Chapter Summaries

As the Nine-Nether Baleful Sha faded from the Two Civil-Martial Tombs, Chinese and foreign factions gathered, and Jian Shang struck first against the foreign Great Adepts. The chapter ended with the factions and Chinese Otherworlders launching an all-out battle.

• The tombs’ baleful mist thinned, revealing ominous entrances as factions from across China and abroad assembled.
• Xiang Yu reconciled with Jian Shang and challenged him to compete in killing foreign Great Adepts for the right to choose a tomb.
• Li Yuan and Xiao He greeted Jian Shang, whose suspicions were stirred by Xiao He’s meaningful bow and Yu Niang’s reaction.
• King Wu of Qin arrived with Imperial Consort Dishi and numerous Great Adepts, prompting Liu Bang to accuse Qin of aligning with the Peacock Empire.
• As the mist nearly cleared, Jian Shang signaled his allies and attacked Gold Saint Taurus Seres with Sword Points at the Human Sovereign.
• The Huan Kingdom, allied factions, and Chinese Otherworlders unleashed their techniques against the foreign forces, beginning an all-out melee.

Chinese Otherworlders and the Huan Kingdom launched a coordinated assault on the foreign forces before the Two Civil-Martial Tombs. Jian Shang was struck down by the Gold Saints, but the Huan King reformed and stabbed Virgo Shiji, who unleashed a divine skill that left everyone trapped in a starry illusion.

• The Chinese Otherworlders surged against the foreign forces, killing foreign Innate experts and forcing Great Adepts to evade or fight back.
• Stairway, Elegant Kite, Heartless Skyfall, Long Yutian, and other prominent Otherworlders formed the Mahayana Arhat Formation and surrounded Russian Federation generals and kings.
• The Huan Kingdom Army raised the Twelve Capitals Banner-Demon Formation, whose regenerating Capital-Heaven Demon Gods attacked the foreign forces.
• Seres and two other Gold Saints overwhelmed Jian Shang with sensory and mental attacks, then struck him with a golden bull horn; Jian Shang’s body burst apart.
• Huan Kingdom Loose Immortals attacked the Greek Faction while Hua Qiandai, Princess Dieyi, and Tong Meng Tian fought its allied forces.
• The Huan King reformed, stabbed Shiji, and urged him to flee; Shiji opened his eyes and unleashed Lament of the Sala Twin Trees, enveloping everyone in a starry realm.

After Shiji sacrificed himself to save the Greek Faction’s Cloth Warriors, Jian Shang stopped foreign Great Adepts from entering the Two Civil-Martial Tombs and sealed the entrances with the Twelve Capitals Banner-Demon Formation. Imperial Consort Dishi rallied the foreigners to attack Jian Shang, leaving him facing a wave of powerful enemies and calling on China’s faction to fight.

• Shiji’s final act sent the Greek Faction’s Cloth Warriors away and ended with his soul scattering, earning the admiration of those who witnessed it.
• Jian Shang killed Dumailer*Abdu and Sea-Soul King Shadasair as foreign Great Adepts rushed toward the tomb entrances.
• A Sand Mummy was reduced to dust by the entrance’s nine-nether baleful sha, and no one who tried to enter the passages survived.
• Jian Shang ordered the Huan Army to seal the tomb entrances with the Twelve Capitals Banner-Demon Formation and attack anyone who was not from China.
• Imperial Consort Dishi urged the foreign factions to kill Jian Shang, then attacked him as the Canadian God-King Warrior, an Egypt Region elder, and other Great Adepts joined in.
• Jian Shang, unable to escape or withstand the assault alone, shouted for his allies to fight.

Jian Shang drew the foreign Great Adepts into a desperate assault, then used Heaven’s Lament and the Eight-Gate Heaven-Locking Formation to turn the siege into a trap. With the foreigners sealed inside and the Huan Army charging in, he ordered them all killed.

• Jian Shang and Di Wushuang rallied the Huan Kingdom’s forces and Chinese fighters to attack the foreign Great Adepts besieging him.
• Jian Shang’s Great Qin Jing Tripod was shattered, and he used Scarlet Dragon Protection to shield himself and Yu Ji until the Red Dragon vanished.
• Imperial Consort Dishi trapped Jian Shang’s powers in Brahmanism’s War Shackles and demanded his submission.
• Jian Shang activated Heaven’s Lament, which dispersed the incoming attacks, dropped the foreign Great Adepts from the sky, and released his shackles.
• Jian Shang deployed the Eight-Gate Heaven-Locking Formation, ordered his forces into it, and attacked Imperial Consort Dishi.

Jian Shang trapped the foreign forces in the Eight-Gate Heaven-Locking Formation, and the Chinese forces slaughtered them while their powers were sealed. The foreigners unleashed several National Artifacts to break the formation, and the survivors escaped through the shattered vortex.

• Jian Shang’s formation sealed the foreigners’ powers, and the Chinese forces charged in, killing many with arrows, physical attacks, and Princess Dieyi’s poison.
• Imperial Consort Dishi activated the Mahabharata Sutra to restore the foreigners’ powers within its golden light, but their attempt to break out failed when they left its protection.
• Grand Duke Narses raised the Heaven-Stabilizing Divine Pillar, and Ellers used the Blessing of the God of Space to shield the foreigners as Jian Shang led a physical assault against them.
• Jian Shang slew several Buddhist defenders with the Scarlet Sky Sword, while the Chinese fighters overwhelmed the foreigners in close combat and killed many more.
• Bolisent activated the Pharaoh King’s Tomb as the foreigners’ National Artifacts pushed back Heaven’s Lament and shattered the Eight-Gate Heaven-Locking Formation.
• The surviving foreign Great Adepts and Innate Realm experts rushed through the broken vortex and escaped.

Jian Shang and the China Faction crushed the foreign forces, seized Imperial Consort Dishi’s Mahabharata Sutra, and gathered abandoned enemy treasures and God Warriors. As the chapter ended, Jian Shang explained that the battle could greatly increase China’s share of Great Adepts, while Tong Meng Tian struggled to say what spoils had been taken.

• Jian Shang’s forces intercepted the foreign Great Adepts as they fled the Eight-Gate Heaven-Locking Formation, killing or injuring many while the foreign Innate Realm experts were overwhelmed.
• Jian Shang shot down Imperial Consort Dishi with the Sun-Shooting Divine Bow and seized her Mahabharata Sutra with the Cosmic Heaven-Sealing Hand, while Dishi escaped without it.
• Di Wushuang gave Jian Shang an Egyptian National Artifact shaped like a pyramid, and Jian Shang stored it along with eighteen abandoned Atlantis God Warriors that his allies could not control.
• Jian Shang asked the Mohist experts about the captured God Warriors, then told them he would keep the machines so the Canada Faction could not reclaim them.
• Tong Meng Tian asked whether the Huan Kingdom should claim the valuable spoils taken by Chinese Otherworlders, and Jian Shang explained how the battle could shift Great Adept slots and national fortune toward China.

Jian Shang let the battle spoils remain with those who claimed them and warned China’s Otherworlders that the ancient tomb was dangerous. Afterward, Liu Bang approached him with exaggerated friendliness, while Jian Shang questioned his motives and learned that Liu Bang’s wife had stayed in the north to fight the Russian Coalition Army.

• Jian Shang told Meng Tian that the battle spoils belonged to whoever had obtained them, and Di Wushuang publicly proclaimed the Huan King’s decree.
• Di Wushuang urged Jian Shang to address the crowd, but he credited China’s people and warned them that the expedition into King Wu of Zhou’s Secret Trove was perilous.
• Jian Shang ordered his forces to maintain their blockade and prepare to enter the tomb, then Liu Bang approached and called him Big Brother.
• Jian Shang challenged Liu Bang’s sudden show of loyalty and asked about the Bai Clan’s missing experts.
• Liu Bang claimed his wife had accepted the Spring-Autumn Trading House and remained in the north to oppose the Russian Coalition Army, while admitting that he had to proceed cautiously.

Jian Shang honored Xiang Yu’s wager and let the Xiang Clan explore the large tomb while he led his faction toward the small one. He invited Li Yuan’s faction to join him, barred most Otherworlders from entering, and set out amid Xiao He’s suspicions about his plan to claim the tombs’ treasures.

• Jian Shang acknowledged Xiang Yu’s victory in their wager, and Fan Zeng chose the large tomb for the Xiang Clan.
• Jian Shang assigned Lan Ge to lead the large-tomb expedition and took the small tomb for himself.
• Jian Shang invited Li Yuan’s faction into the small tomb, allowed Li Yanyan and Yu Ji to accompany them, and ordered Di Wushuang to keep Otherworlders out if possible.
• Xiao He explained that Jian Shang could control entry and exit through the Twelve Capitals Banner-Demon Formation, sweep the small tomb, and use the factions’ work to pursue the treasure in the large tomb.
• Li Yuan privately asked Xiao He whether Jian Shang would claim the treasures, and Xiao He said Zhang Liang and Fan Zeng would still enter the tombs.

Xiao He persuaded Li Yuan that joining the Huan King’s expedition was worth the risks, and Li Yuan’s faction entered the tomb alongside the Huan Kingdom’s forces. As the group proceeded through the eerie passage, Jian Shang grew suspicious of Xiao He and Yu Niang’s relationship.

• Xiao He assured Li Yuan that the Huan King was unlikely to destroy them and that Sishui Royal City could be surrendered if necessary.
• The Huan Kingdom’s forces and Li Yuan’s faction entered the Twelve Capitals Banner-Demon Formation and reached the ancient tomb’s entrance.
• Xiao He speculated that the tomb’s strange natural light came from a dimensional space or an unknown power, while Jian Shang sent Rainbow Demon Butterflies to scout the passage.
• The group cautiously entered the freezing tomb passage after the butterflies returned safely, and Xiao He transferred qi to warm Yu Niang.
• Jian Shang noticed Xiao He holding Yu Niang’s hand, and Li Yuan claimed they had fallen in love, prompting Jian Shang to question whether their feelings were genuine.

Jian Shang’s group was struck by an unseen force in the tomb passage that killed several Huan Martial Guards, while Buddhist power and Xiao Dieyi’s magic revealed no sinister entities. Dieyi collapsed after unleashing her Rainbow Demon Butterfly powers, and an unknown surge of energy attacked her and Jian Shang.

• A Huan Martial Guard suddenly died, and Yu Ji and Xiao He found that his spirit and soul had been extinguished rather than damaged by poison or Nine-Nether Baleful Sha.
• Jian Shang used the Maha Prayer Beads to illuminate the passage but sensed no sinister energy, while Hua Qiandai suggested an ancient Restriction might be responsible.
• Nine more guards died, and another guard cried out that he saw ghosts and hell before dying despite Jian Shang and Xiao He trying to save him.
• Xiao Dieyi transformed into her Rainbow Demon Butterfly form and searched the passage with her butterflies, finding no sinister entities before collapsing from the effort.
• Jian Shang caught Dieyi, and she insisted there were no sinister entities before a powerful surge of energy struck toward them.

Jian Shang and his companions discovered that an illusion and a deadly formation had trapped them near the tomb entrance, and they suspected the Xuanyuan Sword’s spirit had attacked them. They continued through the passage and emerged into a vast ruined realm, where Bai Tong began organizing an exploration.

• Xiao Dieyi recovered enough to insist that no evil spirit had killed the guards and concluded that the group was trapped in an illusion because they had traveled less than fifty meters.
• Jian Shang said the Scarlet Sky Sword had shown him an image of a black shadow attacking the guards, and Xiao He and Hua Qiandai suspected it was a treasure spirit guarding the tomb.
• Jian Shang activated the Sigh of Heaven and decided the group would continue into the tomb, while Bai Tong collected the guards into groups and led the way.
• The group crossed the passage without further danger and emerged into a vast, desolate ruin filled with bones and broken palaces.
• Bai Tong ordered the eighty-one remaining Huan Martial Guards to search in groups of nine and sound the alarm if they found anything unusual.

Jian Shang’s group explored a vast underground city that seemed to match the layout of ancient Chaoge, while thousands of Otherworlders entered the tomb through the passage without trouble. The chapter ended as an ocean of ghosts and zombies poured from the ruins and surrounded them.

• Jian Shang and his companions debated whether the underground city was the original Great Shang Imperial Capital and whether the larger tomb might belong to King Zhou of Shang.
• Hundreds of Otherworlders emerged from the passage, and Feiyang and Yuhuang Shenao said they had simply walked through it without encountering danger.
• Jian Shang’s group learned that the Otherworlders had entered the tomb about fifteen minutes after they did, leaving Xiao He puzzled about the passage’s strange formation.
• A Huan Martial Guard reported ghosts and large numbers of zombies in the ruins.
• Countless corpses emerged from the ruins, revealing an enormous horde surrounding Jian Shang’s party.

Jian Shang and his group faced a horde of ancient corpses while Xiao He explained their extraordinary strength and origins. With the passage blocked and most of the Huan Martial Guards missing, the group suspected a mysterious force was targeting the Huan Kingdom as the corpses closed in.

• Otherworlders and Jianghu heroes fled from the ruins, crowding the passage as Jian Shang's group formed up to hold their ground.
• Xiao He identified the approaching creatures as ancient corpses and explained their ranks, abilities, and superiority over modern jiangshi.
• Jian Shang ordered Bai Tong to assemble the Huan Martial Guards, but Bai Tong reported that only thirty-eight of the original eighty-one had returned.
• Xiao He argued that a mysterious force was targeting the Huan Kingdom and might have awakened the corpse horde, while Hua Qiandai and Xiao He suspected the ruins were the true Chaoge Royal City.
• Meng Tian questioned whether the corpses had another origin, but Jian Shang stopped the debate as the horde advanced and the blocked passage left them unable to retreat.

Trapped in the ancient tomb with the passage blocked and ancient corpses closing in, Jian Shang chose to charge toward the tomb’s center. He and the gathered fighters plunged into the horde, leaving their fate uncertain.

• Xiao He proposed either fighting back through the blocked passage or pressing onward, and warned that the ancient corpses might be far more powerful than they appeared.
• Jian Shang questioned Xiao He's count of the corpses, but Hua Qiandai and several others confirmed that they had seen multiple golden and silver figures.
• Yu Ji wondered whether an illusion formation was distorting what they saw, but Xiao He rejected the idea as impractical.
• With the corpses closing in, Jian Shang decided to charge for the center, and Yuhuang Shenao and hundreds of gathered fighters chose to follow him.
• Jian Shang struck down iron corpses with the Scarlet Sky Sword as the group charged into the ancient-corpse horde.

Jian Shang’s party was ambushed by golden and silver corpses, and their formation collapsed as volunteers went berserk. Jian Shang used the Maha Prayer Beads and Shiva God-Binding Lock to hold back the threat, but he was wounded and remained baffled by why the maddened fighters did not recover their senses.

• Jian Shang led more than five hundred fighters through the ancient corpses until golden and silver corpses attacked, injuring him, Li Tong, Meng Tian, and the Sacred Eagle Feather Emperor.
• Two golden corpses tore through the formation while nearly a hundred Otherworlders and righteous volunteers went berserk and attacked everyone around them.
• Jian Shang shackled the leading golden corpse with the Shiva God-Binding Lock and summoned eighteen Buddhas with the Maha Prayer Beads, forcing the surrounding ancient corpses to retreat.
• Hua Qiandai, Xiao Dieyi, Li Tong, and Meng Tian occupied the silver corpses while Xiao He enclosed the formation with the Nine Chapters Heaven-Setting Formation.
• Jian Shang transformed into the Mountain-Shaking Demon Elephant and rammed the shackled golden corpse away, then asked Yu Ji to treat the others first.
• Jian Shang saw that the ancient corpses had retreated, but the berserk fighters continued attacking one another, leaving him puzzled.

Jian Shang used the Mahabharata Sutra to push the corpse horde back and lead the survivors toward a corpse-free opening in the ancient tomb. When a mysterious golden light killed members of his group, he accused a hidden Gemini Gold Saint of attacking them and challenged it to claim the Virgo Inheritance.

• Jian Shang struggled to protect the group as the Nine Chapters Law failed, the Buddhist formation weakened, and Silver Corpses wounded Meng Tian and attacked the great adepts.
• Jian Shang summoned the national artifact Mahabharata Sutra and borrowed everyone's power to blast back the Silver and Bronze Corpses.
• Jian Shang led the group forward under the Mahabharata Sutra, while Yu Ji restored their strength with the Heavenly Life Art.
• Xiao He spotted a corpse-free opening ahead, and the group hurried toward it as the Golden Corpse retreated from the artifact's light.
• A mysterious golden light killed nearly twenty people, including seven or eight Huan Martial Guards, and Jian Shang concluded that an outside force was targeting his group.
• Jian Shang called out the hidden Gemini Golden Saint and challenged it to take the Virgo Inheritance.

Jian Shang led the survivors out of the ancient-corpse horde and into a district of Chaoge where the Mahabharata Sutra’s Buddhist light held back swarms of evil spirits. As the group recovered and prepared to defend itself, Hua Qiandai’s inherited Immortal Palm suddenly activated to protect her.

• Jian Shang’s shout made the hidden golden attacker pause, giving his group time to break through the ancient corpses and reach a safer district.
• Jian Shang ordered the survivors to rest and asked Yu Ji to help everyone recover, while Xiao He and the others identified their surroundings as Chaoge’s middle district.
• Evil spirits emerged from the intact buildings, and Xiao He explained that they resisted most attacks but were vulnerable to mental power, special forces, and spiritual deliverance.
• Xiao He declared that the Mahabharata Sutra’s Buddhist light could repel the spirits, and Jian Shang organized the survivors into groups to guard the ancient book while others rested.
• Hua Qiandai suddenly radiated light, and the Immortal Palm left by Lord Canghai manifested to seize the empty space beside her.

Jian Shang identified the hidden attacker as Gemini Mark, the Gemini Golden Saint, and drew him out by displaying the Virgo Gold Cloth. Mark demanded the Cloth in exchange for Greece's Athena becoming a permanent ally of the Huan Kingdom, while warning that his golden body was only a puppet.

• After a brilliant blast erupted in the distance, Jian Shang concluded that the Gemini Golden Saint had secretly followed the group and used concealment, space, and mental attacks to manipulate them.
• Jian Shang explained the Sacred Garment Civilization's Cosmo and warned everyone to defend against mental attacks.
• Jian Shang displayed the Virgo Gold Cloth and called for the attacker to reveal himself, causing the evil spirits besieging the Buddha light to scatter.
• Gemini Mark emerged in a golden, three-faced puppet body and praised Jian Shang, who accused him of having targeted the others while sparing the Huan King and Xiao Dieyi.
• Mark asked how Jian Shang had seen through his Demon Emperor Fist of Illusory Haze, then offered Greece's Athena's alliance in exchange for the Virgo Cloth and revealed that his body was merely a puppet.

Jian Shang rejected Gemini Mark’s demand for the Virgo Cloth and led the others in an attack, only to be trapped in Gemini’s mental projection of an alternate dimension. After realizing the threat Gemini posed to the Huan Kingdom, Jian Shang appeared to consider negotiation, then struck when Gemini offered to replace the kingdom’s dead guards in exchange for the Cloth.

• Jian Shang mocked Gemini Mark’s demand for the Virgo Cloth and ordered everyone to attack him.
• Gemini Mark unleashed Another Dimension Storm, trapping Jian Shang and the others in a terrifying mental space filled with thunder, fire, and meteors.
• Jian Shang reasoned that the dimensional space was a mental illusion rather than true spatial power and questioned Gemini about the strength of the Gold Saints and the Greece Region.
• Jian Shang told Gemini that the Huan Kingdom would need to settle the deaths of over a hundred imperial guards before they could negotiate.
• Gemini offered to help with the treasure hunt and replace the dead guards with Saints in exchange for the Virgo Cloth, but Jian Shang attacked him with Boundless Killing Intent.

Jian Shang exposed Mark’s apparent negotiation as an illusion and struck the Gemini Golden Saint, who survived and fled wounded. After ordering the tomb passage sealed, Jian Shang continued deeper into the tomb and found ranks of armored ancient corpses.

• Mark attacked Jian Shang with the Demon Emperor Fist of Illusory Haze, but the Maha Prayer Beads protected Jian Shang as he answered with the Scarlet Firmament Divine Sword.
• The Alternate-Dimensional Space collapsed, and Jian Shang warned that Mark had survived because no system notification confirmed his death.
• Jian Shang ordered Xiao Dieyi and Li Tong to seal the tomb passage and told them to guard against Gemini’s illusions.
• Jian Shang offered the Otherworlders a choice to remain and explore or continue with him, then led his companions onward as the evil spirits dispersed.
• Jian Shang and his companions reached the edge of the evil spirits’ range and spotted orderly ranks of armored ancient corpses several hundred meters away.