Chapter Summaries

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.

The World's Number One Spear arrived just as Old Bat and the Pope were about to kill Little White Tiger and Old Ninth, turning the battle in their favor. He pinned Old Bat with Black Crow and left the Pope facing a new opponent, though his own failing life force remained a concern.

• The Pope and Old Bat teamed up to attack Little White Tiger and Old Ninth, and the Pope redirected his Cross of Faith toward a city full of civilians.
• Little White Tiger and Old Ninth charged the cross to protect the civilians, while Old Bat prepared a sneak attack against them.
• A black spear shot in and pinned Old Bat to the ground, and the Pope recognized it as Black Crow.
• The man in black arrived, identified himself through his White Sparrow and Black Crow reputation, and taunted the Pope and Old Bat.
• The man in black mocked Old Bat's threat about his failing life force, then vomited onto Old Bat's face.

Gunman drove the Pope and Old Bat away before they could kill Little White Tiger and Old Ninth, but Little White Tiger began comprehending a law as he faced the grief and guilt of Instructor’s death. White Garment arrived wounded, and Gunman prepared to face his old rival.

• Gunman confronted the Pope and Old Bat, forcing them to abandon their attack on Little White Tiger and Old Ninth.
• Little White Tiger charged the retreating Pope, but the Pope and Old Bat escaped after threatening the Dragon Kingdom and Chun Prefecture.
• Gunman explained that he had only two years left to live and had avoided a prolonged battle, then asked Little White Tiger to repay him by protecting his disciple someday.
• Little White Tiger began passing the trial of the heart as he comprehended a law, and Gunman warned Old Ninth not to disturb him.
• White Garment arrived bloodied after forcing Qingmu into the abyss, and Gunman’s fighting spirit stirred Black Crow.

Gunman spared the wounded White Garment, who decided to undergo Immortal Ascension immediately and sent Old Ninth to gather their forces for the final battle. Inside his Sea of Consciousness, Little White Tiger faced his grief over Instructor and his fallen brothers, who gave him strength to awaken the Human Emperor Law Path.

• Gunman confronted White Garment but left without fighting, insisting he would face him when White Garment had recovered.
• White Garment said he would undergo Immortal Ascension immediately and ordered Old Ninth to return to Chun Prefecture and gather their forces once Little White Tiger woke.
• Little White Tiger wandered through darkness in his Sea of Consciousness and met Old Man, Xiao Fei, Beibei, and his other fallen brothers.
• Instructor told Little White Tiger not to blame himself and urged him to protect the Dragon Kingdom and care for the living.
• Little White Tiger's brothers dissolved into starlight and entered his Human Emperor Seal, helping him comprehend the Human Emperor Law Path.

Little White Tiger awakened the Human Emperor Law Path and learned to command other laws, while White Garment prepared for an inevitable battle against the West. After Instructor was killed, the Old Man rejected calls for restraint and declared war on the Alliance.

• White Garment explained that the Human Emperor Law Path could command the laws of the heavens, and Old Ninth and White Garment watched Little White Tiger awaken its power.
• Little White Tiger created the Blue Star Shield by commanding Mental Law and said he could currently command one law at a time.
• White Garment ordered everyone to return to Chun Prefecture and prepare for a great war within a month, saying he intended to crush the West.
• The Old Man refused Yang Huaimin, Minister Bai, and Minister Ding's attempts to restrain him after Instructor's death and ordered his forces to prepare for war.
• The Old Man rejected Mr. Scheer's peace-seeking call, blamed the Alliance and Holy See for the attacks, and threatened to bring war to the Alliance Congress.

Old Guan rallied Yang Huaimin, Ministers Ding and Bai, and the Capital’s families to support White Garment’s planned ascension and prepare for war against the alliance. As the First War Zone mobilized, representatives across the Capital pledged their forces and resources, leaving the Dragon Kingdom united and ready to fight.

• Old Guan told Yang Huaimin, Minister Ding, and Minister Bai that White Garment’s early ascension made war unavoidable, then asked them to support the Dragon Kingdom.
• Yang Huaimin committed the Security Department and Yang Family to the First War Zone, while Ding promised supplies and Bai pledged the Bai Family and vowed to suppress cowardice.
• Old Guan ordered all six war zones to mobilize and declared that war had begun, as Guan Lei, Guan Ming, and Guan Ting led the Guan Family’s children in answering the call.
• Tian Bo and Yun Fei pledged the Tian Family and European Capitalist Faction to the war, and the Wang Family patriarch committed Purple Gold’s branches to the First War Zone.
• Zhang Yang offered the National Situation Bureau’s intelligence network and presented Chun Prefecture’s emblem, while Wang Shengnan placed the Third Branch and Su Residence under the First War Zone.
• The Chang, Luo, and other powerful Capital families requested battle, filling the courtyard as Guotai Min'an saw the Dragon Kingdom’s forces unite.

Yixiu and his teammates arrived in Chun Prefecture and recruited local enforcers to find the Twelve Knights. Disguised as Dragon Kingdom people, the Twelve Knights hid near Eight-Nine Prefecture, where Weiss received the Pope’s approval to massacre Chun Prefecture’s residents.

• Yixiu reassured his teammates that the Twelve Knights would have trouble surviving in Chun Prefecture and used his gold badge to mobilize the local enforcers.
• Yixiu gave the enforcers documents showing the Twelve Knights and sent his group to Eight-Nine Prefecture to seek reinforcements.
• Weiss and the other Knights removed their human-skin masks in a hotel overlooking Eight-Nine Prefecture and urged him to attack the city.
• Weiss contacted the Pope, who ordered the Twelve Knights to carry out their planned massacre disguised as Dragon Kingdom people.

Weiss planned for the Holy Knights to massacre Chun Prefecture and destroy its supplies, but Francis left the group and was captured in a hotel ambush. Xiao Gang ordered the Lei Zi to castrate Francis as the attack began.

• Weiss assigned Francis and three knights to purify Chun Prefecture's government district, sent Puko to destroy its warehouses, and planned to capture Yu Leer in Eight-Nine Prefecture.
• Francis went downstairs for a hotel prize draw after hearing its grand prize was a night with the emperor's wife.
• Francis used his qi to locate the winning golden egg, but needles from a Seven-Aperture Exquisite Box sealed his qi while Ghost Thorn struck his waist.
• Three disguised boys revealed that they had recognized Francis, and he fled toward the stairwell as the Lei Zi waited there.
• Xiao Gang ordered the Lei Zi to castrate Francis, declaring that he had defiled the young lady and invaded Chun Prefecture despite the Guan Family's war against the Alliance.

Xiao Yuan captured Francis and used his phone and White Mouse’s mimicry to lure the eleven holy knights out of Eight-Nine Prefecture. The knights followed Francis’s trail into an ambush, where Duan Ka, Zuo Ju, and the Shadow Ghost members surrounded them.

• Xiao Yuan interrogated Francis, then had Sick Ghost kill him when he refused to reveal why he had come to Chun Prefecture.
• White Mouse imitated Francis’s voice and called Weiss, claiming Xiao Yuan was fleeing with Yu Leer and asking the knights to meet him outside the city.
• Weiss led the eleven holy knights to a camp thirty kilometers from the city, where they found Francis’s mutilated body and realized they had been ambushed.
• Duan Ka revealed that he and Zuo Ju were hiding in Chun Prefecture after blowing up Guotai Min'an's plane.
• Yixiu and Shadow Ghost coordinated with Sick Ghost, Plague Ghost, Hungry Ghost, and White Mouse to surround the holy knights.