Chapter Summaries

Xu Qing condensed the Darkness Law Body, learned that the Great Zhou Martial Kingdom was only a small part of the vast Xuanhuang Realm, and agreed to meet Ye Langtian in the Central Great Tang in five years. He mastered the Devouring Law and Pure Yang Law, then began cultivating another Buddhist inheritance to advance toward mastering more Laws.

• Xu Qing completed his Darkness Law Body, and Wang Miao reported that the Lords of the Nine Provinces planned to overthrow the Great Zhou Martial Kingdom in three years and seize its Law Ore Vein.
• Ye Langtian told Xu Qing he had broken through to the Fourth Realm, mastered the Devouring Law, and would soon be taken to the Central Great Tang; he also explained the scale of the Xuanhuang Realm and the Sea of Chaos.
• Xu Qing agreed to travel to the Central Great Tang in five years and used the Omni-Codex to combine the Devouring Demonic Art's secret methods into its complete form.
• Xu Qing cultivated the Devouring Demonic Art to LV50, mastered the Devouring Law, and began nurturing a Law Primordial Spirit.
• Xu Qing mastered the Pure Yang Law through the Great Sun Vajra Scripture and began cultivating the Dragon Subduing and Tiger Subduing Divine Art.

Over three years, Xu Qing mastered eighteen more laws, upgraded his weapons, and replaced Cangzhou’s Dao Bell with a stronger treasure before upgrading the Dao Bell itself. Wang Miao then led Cangzhou’s million-strong army to join the Nine Provinces Alliance for its campaign against Emperor Yuanwu.

• Xu Qing emerged from cultivation with twenty-two laws mastered, while Wang Miao reminded him that the Nine Provinces Alliance would soon march against Emperor Yuanwu.
• Kaya brought Xu Qing his accumulated items, and he upgraded his weapons and treasures to LV50, raising the Black Dragon Cauldron and Law Sword to LV30.
• Xu Qing replaced the Cangzhou Dao Bell in the Myriad Spirits Four Symbols Great Formation with the LV50 Wooden Buddhist Bell, preserving and strengthening the formation.
• Xu Qing upgraded the Cangzhou Dao Bell to LV10, transforming it into a perfect law artifact.
• Wang Miao prepared eleven Cangzhou Warships and led Cangzhou’s million-strong army to join the other eight provinces in the campaign against Emperor Yuanwu.

Wang Miao led Cangzhou’s army to Jiuzhou Mountain, where the Lords of the Nine Provinces assembled a ten-million-strong alliance to campaign against Emperor Yuanwu. Xu Qing joined for the Law Ore Vein and other cultivation resources, while Emperor Yuanwu faced the approaching army amid signs that his ministers had turned against the Great Zhou Imperial Court.

• Wang Miao led eleven Cangzhou Warships to Jiuzhou Mountain, where he met the Lords of Yongzhou, Shenzhou, and Yangzhou as they discussed the Great Zhou Imperial Court’s forces.
• Xu Qing rested aboard the Number One Cangzhou Warship and prepared to seize the Law Ore Vein by force, regardless of which side won.
• Guo Anshi and the other provincial lords arrived with their armies, and the Nine Provinces Alliance gathered ten million troops and set out for the Great Zhou Imperial City.
• Wang Miao informed Xu Qing that the alliance was advancing to attack the Great Zhou Imperial Court.
• Emperor Yuanwu Zhou Di heard that the alliance was approaching, while Xiao Yin and Bai Wuyu urged him to decide how to respond and the silent ministers appeared to have helped the provinces break away.

Hong Ding Tian and Bai Wuyu led five million Great Zhou troops to confront the ten-million-strong Nine Provinces Alliance Army at Jiuzhou Mountain, and the two sides began a fierce battle. Xu Qing entered the battlefield disguised as Huo Yuanjia and attacked a Great Zhou general with a powerful sword strike.

• Zhou Di appointed Hong Ding Tian as Town Guardian Grand Marshal and Bai Wuyu as his deputy, ordering them to lead the Yuanwu Army and Royal City Guard Army against the rebels.
• Hong Ding Tian and Bai Wuyu arrived at Jiuzhou Mountain with fifty warships and five million troops, where the Nine Provinces Alliance Army had assembled under Wang Miao.
• Hong Ding Tian rejected the alliance’s accusations against the Great Zhou court and attacked, while Wang Miao and the other leaders fought back with the army’s baleful energy.
• The battle spread across the sky as commanders and soldiers from both sides clashed, and Xu Qing watched from the Number One Cangzhou Warship before entering the fight in disguise.
• Xu Qing introduced himself as Great Hero: Huo Yuanjia and struck a Great Zhou general with three combined swords.

Xu Qing, posing as Huo Yuanjia, cut down Great Zhou generals and confronted Hong Ding Tian on the battlefield. Their duel began with Hong Ding Tian shattering Xu Qing’s Great Sun Tathagata, and Hong Ding Tian declared that Xu Qing would die beneath his saber.

• Xu Qing killed a Great Zhou Martial Kingdom general with his combined swords, then devoured and refined the general’s origin and Laws.
• Xu Qing attacked other Fourth Realm generals, killing or wounding them and absorbing the corpses with the Great Devouring Art.
• Hong Ding Tian struck Xu Qing with Baleful Dragon Slash, but Xu Qing blocked him with a combined-sword attack.
• Xu Qing identified himself as Great Hero: Huo Yuanjia and argued that he opposed Emperor Yuanwu’s tyranny, while Hong Ding Tian defended his own loyalty and the emperor’s pursuit of immortality.
• Xu Qing attacked Hong Ding Tian with the Great Sun Tathagata, but Hong Ding Tian shattered it with his Hegemonic Saber and vowed to kill Xu Qing.

Xu Qing used six LV50 items from different paths to form a Twelve Layered Law Domain and overwhelm Hong Ding Tian’s Yuanwu Saber strikes. Hong Ding Tian continued the duel with his fifth form, but Xu Qing shattered it and left him facing the superior power of his domain.

• Hong Ding Tian summoned the Great Zhou army’s formation and channelled its black true dragon into the Yuanwu Saber.
• Hong Ding Tian struck Xu Qing with his first four saber forms, and Xu Qing blocked the first two before the third split his Three Swords Combined apart.
• Xu Qing summoned six LV50 items from different paths and formed a Twelve Layered Law Domain that shattered Hong Ding Tian’s Moon Cutter strike and injured him with the backlash.
• Hong Ding Tian questioned how Xu Qing could wield items from six paths, and Xu Qing explained that the Omni-Codex let him cultivate across conflicting paths without harm.
• Hong Ding Tian launched his fifth form, Godslayer, but Xu Qing’s Law Chains shattered the strike, and Xu Qing remarked that the Yuanwu Saber was not strong enough.

Xu Qing defeated and killed Hong Ding Tian with the combined power of his items, then devoured his origin and laws to reach Soul Law Realm Great Accomplishment. The Great Zhou army retreated, and Bai Wuyu reported the defeat to Emperor Yuanwu, warning him about the powerful fighter known as Huo Yuanjia.

• Hong Ding Tian summoned the Great Zhou Dragon Sparrow Saber from the Imperial Palace and attacked Xu Qing with his sixth and seventh saber forms, but Xu Qing’s Law domain and combined sword strike overwhelmed him.
• Xu Qing killed Hong Ding Tian and used the Great Devouring Art to refine his origin and laws, raising his Law Imprints and breaking through to the Soul Law Realm.
• With Hong Ding Tian dead, Bai Wuyu ordered the Great Zhou army to retreat, while Wang Miao and the Nine Provinces Alliance Army secured the battlefield and guarded Xu Qing as he cultivated.
• After half a day of refining, Xu Qing reached Soul Law Realm Great Accomplishment and suppressed the backlash from the laws he had absorbed.
• Bai Wuyu returned to Great Zhou Imperial City and told Emperor Yuanwu that the mysterious Huo Yuanjia had defeated Hong Ding Tian and might have reached the pinnacle of the Fourth Realm.

As the Nine Provinces Alliance Army advanced on the Great Zhou Imperial City, Xiao Yin prepared the Nine Nether Demon Subduing Great Formation to kill Huo Yuanjia, while Yue Ling used her ancestor’s tokens to break the city’s defenses. The alliance reached the imperial walls, and Zhou Di’s ministers refused to lead the defense, leaving him to face the crisis alone.

• Xiao Yin proposed using the Nine Nether Demon Subduing Great Formation to kill Huo Yuanjia, and Zhou Di ordered him to prepare it.
• Xu Qing left after taking Hong Ding Tian’s Yuanwu Saber and Great Zhou Dragon Sparrow Saber, then returned to the warship disguised as Master Ouyezi.
• The Nine Provinces Alliance Army spent days assaulting the nine Guardian Royal Cities, and Yue Ling revealed nine Martial Emperor Formation Breaking Tokens made by her ancestor, Yue Fei.
• Wang Miao and the other Lords used the tokens to destroy the Zhou Tian Wu Huang Great Formation’s foundations, allowing the alliance army to defeat the defenders and advance.
• The Nine Provinces Alliance Army surrounded the Great Zhou Imperial City, but Zhou Di’s ministers made excuses to avoid leading its defense.

Bai Wuyu led Great Zhou’s defense of the imperial city, using its weakened City Protection Great Formation to repel the Nine Provinces Alliance Army’s first assault. With the enemy encamped outside and Huo Yuanjia still missing, the court sought a way to draw him out, and the Minister of Rites volunteered despite knowing his days were numbered.

• Zhou Di gave Bai Wuyu command of the three armies and ordered him to defend the imperial city.
• The Nine Provinces Alliance Army surrounded the city, and Bai Wuyu activated the weakened State Protection Great Formation to protect it.
• Wang Miao and the other alliance leaders attacked, but the formation withstood their assault while Great Zhou’s defenders struck back.
• After a day of heavy losses without breaking the formation, the alliance army halted its assault and camped outside the city.
• Bai Wuyu reported the outcome to Zhou Di, and Xiao Yin asked whether Huo Yuanjia had appeared; Bai Wuyu said he had not.
• The court discussed drawing Huo Yuanjia out, and the Minister of Rites volunteered to lure him despite his declining health.

Minister of Rites Li Bu'an accepted Zhou Di’s decree and confronted the Nine Provinces Alliance Army, revealing his formidable Confucian Path cultivation. He drove the alliance’s leaders back and called on Huo Yuanjia to show himself.

• The court learned Li Bu'an intended to fight, and Zhou Di ordered him to repel the rebels.
• Li Bu'an arrived outside the city and summoned fierce winds against the Nine Provinces Alliance Army.
• Xu Fengnian and the other leaders challenged Li Bu'an, but he manifested a mountain of books, a sea of letters, and a Confucian Sage phantom.
• Li Bu'an overwhelmed the army’s formation and blasted Wang Miao and the others away with one move.
• Li Bu'an called into the void, saying he had acted for Huo Yuanjia’s sake and demanding that he appear.

Xu Qing, disguised as Huo Yuanjia, defeated and killed Li Bu'an, then began devouring his origin while Xiao Yin attacked with the Nine Nether Demon Subduing Great Formation. As Xu Qing's Law domain came under pressure, his LV50 Wooden Dummy appeared, poised to join the other six items.

• Xu Qing transformed into Huo Yuanjia and faced Li Bu'an on the battlefield.
• Li Bu'an unleashed his ultimate attack, but Xu Qing's Twelve Layered Law Domain stopped it just short of his brow.
• Xu Qing killed Li Bu'an with the Great Devouring Art and began refining his origin and laws, revealing that his cultivation was at Soul Law Realm Great Accomplishment.
• Xiao Yin attacked Xu Qing with the Nine Nether Demon Subduing Great Formation while Wang Miao's forces and Bai Wuyu's army clashed around them.
• The Nether Dragons battered Xu Qing's defensive Law domain until his LV50 Wooden Dummy emerged, ready to resonate with his six other LV50 items.

Xu Qing used LV50 treasures from eight paths to overpower Xiao Yin’s Nine Nether Demon Subduing Great Formation and reached Soul Law Realm Perfected by devouring Li Bu'an. He stopped absorbing Li Bu'an’s origin to avoid the Devouring Demonic Art’s backlash, then launched a combined sword attack at Xiao Yin.

• The LV50 Wooden Dummy raised Xu Qing’s Law Domain from twelve layers to fourteen, allowing it to block Xiao Yin’s formation as Xu Qing continued refining Li Bu'an’s origin.
• Xiao Yin summoned multiple Nine-headed Nether Dragons, which shattered the Fourteen Layered Law Domain’s defenses.
• Xu Qing revealed the LV50 Visualization Mirror, raising his domain to sixteen layers and reversing the battle by trapping Xiao Yin inside it.
• Xu Qing reached Soul Law Realm Perfected with 365 Law Imprints, then stopped devouring Li Bu'an because further gains risked a backlash.
• Xu Qing combined the LV50 Iron Sword, LV50 Soaring Dragon Sword, and LV50 Copper Coin Sword into a strike aimed at Xiao Yin.

Xu Qing killed Xiao Yin, shattered the Great Zhou Imperial City’s protective formation, and entered the palace seeking the Law Stone mine vein. Meanwhile, Emperor Yuanwu Zhou Di’s secret plan to sacrifice the people for immortality was revealed, and the Nine Provinces Alliance Army clashed with Great Zhou’s forces.

• Xu Qing’s sword destroyed Xiao Yin’s formation and killed him, prompting Bai Wuyu to retreat with Great Zhou’s army.
• Emperor Yuanwu Zhou Di watched the officials panic and secretly revealed that he controlled the Blood Demon Cult, had cultivated immortality and demonhood together, and planned a Blood Sacrifice of All Beings.
• Xu Qing demanded the location of the Law Stone mine vein, then broke the City Protection Great Formation when Bai Wuyu claimed not to know.
• Wang Miao led the Nine Provinces Alliance Army into the imperial city, where it fought Bai Wuyu’s forces.
• Xu Qing sensed the imperial palace and explained that he sought Law Stones while he waited for the Devouring Demonic Art’s side effects to fade.
• Xu Qing struck Bai Wuyu aside and reached the gates of the Great Zhou Imperial Palace.

Xu Qing stormed the Great Zhou Martial Kingdom’s imperial palace, killed its guards and Grand State Preceptor, and demanded the Law Stone Vein. Emperor Yuanwu Zhou Di revealed his Perfect Law Realm Perfection cultivation and his role in orchestrating the kingdom’s bloodshed, as the Sacrificial Dao Great Formation neared completion.

• Xu Qing killed more than ten thousand Imperial Palace Guards with his Sixteen Layered Law Domain and reached the Imperial Palace Grand Hall.
• True Immortal Daoist attacked Xu Qing, but Xu Qing suppressed and killed him.
• Xu Qing entered the Golden Palace Hall and asked Emperor Yuanwu Zhou Di about the Law Stone Vein.
• Zhou Di revealed his Immortal-Demonic Cultivation and three thousand Law Imprints, showing that he had reached Perfect Law Realm Perfection.
• Zhou Di’s hidden scheme was exposed: he had engineered the Imperial Dragon Qi’s collapse, founded the Blood Demon Cult, and fueled chaos and death to pursue the Fifth Realm.
• The Sacrificial Dao Great Formation was nearly complete.

Zhou Di revealed his plan to sacrifice the Nine Provinces and refused to give Xu Qing the dragon vein, forcing them into battle. Zhou Di’s strength overwhelmed Xu Qing’s defenses, and the chapter ended with Xu Qing adapting through combat while still at a disadvantage.

• Zhou Di completed the Sacrificial Dao Great Formation across the Nine Provinces and planned to sacrifice the land and its dragon vein to reach the Fifth Realm.
• Zhou Di combined immortal and demonic cultivation, summoned the Undying Heavenly Saber, and broke through Xu Qing’s Sixteen Layered Law Domain.
• Xu Qing attacked with Three Swords Combined, but Zhou Di blocked the strike with his Blood Demon Armor.
• Zhou Di tore apart Xu Qing’s Great Darkness Art and pressed the attack with his Blood Demon Spear as the two fought into the sky.
• Xu Qing was wounded and fell behind, but he found that fighting Zhou Di helped him master his Law Imprints and reduce the side effects of the Devouring Demonic Art.

Xu Qing fought Zhou Di and countered his powerful immortal and demonic treasures with the upgraded Cangzhou Dao Bell. As Zhou Di began activating the Sacrificial Dao Great Formation, Xu Qing nearly killed him, but the Imperial Dragon Qi appeared and shielded the fiendish emperor.

• Zhou Di attacked Xu Qing with the Immortal Seal of Immortality and Blood Demon Divine Light Token, overwhelming his swords and shattering his Sixteen Layered Law Domain.
• Xu Qing summoned the LV10 Cangzhou Dao Bell, which repelled the Blood Demon Divine Light Token and shocked Zhou Di with its power.
• Zhou Di acknowledged Xu Qing’s strength and began activating the Sacrificial Dao Great Formation.
• Xu Qing attacked Zhou Di with Four Swords Combined and the Cangzhou Dao Bell, sending both of Zhou Di’s treasures flying.
• A golden five-clawed True Dragon formed from the Imperial Dragon Qi and blocked Xu Qing’s near-fatal strike against Zhou Di before shattering away.

Zhou Di revealed that he had sacrificed the imperial family to reclaim Imperial Dragon Qi, then activated a formation to blood sacrifice the Great Zhou Martial Kingdom and reach the Fifth Realm. As the Crystal True Dragon emerged from the kingdom’s dragon vein and civilians across the Nine Provinces began dying, Xu Qing attacked Zhou Di again while Cangzhou’s defenses struggled to hold.

• Zhou Di revealed that he had extracted the Imperial Dragon Qi from the Crown Prince, Imperial Princes, and other imperial relatives, killing them to form the wisp that blocked Xu Qing’s Cangzhou Dao Bell.
• Grand eunuchs exposed the imperial family’s dried corpses, and the officials realized Zhou Di had murdered them.
• Zhou Di activated the Sacrificial Dao Great Formation across the Nine Provinces and declared that he would sacrifice the world to enter the Fifth Realm.
• The Great Zhou dragon vein emerged as a massive Crystal True Dragon made of Law Stones, which Xu Qing recognized as the Law Stone Vein he had sought.
• The formation began draining civilians throughout the kingdom, while Cangzhou’s Myriad Spirits Four Symbols Great Formation resisted the sacrifice only temporarily.
• Xu Qing sent his Cangzhou Dao Bell at Zhou Di again, and Zhou Di’s Crystal True Dragon charged to meet it.

Xu Qing and the gathered experts challenged Zhou Di, whose Sacrificial Dao Great Formation let him draw on the lives of the Great Zhou Martial Kingdom to grow stronger and recover from their attacks. As the battle continued, the formation began sacrificing even cultivators and supernatural beings, leaving Zhou Di increasingly empowered.

• Xu Qing's Cangzhou Dao Bell clashed evenly with Zhou Di's dragon vein, and Xu Qing realized he could not defeat Zhou Di or break the formation alone.
• Twelve Perfect Law Realm Perfection experts and hundreds of other Fourth Realm experts gathered in the Great Zhou Imperial City to stop Zhou Di's sacrifice.
• The experts formed the Four Directions Eight Paths Formation, which manifested as a three-headed, six-armed Dharma Aspect that fought Zhou Di's dragon vein.
• Xu Qing joined the twelve supreme experts in attacking Zhou Di, but the formation repeatedly healed him and made him stronger as the battle dragged on.
• Zhou Di transformed the formation's patterns and expanded its sacrifices, causing cultivators and supernatural beings across the Nine Provinces to be drained into blood mist.

Xu Qing and the other experts exhausted their trump cards to kill Zhou Di, with Xu Qing’s upgraded Ancient Bow and Ancient Arrow piercing his head. Just as the Sacrificial Dao Great Formation stopped, it began operating again with three layers, and a strange transformation started inside Zhou Di’s headless corpse.

• The Sacrificial Dao Great Formation absorbed more life origins, grew to two layers, and made Zhou Di stronger as Xu Qing and the others realized they could not kill him without Fifth Realm power.
• Cang Lingzi and the other experts revealed their Fifth Realm-level trump cards, while Xu Qing brought out his LV50 Ancient Bow and Ancient Arrow.
• The experts attacked Zhou Di with their trump cards, and Zhou Di spent Sacrifice Dao Energy to raise his strength to the pseudo Fifth Realm.
• Xu Qing infused his Sixteen Layered Law Domain into the Ancient Bow and Ancient Arrow, then shot Zhou Di through the forehead, destroying his head and stopping the formation.
• The formation suddenly resumed, formed a third layer, and began a strange transformation inside Zhou Di’s headless corpse.

Zhou Di’s Sacrificial Dao Great Formation reached its final, five-layered form, sacrificing the Great Zhou Martial Kingdom’s inhabitants and overwhelming its defenders. Xu Qing remained protected only temporarily by the Cangzhou Dao Bell as the chapter ended with Cang Lingzi being refined.

• Zhou Di revived as a headless aberration after Xu Qing destroyed his head, and his Sacrificial Dao Power struck Xu Qing’s Cangzhou Dao Bell without harming him.
• The formation shattered the Myriad Spirits Four Symbols Great Formation and Xu Qing’s Wooden Buddhist Bell as its power grew to affect increasingly powerful beings.
• The formation seized the Great Zhou Martial Kingdom’s dragon vein and developed into a five-tiered altar, allowing its power to affect even Fifth Realm existences.
• Fengdu Ghost King, the Demon Lord, the Devil Master, and other powerful figures were refined into mist and absorbed by the formation.
• Xu Qing used the Cangzhou Dao Bell to resist the formation, but realized it could last only about ten minutes, while Cang Lingzi pleaded for a way to stop Zhou Di.
• Cang Lingzi was refined into mist and sacrificed, leaving Xu Qing facing the completed formation alone.