Chapter Summaries

Princess Changle offered tribute to persuade Dongfang Yueming to intervene against the rebels who had overthrown the Great Qian Dynasty. He annihilated the demonic path experts and clan patriarchs, killed the fifth prince at Changle’s request, and then asked her to discuss his payment.

• Princess Changle pleaded with Dongfang Yueming to intervene and offered for the Great Qian Dynasty to serve him and pay tribute.
• Dongfang Yueming agreed to intervene if he received more, and Changle offered him anything he wanted from the national treasury.
• Dongfang Yueming turned the demonic path experts and rebellious clan patriarchs to ash, then gathered their ownerless storage rings.
• The fifth prince begged Dongfang Yueming and Princess Changle to spare him, but Changle ordered him killed.
• Dongfang Yueming killed the fifth prince with a point of his finger, and Changle thanked him before he raised the matter of payment.

Princess Changle returned to the imperial palace with Dongfang Yueming and took command after learning that the great clans’ forces had been wiped out. Once she revealed that her father, the Demon Lord, and the fifth prince were dead, the Golden Core retainers accepted her rule, and she led them to seize the clans’ property.

• Princess Changle entered the Hall of Golden Chimes and ordered the Golden Core cultivators in the capital to appear before her.
• Princess Changle ordered the imperial guards to seize the property of the great clans involved in the rebellion, saying their main forces were already dead.
• Princess Changle revealed that her father was the current Demon Lord, and a minister announced that both the Demon Lord and the fifth prince had been killed.
• The imperial ancestor and the other Golden Core retainers accepted Princess Changle’s authority after seeing the officials kneel to Dongfang Yueming.
• Princess Changle arranged a palace for Dongfang Yueming, then led the retainers to attack the leaderless great clans while Dongfang Yueming waited for his reward.

Princess Changle subdued the Great Qian Dynasty’s aristocratic families and offered Dongfang Yueming their confiscated resources and herself. Dongfang Yueming accepted two million low-grade spirit stones and ten thousand mid-grade spirit stones but returned the rest and told Changle she still owed him the payment she had promised.

• Princess Changle crushed resistance across the Great Qian Dynasty, executed the ringleaders, and ordered the surrendered families’ resources sent to Dongfang Yueming.
• A favored consort tried to seduce Dongfang Yueming, but Princess Changle burst into the hall and struck the fleeing woman down.
• Princess Changle offered Dongfang Yueming a storage ring containing the confiscated resources and offered to become his servant, but he accepted only the spirit stones and returned the rest.
• Dongfang Yueming counted two million low-grade spirit stones and ten thousand mid-grade spirit stones among his gains.
• Dongfang Yueming told Princess Changle that the spirit stones were spoils from his trip and did not count toward her earlier promised payment.

Dongfang Yueming gave Princess Changle a fourth-tier Wind-Binding Bottle, allowing her to overcome opposition and take control of the throne hall. After receiving another tribute, he left the Great Qian Dynasty and planned to seek divine abilities on the Astral Battlefield.

• Dongfang Yueming gave Princess Changle the remaining spoils and the Wind-Binding Bottle as a reward.
• Princess Changle used the bottle to suppress a royal ancestor who opposed her order to gather two million low-grade spirit stones for Dongfang Yueming.
• Princess Changle ordered the great clans’ seized resources distributed to those who had rendered meritorious service, winning the retainers’ support.
• Princess Changle presented Dongfang Yueming with the tribute, and he departed for the horizon as she resolved to become the only queen of her world.
• Dongfang Yueming studied his panel and decided to seek divine abilities on the Astral Battlefield, choosing wind as his first target.

Storm Mountain and the Purple Thunder Sect reacted to the deaths of eight Golden Core cultivators and debated an alliance. The Purple Thunder Sect’s master ordered the alliance to be proclaimed after learning Storm Mountain’s Upper Realm patriarch was attempting to reach Body Integration.

• At Storm Mountain, Feng Xiaotian learned that eight Golden Core cultivators had died and suspected the Martial Sect had set a trap.
• A disciple reported that Qin Rushuang and her companion had returned safely to the Martial Sect, but Feng Xiaotian ordered his sect to set the matter aside and prioritize its alliance with the Purple Thunder Sect.
• At the Purple Thunder Sect, elders argued over whether to ally with Storm Mountain.
• An Upper Realm decree revealed that Storm Mountain’s patriarch had reached Void Refinement Perfection and was attempting to break through to Body Integration.
• The Purple Thunder Sect’s master ordered the alliance with Storm Mountain to be proclaimed in three days.

The Water and Fire Sect master worried about the upheaval gathering across the Immortal-Abandoned Continent after the Purple Thunder Sect and Storm Mountain formed an alliance. When Ling'er and Yan'er reached the Golden Core Realm, she prepared to advance to Nascent Soul but still considered finding a way for Yan'er and the azure-robed young man to escape to the Upper Realm.

• The Water and Fire Sect master learned that the Purple Thunder Sect and Storm Mountain had formed an alliance and fretted over which holy land her sect could join.
• She considered the other holy lands’ weaknesses and feared the power of notorious evil factions that had established themselves in the Azure Realm.
• Ling'er and Yan'er emerged from the forbidden grounds with Golden Core auras, and the sect master rejoiced at their breakthrough.
• The sect master began preparing to enter seclusion and advance to the Nascent Soul realm, telling her daughters to stand guard.
• She worried that even after her breakthrough, the sect would remain vulnerable, and considered sending Yan'er and the azure-robed young man to the Upper Realm to lie low.

Dongfang Yueming ambushed a Storm Mountain squad in the Astral Battlefield and learned that Storm Mountain had allied with the Purple Thunder Sect and received support from the Upper Realm. After defeating the squad and gaining the Wind Healing divine ability, he decided to take his unusable divine ability fragments to Storm Mountain.

• Dongfang Yueming waited in the eye of the storm region for Storm Mountain disciples to appear.
• A five-person Storm Mountain squad bragged about finding a wind spirit stone and revealed its alliance with the Purple Thunder Sect and support from the Upper Realm.
• The squad's leader attacked Dongfang Yueming with Heavenly Wind Strike, but Dongfang Yueming shattered the storm and killed him with one punch.
• Dongfang Yueming killed the other four disciples and collected their storage rings and divine ability fragments.
• Dongfang Yueming improved Wind Control Shield, comprehended Wind Healing, and decided to bring his unusable fragments to Storm Mountain.

In the Astral Battlefield, Feng Zihao seized a Black-Grade Divine Ability fragment that the Storm Mountain disciples had agreed would go to Lin Fan and absorbed it himself. Lin Fan swallowed his anger as the others congratulated Feng Zihao, but his lowered gaze held killing intent.

• Feng Zihao and six Storm Mountain disciples fought a Wind Spirit Beast in the Astral Battlefield, and Feng Zihao delivered the final strike that killed it.
• A Black-Grade Divine Ability fragment emerged from the Wind Spirit Beast, and Lin Fan prepared to claim it under their agreement.
• Feng Zihao took the fragment for himself, claiming he deserved the greatest credit, and warned Lin Fan with an icy gaze.
• Lin Fan yielded and called Feng Zihao Senior Brother, while Feng Zihao promised to put in a good word for him.
• Feng Zihao absorbed the fragment and gained the Black-Grade Divine Ability Wind God's Wrath as the disciples congratulated him.
• Lin Fan kept his head lowered, hiding his anger and killing intent.

Feng Zihao claimed a Black-Grade Divine Ability fragment from Lin Fan and then challenged Dongfang Yueming, believing the Martial Sect disciple would bring him glory. Dongfang killed Feng Zihao and the other Storm Mountain disciples, leaving Lin Fan alive and begging for mercy.

• Feng Zihao gained a Black-Grade Divine Ability and mocked Lin Fan for being too weak to use the fragment.
• Lin Fan pretended to accept Feng Zihao’s reasoning, while Dongfang Yueming watched from nearby and considered making him an inside man.
• After a Storm Mountain disciple recognized Dongfang Yueming as a Martial Sect disciple, Feng Zihao attacked him with Wind God’s Wrath.
• Dongfang Yueming killed Feng Zihao with his Earth-Grade Divine Ability, Spear of Wind and Shadow, then killed the fleeing Storm Mountain disciples with phantom spears.
• Lin Fan remained alive, trembled before Dongfang Yueming, and begged to be spared.

Dongfang Yueming recruited Lin Fan as an inside man at Storm Mountain, paying him with divine ability fragments to bring him other prodigies. After strengthening his abilities and stockpiling points, Dongfang Yueming prepared to wait for more enemies to arrive.

• Dongfang Yueming offered Lin Fan a deal: betray Storm Mountain and bring him prodigies whose divine abilities did not overlap with his own.
• Lin Fan accepted six fragments as an advance payment, then pledged loyalty after Dongfang Yueming gave him five more fragments.
• Dongfang Yueming absorbed the remaining fragments, improving Wind Control Shield and comprehending Wind God's Wrath.
• Dongfang Yueming recycled spirit stones from the spoils and entered the Water-Fire Mutual Aid Art and Nine Heavens Wind-Control Art into his panel.
• Dongfang Yueming confirmed his preparations were complete and waited for more enemies to come looking for him.

Lin Fan reported Dongfang Yueming to Storm Mountain’s Nascent Soul elder, hoping to redeem himself and gain favor. He led the elder to Dongfang Yueming and believed he had trapped him, unaware of how the encounter would unfold.

• Lin Fan absorbed the Law Fragments of Heavenly Wind Strike and Wind Walking Step into his Golden Core, strengthening his abilities.
• Lin Fan decided to report Dongfang Yueming to Storm Mountain rather than follow him, and hurried to the sect’s base.
• Lin Fan told Storm Mountain’s Nascent Soul elder about Dongfang Yueming and concealed that he had been bought off.
• The Nascent Soul elder grew greedy for Dongfang Yueming’s divine abilities and promised to make Lin Fan his personal disciple after they killed him.
• Lin Fan brought the Nascent Soul elder to Dongfang Yueming and smugly declared that Dongfang Yueming had fallen into his trap.

Dongfang Yueming revealed that he was far stronger than the Nascent Soul elder from Storm Mountain and killed him with one punch. Lin Fan begged for his life and offered to reveal where more Wind Spirit Beasts could be found.

• The Storm Mountain elder attacked Dongfang Yueming with wind divine abilities, but stopped when he sensed Dongfang Yueming's overwhelming Nascent Soul aura.
• The elder unleashed his Gale Realm, but Dongfang Yueming's I Alone Am Supreme Realm shattered it.
• Dongfang Yueming killed the elder with one punch, leaving Lin Fan terrified and kneeling.
• Dongfang Yueming collected the elder's Hurricane Shield, Storm Drill, and Wind Escape Step fragments.
• Lin Fan claimed he knew where more Wind Spirit Beasts and Storm Mountain disciples could be found.

Dongfang Yueming killed Lin Fan after learning that Wind Spirit Beasts dwelled near the Wind God Hall in the deepest part of the Wind Eye. He fused and strengthened several wind divine abilities, gaining an Earth-Grade ability and a greatly enhanced movement skill, then set off to hunt the beasts and pursue a Nascent Soul of Wind.

• Dongfang Yueming learned from Lin Fan that Wind Spirit Beasts lived in the Wind Eye and could yield high-grade divine ability fragments, then killed him and took the group’s storage rings and fragments.
• Dongfang Yueming absorbed fragments from the Nascent Soul elder and Lin Fan, learning Storm Drill, Wind Escape Step, Hurricane Shield, and Flowing Wind Strike.
• Dongfang Yueming perfected Flowing Wind Strike and fused it with Storm Drill, then fused the result with Wind God's Wrath to create the Earth-Grade divine ability Storm's Wrath.
• Dongfang Yueming fused Wind Escape Step with Wind Walking Step to create Wind God Step, which let him travel a hundred thousand li in a single step.
• Dongfang Yueming set out for the Wind Spirit Beasts, hoping to gain more wind abilities and eventually condense a Nascent Soul of Wind.

Five Upper Realm Sword Sect disciples failed to capture a sly space-and-time beast and pursued it toward the Immortal-Abandoned Continent. There, their sect’s delegation challenged the Lower Realm Sword Sect, and Jian Wuhen accepted a duel wager despite warnings.

• Five Upper Realm Sword Sect disciples trapped the snow-white beast in the Heavenly Dipper Sword Formation and attacked it.
• The beast escaped through space, and the five disciples chased after it instead of descending immediately to confront the Lower Realm Sword Sect.
• The Lower Realm Sword Sect prepared its defenses as its elders discussed the threat from their Upper Realm ancestors.
• Jian Wuhen rushed outside to face twenty-seven Golden Core sword cultivators, whose leader offered to withdraw if Jian Wuhen won but demanded he cripple his cultivation if he lost.
• Jian Wuhen accepted the wager, and his master assured the sect master that Wuhen would not lose.

The Upper Realm forces invaded the Lower Realm Sword Sect, and its sect master fought to preserve the sect’s legacy against overwhelming odds. He released the Sword Dao inheritance across the Immortal-Abandoned Continent and struck down the invaders, but the surviving Upper Realm forces massacred the sect and outlawed its methods.

• Jian Wuhen lost to an Upper Realm Golden Core who revealed he was the weakest of twenty-seven descendents, while five young Nascent Soul experts arrived.
• Three Upper Realm elders, including a Soul Formation Ninth Layer cultivator, attacked the Lower Realm Sword Sect, and the sect master revealed his Soul Formation Third Layer cultivation.
• The sect master battled all three Soul Formation elders while the Upper Realm forces slaughtered the Lower Realm disciples and elders.
• The sect master burned his life to release the Sword Sect’s legacy across the Immortal-Abandoned Continent, then used his final sword strike to wound the three Upper Realm elders and damage their natal treasures.
• After the sect master disappeared, the Upper Realm forces killed the remaining Sword Sect members and ordered that anyone who practiced its methods be executed.

Storm Mountain disciples captured a young royal Wind Spirit Beast, but its distress signal summoned its kin as they tried to escape. Dongfang Yueming killed the captors, only for the beast to attack him and a Nascent Soul-level Wind Spirit Beast to arrive and demand his surrender.

• Storm Mountain disciples lured the young royal Wind Spirit Beast with a Beast-Luring Pill and trapped it in a golden net.
• The captive beast burned part of its origin to send a distress signal to the Wind God Hall, where a giant Wind Spirit Beast recognized the call.
• As the Storm Mountain elder ordered the beast killed so they could take its divine ability fragment, Dongfang Yueming appeared and the elder threw the beast toward him before fleeing.
• Dongfang Yueming killed the fleeing Storm Mountain cultivators with the Spear of Wind and Shadow and collected their storage rings and divine ability fragments.
• The young beast attacked Dongfang Yueming, who knocked it back, as a thousand-zhang Nascent Soul-level Wind Spirit Beast arrived and ordered him to surrender.

Dongfang Yueming killed the Wind Spirit Beasts that attacked him and absorbed their fragments, fusing two movement abilities into the Earth-Grade Divine Ability Carefree Roaming. When a Soul Formation beast appeared at the Wind God Hall, he escaped to continue cultivating and prepare to condense his second Nascent Soul.

• Dongfang Yueming killed the Wind Spirit Beasts' little prince and its Golden Core and Nascent Soul kin, then defeated the survivors.
• Dongfang Yueming absorbed the fragments and gained Wind-Treading Step, Wind Healing, Healing Wind, and Wind Spirit Shield.
• Dongfang Yueming fused perfected Wind God Step and Wind-Treading Step into the Earth-Grade Divine Ability Carefree Roaming.
• Dongfang Yueming sensed a Soul Formation presence erupting from the Wind God Hall and fled using Carefree Roaming.
• A Soul Formation beast arrived at the empty battlefield and roared with rage and killing intent.

Dongfang Yueming fused his wind defense and healing abilities, then combined two offensive abilities to create the Heaven-Grade divine ability Wind God Judgment, triggering a world-shaking heavenly tribulation. After he destroyed its first bolt with his new ability, he prepared to condense his second Nascent Soul while five Upper Realm Sword Sect experts and a hidden snow-white beast watched.

• Dongfang Yueming spent points to perfect his wind protection and healing abilities, fusing them into Wind God Protection and Wind Spirit Blessing.
• Dongfang Yueming fused Spear of Wind and Shadow with Storm's Wrath, creating the Heaven-Grade divine ability Wind God Judgment and summoning a terrifying heavenly tribulation.
• A snow-white little beast fled into the world and hid inside the dried volcano as five Nascent Soul experts from the Upper Realm Sword Sect arrived in pursuit.
• The Upper Realm Sword Sect youth questioned a local cultivator about the beast and the person undergoing tribulation, but the cultivator knew nothing.
• Dongfang Yueming's Wind God Judgment blasted apart the tribulation's lightning bolt, stunning the five pursuers and the hidden beast.
• Dongfang Yueming concealed his aura, ignored the five hostile figures, and decided to condense his second Nascent Soul.

Dongfang Yueming used 400,000 points to raise Nine Heavens Wind-Control Art, forming a second Nascent Soul of wind. The Upper Realm Sword Sect’s five Nascent Soul experts pursued him, while the snow-white little beast secretly followed.

• Dongfang Yueming spent 400,000 points to raise Nine Heavens Wind-Control Art to the first level and formed a Nascent Soul of wind beside his Martial Dao Nascent Soul.
• The five members of the Upper Realm Sword Sect realized Dongfang Yueming was only at Nascent Soul and grew greedy.
• Dongfang Yueming wondered whether each Nascent Soul could only cast its corresponding divine abilities, then ignored the young man’s questions and flew away.
• The young man lost his temper, and the five Upper Realm Sword Sect experts chased after Dongfang Yueming.
• The snow-white little beast followed them, while the local cultivators agreed to pretend they had seen nothing.

Dongfang Yueming raised his Nine Heavens Wind-Control Art to perfection and used Wind God Judgment to shatter the Upper Realm Sword Sect’s Heavenly Dipper Sword Formation. He killed all five Sword Sect prodigies and wondered whether their divine abilities were contained in their bonded swords.

• Five Nascent Soul experts from the Upper Realm Sword Sect surrounded Dongfang Yueming and trapped him in the Heavenly Dipper Sword Formation.
• Dongfang Yueming spent points to raise his cultivation to the Nascent Soul Ninth Layer, shocking the Sword Sect disciples and the hidden snow-white little beast.
• The five disciples unleashed their divine abilities, but Dongfang Yueming perfected the Nine Heavens Wind-Control Art and struck back with the Heaven-Grade Divine Ability Wind God Judgment.
• Dongfang Yueming destroyed the formation’s attack in one strike, then killed the Sword Sect leader and the other four disciples.
• Dongfang Yueming collected the five bonded flying swords and wondered if they held the divine abilities he expected the disciples to drop.