworn killed the old man and abducted Xiao Ya.
• A bloodied messenger delivered Lu Zhen a letter claiming that Xiao Ya and Zhao Rui had been taken hostage, but Lu Zhen recognized the story as a Lin Family trap.
• Lin Wanhe explained to Augustus that the crude trap would reveal whether Gu Chen was the Faceless Asura, and Augustus warned that Lin Wanhe might not survive if he was.
• Lu Zhen arrived at the abandoned dock woods, identified the Lin Family, and asked Augustus who he was before declaring that he was no longer in the mood to play with them.

Lu Zhen killed Augustus and Lin Wanhe, buried Xiao Ya, and returned to Jiangxia Port, where he boarded a ship bound for Qilu Land. As night fell, he prepared to secretly return to Three Sects City to deal with the Lin Family Ancestor, but Qin Wei came to his room and offered herself to him.

• Lu Zhen used the Great Execution Tribulation Blade to kill Augustus and Lin Wanhe, then burned their bodies and buried Xiao Ya.
• Lu Zhen suspected the Lin Family Ancestor had helped arrange the ambush and planned to return to Three Sects City after the ships departed.
• At Jiangxia Port, Tang Zhan drew comparisons with Lu Zhen, but Lu Zhen ignored his provocation and boarded the Mystic Sword Sect's tower ship.
• After the ships left port, Lu Zhen waited for late night so he could secretly go after the Lin Family Ancestor.
• Qin Wei visited Lu Zhen's room and offered to serve him; Lu Zhen accepted, and she began unbuttoning her qipao.

Lu Zhen left Qin Wei sleeping aboard the ship and flew toward Three Sects City to destroy the Lin Family. In the Lin estate, Lin Bainian traded the locations of three dragon vein cores to Adam XIII for a life-extending Blood Bodhi.

• Jiang Yun told Jiang Li that Qin Wei had entered Lu Zhen's cabin, and Jiang Li dismissed the news despite feeling irritated.
• Lu Zhen left the sleeping Qin Wei and flew toward Three Sects City, declaring that the Lin Family would meet its end that night.
• Lin Bainian met Adam XIII in the Lin estate, where Adam demanded the Lin Family's progress in locating dragon vein cores.
• Lin Bainian gave Adam a parchment identifying three dragon vein cores in exchange for a Blood Bodhi that would extend his life by sixty years.
• Adam took the parchment, and Lin Bainian seized the lead box containing the pill.

Lu Zhen killed Lin Bainian and pursued Adam after the foreigner fled the Lin Family compound. After killing Adam, Lu Zhen found a map marked with three unexplained locations and decided to investigate the one near Qilu Land.

• Lin Bainian attacked Lu Zhen with his golden body, but Lu Zhen wounded him with a single saber strike and was identified as the Faceless Asura.
• Lu Zhen struck again, killed Lin Bainian, and took the lead box he had been clutching.
• Adam fled the Lin Family compound, and Lu Zhen chased him out of Three Sects City.
• Adam formed a thirteen-thousand-meter golden body to fight, but Lu Zhen killed him with one slash.
• Lu Zhen found a map of Huaxia's Divine Land with three places circled and decided to inspect the Qilu Land location.

After killing the Lin Family Ancestor, Lu Zhen returned to the tower ship while the city’s factions investigated the Faceless Asura and the Fang Family secretly recognized him as Gu Chen. Far away in Constantinople, the Holy Son Adam XIII’s companion plant withered, revealing that a catastrophe had struck the Remnant Clan.

• Lu Zhen returned to the tower ship under cover of fog, where Qin Wei understood that he had used her as a decoy and trusted her with his secret.
• The Supreme Clarity Sect’s master and Chen Kurong ordered an investigation into the Lin Family’s past after learning the Faceless Asura had mastered a secret art at profound entry.
• Fang Zhenhai and Fang Daoming identified the Faceless Asura as Gu Chen and planned to conceal the Fang Family’s role in forging his saber.
• Fang Rou remembered the figure she had seen walking alone through the street and quietly named him the Faceless Asura.
• Hans discovered that the companion plant of the Remnant Clan’s Holy Son, Adam XIII, had withered and raised the alarm.

Lu Zhen consumed the enhanced divine medicine and cultivated during the journey to Mount Tai, where traditional and alienated martial artists gathered for the decisive debate. After the Mystic Sword Sect and Tang Clan arrived in Tai'an, news that Xiang Kunlun had mastered a Mystic Comprehension Tier hammer technique plunged the traditional martial artists into despair.

• Lu Zhen opened Lin Bainian's lead box, ate the enhanced pill, and felt his fiendish true body grow stronger as the medicine continued nourishing him.
• During five days of cultivation aboard the tower ship, Lu Zhen greatly increased his Physique, martial skill, and General Experience, and arrived at Mount Tai.
• Lu Zhen disembarked with the Mystic Sword Sect and Tang Clan and saw the crowds gathering in Tai'an City ahead of the Mount Tai Debate.
• Martial artists in Tai'an discussed the traditional side's fighters and the formidable alienated martial artists expected in the Earth round.
• A newsboy announced that Xiang Kunlun had reached the alienated martial arts side and mastered a Mystic Comprehension Tier hammer technique, leaving the traditional martial artists fearful for their chances.

Jiang Li warned Lu Zhen to keep his strength and identity hidden, then assigned him to train a hundred-person team for the human round. Meanwhile, the earth-round contenders took his absence from their Dao discussions as cowardice and planned to spread rumors about him.

• Jiang Li confirmed that Lu Zhen had killed the Lin Family's Spirit Fusion Realm ancestor and warned him that Xiang Kunlun's strength made the heaven round dangerous.
• Jiang Li sent Lu Zhen to lead a hundred-person team, where he taught them how to use the Iron-Blood Battle Formation against alienated beasts.
• Lu Zhen recognized Xiao Yuqing and Xiao Ran among the trainees but chose not to reveal himself to them.
• Tang Zhan, Huo Tianzong, Ghost Shadow, and Zhang learned that Gu Chen would skip their Dao discussions to train the human-round team.
• The four contenders criticized Gu Chen as afraid of losing, and their attendants decided to spread rumors about his absence.

Lu Zhen trained the Human Division while rumors accused him of avoiding the Dao discussion, then left camp to break through his physique in seclusion. He attained the Pure Yang True Body and realized it could let him challenge the Spirit Fusion Realm on his own terms, leaving him just one opportunity short of that breakthrough.

• Lu Zhen improved the Iron-Blood Battle Formation, earning the soldiers’ respect as they angrily rejected rumors that he feared the Dao discussion and disregarded the bigger picture.
• Lu Zhen asked Qi Biao about terrain marked on Adam’s parchment, and Qi Biao identified it as the dangerous Fallen Soul Ravine beyond Mount Tai.
• Lu Zhen left the drill ground and found a secluded cliffside spot to break through his level-fifteen Glazed Jade Bones.
• Lu Zhen’s physique advanced to the Pure Yang True Body, whose Self-Forming Inner Landscape made his body an independent cycle that no longer relied on outside air or the power of heaven and earth.
• Lu Zhen concluded that his Pure Yang True Body could support a different path to the Spirit Fusion Realm and that he needed only an opportunity to take the final step.

Lu Zhen entered Fallen Soul Ravine and began a perilous breakthrough beneath the Azurewood Dragon Vein, while the Mount Tai Debate opened with the Traditional Martial Arts faction facing a shocking equipment disadvantage in the Human Match.

• Lu Zhen followed Guga through the Poison Miasma of Fallen Soul Ravine and reached an underground basin beneath the Azurewood Dragon Vein.
• Lu Zhen tried to break through to the Spirit Fusion Realm by keeping his soul locked inside his Pure Yang True Body, provoking the dragon vein’s crushing resistance.
• Yan Nantian and Jiang Li searched for the missing Gu Chen as the Mount Tai Debate began without him.
• A National Government official announced the debate’s three-match rules, and the gong signaled the start of the Human Match.
• The announcer revealed that all one thousand Alienated Martial Artists had been equipped with Sixth-Tier Steam Exoskeletal War Machines, provoking outrage and dismay among the crowd.

Traditional Martial Arts won the human round after its fighters held five array flags against four, despite heavy casualties. As the earth round began, Gu Chen failed to appear, prompting rumors of desertion and mockery from Tang Clan disciples.

• Qi Biao led his unit in using coordinated strikes against the steam-powered fighters, holding the third array flag until the enemy captain overloaded his machinery.
• Qi Biao sacrificed himself to jam the captain’s driveshaft, causing the war machine to explode and helping the fighters keep the line intact.
• The twelve-hour contest ended with Traditional Martial Arts holding five flags and Alienated Martial Arts holding four, prompting celebration across the Divine Land.
• Westernization supporters and conservatives argued over whether the victory proved the strength of Traditional Martial Arts or the need for modern machines, while a National Government official announced the earth round.
• Five Alienated Martial Arts contestants and four Traditional Martial Arts contestants appeared, but Gu Chen was absent when the announcer called his name.
• Mystic Sword Sect disciples wondered whether Gu Chen had deserted, while Tang Clan disciples mocked him and recalled an earlier Mystic Sword Sect deserter at Water River Prefecture.

Gu Chen failed to appear for the Mount Tai Debate, and the Mystic Sword Sect sent an elder to replace him as opponents accused him of cowardice. The earth round began with two devastating defeats for Huaxia, leaving the camp stunned.

• Yan Nantian announced that the Mystic Sword Sect would send a Dharma Heaven Realm elder in Gu Chen’s place, while Tang Si mocked Gu Chen as a coward and Pei Yuan doubted he had fled.
• The wounded survivors of the human round defended Gu Chen, while Merlin said he would take his anger out on Tang Zhan and the others.
• Old Li introduced Ghost Shadow as the favorite against Xiliu Yijian, but Xiliu revealed his Eight-Headed Serpent demon body and defeated Ghost Shadow with one blade strike.
• Old Li claimed Ghost Shadow had been caught off guard and presented Huo Tianzong as the next fighter against Tu Gang.
• Tu Gang’s mechanical Furious Ape shattered Huo Tianzong’s protective energy and knocked him unconscious with one punch, leaving Huaxia with two one-move losses.

After traditional martial arts lost all five earthly matches, the heavenly contest began atop Mount Tai as both sides fought for the people’s will and the dragon vein’s power. Seven golden bodies faced nine enemies, including a Profound Entry-tier War Machine, and Chen Kurong was badly wounded in the opening clash.

• Merlin absorbed Zhang, the Young Heavenly Master's lightning and shattered his Daoist Venerable Dharma Body, while a Two-Headed Wolf demon defeated a Mystic Sword Sect elder.
• Tang Zhan’s poisoned hidden weapons could not pierce the black-scaled demon’s armor, and the monster broke his Thousand-Hand Asura Dharma Body, completing five defeats for traditional martial arts.
• The crushing losses divided the people’s will at Mount Tai, and Chen Kurong and the ancient experts chose to fight Xiang Kunlun’s camp in the heavenly contest.
• Yan Nantian, Chen Kurong, Jiang Li, and four other experts manifested golden bodies to face Duan Tianlang, Xiang Kunlun, seven or eight demon bodies, and a ten-thousand-meter War Machine.
• Duan Tianlang charged the golden bodies, Yan Nantian wounded him with a sword strike, and the Supreme Clarity Sect’s leader struck two scaled demons with lightning.
• The War Machine fired a blue beam that vaporized nearly half of Chen Kurong’s left arm, though he began rebuilding it with golden light.

Jiang Li and the other patriarchs fought Xiang Kunlun’s forces above Mount Tai, but Xiang Kunlun shattered their formation and the people’s faith began to collapse. Just as the tide turned against traditional martial arts, a divine figure rose from Soul-Falling Gorge, heralding a dramatic arrival.

• Jiang Li wounded the War Machine, but Xiang Kunlun revealed his enormous half-flesh, half-steel form and gravely injured Yan Nantian with a hammer blow.
• The seven golden bodies united in a sword formation to hold back Xiang Kunlun and the other attackers while people across Tai'an prayed for the patriarchs to endure.
• Martial Saints observed from above and argued over their decision not to intervene, with Fujiwara and the Western Martial Saints defending their alliance against the Huaxia Martial Saint’s accusations.
• Xiang Kunlun shattered the seven patriarchs’ formation with another hammer blow, leaving them gravely wounded and causing the people’s faith to turn toward alienated martial arts.
• A divine figure rose in golden light from the north, accompanied by a blood-red sun, a Golden Crow, and an Azure Dragon, and Xiao Yuqing recognized the direction as Soul-Falling Gorge.

Lu Zhen absorbed the Azurewood Dragon Vein and broke through to the spirit fusion realm by forming an inner landscape, astounding the Martial Saints who witnessed it. Seeing traditional martial arts losing ground at Mount Tai, he announced his arrival and declared that he would cleanse the Hongwu Emperor's house and establish martial orthodoxy anew.

• Lu Zhen used the Azurewood Dragon Vein's vitality to form an inner landscape containing a great sun, a Golden Crow, and an Azure Dragon, then broke through to the spirit fusion realm.
• Fujiwara and the other Martial Saints recognized Lu Zhen's rare inner landscape lineage and were stunned by its power.
• Lu Zhen assessed his strength at two hundred thousand dragons and concluded that he could claim first place on the Heavenly Abyss Ranking.
• Lu Zhen saw that the might of the people at Mount Tai was being suppressed and that traditional martial arts had fallen into a dire disadvantage.
• Lu Zhen announced his breakthrough across the Divine Land and declared that he would cleanse the Hongwu Emperor's house and establish martial orthodoxy anew on Mount Tai.

Lu Zhen advanced beyond Mount Tai in his Inner Landscape Spirit Fusion form and defeated nine alienated Spirit Fusion experts with one saber strike. His display convinced people across the land that he carried the Hongwu Emperor’s lineage, while the surviving traditional martial artists stared at the scale of his power.

• Lu Zhen strode through the sky with his great sun, Golden Crow, and Azure Dragon Inner Landscape, as people across the land watched and recognized the Hongwu Emperor’s lineage.
• Old Master Shen ordered his family to bring out ancestral paintings, and he identified Lu Zhen’s golden avatar as the Hongwu Emperor’s Great Sun Golden Crow lineage.
• Xiang Kunlun ordered the nine alienated experts to pour their power into his hammer for an all-or-nothing strike against Lu Zhen.
• Lu Zhen swung his horse-slaying saber, shattering Xiang Kunlun’s enormous hammer and killing Xiang Kunlun, Duan Tianlang, Merlin, and the other six experts in one strike.
• Yan Nantian, Chen Kurong, Jiang Li, Tang Si, and the other traditional martial artists watched Lu Zhen in stunned silence.