Chapter Summaries

Dongfang Yueming was ambushed aboard a ship by Bai Zhanxiong and the Bai family, who mistook him for the wanted man Dongfang Ri. He killed the attackers with the Sea-Burning Raging Flame Palm and Red Flame Hand, leaving Bai Feng and the watching passengers frozen in shock.

• Bai Zhanxiong led Bai family experts onto the deck and ordered the other passengers away.
• A Bai family elder identified Dongfang Yueming as Dongfang Ri and attacked him with the elders surrounding him.
• Dongfang Yueming unleashed the Sea-Burning Raging Flame Palm, wiping out the Bai family elders in one strike.
• Bai Zhanxiong attacked Dongfang Yueming with his Lightning Prison Star-Shattering Hammer while Bai Feng watched from hiding.
• Dongfang Yueming advanced Red Flame Hand through Point Allocation and killed Bai Zhanxiong with a single palm, leaving Bai Feng and the passengers stunned.

Dongfang Yueming subdued the Grandmaster and killed Bai Feng, then acquired the Lightning Prison Star-Shattering Hammer true intent diagram. The next morning, he perfected Red Flame Hand and fused it with Sea-Burning Raging Flame Palm to create the Yin-Yang Sea-Burning Record, leaving him suspecting another water-attribute art could trigger a further transformation.

• The Grandmaster apologized to Dongfang Yueming and, fearing his background, handed Bai Feng over to him.
• Dongfang Yueming killed Bai Feng, and the Grandmaster withdrew after promising to keep his subordinates in line.
• Dongfang Yueming found the Lightning Prison Star-Shattering Hammer true intent diagram in Bai Zhanxiong's ashes and learned the martial art.
• The next morning, Dongfang Yueming spent 2,000 points to raise Red Flame Hand to perfection.
• Dongfang Yueming fused Red Flame Hand with Sea-Burning Raging Flame Palm and gained the Yin-Yang Sea-Burning Record.
• Dongfang Yueming suspected that fusing another water-attribute true intent martial art might bring about a true metamorphosis.

After the Bai family's destruction, Yi Hao of the Yi family asked Dongfang Yueming to trade the Lightning Prison Star-Shattering Hammer true intent diagram for the family's water-attribute Grandmaster art, the Sea-Overturning Seal. As the ship neared Cold Wind City, Dongfang perfected the hammer art and accepted an Yi family guest elder token, planning to visit the Jiao Clan before calling on the Yi family.

• Yi Hao bribed Wang Pangzi to arrange a meeting with Dongfang Yueming and requested the Lightning Prison Star-Shattering Hammer true intent diagram.
• Dongfang agreed to exchange the diagram for the Yi family's Sea-Overturning Seal and considered visiting the Jiao Clan in Cold Wind City.
• As the ship approached Cold Wind City, Dongfang spent points to raise the Lightning Prison Star-Shattering Hammer to perfection.
• Yi Hao invited Dongfang to stay with the Yi family, and Dongfang declined for now, accepted a guest elder token, and said he would visit after handling private matters.

After the giant ship returned to Cold Wind City, Jiao Yu'er waited at the dock and clashed with Hong Tao, who planned to use his family's alliance and the Bai family's lightning inheritance to pressure her. Just as Hong Tao moved to seize her, a man in a bamboo hat appeared and stopped his attack.

• The giant ship returned to Cold Wind City, and the martial artists aboard disembarked.
• Jiao Yu'er waited at the dock, hoping to see how Dongfang Yueming was doing.
• Hong Tao told Jiao Yu'er that the Hong family had allied with the Bai family and intended to win the Yi family over with a lightning-attribute Grandmaster inheritance.
• Hong Tao tried to seize Jiao Yu'er, but she struck him with her palm and he overpowered her.
• A man in a bamboo hat appeared between Hong Tao and Jiao Yu'er and casually blocked Hong Tao's next attack.

Dongfang Yueming killed Hong Tao with one finger while protecting Jiao Yu'er, then left with her for the Jiao Clan. At the Hong family estate, Hong Batian learned that the Bai family had been slaughtered and that his son was dead, and he led his men to demand that the Jiao Clan hand over the killer.

• Dongfang Yueming stopped Hong Tao from attacking Jiao Yu'er and shattered his arm and organs with one finger, killing him.
• Jiao Yu'er warned Dongfang Yueming that the Hong family would seek revenge, but he said he was not worried unless an extraordinary Grandmaster appeared.
• Dongfang Yueming and Jiao Yu'er left the dock and headed for the Jiao Clan.
• A scout told Hong Batian that the Bai family had been slaughtered by a mysterious heaven's chosen from the Central Continent.
• A servant reported that a young man in a conical hat had killed Hong Tao and left with Jiao Yu'er.
• Hong Batian assumed the Jiao Clan was not responsible and led his men to demand that it hand over Dongfang Yueming.

The Jiao Clan debated how to survive the Hong family's alliance with the Bai family when news arrived that Dongfang Yueming had killed Hong Tao. Jiao Zhenhai summoned Jiao Yu'er and Dongfang Yueming to the meeting hall, where the clan's response awaited them.

• An elder reported that the Hong family had allied with the Bai family, leaving the Jiao Clan facing the Yi family's support for the Hong family.
• Jiao Yu'er arrived with Dongfang Yueming and tried to enter the residence to report something important, but Jiao Zhenhai ordered her to wait.
• A guard announced that Dongfang Yueming had killed Hong Tao with a single finger at the docks and had returned with Jiao Yu'er.
• Jiao Zhenhai blamed Jiao Xiaotian and ordered the guards to bring Jiao Yu'er and Dongfang Yueming into the meeting hall.
• Jiao Yu'er sensed danger and tried to leave, but Dongfang Yueming reassured her, and they followed the guard inside.

Yi Zhengyang learned that Dongfang Yueming had destroyed the Bai family and offered the Yi family a chance to obtain the Lightning Prison Star-Shattering Hammer’s true intent diagram. The Yi family’s ancestor decided to welcome Dongfang while secretly planning to capture him, as Yi Tianlei dismissed the danger he posed.

• Yi Hao told Yi Zhengyang that the Bai family had been wiped out aboard the returning boat and described his deal with Dongfang Yueming for the Sea-Overturning Seal in exchange for the lightning-attribute true intent diagram.
• Yi Hao revealed that Dongfang Yueming was wanted by the Nirvana Sect, frightening Yi Zhengyang.
• The Yi family’s ancestor ordered the family to honor Dongfang as a distinguished guest, while privately planning to capture him and claim the Nirvana Sect’s reward.
• Yi Zhengyang told Yi Tianlei that the family would soon obtain the Lightning Prison Star-Shattering Hammer’s true intent diagram.
• Yi Tianlei scorned Dongfang’s strength, while Yi Hao silently recalled the terrifying power he had witnessed.

Dongfang Yueming faced the Jiao Clan ancestor, whose probing revealed that Yueming's martial intent could rival and even suppress his own. After learning that Hongxiu was in the powerful Love Palace and that reaching Innate Physique could let him bring her back, Yueming left determined to grow stronger, while the Hong family arrived demanding the killer.

• Dongfang Yueming entered the Jiao Clan council hall and took responsibility for killing Hong Tao, while the clan head and elders avoided confronting him after failing to sense his cultivation.
• Jiao Xiaotian revealed that the Jiao Clan ancestor had once ordered a treasure given to Dongfang Yueming, and Yueming left the hall with Jiao Yu'er following him.
• The Jiao Clan ancestor confronted Dongfang Yueming, but Yueming's true intent overwhelmed the ancestor's Sea-Suppressing True Intent and left Jiao Yu'er injured by their clash.
• The ancestor explained that Hongxiu was likely in the Love Palace and that a man who reached Innate Physique and passed its trials could bring his loved one away.
• Dongfang Yueming left resolved to reach Innate Physique, and the ancestor told Jiao Zhenhai to let the Hong family come take the killer themselves.

Dongfang Yueming entered the Yi family’s residence, where Yi Zhengyang tried to pressure him into trading the Lightning Prison Star-Shattering Hammer diagram for the Sea-Overturning Seal. When Hong Batian arrived seeking the man who had killed his son, Yi Zhengyang joined forces with him against Dongfang Yueming, while the Jiao Clan’s patriarch revealed that Dongfang Yueming could contend with a Grandmaster.

• Hong Batian demanded that the Jiao Clan hand over his son’s killer, then learned that the man had entered the Yi family’s residence.
• Yi Zhengyang welcomed Dongfang Yueming and hosted a banquet where the Yi family pressed him to trade the Lightning Prison Star-Shattering Hammer diagram for the Sea-Overturning Seal.
• Hong Batian arrived at the Yi residence looking for his son’s killer, and Yi Zhengyang confirmed that the man and the diagram were there.
• Yi Zhengyang and Hong Batian agreed to join forces against Dongfang Yueming and share the diagram afterward.
• Jiao Yu'er worried about Dongfang Yueming, and the Jiao Clan’s patriarch told her that Dongfang Yueming could contend with a Grandmaster.

Dongfang Yueming faced the Hong and Yi families at the Yi residence, where the Yi family patriarch tried to seize his cultivation technique and true intent diagram. Dongfang Yueming killed the Yi patriarch with his perfected Lightning Prison Star-Shattering Hammer, leaving the hall stunned as the Jiao and Hong patriarchs raced toward the residence.

• The Jiao Clan patriarch planned to let Hong Batian test Dongfang Yueming, then use the conflict to gain Dongfang Yueming's favor and destroy the Hong family.
• Hong Batian and Yi Zhengyang confronted Dongfang Yueming at the Yi family banquet hall and demanded revenge and the Lightning Prison Star-Shattering Hammer diagram.
• The Yi family patriarch appeared and ordered his elders to capture Dongfang Yueming alive, but Dongfang Yueming vaporized them with the Yin-Yang Sea-Burning Record.
• The Yi family patriarch attacked with the Sea-Overturning Seal, and Dongfang Yueming countered with the perfected Lightning Prison Star-Shattering Hammer.
• Dongfang Yueming's lightning shattered the Yi patriarch's seal and reduced him to ash, while the Hong and Jiao patriarchs sensed the clash and rushed to the Yi residence.

Dongfang Yueming killed the Yi family’s ancestor and core members, then learned and perfected the Sea-Overturning Seal, which fused with the Yin-Yang Sea-Burning Record into the Two Aspects Seal. The Jiao Clan’s ancestor and the Hong family’s ancestor arrived at the ruined residence and found him standing among the bodies.

• Dongfang Yueming killed the Yi family’s ancestor and forced Yi Zhengyang to hand over the family’s Grandmaster techniques and the Sea-Overturning Seal.
• Dongfang Yueming killed Hong Batian and the surviving Yi family core members, then took the Yi family’s Inner Force cultivation technique.
• Dongfang Yueming used points to perfect the Sea-Overturning Seal, triggering its fusion with the Yin-Yang Sea-Burning Record.
• Dongfang Yueming gained the Two Aspects Seal and sensed the Jiao Clan’s ancestor and the Hong family’s ancestor approaching.
• The two ancestors arrived at the Yi family residence, saw the corpses and Dongfang Yueming, and realized the Yi family had been wiped out.

Dongfang Yueming forced the Hong family and Jiao Clan patriarchs to trade their Grandmaster methods for the Yi family's inheritance, then fused the acquired cultivation methods into a new technique. On the road back to the Great Xia Dynasty, he used points to advance the Yi family's Grandmaster method and broke through to Martial Dao Grandmaster.

• The Hong family patriarch abandoned his plan to avenge his family after realizing Dongfang Yueming had killed Old Ghost Yi, and the Jiao Clan patriarch became wary of him.
• Dongfang Yueming asked the Hong family and Jiao Clan patriarchs to exchange their Grandmaster methods for the Yi family's methods, and both agreed.
• The Hong family and Jiao Clan patriarchs personally handed Dongfang Yueming their inheritance jade slips, and he left Cold Wind City.
• On the road back to the Great Xia Dynasty, Dongfang Yueming studied the three families' methods and fused them with the Sea-Burning Force Condensation Method to create the Two Aspects Return to One Force.
• Dongfang Yueming spent 1,000 points to raise the Sea-Overturning Spirit Gathering Method to beginner level and broke through to Martial Dao Grandmaster.

Dongfang Yueming returned to the Great Xia Dynasty as a Grandmaster and learned that martial artists were being killed in an Ash Demon calamity. After meeting Li Yue, he secretly transformed her cultivation before disappearing.

• Dongfang Yueming reached the entry level of the Grandmaster Realm, saw that his daily points had risen to 1,000, and set out for the Great Xia Dynasty.
• Dongfang Yueming returned to the Great Xia border and learned that martial artists were being drained of their essence blood and reduced to ashes, in a calamity resembling one from the Great Qi Dynasty.
• Liu Yu celebrated his standing at the Great Xia Martial Arts Academy and privately recalled that he had secretly poisoned Wu Daozi to death.
• Dongfang Yueming met Li Yue, who told him about the missing martial artists and revealed that she had reached Bone Tempering Greater Mastery.
• Dongfang Yueming touched Li Yue between the eyebrows, raising her cultivation to Bone Forging Realm perfection and giving her improved cultivation methods before vanishing.

Dongfang Yueming discovered that the Gao Family had collapsed after Gao Long led its experts away, while Li Xuan arrived at the Great Xia Martial Arts Academy seeking the other fragment of a spirit treasure. Li Xuan planned to use its power to locate the person who held that fragment.

• Dongfang Yueming learned that Gao Long and nearly all the Gao Family's experts had vanished, and that Gao Hu had disappeared earlier.
• Dongfang Yueming connected Gao Hu's disappearance to the bizarre murders in the Great Xia Dynasty and formed a troubling suspicion.
• Yue Tao and Xi Feng arrived at the Great Xia Martial Arts Academy and drew attention by displaying their Blood Replacement Realm cultivation.
• Xi Feng introduced Li Xuan as a candidate to become the Earth Spirit Sect's future sect master.
• Li Xuan sensed that the other spirit treasure fragment was in the Great Xia Dynasty and waited for its holder to reveal their location.

Gao Hu reached the Internal Force Realm and learned from the iron fragment that another holder of the Bloodthirsty Awl had arrived in Great Xia. The fragment urged him to lure the holder to him and kill him, and Gao Hu agreed to begin.

• Gao Hu awoke after reaching the Internal Force Realm and believed he had surpassed Gao Long.
• The iron fragment warned Gao Hu that the Central Continent held powers far beyond the martial world he knew.
• The iron fragment revealed that it belonged to the Bloodthirsty Awl, a spirit treasure of the Blood Refining Sect, and that another fragment holder had arrived in Great Xia.
• The iron fragment said the other holder was at the Great Xia Martial Arts Academy and had not yet reached the Grandmaster Realm.
• Gao Hu agreed to let the iron fragment activate its power so the other holder would sense it and come to them.

A blood-robed Grandmaster learned that the Bloodthirsty Awl had appeared in the Great Qi Dynasty and ordered his sect to target it. Meanwhile, Li Xuan and Gao Hu clashed over their iron fragments, and Li Xuan tried to persuade Gao Hu’s fragment to abandon him.

• The blood-robed Grandmaster drained a subordinate’s essence blood and ordered his sect to head for the Great Qi Dynasty.
• Gao Hu activated his iron fragment in a forest, and Li Xuan sensed it and rushed to meet him.
• Gao Hu attacked Li Xuan, but Li Xuan dodged the saber strike, and both men recognized the other as a dangerous opponent.
• Li Xuan guessed that Gao Hu’s fragment was the Bloodthirsty Awl’s core and offered it greater resources and nourishment if it joined him.
• The iron fragment considered Li Xuan’s offer as Gao Hu panicked and began pleading with it not to listen.

Dongfang Yueming interrupted Gao Hu and Li Xuan’s confrontation and revealed that he had become a Martial Dao Grandmaster. After killing both men, he destroyed the evil consciousness in their fused blood-colored spike tip, leaving the strange artifact in his hand.

• Dongfang Yueming appeared in the forest, and Gao Hu and Li Xuan realized they both held deep grudges against him.
• Gao Hu and Li Xuan attacked Dongfang Yueming together, but his Grandmaster aura shattered their attacks and sent them flying.
• Li Xuan fled, but Dongfang Yueming killed him with a forceful finger strike.
• Gao Hu begged for mercy, but Dongfang Yueming killed him as well.
• Fragments rose from Li Xuan and Gao Hu’s corpses and fused into a blood-colored spike tip that tried to make Dongfang Yueming its host.
• Dongfang Yueming used the True Intent of Lightning to erase the spike tip’s ancient consciousness, leaving the artifact and its pure energy intact.

Dongfang Yueming converted the Bloodthirsty Awl core into points and perfected the Sea-Overturning Spirit Gathering Method, forming a powerful Boundless Sea Domain that shook the Great Xia Dynasty. As the Shi Family faced Zhao Wuji’s demand for its mineral veins, the chapter left the family divided and seemingly doomed to choose between surrender and destruction.

• Dongfang Yueming converted the Bloodthirsty Awl core and gained 30,000 points.
• Dongfang Yueming spent points to perfect the Sea-Overturning Spirit Gathering Method and formed the Boundless Sea Domain.
• The Grandmaster aura spread across Great Xia, shocking the Martial Arts Academy head, Yue Tao, Xi Feng, Zhao Wuji, and others.
• Zhao Wuji demanded that the Shi Family hand over three mineral veins and gave them three days to comply.
• The Shi Family members blamed Uncle Shi for sending Shi Qing away instead of using their ancestral favor to enlist a Grandmaster.
• The Shi Family head faced the choice of surrendering the veins or risking his family’s annihilation.

Dongfang Yueming decided to return Light Snow to Uncle Shi before heading to the Earth Spirit Sect. A blood-robed Grandmaster from the Blood Refining Sect attacked the Earth Spirit Sect and gave its master three days to reveal where the Ash Demon was, leaving the sect facing destruction.

• Dongfang Yueming decided to wait another day before going to the Earth Spirit Sect, then set off for the Shi Family to return Light Snow to Uncle Shi.
• A blood-robed Grandmaster killed the Earth Spirit Sect's gate guards and demanded that the sect master appear.
• The blood-robed Grandmaster asked where the Ash Demon was and overpowered the Earth Spirit Sect master's nascent Domain with his Blood Sea Purgatory.
• The blood-robed Grandmaster revealed that he belonged to the Blood Refining Sect and gave the Earth Spirit Sect three days to produce the Ash Demon or be destroyed.
• Li Potian protested that Li Xuan was the sect's hope, but the Earth Spirit Sect master said they could not deal with the evil thing that gave Li Xuan his talent.

Dongfang Yueming returned the upgraded Light Snow to Uncle Shi and revealed that his cultivation had surpassed Qi Refining. After hearing about the Zhao Family’s threat to the Shi Family, he promised to handle it and agreed to look after Shi Qing at the Dragon Firmament Academy.

• Uncle Shi worried that the Zhao Family would force the Shi Family to surrender its remaining assets or face destruction in three days.
• Dongfang Yueming surprised Uncle Shi by appearing undetected and returning Light Snow, now an A-rank divine weapon.
• Dongfang Yueming revealed that his cultivation was above Qi Refining and demonstrated his powerful Martial Dao True Intent.
• Uncle Shi explained the Shi Family’s predicament, and Dongfang Yueming said he would deal with the Zhao Family.
• Uncle Shi asked Dongfang Yueming to look after Shi Qing at the Dragon Firmament Academy, and Dongfang Yueming promised to do so.
• Dongfang Yueming and Uncle Shi set out to return to the Shi Family and confront the immediate trouble.