Chapter Summaries

White Garment confronted Gainan, who revealed that Eden had awakened the Greenwood Ancestor to keep White Garment from returning to the Dragon Kingdom. White Garment chose to fight the Ancestor, while Adam and the Western powers prepared to take advantage of the crisis.

• White Garment destroyed Gainan’s spatial rift, leaving him mortally wounded, and learned that Eden’s device was awakening the Greenwood Ancestor beneath the lake.
• Gainan urged White Garment to abandon Immortal Ascension and explained that the Ancestor would force him to choose between protecting Little White Tiger and Old Ninth or returning to the Dragon Kingdom.
• After Gainan died, White Garment rejected the choice and charged into the gorge to kill the awakening Ancestor.
• Adam told the Federation and Alliance leaders that White Garment had taken the bait and that the encounter had reduced his chance of successful Immortal Ascension by ten percent.
• The Pope promised Adam that three secret teams would enter Chun Prefecture one week after the Dragon Vein was severed and retrieve the people and things he wanted.

Old Ninth brutally defeated Gandhi and awakened the first glimpse of the law of slaughter, gaining power as he fought. He killed Gandhi despite the Main God's intervention and ended the chapter approaching pseudo nine awakenings.

• Old Ninth crippled Gandhi and rejected his plea to coexist peacefully, attacking him with a knife and fists.
• Old Ninth's killing intent warped the room into the cathedral where Gandhi's Dao Heart had shattered, while Black Old Ninth broke free and urged him on.
• Old Ninth began manifesting the law of slaughter, drawing power from Gandhi as his strength rose to half-step nine awakenings.
• The Main God pierced Old Ninth's chest with divine light, but Old Ninth regenerated while Black Old Ninth explained the law's powers and stages.
• Old Ninth crushed Gandhi's head, absorbed the white smoke from his body, and reached strength approaching pseudo nine awakenings.

Old Ninth fought Main God with Black Old Ninth’s true dragon techniques, survived a devastating blow, and grew stronger. He then turned on the Alien Races in the city, slaughtering them while Main God prepared to fight back.

• Main God attacked Old Ninth, and Black Old Ninth took control to teach him Dragon Scales Dance and Dragon’s Roar, damaging Main God and severing one of his arms.
• A Demon God struck Old Ninth into a crater, but Old Ninth emerged stronger and dismissed Black Old Ninth’s advice.
• Old Ninth attacked the kneeling Alien Race fighters, killing the ringleader and then slaughtering dozens as they fled.
• Old Ninth shattered the Demon God’s saber with one punch and told Main God to wait while he hunted the remaining Alien Races.
• Old Ninth found Alien Races hiding beneath rubble and taunted them as he prepared to kill them.

Old Ninth drove off the Main God after slaughtering the Alien Races, then joined Little White Tiger in confronting the Nine Heavenly Ninja at the tavern. The leader revealed that the group had come to sever the Dragon Vein, but Old Ninth killed him before he could say more.

• Old Ninth absorbed the strength of ninety-nine Alien Race experts, forced the Main God to retreat, and left almost no Alien Races alive in the Secret Realm.
• At the tavern, Little White Tiger and his companions pressured the Nine Heavenly Ninja to stay and humiliated them by demanding that the women dance.
• Old Ninth arrived and demanded a dance too, prompting the Ninja leader to attack him; Old Ninth shattered his Tachi and revealed his Seven Awakenings Peak cultivation.
• Little White Tiger and his companions subdued the Nine Heavenly Ninja and asked who had sent them to sever the Dragon Vein.
• The leader refused to answer and declared that the warriors of Greater Kou Island did not fear death, so Old Ninth snapped his neck and turned to question the remaining eight.

Little White Tiger and his companions captured the Nine Chrysanthemum Sect ninjas and forced Huitai to reveal a coalition’s plans to attack the Dragon Kingdom. After Huitai confessed, Little White Tiger killed him despite claiming he would let him go, then let the other survivors leave while pretending he had kept his word.

• Old Ninth captured Huitai, and Little White Tiger questioned him while Zhixiang and the other ninjas were held at bay.
• Huitai agreed to talk after Little White Tiger and Old Ninth threatened him and his sister-in-law, then revealed the Federation, Alliance, and Nine Chrysanthemum Sect were working together.
• Huitai said the Holy See’s Twelve Knights had been assigned the Central Dragon Vein, while the Satan Organization, the Nine Chrysanthemum Sect, and two mysterious experts targeted the north; the Nine Chrysanthemum Sect targeted the south.
• Huitai revealed that the coalition wanted to stop White Garment’s Immortal Ascension and that the Holy See’s ancestor, a Federation Nine Awakenings expert called the Great Sage, and a taboo figure were involved.
• Little White Tiger killed Huitai with an ashtray after promising to let him go, prompting Zhixiang and the remaining ninjas to accuse him of breaking his word.
• Little White Tiger claimed he had misunderstood Huitai’s request, let the surviving ninjas leave, and sent Old Ninth after them with a sword.

Heavenly Venerable arrived at Divine Mountain and froze Yateng and his companion before they could attack. Yalie and Enoch recognized the feared Red List member and prepared for a bitter battle as he continued toward the mountain.

• Heavenly Venerable visited the graves of the Dragon Kingdom’s heroes and vowed to repair the Dragon Vein and eliminate the evildoers on Divine Mountain.
• Yateng and his companion ambushed Heavenly Venerable, but he froze them in blue ice with his Wind and Snow Curse.
• Heavenly Venerable revealed that he was the Heavenly Venerable of Zhongnan Mountain, terrifying the two Kou Island soldiers.
• Yalie and Enoch recognized Heavenly Venerable and recalled that he had refined 180,000 people from a city on Kou Island into heretical pills.

Yixiu struggled with guilt over surviving while his Shadow Ghost comrades died, despite finding happiness with Huang Yiyi in Shen Prefecture. After Instructor and False Eye visited, Yixiu admitted he could not sleep peacefully and asked to rejoin the unit.

• Yixiu and pregnant Huang Yiyi settled into a villa in Shen Prefecture, where he honored his dead comrades with incense.
• Huang Yiyi worried that Yixiu’s relatives would keep asking him for favors and feared that he might be sent into battle again.
• False Eye arrived with Instructor, whose unexpected visit made Huang Yiyi tremble and Yixiu snap to attention.
• As the three men drank and reminisced, Yixiu confessed that he kept dreaming about Big Bear and their dead brothers.
• Yixiu struck his severed arm and begged Instructor to let him rejoin the unit and fight the alien races.

Yixiu returned to Shadow Ghost after Instructor told him the unit was short-handed for a dangerous operation against the Twelve Templar Knights. He left Huang Yiyi and their son behind, and the Lei Zis saluted as he departed.

• After hearing Yixiu describe how leaving Shadow Ghost had left him feeling broken, Instructor asked him to return to the ranks, and Yixiu accepted.
• Instructor told Yixiu that Shadow Ghost would face the Twelve Templar Knights, and Yixiu vowed that the Dragon Kingdom’s spear would challenge the Holy See’s shield.
• Huang Yiyi revealed that she had heard their conversation and supported Yixiu’s decision, asking him to return home alive.
• Yixiu named their son Huang Chuyi and left with Instructor, while Huang Yiyi asked Instructor to bring her husband back.
• False Eye ordered the Lei Zis to assemble, and A Chun, Xiao Feng, and the others saluted Yixiu and Instructor’s departing vehicle.

The Heavenly Venerable effortlessly defeated Sathsum, Mayayani, and seven other Satan Organization fighters with Daoist magic as Yalie and Enoch watched. After knocking Sathsum’s soul from his body, he unleashed Samadhi True Fire, leaving the fighters engulfed in flames.

• Yalie warned Sathsum and Mayayani not to underestimate the Heavenly Venerable and arranged for Adam to record the encounter.
• The Heavenly Venerable crossed ten thousand meters in nine steps and dismissed Sathsum and Mayayani as unworthy opponents.
• Sathsum, Mayayani, and seven high-tier combatants attacked from all directions, but the Heavenly Venerable used a divination compass and footwork to evade every strike.
• The Heavenly Venerable redirected Sathsum’s Explosive Fireballs with Taiji, then summoned vines that trapped the nine fighters and sent the fireballs back at them.
• The Heavenly Venerable knocked Sathsum’s soul from his body and released Samadhi True Fire from his wine gourd.

As the Secret Realm collapsed, White Garment sent his disciples to defend the Dragon Kingdom and rescue Heavenly Venerable. At Divine Mountain, Heavenly Venerable confronted Yalie and Enoch, who trapped him in an attack by twenty powerful puppets.

• The Secret Realm began collapsing during White Garment's battle with the Greenwood Ancestors, and White Garment warned everyone that the Dragon Kingdom was in danger.
• White Garment ordered Little White Tiger to defend the Central Dragon Vein, Old Ninth to go to Divine Mountain and kill Eden's forces, and Xiao Yuan to hold Chun Prefecture.
• White Garment sent the group out of the Secret Realm, entrusting them with the Dragon Kingdom's defense as A reconsidered his view of Chun Prefecture.
• At Divine Mountain, Heavenly Venerable identified the Nine Chrysanthemum Sect's Dragon-Slaying Magic Array as a ritual using human sacrifices to corrupt the dragon vein.
• Yalie and Enoch attacked Heavenly Venerable, then used their abilities to summon and control twenty puppets with Eight Awakenings cultivation.

Enoch and Yalie trapped Heavenly Venerable in a Mechanical Space that suppressed Daoist arts and special abilities, leaving him badly wounded and facing death. Just as the puppets closed in, Old Ninth appeared and offered to fight for him.

• Enoch used mechanical puppets and an electric shock to attack Heavenly Venerable, but Heavenly Venerable survived and countered with heavenly thunder and sword techniques.
• Heavenly Venerable found Enoch's hidden true body and forced Enoch and Yalie to activate Mechanical Space, a pseudo-law space that suppressed spellcraft and special abilities.
• Enoch and Yalie sent their puppets to attack the powerless Heavenly Venerable, who was poisoned, wounded, and left kneeling as the puppets approached.
• Old Ninth appeared in the Mechanical Space, stood between Heavenly Venerable and the puppets, and claimed he knew Laws stronger than theirs.

The Heavenly Venerable sacrificed himself to absorb the resentment in the formation and send more than ten thousand spirits into reincarnation. In Chun Prefecture, Overlord learned of his old friend's death and wrote an elegy for him.

• The Heavenly Venerable told Old Ninth to send him into the formation, where he would absorb the vengeful spirits' resentment with his body and guide them into reincarnation.
• Old Ninth opened a path, while Yalie and Enoch respectfully saw the Heavenly Venerable off; Old Ninth knelt and thanked him on behalf of the spirits.
• The Heavenly Venerable sat among the attacking ghosts and chanted until the formation's black energy dispersed and the spirits were freed from their resentment.
• The Heavenly Venerable opened the road of reincarnation, sending the spirits away as starlight before dying with no regrets.
• Overlord realized that the Heavenly Venerable had died, and he wrote an elegy for his old friend.

Old Ninth killed Yalie after learning that the Holy Arbiter was leading the Western team at the Central Dragon Vein and threatened Little White Tiger. In the Qinling Mountains, the Holy Arbiter ordered the Twelve Holy Knights to destroy Chun Prefecture while he severed the dragon veins.

• Old Ninth told the Overlord that the Heavenly Venerable had died and that the Nine Chrysanthemum Sect had arranged the attack, prompting the Overlord to order the intruders buried.
• Yalie offered his life to save Enoch and warned Old Ninth that an unrivaled powerhouse was with the team at the Central Dragon Vein.
• Old Ninth let Enoch go after Yalie revealed that the Holy Arbiter, the Holy See's strongest ninth-awakening fighter, was leading the team and could threaten Little White Tiger.
• The Holy Arbiter arrived in the Qinling Mountains and ordered the Twelve Holy Knights to go to Chun Prefecture, destroy the city, and bring out the person Adam wanted.

Gunman tested Sikong Jian’s loyalty as he considered opposing White Garment over the divine medicine, while the Holy Inquisitor confronted Shadow Ghost and announced he would sever the Southern Dragon Vein. The chapter left Shadow Ghost facing the threat of a powerful enemy moving toward the Dragon Kingdom’s vital vein.

• Gunman and Sikong Jian drank together for seven days, and Sikong Jian declared he would oppose White Garment alongside his master if necessary.
• Gunman asked Sikong Jian whether he would choose him or White Garment, and Sikong Jian hesitated over helping kill White Garment because it could plunge the Dragon Kingdom into suffering.
• Gunman left the courtyard and secretly vomited, then reflected on White Garment and the Dragon Kingdom.
• The instructor led Shadow Ghost through the Qinling Mountains to find the missing Twelve Knights, but his scouts encountered an unknown enemy setting up a formation.
• The Holy Inquisitor took over the radio, dismissed Shadow Ghost as unworthy, and announced he would sever the Southern Dragon Vein.

The instructor ordered Shadow Ghost to pursue the Twelve Knights while he stayed behind to confront the Nine Awakenings Holy Arbiter, despite his team’s protests. He reached the Holy Arbiter at the central dragon vein and explained why Dragon Kingdom soldiers refused to yield, just as the Arbiter’s formation was being prepared.

• The instructor ordered Yixiu and the team to work with the Intelligence Department to track down the Twelve Knights while he faced the Holy Arbiter alone.
• Yixiu and the other Shadow Ghost members insisted on staying, but the instructor invoked their rule of unconditional obedience and sent them away after they renewed their oath.
• The instructor bid his brothers farewell, named Yixiu as his successor, and headed alone toward the Holy Arbiter.
• At the central dragon vein, the Holy Arbiter arranged Vengeful Ghost Banners and questioned two wounded Shadow Ghost soldiers about Dragon Kingdom troops’ willingness to fight to the death.
• The instructor landed before the Holy Arbiter and declared that their forebears had taught them to face powerful enemies with courage and die for their country.

The instructor fought the Holy Arbiter, but Little White Tiger arrived and struck the Nine Awakenings enemy hard enough to send him flying. The two allies prepared to fight together, and the Holy Arbiter revealed his mental law by conjuring a fiery knightly legion.

• The instructor attacked the Holy Arbiter with Thousandfold Fist and drove him back, surprising him.
• Little White Tiger arrived riding Er Niu and smashed through the Holy Arbiter's energy barrier with Eighteen Rings, sending him flying.
• Little White Tiger identified himself as the King of Spring Prefecture and declared that the instructor was his big brother, pledging Chun Prefecture's support.
• The Holy Arbiter threatened the two allies and activated his mental law, Mental Materialization, summoning a legion of flaming medieval knights.

Little White Tiger and the instructor fought the Holy Arbiter, whose imagined knights and Blue Star Shield seemed to give him an overwhelming advantage. Little White Tiger used the Pseudo-Divine Body and the Sunlit Heavenly King’s power to unleash Sunrise in the East, leaving the Holy Arbiter facing a miniature sun.

• Er Niu battled the Holy Arbiter’s endlessly regenerating knights until the Holy Arbiter trapped her in an imagined cage.
• Little White Tiger merged with Er Niu and charged with the instructor, but the Blue Star Shield rebounded the instructor’s attack and injured him.
• Little White Tiger passed through the shield with the Pseudo-Divine Body and battered the Holy Arbiter with Eighteen Blasts.
• Little White Tiger invoked the Sunlit Heavenly King, who showed him the Dragon Kingdom soldiers’ courage during the Peninsula War and taught him to honor their glory.
• Little White Tiger unleashed Nine Sunlit Techniques-Sunrise in the East and sent a miniature sun toward the panicking Holy Arbiter.

The Holy Arbiter survived Little White Tiger’s Sunrise in the East by rebuilding his body, then prepared a psychic mushroom bomb to kill him and destroy the nearby city. As the bomb descended, Instructor realized Little White Tiger could not safely stop it and prepared to intervene himself.

• The Holy Arbiter regenerated his body after Sunrise in the East, though the effort left him weakened.
• The Holy Arbiter summoned the Pharaoh’s Crown and vowed to kill Little White Tiger before he could grow stronger.
• The Holy Arbiter flew into the sky and created a mushroom bomb capable of destroying the city.
• Instructor stopped Little White Tiger from striking the bomb, warning that its radiation could kill hundreds of thousands of people.
• Instructor told Little White Tiger he was glad to see his progress and implied he would sacrifice himself to stop the bomb.

The instructor sacrificed himself to carry a nuclear bomb away from the Dragon Kingdom, saving the people below but dying in the explosion. Little White Tiger summoned Old Ninth to attack the Holy Arbiter, while the Old Man declared war on the Alliance and the white-robed figure rushed back toward the Dragon Kingdom.

• The instructor gave Little White Tiger his final instructions, then flew toward the falling nuclear bomb as two Shadow Ghost members killed themselves and asked to be buried beside him.
• The instructor caught the nuclear bomb and pushed it toward outer space, enduring the impact until he died as the bomb exploded far above the Dragon Kingdom.
• Grief-stricken, Little White Tiger summoned Old Ninth and led eight dragons in an attack on the Holy Arbiter.
• At the Guan Residence, the Old Man put the military on level-one alert, ordered war preparations, and declared war on the Alliance.
• In the Secret Realm, the white-robed figure struck the Greenwood Ancestors into the Abyss and flew toward the Dragon Kingdom.

Old Ninth brutally attacked the Holy Arbiter for hurting Little White Tiger and killing the instructor, while Little White Tiger recovered enough to protect Old Ninth from the Pope. The Pope arrived and ordered them to release the Holy Arbiter, but Old Ninth tore out the captive’s tongue and challenged him to come closer.

• Old Ninth used the Law of Slaughter and the True Dragon Claw to shatter the Holy Arbiter’s Blue Star Shield and overpower him.
• Old Ninth dragged the battered Holy Arbiter to Little White Tiger and continued torturing him, severing his arm and gouging out both eyes.
• Old Ninth threatened to slaughter the West and tore out the Holy Arbiter’s tongue.
• The Pope arrived in the sky and ordered Old Ninth to release the Holy Arbiter.
• Little White Tiger intervened to protect Old Ninth, who tore out the Holy Arbiter’s tongue and challenged the Pope to come down.