Chapter Summaries

Zhang Kui fought the Kui Ox chieftain until Su Daji secretly knocked the chieftain down, allowing him to flee and breaking his army’s morale. After routing four tribes, Ye Xuan’s forces marched north to join Wen Zhong, but the Qiongqi Tribal Community and its allies blocked their way again.

• Zhang Kui clashed with the Kui Ox chieftain in a fierce battle while Ye Xuan asked Wushuang and Su Daji who had the advantage.
• Wushuang predicted Zhang Kui would prevail through superior skill, and Su Daji secretly struck the chieftain from behind.
• Zhang Kui attacked the fallen chieftain, who dodged and fled, causing the Kui Ox Tribe to lose morale and retreat.
• Zhang Kui, Gao Lanying, and the Yin Shang army routed the Kui Ox Tribe and marched north to join Wen Zhong after defeating four major tribes.
• Ye Xuan saw hundreds of thousands of troops led by the Qiongqi Tribal Community blocking the army’s route again.

Ye Xuan and Zhang Kui’s two-hundred-thousand-strong army faced a rapidly assembling force of more than three hundred thousand tribal soldiers intent on killing the Human Emperor. Ye Xuan refused to leave, and Zhang Kui formed the army into a defensive circle as the enemy charged.

• Qiongqi warriors and giant-wolf cavalry led a coalition of more than ten tribal communities toward Ye Xuan, while other forces continued converging.
• Zhang Kui warned Ye Xuan that the army risked being surrounded and urged him to retreat.
• Ye Xuan refused to abandon his troops and ordered Zhang Kui to arrange the army to meet the enemy.
• Zhang Kui reorganized the army into a circular defensive formation, placing flaming chariots, shield guards, and spear soldiers along its outer lines.
• More than three hundred thousand tribal soldiers charged toward the formation, led by a warrior riding a giant wolf.

Ye Xuan’s army became locked in a bloody stalemate with the North Sea alliance, leaving him doubtful that he could join forces with Grand Tutor Wen Zhong. Huang Feihu and Grand Tutor Wen Zhong then charged down from the mountain with their troops, striking the allied army from behind and turning the battle in Yin Shang’s favor.

• Zhang Kui fought the giant wolf clan leader while the Human Clan leaders engaged the northern generals and the armies clashed.
• Ye Xuan saw that Yin Shang’s smaller force was struggling against the North Sea alliance and considered using hidden means.
• Huang Feihu led his war elephants and cavalry down from the mountain and smashed into the allied army’s rear.
• Grand Tutor Wen Zhong followed with more than four hundred thousand troops, trapping the allied forces between his army and Ye Xuan’s.

The North Sea leaders launched a desperate attack on Ye Xuan, hoping to kill the Human Emperor and turn the tide against Great Shang. Su Daji, Huang Feihu, Zhang Kui, and Grand Tutor Wen Zhong protected him and halted the attackers as Yin Shang’s armies joined up and split the enemy forces.

• The North Sea leaders rallied their forces and sent more than a dozen experts to attack Ye Xuan directly.
• Su Daji shielded Ye Xuan and Wushuang with her enormous white tail, while the attackers’ spells failed to harm them.
• Huang Feihu and Zhang Kui rushed to defend Ye Xuan, and Grand Tutor Wen Zhong stopped the remaining enemy experts.
• Grand Tutor Wen Zhong killed an attacker with a golden beam from his Heavenly Eye after dispersing the man’s storm spell.
• Zhang Kui and Grand Tutor Wen Zhong’s kills shocked the enemy leaders and slowed their assault.
• Yin Shang’s armies joined forces and divided the opposing alliance, leaving it unable to pose a serious threat.

As Yin Shang fought the North Sea coalition, Ye Xuan used Su Daji’s hair to create a guqin and played “The General’s Command,” halting the million-strong battlefield and drawing the soldiers into a vision of the Human Clan’s origins. The vision showed the Innate Human Race struggling to survive amid the devastation caused by the Witch and Demon Clans.

• Huang Feihu’s cavalry and Zhang Kui’s forces attacked alongside Wen Zhong, inflicting heavy losses on the North Sea coalition.
• North Sea leaders urged their warriors to target Ye Xuan and promised the victor leadership of the seventy-two clans.
• Ye Xuan pulled Su Daji beside him, took several strands of her hair, and fashioned them into a guqin with his magic power.
• Ye Xuan played “The General’s Command,” and its music suppressed everyone on the battlefield, stopping the fighting.
• The music sent the soldiers into a vision of the Innate Human Race struggling to survive as the Witch and Demon Clans fought for control of the Primordial World.

As Ye Xuan played The General's Command, the Great Shang soldiers witnessed the Human Clan's history of suffering, resistance, rise, and decline. The music awakened their fighting spirit, and they charged the allied forces of the North Sea's feudal lords with renewed ferocity.

• Ye Xuan's zither showed the Human Clan's ancestors being slaughtered by the Witch and Demon Clans, while Empress Nuwa failed to save them and the survivors turned away from her.
• The vision followed the Human Clan's ancestors through the destruction of the Witch and Demon Clans and the rise of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, who brought the Human Clan to its height.
• Old Ancestor Hongjun imposed Heavenly Dao shackles on the Human Clan, and its strength declined, though the current Human Emperor still sought to restore its former glory.
• The Great Shang soldiers felt the Human Emperor's resolve through Ye Xuan's music, and Daji and Wushuang were astonished by its effect.
• As The General's Command reached its climax, the soldiers awoke filled with fighting spirit and charged the allied forces, cutting down their enemies.

The Human Emperor’s army defeated the allied forces of the North Sea lords at Beast God Mountain after his music turned the battle in Yin Shang’s favor. Ye Xuan ordered his exhausted troops to rest while both sides gathered to plan their next moves.

• The North Sea lords’ armies lost their will to fight under The General's Command, and the Yin Shang soldiers routed them.
• The rebel leaders ordered a full retreat, but the Yin Shang army pursued them for more than ten li before stopping.
• Ye Xuan reflected on the victory, the loss of more than a hundred thousand troops, and the hidden forces that might be supporting the North Sea rebellion.
• Ye Xuan ordered the army to set up camp and rest, then met with Grand Tutor Wen Zhong, Huang Feihu, Zhang Kui, and the other generals to discuss the next battles.
• The North Sea lords gathered in another tent, where nearly a hundred rebels met to discuss their plans.

Yuan Futong warned the leaders of the North Sea factions that the Human Emperor and his forces were too dangerous to underestimate, but arguments over the recent defeat soon erupted among the gathered lords. The meeting descended into chaos as rival leaders turned on one another.

• Yuan Futong told the faction leaders to unite and act cautiously, citing the Human Emperor's strength and the losses they had suffered.
• Several leaders discussed how the Human Emperor's forces had routed their army and how two women had blocked their attacks.
• A leader mocked the tribes that had fought on the front lines, provoking the Qiongqi Tribal Community, Kui Ox Tribe, and Demon Wolf Clan leaders.
• Tian Kui and other leaders condemned the mocker for avoiding battle while their tribes suffered heavy losses.
• More than twenty leaders rose to attack the mocker, while his allies tried to stop them and the camp erupted into chaos.

Yuan Futong broke up a quarrel among the North Sea leaders and warned them that their forces could not rely on numbers alone to defeat Yin Shang. He began explaining that their enemy’s powerful generals were the true threat, but the chapter ended before he finished his warning.

• Yuan Futong struck the ground to silence the North Sea leaders as they nearly came to blows.
• Yuan Futong rebuked the leaders for infighting and urged them to focus on defeating Wen Zhong, Huang Feihu, and the Yin Shang army.
• A reckless leader argued that the North Sea army should attack directly because it still outnumbered Yin Shang’s forces.
• Yuan Futong rejected the proposal, explaining that Yin Shang’s equipment and superior fighters gave it the advantage.
• Yuan Futong listed the enemy’s formidable generals and began warning that the leaders’ deaths would decide the battle.

The North Sea tribal leaders debated how to counter Yin Shang after their defeat, with some proposing they summon their ancient demon ancestors and Yuan Futong warning of the risks. An envoy from Yin Shang arrived at night, and the leaders’ reaction changed when they saw her.

• The North Sea leaders feared they could not match Yin Shang’s generals, while one leader urged them to rely on their numerical advantage.
• A leader proposed summoning the tribes’ ancestors, ancient demons who protected them in exchange for offerings and blood food.
• Yuan Futong warned that waking the ancestors could bring disaster and that they might refuse to oppose the Human Emperor because of his fortune.
• A guard announced that a woman from Yin Shang had arrived as an envoy, and Yuan Futong invited her into the camp.
• The black-cloaked woman appeared, and the leaders’ expressions changed.

Su Daji arrived at the North Sea leaders’ hall as the Human Emperor’s envoy and used her beauty to capture their attention before delivering his challenge. The leaders erupted in anger, and Yuan Futong urged her to reveal the rest of the message.

• Su Daji entered the hall and captivated the North Sea leaders with her beauty.
• Yuan Futong asked who she was and why she had come, and Su Daji introduced herself as a maidservant to the Human Emperor.
• Su Daji announced that the Human Emperor had challenged the leaders as lowborn barbarians and dared them to face him in battle.
• The North Sea leaders grew furious, and Yuan Futong accused the Human Emperor of provoking them.
• Su Daji said she had one more message that might anger the leaders, and Yuan Futong told her to speak freely.

Su Daji confronted Yuan Futong and the North Sea leaders, goading them into accepting the Human Emperor’s challenge before revealing her overwhelming strength. As she fought them, the Yin Shang army launched a nighttime surprise attack on the North Sea camp, and the furious leaders turned their anger toward Daji.

• Su Daji told Yuan Futong and the North Sea leaders that the Human Emperor considered them trash, provoking their outrage.
• Yuan Futong tried to keep Su Daji in the North Sea, but she asked whether the leaders would accept the Human Emperor’s challenge, and they agreed.
• Su Daji announced that she would send the leaders on their way, then unleashed a powerful energy storm that overturned the camp and sent them flying.
• Yuan Futong and the other leaders attacked Su Daji together, but she dodged their strikes and quickly brought down several powerful fighters.
• Battle cries sounded across the camp as the Yin Shang army launched a surprise attack, and the North Sea leaders turned their fury on Daji.

Su Daji and the Yin Shang army crushed the North Sea rebels in a night-long assault, though Yuan Futong and several other leaders escaped. At dawn, Daji reported her failure to capture them to Ye Xuan, who reconsidered how formidable the North Sea leaders were.

• Su Daji killed many North Sea leaders, then Zhang Kui, Gao Lanying, Wen Zhong, and Huang Feihu arrived to support her.
• The Yin Shang army stormed the North Sea camp, setting tents ablaze and killing or driving off the rebel warriors as Ye Xuan watched without intervening.
• The massacre lasted all night, and the combined forces of the seventy-two North Sea lords were routed.
• At dawn, Su Daji appeared beside Ye Xuan and said that Yuan Futong and about a dozen other leaders had escaped.
• Ye Xuan was surprised that the North Sea leaders had escaped Su Daji and realized he had underestimated them.

After Yin Shang routed the North Sea lords’ allied army, a terrifying dragon-like creature descended amid thunder and lightning. Grand Tutor Wen Zhong identified it as an ancient Thunder Beast rather than a true dragon, and Ye Xuan’s companions and commanders moved to protect him.

• Yin Shang’s forces counted more than four hundred thousand North Sea barbarians killed in a decisive victory, though many enemies escaped.
• As the exhausted soldiers cleared the battlefield, a terrifying presence descended and caused some of them to collapse and spit blood.
• Dark clouds and raging lightning revealed a thousand-meter dragon-like creature in the sky.
• Wushuang, Su Daji, Grand Tutor Wen Zhong, Huang Feihu, Zhang Kui, and Gao Lanying positioned themselves between the creature and Ye Xuan.
• Grand Tutor Wen Zhong explained that the creature was an ancient Thunder Beast, a dragon-like being distinct from the Dragon Clan and similar to Empress Nuwa’s Soaring Serpent and White Hornless Dragon.

Ye Xuan disguised himself as Wuming and confronted the thunder beast that had emerged as hidden strength of the North Sea. After Wuming withstood its thunderbolts, the chapter left him facing the beast as everyone watched in alarm.

• Ye Xuan realized the thunder beast was among the North Sea's hidden forces and wondered how many ancient beasts remained there.
• Ye Xuan left an avatar behind, put on his corpse-driving set, and appeared before the thunder beast as Wuming.
• Wen Zhong sensed Wuming's strength and moved to protect the Human Emperor, while Wushuang and Su Daji recognized Wuming as Ye Xuan.
• Wuming taunted the thunder beast, which unleashed a storm of thunder serpents that engulfed him.
• Wuming emerged unharmed from the thunderbolts, and his presence filled the onlookers with fear.

Ye Xuan faced a thunder beast whose lightning could not penetrate his Hongmeng Mystic Daoist Robe or harm his Quasi-Saint-level body. After Ye Xuan dissolved the beast’s strongest bolt with his Power of Yang, the enraged beast charged at him with its tail, and Ye Xuan waited calmly for the attack.

• The thunder beast was stunned when its lightning failed to hurt Ye Xuan, while Ye Xuan stood untouched by the attacks.
• Wen Zhong, Huang Feihu, Zhang Kui, and the others watched the battle from below, and Su Daji reassured Wushuang that Ye Xuan was not in danger.
• As the clouds dispersed, Ye Xuan saw the thunder beast’s vast, limbless, dragon-like form.
• The thunder beast fired an immensely powerful bolt from its mouth, but Ye Xuan swallowed it with his Power of Yang.
• The thunder beast swept its tail at Ye Xuan, who stood with his hands behind his back and waited for the blow.

Ye Xuan faced the Thunder Beast and proved vastly stronger, turning aside its attacks and hurling it into the earth. After the beast unleashed its thunder pearl, Ye Xuan struck it with one punch, leaving the Thunder Beast badly wounded and limp.

• The Thunder Beast struck Ye Xuan with its tail, but the impact sent the beast tumbling away without harming Ye Xuan.
• The Thunder Beast retreated to gather its strength, then transformed into lightning and charged Ye Xuan, who stopped it with both hands.
• Ye Xuan seized the Thunder Beast's longest fang and flung the several-thousand-meter beast into the ground, shaking the land and knocking hundreds of thousands of people down.
• The Thunder Beast spat out a divine thunder pearl and sent it toward Ye Xuan amid a sky full of lightning.
• Ye Xuan punched the thunder pearl, extinguishing the lightning and dimming the pearl; the blow also left the Thunder Beast vomiting blood and unable to move.

Ye Xuan, disguised as Wuming, killed the Thunder Beast with one punch, and the Yin Shang army celebrated by preparing to harvest its body. Meanwhile, the surviving North Sea lords regrouped in a cave, furious about the ambush that had decimated them.

• The exhausted Thunder Beast restored its lightning and tried to fight Ye Xuan rather than surrender.
• Ye Xuan smashed the Thunder Beast's head with one punch and killed it.
• Ye Xuan told the Yin Shang soldiers to clear the battlefield and announced a barbecue for the million-strong army.
• Wushuang, Daji, Wen Zhong, Huang Feihu, and the soldiers celebrated the Thunder Beast's death and began processing its body.
• The surviving North Sea lords gathered in a cave, where their leaders complained about Su Daji and the others ambushing them.

After the Thunder Beast Ancestor and a million soldiers were lost, the Thunder Beast Clan's patriarch announced that his clan would withdraw from the war. Yuan Futong urged the other leaders to remain united and promised reinforcements from Xiqi, but the patriarch accused him of using their warriors as cannon fodder, leaving their dispute unresolved.

• A broad, powerful man warned the leaders that they could not match their enemies, who had killed the Thunder Beast Ancestor.
• The Thunder Beast Clan's patriarch announced that his clan would withdraw after suffering heavy losses and losing its ancestor.
• Yuan Futong argued that the Seventy-Two Clans could raise another million soldiers and said he had contacted Xiqi for reinforcements.
• Yuan Futong assured the clan leaders that the North Sea would endure as long as its tribes stayed united and its other ancestors remained.
• The Thunder Beast Clan's patriarch accused Yuan Futong of wanting to use another million soldiers as cannon fodder, and Yuan Futong angrily turned to address the other patriarchs.

Yuan Futong forced the North Sea tribal leaders to rebuild their army while threatening any further defections, then confronted the Thunder Beast Clan chief over his withdrawal. The chief insisted the uprising was doomed and challenged Yuan Futong to stop him.

• Yuan Futong allowed the Thunder Beast Clan to be treated as a special case but threatened to exterminate any clan that tried to withdraw again.
• Yuan Futong ordered the other tribal leaders to return to their headquarters, raise another army, and await him after he chose new leaders for the tribes.
• The tribal leaders left the cave with most of the remaining North Sea warriors, leaving Yuan Futong alone with the Thunder Beast Clan chief.
• Yuan Futong recalled the beautiful demoness who had nearly slaughtered the tribal chiefs and resolved to capture her and take revenge after Xiqi's reinforcements arrived.
• Yuan Futong demanded to know why the Thunder Beast Clan chief wanted to withdraw and accused the clan of sending only its old, weak, sick, and disabled warriors.
• The Thunder Beast Clan chief declared that the uprising had never had a chance of success and challenged Yuan Futong to fight if he would not let the clan leave.