Chapter Summaries

Qian Ye returned to Stone Village with Heaven Swallowing Sparrow Woman and Vermilion Bird, then left months later for the Fire Nation. He entered the imperial palace invisibly and sat before the Fire Emperor, who had finished playing the zither and opened his eyes.

• Qian Ye persuaded Willow Deity to allow Heaven Swallowing Sparrow Woman to stay in Stone Village, and she agreed for his sake.
• Qian Ye gave Zhu Yan’s and Qiongqi’s treasured bodies to the village, and the villagers held a feast that strengthened them and the women living there.
• Several months later, Qian Ye left Stone Village and traveled to the Fire Nation to find the chubby girl and meet the Fire Emperor.
• Qian Ye entered the imperial palace unseen and used his Divine Eye to locate the Fire Emperor playing a zither in a pavilion.
• Qian Ye appeared and sat opposite the Fire Emperor, who finished his piece before opening his eyes to look at him.

Qian Ye checked in at the Fire Emperor’s secret back garden, earning Sage Sword Intent, the Grass Character Art, and nine blades of grass, then told the Fire Emperor he had come to find Huo Ling’er. After evading the Fire Emperor and staying in the palace overnight, Qian Ye walked into morning court, leaving the officials wondering who he was.

• Qian Ye checked in at the Fire Emperor’s secret back garden and received Sage Sword Intent, the Grass Character Art, and nine blades of grass.
• Qian Ye told the Fire Emperor that he had come to find Huo Ling’er, though she did not know him.
• The Fire Emperor ordered Qian Ye to leave, but Qian Ye distracted him and vanished.
• Qian Ye stayed in the palace overnight, then entered the council hall during morning court.
• The Fire Emperor recognized Qian Ye and grew furious as the ministers wondered about his identity.

Qian Ye challenged the Fire Nation's Battle King after boasting that he could not be provoked, then defeated him in two exchanges before the Fire Emperor and ministers. The Battle King lay beaten with his saber broken, while the court recognized Qian Ye as a genuine threat.

• Qian Ye told the Battle King he could not afford to provoke him, and the Fire Emperor proposed that they settle the claim with a fight.
• The Fire Emperor and ministers accompanied Qian Ye and the Battle King to the square, where the Battle King attacked with his flaming saber.
• Qian Ye dodged the Battle King's opening strike and hit him from behind, knocking him down and dislodging three teeth.
• The Battle King launched a close-range saber attack, but Qian Ye parried his moves with an iron staff and broke his saber.
• Qian Ye struck the Battle King on the head again, leaving him staggering on the ground as the Fire Emperor and ministers grew wary of Qian Ye.

Qian Ye revealed thirty-six Heavenly Passages, overwhelmed the Fire Nation’s court, and killed the Battle King before turning against the Fire Emperor. He froze the Fire Emperor and ministers and taunted the helpless emperor with a knife.

• Qian Ye displayed thirty-six Heavenly Passages, astonishing the Fire Emperor and everyone present.
• Qian Ye’s Heavenly Passages absorbed the Spiritual Power of the ministers, the Battle King, and the Fire Emperor until Qian Ye stopped them and spared the ministers.
• Qian Ye summoned a golden dragon that pursued and tore the Battle King to pieces.
• Qian Ye deflected the Fire Emperor’s giant flaming hand, then let the Fire Emperor’s Chains of Flame wrap around him.
• Qian Ye unleashed a freezing chill that shattered the chains and froze the Fire Emperor and ministers, then challenged the helpless Fire Emperor to kill him with a small knife.

Qian Ye subdued the Fire Emperor and his forces, then left with a jade token intended for Huo Ling'er. Meanwhile, Shi Hao reached the Stone Clan's Second Ancestral Land searching for his parents and found a fake Shi Hao instead.

• Qian Ye froze the palace guards and defeated the Fire Emperor's forces, then freed the Fire Emperor after he backed down.
• Qian Ye told the Fire Emperor he had come to see Huo Ling'er, learned she was away, and declined to wait for her return.
• The Fire Emperor gave Qian Ye half a piece of fire jade as a token for Huo Ling'er, and Qian Ye departed.
• Shi Hao rode to the Stone Clan's Second Ancestral Land in Cloud Surging City after learning his parents were there, but found his stand-in instead.
• Shi Hao burned the Second Ancestral Land and blamed Rain Clan disciples, prompting the Stone Emperor to send three great marquises and kings to deal with him.

Qian Ye checked in at the burned Stone Clan's Second Ancestral Land and received 100 Vermilion Bird True Feathers. As the Battle King and two other great lords arrived to oversee the execution of thousands of innocent residents, Qian Ye watched and considered what to do next.

• Qian Ye arrived at the charred Stone Clan's Second Ancestral Land and received 100 Vermilion Bird True Feathers from the system.
• Qian Ye learned that the Stone Emperor had sent three great lords to punish those blamed for the ancestral land's destruction.
• Soldiers marched roughly three thousand innocent residents into the ancestral land's square and prepared to execute them.
• The Battle King and two other great lords descended, and the soldiers and prisoners appealed to them for mercy.
• Qian Ye sized up the three lords, judged them no threat, and stayed to observe.

The Battle King ordered Qian Ye arrested and beheaded, suspecting him of burning the Stone Clan's ancestral grounds. When the executioner's saber failed to harm him, Qian Ye's conflict with the royal nobles began, leaving the Battle King to face an unexpectedly unkillable prisoner.

• The Battle King ordered soldiers to arrest Qian Ye because he sat apart from the kneeling prisoners and seemed suspicious.
• Qian Ye decided to defend himself and the three thousand innocent prisoners after the soldiers brought him before the royal nobles.
• The Battle King ordered a soldier to cut off Qian Ye's head without giving him a chance to answer.
• The soldier's first saber strike chipped the blade but left Qian Ye unharmed, and Qian Ye resolved to retaliate for being killed once.
• The soldier tried to behead Qian Ye two more times, failed, and reported to the Battle King that his saber could not kill him.

Qian Ye used his overwhelming speed and power to defeat the Battle King, kill the other two nobles, and slaughter their soldiers after they tried to execute him. He appeared before the mutilated Battle King holding the Dragon-Slaying Saber, while the three thousand innocent commoners remained alive.

• Qian Ye severed both of the Battle King's arms and then both legs before anyone could see his movements.
• The two nobles and the soldiers feared Qian Ye as the prisoners urged him to kill the three great nobles and their executioners.
• Qian Ye beheaded the two nobles, and the soldiers fled in terror.
• Qian Ye killed all of the fleeing soldiers, leaving the three thousand commoners unharmed.
• Qian Ye appeared before the Battle King with the bloodied Dragon-Slaying Saber.

Qian Ye defeated the War King and condemned him and the Stone Emperor for their history of slaughtering innocents. He spared the War King temporarily and planned to visit Cloud Surging City before confronting the Stone Emperor at the imperial palace.

• The War King realized Qian Ye had killed the two princes and defeated him after he had ordered thousands of villagers killed.
• Qian Ye explained that the War King had attacked him simply because he was a prince, and vowed to kill the Stone Emperor as well.
• The War King admitted his crimes and recognized that he and the Stone Emperor bore responsibility for countless innocent deaths.
• Qian Ye declared that he would pursue justice and dismissed the Stone Emperor's power as no threat to him.
• Qian Ye spared the War King for now and planned to check in at Cloud Surging City, see the tricolored flower, and then take the War King to the imperial palace.

Qian Ye saved more than three thousand villagers from execution and promised to protect them, then headed toward the imperial palace with the captured Battle King. Yu Meng learned that Qian Ye had killed two kings and marquises and hoped his conflict with the Stone Emperor would clear the Rain Clan’s involvement in the fire.

• Qian Ye assured the rescued villagers that they could return to their lives without fear, then took the limbless Battle King and departed.
• Yu Meng worried that the Stone Emperor would punish him and the Rain Clan for the destruction of the Stone Clan’s ancestral land.
• Yu Meng’s steward, Feng Er, told him that Qian Ye had rescued the villagers, killed two kings and marquises, slaughtered their soldiers, and taken the Battle King away.
• Yu Meng saw Qian Ye’s actions as a chance to escape blame but feared that the Stone Emperor might kill him before the Rain Clan was safe.

After checking in atop the earthen hill in Cloud Surging City, Qian Ye received the Ancestral Dragon Precious Technique and helped the city's Guardian Spirit break through, then checked in again after she transformed into a woman. Three Lives Flower Woman fell for Qian Ye and kissed him.

• Xi Meng visited the Stone Clan's Second Ancestral Land and saw the bodies of the Stone Kingdom's princes, marquises, and soldiers killed by Qian Ye.
• Qian Ye met Cloud Surging City's Guardian Spirit, who said she had expected him to come.
• Qian Ye checked in atop the earthen hill and received the Ancestral Dragon Precious Technique.
• Qian Ye poured Spring of Life and a medicinal pill onto the Guardian Spirit's roots, helping her break through and transform into a human woman.
• Qian Ye checked in with Three Lives Flower Woman and received a thousand Nine Revolutions Heaven and Earth Pills for instant ascension.
• Three Lives Flower Woman realized she had fallen for Qian Ye and rushed into his arms to kiss him.

Qian Ye ate grilled fish and drank beer with the Three Lives Flower Woman, then went to the Stone Kingdom's imperial capital to confront the Stone Emperor. He entered the council hall as golden lotuses bloomed beneath his feet.

• Qian Ye grilled fish and shared it and beer with the Three Lives Flower Woman.
• The Three Lives Flower Woman warned Qian Ye that the Stone Emperor might attack Cloud Surging City, but Qian Ye said he would go to the imperial capital to avenge the three strikes to his head.
• Marquis Huntian told the Stone Emperor that Qian Ye had killed three kings and marquises and severed the Battle King's limbs.
• The Stone Emperor ordered Marquis Huntian and Peng Jiu to accompany him to the Western Frontier, but Qian Ye announced that he was already in the hall.
• Qian Ye sent the mutilated Battle King into the council hall, then entered and manifested golden lotuses with every step.

Qian Ye entered the Stone Kingdom palace seeking revenge, killed the nobles and the Stone Emperor, and took the throne. He made Princess Shi his consort and raised her cultivation, leaving her positioned to manage the kingdom while he ruled.

• Qian Ye checked in at the palace council hall, received three thousand strands of Imperial Dao Dragon Qi, and confronted the Stone Emperor over the massacre and the attempts on his life.
• Qian Ye beheaded Peng Jiu and Marquis Huntian, defeated the Stone Emperor with his Dragon Qi, and killed him.
• Qian Ye killed the nineteen princes who attacked him, subdued Princess Shi, and forced the officials to recognize him as the new Human Emperor.
• Qian Ye received and learned the Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Origin technique after checking in with Princess Shi, then chose to keep her as his consort rather than kill her.
• Qian Ye raised Princess Shi to the peak Venerable Realm and decided to make her Empress so she could manage the Stone Kingdom in his absence.

Qian Ye appointed Princess Shi Empress of the Stone Kingdom, then entered Hundred Shattering Mountains years later and met Shi Hao there. After receiving the Ancient Mountains and Rivers Scroll, he separated from Shi Hao to explore, while a young girl sat beneath a jujube tree deeper in the mountains.

• Qian Ye made Princess Shi Empress of the Stone Kingdom so she could govern in his absence, and she kissed his cheek to thank him.
• Shi Hao entered Hundred Shattering Mountains with Heaven Mending Pavilion disciples to search for the Ageless Spring, but learned that it had moved from its former location.
• Qian Ye arrived at the mountains and greeted Shi Hao, then agreed to enter alongside him.
• Qian Ye and Shi Hao split up to explore separately after entering the mountains.
• Qian Ye checked in at Hundred Shattering Mountains and received the Ancient Mountains and Rivers Scroll, which contained a small world and could hold people and items.
• A young girl sat beneath a jujube tree deep within Hundred Shattering Mountains.

Qian Ye met Huo Ling'er beneath a wild jujube tree in the Hundred Shattering Mountains, but ignored her to eat its fruit. Huo Ling'er challenged him after he refused to leave, and the chapter ended with her taunting him to fight.

• Qian Ye recognized Huo Ling'er as the Fire Emperor's daughter when he saw her beneath the wild jujube tree.
• Huo Ling'er warned Qian Ye not to approach, but he climbed the tree and began eating jujubes.
• Huo Ling'er demanded that Qian Ye get down because she had found the tree first.
• Qian Ye told Huo Ling'er that the tree belonged to no one and said she was no match for him.
• Huo Ling'er called Qian Ye a coward and challenged him to fight.

Qian Ye told Huo Ling'er that her father, the Fire Emperor, had betrothed her to him, but she doubted him until he showed her half of a fire jade token. The two halves fit together and glowed, leaving Huo Ling'er stunned by evidence that Qian Ye might truly be her fiancé.

• Qian Ye teased Huo Ling'er after she revealed that she was the princess of the Fire Nation.
• Qian Ye claimed the Fire Emperor had offered Huo Ling'er to him in marriage and said he had reluctantly agreed.
• Huo Ling'er rejected Qian Ye's claim and demanded proof, threatening him if he was lying.
• Qian Ye showed Huo Ling'er a half-piece of fire jade bearing a Vermilion Bird design.
• Huo Ling'er joined her half of the jade to Qian Ye's, and the pieces fused together in a burst of fiery light.

Qian Ye teased Huo Ling'er about their betrothal and frightened her by revealing a deliberately monstrous face beneath several masks. Huo Ling'er refused to accept the engagement and was still crying when a youth appeared between them.

• Huo Ling'er rejected Qian Ye's betrothal and demanded that he remove his mask so she could see his face.
• Qian Ye removed several masks and revealed a face he had transformed into an ugly monster's, frightening Huo Ling'er into running away.
• Qian Ye appeared in front of Huo Ling'er after she looked back, and she fell down and pleaded for him to stay back.
• Qian Ye explained that the Fire Emperor had insisted he accept the love token, while Huo Ling'er continued to refuse the engagement in tears.
• A youth appeared between Qian Ye and Huo Ling'er and told Qian Ye to let her go.

Qian Ye and Shi Hao interrupted Huo Ling’er’s encounter, arguing over who was more handsome after Shi Hao revealed his disguise and Qian Ye removed his mask. Huo Ling’er recognized Qian Ye as her betrothed, while Shi Hao revealed that he and Qian Ye had grown up together.

• Qian Ye recognized the disguised Shi Hao when he arrived to stop Qian Ye from supposedly bullying Huo Ling’er.
• Qian Ye and Shi Hao traded insults about their looks as Huo Ling’er watched their rescue turn into a beauty contest.
• Shi Hao entered a grove and returned in his handsome true appearance, prompting Huo Ling’er to realize he had been the little fatty.
• Qian Ye removed his mask and revealed his own striking face, leaving Huo Ling’er impressed and embarrassed about their marriage agreement.
• Shi Hao recognized Qian Ye and admitted that they had grown up together in the same village.

Qian Ye checked in with Huo Ling'er and received the Ancient Desolate Sacred Body Precious Technique, while Shi Hao learned that Huo Ling'er was a princess of the Fire Nation and Qian Ye’s fiancée. Yu Zimo arrived with four Rain Clan fighters to attack Shi Hao, then confronted Qian Ye, who recognized her and provoked a misunderstanding about her figure.

• Qian Ye checked in with Huo Ling'er and learned the Ancient Desolate Sacred Body Precious Technique.
• Shi Hao questioned Huo Ling'er and learned that she was the Fire Nation’s princess and Qian Ye’s fiancée.
• Yu Zimo arrived with four men and ordered them to trap and fight Shi Hao inside a barrier.
• Huo Ling'er moved behind Qian Ye for security as he watched Yu Zimo.
• Qian Ye identified Yu Zimo as one of the Rain Clan’s Two Elites, and she demanded to know how he knew her name.

Qian Ye argued with Yu Zimo and whisked her away from Huo Ling'er after she threatened them. Alone in a small forest in the Hundred Shattering Mountains, Yu Zimo questioned whether he was secretly helping Shi Hao, and Qian Ye denied it.

• Qian Ye told Yu Zimo that he and Shi Hao were only childhood neighbors, while Yu Zimo accused him of hiding their connection.
• Huo Ling'er defended Qian Ye, and Qian Ye pulled her behind him and pretended to protect her from Yu Zimo.
• Qian Ye restrained Yu Zimo and urged Huo Ling'er to flee, but Huo Ling'er vowed to stay with him and fight.
• Qian Ye vanished with Yu Zimo and brought her to a small forest elsewhere in the Hundred Shattering Mountains.
• Yu Zimo asked why Qian Ye had taken her there and suggested he was helping Shi Hao, while Qian Ye denied it.