Chapter Summaries

Wind Moon decided that Hanging Jade Pavilion’s betrayal meant she would leave after stabilizing her cultivation, while Yuan Xinmei and Wei Yuling rallied the others to side with the Zhong Clan. As they waited for Zhong Yunyue to arrive, an azure light emerged from a void storm and plunged toward Pingxiang World.

• Wind Moon resolved to stop tolerating Yuan Xinmei and the others, leave Hanging Jade Pavilion, and continue stabilizing her Heavenly Dao Nascent Soul.
• Hanging Jade Pavilion withdrew from cities, and its members, businesses, and allies fell into disorder as Yuan Xinmei and the others secretly encouraged the chaos.
• Yuan Xinmei, Wei Yuling, and Ning Yuchan met with other senior figures and debated their betrayal of Wind Moon and their promised reward from the Zhong Clan.
• Yuan Xinmei and Wei Yuling persuaded the gathered sisters to await Zhong Yunyue and claim Hanging Jade Pavilion’s foundation after Wind Moon was forced to leave.
• A massive void storm formed beyond Pingxiang World, and an azure streak burst from it and plunged toward the world.

Zhong Yunyue’s arrival prompted local Nascent Soul True Persons to pressure Fengyue into leaving the Hanging Jade Pavilion, while traitors poisoned her and left her surrounded. Just as Fengyue prepared to face them, a familiar Daoist appeared and greeted her as an old friend.

• Zhong Yunyue arrived in Yellow Jade City and asked whether Fengyue had come to meet him.
• Nascent Soul True Persons traveled to East Glaze City and demanded that Fengyue attend a banquet on Zhong Yunyue’s behalf.
• Fengyue confronted the visitors for abandoning their friendship to curry favor with the Zhong Clan, and they threatened her and the people of East Glaze City.
• Fengyue realized that someone had poisoned her through the incense and candles replaced by her trusted attendants.
• As the Nascent Souls closed in and Fengyue weighed her choices, a familiar Daoist appeared atop the Hanging Jade Pavilion and greeted her.

Jiang Sheng reunited with Fengyue in East Glaze City and kept the Nascent Soul cultivators who had come to seize her frozen in the air. When Zhong Yunyue led a larger force into the city, Jiang Sheng stripped the gathered True Persons of their powers and forced them to kneel before him.

• Jiang Sheng appeared before Fengyue, froze the Nascent Soul True Persons around her, and invited her to share tea on Xuanyu Pavilion's roof.
• Jiang Sheng congratulated Fengyue on her cultivation and offered tea to help stabilize her realm as they began catching up.
• After the True Persons sent to capture Fengyue failed to return, Zhong Yunyue gathered local clan and sect leaders and traveled to East Glaze City.
• Zhong Yunyue and his followers entered the city, found Fengyue drinking tea, and surrounded Xuanyu Pavilion while demanding to know what had happened to True Person Wang and the others.
• Fengyue pointed out the frozen cultivators overhead, and the assembled True Persons discovered Jiang Sheng seated across from her.
• Jiang Sheng ordered the True Persons to kneel, severed their access to magical power, and made them fall to their knees on the shattered paving stones.

Zhong Yunfeng plotted to seize Wind Moon’s Profound Ice Cold Physique, unaware that the Wheel-Turning Jade Disc’s spirit, Ying Liu True Lord, was plotting to use him to obtain the Nine Aspects Sect’s secret inheritance. The chapter revealed the sect’s origins and Ying Liu’s plan to take both halves of her master’s legacy, leaving her watching the sect’s secret realm and hoping to change her identity afterward.

• Zhong Yunfeng dismissed a limited secret art and planned to take Wind Moon’s physique so he could cultivate the Yin-Yang Formless Secret Treasury.
• Zhong Yunfeng worried that Yunyue had not returned from the southeastern region, but refused the Wheel-Turning Jade Disc’s suggestion to go there himself.
• The Wheel-Turning Jade Disc revealed that its spirit was Ying Liu True Lord, a former disciple of Formless True Lord who had come to Beiyan Continent to seek her senior brother’s inheritance.
• Ying Liu True Lord recalled that Formless True Lord’s disciples killed him and divided his two flawed cultivation volumes between themselves.
• The chapter revealed that True Lord Zhanfa had become Beiyan True Lord and built the Nine Aspects Sect to use successive generations of disciples to refine the Yin-Yang Formless Secret Treasury.
• Ying Liu True Lord planned to manipulate Zhong Yunfeng into learning and corrupting the upper volume, then obtain both volumes and Formless True Lord’s legacy.

Jiang Sheng punished the Middle Three Realms cultivators who had joined the attack on Hanging Jade Pavilion, then killed Zhong Yunyue after learning he was a direct heir of the Zhong Clan. The chapter ended with Jiang Sheng ordering Zhong Yunyue’s head taken to the Zhong Clan to demand an explanation.

• Jiang Sheng sealed the spiritual power and divine abilities of the gathered cultivators, leaving them kneeling outside Hanging Jade Pavilion.
• Jiang Sheng dismissed the attackers as people who had taken advantage of Wind Moon and began turning them to ash with a gust of wind.
• Jiang Sheng killed more than a hundred True Persons, leaving Zhong Yunyue as the sole survivor.
• Jiang Sheng confirmed that Zhong Yunyue was a direct heir of the Zhong Clan and severed his head.
• Jiang Sheng ordered Zhong Yunyue’s head taken to the Zhong Clan to demand an explanation.

Jiang Sheng brought Fengyue to the Zhong Clan and destroyed its city-protection Formation with a meteor, then confronted its Dharma Image True Person, Zhong Xiangtian, over the clan’s attack on him. He demanded Zhong Yunfeng’s head and left Zhong Xiangtian to choose between killing the mastermind and having the entire Zhong Clan exterminated.

• Jiang Sheng redirected a hundred-li meteor into the Zhong Clan’s city, smashing its thousand-year-old protective Formation.
• The furious Dharma Image True Person Zhong Xiangtian rose in anger, but Jiang Sheng and Fengyue entered the space between reality and illusion and appeared inside the main city.
• Jiang Sheng showed Zhong Xiangtian the dead Zhong Yunyue and said he had killed him after Zhong Yunyue and his group attacked him.
• Jiang Sheng named Zhong Yunfeng as the true mastermind and demanded his head to settle the matter.
• Jiang Sheng gave Zhong Xiangtian a choice: Zhong Yunfeng’s death or the extermination of the Zhong Clan.

Jiang Sheng forced Zhong Xiangtian to choose between two gifted Zhong Clan descendants and the rest of the clan, then let him leave to seek help from Beiyan True Lord. Jiang Sheng revealed that he wanted to confront the True Lord and claim the Heterodox Sect’s territory, and hinted that Zhong Xiangtian had not escaped his control.

• Jiang Sheng intimidated Zhong Xiangtian and the five Spirit Transformation elders in the Zhong Clan’s ancestral hall, demanding two people in exchange for sparing the clan.
• Jiang Sheng threatened to raise his price if Zhong Xiangtian hesitated, and Zhong Xiangtian agreed to go seek help.
• Fengyue warned that Zhong Xiangtian might ask Beiyan True Lord of the Nine Aspects Sect to intervene.
• Jiang Sheng told Fengyue that he was waiting for Zhong Xiangtian to find help because he intended to confront Beiyan True Lord and take over the Heterodox Sect’s territory.
• Jiang Sheng dismissed Fengyue’s concerns about Beiyan True Lord’s strength and hinted that he had already placed something on Zhong Xiangtian.

Zhong Yunfeng and Zhong Xiangtian sought protection from the Nine Aspects Sect's master, Mo Daotian, but Beiyan True Lord revealed that he intended to use Zhong Yunfeng as a pill ingredient. Jiang Sheng confronted Beiyan True Lord, killed Zhong Yunfeng, rescued Mo Daotian, and warned the wicked cultivator to leave Pingxiang World.

• Zhong Xiangtian told Zhong Yunfeng that the Zhong Clan had provoked a powerful enemy and brought him to meet Mo Daotian.
• Mo Daotian planned to use the newcomer True Lord to escape Beiyan True Lord's control and offered to make Zhong Yunfeng his personal disciple.
• Beiyan True Lord appeared in the sect master's hall, where Jiang Sheng arrived as a thought and demanded an accounting for the Zhong Clan's actions.
• Beiyan True Lord claimed Zhong Yunfeng as a pill ingredient, but Jiang Sheng killed Zhong Yunfeng with a streak of Azure light.
• When Beiyan True Lord tried to seize Mo Daotian, Jiang Sheng rescued him and warned Beiyan True Lord to flee Pingxiang World or be cut down.

Jiang Sheng rescued Mo Daotian from Beiyan True Lord’s schemes and confronted True Lord Zhanfa over his use of human pills. Their battle began above the Beiyan Continent, where Jiang Sheng exposed the corruption of Zhanfa’s Yin-Yang Formless Net and struck while Zhanfa was distracted by memories of his master.

• Jiang Sheng revived Mo Daotian, explained that he had saved him to thwart Beiyan True Lord, and ordered him to watch the others and report what he knew.
• True Lord Zhanfa pursued Mo Daotian, intending to recover the human pill he had cultivated and punish Jiang Sheng for disrupting his plans.
• Jiang Sheng and True Lord Zhanfa met above the Beiyan Continent and began fighting with their arts.
• True Lord Zhanfa unleashed the blood-threaded Yin-Yang Formless Net, and Jiang Sheng blocked it with streaks of Azure Sword Qi.
• Jiang Sheng questioned whether Zhanfa had practiced the Divine Ability incorrectly or taken the wrong path, prompting Zhanfa to recall True Lord Wuxiang’s guidance about the heart and the Dao.
• As Zhanfa stood lost in thought, Jiang Sheng sent a resplendent Azure Light slashing toward him and declared that he would kill him before seeking Mo Daotian.

Jiang Sheng and True Lord Zhanfa fought across the Star Sea above Beiyan Continent, where Jiang Sheng repeatedly outmatched the mid-stage cultivator. True Lord Zhanfa sacrificed his Sword Pellet for a final attack, but Jiang Sheng shattered it and struck as the chapter ended.

• Jiang Sheng’s sword radiance crossed the Star Sea and forced True Lord Zhanfa to scatter into turbid qi to evade it.
• True Lord Zhanfa launched his Sword Pellet at Jiang Sheng, but Jiang Sheng’s Qingping Sword broke through its starlight and the two began fighting at close range.
• True Lord Yingliu watched the battle and mistakenly concluded that True Lord Zhanfa’s cultivation had regressed.
• True Lord Zhanfa’s Sword Pellet cracked under Jiang Sheng’s attacks, so he summoned the White Sun Star and blood-sacrificed the treasure for Sword Mystic Opens Heaven.
• Jiang Sheng revealed his orthodox natal star and struck head-on, shattering the blood-red Sword Pellet before closing in on True Lord Zhanfa.
• Jiang Sheng swung the Qingping Sword at True Lord Zhanfa as wind, thunder, water, and fire gathered on its blade.

Jiang Sheng slew True Lord Zhanfa, who chose to destroy his own true spirit rather than reincarnate. After True Lord Yingliu asked for Zhanfa’s inherited cultivation art, Jiang Sheng said he did not possess it and left her to search Zhanfa’s cave abode.

• Jiang Sheng’s sword strike shattered True Lord Zhanfa’s body and true spirit, and Zhanfa voluntarily dispersed what remained of his spirit.
• Jiang Sheng called out to the hidden observer, and True Lord Yingliu emerged and introduced herself as Zhanfa’s fellow disciple.
• Yingliu said Zhanfa had fallen into the evil path and accepted Jiang Sheng’s intervention, which spared the sect from having to kill him.
• Yingliu asked Jiang Sheng to return the sect’s inherited cultivation art, the Yin-Yang Formless Secret Treasury.
• Jiang Sheng said he did not possess Zhanfa’s inheritance, pointed out that Zhanfa’s magic treasures had been shattered, and departed.
• Yingliu turned toward the Nine Aspects Sect to search Zhanfa’s cave abode.

After True Lord Zhanfa’s death, Ying Liu entered the Nine Aspects Sect’s cave heaven to search for the Yin-Yang Formless Secret Treasury, but Jiang Sheng revealed its guiding truths and confronted her over her betrayal of True Lord Wuxiang. As Jiang Sheng raised the Qingping Sword to kill her, an unseen voice called for him to show mercy.

• Ying Liu arrived at the panicked Nine Aspects Sect, killed the cultivators gathered in the sect master's hall, and searched the rear mountain for Zhanfa's cave heaven.
• Ying Liu entered the cave heaven and found Zhanfa's notes and human-pill furnace, but failed to locate the Yin-Yang Formless Secret Treasury.
• Jiang Sheng appeared and revealed that the Treasury's guiding truths were reflected in the cave heaven's sky and water.
• Ying Liu accused True Lord Wuxiang of mistreating her and giving her an incomplete inheritance, while Jiang Sheng condemned her betrayal of her master.
• Jiang Sheng drew the Qingping Sword and prepared to send Ying Liu into reincarnation, but a distant voice begged True Lord Lingyuan to show mercy.

Jiang Sheng subdued Ying Liu, but True Lord Shaobai of the Three Stars Sect intervened and explained that Ying Liu and Zhanfa had murdered their master, True Lord Wuxiang. The chapter ended with Shaobai asking to take Ying Liu back for punishment and presenting Jiang Sheng with a gift.

• Jiang Sheng’s sword intent overwhelmed Ying Liu, and he stopped his blade at her neck when True Lord Shaobai arrived.
• True Lord Shaobai bound Ying Liu with a Binding Immortal Rope and introduced himself to Jiang Sheng.
• Shaobai explained that Ying Liu and Zhanfa had been True Lord Wuxiang’s disciples and had murdered him before fleeing the Nara World.
• Ying Liu accused Wuxiang of teaching them flawed cultivation methods, but Shaobai said Wuxiang had meant for them to develop their own paths and condemned them for killing him.
• Shaobai told Jiang Sheng of the Three Stars Sect’s ties to the Qinghua Dao Sect and asked to take Ying Liu back for punishment.
• Shaobai presented Jiang Sheng with a gilded, jade-inlaid treasure box as a gift for his upcoming Void Refinement ceremony.

Jiang Sheng arranged the aftermath of the Nine Aspects Sect’s fall, planned a resource base for training elite Daoist Soldiers, and prepared a large Void Refinement ceremony. After the ancestors approved the event for spring of year 257, invitations went out across the Three Realms, revealing that Ling Yuan was still a young man of barely five hundred years.

• Jiang Sheng appointed Mo Daotian superintendent of the Little Penglai Branch Estate in Beiyan Continent and ordered him to clear away the Nine Aspects Sect’s remnants.
• Jiang Sheng returned to Little Penglai with Wind Moon and planned to develop Beiyan Continent and other branch estates as resource lands for his Daoist Soldiers.
• Tian Ming'an reported that the Void Refinement ceremony was set for spring of year 257 and reviewed the extensive guest list with Jiang Sheng.
• Jiang Sheng entrusted Tian Ming'an with the ceremony preparations and secured the approval of Qingyan Ancestor, Ancestor Dejing, and Ancestor Jingxuan.
• Penglai disciples carried Jiang Sheng’s invitations throughout the Heavenly Court, the five continents, and the Four Seas, and the various forces learned that Ling Yuan was barely five hundred years old.

Jiang Sheng prepared for his Void Refinement ceremony, reflecting on the duels likely to come and the rivals eager to test their progress against him. He gave Tian Ming'an a newly forged Sword Pellet and assigned him to develop Jiang Sheng’s residence in Pingxiang World, while planning to leave after the ceremony.

• Jiang Sheng wiped his swords in Azure Profound Hall and asked Tian Ming'an what mattered most in swordsmanship.
• Tian Ming'an said speed came first, and Jiang Sheng agreed that he used speed and force to seize the advantage and overwhelm enemies.
• Jiang Sheng told Tian Ming'an that the ceremony would inevitably bring duels with prodigies who had reached Void Refinement before him.
• Jiang Sheng gave Tian Ming'an an unnamed Sword Pellet forged from the fragments of a shattered treasure and told him to name it.
• Jiang Sheng instructed Tian Ming'an to manage his residence in Pingxiang World after the ceremony, then said he planned to leave Little Penglai once he had seen his old friends.

Jiang Sheng prepared to hold his Void Refinement Ceremony at Little Penglai as honored guests and disciples from across the Three Realms arrived. Lin Fan and Ling Yu briefed him on the Daoist Tradition’s expansion plans and growing unrest among the great worlds, leaving him aware that the wider chaos might soon become turbulent.

• Processions from across the Three Realms traveled to Little Penglai for Jiang Sheng’s Void Refinement Ceremony, while Tian Ming'an and Qiu Buyu organized the arriving guests.
• Lin Fan arrived with Ye Qian and Huang Wensheng to help receive visitors, followed by Penglai disciples and senior figures from Penglai, Qinghua, and Tianhe.
• Jiang Sheng spoke with Lin Fan and Ling Yu about his breakthrough and Penglai’s efforts to expand its influence beyond the Three Realms.
• Ling Yu and Lin Fan told Jiang Sheng that Penglai had set aside plans to approach the Jiuzhou World and was investigating two medium thousand worlds instead.
• Ling Yu and Lin Fan explained that Pure Yang ancestors and Daoist Lords across the great worlds were reacting to the rise of Dao-Ruling True Yang beings, stirring competition and unrest.

Jiang Sheng welcomed old friends and powerful guests to Little Penglai as cultivators from across the Three Realms gathered for his Void Refinement Ceremony. With Xuanyi arriving at last, the ceremony was set to begin in the spring of Year 257.

• Jiang Sheng learned that Xuanyi would attend his ceremony and that Mingxian was returning from the Tianyuan World, though Jiang Sheng would leave before they could meet.
• Ye Wenshu and Fahui encountered one another outside Little Penglai, then headed inside together while Kong Zhen and Jin Qiong watched from nearby.
• Liuhua Scarlet Cloud True Lord and Yan Xiao brought younger disciples to meet the other factions and learn from the gathering's distinguished geniuses.
• Superior Golden Core experts from across the Three Realms met, discussed the Dao, and displayed their talents as Little Penglai grew crowded with guests.
• Jiang Sheng received Ye Wenshu, Fahui, Kong Zhen, Jin Qiong, and his other old friends, and Xuanyi arrived as the final guest before the ceremony began.

Jiang Sheng celebrated attaining the Taiyi Dao Fruit with a grand Void Refinement ceremony, then invited the Three Realms’ young talents to compete for a treasured pendant. The chapter left the gathered guests facing a perilous arena formed from Jiang Sheng’s own Cave Heaven inner landscape.

• Jiang Sheng entered Azure Profound Hall in ceremonial robes and took the seat of honor as the Void Refinement ceremony began.
• Sects and Aristocratic Clans presented congratulatory gifts, and Jiang Sheng shared wine with Xuanyi, Kong Zhen, Ye Wenshu, Fahui, and the other True Lords.
• Ye Wenshu and Fahui traded barbed remarks about their past clashes while Xuanyi and Jiang Sheng discussed the rising fortunes of the Three Realms.
• Jiang Sheng declared that Dao Heart mattered most in cultivation and invited the young talents to compete for a protective magic pendant.
• Jiang Sheng opened a gateway to a dangerous, dying world, and Ye Wenshu and Fahui recognized it as an inner landscape reflecting his advancing arts of calamity and tribulation.

Jiang Sheng, Fahui, and Ye Wenshu demonstrated their Cave Heaven arts, and Jiang Sheng fused their three landscapes into one for the juniors’ contests. After Puxing won the magical combat and received Jiang Sheng’s reward, the Void Refinement cultivators prepared to demonstrate their own arts and discuss the Dao.

• Fahui recognized the depth of Jiang Sheng’s Spiritlight Inner Landscape Technique and created a Buddhist Pure Land Cave Heaven beside Jiang Sheng’s landscape.
• Ye Wenshu manifested a Divine Path Cave Heaven, then she and Fahui joined forces against Jiang Sheng’s Cave Heaven.
• Jiang Sheng let his Cave Heaven shatter, gathered its fragments, and used them to seize and merge Fahui’s and Ye Wenshu’s Cave Heavens into a new landscape.
• The assembled juniors competed inside the new Cave Heaven, displaying their arts before Puxing of True Enlightenment Temple won and received Jiang Sheng’s prize.
• Jiang Sheng invited Ye Wenshu, Fahui, Xuanyi, Kong Zhen, and Jin Qiong to begin the Void Refinement demonstrations and discussion of the Dao.

Jiang Sheng brought Fahui, Ye Wenshu, Xuanyi, Kong Zhen, and Jin Qiong into a lesser world to exchange arts and discuss their Daos. After hearing each person’s teachings, he described his own intrinsic Dao and left them pondering his conjecture about what might lie beyond Taiyi.

• Jiang Sheng unfurled a treasure scroll containing a shattered Small Thousand World and invited the other Void Refinement cultivators inside to spar and discuss the Dao.
• Xuanyi demonstrated his Dao of mystery and celestial phenomena, Jin Qiong displayed her wind-and-metal arts, and Kong Zhen manifested the power of the five elements.
• Ye Wenshu revealed her heaven-centered Dao through a radiant sword manifestation, while Fahui explained the Buddhist path of bodhi and perfect enlightenment.
• Fahui asked Jiang Sheng for his insights, and Jiang Sheng explained that his Dao began with his intrinsic nature and drew on the four manifestations of wind, thunder, water, and fire.
• Jiang Sheng described a conjectural realm beyond Taiyi as encompassing all Daos and existence, then pushed an azure lotus into the center of the lesser world, where it closed and gathered the arts and time within itself.