Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ping'an agreed to lead Great Qian Kingdom’s campaign against the Rakshasa Race after Old Black and Emperor Qian set conditions for a future assault on Pudu Mountain. He visited his Mother, then prepared an extravagant gift for Princess Bailing’s new estate.

• Old Black agreed to surround Pudu Mountain for two years and attack it if Jiang Ping'an could reduce the cost of doing so to an acceptable level.
• Jiang Ping'an volunteered to lead the northern campaign, and Emperor Qian appointed him General of the Northern Expedition with orders to make the Rakshasa Race cede territory and surrender within a year.
• After Jiang Ping'an left, Old Black told Emperor Qian to reward him according to precedent and not treat him with suspicion, since he would eventually leave Great Qian Kingdom.
• Jiang Ping'an visited his Mother in the Underground Palace, where Princess Bailing joined him and told him she often kept Jiang Shuyue company.
• Princess Bailing invited Jiang Ping'an to visit her new estate, and he agreed before returning to his residence and Taiwu Academy.
• Jiang Ping'an added a top-grade spirit sword and jade talismans to the lavish gifts for Princess Bailing, then set out for her estate.

Jiang Ping'an visited Princess Bailing and gave her a treasured Spirit Artifact before secretly spending the night with her. He then pushed to expand the Array Cannon arsenal and received command of the northern campaign against the Rakshasa Race.

• Jiang Ping'an formally visited Princess Bailing and gave her a top-grade Spirit Artifact sword whose Spirit of the Artifact carried Phoenix bloodline.
• Princess Bailing showed Jiang Ping'an around her residence and later invited him to a banquet before he returned to Taiwu Academy.
• Jiang Ping'an used the Five-Colored Jade Disk to visit Princess Bailing in her bedroom, and the two spent the night together.
• Jiang Ping'an asked Liu Xixu to help produce more Array Cannons, and she agreed to refine three additional cannons because materials were scarce.
• After helping Liu Xixu refine Array Cannons for two days, Jiang Ping'an received Emperor Qian's appointment as General of the Northern Expedition, with command over the northern armies and permission to transfer thirty thousand Southern Border elites.

Jiang Ping'an returned to Clear River Prefecture City and reunited with his grandfather and relatives, concealing the truth about his mother’s condition. He gave the Jiang family powerful weapons, protective talismans, and cultivation pills, leaving them overwhelmed by his gifts.

• Jiang Ping'an brought thirty thousand Imperial Guards to Yujing and granted them three days of leave to visit their families.
• Jiang Ping'an visited Clear River Prefecture City and arrived at Jiang Manor, where his relatives and household welcomed him enthusiastically.
• Jiang Ping'an told Jiang Wen that his mother was too busy with military affairs to return, hiding the truth about her condition.
• Jiang Zhengtian and Jiang Zhengfa arranged a grand feast and invited local officials and prominent families to Jiang Manor.
• Jiang Ping'an gave Jiang Wen a Mystic Artifact sword and distributed Mystic Grade Spirit Talismans among his relatives.
• Jiang Ping'an presented the family with five hundred bottles of perfect quality Golden Essence Pills, astonishing everyone.

Jiang Ping'an gave Jiang Manor the treasures his mother had sent and revealed that Jiang Shuyue had reached the Dragon Transformation Realm Seventh Heaven. At the manor’s grand banquet, Clear River Prefecture City celebrated Jiang Ping'an’s return, and his reputation helped Jiang Manor take root among the locals.

• Jiang Ping'an gave Jiang Manor five hundred bottles of perfect quality Golden Essence Pills and revealed that Jiang Shuyue had reached the Dragon Transformation Realm Seventh Heaven.
• Jiang Ping'an gave the manor three thousand Superior Spirit Stones and gave Jiang Wen two hundred wind-element Top-Grade Spirit Stones for his retirement.
• Jiang Wen hosted a grand banquet at Jiang Manor, where prominent families and officials respectfully paid their respects to him and Jiang Ping'an.
• A storyteller in a crowded teahouse recounted Jiang Ping'an’s feats against the beast tide, and patrons marveled at his power and youth.
• The people of Clear River Prefecture City came to admire Jiang Ping'an, while youths and children took him as an example and Jiang Manor gained their recognition.

Jiang Ping'an returned to Yujing, learned that Jiang Yiyi rejected marriage because she wanted to reach the Dragon Transformation Realm, then took command of the northern army. He tested the Array Cannons against the Rakshasa Race, devastating their camp and sending their soldiers into a rout.

• Jiang Ping'an visited Second Maternal Aunt, who asked whether Jiang Yiyi had taken a liking to someone, and he promised to ask her about it.
• Jiang Ping'an returned to Taiwu Academy and learned Jiang Yiyi refused marriage because she did not want to remain an ant unable to advance to the Dragon Transformation Realm.
• Jiang Ping'an traveled to the Northern Frontier, took command of the army without opposition, appointed trusted generals, and concentrated the troops.
• Jiang Ping'an led a million soldiers onto the North Cloud Plains and positioned five Array Cannons within range of the Rakshasa Race camp.
• The Array Cannons smashed through the camp's formation barrier and killed or wounded countless Rakshasa Race soldiers, who panicked and fled despite the Rakshasa Kings' efforts to control them.

Jiang Ping'an won a historic victory against the Rakshasa Race, returned to Yujing, and was ennobled as State Duke Jiang. After visiting his mother, he spoke with Old Black about Mount Yulong, his plans to seek greater cultivation resources, and a possible attack on Pudu Mountain.

• Emperor Qian announced Jiang Ping'an's victory over the Rakshasa army after defending the report against ministers who questioned it.
• Over the following months, Jiang Ping'an reclaimed Great Qian's northern territories, conquered Rakshasa cities, and forced the Rakshasa Race to cede a thousand li and surrender.
• Emperor Qian welcomed Jiang Ping'an back to Yujing and granted him the title of State Duke Jiang and a fief called Jiang Territory.
• Jiang Ping'an visited Jiang Shuyue at Mount Yulong, then joined Old Black for a discussion about the mountain's declining Heavenly Essence and the richer, dangerous Central Wastelands.
• Jiang Ping'an told Old Black he intended to use his five Formation Artifacts against Pudu Mountain, and Old Black said they would need Li Yufeng's help to attack it.

Jiang Ping'an returned to Taiwu Academy, agreed to attend its first graduation ceremony, and collected three Array Cannons from Liu Xixu. After the ceremony, he led his army south to besiege Pudu Mountain.

• Qin Zhishui invited Jiang Ping'an to Taiwu Academy's delayed graduation ceremony, and Jiang Ping'an agreed to attend.
• Jiang Ping'an visited Liu Xixu, praised her cultivation and the Array Cannons, and received three more cannons from her.
• Jiang Ping'an gave eight Azure Essence Pills to Liu Xixu's students, then used the Five-Colored Jade Disk to visit Princess Bailing that night.
• Jiang Ping'an and Princess Bailing attended Taiwu Academy's first graduation ceremony five days later, where Jiang Ping'an thought anxiously about Shangguan Xue.
• Less than half a month after the ceremony, Jiang Ping'an led his army south to besiege Pudu Mountain.

Jiang Ping'an’s army besieged Pudu Mountain, and he used Array Cannons to attack its main peak while the Jingdao Palace Dao Lord and Old Black fought the Buddha Lord. The Buddha Lord broke through to attack Jiang Ping'an, who stood beneath a divine mountain empowered by Six-Syllable Mantras.

• Jiang Ping'an spent two months advancing his army to the foot of Pudu Mountain’s main peak, where he met the Jingdao Palace Dao Lord and agreed to begin the assault.
• Jiang Ping'an assembled eight Array Cannons three hundred li from the peak and fired repeated volleys at Pudu Mountain.
• The Pudu Mountain Buddha Lord transformed into a golden Buddha and struck down the first volley, but the Jingdao Palace Dao Lord pierced his palm with a flying sword.
• Old Black seized the divine mountain the Buddha Lord hurled at the Jingdao Palace Dao Lord, while Jiang Ping'an’s next volley shook Pudu Mountain’s golden barrier.
• Fang Zheng and Fang Tong emerged from Pudu Mountain to fight Old Black and the Jingdao Palace Dao Lord, allowing the Buddha Lord to charge Jiang Ping'an.
• Jiang Ping'an enlarged himself with Law, Heaven, and Earth, but the Buddha Lord sent a thousand-zhang divine mountain empowered by Six-Syllable Mantras crushing toward him.

Jiang Ping'an overwhelmed the Pudu Mountain Buddha Lord in close combat, but the Buddha Lord regenerated his torn-off leg and stayed out of reach. Jiang Ping'an then attacked Pudu Mountain's main peak, forcing the Buddha Lord to respond while monks and believers were killed in the destruction.

• Jiang Ping'an hurled the thousand-zhang Divine Mountain at the Pudu Mountain Buddha Lord, dragged him from the sky, and battered him into the ground and surrounding peaks.
• Fang Zheng abandoned his fight with Old Black to strike Jiang Ping'an with Thousand Hand Buddha Palm, but Old Black intercepted Fang Zheng when he tried to attack again.
• Jiang Ping'an tore off one of the Pudu Mountain Buddha Lord's legs, but the Buddha Lord used Golden Body Nirvana to regrow it and retreated into the sky.
• Jiang Ping'an charged into Pudu Mountain's main peak, shattered its golden scripture barrier, and caused buildings and rocks to collapse on monks and believers.
• The Pudu Mountain Buddha Lord attacked Jiang Ping'an with Red Lotus Lightning Seal, but Jiang Ping'an dodged the lightning and charged into the mountain again.

Jiang Ping'an destroyed Pudu Mountain's main peak and killed its monks and believers, but the Pudu Mountain Buddha Lord and Fang Zheng kept him from reaching the Jingdao Palace Dao Lord. With his Law, Heaven, and Earth ability pushed to its limits and Old Black badly wounded, Jiang Ping'an faced the Buddha Lord's renewed attack.

• Jiang Ping'an crushed Xuan Ming, demolished Pudu Mountain's main peak, and slapped its surviving monks and believers to death.
• Jiang Ping'an struck Fang Zheng, then ended his Law, Heaven, and Earth transformation as the Pudu Mountain Buddha Lord and Fang Zheng attacked Old Black.
• Jiang Ping'an clung to Old Black's leg while Old Black dodged the pair's attacks, but Old Black refused to lend him a Spirit Treasure to call the Xuanyuan Sword.
• Old Black urged Jiang Ping'an to escape toward the Jingdao Palace Dao Lord, and Jiang Ping'an fled as the Buddha Lord pursued him with a Tathagata Palm.
• Jiang Ping'an used the Void Movement Technique and then reactivated Law, Heaven, and Earth to shatter the Buddha Lord's palm, but Fang Zheng blasted him farther from the Jingdao Palace Dao Lord.
• Fang Zheng told the Buddha Lord that Jiang Ping'an was nearly spent, and the Buddha Lord swooped down to strike him with a full-force Tathagata Palm.

Jiang Ping'an fled the Pudu Mountain Buddha Lord and was nearly killed, but Lan Yu ambushed and grievously wounded the Buddha Lord, forcing him to escape as only a head. After recovering some strength with Lan Yu’s Revival Saint Pills, Jiang Ping'an set off with her to attack Pudu Mountain.

• Jiang Ping'an escaped the Pudu Mountain Buddha Lord’s Tathagata Palm, then counterattacked and forced him to sever his own leg to get free.
• Fang Zheng blocked Jiang Ping'an from reaching the Jingdao Palace Dao Lord, so Jiang Ping'an fled toward the eastern sea while the Pudu Mountain Buddha Lord pursued him.
• As the exhausted Jiang Ping'an faced another Tathagata Palm, Lan Yu ambushed the Pudu Mountain Buddha Lord, tore out his heart and intestines, and severed his neck, leaving his head to flee.
• Lan Yu told Jiang Ping'an that she had used the Domain of Jade despite not yet reaching the Saint Realm, then gave him Revival Saint Pills to recover.
• Jiang Ping'an recovered about one-third of his strength and flew with Lan Yu toward Pudu Mountain, determined to kill the Buddha Lord.

Jiang Ping'an returned from destroying Pudu Mountain determined to pursue Fang Sheng to the Central Wastelands, then came home and learned Liu Xixu had been taken there by her father. Princess Bailing visited him and arranged to meet him that night.

• Jiang Ping'an learned Fang Sheng had escaped with Fang Zheng and Fang Tong, and he vowed to kill Fang Sheng despite Old Black's warning; the Jingdao Palace Dao Lord gave him a map of the Eastern Wilderness and Central Wastelands.
• Lan Yu said she would cultivate and planned to meet Jiang Ping'an in three months before he left for the Central Wastelands.
• More than half a month later, Jiang Ping'an returned to the capital, surrendered his military authority, and told Jiang Shuyue about the destruction of Pudu Mountain.
• Jiang Yiyi gave Jiang Ping'an a letter from Liu Xixu, revealing that her biological father had taken her to the Central Wastelands two months earlier.
• Princess Bailing visited Jiang Ping'an with congratulatory gifts and asked whether he could come to her room that night; he agreed.

Jiang Ping'an prepared Jiang Manor for his departure to the Central Wastelands while arranging Dragon Transformation Pills to strengthen his family. After refining six perfect pills, he recognized that his dwindling Proficiency Points were a hidden danger to his future cultivation.

• Jiang Ping'an told Princess Bailing he would leave for the Central Wastelands in about three months to pursue the Pudu Mountain Buddha Lord, and asked her to buy ingredients for Dragon Transformation Pills.
• Jiang Ping'an visited Jiang Manor with Jiang Yiyi, told Jiang Wen that his mother had left for the Central Wastelands, and asked his relatives to decide whether they would move to Jiang Territory.
• Jiang Ping'an explained that Dragon Transformation Pills could advance Divine Treasury Realm Fifth Heaven cultivators into the Dragon Transformation Realm and promised one to the first Jiang Manor member to reach that level.
• Princess Bailing obtained the ingredients, and Jiang Ping'an realized his remaining Proficiency Points would not be enough to quickly learn the fifth volume of the Dao Scripture.
• Jiang Ping'an used the Creation Furnace to refine the ingredients and obtained six perfect Dragon Transformation Pills.

After leaving the Great Qian Kingdom, Jiang Ping'an and Lan Yu traveled to Qingqiu City, where he intended to cultivate before entering the Central Wastelands. At the city gates, Jiang Ping'an saw Human Race people enslaved by Azure Cang Wolves and attacked their ship in fury.

• Lan Yu arrived after three months of secluded cultivation and advanced to Saint, while Jiang Ping'an entrusted pills and a sword art to Princess Bailing before departing for the Central Wastelands.
• Old Black warned Jiang Ping'an about the dangers of the wider world, cautioned him against fighting across realms, and told him to beware of the Buddhist sect.
• Jiang Ping'an and Lan Yu traveled west aboard a top-grade Flying Boat, following the Dao Lord of Jingdao Palace's map through Foreign Race territory without trouble.
• After more than fifty days, Jiang Ping'an and Lan Yu reached Qingqiu City, a trading city controlled by the Nine-tailed Celestial Fox Clan, where Jiang Ping'an planned to cultivate.
• While waiting to enter the city, Jiang Ping'an saw Azure Cang Wolves keeping Human Race slaves and heard Lan Yu urge him not to act rashly.
• When enslaved Human Race people tried to flee toward his Flying Boat, the Azure Cang Wolves and two Human Race men beat them back, and Jiang Ping'an charged at the ship with his Dragon Abyss Halberd.

Jiang Ping'an rescued more than eight hundred humans from Azure Cang Wolves near Qingqiu City and learned that the wolves kept many more captives in a distant Great Canyon. After entering the city and arranging a temporary place for the survivors, he set out with Lan Yu to attack the stronghold.

• Jiang Ping'an killed the Azure Cang Wolves transporting humans, captured two human collaborators, and paid Qingqiu City's fine after Lan Yu revealed her Saint's aura.
• Jiang Ping'an freed more than eight hundred chained humans and learned that the Azure Cang Wolves had captured some from villages and bred the rest for sale.
• Jiang Ping'an interrogated the surviving wolf and the two collaborators, discovering that a Great Canyon more than thirty thousand li away held a vast number of captives and a powerful wolf force.
• The rescued humans killed the two collaborators, Jiang Ping'an killed the last Azure Cang Wolf, and he kept the wolf corpses to refine into Spirit Pills.
• Jiang Ping'an paid the entrance fees, entered Qingqiu City, and found an inn and a place to park the flying ship.
• Jiang Ping'an and Lan Yu left the city at full speed for the Great Canyon to destroy the Azure Cang Wolves' captive-raising stronghold.

Jiang Ping'an and Lan Yu reached the Great Canyon, where Azure Cang Wolves held humans captive, and Jiang Ping'an began a battle designed to make the wolves underestimate him. He killed the human-traitor guards and many Azure Cang Wolves, then continued fighting as the fifth-rank wolf attacked.

• Jiang Ping'an refined the Azure Cang Wolf corpses into pills, split the Essence Stones with Lan Yu, and cultivated during their flight to the Great Canyon.
• Jiang Ping'an told Lan Yu to hide nearby and ambush the sixth-rank Azure Cang Wolf when he drew it into battle.
• Jiang Ping'an killed the human-traitor guards at the canyon entrance, then fought the Azure Cang Wolves while concealing his strength.
• Jiang Ping'an killed more than a dozen Azure Cang Wolves, including several fourth-rank wolves, as the fifth-rank wolf watched.
• The fifth-rank Azure Cang Wolf attacked with wind blades and shattered the stone wall, but Jiang Ping'an avoided counterattacking and charged into the arriving wolves.

Jiang Ping'an fought through the Azure Cang Wolf pack, killing its fifth-tier leaders and joining Lan Yu to defeat the sixth-tier Azure Cang Wolf. After the strongest wolves fell, Jiang Ping'an and Lan Yu hunted down the fleeing pack and wiped it out.

• Jiang Ping'an used the Five-Colored Jade Disk to evade repeated attacks while slaughtering the Azure Cang Wolves, then killed a fifth-tier Azure Cang Wolf with the Dragon Abyss Halberd.
• Jiang Ping'an killed a second fifth-tier Azure Cang Wolf with a halberd strike and broke another's waist before using its body as a weapon against the others.
• Jiang Ping'an fought the remaining fifth-tier Azure Cang Wolves, killing one more as the sixth-tier Azure Cang Wolf entered the battle.
• Jiang Ping'an grew to three hundred zhang and chased down the fleeing sixth-tier Azure Cang Wolf, pinning it down for Lan Yu to kill and destroy its essence soul.
• Jiang Ping'an killed the three fleeing fifth-tier Azure Cang Wolves, while Lan Yu slaughtered the remaining Azure Cang Wolves in the Great Canyon.

Jiang Ping'an and Lan Yu defeated the Azure Cang Wolves, freed more than six hundred thousand Human Race captives, and gathered wealth and resources from the wolves. Jiang Ping'an left Lan Yu to guard the freed people while he hurried to Qingqiu City to recruit help and plan a city where they could settle.

• Jiang Ping'an killed the human traitors fleeing the Great Canyon and joined Lan Yu, who had brought back the Sixth-Rank Azure Cang Wolf corpse.
• Jiang Ping'an announced that the captives were free, then looted the wolves' bodies and shared the Sixth-Rank Azure Cang Wolf's Essence Stones and treasures with Lan Yu.
• Jiang Ping'an searched the Great Canyon, counted roughly six hundred thousand captives, executed the traitors who remained, and found three flying ships and a large store of food.
• Jiang Ping'an refined the Azure Cang Wolf corpses into Spirit Pills and proposed building a city to shelter the captives and nearby Human Race villages.
• Lan Yu agreed to protect the captives, and Jiang Ping'an flew toward Qingqiu City to recruit Human Race patriots.

Jiang Ping'an visited the Myriad Sound Pavilion to announce that he had rescued more than six hundred thousand Human Race captives and planned to build a city for them. He left after Zhang Yijie pledged support and agreed to verify the rescue, then bought ingredients to refine Divine Soul pills.

• Jiang Ping'an hired Duo'er as a guide and went to the Myriad Sound Pavilion to learn the cost of publishing an announcement.
• Jiang Ping'an wrote a three-sentence message asking Human Race heroes to meet outside Qingqiu City's east gate on the fifteenth day of the ninth month to help build a city for the rescued captives.
• Zhong Ling brought Zhang Yijie to meet Jiang Ping'an, and Jiang Ping'an explained that a Saint companion had helped him defeat the Azure Cang Wolves and rescue more than six hundred thousand people.
• Zhang Yijie offered one thousand Top-Grade Spirit Stones and intelligence support, then set out to verify the Great Canyon before publishing Jiang Ping'an's announcement at half price.
• Jiang Ping'an bought ten sets of ingredients for Nine Revolutions Soul Nurturing Pills, spending one thousand Top-Grade Spirit Stones.

Jiang Ping'an discovered that Clarity Tea could be converted into Proficiency Points and learned about the dangerous Divine Origin Ruins, which he resolved to enter when they opened in two years. He and Zhang Yijie also arranged protection for the Great Canyon’s displaced people, and Zhang donated spirit stones toward building their city.

• Zhang Yijie told Jiang Ping'an that his announcement had spread across fifty thousand li and invited him to share tea.
• Jiang Ping'an converted the tea’s insights into three million Proficiency Points, then learned that Clarity Tea came from the Enlightenment Tea Tree in the Divine Origin Ruins.
• Zhang Yijie explained that the Divine Origin Ruins would open in two years and warned Jiang Ping'an about their dangers, but Jiang decided to enter and seek Enlightenment Tea Leaves.
• Jiang Ping'an and Zhang Yijie agreed to hire the Myriad Manifestations Hall to protect the Great Canyon’s more than six hundred thousand displaced people.
• Zhang Yijie donated one thousand Top-Grade Spirit Stones to help Jiang Ping'an build a city for the displaced people.