Chapter Summaries

Zhang Chen refined the Immortal Slaughtering Sword tip and learned that Yellow Heaven Dao had stopped pursuing the Shen Family to prevent the Innate Water God from growing stronger. After Jinling City’s turmoil subsided, torrential rain and flooding threatened the region, and an enormous creature began surging through the mountains.

• Zhang Chen preliminarily refined one of the Immortal Slaughtering Sword tip’s Innate Restrictions and concealed the sword in his sleeve.
• Zhang Chen saw Gu Mingyue and Liu Ji at the ruined Shen Family residence, then returned to Chongzheng Academy without confronting them.
• Zhou Zhen asked Zhang Chen to persuade Shen Ling to leave the academy, but Zhang Chen refused because they were sworn enemies.
• Yellow Heaven Dao ended its pursuit of Shen Family descendants, and a powerful figure suppressed the fighting in Jinling City.
• After days of rain flooded the region, Zhang Chen saw an enormous creature crashing through the mountains during the night.

Zhang Chen watched Zhao Lie stop the Innate Water God's flood from reaching Jinling City, then returned to his cultivation. Meanwhile, Zhang Gaoqiu publicly rejected Shen Ling after she brought him soup, leaving her stunned by his claim that she was Zhang Chen's fiancée.

• The Innate Water God sent a vast flood toward Jinling City, and Zhao Lie used the Po Jun Star's power to divert the waters into a deep abyss around the city.
• At dawn, Zhang Chen saw floodwaters surrounding Jinling City and continued studying the Exquisite Pagoda, while the academy's students worried about the city's fate.
• Shen Ling arrived with chicken soup for Zhang Gaoqiu, and Jiang Nan reproached him for treating her coldly after her miscarriage.
• Zhang Gaoqiu took Shen Ling aside, then told her their relationship was over and that she should return to Zhang Chen, her betrothed.
• Shen Ling stared at Zhang Gaoqiu in disbelief as he told her to behave with dignity and stop pursuing him.

Zhang Gaoqiu cruelly ended his relationship with Shen Ling, while Zhang Chen learned that the Yellow Heaven Dao planned to confer a Natural Water God to oppose the Innate Water God. Zhou Qiucheng agreed to help, and the chapter ended with Jiang Nan confronting Zhang Gaoqiu over his treatment of Shen Ling.

• Zhang Gaoqiu overturned Shen Ling's chicken soup, shoved her down, and declared that their relationship was over.
• Zhang Chen and Tu Shan Qing passed Shen Ling as she wept, then heard Fox Immortal NanNan explain the Yellow Heaven Dao's plan to confer a Natural Water God.
• Zhao Lie asked Zhou Qiucheng to help Jinling City resist the Innate Water God, and Zhou Qiucheng agreed to act when the god appeared in three days.
• Zhang Chen saw Zhang Gaoqiu placating Little Princess Chai Wenji before Jiang Nan rushed in and angrily condemned Zhang Gaoqiu for how he had treated Shen Ling.

Zhang Gaoqiu attacked Jiang Nan and bought seven days from Shen Qiu to settle matters with Shen Ling. Later, Wang Xifeng summoned Zhang Chen and revealed that she was carrying his child, demanding that he kill Zhang Gaoqiu.

• Jiang Nan confronted Zhang Gaoqiu over Shen Ling, and he slapped and kicked her until she collapsed as Chai Wenji left him with a final warning.
• Shen Qiu blocked Zhang Gaoqiu and demanded an explanation for his treatment of Shen Ling, but agreed to wait seven days for an answer.
• Zhang Chen and Tu Shan Qing discussed the scandal before Zhang Chen returned to his courtyard with the Eight Treasures Heart-Locking Elixir Formula.
• Chen Qi told Zhang Chen that Wang Xifeng wanted to see him, and Zhang Chen used the Water Escape Technique to meet her in the rain.
• Wang Xifeng asked Zhang Chen to kill Zhang Gaoqiu and revealed that she was carrying Zhang Chen's child.

Zhang Chen learned that the Pacifying Border King planned to submit to the imperial court and use Zhang Xiaolan to bargain for revenge against him, forcing Zhang Chen to seek a way to prevent the court from accepting. The chapter ended with the Pacifying Border King sending Zhang Xiaolan to beguile the Human King in the capital.

• Zhang Chen refused Wang Xifeng's demand that he kill Zhang Gaoqiu, but Wang Xifeng insisted that Shen Ling and Shen Qiu must live and warned Zhang Chen not to forget her words.
• The Pacifying Border King learned that Zhang Xiaohua had died and vowed to take revenge on Zhang Chen, then saw an opportunity involving Zhang Xiaolan.
• Fox Immortal NanNan told Zhang Chen that the Pacifying Border King intended to submit to the imperial court and send Zhang Xiaolan to the capital, a move that could make the court demand Zhang Chen's head.
• Fox Immortal NanNan warned Zhang Chen not to kill the Pacifying Border King because the Yellow Heaven Dao could seize his forces, and suggested buying time for Tiger Strength Great Immortal or her Old Ancestor.
• Zhang Chen decided to interfere in the capital and give the imperial court a reason to reject the Pacifying Border King's submission.
• The Pacifying Border King declared Zhang Xiaolan his rightful wife and ordered her to travel to the capital to beguile the Human King and help him avenge Zhang Xiaohua.

Bai Cang welcomed the chance to leave the Pacifying Border Prince's Mansion and seek the Great Victory Dynasty's Dragon Qi, while Zhang Chen prepared to refine a life-saving elixir. As the Innate Water God attacked Jinling City, Zhang Chen chose not to interrupt Yellow Heaven Dao's God Conferral Ceremony, hoping it would seize the god's authority and avert disaster.

• Bai Cang learned that the Pacifying Border King planned to send him to the capital, where he could gather the Great Victory Dynasty's Dragon Qi, and agreed to leave the next day.
• Zhang Chen resolved to use the time before the journey north to grow stronger, then began refining the Eight Treasures Heart-Locking Elixir with Sun True Fire.
• After three days of refining, Zhang Chen sensed the Innate Water God approaching Jinling City and saw its lightning assault stopped by the Exquisite Pagoda and Zhou Qiucheng.
• Gu Mingyue began Yellow Heaven Dao's God Conferral Ceremony, hoping to gain the Water Virtue Star Lord Authority and stand against the Innate Water God.
• Zhang Chen considered destroying the ceremony but decided to let it proceed, reasoning that Yellow Heaven Dao's attempt to take the god's authority could shield him from its attention.

Zhang Chen watched Yellow Heaven Dao confer the Yangtze River Water God title on Gu Mingyue, weakening the Innate Water God, while his elixir furnace began to repair itself during refinement. He then overheard Shen Ling confront Zhang Gaoqiu over his plan to marry the Little Princess, and Shen Ling vowed to force the royal family to give him back to her.

• Yellow Heaven Dao conferred the Yangtze River Water God title on Gu Mingyue, drawing on vast stores of faith and granting him power tied to the Yangtze River Basin.
• Gu Mingyue attacked the Innate Water God, whose divided authority had reduced his strength, and the two fought outside Jinling City.
• Zhang Chen noticed that refining medicine was nourishing his Elixir Furnace and repairing its damaged Innate Restriction.
• Zhang Chen used Ultrasound to overhear Shen Ling ask Zhang Gaoqiu why he had pursued her if he would not marry her.
• Zhang Gaoqiu offered Shen Ling three choices: end their relationship for compensation, become his mistress after he married the Little Princess, or return to the capital and marry Zhang Chen.
• Shen Ling rejected all three choices and vowed to make the Little Princess give Zhang Gaoqiu back to her, whatever the cost.

Zhang Gaoqiu pushed Shen Ling off a cliff, and Zhang Chen saved her from dying by feeding her Innate Water God blood. Shen Ling’s body recovered enough to survive, but Zhang Chen stopped before repairing her disfigured face.

• Zhang Gaoqiu embraced Shen Ling after hearing her vow, then pushed her off the cliff and left her for dead.
• Zhang Chen reached Shen Ling too late to prevent her fall, suppressed her bloodline with a Suppression Talisman, and carried her to safety.
• Zhang Chen asked Tu Shan Qing how to revive Shen Ling, and Tu Shan Qing suggested using Innate Water God blood to restore her body.
• Zhang Gaoqiu encountered Zhang Chen and said Shen Ling had been looking for him, prompting Zhang Chen to suspect he was trying to frame him.
• Zhang Chen poured several spoonfuls of Innate Water God blood into Shen Ling, restoring her bones and organs but leaving her face badly disfigured.
• Zhang Chen stopped using the precious blood once Shen Ling was alive, leaving the remaining damage to her appearance unrepaired.

Zhang Chen revived Shen Ling and discovered that she had gained the ability to perceive water-related laws, but he rejected her romantic overtures and sent her away. Shen Ling set out to confront Zhang Gaoqiu, then saw her ruined face in a water mirror and cried his name in despair.

• Zhang Chen used Yanluo Authority to revive Shen Ling and returned the Suppression Talisman to her.
• Shen Ling learned that Zhang Chen had revived her and strengthened her bloodline, granting her command of Qing Ming Water and insight into water-related laws.
• Shen Ling thanked Zhang Chen and suggested she might repay him with her affection, but he rejected her and told her to leave.
• Shen Ling vowed to confront Zhang Gaoqiu and vanished from the mountains using a mist-like bloodline ability.
• Shen Ling appeared outside the Exquisite Pagoda, where frightened disciples fled from her disfigured face.
• Shen Ling saw her flattened, nose-less face in a water mirror and cried out Zhang Gaoqiu's name in despair.

Shen Ling confronted Zhang Gaoqiu at Chongzheng Academy, but Zhou Qiucheng expelled them both for disrupting the academy. Shen Ling said farewell to Zhang Chen before leaving, while outside Jinling City the Innate Water God retreated and Gu Mingyue sealed the abyss.

• Shen Ling attacked Zhang Gaoqiu with an ice sword, but Zhou Qiucheng suppressed their powers and ordered them to leave Chongzheng Academy.
• Zhang Gaoqiu denied Shen Ling’s accusations, and Zhou Qiucheng expelled both of them regardless of who was at fault.
• Shen Ling visited Zhang Chen to say farewell, but Zhang Chen made clear he wanted her gone, and she disappeared into the rain.
• Zhang Chen watched the battle outside Jinling City and predicted the Innate Water God should retreat before Yellow Heaven Dao’s reinforcements arrived.
• The Innate Water God retreated, and Gu Mingyue used his divine power to close the abyss outside Jinling City.

After Jinling City recovered from the storm, Zhang Chen refined the Eight Treasures Heart-Locking Elixir and settled into plans for a residence in the city. He declined Tu Shan Qing’s scheme to seize the Longevity Tree Coffin, then moved into a large courtyard and placed two Yellow Heaven Dao cultivators under his control.

• Zhang Chen collected seven refined Eight Treasures Heart-Locking Elixirs and discovered that his Elixir Furnace had become capable of suppressing enemies.
• Zhang Chen learned that Shen Ling and Zhang Gaoqiu had been driven down the mountain, and Tu Shan Qing told him the Longevity Tree Coffin was being transported through Jinling City.
• Tu Shan Qing invited Zhang Chen to help intercept the coffin, but Zhang Chen refused and planned to let Tu Shan Qing take the risk himself.
• Fox Immortal NanNan told Zhang Chen she had bought a thirty-mu courtyard, and Zhang Chen proposed transferring it into the names of two Yellow Heaven Dao cultivators.
• Zhang Chen took control of two Seventh Order Yellow Heaven Dao cultivators with Blood God Sons and spent the night alone in the courtyard.

Zhang Chen reunited with Huang Chao after Yellow Heaven Dao guards came to extort him at his new estate. Huang Chao explained how he had risen to command troops and begged Zhang Chen for help suppressing the Curse Power within him; Zhang Chen gave him a Suppression Talisman and promised to reinforce the Six-Word Mantra’s seal.

• Yellow Heaven Dao guards surrounded Zhang Chen’s courtyard to demand taxes, and Huang Chao arrived among them as their commander.
• Huang Chao recognized Zhang Chen, sent his men away, then killed the guards so they could not reveal Zhang Chen’s whereabouts.
• Huang Chao told Zhang Chen how war, demons, and the Pacifying Border Prince’s Mansion had driven him into Yellow Heaven Dao’s ranks.
• Zhang Chen explained his blood feud with the Shen family, but stopped Huang Chao from pursuing the family’s surviving members.
• Huang Chao revealed that his Thousand Transformations had made the Curse Power harder to control, and Zhang Chen gave him a Suppression Talisman and offered to strengthen its restraint with the Six-Word Mantra.

Zhang Chen learned that the Demon Race had conquered the north and that Chen Sanliang had entered the Eleventh Order. Chen Sanliang revealed his plan to protect humanity and take control of the Demon Race, then praised Zhang Chen’s Education for All Great Dao as a path to power beyond the Twelfth Order.

• Zhang Chen suppressed the Curse Source in Huang Chao and learned that the Demon Clan Army was preparing to cross the Yellow River.
• Zhang Chen spent peaceful days in Jinling as Yellow Heaven Dao expanded its influence across the south.
• Zhang Chen learned that the Demon Race had crossed the Yellow River, conquered seventy-two northern feudal states, and that Chen Sanliang was seeking the Eleventh Order.
• Zhang Chen met Chen Sanliang at Chongzheng Academy and discovered that his teacher had already forged a Divine Body and entered the Eleventh Order.
• Chen Sanliang told Zhang Chen that Sea Race experts had enabled the crossing and vowed to preserve humanity, carve out a human region within the Demon Race, and eventually control it.
• Chen Sanliang praised Zhang Chen’s Education for All Great Dao, saying it could help him reach beyond the Twelfth Order.

Zhang Chen reunited with Chen Sanliang, who gave him nearly all the rare materials needed to forge the God Smashing Whip and declared his intention to debate the Dao in South of the River. With only a World Embryo still missing, Zhang Chen entered the Third Heaven of the Spiritual World and began drawing the world’s energy into his Elixir Furnace to create one.

• Chen Sanliang offered Zhang Chen refuge with the Demon Race, but Zhang Chen refused because he could not overcome his reservations.
• Chen Sanliang gave Zhang Chen the materials he had gathered for the God Smashing Whip, explaining that he had been unable to find a World Embryo.
• Chen Sanliang said he planned to debate the Dao in South of the River and would pursue his goal despite the dangers and the Academy’s influence.
• Zhang Chen wished Chen Sanliang success, and Chen Sanliang departed after they finished their meal.
• The Great Sovereign Demon King told Zhang Chen he could use the Third Heaven of the Spiritual World to create a Heaven and Earth Primordial Embryo by refining its origins anew.
• Zhang Chen entered the Third Heaven, summoned the Elixir Furnace at the world’s center, and sank it into the earth to connect it to the Earth Vein.

Zhang Chen forged the God Smashing Whip in an Acquired Eight Trigrams Furnace and learned that the Innate Water God had joined the White Lotus Sect. He and Tu Shan Qing worried that the alliance would lead the sect to uncover their role in the earlier conflict.

• Zhang Chen reshaped the Earth Veins across a thousand li, made an Acquired Eight Trigrams Furnace, and began refining the God Smashing Whip with Sun True Fire and precious materials.
• Zhang Chen estimated that the God Smashing Whip would be finished in about a year and believed it could let him challenge the Innate Water God.
• Huang Chao told Zhang Chen that the Innate Water God had joined the White Lotus Sect's Flood Banner after suffering a loss to the Yellow Heaven Dao.
• Zhang Chen went to Chongzheng Academy, where Tu Shan Qing warned that the White Lotus Sect might trace their tracks and come after them.
• Tu Shan Qing explained that Chen Zhifei had lent the Innate Water God the Profound Origin Water Control Banner in exchange for help seizing authority over the Yellow River.
• Zhang Chen reassured Tu Shan Qing that Tiger Strength Great Immortal could protect them and that the Yellow Heaven Dao might clash with the White Lotus Sect first.

Zhang Chen refused Zhang Gaqi and Xie Lingyun’s attempts to take him away from Jinling as the Demon Race advanced into Jiangnan. The chapter ended with Tiger Strength Great Immortal appearing in Zhang Chen’s doorway while Xie Lingyun warned him about the demon king.

• Tu Shan Qing warned Zhang Chen about the danger and then left, while Zhang Chen returned to the Exquisite Pagoda to continue studying.
• Zhang Gaqi told Zhang Chen that the Pacifying Border King had offered to surrender the north in exchange for his death, and urged him to return to the capital for protection.
• Zhang Chen refused to leave Chongzheng Academy despite Zhang Gaqi’s warning that Tiger Strength Great Immortal had crossed the Yellow River and the imperial court could not intervene.
• Xie Lingyun arrived at Zhang Chen’s residence and urged him to flee Jiangnan with her, explaining that she had found him through his Fox Spirit’s activities.
• Zhang Chen refused to leave, and Tiger Strength Great Immortal appeared in the doorway behind Xie Lingyun.

Zhang Chen agreed to send his younger brother, younger sister, and stepmother to the capital with Xie Lingyun so they could live safely while Jiangnan descended into chaos. After Tiger Strength Great Immortal revealed that he had reached the Twelfth Order, Zhang Chen began preparing supplies for the children and told his family they would soon part.

• Xie Lingyun insulted Tiger Strength Great Immortal to his face, mistaking him for a child, until Zhang Chen pulled him away and kept the encounter from turning violent.
• Xie Lingyun urged Zhang Chen to send his younger siblings and stepmother to the capital, promising to protect them and arrange new identities; Zhang Chen agreed to entrust the children to her.
• Tiger Strength Great Immortal told Zhang Chen he had entered the Twelfth Order and boasted that he would serve as Zhang Chen's backer, but admitted he had not approached the next realm's threshold.
• Zhang Chen prepared resources for the Three Little Ones and placed a Blood God Son in a pill box to keep watch over them in the capital.
• The next morning, Zhang Chen told Zhang Shi and the Three Little Ones that they would leave for the capital with Commander Xie while he remained in Jinling to settle his affairs.

Zhang Chen sent Zhang Shi and the Three Little Ones toward the capital with Xie Lingyun, then helped a ragged messenger reach Jiang Nan. After learning her family had been slaughtered, Jiang Nan asked Zhang Chen to arrange an introduction to Zhou Zhen.

• Zhang Chen gave Zhang Shi and the Three Little Ones provisions and Invisibility Talismans, then entrusted them to Xie Lingyun for the journey to the capital.
• A ragged man named Da Li asked Zhang Chen to bring him to Jiang Nan, and Zhang Chen led him to her quarters.
• Da Li told Jiang Nan that the Yellow Heaven Dao had slaughtered all 376 members of her household in Guangji Prefecture.
• Three days later, Jiang Nan stopped Zhang Chen and asked him to hear her plea; he agreed after recalling the favor he owed her.
• Jiang Nan asked Zhang Chen to introduce her to Zhou Zhen, leaving Zhang Chen stunned.

Jiang Nan asked Zhang Chen to help her marry into a powerful family so she could take revenge on the Yellow Heaven Dao, but he refused and left her with two Eight Treasures Heart-Locking Elixirs. Zhang Chen then helped Huang Chao plot against his Eighth Rank superior, and the chapter ended with Jiang Nan waiting outside the Exquisite Pagoda as Zhou Zhen approached.

• Jiang Nan told Zhang Chen she wanted to marry a powerful man, such as Zhou Zhen, to gain the means to avenge her murdered family, but Zhang Chen refused to help.
• Zhang Chen returned two Eight Treasures Heart-Locking Elixirs to Jiang Nan and left, while she watched him go and vowed he would regret it.
• Zhang Chen met Huang Chao at the old residence, where Huang Chao asked for help killing his Eighth Rank superior so he could take the man's position.
• Zhang Chen gave Huang Chao Forgetfulness Water containing his Blood God Son and told him to give it to his superior, promising it would enable the man's death.
• The next day, Zhang Chen saw Jiang Nan waiting outside the Exquisite Pagoda, and Zhou Zhen called out to him as he arrived.

Zhang Chen encountered Jiang Nan and the ruined Shen Qiu at the academy, then learned Zhou Qiucheng had admitted them to the Exquisite Pagoda to help the Shen family recover. A month later, Zhang Chen’s Blood God Son influence drove a Yellow Heaven Dao leader into a massacre, paving the way for Huang Chao to take his place.

• Zhang Chen rejected Jiang Nan’s attempt to claim a connection to him and warned Zhou Zhen that she was not simple.
• Zhang Chen found Shen Qiu being beaten by his former lackeys, advised him to seek refuge with the Wang family, and left after Shen Qiu insulted him.
• Zhou Zhen explained that Zhou Qiucheng had arranged for Jiang Nan and Shen Qiu to enter the Exquisite Pagoda because of an old debt to the Shen family.
• Over the following month, Jiang Nan grew closer to Zhou Zhen while Zhang Chen watched without intervening.
• Zhang Chen sensed that his Blood God Son blood had reached Huang Chao’s target and begun eroding the man’s Primordial Spirit.
• Huang Chao told Zhang Chen that the man had gone mad, killed dozens at the branch altar, and been subdued by Star God Zhao Lie, leaving Huang Chao poised to take his position.