Chapter Summaries

Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang broke the Grand Princess’s illusion, then learned she had targeted Fang Yue’s Destiny Dragon Soul and fought her after she tried to seize it. After the Wen Family arrived and accused them of killing its son, they escaped to Divine Capital City and went into hiding, wary of the Wen Family’s alliance with the Grand Princess.

• Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang found and destroyed the illusion’s Formation Diagram, revealing that the Grand Princess had designed the illusion to refine Fang Yue’s Destiny Dragon Soul.
• The Grand Princess ordered her Black Clad Warriors to attack, then fought Fang Yue herself and was injured by his punch.
• The Head of the Wen Family arrived with warriors, accused Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang of killing his son, and ordered his people to attack them.
• Fang Yue repelled the Wen Family warriors with Origin Energy, took Zhu Linlang, and fled Yuhua Terrace.
• Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang returned to Divine Capital City in disguise and hid at an inconspicuous inn, suspecting the Wen Family had allied with the Grand Princess.

Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang watched the growing struggle in Great Wei as the dying Son of Heaven prepared a Spirit Refining Array and the Grand Princess plotted to obtain the Imperial Seal. Li Shengdong recruited Fang Yue to help the Shadow Pavilion seize the seal from the Imperial Family's Secret Vault, while secretly planning to kill him afterward; Fang Yue told Zhu Linlang about the scheme, and she warned him not to trust the Shadow Pavilion.

• Zhu Linlang and Fang Yue agreed to gather intelligence and wait for the right moment as the Son of Heaven's illness worsened.
• The Son of Heaven learned that the Grand Princess was gathering support and ordered surveillance of her, Zhu Linlang, and Fang Yue while preparing to trap visiting experts in a Spirit Refining Array.
• The Grand Princess monitored Zhu Linlang and Fang Yue and began plotting to obtain the Great Wei Imperial Family's Imperial Seal.
• Li Shengdong told Fang Yue that the Imperial Family planned to open the Secret Vault early and asked him to use his Destiny Dragon Soul to help seize the Imperial Seal.
• Fang Yue agreed to join the Shadow Pavilion's operation in three days after demanding a detailed plan and protection for his companions.
• Li Shengdong privately vowed to kill Fang Yue after obtaining the Imperial Seal, while Fang Yue told Zhu Linlang about the plan and she cautioned him against trusting the Shadow Pavilion.

Fang Yue, Zhu Linlang, and Shadow Pavilion joined rival factions and the Great Wei Imperial Family to enter a hidden treasury beneath Divine Capital City. Inside, they discovered not a vault but a vast underground city identified as the ruins of the Ancient Divine Sect.

• Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang prepared for Shadow Pavilion’s operation, then joined Li Shengdong and his masked followers on their way to the treasury.
• Li Shengdong split the group to evade the Imperial Guard, and the factions gathered near the treasury entrance encountered one another.
• Li Shengdong persuaded the Heavenly Gang Sect and Spirit Snake Hall to cooperate temporarily, while the Blood Demon Sect and the Great Wei Imperial Family also arrived.
• The factions accepted the Golden Armored General’s proposal to explore together and let the Great Wei Imperial Family oversee the distribution of treasures.
• The groups combined their power to open the Stone Gate, passed through the ancient passage, and discovered a huge underground city that the Golden Armored General identified as the ruins of the Ancient Divine Sect.

Fang Yue and the others entered the underground city of the Ancient Divine Sect, where a trap separated Fang Yue from Shadow Pavilion. Alone in the Time Market illusion, he uncovered a secret manual and gem, but black-clad strangers stopped him in the corridor and demanded the treasures.

• The Golden Armored General revealed that he served the Grand Princess, who sent imperial guards into the city to search for the Great Wei Imperial Family’s hidden treasury and the Ancient Divine Sect’s secrets.
• Fang Yue, Li Shengdong, and Shadow Pavilion discovered a hidden chamber, triggering a trap that rearranged the city and transported them to separate locations.
• Fang Yue followed the smell of beef into the frozen Time Market, where he learned that truth in one’s heart could reveal real objects hidden among illusions.
• Fang Yue found an ancient treasure chest containing the Ancient Divine Sect’s secret manual and a gem, then returned to the corridor as the illusion collapsed.
• Several black-clad people blocked Fang Yue and demanded that he hand over the treasures.

Fang Yue learned that the Demon Fiend Sect had been recruited by the Great Wei Imperial Family to find an ancient key to the royal treasury, then discovered a clue in a Divine Sect temple. He secretly followed the Grand Princess to a secluded residence, but the secret city rotated and left his position unchanged.

• Fang Yue subdued the Black-clothed Men, took their treasures, and learned about the Demon Fiend Sect’s deal with the Great Wei Imperial Family to locate a key to the royal treasury.
• Fang Yue suspected Li Shengdong had concealed information and set out to investigate, while Li Shengdong ordered Shadow Pavilion members to explore the forest and report sightings of Fang Yue.
• Fang Yue found a mural in the Divine Sect Temple depicting a key and hid when the Grand Princess entered to study it.
• The Grand Princess compared the mural with a parchment, said the key was hidden there, then left for a secluded residence as Fang Yue followed her.
• The secret city rotated violently, but Fang Yue’s position remained unchanged, leading him to wonder whether he was in a safe zone.

Fang Yue and the Grand Princess set aside their grudges and joined forces to search the Dragon Vein Land for the Imperial Seal, while the Emperor and Li Shengdong moved to stop them. After navigating ruins and breaking a seal, they continued deeper into the passages, following the Grand Princess’s map toward the Imperial Seal.

• Fang Yue negotiated with the Grand Princess, who revealed that the key opened a royal treasure trove in the Dragon Vein Land and asked him to retrieve the Imperial Seal.
• Fang Yue agreed to help on the condition that the Grand Princess provide a detailed map and all available information, and that they compete separately for the seal once they found it.
• The Emperor learned that Fang Yue and the Grand Princess were searching for the Imperial Seal and ordered surveillance of the Dragon Vein Land, with the Spirit Refining Array to be activated if they obtained it.
• Li Shengdong ordered Shadow Pavilion’s personnel to find the Imperial Seal before Fang Yue and the Grand Princess.
• Fang Yue and the Grand Princess followed the map through the ruins, broke a sealed Stone Gate, and continued through a rune-lined passage toward the Imperial Seal.

Fang Yue and the Grand Princess reached the Imperial Seal’s Stone Gate, where her Dragon Soul Destiny opened the way and the competing factions followed them through a trapped corridor. At the hall’s sealed doors, Li Shengdong pressured Fang Yue to break the seal, but before Fang Yue found a solution, the doors opened on their own.

• The Grand Princess used her Dragon Soul Destiny to open the Stone Gate, and Fang Yue and the rival faction representatives followed her inside.
• Arrows and other mechanisms attacked the group in the corridor, suppressing their cultivation and injuring members of the Kunshan Sword Sect and the Five Great Clans.
• The group reached the hall’s sealed doors and found that the Demon Fiend Sect’s Grand Elder could not overcome their sealing force.
• Li Shengdong demanded that Fang Yue use his knowledge of ancient seals to open the doors, but Fang Yue could find no solution.
• The hall’s doors slowly opened while Fang Yue was still examining the seal.

Fang Yue uncovered the Grand Princess’s scheme to manipulate the palace’s formation and confronted her in a hidden inner hall. After she used the supposed Imperial Seal to attack him, he blocked its power and watched the Talisman crack apart, revealing that it was fake.

• The Stone Gate opened onto a palace where the dazzling Imperial Seal drove the gathered factions into a violent scramble.
• Fang Yue and Li Shengdong suspected a formation or mechanism was influencing the crowd, and Fang Yue searched for the Grand Princess while Li Shengdong fought toward the Stone Platform.
• Fang Yue activated a hidden mechanism and entered an inner hall, where he found an ancient book and a gem before the Grand Princess arrived with her subordinates.
• Fang Yue fought the Grand Princess and gained the upper hand, forcing her to flee to the Stone Platform and invoke the Imperial Seal with her blood.
• Fang Yue blocked the Seal’s golden attack, and the Grand Princess realized the Talisman was fake as it broke into golden fragments.

Fang Yue and the Grand Princess discovered that the Imperial Seal was an imitation, escaped the collapsing hall, and were trapped with their enemies in a Spirit Refining Array. Meanwhile, the dying Son of Heaven began recovering under a separate healing formation, but King Wucheng appeared in the Imperial Palace to stop him.

• The Imperial Seal shattered, and Fang Yue and the Grand Princess escaped the collapsing hall with the other factions.
• Li Shengdong, Zhao Guangkun, Lu Wushuang, and the other leaders demanded the seal, then attacked Fang Yue and the Grand Princess when they refused.
• An ancient formation trapped everyone in the ruins, and it transformed into a Spirit Refining Array that began draining their souls and vital energy.
• Fang Yue led the trapped fighters in attacking one point of the formation, but their combined assault failed to damage it.
• The imperial clan used a healing Spirit Refining Array to restore the Son of Heaven, whose condition improved as the formation weakened.
• King Wucheng appeared in the Imperial Palace and declared that he would prevent the Son of Heaven from recovering.

King Han intervened when King Wucheng attacked the Spirit Refining Array to seize the throne, but after defeating him, he was wounded by King Wucheng’s treacherous counterattack. The array’s destruction freed Fang Yue and the others in Labyrinth City Hall, where Fang Yue faced Li Shengdong and the Great Wei Grand Princess fled from the pursuing Kunshan Sect and Five Great Families.

• King Han confronted King Wucheng over his attack on the Spirit Refining Array and fought him when he refused to stop.
• King Han defeated King Wucheng and urged him to turn back, but King Wucheng feigned remorse and struck him by surprise.
• King Wucheng destroyed the Spirit Refining Array in the Imperial Palace, causing the array in Labyrinth City Hall to weaken and collapse.
• Fang Yue and the others broke free, but Li Shengdong blocked Fang Yue and the Great Wei Grand Princess, demanding the Imperial Seal.
• Fang Yue clashed with Li Shengdong while the Great Wei Grand Princess ran for the exit, pursued by the Kunshan Sect and the Five Great Families.

Fang Yue defeated Li Shengdong, found Great Wei’s Imperial Seal, and gained the Imperial Scripture from it. After spending several days cultivating in the hidden vault, he emerged to find Great Wei’s Imperial Guards waiting outside.

• The Great Wei Grand Princess escaped Labyrinth City Hall and found Great Wei’s Imperial Guards blocking the exit.
• The Imperial Guard commander ordered the Grand Princess back to the palace, and the guards subdued the Five Great Families and Kunshan Sect when they attacked.
• Fang Yue gained the upper hand against Li Shengdong, wounded him, and won their duel.
• Fang Yue found a black key that opened a hidden vault, where he discovered Great Wei’s Imperial Seal and received the Imperial Scripture.
• Fang Yue studied the Imperial Scripture for several days, then emerged from the vault to find the Imperial Guards waiting for him.

Fang Yue defeated the Imperial Guards, then destroyed the Son of Heaven of Great Wei’s Spirit Refining Array despite King Han’s opposition. The formation backfired and killed the Son of Heaven, leaving Great Wei on the brink of turmoil as Fang Yue recovered in a distant forest.

• Fang Yue evaded the Imperial Guards and defeated their commander, who let him leave the palace.
• The Son of Heaven of Great Wei ordered the palace defenses strengthened and the Spirit Refining Array activated again.
• Fang Yue saw the array’s radiance and returned to destroy it, but King Han confronted him and tried to stop him.
• Fang Yue broke through King Han’s defense and struck the array’s core, causing the formation to collapse before he escaped the palace.
• The Spirit Refining Array backfired on the Son of Heaven of Great Wei, drained his life force, and left him unconscious; news of his death spread the next day.
• Fang Yue recovered in a secluded mountain forest and realized Great Wei was about to descend into chaos.

After mastering the Imperial Scripture, Fang Yue left the mountains and discovered that monsters had infiltrated a village, prompting him to investigate signs of a Demon Race plot. In a nearby city, he learned from Li Yun that the struggle for the vacant throne could become a target of the demons’ schemes, while King Han was positioning himself to claim it.

• King Han ordered his confidants to secretly search for Fang Yue while he focused on securing the throne.
• Fang Yue mastered the Imperial Scripture, recovered fully, and stored away the Imperial Seal after failing to understand it.
• Fang Yue stayed with an elderly farming couple, exposed them as monsters, and subdued them before a sudden light turned them into pools of liquid and released poisonous smoke.
• Fang Yue suspected that the Great Wei Son of Heaven’s death had weakened the Imperial Observatory’s seal, allowing the Demon Race to enter the human world.
• Fang Yue reached a nearby city and heard rumors of Demon Race activity before speaking with Li Yun about the vacant throne and King Han’s ambitions.

Fang Yue learned that King Han was secretly seeking the Imperial Seal and began investigating the artifact before the Blood Dragon Platform attacked him twice. After killing the attackers at an old residence in Yujing City, he discovered that the Imperial Seal’s runes glowed as they absorbed their blood.

• Li Yun told Fang Yue that King Han was recruiting martial world experts and searching for the Imperial Seal, which was rumored to bless the nation.
• Fang Yue examined the gray Talismans that formed the Imperial Seal, then decided to travel to Yujing City to consult the Imperial Observatory’s records.
• Blood Dragon Platform men blocked Fang Yue at the city gate and demanded the Imperial Seal, but he wounded their leader and escaped.
• In Yujing City, Fang Yue gathered rumors about King Han and searched an old residence for ancient texts before Blood Dragon Platform men surrounded him.
• Fang Yue defeated and killed the attackers, then saw the Imperial Seal’s runes glow as the Talismans absorbed their blood.

Fang Yue discovered that the Heaven-Shaking Talisman contained the Great Wei Imperial Family’s legacy, but its internal space collapsed after its energy ran low. After the Grand Princess and an Imperial Observatory assassin came for the talisman, Fang Yue fled to a secluded courtyard, where three factions gathered to ambush him; sensing danger, he charged out.

• Fang Yue entered the Heaven-Shaking Talisman’s internal space and learned from its Spirit Body that the talisman carried the Great Wei Imperial Family’s legacy and authority, but the space collapsed when its energy ran low.
• The Great Wei Grand Princess visited Fang Yue and demanded the Heaven-Shaking Talisman, but he refused to return it.
• Fang Yue left his inn at night and moved to a secluded courtyard on the edge of Yujing City.
• An Imperial Observatory expert attacked Fang Yue in the courtyard, but Fang Yue defeated him; the attacker exploded before Fang Yue could question him.
• Representatives of the Imperial Observatory, Blood Dragon Platform, and Great Wei Imperial Family agreed to seize the talisman and eliminate Fang Yue, then assembled their forces near his hiding place.
• As the three factions prepared to attack, Fang Yue sensed danger and charged out of the courtyard.

Fang Yue used the Heaven-Shaking Talisman to mislead and defeat the Imperial Observatory and Blood Dragon Platform pursuers, then overcame the Great Wei Imperial Family’s Grand Princess. She spared her life in exchange for what she knew about the talisman, but learned that its true activation methods were known only to select imperial inheritors.

• Fang Yue escaped the three factions’ ambush and decided to use the Heaven-Shaking Talisman to lure them into traps and defeat them separately.
• Fang Yue created false signs of the talisman’s power to split the factions, then ambushed and severely wounded the Imperial Observatory’s old man.
• Fang Yue used guerrilla tactics to defeat the middle-aged man from the Blood Dragon Platform and take his treasures.
• Fang Yue disarmed the Grand Princess in battle and demanded the Heaven-Shaking Talisman’s secret.
• The Grand Princess explained the talisman’s origins and limits, but said she did not know its full activation methods, which were held by select imperial inheritors.

After the Heaven-Shaking Talisman drew the attention of powerful factions, Fang Yue escaped an ambush by entering the Demon Realm through a hidden node in the Demon Sealing Barrier. He fought off Demon Warriors and hid in a cave, where he saw a group of foreign-dressed fighters battling them.

• Fang Yue failed to control the Heaven-Shaking Talisman and considered trading it because its political burdens outweighed its practical benefit to his cultivation.
• Fang Yue released the Grand Princess, refused Hui Hengwu's demand to hand over the talisman, and planned to seek cooperation with King Han.
• Fang Yue fought off ambushers who attacked him after he left Yujing City, then decided to reach Divine Capital City by traveling through the Demon Realm.
• Fang Yue activated a hidden node in the Demon Sealing Barrier and entered the Demon Realm, where Demon Warriors attacked and pursued him into a cave.
• Fang Yue recovered in the cave and saw a group of foreign-dressed people gaining the upper hand against the Demon Warriors.

Fang Yue befriended Lin Chan’s tribe after they helped drive back the Demon Race, but discovered they had drugged him and planned to use him and the Heaven-Shaking Talisman in a ritual sacrifice. He fought off the tribespeople, and Lin Chan let him leave after Fang Yue rejected his plea for forgiveness.

• Fang Yue met Lin Chan, who explained the Demon Realm and brought him to his tribe.
• Fang Yue joined the tribe’s activities and attended a grand ritual sacrifice as an honored guest.
• Fang Yue sensed he had been poisoned, secretly resisted its effects, and pretended to be unconscious as the tribespeople carried him to the Altar.
• Fang Yue sprang up and confronted Lin Chan, who admitted the tribe wanted to use him to communicate with the gods and gain protection.
• Fang Yue fought the tribespeople, killed a man attacking him with a hammer, and forced Lin Chan to call off the attack.
• Lin Chan revealed that the tribe believed Fang Yue carried a divine artifact, and Fang Yue refused to give it up and demanded to leave.

Fang Yue killed Lin Chan and the nonhuman tribe’s Grand Elder, then continued toward Divine Capital City while the Great Wei Imperial Family and Blood Dragon Platform searched for him. In the Demon Realm, he helped an injured Little Fox and was confronted by a tall, handsome man who knew his name.

• Lin Chan sent the Grand Elder to kill Fang Yue, but Fang Yue defeated and killed him.
• Fang Yue returned to the nonhuman tribe, killed Lin Chan, and left the frightened tribesmen behind.
• King Han ordered the Great Wei Imperial Family to investigate Fang Yue’s family and friends to lure him out.
• Xue Hongyi suspected Fang Yue had entered the Demon Realm and ordered Blood Dragon Platform to locate and kill him, hinting at a trump card.
• Fang Yue treated an injured Little Fox in a forest, then faced a tall, handsome man who asked whether he was Fang Yue.

Fang Yue reached Divine Capital City with Fox Qianjue’s help, agreeing to search for a mysterious key while learning that the Blood Dragon Platform had ambushed the passage’s exit. After defeating the assassins, he reunited with Zhu Linlang and sought an audience with King Han, who threatened to kill him.

• Fox Qianjue offered to take Fang Yue to Divine Capital City if Fang Yue helped find a key connected to an important figure there.
• Fox Mei'er tried to ease Fang Yue’s fatigue with her alluring art, but Fang Yue resisted and she warned him that Divine Capital City was dangerous.
• Fox Qianjue told Fang Yue the key might open an ancient Demon Race treasure ground, then sent him through a spatial passage to the outskirts of Divine Capital City.
• Blood Dragon Platform assassins attacked Fang Yue as he emerged, but he defeated several of them and continued into the city.
• Fang Yue found Zhu Linlang and asked to speak with her father, King Han, about exchanging the Heaven-Shaking Talisman for benefits.
• King Han threatened Fang Yue, and Zhu Linlang stepped between them to ask her father to hear him out.