Chapter Summaries

Jiang Hao completed the Thunder God Will fusion, reaching the Supreme Saint Realm and gaining an immortal lifespan as his beast pets grew stronger. He discovered that Xue'er had reached the Human God Realm and identified the Terror Beast as a Heaven God, revealing realms beyond Myriad Forms.

• Jiang Hao gained the Supreme Saint Thunder God Body, awakened Thunder God Will, and received an immortal lifespan.
• Big Hen advanced to level 80 and top-grade quality as a Mutated Phoenix, while the Ant Queen also gained top-grade quality and 500 combat power.
• Jiang Hao allocated free attribute points to boost the Mutated Phoenix's agility and strength.
• Jiang Hao checked Xue'er's status and found her at level 100 in the Human God Realm, with every attribute at 35,000.
• Jiang Hao examined the Terror Beast and identified it as the Heaven-Swallowing Suanni, a level 130 Heaven God.

Jiang Hao left the ancient ruins and reached Snow City, where he learned that war between humans and the Demon Race was imminent and that the city’s gates were closed to departures. Remembering the fall of the City of Eternity, he chose to stay and defend Snow City as the Demon Race army advanced.

• The young man in ancient attire killed the Ice Wolf Clan members who blocked Jiang Hao’s way, and Jiang Hao left the ruins with Bai Yao and her sister.
• Bai Yao kissed Jiang Hao goodbye near Snow City, and Jiang Hao entered the city after passing inspection.
• Jiang Hao learned that a hundred thousand Demon Race soldiers had gathered outside Snow City and that no one was permitted to leave.
• The Ice Wolf King plotted to capture Jiang Hao and claim the inheritance while negotiations between humans and the Demon Race broke down.
• The Demon Race army advanced toward Snow City, and Jiang Hao remained on the city walls to defend it, remembering the fall of the City of Eternity.

Snow City’s defenders fought off a massive Demon Army siege with ladders, catapults, and a deadly combination of Heaven-Shaking Thunders and fire oil. As the attack continued, Jiang Hao became fascinated by the weapon and considered secretly taking some to study, but a young man angrily ordered him out of the way.

• Ximen Wuqing rallied Snow City’s citizens and soldiers as 100,000 Demon Soldiers and Demon Beasts began their assault.
• The Demon Army advanced Goose Carts and siege ladders across the frozen moat while catapults battered the walls.
• Snow City’s defenders repelled climbing attackers with arrows, stones, logs, and skills, while suffering casualties from the siege.
• Ximen Wuqing ordered the defenders to launch Heaven-Shaking Thunders paired with fire oil jars, devastating the packed Demon Army.
• Jiang Hao watched the weapons’ destructive power and considered taking some to study before a young man snapped at him to move.

Jiang Hao and Ximen Wuqing helped Snow City's defenders repel the demon army's first assault, but the Ice Wolf King ordered a retreat before the city fell. After Ximen Wuqing organized aid for the casualties, the demon army renewed its attack the next day with a much larger bombardment and more siege ladders.

• Jiang Hao watched Snow City's defenders fight off climbing demon soldiers as flying Demon Beasts dropped boulders onto the battlements.
• Ximen Wuqing deployed Flame-Throwing Oil Jars, and the defenders used them to burn back the demon soldiers scaling the walls.
• After more than half a day of fighting, the Ice Wolf King ordered the demon army to withdraw, and Lang Huan's troops also retreated from the West City Gate.
• Ximen Wuqing reported heavy casualties and arranged compensation and public recognition for fallen soldiers to support Snow City's morale.
• The next day, the demon army advanced again through heavy snow, bombarded the walls with a hundred rocks, and pushed more siege ladders toward the battlements as defenders fired flaming arrows.

The Demon Army launched a full assault on Snow City's southern wall, overwhelming the defenders with ladders, Stone-Throwing Machines, and dense waves of soldiers. As the wind and snow weakened the defenders' oil sprayers, fighting spread across the battlements, where Snow City's people prepared to resist even if the enemy broke through.

• The defenders used flaming arrows and Heaven-Shaking Thunders against the Demon Army, but wind and snow quickly extinguished fires on the siege ladders.
• The Demon Army sounded its charge horns and surged toward the southern wall, raising Goose Cart ladders as archers and crossbowmen fired into the advancing troops.
• Demon soldiers climbed onto the battlements while iron balls from Stone-Throwing Machines wounded defenders, and both sides fought at close quarters.
• Demon soldiers broke through in several places, but defenders rallied and fought to drive them back as casualties piled up.
• The defenders' oil sprayers proved less effective in the fierce wind, and the battle spread along the battlements as both sides repeatedly gained and lost ground.
• Snow City's people waited with weapons ready to form street defenses, while defenders continued holding the wall for their homeland and families.

Ximen Wuqing's defenders held Snow City's walls through a brutal assault, using boiling oil and molten iron to drive back the Demon Army. The enemy withdrew, but the city's relief was overshadowed by heavy losses, including the deaths of Old Song's son and mother.

• The defenders reclaimed the battlements as the Demon Army ran short of iron balls, while Demon Soldiers gorged themselves on the dead and the Demon General received reports that the left wing had been routed.
• Snow City's defenders cut down siege ladders and poured boiling oil and molten iron onto the attackers, inflicting heavy casualties and weakening their advance.
• The Demon General asked the Ice Wolf King to withdraw, and the commander reluctantly ordered the Demon Army to retreat.
• Snow City's people celebrated the retreat but feared for their loved ones, while an old woman recognized her son's protective charm on a corpse being carried from the battlefield.
• The old woman bit her tongue and died beside her son's stretcher, leaving the crowd to mourn the end of the Song Family.

Jiang Hao learned that the Ice Wolf King had demanded his surrender in exchange for withdrawing the Demon Army, and Ximen Wuqing refused to hand him over. Jiang Hao flew out to confront the Ice Wolf King and discovered that his Thunder God Body could absorb the king’s freezing attacks, leaving the battle underway with the Ice Wolf King’s arm broken.

• The Ice Wolf King secretly offered to withdraw his troops if Ximen Wuqing handed over Jiang Hao, so Ximen Wuqing summoned Jiang Hao to the city lord’s residence.
• Ximen Wuqing explained the offer and insisted he would not sacrifice Jiang Hao for peace; Jiang Hao asked about the Ice Wolf King’s strength and left to confront him.
• Jiang Hao rode the Mutated Phoenix out of Snow City, and the Ice Wolf King appeared to block his way and mock the beast for lacking a phoenix bloodline.
• The Ice Wolf King attacked Jiang Hao, but Jiang Hao’s Thunder God Body absorbed the invading cold and converted part of it into power.
• Jiang Hao fought back with Purple Lightning Azure Frost Fist, breaking the Ice Wolf King’s right arm and shocking him.

Jiang Hao used his Thunder God inheritance, Army Ants, and Thunderbolt Force to devastate the Demon Army outside Snow City, defeating the Ice Wolf King and killing many Demon Generals. Three days later, badly injured but recovering, he continued toward the Icefield Snow Region after repaying City Lord Ximen by protecting Snow City.

• Jiang Hao overwhelmed the Ice Wolf King with his Purple Lightning Azure Frost Fist Technique, then unleashed nearly seven hundred thousand boosted Army Ants on the Demon Army camp.
• The Ice Wolf King absorbed moonlight to reach the peak of the Myriad Forms Realm, but he and Jiang Hao wounded each other in a clash before Army Ants swarmed him.
• With Demon Generals charging and his own injuries severe, Jiang Hao released Thunderbolt Force, drawing a lightning tribulation over the camp and striking down fleeing demons.
• Jiang Hao used the lightning to kill a Demon General who had mocked him, while the Army Ants and Thunderbolt Force devastated the camp and killed at least thirteen Demon Generals, including Lang Huan.
• Three days after the battle, Jiang Hao traveled toward the Icefield Snow Region on the Mutated Phoenix, still recovering from life-threatening injuries.

Jiang Hao left Xue'er in the Icefield Snow Region and returned toward Shenzhou, unaware that she had begun a bloody campaign against the Demon Race People. While Jiang Hao planned for the coming upheaval, the Cangling Kingdom seized Primordial City and marched on Shenzhou, prompting Guo Dundun to lead the Self-Defense Army in a counterattack.

• Jiang Hao agreed to leave Xue'er to reunite with her clan, and she watched him go before setting her sights on the Ten Thousand Great Mountains.
• Jiang Hao learned of the world's changes and planned to annex the Cangling Kingdom and prepare Shenzhou for the coming revival.
• The Cangling Kingdom captured Primordial City with a million troops and sent six hundred thousand toward Shenzhou City while Jiang Hao was away.
• Guo Dundun ordered the Self-Defense Army to march on Primordial City, executed nearly a hundred men who refused to move, and reached the city with fifty thousand troops.
• Guo Dundun ordered the archers and crossbowmen to fire, while ranged Beast Tamers empowered the airborne projectiles with their skills, terrifying the defenders on the battlements.

Guo Dundun led the Self-Defense Army’s assault on Primordial City, where skill-bearing arrows and disciplined troops shattered the Cangling Kingdom defenders’ morale. Despite boiling oil and devastating bed crossbows, the attackers kept scaling the walls, and the defending general resorted to killing fleeing soldiers as his army began to lose the city.

• The Self-Defense Army’s skill-infused crossbow volleys panicked the Cangling Kingdom troops, and Guo Dundun ordered his fifty thousand soldiers to storm the walls.
• The defending general sent the Discipline Squad to kill deserters, then organized the defenders’ arrows and Divine Arm Crossbows against the advancing army.
• Cangling Kingdom troops poured boiling oil onto the attackers, but a sudden downpour washed it away and allowed Guo Dundun’s soldiers to resume climbing the walls.
• The defenders fired fifteen powerful bed crossbows into the Self-Defense Army, inflicting heavy casualties, but the attackers continued fighting their way onto the battlements and ramming the city gate.
• As Cangling Kingdom troops fled and the defenders struggled to hold the walls, the general killed several fleeing soldiers with his broadsword.

Guo Dundun recaptured Primordial City and prepared to face General Shangguan’s forces, but his army’s cavalry deployment left the Self-Defense Army’s left flank exposed to a devastating charge. As the battle turned desperate, Guo Mingzhi led Primordial City’s best battalions out to reinforce his son.

• The defending general withdrew from Primordial City, and Guo Dundun’s fifty thousand Self-Defense Army troops retook the city; Guo Dundun reunited with his imprisoned father, Guo Mingzhi.
• After General Shangguan assembled roughly three hundred thousand troops, Hong Cheng’s soldiers were sent to probe Primordial City’s defenses and were driven back with heavy losses.
• Guo Dundun led the Self-Defense Army into a field battle, where Yang Di fought fiercely against the Cangling troops seeking revenge for his father.
• Guo Dundun sent two thousand armored cavalry to the right flank, where they charged Hong Cheng’s army, while Shangguan’s elite cavalry appeared against the Self-Defense Army’s left flank.
• Guo Dundun ordered his forces to attack and force a decisive battle as the Cangling cavalry smashed into the left flank’s shield line.
• Guo Mingzhi led the First, Third, and Fifth Battalions of the Primordial City Army out to reinforce the battered flank.

The Self-Defense Army repelled the Cangling Army’s assault on Primordial City after its cavalry failed to break through the defenders’ iron-shield formations. Afterward, Guo Dundun refused repeated challenges, judged that the enemy’s position had weakened, and sent reports to Shenzhou City.

• The Cangling cavalry’s charge struck the Self-Defense Army’s defenses, but Guo Mingzhi and the arriving First, Third, and Fifth Battalions helped block a flanking attack and protect the Central Army.
• Both armies fought a brutal battle as Shangguan ordered his main force forward, while the Self-Defense Army’s cavalry routed the Hongcheng troops.
• The Cangling Army withdrew after suffering heavy casualties, and Guo Dundun’s exhausted soldiers did not pursue.
• General Shangguan’s advisers urged another attack, and Shangguan agreed to test the Self-Defense Army by sending men to taunt them over the next three days.
• Guo Dundun kept the Self-Defense Army inside Primordial City, reasoning that the enemy had weakened and that a prolonged siege would threaten the city’s supplies and morale.
• Guo Dundun sent reports about the battle to Shenzhou City using Projection Flies.

Han Qing ordered a major recruitment drive to reinforce Primordial City as the Cangling Kingdom escalated its invasion. Guo Dundun outmaneuvered General Shangguan, ambushed his vanguard, and prepared to destroy the Cangling main force, which had begun attacking the Self-Defense Army from several directions.

• Han Qing learned that Cangling had committed its main force against Primordial City and ordered the court to announce three hundred thousand reinforcements through recruitment.
• General Shangguan harassed the resting Self-Defense Army, but Guo Dundun kept his main force in place and concealed cavalry near Primordial City.
• After the Self-Defense Army routed Shangguan's vanguard, Guo Dundun's troops camped outside Primordial City while General Shangguan waited for his main force to arrive.
• Zhang Jun ambushed the Cangling vanguard in Mountain God Valley, routing it and taking eight thousand heads and twenty-two thousand prisoners.
• General Shangguan's forces advanced against the Self-Defense Army from multiple directions, while Guo Dundun sent cavalry to engage the enemy riders and ordered Jiang Hailong to return.

Guo Dundun’s Self-Defense Army broke Shangguan’s forces with cavalry, then used Heaven-Shaking Thunder and Repeating Crossbow Carts to shatter their camp and force their surrender. General Shangguan was captured and demanded to know what the iron projectiles were.

• General Shangguan ordered his cavalry to break through, but the Self-Defense Army’s war-wolf cavalry smashed through Shangguan’s left wing and exposed his forward army.
• Guo Dundun ordered Liu Zhiwei’s forward army to attack, while a hidden cavalry force ambushed and annihilated the main army’s twenty-thousand-man vanguard at the Primordial River.
• Guo Dundun ordered the Artillery Battalion to make Heaven-Shaking Thunder and Repeating Crossbow Carts, then attacked Shangguan’s camp with them the following day.
• The bombardment shattered Shangguan’s defenses and morale, and Zhang Jun’s forces blocked his retreat as more of his soldiers surrendered.
• General Shangguan was brought before Guo Dundun, challenged his claims of victory, and asked what the iron projectiles were.

Cangling’s army attacked Hanshan City while Yang Qingliu’s cavalry waited nearby to ambush them. After Yang Qingliu routed Chen Alan’s force and captured him, she withdrew when the Cangling Desert Cavalry arrived, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Ouyang Mingyue assigned Chen Alan thirteen thousand troops to seize Hanshan City and secure a retreat route.
• Chen Alan’s army attacked Hanshan City, where the defenders and local volunteers fought fiercely until Yang Qingliu led five thousand cavalry to their aid.
• Yang Qingliu’s cavalry struck Chen Alan’s force from both flanks and repeatedly charged, routing the Cangling soldiers and capturing Chen Alan.
• Ouyang Mingyue sent the Desert Star Cavalry to support Chen Alan, but they arrived after his force had already been defeated.
• The Desert Cavalry charged Yang Qingliu’s tired cavalry, and Yang Qingliu led her remaining troops in retreat.

Yang Qingliu’s cavalry lured Chen Dazhuang’s desert cavalry into Mountain God Valley, ambushed them, and nearly annihilated the force before returning to strike Chen Alan’s troops near Hanshan City. Ouyang Mingyue learned of the defeats and realized Guo Dundun may have used Shen Zaitian’s cavalry as a decoy while concentrating the Self-Defense Army’s elite cavalry near Hanshan City.

• Yang Di received word that Yang Qingliu had defeated the Cangling Army’s vanguard and drawn Chen Dazhuang’s cavalry after her, so Guo Dundun sent Shen Zaitian out with fifteen thousand cavalry.
• Yang Qingliu led Chen Dazhuang toward Mountain God Valley, where her thousand riders fought his cavalry head-on as Shi Wan and other Self-Defense Army forces emerged from the ridges and attacked.
• Chen Dazhuang fled, and after two hours the Self-Defense Army had annihilated nearly all five thousand desert cavalry, losing about five hundred soldiers before Yang Qingliu led her force back toward Hanshan City.
• Yang Qingliu ambushed Chen Alan’s advancing infantry near Hanshan City, killing or scattering his troops and capturing horses, weapons, armor, and grain.
• Ouyang Mingyue read Chen Dazhuang’s report and learned that Chen Alan and Chen Dazhuang had both been defeated by Yang Qingliu, with nearly five thousand elite desert cavalry lost.
• Ouyang Mingyue suspected that Guo Dundun had sent Shen Zaitian’s fifteen thousand cavalry as a decoy while keeping the Self-Defense Army’s main cavalry force near Hanshan City.

Yang Qingliu led fifteen thousand Self-Defense Army cavalry through a torrential storm to defend Hanshan City as Han Cheng and Chen Alan brought the Cangling Army against it. The city came under siege, and Yang Qingliu’s cavalry clashed with Chen Alan’s cavalry while the Cangling Army’s infantry formation remained intact.

• Ouyang Mingyue ordered Han Cheng to march with fifty thousand troops toward Hanshan City, while Shi Wan took five thousand cavalry to delay him.
• Yang Qingliu ordered the civilians bringing grain back to Hanshan City, assembled her army, and led fifteen thousand cavalry toward the city.
• Han Cheng advanced through the storm with scouts searching for the Self-Defense Army, while Chen Alan’s vanguard approached Hanshan City and formed a disciplined defensive line.
• Chen Alan ordered an assault on Hanshan City, and the defenders fired arrows from the walls as Cangling Army soldiers climbed siege ladders.
• Yang Qingliu led five thousand cavalry into a clash with three thousand Cangling Army cavalry, and both sides suffered casualties as their mounts and riders fought in the mud.

Yang Qingliu’s cavalry fought the Cangling Army to a costly stalemate near Hanshan City, while Guo Dundun received the Empress’s order to end the invasion within a month. Guo Dundun went to reinforce Yang Qingliu and challenged Han Cheng to a decisive battle, which Han Cheng eagerly accepted.

• Yang Qingliu’s cavalry repelled repeated Cangling Army charges and withdrew at dusk after both sides were exhausted.
• Guo Dundun received Yang Qingliu’s victory report, then learned that Chief Steward Xiao Qing had arrived with the Empress’s order to eliminate the invaders within a month.
• After reports warned that Han Cheng and Chen Alan might join forces and threaten Hanshan City, Guo Dundun personally led ten thousand troops to reinforce Yang Qingliu.
• Guo Dundun praised Yang Qingliu for holding back the enemy and announced that he would challenge Han Cheng to a decisive battle after three days of rest.
• Han Cheng learned that Guo Dundun had arrived and accepted the challenge, vowing to defeat him and capture him alive.

The Self-Defense Army and the Cangling Army began the battle for Hanshan City, with Guo Dundun forcing an early clash between their elite vanguards. As Yang Qingliu’s cavalry gained the upper hand against Chen Dazhuang’s infantry, Han Cheng prepared to unleash his Desert Cavalry, while Guo Dundun sent Shen Zaitian to reinforce the fight.

• Guo Dundun ordered the Self-Defense Army to advance toward Hanshan City after scouts reported no enemy cavalry in sight.
• Guo Dundun sent Yang Qingliu and five thousand cavalry to attack the Cangling Army’s vanguard, and Chen Dazhuang advanced with infantry and cavalry to meet them.
• Yang Qingliu’s cavalry charged Chen Dazhuang’s infantry, and the brutal fighting left the Cangling vanguard suffering heavier losses and beginning to falter.
• Chen Alan and Han Cheng refused Chen Dazhuang permission to withdraw, and Han Cheng ordered Chen Alan to reinforce the vanguard while he rode toward the concealed Desert Cavalry.
• After learning that the Cangling Army had sent reinforcements, Guo Dundun ordered Shen Zaitian to lead two thousand infantry to hold back the enemy vanguard and free Yang Qingliu to face the coming cavalry attack.

Guo Dundun led the Self-Defense Army’s cavalry in a head-on clash with Han Cheng’s Desert Cavalry and routed the larger force. He then redirected his riders toward the Cangling Army’s left-wing infantry.

• Shen Zaitian’s reinforcements joined the bloody vanguard battle as both armies committed their strongest troops.
• Han Cheng sent his five thousand Desert Cavalry around the Self-Defense Army’s flanks, while Guo Dundun raised the Marshal’s Banner and prepared two thousand cavalry on the right wing.
• Guo Dundun charged Han Cheng’s cavalry, broke through their formation, and adapted his riders to pursue them as they split and regrouped.
• Han Cheng lost his war hammer in a clash with Guo Dundun and withdrew as the Self-Defense Army routed the Desert Cavalry.
• Guo Dundun abandoned pursuit of the fleeing cavalry and led his riders toward the Cangling Army’s left-wing infantry.