Chapter Summaries

Jiang Sheng returned to Penglai Xuming Heavenly Realm, where Patriarch Qingyan tested him, explained the crisis in the Tianyuan World, and advised him on his cultivation. Jiang Sheng left to visit the Tianyuan World, while Qingyan and Patriarch Dejing revealed that they intended for him to contend for the Fruition Rank of Judicial Heavenly Monarch of the Three Realms.

• Jiang Sheng climbed the mountain within Patriarch Qingyan’s sanctuary, enduring its natural restrictive ward and learning that it drew on Tianyuan World methods.
• Patriarch Qingyan told Jiang Sheng that Yang Ji had fallen, Kaiyuan and Xuan Jian were lost in Chaos, and the Tianyuan World had no Pure Yang cultivators; Jiang Sheng volunteered to go there.
• Jiang Sheng described his experiences in the Mountain Sea Realm and explained how surviving the Three Calamities had shaped his Dao; Patriarch Qingyan warned him to be more cautious.
• Jiang Sheng recovered some Immortal Source and advanced to middle Void Refinement as Patriarch Qingyan guided him on the Dao of the three powers and ordered him to visit the Tianyuan World and return within three thousand years.
• After Jiang Sheng left, Patriarch Qingyan and Patriarch Dejing discussed his opportunities and planned for him to contend for the Judicial Heavenly Monarch station, which they intended to keep in East Heaven.

After returning to the Three Realms, Jiang Sheng visited Ye Wenshu at the Mysterious Lady Palace, where they discussed the Tianyuan World and the disciples he had encountered on past travels. Ye Wenshu asked him to bring something back from the Tianyuan World, leaving her request unexplained.

• Jiang Sheng returned toward Little Penglai through the South Heaven Gate, where an attendant from Ye Wenshu’s palace invited him to meet her.
• Ye Wenshu welcomed Jiang Sheng with Moon Palace tea, and they discussed the Tianyuan World and the many factions gathering there.
• Jiang Sheng asked how Ye Wenshu had learned of his return, and she explained that she had no authority over Thousand-Li Eye and Wind-Following Ear.
• Ye Wenshu reminded Jiang Sheng of Huang Ping'an and Li Jianchun, whom she had recently encountered in the Southern Domain Continent and who had asked about him.
• Ye Wenshu asked Jiang Sheng to bring something back for her from the Tianyuan World.

Jiang Sheng returned to Little Penglai, gathered his disciples and followers, and organized his growing forces before departing for Tianyuan World. He left his disciples and four great demons with orders to develop their lineages and train Daoist Soldiers during his absence.

• Jiang Sheng returned to Little Penglai and told the island lords and water sovereigns to attend a banquet with their promising descendants and disciples.
• Jiang Sheng praised Su Yutong and Zhuang Yi, sent Qiu Buyu to organize his teachings before traveling, and dispatched Su Yutong and Zhuang Yi to bring back disciples and recruit cultivators.
• Green Ox, Golden Lion, White Elephant, and Green Peng reported that they had trained more than forty thousand Daoist Soldiers and their companions had trained additional troops.
• Su Yutong returned with Huang Ping'an and Li Jianchun, while Zhuang Yi brought three thousand cultivators from Little Liuguang Continent; Jiang Sheng welcomed Huang Ping'an and Li Jianchun as disciples and selected over three hundred candidates to cultivate in Little Penglai.
• Jiang Sheng ordered his disciples and four great demons to develop their lineages and assemble Daoist Soldiers while he was away in Tianyuan World.
• Jiang Sheng left the Three Realms Great Thousand World with thirty thousand Daoist Soldiers and the Fireward Rhino King, bound for Tianyuan World.

Jiang Sheng traveled toward the Tianyuan World while pondering his sword path, and Underworld Lord Shaobai followed after erasing a group of ambushers. In the Tianhe Dao Sect’s last stronghold, Mingxian prepared for the coming conflict and predicted that Lingyuan would arrive in the embattled world.

• Jiang Sheng passed a battle in the Chaos Void without intervening, and his sword aura killed several cultivators who tried to approach him.
• High Person Yu Su revealed that he had lured cultivators into battles to ambush travelers, but Underworld Lord Shaobai killed him and the remaining fighters with the Four-Transformation Zhaoyao Banner.
• The chapter described how the Tianyuan World had been divided by centuries of conflict, leaving the Tianhe Dao Sect with only Emerald Mist Continent while its patriarchs remained absent.
• The Tianhe Dao Sect’s True Lords agreed to resist the Tianyuan Sacred Sect, while True Lord Zhaozhen warned Mingxian that Penglai and Qinghua’s reinforcements had their own aims.
• Mingxian said his Plain White Three-Soul Banner had sensed that Lingyuan would come to the Tianyuan World.

Yu Ming True Lord faced eight Integration Realm cultivators on Cloud Perch Continent and defeated them with a single strike, establishing the Penglai Dao Sect’s reputation in Tianyuan World. He then learned Ling Yuan had arrived and left for the Three Realms, while Jiang Sheng wondered what Yu Ming True Lord had left for him to handle.

• Eight Integration Realm True Lords confronted Yu Ming True Lord and demanded that he leave Cloud Perch Continent.
• Yu Ming True Lord revealed his power as Penglai Dao Sect’s Pure Yang seedling, transformed into his hundred-thousand-zhang true form, and slew all eight with Azure Yang Breaks the Firmament.
• Yu Ming True Lord left without establishing an annex or claiming the dead True Lords’ foundations, while his battle deterred other forces from challenging him.
• At a Qinghua Dao Sect annex, True Lord Hua Yu questioned Yu Ming True Lord about leaving Ling Yuan to take charge, and Yu Ming explained Penglai’s plans for Tianyuan World and the future of the Three Realms.
• After receiving word that Ling Yuan had arrived, Yu Ming True Lord prepared to return to the Three Realms and said Ling Yuan could make a name for himself among the gathered prodigies.
• Beyond Tianyuan World, Jiang Sheng examined his identity jade token and wondered what Yu Ming True Lord meant by leaving matters to him.

Jiang Sheng met Underworld Lord Shaobai of Zhoushan World outside Tianyuan World and accepted his invitation to visit a friend in the Lingluo Sea. There, Shaobai reunited with Azure Flood Dragon, who welcomed them to his water palace and prepared a feast.

• Underworld Lord Shaobai caught up with Jiang Sheng, introduced himself, and revealed that he had followed Jiang Sheng because he felt an affinity with him.
• Jiang Sheng identified Shaobai as the Dao heir of Zhoushan World's Profound Simplicity Sect, and Shaobai recognized Jiang Sheng as Penglai Lingyuan.
• After a tense exchange, Jiang Sheng accepted Shaobai's invitation and followed him into Tianyuan World.
• Shaobai brought Jiang Sheng to the Flood Dragon Demon Water Palace in the Lingluo Sea and explained his friendship with Azure Flood Dragon, a member of the Wave-Treading Flood Dragon Clan.
• Azure Flood Dragon greeted Shaobai and Jiang Sheng, ordered his attendants to prepare a feast, and invited them into the water palace.

At a feast in the Flood Dragon Demon Water Palace, Jiang Sheng and Underworld Lord Shaobai learned why Azure Flood Dragon had fled to Tianyuan World: he had offended a princess of the Kunpeng Clan. A Kunpeng arrived to confront him, and Shaobai promised to help as Jiang Sheng watched calmly.

• Azure Flood Dragon entertained Jiang Sheng and Underworld Lord Shaobai with a feast and dancers, then boasted that he had plundered a sect on Cloud Perch Continent after Penglai Yu Ming killed eight Integration Realm patriarchs.
• Azure Flood Dragon explained that he had left Dahuang World after offending a young princess of the Kunpeng Clan with flirtatious remarks, though he claimed he had done nothing more.
• A Kunpeng announced its arrival outside the palace, and its attack sent crushing waves through Lingluo Sea and killed countless Shrimp Soldiers and Crab Generals.
• Azure Flood Dragon begged Shaobai to save him, while Shaobai hesitated over confronting the powerful Kunpeng and looked to Jiang Sheng for guidance.
• Shaobai steeled himself and promised Azure Flood Dragon that he would not abandon him.

Young Lord Xuanpeng confronted Azure Flood Dragon over his mistreatment of a Kunpeng clanswoman, while Underworld Lord Shaobai tried to protect Azure Flood Dragon and Jiang Sheng refused to intervene. As Xuanpeng and Shaobai prepared to fight, Jiang Sheng spotted a mysterious figure he identified as Rakshasa Woman.

• Young Lord Xuanpeng arrived outside Azure Flood Dragon’s water palace and accused him of abducting female cultivators and taking liberties with Xuanpeng’s younger clanswoman.
• Azure Flood Dragon apologized but relied on Jiang Sheng and Underworld Lord Shaobai for protection as Xuanpeng demanded to settle the matter.
• Underworld Lord Shaobai asked Jiang Sheng to help separate them if they fought, but Jiang Sheng declined and began to leave.
• Underworld Lord Shaobai decided to prevent Xuanpeng from taking Azure Flood Dragon, and Xuanpeng challenged him as their auras rose toward a clash.
• Jiang Sheng used his Truth-Seeing Golden Pupils to reveal a concealed figure and recognized her as Rakshasa Woman.

Jiang Sheng encountered Princess Lingluo, a Rakshasa, in the Lingluo Sea as Young Lord Xuanpeng and Underworld Lord Shaobai’s confrontation was interrupted. After the others departed, Shaobai warned Azure Flood Dragon about the danger surrounding Daoist Lord Yangji’s legacy, while Xuanpeng and Lingluo discussed the powerful contenders gathering in the Tianyuan World and the chance to glimpse the innate Great Dao.

• Princess Lingluo appeared in the Lingluo Sea and briefly enchanted Azure Flood Dragon before Shaobai awakened him.
• Jiang Sheng identified Lingluo as a Rakshasa, and she revealed she had come to see Young Lord Xuanpeng before leaving the sea.
• Shaobai asked Xuanpeng to spare Azure Flood Dragon, and Xuanpeng agreed before departing as a Kunpeng.
• Shaobai offered Jiang Sheng three thousand aquatic soldiers, but Jiang Sheng declined, accepted a message jade disc, and left.
• Shaobai warned Azure Flood Dragon about the dangers of the Tianyuan World and threatened him for mentioning the Star River Bell, then ordered nearby witnesses sent into reincarnation.
• Xuanpeng and Princess Lingluo traveled north through the astral winds, recognizing the powerful cultivators gathered in the Tianyuan World and discussing the chance to glimpse the innate Great Dao.

Jiang Sheng arrived at Cloud Perch Continent and ordered the Fireward Rhino King to establish a Daoist sanctuary there, choosing to claim unoccupied land openly rather than seize territory from the weakened sects. At Jadewater Lake, Qiyuan True Lord invited Old Man Withered Vine to the Taiyi Immortal Banquet and urged him to pursue a legendary opportunity to attain Pure Yang.

• Jiang Sheng told the Fireward Rhino King that they would go to Cloud Perch Continent and explained that he intended to build a reputation through open and righteous action.
• Jiang Sheng reached Cloud Perch Continent, selected a mountain site, and released twenty thousand demon soldiers for the Fireward Rhino King to establish a Daoist sanctuary within seven days.
• Jiang Sheng traveled to the swamp around Jadewater Lake, where Old Man Withered Vine sang warnings to cultivators seeking treasures among the ruins.
• Qiyuan True Lord appeared before Old Man Withered Vine and described a legendary opportunity that could lead to Pure Yang.
• Qiyuan True Lord invited Old Man Withered Vine to the Taiyi Immortal Banquet at Qianyuan Mountain in ten years, then disappeared.

Old Withered Vine renewed his resolve to pursue the Great Dao and used his Seven-Turn Profound Yellow Pagoda to capture evil beings in the great marsh. Jiang Sheng and True Lord Huayu visited the Tianhe Dao Sect, where its leaders briefed them on powerful visitors to the Tianyuan World and Jiang Sheng recognized Purple Extremity True Lord as his target.

• Old Withered Vine decided to fight for another chance at advancement and revealed his Seven-Turn Profound Yellow Pagoda.
• Old Withered Vine drew demons, monsters, ghosts, fiends, and hidden demonic cultivators from the great marsh into the pagoda, then departed with it.
• Jiang Sheng and True Lord Huayu arrived at the Tianhe Dao Sect and met True Lord Mingxian and True Lord Zhaozhen at the Emerald Mist Palace.
• True Lord Zhaozhen offered support to the visiting cultivators and asked them to return any possessions they found belonging to Patriarch Yangji.
• True Lord Mingxian showed Jiang Sheng and True Lord Huayu images of formidable visitors, including Purple Extremity True Lord.
• Jiang Sheng recognized Purple Extremity True Lord as the man the Mysterious Lady had ordered him to kill and whose treasure he was to seize.

Jiang Sheng and the other True Lords discussed the growing host of cave-profound cultivators in the Tianyuan World and planned how their sects would establish footholds there. In the Three Realms, Bai He arrived from the Shaoguang World, learned of Jiang Sheng, and set off for Tianyuan after Ye Wenshu deliberately encouraged her.

• True Lord Mingxian introduced Daoist Qiyuan and Daoist Zhengqing, while True Lord Huayu added Withered Vine to the list of powerful cultivators gathering in Tianyuan.
• Jiang Sheng revealed that he had encountered True Lord Shaobai and the Rakshasa Woman, and he insisted that Daoist Qiyuan would not unite the Tianyuan World’s powers against them.
• True Lord Mingxian proposed that the Three Sects occupy three continents, and True Lord Huayu and Jiang Sheng named Cloud Floss Continent and Cloud Perch Continent as their footholds.
• Bai He arrived at the Heavenly Court to prepare for the Shaoguang World’s incorporation into the Three Realms, and the Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor assigned Ye Wenshu to show her around.
• Bai He asked Ye Wenshu about Jiang Sheng and expressed interest in visiting Tianyuan, so Ye Wenshu helped her depart aboard a Dharma Boat.
• After Bai He left for Tianyuan, Ye Wenshu admitted she had encouraged the journey to make the already turbulent world even more chaotic.

Jiang Sheng traveled toward Cloud Perch Continent while the Fireward Rhino King fought the White Bull Demon King in the Dongyu Mountains, drawing the region’s powerful cultivators and demons into the conflict. Di Feng True Person, the Red Ghost Leopard King, and the Cloud Eagle Demon King attacked the Fireward Rhino King as the battle threatened to devastate the mountains.

• Jiang Sheng reflected on the Tianyuan Dao Sect’s rivals and hurried toward Cloud Perch Continent, eager for a chance to confront the Qiankun Dao Sect.
• Immortal Master Shoucheng led his young disciples through the Dongyu Mountains and warned them about the great demon kings living in its depths.
• The Fireward Rhino King fought the White Bull Demon King after discovering that the latter had obstructed his efforts to build a cultivation sanctuary.
• The Fireward Rhino King and the White Bull Demon King revealed their enormous true forms and exchanged blows that shattered forests and mountains across the Dongyu Mountains.
• Di Feng True Person, the Red Ghost Leopard King, and the Cloud Eagle Demon King arrived and attacked the Fireward Rhino King while the White Bull Demon King held him in place.

Jiang Sheng arrived in the Dongyu Mountains and stopped the Fireward Rhino King from unleashing the Water-Fire Golden-Shaking Bell against the region’s inhabitants. He announced that he meant no harm and would preach at his new Dao Palace every four years, while the eight great sects decided to summon True Lord Qiyuan from Suxi Continent.

• The Fireward Rhino King used Jiang Sheng’s Water-Fire Golden-Shaking Bell to withstand Di Feng True Person and three demon kings, then summoned water-and-fire dragons that threatened the Dongyu Mountains.
• Jiang Sheng arrived, recalled the bell, and rebuked the Fireward Rhino King for abusing the treasure and endangering the living beings.
• After hearing the Fireward Rhino King’s explanation, Jiang Sheng chose not to punish Di Feng True Person or the other mountain inhabitants, since they had not known why the Dao Palace was being built.
• Jiang Sheng introduced himself as Lingyuan, announced that he would preach at the Dao Palace every fourth summer, and departed as the mountain inhabitants bowed to him.
• News of Jiang Sheng spread across Cloud Perch Continent, and the Void Refinement True Lords of the eight great sects decided to invite True Lord Qiyuan of the Jiuzhou World to come from Suxi Continent.

Huai Qing delivered True Lord Qiyuan’s invitation to Jiang Sheng at the Dongyu Mountains, where Jiang Sheng accepted the invitation to Qiyuan’s banquet and received Xuanyi of the Qinghua Dao Sect. Jiang Sheng and Xuanyi discussed the Tianyuan World’s power struggle, leaving the question of whether the Tianyuan Sacred Sect had truly won the war unanswered.

• True Lord Qiyuan sent Huai Qing across the Four Returns Sea to deliver an invitation and a congratulatory gift to Jiang Sheng at the Dongyu Mountains.
• Jiang Sheng recognized that Qiyuan’s banquet was meant to display his influence and gather support against the Shanhe Daoist Sect, but accepted the invitation.
• Huai Qing returned to Qiyuan with Jiang Sheng’s reply and a bottle of pills.
• Xuanyi arrived at the Dongyu Mountains, reunited with Jiang Sheng, and discussed why he had come to the Tianyuan World.
• Jiang Sheng outlined how the Tianyuan Sacred Sect and Tianhe Dao Sect had divided the continents before Xuanyi questioned whether the Tianyuan Sacred Sect had actually won the war.

Jiang Sheng and Xuanyi discussed how outside powers were exploiting the weakened Tianyuan World, while True Lord Qiyuan invited powerful newcomers to his banquet. After Princess Lingluo injured his messenger, Qiyuan tracked her down and defeated her, shocking the factions across the world.

• Xuanyi told Jiang Sheng that the Tianhe Dao Sect’s fate depended on Daoist Lord Kaiyuan and warned that the many visiting prodigies would soon throw the Tianyuan World into chaos.
• Jiang Sheng sent the Fireward Rhino King to invite Cloud Perch Continent’s eight sects to Eastern Yu Mountain, promising to visit them if they refused.
• True Lord Qiyuan’s messengers invited Young Lord Xuanpeng and other powerful cultivators to a Taiyi Immortal Banquet at Qianyuan Mountain, and Xuanpeng accepted.
• Princess Lingluo froze Qiyuan’s messenger and challenged Qiyuan to find and defeat her himself before she would consider his invitation.
• Qiyuan used his astrolabe to locate Princess Lingluo and fought her in the Four Returns Sea; news spread that he defeated her and drove her away.

Jiang Sheng made talismans at the Penglai Estate, including powerful talismans that recreated the Void Refinement Three Calamities. After hearing about Daoist Qiyuan’s fight with the Rakshasa Woman, he doubted the reported cause and postponed further discussion until he finished his yin fire talisman.

• The Fireward Rhino King returned to Jiang Sheng, who taught him the principles of talisman-making while drawing a Heavenly One Generates Water Talisman.
• Jiang Sheng gave the Fireward Rhino King a stack of practice talismans and began making a Three-Tribulation Mighty Wind Talisman from his insights into Bixi Wind.
• Jiang Sheng completed a Three-Tribulation Profound Thunder Talisman, whose tribulation aura frightened the Fireward Rhino King.
• The Fireward Rhino King reported that Daoist Qiyuan had defeated the Rakshasa Woman on No-Delusion Island after she injured his disciple, and that the island had sunk.
• Jiang Sheng told the Fireward Rhino King that Qiyuan’s conflict with the Rakshasa Woman was likely a performance, then returned to his work before making the Three-Calamity Yinfire Talisman.

Jiang Sheng learned that the Foothill, Lanshan, and Qishan sects of the Three Mountains Alliance had refused his invitation, so he led ten thousand Daoist Soldiers to attack Foothill Sect. He struck its mountain-protecting array with the Judicial Heavenly Monarch’s Seal, beginning his assault on the three sects.

• Jiang Sheng heard that five of the Eight Sects of Cloud Perch would attend his gathering, while Foothill, Lanshan, and Qishan refused, and he ordered Dongyu Mountains’ leaders to assemble.
• Jiang Sheng told the gathered leaders that his ten thousand Daoist Soldiers could defeat the Three Mountains Alliance and ordered them to raise banners and war cries.
• Jiang Sheng led his army to Foothill Sect, where its four Void Refinement True Lords recognized his force and prepared their defenses.
• Jiang Sheng surveyed Foothill Sect with his Truth-Seeing Golden Pupils and resolved to establish his might by destroying the Three Mountains Alliance.
• Jiang Sheng summoned the Judicial Heavenly Monarch’s Seal and enlarged it to ten thousand miles across, smashing it into Foothill Sect’s protective array.

Jiang Sheng destroyed much of the Foothill Sect with a single strike, then easily knocked down True Lord Yue Lu. The four Foothill Sect True Lords joined forces and trapped Jiang Sheng in their supreme mountain-shaking Divine Ability, but his aura remained unchanged as their attack continued.

• Jiang Sheng struck the Foothill Sect’s mountain-protecting formation with his treasure seal, devastating the sect and the surrounding land.
• True Lord Yue Lu attacked Jiang Sheng with his mountain treasure, but Jiang Sheng stopped it with Five Elements Divine Lightning and struck Yue Lu down.
• True Lord Yan Lu, True Lord Jing Lu, and True Lord Ling Lu joined True Lord Yue Lu in forming an array and summoning their four Heavenly Stars.
• The four True Lords used their treasures and Dao fields to unleash the Foothill Sect’s Mountain-Shaking and Mountain-Shattering Divine Ability against Jiang Sheng.
• As mountains and earth waves battered Jiang Sheng, True Lord Ling Lu reported that Jiang Sheng’s aura had not changed.

Jiang Sheng defeated Yue Lu True Lord and the other Foothill Sect leaders with his Heaven-Cutting sword, destroying their formation and extinguishing their destiny stars. As Ling Yuan’s army arrived to raze the sect, Yue Lu died in the ruins, realizing Calamity Aura had clouded his judgment.

• Jiang Sheng emerged unharmed from the Foothill Sect leaders’ attack and unveiled his Heaven-Cutting sword, empowered by wind, thunder, water, and fire.
• Jiang Sheng’s sword suppressed the laws and spiritual energy across a million miles, preventing the Lanshan Sect and Qishan Sect True Lords from reaching the Foothill Sect.
• Jiang Sheng’s strike shattered the four leaders’ destiny stars and left Yue Lu dying after Ling Lu, Yan Lu, and Jing Lu sacrificed themselves and their treasures to shield him.
• Yue Lu realized that Calamity Aura had muddled his judgment and that his refusal of Ling Yuan had led to the Foothill Sect’s ruin.
• Ling Yuan’s army arrived with more than ten thousand cultivators, and a rhinoceros-headed commander ordered them to raze the mountain and destroy the temple.
• Yue Lu died in the ruins as Ling Yuan’s soldiers prepared to destroy the Foothill Sect.