Chapter Summaries

Wang Hao defeated Lu Tingfeng in a duel at Blood Sword Hall, shrugging off his rain-carried Saber Qi and claiming the promised medicinal food. Zhao Dachui warned Wang Hao that Lu Tingfeng was plotting to succeed Lu Weilou, then told him the materials he had requested were ready in the forging room.

• Lu Tingfeng attacked Wang Hao, but Wang Hao overpowered him in their saber duel and forced him onto the back foot.
• Lu Tingfeng used rainwater to carry Saber Qi at Wang Hao, but Wang Hao’s defenses stopped the attacks, and Lu Tingfeng eventually retreated.
• Wang Hao reminded Lu Tingfeng to honor his promise of medicinal food, while Zhao Dachui predicted that Blood Sword Hall would be unable to afford Wang Hao’s appetite.
• Zhao Dachui warned Wang Hao that Lu Tingfeng might have tried to harm Lu Weilou and had secretly gathered support for his succession.
• Zhao Dachui told Wang Hao that the items he had requested were waiting in the forging room, and offered to accompany him there.

Wang Hao forged a new divine sword using a blast furnace while his cultivation improved through the grueling work. As the Confucian School plotted to kill him and the emperor yielded to court pressure, Zhu Yijun secretly sent Wang Hao a warning.

• Wang Hao used a blast furnace to melt the Dragon-Slaying Saber, the Heaven Sword, and wrought-iron hammers into an ingot, then began forging a new divine sword.
• Wang Hao's exhausting work and medicinal meals rapidly improved his strength, while Lu Tingfeng punished Deacon Zhao for reporting the expense.
• A Confucian School representative persuaded Lu Tingfeng and other Blood Robe Tower members to help lure Wang Hao into a planned ambush.
• Emperor Mingde told Zhu Yijun that he had to yield to the ministers' pressure, and Zhu Yijun chose the future of the Great Ming imperial family over his father's position.
• After Emperor Mingde set him a test involving the Dragon Divine Art, Zhu Yijun sent Eunuch Liu to discreetly warn Wang Hao of the danger.

Wang Hao finished forging the Shameless Greatsword before learning that Zhao Dachui had been attacked as bait in a plot against him. He entered the Ten Thousand Flowers House, where dozens of Grandmaster-level enemies had surrounded him, and faced them alongside the wounded Zhao Dachui.

• Wang Hao completed the Shameless Greatsword and saw that his body-tempering cultivation and Bloodline Power had greatly improved.
• A servant told Wang Hao that Zhao Dachui was wounded and surrounded by four experts at the Ten Thousand Flowers House, so Wang Hao sent Tie Niu to organize help and rushed there himself.
• An unknown ally warned Wang Hao that the Confucian School was moving against him and that he should leave the capital; Wang Hao crushed the warning stone and continued to the Ten Thousand Flowers House.
• Xiao Mengmeng detected thirty-three Grandmaster-level enemies nearby and a Half-Step Great Grandmaster watching from a distant tower.
• Wang Hao found Zhao Dachui fighting four Grandmasters, gave him medicine for his wounds, and recognized that Zhao had been used as bait to lure him out.
• Masked fighters appeared inside and outside the Ten Thousand Flowers House, completing the encirclement around Wang Hao and Zhao Dachui.

Wang Hao rescued Zhao Dachui from a Confucian School ambush and sent him away before confronting the attackers. He charged toward the Grand Secretary’s residence, while the Confucian School called on High Person Longxiang to pursue him.

• Wang Hao told Zhao Dachui to leave, and Zhao revealed that Sun Ruonan was pregnant and they would marry in a month.
• After Zhao Dachui left the Ten Thousand Flowers House safely, Wang Hao challenged the Confucian School leader to move their fight to the Grand Secretary’s residence.
• Wang Hao drove back the black-clad attackers with his Shameless Greatsword and ran toward the residence, with the refined leader and his men chasing after him.
• The refined leader sent High Person Longxiang, a Peak Grandmaster known as Number One Under Innate, after Wang Hao.
• The refined leader ordered the Grand Secretary evacuated and learned that Abbess Qingmiao had refused to send Mount Heng experts because of unusual movements among the grassland tribes.

Wang Hao stormed the Grand Secretary’s residence and killed Zhang Xihao despite the refined man’s attempt to stop him. Surrounded by fighters from the Five Mountains Sword Sect, Wang Hao recognized the Mysterious Water Sword and its masked wielder, then faced High Person Longxiang and asked whether Long Ling had told him how High Person Linghui died.

• Wang Hao smashed his way through the Grand Secretary’s residence as Zhang Xihao fled toward the rear courtyard.
• Wang Hao caught Zhang Xihao and killed him with the Shameless Greatsword, ignoring the refined man’s warning.
• The refined man ordered his forces to kill Wang Hao, and experts of the Five Mountains Sword Sect trapped him in four sword formations.
• Wang Hao recognized the Mysterious Water Sword and attacked its masked wielder, whom he identified as the person who had wounded Dingzhen.
• High Person Longxiang blocked Wang Hao’s strike with his vajra, and Wang Hao asked whether Long Ling had told him the truth about High Person Linghui’s death.

Wang Hao fought High Person Longxiang while trying to survive the Five Mountains Sword Sect's encirclement and break through his bottleneck. As Emperor Mingde and the Wheel-Turning King watched, news arrived that the Confucian School had brought siege weapons into the capital, and the Wheel-Turning King left to confront its expert.

• Wang Hao killed the black-clad swordsman wielding the Mysterious Water Sword, then High Person Longxiang struck him through two walls and they began exchanging heavy blows.
• The Five Mountains Sword Sect experts stayed back as Wang Hao and High Person Longxiang fought, while the refined-looking man resolved to kill Wang Hao because of his potential threat to the Confucian School.
• The Wheel-Turning King told Emperor Mingde that Wang Hao was a rare talent and advised treating him as a potential ally rather than trying to bring him into imperial service.
• A eunuch reported that over a thousand troops carrying siege crossbows and cannons had gathered three li away, and Emperor Mingde refused to send forces against them so he could see which subordinates served the Confucian School.
• Emperor Mingde sent the Wheel-Turning King to delay the Confucian School's expert at the distant tower, while Cao Haisheng and Eastern Depot Grandmasters arrived to protect the emperor.

Wang Hao defeated High Person Longxiang after a six-hour battle, and the two parted without hostility. After High Person Longxiang warned him about a Half-Step Xiantian Grandmaster nearby, he gave Wang Hao the Confucian School's Jade Snail Pills, leaving the watching allies furious.

• Atop the Stargazing Tower, Li Haoran and the Wheel-Turning King watched Wang Hao fight and recognized his extraordinary talent and signs of the Vajra Indestructible Body.
• Wang Hao's Nine Revolutions Body Tempering Instruction advanced during the prolonged battle, and his strength grew until he forced High Person Longxiang to his knees.
• High Person Longxiang conceded defeat, and Wang Hao spared him because he had fought without murderous intent.
• High Person Longxiang said his defeat had calmed his temperament and left him ready to cultivate the Vajra Great Handprint, then secretly warned Wang Hao that a Half-Step Xiantian Grandmaster of the Confucian School was in the tower due north.
• A refined Confucian School disciple gave High Person Longxiang a Jade Snail Pill, but Longxiang took the bottle and tossed it to Wang Hao, who swallowed the remaining pills as the Five Mountains Sword Sect's experts watched in dismay.

High Person Longxiang left after accusing the Confucian School of exploiting him, and Wang Hao fought the Five Mountains Sword Sect until he reached the peak of the Transformation Realm and defeated most of the Mount Song Sword Sect experts. As Li Haoran and Elder Chu faced off, the refined man unleashed a desperate sword strike at Wang Hao, who made a move that stunned everyone.

• High Person Longxiang denounced the Confucian School, exchanged farewells with Wang Hao, and left the ruins.
• The refined man rallied the Five Mountains Sword Sect experts to attack Wang Hao, who fought their formations and destroyed the army's siege weapons and cannons.
• After six hours of battle, Wang Hao reached the peak of the Transformation Realm, killed several Mount Song Sword Sect experts, and watched the remaining fighters flee.
• The refined man prepared a powerful sword technique as Li Haoran and the Wheel-Turning King appeared, and the Wheel-Turning King revealed Li Haoran's history with Elder Chu.
• Elder Chu arrived carrying the Martial Repository Pavilion plaque, and he and the Wheel-Turning King considered but rejected joining forces to kill Li Haoran.
• The refined man used the Vast Righteousness Sword Instruction: Sacrifice Life for Righteousness and thrust his blade at Wang Hao, who made a startling move.

Wang Hao survived Li Haoran’s attack, wounded him, and escaped through the pond passage into the Great Yuan Treasure. He reached the hidden vault entrance and began treating his injuries while Li Haoran was left outside, shaken by Wang Hao’s strength and Sword Intent.

• Wang Hao blocked the refined man’s Sword Qi with the Shameless Greatsword, then struck him down after the man exhausted his True Qi.
• Wang Hao fused Two Armies Facing Off with Explosive Force and clashed with Li Haoran, cracking Li Haoran’s sword and sending both fighters flying.
• Wang Hao used a thrown stone to stop Li Haoran from pursuing him, then fled through the pond’s outlet and sealed the passage behind him.
• Wang Hao followed Xiao Mengmeng’s directions to break through the wall into the Great Yuan Treasure’s passage, where he collapsed and began treating his Sword Qi injuries.
• Li Haoran realized Wang Hao had entered the treasure passage and worried that the young fighter’s near-perfect Sword Intent could make him more terrifying than Damo or Zhang Sanfeng.

After Wang Hao escaped the battle, the Great Ming imperial family chose to hide his whereabouts while the Confucian School’s elders decided to make him a trial for their younger generation. The chapter leaves the Five Mountains Sword Sect fearing Wang Hao’s future revenge, while Ning Zhongze privately considered asking someone to protect the Mount Hua Sword Sect’s children.

• Li Haoran accidentally castrated his injured disciple with stray Sword Qi, then left the capital with him when Elder Chu, the Wheel-Turning King, and Cao Haisheng surrounded him.
• Emperor Mingde proposed secretly helping Wang Hao, but Elder Chu refused and ordered Cao Haisheng to tighten security and suppress officials’ efforts to track him.
• Li Haoran told the Li Household’s Old Ancestor that Wang Hao had escaped and displayed extraordinary talent; the Old Ancestor gave Li Haoran the Zhanlu Sword and urged him to reach the Innate realm.
• Confucian School ancestors across the Central Plains chose to use Wang Hao as a whetstone for their younger generation.
• Yue Buqun worried that Wang Hao would eventually destroy the Mount Hua Sword Sect, while Ning Zhongze comforted him and considered asking someone to take Chong'er, Lingshan, and the others away.

After recovering from his escape, Wang Hao broke through to the Grandmaster Realm and entered the Great Yuan Treasure, where he found the dynasty’s hidden wealth and the Supreme Yoga Tantra manual. The manual’s unusual cultivation system intrigued him, but its claims of supernatural powers left him skeptical.

• Wang Hao tempered his body and True Spirit Sword Intent with the Sword Qi fragments, awakening Innate Qi and reaching the Grandmaster Realm.
• Wang Hao endured the treasure vault’s traps and entered an ancient underground burial palace beneath the Great Yuan Treasure.
• Wang Hao found more than ten thousand chests of gold, jewels, and weapons, which he recognized as the Yuan Dynasty’s final reserve.
• Wang Hao followed Xiao Mengmeng’s directions and discovered the Supreme Yoga Tantra manual hidden beneath a floor tile under a coffin.
• Wang Hao read that the manual cultivated seven nodes and three hidden channels, then doubted its claims of extraordinary supernatural powers.

Wang Hao escaped the underground treasure vault, concealed his identity, and emerged in the capital with the Great Yuan treasure secured. After settling into a new disguise and eating, he encountered Tie Niu and passed along a provocative question about Taohong.

• Wang Hao memorized the divine technique about domains, destroyed its scroll, and found the vault’s ventilation passage.
• Wang Hao dug out of the passage into a tofu workshop’s backyard, took a local man’s clothes, and paid him a hundred taels of gold to leave the capital with his wife.
• Wang Hao washed, adopted the fixed appearance of Zhu Yanzu, and discovered that the disguise had reduced his strength to 75,000 jin.
• Wang Hao ordered hundreds of roast chickens and a feast, then recognized Tie Niu on the street and asked whether Taohong’s body had been a pretty sight.

Wang Hao reunited with Tie Niu in a hidden tofu workshop, learned about the capital’s lockdown and turmoil in the Blood Robe Tower, and began preparing to forge weapons. After Tie Niu brought Taohong there by force, Wang Hao apologized and put her in charge of the cooking while they secretly hauled gold out of the underground treasury; the chapter left them gathered in the workshop as Wang Hao planned his next steps.

• Wang Hao disguised himself, sent Tie Niu to bring roast chickens to the tofu workshop, then revealed himself and asked about events in the capital.
• Tie Niu told Wang Hao that the capital was locked down and that the Blood Robe Tower’s halls and leaders had fallen into conflict.
• Wang Hao ordered Tie Niu to retrieve the Profound Iron forging tools, a scroll, and Chef Li, but Tie Niu returned with Taohong tied up in a sack.
• Wang Hao freed Taohong, apologized, and asked her to cook and remain hidden in the workshop for a few days.
• Wang Hao and Tie Niu used ropes and pulleys to haul more than ten million taels of gold from the underground treasury, then concealed the tunnel entrance.
• Taohong prepared a meal, and Wang Hao teased Tie Niu for staring at her while considering whether Tie Niu had brought her there intentionally.

Wang Hao forged ten million taels of gold into purple gold and finished a dazzling suit of battle armor, while Zhao Fengxue and Zhao Dachui secretly plotted to pair Tie Niu with Taohong. The chapter left Tie Niu wondering who the armor was made for after realizing its design seemed intended for a woman.

• Wang Hao built a soundproof forge and refined the gold into red gold before beginning the work of making purple gold.
• Li Dazui begged Zhao Fengxue to find his missing daughter, and Zhao Dachui reported that Tie Niu had taken Taohong away after retrieving Wang Hao’s belongings and forging tools.
• Zhao Fengxue and Zhao Dachui concluded that Wang Hao had returned and secretly arranged to spread a rumor that Tie Niu and Taohong had already become intimate, hoping to secure their marriage.
• Wang Hao completed a purple-gold battle armor and a matching war bow, while Tie Niu complained that his own black armor and battleaxe looked shabby.
• Tie Niu realized the purple-gold armor and bow were too heavy for him and asked Wang Hao whether the armor had been made for a woman.

Wang Hao finished forging the Xun Feather armor, bow, and other gifts for Zhao Dachui and Sun Ruonan, then hurried to their wedding. After giving the newlyweds his gift and sharing a final drink with Zhao Dachui, he left the capital while keeping his identity secret.

• Wang Hao explained that the Xun Feather armor and bow were made for Sun Ruonan, and said the mechanical wings might allow her to fly or glide.
• Wang Hao packed the armor, weapons, arrows, soft armor, and a purple-gold plaque into a heavy chest, then set out for the Sun residence.
• Wang Hao arrived after the wedding feast and Zhao Dachui recognized him by a distinctive gesture despite his concealed face.
• Wang Hao gave Sun Ruonan the chest, shared a final drink with Zhao Dachui, and said farewell before leaving.
• Sun Ruonan asked who the veiled visitor was, and Zhao Dachui kept Wang Hao's identity secret before inviting her to inspect the chest.

Elder Chu and the Sun family celebrated the purple-gold gifts Wang Hao had sent, but news that Prince Dula had captured Hulan City forced Zhao Fengxue to mobilize Blood Wind Hall to aid General Li. The chapter ended with Zhao Dachui and Zhao Fengxue discovering that Sun Ruonan had never been pregnant, after Sun De admitted she could accompany them to the frontier.

• Elder Chu tested the durable Martial Repository Pavilion plaque and rushed out to celebrate with wine.
• Sun Ruonan admired the Xun Feather Battle Armor and learned from Wang Hao's instructions that its wings could fly, while Zhao Dachui hid his gifted swords from Zhao Fengxue.
• The Sun residence learned that Prince Dula's hundred thousand grassland troops had taken Hulan City and that General Li Xiongxin was holding out in a nearby satellite city.
• Zhao Fengxue received Cao Haisheng's order to lead Blood Wind Hall assassins through the mountain paths and hold out for three days because bridges and roads had been sabotaged.
• Zhao Dachui and Sun Ruonan asked to join the mission, and Sun De revealed that Ruonan was not pregnant and had lied with him to hasten the marriage.

Disguised as Zhu Yanzu, Wang Hao escaped the capital with a coffin and met Dongfang Bai on the road. He gave her martial arts manuals and received the Dragon Divine Art, then continued onward while Dongfang Bai remained uncertain about their future.

• Wang Hao bribed the city gate soldiers to inspect his coffin, then left the capital with the bully’s body inside.
• After Xiao Mengmeng alerted Wang Hao that Dongfang Bai was waiting ahead, he drove his cart to meet her at a roadside pavilion.
• Wang Hao gave Dongfang Bai a sack of copied martial arts manuals and confessed his affection, while she warned that their family ties made them enemies.
• Dongfang Bai gave Wang Hao a first-draft copy of the Dragon Divine Art, and he treasured it as her first gift to him.
• Dongfang Bai questioned why Wang Hao was transporting a heavily loaded cart, and he claimed he was carrying gold for a friend before riding away.

Wang Hao reunited with Wangcai in the mountains, then used Fortune Points to comprehend the Dragon Divine Art and Supreme Yoga Tantra. He uncovered links between the Tantra’s magnetic-field points and the seven corporeal souls, and created new methods for cultivating spiritual sense and True Qi.

• Dongfang Bai examined Wang Hao’s scroll of more than a thousand martial arts manuals and worried that the gifts had made her debt to him even greater.
• Wang Hao memorized the Dragon Divine Art, gained Fortune Points, discarded his cart and coffin, freed the oxen, and reunited with Wangcai in the mountains.
• Wang Hao and Wangcai hunted and grilled a meal, after which Wang Hao began comprehending the Dragon Divine Art and Supreme Yoga Tantra.
• Wang Hao learned that the Supreme Yoga Tantra cultivated the body’s magnetic field and suspected its seven source points corresponded to the seven corporeal souls.
• Wang Hao analyzed the Dragon Divine Art’s methods, recognized how spiritual sense underlay Divine Dragon Roaming, and spent Fortune Points devising a visualization method and a True Qi cultivation method.

Wang Hao created new cultivation methods and trained in seclusion while Zhao Fengxue’s group reached the besieged satellite city near Hulan City. Sun Ruonan prepared to slip through the steppe army’s defenses and reach General Li Xiongxin so he could help Blood Wind Hall enter the city.

• Wang Hao reviewed his improved status, learned from Xiao Mengmeng why the second level of his body-tempering method was incomplete, and began cultivating his new methods in the mountains.
• Zhao Fengxue led Blood Wind Hall’s assassins three hundred li to a forest near the satellite city where Li Xiongxin was defending against the steppe army.
• Zhao Fengxue ordered the exhausted group to rest before attempting to cross the cavalry’s defensive line in the early morning.
• Zhao Fengxue planned to use Heaven-Shaking Thunder bombs and send Sun Ruonan ahead to win Li Xiongxin’s trust and arrange archery support and an open gate.
• Sun Ruonan explained that she could glide fifty zhang in the Xun Feather Cloth and force her way through most of the enemy line, and Zhao Fengxue told her to wear a black cloak and signal once she reached the general.
• Zhao Fengxue asked Tie Niu about the Blood Ginseng Good Fortune Pill, and Tie Niu said he had refined half its medicinal power and reached Late First-Rate cultivation.

Sun Ruonan crossed the steppe army’s defenses in her mechanized armor and reached the garrison city, where she reunited with her uncle Li Xiongxin. After learning the city gates had been sealed and could not be opened for the planned attack, she asked for a thousand full-body shields.

• Sun Ruonan used her armor’s wings to glide over the steppe cavalry’s perimeter, then climbed the garrison wall despite arrows and spears.
• Sun Ruonan revealed herself to Li Xiongxin, who recognized her and marveled at her armor’s defenses and transforming helmet.
• Sun Ruonan delivered the Eastern Depot’s military order and explained that Zhao Dachui and over a thousand Blood Wind Hall men waited in the woods for support and a chance to enter the city.
• A bearded general objected to obeying the Eastern Depot, but Li Xiongxin confirmed the order was genuine and explained that boulders sealed all four gates.
• Sun Ruonan asked Li Xiongxin for a thousand shields large enough to cover a person’s whole body.