Chapter Summaries

Jiang Chuan entered the True Dragon Race demon immortal’s palace and began a trial that tested his Primordial Spirit, divine ability, and comprehension of the Great Dao. As he confronted a question about the Dao, Meng Nanxi emerged from her own trial and worried that Jiang Chuan had not returned, prompting Huang Rui to check on him with a Treasure Mirror.

• Jiang Chuan failed to draw responses from the other Dao Beacons, joked about attacking them, and entered the ruined palace of the True Dragon Race demon immortal.
• A dragon roar assaulted Jiang Chuan’s Primordial Spirit, but he endured it and passed the first trial.
• Jiang Chuan split a golden True Dragon’s combined wind and flames with the Vast Cold Condensing Yin Saber Chapter, passing the second trial.
• Jiang Chuan countered the Great Dao of Water’s flooding waves with his Five Qi Divine Furnace and passed the third trial.
• A green pearl posed the question “What is the Dao?” to Jiang Chuan, leaving him unable to answer immediately.
• Meng Nanxi returned injured from her trial and asked where Jiang Chuan was; Huang Rui used a Treasure Mirror to view him.

Jiang Chuan passed the Questioning the Dao Trial by smashing the unresponsive azure pearl, which was judged to show a firm Dao Heart. He entered the Fifth Trial and defeated its golden true dragon with overwhelming physical strength, leaving the onlookers stunned.

• Jiang Chuan tried several explanations of the Dao, but the azure pearl did not react.
• Jiang Chuan attacked and destroyed the azure pearl, and Immortal Script declared that he had passed the Fourth Trial.
• Huang Rui explained that Jiang Chuan's firm intent to teach the pearl a lesson had satisfied the trial.
• Jiang Chuan entered the Fifth Trial, where a golden true dragon appeared to challenge him.
• Jiang Chuan shattered the true dragon with repeated punches, leaving everyone watching through the silver mirror stunned.

Jiang Chuan passed the fifth and sixth trials by displaying overwhelming physical strength and defeating an illusion of Huang Rui. A Silver Dragon offered him a chance to inherit an ancient unfinished cultivation path, but Jiang Chuan doubted it was worth pursuing.

• Jiang Chuan destroyed a True Dragon with three punches, passing the fifth trial.
• Jiang Chuan faced an illusion of Huang Rui in the Heart Demon Trial and pulverized it with more than two hundred punches, passing the sixth trial.
• A Silver Dragon appeared and explained that ancient immortals and demon immortals had left Dao Beacons to find someone who could complete their unfinished cultivation path.
• Jiang Chuan questioned the Silver Dragon’s judgment and said he would rather cultivate properly than inherit the ancient path.

Jiang Chuan fought the Silver Dragon Demonic Immortal Split Soul in the trial and unleashed his full strength after surviving its attacks. He appeared to destroy the Silver Dragon, but a dragon roar from the mirror revealed that the battle was not over.

• The Silver Dragon grew enraged at Jiang Chuan's insults and attacked him, while Song Zhiyan and Meng Nanxi worried about his safety.
• Jiang Chuan blocked the Silver Dragon's attacks with his Taiji Diagram and lightning, emerging battered but alive from the shockwaves.
• Jiang Chuan brought forth the Nine Palaces Diagram and its Immortal Artifacts to suppress the Silver Dragon's dragons, then struck it with the Vermilion Bird, White Tiger, and Azure Dragon.
• The Silver Dragon disappeared in the shockwaves, and Jiang Chuan lamented that he might have hit it too hard and lost his reward.
• The onlookers thought Jiang Chuan had slain the Demonic Immortal Split Soul, but Huang Rui warned that the battle was not over before a great dragon roar came from the mirror.

Jiang Chuan broke Silver Dragon’s True Dragon Realm Refining Technique with the Leaving Heaven Immortal Scripture and defeated him again. Silver Dragon rewarded Jiang Chuan and sent him back to the Ascension Land, wondering whether Jiang Chuan could forge a new cultivation path.

• Silver Dragon trapped Jiang Chuan in the True Dragon Realm Refining Technique, but Jiang Chuan shattered the furnace with a punch powered by the Leaving Heaven Immortal Scripture.
• Jiang Chuan defeated Silver Dragon twice more, while Song Zhiyan and Song Zhiyi discussed whether their father should support Qu as City Lord.
• Silver Dragon questioned Jiang Chuan about the scripture, and Jiang Chuan explained that he had comprehended it from Bird Script at the Litian Immortal Palace.
• Silver Dragon doubled Jiang Chuan’s reward, gave him three treasures, and sent him through a golden gate while considering Jiang Chuan’s potential to create a new path.
• Jiang Chuan returned to the Ascension Land and wondered what treasures Silver Dragon had given him.

Jiang Chuan received several rewards from the Silver Dragon, including Divine Dragon Grass and the Yao Guang Ten Thousand Swords Immortal Diagram, which contained Sword Immortal Yao Guang’s sword dao. The diagram left Huang Rui determined to intensify Jiang Chuan’s training.

• Jiang Chuan learned that the Divine Dragon Grass could raise the grade of his Flower of Qi, but he considered selling it instead of using its power.
• Jiang Chuan opened a jade box that Huang Rui identified as containing leaves from the Great Void Jade Tree, but the Silver Dragon admitted it had given him the wrong box and reclaimed it.
• The Silver Dragon gave Jiang Chuan the Yao Guang Ten Thousand Swords Immortal Diagram, and Huang Rui explained that it contained the sword dao of Sword Immortal Yao Guang.
• Song Zhiyan asked to study the diagram, and Meng Nanxi told him he would have to pay Jiang Chuan.
• Huang Rui decided to intensify Jiang Chuan’s training and seek several million Merit Points from the Skybreaker King, while Jiang Chuan agreed to be tempered ruthlessly.

Jiang Chuan studied a Supreme Divine Ability and spent seven days cultivating while preparing to enter Purple Smoke Immortal Mountain and pursue Immortal Qi. When Teacher Qu arrived with Jiang Feixu, Jiang Feixu warned him that she had bad news.

• Jiang Chuan found a Supreme Divine Ability on the Ancient Scroll and stored it with his other treasures to study later.
• Ji Heng broke through to the seventh realm, manifesting the True Dragon Roaring to the Heavens phenomenon and the Great Yin Divine Tree, revealing that he had cultivated Two Strands of Immortal Qi.
• Jiang Chuan asked Huang Rui to find an alchemist to refine Jade Immortal Soul Condensing Pills, then gave Meng Nanxi the Divine Dragon Grass in exchange for her grandfather's help finding a treasure containing the Power of Yin and Yang.
• Jiang Chuan cultivated for seven days, consuming all his Treasure Jade Glazed Fruits and raising his Flower of Qi to the eighth grade.
• Teacher Qu brought Jiang Feixu to see Jiang Chuan, and Jiang Feixu told him she had bad news.

Jiang Chuan learned that Mountain Sea Dao Sect and Crystal Cave Heaven were targeting him, and he chose to face their strongest young cultivator in a Life and Death Duel rather than flee to safety. After the two sects accepted, he prepared to cultivate the Teng Snake Immortal Destroying Seal, and the Earthen Yellow Flood Dragon offered to teach him the Heaven Opening Scripture.

• Jiang Feixu told Jiang Chuan that Mountain Sea Dao Sect and Crystal Cave Heaven had accused him and that their elders had entered Nanyun Province, prompting Skybreaker King to offer him a choice between leaving for Northern Capital City and staying in the Cangwu Realm.
• Jiang Feixu explained that Skybreaker King's rejected plan was a Life and Death Duel against Ji Yan, whose four mastered immortal scriptures, Taichong Sword Pool, and likely Golden Core made him a formidable opponent.
• Jiang Chuan decided to challenge the young cultivators of Mountain Sea Dao Sect and Crystal Cave Heaven to a Life and Death Duel, despite Qu Shi's and Jiang Feixu's concerns.
• Less than an hour after Jiang Feixu left, Du Yi called to say that both sects had agreed to send someone to fight Jiang Chuan.
• Jiang Chuan took out the Five Peaks Suppressing Dragon Diagram to cultivate the Teng Snake Immortal Destroying Seal, and the Earthen Yellow Flood Dragon offered to pass on the Heaven Opening Scripture.

Jiang Chuan read the Heaven Opening Scripture, dismissed the flood dragon’s claim to be the Creation God, and refined the Five Peaks Suppressing Dragon Diagram to complete his Teng Snake Immortal Destroying Seal. As his classmates warned him about his Life and Death Duel with Ji Yan, Huang Rui arrived with a training plan that made Jiang Chuan want to run.

• The Earthen Yellow Flood Dragon gave Jiang Chuan the Heaven Opening Scripture, and Jiang Chuan punched it after it called him grandson.
• Jiang Chuan read the scripture, judged most of it to be nonsense, and stored it as a reference for cultivating the Two Energies Two Extremes Qi Refining Technique.
• Jiang Chuan refined the Five Peaks Suppressing Dragon Diagram and absorbed its Earth Transcendent Factor, bringing his Teng Snake Immortal Destroying Seal to great completion.
• Jiang Chuan left his pavilion to test his strengthened abilities, but Meng Nanxi, Kang Bo, Song Zhiyan, and other students warned him that Ji Yan could cultivate Three Strands of Immortal Qi and form an Immortal Grade Golden Core.
• Huang Rui arrived and claimed his new training plan could make Jiang Chuan strong enough to defeat a hundred Ji Yans, prompting Jiang Chuan to realize he should flee.

Jiang Chuan learned that Ji Yan had formed an Immortal Grade Golden Core, then agreed to follow Teacher Huang Rui’s dangerous training plan in exchange for Merit Points. Teacher Huang Rui took him toward the outer regions of the Ten Great Desperate Lands, but they stopped at a ruined palace instead of Fallen Moon Lake.

• Ji Yan’s Golden Core formation produced three powerful omens, and Song Zhiyan warned that he might be stronger than the Eighth Realm Demon Kings Jiang Chuan had seen.
• Teacher Huang Rui gave Jiang Chuan a plan to conquer the outer regions of the Ten Great Desperate Lands, and Jiang Chuan agreed after she mentioned her two million Merit Points.
• Song Zhiyan suggested transferring Jiang Chuan’s debts to Ji Yan, and Meng Nanxi agreed that Jiang Chuan and Qu Shi were a great fortune for Immortal Gate High School.
• Jiang Chuan followed Teacher Huang Rui across dozens of mountains, but they arrived at a battered black palace instead of Fallen Moon Lake.

Huang Rui used the Cangwu Ancient Immortal’s formation to bring Jiang Chuan to Fallen Moon Lake, where she set him to hunt corpse Yaksas for Merit Points. After Jiang Chuan slaughtered the creatures emerging from the Six Yin Dragon Mountains, a powerful corpse with a Tenth Realm Void Immortal’s body attacked him.

• Huang Rui explained that Fallen Moon Lake lay beyond Earth Star and activated the ancient formation to transport herself and Jiang Chuan there.
• Huang Rui described Fallen Moon Lake’s nourishing outer region and offered Jiang Chuan 200,000 Merit Points for clearing each of its six mountain ranges.
• Jiang Chuan released his blood vitality, drawing corpse Yaksas from the burial mounds, then destroyed them with Five-Colored Thunder.
• A crimson giant hand emerged from the shaking mountains, and Huang Rui recognized it as belonging to a Tenth Realm Void Immortal’s corpse.

Jiang Chuan battled a Void Immortal Corpse that rose from a coffin in the Six Yin Dragon Mountains, trading powerful strikes until the corpse summoned a bronze cauldron. The cauldron swallowed Jiang Chuan, and Huang Rui rushed to intervene.

• Jiang Chuan shattered the Void Immortal Corpse's crimson hand with his Yin powers, and the corpse emerged from a green stone coffin.
• Jiang Chuan fought the corpse with the Dragon Serpent Combined Attack while Huang Rui explained how the corpse could wield the Great Dao Principles it had mastered in life.
• Jiang Chuan unleashed the Five Qi Divine Furnace and the Five Great Supreme Level Seal Techniques, severely injuring the corpse but damaging his own hand.
• The Void Immortal Corpse summoned a cracked bronze cauldron that trapped Jiang Chuan in its divine light and swallowed him.
• Huang Rui realized the corpse had used a divine weapon from its lifetime and charged toward the bronze cauldron.

Jiang Chuan and Huang Rui were trapped inside a Peak Grade Dao Tool’s cauldron and failed to break through its wall with their combined attacks. Jiang Chuan revealed an immortal hand bone, and they began channeling their power into it to make a stronger attempt.

• Jiang Chuan and Huang Rui discussed the ancient immortals’ failed attempt to resist the Heavenly Dao’s evolution by creating Inner Worlds as divine light began refining them.
• Huang Rui attacked the cracked cauldron wall with her Azure Phoenix Nine Strikes, but hundreds of blows failed to break it.
• Jiang Chuan and Huang Rui combined their attacks, including his Five-Colored Arrow and her Azure Phoenix God Splitting Claws, but the wall remained intact.
• Huang Rui prepared to burn her bloodline to wield the Phoenix Ancestor’s power until Jiang Chuan showed her an immortal hand bone.
• Huang Rui identified the hand bone as belonging to someone near immortality, explained its potential power, and she and Jiang Chuan poured their power into it.

Jiang Chuan and Huang Rui escaped the Bronze Great Cauldron after defeating the Golden Robe man, then refined Daoist Liyang’s hand bone into Jiang Chuan’s right hand. Jiang Chuan returned to the pavilion confident he could deal with Ji Yan, but Meng Nanxi and the others rushed out to meet him in alarm.

• Jiang Chuan and Huang Rui used the hand bone’s Immortal Light to break through the Bronze Great Cauldron and escape.
• Jiang Chuan struck the Golden Robe man with the Vermilion Bird Immortal Severing Seal, and Huang Rui finished him with Azure Phoenix Nine Strikes.
• Huang Rui promised Jiang Chuan Merit Points for his efforts, then explained that the hand bone and damaged cauldron were valuable treasures.
• Jiang Chuan gave the Golden Robe man’s remains to Huang Rui and kept the shattered Bronze Great Cauldron.
• Jiang Chuan and Huang Rui spent three days refining Daoist Liyang’s hand bone into Jiang Chuan’s right palm, giving him a new trump card against Ji Yan.
• Jiang Chuan returned to the pavilion, where Meng Nanxi and the others hurried out to greet him anxiously.

Jiang Chuan learned that Mountain Sea Dao Sect and Crystal Cave Heaven were threatening war with the Cangwu Realm and the Border Defense Force, then flew to confront them. He killed an elder and more than ten cultivators, but Daoist Jing Xu vanished from his punch and attacked him from behind.

• Meng Nanxi and Zhao Danqin told Jiang Chuan that Mountain Sea Dao Sect and Crystal Cave Heaven suspected he had fled with help and were using the dispute to pressure the Cangwu Realm and the Border Defense Force.
• Jiang Chuan flew to the Cangwu Realm entrance, where Cheng Ye and Zhou Yunxuan were facing Daoist Jing Xu and the sect cultivators.
• Jiang Chuan demanded that Ji Yan come out, then blasted a Crystal Cave Heaven elder and his roc mount to pieces with Dragon Serpent Combined Attack.
• When the sect cultivators attacked, Jiang Chuan unleashed Five Elements Divine Thunder and exploded more than ten elders from both sects.
• Daoist Jing Xu charged Jiang Chuan, vanished when Jiang Chuan punched him, and appeared behind him with a killing blow.

Jiang Chuan fought Daoist Jing Xu, whose mastery of illusion, the void, and sword techniques forced him onto the defensive. Jiang Chuan broke through Jing Xu’s attacks with the Dragon Snake Suppressing the World Diagram and destroyed his body, but an unidentified attacker intervened before he could finish Jing Xu off.

• Daoist Jing Xu ambushed Jiang Chuan, but Jiang Chuan blocked his sword and shattered his Thousand Mountain Seal.
• Jing Xu used illusions and the void to attack from multiple directions, then overpowered Jiang Chuan with his sword techniques.
• Jiang Chuan unleashed the Dragon Snake Suppressing the World Diagram and clashed with Jing Xu’s Void Severing Firmament.
• Jiang Chuan trapped Jing Xu with a gold-and-black Dao diagram and struck him with the Dragon Serpent Combined Attack, destroying his body.
• As Jing Xu’s Primordial Spirit and Golden Core rose from the wreckage, golden mist and Silver Water surged toward Jiang Chuan in a new attacker’s intervention.

Jiang Chuan killed Daoist Jing Xu and fought Ji Yan until Luo Jianbai intervened, while Vast Nether Demonic Venerable confronted Bi Jingyang. With the duel against Ji Yan still set, Jiang Chuan was told to enter Purple Smoke Immortal Mountain to prepare, and Meng Nanxi gave him Daoist Jing Xu's spatial magic treasure.

• Jiang Chuan killed Daoist Jing Xu with his golden net and Ghost Snake Sword while fighting Ji Yan.
• Luo Jianbai knocked Ji Yan's Taichong Sword Pool aside and stopped the fight, warning that Ji Yan had other hidden strength.
• Jiang Chuan and Ji Yan argued over their sects' accusations and killings before Bi Jingyang arrived and Vast Nether Demonic Venerable went to confront him.
• Vast Nether Demonic Venerable returned and warned Jiang Chuan that the Life and Death Duel would proceed as scheduled, then arranged for Huang Rui to take him into Purple Smoke Immortal Mountain.
• Luo Jianbai departed with Cheng Ye and the Border Defense Force cultivators, while Jiang Chuan insisted he would win the duel.
• Meng Nanxi gave Jiang Chuan Daoist Jing Xu's spatial magic treasure, which she had recovered after his death.

Jiang Chuan received treasures containing the Power of Yin and Yang and used them to cultivate a powerful divine ability by opening his Six Bowels Divine Palace. He then set out with his companions for Purple Smoke Immortal Mountain to use the Mountain River Dragon Lair's Dragon Qi to transform.

• Jiang Chuan examined Daoist Jing Xu's inheritance and found Void Beast horns, Spirit Medicine, and the Void Illusion Daoist Scripture.
• Meng Nanxi gave Jiang Chuan the Yin Yang Spirit Gathering Flags, which could replenish the Power of Yin and Yang they contained.
• Zhao Danqin, Song Zhiyan, and Meng Nanxi worried that Ji Yan's swordsmanship and hidden strength could threaten Jiang Chuan.
• Jiang Chuan absorbed the flags' Power of Yin and Yang, opened his Six Bowels Divine Palace, and fused its Six Harmonies Divine Power with the power of his Five Organs Divine Palace and Four Limbs Divine Palace.
• The next morning, Jiang Chuan led the group toward Purple Smoke Immortal Mountain to enter the Mountain River Dragon Lair.

Jiang Chuan refined the Mountain River Dragon Qi in Purple Smoke Immortal Mountain and prepared to cultivate a second Strand of Immortal Qi. Meanwhile, Ji Heng and Zhao Danqin planned to kill Ji Yan before his duel with Jiang Chuan.

• Huang Rui explained how the Mountain River Dragon Lair's dragon qi could strengthen cultivators and warned them to refine it carefully.
• Huang Rui gave Jiang Chuan the Jade Immortal Soul Condensing Pills and a folder, and Qu Shi told him to transfer 400,000 Merit Points because the alchemist was Vast Nether Demonic Venerable's granddaughter.
• Jiang Chuan noticed that dragon qi flowed into Meng Nanxi without resistance, then forcibly refined it himself until his blood qi formed a fourth true dragon and his Primordial Spirit grew stronger.
• Ji Heng told Zhao Danqin and Qiuyue Bai that he planned to kill Ji Yan to prevent the Life and Death Duel with Jiang Chuan, and Zhao Danqin agreed to join him.
• After a day and a night of refining dragon qi, Jiang Chuan sensed that his Primordial Spirit had transformed and took out the Jade Immortal Soul Condensing Pills to cultivate a second Strand of Immortal Qi.

Jiang Chuan refined the Jade Immortal Soul Condensing Pill and Dragon Qi, cultivating a second strand of Immortal Qi before absorbing death Qi to strengthen his cultivation. At Dali City, Luo Jianbai weighed Jiang Chuan’s chances against Ji Yan and argued against attacking the Ancient Sects while the demonic beasts remained the main threat, just as Zhou Yunxuan arrived with urgent news.

• Jiang Chuan refined the pill and Dragon Qi, breaking through to cultivate Immortal Qi from his Flower of Divinity.
• Song Zhiyan and Song Zhiyi teased Jiang Chuan about his extraordinary cultivation, and he drew death Qi from the Gray Stone Bead to strengthen his Life and Death Diagram.
• Jiang Feixu told Luo Jianbai that more than twenty Ancient Sect cultivators had entered Nanyun Province and that Cangwu Realm was repairing a Teleportation Formation to help Jiang Chuan escape.
• Luo Jianbai explained that Ji Yan’s divine abilities and unknown trump cards made Jiang Chuan’s odds poor, while Cheng Ye urged the Border Defense Force to destroy Mountain Sea Dao Sect and Crystal Cave Heaven.
• Luo Jianbai rejected an immediate attack on the Ancient Sects because the demonic beasts remained the greater threat, and Zhou Yunxuan rushed into the command post with urgent news.