Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ping'an and Princess Yunhua persuaded the Fox Race to surrender Qingqiu City by promising peace and safe passage, despite the Nine-tailed Celestial Fox Clan Chief's resistance. The Fox Race handed over the intact city, and Jiang Ping'an ordered his army not to attack them as they entered.

• The Second Elder questioned Jiang Ping'an and Princess Yunhua about guarantees for the Fox Race, and Jiang Ping'an gave Qingqiu City one day to surrender before striking its defensive barrier with the Dragon Abyss Halberd.
• Princess Yunhua swore upon the Heavenly Dao that the Fox Race could stay or leave freely, and many Fox Race members fled the city to join her.
• After the Second Elder and other foxes urged Hu Junbai to surrender, the Clan Chief bitterly agreed to hand over Qingqiu City.
• Nearly a day later, the Second Elder and other wealthy Fox Race members handed Jiang Ping'an the intact city and its defensive formation's jade talisman.
• Jiang Ping'an declared the grievances between the Human Race and the Fox Race settled, ordered his soldiers not to attack the foxes, and commanded them to enter Qingqiu City.

After the Human Race took Qingqiu City, Jiang Ping'an helped Princess Yunhua’s father recover from his breakdown before the Nine-tailed Celestial Fox Clan Chief left to wander alone. Jiang Ping'an returned in triumph to Ping'an City, rewarded the campaign’s contributors, and announced an expedition to annihilate the Serpentfolk of the Million Mountains.

• The Human Race army entered Qingqiu City, while Princess Yunhua stayed beside her father, who continued laughing madly on the city wall.
• Jiang Ping'an and his generals entered Celestial Fox City, where he rejected proposals to rename it Chen Zhou City or Heaven's Mandate City.
• Jiang Ping'an used the Eternal Soul Suppression Bell to knock out the Nine-tailed Celestial Fox Clan Chief, and Princess Yunhua took her father to rest.
• After waking, the Nine-tailed Celestial Fox Clan Chief accepted that Princess Yunhua had done nothing wrong, then departed to wander alone.
• Jiang Ping'an left Incarnation Ye Bumei, Lan Yu, and part of the army to guard Qingqiu City, then returned with the rest to a jubilant welcome in Ping'an City and distributed rewards.
• Jiang Ping'an announced an expedition against the Serpentfolk of the Million Mountains, ordering Ping'an City's war machine into action.

Jiang Ping'an planned to found a nation encompassing all of Azure Treasure Continent and ordered preparations to connect its cities and relocate people. As excitement spread, he promised Ye Qingluan they would try to conceive an heir after the army returned from Million Mountains.

• Jiang Ping'an sent an army of one hundred thousand cultivators, overseen by Incarnation Ye Bumei, to exterminate the Serpentfolk remaining in Million Mountains.
• At a meeting with Ping'an City's upper ranks, Jiang Ping'an insisted that the new nation claim all of Azure Treasure Continent and proposed relocating people from other regions to populate it.
• Jiang Ping'an established plans for a Migration and Resettlement Division, chose Ye Tieshi to lead it, and set the nation's founding for one year later.
• Jiang Ping'an ordered ten cities built between Ping'an City and Qingqiu City and asked the upper ranks to recommend fifteen construction overseers within half a month.
• People in Ping'an City, Moonrise City, and Qingqiu City celebrated the coming nation, while Jiang Shuyue and Ye Qingluan discussed Jiang Ping'an's future as emperor.
• Jiang Ping'an agreed with Ye Qingluan to visit Ye Clan Grotto-Heaven and conceive a child after the army returned from its campaign.

Jiang Ping'an became entangled with Nangong You Rong before she and Ji Wusu left, then rewarded Ye Tieshi and went with Ye Qingluan to live quietly in a mountain village. Their seclusion ended when Ye Qingxue arrived, isolated Jiang Ping'an, and revealed her interest in his secrets.

• Nangong You Rong revealed that she and Ji Wusu were both women and asked Jiang Ping'an to impregnate Ji Wusu so they could stay, but he refused.
• Nangong You Rong drew Jiang Ping'an into bed, and he later returned to Qiyun Courtyard to drink with her, where Ji Wusu soon reappeared.
• After the army returned from subduing the Serpentfolk of the Million Mountains, Jiang Ping'an appointed Ye Tieshi Director of the Migration and Resettlement Division and gave him a God Source Crystal.
• Jiang Ping'an and Ye Qingluan chose a village in the Ye Clan Grotto-Heaven and used the Source Tracing Infant Nurturing Art to live as mortals in seclusion.
• Ye Qingxue arrived at the village, prevented Jiang Ping'an's voice from reaching outside, and said she was interested in his secrets.

Jiang Ping'an imprisoned Ye Qingxue after she discovered a secret he could not risk revealing, while he and Ye Qingluan learned they were expecting a child. After visiting Ye Qingluan’s family, the couple left the Ye Clan Grotto-Heaven without asking its chief about Ye Wuji, and Jiang Ping'an continued searching for a way to deal with Ye Qingxue.

• Jiang Ping'an trapped Ye Qingxue in the Profound Yellow Pagoda after she insisted on learning his secret.
• Jiang Ping'an told Ye Qingluan that he could not trust Ye Qingxue or release her, and Ye Qingluan agreed to leave her imprisoned for now.
• More than ten days later, Ye Qingluan told Jiang Ping'an she thought she was pregnant, and he celebrated the news.
• After their cultivation recovered, Jiang Ping'an and Ye Qingluan visited her parents in Ye Clan City, where Ye Qingluan’s Mother and Ye Jingming rejoiced over the pregnancy.
• Jiang Ping'an asked the Fifth Elder, Ye Qingtian, about Ye Wuji’s departure from the Ye Family Ancient Clan, then left with Ye Qingluan without visiting Ye Wentian.
• On the way out of the Ye Clan Grotto-Heaven, Jiang Ping'an proposed taking Ye Qingxue’s life soul, but he and Ye Qingluan agreed to keep considering other solutions.

Jiang Ping'an kept Ye Qingxue imprisoned and used a God Source Crystal to stabilize Ye Qingluan's pregnancy. Meanwhile, Jiang Wuji rejected Buren Ziran, then accepted a Sol Family summons that brought him with other young Formation Masters to a forbidden site, where he studied a grand formation and absorbed Immortal Spiritual Energy.

• Jiang Ping'an released Ye Qingxue, but after she refused to regret her actions, he imprisoned her again in the Profound Yellow Pagoda.
• Jiang Ping'an gave Ye Qingluan a God Source Crystal to help stabilize her growing pregnancy.
• Jiang Wuji rejected Buren Ziran when she confessed she would accept his pursuit, then slapped her after she blocked his path again.
• Sol Hezhang and Sol Xiaoli summoned Jiang Wuji on behalf of the Sol Family and the Celestial Race, and he departed with them after packing.
• The Sol Family brought Jiang Wuji and other young Formation Masters to a guarded forbidden site deep in the Celestial Continent.
• Jiang Wuji quickly comprehended his assigned portion of a grand formation, memorized the full formation, then pretended to absorb Immortal Spiritual Energy with the others.

Jiang Wuji discovered that the Celestial Race was using Human Race essence blood to consecrate an Immortal-Ranked Ancient Formation, then escaped the flying ship before reaching the Sol Family. A Saint detected him as he left the first ring, and he fled toward the second-ring gate with Celestial Race forces pursuing him.

• Jiang Wuji received a waterskin containing one million drops of Human Race essence blood and learned that the Celestial Race was feeding it into the Immortal-Ranked Ancient Formation.
• After nine bell chimes, Jiang Wuji refined the essence blood into his assigned formation node and later left with the young Celestial Race Formation Masters.
• Jiang Wuji weighed whether to return to the Sol Family or escape mid-journey, then used Void Escape to leave the flying ship and concealed himself with the Ever-Safe Vestment.
• Jiang Wuji disguised himself as Sol Xiaofeng and passed through the first-ring city gate, but a Sol Family Saint detected and pursued him.
• Jiang Wuji transformed into his Undying Gale Phoenix form and raced toward the second-ring gate as Celestial Race Saints and Venerables joined the pursuit.

Jiang Wuji escaped the Celestial Continent while Suo'er Buqun and Balun Yu pursued him, surviving two Saint Artifact attacks and using deep seawater to break their Spiritual Sense lock. Suo'er Buqun vowed that the Sol Family would investigate Jiang Wuji for killing and impersonating one of their descendants.

• Jiang Wuji fled through the Celestial Continent's ring walls using Void Escape, but Balun Yu struck him twice with a Saint Artifact and he regenerated both times.
• Jiang Wuji used a God Source Crystal to replenish his mana, reached the ocean, and dove several thousand zhang below the surface to evade the Saints' Spiritual Sense lock.
• Balun Yu and Suo'er Buqun lost Jiang Wuji's aura and discussed his regenerative ability and how he had infiltrated the Celestial Race.
• Suo'er Buqun said Jiang Wuji had posed as a Sol Family collateral descendant to enter the Ancient Immortal Spirit Formation and vowed the Sol Family would investigate him.

Jiang Ping'an learned that the Celestial Continent had been built by the Human Race and that the Celestial Race used Human blood essence to maintain its claim over it, deepening his anger at their seizure of the continent and suppression of history. As Jiang Ping'an prepared to establish a nation and proclaim himself emperor, delegations from across the Human Race gathered in Ping'an City for the ceremony.

• The Celestial Secret Sage failed to trace Jiang Ping'an's origins because the Profound Emperor Armor blocked his divine ability and cost him ten years of lifespan.
• Jiang Wuji returned to Ping'an City, merged souls with Jiang Ping'an, and shared what he had learned about the Ancient Immortal Spirit Formation.
• Jiang Ping'an used Proficiency Points to understand the formation and discovered that the Celestial Continent had been built by the Human Race and required Human blood essence to keep it from collapsing.
• Jiang Ping'an gave Jiang Wuji the Myriad Tribulations Wind Banner and appointed him an honorary venerable guest of Ping'an City with three times the usual benefits.
• As Ye Qingluan's pregnancy progressed, delegations from major Human Race powers and kingdoms arrived in Ping'an City for Jiang Ping'an's upcoming proclamation as emperor.

Jiang Ping'an founded Great An Kingdom, proclaimed himself emperor, and began preparing to relocate Human Race survivors from the Central Wastelands. He sent Ye Tieshi and an army of one thousand, accompanied by Jiang Wuji and the Chaos Gourd, to find the survivors and bring them to safety.

• Jiang Ping'an asked Ye Qingtian about pocket-world treasures and proposed population exchanges to delegations from several Human Race kingdoms.
• Jiang Ping'an proclaimed Great An Kingdom, named Ping'an City its capital, and conferred the title of Empress on Ye Qingluan.
• After celebrating for half a month, Jiang Ping'an claimed Azure Treasure Continent's borders and later persuaded the Chaos Gourd to help transport up to one million living people.
• Jiang Ping'an appointed Ye Tieshi to lead a thousand cultivators to find captive Human Race survivors in the Central Wastelands, with Jiang Wuji and the Chaos Gourd accompanying them.
• Ye Tieshi's army departed Ping'an City for the Central Wastelands, where Jiang Wuji knew the survivors' locations.

Jiang Ping'an oversaw the first harvest of Clarity Tea Leaves, sent Ji Wusu and Nangong You Rong back to the Great Qian Kingdom, and helped Lan Yu prepare for her dangerous breakthrough. Lan Yu survived the Saint Heavenly Tribulation with the Nine Dragon Divine Shroud and became a Saint.

• Ye Qingluan told Jiang Ping'an that their child would likely be born in about another year, and he returned to cultivating at Heaven's Mandate Palace.
• Jiang Ping'an and Noble Consort Yunhua harvested thirty-three Clarity Tea Leaves, then spent the night together.
• Jiang Ping'an gave Ji Wusu five Clarity Tea Leaves, and she and Nangong You Rong returned to the Great Qian Kingdom.
• Jiang Ping'an gave Lan Yu the Nine Dragon Divine Shroud to help protect her during her advancement, persuading the artifact to acknowledge her as its master with a God Source Crystal.
• Two months later, Lan Yu underwent the Saint Heavenly Tribulation under Jiang Ping'an's protection and survived, becoming a Saint.

After Lan Yu became a Saint, she revealed that her former personality had been a disguise and explained that she had stayed close to Jiang Ping'an to benefit from his fate. Jiang Ping'an let her remain by his side and arranged for her and Jiang Shuyue to live in Qingqiu City, where they would be safer.

• Jiang Ping'an congratulated Lan Yu on becoming a Saint, and she admitted that her former personality had been a disguise motivated by his Ancient Sacred Body.
• Jiang Ping'an asked Lan Yu to stay, then returned with her to Ping'an City and ordered a grand celebration for her ascension.
• Ye Qingluan congratulated Lan Yu and offered to relinquish the Empress position, but Lan Yu declined it and told her to focus on her pregnancy.
• After the celebrations, Jiang Ping'an asked Lan Yu to protect Jiang Shuyue in Qingqiu City, and the two began to reconcile over wine and the night together.
• Jiang Ping'an persuaded Jiang Shuyue to move to Qingqiu City, and two or three days later Lan Yu and Jiang Shuyue left Ping'an City while Ye Mie was transferred there.

Jiang Ping'an burned Ye Qingxue with Karma Cleansing Skyfire until she nearly died, then spared her and discovered that she had developed an unnatural attachment to him. He sent her back toward the Ye Clan Grotto-Heaven and continued on to the Xiao Family Ancient Clan, while Ye Qingxue secretly viewed her feelings as a possible path to sainthood.

• Jiang Ping'an released Ye Qingxue in a concealed valley and attacked her with Karma Cleansing Skyfire after she refused to surrender.
• The Profound Yellow Pagoda suppressed Ye Qingxue and her Spirit Treasure as the karmic flames burned her nearly to death.
• Jiang Ping'an removed the flames before they killed Ye Qingxue, then waited while she recovered.
• Ye Qingxue thanked Jiang Ping'an and admitted that she felt she had fallen in love with him, though she knew the feeling was abnormal.
• More than ten days later, Jiang Ping'an sent Ye Qingxue toward the Ye Clan Grotto-Heaven and set course for the Xiao Family Ancient Clan.
• After Jiang Ping'an departed, Ye Qingxue considered her feelings a possible opportunity to become a Saint and lamented their separation.

Jiang Ping'an reached the Xiao Clan Grotto-Heaven to trade with the Creation Divine Furnace, which swallowed a Foreign Race Saint Artifact and asked him to wait three days. The furnace recognized the Profound Yellow Pagoda as the Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Pagoda and offered to restore its missing pagoda body, but the pagoda denied its identity and withdrew into Jiang Ping'an.

• Jiang Ping'an arrived at Flowing Flame Lake under the alias Chen Hunyuan and said he had come at the Creation Divine Furnace's invitation.
• Xiao Yian and the Xiao Clan patriarch verified Jiang Ping'an's identity and escorted him to the Creation Divine Furnace.
• The Creation Divine Furnace recognized the Profound Yellow Pagoda, asked where its pagoda body was, and offered to restore its Apex Emperor Weapon might.
• Jiang Ping'an released the Foreign Race Saint Artifact, and the Creation Divine Furnace swallowed it before telling Jiang Ping'an to wait three days.
• The Profound Emperor Armor and Heaven Flipping Seal teased the Profound Yellow Pagoda about its identity, and the pagoda denied being the Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Pagoda before retreating into Jiang Ping'an's body.

Jiang Ping'an completed his body tempering in the Creation Divine Furnace and returned to Ping'an City, where he learned that Great An Kingdom was prospering. He ordered Ye Qingxue to resign from her high office but allowed her to remain in Ping'an City and visit him.

• Jiang Ping'an endured four months of tempering in the Creation Divine Furnace, reaching a level of bodily strength that temporarily caused him to shatter space.
• Jiang Ping'an promised to deliver five sacred artifacts within fifty years and learned from the Creation Divine Furnace that Bodhi Seeds were controlled by Zhong Sheng Temple.
• Jiang Ping'an returned to Ping'an City and found that millions of people had relocated to Great An Kingdom as its population grew.
• Ye Qingluan told Jiang Ping'an that Ye Qingxue had become a third-rank high official and had gained influence over the court.
• Jiang Ping'an summoned Ye Qingxue and ordered her to resign, but permitted her to live in Ping'an City and visit him to discuss the Dao.

After Ye Feng’s birth, Jiang Ping'an learned from Ye Wentian that Ye Wuji had built a Bronze Coffin and was still alive. He returned to the Northern Ice Plains seeking clues, but the resentful voice could not locate Ye Wuji and instead forced him to accept two Foreign Race Saint artifacts.

• After more than half a year of retreat, Jiang Ping'an and Ye Qingluan welcomed their son, whom Jiang Ping'an named Ye Feng; later, Hu Yunhua conceived Jiang Ping'an's child at the cost of much of her cultivation.
• When Ye Feng turned one, Jiang Ping'an visited the Ye Clan Grotto-Heaven and asked Ye Wentian about Ye Wuji's final years.
• Ye Wentian consulted the secret Ye Clan History and told Jiang Ping'an that Ye Wuji had used his resources to forge a huge Bronze Coffin and nine divine-iron chains.
• Jiang Ping'an realized that the figure in the Bronze Coffin was Ye Wuji, still alive after eighty thousand years, and traveled to the Northern Ice Plains to question the resentful voice.
• The resentful voice admitted it did not know where Ye Wuji had gone, then forced Jiang Ping'an to accept two Foreign Race Saint artifacts, which he imprisoned in the Profound Yellow Pagoda.

Jiang Ping'an learned that the Ancient Sacred Body advanced through unceasing battle and resolved to follow that path after settling his affairs. He recruited 103 lightning-element cultivators to strengthen the Thunder Clan bloodline and brought them to the Nine Heavens Thunder Pool.

• Jiang Ping'an delivered two weakened Foreign Race Saint artifacts to the Creation Divine Furnace, which told him that the Ancient Sacred Body must advance through battle or fall in battle.
• After pondering the Creation Divine Furnace's advice for more than ten days, Jiang Ping'an decided to pursue battle and first settle scores with the Zhennan Marquis Estate while securing Divine Lightning Crystals.
• Jiang Ping'an ordered Zhong Wending to select lightning-element cultivators for secluded training, then revealed that they would have to produce offspring with the people living in the cultivation treasure land and leave those children there.
• After some candidates withdrew, Jiang Ping'an selected 103 lightning-element cultivators and took them in the Profound Yellow Pagoda toward the Nine Heavens Thunder Pool.
• Jiang Ping'an reached the Nine Heavens Thunder Pool after traveling through the Western Wastelands.

Jiang Ping'an settled 103 lightning-element cultivators in the Nine Heavens Thunder Pool and exchanged wine and supplies with the Thunder Clan. After preparing for a long absence, he left Ping'an City to visit Jiang Shuyue and Lan Yu before confronting the Zhennan Marquis Estate.

• Jiang Ping'an brought 103 lightning-element cultivators to the Nine Heavens Thunder Pool, where the Thunder Clan chief welcomed them and arranged for Wang Xingyou to take them to Minghua Hall.
• Jiang Ping'an and the Thunder Clan chief agreed that the cultivators would stay for ten to fifteen years, with their children remaining in the clan, and Jiang Ping'an requested Golden Thunder Crystals.
• The Thunder Clan chief traded 3,000 Divine Lightning Crystals for 1,000 jugs of Monkey Emperor Wine, and the clan later sold Jiang Ping'an 8,000 Divine Lightning Crystals and other treasures.
• Jiang Ping'an checked that the cultivators had adapted, declined the Thunder Soul True Spirit, and reminded them that he would support them if they suffered grievances.
• Jiang Ping'an returned to Ping'an City, stored the new treasures in the Heaven's Mandate Sect treasury, spent half a month with his family and companions, and arranged for his long-term absence before leaving for Qingqiu City to see Jiang Shuyue and Lan Yu.

Jiang Ping'an returned to the Great Qian Kingdom with Jiang Shuyue and Lan Yu to settle the Zhennan Marquis Estate’s long-standing grievances. After smashing White Emperor City’s defensive barrier, he stopped Su Yingluo from escaping and demanded to know where Zhao Yingpeng was.

• Jiang Shuyue insisted on joining Jiang Ping'an to witness her revenge, and Lan Yu agreed to protect her on the journey.
• Jiang Ping'an, Jiang Shuyue, and Lan Yu secretly left for the Great Qian Kingdom, disguising themselves along the way.
• Near White Emperor City, Lan Yu found no Foreign Race Saints or Demon Emperor, so Jiang Ping'an headed directly for the Zhennan Marquis Estate.
• Jiang Ping'an shattered White Emperor City’s defensive barrier with a punch, prompting Su Yingluo to flee using Greater Shift Tokens.
• Jiang Ping'an struck Su Yingluo out of the void, shattered her defensive Spirit Treasure, and demanded to know where Zhao Yingpeng was.

Jiang Ping'an attacked Pudu Mountain to confront Zhao Yingpeng, but Zhao Yingpeng used the Mountain-Sea Sutra to restrain him and tear out his heart and intestines. Jiang Ping'an remained helpless as Zhao Yingpeng ignored the Buddha Lord’s demand to kill him quickly, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Jiang Ping'an killed Su Yingluo after she revealed that Zhao Yingpeng was on Pudu Mountain and tried to self-detonate.
• Jiang Ping'an told Jiang Shuyue and Lan Yu that they would attack Pudu Mountain, then flew there with them.
• Jiang Ping'an shattered Pudu Mountain's defensive formation with a punch, but seven Saint artifacts only cut a thin layer of skin from him.
• The Pudu Mountain Buddha Lord urged Zhao Yingpeng to recite the Mountain-Sea Sutra, whose karmic threads immobilized Jiang Ping'an and pulled his heart from his chest.
• Zhao Yingpeng ignored the Buddha Lord's orders to finish Jiang Ping'an and instead kept pulling out his intestines while Jiang Shuyue begged Lan Yu to save him.