Chapter Summaries

Wang Chong brought Su Luoyan to the Ten-Thousand-Year Fox Manor and formally proposed marriage to both the manor and the Su Family. He arranged for Shaolin’s Kong Chan and Wudang’s Ku Cha to represent the martial world, and both sects prepared to answer his request.

• The Su Family welcomed Wang Chong, Longji, and Gao Gun outside Chenzhou, while Wang Chong later slipped away to avoid awkwardness with Longji.
• Su Luoyan took Wang Chong to the Ten-Thousand-Year Fox Manor, where the manor mistress greeted them.
• Wang Chong proposed marriage to the Su Family and the Fox Manor, offering gifts and promising to bring Kong Chan and Ku Cha to propose on his behalf.
• The Fox Manor’s mistress agreed to give half the manor’s population as Su Luoyan’s dowry.
• Su Luoyan asked whether Kong Chan and Ku Cha would really come, and Wang Chong assured her he had sent letters.
• Kong Chan agreed to go in person, while Ku Cha and the Wudang elders discussed wedding gifts.

Kong Chan and Ku Cha proposed marriage to the Ten-Thousand-Year Fox Manor on Wen Zhengchun's behalf, bringing Xun Ba and a gift of Wudang's patriarchal stone slabs. The slabs passed into Wang Chong's care, while Gao Gun realized the missing thirty-second slab was already in his possession.

• Kong Chan and Ku Cha arrived in Chenzhou to propose marriage to Su Luoyan for Wen Zhengchun, and Ku Cha brought Xun Ba to apologize and serve Wang Chong.
• Wang Chong welcomed Xun Ba as a martial brother, while Ku Cha took satisfaction in Wudang's growing ties to Wang Chong.
• Ku Cha presented thirty-one stone slabs bearing a Wudang patriarch's martial insights and said the Wen Family had taken the missing slab.
• Gao Gun recognized the missing slab as the one he had taken from Wen Yanqing and decided to send it to Tongzhou.
• The mistress of the Ten-Thousand-Year Fox Manor realized that the slabs were intended for Wang Chong and Su Luoyan, not for the manor to examine.

Wang Chong studied Shaolin’s Dharma-Transmission Kasaya and comprehended the Heavenly Demon Great Law, then helped establish the Way of the Yellow Heaven and expanded its martial teachings. Back in Tongzhou, he discovered that his Heavenly Demon True Qi resonated with the Patriarch’s Stone Slabs, which seemed to seal a mysterious passage.

• Kong Chan presented the Dharma-Transmission Kasaya as a wedding gift for Wang Chong and Su Luoyan, and Wang Chong used it alongside the Correct Explanation of the Four Marks to gain insight.
• Wang Chong comprehended the Heavenly Demon Great Law, which transformed his demonic and Buddhist powers, and his verse helped Kong Chan advance his cultivation.
• Wang Chong left Julai Mountain for Leizhou, appointed and organized Regional Chiefs, and distributed the Way of the Yellow Heaven’s thirty-six martial arts in the Yellow Heaven Martial Canon.
• Wang Chong returned to Tongzhou and examined the thirty-two Patriarch's Stone Slabs with Longji and the others.
• Wang Chong’s Heavenly Demon True Qi activated seven slabs, leading him to suspect that the slabs sealed a passage and that his art could bypass their barrier.

Wang Chong tried to keep peace among his wives while learning about the growing Way of the Yellow Heaven and studying the Patriarch's Stone Slabs. When the slabs responded to his Heavenly Demon True Qi, a strange energy surged into him and began changing it.

• Longji and Wen Chan'er both asked for the stone slabs, but Wang Chong redirected their rivalry by demonstrating the Ten-Thousand-Victory Flower Spear and promising to create a sword technique for Wuzhumuqin.
• Wang Chong arranged a barbecue to calm the women, and Yuzao privately told him that the Way of the Yellow Heaven had grown to two or three hundred thousand followers across the Nineteen Provinces.
• Wang Chong decided to transfer some members of the Way of the Yellow Heaven into his Wind-Treading Cavalry as the fighting around Luoyang dwindled.
• Wang Chong studied the Patriarch's Stone Slabs alone and began breaking through to the ninth level when energy flowed back from the nine slabs and mingled with his Heavenly Demon True Qi.