Chapter Summaries

Xiao Mo helped defend a Forward Base against the Chu Yun Empire before returning home for the New Year. He reunited with Wang Miaojun and released Kongming Lanterns with her, ending as she asked whether they would be together forever.

• Li Wei warned Xiao Mo that the Chu Yun Empire might retaliate, and Xiao Mo agreed to prepare for war.
• Fifteen days later, Li Wei sent Xiao Mo with three thousand troops to defend a Forward Base from the Chu Yun Empire.
• Xiao Mo repelled a night attack with heavenly flames, and his force later withdrew safely to Tiger-Suppressing Pass.
• Xiao Mo arranged to take leave in the first batch so he could return home and see Wang Miaojun for the New Year.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun ate together, released Kongming Lanterns, and talked about advancing to the Dou Zong Stage together.
• Wang Miaojun embraced Xiao Mo and asked whether they would be together forever.

After spending New Year with Wang Miaojun, Xiao Mo returned to Tiger-Suppressing Pass and won another major victory by leading thirty thousand troops to plunder a commandery city. Yao Xuanchen responded by granting Xiao Mo broad military authority and protection from punishment unless the emperor chose to impose it.

• Xiao Mo promised Wang Miaojun he would return, then left the Wang Residence after their New Year reunion and went back to Tiger-Suppressing Pass.
• Xiao Mo asked Li Wei for thirty thousand troops, and Li Wei agreed while warning him that failure could bring severe punishment.
• Xiao Mo led the troops to a commandery city, waited three days, then attacked and plundered it before returning to Tiger-Suppressing Pass.
• Li Wei praised Xiao Mo's victory and reported his achievements to Yao Xuanchen, who again awarded him the foremost credit.
• Yao Xuanchen ordered that Xiao Mo could receive as many troops as he requested and could not be punished for failure unless the emperor chose to punish him.

Xiao Mo defended a major stronghold against repeated Chu Yun Empire attacks, then reinforced a nearby stronghold and helped secure the enemy's withdrawal. After returning to Tiger-Suppressing Pass, he persuaded Li Wei to give him thirty thousand troops for a new offensive.

• Xiao Mo used rotating shifts and strict orders to repel three waves of attacks on the stronghold he guarded with eight thousand troops.
• After receiving a request for help, Xiao Mo led three thousand elite troops to relieve a nearby stronghold and drove back the Chu Yun Empire's forces.
• Three days later, Li Wei told Xiao Mo that the Chu Yun Empire's entire army had withdrawn, and Xiao Mo returned with his troops to Tiger-Suppressing Pass.
• After Li Wei reported the victory to Yao Xuanchen, Xiao Mo studied a map and decided to pursue more military merit with another attack.
• Xiao Mo requested thirty thousand troops from Li Wei, who agreed while warning him not to act too recklessly.

After winning another battle for Tiger-Suppressing Pass and advancing to Five-Star Dou Emperor, Xiao Mo entered the Ancient Secret Realm to seek greater strength. There, he woke in an alternate dimension, met Princess Yao Yue, and agreed to help her gravely ill mother.

• Xiao Mo led thirty thousand troops to plunder Commandery City, defeated the Chu Yun Empire reinforcements, and returned to Tiger-Suppressing Pass with spoils.
• After half a year at the pass, Xiao Mo reached Five-Star Dou Emperor and received Li Wei's approval to visit a newly opened secret realm.
• Xiao Mo entered the Ancient Secret Realm, destroyed its Terracotta Figures, and reached a garden where he fell into an illusion.
• Xiao Mo woke in an alternate dimension and met Yao Yue, who said she was the imperial palace's princess.
• Yao Yue asked Xiao Mo to cure her gravely ill mother, and he agreed to go see the empress.

Xiao Mo cured Zhou Haimei, received a map of the secret realm from Ji Feihai, and set out to seek opportunities to improve his strength. He defeated a seventh-level Charm Spirit and collected a pool of cultivation-enhancing spring water.

• Yao Yue led Xiao Mo to Ji Feihai, who asked him to treat the ill Zhou Haimei.
• Xiao Mo used an Ice Spirit Pill and a Fire Spirit Pill to cure Zhou Haimei, then accepted a map of the secret realm as thanks.
• Xiao Mo gave Yao Yue a Fire Spirit Pill and promised to return before leaving to explore the secret realm.
• Xiao Mo entered a hall guarded by a seventh-level female Charm Spirit and fought her with the power of three heavenly flames.
• Xiao Mo raised his strength to six-star Dou Emperor and killed the Charm Spirit with a Chaos Immortal Seal.
• Xiao Mo found a clear spring that aided cultivation and collected all of its water in jade bottles.

Xiao Mo defeated a seventh-level lion magical beast and collected spirit spring water, but the water did not help him break through to six-star Dou Emperor. After visiting Yao Yue, he returned to Tiger-Suppressing Pass determined to earn military merits for Yao Xuanchen by leading another campaign against the Chu Yun Empire.

• Xiao Mo fought and killed a seventh-level lion magical beast, then found and collected the spirit spring water it had guarded.
• Xiao Mo drank the spring water at Tiger-Suppressing Pass, absorbed its spiritual power, and remained at five-star Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Mo visited Yao Yue and Ji Feihai in the secret realm, promised to take Yao Yue outside when her parents agreed, and spent five or six days with her.
• Xiao Mo returned to Tiger-Suppressing Pass and asked Li Wei to let him lead troops again.
• Xiao Mo planned to raid Commandery City repeatedly until he reached eight-star Dou Emperor, then invade the Chu Yun Empire with the Dou Emperor Talisman and his cultivation techniques.

After Xiao Mo led sixty thousand troops in a devastating raid on a major Chu Yun Empire commandery city and returned without casualties, the Chu Yun Empire prepared a massive counterattack against Tiger-Suppressing Pass. Xiao Mo took command at the forward base expected to face the first assault as the enemy gathered to attack.

• Li Wei gave Xiao Mo sixty thousand troops, and Xiao Mo led them in a surprise raid on a commandery city, killing more than thirty thousand enemy soldiers before escaping without casualties.
• Li Wei reported Xiao Mo’s victory and told him that Yao Xuanchen wanted to meet him after the Chu Yun Empire’s next offensive was repelled.
• Three days later, Li Wei learned that the Chu Yun Empire had assembled 150,000 troops to attack Tiger-Suppressing Pass and sent 160,000 troops to reinforce the twelve forward bases.
• Xiao Mo led twenty thousand troops to defend the forward base expected to take the first blow, where 23,000 soldiers had supplies and several had fought in his raid.
• At three in the morning, the reconnaissance battalion reported that the Chu Yun Empire had assembled its troops and was preparing to attack.

Xiao Mo defended the Forward Base by rotating his troops through rest periods, then defeated the Chu Yun Empire’s repeated attacks. After the enemy withdrew, he led ten thousand elite cavalry to rescue other besieged outposts, leaving the story with him continuing his support campaign.

• Xiao Mo organized the Forward Base’s twenty-five thousand troops into rotating shifts so they could rest, eat, and recover between attacks.
• Xiao Mo gambled that the Chu Yun Empire would attack again after his troops rested, then led them to crush the returning force and drive off its survivors.
• Xiao Mo left a reconnaissance battalion on patrol, rested his army, and then set out with ten thousand elite troops to support the other outposts.
• Xiao Mo ambushed and annihilated twenty thousand Chu Yun Empire reinforcements headed for a besieged outpost, then promised its commander he would aid the others.
• Xiao Mo used a cavalry charge into the enemy’s rear to break the next outpost’s siege and met its commander, who thanked him.

After helping the Jia Ma Empire defeat the Chu Yun Empire’s invasion, Xiao Mo returned to the capital and received a year to stay before returning to Tiger-Suppressing Pass. He reunited with Wang Miaojun, who welcomed him with joy but still dreaded his eventual departure.

• Xiao Mo learned that the Jia Ma Empire had routed the enemy troops at all twelve outposts and returned with the army to Tiger-Suppressing Pass.
• Li Wei told Xiao Mo to return to the capital, where Yao Xuanchen praised his achievements and granted him a year before he had to go back to Tiger-Suppressing Pass.
• Xiao Mo returned to the Wang Residence and told Wang Miaojun that his cultivation had reached the peak of Five-Star Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun drank together, reminisced about how people drifted apart, and agreed to release Kongming Lanterns.
• Wang Miaojun asked Xiao Mo to stay with her instead of returning to Tiger-Suppressing Pass because she could not bear to part with him.

Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun reunited at the Wang Residence before visiting Jia Nan Academy, where they discussed their beliefs and hopes of reaching the Dou Sheng realm. Xiao Mo planned to join the Jia Ma Imperial Family and remain apart from Wang Miaojun no longer once he succeeded.

• Xiao Mo reassured Wang Miaojun that he would return to see her while pursuing their chance to join the Jia Ma Imperial Family.
• After resting at the Wang Residence for half a month, Xiao Mo agreed to accompany Wang Miaojun to Jia Nan Academy.
• At the academy, Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun discussed Daoist thought, hardship, and their resolve to pursue the Dou Sheng realm together.
• Xiao Mo invited Wang Miaojun to explore the academy's Back Mountain, while explaining that his year of leave and work for Yao Xuanchen would help him enter the Jia Ma Empire's inner circles.

After spending time with Wang Miaojun and Xiao Yan, Xiao Mo returned to Tiger-Suppressing Pass and persuaded Li Wei to give him a hundred thousand elite troops. He led them in an assault on a top-tier Commandery City, leaving the outcome uncertain as his forces surged inside.

• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun enjoyed more than ten days together, then Xiao Mo invited Xiao Yan to the Wang Residence, where Xiao Yan stayed for a year.
• Xiao Mo left Wang Miaojun and returned to Tiger-Suppressing Pass, promising they would strive together to reach the summit of the Central Plains Continent.
• Xiao Mo demanded a hundred thousand elite troops from Li Wei and promised to return alone to answer for the army if anything went wrong.
• Li Wei gave Xiao Mo the tiger tally, and Xiao Mo gathered the finest troops and led them out with supplies and a detailed battle plan.
• Xiao Mo ordered his hundred thousand troops to charge a top-tier Commandery City and carry out the Three-Alls Policy as they stormed inside.

Xiao Mo led one hundred thousand elite troops to plunder two Chu Yun Empire Commandery Cities and destroy nearly eight hundred thousand enemy soldiers. He returned to Tiger-Suppressing Pass, took command of a forty-thousand-strong force at the Forward Base, and held off the first assault by a sixty-thousand-strong Chu Yun army.

• Xiao Mo repeatedly attacked and plundered a Commandery City, broke through enemy forces, and then ordered his troops back inside to continue the slaughter.
• Xiao Mo attacked a second Commandery City, led his troops against the six hundred thousand soldiers surrounding it, and wiped out the enemy force before retreating to Tiger-Suppressing Pass.
• Xiao Mo reported his victories to Li Wei, who stationed three hundred thousand troops at the Forward Base and assigned Xiao Mo to defend its foremost position with forty thousand soldiers.
• Three days later, a sixty-thousand-strong Chu Yun Empire army arrived and began besieging Xiao Mo's fortified base.
• Xiao Mo ordered his troops to hold the fortress and repel the first assault, while the Chu Yun vanguard reported the fortress's defenses to its governor.

Xiao Mo and his elite forces defended the fortress against repeated assaults by the Chu Yun Empire, culminating in a three-day battle that annihilated the Tiger Valor Army. With the enemy defeated but his own troops reduced to fewer than half, Xiao Mo weighed whether to request reinforcements or keep holding the fortress.

• The Chu Yun Empire besieged the fortress with ninety thousand troops, and Xiao Mo kept his soldiers inside until the enemy retreated after eight quarter-hours of fighting.
• Xiao Mo reached the Six-Star Dou Emperor stage and gave his troops a full day and night of rest while the Chu Yun Empire held back.
• After several more days of rest, Xiao Mo led thirty-seven thousand elite troops against a sixty-thousand-strong Tiger Valor Army assault.
• Xiao Mo fought at the front as the battle continued for three days and three nights, ending with the Tiger Valor Army completely wiped out and only about ten thousand of his men remaining.
• Xiao Mo ordered his forces to rest and bury the dead, then considered whether to request reinforcements or continue defending the fortress.

Xiao Mo and his remaining soldiers held off the Chu Yun Empire’s final assault at the cost of nearly all their lives, helping secure victory at the twelve Forward Bases. After returning to the Holy City, Xiao Mo mourned the fallen as Yao Xuanchen offered to make him a king and end his service at Tiger-Suppressing Pass.

• Xiao Mo ordered his roughly eighteen thousand remaining soldiers to face the Chu Yun Empire’s final assault of thirty thousand death warriors.
• After hours of brutal fighting, Xiao Mo’s forces killed every death warrior, but only a little over two hundred of his soldiers survived.
• Xiao Mo learned that the assaults on all twelve Forward Bases had been stopped, then shared a meal with Li Wei and heard that Yao Xuanchen wanted to meet him.
• Yao Xuanchen promoted the troops at Tiger-Suppressing Pass, awarded spirit stones to those without rank, and summoned Xiao Mo to the Holy City.
• Xiao Mo told Yao Xuanchen he grieved for the soldiers who had died, and Yao Xuanchen offered to make him a king and end his time at the frontier.

After returning from Tiger-Suppressing Pass, Xiao Mo accepted Yao Xuanchen’s appointment as Prince of Chu and reunited with Wang Miaojun at the Wang Residence. He told her he planned to revisit an Ancient Secret Realm on the Jia Ma Empire’s eastern frontier, but Wang Miaojun urged him not to go.

• Xiao Mo told Yao Xuanchen that the war had left him shaken, and Yao Xuanchen promised to reward him and send him back to Tiger-Suppressing Pass once he reached Dou Zong strength.
• Yao Xuanchen named Xiao Mo Prince of Chu, granting him one-tenth of Jia Ma Holy City’s tax revenue and a Dou Huang Pill each year, with an investiture ceremony set for five days later.
• Xiao Mo returned to the Wang Residence, where Wang Miaojun welcomed him; he told her he would not have to return to Tiger-Suppressing Pass and wanted her beside him at his investiture.
• As Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun talked in the courtyard, he said he wanted to revisit the Ancient Secret Realm on the Jia Ma Empire’s eastern frontier, where a Dou Sheng Expert was said to be.
• Wang Miaojun recognized the secret realm Xiao Mo meant and urged him not to go.

After receiving the title of King of Chu and absorbing a Dou Huang Pill, Xiao Mo prepared to return to the Ancient Secret Realm on the Jia Ma Empire's eastern frontier to pursue greater power and resources. He and Wang Miaojun set out, and Xiao Mo reunited with Liu Tianming.

• Xiao Mo told Wang Miaojun he was determined to keep advancing, and she promised to stay by his side.
• Xiao Mo met Yao Xuanchen to discuss his upcoming enfeoffment and vowed to earn greater merit for the Jia Ma Empire.
• Yao Xuanchen enfeoffed Xiao Mo as King of Chu at the Heaven-Worshipping Altar and gave him a Dou Huang Pill.
• Xiao Mo absorbed the pill but remained a six-star Dou Emperor, then told Wang Miaojun he wanted to enter the eastern frontier's Ancient Secret Realm for strength and resources.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun packed their belongings, returned to the Ancient Secret Realm, and Xiao Mo greeted Liu Tianming.

Xiao Mo returned to the Ancient Secret Realm as a Six-Star Dou Emperor and persuaded Liu Tianming to support his plan to conquer the Heavenly Fire and Blue Flame dynasties and establish his own rule. The chapter ended with Xiao Mo securing twenty thousand troops and preparing to attack within ten days, though Liu Tianming doubted he could upset the realm’s long-standing balance.

• Xiao Mo told Liu Tianming that he planned to conquer the Heavenly Fire and Blue Flame dynasties, and Liu Tianming agreed to support him in exchange for help taking control of the Secret Realm.
• Xiao Mo told Wang Miaojun that he had reached the peak of Six-Star Dou Emperor, while she revealed that she was stuck at Five-Star Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Mo declared that he intended to rule the Ancient Secret Realm and would kill anyone who resisted, and Wang Miaojun promised to support him.
• Xiao Mo reflected on the Mystic Spirit Twelve Sacred Artifacts and fell asleep under their soothing energy.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun met Liu Tianming, obtained twenty thousand troops, and set an attack for within ten days.
• Liu Tianming questioned whether Xiao Mo could upset the long-standing balance among the Mystic Spirit, Heavenly Fire, and Blue Flame dynasties.

Xiao Mo began his campaign in the Secret Realm by plundering a city and securing Liu Tianming’s help, then met Emperor Liu Hong to seek support for conquering the Heavenly Fire Dynasty and Blue Flame Dynasty. Liu Hong agreed to support the wars but asked how they would divide the credit, and the chapter ended with him asking how many troops Xiao Mo wanted.

• Xiao Mo received a system mission to resurrect Zhao Ziying, whose cultivation would fall to One-Star Dou Practitioner after resurrection.
• Xiao Mo led twenty thousand troops in a raid on a city of over a hundred thousand people, ordering them to slaughter resisters and plunder useful goods before withdrawing.
• Liu Tianming agreed to report Xiao Mo’s plans to his imperial father, then returned five days later with an invitation for Xiao Mo to meet Liu Hong.
• Xiao Mo told Liu Hong that he intended to take over the entire Secret Realm space and secured the emperor’s support for campaigns against the Heavenly Fire Dynasty and Blue Flame Dynasty.
• Liu Hong asked Xiao Mo how many troops he wanted.

Xiao Mo led Liu Hong’s 150,000 elite troops into the Heavenly Fire Dynasty, capturing cities and defeating a much larger enemy force before defending Tianlin Commandery. After breaking through to Seven-Star Dou Emperor, he routed the dynasty’s army outside the city and returned to Tianlin rather than risk a deeper pursuit.

• Xiao Mo secured 150,000 elite troops and the Tiger Tally from Liu Hong, promising to repay him with a high-quality Dou Huang Pill if he failed to earn merit.
• Xiao Mo marched on a commandery city, captured it with a surprise assault, enforced an order to seize its goods, and withdrew to Tianlin Commandery.
• Xiao Mo attacked another city, then defeated the 600,000 troops gathered from nearby commanderies and advanced to Seven-Star Dou Emperor.
• After the Heavenly Fire Dynasty lost nearly 800,000 troops, its emperor brought a 700,000-strong army to besiege Tianlin Commandery, which Xiao Mo defended for fifteen days.
• Xiao Mo led 200,000 troops in a sudden counterattack, routed the besieging army, pursued it for a hundred li, and ordered his forces back to Tianlin Commandery.

After the Heavenly Fire Dynasty withdrew, Xiao Mo returned to Tianlin Commandery, recovered, and gathered supplies and troops for another campaign. He led two hundred thousand elite soldiers toward Tong Pass, hoping to break into the dynasty’s heartland despite the risk of annihilation.

• Liu Tianming questioned Xiao Mo about his rapid cultivation and war experience, and Xiao Mo said he planned to use the secret realm to advance to Dou Zong before resuming the campaign in fifteen days.
• Wang Miaojun promised to wait for Xiao Mo and support his ambitions, then stayed by his side as he rested.
• After fifteen days, Xiao Mo led a hundred and fifty thousand troops to seize supplies from a northern commandery city and retreated to Tianlin Commandery.
• Xiao Mo used the captured resources to expand his army to two hundred thousand elite soldiers and told Wang Miaojun that his next campaign might cost him his life.
• Wang Miaojun urged Xiao Mo to go, and he departed from Tianlin Commandery with his troops, targeting Tong Pass as the gateway into the heart of the Heavenly Fire Dynasty.