Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ping'an’s army endured the Celestial Race’s assault for three months before retreating, allowing Great An Kingdom to receive aid from the Ye Family Ancient Clan and other Human Race clans. After the Saints withdrew, the Celestial Race army invaded Great An Kingdom and began slaughtering its people.

• Jiang Ping'an refused to surrender and committed his million cultivators to holding the Celestial Race army for three months while seeking aid from other Human Race powers.
• After two months of battle, the Great An Kingdom army dwindled to about thirty thousand cultivators, and Jiang Ping'an ordered them to retreat when the three-month deadline passed.
• Lan Yu and Lin Zihan deterred the Celestial Race army from pursuing the retreating survivors, while John Qingyun forbade the pursuit to avoid a war between Saints.
• Ye Qingtian arrived with news that the Ye Family Ancient Clan had sent volunteers, including fifteen Venerables, two hundred Great Powers, and three thousand Law Manifestation Realm cultivators.
• Other Ancient Clans sent volunteer armies, but Jiang Ping'an, Lan Yu, and Lin Zihan eventually withdrew, and the Celestial Race army entered Great An Kingdom in three routes and massacred its people.

With the Celestial Race invasion stalled at Great An Kingdom’s second line of defense, Jiang Ping'an sent Jiang Wuji to take his place and traveled to Shun Tian Continent to recruit powerful Foreign Race cultivators. He subdued the Golden Armored Demon Bull and began purifying its Demon Kings with Karma Cleansing Skyfire.

• Jiang Ping'an merged souls with Jiang Wuji, exchanged disguises and artifacts with him, and left him to help Lin Zihan and Lan Yu hold the defense line.
• Jiang Ping'an flew to Thunder Accumulation Mountain, where he offered the Golden Armored Demon Bull a chance to gain strength by helping Great An Kingdom resist the Celestial Race.
• When the Golden Armored Demon Bull refused, Jiang Ping'an restrained it with his Divine Wheel and burned away its turbid aura with Karma Cleansing Skyfire until it submitted to him.
• Jiang Ping'an healed the Golden Armored Demon Bull, explained that the purification could help it advance, and ordered it to summon its Demon Kings.
• The Demon Kings tried to flee, but Jiang Ping'an trapped them with his Divine Wheel and set them burning with Karma Cleansing Skyfire.

Jiang Ping'an used Karma Cleansing Skyfire to subdue Demon Emperors and Demon Kings across Shun Tian Continent, then sent an initial group to reinforce Great An Kingdom against the Celestial Race. After subduing the demons of Tai Yu Mountain, he returned to learn that the first group had fought fiercely, and Feng Yihuan asked him to bring more.

• Jiang Ping'an burned more than twenty Demon Kings with karmic fire, refined their Karma Cleansing Skyfire, and subdued the thirteen who survived fifty breaths.
• Over three days, Jiang Ping'an subdued six Demon Emperors and eighty-seven Demon Kings, then brought two Demon Emperors and twenty-nine Demon Kings to Great An Kingdom's front lines.
• Jiang Ping'an warned Feng Yihuan to treat the demon reinforcements equally, and the Golden Armored Demon Bull and the other demons joined the defense against the Celestial Race.
• Jiang Ping'an spent more than ten days subduing most of Shun Tian Continent's demons, fought the Candle Dragon Demon Emperor at Tai Yu Mountain for three days, and let it escape before subduing the mountain's remaining demons.
• Feng Yihuan told Jiang Ping'an that the demon reinforcements had fought bravely, though six Demon Kings died, and asked him to bring more demons to the front lines.

Jiang Ping'an used the Karma Cleansing Skyfire to enlist demon emperors and demon kings, helping Great An Kingdom drive back the Celestial Race army. After suffering devastating losses, John Qingyun halted the campaign and ordered a retreat while seeking more troops from Celestial Continent.

• Jiang Ping'an sent subdued demon emperors and demon kings to reinforce Great An Kingdom while continuing to recruit more on You Yun Continent.
• John Qingyun questioned why demon beasts were helping Great An Kingdom, and John Yey reported that they feared the Celestial Race would attack them next.
• The growing demon-beast reinforcements helped Great An Kingdom push the front back, and John Qingyun eventually withdrew the Celestial Race army after its losses mounted.
• John Qingyun asked Brund to request one million reinforcements, but Brund and the other Saints warned against provoking a Saint war because the Human Race's Ancient Calamity Body might be nearby.
• John Qingyun ordered John Yey to retreat three thousand li from Great An Kingdom.

Bart Yu Yu and Lati Feiyan joined an anti-war march in Eastern Source City, but a Saint ordered every demonstrator drafted. After Great An Kingdom celebrated driving back the Celestial Race army, Jiang Ping'an warned his officials that a stronger invasion was coming and left to seek Saint artifacts to restore his cultivation.

• Bart Yu Yu and Lati Feiyan protested the war, then learned the Saints planned to conscript another three million troops.
• Bart Yu Yu suggested Lati Feiyan get pregnant to avoid conscription, but a Saint forced the marchers to their knees and ordered them all drafted.
• Jiang Ping'an returned to Ping'an City after the Celestial Race army withdrew, and Great An Kingdom celebrated its preliminary victory.
• Jiang Ping'an told Lan Yu and Lin Zihan he would leave for about three months, then warned the kingdom's officials that the Celestial Race would return in force.
• Jiang Ping'an left Great An Kingdom and flew toward Zhong Sheng Temple to borrow Saint artifacts for the Creation Divine Furnace.

Jiang Ping'an helped a dying pilgrim enter Baoguang City, then challenged and killed the Great Light Jade Buddha. His final attack erased the Buddha from everyone’s memories and severed all traces of his existence, leaving only Jiang Ping'an aware of the killing.

• A dying devotee made prostrations toward Baoguang City with his daughter, hoping the Great Light Jade Buddha would bless her.
• City guards demanded an entry fee and shoved the old man aside, so he tried to kill himself by crashing into a bloodstained boulder.
• Jiang Ping'an stopped the old man, carried him through the gate, and then called the Great Light Jade Buddha out to die.
• Jiang Ping'an fought the Great Light Jade Buddha, using the Profound Yellow Pagoda and Heaven Flipping Seal to break through his defenses.
• Jiang Ping'an killed the Great Light Jade Buddha with Karmic Return to Nothingness, erasing him from everyone’s memories except his own.

Jiang Ping'an hunted down Buddhas, destroyed Baoguang City's arrays to restore the land, and headed into a trap set by Zhong Sheng Temple. The chapter ended as he attacked one of the nine Buddhas waiting for him at Mo Mi Mountain.

• The Profound Yellow Pagoda trapped the Thousand-Zhang Golden Pagoda, then killed more than a dozen Bodhisattvas and over two hundred Arhats at Jiang Ping'an's command.
• Jiang Ping'an destroyed Baoguang City's great arrays, releasing Heavenly Essence across the surrounding land and restoring its vitality.
• Jiang Ping'an killed three Buddhas, collected two sacred artifacts, and stored the corpses of two former beasts for refining.
• Zhong Sheng Temple predicted Jiang Ping'an's next target and arranged for nine Buddhas to ambush him with the Twelve Layers of Wrathful Buddha Light Array.
• Jiang Ping'an entered Mo Mi Mountain, grew to five thousand zhang tall, and punched at one of the Buddhas outside the array.

Jiang Ping'an killed the Buddhas of Zhong Sheng Temple, escaped the Celestial Race’s pursuit, and visited the Xiao Family Ancient Clan to refine Buddhist Saint Artifacts and temper his body. After reaching perfection in the Dao Unification Realm, he hurried back to Great An Kingdom.

• Jiang Ping'an trapped the Wrathful Buddhas, seized six Saint Artifacts, and led the pursuing Buddhas into a counterattack that killed all nine.
• Jiang Ping'an fled the Central Wastelands, while news of his survival and attack on Zhong Sheng Temple alarmed the Celestial Race and sent John Tian searching for him with the Sky Gazing Mirror.
• Jiang Ping'an returned to the Central Wastelands and brought the Buddhist Saint Artifacts to the Creation Divine Furnace, which refined five of them.
• Jiang Ping'an asked the Profound Yellow Pagoda to wait until they returned to Great An Kingdom before refining the remaining Saint Artifacts.
• The Creation Divine Furnace tempered Jiang Ping'an for nearly two months, bringing him to perfection in the Dao Unification Realm, and Jiang Ping'an then set off for Great An Kingdom.

Jiang Ping'an prepared Great An Kingdom for the Celestial Race’s approaching army of three million, while accepting that he might have to reveal his Ancient Sacred Body to defend its people. As the invasion drew closer, he focused on protecting his family and strengthening his Divine Wheel, then discovered an unusual strand of Spiritual Sense.

• Jiang Ping'an learned that the Celestial Race had conscripted three million troops and decided to use the Saint-Slaying Cannon, despite the danger of provoking the Celestial Race’s Saints.
• Jiang Ping'an told Lan Yu and Lin Zihan that he would not abandon Great An Kingdom, and Lan Yu vowed not to retreat if he stayed.
• Jiang Ping'an brought Jiang Shuyue to Ping'an City after she chose to face danger alongside her family, and he refused Ye Qingluan’s request to send Ye Feng to the Ye Clan Grotto-Heaven.
• Jiang Ping'an concealed the Profound Yellow Pagoda beneath the Black Abyss River so it could refine a Saint artifact without causing a great disturbance.
• Jiang Ping'an spent time with his family as the Celestial Race’s army advanced slowly, then focused on strengthening his Divine Wheel to withstand an imperial weapon’s strike.
• Jiang Ping'an noticed that one strand of his Spiritual Sense was different from the others.

Jiang Ping'an discovered Heart Force, a powerful energy born from the heart, and began cultivating it to strengthen his Divine Wheel and protect his loved ones. More than ten days later, the Profound Yellow Pagoda reported it could unleash a portion of an Apex Emperor Weapon’s power, while the Profound Emperor Armor and divine sword sought to be refined with Heart Force.

• Jiang Ping'an failed to reproduce the resilient Spiritual Sense thread until he recalled the longing he had felt while refining it.
• Jiang Ping'an walked with Jiang Shuyue and Ye An'er in the imperial garden, resolved to become like the sun, and demonstrated Heart Force by piercing Immortal Tear Green Gold.
• Jiang Ping'an gave Ye An'er the Great Sun Spirit Refining Art and cultivated Heart Force, nearly exhausting his blood vitality and force before restoring them with a Divine Origin Crystal.
• More than ten days later, the Profound Yellow Pagoda told Jiang Ping'an it could unleash twenty percent of an Apex Emperor Weapon’s power in suppression.
• The Profound Emperor Armor asked Jiang Ping'an to refine it with Heart Force, and the divine sword also called for Heart Force.

Jiang Ping'an strengthened the Profound Emperor Armor with Heart Force as the Celestial Race's army advanced on Great An Kingdom. Saint-Slaying Cannons disguised as falling meteors destroyed the three-million-strong army and drove the Celestial Race Saints to retreat, while Jiang Ping'an prepared for a possible battle among Saints.

• Jiang Ping'an decided to refine the Profound Emperor Armor with Heart Force until it could withstand several Celestial Race Saints attacking together.
• Two months later, fifteen Celestial Race Saints and an army of three million reached Great An Kingdom's border, while three more Saints lay hidden nearby with the Guan Tian Realm.
• Dozens of meteors struck the Celestial Race army, killing all three million soldiers as John Qingyun and the other Saints escaped.
• John Qingyun, Brund, Bahomodo, and the other Celestial Race Saints mistook the attack for a powerful spell and withdrew to the Celestial Continent.
• Jiang Ping'an told Incarnation Ye Bumei, Ye Xiake, and Jiang Wuji to hide the Saint-Slaying Cannons, then ordered Feng Yihuan to pull Great An Kingdom's troops back from the border.
• Feng Yihuan announced the Celestial Race army's destruction, and the Great An Kingdom soldiers erupted in cheers.

After the Celestial Race’s army was destroyed, Jiang Ping'an prepared for the Saints’ retaliation and secured Chaos Gourd’s help. He and his allies then confronted the fifteen Celestial Race Saints, leaving the battle poised to begin.

• The Celestial Race erupted in protest over the deaths of three million soldiers, but unrest subsided after the Saints announced they would fight the Great An Kingdom themselves.
• Brund learned he was among the fifteen Saints assigned to attack the Great An Kingdom and resented that the thirteen great families’ Saints were exempt.
• Jiang Ping'an asked Chaos Gourd to protect him during the coming Saint war, and Chaos Gourd agreed to help for thirty years in exchange for ten Saint Artifacts.
• Two months later, Jiang Ping'an, Ye Bumei, and Jiang Wuji joined Lan Yu and Lin Zihan after receiving warnings that the Celestial Race Saints had arrived.
• Jiang Ping'an told Lan Yu and Lin Zihan to each face one Saint while he handled the rest, and the two sides met near the Great An Kingdom’s western border.

Jiang Ping'an challenged the Celestial Race Saints and fought off an expanding group of attackers with his Saint Artifact armor and sword. The chapter ended with ten Saints unleashing their ultimate moves against him, hoping his death would bring down Great An Kingdom.

• Luo Suling cautiously confronted Jiang Ping'an, while Jiang Ping'an rejected his offer to spare the Human Race if they left Azure Treasure Continent.
• Jiang Ping'an challenged the Celestial Race Saints and used Divine Sword Gan Jiang to strike Lan Nongjianlai, who fled after his defensive treasure was damaged.
• Brund, Lan Nongjianlai, and Barton Kang attacked Jiang Ping'an from a distance but avoided fighting him directly, prompting Luo Suling to order reinforcements.
• Jiang Ping'an laughed that he would take on ten Saints, and Luo Suling sent five more to join the attack.
• The ten Celestial Race Saints stopped holding back and unleashed their ultimate moves together against Jiang Ping'an.

Jiang Ping'an used the Profound Emperor Armor to repel the Celestial Race Saints, killing one and badly wounding Teran Fuyuki before returning to Ping'an City. The surviving Saints abandoned their proposed guerrilla campaign and headed back to Celestial Continent to seek an imperial weapon or another counter to the armor.

• Jiang Ping'an used the Divine Wheel and Divine Sword Gan Jiang to destroy Teran Fuyuki's body, but Teran Fuyuki escaped with his strength greatly diminished.
• Jiang Ping'an killed a second Celestial Race Saint, then drove Luo Suling and the other Saints away with the Profound Emperor Armor.
• Jiang Ping'an returned to Ping'an City after asking Lan Yu and Lin Zihan to watch the Celestial Race Saints.
• Luo Suling proposed splitting the Saints into fifteen groups to attack Great An Kingdom, but Brund and the others objected because they feared Jiang Ping'an would kill them one by one.
• Luo Suling and the other surviving Saints decided to return to Celestial Continent and ask the council for an imperial weapon or someone who could counter the armor.

The Chaos Gourd drove the Celestial Race Saints away from Great An Kingdom and promised to protect it for thirty years, giving Jiang Ping'an time to pursue the Saint Realm. After Great An Kingdom celebrated its victory and aided survivors, Jiang Ping'an traveled to Zhong Sheng Temple to seek Bodhi Seeds and Saint Artifacts.

• Jiang Ping'an joined Lan Yu and Lin Zihan to confront the returning Celestial Race Saints, but the Chaos Gourd appeared and forced back the Sky Gazing Mirror.
• The Chaos Gourd ordered the Sky Gazing Mirror to forbid the Celestial Race from invading Great An Kingdom for thirty years, and John Qingyun led the Saints in retreat.
• The Chaos Gourd told Jiang Ping'an that its protection would last thirty years and demanded ten Saint Artifacts; Jiang Ping'an resolved to gather the Proficiency Points needed to reach the Saint Realm.
• After the Celestial Race refrained from attacking, Jiang Ping'an declared victory, ordered relief and compensation for the millions of casualties, and sent gifts to Great An Kingdom's supporters.
• Jiang Ping'an left for Zhong Sheng Temple and approached its main temple on Zhong Sheng Mountain, unaffected by the mountain's powerful Buddhist chants.

Jiang Ping'an destroyed Zhong Sheng Temple and collected the Bodhi Seeds, then uprooted the Bodhi Tree despite its warnings and the Heavenly Dao’s lightning. He stored the tree and learned that the Profound Yellow Pagoda had captured thirteen Saint Artifacts.

• Jiang Ping'an transformed into a giant, killed the Bodhisattvas and Arhats blocking his way, and rushed toward Zhong Sheng Temple.
• Jiang Ping'an shattered Zhong Sheng Temple's protective formation, killed its Buddha Lord and many Buddhas, and slaughtered the monks who could not escape.
• Jiang Ping'an found the Bodhi Tree, picked all its seeds, and decided to remove it from Zhong Sheng Mountain.
• Jiang Ping'an pulled the Bodhi Tree from the ground despite its attacks and warnings, then swallowed the Heavenly Dao's lightning and stored the withered tree in his Storage Ring.
• The Profound Yellow Pagoda returned and told Jiang Ping'an it had captured thirteen Saint Artifacts.

After raiding Zhong Sheng Temple and distributing its treasures, Jiang Ping'an sought more ways to gain enlightenment and prepare for his advance to Saint. The Chaos Gourd told him about treasures in the Dream Realm and gave him three sticks of Dream-Entering Incense, leaving Jiang Ping'an resolved to enter despite the dangers.

• Jiang Ping'an took Zhong Sheng Temple's treasures, burned its scriptures, and destroyed much of the mountain before returning to Ping'an City.
• Jiang Ping'an divided the captured treasures among the imperial palace, Heaven's Mandate Sect, and the national treasury, then ate the Bodhi Seeds but gained only a little over one billion Proficiency Points.
• Jiang Ping'an paid off his debt to the Creation Divine Furnace with two Saint artifacts and gave the Chaos Gourd seven Buddhist Saint artifacts from Zhong Sheng Temple.
• Jiang Ping'an asked the Chaos Gourd for other enlightenment treasures, and it named Mirage Cloud Marrow and Hundred-Life Yellow Millet in the Dream Realm.
• The Chaos Gourd warned Jiang Ping'an that entering the Dream Realm with only his Divine Soul was dangerous, but gave him three sticks of Dream-Entering Incense after he insisted.
• The Chaos Gourd explained that one day in the Great Barrens was roughly ten days in the Dream Realm.

Jiang Ping'an entered the Dream Realm and awoke in the body of a young man who had been beaten to death after an affair with a noblewoman. Bai Ruoxue explained that the powerful Zhou Lian would hunt him down, leaving Jiang Ping'an in immediate danger.

• Jiang Ping'an prepared for a long stay in the Dream Realm and entered it by inhaling Dream-Entering Incense as he fell asleep.
• He awoke with a transformed status panel and concluded that his divine abilities and advanced techniques were sealed by the Dream Realm's different laws.
• Jiang Ping'an received the dead original owner's memories, including his affair with a noblewoman and his fatal beating by Zhou Lian's men.
• Bai Ruoxue fled when Jiang Ping'an sat up, then returned with a guqin and cautiously confirmed that he was alive.
• Bai Ruoxue told Jiang Ping'an that Zhou Lian would kill him and might also target her and his parents, while Jiang Ping'an pretended to regret his actions.

Jiang Ping'an sought a way to survive Zhou Lian’s pursuit, and Bai Ruoxue arranged for him to beg Zhou Qingyu for help while treating his injuries. After she left, Jiang Ping'an used his panel to deepen his cultivation and prepared to break through to the First Transformation Blood Realm.

• Jiang Ping'an learned that Zhou Lian would likely discover he was alive within two days, and Bai Ruoxue suggested that Zhou Qingyu might be able to protect him.
• Bai Ruoxue urged Jiang Ping'an to write Zhou Qingyu a plea for help, then left to prepare a letter for him to copy.
• Bai Ruoxue gave Jiang Ping'an an Azure Hill Pill and applied ointment to his injured face.
• Jiang Ping'an suggested faking his death with a Turtle Breathing Technique, but Bai Ruoxue dismissed the plan and left to write the letter herself.
• Jiang Ping'an used his panel to master Spirit Monkey Stance Cultivation and comprehend the higher-grade Simian Monkey Stance Cultivation, bringing him close to a breakthrough.

After recovering enough to move, Jiang Ping'an broke through to the First Transformation Blood Realm and considered fleeing Seven Star City before Zhou Lian discovered he had returned from the dead. Bai Ruoxue sent a plea for help to Zhou Qingyu, but Jiang Ping'an ended the chapter by asking her to run away with him.

• Jiang Ping'an practiced Spirit Monkey Stance Cultivation and reached the First Transformation Blood Realm, gaining greater strength and agility.
• Bai Ruoxue checked Jiang Ping'an's breakthrough, read his letter and praised the poem he had written, then teased him and twisted his ear.
• Jiang Ping'an considered secretly escaping Melodious Sound Pavilion and Seven Star City, but worried Bai Ruoxue might die because of him.
• Bai Ruoxue returned with meat buns and told Jiang Ping'an that she had sent his plea for help to Zhou Qingyu.
• Jiang Ping'an asked Bai Ruoxue to flee Seven Star City with him, and she reacted in disbelief.