Chapter Summaries

Chen Nian tracked Ai Lan to Mermaid Island, where General Hai forced her to fight mutated Calamity Beasts as punishment for trying to leave. Chen Nian arrived at the island and confronted General Hai, demanding to know where Ai Lan was.

• Chen Nian learned from Heizi that Ai Lan was likely on Mermaid Island and recruited five guild members to accompany him there.
• Ai Lan tried to resign from the Tears of the Azure Sea, but General Hai accused her of betraying the guild and led her to a cavern filled with mutated monsters.
• General Hai trapped Ai Lan in the cavern for a three-day combat test, while his subordinates blocked her escape and he threatened her parents.
• Chen Nian arrived at Mermaid Island with five others, then broke into General Hai's office and demanded to know where Ai Lan was.
• General Hai's subordinate attacked Chen Nian, but the Moon-Howling Heavenly Wolf burst through the wall and pinned him down.

Chen Nian rescued Ai Lan from the underground cavern and learned that General Hai had subjected her to a deadly trial. He returned to Mermaid Island and confronted the general, leaving the standoff poised to escalate.

• Chen Nian threatened to sink Mermaid Island unless General Hai revealed Ai Lan’s location, and the general directed him to an underground cavern southwest of the island.
• General Hai ordered his staff to inject all the serum into the mutant Calamity Beasts, despite a researcher’s warning about the consequences.
• The Moon-Howling Heavenly Wolf rescued Ai Lan and killed the three mutant Calamity Beasts attacking her.
• Chen Nian brought Ai Lan back and promised to retaliate against those who had injured her.
• Chen Nian confronted General Hai in front of the island’s elite Transcendents and declared that he would take one of the general’s arms.

Chen Nian confronted General Hai on Mermaid Island after the general threatened his guild member Ai Lan, then used the Primordial Divine Ape to defeat him and sever his right arm. Chen Nian left the island with Ai Lan and the others, intending to break through to Tier Four.

• Chen Nian warned the island’s superhumans that anyone who harmed his people would pay, while the Moon-Howling Heavenly Wolf backed him up.
• General Hai challenged Chen Nian to take his arm, then blocked the wolf’s attack and struck it away.
• Chen Nian summoned the Primordial Divine Ape to fight General Hai.
• The Primordial Divine Ape’s punch destroyed General Hai’s right arm and blasted apart the villa behind him.
• Chen Nian warned General Hai not to target his people again, then left Mermaid Island with Ai Lan and the other guild members to pursue a Tier Four breakthrough.

After returning to Linhai City, Chen Nian found Zhao Yixue had moved into his house, and they shared an awkward dinner before the full moon activated the heart moon mark Chang'e had left on them. The mark intensified their existing feelings until they gave in to each other, and the Divine Evolution Fruit appeared as dawn broke.

• Chen Nian returned home and discovered Zhao Yixue had used an ice key to enter and planned to stay in the room next to his.
• Zhao Yixue cooked Chen Nian fried eggs with goji berries, then he shelled crayfish for her when they ordered dinner.
• Chen Nian noticed the heart moon mark on his forehead glowing under the full moon and realized it was stirring feelings in both him and Zhao Yixue.
• Zhao Yixue came to Chen Nian after her bath, and the heart moon mark intensified their affection until they embraced in an immortal paradise.
• After a long night together, first snow blossomed and the Divine Evolution Fruit appeared on the tree.

After eating the Divine Evolution Fruit, Chen Nian advanced to Tier Four, awakened the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Art, and planned to repair his weapon and challenge stronger Divinity holders. As divine ruins appeared around the world, Uesawa Ueki trained to surpass Chen Nian, then heard intruders demanding to see him.

• Chen Nian fed the Divine Evolution Fruit to himself, advanced to Tier Four, and awakened the first revolution of the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Art.
• Chen Nian reviewed his increased stats and new Tier Three ultimate Word Spirit, Peng Wind, and decided to find a blacksmith to repair his weapon with the Demon Sword Remnant.
• Chen Nian carried Zhao Yixue to the bath, where she pulled him into the tub with her.
• Reports described divine ruins and newly empowered warriors appearing around the world, including Hanyu Hayabusa in Sakura Country.
• Uesawa Ueki trained with his sword and told Shangze Sakura that he intended to challenge Chen Nian again.
• Unidentified intruders caused a commotion at Uesawa Ueki’s home and demanded that he come out.

Uesawa Ueki was arrested after refusing to admit guilt for killing people who had slaughtered innocents, while Sakura secretly visited him in prison. Chen Nian sought a battle with Zhao Yixue to gain Divine Might Points, but gave up on a proper spar and planned to find another opponent as a girl from Sakura Country arrived in Dragon Country.

• Uesawa Ueki refused to surrender to the soldiers sent to arrest him, but Hanyu Hayabusa restrained him and threatened his family, so he agreed to go with them.
• News outlets accused Uesawa Ueki of treason and slaughtering his compatriots, and authorities imprisoned him ahead of a public trial.
• Sakura disguised herself as a prison staff member and visited Uesawa Ueki, who refused to plead guilty and urged her to leave safely.
• Chen Nian asked Zhao Yixue to spar so he could gain Divine Might Points, but she worried about her unborn baby and he abandoned the idea.
• Zhao Yixue returned home after she and Chen Nian fought on the living room sofa, which earned him no Divine Might Points.
• A girl from Sakura Country arrived in Dragon Country.

Shangze Sakura arrived in Dragon Country to find Buyu and save her brother, while Chen Nian learned where to find a renowned blacksmith and discovered that Sakura was searching for him. The chapter left Chen Nian asking Heizi for Sakura’s contact details.

• Shangze Sakura arrived in Dragon Country and set out to find Buyu before her brother Uesawa Ueki’s trial in ten days.
• Two Tier Three transcendents cornered Shangze Sakura, but she wounded one with her kunai and escaped without pursuing them.
• Shangze Sakura decided not to approach Su Jinyu and instead spent heavily to gather information about Buyu through the transcendent world chat.
• Heizi told Chen Nian that the blacksmith Tang Zhu was crafting epic-grade equipment at Crouching Dragon Mountain, and Chen Nian decided to visit him.
• Heizi revealed that a persistent woman was buying information about Chen Nian, showed him a photograph of Shangze Sakura, and received Chen Nian’s request for her contact details.

Chen Nian met Shangze Sakura, a woman urgently searching for Buyu, at a West City hotel after arranging to meet her there. The chapter ended with Shangze Sakura revealing that she was Uesawa Ueki's younger sister.

• Chen Nian told Shangze Sakura that Buyu would be at the Ping'an Hotel in West City and traveled there to meet her.
• Shangze Sakura waited outside the hotel, where she slapped a man who harassed her and watched his girlfriend stomp on him as she reclaimed her car keys.
• Chen Nian arrived, but Shangze Sakura mistook him for someone hitting on her and told him to get lost.
• After Chen Nian revealed over the phone that Buyu had arrived, Shangze Sakura recognized him and hurried to his room.
• Chen Nian asked Shangze Sakura to introduce herself, and she said her name was Shangze Sakura and that she was Uesawa Ueki's younger sister.

Shangze Sakura begged Chen Nian to save her brother, Uesawa Ueki, and agreed to serve him in exchange for his reconsideration. The next morning, Chen Nian decided to take her to Crouching Dragon Mountain to commission a weapon before facing the powerful fighters gathered for Uesawa Ueki’s execution.

• Shangze Sakura asked Chen Nian to save Uesawa Ueki, and Chen Nian questioned why he should risk himself for an enemy from Sakura Country.
• Shangze Sakura offered to work for Chen Nian, and he agreed to reconsider if she served him for a few days.
• Shangze Sakura massaged Chen Nian, fetched milk tea, prepared his bath, scrubbed his back, and warmed his bed.
• Shangze Sakura stayed awake on guard through the night and prepared breakfast for Chen Nian the next morning.
• Chen Nian told Shangze Sakura to come with him to Crouching Dragon Mountain, where he planned to commission a weapon and seek powerful opponents.

Chen Nian and Shangze Sakura climbed Crouching Dragon Mountain to find blacksmith Tang Zhu, passing a long line of customers waiting for equipment. After Chen Nian sent Tang Zhu a rare material, the blacksmith recognized it as peerless-grade and hurried out to meet him.

• Chen Nian learned that Crouching Dragon Mountain had appeared recently and that dragon roars sounded there daily, then traveled there with Shangze Sakura.
• Chen Nian and Shangze Sakura reached Tang Zhu’s smithy and learned that customers had been waiting in line for weeks or months.
• Chen Nian ignored the warnings and insults from the waiting customers as he walked to the front of the line.
• When a customer swung at Chen Nian, Shangze Sakura blocked the punch and sent the man stumbling backward.
• Chen Nian gave Tang Zhu’s apprentice a piece of material dropped by the Heavenly Cascade, “Black Sun.”
• Tang Zhu identified the material as peerless-grade and rushed to meet Chen Nian.

Chen Nian had Tang Zhu agree to spend seven days repairing and improving the Startled Dragon Saber, while Shangze Sakura waited anxiously for him to help save her brother. With only three days left before Uesawa Ueki’s public judgment, Chen Nian told Shangze Sakura he would not go back with her.

• Tang Zhu begged Chen Nian to let him forge the rare material, then offered to repair the legendary Startled Dragon Saber and raise its quality.
• Chen Nian left the materials with Tang Zhu, who shut his smithy for seven days to work on the weapon.
• Shangze Sakura handled Chen Nian’s daily errands while they waited, but grew increasingly anxious as her brother’s judgment approached.
• Shangze Sakura confronted Chen Nian with only three days remaining, and Chen Nian said he would not go back with her.

Shangze Sakura accepted that Chen Nian would not return with her to save Uesawa Ueki, while Chen Nian secretly prepared to go to Sakura Country on his own. After Tang Zhu completed the seven-day forging of the Startled Dragon Saber, its dragon qi awakened a world boss, and Chen Nian confronted the monster.

• Chen Nian refused Shangze Sakura’s request, and she returned to Sakura Country to try to see Uesawa Ueki before his trial.
• Chen Nian asked the guild to arrange a private plane to Sakura Country’s capital, keeping his plan to intervene to himself.
• After seven days of forging, Tang Zhu quenched the Startled Dragon Saber as dragon roars echoed through Crouching Dragon Mountain.
• The saber’s dragon qi drew the level 20 Earth-Splitting Dragon out of the mountain, and Tang Zhu refused to abandon the weapon.
• Chen Nian faced the dragon’s fire and used Heavenly Eye to overpower it with a cyan energy blast.

Chen Nian, revealed as Buyu, shattered the Earth-Splitting Dragon’s stone attack and used Tang Zhu’s newly forged Mythic saber to kill the world boss with one strike. After the battle made headlines and Tang Zhu celebrated his success, Chen Nian headed for the airport, where a private plane and an unsuspecting flight attendant awaited him.

• The Earth-Splitting Dragon trapped Chen Nian and nearby transcendents inside a giant sphere of rubble, but Chen Nian used Word Spirit: Judgment to destroy it and save them.
• The crowd recognized Chen Nian as Buyu, while Tang Zhu announced that the Startled Dragon Saber was complete.
• Chen Nian summoned the saber, teleported above the Earth-Splitting Dragon, and severed its head with one slash.
• The saber became a Mythic weapon called Dragon Slayer after bathing in the dragon’s blood, and Chen Nian left for the airport.
• News of Buyu slaying the world boss spread across the country, while Tang Zhu celebrated his new status as a master blacksmith and closed his smithy for seven days.
• At West City Airport, a flight attendant waited aboard a private plane for an honored guest without knowing that the guest was Chen Nian.

Chen Nian flew to Sakura Country to attend Uesawa Ueki’s trial, while Yueyue recognized him as Buyu aboard the private plane. The trial drew an international crowd intent on turning Uesawa Ueki’s punishment into a united stand against Dragon Country, and it began with Shangze Sakura watching from afar.

• Chen Nian boarded a private plane to Sakura Country, and air traffic control cleared it to take off ahead of another flight.
• Yueyue recognized Chen Nian as Buyu from a news photo but decided not to ask for a picture or autograph.
• Powerful figures from several countries gathered at the national assembly grounds, where attendees described the trial as a joint effort to oppose Dragon Country.
• Shangze Sakura watched from a rooftop after failing to find anyone willing to save her brother, Uesawa Ueki.
• Uesawa Ueki was escorted into the trial as the crowd cursed him, and he reflected on how the people who once praised him now wanted him executed.

Uesawa Ueki refused to confess at his public trial, arguing that he had killed violent compatriots to uphold his warrior beliefs. The judicial panel sentenced him to death, and when he tried to commit seppuku, Hanyu Hayabusa severed his right arm as Shangze Sakura rushed toward him.

• Uesawa Ueki refused to admit the charges as the trial was broadcast to viewers across the world.
• Uesawa Ueki defended his actions by saying he had killed people who slaughtered innocents, but the judge accused him of twisting the facts.
• The judicial panel unanimously sentenced Uesawa Ueki to death, while Shangze Sakura watched in anger and the public largely supported the verdict.
• Uesawa Ueki broke free of his restraints and tried to commit seppuku, but Hanyu Hayabusa cut off his right arm to stop him.
• Shangze Sakura rushed toward her wounded brother after seeing his arm severed.

Shangze Sakura rescued her brother Uesawa Ueki, and the siblings fought the Law Enforcement Department’s forces together. After Jones badly injured Uesawa and trapped them under a crushing shield, a mysterious man appeared and stopped the attack with one finger.

• Shangze Sakura killed the guards holding Uesawa Ueki, and Uesawa shattered his shackles and joined her in fighting the enforcers.
• Uesawa Ueki wounded dozens of enforcers with a lightning-fast strike, prompting Jones to challenge him while Hanyu Hayabusa stayed back.
• Jones’s golden divinity reflected Uesawa’s attack and badly injured him.
• Jones summoned an enormous shield that Uesawa and Shangze Sakura struggled to hold back, until Uesawa collapsed and the pressure fell on her.
• An unseen man appeared before Shangze Sakura and lifted the crushing pressure with one finger.

Chen Nian arrived at the trial and protected Shangze Sakura and Uesawa Ueki, then faced Jones and the other Divinity holders surrounding him. He destroyed Jones’s triple shield and explained that he had waited so civilians could escape, leaving the battle poised to begin.

• Chen Nian stopped Jones’s massive shield with one finger, and his arrival at the trial stunned the crowd and viewers around the world.
• Shangze Sakura realized Chen Nian had come in person to keep her from being implicated, while Uesawa Ueki agreed to recover instead of fighting beside him.
• Mountains and Rivers in Lasting Peace prepared to shape public opinion in support of Chen Nian’s intervention.
• Sakura Country’s forces and the Divinity holders Jones, Emma, and Hanyu Hayabusa surrounded Chen Nian after the civilians evacuated.
• Jones attacked with a triple earth-splitting shield, but Chen Nian used Sequence 125, Word Spirit-Origin-Destroying World, to disintegrate it.
• Chen Nian told Jones he had held back to give innocent people time to escape and said he would not slaughter the innocent.

Chen Nian defended Uesawa Ueki and Shangze Sakura at the trial, publicly insulting the assembled dignitaries and shifting public opinion in Dragon Country. As he fought Jones without attacking, Sakura Country’s snipers tried to kill the siblings, but Chen Nian killed every sniper with divine light.

• Chen Nian said he would not slaughter the innocent, prompting people online to support Buyu and question the trial.
• Chen Nian told the assembled officials and fighters that he thought nothing of anyone there, provoking Jones to attack him.
• Chen Nian dodged Jones’s sword and shield using the first revolution of the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Art, while Shangze Sakura warned Jones about Countershock.
• An officer ordered eighteen snipers to fire spirit-piercing rounds at Uesawa Ueki and Shangze Sakura.
• Shangze Sakura stopped three bullets, and Chen Nian knocked the rest aside with divine light before sending it along their trajectories and killing every sniper.

Chen Nian summoned the Primordial Divine Ape to defeat Jones, who then revealed the power of his Divinity, Heimdall. Jones destroyed the ape and turned his Rainbow Bridge attack on Chen Nian.

• Chen Nian killed all eighteen snipers while fighting Jones, and Sakura Country's officers decided they could not interfere.
• Jones taunted Chen Nian, who summoned the Primordial Divine Ape with the Ten Beasts of the Fallen Forest summoning art.
• The Primordial Divine Ape battered Jones until his shield broke and sent him crashing into a building.
• Jones emerged from the rubble empowered by Heimdall's Rainbow Bridge and blasted the Primordial Divine Ape away.
• Jones aimed his sword at Chen Nian and unleashed a seven-colored torrent.

Chen Nian overwhelmed Jones with his Judgment Domain until Hanyu Hayabusa intervened and challenged him with Heavenly Thunder Myriad Phenomena. Their close-combat abilities reached a stalemate, and Emma launched Sun Fire at them to break it.

• Chen Nian used Judgment to block Jones's Rainbow Bridge and steadily advanced until Hanyu Hayabusa arrived and drove Jones away.
• Hanyu Hayabusa's Break spell failed to shatter Chen Nian's domain, so he unleashed Heavenly Thunder Myriad Phenomena and canceled it out.
• Chen Nian and Hanyu Hayabusa fought at close range, with Chen Nian evading his attacks and Hanyu's wind barrier blocking Chen Nian's.
• Jones met up with Emma and suggested they interfere from outside the fight.
• Emma flicked a wisp of Sun Fire toward Chen Nian and Hanyu Hayabusa.