Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ping'an returned to Yujing, gave Jiang Shuyue the Nine-Colored Ice Soul Nurturing Pearl, and learned the Saint-Rank Spell "Domain of Jade." After agreeing to meet Liu Xixu's supposed younger sister, he arrived at Fragrant Spring Courtyard, where the maids admitted him and closed the gate behind him.

• Jiang Ping'an knocked Liu Xixu unconscious to spare her embarrassment, but she later tried to seduce him by pretending to cry and secured his promise to meet her younger sister in Yujing.
• Jiang Ping'an studied the Saint-Rank Spell "Domain of Jade" aboard the Flying Boat, returned to Great Qian, and piloted the boat to Yujing.
• Jiang Ping'an gave Jiang Shuyue the Nine-Colored Ice Soul Nurturing Pearl and promised to restore her other hun and po so she could awaken.
• Jiang Ping'an returned to Taiwu Academy and used ten million Proficiency Points to comprehend "Domain of Jade," though he could not cast it without mana.
• Liu Xixu sent Jiang Ping'an a letter directing him to Fragrant Spring Courtyard at Longqing Inn, and he entered the courtyard after the maids welcomed him.

Jiang Ping'an saw through Lan Yu’s plan to make Liu Xixu approach him, then returned to Taiwu Academy and mastered three Heaven-Rank techniques. The next day, he left Yujing and returned to the Southern Border.

• Liu Xixu tried to draw Jiang Ping'an into a romantic encounter, but he realized Lan Yu had pressured her to keep her from revealing Lan Yu’s origins.
• Jiang Ping'an refused Liu Xixu’s advances, asked Lan Yu not to harm her, and left Fragrant Spring Courtyard.
• Lan Yu told Liu Xixu she would not kill her and explained that she would leave the Great Qian Kingdom within three to five years.
• Jiang Ping'an spent Proficiency Points mastering the Void Movement Technique, Jade Transformation Divine Light, and Emperor Weapon Phantom.
• Jiang Ping'an left Yujing and returned to the Southern Border.

Jiang Ping'an returned to Green Crest Mountain and broke the beast demons’ siege with the Jade Transformation Divine Light, killing the Primordial Wild Ox and routing the enemy. Yan Ruyu’s soldiers pursued the fleeing demons while Xiang Yun watched in astonishment at Jiang Ping'an’s mastery of a Heaven-Rank Spell.

• After more than half a month of siege left his army badly battered, Jiang Ping'an reached Green Crest Mountain and killed a Thunder Roc, refining its corpse into Spirit Pills.
• Jiang Ping'an used the Mystic Water True Dragon and Jade Transformation Divine Light to clear the surrounding skies and ground of beast demons and demon birds.
• The Primordial Wild Ox attacked Jiang Ping'an, but he evaded its charge, turned it to jade, then severed its neck with the Dragon Abyss Halberd and stored its corpse in the Creation Furnace.
• Jiang Ping'an replenished his True Essence and used the Jade Transformation Divine Light to rout the remaining demons, while the other two fifth-order great demons fled.
• Yan Ruyu ordered the soldiers to leave the formation and pursue the fleeing enemy, and Xiang Yun recognized that Jiang Ping'an had perfected a Heaven-Rank Spell.

Jiang Ping'an exposed Pudu Mountain and the Zhennan Marquis Estate’s betrayal to his army, compensated the casualties, and cultivated with spirit pills while plotting revenge. In White Emperor City, his threatening letter and the spreading rumors left the Old Hag terrified and disgraced.

• Jiang Ping'an told his commanders that Pudu Mountain and the Zhennan Marquis Estate had ambushed him, then promised triple compensation for every soldier killed or wounded.
• Jiang Ping'an gave Yan Ruyu one hundred thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones to distribute, and soldiers spread letters exposing the betrayal across Great Qian.
• Jiang Ping'an refined the Primordial Wild Ox into Spirit Pills and cultivated with Thunder Roc and Ancient Mammoth Bull pills, strengthening his body.
• Jiang Ping'an sent the Old Hag a letter warning that Heaven’s retribution would strike her within a month.
• The Old Hag asked Su Yingluo for three peak Dragon Transformation Realm guards, but Su Yingluo assigned only one and mocked her fears.
• The Old Hag endured a terrifying nightmare and days of rumors until she was barely recognizable, while Su Yingluo ignored her distress.

Jiang Ping'an received the court’s military rewards, took control of twelve frontier passes, and used his Heavenly Punishment Sacred Eye to kill the Old Hag with lightning. The Old Hag’s death spread fear through White Emperor City, and after Jiang Ping'an threatened Su Yingluo with the same fate, she decided to flee to Pudu Mountain.

• Yan Ruyu returned Zhao Yingpeng’s Myriad Dragon Mystic Weight Spear to Jiang Ping'an, who recognized it as a top-grade Spirit Artifact and planned to use its flood dragon souls to upgrade his Dragon Abyss Halberd.
• Chief Eunuch Hu delivered imperial decrees rewarding Jiang Ping'an and his troops, naming Jiang Ping'an Commandery Marquis and Annan General, and granting Jiang Shuyue posthumous honors and benefits.
• Jiang Ping'an moved his army to Great Jade Pass, took control of twelve frontier passes, and ordered Yan Ruyu to win over the garrisons and remove commanders loyal to the Zhennan Marquis Estate.
• Jiang Ping'an used the Heavenly Punishment Sacred Eye to locate the Old Hag and struck her with a bolt of lightning that reduced her to ash and set her courtyard ablaze.
• Zhao Yanshu told Su Yingluo he suspected Jiang Ping'an had killed the Old Hag with his Thunder Art, and Su Yingluo realized she could be his next target.
• Jiang Ping'an sent Su Yingluo a death notice threatening her with lightning within three months, and she decided to flee to Pudu Mountain.

Jiang Ping'an advanced to Dragon Transformation Realm Third Heaven, upgraded Emperor Qian's Purple Essence Pills, and hunted fourth-order demonic beasts for stronger pills. After returning to Tianshui Town, he learned Liu Xixu had finished forging the Array Cannon he planned to use against Pudu Mountain.

• Jiang Ping'an refused to meet Xuan Ming of Pudu Mountain and burned his warning against harming Su Yingluo, dismissing the Buddha Lord's threat.
• After refining nineteen Ancient Mammoth Bull Spirit Pills, Jiang Ping'an completed muscle tempering and demonstrated his strength by tossing and catching a 125,000-jin iron lock with one hand.
• Jiang Ping'an used the Creation Furnace to turn normal quality Purple Essence Pills into 150 perfect quality pills, then left Tianshui Town to hunt fourth-order demonic beasts.
• Jiang Ping'an returned with pills refined from ten fourth-order demonic beasts and met Liu Xixu, who told him she had forged the Array Cannon.
• Jiang Ping'an praised Liu Xixu and looked forward to using the Array Cannon to blast Pudu Mountain flat.

Jiang Ping'an traveled to Yujing to have the Dragon Abyss Halberd upgraded, then sealed nine flood dragon souls inside it to make it a top-grade Spirit Artifact. After concealing the weapon’s true nature from Taiwu Academy’s Instructors, he returned to Tianshui Town and went to test its power.

• Liu Xixu demonstrated her Array Cannon, and Jiang Ping'an suggested enlarging it and using a huge iron sphere to greatly increase its power.
• Jiang Ping'an traveled with Liu Xixu to Yujing, where Jin Shilu introduced him to his artifact-refining Master, who agreed to upgrade the Dragon Abyss Halberd.
• Jiang Ping'an learned that Jiang Yiyi's family had left Yujing to find a prefectural city farther north, and he resolved to send them more Essence Stones and Golden Essence Pills.
• Jin Shilu's Master upgraded the Dragon Abyss Halberd with the Spirit Soul True Crystal and gave Jiang Ping'an the Soul Refining Seal manual.
• Jiang Ping'an subdued the nine flood dragon souls in the Myriad Dragon Mystic Weight Spear and sealed them into the Dragon Abyss Halberd, completing its transformation into a top-grade Spirit Artifact.
• When Instructors rushed to Jiang Ping'an's residence after hearing the dragon roars, he claimed he had been practicing a Dragon Roar Art, then returned to Tianshui Town to test the weapon.

Jiang Ping'an hunted fourth-tier demonic beasts in the Demon Realm, testing the Dragon Abyss Halberd and refining beasts with the Creation Furnace while removing their Demonic Qi. After finding several beasts becoming demonic, he suspected a wider Demonic Qi eruption and flew toward an abandoned Human Race city shrouded in black qi.

• Jiang Ping'an tested the Dragon Abyss Halberd’s binding, intimidation, and automatic attack powers by killing a Violet Flame Tiger.
• Jiang Ping'an traveled southwest into the Demon Realm and captured a peak fourth-tier Earth Golden Horned Rhinoceros that was nearing demonic transformation, refining it into Demonic-Qi-free Spirit Pills.
• Jiang Ping'an found a fully demonic Six-Tailed Demon Fox and left it behind, then refined another fourth-tier beast that was also becoming demonic.
• Jiang Ping'an grew wary after encountering three fourth-tier beasts affected by Demonic Qi and considered whether a major eruption was approaching.
• Jiang Ping'an spotted an abandoned Human Race city wrapped in black qi and flew toward it to investigate.

Jiang Ping'an explored an abandoned Human Race city filled with Demonic Qi, discovering that the Creation Furnace could refine demon heads into Spirit Pills. After a rational demon warned him away from the city, he left and continued hunting beasts on his return journey.

• Jiang Ping'an killed a demonized Gray-backed Giant Wolf King and used Thunderclap Guide to destroy its pursuing demon head.
• Jiang Ping'an killed the demonized beasts that surrounded him, then refined their demon heads into ten perfect-quality Spirit Pills with the Creation Furnace.
• Jiang Ping'an entered the abandoned city, refined several great demon heads, and met a rational demon youth who ordered him to leave and stop hunting the city's demonized beasts.
• Jiang Ping'an flew away from the city and found that beasts near it were scarce or demonized, then refined three normal fourth-tier beasts on his way back to the Great Qian Kingdom.
• Jiang Ping'an encountered a fifth-tier Great Demon but gave up hunting it to avoid alerting nearby beasts.

Jiang Ping'an’s hunting of fourth-tier demon beasts helped spur Pudu Mountain’s hidden leaders to set a date for their uprising, while a massive demon beast tide advanced toward the western front. Jiang Ping'an prepared to lead elite cavalry into the Demon Realm to stop the tide from joining forces with Pudu Mountain and the Zhennan Marquis Estate.

• After fourth-tier demon beasts pleaded for help, the Golden Haired Hou and Peacock King decided to use their disappearances to pressure Pudu Mountain into starting its uprising.
• Su Yingluo urged Xuan Kong to persuade their master to begin the uprising, and Xuan Kong told her the Zhennan Marquis Estate was not yet firmly under her control.
• After the Buddha Lord summoned Xuan Kong, he later told Su Yingluo that the uprising would begin in three days, and she hurried back to prepare.
• General Zhong reported that an unprecedented demon beast tide, including multiple fifth-tier great demons, was approaching the western defensive line.
• Jiang Ping'an ordered preparations to lead thirty thousand elite cavalry into the Demon Realm and intercept the tide before it joined forces with Pudu Mountain and the Zhennan Marquis Estate.

Jiang Ping'an’s army fortified Mao'er Mountain against the approaching beast tide while, in White Emperor City, Pudu Mountain and the Zhennan Marquis Estate forced Great Qian’s officials to choose sides. Ji Guangwu died detonating his Law Manifestation and killing Zhao Yanshu, leaving the Southern Border’s human forces without two major leaders.

• Jiang Ping'an led thirty thousand cavalry to Mao'er Mountain, where he and Li Tongya set up the Xuandu Vajra Formation and waited for the beast tide.
• The Peacock King and the Golden Haired Hou sent scattered groups of demon beasts and birds to attack the formation while holding the rest of the beast tide back.
• Xuan Ming, Xuan Zhen, Xuan Hai, and Zhao Yanshu confronted Ji Guangwu, Gao Xianzhi, and Xiang Yun at the governor's residence and demanded that they leave White Emperor City.
• Xiang Yun departed, and Gao Xianzhi left with twenty people, while Ji Guangwu remained to fight the four Law Manifestation Realm Great Powers.
• Ji Guangwu charged Zhao Yanshu and detonated his Law Manifestation, killing both of them and deafening people in White Emperor City.

Jiang Ping'an used the Jade Transformation Divine Light to devastate the beast tide attacking Mao'er Mountain, killing hundreds of thousands of demon beasts and birds. The Peacock King and Golden Haired Hou then attacked together, believing Jiang Ping'an was exhausted and having identified weaknesses in his spell.

• Jiang Ping'an rejected Gao Xianzhi and Xiang Yun's concerns and left the grand formation to attack the beast tide alone.
• Jiang Ping'an used his sword to kill more than a third of the beasts and birds attacking Mao'er Mountain, then evaded spells from five fifth-order great demons and cast the Jade Transformation Divine Light.
• Jiang Ping'an swept the divine light across the sky and ground, turning tens of thousands of creatures to jade before burning them with Heavenly Flame Meteor Jade Talismans.
• Jiang Ping'an cast the Jade Transformation Divine Light four times in succession, killing over two hundred thousand demon beasts and birds and frightening the remaining tide.
• Golden Haired Hou and the Peacock King steadied their forces and attacked Jiang Ping'an together after concluding that he was exhausted and that jade-transformed creatures could survive if unbroken and recover faster with higher cultivation.

Jiang Ping'an used his Sacred Body: Law, Heaven, and Earth to defeat the Golden Haired Hou and slaughter the attacking Fifth-Order Demonic Beasts, routing the demon horde. After the Peacock King escaped, Jiang Ping'an began refining the captured Golden Haired Hou and gathered the remaining corpses, whose Spirit Pills could replenish his strength and advance his cultivation.

• Jiang Ping'an evaded the Peacock King's attacks with the Void Movement Technique, causing the Peacock King to flee, then turned to face the charging Golden Haired Hou.
• Jiang Ping'an grew three hundredfold, knocked the Golden Haired Hou into a crater, and smashed it against several mountains until it passed out.
• Jiang Ping'an used the unconscious Golden Haired Hou as a weapon to kill seven Fifth-Order Demonic Beasts and hurled flaming boulders at two Fifth-Order Demonic Birds, while the remaining birds fled.
• Jiang Ping'an returned to normal size, consumed fourth-order demonic beast Spirit Pills, and placed the still-living Golden Haired Hou in the Creation Furnace to refine pills.
• Yan Ruyu sent thirty thousand soldiers down Mao'er Mountain to pursue the fleeing demon horde, while Gao Xianzhi and Xiang Yun helped Jiang Ping'an gather nine Fifth-Order Demonic Beast corpses.

After crushing the demon beast tide, Jiang Ping'an learned that Pudu Mountain and the Zhennan Marquis Estate had rebelled and prepared to strike back. He stabilized the southern frontier forces and led an army toward White Emperor City to destroy the Zhennan Marquis Estate.

• Gao Xianzhi praised Jiang Ping'an and pledged to serve him, while the returning soldiers celebrated their victory over the demon beasts.
• Jiang Ping'an told his officers that Pudu Mountain and the Zhennan Marquis Estate had rebelled and ordered the army to return to Tianshui Town after resting.
• Jiang Ping'an sent Gao Xianzhi, Xiang Yun, and Yan Ruyu ahead to secure Tianshui Town, then cultivated with fifth-rank Great Demon Spirit Pills during the journey.
• The garrisons at Tianshui Town and the twelve eastern-line passes resisted the rebels' efforts to recruit them, and Jiang Ping'an assembled their forces.
• Jiang Ping'an led an army of two hundred and forty thousand toward White Emperor City to destroy the Zhennan Marquis Estate.

Jiang Ping'an led eighty thousand cavalry toward White Emperor City and defeated Pudu Mountain’s force of high-end combatants. After killing Xuan Zhen with one halberd strike and surviving Xuan Hai’s self-detonation, he ordered the cavalry to continue their advance.

• Jiang Ping'an led eighty thousand cavalry toward White Emperor City after scouts reported that its army was attacking Great General of Zhennan's forces.
• Xuan Zhen and Xuan Hai intercepted Jiang Ping'an and Gao Xianzhi, while two hundred Dragon Transformation Realm monks backed them.
• Jiang Ping'an killed Xuan Zhen with a single strike from Dragon Abyss Halberd, then used Jade Transformation Divine Light and halberd attacks to kill over a hundred monks.
• Xuan Hai broke free of the Mystic Water True Dragon and charged Jiang Ping'an, who vanished into the void just before Xuan Hai self-detonated.
• Jiang Ping'an emerged unharmed, ordered the eighty thousand cavalry to continue toward White Emperor City, and heard them cheer for him.

Jiang Ping'an’s army broke through White Emperor City’s defenses after Gao Xianzhi turned the citizens against Pudu Mountain and the Zhennan Marquis Estate. Jiang Ping'an surrounded the estate and prepared another move when its formation held firm and Pudu Mountain’s reinforcements threatened to arrive.

• Jiang Ping'an led eighty thousand cavalry to attack White Emperor City’s formation while Gao Xianzhi bombarded it and Jiang Ping'an cultivated aboard the Flying Boat.
• Xuan Ming ordered the Zhennan Marquis Estate’s servants to force citizens into defending the city, but Gao Xianzhi warned them that the rebels had already lost and promised rewards for resisting them.
• Zhennan Marquis Estate servants killed citizens, triggering a revolt that spread to Pudu Mountain monks and the estate’s people; the citizens sabotaged the city’s formation until it broke.
• Jiang Ping'an entered White Emperor City and led his troops to surround the Zhennan Marquis Estate, while Xuan Ming fled after killing the general who had proposed mobilizing the citizens.
• Jiang Ping'an’s army attacked the estate’s powerful defensive formation for half an hour, but Jiang Ping'an declined to use Law, Heaven, and Earth and told Gao Xianzhi he had another move.

Jiang Ping'an broke the Zhennan Marquis Estate’s defenses with the Xuanyuan Sword phantom and pursued Su Yingluo and Zhao Zhenming after they teleported away. Su Yingluo survived three lightning strikes only to be killed by Zhao Zhenming, whose demonic cultivation then surged.

• Su Yingluo blamed Zhao Zhenming for their family’s downfall, and he returned to his courtyard to cultivate the Great Freedom Black Lotus Art as Demonic Qi began to seep from him.
• Jiang Ping'an sacrificed Xuan Zhen’s Demon-Subduing Staff to summon the Xuanyuan Sword phantom, then split the Zhennan Marquis Estate and the government office’s defensive formations with it.
• Su Yingluo activated a teleportation token and fled a thousand li with Zhao Zhenming, while Jiang Ping'an used the Heavenly Punishment Sacred Eye to track them.
• Jiang Ping'an struck Su Yingluo with lightning three times; her Buddhist treasure blocked the first two bolts, but the third left her charred and barely alive.
• Zhao Zhenming revealed that Su Yingluo was his heart demon and killed her with a palm strike, causing his cultivation to rise from Dragon Transformation Realm First Heaven to Seventh Heaven.

Jiang Ping'an destroyed the Zhennan Marquis Estate, drove Xuan Ming and the Pudu Mountain forces away from White Emperor City, and oversaw the army’s spoils and defenses. After receiving orders to hold the city, he stayed inside its protective formation to cultivate and prepare for a future assault on Pudu Mountain.

• Jiang Ping'an razed the Zhennan Marquis Estate and the government office, then secured the estate’s treasury for later distribution.
• Jiang Ping'an and Gao Xianzhi confronted Xuan Ming outside White Emperor City, where Xuan Ming confirmed that Jiang Ping'an had killed Xuan Zhen and Xuan Hai and then withdrew with his forces.
• Jiang Ping'an ordered White Emperor City’s defensive grand formation repaired, and Yan Ruyu arrived with 150,000 infantrymen two days later.
• Jiang Ping'an chose a plan for distributing the treasury, and Yan Ruyu put it into effect, strengthening the army’s support for him.
• Jiang Ping'an instructed Yan Ruyu to expand ideological work against Pudu Mountain’s influence, then received orders from Emperor Qian and the Great General of Zhennan to hold White Emperor City.
• Jiang Ping'an remained inside the city’s defensive formation to cultivate and build strength for a future campaign against Pudu Mountain.

Jiang Ping'an assassinated Zhao Zhenming in his command tent, then tested Liu Xixu’s newly completed Array Cannon and discovered its devastating power. He asked her to keep the weapon secret and make four more for the war against Pudu Mountain.

• Jiang Ping'an entered Zhao Zhenming’s tent unnoticed and killed him with the Dragon Abyss Halberd despite Zhao Zhenming’s protective Buddhist treasure.
• Xuan Ming and three other Law Manifestation Realm Great Powers found Zhao Zhenming’s bisected corpse and suspected that a Saint had carried out the assassination.
• Liu Xixu arrived in White Emperor City with the completed Array Cannon, and Jiang Ping'an took her to a remote mountain range to test it.
• Jiang Ping'an and Liu Xixu fired the Array Cannon, which destroyed mountains from more than five hundred li away with force rivaling or surpassing a Law Manifestation Realm Great Power.
• Jiang Ping'an told Liu Xixu to keep the Array Cannon secret and asked her to refine four more, giving her one thousand Top-Grade Spirit Stones.

Jiang Ping'an helped defeat the Pudu Mountain rebels, urged the court to keep the mountain under siege, and returned to Yujing after being summoned. He found Liu Xixu forging Array Cannons in secret and helped her work through the night before going to the palace.

• Jiang Ping'an lent Liu Xixu his Flying Boat so she could travel safely back to Yujing.
• After more than two months of cultivation, Jiang Ping'an led fifty thousand elite cavalrymen in a surprise attack that crushed the Pudu Mountain rebel army and drove it back into Pudu Mountain.
• When a chief eunuch asked for his opinion on negotiations, Jiang Ping'an opposed a truce and proposed besieging Pudu Mountain until the Rakshasa Race was defeated.
• An Imperial Decree summoned Jiang Ping'an to Yujing, where he visited Liu Xixu and found her secretly forging Array Cannons.
• Jiang Ping'an assisted Liu Xixu through the night, completing work that would have taken her half a month, then left to enter the palace.