Chapter Summaries

Ren Ye overcame Chu Jin’s nine meridians immortal radiance by awakening his reincarnation power and using his divine avatar, then defeated Chu Jin without killing him. Driven mad by his obsession and his fear of being controlled by Heaven, Chu Jin fled the arena, prompting the Heavenly Dao to declare Ren Ye and the Fate-Character bearer the final victors and open the Unranked Land.

• Chu Jin overwhelmed Ren Ye’s supreme treasures with nine streaks of immortal radiance, while the Prime Minister’s Bell disrupted Ren Ye’s will and divine sense.
• Ren Ye withdrew destiny from his treasures, broke free of the Prime Minister’s Bell, and used the Boundary-Space Stone to escape the attack as his divine avatar appeared beside him.
• Ren Ye and his avatar unleashed twin reincarnations with the Red Lotus Karmic Fire Finger, shattering the immortal radiance and severely injuring Chu Jin.
• Ren Ye stopped his avatar from killing Chu Jin, but Chu Jin refused to yield and was repeatedly struck down by the Human Emperor Seal.
• Chu Jin recalled how he had been shaped as a seed for others to harvest, lost himself to obsession, and fled toward the Return-to-Dust Daoist Grounds.
• The Heavenly Dao declared Chu Jin’s forfeit, named the Emperor-Character and Fate-Character bearers the remaining victors, and announced that the Unranked Land had opened to Sixth Grade cultivators.

After Wuchen used the Prime Minister's Bell to free Chu Jin from his madness, Chu Jin revealed that he had pursued power and the Emperor's inheritance to prolong his master's life and help him reach divine prohibition. Unable to bring himself to kill Wuchen or complete the plan, Chu Jin tore out his own star core and asked for the zither his father had made.

• As the Great Dao Contest ended and the Emperor's Tomb opened to The Human World, Wuchen entered the Emperor's Tomb and tried to awaken Chu Jin.
• Wuchen used the Prime Minister's Bell and its Buddhist power to calm Chu Jin, who recalled his master's care throughout his childhood and youth.
• Chu Jin begged Wuchen to stop the bell, then explained that he had sought the Infinite Pearl, the Emperor's inheritance, and supreme divine substance to restore Wuchen's failing body and extend his life.
• Chu Jin admitted that he could not complete the final step himself and told Wuchen to do it, declaring that he would repay his master's kindness in death.
• Chu Jin severed his connection to the Infinite Pearl, tore his star core from his abdomen, and asked Wuchen to return his father's zither.

Jiang Yu challenged Nine Li’s people to voice their grievances, then awakened Li Gou’er and inspired them to cry out against the Fifteen Sects. Drawing on their collective will, Jiang Yu began reforging his Great Dao Intent and called for the Human World Sword to return.

• Wuchen blamed Ren Ye for driving Chu Jin mad, while Chu Jin returned Wuchen’s treasures and collapsed on the road to the Return-to-Dust Daoist Grounds.
• Wuchen sent hundreds of Immortal Wave Sect disciples to seize Ren Ye, but Jiang Yu’s arrival turned them back.
• Fifteen Sect Masters and Nation Lords entered the Emperor’s Tomb to confront Jiang Yu and Ren Ye, while Jiang Yu recounted his past as the Human World Sword.
• Jiang Yu asked whether Nine Li’s human world had a voice, then awakened Li Gou’er, whose cry that the people could not speak stirred the crowd to shout their grievances.
• Jiang Yu used the people’s voices to reforge his Great Dao Intent, reopen his Fate Wheel, and call the Human World Sword back to help him face the immortals.

Jiang Yu returned to Divine Prohibition and used the Human World Sword to destroy the Fifteen Sects’ strongholds and kill their sixth-grade leaders. After the Heaven and Earth Sword Furnace vanished, he looked beyond Xingshan as a crack appeared again in his Fate Wheel.

• Jiang Yu’s Fate Wheel revived, and his return to Divine Prohibition shook Nine Li as the Fifteen Sects’ leaders realized his power.
• Wuchen, Situ Ang, and the other sixth-grade cultivators joined forces, using their divine methods and accumulated destiny to attack Jiang Yu.
• Jiang Yu emerged unharmed from the assault and sent fifteen rays of sword radiance to level the Fifteen Sects’ mountains, palaces, and strongholds, scattering their destiny.
• Wuchen attacked Jiang Yu with the Infinite Pearl, the Human Yang Core, and the Prime Minister’s Bell, while the other leaders tried to flee.
• Jiang Yu formed a Heaven and Earth Sword Furnace around the Emperor’s Tomb and killed Wuchen and the other fourteen sixth-grade cultivators with the Human World Sword.
• After the furnace disappeared, Ren Ye saw Jiang Yu standing over the fifteen corpses, and a crack reappeared in Jiang Yu’s Fate Wheel.

Jiang Yu destroyed the Fifteen Sects’ power but had little time left, and he urged Ren Ye to shoulder the future of Nine Li. Ren Ye entered the Return-to-Dust Daoist Grounds with Little One after Chu Jin died, while cultivators across the world rushed to claim the newly opened opportunities.

• Jiang Yu’s sword killed the Fifteen Sects’ Sect Masters and Nation Lords, and people across Nine Li celebrated the collapse of their rule.
• The Old Marquis ordered his clan to return to the Eastern Continent and prepare to act, while the surviving disciples of the Fifteen Sects fled the Immortal Wave Five Cities.
• Jiang Yu explained to Ren Ye that he had drawn his sword so Ren Ye could carry the future burden of The Human World, and Ren Ye promised to do so.
• Ren Ye and the Little Marquis found the dying Chu Jin, who asked to be buried beside his parents and gave Ren Ye his Heaven-reaching Fruit before he died.
• Ren Ye gathered Chu Jin’s body and joined Little One on the divine bridge into the Return-to-Dust Daoist Grounds to receive the final inheritance.
• After the Human World Sword left the tomb, the Park District Squad and other cultivators hurried into the Unranked Land to seize its opened opportunities.

Ren Ye discovered that the crimson tide came from the Great Emperor’s final drop of Emperor Blood, received his inheritance, and began transforming his body with the Emperor Body Pill. As Tide Dragon City faced upheaval, Yang Mingtang confronted Yang Ling’er over the supposedly dead former City Lord, while the Demoness departed to attack the Seeking Dao Palace.

• Ren Ye entered the Return-to-Dust Daoist Grounds, found the Great Emperor’s Emperor Blood, heard the Great Emperor’s final message, and began refining the Emperor Body Pill with the blood’s aid.
• The Park District Squad scavenged the Fifteen Sects’ dead leaders and searched other sites in the Emperor’s Tomb for opportunities.
• Yang Ling’er urged Yang Ganglie to bring the hidden former City Lord back, but he refused because Tide Dragon City’s situation remained dangerous.
• Yang Mingtang confronted Yang Ling’er, realized the former City Lord was alive, and warned that his return could threaten the Yang Family and Tide Dragon City.
• The Demoness left the Emperor’s Tomb with Wu Meng and the others to take revenge on the Seeking Dao Palace, while Li Yan agreed to wait for Ren Ye and the promised Infinite Pearl.

Yang Ling'er forced Yang Mingtang to spare her husband, while the Immortal Wave Sect fell to a bloody uprising across the five cities. After Shopkeeper Hong witnessed the Xu Family’s destruction and found his daughter, a hidden young man was exposed to sunlight as his refuge was opened.

• Yang Ling'er threatened to die beside her husband, and Yang Mingtang agreed not to kill him.
• The Demoness led the Vengeful Ghost Sect and cultivators from the five cities in an assault that destroyed the Immortal Wave Sect and looted its treasures.
• Yang Ganglie ordered Tide Dragon City’s soldiers to stand down while people sought revenge against the gentry.
• A mob attacked the Xu Family over its abuses, and Shopkeeper Hong joined them before deciding to leave Xu Deliang alive and search for his daughter.
• Shopkeeper Hong reunited with his daughter, and one day later an iron door opened to reveal a hidden young man in the sunlight.

Long Yuqing returned to Tide Dragon City after the Immortal Wave Sect fell, while Yang Ganglie used his return to buy time for a planned strike against four allied cities threatening his family. The chapter ended with Yang Ganglie ordering his forces to prepare for a night raid and Ren Ye undergoing a cleansing in the Emperor’s Tomb.

• Yang Ling'er told Long Yuqing that the Immortal Wave Sect had fallen and that Yang Ganglie had cleared his name and agreed to restore him as city lord.
• Long Yuqing returned through Tide Dragon City in a formal procession, fearful of the citizens and officials watching him.
• Yang Ganglie revealed to Yang Mingtang that four cities planned to invade Tide Dragon City with four hundred thousand troops and explained that Long Yuqing’s return would make them hesitate.
• Yang Ganglie ordered the commanders to secretly mobilize twenty thousand Tide Dragon Guards for a night raid on the allied cities’ leaders at the Datong River.
• Ren Ye expelled foul impurities from his body while taking the first step toward transcending mortality in the Return-to-Dust Daoist Grounds.

Yang Ganglie prepared to return Tide Dragon City’s authority to Long Yuqing by leading twenty thousand troops against the four-city alliance, while Long Yuqing and Yang Ling'er remained behind. The assault initially routed the enemy, but hidden reinforcements surrounded the Tide Dragon Guards, and Yang Ganglie and his army died at Fallen Divine Mountain.

• Yang Ganglie told Long Yuqing that he had brought him back to restore the Dragon Family’s rule and planned to disband the Yang Family’s troops if they won.
• Yang Ganglie warned Yang Ling'er that he was marching to battle and arranged for the Yang family and relatives to leave Tide Dragon City.
• Yang Mingtang escorted the family away, received a sealed letter from Yang Ganglie, and helped his father put on armor before the march.
• Yang Ganglie led twenty thousand Tide Dragon Guards in a night attack that routed the four-city alliance and drove its four city lords into the mountains.
• Sixty thousand hidden troops and hundreds of high-grade cultivators surrounded the Tide Dragon Guards, and the ensuing battle killed Yang Ganglie, his household generals, and all twenty thousand soldiers.

After General Yang’s defeat left Tide Dragon City facing invasion, Long Yuqing sought help from Ren Ye but waited outside the Emperor’s Tomb while Ren Ye completed his inheritance. Little One emerged as Xingshan’s master with the Demon-Refining Pot, while Ren Ye secretly returned to Tide Dragon City to begin acting on Senior Jiang Yu’s sword strike.

• The four cities’ forces encircled Tide Dragon City, and Long Yuqing went to the Human World Inn seeking help from Jiang Yu and Ren Ye’s companions.
• Li Yan refused to intervene without Ren Ye’s decision and advised Long Yuqing to wait for him in the Emperor’s Tomb, promising to protect Long Yuqing’s family.
• Long Yuqing left his sick wife Yang Ling’er in the servants’ care and waited for months outside the Return-to-Dust Daoist Grounds, calling for Ren Ye.
• The Great Emperor’s final Dao resonance departed, and Old Liu the Headless Man received an inheritance and a special assignment.
• Little One emerged with the full inheritance and the Demon-Refining Pot, revealed that Xingshan had become his Secret Realm, and told Long Yuqing that Ren Ye had already left.
• Ren Ye, having completed his inheritance, secretly returned to Tide Dragon City and appeared inside a grand residence as he considered how to follow through on Jiang Yu’s sword strike.

After returning from the Emperor's Tomb, Ren Ye investigated the fate of the Tide Dragon Guards and discovered evidence that explained Yang Ling'er's madness. He reunited with his companions and began organizing a coalition to stabilize Nine Li, while a severed head in his Consciousness Space suddenly opened its eyes.

• Ren Ye broke into Tide Dragon City's Archives, stole records about the Tide Dragon Guards, and found that the register of missing officers had been borrowed by the Great General before his death.
• Ren Ye found Yang Ling'er preparing to welcome Long Yuqing home, but learned she was trapped in the delusion that her husband would return and had gone mad after visiting her father's study.
• Ren Ye secretly entered the Great General's residence, pieced together the missing-officer register and a handwritten list, and realized the records confirmed his suspicions.
• Ren Ye reunited with Li Yan, Qingning, Ai Fei, Xiao Shuai, Yin Tiger, and the others at the Human World Inn.
• Ren Ye proposed working with the Fraud Merchants' Association and Dongdeng Prefecture to suppress the growing unrest in Nine Li, and asked Yin Tiger and Xiao Shuai to summon their Living Fathers.
• The severed head inside Ren Ye's Phoenix Fire Furnace opened its eyes after soaking in Nether River water for over a year.

Old Liu's awakened head revealed that he had been assigned to purify the Ominous Being Realm before receiving the Great Emperor's Lord of War-Character Deciphering Method, and he departed after warning Ren Ye to question Mr. Xu's motives. Long Yuqing then begged Ren Ye to save his family and Tide Dragon City, forcing Ren Ye to ask whether he wanted only to survive or to become the true Nation Lord of the Immortal Wave Five Cities.

• Old Liu's head emerged alive from Ren Ye's Consciousness Space and explained that he had served as the Gate Eye while secretly carrying out the Emperor's Tomb mission.
• Old Liu revealed that he had to use the Life Stone to cleanse the Eighty-One Clans' heroic spirits in the Ominous Being Realm before receiving the Great Emperor's secret method, then said goodbye to his friends.
• Old Liu warned Ren Ye that Mr. Xu might have known about the Emperor Blood before guiding him to Nine Li, then left for the Ominous Being Realm.
• Long Yuqing reunited with his family and told Ren Ye that four cities had raised four hundred thousand troops to besiege Tide Dragon, leaving his family and the city in danger.
• Long Yuqing knelt and begged Ren Ye to save his family, and Ren Ye demanded to know whether he wanted merely to preserve his clan or become the true Nation Lord of the Immortal Wave Five Cities.

Ren Ye persuaded Long Yuqing to become Nation Lord of the Immortal Wave Five Cities and organize an alliance to bring peace to Nine Li. After Senior Jiang Yu departed, the four other City Lords prepared to meet Ren Ye, while Yin Tiger and Xiao Shuai tried to persuade their family elders to join the effort.

• Ren Ye asked Long Yuqing to govern the five cities, and Long Yuqing swore to enact benevolent policies and pursue peace.
• Ren Ye laid out plans for Long Yuqing to invite the four City Lords to Tide Dragon City and for Dongdeng Prefecture to lead a wider alliance.
• Ren Ye told Long Yuqing that Senior Jiang Yu would soon leave, then met Jiang Yu and learned he planned to depart for the Ancient Pool.
• Jiang Yu left through the inn window after urging Ren Ye to resolve Nine Li's troubles, and Ren Ye vowed to use force against powers that opposed peace.
• The four City Lords gathered at the Ye Residence, read Ren Ye's reply, and agreed to travel with troops to meet him.
• Yin Tiger and Xiao Shuai returned home and tried to persuade their family elders.

Long Yuqing returned to Yang Ling'er, who remained trapped in memories of the day before his homecoming, and found that she had replanted his ruined flower garden for him. As Ren Ye and Long Yuqing prepared to meet the four City Lords, Ren Ye delayed their departure to drink and placed a blank spirit tablet on the table, asking whose name belonged on it.

• Cui'er told Long Yuqing that Yang Ling'er had relived the same day since his supposed death, and he reunited with his wife without revealing the truth to her.
• Yang Ling'er showed Long Yuqing the flower garden she had replanted, and he swore he would remain faithful and care for her.
• Long Yuqing postponed the parade and traveled to the Prefectural Yamen, where he learned the four City Lords had camped outside Tide Dragon City with twenty thousand troops.
• Long Yuqing waited for Ren Ye, who arrived late and agreed to meet the City Lords with only a hundred guards.
• Ren Ye dismissed the officials and began drinking with Long Yuqing before their meeting, then set a blank spirit tablet on the table and asked whose name should be written on it.

Ren Ye reconstructed how Long Yuqing, the young city lord, secretly built the Ghost Sect and manipulated the sunny young man into a conflict with the Immortals. He ended by accusing Long Yuqing of arranging his apparent poisoning and choosing to destroy the great general’s family.

• Ren Ye toasted the absent dead and began telling Long Yuqing the story of an ambitious young city lord and Long Qingyan, the Flying General.
• Ren Ye explained how the Immortals forced the old city lord to retrieve the Infinite Pearl, then killed him and silenced the soldiers who had witnessed the mission.
• Ren Ye described how Long Yuqing concealed his ambitions, secretly joined forces with the returned Long Qingyan, and used the Ghost Sect to recruit loyal officers and pursue the Infinite Goblet and Divine Punishment Bow.
• Ren Ye recounted how Long Yuqing tried to provoke a deadly feud between the sunny young man and the Immortals, while the great general’s intervention disrupted the plan.
• Ren Ye explained that Long Yuqing arranged his apparent death with poisoned wine and concluded that he had chosen to kill the great general’s entire family; Long Yuqing sat hollow-eyed as Ren Ye demanded confirmation.

Ren Ye confronted Long Yuqing over the massacre of the Yang Family and the schemes that endangered Ren Ye’s friends, while Long Yuqing defended his actions as the price of unifying the Five Cities. Ren Ye rejected his plea and prepared to fight, as the Demoness and Ren Ye’s allies arrived; Long Yuqing revealed that he had also reached the Fifth-Grade Realm.

• Ren Ye laid out how Long Yuqing and the Demoness had used the Vengeful Ghost Sect and the Four City Lords to trap the Yang Family, and Long Yuqing admitted he had planned the purge to secure unified rule.
• Long Yuqing confessed that he had believed his father-in-law Yang Ganglie meant him no harm, but claimed Yang Mingtang and the Yang Family Generals still posed a threat to the Long Family.
• Long Yuqing pleaded with Ren Ye to let him bring justice and peace to the Five Cities, but Ren Ye summoned the Human Emperor Sword and refused to trust him.
• Ren Ye accused Long Yuqing of having the Demoness track and expose his friends to the Immortal Wave Sect and Western Liang’s Situ Family, and declared that he would kill Long Yuqing.
• The Demoness confronted Ren Ye in the rear hall, and Li Yan, Qingning, the Wealth Protector Pavilion’s five Fifth-Grade experts, and the Little Marquis arrived in an Eight-Pointed Star Formation.
• Long Yuqing challenged Ren Ye and revealed a Taiji Diagram and an azure ox phantom, prompting Ren Ye to realize that Long Yuqing was also in the Fifth-Grade Realm.

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Ren Ye confronted Long Yuqing over his secret rise to Fifth Grade and his slaughter of the Yang Family, rejecting his claim that the bloodshed was necessary to restore Tide Dragon City. After defeating Long Yuqing’s Divine Method, Ren Ye exposed the truth about Yang Ganglie’s loyalty, and Long Yuqing ended the chapter bloodied and shaken.

• Long Yuqing revealed that he had secretly advanced to Fifth Grade through the Fangxian Dao lineage and explained why he had plotted to take control of Tide Dragon City.
• Long Yuqing argued that reclaiming power from the Yang Family had required destroying its influence, while Ren Ye questioned whether he could trust someone who had killed his father-in-law’s household.
• Ren Ye refused to accept Long Yuqing’s justification and challenged him using his newly awakened Human Emperor Bloodline and Imperial Dao Qi.
• Long Yuqing drew Ren Ye into an Illusion Realm with the Azure Ox Staff, but Ren Ye caught the azure ox manifestation with his bare hands and broke the illusion’s defenses.
• Ren Ye accused Long Yuqing of leaking the Fallen Divine Mountain plan because he feared Yang Ganglie would reconcile with Ren Ye, then shattered the azure ox and Taiji manifestations.
• Long Yuqing fell from the collapsing Illusion Realm, failed to defend himself, and spat blood before recalling the Green Bean Meat Buns his wife had made.

Yang Ling'er revealed that she had never truly lost her reason and killed Long Yuqing for slaughtering her family, while he accepted his death and confessed his schemes. Afterward, she claimed the City Lord's Seat and asked Ren Ye to choose her so she could carry on her father's mission in Tide Dragon City.

• Ren Ye realized Long Yuqing had been poisoned just as Yang Ling'er entered the Inner Hall and stabbed him with the Ancient Sword.
• Yang Ling'er revealed that the Zhenniao Return-to-Quiet Pill had poisoned Long Yuqing and explained how she had uncovered the conspiracy that led to her family's deaths.
• Yang Ling'er accused Long Yuqing of betraying their marriage and killing her clan, then stabbed him repeatedly as Ren Ye chose not to intervene.
• Long Yuqing deliberately shattered his poisoned star core, confessed that he had never loved Yang Ling'er, and told Ren Ye that the Vengeful Ghost Sect had acted on his orders.
• Yang Ling'er told Ren Ye that she had been both mad and sane, having guided him toward the truth, then sat on the City Lord's Seat and asked him to choose her as she vowed to continue her father's work.

After three days of wandering, Ren Ye resolved to follow his own Dao rather than rule through fear and purges. He released Long Qingyan with the Infinite Pearl and challenged her to choose whether to join his cause or oppose him later.

• Ren Ye buried Long Yuqing, avoided answering Yang Ling'er and the Four City Lords, and spent three days wandering as the Five Cities remained on the brink of war.
• Ren Ye met Li Yan, who released the captured Long Qingyan from the Primordial Golden Dipper.
• Long Qingyan defended Long Yuqing, and Ren Ye asked whether she would accept being sacrificed if her power ever threatened the Dragon Family.
• Ren Ye explained that he had considered killing and reviving Long Yuqing as an Attendant, but rejected the plan because coercive control contradicted his Dao.
• At the graveyard, Ren Ye condemned Long Yuqing's massacre of the Yang Family and explained that they could not follow the same Dao.
• Ren Ye gave Long Qingyan the Infinite Pearl and offered her the choice to join him or gather strength and challenge him in ten years.