Chapter Summaries

Zhang Gaoqiu tried to pressure Zhang Chen into taking Shen Ling back so he could escape his problems and pursue a political marriage with Chai Wenji. Zhang Chen rejected the scheme, then asked Fox Immortal NanNan how to deal with the deadlock, and she suggested knocking Zhang Gaoqiu unconscious.

• Zhang Gaoqiu decided to make Zhang Chen and Shen Ling reconcile, believing it would protect his reputation and resolve his troubles.
• Zhang Gaoqiu offered Shen Ling to Zhang Chen, but Zhang Chen refused to respond; Chai Wenji then threatened him by bringing up his identity, forcing him to accept an invitation to First Grade Restaurant.
• Zhang Chen refused Tu Shan Qing's suggestion to involve Shen Ling and recognized that Chai Wenji wanted to use her political alliance with Zhang Gaoqiu to support the Crown Prince.
• Fox Immortal NanNan brought Zhang Chen an Elixir Furnace, watched him rapidly cultivate medicinal herbs, and agreed to advise him after he described his predicament.
• Fox Immortal NanNan proposed that Zhang Chen knock Zhang Gaoqiu unconscious and keep him that way for a while.

Zhang Chen enlisted Tiger Strength Great Immortal to deal with Zhang Gaoqiu and Chai Wenji, using the Measuring Heaven Ruler to suppress the Nine Heavens Ten Earths Demon Piercing Shuttle. The targets were left unconscious, Tiger Strength Great Immortal took the shuttle, and Zhang Chen was warned that Chai Wenji carried dangerous poison.

• Zhang Chen decided to incapacitate Zhang Gaoqiu and Chai Wenji rather than kill them, and sought Tiger Strength Great Immortal's help after learning the Nine Heavens Ten Earths Demon Piercing Shuttle could pierce concealment and escape through space.
• Tiger Strength Great Immortal identified the shuttle as a Chai family secret treasure and agreed to help suppress its wielder, asking to keep the shuttle afterward.
• Zhang Chen used the Measuring Heaven Ruler to seal the space around First Grade Restaurant after Zhang Gaoqiu and Chai Wenji entered.
• Tiger Strength Great Immortal defeated the shuttle's attempt to escape and knocked Zhang Gaoqiu and Chai Wenji unconscious with his Tiger's Roar.
• Tiger Strength Great Immortal took the Nine Heavens Ten Earths Demon Piercing Shuttle and warned Zhang Chen not to search Chai Wenji because she carried poison dangerous even to Mysterious Power.

After three months of relative peace at the academy, Zhang Chen remained unable to refine an Eight Treasures Heart-Locking Elixir and suspected he needed stronger fire. As Yellow Heaven Dao prepared to attack the Shen family in three days, Zhang Chen chose to stay out of the coming turmoil, while Zhang Gaoqiu and Chai Wenji were nearing full recovery and Shen Ling’s pregnancy became visible.

• Tiger Strength Great Immortal returned Zhang Gaoqiu and Chai Wenji to First Grade Restaurant, while Zhang Chen left and later learned they had been left unconscious by the Tiger’s Roar.
• Zhang Chen spent three months cultivating and unsuccessfully refining Eight Treasures Heart-Locking Elixirs, then suspected his flames lacked the strength needed for alchemy.
• Zhang Chen noticed blood from injured Shen family members on Jinling City’s streets and heard from Tu Shan Qing that Yellow Heaven Dao would attack the Shen family in three days.
• Tu Shan Qing told Zhang Chen that Zhang Gaoqiu and Chai Wenji were staying conscious longer and that Shen Ling was visibly pregnant.
• Jiang Nan warned Zhang Chen to remain at Chongzheng Academy for safety, and Zhang Chen wondered whether she would still marry Shen Qiu.

Zhang Chen witnessed the Yellow Heaven Dao and several powerful factions attack the Shen family, then moved Zhang Shi, Cheng Yu, and the Three Little Ones to the safety of Chongzheng Academy. He returned to observe the battle and met Tu Shan Qing, who revealed an eye taken from an Ancient God-Devil.

• Tiger Strength Great Immortal and five Jinling clan Old Ancestors surrounded the Shen family and demanded its surrender, but the Shen family's Old Ancestor refused.
• Tiger Strength Great Immortal ordered the attack, and Yellow Heaven Dao forces charged as the Shen family fought back.
• Zhang Chen stored Zhang Shi in his sleeve, retrieved Cheng Yu and the Three Little Ones, and took them to Chongzheng Academy's Back Mountain.
• Zhang Chen returned to Jinling and saw the Shen family forces push back the Yellow Heaven Dao, while the White Lotus Sect's Flood Banner joined the fighting.
• Tu Shan Qing appeared beside Zhang Chen, explained that the Flood Banner could counter the Shen family's Water Control Technique, and showed him an eye from an Ancient God-Devil.

Zhang Chen watched the assault on the Shen Family and learned that the family had two tenth-order gods, while Tiger Strength Great Immortal was nearing a breakthrough. Liu Ji then joined the battle with the Immortal Slaughtering Sword, and the allied quasi-tenth-order gods trapped one Shen Family god as their leaders revealed why they had turned against the family.

• Tu Shan Qing borrowed Zhang Chen's Invisibility Talisman and explained which forces had gathered to attack the Shen Family; Zhang Chen decided to wait for the gods to enter the battle.
• As the Shen Family's forces fell back, a second tenth-order god emerged, and Zhang Chen realized the family had two such gods.
• Tiger Strength Great Immortal fought one Shen Family god while the other overwhelmed five quasi-tenth-order gods, and Zhang Chen sensed that Tiger Strength Great Immortal was pursuing a bloodline transformation.
• Tu Shan Qing said the Grand Worthy Teacher had anticipated the Shen Family's two tenth-order gods and arranged a trap against them.
• Liu Ji appeared and asked the five quasi-tenth-order gods to hold the Shen Family's tenth-order god for three breaths; they sealed him in place.
• Liu Xuansu and another ally condemned the Shen Family's long domination of Jinling, while the trapped god confronted Liu Xuansu and Wang Tai over their families' ties to the Shen Family.

Liu Ji used the Immortal Slaughtering Sword to mortally wound the Shen family's tenth-order deity, who then killed Wang Tai in a final counterattack. With the battle still raging in Jinling City, Zhang Chen rushed toward Wang Tai's fall to absorb points.

• Wang Tai explained that the great families had joined Yellow Heaven Dao against the Shen family because they wanted its water routes and incense offerings.
• Liu Ji unleashed the Immortal Slaughtering Sword, whose killing aura shook the five tenth-order deities and harmed onlookers such as Tu Shan Qing.
• The Shen family's tenth-order deity broke free, fled with the sword embedded in his chest, then pulled it out and charged at Wang Tai.
• The dying Shen family deity killed Wang Tai with the Immortal Slaughtering Sword after the other deities fled rather than help him.
• Zhang Chen sped toward Wang Tai's fall to absorb points as the Wang family faltered and the battle continued to devastate Jinling City.

Zhang Chen collected Wang Tai’s Tenth Rank corpse while Shen Li rampaged through the battlefield with the Immortal Slaughtering Sword, killing Liu Xuansu and other deities. As the Shen Family briefly regained the advantage, Zhang Chen predicted its downfall because Tiger Strength Great Immortal might break through to the Eleventh Order.

• Zhang Chen hid Wang Tai’s corpse in his sleeve and withdrew from the battlefield, while Tu Shan Qing asked him to share it.
• Shen Li pursued Liu Xuansu, killed him, and cut down another Tenth Rank deity as the other enemies fled.
• Tu Shan Qing used his Invisibility Talisman and shadow escape to devour corpses, including a Tenth Rank Divine Body.
• Shen Li’s attacks reversed the Shen Family’s decline for a time, and Zhang Chen secretly collected another Tenth Rank corpse.
• Zhang Chen told Tu Shan Qing that the Shen Family’s defeat was still likely because Shen Li could endure only briefly and Tiger Strength Great Immortal might break through to the Eleventh Order.

Tiger Strength Great Immortal struggled against Shen Li and Shen Liang as his bloodline transformed under pressure, while Chen Zhifei arrived with the Profound Origin Water Control Banner to face Shen Liang. Zhang Chen recognized connections between the White Lotus Sect’s five banners and the Five Direction Flags of the Primordial World, then Tiger Strength Great Immortal was struck after the Eight Gates Locking Gold Great Formation restrained him, prompting him to accuse Yellow Heaven Dao.

• Zhang Chen told Tu Shan Qing that Tiger Strength Great Immortal’s rapid recovery and potential breakthrough came from recultivation, his opportunities, and the Reincarnation Seal.
• Shen Li and Shen Liang pressed Tiger Strength Great Immortal with poison, frost, and sword attacks, and Shen Li wounded him with the Immortal Slaughtering Sword.
• Chen Zhifei arrived and used the Profound Origin Water Control Banner to battle Shen Liang, countering his water and ice powers.
• Tu Shan Qing explained the White Lotus Sect’s five banners, and Zhang Chen connected their names to the Five Direction Flags and suspected a link to the Primordial World.
• The Eight Gates Locking Gold Great Formation restrained Tiger Strength Great Immortal, allowing Shen Li to stab and kick him away; Tiger Strength Great Immortal blamed Yellow Heaven Dao.

Zhang Chen intervened as Shen Li was about to kill the injured Tiger Strength Great Immortal, then defeated Shen Li with his Five Colors Divine Light and Ice Domain. He revived after Shen Li’s blow and gave Tiger Strength Great Immortal a Heaven Reaching Jianmu leaf to heal him, leaving the two together as the battle’s outcome settled.

• After Shen Li brought down Tiger Strength Great Immortal, Zhang Chen rushed in to stop him from delivering the killing blow.
• Zhang Chen and Shen Li argued over Zhang Chen’s loyalty to the Shen Lineage before Shen Li attacked him with the Immortal Slaughtering Sword.
• Zhang Chen used five-colored radiance to take Shen Li’s sword, then froze Shen Li with his Ice Domain and sent him into Ice Hell, though Shen Li’s strike blasted Zhang Chen apart.
• Zhang Chen reassembled from snowflakes and confronted Tiger Strength Great Immortal, who had mourned him and promised to avenge him.
• Zhang Chen gave Tiger Strength Great Immortal a leaf from the Heaven Reaching Jianmu, and Tiger Strength Great Immortal marveled at its vitality.

Tiger Strength Great Immortal consumed Zhang Chen’s Jianmu leaf and broke through to the Eleventh Order, then massacred the fighters in Jinling City. He demanded access to the Shen Family Great Tomb, and Shen Liang raised a blue barrier to defend the family.

• Tiger Strength Great Immortal absorbed the Jianmu leaf, restored his strength, and advanced to the Eleventh Order while Zhang Chen complained that he had been taken advantage of.
• Zhang Chen told Tiger Strength Great Immortal to spare the Shen family’s children, and Tiger Strength Great Immortal attacked the Shen family’s Base Camp.
• Tiger Strength Great Immortal ignored Gu Mingyue’s explanation and devoured fighters from the Shen family, the Yellow Heaven Dao, the White Lotus Sect, and the five great Lineages.
• Tiger Strength Great Immortal struck Chen Zhifei aside and continued slaughtering through Jinling City while Zhang Chen and Tu Shan Qing remained unharmed.
• Tiger Strength Great Immortal demanded the Shen Family Great Tomb, and Shen Liang refused, warning that entry required the blood sacrifice of Shen family descendants.
• Tiger Strength Great Immortal threatened to kill the Shen family disciples, and Shen Liang summoned a blue pillar of light to shield the estate.

The Shen Family activated an ancient Water God formation to defend its ancestral tomb as Tiger Strength Great Immortal and the Yellow Heaven Dao tried to break through. The Eight Gates Locking Gold formation and Chen Zhifei’s water-control banner disrupted it, allowing Tiger Strength Great Immortal to enter and face Shen Liang.

• Shen Liang revealed the Shen Family’s ancestral formation and challenged Tiger Strength Great Immortal to break it.
• Zhang Chen used his Devouring Eye to inspect the formation, found several flaws, and sensed its connection to the tomb beneath the manor.
• Tiger Strength Great Immortal struck the formation, but it transformed into a vortex and shattered his punch.
• Gu Mingyue deployed the Eight Gates Locking Gold Great Formation, whose chains bound the water-blue pillar and exposed flaws.
• Chen Zhifei entered the formation with the Profound Origin Water Control Banner and threw its power into chaos.
• Tiger Strength Great Immortal exploited a flaw to enter the formation, and Shen Liang prepared to confront him.

The Shen Family’s enemies attacked to complete a blood sacrifice and claim the Primordial God Tomb, while Zhang Chen and Tu Shan Qing waited for a chance to enter it. As the fighting escalated, Prince Ma betrayed Ye Liangchen, revealing that his allegiance was not what it seemed.

• Tiger Strength Great Immortal fought Shen Liang, while attackers entered the formation and slaughtered Shen Family descendants for the blood sacrifice.
• Ye Liangchen and Zhou Quan entered the formation and confronted Old Madam of the Shen Family, who refused to surrender the family’s foundation.
• Prince Ma arrived and urged his Little Sister to return with him, but she rejected him and fought Prince Ma, Ye Liangchen, and Zhou Quan.
• Zhang Chen and Tu Shan Qing hid nearby and planned to enter the tomb after the combatants weakened, before Zhang Xiaohua emerged from the Treasure Pagoda.
• Prince Ma stabbed Ye Liangchen through the heart during the battle, then admitted he had only pretended to cooperate with him and Zhou Quan.

Zhang Chen exploited a brief weakness in the Shen family’s formation to enter the great tomb with Tu Shan Qing and Tiger Strength Great Immortal, while the battle outside intensified. After receiving Gu Mingyue’s message, Zhang Xiaohua escaped the Exquisite Pagoda, sealed Zhou Qiucheng inside with the Grand Worthy Teacher’s placard, and left him plotting to break free.

• Prince Ma revealed that the Shen Dowager had promised him the Shen family’s vacant Incense Power, and he joined her in attacking Zhou Quan, who refused to surrender.
• As the fighting fed blood into the underground formation, Zhang Chen spotted a weakness and used the Measuring Heaven Ruler to open a Space Channel into the great tomb; Tu Shan Qing and Tiger Strength Great Immortal followed him.
• Tiger Strength Great Immortal drove back Shen Liang, Chen Zhifei, and others before the Space Channel closed, leaving the outsiders frantic to reach the tomb.
• Gu Mingyue sent Zhang Xiaohua a message while he played chess with Zhou Qiucheng in the Exquisite Pagoda, prompting Zhang Xiaohua to end the game and leave.
• Zhang Xiaohua escaped the pagoda, sealed its entrance with the Grand Worthy Teacher’s placard, and told Zhou Qiucheng the seal would hold for three days.
• Zhou Qiucheng remained trapped but believed he could overcome the placard because the Exquisite Pagoda was his home ground.

Zhang Chen, Tu Shan Qing, and Tiger Strength Great Immortal entered the Water God Great Tomb and crossed its vast Weak Water sea. Zhang Chen located the entrance at the center of a whirlpool, and after weighing the danger, decided the three of them would dive in.

• Zhang Chen used his Water Control Technique to raise and freeze Weak Water into a platform, while Tiger Strength Great Immortal conjured green soul-burning flames to illuminate the darkness.
• Zhang Chen sensed that the Weak Water circulated through a great formation toward a central point, then formed an ice boat to carry the group there.
• Zhang Chen explained that the Shen family’s descendants could not return to the tomb because they had no means of resisting Weak Water, and Tiger Strength Great Immortal remarked that the family could have trapped its enemies there.
• The three reached a huge whirlpool that swallowed all the Weak Water, and Tu Shan Qing warned that the Shen family’s ancestor might have entered only after dying.
• Tu Shan Qing and Tiger Strength Great Immortal deferred to Zhang Chen, who chose to dive through the whirlpool despite not knowing what awaited below.

Zhang Chen led Tu Shan Qing and Tiger Strength Great Immortal into the vortex, where he discovered and absorbed the Hungry Ghost Path reincarnation. Its disappearance revealed the Ancient Water God's coffin, and the group suspected the god might still be alive.

• Zhang Chen entered the Weak Water vortex with Tu Shan Qing and Tiger Strength Great Immortal, then recognized the pull of the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• Zhang Chen used the Human Path and Animal Path reincarnations to resist the Hungry Ghost Path's pull and guide them into its hidden small world.
• Zhang Chen absorbed the Hungry Ghost Path reincarnation into his Yin Yang Millstone.
• The vanished reincarnation revealed an altar and the Ancient Water God's golden coffin at its center.
• Tiger Strength Great Immortal warned that the lingering Divine Might might retain vitality and guessed the Hungry Ghost Path had been placed there to preserve the god's soul.

Zhang Chen and his companions approached the Crystal Stone altar after learning that the Ancient Water God might still be alive. When the altar absorbed Shen Xu’s blood and soul, the Great Sovereign Demon King warned that the Shen family had been bred as sacrificial nourishment and that Zhang Chen could be transformed into another source of descendants for the god.

• Zhang Chen gathered the Experience Points around the altar and decided to investigate despite the danger, hoping to gain an advantage over the Ancient Water God.
• Zhang Chen led Tiger Strength Great Immortal and Tu Shan Qing up stairs of weak water toward the altar, then urged them to choose who would step onto it first.
• Tiger Strength Great Immortal revealed that Zhang Chen knew Tu Shan Qing’s true identity, and Tu Shan Qing acknowledged that Zhang Chen had seen through him.
• As Tu Shan Qing prepared to step onto the altar, it absorbed a soul and blood qi that Zhang Chen recognized as belonging to Shen Xu, then sent them toward the coffin.
• The Great Sovereign Demon King warned Zhang Chen that the Shen family had been raised as sacrificial nourishment and that the altar would sacrifice anyone who stepped onto it.
• The Great Sovereign Demon King explained that the Ancient Water God could alter Zhang Chen’s bloodline and turn his descendants into a continuing source of food.

Zhang Chen discovered that the altar gathered Shen family souls and blood to sustain the possibly living Innate Water God, then used Earth Authority to carve a passage through the altar toward the god’s coffin. The group reached the coffin and realized they had to disrupt its connection to the grand formation before opening it; Zhang Chen produced 365 yellow talismans to begin.

• Zhang Chen warned Tu Shan Qing that stepping onto the altar would sacrifice them, and proposed tunneling through its Crystal Stone instead.
• Tiger Strength Great Immortal said the altar’s stone was too powerful to break, but Zhang Chen used Earth Authority to twist open a passage and weaken the grand formation.
• Tiger Strength Great Immortal warned that an expert might use feng shui arts to enter the tomb, and Zhang Chen agreed they had to hurry because the Innate Water God might still be alive.
• Zhang Chen extended the passage through the altar until he, Tu Shan Qing, and Tiger Strength Great Immortal reached the water-blue Innate Jade Stone coffin.
• Zhang Chen explained that the coffin’s Innate Markings linked it to the grand formation, so they had to sever that connection before opening it.
• Zhang Chen produced 365 yellow talismans, saying they could operate a formation even without understanding one.

Zhang Chen used the Nine Bends Yellow River Grand Formation to suppress the Innate Water God’s coffin and risked touching it to obtain Water Authority. After surviving the coffin’s backlash, he evolved the skill and incorporated several existing abilities into it.

• Zhang Chen deployed the Nine Bends Yellow River Grand Formation around the coffin, temporarily severing its connection to the Innate Water God Great Array.
• Zhang Chen touched the coffin, and its force blasted Tiger Strength Great Immortal away, knocked Tu Shan Qing unconscious, and scattered Zhang Chen into snowflakes before he reassembled himself.
• Zhang Chen picked up the Water Authority skill and chose to evolve it together with Water Control Technique and Weak Water.
• Water Authority advanced to Third Order, granting Zhang Chen control over water laws within one thousand meters, the ability to transform ordinary water into Innate Divine Water, and the ability to gather and disperse.
• The Golden Finger Interface incorporated Penetration Transformation, Stone Piercing, Water Drop, and Transfer into Water Authority.

Zhang Chen broke the Law of Water seal on the Innate Water God’s coffin, but opening it released a swarm of insects that devoured flesh, energy, and attacks. As Zhang Chen and Tiger Strength Great Immortal retreated, the Great Sovereign Demon King recognized the creatures and warned that even ancient gods feared them.

• Zhang Chen used his Water Authority to destroy the law threads sealing the coffin, then failed to push its lid open.
• Tiger Strength Great Immortal shoved the lid off, revealing a dangerous blue liquid and a small inner coffin floating inside it.
• Tiger Strength Great Immortal lost the flesh on his fingertip after touching the liquid, and Zhang Chen realized it was not water but countless tiny insects.
• The insects devoured Tiger Strength Great Immortal’s attacks and even consumed his sword, while their brief response to his Tiger’s Roar did not stop them from reviving.
• Zhang Chen retreated with Tu Shan Qing and asked the Great Sovereign Demon King about the insects, who identified them as a cursed threat feared even by ancient gods.

Zhang Chen contained the Water Bear Insects in Ice Hell, divided the Innate Jade Coffin with Tiger Strength Great Immortal and Tu Shan Qing, and entered the Divine Kingdom within its inner coffin. There, Zhang Chen discovered that the Innate Water God was dead, while Tu Shan Qing spotted treasures in the Crystal Palace.

• The Great Sovereign Demon King explained that Water Bear Insects could be restrained with spatial laws or Innate Jade, and Zhang Chen used the Measuring Heaven Ruler to trap them before freezing them in Ice Hell.
• Zhang Chen agreed to give Tiger Strength Great Immortal the coffin lid and cut off one-tenth of the remaining Innate Jade Coffin for Tu Shan Qing.
• Tiger Strength Great Immortal opened the palm-sized Inner Coffin with divine power, and he, Zhang Chen, and Tu Shan Qing entered the Divine Kingdom inside.
• The group found a Crystal Palace containing shelves of treasures and the body of the Innate Water God, whom Tiger Strength Great Immortal warned them not to awaken.
• Zhang Chen's Soul Hooking Plunder failed because the Innate Water God had no soul origin, so Zhang Chen told Tiger Strength Great Immortal that the god was dead.
• Tu Shan Qing rushed to inspect the shelves after spotting Innate objects, ores, and Spirit Medicine.