Recaps

Yue Changlong showed Ye Jincheng a death list of powerful figures who had betrayed the [Night Watchers], and Ye pledged the Ye Family's support for his campaign. Yue Changlong left to pursue the traitors while Yue Xiaofei stayed behind to take the unconscious Ning Family Girl for treatment.

• Yue Changlong revealed that the Cao Family were not the only traitors and showed Ye Jincheng a death list naming influential figures, beginning with Lin Xiao.
• Ye Jincheng warned that killing everyone on the list would shake the Dragon Kingdom, but pledged the Ye Family's support.
• Yue Xiaofei asked to accompany his father, but Yue Changlong told him to take the severely depleted Ning Family Girl to Longdu Military Region General Hospital.
• Yue Changlong vanished into the night, saying Yue Xiaofei would only slow down his blade.

Yue Changlong returned to the hospital covered in blood and revealed that he had killed 937 people in one night, prompting Bureau 7 to declare the massacre the Purification Operation. He told Yue Xiaofei that martial arts were only the lowest form of power and introduced the higher-order force known as “rules” in the Kunlun Ruins.

• Yue Xiaofei waited outside the VIP Ward, and Yue Changlong appeared at dawn in a combat uniform soaked with blood, saying it was not his own.
• Yue Changlong told Yue Xiaofei that he had killed 937 people the previous night.
• Yue Xiaofei read Bureau 7 reports describing the overnight deaths of corrupt officials, powerful figures, and spies, while agents praised the unknown killer and classified the incident as the Purification Operation.
• Yue Xiaofei asked how Yue Changlong had killed so many targets alone, and Yue Changlong asked what lay at the end of the martial path.
• Yue Changlong dismissed shattering the void as a limited view and explained that the Kunlun Ruins called a higher order of power “rules.”

Yue Changlong explained rule power and the Hidden Sects to Yue Xiaofei, then revealed that Ning Hongye’s curse was worsening and required three legendary treasures to break. The chapter left Yue Xiaofei facing the task of finding them as Ning Hongye’s life weakened.

• Yue Changlong explained that rule power could impose judgments beyond worldly martial arts and promised to take Yue Xiaofei to the Kunlun Ruins when he could control his inner power.
• A chief physician told Yue Changlong and Yue Xiaofei that Ning Hongye was dying as an undetectable destructive energy consumed her life force.
• Yue Changlong examined Ning Hongye and said the curse of the Spear of Longinus had worsened.
• Yue Changlong named the Nine-Turn Soul-Returning Herb, the Mingwang Relic, and fountain of youth water as the three items needed to break the curse.
• Yue Changlong revealed that the treasures belonged to ancient Hidden Sects, including Ning Hongye’s Ning family, which were stronger and older than public orthodox sects.

Yue Changlong told Yue Xiaofei that the Yue Family had saved several hidden sects in the past and would now collect what they were owed to find a cure for Ning Hongye. They left Longdu for the Golden Palace of the Sorcerer Sect, where Yue Changlong vowed to destroy the sect if it opposed them.

• Yue Changlong explained that the Yue Family had once helped the Golden Palace, Great Thunderclap Monastery, and the shamans of Changbai Mountain, and said they would collect those debts.
• Yue Changlong called Ye Jincheng and entrusted him with protecting Ning Hongye while they searched for a cure.
• Yue Changlong and Yue Xiaofei drove out of Longdu in a Maybach taken from the confiscated Cao Family assets.
• Yue Changlong described the Golden Palace's power and its brutal exploitation of children and the people of the Miao Borderlands.
• Yue Changlong warned Yue Xiaofei that he would wipe out the Golden Palace if its members tried anything.

Yue Changlong and Yue Xiaofei reached the Golden Palace during the Witch God Festival, where pilgrims were unknowingly brought as sacrifices. When Witch Gate disciples confronted them, Yue Changlong revealed he had returned five years after slaughtering his way through the palace and told the survivors they had lived only because they were too weak to be worth killing.

• Yue Xiaofei saw pilgrims kneeling toward the Golden Palace, and Yue Changlong explained that the Witch King used the Witch God Festival to gather sacrifices.
• Yue Changlong and Yue Xiaofei arrived at the palace, where a Witch Gate disciple challenged them for trespassing.
• Yue Changlong announced himself and demanded that the Witch King come out to meet him, enraging the Witch Gate disciples.
• Yue Changlong warned the disciples he had come to collect a debt and recognized the minor leader from his visit five years earlier.
• The minor leader recognized Yue Changlong as the man who had fought through the Golden Palace and been imprisoned in the Kunlun Ruins.
• Yue Changlong told the terrified survivors they had been spared five years earlier only because they were too weak to be worth killing.

Yue Changlong demanded the Nine-Turn Soul-Returning Herb from the Witch King, who could not stop him with his Witch God Curse. The Witch King challenged Yue Xiaofei to fight a Witch Gate youth for the herb, and Yue Xiaofei accepted.

• The Witch King emerged from the Golden Palace and demanded to know how Yue Changlong had escaped the Kunlun Ruins.
• Yue Changlong demanded the Nine-Turn Soul-Returning Herb and threatened to defeat everyone in the palace if the Witch King refused.
• The Witch King’s Witch God Curse struck Yue Changlong but vanished without harming him.
• The Witch King offered the herb if Yue Xiaofei defeated a Witch Gate youth, threatening to destroy it if Yue Changlong tried to seize it by force.
• Yue Xiaofei stepped forward and accepted the challenge.

Yue Xiaofei accepted the Witch King's challenge and killed Zhu Jiu with overwhelming force, terrifying the Witch Gate disciples into silence. Desperate to stop Yue Xiaofei from winning again, the Witch King offered his successor's position and the Golden Palace's resources to anyone who could defeat him.

• The Witch King sealed the agreement, and Zhu Jiu stepped forward as the Witch Gate's challenger.
• Zhu Jiu attacked Yue Xiaofei with his S-Level strength, but Yue Xiaofei caught his wrist and crushed his arm.
• Yue Xiaofei battered Zhu Jiu into a mangled heap and demanded to know who would challenge him next.
• The Witch Gate disciples were too afraid to step forward, while the Witch King realized Yue Xiaofei might surpass Yue Changlong.
• The Witch King promised to make whoever killed Yue Xiaofei the next Saint Son, grant him the Golden Palace's resources and Witchcraft, and name him the next Witch King.

After Yue Xiaofei challenged the Witch Gate’s disciples to attack together, Yue Changlong taught him the first of the Yue Family’s Eight Thunderclap Forms. Yue Xiaofei used the forms to defeat the gathered prodigies and confronted the Witch King for the Nine-Turn Soul-Returning Herb.

• The Witch King offered the title of Saint Son and succession to the Witch Gate to whoever defeated Yue Xiaofei, prompting Shi Gandang, Hibiscus Flame, and other prodigies to volunteer.
• Yue Xiaofei mocked the Witch King’s threat and demanded that all the disciples attack him together.
• As dozens of prodigies launched their witchcraft, Yue Changlong taught Yue Xiaofei the Eight Thunderclap Forms and explained how they empowered the emperor engine.
• Yue Xiaofei used Thunderclap on Flat Ground to destroy the combined attack, then defeated Shi Gandang and killed Hibiscus Flame with subsequent forms.
• Yue Xiaofei slaughtered or crippled the Witch Gate’s prodigies and asked the terrified Witch King to hand over the Nine-Turn Soul-Returning Herb.

The Witch King activated the Witch God Array, sacrificing his followers to gain immense power and trap Yue Changlong and Yue Xiaofei inside the Golden Palace. He attacked Yue Xiaofei, who mocked him without showing fear.

• The Witch King revealed that his earlier contest had been a stalling tactic and activated the Witch God Array with his blood.
• The array drained the lives of hundreds of worshippers at the foot of the mountain and sent their blood-red energy into the Golden Palace.
• The Witch King transformed into a powerful middle-aged man and summoned a barrier that sealed Yue Changlong and Yue Xiaofei inside the array.
• The Witch King declared himself invincible and struck at Yue Xiaofei with an enormous blood-red hand.
• Yue Xiaofei mocked the Witch King's appearance, and the enraged Witch King threatened to grind him to dust.

Yue Changlong used the power of his spoken rules to destroy the Witch King's attack and dismantle the [Witch God Array]. He crushed the Witch King beneath an overwhelming force as the Witch King begged for mercy.

• Yue Changlong told Yue Xiaofei to stand back as the Witch King redirected his blood-red hand to strike him.
• Yue Changlong recited “White Jade Capital in Heaven,” freezing the space inside the [Witch God Array] and shattering the Witch King's enormous hand.
• Yue Changlong recited “Twelve Towers and Five Cities,” causing the Golden Palace to crack and severing the Witch King's connection to the array.
• Yue Changlong pressed his hand down through the air, crushing and shrinking the Witch King until he pleaded for his life.
• Yue Changlong recited the final line, “Binds my hair and grants me everlasting life!”

Yue Changlong destroyed the Witch God Array, defeated the Witch King, and recovered the Nine-Turn Soul-Returning Herb. He spared the Witch Gate on condition that its members disband, compensate their victims, expose their crimes, and spend their lives atoning.

• Yue Changlong used rule power to destroy the Witch God Array, collapse the Golden Palace, and cripple the Witch King.
• Yue Changlong retrieved the Nine-Turn Soul-Returning Herb from the rubble and gave it to Yue Xiaofei.
• The Witch King and the Witch Gate disciples knelt and begged Yue Changlong to spare them, offering their allegiance.
• Yue Changlong spared the Witch Gate in recognition of its decision not to destroy the herb, but ordered it to disband the Golden Palace and compensate the people it had harmed.
• Yue Changlong ordered the Witch Gate disciples to confess their crimes and atone, warning that he would destroy the sect if they disobeyed.

Yue Changlong spared the Witch King and the Witch Gate, leaving them to face justice, then revealed to Yue Xiaofei that he had twice left the Kunlun Ruins. He described his world-shaking deeds from three years earlier and disclosed the name people gave him: the Huaxia War God.

• Yue Changlong ordered the Witch King to surrender and hand over his fortune, then left with Yue Xiaofei while the Witch Gate disciples remained kneeling.
• Yue Xiaofei asked why the Witch King and a disciple had feared Yue Changlong, and Yue Changlong said he had visited five years earlier to settle business and kill several people.
• Yue Changlong told Yue Xiaofei that he had left the Kunlun Ruins three years earlier and crushed Eastern Japan's shrines, killed Yamata no Orochi and a Vampire Prince, broken a Twelve-Winged Seraph's wings, and demanded the return of Dragon Kingdom cultural artifacts.
• Yue Changlong said he had also forced the Hidden Sects to support the Dragon Kingdom's leadership, and Yue Xiaofei realized that his father had swept through the Hidden Sect Circles.
• Yue Changlong revealed that people had called him the Huaxia War God.

Yue Changlong and Yue Xiaofei arrived at the Great Thunderclap Monastery to pursue the Mingwang Relic during its once-a-decade Water and Land Dharma Assembly. They reached the monastery gate, where entry was reserved for wealthy donors, and the ordinary believers outside were turned away.

• Yue Xiaofei learned that his father was known as the Huaxia War God and felt proud of him.
• Yue Changlong told Yue Xiaofei they were heading to the Great Thunderclap Monastery in Shanhe Province to obtain the Mingwang Relic.
• On the road to the monastery, Yue Changlong explained that Abbot Yuan Zhen was holding a sermon and that powerful visitors had gathered to hear him.
• A bald man in a stretch Lincoln demanded that traffic yield so General Manager Wang could reach his ten-million-yuan Lotus Seat, but other drivers rebuked him.
• After nearly two hours, Yue Changlong and Yue Xiaofei reached the summit and saw ordinary believers barred from the monastery because they lacked gold Invitations reserved for major donors.

Yue Changlong and Yue Xiaofei arrived at Great Thunderclap Monastery and found its monks charging wealthy visitors for access while rejecting poor supplicants. When Yue Changlong refused to pay and walked toward the Great Hero Hall, the monks surrounded him and his son.

• A middle-aged monk tried to steer Yue Changlong and Yue Xiaofei toward the monastery’s paid VIP entrance after judging them by their Maybach.
• Yue Xiaofei saw wealthy donors buy access and poor villagers turned away, including an old man seeking help for his dying wife.
• The middle-aged monk explained the donation tiers, then barred Yue Changlong and Yue Xiaofei from entering when Yue Changlong refused to pay.
• Yue Changlong gripped the monk’s shoulder, warned that he would enter anyway, and walked toward the Great Hero Hall with Yue Xiaofei following.
• The middle-aged monk summoned the warrior monks, who surrounded Yue Changlong and Yue Xiaofei with their staffs.

Yue Changlong and Yue Xiaofei entered the Great Thunderclap Monastery despite its warrior monks’ attempt to stop them, then stood through Abbot Yuan Zhen’s Buddhist ceremony without bowing. Yuan Zhen confronted them angrily, demanding to know why they refused to show reverence to the Golden Buddha.

• Yue Changlong passed the lead warrior monk without slowing, overwhelming him with terrifying pressure, and Yue Xiaofei followed him through the monastery gates.
• The lead warrior monk collapsed after the pressure lifted, and the people outside were stunned by the father and son’s power.
• Yue Changlong and Yue Xiaofei entered the lavish monastery and listened without being affected as Yuan Zhen’s chant stirred devotion among the worshippers.
• Yuan Zhen completed the Water and Land Dharma Assembly and knelt before the Golden Buddha as thousands of worshippers bowed with him.
• Yuan Zhen noticed Yue Changlong and Yue Xiaofei standing at the back of the square and angrily demanded to know why they had not bowed.

Yue Changlong and Yue Xiaofei refused to kneel before the Golden Buddha Statue, and Yue Changlong challenged Abbot Yuan Zhen over the Great Thunderclap Monastery's corruption. The confrontation left Yuan Zhen shaken as Yue Xiaofei denounced the monks and declared he would not bow.

• Abbot Yuan Zhen demanded that Yue Changlong and Yue Xiaofei kneel before the Buddha, while the crowd condemned them.
• Yue Changlong argued that all beings, including the Buddha, were equal and that he had no reason to kneel.
• Abbot Yuan Zhen unleashed Buddhist power to force the two men down, but Yue Changlong remained unmoved and mocked him as a corrupt monk.
• Yue Changlong accused the Great Thunderclap Monastery of favoring the wealthy and turning away ordinary believers, leaving Yuan Zhen unable to answer.
• Yue Changlong hinted that he had visited the monastery before, and Yuan Zhen wondered if he was the fearsome figure who had appeared in the Hidden Sect Circles three years earlier.
• Yue Xiaofei denounced the monks for abandoning people in troubled times and declared that he would not bow to the Buddha.

Yue Changlong unleashed an overwhelming aura at Great Thunderclap Monastery, forcing its monks and Buddha statues to bow and cracking the golden Buddha. As he condemned spirits and Buddhas, a barefoot young monk appeared and was welcomed as the Buddha's Chosen.

• Abbot Yuan Zhen ordered the warrior monks to seize Yue Changlong and Yue Xiaofei for blasphemy.
• Yue Changlong stepped toward the Golden Buddha Statue and released an aura that forced the warrior monks and dignitaries to the ground.
• The Buddha statues toppled into prostration, and a crack split the face of the great golden statue.
• Yue Changlong withdrew his aura and recited a poem declaring that spirits, demons, immortals, and Buddhas were ants before him.
• A young monk emerged from the Great Hero Hall on blooming golden lotuses, and Abbot Yuan Zhen and the warrior monks welcomed him as the Buddha's Chosen.

Kashyapa, the Great Thunderclap Monastery’s Buddha Son, challenged Yue Changlong over his past killing in the Kunlun Ruins and heard his demand for the Mingwang Relic as repayment for saving the previous abbot. Kashyapa refused to surrender the relic outright and offered it in exchange for Yue Xiaofei joining the monastery as his disciple and future Dharma-Protecting Vajra.

• Yue Changlong explained that Kashyapa was the Great Thunderclap Monastery’s Buddha Son and a renowned young prodigy.
• Kashyapa questioned Yue Changlong about slaughtering a million living beings in the Kunlun Ruins, and Yue Changlong dismissed the accusation while demanding the Mingwang Relic as repayment for the Yue Family’s past aid.
• Abbot Yuan Zhen refused to hand over the monastery’s treasured relic, so Yue Changlong struck him down with his pressure and left him unconscious.
• Kashyapa refused to give Yue Changlong the relic directly and proposed another arrangement.
• Kashyapa offered the Mingwang Relic and the monastery’s resources and teachings if Yue Xiaofei joined the monastery as his disciple and future Dharma-Protecting Vajra.

Kashyapa asked Yue Changlong to let Yue Xiaofei become a lay disciple of the Great Thunderclap Monastery, claiming Xiaofei possessed the legendary [innate tyrant body]. Yue Changlong rejected his claim and boastfully defended his son’s future, and Xiaofei ended the discussion by refusing the Buddhist Order.

• Kashyapa invited Yue Xiaofei to join the Great Thunderclap Monastery as his disciple, without shaving his head or observing the precepts.
• Yue Changlong stopped Xiaofei from refusing immediately and asked Kashyapa to give him a reason.
• Kashyapa claimed Xiaofei had the [innate tyrant body], making him uniquely suited to mastering the [Indestructible Diamond Divine Art].
• Yue Changlong said Xiaofei’s ability was the [Emperor Engine] and declared that the Yue Family’s arts surpassed the monastery’s divine art.
• Yue Changlong rejected Kashyapa as a worthy master for his son, and Yue Xiaofei said he would rather descend into the eighteen levels of hell than enter Spirit Mountain.

Yue Changlong defeated Kashyapa’s Great Might Heavenly Dragon with one punch and explained the destructive nature of Yue Xiaofei’s emperor engine. He then prepared to teach Yue Xiaofei the Eight Formulas for Breaking the Edge with his saber Hongming.

• Yue Xiaofei rejected Kashyapa’s offer and declared he would rather descend into hell than enter Spirit Mountain.
• Kashyapa unleashed the Great Might Heavenly Dragon, sending a Wisdom King manifestation to attack Yue Changlong and Yue Xiaofei.
• Yue Changlong explained how Yue Xiaofei’s emperor engine broke and destroyed while Buddhist arts defended and transformed, then shattered Kashyapa’s manifestation with one punch.
• Kashyapa spat blood and crashed into the Great Hero Hall as the witnesses stared in shock.
• Yue Changlong told Yue Xiaofei he would teach him the Eight Formulas for Breaking the Edge, drew Hongming, and announced its name.

Yue Changlong used the Hongming Blade to shatter Kashyapa’s strongest defenses and gave the blade to Yue Xiaofei. As they moved to seize the Mingwang Relic, the Great Thunderclap Monastery activated a formation to trap and suppress Yue Changlong.

• Yue Changlong demonstrated the first form of the Eight Formulas for Breaking the Edge and gravely wounded Kashyapa with a single slash.
• Yue Changlong gave the Hongming Blade to Yue Xiaofei and told him to study the blade intent.
• Yue Changlong and Yue Xiaofei headed into the Great Hero Hall to obtain the Mingwang Relic.
• The Great Thunderclap Monastery shook as golden runes formed a dome around it.
• An aged monk declared Yue Changlong had fallen onto the demonic path and activated the Ten Thousand Buddhas Paying Homage Formation to suppress him.

Yue Xiaofei used the Eight Formulas for Breaking the Edge to defeat Kashyapa after the Great Thunderclap Monastery’s formation empowered him. Kashyapa foretold disaster for Yue Changlong and claimed Yue Xiaofei would become a demon, but Yue Xiaofei killed him and left the ruined monastery with his father.

• The Ten Thousand Buddhas Paying Homage Formation restored Kashyapa’s strength, and he charged Yue Changlong again.
• Yue Xiaofei asked to fight Kashyapa, and Yue Changlong agreed, advising him to stake everything on victory.
• Fueled by the Emperor Engine, Yue Xiaofei wounded Kashyapa with the Hongming Blade and overwhelmed him with rapid attacks.
• Yue Xiaofei pierced Kashyapa’s chest with his strongest slash, killing him and collapsing the formation.
• After Yue Changlong took the Mingwang Relic, Kashyapa briefly revived to foretell a catastrophe and declare Yue Xiaofei would become a demon; Yue Xiaofei struck him dead for good.
• Yue Xiaofei rejected Kashyapa’s prophecy, then left the destroyed Great Thunderclap Monastery with Yue Changlong.

After obtaining the Nine-Turn Soul-Returning Herb and the Mingwang Relic, Yue Xiaofei and Yue Changlong headed for Heijiang Province to find the final ingredient, fountain of youth water. Yue Changlong warned Yue Xiaofei that the province was ruled by the mysterious Five Great Immortal Houses, leaving them to enter dangerous territory with caution.

• Yue Xiaofei asked Yue Changlong where they were going, and Yue Changlong said they were bound for Heijiang Province to find fountain of youth water.
• Yue Changlong explained that fountain of youth water came from a legendary spring and could greatly repair and nourish the body.
• Yue Changlong described the Five Great Immortal Houses, whose animal spirits possessed humans known as Spirit Mediums or Spirit-Serving Disciples.
• Yue Changlong identified the five houses as the fox, weasel, hedgehog, snake, and rat immortals and outlined their abilities.
• Yue Changlong warned Yue Xiaofei that the houses’ illusions and mental attacks were dangerous and that they ruled Heijiang Province.
• Yue Xiaofei agreed to remember his father’s warning.

Yue Changlong and Yue Xiaofei arrived at the Five Great Immortal Houses' stronghold to obtain fountain of youth water, but their hosts' excessive hospitality made them suspect a trap. At the wedding banquet, Yue Xiaofei heard a plea for help from a locked cabin.

• Yue Changlong and Yue Xiaofei reached Immortal Cave and met the five heads of the Immortal Houses, led by Hu Jiumei.
• Hu Jiumei nearly ensnared Yue Xiaofei with her Bewitching Art, while Yue Changlong insisted they had come for fountain of youth water.
• The Five Houses' leaders invited Yue Changlong and Yue Xiaofei to the Liu family's wedding banquet while preparing to open the sacred spring's wards.
• Yue Changlong accepted the invitation and warned Yue Xiaofei to stay alert as they entered the crowded valley banquet.
• Yue Xiaofei left the table to use the bathroom and heard someone crying for help inside a locked cabin.

Yue Xiaofei discovered that Su Meier was being forced to marry a paper figure and promised to rescue her. As the wedding began, he saw the blank-faced paper groom being carried beside her.

• Yue Xiaofei heard Su Meier pleading for help from the bride's room and sneaked inside to find her crying.
• Su Meier told Yue Xiaofei that her father had sold her and that she was being forced to marry a faceless paper figure.
• Yue Xiaofei promised to find a chance to get Su Meier out and returned to the banquet unnoticed.
• When the ceremony began, Yue Xiaofei saw Su Meier walk toward the stage beside the paper groom carried by two men.