Chapter Summaries

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.

Wang Hao misled the Wheel-Turning King about Zhu Yanzu, then evaded the spies following him and found the Zhenyuan Escort Agency sealed and its chief escort, Zhao Huaishi, dying. Zhao revealed that Lü Sen and the Blood River Gang had stolen Wang Hao’s manuals and slaughtered the agency, leaving Wang Hao to ask whether Zhao had any final wishes.

• Wang Hao told the Wheel-Turning King that Zhu Yanzu was likely one of the Great Heavenly Demon’s vessels, convincing the king to reconsider the Great Ming imperial family’s attitude toward him.
• Wang Hao left Dingzhen, escaped his pursuers by sinking his boat in the Yellow River, and reached the sealed Zhenyuan Escort Agency under another appearance.
• A middle-aged beggar recognized Wang Hao as Bu Jingyun and led him to Zhao Huaishi, the agency’s gravely injured chief escort.
• Zhao Huaishi explained that Lü Sen, leader of the Blood River Gang, had stolen the manuals and slaughtered the Zhenyuan Escort Agency to silence witnesses.
• Wang Hao tried to stabilize Zhao Huaishi with his Innate Qi, realized the poison had made his injuries fatal, and asked whether he had any unfulfilled wishes.

Wang Hao promised the dying Zhao Huaishi that he would protect his daughter, then pursued the Blood River Gang and traveled to the Dongfang old residence under the alias Zhu Yanzu. Granny Song mistook him for the Dongfang family's son-in-law, but Dugu Qiubai recognized his true identity and threatened to expose him to Dongfang Bai.

• Wang Hao agreed to look after Zhao Huaishi's daughter, and Zhao Huaishi died after entrusting her to him.
• Wang Hao captured and killed two Blood River Gang followers, then sent Zhao Da and the girl to find Xie Feng after Zhao Huaishi was buried.
• Wang Hao found the Blood River Gang's headquarters burned to the ground and suspected Lü Sen had staged his gang's destruction to escape.
• Wang Hao reached the Dongfang old residence and introduced himself to Granny Song as Zhu Yanzu, a friend of Little Bai's.
• Granny Song mistook Wang Hao for the Dongfang family's son-in-law, welcomed him warmly, and sent an eagle to summon Dongfang Bai.
• Dugu Qiubai recognized Wang Hao beneath his disguise and warned that Dongfang Bai would kill him if she learned the truth.

Wang Hao lured Dugu Qiubai away from the Dongfang ancestral residence and attacked him to keep him from interfering with his plans for Dongfang Bai. After trapping Dugu Qiubai in a flying-sword formation, Wang Hao had exposed his hidden identities and abilities, leaving the old man demanding to know his purpose.

• Wang Hao led Dugu Qiubai into a rocky valley, where he admitted he had considered killing him and retrieved the Shameless Greatsword from Wangcai.
• Wang Hao enlarged his body and struck Dugu Qiubai with a Shock Force-enhanced move from the Ten Stances of Bloody Battle, blasting a crater into the ground.
• Wang Hao continued attacking, forcing Dugu Qiubai to dodge and complain that he had come without his sword.
• Dugu Qiubai tried to flee, but Wang Hao trapped him in a formation of flying swords.
• Dugu Qiubai recognized Wang Hao as Wuming and Dugu Jian and accused him of fabricating the overseas martial world and the Heavenly Demon Sacred Cult.
• Wang Hao told Dugu Qiubai not to meddle in other people's affairs.

Wang Hao and Dugu Qiubai fought through the night, with Wang Hao refusing to let him escape the Wuji Sword Formation. When Dongfang Bai arrived, Wang Hao spared the badly injured Dugu Qiubai and pretended they had merely fought over whether he should become her husband.

• Dugu Qiubai tried to back down, but Wang Hao attacked him by surprise and insisted on killing him.
• Dugu Qiubai fought back with sharp Sword Qi, and the two wounded each other as their battle continued until dawn.
• Dugu Qiubai unleashed Grass and Wood Sword Dao to break through the Wuji Sword Formation, but Wang Hao charged through the attack and smashed him into the ground.
• Wang Hao stopped short of killing Dugu Qiubai, hid his weapons, and changed back into his Zhu Yanzu disguise when he sensed Dongfang Bai approaching.
• Wang Hao told Dongfang Bai that Dugu Qiubai had tested him as a potential husband, and Dugu Qiubai reluctantly supported the story under threat.
• Wang Hao pretended to be badly injured and asked Dongfang Bai to fetch clothes and pills, trying to get her to leave them alone.

Wang Hao used Blood Sha Power from Patriarch Red Sun’s demonic saber to place a threatening restriction on Dugu Qiubai, then learned how the older man had uncovered his identity. Dugu Qiubai revealed that Wang Hao’s concealed Sword Intent still had a recognizable essence and agreed to teach him how to change it after Wang Hao began massaging his legs.

• Dongfang Bai noticed Wang Hao and Dugu Qiubai were hiding something, but left to fetch medicine after they pretended their injuries were worsening.
• Wang Hao stabilized Dugu Qiubai, gathered the shattered flying swords, and retrieved Patriarch Red Sun’s demonic saber.
• Wang Hao used the saber to infect Dugu Qiubai’s heart with Blood Baleful Intent Qi and warned that it could drive him into a murderous frenzy.
• Wang Hao asked Dugu Qiubai how he had discovered his identity, and Dugu Qiubai explained that he recognized the essence of Wang Hao’s Sword Intent.
• Dugu Qiubai demanded a leg massage before teaching Wang Hao how to change his Sword Intent, and Wang Hao agreed.

After their battle left Dugu Qiubai badly injured, Wang Hao treated him and claimed that an impending catastrophe made it necessary to unite the martial world. Wang Hao then accepted Dugu Qiubai as his master, immediately demanding the Dugu Lineage’s best martial arts manuals.

• Dongfang Bai scolded Dugu Qiubai and Wang Hao over their fierce spar, then gave Wang Hao a handwritten Taiji Fist Manual from the Sun Moon Holy Cult.
• Wang Hao teased Dongfang Bai about her fragrance, and she left; Dugu Qiubai accused Wang Hao of intending to kill him, while Wang Hao secretly considered silencing him.
• Wang Hao transferred Innate Qi into Dugu Qiubai to heal him and explained that he could restore a shattered Dantian with Innate Qi and Bloodline Power.
• Wang Hao told Dugu Qiubai that a catastrophe could destroy the world within twenty years and that outside pressure could force the Central Plains martial world to unite.
• Dugu Qiubai suspected Wang Hao was paving the way for Dongfang Bai to become martial alliance leader, and Wang Hao agreed to become Dugu Qiubai’s disciple.
• Wang Hao demanded divine skills and supreme arts as his gift for accepting Dugu Qiubai as his master.

Dongfang Bai read the martial arts manuals Wang Hao had sent while Granny Song urged her to marry and continue the Dongfang bloodline. Wang Hao accepted Dugu Qiubai’s Profound Iron Sword Token, then left Dugu Qiubai worried about Wang Hao’s identity, the Great Heavenly Demon, and his relationship with Dongfang Bai.

• Granny Song urged Dongfang Bai to marry Wang Hao and bear an heir, but Dongfang Bai sent her away and reaffirmed her vow to avenge her family.
• Dongfang Bai began reading the secret manuals Wang Hao had brought her.
• Wang Hao accepted Dugu Qiubai’s Profound Iron Sword Token and planned to visit the Dugu Household’s library.
• Wang Hao convinced Dugu Qiubai that overseas martial arts, sects, and realms such as Shattering the Void existed.
• Dugu Qiubai revealed he had spoken with the Wheel-Turning King and asked whether Wang Hao was still himself and what he planned to do about Dongfang Bai.
• Wang Hao said he would take his relationship with Dongfang Bai one step at a time.

Wang Hao challenged Dongfang Bai to a spar, but her lethal secret technique overwhelmed her body and left her gravely injured. After Wang Hao helped stabilize her, Dugu Qiubai revealed that she possessed the Supreme Pure Yang Physique, also called the Nine Yang Physique.

• Wang Hao challenged Dongfang Bai and claimed that he and the man she wanted revenge on were both Tribulation Lords of the Ten Directions.
• Dongfang Bai asked how strong her enemy was, and Wang Hao lied that the Great Heavenly Demon had planted a Demon Seed in him and made him stronger than Wuming.
• Dongfang Bai attacked Wang Hao with her swift swordsmanship, while he defended himself with the Ziwei Soft Sword and Impermanence Swordsmanship.
• Dongfang Bai unleashed Falling Sun, but the technique overwhelmed her and melted an ornamental rock formation before she collapsed.
• Wang Hao gave Dongfang Bai a prepared pill, and Dugu Qiubai revealed that she had the Supreme Pure Yang Physique, also known as the Nine Yang Physique.

Dugu Qiubai explained that Dongfang Bai’s extreme Yang cultivation could not be safely removed, then guided Wang Hao in improving his sword path. Wang Hao used sudden enlightenment to incorporate many martial arts into his sword techniques, leaving Dugu Qiubai amazed by his new disciple’s talent.

• Dugu Qiubai explained that Dongfang Bai’s nine Yang physique and Sunflower Manual had made her Extreme Yang True Qi dangerously powerful, and that crippling it would kill her.
• Wang Hao accepted that he could not change Dongfang Bai’s condition for now, then carried her to the pavilion to rest before receiving sword guidance from Dugu Qiubai.
• Dugu Qiubai advised Wang Hao to incorporate other martial arts and their Intent Realms into his sword path through the reverse application of the Myriad Transformations Sword Instruction.
• Wang Hao activated the Dao Comprehension Function and fused saber, spear, hammer, and fist techniques into the Ten Stances of Bloody Battle and related sword techniques.
• Dugu Qiubai watched Wang Hao enter sudden enlightenment, and Wang Hao emerged after a while visibly pleased with what he had learned.

Wang Hao used the Dao Comprehension Function to strengthen his martial arts and learned that Dongfang Bai’s frequent epiphanies came from the fortune accumulated in the manuals he had brought her. The chapter ended with Dongfang Bai waking to find Wang Hao studying an erotic picture album, shattering the persona he had tried to maintain.

• Wang Hao examined his upgraded sword techniques and lamented that he still needed more martial arts texts and Fortune Points to complete his mission.
• Dugu Qiubai confirmed that Wang Hao had experienced an epiphany and compared it with Dongfang Bai’s far longer, frequent epiphanies.
• Xiao Mengmeng explained that the martial arts manuals carried fortune, some of which Dongfang Bai had absorbed and which caused her surplus fortune to trigger epiphanies.
• Wang Hao realized that gathering more manuals could help Dongfang Bai grow stronger, then questioned Dugu Qiubai about cultivation until nightfall.
• Granny Song locked Wang Hao in Dongfang Bai’s bedchamber, where he avoided approaching the unconscious Dongfang Bai because of her dangerous True Qi.
• Dongfang Bai woke and burned the erotic picture album Wang Hao was reading with Sword Qi, exposing his behavior and ruining his carefully cultivated persona.