Chapter Summaries

As Sword Qi began cutting people down in Great Abyss, Ma Mo realized Black Forest Stockade was no longer safe and ordered an escape. Meanwhile, Ayti recognized that rising heat and poisonous fires were spreading through the ancestral land, and led the tribesmen willing to flee toward Yan Kingdom.

• Ma Mo learned that invisible sharpness had killed a street seller, then watched it slice his steward apart and identified it as Sword Qi.
• Ma Mo ordered everyone to leave Black Forest Stockade and Great Abyss, fearing the emerging Sword Qi threatened the whole region.
• Ayti saw the Gobi Desert's heat rise and multiple tents ignite without cause, and suspected the changes came from the World's Spiritual Energy Recovery.
• Ayti concluded the ancestral land had become poisonous and ordered his tribesmen to leave for Yan Kingdom.
• Ayti led the tribesmen who agreed to depart, leaving the rest behind when they refused to follow.

Lu Xingshi suspected the mysterious crystal from Li Xuandao was a dormant system and decided to use it as bait under surveillance. In the Great Abyss, Ma Mo led most of his family away from a dangerous clash between Sword Qi and blood-red smoke, choosing to head for the Yan Kingdom.

• Lu Xingshi examined the unbreakable crystal and connected it to Li Xuandao's sudden rise and possible transmigration.
• Lu Xingshi decided to place the crystal in the treasury as bait and watch for anyone who tried to take it.
• Ma Mo and Ma Yuan saw Sword Qi cleave Black Forest Stockade and watched blood-red smoke battle Sword Qi near the mountains.
• Ma Mo chose to take a detour rather than risk the route blocked by the blood-red smoke, while some of his family members stayed behind.
• Ma Mo led most of his people away and told Ma Yuan they were heading to the Yan Kingdom.

Lu Xingshi investigated the Sword Qi in Great Abyss and Poison Fire in the desert, suspecting the Grotto-heaven Ancestors had unleashed them to block Yan Kingdom’s expansion. He planned to travel west to investigate the threats and the Blood Smoke Skeleton, while the Ancestors resolved to contain Yan Kingdom before Hidden Dragon grew beyond their control.

• Lu Xingshi learned that Ayti had brought nearly a hundred Barbarians to seek refuge and left their fate to Luo Lin.
• Lu Xingshi suspected the Grotto-heaven Ancestors had caused the Sword Qi and Poison Fire outbreaks to cage Yan Kingdom, and considered using True Qi airships to cross the affected regions.
• Lu Xingshi planned to search the Western Regions for the Blood Smoke Skeleton, inspect Great Abyss, and then visit the desert before returning to Yan Kingdom.
• A Grotto-heaven Ancestor warned the others that Zhao Kui had survived by cultivating the 'Undying Nine Revolutions True Scripture' and had begun devouring people to recover.
• The Grotto-heaven Ancestors dismissed Zhao Kui as a lesser threat and agreed to seal off the regions to stop Yan Kingdom’s expansion and contain Hidden Dragon.

Zhao Kui searched the ruins of the former Blood Fiend Sect for the missing half of Sea of Bitterness, then decided to hide until he recovered. In Saibei, Ayti learned that Poison Fire had destroyed his ancestral land and every clan member left there.

• Zhao Kui recalled how he had created the Undying Nine Revolutions True Scripture and used Cave Heaven disciples in his experiments before escaping their pursuit.
• Zhao Kui found the Vajra Sect in ruins and discovered that the statue concealing half of Sea of Bitterness had been taken away.
• Zhao Kui chose to hide because he lacked his skin and strength and knew he could not challenge the Divine Weapon’s current holder.
• Ayti stayed with the Langya Merchant Guild in Saibei and worried about how Prince of Yan would settle his surviving clansmen.
• A clansman told Ayti that Poison Fire had consumed their ancestral land and no one there had survived; Ayti also heard that Sword Qi had appeared in the neighboring Great Abyss.

Lu Xingshi visited the Vajra Sect to investigate the Blood Smoke Skeleton and the Great Abyss Sword Qi, making clear that Yan Kingdom would absorb the Western Regions into a unified order rather than accept a hollow surrender. A clue pointed to a black-robed figure who might be the Blood Smoke Skeleton, and Lu Xingshi sent Abu Du La to investigate while promising to teach him the Golden Book Jade Scroll.

• Lu Xingshi questioned Jia Ba'er about the Great Abyss Sword Qi and Blood Smoke, then rejected the idea of casually subduing the Western Regions, explaining that he intended to unite and control the region fully.
• Jia Ba'er realized Lu Xingshi planned to dismantle the sects and martial forces that operated outside the court's authority, and he agreed with the prince.
• Abu Du La recalled seeing a black-robed person with bloody flesh beneath their clothing seven days earlier and suspected the figure was the Blood Smoke Skeleton recovering after feeding on villages.
• Lu Xingshi assigned Abu Du La to search for the figure and promised him a chance to learn the Golden Book Jade Scroll if he succeeded.
• Lu Xingshi said the Golden Book Jade Scroll could be cultivated alongside the Vajra Sect's inherited arts and could help improve them.

Zhao Kui sensed that Lu Xingshi’s Heavenly Mandate was influencing him and struggled to decide whether to flee or stay. After turning away from the choice suggested by a coin toss, he drove off Abu Du La over a disputed payment, then packed to leave before the encounter brought more trouble.

• Zhao Kui suspected that Lu Xingshi’s Heavenly Mandate was affecting him and feared the Prince of Yan would find and kill him.
• Zhao Kui tossed a coin to decide whether to leave, then stayed when it landed heads, believing Heaven was trying to lure him into danger.
• Abu Du La came to Zhao Kui’s door claiming Zhao Kui had underpaid by ten copper coins at Lin's Rice Shop.
• Zhao Kui threatened Abu Du La with his supposed illness, and Abu Du La left after appearing to panic.
• Zhao Kui feared Abu Du La might draw attention to his home, so he packed light and prepared to flee.

Lu Xingshi confronted Zhao Kui, an ancient martial artist who immediately surrendered and tried to win his favor. Though Zhao Kui offered loyalty and his Undying Nine Revolutions True Scripture, Lu Xingshi decided he was too dangerous to leave alive, and Zhao Kui desperately claimed he had something else to trade for his life.

• Zhao Kui rushed to embrace Lu Xingshi's thigh but failed to catch him, then groveled after recognizing the Prince of Yan.
• Lu Xingshi revealed that he had killed a Divine Weapon's owner and displayed many Divine Weapons, terrifying Zhao Kui with his ability to control them.
• Lu Xingshi invented a Divine Weapon Succubus Physique to explain his power, then demanded compensation and threatened to sell Zhao Kui's body if he could not pay.
• Zhao Kui pledged his service, and Lu Xingshi questioned him about his background before calling him an unstable factor.
• Zhao Kui offered the Undying Nine Revolutions True Scripture, but Lu Xingshi prepared to kill him, prompting Zhao Kui to claim he had something else worth his life.

Lu Xingshi learned that Grotto-heaven Ancestors planned to attack when he transformed into a True Dragon, but he trusted Yan Kingdom’s strength and considered turning their intervention into a trap. He gave Zhao Kui the Golden Book Jade Scroll to secure his place in Yan Kingdom, while Pei Ming cracked down brutally on martial-world captives who resisted Yan rule.

• Zhao Kui warned Lu Xingshi that Grotto-heaven Ancestors would send incarnations to disrupt his transformation, which could damage his Son of Heaven Destiny if he lacked sufficient national strength and Heavenly Mandate.
• Lu Xingshi concluded Zhao Kui had been drawn in to take disaster for him, dismissed the danger, and wondered how to provoke the Ancestors into appearing in person.
• Lu Xingshi gave Zhao Kui the Golden Book Jade Scroll and told him that advancement in Yan Kingdom depended on strength and achievement; after reading it, Zhao Kui resolved to train and rise through the Imperial Court.
• A disguised captive tried to assassinate Pei Ming, but a guard killed him, and Pei Ming ordered the captives to expose rebels or be killed.
• The Yan Army killed captives who resisted, and Pei Ming killed another man who shouted against Yan Kingdom’s rule.

Lu Xingshi refused Lu Geng’s attempt to enlist him in defending the martial world and learned that a mysterious man with a Xia Cai accent had sent the old martial artist to stop him. He suspected the Xia Cai Duan Family or the Sacred Fire Sect had prepared an opportunity for him and continued toward Eastern Ridge.

• Lu Xingshi returned toward Eastern Ridge after examining the Sword Qi and Poison Fire, while the Yan Army advanced into Saibei and the Western Regions.
• Lu Geng confronted Lu Xingshi on behalf of the martial world, accusing Pei Ming, Tian Fu, and others of persecuting martial artists and asking Lu Xingshi to intervene.
• Lu Xingshi rejected Lu Geng’s appeal and threatened to wipe out the martial world, causing several gathered martial artists to slip away.
• Lu Xingshi forced Lu Geng to reveal that a mysterious man with a Xia Cai accent had persuaded him to confront the Prince of Yan.
• Lu Xingshi spared Lu Geng and suspected the Xia Cai Duan Family, the Murong Clan, or the Sacred Fire Sect of setting up an opportunity for him.

Duan Long tried to escape his mother Mu Ying’s plot against Lu Xingshi, but his tunnel led him straight into Lu Xingshi’s hands. After revealing his identity as Prince of Yan, Lu Xingshi demanded an explanation, and Duan Long began blaming the Mu Clan.

• Mu Ying insisted her scheme to kill Lu Xingshi would succeed, while Duan Long feared it would destroy both the Duan Family and the Mu Clan.
• After Mu Ying left, Duan Long opened the tunnel he had dug to escape the Duan residence, but the tunnel collapsed and flooded.
• Lu Xingshi, fishing beside the pond while watching the residence, pulled the unconscious Duan Long from the water and revived him.
• Duan Long introduced himself without recognizing Lu Xingshi, who identified him as the Duan Family head and confronted him about the plot against his life.
• Lu Xingshi revealed that he was Prince of Yan and threatened the Duan Family, prompting Duan Long to blame the Mu Clan as Lu Xingshi donned the Divine Weapon Heavenly Garment.

After wiping out the Mu Clan, Lu Xingshi learned that the Mysterious Nether Sacred Flame was an embryonic Divine Weapon created by Former Yan and discovered how it had driven Mu Ying mad. He took the relic as a clue for his own Divine Weapon creation plans, while weighing the dangers of using Divine Weapons and consuming Heavenly Mandate and National Luck.

• Duan Long helped Lu Xingshi destroy the Mu Clan, then begged him to spare Mu Ying and offered Former Yan's secret arts and the Sacred Fire Sect relic.
• Lu Xingshi crippled Mu Ying's martial arts and identified her madness as an effect of the Mysterious Nether Sacred Flame, which had invaded her mind with malevolent energy.
• Lu Xingshi studied the Divine Fire Secret Strategy and learned that Former Yan had created the Blood Slave Shield as a semi-Divine Weapon before it was altered into the Mysterious Nether Sacred Flame.
• Duan Long led Lu Xingshi to the secret chamber, where Lu Xingshi examined the cold flame and concluded that it was an embryonic Divine Weapon whose Spirit had only begun to manifest after Former Yan's fall.
• Lu Xingshi learned that the Blood Slave Shield had required tens of thousands of deaths and considered whether Divine Weapon creation consumed Heavenly Mandate and National Luck, while recognizing that destroying Divine Weapons could bring backlash.

Lu Xingshi investigated the Sacred Fire Sect and discovered that the Mysterious Nether Fire had intelligence, while Zhao Kui rejected a Grotto-heaven Ancestor’s attempt to recruit him against Lu Xingshi. Zhao Kui committed himself more firmly to Yan Kingdom after seeing the power of the Golden Book Jade Scroll.

• Lu Xingshi read records showing that the Sacred Fire Sect had used the Mysterious Nether Fire in rites that sacrificed people to their ancestors.
• Lu Xingshi found that the Mysterious Nether Fire understood and obeyed simple commands, and considered researching it for True Qi Technology.
• Zhao Kui recovered his skin after cultivating the Golden Book Jade Scroll and detected a Grotto-heaven Ancestor’s projection watching him.
• The projection offered to erase Zhao Kui’s grievances with the Cave Heavens if he disrupted Lu Xingshi’s coronation ceremony.
• Zhao Kui refused the deal and shattered the projection with a punch.
• Zhao Kui celebrated the Golden Book Jade Scroll’s boost to his strength and resolved to stay close to Lu Xingshi and Yan Kingdom.

Lu Xingshi inspected preparations for his enthronement in the Capital and rejected Luo Lin’s attempts to persuade him to marry, explaining that he could not have children with ordinary people. Meanwhile, Zhao Kui fled an Ancestor Projection toward the Capital, but the projection chose to capture Wang Cai instead of pursuing him.

• Lu Xingshi questioned the lavish cost of his enthronement preparations, while Luo Lin insisted the Yan Kingdom could afford them.
• Luo Lin urged Lu Xingshi to marry and secure descendants, but Lu Xingshi proposed creating a small game character and explained that his strength made ordinary relationships impossible.
• Luo Lin abandoned the marriage discussion and hurried away, deciding that Pei Ming should handle it later.
• An Ancestor Projection hunted Zhao Kui, who escaped toward the Capital despite suffering a severe injury.
• The projection grabbed Wang Cai when it spotted the bear, and Zhao Kui used the distraction to run closer to the Capital.

Lu Xingshi learned that a Grotto-heaven Ancestor's projection had taken Wang Cai and rushed to search for it, but found no trace. Back in Yan Kingdom, Luo Lin put the newly surrendered Zhao Kui to work processing official documents while promising him a Bestowed Title.

• Lu Xingshi learned from Zhao Kui that Wang Cai had been taken north by a Grotto-heaven Ancestor's projection and immediately went after them.
• Luo Lin met the injured Zhao Kui, learned how he had survived his fight with the Ancestor Projection, and praised him for surrendering quickly.
• Luo Lin made Zhao Kui process a half-man-high stack of official documents, promising to record merit and request a Bestowed Title if he worked well.
• Lu Xingshi reached the scene but found that the Ancestor Projection and Wang Cai had disappeared without leaving a trace.
• Lu Xingshi checked Wang Cai's attributes, reasoned that it might have been taken as a Mountain Guardian Beast, and returned without publicizing the search.

Lu Xingshi learned that the Grotto-heaven Ancestors had taken Wang Cai and set an enthronement date so he could lure them into a trap. Meanwhile, Wang Cai struggled to understand his new captor, and the Ancestors confronted the Western Mysterious Ancestor over Zhao Kui's escape.

• Lu Xingshi healed Zhao Kui, then told him to report to Luo Lin for a position and ordered Luo Lin to prepare the enthronement ceremony for the fifteenth of next month.
• After learning the Western Regions had been pacified, Lu Xingshi planned to trap the Grotto-heaven Ancestors and ordered the Inner Guard and Dark Guard to investigate hidden threats across Yan Kingdom.
• The Western Mysterious Ancestor renamed Wang Cai Regret the Heavens and expected him to find food for himself, while Wang Cai realized he had lost his job and wanted to escape back to the Capital.
• The Western Mysterious Ancestor misunderstood Wang Cai's protests as an offer to provide food and agreed to eat a little.
• The Ancestor Projections criticized the Western Mysterious Ancestor for letting Zhao Kui escape and meet the Hidden Dragon, then ordered him to make up for the failure by maintaining the Yellow Sand Poison Fire in the north.

Lu Xingshi used the Yan Kingdom’s military strength and Heavenly Mandate to defeat the Grotto-heaven Ancestors’ incarnations during his coronation. After warning the survivors that their true bodies would die if they came again, he resumed the ceremony, while the Ancestors debated how they could possibly defeat him.

• Lu Xingshi tore apart the storm clouds with Divine Weapon Full Moon, interrupting the Grotto-heaven Ancestors’ declaration and killing several of their incarnations.
• Tian Fu’s troops fired Zhen Wu Gang Qi cannons at the incarnations, and Tian Jian, Song Can, Zhao Kui, and other celestial-sign warriors joined the battle.
• Lu Xingshi invoked the Purple Star Emperor and Yan Kingdom’s Heavenly Mandate, forcing the incarnations down and crushing most of them with a colossal palm.
• Lu Xingshi stopped the Western Mysterious Ancestor’s incarnation from self-destructing, killed it and the remaining survivors, and ordered the coronation to continue.
• The Grotto-heaven Ancestors sensed their incarnations’ deaths and fell silent as the Western Mysterious Ancestor challenged them to find someone capable of killing Lu Xingshi.

Lu Xingshi refused to accept the Mandate of Heaven and instead used the ascension ceremony to begin forging a Divine Weapon from his own weapons and the True Dragon transformation’s radiant glow. While the weapon began its eighty-one-day refinement, he discovered that his new True Dragon trait could revive his game character; meanwhile, the Jin Kingdom envoy despaired over his kingdom’s peril and his blocked route home.

• Lu Xingshi rejected the heavens’ authority over his rule, improvised a sacrificial text, and tossed it into the cauldron, triggering his True Dragon transformation.
• Lu Xingshi caught the radiant glow from the sky and melted his Divine Weapons in the cauldron to forge a Divine Weapon of his own, then sent everyone away while it refined for eighty-one days.
• Lu Xingshi inspected his True Dragon trait and found that it granted Influence Value-based revivals, then considered how to adapt the revival mechanism for his other game characters.
• The Jin Kingdom envoy returned to the Courier Station shaken by Lu Xingshi’s power and realized that the Yan Kingdom could overwhelm Jin if its forces entered the country.
• The Jin Kingdom envoy considered obtaining Lu Xingshi’s Golden Citadel Jade Emperor inheritance but concluded that he could neither acquire it nor return home through the Great Abyss Sword Qi and Yellow Sand Poison Fire.

Lu Xingshi forged the embryonic Divine Weapon All Under Heaven, which needed other nations’ Influence Value to grow, and decided to travel to Jin Kingdom after the Yellow Sand Poison Fire and Great Abyss Sword Qi blocked his army’s advance. He arranged for Luo Lin to protect Yan Kingdom’s food supply and continue its development while he was away.

• Lu Xingshi named the newly forged Divine Weapon All Under Heaven and discovered it combined the attributes of his fifteen Divine Weapons, but it would not consume Yan Kingdom’s Influence Value.
• Lu Xingshi concluded that the Yellow Sand Poison Fire and Great Abyss Sword Qi prevented his forces from reaching new sources of Influence Value, so he decided to leave Yan Kingdom and seek other Son of Heaven Destinies.
• Lu Xingshi proposed using a farming game’s warehouse for remote food allocation so True Qi Technology and martial arts training could continue during his absence.
• Lu Xingshi explained his plans to Luo Lin, who promised to secure a plot in the Capital and have Tian Fu and the Three Thousand Iron Cavalry guard the warehouse.
• Lu Xingshi instructed Luo Lin to maintain True Qi Technology research, monitor food distribution, prepare for the Grotto-heaven Forces’ return, and continue compulsory education.

Lu Xingshi completed the upper dantian stage of Divine Weapon All Under Heaven, then arranged a warehouse and ordered the Jin Kingdom envoy killed. Meanwhile, Western Mysterious Ancestor prepared to take Wang Cai out of Yan Kingdom, and Wang Cai reluctantly agreed.

• Lu Xingshi awakened the Great Saint Body trait and gained an extra True Qi Slot as Divine Weapon All Under Heaven formed its upper dantian.
• Lu Xingshi decided to leave Yan Kingdom for Jin Kingdom to find resources that could accelerate Divine Weapon All Under Heaven's growth.
• Lu Xingshi inspected the new warehouse, appointed a Game Villager as its keeper, and planned to create more Game Villagers to protect it.
• Luo Lin reported that the Jin Kingdom envoy was plotting to obtain Lu Xingshi's Golden Citadel Jade Emperor, and Lu Xingshi ordered the envoy killed.
• Lu Xingshi transferred food into the warehouse, where Game Villagers sorted it for distribution.
• Western Mysterious Ancestor threatened Wang Cai into leaving Yan Kingdom, and Wang Cai reluctantly agreed.

Lu Xingshi found Wang Cai in the desert after defeating two projections of the Western Mysterious Ancestor. He brought Wang Cai back into his care, discovered its injuries and growth, and planned to help it recover before making up for its missed training.

• Lu Xingshi followed Wang Cai’s footprints through the Yellow Sand Poison Fire, then destroyed the Western Mysterious Ancestor’s projection with his developing Great Handprint.
• Lu Xingshi accidentally flattened Wang Cai’s footprints, but Zhu Yan pointed him toward the bear’s trail.
• The Western Mysterious Ancestor tried to keep Wang Cai from Lu Xingshi and ordered it to flee, but Lu Xingshi destroyed the projection and Wang Cai returned to him.
• Wang Cai told Lu Xingshi about its harsh captivity and asked for its funeral affairs outfit, while Lu Xingshi noticed its increased humanity.
• Lu Xingshi examined Wang Cai, found numerous hidden injuries, and began preparing medicine before promising to make up its missed training.