Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ping'an discovered a Bronze Coffin in the Dragon Palace, but opening it awakened nine evil Pure-Blooded True Dragons that carried the coffin into the black clouds. He returned to gather treasures with Lan Yu and planned to leave Dragonfall Forbidden Zone separately from her so he could secretly bring her out later.

• Jiang Ping'an found a Bronze Coffin chained to nine evil Pure-Blooded True Dragons in the Dragon Palace and wondered whether Ye Wuji lay inside.
• Jiang Ping'an tried to open the coffin, activating its formations and awakening the nine dragons, which carried the coffin into the black clouds above Dragonfall Forbidden Zone.
• Jiang Ping'an returned to the Dragon Palace and collected its remaining treasures, including more than a thousand God Source Crystals, before going to find Lan Yu.
• Jiang Ping'an brought Lan Yu to the Dragon Palace, where she gathered treasures and received several dozen God Source Crystals from him.
• Jiang Ping'an told Lan Yu he would leave first, draw the Foreign Race Saints and Demon Emperors away, and then secretly return to take her out of Dragonfall Forbidden Zone.

Jiang Ping'an killed a Pure-Blooded True Dragon that tried to stop him from leaving the Dragonfall Forbidden Zone, then returned inside to prepare for further attacks on those hunting him. After refining the dragon into pills and sharing its liver with Lan Yu, he set out to break through the blockade again.

• Jiang Ping'an used the Profound Yellow Pagoda to hold off the Pure-Blooded True Dragon’s Saint artifact, then shattered the dragon’s Dragon Pearl and killed it with the Heaven Flipping Seal.
• Jiang Ping'an returned to the Dragonfall Forbidden Zone with the dragon’s corpse, while a Celestial Race Saint falsely told the arriving Saints and Demon Emperors that he had wounded Jiang Ping'an with his Saint artifact.
• Jiang Ping'an gave the dragon liver to Lan Yu to cook, released the Dragon Race Saint artifact from the Profound Yellow Pagoda, and stored it away after it offered to submit.
• Jiang Ping'an fed a God Source Crystal to the Heaven Flipping Seal so it could recover, then used the Creation Furnace to refine the Pure-Blooded True Dragon into ten Demon Emperor Spirit Pills.
• Jiang Ping'an and Lan Yu ate the roasted dragon liver, and he promised to leave within ten days while vowing to make his pursuers pay.
• Jiang Ping'an flew to another edge of the Dragonfall Forbidden Zone and used the Kuafu Sun Chasing divine ability to charge out again.

Jiang Ping'an lured eight Foreign Race Saints and Demon Emperors into an ambush and killed them with the Simuwu Mountain River Cauldron. He later left the Dragonfall Forbidden Zone unnoticed and reached the Nine Heavens Thunder Pool, while the Celestial Race prepared a costly response to his strength.

• Jiang Ping'an pretended to flee from three Foreign Race Saints, drawing them and five more powerful enemies into a siege before suppressing all eight with the Simuwu Mountain River Cauldron and killing them.
• Jiang Ping'an kept one Human Race Saint artifact, exchanged two Foreign Race Saint artifacts for the cauldron's future help, and confined another for the Creation Divine Furnace.
• The assembled Foreign Race Saints and Demon Emperors learned that Jiang Ping'an had killed the eight attackers, grew fearful, and suspected Brund had lied about injuring him.
• Jiang Ping'an refined two Dragon Race Demon Emperors and a Nine-Headed Snake Demon Emperor into Demon Emperor Spirit Pills, then left the Dragonfall Forbidden Zone without being intercepted.
• Jiang Ping'an used the sea and Void Escape to hide his departure, traveled to the Nine Heavens Thunder Pool to replenish his Divine Lightning Crystals, and the Celestial Race arranged to deploy an Emperor Weapon.

Jiang Ping'an traded for lightning treasures from the Thunder Clan and learned that their ancestors said the Celestial Continent had been constructed. After returning safely to Ping'an City, he reassured his family and gave his mother a God Source Crystal, then promised a family meal of Dragon Liver.

• Jiang Ping'an asked the Thunder Clan chief about Emperor Yuan Zhao and learned the Celestial Continent was said to have been constructed, though the Thunder Clan did not know who built it.
• Five days later, Jiang Ping'an exchanged Top-Grade Spirit Stones and Spirit Pills for the requested lightning materials, and the Thunder Clan chief asked him to bring men to father descendants with Thunder Clan women.
• Jiang Ping'an agreed to try to find suitable men, then traveled through the Southern Wastelands and returned to Ping'an City.
• Jiang Shuyue, Liu Xixu, and Nangong You Rong welcomed Jiang Ping'an after hearing he had been hunted and trapped in the Dragonfall Forbidden Zone.
• Jiang Ping'an reassured Jiang Shuyue, gave her an egg-sized God Source Crystal, and told her the family could eat Dragon Liver together in a few days.

After learning that the Celestial Race planned to demand Human Race blood essence, Jiang Ping'an struggled to contain his anger while preparing to protect Ping'an City. When an arrogant Celestial Race delegation arrived and threatened to destroy the city unless he received them, he flew to the inner city yamen to meet them.

• Jiang Ping'an fused Divine Souls with Ye Bumei, then reunited with Ye Qingluan and learned that she had advanced to the Dao Unification Realm.
• Ye Qingluan told Jiang Ping'an that Ye Qingtian had warned Ping'an City to submit if the Celestial Race demanded Human Race blood essence.
• Jiang Ping'an suspected the Celestial Race would demand vast quantities of blood essence, possibly even from children, and Ye Qingluan tried to console him.
• Jiang Ping'an shared Dragon Liver with his family, while Lan Yu remained in the Dragonfall Forbidden Zone.
• More than a month after Jiang Ping'an returned, a powerful Celestial Race party arrived and threatened to destroy Ping'an City unless he personally received them.
• Jiang Ping'an suppressed his fury and flew to the inner city yamen to meet the Celestial Race delegation.

Jiang Ping'an rejected the Celestial Race’s demand for an enormous tribute of Human Race blood essence and captured their delegation in the Profound Yellow Pagoda. He ordered Moonrise City’s residents to evacuate to Ping'an City and rallied his officials to prepare for the Celestial Race’s retaliation.

• Jiang Ping'an met the Celestial Race delegation in the inner city yamen and struck a member who insulted him.
• The Celestial Race demanded vast quantities of Human Race blood essence or Essence Stones, threatening to destroy Ping'an City if it refused.
• Jiang Ping'an gave the delegation time to leave, then used the Profound Yellow Pagoda to capture them and ordered it to refine them until they were nearly dead.
• Jiang Ping'an ordered Zhang Zhe to move as many residents of Moonrise City as possible into Ping'an City before the Celestial Race attacked.
• Jiang Ping'an told Ping'an City's leaders that the city would face death whether it submitted or resisted, and urged them to unite and fight back.

Jiang Ping'an prepared Ping'an City for a decisive war after refusing to surrender Human Race blood essence to the Celestial Race. He secured protection for the Human Race in Douguang Mountain and returned to Ping'an City to take command.

• Jiang Ping'an rejected Ye Qingluan's suggestion to negotiate with the Celestial Race, explaining that resisting was necessary to preserve Ping'an City's future.
• Jiang Ping'an ordered Ye Bumei to prepare Dharma treasures for distribution and told Ji Wusu that the city faced a battle for survival.
• Jiang Ping'an mobilized Ping'an City's leaders, and news of the Celestial Race's demand spurred the city to prepare for war.
• Jiang Ping'an visited Douguang Mountain, where Ye Qingyan reported on the settlement of five million people and the city's food shortage.
• Jiang Ping'an asked the Chaos Gourd to protect the Human Race in Douguang Mountain, and the Chaos Gourd agreed.
• After inspecting the settlement and seeing its people living with renewed hope, Jiang Ping'an returned to Ping'an City to take command.

Jiang Ping'an learned that the Celestial Race had reached Azure Treasure Continent and might be plotting with Qingqiu City and Million Mountains to attack Ping'an City. After both powers killed his envoys, he sent a fleet led by Ye Mie to ambush the Serpentfolk, who were advancing with a million troops.

• Jiang Ping'an rejected Feng Yihuan's proposal to strike the Celestial Race army, warning that a Saint might accompany its troops, and decided to send envoys to Qingqiu City and Million Mountains.
• Princess Yunhua estimated that Qingqiu City was highly likely to join the Celestial Race, and Jiang Ping'an chose not to send her there as an envoy.
• Qingqiu City and Million Mountains each returned the head of a Ping'an City envoy, prompting Jiang Ping'an to prepare for battle.
• Ye Mie led one hundred treasure ships and five thousand cultivators toward Million Mountains, where scouts found a large Serpentfolk force heading for Ping'an City.
• Ye Mie, Zhong Wending, and Ye Tieshi confirmed that the Serpentfolk force included two hundred Expedition Airships and roughly a million troops.

Ye Mie led Ping'an City's forces to destroy the million-strong Serpentfolk army and killed its venerable, Barus. The sole surviving Serpentfolk venerable, Adory, ordered scouts to watch Ping'an City and planned to flee the Million Mountains before its forces could attack.

• Ye Mie led a fleet of treasure ships against the Serpentfolk army, while Zhong Wending, Ye Tieshi, and the other Great Powers attacked its airships.
• Ye Mie used the Phoenix Flame Samadhi Fire Formation to break through the flagship's defenses, then captured Barus in the Nine Fire Sky Refining Furnace and refined him to death.
• After seeing Barus's skeleton fall from the sky, the Serpentfolk army panicked and fled; Ye Mie and his forces destroyed the airships and wiped out nearly the entire army.
• Zhong Wending and Ye Tieshi asked Ye Mie to attack the Million Mountains, but he ordered the fleet to return to Ping'an City.
• Adory heard the survivors' account of Barus's death, ordered Huba Huo to scout near Ping'an City, and told Yan Huidong to inform the Celestial Race of the defeat.

Jiang Ping'an secretly rescued Lan Yu from the Dragonfall Forbidden Zone while Brund assembled Celestial and Fox Race forces against Ping'an City. The Fox Race army was nearly wiped out, and Brund then sent his Venerables and Great Powers to attack the Human Race army.

• Brund failed to persuade the Azure Treasure Continent's other powers to join his campaign, while Jiang Ping'an left Ping'an City to retrieve Lan Yu from the Dragonfall Forbidden Zone.
• Jiang Ping'an brought Lan Yu back to Ping'an City, and Brund later marched toward the city with three thousand Celestial Race members and two hundred thousand Fox Race troops.
• The five-hundred-thousand-strong Human Race army met the allied forces in the field, and Brund forced the exhausted Fox Race to attack first.
• Ping'an City's army used its numbers and flying-sword formations to slaughter nearly all the Fox Race troops, while its Great Powers and Venerables prevented Fox leaders from suppressing the formation.
• Brund ordered the Celestial Race Venerables and Great Powers to attack the Human Race army.

Brund ordered the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Clan and its fleeing forces back into battle, then personally attacked the Human Race army. Jiang Ping'an used the Profound Emperor Armor and Dragon Abyss Halberd to overpower Brund, driving the fight away from the battlefield as both armies watched.

• Feng Yihuan formed a defensive barrier for the Human Race army, while Brund killed retreating Fox Race members and forced the survivors and the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Clan chief to attack.
• The Human Race formation repelled the Celestial Race's first assault with a barrage of flying swords, making its Great Powers and Venerables retreat.
• Brund advanced against the Human Race army, and Jiang Ping'an flew out to confront him.
• Brund's golden palm struck Jiang Ping'an, but the Profound Emperor Armor protected him; Jiang Ping'an then amplified his combat power and struck Brund with the Dragon Abyss Halberd.
• Jiang Ping'an escaped Brund's giant golden hand and knocked him into the ground twice, while Brund's attacks failed to overcome the armor.
• Brund retreated through the void and attacked from afar, but Jiang Ping'an kept closing in and chasing him away from the battlefield.

Jiang Ping'an drove Brund away and returned victorious to Ping'an City, while the Celestial Race and Fox Race forces withdrew. Brund then pressured Qingqiu City’s surviving Nine-Tailed Celestial Foxes, and the chapter ended with both sides preparing for further conflict.

• The Celestial Race army retreated after Brund fled from Jiang Ping'an, who returned to find the Human Race army cheering.
• Jiang Ping'an announced victory and led his army back to Ping'an City, where the citizens celebrated his return.
• Brund regrouped near Qingqiu City and demanded that the Nine-Tailed Celestial Foxes come before him, but they sealed the city and refused.
• The four surviving Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox leaders decided to summon their Old Ancestor with a heart's-blood ritual if danger worsened.
• Brund set aside his threat against Qingqiu City and sent Venerables to request at least two more Saints as reinforcements.
• Jiang Ping'an monitored the Celestial Race army and concluded that Ping'an City would need more victories before it could negotiate.

Jiang Ping'an negotiated with Saint Brund and secured a tribute demand of only one hundred thousand drops of Human Race essence blood, averting immediate war with the Celestial Race. He returned safely to Ping'an City, celebrated the agreement, and warned everyone to remain vigilant and remember the Celestial Race’s humiliation.

• Brun Guan invited Jiang Ping'an to meet the Celestial Race Saint, and Jiang Ping'an agreed to negotiate face-to-face before Ping'an City’s gates despite warnings that it could be a trap.
• Ye Qingluan urged Jiang Ping'an to be careful, and he reassured her before promising they would have a child after the crisis passed.
• Jiang Ping'an met Saint Brund, who demanded tribute, and negotiated the list down to one hundred thousand drops of essence blood.
• Brund accepted the terms and gave Ping'an City five days to prepare the tribute, then left without ambushing Jiang Ping'an.
• Jiang Ping'an returned safely to cheering crowds, announced the negotiations had succeeded, and warned the city not to lower its guard.
• Jiang Ping'an explained the tribute to Ping'an City's leaders and vowed that they would one day repay the Celestial Race ten thousandfold.

Jiang Ping'an secured the Celestial Race's promise to take the Human Race essence blood, then asked Princess Yunhua to help persuade Qingqiu City to surrender intact before Ping'an City attacked. Yunhua agreed after Jiang promised they would have a child, and Jiang remained at Chenghe Courtyard for several days.

• Brund came to Ping'an City and signed a Heavenly Dao Contract with Jiang Ping'an before the Celestial Race army left Azure Treasure Continent.
• Jiang Ping'an comforted Princess Yunhua, asked to use the Heavenly Fox Race secret technique to have a child, and said Qingluan would conceive first.
• Jiang Ping'an told Yunhua that Ping'an City would attack Qingqiu City and asked her to persuade it to surrender in exchange for peace and the Fox Race's continued survival.
• Yunhua agreed to follow Jiang Ping'an's arrangements after he promised they would have a child.
• Jiang Ping'an stayed with Yunhua through the night, then invited Hu Yan'er to join them when she came to Chenghe Courtyard.
• Jiang Ping'an left Chenghe Courtyard on the morning of the third day.

Jiang Ping'an created the rosy-light avatar Ye Xiake and tasked him with establishing the Xiaguang Sect to revive the Falling Dusk Immortal Sect at Douguang Mountain. After recovering his Divine Soul, Jiang Ping'an decided to create another avatar to infiltrate the Celestial Race and investigate why they demanded Human Race blood essence.

• Jiang Ping'an visited Douguang Mountain, told Ye Qingyan that Ping'an City had repelled the Celestial Race army, and collected the rosy light gathered by the Chaos Gourd.
• Jiang Ping'an cultivated the Undying Rosy-Light Phoenix Avatar, named it Ye Xiake, and gave it the Time Treasure Wheel and resources to establish the Xiaguang Sect.
• Jiang Ping'an asked Ye Qingyan to assist Ye Xiake, then returned to Ping'an City and recovered his Divine Soul with a God Source Crystal.
• Jiang Ping'an decided to create an avatar to infiltrate the Celestial Race and investigate the secret behind its demands for Human Race blood essence, then quietly left Ping'an City.

Jiang Ping'an cultivated a third avatar from the Northern Ice Plains' gale winds and sent Jiang Wuji to infiltrate the Celestial Race. After taking Sol Xiaofeng's identity, Jiang Wuji entered the Celestial Continent's second ring and began settling into his new life at Eastern Source Academy.

• Jiang Ping'an told the mournful voice that he had seen Ye Wuji inside the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin and promised to keep searching for him.
• The mournful voice summoned a vast, pure mass of gale wind, which Jiang Ping'an refined before cultivating the Gale Wind Avatar and naming it Jiang Wuji.
• Jiang Ping'an and Jiang Wuji traveled to the Central Wastelands, then parted ways, with Jiang Wuji heading for the Celestial Continent.
• Jiang Wuji took Sol Xiaofeng's memories and identity, killed him, and entered the Celestial Continent's restricted second ring.
• Jiang Wuji reached Eastern Source Academy, where Baho Yanzhi stopped him and asked whether he had been fooling around in the third ring.

Jiang Wuji tried to make Sol Xiaofeng ambitious by staging a humiliating romance with Buren Ziran, but the plan changed when he learned Sol Xiaofeng’s father had died during a failed tribulation. He seized on the news as the great stimulation he needed and pretended to be devastated.

• Jiang Wuji chose Buren Ziran as Sol Xiaofeng’s pursuit target and declared his love for her throughout Eastern Source Academy after she rejected him.
• The formation instructor offered to help Sol Xiaofeng get closer to Buren Ziran if he studied formations, but Jiang Wuji dismissed the offer.
• Jiang Wuji reflected on the Celestial Race’s rigid class hierarchy and kept meeting with Sol Xiaofeng’s cronies, hoping to learn why the Celestial Race collected Human Race blood essence.
• After more than ten days of pursuing Buren Ziran, Jiang Wuji learned from a household servant that Sol Xiaofeng’s father had died while failing a tribulation.
• Jiang Wuji kicked the servant and feigned disbelief and grief, recognizing the death as a perfect opportunity to motivate Sol Xiaofeng.

Disguised as Sol Xiaofeng, Jiang Wuji performed a grieving son’s collapse at Sol Mingyuan’s funeral, then returned to Eastern Source Academy and displayed startling insight into array theory. His new reputation as a prodigal son awakened by grief began to grow, but he knew he needed a bigger achievement to convince the Sol Family.

• At Sol Mingyuan’s funeral, Jiang Wuji let a main-branch steward’s insults provoke him into a public outburst and despairing collapse.
• Three days later, Jiang Wuji returned to Eastern Source Academy, cut off his old companions, and devoted himself to studying arrays.
• When the instructor discussed the Nine Palaces Yuan-Locking Array, Jiang Wuji proposed an unconventional solution that impressed the class and instructor.
• Jiang Wuji explained his renewed dedication as a response to his father’s death and the humiliation of being called useless, gaining sympathy and attention at the academy.
• As the academy’s upper ranks took notice of his research, Jiang Wuji decided he needed a major achievement to prove his talent to the Sol Family.

Jiang Ping'an led Ping'an City's fleet to attack Qingqiu City after refusing to risk losing his cultivation to a pregnancy secret art before the campaign. The Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Ancestor ambushed the fleet, but Jiang Ping'an overwhelmed it and drove it to flee toward Qingqiu City.

• Jiang Ping'an emerged from five days of seclusion and learned that preparations to attack Qingqiu City were progressing smoothly.
• Ye Qingluan visited Jiang Ping'an to discuss having a child, and he decided against using the Origin Reversion Pregnancy Art until it was safer to do so.
• After half a year, Jiang Ping'an stirred up Human Race anger toward Qingqiu City and led a fleet of fifteen hundred ships toward it.
• A sea of fire descended on the fleet, but a Purple Flame Phoenix swallowed the flames before the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Ancestor warned the army to turn back.
• Jiang Ping'an charged the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Ancestor, absorbed its attacks with the Profound Emperor Armor, and struck it down with the Dragon Abyss Halberd.
• Wounded and weakened, the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Ancestor fled through the void toward Qingqiu City.

Jiang Ping'an killed the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Ancestor and brought his corpse to Qingqiu City, where he and Princess Yunhua sought the Fox Race's surrender. The Nine-tailed Celestial Fox Clan Patriarch rejected the offer, but a Supreme Elder questioned whether the Foxes could trust him.

• Jiang Ping'an pursued and killed the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Ancestor, then returned to the Human Race army with the Demon Emperor's corpse.
• Jiang Ping'an asked Princess Yunhua to persuade Qingqiu City to surrender, and she agreed.
• Five days later, Jiang Ping'an brought the army and the ancestor's corpse before Qingqiu City and announced that the Fox Race could surrender and be spared.
• Princess Yunhua pleaded with Jiang Ping'an to spare the Fox Race, and he agreed to wipe away past grudges if they handed over Qingqiu City.
• Princess Yunhua urged her father and the Foxes to surrender, but the Nine-tailed Celestial Fox Clan Patriarch refused, and a Supreme Elder challenged the offer's credibility.