Recaps

After the Human Race defeated the Giant Spirits on the Canglang Plain, Chu Xisheng and Chu Yunyun investigated the bonded divine treasure behind his system and considered whether it was the legendary Eastern Emperor Mirror. As the chapter ended, Li Changsheng urged Chu Xisheng to master the Divine-Intent Death-Touching Saber's second form, while Ji Qianqian brought evidence that could bring down the Military Bureau and Embroidery Guard in the Ice-Absolute Two Provinces.

• The Giant Spirits retreated into the mountains after suffering nearly a million casualties, while Chu Xisheng stayed in the Sky Wolf Army's camp because his power waned as the enemy's hostility faded.
• Chu Yunyun sensed the bonded divine treasure hidden in Chu Xisheng's Divine Soul and suggested that its belief-based power might magnify his Supreme Communication with the Divine talent.
• Mad Sword Feng San identified the treasure as possibly the Eastern Emperor Mirror, and Chu Yunyun warned Chu Xisheng not to rely on external powers as his foundation.
• Chu Yunyun sealed Chu Xisheng's connections to his magic artifacts, and he used the Heaven-Penetrating Method to break through the seal; he also found that Gate of Li Tan had advanced to Ultimate.
• Li Changsheng confirmed Chu Xisheng had reached Fourth-Rank Lower Stage and told him to learn Boundless Divine Heart before enemies found ways to counter his Divine-Intent Saber Heart.
• Ji Qianqian reported that Du Honglian had gathered enough evidence to uproot the Military Bureau and Embroidery Guard in the Ice-Absolute Two Provinces, and Chu Xisheng and Li Changsheng prepared to act.

Zuo Qingyun learned that Chu Xisheng had routed a five-million-strong Giant Spirit army and become the focus of new martial arts special issues, while the White Tiger Marquis revealed her worsening injuries and urgent plans to transfer her cultivation body. In Zhenghe Hall, Emperor Jianyuan faced the Formless Divine Sect’s retaliation, ordered Chu Xisheng to investigate suspected collaborators, and prepared to receive Ao Guo as Great Ning’s authority weakened.

• Zuo Qingyun bought special issues celebrating Chu Xisheng as the Martial Arts Myth and read accounts of his victories at Canglang Plain and the Ten Thousand Demons Grotto.
• The White Tiger Marquis confirmed Chu Xisheng’s feats, warned that he could face danger if he pursued advancement rituals, and said her injuries required them to move up the transfer of her cultivation body within three days.
• Imperial Preceptor Yu Kunlun described the Blood-Yazi Saber Lord’s past campaigns and the methods used to counter the Divine-Intent Death-Touching Saber, while Emperor Jianyuan demanded funding to train the army in the Concentrating Spirit Art.
• Wei Tuotian and Xiao Hongchen reported the Formless Divine Sect’s arrests of Imperial Court agents and generals, and Emperor Jianyuan ordered Chu Xisheng to investigate officials suspected of colluding with the Giant Spirits.
• Ao Guo requested an audience with Emperor Jianyuan over the battle of Canglang Plain, and the emperor ordered the palace gates opened and summoned sect leaders to the capital.

Gu Mingyue learned that Chu Xisheng had mastered the Divine-Intent Saber Heart and was ordered by his sect to remain in the Iron Banner Gang, gradually earning Chu Xisheng’s trust while monitoring his plans. Meanwhile, Ji Qianqian executed officials implicated in the betrayal of the Sky Wolf Army, and Chu Xisheng advanced his saber studies before Li Changsheng arrived with a bruised face.

• Gu Mingyue received a message revealing Chu Xisheng’s role in routing the Giant Spirit Army and realized Chu Xisheng had sensed his murderous intent from their first meeting.
• Gu Mingyue’s contact ordered him to stay in the Iron Banner Gang and gradually win Chu Xisheng’s confidence, while helping the sect’s planted members Xiang Kui and Wang Zheng when the opportunity arose.
• Ji Qianqian began executing officials accused of colluding with the Giant Spirits, beheaded Lai Tianrong when he protested, and cited the Son of Heaven’s decree authorizing executions without concrete evidence.
• Ji Qianqian’s conviction resonated with the Heavenly Rules, which Zong Sanping and Ren Xiaowo noticed as they supervised the executions.
• Chu Xisheng sensed that his Myriad Heavens Rite for the Upper Fourth Rank was nearly complete, studied Boundless Divine Heart with Shu Huaishi’s Character Card, and learned several layers of the Formless Heaven-Executing Saber.
• Li Changsheng and Chu Yunyun found Chu Xisheng studying; Chu Yunyun explained that the Divine Saber Sect had moved its Main Mountain, while Chu Xisheng wondered how Li Changsheng had bruised his face.

Li Changsheng gave Chu Xisheng a Blood-Tracing Origin Stone, and Chu Xisheng awakened and advanced his Origin God bloodline while training on Formless Divine Mountain. As Chu Xisheng and his companions traveled south to Xiushui Commandery, Lu Luanli challenged him to spar, and her first saber strike caught everyone by surprise.

• Li Changsheng offered Chu Xisheng a Blood-Tracing Origin Stone and warned him about the coming opening of Taiwei Enclosure, whose treasures and texts would draw powerful rivals.
• Chu Yunyun urged Chu Xisheng to preserve room in his blood marrow for developing his own bloodline talents, then reacted with longing to his sixteenth-rank Blood of Eternal Ages.
• After half a month on Formless Divine Mountain, Chu Xisheng sailed south for Xiushui Commandery with Lu Luanli, Mad Sword Feng San, Li Tiangong, and his other companions.
• Chu Xisheng reviewed his strengthened martial arts and bloodlines, including his newly awakened Origin God bloodline, while aboard the Sun-Bathing Divine Vessel.
• Lu Luanli challenged Chu Xisheng to spar after secretly mastering a Concentrating Spirit Art, and her opening saber strike stunned everyone on the ship.

Chu Xisheng returned to Cloudsea Immortal Palace after defeating Lu Luanli in a spar, then recruited her as Deputy Banner Chief of the Iron Banner Gang. When he announced her appointment, Lu Luanli’s Heaven-Rending Secret Ritual unexpectedly completed, leaving her to wonder how chaotic the gang had become.

• Chu Xisheng’s newly awakened Origin God blood automatically activated Twelve Dragon Divine Heavenly Guard, letting him stop Lu Luanli’s Great Bright King Wheel and defeat her with one strike.
• Lu Luanli recovered from her defeat, challenged Chu Xisheng to surpass him, and later pinched him in revenge before they reached Cloudsea Immortal Palace.
• Chu Xisheng reunited with the retired instructor Li Du, while Xu Ridong embarrassed Lu Luanli by asking whether she and Chu Xisheng would marry.
• Lu Luanli opened more palace vaults, received three Cloudsea Sword Puppets, and accepted Chu Xisheng’s offer to become Deputy Banner Chief of the Iron Banner Gang.
• After Chu Xisheng announced Lu Luanli’s appointment in West Mountain Town, her Heaven-Rending Secret Ritual completed, and she wondered what disorder in the gang could have caused it.

Chu Xisheng reorganized the Iron Banner Gang’s war effort, appointing Lu Luanli to oversee land operations and Zhou Liangchen to command a planned naval campaign against the Water and Heaven Society. He then confronted Changsun Ruoli in Jiangnan Commandery, where his Divine-Intent Death-Touching Saber forced her to face him.

• Tie Xiaosheng welcomed Lu Luanli’s appointment as deputy banner chief and described the gang’s stalled western campaign, clashes with Extreme Eastern Ice City, and burned membership registers.
• Chu Xisheng assigned Lu Luanli to lead the land campaign in Fei Province and ordered Zhou Liangchen to prepare a 150,000-strong navy to attack the Water and Heaven Society at East Ping Lake.
• After a four-hour war meeting, Chu Xisheng flew to Jiangnan Commandery with Bai Xiao Zhao and Little Flathead to meet Changsun Ruoli.
• When Changsun Ruoli did not appear, Chu Xisheng struck a Third-Rank Ice City Great General unconscious with his Divine-Intent Death-Touching Saber.
• Changsun Ruoli attacked Chu Xisheng, but he evaded her sword strikes and hit her Divine Sense with his saber intent, revealing the power of the Blood-Yazi Saber Lord’s technique.

Chu Xisheng fought Changsun Ruoli above Jiangnan Commandery, forcing her to accept an investigation into the Ice City soldiers who had killed Iron Banner Gang members. After leaving for Xiushui, he received an urgent message about an unexpected incident in Wang'an City.

• Changsun Ruoli attacked Chu Xisheng, but his Nine Luminaries Divine Wheel Sword and shifting movement kept her from landing a decisive blow.
• Changsun Ruoli unleashed a powerful strike, but Chu Xisheng’s Blood-Yazi Origin Soul turned its backlash against her, and he warned that he would target the Ice City army if she continued.
• Chu Xisheng demanded that Changsun Ruoli hand over the soldiers who killed Iron Banner Gang members; Zhen Impermanence proposed a rigorous Ice City investigation and severe punishment, which Chu Xisheng accepted.
• Chu Xisheng departed Jiangnan Commandery, and Changsun Ruoli instructed Zhen Impermanence to handle the investigation as proposed.
• Wen Zhuyi thanked Chu Xisheng for showing restraint, and Chu Xisheng received an urgent message about an unexpected event in Wang'an City.

Wen Zhuyi returned to Ice City, concealed the severity of her injuries, and worried over the city’s succession and her uncertain future. Far away, Zuo Qingyun and the White Tiger Marquis fled an ambush until a burst of Hai Water Divine Thunder interrupted an attacker poised to strike Zuo Qingyun.

• Wen Zhuyi dismissed Ice City's ministers, told Gui Haoyuan that she could kill Dugu Shou with the Limitless Saber Lord's help, and ordered him to steady the city and suppress rumors.
• Gui Haoyuan privately questioned Su Niang and learned that Wen Zhuyi was still a virgin, then worried about Ice City's succession and considered a dangerous course of action.
• Twelve hours later, Zuo Qingyun carried the White Tiger Marquis through a forest as she explained that enemies had learned her secret and that Divine Marquis Beichen might have betrayed her.
• Mo Dongshan attacked Zuo Qingyun, who used his newly acquired strength and White Tiger Divine Armor to withstand the sword strikes while protecting the White Tiger Marquis.
• A second attacker swung a blood-colored spike at Zuo Qingyun's vulnerable point, but a voice declared demonic and wicked arts forbidden and struck the attacker with Second-Rank Hai Water Divine Thunder.

Chu Xisheng arrived to protect Zuo Qingyun and Gao Shanshu, then killed Wang Longhua and Mo Dongshan before confronting the attackers plotting to seize the White Tiger Marquis’s cultivation body. As Vermilion Robe and the others attacked, Chu Xisheng wounded Vermilion Robe, and Luo Hanzong sealed the area with an Astral Grand Array.

• Chu Xisheng arrived and reunited with Zuo Qingyun, whose new strength came from Gao Shanshu’s cultivation body.
• Chu Xisheng killed Mo Dongshan with a single saber strike, then bisected Wang Longhua in their direct clash.
• Bai Xiao Zhao exposed four attackers who had hidden in the River of Time, including Shi Ming, Beichen Tianluo, a Spellcaster, and Vermilion Robe.
• The Spellcaster revealed that Gao Shanshu had been chosen as the vessel for the Seven Killings Star Lord’s descent.
• Vermilion Robe, Shi Ming, and Beichen Tianluo attacked Chu Xisheng, who resisted their combined assault and badly wounded Vermilion Robe.
• Luo Hanzong destroyed the Spellcaster’s attempt to send a message and revealed an Astral Grand Array sealing the area.

Chu Xisheng and his allies fought Luo Hanzong’s ambush, and Chu killed Vermilion Robe while Emperor Jianyuan investigated the forces gathering around Chu. The chapter ended with Imperial Preceptor Yu Kunlun urging Emperor Jianyuan to have Dugu Shou crush Extreme Eastern Ice City’s forces so Gui Haoyuan would commit to their plan involving Wen Zhuyi.

• Luo Hanzong trapped Beichen Tianluo, Shi Ming, the black-robed spellcaster, and Vermilion Robe in his Astral Grand Array, while Zuo Qingyun and another warrior delayed Beichen and Shi.
• Luo Hanzong attacked the black-robed spellcaster with Star-Net Divine Light, exhausting his spell power, as Chu Xisheng relentlessly pressed Vermilion Robe with his sabers.
• Chu Xisheng prevented Vermilion Robe from completing nirvana and beheaded him; the White Tiger Marquis watched as Chu condemned Vermilion Robe’s hypocrisy.
• Emperor Jianyuan sensed a disturbance in the Red Dragon Pillars, then ordered Xiao Hongchen to bring Qin Sheng back to Ice Province and read Cao Xuan’s report about Chu Xisheng’s growing ties and powerful followers.
• Emperor Jianyuan ordered the Heavenly Yamen Embroidery Guard to investigate the Iron Banner Gang and Iron Mountain Qin Clan, and put Qin Xiyan’s appointment and related appointments on hold.
• Yu Kunlun told Emperor Jianyuan that Wen Zhuyi was still a virgin and outlined a scheme to tempt Gui Haoyuan, saying Dugu Shou must first deal a crushing blow to Extreme Eastern Ice City’s forces.

Chu Xisheng arranged support for Tie Kuangren and took in Zuo Qingyun and the White Tiger Marquis, then spent a month and a half strengthening the Iron Banner Gang and advancing his martial arts. As he grew more suspicious of He Qi’s silence, Changsun Ruolan arrived at the gang headquarters and challenged him to a saber contest.

• Luo Hanzong explained that he planned to refine Tie Kuangren’s body to Second-Rank before completing the Reversal of Yin and Yang, and Chu Xisheng agreed to provide the needed treasures.
• Chu Xisheng accepted Luo Hanzong’s Chronos Divine Disk subsidiary and persuaded the White Tiger Marquis and Zuo Qingyun to seek shelter with him; he gave the White Tiger Marquis Primordial Blood Pool water.
• The White Tiger Marquis and Zuo Qingyun stayed in Fei Province so Zuo Qingyun could gain battlefield experience, and Chu Xisheng used a Supreme Saber Shu Huaishi Eightfold Talent Card on him.
• Chu Xisheng returned to Xiushui and rebuilt the Iron Banner Gang’s headquarters, expanded its ranks, and oversaw its growing trade and campaigns against the Water and Heaven Society.
• Chu Xisheng advanced his Heaven-Executing Saber and Formless Art, while Lu Luanli reported completing several Upper Fourth Rank Myriad Heavens Secret Rites; Chu Xisheng remained troubled by He Qi’s silence despite the God-Defying Banner Pennant’s presence near Xiushui.
• Changsun Ruolan secretly entered the Iron Banner Gang headquarters on Wen Zhuyi’s orders, then drew her sword and challenged Chu Xisheng to test his saber arts.

Changsun Ruolan tested Chu Xisheng in a fierce duel, then apologized and delivered a vast cache of military supplies and pills from Wen Zhuyi. After she left, Chu Xisheng sought intelligence on the war and Wen Zhuyi, and learned that Wu Meiniang had news of He Qi.

• Changsun Ruolan attacked Chu Xisheng, whose Berserk Battle talent helped him withstand her Ice God swordsmanship before she stopped the fight and apologized.
• Changsun Ruolan delivered medicines, weapons, armor, and sixty Primordial Heaven Mystic Yang Pills, explaining that Wen Zhuyi wanted Chu Xisheng prepared for the threats around him.
• Chu Xisheng accepted the supplies, ordered the Iron Banner Gang to secure them, and privately wondered why Wen Zhuyi had sent so much.
• Chu Xisheng asked Wu Meiniang to have the Heavenly Secret Hall monitor the war between Extreme Eastern Ice City and the Imperial Court, especially for signs concerning Wen Zhuyi.
• Wu Meiniang told Chu Xisheng that the Heavenly Secret Hall had located Ghost Shadow He Qi, and Chu Xisheng urgently asked where he was.

Chu Xisheng learned that enemies were using Ji Yang’s Tomb and a battle at East Yang Lake to trap him and cripple the Iron Banner Gang, so he summoned Chu Yunyun and gathered allies for a counterplan. When Feng Liancheng arrived at headquarters, he recognized Chu Yunyun as the legendary Blue-Eyed Military Governor Qin Muge.

• Chu Xisheng learned from Wu Meiniang that Ghost Shadow He Qi had entered Ji Yang’s Tomb, and he summoned Chu Yunyun back to Xiushui with the Hengtian Sword.
• Wen Zhuyi sent Changsun Ruolan south to watch Chu Xisheng and the Iron Banner Gang, while she prepared to exploit changes in Great Ning’s military command.
• Chu Xisheng’s cultivation advanced, and he learned that Tie Kuangren had suppressed Qiongqi’s spirit and taken on Bian’s power.
• Chu Yunyun arrived at Iron Banner Fort, confirmed that the God-Defying Banner Pennant was in Taishan Commandery, and agreed to help Chu Xisheng confront the trap.
• Wu Meiniang reported that experts were gathering inside Ji Yang’s Tomb and that the Corpse Mountain Sect planned to seal it; Chu Xisheng sent out seven Heaven-and-Earth Flying Swords and summoned Feng Liancheng and other allies.
• Feng Liancheng arrived at Iron Banner Gang headquarters, saw Chu Yunyun in red armor, and recognized her as Across Eternal Ages, the Blue-Eyed Military Governor Qin Muge.

Chu Xisheng forced the Iron Banner Gang’s protectors and guest retainers to swear a Divine Covenant before leading them and his allies to the Water and Heaven Society’s headquarters. He exposed the Society’s plot and ordered everyone inside killed, while Feng Liancheng fought under Qin Muge’s watchful threat.

• Feng Liancheng and the other five protectors and guest retainers were shocked to discover that Chu Yunyun was Qin Muge, then signed Chu Xisheng’s Divine Covenant not to reveal their identities or send information during the operation.
• Feng San activated the Hengtian Sword while Chu Xisheng used his powers to strengthen his Pangu Divine Heart; Lu Luanli and Changsun Ruolan arrived and joined the group.
• Chu Xisheng had Luo Hanzong teleport them to the Water and Heaven Society’s headquarters, where Xu Tiannan and allied martial cultivators were plotting to destroy the Iron Banner Gang.
• Chu Xisheng entered the Society’s hall, killed a third-rank conspirator with the Divine-Intent Death-Touching Saber and Heaven-Executing Saber, and ordered his allies to kill everyone present.
• Feng Liancheng attacked the Society’s fighters as Xu Tiannan ordered them to release smoke bombs and illusion talismans, while Qin Muge watched Feng Liancheng through the smoke.

Chu Xisheng’s forces destroyed the Water and Heaven Society, and Feng Liancheng exposed formidable strength while killing a fellow assassin. Chu Xisheng entered Ji Yang’s Tomb with the Corpse Mountain Sect to repair its seals, while two conspirators outside learned that the Water and Heaven Society had fallen and could not warn those inside.

• Luo Hanzong sealed the Water and Heaven Society headquarters, and Chu Xisheng’s protectors and retainers killed its fighters while Changsun Ruolan prevented escape.
• Feng Liancheng killed a fellow Death God who urged him to flee, revealing his Second-Rank fighting strength and Twenty-Second-Rank Body of Light-Speed Shadow to Chu Xisheng.
• After the battle, Chu Xisheng appointed Feng Liancheng head of the Seven Divine Guards and promised him increased pay, which would remain in arrears.
• At Ji Yang’s Tomb, Li Xuan warned Chu Xisheng that the damaged seals required repairs from inside and that the tomb might be a trap; Chu Xisheng persuaded the Corpse Mountain Sect to accompany him inside.
• Outside the tomb, Xiao Shenye and a black-clad man learned that Chu Xisheng’s forces had slaughtered the Water and Heaven Society, but found that the tomb’s restrictive spells prevented them from warning the people inside.

Xiao Hongchen investigated Chu Xisheng’s massacre at the Water and Heaven Society and considered the forces gathering around Ji Yang’s Tomb. Inside the tomb, Chu Xisheng’s party intercepted several pursuers, and after Heavenly Origin Hand Wei Yuansong killed Tian Feng and signed a Divine Covenant, he helped capture more enemies, leaving Chu’s increasingly powerful group under Li Xuan’s wary gaze.

• Xiao Hongchen learned that Chu Xisheng’s people had massacred the Water and Heaven Society’s headquarters and declined to issue a nationwide warrant, instead ordering scrutiny of the Jingxi Chu Clan and Luo Hanzong.
• Chu Xisheng and Li Xuan advanced through Ji Yang’s Tomb while the Corpse Mountain Sect repaired its seals, and Chu Yunyun sensed the God-Defying Banner Pennant moving deeper inside.
• Chu Xisheng’s party intercepted Wei Yuansong and Tian Feng; Chu demanded proof of Wei’s loyalty, and Wei killed Tian before signing a Divine Covenant not to act against Chu.
• Wei Yuansong joined Chu’s party and helped trap Ba Dong, Hu Rushan, Miao Zhengzhi, and Lu Yan; Miao and Lu were killed while Ba and Hu joined the growing group.
• Li Xuan recognized that Chu Xisheng’s force had grown strong enough to rival a first-rank sect, but worried that its new allies might turn against them in the final battle.

Chu Xisheng’s party gained Shi Zhiming and the God-Defying Banner Pennant, which he handed to Chu Yunyun, awakening her suppressed bloodline talents. The chapter ended as Chu Jinghong and Great Black Heaven Ri Jialuo led a large force into the cavern and faced Chu Xisheng’s formidable gathering.

• Long Xiuzhi, Wei Shuangyuan, and other masters joined Chu Xisheng’s party, while Ba Tianlai warned Wei Shuangyuan not to oppose the Saber Lord.
• Shi Zhiming confronted Chu Xisheng, then signed a Divine Covenant agreeing to act for him twice in exchange for the subsidiary Chronos Divine Disk and other terms.
• Chu Xisheng traveled with Shi Zhiming, who revealed he had come seeking the God-Defying Banner and an object once held by Long Kui.
• Ghost Shadow He Qi delivered the God-Defying Banner Pennant to Chu Xisheng and explained that his family’s remains had been used to deceive and coerce him.
• Chu Xisheng handed the pennant to Chu Yunyun, whose suppressed bloodline talents began awakening as the banner’s God-Defying Fire cleansed her.
• Chu Jinghong and Great Black Heaven Ri Jialuo arrived with dozens of figures, and Chu Jinghong led them toward Chu Xisheng’s group.

Chu Xisheng’s opponents confronted him in the cavern, but their plan unraveled when Ri Jialuo defected and Chu Yunyun called for smoke to be raised. Chu Jinghong and the Giant Spirit prince attacked through the fog, only for Chu Jinghong’s supposed allies to turn on him and Qin Muge to kill the prince with the God-Defying Banner.

• Chu Xisheng’s party faced Chu Jinghong’s group, and Chu Jinghong accused Wei Yuansong and others of secretly plotting against Chu Xisheng.
• Ri Jialuo revealed his defection, joined the Iron Banner Gang, and offered to serve Chu Xisheng.
• Chu Yunyun identified the bald fighter as a first-rank Giant Spirit and ordered Ri Jialuo to raise the smoke so the God-Defying Banner could devour him.
• Chu Xisheng accepted the fog battle, and the Giant Spirit prince and Chu Jinghong charged through it toward him.
• Wei Yuansong and other martial cultivators attacked Chu Jinghong, while Feng San weakened the Giant Spirit prince and Qin Muge killed him with the God-Defying Banner.

Chu Yunyun recovered more of her strength after killing the Bald Man, while Chu Xisheng’s allies defeated Chu Jinghong and the other attackers in Ji Yang’s Tomb. As Chu Xisheng prepared to leave, a mysterious veiled woman emerged and told him he could not go yet.

• Chu Yunyun’s God-Defying Banner Spear devoured the Bald Man’s Essence Soul and blood, helping her expel part of her Poison Curse and recover thirteen percent of her strength.
• Wei Yuansong and the other Grand Elders killed Chu Jinghong, while Lu Luanli defeated her Earthly Ranking opponent and Tie Kuangren fought on against his own enemy.
• Chu Xisheng watched his allies prevail, dismissed their denials of Chu Jinghong’s accusations, and entrusted the repair of Ji Yang’s Tomb’s seals to Li Xuan.
• Tie Kuangren killed his opponent as Chu Xisheng prepared to leave, but the cavern began collapsing and blood-red giant snakes erupted from the ground.
• A veiled woman appeared before Chu Xisheng, said he could not leave, and caused the twelve strands of Red Dragon Qi within him to surge toward bursting out.

Ji Yang asked Chu Xisheng and Chu Yunyun to restore the seals on her sleeping palace and find the stolen Poison Pearl, which she feared would be used to create another Heaven-Gazing Hou. She offered them payment, including a blood-red piece of her body that could help Chu Xisheng open all nine of his Origin Yang Apertures.

• Ji Yang appeared amid the Corpse Poison, and Chu Xisheng ordered the others to leave while Chu Yunyun knocked out Lu Luanli and sent her out with Tie Kuangren.
• Chu Xisheng and Chu Yunyun followed Ji Yang into her sleeping palace, where they learned she had remained sealed away for hundreds of thousands of years to contain her Corpse Poison.
• Ji Yang asked Chu Xisheng to lend his dragon qi to repair and strengthen the palace's Twelve Dragon Pillars, and he agreed after considering the danger to Great Ning.
• Ji Yang revealed that intruders had stolen her Poison Pearl seven months earlier, and Chu Yunyun and Chu Xisheng agreed to find it before it could be used to refine a new Heaven-Gazing Hou.
• Ji Yang offered three drops of Creation Source Liquid and asked Chu Yunyun to cut off and purify a piece of her body for Chu Xisheng to eat, saying it would fill all nine of his Origin Yang Apertures.

Chu Xisheng consumed Ji Yang’s refined limb and rapidly filled his nine Yang Source orifices, causing his power to affect Wen Zhuyi and anger Chu Yunyun. Outside the tomb, the Iron Banner Gang celebrated its victory while Ji Qianqian left for Wang'an City to sever ties with her past and advance her saber.

• Chu Xisheng drank the extreme-yang tonic made from Ji Yang’s limb, learned about the Primordial Azure Vine and Corpse Poison in Ji Yang’s body, and began filling his nine Yang Source orifices.
• Wen Zhuyi’s sealed Yin Source orifices began circulating again from the Yang Essence flowing through their Divine Source connection, forcing her to end a ministers’ meeting and retreat to her sleeping palace.
• The elders and fighters waiting outside Ji Yang’s Tomb worried over Chu Xisheng, while Lu Luanli learned that he was safe and received news of the Iron Banner Gang’s sweeping victory at East Yang Lake.
• Lu Luanli reported Zhou Liangchen’s naval victory and the achievements of Ji Qianqian and Liu Ruoxi, who had helped destroy the Water and Heaven Society’s forces.
• Ji Qianqian told Liu Ruoxi she could not abandon the people and beliefs that had shaped her life, then decided to leave the fighting and fly to Wang'an City to shoot someone from her past and complete her Myriad Heavens Rite.

Chu Xisheng repaired Ji Yang’s underground sealing array, strengthened the Twelve Xuanhuang Dragon Pillars with his blood essence, and received a silver lampstand connected to Zhu Guangyin. After Ji Yang sent him and Chu Yunyun away, they examined a blood-red military tally that opened Lie King’s Treasure and suspected the treasure was not what the world believed.

• Chu Xisheng discovered that refining Ji Yang’s extreme yang power intensified an aphrodisiac effect, suppressed the resulting fire with Iceheart Spirit-Calming Pills, and tested the combat boost of his Nine Yang Source Apertures.
• Ji Yang gave Chu Xisheng two drops of Creation Source Liquid; he fed one to the Myriad Manifestations Star Disc and the other to the Blood-Yazi Divine Saber.
• Ji Yang led Chu Xisheng into the underground chamber, where he repaired the Twelve Xuanhuang Dragon Pillars and seals, learned the pillars were made from Yinglong bones, and merged his blood essence into them.
• Ji Yang gave Chu Xisheng a silver lampstand connected to Zhu Guangyin, asked him to recover her stolen poison pearl, and sent him and Chu Yunyun out of the palace.
• Chu Yunyun warned Chu Xisheng not to define the being sealed beneath the giant cauldron, then showed him the blood-red military tally that opened Lie King’s Treasure.

Chu Xisheng emerged from Ji Yang's Tomb with the Martial Might Heavenly King's legacy and secured a divine blessing and future aid from Shi Zhiming. After learning that Ji Qianqian had entered Wang'an City to settle her past, Chu Xisheng decided to go after her and search for Chu Yunyun's missing officers.

• Chu Xisheng examined the Martial Might Heavenly King's token and learned it held his divine armor, weapon, Horizontal-Training Overlord Body, and cultivation notes, but Chu Yunyun said they would need a safer opportunity to retrieve the rest.
• Chu Xisheng left Ji Yang's Tomb, and Shi Zhiming gave Bai Xiao Zhao divine power and a Heavenly Origin bloodline before agreeing to three further acts of aid in a Divine Covenant.
• Changsun Ruolan departed after reporting that City-Toppling Sword Wen Zhuyi had routed the Imperial Court's army north of the Canglang River, while Lu Luanli told Chu Xisheng that Ji Qianqian had gone north to settle a private matter.
• Xiao Hongchen ordered Cao Xuan not to speculate about the sects' support for Chu Xisheng and decided to report the events at the tomb to the Son of Heaven.
• Lu Luanli reported that Ji Qianqian had been seen surveying the outskirts of Wang'an's Palace City, and Chu Xisheng decided to go to Wang'an to find her.
• Chu Yunyun asked Chu Xisheng to locate Shui Canglang and Gong Wugou in Wang'an City and bring them back to her.

Emperor Jianyuan discovered that the Dragon Qi in his nation-guarding array had mysteriously vanished, then rushed to stop Lu Chen’s assault on the Imperial Prison. During the ensuing chaos, Ji Qianqian entered the Separate Confiscated-Goods Treasury, awakened the truth about her past, and ended the chapter by wounding Emperor Jianyuan and advancing to Third-Rank Lower.

• Emperor Jianyuan found that a third of the Dragon Qi in the Twelve-Capital Divine Dragon Nation-Guarding Grand Array had disappeared, and Yu Kunlun warned him that the cause might be difficult to uncover.
• Emperor Jianyuan and Yu Kunlun discussed the defeat in Huizhou, the threat Chu Xisheng posed, and the need to persuade Dugu Shou to return to the war.
• A spell-conjured explosion breached the Imperial Prison, and Emperor Jianyuan flew to confront Lu Chen while Ji Qianqian used the distraction to enter the Separate Confiscated-Goods Treasury.
• Ji Qianqian seized the Stringless Saber-Bow, then touched the Divine Heart Illuminating the World and recovered memories revealing that Dugu Shou had killed her parents and clan.
• Ji Qianqian renewed her Saber Heart, joined Lu Chen’s battle, and wounded Emperor Jianyuan with an arrow while Lu Chen briefly bewitched him.
• Ji Qianqian completed her Myriad Heavens Rite and advanced to Third-Rank Lower, breaking free of the Imperial Court’s laws that had restrained her Saber Intent.

Lu Chen and Ji Qianqian fought Emperor Jianyuan in the Imperial City, then escaped with the rescued retainers, while Chu Xisheng learned that Ji Qianqian was likely a surviving descendant of the Divine Heart Ji Clan. After arriving in Wang'an City, Chu Xisheng spotted Shui Canglang and revealed himself as the Limitless Saber Lord, carrying the Myriad Manifestations Star Disc and claiming to bring an order from Qin Muge.

• Ji Qianqian repeatedly wounded Emperor Jianyuan with arrows as Lu Chen occupied him, and Emperor Jianyuan recognized her as a descendant of his first empress’s clan and ordered Bu Chaowu to kill her.
• Chu Xisheng piloted the Sun-Bathing Divine Vessel to Wang'an City with Lu Luanli, Feng San, and Luo Hanzong, and a city official warned him that the capital was under martial law.
• Chu Xisheng received news that Lu Chen had broken into the Imperial Prison, rescued former retainers of the late crown prince, and escaped with a silver-armored archer who had shot Emperor Jianyuan fifteen times.
• Chu Xisheng and Luo Hanzong concluded that the archer was likely Ji Qianqian, a surviving member of the exterminated Divine Heart Ji Clan, and Chu Xisheng told Lu Luanli to treat her better.
• Chu Xisheng spotted Qin Xiyan’s procession and a disguised Shui Canglang near the Northern Gate, then followed Shui Canglang and revealed his identity and the Myriad Manifestations Star Disc.