Chapter Summaries

Zhang Yuan completed the minor achievement of his Six Harmonies Qilin Body and left his hideout to hunt for blood to awaken the Taotie Saber. Disguised as a Wuqi tribesman, he approached a Hongmin fighting ship and launched a sudden attack.

• The Three-Family Alliance Army seized the waters around Gold Sand Island, landed, and established a siege camp outside the Inner City.
• Zhang Yuan refined three leaves of Qilin Grass, advancing his Six Harmonies Qilin Body to minor achievement, then prepared to test his blade.
• Zhang Yuan left the Reed Marshes, choosing a Hongmin fighting ship as his target because the Taotie Saber needed more blood and life.
• Zhang Yuan disguised himself as a Wuqi tribesman and claimed the Blackwood Great Shaman had sent him with important news.
• Zhang Yuan leaped onto the fighting ship, killed a Hongmin warrior with his Taotie Saber, and attacked the crew with a storm of saber light.

Zhang Yuan attacked a Hongmin warship and slaughtered its warriors with the Taotie Saber, earning recognition as the Blood Saber Human Butcher. After the Hongmin elder challenged him and an assassin struck from behind, Zhang Yuan broke the elder’s weapon and severed the assassin’s hand.

• Zhang Yuan cut through the Hongmin warriors on the warship, absorbing their blood qi into the Taotie Saber.
• A Hongmin elder arrived, recognized Zhang Yuan as the Blood Saber Human Butcher, and ordered the warriors to abandon ship.
• The elder’s aura surged as he attacked Zhang Yuan with a Rattan Staff, but Zhang Yuan used Black Giant Ant Power and snapped the staff with his saber.
• An unseen assassin stabbed at Zhang Yuan’s back during the clash, but Zhang Yuan turned and cut off the attacker’s dagger hand.

Zhang Yuan slaughtered the Hongmin warriors aboard their warship and fed the Taotie Saber’s Blood Fiend Qi until its spirituality fell dormant on the brink of transformation. After saving the dead and sinking the warship, he returned to his own vessel and drifted away.

• A Red-Eyed Crow killed the urgent-message hawk sent from the Hongmin warship.
• Zhang Yuan killed the remaining assassin and forced the Hongmin elder to the stern, where the elder exploded into a cloud of blood mist.
• Zhang Yuan used the Golden Grasshopper’s ability to evade the blood mist, then cut down the Hongmin warriors transformed by it.
• Zhang Yuan killed the warriors who rushed onto the deck and cleared out the warship’s lower cabins, while the Taotie Saber absorbed their Blood Fiend Qi and fell dormant.
• Zhang Yuan split the warship’s hull, saved the souls of the dead, and boarded his own vessel as the Hongmin warship sank.

Zhang Yuan completed the Taotie Saber's blood sacrifice and obtained the Army Breaker Saber Technique, then set out to attack a Great River Gang warship. Meanwhile, the Three-Family Alliance Army began its assault on Gold Sand Island.

• The Taotie Saber awakened, and Zhang Yuan completed its blood sacrifice, forming a soul connection with the mystic weapon.
• Zhang Yuan received the Army Breaker Saber Technique and tested its power by cutting and igniting the reeds in the marsh.
• Warriors from the Three-Family Alliance Army investigated the flames but found nothing.
• The Wuqi Tribe, Hongmin, and Great River Gang launched their siege of Gold Sand Island, and both sides suffered heavy casualties.
• After refining another leaf of Qilin Grass and advancing his saber technique, Zhang Yuan took a boat toward a Great River Gang warship, determined to attack it.

Zhang Yuan attacked a Wuqí warship and confronted a Hemp-Clothed Shaman who offered a hidden treasure in exchange for sparing his grandson. After vines tried to rescue the boy, Zhang Yuan killed him with the Crimson Blood Blade, and the dying shaman exploded into a swarm of Gu Worms.

• Zhang Yuan stormed the Wuqí warship’s cabin after cutting through its defenders.
• The Hemp-Clothed Shaman recognized Zhang Yuan as the Blood Saber Human Butcher and offered to reveal a treasure if Zhang Yuan spared his grandson.
• Zhang Yuan put on the Soul-Devouring Mask again, making clear that he would leave no witnesses alive.
• Vines burst into the cabin, pierced the Hemp-Clothed Shaman, and dragged his grandson toward an opening in the wall.
• Zhang Yuan’s Crimson Blood Blade pierced the boy’s skull despite the beast spirit released by his Obsidian Ornament, and the boy died.
• The Hemp-Clothed Shaman went mad with grief and exploded, releasing countless Gu Worms.

Zhang Yuan killed the barbarian youth and discovered that giving requiem to him granted Luck, a new Divine Nest attribute he suspected could be stolen from Children of Destiny. After harvesting the sinking warship and finding a mysterious Animal Hide, Zhang Yuan returned to his lodgings to plan his next move.

• Zhang Yuan chased the vines through the warship, cut them apart, and found the barbarian youth dead beneath the water.
• Zhang Yuan's first attempt to requiem the youth failed, but his second succeeded and granted him 5 Luck.
• Zhang Yuan checked the Divine Nest Panel, found he had 9 Luck, and reasoned that he had defeated a Child of Destiny by using the Crimson Blood Blade.
• As the damaged warship began sinking, Zhang Yuan searched it, collected Source Essence, and found a strange Animal Hide resembling the source of his Treasure Map and Soul-Devouring Mask.
• Zhang Yuan left the sinking warship with more than twenty thousand Source Essence and returned to his lodgings to plan his next move.

Zhang Yuan landed on Gold Sand Island during the siege and disguised himself as a Wuqi barbarian to enter the Three-Family Alliance Army's camp. He reached the camp's southern craftsmen's area, where a large siege vehicle was under construction.

• On the seventh day of the siege, the Three-Family Alliance Army's attacks pushed the Gold Sand Gang closer to defeat, though the strongest forces on both sides had yet to fight.
• Zhang Yuan came ashore at night, resolved to do more to help the Gold Sand Gang despite believing he had already repaid Fan Tai for the Qilin Grass.
• When a Great River Gang patrol demanded the password, Zhang Yuan slapped the leader and intimidated the warriors by acting like an arrogant Wuqi barbarian.
• After the patrol withdrew, Zhang Yuan walked through the alliance camp unchallenged as the low-ranking barbarians yielded to his imposing presence.
• Zhang Yuan noticed a large siege vehicle being built in the craftsmen's area on the southern side of the camp.

Zhang Yuan discovered the Three-Family Alliance Army’s enormous siege vehicle but trusted his instincts and stayed out of the battle. As the army breached Gold Sand Inner City’s gates, a fleet from Xia Ruins arrived, and Fan Tai appeared before the siege vehicle.

• Zhang Yuan found the siege vehicle near Gold Sand Island and decided not to destroy it, suspecting the enemy had set a trap.
• The Three-Family Alliance Army attacked Gold Sand Inner City while the Gold Sand Gang tried unsuccessfully to stop the siege vehicle.
• The allied army’s battering ram smashed through the city gates, and the defenders’ morale collapsed when Fan Tai did not appear.
• A large fleet arrived from the north, and Gold Sand Gang warriors shouted that Xia Ruins had come to save them.
• Fan Tai descended in front of the siege vehicle as the Xia Ruins fleet approached.

Fan Tai turned the tide of the assault on Gold Sand Island by smashing the battering ram and rallying the defenders as the Xia Ruins Fleet arrived. Zhang Yuan watched the alliance fleet collapse into a rout and noticed a subtle feeling as he followed a fleeing Great River Gang tower ship.

• Fan Tai destroyed the battering ram, crushed nearby barbarian warriors, and forced the Three-Family Alliance Army back from the inner city.
• Fan Tai evaded the alliance’s Fifth Order Experts, reached the city wall, and called on the Xia Ruins warriors to slaughter the barbarians.
• The Xia Ruins Fleet launched a surprise assault, burning and sinking alliance ships and throwing the fleet into chaos.
• Zhang Yuan watched the battle through a Red-Eyed Crow and realized the Xia Ruins Fleet had arrived at a decisive moment.
• Alliance ships fled as the Xia Ruins Fleet overwhelmed them, and Zhang Yuan followed a fleeing Great River Gang tower ship with a subtle feeling in his heart.

Zhang Yuan used Hui Zhi’s Tracking Talisman to discover that White Wolf was aboard the fleeing Great River Gang tower ship. He pursued the ship, boarded it, and began cutting through its warriors after they attacked him.

• After the Great River Gang tower ship fled the battle, Zhang Yuan used the Tracking Talisman to follow White Wolf’s aura toward it.
• Zhang Yuan pursued the tower ship alone in his skiff as it repeatedly changed course and escaped beyond the battlefield.
• When Great River Gang warriors fired arrows at Zhang Yuan and ordered him to leave, he leaped onto the tower ship’s rear deck.
• Zhang Yuan drew the Taotie Saber and killed three warriors, then defeated a Fourth Order swordsman who recognized him as the Blood Saber Human Butcher.
• The Great River Gang warriors panicked as Zhang Yuan swept his saber across the rear deck, beginning a bloody fight.

Zhang Yuan used the Taotie Saber and the Army Breaker Saber Technique to slaughter Great River Gang warriors aboard their tower ship. After he shattered the Green Robe Man’s mystic spear and forced the Fifth Order powerhouse to flee, a silver-gray spearhead pierced him in midair.

• Zhang Yuan swept through dozens of Great River Gang warriors with the Taotie Saber, absorbing their blood qi and resentment.
• Zhang Yuan cut down an armored Fourth Order warrior who attacked him with a Double-edged Axe.
• The Green Robe Man confronted Zhang Yuan with a spear, but Zhang Yuan’s sixteenfold-strength strike shattered the spear shaft and wounded him.
• The Green Robe Man fled the tower ship and abandoned his subordinates as Zhang Yuan’s power overwhelmed him.
• A silver-gray spearhead pierced the Green Robe Man as he fell through the air.

Zhang Yuan killed Elder Zhu and massacred the Great River Gang warriors aboard their tower ship while searching for White Wolf. After sinking the ship and failing to find White Wolf, Zhang Yuan left on his skiff, but movement later stirred within the wreck.

• Zhang Yuan killed Elder Zhu by kicking the lost Mystic Weapon spearhead through his heart.
• Zhang Yuan attacked the Great River Gang warriors, then wrecked the tower ship's rudder and hull before hunting down those who fled underwater.
• Zhang Yuan killed more than a hundred Great River Gang members but never spotted White Wolf.
• Zhang Yuan searched the sunken ship's cabins for nearly half an hour, then left aboard his light skiff.
• Nearly half an hour after Zhang Yuan departed, movement came from the tower ship on the riverbed.

Zhang Yuan ambushed White Wolf as he emerged from the sunken ship, and the two fought a fierce underwater battle using their transformed armor and weapons. After neither gained the upper hand, Zhang Yuan wore White Wolf down with evasive tactics until White Wolf fled toward the surface, with Zhang Yuan in pursuit.

• Zhang Yuan revealed that he had been waiting near the sunken ship and identified the escaping Great River Gang warrior as White Wolf.
• White Wolf charged Zhang Yuan with two Water Dividing Pikes, and they clashed in a test of strength.
• Zhang Yuan activated the Dragon Carp Armor while White Wolf transformed his body and weapons into silvery armor and claws.
• Zhang Yuan and White Wolf fought through dozens of underwater exchanges, with White Wolf's swift, vicious attacks forcing Zhang Yuan onto the defensive.
• Zhang Yuan shifted to an evasive, drawn-out fight and gradually wore White Wolf down.
• White Wolf stopped attacking and fled toward the surface, and Zhang Yuan chased after him.

Zhang Yuan pursued White Wolf to an island and fought him after White Wolf used the Flying Wyrm Profound Armor to escape and attack. Zhang Yuan weathered the armor’s assault with only minor wounds, and the two remained locked in a deadly confrontation.

• Zhang Yuan chased White Wolf across the water after grazing his back with the Taotie Saber.
• White Wolf used the Flying Wyrm Profound Armor’s wings to outrun Zhang Yuan and reach a small island.
• White Wolf recognized Zhang Yuan as the Blood Saber Human Butcher, but Zhang Yuan gave his real name and refused to abandon the fight.
• White Wolf unleashed the armor plates against Zhang Yuan, who blocked most of them with Chaotic Cloak and quickly stopped his bleeding.
• White Wolf recalled the armor plates and considered retreating, while Zhang Yuan sensed his hesitation and attacked again.

Zhang Yuan overwhelmed White Wolf in a land battle, forcing the Celestial to sacrifice his Essence Blood to strengthen the Flying Wyrm Profound Armor. As White Wolf’s shield buckled under Zhang Yuan’s attacks, he poured more Essence Blood onto it, leaving the fight at a dangerous turning point.

• Zhang Yuan used his enhanced speed and saber techniques to relentlessly attack White Wolf, who struggled to evade his strikes with the Flying Wyrm Profound Armor.
• White Wolf took Zhang Yuan’s attack head-on, then used a silver projectile and a roar to activate a blood-sacrifice technique that transformed his armor into a shield and sword.
• Zhang Yuan raised his Black Giant Ant and Golden Grasshopper empowerment to eighteenfold and struck White Wolf’s shield with overwhelming force.
• Zhang Yuan drove White Wolf backward with successive blows, damaging the shield and leaving White Wolf injured and unable to counterattack.
• White Wolf roared in fury and spat Essence Blood onto the shield.

Zhang Yuan killed White Wolf by destroying the Flying Wyrm Profound Armor and striking him with the Crimson Blood Blade. He then used the Divine Nest Emblem to capture White Wolf’s departing soul, gaining a consumable point of Luck and discovering a way to prevent Celestials from returning.

• White Wolf ignited the Flying Wyrm Profound Armor to unleash its full power, but Zhang Yuan sensed the danger and launched the Crimson Blood Blade.
• The Crimson Blood Blade pierced the armor and killed White Wolf, destroying the top-tier Profound Artifact.
• White Wolf’s soul consciousness threatened Zhang Yuan and his relatives before trying to escape his corpse.
• Zhang Yuan used Deliverance to pull White Wolf’s soul consciousness from his forehead and absorb it, gaining one consumable point of Luck.
• Zhang Yuan examined the Divine Nest Panel and realized Deliverance could make him a threat to Celestials’ ability to return after death.

In Cyber City Terry, Mechanical Policemen raided an underground slum and found the stowaway codenamed White Wolf dead in a life-support pod. They stripped his container of everything and left, while the surrounding residents watched without reacting.

• Teenagers fled when sirens approached, and Mechanical Policemen from the Terry Security Bureau arrived at the ruins.
• A mechanical spider led the officers through underground tunnels and into the slum, where a vagrant was killed after attacking them.
• The Mechanical Policemen found a dead young man in a life-support pod inside a shipping-container home and identified him as White Wolf.
• After reporting White Wolf's death, the lead officer ordered his team to take everything from the container.
• The Mechanical Policemen withdrew with the container's contents while the slum's residents watched indifferently.

After defeating the White Wolf, Zhang Yuan salvaged its armor fragments and a Mystic Weapon spearhead for the Crimson Blood Blade to devour, then recovered and returned to Gold Sand Island. He learned that the Gold Sand Gang and Xia Ruins forces were driving back the Three-Family Alliance Army, and he left for Xia Ruins aboard a merchant ship.

• Zhang Yuan recovered from his brief memory lapse and found that the White Wolf's corpse had decayed without yielding Source Essence.
• Zhang Yuan fed the White Wolf's armor fragments and the Mystic Weapon Long Spear's spearhead to the Crimson Blood Blade.
• After recuperating for three days, Zhang Yuan returned to Gold Sand Island and gathered news about the ongoing war.
• Zhang Yuan learned that the Gold Sand Gang and Xia Ruins Fleet had routed the Three-Family Alliance Army and were counterattacking the barbarians.
• Zhang Yuan stayed on Gold Sand Island for two days, then boarded a merchant ship and returned to Xia Ruins.

Zhang Yuan returned to Xia Ruins and learned that Hui Zhi was near death after confronting the Duanmu Celestials, who were searching beneath Ruins City. Hui Zhi gave Zhang Yuan eligibility to cultivate at Upper Scene Heaven and urged him to leave Xia Ruins, while Zhang Yuan departed determined to grow stronger.

• Zhang Yuan found Hui Zhi aged and close to death, and Hui Zhi gave him a Dragon Pattern Token granting eligibility to cultivate at Upper Scene Heaven.
• Hui Zhi warned Zhang Yuan that Xia Ruins was unsafe because the Duanmu Celestials had arrived and the Yan Clan had allied with them.
• Zhang Yuan saluted Hui Zhi and left the Heavenly King Hall, noticing that people were following him.
• Zhang Yuan shook off his pursuers, disguised himself, and learned that spies were watching his residence.
• Zhang Yuan heard that the Duanmu Celestials had clashed with the Heavenly King Hall while trying to dig tunnels before the giant tower, and realized they had caused Hui Zhi's decline.

Zhang Yuan entered the underground passages beneath Ruins City to reach the treasure the Duanmu Clan’s Celestials were searching for. He pursued its moving target through the labyrinth and arrived at an underground chamber that looked like a burial room.

• Zhang Yuan knocked out the two warriors guarding a hole in South Ruins after hearing the younger warrior worry about his mother.
• Zhang Yuan descended into the underground passage and used the Treasure Map to navigate toward the treasure.
• Zhang Yuan detected a genetic entity nearby, but the target began moving rapidly, forcing him to chase it through the passages.
• Zhang Yuan followed the target toward firelight and human voices, then entered an underground chamber resembling a burial room.