Chapter Summaries

Jiang Hao used the collapsing North Gate breach to slaughter the Northern Barbarians with Explosive Ants, while Violet recognized his gaze from a troubling dream. The allied commanders remained unable to break into the city, and Violet returned to her tent and fell asleep, drawn back toward the mysterious figure in her dream.

• Jiang Hao’s fire trap drove the Northern Barbarians away from the walls, but heavy snow caused a heated section of the North Gate wall to crack and collapse.
• Jiang Hao activated Mecha Mode at the breach and used Explosive Ants to spread a debilitating itch among the charging Northern Barbarians, whose comrades trampled many of them.
• Jiang Hao rode Big Hen onto the towering corpse wall after the Northern Barbarians withdrew, while Wang Chongqing and Ouyang Long worried that their assault had failed again.
• Violet saw Jiang Hao from a distance and recognized his icy gaze as the one from her dream, then left the commanders and returned to her tent.
• Violet drank water to calm herself, hesitated to sleep, and eventually closed her eyes and saw the indistinct figure again.

Violet dreamed that a mysterious figure showed her a prophecy of Jiang Hao defeating the North Sea Kingdom, then returned to the siege of the Han Palace Royal Court. As Ouyang Long and Wang Chongqing considered their alliance and Violet’s secrets, Wang Chongqing asked how she had become lord of the Violet Lineage.

• An indistinct figure questioned Violet about her royal birth, her marriage, and her desire for revenge, then showed her a vision of Jiang Hao routing the North Sea Kingdom’s forces.
• Violet woke from the dream and suspected that Nalan Hongchuo had sent it as a prophecy, but she could not understand the Prophet’s purpose.
• Violet went to the siege and saw the Alliance Army gaining ground, while Ouyang Long and Wang Chongqing left the battlefield under the pretext of getting food.
• In Ouyang Long’s chariot, Wang Chongqing voiced his suspicion that Violet was hiding a troubling secret, but Ouyang Long defended her.
• Wang Chongqing asked Ouyang Long how Violet, a woman, had become lord of the Violet Lineage.

Wang Chongqing exposed Violet’s alleged past to Ouyang Long, but Xiao Jing’s secret meeting with them was part of Violet’s plan. After the Northern Barbarian army entered the Han Palace Royal Court, Ouyang Long and Violet turned on Wang Chongqing, revealing that Violet was carrying Ouyang Long’s child and that he intended to become emperor.

• Wang Chongqing brought Ouyang Long an illegitimate son of the Violet Lineage’s Elder Uncle, who claimed Violet had angered her husband to death after he caught her with another man.
• Xiao Jing confirmed that Violet had affairs with men and gave her a pouch of beast crystals, then secretly returned to Violet after signaling that the plan had gone as intended.
• Violet, Ouyang Long, and Wang Chongqing advanced into the Han Palace Royal Court as Jiang Hao’s forces retreated into the city.
• Ouyang Long and Wang Chongqing claimed they had agreed to divide their goals, with the two men taking the Imperial Palace while Violet rescued the others.
• Wang Chongqing entered the Imperial Palace and found the Self-Defense Army gone, but Ouyang Long’s soldiers attacked his forces as he approached the Dragon Throne.
• Violet joined Ouyang Long and declared that Wang Chongqing could not take the throne, while Ouyang Long revealed that Violet was carrying his child and would become his empress.

Violet seized the Han Palace Royal Court by betraying and killing Wang Chongqing and Ouyang Long, then consolidated their forces and claimed the throne as Empress. When eight hundred thousand Shenzhou troops approached, she found herself short of reinforcements and unable to locate Jiang Hao’s Self-Defense Army, which was hiding within the Royal Court.

• Violet and Ouyang Long trapped Wang Chongqing, exposed his threats as useless, and had him killed; Ouyang Long’s own Transcendent Master then killed the assassin.
• Violet revealed she was the eldest princess of the North Sea Kingdom and had used a false pregnancy to deceive Ouyang Long; after he attacked her, the Werewolf killed him.
• Violet took control of Ouyang Long’s and Wang Chongqing’s forces, detained the smaller Lords and their families, and sat on the dragon throne as Empress.
• Violet’s troops drove away commoners, while the other Grand Lords withdrew rather than help her face the Shenzhou Kingdom’s army.
• The five hundred thousand new Shenzhou troops and Cai Tianming’s New Shenzhou Army advanced toward the Han Palace Royal Court, leaving Violet facing eight hundred thousand enemy troops with only four hundred thousand she could control.
• Violet searched in vain for Jiang Hao and the Self-Defense Army, unaware that they were still hiding within the Han Palace Royal Court.

Han Su’s New Army launched a bloody assault on the Han Palace Royal Court while Jiang Hao’s Self-Defense Army emerged from a secret passage and captured Violet. Jiang Hao seized Violet, and the chapter ended with him kissing her as Nalan Hongchuo watched in astonishment.

• Han Su led the New Army’s Windriding Bird assault on the Han Palace Royal Court, and the New Army battled the Northern Barbarians for control of its walls.
• Han Su and Elder Ming offered rewards to spur their soldiers, intensifying the fighting as Violet grew uneasy about the New Army’s strength.
• Jiang Hao led the Self-Defense Army out of the Imperial Palace Secret Passage and took control of the palace, leaving Violet isolated.
• Jiang Hao removed Violet’s veil and stared at her until Nalan Hongchuo emerged and called him back to himself.
• Violet tried to leave, but Jiang Hao pulled her into his arms and kissed her while Nalan Hongchuo watched.

Jiang Hao captured Violet and Nalan Hongchuo as the Self-Defense Army helped take the Han Palace Royal Court, while Elder Ming escaped with fewer than ten thousand troops. After the battle, Jiang Hao confronted Eldest Prince Han Su over who deserved credit for the victory.

• Jiang Hao kissed Violet, then took her and Nalan Hongchuo into the Side Hall while Guo Dundun ordered the witnesses to keep quiet.
• The Self-Defense Army and New Army overwhelmed the Northern Barbarians Garrison, and Elder Ming broke out with fewer than ten thousand men from his original four hundred thousand.
• After spending a day with Violet and Nalan Hongchuo, Jiang Hao left them in Wang Zisu's care and went to meet Han Su and the commanders.
• Han Su accused Jiang Hao of missing the battle, and Jiang Hao replied that the Self-Defense Army's arrival had broken the enemy's defenses.
• Han Su defended the New Army's role in the victory, and Jiang Hao agreed before pointing out that his two hundred thousand-plus soldiers had faced an enemy more than ten times their number.

Jiang Hao handed the North Sea Kingdom’s cleanup and military credit to Han Su and Cai Tianming, explaining that sharing achievements would protect the Self-Defense Army from royal suspicion and build allies. After returning to the Ice Cave Military Camp, he forced himself on Violet, and Nalan Hongchuo began speaking to her about the next step of their plan.

• Jiang Hao praised Han Su and the New Army officers, then proposed that Shenzhou Kingdom eliminate the remaining Grand Lords and absorb the North Sea Kingdom.
• Three days later, Cai Tianming arrived with three hundred thousand New Shenzhou Army troops, and Jiang Hao left the remaining campaign to him and Han Su while demanding that North Sea Kingdom’s men be killed or castrated.
• Guo Dundun questioned Jiang Hao about surrendering the military credit, and Jiang Hao explained that sharing rewards would prevent the sovereign from fearing the Self-Defense Army’s growing power.
• Jiang Hao and the Self-Defense Army returned to the Ice Cave Military Camp, where fewer than thirty Fire Spirit Crystals had been excavated and Enhancement Potions had been prepared for the Third Infantry Regiment.
• Jiang Hao forcibly took Violet in her room, leaving her unable to get out of bed for three days, and Nalan Hongchuo came to care for her.
• Nalan Hongchuo told Violet they needed to discuss their next plan and hinted that they were enduring humiliation until her younger brother arrived.

Violet agreed to cooperate with Nalan Hongchuo and pretend to obey Jiang Hao until they could escape. Meanwhile, Jiang Hao accidentally bonded the Snow and Ice Banshee as his Primary Beast Pet, and she accepted the contract and said she wanted to see the outside world.

• Nalan Hongchuo persuaded Violet to act compliant toward Jiang Hao while they waited for a chance to escape with help from Xiao Lin.
• Violet drank Jiang Hao's New-Style Potion, quickly recovered, and hurried to the toilet with an embarrassing reaction.
• Jiang Hao offered the Snow and Ice Banshee a potion, and she drank it before giving him a drop of her blood essence in return.
• The Snow and Ice Banshee's blood essence triggered Jiang Hao's Survival Simulator and accidentally made her his Beast Pet.
• Jiang Hao woke and discovered that Big Hen's bloodline had reached level seven and the Snow and Ice Banshee was a level 99 Primary Beast Pet.
• The Snow and Ice Banshee accepted the bond and told Jiang Hao she wanted to leave the cavern and see the world outside.

Jiang Hao welcomed the Snow and Ice Banshee as his Beast Pet, and she decided to travel to the Ten Thousand Beasts Kingdom to help her clan. After she left to end the war with the North Sea Kingdom, Jiang Hao again pressed Nalan Hongchuo to reveal Xiao Lin’s whereabouts and began preparing to return to Shenzhou City.

• Jiang Hao learned that the Snow and Ice Banshee would remain outside his Beast Taming Space and brought her to meet Nalan Hongchuo, whose unborn child Xue'er sensed and blessed.
• Xue'er told Jiang Hao that her Ice Demon Clan members in the Ten Thousand Beasts Kingdom were fighting the Chaoyun Kingdom, which had sent a Divine Beast, and demanded that he take her there.
• Jiang Hao promised to arrange the journey if Xue'er wiped out the North Sea Kingdom; she departed at once, leaving Nalan Hongchuo horrified by his order.
• Jiang Hao threatened Nalan Hongchuo with Xiao Lin’s fate and asked her to reveal her identity and Xiao Lin’s location, but she stayed silent.
• Shen Zaitian told Jiang Hao that court officials had arrived to arrange his return, and Jiang Hao set the trip to Shenzhou City for three days later while ordering the army’s training to continue.
• Chen Qianshu and Qin Shu became friends at the Ice Cave Military Camp, and Chen Qianshu gave Qin Shu a bottle of New-Style Potion.

Jiang Hao returned to Shenzhou City as a celebrated hero, but Han Qing treated him coldly after his entanglements with Nalan Hongchuo and Violet. King Han announced that Jiang Hao and Han Qing would marry in five days, leaving Han Qing displeased and Wei Chun pressing her about a matter he had raised earlier.

• Jiang Hao approved Chen Qianshu giving Qin Shu a New-Style Potion, then visited Liao Yunxiao and told her he planned to help the Snow and Ice Banshee.
• Jiang Hao and Violet spent the night together, but he suspected her sudden change in behavior was connected to Nalan Hongchuo.
• Three days later, Jiang Hao and his party returned to Shenzhou City, where King Han and the officials welcomed them as heroes.
• Jiang Hao tried to approach Han Qing during the procession, but she repeatedly avoided him and remained silent.
• King Han set Jiang Hao and Han Qing's wedding for the nineteenth, five days away; Han Qing objected, and Wei Chun asked what she thought of a matter he had previously raised.

Han Qing agreed to marry Jiang Hao in exchange for his unconditional support, and their wedding proceeded despite his unease. When Jiang Hao lifted the bridal veil, he discovered Han Qing had disappeared and threatened her maid until she revealed that Han Qing had gone to the Imperial Palace.

• Han Qing rejected Wei Chun’s attempt to meddle and decided to marry Jiang Hao while pursuing her own bid for power.
• King Han rewarded Jiang Hao, who refused a kingship, and gave him a royal residence that became the Jiang Residence.
• Xiao Qing told Jiang Hao that Han Qing would proceed with the wedding if he supported her unconditionally, and Jiang Hao agreed.
• Jiang Hao and Han Qing performed the wedding bows, then Jiang Hao rode with her to the Jiang Residence and celebrated with the guests.
• Jiang Hao lifted the bridal veil and found an unknown woman instead of Han Qing; he frightened the maid with a Combat Ant until she said Han Qing had gone to the Imperial Palace.

Xiao Qing tried to escort King Han back to the palace on Han Qing’s orders, but A-Fu’s powerful bat and arriving Imperial Guards turned the mission into a hostage standoff. Wei Chun arrived with his deathsworn, intending to kill King Han and blame Han Qing so he could seize power.

• Jiang Hao learned that Han Qing and Xiao Qing had gone to the Imperial Palace, and he recalled Xiao Qing’s ominous words from five days earlier.
• Xiao Qing confronted King Han and A-Fu, revealed her Transcendence Realm strength, and fought A-Fu’s regenerating bat.
• Xiao Qing killed the palace attendants, then took King Han hostage when Imperial Guards arrived and withdrew with him into the shadows.
• A-Fu held back the guards rather than risk harming King Han, and the two sides remained in a standoff.
• Wei Chun arrived with his deathsworn and attacked under the pretense of rescuing King Han, intending to kill him and frame Han Qing.

Xiao Qing fought Wei Chun’s death warriors and a concealed peak Transcendent Master while trying to protect King Han. After killing the black-robed master, she faced nearly a thousand attackers and vanished through a hole in the ground as their skills struck.

• A-Fu’s bat wings repelled the death warriors while Xiao Qing used Hundred Ghosts Night Parade to escape and killed a pursuing warrior, leaving King Han’s whereabouts unclear.
• A black-robed Transcendent Master attacked Xiao Qing, wounded her, and revealed that his strength had reached the peak of the Transcendence Realm.
• Xiao Qing waited for an opening, dodged the black-robed man’s Blade-Breaking Slash with her phantoms, and killed him with a dagger to the throat.
• Nearly a thousand death warriors charged Xiao Qing, and she used Hundred Ghosts Night Parade to attack their defensive formation before her skill broke and she spat blood.
• As the death warriors unleashed their skills, Xiao Qing vanished through a hole in the ground, leaving Wei Chun and the attackers stunned.

Han Qing trapped Wei Chun into taking the blame for rebellion while preparing to claim the throne, and Jiang Hao arrived to support her plan. King Han remained imprisoned underground as Han Qing’s forces demanded his abdication.

• Wei Chun discovered that King Han and Xiao Qing had escaped through a passage, then sealed the passage and marched on the Imperial Palace with his death warriors.
• Wei Chun found Han Qing waiting in the Hall of Supreme Harmony, where she accused him of rebellion after Self-Defense Army soldiers and Imperial Guards surrounded him.
• Han Qing explained that her investigation had uncovered Wei Chun’s hidden death warriors, and he ordered them to seize her as the Imperial Guards fought to protect her.
• Underground, Xiao Qing held King Han prisoner and demanded an abdication edict naming Han Qing as his successor before sunrise.
• Jiang Hao entered the hall after the fighting turned against Wei Chun, embraced Han Qing, and agreed to support her bid for the throne, while she pushed him away.

Jiang Hao and Han Qing crushed Wei Chun’s attempted coup, and Han Qing used King Han’s abdication to become Empress and consolidate control over the kingdom. The chapter ended with Wei Chun discovering that Han Qing had broken her promise to spare Wei Zihan and was executing him and the other captured families.

• Jiang Hao and Han Qing’s allies defeated Wei Chun’s death warriors, captured Wei Zihan, and forced Wei Chun to stand down in exchange for a chance to save his son.
• Han Qing told Wei Chun to persuade King Han to yield the throne, while she made clear to Jiang Hao that she would not forgive his betrayal or resume their marital intimacy.
• Han Qing announced King Han’s grave illness and produced his sealed edict naming her successor; three days later, she was crowned, with Jiang Hao seated beside her.
• Qu Jianglin killed Han Su on Han Qing’s orders, Han Min also died at the hands of an agent she had placed beside him, and the kingdom’s armies came under her control.
• A month later, Han Qing ordered Wei Chun and the Cabinet ministers executed, and Wei Chun discovered Wei Zihan was also on the execution platform after Han Qing had cut out his tongue and deceived him.

After raising Big Hen’s strength and making plans with Han Qing, Jiang Hao left with Xue'er for the Ten Thousand Beasts Kingdom. On the way, he entered Fallen Spirit Forest in the Cangling Kingdom, where he killed a swarm of Poison-Tailed Mad Bees and approached their hive to collect Spirit Honey.

• Wei Chun watched his family be executed before he was killed, while Han Qing’s schemes left Jiang Hao unsettled.
• Jiang Hao raised Big Hen to level 73, allocated her attribute points, and checked the Ant Queen’s growing army.
• Han Qing told Jiang Hao that a Snow and Ice Banshee had devastated the North Sea Kingdom; Jiang Hao admitted he had arranged for Senior Ice and Snow to help him and agreed to attack the Cangling Kingdom after returning.
• Xue'er arrived, and Jiang Hao departed with her, learning that Xiao Lin had rescued Nalan Hongchuo and Violet from the Ice Cave Military Camp.
• Jiang Hao and Xue'er crossed the desert into Fallen Spirit Forest, where Jiang Hao used Big Hen to defeat a pack of black wolves and continued deeper into the woods.
• Jiang Hao and Big Hen killed more than two thousand Poison-Tailed Mad Bees and their Bee Queen, then headed toward the hive to collect Spirit Honey.

Jiang Hao entered Lonely Ghost Ridge, defeated a Netherworld Ghost King, and interrupted the Netherworld Ghost Emperor as he tried to force a female ghost into marriage. The Ghost Emperor attacked Jiang Hao, and Jiang Hao summoned Army Ants whose poisonous mist drove back the Emperor’s Vengeful Ghosts.

• Jiang Hao collected spirit honey for himself, Big Hen, and the Ant Queen before choosing to cross Lonely Ghost Ridge with Xue’er.
• Xue’er retreated into the Beast Taming Space, and Jiang Hao rode Big Hen into the mist-shrouded battlefield, where he killed a Skeleton Ghost Soldier with lightning.
• Jiang Hao defeated a Netherworld Ghost King after enduring its soul and physical attacks, then encountered a female ghost fleeing the Netherworld Ghost Emperor and his followers.
• Jiang Hao ambushed the Ghost Emperor with a Thunderbolt Spell, but the Emperor dodged it by splitting into countless forms and then reformed to confront him.
• Jiang Hao mocked the Ghost Emperor, who struck Jiang Hao and sent dozens of Vengeful Ghosts after him; Jiang Hao summoned Army Ants and used their poisonous mist to repel the ghosts.

Jiang Hao fought the Ghost Emperor, using fire and lightning skills to wear it down while protecting Big Hen. After the Ghost Emperor nearly killed them with Netherworld Curse, Jiang Hao revealed a hidden counterattack as the ghost fled.

• Jiang Hao struck the Ghost Emperor with lightning and Explosive Ant while Big Hen endured its icy attacks.
• Jiang Hao used Electrocution Spell, Fire Whirlwind, and Heaven-Burning Flames to damage the Ghost Emperor and drive it from the flames.
• Jiang Hao and the Ghost Emperor traded attacks while the female ghost fought the Vengeful Ghosts, and Jiang Hao summoned a fire phoenix that burned many of them.
• The Ghost Emperor trapped Jiang Hao and Big Hen with Netherworld Curse and slammed them into the ground, leaving Big Hen with only one HP.
• As the Ghost Emperor rushed in to finish Jiang Hao, a dark-cloud vortex appeared overhead, and the Ghost Emperor fled toward its Vengeful Ghosts.

After escaping Lonely Ghost Ridge, Jiang Hao was ambushed by ten Transcendent Masters from Cangling Kingdom’s Genius Ranking and fought back with Big Hen and his skills. He killed several of them and unleashed Meteoric Firestorm on the six survivors, whose fate remained unresolved as the meteors struck.

• Jiang Hao killed the Ghost Emperor with Meteoric Firestorm, refused the female ghost’s offer to follow him, and spent a month lost in Lonely Ghost Ridge while Big Hen slept.
• Jiang Hao and Big Hen left Lonely Ghost Ridge, where ten Cangling Kingdom experts ambushed him and identified him as Shenzhou Kingdom’s renowned fighter.
• Cao Hui attacked Jiang Hao, but his dagger could not pierce Jiang Hao’s skin; Jiang Hao killed him and gained the ultimate skill Shadow Hunt.
• Jiang Hao fought the other nine experts, killing Ashan, the spear-wielding fighter, the barehanded fighter, and the bald fighter with his skills and Big Hen.
• Boss Jiang and the five remaining experts launched a combined assault, so Jiang Hao summoned Meteoric Firestorm and trapped them beneath falling meteors.

After killing ten Cangling Kingdom experts, Jiang Hao crossed into Xisheng Kingdom and agreed to rescue a woman abducted by bandits in exchange for five Top-Grade Beast Crystals. At Black Wind Stronghold, he fought its three chiefs and discovered that the chief’s fifty-percent block stat reduced his damage.

• Jiang Hao killed the ten Cangling Kingdom experts with a second Meteoric Firestorm and left before more enemies arrived.
• After reaching Cangling Kingdom’s border, Jiang Hao learned that his attack had prompted the kingdom to prepare nearly a million troops for a possible invasion.
• Jiang Hao entered Xisheng Kingdom and accepted five Top-Grade Beast Crystals from an old guard in exchange for rescuing the Yang family’s madam.
• Jiang Hao rode Big Hen to Black Wind Stronghold, killed bandits at the gate, and charged into the stronghold with his Army Ants.
• Jiang Hao fought the three chiefs, stunned the third chief with a Thunderbolt Spell, and resisted the chief’s dagger strike.
• Jiang Hao inspected the chief with the Survival Simulator and found that his fifty-percent block stat was reducing the damage he took.