Chapter Summaries

Jiang Sheng entered seclusion to complete the Five Qi Converging at the Origin and sleep through the remaining tribulations, while Tian Ming'an brought Shen Yao into Heaven to rebuild the Shenxiao Thunder Mansion. Over the centuries, chaos in the mortal world grew increasingly severe, leaving the Judicial Heavenly Lord Mansion overwhelmed without Jiang Sheng.

• Jiang Sheng completed the five-element cycle, endured the Decay of Magic Power and Decay of Primordial Spirit, and enclosed himself in a golden-purple lotus bud to sleep for five hundred years.
• Tian Ming'an invited Shen Yao to Heaven to take charge of the Shenxiao Thunder Mansion, and Shen Yao left a dharma body to guard Jinhua Mountain before departing.
• Shen Yao rebuilt the Shenxiao Thunder Mansion with Tian Ming'an's support and led its disciples in cultivating thunder methods.
• For more than two hundred years, the Judicial Heavenly Lord Mansion kept order, but wicked cultivators and monstrous evildoers increasingly caused trouble in the mortal world.
• As the calamities escalated, Tian Ming'an called on Duobao, Rihui, Yuehui, the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords, and Shen Yao's thunder forces to help suppress them.
• Great demons with Five Tribulations cultivation emerged, and the Judicial Heavenly Lord Mansion struggled to contain the growing chaos without Jiang Sheng.

As disasters spread through the Three Realms, the exhausted Judicial Heavenly Lord Mansion struggled to contain Zhentian Demon Venerable and his forces in Nanxiao Continent without Jiang Sheng’s support. Jiang Sheng then emerged from seclusion having reached the final step before Pure Yang, drawing the attention of powerful beings throughout the heavens.

• Tian Ming'an explained that Zhentian Demon Venerable had united Nanxiao Continent’s demons and monsters, while its sacred lands and Heavenly Court forces could not provide enough help.
• The True Lords admitted they lacked the strength and connections to suppress the growing chaos, and Lingyan recognized how much the Judicial Heavenly Lord Mansion depended on Jiang Sheng.
• A surge of Spiritual Resonance and Origin Energy erupted from Jiang Sheng’s seclusion in the Judicial Heavenly Lord Mansion, alarming those gathered there.
• Jiang Sheng manifested Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown and Five Qi Converging at the Origin, showing that he had reached the final step before Pure Yang.
• Jingxuan Daoist Lord, Daoist Lord Chixiao, Daoist Lord Qiongyun, several Bodhisattvas, and Golden Mother Primordial Lord sensed Jiang Sheng’s breakthrough; Golden Mother anticipated his attendance at the Flat Peach Banquet in two hundred years.

After completing his five-hundred-year seclusion, Jiang Sheng emerged with his cultivation advanced and took charge of the troubled Three Realms. He investigated Zhentian Demon Venerable’s rise on Nanxiao Continent and, after learning the demon came from beyond the Three Realms, resolved to kill him.

• Jiang Sheng emerged from seclusion, donned his celestial robes, and was welcomed by his disciples and the True Lords of the Five Capitals.
• Jiang Sheng reviewed five hundred years of case files, reassured his exhausted followers, and traced the spreading unrest across the mortal world.
• Jiang Sheng noticed that Nanxiao Continent was suffering especially severe chaos and questioned why its local gods had allowed Zhentian Demon Venerable to grow so powerful.
• Jiang Sheng visited Ye Wenshu at Mysterious Lady Palace and asked about Zhentian Demon Venerable’s origins and forces.
• Ye Wenshu told Jiang Sheng that Zhentian Demon Venerable came from beyond the Three Realms, and Jiang Sheng said he would behead him after handling other matters.

Jiang Sheng investigated Zhentian Demon Venerable’s stronghold at Tianbi Mountain and decided to lead a Heavenly Court campaign against him after he refused to disband his forces. As the Heavenly Court assembled its troops and regional gods, Zhentian Demon Venerable dismissed the warning, while Huanglian Plain Earth God eagerly prepared to join the expedition.

• Huanglian Plain Earth God told Jiang Sheng about Tianbi Mountain’s demon-ruled state, Zhentian Demon Venerable’s nine-layered stronghold, and the Thirteen Zhentian Demon Kings.
• Jiang Sheng confirmed the intelligence with Heavenly Court officials and announced a punitive campaign, offering Zhentian Demon Venerable a chance to surrender first.
• The Heavenly Court’s heavenly writ warned Zhentian Demon Venerable to disband his forces, but he mocked Jiang Sheng and persuaded the Demon Kings to keep celebrating.
• After learning Zhentian Demon Venerable had rejected the warning, Jiang Sheng ordered millions of Dao soldiers and heavenly soldiers, divine officers, and star and thunder lords to prepare for an assault on Tianbi Mountain.
• The Heavenly Court’s decree summoned the gods of the surrounding regions, and Huanglian Plain Earth God rejoiced as he prepared to join Jiang Sheng’s expedition.

The Heavenly Court surrounded Tianbi Mountain with overwhelming forces and began its assault under the command of the Judicial Heavenly Lord, Penglai Lingyuan. Zhentian Demon Venerable and the demon kings fought back as the Heavenly Court’s forces devastated the mountain, and Zhenleizi confronted Red Snake Demon King.

• Tens of millions of heavenly soldiers and the Heavenly Net sealed Zhentian Peak, while Huanglian Plain Earth God and other local deities arrived to assist.
• Zhentian Demon Venerable emerged, rallied the demons, and sent his Dharma image to swallow the heavenly army, but the Big Dipper and Southern Dipper Star Lords struck it down.
• The Wind, Thunder, Fire, and Water Departments attacked Tianbi Mountain, inflicting heavy casualties and trapping the demons within the Heavenly Net.
• Zhentian Demon Venerable challenged Lingyuan, while the thirteen Demon Kings rose to break the siege and were met by heavenly army formations.
• Zhenleizi struck Red Snake Demon King down with his Thunder Halberd and identified himself as a deputy city lord of Chixiao Capital.

The five capitals of the Judicial Heavenly Lord Mansion revealed their orthodox Dao lineages and suppressed the demon kings as Zhentian Demon Venerable broke through the Heavenly Net. When seven more True Lords and four great demons arrived, Jiang Sheng manifested amid wind, thunder, water, fire, and tribulation qi, leaving Zhentian facing overwhelming calamity might.

• Zhenleizi, Mingdong, Xuanxing, Lingyan, and Sujing identified themselves as True Lords of the Judicial Heavenly Lord Mansion and stopped the demon kings’ escape attempts.
• The assembled deities and demons learned that the five capitals represented the surviving orthodox Profound Gate lineages and that their heirs served under Jiang Sheng.
• Zhentian Demon Venerable broke through the Star Lords’ attack and the divine lords’ wind, thunder, fire, and water techniques, then charged into the Heavenly Net.
• A green rainbow struck Zhentian Demon Venerable back, and seven True Lords arrived before the heavenly army.
• A gold-faced azure lion, golden-backed azure roc, six-tusked treasure elephant, and azure ox appeared as calamity qi gathered across the battlefield.
• Wind, thunder, water, and fire formed an Azure Profound Immortal Lotus, and Jiang Sheng manifested above Tianbi Mountain with the Yin-Yang Dao Wheel and Four Symbols Sword Qi.

Jiang Sheng led the Heavenly Court’s forces in crushing Zhentian Demon Venerable and destroying Tianbi Mountain. After the army restrained the wounded demon, Duobao beheaded him with Jiang Sheng’s Qingping Sword, and Jiang Sheng ordered the beast’s body used to restore the mountain while its head would be displayed at the South Heaven Gate.

• Jiang Sheng appeared over Tianbi Mountain, and his calamity aura overwhelmed the demon army as Zhengyang True Lord ordered the seven True Lords to attack.
• The Heavenly Court’s forces defeated and captured several Demon Kings while its soldiers and spirit-hunting hounds swept through Tianbi Mountain.
• Zhentian Demon Venerable charged Jiang Sheng, who repelled him with Break Ten Thousand Laws and struck him with four calamity swords.
• The Heavenly Net, divine lords of four departments, and True Lords bound Zhentian Demon Venerable after he revealed his enormous true form.
• Jiang Sheng gave Duobao the Qingping Sword, and Duobao beheaded Zhentian Demon Venerable, splitting Tianbi Mountain with the blow.
• Jiang Sheng ordered Zhentian Demon Venerable’s body used to restore Tianbi Mountain and his head hung before the South Heaven Gate.

Jiang Sheng celebrated his Five Tribulations Grand Ceremony, then prepared his disciples for their own breakthroughs to Void Refinement. Nearly a hundred years after four disciples entered seclusion in Little Penglai, Tian Ming'an and Qiu Buyu faced the first signs of their tribulations.

• Immortals and officials from across the Three Realms gathered at Jiang Sheng’s Five Tribulations Grand Ceremony, where Su Yutong received a spirit peach and learned that four senior disciples were ready to break through.
• After the ceremony, Jiang Sheng gave Tian Ming'an, Qiu Buyu, Li Jianchun, and Huang Ping'an magic treasures to protect them during their tribulations and sent them to enter seclusion in Little Penglai.
• Jiang Sheng gave Shen Yao another batch of magic treasures for Anping and the others to use when they returned to Jinhua Mountain to break through.
• Jiang Sheng considered Yaochi’s invitation to Golden Mother Primordial Lord’s Peach Dharma Banquet and hoped his disciples would ascend in time to accompany him.
• Nearly a hundred years later, tribulation clouds and lightning gathered over Tian Ming'an and Qiu Buyu’s retreat, and Rihui and Yuehui recognized that the two would likely break through first.

Jiang Sheng watched as Tian Ming'an and Qiu Buyu survived their tribulations at Little Penglai and attained the Cave Profound Dao Fruit. Thirty years later, Li Jianchun and Huang Ping'an also ascended, leaving Jiang Sheng with four new Void Refinement True Lords under his tutelage and prompting speculation that he possessed a true immortal method.

• Jiang Sheng asked Lin Fan to watch with him as Tian Ming'an and Qiu Buyu underwent tribulations at Little Penglai.
• Tian Ming'an and Qiu Buyu faced the Five-Five Tribulation Lightning, using magical treasures Jiang Sheng had given them to endure its escalating attacks.
• Tian Ming'an and Qiu Buyu survived the final five-colored thunder prison, shed their mortal bodies, and attained the Cave Profound Dao Fruit.
• Thirty years later, Li Jianchun and Huang Ping'an underwent tribulations and ascended as Void Refinement True Lords.
• The Three Realms were astonished that four Cave Profound True Lords had emerged from under Jiang Sheng's tutelage, and people speculated that he possessed a true immortal method.

After Li Jianchun and Huang Ping'an ascended to Void Refinement, Jiang Sheng sent them to stabilize their cultivation and departed the Judicial Heavenly Lord Mansion on a grand procession. He reached Bai He's Lotus Light Temple to hear a request involving a demon imprisoned by his mansion, then recognized the hidden petitioner and was astonished.

• Jiang Sheng congratulated Li Jianchun and Huang Ping'an on their ascension, provided them with resources, and sent them into seclusion to refine their natal treasures.
• Jiang Sheng entrusted the Judicial Heavenly Lord Mansion to True Lord Rihui and True Lord Yuehui, then left with his honor guard for the South Sea.
• Jiang Sheng's procession calmed the monstrous waves in the Zhaojue Sea Area, and he warned Dragon Lord Aoxiao to care for the living beings under his protection.
• Jiang Sheng arrived at Lotus Light Temple, where Bai He explained that her friend sought help for a younger brother imprisoned by the Judicial Heavenly Lord Mansion.
• Jiang Sheng looked through the temple's restrictions into a quiet room and recognized the hidden petitioner, exclaiming that he knew her.

Demon Monarch Hewei sought Jiang Sheng’s help after her younger brother, Demon Monarch Heyin, was imprisoned in the Heavenly Court. Jiang Sheng agreed to take her to visit him, but hinted that the case might involve something serious, leaving Bai He worried about what they would uncover.

• Bai He asked Jiang Sheng to help Demon Monarch Hewei, who had struggled to find anyone in the Heavenly Court willing to assist her.
• Demon Monarch Hewei explained that her younger brother, Demon Monarch Heyin, was arrested while trying to defend a friend at a banquet and sent to the heavenly prison.
• Jiang Sheng explained which Heavenly Court offices had authority over arrests and the prison, and warned Hewei that trying to enter the prison herself could have gotten her imprisoned too.
• Jiang Sheng agreed to take Hewei to visit Heyin and learn about his sentence, while cautioning that he might not be able to resolve the case.
• After Jiang Sheng led Hewei away, Bai He feared the matter involved a serious hidden complication.

Jiang Sheng accompanied Demon Monarch Hewei to the East Sea, where Dragon Monarch Aohui welcomed him with an extravagant feast and Cangqing Jade Amber Fruits. Aohui then introduced Ao Li, a young North Sea dragon he hoped Jiang Sheng would take in as a disciple or attendant.

• Jiang Sheng reflected on the vague records surrounding Heyin and suspected the Censorate Court and Censorate Office knew more than they had revealed.
• Dragon Monarch Aohui prepared an elaborate welcome for Jiang Sheng, hoping to gain his favor and strengthen ties with him.
• Jiang Sheng and Demon Monarch Hewei entered the Dragon Palace, where Aohui served them rare delicacies, including valuable Cangqing Jade Amber Fruits.
• Dragon Monarch Aohui told Jiang Sheng that his North Sea cousin Ao Li wanted to learn from him and asked him to keep her by his side.
• Ao Li greeted Jiang Sheng, while Demon Monarch Hewei realized Aohui was offering the young dragon to him rather than asking for help rescuing someone.

Jiang Sheng learned that a Mystic Crane Clan great sage had been trapped in Between Time for eight hundred years, leaving the clan vulnerable amid political maneuvering in Weiyu World. After helping Demon Monarch Hewei reach Heavenly Court, he planned to see her reunited with her brother and decide whether to intervene based on the Green Phoenix and Chongming clans’ intentions toward Eastern Heaven.

• Dragon Monarch Aohui gifted Jiang Sheng a North Sea dark-azure true dragon and covered its expenses, while Jiang Sheng asked True Lord Yu Ming for news about Weiyu World.
• After the banquet, Jiang Sheng brought Demon Monarch Hewei to Heavenly Court and sent her with True Lord Yuehui to see her younger brother.
• Jiang Sheng traveled to Eastern Heaven, where he helped True Lord Yu Ming stabilize and finish a furnace of Azure-Purple Treasure Cloud Pills.
• True Lord Yu Ming revealed that the Mystic Crane Clan’s great sage had been missing in Between Time for eight hundred years and explained the rivalries within Heavenly Feather Palace.
• True Lord Yu Ming reported that the Chongming Clan had recently visited Eastern Heaven’s patriarchs with heavy gifts, suggesting the trouble involving Fairy Bluebird and Demon Monarch Heyin might be part of broader political maneuvering.
• Jiang Sheng decided to wait for the Green Phoenix and Chongming clans to show their intentions before choosing whether to help Demon Monarch Hewei free her brother.

Demon Monarch Hewei entered the Heavenly Prison with True Lord Yuehui to visit her younger brother, Heyin, and learned how its brutal levels were designed to torment prisoners. She found Heyin chained in the fourth-level Wind Thunder Prison, badly broken by punishments meant for Integration Realm prisoners, just as an unseen speaker challenged her about whom she had offended.

• True Lord Yuehui brought Hewei through the Heavenly Prison entrance and warned her that the Mystic Thunder Hall plaque revealed her hope of rescuing her brother.
• True Lord Xuanlei learned Hewei had come to see Heyin and ordered an aide to take her to Wind Thunder Prison on the fourth level.
• The aide explained the prison's layered punishments and that Heyin had been moved from Fire Thunder Prison to Water Thunder Prison, then to the more dangerous Wind Thunder Prison.
• Hewei saw prisoners enduring relentless punishments without food, water, spiritual energy, or a chance to recover their strength.
• Hewei found Heyin chained beside a copper pillar, severely injured, and demanded to know why someone of his cultivation had been sent to an Integration Realm prison.
• An unseen speaker asked Hewei whom she had offended.

Fairy Bluebird admitted that she had pressured Demon Monarch Hewei and arranged for Heyin to be imprisoned, but agreed to let the siblings go. Her revelations prompted Jiang Sheng and East Heaven’s True Lords to suspect that the Green Phoenix and Chongming Clans were plotting major changes in Weiyu World, while Heyin requested a private meeting with Jiang Sheng to share vital news.

• Fairy Bluebird met True Lord Yuehui in the Heavenly Prison and said she had arranged for Heyin to be sent to its fourth level, while making Hewei’s search for help more difficult.
• Fairy Bluebird said she had no deep grudge against Heyin, agreed to let the siblings go, and revealed that she was chiefly targeting Hewei and expected trouble in Weiyu World.
• Jiang Sheng and True Lord Yu Ming discussed Fairy Bluebird’s appearance with True Lords Huayu and Longquan, suspecting the Green Phoenix and Chongming Clans might be preparing to reshape Weiyu World.
• True Lord Yu Ming called for increased intelligence gathering and said East Heaven should prevent the Green Phoenix and Chongming Clans from taking Weiyu World for themselves.
• Jiang Sheng reported that Heyin had sent word through True Lord Yuehui that he possessed momentous news and would reveal it only to Jiang Sheng.

Jiang Sheng questioned Demon Monarch Heyin, who traded secret information about the Weiyu World’s weakened Great Sages for protection of himself, his sister, and the Mystic Crane Clan. Jiang Sheng organized an investigation with the Eastern Heaven True Lords and revealed that he had an invitation to the Yaochi Flat Peach Banquet.

• Jiang Sheng visited Demon Monarch Heyin in the Judicial Prison, gave him healing pills, and agreed to hear his demands in exchange for his great news.
• Demon Monarch Heyin asked Jiang Sheng to free Demon Monarch Yinque, protect him and Demon Monarch Hewei, and help the Mystic Crane Clan leave the Weiyu World safely.
• Demon Monarch Heyin revealed that three of the Weiyu World’s five Great Sages had not returned from Between Time, while the two who returned were suspected of being injured.
• Jiang Sheng promised Eastern Heaven Penglai would protect the Mystic Crane Clan if the information proved true, then ordered a Daoist Soldier to guard Demon Monarch Heyin.
• Jiang Sheng met True Lord Yu Ming, True Lord Huayu, and True Lord Longquan, and proposed quietly investigating the Weiyu World and using the Flat Peach Banquet to check whether its Green Phoenix Clan ancestor appeared.
• Jiang Sheng told the True Lords he had an invitation to the Yaochi Flat Peach Banquet.

True Lord Yuehui settled Demon Monarch Hewei in Little Penglai while Jiang Sheng and his incarnations watched the crisis in Weiyu World. As Fairy Bluebird struggled to restrain her Green Phoenix Clan, several young clansmen secretly set out to seize Hewei and Heyin, and their disappearance left the clan scrambling after them too late.

• True Lord Yuehui showed Demon Monarch Hewei Little Penglai, gave her a token to activate its formation, and promised her brother Heyin would recover enough to meet her in about a hundred years.
• After thirty years, True Lord Yuehui and True Lord Rihui reasoned that Hewei knew little about the Mystic Crane Clan’s peril, while Jiang Sheng chose to keep observing Weiyu World as the Flat Peach Banquet approached.
• Fairy Bluebird warned Green Phoenix Clan elders that the clan faced danger if its ancestor could not attend the Flat Peach Banquet, but her clansmen blamed her for refusing to intervene on their behalf.
• Several Green Phoenix Clan prodigies secretly decided to capture Hewei and Heyin and take them back to Weiyu World, believing it would strengthen their clan’s position.
• The prodigies vanished from their rooms, and the elder sent the other clansmen to find Fairy Bluebird; by the time she learned what had happened, it was already too late.

Qingming searched for the missing Green Phoenix youths while Qingyan and the others traveled across the North Sea and discovered how vast the Three Realms were. In Little Penglai, Jiang Sheng learned they might target Hewei and set a trap for them, leaving his disciples to wait for the five to arrive.

• Qingming learned Qingyan, Qingyu, Qingzhao, Qingyun, and Qingfeng had vanished after planning to abduct Hewei and Heyin, and she ordered a search across Kunlun Continent and the Teleportation Formations.
• Qingyan and the others sailed the North Sea, where Ao Feiyun explained that the voyage to North Region Continent would take three hundred years and left them worried about finding Hewei and Heyin across the Three Realms.
• Jiang Sheng told Hewei that Qingming had asked about the five Green Phoenix youths, and Hewei recognized them as members of her clan who might be after her and her brother.
• Jiang Sheng persuaded Hewei to remain in Little Penglai as bait while he and his disciples prepared to catch the five if they came after her.
• Ling Qiu asked Jiang Sheng for permission to raise a green phoenix after the matter was settled, and Jiang Sheng agreed while telling his disciples to wait for the youths to fall into their trap.

Qingyan and the others explored the North Sea Dragon Palace and learned how its teleportation network connected the seas and nearby continents. Though the vastness of the Three Realms made them consider retreating, they chose to head for the South Sea to seek information about Hewei and Heyin; Ao Feiyun then revealed he was saving money for his cousin Ao Li in the East Sea.

• Ao Feiyun showed Qingyan, Qingyu, and their companions the splendid North Sea Dragon Palace and explained its teleportation formations.
• Qingyan and the others were overwhelmed by the scale of the Three Realms and questioned whether they could find Hewei and Heyin.
• Qingzhao, Qingfeng, and Qingyu urged the group not to retreat, and Qingyan agreed to search the South Sea for the Judicial Heavenly Monarch's temple.
• Ao Feiyun and the lodging steward discussed the thirty thousand Yaochi talisman coins the visitors had spent, including Ao Feiyun's share.
• Ao Feiyun explained that he was saving money to support his younger cousin Ao Li, who was living in the East Sea and cultivating under Dragon Monarch Aohui.

Jiang Sheng reflected on how calamity and destruction also gave rise to renewal, gaining new insight into the final calamity and his Dao. He promised to help Ao Li free her grandfather, then learned that the Green Phoenix Clan group had reached the South Sea, while Qingyan and the others heard that Hewei was at the Judicial Heavenly Lord's daoist temple and decided to visit Little Penglai.

• Jiang Sheng combined the powers of the Three Disasters, Four Images, and Five Elements into a chaotic lotus platform, understanding destruction and creation as two sides of one Dao.
• Jiang Sheng learned that Ao Li's grandfather had been imprisoned for capsizing a Heavenly Court dharma boat and promised to help free him if she earned ten thousand points.
• Jiang Sheng accepted Ao Li as his disciple for the time being, gave her a storage pouch of talisman coins, and asked Su Yutong to look after her.
• Lingyan told Jiang Sheng that the Green Phoenix Clan group had traveled through the North Sea and Zhongtian Yanzhou Continent and had reached the South Sea; Jiang Sheng ordered extra precautions at Little Penglai.
• Qingyan, Qingyu, and the others heard gossip that Hewei, a beauty from the Mystic Crane Clan, was at the Judicial Heavenly Lord's daoist temple, and decided to visit Little Penglai before returning.