Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ping'an celebrated his ascension to sainthood with a grand banquet, where Old Black killed a Qi Clan Ancient Clan elder who publicly questioned his sainthood. As the celebration ended, Ye Huitian warned Jiang Ping'an that the Qi Clan Ancient Clan had secret dealings with the Celestial Race.

• Jiang Ping'an gave Princess Bailing three Enlightenment Tea Leaves to help her become a saint before returning to the imperial palace.
• Great An Kingdom held a lavish celebration for Jiang Ping'an, and he rewarded its people, officials, and army.
• At the state banquet, a Qi Clan Ancient Clan venerable questioned Jiang Ping'an's sainthood, and Old Black killed him with a single strike.
• Jiang Ping'an insulted the Qi Clan Ancient Clan by offering compensation on the condition that their dead elder had been an idiot, then ordered them to leave.
• Jiang Ping'an suspected the Qi Clan Ancient Clan might be aiding the Celestial Race and did not send them the promised compensation.
• Ye Huitian warned Jiang Ping'an that the Qi Clan Ancient Clan had secret dealings with the Celestial Race, and Jiang Ping'an said he would be careful.

Jiang Ping'an arranged for Great An Kingdom's troops to secretly cultivate in the Divine Origin Ruins by building a military camp around the wilderness. After sending two million soldiers inside, he visited Lan Yu in Qingqiu City, where they entered Spiritual Union again.

• Jiang Ping'an told Feng Yihuan that the Divine Origin Ruins were under his control and ordered him to secretly bring Great An Kingdom's elite troops there to cultivate.
• Feng Yihuan proposed building a major military camp in the wilderness as cover, and Jiang Ping'an approved the plan and ordered the departments to cooperate.
• After the camp was completed, Jiang Ping'an sent two million soldiers into the Divine Origin Ruins, where they were astonished by the cultivation environment and quickly made progress.
• Jiang Ping'an asked Lan Yu to monitor the Divine Origin Ruins wilderness, and she agreed.
• Lan Yu asked Jiang Ping'an to enter Spiritual Union with her again, and the two went to her Cultivation Chamber.

Jiang Ping'an’s divine sword Gan Jiang survived its Heavenly Tribulation and became a Saint Artifact, then helped him counter Qi Tianxin’s attack on Ping'an City. The chapter ended with Qi Tianxin shocked that Jiang Ping'an had severed the causal line of his divine ability.

• Gan Jiang absorbed Jiang Ping'an’s Heart Force, awakened, and underwent a Heavenly Tribulation outside Ping'an City.
• Gan Jiang endured nine lightning bolts and became a Saint Artifact with the powers Sever Cause and Effect and Withering Sword Domain.
• Jiang Ping'an returned to Ping'an City, where Qi Tianxin arrived seeking revenge for his great-great-grandson.
• Qi Tianxin attacked Jiang Ping'an with his decay-based divine ability Eternal Sorrow.
• Jiang Ping'an used Gan Jiang’s Sever Cause and Effect to make Eternal Sorrow vanish, shocking Qi Tianxin.

Jiang Ping'an fought Qi Tianxin, whose decaying Saint body and desperate attacks were countered by the Gan Jiang Sword and Profound Emperor Armor. When Qi Tianxin threatened Ping'an City with a life-ending strike, Jiang Ping'an used the Primordial Bell to freeze time and prepared to attack him.

• Jiang Ping'an struck Qi Tianxin with the Gan Jiang Sword, severing two of his nails and forcing him to retreat behind a barrier of resentful souls.
• Qi Tianxin burned his life essence to restore his Saint body and traded blows with Jiang Ping'an, but the Profound Emperor Armor absorbed his fist while the sword disrupted his power and accelerated his decay.
• Jiang Ping'an retreated rather than kill Qi Tianxin, wary of a hidden Saint artifact and the risk of provoking the Qi Clan Ancient Clan into war with Great An Kingdom.
• Qi Tianxin unleashed his Decaying Finale and charged toward Ping'an City, prompting Jiang Ping'an to block his path and then face his renewed attack.
• Jiang Ping'an summoned the Primordial Bell, freezing Qi Tianxin and his attack in time, then shifted toward Qi Tianxin with his blade aimed at his head.

Jiang Ping'an killed Qi Tianxin, who had attacked him intending to die together, and then discussed how to prevent the Qi Clan Ancient Clan from retaliating against Great An Kingdom. He decided to seek mediation from the Ye Family Ancient Clan and sent Lu Feiyu with lavish gifts to learn the Qi Clan’s true stance.

• Qi Tianxin broke free from frozen time but Jiang Ping'an's sword qi pierced his head and destroyed his immortal platform and true spirit.
• Jiang Ping'an burned Qi Tianxin's corpse, reassured Ping'an City's citizens, and returned to the imperial palace.
• Jiang Ping'an and Ye Qingluan discussed the threat of the Qi Clan Ancient Clan, while Ye Qingluan warned that it might be acting on the Celestial Race's orders.
• Jiang Ping'an considered using demon emperors and a beast tide to besiege the Qi Clan Grotto-Heaven, but kept the idea as a possible plan.
• Ye Qingluan suggested asking the Ye Family Ancient Clan to mediate and test the Qi Clan's attitude, and Jiang Ping'an agreed.
• Jiang Ping'an sent his disciple Lu Feiyu with gifts worth thirty million spirit stones to visit the Ye Family Ancient Clan.

Jiang Ping'an captured three Golden-Winged Pengs for the Heaven's Mandate Sect and learned that the Qi Clan Ancient Clan planned to attack Great An Kingdom. He and Ye Qingluan agreed that besieging the Ye Clan Grotto-Heaven with demon beasts could give the Qi Clan an excuse to avoid the expedition.

• Jiang Ping'an went to the Divine Origin Ruins, tested Golden-Winged Pengs with Karma Cleansing Skyfire, and took in three that endured the trial.
• Jiang Ping'an brought the three Golden-Winged Pengs to Ping'an City, where they soon advanced to Demon King realm.
• Lu Feiyu returned and reported that the Qi Clan Ancient Clan insisted on vengeance and appeared ready to send an army against Great An Kingdom.
• Ye Qingluan suspected the Celestial Race had directed the Qi Clan to attack, and Jiang Ping'an revealed his plan to besiege Wei to rescue Zhao.
• Ye Qingluan reasoned that a demon-beast siege on the Ye Clan Grotto-Heaven could let the Qi Clan avoid attacking Great An Kingdom, and Jiang Ping'an agreed.

Jiang Ping'an delayed the Qi Clan Ancient Clan’s planned invasion by arranging a demonic beast siege of its grotto-heaven, then returned to Great An Kingdom to review preparations. He left the court focused on monitoring the enemy army and gave Ye Feng an Enlightenment Tea Leaf while preparing to take the Spirit Talisman materials away.

• Jiang Ping'an told the court that the Qi Clan Ancient Clan was preparing to attack and instructed Zhang Zhe to gather plans while he entered seclusion.
• Jiang Ping'an traveled to Evergreen Continent and used the Annihilating Heavenly Flame to control demon emperors, who led demonic beasts in besieging the Qi Clan Grotto-Heaven.
• Jiang Ping'an observed that the Qi Clan Ancient Clan was using the beast siege to delay sending troops, then returned to Ping'an City and heard Ye Qingluan report the ministers' ineffective proposals.
• Jiang Ping'an rejected the ministers' proposals and directed them to monitor the Qi Clan Ancient Clan's invading army and plan a response.
• Ye Feng reported that he had purchased Spirit Talisman materials, and Jiang Ping'an rewarded him with an Enlightenment Tea Leaf and asked him to pack the materials.

Jiang Ping'an visited Great Continent Island, where he witnessed the island’s scarcity and internal conflict, then healed and supplied thousands of cultivators. He traveled with Yang Guanghai, Shi Zhongjian, and Huang Jisheng to the Immeasurable Sect.

• Jiang Ping'an entered Great Continent Island with Yang Guanghai, Shi Zhongjian, and Huang Jisheng and saw its thin Heavenly Essence and extensive terraced farmland.
• Jiang Ping'an stopped a battle between more than ten thousand cultivators, healed them with spirit rain, and gave each three Spirit Pills.
• Jiang Ping'an asked the cultivators to stop fighting for thirty years, and the Bixuan Sect and Baiyue Mountain agreed to obey.
• The cultivators concluded Jiang Ping'an was a Saint and knelt in gratitude after he departed with the three island Saints.
• Jiang Ping'an and the three Saints flew to the Immeasurable Sect, Yang Guanghai’s immortal sect.

Jiang Ping'an met with the Saints of Great Continent Island to discuss resisting the Celestial Race, and his Monkey Emperor Wine first eased the gathering before the Saints debated his claims. The chapter leaves Jiang Ping'an describing the horrific enslavement of humans in Celestial Race mines as Chen Wangshan and Shen Younian questioned the cost of resistance.

• Jiang Ping'an shared Monkey Emperor Wine with Yang Guanghai, Shi Zhongjian, and Huang Jisheng, enlivening their gathering.
• Chen Wangshan and Shen Younian arrived but refused the wine, cooling the mood before Yang Guanghai opened the discussion.
• Chen Wangshan questioned whether Jiang Ping'an could defeat a Celestial Race Great Emperor, and Jiang Ping'an claimed he could with a specially refined Saint Artifact.
• Shen Younian warned that the Celestial Race's strength made resistance dangerous and could expose Great Continent Island's people to extermination.
• Jiang Ping'an said Great Continent Island was free to refuse, then argued that humans must resist rather than accept slaughter and enslavement.
• Jiang Ping'an described finding hundreds of thousands of abused human mining slaves in each Celestial Race Spirit Stone Mine he had seized.

Jiang Ping'an recounted the Celestial Race’s oppression of humanity and how he founded the Great An Kingdom by rescuing and resettling enslaved people. The Five Sages of Great Continent Island agreed to oppose the Celestial Race and pledged their support to him.

• Jiang Ping'an argued that humanity had to fight for its survival and explained that the Celestial Race’s internal decay made it vulnerable.
• Jiang Ping'an described founding the Great An Kingdom and rescuing humans from oppression across Azure Treasure Continent.
• Jiang Ping'an told the Five Sages how he freed people imprisoned by the Winged Race, though many could not ultimately be brought to safety.
• Shen Younian and Chen Wangshan agreed that Great Continent Island should join Jiang Ping'an in opposing the Celestial Race.
• Shi Zhongjian pledged to serve Jiang Ping'an even at the cost of his life, and the Five Sages toasted him in turn.

Jiang Ping'an arranged for the Five Sages of Great Continent Island to forge flying swords and make jade talismans, then rewarded them with God Source Crystals. After returning to Ping'an City with the completed swords, he began cultivating in the Divine Origin Ruins and traded five God Source Crystals for five Enlightenment Tea Leaves.

• Yang Guanghai reported that Great Continent Island had forged more than sixty-four thousand Soulshock Flying Swords and fifteen thousand Thunderclap Flying Swords, and Jiang Ping'an supplied more materials and funding.
• Jiang Ping'an asked Shi Zhongjian, Huang Jisheng, Chen Wangshan, and Shen Younian to oversee the production of fifty million Mystic Grade jade talismans and ten million Spirit Grade jade talismans, and gave them materials and payment for the artisans.
• Jiang Ping'an gave Yang Guanghai and the four other Saints God Source Crystals, strengthening their resolve to follow him and resist the Celestial Race.
• A few days later, Jiang Ping'an returned to Ping'an City with eighty thousand Soulshock Flying Swords and twenty thousand Thunderclap Flying Swords, then began cultivating in the Divine Origin Ruins while working to comprehend Volume Nine of the Dao Scripture.
• Jiang Ping'an traded five God Source Crystals with the Enlightenment Tea Tree for five Enlightenment Tea Leaves, while the tree secretly believed he had overpaid.

Jiang Ping'an comprehended the early cultivation path of the Celestial Realm and learned that John Zhao of the John Family possessed the Thousand Mile Landscape Painting. He began a difficult fishing plan to draw John Zhao out, but moved to find a safer place when the Immeasurable Fishing Rod estimated the attempt would take years.

• Jiang Ping'an used Enlightenment Tea Leaves to comprehend the ninth volume of the Dao Scripture and began cultivating the five Divine Treasuries as the foundation of the Celestial Realm.
• After more than a year, Jiang Ping'an reunited with Jiang Wuji and learned that John Zhao of the Celestial Race's John Family had taken the Thousand Mile Landscape Painting.
• Jiang Ping'an traveled toward the Celestial Continent, checked that the Qi Clan Grotto-Heaven remained under siege, and concealed himself nearby.
• Jiang Ping'an and the Immeasurable Fishing Rod chose his remaining Longevity Peach as bait to lure John Zhao from the Celestial Continent.
• The Immeasurable Fishing Rod warned that the deep catch would take at least two or three years and require uninterrupted support, so Jiang Ping'an put it away and flew toward a nearby mountain peak.

Jiang Ping'an lured John Zhao away from the Celestial Continent and trapped him inside the Thousand Mile Landscape Painting, but could not seize the artifact without risking its destruction. Back in Ping'an City, he posed a riddle to his family and allies about how to kill John Zhao and obtain the painting within two or three years.

• Jiang Ping'an used the Longevity Peach as bait to lure John Zhao to his mountain, then froze him with the Primordial Bell and captured him in the Profound Yellow Pagoda.
• John Zhao hid inside the Thousand Mile Landscape Painting, recognized Jiang Ping'an as an Ancient Calamity Body, and threatened to destroy the artifact rather than surrender it.
• Jiang Ping'an and his treasures could not find a way to extract John Zhao safely, so Jiang Ping'an left him trapped and returned to Ping'an City.
• After announcing the end of his seclusion, Jiang Ping'an gathered his family and asked how Saint A could kill Saint B inside a spatial Saint artifact while obtaining the artifact within two or three years.

Jiang Ping'an searched for a way to force John Zhao out of the Thousand Mile Landscape Painting without letting him destroy it. He discovered that Miao Yu could parasitize John through her voice, leaving her to gradually take control of the Saint inside the painting.

• Hu Yuhua suggested using vocal enchantment to lure Saint B out of a spatial sacred artifact, while Ye Feng proposed accelerating time until the Saint died; Jiang Ping'an explained why neither plan would secure the artifact.
• Jiang Ping'an learned that Hu Yuhua could not teach him her bloodline-bound vocal enchantment, then set the problem aside and went to the Divine Origin Ruins to cultivate.
• Jiang Ping'an summoned Miao Zhi, Miao An, and Miao Yu at the Bronze Immortal Hall and learned about their frightening abilities as Evil Spirits.
• Miao Yu revealed that anyone who heard her voice could be parasitized, so Jiang Ping'an had the Profound Yellow Pagoda release the Thousand Mile Landscape Painting and then retrieve it.
• Miao Yu told Jiang Ping'an she had already parasitized John Zhao, though it would take time to fully affect the Saint.

Jiang Ping'an killed John Zhao after Miao Yu parasitized him, then claimed the Thousand Mile Landscape Painting as his own. Inside, he discovered Celestial Race captives who celebrated John Zhao’s death and revealed that he had eaten their children to extend his lifespan.

• Miao Yu reported that she had parasitized John Zhao and warned Jiang Ping'an to kill him as soon as he emerged from the Thousand Mile Landscape Painting.
• Jiang Ping'an released the painting, and when John Zhao flew out, he smashed John Zhao’s head with a punch, accidentally killing Miao Yu’s avatar as well.
• Jiang Ping'an made the Thousand Mile Landscape Painting acknowledge him as its master and entered the land inside it.
• Jiang Ping'an found many Celestial Race women, Infants, and men living inside the painting, and they welcomed John Zhao’s death with relief and grief.
• The Celestial Race captives told Jiang Ping'an that John Zhao had eaten their children to extend his lifespan and had imprisoned them so they would keep having children for him.

Jiang Ping'an used the Thousand Mile Landscape Painting to raid three Celestial Race spirit stone mines, rescue nearly two million Human Race slaves, and arrange supplies and teachers for them in Great Gan Kingdom. More than two years later, he learned that the Qi Clan Ancient Clan had cleared the beasts besieging the Ye Clan Grotto-Heaven and was preparing to attack Great An Kingdom, so he planned to turn demon emperors and beast hordes against its army.

• Jiang Ping'an captured three Celestial Race spirit stone mines, rescued nearly two million Human Race slaves, and took over fourteen billion Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Jiang Ping'an gave Old Black three billion Low-Grade Spirit Stones for Great Gan Kingdom's volunteer soldiers and asked him to purchase supplies and recruit teachers for the rescued people.
• Old Black arranged grain, cloth, household goods, and one thousand teachers, and Jiang Ping'an brought them into the Thousand Mile Landscape Painting before returning to Great An Kingdom.
• More than two years later, Jiang Wuji told Jiang Ping'an that the Qi Clan Ancient Clan's Saints had cleared the demon emperors and beast tides around the Ye Clan Grotto-Heaven.
• Jiang Ping'an learned that Celestial Race members had entered the Qi Clan Grotto-Heaven and decided to have demon emperors lead beast hordes against the Qi Clan Ancient Clan's approaching army.

Jiang Ping'an learned that the Qi Clan Ancient Clan planned to invade Great An Kingdom with three Saints and an army of five hundred thousand, and began preparing a covert counterattack. Meanwhile, the Qi Clan rejected other human factions’ pleas to postpone its vengeance and remained set on attacking.

• Jiang Ping'an captured Qi Linfeng, used the Summoning Command Spell to learn about the Qi Clan’s planned invasion, then killed him.
• Jiang Ping'an decided to target the Qi Clan army without revealing his strength as Ye Chenzhou and summoned Miao Zhi, Miao An, and Miao Yu to help.
• Jiang Ping'an learned that an Apex Emperor Weapon could grievously wound the three fiendish wraiths, then recruited Demon Emperors to support his planned attack.
• Ye Huitian and representatives of other human factions visited the Qi Clan to urge it to delay its attack on Great An Kingdom until after the Celestial Race’s next assault.
• The Qi Clan patriarch rejected their advice, insisting that the clan would avenge its dead without delay, and the visitors left.

Ye Huitian persuaded several Human Race forces to prevent the Qi Clan Ancient Clan from attacking Great An Kingdom until the Celestial Race threat had passed. The Qi Clan army advanced despite receiving their warning, and eight Saints blocked its route as Qi Tianwei confronted Ye Linyuan.

• Ye Huitian hosted the force representatives at the Ye Clan Grotto-Heaven and proposed sending a Saint to blockade the Qi Clan, then explained Qi Tianxin’s attack on Ye Chenzhou and secured the representatives’ support.
• Nearly a month later, Qi Tianwei read a joint letter from five Ancient Clans and three cultivation holy lands warning the Qi Clan against attacking Great An Kingdom, but told the Qi Clan Head to proceed as planned.
• The Qi Clan dispatched three Saints and an army of five hundred thousand toward Great An Kingdom to avenge Qi Tianxin and the Seventh Elder.
• After five days, eight Saints blocked the Qi Clan fleet, and Qi Tianwei accused the Ye, Wang, Xiao, Yang, and Zhou Clans and three holy lands of favoring Great An Kingdom.
• A Saint replied that they were trying to dissuade the Qi Clan rather than favor Great An Kingdom, and Qi Tianwei sneered at Ye Linyuan about showing leniency to his Great-Great-Granddaughter.

Ye Linyuan and other Saints blocked the Qi Clan Ancient Clan’s army from reaching Great An Kingdom, but Qi Tianwei forced them to retreat by summoning the clan’s Apex Emperor Weapon. While the Qi Clan army remained away, Jiang Ping'an sent Miao Zhi, Miao An, and Miao Yu to infiltrate its grotto-heaven and wipe out the clan’s forces there.

• Ye Linyuan and the other Saints tried to stop Qi Tianwei’s army, then withdrew when he summoned the Qi Clan’s Apex Emperor Weapon.
• Jiang Ping'an left with Miao Zhi, Miao An, and Miao Yu for the Qi Clan Grotto-Heaven while the Apex Emperor Weapon was away.
• Jiang Ping'an ordered the three Peerless Evil Spirits to kill everyone inside except for a dozen or so Qi Clan Dao Inquiry Realm cultivators.
• Miao Zhi, Miao An, and Miao Yu entered the grotto-heaven unseen as Jiang Ping'an concealed himself and waited outside.

Jiang Ping'an learned that the three Peerless Evil Spirits had slaughtered everyone inside the Qi Clan Grotto-Heaven, then watched the Qi Clan army discover the massacre. The survivors returned to their devastated home, while Qi Tianwei was left consumed by regret.

• Miao Zhi, Miao An, and Miao Yu reported to Jiang Ping'an that they had killed everyone in the Qi Clan Grotto-Heaven except the Dao Inquiry Realm cultivators he had told them to spare.
• Qi Tianwei dismissed the survivors’ warnings until Qi Junhao returned from the Grotto-Heaven and confirmed that the clan members there were dead.
• The Qi Clan army erupted into grief and chaos, but Qi Junhao and the third Saint of the Qi Clan suppressed the unrest and led the army back toward the Grotto-Heaven.
• Jiang Ping'an watched the army depart and left, deciding to seek another chance to attack because the Qi Clan’s Apex Emperor Weapon prevented him from wiping them out at once.
• More than ten days later, the Qi Clan army found its Grotto-Heaven filled with rotting corpses, and Qi Tianwei sat in Qi Clan City regretting the clan’s alliance with the Celestial Race.