Chapter Summaries

Dongfang Bai survived the dangerous cultivation of the Solar Shaping Method and awakened the world’s consciousness, which empowered the ancient emperor statues across the land. She gained a Solar Physique, while Wang Hao hid from the heavenly pressure and later examined her transformation; he left her convinced that her enemy was far beyond her reach.

• Dongfang Bai repeatedly failed to circulate the Solar Shaping Method, but the world’s consciousness revived her as her Fortune faltered.
• Dongfang Bai connected with the Ancient Sun Emperor’s inheritance, awakening the world’s consciousness and unleashing phenomena across the ancient emperor temples.
• Wang Hao hid at the bottom of a well while heavenly might suppressed the martial artists and transformed the temples for several hours.
• Dongfang Bai mastered the Solar Shaping Method, gained an initial Solar Physique, and hurried down Mount Song to find Ximen Chuixue.
• Wang Hao emerged from the well and claimed he had hidden to avoid triggering a lightning tribulation tied to his Divine King Physique.
• Wang Hao examined Dongfang Bai’s Solar Physique, then warned her that neither she nor her Solar Physique could match the Venerable Lord Wang Hao she sought to avenge.

Wang Hao left the Yellow River crossing after arranging for Zhu Ruoxue’s cultivation and teasing the Central Plains martial artists with news of the overseas Taoist School. He reached a secluded temple near Mount Wudang, met his Taoist stand-in Zhao Yiyi, and took over the alternate identity as Zhao Yiyi and his companions departed for Australia.

• Wang Hao instructed Zhu Ruoxue to practice the Dao of the Ruthless Divine Sword and asked the Wheel-Turning King to oversee her awakening of a Bloodline Divine Ability.
• At the Yellow River ferry crossing, Wang Hao said goodbye to the gathered experts and told the Taoist School that the overseas Dao Master would visit Wudang and possessed the Dao Classic inheritance.
• Wang Hao changed boats to avoid being followed, traveled to a secluded temple near Mount Wudang, and verified that its old Taoist priest could serve as a witness to his alternate identity.
• Wang Hao exchanged a code with Zhao Yiyi on the hilltop and confirmed the Taoist stand-in’s identity in front of the ten subordinates sent by Zhou Xueyi.
• After hearing Zhao Yiyi’s report, Wang Hao dismissed him and his companions, who left for the Yellow River crossing before traveling overseas to Australia.
• Zhao Yiyi left Taoist robes for Wang Hao, who prepared to take over the Taoist alternate identity.

Wang Hao disguised himself as a Taoist inheritor and began creating a Taiji Dao Physique by cultivating the Solar and Lunar Shaping Methods in turn. He established a temporary balance between yin and yang and continued alternating cultivation, leaving the full transformation for the future.

• Wang Hao dyed his hair and eyebrows pale white, dressed in a Taoist robe, and modeled his new appearance on a JX Online 3 character.
• Wang Hao devised the Solar and Lunar Shaping Methods and used the setting sun to transform his body into a Two-Yang Physique.
• Wang Hao explained that he planned to use a yin-yang physique as the foundation for eventually tempering his body with nine fundamental powers.
• After waiting for the rain to clear, Wang Hao used the moonlight to cultivate the Lunar Shaping Method and completed its first stage by midday.
• Wang Hao formed a temporary yin-yang balance in his Dantian and resumed alternating between the Solar and Lunar Shaping Methods.

Wang Hao completed the third layer of his Solar and Lunar Shaping Methods, then used a dramatic air-walking technique to present himself as Chunyangzi, the overseas Taoist School’s successor. He approached Mount Wudang, where Zhang Sanfeng and the Taoist elders prepared to welcome him.

• Wang Hao sensed the time was right and released his presence, drawing Peak Xiantian experts from across the Central Plains toward him.
• After cultivating for twelve days, Wang Hao achieved minor success in the third layer of his Solar and Lunar Shaping Methods and reflected on the slow progress toward the Taiji Dao Physique.
• Wang Hao introduced himself as Chunyangzi to Taoist Nanzhen, then walked through the air on Yin-Yang diagrams toward Mount Wudang.
• Taoist Nanzhen raced ahead to Mount Wudang, while Zhang Wuji, Zhou Zhiruo, and the other experts followed Wang Hao.
• Zhang Sanfeng and the Taoist elders went out to welcome Wang Hao, who appeared high above them as Taoist Nanzhen arrived exhausted from his journey.

Wang Hao pretended to detect immense karmic burden at Wudang Sect, using the claim to pressure Zhang Sanfeng and the Taoists into identifying the Confucian School as the real source. After they suggested the burden belonged to the eight Confucian elders, Wang Hao prepared to manipulate them into cooperating with his plan to spread martial arts.

• Wang Hao greeted Zhang Sanfeng, then abruptly tried to leave after looking toward Purple Cloud Hall.
• Zhang Sanfeng and the other Taoists surrounded Wang Hao, but he used Suppress Mountains and Rivers to force them back.
• Wang Hao claimed that Wudang Sect's karmic burden made it unfit to inherit his overseas Taoist School's Dao Classic.
• Wang Hao explained that he was fabricating the accusation to pressure the Confucian School, whose affiliated forces were obstructing the Old Zhu Household's plan to spread martial arts.
• An elderly Taoist suggested that the immense karmic burden belonged to the eight Confucian elders, and Zhang Sanfeng asked Wang Hao if that was what he had sensed.
• Wang Hao was pleased that the Taoists had identified the Confucian School and resolved to deceive its elders into cooperating.

Wang Hao convinced Zhang Sanfeng and the Taoist School that the Confucian School’s accumulated Karma threatened everyone tied to it, then warned them about an approaching struggle over the Central Plains ancestral lands’ Fortune. He left the Taoist elders wary of competing for the opportunity and positioned them to consider joining his plans.

• Wang Hao feigned alarm at the Confucian School’s arrival and warned Zhang Sanfeng that its Karma could ignite and destroy factions connected to it.
• Zhang Sanfeng sent the eight Confucian School patriarchs down Mount Wudang, while Chongxu admitted that the Taoist School had cooperative ties with the Confucian School.
• Wang Hao warned that the Confucian School’s Karma would become Karmic Fire within two and a half years, once the Central Plains ancestral lands’ Fortune was drawn out.
• Daoist Nanzhen revealed that Ximen Chuixue had traded information about Dai Summit on Mount Tai and Zhu Yanzu of the Great Ming imperial family to the Confucian School.
• Zhang Sanfeng asked whether the Taoist School could intervene, but Wang Hao warned that powerful old monsters were watching the matter, and the Taoist elders gave up competing.

Wang Hao urged the Taoist School to support the imperial lord’s reforms in exchange for a share of Human Dao Fortune, then used the threat of karma to pressure its members to purge corruption. The Wudang Sect began preparing to clean house as Wang Hao explained Fortune and Fortune Supreme Treasures to the gathered martial artists.

• Wang Hao told Zhang Sanfeng and the Wudang elders that supporting the imperial lord’s reforms could earn them a share of Human Dao Fortune.
• Wang Hao refused to enter the Wudang Sect and flew to a nearby peak, prompting Zhang Sanfeng and the martial artists to follow him there.
• After Zhang Sanfeng left, a Wudang elder ordered Chongxu to compile records of everyone under the sect’s influence so they could remove those who obstructed their opportunity.
• Wang Hao explained that resolving past wrongs through gentle means could reduce karma, and the listeners concluded they needed to purge their forces’ dark sides and make amends.
• Wang Hao described how Fortune assisted ordinary people, nations, and cultivators, and how Fortune Supreme Treasures concentrated and protected it.

Wang Hao warned the martial experts that Human Dao Fortune depended chiefly on the common people and urged them not to threaten the people’s access to land and food. He revealed that Zhu Yanzu had struck a deal with overseas Shattering Realm experts to spare the Central Plains martial world, and the chapter ended with Zhang Sanfeng asking what Zhu Yanzu had sacrificed.

• Wang Hao explained that Evil Consequence suppressed Fortune, Good Consequence strengthened it, and Karma could destroy it, then warned everyone never to oppose Human Dao Fortune.
• Wang Hao told Zhang Sanfeng that the common people were the greatest source of Human Dao Fortune and that cultivators must not take the land and grain they relied on.
• When a middle-aged man challenged Wang Hao for favoring commoners, Wang Hao said strengthening them was the prevailing tide and tied Human Dao Fortune to the plans of overseas powers.
• Wang Hao revealed that overseas Shattering Realm experts had planned to replace the Central Plains martial world, but Zhu Yanzu had negotiated a chance for its forces to remain.
• Zhang Sanfeng asked Wang Hao what Zhu Yanzu had given up to secure the deal.

Wang Hao deceived the martial artists by claiming Zhu Yanzu would seek an Acquired Chaos Physique from the Ancient Lunar Emperor’s tomb on the moon, risking a terrible fate. He left the Taoist School hoping for the Dao Classic and a method to select talented disciples, while Dongfang Bai began to suspect Zhu Yanzu had made his sacrifice for her.

• Wang Hao claimed Zhu Yanzu could gain an Acquired Chaos Physique by retrieving the Innate Chaos Physique’s origin from the Ancient Lunar Emperor’s tomb on the moon, and warned that desecrating the tomb could bring a fate worse than death.
• Wang Hao said Zhu Yanzu had proposed the plan three years earlier and asked the Shattering Realm experts to guarantee one person’s safety, prompting Dongfang Bai to suspect that the protected person was her.
• Wang Hao explained that Zhu Yanzu was a Protagonist of the Era and listed past figures he said had held that status, including Zhang Wuji and Zhou Zhiruo.
• Wang Hao refused to promise the Dao Classic to the Central Plains Taoist School, but left open the possibility of giving it to them after they addressed the school’s problems.
• Zhang Sanfeng asked Wang Hao for a method to select talented disciples, and the Taoists eagerly awaited his answer.

Wang Hao used the Taoist School’s ancient texts to deduce the Taiji Mysterious Purity Dao and other powerful martial arts inheritances. He offered Zhu Yunlu a choice of inheritances, and she asked to receive two.

• Zhang Sanfeng brought Wang Hao to the Taoist School’s residence, where Wang Hao selected talented young disciples using Xiao Mengmeng’s Treasure-Seeking Function.
• Wang Hao studied the Taoist School’s collections, discovered ancient bamboo slips written by Laozi, and used the Dao Comprehension Function to deduce new Taoist martial arts.
• Wang Hao printed hundreds of martial arts inheritances and offered Zhu Yunlu a choice between the Chunyang lineage, the Dao Classic, and the Taiji Mysterious Purity Dao.
• Wang Hao explained the three inheritances and the overseas Taoist School’s four great sword instructions to Zhu Yunlu and the gathered martial artists.
• Zhu Yunlu asked to choose all three inheritances, but Wang Hao allowed her to select one additional inheritance; she then made her choice.

Wang Hao gave Zhu Yunlu the Dao Classic and Chunyang Dao Lineage, then tried to pass inheritances to the Taoist experts but found that they had failed his test. He established a Chunyang Branch Palace on Mount Hua with Zhang Sanfeng as its grand elder, who entered sudden enlightenment, and offered a separate ultimate art to Zhou Zhiruo’s adopted daughter, leaving the girl to decide for herself.

• Zhu Yunlu chose the Dao Classic and Chunyang Dao Lineage, and Wang Hao transmitted the inheritance while warning her not to pass it on.
• Wang Hao saw that the Taoist experts had failed his test, and Zhang Sanfeng apologized for their failure.
• Wang Hao invited Zhang Sanfeng to become grand elder of a Chunyang Branch Palace on Mount Hua and transmitted three inheritances to him.
• Zhang Sanfeng entered sudden enlightenment, and Wang Hao praised his comprehension before seeking a different inheritor.
• Wang Hao offered an ultimate art to Zhou Zhiruo’s adopted daughter, then told her to choose for herself.

Wang Hao accepted Zhang Miaohua as his registered disciple and helped Zhu Ruoxue awaken lightning powers, but an assassin’s sudden attack forced him to pursue the attacker. He then stopped in a remote mountain range and prepared to stage a convincing display that could win the Taoist School as an ally for the Old Zhu Household.

• Wang Hao accepted Zhang Miaohua as his registered disciple and said she could become his direct disciple if she reached the Upper Purity Realm within two years.
• Wang Hao used an electric eel’s blood to help Zhu Ruoxue awaken a lightning-generating ability and a rapid movement technique.
• An assassin attacked Wang Hao with an Emperor-Slaying Crossbow, and Wang Hao deflected the arrow before chasing the attacker away.
• The Taoist experts guarded Zhang Sanfeng and the three young women, while Zhang Sanfeng’s inherited Taiji power began to grow.
• Wang Hao raced to a remote mountain, confirmed there were no nearby martial experts, and prepared to exploit the thundercloud for his deception plan.

Wang Hao staged the earlier attack and pretended that a Net Trap assassin had ambushed him, while Zhang Sanfeng gained strength from studying the Dao Classic and led the experts to the battlefield. After witnessing the destruction, the gathered factions guarded Wang Hao as he recovered, and he began explaining the supposed Net Trap plot.

• Wang Hao's earlier Emperor-Slaying Crossbow attack had been staged with an arrow from his Spirit Sea space and a trace of Demonic Sha from Patriarch Red Sun's saber.
• Zhang Sanfeng awoke from his enlightenment with his strength more than doubled and promised to let the Taoist School experts study the Dao Classic after he opened his Spirit Sea, provided they purged their factions.
• After learning that Daoist Priest Chunyang had pursued an attacker who targeted the Divine Lord's successor, Zhang Sanfeng examined the arrow fragment and led the experts to the battlefield.
• Zhang Sanfeng's group encountered Daoist Nanzhen and the eight Confucian School patriarchs, then reached the devastated battlefield after the lightning ceased.
• The gathered experts surrounded Wang Hao while he recovered; when he woke, he claimed a hidden Sha-rank assassin had targeted him and escaped, and a Confucian patriarch asked him to explain Net Trap.

Wang Hao spun a terrifying history of Net Trap to explain the Confucian School’s ancient swords and dissuade the patriarchs from strengthening their position. The chapter ended with a martial artist asking why the overseas Shattering Realm experts could not defeat Net Trap’s Six Sword Slaves, giving Wang Hao an opening to continue his tale.

• Wang Hao claimed Net Trap had hunted the Ancient Emperor Bloodline for centuries and was led by six assassins whose swords could supposedly challenge Shattering Realm experts.
• The martial artists suspected the Confucian School’s eight ancient swords were connected to Net Trap, and Wang Hao said they had been forged to counter its Six Devil Swords.
• Wang Hao chose not to provoke the Confucian patriarchs into battle because their deaths or escape could trigger war and destroy the swords he hoped to obtain intact.
• The eight Confucian patriarchs asked Wang Hao for the complete sword-refining method, but he said the swords’ accumulated Karma had left them unable to become divine weapons.
• A martial artist asked why the overseas Shattering Realm experts could not defeat the Six Sword Slaves, and Wang Hao welcomed the chance to continue his fabricated account.

Wang Hao told the martial world that the overseas forces had made peace with Net Trap and planned Whole-World Ascension as their only chance to avert the coming Age of Dharma Decline. He left the gathering terrified by the plan’s one-in-ten odds, while privately resolving to prevent the Manchu Qing from invading Huaxia.

• Wang Hao explained that the Six Sword Slaves had grown too powerful to fight safely in the Central Plains, and that the Taoist School’s earlier plan to defeat them had failed after Confucian infighting and a surprise attack.
• Wang Hao said the overseas martial world had chosen to make peace with Net Trap so they could unite against the Great Heavenly Demon and the upper realm.
• Zhang Sanfeng revealed that he had heard about Whole-World Ascension from an old friend, and Wang Hao confirmed that the plan involved shattering space across the Central Plains.
• Wang Hao said the plan had only a one-in-ten chance of success and warned that failure to act would bring an Age of Dharma Decline and another invasion by outsiders.
• The martial artists blamed the Confucian School’s eight patriarchs for past dynastic failures, while Wang Hao privately vowed to stop the Manchu Qing from entering Huaxia.

Wang Hao convinced the martial powers that the overseas world would destroy Net Trap and gave the Confucian School a lead about an overseas Little Sage Manor inheritor. After providing the Celestial Master's Manor with Taoist techniques, he disguised himself and headed to meet Xie Feng before traveling to Shaomu Temple.

• Wang Hao said the overseas martial world would take a kill-first approach toward Net Trap, and the eight Confucian patriarchs knelt and asked him for a way to save their school.
• Wang Hao claimed the Great Heavenly Demon had visited Little Sage Manor and that one of its missing inheritors might be watching events in the Central Plains.
• Wang Hao gave the Celestial Master's Manor the Golden Light Incantation and Yang Five Thunders, then advised its leaders to seek support from the emperor.
• The Wheel-Turning King and the Celestial Master's Manor experts considered forming an alliance, while Wang Hao changed his appearance and set out to deceive the Buddhist Order at Shaomu Temple.
• Taoist powers purged suspected traitors, the Confucian School gathered information about Little Sage Manor, and martial factions began considering alliances against the Whole-World Ascension crisis.

Wang Hao arranged for Yan Shisan and ten women to awaken their bloodlines, then shaved his head and adopted the persona of the monk Saitama to draw Shaomu Temple’s attention. Back at the inn, he began deducing Shaomu Temple’s four supreme arts, leaving the Marrow-Washing Classic dependent on gaining more Buddhist knowledge.

• Wang Hao met Yan Shisan and ten women loyal to him, and took them to the forest to awaken their bloodlines using beast blood.
• The eleven endured the painful process and successfully awakened their Bloodline Power and Divine Abilities before departing at Wang Hao’s order.
• Wang Hao shaved his head, adopted the name Saitama, and returned to the inn, where the waiter mocked his impoverished monk persona.
• Wang Hao used the Dao Comprehension Function to deduce versions of the Golden Bell Shield, Virgin Boy Art, Muscle-Tendon Changing Classic, and Marrow-Washing Classic.
• Wang Hao based his Marrow-Washing Classic visualization on a Buddhist expert from his memories and planned to study Shaomu Temple’s scriptures to strengthen it.

Wang Hao kept working and eating at the inn while plotting to draw Shaomu Temple’s attention, but the innkeeper enlisted Daozheng and his disciples to drive him away. After Huzi’s attack rebounded off Wang Hao’s Golden Bell Shield and left him gravely injured, Daozheng headed into the kitchen to confront Wang Hao.

• Shopkeeper Qian asked Daozheng whether Shaomu Temple had a monk named Saitama, and Daozheng and his lay disciples said they had never heard of him.
• Huzi went to the kitchen to question Wang Hao, then offered him meat buns stuffed with pebbles as a trick.
• Wang Hao absentmindedly ate the buns and crushed the pebbles, leaving Huzi and the waiter stunned.
• Huzi struck Wang Hao with Tiger-Subduing Fist, but Wang Hao’s Golden Bell Shield rebounded the blow and shattered Huzi’s right arm.
• Daozheng caught the flying Huzi, saw how badly he was injured, and rushed toward the kitchen to face Wang Hao.

Wang Hao provoked Shaomu Temple’s monks while traveling under an alternate identity and effortlessly defeated those who confronted him. As he sat outside the inn eating, a Half-step Innate old monk arrived and was knocked into a shop by a chicken foot.

• Daozheng accused Wang Hao of trickery, attacked him, and injured himself against Wang Hao’s firewood defense before signaling Shaomu Temple for help.
• Shaomu Temple monks surrounded Wang Hao at the inn, but their attacks failed to harm him, and Wang Hao sent five of them flying with a flurry of punches.
• Wang Hao went to the kitchen for food, then sat at the inn entrance eating while the monks kept their distance and called for reinforcements.
• A Half-step Innate old monk arrived and insulted Wang Hao, who knocked him into a shop with a chicken foot.

Wang Hao, posing as Saitama, confronted Shaomu Temple after defeating Puzhi and challenged its strongest monks to withstand one punch. He unleashed a colossal attack, leaving the sweeping monk and the Buddhist great figures fighting for their lives.

• A messenger told Fangzheng and the Buddhist patriarchs that Saitama had defeated Puzhi with one punch.
• The sweeping monk and the other Buddhist great figures found Wang Hao eating hot pot outside the inn, where he admitted his ancestors had a grievance with Shaomu Temple.
• Wang Hao offered to settle the grievance by making the monks take one punch, then transformed his Innate Qi into a powerful fist imprint.
• The monks recognized the techniques as Damo's Four Great Divine Arts and wondered whether Wang Hao was the Devil Master, Yan Shisan.
• The sweeping monk and the other great figures unleashed their strongest attacks as Wang Hao's expanding fist imprint bore down on them, while the shockwaves drove nearby monks away.