Recaps

Jiang Ping'an’s army fortified Mao'er Mountain against the approaching beast tide while, in White Emperor City, Pudu Mountain and the Zhennan Marquis Estate forced Great Qian’s officials to choose sides. Ji Guangwu died detonating his Law Manifestation and killing Zhao Yanshu, leaving the Southern Border’s human forces without two major leaders.

• Jiang Ping'an led thirty thousand cavalry to Mao'er Mountain, where he and Li Tongya set up the Xuandu Vajra Formation and waited for the beast tide.
• The Peacock King and the Golden Haired Hou sent scattered groups of demon beasts and birds to attack the formation while holding the rest of the beast tide back.
• Xuan Ming, Xuan Zhen, Xuan Hai, and Zhao Yanshu confronted Ji Guangwu, Gao Xianzhi, and Xiang Yun at the governor's residence and demanded that they leave White Emperor City.
• Xiang Yun departed, and Gao Xianzhi left with twenty people, while Ji Guangwu remained to fight the four Law Manifestation Realm Great Powers.
• Ji Guangwu charged Zhao Yanshu and detonated his Law Manifestation, killing both of them and deafening people in White Emperor City.

Jiang Ping'an used the Jade Transformation Divine Light to devastate the beast tide attacking Mao'er Mountain, killing hundreds of thousands of demon beasts and birds. The Peacock King and Golden Haired Hou then attacked together, believing Jiang Ping'an was exhausted and having identified weaknesses in his spell.

• Jiang Ping'an rejected Gao Xianzhi and Xiang Yun's concerns and left the grand formation to attack the beast tide alone.
• Jiang Ping'an used his sword to kill more than a third of the beasts and birds attacking Mao'er Mountain, then evaded spells from five fifth-order great demons and cast the Jade Transformation Divine Light.
• Jiang Ping'an swept the divine light across the sky and ground, turning tens of thousands of creatures to jade before burning them with Heavenly Flame Meteor Jade Talismans.
• Jiang Ping'an cast the Jade Transformation Divine Light four times in succession, killing over two hundred thousand demon beasts and birds and frightening the remaining tide.
• Golden Haired Hou and the Peacock King steadied their forces and attacked Jiang Ping'an together after concluding that he was exhausted and that jade-transformed creatures could survive if unbroken and recover faster with higher cultivation.

Jiang Ping'an used his Sacred Body: Law, Heaven, and Earth to defeat the Golden Haired Hou and slaughter the attacking Fifth-Order Demonic Beasts, routing the demon horde. After the Peacock King escaped, Jiang Ping'an began refining the captured Golden Haired Hou and gathered the remaining corpses, whose Spirit Pills could replenish his strength and advance his cultivation.

• Jiang Ping'an evaded the Peacock King's attacks with the Void Movement Technique, causing the Peacock King to flee, then turned to face the charging Golden Haired Hou.
• Jiang Ping'an grew three hundredfold, knocked the Golden Haired Hou into a crater, and smashed it against several mountains until it passed out.
• Jiang Ping'an used the unconscious Golden Haired Hou as a weapon to kill seven Fifth-Order Demonic Beasts and hurled flaming boulders at two Fifth-Order Demonic Birds, while the remaining birds fled.
• Jiang Ping'an returned to normal size, consumed fourth-order demonic beast Spirit Pills, and placed the still-living Golden Haired Hou in the Creation Furnace to refine pills.
• Yan Ruyu sent thirty thousand soldiers down Mao'er Mountain to pursue the fleeing demon horde, while Gao Xianzhi and Xiang Yun helped Jiang Ping'an gather nine Fifth-Order Demonic Beast corpses.

After crushing the demon beast tide, Jiang Ping'an learned that Pudu Mountain and the Zhennan Marquis Estate had rebelled and prepared to strike back. He stabilized the southern frontier forces and led an army toward White Emperor City to destroy the Zhennan Marquis Estate.

• Gao Xianzhi praised Jiang Ping'an and pledged to serve him, while the returning soldiers celebrated their victory over the demon beasts.
• Jiang Ping'an told his officers that Pudu Mountain and the Zhennan Marquis Estate had rebelled and ordered the army to return to Tianshui Town after resting.
• Jiang Ping'an sent Gao Xianzhi, Xiang Yun, and Yan Ruyu ahead to secure Tianshui Town, then cultivated with fifth-rank Great Demon Spirit Pills during the journey.
• The garrisons at Tianshui Town and the twelve eastern-line passes resisted the rebels' efforts to recruit them, and Jiang Ping'an assembled their forces.
• Jiang Ping'an led an army of two hundred and forty thousand toward White Emperor City to destroy the Zhennan Marquis Estate.

Jiang Ping'an led eighty thousand cavalry toward White Emperor City and defeated Pudu Mountain’s force of high-end combatants. After killing Xuan Zhen with one halberd strike and surviving Xuan Hai’s self-detonation, he ordered the cavalry to continue their advance.

• Jiang Ping'an led eighty thousand cavalry toward White Emperor City after scouts reported that its army was attacking Great General of Zhennan's forces.
• Xuan Zhen and Xuan Hai intercepted Jiang Ping'an and Gao Xianzhi, while two hundred Dragon Transformation Realm monks backed them.
• Jiang Ping'an killed Xuan Zhen with a single strike from Dragon Abyss Halberd, then used Jade Transformation Divine Light and halberd attacks to kill over a hundred monks.
• Xuan Hai broke free of the Mystic Water True Dragon and charged Jiang Ping'an, who vanished into the void just before Xuan Hai self-detonated.
• Jiang Ping'an emerged unharmed, ordered the eighty thousand cavalry to continue toward White Emperor City, and heard them cheer for him.

Jiang Ping'an’s army broke through White Emperor City’s defenses after Gao Xianzhi turned the citizens against Pudu Mountain and the Zhennan Marquis Estate. Jiang Ping'an surrounded the estate and prepared another move when its formation held firm and Pudu Mountain’s reinforcements threatened to arrive.

• Jiang Ping'an led eighty thousand cavalry to attack White Emperor City’s formation while Gao Xianzhi bombarded it and Jiang Ping'an cultivated aboard the Flying Boat.
• Xuan Ming ordered the Zhennan Marquis Estate’s servants to force citizens into defending the city, but Gao Xianzhi warned them that the rebels had already lost and promised rewards for resisting them.
• Zhennan Marquis Estate servants killed citizens, triggering a revolt that spread to Pudu Mountain monks and the estate’s people; the citizens sabotaged the city’s formation until it broke.
• Jiang Ping'an entered White Emperor City and led his troops to surround the Zhennan Marquis Estate, while Xuan Ming fled after killing the general who had proposed mobilizing the citizens.
• Jiang Ping'an’s army attacked the estate’s powerful defensive formation for half an hour, but Jiang Ping'an declined to use Law, Heaven, and Earth and told Gao Xianzhi he had another move.

Jiang Ping'an broke the Zhennan Marquis Estate’s defenses with the Xuanyuan Sword phantom and pursued Su Yingluo and Zhao Zhenming after they teleported away. Su Yingluo survived three lightning strikes only to be killed by Zhao Zhenming, whose demonic cultivation then surged.

• Su Yingluo blamed Zhao Zhenming for their family’s downfall, and he returned to his courtyard to cultivate the Great Freedom Black Lotus Art as Demonic Qi began to seep from him.
• Jiang Ping'an sacrificed Xuan Zhen’s Demon-Subduing Staff to summon the Xuanyuan Sword phantom, then split the Zhennan Marquis Estate and the government office’s defensive formations with it.
• Su Yingluo activated a teleportation token and fled a thousand li with Zhao Zhenming, while Jiang Ping'an used the Heavenly Punishment Sacred Eye to track them.
• Jiang Ping'an struck Su Yingluo with lightning three times; her Buddhist treasure blocked the first two bolts, but the third left her charred and barely alive.
• Zhao Zhenming revealed that Su Yingluo was his heart demon and killed her with a palm strike, causing his cultivation to rise from Dragon Transformation Realm First Heaven to Seventh Heaven.

Jiang Ping'an destroyed the Zhennan Marquis Estate, drove Xuan Ming and the Pudu Mountain forces away from White Emperor City, and oversaw the army’s spoils and defenses. After receiving orders to hold the city, he stayed inside its protective formation to cultivate and prepare for a future assault on Pudu Mountain.

• Jiang Ping'an razed the Zhennan Marquis Estate and the government office, then secured the estate’s treasury for later distribution.
• Jiang Ping'an and Gao Xianzhi confronted Xuan Ming outside White Emperor City, where Xuan Ming confirmed that Jiang Ping'an had killed Xuan Zhen and Xuan Hai and then withdrew with his forces.
• Jiang Ping'an ordered White Emperor City’s defensive grand formation repaired, and Yan Ruyu arrived with 150,000 infantrymen two days later.
• Jiang Ping'an chose a plan for distributing the treasury, and Yan Ruyu put it into effect, strengthening the army’s support for him.
• Jiang Ping'an instructed Yan Ruyu to expand ideological work against Pudu Mountain’s influence, then received orders from Emperor Qian and the Great General of Zhennan to hold White Emperor City.
• Jiang Ping'an remained inside the city’s defensive formation to cultivate and build strength for a future campaign against Pudu Mountain.

Jiang Ping'an assassinated Zhao Zhenming in his command tent, then tested Liu Xixu’s newly completed Array Cannon and discovered its devastating power. He asked her to keep the weapon secret and make four more for the war against Pudu Mountain.

• Jiang Ping'an entered Zhao Zhenming’s tent unnoticed and killed him with the Dragon Abyss Halberd despite Zhao Zhenming’s protective Buddhist treasure.
• Xuan Ming and three other Law Manifestation Realm Great Powers found Zhao Zhenming’s bisected corpse and suspected that a Saint had carried out the assassination.
• Liu Xixu arrived in White Emperor City with the completed Array Cannon, and Jiang Ping'an took her to a remote mountain range to test it.
• Jiang Ping'an and Liu Xixu fired the Array Cannon, which destroyed mountains from more than five hundred li away with force rivaling or surpassing a Law Manifestation Realm Great Power.
• Jiang Ping'an told Liu Xixu to keep the Array Cannon secret and asked her to refine four more, giving her one thousand Top-Grade Spirit Stones.

Jiang Ping'an helped defeat the Pudu Mountain rebels, urged the court to keep the mountain under siege, and returned to Yujing after being summoned. He found Liu Xixu forging Array Cannons in secret and helped her work through the night before going to the palace.

• Jiang Ping'an lent Liu Xixu his Flying Boat so she could travel safely back to Yujing.
• After more than two months of cultivation, Jiang Ping'an led fifty thousand elite cavalrymen in a surprise attack that crushed the Pudu Mountain rebel army and drove it back into Pudu Mountain.
• When a chief eunuch asked for his opinion on negotiations, Jiang Ping'an opposed a truce and proposed besieging Pudu Mountain until the Rakshasa Race was defeated.
• An Imperial Decree summoned Jiang Ping'an to Yujing, where he visited Liu Xixu and found her secretly forging Array Cannons.
• Jiang Ping'an assisted Liu Xixu through the night, completing work that would have taken her half a month, then left to enter the palace.

Jiang Ping'an agreed to lead Great Qian Kingdom’s campaign against the Rakshasa Race after Old Black and Emperor Qian set conditions for a future assault on Pudu Mountain. He visited his Mother, then prepared an extravagant gift for Princess Bailing’s new estate.

• Old Black agreed to surround Pudu Mountain for two years and attack it if Jiang Ping'an could reduce the cost of doing so to an acceptable level.
• Jiang Ping'an volunteered to lead the northern campaign, and Emperor Qian appointed him General of the Northern Expedition with orders to make the Rakshasa Race cede territory and surrender within a year.
• After Jiang Ping'an left, Old Black told Emperor Qian to reward him according to precedent and not treat him with suspicion, since he would eventually leave Great Qian Kingdom.
• Jiang Ping'an visited his Mother in the Underground Palace, where Princess Bailing joined him and told him she often kept Jiang Shuyue company.
• Princess Bailing invited Jiang Ping'an to visit her new estate, and he agreed before returning to his residence and Taiwu Academy.
• Jiang Ping'an added a top-grade spirit sword and jade talismans to the lavish gifts for Princess Bailing, then set out for her estate.

Jiang Ping'an visited Princess Bailing and gave her a treasured Spirit Artifact before secretly spending the night with her. He then pushed to expand the Array Cannon arsenal and received command of the northern campaign against the Rakshasa Race.

• Jiang Ping'an formally visited Princess Bailing and gave her a top-grade Spirit Artifact sword whose Spirit of the Artifact carried Phoenix bloodline.
• Princess Bailing showed Jiang Ping'an around her residence and later invited him to a banquet before he returned to Taiwu Academy.
• Jiang Ping'an used the Five-Colored Jade Disk to visit Princess Bailing in her bedroom, and the two spent the night together.
• Jiang Ping'an asked Liu Xixu to help produce more Array Cannons, and she agreed to refine three additional cannons because materials were scarce.
• After helping Liu Xixu refine Array Cannons for two days, Jiang Ping'an received Emperor Qian's appointment as General of the Northern Expedition, with command over the northern armies and permission to transfer thirty thousand Southern Border elites.

Jiang Ping'an returned to Clear River Prefecture City and reunited with his grandfather and relatives, concealing the truth about his mother’s condition. He gave the Jiang family powerful weapons, protective talismans, and cultivation pills, leaving them overwhelmed by his gifts.

• Jiang Ping'an brought thirty thousand Imperial Guards to Yujing and granted them three days of leave to visit their families.
• Jiang Ping'an visited Clear River Prefecture City and arrived at Jiang Manor, where his relatives and household welcomed him enthusiastically.
• Jiang Ping'an told Jiang Wen that his mother was too busy with military affairs to return, hiding the truth about her condition.
• Jiang Zhengtian and Jiang Zhengfa arranged a grand feast and invited local officials and prominent families to Jiang Manor.
• Jiang Ping'an gave Jiang Wen a Mystic Artifact sword and distributed Mystic Grade Spirit Talismans among his relatives.
• Jiang Ping'an presented the family with five hundred bottles of perfect quality Golden Essence Pills, astonishing everyone.

Jiang Ping'an gave Jiang Manor the treasures his mother had sent and revealed that Jiang Shuyue had reached the Dragon Transformation Realm Seventh Heaven. At the manor’s grand banquet, Clear River Prefecture City celebrated Jiang Ping'an’s return, and his reputation helped Jiang Manor take root among the locals.

• Jiang Ping'an gave Jiang Manor five hundred bottles of perfect quality Golden Essence Pills and revealed that Jiang Shuyue had reached the Dragon Transformation Realm Seventh Heaven.
• Jiang Ping'an gave the manor three thousand Superior Spirit Stones and gave Jiang Wen two hundred wind-element Top-Grade Spirit Stones for his retirement.
• Jiang Wen hosted a grand banquet at Jiang Manor, where prominent families and officials respectfully paid their respects to him and Jiang Ping'an.
• A storyteller in a crowded teahouse recounted Jiang Ping'an’s feats against the beast tide, and patrons marveled at his power and youth.
• The people of Clear River Prefecture City came to admire Jiang Ping'an, while youths and children took him as an example and Jiang Manor gained their recognition.

Jiang Ping'an returned to Yujing, learned that Jiang Yiyi rejected marriage because she wanted to reach the Dragon Transformation Realm, then took command of the northern army. He tested the Array Cannons against the Rakshasa Race, devastating their camp and sending their soldiers into a rout.

• Jiang Ping'an visited Second Maternal Aunt, who asked whether Jiang Yiyi had taken a liking to someone, and he promised to ask her about it.
• Jiang Ping'an returned to Taiwu Academy and learned Jiang Yiyi refused marriage because she did not want to remain an ant unable to advance to the Dragon Transformation Realm.
• Jiang Ping'an traveled to the Northern Frontier, took command of the army without opposition, appointed trusted generals, and concentrated the troops.
• Jiang Ping'an led a million soldiers onto the North Cloud Plains and positioned five Array Cannons within range of the Rakshasa Race camp.
• The Array Cannons smashed through the camp's formation barrier and killed or wounded countless Rakshasa Race soldiers, who panicked and fled despite the Rakshasa Kings' efforts to control them.

Jiang Ping'an won a historic victory against the Rakshasa Race, returned to Yujing, and was ennobled as State Duke Jiang. After visiting his mother, he spoke with Old Black about Mount Yulong, his plans to seek greater cultivation resources, and a possible attack on Pudu Mountain.

• Emperor Qian announced Jiang Ping'an's victory over the Rakshasa army after defending the report against ministers who questioned it.
• Over the following months, Jiang Ping'an reclaimed Great Qian's northern territories, conquered Rakshasa cities, and forced the Rakshasa Race to cede a thousand li and surrender.
• Emperor Qian welcomed Jiang Ping'an back to Yujing and granted him the title of State Duke Jiang and a fief called Jiang Territory.
• Jiang Ping'an visited Jiang Shuyue at Mount Yulong, then joined Old Black for a discussion about the mountain's declining Heavenly Essence and the richer, dangerous Central Wastelands.
• Jiang Ping'an told Old Black he intended to use his five Formation Artifacts against Pudu Mountain, and Old Black said they would need Li Yufeng's help to attack it.

Jiang Ping'an returned to Taiwu Academy, agreed to attend its first graduation ceremony, and collected three Array Cannons from Liu Xixu. After the ceremony, he led his army south to besiege Pudu Mountain.

• Qin Zhishui invited Jiang Ping'an to Taiwu Academy's delayed graduation ceremony, and Jiang Ping'an agreed to attend.
• Jiang Ping'an visited Liu Xixu, praised her cultivation and the Array Cannons, and received three more cannons from her.
• Jiang Ping'an gave eight Azure Essence Pills to Liu Xixu's students, then used the Five-Colored Jade Disk to visit Princess Bailing that night.
• Jiang Ping'an and Princess Bailing attended Taiwu Academy's first graduation ceremony five days later, where Jiang Ping'an thought anxiously about Shangguan Xue.
• Less than half a month after the ceremony, Jiang Ping'an led his army south to besiege Pudu Mountain.

Jiang Ping'an’s army besieged Pudu Mountain, and he used Array Cannons to attack its main peak while the Jingdao Palace Dao Lord and Old Black fought the Buddha Lord. The Buddha Lord broke through to attack Jiang Ping'an, who stood beneath a divine mountain empowered by Six-Syllable Mantras.

• Jiang Ping'an spent two months advancing his army to the foot of Pudu Mountain’s main peak, where he met the Jingdao Palace Dao Lord and agreed to begin the assault.
• Jiang Ping'an assembled eight Array Cannons three hundred li from the peak and fired repeated volleys at Pudu Mountain.
• The Pudu Mountain Buddha Lord transformed into a golden Buddha and struck down the first volley, but the Jingdao Palace Dao Lord pierced his palm with a flying sword.
• Old Black seized the divine mountain the Buddha Lord hurled at the Jingdao Palace Dao Lord, while Jiang Ping'an’s next volley shook Pudu Mountain’s golden barrier.
• Fang Zheng and Fang Tong emerged from Pudu Mountain to fight Old Black and the Jingdao Palace Dao Lord, allowing the Buddha Lord to charge Jiang Ping'an.
• Jiang Ping'an enlarged himself with Law, Heaven, and Earth, but the Buddha Lord sent a thousand-zhang divine mountain empowered by Six-Syllable Mantras crushing toward him.

Jiang Ping'an overwhelmed the Pudu Mountain Buddha Lord in close combat, but the Buddha Lord regenerated his torn-off leg and stayed out of reach. Jiang Ping'an then attacked Pudu Mountain's main peak, forcing the Buddha Lord to respond while monks and believers were killed in the destruction.

• Jiang Ping'an hurled the thousand-zhang Divine Mountain at the Pudu Mountain Buddha Lord, dragged him from the sky, and battered him into the ground and surrounding peaks.
• Fang Zheng abandoned his fight with Old Black to strike Jiang Ping'an with Thousand Hand Buddha Palm, but Old Black intercepted Fang Zheng when he tried to attack again.
• Jiang Ping'an tore off one of the Pudu Mountain Buddha Lord's legs, but the Buddha Lord used Golden Body Nirvana to regrow it and retreated into the sky.
• Jiang Ping'an charged into Pudu Mountain's main peak, shattered its golden scripture barrier, and caused buildings and rocks to collapse on monks and believers.
• The Pudu Mountain Buddha Lord attacked Jiang Ping'an with Red Lotus Lightning Seal, but Jiang Ping'an dodged the lightning and charged into the mountain again.

Jiang Ping'an destroyed Pudu Mountain's main peak and killed its monks and believers, but the Pudu Mountain Buddha Lord and Fang Zheng kept him from reaching the Jingdao Palace Dao Lord. With his Law, Heaven, and Earth ability pushed to its limits and Old Black badly wounded, Jiang Ping'an faced the Buddha Lord's renewed attack.

• Jiang Ping'an crushed Xuan Ming, demolished Pudu Mountain's main peak, and slapped its surviving monks and believers to death.
• Jiang Ping'an struck Fang Zheng, then ended his Law, Heaven, and Earth transformation as the Pudu Mountain Buddha Lord and Fang Zheng attacked Old Black.
• Jiang Ping'an clung to Old Black's leg while Old Black dodged the pair's attacks, but Old Black refused to lend him a Spirit Treasure to call the Xuanyuan Sword.
• Old Black urged Jiang Ping'an to escape toward the Jingdao Palace Dao Lord, and Jiang Ping'an fled as the Buddha Lord pursued him with a Tathagata Palm.
• Jiang Ping'an used the Void Movement Technique and then reactivated Law, Heaven, and Earth to shatter the Buddha Lord's palm, but Fang Zheng blasted him farther from the Jingdao Palace Dao Lord.
• Fang Zheng told the Buddha Lord that Jiang Ping'an was nearly spent, and the Buddha Lord swooped down to strike him with a full-force Tathagata Palm.

Jiang Ping'an fled the Pudu Mountain Buddha Lord and was nearly killed, but Lan Yu ambushed and grievously wounded the Buddha Lord, forcing him to escape as only a head. After recovering some strength with Lan Yu’s Revival Saint Pills, Jiang Ping'an set off with her to attack Pudu Mountain.

• Jiang Ping'an escaped the Pudu Mountain Buddha Lord’s Tathagata Palm, then counterattacked and forced him to sever his own leg to get free.
• Fang Zheng blocked Jiang Ping'an from reaching the Jingdao Palace Dao Lord, so Jiang Ping'an fled toward the eastern sea while the Pudu Mountain Buddha Lord pursued him.
• As the exhausted Jiang Ping'an faced another Tathagata Palm, Lan Yu ambushed the Pudu Mountain Buddha Lord, tore out his heart and intestines, and severed his neck, leaving his head to flee.
• Lan Yu told Jiang Ping'an that she had used the Domain of Jade despite not yet reaching the Saint Realm, then gave him Revival Saint Pills to recover.
• Jiang Ping'an recovered about one-third of his strength and flew with Lan Yu toward Pudu Mountain, determined to kill the Buddha Lord.

Jiang Ping'an returned from destroying Pudu Mountain determined to pursue Fang Sheng to the Central Wastelands, then came home and learned Liu Xixu had been taken there by her father. Princess Bailing visited him and arranged to meet him that night.

• Jiang Ping'an learned Fang Sheng had escaped with Fang Zheng and Fang Tong, and he vowed to kill Fang Sheng despite Old Black's warning; the Jingdao Palace Dao Lord gave him a map of the Eastern Wilderness and Central Wastelands.
• Lan Yu said she would cultivate and planned to meet Jiang Ping'an in three months before he left for the Central Wastelands.
• More than half a month later, Jiang Ping'an returned to the capital, surrendered his military authority, and told Jiang Shuyue about the destruction of Pudu Mountain.
• Jiang Yiyi gave Jiang Ping'an a letter from Liu Xixu, revealing that her biological father had taken her to the Central Wastelands two months earlier.
• Princess Bailing visited Jiang Ping'an with congratulatory gifts and asked whether he could come to her room that night; he agreed.

Jiang Ping'an prepared Jiang Manor for his departure to the Central Wastelands while arranging Dragon Transformation Pills to strengthen his family. After refining six perfect pills, he recognized that his dwindling Proficiency Points were a hidden danger to his future cultivation.

• Jiang Ping'an told Princess Bailing he would leave for the Central Wastelands in about three months to pursue the Pudu Mountain Buddha Lord, and asked her to buy ingredients for Dragon Transformation Pills.
• Jiang Ping'an visited Jiang Manor with Jiang Yiyi, told Jiang Wen that his mother had left for the Central Wastelands, and asked his relatives to decide whether they would move to Jiang Territory.
• Jiang Ping'an explained that Dragon Transformation Pills could advance Divine Treasury Realm Fifth Heaven cultivators into the Dragon Transformation Realm and promised one to the first Jiang Manor member to reach that level.
• Princess Bailing obtained the ingredients, and Jiang Ping'an realized his remaining Proficiency Points would not be enough to quickly learn the fifth volume of the Dao Scripture.
• Jiang Ping'an used the Creation Furnace to refine the ingredients and obtained six perfect Dragon Transformation Pills.

After leaving the Great Qian Kingdom, Jiang Ping'an and Lan Yu traveled to Qingqiu City, where he intended to cultivate before entering the Central Wastelands. At the city gates, Jiang Ping'an saw Human Race people enslaved by Azure Cang Wolves and attacked their ship in fury.

• Lan Yu arrived after three months of secluded cultivation and advanced to Saint, while Jiang Ping'an entrusted pills and a sword art to Princess Bailing before departing for the Central Wastelands.
• Old Black warned Jiang Ping'an about the dangers of the wider world, cautioned him against fighting across realms, and told him to beware of the Buddhist sect.
• Jiang Ping'an and Lan Yu traveled west aboard a top-grade Flying Boat, following the Dao Lord of Jingdao Palace's map through Foreign Race territory without trouble.
• After more than fifty days, Jiang Ping'an and Lan Yu reached Qingqiu City, a trading city controlled by the Nine-tailed Celestial Fox Clan, where Jiang Ping'an planned to cultivate.
• While waiting to enter the city, Jiang Ping'an saw Azure Cang Wolves keeping Human Race slaves and heard Lan Yu urge him not to act rashly.
• When enslaved Human Race people tried to flee toward his Flying Boat, the Azure Cang Wolves and two Human Race men beat them back, and Jiang Ping'an charged at the ship with his Dragon Abyss Halberd.

Jiang Ping'an rescued more than eight hundred humans from Azure Cang Wolves near Qingqiu City and learned that the wolves kept many more captives in a distant Great Canyon. After entering the city and arranging a temporary place for the survivors, he set out with Lan Yu to attack the stronghold.

• Jiang Ping'an killed the Azure Cang Wolves transporting humans, captured two human collaborators, and paid Qingqiu City's fine after Lan Yu revealed her Saint's aura.
• Jiang Ping'an freed more than eight hundred chained humans and learned that the Azure Cang Wolves had captured some from villages and bred the rest for sale.
• Jiang Ping'an interrogated the surviving wolf and the two collaborators, discovering that a Great Canyon more than thirty thousand li away held a vast number of captives and a powerful wolf force.
• The rescued humans killed the two collaborators, Jiang Ping'an killed the last Azure Cang Wolf, and he kept the wolf corpses to refine into Spirit Pills.
• Jiang Ping'an paid the entrance fees, entered Qingqiu City, and found an inn and a place to park the flying ship.
• Jiang Ping'an and Lan Yu left the city at full speed for the Great Canyon to destroy the Azure Cang Wolves' captive-raising stronghold.