Chapter Summaries

Ye Qingxue met Jiang Ping'an at a banquet in Guanzhi Palace, where her penetrating gaze unsettled him and he declined her requests. After he left, she told Ye Huitian that she was interested in his secrets, and he warned her not to investigate someone the Ye Family hoped to win over.

• Ye Huitian summoned his daughter, Ye Qingxue, to meet Jiang Ping'an at the banquet.
• Ye Huitian praised Jiang Ping'an’s achievements and poems, and Ye Qingxue asked him to recite them; Jiang Ping'an refused.
• Ye Huitian asked Ye Qingxue to show Jiang Ping'an around, but Jiang Ping'an declined and returned to Hongbin Courtyard aboard his Top-Grade Treasure Ship.
• Lan Yu told Jiang Ping'an that Ye Qingxue’s gaze seemed able to see through her, and Jiang Ping'an dismissed the concern.
• Ye Qingxue told Ye Huitian she was interested in Jiang Ping'an’s secrets, and he warned her not to pry into them.

Jiang Ping'an chose Ye Qingluan as his bride and spent several days touring the Ye Family grotto-heaven with her. They agreed to marry and exchanged treasured gifts before Jiang Ping'an prepared to return to Ping'an City to arrange the betrothal ceremony.

• Jiang Ping'an attended a banquet hosted by Ye Huitian and Ye Qingtian, then told Ye Qingtian that Ye Qingluan was the woman he preferred.
• Ye Qingluan took Jiang Ping'an on a tour of the grotto-heaven, where he described the dangers facing humans in the Great Barrens World.
• Ye Qingxue reflected that her Crystal Soul Jade Physique could not see through Jiang Ping'an's secrets and resolved to learn more about him after he joined the Ye Family.
• Jiang Ping'an and Ye Qingluan agreed to marry, and Jiang Ping'an planned to return to Ping'an City before sending her betrothal gifts.
• Jiang Ping'an gave Ye Qingluan the Magnetic Jade Bottle as an engagement token, and Ye Qingluan gave him a Blessing Talisman in return.

Jiang Ping'an gained his mother’s approval to marry Ye Qingluan and sent a grand betrothal convoy to the Ye Family Ancient Clan, setting the wedding for half a year later. While waiting in Ping'an City, he witnessed the Eternal Soul Suppression Bell become a Top-Grade Spirit Treasure and leave its heavenly tribulation stronger than ever.

• Jiang Ping'an told Jiang Shuyue about Ye Qingluan, explained why Princess Bailing could not marry him, and received his mother’s approval for the marriage.
• Jiang Ping'an prepared betrothal gifts worth more than one billion Low-Grade Spirit Stones and sent them toward the Ye Family Ancient Clan under Peng Qingyang’s leadership, with Lan Yu and Gui Henian guarding the convoy.
• Jiang Ping'an arranged for the wedding to take place half a year later and spent the following weeks with his mother while Incarnation Ye Bumei handled his refining work.
• Jiang Ping'an nourished the Eternal Soul Suppression Bell in his Cultivation Chamber until its innate Spirit of the Artifact was born.
• Jiang Ping'an carried the bell more than two thousand li from Ping'an City and watched it absorb the heavenly tribulation without damage.
• The Eternal Soul Suppression Bell became a Top-Grade Spirit Treasure, with the powers to suppress Divine Souls, unleash Annihilation Golden Lightning, and control lightning while breaking evil.

Jiang Ping'an led a grand wedding procession toward the Ye Family Ancient Clan to fetch his bride, using the Eternal Soul Suppression Bell to repel a Winged Race attack along the way. After a little over a month of travel and several disturbances, the procession reached Tianyuan Mountain, where the Ye Family Ancient Clan's grotto-heaven entrance was located.

• Peng Qingyang reported that the betrothal-gift fleet had returned safely from the Ye Clan Grotto-Heaven and praised Jiang Ping'an's poem.
• Jiang Ping'an set out for the Ye Family Ancient Clan with a wedding procession, using four dragons borrowed from Yunshui Palace to pull the flagship.
• Three Winged Race Venerables rallied a huge force to attack the procession as it crossed Winged Race territory.
• Jiang Ping'an rang the Eternal Soul Suppression Bell, incapacitating Winged Race members within thirty li and causing many to fall from the sky, while the three Venerables escaped.
• Jiang Ping'an let the wedding procession continue, and after more than a month of travel it arrived at Tianyuan Mountain.

Jiang Ping'an arrived at the Ye Family Ancient Clan to marry Ye Qingluan and asked Fifth Elder Ye Qingtian about the erased ancestor Ye Wuji. He learned that records of many great figures had been destroyed or lost, leaving Human Race history in the Great Barrens largely fabricated or incomplete.

• Jiang Ping'an entered Ye Clan City with a wedding procession led by four dragons, drawing crowds and a formal welcome from the Ye Family Ancient Clan.
• While waiting for the wedding preparations, Jiang Ping'an asked Ye Qingtian about Ye Wuji, whose name he had heard from a mysterious voice in the Northern Ice Plains.
• Ye Qingtian explained that an unspeakable existence used a great divine ability to erase Ye Wuji from memory and records, and linked the erasure to the highest level of the Karmic Cataclysm Fist.
• Ye Qingtian recounted that Ye Wuji had possessed the Ancient Sacred Body, nearly wiped out the Dragon Race, and created the Dragonfall Forbidden Zone before disappearing along with his sword.
• Jiang Ping'an asked to see the replica sword kept in the ancestral shrine, and Ye Qingtian agreed to take him after the wedding when he returned with Qingluan.
• Ye Qingtian had never heard of Great Emperor Yuan Zhao and said that much of Human Race history in the Great Barrens had been erased, fabricated, or lost.

Jiang Ping'an and Ye Qingluan married in a lavish ceremony in Ping'an City, with Jiang Shuyue receiving their bows as the honored elder. After celebrating with guests and the city’s people, Jiang Ping'an joined Ye Qingluan in the bridal chamber, where he promised to reveal his origins when the time was right.

• Jiang Ping'an received Ye Qingluan from the Ye Family Ancient Clan and led the wedding procession safely back to Ping'an City with her lavish dowry fleet.
• Ye Qingluan lifted her veil to admire the vast, festively decorated Ping'an City as the wedding procession arrived.
• Jiang Ping'an and Ye Qingluan completed their wedding rites and bowed to Jiang Shuyue, who wept with happiness as she received them.
• Jiang Ping'an thanked the wedding guests, including representatives from the Great Qian Kingdom and several Ancient Clans, while Xiao Yizhuo praised his deeds in the Divine Origin Ruins.
• Jiang Ping'an raised a toast to the people of Ping'an City, who celebrated his wedding throughout the city.
• Jiang Ping'an lifted Ye Qingluan's veil, promised to tell her about his origins later, and joined her in the bridal chamber.

Jiang Ping'an inspected Moonrise City with Ye Qingluan, gave Liu Xixu a Saint-rank formation to study, and considered her warning about Qingqiu City. He chose not to seize the foxes’ city, arranged to escort Lan Yu to the Dragonfall Forbidden Zone after returning from Falling Dusk Mountain, and left with Ye Qingluan to visit her family.

• Jiang Ping'an and Ye Qingluan inspected Moonrise City, where Song Siming welcomed them and workers built the city under Jiang Ping'an's allocation system.
• Jiang Ping'an gave Liu Xixu the Myriad Waters Formless Return Holy Formation and asked her to see whether it could replace or upgrade Ping'an City's defenses.
• Liu Xixu urged Jiang Ping'an to investigate the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Ancestor and take charge of Qingqiu City, but Jiang Ping'an decided to consider her suggestion and later chose not to take the city because of Princess Yunhua.
• Jiang Ping'an visited Princess Yunhua and checked that the Enlightenment Tea Tree branch she cared for had become a Clarity Tea Tree.
• Lan Yu asked to enter the Dragonfall Forbidden Zone, and Jiang Ping'an asked her to wait until after his planned journey to Falling Dusk Mountain.
• After their three months of newlywed life ended, Jiang Ping'an prepared gifts and accompanied Ye Qingluan to visit the Ye Family Ancient Clan.

Jiang Ping'an visited the Ye Family Ancient Clan, received a Chengyuan Imitation Sword, and went to the Northern Ice Plains to tell Ye Wuji’s resentful wife that her husband had died. After the truth enraged her, he traveled to Falling Dusk Mountain seeking Enlightenment Tea Leaves and entered alone.

• Ye Qingtian gave Jiang Ping'an a Chengyuan Imitation Sword, which Jiang Ping'an tested and found suited his fighting style.
• Jiang Ping'an arranged for Ye Qingluan and Ye Bumi to oversee Ping'an City, then left for the Northern Ice Plains.
• Jiang Ping'an showed Ye Wuji’s resentful wife the imitation sword and told her Ye Wuji had died, provoking her fury and a violent gale.
• Jiang Ping'an watched the storm ravage the Northern Ice Plains for several days, then departed for Falling Dusk Mountain.
• Jiang Ping'an sent the Golden-Winged Peng back to Ping'an City and resolutely entered Falling Dusk Mountain alone.

Jiang Ping'an searched Falling Dusk Mountain for the Enlightenment Tea Tree, but the mountain's forces suppressed his Spiritual Sense and stripped away his cultivation at midnight. After surviving a Dusklight Beast attack without his powers, he waited for his cultivation to return, only to find it still gone when the forces changed again.

• Jiang Ping'an entered Falling Dusk Mountain, found his Spiritual Sense limited, and discovered that he could not fly there.
• Jiang Ping'an searched the mountain and found a golden skeleton beside a Spirit Treasure, then felt his cultivation stripped away at midnight as his body aged to forty.
• Dozens of airborne Dusklight Beasts attacked, and Jiang Ping'an blinded them with a crude wooden spear before escaping to hide.
• Jiang Ping'an refused to cultivate with the mountain's Heavenly Essence or eat its fruit, then waited in a cave for nightfall.
• When the mysterious forces switched at midnight, Jiang Ping'an's cultivation did not return, and he cursed in frustration.

Jiang Ping'an pushed deeper into Falling Dusk Mountain after losing his cultivation, enduring hunger and thirst until he discovered he could regain strength by absorbing starlight and moonlight. After more than half a year, he reached Heroic Peak, where he found the ruins of a vast settlement and hoped they held a way to restore his cultivation.

• Jiang Ping'an entered the depths of Falling Dusk Mountain and blinded two Dusklight Beasts with his wooden spear.
• Jiang Ping'an traveled for days without eating or drinking and realized that the Dusklight Beasts remained weak even deep in the mountain.
• Jiang Ping'an found a golden Demon Emperor skeleton whose lingering aura suggested its cultivation had not been completely lost.
• Jiang Ping'an collapsed from exhaustion, then discovered he could absorb starlight and moonlight through his skin to regain strength and relieve his thirst.
• Jiang Ping'an continued absorbing starlight and moonlight as he traveled through Falling Dusk Mountain for more than half a year.
• Jiang Ping'an reached Heroic Peak and found the ruins of stone buildings and palaces, which he believed might offer a way to recover his cultivation.

Jiang Ping'an entered Falling Dusk Mountain, recovered his cultivation, and found the Enlightenment Tea Tree, which let him gather its leaves. It told him that the Celestial Race, Winged Race, Dragon Race, and others had besieged the mountain, but it knew no way for him to leave.

• Jiang Ping'an passed through the mountain gate's transparent barrier, regaining his cultivation and youthful appearance.
• He climbed the mountain, saw traces of its former Human Race community, and refrained from harvesting its many spirit medicines.
• Jiang Ping'an found the Enlightenment Tea Tree near the summit and picked ninety-six leaves after it invited him to do so.
• The Enlightenment Tea Tree refused Jiang Ping'an's offer to take it away and explained that many races had besieged Falling Dusk Mountain.
• Jiang Ping'an asked how to leave, but the Enlightenment Tea Tree said everyone who had tried had died without finding a way.

Jiang Ping'an found a possible way to escape Falling Dusk Mountain and joined the Falling Dusk Immortal Sect to gain access to its resources. The chapter ended with him accepting the sect’s Orthodox Lineage and feeling its karma descend upon him.

• Jiang Ping'an learned from the Enlightenment Tea Tree that ordinary travel could not take him out of Falling Dusk Mountain.
• Jiang Ping'an found the sect’s records describing an attempt to escape by flying from the summit at extreme speed, and planned to launch himself with a stronger Saint-Slaying Cannon.
• Jiang Ping'an used Enlightenment Tea Leaves to fully comprehend Volume Eight of the "Dao Scripture," then searched for the sect’s treasury.
• The Chaos Gourd stopped Jiang Ping'an from entering the treasury and agreed to let him join the Falling Dusk Immortal Sect after hearing his escape plan.
• Jiang Ping'an promised to inherit the sect’s Orthodox Lineage and rebuild it, then completed the ceremony before its ancestral spirit tablets.

Jiang Ping'an emptied part of the Falling Dusk Immortal Sect's treasure vault and used a mountain of God Source Crystals to cultivate, opening and stabilizing spaces in all the major acupoints of his body. After succeeding, he gave the Profound Yellow Pagoda a God Source Crystal, while the Chaos Gourd remained behind with it.

• The Profound Yellow Pagoda emerged to speak privately with the Chaos Gourd, revealing that only the tip of its tower remained and boasting that Jiang Ping'an had fed it four Essence Stone Mines.
• Jiang Ping'an entered the treasure-vault pocket world and found more than a hundred God Source Crystals, including one as large as a mountain.
• Jiang Ping'an stored the God Source Crystals and as many other treasures as his Storage Rings could hold, then left to cultivate.
• Jiang Ping'an refined and swallowed the mountain-sized God Source Crystal, enduring severe pain as he opened and stabilized spaces in all the major acupoints of his body.
• Jiang Ping'an demonstrated the Primal Force released by his new acupoint spaces, and the Profound Yellow Pagoda told him he was still far from defeating a Saint or Demon Emperor with one punch.
• Jiang Ping'an offered the Profound Yellow Pagoda a head-sized God Source Crystal after making it call him Master, and the pagoda eagerly accepted it.

After more than three years of cultivation in Falling Dusk Mountain, Jiang Ping'an prepared to leave with Chaos Gourd by firing himself out of the mountain in a massive Saint-Slaying Cannon. He and Chaos Gourd traveled north and descended into the normal Great Barrens, where Profound Yellow Pagoda celebrated their escape.

• Jiang Ping'an reached the late Dao Unification Realm, gathered scriptures and medicines, and discovered the Falling Dusk Immortal Sect's treasure vault was empty.
• Jiang Ping'an invited Chaos Gourd to leave Falling Dusk Mountain with him, and Chaos Gourd agreed.
• Jiang Ping'an loaded a million Top-Grade Spirit Stones into the Saint-Slaying Cannon and launched himself and Chaos Gourd out of the mountain's Sky Banishment range.
• Jiang Ping'an and Chaos Gourd flew north for tens of thousands of li, then descended for a day until Jiang Ping'an could no longer sense Falling Dusk Mountain's forces.
• Profound Yellow Pagoda flew out and boasted to Chaos Gourd that Jiang Ping'an could shoulder great responsibility.

Jiang Ping'an returned to Ping'an City, learned how the city had prospered during his absence, and mourned Shen Shui'er’s death. Palace Master Yunshui came to bid farewell, then confessed that she wished to remain Jiang Ping'an’s confidante.

• Jiang Ping'an reunited with his family and learned that Moonrise City had been completed, Ping'an City had grown stronger, and Ye Tieshi and Zhong Wending had reached the Dao Inquiry Realm.
• Jiang Ping'an gave Ye Qingluan three Enlightenment Tea Leaves, and she set aside the question of having children to focus on advancing her cultivation.
• Jiang Ping'an learned that Shen Shui'er had died failing her Heavenly Tribulation and warned his disciples not to underestimate the dangers of cultivation.
• Jiang Ping'an gave his second artifact-refining disciple a jade slip containing instruction for forging flying swords.
• Palace Master Yunshui told Jiang Ping'an she planned to return to Yunmeng Continent, then embraced him and asked to be his confidante without seeking any status.

Jiang Ping'an rejected Palace Master Yunshui, reunited intimately with Lin Zihan, and watched Yunshui Palace depart Ping'an City before returning to cultivation. Months later, Nangong You Rong arrived with Ji Wusu, and the chapter ended with Nangong You Rong staring intently at him.

• Jiang Ping'an resisted Palace Master Yunshui's plea and told her they could only be friends, then flew to Sky Lake Mountain to bid farewell to Lin Zihan.
• Lin Zihan stopped Jiang Ping'an from leaving, kissed him, and spent two days and two nights with him before they discussed Zhong Sheng Temple and agreed to join forces against it when the time was right.
• Jiang Ping'an led others in seeing Yunshui Palace off, then worried that Ping'an City would lack an openly present Saint and began cultivating in seclusion.
• After several months, Incarnation Ye Bumei informed Jiang Ping'an that Dean Nangong had come to see him, and he invited Nangong You Rong to Ye Manor.
• Jiang Ping'an received Nangong You Rong and Ji Wusu at Moon Kiss Pavilion, while Nangong You Rong stared at him and Ji Wusu nudged her under the table.

Nangong You Rong and Ji Wusu visited Jiang Ping'an in Ping'an City, where Nangong You Rong recognized his Lord Ye identity and accepted an Enlightenment Tea Leaf from him. After they returned to the inn, Ji Wusu revealed that she was Ji Wushuang, a woman posing as a man and seeking a father for an heir to the Kangyang throne.

• Jiang Ping'an asked Nangong You Rong and Ji Wusu about the Pudu Mountain rebellion, and Ji Wusu said the rebels had been eliminated and no longer threatened Great Qian.
• After Ji Wusu left, Nangong You Rong recognized Jiang Ping'an as the headmistress's acquaintance and explained that she had visited to check on his safety.
• Jiang Ping'an gave Nangong You Rong an Enlightenment Tea Leaf, and she accepted it after initially refusing.
• Jiang Ping'an gave Nangong You Rong and Ji Wusu Thunder Soul Bells as farewell gifts before they left for their inn.
• Ji Wusu teased Nangong You Rong about Jiang Ping'an and revealed that she was Ji Wushuang, a woman raised as the heir to the Kangyang throne who needed to have a child.

Jiang Ping'an welcomed Nangong You Rong and Ji Wushuang to stay at Ye Manor, then took Lan Yu to the Dragonfall Forbidden Zone so she could cultivate. After half a month of helping her hunt evil dragons, he left her there and promised to return in three years.

• Nangong You Rong and Ji Wushuang discussed staying in Ping'an City to get to know Ye Chenzhou.
• Jiang Ping'an invited the two women to stay at his residence, and Ji Wushuang accepted on their behalf.
• Lan Yu asked Jiang Ping'an to take her to cultivate in the Dragonfall Forbidden Zone, and he agreed to bring her there two days later.
• Jiang Ping'an and Lan Yu flew to the Dragonfall Forbidden Zone, where he used Karma Cleansing Skyfire to hunt evil dragons and refine their souls for her cultivation.
• After half a month, Jiang Ping'an left Lan Yu in the Dragonfall Forbidden Zone and promised to return in three years.

Jiang Ping'an hired Ji Wusu to train the Garrison Army, and her reorganization quickly won his approval. He then met Nangong You Rong alone at Cloud Perch Courtyard and shared Monkey Emperor Wine with her.

• Nangong You Rong suggested that Ji Wusu train Jiang Ping'an’s troops, and Ji Wusu agreed to help.
• Jiang Ping'an questioned Feng Yihuan about his army-commanding abilities, then arranged for him to learn from Ji Wusu.
• Ji Wusu reorganized the Garrison Army, and Jiang Ping'an saw that she was an exceptionally capable strategist.
• Jiang Ping'an visited Nangong You Rong alone, sent the maids away, and poured them cups of Monkey Emperor Wine.

Jiang Ping'an and Nangong You Rong shared Monkey Emperor Wine and reminisced about their past, and Nangong You Rong became tearful as she reflected on her life. Jiang Ping'an asked her to stay in Ping'an City for several years to help keep Ji Wusu there, and Nangong You Rong agreed before playfully stroking his face and patting his head.

• Jiang Ping'an and Nangong You Rong recalled their first New Year's Eve dinner together at Taiwu Academy and drank Monkey Emperor Wine.
• Nangong You Rong felt unsteady after two cups, so she and Jiang Ping'an moved to a private wine-and-tea room and continued drinking.
• Nangong You Rong asked about Jiang Ping'an's marriage to Hu Yunhua, then grew tearful while savoring her wine and said she did not regret marrying Ji Wushuang.
• Nangong You Rong asked Jiang Ping'an to return to his true appearance, then praised his looks and teased him about Ji Wusu.
• Jiang Ping'an asked Nangong You Rong to find a way to stay in Ping'an City for two or three years or longer, and she agreed.
• Nangong You Rong asked Jiang Ping'an to bring his face closer, stroked it and patted his head, then called that her reward.