Chapter Summaries

As the Great Yuan Army besieged Red Dragon City, Meng Chixing overwhelmed Ming’s Heavenly Realm defenders while Yu Huatian remained in seclusion. Yu Huatian finally appeared, grievously wounded Meng Chixing with a single sword strike, and echoed his insult about a firefly’s glow.

• The Great Yuan Army assaulted Red Dragon City while Ming soldiers and martial artists defended its walls.
• Meng Chixing fought Xu Hongru, Zhang Sanfeng, and the other Heavenly Realm defenders, leaving them in danger as Ming’s experts waited for Yu Huatian to emerge from seclusion.
• Meng Chixing struck down the Five Elements Ancestor and Bai Tianyu, then attacked Zhang Sanfeng with a Primordial Spirit technique and wounded him severely.
• As Meng Chixing moved to finish Zhang Sanfeng, Yu Huatian appeared and shattered his attack with a sword strike that severed his arm and sent him crashing down.
• Yu Huatian looked at Meng Chixing and asked whether he could now see the gap between them.

Yu Huatian arrived at Red Dragon City and defeated Meng Chixing with one strike, then faced Mo Yiming and Great Yuan’s other experts. Mo Yiming’s Primordial Spirit attack failed when three colossal beasts in Yu Huatian’s Sea of Consciousness destroyed it, leaving the enemy side shaken.

• Yu Huatian struck down Meng Chixing, boosting Ming’s morale and alarming Great Yuan’s commanders.
• Yu Huatian checked on Zhang Sanfeng and thanked Xu Hongru, the Five Elements Ancestor, and Bai Tianyu for defending Ming.
• Mo Yiming, Yan Fei, Ba Shiba, and Pang Ban confronted Yu Huatian, and Mo Yiming demanded that he atone for killing Xiang Yutian.
• Yu Huatian refused Mo Yiming’s demand, and Mo Yiming unleashed a Primordial Spirit attack.
• Yu Huatian revealed his Sea of Consciousness, where a White Tiger shattered Mo Yiming’s Primordial Spirit while an Azure Dragon and Black Tortoise watched.
• Mo Yiming spat blood and asked what lived in Yu Huatian’s Sea of Consciousness, and Yu Huatian called the three beasts his pets.

Yu Huatian and his allies fought Mo Yiming and Great Yuan’s forces at Red Dragon City, while Bai Yujing and Xie Xuan joined the battle after breaking through. Water God Ancestor killed Meng Chixing, and Yu Huatian absorbed his Primordial Spirit before Water God Ancestor turned on Si Hanfei as Mo Yiming emerged nearby.

• Bai Yujing reached the Ninth Heaven Realm and Xie Xuan advanced to the Seventh Heaven Realm, then Bai Yujing challenged Yan Fei while Yu Huatian attacked Mo Yiming.
• Mo Yiming trapped Yu Huatian inside his Demonic Seed Domain, where thousands of ghostly figures surrounded him.
• Ma Jinliang ordered the Ming forces to counterattack, and Ye Gucheng led the top great grandmasters to intercept Si Hanfei.
• Water God Ancestor struck Si Hanfei down, tore Meng Chixing apart, and defeated the Great Yuan experts who tried to stop him.
• Yu Huatian refined Meng Chixing’s Primordial Spirit and ordered Water God Ancestor to kill Si Hanfei, just as Mo Yiming emerged from the void.

Yu Huatian helped turn the battle against Great Yuan into a rout, then joined the Water God Ancestor to defeat Mo Yiming. Mo Yiming chose to destroy his own will rather than be reborn, leaving Yu Huatian to claim his unmastered Primordial Spirit power.

• Yu Huatian stopped Mo Yiming from rescuing Si Hanfei while the Water God Ancestor overwhelmed the Great Yuan commander.
• Yu Huatian killed Si Hanfei, and the Ming Army routed the leaderless Great Yuan forces.
• The Water God Ancestor's lack of a Primordial Spirit nullified Mo Yiming's attacks, allowing him and Yu Huatian to wear Mo Yiming down.
• Yu Huatian blocked Mo Yiming's attempt to flee and defeated him with a sword strike.
• Mo Yiming destroyed his own will instead of attempting rebirth, and Yu Huatian lunged to absorb his remaining Primordial Spirit power.

After absorbing Mo Yiming’s primordial spirit, Yu Huatian joined Bai Yujing’s battle against Yan Fei, who erupted in fury upon learning his father was dead. Yan Fei was wounded by Yu Huatian and Bai Yujing, while Xie Xuan killed Ba Shiba and joined them, leaving Yan Fei facing three swordsmen as he prepared to fight to the death.

• Yu Huatian refined Mo Yiming’s primordial spirit, doubling his own strength and expanding his Primordial Spirit Emergence to thirty li.
• Yu Huatian and the Water God Ancestor joined Bai Yujing’s fight against Yan Fei, and Yu Huatian revealed that Mo Yiming had been killed.
• Yan Fei saw Mo Yiming’s remains and attacked Yu Huatian in a rage, overwhelming the Water God Ancestor and wounding Yu Huatian.
• Bai Yujing and Yu Huatian countered Yan Fei with their sword techniques, and Yu Huatian’s One Sword Breaks Ten Thousand Techniques wounded him.
• Xie Xuan killed Ba Shiba and joined Yu Huatian and Bai Yujing, while Yan Fei prepared to stake his life against the three swordsmen.

Yu Huatian, Bai Yujing, and Xie Xuan defeated Yan Fei’s Union with the Dao-powered attack, but an ancient jade pendant kept him alive and the Demonic Gate Sage Lord Mu Qingliu rescued him. Yu Huatian was left injured as Mu Qingliu escaped with Yan Fei, while the pendant remained behind in the void.

• Yu Huatian, Bai Yujing, and Xie Xuan joined their sword strikes against Yan Fei, who opened the Immortal Gate and unleashed power that touched the Union with the Dao Realm.
• The clash shattered the sky and devastated the ground, leaving thousands dead or wounded and seriously injuring Yu Huatian, Bai Yujing, and Xie Xuan.
• Yu Huatian and the others found Yan Fei barely alive, protected by an ancient jade pendant, and Yu Huatian moved to finish him.
• Mu Qingliu appeared, rescued Yan Fei, and fought off Yu Huatian before fleeing toward the Northern Region using the Demonic Gate Escape Art.
• Bai Yujing identified the stranger as the Demonic Gate Sage Lord Mu Qingliu and stopped Yu Huatian from pursuing him.
• Xie Xuan spotted the ancient jade pendant floating in the void after Mu Qingliu and Yan Fei had escaped.

After Ming defeated the Yuan army, Su Huirong backed Yu Huatian’s plan to invade Great Yuan, while other dynasties moved to contain Yuan’s allies. Meng Tian prepared to block those reinforcements, and Yan Fei woke from his injuries determined that Ying Yuan would stop Yu Huatian from obtaining the War God Hall’s secrets.

• A messenger reported that Yu Huatian had routed the Yuan army at Red Dragon City and killed Si Hanfei, but planned to continue north and attack Great Yuan.
• Su Huirong ordered Ming to provide Yu Huatian with supplies and publicized his warning that anyone who invaded Ming would be slain, however far away they were.
• Great Han and Great Sui committed their armies to pin down Yuan’s allies, while Great Song focused on recovering from its own crisis.
• Meng Tian learned that Liao, Jin, Tubo, and other states were sending four hundred thousand troops toward Great Yuan, and ordered his forces to hold their position and block them.
• Yan Fei awoke at Tianwang Tomb, discovered the Heart Pendant had been lost, and learned that Yu Huatian intended to attack Great Yuan.
• Yan Fei told Mu Qingliu that Ying Yuan held the Earth Pendant and would seize the Heart Pendant if Yu Huatian entered Great Yuan.

While Ming assembled its forces for a northern campaign against Great Yuan, Yu Huatian refined the Phoenix and Qilin essence blood, awakened all five sacred beast bloodlines, and broke through to the Sixth Heaven Realm. He named his transformed constitution the Five Elements Sacred Body and began studying the Twelve Profound Yin Swords and the Four Ultimate Chaos Skills.

• Yu Huatian left military preparations in Red Dragon City to Sun Chuanting, Sun Chengzong, and the other generals while he entered seclusion to strengthen himself.
• Yu Huatian refined a drop of Phoenix essence blood, then began refining a drop of Qilin essence blood.
• After seven days, Yu Huatian awakened all five sacred beast bloodlines, and their powers transformed his physique and accelerated his absorption of spiritual energy.
• Yu Huatian broke through from the Fifth Heaven Realm to the Sixth Heaven Realm and named his new constitution the Five Elements Sacred Body.
• Yu Huatian declared confidence in facing an expert like Yan Fei and began comprehending the Twelve Profound Yin Swords and the Four Ultimate Chaos Skills.

Yu Huatian arrived to lead Ming’s six-hundred-thousand-strong Northern Expedition against Great Yuan, ordering a ruthless campaign to destroy its core strength. He then set out with Bai Yujing, Xie Xuan, and the Water God Ancestor to eliminate Great Yuan’s Heavenly Realm experts and raze its Kyoto.

• Sun Chengzong and Sun Chuanting waited with Ming’s commanders and martial artists for Yu Huatian to emerge and lead the Northern Expedition.
• Yu Huatian arrived, and the four Heavenly Beings sensed that his strength had increased again.
• Yu Huatian ordered the army and Jianghu sects to divide into twelve forces, march light, seize supplies from Great Yuan, and show no mercy.
• Yu Huatian assigned Lian Chengbi, Murong Qiudi, Yuan Chengzhi, and Wen Qingqing to extend their intelligence networks into the grasslands.
• Yu Huatian departed with Bai Yujing, Xie Xuan, and the Water God Ancestor to kill Great Yuan’s Heavenly Realm experts and destroy its Kyoto.

After Ming’s army entered the grasslands, Yuan Emperor Temür and his court sought a way to resist, and Jinlun Fawang promised to summon the Living Buddha. Pang Ban, doubtful that the Living Buddha could stop Yu Huatian, urged his disciple Han Bai to flee and entrusted him with the Rain-Covering Sword.

• Yuan Emperor Temür learned that six hundred thousand Ming soldiers had entered the grasslands and rebuked the officials who had pushed for war.
• Jinlun Fawang argued that Great Yuan’s troops could withstand Ming’s army and offered to bring the Living Buddha from the Potala Palace to confront Ming’s experts.
• Pang Ban confirmed that Yu Huatian had killed Si Hanfei, Meng Chixing, and Ba Shiba, but privately doubted the Living Buddha could defeat him.
• Pang Ban met Han Bai, who had reached the peak of the Great Grandmaster realm, and told him to abandon revenge and leave Great Yuan.
• Pang Ban gave Han Bai the Rain-Covering Sword and asked him to fight Lang Fanyun in his place if he had the chance.

Yu Huatian and three allies arrived over Dadu as Great Yuan prepared to face the Ming army, and they confronted Temür beneath the pressure of Great Yuan’s powerful dragon vein. After Temür offered Yu Huatian the throne to recruit him, Yu refused and demanded Great Yuan submit to Ming, leaving Temür asking whether Yu would honor his promise to spare lives.

• Temür learned that six hundred thousand Ming troops had entered the Great Desert and began mustering Great Yuan’s forces.
• Yu Huatian, Bai Yujing, Xie Xuan, and the Water God Ancestor flew over Dadu, where two night eagles alerted the city to their arrival.
• The four approached the Imperial Palace, but Great Yuan’s powerful dragon vein forced them to halt as Temür and his officials came out to meet them.
• Yu Huatian identified himself and told Temür that he had killed Si Hanfei and Meng Chixing.
• Temür offered to abdicate, grant Yu Huatian the throne, and marry him to his daughter, but Yu refused and demanded Great Yuan submit to Ming.
• After Yu promised to spare Temür and reduce casualties if Great Yuan surrendered, Temür asked whether he meant it.

Yu Huatian and three allies arrived above Dadu as Great Yuan prepared to fight the approaching Ming Army. Temür tried to recruit Yu Huatian by offering him the throne, but Yu Huatian refused and demanded Great Yuan's submission, leaving Temür to question whether he meant the offer of mercy.

• Temür learned that six hundred thousand Ming troops were advancing across the Great Desert and began mustering Great Yuan's forces.
• Yu Huatian, Bai Yujing, Xie Xuan, and the Water God Ancestor reached Dadu, where Great Yuan's dragon vein released a powerful pressure.
• Temür confronted the four Heavenly Beings, and Yu Huatian revealed that he had killed Si Hanfei and Meng Chixing.
• Temür offered to abdicate and make Yu Huatian emperor of Great Yuan, but Yu Huatian refused and demanded that Great Yuan submit to Ming.
• Temür gritted his teeth and asked Yu Huatian whether he truly meant that he would spare Temür's life and kill fewer of Great Yuan's people.

Ying Yuan proved vastly stronger than the four Heavenly Beings, but Yu Huatian, Bai Yujing, and Xie Xuan broke through his suppression and survived his Meditation Seal. As Ying Yuan declared that they had won, the Immortal Gate appeared in the sky and its light began to envelop him.

• The Water God Ancestor charged Ying Yuan and was crippled within a few breaths, prompting Yu Huatian, Bai Yujing, and Xie Xuan to attack together.
• Ying Yuan’s Buddha Light Domain suppressed the three swordsmen, but Yu Huatian unleashed the Five Sacred Beast bloodlines and broke through it.
• Ying Yuan used the Meditation Seal to shatter the three sword strikes, injuring all three attackers and devastating the surrounding area.
• Yu Huatian recovered and prepared to fight again with Bai Yujing, while Xie Xuan went below to heal; Ying Yuan said the battle was over and that they had won.
• Ying Yuan pointed out a vast thundercloud vortex and identified the descending phenomenon as the Immortal Gate, whose holy light began enveloping him.

As Ying Yuan ascended, he gave Yu Huatian the Earth Pendant and revealed that the Three Pendants could lead to War God Hall and its forty-nine supreme arts. Yu Huatian glimpsed the Immortal Domain and a mysterious figure in a Blackwater Dragon Robe, but everyone else forgot what appeared beyond the Immortal Gate.

• Ying Yuan joined his Earth Pendant with Yu Huatian’s Heart Pendant and explained that the missing Heaven Pendant would complete the key to War God Hall.
• Ying Yuan revealed that his father, Chuanying, had entered War God Hall and learned the War God Catalogue’s forty-nine arts, and he gave Yu Huatian the Earth Pendant before asking him to spare Great Yuan’s survivors.
• Ying Yuan promised Yu Huatian the Eagle Saber, containing his father’s legacy, and Yu Huatian agreed not to slaughter the defeated if they did not resist to the end.
• Ying Yuan surrendered to the Guiding Force and ascended through the Immortal Gate as the people of Dadu watched.
• Yu Huatian saw a vast Immortal Domain beyond the gate and glimpsed a powerful figure in a Blackwater Dragon Robe, while Bai Yujing and the others saw nothing and later remembered no such vision.

Ying Yuan battled Yu Huatian, Bai Yujing, Xie Xuan, and Water God Ancestor, revealing the overwhelming power of the Union with the Dao Realm. After Yu Huatian broke Ying Yuan’s domain and the three swordsmen survived his Buddha Hand Seal, Ying Yuan declared that they had won as the Immortal Gate appeared and began drawing him in.

• Water God Ancestor charged Ying Yuan and was crippled within moments, shocking Yu Huatian, Bai Yujing, and Xie Xuan.
• Yu Huatian, Bai Yujing, and Xie Xuan attacked Ying Yuan, whose Buddha Light Domain suppressed their Sword Intent.
• Yu Huatian unleashed the Five Sacred Beasts’ bloodline powers and tore through Ying Yuan’s domain, then joined Bai Yujing and Xie Xuan in a combined sword strike.
• Ying Yuan countered with his Meditation Seal, shattering the void and injuring all three swordsmen; Xie Xuan descended to heal while Yu Huatian and Bai Yujing prepared to continue.
• Ying Yuan told Yu Huatian and Bai Yujing they had won and pointed out the approaching Immortal Gate, whose guiding light began enveloping him.

After Great Yuan fell, the remaining powers across the Divine Land prepared for Ming’s rise while Yu Huatian returned to the capital intent on improving his strength and unifying the realm. As he tried to spend his vast fortune on rewards, the system offered him a new feature: merit exchange.

• News of Great Yuan’s destruction spread, and the grassland nations formed an alliance while Great Song fortified its eastern border, Great Sui watched cautiously, and Great Han’s rival powers sent spies.
• Yu Huatian returned to Ming after destroying Great Yuan, taking the Eagle Saber and gaining fortune, the Shenzhao Scripture, and Chuanying’s legacy.
• In the West Depot’s secret chamber, Yu Huatian reviewed his strength and planned to use his fortune to advance his martial and sword realms.
• Yu Huatian asked the system to draw fifty diamond rewards, but it offered to activate merit exchange because his fortune exceeded fifty million.

Yu Huatian exchanged all his plundered fortune for merit and used Spirit Grade draws to obtain several powerful cultivation arts and weapons. The final draw gave him Myriad Dao Senluo, whose appearance left him wondering whether the system had misused his merit.

• Yu Huatian learned how merit differed from fortune, exchanged all 58,968,988 strands of fortune for 5,896.8988 merit points, and made a Spirit Grade draw that gave him the Shushan Sword Art.
• Yu Huatian studied the Shushan Sword Art’s four stages and considered how its cultivation path might relate to his existing sword arts.
• Yu Huatian drew the Demonic Sword, sensed a hostile sword spirit sealed within it, then drew Carefree Wind Control and recognized it as a profound art leading toward the Immortal Dao.
• Yu Huatian drew the Heavenly Mirror Divine Skill and suspected the system might be responding to his thoughts, but dismissed his concerns.
• Yu Huatian spent his remaining merit on a final draw and received Myriad Dao Senluo, then wondered whether the system had embezzled his merit points.

After mastering the Heavenly Mirror Divine Skill and merging its arts, Yu Huatian considered whether to pursue the Shushan Sword Art or Carefree Wind Control. He perfected Myriad Dao Senluo and began testing whether it could let him cultivate both the sword and martial paths together.

• Ming consolidated its control of the northern grasslands while the other powers remained wary of a westward expedition.
• Yu Huatian merged the Heavenly Mirror Divine Skill's martial arts into several principal arts and created Divine Domain Magnetic Field from Primordial Spirit techniques.
• Yu Huatian studied Myriad Dao Senluo and learned that it could absorb and merge cultivation methods beyond the Martial Dao.
• Yu Huatian used merit to bring Myriad Dao Senluo to perfection, then mastered the first three levels of the Shushan Sword Art.
• Yu Huatian found that he needed to comprehend the fourth level of the Shushan Sword Art on his own and began testing Myriad Dao Senluo by absorbing it before cultivating Carefree Wind Control.

Yu Huatian cultivated Carefree Wind Control alongside the Shushan Sword Art, confirmed that their power could merge into his Sword Qi, and resolved not to depend on the system. He prepared to refine Black Tortoise and Phoenix essence blood to strengthen his cultivation, and the chapter ended as the refinement began.

• Yu Huatian used the system to cultivate Carefree Wind Control to the fourth level and found that its spiritual energy fused with his other techniques into purer Sword Qi.
• When the system no longer offered him the option to cultivate the fifth level, Yu Huatian questioned his dependence on it and decided to comprehend further realms himself.
• Yu Huatian reviewed his cultivation and planned to merge Myriad Dao Senluo into the Divine Sword Canon while keeping his other techniques separate until they reached perfection.
• Yu Huatian chose Black Tortoise and Phoenix essence blood to balance his Five Sacred Beast bloodlines and prepare for a breakthrough.
• Yu Huatian swallowed both drops of essence blood and began refining their power with his Sword Essence.

Yu Huatian broke through to the Seventh Heaven Realm during his half-year seclusion, then learned that three Dongying factions had entered Ming and Qing Provinces to find the emperor’s illegitimate son. He considered exploiting Dongying’s turmoil but suspected Xiao Aoshi, the millennia-old expert behind the Hidden Sword School, might be manipulating events.

• Yu Huatian refined more Sacred Beast Essence Blood and broke through from the Sixth Heaven Realm to the Seventh Heaven Realm.
• Ma Jinliang reported that Ming had absorbed Great Yuan and pacified the Northern Region during Yu Huatian’s six months of seclusion.
• Ma Jinliang explained that the Wujue God Palace, the Hidden Sword School, and the Iga School and Yagyu Family had entered Ming to search for Shenwu Kazuo’s illegitimate son.
• Yu Huatian recognized the Hidden Sword School’s leader, Chini, as the illegitimate son of the Holy King of Buyeo and suspected the search could be used to control Dongying.
• Yu Huatian considered whether Xiao Aoshi, the Hidden Sword School’s powerful backer, was driving the conflict behind the scenes.