Chapter Summaries

As Penglai prepared to transfer authority and celebrate its Daoist masters’ Dharma Image attainments, Jiang Sheng refined his treasures and readied himself for challenges from visiting factions. The ceremony began with the great powers gathered at Penglai, and the doors of Jiang Sheng’s palace opened after two years of secluded cultivation.

• Jiang Sheng dismissed Green Ox, Golden Lion, White Elephant, and Green Peng after they failed to find Lin Fan in the East Sea, then spent several months refining his spirit treasures and reviewing the Yin-Yang Calamity Scripture.
• Envoys and Dharma Image experts arrived at Penglai, including Great Tang’s delegation, Divine Mechanism True Lord, and True Lord Yun Ding.
• The Four Seas Dragon Palaces’ four Dharma Image princes arrived, but Demon Lord Bai Kong’s White Kun Palace blocked their path and dismissed them.
• The Qinghua Dao Sect, Tianhe Dao Sect, Great Heavenly Dragon Temple, and Great Jinchan Temple arrived with prominent True Disciples, including Juezhen and Guanghe, to assess Penglai’s new generation.
• The Penglai Dharma Image Ceremony began in the summer of year 39,978 of the Shanhe Calendar, and Jiang Sheng opened the doors of his palace after two years of secluded cultivation.

Jiang Sheng and Lingwei completed the transfer of Penglai’s authority, with Lingwei becoming sect master and Jiang Sheng taking charge of Tianxuan Peak. After the Dharma Image ceremony’s banquet opened with contests among the factions’ disciples, a Demon Race cultivator challenged Jiang Sheng to a swordsmanship exchange.

• Tian Ming'an and Qiu Buyu dressed Jiang Sheng for his Dharma Image ceremony and accompanied him to Tianshu Peak, where Lingwei awaited him.
• Tianshu True Person and Dao Kong True Person transferred their seals and authority to Lingwei and Jiang Sheng before Penglai’s elders, disciples, and envoys.
• In the summer of year 39,978 of the Shanhe Calendar, Lingwei became Penglai’s sect master and Jiang Sheng became the master of Tianxuan Peak and Lingwei’s deputy.
• At the immortal banquet, disciples from Penglai and the visiting factions demonstrated their arts and competed, with Jiang Sheng rewarding contest winners with magical treasures.
• After contests reached the Nascent Soul Realm, a Demon Race cultivator asked Jiang Sheng to exchange sword moves, and Jiang Sheng accepted.

Jiang Sheng defeated Liu Qixiang in a spar, while Juezhen and Ling Wei also demonstrated their strength against Demon Emperor Palace challengers. When Ling Wei and Guanghe’s battle threatened the Cloud Jade Palace, Jiang Sheng intervened with a sword strike that split the heavens open for eighty thousand miles.

• Liu Qixiang challenged Jiang Sheng, who countered his attacks with thunder arts and spirit treasures before defeating him with a sword strike.
• Juezhen defeated Ba Rong by enduring his attacks with the Indestructible Diamond Body and suppressing him with the Subduing Dragon Method.
• Ling Wei and Guanghe fought evenly, trading sword aura and Buddhist light until their clash sent destructive brilliance toward the Cloud Jade Palace.
• Jiang Sheng drew his sword and shattered the destructive brilliance, cleaving an eighty-thousand-mile scar through the heavens.

The Dharma Assembly ended after Jiang Sheng demonstrated his strength and exchanged insights with cultivators from across the Shanhe World. Back at Tianshu Peak, Jiang Sheng agreed to confront the East Sea Dragon Palace over Ao Bing and then travel to Great Tang to search for him.

• Jiang Sheng’s sword strike stopped Lingwei and Guanghe’s spar, and the two agreed to call it a draw.
• Lingwei told Jiang Sheng that Guanghe had mastered at least three of the Six Wisdom Powers and described the Demon Emperor Palace’s Jin Qiong and her dispute with the Qinghua Dao Sect.
• Jiang Sheng and Su Yajun discussed the Five Thunder Method, and Jiang Sheng exchanged views on cultivation and the Dao with other assembly guests.
• After the seven-day Dharma Image Ceremony ended, Yu Yi asked Jiang Sheng about love and the Demon Race, then departed for North Region Continent aboard White Kun Palace.
• Lingwei told Jiang Sheng and Ling Yu that Ao Ji could not control Ao Bing, and the three discussed the East Sea Dragon Palace’s responsibility and Ling Zhao’s disappearance.
• Jiang Sheng said he would visit the East Sea Dragon Palace, then go to Great Tang and capture Ao Bing if he appeared.

Jiang Sheng visited the East Sea Crystal Palace to demand answers for Lingzhao’s disappearance and Ao Bing’s attack, but Ao Yi claimed he could not find his brother. After returning to Penglai, Jiang Sheng told Ling Wei he would go to the Eastern Region to draw Ao Bing out while Li Tai was in danger.

• Jiang Sheng traveled to the East Sea Dragon Palace in a grand Penglai procession, where Ao Yi welcomed him and offered a banquet.
• Jiang Sheng confronted Ao Yi over Ao Bing’s attack on Lingzhao and demanded that the Dragon Palace account for the missing Penglai disciple.
• Ao Yi claimed Ao Bing had left the Eastern Sea and promised to search for Lingzhao, but Jiang Sheng rejected his gifts and warned that Penglai would find and punish Ao Bing itself.
• Jiang Sheng returned to Penglai and told Ling Wei that the East Sea Dragon Palace appeared unwilling to remain neutral in the coming calamity.
• Jiang Sheng said Ao Bing was helping Li Tai and planned to travel to the Eastern Region to draw him out and punish the Dragon Palace’s defiance.

Jiang Sheng learned that Ao Bing had gone mad and was aiding Li Tai, then led the Great Tang court forces toward a decisive battle at Peace Corridor. When the rebel army's evil cultivator Dharma Images refused his ten-breath demand to withdraw, Jiang Sheng ordered them slain.

• Su Yajun told Jiang Sheng that Ao Bing had appeared in Hebei with aquatic Nature Spirits, gravely wounded Lingzhao, and was preventing the court from advancing against Li Tai.
• Jiang Sheng ordered the court's main force to gather in three days and advance from East River toward Peace Corridor for a decisive battle.
• Ao Bing revealed that he had used Li Tai's relatives' blood in the Peach-for-Plum Substitution Art and vowed to kill Jiang Sheng if he came.
• Su Yajun led the Great Tang army through East River to Peace Corridor, where Li Tai gathered his forces and ordered demon beasts and Nature Spirits into battle.
• Soul Devourer True Person manifested his Dharma Image against the Great Tang army, while Jiang Sheng sent Tian Ming'an to demand that the evil and demonic cultivators withdraw within ten breaths.
• The evil cultivators refused to retreat, and Jiang Sheng ordered them slain with the words, "Slay. Massacre. Trap. Extinguish."

Jiang Sheng revealed overwhelming power by killing Soul Devourer True Person with two swords, then manifested his Yuchen Heavenly Lord Dharma Image and summoned a four-sword formation. Blood Shadow Daoist, Ghost Fiend True Person, and Myriad Poisons True Person tried to flee, but Jiang Sheng declared it was too late.

• Blood Shadow Daoist reassured Li Tai that their group could stop Jiang Sheng, and the evil cultivators prepared to face him.
• Jiang Sheng summoned four swords that ignored Soul Devourer True Person’s ghosts, shattered his weapons, and killed him with two strikes.
• Jiang Sheng manifested his hundred-thousand-foot Yuchen Heavenly Lord Dharma Image and revealed the might of his four supreme-grade Dharma Swords.
• Blood Shadow Daoist, Ghost Fiend True Person, and Myriad Poisons True Person fled after the calamity aura jolted them out of their confusion.
• Jiang Sheng formed a sword seal and declared that the three cultivators could not escape as his sword formation rose.

Jiang Sheng’s Four Symbols Spirit Sword array killed Ghost Fiend True Person and Myriad Poisons True Person, while Su Yajun led the Great Tang forces in a final assault on the rebels. Jiang Sheng confronted Ao Bing in the sky, defeated him, and left him fallen on the earth as he declared that Ao Bing’s calamity had come.

• Ao Bing emerged from his hidden cavern and raced toward the Great Tang to save Li Tai from Jiang Sheng’s sword array.
• Jiang Sheng killed Ghost Fiend True Person and Myriad Poisons True Person with the Four Symbols Spirit Swords, leaving Blood Shadow Daoist and Li Tai as the only survivors in the array.
• Ao Bing’s roar announced his arrival, and Jiang Sheng withdrew the swords to confront him while Su Yajun ordered the Great Tang forces to attack the rebels.
• Ao Bing attacked Jiang Sheng with heavenly thunder, a dragon claw, astral winds, and spirit treasures, but Jiang Sheng countered each assault.
• Jiang Sheng gathered astral wind and thunderfire and blasted Ao Bing from the sky, leaving his dragon body broken on the earth.
• Jiang Sheng descended before Ao Bing and declared that his calamity had come.

Jiang Sheng captured Ao Bing and took him toward Penglai, but a powerful Black Shadow intercepted him to rescue the Third Prince. Jiang Sheng unleashed the Five Thunders to destroy the area, and the Black Shadow disappeared in the aftermath.

• Jiang Sheng bound Ao Bing with the Dragon-Binding Rope and announced that he would take him to Penglai for judgment.
• Ao Yi’s brothers refused to help rescue Ao Bing, while Ao Yi argued with a mysterious figure and said he still had a move in reserve.
• A Black Shadow attacked Jiang Sheng in the Astral Wind Thunderfire Layer and fought to free Ao Bing.
• Jiang Sheng and the Black Shadow exchanged spirit treasures and attacks, but neither yielded.
• Jiang Sheng summoned the Five-Coin Dao Sword and Jade-Exquisite Golden Disc, then struck the Black Shadow with the Five Thunders · Heavenly Heart Orthodox Art.
• Jiang Sheng surveyed the devastated sky after the thunder faded and found that the Black Shadow had vanished.

Jiang Sheng returned to Penglai with Ao Bing after defeating Many-Treasures Boy, and Penglai leaders decided to imprison Ao Bing and execute him publicly on the Dragon-Slaying Platform. The chapter ended with Jiang Sheng visiting Ao Bing in Thunder Prison to ask about Lingzhao, then leaving Ao Bing to await his execution.

• Many-Treasures Boy complained that Ling Yuan had wielded seven spirit treasures, then demanded payment from Ao Yi and fought him when Ao Yi refused.
• Jiang Sheng arrived at Penglai with Ao Bing bound and was welcomed by the sect’s disciples.
• Jiang Sheng told Ling Wei that an unfamiliar cultivator had blocked his way, and Ling Wei and Ling Yu agreed to have Lingyan investigate the man’s origins on the Western Land Continent.
• Ling Yu urged that Ao Bing be executed publicly, and Ling Wei agreed to lock him in Thunder Prison before announcing the execution.
• Jiang Sheng visited Ao Bing in Thunder Prison and asked whether he knew Lingzhao’s whereabouts; Ao Bing said he did not, and Jiang Sheng left him awaiting the Dragon-Slaying Platform.

Jiang Sheng followed a lead from Ao Ke to find Lingzhao, who had vanished into an undersea current. Meanwhile, Lin Fan remained trapped in the White Night Interstice, studying Divine Lord Tianyi Donghua’s inheritance when the Divine Lord sensed an acquaintance approaching.

• Jiang Sheng told Tian Ming'an and Qiu Buyu he planned to visit the Eastern Sea and urged them to cultivate toward Golden Core strength.
• Jiang Sheng met Ao Ke in the Shattered Jade Ring Sea and learned that Lingzhao had entered an undersea current.
• Jiang Sheng accepted Ao Ke’s directions and departed to search for Lingzhao.
• Lin Fan continued studying Divine Lord Tianyi Donghua’s fire inheritance despite worrying that Penglai would expel him for practicing the Divine Path.
• Divine Lord Tianyi Donghua sensed that an acquaintance of Lin Fan had arrived.

Jiang Sheng followed Lin Fan’s trail into a secret realm and found him with Divine Lord Tianyi Donghua, whose immense power and mysterious status unsettled Jiang Sheng. After confirming Lin Fan’s safety, Jiang Sheng realized the figure might be a Heavenly Emperor of the Divine Path.

• Jiang Sheng traced the undersea current and discovered the aura of the Divine Path within a secret realm.
• Divine Lord Donghua recognized the Divine Path aura and the calamity power in Jiang Sheng’s four spirit swords as Jiang Sheng forced an entrance into the realm.
• Jiang Sheng restrained his swords, questioned the merfolk siblings, and learned that Lin Fan had entered the realm to obtain an opportunity.
• Jiang Sheng prepared to summon Penglai’s support, but Divine Lord Donghua invited him to step forward and see Lin Fan for himself.
• Jiang Sheng met Divine Lord Tianyi Donghua in the Eastern Extremity Heavenly Yang Divine Realm and suspected that his true standing exceeded that of a Divine Lord.

Jiang Sheng met Divine Lord Donghua, who explained Lin Fan’s potential as a Divine Path cultivator and warned Jiang Sheng about his own ties to the Divine Path. Jiang Sheng left the secret realm with the merfolk siblings, carrying a remnant of a tribulation-wielding True Lord’s Dharma Sword and the possibility of returning when he sought Void Refinement.

• Divine Lord Donghua revealed that Lin Fan had a blazing sun physique and could inherit his Divine Path legacy, potentially reaching the Purple Edict rank.
• Jiang Sheng discussed his cultivation path with Divine Lord Donghua, who recognized the Three Calamities and final tribulation in his sword intent.
• Divine Lord Donghua gave Jiang Sheng a fragment of the Dharma Sword of an Integration Realm True Lord who had wielded calamities and tribulations.
• Divine Lord Donghua warned Jiang Sheng to be wary of his ties to the Divine Path, then told him Lin Fan could attain Purple Edict if he fully inherited the legacy.
• Jiang Sheng left the Eastern Extremity Heavenly Yang Divine Realm with the merfolk siblings and returned to Penglai after hearing that he could visit again when seeking Void Refinement.

Jiang Sheng refined a Green Lotus Seed into a vessel for a clone and helped Lingwei establish measures to strengthen Penglai ahead of the approaching Great Calamity. The chapter ended with Lingwei showing him an invitation from Xuanyi of the Qinghua Dao Sect.

• Jiang Sheng spent months refining a Green Lotus Seed with the four symbols and yin and yang, then placed it in a lotus in Tianxuan Peak's spiritual pool to nurture a clone expected to take at least three years.
• Lingwei summoned Jiang Sheng and proposed that Ling Yu leave sect affairs to cultivate in seclusion and pursue her Dharma Image; Jiang Sheng agreed.
• Jiang Sheng proposed doubling resources for every Penglai disciple and requiring cultivation lectures from Golden Core and Spirit Transformation practitioners, while Lingwei added a Sect Grand Competition every three years.
• Lingwei announced the new measures to Penglai's Spirit Transformation elders, and the disciples responded by cultivating more diligently, with many soon breaking through.
• After Ling Yu entered seclusion, Jiang Sheng and Lingwei continued managing the sect's affairs; Lingwei then showed Jiang Sheng an invitation from Xuanyi of the Qinghua Dao Sect.

Jiang Sheng traveled to the Qinghua Dao Sect at Xuanyi’s invitation but encountered Many-Treasures Boy over the Wandering Sea. After a seven-day standoff, Jiang Sheng trapped him in a sword formation and proposed a wager that could cost Many-Treasures Boy his life.

• Jiang Sheng accepted Lingwei’s request to represent Penglai at the Qinghua Dao Sect and set out alone for the Central Region Continent.
• Xuanyi discussed the Demon Emperor Palace’s refusal to release Xuan Xin with Lu Xuanjun and sent him to welcome Jiang Sheng.
• Lu Xuanjun waited at Pengli Marsh, wondering why Jiang Sheng had not arrived.
• Jiang Sheng met Many-Treasures Boy above the Wandering Sea, and the two maintained a tense standoff for seven days.
• Jiang Sheng revealed his four-sword formation and wagered that Many-Treasures Boy would owe him his life if he could not break it.

Jiang Sheng defeated Duobao with his sword formation, spared him, and traveled with him to the Central Region Continent, where they parted on friendly terms. Jiang Sheng then met Xuanyi of the Qinghua Dao Sect, who hinted that the invitation to Penglai concerned a particular matter.

• Jiang Sheng unleashed his sword formation against Duobao, destroying several of Duobao's treasures before withdrawing the final strike and ending the battle.
• Jiang Sheng explained that he had spared Duobao and let him leave freely, then invited him to travel together to the Central Region Continent.
• Jiang Sheng and Duobao discussed cultivation on the journey, grew closer, and Jiang Sheng compensated Duobao for his damaged treasure.
• Jiang Sheng and Duobao parted amicably upon reaching the Central Region Continent.
• Jiang Sheng met Xuanyi of the Qinghua Dao Sect and followed him into the sect, where Xuanyi revealed that their invitation had a particular purpose.

Xuanyi persuaded Jiang Sheng to investigate the North Sea Sea Eye after the Qinghua Dao Sect offered terms that Penglai and Jiang Sheng could not refuse. As they approached the Sea Eye in disguise, Kong Zhen arrived above the North Sea, suspecting the North Sea Dragon Palace was plotting in secret.

• Xuanyi told Jiang Sheng that his source had reported something new inside the North Sea Sea Eye and asked him to investigate it together.
• Jiang Sheng objected that the mission was dangerous and suggested reporting it to the sect elders, while Xuanyi urged him to consult Penglai first.
• True Lord Huayu asked True Lord Yuming to lend Penglai's Lingyuan to Xuanyi's investigation, and True Lord Yuming initially refused to risk him.
• After Qinghua Dao Sect offered terms that Jiang Sheng could not refuse, Jiang Sheng joined Xuanyi, and the two disguised themselves as Golden Core Realm True Persons to travel through the North Sea.
• Xuanyi said the North Sea Dragon Monarchs were not guarding the Sea Eye, while Jiang Sheng suspected Qinghua had connections and information within the Dragon Palace.
• Kong Zhen, sent to the North Sea by the Demon Emperor Palace, recalled Bai Yu's warning and suspected the North Sea Dragon Palace was plotting behind the Demon Emperor Palace's back.

Kong Zhen, Jiang Sheng, and Xuanyi traveled separately toward the North Sea Sea Eye, where Xuanyi sensed that danger lay ahead. Deep in the Sea Eye, a chained figure endured the world’s filth and waves and whispered that it was almost time.

• Kong Zhen flew north, dismissing the North Sea giant serpent as prey unworthy of him.
• Jiang Sheng and Xuanyi’s boat passed the serpent and merfolk; Xuanyi briefly restrained the merfolk before letting them go.
• Xuanyi sensed that the serpent’s disappearance signaled trouble involving him and Jiang Sheng, but did not explain further.
• The chapter described how the North Sea Sea Eye swallowed the sea’s waters and impurities and carried them into the return ruins.
• A chained figure in the Sea Eye stirred after enduring its endless scouring and weakly said, “Almost there.”

Kong Zhen, Jiang Sheng, and Xuanyi entered the North Sea Sea Eye and agreed to investigate its depths together. At the center, they discovered a living presence whose voice made the Sea Eye’s waters flow backward as two dark rays rose from the abyss.

• Kong Zhen descended into the North Sea Sea Eye after Bai Yu warned him to seek the true Sea Eye far below the surface.
• Jiang Sheng and Xuanyi entered the whirlpool and encountered Kong Zhen, who emerged from the depths after their swords and his Five-Element Divine Light clashed.
• Kong Zhen proposed an alliance, and Jiang Sheng and Xuanyi agreed before the three descended together.
• The three reached the true Sea Eye and spotted a faint spiritual light in its central abyss, where a being spoke to them.
• The Sea Eye stalled and its waters flowed backward as two dark rays rose, and the voice said it was about time.

Jiang Sheng, Kong Zhen, and Xuanyi discovered that the chained figure in the North Sea Sea Eye was Ao Shun, the North Sea Dragon King, but an impostor appeared and trapped them. The impostor knocked Ao Shun back into the Sea Eye and prepared to throw the three cultivators in after him.

• Jiang Sheng recognized that the aura inside the Sea Eye belonged to the Dharma Image realm, not an upper-three-realms being.
• The chained figure identified himself as Ao Shun, and his Black Dragon Crown convinced Xuanyi and Kong Zhen that he was the North Sea Dragon King.
• Xuanyi and Kong Zhen tried to send messages for help, but the Sea Eye’s wards blocked them.
• An upper-three-realms impostor wearing the North Sea Dragon King’s regalia appeared and threw several tortured dragon whelps before the three cultivators.
• The impostor knocked Ao Shun back into the Sea Eye and declared that he would spare Jiang Sheng, Xuanyi, and Kong Zhen only to use them to fill it.