Chapter Summaries

The three great families plotted to punish Li Changfeng while hiding their involvement, as Li Changfeng discussed controlling them with Murong Longbo. Murong Longbo agreed to learn the Life and Death Talisman from Li Changfeng and promised to teach and guide him after his wedding.

• The Changsun Family, Zhou Family, and Wu Family patriarchs decided to send dying Grandmasters to teach Li Changfeng a lesson and conceal the families’ responsibility.
• Li Changfeng counted one and a half million taels of silver seized from the three great families, and Commander Lu took him to Qian Heaven Palace.
• Murong Longbo praised Li Changfeng for handling the confiscations well and explained that he still needed the families’ army to face the coming calamity.
• Li Changfeng proposed using the Life and Death Talisman to control the families, and Murong Longbo agreed to learn the technique from him.
• Murong Longbo promised to teach Li Changfeng martial techniques and guide him after the wedding, putting Li Changfeng at ease about his father-in-law’s opinion of him.

Li Changfeng oversaw the three great families’ payment of their tax fines, then faced three elders who attacked him to avenge their fallen relatives. He fought them to a standstill, while Zhou Mingzong, Wu Tianyi, and Changsun Wu watched from a rooftop and revealed their hostility.

• Li Changfeng had a finance minister verify the silver and account books before ordering the fines carried away.
• The three elders declared they had come to avenge those Li Changfeng had killed in their shops and attacked him.
• Li Changfeng fought the three elders for more than a hundred moves while Zhou Mingzong, Wu Tianyi, and Changsun Wu watched from a rooftop.
• The elders unleashed their spear and sword techniques, and Li Changfeng countered with the Snow Silver Blade and Wind Listening Saber Technique.
• The four fighters’ attacks collided, blasting them apart and leaving the battle evenly matched.

Li Changfeng defeated three family elders who attacked him, then returned to his residence and welcomed Zhang Xuandao for a drink. Meanwhile, Murong Longzhan judged Li Changfeng’s strength and the others discussed reforms after seeing the Imperial City’s order.

• Li Changfeng overwhelmed the three elders with successive palm techniques, and they died standing after exhausting their life force in their final attacks.
• Li Changfeng saluted the dead elders and returned to his residence, while Changsun Wu and the other watchers planned to defeat and humiliate him.
• Murong Longzhan watched Li Changfeng and decided to let him join the Brocade-Clad Guard so he could guide Murong Zhan.
• Li Changfeng welcomed Zhang Xuandao, and the two drank wine while discussing the Daoist’s taste for food and drink.
• Wuqing, Tieshou, and Zhuiming admired the Imperial City’s order, and Wuqing suggested discussing reforms with their master when they returned to Eastern Zheng Province.

On his wedding day, Li Changfeng faced three trials imposed by Zhou Mingzong, Wu Tianyi, and Changsun Wu before he could marry Princess Minmin and Zhou Zhiruo. He challenged all three men at once, and the chapter ended as Zhou Mingzong offered to let him make the first three moves.

• Li Changfeng reunited with Princess Minmin and Zhou Zhiruo, who reassured each other before the wedding rites.
• Zhou Mingzong halted the ceremony and announced that Li Changfeng had to pass three trials, with Wu Tianyi and Changsun Wu setting the other challenges.
• Murong Longbo approved the trials, and Li Changfeng agreed to face all three men together.
• The three family patriarchs urged their disciples to crush Li Changfeng, while Zhou Mingzong offered him three moves first.

Li Changfeng overwhelmed Zhou Mingzong in their three-move contest, then faced Wu Tianyi in a fierce duel. Their first clash ended in a powerful explosion as Murong Longzhan contained the shockwave, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Li Changfeng used Force Intent to crush Zhou Mingzong's spear and drive him back, then struck him with two more attacks despite Zhou's claim that he would not fight back.
• Li Changfeng shattered Zhou Mingzong's Dragon Guard Divine Armor with a palm strike and broke through it again with his Dominating Leg Technique, knocking Zhou unconscious.
• The Zhou family ancestor grew furious, but Murong Longbo's cold stare forced him to suppress his killing intent.
• Wu Tianyi attacked Li Changfeng with Falling Goose Strike, and Li answered with Hundred Leaves Sky-Burning Hand.
• The attacks collided in a violent explosion, and Murong Longzhan raised an energy barrier to contain the shockwave.

Li Changfeng and Wu Tianyi traded increasingly powerful attacks, with neither gaining the upper hand until Li Changfeng’s defensive technique let him survive a collision that injured Wu Tianyi. Wu Tianyi then unleashed his final sword form, Flying Goose Chasing the Moon, and its locked-on strike rushed toward Li Changfeng.

• Li Changfeng repelled Wu Tianyi’s Sword Qi Soaring with Thousand Leaf Sunset Hand, and their attacks ended in a draw.
• Wu Tianyi attacked with Flying Goose Strike, but Li Changfeng countered with Three Thousand Great Tathagatas.
• Both fighters were thrown into Murong Longzhan’s Star-Shifting Astral Barrier, where Li Changfeng’s Indestructible Vajra Body protected him while Wu Tianyi was injured.
• Wu Tianyi declared that Li Changfeng would win if he could withstand one final move, then unleashed Flying Goose Chasing the Moon.
• Wu Tianyi’s white-goose sword strike locked onto Li Changfeng and charged toward him through the void.

Li Changfeng defeated Wu Tianyi and then faced Changsun Wu, who attacked him with increasingly powerful sword rays. After Li Changfeng blocked Changsun Wu’s concealed sword-intent strike, he counterattacked with Dragon Subduing Eighteen Palms.

• Li Changfeng defeated Wu Tianyi with Soaring Dragon Ascends and left him injured and devastated.
• Changsun Wu challenged Li Changfeng to compare swordsmanship, but Li Changfeng refused to draw his sword.
• Changsun Wu’s ordinary scarlet sword rays failed to penetrate Li Changfeng’s Indestructible Vajra Body.
• Changsun Wu secretly attacked with a sword ray carrying minor mastery sword intent, but Li Changfeng stopped it with his palms.
• Li Changfeng counterattacked with Hidden Dragon, Do Not Use, sending a crimson dragon-shaped palm imprint toward Changsun Wu.

Li Changfeng fought Changsun Wu in a series of clashes before defeating him with a single sword strike. Changsun Wu lost his sword, suffered a serious wound, and was left devastated as the three patriarchs concealed their anger.

• Li Changsun Wu blocked Li Changfeng's Hidden Dragon, Do Not Use with his sword curtain, and the two traded powerful attacks that ended in a draw.
• Li Changfeng and Changsun Wu clashed again with Soaring Dragon Ascends and Rainbow Pierces the Sun, but neither could gain the advantage.
• Zhang Xuandao urged Li Changfeng to finish the fight, and Li Changfeng decided to stop holding back.
• Changsun Wu attacked with Sun-Piercing Red Lotus Slash, but Li Changfeng pierced through his sword qi, shattered his longsword, and wounded his right hand and shoulder with one strike.
• Changsun Wu fell to his knees and admitted defeat, while the Changsun Family's patriarch and the other patriarchs hid their anger and resolved to target Li Changfeng if they got the chance.

Li Changfeng completed the wedding rites with Princess Minmin and Zhou Zhiruo, then celebrated with a feast. After Murong Longbo gave him a potent Jade Flask, Li Changfeng spent the night with his wives and, the next morning, went to prepare roast chicken for them.

• Li Changfeng and the two women completed the wedding rites, with Murong Longbo and Fu Hu and Jianglong blessing the marriage.
• Li Changfeng celebrated at the wedding feast until after midnight, when Murong Longbo gave him a Jade Flask and urged him to go to Minmin.
• The next morning, Li Changfeng joked with Zhou Zhiruo and Princess Minmin, then reassured Murong Longbo that the night had gone well.
• Li Changfeng went to the imperial kitchen, roasted two chickens, and carried them toward Princess Minmin's room.

The Zhou, Wu, and Changsun Family patriarchs plotted to assassinate Li Changfeng, believing the imperial court still needed their forces to face a coming calamity. Murong Longzhan overheard them and moved to arrest them, but the patriarchs resisted with powerful attacks.

• The Zhou, Wu, and Changsun Family patriarchs agreed to wait for Li Changfeng to leave the imperial palace before sending someone to assassinate him.
• Murong Longzhan appeared, confronted the patriarchs over their plot, and announced that he had come to take them in.
• Murong Longzhan trapped the three patriarchs with Cosmos Shift Qi and declared Li Changfeng more valuable than their three families combined.
• Murong Longzhan attacked with the first move of Star Shift, Shifting Stars.
• The Zhou Family patriarch, the Wu Family patriarch, and the Changsun Family patriarch broke through Murong Longzhan's pressure and launched their strongest techniques against him.

Murong Longzhan subdued the three great family ancestors with the Life and Death Talisman and warned them not to target Li Changfeng. At dinner, Murong Longbo offered to teach Li Changfeng a move from the Star Shift, and Murong Longzhan arranged for his son to join the Brocade-Clad Guard in exchange for teaching Li Changfeng a sword technique.

• Murong Longzhan defeated the three ancestors, planted blood talismans in them, and forced them to pledge obedience to the royal family.
• Murong Longzhan revealed that Li Changfeng also knew the Life and Death Talisman, leaving the ancestors afraid to provoke him.
• Li Changfeng, Princess Minmin, and Zhou Zhiruo joined Murong Longbo, Murong Longzhan, and Murong Zhan for dinner, where Li Changfeng explained what had happened.
• Murong Longbo offered to teach Li Changfeng one move from the Murong Family's Star Shift.
• Murong Longzhan asked Li Changfeng to train his son in the Brocade-Clad Guard and promised to teach Li Changfeng a sword technique the next day.

At the Royal Training Grounds, Murong Longzhan taught Li Changfeng and Murong Zhan his Heaven's Wrath Sword Fingers. The chapter ended with both students eager to master its devastating final move, though they still needed to develop the required intents.

• Li Changfeng arrived at the Royal Training Grounds and found Murong Longbo and Murong Longzhan sparring while Murong Zhan watched.
• Murong Longzhan demonstrated the Human Sword, blasting a hole into a golden hill with a lightning sword beam.
• Murong Longzhan used the Earth Sword to send lightning pillars through the hill, and Li Changfeng recognized that the move required Thunderclap Intent.
• Murong Longzhan agreed to guide Li Changfeng and Murong Zhan in mastering Thunderclap Intent before demonstrating the Heaven Sword.
• Murong Longzhan unleashed the Heaven Sword, destroying half the golden hill, and Li Changfeng and Murong Zhan were awed by its power.

Murong Longbo taught Murong Zhan and Li Changfeng about Star Shift, but Li Changfeng chose to keep cultivating the Muscle/Tendon Change Classic rather than abandon it. Murong Longbo accepted his choice and demonstrated Star Shift’s first move, while his advice reignited Murong Longzhan’s desire to break through his cultivation bottleneck.

• Murong Longbo offered to teach Murong Zhan Star Shift and explained that mastering its force required profound inner strength.
• Murong Longbo urged Li Changfeng to abandon his Muscle/Tendon Change Classic and cultivate Star Shift Force, but Li Changfeng hesitated.
• Li Changfeng revealed that the Shaolin Abbot had entrusted him with the Muscle/Tendon Change Classic and that he hoped to reclaim its missing half from Northern Buddha.
• Murong Longbo accepted Li Changfeng’s decision to keep his current cultivation method and promised to teach him Star Shift’s techniques.
• Murong Longbo’s words stirred Murong Longzhan’s will to overcome his cultivation bottleneck, and Murong Longbo demonstrated Star Shift’s first move, Shifting Stars.

After three years of secluded cultivation, Li Changfeng had grown much stronger and planned to seek Draconic Elephant Root in Western Shu Province. A sudden visit then brought Zhou Zhiruo face-to-face with a masked woman who claimed to be her biological mother.

• Li Changfeng reached the middle stage of Grandmaster and decided to search the Hundred Thousand Mountains for Draconic Elephant Root.
• Li Changfeng and Princess Minmin scolded and playfully disciplined their mischievous son, Li Jilong, while Zhou Zhiruo arrived with Feng'er.
• A Brocade-Clad Guard announced that visitors from Northern Di City had come to see Li Changfeng.
• Qingyi and Ziyi brought a masked Black-Clothed Woman to meet Li Changfeng.
• The Black-Clothed Woman removed her mask and told a stunned Zhou Zhiruo that she was her biological mother.

The Black-Clothed Woman revealed that she was Zhou Zhiruo’s mother, Li Qiulu, and explained that the Three Evil Sects had hunted her for her Yin-Nether Blood. She asked Murong Longbo to avenge her husband and destroy the sects, and he agreed to help.

• Li Qiulu proved her identity to Li Changfeng with Zhou Zhiruo’s flame-shaped birthmark, then explained why she had left Zhou Zhiruo at Emei.
• Li Qiulu told Zhou Zhiruo that her father had died protecting them from two powerful enemies, and Zhou Zhiruo reconciled with her mother.
• Li Changfeng realized Li Qiulu wanted to seek help from His Majesty and took her to Imperial Heaven Hall.
• Li Qiulu revealed herself to Murong Longbo and recounted how the Three Evil Sects had pursued her Yin-Nether Blood and killed her husband, Daolong.
• Li Qiulu asked Murong Longbo to organize the continent against the Three Evil Sects, and he agreed to help avenge Daolong.

Li Qiulu prepared to travel to Central Province with Murong Longzhan and Li Changfeng to report to the Zhenwu Taoist Sect and reunite with her son, Zhang Xuandao. Meanwhile, Guichouxin and Shi Wuming plotted to use Zhou Zhiruo to draw Li Qiulu out.

• Li Qiulu said she would go to the Zhenwu Taoist Sect, and Murong Longzhan offered to escort her with Li Changfeng.
• Li Qiulu revealed that Zhou Zhiruo was Zhang Xuandao's younger sister and that her true surname was Zhang; Li Changfeng agreed to join the escort.
• Princess Minmin revealed she was pregnant, so Li Changfeng asked her to stay behind while the convoy prepared to leave the next morning.
• Li Changfeng led Li Qiulu and Murong Longzhan toward Central Province with Brocade-Clad Guards, while Murong Longzhan stayed concealed in a carriage.
• Guichouxin told Shi Wuming that the Demon Lord had ordered them to find Li Qiulu within a year, then proposed targeting Zhou Zhiruo to lure her out.
• Shi Wuming offered men to help Guichouxin watch Zhou Zhiruo, while Guichouxin privately suspected Shi Wuming only wanted credit.

Li Changfeng exposed an underground ambush by ten peak Grandmasters from the Ghost King Sect and the Corpse Refining Sect, who demanded that he surrender Zhou Zhiruo. After killing one attacker with a sword strike, he faced a coffin attack from another as the fight continued.

• Li Changfeng sensed danger near the Heavenly Barrier Cable Bridge and ordered Murong Zhan and the Thousand-Household Commanders to protect the people on the bridge.
• Li Changfeng stomped the ground, exposing and killing hidden attackers beneath it.
• Ten peak Grandmasters emerged and demanded that Li Changfeng hand over Zhou Zhiruo.
• Li Changfeng killed one of the ten with a lightning-infused sword strike, frightening the remaining attackers.
• A green-faced Grandmaster launched a poisoned coffin at Li Changfeng, who countered with the Hundred Leaves Sky-Burning Hand.

Li Changfeng destroyed a Corpse Refining Sect zombie and killed its blue-faced Grandmaster with Star Shift. He then crushed a group attack from the remaining Grandmasters, leaving the battle’s survivors facing his overwhelming strength.

• Li Changfeng evaded the zombie’s claws and smashed its head into its body with a thunderous palm.
• The blue-faced Grandmaster ambushed Li Changfeng, but Li Changfeng immobilized him with Star Shift and twisted him apart.
• Murong Longzhan praised Li Changfeng’s use of Star Shift, while Murong Zhan watched and studied his techniques.
• The pale-faced Ghost King Sect Grandmaster led five others in a coordinated assault on Li Changfeng.
• Li Changfeng shattered their combined attack with the Great Subduing Demon Fist and blasted all five attackers into bloody mist.

Li Changfeng defeated the unorthodox cultivators who attacked him, while Murong Longzhan intervened to kill two late-stage Acquired Realm experts. After interrogating one attacker about the attempt to capture Zhou Zhiruo, Li Changfeng realized the threat to her identity remained, and the group resolved to hurry to the Zhenwu Taoist Sect.

• Li Changfeng killed the last Grandmaster with thunder sword qi after his punch had overwhelmed five peak Grandmasters.
• Two late-stage Acquired Realm experts from the Ghost King Sect and Corpse Refining Sect killed the fleeing Grandmasters, then attacked Li Changfeng.
• Murong Longzhan froze the two experts in place and twisted one apart while Li Changfeng questioned the survivor about Zhou Zhiruo.
• The surviving expert claimed the sects wanted to capture Zhou Zhiruo to force Li Changfeng to submit, but Li Changfeng recognized his lie and Murong Longzhan killed him.
• Li Qiulu regretted nearly exposing her daughter, and Zhou Zhiruo urged her to focus on reaching the Zhenwu Taoist Sect.

Li Changfeng and his group reached Black Tortoise City on their way to the Zhenwu Taoist Sect, while Guichouxin and Shi Wuming deduced their destination and ordered another ambush. Their pursuers sent powerful fighters to intercept them before they reached Wudang Mountain.

• Li Changfeng led his group into Central Province and rested at a tavern in Black Tortoise City, where they tried the city's flaming beef and wine.
• Guichouxin and Shi Wuming discussed the failed ambush and agreed they still needed to capture Zhou Zhiruo.
• Guichouxin concluded that Li Changfeng was escorting Li Qiulu to the Zhenwu Taoist Sect and that a powerful expert was traveling with them.
• Guichouxin and Shi Wuming ordered their forces to send fighters to Black Tortoise City to kill Li Changfeng's group.