Chapter Summaries

Jiang Chuan learned that Chu Wan'er had entered secluded cultivation and would not lead the expedition to the Vast Cold Palace Ruins, while the Twilight End Society’s overseas attacks intensified. Suspecting interference with the repair of his Four Spirits Demon Execution Sword, he flew to Northern Capital City to confront those responsible.

• Jiang Chuan joked with Meng Weiyi and Meng Nanxi about becoming Nandu City Lord before learning that Chu Wan'er’s name was missing from the Vast Cold Palace Ruins expedition list.
• Jiang Chuan called Chu Wan'er and learned she had entered secluded cultivation to study a strange scripture that might open a new path; Hao Feiyang confirmed the Jade Pond Immortal Palace would still send people.
• Meng Nanxi told Jiang Chuan that the expedition roster had changed repeatedly, and Meng Weiyi reported that the Twilight End Society had attacked Pampas Country’s capital, killing hundreds of thousands.
• Jiang Chuan read reports of attacks on Mumbai, Cairo, and Berlin, then decided he needed to strengthen himself and possibly pass the fire tribulation before going overseas.
• Jiang Chuan called Feng Jiye about his unrepaired Four Spirits Demon Execution Sword, suspected a leak and deliberate obstruction, and flew to Northern Capital City to confront the cultivators there.

Jiang Chuan confronted the Northern Capital City Military Industry Department over the unrepaired Four Spirits Demon Execution Sword, then attacked Kong Zhixuan and accused him of conspiring with Zhuang Jun. When City Defense Army commander Cai Feng intervened, Jiang Chuan trapped him in the Light and Darkness Diagram and blasted through his chest.

• Jiang Chuan confronted Mao Bowen at the Military Industry Department, and Mao blamed the sword's unrepaired state on Artifact Forging Department director Kong Zhixuan and Zhuang Jun's faction.
• Mao Bowen and Feng Jiye took Jiang Chuan to the Artifact Forging Department, where Kong Zhixuan refused to explain why he had not repaired the Four Spirits Demon Execution Sword.
• Jiang Chuan punched Kong Zhixuan into a pill furnace, causing a fire, then pinned him to the ground and accused him of attacking Big Sister's secluded cultivation site.
• Jiang Chuan called Hao Feiyang to bring people and evidence, and demanded that Kong Zhixuan confess and summon Zhuang Jun.
• After an Artifact Forging Department cultivator reported the incident, Cai Feng arrived and attacked Jiang Chuan, but Jiang Chuan's Light and Darkness Diagram shattered Cai Feng's armor and blasted through his chest.

Jiang Chuan battered Cai Feng and accused Kong Zhixuan and the Artifact Forging Department of conspiring with Zhuang Jun to assassinate his Big Sister. When Li Wenbin tried to restrain him, Jiang Chuan refused to back down, and Li summoned the power of the Path of Stars to fight.

• Jiang Chuan shattered Cai Feng’s armor with one strike, then seized him and repeatedly smashed him into the ground before handing him to Feng Jiye for questioning.
• Li Wenbin arrived, and Kong Zhixuan claimed Jiang Chuan was framing him because he had refused to repair the Four Spirits Demon Execution Sword.
• Jiang Chuan accused Zhuang Jun and the City Defense Army of ambushing his Big Sister and demanded that Zhuang Jun and the army be dealt with.
• Li Wenbin defended Zhuang Jun and the City Defense Army, then threatened to teach Jiang Chuan a lesson when he refused to relent.
• Li Wenbin surrounded himself with starlight from the Path of Stars, while Jiang Chuan challenged him and refused to lower his head.

Jiang Chuan blocked Li Wenbin’s star-powered attack, but Li called for reinforcements while threatening to send him to the Demon Suppressing Prison. Jiang Chuan summoned his own backup by asking Hao Feiyang to bring Chu Wan'er out of seclusion, and Hao Feiyang sounded delighted at the prospect.

• Li Wenbin attacked Jiang Chuan with power drawn from the stars, and Jiang Chuan countered with the Five Elements Heaven Evolution Seal.
• Jiang Chuan and Li Wenbin’s clash shook the area, but Feng Jiye and Li Wenbin’s cultivators contained the shockwaves.
• The crowd and Li Wenbin were shocked when Jiang Chuan emerged unharmed, and Jiang demanded that Zhuang Jun be brought to him.
• Li Wenbin summoned a starry figure and threatened Jiang Chuan, who revealed a talisman refined by Fairy Chu and the Taiji Gourd.
• Li Wenbin called Gong Yi for reinforcements and threatened to imprison Jiang Chuan, who called Hao Feiyang to summon Chu Wan'er.
• Hao Feiyang reacted excitedly to Jiang Chuan’s claim that the situation was an emergency.

Jiang Chuan confronted the Northern Capital City Artifact Forging Department over its refusal to repair his Dao Tool and threatened the officials with the Liyang Daoist's Hand Bone. Chu Wan'er arrived to stop the confrontation, and Jiang Chuan returned home before discovering that his classmates had mistaken the incident for a Twilight End Society attack.

• Li Wenbin tried to limit Jiang Chuan's punishment, but Jiang Chuan activated the Liyang Daoist's Hand Bone and threatened anyone who stopped him.
• Gong Yi arrived with reinforcements, and Jiang Chuan refused to surrender until Chu Wan'er and the Jade Pond Immortal Palace cultivators arrived.
• Feng Jiye explained that Jiang Chuan had attacked over the unrepaired Dao Tool and accused Zhuang Jun of leaking information about Huang Xiang's death; Li Wenbin said Zhuang Jun was cultivating beyond Earth Star.
• Chu Wan'er guaranteed Jiang Chuan's conduct, and he flew back to Nandu City while Gong Yi asked Feng Jiye to improve the report so Jiang Chuan could receive compensation.
• Jiang Chuan returned home and saw his classmates discussing a supposed Twilight End Society attack, so he admitted in the group chat that he had attacked the Artifact Forging Department himself.

After explaining why he attacked Northern Capital City, Jiang Chuan continued cultivating and sensed that he was nearing the Fire Disaster. Feng Jiye later told him he would be sent to the Vast Cold Palace instead of abroad to fight the Twilight End Society, and that his reward for the Huang Xiang matter was ready.

• Jiang Chuan denied joining any divine cult and said he had attacked Northern Capital City's Artifact Forging Department because it refused to repair his Dao artifact.
• Meng Nanxi, Ji Heng, and others criticized Jiang Chuan's reckless actions, while Zhao Danqin joked that he had never made a good impression on the higher-ups.
• Jiang Chuan cultivated the Dao of Yin Yang for seven days, increased his Golden Dragon Black Snakes past seventy, and sensed that he was nearing the Fire Disaster.
• After another ten days, Feng Jiye told Jiang Chuan to travel to Northern Capital City with Meng Weiyi and the others, then go to the Vast Cold Palace rather than fight the Twilight End Society abroad.
• Feng Jiye explained that Jiang Chuan was being kept from going overseas because his attitude toward foreigners could lead him to act without restraint, then told him his reward for the Huang Xiang matter was ready.

Jiang Chuan traveled to Northern Capital City with Sun Yanfeng and the others for the Vast Cold Palace Ruins operation, where the enlarged team raised concerns about increased danger. Feng Jiye brought Jiang Chuan to a guarded treasure repository to collect a reward transferred from the Strategic Reserve Secret Vault, but the treasure had not yet been revealed.

• Jiang Chuan met Sun Yanfeng at Nandu City's airport, and Sun refused to teach him the True Immortal Eight Techniques.
• Meng Weiyi warned Jiang Chuan that twenty cultivators had been added to the team, suggesting the Vast Cold Palace Ruins were more dangerous than expected.
• Jiang Chuan and the others flew to Northern Capital City and checked into the Hilton Hotel after the authorities barred him from staying at the State Guest Hotel.
• Feng Jiye told Jiang Chuan that the Skybreaker King had insisted on rewarding him, prompting the opening of the Strategic Reserve Secret Vault.
• Feng Jiye took Jiang Chuan to a guarded treasure repository and activated a Purple Gold token at a talisman-covered pavilion.

Jiang Chuan opened the Strategic Reserve Secret Vault and discovered three treasures, while Feng Jiye revealed that two more intended for him were stranded in Africa amid Twilight End Society attacks. After volunteering to join the fight against the society, Jiang Chuan received a call from Qu Shi and suspected Sun had tattled on him.

• Feng Jiye opened the vault with Jiang Chuan and showed him its three treasures: Eight Treasures Liquid, Profound Yellow Gold, and an unfinished Forbidden Artifact.
• Feng Jiye read that Great Xia had planned to give Jiang Chuan five treasures, but two were delayed after the Cape of Good Hope Base was attacked.
• Jiang Chuan guessed that the Twilight End Society's headquarters was in Africa, and Feng Jiye confirmed that its attacks across the continent had led Great Xia's leaders to suspect the same.
• Jiang Chuan declared that he would help destroy the Twilight End Society's headquarters, while Feng Jiye again questioned whether he had helped destroy Crystal Cave Heaven.
• Jiang Chuan answered Qu Shi's call after seeing her name on his phone and accused Sun of tattling on him.

Jiang Chuan told Qu Shi that Sun Yanfeng was plotting against her, then confirmed that the Ten Thousand Tribulations Dao-Smelting Scripture could be completed. Back at the Hilton Hotel, he saw Zheng Feiyang transform with wings and then used Eight Treasures Liquid to cultivate his ninth Dragon Power, setting up another transformation.

• Jiang Chuan told Qu Shi that Sun Yanfeng and Duan Hong wanted him to become Nandu City Lord and turn against her, and Qu Shi promised to make him Deputy City Lord if she took the post.
• Qu Shi asked Jiang Chuan whether the Ten Thousand Tribulations Dao-Smelting Scripture could be cultivated to completion, and he assured her it could before she decided to visit Chu Wan'er.
• Jiang Chuan returned to the Hilton Hotel and found Zheng Feiyang with scaled white wings, who concluded that he was transforming into Yinglong.
• Jiang Chuan declined to join the others on a tour of the Forbidden City and Summer Palace, then drank the Eight Treasures Liquid to cultivate his ninth Dragon Power.
• Jiang Chuan's ninth true dragon grew to match the other eight, and powerful roars erupted from his body.

Jiang Chuan endured the formation of eighteen golden dragon chains around his body and began cultivating the Great Dao Azure Heaven Diagram with Profound Yellow Gold. He then learned that the group would head to the Vast Cold Palace Ruins, where he clashed with Bai Bingning over her slain Senior Brother Yuan Lei and wondered how they would reach the moon.

• Eighteen golden chains formed beneath Jiang Chuan’s skin, binding him in a luminous cocoon.
• Jiang Chuan chose to cultivate the Great Dao Azure Heaven Diagram and used the Five Qi Divine Furnace to refine Profound Yellow Gold into Profound Yellow Qi.
• Meng Nanxi summoned Jiang Chuan downstairs, where he found Qu Shi and Sun Yanfeng among the cultivators bound for the Vast Cold Palace Ruins.
• Sun Yanfeng explained that he and Qu Shi had been drafted to reinforce the excavation team after the higher-ups redirected the group returning from Europe to Africa.
• Jiang Chuan learned that Bai Bingning resented him for killing her Senior Brother Yuan Lei, then asked Li Wenbin whether they would take a rocket to the moon.

Jiang Chuan and the others traveled aboard the Star-Piercing Divine Boat to the moon to explore the Vast Cold Palace Ruins. They arrived on the desolate lunar surface and headed toward the ruins, wary that foreign bases might interfere.

• Jiang Chuan learned that Great Xia's Star-Piercing Divine Boat was an ancient treasure and joked with Li Wenbin and the others during the trip to a military base.
• Chu Wan'er and the group boarded the Star-Piercing Divine Boat while Cai Feng grumbled about Jiang Chuan being there.
• Song Xianyun activated the Star-Piercing Divine Boat, and it carried the group through space to the moon in just over two hours.
• Jiang Chuan and the others saw the moon's desolate surface, while Hao Feiyang mourned its lost splendor.
• Song Xianyun warned that foreign bases on the moon might react to their excavation, and Chu Wan'er guided the Star-Piercing Divine Boat toward the Vast Cold Palace Ruins.

Chu Wan'er opened a passage into the Vast Cold Palace’s hidden Cave Heaven, where the expedition found a tranquil realm and empty palaces. As the group searched for answers about the palace’s abandonment, Zheng Feiyang called them to investigate something unusual.

• Chu Wan'er used the Star-Piercing Divine Boat to open a stabilized passage into the Vast Cold Palace’s Cave Heaven World.
• Meng Nanxi revealed an incarnation made from a pure-blooded Gold-Eating Beast, astonishing Jiang Chuan and the others.
• The expedition entered the apparently peaceful Cave Heaven despite the Central Committee’s three ominous divinations.
• Jiang Chuan and the others searched the palaces but found no treasures, prompting Li Wenbin and Meng Weiyi to wonder what had happened to the Vast Cold Palace.
• Zheng Feiyang called the group to a palace after discovering something unusual there.

Jiang Chuan and the others discovered a cracked Demon Suppressing Stele in Zheng Feiyang’s palace and discussed whether the sealed being was the Waning Moon Ancient Immortal, whose research into the Spiritual World may have driven him mad. Qu Shi questioned that conclusion, leaving the group uncertain about what was imprisoned inside.

• Jiang Chuan and the others arrived at Zheng Feiyang’s palace, where Chu Wan’er dispersed black mist and revealed a cracked Demon Suppressing Stele.
• Meng Weiyi connected the stele to the Waning Moon Ancient Immortal, who had punished an elder for opposing his pursuit of heaven’s power, and wondered if he had shown signs of Cultivation Deviation.
• Chu Wan’er explained that the Waning Moon Ancient Immortal had studied the True Wisdom Ancient Immortal’s Path of Refining the False into the True, which sought to use a perfected Spiritual World to influence the material world and control the Heavenly Dao.
• Zheng Feiyang explained that the path had failed because human spirits could contaminate the Spiritual World and harm those who entered it.
• Song Zhiyan suggested the Waning Moon Ancient Immortal had been corrupted by the Spiritual World and sealed in the stele, while Jiang Chuan feared the power of a crazed Ancient Immortal.
• Qu Shi asked whether another possibility could explain the stele, but the chapter ended before she revealed it.

Qu Shi realized the group was trapped in a Spiritual World and led them in destroying the Demon Suppressing Stele, revealing the real Vast Cold Palace amid zombies. Jiang Chuan reached the palace, where a bloodthirsty Old Daoist attacked him with a devastating strike.

• Qu Shi deduced that the Demon Suppressing Stele suppressed inner demons and that their surroundings were a Spiritual World manifested by the Waning Moon Ancient Immortal.
• Qu Shi, Jiang Chuan, and the others attacked and shattered the stele, causing the Spiritual World to collapse and the group to fall into a realm filled with Great Yin Mist, White Cultivators, and zombies.
• Jiang Chuan blasted apart a zombie and learned from Qu Shi that the Vast Cold Palace might explain what had happened to its cultivators.
• Zhao Danqin urged the group to seize the Vast Cold Palace, and Jiang Chuan rushed ahead through the zombies toward it.
• An Old Daoist sitting at the Vast Cold Palace gates opened his bloodthirsty eyes and attacked Jiang Chuan with three thousand strands of his whisk.

Jiang Chuan fought the Old Daoist guarding the Vast Cold Palace and pursued its fleeing whisk into the palace, where he discovered a hall full of bloodthirsty ancient corpses. He escaped as the corpses surged after him, but they launched a barrage of attacks at him, Song Zhiyan, and the others.

• Jiang Chuan survived the Old Daoist's whisk strike with only superficial injuries, then unleashed the Three Burials Great Immortal Technique and shot the Old Daoist with a Five-Colored Arrow.
• After the Old Daoist's body exploded, Jiang Chuan chased its flying whisk into the Vast Cold Palace and found corpse-like cultivators seated throughout the hall.
• The ancient corpses opened their bloodthirsty eyes, so Jiang Chuan fled the palace and shouted for Big Sister to save him.
• Song Zhiyan teased Jiang Chuan for running away, and he snapped back at her before noticing her blush.
• The corpses rushed out of the palace and attacked Jiang Chuan, Song Zhiyan, Meng Nanxi, Zhao Danqin, and the others with weapons and divine abilities, prompting Jiang Chuan to call for everyone to fight with all their strength.

Jiang Chuan and the others escaped a horde of corpses in the Vast Cold Palace ruins after Chu Wan'er suspected the Waning Moon Ancient Immortal had transformed the dead cultivators into corpses. While Li Wenbin and two others returned to Great Xia to seek powerful weapons, Jiang Chuan stayed on the moon and began comprehending its desolation to complete the true Vast Cold Condensing Yin Saber Chapter.

• Zhao Danqin, Ji Heng, Jiang Chuan, and the other cultivators fought the corpses in the Vast Cold Palace ruins until Chu Wan'er ordered everyone to retreat.
• Chu Wan'er opened a Void Channel, and Meng Nanxi carried Jiang Chuan through it as the corpses chased the fleeing European and American Cultivators but stopped at the exit.
• Chu Wan'er suspected the corpses were created by the Waning Moon Ancient Immortal and warned that he might still be alive and insane.
• Chu Wan'er asked Li Wenbin, Song Xianyun, and Wei Junhao to report the danger to the Central Committee and return with powerful weapons; the three went back to Great Xia.
• Jiang Chuan sat on the moon and began comprehending its coldness, desolation, and solitude, while the others watched his aura fade beneath the Power of Taiyin.

Jiang Chuan completed major cultivation of the Vast Cold Condensing Yin Saber Chapter after witnessing the moon’s former glory and ruin. As he returned to the Star-Piercing Divine Boat, Hao Feiyang reported that a large group of cultivators was approaching from the European and American lunar base, prompting Jiang Chuan to prepare for a fight.

• Jiang Chuan cultivated on the moon while Song Zhiyi, Meng Nanxi, Song Zhiyan, Qiuyue Bai, Xiang Taining, and Meng Luoshu discussed Earth Star’s worsening situation and the possibility that their mission would be recalled.
• Jiang Chuan witnessed the moon’s ancient Immortal Palaces and the bloody battles that reduced them to a desolate wasteland, then comprehended the intent of cold extinction.
• Jiang Chuan fused his saber intent with the Essence of Great Yin and the Essence of Earth Fiend Profound Yin, absorbed Lunar Transcendent Factors, and achieved major completion of the Vast Cold Condensing Yin Saber Chapter.
• Jiang Chuan returned to the deck and found the others playing cards, where Song Zhiyan asked him to use his saber ability as background music.
• Hao Feiyang announced that Third Ancestor had sensed many cultivators approaching from the European and American lunar base, and Jiang Chuan called them barbarians and urged a forceful response.

Cole O'Brien arrived with a group of European and American Cultivators and proposed that they jointly explore the Vast Cold Palace Cave Heaven World. Sun Yanfeng agreed to a limited show of cooperation while hoping the Americans would enter first, but Cole announced that the United States' secret weapon had arrived and ordered it brought out.

• Song Zhiyan suggested letting the European and American Cultivators explore the Cave Heaven World first, then seizing any treasure they found.
• Cole O'Brien introduced himself as a Four-Star General while photographers took staged pictures of him, prompting Jiang Chuan and Sun Yanfeng to mock his theatrics.
• Cole said Great Xia and the United States should excavate the Cave Heaven World together, and Sun Yanfeng agreed to send only ten or twenty cultivators if ordered.
• Cole insisted his group would enter first, then told Stephen to announce that the United States had won three victories in one day.
• Cole declared that the United States' secret weapon had arrived and ordered it brought out for the Great Xia cultivators to see.

Cole O'Brien used the United States’ Wrath of the God of Thunder to blast open the Cave Heaven World’s entrance, then led his forces inside to fight its corpse guardians. As Cole prepared to pose before the Vast Cold Palace, the palace began to shake.

• Cole O'Brien ordered Rashid James to fire the Wrath of the God of Thunder, whose talismans obliterated many corpses at the entrance.
• Cole O'Brien claimed another victory and sent Rashid James and the United States cultivators into the Cave Heaven World.
• Rashid James merged with a Giant Bear through the Myriad Beast Demonic Immortal technique and led the cultivators through the weaker corpses.
• Cole O'Brien flew before the Vast Cold Palace to pose for Stephen’s camera, but the palace began to shake.

Multicolored radiance engulfed Cole O'Brien, the Star-Piercing Divine Boat, and its passengers, transporting Jiang Chuan into the Waning Moon Ancient Immortal’s Spiritual World. There, Jiang Chuan fought the bloodthirsty Old Daoist and unleashed his Five Elements Heaven Evolution Seal against the Old Daoist’s world projection.

• Stephen warned everyone to run as multicolored radiance poured from the Vast Cold Palace and swallowed him.
• Cole O'Brien fled toward the Cave Heaven World’s entrance, but the radiance caught him and then engulfed the Star-Piercing Divine Boat and everyone aboard.
• Jiang Chuan found himself in a forest that seemed like a real world, then spotted the Immortal Sword Vermilion Bird’s crimson light and hurried toward Qu Shi.
• The Old Daoist’s bloodthirsty Primordial Spirit appeared and attacked Jiang Chuan with the Three Yin Demon Slaying Saber, but Jiang Chuan shattered its blade.
• The Old Daoist formed a continent-shaped World Projection and sent it crashing toward Jiang Chuan.
• Jiang Chuan summoned the Five Great Divine Beasts, merged them into a world, and punched at the Old Daoist’s World Projection with the Five Elements Heaven Evolution Seal.