Chapter Summaries

Fang Yue fought Yang Chan after Wei Ya died and escaped with the mysterious beast hide when Yang Chan was forced to leave by a sudden frigid power. While studying the hide in a secluded cave, Fang Yue reunited with Zhu Linlang, who warned him that it was connected to Yang Chan’s ancient inheritance.

• Yang Chan used an ancient power to defeat Wei Ya, who threw the beast hide to Fang Yue before Yang Chan killed him.
• Fang Yue fled with the hide, then fought Yang Chan to a standstill before Yang Chan abruptly departed when a frigid power arose within him.
• Fang Yue escaped to a mountain cave and tried unsuccessfully to uncover the beast hide’s secrets.
• Zhu Linlang arrived with another woman, and Fang Yue learned she had been fleeing a plot by the Marquis of Champion of Great Chu.
• Fang Yue told Zhu Linlang about Yang Chan and Wei Ya, and they agreed the hide’s mysterious power was linked to Yang Chan and needed careful investigation.

Fang Yue, Zhu Linlang, and the Grand Princess of Great Chu learned that Fang Yue’s Beast Skin Map might lead to a True King Era secret treasury and set out to find it. Yang Chan secretly followed the real map to the treasury, while Great Chu Imperial Guard forces pursued Fang Yue’s group; the chapter ended as the Imperial Guard ambushed them and Zhu Linlang spotted their attempt to surround the trio.

• Fang Yue told Zhu Linlang about Yang Chan’s strange power and Wei Ya’s death, and the Grand Princess of Great Chu identified the beast skin as a key to a True King Era secret treasury.
• Fang Yue, Zhu Linlang, and the Grand Princess prepared to seek the treasury, while the head of the Imperial Guard Prison Office ordered his forces to seize the map from them.
• Yang Chan led his men to Vermilion Bird Mountain with the real Beast Skin Map, revealing that Fang Yue’s map was bait, and reached an ancient altar in the hidden valley.
• Fang Yue, Zhu Linlang, and the Grand Princess traveled through the Hundred Thousand Mountains as Great Chu Imperial Guard masters secretly followed them.
• The Imperial Guard masters ambushed the trio in a forest, and Fang Yue, Zhu Linlang, and the Grand Princess fought back.
• Zhu Linlang noticed that the attackers were trying to surround them and warned Fang Yue.

Fang Yue, Zhu Linlang, and the Grand Princess of Great Chu were ambushed while seeking the True King's Secret Treasury, and Fang Yue rushed to rescue the Grand Princess after receiving a secret message. After General Chen trapped them and demanded the Beast Skin Map, reinforcements helped them defeat him, while Yang Chan's party found a clue to opening the altar at Vermilion Bird Mountain.

• Fang Yue led Zhu Linlang and the Grand Princess of Great Chu through an enemy encirclement, and they escaped into the forest before splitting up to evade pursuit.
• Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang intercepted a carrier pigeon bearing a warning that the Grand Princess was in danger, then hurried to her location and fought through enemy obstructions.
• Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang found the Grand Princess surrounded in a valley, helped her break out, and were then confronted by General Chen, who demanded the Beast Skin Map and declared that they had to die.
• Yang Chan ordered Elder Lin and Elder Li to investigate the unopened altar at Vermilion Bird Mountain, and Elder Lin found an ancient cave whose records revealed a crucial clue.
• Fang Yue, Zhu Linlang, and the Grand Princess fought General Chen's forces; after Fang Yue was wounded, the Grand Princess's arranged reinforcements arrived, and Fang Yue killed General Chen as his soldiers fled.
• Fang Yue and the two women withdrew to a safer valley, where the Grand Princess thanked him and acknowledged that the danger had not passed.

Fang Yue, Zhu Linlang, and the Grand Princess of Great Chu escaped the Imperial Guard but were driven into a miasma-filled cave, where they fought a winged tiger monster and found strange carvings. Fang Yue realized Yang Chan had tampered with the Beast Skin Map to lead them into a trap, and the three set out to find the True King's Secret Treasury by their own judgment.

• Fang Yue, Zhu Linlang, and the Grand Princess of Great Chu fought off black-clad soldiers, crossed a river, and confused their pursuers with false trails in a marsh.
• The three entered a valley filled with deadly miasma and took shelter in a cave, where they found ancient carvings and a faintly glowing stone.
• A winged tiger monster attacked the three, and Fang Yue used the glowing stone to hurt it and drive it back.
• Fang Yue compared the cave and its dangers with the Beast Skin Map and concluded that Yang Chan had falsified it to lead them into a trap and track their movements.
• Fang Yue, Zhu Linlang, and the Grand Princess of Great Chu left the cave and headed toward an unusual mountain peak to search for clues to the treasury's real location.

Fang Yue, Zhu Linlang, and the Grand Princess of Great Chu fought their way through the Hundred Thousand Mountains as demons and treasure-seekers closed in. Yang Chan entered the True King's Secret Treasury passage, where he encountered dangerous restrictions, a massive Stone Gate, and an approaching gigantic beast.

• Fang Yue, Zhu Linlang, and the Grand Princess of Great Chu defeated a demon controlling Poison Bees, then continued toward the True King's Secret Treasury.
• General Zheng ordered his troops to monitor Fang Yue's group and track Yang Chan while waiting for them to weaken.
• Fang Yue's group killed strangers who mistook them for treasure-seekers, and Fang Yue concluded that Yang Chan had framed them and that they needed to find him.
• Yang Chan activated the Altar near Vermilion Bird Mountain and entered the passage to the True King's Secret Treasury with his subordinates.
• Yang Chan's group struggled through powerful restrictions, and one subordinate was struck by a hidden restriction.
• Yang Chan found a rune-covered Stone Gate, but a gigantic beast emerged from the darkness as he ordered his subordinates to prepare for battle.

Yang Chan and his subordinates defeated the beast guarding the stone gate and entered the True King's Secret Treasury, where a mysterious figure attacked them. As rival factions converged on the treasury, Fang Yue killed an Azure Dragon, advanced his Six Revolutions True Spirit Technique, and joined a temporary alliance that was attacked by an unknown force in thick fog.

• Yang Chan led his subordinates in defeating the beast, opened the stone gate with ice-attributed vital energy, and entered the treasure vault, where its treasures were protected by restrictions.
• A shadowy figure appeared in the vault and attacked Yang Chan, while factions across the Hundred Thousand Mountains rushed toward the pillar of light and General Zheng ordered Great Chu's Imperial Guard to pursue.
• Fang Yue, Zhu Linlang, and the Grand Princess encountered an Azure Dragon in a river; Fang Yue lured it onto shore, killed it, and obtained its dragon soul.
• Fang Yue absorbed the dragon soul's power and broke through to a new realm of the Six Revolutions True Spirit Technique before continuing toward the treasury.
• At the mountain, Fang Yue joined the gathered factions as they agreed to enter the treasury together, but thick fog spread across the mountainside and several people at the front were killed by an unseen attacker.

Fang Yue and his companions fought through the True King's Secret Treasury's traps and guardians, then opened the barrier protecting a treasure box. Yang Chan seized the box before Fang Yue could reach it, leaving the two rivals facing off in the treasury's core chamber.

• Fang Yue rallied the crowd against a black-robed Shadow Figure, and they defeated it after the bald Martial Monk dispersed the fog with Buddhist light.
• Yang Chan encountered a mysterious old man in the treasury, agreed to share the treasures, and watched the man fail to break the restrictions.
• Fang Yue's group escaped spike and falling-stone traps, destroyed a mechanism's core, and defeated animated statues by attacking their feet.
• Yang Chan and the old man decided to lure other factions to the restrictions by triggering mechanisms, drawing them toward Yang Chan's location.
• Fang Yue used the Six Revolutions True Spirit Technique to decipher the rune slab and guide everyone in dissolving the barrier around the treasure box.
• Yang Chan snatched the treasure box before Fang Yue could reach it and declared that Fang Yue was unworthy of protecting it.

Fang Yue pursued Yang Chan through the True King's Secret Treasury, where traps, a vital-energy-suppressing passage, and a dangerous secret chamber disrupted both groups. When Fang Yue caught up with the wounded Yang Chan, their clash was interrupted by a gigantic monster, and they joined forces to fight it as its abdomen formed a protective barrier.

• Yang Chan fled with the treasure box, but a descending Stone Gate cut him off from Fang Yue and the others, who split up to search for mechanisms and another route.
• Yang Chan entered a passage that suppressed his vital energy and found a glowing ancient formation, while Fang Yue followed traces of him through the winding corridors.
• A tremor scattered the pursuers, and Yang Chan blundered into a secret chamber where vines wounded him before Fang Yue and the others arrived.
• Fang Yue, Zhu Linlang, the Grand Princess of Great Chu, and their companions cornered Yang Chan and fought him for the treasure box.
• A gigantic monster rose from beneath the chamber floor, forcing Fang Yue and Yang Chan to join the others against it.
• The group attacked the monster's glowing abdomen, but it raised a protective barrier while Yang Chan struck at its legs.

Fang Yue defeated Yang Chan and took the treasure box, but Yang Chan was rescued and the other groups turned against him. A Man in Green used his flute to stop the attackers and led Fang Yue, Zhu Linlang, and the Grand Princess of Great Chu through the passages, where shadowy figures appeared ahead.

• Fang Yue led the others in breaking the monster’s protective barrier, and their attacks brought it down.
• Yang Chan fled, but Fang Yue pursued him into a cavern and defeated him after Yang Chan unleashed dark power.
• A shadowy figure rescued Yang Chan, while Fang Yue kept the treasure box and faced the other groups as they demanded it.
• Fang Yue, Zhu Linlang, and the Grand Princess of Great Chu fought the crowd, and four experts cornered and wounded Fang Yue.
• A Man in Green played a Jade Flute that incapacitated the attackers, then led Fang Yue and his companions through the passages.
• The group followed the Man in Green down the middle passage, where shadowy figures emerged from the darkness.

Fang Yue and his companions escaped the Shadow Figures in the True King's Secret Treasury with help from the Man in Green, who revealed he was searching for a lost treasure. After Yang Chan plotted to target Fang Yue’s loved ones, Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang examined a mysterious box from the treasury, which suddenly began to glow.

• The Man in Green led Fang Yue, Zhu Linlang, and the Grand Princess of Great Chu through the passage, where they defeated the Shadow Figures and escaped into daylight.
• The Man in Green said he was seeking a lost treasure in the True King's Secret Treasury, then parted ways with Fang Yue and the others.
• Yang Chan returned to Town North City and ordered his subordinates to secretly investigate Fang Yue’s family in the Great Wei Dynasty as part of his revenge plan.
• Fang Yue, Zhu Linlang, and the Grand Princess of Great Chu prepared for Yang Chan’s retaliation while traveling, training, and strengthening their defenses.
• Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang rested in a small city near the capital of Great Chu, where Fang Yue tried unsuccessfully to open the box he had brought from the treasury.
• The box began trembling and emitting an increasingly bright light as Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang watched.

Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang investigated the Netherworld Ancient Bell and found clues to a far-northern ruin, but postponed their search until after the peace talks. At the talks in Chu State, Zhu Linlang defended Great Wei's interests as negotiations over borders and trade reached an impasse.

• Fang Yue discovered that the mysterious bell unleashed powerful energy when he infused it with Internal Energy, but he could not control it.
• An old man identified the bell as the Netherworld Ancient Bell and said it might control time and suppress evil spirits, with clues to its use hidden in a ruin in the far north.
• Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang searched Chu State's library tower, gathered clues about the bell and ruin, and decided to pursue the ruin after the peace talks.
• Fang Yue prepared for the negotiations while Zhu Linlang studied the clues and watched for trouble from Yang Chan.
• Zhu Linlang attended the peace talks with the Lord of Chu and argued for clear borders and shared resources, but a Chu general demanded that Great Wei cede several cities.
• As the negotiations stalled, Zhu Linlang urged both sides to consider the suffering that continued conflict would bring to their people.

Fang Yue accepted Yang Chan’s invitation to Cui Cang Mountain, where Yang Chan used a banquet as a trap to confront him over an alleged old debt. Fang Yue defeated Yang Chan’s generals Li Meng and Zhao Ying, but Yang Chan claimed he still had a backup plan.

• During the peace talks, Yang Chan interrupted to demand that Great Wei settle an alleged debt and insisted it be addressed before negotiations continued.
• Yang Chan invited Fang Yue to a banquet at Cui Cang Mountain, and Fang Yue agreed to attend despite Zhu Linlang’s concern.
• Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang sought the Grand Princess of Great Chu’s help, and she promised to ask the Lord of Chu to restrain some Great Grandmasters and warned them about Li Meng and Zhao Ying.
• Fang Yue arrived alone at Cui Cang Mountain and dodged hidden arrows before reaching Yang Chan’s banquet.
• Li Meng attacked Fang Yue while Zhao Ying launched concealed weapons, but Fang Yue killed Li Meng and knocked Zhao Ying down.
• Yang Chan remained undeterred and told Fang Yue that he still had a backup plan.

Fang Yue fought off Yang Chan’s ambush and the Chu State forces, but a powerful royal expert nearly overwhelmed him until the Grand Princess intervened. After they defeated the attackers and Yang Chan fled, Fang Yue collapsed from his injuries, and the Grand Princess took him to her residence for treatment.

• Fang Yue defeated many of Yang Chan’s black-clothed men, then discovered that Yang Chan had called in Chu State forces to kill him.
• A powerful Chu State royal expert joined the battle and gradually overpowered Fang Yue.
• The Grand Princess arrived and protected Fang Yue, insisting that Chu State should not murder an envoy who had come to negotiate peace.
• Fang Yue and the Grand Princess joined forces to defeat the royal expert and his subordinates, while Yang Chan escaped.
• Fang Yue collapsed from exhaustion and his wounds, so the Grand Princess carried him to her secluded residence and began treating him.

The Grand Princess used nearly all her vital essence to heal Fang Yue, and he nursed her back to health before leaving with Zhu Linlang for Great Wei. After Qin Xin rescued them from assassins, Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang entered the Hundred Thousand Mountains, where a Demon Beast attacked them.

• The Grand Princess treated Fang Yue’s internal injuries with her vital essence, then collapsed from exhaustion, and Fang Yue cared for her as she recovered.
• Fang Yue left the Grand Princess to escort Zhu Linlang back to the Great Wei Dynasty, and the Grand Princess sent him off with her blessings.
• The Great Chu Emperor sent Black-clothed Men to kill Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang, but Qin Xin defeated them with her guqin music and departed after introducing herself as a successor of Qin Yin Valley.
• Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang continued to the Hundred Thousand Mountains and entered the perilous range at the border between the two nations.
• A massive Demon Beast charged out of the forest and lunged at Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang.

Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang defeated a Demon Beast in the Hundred Thousand Mountains, then discovered a whispering Crystal Stone deep inside a cave. After the Crystal Stone resonated with Fang Yue’s Netherworld Ancient Bell and the cave collapsed, floating Stone Coffins surrounded them and a powerful figure emerged to attack.

• Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang worked together to find the Demon Beast’s weakness and killed it before continuing through the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
• Zhu Linlang heard strange whispers, leading Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang to a cave where they found a glowing Crystal Stone behind an invisible barrier.
• Fang Yue’s Netherworld Ancient Bell resonated with the Crystal Stone, allowing Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang to hear visions of ancient events before the cave began to collapse.
• Fang Yue shattered a boulder blocking the cave entrance, and Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang escaped as the cavern crumbled.
• Stone Coffins drifted toward Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang, and one opened to release a figure that attacked them.
• Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang fought the powerful figure, suspected its strength was connected to the Crystal Stone, and resolved not to retreat.

Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang defeated a powerful figure, escaped Yang Chan and his Great Chu pursuers, and returned to Great Wei with Yang Chan held captive. Their respite in a border inn ended when Great Wei troops surrounded them under orders to inspect them as impostors, and they began fighting their way out.

• Fang Yue spotted the black mist in the figure's chest, and he and Zhu Linlang attacked it until the figure fell.
• Yang Chan and Great Chu experts ambushed Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang, but Fang Yue seized Yang Chan and forced the others to withdraw.
• Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang fought off trackers, crossed out of the Hundred Thousand Mountains, and brought captive Yang Chan to a border city in Great Wei.
• After one day at an inn, Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang found the Great Wei border troops surrounding them and accusing them of impersonating the Empress and Fang Yue.
• As the troops attacked with arrows, Fang Yue split a wooden board and hurled it into their shields to divert their attention.

After learning that the order to arrest them may have come from the capital, Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang disguised themselves and Yang Chan as a merchant caravan to travel there. Their disguise got them through a checkpoint, but they were then surrounded by bandits working with the garrison, whose leader demanded that Zhu Linlang be left behind.

• Fang Yue infiltrated the border army camp and heard soldiers say the arrest order had reportedly come from the capital.
• Fang Yue returned to Zhu Linlang, and they decided to reach the capital in disguise as merchants, with Yang Chan posing as a servant.
• Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang passed a strict checkpoint after Zhu Linlang bribed a soldier with tea.
• Mountain bandits surrounded the caravan, and Fang Yue recognized a checkpoint soldier among them.
• The bandit leader demanded that the caravan hand over its valuables and then ordered them to leave Zhu Linlang behind.

Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang reached the capital with Yang Chan after escaping bandits and evading the Cloud Soaring Cavalry. They slipped into the city and began preparing to seize control of Divine Capital's Formations, but Prince Chen learned they had returned and ordered the gates sealed so he could capture them.

• Fang Yue had Yang Chan fight off the bandits who threatened Zhu Linlang, and the defeated chief fled with his men.
• Fang Yue, Zhu Linlang, and the caravan continued toward the capital while Yang Chan secretly hoped the escaped bandits would alert his companions.
• The Cloud Soaring Cavalry stopped the caravan outside the capital, but Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang convinced the general to let them pass after their permits and cargo were inspected.
• Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang blended into the crowded city and reached their old residence, where they gathered trusted subordinates to plan their next move.
• A guard told Prince Chen that Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang had returned, and Prince Chen ordered the Cloud Soaring Cavalry to seal the city gates so he could capture them.

Prince Chen hunted Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang through the capital, while they used rumors and staged rituals to mislead him and secretly prepared the Grand Sacrifice. As Prince Chen gained support from the Netherworld Pavilion and other factions, Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang reached the night before the ceremony, but unexpected news arrived just as it was about to begin.

• Prince Chen ordered the Cloud Soaring Cavalry to search for Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang, but his forces found their former residence empty.
• Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang spread rumors and staged mysterious rituals to make Prince Chen believe they were preparing the Grand Sacrifice.
• Prince Chen strengthened the capital's defenses and allied with the Netherworld Pavilion and other martial world factions to pursue Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang.
• Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang accelerated the Grand Sacrifice preparations and used sorcerers and disguise experts to mislead Prince Chen's investigators.
• Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang secretly reached the ceremony site the night before the Grand Sacrifice and checked its arrangements.
• Unexpected news arrived just as the Grand Sacrifice was about to begin.

Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang used the grand sacrifice to lure Prince Chen into an attack while Zhu Linlang took control of the Divine Capital's formation. Prince Chen was captured, the Netherworld Pavilion Master agreed to serve the Great Wei Dynasty, and Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang turned to guarding against other forces.

• Prince Chen prepared to attack Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang, but the Netherworld Pavilion Master persuaded him to wait and set a trap of his own.
• During the grand sacrifice, Prince Chen sent the Cloud Soaring Cavalry against the Altar, where Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang's traps threw them into chaos.
• Zhu Linlang left the Altar to seize control of the Divine Capital's formation while Fang Yue held off Prince Chen's forces and three Great Grandmasters.
• Zhu Linlang activated the formation, which overwhelmed Prince Chen and the three Great Grandmasters and trapped Prince Chen.
• Fang Yue stopped the Netherworld Pavilion Master from escaping, then agreed to spare him if the Netherworld Pavilion served the Great Wei Dynasty.
• Fang Yue and Zhu Linlang discussed strengthening the capital's defenses and monitoring the Imperial Clan Members and other factions.