Chapter Summaries

Bai Jian recognized the ancient book as a rare treasure that supported Shu State’s imperial fortune, then chose not to seize it. At a banquet, Xiao Ying negotiated limits on the war between Great Huan and the alliances before learning that Hongjun had descended near the Pangu Secret Realm.

• Bai Jian realized the Peerless Wonder Book could strengthen Shu State’s imperial fortune and considered stealing it, but refrained when he sensed something and passed Liu Shan and Zhuge of Crouching Dragon’s loyalty test.
• A palace guard reported that the northern, western, and southwestern enemy alliances had attacked Great Huan simultaneously, with immortal warships among their forces.
• Xiao Ying confronted God Emperor Luo Tian, who admitted that the Upper Realm factions had indirectly supported the attacks because Xiao Ying had killed their envoys and moved Great Huan’s senior officials.
• Xiao Ying agreed to cooperate with the forces behind the conflict if they allowed Great Huan to ascend, and he warned that deploying powerful weapons could prompt him to summon engines of war from the Upper Realm.
• God Emperor Luo Tian agreed that immortal warships would not be committed to battle in the near future, and the banquet ended in a show of mutual understanding.
• God Emperor Luo Tian revealed that Hongjun, the Dao Ancestor of the Pangu World, had descended near the secret realm and could sense matters related to Pangu and its True Inheritance.

Xiao Ying warned that Dao Ancestor Hongjun's return could reignite conflict among Pangu's heirs, while claiming Great Huan would stay out of the secret realm's contest. Princess Yunmiao and Demon Emperor Bai Ze challenged God Emperor Luo Tian's reliance on inheritance, and the story shifted to the bloody struggle for the Cosmic War God Record at Middle Heavenly Mountain.

• God Emperor Luo Tian warned Xiao Ying that Dao Ancestor Hongjun could perceive any secret interference in the Pangu Secret Realm.
• Xiao Ying questioned Hongjun's strength and hinted that Pangu's returning sages and great immortals might expose his past deception.
• Xiao Ying said Great Huan would not seek the secret realm's treasures or inheritances, but would retaliate if provoked.
• Princess Yunmiao argued that inheritances could not make someone a true powerhouse, and Demon Emperor Bai Ze told God Emperor Luo Tian that following the Light Great Dao would prevent him from claiming a venerable throne.
• The story moved to Middle Heavenly Mountain, where Lü Fengxian and descended war gods fought amid the chaos over the Cosmic War God Record.

Dozens of factions gathered around Middle Heavenly Mountain to compete for the Cosmic War God Record, whose trials would select a strongest war god. After Mo Sheng reached the summit, Lü Fengxian began his ascent with Zhang Liao, Zang Ba, and Hao Meng, while Ma Chao’s forces weighed the danger of joining the contest.

• War gods and armies from across the secret realm gathered around Middle Heavenly Mountain, and the Great Huan Celestial Dynasty deployed over a million troops under Lü Fengxian’s command.
• After the mountain’s inhabitants were wiped out, Mo Sheng passed its trials and joined several other candidates at the summit.
• Lü Fengxian ordered most of his army to guard their formation and climbed with Zhang Liao, Zang Ba, and Hao Meng.
• Lü Fengxian fought through the mountain’s trials at great speed, while his companions supported him against its dangers.
• Ma Wan urged Ma Chao to reconsider entering the perilous contest, as the strongest war gods from many factions awaited the final showdown.

Lü Fengxian and the Great Huan warriors climbed Heavenly Mountain as rival War Gods converged on the summit’s inheritance. When a suspected Pangu blood essence appeared, Hanuman, Ares, Tyr, and others attacked Lü Fengxian, and a massive battle erupted before he could claim it.

• Ma Chao led the Ma Clan warriors toward Heavenly Mountain while other powerful generals, including Wutu Gu, also set out.
• Hanuman arrived on Middle Heavenly Mountain and swept aside its trials and beasts with his black staff, alarming Zhang Liao and the others.
• Lü Fengxian blasted a long passage through the mountain’s obstacles, revealing a skyful of treasures and a hazy purple blood essence that many believed was Pangu blood essence.
• Hanuman, Ares, and Tyr attacked Lü Fengxian, who used his War God Shaman Form to fight all three and initially drive them back.
• Another droplet of blood essence appeared, but as Lü Fengxian reached for it, the three War Gods attacked again and more than a dozen War Gods joined the assault, triggering a massive melee.

Lü Fengxian secured and began refining a drop of blood essence on Heavenly Mountain, while the contest narrowed to thirty-two experts. At Eastern Heaven Mountain, Burning Lamp Ancient Buddha confronted the gathered factions and urged the returning Pangu figures to reconsider their allegiance.

• Zhang Liao and Lü Fengxian fought off attackers, and Lü Fengxian reached the summit with a drop of blood essence and began refining it.
• Over the next few days, Hanuman and the Naga Empress claimed two more drops of blood essence, and the arena contest reduced the summit’s 108 experts to 32.
• The Great Huan Celestial Dynasty and rival factions gathered enormous forces around Eastern Heaven Mountain, where the Pangu Heaven-Opening Art inheritance awaited.
• Burning Lamp Ancient Buddha addressed the Buddhist School camp, and Khufu mocked his apparent submission.
• Burning Lamp Ancient Buddha agreed with Khufu’s criticism but urged him and the other returning Pangu figures to recognize their duty and stop repeating past mistakes.

Burning Lamp Ancient Buddha persuaded the Buddhist forces in the Western Alliance to join the Great Huan Celestial Dynasty, strengthening its faction while the powers remained in a standoff at Eastern Heaven Mountain. The chapter also described the unusual trials at Western and Southern Heaven Mountains, which appeared suited to the Mandated King.

• Burning Lamp Ancient Buddha condemned the returning immortals and gods for fighting against their homeland and warned the Buddhist disciples that their karma and Dao paths would be ruined unless they changed sides.
• Maitreya Buddha, Kṣitigarbha King, and other Buddhist figures joined the Great Huan Faction after Burning Lamp Ancient Buddha urged them to seek a chance of survival under the Great Huan Celestial Dynasty.
• Kṣitigarbha King advised Black Ashoka to reconsider his loyalty, then Shakyamuni and the remaining returning true buddhas also joined the Great Huan Celestial Dynasty with tens of thousands of Buddhist and devil cultivators.
• The Great Huan Faction grew stronger while the other powers stayed out of the Buddhist defections, and the contenders remained stalled before Eastern Heaven Mountain’s overwhelming axe-like sharpness.
• The chapter described Western Heaven Mountain’s mist-filled trials and Southern Heaven Mountain’s six-path reincarnation trials, both of which resisted brute force and seemed intended for the Mandated King.

The Shu State party discovered that Northern Heaven Mountain's trial required killing its exotic beasts, and the Ten Thousand Emperors World-Suppressing Canon appeared. Bai Jian retreated from the summit while Liu Shan and the Shu State forces faced the first emerged Pangu True Inheritance.

• After days of searching the summit, Liu Shan, Guan Yu, Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong, and Bai Jian debated why the inheritance had not appeared.
• Zhuge Liang and Bai Jian realized the Heavenly Mountain's exotic beasts were part of the trial, and Liu Shan ordered the Shu State forces to kill them all.
• Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and the Shu State forces exterminated every exotic beast on Northern Heaven Mountain in less than four hours.
• Northern Heaven Mountain shook as Imperial Might surged, pushing most people away from the summit while Bai Jian pretended to retreat under pressure.
• Imperial phantoms gathered around the summit, and a purple-gold crystal appeared as the Ten Thousand Emperors World-Suppressing Canon emerged.

After Liu Shan obtained the Ten Thousand Emperors World-Suppressing Canon, the Shu State’s army fought its way through a vast encirclement and suffered heavy losses while trying to escape the Pangu Secret Realm. Xiao Ying then ordered Great Huan’s armies to enter the realm and seize control of its exits, leaving Liu Shan’s fate uncertain.

• Liu Shan took the Ten Thousand Emperors World-Suppressing Canon as factions and rogue cultivators converged on Northern Heaven Mountain.
• Bai Jian advised the Shu State’s forces to break through Gao Hong’s position, and Zhuge Liang ordered the army to charge together.
• Gao Hong’s forces attacked both flanks as the Shu State’s army broke through, reducing its numbers from over three hundred thousand to around two hundred thousand.
• Hua Qiandai, Lilith, Gao Hong, and other Great Huan commanders pursued the Shu State’s forces, whose numbers continued to dwindle over several days.
• After receiving news of the inheritance, Xiao Ying ordered the Ba and Shu commandery armies into the secret realm and commanded Great Huan’s Immortal Guards to seal it off and kill anyone who resisted.

Xiao Ying imposed taxes on everyone leaving the Pangu Secret Realm while promising the immortal and god factions that Great Huan would not compete for the Pangu True Inheritances. When Liu Shan, King of Shu, emerged with the first inheritance, Great Huan honored its decree and let his contingent pass, but an elderly immortal identified the inheritance as being with Liu Shan.

• Xiao Ying told Hades and God Emperor Luo Tian that Great Huan sought tax revenue rather than the Pangu True Inheritances, and Luo Tian agreed to the arrangement.
• Great Huan troops enforced seven taxes around the Pangu Secret Realm, killing the Silver-Horn Mercenary Corps after its members resisted.
• The Shu State contingent emerged from the realm with Liu Shan, King of Shu, after obtaining the Ten Thousand Emperors World-Suppressing Canon, while pursuers followed close behind.
• Liu Shan ordered his soldiers to surrender their treasures, and a Great Huan general declared that the contingent could proceed because it had followed the rules.
• As Liu Shan prepared to leave, an elderly man with a white beard said that the Ten Thousand Emperors World-Suppressing Canon was on him.

Dao Ancestor Hongjun identified Liu Shan as the holder of the Ten Thousand Emperors World-Suppressing Canon, and the Blood Tu Immortal King demanded that Liu Shan surrender it. Liu Shan ordered the Shu State forces to break through as Great Huan intervened against the Descended Immortal Gods, leaving the Shu party fleeing amid a confusing and dangerous confrontation.

• Dao Ancestor Hongjun revealed that Liu Shan possessed the Ten Thousand Emperors World-Suppressing Canon, and the Blood Tu Immortal King demanded that the Shu State hand it over.
• Purple Crown declared that Great Huan would not seize the Pangu inheritances, turning public opinion against the Descended Immortal Gods.
• The Blood Tu Immortal King ignored Purple Crown's challenge and ordered Liu Shan to surrender the canon, but Liu Shan commanded his forces to break through instead.
• The Descended Immortal Gods attacked the Shu party, and Dragon-Phoenix Guan-Zhang blocked their assault with their strongest techniques.
• Great Huan Immortal Guards and Loose Immortals suppressed the Descended Immortal Gods and intercepted their pursuers, while Liu Shan continued ordering the Shu forces to flee.

Liu Shan fled the Pangu Secret Realm with Bai Jian while the Great Huan forces protected Shu’s abandoned survivors from the Descended Immortal Gods. Far from the realm, Bai Jian exposed his suspicion that Liu Shan was actually Liu Bang, and Liu Shan fled again.

• Liu Shan escaped the Descended Immortal Gods’ assault when Bai Jian used Spatial Transposition to teleport him away, leaving Dragon-Phoenix Guan-Zhang and Shu’s other survivors behind.
• The Blood Tu Immortal King attacked the stranded Shu contingent, but Elder Purple Crown intervened and invoked the Eternal Covenant to stop the Descended Immortal Gods.
• Elder Purple Crown offered Shu protection, while the Blood Tu Immortal King accused the Great Huan Faction of helping Liu Shan escape and restrained himself from starting a war.
• Ten thousand miles from the Pangu Secret Realm, Liu Shan promised Bai Jian a path to ascend and the position of state preceptor in his Immortal Kingdom.
• Bai Jian questioned Liu Shan’s identity and named Liu Bang as the person behind his disguise, prompting Liu Shan to flee.

Bai Jian revealed that he knew Liu Shan was Liu Bang and pursued him, only to discover the King of Shu’s hidden power and mastery of the Imperial Fist Manual. Xiao Ying ultimately captured Liu Shan with the Heaven-Earth Bell and arranged for both men to disappear along with the Pangu True Inheritance.

• Liu Shan fled when Bai Jian exposed his identity, but Xiao Ying used teleportation to catch up with him.
• Liu Shan revealed his concealed strength, broke free of Xiao Ying’s Northern Heaven-Settling Fist, and destroyed Xiao Ying’s conjured hand with the Imperial Fist Manual: Law-Breaking.
• Liu Shan offered Xiao Ying the Ten Thousand Emperors World-Suppressing Canon and threatened to destroy it, while admitting that he was Liu Bang but not quite Liu Bang.
• Xiao Ying attacked with the Heaven-Earth Bell, swallowed Liu Shan and his nine imperial avatars, and imprisoned him without killing him.
• Xiao Ying gave two exotic beasts Liu Shan’s and Bai Jian’s blood essence and auras, then released them to create traces that would conceal the pair’s disappearance.

Chapter Summary: The True Inheritance’s Owner

Key Plot Points and Events

• At Central Heavenly Mountain, the inheritance site of the Cosmic War God Record, more than thirty of the Pangu World’s greatest warriors and mythological War Gods compete in a series of intense arena battles.
• After seven days and nights of fighting, four finalists remain: Great Huan’s Lü Fengxian, Light War God Gabriel, Titan War God Tyr, and India’s divine monkey Hanuman.
• Lü Fengxian defeats Gabriel in the semifinals, while Hanuman defeats Tyr, setting up a final battle between Lü Fengxian and Hanuman.
• Both combatants reveal their three-headed, six-armed War God forms and fight at full strength for an entire day and night.
• Although Hanuman possesses slightly superior innate qualities, methods, and battle experience, Lü Fengxian wins because his Great Huan Fruition Rank grants him greater endurance and sustained combat power.
• Lü Fengxian obtains the transmission crystal containing the Cosmic War God Record and becomes the strongest War God.
• Great Huan forces immediately assemble under generals such as Long Ju, Wang Ben, Meng Tian, Ji Bu, Wutu Gu, and Ma Chao to protect Lü Fengxian. Their overwhelming military presence allows him to leave the Pangu Secret Realm safely.
• The chapter emphasizes that Fruition Rank, rather than combat skill alone, is decisive in determining the strongest warriors and the balance of power among factions.
• Other major inheritances also find owners:
  • Yu Ji, the Mending-Heaven Immortal Empress, obtains the Nuwa Mending-Heaven Scripture.
  • Blood Dragon Yewangtian, a subordinate of Devil Ancestor Luohou, obtains the Six Paths Demon-Subduing Strategy.
• Numerous ancient and legendary treasures begin resurfacing, including the Demon-Refining Pot, Shennong Cauldron, Innate Five-Element Banners, Book of Man, Merit Altar, World-Destroying Black Lotus, Mountain-Splitting Axe, Annihilation Dharma Wheel, Witch-Slaying Sword, and Demon Spirit Pearl.
• The appearance of these treasures causes factions to launch a massive purge of the Pangu Secret Realm, intensifying violence and competition.
• The Pangu Heaven-Opening Art at Eastern Heaven Mountain remains unresolved. Its eventual emergence is rumored to trigger the collapse of the entire Pangu Secret Realm.

Character Developments

• Lü Fengxian establishes himself as the world’s strongest War God. His powerful bloodlines, exceptional treasures, comprehensive techniques, and Great Huan Fruition Rank make him nearly unbeatable in prolonged combat.
• Hanuman proves himself Lü Fengxian’s equal or even superior in innate ability, techniques, and battle experience, but his lack of Fruition Rank enhancement leaves him unable to maintain his strength over time.
• Great Huan’s generals and armies demonstrate absolute loyalty and efficient coordination by rapidly gathering to protect Lü Fengxian and escort him out of danger.
• Yu Ji becomes another crucial inheritor for Great Huan after obtaining the Nuwa Scripture, further strengthening the dynasty’s position.
• Blood Dragon Yewangtian is revealed as a major Devil Race figure specifically prepared to claim one of Pangu’s inheritances.

Significant Themes

• Fruition Rank as the decisive advantage: The battle shows that cultivation, talent, treasures, and technique may not be enough without the proper rank-based enhancement.
• Power reshaping the world order: Lü Fengxian’s victory strengthens Great Huan’s already dominant position and alters the balance among the world’s factions.
• Competition and strategic deterrence: Once Great Huan controls the strongest War God and a powerful army, other factions are forced to abandon attempts to seize its inheritances.
• Escalating conflict over ancient treasures: The appearance of lost supreme and innate treasures transforms the secret realm into a battlefield of purges, conspiracies, and extermination.
• Approaching collapse and urgency: The rumored collapse of the Pangu Secret Realm once all five inheritances emerge creates pressure for every faction to act before the opportunity disappears.

Character Interactions

• Lü Fengxian and Hanuman engage in the chapter’s central confrontation, matching each other in combat form and fighting ability until Lü Fengxian wins through superior endurance.
• Lü Fengxian and Great Huan’s military leaders are united by their protective response after his victory; the generals publicly rally their armies to welcome and safeguard him.
• Great Huan and the other factions enter an indirect power struggle. The dynasty’s overwhelming military strength and Lü Fengxian’s new status deter everyone else from challenging them.
• Devil Race forces and the Indian Faction are connected through Blood Dragon Yewangtian’s acquisition of the southern inheritance, signaling cooperation or alignment between the two powers.
• Across the Pangu Secret Realm, rival factions clash over inheritances and treasures, producing widespread bloodshed and setting the stage for an even greater final conflict at Eastern Heaven Mountain.

The five supreme factions converged on Eastern Heaven Mountain to fight for the Pangu Heaven-Opening Art, while Lü Zhi ordered Great Huan to approach cautiously and seal the passage. As the battle became a blood-soaked melee, Overlord Xiang Yu’s black-robed army arrived and cleaved its way into the fight.

• The Pangu Heaven-Opening Art appeared atop Eastern Heaven Mountain, and Agares, Grand Duke, led the Solomon Demon Gods toward it as rival forces charged.
• Lü Zhi halted Great Huan’s advance and ordered its forces to keep formation, explaining that whoever reached the inheritance first would be trapped and attacked.
• The supreme factions and other forces clashed around the mountain passage, turning its entrance into a deadly battlefield.
• Burning Lamp Ancient Buddha led Great Huan through the melee while Lü Zhi directed the advance and Sun Shangxiang shot at enemy experts.
• A black-robed force of roughly ten thousand arrived, and its combined battle spirit formed a giant axe that opened a bloody path through the fighting.
• The force’s arrival revealed the return of Overlord Xiang Yu.

Overlord Xiang Yu returned to Eastern Heaven Mountain with the Undying Demon Guard and used the Heaven-Opening Axe to devastate the armies fighting for the Pangu Heaven-Opening Art. The factions withdrew, while the chaos outside the Pangu Secret Realm continued to worsen.

• The Xiang Clan revealed the Undying Demon Guard, and Overlord Xiang Yu led them in a colossal axe strike that cleared a bloody path to the passage.
• Destiny Heavenly Empress Lü Zhi recognized Xiang Yu and ordered the Great Huan army to withdraw, warning that he was invincible beneath Heavenly Mountain.
• Xiang Yu and the Heaven-Opening Axe routed the opposing forces, killing more than a hundred thousand soldiers and several supreme experts, including Solomon Great Demon God and his allies.
• The other top-tier powers withdrew after seeing Great Huan retreat, leaving Xiang Yu's force in control of the approach to the inheritance.
• Outside the Pangu Secret Realm, the situation grew increasingly chaotic, and factions hesitated to leave even after obtaining innate treasures.

Yu Ji and Lü Fengxian returned to the Nine Dragons Forbidden City and refined the Pangu inheritances before the immortal and divine representatives. Lü Fengxian’s power surged beyond the Pangu World’s limits, awakening a fearsome War God demon soul as God Emperor Luo Tian warned Xiao Ying that it could threaten everyone.

• Liu Shan escaped the Pangu Secret Realm with the Ten Thousand Emperors World-Suppressing Canon, leaving Shu’s troops in Qingyi Royal City to submit to Great Huan.
• Yu Ji and Lü Fengxian returned to the Nine Dragons Forbidden City and greeted Xiao Ying and the representatives of the immortal and divine factions.
• Princess Yunmiao affirmed that the inheritances had chosen their masters, and Xiao Ying urged Yu Ji and Lü Fengxian to refine them under the witnesses’ protection.
• Yu Ji refined the Nuwa Mending-Heaven Scripture, gaining a powerful affinity with the Great Dao of Life and the heaven-mending Great Dao.
• Lü Fengxian refined the Cosmic War God Record, displayed his War God Manifestation, and awakened a demon soul whose power surpassed the limits of the Pangu World.
• God Emperor Luo Tian warned Xiao Ying that Lü Fengxian’s demon soul recognized neither kin nor family.

Xiao Ying watched Lü Fengxian struggle with a War God Demon Soul, then used Five-Aggregate Heavenly Thunder Bamboo to destroy it when Lü Fengxian chose to relinquish it. After learning that Overlord Xiang Yu had claimed the Pangu Heaven-Opening Art and was backed by the Great Yan Dynasty, Xiao Ying left to confront him.

• God Emperor Luo Tian urged Xiao Ying to abandon Lü Fengxian, while Xiao Ying and Tianzhi Baize observed Lü Fengxian’s demon soul taking hold.
• Yu Ji used her power to ease Lü Fengxian’s demonic nature, and Lü Fengxian nodded when Xiao Ying asked whether he wanted the demon soul removed.
• Xiao Ying struck the demon soul with Five-Aggregate Heavenly Thunder Bamboo, scattered it, and warned Lü Fengxian to avoid the demonic Dao.
• Messages revealed that Overlord Xiang Yu had driven back the contenders and claimed the Pangu Heaven-Opening Art.
• Princess Yunmiao told Xiao Ying that Xiang Yu was backed by the Great Yan Dynasty, and Xiao Ying vanished to confront him.

Martial-Calming Emperor Lan Ge and Chengshalina arranged for Sea Emperor Rotra to surrender the Merit Altar and join Great Huan. As the Great Huan and Immortal-God factions confronted each other over the Witch-Slaying Sword, Xiao Ying arrived and claimed it for Great Huan.

• Lan Ge chose to claim the Merit Altar, and Great Huan forces surrounded Sea Emperor Rotra's party as they emerged from the Pangu Secret Realm.
• Chengshalina offered to let Rotra leave without surrendering the Merit Altar, but Rotra instead gave it to Great Huan and pledged to join the dynasty.
• A guard reported that the Silver Empire's Silver Guards were about to emerge with the Witch-Slaying Sword, prompting both factions to gather and blockade the area.
• The Silver-Winged Eagle King and Horned Dragon Elder argued over who would take the Witch-Slaying Sword, with each refusing to yield.
• Xiao Ying appeared, dispersed the Silver-Winged Eagle King's Dharma Form, and declared that the Witch-Slaying Sword belonged to Great Huan.

Xiao Ying seized the Witch-Slaying Sword by crushing the Silver Empire’s forces, then confronted the descended immortal gods as the Daoheart Sect emerged with the Mountain-Splitting Axe. The chapter ended with Xiao Ying pressing Di Yi Lingyun to recognize the situation and yield the treasure.

• Xiao Ying demanded the Witch-Slaying Sword from the Silver Guards, but Yao Tian, Tiger Emperor, refused and tried to negotiate.
• Xiao Ying used the Grand Edict Art and Panwu Fist to overwhelm the Silver Empire forces, killed Yao Tian, Tiger Emperor, and claimed the Witch-Slaying Sword.
• The Great Huan Immortal Guards annihilated the remaining Silver Empire forces, and God Emperor Luo Tian criticized Xiao Ying’s brutality.
• The Daoheart Sect emerged carrying the Mountain-Splitting Axe, and Xiao Ying hurried to confront them as Hades, Lord of the Underworld, and God Emperor Luo Tian warned him against taking every treasure.
• Xiao Ying agreed that rules mattered, then fixed his gaze on Di Yi Lingyun, signaling that the Daoheart Sect should hand over the Mountain-Splitting Axe.

Chapter Summary: “Rules Are Rules”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Xiao Ying confronts Luo Tian God Emperor and the Descended Immortal Gods over their attempts to recruit or seize treasures and forces belonging to Great Huan’s side. He insists that both factions must obey the rule that what belongs to one camp cannot be taken through force or trickery.
• Luo Tian tries to lure Di Yi Lingyun, sect master of Daoheart Sect and a descendant of the Heavenly Emperor Clan, into surrendering the Mountain-Splitting Axe by promising protection for the Diyi Clan and a path to immortality.
• Xiao Ying counters by appealing to Di Yi Lingyun’s responsibility as sect master, implying that abandoning Daoheart Sect for personal survival would betray both the sect and Pangu.
• Di Yi Lingyun chooses to submit to Great Huan instead. He offers Xiao Ying the Mountain-Splitting Axe and declares his loyalty.
• Xiao Ying formally rewards him by granting the title of Dao Master, Marquis Rank fruition, a stipend, and authority over Daoheart Sect from First Mountain. The conferment greatly strengthens Di Yi Lingyun and gives Daoheart Sect legitimate protection and status.
• Hades mocks the title of Dao Master and attempts to undermine Xiao Ying by pointing out that Dao Ancestor Hongjun is not aligned with Great Huan. Xiao Ying dismisses the opposing forces as chaotic outsiders and immediately refines the Mountain-Splitting Axe.
• The Mountain-Splitting Axe is revealed to be a powerful Postnatal merit supreme treasure, containing the virtues of mountains, rivers, Earth, and the people. It may be refined into an even higher-grade treasure, though it remains inferior to the Innate Heaven-Opening Axe.
• News arrives that the Heavenbone Kingdom has appeared with a massive skeleton army and may possess the Eternal-Reincarnation Brush, also called the Life-and-Death Brush.
• Luo Tian God Emperor quickly offers Bone King extensive rewards in exchange for allegiance. Bone King, driven by hatred of Xiao Ying after Heavenbone’s previous losses, surrenders to the immortal gods and presents them with the brush.
• Rather than immediately contesting the treasure, Xiao Ying orders the Calamity Dynasty to destroy Heavenbone Kingdom while its forces are gathered. He challenges the immortal gods to obey their own stated rules and refrain from interfering in a mortal war.
• Luo Tian agrees, believing Bone King can be compensated with a larger territory and greater resources. Xiao Ying privately recognizes that following the rules will allow Great Huan to claim many other treasures without provoking unnecessary conflict.
• The Pangu Secret Realm suddenly begins collapsing. The gray mist dissipates, mountains crumble, and the final inheritance—the Pangu Heaven-Opening Art—is about to emerge.

Character Developments

• Xiao Ying demonstrates political calculation, confidence, and restraint. He wins Di Yi Lingyun without using force, turns the Mountain-Splitting Axe into a symbol of Great Huan’s legitimacy, and uses the principle of rules to limit his enemies while advancing his own interests.
• Di Yi Lingyun faces a conflict between personal safety and loyalty to his sect and homeland. He ultimately chooses Great Huan, sacrificing the treasure for the greater security and future of Daoheart Sect.
• Luo Tian God Emperor reveals both political flexibility and strategic caution. After failing to argue for the Mountain-Splitting Axe, he changes tactics and openly offers rewards to recruit Bone King, but he remains unwilling to break the rules and risk open war.
• Bone King acts out of longstanding resentment toward Xiao Ying and Great Huan. His surrender to the immortal gods is motivated less by loyalty than by revenge and the desire to rebuild Heavenbone Kingdom.
• Lan Fenghuang is increasingly anxious about the Eternal-Reincarnation Brush and urges Xiao Ying to claim it, but Xiao Ying’s commitment to long-term strategy overrides her concern.

Significant Themes

• Rules as political weapons: Xiao Ying treats rules not merely as moral principles but as tools for restraining enemies and legitimizing Great Huan’s actions.
• Personal survival versus collective responsibility: Di Yi Lingyun’s choice highlights the burden of leadership and the importance of protecting one’s sect rather than pursuing individual advancement.
• Legitimacy and recognition: Xiao Ying’s conferment transforms the formerly self-proclaimed title of Dao Master into an officially recognized position, strengthening Great Huan’s authority over the martial world.
• Restraint and strategic patience: Xiao Ying refuses to seize every valuable treasure immediately, trusting that lawful conduct and superior preparation will bring greater gains later.
• Old grudges and factional conflict: Bone King’s hatred stems from Great Huan’s past destruction of Heavenbone’s power, showing how unresolved revenge shapes current alliances.
• The approaching final inheritance: The collapse of Pangu Secret Realm signals that the struggle is entering its decisive stage, with the Pangu Heaven-Opening Art soon to appear.

Character Interactions

• Xiao Ying and Luo Tian engage in a tense ideological and political exchange over the meaning of rules and factional ownership.
• Xiao Ying pressures Di Yi Lingyun to choose between the Descended Immortal Gods and Daoheart Sect’s broader interests; Di Yi responds by kneeling and offering the Mountain-Splitting Axe.
• Hades openly mocks Xiao Ying’s authority, while Xiao Ying retaliates by dismissing the immortal gods as outsiders and disorderly forces.
• Luo Tian and Bone King form a temporary alliance: Bone King offers the Eternal-Reincarnation Brush, while Luo Tian promises to restore and expand his power.
• Lan Fenghuang repeatedly urges Xiao Ying to take the Life-and-Death Brush, but he insists that rules and timing must come first.
• The chapter closes with all factions facing a new crisis as the secret realm collapses and the final Pangu inheritance prepares to emerge.