Recaps

Zong Shenhua learned that Qin Muge’s power had sealed Ma Tianyan’s lamp spirit and that the Three-Eyed Priest expected the Human Race’s protectors to fall, while urging him to advance to transcendent rank. At the Formless Divine Sect, Chu Ming exchanged for the first form of the Divine-Intent Death-Touching Saber, unaware that Chu Xisheng had allowed it as part of a plan to complete the Yazi Secret Ritual.

• Zong Shenhua found the Wind-Extinguishing Lantern’s flame frozen and recognized the Heaven-Severing Art in the seal on Ma Tianyan’s Primordial Spirit.
• The Three-Eyed Priest told Zong Shenhua that Qin Muge might be the True Spirit of the Heaven-Severing Art, warned that Chu Xisheng and the Yazi Art threatened Blood Bat Mountain, and urged him to advance to transcendent rank.
• Zong Shenhua watched the Three Ancestors hunt humans in the underground palace, learned that Zangtian would soon fall into madness, and accepted a golden seal that would let him command the Three Ancestors.
• Chu Ming went to the Scripture Pavilion while Chu Xisheng was away and signed a Divine Covenant to exchange for the Divine-Intent Saber Heart.
• Chu Ming studied the first page of the saber art for twenty hours and left believing she had understood most of it.
• Wang Baimei told Lu Luanli that Chu Xisheng had approved the exchange because it would help complete his Yazi Secret Ritual, and said he expected to become the Yazi True Spirit within three to five months.

After advancing to the third-rank lower stage, Chu Xisheng emerged from the Li Tan Catacomb and fought off the cultivators waiting outside. He then joined Chu Yunyun near Talin Mountain, where they considered whether to help her sister Qin Xiyan.

• Chu Xisheng refreshed the Martial Dao Treasury, improved his bloodline talents, and underwent a powerful physical transformation that raised his cultivation to the third-rank lower stage.
• Li Tan's remaining life force formed a message that left Chu Xisheng angry, and he flew out of the catacomb as Shen Chihuo and Feng San fought off the cultivators outside.
• Chu Xisheng restrained several fleeing cultivators, then let Shen Chihuo kill them after Shen reminded him of his promise.
• Chu Yunyun congratulated Chu Xisheng through the Divine Covenant Heavenly Stele and asked him to meet her east of Talin Mountain.
• Chu Yunyun took the frozen lamp spirit from Chu Xisheng and showed him Qin Xiyan's message asking for help against Qin Fengxian.
• Chu Yunyun told Chu Xisheng that Qin Xiyan was family too, and Chu Xisheng proposed a bet about whether Qin Xiyan deserved their help.

Changsun Ruoli helped infiltrators prepare a plot against Wen Zhuyi during Extreme Eastern Ice City's grand sacrifice, while Emperor Jianyuan awaited its benefits. Chu Xisheng intervened to save Qin Xiyan from Qin Fengxian and withstood his powerful attack, revealing his advancement to Third-Rank.

• Changsun Ruoli led masked infiltrators into Zhenhai Shrine and reluctantly continued their agreement to place a Lunar Divine Seal on her mother and obtain her blood essence.
• Yu Kunlun told Emperor Jianyuan that preparations were complete to seize Wen Zhuyi's Pure Yin Power and combine Divine Yin and Divine Sun using corpse poison.
• Zhuang Yan wounded Qin Xiyan as Qin Fengxian pursued her to recover the Return-to-One Origin Bell.
• Chu Xisheng arrived with reinforcements and stopped Qin Xiyan from sacrificing herself to damage the bell's artifact spirit.
• Shen Chihuo fought Zhuang Yan while Mad Sword Feng San and the Rahū Star God helped Chu Xisheng resist Qin Fengxian.
• Chu Xisheng survived Qin Fengxian's Ghost-Weeping God attack with the Yazi Saber and Eternity Wall, revealing that he had reached Third-Rank.

Chu Xisheng held off Qin Fengxian and Zhuang Yan with the Eternity Wall while waiting for reinforcements, and Qin Xiyan chose to defend him rather than betray him. Qin Muge arrived in time to kill Zhuang Yan, and Chu Xisheng survived Qin Fengxian’s renewed assault before realizing his enemy had replaced even his blood.

• Qin Fengxian transformed into a three-headed, six-armed divine body and repeatedly battered Chu Xisheng’s Eternity Wall, while Chu strengthened his defenses with the Divine Heart and the Golden Astral Iron Wall.
• Qin Fengxian tried to persuade Qin Xiyan to kill Chu Xisheng, but she refused and declared that she was no longer the person he had deceived four years earlier.
• Zhuang Yan arrived wielding the Pillar in the Mainstream Saber, and Xiao Longtu attacked from above, breaking through the Eternity Wall until Feng San’s Supreme Sword Heart held him back.
• Zhuang Yan severed Shen Chihuo’s arm and struck at Chu Xisheng, but Qin Xiyan intervened and was gravely wounded; Qin Muge then appeared and killed Zhuang Yan with a spear thrust.
• Qin Fengxian launched another Myriad Gods Tribulation: Ghosts and Gods Weep, but Chu Xisheng deflected most of its force and endured the rest with his layered defenses before calling Qin Fengxian a Hundred-Eyed Stone Spirit and accusing him of replacing his blood.

Chu Yunyun and Chu Xisheng defeated Qin Fengxian and Xiao Longtu, though both Transcendent Rank fighters escaped the finality of death through the possibility of revival or a hidden escape technique. Chu Yunyun severed ties with Qin Xiyan but gave her ten years to atone, then departed with Chu Xisheng, who asked her to help strengthen his Indestructible ability.

• Chu Yunyun killed Qin Fengxian with the God-Defying Banner Spear, and Chu Xisheng gained two Wish Stones as Qin Fengxian's blood threads absorbed strange power.
• Chu Xisheng used Divine Intent Bans the Sky to prevent Xiao Longtu from escaping, and Chu Yunyun struck him down, but Xiao Longtu survived by using Golden Cicada Shedding Its Shell Art to send his true blood and essential spirit into the Boundless Grand Void.
• Chu Yunyun recovered the Return-to-One Origin Bell and destroyed its corrupted Artifact Spirit, then told the wounded Qin Xiyan that their ties were severed and gave her ten years to kill a hundred Giant Spirits of Second-Rank or above.
• Chu Yunyun explained that Qin Fengxian had replaced his blood with that of a Hundred-Eyed Stone Spirit and that her father had been driven to suicide; she admitted her guilt over neglecting Qin Xiyan and her father’s final request to care for her.
• Chu Xisheng said he would return to Formless Divine Mountain for the Blood-Burning Ritual and his forged armor and saber, then asked Chu Yunyun to beat him to train his Indestructible ability before she returned to Yan Province.
• As the Sun-Bathing Divine Vessel departed, Qin Xiyan watched it leave and bitterly recognized that Chu Yunyun’s despair after being betrayed had been far worse than her own.

Chu Xisheng received two new sabers and two suits of armor, then strengthened his bloodline talents in a Blood-Burning Ritual and considered returning to a mysterious hall connected to his father. In Youzhou, Emperor Jianyuan met Chu Ming secretly and gave her pills and other resources to advance quickly, urging her to fight the Northern Giant Spirits and eventually kill Chu Xisheng.

• Chu Xisheng collected the Wish-Fulfillment God-Slaying Saber, Heavenly Justice Revealing Saber, Black-Gold Mirror Armor, and Zangtian Boundlessness from Yu Yunxiang, then tested their abilities.
• Ye Zhiqiu told Chu Xisheng that Su Fengdao and Li Changsheng had brought the severed arm of the God of Mountains and State Altars back to Formless Divine Mountain and sealed it beneath the Ten Thousand Demons Grotto.
• Luo Hanzong led a Blood-Burning Ritual in which Chu Xisheng used his two Wish Stones to enhance his bloodline talents and raise the blood of eternal ages to the twenty-first rank.
• Chu Xisheng decided he was strong enough to revisit a mysterious hall where he had seen his father, Chu Fengge.
• Emperor Jianyuan met Chu Ming in a Yan'an Commandery City pawnshop and offered her pills, a Martial Intent Soul Stone, and Imperial Court support to reach First-Rank cultivation.
• Emperor Jianyuan urged Chu Ming to resist the Northern Giant Spirits and avenge her mother by killing Chu Xisheng, while Chu Ming remained uncertain about his intentions.

Chu Xisheng entered the dream palace, inherited the martial legacy of Chu Fengge and the authority of the first Gouchen Emperor Lord, then discovered that the gods had noticed his rise in the Wish-Fulfillment Heavenly Order. Shen Jingli vowed to investigate the anonymous candidate and prevent anyone else from becoming the Wish-Fulfillment Sovereign.

• Chu Xisheng used Time-Step to reach Chu Fengge in the Hall of Reception, where Chu Fengge’s remnant imprint passed him a lifetime of martial experience and two God-Slaying Ultimate Moves.
• Chu Xisheng entered Heavenly Palace Hall, endured the first Gouchen Emperor Lord’s starry pressure, and inherited part of his authority over the stars.
• Chu Xisheng tried to enter Celestial Pole Hall but was expelled to White Jade Plaza by its restrictions.
• The gods gathered at the Heavenly Dao Forest after an anonymous human appeared seventh on the Wish-Fulfillment Dao Stele with twenty layers of the Heavenly Order.
• Shen Jingli confronted the Primordial Profound Goddess, asked Shen Puzhao for help locating the candidate, and declared that no one else would become the Wish-Fulfillment True Spirit and Sovereign.

Chu Xisheng worried over Lu Luanli’s distant behavior, then traveled to Cangzhou to cultivate with Wen Zhuyi and strengthen their Yin-Yang Divine Sources. Afterward, Bai Xiao Zhao warned him that Imperial Court experts had been lurking nearby during his meeting with Wen Zhuyi.

• Chu Xisheng drank the God of Mountains and State Altars’ blood marrow, and Li Changsheng proposed having the deity bestow divine grace on the Shenshan Scepter for Chu Xisheng’s Star God.
• Chu Xisheng agreed to let Shen Chihuo strengthen his Yinglong bloodline, and Li Changsheng doubled Shen Chihuo’s allowance.
• Chu Xisheng traveled to Cangzhou with Feng San, left Bai Xiao Zhao and Little Flathead in Feng San’s care, and met Wen Zhuyi alone on an island.
• Chu Xisheng gave Wen Zhuyi an Ice Heart Flower and jointly cultivated Divine Source Cantong Qi with her, strengthening their Yin-Yang Divine Sources and adding new layers of the Cold Heaven Art and Sealing Heaven Art.
• Bai Xiao Zhao told Chu Xisheng that she and Feng San had discovered Imperial Court experts lurking nearby during his secret meeting with Wen Zhuyi, and Chu Xisheng responded with a cold, fierce expression.

After Bai Xiao Zhao revealed Chu Xisheng’s secret meeting with Wen Zhuyi, Chu Xisheng learned that the Imperial Court was plotting against Extreme Eastern Ice City and ordered his allies to prepare for war. He ambushed Xiao Hongchen’s hidden force, and the chapter ended as Xiao Hongchen and Chu Xisheng resumed their fight.

• Bai Xiao Zhao told the Divine Covenant Heavenly Stele chat group about Chu Xisheng’s meeting with Wen Zhuyi, and Chu Xisheng caught and punished her.
• Mad Sword Feng San warned Chu Xisheng that Imperial Court Martial Cultivators, including Xiao Hongchen, were nearby, so Chu Xisheng mobilized his allies and warned Wen Zhuyi of a possible plot against Ice City.
• Chu Xisheng told Wen Zhuyi that the Imperial Court might have obtained a Clone of a First-Generation Heaven-Gazing Hou and asked Lu Luanli to contact Village Master Lu.
• Chu Xisheng and Feng San entered the Mountain God Temple near East Mountain Valley and attacked Xiao Hongchen’s hidden force, killing many of its Spellcasters and Martial Cultivators.
• Xiao Hongchen and Zhu Mingyue attacked Chu Xisheng, but failed to stop the slaughter; Xiao Hongchen then charged Chu Xisheng again, and both men struck with their blades.

Chu Xisheng fought Xiao Hongchen and Zhu Mingyue while Mad Sword Feng San and Bai Xiao Zhao battled the imperial palace cultivators nearby. After Chu Xisheng killed two Great Luo Divine Ants and Wen Zhuyi froze Zhu Mingyue, Imperial Preceptor Yu Kunlun rescued Xiao Hongchen and escaped, leaving Chu Xisheng to sense more enemies closing in.

• Chu Xisheng overwhelmed Xiao Hongchen, then held off Xiao Hongchen and Zhu Mingyue together as Mad Sword Feng San used his Innate Body-Piercing Formless Sword to kill several nearby cultivators.
• Chu Xisheng intercepted Xiao Hongchen and Zhu Mingyue when they tried to flee, but two Great Luo Divine Ants arrived and attacked him.
• Chu Xisheng used Divine Intent Bans the Sky to freeze and kill the Six-Winged Golden Cicada and Four-Armed Green Mantis, while Wen Zhuyi froze Zhu Mingyue with Ice-Po Soul Light from afar.
• Chu Xisheng caught Xiao Hongchen and nearly killed him, but Yu Kunlun appeared and blocked the fatal strike; Wen Zhuyi's Ice Sword Qi wounded Yu Kunlun before he escaped with Xiao Hongchen using Body-Ascending and Trace-Entrusting.
• Mad Sword Feng San arrived with Bai Xiao Zhao and reported more imperial palace cultivators nearby, while Chu Xisheng activated his Divine-Intent Saber Heart and sensed hostile enemies throughout the thousand-li area.

Emperor Jianyuan and Yu Kunlun assessed Chu Xisheng’s growing strength and chose to continue their plot against Extreme Eastern Ice City. Outside the city, Chu Xisheng confronted Changsun Ruoli and Gui Haoyuan, whose attack ended with him overpowering them and declaring that no one but Wen Zhuyi could bar his way.

• Yu Kunlun told Emperor Jianyuan that Chu Xisheng had nearly destroyed Xiao Hongchen’s group, reached Third-Rank Lower Stage, and could fight at a level approaching the Top Ten of the Heavenly Ranking when unleashing his full power.
• Emperor Jianyuan agreed to continue the plan and ordered Yu Kunlun to use the Embroidery Guard’s hidden agents to provoke unrest and attack Ice City’s Suspended Magic Arrays.
• God Seven Killings and Turnwheel Star Lord identified the convergence of Divine Yin and extreme yang near Ice City, suspected Sleeping Dragon was behind it, and planned to disrupt his scheme.
• Chu Xisheng waited outside Ice City because he feared the city’s residents might threaten Wen Zhuyi during the Grand Sacrifice, while Changsun Ruoli arrived and ordered him to leave.
• Changsun Ruoli, Gui Haoyuan, and their allies attacked Chu Xisheng, but he resisted their combined assaults and wounded them with his saber.
• Chu Xisheng’s Divine-Intent Saber Heart struck down Changsun Ruoli, Gui Haoyuan, and the approaching fighters; he spared their lives for Wen Zhuyi’s sake and warned that he would come and go as he pleased.

Chu Xisheng crushed Changsun Ruoli and Gui Haoyuan’s attempt to drive him from Extreme Eastern Ice City, while Wen Zhuyi punished them and proceeded with the Grand Sacrifice. As Wen Zhuyi entered a private shrine chamber to honor her relatives, she sensed something wrong and reached for her sword.

• Chu Xisheng used his Divine-Intent Death-Touching Saber to force Changsun Ruoli, Gui Haoyuan, and the city guards to kneel, then released them at Wen Zhuyi’s request.
• Wen Zhuyi warned Changsun Ruoli and promised Chu Xisheng that the attackers would not try again, while Chu Xisheng and Feng San suspected the city’s factions were plotting against him.
• During the Grand Sacrifice procession, Wen Zhuyi publicly demoted and punished Gui Haoyuan and other officials involved in the clash.
• Emperor Jianyuan and Imperial Preceptor Yu Kunlun discussed the plot to make Changsun Bingquan inherit Extreme Eastern Ice City and the Primordial Ice Wheel by taking Lunar Origin Power from Wen Zhuyi.
• Wen Zhuyi noticed suspicious behavior from the Grand Elder of Sea Sacrifices and two cleaning priests, but followed the Grand Elder into the shrine’s quiet chamber.
• As Changsun Ruoli offered incense and Wen Zhuyi recited the Soul-Calming Scripture, Wen Zhuyi suddenly sensed danger near the incense burner and reached for her sword.

Wen Zhuyi uncovered Changsun Ruoli and the Taiyin Divine Cult’s plot to impose a Lunar Divine Seal on her, then resisted their trap with the Primordial Ice Wheel and revealed she had a Second Primordial Spirit. As Yue Xiner’s plan faltered, Emperor Jianyuan entered the shrine, apparently walking into Wen Zhuyi’s concealed countertrap.

• Wen Zhuyi accused Changsun Ruoli of conspiring with Gui Haoyuan and the Taiyin Divine Cult, and Changsun Ruoli admitted they meant to take Wen Zhuyi’s blood essence and place a Lunar Divine Seal on her for Changsun Bingquan’s sake.
• Wen Zhuyi froze Changsun Ruoli and learned that the disguised Grand Elder of Sea Sacrifices was Yue Xiner, the Taiyin Divine Cult’s Moon God High Chief Priest.
• Yue Xiner revealed that Wen Heavenly Deficiency and the ministers had betrayed Wen Zhuyi, disabled the city’s defenses, and demanded she accept the Lunar Divine Seal for Ice City’s future.
• Wen Zhuyi rejected the demand and summoned the Primordial Ice Wheel, but Yue Xiner activated a hidden array and used a Lunar Origin Stone to force extreme yin power into her.
• Chu Xisheng received Wen Zhuyi’s message telling him to wait outside, then secretly entered the city with Mad Sword Feng San and Bai Xiao Zhao while Chu Yunyun hurried to leave Formless Divine Mountain.
• Wen Zhuyi revealed that her Second Primordial Spirit had resisted Yue Xiner’s trap, and Emperor Jianyuan entered the shrine believing the plan had succeeded.

Wen Zhuyi unleashed her overwhelming Cold-Sealing Sword against Emperor Jianyuan, Yu Kunlun, and the arriving gods, forcing Sleeping Dragon to flee with the wounded emperor. After killing the Ice City officials who betrayed her, she summoned Chu Xisheng to her and left him caught in her magnetic power.

• Wen Zhuyi refined the lunar divine source and raised her martial arts to near-god levels, locking Emperor Jianyuan, Yu Kunlun, and Yue Xiner in place with her sword intent.
• God Seven Killings and Turnwheel Star Lord entered the Zhenhai Shrine, triggering Wen Zhuyi's Primordial Ice Annihilation strike, which froze much of the shrine and shattered Yu Kunlun's incarnation.
• Sleeping Dragon rescued Emperor Jianyuan from God Seven Killings, clashed with Wen Zhuyi's sword, then fled east with the frozen emperor as Chu Xisheng's Death-Touching Saber wounded him.
• God Seven Killings and Turnwheel Star Lord withdrew from Ice City and pursued Sleeping Dragon, while Wen Zhuyi froze and destroyed Wen Heavenly Deficiency, Gui Haoyuan, and the other officials who had betrayed her.
• Wen Zhuyi called Chu Xisheng out of hiding and pulled him toward her with magnetic power, while Mad Sword Feng San restrained Bai Xiao Zhao before she could summon Li Mountain Old Mother's soul.

Wen Zhuyi and Chu Xisheng cultivated the Divine Source Cantong Qi, allowing her to control her cold power and advancing her to Transcendent Rank, while she entrusted him with her people and planned to enter frozen slumber in the Li Tan Catacomb. As Chu Yunyun arrived at the Moon-Cool Hall and saw Wen Zhuyi with Chu Xisheng, the confrontation began.

• Feng San carried Bai Xiao Zhao away while Wen Zhuyi drew Chu Xisheng to the Moon-Cool Hall, where they cultivated the Divine Source Cantong Qi.
• Wen Zhuyi’s cold power and sword intent harmonized with yang, and she advanced to Transcendent Rank while strengthening Chu Xisheng’s bloodline, apertures, and Primordial Spirit.
• Chu Yunyun traveled to the Extreme Eastern Ice City and found Wen Zhuyi’s heavenly order dharma aspect guarding it, then broke through the seals to reach the Moon-Cool Hall.
• Wen Zhuyi told Chu Xisheng that she planned to seal herself in the Li Tan Catacomb and asked him to protect her people and take her there.
• Wen Zhuyi explained that her Second Primordial Spirit had taken control of her emotions and gave Chu Xisheng Taiyi Spirit Essence to strengthen his Nine Luminaries Divine Wheel Swords.
• Chu Yunyun arrived outside the Moon-Cool Hall and saw Wen Zhuyi with Chu Xisheng.

Emperor Jianyuan learned that Wen Zhuyi was close to godhood and sought another way to unite yin and yang, while Lu Chen exploited the imperial palace’s weakened defenses to expose its Heaven-Gazing Hou and confront Consort Zhuang. The chapter left Lu Chen investigating the palace’s great array as Fang Buyuan and God-Tiger Chang uncovered Great Luo Divine Ants at Divine Outlook Temple.

• Emperor Jianyuan learned that Wen Zhuyi might soon ascend to godhood and raged over her union with Chu Xisheng, while Sleeping Dragon suggested Changsun Bingquan as another source of divine yin.
• Sleeping Dragon learned that Lu Chen had entered the Imperial City, wounded Consort Zhuang, and was trying to reach Zhengyuan Palace.
• Lu Chen killed the Heaven-Gazing Hou clone beneath Zhengyuan Palace, ordered Lu Yuan to document the evidence, and headed for Emperor Jianyuan’s sleeping quarters.
• Lu Chen confronted Consort Zhuang in Yan Ying Hall, but she fled north after his attacks disrupted her senses; he then went to inspect the Twelve-Capital Divine Dragon Nation-Guarding Grand Array.
• God-Tiger Chang broke into Divine Outlook Temple while Fang Buyuan used Heaven’s Vision and Earth’s Hearing to discover Great Luo Divine Ants imitating human officials, and the pair defeated a Blood-Winged Black Mosquito.

Chu Xisheng stopped Chu Yunyun and Wen Zhuyi from fighting, and Wen Suyi sealed part of Chu Yunyun’s curse before dissolving Extreme Eastern Ice City and entrusting its people to Chu Xisheng. Changsun Ruoli tried to reach her mother, but Li Ruochun confronted her and attacked her over the betrayal that had doomed the city.

• Chu Yunyun burst into Moon-Cool Hall and attacked Wen Zhuyi, while Chu Xisheng was thrown into an ice wall and struggled through the fight’s aftershocks.
• Chu Yunyun and Wen Zhuyi traded accusations and fought until Chu Xisheng defended his marriage to Yunyun and admitted he had chosen to help Wen Zhuyi.
• Wen Zhuyi revealed her true name, Wen Suyi, froze Chu Yunyun, and sealed roughly thirty percent of her divine poison and curse.
• Wen Suyi announced that Extreme Eastern Ice City was dissolved, directed its people to seek refuge with Chu Xisheng, and denounced Changsun Ruoli, Changsun Bingquan, and their allies as traitors.
• Changsun Ruoli freed herself from the ice and rushed toward Ice Profound Palace, but Li Ruochun stopped her and attacked her for betraying Wen Suyi and ruining Extreme Eastern Ice City.

After Wen Suyi sealed herself in profound ice, Chu Xisheng and Chu Yunyun discussed her survival, her plans, and the danger of escorting her to the Endless Icefield. As the displaced people and armies of the fallen Extreme Eastern Ice City began to withdraw, Changsun Ruolan submitted to Chu Xisheng and accepted command of the northern army’s retreat, while Chu Yunyun went to confront Dugu Shou.

• Chu Yunyun broke Wen Suyi out of the ice, then spared her and recognized that Wen Suyi had entrusted her Second Primordial Spirit to her Cold-Sealing Heavenly Order.
• Chu Yunyun explained to Chu Xisheng that Wen Suyi’s surviving Primordial Spirit could make him the True Spirit of the Cold-Sealing Method, then left to fight Dugu Shou.
• Chu Yunyun made Chu Xisheng rinse away Wen Suyi’s scent before kissing him, then warned him against having another woman without her permission by striking a punch that split the ice sheet for thousands of miles.
• Changsun Ruolan arrived at the ruined Ice Profound Palace, saw Wen Suyi sealed in ice, and bowed to Chu Xisheng, accepting his authority.
• Chu Xisheng assigned Changsun Ruolan to organize the northern army and protect the retreat routes for Ice City’s forces, and she promised to bring at least sixty percent of the soldiers under control.
• Chu Xisheng told Changsun Ruolan that Dugu Shou would probably be unable to interfere, as Chu Yunyun had gone to confront him.

As Great Ning prepared to exploit the reported collapse of the Extreme Eastern Ice City, Chu Yunyun challenged Grand Preceptor Dugu Shou outside Boshan Commandery and overwhelmed him in battle. She rejected his offer of amnesty, and Dugu Shou gathered his strength to resume the fight as Ice City’s troops began withdrawing.

• Shi Xuan announced Great Ning’s plan to attack the Ice City army after the news of Wen Suyi’s sealing spread.
• Chu Yunyun shattered Xuanhua Gate’s defenses and challenged Dugu Shou to fight outside the city.
• Dugu Shou recognized Chu Yunyun’s Divine-Intent Saber Heart and met her spear with his fists, but she forced him onto the defensive and damaged nearby court camps.
• Chu Yunyun’s battle with Dugu Shou steadied the Ice City soldiers, who began an orderly withdrawal from their camps.
• Dugu Shou offered Chu Yunyun and her husband amnesty and rule over the Northern Five Provinces, but Chu Yunyun rejected the offer and told him to surrender to her husband.
• Dugu Shou gave up on persuading Chu Yunyun and summoned his full strength to continue fighting.

Chu Xisheng organized Ice City's mass evacuation and sailed north aboard the Heaven-Pacifying Treasure Ship with Wen Zhuyi, while learning that powerful enemies might try to stop her from reaching eternity. The chapter ended as Wang Tiandong challenged Chu Xisheng, demanding Wen Zhuyi if he won.

• Chu Xisheng arranged Ice City's officials, supplies, guards, and militia to support the migration of its people toward Youzhou, Ice Province, and Yan Province.
• Chu Xisheng moved Wen Zhuyi's enormous block of mystic ice aboard Zong Sanping's Heaven-Pacifying Treasure Ship, where he teased Lu Luanli about marrying him and she angrily kicked him.
• Ye Zhiqiu warned that seven Transcendent Rank experts had gathered nearby, so Chu Xisheng ordered the ship toward Liangcheng Commandery to protect Ice City's retreating forces and carry Wen Zhuyi north.
• Chu Xisheng and his companions discussed the Chan Truth Two Ancestors' decree, which forbade Transcendent Rank humans from obstructing Wen Zhuyi but did not require them to help her.
• Wang Tiandong challenged Chu Xisheng in the clouds and said Wen Zhuyi would have to stay if he won, prompting Chu Xisheng to ready his twin sabers and manifest the Rahū Star God.

The divine cults issued rewards for killing Wen Suyi, Chu Xisheng, and Qin Muge, prompting alarm across Wang'an City as Chu Xisheng escorted Wen Suyi north. The Heavenly Secret Pavilion learned the gods were targeting Chu Xisheng because of his ranks on several Heavenly Dao steles, while his defeat of Wang Tiandong and the possibility of more Heavenly Ranking challengers left his journey under mounting threat.

• Twenty-three divine oracles appeared on Vermilion Bird Street, offering vast rewards for the deaths of Wen Suyi, Chu Xisheng, and Qin Muge, and martial cultivators argued over the threat to their Human Race.
• Hu Kan learned that Wang Tiandong had intercepted Chu Xisheng's Heaven-Pacifying Treasure Ship, while the crowd condemned Wang and placed bets on the fight and Wen Suyi's safe arrival.
• The Heavenly Secret Elder discovered that Chu Xisheng ranked highly on the Wish-Fulfillment, Yazi, Execution, Freezing, and Hundun Heavenly Steles, provoking the Lord of Purity and the other gods to target him.
• The Heavenly Secret Elder ordered the Heavenly Secret Pavilion to keep Chu Xisheng's Hundun cultivation secret and to spread the news of the steles to the sects gathering at Blood Bat Mountain.
• A report confirmed that Chu Xisheng defeated Wang Tiandong after their weapons broke; the Heavenly Secret Elder ordered Chu raised to Sixteenth on the Heavenly Ranking and identified Li Zhen'e and possibly Yu Duxing as future threats.

Chu Xisheng continued north aboard the Heaven-Pacifying Treasure Ship, defeating or outlasting successive Heavenly Ranking experts who had been sent to stop him and Wen Zhuyi. After Li Zhen'e and She Huayu both revealed that they had chosen not to obstruct Wen Zhuyi’s path to Dao, Chu Xisheng faced another opponent as the chapter ended.

• Chu Xisheng and his companions concluded that Wang Tiandong’s weapon had been sabotaged and that Lu Chen’s dream arts may have influenced him; Lu Luanli sensed her father’s power in the encounter.
• Feng San returned with Ji Yang’s tentacles, and Chu Xisheng began eating them to replenish his primordial yang while the ship continued north toward Li Zhen'e.
• Li Zhen'e transformed his body and attacked Chu Xisheng with the Golden Needle Sword, then exploded his body to escape Baizhu’s secret-art restrictions and left Chu Xisheng a message promising three medical treatments.
• News of Li Zhen'e’s defeat spread through Wang'an City, where people debated Chu Xisheng’s strength and learned that Golden Snake Heavenly Lord She Huayu was his next opponent.
• Chu Xisheng fought She Huayu in poisonous clouds and beheaded him, but She Huayu revealed that he had deliberately accepted defeat because he did not wish to obstruct Wen Zhuyi’s path to Dao.

Chu Xisheng defeated the Twin-Winged God-Killers, Situ Tiansheng and Situ Diguo, whose God-Slaying attack turned against them, then sensed another Heavenly Ranking opponent approaching. In Liangcheng Commandery, Changsun Ruoli weighed Qin Sheng’s offer of an alliance with Great Ning as Chu Xisheng’s victories threatened to unravel her position.

• Chu Xisheng fought Situ Tiansheng and Situ Diguo, disrupted their joint techniques with Intercepting Heaven, and prepared to counter their God-Slaying Ultimate Move.
• Situ Tiansheng and Situ Diguo’s attack went out of control and struck them instead, while Feng San suspected they had deliberately left a flaw to escape the gods’ control.
• Changsun Ruolan’s defection drew soldiers away from the Northern Army, and Changsun Ruoli found the remaining camps in disarray before meeting Changsun Bingquan’s commanders.
• Qin Sheng offered Changsun Ruoli and Changsun Bingquan an imperial amnesty, titles, and territory in exchange for their allegiance and an attack on Changsun Ruolan’s forces.
• A message reported that Chu Xisheng had killed Li Wudi, shaking Changsun Ruoli’s resolve as Qin Sheng urged her to act quickly.

At Blood Bat Mountain, Zong Shenhua tried to recruit the sect leaders into controlling Wen Zhuyi’s ascent to godhood, but several leaders rejected his plan. On Chu Xisheng’s journey north, Lang Beiwang died under the gods’ curse after playing his final piece, and Cang Haishi fought Chu Xisheng before killing himself and urging him to slaughter the giant spirits blocking his path.

• Zong Shenhua argued that the assembled sects should help Wen Zhuyi ascend to godhood while placing restrictive arts on her, but Chen Nailuo, Xie Tianqing, and Zhou Zhi opposed his proposal or left.
• Chu Xisheng met Cang Haishi and Lang Beiwang above Jiushan Commandery, where Lang revealed that a curse was killing him and asked Chu to pass his weapons and zither to his son, Lang Tianshou.
• Lang Beiwang played his final piece, then exploded into blood droplets and bloodworms; Cang Haishi destroyed the remains, and Chu Xisheng collected Lang’s artifacts for his son.
• Cang Haishi challenged Chu Xisheng to three strikes, but they exchanged five blows, and Cang recognized that Chu’s saber could eventually slay gods and demons.
• Cang Haishi warned Chu that first-rank giant spirits, including seven from the Foreign Races Heavenly Ranking, would block his route to the Li Tan Catacomb, then killed himself rather than submit to the gods.
• Chu Xisheng promised to slaughter the enemies ahead and roared in anguish as Cang Haishi’s body burned to ash.

After Lang Beiwang and Cang Haishi died resisting the gods’ orders to stop Chu Xisheng, the Divine Land’s factions split over whether to oppose the Giant Spirits or negotiate with them. Chu Xisheng gained a Wish-Fulfillment Divine Curse and new powers, and the chapter ended as six Giant Spirits appeared a thousand li ahead of him.

• Chen Nailuo and Wen Sansheng condemned the factions willing to cooperate with the Giant Spirits, then led more than twenty people out of Zong Shenhua’s gathering.
• Zong Shenhua defended his plan to negotiate with the Giant Spirits, while crowds in Wang'an City honored the fallen heroes and learned that Chu Xisheng had been ranked tenth on the Heavenly Ranking.
• The Heavenly Secret Elder learned that Chu Xisheng had become a Wish-Fulfillment True Spirit and discussed the mounting battles around Cangzhou with the Heavenly Stems Hall Master.
• Changsun Ruoli waited outside Changsun Ruolan’s mountain camp as Qin Sheng predicted Chu Xisheng would be killed before he could reach Giant Province.
• Chu Xisheng examined the God-Slaying move bestowed by Lang Beiwang, Cang Haishi’s Wish-Fulfillment Divine Curse, and a new Imitative Spirit Transformation Yin option in his Treasury.
• Feng San warned Chu Xisheng that six enormous Giant Spirits had appeared a thousand li ahead.