Chapter Summaries

Luo Tianze, Su Yixian, Gu Hongyun, and Sun Anran entered Jiang Sheng’s Four Symbols Sword Formation to destroy its four sword auras and seize the spirit treasure. After they broke the outer domains, they discovered that the formation’s true core was far more dangerous, leaving the four prodigies shaken and their protective treasures destroyed.

• Luo Tianze led Su Yixian, Gu Hongyun, and Sun Anran into the formation, while Jiang Sheng revealed their progress to the watching cultivators.
• Su Yixian attacked the eastern wind sword aura with his Raging Dragon Palm, but the aura shattered his dragon and struck back with a powerful sword light.
• Gu Hongyun’s cloud beasts and Ninefold Cloud Dragon Transformation failed to overcome the northern water sword aura, which reappeared and cut his dragons apart.
• Luo Tianze used his Golden-Eyed Dharma Eye to confirm the western lightning sword aura was real, then destroyed it with his Glazed Buddha Sword and golden-fire blade; Sun Anran, Su Yixian, and Gu Hongyun also shattered their assigned sword auras.
• The four prodigies charged into the formation’s center, where an azure attack destroyed one protective magical treasure from each of them.
• Jiang Sheng told the four that the outer domains had been phantoms and that the chaotic center was the true sword formation.

Jiang Sheng trapped Luo Tianze and the other Anti-Heaven Alliance prodigies in his sword formation, then killed the three Spirit Transformation True Persons who rushed to save them. The surviving prodigies were left defeated as Jiang Sheng returned to Sky Shore Pass.

• Luo Tianze mistook Jiang Sheng’s slaughter formation for an illusion and tried to lead Su Yixian, Gu Hongyun, and Sun Anran out.
• Jiang Sheng unleashed the sword auras, forcing the four prodigies to lose several life-saving treasures as they dodged his attacks.
• True Person Lie Guang, True Person Lian Yue, and True Person Bai Hong conceded the contest, but Ling Yu rejected their attempt to end the fight without consequences.
• Jiang Sheng attacked the four prodigies again, prompting the three Spirit Transformation True Persons to charge in and rescue them.
• Jiang Sheng redirected the four sword auras and killed True Person Lie Guang, True Person Lian Yue, and True Person Bai Hong, then dismissed the formation and returned to Sky Shore Pass on the Green Ox.

After Jiang Sheng and Ling Yu helped repel the Anti-Heaven Alliance at Sky Shore Pass, they discussed why tribulation-born figures were hard to kill and chose to leave the reckoning to the Tianhe Dao Sect. As the Alliance sent Sun Sheng and other reinforcements to the pass, Ning Chuan prepared for a confrontation with the Sun Clan, and Jiang Sheng agreed to assist when the fighting began.

• The Anti-Heaven Alliance retreated across the Blackwater River after Daoist Ling Yuan defeated its four Heavenly Dao Nascent Souls, and Jiang Sheng and Ling Yu discussed the cost of using heavenly favor to kill tribulation-born figures.
• Jiang Sheng told Ling Yu they should let Ning Chuan and the Tianhe Dao Sect handle the Anti-Heaven Alliance, since they had come only to help.
• At the Flying Immortal Sect, Su Yixian asked Sect Master Shentu Tian to avenge Bai Hong, but Shentu Tian said he would wait to see what the Sun Clan did before committing the sect.
• Luo Tianze told Su Yixian that An Ran had persuaded Sun Sheng to act, while the Sun Clan and Great Golden Zen Temple sent reinforcements to Sky Shore Pass.
• Ning Chuan warned Jiang Sheng and Ling Yu about Sun Sheng's strength and said Elder Chenghe would arrive in three days to fight him.
• Jiang Sheng agreed to help Ning Chuan when the battle began.

The Anti-Heaven Alliance and the Zhou Kingdom began a massive battle beyond Sky Shore Pass, with millions of Daoist Soldiers and powerful cultivators joining the slaughter. As Chenghe True Person went to fight Sun Sheng, Guangwen appeared before the pass and asked to meet Jiang Sheng.

• The Anti-Heaven Alliance assembled its forces beyond Sky Shore Pass, while Ning Chuan took command of the Zhou Kingdom’s defenses.
• Luo Tianze ordered the attack, and both sides exchanged techniques, artillery fire, and devastating battle arrays that killed cultivators by the thousands.
• More than thirty Spirit Transformation Realm True Persons entered the fray, while the Daoist Soldiers’ blood-soaked beasts charged the pass.
• Ling Yu fought Sun Anran, and Bai Qiu faced Su Yixian and Gu Hongyun as Jiang Sheng remained unchallenged.
• Chenghe True Person and Sun Sheng summoned their Dharma Images and left to fight in the Astral Wind layer.
• Guangwen appeared before Sky Shore Pass and asked to meet Jiang Sheng.

Six Wisdom Buddha Son Guangwen arrived at Sky Shore Pass, and Jiang Sheng confronted him above the battlefield. Their fight escalated into a clash of Buddhist radiance and Jiang Sheng’s sword and thunder techniques, leaving Guangwen counterattacking with his Heavenly Eye Ability.

• Guangwen appeared on the battlefield after the other high-end combatants had engaged, and Ning Chuan warned that his Heavenly Eye Ability could see through illusions and perceive all forms.
• Jiang Sheng and Guangwen flew above the Astral Wind and blazing-fire layer, where Guangwen formed a Mandala Realm with the Great Compassion Womb-Treasury Mandala Sutra.
• Jiang Sheng countered the Buddhist domain with wind, thunder, water, and fire, then shattered its mandala flowers with a lightning dragon.
• Guangwen used the Limitless Buddha Mantra to collapse Jiang Sheng’s lightning dragon and attack his sea of consciousness, but an Azure Lotus inside Jiang Sheng calmed the assault.
• Jiang Sheng struck with a soul-severing sword and followed with thunder and Four Symbols Sword Qi, while Guangwen dispelled the sword and sacrificed four magical treasures to block the Sword Qi.
• Guangwen used his Heavenly Eye Ability to target a flaw Jiang Sheng had exposed and invoked the Namo Womb-Treasury Mandala.

Chenghe True Person defeated and killed Sun Sheng, turning the battle at Sky Shore Pass against the Anti-Heaven Alliance. As pressure from the Panfeng World and the Buddhist Sect mounted, Daoist Lord Yueheng secured support from Penglai and Qinghua and chose to let the Southern Domain Continent be devastated rather than yield to their rivals.

• Chenghe True Person struck Sun Sheng from the sky with a star seal and a torrent of starlight, killing him and annihilating nearly half the Anti-Heaven Alliance's Daoist Soldier formations.
• Guangwen left after Sun Sheng's fall, while Luo Tianze, Sun Leran, Su Yixian, and Gu Hongyun fled and Ling Yu, Ning Chuan, and Bai Qiu pursued them.
• Chenghe True Person told Jiang Sheng that the Tianhe Dao Sect would keep fighting until the Anti-Heaven Alliance was erased, and Jiang Sheng realized the sect's True Lords might soon enter the conflict.
• Daoist Lord Yueheng met with Daoist Lord Dejing and Daoist Lord Miaoyan, who agreed to help guard two of the seven southern constellation palaces.
• Daoist Lord Yueheng decided to let the Panfeng World and the Buddhist Sect attack the Southern Domain Continent, then use the conflict to weaken their forces and reshape the Shanhe World's balance of power.

After celebrating the victory at Sky Shore Pass, Jiang Sheng and Ling Yu agreed to help the Tianhe Dao Sect hold separate fronts, with Jiang Sheng assigned to the Western Wasteland. The chapter revealed that the sect’s campaign was part of Daoist Lord Yueheng’s plan to dismantle Sun Xing’s support and eventually destroy his foundations.

• Jiang Sheng and Ling Yu discussed the expected counterattack by the Anti-Heaven Alliance and the growing involvement of the South Sea Dragon Palace and other powers.
• Chenghe True Person asked Jiang Sheng to guard the Western Wasteland against Great Jinchan Temple, and Jiang Sheng accepted.
• Chenghe True Person gave Jiang Sheng rare metals, including Tianhe True Gold, and gave Ling Yu a half-fledged spiritual treasure made for her cultivation art.
• Chenghe True Person and Ling Yu agreed that Ling Yu would accompany him north.
• The chapter explained that the Tianhe Dao Sect intended to weaken Sun Xing by dismantling the Anti-Heaven Alliance and tying down its powerful allies before attacking the Sun Family.

Jiang Sheng arrived in the Western Wasteland and found demonic cultivators slaughtering civilians while White Dragon True Person fought the Heavenly Baleful Old Devil. Jiang Sheng and Green Ox King cut down the attackers, and Jiang Sheng killed the Heavenly Baleful Old Devil, leaving the Western Wasteland’s demonic forces devastated.

• Jiang Sheng reached the Western Wasteland and encountered demonic cultivators massacring a town as White Dragon True Person confronted the Heavenly Baleful Old Devil.
• The Heavenly Baleful Old Devil overwhelmed White Dragon True Person while his followers continued their slaughter.
• Several demonic cultivators attacked Jiang Sheng, but his sword killed them instantly, and he sent Green Ox King to stop any from escaping.
• Green Ox King charged into the demonic cultivators and killed many Golden Core Realm attackers with his iron whips.
• The Heavenly Baleful Old Devil sensed Jiang Sheng’s danger and fled, but Jiang Sheng’s Azure Rainbow sword killed demonic cultivators across the battlefield.
• Jiang Sheng caught the Heavenly Baleful Old Devil and destroyed his defenses with four-colored sword auras, shattering his soul.

Jiang Sheng uncovered True Person White Dragon’s betrayal, took command of Western Wasteland City, and reorganized its defenses. The Western Extremity Demon Palace then sent a beast tide toward the city, where its defenders sounded the alarm.

• True Person White Dragon welcomed Jiang Sheng to Western Wasteland City and blamed the worsening crisis on the loss of the other five stationed Spirit Transformation cultivators.
• Jiang Sheng exposed poison and venomous insects hidden in the spirit fish, confronted White Dragon about his role in the schemes, and ordered him to return his essence and qi to heaven and earth.
• Jiang Sheng announced that he would command Western Wasteland City under Chenghe’s order, heard reports from its Nascent Soul True Persons, and issued a new defensive plan.
• Old Monster Heavenly Burial and Daoist Heaven Slayer argued over White Dragon’s death and agreed to use a beast tide to test Jiang Sheng’s strength.
• Nine-Headed Camel and Sand Demon Worm accepted thirty thousand blood crystals and led the Vast Sea Dunes’ demon beasts toward Western Wasteland City.
• The defenders spotted the approaching black sandstorm and reported that the beast tide was attacking.

Jiang Sheng took charge as a Black Storm and beast tide struck Western Wasteland City, holding back his power while the city’s defenses faltered. After detecting the hidden demons directing the assault, he forced the tide to retreat and manifested a thousand-zhang Dharma Image, leaving the defenders astonished.

• A Black Storm and beast tide approached Western Wasteland City, and Jiang Sheng arrived on the walls to organize the city’s defense.
• The Thunderbolt Arrows and Wind-Settling Pagodas slowed the assault, but the Nine-Headed Camel and Sand Demon Worm watched from the storm as the city’s defenses weakened.
• Jiang Sheng sensed the hidden demons’ auras as Zhu Wenrui and the other defenders were pushed toward defeat.
• The Nine-Headed Camel and Sand Demon Worm retreated in terror, and the beast tide began withdrawing after Jiang Sheng found them.
• Clear qi descended over Western Wasteland City, and wind, thunder, water, and fire formed a thousand-zhang Dharma Image that Zhu Wenrui recognized.

Jiang Sheng used his Yuchen Heavenly Lord Dharma Image to annihilate the demon tide attacking Western Wasteland City, then began advancing toward Spirit Transformation and investigated the city's Water-Fire Spirit Pool. He discovered a tiny, dying world with violently reversed yin and yang and considered sending a clone inside to refine divine iron.

• Jiang Sheng manifested a five-thousand-zhang Dharma Image and struck down the Nine-Headed Camel, the Sand Demon Worm, and countless demonic beasts, shattering ten thousand li of sky and earth.
• The remaining beast tides fled, and Western Wasteland City celebrated as Jiang Sheng's sword strike brought peace to the region.
• Jiang Sheng noticed his nascent soul growing as he studied True Lord Cangyuan's creation method and considered using the Water-Fire Spirit Pool to refine divine iron.
• Jiang Sheng investigated the pool and discovered a mustard-seed-sized small world filled with destructive calamity aura and reversed yin and yang.
• Jiang Sheng considered using the Judicial Heavenly Monarch Seal to protect a clone sent into the small world to refine the divine iron.

Jiang Sheng sent Daoist Yuchen into a dying Small Thousand World to forge spiritual treasures from divine iron, while Black Lotus True Person’s plans for the same world were exposed. The chapter ended with Black Lotus True Person confronting Heavenly Burial Old Monster and Heaven-Slaying Daoist over an order bearing his name that he denied sending.

• Jiang Sheng gave Daoist Yuchen the Judicial Heavenly Monarch Seal, four pieces of divine iron, and his stored treasures before sending him into the Small Thousand World.
• Daoist Yuchen found Sumi Mountain and cast the divine iron into the world’s chaotic core, where he began nurturing it with treasures and the Yin-Yang Spirit-Nurturing Method.
• As Daoist Yuchen spent 365 years refining the iron, a black lotus and a triangular banner secretly absorbed the dying world’s power and Calamity Aura.
• Black Lotus True Person erupted in anger at Heavenly Burial Old Monster and Heaven-Slaying Daoist for using White Dragon True Person against Daoist Ling Yuan and risking discovery of the Small Thousand World.
• Black Lotus True Person revealed that he had created the Water-Fire Spirit Pool and prepared the world’s destruction to nurture his Six-Baleful Black Lotus Platform and Seven-Tailed Soul-Seizing Banner.
• Heavenly Burial Old Monster showed Black Lotus True Person a message ordering them to take Western Wasteland City at any cost, and Black Lotus True Person recognized the sender as Guangwen.

Black Lotus True Person ordered the demons and demonic cultivators of the Western Wasteland to gather at Demon Cave Mountain, forcing them toward a coming battle with Daoist Ling Yuan. After hearing of the advancing beast horde, Jiang Sheng divined that a beast tide, demonic chaos, and a blooming black lotus lay ahead.

• Black Lotus True Person blamed Guangwen for forcing him into conflict with Daoist Ling Yuan and ordered an army of ten million to gather beneath Demon Cave Mountain in ten days.
• Jiang Sheng spent the year in Western Wasteland City refining the Four Symbols Sword Scripture Canon as he prepared for the Primordial Spirit Realm.
• Tong Yuanlong and his fellow rogue cultivators found a vast horde of demons heading toward Demon Cave Mountain, and Wasteland Flame Eagles chased them back to the city.
• Jiang Sheng heard the cultivators' report, rewarded them, and asked them to leave the City Lord's Manor.
• Jiang Sheng used the Jade Dragon Gold Disc to divine a beast tide, demons in chaos, and a blooming black lotus.

At Western Wasteland City, Jiang Sheng confronted Black Lotus True Person as the latter unleashed a beast tide to keep him away from the Water-Fire Spirit Pool. Their Dharma Images clashed with devastating force, and the chapter ended as both prepared their next major techniques.

• Guangwen revealed that he had manipulated events to make Black Lotus True Person and Lingyuan fight, hoping to draw a True Lord into the conflict.
• Black Lotus True Person sent the beasts and demonic cultivators of Demon Cave Mountain to attack Western Wasteland City, while Jiang Sheng ordered the city to follow its defense plan.
• Jiang Sheng and Black Lotus True Person met above the battlefield and manifested their five-thousand-zhang Dharma Images.
• The two exchanged attacks using their spirit treasures and techniques, while their clash devastated the surrounding battlefield.
• Black Lotus True Person declared Black Lotus Annihilation, and Jiang Sheng raised the Four Symbols Sword Formation.

Jiang Sheng battled Black Lotus True Person, who escaped his Five Elements Heavenly Thunder and attacked the Water-Fire Spirit Pool where Jiang Sheng was nurturing four spirit swords. Their fight resumed in the collapsing small world, and as Black Lotus True Person gained the upper hand, Daoist Yuchen descended into the earth’s core and sacrificed himself to protect the swords.

• Jiang Sheng used the Azure Duckweed Sword to suppress Black Lotus True Person’s soul-corroding blood curse and summoned the Heavenheart Five-Origin Thunder Response Supreme Method, striking him with Five Elements Heavenly Thunder.
• Black Lotus True Person survived the strike, shattered Western Wasteland City’s protective formation, and rushed into the Water-Fire Spirit Pool; Jiang Sheng followed him into the collapsing small world.
• Jiang Sheng and Black Lotus True Person resumed their battle among falling stars, but Black Lotus True Person drew hidden power from beneath Sumi Mountain and recovered half his strength.
• Daoist Yuchen realized that Black Lotus True Person’s remaining power lay in the earth’s core and descended through the fissure with the Judicial Heavenly Monarch Seal.
• Daoist Yuchen reached the metal mountain holding the four spirit swords, dissolved his body, and poured his divine sense into it to protect the swords as they tempered in the earth’s core.

Jiang Sheng fought Black Lotus True Person for three years in the crumbling small world, then used Xuanhuang Qi to complete four spirit swords and trap him in the Heaven-Slaying Formation. The four swords destroyed Black Lotus True Person’s treasures and Dharma Image before extinguishing his true spirit.

• Jiang Sheng used the Judicial Heavenly Monarch Seal to hold Black Lotus True Person at bay while their battle accelerated the small world’s collapse.
• Jiang Sheng’s power began to transform as the four spirit swords emerged from the Heaven Pillar, and he restored their flawed foundations with Xuanhuang Qi.
• Jiang Sheng established the Heaven-Slaying Formation around Black Lotus True Person, who forcibly summoned the unfinished Six-Baleful Black Lotus Platform and Seven-Tailed Soul-Seizing Banner.
• Jiang Sheng activated the four swords, which shattered Black Lotus True Person’s platform, severed a banner tail, and broke his Dharma Image.
• The black water sword pierced Black Lotus True Person’s yin spirit, scattering it and extinguishing his true spirit.

After killing Black Lotus True Person, Jiang Sheng claimed his spirit treasures and broke through into the Taiyi Primordial Spirit Realm. He tested his newly manifested primordial spirit, then returned to his body with a greatly expanded lifespan.

• Jiang Sheng collected Black Lotus True Person's spirit treasures and belongings after their three-year battle devastated the small world.
• Jiang Sheng gained the Soul-Seizing Banner's allegiance and erased the Black Lotus Platform's sentience when it refused to submit.
• Jiang Sheng released his fully grown Taiyi nascent soul, which shattered as his yin spirit emerged and absorbed the world's origin energy.
• Jiang Sheng manifested a ring of yang flame around his yin spirit and began exploring the heavens as a Taiyi primordial spirit.
• Jiang Sheng returned to his body and declared that shedding the primordial spirit's shell granted three thousand years of life.

After defeating Black Lotus True Person, Jiang Sheng discovered a diagram for refining the End-Calamity Formation Diagram and began nurturing it with the calamity aura of a dying world. He returned briefly to Western Wasteland City before departing again, while Guangwen feared the Zhou Dynasty might send Jiang Sheng to the Deer Wilds.

• Jiang Sheng opened Black Lotus True Person's storage ring, found an acquired-tier spiritual treasure diagram, and learned it contained instructions for refining the End-Calamity Formation Diagram.
• Jiang Sheng sent the damaged Seven-Tailed Soul-Seizing Banner to the world's core and began refining the formation diagram by drawing calamity aura from the dying world into the scroll.
• Jiang Sheng returned to Western Wasteland City, confirmed the beast tide had dispersed, and reclaimed the Lihuo Flame Dragon Lock from Zhu Wenrui.
• Jiang Sheng told the Green Ox King to guard Western Wasteland City while he handled other matters, then departed with a message-transmitting jade disc entrusted to the ox.
• Guangwen learned that Jiang Sheng had killed Black Lotus True Person and worried the Zhou Dynasty might transfer him to the Deer Wilds, where Guangwen feared facing him.

Jiang Sheng refined a collapsing small world into a sealed scroll and returned to Western Wasteland City, where he learned the Tianhe Dao Sect was fighting a costly war at Deer Wilds. After questioning Ning Chuan, he discovered Chenghe True Person had laid a trap and was waiting for the enemy to take the bait.

• Jiang Sheng modified the damaged Seven-Tailed Soul-Seizing Banner into the Six-Tailed Soul-Seeking Banner, designed to target a living being's fate soul.
• Jiang Sheng used his Dharma Image and enormous scroll to refine the collapsing world's stars, sun, moon, Sumi Mountain, and spiritual resonance, then sealed the scroll with the refined Six-Baleful Black Lotus Platform.
• Jiang Sheng returned to the Shanhe World as the small world vanished and its calamity aura and spiritual resonance poured into the Southern Domain Continent.
• Jiang Sheng reviewed reports in Western Wasteland City and learned Zhu Wenrui and the others had sent Daoist Soldiers and rogue cultivators to the stalemated battle at Deer Wilds.
• Jiang Sheng contacted Ning Chuan, who revealed that Chenghe True Person had laid a trap and invited Jiang Sheng to Deer Wilds to witness what came next.

Jiang Sheng agreed to leave the Western Wasteland for Deer Wilds after learning that Xuanji was there, while the Anti-Heaven Alliance feared his arrival and struggled to secure reinforcements. Luo Tianze sought help from his old master, Puhua True Person, and named Jiang Sheng as the enemy he needed dealt with.

• Jiang Sheng agreed to go to Deer Wilds after Ning Chuan told him that Lu Xuanjun was there, and he waited for a Zhou Dynasty replacement before leaving Western Wasteland City.
• The Ji Family replacement took over Western Wasteland City and gave Jiang Sheng a Dragon-Phoenix Pearl, which Jiang Sheng accepted before riding toward Deer Wilds on the Green Ox.
• Shentu Tian, Gu Yutong, Sun He, and Sun Lie worried that the Anti-Heaven Alliance lacked reinforcements as Jiang Sheng approached, while Luo Tianze and the other tribulation-bearers recalled their defeat at Sky Shore Pass.
• Luo Tianze told his companions about his bond with Puhua True Person and set out for Voidfall Mountain to ask his master for help.
• Puhua True Person received Luo Tianze in Puhua Cave, and Luo Tianze identified Lingyuan of the Penglai Dao Sect as the enemy he feared.