Chapter Summaries

Zhu Yucheng confronted Wei Fengnian at Flat Lake as the Zhu Clan prepared to raise an army, while Xu Xuan’s new Heavenly Thunder Shrine stood in Verdant Wilds. When reports came that fighting had begun around the Duan Clan, Xu Xuan left to assess the crisis and reinforce the Liu Household.

• Zhu Yucheng accused Wei Fengnian of feeding people by killing others, and Wei asked about Zhu Yucheng’s encounter in Jade Flow and the new Heavenly Thunder Envoy.
• Wei Fengnian warned that Xu Xuan might compete with Zhu Yucheng for the Purple Mansion opportunity, but Zhu dismissed the idea and raised the Subduing Yin Tally as battle cries rose from Flat Lake.
• Xu Xuan and Wang Xiwei discussed the Heavenly Thunder Shrine, its worshippers, and the risks of using faith power to create Heavenly Soldiers.
• A surge of origin magnetism light and distant battle cries alerted Xu Xuan and Wang Xiwei that the Zhu Clan was moving, so they put the sect on alert.
• Wen Si'an reported fighting around the Duan Clan, and Xu Xuan flew toward Plainlands to assess the situation and support the Liu Household.

The Zhu Clan attacked the Duan Clan with Yin Soldiers, overwhelming its formation and forcing its members to surrender. Duan Pingdu escaped toward Dingji Mountain after the Earth Desolation Daoist was driven off by a hidden power within him, while Zhu Yucheng confronted Duan Chengsi and declared his intent to kill.

• Duan Chengsi explained that Zhu Yucheng held the Duan Clan responsible for its role in Emperor Wang’s death and told Duan Pingdu to flee if the defense failed.
• Zhu Yuanyun led the Yin Soldiers’ charge, and their origin magnetism light shattered the Duan Clan’s formation as its members surrendered.
• Duan Chengsi sent Duan Pingdu beyond the mountains, and Duan Pingdu fled west while vowing revenge against Zhu Yucheng.
• Wei Fengnian intercepted Duan Pingdu, but a hidden power speaking through Duan Pingdu restrained Wei Fengnian and forced him to flee.
• Zhu Yucheng subdued Duan Chengsi, accused the Duan Clan of desecrating the Shu imperial tombs, and said he intended to kill.

State Preceptor Huji discussed the Zhu Clan’s campaign and the realm’s larger plans with Bright Auspice. As Zhu Yucheng’s army advanced on the Liu Household, Xu Xuan accepted Liu Qiuqi’s support and went to challenge Zhu Yucheng, whose name he joined at the top of the [Shu Wang Chronicle Ancient Map].

• Huji stabilized the [Shu Wang Chronicle Ancient Map], accepted that the Zhu Clan’s campaign had begun early, and warned Bright Auspice to retrieve their person from the Eastern Sea.
• Huji learned that the Duan Clan had likely fallen, and Xu Xuan hurried to the Liu Household after sensing the aura of the Underworld.
• Liu Qiuqi told Xu Xuan that Zhu Yuanyun had broken the Duan Clan’s formation with an army emerging from the Gloomy Netherworld.
• Liu Qiuqi gave Xu Xuan the [Yin-Binding Token] to join with his [Scarlet Radiance Token], while Xu Xuan’s [Violet Mystery Guiding Art] reached full mastery.
• Liu Qiuqi mobilized the great Qi Kingdom tomb to hold off the advancing army, and Xu Xuan left to face Zhu Yucheng in single combat.
• Xu Xuan and Zhu Yucheng prepared to fight, and Xu Xuan’s name rose to the top of the [Shu Wang Chronicle Ancient Map] beside Zhu Yucheng’s.

Xu Xuan fought Zhu Yucheng in the skies above the clouds, discovering that his opponent’s origin magnetism could suppress his weapons and leave him badly injured. As the battle continued, the Great Scarlet Abbey resolved to send Five-Element Mountain to Plainlands to reinforce him.

• Xu Xuan unleashed the Three Luminaries Sword Formation against Zhu Yucheng, but Zhu’s origin magnetism suppressed the flying swords and damaged Xu’s dharma sword.
• Zhu Yucheng struck Xu Xuan with opposing streams of gang qi, and Xu healed his ruptured meridians before preparing to fight with his full strength.
• At Azure Sky Peak, Wang Xiwei told Liu Xingfang that Zhu Yucheng had raised troops against the Liu Household and that the Duan Clan had likely fallen.
• After Wang Xiwei saw cracks in the Fate Jade, he and Liu Xingfang ordered Five-Element Mountain to head for Plainlands despite the risk to the sect’s defenses.
• Wen Si'an, Wang Qiyun, Cheng Yan, and the armed disciples joined the expedition, and Five-Element Mountain flew south into the nether radiance and yin qi.

Liu Qiuqi and Qingyun defended Azure Field Mountain against Zhu Yuanyun’s Yin Soldiers, but the Azurewood Sumeru Blossom Formation was shattered. The Five-Element Mountain arrived to help, and Wen Guang’s Heavenly Brilliance as Sword struck the Shu banner, leaving both sides poised for another clash.

• Liu Qiuqi and Qingyun strengthened the formation protecting Azure Field Mountain as Zhu Yuanyun ordered the Yin Soldiers to charge.
• Liu Baiyuan reported that Liu Qiuyu and several hundred Liu clansmen had chosen to surrender and leave for the Zhu Clan.
• Zhu Yuanyun’s Yin Soldiers shattered the Azurewood Sumeru Blossom Formation, but the Five-Element Mountain arrived and helped Liu Qiuqi rebuild the defense.
• Wen Si'an urged Wen Guang to fight, and he rallied the Five-Element Mountain’s disciples to refine a massive fire sword.
• Wen Guang unleashed Heavenly Brilliance as Sword against the bloodstained Shu banner, collapsing spirit peaks as the Yin Soldiers advanced toward Azure Field Mountain.

Lingming and Lingjing watched Xu Xuan battle Zhu Yucheng while discussing the State Preceptor, the Taiheng army, and whether Xu Xuan should be killed. Xu Xuan unleashed his thunder arts to bind Zhu Yucheng beneath the Immortal Executioner, and the chapter ended as the execution descended.

• Lingming and Lingjing discussed the State Preceptor's fortune qi and the power of the Taiheng army as they watched events near the Liu Household.
• Lingjing urged Lingming to kill Xu Xuan or turn him against Wanjin before he obtained a cultivation method and gained a divine ability.
• Lingming decided to keep watching Xu Xuan and Zhu Yucheng's duel, wary of acting on Song Clan territory.
• Zhu Yucheng challenged Xu Xuan to a test of thunder arts, using origin magnetism to summon a crimson flood dragon.
• Xu Xuan invoked Disrupt the Gloomy Netherworld and bound Zhu Yucheng beneath the Immortal Executioner.
• Xu Xuan unleashed Tribulation Command, and the Immortal Executioner fell as Zhu Yucheng smiled and praised him.

Xu Xuan and Zhu Yucheng clashed above the clouds as Zhu explained his plan to force the clans into one final battle against the returning Jade Flow Demon Calamity. The chapter ended with both men striking again, while Xu Xuan began to nurture a new power within his sword.

• Zhu Yucheng emerged from the magnetic radiance wounded, and Xu Xuan confronted him with thunder and fire techniques.
• Xu Xuan recognized that Zhu Yucheng’s Dharma Body lacked organs and appeared to be an empty shell, but Zhu insisted Xu could not stop him.
• Zhu Yucheng said he intended to conquer the clans and summon Shu’s heroic spirits to fight the Jade Flow Demon Calamity, which he expected to return within three years.
• Xu Xuan rejected Zhu Yucheng’s plan to sacrifice the clans and raised his sword to stop him.
• Xu Xuan focused on the Sword Treatise on Life-and-Death Qi and began nurturing a new power in his cracked sword as he and Zhu Yucheng struck at once.

Liu Qiuqi revealed that the Liu Household guarded the tomb of Great Qi’s last crown prince, awakening a protective Nestwood defense against the Zhu Clan’s Yin Soldiers. Above the battlefield, Xu Xuan survived a devastating duel with Zhu Yucheng and unveiled his newly formed Life-and-Death Qi Flying Swords, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Liu Qiuqi rejected Zhu Yuanyun’s offer to surrender, and Zhu Yuanyun admitted he opposed his father’s plans but believed that swallowing humiliation for survival was wrong.
• Liu Qiuqi revealed that Ye Canxuan, the last crown prince of Great Qi, lay beneath the Liu Household, then invoked his power to raise a Nestwood barrier against the Yin Soldiers.
• Wen Guang and Wang Cheng Yan watched the Nestwood defense weaken and hoped the Great Red Abbey’s Sect Leader would defeat Zhu Yucheng.
• Xu Xuan and Zhu Yucheng traded lethal attacks, each piercing the other’s Dharma Body, before Zhu Yucheng shattered Cinnabar Thunder and knocked Xu Xuan back.
• Xu Xuan refused to concede, dissolved Cinnabar Thunder in the Thunder Pool, and formed the Life-and-Death Qi Flying Swords as he revealed Yuejue Swordsmanship.

Xu Xuan defeated Zhu Yucheng’s attack with his life-and-death sword art, forcing the yin troops to withdraw, while Zhu Yucheng revealed the threat of the White Marsh Diagram and prepared to meet Chen Weiyuan. As Xu Xuan recovered, he learned more about the diagram and considered evacuating the sect overseas, while Xu Fayan resolved to enter seclusion and pursue Foundation Establishment.

• Xu Xuan wounded Zhu Yucheng with the Life-and-Death Qi Flying Sword, and Zhu Yucheng ordered the yin troops to withdraw.
• Zhu Yucheng told Zhu Yuanyun to keep Duan Chengsi alive and left to visit the Chen Household and meet Chen Weiyuan.
• Wei Fengnian admitted that Duan Pingdu had escaped and wondered whether the Wei surname of Heavenwater was connected to the𫅗 Sheep.
• Tiantuo explained that the White Marsh Diagram bore the true forms and names of myriad demons and had once made him a Heavenly Demon.
• Xu Xuan considered finding an overseas refuge for the sect before the diagram unfolded, and Xu Fayan announced that he would enter seclusion to pursue Foundation Establishment.

Song Shiming learned that Great Li’s Thunder Department was preparing to punish an ancient Blood Immortal and strengthen the kingdom’s divine investiture. At True Abode Hall, Xu Xuan handled the aftermath of the Zhu Clan’s attack before receiving a decree naming him the Heavenly Thunder Envoy for an autumn punishment.

• Song Shiming met with Great Li’s Thunder Department, which discussed its plans to punish a condemned Blood Qi practitioner and the coming conflict with Northern Liao.
• A Thunder Department elder praised Song Shiming’s progress and told him to consult with the Sky-Thunder Emissary about the upcoming punishment.
• Liu Xingfang reported that the Hollow Sword Gate had withdrawn and that the Autumn Gourd School wished to merge with the abbey; Xu Xuan approved the arrangements and addressed Liu Xingfang’s family troubles.
• Xu Xuan directed the Shi Household to aid the Liu Household’s reconstruction and urged Liu Xingfang to focus on reaching Foundation Establishment.
• Wang Qiyun brought Xu Xuan a sacred decree declaring that Mystic Thunder would administer punishment in autumn and appointing Xu Xuan as the Heavenly Thunder Envoy.

Xu Xuan entered the Great Void to join the Thunder Department’s execution as its Heavenly Thunder Envoy, where he encountered the other Five-Thunder Emissaries. The gathering ended with the Shock Thunder Emissary’s complaints echoing across the assembly after she realized her voice had carried.

• Xu Xuan left Heavenly Tribulation Mountain and met Wei Yan’s sect in Verdant Wilds, where Wei Yan introduced Qi Wen and the star-reading Astronomy Elder Si Xunyao.
• Xu Xuan stopped Si Xunyao from revealing his suspicions about the Geng Metal Great Lord when the Heavenly Thunder Shrine opened its Great Void passage.
• Two Golden-armored Strongmen welcomed Xu Xuan into the Great Void, where he received thunder armor bearing an Ink Qilin and saw the Dipper Pivot Supreme Punishment Seal guarded by five Purple Mansion True Persons.
• Xu Xuan took his place in a Thunder Chariot among the Five-Thunder Emissaries and recognized that the Spirit Thunder Emissary was a pure-blooded dragon from the Western Expanse.
• The Shock Thunder Emissary complained that her armor was stuffy and that the Sky Thunder Emissary had an easier time, then realized her voice had carried throughout the Great Void.

Xu Xuan and the other Thunder Emissaries gathered to witness Great Li’s execution of an ancient Blood-Qi Legacy Criminal. As the Thunder Department began the ceremony, the prisoner awoke inside the thunder-suppressed prison.

• Xu Yi emerged from the Pale-Gold Thunder Chariot, recognized Xu Xuan, and was warned to keep quiet at the restricted execution site.
• Song Shiming explained Great Li’s Divine Dao to the Thunder Emissaries and instructed them to perform their duties during the execution.
• Xu Xuan learned that the prisoner was an ancient Purple Mansion cultivator tied to the Blood Immortal, and Tiantuo warned him that the execution was dangerous.
• The Geng Metal True Lord’s power gathered over the Dipper Pivot Supreme Punishment Seal as Song Shiming announced the execution of the Blood-Qi Legacy Criminal.
• The ancient prisoner opened their eyes inside the thunder-suppressed prison, spreading blood qi.

Xu Xuan watched Great Li’s Thunder Department try to execute a revived Unity Dao master, but she survived the layered heavenly punishments and exposed a greater threat. The chapter ended as she shrouded the Great Void in bloody light and declared that the Immortal Corpse had been raised again.

• Xu Xuan guarded the Altar Thunder position while Song Shiming prepared the execution using the Dipper Pivot Supreme Punishment Seal.
• Song Shiming invoked Geng Metal weapons and Southern Li’s Heavenly Fire, revealing a pale blood egg and then a woman in dark-red Array Robes.
• Song Shiming and the Thunder Department struck the woman with Divine Thunder, but she emerged unharmed and called them counterfeits.
• The woman asked what year it was in Great Li, while Tiantuo suspected she possessed mysteries beyond the Purple Mansion rank.
• A Sky Thunder True Person confronted the woman, who raised her head, mentioned the Immortal Corpse, and covered the Great Void in bloody light.

Xu Xuan and the Heavenly Soldiers were trapped in a blood-red illusion that revealed a blood qi ritual and swallowed twelve soldiers. After the illusion faded, Xu Xuan entered the Thunder Palace’s Heavenly Prison, where his Tribulation Command affinity awakened and ancient principles appeared.

• Xu Xuan ordered the Heavenly Soldiers to hold position as darkness concealed them and the Dipper Pivot Supreme Punishment Seal vanished.
• A blood-red illusion showed three cultivators worshipping a giant blood egg, and twelve of Xu Xuan’s Heavenly Soldiers dissolved into blood qi after approaching it.
• Tiantuo explained the Unity Dao’s belief in returning all beings to one primordial source and described how a blood qi True Lord once ascended through Shared Consumption.
• The illusion dispersed, revealing the Heavenly Prison, and Xu Xuan sent the remaining soldiers to guard the area while he investigated alone.
• Xu Xuan entered the prison using his Tribulation Command sword intent and found a Tribulation Pool above a Thunderfall Marsh.
• Xu Xuan manifested the Tribulation Command sword move, and the prison revealed the ancient text, “Principles of the Dao of Tribulation Command and Heavenly Punishment.”

Xu Xuan studied the ancient Tribulation Command principles, completed his [Heaven-Commanding Tribulation] inner scenery, and formed the [Ink Qilin] manifestation. After a blood-red Purple Mansion intruder was suppressed and destroyed, Tiantuo identified it as a Blood-Qi Cultivator from Great Zhou’s founding and warned that the female fiend’s presence in the prison was not the Thunder Palace’s doing; Xu Xuan left to find that every heavenly soldier had been slaughtered.

• Xu Xuan studied the ancient principles of [Tribulation Law] and [Interflowing Union] and used them to build his inner scenery.
• Xu Xuan formed the [Thunder Pool Stronghold], [Immortal-Slaying Righteous Punishment], and [Ninefold Firmament Heavenly Prison], then completed [Heaven-Commanding Tribulation] by manifesting the [Ink Qilin].
• A blood-red Purple Mansion presence entered Xu Xuan’s body, but the ancient stele’s mystic azure qi seized and suppressed it in his qi sea.
• The blood-red presence destroyed itself with silver lightning, and Tiantuo identified it as a Blood-Qi Cultivator from the founding of Great Zhou.
• Tiantuo realized the female fiend had been placed in the prison later and was not the Thunder Palace’s doing.
• Xu Xuan left the prison in the Thunder Chariot and found every heavenly soldier dead, with corpses scattered through the great void.

Xu Xuan and Xi Wuya fought a Blood Qi Red Ape as they traveled toward Venus, then discussed the ancient demon and the Thunder Palace’s possible plans. Their journey was interrupted by a woman invoking the Yin Sacrifice Five-Rite Thunder Diagram.

• Xu Xuan found the remains of Heavenly Soldiers in the darkness, burned their bodies, and drove his Thunder Chariot toward Venus.
• Xu Xuan joined Xi Wuya in battling a Red Ape, and their combined lightning attacks destroyed it.
• Xi Wuya introduced himself and joined Xu Xuan’s journey, explaining that he needed the chariot to travel without visible starlight.
• Xu Xuan and Xi Wuya discussed the ancient Blood Qi demon, the Song Clan’s apparent scheme, and the origins of Kunlun’s Altar Thunder inheritance.
• The pair heard weapons clash ahead, and a woman shouted as she invoked the Yin Sacrifice Five-Rite Thunder Diagram.

General Weihua explained the blood qi tradition’s origins as the Mystic Thunder Department’s preparations unfolded around two Golden Core spiritual omens. Xu Xuan, Xi Wuya, and Xu Yi fought through a swarm of red apes and followed Venus toward safety, while Xu Xuan realized the rite targeted something more than a Purple Mansion cultivator.

• Song Shiming questioned General Weihua about the Mystic Thunder Department’s plans, and Weihua told him that blood qi had once been an orthodox human tradition before Devil Lord [Heavenly Blood] and other demonic cultivators tainted it.
• General Weihua explained that the intertwined omens were [blood surge from the same source] and [thunder moon azure rite], and revealed that the prisoner connected to the Unity Dao was said to be the daughter of the [Unity] Devil Lord.
• Xu Xuan and Xi Wuya reached the battlefield, where Xu Yi and her Heavenly Soldiers were besieged by red apes emerging from the bloodlight.
• Xu Xuan used [heaven-commanding tribulation] to kill fifty red apes, then Xi Wuya transformed into a red dragon to hold back the rest while Xu Xuan finished them with silver lightning Flying Swords.
• Xu Xuan, Xi Wuya, and Xu Yi followed the path shown by Venus, and Xu Xuan recognized the [heavenly capital celestial rite] and suspected the Mystic Thunder Department was targeting a Devil Lord’s remnant.

In the Great Void, Zhuoxie confronted Yao Lu over her crimes and the whereabouts of her lord, but she insisted that he could not be found. At the Liao border, Zhou Shi agreed to visit the Origin Thunder Palace after learning a Golden Rank might manifest amid changes in Blood Qi.

• Zhuoxie accused Yao Lu of orchestrating the slaughter of a Fuyi Blood tribe and the blood sacrifice in Great Liang, while she blamed the True Lord and refused to fear death.
• Yao Lu claimed her lord had concealed himself beyond the Golden Rank and said the Thunder Department of Great Li would find only an empty shell.
• Wild Guardian summoned Zhou Shi to the Origin Thunder Palace on the command of Great Thunder Heaven, but Zhou Shi initially refused to go.
• Wild Guardian revealed that the palace wanted Zhou Shi to wield the immortal sword and that it had sensed a possible Golden Rank emerging from changes in Blood Qi.
• Zhou Shi criticized the Thunder Departments of Li and Liao, then decided to inspect the Golden Rank of Unity and entered the Great Void with Wild Guardian following him.

Xu Xuan, Xu Yi, and Xi Wuya crossed a dangerous bloodlight phenomenon on their Thunder Chariots while discussing their thunder paths and Xi Wuya’s Western Expanse origins. As they neared Venus and escaped the bloodlight, Xu Xuan used his sword intent to claim a piece of blood-quenched cold tin.

• Xu Xuan and Xu Yi used sky thunder to protect themselves and the remaining soldiers from a blood egg’s influence, while Xu Xuan helped Xi Wuya regain control of his blood essence.
• Xi Wuya asked Xu Xuan about his Immortal Foundation, and Xu Xuan revealed that it was the [Tribulation Heart Pool], transforming toward the [Heaven-Commanding Tribulation].
• Xi Wuya explained that he was Western Expanse Dragonkin raised in [Liyang Heaven] and hoped one day to take charge of the Western Sea; Xu Yi claimed friendship with Dragon Prince Youdu and showed Xi Wuya his dragon scale.
• The Thunder Chariots approached Venus, and Xu Yi identified the blood-dripping spiritual substance at the edge of the bloodlight as [blood-quenched cold tin].
• Xu Xuan tested the cold tin with his Flying Swords, then cut free a palm-sized piece before the Thunder Chariots left the bloodlight boundary.

Xu Xuan and his companions escaped the bloodlight, but the Great Li Thunder Department began its assault on Yao Lu and the blood qi dao fruit. Zhou Shi arrived as the Lesser Yin Realm’s representative and used the Dipper Pivot Supreme Punishment Seal to sever Yao Lu’s connection to the Golden Rank, leaving her facing his descending swordlight.

• Xu Xuan, Xu Yi, and Xi Wuya fled the blood egg’s surge of blood qi, and Xi Wuya exhausted himself carrying them into the Great Void.
• The Great Li Thunder Department’s attack struck the blood egg, while Xu Xuan learned that its blood qi might be connected to the dao fruit of Unity.
• A Dharma Body from Northern Liao’s Origin Thunder Palace appeared, and General Weihua allowed Zhou Shi, the scholar carrying Celestial Pivot, to join the demon-slaying.
• Zhou Shi revealed Yao Lu’s history and declared that he had come to sever her connection to the Golden Rank.
• Yao Lu began Liberation by Violence, but Zhou Shi activated the Dipper Pivot Supreme Punishment Seal and drew a streak of bloodlight from the Great Void as his sword descended.