Chapter Summaries

Wang Hao persuaded the Confucian School’s eight patriarchs to focus on education and cooperate with Zhu Yanzu’s plan to gather Human Dao Fortune. He also proposed that they pass the Karmic Cause and Effect bound to their remaining ancient swords to a powerful Fortune-holder, leaving the patriarchs to weigh the risk of giving up their greatest weapons.

• Wang Hao criticized the Confucian School for preserving martial texts while neglecting its educational mission, and the eight patriarchs began to accept his argument.
• Wang Hao urged the patriarchs to join Zhu Yanzu’s education department and share in Human Dao Fortune to offset their Karmic Cause and Effect.
• Wang Hao told the patriarchs that giving away their ancient swords could transfer much of the Karmic Cause and Effect to another person.
• The patriarchs hesitated over surrendering their remaining swords, which served as the Confucian School’s strongest defense.
• Wang Hao hinted that the Tribulation Lords of the Ten Directions would need Human Dao Fortune and might be forced to accept the swords, then warned the patriarchs not to reveal his scheme.

Wang Hao advised the Confucian School patriarchs on how to deliver the ancient sword and recover Master Kong’s Literary Qi Nourishing Method, then prepared textbooks and selected promising disciples. He rejected most high-status youths, whose Karmic Cause and Effect would block their cultivation, and left them with a seemingly impossible two-year deadline to reach the Innate Realm.

• Wang Hao told the eight Confucian School patriarchs to give the ancient sword to the Sovereign and seek Master Kong’s legacy through Human Dao Fortune.
• Wang Hao compiled language textbooks for the Confucian School and urged the patriarchs to make them court teaching materials.
• Wang Hao refused to reveal Little Sage Manor’s martial legacy but agreed to identify Confucian School disciples with little Karmic Cause and Effect.
• Wang Hao used Xiao Mengmeng’s Treasure-Seeking Function and selected seventy thousand youths from a crowd of more than three hundred thousand, favoring those from lower-status families.
• A brocade-clad youth challenged Wang Hao after being rejected, and Wang Hao warned that the youths’ Karmic Cause and Effect would prevent them from reaching the Innate Realm once Human Dao Fortune was condensed.
• Wang Hao told the rejected youths they could avoid that obstacle only by reaching the Innate Realm before Human Dao Fortune was condensed, which was expected within two years.

Wang Hao disguised himself as Shengxiu and traveled to the grasslands to seek the Esoteric Sect’s soul-cultivation inheritance and meet its Living Buddha. He reached the Esoteric Sect Ancestral Land, where its senior lamas welcomed him as a Buddhist teacher bringing the Tathagata Divine Palm inheritance.

• Jing Tianming beat the eight Confucian School patriarchs in a sparring match, while Wang Hao left without taking their treasures or ancient swords.
• Wang Hao changed his appearance and set out for the grassland martial world, hoping to obtain a method for cultivating the three souls.
• Wang Hao disguised himself as Shengxiu and observed several tribal settlements, concluding that nobles had led ordinary herders into wrongdoing.
• Little Lama Long Ling and High Person Longxiang recognized Wang Hao as Shengxiu and accompanied him toward the Esoteric Sect Ancestral Land.
• After three days of travel, Wang Hao arrived at the snowy mountain and greeted the ten Peak Innate lamas gathered at its gate.

Wang Hao met the Esoteric Sect’s living Buddhas and explained why their inherited cultivation had blocked their path to the Celestial Person Realm. After studying the sect’s legacies for a month, he reorganized its Buddhist teachings and martial arts to guide its practitioners toward benevolence.

• Wang Hao identified the elderly former living Buddha as the sect’s true authority and explained that the succession method had left the young living Buddha with impure cultivation and a damaged Dao Path.
• The young living Buddha asked how to reach the Celestial Person Realm and whether he could start over, while Wang Hao described three paths to proving the Dao and the need for perseverance, Fortune, and fortuitous opportunities.
• Wang Hao, the two living Buddhas, and the assembled lamas discussed Buddhist teachings, and the Esoteric Sect experts praised Wang Hao’s understanding of both Central Plains and Tianzhu traditions.
• The Esoteric Sect experts shared their accumulated Buddhist and martial arts legacies with Wang Hao, who spent a month studying them.
• Wang Hao reorganized the sect’s Buddhist teachings and supplied optimized martial arts that influenced practitioners toward kindness and away from killing and evil deeds.

After leaving the Esoteric Sect Ancestral Land, Wang Hao was confronted by the young Living Buddha, who demanded his other inheritances and prepared to seize them by force. Wang Hao revealed his Great Vajra Demon-Subduing Sword Instruction as the two faced off, with both preparing to unleash their strongest techniques.

• The young Living Buddha decided to seek a more powerful inheritance after judging the Tathagata Divine Palm too difficult to cultivate.
• Wang Hao left the Esoteric Sect Ancestral Land with Long Ling and High Person Longxiang after giving the Living Buddhas the Tathagata Divine Palm manual.
• The young Living Buddha caught up with Wang Hao and demanded that he surrender all his inheritances.
• Long Ling objected to the young Living Buddha’s demand, while High Person Longxiang protected him and retreated with him at Wang Hao’s instruction.
• The young Living Buddha activated the Great Sun Soul-Burning Method and explained how it strengthened him, while Wang Hao drew the Great Vajra Demon-Subduing Sword and prepared to fight.

Wang Hao and the young Living Buddha clashed with the Tathagata Great Mudra and Wang Hao’s magnetic beads, then exchanged devastating blows at close range. After both were injured and their attacks blasted apart the battlefield, the young Living Buddha warned that his final move could kill Wang Hao, who prepared to face it with the Great Vajra Demon-Subduing Sword.

• Wang Hao used his eighteen prayer beads to meet the young Living Buddha’s Tathagata Great Mudra, and their first exchange ended in a stalemate.
• The young Living Buddha burned two sariras to strengthen his Great Sun Soul-Burning Method and unleashed a huge golden palm print that drew Wang Hao’s beads away.
• The young Living Buddha rushed in to attack Wang Hao at close range, but Wang Hao’s Metalization Divine Ability let him shatter the palm print and send the Living Buddha flying with a counterstrike.
• Wang Hao and the young Living Buddha both suffered serious arm injuries as their attacks overhead exploded, carving a large, scorched crater into the ground.
• The young Living Buddha warned that his final move could not be controlled and again asked Wang Hao to surrender his inheritances, but Wang Hao summoned the Great Vajra Demon-Subduing Sword to face him.

Wang Hao defeated the young Living Buddha and redirected their combined attack into the Esoteric Sect Ancestral Land, devastating the Great Snow Mountain. After testing Long Ling's views on grassland society, Wang Hao accepted him as his disciple.

• The young Living Buddha unleashed the Tathagata Great Mudra, but Wang Hao's Great Vajra Demon-Subduing Sword drove it back, forcing the young Living Buddha to flee.
• Wang Hao's redirected strike struck the Great Snow Mountain, collapsing buildings and triggering an avalanche at the Esoteric Sect Ancestral Land.
• The old Living Buddha gave Baoxiang a bundle of vital lineage inheritances to take to Master Shengxiu, while Longxiang brought Wang Hao the recovered prayer beads.
• Wang Hao asked Long Ling about the grassland social order, and Long Ling said he favored the ordinary herders over the noble leaders.
• Wang Hao asked Long Ling to become his disciple, and Long Ling accepted by kneeling and paying his respects.

Wang Hao left the grasslands after urging Long Ling and High Person Longxiang to consider the grasslands’ future, then retrieved a vast piece of Profound Iron and traveled to Dongfang Bai’s residence. There, he reunited with Dugu Qiubai and confronted him over the Dugu Household’s treatment of Zhu Ruoxue.

• Wang Hao told Long Ling that the grasslands would need to join Huaxia or defeat it to secure Human Dao Fortune, and asked him to decide the people’s future for themselves.
• Wang Hao made High Person Longxiang Long Ling’s Dao protector, awakened his Seven Po Magnetic Field, and taught him the Indestructible Golden Body before departing.
• Wang Hao retrieved the enormous Profound Iron from the pool and headed to Dongfang Bai’s residence to replenish his Fortune Points and deliver the martial arts he had collected.
• Wang Hao arrived at the old Dongfang residence, where Granny Song welcomed him and Dugu Qiubai challenged him over his treatment of the Dugu Household’s juniors.
• Wang Hao explained Zhu Ruoxue’s story, and Dugu Qiubai learned that his family had concealed her mistreatment from him.

Wang Hao passed martial arts inheritances to Dongfang Bai, gained Fortune Points, and derived a method to cultivate his three souls. After he taught Dongfang Bai a way to develop the Demon Seed, she kissed him, leaving him stunned.

• Granny Song locked Wang Hao and Dongfang Bai in the main bedroom after their reunion dinner.
• Wang Hao passed Dongfang Bai martial arts inheritances, earning 650,000 Fortune Points when she entered enlightenment.
• Wang Hao used the Fortune Points to derive a method for cultivating his three souls and awakened his Yin Soul Soul Power.
• Dongfang Bai revealed she had left enlightenment early because she feared Wang Hao might take advantage of her.
• Wang Hao taught Dongfang Bai the first part of a knockoff Dao Heart Demon-Planting Great Technique to help her unlock the Demon Seed.
• Dongfang Bai asked why Wang Hao treated her so well, then pushed him down and kissed him.

Wang Hao left Dongfang Bai’s residence after beating Dugu Qiubai and planting a Demon Seed in him, then traveled to Zhou Xueyi’s island base to refine two ancient swords. He learned that the Mohist School’s Azure Dragon Society had joined him and that Zhou Xueyi had gone to intercept wokou.

• Wang Hao woke to find Granny Song asleep in the courtyard and told her Dongfang Bai had left early that morning.
• Dugu Qiubai mocked Wang Hao for lying, so Wang Hao punched and beat him, then planted a Demon Seed in him before leaving.
• Wang Hao sailed toward Zhou Xueyi’s island base, met Little Blue, and rode the whale after Little Blue accidentally broke his boat.
• Wang Hao reached the island, where the defenders recognized him as Dragon Head because the Azure Dragon Society had pledged itself to him.
• A base member told Wang Hao that Zhou Xueyi had led a group to intercept wokou who appeared five days earlier.

After sixty-two days in seclusion, Wang Hao reached the limit of Third Tier True Spirit Sword Intent but failed to break through to the Fourth Tier. He reunited with Zhao Dachui at the island base and was shocked by Zhao’s new appearance, enormous copper staff, and gigantic white gorilla companion.

• Wang Hao emerged from seclusion and learned from a guard that he had cultivated for sixty-two days, spending over a hundred thousand Fortune Points.
• Wang Hao reviewed his progress and concluded that the ancient swords could not help him break through to Fourth Tier True Spirit Sword Intent.
• Zhao Dachui appeared beside Wang Hao, teasing him for staying in his cabin, and Wang Hao gaped at Zhao’s greatly enlarged, deformed body.
• Wang Hao noticed Zhao’s massive copper staff and asked why he had abandoned swordsmanship for a heavy staff.
• Zhao Dachui summoned White Fur, a nearly ten-meter-tall white gorilla whose Bloodline Power awakening had transformed its fur and granted Zhao a powerful ability.
• Wang Hao questioned Zhao’s choice of a gorilla for the awakening, and Zhao insisted that White Fur counted as a monkey or ape.

Wang Hao learned that Zhao Dachui had developed a moon-amplified Bloodline Divine Ability and agreed to investigate his dangerous full-moon episodes. After discovering a huge typhoon was approaching the island and the Central Plains, Wang Hao hurried to organize a response and resolved to stop it.

• Zhao Dachui explained that he had switched to staff techniques after Elder Chu advised him to cultivate externally, and revealed that moonlight amplified his strength tenfold.
• Wang Hao connected Zhao Dachui’s ability to changes in the world’s sun and moon, then agreed to examine his destructive full-moon episodes.
• Wang Hao asked Zhao Dachui to persuade Zhao Fengxue to teach Yushu the Zhao family swordsmanship, and Zhao Dachui agreed.
• After noticing that the wind had blown for half a month, Wang Hao used the system to discover that a large typhoon would reach the island in three days and the Central Plains coast in four.
• Wang Hao sent Zhao Dachui to warn Zhou Xueyi and the others at sea to seek shelter, then rushed toward the encampment and resolved to stop the typhoon.

Wang Hao awakened an indirect wind-type Bloodline Divine Ability and rushed to the Great Ming capital to organize a response to an approaching typhoon. He told Zhu Yuanzhang that the storm would reach the coast within three days and demanded a vast open area for the battle.

• Wang Hao removed one of his fused Divine Abilities, then merged Fairy Yushu's bloodline ability into his body and guided its awakening with visions of Tianwu and other Ancestral Wu.
• After three hours of painful fusion, Wang Hao awakened the ability to form wind through his Innate Qi, though he could not directly control the wind and estimated his chances against the typhoon at one in ten.
• Wang Hao traveled to the coast on Little Blue, sent the whale away from danger, and headed for the Great Ming capital as the Peerless Sword Saint.
• Wang Hao reached Zhu Yuanzhang's imperial estate, warned him that the typhoon would strike the coast within three days, and asked him to prepare a battlefield several hundred li across.

Wang Hao prepared to confront a hurricane approaching the Bohai Sea by recruiting Zhu Yuanzhang’s help to evacuate the region and enhancing his own powers and weapon. He waited at sea with the Fish Intestine Peerless Sword serving as a hub for amplifying his abilities.

• Wang Hao warned Zhu Yuanzhang that a hurricane was approaching the Bohai Sea and asked him to arrange evacuations and provide medicinal herbs.
• Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the court and nearby martial-world factions to evacuate the people and prepare to fight the disaster.
• Wang Hao fused the wind Divine Sense clone into the Fish Intestine Peerless Sword and the magnetism clone into his body, straining himself in the process.
• Wang Hao urged martial artists at the Ancient Emperor Divine Halls to help with the evacuation, then traveled by ship to the center of the Bohai Sea.
• Wang Hao strengthened the sword with wind power and the image of Tianwu, then placed it in his Lower Dantian to amplify his Innate Qi.

Wang Hao prepared to face a massive typhoon by evacuating the coast and stockpiling medicinal herbs to create nearly ten thousand Origin Cores. As the storm reached his ship, he began developing Bladestorm, and the watching martial world experts saw a Sword Qi tornado emerge.

• Wang Hao confirmed that the people near the Bohai coast had been evacuated, and the Wheel-Turning King delivered another batch of medicinal herbs.
• Wang Hao stored the herbs, refined them into more than eight thousand Origin Cores, and prepared to confront the approaching typhoon.
• Wang Hao told Xiao Mengmeng to call him Devil Beast Sword Saint Samuro and began using Wind Transformation to create Bladestorm.
• Wang Hao tried to adapt his Sword Qi tornado to draw upon the typhoon’s winds and grow powerful enough to challenge it.
• The martial world experts watching from the Bohai coast saw a massive Sword Qi tornado surge from Wang Hao’s ship and wondered whether he had reached the Sword Demon’s realm.

Wang Hao used his expanded Seven Po Magnetic Field to turn his war swords into a lightning-charged Bladestorm that began stealing wind from the Bohai Sea typhoon. On the shore, the Confucian School patriarchs gave up on fighting him and considered offering Qin Yan and their ancient swords to secure peace.

• Wang Hao discovered that the Magnetic Force Divine Sense Clone had expanded the Seven Po Magnetic Field’s radius tenfold, allowing him to control war swords far beyond his previous range.
• Wang Hao drove the spinning swords with compressed Sword Qi and grew Bladestorm until it began pulling the typhoon’s winds into its tornado.
• Wang Hao used the Lightning Control Divine Ability to draw lightning from the colliding clouds, strengthening Bladestorm as it seized the typhoon’s wind power.
• The Confucian School patriarchs and Qin Yan watched the vast Sword Qi storm from shore, and Qin Yan realized he could not defeat the Peerless Sword Saint.
• The Confucian School patriarchs decided they needed to seek reconciliation and considered handing over their ancient swords and Qin Yan, while two injured patriarchs called for help retreating from the approaching storm.

Wang Hao struggled to hold back the typhoon with his Bladestorm as his Innate Divine Sense ran low and the storm neared the people sheltering nearby. The prayers of more than ten million people gave him the Power of Faith, restoring his Divine Sense and allowing him to push the typhoon back.

• Wang Hao used the Dao Comprehension Function to strengthen his Seven Po Magnetic Field and True Spirit Sword Intent, but the typhoon continued forcing his Bladestorm toward the shore.
• The retreating experts recognized that Wang Hao was losing ground, while more than ten million people prayed for the smaller hurricane to save them.
• Wang Hao prepared to tear open the typhoon and send his Bladestorm inside to weaken it, but a mysterious power restored some of his Innate Divine Sense.
• Xiao Mengmeng identified the mysterious power as the Power of Faith gathered by the people praying to Wang Hao and confirmed it could replenish his Divine Sense.
• Wang Hao refined his medicinal herbs with the Power of Faith's aid, recovered faster than he spent Divine Sense, and pushed the typhoon back more than ten li.

Wang Hao used the disaster-stricken people’s Power of Faith to hold back and devour the typhoon, while completing the fusion of his Seven Po Magnetic Field. After stabilizing the storm’s remaining Sword Qi and returning his clones to the Ancient Emperor statues, he headed to his island base to study how to connect his magnetic field to Heaven and Earth without the magnetic-force clone.

• Wang Hao drew strength from the people’s prayers, pushed the typhoon back, and fused his Seven Po Magnetic Field to its Third Tier limit.
• Wang Hao drove his blade storm into the typhoon, devoured its winds, and diverted them into the upper sky near the Bohai Sea.
• Wang Hao went to Mount Song and bound the remaining Innate Wind Sword Qi inside an Ancient Emperor statue, then returned his magnetic-force and thunder clones to their statues.
• The Confucian School patriarchs headed to the capital to bargain with the Old Zhu Household and seek Zhu Yanzu’s help against Wang Hao.
• Wang Hao met Little Blue at the coast, returned to the island base, and entered seclusion to learn to connect his Seven Po Magnetic Field to Heaven and Earth on his own.

After making major progress in cultivation but failing to break through to the Celestial Person Realm, Wang Hao emerged from seclusion and learned that the Central Plains had survived the typhoon with limited casualties. He discovered that Luo Xiaowei, a beast-eared girl bonded with Wangcai, had awakened a sunlight-based healing ability, and he began considering how to use it.

• Wang Hao reviewed his gains from three days of cultivation, including improved soul power, divine sense, and innate qi, but his Seven Po Magnetic Field remained at the peak of the Third Tier.
• Wang Hao carried the exhausted Zhou Xueyi into his hut and put her to bed after she had guarded him for more than half a month.
• Wang Hao reassured Zhao Dachui that the typhoon had caused limited casualties and that the Central Plains could recover from material losses.
• Wang Hao met Luo Xiaowei, who had used Wangcai's blood to awaken her Bloodline Power and Divine Ability, and noticed her dog ears.
• Zhao Dachui explained that Luo Xiaowei could produce a healing power when sunlight touched her, and Wang Hao suspected Wangcai carried Heavenly Dog blood and saw a way to use her ability.

Wang Hao fused Zhao Dachui's and Luo Xiaowei's yin and yang Bloodline Divine Abilities, bringing himself close to attaining the Supreme Yin Solar Physique. When Zhao Dachui went berserk under the full moon, Wang Hao drove him to a remote beach and kept him contained as he grew larger and began feeding on a shark.

• Wang Hao removed his three Bloodline Divine Abilities, then fused the yin and yang abilities from Wang Dachui's and Luo Xiaowei's blood, enduring their violent clash.
• Wang Hao used the fused abilities to cultivate his body to Nine Yin and Nine Yang, one step short of the Supreme Yin Solar Physique.
• Wang Hao sensed a violent urge within himself and recognized that Zhao Dachui's Bloodline Divine Ability was affecting him when Zhao Dachui roared from the encampment.
• Zhao Dachui broke free of his chains and injured three Super-First-Rate women before Wang Hao struck him and drove him away from the encampment.
• Luo Xiaowei told Wang Hao that Zhao Dachui's horns were his weakness, but Wang Hao saw that they were gathering Qi and Blood with moonlight and chose not to break them.
• Wang Hao led Zhao Dachui to a remote beach, where Zhao Dachui grew larger and seized a great white shark to eat.