Chapter Summaries

Jia Xing Tian found an infant in the Imperial Palace’s forbidden back mountain and named him Jia He, unaware at first that the child had transmigrated into the world of Battle Through the Heavens. After awakening Heaven-Defying Insight, Jia He comprehended the Qi Scripture and became a Dou Zhe as an infant, leaving Jia Xing Tian and the Nether Sea Flood Dragon astonished.

• Jia Xing Tian and the Nether Sea Flood Dragon discussed the Misty Cloud Sect’s threat and the Imperial Family’s lack of capable heirs.
• Jia Xing Tian found a crying infant in the forbidden back mountain and, with the Nether Sea Flood Dragon’s approval, named him Jia He.
• Jia He realized he had transmigrated into Battle Through the Heavens and received Heaven-Defying Insight.
• When Jia Xing Tian examined Jia He’s aptitude, Jia He comprehended the Qi Scripture and began absorbing spiritual energy.
• Jia Xing Tian shielded the back mountain as Jia He’s Dou Qi surged, then condensed into the Dou Zhe realm.
• Jia Xing Tian and the Nether Sea Flood Dragon marveled at Jia He’s infant breakthrough and resolved to raise him well.

Jia Xing Tian brought the extraordinarily gifted infant Jia He into the imperial family, where he grew into a prodigy over three years. At three, Jia He sat with Yaoyue in the palace garden as she tried to persuade him to sneak out, only for Yaoye to catch them.

• Jia Xing Tian introduced Jia He to Yaoye and Yaoyue, explaining that the infant had reached the Dou Zhe realm and naming him their younger brother.
• Over the next three years, Jia He mastered cultivation methods and Dou skills with astonishing speed and reached the nine-star Da Dou Shi realm.
• In the palace garden, Yaoyue covered Jia He's eyes and asked him to guess who she was, then urged him to come outside and play.
• Jia He reminded Yaoyue that Yaoye had previously scolded her for sneaking out, but Yaoyue hoped Jia He's presence would persuade their sister to let them go.
• Yaoye entered the pavilion and caught Yaoyue asking Jia He to sneak out.

Jia He advised Yaoye on strengthening the Jia Ma Empire and gave her a cultivation method for the army. After Yaoye left to arrange its distribution, Jia Xing Tian planned to take Yaoyue to meet an alchemy master, and Jia He agreed to go with them to the Alchemist Association.

• Yaoye explained that dwindling Imperial Family talent and disloyal elements threatened Jia Ma from within, despite the empire’s ability to hold off neighboring empires.
• Jia He urged Yaoye to settle internal troubles, strengthen the army, and build ties with the Mittel Family, then gave her his Basic Cultivation Method.
• Jia Xing Tian confirmed that the Mittel Family had a missing Dou Emperor Grand Elder known as the Ice Emperor and praised Jia He’s method as suitable for training soldiers.
• Jia Xing Tian said he would take Yaoyue to meet Master Chimeil at the Alchemist Association, and Jia He agreed to go with her and learn alchemy.

Jia Xing Tian brought Jia He and Yaoyue to the Alchemist Association, where Fama and Mitchell tested their soul strength and offered to teach them alchemy. Jia He revealed that he was already a nine-star Da Dou Shi, leaving Fama shocked.

• Jia Xing Tian took Jia He and Yaoyue to meet President Fama and Vice President Mitchell at the Alchemist Association.
• Jia He and Yaoyue tested their soul strength, and Jia He's crystal ball blazed far brighter than Yaoyue's.
• Fama offered to teach Jia He alchemy, while Mitchell accepted Yaoyue as his disciple.
• Jia Xing Tian arranged for Yaoyue to begin learning alchemy, and Jia He followed Fama to the pill-refining chamber.
• When Fama said he would teach Jia He to refine pills after he reached Dou Zhe, Jia He revealed he was already a nine-star Da Dou Shi.

Jia He rapidly learned medicinal refinement, became a first-tier alchemist, and used his newfound knowledge to cultivate a medicinal field in the royal palace. Three months later, as he wondered what fighting technique to pursue, the lotus and koi at Azure Lotus Pond began inspiring him.

• Jia He revealed he was three years old and a nine-star Da Dou Shi, then quickly learned to control cauldron flames and extract medicinal ingredients under Fama's instruction.
• Jia He comprehended the Medicinal Dao Method and Medicinal Pill Dao, then refined a first-tier Injury-Healing Pill and was recognized as a first-tier alchemist.
• Jia Xing Tian praised Jia He's talent and told him to keep his achievements secret, while Yaoyue asked him to answer her questions as well as teach her.
• Jia He had a medicinal field made in the palace's back mountain and used his methods to turn ordinary ingredients into spiritual herbs over three months.
• Jia He wondered whether to learn fist, palm, or weapon techniques, then noticed the lotus and koi movements at Azure Lotus Pond and became absorbed in them.

After comprehending the Azure Lotus Sword Art, Jia He advanced to Dou Ling with the help of magical beast essence blood and learned that the Jia Ma Empire’s sacred Raging Tide Dragon Beast was near death. Five years later, Jia He was a three-star Dou Wang and fifth-tier alchemist, and he set out for the Mittel Grand Auction House to find materials for a sword of his own.

• Jia He comprehended the Azure Lotus Sword Art and absorbed the Raging Tide Dragon Beast’s essence blood, breaking through to Dou Ling.
• Jia Xing Tian told Jia He that the Raging Tide Dragon Beast was gravely injured and had little lifespan remaining, and Jia He said he might one day become a high-tier alchemist who could help it.
• Five years passed, during which Jia He reached three-star Dou Wang and fifth-tier alchemist while keeping his abilities secret from the public.
• Jia He struggled to forge a longsword strong enough for the Azure Lotus Sword Art, and Yaoyue persuaded him to accompany her to the Alchemist Association.
• After leaving Yaoyue at her lesson, Jia He directed the carriage to the Mittel Grand Auction House.

Jia He visited the Mittel Grand Auction House seeking iron hard enough to forge a sword and met the steward Ya Fei. After the Heavenly Meteoric Iron shattered in his hand, Ya Fei brought him an unidentified blackish-green object that resisted his Dou Qi.

• Jia He entered the Mittel Grand Auction House with two guards and asked to meet the family’s upper management.
• Ya Fei learned that an imperial family member had arrived and hurried downstairs to receive Jia He.
• Jia He introduced himself to Ya Fei and asked for the hardest iron available to forge into a sword.
• Ya Fei brought several pieces of Heavenly Meteoric Iron, but Jia He shattered one with his Dou Qi and rejected them as too weak.
• Ya Fei retrieved a strange stone-like object from the treasury, and Jia He found that his Dou Qi could not move it.

Jia He bought the Meteoric Iron he needed to forge a weapon, while Mu Chen sought the Mittel Family’s help supplying the imperial army. At the Grand Auction House’s entrance, Ya Fei was confronted by Mu Zhan, the person she least wanted to see.

• Jia He discovered a trace of Tear-Green Immortal Gold in a stone and decided to use ordinary Meteoric Iron to forge a longsword.
• Mu Chen asked Elder Olin to supply weapons and large quantities of medicinal ingredients for the imperial army, offering a five-million-gold deposit.
• Mu Zhan met Elder Olin and invited himself to accompany him to the Mittel Grand Auction House to see Ya Fei.
• Ya Fei delivered Jia He’s Meteoric Iron, charged him nine hundred thousand gold coins, and gave him a VIP card.
• Ya Fei escorted Jia He outside, where Mu Zhan called out to her.

Jia He protected Ya Fei from Mu Zhan’s unwanted advances and ordered his guards to beat Mu Zhan whenever he returned. Meanwhile, Mittel Teng Shan learned of a large Mu Clan order and suspected the royal family was preparing for something beyond a war of expansion.

• Mu Zhan confronted Ya Fei and tried to take her away, but Jia He stepped in and ordered his guards to seize him.
• Jia He’s guard revealed himself as a Dou Spirit expert, then beat Mu Zhan and threw him back to his soldiers.
• Jia He told Ya Fei he was eight years old, reassured her, and ordered his guards to keep beating Mu Zhan if he harassed her again.
• Elder Olin delivered the Mu Clan’s order and deposit to Mittel Teng Shan, who wondered what the clan needed the weapons and medicinal ingredients for.
• Teng Shan told Olin he suspected the royal family had greater ambitions than expanding the empire’s borders.

Mitel Tengshan agreed to fulfill the Mu Clan’s supply request and let Ya Fei train at the imperial capital’s Yellow-Rank Auction House. At the Alchemist Association, Jia He began refining a sixth-grade Primordial Rank-Breaking Pill with President Fama, who hoped to learn from the process.

• Mitel Tengshan told Elder Olin to gather supplies for the Mu Clan and deliver them to the imperial capital within half a year.
• Elder Olin told Ya Fei that she could train at a lower-city auction house, but she refused and accepted a position at the imperial capital’s Yellow-Rank Auction House instead.
• Jia He visited President Fama at the Alchemist Association and agreed to study a sixth-grade pill formula with him.
• Jia He began refining the Primordial Rank-Breaking Pill, and President Fama urged him to continue despite the approaching end of Yaoyue’s lesson.

Jia He refined a sixth-tier medicinal pill in President Fama’s alchemy room while Yaoyue watched, and the pill’s formation triggered an immense surge of energy. The pill burst through the cauldron and punched a hole through the ceiling, leaving the Alchemist Association rocked by an explosion.

• Yaoyue finished her lesson with Master Mitchell and waited for Jia He at President Fama’s office.
• Fama told Yaoyue that Jia He was helping him refine a sixth-tier medicinal pill, so she chose to stay and watch.
• Jia He spent a day refining the ingredients, then began fusing them as Fama and Yaoyue observed.
• After two days, a pill embryo formed and drew in a violent surge of energy that alarmed Fama and frightened Yaoyue.
• The pill released powerful energy ripples, blasted the cauldron lid away, and punched through the stone chamber’s ceiling.
• A thunderous explosion spread outward from the Alchemist Association.

A spectacular Sixth-Rank Pill drew powerful figures to the Alchemist Association, where Jia He let Fama take credit for the refinement and gain recognition for his breakthrough. Yun Yun noticed Jia He and Yaoyue’s talent but learned they belonged to the Imperial Family, leaving them outside her reach as potential Misty Cloud Sect disciples.

• Yun Yun and Gu He sensed the Sixth-Rank Pill’s energy and flew from the Misty Cloud Sect toward the Imperial Capital.
• Jia Xing Tian, Nalan Jie, Mu Chen, and Mitel Tengshan rushed to the Alchemist Association after seeing the pillar of light.
• Jia He stopped the pillar of light, handed the pill to Fama, and suggested that Fama claim the refinement.
• Fama thanked Jia He for the insights that helped him approach the Sixth-Rank Alchemist realm, then welcomed the arriving dignitaries.
• Gu He confirmed the pill’s rank, and the gathered figures congratulated Fama while Jia Xing Tian praised the benefit to the Imperial Family.
• Yun Yun considered recruiting Jia He and Yaoyue, but Jia Xing Tian told her they were members of the Imperial Family, so she abandoned the idea.

Fama and the others celebrated the Alchemist Association’s new Sixth-Rank Alchemist, while Jia He secretly gained the complete Soul Formula after refining a sixth-rank pill. As Jia He reassured Yaoyue and returned to the palace, Jia Xing Tian told him that his sister Yaoye wanted to speak with him.

• Yun Yun, Teng Shan, Nalan Jie, and Mu Chen promised to send congratulatory gifts to Fama, and Jia Xing Tian proposed a banquet for the next day.
• Nalan Jie asked Yun Yun to let Nalan Yanran attend the banquet, and Yun Yun agreed before leaving with Gu He.
• Jia Xing Tian asked Fama about the banquet and learned that Fama expected to reach the sixth rank within six months, while Fama noted that Jia He’s identity remained a secret.
• Jia He gained the complete Soul Formula through Heaven-Defying Comprehension and realized his soul force had reached the peak of the Mortal State.
• Jia He comforted Yaoyue when she felt discouraged about falling behind him, promising he would never abandon her.
• Jia Xing Tian praised Jia He in the carriage and told him that Yaoye wanted to speak with him after they returned to the palace.

Jia He urged Yaoye and Jia Xing Tian to assert imperial control over Salt City and the Mo Clan, while the imperial family prepared to act and publicly recognize Jia He as an adopted prince. At the Misty Cloud Sect, Nalan Yanran told Yun Yun she had a fiancé in Wu Tan City and planned to end their engagement herself.

• Yaoye told Jia He that the empire’s finances were nearly exhausted despite years of training five thousand Imperial Guards.
• Jia He proposed taxing major cities and targeting the Mo Clan in Salt City, arguing that the empire should not yield to the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Jia Xing Tian agreed with Jia He, admitted he had been too cautious, and learned that Jia He had become a Sixth-Rank Alchemist.
• Yaoye agreed to prepare the Mu Clan and the empire for a possible military deployment to Salt City.
• Jia Xing Tian told Jia He he would formally introduce him as an adopted imperial prince the next day.
• Nalan Yanran told Yun Yun that she had a fiancé in Wu Tan City and intended to break off the engagement once she was strong enough.

Nalan Yanran told Yun Yun she intended to break off her engagement and persuaded her to attend Fama’s banquet with her. Meanwhile, Yaoye’s tax decree prompted the Mo Clan and Salt City’s officials to falsify records, so Yaoye sent Mu Chen and ten thousand Imperial Guard soldiers to destroy the clan.

• Nalan Yanran told Yun Yun she planned to break off her engagement after becoming the Misty Cloud Sect’s Young Sect Master, and Yun Yun agreed to support her if she acted with proper etiquette.
• Yun Yun agreed to accompany Nalan Yanran to Fama’s banquet after Nalan Yanran argued that Gu He could not represent the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Yaoye issued a decree requiring cities to pay forty percent of annual tax revenue, with major cities also owing three years of back taxes.
• Mo Cheng and the Mo Clan elders rejected the decree and decided to submit fabricated tax records and pay three and a half million gold coins.
• City Lord Bo'er agreed to help the Mo Clan falsify its records after the clan invoked the Misty Cloud Sect’s backing.
• After learning of the false response, Yaoye ordered Mu Chen to take ten thousand Imperial Guard soldiers to Salt City and wipe out the Mo Clan.

Jia Xing Tian brought Jia He to the Alchemist Association banquet, where he met Ya Fei and mingled with the empire’s leading families and sects. Jia Xing Tian then introduced Jia He as a prince and announced that the empire would begin reforms, warning the gathered leaders to discipline their juniors and disciples.

• Yaoyue grew jealous when Ya Fei greeted Jia He, while Yaoye and Yaoyue warned him to be cautious around outsiders.
• Mitel Tengshan arrived with the Mittel Family, and Ya Fei asked Jia He to reserve the family’s newly acquired meteorite iron for him.
• Mu Zhan saw Jia He beside Ya Fei and, remembering his beating, kept away from them.
• Ya Fei noticed Mu Zhan cowering and told Jia He and Yaoye that she understood the value of strength over relying on a powerful backer.
• Yun Yun and Gu He arrived with Liu Ling and Nalan Yanran as the banquet gathered the capital’s leading dignitaries.
• Jia Xing Tian introduced Jia He as a royal prince and announced imperial reforms, urging the gathered clans and sects to keep their juniors in check.

Yun Yun learned that Yun Leng had secretly tied the Misty Cloud Sect to the Mo Clan and sent elders to defend Salt City, so she stripped him of his position, but he fled the sect. Meanwhile, Mu Chen’s army reached Salt City and conquered it, and the chapter ended with Yun Leng’s whereabouts unknown.

• Jia Xing Tian told Yun Yun that the Mo Clan had defied the imperial family and that Mu Chen was leading troops to Salt City, while Yun Yun agreed to investigate the clan’s ties to the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Yun Leng admitted that Mo Cheng had become an outer sect elder and that he had sent three elders to help the Mo Clan, prompting Yun Yun to remove him as Grand Elder and order him to the Cliff of Reflection.
• Yun Leng refused the punishment and flew away from the Misty Cloud Sect, while Yun Yun explained that his seniority made confronting him difficult.
• Mu Chen led a thirty-thousand-strong army to Salt City, where its defenders refused to obey the imperial order to open the gates.
• Mu Chen smashed Salt City’s gates and his army quickly took the city.
• A Law Enforcement Hall elder reported that Yun Leng had fled the sect instead of going to the Cliff of Reflection.

Mu Chen led imperial troops to Salt City, executed the City Lord's family, and attacked the Mo Clan under an imperial order. Yun Leng intervened and fought Mu Chen, while Mu Chen's deputy general continued the extermination in his absence.

• Yun Yun learned that Yun Leng had gone to Salt City and flew there to stop him from clashing with Mu Chen.
• Mu Chen had City Lord Bo'er beheaded, exiled his family, and confiscated their property before leading troops to the Mo Clan.
• Mu Chen declared the Mo Clan condemned under an imperial military order and struck First Elder Mo Cheng aside as his soldiers attacked.
• Yun Leng arrived, blasted imperial soldiers with his Dou Qi, and challenged Mu Chen after Mo Cheng begged him to save the clan.
• Mu Chen fought Yun Leng in the air, then signaled his deputy general to slaughter the Mo Clan and seize its property.

After the royal family destroyed the Mo Clan, Yun Yun stopped Yun Leng from interfering and accepted the Empire’s handling of the affair. Yaoye reported the northeastern provinces’ submission to Jia He, who urged her to build the royal family’s own force and train for the Empire’s expansion.

• Yun Yun arrived at Salt City, separated Yun Leng and Mu Chen, and reprimanded Yun Leng for defying her orders.
• Yun Yun struck Yun Leng and ordered him to return to the Misty Cloud Sect, then told Mu Chen the sect would not object to the Mo Clan’s punishment.
• Mu Chen returned to Salt City to manage the aftermath, while news of the Mo Clan’s destruction spread across the northeastern provinces.
• Yaoye told Jia He that the northeastern factions had begun submitting taxes, and Jia He said the royal family needed to cultivate its own power.
• Jia He offered to create cultivation methods and told Yaoye to train with him daily so she could grow stronger and pursue the Empire’s expansion.

Jia He forged a powerful longsword from Meteoric Iron, infused it with Magic Core energy, and inscribed it with Dao Patterns using Tear-Green Immortal Gold. He showed it to Jia Xing Tian, who learned that it could withstand Peak Dou Emperor Dou Qi and multiply the force of attacks, leaving them wondering how to test its power safely.

• After Yaoye left, Jia He went to his alchemy room to forge a longsword from Meteoric Iron.
• Jia He infused the sword with energy from several low-tier Magic Cores and a fifth-tier Earth Ice Crocodile Magic Core.
• Jia He inscribed Dao Patterns onto the sword using Tear-Green Immortal Gold, then cut a sturdy medicinal cauldron in half without using Dou Qi.
• Jia Xing Tian arrived, examined the sword, and channeled his Dou Qi into it as Jia He explained its power.
• Jia Xing Tian worried that testing the sword would require a Dou Zong expert to withstand its attacks.