Chapter Summaries

Jiang Bei executed verified death-row prisoners across all thirteen provinces to gather Merit Points, reunited with Yu Rou in Qingzhou, and returned to the Imperial City with 3.2 million points. He considered the danger of the Azure Demon Seal and began upgrading the Myriad Manifestations Return to Origin Art.

• Jiang Bei saw that Emperor Jing Xuan had earned him 80,000 Merit Points, but he still lacked enough to reach Major Refinement.
• Jiang Bei ordered the execution of verified death-row prisoners throughout the thirteen provinces and personally killed hundreds in the Imperial City's heavenly prison.
• Jiang Bei reunited with Yu Rou and his former comrades in Qingzhou, then executed the province's 337 verified death-row prisoners.
• Jiang Bei sent Yu Rou back to the Imperial City and traveled through the remaining twelve provinces, executing death-row prisoners with verified cases.
• Jiang Bei returned to the Imperial City with 3,256,234 Merit Points, rejected the demonic Heavenly Anomaly Profound Technique, and chose to upgrade the Myriad Manifestations Return to Origin Art.

After advancing to Heavenly Venerable Major Refinement, Jiang Bei discovered that his power only strengthened the Azure Demon Seal and hastened its erosion of his body. An envoy from the Fengxian Sacred Dynasty arrived, humiliated Da Yun and rejected Duan Qingcang's plea for an Immortal realm method, leaving Jiang Bei facing him with killing intent.

• Jiang Bei broke through to Heavenly Venerable Major Refinement, then found that his power fed the Azure Demon Seal and accelerated its attack on his body.
• Jiang Bei decided he had to find a way to remove the seal, but Duan Qingcang summoned him to meet an envoy from the Fengxian Sacred Dynasty.
• Duan Qingcang explained that the Fengxian Sacred Dynasty claimed to protect the region while allowing humans, demons, and barbarians to fight under the rule of the strong devouring the weak.
• Jiang Bei and Duan Qingcang entered Yunqing Hall and found the envoy lounging on the Dragon Throne after wrecking the hall and insulting Da Yun.
• Duan Qingcang knelt and begged the envoy for an Immortal realm method, but the envoy mocked him and declared that Da Yun was unworthy of one.
• Jiang Bei stepped toward the envoy and asked, “What did you say?”

A Fengxian Sacred Dynasty envoy demanded three years of Da Yun Dynasty’s tribute in advance at an increased rate, then attacked Duan Qingcang when he protested. Jiang Bei intervened and brutally beat the Immortal Realm envoy, leaving Duan Qingcang and Qin Cang stunned.

• The brocade-robed envoy demanded fifty percent of Da Yun Dynasty’s income for the next three years, paid in advance, as tribute to the Holy Dynasty.
• Duan Qingcang pleaded for mercy, but the envoy seized him by the throat and used Immortal Realm pressure to force Qin Cang to his knees.
• Jiang Bei grabbed the envoy’s wrist and ordered him to release Duan Qingcang, but the envoy refused and threatened Jiang Bei.
• Jiang Bei crushed the envoy’s arm, slammed him into the floor, and pinned him in a crater.
• Jiang Bei relentlessly punched the envoy until his face was mangled, while Duan Qingcang and Qin Cang watched in shock.

Jiang Bei killed the Fengxian Sacred Dynasty envoy Sun Xuan, then learned about the wider world while two Azure Demon Sect elders came to avenge him. The chapter left Jiang Bei attacking the green-robed elder above the imperial palace, while the elder’s companion remained in the air.

• Jiang Bei ignored Duan Qingcang and Qin Cang’s pleas, beat Sun Xuan to death, and ordered his remains removed.
• Jiang Bei searched Sun Xuan’s Cosmic Bag, found no Immortal Realm method or information about the Azure Demon Seal, and studied a booklet about the Fengxian Sacred Dynasty.
• A young woman and her senior brother from the Tianyao Alliance traveled toward the Da Yun Dynasty to meet Jiang Bei, though the woman dismissed the task and the dynasty.
• Jiang Bei learned that the Fengxian Sacred Dynasty held many powerful sects and more than forty subordinate dynasties, then sensed two Immortal Realm elders arriving above the palace.
• The green-robed elder attacked Duan Qingcang, Qin Cang, and the soldiers, killing the soldiers and severely injuring the two officials before Jiang Bei appeared.
• After the green-robed elder began identifying himself as a subordinate of Ancient Demon Peak, Jiang Bei interrupted and crushed him with a force that shattered his bones.

Jiang Bei killed the two Azure Demon Sect elders and learned that only the Ancient Demon Peak Master could remove the Azure Demon Seal. When Moshā attacked him, four Tianyao Alliance disciples intervened and fought the Peak Master's projection.

• Jiang Bei killed the Green Robe elder and shattered the Black Robe elder's attack, then seized him and demanded to know how to break the Azure Demon Seal.
• The Black Robe elder said only Qingyang or the Ancient Demon Peak Master could remove the seal, then summoned Moshā for help.
• Moshā appeared through a vortex and attacked Jiang Bei with two destructive streams of demonic energy.
• A Tianyao Alliance leader and three companions arrived, intercepted Moshā's attack, and declared Jiang Bei their honored guest.
• The four Tianyao Alliance disciples charged Moshā together as he summoned more energy to fight back.

After the Tianyao Alliance drove Moshā away, Lin Feng explained that his group had come to invite Jiang Bei to meet their master. They gave Jiang Bei a Profound Yang Soul Suppression Jade that temporarily weakened his Azure Demon Seal, and offered him a chance to enter the Heavenly Pool, which might eradicate it completely.

• Moshā broke off his battle with the Tianyao Alliance, warned Jiang Bei that the Azure Demon Seal would eventually kill him, and vanished.
• Jiang Bei killed the Black Robe elder, then thanked Lin Feng, Lei Lie, Fan Chen, and Yun Yao for saving the Da Yun Dynasty.
• Lin Feng said the Tianyao Alliance's master had sent them to invite Jiang Bei to the alliance and meet him in person.
• Yun Yao gave Jiang Bei the Profound Yang Soul Suppression Jade, which temporarily suppressed the Azure Demon Seal and blocked the Azure Demon Sect from sensing him.
• Lin Feng explained that a Peak Master-level figure might remove the seal with a special secret art and the Peak Master's Token, then offered Jiang Bei a chance to enter the Heavenly Pool, where its pure power might cleanse the seal.

Jiang Bei learned that Moshā and the Azure Demon Sect were based in the Southern Region, near Da Yun, and realized he needed to leave for the Tianyao Alliance to remove his Azure Demon Seal and seek an Immortal Realm cultivation method. He agreed to go, planning to arrange Da Yun’s affairs before departing for the Fengxian Sacred Dynasty the next morning.

• Lin Feng explained that Moshā was the powerful master of Ancient Demon Peak and that the Tianyao Alliance had only driven him off by bluffing about their master’s arrival.
• Lei Lie and Lin Feng revealed that the Azure Demon Sect’s lair lay in the Southern Region’s Myriad Poison Demon Marsh, close to Da Yun, making Jiang Bei fear that Moshā could attack his dynasty before the Tianyao Alliance could help.
• Lin Feng assured Jiang Bei that the alliance would monitor the Azure Demon Sect and protect Da Yun while Jiang Bei sought help, and argued that staying would leave him and his dynasty in greater danger.
• Jiang Bei accepted Lin Feng’s invitation to travel to the Tianyao Alliance, and he and the others went to the Cloud Clear Hall to discuss preparations.
• Lin Feng said the Holy Dynasty’s court had no legitimate reason to punish Jiang Bei for killing Sun Xuan, whose corruption the court had already uncovered.
• Jiang Bei asked Lin Feng and the others to rest for a day while he arranged Da Yun’s affairs, and they agreed to depart for the Fengxian Sacred Dynasty the next morning.

Jiang Bei left Da Yun Dynasty for the Tianyao Alliance in Fengxian Sacred Dynasty, hoping to find a way to remove the Azure Demon Seal and grow stronger. Near Fengxian, Sun Tianming accused him of killing a Sacred Envoy and ordered his arrest, but a powerful voice intervened.

• Jiang Bei told Duan Qingcang and Qin Cang he was leaving Da Yun, and they pledged to protect the dynasty until his return.
• Jiang Bei comforted Yu Rou, promised to return safely, and departed the next morning with Lin Feng, Lei Lie, Fan Chen, and Yun Yao using Wind Travel Talismans.
• The group crossed from the Southern Region toward Fengxian Sacred Dynasty, and Jiang Bei vowed to destroy the Azure Demon Sect when he returned.
• Sun Tianming intercepted the travelers and accused Jiang Bei of killing Sun Xuan, his brother and a Sacred Envoy, then ordered his men to seize Jiang Bei.
• Lin Feng and Lei Lie challenged Sun Tianming's accusation and authority, and a thunderous voice intervened as the two sides prepared to fight.

Chu Cangming drove Sun Tianming away and sent Jiang Bei to the Tianyao Alliance, where Jiang Bei saw the strength of the Fengxian Sacred Dynasty and met Qin Tianhong, the master of the Kaiyang Battle Mansion. Qin Tianhong welcomed Jiang Bei with tea, leaving him at the Alliance headquarters under the protection of the master Lin Feng had brought him to meet.

• Chu Cangming blocked Sun Tianming from taking Jiang Bei and warned him that Qin Tianhong might arrive, forcing Sun Tianming and his two companions to retreat.
• Chu Cangming praised Jiang Bei's deeds in the Da Yun Dynasty, urged him to go to the Tianyao Alliance, and departed to handle the unrest elsewhere.
• Lin Feng and the others escorted Jiang Bei into the Fengxian Sacred Dynasty and Tianheng City, where they reached the Tianyao Alliance headquarters.
• Lei Lie, Fan Chen, and Yun Yao left to carry out urgent missions, while Lin Feng led Jiang Bei to meet Qin Tianhong in his smithy courtyard.
• Qin Tianhong finished forging, welcomed Jiang Bei, and poured tea for him and Lin Feng.

Jiang Bei accepted Qin Tianhong’s offer to become his seventh Personal Disciple, pledging to fight demons and uphold righteousness. After Lin Feng rushed to aid Lu at Cloud Shadow Lake, Qin Tianhong gave Jiang Bei two ancient books, golden armor, and an Immortal Weapon saber as a welcome gift.

• Qin Tianhong praised Jiang Bei’s rise from a frontier soldier to a young Heavenly Venerate and invited him to join the Kaiyang Battle Mansion as his last disciple.
• Qin Tianhong warned Jiang Bei that his disciples faced deadly battles and must uphold righteousness, and Jiang Bei immediately vowed to meet both conditions and bowed to him as Master.
• Qin Tianhong accepted Jiang Bei as his seventh Personal Disciple, and Lin Feng congratulated his new Junior Brother.
• Lin Feng received a warning that Lu might be in trouble at Cloud Shadow Lake, so Qin Tianhong ordered him to provide support and ensure her safe return.
• Qin Tianhong told Jiang Bei that danger and conflict lay beneath the Fengxian Sacred Dynasty’s prosperity, then presented him with two ancient books, golden armor, and a saber he identified as a true Immortal Weapon.

Qin Tianhong gave Jiang Bei an Immortal Weapon, armor, cultivation manuals, and a Heavenly Pool Token, then sent him to settle in Listening to Waves Courtyard. Jiang Bei used his Merit Points to reach Immortal Realm Minor Refinement and cultivate the first revolution of the Nine Revolutions Sacred King Body; the next day, someone emerged from the Heavenly Pool’s spatial gateway.

• Jiang Bei tested the Immortal Weapon Heaven Abyss, while Qin Tianhong explained the Golden Scale Profound Light Armor and gave him the Nine Revolutions Sacred King Body and Heavenly Sun Immortal Canon.
• Qin Tianhong gave Jiang Bei a Heavenly Pool Token and assigned Zhao Gang to escort him to Listening to Waves Courtyard, explaining that the token would help remove his Azure Demon Seal.
• Jiang Bei spent 1.8 million Merit Points to cultivate the Heavenly Sun Immortal Canon and break through to Immortal Realm Minor Refinement.
• Jiang Bei used his remaining Merit Points to cultivate the first revolution of the Nine Revolutions Sacred King Body, greatly increasing his strength.
• The next day, Jiang Bei went to the Heavenly Pool gateway, where a figure emerged from the spatial vortex.

Cao Lie learned that Qin Tianhong had chosen Jiang Bei as his seventh Personal Disciple and secured him a Heavenly Pool opportunity, then confronted Jiang Bei in a jealous rage. Jiang Bei refused Cao Lie’s challenge and continued toward the Heavenly Pool, but Cao Lie blocked his path and reached for his shoulder.

• Cao Lie emerged from the Heavenly Pool and boasted that his gains would help him become Qin Tianhong’s seventh Personal Disciple.
• Wang Hu dismissed Jiang Bei as an unworthy native, but Zhang Bao revealed that Qin Tianhong had already accepted Jiang Bei and arranged a Heavenly Pool opportunity for him.
• Furious that Jiang Bei had gained the position and opportunity he wanted, Cao Lie ordered his lackeys to take him to find Jiang Bei.
• Cao Lie spotted Jiang Bei outside the Heavenly Pool and demanded to know whether Qin Tianhong had accepted him as a Personal Disciple.
• Jiang Bei declined Cao Lie’s challenge and headed for the gateway, so Cao Lie blocked him and reached for his shoulder.

Jiang Bei brutally beat Cao Lie, then broke Wu Tianfeng’s arm when he tried to intervene. As Wu Tianfeng’s two attendants charged Jiang Bei, an icy snort suddenly rang out.

• Jiang Bei seized Cao Lie and repeatedly smashed him into the plaza, leaving him gravely injured.
• Wang Hu and Zhang Bao tried to rescue Cao Lie, but Jiang Bei’s roar sent them flying into a stone wall and unconscious.
• Wu Tianfeng arrived with two Immortal Realm attendants and demanded that Jiang Bei stop, but Jiang Bei continued beating Cao Lie.
• Wu Tianfeng attacked Jiang Bei, who evaded his strike, caught his wrist, broke his arm, and flung him away.
• Wu Tianfeng ordered his attendants to kill Jiang Bei, and they charged at him just before a stern snort rang out.

Zhao Gang and Old Man Huo stopped Wu Tianfeng’s attack on Jiang Bei and sent the disputants away. Jiang Bei entered the Heavenly Pool to refine himself, while Old Man Huo doubted he could earn more than an orange evaluation.

• Zhao Gang intervened to protect Jiang Bei, denounced Wu Tianfeng’s account of the fight, and forced Wu Tianfeng’s retainers to halt.
• Old Man Huo appeared, ended the confrontation, rebuked Wu Tianfeng for abusing his family’s influence, and ordered Jiang Bei to enter the Heavenly Pool.
• Wu Tianfeng left with his retainers and the injured Cao Lie, while Zhao Gang explained the alliance’s Heavenly Captain ranks and merit system to Jiang Bei.
• Jiang Bei resolved to earn respect through strength and achievements, then entered the spatial gate to the Heavenly Pool.
• Old Man Huo reset the pool water after Cao Lie’s orange refinement and explained the evaluation colors, privately predicting Jiang Bei would earn no better than orange.

Jiang Bei used the Heavenly Pool to completely remove the Azure Demon Seal and undergo a major transformation, drawing golden light from the pool. He then volunteered to investigate Cloud Shadow Lake, while Old Man Huo arrived at the Task Hall.

• Jiang Bei endured the Heavenly Pool’s overwhelming power for twelve hours, erased the Azure Demon Seal, and greatly strengthened his body.
• The Heavenly Pool turned golden, shocking Old Man Huo with Jiang Bei’s unprecedented result.
• At the Kaiyang Battle Mansion Task Hall, Shen Lian told Zhao Gang that Wang Yu had vanished while investigating the Seven Great Sects and that Lu Xuewei and Lin Feng had gone missing at Cloud Shadow Lake.
• Jiang Bei volunteered for the dangerous Cloud Shadow Lake mission, and Shen Lian gave him a command talisman and ordered him to investigate and seek reinforcements if needed.
• Zhao Gang prepared to depart for the Seven Great Sects, but Old Man Huo entered the hall and surprised Shen Lian.

Old Man Huo revealed that Jiang Bei had earned the legendary gold rating in the Heavenly Pool, but allowed him to face the danger at Cloud Shadow Lake as a test. There, Lin Feng and poisoned Lu Xuewei fought two Immortal Realm demons, who revealed that the Seven Great Sects had suffered a major attack.

• Old Man Huo arrived at the Task Hall seeking Jiang Bei and learned he had gone to Cloud Shadow Lake.
• Old Man Huo told Shen Lian and Zhao Gang that Jiang Bei had received a gold Heavenly Pool rating, stunning them with the revelation of his extraordinary potential.
• Shen Lian wanted to retrieve Jiang Bei, but Old Man Huo argued that Cloud Shadow Lake could temper him and turned the discussion to the missing scouts at the Seven Great Sects.
• Old Man Huo suspected merchant clans were secretly supplying the Seven Great Sects with resources to refine Demon Cores, then vanished from the hall.
• At Cloud Shadow Lake, Lin Feng and poisoned Lu Xuewei faced the Thousand Illusions Snake Lord and the Azure Water Profound Fish, both Immortal Realm demons.
• The Thousand Illusions Snake Lord admitted he had come from the Seven Great Sects after killing Tianyao Alliance members, then attacked Lin Feng and Lu Xuewei while claiming only its life-bound snake gallbladder could cure her poison.

Jiang Bei arrived at Cloud Shadow Lake, killed the Thousand Illusions Snake Lord and the Azure Water Profound Fish, and cured Lu Xuewei’s poison. After learning that Zhao Gang might be in danger among the Seven Great Sects, Jiang Bei set out with Lin Feng and Lu Xuewei to find him.

• Lu Xuewei succumbed to the poison while Lin Feng tried to protect her, and the Thousand Illusions Snake Lord prepared to attack them.
• Jiang Bei arrived, learned that the Thousand Illusions Snake Lord’s snake core was the antidote, and killed the snake demon with a punch and a slash.
• Jiang Bei slew the Azure Water Profound Fish as it tried to flee, defeating both Immortal-Realm demons in less than ten breaths.
• Lin Feng used the snake core to cure Lu Xuewei’s poison, and the two thanked Jiang Bei for saving them.
• Lin Feng warned that the Seven Great Sects might pose a danger to Zhao Gang, so Jiang Bei, Lin Feng, and Lu Xuewei departed for them.

Jiang Bei, Lin Feng, and Lu Xuewei reached Seven Absolutes Peak to investigate the Seven Great Sects’ suspected Demon Core operation. Jiang Bei exposed a disguised Leopard Demon at the mountain gate, and the chapter ended with the real Wang Yu, Zhao Gang, and other Tianyao Alliance soldiers imprisoned and drained inside a hall on the summit.

• Lin Feng explained that Demon Cores empowered their hosts but often corrupted them into violent monsters, and that the Seven Great Sects were suspected of supplying them to the Demon Realm.
• Soldiers at the mountain gate refused to let Jiang Bei, Lin Feng, and Lu Xuewei ascend, claiming that General Zhao Gang had ordered the peak sealed.
• A figure disguised as Zhao Gang arrived and invited the three up the mountain, but Jiang Bei recognized the deception and struck him down.
• Jiang Bei’s Heavenly Abyss Blade pinned the disguised Zhao Gang to a pillar, revealing him as a Leopard Demon, while the other guards exposed themselves as Seven Great Sects disciples.
• Jiang Bei told Lin Feng and Lu Xuewei to defeat the attackers before they fought their way inside.
• At the summit, the real Wang Yu, Zhao Gang, and more than a dozen other Immortal Realm soldiers hung wounded above cauldrons as their blood and essence were drained.

Jiang Bei and the other disciples stormed the Seven Great Sects’ hall after the sect leaders believed they had been captured, and Jiang Bei killed the Black Fiend Sect leader with a single punch. He then faced the remaining sect leaders and the masked man, beginning his assault to avenge the prisoners.

• The Seven Great Sects’ leaders mocked the captive Zhao Gang, Wang Yu, and their allies, while the masked man revealed that a disguised Phantom Demonic Leopard had lured Jiang Bei, Lin Feng, and Lu Xuewei into a trap.
• Zhao Gang despaired when he learned Jiang Bei and the others had come to Seven Absolutes Peak, and the sect leaders prepared to welcome their supposed captives.
• The hall doors exploded inward, and Jiang Bei’s attack sent the Black Fiend Sect’s sect leader crashing into a wall, killing him.
• Jiang Bei, Lin Feng, and Lu Xuewei charged into the hall, surprising the remaining sect leaders and the masked man and giving Zhao Gang and Wang Yu hope.
• The remaining six sect leaders and the masked man attacked Jiang Bei, who saw the battered prisoners and erupted with killing intent.
• Jiang Bei punched through the Crimson Serpent Sect’s sect leader, blasting apart his upper body in a single blow.

Jiang Bei slaughtered the Seven Great Sects' sect masters and defeated the masked Demon Warrior, unmasking him as Wu Boliang. After stopping Wu Boliang from detonating his Demon Core, Jiang Bei prepared to search the mountain for the sects' remaining demon-refining bases.

• Jiang Bei killed the Mysterious Yin, Blackwater, and Riftwind Sect masters, then instantly killed the final two sect masters as they charged him.
• Jiang Bei pursued the masked man, discovered he was a Demon Warrior, and broke his silver mask to reveal Wu Boliang.
• Zhao Gang and Wang Yu identified Wu Boliang as the Wu Family's Second Elder, and Zhao Gang accused the Wu Family of supplying the Seven Great Sects with resources to refine Demon Cores.
• Wu Boliang began to self-destruct his Demon Core, but Jiang Bei cut open his chest and removed it before it could explode.
• Lin Feng and Lu Xuewei rescued Zhao Gang, Wang Yu, and the other soldiers, and Jiang Bei agreed to search the mountain for the remaining Demon Core bases.