Arc 8The Human Reversal

Li Fuchan joined Azure Ram Temple, reached the Outer Scenery True Person realm, and entered the Secret Seal of Seam-Sound Grotto. Inside the Blessed Land, he manipulated Human Reversal and fought Wei Shuo, leaving her defeated beneath his broken halberd.

  • Li Fuchan refined the Longxu Golden Branch, then killed Suo He after Wenren Qingyi had already struck him down, and traveled south as the Azure Ram Temple issued an edict against Wandering Gold cultivators.
  • At Great Night Lake, Li Fuchan killed Yang Family cultivators Xi Yuan and Xi Hong, pledged allegiance to Azure Ram Temple, and defeated a Pivot Court obstacle before True Lord Chi Sui recruited him.
  • True Lord Chi Sui gave Li Fuchan a magic robe and enchanted sword, taught him about Dao Fruits, and filled his incomplete Life Force, raising him to the Outer Scenery True Person realm.
  • After Yang Xicheng emerged from seclusion, the conflict around the Yang Family escalated, Changyin carried him overseas, and an unseen hand seized Li Fuchan as the Secret Seal of Seam-Sound Grotto began.
  • Li Fuchan entered the Blessed Land using the Jade Pivot Thunder Canon and Heaven of Separation, investigated its rulers and hidden hegemonic arts, and used False Bodies to evade Wei Shuo and Wei Xinyun.
  • Li Fuchan copied the Year Kingdom’s Hegemonic Art, concluded that someone was using the Blessed Land to create a great tide, and resolved to hasten Human Reversal, provoking the three kingdoms into war.
  • Li Fuchan abducted Wei Xinyun from the palace and followed the army’s route, while Wei Shuo and Wei Xiang pursued him after realizing someone was accelerating Human Reversal.
  • Wei Shuo attacked Li Fuchan with six flying swords, but he turned the swords against her with the Errant Thunder Drum and Deviating from Its Proper Course, then defeated her and held his broken halberd to her brow.
Chapters 178–203 Vol. 2 Read

Ch. 178The illusory moon

Li Fuchan traded a measure of Autumn Moon Joining Frost Qi for the Longxu Golden Branch and returned to his secluded island. There, he completed a sacrificial rite that strengthened his Autumn Moon Joining Frost form, leaving him at peace beside a lake beneath the moon.

  • Li Fuchan visited Wenren Qingyi at Looking Seaward Tower and offered Autumn Moon Joining Frost Qi for a Longxu Golden Branch.
  • Wenren Qingyi gave Li Fuchan a handwritten order to collect the branch at a nearby branch tower, and he exchanged a measure of qi for it.
  • Li Fuchan returned to his deserted island, renewed the cave's restrictions, and prepared the sacrificial rite recorded in the Autumn Union Shaoling Embracing the Alchemy Classic.
  • On a clear moonlit night, Li Fuchan stirred his Outer Scenery and inserted the Longxu Golden Branch into the frost and snow beneath his feet.
  • The Longxu Golden Branch dissolved, strengthening Li Fuchan's Autumn Moon Joining Frost form, and he found tranquility while looking at his reflection in a lake.

Ch. 179Talisman Sound

Wenren Qingyi tracked down Suo He and killed him, believing she had avenged her family, but Li Fuchan discovered that Suo He’s strange injury could preserve his life and destroyed him after studying his Talisman Sound Art. As Li Fuchan left the Western Sea, a Purple Mansion Edict ordered the clans of Hong Commandery to execute anyone cultivating Wandering Gold.

  • Wenren Qingyi learned that Suo He had been hiding on Muddy Cloud Island and went there with her followers, but found only a spirit talisman carrying his recorded voice.
  • Suo He’s voice taunted Wenren Qingyi, who used the Talisman Sound Art to appear in his guest room and confront him.
  • Wenren Qingyi told Suo He she pursued him to fulfill her duty to her grandfather, then killed him with the Turbid Flow Calamity and left for the Northern Sea.
  • Suo He revived because his strange injury preserved his life, but Li Fuchan subdued him, examined his Talisman Sound Art, and learned it derived from the Myriad Transformations at Will Register.
  • Li Fuchan took Suo He to a deserted island and used Lesser Yin Spell Light to destroy him over three days, then left the Western Sea for South of the Yangtze.
  • A Purple Mansion Edict descended at Azure Ram Temple in Hong Commandery, ordering the execution of anyone cultivating Wandering Gold.

Ch. 180A letter from home

The Yang Family discussed the Azure Ram Temple’s purge of cultivators practicing “Wandering Gold” and decided to probe the Pivot Court’s position through Ning Xiu Cong. Lord Yang Hu pressured Ning Xiufu into writing his brother a letter, while secretly weighing how useful Xiufu would remain to the Yang Family.

  • Yang Houjia and Lord Yang Hu discussed the Azure Ram Temple’s killings and worried that the Yang Family’s hidden “Wandering Gold” practitioners could be targeted next.
  • Yang Houjia ordered the family’s disciples, especially Bo Zhuo, to stay on Mount Huayu and assigned the Ning Family to test the Pivot Court’s attitude.
  • Lord Yang Hu summoned Ning Xiufu, treated him warmly, and used Ning Xiu Cong’s cultivation at Azure Fish Peak as a pretext to ask for a letter to him.
  • Ning Xiufu realized the Yang Family wanted information about the Pivot Court’s stance on the Azure Ram Temple, then reluctantly began writing to Ning Xiu Cong.
  • Lord Yang Hu watched Ning Xiufu write and privately considered keeping him useful to the Yang Family for now.

Ch. 181Like Fire, Like Flowering Reeds

Gongyang Ling gave Ning Xiu Cong a movement technique and a cryptic reply to the Yang Family’s probe about the Azure Ram Temple. Yang Houjia interpreted the four-character message as the Pivot Court’s stance and ordered the Yang Family to attack Azure Ram Temple cultivators.

  • Gongyang Ling learned that Ning Xiu Cong had reached greater accomplishment in Aperture Opening and gave him the fourth-grade Long Qi Flying Rainbow Scripture to practice.
  • Ning Xiu Cong told Gongyang Ling that Yang Houjia had sent a letter through the Ning Family to ask whether the Pivot Court would act against Azure Ram Temple cultivators who practiced Wandering Gold.
  • Gongyang Ling wrote a reply for Ning Xiu Cong to send to the Ning Family, and he kowtowed to thank her for her support.
  • After the letter reached Mount Huayu, Ning Xiufu delivered it to Lord Yang Hu and Yang Houjia, who dismissed him after reading it.
  • Yang Houjia ordered the Yang Family to kill or wound Azure Ram Temple Lesser Yin cultivators they encountered and told Lord Yang Hu that the message, “Like fire, like flowering reeds,” expressed the Pivot Court’s meaning.

Ch. 182Something amiss

Li Fuchan entered Great Night Lake on his way to the Azure Ram Temple, but found the area unusually quiet and learned that it was under lockdown. When Yang Family disciples mistook his Lesser Yin Spell Light for a sign that he belonged to the Azure Ram Temple, he fled, while they prepared to alert their ancestor and Household Head.

  • Li Fuchan traveled south toward the Azure Ram Temple, confident that his Lesser Yin cultivation gave him a clean identity.
  • Li Fuchan sensed that Great Night Lake was unusually quiet and turned back to take another route.
  • Yang Family disciples stopped Li Fuchan and claimed that outsiders needed permission to enter the locked-down lake.
  • Li Fuchan revealed his Lesser Yin Spell Light and told the Yang Family disciples to stand aside.
  • The Yang Family disciples mistook Li Fuchan for someone from the Azure Ram Temple and attacked, so he escaped.
  • Xi Hong claimed that Aperture Opening cultivation was equivalent to Outer Scenery and chased after Li Fuchan while the others went to inform their ancestor and Household Head.

Ch. 183Choice (two chapters in one)

Li Fuchan discovered that a Purple Mansion Lord of Azure Ram Temple was manipulating Yang Family cultivators to attack Lesser Yin practitioners and realized he had been offered a choice to join the conflict. He killed the Wandering Gold cultivator Xi Yuan, submitted his pledge of allegiance, and escaped Great Night Lake as more Yang Family disciples arrived.

  • Li Fuchan encountered a blood-reeking Yang Family Outer Scenery cultivator who practiced Wandering Gold and blocked his way.
  • The cultivator taunted Li Fuchan about Azure Ram Temple's campaign against Wandering Gold practitioners, and Li Fuchan used illuminating light to discover that a Divine Ability had influenced the man's mind.
  • Li Fuchan reasoned that Azure Ram Temple and the Pivot Court were contending through the Yang Family, and considered leaving before a Purple Mansion Lord's influence reached him.
  • Li Fuchan decided to accept the choice offered by Azure Ram Temple's Purple Mansion Lord and struck down the Wandering Gold cultivator, Xi Yuan, along with his trusted follower.
  • Yang Family disciples arrived, and Xi Hong charged at Li Fuchan but was killed; Li Fuchan then flew away after submitting his pledge of allegiance.

Ch. 185A Purple Mansion Lord arrives (two-in-one)

Li Fuchan raced toward the Azure Ram Temple while the Pivot Court’s Purple Mansion Lord laid obstacles in his path. After breaking through an ancient art that trapped him at a bridge, he killed the old man who had blocked him and faced a Purple Mansion Lord, only for the Azure Ram Temple’s lord to intervene.

  • Li Fuchan considered the Yang Family’s Divine Abilities and the conflict between the Pivot Court and the Azure Ram Temple as he hurried toward Hong Commandery.
  • He avoided a valley where Lesser Yin Treasure Light had appeared, then defeated a dark turtle that attacked him over a lake.
  • Li Fuchan recognized a white-haired old man at a broken bridge as another of the Pivot Court’s obstacles, but the bridge and old man kept reappearing after he passed them.
  • Li Fuchan used Embrace-Lock Crouching Cicada to adapt to the old man’s ancient art, found his way beneath the bridge, and broke the technique’s hold.
  • After Li Fuchan killed the old man, a Purple Mansion Lord confronted him, and the Azure Ram Temple’s Purple Mansion Lord appeared and told Changyin to accept his loss.

Ch. 186White Cicada upon the Ram (two chapters in one)

Li Fuchan met True Lord Chi Sui after killing Yang Xi Yuan and defeating Wei Po, and learned that Chi Sui valued him for never consuming blood or human flesh. Chi Sui brought him to the Azure Ram Temple as a disciple, where Li Fuchan received cultivation resources and began cultivating in seclusion.

  • True Lord Chi Sui confronted the Pivot Court over its disciple’s use of blood and human flesh, then questioned Li Fuchan about why he had chosen him.
  • Li Fuchan guessed three times and failed, but Chi Sui gave him the Magic Robe Slender and the Enchanted Sword Ten-Thousand-Li Subduer because he had never consumed blood or human flesh.
  • Chi Sui personally draped the robe over Li Fuchan and took him to the Azure Ram Temple, sealing his eyes while they crossed the Unseen.
  • Wei Xinyun welcomed Li Fuchan as a junior brother and gave him a Storage Bag containing Spirit Objects and Cultivation Resources.
  • Li Fuchan considered whether Chi Sui might be scheming against him, then set aside his suspicions and began cultivating in seclusion.

Ch. 187Wei Tingyi

Wei Tingyi and Wei Xinyun discussed Li Fuchan, the people from Evening Yin Island, and the secret conflict between Azure Ram Temple and Pivot Court over Wandering Gold cultivators. Wei Xinyun hoped to enter the Secret Seal of Seam-Sound Grotto and claim its blessed land for Azure Ram Temple, then stole Wei Tingyi’s tea and fled.

  • Wei Xinyun told Wei Tingyi that Li Fuchan had gone into seclusion and explained that he had defeated Wei Po but likely killed him on True Lord Chi Sui’s instructions.
  • Wei Tingyi served Wei Xinyun Cloud-Subduing Green tea, and they discussed the people from Evening Yin Island and their possible lack of restraint in mortal danger.
  • Wei Xinyun learned that Azure Ram Temple might enter the Secret Seal of Seam-Sound Grotto with Pivot Court and compete to locate a Grotto Heaven in the blessed land.
  • Wei Xinyun vowed to exert herself if True Lord Chi Sui chose her, then asked Wei Tingyi for more Cloud-Subduing Green.
  • Wei Xinyun snatched Wei Tingyi’s tea jar and ran off, leaving him shouting after her.

Ch. 188[Crimson Frost Separation Grease]

Li Fuchan weighed the risks and advantages of returning to the South of the Yangtze and attaching himself to the Azure Ram Temple, while planning how to advance his cultivation. He accepted the Temple’s gifts and prepared to use the Crimson Frost Separation Grease to cultivate the Wu-Gui Di-Yin Spell Light.

  • Li Fuchan examined the Enchanted Sword Ten-Thousand-Li Subduer and his Magic Robe, then questioned why Chi Sui True Lord had brought him back and given him such valuable gifts.
  • Li Fuchan compared the South of the Yangtze with the lands overseas and concluded that the South offered greater stability, resources, and opportunity for him as a rogue Lesser Yin cultivator.
  • Li Fuchan relied on the Heaven of Separation and the Jade Pivot Thunder Canon as safeguards against a Purple Mansion Lord, while planning to complete his Nature Root and Fate Root and reach the True Person level.
  • Li Fuchan accepted the Azure Ram Temple Purple Mansion Lord’s Spirit Objects and decided they would help him complete his Nature Root and cultivate the Wu-Gui Di-Yin Spell Light.

Ch. 189Moon-Resting Terrace

Li Fuchan mastered Wu-Gui Di-Yin Spell Light after two years of seclusion, then performed a sacrificial rite on the Moon-Resting Terrace to advance Autumn Moon Joining Frost. As he finished, a mysterious True Lord appeared beneath the moon.

  • Li Fuchan used a portion of Crimson Frost Separation Grease to master Wu-Gui Di-Yin Spell Light, whose power crumbled a bluestone to ash.
  • Li Fuchan emerged from seclusion, and Wei Xinyun hurried to meet him after her jade token signaled his return.
  • Li Fuchan asked Wei Xinyun to find him a high mountain place near the moon, and she led him to the Moon-Resting Terrace.
  • Li Fuchan performed a sacrificial rite with autumn moon joining frost qi and the Longxu Golden Branch, bringing his Lunar Soul closer to full mastery.
  • A white-robed youth appeared where Wei Xinyun had stood, and Li Fuchan bowed to greet the True Lord.

Ch. 190The Three Divine Abilities of Lesser Yin

True Lord Chi Sui expounded on Lesser Yin Dao Fruits and Divine Abilities, helping Li Fuchan refine his Tribulation Qi and advance his Dao Attainment. He then asked Li Fuchan to accompany Wei Xinyun to locate a Grotto Heaven, leaving her to explain the mission.

  • True Lord Chi Sui explained the Dao Fruits and Divine Abilities associated with Autumn Moon Joining Frost, Clouds Embracing Moonlight, and Daylight White Wind.
  • Li Fuchan listened to True Lord Chi Sui's discourse, advanced his Dao Attainment, and refined the Tribulation Qi within his consciousness.
  • True Lord Chi Sui asked Li Fuchan what he thought of Wei Xinyun, then dismissed the idea of matching them because their temperaments were unsuitable.
  • True Lord Chi Sui asked Li Fuchan to lead Wei Xinyun and help him locate a Grotto Heaven, telling him to return in three days.
  • True Lord Chi Sui disappeared, and Wei Xinyun appeared on the Moon-Resting Terrace, unaware of what had happened.

Ch. 191A True Person in a Single Day

Wei Xinyun told Li Fuchan that True Lord Chi Sui wanted him to accompany her into a Blessed Land, then True Lord Chi Sui used Nightlight Mansion to complete Li Fuchan’s cultivation. Li Fuchan became an Outer Scenery True Person in a single day.

  • Wei Xinyun explained that True Lord Chi Sui had ordered Li Fuchan to accompany her to a Blessed Land and asked him to rein in his rogue cultivator habits.
  • Li Fuchan considered how the trip could delay his cultivation progress before three days passed and he went to meet True Lord Chi Sui.
  • True Lord Chi Sui said Li Fuchan’s cultivation realm was too low and used his Life Force to fill the gaps in Li Fuchan’s incomplete Life Force.
  • True Lord Chi Sui opened Nightlight Mansion, causing Li Fuchan’s Yang Aspect Form and Meaning to reach full accomplishment and his Outer Scenery Transformation to complete.
  • Li Fuchan refined the Life Force True Lord Chi Sui had supplied and attained the realm of an Outer Scenery True Person.

Ch. 192The Truth Behind Completing Life Force

True Lord Chi Sui completed Li Fuchan’s life force, advancing him to Outer Scenery, and explained why the feat could not grant everyone a path to Inner Vision. At Mount Huayu, Yang Houjia prepared Yang Xicheng to form a Dao Fruit while beginning to suspect that someone else was guiding his actions.

  • Li Fuchan realized Huici had likely used Flying Light’s Dao Fruit to wash away the Belly Buddha Land, then wondered why Purple Mansion Lords could not freely grant others Dao Fruits.
  • True Lord Chi Sui explained that Li Fuchan’s complete dharma nature and deep Dao Attainment made him suited to her intervention, and told him to consolidate his realm before entering the Blessed Land.
  • Wei Xinyun congratulated Li Fuchan on becoming an Outer Scenery True Person, and Li Fuchan called her his junior sister and asked her to address him as senior brother.
  • Yang Houjia told Yang Xicheng to form his Dao Fruit so the Creek-Generation Disciples’ sacrifice would not be wasted, and Yang Xicheng entered seclusion.
  • Yang Houjia realized Azure Ram Temple’s cultivators had never appeared at Great Night Lake and wondered whether his current actions were truly his own.

Ch. 193The fall of the Yang Family

Ning Xiufu and Ning Xiu Rang learned that numerous Yang Family descendants had died in strange circumstances and resolved to watch the family fall. Nine years later, Yang Xicheng emerged from seclusion after a breakthrough, but Changyin took him overseas as Changshu blinded Yang Houjia, and Li Fuchan was seized for what was about to begin.

  • Ning Xiufu told Ning Xiu Rang about the bizarre deaths of Yang Family direct-line descendants, including Yang Xifan, Yang Xichou, and Yang Xi Yuan.
  • Ning Xiu Rang connected the deaths to the Ning Family's suffering under the Yang Family and, with Ning Xiufu, chose to watch the Yang Family fall.
  • Nine years later, Yang Xicheng emerged from seclusion after a breakthrough, and Yang Houjia promised to support his cultivation and help him reach Purple Mansion.
  • A purple-robed man caused Yang Houjia's eyes to turn into purple snails, while Changshu and Changyin discussed the danger of killing him and the approaching conflict.
  • Changyin seized Yang Xicheng and took him overseas through the Unseen, while Changshu said he sought a sword wound to refine Changze.
  • A hand reached from the Unseen and seized Li Fuchan, who sensed Wei Xinyun nearby as someone said that it was about to begin.

Ch. 194Human-Reversal Blessed Land

Li Fuchan provoked the Pivot Court disciples at the entrance to the Human-Reversal Blessed Land, then used the Jade Pivot Thunder Canon and the Heaven of Separation to evade the land’s initial suppression. He entered in disguise and woke to a scene where he appeared to be a loyal general facing a fallen city.

  • Li Fuchan slashed at Wei Shuo and his companions, wounded Wei Xiang, and demanded that the Pivot Court disciples let him and Wei Xinyun enter the blessed land first.
  • Wei Xinyun explained the blessed land’s five stages of Human Reversal and told Li Fuchan to find her after breaking free of its control.
  • Li Fuchan entered the Secret Seal, then used the Jade Pivot Thunder Canon and the Heaven of Separation to enter the blessed land without suffering its initial influence.
  • Li Fuchan opened his eyes to soldiers reporting that a city’s gates had fallen, while a general refused to commit treason and said he would seek an apology from the emperor.

Ch. 195Celestial Person (two chapters in one)

Li Fuchan discovered that the people of the human-inversion Blessed Land recognized him as a Celestial Person and tried to kill him, so he escaped to the Heaven of Separation. He returned under a new identity and learned that Wei Xiang planned to help him rescue the princess, who might be Wei Xinyun.

  • Li Fuchan entered the palace with General Jiang Shou and watched him demand that the emperor clear his parents' names.
  • The emperor and Jiang Shou recognized Li Fuchan as a Celestial Person and attacked him, but he escaped through the Jade Pivot Thunder Canon.
  • Li Fuchan concluded that he needed to investigate the Blessed Land's ancient inheritances, then returned with a different identity.
  • Li Fuchan heard that Jiang Shou had become Prince of Zhenbei and that the princess was to marry him the next day.
  • Wei Xiang recognized Li Fuchan and said he had arranged a plan to rescue the princess that night, prompting Li Fuchan to join him.

Ch. 196The Three Ancestors

Li Fuchan saw through Wei Xiang’s plan to lure him into the palace, but Wei Shuo killed his false body before he could subdue Wei Xiang. Wei Shuo and Wei Xiang discussed how both sides had escaped the Human-Reversal Blessed Land’s influence and prioritized finding Ning Xiu Cong.

  • Wei Xiang led Li Fuchan to the inner palace and explained that the princess would sneak out after the third watch.
  • Li Fuchan questioned Wei Xiang about resisting the Human-Reversal Blessed Land and subdued him when Wei Xiang revealed that he had awakened too.
  • Wei Shuo shot Li Fuchan with azure light, and his corpse crumbled into a damaged talisman.
  • Wei Shuo explained that Li Fuchan was a false body and that the Azure Ram Temple’s True Lord had likely helped him escape the blessed land’s influence.
  • Wei Shuo told Wei Xiang to focus on finding Ning Xiu Cong and to kill Wei Xinyun if he found her.

Ch. 197The Hegemonic Art Called Momentum

Li Fuchan uncovered the true origins and powers of the Three Kingdoms’ hegemonic arts while exploiting a moment of human reversal to search the River Kingdom’s treasury. After escaping its guardian and entering the blessed land again as a Year Kingdom prince, he learned that the sovereign planned to send thirty princes into marriage alliances.

  • Li Fuchan concluded that human reversal created openings outsiders could exploit, then read hidden histories revealing that Jiang Bianyan, Nian Renshang, and Yu Gongtan had pioneered the hegemonic arts stolen by the Three Kingdoms’ rulers.
  • Li Fuchan studied the arts of Law and Momentum, noticed similarities to the Ancient Arts he practiced, and decided to seek Wei Xinyun before the current juncture of human reversal ended.
  • A pale, black-hatted guardian entered the treasury, recognized signs of an intruder, and confronted Li Fuchan as he tried to leave.
  • Li Fuchan escaped into his Grotto Heaven and reentered the blessed land as a prince of the Year Kingdom.
  • An imperial decree announced that the Year Kingdom would send thirty princes to form marriage alliances because the sovereign had only one princess.

Ch. 198Cicada? Beauty?

Li Fuchan escaped his marriage procession to search the Year Kingdom’s Book Collection Pavilion, using a fabricated tale to get an old eunuch to guide him. He encountered Wei Xinyun, now a princess who had mastered the kingdom’s Hegemonic Art, and began considering whether becoming a princess himself could help him cultivate it.

  • Li Fuchan left his marriage procession in disguise and tried to find the emperor, but an attendant refused to let him see his father.
  • Li Fuchan softened the old eunuch with a tearful story about admiring the Twelfth Prince, and the eunuch agreed to take him to the prince’s residence.
  • Li Fuchan carried the old eunuch through the palace until the eunuch pointed out the Book Collection Pavilion, where Li Fuchan knocked him unconscious and left him hidden.
  • Wei Xinyun blocked Li Fuchan’s way to the pavilion and revealed her imposing force as a princess who had inherited the Year Kingdom’s Hegemonic Art.
  • Li Fuchan recognized that Wei Xinyun had gained the Hegemonic Art through her princess identity and wondered whether he could become a princess himself.

Ch. 199Drag It Down

Li Fuchan fought Wei Xinyun, copied the Hegemonic Art from the Year Kingdom’s Book Collection Pavilion, and uncovered signs that someone was directing the Blessed Land and its conflict with Celestial Persons. Rejecting the role of accumulating the great tide, he burned his copy and decided to accelerate Human Reversal instead.

  • Li Fuchan attacked Wei Xinyun to test the Hegemonic Art, but she pinned him with her momentum and struck him down.
  • Wei Xinyun brought Li Fuchan’s corpse to the ruler of the Year Kingdom, who dissolved it with black light and found a damaged Spirit Talisman.
  • Using his False Body, Li Fuchan entered the Book Collection Pavilion, copied the Hegemonic Art’s cultivation method, and withdrew from the palace.
  • Li Fuchan studied the Art’s stages and suspected that someone was using the Blessed Land, its rulers, and Celestial Persons to create a great tide.
  • Li Fuchan burned the copied method and decided to speed up Human Reversal so that the Grotto Heaven and a True Lord would appear sooner.

Ch. 200Three kingdoms (two chapters in one)

The ruler of River Kingdom used a moment of clarity to defy the absurd forces controlling his world and declared himself Jiang Huai. After the rulers of River Kingdom, Yu Kingdom, and Year Kingdom each changed course, all three kingdoms went to war as Li Fuchan prepared to push events forward.

  • River Kingdom's officials reported a murder, Military Governor Zhang's threat to resign, the Yu Kingdom Prince Regent's pursuit of his consort, and the crown prince's favoritism toward the second prince.
  • The ruler ordered the merchant's son killed, directed Military Governor Zhang to carry out the execution, and threatened force against Yu Kingdom's troops.
  • In the imperial study, the ruler recalled his father's warning about Celestial Persons and realized that their power had kept him from controlling his own choices.
  • The ruler summoned the Celestial Person's written characters, declared that his name was Jiang Huai, and resolved to kill a Celestial Person to gain freedom.
  • The rulers of River Kingdom, Yu Kingdom, and Year Kingdom changed their conduct, mobilized their armies, and plunged the kingdoms into war.
  • Li Fuchan concealed himself as he left Yu Kingdom, watched its troops mobilize, and said he would now push events forward.

Ch. 201War breaks out

Li Fuchan infiltrated the Year Kingdom’s palace and used False Bodies and poison to abduct Wei Xinyun. As the rulers regained their senses and the kingdoms prepared for war, Wei Shuo and Wei Xiang abandoned their search for Ning Xiu Cong and headed for the Year Kingdom.

  • Li Fuchan scattered more than thirty False Bodies throughout the Year Kingdom’s imperial city before sneaking into the palace.
  • Li Fuchan knocked out an old palace attendant and found Wei Xinyun waiting outside her sleeping quarters with a Great Halberd.
  • Li Fuchan used False Bodies to distract Wei Xinyun and gradually poisoned her with a sedative, then carried her away from the palace.
  • Li Fuchan chose to follow the army’s route with Wei Xinyun rather than search the Yu Kingdom for Ning Xiu Cong.
  • Wei Shuo and Wei Xiang concluded that someone was advancing Human Reversal and decided to go to the Year Kingdom instead of looking for Ning Xiu Cong.

Ch. 202"Abdominal Sword-Seed Technique"

Wei Shuo and Wei Xiang reached the chaotic Year Kingdom, where Wei Shuo used the Abdominal Sword-Seed Technique to recover six Flying Swords. Suspecting Li Fuchan was accelerating Human Reversal, Wei Shuo sent a sword to track him and flew north to kill him.

  • Wei Shuo and Wei Xiang killed a band of soldiers and rode into the Year Kingdom.
  • Wei Shuo bought blood-staunching herbs, seized sixteen children, and extracted six sword seeds from his abdomen to make Flying Swords.
  • Wei Xiang said Li Fuchan might be accelerating Human Reversal and needed to be killed, and Wei Shuo agreed.
  • Wei Shuo used Li Fuchan's damaged Spirit Talisman to send a Flying Sword north in search of him.
  • Wei Shuo rode away on five Flying Swords and told Wei Xiang to wait while he went to kill someone.

Ch. 203Third-rate cultivator? Ordinary swordsmanship!

Li Fuchan faced Wei Shuo, who attacked him with six flying swords and exposed his lack of orthodox swordsmanship. He used the Errant Thunder Drum to turn her swords against her and defeated her, leaving her at his mercy.

  • Li Fuchan examined Wei Xinyun’s copper coin and realized Human Reversal had reached its second stage, then resolved to accelerate its progress.
  • Wei Shuo attacked Li Fuchan with her flying swords and inferred that he was not an Azure Ram Temple direct successor, likely came from Overseas, and might be surnamed Liu.
  • Wei Shuo drove Li Fuchan back and prepared to kill him with all six swords, but Li Fuchan activated the Errant Thunder Drum and used Deviating from Its Proper Course to turn the swords against her.
  • Li Fuchan gathered the swords into his sleeve, returned them toward Wei Shuo, then knocked her down and held the broken halberd to her brow.
  • Li Fuchan mocked Wei Shuo’s reliance on external aids and called her swordsmanship ordinary.
Arc 8 of 9
Arc 8 of 9