Chapter Summaries

Zhang Chen traveled through the First Heaven of the Spiritual World in search of the Golden Wind flower and found a strange farmhouse courtyard filled with it. After mistaking a door’s movement for a supernatural sign, he discovered that a Great Black Dog had opened the gate.

• Zhang Chen checked on the sleeping Cheng Yu, then entered the Spiritual World to search for Golden Wind using a Jade Dew Petal as a guide.
• Zhang Chen crossed the Black Sand wastes and entered a lifeless primeval forest, where the Great Sovereign Demon King explained that lingering Divine Might had driven away or killed the creatures.
• Zhang Chen used his Golden Light of the Righteous God to stop mysterious sobbing in the forest and continued traveling through the mountains.
• Zhang Chen found a well-kept farmhouse courtyard with a plot full of Golden Wind flowers but could detect nothing unusual about it.
• Zhang Chen hid as a large bat after the house door opened and closed by itself, then realized a Great Black Dog had been opening the doors.

Zhang Chen was captured and tormented by the Great Black Dog, which carried him through the mountains to its cottage. After tricking the dog into eating a Jade Dew Petal and putting it to sleep, Zhang Chen discovered a powerful fork but could not take it, so he turned to loot the room before the dog awoke.

• The Great Black Dog sealed Zhang Chen's power, repeatedly tossed and caught him, and carried him through the mountains to Double Fork Ridge before returning with him to the Thatched Cottage.
• The Great Black Dog sprayed Zhang Chen with urine, and Zhang Chen flung some of it back onto the dog's face before the dog grabbed him and pushed him into the cottage.
• Zhang Chen considered waiting to return to the Material World or using a Jade Dew Petal to escape, then dropped a petal while the Great Black Dog slept.
• The Great Black Dog sniffed the petal and pinned Zhang Chen when he tried to make it look accidental, then ate it and fell asleep again.
• Zhang Chen examined the extraordinary fork on the wall, felt a painful resistance when he tried to take it, and rushed toward the table to search for other valuables.

Zhang Chen stole a jade token, a Golden Wind Flower, and some blood from the Great Black Dog before escaping the Spiritual World. After Fox Immortal NanNan brought the treasures across realms at enormous cost, Zhang Chen discovered that the token contained the Hercules Moving Mountain Method and began considering how to cultivate it.

• Zhang Chen found a jade token hidden in the Great Black Dog’s fur, stole it, took some of the dog’s blood, and plucked a Golden Wind Flower before fleeing the courtyard.
• Zhang Chen asked Fox Immortal NanNan to move the token and flower into the Material World, but the crossing drained his mana and caused his Dragon Qi skill to lose levels.
• Zhang Chen spent his stored points and absorbed Faith Power to sustain the transfer until Fox Immortal NanNan appeared with the treasures.
• Zhang Chen poured mana into the jade token and revealed the Hercules Moving Mountain Method, which the Great Sovereign Demon King linked to the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Art.
• Zhang Chen memorized the method and learned that it required forty-eight thousand sigils and a suitable Strange Stone to serve as their foundation.

Zhang Chen studied the Mountain Moving Method and learned that Buzhou Mountain stone could help him cultivate it to its greatest power. As Yellow Dawn Temple’s Bestowal Ceremony approached, warnings of impending danger mounted, and Chen Xu arrived asking Zhang Chen to remove a curse placed on him by the Upper Capital Zhang Family.

• Zhang Chen rejected using the ordinary jade tablet to cultivate the Mountain Moving Method and learned from the Great Sovereign Demon King that Buzhou Mountain’s foundation might provide the finest stone.
• Liu Ji visited Zhang Chen, complained about the drought, and admitted he feared a great calamity at Yellow Dawn Temple, but Zhang Chen declined to leave the mountain with him.
• Chen Sanliang warned Zhang Chen that Yellow Dawn Temple was about to descend into chaos and told him to flee southwest if a killing calamity began.
• Zhang Chen saw Chen Xu at the dining hall, and Little Bean’s hunger and strange behavior deepened his sense of foreboding.
• Chen Xu told Zhang Chen that the Upper Capital Zhang Family had captured him and marked him with a curse so they could use his ability to break restrictions and search beneath Yellow Dawn Temple for the Longevity Tree Coffin.
• Chen Xu begged Zhang Chen to remove the mark and help him escape before he became entangled in the Zhang Family’s plans and Yellow Dawn Temple’s troubles.

Zhang Chen broke the mark controlling Chen Xu, who offered to help him locate a hidden tomb beneath the Pacifying Border Prince’s ancestral graves. Later, Xie Lingyun asked Zhang Chen to help the injured Zhang Gaqi with Yellow Springs Water, and Zhang Gaqi was told he would have to ask Zhang Chen for it in person.

• Zhang Chen destroyed the mark on Chen Xu, causing Zhang Gaqi in Yellow Dawn Temple to suffer backlash; Zhang Gaqi forbade his guard from pursuing Chen Xu and asked Xie Lingyun to make the Inspection Directorate compensate him.
• Zhang Chen gave Chen Xu Invisibility Talismans, and Chen Xu told him he had found spatial fluctuations near the Pacifying Border Prince’s ancestral graves that might conceal a great tomb.
• Chen Xu explained that the Upper Capital Zhang Family had taken him to an inconspicuous grave, where he used his feng shui knowledge to identify signs of Zhang Shicheng’s fortune and a possible hidden backup plan.
• Zhang Chen agreed to join Chen Xu in exploring the tomb once Chen Xu found its entrance, then studied the Hercules Moving Mountain Method while the God Conferral Ceremony preparations continued.
• Xie Lingyun told Zhang Chen that Zhang Gaqi’s soul had been injured and could recover quickly with Yellow Springs Water, and she argued that helping him could bring Zhang Chen closer to the Upper Capital Zhang Family and its mysterious Eleventh Order object.
• Zhang Chen agreed to provide ten drops of Yellow Springs Water, but Xie Lingyun arranged for Zhang Gaqi to visit and ask for it himself.

Zhang Chen gave Zhang Gaqi Forgetfulness Water and learned more about the history connecting the Upper Capital Zhang Family and the Pacifying Border Prince's Mansion. After discovering the Demon Race’s plot to use the Jade Dew Flower at the Bestowal Ceremony, Zhang Chen planted a Golden Wind Flower as a substitute and hid in an underground chamber, while Liu Feng assured Ma Zhou that the ceremony was ready.

• Xie Lingyun brought Zhang Gaqi to meet Zhang Chen, and Zhang Gaqi revealed that he had seen Zhang Chen’s father before the family was exiled.
• Zhang Chen told Zhang Gaqi that the Pacifying Border Prince's Mansion had caused his father’s death, then gave him Forgetfulness Water on credit.
• Xie Lingyun explained the tangled history between the northern Zhang Family and the Upper Capital Zhang Family, including the Imperial Decree barring Zhang Chen’s branch from returning.
• Fox Immortal NanNan warned Zhang Chen that Tu Shan Qing had arrived, and Zhang Chen overheard Tu Shan Qing describe the Demon Race’s plan to use Jade Dew Flower during the coming battle.
• Zhang Chen hid a Golden Wind Flower in the tomb, and Tu Shan Qing mistook it for the missing Jade Dew Flower and took it away.
• On the eve of the Bestowal Ceremony, Zhang Chen hid underground to cultivate while Liu Feng told Ma Zhou that everything was prepared for him to become a god.

Zhang Chen broke into Yellow Dawn Temple’s secret chamber during the Miluo River Water God ceremony, gained a new water-control skill, and found a box in the Faith Pool. As the divine position appeared above the altar, Liu Feng called for the missing Ma Zhou to receive it.

• Liu Feng drugged Ma Zhou and left him asleep so he would miss the appointed hour of the God Conferral Ceremony.
• As the ceremony drained the temple’s Incense Faith, Zhang Chen sent a pangolin through the weakened wall and entered the secret chamber.
• Zhang Chen found the Miluo River Water God divine position, a leather-scroll book of martial arts secrets, and a box at the bottom of the Faith Pool, but no Longevity Tree Coffin.
• Zhang Chen used the Ocean Stabilizing Divine Pearl to strike the departing divine position, collected the Water Flow Control skill it dropped, and upgraded his Water Control Technique to the fifth rank.
• The divine position appeared above the sacrificial altar, and Liu Feng described its promise of immortality to the gathered guests.
• At the appointed moment, Liu Feng presented the decree and called twice for Ma Zhou, who did not appear.

Ma Zhou vanished during the Yellow Heaven Dao’s Bestowal Ceremony, so Liu Feng took the Miluo River Water God’s divine throne, survived Zhang Xiaohua’s attempt to seize it, and became the deity. As Liu Feng returned toward Yellow Dawn Temple, Zhou Chuan, Xie Xuan, a bloodline expert, and Zhang Gaqi ambushed him.

• Ma Zhou failed to appear for the ceremony, so Liu Feng accepted the divine throne in his place and Gu Mingyue approved his decision.
• Zhang Xiaohua tried to use an Ancient Water God Jade Tablet to take the throne, but Gu Mingyue stopped him and Liu Feng’s soul merged with the statue.
• Liu Feng’s divine throne reached the Miluo River, where it spread its radiance through the waters and made him a powerful Water God.
• Zhang Chen sensed the deity’s return while exploring a secret chamber, and Liu Feng set off for Yellow Dawn Temple.
• Zhou Chuan blocked Liu Feng and demanded divine blood, then attacked when Liu Feng refused.
• Xie Xuan, a bloodline expert, and Zhang Gaqi joined the assault, surrounding Liu Feng with lightning, magma, and a Ghost Domain.

Zhang Chen stole and memorized the second-realm cultivation incantation before watching the God Slaughtering War from the Miluo River. Liu Feng self-destructed to escape toward the river, while Zhou Chuan used divine blood to advance his martial cultivation and Xie Xuan pursued the wounded god.

• Zhang Chen escaped Yellow Dawn Temple with the Jade Box, memorized the incantation for the second realm of Qi Refining, and burned the book and his other cultivation records.
• Zhang Chen went to the Miluo River and waited on an ice boat, hoping to take advantage of Liu Feng's return.
• Gu Mingyue fled after being overwhelmed by Xie Xuan, Zhou Chuan, and the other attackers, while Liu Feng was cornered away from the river.
• Xie Xuan struck Liu Feng with a black nail, and Liu Feng self-destructed his Divine Body before escaping as a broken soul toward the Miluo River.
• Zhou Chuan devoured Liu Feng's divine blood, awakened numerous martial acupoints, and went into seclusion while Xie Xuan pursued Liu Feng.

Zhang Chen intercepted Liu Feng before he could enter the Miluo River and used the Ocean Stabilizing Divine Pearl to suppress his divine power. After questioning Liu Feng about Cheng Yu, Zhang Chen prepared to kill him, but Liu Feng identified him as Zhang Chen.

• Zhang Chen recognized Liu Feng’s divine seat and raced ahead to block his escape into the Miluo River.
• Liu Feng begged Zhang Chen to let him pass, then tried to draw power from the river and charge through.
• Zhang Chen unleashed the Ocean Stabilizing Divine Pearl, freezing Liu Feng’s divine seat and stripping him of his borrowed power.
• Zhang Chen asked what secret Cheng Yu carried, and Liu Feng claimed she held a reincarnated wisp of the Grand Worthy Teacher’s soul.
• Zhang Chen rejected Liu Feng’s oath to abandon the Pacifying Border Prince’s Mansion and decided to kill him.
• Before Zhang Chen could strike, Liu Feng demanded to know his killer’s identity and declared that he was Zhang Chen.

Zhang Chen killed Liu Feng, but a mysterious woman bound herself to him through the Thousand Mile Marriage Thread and took the Ocean Stabilizing Divine Pearl to Yellow Dawn Temple. Zhang Chen fled with Zhang Xiaohua's Celestial Soul sealed in a jade bottle and searched the battlefield for blood, but found none suitable for cultivating the Blood Transformation Divine Blade.

• Liu Feng recognized Zhang Chen by his habitual gesture and begged for his life, but Zhang Chen refused and destroyed his soul with the Ocean Stabilizing Divine Pearl.
• Zhang Xiaohua's Celestial Soul emerged from the Jade Tablet and tried to seize Liu Feng's divine position, but Zhang Chen shattered the tablet and a mysterious woman appeared.
• The woman used the Thousand Mile Marriage Thread to influence the Ocean Stabilizing Divine Pearl, entered it, and flew toward Yellow Dawn Temple; Zhang Chen regained control of himself and sealed Zhang Xiaohua's Celestial Soul in a jade bottle.
• Xie Xuan arrived and asked about Liu Feng, and Zhang Chen claimed the divine position had vanished into the Miluo River before both men fled as reinforcements approached.
• Gu Mingyue found Liu Feng's soul gone and decided to lie low while blaming future trouble on Liu Feng's death.
• Zhang Chen searched the battlefield for blood to cultivate the Blood Transformation Divine Blade but found that only Liu Feng's divine blood met its requirements.

Zhang Chen witnessed Zhang Gaqi use Yellow Springs Water to summon a Celestial Ghost and defeat Qian Xueche, then returned to Yellow Dawn Temple as it came under attack. Zhang Gaqi visited him during the chaos, learned of his feud with the Pacifying Border Prince's Mansion, and urged him to stop provoking it after explaining the powerful families backing it.

• Zhang Chen collected Liu Feng's pale blue blood and fled, then watched Zhang Gaqi use Yellow Springs Water to open the Yin-Yang Road and summon a Celestial Ghost that devoured Qian Xueche.
• Zhang Chen returned to Yellow Dawn Temple and found it under attack by martial artists seeking its secret chamber while the Pacifying Border Prince's Mansion army fought outside.
• Zhang Chen hid in his Small Building, checked that Little Bean was safe, and decided to remain at the temple to cultivate before pursuing the Longevity Tree Coffin.
• Zhang Gaqi came to protect Zhang Chen, and Zhang Chen told him how Zhang Xiaohua and the Pacifying Border Prince's Mansion had wronged him.
• Zhang Gaqi condemned the scheme but said he could not avenge Zhang Chen, then revealed that the Capital Zhang Family and the Upper Capital Eight Great Families depended on the Pacifying Border Prince's Mansion and warned Zhang Chen to stop challenging it.

Zhang Chen refused Zhang Gaqi’s plan to take Zhang Fei back to the capital as a servant, then agreed with Xie Lingyun to raid the Pacifying Border Prince’s Mansion for the ancient corpse. He reached Hook Blue County in secret but discovered that the mansion had concealed soldiers among the civilians, leaving the raid’s prospects uncertain.

• Zhang Chen refused to let Zhang Gaqi take Zhang Fei away to be raised as a Zhang Family servant.
• Xie Lingyun told Zhang Chen the god slaying had succeeded, and he gave his share of the god’s flesh and blood to Zhang Tuowei and Zhang Fei.
• Zhang Chen proposed stealing the ancient corpse from the Pacifying Border Prince’s Mansion, and Xie Lingyun agreed to help transport and conceal it.
• Zhang Chen transformed into a Vampire Bat and flew to Hook Blue County while Xie Lingyun led armored soldiers down the mountain.
• Zhang Chen surveyed the heavily guarded county and used Ultrasound to discover that the Pacifying Border Prince’s Mansion had hidden armored troops inside civilian homes.

Zhang Chen used the Sand Uniting Mystic Art to overwhelm the Pacifying Border Prince’s Mansion, killed the guards protecting Emperor’s Daughter, and carried her away. As soldiers pursued him, he headed for a lake, but a Qi-and-Blood Martial Artist blocked his path and attacked.

• Zhang Chen slipped into the Pacifying Border Prince’s Mansion and unleashed a windstorm of Netherworld sand that blinded the guards and drew soldiers away from their posts.
• Zhang Chen entered the hall where Emperor’s Daughter’s corpse was kept and killed the Second Order guards using his invisibility and the sandstorm.
• Zhang Chen carried Emperor’s Daughter, protected by a golden barrier, out of the hall, but his Invisibility Talisman could not conceal her.
• Zhang Chen could not summon his Blood God Sons because the mansion’s Dragon Qi suppressed them, so he carried Emperor’s Daughter through the storm while evading pursuing soldiers.
• Zhang Chen sensed a lake within the mansion and maneuvered toward it, but a Qi-and-Blood Martial Artist blocked his way and swung a powerful blade at him.

Zhang Chen fought his way through the Pacifying Border Prince's Mansion and discovered a Feng Shui Array tied to the Northern Lands' Dragon Vein and Zhang Shicheng's transformation. Unable to damage the array directly, he found a skill on his interface that might let him defile it without destroying the Earth Vein.

• Zhang Chen used Emperor's Daughter's body to block an attack, killed his assailant, and escaped through the mansion with a hurricane.
• Zhang Chen slaughtered pursuing soldiers with water from the lake and crossed to its guarded island after sensing a mysterious presence there.
• Zhang Chen defeated the island's guards and entered a small building, where he found an altar and a Jade Basin containing a golden carp and Purple Pearl.
• The Great Sovereign Demon King explained that the basin's Feng Shui Array represented the Northern Lands' fortune and could support Zhang Shicheng's Jiao Dragon Walking and Dragon Transformation.
• Zhang Chen failed to control or overturn the basin, and his Golden Light of the Righteous God strengthened the Purple Pearl instead.
• Zhang Chen found Blood Sea Filth on his Golden Finger Interface and realized it could defile the mysterious array.

Zhang Chen used Blood Filth and Blood God Sons to transform Zhang Shicheng’s carp substitute, which began devouring the Purple Pearl in the Jade Basin. As Hook Blue County descended into chaos and soldiers surrounded the lake, Zhang Chen prepared to escape with his grandniece’s corpse but realized he first needed to conceal her body and its leaking Mysterious Power.

• Zhang Chen learned he could not defile the northern Earth Vein, so he tried to fish Zhang Shicheng’s carp substitute out of the Jade Basin instead.
• After the carp snapped his first fishing line, Zhang Chen hid Blood Filth in his flesh with Golden Light of the Righteous God and got the carp to swallow it.
• At the Great Sovereign Demon King’s suggestion, Zhang Chen planted Blood God Sons in another piece of flesh, and they transformed the carp and carried the Power of Blood Filth into it.
• A matching fish appeared in Zhang Chen’s Blood Sea, while the transformed carp chased the Purple Pearl and bit off pieces of it.
• Zhang Chen sensed that Hook Blue County was burning and fighting had broken out, then used weak water to prevent soldiers from crossing the lake.
• Carrying his grandniece’s corpse, Zhang Chen planned to escape through the city but decided he first had to hide her body and stop its Mysterious Power from drawing pursuers.

Zhang Chen fled the Pacifying Border Prince's Mansion with the Emperor's Daughter, whose strange directions led him west toward the site of a Water God's destruction. Great Sovereign Demon King explained that she intended to enter the Spiritual World, and Zhang Chen continued carrying her toward that dangerous attempt before encountering Zhang Gaqi, who offered to trade for her body.

• The Emperor's Daughter awakened briefly and directed Zhang Chen west, so he escaped the mansion with her while soldiers pursued him.
• Zhang Chen outran the qi-and-blood Martial Artists chasing them and followed the Emperor's Daughter's repeated commands to continue west.
• Great Sovereign Demon King revealed that the Emperor's Daughter meant to absorb lingering divine power and exploit unstable space to enter the Spiritual World.
• The Emperor's Daughter explained that the ruined Feng Shui Array and leaking Longevity Tree Coffin left her with no other way to survive, and Zhang Chen resolved to take her to her destination.
• Zhang Chen encountered Zhang Gaqi, who offered to help him return to the Zhang Family in exchange for the Emperor's Daughter's body.

Zhang Chen refused Zhang Gaqi’s offer to return to the Zhang Family and carried the Emperor’s Daughter to the Water God’s battlefield. There, she absorbed the Water God Source and ascended physically into the Spiritual World, leaving Zhang Chen and the Great Sovereign Demon King to consider the passage she had opened.

• Zhang Chen rejected Zhang Gaqi’s offer to give him clan standing in exchange for the Ancient Corpse, and Zhang Gaqi let him leave.
• Zhang Chen crossed the lava and reached the Water God’s battlefield, where the Emperor’s Daughter left his shoulder and went ahead.
• The Emperor’s Daughter’s Extreme Realm Sublimation released mysterious matter that transformed nearby people and demons, forcing Chen Sanliang to abandon his ambush.
• The Emperor’s Daughter swallowed the Water God Source, summoned the Golden Twisting Scissors, and broke open a passage to the Spiritual World.
• The Emperor’s Daughter entered the passage, and Zhang Chen found the Golden Twisting Scissors badly cracked.
• The Great Sovereign Demon King told Zhang Chen that the passage might remain open for a year and that anyone entering the Spiritual World would become an ordinary person.

After the Emperor's Daughter entered the Spiritual World, the unstable Space Channel drew martial artists seeking its power, while Zhang Chen returned to Yellow Dawn Temple after learning it would take more than a month to stabilize. At dawn, the temple gathered after a bloody attack, and Gu Mingyue summoned the still-sleeping Ma Zhou to answer for nearly ruining the Yellow Heaven Dao's plan.

• The crowd absorbed Mysterious Factor spilling from the Space Channel, and Xie Lingyun warned that it was unstable and could not yet be crossed.
• A man leaped into the channel hoping to reach the Immortal Realm, but spatial turbulence tore him apart; Zhang Chen then returned to Yellow Dawn Temple with the Great Sovereign Demon King.
• Zhang Chen checked on Little Bean and sensed thousands of soldiers guarding Zhang Xiaohua, while the battle at Yellow Dawn Temple ended by dawn.
• Little Bean mistook the smell of corpses being burned for roasted meat and dry-heaved after learning the temple had been attacked by thieves.
• Zhang Chen saw that Liu Feng's body remained alive despite the destruction of his soul, then attended the gathering where Gu Mingyue angrily ordered the sleeping Ma Zhou brought before him.

Ma Zhou was imprisoned after missing the God Conferral Ceremony, while Zhang Chen discovered that the ancient Goddess had taken his Ocean Stabilizing Divine Pearl and later learned from Xie Lingyun that the mysterious passage led to the First Heaven of the Spiritual World. Xie Lingyun offered to take Zhang Chen with her when the passage stabilized, leaving him to consider the dangerous journey ahead.

• Gu Mingyue accused Ma Zhou of missing the God Conferral Ceremony and had him imprisoned after Ma Zhou blamed the dead Liu Feng.
• Gu Mingyue appointed Zhou Xu to lead Yellow Dawn Temple, and the disciples repaired the temple and cremated Liu Feng.
• Zhang Chen found his Ocean Stabilizing Divine Pearl embedded in the Miluo River Water God statue, where it was consuming Incense Faith.
• After half a month of repairs, Zhang Chen continued cultivating cautiously and learned that Gu Mingyue had gone to the Two Realms Passage.
• Xie Lingyun confronted Zhang Chen about the events surrounding Liu Feng's Divine Body and learned that he had made a deal with the revived female corpse.
• Zhang Chen told Xie Lingyun that the passage led to the First Heaven of the Spiritual World, and she offered to take him when it stabilized.