Chapter Summaries

Wang Hao and Dongfang Bai’s fierce duel led them to break through into the Early Innate realm, alarming the Confucian School patriarchs who feared their declining dominance. After their final sword strikes collided and formed an unstable sphere of energy, Wang Hao tried to save the exhausted Dongfang Bai, but the explosion caught them before they could escape.

• The Confucian School patriarchs watched Wang Hao and Dongfang Bai’s combat strength and worried that overseas martial artists and the Heavenly Demon Sacred Cult would threaten their position.
• Wang Hao and Dongfang Bai’s battle intensified until they broke through from the Acquired Grandmaster Realm into the Early Innate realm.
• Wang Hao and Dongfang Bai agreed to settle the duel with one final strike and formed enormous blades of Innate Sword Qi.
• The martial artists retreated as Wang Hao and Dongfang Bai’s swords collided and created a growing sphere of violent energy.
• After Xiao Mengmeng warned that Dongfang Bai could not retreat, Wang Hao carried her away, but the sphere exploded and he shielded her with his body and a protective Gang barrier.

Wang Hao saved Dongfang Bai from the blast of her and Ximen Chuixue’s fused Sword Qi, then astonished the survivors by rapidly healing from catastrophic injuries. He left Dongfang Bai with advice about her Shaoyang Physique and the Dao of the Sun.

• Wang Hao shielded the incapacitated Dongfang Bai from the exploding Sword Qi, taking more than a hundred wounds as the Mount Song Sword Sect was reduced to ruins.
• The eight Confucian School patriarchs assumed the bloodied Wang Hao was dead, but he spoke and began healing before their eyes.
• Wang Hao claimed his recovery came from the Divine King Physique and described how its complete form could achieve rebirth from a drop of blood.
• Wang Hao told Dongfang Bai that her extreme yang power was damaging her body and urged her to study the Sun’s creative aspects alongside destruction.
• Dongfang Bai thanked Wang Hao and said she had learned from his guidance.

Wang Hao reflected on the changes to his Innate Qi and discovered that his Spirit Sea could serve as a storage space. He accepted Zhu Ruoxue as his disciple, advised the Wheel-Turning King on developing the Old Zhu Household, and gave him a manuscript of cultivation insights.

• Wang Hao realized that his materialized Spirit Sea could store objects wrapped in Innate Divine Sense.
• The Wheel-Turning King brought Zhu Ruoxue to Wang Hao, who accepted her as his disciple and praised her sword talent.
• Wang Hao denied that Zhu Ruoxue had a Divine King Physique bloodline but said she might cultivate a special physique.
• Wang Hao urged the Old Zhu Household to hunt exotic beasts and learned that they had already begun collecting them.
• Wang Hao gave the Wheel-Turning King a manuscript containing insights into advancing beyond the Innate Realm.

Wang Hao gave the Wheel-Turning King a secret method for condensing Innate Qi and increasing the Old Zhu Household’s strength. He then agreed to let Dugu Ran and Dugu Mo compete with Zhu Ruoxue for a chance to inherit the Ruthless Divine Sword, leaving the Dugu Household confident in its juniors’ victory.

• Wang Hao explained his quantitative-accumulation method for advancing Innate Qi and gave the Wheel-Turning King a secret method to compress Innate Qi into a pill.
• The Wheel-Turning King accepted the method, memorized it, and destroyed the manuscript before preparing to pass it to the Old Zhu Household’s ancestor.
• Wang Hao met Dugu Shang, who brought Dugu Ran and Dugu Mo at Zhu Yanzu’s request to seek discipleship.
• Wang Hao proposed that Dugu Ran, Dugu Mo, and Zhu Ruoxue compete, with the winner qualifying to inherit the Ruthless Divine Sword.
• Dugu Shang ordered his two juniors to spar and assumed that their numbers and recent training would let them defeat Zhu Ruoxue.

Zhu Ruoxue defeated Dugu Ran and Dugu Mo after they used pills to force breakthroughs, while Wang Hao revealed that their choice had cut them off from cultivating Innate Qi and inheriting his sword path. The Dugu Household’s elders were left reeling, and eight Confucian School patriarchs learned that the Sword Demon had wielded the Momentum of the Celestial Person Realm.

• Zhu Ruoxue held off Dugu Ran and Dugu Mo, whose Nine Swords of Dugu could not overcome her Foundation Establishment Sword Art and Sword Intent.
• Dugu Ran and Dugu Mo activated pills to break through to the Acquired Grandmaster Realm, forcing Zhu Ruoxue onto the defensive.
• Zhu Ruoxue drew out her stored medicinal potential, advanced to Early First-Rate, and regained the advantage as her sword art improved.
• Wang Hao ended the fight and declared Zhu Ruoxue the winner, then explained that the men’s use of internal force to break through had ruined their chance to nurture Innate Qi.
• Dugu Shang spat blood and admitted the Dugu Household had been wrong, while Dugu Ran and Dugu Mo struggled to accept that they had severed their own futures.
• The eight hidden Confucian School patriarchs learned that the Sword Demon had possessed the Momentum of the Celestial Person Realm and resolved to seek a Celestial Person Realm expert.

Wang Hao oversaw preparations for the Ancient Emperor Temple on the Mount Song Sword Sect’s former site and rejected the Confucian School’s attempt to arrange a beauty trap. He left the Confucian patriarchs believing their immense karmic cause and effect made it impossible for him to father heirs with them.

• Wang Hao watched martial artists clear the Mount Song Sword Sect ruins and carry materials up the mountain to build the Ancient Emperor Temple.
• The eight Confucian patriarchs arrived with eight beautiful women, and Wang Hao immediately asked whether they planned to use a beauty trap on him.
• Wang Hao claimed his ruthless sword cultivation might force him to kill any lover, frightening the women and the Wheel-Turning King.
• Miaoyin declared she would follow Wang Hao even if it meant dying, but Wang Hao refused her because she belonged to the Confucian School.
• The Confucian patriarchs asked whether their karmic cause and effect was the obstacle, and Wang Hao agreed while claiming it could suppress the Divine King Physique bloodline.

Wang Hao explained how Fortune Supreme Treasures could suppress the Confucian School’s Karmic Cause and Effect, while warning that using their ancient swords would invite disaster. The patriarchs asked what kind of vessel would suit their school, leaving Wang Hao poised to advise them.

• The Confucian patriarchs asked Wang Hao how their school could resolve its Karmic Cause and Effect, and he requested their eight ancient swords in return.
• Wang Hao described three ways to suppress Karmic Cause and Effect and proposed forging a Fortune Supreme Treasure, prompting the patriarchs to ask whether their swords could serve as its vessel.
• Wang Hao warned that a sword-based Fortune Supreme Treasure would draw the Confucian School into slaughter, and the patriarchs resolved not to use their swords.
• Wang Hao explained the functions and forms of Fortune Supreme Treasures to the patriarchs and the martial artists listening nearby.
• The lead Confucian elder asked Wang Hao what object would be suitable as a vessel for the Confucian School’s Fortune Supreme Treasure.

Wang Hao pretended to know little about the Confucian School and used claims about the overseas martial world to discourage its patriarchs from seeking Little Sage Manor. He demonstrated Innate Divine Sense by transmitting images of aircraft carriers and jet fighters, then traded those images for martial arts inheritances.

• Wang Hao told the eight Confucian patriarchs that Little Sage Manor had cut ties with their school and warned that reaching the overseas martial world required jet fighters and an aircraft carrier.
• Wang Hao described the steel vessels and aircraft, then proved that iron could float by pulling an iron pot into a pond.
• Wang Hao transmitted images of a modern aircraft carrier and jet fighters to the Wheel-Turning King, who was astonished by what he saw.
• Wang Hao explained that transmitting memories was a basic use of Innate Divine Sense, leaving the martial artists speechless.
• Wang Hao demanded one Innate supreme martial art from each person who wanted to see the images, and the Confucian patriarchs and others handed their inheritances to Xie Feng before receiving them.

Wang Hao used the Confucian School’s claims about its teachings to provoke a confrontation, and hundreds of Innate experts forced its eight patriarchs to retreat. After dismissing them, he questioned the young woman who stayed behind and offered to attend him.

• A Confucian patriarch asked Wang Hao how the overseas martial world made aircraft carriers and jet fighters, and Wang Hao credited the Mohist School.
• Wang Hao’s answer drew resentful looks toward the Confucian patriarchs, while representatives of other schools challenged the Confucian School’s claims about governing and bringing peace.
• Hundreds of Innate cultivators confronted the eight Confucian patriarchs, who stayed their hand rather than risk losing the strength of their sword formation.
• Wang Hao read the Analects, accused the Confucians of making a fool of him, and ordered Xie Feng to see them out.
• A young woman from the Confucian group remained and asked to attend Wang Hao for the next few days, prompting him to question her motives.

Wang Hao agreed to treat Xu Siqin’s father and took her on as a temporary attendant, then proposed trading overseas cultivation methods for martial arts texts and other cultural inheritances. The Central Plains experts accepted his plan to gather texts from across the world, leaving Wang Hao poised to use them to expand his collection.

• Xu Siqin explained that her father had suffered from a strange illness for three years, and Wang Hao suspected leukemia and asked her to bring him and his close relatives for treatment.
• Xu Siqin thanked Wang Hao and agreed to serve him; he assigned Xie Feng to supervise her.
• Wang Hao told the Central Plains experts that he was collecting their martial arts texts and offered to exchange them for overseas cultivation methods.
• Dongfang Bai overheard Wang Hao explain that he had collected the texts at Zhu Yanzu’s request and realized he had done it for her.
• Wang Hao offered the experts Celestial Person Realm techniques in exchange for their martial arts inheritances, then proposed that they collect cultivation texts from civilizations beyond the Central Plains.

Wang Hao traded martial arts manuals for overseas techniques and met with the eight patriarchs of the Confucian School, who brought the promised treasures. He advised them on easing their Karmic Cause and Effect, then examined their offerings as they asked to see their own Fortune and Karmic Cause and Effect.

• Wang Hao promised to provide Great Grandmaster Realm and Celestial Person Realm cultivation methods in three years in exchange for martial arts manuals, and set exchange rates for lower-grade techniques.
• Wang Hao memorized the manuals the visitors supplied and returned modified overseas techniques, then sensed the arriving eight patriarchs of the Confucian School.
• The eight patriarchs brought chests of promised treasures, and Wang Hao used Xiao Mengmeng's Treasure-Seeking Function to select nineteen valuable items.
• Wang Hao suggested that the Confucian School condense a Fortune Supreme Treasure and perform deeds benefiting the people, while warning that they must ultimately eradicate the source of their Karmic Cause and Effect.
• Wang Hao set aside ten ancient spirit medicines to stabilize his cultivation and examined the remaining treasures, including ores, weapons, a crystal ball, and a bone.
• The Confucian patriarch asked Wang Hao to show them their own Fortune and Karmic Cause and Effect.

Wang Hao bluffed the Confucian School patriarchs into paying for information about a future Fortune-condensing method, then traded them access to overseas martial arts manuals. The patriarchs left with the information and copied manuals, only to discover that the martial artists outside had overheard their conversation.

• Wang Hao told the eight Confucian School patriarchs they could learn to see their Fortune either by paying for his Fortune Supreme Treasure projection or by obtaining a future Fortune-condensing method.
• Wang Hao claimed that the right time for a perfect Fortune-condensing method would be about two and a half years later, the place would be Dai Summit on Mount Tai, and the right person would be Imperial Lord Zhu Yanzu.
• Wang Hao negotiated with the patriarchs and agreed to reveal the information for six lots of treasures.
• The eight Confucian School patriarchs memorized more than a hundred overseas martial arts manuals in exchange for their own collection of manuals.
• The patriarchs left and realized the Innate Realm martial artists outside had overheard them; Wang Hao reminded them to deliver the six lots of treasures.

Wang Hao oversaw the construction of nine enormous temples at Mount Song and gave the Wheel-Turning King martial arts manuals for the Old Zhu Household. Meanwhile, Yue Buqun arrived at Mount Song hoping to measure himself against the latest legends, only to find even the laborers outclassed him.

• Wang Hao marveled at the nine temples built across Mount Song and prepared to make the ancient emperors’ statues and murals himself.
• The Wheel-Turning King asked Wang Hao for martial arts manuals, and Wang Hao told him to take them for the Old Zhu Household.
• Zhu Yu'er showed the Wheel-Turning King her burned hand and lamented that Dongfang Bubai favored Ximen Chuixue rather than women.
• Yue Buqun arrived at Mount Song after hearing of powerful fighters’ exploits and was shaken to see Innate experts working as masons.
• A burly worker carrying a stone pillar cursed Yue Buqun, who apologized and moved aside after realizing the man was stronger than he was.

Wang Hao created a Faith Divine Dao system by sealing emperor phantoms and fierce-beast spirits into the Yin-Yang Divine Temple’s carvings and statues. He emerged exhausted as the martial artists rushed in to test the temple, where they immediately began coughing up blood and screaming.

• Wang Hao hypnotized three emperor phantoms into fierce-beast forms, fed them Blood Sha, and fused them into the beasts carved on the walls.
• Wang Hao sealed two more emperor phantoms into the Ancient Sun Emperor and Ancient Lunar Emperor reliefs, then placed memory fragments of the Sun Star and Supreme Yin Star into the central statues.
• The eight Confucian School patriarchs and other martial artists waited outside until Wang Hao staggered out and confirmed that his work had succeeded.
• The Confucian School patriarchs and Xiantian Grandmasters hurried into the hall to pay their respects, ignoring Wang Hao’s unfinished warning.
• The martial artists inside began coughing up blood and screaming.

Wang Hao brought Dongfang Bai into the Ancient Emperor Divine Hall and planned to use the blood sacrifice to help her evolve into a Solar Physique. As he deduced a method for her, the other martial artists discovered that a Tyrannosaurus fossil might match one of the hall’s carvings.

• Wang Hao explained that the hall’s carvings had harmed the intruders with ferocious baleful force, then warned Dongfang Bai that her vast Fortune and sudden enlightenment could draw the world’s consciousness to the Sun Star and Supreme Yin Star images.
• Wang Hao examined Dongfang Bai, claimed her Shaoyang Physique was beginning to transform, and took her away to write a Secret Method that could turn her into a Solar Physique.
• The martial artists examined the carvings and were struck by another wave of baleful force; a balding old man recognized the Tyrannosaurus and said he had its skeleton at home.
• The balding old man arranged for his disciples to bring the Tyrannosaurus bones, while Wang Hao activated the Dao Comprehension Function to deduce Dongfang Bai’s Secret Method.
• Dongfang Bai studied the overseas martial arts manuals and was astonished by their superior techniques, especially their methods for cultivating Divine Sense.

Wang Hao gave Dongfang Bai the dangerous Solar Shaping Method, trusting her immense Fortune to help her master it safely. He left her to meditate under guard, then spoke with Shaomu Temple’s abbot, Fangzheng, who pressed him for news of an overseas Buddhist legacy.

• Wang Hao devised the Solar Shaping Method but worried that Dongfang Bai had only a small chance of surviving it until Xiao Mengmeng assured him that her extraordinary Fortune would protect her.
• Wang Hao wrote out the method, explained its dangers and Dongfang Bai’s Fortune, and transmitted his insights to her.
• Dongfang Bai entered enlightenment immediately, so Wang Hao left her in the hall and ordered Xie Feng and the guards to protect it.
• Fangzheng, the abbot of Shaomu Temple, offered Wang Hao medicinal decoction and introduced himself as his host on Mount Song.
• Wang Hao told Fangzheng that Patriarch Damo had left no overseas Buddhist legacy, disappointing the Shaomu monks.
• Fangzheng asked whether any Buddhist legacy existed overseas, and Wang Hao prepared to deceive the monks.

Wang Hao and Xie Feng spun a tale linking Shaomu Temple’s four great divine arts to Master Fahai and Bai Suzhen, while Fangzheng and the monks tried to protect the temple’s reputation. The monks accepted the account as plausible and listened as Xie Feng continued his fabricated explanation.

• Wang Hao claimed that Master Fahai had loved Bai Suzhen and that the Yan Household inherited Shaomu Temple’s four great divine arts from him.
• Wang Hao prompted Xie Feng to say he had learned about Fahai from the Peerless Sword Saint, then led the monks to a pavilion.
• Xie Feng cited Abbot Xuanci’s recorded offenses, leaving Fangzheng and the monks unable to deny the precedent.
• Xie Feng described Fahai and Bai Suzhen’s meeting, their separation, and a junior monk’s scheme to frame Bai Suzhen for stealing Shaomu Temple’s arts.
• Fangzheng and the monks accepted Xie Feng’s account as plausible and inferred that Shaomu Temple’s records of the scandal may have been concealed or lost.

Xie Feng embellished a tale about Master Fahai and Bai Suzhen to convince Shaomu Temple that the Yan Household descended from them and held Damo's Four Great Divine Arts. Wang Hao agreed to arrange contact with the Yan Household in exchange for treasures, while secretly planning to impersonate its representative himself.

• Martial artists, including the eight Confucian patriarchs, eavesdropped as Xie Feng began inventing a story about Fahai and Bai Suzhen's Four Refuges.
• Xie Feng claimed Fahai and Bai Suzhen had a child and that Fahai later rescued her, defeated the Demon Sect, and ascended after reaching the Shattering Realm.
• Wang Hao asked whether the Yan Household descended from Fahai and Bai Suzhen, prompting Fangzheng to seek his help contacting their descendants.
• Wang Hao said he could invite someone from the Yan Household through Dugu Jian, and Fangzheng offered Shaomu Temple treasures as payment.
• Wang Hao accepted, intending to use the arrangement to collect treasures while appearing as Yan Shisan; Xie Feng realized Shaomu Temple was being duped.

Wang Hao prepared Dongfang Bai for the dangerous Solar Shaping Method ritual and led a group of experts to the Heavenly Punishment Divine Temple to demonstrate an ancient emperor’s scripture inheritance. The demonstration left one expert enduring the statue’s lightning, his presence surging as shock gave way to terror.

• Dongfang Bai awakened after half a month of enlightenment and asked when she could begin the blood sacrifice, but Wang Hao told her to rest for three days while he prepared.
• Wang Hao confronted the eavesdropping Confucian patriarchs and Peak Innate experts, then offered to show them an ancient scripture inheritance.
• Wang Hao led the group to the Heavenly Punishment Divine Temple and instructed them to kneel and place their palms against the statue’s base.
• Wang Hao sent Innate Thunder Qi through the statue, shocking most of the experts into pulling away before he transmitted memory fragments to the four who remained.
• Three of the four survivors retreated under the lightning, but one endured as his presence surged and his expression shifted from shock and joy to horror.

Wang Hao’s lightning inheritance helped Zi Sheng complete the Purple Lightning Divine Art, while Wang Hao prepared the temples and pills for Dongfang Bai’s attempt to transform her Solar Physique. Dongfang Bai entered the Yin-Yang Divine Temple to begin, and Wang Hao retreated with the martial world experts to avoid the world’s consciousness.

• Zi Sheng turned his Purple Lightning Divine Art into a genuine divine art after comprehending the heavenly tribulation image, multiplying his strength.
• Wang Hao refused the experts’ request to experience the inheritance again, then inspected the nine temples and ordered their flaws repaired.
• The experts agreed to Wang Hao’s conditions and sent for the treasures he needed, while he refined more than ten pills for Dongfang Bai.
• Dongfang Bai entered the Yin-Yang Divine Temple at noon on the third day, determined to transform her Solar Physique.
• Wang Hao retreated to a village well with the other experts and prepared to hide if the world’s consciousness appeared.
• Inside the temple, Dongfang Bai brought herself to peak condition and began circulating the Solar Shaping Method.