Recaps

Wang Hao secured Long Ling’s promise to introduce the Buddha Lord Shengxiu to the steppe martial world and taught Long Ling a magnetic-field body-tempering method. After studying the martial arts exchanged at the meeting, Wang Hao began preparing to explain the Heavenly Demon Sacred Cult’s powerful figures to Abbess Qingmiao.

• Wang Hao asked Long Ling to arrange introductions for the invented Buddha Lord Shengxiu, and Long Ling agreed to write letters to the steppe sects.
• Wang Hao used his Human Body Magnetic Field to guide Long Ling until the lama formed a self-sustaining cycle for tempering his body.
• While Long Ling continued practicing, Wang Hao studied the Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms, the Nine Yin True Scripture, and the Supreme Yoga Tantra.
• Wang Hao praised the Nine Yin True Scripture’s broad principles and considered using its Soul-Shifting Great Art as a basis for developing a stronger hypnosis method.
• Abbess Qingmiao asked Wang Hao to identify the Heavenly Demon Sacred Cult’s formidable figures, and he was secretly pleased to have a chance to spin another tale.

Wang Hao visited the Mount Heng Sword Sect and tested its sword formation while studying its techniques. After breaking through the formation’s defenses and battling its inner ranks, he called on the sect’s elders to join, hoping to witness its full power.

• Wang Hao told Abbess Qingmiao about the Heavenly Demon Sacred Cult and named the Immortal Lord and Divine Lord as two of its Tribulation Lords.
• Abbess Qingmiao invited Wang Hao to evaluate the Mount Heng Sword Formation, and he examined the forty-two nuns assembled on the training ground.
• Wang Hao used nine flying swords against the formation, then increased their number to thirty-six to break through its defenses and enter its center.
• Wang Hao fought Abbess Qingmiao and the other nuns with seventy-two swords, discovering that the formation created a domain that enhanced their speed and combat power.
• Wang Hao noticed eight elderly nuns, including a Half-step Innate expert in a wheelchair, and asked them to join the formation.

Wang Hao urged the Mount Heng Sword Sect to unleash its strongest sword formation, revealing Abbess Weiyu and seven reclusive Half-step Innate nuns. He used their attacks to test and refine a defensive formation of eighty-one flying swords, leaving the battle ongoing as the nuns pressed their assault.

• Wang Hao sensed that the Mount Heng Sword Formation had hidden power, and Abbess Qingmiao and the other abbesses recognized Abbess Weiyu, their supposedly deceased former leader, when she appeared with seven senior nuns.
• Abbess Qingmiao explained the day's events to Abbess Weiyu, who sent the seven senior nuns and Qingmiao's group to demonstrate the formation at full strength.
• The seven Half-step Innate nuns led the Mount Heng Sword Formation while Abbess Qingmiao and the others supported them, and they warned Wang Hao before attacking.
• Wang Hao formed a defensive sword formation with eighty-one flying swords, which he had derived using the Dao Comprehension Function from his knowledge of martial arts and the Mount Heng Sword Formation.
• The Mount Heng Sword Formation's first full-power strike dented Wang Hao's defense but failed to break it, helping him refine the formation.
• Abbess Qingmiao and the others launched a sustained series of full-force attacks against Wang Hao's flying-sword defense.

Wang Hao used the Mount Heng Sword Sect’s fighters to perfect his Wuji Sword Formation, then recognized that Dingzhen could cultivate the Seven Po Magnetic Field. He offered to teach her his Sword Control Technique, but she refused to leave Mount Heng, while Abbess Qingmiao threatened Wang Hao over his past with her disciple.

• Wang Hao refined his Wuji Sword Formation until the seven reclusive old nuns could no longer break through it, and Abbess Weiyu called off the fight.
• Dingzhen appeared to support Abbess Qingmiao, and Wang Hao noticed her strong magnetic force and realized she could cultivate the Seven Po Magnetic Field.
• Abbess Qingmiao mistook Wang Hao’s interest in Dingzhen for improper attention, so he explained that he wanted to teach her his Sword Control Technique.
• Long Ling confirmed that Dingzhen had the same constitution as the Buddha and could cultivate the Seven Po Magnetic Field, easing the nuns’ suspicions of Wang Hao.
• Dingzhen refused to leave the Mount Heng Sword Sect because she expected Wang Hao to visit her, prompting Abbess Qingmiao to threaten to have her seven grand-aunts kill him.

Wang Hao persuaded Dingzhen to consider joining the Sword Faction, then traded martial arts manuals with the Mount Heng Sword Sect while copying their collection. Meanwhile, frontier martial artists plotted to lure his Wuming alter ego into a grassland invasion and wear him down with an army.

• Wang Hao explained that Dingzhen could learn the Sword Control Technique without returning to the Sword Faction, and warned that the Heavenly Sword Heart Method could strip away emotions and change her nature.
• Wang Hao gave Dingzhen three days to decide whether to join the Sword Faction, then asked Abbess Qingmiao to take him to the Mount Heng Sword Sect's manuals.
• Wang Hao offered the Mount Heng Sword Sect copies of the martial arts manuals he had collected and began copying its books in the forbidden cave.
• Abbess Qingmiao left to arrange the exchange and inform her sect about the overseas martial world and the Heavenly Demon Sacred Cult.
• Frontier Half-step Innate experts reviewed intelligence about Wuming's strength and agreed to provoke a southward raid by grassland tribes so an army could weaken him.

After learning that a steppe army had invaded Huaxia and massacred civilians, Wang Hao prepared to destroy the invaders while allowing Long Ling to rescue innocent people. He arranged support from the Mount Heng Sword Sect and agreed to teach Dingzhen sword arts as she joined his Sword Faction.

• Wang Hao emerged from the forbidden grounds, and Abbess Qingmiao told him that a hundred thousand steppe soldiers and nearly a million auxiliaries had crossed the Yellow River after collaborators opened the way.
• After hearing that at least a hundred thousand civilians had been killed, Wang Hao vowed to make the steppe army pay and gave Long Ling half a day to evacuate innocent steppe people.
• Wang Hao asked Abbess Qingmiao to secretly destroy the boats, gather medicinal herbs, and prepare thousands of high-quality longswords for the coming battle.
• Dingzhen asked to join Wang Hao's Sword Faction so she could gain the strength to help an uncle who was being hunted, and Wang Hao accepted her decision.
• Wang Hao gave Dingzhen manuscripts on the Sword Control Technique, the Wuji Sword Formation, and the first half of the Cihang Sword Codex.

Wang Hao prepared medicine and a tear-inducing substance for his plan to stop the invading steppe army, then gathered the Mount Heng Sword Sect’s swords so he could refine them with the Sword Control Technique. The chapter left him waiting for horses to transport the enormous collection as Wangcai bounded into the training ground.

• Abbess Qingmiao sent most of the Mount Heng Sword Sect’s people, including its senior martial aunts, to investigate the steppe army while Wang Hao worked in the sect’s medicinal cavern.
• Wang Hao deduced prescriptions for treating wounds and wind-cold, then began preparing medicines and a tear-inducing substance from medicinal dregs to restrict the enemy army.
• Wang Hao drank from the medicinal decoction and packed seven-thousand-year-old ginseng roots and six lingzhi mushrooms before leaving the cavern.
• Wang Hao sensed more than ten Half-step Innate experts watching the sect, then examined the more than ten thousand swords Abbess Weiyu had collected for him.
• Wang Hao asked Abbess Weiyu to arrange horses to carry the swords, and she said Dingzhen was already handling it.
• Wangcai jumped into the training ground, and Wang Hao cursed when he saw what came in with it.

High Person Longxiang and Long Ling withdrew more than ten thousand slaves from the steppe army, while Wang Hao prepared to attack the million-strong camp before his tear-inducing medicine arrived. Wang Hao galloped toward the army with Dingzhen and her huskies, leaving Abbess Qingmiao and Xie Feng to secure the river crossings as battle loomed.

• High Person Longxiang and Long Ling failed to persuade the steppe chiefs and temple experts to abandon their campaign, but they led more than ten thousand slaves across the Yellow River to safety.
• Wang Hao discovered that Dingzhen's eighteen enormous huskies were Wangcai's offspring and prepared their swords for battle by refining them with Innate Qi and Divine Sense.
• Abbess Qingmiao gave Wang Hao a map and reported that the steppe army had camped in a defensible area after sending out scouts.
• Wang Hao ordered Abbess Qingmiao to prepare tear-inducing smoke at the southern opening and eastern woods, then told Xie Feng to guard the pontoon bridge and northern bank.
• Wang Hao rode toward the steppe army's camp with Dingzhen and the huskies, beginning his attack before the medicine arrived.

Wang Hao and Dingzhen fought their way through a ten-thousand-strong cavalry force toward Khan Wantu’s camp, while Wang Hao adjusted the Wuji Sword Formation to attack. When the battlefield overwhelmed Dingzhen, Wang Hao taught her a heart method he had devised to calm her mind, and she resolved to keep fighting.

• Khan Wantu learned that Human Butcher Wuming was approaching with Dingzhen and giant wolves, then gathered tribal chiefs and Esoteric Sect masters to confront him.
• Wang Hao used the Wuji Sword Formation to shield himself, Dingzhen, and the huskies while advancing through the cavalry and killing the Esoteric Sect Grandmasters who challenged him.
• Wang Hao sensed that only three Half-step Innate experts had joined the army and began shifting the formation from defense to offense.
• Dingzhen retched at the slaughter, and Wang Hao devised the Ice Heart Instruction to help both of them maintain their composure.
• Dingzhen practiced the Ice Heart Instruction, recovered enough to face the battlefield, and vowed not to retreat.

Wang Hao’s Wuji Sword Formation slaughtered hundreds of thousands of grassland soldiers, while Central Plains martial experts and the grassland leaders plotted to take him down and seize his secrets. As Wang Hao switched to defense, masked Half-step Innate experts attacked—not him, but the spare swords carried by the huskies.

• Central Plains Half-step Innate experts resolved to join forces with the grassland leaders after deciding that Wuming had to be captured or killed to obtain the Sword Faction’s inheritance.
• Khan Wantu and the three elderly lamas identified Wang Hao’s spare longswords as a possible weakness, then agreed to cooperate with the thirty-four Central Plains experts who arrived seeking an audience.
• Wang Hao completed the Wuji Sword Formation’s slaughter configuration and killed another hundred thousand grassland soldiers, but the attack consumed his reserves and shattered more than a thousand swords.
• After another half-hour, Wang Hao unleashed the formation’s slaughter mode again and reaped another hundred thousand lives before preparing to withdraw it.
• Dozens of masked Half-step Innate experts disguised as grassland soldiers struck during the formation’s transition, and Wang Hao changed to defensive mode to protect himself and Dingzhen.
• The attackers abruptly turned toward the huskies carrying Wang Hao’s spare longswords, revealing that the swords were their true target.

Wang Hao and Dingzhen were trapped by the prairie army after Central Plains experts stole their spare flying swords, leaving their escape attempt toward the Yellow River in jeopardy. Wang Hao prepared to use the approaching thunderstorm, raising the knockoff Hero Sword on a chain and devising a method to draw lightning.

• Thirty-four Half-step Innate experts stole the spare flying swords from the huskies and escaped into the prairie army.
• Dingzhen treated the wounded huskies while Wang Hao held off the army with the Wuji Sword Formation.
• Wang Hao found the prairie army had encircled them and turned north toward the Yellow River, but the cavalry and the Central Plains experts moved to block his route.
• Wang Hao noticed the approaching thunderstorm and had Dingzhen lead the huskies ten zhang away while he strengthened the sword formation's defense.
• Wang Hao used the knockoff Hero Sword and a long steel chain to prepare a lightning conductor, then devised a Lightning-Guiding Secret Method with the Dao Comprehension Function.

Wang Hao endured lightning to devise and test a makeshift electromagnetic cannon while surrounded by the steppe army. After its first shot failed to reach the soldiers, Xiao Mengmeng pointed out that he had wasted most of the lightning’s power, and Wang Hao prepared to strike back in earnest.

• The Half-step Innate experts hesitated to attack Wang Hao again because their weapons were damaged, then panicked when lightning struck the knockoff Hero Sword.
• Wang Hao contained the lightning in his body, discovered it could rapidly strengthen him but drain his Bloodline Power, and asked Dingzhen for medicinal supplies.
• Dingzhen gave Wang Hao eight thousand-year-old blood ginseng roots and other herbs, allowing him to replenish his Bloodline Power and deduce a method for an electromagnetic cannon.
• The steppe soldiers drove spare horses at Wang Hao’s defenses, and Wang Hao fired a lightning-charged sword that cleared a path through the horses but failed to hit anyone.
• Khan Wantu mocked Wang Hao’s attack and promised great rewards to spur on his army, while Xiao Mengmeng explained that Wang Hao had diverted most of the lightning’s power.
• Wang Hao realized his mistake, smiled at the advancing army, and pushed the knockoff Hero Sword’s lightning-attracting magnetic field to its limit.

Abbess Qingmiao and her allies prepared to trap the steppe army while Wuming fought inside its ranks, but Xu Miaoyin doubted that one man could defeat a million soldiers. Lightning then struck the army repeatedly, carving passages through it with orange-red pillars of light, and Xu hurried to defend Red Mountain Pass.

• Dingjing reported that the grand martial aunts had scuttled boats along the Yellow River and spread tear-inducing smoke through the forests.
• Xu Miaoyin told Abbess Qingmiao that she had sealed Red Ridge Pass and asked for more tear-inducing medicine; Qingmiao promised half of the next batch.
• Abbess Qingmiao thanked Tie Kuangtu and the other martial leaders, then revealed that Wuming had entered the invading army to destroy it.
• Xu Miaoyin condemned the plan but resolved to defend Red Mountain Pass with her cavalry and strengthen its blockade.
• Lightning struck the center of the steppe army again and again, each bolt followed by an orange-red pillar of light that blasted a passage through the troops.

Wang Hao used his lightning-powered knockoff railgun to decimate the grassland army, but Khan Wantu summoned Patriarch Red Sun, who ambushed Wang Hao and severely injured him. Wang Hao was left unable to fire the railgun as he faced the veteran Innate expert.

• Wang Hao drew lightning from the thunderclouds to power his railgun, devastating the grassland troops and forcing their leaders to keep fighting rather than retreat.
• Khan Wantu crushed a relic to summon Patriarch Red Sun, who hurried toward the battlefield from more than a thousand li away.
• The Central Plains experts stayed back, waiting for a chance to seize Wang Hao's ultimate art, while the grassland leaders drove their troops into a denser encirclement.
• Wang Hao fired all one thousand spare flying swords, reducing the foreign army to fewer than a hundred thousand troops.
• Patriarch Red Sun shattered Wang Hao's Wuji Sword Formation with a surprise palm strike and severely damaged his Dantian and internal organs.
• Wang Hao redirected lightning into Patriarch Red Sun, burning off his arm, but the veteran's True Qi remained inside Wang Hao and prevented him from using the railgun.

After Wang Hao survived Patriarch Red Sun’s ambush, the two discussed the monk’s motives before the grassland forces and Central Plains experts prepared to join together against him. The chapter ended as Patriarch Red Sun announced he would use his full strength and the other factions agreed to help kill Wang Hao.

• Patriarch Red Sun admitted he had tried to capture Wang Hao and urged him to accept secluded confinement, but Wang Hao refused and reinforced the Wuji Sword Formation with stronger flying swords.
• Wang Hao questioned Patriarch Red Sun about his lack of anger over the deaths of the grassland troops, and the monk explained that they had been warriors killed on a foreign battlefield.
• Khan Wantu arrived and urged Patriarch Red Sun to capture or kill Wang Hao so the Central Plains would not obtain his techniques; Patriarch Red Sun agreed to do his best.
• Wang Hao mounted Big White with Dingzhen’s help and prepared to continue attacking the grassland army, especially its elite cavalry.
• A group of Half-step Innate experts proposed joining forces with the grassland forces to kill Wang Hao, and Khan Wantu warned them that his crossbowmen would turn them into sieves if they schemed against him.
• Patriarch Red Sun announced he would fight Wang Hao with his full strength, while the Half-step Innate experts agreed they wanted Wang Hao dead.

Wang Hao joined forces with the Mount Heng Sword Sect and Xu Miaoyin’s cavalry to devastate the steppe army, while the Central Plains experts hesitated to fight him. Patriarch Red Sun sent Khan Wantu away and began unleashing the inner devil he had long suppressed.

• The Mount Heng Sword Sect’s seven elderly nuns and Xu Miaoyin’s ten thousand cavalry charged to rescue Wang Hao, and he rode Big White south to meet them.
• Wang Hao disrupted the steppe army’s formation, allowing the cavalry to break through with relatively few losses and join his forces.
• The seven nuns entered Wang Hao’s Wuji Sword Formation, while Abbess Qingmiao and other sect members mounted huskies and Xu Miaoyin claimed Wang Hao’s horse.
• Wang Hao and the Mount Heng experts led the cavalry in a powerful assault, prompting the Central Plains Half-step Innate experts to hold back and attack from a distance.
• Patriarch Red Sun realized his allies would not help as planned, so he told Khan Wantu and the tribal leaders to retreat before he released his inner devil.
• Patriarch Red Sun shattered the iron casing around his Blood Sun saber, and Wang Hao sensed the danger and turned toward him.

Wang Hao confronted Patriarch Red Sun after the old monk formed a chaotic heart devil and succumbed to it. As Wang Hao and the seven reclusive old nuns fought to contain him, the Central Plains Half-step Innate experts returned, forcing the nuns to risk their lives so Wang Hao could face the newcomers.

• Wang Hao learned from Xiao Mengmeng that Patriarch Red Sun had formed an unstable heart devil and warned the others about the danger.
• Wang Hao rode Big White toward Patriarch Red Sun while Xu Miaoyin, Abbess Qingmiao, and the others continued fighting the foreign army.
• Patriarch Red Sun succumbed to the devil and broke through Wang Hao’s flying-sword assault, but Wang Hao and the seven reclusive old nuns kept him from reaching Wang Hao.
• The Central Plains Half-step Innate experts returned, so Wang Hao diverted some of his swords to defend against them.
• The leading old nun and the other six used the Nine Yin Reverse Meridian Method to temporarily break through to the Innate Realm, accepting that the technique would kill them.

Wang Hao broke through to the fifth Human Body Magnetic Field and defeated the Half-step Innate experts attacking the Wuji Sword Formation, but Patriarch Red Sun killed the seven old nuns and nearly killed Wang Hao. After Patriarch Red Sun regained his senses and died, Wang Hao learned about the Esoteric Sect Ancestral Land and began studying the old monk’s martial inheritance.

• Wang Hao held off the thirty-four Half-step Innate experts while directing the seven old nuns’ battle against Patriarch Red Sun and forcing open his fifth Human Body Magnetic Field.
• Wang Hao’s expanded sword formation crippled and incapacitated the attackers, while the burly old man leading them died.
• Patriarch Red Sun killed the seven old nuns and attacked Wang Hao, who was thrown from Big White after Dingzhen tried to protect him.
• Wang Hao survived the scimitar wound by shifting his internal organs, and Patriarch Red Sun regained his senses before dying from his injuries.
• Wang Hao hypnotized Patriarch Red Sun to learn about the Esoteric Sect Ancestral Land and its Living Buddha, then began studying the old monk’s martial inheritance.

Wang Hao examined Patriarch Red Sun’s martial arts inheritance and discovered that the Great Sun True Scripture’s soul seed might conceal a dangerous trap. After driving off two Xiantian Grandmasters, he reviewed his breakthrough to the Mortal Realm Third Layer and considered improving his techniques before returning to check on his escort agency.

• Wang Hao realized that the Great Sun True Scripture required a Living Buddha’s soul seed and suspected it could contaminate the cultivator’s soul like the Dao Heart Demon-Planting Great Technique.
• Wang Hao had Dingzhen wake and hypnotize the captured Half-step Innate experts to extract their martial arts inheritances and secrets, then killed them.
• Two Xiantian Grandmasters, one Taoist and one Confucian, abandoned their plan to capture Wang Hao for information about the overseas martial world after fearing his sword formation and Heavenly Punishment.
• Wang Hao searched for nearby Xiantian Grandmasters and, after confirming they were gone, inspected his attributes and saw that opening his fifth Seven Po Magnetic Field had raised him to the Mortal Realm Third Layer.
• Wang Hao considered deriving the Wuji Sword Formation further and decided to check on his escort agency because its promised martial arts texts had not arrived.

Yue Buqun uncovered Wang Chongyang’s lingering Divine Sense and gained access to Chongyang’s martial arts legacy. After the battlefield, Wang Hao examined the Blood Sun Scimitar and offered aid to Abbess Qingmiao and the Mount Heng Sword Sect, while Tie Kuangtu and the surviving fighters asked to replace his promised reward with another request.

• Yue Buqun opened Wang Chongyang’s coffin, was struck by the lingering Divine Sense, and discovered memories of the Innate Art, One Yang Finger, and Nine Yin True Scripture.
• Wang Hao realized the Blood Sun Scimitar had absorbed the old monk’s inner demon and planned to feed it Blood Sha power before reforging it.
• Wang Hao offered Abbess Qingmiao a fragment of a Celestial Person Realm supreme art and announced that Dingzhen had joined his Sword Faction.
• Wang Hao reaffirmed his promise to give Tie Kuangtu and the other survivors an Innate supreme art, but they knelt and asked him to withdraw that promise.
• Wang Hao invited Tie Kuangtu and the others to state their request, warning that he would refuse anything excessive.

After the battle, Wang Hao persuaded Abbess Qingmiao to reorganize the Mount Heng Sword Sect and offered the frontier factions and Xu Miaoyin’s soldiers a path to cultivate stronger martial arts. He introduced the Black Tortoise True Scripture as a way to spread his Foundation Establishment external arts through the martial world.

• Tie Kuangtu and the other faction leaders asked Wuming for guidance on becoming truly strong, and Wang Hao proposed that Abbess Qingmiao reorganize the Mount Heng Sword Sect to absorb subordinate factions.
• Abbess Qingmiao agreed to try Wang Hao’s plan, and he offered the factions Innate arts, foundational chapters of a Shattering Realm martial art, and a chance for qualified juniors to join his Sword Faction.
• Wang Hao promised Xu Miaoyin help for injured soldiers, fallen soldiers’ families, and those leaving the army, along with foundational martial arts for those whose injuries were not severe.
• Wang Hao described the Black Tortoise True Scripture and its Ten Strong Martial Arts, claiming they came from a legendary overseas martial artist.
• Wang Hao planned to use the tale of the Ten Strong Martial Arts to make his Foundation Establishment external arts appealing and spread them throughout the world.

Wang Hao arranged to teach the Black Tortoise True Scripture’s basic chapters and prepared battlefield resources to aid war refugees, while Xu Miaoyin faced an imperial envoy who blamed him for the invasion. Wang Hao killed the envoy when troops came to arrest him, then deflected their crossbow volley as Xu Miaoyin arrived.

• Wang Hao told Dingzhen that her Foundation Establishment Sword Art came from the Black Tortoise True Scripture and promised to teach its basic chapters in three days.
• Xu Miaoyin saw that the court’s envoy was a vice minister of war and feared that the civil officials would claim the military’s credit.
• Xie Feng reported that he had killed the fleeing foreigners and the three old lamas, and Wang Hao ordered him to seal the battlefield’s Blood Baleful Intent Qi inside Patriarch Red Sun’s saber.
• Abbess Qingmiao and the others froze the dead horses with saltpeter so their meat could feed displaced commoners while grain was being procured.
• An imperial envoy accused Wang Hao of causing the invasion and ordered his arrest, so Wang Hao killed him with a flying sword as Xu Miaoyin rode up.
• A general ordered thirty thousand soldiers to fire crossbows at Wang Hao, but his Wuji Sword Formation and magnetic field stopped the bolts.

Wang Hao agreed to let the Great Ming imperial family practice the Black Tortoise True Scripture in exchange for an imperial edict recognizing the Mount Heng Sword Sect. He then warned the Wheel-Turning King and Xu Miaoyin of an alleged coming calamity, leaving them shocked by his tale of Whole-World Ascension and the overseas martial world's strength.

• The Wheel-Turning King explained that the imperial envoy's actions had not represented the Great Ming imperial family's intentions, and Wang Hao said anyone who provoked him would die.
• The Wheel-Turning King offered official recognition for the Mount Heng Sword Sect in exchange for the Foundation Establishment Chapter of the Black Tortoise True Scripture, and Wang Hao agreed.
• Wang Hao warned the Wheel-Turning King and Xu Miaoyin that an unprecedented calamity would arrive within twenty years and claimed the Great Heavenly Demon planned Whole-World Ascension.
• Wang Hao recounted the tale of Pang Ban and Lang Fanyun ascending after their final battle, and said Lang Fanyun's severed hand had carried a sword engraved with “Do not ascend.”
• Wang Hao claimed there were at least ten confirmed Shattering Realm experts overseas, leaving the Wheel-Turning King stunned by the overseas martial world's power.

Wang Hao convinced the Wheel-Turning King and Xu Miaoyin that the overseas martial world planned to prepare the Central Plains for a world ascension and future enemies, while admitting to Xie Feng that some of his claims were true. After developing five separate unarmed arts, he found more than thirty thousand people gathered before him, ready to learn.

• Wang Hao reassured the Wheel-Turning King about powerful experts and claimed the Central Plains’ fragile space made it a target for the Heavenly Demon Sacred Cult’s plan to ascend the world.
• Xu Miaoyin identified the supposed plan’s purpose, and Wang Hao claimed overseas sects would pass their inheritances to the Central Plains and nurture its fighters.
• Wang Hao described fortune and its role in forming a Fortune True Spirit, leaving Xu Miaoyin to ponder his explanation and the Wheel-Turning King to organize battlefield cleanup.
• Wang Hao gave Xie Feng a copy of the Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms and began separating the Foundation Establishment Fist Art into five distinct martial arts.
• Wang Hao completed the five arts as Xu Miaoyin, Tie Kuangtu, Abbess Qingmiao, and others assembled more than thirty thousand people before him.

Wang Hao learned that Dingzhen had awakened an unusually broad Human Body Magnetic Field and assessed her potential with the Sword Control Technique. After refusing to teach her Heavenly Punishment Swordsmanship until she met its requirements, he noticed someone had been following them as they climbed Mount Heng.

• Wang Hao taught the Foundation Establishment external arts to the Grandmaster-level experts, then set off for the Mount Heng Sword Sect to retrieve his martial arts manuals.
• Dingzhen told Wang Hao she had awakened her Human Body Magnetic Field, and he discovered it reached ten zhang and could control seven flying swords.
• Wang Hao explained that Dingzhen could use her wide magnetic field to increase her flying swords' speed, despite her low magnetic force.
• Dingzhen asked Wang Hao to teach her Heavenly Punishment Swordsmanship, but he refused because she lacked the physical strength, Divine Sense, and Ice Heart Instruction cultivation it required.
• Wang Hao considered pursuing Dingzhen, argued with Xiao Mengmeng about his difficult relationship with Dongfang Bai, and called out to the person following them.