Chapter Summaries

Jiang Sheng and Lin Fan lectured the outer disciples and offered chances to ask questions through separate tests. Jiang Sheng then revealed that Tian Ming'an was already his disciple and invited Qiu Buyu to cultivate under him at Cloud Bamboo Peak.

• Jiang Sheng explained the Azure Yuan Talisman Scripture, and Lin Fan taught the Primordial Yang Jade Scripture to the gathered outer disciples.
• Jiang Sheng asked the disciples to paint a landscape's spirit, and Qiu Buyu, Tian Ming'an, and Huang Wensheng earned chances to ask him questions.
• Jiang Sheng answered Qiu Buyu's question about forming a superior golden core, Tian Ming'an's question about Purple Mansion cultivation, and Huang Wensheng's question about strengthening a Dao foundation.
• Lin Fan tested disciples with three strikes from a blade ray, and Ye Qian and several others earned chances to ask him questions.
• Jiang Sheng revealed that Tian Ming'an was his disciple and said he would oversee Tian Ming'an's coursework and assignments.
• Jiang Sheng invited Qiu Buyu to cultivate under him at Cloud Bamboo Peak, and Qiu Buyu accepted.

Jiang Sheng accepted Qiu Buyu as his disciple despite knowing she carried a calamity, and she told him the story behind her blood feud. As his avatar returned to Shanhe World, it arrived over the South Sea and agreed to attend a banquet at the Dragon Palace before traveling east.

• Qiu Buyu asked Jiang Sheng why he had accepted her, then revealed her blood feud and became his disciple after he promised to stand behind her.
• Jiang Sheng told Qiu Buyu he knew about her calamity aura and would not fear entering a calamity to answer it.
• Tianshu True Person questioned Jiang Sheng about accepting Qiu Buyu, and Jiang Sheng calmly defended his choice.
• Jiang Sheng's avatar crossed from the Dixuan World into Shanhe World and found itself above the South Sea.
• Jiang Sheng met Zhou Wenxuan and Yang Hongbin, who invited him to Ao Yan's Dragon Palace banquet for his concubine's celebration.

Jiang Sheng attended Ao Yan’s wedding feast, where Ao Yan’s principal wife Ao Ying appeared but the veiled secondary consort never arrived. After a woman stole the Qingming Mirror from the Dragon Palace treasury, Ao Yan found an intruder in the bridal chamber and accused Jiang Sheng of being his accomplice.

• Jiang Sheng arrived at the Crystal Dragon Palace with Zhou Wenxuan and Yang Hongbin and joined the wedding feast.
• Ao Ying briefly appeared before the guests, then left without confronting Ao Yan.
• A woman used a coiled-dragon token to enter the treasury and steal the Qingming Mirror.
• Ao Yan found an intruder in the bridal chamber and had him seized while the veiled consort claimed the man had tried to force her.
• The consort vanished after Ao Yan left to investigate the intruder’s accomplice.
• The wounded intruder pointed to Jiang Sheng, and Ao Yan accused him of coveting the consort.

At the Dragon Palace banquet, Jiang Sheng’s identity as Lingyuan of Penglai was revealed just as a stolen spirit treasure triggered a fight among the dragon princes. He followed the thief’s trail to Zhang Qing, an old acquaintance from Qingshan, and battled her White Bone Daoist Soldiers before facing a Nascent Soul Realm soldier as their clash drove the sea back.

• Ao Yan accused Jiang Sheng of aiding the treasury thief, but Jiang Sheng revealed he was Lingyuan of Penglai.
• The Dragon Palace treasury was found robbed, and the dragon princes confronted Ao Yan after his token had been used to open it.
• Jiang Sheng followed the thief’s aura to a rocky island, where he recognized Zhang Qing, who claimed the stolen spirit treasure belonged to her sect.
• Zhang Qing trapped Jiang Sheng in black mist and sent twelve White Bone Daoist Soldiers against him, but he destroyed them with his sword lights.
• The bones reassembled into four larger soldiers, and Jiang Sheng broke through the mist before Zhang Qing summoned a Nascent Soul Realm White Bone Daoist Soldier.
• Jiang Sheng’s sword rainbow clashed with the soldier’s ghostfire and baleful energy, forcing the sea beneath them back by over a hundred zhang.

Jiang Sheng fought Zhang Qing at sea, but she captured him after his Thunder Arts destroyed her White Bone Daoist Soldier. She took him to Qingming True Lord’s Cave Heaven, where her master, Moonfall True Person, revealed that Jiang Sheng was only an avatar and offered him a vast fortune.

• Jiang Sheng summoned flood dragons and unleashed his Thunder Arts against Zhang Qing and her White Bone Daoist Soldier, destroying the soldier and obliterating the nearby islet.
• Zhang Qing seized the weakened Jiang Sheng and fled before the South Sea dragon prince reached the battle site.
• On Profound Moon Island, Zhang Qing kept Jiang Sheng’s magic power sealed and explained that she possessed one Qingming Mirror and sought the other sea’s mirror.
• Zhang Qing brought Jiang Sheng to the remnant of Qingming Island and used the mirror to open the entrance to Qingming True Lord’s Cave Heaven.
• Moonfall True Person appeared inside the Cave Heaven, recognized Jiang Sheng as an avatar, and offered him a fortune vast enough to blot out the sky.

Jiang Sheng met Moonfall True Person, who offered him the Qingming Grotto-Heaven in exchange for a future favor, while Zhang Qing learned she could still try to claim it from him. Daoyan True Person drove Moonfall away in a clash of Dharma Images, and the Penglai True Persons warned that the Origin Sect’s next move might target the weakened Tianhe Dao Sect in the south as the ten-thousand-year tribulation approached.

• Moonfall True Person offered Jiang Sheng the Qingming Grotto-Heaven and said Zhang Qing would seek him out when the time came.
• Moonfall True Person told Zhang Qing he had promised the grotto-heaven to Jiang Sheng but that she could claim it if she wrested it from him.
• Daoyan True Person confronted Moonfall True Person in the Chaos Void, and their Dharma Images fought until Moonfall retreated.
• Daoyan True Person returned to Penglai, where Tianshu True Person said the Origin Sect’s true move lay in the south and ordered a warning sent to the Tianhe Dao Sect.
• Tianshu True Person and Daoyan True Person discussed how the weakened Tianhe Dao Sect, the South Sea Dragon Palace, and Buddhist forces could be drawn into the coming tribulation.

Jiang Sheng returned to the South Sea to question Ao Yan about Zhang Qing, but found she had left no trace that could help locate her. Back on Penglai, he realized the Star Sovereign Sacred Sect was targeting the South Sea, where a heavenly demon was possessing Zhaoming Crown Prince and threatening to take control of the Dragon Palace.

• Jiang Sheng visited Ao Yan in confinement and asked about his former secondary consort, Zhang Qing.
• Ao Yan recounted meeting Zhang Qing and taking her as his secondary consort, but said he had kept none of her belongings or the gift that had first drawn him to her.
• Jiang Sheng concluded Zhang Qing had carefully prevented the Dragon Palace from tracking her and left the Zhaoming Sea Realm without any useful leads.
• After returning to Penglai, Jiang Sheng reasoned that Moonfall True Person had expected someone connected to the South Sea Dragon Palace and concluded the Star Sovereign Sacred Sect's target was the South Sea.
• A heavenly demon taunted the restrained Zhaoming Crown Prince, claiming it could use his spell-working against him and eventually take control of the Dragon Palace.

Jiang Sheng learned the Star Sovereign Sacred Sect was plotting to seize the South Sea, while Tianshu True Person kept the sect’s knowledge of Star-Evolving True Lord’s possible Pure Yang breakthrough secret. After training and arming his disciples, Jiang Sheng watched the Dixuan World near its merger with the Shanhe World, where Fengyue asked him for a favor.

• Jiang Sheng told Tianshu True Person that the Star Sovereign Sacred Sect planned to seize the South Sea, and Tianshu recalled Patriarch Qingyan’s warning not to interfere while Star-Evolving True Lord approached Pure Yang.
• Jiang Sheng guided Tian Ming'an and Qiu Buyu through their cultivation and spell sparring, then tested their instincts and called out their obvious restraint toward each other.
• Jiang Sheng revealed that he had been using avatars and gave Tian Ming'an and Qiu Buyu spiritual artifacts, including swords suited to lightning and water.
• Jiang Sheng cultivated at the Heaven Pillar as the Dixuan World nearly merged into the Shanhe World, and Fengyue asked whether they were friends before requesting a favor.

After the Dixuan World merged into the Shanhe World, Jiang Sheng helped its True Persons and demon kings leave, advanced to the late Golden Core Realm, and learned that Great Tang was expanding amid the gathering Calamity Aura. He attended Zhang Qing’s banquet, where she revealed that the Sacred Sect had infiltrated the Zhaoming Sea Realm and that she had helped Ao Yan and Ao Ying escape.

• Fengyue told Jiang Sheng she planned to leave the Shanhe World and entrusted him with a jade box in case she died.
• Ancestor Qingyan steadied the Dixuan World as it merged with the Shanhe World in the East Sea, and Jiang Sheng arranged for those who wished to leave to gather at Penglai Estate.
• Jiang Sheng led hundreds of Dixuan True Persons and demon kings out through the mist, while Ao Bing and an accomplice discussed targeting Prince Li Tai to help Ao Bing break through.
• Jiang Sheng returned to Penglai, reached the late Golden Core Realm, and watched Great Tang expand as kingdoms and other powers formed alliances or fled.
• Jiang Sheng accepted Zhang Qing’s invitation to a night banquet at Sea-Viewing Tower and challenged her about her hidden preparations.
• Zhang Qing revealed that the Sacred Sect had replaced many dragon princes in the Zhaoming Sea Realm and that she had helped Ao Yan and Ao Ying escape.

Jiang Sheng killed Zhou He after the Thousand Mechanism Sect cultivator tried to confront him about Zhang Qing, then stayed at Cloud Bamboo Peak as disciples and friends left amid the approaching tribulation. After forging a pair of jeweled swords, Jiang Sheng received a message from Zhang Qing asking him to meet her on the East Sea in seven days.

• Zhang Qing told Jiang Sheng she had released Ao Yan and Ao Ying to improve her chances of surviving the ten-thousand-year tribulation, and Jiang Sheng left her a communication jade token.
• Zhou He intercepted Jiang Sheng and tried to trap him with fire, but Jiang Sheng killed him with his sword and took his golden core.
• The Dao Sect announced a grand competition that would select disciples for places in its small worlds, while Tian Ming'an, Qiu Buyu, and Lin Fan each left to attend to affairs elsewhere.
• Jiang Sheng forged a sky-blue jeweled sword and later completed a white jeweled sword, then tested the pair together above Cloud Bamboo Peak.
• Jiang Sheng received a message through the jade disc he had left with Zhang Qing, asking him to meet her on the East Sea in seven days.

Jiang Sheng and Zhang Qing traveled to the Xuanmo Sea Area to enter the abandoned Heavenfall Divine Residence, following Moonfall True Person’s instructions. After they entered the ruined residence, three other figures appeared in the hall, leaving their intentions unknown.

• Moonfall True Person asked Jiang Sheng to protect Zhang Qing and help her obtain something from an abandoned South Sea residence, promising him its other treasures and Qingming Grotto-Heaven.
• Jiang Sheng and Zhang Qing used the East Sea Dragon Palace’s teleportation formation to reach the South Sea, then traveled through the Jewel-Curtain Sea into the Xuanmo Sea Area.
• Zhang Qing used Moonfall True Person’s pearl to guide them to a deep abyss, where they found the ruined Heavenfall Divine Residence and entered with her broken token.
• Inside the residence’s vast, dilapidated front hall, Jiang Sheng questioned Zhang Qing about the place and her relationship with her master.
• Jiang Sheng pulled Zhang Qing aside to hide when three figures appeared in the hall and remarked that someone had already been there.

Jiang Sheng and Zhang Qing entered the Heavenfall Divine Residence, where Jiang Sheng fought off Yan Xiao and her companions before they encountered a corridor of awakening jade guardians. The chapter ended as the statues declared that intruders would be killed.

• Jiang Sheng ambushed Yan Xiao, Du Yu, and Chen Guang, then broke through Yan Xiao’s puppet defenses with his swords.
• Jiang Sheng and Zhang Qing left the hall, while Yan Xiao concealed herself with her junior brothers and recognized the arriving monk Guang Hui of Divine Feet.
• Yan Xiao explained that the weakened Thousand Mechanisms Sect could not afford to claim the estate’s treasure and decided to follow cautiously.
• Jiang Sheng and Zhang Qing entered a corridor lined with towering jade statues, and Jiang Sheng warned Zhang Qing that something inside the estate had disturbed his mind.
• The jade statues came to life and announced that trespassers in the Divine Lord’s residence would be killed.

Jiang Sheng and Zhang Qing fought through the Heavenfall Divine Residence and reached its main hall, where Guang Hui trapped Jiang Sheng and revealed himself as an enemy. Their battle escalated as Jiang Sheng’s twin swords closed in on Guang Hui.

• Jiang Sheng destroyed the jade statue divine soldiers in the corridor while Zhang Qing followed, and he captured the black qi that had been spying on them.
• Jiang Sheng and Zhang Qing explored the ruined Duty Hall, found records mentioning the Heavenfall Divine Lord’s cleanup, and destroyed a black-qi stone statue behind a side door.
• Jiang Sheng confronted Zhang Qing about what she was hiding, then blasted her away when a golden cage trapped him before the suspected main hall.
• Guang Hui emerged, identified Jiang Sheng as Daoist Ling Yuan, and attacked him, but Jiang Sheng broke the cage with Ren Water True Thunder and survived Guang Hui’s Buddha Palm.
• Jiang Sheng and Guang Hui exchanged sword techniques, Buddhist light, and magical weapons until Jiang Sheng’s twin swords surged toward Guang Hui amid wind and water.

Jiang Sheng battled Guanghui, who escaped with the Heavenfall Divine Lord’s seal and ribbon, while Jiang Sheng and Zhang Qing discovered the Divine Lord’s ceremonial objects and uncovered Moonfall True Person’s plan. Moonfall took the jade tablet and robes and pursued Guanghui, leaving Jiang Sheng behind in the ruins.

• Jiang Sheng trapped Guanghui in four-colored Astral Wind and a storm of thunder and fire, but Guanghui survived and escaped using his divine feet.
• Jiang Sheng and Zhang Qing found the Heavenfall Divine Lord’s ceremonial robes and crown, noticed the missing jade ornaments and seal, and searched the hall.
• Jiang Sheng and Zhang Qing identified the residence as a Divine Path shrine and discovered a jade tablet naming its occupant as the Southern Region, Heavenfall Mingyu Palace Lord.
• Moonfall True Person emerged from Zhang Qing’s pearl, explained the residence’s restrictions, and took the jade tablet and ceremonial robes.
• Moonfall learned that Guanghui had taken the seal and ribbon, located him within the ruins, and departed with Zhang Qing to pursue him.

Moonfall True Person assembled most of the Zhaoyuan Cave token fragments while attacking Jiang Sheng and Guang Hui, who joined forces against his Nascent Soul domain. The final fragment appeared in the front hall, where Moonfall True Person took it from a youth and completed the token for the Zhaoyuan Grotto Abode.

• Moonfall True Person gathered token fragments from Guang Hui and Yan Xiao, then demanded to search Guang Hui and Ling Yuan for treasures taken from the main hall.
• Guang Hui attacked Moonfall True Person, and Jiang Sheng revealed himself as Ling Yuan and joined the fight with his swords and Ren Water True Thunder.
• Jiang Sheng and Guang Hui coordinated their attacks, but Moonfall True Person unleashed his domain and suppressed them with powerful moonlight.
• Moonfall True Person sensed the final token fragment in the front hall and left Jiang Sheng and Guang Hui struggling against his domain.
• Moonfall True Person struck down a youth who carried the final fragment, took the token, and fused all four pieces into the completed Zhaoyuan Grotto Abode token.

Yan Xiao learned that Leopard had been sent to find Divine Lord Tianluo Mingyu’s Remnant Soul, while Moonfall True Person entered the painting in the rear hall and encountered the Zhao Clan. Moonfall restored Tianluo Mingyu by returning his crown and robe, and the divine lord appeared before Jiang Sheng, Guanghui, and the others as the jade statue soldiers bowed to him.

• After Moonfall True Person left, Yan Xiao healed the unconscious Leopard, who explained that Immortal Shen had sent him from the Panfeng Great World to find a divine lord’s Remnant Soul.
• Leopard identified the Remnant Soul as Divine Lord Tianluo Mingyu, prompting Yan Xiao to rush off to warn Lingyuan and Guanghui.
• Moonfall True Person entered the painting with the oval token, met Zhao Xu and the Zhao Clan, and joined their celebration after claiming the war had ended.
• As the villagers worshipped their ancestor, Moonfall True Person placed the Seven-Tassel Crown and Seven-Chapter Dark Robe on the statue, and Divine Lord Tianluo Mingyu emerged from the painting.
• Jiang Sheng, Guanghui, Yan Xiao, and Leopard saw Tianluo Mingyu appear in the grotto abode, where jade statue soldiers bowed and hailed him.

Jiang Sheng and Guanghui fought Zhaoyuan, the resurrected Divine Lord Tianluo Mingyu, while Yan Xiao held back the jade statue soldiers. After a brutal battle destroyed the rear hall, Jiang Sheng and Guanghui emerged wounded as three identical Zhaoyuans remained standing.

• Divine Lord Tianluo Mingyu ordered the jade statue soldiers to capture Jiang Sheng, Guanghui, Yan Xiao, and Leopard, and Yan Xiao used spiritual threads and puppet beasts to hold them back.
• Zhaoyuan revealed that he had possessed Moonfall True Person's avatar and trapped Moonfall True Person's divine sense in the clay idol within the painting.
• Jiang Sheng and Guanghui attacked Zhaoyuan, who used his domain and water-based powers to repel their strikes and form two identical bodies from vapor.
• Jiang Sheng and Guanghui unleashed their weapons and Divine Abilities as Zhaoyuan's three bodies fought them and the hall collapsed.
• Guanghui and Jiang Sheng emerged from the rubble badly wounded, while three identical Zhaoyuans stood before them.

Jiang Sheng and his allies defeated Zhaoyuan inside the Heavenfall Divine Residence, but Moonfall True Person’s arrival turned the aftermath into a confrontation in the Chaos Void. The Penglai Dao Sect and Great Jinchan Temple appeared together to face Moonfall True Person, while the others returned to the Shanhe World.

• Jiang Sheng used his Waterlike Sword Formation to kill Zhaoyuan, though Zhaoyuan’s dark-blue radiance left Jiang Sheng gravely wounded.
• Zhang Qing caught Jiang Sheng and collected Zhaoyuan’s crown and ceremonial robe, while Yan Xiao stopped Du Yu from attacking the injured Guanghui and Lingyuan.
• Yan Xiao sent Du Yu and Chen Guang to search the ruins, where they found an undamaged painting scroll; the Heavenfall Divine Residence then collapsed and vanished into the Chaos Void.
• An old man rescued Leopard and took the painting scroll, but Moonfall True Person’s Yin Moon Heavenly Son Dharma Image appeared and demanded his belongings.
• Zhang Qing revealed that Divine Lord Tianluo Mingyu’s remnant soul was in the scroll, and four Dharma Images from the Penglai Dao Sect and Great Jinchan Temple surrounded Moonfall True Person.
• Daoyan True Person returned Jiang Sheng and the others to the Shanhe World, then told Moonfall True Person to face his tribulation.

Moonfall True Person was killed by four Spirit Transformation cultivators after they revealed that Star-Evolving True Lord had turned to the Divine Path. Back in Shanhe World, the survivors scattered, while Jiang Sheng recovered under Zhang Qing’s watch and she suddenly vanished from the forest.

• Daoyan True Person, Daoye True Person, Master Huitong, and Master Huiyuan overwhelmed Moonfall True Person and destroyed his Yin Moon Heavenly Son Dharma Image, sending his True Spirit into reincarnation.
• The old man and Leopard escaped the Chaos Void and set out for Panfeng World.
• Jiang Sheng and Zhang Qing landed in the Eastern Domain Continent; Jiang Sheng began recovering, and Zhang Qing stood guard after the Qingping Sword warned her off.
• Yan Xiao, Du Yu, and Chen Guang returned toward Thousand Mechanism Sect, worried about its troubles and the failure of their plans.
• Guanghui recovered the seal ribbons and jade tablet, then flew back toward Great Jinchan Temple while reflecting on Jiang Sheng’s sword formation and Penglai’s growing fortunes.
• After seven days of guarding Jiang Sheng, Zhang Qing sensed something and vanished; Jiang Sheng watched her leave, then resumed regulating his breathing.

As the Ten-Thousand-Year Tribulation spread across the Eastern Domain Continent, Jiang Sheng settled on Yuchen Mountain and sheltered those fleeing Great Tang’s conquests. While he cultivated and repaired two treasures, conflicts and new powers emerged across several continents, ending with Sun Xing’s breakthrough to Void Refinement and his challenge to the Tianhe Dao Sect.

• Zhuang Yu fled Zhuang Kingdom with his two young disciples, while Jiang Sheng and Zhang Qing discussed Great Tang’s wars and ended their alliance.
• Jiang Sheng established a temple on Yuchen Mountain, where he sheltered displaced humans, Nature Spirits, and demons and became known as Savior True Person.
• Jiang Sheng restored the Azure-White Twin Swords and spent seven days repairing the Seven-Tassel Crown and Seven-Chapter Dark Robe with immortal-path methods.
• In the year 39,920 of the Shanhe Calendar, opposing factions arose in the east and south of the Eastern Domain Continent as the regional turmoil deepened.
• A Qinghua Dao Sect True Disciple followed a Demon Race princess to the Northern Domain Continent, provoking the sect to send a Dharma Image True Person to confront the Demon Race.
• Sun Xing broke through from Spirit Transformation to Void Refinement, took the title Heaven-Turning True Lord, and challenged the Tianhe Dao Sect.