Chapter Summaries

Jiang Jingnian learned that Eastern Wu raiders had devastated Little Qian Island and that Peace City faced threats from the Eastwater Army and foreign powers, but he decided to hold Lin'an rather than rush to defend Peace City. He warned the Le Family about their coming deathmatch, then the chapter ended as a bare-chested man in West Lu County opened his eyes and was asked about the situation.

• Li Mincheng reported that Eastern Wu raiders ambushed Little Qian Island, badly wounded Jiang Xu, and left Jiang Nianci in command while Peace City faced pressure from the Eastwater Army and foreign embassies.
• Jiang Jingnian reasoned that the island raid might be a trap to lure him away from Lin'an, and he ordered Peace City's factions to prepare to abandon the river defenses, Qingtian County, and Little Qian Island if necessary.
• Jiang Jingnian told Li Mincheng that he would hold out in Lin'an and, if the situation collapsed, strike the Dongjiang Prefecture Governor's Office and the Lu Family's stronghold.
• Jiang Jingnian entered the Le Family's secret chamber and asked Le Qinghong whether he was healthy enough for the coming deathmatch, leaving the family elders to suspect he had come to warn them.
• In West Lu County, a brawny, bare-chested man opened his eyes as someone asked Sect Master Wen about the situation.

After Jiang Jingnian treated Mi Yan and learned that the Falling Blossom Pavilion faced a Martial Saint-led assault, he refused Yanhuazi’s advice to retreat if Lin’an fell. He then consumed several trait-bearing treasures, strengthening his Heavenflame Sword and resurrection abilities, as preparations continued for the coming conflict.

• Jiang Jingnian accepted the Mi Family’s resources in exchange for treating Mi Yan, then cured some of Mi Yan’s Corpse Gu contamination and warned him to recuperate.
• Mi Yan told Jiang Jingnian that two Martial Saints had attacked the Falling Blossom Pavilion, its Supreme Pavilion Master had been injured, and Yue Xiaoque remained sealed because of severe Blood Moon Contamination.
• Mi Yan relayed Yanhuazi’s advice that Jiang Jingnian preserve himself if the situation became hopeless, but Jiang Jingnian declared that he would not retreat now that he had begun practicing martial arts.
• Jiang Jingnian refined Cave Lord Huju’s Golden Ring and other trait-bearing items, turning Fivefold Gold into Fivefold Spirit-Stacked Gold and greatly enhancing Heavenflame Sword and Moon Lotus Treasure-Rebirth Body.
• Jiang Jingnian considered how his strengthened traits could help him fight across a prefecture, while recognizing that a Martial Saint could still defeat him by waiting over his remains.

Jiang Jingnian reached second-heaven perfection and learned that advancing further required refining countless realms, while his dwindling Life Essence threatened to cloud the battle ahead. As Eastwater’s factions gathered near Lin’an, Huo Jiang arrived as a powerful outside reinforcement and promised to kill him at Heavenbright Peak.

• Jiang Jingnian reached second-heaven perfection, perceived the Celestial Gate and the emptiness before it, and feared that pursuing a lunar path could make him a celestial being’s prisoner.
• Jiang Jingnian discovered that advancing required ninety-nine Metal Nature traits and one Lunar Phase Trait, refined sixty-nine Metal Nature items, and watched his Life Essence decline.
• Jiang Jingnian assessed his growing strength, checked his arrogance, and prepared for the coming battle while his calamity worsened.
• Eastwater’s factions and foreign reinforcements gathered near Lin’an, where their leaders planned to kill Jiang Jingnian at Heavenbright Peak and debated his apparent decline.
• Huo Jiang arrived at the restaurant as a Red Jade Sect reinforcement, and she told Lu Min she would help beat Jiang Jingnian to death the next day.

Huo Jiang arrived in Eastwater Prefecture and challenged Ding Huo, damaging a restaurant before Lu Min stopped their fight. As the Dawn Peak Battle approached, Jiang Jingnian received a visit from Red Jade Sect representatives seeking to absorb the Mountain Cloud School, while the Sea-Gazing Pavilion arrived to observe him.

• Huo Jiang, a Red Jade Sect Grandmaster and relative of Lü Lan, exchanged a powerful blow with Ding Huo and wrecked half a restaurant before Lu Min intervened.
• Huo Jiang dismissed Jiang Jingnian as a threat, while Lu Min warned her that Jiang had reached the Second Heaven of True Astral Force before age twenty and wielded a peerless martial art.
• Zhou Qinglong and Zhou Sheng arrived at Silver Leaf Studio for the Dawn Peak Battle, and Zhou Qinglong said they would assess Jiang Jingnian while keeping the Sea-Gazing Pavilion independent of the Southward Faction.
• Mi Lin told Jiang Jingnian that Red Jade Sect representatives had requested a meeting, and the local Grandmasters discussed the sect's power and possible intentions.
• Lü Tongguang told Lü Buyan that the Red Jade Sect hoped to incorporate the Mountain Cloud School, then Jiang Jingnian entered their room and the visitors were struck by his appearance.

Jiang Jingnian rejected the Red Jade Sect’s demand that the Mountain Cloud School submit, killed Lü Buyan, and drove Lü Tongguang and another Grandmaster from Lin'an. He rallied Dongjiang’s wavering allies, received a promise of supplies from Jiangyou Prefecture, and the chapter ended with the injured Red Jade Sect survivors reaching Huo Jiang at Heavenbright Peak to report Lü Buyan’s death.

• Lü Tongguang offered to protect the Mountain Cloud School if Jiang Jingnian surrendered its holdings, but Jiang Jingnian refused and demanded the Red Jade Sect help destroy Eastwater Prefecture’s powers.
• Lü Buyan revealed that Huo Jiang had gone to aid the Eastwater Lu Family and threatened the Lin'an Grandmasters, so Jiang Jingnian killed him and fought off Lü Tongguang and another Red Jade Sect Grandmaster.
• Jiang Jingnian told the gathered Grandmasters that he had rejected the Red Jade Sect for Dongjiang’s sake, strengthening the resolve of Lin'an’s wavering allies.
• Zhou Qinglong and representatives from Jiangyou Prefecture offered aid in five shipments, while Zhou Sheng questioned Jiang Jingnian’s confidence before the battle at Heavenbright Peak.
• At Heavenbright Peak, Lü Tongguang and Huo Li arrived injured and told Huo Jiang that Jiang Jingnian had killed Lü Buyan.

Jiang Jingnian led Lin'an’s Grandmasters to Heavenbright Peak, where Huo Jiang’s overwhelming aura made the coming battle seem perilous and exposed wavering among their allies. As the factions gathered, Huo Jiang confronted Jiang Jingnian, who insulted her appearance and questioned why the Red Jade Sect recruited Demon Wraiths.

• Gong Xin told Jiang Jingnian that Abbot Youming had built a road to Heavenbright Peak and had wanted to join the fight, while townspeople along the route cheered the convoy and others watched with doubt.
• In a car behind the convoy, Ye Xing and Meng Qin criticized Jiang Jingnian’s attack on the Red Jade Sect, and Ye Xing said his stargazing showed an ill omen for Lin'an.
• At the foot of Heavenbright Peak, Jiang Jingnian sensed Huo Jiang’s killing intent, used Greater Yin Form-Shifting to transfer calamity, and detected treacherous intentions from Le Qinghong and Li Yue as well as uncertainty among other Grandmasters.
• The gathered factions reacted to Huo Jiang’s scorching Grandmaster Momentum, while Le Qinghong regretted Jiang Jingnian’s conflict with the Red Jade Sect and Hu Wen and Lin Rong prepared to fight.
• Atop Heavenbright Peak, Huo Jiang recognized Jiang Jingnian, and Jiang pointed at her and asked why the Red Jade Sect recruited Demon Wraiths.

Jiang Jingnian rejected Huo Jiang’s offer to surrender the Mountain Cloud Sect’s legacy and stood with Lin’an’s Grandmasters as the deathmatch began. When Le Qinghong and Li Yue betrayed their side, Jiang Jingnian broke free of their attack, stopped Huo Jiang’s flaming strike, and killed Le Qinghong.

• Jiang Jingnian matched Huo Jiang’s Crimson Flame Divine Fist and learned that the Red Jade Sect wanted the Mountain Cloud Sect’s legacy.
• Huo Jiang offered to spare Jiang Jingnian if he joined the Red Jade Sect and surrendered the legacy, but he refused and vowed to reclaim what the sect had taken.
• Lu Min chose ten Grandmasters for Eastwater, while Jiang Jingnian’s side entered the deathmatch with eight; Le Qinghong and Li Yue secretly decided to defect.
• When the match began, Huo Jiang attacked the Lin’an Grandmasters with Flame Strike Shakes Heaven and Earth, and they gathered their divine abilities to counter her.
• Le Qinghong and Li Yue turned on Jiang Jingnian and bound him with their divine abilities, but he broke free, stopped Huo Jiang’s flaming meteor, and crushed Le Qinghong’s head.

Jiang Jingnian turned Lin'an's betrayal into a rout, killing Le Qinghong and Li Yue while holding off Huo Jiang and helping Lin'an's outnumbered Grandmasters endure. The battle continued with Jiang Jingnian suppressing Huo Jiang, who admitted she had underestimated him.

• As Huo Jiang attacked and Lin'an's Grandmasters countered, Li Yue and Le Qinghong betrayed Jiang Jingnian, but he blocked Huo Jiang's strike and crushed Le Qinghong's head.
• Jiang Jingnian pursued Le Qinghong, overcame his escape and Wood Virtue abilities, and tore him apart while fighting off Huo Jiang.
• Li Yue turned back to aid Eastwater Prefecture, but Jiang Jingnian's Moonlight Essence Clone pierced his chest and helped kill him; Jiang Jingnian then used Le Qinghong's remains as weapons against Huo Jiang.
• With Li Yue and Le Qinghong dead, spectators recognized Jiang Jingnian's four-hundred-meter Grandmaster Momentum, while Gong Xin and four allies held off Ding Huo and Eastwater's eight Grandmasters.
• Jiang Jingnian and Huo Jiang traded more than a hundred blows, with Jiang Jingnian gaining the upper hand and battering her despite her Crimson Flame Divine Fist and powerful physique.

Jiang Jingnian fought Huo Jiang on Heavenbright Peak, overcoming her End-of-the-Road transformation and overpowering her with his Extreme Yin Six Demon Arms. Huo Jiang then prepared the Crimson Flame Divine Fist’s final mutual-destruction strike, forcing the surrounding fighters to flee.

• Jiang Jingnian and Huo Jiang’s battle devastated Heavenbright Peak, forcing spectators and younger martial artists to retreat from the summit.
• Huo Jiang transformed into a lava giant and used [Crimson Bright Flame] to destabilize Jiang Jingnian’s [Frost Palace Gold], injuring him and warning him about the dangers of impure momentum.
• Jiang Jingnian questioned Huo Jiang about the Greater Yin Furnace and the Blood Moon, then asked whether the Red Jade Sect sought Cloud Mountain’s legacy or the Foreigners.
• Jiang Jingnian crushed Huo Jiang’s lava head and transformed into a Black Muscular Beast, then battered her with the Extreme Yin Six Demon Arms.
• Huo Jiang recovered repeatedly with [Ten Thousand Fires Wind] but shrank under Jiang Jingnian’s relentless attacks.
• Huo Jiang entered a Heat-Death State and prepared the seventh form, Heaven and Earth Reduced to Ashes, prompting Lü Tongguang and Huo Li to order the Eastwater Prefecture’s Allies to retreat.

Huo Jiang unleashed the seventh form of the Crimson Flame Divine Fist, distorting the Void and devastating Heavenbright Peak, but Jiang Jingnian disrupted it by disarming her Dao Armament. He then battered Huo Jiang into the shattered summit, though she still had an unrevealed ultimate move as the chapter ended.

• Huo Jiang used Void Heat Death, a mutual-destruction technique that drew away heat and trapped the fleeing Grandmasters in calamities and Moonlight Essence.
• Jiang Jingnian charged Huo Jiang and used [Fivefold Spirit-Stacked Gold] to disarm her Yellow Jade Knuckle Duster, interrupting the seventh form and ending its destruction.
• Huo Jiang lost her giant form and attacked Jiang Jingnian at greatly increased speed, while the distorted flames continued to hinder his healing.
• Jiang Jingnian repeatedly struck Huo Jiang, pinned her in a crater, and demanded that she reveal what she knew.
• A bloody arm burst from the crater as Huo Jiang remained alive beneath Jiang Jingnian's foot.

Jiang Jingnian defeated Huo Jiang at Heavenbright Peak and forced her to surrender twenty secret treasures, while learning that the Red Jade Sect had sought his fortune and information about Great Sun Origin Mountain. Huo Jiang agreed to make peace for now, and the chapter ended with Lü Tongguang returning to find her negotiating with Jiang Jingnian and getting scolded.

• Jiang Jingnian crushed Huo Jiang beneath his enormous foot until she yielded, then watched her regenerate into a petite form and reclaim her severed head.
• Huo Jiang asked for her Dao Weapon, [Heavenfire Flame Fingers], but Jiang Jingnian refused to return it and stored it away as his trophy.
• Huo Jiang explained that the Red Jade Sect had come to repay the Lu Family's favor, watch foreign movements, and seize Jiang Jingnian's supposed legacy; she also revealed plans tied to Great Sun Origin Mountain's disintegration.
• Jiang Jingnian demanded twenty secret treasures as compensation, and Huo Jiang handed him her storage bag so he could choose them.
• Lü Tongguang returned to the summit, saw Huo Jiang giving treasures to Jiang Jingnian, and was scolded by Huo Jiang for retreating and questioning her settlement.

Jiang Jingnian forced Huo Jiang and Lü Tongguang to reconcile and compensate him, then recovered from their battle with Huo Jiang’s help. As Eastwater’s Grandmasters withdrew, Jiang Jingnian prepared to pursue them, warning that the fight for Lin’an had only just begun.

• Jiang Jingnian demanded compensation from Lü Tongguang, who handed over twenty items after Huo Jiang agreed to reconciliation.
• Huo Jiang explained that she had settled her debt to the Lu Family and judged Jiang Jingnian too dangerous to fight again unless she became a Martial Saint first.
• Jiang Jingnian removed the lingering Moonlight Essence calamity from Huo Jiang and Lü Tongguang, then asked Huo Jiang to help treat his injuries and reclaim her scattered flames.
• Gong Xin, Zhou Qinglong, and the other returning Grandmasters discovered Huo Jiang’s true appearance; Huo Jiang blasted Ye Xing from the summit after he revealed her identity.
• Jiang Jingnian finished recovering with Huo Jiang’s help and learned that the Eastwater Grandmasters had withdrawn from Heavenbright Peak.
• Jiang Jingnian told Gong Xin and the others to prepare, then declared that he would pursue Lu Min and the other Eastwater Grandmasters because the battle for Lin’an had only begun.