Chapter Summaries

Chu Jiang cultivated the Divine Elephant Prison Suppression Scripture until he opened 673 particles and reached the second layer of the Heaven Transforming Realm in physical strength. Elsewhere, Prince Yan and Wu continued their curse against the Emperor of Chu and Chu Jiang, planning to use a trump card if the needles failed.

• Chu Jiang refined demons and monsters, opened 673 particles, and formed the embryonic Hell Furnace.
• Chu Jiang’s body advanced to the second layer of the Heaven Transforming Realm, and he briefly manifested a giant elephant before heading for the Poison King Sect.
• Prince Yan gloated over the curse against the Emperor of Chu, whose statue had been pierced by 81 silver needles.
• Wu told Prince Yan that Chu Jiang’s wooden likeness had resisted further needles and said he would prepare more ancient strange needles before resorting to their trump card.
• Prince Yan said he would use the throne’s fate and the Martial Emperor Scripture to subdue Chu Jiang, or have him killed if he could not be controlled.

Chu Jiang destroyed the Poison King Sect after killing Poison Dragon Venerable, then returned to the Yunzhou Demon Suppression Bureau as news of the sect’s fall spread. The chapter ended with Yuwen Tiandu warning his family’s ancestor that Chu Jiang could threaten the Yuwen Family.

• Poison Dragon Venerable summoned the unfinished Poison God, merged with it, and tried to flee the Demon Suppressing Guards.
• Poison Dragon Venerable begged Chu Jiang to spare the Poison King Sect, but Chu Jiang killed him with one palm and seized the Poison God’s body.
• Chu Jiang ordered Wang Chao and the Demon Suppressing Guards to continue the slaughter, and they wiped out the Poison King Sect and looted its resources.
• Chu Jiang’s forces cleared the branches of the Evil King Pavilion and Poison King Sect, then returned to the Yunzhou Demon Suppression Bureau as other factions rushed to declare their loyalty.
• Yuwen Tiandu and the Great Elder went to consult the Yuwen Family’s ancestor about Chu Jiang’s rapid rise and the threat he posed.

Chu Jiang strengthened the Yunzhou Demon Suppression Bureau and prepared to launch reforms across the empire while the Eternal Life Alliance Leader decided to deal with White Tiger’s capture personally. After leaving protective Brahma God Edicts over Baishi County and the Hundred Flowers Sect, Chu Jiang headed to King Qinguang’s headquarters to meet him.

• Yuwen Tiandu reported that the Yuwen Family had extracted the spiritual roots of eight hundred thousand people and was forming the Spirit God Seed, which the Yuwen ancestor ordered him to complete for his future breakthrough.
• Azure Dragon and Vermilion Bird discussed rescuing White Tiger, and the Eternal Life Alliance Leader told them he would handle it himself.
• Left Commander reported the Yunzhou Demon Suppression Bureau’s growth to Chu Jiang, who gave its leaders Demon Refining Fluid and asked Chen Shi'an to prepare for comprehensive reforms in the imperial capital.
• Chu Jiang rested at Chu Manor while Fu Yunxuan refined the Poison God Pill, then left protective Brahma God Edicts over Baishi County and the Hundred Flowers Sect.
• Chu Jiang departed for King Qinguang’s headquarters to meet him and seek answers.

Chu Jiang met King Qinguang at the King of Hell Hall headquarters and learned about the Three Great Immortal Sects and Qinguang’s true identity. King Qinguang revealed that he was Crown Prince Xiang Qingxiao, trapped inside the Hell Seal, and began explaining the conflict that led the King of Hell Hall to remain hidden.

• Meng Po escorted Chu Jiang through the King of Hell Hall’s hidden headquarters to Fengdu City and King Qinguang’s residence.
• King Qinguang told Chu Jiang that the Three Great Immortal Sects likely had Heaven Transforming Realm cultivators but avoided intervening in the mortal world.
• King Qinguang revealed that he was Xiang Qingxiao, the current Crown Prince, and that his main body was trapped within the Hell Seal while his clone walked the mortal world.
• King Qinguang explained that the Yin Yang Old Ancestor had founded the King of Hell Hall and that the Imperial Royal Ancestors had chosen him in response to fate.
• King Qinguang said the Hall’s secrecy was connected to a battle eight hundred years earlier, when his imperial father and the Imperial Royal Ancestors disagreed over how to save the world.

King Qinguang revealed that Great Chu’s greatest hidden threat was the Seven Divine Beings, its founders, who had become corrupted God Ascension Path beings sealed in the North Sea Ruins. He left Chu Jiang with the truth behind the North Sea’s defenses and the dynasty’s looming crises, while Chu Jiang asked why King Qinguang had wanted to meet him.

• King Qinguang explained that the Chu Emperor had considered sacrificing Great Chu’s fortune for an Ascension Method with only a fifty percent chance of success, but Yuan Shouyi persuaded him to wait.
• King Qinguang described the Ancestral Demon Domain, the Demon Ancient Road, and the North Sea as Great Chu’s three major external crises.
• Chu Jiang identified the Seven Divine Beings as the source of Great Chu’s founding power, and King Qinguang explained that they had entered the Divine Tomb and reached the God Ascension Path.
• King Qinguang revealed that the Seven Divine Beings had lost their sanity and were sealed in the North Sea Ruins, where Great Chu’s forces guarded them and maintained their restraints.
• Chu Jiang realized that the Seven Divine Beings had become Great Chu’s greatest hidden enemy, then asked King Qinguang what he truly wanted from their meeting.

Chu Jiang agreed to repair the Sea Covering Demon Subduing Array in the North Sea and set out for the Nether Abyss. On the way, he traded White Tiger to the Eternal Life Alliance Leader for six Top-grade Spirit Stones, while secretly marking White Tiger for a future attack on the Alliance.

• King Qinguang told Chu Jiang that the Sea Covering Demon Subduing Array had been breached and needed God-Slaying Blood and nine Top-grade Spirit Stones from the Nether Abyss.
• Chu Jiang accepted the mission to repair the array, earning a mission to obtain Bodhi Pure World Thunder and the Heaven Burning Nine Tribulations Saber, and asked King Qinguang for North Sea demon nests to clear.
• As Chu Jiang traveled toward the North Sea, the Eternal Life Alliance Leader appeared and offered three Top-grade Spirit Stones for White Tiger.
• Chu Jiang negotiated for six Top-grade Spirit Stones, released the weakened White Tiger, and left after secretly marking him with the Heavenly Witch Brahma Scripture.
• The Eternal Life Alliance Leader warned White Tiger not to provoke the Demon Suppression Division or Chu Jiang, while Chu Jiang planned to use the mark to target the Eternal Life Alliance headquarters after growing stronger.

Chu Jiang crossed the Northern Border Great Wall and headed for Bibo Island, where King Qinguang suspected a great demon was plotting amid rumors of a Heaven Merging Realm inheritance. As major North Sea forces gathered, Lei Jingyun dismissed reports of Chu Jiang’s strength and vowed to prove himself, leaving the inheritance’s true nature and winner unknown.

• Chu Jiang passed through the Northern Border Great Wall and set out for Bibo Island, where strange lights and rumors of a Heaven Merging Realm inheritance had drawn cultivators.
• King of Hell Hall had deduced from scattered clues that a great demon was active on Bibo Island and might be gathering powerful demons and devils.
• Lei Jingyun arrived aboard Thunder Prison Manor’s Five Thunder Beast carriage, and nearby cultivators debated his reputation and Chu Jiang’s reported feat of killing a Heaven Fusion Seventh Level expert while in the Qiankun Realm.
• Lei Jingyun called the reports about Chu Jiang unbelievable and said he would show the Great Chu heavenly pride what a real genius was.
• Tide Sound Pavilion and the Rogue Cultivator Alliance arrived alongside Thunder Prison Manor, while cultivators wondered which force would claim the inheritance.

Chu Jiang arrived at Bibo Island, where major North Sea factions fought demons over the rumored Whale Shark King inheritance. After learning that King of Hell Hall suspected the ruins were demon bait, he charged into the Jade Demon Forest and slaughtered the demons, disrupting their plan to lure the cultivators deeper inside.

• Thunder Prison Manor, Tide Sound Pavilion, the Rogue Cultivator Alliance, and other factions gathered at Bibo Island to seek the Whale Shark King's rumored inheritance and Half Divine Artifact.
• A shrimp demon leader claimed the Jade Demon Forest for King Bisha, and the North Sea cultivators launched an attack.
• Chu Jiang arrived with Su Ning, King of Hell Hall's chief administrator in the Twelve Islands, who warned him that the ruins might be a demon trap.
• Chu Jiang and Su Ning flew into the Jade Demon Forest, where cultivators and demons were already fighting.
• Chu Jiang killed more than a hundred demons as he pushed toward the forest's depths, leaving the demon commander stunned that its forces were being slaughtered instead of luring the humans in.

Chu Jiang slaughtered demons while thousands of cultivators followed, then killed King Bisha in one blow. Deep inside Bibo Island, the Flood Dragon Demon Generals prepared to lure the human cultivators into their trap to feed the wounded Nine Nether Flood Dragon.

• Lei Jingyun, Liu Erhu, and Fairy Zimo withdrew their factions, leaving Chu Jiang to fight the demons while the cultivators followed behind him.
• Chu Jiang killed cultivators who tried to steal demon corpses, and the crowd kept its distance except for Su Ning.
• King Bisha charged out of the mist to avenge his clansmen, but Chu Jiang tore him in two and tossed his corpse to Su Ning.
• Lei Jingyun, Fairy Zimo, and Liu Erhu reassessed Chu Jiang after seeing him kill a powerful demon with one blow.
• Inside the Whale Shark King's grotto-heaven, the Flood Dragon Demon Generals planned to lower the defensive formation and lure the human cultivators in so they could feed the wounded Nine Nether Flood Dragon.

Chu Jiang charged cultivators one hundred High-grade Spirit Stones each to enter the Whale Shark King's inheritance ground, overpowering Thunder Prison Manor when its leaders resisted. Sword King Li Daoxuan then arrived, paid the fee, and respectfully greeted Chu Jiang, leaving the gathered cultivators stunned.

• Chu Jiang blocked the entrance to the inheritance ground and demanded one hundred High-grade Spirit Stones per person.
• Chu Jiang slapped Lei Jingyun aside, crushed Lei Pili's attack with his gravitational domain, and killed a Thunder Prison Manor expert who threatened him.
• Su Ning collected Spirit Stones from the factions, including Tide Sound Pavilion and the Rogue Cultivator Alliance, as the total passed seventy thousand.
• Sword King Li Daoxuan arrived, and the cultivators expected him to challenge Chu Jiang.
• Li Daoxuan paid one hundred High-grade Spirit Stones and respectfully greeted Chu Jiang, revealing that he knew Chu Jiang's identity and considered him the stronger cultivator.

Chu Jiang entered the inheritance grounds with Su Ning after collecting eighty-eight thousand Spirit Stones, while North Sea factions plotted to keep Sea God's Trident from him. Inside, magic power was suppressed and treasure seekers rushed toward the trident, leaving its fate unresolved.

• Li Daoxuan arrived, and Chu Jiang's identity and fearsome reputation stirred the gathered cultivators into an uproar.
• Chu Jiang led Su Ning into the spatial vortex after ticket sales reached eighty-eight thousand Spirit Stones.
• Liu Erhu and Lei Jingyun urged Li Daoxuan to unite North Sea cultivators against Chu Jiang, but Li Daoxuan refused and entered the vortex alone.
• Liu Erhu persuaded Thunder Prison Manor and Tide Sound Pavilion to join the Rogue Cultivator Alliance, and nearly two hundred experts entered the grounds together.
• The cultivators found their magic power suppressed, raced after scattered treasures, and reached a palace plaza where Sea God's Trident stood.
• Lei Jingyun and the other cultivators charged toward Sea God's Trident, each faction claiming it for itself.

Chu Jiang entered the palace plaza as factions fought over the Sea God's Trident, only to face the Four Flood Dragon Demon Generals and their trapped army. He killed all four generals, while the surrounding cultivators watched in shock.

• Lei Pili and Liu Erhu fought over the Sea God's Trident, prompting the major factions to clash.
• Chu Jiang arrived with Su Ning and Li Daoxuan, ignored the trident, and killed cultivators who attacked him.
• Demon creatures erupted from beneath the plaza, and the Earth Nether Demon General killed Liu Erhu and trapped the cultivators inside the palace.
• The Xuanming, Heaven Nether, and two other Flood Dragon Demon Generals appeared with hundreds of Mysterious Snake Soldiers.
• As Li Daoxuan prepared an array disk to help them retreat, Chu Jiang charged the demons and tore apart three generals.
• Chu Jiang defeated the Heaven Nether Demon General with a punch and killed him, leaving all four Flood Dragon Demon Generals dead.

Chu Jiang slaughtered the North Sea Flood Dragon Demon Generals and Mysterious Snake Soldiers, then confronted the Nine Nether Flood Dragon wielding the Sea God's Trident. Their collision tore apart the hall, and Lei Jingyun was pulled into a spatial fissure.

• Chu Jiang killed the four Flood Dragon Demon Generals and massacred the Mysterious Snake Soldiers, then drew their bodies into his Purple Gold Gourd.
• The Nine Nether Flood Dragon emerged from beneath the plaza, pulled out the Sea God's Trident, and challenged Chu Jiang over the deaths of his demon generals.
• Chu Jiang activated the Divine Elephant Prison Suppression Scripture and met the Nine Nether Flood Dragon's trident with his physical strength.
• Chu Jiang and the Nine Nether Flood Dragon's collision shattered the hall and opened void fissures, one of which swept Lei Jingyun into a spatial storm.

Chu Jiang defeated the Nine Nether Flood Dragon after overpowering his Sea God's Trident and gained a vast amount of Demon Lifespan. The battle ended with Chu Jiang unharmed and his enemies stunned by his strength.

• Lei Jingyun was pulled into the spatial storm and killed despite Lei Pili’s pleas for help.
• Chu Jiang emerged unharmed from the clash, while the Nine Nether Flood Dragon struggled to recover from his injuries.
• The Nine Nether Flood Dragon unleashed his water arts and used the trace of True Dragon blood in his body to strengthen the Sea God's Trident.
• Chu Jiang caught the Sea God's Trident between two fingers and sent the Nine Nether Flood Dragon flying with a rebounding strike.
• Chu Jiang killed the Nine Nether Flood Dragon and gained 1,400,000 years of Demon Lifespan.

Chu Jiang killed the Nine Nether Flood Dragon, claimed the Sea God's Trident, and became famous across the North Sea. After cultivating in seclusion and mastering the Heaven Collapse Fist, he headed for the Nether Abyss to find the God-Slaying Blood.

• Chu Jiang took the Sea God's Trident as the sealing barrier collapsed, and the surviving cultivators fled the Whale Shark King's inheritance grounds.
• Li Daoxuan invited Chu Jiang to visit the Qingyun Sect before departing, while Chu Jiang and Su Ning left Bibo Island separately.
• The cultivators outside learned that Chu Jiang had killed the Nine Nether Flood Dragon and that Lei Jingyun and Liu Erhu had died in the battle.
• Chu Jiang refined the four Flood Dragon Demon Generals and seven hundred Mysterious Snake Soldiers, awakening more celestial elephants through the Divine Elephant Prison Suppression Scripture.
• Chu Jiang cultivated the Heaven Collapse Fist to Extraordinary Saint and grasped Heaven Merging fist intent.
• Chu Jiang left for the Nether Abyss secret realm in Zhenhai Prefecture to find the God-Slaying Blood and complete his mission.

Chu Jiang forged a powerful Demonic Weapon God named Old Ten and headed with him toward the Nether Abyss Secret Realm. The following morning, an armored group arrived at the site of the lightning tribulation and sensed a Demon King’s aura.

• Chu Jiang began refining a top-tier Demonic Weapon God in the Gu King Cauldron using the Nine Nether Flood Dragon’s remains, rare materials, and three strange lightnings.
• After twelve hours, a thirty-zhang Weapon God emerged and devoured eight bolts of lightning tribulation, though the final strike cracked its wings.
• The Weapon God shrank to three zhang and introduced himself to Chu Jiang, who named him Old Ten and gave him the nickname Invincible Under Heaven.
• Chu Jiang used Demon Probe to learn that Old Ten possessed Demon King First Level battle power, then left for the Nether Abyss atop his shoulder.
• The next morning, several armored figures arrived at the tribulation site, where their leader sensed the aura of a Demon King.

Marquis Zhentian met Chu Jiang outside the Abyss of Darkness, confirmed that the Demon King aura came from Chu Jiang’s puppet, and warned him about the Outer Realm and hidden threats. After Marquis Zhentian departed, the Abyss of Darkness opened, and Chu Jiang entered with Old Ten.

• Marquis Zhentian recognized the Demon King aura near Zhenhai Prefecture as the work of Chu Jiang and traveled to meet him.
• Marquis Zhentian and Chu Jiang exchanged greetings and spoke privately above the Abyss of Darkness.
• Marquis Zhentian warned Chu Jiang to clear away the aura left by his Demon King puppet so others could not trace his true body.
• Marquis Zhentian told Chu Jiang that the Eternal Life Alliance Leader came from the Outer Realm and that Director Yuan had traveled there.
• The Abyss of Darkness opened, and Chu Jiang entered it with Old Ten.

Chu Jiang and Old Ten entered the Nether Abyss, where they rescued Jiuyou, the Ferryman Tribe’s Saint Son, from the Heavenly Cripple Sword Alliance. Jiuyou led them toward the Alliance’s base, where captured Ferrymen were being drained to make Calamity Crossing Boats.

• Chu Jiang and Old Ten arrived in the Nether Abyss and entered the Inverted Forest.
• Old Ten killed the green-robed pursuers who were hunting Jiuyou, despite the forest’s deadly taboo.
• Jiuyou explained that the Heavenly Cripple Sword Alliance was capturing Ferrymen to use their essence blood to forge Calamity Crossing Boats.
• Chu Jiang ordered Jiuyou to lead them to the Alliance’s base, saying he would kill the Alliance and then the Myriad Monster Nation.
• Chu Jiang sensed demonic aura near a branch of the Alliance, where Ferryman elders and juniors were chained to a sword platform as three thousand Corrosion Swords drained their essence blood.

Chu Jiang and Old Ten destroyed the Heavenly Cripple Sword Alliance stronghold, killing its defenders and rescuing the Ferryman Tribe elders. After giving the ferrymen healing pills, Chu Jiang began looting the alliance's treasures and found a Nether Ring.

• Sword Lord Duanyue discussed obtaining God-Slaying Blood and capturing the Ferryman Tribe to refine Calamity Crossing Boats with the bull demons.
• Chu Jiang killed the sword alliance steward and dozens of cultivators, while Old Ten smashed through the stronghold and killed Sword Lord Duanyue with one punch.
• The bull demons tried to escape by threatening the Ferryman Tribe captives, but Chu Jiang crushed all five with his divine ability.
• Chu Jiang freed the Ferryman Tribe captives, and Jiuyou introduced him as the King of Hell Hall's newly promoted King of Hell.
• Chu Jiang gave the ferrymen healing pills, then searched the stronghold's treasures with Old Ten and discovered a Nether Ring.

Chu Jiang traveled to the Ferryman Tribe’s Second Ancestral Land, learned of a Boat of Salvation, and cultivated the Xuanming Heaven Swallowing Art until his soul power reached Heaven Transformation. He boarded the boat and began crossing the Nether River toward its other shore.

• Jiuyou told Chu Jiang that the Ferryman Tribe had taken refuge in its Second Ancestral Land, where a reliable Boat of Salvation was kept, and Chu Jiang ordered the group to go there.
• Sword Ghost and a handsome sheep demon found the Heavenly Cripple Sword Alliance branch in ruins and suspected that the King of Hell Hall had gained another Heaven Merging Realm expert.
• The Second Clan Elder gave Chu Jiang the original Xuanming Heaven Swallowing Diagram at the ancestral land, and Chu Jiang cultivated it to the seventh layer, gaining Heaven Transformation soul power and the Heaven Swallowing Tribulation Eye.
• The First Clan Elder and Jiuyou led Chu Jiang and the others to the Nether River, where they boarded the Boat of Salvation and set out for the other shore.