Chapter Summaries

Yu Yi revealed that the Golden Orchid Festival was a sacrificial trial held within the Horned Dragon Ancestral Tree, where a million demons fought for thirteen hundred places. He explained that Jiang Sheng could join the crown princes in competing for the ten-thousand-year Vermilion-Purple Immortal Fruits, then asked him to fight alongside him.

• Yu Yi told Jiang Sheng that the Golden Orchid Festival had begun nearly twenty thousand years ago as a sacrifice to the Horned Dragon Ancestral Tree.
• The war drums sounded, and Yu Yi sent Jiang Sheng into the vast trial ground where demons from across the North Region Continent competed.
• Yu Yi explained that the festival selected thirteen hundred survivors and that the crown princes would also have to fight for something inside the tree.
• Yu Yi revealed that every ten thousand years the tree produced fifteen vermilion and five purple immortal fruits, which the Demon Emperor Palace had opened to competition.
• Yu Yi described the fruits’ power to transform their bearers and help them reach Void Refinement or the Taiyi Dao, then asked Jiang Sheng to help him compete for one.

Kong Xuan negotiated the Demon Emperor Palace’s participation in the struggle over the Panfeng World and proposed a contest for the Vermilion-Purple Immortal Fruits. After the trial produced its final 130 victors, the fruits emerged and the palace princes and sect disciples prepared to compete.

• Kong Xuan agreed to offer his personal strength as the Demon Emperor Palace’s sincerity in negotiations with the Three Sects and Two Temples.
• Kong Xuan proposed awarding points for vermilion and purple fruits, and the Pure Yang masters agreed to watch their younger generations compete.
• Jiang Sheng agreed to join Yu Yi in the contest, and Yu Yi identified Jin Qiong, Juezhen, and Xuan Xin as their main rivals.
• Kong Zhen and Xuanyi agreed to cooperate, while Xuanyi planned to confront Xuan Xin; Jin Qiong, Xuan Xin, and Juezhen also prepared to fight together.
• Guanghe advised Liu Qixiang to let the rival factions clash before making their own move for the fruits.
• The trial ended with 130 victors, and the Vermilion-Purple Immortal Fruits emerged as a heavenly voice urged the competitors to contend for them.

The Demon Emperor Palace princes and human cultivators raced up the Horned Dragon Ancestral Tree to claim the immortal fruits. Jiang Sheng and Yu Yi sped ahead while Kong Zhen and Jin Qiong set out, leaving Xuanyi and Xuan Xin to confront one another over Xuan Xin’s refusal to return to their sect.

• Yuan Xiao, White Mountain Lord, Venom Lord, Yellow Heaven Lord, Thousand-Light Lord, and Black Mountain Lord climbed the ancestral tree as the princes of the latter eight palaces rushed for the lead.
• Thousand-Light Lord urged Black Mountain Lord to target vermilion fruits rather than challenge the first five palaces, while Black Mountain Lord hoped to benefit from the coming conflict between humans and demons.
• Ba Rong and Liu Qixiang climbed the tree with Ning Chuan and Guanghe, while the first, second, and fourth palaces initially remained still.
• Jiang Sheng and Yu Yi left the Jade Radiance Palace, raced past the other princes, and pursued Venom Lord and White Mountain Lord.
• Kong Zhen and Jin Qiong departed their palaces, and Jiang Sheng’s conspicuous passage signaled that he would not interfere in their contest.
• Xuanyi asked Xuan Xin to return to the sect, but Xuan Xin refused, and the two manifested their Dharma Images to fight.

Xuanyi and Xuan Xin fought evenly while the Demon Emperor Palace watched for signs of Xuan Xin’s loyalty. In the Horned Dragon Ancestral Tree, Jiang Sheng stopped to confront Kong Zhen and Jin Qiong, leaving the two demons unable to pursue the purple fruit as he prepared to hold them off.

• Xuanyi and Xuan Xin clashed in the sea of clouds, and the Demon Emperor Palace’s Pure Yang cultivators watched their fight.
• Kong Xuan remained suspicious of Xuan Xin and considered sending him into the Panfeng World if the contest revealed him to be unreliable.
• Jiang Sheng sent Yu Yi onward, then stopped as Kong Zhen and Jin Qiong caught up and blocked his way to the tree’s crown.
• Kong Zhen attacked with Five-Element Divine Light while Jin Qiong thrust with her Flowing-Fire Brilliant-Gold Spear, but Jiang Sheng intercepted both attacks with an azure sword light.
• Jiang Sheng revealed four immortal swords and challenged Kong Zhen and Jin Qiong, declaring that he would prevent them from ascending as well.

Jiang Sheng held off Kong Zhen and Jin Qiong as the Demon Emperor Palace’s other princes climbed toward the Horned Dragon Ancestral Tree’s crown. When five purple fruits appeared above the fifteen vermilion fruits and a handsome monk appeared among the contenders, Jin Qiong again challenged Jiang Sheng to stop fighting.

• Jin Qiong attacked Jiang Sheng with her Flowing-Fire Brilliant-Gold Spear, and the six Demon Emperor Palace princes contained the devastation from their clash.
• Kong Zhen joined Jin Qiong in a pincer attack, but Jiang Sheng countered with the Four Swords of Azure, Purple, Vermilion, and Black and his five-element true thunder.
• Kong Zhen urged the other princes to climb onward, and Jiang Sheng let Yuan Xiao, Black Mountain Lord, Thousand-Light Lord, and the others pass while he maintained the standoff.
• Kong Zhen argued that Jiang Sheng’s true enemies were Guanghe and Juezhen and that the Demon Race needed to compete for the limited purple fruits.
• Five purple fruits appeared above the Horned Dragon Ancestral Tree’s crown, where Yuan Xiao and the other demons were already contesting the vermilion fruits, and a handsome monk appeared among them.
• Jin Qiong asked Jiang Sheng whether he would continue tangling with her and Kong Zhen.

Jiang Sheng and the other cultivators harvested the Vermilion-Purple Immortal Fruits from the Horned Dragon Ancestral Tree while Jin Qiong, Kong Zhen, Guanghe, and Juezhen fought over the final fruit. Guanghe claimed it after Juezhen held off Jin Qiong and Kong Zhen, but Xuanyi arrived and challenged his claim.

• Jin Qiong transformed into her Golden-Winged Roc form and attacked Guanghe to stop him from taking a fruit, but Guanghe wounded her and then offered to yield it to her.
• Jiang Sheng used a Jade-Faced Fox demon spirit bone to harvest a violet fruit and stored it in a fox-fur pouch.
• Jiang Sheng saw that Kong Zhen, Jin Qiong, and Juezhen had each harvested a fruit, while Guanghe prepared to take the last one.
• Juezhen stunned Kong Zhen and Jin Qiong with a Buddhist roar, then blocked them with his kasaya and withstood their attacks using his Buddhist divine abilities.
• Guanghe harvested the final violet fruit while Juezhen held off the others, then joined him.
• Xuanyi arrived and told Guanghe that he did not agree the final fruit belonged to him.

After Xuan Xin lost to Xuanyi, six Taiyi Primordial Spirit Realm prodigies wagered five purple fruits on their contest. Jiang Sheng and Xuanyi began fighting, as did Kong Zhen and Jin Qiong, while Guanghe and Juezhen prepared to face each other; the chapter ended with Jin Qiong’s golden rays converging on Kong Zhen.

• Jin Qiong acknowledged Xuan Xin’s defeat and joined the other five prodigies in deciding to settle who stood above the rest.
• Kong Zhen proposed a wager, and Jiang Sheng, Xuanyi, Jin Qiong, Guanghe, and Juezhen each put forward a purple fruit for the winner to claim.
• Yu Yi persuaded Liu Qixiang and Ba Rong to wager vermilion fruits on which prodigy would win.
• The six prodigies revealed their distinct manifestations, and Xuanyi challenged Jiang Sheng while Guanghe faced Juezhen and Kong Zhen faced Jin Qiong.
• Jiang Sheng and Xuanyi exchanged full-strength sword strikes, unleashing a shock wave that swept more than a hundred thousand miles.
• Jin Qiong broke through Kong Zhen’s Five-Element attacks and feather barrage, then surrounded him with converging golden rays.

Guanghe defeated Juezhen, Kong Zhen defeated Jin Qiong, and Jiang Sheng won his duel with Xuanyi by unveiling his Heaven-Cutting sword strike. As Kong Zhen and Guanghe joined forces against Jiang Sheng, he unleashed Heaven-Cutting again, and the chapter ended with its chaotic sword light cutting across the battlefield.

• Guanghe broke Juezhen's golden body and escaped his Buddhist fire, establishing a slight advantage in their contest.
• Kong Zhen defeated Jin Qiong with his five-colored divine radiance, while Xuanyi yielded to Jiang Sheng's Heaven-Cutting sword strike.
• Jiang Sheng, Kong Zhen, and Guanghe began a three-way contest, and Kong Zhen and Guanghe chose to target Jiang Sheng together.
• Kong Zhen unleashed the Five-Element Extinction Divine Light, and Guanghe struck with the Sixfold Tide-Sound Wisdom Radiance.
• Jiang Sheng gathered the energies of the Three Calamities, yin and yang, and the four manifestations into the Qingping Sword, then released Heaven-Cutting.

Jiang Sheng won the contest beneath the Horned Dragon Ancestral Tree with his Heaven-Cutting Sword and claimed the purple fruits. While the powers of Shanhe World prepared to invade Panfeng World, Panfeng’s Heavenly Emperors persuaded Star Dragon to help connect the West Sea to their world and awaken Shanhe’s heavenly will.

• Jiang Sheng severed Kong Zhen and Guanghe’s combined attack, won the contest, and received all five purple fruits.
• Jiang Sheng gave Yu Yi one purple fruit and Daoist Xuanyi another, then kept the remaining fruits for Penglai; Yu Yi explained how humans should use purple fruit and offered to buy the surplus.
• Daoist Lord Miaoyan, Great Sage Kong Xuan, Golden Cicada Bodhisattva, and the other leaders agreed that Xuanmen, the Buddhist Sect, and the Demon Race would send twelve Pure Yang cultivators to invade Panfeng World and divide the regions they captured.
• Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor told Azure Dragon and Star Dragon that Shanhe World’s heavenly will could be awakened by creating another connection between the worlds.
• Star Dragon agreed to connect the West Sea to Panfeng World, and Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor gave him a heavenly pearl to carry back to the West Sea.

Jiang Sheng returned to Penglai after his victories in the North Region, received formal authority as Tianxuan Peak’s master, and visited True Lord Yuming. There, he learned that Yuming had captured a Blue-Edict Heavenly God from Panfeng World and imprisoned him in a bronze furnace.

• Jiang Sheng returned to Tianxuan Peak, where Le Fang and the disciples welcomed him, and he gave everyone an extra month's stipend.
• Jiang Sheng checked the avatar growing in the lotus spirit pool and calculated that it needed two more years.
• Jiang Sheng visited Lingwei, offered a vermilion fruit as a prize for the coming Sect Grand Competition, and received the seal confirming him as Tianxuan Peak's master.
• Lingwei sent Jiang Sheng to the Grotto-Heaven to meet True Lord Yuming, who praised his composure and challenged him to embrace Penglai's ambition.
• True Lord Yuming revealed that he had killed three Panfeng World fighters and imprisoned the surviving Blue-Edict Heavenly God inside his bronze furnace.

Jiang Sheng observed True Lord Yuming refine a great Daoist elixir from a Divine Path celestial god and a dragon heart and pearl, then reflected on how to refine the Vermilion-Purple Demon Fruit. As Penglai prepared for war with Panfeng World, Jiang Sheng resolved to experience the Divine Path and capture deities to refine into elixirs himself.

• True Lord Yuming refined a celestial god with a dragon heart and dragon pearl, showing Jiang Sheng how balancing Divine Path and dragon energies produced a great Daoist elixir.
• After returning to Tianxuan Peak, Jiang Sheng concluded he could not yet refine the purple fruit and resolved to seek a method in Panfeng World.
• Jiang Sheng recorded his cultivation insights in the Yin-Yang Calamity Scripture and considered using the Judicial Heavenly Monarch's Jade Seal to experience the Divine Path.
• Lingwei informed Jiang Sheng that True Lord Yuming had entered seclusion and would not join the war against Panfeng World.
• Jiang Sheng considered Penglai's preparations for the coming world war and resolved to enter Panfeng World, experience the Divine Path, and capture deities to refine into elixirs.

The West Sea Dragon Palace outwardly submitted to the Buddhist Sect while secretly preparing for Star Dragon's return through Ao Ang. As the six factions built a Heavenly Gate to the Panfeng World, Jiang Sheng met Yan Xiao, whose Thousand Mechanism Sect was helping construct it.

• The Great Jinchan Temple took control of the West Sea's fortune and resources as the West Sea Dragon Palace feigned submission while keeping its hidden plans under Star Dragon's direction.
• Ao Ang returned to the Crystal Dragon Palace and condemned its transformation into a Buddhist Pure Land, while Ao Run questioned him about the Sea Realms' conversion.
• Ao Run told the White Tortoise Chancellor that Star Dragon had chosen Ao Ang as the bloodline vessel and Dao Marker for his return to the Shanhe World.
• Xuanmen, the Buddhist Sect, and the Demon Race joined forces to layer formations over the South Sea Heavenly Leak and create a Heavenly Gate to the Panfeng World.
• Jiang Sheng met Yan Xiao in the Southern Domain Continent, where she explained that the Thousand Mechanism Sect was helping build the Heavenly Gate.

Jiang Sheng visited the South Sea to inspect the construction of the Heavenly Gate, a vast defensive and offensive stronghold being built by the six holy lands. As he arrived at Penglai’s assigned island, he sensed someone there and remarked that a guest had already brought him a generous gift.

• The six holy lands tasked the Thousand Mechanism Sect with building the Heavenly Gate and gathered materials and cultivators across the Shanhe World.
• Jiang Sheng traveled with Green Ox, Golden Lion, Treasure Elephant, and the green peng to inspect construction, and Yan Xiao arranged a Dharma Boat to take them to the South Sea Archipelago.
• Jiang Sheng and Yan Xiao surveyed the 108 islands, where cultivators were forging enormous, precisely crafted components for the Heavenly Gate.
• Yan Xiao explained that the assembled structure was expected to be a true treasure and that the six holy lands had imposed strict oversight to prevent theft and corruption.
• Jiang Sheng arrived at Penglai’s island, sensed someone there, and said the guest had brought him a generous gift.

Jiang Sheng captured the intruders who had caused trouble on Little Penglai and explained how low-cultivation spies could evade notice. He then confronted an unremarkable spiritual plant gardener, recognizing the figure as an old acquaintance.

• Jiang Sheng detected several unfamiliar auras on Little Penglai and sent Green Ox, Golden Lion, Treasure Elephant, and Green Peng to capture their owners.
• The intruders fought the four demons, while Jiang Sheng confined their battle to a small area and reassured the island’s workers through the patrol disciples.
• Jiang Sheng explained to Yan Xiao that low-cultivation spies could escape notice because people and defenses focused on the strong.
• Jiang Sheng vanished from the Dharma Boat and appeared before a seemingly ordinary spiritual plant gardener, whom he greeted as an old acquaintance after a hundred years apart.

Jiang Sheng recognized the spirit gardener Leopard and discovered that an aura of bad luck protected him, making it dangerous to act against him. He kept Leopard under watch on Little Penglai, expecting Lord Shen to appear eventually.

• Jiang Sheng searched Little Penglai with his divine sense, recognized Leopard, and ordered the four demons to capture the intruders.
• The four demons subdued the intruders and brought them to Jiang Sheng, while Leopard reacted strongly to seeing them.
• Jiang Sheng questioned the captives about their activities on Penglai’s grounds and ordered them sent to the Enforcement Hall for information.
• Jiang Sheng let Green Ox escort Leopard back to the spirit garden and warned the others not to provoke him because of his dangerous bad-luck aura.
• Jiang Sheng concluded that Leopard’s aura would protect him from harm and decided to wait for Lord Shen to reveal himself.

Lord Shen hid with surviving South Sea Dragon Palace dragon sons in the ruined Heavenfall Divine Residence while recalling how the Heavenly Fortune Sect’s inheritance and his failed mission brought him to the Shanhe World. The chapter ended as a vermilion-robed youth arrived at the ruins, believing he had found the place Ling Yuan had mentioned.

• Lord Shen reassured the surviving South Sea Dragon Palace dragon sons that the ruined Heavenfall Divine Residence was temporarily safe.
• Lord Shen recalled how his Heavenly Fortune Sect lineage had led him to find Leopard, whose bad-luck physique complicated their plans in the Panfeng World.
• The Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor ordered Lord Shen to deliver a Heaven Pillar to Shen Gongzhi, the Water-Dividing Heavenly God, and promised him a heavenly office if he succeeded.
• Lord Shen failed to reach Shen Gongzhi after Qinghua Dao Sect and Penglai Dao Sect captured him, then remained hidden in the Shanhe World as turmoil spread.
• Lord Shen learned that Leopard had ended up as a spirit-plant farmer at Penglai Dao Sect’s South Sea dojo.
• A vermilion-robed youth carrying a red-tasseled spear arrived at the former Heavenfall Divine Residence and said it was the place Ling Yuan had mentioned.

Duobao failed to capture Shen Wuji in the Sea Abyss, but Jiang Sheng persuaded him to remain in Little Penglai and help. Jiang Sheng performed a divination with the Jade Dragon Gold Disc and discovered Shen Wuji’s whereabouts.

• Duobao attacked Shen Wuji in the Sea Abyss, but Shen Wuji turned aside his spells and escaped with the young dragons.
• Duobao returned to Little Penglai and told Jiang Sheng that his divination had correctly located Shen Wuji in Heavenfall Divine Residence.
• Jiang Sheng returned Duobao’s deposit and persuaded him to stay in Little Penglai, offering companionship, pay, and help securing future access to the Heavenly Gate.
• Jiang Sheng explained that Shen Wuji and his disciple Leopard seemed unusually protected by fortune, and that he felt compelled to capture Shen Wuji.
• Jiang Sheng performed a divination rite with the Jade Dragon Gold Disc and announced that Shen Wuji’s whereabouts were clear.

Shen Wuji borrowed heaven-and-earth fortune to evade Daoist Duobao, but Jiang Sheng tracked him down despite his newfound luck. Jiang Sheng confronted Shen Wuji and began preparing to capture him.

• Shen Wuji fled with the dragon whelps to a hidden Dragon Palace retreat in the Zhaoming Sea Realm and borrowed powerful fortune to conceal himself.
• Shen Wuji followed a dragon prince's directions to another hiding place, escaping shortly before Daoist Duobao destroyed the abandoned retreat.
• Jiang Sheng learned Shen Wuji had escaped, traveled to the ruins, and used the Jade Dragon Gold Disc to find his trail.
• Jiang Sheng and Daoist Duobao wagered on whether Jiang Sheng could capture Shen Wuji before his borrowed fortune faded.
• Jiang Sheng tracked Shen Wuji down and split his retreat with the Qingping Sword, revealing him and the dragon whelps.
• Jiang Sheng offered Shen Wuji a chance to surrender, but Shen Wuji refused, and Jiang Sheng summoned a storm with his aura.

Jiang Sheng tested Shen Wuji’s fortune-bending arts, then forced him to unleash the Heavenly Fortune Sect’s inherited Dharma Image and secret techniques. Shen Wuji stripped away Jiang Sheng and Duobao’s fortune and called down heavenly lightning, but Jiang Sheng severed his connection to heaven’s will with a single Heaven-Cutting sword strike.

• Jiang Sheng attacked Shen Wuji with the Qingping Sword and the Moon-Shattering Star-Seizing Gourd, but Shen Wuji redirected both strikes through his strange fortune-based methods.
• Jiang Sheng sent the Flame Dragon Lock and Six-Tiered Golden Pagoda against Shen Wuji, who used the Spiritual Resonance to turn them back.
• Jiang Sheng refused Duobao’s pleas to withdraw and demanded that Shen Wuji attack with all his strength, so Shen Wuji summoned the Fortune-Commanding Heavenly Lord Dharma Image.
• Shen Wuji used his golden command token to strip away Jiang Sheng and Duobao’s fortune and blessings, then commanded five-colored heavenly lightning to strike them.
• Jiang Sheng declared that he needed only one sword and cut through the chaos, severing Shen Wuji’s connection to heaven’s will with Heaven-Cutting.

Jiang Sheng defeated Shen Wuji by severing the heavenly fortune he had borrowed, then brought him to Little Penglai for a banquet and questioned him about Panfeng World's plans. Shen Wuji stayed silent, but Jiang Sheng pieced together that Panfeng's Divine Path was using pawns to lure Shanhe's Pure Yang cultivators into Panfeng and ultimately seize Shanhe World.

• Jiang Sheng stripped Shen Wuji of heaven's favor with the Heaven-Cutting Sword, and Shen Wuji surrendered and followed him to Little Penglai.
• Jiang Sheng invited Duobao, Shen Wuji, and Leopard to an immortal banquet, then asked Shen Wuji why Panfeng World had sent him.
• Shen Wuji refused to reveal his mission, while Jiang Sheng reasoned that a Restrictive Ward and the Pure Yang Heavenly Pearl prevented him from speaking freely.
• Jiang Sheng concluded that Shen Wuji was a disposable pawn among many sent to delay Shanhe's sacred lands while Panfeng prepared its larger plan.
• Panfeng's Divine Path intended to draw Shanhe's Pure Yang cultivators into Panfeng, trap them there when the worlds separated, and seize Shanhe World.