Chapter Summaries

Wang An and his subordinates recovered the Mountain-Treading Calamity's Calamity Core and considered where to establish the first Autumn Emperor Divine City. They chose the boundary between the Ten Thousand Mountains Fire Domain and the Thousand Flames Fire River and set out to build there despite the dangers.

• Wang An inspected the fallen Mountain-Treading Calamity, froze its chaotic Calamity Core with Supreme Yin Divine Light, and stored it away.
• Wang An tested the calamity-tainted corpse's volatile elemental crystals, then sent an Elemental Thunderbird to move the corpse away.
• The Thunder Primordial Spirits reported their survey of the southeastern Ten Thousand Mountains Fire Domain, and Wang An considered a site for the divine city.
• Lei Nü and the Fire Earth Dragon Loach warned Wang An about lingering disaster power, unstable volcanoes, and powerful exotic beasts near the proposed site.
• Wang An ordered his subordinates to drag the magma-lake blessed land north, and they killed or recruited exotic beasts that attacked along the way.

Wang An led his growing group of subordinates to the edge of a calamity-ridden volcanic region, then used the Mountain-Treading Calamity core to absorb and control the local calamity. His display astonished the beasts, while the Volcano Alligator Snapping Turtle recognized the immortal golden light protecting his magic power.

• After half a month of travel, Wang An arrived at the handover site with more than twenty subordinates, including exotic beasts he had subdued along the way.
• The Volcano Alligator Snapping Turtle warned Wang An that the calamity land could assimilate the volcano on its back, so Wang An ordered the group to stop.
• Wang An kept the Fire-Space Jujube Tree and its space-law-bearing spirit jujubes secret, altering his subordinates' memories and imposing a restriction against revealing it.
• Wang An brought out the Mountain-Treading Calamity core and used his magic power to draw in and order the calamity across the surrounding deserts.
• The Fire Earth Dragon Loach leader expressed disbelief at Wang An's control of calamity, while the Volcano Alligator Snapping Turtle sensed immortal golden light and dozens of laws neutralizing its spread.

Wang An cleared the Calamity Desert near Volcano Cape and began building Autumn Emperor Divine City around two volcanoes and blessed lands. As construction continued, three exotic beasts arrived seeking refuge, while changes in the distant inner layer brought a rain of fire.

• Wang An used the Calamity Core to clear the Calamity Desert and ordered the Thunder Primordial Spirits and Disaster Domain exotic beasts to begin construction.
• Wang An placed two small blessed lands in nearby volcanoes and completed a Formation Domain that converted volcanic energy and purified the surrounding air.
• A rain of fire began falling in the distant inner layer, triggering further changes near the inner city.
• Three red-and-white orca-like exotic beasts swam through the magma channel and watched the construction, hoping to seek refuge.
• Lei Nü directed three Black Worker Fire Ants as they planned the harbor and districts of Autumn Emperor Divine City.

Wang An planned the divine city’s forge and, three years later, Autumn Emperor Divine City had taken shape in the disaster domain. As new arrivals gathered, Lei Nü registered True God Rongyan and introduced him to the city’s rules and transformation art, while the city’s defenses demonstrated their strength.

• Wang An proposed building the forge between two volcanoes and planned to fulfill his Sword Edge Metal imagery by forging a hundred second-tier, level-three divine weapons of slaughter.
• Three years later, the volcanic snapping turtle and disaster-domain beast clans entered Autumn Emperor Divine City as its port and surrounding lands developed.
• A fire crocodile tried to seize the secure region, but a volcano guarding the port struck it down, and a divine general ordered the other beasts to register and obey the city’s rules.
• Lei Nü registered True God Rongyan, explained the city’s regulations, and gave him a token containing the Great Perfected Heavenly River’s True Art of Transforming All Forms into One Dao Body.
• True God Rongyan used the art to transform into a nine-meter humanoid form, prompting the other exotic beasts to begin learning it as well.

True God Hundred-Refined Azure Steel visited Autumn Emperor Divine City and warned Great Perfected Heavenly River that several divine courts considered the Sea of Fire Disaster Domain their territory. He said the city’s trade routes, mining, and settlement of exotic beasts threatened their control of its resources.

• Lei Nü guided True God Rongyan through Autumn Emperor Divine City, where he examined its orderly districts and peaceful, purified environment.
• True God Rongyan asked to meet the city’s lord to discuss calamities and the city’s safety, and Lei Nü led him into a concealed space.
• True God Rongyan watched Wang An forge the Imperial Edge Thunder-Wielding Demon-Slaying Heavenly Sword before Wang An received him in a pavilion.
• True God Hundred-Refined Azure Steel warned Great Perfected Heavenly River that the divine courts viewed the Sea of Fire Disaster Domain as theirs and would see the city’s activities as taking their resources.

Wang An rejected True God Rongyan’s attempt to recruit him into the Innate Divine Heaven and warned that Autumn Emperor Divine City would resist the other divine courts. He then continued reforging his flying sword, bringing it to five transformations and giving it the Clear Cloud Keen Edge Divine Weapon Law.

• True God Rongyan warned Wang An that the divine courts would try to recruit him or prevent their rivals from doing so, then offered him a place in the Innate Divine Heaven in exchange for his calamity-recovery method and a presence in his city.
• Wang An recognized what Rongyan wanted, and Lei Nü drew her lightning sword as Rongyan realized the recruitment had failed.
• Wang An told Rongyan to leave and declared that Autumn Emperor Divine City would fight the divine courts if they attacked.
• After Rongyan left with Lei Nü, Wang An continued refining his flying sword with divine metals gathered by his subordinates.
• Wang An completed five rounds of refinement, giving the flying sword the Clear Cloud Keen Edge Divine Weapon Law, which greatly increased its flight and cutting speed.

Wang An completed most of a fifth-refinement flying sword while Autumn Emperor Divine City built and trained its Flame Emperor Legion. As he weighed where to search for more rare metals, Heavenly River arrived with a decree.

• Wang An quenched the flying sword in clear, frigid well water, bringing out a second divine weapon law, then continued forging it.
• Wang An told Lei Nü to recruit suitable creatures, train a war legion, and give its divine generals a battle formation method.
• True God Rongyan went to the seventh ring to contact Innate Divine Heaven, while the great divine courts' exploration teams reported Autumn Emperor Divine City's growing power.
• Autumn Emperor Divine City recruited and trained its soldiers, and after a year the forty-nine-member Flame Emperor Legion formed a Flame Emperor Dharma Aspect with Second Tier, level-three power.
• Wang An considered the difficulty of finding another extraordinary metal and choosing between the Forest Fire Illusory Sea and the southwest desert before Heavenly River arrived to deliver a decree.

Wang An rejected the War Divine Court’s summons, and its forces launched an attack on the Autumn Emperor Divine City. He prepared the city’s defenders as the three warships opened fire on its walls.

• A War Divine Court general ordered Wang An to join the court, but Wang An answered with a thunderous “Scram!”
• The three generals returned to their fleet and urged the commanding divine marquis to attack the city.
• The divine marquis ordered his forces to exterminate the city, while Wang An learned the enemy was coming and prepared its defenses.
• Wang An let temporary beastfolk residents leave, called for volunteers to defend the walls, and deployed the Flame Emperor Legion to guard the gates.
• The three warships fired divine-energy lasers at the city’s walls as its formations, cannons, and Forbidden Law Domain activated.

The divine city’s forbidden-magic walls withstood the War Divine Court’s bombardment as its forces attacked the defenders with battle formations. Wang An studied the formations until Great Perfected Heavenly River intervened to save the Flame Emperor Legion and ordered it to withdraw and grow stronger.

• The War Divine Court’s commanding divine marquis ordered assault squads to attack the city after learning that its walls could only be breached by destroying their nodes or overwhelming the formation with a powerful law.
• The city’s cannons struck down many advancing true god war soldiers, but the survivors reached the walls and engaged the defenders.
• Thunderbird Divine General led fifty members of the Flame Emperor Legion in forming a Flame Emperor Dharma Aspect that fought off the attacking squads.
• The commanding divine marquis ordered three army battle formations to attack the Flame Emperor Dharma Aspect, and their combined assaults destabilized it.
• Wang An analyzed the War Divine Court’s battle formations while Lei Nü urged him to expand the city’s legion and establish a system for training war soldiers.
• Great Perfected Heavenly River blocked the three formations’ attack with Heavenly River’s water and ordered the Flame Emperor Legion to withdraw and improve.

Wang An rejected the War Divine Court’s demand to submit and used his flying sword and the Supreme Yin Bright Lamp to destroy its forces besieging Autumn Emperor Divine City. The battlefield was left strewn with the defeated army as Wang An gathered Dao-transformation images from their deaths.

• The War Divine Court’s commanding divine marquis offered Wang An a final chance to submit, but Wang An attacked instead.
• Wang An’s flying sword pierced the divine marquis, killed him, and seized his divinity core, divine office, and lunar war silver blade.
• The War Divine Court’s soldiers charged Wang An after their commander died, while their three warships prepared to fire on the city.
• Wang An summoned the Supreme Yin Bright Lamp, whose divine light froze the soldiers, halted the warships, and extinguished many divine fires.
• Wang An swept his flying sword across the immobilized army, killing its soldiers and generals as Dao-transformation images appeared.

After Wang An’s forces annihilated a War Divine Court detachment, six nascent Sword Edge Metal laws emerged and he renamed his transformed flying sword the Azure Edge Heavenly Sword. He ordered Autumn Emperor Divine City developed and announced that he could forge divine weapons of law, while distant observers began assessing his strength against their own divine court lords.

• Lei Nü ordered the defenders to clear the battlefield and recover the fallen enemies’ spiritual items and equipment after Wang An’s flying sword killed more than eight hundred war-soldier divine generals.
• Wang An’s Sword Edge Metal cultivation deepened, giving birth to the six nascent laws of Autumn Harvest, Refine Resonance, Upright Metal, Killing Weapons, Cold Storage, and Clear Judgment.
• Wang An named his transformed flying sword the Azure Edge Heavenly Sword and drew it into his Purple Mansion to nourish it.
• Wang An told Lei Nü to plant Autumn Emperor spiritual plants, warned that the War Divine Court would retaliate, and announced that he could forge divine weapons of law.
• Wang An returned to the Eight Fires Weapon-Forging Platform, while distant divine court observers judged that their lords’ divine artifacts might give them an advantage over him.

After Autumn Emperor Divine City annihilated a War Divine Court legion, True God of Battle and Victory ordered his divine city to attack it. News of the victory drew powerful outsiders toward the region, including Sword Emperor Jiuli, a Great Wind Master, and Gold Archmage Sophia.

• Follow-up scouts withdrew to report Autumn Emperor Divine City's strength and prepare their factions for the news.
• True God of Battle and Victory learned that the Silver Wolf Divine Marquis's legion had been wiped out and ordered the War Divine Court's divine city to head for Autumn Emperor Divine City.
• Wang An noticed the growing commotion as news of the legion's defeat spread and attracted True Gods from nearby regions.
• Sword Emperor Jiuli defeated a War Divine Court city lord, who died after pushing himself to his limits, and fled as the deputy city lord ordered his forces to pursue him.
• A Great Wind Master headed toward the Volcano Sea Region, while Gold Archmage Sophia left the Firmament Metal Divine Court to witness the coming conflict.

As the War Divine Court’s main city approached Autumn Emperor Divine City, Wang An prepared to defend the city by forging weapons and planning a powerful formation. The chapter ended with Lei Nü organizing the work to place formation plates across the surrounding volcanoes.

• The War Divine Court announced that its main city was approaching Autumn Emperor Divine City, and experts gathered in the Star-Picking Tower discussed whether the city should be protected.
• Sophia asked Sword Emperor Jiuli and Wind Spirit Dragon Master about Great Perfected Heavenly River, and they shared what they knew of his strength and plans.
• Wang An continued forging weapons, nurturing the Clear Edge Heavenly Sword with Star-Gathering Supreme Gold and crafting a spear for an expert of the Bronze Human Race.
• Lei Nü warned Wang An that the War Divine Court’s main-city cannon could threaten Autumn Emperor Divine City, but Wang An said he welcomed the attack and ordered her to prepare the Supreme Yin Autumn Harvest Heavenly Cycle Entrapment and Slaughter Grand Formation.
• Lei Nü led weapon-refining and formation masters to place formation plates among the volcanoes surrounding Autumn Emperor Divine City.

Sword Emperor Jiuli and Sophia discussed the Law Pre-Proof Bewilderment Tribulation and the challenge of choosing a high position to prove after perfecting three laws. They went with Gaoyang Yunfei to see Wang An, where a cold-iron divine spear was being nourished and Wang An summoned the Azure Cloud Heavenly Sword.

• Sword Emperor Jiuli told Sophia that he intended to prove his own Sword Dao, built around three perfected law profundities, rather than inherit the Path of War Sacrifice.
• Sophia explained that Jiuli lacked the bearing needed to prove a high position and admitted that she, too, was uncertain what Dao to pursue after perfecting three laws.
• The Wind Spirit Dragon Master identified their predicament as the Law Pre-Proof Bewilderment Tribulation and explained how it tested an expert's original purpose and resolve.
• A Bronze Human Race expert asked how Great Perfected Heavenly River's four-law cultivation related to the tribulation, but Sophia said the Gold Human Race had few records and suggested asking him directly.
• Gaoyang Yunfei said the divine weapon Wang An was forging for him should be nearly finished, so the group went to see him.
• Lei Nü led them to the Eight Fires Weapon-Forging Platform, where a cold-iron divine spear was undergoing Warm Nourishment and Wang An summoned the Azure Cloud Heavenly Sword.

Wang An completed the sixth transformation of the Clear Edge Celestial Sword of Profound Insight, demonstrated its power, and delivered Gaoyang Yunfei’s spear. The gathering then turned to the tribulation of bewilderment, and Wang An said he did not expect to face it even after completing five laws.

• Wang An spent three days refining the flying sword’s laws until the Clear Edge Celestial Sword of Profound Insight completed its sixth transformation.
• Wang An demonstrated the sword, prompting Sword Emperor Jiuli, Wind Spirit Dragon Master, Grand Mage Sophia, and other experts to activate their innate magic treasures for protection.
• Wang An gave Gaoyang Yunfei the spear he had commissioned, and Gaoyang Yunfei refined it and praised the result.
• Wang An invited the gathered experts to drink tea and asked Sword Emperor Jiuli and the others what they wished to discuss.
• Sword Emperor Jiuli asked when the tribulation of bewilderment would appear for someone condensing five law profundities, and Wang An replied that he had never encountered it and did not expect it upon completing five laws.

Wang An discussed why he had preserved his original purpose, reassured his companions that Autumn Emperor Divine City could withstand attacks, and learned more about the divine courts of the Sole True Realm. The group then discussed their different Daos, with Wang An explaining how his five elements generated and overcame one another.

• Wang An explained that his youth and the Tribulation of Lostness had helped him retain a clear purpose in cultivation, prompting the others to debate whether the tribulation should occur earlier.
• Sophia asked whether Wang An could withstand the True God of Battle and Victory, and Wang An assured her that his formation would protect Autumn Emperor Divine City.
• Wang An asked whether the divine courts possessed high-tier numinous treasures or could contact great ones, and the others explained that the Sole True Realm was mainly a cradle for great ones.
• Wind Spirit Dragon Master proposed a Dao discussion, and Sophia, Wind Spirit Dragon Master, and Sword Emperor Jiuli described their respective Daos.
• Wang An explained his Dao of the five elements generating and overcoming one another, describing the roles of Heavenly River Water, Great Forest Wood, Heavenly Fire, Rooftop Earth, and Sword Edge Metal.

After earning the honorific Great Perfected Heavenly River of the Five Elements and Vast Dharma, Wang An expanded his weapon-forging work and prepared Autumn Emperor Divine City for an impending battle. As powerful factions gathered, he began closing the volcanoes that powered the city’s great formation.

• After three months of discussion, the experts honored Wang An as Great Perfected Heavenly River of the Five Elements and Vast Dharma, and their Qi Destiny flowed into his realm.
• Wang An accepted orders to forge and upgrade divine weapons, collecting spirit roots and forging materials while strengthening his Hundred-Forged Azure Steel imagery.
• Over the next two years, representatives of powerful factions gathered near the Sea of Fire Disaster Domain to witness the approaching battle.
• Wang An learned that the Autumn Emperor Divine City’s three field Dharma Aspect legions could suppress an expert who had perfected two laws, and he agreed to begin talks with factions seeking the city’s environmental-isolation technology.
• Wang An rose to preside over the closure of the seventy-two surrounding volcanoes and inspected the formation network linked to the city’s thirty-six primary volcanoes.

Wang An completed a hundred-thousand-li formation that transformed the region around Autumn Emperor Divine City into a Supreme Yin Cold Autumn spiritual atmosphere and revealed three Formation Domain Laws. Observers recognized him as a quasi-supreme grandmaster and realized the city’s grand formation could be far more powerful than they had expected.

• Wang An linked the 72 formation plates and activated a grand formation that changed the weather and silenced the volcanoes across a hundred thousand li.
• Divine City subordinates planted spirit medicines across the newly cooled land, while Supreme Yin spirit objects began to condense within the formation.
• An exotic beast that left the city to gather cold dew froze to death when the formation’s fluctuations caught it.
• Wind Spirit Dragon Master judged Wang An to be a quasi-supreme grandmaster in Formation Domains, prompting other powerful figures to discuss the rank’s significance.
• Wind Spirit Dragon Master suspected that Autumn Emperor Divine City had already completed a core killing formation and that its full formation possessed at least three Formation Domain Laws.

The War Divine Court proposed a pact to Great Perfected Heavenly River, who ignored its envoys as both forces prepared for battle. Vicious Tyrant Golden Dragon urged an attack, while the True God of Battle and Victory's alliance with the Beast Clan Alliance revealed a plot to obstruct or kill Heavenly River.

• The War Divine Court's envoy offered to destroy Autumn Land Divine City if it won or withdraw from the eastern Myriad Mountains Fire Sea if it lost.
• Wang An ignored the proposal, and the envoys left after waiting half an hour.
• The War Divine Court's fortress stopped five hundred thousand li from the city as its armies and allies gathered for battle.
• Vicious Tyrant Golden Dragon urged the True God of Battle and Victory to attack the city immediately.
• The True God of Battle and Victory recalled that the Beast Clan Alliance had offered a way to kill Heavenly River or derail his cultivation, and he had agreed after seeing its quasi-spirit treasure.

The War Divine Court and the Beast Clan Alliance attacked Autumn Emperor Divine City, forcing its defenders and the other human factions to unite against them. As battles began across the field, Wang An and the True God of Battle and Victory faced off, and Wang An’s four-law divine restriction broke through the Forbidden Law Domain.

• The True God of Battle and Victory abandoned his proposed agreement after Wang An refused it, then ordered the armies to attack Autumn Emperor Divine City.
• The Vicious Tyrant Golden Dragon mocked the True God of Battle and Victory, but fell silent when battle marshals rebuked him for questioning the authority of a Great One’s ascension ritual.
• The War Divine Court’s eight legions advanced on the city while Sword Emperor Jiuli, Sophia, the Wind Spirit Dragon Master, and other human powerhouses joined Wang An against the enemy.
• The Vicious Tyrant Golden Dragon charged Sword Emperor Jiuli, and the Wind Spirit Dragon Master and Sophia sent formation masters and mages to reinforce the city’s three legions.
• The True God of Battle and Victory attacked Wang An with a bonded divine weapon and spread his Forbidden Law Domain, but Wang An’s four-law divine restriction forced it open and suppressed those present.