Chapter Summaries

Jiang Shu returned home for New Year’s Eve after slaying a Fourth Order Ferocious Flood Dragon, and he spent the holiday with his family while recovering from the Blood Burst Pill’s effects. The chapter ended with him revealing that he had risen from twenty-third to first on the Grandmaster Rankings and agreeing to fight Shang Jibei’s father in a month.

• Jiang Shu let the military driver detour to visit his parents for New Year’s Eve before continuing to Jicheng.
• Jiang Shu reunited with Jiang Yan Yue, redirected her attack, and agreed to visit their maternal grandparents with their parents.
• Jiang Shu proposed buying his grandparents a home near a hospital, and his family celebrated New Year’s Eve together.
• Jiang Shu allowed Jiang Yan Yue to pursue Academy ring matches but said he would show her where Hidden Force martial artists went once she reached that realm.
• Shang Jibei told Jiang Shu that his father wanted a match to seek insight into breaking through to Dan Jin, and Jiang Shu scheduled it for a month later.
• Jiang Shu told Jiang Yan Yue that he had risen from twenty-third to first on the Grandmaster Rankings.

Jiang Shu and his family visited their maternal relatives for the New Year, where they learned that Xu Yunyun’s relationship with Jiang Weixing was in trouble because his father opposed it and wanted him to go on a blind date. Jiang Shu took Weixing’s phone and invited his father to meet the family, introducing himself as Jiang Shu of Jicheng.

• Jiang Shu drove Jiang Yan Yue and his father to visit their maternal grandparents and relatives for the New Year.
• At Xu Dayong’s home, the family met Xu Yunyun’s boyfriend, Jiang Weixing, and discussed his plans to marry her.
• Jiang Weixing revealed that his father was a Hidden Force martial artist who ran a martial arts school and wanted him to go on a blind date.
• Jiang Weixing’s father threatened to make Xu Yunyun’s family suffer if Weixing did not return, leaving the family shocked and Xu Yunyun in tears.
• Jiang Shu took Weixing’s phone, called his father, gave him the family’s address, and invited him to meet them before judging the couple.

Jiang Shu’s family witnessed Jiang Yuntian apologize and offer more than a hundred million in betrothal gifts after learning Jiang Shu’s standing as a Grandmaster. Ten days later, Jiang Shu arrived at West Lake to face Shang Sigou, and their battle began with Shang’s spear thrust and Jiang Shu’s Summer Thunder blade strike.

• Jiang Yuntian rushed to the Xu Family home, knelt before Jiang Shu, and offered properties and bankbooks as betrothal gifts for Jiang Weixing and Xu Yunyun.
• Jiang Shu told his relatives to arrange the wedding, then bought his maternal grandparents a house and recovered by absorbing Ferocious Flood Dragon essence blood.
• Jiang Yuntian brought Jiang Weixing to West Lake, where Hidden Force martial artists and prominent figures gathered for the announced duel between Grandmaster Jiang and Grandmaster Shang.
• Shang Sigou arrived at the lake’s center and demonstrated his spear art’s first form, Turning the Tide, cleaving apart the waves Jiang Shu sent toward him.
• Jiang Shu descended from a helicopter, stamped the lake into towering waves, and answered Shang Sigou’s attack with his blade art, Summer Thunder.

Jiang Shu fought Shang Sigou across West Lake as Shang built momentum toward a Dan Jin breakthrough, while Jiang Shu’s Four Seasons Swordplay advanced and he revealed the ability to condense water into snow. As Shang unleashed his seventeenth spear form, Jiang Shu answered with an avalanche-like slash, and the chapter ended with his cousin Jiang Weixing realizing Jiang Shu was the Grandmaster ranked first below Dan Jin.

• Jiang Shu and Shang Sigou clashed across West Lake, using Transforming Force to turn the water and wind into weapons as the watching Grandmasters assessed their skill.
• Jiang Shu used the battle to improve his Four Symbols Viscera Transformation Force and Four Seasons Swordplay, while Shang Sigou’s spear momentum grew as he pursued a breakthrough into Dan Jin.
• Jiang Shu froze lake water into ice and snow with Winter Snow, shocking the spectators, while Shang continued building toward his eighteenth spear form.
• Zhuang Xiuqi judged that Jiang Shu was disadvantaged and would need to interrupt Shang’s buildup, but Jiang Shu chose to keep fighting rather than yield.
• Winter Snow reached Mastery, and Jiang Shu raised towering water curtains that turned to snow before unleashing an avalanche-like slash against Shang’s seventeenth spear form.
• At the Double Fish Building, Jiang Weixing learned that Jiang Shu was his cousin and the Grandmaster ranked first; the rankings described Jiang Shu as foremost beneath Dan Jin.

After their West Lake battle, Shang Sigou explained his evolving view of Dan Jin as a union of the body, mind, and heaven and earth, and thanked Jiang Shu for disrupting his premature breakthrough. Jiang Shu considered how Dan Jin might shape his future in the Great Jing Dynasty, where he hoped to overcome stronger cultivation methods and dominate the rankings.

• Martial artists replayed Jiang Shu and Shang Sigou’s destructive West Lake battle and discussed Jiang Shu’s standing and Shang Sigou’s interrupted chance to advance to Dan Jin.
• Shang Sigou told Jiang Shu that he planned to travel because the battle had made him question his Dao.
• Shang Sigou explained that true Dan Jin required more than gathering essence, qi, and spirit: the dan, human, and heaven and earth had to merge.
• Shang Sigou thanked Jiang Shu’s Winter Snow move for stopping him from achieving what he believed would have been an illusory Dan Jin breakthrough.
• Jiang Shu compared Dan Jin with the Great Jing Dynasty’s Body Refining, Qi Refining, and Spirit Refining, then considered how mastering it could help him surpass his rivals.

After Shang Sigou’s battle with Jiang Shu, Shang explained how each needed to deepen his understanding of himself and Heaven and Earth, and warned that growing international tensions made travel abroad dangerous. Jiang Shu continued advancing in both worlds, then saw Chen Yongze declare a blood feud with the Fusang Martial Artists over an incident in Myanmar.

• Shang Sigou reflected on how his battle had brought him close to the Dan Jin Grandmaster realm and advised Jiang Shu to consider how he himself could embody the Four Seasons Swordplay.
• Jiang Shu gained insight into his swordplay, while Shang warned that nations were competing for Heaven and Earth Secret Realms and that martial artists faced grave risks abroad.
• Jiang Shu considered how smaller nations were being pressured by great powers and hoped Xia Kingdom would gain more territory and Grade B Heaven and Earth Secret Realms.
• Over the following months, Jiang Shu trained in Grade C Secret Realms, advanced his Four Symbols True Strength, and took a Small Chao Yuan Pill.
• Jiang Shu checked the Martial Artist Alliance and saw Chen Yongze announce an irreconcilable blood feud with the Fusang Martial Artists over Myanmar.

After reading Chen Yongze’s account of Fusang martial artists ambushing and killing his brother in Myanmar’s Heaven and Earth Secret Realm, Jiang Shu reconsidered his connection to Xia Kingdom. He asked for details about the attackers and declared that he would go to Fusang to kill.

• Chen Yongze described how Fusang martial artists disguised as Myanmar martial artists ambushed him and his brother, Chen Yongshan, in the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm, killed Chen Yongshan, and left him unable to recover the body or prove what happened.
• Martial Artist Alliance members and online commenters expressed hatred toward Myanmar and Fusang while recognizing Xia Kingdom’s limited options without evidence.
• Jiang Shu read the post and realized that treating Xia Kingdom as merely a springboard for his own advancement had kept him from merging with heaven and earth.
• Jiang Shu asked Chen Yongze to describe the attackers’ physical features and martial arts, reasoning that they could be identified as notable Fusang fighters below the Grandmaster realm.
• Jiang Shu declared that he would go to Fusang to kill.

Jiang Shu traveled to Fusang Country to hunt the killers responsible for harming Xia Kingdom citizens and advance toward Dan Jin. At a nightclub, he confronted Hamasaki Takahiro and began a fight while Hua Yanqing witnessed his strength.

• Jiang Shu publicly declared his intention to go to Fusang Country, and a Shengjing military officer arranged weapons and protection for his parents.
• Jiang Shu sailed to Fusang Country, where he met Hua Yanqing and then obtained a handgun and an Alloy Battle Blade.
• Jiang Shu identified Hamasaki Takahiro as the nightclub-owning killer and went to the club to find him.
• Hua Yanqing recognized Jiang Shu at the nightclub, and he warned her to leave Fusang Country early with the other tourists.
• Hamasaki Takahiro tried to seize Hua Yanqing, but Jiang Shu slammed him onto a glass table and asked where his two underlings were.

Jiang Shu crippled Hamasaki Takahiro, defeated the Huangwu Dojo’s fighters and master, and faced Fusang security forces in a display of overwhelming power. After capturing their bullets and killing the sniper and most of the guards, he urged the survivors to summon more people so he could continue building his killing aura.

• Jiang Shu crippled Hamasaki Takahiro, sent Hua Yanqing back toward the cruise ship, and dragged Takahiro to the Huangwu Dojo.
• Jiang Shu smashed the dojo signboard with Takahiro and defeated Noma Yuta with a single kick.
• Makita Toshihiko attacked Jiang Shu, but Jiang Shu shattered the Grandmaster’s body and subdued him.
• Fusang security forces arrived and fired ten guns at Jiang Shu, who caught all the bullets in his palm.
• Jiang Shu returned the bullets, killing the guards and sniper while an explosion damaged a nearby residence, then told the surviving guards to call for more people.

Jiang Shu slaughtered Fusang Grandmasters and troops at Huangwu Dojo, his battle pushing his essence, energy, and spirit toward Dan Jin. The chapter ended with him bloodied and fighting his way from the coast toward Tokyo.

• Jiang Shu killed the Huangwu Dojo guards and forced Noma Yuta to call Kishimoto Eiichi while Makita Toshihiko lay beneath his feet.
• Fusang troops surrounded Jiang Shu and opened fire, but he used Makita Toshihiko as a shield and then evaded the bullets with Hurricane Three Transformations.
• Jiang Shu killed the soldiers with bone shards, killed Uchiyama Nobuo, and struck down the arriving Kishimoto Eiichi with a pebble.
• Xia Kingdom agents recorded the killings, and Chen Yongze learned that Jiang Shu had avenged the Hidden Force martial artists murdered in Myanmar's Secret Realm.
• A later video showed Jiang Shu killing another Grandmaster and breaking through an armed detachment of fifty men as he fought from the coast toward Tokyo.

Jiang Shu faced Fusang’s Sword God, Ikeya Seishun, in Tokyo after Ikeya revealed he had broken through to a higher realm. As Ikeya unleashed a deadly sword strike, Jiang Shu’s White Tiger True Strength reached mastery and he entered the Blood Exchange Realm.

• Fusang’s Prime Minister ordered the military to stand down and arranged for Ikeya Seishun to challenge Jiang Shu in Tokyo to showcase Fusang Martial Dao.
• Jiang Shu rejected Xia Kingdom’s offer of emergency evacuation and continued toward Tokyo, where Fusang martial artists gathered for the duel.
• Ikeya Seishun returned to youth before the crowd, confirming that he had broken through and gained a higher realm.
• Ikeya declared that Jiang Shu could not understand his sword path and unleashed a sword strike intended to kill him.
• Jiang Shu cleaved apart Ikeya’s tornado and challenged Fusang’s Sword God, while his White Tiger True Strength reached mastery and transformed into the Blood Exchange Realm.

Jiang Shu defeated Ikeya Seishun after surviving the Sword God’s Falling Star strike and killing him atop Tokyo Tower. As the tower collapsed and Fusang forces closed in, Jiang Shu escaped through the earth toward Yongning Prefecture in the Great Jing Dynasty.

• Ikeya Seishun’s Howling Wind and Waterfall Severing sword techniques clashed with Jiang Shu’s saber, and both fighters suffered wounds.
• Ikeya Seishun leaped from Tokyo Tower with his Falling Star strike, but Jiang Shu met him in midair with the Four Seasons Swordplay and shattered the tower’s steel frame.
• Ikeya Seishun remained standing amid the rubble, but Jiang Shu climbed back onto the tower and revealed he had survived the exchange.
• Jiang Shu struck Ikeya Seishun into an iron pillar, then carried him up the tower as Fusang forces advanced with tanks, aircraft, and snipers.
• Tokyo Tower collapsed, Ikeya Seishun’s lifeless body flew from the smoke, and Jiang Shu escaped underground toward Yongning Prefecture.

After Jiang Shu killed Ikeya Seishun and escaped Fusang’s hunt, Xia Kingdom officials awarded him Special Merit and honored his family in Jicheng. While recovering in the Great Jing Dynasty, Jiang Shu unified his past and present selves and broke through to Dan Jin.

• Ikeya Seishun died, and Fusang Martial Artists and troops searched the Tokyo Tower wreckage but could not find Jiang Shu.
• Xia Kingdom Martial Artists celebrated Jiang Shu’s victory, while leaders decided to award him Special Merit and reassure his parents that he was alive on a classified mission.
• Jiang Yongyi, Xu Lizhi, and Jiang Yan Yue returned to Qingjiang Garden, where soldiers unveiled a plaque honoring Jiang Shu as a Special Merit Hero.
• An elderly military official told Jiang Yongyi that Jiang Shu had rendered great service and was not in mortal danger, leaving the villagers stunned by the honor.
• In the Great Jing Dynasty, Jiang Shu recovered with medicinal pills, reconciled his past and present selves, and achieved Dan Jin.

Jiang Shu sought the Danxia Merchant Guild’s guidance on obtaining a Superior Grade Cultivation Method and accelerated his cultivation while unable to return to Xia Kingdom. After Zhang Ruo invited him to the Zhang Family’s Prefecture City Genius Meet, he agreed to go with her.

• Jiang Shu reflected on his Dan Jin breakthrough and resolved to reach the Aperture Opening Realm before attempting to return to Fusang.
• Su Mingchun explained that Jiang Shu would need to join the Danxia Merchant Guild headquarters and choose a faction to obtain a Superior Grade Cultivation Method.
• Jiang Shu accepted Su Mingchun’s offer of ordinary pills and weapons, then returned to cultivate with the Four Symbols Viscera Transformation Force by day and the Great Dream Sleep Dan Art by night.
• After half a month, Zhang Ruo visited Jiang Shu and asked whether he had reached the Viscera Training Realm.
• Zhang Ruo invited Jiang Shu to the Zhang Family’s Prefecture City Genius Meet, where young talents would compete for medicinal pill prizes and families would discuss marriage alliances.
• Jiang Shu agreed to attend the meet with Zhang Ruo in five days.

Jiang Shu attended the Zhang Family’s Prefecture City Genius Meet with Zhang Ruo and helped her understand her cultivation method, bringing her close to a breakthrough. After Zhang Yunsu dominated the Viscera Training Realm bouts, she challenged geniuses of the Blood Exchange Realm.

• Jiang Shu refused Zhang Ruo’s gift of Internal Strengthening Pills and explained how she could prepare to enter the Viscera Training Realm.
• Five days later, Jiang Shu accompanied Zhang Ruo to the Zhang Family’s Genius Meet, where the clan offered pills and a mysterious grand prize to the winners.
• Zhang Tingpu entered the arena first but lost to Yao Peiding, and other Viscera Training Realm geniuses followed with a series of matches.
• While Zhang Ruo watched the bouts, Jiang Shu guided her True Force through her Middle-Grade Cultivation Method and advised her on its flaws and how to improve.
• Zhang Yunsu won several matches using a sash, then drew her flexible sword and invited a Blood Exchange Realm genius to challenge her.

At the Prefecture City Genius Meet, Wang Liancheng defeated Zhang Yunsu and two Blood Exchange Realm geniuses, appearing set to claim the championship. Zhao Chengxuan arrived with news of an unknown seventeen-year-old genius and challenged Shang Junming, leaving the crowd waiting to see whether Shang Junming would answer.

• Wang Liancheng used his True Force shield to withstand Zhang Yunsu's ten sword strikes, then stopped her eleventh strike and defeated her.
• Wang Liancheng defeated Luo Pengzhan and a Qian Family genius, establishing himself as the meet's likely champion.
• Zhang Ruo watched the Blood Exchange Realm fighters and was astonished by their strength, while Jiang Shu judged Wang Liancheng's experience superior.
• Zhao Chengxuan arrived at the meet and announced that a seventeen-year-old genius backed by the Danxia Merchant Guild had reached the Blood Exchange Realm.
• Zhao Chengxuan called out Shang Junming and challenged him to fight.

Zhao Chengxuan challenged Shang Junming and decisively defeated Wang Liancheng with a forbidden art, then called Shang out to fight. Jiang Shu revealed himself as the Shang Zhao had been seeking, leaving the duel poised to begin.

• Zhao Chengxuan challenged Wang Liancheng and said he would defeat him before Shang Junming arrived.
• Jiang Shu recognized Zhao Chengxuan's challenge as part of the Danxia Merchant Guild's factional struggle and resolved to face him.
• Wang Liancheng unleashed his Blood Sun Sword, but Zhao Chengxuan burned essence blood and shattered the sword with a forbidden-art punch, leaving Wang badly injured.
• Zhao Chengxuan announced that he would wait three days for Shang Junming to fight him on the Zhang Family arena.
• Jiang Shu answered from the spectator stands, saying, "No need to wait. I'm here."

Jiang Shu revealed his strength as Shang Junming at the Prefecture City Genius Meet, defeating Zhao Chengxuan by using Dan Jin to wield True Force and Origin Qi. He declined the Zhang Family’s offer and left for the provincial capital, leaving Zhang Ruo watching him go.

• Jiang Shu entered the arena to face Zhao Chengxuan, while Zhang Ruo and the guests realized he was the mysterious Shang Junming.
• Zhao Chengxuan used a forbidden art and unleashed his Meteor Sword, but Jiang Shu redirected his fist and stopped the sword with True Force and Origin Qi.
• Jiang Shu asked Zhao Chengxuan to submit, and Zhao conceded before the stunned crowd.
• The Zhao and Zhang family patriarchs tried to host Jiang Shu, but he refused and said he might soon travel to the provincial capital.
• Jiang Shu declined to claim the championship, told Patriarch Zhang to let Zhang Ruo cultivate properly, and departed as Zhang Ruo watched him leave.

After defeating Zhao Chengxuan, Jiang Shu gained fame across Yongning Prefecture and drew the attention of the Sky Patrol Guard and the Danxia Merchant Guild. He learned that the imperial court could offer a path beyond powerful clans, while his former master Chou Hai was promoted and Qi Yuan wondered how strong Jiang Shu had become.

• Jiang Shu reflected on his plans to challenge greater geniuses and cultivated for three days, using a Marrow Cleansing Pill to temper his marrow.
• Manager Zhang brought Jiang Shu to the Danxia Merchant Guild, where Su Mingchun introduced him to Cao, a Sky Patrol Guard Millenary Commander.
• Cao revealed that the Guard knew Jiang Shu's real name and offered goodwill, arranged for a Viscera Training Realm bandit to take the blame for the Yao Family matter, and reported Chou Hai's promotion to Centurion.
• Su Mingchun explained the imperial court's resources and warned Jiang Shu about joining powerful or aristocratic families, then offered to show him the President Faction's rewards.
• In Sanling Town, Qi Yuan asked whether Jiang Shu had reached the Viscera Training Realm, while Chou Hai suspected Jiang Shu had helped secure his restoration and promotion.

Jiang Shu cultivated an Improved Forbidden Technique to the entry level and prepared to leave Yongning Prefecture City for the state city. Before departing, he reunited with Chou Hai and Qi Yuan, offered them support and pills, and learned that Zhao Yuanchang had come to apologize.

• Jiang Shu studied the differences between Ancient and Improved Forbidden Techniques and continued cultivating until his Improved Forbidden Technique reached the entry level, his Blood Exchange Realm cultivation reached the middle stage, and his Great Dream Sleep Dan Art reached minor mastery.
• Manager Zhang told Jiang Shu that Chou Hai and Qi Yuan had arrived in South City, and Jiang Shu went to meet them before his planned move to the state city.
• Jiang Shu brought Chou Hai and Qi Yuan to his East City courtyard and offered Qi Yuan connections to the Danxia Merchant Guild and the Zhang Family.
• Jiang Shu gave Chou Hai and Qi Yuan pills, while Chou Hai vowed to seek justice from Zhao Yuanchang over the earlier grievance.
• Manager Zhang reported that Zhao Yuanchang had arrived bearing thorns on his back to plead guilty and ask Jiang Shu's forgiveness.