Chapter Summaries

Xu Qi'an fought the White Emperor while Luo Yuheng underwent the Golden Core Tribulation, using a double and Jade Shatters to wound the First Rank opponent. Badly injured and forced to shield Luo Yuheng from the White Emperor’s attacks, Xu Qi'an reached the brink of death, then awakened the Flower God's spiritual essence and gathered his strength for a final punch.

• Xu Qi'an evaded the White Emperor’s attacks with Shadow Jump and used a Worthy of Offerings double to set up Jade Shatters, which severed the White Emperor’s horns and wounded it.
• The White Emperor retaliated with lightning, but Xu Qi'an escaped using Prison Suppression, the Great Wisdom Dharma Idol, and Shadow Jump, then relied on the Pharmacist Dharma Idol to heal.
• The White Emperor warned that Luo Yuheng would be forced to fight after her Golden Core Tribulation and began firing water balls at her, forcing Xu Qi'an to shield her.
• Xu Qi'an protected Luo Yuheng while she continued her tribulation, and she told him she had endured fifty-six lightning strikes.
• As the White Emperor lunged to kill him, Xu Qi'an’s Flower God's spiritual essence awakened, his wounds began to heal, and he gathered power for a punch.

Xu Qi'an’s strength continued to rise during his battle with the White Emperor, renewing the defenders’ confidence as the war for Great Feng reached a critical point. While the Heaven Sect prepared to withdraw from worldly affairs, Yunzhou’s army moved to besiege Xunzhou, and Xu Xinnian rested his troops before returning to defend the city.

• Xu Qi'an struck the White Emperor and revealed that his strength grew as he fought, prompting Asuro, Zhao Shou, and Daoist Jinlian to renew their confidence.
• The Heavenly Venerable ordered Primordial Lady Bingyi and Daoist Master Xuancheng to retrieve the Holy Maiden and warned the Heaven Sect not to interfere in worldly affairs before sealing its mountain.
• Yang Gong received Xu Erlang’s report that the Yunzhou rebels were massing to attack Xunzhou, and he ordered the city’s defenders to prepare for battle.
• Qi Guangbo reviewed Yunzhou’s deployment around isolated Xunzhou and said he was ready to face Layman Ziyang, while his officers discussed Xu Xinnian’s cavalry and scouts.
• Xu Xinnian rested his seven thousand troops by a river and ordered Miao Youfang to prepare to reinforce Xunzhou; Li Miaozhen said her injuries would not hinder her combat strength.

As the Yunzhou Army assaulted Xunzhou, Yang Gong, Zhang Shen, and Li Mubai joined the defense while Qi Guangbo’s forces brought overwhelming pressure to the walls. Tamo and the Heart Gu Tribe’s Flying Beast Army sacrificed themselves to cripple the Vermilion Bird Army, leaving Tamo alone charging the enemy.

• Yang Gong, Zhang Shen, and Li Mubai used Words Become Law to reach Xunzhou’s battlements and joined the defenders as the Yunzhou Army attacked.
• Qi Guangbo sent the Hundred Battles Battalion against the walls and deployed the Vermilion Bird Army to rain flammable oil on the defenders.
• Tamo led two hundred Heart Gu Tribe riders into the sky to intercept the Vermilion Bird Army and its greater demon leader.
• The Heart Gu Tribe’s Flying Beast Army lost riders in repeated charges but inflicted heavy casualties on the Vermilion Bird Army.
• After all his riders died, Tamo demanded that the Central Plains remember them and charged the Vermilion Bird Army alone.

Luo Yuheng completed her Golden Core Tribulation and immediately began the Four Symbols Tribulation while Xu Qi'an faced the White Emperor and Jialuoshu. In the war, Li Miaozhen's Flying Swallow Army was destroyed covering Xu Xinnian's advance, and Primordial Lady Bingyi used a Purple Golden Pill in an attempt to save Li Miaozhen after her soul scattered.

• Luo Yuheng survived all eighty-one bolts of the Golden Core Tribulation, completed her body Impervious to Myriad Tribulations, and summoned the Wind Lightning Tribulation despite the danger to her cultivation.
• Xu Xinnian discovered Qi Guangbo's army was moving to attack Xunzhou and led cavalry to reinforce the city, while Li Miaozhen stayed behind to face the enemy force blocking their route.
• Wang Chu's Black Tortoise Heavy Cavalry and light cavalry attacked the Flying Swallow Army, and Li Miaozhen ordered Xu Xinnian to continue toward Xunzhou while she covered his retreat.
• The Flying Swallow Army was wiped out, and Li Miaozhen spent her life and scattered her soul to kill Wang Chu before the surviving enemy cavalry fled.
• Li Lingsu, Daoist Master Xuancheng, and Primordial Lady Bingyi found Li Miaozhen's body; Primordial Lady Bingyi restored her Heaven Soul and gave her a Purple Golden Pill to try to repair her soul.

After the disastrous battle for Xunzhou, Great Feng faced a looming attack on Yongzhou while waiting for Luo Yuheng’s tribulation to end. On Spring Sacrifice Day, Huaiqing began the ritual to summon Wei Yuan’s remaining souls, calling for him to return.

• Primordial Lady Bingyi revived Li Miaozhen with a Purple Golden Pill, then ordered her and Li Lingsu back to the Heaven Sect and gave Li Lingsu a Spirit-Devouring Pill to prevent him from fleeing.
• Qi Guangbo’s army captured Xunzhou after fierce fighting, leaving Great Feng’s forces depleted and Yang Gong gravely injured; the Black Tortoise Army helped turn the battle in Yunzhou’s favor.
• Huaiqing ordered the Minister of War to send more troops to Yongzhou and said Great Feng’s fate depended on Luo Yuheng’s tribulation ending in five days.
• On Spring Sacrifice Day, Huaiqing visited the Star Observation Tower, where Song Qing showed her Wei Yuan’s prepared body and the Soul-Summoning Banner.
• Huaiqing placed Wei Yuan inside Sun Xuanji’s formation, raised the banner, and called, “Wei Yuan, O soul, return!”

Huaiqing used the Soul-Summoning Banner and her Dragon Qi to free Wei Yuan’s soul from the Shaman God statue and summon him back to life. Wei Yuan awoke in the Star Observation Tower, where Huaiqing told him Great Feng was on the brink and sought his advice.

• Huaiqing’s Soul-Summoning Banner drew ghosts across the Capital, but Wei Yuan’s soul did not answer until she called on her Dragon Qi and Fate.
• In Jingshan City, Salun Agu struck Wei Yuan’s trapped soul with his shepherd’s whip, helping it break free as the seal on the Shaman God statue vanished.
• Huaiqing exhausted herself holding the banner, then the golden road carried Wei Yuan’s soul into his body and he awoke, greeting her as Your Majesty.
• Xu Pingfeng sensed Wei Yuan’s return and considered going to the Northern Territory, while Heaven Gu Granny and the Gu Race leaders discussed what his resurrection meant for Great Feng.
• Wei Yuan sat with Huaiqing in the Star Observation Tower and asked who had sealed the Superintendent; Huaiqing said Great Feng was teetering on the brink and asked for his advice.

After being resurrected, Wei Yuan learned the state of the war from Huaiqing and ordered Great Feng’s forces to abandon Yongzhou and defend the capital. As the Yunzhou army prepared to attack Yongzhou, a messenger reached Nangong Qianrou with news of a hidden mission Wei Yuan had left behind.

• Huaiqing told Wei Yuan about Great Feng’s situation, and he concluded that the capital—not the Northern Territory’s battle over Tribulation Transcendence—should be the focus.
• Wei Yuan ordered Huaiqing to withdraw the army from Yongzhou and defend the capital, explaining that Xu Pingfeng would expect him to make that choice.
• Qi Guangbo received Xu Pingfeng’s order to take Yongzhou at any cost, and the Yunzhou commanders agreed to attack at dawn.
• A rider arrived at an abandoned military town carrying orders from Wei Yuan and asked to see its leader.
• Nangong Qianrou met the rider, who was the captain of Huaiqing’s guards, and asked what mission Wei Yuan had assigned him.

Nangong Qianrou learned that Wei Yuan had returned to life and discovered the secret heavy cavalry force Wei had left him, then prepared to lead a surprise attack on Yunzhou. In Yongzhou, Xu Erlang helped stabilize the city until he received Huaiqing’s order to withdraw overnight.

• The captain told Nangong Qianrou that Huaiqing had become empress with Xu Qi'an’s help, and recounted Xu Qi'an’s rise and the events since Wei Yuan’s death.
• The captain gave Nangong Qianrou Wei Yuan’s message confirming his revival, and Nangong Qianrou read Wei’s plans for both Huaiqing’s coup and a possible assault on Yunzhou.
• Nangong Qianrou judged that Yunzhou was vulnerable and set out to lead Wei Yuan’s secret heavy cavalry south.
• Wei Yuan considered the approaching calamity and praised Xu Qi'an for shouldering Great Feng’s burdens.
• In Yongzhou, Xu Erlang had Yao Hong killed and turned into a puppet, suppressed unrest, and used confiscated wealth to aid the people; Chu Caiwei treated burn victims with fish skin.
• Zhang Shen told Xu Erlang that Huaiqing had ordered the defenders to withdraw from Yongzhou overnight.

The Yongzhou garrison accepted the order to retreat after learning that Wei Yuan had returned to life, while Xu Pingfeng captured the abandoned city and prepared to march on the capital. In the imperial palace, Mu Nanzhi learned that Xu Qi'an would marry Lin'an soon and set off to confront the Empress Dowager.

• The seal-bearing eunuch told the assembled leaders that Wei Yuan had returned to life, and Yang Qianhuan confirmed that Xu Qi'an had been trying to revive him.
• The leaders agreed to withdraw from Yongzhou, and Xu Erlang arranged for officials and wealthy local gentry to leave while the garrison used straw figures to disguise its retreat.
• Qi Guangbo discovered that Yongzhou's defenders had evacuated, and Xu Pingfeng ordered his army to refine the city before marching north toward the capital.
• Xu Pingfeng learned that his avatar had gone to investigate the stalled battle in the Northern Territory, where Xu Qi'an's prolonged fight remained unexplained.
• Xu Lingyue told Mu Nanzhi that Xu Qi'an's wedding to Lin'an was half a month away, and Mu Nanzhi went to the Phoenix Resting Palace to see the Empress Dowager.

Xu Lingyue suspected Mu Nanzhi had a hidden connection to Xu Qi'an, while Mu failed to convince the empress dowager to cancel Lin'an’s engagement. As Yunzhou’s rebellion threatened the capital, Huaiqing revealed that Wei Yuan had returned from the dead and summoned him before the court.

• Xu Lingyue guessed that Mu Nanzhi was either an imperial relative or a former palace consort, and demonstrated her newly learned ability to move objects.
• Mu Nanzhi argued with the empress dowager over Lin'an’s engagement but failed to have it canceled, then encountered Huaiqing on her way back.
• Huaiqing told the empress dowager that Wei Yuan had returned to life and was waiting to visit her without the burden of his old grievances.
• Nangong Qianrou’s heavy cavalry met Yang Yan and the others, who planned to use the Wind-Riding Boat to strike Yunzhou’s hidden rebel stronghold rather than march on White Emperor City.
• Huaiqing announced that the court would abandon Yongzhou and defend the capital, provoking angry protests from the ministers.
• Huaiqing summoned Wei Yuan, who appeared alive before the astonished court.

Wei Yuan returned to court after his resurrection, restoring the officials’ confidence as Huaiqing prepared to defend the capital. In the Northern Territory, Xu Pingfeng reached the tribulation clouds and saw Xu Qi'an fighting White Emperor.

• Wei Yuan appeared before Huaiqing and the ministers, explaining that he had returned from the dead after Xu Qi'an rebuilt his body and Huaiqing summoned his soul.
• Huaiqing ordered the court to fall back to the capital and defend it, and officials from both the Wei Faction and Wang Faction agreed to support her decision.
• Qian Qingshu told Wang Zhenwen that Wei Yuan had returned, easing his fears about the capital’s defenses; Wang Zhenwen fell asleep peacefully.
• Xu Pingfeng’s puppet crossed the Northern Territory and endured the shock waves around Luo Yuheng’s ongoing Earth Lightning Tribulation.
• Xu Pingfeng reached the edge of the tribulation clouds and saw Xu Qi'an fighting White Emperor, while Jialuoshu, Asuro, Jinlian, and Zhao Shou fought nearby.

Xu Qi'an fought White Emperor during Luo Yuheng's Four Aspects Tribulation as the Yunzhou army advanced on the capital and Great Feng prepared its defenses. The chapter left Xu Qi'an trapped by White Emperor's water magic and facing a crushing waterspout.

• Xu Pingfeng announced that Yongzhou had fallen and the Yunzhou army was marching on the capital, while Zhao Shou revealed that Wei Yuan had returned to life.
• White Emperor explained that Xu Qi'an carried the Undying Tree's spiritual essence, then used the Water Lightning Tribulation's rain to strengthen its attacks against him.
• Luo Yuheng safely overcame the Earth Lightning Tribulation, and White Emperor began fighting Xu Qi'an in the torrential rain.
• Sun Xuanji visited Song Qing's workshop, where Song Qing gave him eight thousand land mines to deliver to the city defense army.
• Qi Guangbo led the Yunzhou army toward the capital, while Wei Yuan rallied three hundred Nightwatchers to defend it.
• White Emperor tracked Xu Qi'an with its divine ability, restrained his ankles with rainwater tentacles, and sent a massive waterspout crashing toward him.

Xu Qi'an was trapped in the White Emperor’s waterspout and struck by lightning, but Luo Yuheng broke the vortex and pulled him free as her tribulation reached its final stage. At the capital, Wei Yuan confronted Xu Pingfeng and declared that he had lost.

• The White Emperor used a water double and a waterspout to trap Xu Qi'an, then struck him and his artifacts with lightning while Asuro and the others watched.
• Luo Yuheng shattered her Earth Idol to weaken the waterspout, then used her Wind Idol and divine sword to pull Xu Qi'an out as lightning pursued them.
• The rain and tribulation lightning stopped, and the clouds turned fiery red as Luo Yuheng’s final Lightning-Fire Tribulation began.
• Wei Yuan surveyed the Yunzhou Army outside the capital and faced Xu Pingfeng, who threatened to break the city’s formations and kill him.
• Xu Pingfeng said Xu Qi'an was certain to die and the capital was already his, but Wei Yuan replied, “You lost!”

Yang Qianhuan helped Nangong Qianrou’s forces break into Hidden Dragon City, while Xu Qi’an and Luo Yuheng faced the Lightning-Fire Tribulation in the Northern Territory. Luo Yuheng survived and became a Land Immortal, and Xu Qi’an emerged having advanced to the First Rank, facing Jialuoshu, Xu Pingfeng’s puppet, and the White Emperor.

• Yang Qianhuan dismantled Hidden Dragon City’s defensive formation and destroyed Xu Pingfeng’s puppet, allowing Nangong Qianrou to land the Wind-Riding Boat and begin the assault.
• A purple-robed man ordered reinforcements sent to Hidden Dragon City, while a maid urged a secluded woman to hide from the invading soldiers.
• Nangong Qianrou’s troops attacked the surrounding mountain stockades as the Lightning-Fire Tribulation gathered over Xu Qi’an and Luo Yuheng.
• Xu Qi’an carried Luo Yuheng into the tribulation flames and used the Flower God’s spiritual essence and Dragon Qi to endure the fire and temper his body.
• The tribulation ended, and Luo Yuheng announced that she had become a Land Immortal.
• Xu Qi’an’s charred shell broke away, revealing his recovered body as he declared that he had entered the First Rank and faced Jialuoshu, Xu Pingfeng’s puppet, and the White Emperor.

Xu Qi'an advanced to the First Rank and helped defeat the White Emperor, while Jialuoshu fled toward the Capital. There, Wei Yuan forced Xu Pingfeng to choose between defending Yunzhou and fighting in the Capital, and Xu Pingfeng ordered an assault on the city.

• Xu Qi'an revealed his First-Rank advancement, destroyed Xu Pingfeng's puppet, and told Asuro, Jinlian, and Zhao Shou to rest while he faced the White Emperor and Jialuoshu.
• Xu Qi'an broke through Jialuoshu's defenses and blasted him away, while Luo Yuheng intercepted the White Emperor's attack with her fire and sword.
• Xu Qi'an and Luo Yuheng tore off the White Emperor's head and burned it, but its Primordial Spirit escaped; Jialuoshu fled toward the Capital, and Xu Qi'an pursued him.
• Xu Pingfeng learned that Hidden Dragon City was under attack and that Xu Qi'an had advanced to the First Rank, leaving his Yunzhou forces in danger.
• Wei Yuan presented Xu Pingfeng with the choice of returning to reinforce Yunzhou or fighting him in the Capital, and Xu Pingfeng chose to order an attack on the city.

Xu Pingfeng abandoned Hidden Dragon City and committed to storming the capital, where he dismantled its defensive formation while Great Feng fought back with magic, land mines, and layered defenses. As the siege continued and panic spread through the city, Huaiqing waited for Xu Qi'an to decide the war’s outcome.

• Xu Pingfeng used teleportation and prepared flags to break the capital’s defensive formation, then clashed with Sun Xuanji as the Yunzhou army charged into Song Qing’s land mines.
• Nangong Qianrou’s forces captured Hidden Dragon City, killed the Ji clan members there, and found Xu Qi'an’s birth mother before Yang Yan ordered the city’s remaining defenders destroyed and the city burned.
• Song Tingfeng and Zhu Guangxiao’s troops repelled another rebel assault in the southern outer city and prepared to retreat to the next defensive line when their ammunition ran low.
• In the palace refuge, Auntie feared for her family while Mu Nanzhi tried to reassure her, and Huaiqing watched the battle and waited for Xu Qi'an to return from the Northern Territory.
• Panic spread among the capital’s residents as rumors questioned Great Feng’s earlier victory, while soldiers enforced a curfew and children trusted that Xu Qi'an would drive the rebels away.

As Yunzhou’s forces pressed against the capital, Xu Pingfeng and Ji Xuan used a magical artifact to isolate the palace and target Empress Huaiqing. Xu Qi'an arrived in time to break the artifact and confront Ji Xuan, with the wounded Jialuoshu crashing down before them.

• Xu Pingzhi patrolled the martial-law streets as the capital’s defenders fought at its gates, while Wei Yuan tracked the battles with the Heaven-Encompassing Divine Mirror.
• Xu Pingfeng sent Ji Xuan into the palace and activated a Heavenly Mandate Master artifact that sealed it off from the outside world.
• The artifact’s appearance alarmed defenders across the capital and spread fear among the women sheltering underground in the Western Garden.
• Ji Xuan reached the Golden Throne Hall and confronted Huaiqing, intending to kill her before the Great Feng defenders.
• Huaiqing summoned Jialuoshu, who fell wounded before Ji Xuan, as Xu Qi'an destroyed the artifact and its barrier from the sky.

Xu Qi'an returned to the capital, defeated Jialuoshu, killed Ji Xuan, and forced the Yunzhou army’s cause to collapse. With Zhao Shou blocking their escape, Xu Qi'an went after Xu Pingfeng while the capital’s defenders and the women sheltered underground learned that the rebellion had been quelled.

• Xu Qi'an defeated Jialuoshu, severed Ji Xuan’s body, and forced Jialuoshu to abandon the alliance and flee west.
• Xu Qi'an shattered Ji Xuan’s Primordial Spirit, cut off his head, and declared that Yunzhou had lost.
• The Yunzhou army realized Xu Qi'an had returned, but Zhao Shou prevented its leaders from escaping with teleportation talismans.
• Xu Qi'an left to pursue Xu Pingfeng as Zhao Shou and the other returning experts prepared to confront Jialuoshu.
• Imperial guards released the women sheltered in the Western Garden and told them that Xu Qi'an had returned and the rebellion had been quelled.

After Xu Qi'an killed Ji Xuan, the Yunzhou Army surrendered and the court celebrated the rebellion’s end, learning that Xu Qi'an had advanced to First Rank. Meanwhile, Xu Pingfeng appeared aboard the Azure Dragon Fleet offshore, leaving the story with Yunzhou’s surviving forces still at sea.

• Xu Qi'an’s victory over Ji Xuan shattered the Yunzhou Army’s resolve, and Yang Chuannan’s soldiers surrendered while Sun Xuanji stopped Qi Guangbo from taking his own life.
• Zhao Shou, Sun Xuanji, and Kou Yangzhou captured Ge Wenxuan, Yang Chuannan, and other rebel leaders as Great Feng’s defenders secured the prisoners.
• Huaiqing announced that Xu Qi'an and the state preceptor had advanced to First Rank, destroyed the White Emperor’s physical body, and driven Jialuoshu back to the Western Regions.
• The court approved hard labor for the surrendered soldiers and public executions for rebel leaders, while the people of the capital celebrated Xu Qi'an’s role in ending the rebellion.
• Wang Simu told Wang Zhenwen that Xu Qi'an had advanced to First Rank, easing her father’s worries about the battle and the Northern Territory.
• Xu Pingfeng appeared aboard the Azure Dragon Fleet offshore after its commander had fled Yunzhou with five hundred trusted troops.

After Yunzhou’s defeat, Xu Pingfeng fled overseas with the purple-robed ruler, but Xu Qi'an caught up and killed the ruler while pursuing Xu Pingfeng. Xu Pingfeng survived Xu Qi'an’s Jade Shatters and reached the seabed, where Xu Qi'an and Luo Yuheng prepared to confront the White Emperor and the terrifying presence below.

• Xu Pingfeng told the purple-robed ruler that Yunzhou had lost, Ji Xuan was dead, and the ruler should escape to Turtle Back Island while he sought the White Emperor.
• Xu Qi'an caught the Azure Dragon Fleet, struck at Xu Pingfeng with Jade Shatters, and sent the Peace Saber and Nation-Guarding Sword to slaughter the fleet; the swords killed the purple-robed ruler.
• Xu Pingfeng separated his primordial spirit from his body to survive Jade Shatters, revived it with an imitation Soul-Summoning Banner, and fled again by teleportation.
• Xu Qi'an sensed the backlash from Jade Shatters and used the Heaven-Encompassing Divine Mirror to find Luo Yuheng, who reported that Xu Pingfeng and the White Emperor’s soul had gone into the sea near a terrifying presence.
• Xu Qi'an and Luo Yuheng discussed joining forces to descend into the seabed and confront the presence, which Luo Yuheng said she could not defeat alone.