Recaps

Lu Luanli restored and linked the defensive arrays across eight peaks, then used them to locate Chu Yunyun while searching for Chu Xisheng. Meanwhile, Shen Tailin and his allies struggled to contain Chu Yunyun and decided to target Chu Xisheng, believing his death would also kill her.

• Lu Luanli reconnected the defensive arrays of eight peaks and used them to search for Chu Xisheng.
• Lu Luanli located Chu Yunyun on a floating island to the south and recognized her overwhelming strength.
• Shen Tailin and his allies watched Chu Yunyun tear through spatial barriers as she pursued them with her spear momentum.
• Shen Tailin told his allies that Chu Xisheng was connected to Chu Yunyun by curse power and that his death could kill her too.
• Zhuang Yan gripped his saber and embraced the chance to kill Chu Xisheng and possibly eliminate Chu Yunyun as well.

Chu Xisheng learned from Lu Luanli that god-powered attendants were closing in and followed her directions toward the Divine Weapon Treasury. After the system upgrade, he used Heavenly Origin Points to advance both his divine bloodlines to the eighteenth rank, then revealed that he wanted the treasury’s weapons and baleful intent so he could claim the Taiwei Enclosure.

• Shen Tailin and the other gods empowered their servants with divine blood and sent them to find and kill Chu Xisheng.
• Chu Xisheng’s system upgrade introduced Heavenly Origin Points, Wish Stones, and the Divine Wish Heart, and Lu Luanli directed him toward the Divine Weapon Treasury while warning him of approaching god attendants.
• Wen Zhuyi offered to enter the Taiwei Enclosure to help Chu Xisheng, while Lu Luanli and Chu Yunyun reacted with concern and jealousy.
• Chu Xisheng redeemed the eighteenth-rank Blood of Eternal Ages and Zangtian Divine Blood/Variant, strengthening his bloodline abilities and physical constitution.
• At the Divine Weapon Treasury, Chu Xisheng told Luo Hanzong that he wanted its weapons and stored baleful intent to seize the Taiwei Enclosure, and asked him to prepare an array to draw the baleful power to him.

Wen Zhuyi approved plans for a grand sacrifice while using the proposed marriage alliance with Chu Xisheng to pressure Ice City’s old loyalists. In the Taiwei Enclosure, Chu Xisheng and Luo Hanzong helped Song Yannian retrieve his swords, then discovered a tiny winged sprite had escaped; it appeared beside Chu Yunyun and lunged for her God-Reversing Spear.

• Wen Zhuyi decided to secretly visit the Taiwei Enclosure to check on Chu Xisheng and approved Gui Haoyuan’s plan for a grand sacrifice after the capture of Huizhou.
• Wen Zhuyi challenged Gui Haoyuan over Ice City’s wavering resolve and left the marriage-alliance proposal with Chu Xisheng unanswered, intending to use it as leverage against the Changsun Family’s loyalists.
• Luo Hanzong bypassed the Divine Weapon Treasury’s defenses, allowing Chu Xisheng to reach its lowest level and summon Song Yannian.
• Song Yannian claimed the eighty-one Red-Iron Greatswords, but a tiny black sprite burst from beneath their racks and escaped before Chu Xisheng and Luo Hanzong could catch it.
• Chu Xisheng prepared to condense baleful intent beside the fissure while Chu Yunyun saw the escaped sprite circle her and lunge at her God-Reversing Spear.

Chu Xisheng gathered the weapon and grievance baleful intent in the Divine Weapon Treasury to forge God-Slaying Blood Astral Force, while Chu Yunyun discovered that a six-winged sprite had merged with her spear. Chu Xisheng completed a vast set of blood armor and wings as four God Attendants arrived, and their divine blood began to evaporate in his presence.

• A black, six-winged sprite merged into Chu Yunyun's God-Defying Banner Spear, strengthening it before emerging as a tiny maiden on Chu Yunyun's palm.
• Luo Hanzong completed a Baleful Intent-Gathering Array, and Chu Xisheng began drawing in weapon baleful intent while the five God Attendants advanced through the Divine Weapon Treasury.
• Chu Xisheng used his Yazi Saber to withstand the weapon baleful intent and began refining the gathered Grievance Baleful Intent into God-Slaying Blood Astral Force.
• The Grievance Baleful Intent initially overwhelmed Chu Xisheng, then submitted to him, allowing him to form crimson scale armor and enormous Blood-Red Bone Wings.
• Attendant One and the other God Attendants broke into the seventh floor, where Chu Xisheng completed his wings and withstood Attendant One's sword strike.
• Chu Xisheng's bloodflame caused the divine blood in the four God Attendants to vaporize, and their gods felt the danger from afar.

Chu Xisheng endured the God Attendants’ attacks while refining Geng Metal baleful force into his God-Slaying Blood Astral Force armor and weapons. Once he finished, he turned the power of millions of vengeful spirits against the God Attendants and killed them.

• The God-Traveling God Attendant and the other God Attendants attacked Chu Xisheng, but his armor held while his bloodflames weakened their divine power.
• Luo Hanzong restrained the attackers as he realized Chu Xisheng was using their blows to refine Geng Metal baleful force into his armor and astral sabers.
• Chu Xisheng seized the Lian Zhen God Attendant, resisted his divine poison, and killed him with blood-colored tentacles and threads.
• Chu Xisheng cut Attendant One apart with his astral sabers, then unleashed the vengeful spirits against him.
• The God-Traveling God Attendant and the Bone-Resting God Attendant fled, but Chu Xisheng’s Rahū Star God and blood-colored tentacles stopped them, and the vengeful spirits tore them apart.

Chu Xisheng gained three Wish Stones, refined god-slaying blood astral force, and absorbed a transcendent Yazi’s Heavenly Orders and essence blood, advancing his Yazi bloodline to the twentieth rank. After he claimed the Yazi’s remains and sealed away the Eternity Divine Weapon, the Lianzhen Star Lord attacked, and Chu Yunyun appeared to strike him with her God-Defying Banner Spear.

• Chu Xisheng’s blood-red threads killed the Bone-Resting God Attendant and God-Traveling God Attendant, earning him three Wish Stones, while Luo Hanzong warned him about controlling the new god-slaying blood astral force.
• Jian Zangfeng and Mad Sword Feng San arrived with Attendant Two’s severed head, and Chu Xisheng asked them to help free the transcendent Yazi from its golden chain.
• The Yazi passed two thirtieth-level Yazi Heavenly Orders and a portion of its essence blood to Chu Xisheng, raising his Yazi bloodline to the twentieth rank and awakening Blood-Yazi Double Pupils; Little Flathead received essence blood and fell asleep.
• Chu Xisheng and the others dismantled the Yazi and stored its remains and the Eternity Divine Weapon in the Astral Authority Seal.
• The Lianzhen Star Lord’s Clone Manifestation burst into the treasury and injured Feng San, but Chu Xisheng’s blood astral force weakened him before Chu Yunyun appeared and pierced his chest and abdomen with her God-Defying Banner Spear.

Chu Xisheng discovered that the Taiwei Enclosure’s last sect master still retained a trace of consciousness and offered a chance to complete the failed Mediation of Creation, but Chu Xisheng refused its burdens and proposed Luo Hanzong as the inheriting disciple instead. The divine eyes approved of Luo Hanzong, and Chu Xisheng agreed to his demand for thirty percent of the Enclosure’s stores.

• Chu Yunyun killed the Lianzhen Star Lord’s Incarnation, then told Chu Xisheng that Luan Li had helped her defeat the Bone Lodge Star Lord.
• Chu Xisheng and his companions reached Taihao Hall, where they found the remains of more than thirty cultivators and discovered the fused divine eye made from the eyes of Rahū, Taihao, and Baizhu.
• Chu Yunyun entered the hall but deflected the divine eye’s golden beam and retreated; Chu Xisheng then entered and learned from the last sect master that Shen Bore had sabotaged the failed Mediation of Creation.
• Chu Xisheng rejected the chance to attain eternal godhood because it required vows and rebuilding the Taiwei Enclosure’s spellcaster ranks, and the others he consulted also declined the opportunity.
• Chu Xisheng offered Luo Hanzong the Taiwei Enclosure inheritance in exchange for signing a Divine Covenant, and Luo Hanzong agreed while negotiating the terms.
• When the divine eyes fixed on Chu Xisheng, he accepted Luo Hanzong’s demand that the Taiwei Enclosure retain thirty percent of its stores.

Chu Xisheng and Luo Hanzong secured Taiwei Enclosure’s succession, inherited its treasures, and survived Shen Bore’s attack. As Chu Yunyun prepared to reclaim the northeastern Border Army, Zhuang Yan warned Qin Fengxian that Qin Muge had returned and would seek vengeance.

• Chu Xisheng and Luo Hanzong swore oaths, and Taiwei Enclosure’s last sect master named Luo Hanzong its new sect master and Chu Xisheng its guest protector and Supreme Elder.
• The last sect master merged his soul with the Three Emperors’ Divine Eyes, which refined Chu Xisheng’s Astral Authority Seal and Luo Hanzong’s Purple Qi Star Abyss; Shen Bore’s demonic thought then emerged and was destroyed by the Divine Eyes.
• Chu Yunyun received the Heaven-Mandated Dice, Luo Hanzong chose the Zhou Tian Star-Dipper Cosmic Light Disc, and Chu Xisheng collected the remaining divine treasures and received a spellcasting ring from Luo Hanzong.
• Chu Yunyun revealed that Zhuang Yan had escaped and decided to begin reclaiming the northeastern Border Army, while Chu Xisheng and their allies prepared for the coming conflict.
• Zhuang Yan reached Qin Fengxian’s hidden Heavenly Cloud Mountain with a grave spear wound and told him that Qin Muge had returned, defeated the gods’ incarnations, and would soon seek vengeance.

After the Taiwei Enclosure fell, Qin Fengxian and Emperor Jianyuan plotted to contain Qin Muge, while Chu Xisheng advised her on winning the Northern Border Armies without relying on the Iron Mountain Qin Clan. Chu Xisheng revealed he had mastered the fourth form of the Divine-Intent Death-Touching Saber, but a letter from Wen Zhuyi arrived just as Chu Yunyun struck him away.

• Qin Fengxian and Zhuang Yan agreed that Qin Muge had to die and discussed using the Iron Mountain Qin Clan, Emperor Jianyuan, and the Yan Province campaign to limit her control of the Border Armies.
• Emperor Jianyuan swallowed the Primordial Chaos Limitless Pill, advanced his Cultivation Body to Transcendent Rank, and ordered Xiao Hongchen to help Qin Fengxian oppose Qin Muge.
• Chu Xisheng returned toward Youzhou with Chu Yunyun and Lu Luanli, recounting how Shen Bore had helped bring about the Taiwei Enclosure's destruction.
• Chu Xisheng pulled Chu Yunyun aside and suggested she win the Northern Border Armies as the Limitless Saber Lord's wife, while sending Iron Mountain Qin Clan officers away to fight in other provinces.
• Chu Xisheng revealed that he had mastered the fourth form of the Divine-Intent Death-Touching Saber, then received a private letter from Wen Zhuyi.
• Chu Yunyun struck Chu Xisheng in the abdomen, sending him flying as Lu Luanli watched from the Sun-Bathing Divine Vessel.

Chu Yunyun returned to the Victory Army and seized control, revealing her marriage to Chu Xisheng and declaring open rebellion against Great Ning. The chapter ended with more than a hundred thousand soldiers pledging to follow her and the Limitless Saber Lord against the dynasty.

• Long Yong convened the Victory Army’s generals to debate whether they should support Qin Muge’s return, while Qin Yuan urged them to seek an imperial appointment and avoid rebellion.
• Chu Yunyun arrived under a banner naming her Great General Who Pacifies the North and governor-general of five provinces, and ordered Long Yong arrested.
• Chu Yunyun relieved Qin Yuan, other court-appointed officers, and members of the Iron Mountain Qin Clan of their posts, then declared she had married Chu Xisheng and abandoned the Qin Clan.
• Chu Yunyun branded loyalty to Qin Fengxian and the Great Ning court a crime, then killed a general who challenged her authority and openly called for rebellion.
• More than a hundred thousand soldiers and officers swore allegiance to Chu Yunyun and Chu Xisheng, while another assistant general beheaded the man who had protested.

Chu Xisheng accepted the Formless Divine Sect’s help to accelerate his cultivation while Chu Yunyun moved to take control of the Northern Pacification Army. Qin Xiyan refused Qin Fengxian’s demand for the Return-to-One Origin Bell, and Chu Yunyun killed two Iron Mountain Qin Clan elders who tried to stop her.

• Mad Sword Feng San bargained with Hao Qiufeng for a larger share of supplies for Chu Xisheng, who left for the Golden Summit after the Supreme Elders summoned him.
• Qin Xiyan asked Chu Xisheng whether her sister was alive; he confirmed that Chu Yunyun was alive, was his wife, and commanded the Victory Army.
• Chu Xisheng began an accelerated cultivation session at the Golden Summit, where Mai Danshu, Shen Yuan, and forty-nine spellcasters used the Heaven-Measuring Sword Art to help him progress.
• Qin Xiyan rejected Qin Fengxian’s demand to borrow the Return-to-One Origin Bell, and his message talisman vanished after he warned her that she had no say in the matter.
• Chu Yunyun confronted Iron Mountain Qin Clan elders near the Northern Pacification Army and killed Qin Fei and another elder after they challenged her authority.
• Chu Yunyun warned the remaining elders not to obstruct her takeover of the Northern Pacification Army or she would kill them.

Chu Yunyun spared the Iron Mountain Qin Clan Elders but warned them not to oppose her, then returned to the Northern Pacification Army and received the allegiance of its soldiers. Qin Fengxian and the elders planned to resist her advance in Yan Province by seeking support from the Giant Spirits, local clans, the Imperial Court, and Mount Buzhou.

• Chu Yunyun drove the Qin Clan Elders away after declaring that they would face death if they sabotaged the war or colluded with the Giant Spirits.
• Chu Yunyun told Qin Fang that she was now Chu Xisheng's wife and offered loyal Iron Mountain Qin clansmen the chance to serve in a new army she planned to raise.
• Three hundred thousand Northern Pacification Army soldiers welcomed Chu Yunyun and proclaimed their loyalty to her.
• Qin Fengxian learned that Qin Yunyun's return had undermined his influence in the border forces and urged the Qin Clan Elders to avoid confronting her directly until he could prepare.
• Qin Du and the other elders proposed obstructing Chu Yunyun in Yan Province with help from the Giant Spirits, local clans, the Imperial Court, and Mount Buzhou.
• Qin Yong worried that Chu Yunyun had deliberately let the elders go, but Qin Fengxian reassured him that their allies and the terrain favored them.

Chu Yunyun gathered her commanders to plan a rapid campaign against Yan Province, ordering reforms to the garrisons and a sweeping military operation. At Formless Divine Mountain, Chu Xisheng struggled to control the dragon qi brought by his new authority, then received intelligence placing the Heaven-Gazing Hou in Iron Province and decided to investigate.

• Chu Yunyun ordered Murong Hen to repay the Commandery Troops’ arrears and replace their shoddy equipment, authorizing confiscations from the Qin family and allied magnates to fund the effort.
• Chu Yunyun directed Pan Jing to bring the penal soldiers from Iron Province and told her commanders to prepare for a brutal campaign to pacify Yan Province within three months.
• Xu Rui proposed controlling Yan Province’s farmland and grain supply, while Ji Qianqiu urged Chu Yunyun to recruit a large Jiuli Gaoshan force; Chu Yunyun praised both contributions and ordered a comprehensive sweep.
• Chu Xisheng’s dragon qi surged after Chu Yunyun gave him titles and authority over the four provinces, so he acquired the Son of Heaven Sword and Black Emperor Armor to control it.
• Chu Xisheng received Heavenly Secret Pavilion intelligence that the Heaven-Gazing Hou had been seen near the Ironwall Mountains in Iron Province and decided to investigate.

Chu Xisheng investigated a renewed corpse-poison plot in Iron Province while Chu Yunyun expanded the Northern Border army’s foothold in Yan Province. As Chu Xisheng prepared to search for the Giant Spirits behind the experiments, Feng San asked him to help the Kunlun Human Race, and Chu promised to act once Feng San reached the Transcendent Rank.

• Chu Yunyun’s army captured Tianlin and Shangtian commanderies, recruited Gaoshan clanspeople and other troops, and continued its advance across Yan Province.
• Ren Xiaowo reported that Giant Spirits were testing altered corpse poison on Iron Province villagers, and Chu Xisheng decided to investigate in person.
• Chu Xisheng reviewed intelligence on ingredients for a Third-Rank secret medicine and planned to inspect two rumored locations in Iron Province.
• Feng San told Chu Xisheng that his sword power had grown and that he remembered the suffering of the Kunlun Human Race.
• Chu Xisheng promised to help the Kunlun Human Race when Feng San’s Cultivation Body reached the Transcendent Rank, and Feng San accepted the condition.

Chu Xisheng and Shen Chihuo discussed the gods’ history, the Outer Domain’s star competition, and the danger facing human Eternity Gods before pursuing Mount Buzhou’s forces into Iron Province. Chu Xisheng captured Huang Siyuan’s group and subdued a released Heaven-Gazing Hou, leaving Huang Siyuan’s escape plan in ruins.

• Shen Chihuo told Chu Xisheng and Mad Sword Feng San about the Ninth Generation Heavenly Emperor, the destruction of humanity’s Divine Court, and how the gods’ star positions sustained their power.
• Shen Chihuo warned that Zangtian, Li Tan, Ziyu, and the Wooden Sword Immortal risked being corrupted by the Demon Gods’ Dao, and Chu Xisheng vowed to grow strong enough to protect humanity.
• At Chu Xisheng’s request, Shen Chihuo roared his arrival over Iron Province, alerting Huang Siyuan and the Giant Spirits hiding in a mountain cavern.
• Chu Xisheng, Shen Chihuo, and Feng San stormed the cavern, captured its occupants, and Chu Xisheng collapsed the tunnel to stop the Giant Spirits preparing an escape art.
• Huang Siyuan released a Heaven-Gazing Hou carrying deadly Corpse Poison, but Chu Xisheng’s God-Slaying Blood Astral Force weakened and subdued the beast.

Chu Xisheng captured Huang Siyuan and a replica of the first-generation Heaven-Gazing Hou at a Giant Spirit base in Iron Province, while Emperor Jianyuan ordered his agents to conceal their collaboration and provoke a battle in Yan Province. Huang Heixuan’s war council chose to attack the Black Tortoise Army, leaving the coming battle poised to decide the campaign’s fortunes.

• Chu Xisheng, Feng San, and Shen Chihuo overwhelmed Huang Siyuan, and Chu Xisheng captured him with God-Slaying Blood Astral Force.
• Lu Shouyang arrived, took charge of Huang Siyuan and the Poison Pearls, and agreed to seek help transporting the Heaven-Gazing Hou replica back to Formless Divine Mountain.
• Chu Xisheng decided to keep searching Iron Province for more Giant Spirit bases while Shen Chihuo loudly announced his presence.
• Emperor Jianyuan learned that Chu Xisheng had captured Huang Siyuan and the Heaven-Gazing Hou, then ordered his agent to spread news of Chu Xisheng’s location and eliminate compromised collaborators.
• Huang Heixuan urged the Yan Province war council to avoid battle, but the assembled forces demanded an attack on the Black Tortoise Army.
• The war council settled on mobilizing 1.7 million troops to strike the 300,000-strong Black Tortoise Army, and Huang Heixuan reluctantly accepted their decision.

Xia Longxiang’s Black Tortoise Army was ambushed at Black Gold Mountain by a massive Giant Spirit force and trapped between enemies, while Chu Xisheng was kept far away in Iron Province. As Xia led his central force toward the mountain, Chu summoned Blood-Yazi and began using the Divine Mirror Heavenly Saber.

• Xia Longxiang noticed the silent Black Gold Mountain, sounded the alarm, and ordered the scattered Black Tortoise Army units to halt and form ranks.
• Giant Spirits, Half-Horse warriors, and Winged People attacked from ahead, while more than three hundred thousand stone men emerged behind the central force.
• Xia ordered his forty thousand elite troops into the Fish-Scale Formation to charge toward Black Gold Mountain, and sent a distress signal while preparing to hold the position.
• Huang Tianli declared that Chu Xisheng had been lured to Iron Province, as Huang Heixuan’s forces prepared to face Qin Muge and crush the Black Tortoise Army.
• Chu saw the warning lights from Yan Province, then faced seven First-Rank Giant Spirit and Winged People experts who tried to keep him from intervening.
• Chu summoned Blood-Yazi and revealed the fourth form of the Divine-Intent Death-Touching Saber, the Divine Mirror Heavenly Saber, as silver saber-astral mirrors formed around him.

Chu Yunyun fought Huang Heixuan’s forces to keep them from reaching the battle at Black Gold Mountain while Xia Longxiang led the Black Tortoise Army into a desperate charge. Chu Xisheng used the Divine Mirror Heavenly Saber from afar to destroy the enemy’s elite troops, turning Xia Longxiang’s defeat into a sudden chance for victory.

• Chu Yunyun repelled Huang Heixuan and the Transcendent Rank fighters, revealing her Nine Dragons Divine Heavenly Guard and tying down their forces away from Black Gold Mountain.
• Xia Longxiang led forty thousand Black Tortoise Army riders through the scattered Giant Spirit ranks, killing many enemies with a charge and a barrage from God-Slaying Heavy Crossbows.
• Huang Tianli stopped Xia Longxiang before the Imperial Court Guards’ shield wall, leaving the Black Tortoise Army trapped as enemy forces closed in around them.
• Chu Xisheng used the Divine Mirror Heavenly Saber through reflections across twenty-six thousand li, drawing on the battlefield’s killing intent and the gods’ hostility toward him.
• The saber’s power shattered the heads of seventy thousand Copper-Skin Iron Slaves and thirty thousand Imperial Court Guards, and Xia Longxiang declared that the Night Wolf forces would be buried beneath Black Gold Mountain.

Chu Yunyun and Chu Xisheng turned the battle beneath Black Gold Mountain into a rout, killing powerful Giant Spirit leaders and scattering Yan Province’s forces. Chu Xisheng withdrew the exhausting Divine Mirror Heavenly Saber, but two First-Rank Giant Spirits reached him and found his armor could withstand their attacks.

• Chu Xisheng’s Divine Mirror Heavenly Saber slaughtered the imperial guards and Winged People, breaking Yan Province’s army and prompting the Half-Horse Tribe to retreat.
• Chu Yunyun killed the Mars High Chief Priest, then used the Heaven-Mandated Dice to kill Huang Heixuan and Huang Tianmu as Qin Fengxian and Zhuang Yan escaped.
• Human reinforcements and Chu Yunyun’s concealed troops overwhelmed the remaining forces, while she ordered her army to kill without mercy or accept surrender.
• Twelve thousand li away, Chu Xisheng stopped using the Divine Mirror Heavenly Saber after eight strikes as seven First-Rank Giant Spirits pressed their attack.
• Two First-Rank Giant Spirits broke through Chu Xisheng’s defenses and struck him, but his Blood-Colored Scale Armor left him unharmed.

Chu Xisheng and his allies defeated the first-rank nonhuman attackers, while Chu Yunyun’s forces won a decisive victory at Black Gold Mountain and uncovered a betrayal within the army. Chu Yunyun ordered a purge of the traitors and pressed her campaign to pacify Yan Province as the gods’ hostility grew.

• Chu Xisheng used his swords, Rahū Star God, and blood tendrils to trap and kill the first-rank nonhumans, surviving their attacks and raising his Heavenly Origin Points to 123.4.
• Shen Chihuo recognized the terrifying strength of Chu Xisheng’s body and wondered whether he could survive the coming Divine Tribulation.
• Fourteen hours later, Chu Yunyun reviewed the Black Gold Mountain victory, where her forces had killed hundreds of thousands of enemy troops, including 320,000 Winged People weakened by Chu Xisheng’s Divine-Intent Saber attacks.
• Xia Longxiang and Qin Zhaomei reported that 123 officers had been captured for colluding with Giant Spirits and that Qin Yong and five other Iron Mountain Qin Clan members had organized the betrayal.
• Chu Yunyun ordered the captured traitors interrogated and their crimes publicized, promoted Qin Zhaomei to command the Iron Wall Army, and demanded that Yan Province’s tribes submit and provide troops.
• When Xia Longxiang asked to meet Chu Xisheng, Chu Yunyun said he was focused on cultivation and worried that the gods’ hostility meant time was running short.

Emperor Jianyuan, Yu Kunlun, and Lady Zhuang discussed the disaster at Black Gold Mountain and the threat posed by Chu Xisheng, while the Seven Killings Star Lord investigated larger dangers involving Zangtian and Diwa. The chapter left the gods considering how to stop Chu Xisheng and uncover the plans to resurrect Diwa.

• Emperor Jianyuan raged over Huang Tianli’s defeat, and Yu Kunlun warned that Chu Xisheng’s Divine Mirror Heavenly Saber required new countermeasures.
• Lady Zhuang agreed to help Great Ning, and Yu Kunlun told Emperor Jianyuan that Crown Prince Li might have a surviving child, likely Lu Chen’s daughter.
• The Seven Killings Star Lord and Turnwheel Star Lord watched the aftermath at Black Gold Mountain and discussed recruiting Giant Spirits skilled in Heaven-Covering, Mirror Heaven, and Heaven-Illusion arts.
• The Seven Killings Star Lord told Turnwheel Star Lord that Zangtian might soon move against Rahū Star and that Diwa might be fully resurrected through Old Sage’s plans.
• The Seven Killings Star Lord ordered Turnwheel Star Lord to monitor Chu Xisheng and said he would personally kill him if a suitable opportunity arose.

Ri Jialuo rejected his former master’s attempt to reclaim him, then persuaded Fa Xuancheng to join Chu Xisheng’s service. In Xiushui Commandery, Ba Tianlai learned that the Demon War Tower wanted him to support Chu Xisheng rather than oppose him, and agreed to bring its recruits into the Iron Banner Gang.

• Ri Jialuo tore up his former master’s letter and told Fa Xuancheng that Chu Xisheng and Chu Yunyun offered him a better future.
• Ri Jialuo persuaded Fa Xuancheng to leave his old patron and seek a place in Chu Xisheng’s headquarters.
• Ri Jialuo read the Heavenly Secret Pavilion’s special issue and heard the crowd praise Chu Yunyun’s ranking and Chu Xisheng’s victory at Black Gold Mountain.
• Fa Xuancheng asked Ri Jialuo to introduce him to Commander Yu, and Ri Jialuo agreed.
• Wei Huanzhen told Ba Tianlai that the Demon War Tower wanted him to guide and support Chu Xisheng, not make him an enemy.
• Ba Tianlai agreed to arrange for Wei Huanzhen’s recruits to enter the Iron Banner Gang, while acknowledging he could not place them in key positions.

Chu Xisheng strengthened his martial arts and recruited Ba Tianlai while hunting an Eyeless Civet in the Li Tan Catacomb, where Shen Chihuo realized Chu Xisheng had completed a Chaos secret ritual. Meanwhile, Chu Yunyun’s army pushed into northern Yan Province, and she hesitated over a letter from Qin Xiyan.

• Chu Xisheng spent Heavenly Origin Points to awaken Creation-Dao Wish-Fulfillment and raise the Snow-Crouching Divine Saber to its twenty-fifth layer.
• Chu Xisheng accepted Ba Tianlai’s allegiance and tasked him with suppressing the Prince of Xiang’s supporters, while asking him to lend money to the Iron Banner Gang.
• Chu Xisheng found a third-rank Eyeless Civet in the Li Tan Catacomb and descended alone to hunt it as Shen Chihuo and Feng San watched the entrance.
• Shen Chihuo realized Chu Xisheng had already completed a secret ritual based on Chaos, and Feng San told him Chu Xisheng would allow him to devour their enemies to strengthen his Yinglong bloodline.
• Chu Yunyun commanded an army of twelve million frontline troops as it advanced through Yan Province, and she hesitated after receiving a letter from Qin Xiyan.

Chu Xisheng hunted an unexpectedly powerful Eyeless White Civet in the Li Tan Catacomb, refined its Hundun origin blood into secret medicine, and broke through to the third rank by condensing a Dragon-Tiger Golden Core. As he strengthened his cultivation, Ma Tianyan arrived, and Chu Xisheng prepared to face the returning enemy.

• Chu Xisheng entered the cave while Bai Xiao Zhao and Little Flathead guarded the area, and he found the Eyeless White Civet’s trail.
• The upper second-rank Eyeless White Civet attacked Chu Xisheng, who studied its Hundun abilities before killing it with Heaven’s Wrath and Earth’s Annihilation.
• Chu Xisheng extracted the civet’s Hundun origin blood, refined it into secret medicine, and drank the medicine as hostile forces approached the pit.
• The medicine shattered Chu Xisheng’s divine seal, allowing him to condense a powerful Dragon-Tiger Golden Core and raise his Hundun Myriad Manifestations Art to the third rank.
• Shen Chihuo warned Chu Xisheng that a fire-wielding intruder had entered the cave, and Chu Xisheng recognized him as Ma Tianyan and told Bai Xiao Zhao and Little Flathead to hide.

Chu Xisheng completed his advancement to the Third-Rank Lower Stage, restrained his body’s ancestral reversion, and fought Ma Tianyan in the Li Tan Catacomb. With Bai Xiao Zhao channeling Li Mountain Old Mother’s power, Chu Xisheng froze Ma Tianyan’s final flame and left him trapped in ice.

• Chu Xisheng’s body began to undergo ancestral reversion, but he compressed his flesh back to human size and saw that the Six Yin Soul-Returning Incantation had been greatly suppressed by his Dragon-Tiger Golden Core.
• Chu Xisheng sensed Ma Tianyan approaching and revealed his strengthened Rahū Star God and Nine Luminaries Divine Wheel Swords when Ma Tianyan appeared and questioned whether he had taken the secret medicine.
• Ma Tianyan’s flames overwhelmed Chu Xisheng’s borrowed cold arts, but Chu Xisheng weakened the Flame Heavenly Orders with his Wish-Fulfillment Method and used the Heaven-Executing Saber and his swords to cut Ma Tianyan apart.
• Ma Tianyan claimed he was undying as Chu Xisheng’s attacks trapped him, but Bai Xiao Zhao summoned Li Mountain Old Mother, who slowed time and held Ma Tianyan’s flames still.
• Chu Xisheng used Chu Yunyun’s Heaven-Severing Art and his Snow-Crouching Divine Saber to freeze Ma Tianyan’s final flame and Primordial Spirit core in a block of ice.
• Li Mountain Old Mother departed after pointing toward Li Mountain, and Chu Xisheng thanked Bai Xiao Zhao and comforted Little Flathead, who was disappointed that his Demonic Power was not enough to advance with Chu Xisheng.