Chapter Summaries

Jiang Sheng returned from the Goulan Mountain Range and took Zhang Xiaojiu on a journey across the Wild Realm to train him and search for its connection to the Mountain Sea Realm. At Heaven-Riven Valley, Jiang Sheng uncovered its history as the Wild Realm’s heart and learned that the Overlord’s final strike had carried a message to him, leaving him to contemplate a mysterious cutting force.

• The three Heavenly Serpent Demon Kings told Jiang Sheng that their horde could not find Hua Zixiu, and Jiang Sheng left the Goulan Mountain Range for Willow River Village.
• Jiang Sheng returned to Zhang Xiaojiu and began traveling with him across the Wild Realm, teaching him martial arts and the immortal path while searching for Blood-Melting Source Caves and a connection to the Mountain Sea Realm.
• Jiang Sheng followed the Dao marker’s guidance to Heaven-Riven Valley, where Zhang Xiaojiu identified the legendary site of the Overlord’s fall.
• Jiang Sheng realized Heaven-Riven Valley resembled a heart and saw a vision of the Wild Realm’s formation, the valley’s origins as Heavenly Heart Mountain, and the Overlord’s final battle.
• Jiang Sheng concluded that the Overlord’s final strike had split the Wild Realm’s heart and sent him a message, then summoned the Immortal-Slaying Sword and murmured about the Heart-Slaying Force and Heaven-Cutting method.

After three years of traveling across the Wild Realm with Zhang Xiaojiu, Jiang Sheng left Willow River Village and entered a hidden Blood-Melting Source Cave to pursue the Wild Beast’s core. As he fought through its defenses, the Wild Beast released a mysterious female cultivator from a sac in its body.

• Jiang Sheng completed his journey through the thirteen provinces with Zhang Xiaojiu, whose cultivation rose to the Blood-Moving realm as Jiang Sheng recovered most of his injuries.
• Jiang Sheng told Zhang Xiaojiu he was leaving the Wild Realm and departed for Anyang Mountain, while the factions’ Martial Saints watched him go.
• Jiang Sheng found the hidden Blood-Melting Source Cave in Returning Valley and forced his way inside with the Immortal-Slaying Sword.
• Jiang Sheng cut through the cave’s walls and defeated waves of demon insects as he drove deeper toward its core.
• The Wild Beast sent over a hundred Divine Treasury realm demon insects to self-destruct against Jiang Sheng, but Xiangyu Immortal Monarch shielded him with the Pearl Light Mirror.
• A sac in the Wild Beast’s body burst open outside the Wild Realm, revealing a female cultivator in splendid robes who opened her pale eyes.

Jiang Sheng pressed deeper into the Blood-Melting Source Cave, fighting off the Wild Beast’s demonic insects and confronting Moonlight True Lord, whom the Wild Beast had made into a puppet. After defeating her and freeing her body from the Beast’s control, he continued toward the depths of the cave.

• Jiang Sheng advanced through the cave as demonic insects emerged from collapsing nodes and attacked him, but he cut through their swarms with the Immortal-Slaying Sword.
• Jiang Sheng found that the Wild Beast had removed the Source Pearls from the fourth node and warned that it had prepared further defenses.
• After crossing the sixth node, Jiang Sheng encountered Moonlight True Lord, a puppet of the Wild Beast, and recognized her as the former Palace Master of Moonlight Palace.
• Moonlight True Lord unleashed Moonfall Liuhua and froze the passage, but Jiang Sheng evaded her attack and shattered her ice seal with the Three Calamities, Final Doom Sword Qi.
• Jiang Sheng took Moonlight True Lord’s swift sword and departed as she fell, freed from the Wild Beast’s control.

Jiang Sheng destroyed the Blood-Melting Source Cave’s vital junction with the Zhu-Lu-Xian-Jue swords and Five-Element Immortal Thunder, striking a painful blow against the wild beast. The beast awakened the soulless cultivators it had turned into puppets and ordered them to find and kill Jiang Sheng.

• Jiang Sheng reached the end of the Blood-Melting Source Cave with Xiangyu Immortal Monarch and realized he had regained access to his magical power outside the Wild Realm.
• Jiang Sheng summoned the Lu-Xian Sword, Xian-Xian Sword, and Jue-Xian Sword, then used the Final Calamity Illustrated Record to strengthen all four swords.
• Jiang Sheng unleashed Zhu-Lu-Xian-Jue, carving four deep scars through the nodal space and nearly shattering the junction connected to the Wild Realm.
• Jiang Sheng condensed Five-Element Immortal Thunder with the Five Thunders Heavenly Heart Dharma and destroyed the damaged nodal space.
• The wild beast felt pain and awakened the soulless cultivators it had stored in sacs throughout its body, ordering them to find and kill Jiang Sheng.

Jiang Sheng fought through the wild beast’s cultivator puppets and reached the meridians connecting it to the Wild Realm. He discovered that the beast had bound the lives and karma of the realm’s inhabitants to those meridians, making it dangerous to sever them, just as two powerful figures arrived.

• Jiang Sheng raced through the beast’s blood-vessel passage and used the four swords of Zhu-Lu-Xian-Jue to destroy waves of cultivator puppets sent to stop him.
• Jiang Sheng promised the dead cultivators he would sever their karmic ties if he could, then reached the upper part of the beast’s abdominal sac.
• Jiang Sheng saw that the beast’s meridians had nearly replaced the Wild Realm’s world barrier and were draining the realm’s power and its inhabitants’ lives.
• Jiang Sheng and Xiangyu Immortal Monarch realized that the Wild Realm’s people were karmically bound to the beast, making the meridians perilous to destroy.
• The ancestor of the Wild Realm’s Nangong Clan and True Lord Lingfeng of the Six Evolutions Sect’s Jin Family appeared before Jiang Sheng and Xiangyu Immortal Monarch.

Jiang Sheng defeated True Lord Lingfeng and the Nangong Ancestor, then tried to strike the desolate beast’s energy organ. The beast transported him into a stomach sac, where he faced the resurrected Overlord, now a martial human immortal at Void Refinement.

• True Lord Lingfeng attacked Jiang Sheng with his bone sword and disorienting robe, but Jiang Sheng repelled him with the Heavenheart Five-Thunder Palm.
• The Nangong Ancestor joined True Lord Lingfeng, but Jiang Sheng’s Zhu-Xian Sword and Lu-Xian Sword crippled and killed both human immortal conquerors.
• Jiang Sheng sent a powerful sword strike toward the desolate beast’s energy organ, but the beast used internal translocation to divert the attack and move him into a stomach sac.
• Xiangyu Immortal Monarch identified the vast, blood-filled chamber as a stomach sac designed to digest powerful beings.
• The Overlord emerged from the boiling blood pool, resurrected and strengthened by the desolate beast into a Void Refinement martial human immortal.

Jiang Sheng and the Overlord clashed in the wild beast’s stomach, testing their momentum and martial power. The Overlord gathered his blood and vitality for one final strike, warning Jiang Sheng that it could split the earth and open the heavens.

• Jiang Sheng drew the Azure Duckweed Sword and met the Overlord’s rising blood-borne momentum with his own sword aura.
• Jiang Sheng and the Overlord exchanged devastating blows that shattered space and tore apart the wild beast’s stomach, then learned that the Overlord was a new soul formed from fragments of his old memories.
• The Overlord asked Jiang Sheng to fight him with everything he had, and Jiang Sheng agreed.
• Jiang Sheng and the Overlord battled at close range, trading spear strikes and sword blows while Xiangyu Immortal Monarch recorded the duel.
• The Overlord announced that he had one final strike left, gathered his blood and vitality into his spear, and warned Jiang Sheng that it could split the earth and open the heavens.

Jiang Sheng defeated the Overlord, who died after passing on the story of his spear, then fought his way through the Wild Beast’s inner universe toward its core. With Xiangyu Immortal Monarch and two Mahayana Immortal Treasures lending their power, Jiang Sheng unleashed the third sword of the Jie Character Sword Art, Severing Karma, against the Wild Beast’s will.

• The Overlord unleashed Heaven-Shattering, but Jiang Sheng answered with Break Ten Thousand Laws, destroying the Overlord’s armor and breaking his spear.
• The dying Overlord told Jiang Sheng he had beheaded the person who delivered the spear, then passed away; Jiang Sheng took the weapon and vowed to free the Wild Realm from its karmic bonds.
• Guided by his navigational beacon, Jiang Sheng traveled through the Wild Beast’s blood vessels, broke through its barriers, and entered its inner universe.
• Jiang Sheng fought through waves of demonic insects and former human-immortal overlords while Xiangyu Immortal Monarch protected him with the Myriad Laws Bewildering Mirror and the Fatian Thousand-Lustre Pearl.
• When the Wild Beast’s will manifested to block his attack on its organs, Jiang Sheng gathered the power of multiple Laws and Treasures into the Qingping Sword.
• Jiang Sheng raised the Qingping Sword and unleashed the third Jie Character Sword Art, Severing Karma.

Jiang Sheng severed the wild beast’s hold over the Wild Realm and, with Xiangyu Immortal Monarch’s aid, struck its heart channels with a Mahayana divine ability. The beast fell, and an old man appeared in chaos, lamented its fate, shrank it into a tiny fish, and carried it away.

• Jiang Sheng used Severing Karma to cut the wild beast’s karmic ties to the Wild Realm’s living beings and destroy its incarnation, freeing the realm as its stars and channels collapsed.
• Jiang Sheng told Xiangyu Immortal Monarch he had strength for one final strike, and Xiangyu let him control the Myriad Laws Bewildering Mirror while the Fatian Thousand-Lustre Pearl and his remnant soul empowered him.
• Jiang Sheng unleashed the Five Manifestations Essential-Separation Divine Radiance from the mirror, striking the wild beast’s three hearts and bringing the beast to a rigid halt.
• An old man arrived in chaos, spoke to the dying wild beast, and revealed it was the enormous corpse before him.
• The old man shrank the wild beast into a fish less than two inches long, scooped it up, and walked away through chaos.

A Penglai Dao Lord visited an old fisherman on Lonely Mountain and challenged the idea that Xuanmen was one family, but the old man rejected it. In Chaos, Jiang Sheng and Xiangyu Immortal Monarch surveyed the spoils from the dead wild beast and prepared to reforge Jiang Sheng’s magical treasures.

• A Penglai Dao Lord praised the old fisherman’s bearing and discussed the golden-scaled fish he caught, which the old man dismissed as destined to become an Immortal Deity’s food.
• The Dao Lord asked what the saying about Xuanmen being one family meant, and the old fisherman argued that neither of them would surrender their power and fortune for unity.
• The Dao Lord bowed and departed, leaving the old fisherman alone as heavy snow covered every trace of their meeting.
• Xiangyu Immortal Monarch explained that Jiang Sheng’s attacks and the Wild Realm escaping through the beast’s wound had weakened it, while the loss of its energy-storage organs ultimately caused its death.
• Jiang Sheng and Xiangyu Immortal Monarch surveyed the starlight source qi and rare minerals they had recovered from the beast.
• Xiangyu Immortal Monarch offered to share his artifact-refining knowledge as Jiang Sheng prepared to reforge his magical treasures.

While Jiang Sheng recovered, Xiangyu Immortal Monarch taught him how ordinary, impure spiritual currents could be refined into five-element essence sand and explained the principles behind crafting immortal treasures. Their long discussion deepened their trust as they continued toward the Mountain Sea Realm, and Xiangyu suggested putting their knowledge into practice.

• Jiang Sheng agreed to discuss artifact refining with Xiangyu Immortal Monarch while recovering from his injuries.
• Jiang Sheng named rare upper-realm treasures as examples of the five elements’ spiritual essence, and Xiangyu urged him to look instead to ordinary mortal airs and spiritual currents.
• Xiangyu explained that refining impure five-element currents could produce essence sand, prompting Jiang Sheng to realize he had overlooked the value of commonplace things.
• Jiang Sheng used Zhenhuo and his Taiyi Dao Fruit to purify a wisp of spiritual current and condense several grains of five-element essence sand.
• Xiangyu explained how refining essence and condensing spirit formed the basis of immortal treasures, and he and Jiang Sheng discussed artifact refining, pill refining, arts, and the Dao at length.
• Xiangyu suggested that he and Jiang Sheng put their teachings into practice with their own hands as they continued toward the Mountain Sea Realm.

Jiang Sheng rebuilt his ruined robe aboard the bone boat, using the work to deepen his understanding of Xiangyu Immortal Monarch’s Five Manifestations Six Elements Cloud Edict. As the boat drew closer to the Mountain Sea Realm, Jiang Sheng began restoring another treasure and planned to repair his Dharma Swords next.

• Jiang Sheng decided to reconstruct his ruined Black-Bottomed Lotus-Patterned Robe using materials salvaged from the primordial beast.
• With Xiangyu Immortal Monarch’s help and guidance, Jiang Sheng spent several years rebuilding the robe with meridian membranes, divine-metal threads, and spiritual wards.
• Jiang Sheng completed a black robe patterned with bamboo and cranes, which could conceal his aura, withstand attacks, and transform into different forms.
• Jiang Sheng said the robe-making had helped him gain insight into the Five Manifestations Six Elements Scripture, and Xiangyu Immortal Monarch urged him to keep refining artifacts to deepen his comprehension.
• Jiang Sheng began reconstructing his damaged Azure Jade Star-Plucking Crown and said he would later repair his Dharma Swords.
• Xiangyu Immortal Monarch sensed that Jiang Sheng’s barrier to the Integration Realm had loosened as the bone boat continued toward the Mountain Sea Realm.

Jiang Sheng found the shattered, declining Mountain Sea Realm embedded in chaos, but he and Xiangyu Immortal Monarch could not free it themselves. After consulting Patriarch Qingyan, Jiang Sheng sent a Nascent Soul avatar into the realm to investigate its condition, while help was promised later.

• Jiang Sheng and Xiangyu Immortal Monarch discovered that the Mountain Sea Realm was broken, dim, and trapped in the depths of chaos.
• Jiang Sheng proposed freeing the realm to restore its vitality, but Xiangyu Immortal Monarch warned that they lacked the power to move a great world and urged him to contact his sect.
• Jiang Sheng used the Talisman of No Taboos to reach Patriarch Qingyan at Xuming Heavenly Palace and learned that the Mountain Sea Realm had significance for the Three Realms' competing traditions.
• Patriarch Qingyan told Jiang Sheng to enter the Mountain Sea Realm, study its troubles, and assured him that someone would help if needed.
• Jiang Sheng created a Nascent Soul avatar and sent it into the Mountain Sea Realm while he and Xiangyu Immortal Monarch waited aboard the bone ship.

Newly appointed Jinhua County magistrate Gao Bai traveled to his post with his daughter Gao Yulan when a Mud Flood Dragon erupted from Jinhua Mountain. As torrents of mud and foul qi swept across the county, Gao Bai was left paralyzed with fear.

• Gao Bai told Gao Yulan how the Yu Dynasty was founded, and she criticized its rule amid widespread evil and demons.
• Gao Bai's convoy halted after a guard reported that a Mud Flood Dragon was moving ahead within Jinhua County.
• Gao Bai climbed atop the carriage and saw torrents of mud bursting from Jinhua Mountain beneath a violent storm.
• The Mud Flood Dragon raised its head, stared at Gao Bai's magistrate's seal, and continued surging forward as foul qi spread and yin winds rose.

As the Mud Wyrm threatened to engulf Jinhua County, Gao Bai and Gao Yulan learned that their weakened family ghost god could not stop it. Jiang Sheng descended amid the thunderclouds and began a Five-Thunder Ritual to confront the creature.

• Gao Bai summoned his family’s ghost god and begged it to stop the Mud Wyrm from reaching Jinhua County.
• The ghost god explained that it had surrendered most of its power and could not defeat the Mud Wyrm, which was as strong as a Nascent Soul True Lord.
• Gao Yulan asked whether the county’s other gods could help, but the ghost god said they were too weak and might become corrupted by the Mud Wyrm’s evil qi.
• A streak of light descended into the storm, and Jiang Sheng appeared atop a thunder dragon as the Mud Wyrm emerged from the sludge and attacked.
• Jiang Sheng invoked the Heavenheart Five-Thunder Ritual to expel the Mud Wyrm and uphold the righteous Dao.

Jiang Sheng used a Thunder Dragon and lightning swords to fight the Mud Jiao threatening Jinhua County. He pinned the weakened creature to the ground, and the Thunder Dragon incinerated it with heavenly lightning.

• The Mud Jiao grew stronger in the storm and threatened to swallow Jinhua County as its residents, cultivators, ghosts, and gods panicked.
• Jiang Sheng summoned a Thunder Dragon from the thunderclouds, and it battled the Mud Jiao above the county.
• Jiang Sheng forged lightning swords from lightning essence and used them to cut away the Mud Jiao’s flesh, horn, and claws.
• The final four lightning swords pinned the Mud Jiao to the ground, and the Thunder Dragon burned the filthy mire with heavenly lightning.

After subduing the Mud Flood Dragon, Jiang Sheng entered Jinhua County and learned that the Mountain Sea Realm relied on human aura and incense offerings rather than ordinary spiritual qi. A ghost god approached him that night, and Jiang Sheng discovered countless ghosts and gods surrounding the realm’s settlements.

• Gao Bai thanked Jiang Sheng for saving Jinhua County, and Jiang Sheng told him to build a temple over the Mud Flood Dragon’s remains to suppress its wicked aura.
• On the journey to Jinhua City, Jiang Sheng read the Mountain Sea Annals and learned about the realm’s ancient wars, Yellow Springs calamities, and Mud Flood Dragons.
• The people of Jinhua welcomed Jiang Sheng and offered to build him a temple and seek his recognition as an Orthodox God.
• Jiang Sheng learned that cultivators and ghosts and gods sustained themselves on human aura and incense offerings, and he let Jinhua’s people arrange a temple for him.
• A ghost god visited Jiang Sheng that night, recognized his immortal aura, and asked whether he needed an attendant.
• Jiang Sheng sent his divine sense above the clouds and saw countless ghosts and gods feeding on incense around cities, villages, and towns.

Jiang Sheng learned how the Yu Dynasty’s ghostly gods ruled through the Netherworld and persuaded Gao Yan to serve him. He and Xiangyu Immortal Monarch agreed to build a temple and establish influence in both realms, leaving craftsmen constructing a great temple outside Jinhua County.

• Gao Yan told Jiang Sheng about the Gao Lineage, the Yu emperors’ power to invest and depose ghostly gods, and his fear of being confined to a spirit tablet.
• Jiang Sheng offered Gao Yan a chance at eternal life, and Gao Yan agreed to serve him.
• Jiang Sheng told Xiangyu Immortal Monarch that entrenched ghostly gods might be draining the Mountain Sea Realm and that rising Calamity Aura threatened its survival.
• Jiang Sheng proposed using incense to restore Xiangyu Immortal Monarch, who would establish a sacred order in the Netherworld while Jiang Sheng opened a Daoist sanctuary in the mortal realm.
• Gao Bai oversaw construction of a large temple outside Jinhua County, and Jiang Sheng declared that he would soon meet the Mountain Sea Realm’s ghostly gods.

Jiang Sheng established Azure Profound Temple as the center of Jinhua County’s worship and prepared to expand its reach, while the Law-Bending God and the Wang Family plotted against it. The chapter revealed that a calamity of the Yellow Springs was approaching Lingyou Prefecture, and the Law-Bending God intended to exploit it to escape the Wang Family’s control.

• Wang Cai worshipped the Xiangyu Divine Lord of Heaven's Law, the Lord Who Hears Cries and Saves the Suffering, and the Divine Lord of Resolving Calamities and Deliverance at Azure Profound Temple.
• Jiang Sheng told Gao Yan that Azure Profound Temple would expand beyond Jinhua County, using negotiation or force to bring neighboring county gods under its influence.
• Jiang Sheng explained that he had sealed the Mud Flood Dragon’s True Spirit beneath the banyan tree to learn how to ease the Mountain Sea Realm’s accumulated filth.
• The Law-Bending God and the Azure Crossing County magistrate discussed Azure Profound Temple’s growing influence and their plan to destroy its god during a coming Yellow Springs calamity.
• The Law-Bending God revealed that the Ghost Emperor had ordered the Yellow Springs’ accumulated filth released into Lingyou Prefecture, and he planned to use the disaster to escape the Wang Family’s control.

Jiang Sheng read disastrous omens in the stars and warned Gao Yan that a calamity would strike far beyond Jinhua County, prompting Gao Yan to prepare to protect its people. In the Netherworld, the Spirit Emperor began a sacrifice to clear the tainted Yellow Springs, but a chilling, malicious presence stirred in the waters as he called it forth.

• Gao Yan told Jiang Sheng that Azure Profound Temple's rapid growth and the neighboring ghost gods' silence made him uneasy.
• Jiang Sheng interpreted the dimmed stars and other celestial signs as foretelling a calamity across a vast region, and Gao Yan left to prepare defenses for Jinhua County.
• Jiang Sheng stayed behind, studied the stars, and carefully carved a piece of jade.
• In the Netherworld, the Spirit Emperor ordered the polluted Yellow Springs addressed, and Yinling City's ghost gods prepared a sacrifice to guide the waters into the mortal realm.
• The Spirit Emperor performed the ritual beside the boiling Yellow Springs, whose foul waters churned as a deeply cold, malicious presence emerged.
• The Spirit Emperor offered the sacrifice and called, “Feast upon the fallen” and “Come forth.”