Chapter Summaries

Jiang Sheng refined a Water Spirit Pearl into an external incarnation and summoned Tian Ming'an to Penglai for his True Disciple investiture ceremony. As powerful guests gathered, Jiang Sheng began ascending Tianshu Peak’s ceremonial cloud steps, where the chapter left him receiving congratulations from the Nascent Soul Realm True Persons.

• Jiang Sheng began refining the Water Spirit Pearl with his magical power and spiritual consciousness, then put it away to incubate for seven times seven days.
• Le Fang brought Tian Ming'an from Qingping Mountain to Penglai, where Jiang Sheng gave him a token and asked him to cultivate at Cloud Bamboo Peak until the ceremony ended.
• In summer of year 39,865, factions from across the Eastern Domain Continent and the East Sea arrived at Penglai, including Ao Bing and envoys from Great Tang.
• Jiang Sheng donned his True Disciple attire and began climbing the cloud carpet toward Tianshu Peak’s main hall as the ceremony recounted his cultivation milestones.
• The Nascent Soul Realm True Persons congratulated Jiang Sheng on becoming a True Disciple and sent colorful phoenixes and golden dragons into the sky.

Jiang Sheng completed the Heart-Questioning Road, was named Lingyuan and formally enrolled as a Penglai True Disciple, then spent three years cultivating before Tianshu True Person summoned him to represent Penglai at a Qinghua Dao Sect ceremony. The chapter left him preparing to travel to the ceremony.

• Jiang Sheng passed the Heart-Questioning Road and paid homage to Penglai’s patriarchs and past True Disciples.
• The patriarchs granted Jiang Sheng the Daoist name Lingyuan, and Tianshu True Person recorded his name in the jade book and Golden Register.
• Daoyan True Person gave Lingyuan his True Disciple credentials, seal, and a new jade crown, and the assembled disciples congratulated him.
• After returning to Cloud Bamboo Peak, Jiang Sheng used the Water Spirit Pearl to create an avatar and spent three years cultivating while the avatar occasionally handled public appearances.
• Tianshu True Person summoned Lingyuan and told him to represent Penglai at a Qinghua Dao Sect True Disciple’s golden core ceremony because his senior brother and sister were away.

Jiang Sheng led Penglai's grand retinue across the Eastern Domain Continent and into the Central Domain Continent on the way to the Qinghua Dao Sect. As the Dharma Boat neared its destination, his clone emerged to guide the traveling disciples in their cultivation.

• Jiang Sheng accepted the mission to attend the Qinghua Dao Sect's Golden Core Ceremony and collected the ceremonial retinue and selected disciples from Tianquan Peak.
• Jiang Sheng secluded himself aboard the Dharma Boat while it crossed the Eastern Domain Continent, leaving the disciples to cultivate and spar without his company.
• After the Dharma Boat reached the Central Domain Continent, Jiang Sheng ordered it to fly lower so the disciples could see the scenery.
• Jiang Sheng sent his clone to meet the disciples, answer their cultivation questions, and warn them not to follow his personal insights blindly.
• The clone demonstrated Azure Yang Profound Thunder Scripture techniques for Li Changfeng and discussed the Scorching Heaven Fire Scripture with Chen Yusheng as the Dharma Boat continued toward the Qinghua Dao Sect.

Jiang Sheng encountered Guanghui of the Great Jinchan Temple in a brief clash on the way to the Qinghua Dao Sect, then arrived with the Penglai disciples and met visitors from Tianhe. Ning Chuan revealed that Buddhist true disciples were confronting other sects on their journeys and warned Jiang Sheng that the western visitors bore ill intent.

• Jiang Sheng spotted Guanghui ahead of the Penglai Dharma Boat, and they exchanged attacks before both withdrew without drawing their full strength.
• The Penglai Dharma Boat reached the Qinghua Dao Sect, where Wang Xingchao and Ma Yunhan welcomed Jiang Sheng and escorted the party to its prepared mountain residence.
• Jiang Sheng spoke with Wang Xingchao and Ma Yunhan, impressing them with his knowledge and insights during their conversation.
• Ning Chuan of Tianhe visited Jiang Sheng, and they discussed their encounters with Buddhist true disciples on the way to Qinghua.
• Ning Chuan identified Guanghui as one of the Great Jinchan Temple's Six Wisdom Buddhist scions and warned Jiang Sheng that the western visitors bore ill intent.

At Qinghua Dao Sect, Jiang Sheng witnessed a fierce clash between Tianhe Dao Sect and Great Heavenly Dragon Temple disciples before the five holy lands agreed to hold a spell-dueling meet during Lu Xuanjun’s Golden Core ceremony. The ceremony began three days later, with the five sects gathered in an atmosphere of outward harmony and growing tension.

• Ning Chuan told Jiang Sheng that the Buddhist scions had come to test Xuanmen, and Jiang Sheng agreed to avoid bringing shame on their sects.
• Jiang Sheng watched a Tianhe Dao Sect disciple and a Great Heavenly Dragon Temple disciple injure each other and destroy their spiritual artifacts in a reckless duel.
• Jue Kong stopped a second fight, then Guanghui proposed that disciples from the Buddhist School and Xuanmen exchange pointers.
• Lu Xuanjun agreed to host a small spell-dueling meet during his Golden Core ceremony, and Jiang Sheng and Ning Chuan accepted.
• Three days later, Lu Xuanjun’s ceremony began on a jade terrace, where the five holy lands’ disciples gathered beneath a show of harmony and rivalry.

At Lu Xuanjun’s Golden Core ceremony, Jiang Sheng and the other leaders offered spiritual artifacts as prizes for contests between the factions. After Qiao Xuan won two matches, Chen Yusheng of Penglai and He Jing of Jinchan Temple faced each other for the next contest.

• Ning Chuan and Jue Kong traded barbed words over Buddhist efforts to expand into the Southern Domain Continent, and Lu Xuanjun proposed contests to ease the tension.
• Lu Xuanjun, Jiang Sheng, Guanghui, Ning Chuan, and Jue Kong offered spiritual artifacts as prizes, and Lu Xuanjun raised an arena on the jade plaza.
• Qiao Xuan of the Qiao Clan defeated Fang Lang of the Golden Tripod Sect after a fierce contest of white vapor and cauldron techniques.
• Qiao Xuan defeated Yun Jingshan of the Windwalking Sect with a condensed ray of white light.
• Guanghui invited Jiang Sheng’s faction to lead the next match, and Chen Yusheng stepped forward to face He Jing of Jinchan Temple.

Chen Yusheng defeated He Jing in a spell duel, and Bai Zijin began a fierce match against Xing Wu of the Great Heavenly Dragon Temple. Xing Wu endured Bai Zijin’s flood dragons and then severed one with the Arhat Discipline-Breaking Blade.

• Chen Yusheng used a fire dragon and crimson spear to break He Jing’s Buddhist techniques and defeat him, while Jiang Sheng restored Chen Yusheng’s spiritual power afterward.
• Xing Wu of the Great Heavenly Dragon Temple challenged the Tianhe Dao Sect, and Bai Zijin accepted the duel.
• Xing Wu revealed his Arhat Subduing-Dragon Image and half-step Vajra strength as Bai Zijin attacked him with water techniques and a Flood Dragon Diagram.
• Bai Zijin’s three flood dragons coiled around Xing Wu and battered him with torrents, but Xing Wu broke free and severed one dragon with the Arhat Discipline-Breaking Blade.

The dueling gathering ended with the Great Heavenly Dragon Temple taking the spotlight, while Chen Yusheng and Bai Zijin were left injured after facing Xing Wu. As the Great Heavenly Dragon Temple’s Dharma Boat flew toward the Western Region Continent, Jue Kong was intercepted by Jiang Sheng’s sword energy.

• Xing Wu gravely wounded Bai Zijin, and Ning Chuan treated him while insisting the Tianhe Dao Sect would accept the loss without being sore losers.
• Li Changfeng defeated a Qinghua Dao Sect disciple, and the factions continued their duels with restraint.
• Chen Yusheng challenged Xing Wu, attempted to catch him off guard with a spear thrust, but was knocked away and wounded.
• Jiang Sheng rebuked Chen Yusheng for holding back, then treated his wound as the dueling gathering and Golden Core ceremony concluded.
• The Great Heavenly Dragon Temple received two spirit artifacts, the Great Jinchan Temple received one, and Penglai received one before the remaining artifacts went to other factions.
• Jue Kong blocked a powerful sword strike on the Great Heavenly Dragon Temple’s Dharma Boat and recognized Jiang Sheng in the distant clouds.

Jiang Sheng fought Jue Kong while Ning Chuan kept Guanghui occupied in a game of chess, allowing Jiang Sheng to defeat Jue Kong and destroy his Heavenly Dragon. Guanghui later inspected the battle site and returned to Great Jinchan Temple, while Jue Kong ordered his disciples to retreat.

• Jiang Sheng confronted Jue Kong as Ning Chuan intercepted Guanghui three thousand li away and challenged him to chess.
• Jue Kong unleashed his Eightfold Heavenly Dragon Art, but Jiang Sheng's Azure Light Shadow shattered the dragon, broke Jue Kong's defenses, and wounded his left shoulder.
• Jiang Sheng told Jue Kong that Penglai protected its own, then departed as Jue Kong ordered his disciples to return to Great Heavenly Dragon Temple.
• Ning Chuan conceded the chess game to Guanghui and left, after which Guanghui used his divine foot power to reach the battle site.
• Guanghui examined the traces of the fight, then returned to Great Jinchan Temple's Dharma Boat and told the others to hurry back.

Jiang Sheng returned to Penglai with a severed arm from a Vajra-realm Buddhist cultivator and considered whether Chen Yusheng should study under him. After reflecting on the gulf between sacred lands and minor sects, Jiang Sheng cultivated for two years and then headed to Tianji Peak.

• Jiang Sheng returned to the Penglai Dharma Boat and gave the disciples a dark-gold arm to exchange for a fourth-tier nurturing pool at Tianxuan Peak.
• Chen Yusheng asked to cultivate under Jiang Sheng, who told him to consider carefully whether he truly wanted to follow him.
• Jiang Sheng questioned how quickly he had defeated Jue Kong, then set aside his doubts and resumed cultivating.
• Jiang Sheng reflected on how Zheng Zhang's limited guidance had led him onto the wrong path and practiced making spirit talismans.
• After two more years of seclusion, Jiang Sheng emerged and rode a cloud toward Tianji Peak.

Jiang Sheng agreed to visit Lin Fan’s maternal clan, the Lin Clan of Flowing Flame Island, after Lin Fan explained how the clan had cut off his mother and later sought to reconnect when he rose to prominence. After five days of discussing cultivation, Jiang Sheng returned to Cloud Bamboo Peak and began refining a small bell as a new magical treasure.

• Lin Fan invited Jiang Sheng to hold their Golden Core ceremonies together and passed along his maternal clan’s invitation.
• Lin Fan told Jiang Sheng that the Lin Clan had rejected his parents’ marriage and refused to help his mother, but renewed contact after Lin Fan achieved success.
• Jiang Sheng agreed to visit the Lin Clan with Lin Fan after Lin Fan’s true disciple ceremony and discussed how they could use the clan’s resources and connections.
• Jiang Sheng and Lin Fan discussed cultivation for five days, then Jiang Sheng returned to Cloud Bamboo Peak with new inspiration.
• Jiang Sheng gathered spirit materials and began refining a defensive magical treasure, shaping the molten materials into a small bell.

Jiang Sheng refined three Dharma bells that wielded wind, fire, and thunder, tested them, and returned to seclusion before Lin Fan became a True Disciple named Ling Zhao. The chapter ended as Jiang Sheng and Lin Fan prepared for their Golden Core ceremonies, where Jiang Sheng renewed his promise to Xiang Yu.

• Jiang Sheng inscribed silver script on a bell and later refined three Dharma bells that commanded wind, fire, and thunder.
• Jiang Sheng tested the bells against his clone over the East Sea, then used the Waterlike Sword Formation to contain their combined power.
• Jiang Sheng returned to Penglai and reentered seclusion, while a late Golden Core shark demon general left his patrol to his shrimp and crab lieutenants.
• Three years later, Lin Fan became a True Disciple, took the Daoist name Ling Zhao, and told Jiang Sheng he was cooperating with the Lin Clan for mutual benefit.
• Jiang Sheng told Lin Fan he planned to travel, and the two visited the Lin Clan on Flowing Flame Island before returning to prepare for their Golden Core ceremonies.
• Lu Xuanjun and Ning Chuan attended, Jiang Sheng introduced them to Lin Fan, and Jiang Sheng renewed his promise to Xiang Yu.

Jiang Sheng defeated Xiang Yu in a one-move duel, then accepted Tianshu True Person’s assignment to investigate the Penglai Dao Sect branch in the Dixuan World. Dao Kong True Person sent him there using a Yantian Platform.

• After the Golden Core ceremony, Jiang Sheng and Xiang Yu met high above the Penglai Dao Sect for their promised match.
• Xiang Yu unleashed a three-headed lightning flood dragon, but Jiang Sheng destroyed it with a sword strike that cleared the storm from the sky.
• Xiang Yu accepted her defeat and vowed to meet Jiang Sheng again when the Ten-Thousand-Year Tribulation arose.
• Jiang Sheng asked Tianshu True Person for permission to travel, and Tianshu True Person directed him to visit the Dixuan World and investigate the branch’s dwindling shipments and interrupted communications.
• Jiang Sheng prepared his cultivation materials and arrived at Tianxuan Peak, where Dao Kong True Person used a Yantian Platform to send him from the Shanhe World to the Dixuan World.

In the Treasure Elephant Kingdom, Gu Yinglan’s attempt to assassinate an elephant demon failed, and the demon hunted her as she fled. As Gu Yinglan prepared to make a final stand, a Daoist appeared amid heavenly lightning.

• A Treasure Elephant demon traveled in a heavy carriage pulled by shackled humans and ate an attendant.
• Gu Yinglan attacked the elephant demon, but the tiger general stopped her and led the gray wolf soldiers in pursuit.
• The elephant demon shot Gu Yinglan with a Sealing Spirit Arrow, injuring her and disrupting her spiritual energy.
• The elephant demon and its soldiers chased Gu Yinglan, while the demon fired arrows to force her onward.
• Gu Yinglan stopped fleeing and prepared to fight the elephant demon, but thunder and lightning filled the sky.
• A Daoist emerged from the lightning, wearing a Yin-Yang Eight Trigrams crown and a dark jade robe.

Jiang Sheng arrived in the Dixuan World, rescued Gu Yinglan from demons, and traveled with her to the Penglai Estate. He discovered that steward Zhuang Yushi and the estate’s disciples had been bewitched by strange objects, then began waking them with a Daoist scripture.

• Jiang Sheng killed the Treasure Elephant Second Prince, the tiger demon, and the gray wolf soldiers after they treated humans as livestock, then took Gu Yinglan toward Creek Province.
• Gu Yinglan described the Dixuan World's provinces and asked to become Jiang Sheng's disciple; he declined but gave her a healing pill and brought her to the Penglai Estate.
• Jiang Sheng found the estate neglected and its disciples listless, then confronted steward Zhuang Yushi, who defended abandoning the estate's resources in the name of compassion.
• Jiang Sheng seized Zhuang Yushi, burned and blasted a strange scripture until it became black hide, and sealed it and a four-armed statue in jade boxes.
• Jiang Sheng gathered the estate's disciples and used the Clear Mind Concentration Scripture to rouse them; Zhuang Yushi and the others recognized him as a True Disciple and bowed.

Jiang Sheng learned that a strange statue and a forgotten hermit had bewitched Penglai Estate’s disciples, then helped them recover and restart the mines. After finding the abandoned mine where the statue had been unearthed, he concluded that the hermit had planted it there over a thousand years ago for someone in the future.

• Zhuang Yushi told Jiang Sheng that a statue found in Merchant Prefecture had beguiled the miners and later the estate disciples after a wandering hermit brought it out again.
• Jiang Sheng ordered the disciples treated and their divine senses stabilized, while requiring Zhuang Yushi to make up the sect’s missing resource quota and resume mining within seven days.
• Jiang Sheng held three days of morning lessons, and Zhuang Yushi then organized the disciples to restore the estate and capture Demon Race miners from Elephant Province.
• After receiving a message from the Dao Sect, Jiang Sheng went with Zhuang Yushi to inspect the abandoned mine where the statue had been found.
• Jiang Sheng determined that the evil object had been deliberately buried in the mine over a thousand years earlier for someone in the future, and identified the forgotten hermit as the person who had left it there.

Jiang Sheng followed Gu Yinglan into Windmoon Pavilion, where he uncovered the pavilion’s mind-controlling cultivation art and its connection to the Heavenly Demon Master Amokeqi. After linking the discovery to other clues in the Dixuan World, he decided to seek out the pavilion master at Lingyue True Person’s birthday celebration.

• Jiang Sheng spotted Gu Yinglan entering Windmoon Pavilion in Mingxi Kingdom and followed her inside.
• Jiang Sheng overheard Gu Yinglan argue with Gu Yingqiu about their village’s destruction, the Demon Race, and Gu Yinglan’s mutual aid society dedicated to wiping out demons.
• An Ling introduced Jiang Sheng to Windmoon Pavilion’s female disciples, and Jiang Sheng secretly examined one disciple’s cultivation after putting her to sleep.
• Jiang Sheng discovered that the Windmoon Ruyi Art planted threads of desire and was a form of the Amokeqi Reverse Refining Heavenly Demon Method, one of the Unfettered, Unstained Mystic Lord of Myriad Wonders’ secret scriptures.
• Jiang Sheng connected the method to the strange statue, possible Heavenly Demon skin, and the wandering recluse, then decided to attend Lingyue True Person’s birthday celebration and confront Windmoon Pavilion’s master.

At Lingyue True Person’s five-hundredth birthday banquet, Fairy Fengyue revealed that forming a Nascent Soul might require entering Merchant Prefecture, then an unknown Golden Core cultivator named Jade Chen appeared and said he had come for her. When Lingyue True Person tried to assert his authority, Jiang Sheng effortlessly subdued his pressure and prepared to become an unwelcome guest.

• Lingyue True Person held a grand birthday banquet attended by Golden Core Ancestors Changyan, Yunhuan, Tianyun, and Huankong.
• Fairy Fengyue arrived and told the Golden Core Ancestors that Nascent Soul formation required entering Merchant Prefecture, where she had found a method.
• Lingyue True Person and the other Ancestors questioned Fairy Fengyue’s claims, while she said she could not yet reveal the crucial timing.
• Jiang Sheng appeared above the imperial palace, introduced himself as Jade Chen, and said he had come to congratulate Lingyue True Person and for Fairy Fengyue.
• Lingyue True Person warned Jade Chen against making trouble and released his late Golden Core pressure, but Jiang Sheng’s sigh immediately calmed the storm.
• Jiang Sheng said he would have to become an unwelcome guest as winds began stirring across the sky.

Jiang Sheng captured Fairy Fengyue while investigating who had attacked Penglai Estate, then learned that another mysterious woman had questioned her about the Dixuan World and altered her cultivation art. The chapter ended with Fairy Fengyue identifying Jiang Sheng’s two-headed, four-armed statue as Napushe.

• Jiang Sheng overwhelmed Fairy Fengyue with Sword Qi and an enormous azure palm, captured her, and swept more than a hundred Windmoon Pavilion disciples into his sleeve.
• Jiang Sheng brought Fairy Fengyue and her disciples back to Penglai Estate, where Zhuang Yushi said the attacker he remembered had been a man, not Fairy Fengyue.
• Jiang Sheng removed Fairy Fengyue’s restraints and promised to let her go if she answered his questions.
• Fairy Fengyue described a woman who had captured and questioned her twenty-seven years earlier about Merchant Prefecture, the Dixuan World’s Restrictive Wards, and her modified Windmoon Ruyi Art.
• Jiang Sheng showed Fairy Fengyue a two-headed, four-armed statue, and she tentatively identified it as Napushe.

Jiang Sheng learned that Fairy Fengyue’s ancestor had uncovered secrets in Merchant Prefecture and that a mysterious woman had taken a matching statue. After Jiang Sheng let Fairy Fengyue go to draw out her pursuer, she was attacked in Mingxi Kingdom by two Golden Core demons, and a sword-wielding Daoist appeared to save her.

• Fairy Fengyue told Jiang Sheng that she descended from Tang He True Person, whose jade slip revealed secrets about cultivation in the Dixuan World and a relic near Creek Province; a mysterious woman had taken a statue from the relic.
• Jiang Sheng let Fairy Fengyue leave with her disciples, intending to use her as bait to discover whom she had offended.
• Rumors spread across Creek Province that Daoist Yuchen had abducted Fairy Fengyue, while she hid in Windmoon Pavilion beneath Mingxi Kingdom.
• Fairy Fengyue discovered that her Left Protector had joined the Salvation Society, and a beam of heavenly light destroyed Windmoon Pavilion, forcing her to reveal herself.
• Four-Tusk Elephant King and Silvermoon Wolf King attacked Fairy Fengyue; Mingxi True Person joined the fight despite their threats and the danger to his people.
• A crane-crowned Daoist arrived and severed Four-Tusk Elephant King’s Wolf-Tooth Mace with a vast sword strike before sending twelve sword rays against him.