Chapter Summaries

After months of silence, Jiang Sheng fused the fruits of the Divine and immortal paths into a Taiyi True Spirit and faced the Four-Nine Heavenly Tribulation. He survived the final strike, attained Taiyi True Grotto, and emerged as Yuchen, a Dao-Ruling True Yang.

• For seven months, Jiang Sheng’s breakthrough remained hidden in the Netherworld’s Eastern Extremity while his disciples guarded Little Penglai Island and Daoist Yuchen’s allies waited.
• Jiang Sheng’s Divine Path and immortal-path fruits fused into a Taiyi True Spirit, drawing down the Four-Nine Heavenly Tribulation.
• Jiang Sheng and his magical treasures endured the thunder’s tempering, and he used his swords and formations to defeat its manifestations.
• Jiang Sheng met the violet Thunder Lord’s final spear with the Qingping Sword and severed the tribulation with Heaven-Cutting, Severing Time.
• Jiang Sheng emerged from the Void-Reality Realm, declared his name Yuchen, and attained Taiyi True Grotto.

Jiang Sheng broke through to void refinement and attained the unprecedented taiyi true grotto Dao fruit, prompting a vast manifestation across the Three Realms. After receiving thirteen wisps of Xuanhuang qi, he stabilized his new realm and recognized himself as True Lord Yuchen Lingyuan.

• Jiang Sheng's breakthrough produced an azure lotus manifestation that appeared across the Netherworld and mortal world, showing a Daoist shaping wind, thunder, water, and fire before concealing the manifestation's final transformation.
• Jiang Sheng dismissed the manifestation and received thirteen wisps of Xuanhuang qi, more than the nine wisps granted to other peerless Taiyi cultivators.
• Jiang Sheng drew the Xuanhuang qi into his body and gathered his magical treasures, preparing to stabilize his Dao fruit and advance them.
• Jiang Sheng experienced the immortal nature of the void refinement realm firsthand and understood the gulf between immortals and mortals.
• Jiang Sheng declared that he could now rightly be called True Lord Yuchen Lingyuan.

Jiang Sheng returned from Little Penglai Island to Penglai after attaining the Taiyi Cave True Dao Fruit, bringing Tian Ming'an and Qiu Buyu with him. At Penglai, Lingwei said Ancestor Shangyang was waiting and explained that Penglai stood to gain an exalted place in the newly merged Three Realms.

• Jiang Sheng found that his advancement to Void Refinement had caused Little Penglai’s flowers and spiritual plants to flourish, and Tian Ming'an and Qiu Buyu welcomed him at the Cloud Palace.
• Jiang Sheng told Tian Ming'an and Qiu Buyu he was returning to Penglai Grotto-Heaven and took them across the South Sea himself.
• Jiang Sheng passed through the South Heaven Gate and reached the East Sea, where Penglai Immortal Island and its revealed Grotto-Heaven stood above the surrounding waters.
• Lingwei greeted Jiang Sheng outside the Penglai Three Isles and escorted him into the Grotto-Heaven to meet Ancestor Shangyang, postponing a public True Lord ceremony.
• Lingwei explained that Penglai would receive an exalted seat in heaven and earth after the Three Realms merged, and Jiang Sheng wondered whether Ancestor Shangyang had foreseen it.

Jiang Sheng entered Penglai Grotto-Heaven and met its ancestors, who discussed how Daoist Lord Shangyang’s departure would secure Penglai’s standing in the Three Realms. Ancestor Qingyan then declared that Jiang Sheng was ready for an important task.

• Jiang Sheng reflected that the Daoist Tradition’s gains from the Three Realms joining together outweighed its territorial losses, and admired Daoist Lord Shangyang’s foresight.
• Lingwei escorted Jiang Sheng into Xuming Heavenly Palace, where Penglai’s ancestors and True Lords had gathered to welcome him.
• The ancestors praised Jiang Sheng’s growth, and Daoist Lord Shangyang told Ancestor Qingyan that his fortune and merit would pass to him when he left.
• Ancestor Shangyang explained that Qingyan and Mingyang would secure the Daoist Tradition’s roots, while Patriarch Dejing and Ancestor Jingxuan discussed claiming authority over territories and Immortal Deities.
• Ancestor Qingyan said Jiang Sheng had grown up and was ready to be entrusted with an important task.

Jiang Sheng stayed with True Lord Yuming in Penglai Grotto-Heaven as they discussed the new rules governing the Three Realms. After the realms stabilized, clear light and sweet dew appeared over Penglai, and the supreme station of Xuanmen’s Dao-Ruler, Heavenly Venerable, was born.

• Jiang Sheng stayed at Yu Ming Palace, where he refined stellar power and drank immortal tea to strengthen his newly ascended Primordial Spirit.
• True Lord Yuming explained that the Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor had restricted access to celestial energies and established strict duties for immortals and gods.
• Jiang Sheng and True Lord Yuming discussed how Ancestor Qingyan had reserved heavenly offices for their sects and how the Emperor planned to govern the mountain and Sea Realms.
• After Jiang Sheng had stayed seven days, all beings felt the Three Realms reach their full extent and begin to stabilize under newly manifest laws.
• Clear light spread from Penglai Wonderland and sweet dew blessed the Three Realms as the exalted Heavenly Venerable station of Xuanmen came into being.

Daoist Lord Qingyan and Mingyang Daoist Lord attained Heavenly Venerable positions and raised new eastern realms, while Jinjue Buddha established a western heavenly realm, expanding the Nine Heavens into Twelve. True Lords gathered in Penglai to honor the new powers, and the chapter ended as a heavenly summons called perfected immortals into the palace.

• Daoist Lord Qingyan became Qingyan Heavenly Venerable and raised the Eastern Penglai Heavenly Realm above the Nine Heavens.
• Jinjue Buddha raised the Great Lingyin Temple into the West Heaven Great Numinous Sound Realm, and Mingyang Daoist Lord established the Eastern Qinghua Heavenly Realm.
• The Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor reacted coldly as the Nine Heavens expanded into Twelve, while the Xuanmen gathered to celebrate its two Heavenly Venerables.
• Jiang Sheng learned from True Lord Yu Ming that Emperor Taizong of the Tang Kingdom and the Zhou Kingdom's founding emperor had come seeking an imperial decree for the Zhou Dynasty.
• Scarlet Cloud True Lord and Divine Mechanism True Lord discussed the prospect of immortal Fruition Ranks with Jiang Sheng and True Lord Yu Ming.
• A celestial bell rang, and a heavenly voice summoned all perfected immortals who had attained the Dao into the Heavenly Palace.

Qingyan Heavenly Venerable and Mingyang Heavenly Venerable appointed Daoist immortals to offices across the Three Realms, then granted Jiang Sheng an independent Little Penglai Immortal Realm and the Talisman of No Restrictions. The chapter ended with Jiang Sheng and the assembled True Lords pledging to uphold Xuanmen as its fortune spread through the Three Realms.

• Qingyan Heavenly Venerable summoned the Daoist True Lords and began appointing them to star offices and domains across the Nine Heavens, Netherworld, and mortal world.
• Mingyang Heavenly Venerable appointed True Lord Lanjing Northern Dipper Star Lord, while other True Lords from the Daoist Sects and Heterodox Sect received offices and domains.
• Qingyan Heavenly Venerable named Jiang Sheng Lord of Little Penglai and granted him the twelve-million-li Little Penglai Immortal Realm, independent of Heavenly Court oversight.
• Qingyan Heavenly Venerable bestowed the Talisman of No Restrictions on Jiang Sheng, allowing him to travel freely and call upon heaven, earth, and Daoist immortals for aid.
• Jiang Sheng and the assembled True Lords bowed and proclaimed that the Mystic Dao would flourish across the Nine Heavens and Three Realms.

Jiang Sheng returned to Little Penglai as True Lord Yuchen Lingyuan and began organizing the immortal realm under his authority. After assigning work to his disciples and four great demons, he withdrew to consolidate his Void Refinement realm and refine his treasures.

• Jiang Sheng arrived at the Cloud Palace with a grand procession, and the assembled island and sea rulers bowed to him as True Lord Yuchen Lingyuan.
• Jiang Sheng ordered Tian Ming'an and Qiu Buyu to register the territories, distribute warrants and seals, and decide their domains’ internal divisions.
• Jiang Sheng tasked Green Ox, Golden Lion, Treasure Elephant, and Green Peng with gathering trusted followers and recruiting people to strengthen Little Penglai.
• Jiang Sheng invited the Tian Family and Qiu Family to move to Little Penglai and oversee two domains, and Tian Ming'an and Qiu Buyu agreed.
• Jiang Sheng closed himself away to stabilize his Void Refinement foundations and temper his magical treasures.

Jiang Sheng spent fifty years cultivating in the Cloud Palace, refining five wisps of Xuanhuang Qi and tempering his body and primordial spirit with the unfiltered power of the sun, moon, and stars. He finally stabilized his foundation and recognized the extraordinary strength of his Taiyi True Grotto Dao Fruit.

• Jiang Sheng began cultivating the Yin-Yang Calamity Three-Transformation Five-Element Method, refining a wisp of Xuanhuang Qi to nourish his body, primordial spirit, and true spirit.
• While Tian Ming'an and Qiu Buyu relocated the Lineage and the four demons gathered followers, the Three Realms remained peaceful under the Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor's decree to prioritize recovery.
• Jiang Sheng spent decades refining Xuanhuang Qi, ultimately using five wisps to strengthen his foundation.
• Jiang Sheng absorbed Solar Essence, Lunar Florescence, and stellar power without filtering, tempering his body and primordial spirit as his Dao Fruit grew brighter.
• After fifty years of secluded cultivation, Jiang Sheng opened his eyes and confirmed that his foundation had finally stabilized.

Jiang Sheng stabilized his Void Refinement cultivation and used Xuanhuang Qi to temper seven spiritual treasures, including the Qingping Sword and the Zhu-Lu-Xian-Jue Four Immortal Swords. After the swords advanced into true treasures and stirred up the Little Penglai Immortal Realm, Jiang Sheng remembered that Ming'an and Buyu had been away in the Eastern Region Continent for a hundred years.

• Jiang Sheng absorbed the sixteen hundred Heavenly Stars in Cloud Palace and stabilized his cultivation at the early stage of Void Refinement.
• After calming his mind with tea, Jiang Sheng brought out seven spiritual treasures and distributed Xuanhuang Qi among them to raise their quality.
• Jiang Sheng renamed the Qingping Sword the Azure Duckweed Immortal Sword and said he would add “Immortal” to the names of the four swords.
• After fifty years of tempering, the Qingping Sword and Zhu-Lu-Xian-Jue Four Immortal Swords became true treasures and unleashed sword intent across Little Penglai, frightening its inhabitants.
• Jiang Sheng called the five swords back to Cloud Palace, then realized that Ming'an and Buyu had not returned from the Eastern Region Continent in a hundred years.

Jiang Sheng bypassed the mortal realm’s barriers through South Heaven Gate and went to the Eastern Land Realm after realizing his disciples had not returned. The Eastern Land Divine Lord told him that Tian Ming'an and Qiu Buyu had left the realm with their clanspeople, leaving their whereabouts unexplained.

• Jiang Sheng traveled from the South Sea to the Eastern Land Realm through South Heaven Gate.
• Jiang Sheng suspected that something had happened to Tian Ming'an and Qiu Buyu, who had been sent to relocate their lineages.
• The Eastern Land Divine Lord approached Jiang Sheng and asked why he had come.
• Jiang Sheng asked about his disciples and explained that he had heard nothing from them for a hundred years.
• The Eastern Land Divine Lord said Tian Ming'an and Qiu Buyu had left the Eastern Land Realm with their clanspeople.

Jiang Sheng investigated the relocation of the Qiu and Tian families and learned that the Eastern Land Divine Lord had helped them leave the domain. He headed into the East Sea to search for Tian Ming'an and Qiu Buyu, where an old acquaintance called out to him.

• Jiang Sheng followed the Eastern Land Divine Lord to his palace to examine the relocation records.
• The chief registrar showed Jiang Sheng records confirming that Tian Ming'an and Qiu Buyu had taken 388,241 members of the Qiu and Tian families out of the Eastern Land Domain, with three Dharma Boats provided by the Divine Lord.
• Jiang Sheng thanked the Eastern Land Divine Lord for his assistance and exchanged communication jade discs with him.
• Jiang Sheng left the Eastern Land Domain and passed through a domain gate into the East Sea to look for Tian Ming'an and Qiu Buyu.
• An old acquaintance called out to Jiang Sheng as he gazed across the East Sea.

Jiang Sheng reunited with Ao Ke on an extravagant East Sea tower ship and questioned why their old friendship had grown distant. After acknowledging that he had neglected old acquaintances, Jiang Sheng challenged Ao Ke to explain his despondency, asking whether Ao Ke had a guilty conscience.

• Jiang Sheng spotted Ao Ke waiting aboard a lavish tower ship as he left the Eastern Region Continent and wondered whether their meeting was planned.
• Ao Ke recalled their last meeting more than three hundred years earlier and described how he had become a Sea Realm governor while remaining in Spirit Transformation.
• Jiang Sheng questioned Ao Ke’s changing forms of address, and Ao Ke said their vast difference in status and cultivation had created a barrier between them.
• Jiang Sheng reflected on old acquaintances he had lost touch with and admitted that secluded cultivation had contributed to their distance.
• Jiang Sheng told Ao Ke that true friends could meet honestly despite different paths and asked whether the fault was his or Ao Ke’s guilty conscience.

Jiang Sheng confronted Ao Ke, who confessed that a mysterious person had coerced him into helping target Jiang Sheng by threatening his wife and child. After explaining how he had lured Tian Ming'an and Qiu Buyu to his Sea Realm and secretly drugged Jiang Sheng, Ao Ke faced Jiang Sheng’s calm acknowledgment that he had suspected the betrayal from the start.

• Ao Ke recalled how a mysterious person had helped him build a family and rise to power, then demanded that he act against Jiang Sheng.
• The mysterious person persuaded Ao Ke by claiming Jiang Sheng had abandoned him and threatening to undo the help given to Ao Ke’s wife and child.
• Ao Ke lured Tian Ming'an and Qiu Buyu to his Sea Realm, where they and their clans later disappeared, then waited for Jiang Sheng to arrive.
• Following the mysterious person’s instructions, Ao Ke served Jiang Sheng Hundred-Fruit Brew and watched him drink it.
• Ao Ke admitted his guilt, and Jiang Sheng said he had suspected the betrayal from the beginning and had come to see his old friend one last time.

Ao Ke warned Jiang Sheng about the terrifying enemy before destroying his own primordial spirit, and Jiang Sheng fought a six-bodied heavenly demon on the East Sea. The demon mistook Jiang Sheng’s sword for the Qingping Sword, but Jiang Sheng revealed its name as Immortal Execution.

• Ao Ke asked Jiang Sheng to spare his family, warned him about the enemy, and shattered his own primordial spirit.
• Jiang Sheng unleashed heavenly lightning across the East Sea, annihilating the creatures surrounding the tower ship.
• Six Void Refinement figures emerged and attacked Jiang Sheng, revealing themselves as one heavenly demon divided among six bodies.
• Jiang Sheng resisted their coordinated assault and accused them of using the Ruyi Heart Sutra of Spirit Division and Thought Manifestation.
• An azure immortal sword arrived from the south, and the heavenly demon identified it as the Qingping Sword.
• Jiang Sheng corrected the demon, saying the sword was not Azure Duckweed but Immortal Execution.

Jiang Sheng used the Immortal-Slaying Sword to overpower Bimou, then struck as the Heavenly Demon fled and destroyed two of his six soul fragments. Bimou escaped with the remaining fragments, while Jiang Sheng chose to save his disciples and the mortals below.

• Jiang Sheng revealed the Immortal-Slaying Sword’s power and shattered Bimou’s attacks with one stroke.
• Bimou identified himself, explained that he had been monitoring Jiang Sheng, and scattered his six bodies to flee.
• Jiang Sheng used Heaven-Cutting to freeze everything within ten thousand miles and confronted Bimou’s soul fragments.
• Bimou threatened Jiang Sheng with danger to his two disciples and hundreds of thousands of mortals, so Jiang Sheng plunged into the sea to save them.
• Jiang Sheng’s Azure sword rainbow destroyed two of Bimou’s soul fragments as the rest escaped into the void.

Pituo reprimanded Binmou for failing to defeat Jiang Sheng, while the Mystic Lord revealed that the probe was meant to set the Three Realms on a path toward chaos and war. Jiang Sheng found Ao Ke’s wife and child dying in the divine palace and ended the chapter with Binmou in his thoughts.

• Pituo scolded Binmou for dividing their strength among six bodies and warned that they would not be given a third chance.
• Pituo reported to the Mystic Lord, who revealed that Jiang Sheng had been only a pretext for a plan to plunge the Three Realms into chaos.
• Jiang Sheng entered the silent divine palace and found the bodies of its inhabitants, drained and left behind by Binmou.
• Jiang Sheng discovered Ao Ke’s wife and child barely alive, learned Binmou had been draining them all along, and watched their remaining vitality fade.
• Jiang Sheng suppressed his emotions and quietly said, “Binmou.”

Jiang Sheng discovered that Binmou had trapped Tian Ming'an, Qiu Buyu, and their clans in an isolated small world, where they had fought heavenly demon servants for more than sixty years. After Jiang Sheng contacted them, he broke into the world and announced that he had come to take them home.

• Jiang Sheng learned that Binmou had sealed Tian Ming'an, Qiu Buyu, and more than three hundred thousand people inside a small world and forced them to labor for heavenly demon servants.
• Tian Ming'an and Qiu Buyu escaped their spirit-sealing shackles, led their clans in decades of battles, and built cities around mines they captured from the demons.
• After Binmou fled, the uncontrolled heavenly demon servants launched a frenzied assault that left the clans near defeat.
• Tian Ming'an's preserved communication jade disc connected to Jiang Sheng, and the two disciples told him about their desperate situation.
• Jiang Sheng drove the Zhu-Xian Sword through the small world's sky, and the surviving cultivators realized their master had arrived.
• Jiang Sheng manifested his pale azure eyes above the world and told Tian Ming'an and Qiu Buyu that he had come to take them home.

After rescuing his disciples from Bimou’s demonic scheme, Jiang Sheng won Patriarch Qingyan’s approval to retaliate and set plans in motion to track the Heavenly Demons. Armed with a lead pointing to the Spirit Radiance Realm, Jiang Sheng departed Little Penglai to find Bimou.

• Jiang Sheng rescued Tian Ming'an, Qiu Buyu, and the survivors by splitting the world barrier and unleashing thunderfire, then went to Patriarch Qingyan to report Bimou’s attack.
• Patriarch Qingyan recognized Bimou as a pawn in a test against Jiang Sheng and the Mystic Gate, approved retaliation, and promised to reveal Bimou’s whereabouts.
• Jiang Sheng asked Daoist Yuchen to spread the True Lord’s faith across nearby worlds and use the effort to search for Heavenly Demons.
• Heavenly Venerable Qingyan gave True Lord Yu Ming an edict to seek out and execute Heavenly Demon puppets and lackeys.
• Seven days later, Jiang Sheng received an edict pointing to the Spirit Radiance Realm, entrusted Little Penglai to Tian Ming'an, Qiu Buyu, and the four great demons, and departed through chaos to find Bimou.

Lin Xiao and his four companions fought through a pursuing Heavenly Demon force while trying to return to Anyang Commandery with intelligence. The squad was surrounded by eight powerful Purple Mansion Realm Heavenly Demons, leaving Lin Xiao ready to reveal the Radiant Dew Bottle if necessary.

• Lin Xiao led the five rogue cultivators in turning to fight the Heavenly Demons pursuing them through the mountain forest.
• Lin Xiao used his seven Dharma Swords while Su Yutong and the others attacked with their magical artifacts.
• Lin Xiao called to Su Yutong, who activated a Demon-Slaying Talisman and unleashed lightning against the demonic soldiers.
• The squad tried to retreat through the opening, but another force of Heavenly Demons blocked their way.
• Eight late-stage Purple Mansion Realm Heavenly Demons surrounded Lin Xiao and his companions, and Lin Xiao gripped the hidden Radiant Dew Bottle.