Chapter Summaries

Jiang Sheng used the Heaven-Cutting Sword Aura and the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation to kill four Cave Profound cultivators, shattering their Dao Fruits and fortune stars. The deaths alarmed powerful figures across several realms, who resolved to hasten their plans.

• Jiang Sheng's Heaven-Cutting Sword Aura struck Changsheng, Busi, Zhenshui, and Zhenhuo while the four Void-Refining treasures battered them away from the Dutian Star Baleful Formation's nodes.
• Xuanyi, Xuan Xin, Kong Zhen, and Shaobai Nether Lord drove the four swords of the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation against the wounded cultivators.
• The four swords shattered Changsheng, Busi, Zhenshui, and Zhenhuo's Three Flowers and annihilated them with the Immortal-Extinguishing Sword.
• Four Heavenly Stars appeared over Buzhou World and shattered after seven breaths, revealing the deaths of the four Cave Profound cultivators.
• Zhang, Third Crown Prince and Divine Lord Qingxia recognized Jiang Sheng's role and urged each other to move faster.
• Prefect Lord Huang and Five Treasures Divine Lord saw the shattered stars and agreed that they needed to hasten their efforts.

Prefect Lord Huang and Five Treasures Divine Lord suspected Ling Yuan was responsible for the deaths of four Cave Profound cultivators and decided to awaken more Divine Lord Remnant Souls before confronting him. At the royal capital of Geng Kingdom, Jiang Sheng killed Turbid-Water Dragon Lord and Long-Armed Demon Monkey as the Nine Realms Allied Army scattered, then noticed the surviving Leaping Carp Demon Lord.

• Prefect Lord Huang identified Ling Yuan of Penglai as the likely force behind the deaths and urged Five Treasures Divine Lord to awaken the remaining Divine Lord Remnant Souls before making plans.
• The Nine Realms Allied Army witnessed Zhenshui, Zhenhuo, Changsheng, and Busi die, and its members fled when the Dutian Star Baleful Formation dispersed.
• Turbid-Water Dragon Lord and Long-Armed Demon Monkey begged Jiang Sheng to let them leave, but he attacked them for staying too long.
• Jiang Sheng killed Turbid-Water Dragon Lord with the Blazing Sun Golden Striker and Judicial Heavenly Monarch Seal, then slew Long-Armed Demon Monkey with his swords.
• The remaining Cave Profound cultivators fled, and Jiang Sheng stored the two demons' corpses before remarking on Leaping Carp Demon Lord's good fortune.

After the allied forces fled, Jiang Sheng’s companions discussed why they had let them escape and recognized that pressing the Nine Realms Alliance could force its members to unite. Jiang Sheng then revealed that Leaping Carp Demon Lord had been spared because of his fortune and called on the Venerable behind him to appear.

• Xuan Xin asked why they had let Xiaogong and the others flee, and Xuanyi and Nether Lord Shaobai explained the danger of provoking the Nine Realms Alliance into fighting as one.
• Xuanyi showed the positions of the Nine Realms’ worlds, while Kong Zhen reminded him that he and Shaobai had come to Buzhou World to rescue Xuanyi and Jinqiong.
• Jiang Sheng decided not to pursue the fleeing enemies, noting that the Nine Realms Alliance was on another person’s chessboard and that Fairy Xiaogong seemed to be hiding something.
• Jiang Sheng noticed that Leaping Carp Demon Lord still lived despite appearing dead, and Shaobai, Xuanyi, and Kong Zhen realized Jiang Sheng had deliberately spared him.
• Jiang Sheng said Leaping Carp had some fortune and called for the Venerable behind him to show himself.

Jiang Sheng uncovered Venerable Lanxin’s connection to the Leaping Carp and agreed to take it out of Buzhou World for Jinglian Temple. Before he could leave, heavenly law and order suddenly spread across the world, suggesting Buzhou World’s dormant Heavenly Dao might have awakened.

• Jiang Sheng recognized Lanxin as a Venerable of Jinglian Temple concealed within the Leaping Carp.
• Lanxin explained that the carp had devoured children destined for Jinglian Temple and had been punished by having its flesh, blood, fortune, and cultivation stripped away for five hundred years.
• Jiang Sheng agreed to take the Leaping Carp out of Buzhou World so Jinglian Temple could retrieve it, and Lanxin urged him to leave quickly.
• Golden divine texts and law edicts formed a Heavenly Net across Buzhou World, and Jiang Sheng suspected its Heavenly Dao had awakened ahead of schedule.

Zhang and Divine Lord Qingxia learned that the Buzhou divine lords planned to use their bodies to revive their fallen allies and restore Buzhou World. Zhurong and Tian Wu took control of their bodies as Jumang and Rushou began their move against Golden Palace.

• Zhurong told Zhang and Divine Lord Qingxia that the divine lords needed their bodies to revive Houtu, Jumang, and Rushou.
• Divine Lord Tian Wu took control of Divine Lord Qingxia after azure markings spread across her body.
• Zhurong took control of Zhang through the Fire Dao Seed and promised to return his body and leave him the seed.
• Zhurong and Tian Wu concluded that Jumang and Rushou had begun acting, and planned to free them and awaken Houtu.
• Tian Wu said Golden Palace would be occupied for at least eight hundred years while it helped the Shanhe Daoist Sect refine a supreme treasure.

As the Heavenly Net spread across Buzhou World and the Divine Lord Jumang began to awaken, Jiang Sheng and his allies raced to escape. Jumang’s divine soldiers trapped Jin Qiong, but Jiang Sheng freed her and led the group toward the Heavenly Law Edicts.

• Lanxin warned that the Heavenly Law Edicts had appeared early, and Jiang Sheng gathered Leaping Carp and fled toward the Star Sea with his companions.
• A buried coffin stirred beneath Geng Kingdom, Jumang Temple was restored, and a chant announced the apparent revival of the Divine Lord Jumang.
• Xiaogong turned toward Jiang Sheng’s group and brought Jin Yang and Youhua with her, proposing that they join forces to escape the Heavenly Net.
• Jumang’s azure-armored soldiers and generals appeared in the Star Sea and attacked Jiang Sheng’s group as the Heavenly Net closed around them.
• Jin Qiong transformed into a Golden-Winged Roc to clear a path but was trapped in a Divine Path net; Jiang Sheng cut her free and promised to lead everyone out.
• Jiang Sheng sent the four swords Zhu-Lu-Xian-Jue in four directions, then charged the Heavenly Law Edicts with Qingping Sword and used Heaven-Intercepting Law-Breaking.

Jiang Sheng held off Divine Lord Jumang’s heavenly forces while Xuanyi and the others attacked the Heavenly Law Net, but Jumang’s divine will descended and clashed with Jiang Sheng. After their final attacks vanished together, King Geng appeared enthroned in a distant temple as hymns to Jumang continued.

• Jiang Sheng told Xuanyi, Xuan Xin, Kong Zhen, Jin Qiong, and Underworld Lord Shaobai to attack the Heavenly Law Net while he faced the divine troops alone.
• Kong Zhen, Underworld Lord Shaobai, Jin Qiong, Xuan Xin, and Xuanyi struck the net, and Xuanyi used his Heavenly Eye to identify a weak point for them to target.
• The hymn to Jumang summoned eight thousand Void Refinement heavenly generals, who formed an emerald-green bird bearing Jumang’s will and divine might.
• The green bird swooped at Jiang Sheng, who countered with Severing Karma and the four swords of Zhu-Lu-Xian-Jue; the sword radiance and bird vanished together.
• King Geng vanished from the capital of the Geng Kingdom and appeared seated on a throne in a distant temple, listening to the continuing hymns.

Jiang Sheng realized that the Wood God Lord Jumang and Metal God Lord Rushou had awakened to test whether the Emperor was watching, but Xiaogong warned that Jumang was gravely weakened and dangerous if he reclaimed his authority. Jiang Sheng and his allies joined Xiaogong's group in attacking Jumang, only for Zhang, Third Crown Prince, and the other Divine Path lords to intervene, revealing that Zhang was actually the Fire God Lord Zhurong.

• The Wood God Lord Jumang awakened in the east while the Metal God Lord Rushou broke free in the west, and Jiang Sheng concluded that Jumang had drawn attention to test the Emperor's presence.
• Jumang and Rushou rose toward the Divine Court as Xiaogong warned that Jumang had less than one ten-thousandth of his former cultivation and must not be allowed to reclaim his authority.
• Jiang Sheng, Shaobai, Xuanyi, Kong Zhen, and Xiaogong's group joined forces and unleashed their attacks on Jumang.
• Zhang, Third Crown Prince, Divine Lord Qingxia, Prefect Lord Huang, and Five Treasures Divine Lord appeared and blocked the attacks, with Zhang overpowering Jiang Sheng's Four Swords of Zhu-Lu-Xian-Jue.
• Jiang Sheng used his Azure Lotus to see the divine patterns beneath Zhang, Third Crown Prince's appearance and recognized him as the Fire God Lord Zhurong.

Jiang Sheng learned that the four Divine Lords had returned to oppose Golden Palace’s plan to harvest the fortune of the myriad worlds through the Heavenly Investiture List. When the Divine Lords refused to let the gathered cultivators leave, Jiang Sheng attacked, and Divine Lord Zhurong answered by striking him with Heavenly Fire: Sunfall.

• Divine Lord Zhurong revealed that he and Divine Lords Gonggong, Tian Wu, and Qiangliang had returned to resist Golden Palace’s plan to refine the Heavenly Investiture List and harvest the worlds’ fortune.
• Zhurong told the gathered cultivators that they could not leave Buzhou World and should remain to witness its revival.
• Jiang Sheng launched the Immortal-Slaying Sword at Gonggong and summoned four immortal swords, urging the others to fight before the Divine Lords regained their strength.
• Zhurong, Gonggong, Tian Wu, and Qiangliang manifested towering Dharma Images and unleashed their Pure Yang auras.
• Zhurong formed a blazing sun and brought it down toward Jiang Sheng with Heavenly Fire: Sunfall.

Jiang Sheng shattered Divine Lord Zhurong’s descending sun with a sword strike and unleashed the Zhu-Lu-Xian-Jue swords against him. Zhurong summoned a crimson spear that became a fire dragon and attacked Jiang Sheng, while Xiaogong charged in to help.

• The Blood Sea Daoist, the Five-Water Profound Lord, and the Nine-Phoenix Demon Lord fled as Zhurong brought down a blazing sun, while Demon Monarch Hewei and the others attacked to help Jiang Sheng stop it.
• Gonggong, Tian Wu, and Qiangliang destroyed the cultivators’ attacks, but Jiang Sheng used Severing Time to cut apart Zhurong’s sun.
• Jiang Sheng sent countless Zhu-Lu-Xian-Jue sword shadows against Zhurong, overwhelming the sky with sword torrents.
• Zhurong halted the sword torrents with a sea of flame and drew a crimson spear from the Molten Fire World, transforming it into a fire dragon that lunged at Jiang Sheng.
• Xiaogong charged toward Zhurong to help Jiang Sheng, and Gonggong sensed something unusual and looked at him in astonishment.

Jiang Sheng and Xiaogong stopped Zhurong’s attack together, and Xiaogong claimed she could send Xuanyi and the others out if Jiang Sheng held the four Divine Lords back for three quarters of an hour. Jiang Sheng took on the Divine Lords in his million-li true form, but after enduring their combined assault, he fell into a vast rift with no sign of life.

• Xiaogong joined Jiang Sheng to stop Zhurong’s strike, surprising them both with the strength of their combined swords.
• Xiaogong asked Jiang Sheng to hold the four Divine Lords for three quarters of an hour while she sought a way to send Xuanyi and the others out; Jiang Sheng agreed despite Xuanyi’s protest.
• Xiaogong began probing the Heavenly Law Net, while Jiang Sheng blocked attacks from Qiangliang and Tian Wu and suffered severe damage.
• Jiang Sheng invoked Xuanmen Orthodox Art: Heavenly Law, Earthly Form, grew to a million-li true body, and challenged all four Divine Lords with the Four Symbols Dao.
• Jiang Sheng stopped Zhurong’s spear with the Heaven-Cutting Sword reinforced by Mountain-Shaking Earth-Trembling, then dodged Tian Wu’s blades but was badly wounded.
• Qiangliang, Gonggong, and Zhurong struck Jiang Sheng in succession, shattered his Heavenly Law, Earthly Form, and sent him falling into a bottomless rift with no sign of life.

Jiang Sheng fell into a rift after the four God Lords defeated him, while Xiaogong revealed the Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor and his plan to claim Buzhou World's fortune. Jiang Sheng woke gravely wounded in a dark realm surrounded by Earth Mother Qi, where an unknown figure questioned him about what he had learned from the God Lords’ attacks.

• Jiang Sheng fell into the abyss as Xuanyi and the others watched, while Blood Sea Daoist, Five-Water Profound Lord, and Nine-Phoenix Demon Lord raced toward a gap in the Heavenly Law Net.
• Xiaogong carried the Xuanmen and Heterodox Sect cultivators toward the breach, but Gonggong attacked her with a vast water Dao wheel.
• Xiaogong summoned the Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor, who revealed that he had spent ten thousand years claiming half of Buzhou World's fortune and explained the God Lords’ plans.
• Zhurong and Gonggong challenged the Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor, who formed a blade as the powers of water and fire surged across the world.
• Jiang Sheng awoke in a dark realm filled with Earth Mother Qi, and an unknown figure asked what insight he had gained from being defeated by Zhurong, Gonggong, Qiangliang, and Tian Wu.

After the four Divine Lords defeated him, Jiang Sheng recognized that years of success had made him arrogant and led him to underestimate the dangers of Buzhou World. Houtu revealed that the four Divine Lords had chosen him and that four Dao seeds had appeared in his sea of consciousness, a trump card tied to Buzhou’s return.

• Jiang Sheng reflected on his shattered body and admitted that his past victories had made him overconfident and careless.
• Jiang Sheng traced that arrogance through his earlier battles and acknowledged that he had often survived only because others had helped him.
• Houtu revealed herself and explained that the Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor had taken the original Buzhou Netherworld, leaving her to assemble a small refuge from its fragments.
• Houtu told Jiang Sheng that Zhurong and the other Divine Lords had chosen him, and Jiang Sheng discovered four unfamiliar lights in his sea of consciousness.
• Houtu identified the four lights as Dao seeds and said they were among Buzhou World’s trump cards for its return.

The Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor defeated the Buzhou Divine Lords’ plan, killing the remaining rulers and claiming Buzhou’s fortune. As he gathered their authority into the Buzhou Golden Seal, he sensed something unexpected.

• The Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor reversed time across Buzhou, reducing Zhurong, Gonggong, Qiangliang, and Tian Wu to Remnant Souls and undoing their possession of Zhang, Third Crown Prince, and the others.
• Zhurong, Tian Wu, and Qiangliang detonated their Remnant Souls to hold off the Emperor, while Gonggong sacrificed himself near the Buzhou Heaven Pillar to help Jumang and Rushou reach the Divine Court.
• Jumang and Rushou entered the ruined Divine Court and found the Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor waiting on the Divine Emperor’s throne; he suppressed them and revealed that he had engineered their plans.
• The Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor killed Jumang and Rushou, then joined Daoist Lord Qiongyun as Buzhou’s fortune flowed into the Buzhou Golden Seal.
• The Emperor saw the seal nearly completed with the six Divine Lords’ authority, but his smile faded as he sensed something amiss.

Jiang Sheng realized Divine Lord Houtu had hidden four Dao seeds inside him and that the Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor was maneuvering to claim Buzhou World’s fortune. After Zhurong and the other Divine Lords fell, Jiang Sheng negotiated Houtu’s escape into the Three Realms Great Thousand World under the Eastern Heaven Daoist Sect, preserving Buzhou’s Divine Path; the Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor claimed most of Buzhou’s fortune but let the remaining earth authority slip away.

• Jiang Sheng deduced that Divine Lord Houtu had planted wind, thunder, water, and fire Dao seeds in him, and confronted Houtu about Buzhou World’s lost hope.
• Jiang Sheng reasoned that the Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor had engineered the conflict to draw out Buzhou’s Divine Lords and seize their world, while Houtu confirmed that the Divine Lords could not defeat him.
• As Zhurong and the other Divine Lords fell, Houtu revealed that he had hidden their Dao seeds in Jiang Sheng and asked him to escape with them.
• Jiang Sheng used Qingyan Heavenly Venerable’s talisman to offer Houtu a place in the Eastern Heaven Daoist Sect, in exchange for Buzhou’s remaining fortune and the Divine Lords’ treasures.
• Houtu accepted Jiang Sheng’s terms, and the Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor gathered ninety percent of Buzhou World’s fortune while the earth authority escaped his grasp.
• Daoist Lord Qiongyun revived Fairy Xiaogong and told her the Zhenxiao Dao Sect would neither be enemies nor friends with the Eastern Heaven Daoist Sect, but would claim a continent of its own.

The Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor watched Buzhou World with Amokeqi and revealed that its fortune was slipping away as the age of Xuanmen flourished. He bargained with Amokeqi to keep the Eastern Heaven Daoist Sect occupied in Jiuzhou World for fifteen hundred years, then remained with a Golden Register in his palm.

• The Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor sealed the Chaos Void around Amokeqi and watched Buzhou World with him for fourteen days.
• The Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor confronted Amokeqi about appearing before him, and Amokeqi recalled his interference in the conflict between Panfeng World and Shanhe World.
• The Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor told Amokeqi that Buzhou World's fortune was slipping away, though neither of them could see anything wrong with the world.
• Amokeqi explained how Lingyuan had foiled his attempt to claim a chaos spiritual root and the Seven-Marvel Ink Lotus, and the Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor declared that the age belonged to Xuanmen.
• The Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor offered Amokeqi one request in exchange for keeping the Eastern Heaven Daoist Sect tied down in Jiuzhou World for fifteen hundred years, and Amokeqi accepted.
• The Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor released the frozen time and space as Amokeqi vanished, leaving a Golden Register in his palm.

The Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor told Jinglian Bodhisattva that a seat of authority belonging to the Central Heaven Ziwei Imperial Lord’s line, the Judicial Heavenly Monarch, would emerge, and revealed his plan to place his own influence in the Jiuzhou World. In Yin Mound, its ruler began worshipping a divine bird after repeated dreams promised protection from fiends.

• Jinglian Bodhisattva asked why the Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor trusted Amokeqi to hold back the Eastern Heaven Daoist Sect, and he explained that Amokeqi had no choice.
• The Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor told Jinglian Bodhisattva that he had promised her the Southern Venerable Elder seat and revealed that the Judicial Heavenly Monarch’s seat would also manifest.
• The Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor said he had laid the groundwork to place his own piece in the Jiuzhou World before the Eastern Heaven Daoist Sect could arrange its entry.
• Yin Mound’s ruler, burdened by the fiend Transforming Python’s demands, dreamed three times of a divine bird promising peace and prosperity if he worshipped the heavenly god.
• Yin Mound’s ruler held a grand sacrifice to honor the divine bird, while the people chanted that the Heaven-ordained Mystic Bird had descended and given birth to Shang.

As Yin Mound performed its sacrifice, the demonic god Transforming Python arrived to punish Wu Tang for defying it. The Mystic Bird descended from heaven, killed Transforming Python, and left Yin Mound’s people worshipping it.

• King Ying reported Yin Mound’s betrayal to Transforming Python, which came to confront Wu Tang.
• Transforming Python revealed its enormous body and threatened to destroy Yin Mound, but Wu Tang continued chanting before the great cauldron.
• The smoke from the cauldron became a beam of heavenly light, and a blue-green divine bird descended into Yang Province.
• Transforming Python tried to flee, but the Mystic Bird froze it with a cry and killed it with a single peck.
• Yin Mound’s people worshipped the Mystic Bird and chanted the hymn celebrating its descent.

While recovering in the Penglai Heavenly Realm, Jiang Sheng heard rumors of a Buddhist Great Thousand World joining the Three Realms and learned that Ancestor Jingxuan had approved Houtu Divine Lord’s entry into the East Heaven Netherworld. Jingxuan then sent him through a passage to meet four Penglai ancestors, who appeared before him in a strange star region.

• Jiang Sheng recovered in the Penglai Heavenly Realm while Lin Fan told him that the Heavenly Court was preparing for an important arrival and that a Buddhist Great Thousand World might be joining the Three Realms.
• Lin Fan said the Mysterious Lady Highness had been absent for many days, and Jiang Sheng wondered whether her absence was connected to the expected arrival.
• True Lord Yangyan Yuanyi summoned Jiang Sheng to meet Ancestor Jingxuan, who confirmed that Houtu Divine Lord could enter the East Heaven Netherworld and oversee reincarnation.
• Jingxuan said Ling Yu would go to Jiuzhou World to retrieve Xiangyu Immortal Monarch and sent Jiang Sheng through a passage for a more important task.
• Jiang Sheng emerged in an unfamiliar star region and saw Daoist Lord Dejing, Daoist Lord Miaoyan, Daoist Lord Juehua, and Daoist Lord Yueheng seated in the four directions.

Jiang Sheng met four Pure Yang Dao Lords in a small world they had opened to prepare younger Shanhe Daoist Sect disciples for the assault on the Jiuzhou World. The patriarchs assigned him to become the sword that shattered Jiuzhou's fortune and began his five-hundred-year training with a Golden Register called Four Symbols Returning to One.

• Jiang Sheng greeted the projected patriarchs Dejing, Miaoyan, Juehua, and Yueheng and realized their true bodies were elsewhere.
• Dejing explained that the small world would guide younger True Disciples before the assault on Jiuzhou and test those favored by fortune.
• Dejing told Jiang Sheng that, unlike those disciples, he had to become the sword that shattered Jiuzhou's fortune.
• Miaoyan assessed Jiang Sheng's fight against Zhurong, Gonggong, Tian Wu, and Qiangliang and said he lacked experience against more powerful seniors.
• Miaoyan began five hundred years of instruction for Jiang Sheng and gave him a Golden Register titled Four Symbols Returning to One.