Chapter Summaries

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.

Key plot points and events

• Yue Xiaofei hears a faint plea for help near a wooden house and learns it is the bride’s room.
• He secretly enters and finds Su Meier crying. She says her father sold her and that she is being forced to marry a “monster.”
• Su Meier explains that she once saw her intended groom: a human-sized paper figure with a blank face and a body made of paper.
• Yue promises to rescue her but advises her to act compliant until he can find a safe opportunity. He slips away without being noticed.
• At the ceremony, Su Meier appears in her wedding dress. The groom is not a person but the blank-faced paper figure, carried beside her by two men.

Character developments

• Yue Xiaofei shifts from cautious guest to determined rescuer when he discovers Su Meier is being coerced. Though not generally softhearted, he is angered by forced marriage and resolves to intervene.
• Su Meier moves from despair to renewed hope after Yue agrees to help, and accepts his plan to remain calm for the moment.

Character interactions

• Yue keeps his suspicions hidden from the attendant, then secretly reaches Su Meier through the bride’s room’s rear window.
• Su Meier begs Yue to save her, offering lifelong service or marriage in return; Yue reassures her and lays out a cautious escape plan.
• At the banquet, Yue conceals his concern while the ceremony begins.

Significant themes

• Coercion and injustice: Su Meier has been sold and forced into a marriage she fears.
• Compassion and responsibility: Yue chooses to help despite the danger of acting among the wedding’s many attendants and guests.
• Unease and deception: The seemingly celebratory wedding conceals a sinister arrangement, made starkly visible by the paper groom.

Yue Xiaofei learned that the Five Great Immortal Houses planned to steal Su Meier’s fortune through her marriage to a paper effigy, and Yue Changlong told him to wait for his plan. After the wedding, a drug hidden in the banquet’s fragrance overcame Yue Xiaofei and his father, leaving their fate uncertain.

• Yue Changlong explained that Su Meier would likely die within three days of the grotesque wedding ceremony.
• Yue Changlong stopped Yue Xiaofei from intervening and told him to stay calm while he carried out a plan.
• Su Meier completed the wedding rites with the paper groom after Yue Xiaofei silently reassured her.
• Hu Jiumei approached Yue Changlong with wine as the banquet’s fragrance made Yue Xiaofei drowsy.
• Yue Xiaofei realized the fragrance contained a potent sedative, but he and Yue Changlong both lost consciousness.

Plot points and events

• Yue Xiaofei wakes in a lavish bridal chamber wearing a groom’s ceremonial clothes, beside Su Meier—the woman who was supposed to marry a paper groom.
• Su Meier says the paper figure caught fire on the way to the wedding, so the family heads chose Yue as its replacement. She adds that Yue’s father is safe, resting after drinking the heads under the table.
• Suspicious of the explanation and of the sudden attempt at seduction, Yue questions Su Meier about her family and how she knew the groom was a paper figure. She cannot answer.
• Su Meier drops her innocent act and reveals that the wedding was a trap. She intends to consummate the marriage and absorb Yue’s primal yang, using his rare Innate Tyrant Body’s life energy to advance her cultivation and become the new ruler of Heijiang Province.
• Yue secretly uses the Emperor Engine and tries to overcome the drug weakening him, while confronting her.

Character developments and interactions

• Yue Xiaofei moves from confusion and alarm to suspicion and resolve. Though attracted to Su Meier, he resists her advances, protects his concern for his father, and presses her with pointed questions.
• Su Meier shifts from a shy, grateful bride to a mocking, predatory antagonist. Her flirtation is a deliberate tactic, and she openly admits her ambition once Yue exposes her deception.
• Their interaction turns from apparent newlywed intimacy into a tense confrontation: Yue refuses to trust her, while Su Meier treats him as prey.

Significant themes

• Deception and manipulation: The wedding and its explanation conceal a coordinated scheme.
• Power and exploitation: Su Meier views Yue’s rare constitution as a source of energy for her own advancement.
• Self-control amid temptation: Yue recognizes his attraction but prioritizes caution and survival.
• Appearance versus reality: Su Meier’s vulnerable, innocent presentation hides a dangerous nature.

• Yue Xiaofei is trapped: Su Meier reveals that she has drugged him with the Hu House’s Muscle-Weakening Powder, leaving him unable to move. She claims to be fascinated by his Innate Tyrant Body and prepares to attack him.
• The possession is exposed: Just before Su Meier can reach him, she convulses as her human soul struggles against the Fox Immortal possessing her. Yue Xiaofei urges her to resist, briefly strengthening her resolve.
• Su Meier makes a desperate plea: The Fox Immortal overwhelms her again, but Su Meier manages to tell Yue Xiaofei to kill her so he can destroy the demon too. Her human awareness then disappears beneath the Fox Immortal’s control.
• Yue Changlong arrives: As the Fox Immortal moves toward Yue Xiaofei, his father bursts through the door. Yue Xiaofei is relieved, realizing his father was likely pretending to be incapacitated earlier.
• The confrontation begins: Yue Changlong confronts the possessing Fox Immortal with fierce anger. She initially recoils at his presence, then masks her fear with mockery and boasts that she will consume both father and son.
  Character developments and interactions: Yue Xiaofei shifts from panic to hope as he recognizes Su Meier’s possession and tries to help her resist. Su Meier’s brief plea reveals her courage and willingness to sacrifice herself. Yue Changlong’s arrival turns the scene from near-certain defeat into a direct confrontation, while the Fox Immortal’s arrogance leads her to underestimate him.
  Themes: The chapter emphasizes resistance against possession, self-sacrifice, and the power of family loyalty. It also builds suspense through the contrast between apparent helplessness and sudden intervention.

Yue Changlong shattered the Fox Immortal’s charm technique and forced her out of Su Meier, exposing the Five Great Immortal Houses’ trap. Hu Jiumei revealed that Yue Xiaofei’s Innate Tyrant Body was the reason for their scheme, and Yue Changlong faced the assembled Family Heads.

• The Fox Immortal unleashed Sea of Passion on Yue Changlong, but he erased the pink smoke with a single word.
• Yue Changlong stopped the Fox Immortal from escaping and blasted her nine-tailed phantom out of Su Meier.
• Hu Jiumei and the other four Family Heads arrived and surrounded Yue Changlong and Yue Xiaofei.
• Hu Jiumei revealed that the Fountain of Youth Water was bait and that the Five Great Immortal Houses wanted Yue Xiaofei’s Innate Tyrant Body.
• Yue Changlong scorned the Family Heads for daring to trap his son.

Yue Changlong faced the Five Great Immortal Houses after crippling Hu Jiumei’s young prodigy, and the five Family Heads attacked him together. He shattered Hu Jiumei’s illusion with a glance, then unleashed a domineering roar against the remaining attacks.

• Liu Qingtian, Huang Feng, Hu Jiumei, White Immortal Aunt, and Gray God of Wealth agreed to capture Yue Changlong and his son and refine them into an elixir.
• Hu Jiumei used Boundless Realm of Passion and Desire to ensnare Yue Changlong and Yue Xiaofei in a seductive illusion.
• Yue Changlong destroyed Hu Jiumei’s illusion with two beams of golden divine light, causing her to spit blood and stagger back.
• Huang Feng, White Immortal Aunt, Liu Qingtian, and Gray God of Wealth launched soul, poison, physical, and fortune-stripping attacks at Yue Changlong.
• Yue Changlong answered the combined assault with a powerful dragon’s roar and declared that he would make all the immortals and Buddhas in the heavens vanish.