Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary: “Fate-Sealing Beads, Time-Stealing Thief!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Wang Ping’s [Law Contract] forces Kongzhi to obey an absurd but unavoidable command: he must “shit.”
• Since cultivators normally have no waste, Kongzhi’s body expels the [Fate-Sealing Beads], the secret treasure hidden in his dantian that conceals his heavenly secrets and helps him infiltrate the [Eight Trigrams Furnace].
• The removal of the beads exposes Kongzhi’s fate, causing black thunderclouds to gather overhead. Panicked, Kongzhi tries to force the beads back into his body.
• Ji Wuhen seizes the opening and reveals his true trump card: a life-bound hand cannon. He fires ten bullets, each containing a portion of his essence, qi, and spirit. The shots pierce cause and effect and nearly eliminate every possible escape route.
• Kongzhi is struck and realizes that both Wang Ping and Ji Wuhen genuinely intend to kill him. He becomes furious that “mortals” would dare challenge a powerful Brahma cultivator.
• He begins forming the nine-part Dharma seal needed to summon the [Great Golden Wheel Wisdom King].
• Wang Ping uses [Soul Pursuit] and [Soul Seizure] to attack Kongzhi’s damaged Sea of Consciousness. Because Dragon’s earlier [Heavenly Blade Unmatched Slash] left cracks in Kongzhi’s soul, the attacks interrupt his spellcasting, although they nearly exhaust Wang Ping’s own Spirit Sense.
• Wang Ping then attempts the martial breakthrough known as [Seeing God]. He focuses his Divine Intent on his lungs, using the Dragon-Head Executioner as a bridge to contact the “god” hidden within them.
• The breakthrough succeeds. Wang Ping’s breathing begins absorbing spiritual energy directly, which combines with his Inner Force and qi-blood to form [Astral Force].
• Kongzhi prepares to complete his summoning, believing Wang Ping has acted too slowly.
• However, the delayed effect of Wang Ping’s [Time-Stealing Thief] returns at the crucial moment, stretching what should have been one instant into approximately seven. This gives Wang Ping the decisive opening he needs.

Character Developments

• Wang Ping demonstrates increasing ruthlessness and tactical creativity. He willingly exhausts his Spirit Sense and risks severe backlash to interrupt Kongzhi, then forces a breakthrough during battle rather than waiting for ideal conditions.
• He successfully reaches the first stage of [Seeing God], marking a major advancement in his Martial Dao and allowing him to produce [Astral Force].
• Ji Wuhen is revealed to be far more dangerous than Wang Ping initially assumed. His hand cannon is his true life-bound weapon, and firing all ten bullets is effectively a suicidal attack. His willingness to sacrifice himself highlights his cold, calculating nature.
• Kongzhi loses his composure as his [Fate-Sealing Beads] are expelled and his heavenly secrets risk exposure. His arrogance toward mortals blinds him to Ji Wuhen’s willingness to gamble his life and causes him to underestimate the danger of his situation.
• Kongzhi’s earlier injuries become important: the damage to his Sea of Consciousness leaves him vulnerable to Wang Ping’s soul attacks.

Significant Themes

• Arrogance and underestimation: Kongzhi views Wang Ping and Ji Wuhen as inferior mortals, preventing him from properly anticipating their resolve and tactics.
• Sacrifice and desperation: Ji Wuhen’s attack requires him to burn through his own essence, while Wang Ping risks Spirit Sense backlash and a dangerous breakthrough to create a chance of victory.
• The conflict between fate and agency: The expulsion of the [Fate-Sealing Beads] exposes Kongzhi’s hidden destiny, while Ji Wuhen’s bullets manipulate cause and effect and Wang Ping’s temporal technique alters the battle’s timing.
• Transformation through pressure: Wang Ping’s breakthrough occurs under extreme danger, showing how combat and crisis accelerate his cultivation.
• The body as a path to power: Wang Ping’s [Seeing God] breakthrough reveals that the physical body contains hidden divine potential, allowing spiritual energy to be drawn directly into his cultivation.

Character Interactions

• Wang Ping and Ji Wuhen cooperate instinctively, combining Wang Ping’s [Law Contract] and soul attacks with Ji Wuhen’s overwhelming life-bound weapon.
• Ji Wuhen’s sudden suicidal assault surprises both Kongzhi and Wang Ping, changing Wang Ping’s view of him from merely calculating to genuinely ruthless.
• Kongzhi attempts to recover the [Fate-Sealing Beads] instead of engaging his attackers, showing that concealing his heavenly secrets is more important to him than immediately defeating them.
• Wang Ping repeatedly interrupts Kongzhi’s spellcasting, first through soul attacks and ultimately through the delayed effect of [Time-Stealing Thief].
• The chapter ends with Kongzhi’s summoning delayed at the exact moment Wang Ping completes his breakthrough, setting up Wang Ping’s counterattack.

Chapter Summary: “Slaying Kongzhi, a Bountiful Harvest!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Wang Ping realizes that relying solely on extreme speed is insufficient against Kongzhi, a Loose Immortal capable of using Dharma power to alter reality.
• He channels his newly condensed Astral Force into the Dragon-Head Executioner, allowing him to condense the destructive force of his hundredfold-sonic-speed slash into the blade rather than releasing a massive shockwave.
• Kongzhi counters with the Buddhist mantra “Empty,” which previously neutralized Dragon’s attack by erasing Wang Ping’s sensory perception and disrupting his technique.
• Dragon reveals that his apparent defeat and the destruction of his Divine Armor were part of a larger plan. He summons the armor fragments and restores the Divine Armor onto Wang Ping, replenishing his strength.
• Empowered by the armor, Wang Ping returns to his sublight-speed realm and executes an even more powerful slash. He pierces Kongzhi’s head before Kongzhi’s Buddhist manifestation can intervene.
• Kongzhi’s body splits apart, and Wang Ping uses the Life-Stealing Thief to absorb his remaining vitality, transforming it into a huge supply of Life Essence Pills.
• Wang Ping acquires Kongzhi’s four top-grade ritual artifacts, a complete Brahma Kingdom cultivation method, and potentially valuable scripture scroll material from Kongzhi’s corpse.
• A remaining Buddhist manifestation condemns Wang Ping as a demon for killing Kongzhi and obstructing reincarnation. Wang Ping destroys it with another slash and mocks its inability to identify him.
• Wang Ping reveals that he had been disguised as Ye Chao, allowing him to conceal his true identity and divert any future pursuit.
• Dragon praises Wang Ping but asks for the return of his Divine Armor. Wang Ping pretends not to know what Dragon is talking about, ending the chapter humorously.

Character Developments

• Wang Ping: Demonstrates improved mastery of Astral Force and learns to use it to control and concentrate the destructive effects of extreme speed. He becomes more confident, calculating, and openly opportunistic, viewing Kongzhi’s death as a major breakthrough in his cultivation. His disguise also shows his growing caution and talent for deception.
• Dragon: Reveals himself as a willing participant in Wang Ping’s strategy rather than merely a temporary ally. Despite severe injuries, he deliberately sacrificed his Divine Weapon armor to create the opportunity for victory. His willingness to trust Wang Ping contrasts strongly with the selfishness common among cultivators.
• Kongzhi: Shifts from a confident Loose Immortal into a desperate and enraged opponent. His disbelief at Dragon’s cooperation exposes his inability to understand genuine trust or self-sacrifice. Even after death, his Buddhist power attempts to condemn Wang Ping, but it is too weak to matter.
• Ji Wuhen: Survives the battle and benefits from Kongzhi’s powerful life essence, recovering some of his strength by inhaling the blood-filled air.

Significant Themes

• Trust and cooperation versus cultivator selfishness: Dragon’s willingness to sacrifice himself and his Divine Weapon for Wang Ping’s victory shocks Kongzhi, who believes cultivators would always prioritize their own survival.
• Power through technique, not brute force: Wang Ping’s victory comes from combining speed with Astral Force, allowing him to overcome the reality-altering abilities of a Loose Immortal.
• Cunning and concealment: Wang Ping’s use of the Ye Chao disguise protects his identity and ensures that the Brahma Kingdom cannot easily trace the attack back to him.
• The rewards and corruption of cultivation: Kongzhi’s death brings Wang Ping immense benefits, reinforcing the chapter’s cynical idea that killing powerful enemies can accelerate one’s cultivation.
• Mortality challenging higher realms: Though Kongzhi possesses Dharma power and Buddhist authority, coordinated action by “mortals” allows Wang Ping and Dragon to defeat him.

Character Interactions

• Wang Ping and Dragon work together through a carefully prepared strategy: Dragon sacrifices his armor and strength, then restores the armor at the decisive moment so Wang Ping can deliver the killing blow.
• Kongzhi is baffled and angered by their cooperation, unable to comprehend why Dragon would entrust victory to another person.
• Ji Wuhen remains nearby during the battle, making Wang Ping deliberately avoid attacks whose shockwaves might endanger him.
• After Kongzhi’s death, Wang Ping verbally challenges the Buddhist manifestation and destroys it before it can finish condemning him.
• The chapter ends with playful tension between Wang Ping and Dragon, as Wang Ping pretends not to understand Dragon’s demand to reclaim his Divine Armor.

Chapter Summary:

Upgraded Otherworldly Celestial Demon

Key Plot Points and Events

• After defeating Kongzhi, Wang Ping claims the Divine Armor. Dragon, too badly injured to use it, reluctantly allows him to keep it temporarily.
• Wang Ping secretly stores Kongzhi’s corpse in the flag-space. Dragon notices but chooses not to interfere, accepting that powerful geniuses naturally have secrets.
• Upon returning to Longxing County, Dragon is greeted by Dog. Despite his injuries, Dragon criticizes Dog for being weak and orders him to train under his personal guidance for three days. Dog becomes enthusiastic at the prospect.
• Wang Ping divides Kongzhi’s spoils with Ji Wuhen, offering him one of the four magical artifacts. Ji Wuhen chooses the Sumeru Vajra Umbrella, a powerful defensive weapon.
• Ji Wuhen admits he had suspected Wang Ping might kill him and take his treasures, but Wang Ping explains that the Weapon Ranking would expose such an act. This convinces Ji Wuhen that Wang Ping is trustworthy enough to continue working with.
• Back at the yamen, Madam Su prepares a large meal for Wang Ping and reveals that she is nearly finished learning the Six Desires Heaven’s Free Attainment Method. Wang Ping eats enough food to replenish his Life Essence before tending to his cultivation.
• Inside the Morgue, Wang Ping discovers that Kongzhi’s corpse can either be used to create the sixth scripture volume or be absorbed by the Otherworldly Celestial Demon scripture volume.
• He chooses to sacrifice the corpse to upgrade Otherworldly Celestial Demon, reasoning that another suitable corpse may eventually be found, while this may be his only opportunity to strengthen his most important survival ability.
• The upgrade unlocks a third world gateway: the Heavenly Demon Royal Court. Wang Ping realizes it may be connected to the Northern Plains and the Brahma Kingdom’s struggle with the Immortal Sect over the Eight Trigrams Furnace.
• The upgraded scripture volume allows one resurrection cooldown to complete every seven days and permits Wang Ping to accumulate up to seven resurrection chances.
• Just as Wang Ping finishes examining the upgrade, Chen Luoyan secretly climbs into his room and asks him not to make a sound, explaining that she came without her cousin’s knowledge.

Character Developments

• Wang Ping becomes more strategic and willing to sacrifice short-term gains for long-term security. He prioritizes upgrading Otherworldly Celestial Demon because enemies already understand its existing abilities.
• Dragon remains harsh and demanding but shows responsibility toward Dog by personally taking charge of his training. His injuries also emphasize the cost of the recent battle.
• Dog shifts rapidly from dejected to eager when offered personal instruction, revealing his desire to improve and his admiration for Dragon.
• Ji Wuhen grows more trusting of Wang Ping after receiving a valuable artifact and confirming that Wang Ping has practical reasons not to betray him. Their alliance becomes stronger.
• Madam Su continues balancing domestic care with cultivation. She supports Wang Ping through food and demonstrates rapid progress in learning a powerful technique.
• Chen Luoyan acts secretly and cautiously, suggesting she may possess important information or be involved in a conflict with her cousin.

Significant Themes

• Trust versus self-interest: Ji Wuhen recognizes that martial artists rarely act from pure morality, so trust is built through practical restraints and mutual benefit rather than idealism.
• Strategic sacrifice: Wang Ping gives up Kongzhi’s potentially powerful corpse-derived scripture volume to strengthen an ability that offers greater long-term survival and flexibility.
• Preparation and contingency: The ability to store seven resurrection chances represents Wang Ping’s growing emphasis on maintaining reserves and avoiding dependence on a single cooldown.
• Hidden conflicts and larger worlds: The Heavenly Demon Royal Court reveals that the struggles surrounding Great Shun, the Immortal Sect, and the Brahma Kingdom may be parts of a much larger interworld conflict.
• Power and secrecy: Wang Ping’s hidden abilities, Kongzhi’s corpse, and Chen Luoyan’s covert arrival all reinforce the importance of concealed information in the characters’ survival.

Character Interactions

• Dragon reprimands Dog for failing to protect him, then unexpectedly offers to train him personally.
• Wang Ping and Ji Wuhen exchange suspicion and humor while dividing the spoils, ultimately strengthening their partnership.
• Madam Su welcomes Wang Ping home with food, casually teases him about causing the distant pillar of fire, and reminds him to care for his injuries.
• Wang Ping debates internally over whether to use Kongzhi’s corpse for a new scripture volume or upgrade Otherworldly Celestial Demon.
• Chen Luoyan’s secret entrance creates a new mystery and ends the chapter on a note of impending intrigue.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Luoyan questions Wang Ping about killing the Loose Immortal. He lures her into the Six-Desire Demon Banner, then seals her inside without answering. He confines her separately from Ye Chao and leaves.
• Wang Ping asks Dragon why Book Mountain has not investigated the battle, despite its taking place in its territory. He suspects the sect may have been allied with the slain Brahma Cultivator, but admits that their silence is unsettling.
• Dragon agrees the lack of response is unusual, yet advises Wang Ping not to worry without evidence of danger. Wang returns to cultivating through the Morgue’s Deity Possession ability. The scroll now includes Kongzhi’s portrait, and Wang hopes to use the Brahma Cultivator’s knowledge to advance his own cultivation.
• At Book Mountain, the sect leader and more than a dozen Loose Immortals are trapped by an unseen woman. She claims she came to admire the mountain’s flowers, then threatens the sect leader after declaring that he resents and wants to kill her. The others flee.
• The woman eventually appears. The sect leader is revealed to be hosting Xuan He Daoist, who treats her with great deference and orders the mountain gate opened. He identifies her as the Supreme Grandmaster, the foremost master of the Martial Dao.

Character developments and interactions

• Wang Ping remains calculating and opportunistic: he exploits Chen Luoyan’s trust, then turns his attention to using Kongzhi’s portrait for cultivation. His anxiety about Book Mountain shows that he recognizes the risks of their actions.
• Chen Luoyan approaches Wang in good faith, believing she can question him directly; her trust leaves her vulnerable to his trap.
• Dragon takes a practical, fatalistic approach, urging Wang to rest rather than fret over dangers they cannot presently detect.
• The Supreme Grandmaster is revealed as immensely powerful, unpredictable, and capable of influencing the physical world despite her seemingly illusory nature. Her confrontation with the Book Mountain group displays how deeply she intimidates even elite cultivators.
• Xuan He Daoist shows unusual respect toward her, suggesting her reputation and authority extend far beyond ordinary sect politics.

Significant themes

• Power and intimidation: Even Loose Immortals flee when faced with a superior force, while the Supreme Grandmaster can dictate terms to Book Mountain.
• Uncertainty and fate: Wang cannot tell whether Book Mountain’s silence signals danger, and Dragon’s advice reflects the limits of foresight and control.
• Cunning versus trust: Wang’s treatment of Chen contrasts with her straightforward attempt to get answers.
• Cultivation through knowledge: Wang sees even an enemy’s different cultivation system as a possible source of insight and advancement.

Plot points and events

• Xuan He Daoist, the Immortal Sect disciple responsible for watching the Eight Trigrams Furnace, walks through Book Mountain with the projected presence of a powerful woman beside him.
• He recalls how, during his century-long retreat, the woman rose from obscurity to become the world’s strongest martial artist. Her innovations also transformed Great Shun’s Martial Dao: some Grandmasters can now fight or kill Loose Immortals, while Great Grandmasters can challenge Divine Ability cultivators.
• Unable to defeat her and afraid the Immortal Sect would discover his failure to control the Furnace, Xuan He secretly negotiated with her and the four Great Grandmasters. They withdrew from public life, and he concealed the upheaval using what he calls the Immortal Sect’s “Four-Step Process” for covering up mistakes.
• Xuan He accuses the woman of arranging the death of Kongzhi, a Brahma Cultivator who had sought the Child of Destiny in the Shu Region. She denies knowing what he means and says she acted on instinct.
• He warns her not to interfere with the Child of Destiny, who is important to the Immortal Sect and watched by a senior True Disciple. He offers the original Supreme Yin Chain-Form Heavenly Ascension Register Scripture in exchange for the child.
• A letter from Dragon reports that Wang Ping mastered the Martial God Illustrated Manual in three days and has already grasped the fundamentals of the Five-Weapon Sacred Lord. The woman realizes Wang Ping is the person Dragon found and immediately decides to keep him.
• She tells Xuan He that she has already accepted Wang Ping as her disciple, ends their discussion, and sends Xuan He back to the immortal realm. Furious, he erupts in anger outside the Eight Trigrams Furnace.

Character developments and interactions

• Xuan He Daoist is revealed as capable but self-serving: he recognizes the danger of the woman’s influence, yet prioritizes protecting himself over correcting the Furnace’s failure. His negotiation with her mixes warning, praise, and attempted bribery.
• The woman remains composed and cryptic, acting on intuition rather than openly explaining her choices. Her decision to accept Wang Ping as her disciple overrides Xuan He’s offer and signals how seriously she regards his potential.
• Wang Ping, though absent, emerges as an exceptional talent whose rapid progress makes him too valuable for the woman to surrender.
• Their exchange shows an uneasy balance of power: Xuan He has institutional authority and knowledge of the Immortal Sect, but the woman can resist his demands and dismiss him.

Significant themes

• Control versus unexpected change: The Immortal Sect’s systems are designed to keep Great Shun’s Martial Dao contained, but the woman’s rise has disrupted that control.
• Institutional self-preservation: Xuan He’s “Four-Step Process” satirizes how officials conceal mistakes rather than address them.
• Talent and transformation: The woman’s achievements have elevated the wider martial world, while Wang Ping’s rapid growth hints at another major shift.
• Intuition and hidden motives: The woman’s instincts guide her choices, leaving Xuan He—and the reader—uncertain about what she knows or intends.

Chapter Summary: Heaven and Earth Pavilion

Key Plot Points and Events

• Xuan He is furious after being thwarted by the powerful female martial artist, but he refuses to personally enter the Eight Trigrams Furnace because doing so would expose his recent failure in Longxing County and invite blame from rivals.
• He decides to wait for the woman to die naturally rather than risk further consequences, especially since she cannot obtain the Supreme Yin Chain-Form Heavenly Ascension Register Scripture.
• Fei Xuan, a short, fat Outer Sect Disciple, arrives to investigate Xuan He’s unstable aura and asks whether something has gone wrong with the Eight Trigrams Furnace. Xuan He lies, claiming he merely had an insight and practiced a spell.
• When Fei Xuan appears suspicious, Xuan He intimidates him by revealing a terrifying fragment of his divine aura. Fei Xuan retreats, but the encounter makes Xuan He realize that more powerful investigators may soon arrive.
• Fearing that the furnace’s problems will be uncovered, Xuan He decides he must find someone else to take responsibility. He creates an incarnation to guard the furnace and travels to Heaven and Earth Pavilion.
• Heaven and Earth Pavilion is the gaseous-star residence of Senior Brother Kun Yun, a powerful Third Tribulation Realm True Disciple. Xuan He is secretly affiliated with Kun Yun’s faction, helping sell stolen treasures from the Eight Trigrams Furnace and launder illicit Incense Dharma Coin.
• Kun Yun receives Xuan He through the enormous divine-ability manifestation of his star, demonstrating the terrifying power of Dust Containing a Sea of Worlds, which functions both as a divine ability and a Dharma Treasure.
• Xuan He tells Kun Yun that something has happened to Kunlun, Kun Yun’s reincarnated junior brother and Child of Destiny. He blames the incident on Brahma Cultivators, claiming one infiltrated the furnace and caused Kunlun’s reincarnated body to cultivate Brahma Dharma.
• Kun Yun becomes furious and demands to know whether Kunlun has recovered memories from his previous life and whether the cultivation of Brahma Dharma has triggered the danger of the Life Tribulation.

Character Developments

• Xuan He: Reveals himself as highly calculating, cowardly, and skilled at self-preservation. He prioritizes protecting his position in the Immortal Sect over confronting enemies directly. His concern shifts from anger to panic as he realizes the furnace’s problems may expose his crimes. He begins actively seeking a scapegoat and manipulates Kun Yun by presenting a carefully prepared false explanation.
• Fei Xuan: Though initially curious and possibly suspicious, he is intimidated by Xuan He’s display of power and quickly withdraws. His visit confirms Xuan He’s fear that others are beginning to investigate the Eight Trigrams Furnace.
• Kun Yun: Is established as an extremely powerful True Disciple with a formidable divine ability and a significant faction within the Immortal Sect. Despite Xuan He’s deception, Kun Yun is deeply concerned for Kunlun and reacts with anger when he believes his junior brother has been endangered.
• Kunlun: Does not appear directly, but his reincarnated body becomes the center of the conflict. His apparent cultivation of Brahma Dharma may awaken his past-life memories and create a dangerous Life Tribulation.

Significant Themes

• Self-preservation and betrayal: Xuan He immediately considers sacrificing someone else to protect himself, showing the ruthless political atmosphere of the Immortal Sect.
• Power and hierarchy: The chapter emphasizes the vast differences between cultivators. Xuan He can frighten a minor disciple but feels insignificant before Kun Yun, who is only the fifth-ranked True Disciple.
• Political intrigue and hidden corruption: The Eight Trigrams Furnace is tied to smuggling, illegal commerce, and the laundering of Dharma Coin. The danger comes not only from cultivation enemies but also from internal investigations and factional politics.
• Deception and scapegoating: Xuan He constructs a plausible story involving Brahma Cultivators to conceal the furnace’s true problems and shift responsibility away from himself.
• The danger of reincarnation and forbidden cultivation: Brahma Dharma may awaken Kunlun’s memories and wisdom from a previous life, potentially causing the Life Tribulation prematurely.

Important Character Interactions

• Xuan He and Fei Xuan: Fei Xuan questions Xuan He about the furnace. Xuan He lies and intimidates him with his aura, forcing him to retreat.
• Xuan He and Kun Yun: Xuan He approaches Kun Yun under the guise of reporting a disaster involving Kunlun. He adopts a submissive, sorrowful posture while carefully manipulating Kun Yun’s anger and concern.
• Kun Yun and Kunlun: Though Kunlun is absent, Kun Yun’s reaction shows their close relationship. He treats the possible harm to his reincarnated junior brother as a serious personal betrayal and demands the full truth.

Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Xuan He admits to Kun Yun that there is a risk in killing Kunlun’s reincarnated body. Kun Yun loses control and violently destroys Xuan He’s Dharma body before helping him recover.
• The chapter explains Xuan He and Kun Yun’s history. Five hundred years earlier, Kun Yun elevated Xuan He from an insignificant Rogue Cultivator in the Eight Trigrams Furnace, using him to weaken Kunlun’s Fate through the Fate-Gazing Flesh-Bone Mirror.
• Kunlun, once a powerful True Disciple, had been punished for involvement with the Heaven-Stealing Thief. He was cast into the Eight Trigrams Furnace to undergo the Life Tribulation, where failure would reduce him to Human Firewood.
• Kun Yun has promised Xuan He Kunlun’s fortune and True Spiritual Root in exchange for killing Kunlun. These rewards could allow Xuan He to become a True Disciple and complete his Book Mountain into a Grotto-Heaven Dharma Treasure.
• Despite the enormous benefits, Xuan He refuses to continue taking responsibility for the furnace. He deliberately presents himself as incapable, hoping Kun Yun will replace him and leave him free from future blame when the furnace’s secrets are exposed.
• Kun Yun refuses to release him. Instead, he orders Xuan He to find another way to distract Kunlun from the Brahma Dharma and continue monitoring the Eight Trigrams Furnace.
• Xuan He realizes that Kun Yun may intend to exploit him until the scandal erupts, then abandon or eliminate him. He suspects that the promised rewards may never have been genuine.
• After Xuan He departs, Kun Yun washes away all physical contact with him, showing his contempt. He concludes that Xuan He has no alternative: to gain protection from his master, Mingyou, Xuan He must obtain a True Spiritual Root and kill Kunlun.
• Alone aboard his vessel, Xuan He finally loses his composure. He considers cooperating with the mysterious woman in the furnace but recognizes that she is committed to protecting the Child of Destiny. He wishes there were two Children of Destiny so he could satisfy both Kun Yun and the woman.

Character Developments

• Xuan He: Revealed as extremely cautious, calculating, and survival-oriented. Although tempted by power and advancement, he values avoiding catastrophe over pursuing great opportunities. His attempt to withdraw shows unusual courage and pragmatism, but he becomes increasingly desperate after realizing that neither Kun Yun nor his master will protect him.
• Kun Yun: Shown to be ruthless, manipulative, and deeply insecure about Kunlun’s possible return. He exploits Xuan He’s dependence on him and treats him as disposable, while confidently assuming Xuan He has no way to escape.
• Kunlun: Though absent from the chapter, his past reputation and potential return dominate the actions of both men. His talent makes Kun Yun fearful and drives the entire conspiracy against him.
• The mysterious woman in the Eight Trigrams Furnace: Her determination to protect the Child of Destiny establishes her as a possible alternative ally for Xuan He, though cooperation with her appears difficult.
• Mingyou: Xuan He’s master is presented as another authority figure who might protect him, but Xuan He believes he cannot rely on him without first becoming a True Disciple.

Significant Themes

• Survival versus ambition: Xuan He rejects extraordinary rewards because the danger of remaining involved outweighs the potential gains.
• Exploitation and power hierarchies: The immortal sect is depicted as a system where backing matters more than talent, and weaker figures are useful only while they serve stronger patrons.
• Betrayal and disposable alliances: Kun Yun’s support of Xuan He was never purely benevolent; their relationship is based on mutual utility and may end in betrayal.
• Entrapment and lack of freedom: Even after trying to resign, Xuan He discovers that his past crimes and dependence on Kun Yun leave him with no easy escape.
• Fear of consequences: Both characters act less from loyalty than from fear—Kun Yun fears Kunlun’s return, while Xuan He fears the immortal sect’s punishment and being sacrificed by Kun Yun.
• The danger of greed: The chapter contrasts the temptation of the True Spiritual Root, fortune, and status with Xuan He’s willingness to abandon them for a chance at survival.

Character Interactions

• Xuan He and Kun Yun: Their conversation begins with apparent senior-junior warmth but quickly reveals coercion and distrust. Kun Yun reminds Xuan He of his past debt, while Xuan He disguises his attempt to escape as humility and concern for Kun Yun’s plans.
• Kun Yun and Xuan He after the negotiation: Kun Yun refuses Xuan He’s request to be replaced, making clear that Xuan He remains trapped in his role. Kun Yun’s private contempt contrasts sharply with his public encouragement.
• Xuan He and the absent Kunlun: Xuan He has spent five hundred years undermining Kunlun’s Fate, but now fears that killing him may trigger consequences he cannot survive.
• Xuan He and the mysterious woman: Their potential alliance becomes Xuan He’s last apparent hope, but their opposing goals—her protection of the Child of Destiny versus Kun Yun’s demand for the Child’s death—make cooperation uncertain.

Chapter Summary

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• In the Longxing County yamen, Wang Ping prepares to cultivate the [Five-Weapon Sacred Lord] by fusing three Dharma artifacts left behind by Kongzhi:
  • [Muni Pearl] into the spleen, corresponding to Earth.
  • [Dragon-Elephant Vajra Wheel] into the liver, corresponding to Wood.
  • [Wind-Thunder Demon-Subduing Pestle] into the kidneys, corresponding to Water.
• Because Kongzhi currently possesses Wang Ping through [Deity Possession], he removes the hidden contingencies within the artifacts, preventing them from harming Wang Ping or exposing him to the Brahma Kingdom.
• Wang Ping studies the [Heavenly Book of His Transformation's Freedom and Dominion over the Desire Realm], recognizing it as a dual-cultivation Brahma method. However, he rejects its dependence on communicating with and receiving approval from Great Brahma.
• Instead, he decides to use Brahma cultivation to control and strengthen his Heart Ape, treating his own body as the Heart Ape’s “Great Brahma.”
• The Heart Ape has grown stronger after absorbing the wood Qi in Wang Ping’s liver but has also become restless and rebellious. Wang Ping suppresses it by reciting the Inner Landscape Scripture, causing its Golden Circlet to tighten painfully.
• He then teaches the Heart Ape to communicate with Wang Ping’s body. The Heart Ape achieves a breakthrough by realizing “emptiness,” allowing it to influence and transform the Divine Weapons fused into Wang Ping’s body.
• The weapons merge into a single transformed weapon:
  • The Wind-Thunder Pestle becomes the handle of the Dragon-Head Executioner.
  • The Muni Pearl becomes its central core.
  • The Dragon-Elephant Vajra Wheel spreads across the blade as dragon-and-elephant patterns.
• The Heart Ape’s transformation ability fills the missing fifth weapon, allowing Wang Ping to complete the [Five-Weapon Sacred Lord] without acquiring another artifact.
• Wang Ping immediately begins attempting to [See God], intending to break through to the Grandmaster realm.
• Meanwhile, Dragon observes Dog’s cultivation and acknowledges that Dog has talent, though Dragon now finds ordinary genius less impressive because of Wang Ping’s extraordinary progress.
• The First Seat communicates with Dragon, praising his advancing Divine Intent and predicting that he will become a Great Grandmaster within a few months.
• The First Seat also orders Dragon to become Wang Ping’s master and guide him to Grandmaster within one year and to [Commune with the Divine] within three years.
• Before Dragon can confidently promise to achieve this in three months, Wang Ping’s breakthrough erupts in the neighboring courtyard. His blood Qi fills the sky, and his Divine Intent manifests as a magnificent celestial monkey resembling the legendary Monkey King.
• The First Seat recognizes the manifestation as evidence that Wang Ping has already reached [Communing with the Divine], leaving Dragon stunned.

2. Character Developments

Wang Ping

Wang Ping demonstrates increasingly profound understanding of the interaction between immortal cultivation, Brahma Dharma, and martial arts. Rather than blindly following Brahma doctrine, he adapts it to his own system. His control over the Heart Ape allows him to transform his fused weapons and complete the Five-Weapon Sacred Lord. He then unexpectedly advances not only to Grandmaster but also to the level of Communing with the Divine.

Kongzhi

Although dead, Kongzhi remains highly influential through his possession of Wang Ping. His superior knowledge of the Dharma artifacts and cultivation methods enables Wang Ping to fuse the weapons safely and derive the correct cultivation path. Kongzhi functions as Wang Ping’s internal guide and strategist.

The Heart Ape

Once unruly and filled with distracting thoughts, the Heart Ape is disciplined through pain and scripture. It eventually becomes deeply connected to Wang Ping’s body and gains the ability to reshape the fused weapons, effectively manifesting transformation abilities similar to the legendary Seventy-Two Transformations.

Dragon

Dragon’s own cultivation is progressing rapidly, and he is nearing the Great Grandmaster realm. He is proud of being recognized by the First Seat and eager to become Wang Ping’s master, but his confidence is immediately undermined when Wang Ping surpasses the expectations set for him.

Dog

Dog is shown to possess genuine martial talent and has begun mastering the [Martial God Illustrated Manual]. However, his progress appears ordinary compared with Wang Ping’s astonishing advancement.

The First Seat

The First Seat is well-informed about Wang Ping’s achievements and holds him in extremely high regard. He formally entrusts Dragon with guiding Wang Ping’s future cultivation.

3. Significant Themes

Integration Rather Than Orthodoxy

Wang Ping refuses to accept Brahma cultivation exactly as taught. He extracts its useful principles while discarding its dependence on external divine approval, demonstrating his preference for self-reliance.

The Body as a Microcosm

Wang Ping’s body becomes a “little heaven and earth” in which Divine Weapons, organs, Qi, and consciousness interact. Cultivation is presented as the transformation of the body into a complete internal universe.

Mastery Over the Inner Self

The Heart Ape symbolizes Wang Ping’s restless desires and thoughts. By suppressing and educating it, Wang Ping converts inner disorder into a source of power.

Transformation and Adaptability

The fused weapons are not static objects. Once incorporated into Wang Ping’s body, they can change according to his will, showing that true martial cultivation involves reshaping one’s entire existence.

The Limits of Conventional Expectations

Dragon and the First Seat set a long-term goal of Wang Ping reaching Grandmaster within a year and Communing with the Divine within three. Wang Ping accomplishes both almost immediately, emphasizing how far beyond normal standards his talent has become.

Self-Reliance Versus External Authority

Wang Ping’s rejection of Great Brahma’s approval reflects a broader desire to control his own cultivation path rather than depend on outside powers or institutions.

4. Character Interactions

• Wang Ping relies on Kongzhi’s presence to safely arrange and fuse the Dharma artifacts, effectively combining Wang Ping’s body and potential with Kongzhi’s experience.
• Wang Ping disciplines the Heart Ape through the Inner Landscape Scripture, then teaches it the Brahma method. Their relationship shifts from one of suppression to cooperation.
• Dragon discusses Dog’s progress while comparing him, consciously or unconsciously, to Wang Ping. Wang Ping’s overwhelming talent has altered Dragon’s standards for genius.
• The First Seat praises Dragon, assigns him responsibility for Wang Ping, and establishes a mentor-student relationship between them.
• Dragon confidently promises to train Wang Ping, only to witness Wang Ping’s immediate breakthrough and realize that his intended student has already exceeded the proposed timetable.
• The First Seat mistakes Wang Ping’s manifested Divine Intent for that of an unknown Grandmaster, while Dragon recognizes that the astonishing figure is actually Wang Ping, producing the chapter’s climactic surprise.

Chapter Summary: Spells Bestowed by Heaven, Martial Dao Communing with the Divine!

Key Plot Points and Events

• Wang Ping begins a major physical transformation after advancing in the Five-Weapon Sacred Lord and Inner Landscape Scripture. His body is violently reconstructed, consuming enormous amounts of Life Essence.
• Dragon realizes that one Great Restoration Pill will not be enough and supplies every medicinal pill he has, sending their energy into Wang Ping’s body. This stabilizes the transformation and saves some of Kongzhi’s Life Essence for Wang Ping’s future cultivation.
• Wang Ping successfully completes his second Physical Transformation and achieves Seeing God, illuminating the six spirits associated with the five viscera: the heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and two kidneys.
• An unknown, ethereal voice suddenly instructs Wang Ping to continue cultivating and identify the Gallbladder Spirit and Throat Spirit. Although he cannot detect the speaker, Wang Ping follows the advice.
• Wang Ping sees the two additional Body Spirits, bringing his total to eight. The spirits merge into his Inner Force, causing it to transform into True Astral Force and allowing him to immediately reach Communing with the Divine.
• His Heart Ape becomes substantially more developed, taking on a vivid form within his Divine Intent, though it cannot yet affect the physical world.
• The Dragon-Head Executioner undergoes a qualitative improvement after absorbing Kongzhi’s three Dharma artifacts. Its Law Contract can now target not only living bodies but also the portion of heaven and earth struck by the blade.
• Wang Ping discovers a new divine ability, False Form, allowing him to transform perfectly into various animals, including a tiger, eagle, ape, fish, rat, and ox.
• Kongzhi’s portrait fades from the Morgue after his mission is fulfilled. Wang Ping reflects gratefully on Kongzhi’s sacrifice and wonders why Book Mountain has not yet sent him another person or assigned a new mission.

Character Developments

• Wang Ping: Advances from a Martial Master to a Grandmaster and immediately reaches Communing with the Divine, an achievement that normally requires years of arduous cultivation. His body becomes vastly stronger, his Inner Force evolves into True Astral Force, and he gains both the Heart Ape and False Form abilities.
• Dragon: Initially worries that Wang Ping’s breakthrough may expose him to heavenly powers before he completes the Five-Weapon Sacred Lord. After witnessing Wang Ping’s unprecedented progress, Dragon is shocked and unsettled, especially because Wang Ping surpasses the speed of Dragon’s own cultivation. Dragon reassures himself that he will still reach Manifesting Sainthood first.
• Kongzhi: Though already dead, Kongzhi’s final contributions remain crucial. The Life Essence, Dharma artifacts, and assistance he left behind directly support Wang Ping’s breakthrough. His portrait disappears peacefully once his purpose is fulfilled.
• The mysterious voice: An unknown entity intervenes during Wang Ping’s cultivation, guiding him toward the Gallbladder and Throat Spirits. Its identity and motives remain unresolved.

Significant Themes

• Extraordinary cultivation speed: Wang Ping’s advancement defies normal martial traditions, highlighting his exceptional talent and the effects of combining multiple cultivation systems.
• Inheritance and sacrifice: Kongzhi’s posthumous assistance demonstrates how a person’s influence can continue after death, while Wang Ping’s gratitude emphasizes the value of selfless sacrifice.
• Hidden dangers of power: Dragon fears that Wang Ping’s rapid breakthrough and exceptional Divine Weapon may attract the attention of heavenly Transcendents.
• Transformation and transcendence: Wang Ping’s physical reconstruction, True Astral Force, Heart Ape, and shapeshifting ability all symbolize the merging of body, spirit, martial arts, and divine power.
• The limits of martial cultivation: Wang Ping begins imagining a future in which the Heart Ape can manifest physically and allow him to roam the world through divine thought, suggesting a path toward becoming something like a terrestrial immortal.
• Unexplained higher powers: The mysterious voice and Book Mountain’s silence introduce uncertainty about the forces directing Wang Ping’s journey.

Character Interactions

• Dragon supports Wang Ping by supplying medicinal energy during his dangerous transformation, despite fearing the consequences of Wang Ping’s rapid growth.
• Wang Ping recognizes Dragon’s intervention and appreciates that it preserves some of his precious Life Essence.
• The mysterious voice directly guides Wang Ping’s cultivation, prompting him to continue past the six spirits and discover the final two needed to Commune with the Divine.
• Wang Ping’s relationship with Kongzhi remains defined by gratitude and respect; he acknowledges Kongzhi as a rare benefactor who gave everything he could before dying.
• Dragon’s internal reaction to Wang Ping’s success contrasts with Wang Ping’s calm experimentation: Dragon is stunned and anxious, while Wang Ping focuses on understanding his new abilities and future potential.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Wang Ping exits the courtyard and thanks Dragon for guiding him through his recent breakthrough.
• Dragon nearly acknowledges Wang Ping as his disciple, but the Chief abruptly intervenes, striking Dragon and then Wang Ping to stop the apprenticeship.
• The Chief appears as a powerful manifestation of Divine Intent. Wang Ping recognizes her strength and respectfully identifies her as the Chief.
• The Chief dismisses Dragon as an inadequate teacher and orders Wang Ping not to become his disciple. Wang Ping initially defends Dragon, praising his guidance and claiming that Dragon is already his master.
• However, when the Chief offers to lend him Dragon’s Divine Armor for a month if he acknowledges her as his master, Wang Ping immediately changes sides and kneels before her. Dragon is furious but is also touched when Wang Ping helps ease the damage caused by the Chief’s attack.
• Dragon admits that Wang Ping’s martial ability is now close to his own and that the Chief can teach him things he cannot. He secretly warns Wang Ping to learn martial techniques from the Chief but not necessarily follow her advice about dealing with people.
• The Chief detects Dragon’s silent criticism and transports both Dragon and Wang Ping to her Divine Weapon, the Martial Arena.
• She explains that she once combined countless Divine Weapons and Dharma Treasures into the Martial Arena. Anyone she has killed can be recreated there through her Divine Intent, allowing her to fight them repeatedly.
• Wang Ping witnesses the manifestation of numerous powerful enemies, including Grandmasters, demonic cultivators, and other dangerous figures the Chief killed during her sixty-year career as Number One Under Heaven.
• The Chief summons the Ghost God Saber, a Seeing God Grandmaster and former disciple of Dragon God Temple, and challenges Wang Ping to defeat him.
• Wang Ping notices that the Ghost God Saber’s consciousness is being recorded by his Deity Possession scripture. He realizes that the Martial Arena can provide him with an endless supply of consciousness fragments, potentially allowing him to expand his own cheat ability.

Character Developments

• Wang Ping: Demonstrates gratitude, tactical flexibility, and shameless opportunism. Although he sincerely respects Dragon, he immediately accepts the Chief as his master when offered access to Dragon’s Divine Armor. After seeing the Martial Arena, he becomes intensely interested in exploiting it to strengthen Deity Possession.
• Dragon: Develops pride in Wang Ping’s progress and briefly considers taking him as a disciple. He becomes offended when Wang Ping chooses the Chief for the sake of the Divine Armor, though Wang Ping’s concern and healing attempt partially restore his goodwill. Dragon also acknowledges that Wang Ping is nearing his level.
• The Chief: Is revealed to be extraordinarily powerful, direct, and domineering. She has little patience for sentiment or mediocrity, openly criticizes Dragon, and possesses a vast history of killing powerful enemies. Her Martial Arena establishes her as a figure far beyond ordinary Grandmasters.
• Ghost God Saber: Appears as a fierce, arrogant opponent eager to test Wang Ping. His existence also becomes valuable to Wang Ping because his consciousness can be absorbed into Deity Possession.

Significant Themes

• Power and “cheats”: The chapter emphasizes that success in this world depends on possessing extraordinary advantages. The Chief’s Martial Arena is portrayed as a near-perfect cheat, while Wang Ping immediately seeks to appropriate its benefits for himself.
• Pragmatism versus loyalty: Wang Ping’s quick shift from Dragon to the Chief humorously demonstrates that loyalty is secondary to practical gain, though his gratitude toward Dragon is not entirely false.
• The weight of reputation: The Chief’s title, Number One Under Heaven, gains meaning through the sheer number and quality of enemies she defeated over sixty years.
• Endless advancement: Even after becoming a Grandmaster, Wang Ping continues searching for stronger opponents, better teachers, and ways to improve his abilities.
• Moral ambiguity of power: The Chief killed countless villains and dangerous cultivators, but her own ruthless methods and overwhelming control over the dead make her a frightening figure as well.

Character Interactions

• Wang Ping and Dragon share a mixture of teacher-disciple affection, mutual benefit, and comedic betrayal.
• The Chief repeatedly dominates both men, interrupting Dragon, dismissing his abilities, and forcing him to accompany Wang Ping into the Martial Arena.
• Wang Ping attempts to defend Dragon out of gratitude, but his immediate acceptance of the Chief’s offer exposes his opportunistic nature.
• The Chief presents Ghost God Saber as Wang Ping’s trial opponent, turning her explanation of the Martial Arena into a direct challenge.
• Wang Ping’s relationship with the Chief begins as a formal master-disciple bond, but his private goal is already to exploit her Divine Weapon for his own advancement.

Chapter 125: Martial Arena — Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Wang Ping enters the Martial Arena and faces the simulated Ghost God Saber, whose consciousness has been recreated by the First Seat through Divine Intent.
• During their conversation, Ghost God Saber reveals that:
  • He is already dead.
  • The First Seat can perfectly reproduce the Divine Intent of the dead.
  • Her true name has been erased from people’s memories so that Heaven cannot detect her.
  • This concealment was achieved through a spell cast by a cultivator from Heaven, connecting her methods to the Heaven-Stealing Thief.
• Ghost God Saber attempts to catch Wang Ping off guard with conversation before launching a deadly saber strike. His attack includes extreme speed, countless saber images, and demonic assaults on Wang Ping’s Sea of Consciousness.
• Wang Ping remains completely unharmed, demonstrating that his current physical and spiritual strength vastly surpass Ghost God Saber’s. He destroys the saber attack with one punch and obliterates Ghost God Saber.
• Elsewhere in the Arena, Dragon defeats River-Sinking Sword, an older Great Grandmaster and former lord of Tidewatch City. This victory convinces Dragon that he has a roughly thirty percent chance of breaking through to the Great Grandmaster realm.
• Dragon becomes the new gatekeeper of the Divine Communion Pass, replacing River-Sinking Sword’s statue in the Arena.
• Wang Ping’s statue also appears after he effortlessly clears the Seeing God Pass, confirming the overwhelming strength of his foundation.
• Wang Ping then appears before Dragon to challenge the Divine Communion Pass. Dragon initially assumes the First Seat has arranged this matchup so he can humble Wang Ping and vent his resentment over Wang Ping borrowing the Divine Armor.
• Before Dragon can prepare, Wang Ping defeats him with a single saber strike. Dragon awakens back in reality, stunned and humiliated by being one-shotted.

Character Developments

• Wang Ping displays overwhelming growth after only half a year of martial training. He no longer needs Deity Possession or complicated techniques against opponents at this level, relying on raw physical strength and effortless defense.
• Ghost God Saber is portrayed as a powerful but ultimately inferior test opponent. His tactical deception and demonic saber arts fail completely against Wang Ping.
• Dragon gains confidence after defeating River-Sinking Sword and believes he is ready to attempt the next breakthrough. However, his confidence collapses when Wang Ping instantly defeats him, reinforcing the vast gap between them.
• The First Seat is shown to possess extraordinary control over Divine Intent, memory, concealment, and the Martial Arena. She appears to be deliberately arranging opponents to test Wang Ping’s limits.
• River-Sinking Sword serves as a benchmark representing an older generation of Great Grandmasters whose foundations are weaker than those of modern martial artists.

Significant Themes

• Overwhelming talent and rapid advancement: Wang Ping’s half-year cultivation makes even established experts seem insignificant.
• The gap between realms and foundations: Defeating a gatekeeper is proof that one’s foundation is sufficient for advancement, while Wang Ping’s effortless victories suggest he is far beyond ordinary standards.
• Concealment and resistance to Heaven: The First Seat’s erased identity and hidden name emphasize the danger posed by Heaven and the lengths powerful cultivators must take to evade its attention.
• Pride and humiliation: Dragon’s confidence after his victory over River-Sinking Sword is immediately shattered, highlighting how quickly arrogance can be overturned by someone truly superior.
• The Arena as a legacy system: Defeated experts become statues and future gatekeepers, allowing later generations to study and challenge their martial achievements.

Character Interactions

• Wang Ping and Ghost God Saber exchange questions about death, cultivation, and the First Seat before their conversation turns into a surprise attack.
• Ghost God Saber acknowledges Wang Ping’s extraordinary talent but attempts to exploit his momentary distraction.
• Dragon proudly reports his victory to the First Seat, treating it as evidence that he is ready to advance.
• Dragon eagerly anticipates fighting Wang Ping, believing the First Seat has granted him an opportunity to punish the younger martial artist.
• Wang Ping gives Dragon no chance to speak or retaliate, defeating him instantly and leaving Dragon shocked and deeply embarrassed.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Dragon awakens after being instantly killed by Wang Ping in the Martial Arena. Initially furious at Wang Ping’s surprise attack, he replays the battle and realizes that Wang Ping’s slash was extraordinarily powerful—powerful enough that, in a fair fight, Wang Ping might have fought him to a draw.
• Wang Ping returns to peak condition after the battle because the Martial Arena restores participants’ bodies and vitality after its simulated fights.
• Reflecting on his technique, Wang Ping recognizes that his devastating slash consumes nearly all his strength. He can currently use it only once, making endurance his greatest weakness.
• The mysterious woman suggests the spell Great Strength, possessed by the Transcendents of Iron City Mountain. The spell provides inexhaustible physical strength, allowing continuous attacks without increasing the user’s instantaneous power.
• Wang Ping realizes that Great Strength is ideally suited to him because he already possesses overwhelming explosive power but lacks stamina.
• The woman warns him that obtaining the spell could make Iron City Mountain his enemy, especially since it possesses Loose Immortals capable of retaliating against Wang Ping and his associates.
• Her “caution” turns into a detailed lesson on covert operations: gather intelligence, study the target’s defenses and routines, use poison and ambushes, conceal one’s identity, and eliminate any possibility of retaliation. Wang Ping realizes that she is effectively teaching him how to destroy Iron City Mountain completely.
• The Martial Arena session ends, and Wang Ping returns to reality, where Dragon gives him water and pretends that Wang Ping never defeated him.
• Wang Ping asks Dragon about Iron City Mountain. Dragon produces a detailed intelligence scroll, revealing that the information was updated recently and that the location can be reached in about a day using his Divine Armor.

Character Developments

• Wang Ping demonstrates major martial talent. His improved slash combines Dragon’s technique with Heavenly Demon Disintegration, the Heart Ape’s Divine Intent, and extreme acceleration. However, he becomes aware that raw power alone is insufficient and begins seeking a way to improve his stamina.
• Wang Ping also shows increasing strategic ruthlessness. He initially suggests eliminating Iron City Mountain’s enemies completely, but he still lacks the practical experience to carry out such a plan. The woman and Dragon provide him with more sophisticated methods of intelligence gathering and covert action.
• Dragon moves from anger to admiration after analyzing Wang Ping’s attack. He acknowledges Wang Ping as a genuine martial arts genius, though he stubbornly refuses to admit defeat in person and humorously denies that Wang Ping killed him.
• The mysterious woman reveals herself as highly knowledgeable about both cultivation and the darker practicalities of conflict. Her advice is presented as guidance, but her methods are essentially those of an experienced covert operative.
• Wang Ping’s respect for the Attendant Hall grows when he discovers that Dragon already maintains up-to-date intelligence on Iron City Mountain.

Significant Themes

• Experience versus talent: Wang Ping possesses extraordinary power and creativity, but Dragon and the woman possess the practical experience needed to apply strength effectively.
• Explosive power versus endurance: The chapter highlights Wang Ping’s central combat limitation: he can deliver a nearly unbeatable attack, but cannot sustain repeated high-level techniques.
• The value of preparation: Intelligence, timing, ambushes, concealment, and understanding an enemy’s defenses are portrayed as more reliable than direct confrontation.
• Martial virtue and pragmatism: Dragon initially complains about Wang Ping’s lack of “martial virtue,” while the woman humorously teaches that survival in the jianghu depends on deception rather than honor.
• Humor amid danger: Dragon’s refusal to acknowledge his defeat and the woman’s contradictory advice create comic relief while still emphasizing the serious consequences of provoking powerful enemies.

Character Interactions

• Dragon’s internal reaction to Wang Ping shifts from indignation to admiration, though he hides his respect behind denial and bluster.
• The woman mentors Wang Ping, explaining both the benefits of Great Strength and the risks of stealing another sect’s secret technique.
• Wang Ping and the woman exchange a comedic discussion about “uprooting the grass and pulling out the roots,” with her refining his crude idea of total extermination into a detailed plan of surveillance, sabotage, poisoning, and ambush.
• After returning to reality, Wang Ping politely preserves Dragon’s dignity by pretending he may have mistaken the defeated opponent’s identity.
• Dragon ultimately assists Wang Ping by providing current intelligence on Iron City Mountain, establishing the likely next destination of the story.

Plot points and events

• Dragon explains that Great Shun’s “righteous” Way of Fangxian and demonic sects often operate in tandem. Demons commit atrocities, while righteous sects arrive afterward to defeat them, claim the corpses and spoils, and gain public worship. Iron City Mountain, a corpse-refining sect, relies on this arrangement.
• Dragon says Attendant Hall once tried to restrain the Transcendent sects. The Chief’s past campaigns forced a compromise: the sects largely target reviving Blackheads, while Attendant Hall tolerates some of their abuses. The Chief can no longer intervene freely.
• Wang Ping is told to infiltrate Iron City Mountain secretly. The Chief appears, places a thread of Divine Intent within him, and offers protection if the mission goes wrong. Encouraged by this safeguard—and by a newly accumulated revival—Wang Ping uses the Peace Scripture to refine Kongzhi’s prayer wheel, creating a sixth scroll.
• Wang Ping travels to Iron City Mountain, a heavily fortified sect protected by a formation built from twenty-four mass graves. He recognizes that his Near-Light-Speed Slash alone cannot defeat its three Loose Immortals.
• Instead, he marks the surrounding landscape with hundreds of thousands of cuts from the Dragon-Head Executioner, then channels his True Astral Force through them to invoke Law Contract, commanding: “Let heaven split its vault, and earth destroy its bones!”

Character developments and interactions

• Wang Ping grows more calculating and resourceful. Rather than relying on brute force or conventional martial techniques, he uses his Divine Weapon and the landscape itself to attack Iron City Mountain.
• Dragon acts as Wang Ping’s guide, explaining the sects’ political arrangement and the limits of his abilities.
• The Chief marks Wang Ping with her Divine Intent, becoming a concealed protector. Her appearance is unforgettable in presence but impossible for Wang Ping to recall afterward.
• The ethereal voice—apparently the Chief—recognizes Wang Ping’s unconventional plan and approves of his distinction between martial techniques and the broader Martial Dao: a creed of winning by any means necessary.

Significant themes

• Corruption behind righteousness: The supposed divide between good and evil is exposed as a mutually beneficial system built on exploitation.
• Political compromise and constrained justice: Attendant Hall’s power is balanced against the sects, leaving some abuses tolerated—especially when their victims can revive.
• Adaptability over orthodoxy: Wang Ping’s strategy embodies the idea that principles matter more than sticking to conventional methods.
• Power and safeguards: The Chief’s protection and Wang Ping’s revival provide confidence, but his success still depends on planning and ingenuity.

Key plot points

• The three Loose Immortals of Iron City Mountain worry about their sect’s decline and fear that the Corpse Grotto may move against them. They believe their dealings with the local Blackheads are restrained and even merit-worthy.
• Xuan He Daoist, unable to resolve his problems through the Kunyun Inheritor or his master, considers entering the Eight Trigrams Furnace in his true body to confront the “madwoman” inside. While divining the Child of Destiny’s location, he notices a star fragment being pulled off its prescribed course toward the world within the furnace.
• At Wang Ping’s command—“Let heaven split open its vault, and earth destroy its bones!”—the fragment becomes a massive meteorite and falls on Iron City Mountain. The three Loose Immortals try to stop it but are overwhelmed. The mountain’s own protective formation traps the impact and its destruction within the mountain, leaving the outside unharmed.
• Xuan He Daoist realizes that the Child of Destiny caused the catastrophe, likely using a spell or Dharma Treasure, and suspects he has become a Martial Grandmaster. He also discovers that Kongzhi’s previously concealed death is now visible in Fate’s torrent. Since the Child of Destiny’s fate remains visible, Xuan He suspects someone else took the object or means that had hidden Kongzhi’s fate.

Character developments and interactions

• The Iron City Mountain Loose Immortals shift from anxious speculation to desperate resistance, but their confidence in their ability to stop a falling star proves misplaced. Their conversation reveals resentment over past losses and complacency about exploiting local people.
• Xuan He Daoist becomes more alarmed as the Child of Destiny acts beyond his expectations. His curiosity about the meteorite leads him to a deeper mystery: the loss of Kongzhi’s fate-concealing protection.
• Wang Ping is shown wielding power capable of directing a cosmic catastrophe, decisively destroying Iron City Mountain.
• Kongzhi remains central despite his death: the disappearance of his concealment suggests someone intervened, but the culprit is unknown.

Significant themes

• Power and vulnerability: Even powerful immortals can be helpless before forces they cannot control.
• Consequences of exploitation: Iron City Mountain’s claims of acting benevolently contrast with its deliberate manipulation of famine and death to obtain corpses.
• Fate and concealment: The changing visibility of Kongzhi’s fate raises questions about who can alter or uncover the hidden workings of destiny.
• Escalating conflict: Wang Ping’s growing power signals that events inside the furnace are moving beyond Xuan He Daoist’s control.

Chapter Summary

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• A meteor is deliberately summoned and crashes into Iron City Mountain, annihilating most of its cultivators, destroying the mountain’s structures, and leaving the entire region in ruins.
• Iron City Mountain’s three Loose Immortals survive by abandoning their disciples and fleeing with their possessions. They suspect the disaster was deliberately orchestrated and remain on guard for an ambush.
• A frightened young Daoist arrives, claiming to be Ye Chao, a disciple of Book Mountain. Because of Book Mountain’s influence, the three Loose Immortals hesitate to kill him.
• Ye Chao claims to have discovered a powerful Dharma Treasure and produces an executioner’s blade. The Loose Immortals seize it from him remotely.
• The blade is revealed to be a disguise: Wang Ping has hidden himself within it using the False Form technique. He launches a surprise attack through the Heart Ape’s divine illusion, overwhelming the Loose Immortals’ consciousnesses.
• Two Loose Immortals are incapacitated and beheaded. The sect master escapes using the Mystic Heaven Golden Corpse, but Wang Ping catches and kills him with the Lightning-Speed Blade.
• Wang Ping loots the three corpses and immediately flees. The supposed Ye Chao is also revealed to be an illusion or disguise, transforming into green silk and burning away.
• Wang Ping hides in a county-town inn, where he recovers from the enormous physical and spiritual cost of his attack.
• He discovers the jade slip containing Iron City Mountain’s Great Strength technique. Using God Invocation to summon the dead sect master, he removes the restrictions on the jade slip and successfully obtains the technique.
• Wang Ping realizes that mastering Great Strength may eliminate the final weakness in his combat abilities, allowing him to use the Lightning-Speed Blade without holding back.
• Just as he begins wondering whether he has become “invincible under heaven,” a mysterious young Daoist named Xuan He enters his room unnoticed and asks where Wang Ping has hidden the real Ye Chao.

2. Character Developments

• Wang Ping demonstrates increasingly sophisticated combat planning. Rather than confronting the three Loose Immortals directly, he manipulates their fear and greed by disguising himself as a Dharma Treasure and using a false Book Mountain disciple as bait.
• His battle style combines martial strength, illusion, disguise, Spirit Sense, and precise assassination. He is powerful enough to kill multiple Loose Immortals, but the strain leaves him nearly helpless afterward.
• Wang Ping becomes more confident in his growing strength. Obtaining Great Strength convinces him that he may soon rival even powerful figures such as You Daoist Nun.
• Despite his confidence, his exhaustion and shock at Xuan He’s unexplained arrival reveal that he remains vulnerable and cannot yet assume he is truly invincible.
• The three Iron City Mountain Loose Immortals are portrayed as selfish and pragmatic. They abandon their followers without hesitation, prioritize their own survival, and immediately try to seize Ye Chao’s treasure.
• The sect master proves more cautious than his companions, escaping the initial illusion through the Mystic Heaven Golden Corpse. However, his attempt to flee and betray his junior brothers ultimately fails.
• Ye Chao is exposed as a fabricated identity or decoy rather than a genuine Book Mountain disciple.
• Xuan He is introduced as a mysterious and highly capable figure who can evade Wang Ping’s Spirit Sense entirely, suggesting that he may be a serious threat or possess knowledge of Wang Ping’s activities.

3. Significant Themes

• Survival over loyalty: The Iron City Mountain cultivators embody the Immortal Sect’s ruthless philosophy that survival and personal gain matter more than comrades, disciples, or honor.
• Deception and strategic power: Wang Ping wins not through brute force alone, but through layered disguises, psychological manipulation, bait, and carefully timed attacks.
• The limits of strength: Although Wang Ping can kill Loose Immortals, the Lightning-Speed Blade nearly drains him completely. His power is immense but still carries severe risks.
• Ambition and self-assessment: Obtaining Great Strength leads Wang Ping to question whether he has reached the pinnacle of power, though the sudden appearance of Xuan He challenges that confidence.
• Appearance versus reality: The meteor attack, the false Ye Chao, the disguised blade, and the illusory spirit monkey all reinforce the danger of trusting appearances.
• Consequences of overconfidence: Wang Ping’s thought that he may be invincible is immediately undercut by Xuan He’s ability to approach without detection.

4. Character Interactions

• The three Loose Immortals interrogate and threaten the disguised Ye Chao, but their fear of Book Mountain restrains them from killing him immediately.
• They attempt to confiscate the executioner’s blade, unknowingly allowing Wang Ping to place himself directly within their grasp.
• Wang Ping attacks them through a terrifying Heart Ape illusion, disrupting their consciousnesses and creating the opening needed for their deaths.
• The sect master abandons his junior brothers while escaping, privately rationalizing their deaths as the price of his survival.
• Wang Ping later uses God Invocation to summon the dead sect master and force him to remove the restrictions from the Great Strength jade slip.
• The chapter ends with Xuan He confronting Wang Ping directly and asking about Ye Chao, establishing a new mystery and a potentially dangerous confrontation.

Plot points and events

• Xuan He Daoist confronts Wang Ping and his mysterious female protector, demanding to know where Ye Chao is. He reveals that her fate is [The Strongest], making her unmatched within the Eight Trigrams Furnace—but also a potential target if the Immortal Sect discovers her.
• Xuan He freezes the world with his Divine Ability and attempts to search Wang Ping’s soul. He is repelled by the abilities [Life-Stealing Thief] and [Time-Stealing Thief], which he associates with the Heaven-Stealing Thief. The woman remains unaffected by his power.
• Xuan He agrees to explain himself. Ye Chao is the reincarnation of Kunlun, a True Disciple punished for joining the Heaven-Stealing Thief’s rebellion. Kunlun’s senior brother, Kun Yun, arranged for Xuan He to erode Ye Chao’s fate with a Dharma Treasure.
• Ye Chao’s fate has nearly been consumed, and Xuan He warns that trying to save him could kill him faster. Wang Ping considers whether the Heaven-Stealing Thief’s [Technique-Stealing Thief] ability could exchange their fates, but Xuan He argues it would be impractical and likely expose the attempt to the Immortal Sect.
• Xuan He suddenly tries to leave, suggesting something has happened to Ye Chao. Wang Ping opens the Six-Desire Demon Banner, but before he can act, a hand reaches out and seizes Xuan He. A powerful figure emerges: Chen Luoyan.

Character developments and interactions

• Wang Ping learns that Ye Chao is tied to the Heaven-Stealing Thief and the Immortal Sect’s internal conflict. Though frightened by Xuan He’s power, he presses for answers and begins searching for a way to save Ye Chao.
• Xuan He Daoist shifts from threatening interrogator to wary negotiator after discovering Wang Ping’s unusual soul abilities and recognizing the woman’s power. His abrupt attempt to flee hints that the danger has become immediate.
• The female protector remains calm and in control, using her intuition to push Xuan He into cooperation. Her immunity to his Divine Ability confirms her extraordinary strength.
• Chen Luoyan’s sudden appearance turns the confrontation on its head, leaving Xuan He captured and Wang Ping stunned.

Significant themes

• Fate and its cost: Exceptional destiny brings power, but also danger and unwanted attention.
• Loyalty, betrayal, and reincarnation: Kunlun’s punishment stems from siding with the Heaven-Stealing Thief against the Immortal Sect.
• Power and concealment: Characters must hide their abilities and identities to avoid attracting stronger forces.
• Uncertainty and shifting control: Apparent negotiations can quickly become traps, and the balance of power changes without warning.

Plot points and events

• Chen Luoyan, who Wang Ping had unknowingly left inside the Six-Desire Demon Banner, emerges and grabs Xuan He Daoist. Wang Ping realizes she is actually the Heaven-Stealing Thief.
• Xuan He and Wang Ping independently deduce the thief’s plan: use Ye Chao’s hidden fate to exchange it with Wang Ping’s, who currently shares Ye Chao’s fate through an active experience card.
• The thief repeatedly disrupts Wang Ping’s attempts to cancel the card by stealing his thoughts. Wang Ping works out that the ability depends on anticipating his thoughts rather than reading them directly, and that the thief cannot know exactly what he has stolen.
• The thief reveals he is Shouchong, Chen Luoyan, and many others, using the Technique-Stealing Thief to replace identities and Merit Deeds. His earlier appearances as separate people were a deliberate deception.
• By manipulating time, the thief creates a private interval in which he can act while the outside world is nearly frozen. He awakens Ye Chao’s former identity: Kunlun, an Immortal Sect True Disciple.
• The thief begins exchanging Wang Ping’s and Kunlun’s fates. Wang Ping’s experience card transfers to Kunlun, but because it only works on Wang Ping, it cancels. Kunlun receives Wang Ping’s original “Blackhead” fate instead.
• The thief then draws a True Spiritual Root from Kunlun and offers it to Wang Ping, making clear that he wants something in return: the Peace Scripture.

Character developments and interactions

• Wang Ping shows quick thinking under pressure. Though repeatedly thrown off by the thief’s mind-stealing, he identifies its limits and turns the fate swap against Kunlun by exploiting the experience card’s restriction.
• The Heaven-Stealing Thief/Shouchong is revealed as a patient, theatrical schemer who has carefully concealed his identity and planned around Wang Ping’s likely reactions. He remains calm even when Kunlun receives a disastrous fate.
• Kunlun/Ye Chao is revealed as a former Immortal Sect True Disciple whose past life has been awakened. He becomes solemn and formal, but the failed exchange leaves him burdened with Wang Ping’s bad luck.
• Xuan He Daoist recognizes the thief’s scheme and helps establish its stakes, though Wang Ping is the one directly caught in the mind games and exchange.

Significant themes

• Fate and identity: The chapter treats both as things that can be stolen, exchanged, or concealed through altered identities.
• Deception and strategy: The thief’s layered disguises and staged appearances contrast with Wang Ping’s ability to infer weaknesses from limited clues.
• Adaptation against overwhelming power: Wang Ping cannot overpower the thief, but careful reasoning lets him exploit a narrow limitation.
• The value of forbidden knowledge: The Peace Scripture is valuable enough that the thief offers a True Spiritual Root for it, setting up a new bargain or confrontation.

Plot points and events

• The Heaven-Stealing Thief gives Wang Ping a True Spiritual Root, hoping to obtain the Peace Scripture in exchange. The Scripture rejects the trade, revealing its extraordinary value.
• The Thief prepares to kill Wang Ping, but a powerful woman intervenes, shattering the stolen timeline and exposing the Thief’s disguise as Chen Luoyan. He admits the True Spiritual Root was not even his original target, then self-destructs to cover his escape.
• Xuan He Daoist suppresses the explosion, while Kunlun escapes amid the chaos. The woman uses Wang Ping’s Dragon-Head Executioner and its Law Contract power to extinguish the blast, exhausting the Divine Intent protecting him.
• The Heaven-Stealing Thief returns disguised as Shouchong and strikes Wang Ping. He also returns seven days he had previously stolen, putting Wang Ping’s Otherworldly Celestial Demon into cooldown. However, its upgrade lets it preserve a stored revival, so Wang Ping survives.
• The Thief withdraws after realizing Wang Ping’s revival works differently than expected, promising they will meet again. Wang Ping, badly wounded, proposes working with Xuan He Daoist: he will temporarily die and let Xuan He claim his Fate and True Spiritual Root, then revive within three months.
• Xuan He ignores the offer and tries to seize Wang Ping’s body. Wang Ping anticipates this and uses the Peace Scripture to make his corpse disappear. Xuan He leaves, agreeing to discuss cooperation with Wang Ping after he revives.

Character developments and interactions

• Wang Ping remains composed under pressure and repeatedly anticipates others’ moves. He recognizes the value of cooperation but protects himself from Xuan He’s opportunism by hiding his corpse.
• The Heaven-Stealing Thief proves elusive and strategic, using disguises, timeline manipulation, and a delayed countermeasure against Wang Ping’s revival. He ultimately retreats rather than risk further action.
• The woman acts as Wang Ping’s protector, intervenes against the Thief, and suppresses the explosion at considerable cost. Her apparent intuition unsettles Xuan He.
• Xuan He Daoist prioritizes taking Wang Ping’s Fate and True Spiritual Root over negotiating, but Wang Ping’s disappearance forces him to accept that cooperation may be his only option.
• The encounter is marked by shifting alliances and attempted bargains: Wang Ping offers Xuan He a deal, while the woman and Xuan He coordinate against the Thief’s explosion.

Significant themes

• Strategy and counterstrategy: Each character anticipates or counters another’s plans; apparent chaos conceals deliberate moves.
• Trust versus self-interest: Wang Ping proposes cooperation, but Xuan He initially chooses immediate gain over an agreement.
• Survival through preparation: Wang Ping’s earlier upgrade to his revival ability, and his foresight about Xuan He, keep him alive.
• The value of power and identity: The True Spiritual Root, Peace Scripture, Fate, and even the Thief’s borrowed identities are treated as assets to trade, steal, or protect.

Chapter Summary: “I Hate It Most When People Go Fishing with Dynamite!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Dragon senses Wang Ping’s death through the return of the Divine Armor and initially becomes furious and worried, questioning how Wang Ping could have died despite the First Seat’s presence.
• He checks the Attendant Hall’s Divine Generals Register and is relieved to see Tiger’s name still recorded, meaning Wang Ping can potentially be revived.
• The First Seat reassures Dragon that Wang Ping is unharmed but refuses to explain the circumstances, instead ordering Dragon to focus on improving his Divine Intent. Dragon humorously repeats the same dismissive words to Dog.
• Wang Ping awakens in the morgue after successfully reviving. The Peace Scripture unlocks its sixth scroll, titled “Plum for Peach.”
• The new ability allows Wang Ping to designate any number of targets and transfer all damage they receive onto himself.
• Wang Ping realizes that the Heaven-Stealing Thief manipulated him into taking Ye Chao’s place. He vents his anger at the Peace Scripture, suspecting that the book deliberately placed him in dangerous situations to force his growth.
• Despite the danger, Wang Ping acknowledges that his experiences in Longxing County greatly advanced him: he joined the Attendant Hall, obtained powerful martial arts, defeated Kongzhi, became a Martial Grandmaster, gained Ye Chao’s Fate, and expanded the Peace Scripture from one scroll to six.
• Because he now carries Ye Chao’s Fate and a True Spiritual Root, Wang Ping decides he cannot safely go to either the Immortal Sect or Great Shun. The Immortal Sect might recognize and arrest him due to Ye Chao’s past identity, while the Heaven-Stealing Thief could ambush him if he revived in Great Shun.
• He chooses instead to enter the Heavenly Demon Royal Court, a lower realm under the Brahma Kingdom, hoping it will be safer and allow him to accumulate more revival opportunities.
• Meanwhile, the Heaven-Stealing Thief and Ye Chao return to the site of their previous battle and discover that Wang Ping revived somewhere else. The Thief regrets missing the chance to kill him permanently.
• The Heaven-Stealing Thief reveals that he is pursuing the mysterious treasure within Wang Ping. He believes it may help him survive the Eight Trigrams Furnace, pass his Life Tribulation, and enter the Dao through Qi Refinement.

Character Developments

• Wang Ping: Becomes more cautious and self-aware after realizing he was manipulated. Although angry, he recognizes that his dangerous experiences have accelerated his growth. He also begins planning strategically by avoiding both major factions and seeking refuge in a lower realm.
• Dragon: Shows genuine concern for Wang Ping despite his rough demeanor. His panic at Wang Ping’s death reveals his emotional investment in his subordinate.
• The First Seat: Remains mysterious and powerful, offering reassurance but withholding information. His confidence suggests that Wang Ping’s situation is under control, or at least that he knows more than he reveals.
• The Heaven-Stealing Thief: Is established as an exceptionally dangerous and calculating figure. His interest in Wang Ping shifts from merely exploiting him to actively investigating the secret treasure he carries.
• Ye Chao/Kunlun: Questions why the Heaven-Stealing Thief is pursuing Wang Ping, highlighting the contrast between Kunlun’s practical attitude and the Thief’s intense ambition.

Significant Themes

• Growth through adversity: Wang Ping’s near-death experiences, while traumatic, have helped him gain power, knowledge, and new abilities.
• The cost of resurrection: Revival is possible but consumes Fate, making repeated death increasingly dangerous. Resurrection is therefore a limited resource rather than a consequence-free escape.
• Manipulation and hidden schemes: Wang Ping realizes that his actions were shaped by the Heaven-Stealing Thief and possibly by the Peace Scripture itself, raising doubts about how much control he truly has over his destiny.
• Power imbalance and unfair competition: Wang Ping mocks powerful outsiders who enter weaker realms and overwhelm lesser opponents, comparing them to people fishing with dynamite. The chapter also humorously acknowledges that he sometimes benefits from similar advantages.
• Mystery and potential: The Peace Scripture’s growing number of scrolls and the unknown treasure in Wang Ping’s possession suggest that both he and the artifact have far greater potential than currently understood.

Important Character Interactions

• Dragon worries about Wang Ping’s death, consults the Divine Generals Register, and is reassured by the First Seat.
• Dragon then amusingly imitates the First Seat’s dismissal when Dog asks what happened.
• Wang Ping argues with the Peace Scripture, blaming it for leading him into the dangerous chain of events in Longxing County.
• The Heaven-Stealing Thief discusses Wang Ping with Kunlun, explaining that the treasure Wang Ping carries may be the key to overcoming his own tribulation and advancing his cultivation.

Chapter Summary:

Six-Eared Remnant Clan

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• Yuan Sheng, the severely wounded young clan chief of the Six-Eared Clan, flees across the grasslands on a Dragonblood Horse while his clan is being massacred.
• He uses his own blood to strengthen the horse’s bloodline, allowing it to accelerate beyond the sound barrier, despite the worsening strain on his injured body.
• Three powerful pursuers lock onto Yuan Sheng with Spirit Sense and explain that the Six-Eared Clan has been selected for the Holy Feast Rite.
• The rite requires the entire clan to be sacrificed and transformed into a feast for the Great Golden Wheel Wisdom King, whose favor is needed to restore the Royal Court’s access to reincarnation.
• Yuan Sheng condemns the decision, arguing that his clan is being sacrificed solely because it possesses a noble bloodline but has few surviving members.
• Just as Yuan Sheng is about to be caught, Fate shifts. The pursuers’ memories and statements change: Yuan Sheng is now portrayed as fleeing with the one-year-old young clan chief, the last blood descendant of the Six-Eared Clan.
• Wang Ping transmigrates into the infant’s body through the Peace Scripture. He retains his Martial Grandmaster strength, Spirit Sense, and the Dragon-Head Executioner Divine Weapon fused with his organs.
• The Dragonblood Horse finally collapses, causing Yuan Sheng and the infant to crash into the ground. The three pursuers approach to kill them.
• Wang Ping unexpectedly stands up, draws an unseen blade of force, and instantly decapitates all three pursuers. He then heals Yuan Sheng completely with a warm energy.
• Yuan Sheng interprets Wang Ping’s abilities as evidence of “innate divine wisdom” and assumes that a powerful venerable being has reincarnated through the infant.

2. Character Developments

• Yuan Sheng: Begins as a desperate, injured survivor carrying the burden of preserving the Six-Eared bloodline. His grief and rage intensify when he learns that his clan has been deliberately chosen for sacrifice. After witnessing Wang Ping’s overwhelming power, his despair turns into awe, hope, and reverence.
• Wang Ping: Transmigrates as a seemingly helpless baby but quickly confirms that his strength and Divine Weapon survived the transition. He remains calm and analytical, immediately assessing his new identity, powers, and unusual advantages. His first major action in this world is effortlessly destroying the pursuers and healing Yuan Sheng.
• The Pursuers: Represent the Royal Court’s ruthless pragmatism. They rationalize genocide as “fate” and a blessing, but their confidence collapses when confronted with Wang Ping’s hidden power.
• The Six-Eared Clan: Although mostly absent in person, the clan is established as an ancient and noble bloodline connected to a former Heavenly Demon Great Sage and the Ming King.

3. Significant Themes

• Sacrifice and political exploitation: The Holy Feast Rite reveals how powerful institutions justify the destruction of a small clan for the perceived benefit of the wider society.
• Fate and altered destiny: Wang Ping’s arrival changes the circumstances surrounding the pursuit, suggesting that his exceptionally high Fate has influenced the Peace Scripture’s transmigration.
• Bloodline and inheritance: The Six-Eared Clan’s bloodline is both a source of power and the reason it has been targeted. Yuan Sheng sees preserving it as his sacred responsibility.
• Hope amid extinction: The clan appears doomed, but Wang Ping’s arrival creates a possible path for its survival and revival.
• Appearance versus reality: Wang Ping looks like a helpless infant, yet possesses the power and awareness of a formidable cultivator.
• Compassion and its corruption: The Ming King’s original compassion toward souls has become entangled with sacrifice, political pressure, and institutional cruelty.

4. Character Interactions

• Yuan Sheng argues with the pursuers, rejecting their claim that the Six-Eared Clan’s destruction is an honorable destiny.
• The pursuers attempt to manipulate Yuan Sheng by promising to spare him if he hands over the infant.
• Yuan Sheng refuses, declaring that they cannot harm the young clan chief while he remains alive.
• After Wang Ping kills the pursuers, Yuan Sheng is stunned by the infant’s abilities and receives healing directly from him.
• Believing Wang Ping to be a reincarnated supreme being, Yuan Sheng prostrates himself and asks which venerable figure has returned.