Chapter Summaries

Hou Chonghu tried to force Zhang Xiaojiu and others to risk their lives against the Red-Chain Snake King, but Jiang Sheng had Zhang Xiaojiu push his wheelchair toward the beast. Jiang Sheng’s glance overwhelmed the Red-Chain Snake King with a vision of a Daoist slaughtering true dragons, leaving the serpent terrified and frozen.

• Hou Chonghu persuaded Liu Qing to join forces and demanded that Zhang Xiaojiu help confront the Red-Chain Snake King.
• Liu Qing objected that Zhang Xiaojiu was only at the Copper Skin realm, but Hou Chonghu argued that everyone had to contribute to their survival.
• Jiang Sheng criticized the group’s scheming and told Zhang Xiaojiu to push him toward the Red-Chain Snake King.
• The Red-Chain Snake King lowered its head before Jiang Sheng, who subdued it with a single glance.
• The Red-Chain Snake King saw a vision of a Daoist fighting and killing countless true dragons at the Dragon-Skinning Platform, and recognized the Daoist as the figure who had looked at it.

Jiang Sheng and Zhang Xiaojiu escaped Anyang Mountain after Jiang Sheng’s glance killed the Red-Chain Snake King, leaving the surviving witnesses to wonder about his identity. At Willow River, Jiang Sheng explained his view of the Dao to Liu Qing and Zhang Xiaojiu, but claimed he saw mountains and water as they were.

• Jiang Sheng passed the Red-Chain Snake King in his wheelchair, and the beast collapsed and died after seeing him; Liu Qing and the others realized his glance had killed it.
• Liu Qing sent a Shadow Guard to summon her father to Willow River Village, then followed Jiang Sheng and Zhang Xiaojiu down the mountain.
• Jiang Sheng explained the Red-Chain Snake King’s body could help Zhang Xiaojiu cultivate, but Zhang Xiaojiu chose to take his master down the mountain first.
• The fog over Anyang Mountain lifted, revealing that nearly all the gangs and martial academy disciples who had entered had died; Liu Qing, Wang Ziyi, Mo Xiangyan, and Hou Chonghu left to investigate Jiang Sheng.
• At Willow River, Jiang Sheng asked Liu Qing and Zhang Xiaojiu what they saw in the water, then described four realms of seeing mountains and rivers as part of understanding the Dao.
• When Zhang Xiaojiu asked which realm he occupied, Jiang Sheng said he also saw mountains as mountains and water as water.

Jiang Sheng heard Liu Qing explain the Nine-Tailed Cat’s rarity and the legend of its nine lives, while Nine Snow remained afraid to escape and determined to save her master. In Three Rivers Commandery, Liu Ziyu decided to travel to Mountain City Town after learning of the events at Anyang Mountain, and ordered an armed escort for his journey.

• Jiang Sheng lectured Liu Qing and Zhang Xiaojiu about martial arts realms and the Dao while Nine Snow pondered how to escape and seek help for her master.
• Liu Qing explained that Nine-Tailed Cats were rare innate spiritual creatures whose nine tails represented lives, and that the Palace Master of Moonlight Palace owned one.
• Liu Ziyu received word that Liu Qing wanted him to go personally to Mountain City Town, and Liu Family elders warned him about the danger posed by the Hou Family.
• Liu Ziyu insisted the Liu Family could no longer yield ground to the Hou Family and said he wanted to meet the young man praised by Liu Qing and Young Master Ling Yuan.
• Liu Ziyu revealed his Grandmaster aura and ordered a ceremonial guard, one battalion of the Three Rivers Guard, and the Shadow Guard to accompany him on an inspection of Inkwater and Nine-Link in three days.

The Wang and Hou Families assessed the Liu Family’s inspection tour and investigated Jiang Sheng, whose mysterious power had killed the Red-Chain Snake King. The Hou Family planned to alert the Jin Family and seek its help against Jiang Sheng and the Liu Family.

• Wang Kang worried that Liu Ziyu’s battalion inspection was aimed at the weakened Wang Family, but Wang Ziyi argued that the Liu Family could not risk alienating the county aristocratic families.
• Wang Ziyi told Wang Kang that he intended to visit Jiang Sheng in Willow River Village and seek to befriend him or avoid offending him.
• The Wang, Mo, Hou, and other families failed to uncover Jiang Sheng’s origins beyond learning that Zhang Laosan and Zhang Xiaojiu had taken him in six or seven years earlier.
• Hou Feiyuan learned that the Jin Family had never heard of Ling Yuan, then speculated that Jiang Sheng had inherited a gaze-killing art from the Sword Saint Changhong or the Overlord.
• Hou Feiyuan ordered Hou Chonghu to deliver a letter to the Six Evolutions Sect and explain Jiang Sheng’s extraordinary abilities to Elder Jin.

Jiang Sheng analyzed Liu Qing’s Cold Jade Thousand Mysteries Scripture and exposed the injuries caused by her reversed cultivation, then dismissed her. Wang Ziyi arrived and challenged Liu Qing’s assumption that she could decide where Jiang Sheng would go, leaving Jiang Sheng to watch their dispute.

• Jiang Sheng refused the stream of visitors and examined the incomplete Cold Jade Thousand Mysteries Scripture Liu Qing had brought.
• Jiang Sheng warned Liu Qing against practicing the incomplete scripture and explained how cold-pool training and demon cores could support its reversal method.
• Liu Qing realized Jiang Sheng had identified hidden damage to her meridians and acupoints, and Jiang Sheng warned her not to test him before ordering her to leave.
• Liu Qing offered to stay and help keep away troublesome guests, but Zhang Xiaojiu announced Wang Ziyi’s arrival.
• Wang Ziyi offered to arrange a residence for Jiang Sheng, while Liu Qing said her father was coming to visit; Wang Ziyi asked whether she had consulted Jiang Sheng about where he wanted to go.

Liu Ziyu arrived in Willow River Village to meet Jiang Sheng and invite him to the commandery city, but Hou Feiyuan appeared to challenge him. The chapter ended as another powerful voice backed Hou Feiyuan, setting the stage for a confrontation.

• Wang Ziyi visited Jiang Sheng with gifts and left without discussing anything beyond the visit, while Liu Qing moved to a separate courtyard.
• After learning that Liu Ziyu's procession was heading for Willow River Village, Hou Feiyuan sent word to the families across the counties and decided to go there himself.
• Liu Ziyu arrived in Willow River Village with an armed procession, greeted Liu Qing, and went to Zhang Xiaojiu's home to meet Jiang Sheng.
• Jiang Sheng told Liu Ziyu to return before hearing his purpose, but Liu Ziyu stayed as Hou Feiyuan arrived and accused him of bullying Jiang Sheng.
• Hou Feiyuan landed before Liu Ziyu, who raised his killing intent, and an unseen speaker called out in support of Hou Feiyuan.

Jin Huanyang, a Core Embracing Realm Grandmaster and Six Evolutions Sect envoy, arrived at Willow River Village and demanded the six-tailed cat from Jiang Sheng. Jiang Sheng refused, and Jin Huanyang unleashed the Six Evolutions Sect’s power as the gathered clans watched.

• Jin Huanyang flew into Willow River Village, and Liu Ziyu recognized him as a Jin Family elder and Deputy Hall Master of the Six Evolutions Sect’s Enforcement Hall.
• Wang Ziyi and representatives of other clans sent urgent reports to their families after sensing Jin Huanyang’s strength.
• Jin Huanyang questioned Jiang Sheng about killing the Red-Chain Snake King, then demanded to see the cat he had brought down from Anyang Mountain.
• Jiang Sheng told Jin Huanyang that the cat belonged to his household and ordered him to leave, while Liu Ziyu and his companions grew uneasy.
• Jin Huanyang dismissed the people of Three Rivers Commandery as beneath him and released his boiling blood and qi, forming the image of a golden roc above Willow River Village.

Jiang Sheng forced Jin Huanyang to kneel and had Zhang Xiaojiu search him, revealing a jade-like bone bead that contained spiritual essence. The discovery gave Jiang Sheng and Xiangyu Immortal Monarch a possible way to heal Jiang Sheng's injuries.

• Jiang Sheng and Xiangyu Immortal Monarch sensed spiritual essence coming from something Jin Huanyang carried, and Xiangyu realized the great clans likely controlled places where it could be found.
• Jin Huanyang threatened Jiang Sheng, but Jiang Sheng stood from his wheelchair and forced him to his knees with one hand.
• Jiang Sheng shattered Jin Huanyang's shoulder blade and sealed his acupoints, leaving him unable to mobilize his vitality.
• Jiang Sheng ordered Zhang Xiaojiu to search Jin Huanyang, and Zhang Xiaojiu collected his possessions despite Jin Huanyang's protests.
• Zhang Xiaojiu found a jade-like bone bead that carried spiritual essence.

Jiang Sheng learned that the bone bead was a treasure used to reach the Inner Realm Divine Treasury, then prepared to confront the Jin Family and the Six Evolutions Sect. He left Willow River Village with Jin Huanyang in a cage after revealing his power to tear open space.

• Zhang Xiaojiu presented Jiang Sheng with the bone bead, and Jiang Sheng recognized its connection to advancing from Meridian Opening Core Embrace to Inner Realm Divine Treasury.
• Jiang Sheng and Xiangyu Immortal Monarch concluded that the beads formed from the wild beast’s Starlight vital energy and life essence and entered the Wild Realm through its channels.
• Jiang Sheng left Jin Huanyang kneeling in the courtyard overnight, while messages about the confrontation spread through Three Rivers Commandery and beyond.
• Jiang Sheng ordered Zhang Xiaojiu to cage Jin Huanyang and prepare a carriage so he could visit the Jin Family.
• Jiang Sheng tore open space with Jin Huanyang’s beast-bone fan, and Jin Huanyang realized Jiang Sheng was not human.
• Jiang Sheng departed for the Six Evolutions Sect and told Zhang Xiaojiu he would destroy the Jin Family and the sect if necessary.

After news of Jin Huanyang’s defeat reached the Jin Family, Jiang Sheng brought him to Heavenly Gold City and fought his way through the city’s troops and Grandmasters. Jiang Sheng entered the Jin Family’s residence after declaring it was “nothing more than this,” and a tear into the void appeared where he had waved his fan.

• Jin Tianyang learned that Jiang Sheng had arrived at Heavenly Gold City and ordered the elders to stop arguing.
• Jiang Sheng and Zhang Xiaojiu drove their carriage into Heavenly Gold City, where Jiang Sheng’s power erased the guards and attacks in their path.
• Jiang Sheng’s carriage charged through the Jin Family’s troops and reached the family’s main gate.
• Jin Family Grandmasters attacked the carriage, but Jiang Sheng killed them with a wave of his bone fan.
• Jiang Sheng stepped out carrying Jin Huanyang, called the Jin Family’s stronghold “nothing more than this,” and walked through its gate.
• A tear revealing the void beyond the world appeared where Jiang Sheng had waved his fan.

Jiang Sheng went to the Jin Family seeking more bone pearls and a safer way to leave the Wild Realm. After Jin Huang recognized him as a Human Immortal Overlord from beyond the Wild Realm, he welcomed Jiang Sheng and offered the Jin Family’s help.

• Jiang Sheng brought Jin Huanyang to the Jin Family and demanded to know where the bone pearl came from.
• Jin Tianyang realized Jiang Sheng had detected the Jin Family’s two Martial Saint ancestors and concluded that he might be a Human Immortal Overlord.
• Jiang Sheng introduced himself as True Lord Yuchen Ling Yuan, and Jin Tianyang considered whether the Jin Family’s forces could defeat him.
• Jin Huang emerged from the forbidden ground, dispersed the storm with his blood and qi, and greeted Jiang Sheng respectfully.
• Jin Huang offered the Jin Family’s bone pearls and resources, then asked whether Jiang Sheng had returned from beyond the Wild Realm.
• Jiang Sheng said he had come from beyond the Wild Realm, and Jin Huang invited him into the main hall to support those who fought for humanity.

Jiang Sheng learned from Jin Huang that the Wild Beast drained the vitality of everyone in the Wild Realm and that past Human Immortal Overlords had secretly left to confront it through the Blood-Melting Source Cave. After reading Lingfeng True Lord’s record, Jiang Sheng decided to explore the continents once his injuries healed, while Jin Huang entrusted the cause to him.

• Jin Huang told Jiang Sheng that the Wild Realm had once been the Earth Yellow Realm, which collapsed after a breach allowed its origin to be devoured and a savage beast swallowed its fragments.
• Jin Huang explained that the Wild Beast was still draining the life force of the Wild Realm’s inhabitants, leaving even Martial Saints with lifespans of only a thousand years.
• Jin Huang gave Jiang Sheng a beast-hide scroll left by Ancestor Jin Hong, who had called himself Lingfeng True Lord.
• Jiang Sheng read that generations of Human Immortal Overlords had secretly left through the Blood-Melting Source Cave to confront the Wild Beast, and that Lingfeng True Lord advised later generations to study the continents’ inherited secrets.
• Jiang Sheng decided to visit the various continents after recovering from his injuries, and Jin Huang said he hoped Jiang Sheng would return victorious.
• Jiang Sheng promised to leave the people of the Wild Realm an answer, whether he succeeded or failed.

Jin Huang gathered the Six Evolutions Sect’s Martial Saints and persuaded them to provide Jiang Sheng with source pearls. They led Jiang Sheng to the Blood-Melting Source Cave, where he recognized a path out of the Wild Realm.

• Jin Huang summoned the Six Evolutions Sect’s Martial Saints and explained that Jiang Sheng needed source pearls to leave the realm.
• Liu He and Niu Zhen insisted on meeting Jiang Sheng before agreeing to provide the pearls.
• Jiang Sheng’s presence convinced the Martial Saints that he was a formidable Human Immortal, and they agreed to take him to the cave.
• Jin Huang and the other Martial Saints explained the dangers of the Blood-Melting Source Cave and allowed Jiang Sheng to mine its pearls.
• Jiang Sheng saw the Blood-Melting Source Cave and recognized it as a path out of the Wild Realm.

Jiang Sheng entered the Blood-Melting Source Cave to investigate its dangers and source pearls, discovering that the cave was part of the wild beast’s body and that its monsters were a defensive response. After summoning the Zhu-Xian Sword to slaughter them, he reached a node where source pearls grew from the flesh and began extracting them.

• Jiang Sheng entered the Blood-Melting Source Cave and followed a passage after consulting the Six Evolutions Sect’s map.
• Jiang Sheng killed a mantis-like monster that emerged from the cavern wall, then watched its remains flow back into the flesh.
• The cave’s defenses produced a swarm of monsters, and Jiang Sheng crushed a source pearl to summon the Zhu-Xian Sword and slaughtered them.
• Jiang Sheng reached a junction with a stone pillar studded with source pearls and began prying them from the flesh.

Jiang Sheng and Xiangyu Immortal Monarch considered how the Blood-Melting Source Caves might connect the Wild Realm to the wild beasts’ vast system of harvesting life, while Jiang Sheng pressed farther into the cave. Nine Snow reached the Zhao Clan and secured a meeting with its ancestor, Zhao Xingkong, who then received a letter and announced he had a plan.

• Jiang Sheng and Xiangyu Immortal Monarch suspected that the Blood-Melting Source Caves formed an enormous network through which wild beasts could exploit the Wild Realm, and Jiang Sheng chose to explore another three hundred li deeper.
• Nine Snow reached the outskirts of the Zhao Clan’s city after escaping Jiang Sheng and entered a Zhao Clan carriage carrying a crystalline jade token from the Moonlight Palace.
• A middle-aged Zhao Clan man recognized Nine Snow’s token and promised to bring it to the Zhao Clan ancestor when he returned.
• At the Blood-Melting Source Cave, Zhao Xingkong and the other ancestors discussed why True Lord Ling Yuan had remained inside for five days and worried that he might deplete their Source Pearls.
• A Zhao Clan Grandmaster delivered Nine Snow’s letter to Zhao Xingkong, who read it and told the others he had a plan.

Jiang Sheng emerged from Blood-Melting Source Cave after exploring its dangerous depths and agreed to help Moonlight Palace in Tian Yun Continent. He met Nine Snow, the cat demon envoy, and confirmed that he would travel to aid its master.

• Zhao Xingkong and the other Martial Saints planned to ask Jiang Sheng to help Moonlight Palace and take source pearls from its blood-melting cave, while Jin Huang questioned whether Jiang Sheng would see through their motives.
• Jiang Sheng left Blood-Melting Source Cave after venturing deep inside, where he found scarce source pearls and powerful fiendish creatures, and resolved to investigate where the Overlord fell.
• At a banquet, Zhao Xingkong asked Jiang Sheng to rescue Moonlight Palace's trapped Palace Master, and Jiang Sheng agreed to meet the sect's envoy.
• Nine Snow entered the Six Evolutions Sect and found Jiang Sheng waiting in the Zhao Clan's inner hall.
• Jiang Sheng recognized Nine Snow and told it that he accepted Moonlight Palace's affair and was willing to travel to Tian Yun Continent.

Golden Flower Valley’s coup nearly toppled Moonlight Palace, leaving its poisoned Palace Master Lan Qiuyue cornered in the Misty Stone Forest. Hua Zixiu revealed that his true goal was to find the Overlord’s weapon hidden in the Goulan Mountain Range, and Lan Qiuyue’s fate remained uncertain as he waited for her to give in.

• Golden Flower Valley used generations of spies inside Moonlight Palace to launch a surprise attack and kill or subdue its defenders.
• Lan Qiuyue released her pet Nine Snow to seek help from the Zhao Clan at the Six Evolutions Sect, then took refuge in the Misty Stone Forest.
• Hua Zixiu and his allies surrounded the forest and demanded that Lan Qiuyue surrender the Palace Master's seal.
• Hua Zixiu said Golden Flower Valley sought the Overlord’s weapon in the Goulan Mountain Range, which was said to contain the Overlord’s cultivation art and mental formula.
• Hua Zixiu promised his followers power over the thirteen continents if they sacrificed the weapon to the heavens, then asked how much longer Lan Qiuyue could hold out.

Jiang Sheng set out for Tian Yun Continent with Nine Snow while Zhang Xiaojiu stayed behind to cultivate. At Moonlight Palace, Le Xiao confronted the lone intruder and was slain instantly by Jiang Sheng's sword.

• Jiang Sheng studied the Six Evolutions Sect's secret records and told Zhang Xiaojiu to remain in Willow River Village and cultivate.
• Jiang Sheng left with Nine Snow for Tian Yun Continent, promising Zhang Xiaojiu he would return within a month.
• At Moonlight Palace, Hua Zixiu ordered his forces to storm the Misty Stone Forest and dismissed the report that one man and a cat had broken in.
• Le Xiao went to confront the intruder, manifested his inner landscape, and threatened him.
• Jiang Sheng glanced at Le Xiao, whose sword strike killed him instantly and scattered the surrounding soldiers and martial artists.

Jiang Sheng reached Moonlight Palace with Nine Snow and cut through its forces, confronting Hua Zixiu, a Child of Fortune who saw him as a threat. As six Martial Saints attacked Jiang Sheng, Lan Qiuyue emerged from the Misty Stone Forest and witnessed him unleash a powerful sword technique.

• Jiang Sheng crossed the Goulan Mountain Range with ease, killing the beasts and demons that tried to stop him, then carried Nine Snow into Moonlight Palace.
• Jiang Sheng slaughtered Moonlight Palace's forces and killed an Inner Landscape Martial Saint before reaching Hua Zixiu on the rear mountain.
• Hua Zixiu recognized Jiang Sheng as a threat to his ambitions and ordered the Martial Saints beside him to attack.
• Six Martial Saints unleashed their martial manifestations against Jiang Sheng, while Lan Qiuyue heard from Nine Snow that a Human Immortal had come to help.
• Lan Qiuyue rushed out of the Misty Stone Forest as Jiang Sheng raised the Immortal-Slaying Sword and used “River flow.”

Jiang Sheng learned that Moonlight Palace might hold clues to the Overlord’s weapon and asked Lan Qiuyue about Golden Flower Valley’s siege. Meanwhile, the wounded Hua Zixiu found the weapon in an ancient battlefield secret realm and disappeared into a Blood-Melting Source Cave with it.

• Lan Qiuyue told Jiang Sheng that Moonlight Palace watched the Goulan Mountain Range and might know how to reach the Overlord’s hidden weapon.
• Jiang Sheng questioned why Hua Zixiu had delayed his attack on Moonlight Palace, and Lan Qiuyue said he may have wanted her seal to open secret passages and realms.
• Hua Zixiu recalled Jiang Sheng killing six Martial Sages with one sword and escaped into the Goulan Mountain Range, determined to find the Overlord’s weapon.
• Hua Zixiu entered an ancient battlefield secret realm and found an enormous spear atop a mountain of corpses.
• Hua Zixiu pulled out the spear, then dragged it into a newly revealed Blood-Melting Source Cave and vanished.