Chapter Summaries

Wang Hao defeated the Sweeping Monk and the other Buddhist Order giants with a devastating punch, then killed a hidden assassin who was blamed on Net Trap. After confirming his Yan Shisan and Saitama identities, he agreed to visit Shaomu Temple for free lamb hot pot and arrived there with the Sweeping Monk.

• Wang Hao's giant fist imprint overwhelmed the Sweeping Monk and the others' attacks and destroyed a long section of the city wall, though the evacuated area suffered no casualties.
• A Net Trap assassin attacked Wang Hao from behind, but Wang Hao turned and killed him with one punch after Xiao Mengmeng had found him with the system's search function.
• Wang Hao told the Sweeping Monk and the other Buddhist Order giants that the assassin was probably sent by Net Trap, then confirmed that he was Yan Shisan, Buddhist name Saitama, and explained his ancestor's connection to the Central Plains.
• The Sweeping Monk invited Wang Hao to Shaomu Temple, and Wang Hao accepted after learning he could eat free lamb hot pot.
• Wang Hao carried the Sweeping Monk to Shaomu Temple in a series of powerful leaps and demanded that the monks prepare lamb hot pot.

After defeating the Buddhist Order’s experts, Wang Hao shared a meal with the Sweeping Monk and Shaomu Temple’s leaders, then convinced them that they should reform by developing Mohist technology instead of relying on farmland. The Buddhist Order asked him to share practical technologies, and Fangzheng vowed to put them into practice despite the Central Plains’ lack of industrial foundations.

• Spies from several Central Plains factions saw the ruined battlefield and hurried away to report Master Saitama’s defeat of eleven Buddhist Order experts.
• Wang Hao ate mutton hot pot with the Sweeping Monk and other Buddhist leaders, then told them Shaomu Temple carried heavy Karmic Cause and Effect.
• Wang Hao claimed that the Yan Household’s difficulty producing heirs came from its ancestor’s Karma and warned that the return of Human Dao Fortune could make the Buddhist Order’s troubles worse.
• After hearing about the Buddhist Order’s properties and the loss of the Mohist inheritance, Wang Hao urged the monks to pursue science, technology, and industrial manufacturing rather than depend on farmland.
• The Buddhist leaders asked Wang Hao to introduce Mohist technology, and Fangzheng pledged to put it into practice despite the Central Plains’ lack of foundations.

Wang Hao urged Shaomu Temple to reform by developing production and limiting the Buddhist Order’s growth, then used the dispute with Daozheng to press the temple’s leaders for accountability. He demonstrated his invented Thirteen Deadly Swords, and Shaomu Temple brought Daozheng and the witnesses before him to explain what happened.

• Wang Hao gave Fangzheng production techniques for goods such as glass, soap, and cement to help fund the Buddhist Order’s reforms.
• Wang Hao warned the Buddhist leaders that the Order had too many non-producing monks and that Daozheng’s conduct at the inn had brought trouble upon the Order.
• The sweeping monk ordered Daozheng and everyone involved in the inn incident brought in, while assuring Wang Hao he would investigate and answer for it.
• Wang Hao claimed the name Yan Shisan came from his family’s naming tradition, and the Buddhist leaders treated him as a senior Grandmaster.
• Wang Hao demonstrated his condensed Sword Qi and explained that the Thirteen Deadly Swords used no physical swords.
• The sweeping monk questioned Daozheng, his disciples, and the inn staff about the incident.

Daozheng learned that Zhao Hu had been injured by Master Saitama’s protective Gang Qi, not by a deliberate attack, and apologized after the truth came out. Master Saitama demanded repairs and compensation for the damage, criticized Shaomu Temple’s training practices, and asked to study its Buddhist scriptures and martial arts texts.

• Daozheng accused Master Saitama of swindling the inn and crippling Zhao Hu, while Shopkeeper Qian confirmed that Master Saitama had agreed to pay for his stay.
• A waiter explained that Zhao Hu had punched Master Saitama after giving him buns with stones inside, and the force that injured Zhao Hu had come from Master Saitama’s protective Gang Qi.
• Daozheng realized he had wrongly blamed Master Saitama and knelt to apologize, while Master Saitama demanded an explanation for the stones in the buns.
• Master Saitama told Shaomu Temple to pay for the inn and compensate residents whose homes and city wall had been damaged, then criticized the temple’s separation of scholarly and martial monks.
• The Sweeping Monk and the other Buddhist Order leaders accepted Master Saitama’s criticism, and he asked to read Shaomu Temple’s Buddhist scriptures and martial arts texts.

Wang Hao organized Shaomu Temple’s Buddhist scriptures and martial arts into a structured curriculum, then prepared a refined inheritance of Damo's Four Great Divine Arts. He gave the manuals to the Sweeping Monk and the other monks, while Innate experts gathered outside Shaomu Temple to witness their appearance.

• The Sweeping Monk and the others welcomed Wang Hao’s request to read their texts, hoping to earn his favor and recover Damo's Four Great Divine Arts.
• After half a month of study, Wang Hao arranged the Buddhist scriptures from easy to difficult and began writing a complete, progressive Buddhist martial arts inheritance.
• Wang Hao used Divine Sense Object Control to print hundreds of manuals and refined Damo's Four Great Divine Arts with the help of his Buddhist learning and a trace of simulated lotus treasure essence.
• The Sweeping Monk and the other monks knelt before Wang Hao and asked him to restore the lost inheritance, while Innate experts gathered outside Shaomu Temple in anticipation.
• Wang Hao printed nearly a hundred sheets of Damo's Four Great Divine Arts and gave them to the monks, warning that the Innate Realm methods might contain errors and omissions.

Wang Hao chose Daohui as his disciple and explained how martial artists could reach the Celestial Person Realm. He left the assembled masters with the grim verdict that their Internal Force and True Qi foundations had likely made that realm unattainable.

• Wang Hao offered to take Daohui as his disciple, and the Sweeping Monk urged the boy to accept; Daohui performed the ceremony and received Wang Hao's martial arts legacy.
• Dongfang Bai appeared and asked Wang Hao about the Celestial Person Realm, while he warned her that Net Trap targeted people with ancient emperor physiques.
• Wang Hao explained that reaching the Celestial Person Realm required forging one's own Dao, building a perfect foundation, and earning the recognition of heaven and earth.
• Wang Hao outlined three methods of reaching the realm: great merit, proving the Dao through force, or combining a strong foundation with great deeds.
• Wang Hao declared that the martial artists' Internal Force and True Qi system had crippled their foundations, leaving them with virtually no hope of advancing; a Buddhist Order heavyweight asked whether any chance remained.

Wang Hao convinced the martial artists that their damaged foundations left them no hope of reaching the Celestial Person Realm, then staged a devastating punch to impress them and drive away a watcher. The chapter ended with the others believing a Heaven-rank assassin from Net Trap had been spying on Wang Hao.

• Wang Hao told the Sweeping Monk and the other martial artists that their foundations were ruined, but urged them to nurture the next generation and seek opportunities against the Great Heavenly Demon.
• Dongfang Bai asked Wang Hao why he seemed familiar, and Wang Hao claimed the Great Heavenly Demon had planted a Demon Seed in him and the other Tribulation Lords.
• Wang Hao claimed the Great Heavenly Demon might intend to devour those bearing Demon Seeds, alarming the Buddhist and Taoist leaders.
• Wang Hao gathered his Innate Qi and Buddhist treasure essence, then unleashed a Serious Punch that blasted a gap thousands of zhang wide through the rain clouds.
• The Sweeping Monk and the others realized Wang Hao had held back far more than they had thought during their earlier encounter.
• Wang Hao said a Heaven-rank assassin who had recently reached the Celestial Person Realm had watched him from the sky, and the others suspected Net Trap.

Wang Hao learned that the Confucian School had captured Zhao Dachui, his son, Sun Ruonan, and others to draw him into a trap, so he prepared to rescue them by strengthening his allies. At Zhou Xueyi’s island base, he helped her First-Rate fighters awaken bloodline abilities and discovered that Qiao’er’s ability was Metalization, though the rat she had fused with left him baffled.

• Zhou Xueyi gave Wang Hao a letter revealing the Confucian School had captured his friends and was using them as bait.
• Wang Hao decided to prepare for the rescue by visiting Zhou Xueyi’s island base, where 135 of her people had reached the First-Rate realm.
• Wang Hao reviewed his cultivation and concluded he needed to break through his body’s strength before he could develop his Qi and Blood Martial Dao.
• Wang Hao warned the fighters about the pain of bloodline fusion, then began extracting beast blood essence and awakening their Bloodline Powers and Divine Abilities.
• Qiao’er awakened Metalization, an ability that let her consume metal and gain its properties, and told Wang Hao she had fused with a rat.
• Qiao’er called Er Ya from the woods, and the enormous creature that appeared left Wang Hao questioning whether it was really a rat.

Wang Hao helped Qiao'er awaken her kangaroo Er Ya’s Bloodline Divine Ability, then risked his life fusing the same ability into himself. He survived the ordeal but was gravely depleted, and Zhou Xueyi tended to him as he recovered.

• Wang Hao recognized Er Ya’s potential and used Qiao'er's blood to awaken the kangaroo’s metal-devouring Bloodline Divine Ability.
• Wang Hao told Qiao'er to train hard and promised to consider her for the Twelve Zodiac Guardian Gods, while Zhou Xueyi watched him leave for seclusion.
• Wang Hao used the remaining half-drop of Qiao'er's blood to fuse and awaken the ability, enduring violent clashes among the three Bloodline Divine Abilities in his body.
• Wang Hao survived after visualizing Great God Pangu and the Twelve Ancestral Wu, but emerged covered in blood and nearly drained of Bloodline Power.
• Zhou Xueyi rushed to get Wang Hao food, and he burned the bloodied hut before washing and ravenously eating while she cared for him.

After recovering from his dangerous breakthrough, Wang Hao reached the Third Tier and discovered that his strength and several skills had improved. He proposed to Zhou Xueyi, who accepted but demanded explanations about the women and teachers he had named while delirious.

• Wang Hao replenished his strength, tested his improved body, and confirmed that his Bloodline Power had reached the Third Tier.
• Wang Hao examined his attribute changes and decided not to continue visualizing powerful gods because doing so could endanger his identity and will.
• Wang Hao learned that Metal Devouring could temporarily mimic the properties of metals and asked Zhou Xueyi to prepare gold so he could forge Purple Gold.
• Wang Hao proposed to Zhou Xueyi, who accepted but questioned him about Dongfang Bai, You Lian, Teacher Ozawa, and Teacher Aoi.
• Zhou Xueyi left after telling Wang Hao to introduce the people he had named, and Wang Hao celebrated having secured his first wife before spotting Wangcai mounting a tiger.

Wang Hao tested the Metal Devouring Divine Ability, gave Qiao'er metal to use with her own ability, and created the Qi and Blood Martial Dao. With his strength increased to four million jin, he prepared to return to the Central Plains and confront the Confucian School.

• Wang Hao used seven Purple Gold balls to turn his body into metal, then discovered the active Divine Ability quickly drained his Essence Blood energy.
• Wang Hao gave Qiao'er the remaining Purple Gold balls and warned her to wait until she reached the Grandmaster Realm before using the prepared metals.
• Wang Hao activated the Dao Comprehension Function and worked out the Qi and Blood Martial Dao after four hours.
• Zhou Xueyi watched as Wang Hao released a powerful blood-colored blaze of Qi, confirming that he had succeeded.
• Wang Hao saw that his Qi and Blood cultivation had advanced his Nine Revolutions Body Tempering Instruction and raised his strength to four million jin.
• Wang Hao set his sights on returning to the Central Plains to settle accounts with the Confucian School.

Wang Hao taught Xie Feng the Qi and Blood Martial Dao, captured a giant blue whale he named Little Blue, and returned openly to the Central Plains to confront the Confucian School. Elder Chu caught up with him and offered the Old Zhu Household’s support, though Wang Hao had not yet revealed who had provoked him.

• Wang Hao passed the Qi and Blood Martial Dao and his martial insights to Xie Feng, whose damaged meridians made the path especially suitable for him.
• Wang Hao found a nearly hundred-meter blue whale, awakened its bloodline, and brought it under his control as Little Blue.
• Wang Hao and Xie Feng reached the Yellow River mouth, where Wang Hao openly announced his arrival and prepared to face the Confucian School.
• Scouts identified Wang Hao and sent word to the major powers, and Elder Chu set out with a hundred Early Innate experts to support him.
• Elder Chu caught up with Wang Hao, accepted wine, and asked who had provoked him while offering the Old Zhu Household’s force.

Wang Hao learned how the Confucian School had taken Zhao Dachui and the others, and entrusted Elder Chu with negotiating over their fate and using the Great Yuan Treasure and nine Secret Methods to strengthen the Old Zhu Household. He reunited with Tie Niu, who had reached Peak Super-First-Rate cultivation and asked Wang Hao to help him awaken Bloodline Power.

• Wang Hao told Elder Chu that Emperor Mingde had first targeted Zhao Dachui and the others over the Xun Feather Cloth, and warned that anyone who harmed his friends would pay.
• Wang Hao gave Elder Chu a map to the Great Yuan Treasure and a sheet describing nine Secret Methods, asking the Old Zhu Household to train talented people.
• Elder Chu explained that he had created the Thousand Faces Divine Technique based on the expansion and contraction of a man's body, giving Wang Hao ideas for refining it.
• Tie Niu leaped aboard Wang Hao's boat, revealing that he had reached Peak Super-First-Rate cultivation and was covered in scars from fighting.
• Tie Niu asked Wang Hao to help him fuse with a bull's blood and awaken Bloodline Power, and Wang Hao agreed that he could do it.

Wang Hao learned that Tie Niu had awakened a powerful Gravity Divine Ability and heard how the Confucian School had captured his friends as bait. He arrived at the challenge site, found Zhao Dachui's family and Taohong tied up but alive, and confronted the eight patriarchs as rival factions watched.

• Wang Hao praised Tie Niu's Gravity Divine Ability and had him recount what happened after they left the battlefield.
• Tie Niu worried about Taohong and the others, and Wang Hao vowed to destroy the Confucian School if they had harmed his friends.
• Dongfang Bai set out to kill Wang Hao, while Ren Woxing watched her and considered eliminating her as a threat to his position.
• The Confucian School's eight patriarchs prepared to fight Wang Hao, sensing that a deadly danger was approaching.
• Wang Hao reached the barren mountain where the Confucian School had issued its challenge and saw Zhao Dachui's family and Taohong bound to crosses but breathing steadily.
• Wang Hao accused the Confucian School's eight patriarchs of repeatedly using his friends as bait and condemned their conduct.

Wang Hao used his metalized defense and overwhelming strength to break the Confucian School patriarchs’ Eight Extremes Sword Formation and relentlessly target the Giant Gate Heavy Sword’s wielder. As the patriarchs struggled to find a counter, their leader made a decision to use another trump card.

• The Confucian School patriarchs challenged Wang Hao to defeat them before taking the five people, and Wang Hao asked Elder Chu to protect Brother Chui and the others.
• Wang Hao charged through the patriarchs’ Sword Qi with his metalized body, then fixed his attacks on the patriarch wielding the Giant Gate Heavy Sword.
• With the formation’s support, the heavy-sword patriarch met Wang Hao’s strike but was driven back and injured, disrupting the formation.
• Wang Hao kept attacking the heavy-sword patriarch, forcing the others to restore the formation and trapping them in a cycle that prevented them from using their other techniques.
• The watching jianghu powerhouses marveled at Wang Hao’s strength and defense, while the Confucian School patriarchs realized they needed to change the battle’s course.
• The leading patriarch decided to reveal another Confucian School trump card, and the other seven patriarchs understood his intent.

Wang Hao fought the Confucian School’s patriarchs and endured the full force of their ancient swords, losing an arm before striking down two of them. He instantly restored his wounds and challenged the six remaining patriarchs to continue the battle.

• Wang Hao clashed head-on with the Giant Gate Heavy Sword patriarch, who unleashed the sword’s Divine Charm, Five Sacred Mountains Without Flaw.
• Their swords collided and became embedded in each other, sending both fighters flying as a second patriarch ambushed Wang Hao with a shortsword.
• Wang Hao twisted aside but lost his left arm; he counterattacked with the joined swords and smashed the ambusher, causing the Eight Extremes Sword Formation to collapse.
• Wang Hao seized the shortsword, while the onlookers and leading patriarch assumed his injuries had left him doomed.
• Wang Hao reattached his arm and healed his wounds with his recovery abilities, then raised his sword and challenged the eight patriarchs to another round.

Wang Hao withdrew from his battle with the Confucian School after rescuing Zhao Dachui and the others, then encountered Dongfang Bai, who still intended to kill him. The chapter left Wang Hao’s confidence shaken when Dongfang Bai made her next move.

• Wang Hao fought the Confucian School patriarchs at high speed, then retreated after Elder Chu and the others rescued Zhao Dachui and his companions.
• The Confucian School abandoned its attempt to recover the two ancient swords as Wang Hao escaped, weakened by the energy he had spent maintaining Metalization.
• Wang Hao met Dongfang Bai on the road and awkwardly tried to reconcile with her.
• Dongfang Bai rejected peace and declared that only one of them could live, while Wang Hao invoked Zhu Yanzu’s promise to spare her three times.
• Wang Hao claimed his Innate Sacred Physique Dao Embryo made him stronger than Dongfang Bai, but her next move immediately undermined his confidence.

Dongfang Bai attacked Wang Hao with powerful extreme-yang Sword Qi, but he tricked her into turning around and knocked her unconscious. After discovering her cultivation had become dangerously unstable, Wang Hao decided to use dual cultivation to help control it, since Xiao Mengmeng said Dongfang Bai was essential to separating the Heavenly Mandate from the world.

• Dongfang Bai fired a thin strand of red Sword Qi at Wang Hao, who narrowly dodged it and realized her attack could break through his defenses.
• Wang Hao tricked Dongfang Bai by claiming someone was behind her, then knocked her unconscious when she turned to look.
• Wang Hao sensed that Dongfang Bai's innate extreme-yang Sword Qi had grown far more powerful and carried her to a valley to keep her alive.
• Wang Hao asked Xiao Mengmeng whether he could abandon Dongfang Bai, but she warned that he could not defeat the Heavenly Mandate without her.
• Wang Hao decided to stabilize Dongfang Bai's cultivation through dual cultivation, but his innate Yin and Yang Qi burned away as soon as it entered her meridians.

Wang Hao’s dual cultivation with Dongfang Bai brought them both major gains, but he implanted a Demon Seed in her before leaving. Dongfang Bai used the Seed’s power to defeat Ren Woxing and his forces, then claimed leadership of the Sun Moon Holy Cult.

• Wang Hao advanced to the Seven Yang Physique through dual cultivation with Dongfang Bai, while she developed a wisp of Innate Extreme Yin Qi.
• After Dongfang Bai woke, Wang Hao teased her, implanted a Demon Seed, and left; she discovered the Seed enhanced her control over Aurora Sword Qi.
• Dongfang Bai learned that Ren Woxing and more than a hundred Sun Moon Holy Cult experts had come to kill her, and she killed the ten Early Innate experts with Aurora Sword Qi.
• Ren Woxing attacked Dongfang Bai with his Star-Absorbing Demon Hand, but she cut through the technique and killed him.
• Dongfang Bai declared herself leader of the Sun Moon Holy Cult, and the surviving experts surrendered.

The Confucian School patriarchs found Wang Hao posing as the injured Jing Tianming, a successor of Little Sage Manor, and brought him back in hopes of saving their school. Wang Hao convinced them that their actions had brought disaster on them and began manipulating them from a mountain retreat.

• The green-robed and black-robed patriarchs found Wang Hao's staged battlefield and discovered the injured, disguised Wang Hao in a crater.
• The patriarchs brought Wang Hao to their headquarters, where he tried to escape through a window before they caught him and questioned him.
• Wang Hao claimed to be Jing Tianming, denounced the Confucian School's karmic entanglements, and demanded to leave its ancestral grounds.
• The patriarchs escorted Wang Hao to an abandoned wooden building on a barren mountain and stationed guards around him.
• Wang Hao secretly revealed that his injuries and the battlefield were fabricated, then berated the patriarchs for provoking powerful enemies and causing his supposed suffering.