Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ping'an and Zhi Rou reached the canyon where the Myriad Essence Sacred Soil was emerging and waited until the battle among the factions created an opening. Jiang Ping'an used lightning to force five Martial Saints to yield forty percent of the soil, then flew away with Zhi Rou as they guarded the remainder.

• Jiang Ping'an and Zhi Rou arrived at the canyon and waited outside while Moonrise City, Carefree Mountain, and Seven Sins Palace controlled the site.
• When sacred light appeared, the gathered cultivators charged into the canyon, and Xuan Kong Sect's arrival threw the battle into chaos.
• Zhi Rou threw Jiang Ping'an onto a cliff ledge, where he watched the sacred soil rise and summoned lightning that drove most cultivators away.
• Jiang Ping'an negotiated with the five remaining Martial Saints and secured forty percent of the Myriad Essence Sacred Soil for Zhi Rou.
• Jiang Ping'an stopped the lightning and flew away with Zhi Rou while the five Martial Saints guarded the remaining soil from one another.

Jiang Ping'an and Zhi Rou settled in a small city, where she cultivated to the peak of Martial Saint, before they traveled to Forgetful Words City. There, Jiang Ping'an encountered Ye Wuji and obtained the Myriad Essence Divine Soil, but still did not know how to leave Wangui Village.

• Jiang Ping'an and Zhi Rou escaped their pursuers with the Myriad Essence Sacred Soil and moved to a small city, where Jiang Ping'an buried the Profound Yellow Pagoda in the soil and saw it recover.
• Zhi Rou advanced to the great perfection of Martial Saint, then chose to postpone becoming a Martial God and said she wanted to bear Jiang Ping'an children.
• Jiang Ping'an and Zhi Rou left for Forgetful Words City, where they found nine black dragons pulling a Bronze Coffin as the city came under attack.
• Jiang Ping'an called out to Ye Wuji and claimed he had been searching for him on behalf of someone waiting on the Northern Ice Plains.
• Ye Wuji gave Jiang Ping'an the Myriad Essence Divine Soil and ordered him to leave Wangui Village, but Jiang Ping'an admitted he did not know how to return and asked why Ye Wuji did not attack the Celestial Race.

Jiang Ping'an and Zhi Rou returned to Three Sheep Town, where they married before setting out to destroy Xuan Kong Sect. Jiang Ping'an also searched for a way back to the Great Barrens, but found no clue at the place where he had first entered Wangui Village.

• Ye Wuji told Jiang Ping'an to return to the place where he had first entered Wangui Village to find a way back to the Great Barrens, then sent him away.
• Jiang Ping'an and Zhi Rou returned to Three Sheep Town, where Jiang Tieshan gave Jiang Ping'an a treasured sword and Zhi Rou revealed that she wanted to destroy Xuan Kong Sect.
• Jiang Ping'an gave gifts to the families of the young people taken by Xuan Kong Sect, then quietly visited the place where Jiang Tieshan and Jiang Xiuying had found him but discovered nothing unusual.
• Jiang Xiuying arranged Jiang Ping'an and Zhi Rou's wedding, and the couple married in a grand ceremony attended by the whole town.
• More than ten days after their wedding, Jiang Ping'an and Zhi Rou left Three Sheep Town to prepare to attack Xuan Kong Sect.

Jiang Ping'an and Zhi Rou attacked Xuan Kong Sect, killing its man-eating monsters and inspiring the sect’s human captives to fight back. As a black cloud vortex formed over the mountain, Jiang Ping'an burned the monsters’ remains before they could be absorbed, provoking the hidden monster to roar at him.

• Jiang Ping'an and Zhi Rou began killing Xuan Kong Sect’s monsters in waves, with Zhi Rou fighting openly while Jiang Ping'an saved his strength.
• Jiang Ping'an used Hellfire to burn a large group of monsters, then he and Zhi Rou lured away and killed another pursuing wave.
• Three days later, Jiang Ping'an and Zhi Rou fought their way up Xuan Kong Mountain as its monsters attacked them.
• A sect member rallied the human powerhouses, who joined the battle and helped slaughter the monsters.
• A black cloud vortex formed over the summit, and Jiang Ping'an burned the monsters’ rising corpses and fragments before they could reach it.
• The hidden monster roared from the mountaintop and demanded to know who Jiang Ping'an was.

Jiang Ping'an and Zhi Rou destroyed Xuan Kong Sect and uncovered the Profound Yellow Pagoda’s lost tower body beneath Xuan Kong Mountain. After returning to Three Sheep Town and settling there with their parents, Jiang Ping'an began cultivating the pagoda while seeking a way back to the Great Barrens.

• Jiang Ping'an killed the humanoid monster behind Xuan Kong Sect, and he and Zhi Rou dissolved the sect and divided its treasures.
• Zhi Rou tried to destroy Xuan Kong Mountain, but its covering stones fell away to reveal the Profound Yellow Pagoda’s lost tower body, which merged with Jiang Ping'an’s pagoda.
• Jiang Ping'an and Zhi Rou returned to Three Sheep Town, but Jiang Tieshan drove them away to make their way in the world.
• Jiang Ping'an and Zhi Rou settled in the county town, hosted a lavish feast for the people of Three Sheep Town, and later returned to live near Jiang Tieshan and Jiang Xiuying.
• Jiang Ping'an began cultivating the Profound Yellow Pagoda with Myriad Essence Divine Soil and planted two Ninth-Grade Sword Seeds as he considered how to return to the Great Barrens.

After years of searching for a way home, Jiang Ping'an watched Zhi Rou undergo Heavenly Tribulation and tear open a rift to the Great Barrens. The two were drawn through the rift together, and Jiang Ping'an’s powerful cultivation returned.

• Three years after the Ninth-Grade Sword Seeds matured into divine swords, Zhi Rou struck at the sky but could not cleave open the void.
• Jiang Ping'an repaired the Profound Yellow Pagoda but, unable to find a sure path home, decided to break through Wangui Village’s cultivation limit.
• Jiang Ping'an told Zhi Rou he planned to continue breaking through, and she insisted on going with him.
• After they left Three Sheep Town, Zhi Rou began her breakthrough and endured the Heavenly Tribulation’s lightning strikes.
• Zhi Rou used her remaining primordial blood qi to tear open the void, and Jiang Ping'an recognized the Great Barrens beyond the rift.
• Jiang Ping'an and Zhi Rou entered the rift together, and Jiang Ping'an felt his cultivation return.

Jiang Ping'an and Zhi Rou ascended into a cage designed to capture Martial Gods, but Jiang Ping'an broke them free and learned the Celestial Race intended to refine their victims’ Divine Souls into Spirit Treasures. As they escaped, he helped Zhi Rou begin adapting to the Great Barrens, then found the Profound Yellow Pagoda unresponsive.

• Jiang Ping'an explained the barrier to Zhi Rou as three Celestial Race members arrived and revealed their plan to capture the ascenders and refine their Divine Souls into Spirit Treasures.
• Jiang Ping'an used the Dragon Abyss Halberd to destroy the cage, then seized the fleeing Celestial Race members with his Spiritual Sense and questioned them.
• Zhi Rou killed the three captors with her divine sword, and Jiang Ping'an took her away aboard the Top-Grade Treasure Ship to avoid fighting the Celestial Race while his strength remained weakened.
• Jiang Ping'an confirmed that his and Zhi Rou's divine swords had newly born Spirits of the Artifact, then gave her the Heaven's Mandate Scripture so she could learn to cultivate in the Great Barrens.
• After Zhi Rou went to study the scripture, Jiang Ping'an took out the Profound Yellow Pagoda and found that it showed no reaction in the Great Barrens.

Jiang Ping'an awakened the Profound Yellow Pagoda, then stopped at a scenic mountain with Zhi Rou so they could cultivate and establish a residence. After Zhi Rou read the Heaven's Mandate Scripture, one cup of Jiang Ping'an's Enlightenment Tea let her comprehend it completely, leaving him astonished at how effective the tea had been for her.

• Jiang Ping'an awakened the Profound Yellow Pagoda by supplying magical power, but discovered that the last of his Myriad Essence Divine Soil had lost most of its divine properties.
• After two days of travel, Jiang Ping'an chose a mountain as a place for himself and Zhi Rou to cultivate, then subdued three transformed great demons and made them serve Zhi Rou.
• Zhi Rou renamed the Three-Tailed Fox Fox Qing'er, accepted a Cosmos Sack of spending money from Jiang Ping'an, and directed the three demons as they built their cave abode.
• Zhi Rou finished reading the Heaven's Mandate Scripture and told Jiang Ping'an that its later levels were difficult to understand.
• Jiang Ping'an brewed Enlightenment Tea for Zhi Rou, and she entered sudden enlightenment after drinking it.
• Two days later, Zhi Rou told Jiang Ping'an she had completely comprehended the Heaven's Mandate Scripture, and he realized how powerfully the tea had worked for her.

Zhi Rou rapidly advanced to the Dao Inquiry Realm while Jiang Ping'an restored his cultivation and sought a new path by cultivating the Great Sun Spirit Refining Art. After overcoming a Soul Tribulation and reaching great perfection in the art, his overflowing Spiritual Sense began affecting reality, leaving him to discover that it had destroyed the mountain peak and pulled Zhi Rou into his arms.

• Jiang Ping'an gave Zhi Rou a Divine Origin Crystal and urged her to cultivate before they left the place in about a year.
• Zhi Rou quickly advanced through the realms, reaching the Dao Inquiry Realm, while Jiang Ping'an restored his cultivation to the great perfection of the Dao Inquiry Realm.
• Jiang Ping'an decided to cultivate the Great Sun Spirit Refining Art instead of immediately advancing into the Dao Unification Realm.
• Jiang Ping'an reached the art's ninth level and passed a Soul Tribulation by blocking six bolts of pink heavenly lightning with Spiritual Sense.
• Jiang Ping'an cultivated the Great Sun Spirit Refining Art to great perfection in one month, causing his Divine Soul to grow more than tenfold and his Spiritual Sense to overflow.
• Jiang Ping'an woke to find his Spiritual Sense had removed the mountain peak, then accidentally pulled Zhi Rou into his arms with a thought.

Jiang Ping'an created a Divine Wheel to store excess Spiritual Sense, then spent half a year seeking a way to transform Spiritual Sense into a higher-level power. He brought Zhi Rou to Ping'an City in disguise, and the chapter ended with palace guards recognizing him as their emperor.

• Jiang Ping'an condensed excess Spiritual Sense into a Divine Wheel and tested its ability to cleave and lift a mountain.
• Jiang Ping'an told Zhi Rou the Divine Wheel consumed too much Spiritual Sense for her to use, then continued working on a spirit-refining cultivation art.
• After half a year without finding a way to transform Spiritual Sense, Jiang Ping'an ended his and Zhi Rou's seclusion and set out with her for Ping'an City.
• Jiang Ping'an arrived at Ping'an City disguised as Ye Chenzhou, and a deputy commander recognized him while helping Zhi Rou enter the city.
• Jiang Ping'an toured the city with Zhi Rou before reaching the imperial palace, where the guards knelt and hailed him as Your Majesty.

Jiang Ping'an returned to the imperial palace, reunited with his family, and introduced Zhi Rou to his other partners. The next day, he visited Jiang Shuyue and Lan Yu, invited his mother to Ping'an City, and revealed that he had lost a fight and had to cultivate from the beginning.

• Jiang Ping'an welcomed Ye Qingluan, Crown Prince Ye Feng, Hu Yunhua, Ye An'er, Liu Xixu, and Hu Yan'er after returning to the palace.
• Jiang Ping'an invited Zhi Rou to a family banquet and introduced her to Ye Qingluan and the others, who accepted her.
• Jiang Ping'an comforted Zhi Rou after she cried over sharing him with his other partners.
• Jiang Ping'an rode the Golden-Winged Peng to Qingqiu City and reunited with Jiang Shuyue and Lan Yu.
• Jiang Ping'an invited Jiang Shuyue to stay in Ping'an City, then told Lan Yu he had lost a fight and was cultivating again from the beginning.

Jiang Ping'an returned to the Nine Heavens Thunder Pool to bring home the lightning cultivators he had left there over ten years earlier. He returned to Ping'an City with all 101 survivors, promising the Thunder Clan chief that he would bring another group in the future.

• Jiang Ping'an returned to Ping'an City, where Great An Kingdom had grown to over sixty million people and occupied all of Azure Treasure Continent.
• After spending half a month handling state affairs, Jiang Ping'an stayed in the imperial palace with his family and worked on advancing his Spiritual Sense.
• Half a year later, Jiang Ping'an traveled to the Nine Heavens Thunder Pool and asked the Thunder Clan chief to gather the lightning cultivators he had brought there years earlier.
• Jiang Ping'an found 101 surviving cultivators, learned that they had advanced by two or three realms, and gave them three days to say goodbye or choose to stay.
• After none of the cultivators chose to remain, Jiang Ping'an took them into the Profound Yellow Pagoda and left for Ping'an City, promising to bring the Thunder Clan another group.

Jiang Ping'an returned to Ping'an City, arranged another trip for lightning-element cultivators to the Thunder Clan, and visited the Northern Ice Plains to seek Black-White Extreme Ice. The resentful senior gave him the ice on the condition that he refine it into an Apex Emperor Weapon and bring Ye Wuji to meet her, though Jiang Ping'an believed he could only make a Half-step Emperor Weapon.

• The Profound Yellow Pagoda explained that Emperor Weapons consume Sacred Artifact origins as a substitute for their own apex origin, but refining more Sacred Artifacts would not restore its power.
• Jiang Ping'an returned one hundred and one lightning-element cultivators to Ping'an City, reported the deaths of Shi Yuanhai and Zhao Kang to Zhong Wending, and ordered him to select three thousand cultivators for another trip.
• Jiang Ping'an gave Zhong Wending Heavenly Lightning Fruits for talented children with poor innate foundations, then took the three thousand cultivators to the Thunder Clan palace at the Nine Heavens Thunder Pool.
• Jiang Ping'an visited the Northern Ice Plains and told the resentful senior that Ye Wuji might come see her when the opportunity arose.
• The senior offered Jiang Ping'an Black-White Extreme Ice if he would refine it into an Apex Emperor Weapon and bring Ye Wuji to meet her.
• Jiang Ping'an entered the ice layer to retrieve the Black-White Extreme Ice, reasoning that he might refine it into a Half-step Emperor Weapon instead.

Jiang Ping'an failed to claim the Black-White Extreme Ice and later nurtured the Profound Emperor Armor in his Divine Wheel. At Ye Qingluan’s grandfather’s birthday banquet, Ye Huitian recounted how Emperor Yuan Zhao’s choices helped the Celestial Race seize the Great Barrens, leaving Jiang Ping'an to consider the path needed to oppose a Great Emperor.

• Jiang Ping'an tried to collect the Black-White Extreme Ice, but its Freezing Auroras destroyed his mana and Spiritual Sense before he could reach it.
• The Profound Yellow Pagoda carried Jiang Ping'an out of the ice and gale, and he promised to return for the Black-White Extreme Ice when he was stronger.
• After two or three years, Jiang Ping'an found that the Profound Emperor Armor’s chest had healed and placed it in his Divine Wheel to help restore its consciousness.
• More than a year later, Jiang Ping'an, Ye Qingluan, and Ye Feng traveled to the Ye Clan Grotto-Heaven for Ye Qingluan’s grandfather’s three-hundredth birthday celebration.
• At a banquet, Ye Huitian told Jiang Ping'an that Emperor Yuan Zhao’s refusal to eliminate threats to humanity let the Celestial Race claim the Emperor’s throne and dominate the Great Barrens.
• Ye Huitian said the Celestial Race may have used Zhong Sheng Temple to beguile Emperor Yuan Zhao, while Jiang Ping'an concluded that he had to continue cultivating the Fleshly Primal Chaos Dao.

Jiang Ping'an hurried to Yunmeng Continent with Palace Master Yunshui to rescue Lin Zihan, who was trapped by three Buddhas from Zhong Sheng Temple. After concealing his identity and choosing not to reveal his Ancient Sacred Body, he attacked the Human Race Buddha to create an opening for Lin Zihan to escape.

• Palace Master Yunshui asked Jiang Ping'an to save her Master, Lin Zihan, who was trapped by three Buddhas from Zhong Sheng Temple, and he agreed.
• Jiang Ping'an used the True Thunder Treasure Wings to carry Palace Master Yunshui to Yunmeng Continent, then left her behind the battlefield while he went to help Lin Zihan.
• Jiang Ping'an summoned the Profound Yellow Pagoda and learned that using it to kill the Buddhas could expose his Ancient Sacred Body, so he decided to harass them instead.
• Jiang Ping'an disguised himself as a rugged middle-aged man and summoned the half-Saint Divine Sword Gan Jiang.
• Jiang Ping'an reached the battle at the lake, where three Buddhas attacked Lin Zihan, and sent his nine-colored Divine Wheel toward the Human Race Buddha.

Jiang Ping'an helped Lin Zihan escape the three Buddhas of Zhong Sheng Temple and brought Palace Master Yunshui back to Ping'an City. Lin Zihan reunited with her disciple and agreed to settle at Blackwater Lake, where she vowed to repay Zhong Sheng Temple for destroying Yunshui Palace.

• Jiang Ping'an attacked the Buddha, giving the lake a chance to restrain the other two Buddhas while Lin Zihan escaped.
• Jiang Ping'an detonated the Divine Wheel to wound the Buddha, then used Void Escape to rescue Palace Master Yunshui and flee with her.
• Palace Master Yunshui told Jiang Ping'an that Zhong Sheng Temple had attacked them after Yunshui Palace regained its prestige, leaving only her and Lin Zihan alive.
• Jiang Ping'an and Palace Master Yunshui returned to Ping'an City, where Lin Zihan reunited with her disciple and thanked Jiang Ping'an for saving her.
• Lin Zihan chose to live at Blackwater Lake and urged Palace Master Yunshui to become a Saint so they could avenge Yunshui Palace against Zhong Sheng Temple.

Jiang Ping'an advanced to the Dao Unification Realm, reunited with Lin Zihan, and helped her begin rebuilding Yunshui Palace at Abyss Water Lake. After years of growth for Great An Kingdom, he learned that the Celestial Race had sent a massive army to destroy it, leaving the kingdom on the brink of war.

• Jiang Ping'an asked Lan Yu to protect him while he advanced to the Dao Unification Realm, and the two traveled overseas for his breakthrough.
• Jiang Ping'an visited Lin Zihan at Abyss Water Lake, renewed their relationship, and promised to support her rebuilding Yunshui Palace and one day strike Zhong Sheng Temple.
• Jiang Ping'an ordered Prime Minister Zhang Zhe to assist Yunshui Palace's reconstruction, then entered seclusion as the Profound Emperor Armor regained its intelligence.
• Over the following years, Jiang Ping'an recovered to the middle stage of the Dao Unification Realm, while Great An Kingdom prospered and thousands of lightning-element cultivators joined it.
• Crown Prince Lin Feng, Prime Minister Zhang Zhe, Great General Feng Yihuan, and Tang Xiandong informed Jiang Ping'an that the Celestial Race was sending roughly three hundred thousand troops and at least five saints to attack Great An Kingdom.

Jiang Ping'an prepared Great An Kingdom to defend against a Celestial Race invasion, mobilizing troops and recruiting powerful allies. The two armies faced off near the kingdom’s border as the Celestial Race forces arrived.

• Jiang Ping'an ordered the officials to prepare for war, sent Feng Yihuan to the border with one million soldiers, and ordered Ye Tieshi to recruit five million more.
• Jiang Wuji reported that three hundred thousand Celestial Race troops were advancing toward Great An Kingdom, and Jiang Ping'an asked Lan Yu to join the kingdom's defense.
• Jiang Ping'an persuaded Lin Zihan to fight alongside Great An Kingdom by giving her the Myriad Transformations Return to Emptiness Bottle, a Saint artifact she expected to refine within a month.
• Liu Xixu told Jiang Ping'an that Great An Kingdom had stockpiled three thousand Array Cannons and one million shells, which he held back as a possible battlefield trump card.
• After assembling one million soldiers in West Forest Prefecture and West River Prefecture, Jiang Ping'an, Lan Yu, and Lin Zihan stationed themselves with the army as the Celestial Race troops reached Ten Thousand Mirrors Continent near the border.

Celestial Race commander John Qingyun expected an easy victory over the Great An Kingdom, but the Human Race army’s flying swords overwhelmed his specially prepared counters. The battle continued with the Celestial Race’s defensive weapons shattered and the flying swords still advancing.

• John Qingyun told the other Celestial Race Saints that the Great An Kingdom had sent a million troops to fight at the border, and Brund warned that its flying swords were dangerous.
• John Qingyun said his army had brought Spirit Magnetic Mountains to counter the flying swords and ordered the Saints not to risk their lives against the Human Race Saints.
• After resting for two or three days, the three-hundred-thousand-strong Celestial Race army advanced and clashed with the Human Race army a day later.
• The Human Race flying swords formed a Flying Sword Dragon and repeatedly struck the Spirit Magnetic Mountains until the weapons cracked and shattered.
• John Qingyun watched most of his counters fall within a dozen breaths, while Balund noted that the Human Race had too many flying swords for the Spirit Magnetic Mountains to stop.

The Human Race used Flying Sword Dragons to devastate the Celestial Race army, forcing it to retreat twice despite its numerical and cultivation advantages. John Qingyun rejected John Yey’s proposal to bypass the Human Race forces and insisted on crushing their army.

• Li'er Junjie escaped a Flying Sword Dragon’s attack as it destroyed a Black Tortoise Spirit Shield and slaughtered the soldiers behind it, while John Qingyun held back from joining the battle.
• After the Celestial Race army collapsed and fled, Jiang Ping'an stopped the Human Race’s pursuit before the fighting could escalate into a battle between saints.
• A Celestial Race Venerable reported 13,074 casualties, and John Qingyun ordered John Yey to find a way to break the Flying Sword Formation.
• When the Celestial Race attacked across a wider front, Feng Yihuan kept the Human Race’s formation intact, and its Flying Sword Dragons repelled the encirclement and inflicted heavy losses.
• John Qingyun ordered another retreat after the Celestial Race lost 34,000 more soldiers, and John Yey proposed bypassing the Human Race army to attack its settlements.
• John Qingyun rejected John Yey’s proposal and demanded that the Celestial Race crush the Human Race army.