Chapter Summaries

Jiang Chuan was drawn into the Azure Gold Battle Armor’s Dao realm, where he entered the ruined Hidden Sword Mountain and confronted Chang Yu. Chang Yu revealed that the mountain’s founder had used part of the Heavenly Dao Origin to nurture a supreme sword, leaving Jiang Chuan wondering how that origin had been obtained.

• The Azure Gold Battle Armor awakened and drew Jiang Chuan into a battlefield-like Dao realm, prompting Wang Hong to seek help and attempt to break in.
• Jiang Chuan discovered that he wore an intact Azure Gold Battle Armor and defeated the cultivators who attacked him near Hidden Sword Mountain.
• Jiang Chuan pursued the surviving halberd-wielding cultivator into Hidden Sword Mountain and found Chang Yu waiting by a sword-filled cave and a lake of light.
• Chang Yu demanded the Sword Key and explained that Old Man Buried Sword had founded Hidden Sword Mountain to nurture a supreme sword using part of the Heavenly Dao Origin.
• Jiang Chuan questioned how Old Man Buried Sword had obtained the Heavenly Dao Origin and wondered whether the Heavenly Dao had lost part of itself while gaining intelligence and form.

Jiang Chuan battled Chang Yu over the suspected Sword Key, countering his techniques with powerful arts of his own. After Jiang Chuan broke through Chang Yu’s Heaven Abyss Devouring Dao, Chang Yu declared that his prepared grand gift was ready and sent him to face his father, Soaring Cloud Immortal King.

• Chang Yu demanded the Sword Key and attacked Jiang Chuan, who fought back with the Five Elements Heaven Evolution Seal.
• Chang Yu multiplied himself with an illusion technique, but Jiang Chuan’s Six Void Immortal Bell dispelled the illusions.
• Chang Yu struck Jiang Chuan with the Dominating God Fist, and Jiang Chuan wounded him with Wan Daoyi’s Nature as Weapon.
• Chang Yu trapped Jiang Chuan in darkness with Heaven Abyss Devouring Dao, but Jiang Chuan broke through using the Flying Immortal Sword Art.
• Chang Yu announced that his grand gift for Jiang Chuan was complete and told him to go see Soaring Cloud Immortal King.

Chu Wan'er and Netherkill prepared to break open the Dao Realm and rescue Jiang Chuan, who was trapped inside the shattered immortal armor's manifestation. Jiang Chuan defeated Chang Yu within the burning realm, and the surroundings began to dissolve as he demanded to know why Chang Yu had drawn him there.

• Netherkill explained that the immortal armor's lingering will had likely pulled Jiang Chuan into the Dao Realm, and Chu Wan'er asked the others to prepare to help rescue him.
• Chang Yu attacked Jiang Chuan with the Overturning Mountain Seal, but Jiang Chuan countered with the Dragon Snake Suppressing the World Diagram and revealed his Immortal Extermination Technique.
• Chang Yu unleashed the Nether Mountain Suppressing Immortals diagram, and Jiang Chuan used the Deity Control Technique to disperse its Transcendent Factors and shatter its eighty-one Demonic Mountains.
• Jiang Chuan struck Chang Yu with the Dragon Serpent Combined Attack, destroying his body, then used the Purple Heaven Immortal Jade Sword to annihilate Chang Yu's Primordial Spirit and cauldron.
• The surrounding mountains, lakes, and swords began to dissolve, and Jiang Chuan asked Chang Yu why he had drawn him into the realm.

Jiang Chuan received the Sword Key from Yun Xuan’s fading remnant thought and learned that the Immortal Realm had lost its homeland and was filled with slaughter and destruction. After the others confirmed he was safe, he began choosing a treasure from the Strategic Level Two Reserve Secret Vault, and Netherkill urged him to pick the newly revealed one.

• Yun Xuan gave Jiang Chuan the Sword Key, explained that it contained the sword Dao of the founder of Hidden Sword Mountain, and warned that Qiankun Palace might come to their universe.
• Jiang Chuan asked Yun Xuan what had happened in the Immortal Realm, but Yun Xuan vanished before he could finish explaining.
• Jiang Chuan emerged from the damaged armor, and Wang Hong and Chu Wan'er examined him to make sure Yun Xuan had not seized his body.
• Jiang Chuan claimed Yun Xuan had told him to protect Great Xia and refine the reserve vault’s treasures, but Netherkill and Chu Wan'er doubted him and joked that Great Xia feared his Dragon Serpent Combined Attack.
• Wang Hong showed Jiang Chuan several vault treasures, including Peak Grade Dao Tools and Good Fortune Immortal Spring, which stirred an intense craving in him.
• Wang Hong opened another treasure box, and Netherkill urged Jiang Chuan to choose its contents.

Jiang Chuan examined three treasures and learned that a cracked jar might contain Chaos Soil, while an immortal painting held a possible inheritance trial. He tried to make a mysterious Vermilion Bird acknowledge him, but it ignored him, and his boast about Qu Shi provoked killing intent from behind.

• Netherkill identified the cracked jar as an imitation of the Chaos Heaven Jar and explained how Chaos Soil could strengthen Jiang Chuan’s inner world.
• Chu Wan'er directed Wang Hong to open the final two boxes, revealing an immortal painting that might hold a trial and inheritance.
• Wang Hong revealed that the Vermilion Bird had fallen from Immortal Light and resisted all attempts to identify or refine it.
• Jiang Chuan called himself the King of Jiangnan and offered the Vermilion Bird luxury and repairs, but it ignored him as Gong Yi and Netherkill laughed.
• Jiang Chuan reached to seize the Vermilion Bird and boasted that even Qu Shi would lose to him at the same realm, then sensed killing intent behind him.

Jiang Chuan failed to win the Vermilion Bird’s recognition, argued with Gong Yi over rewards and a promised fight, then returned to Nandu City for a victory celebration. Sun Yanfeng urgently took him aside and raised the True Immortal Eight Techniques file, leaving Jiang Chuan to realize what had happened.

• The Vermilion Bird rejected Jiang Chuan as its master, and he vowed to make it acknowledge him after he became an immortal.
• Jiang Chuan threatened Gong Yi and claimed Yun Xuan’s armor as a fellow disciple, but Wang Hong refused to believe his claim.
• Jiang Chuan asked Gong Yi to exchange most of his Military Merits rewards for treasures containing Pure Yang Power and the Power of Yin and Yang.
• Jiang Chuan returned to Nandu City’s New Era Aerial Mobile Combat Fortress after Qiuyue Bai announced a celebration of the Fiji Campaign’s victory.
• Sun Yanfeng hurried Jiang Chuan away from the celebration and asked whether he remembered wanting to return to Nandu City; he then brought up the True Immortal Eight Techniques file, and Jiang Chuan understood.

Sun Yanfeng revealed a vision of Nandu City destroyed in the future, and Jiang Chuan feared for his family and hometown. Convinced the Mountain Sea Dao Sect was responsible, Jiang Chuan flew off before the others could finish calling for more evidence.

• Sun Yanfeng explained that the Heaven Illumination Technique had shown him a future in which Nandu City was destroyed.
• Sun Yanfeng manifested the ruined city, and Jiang Chuan erupted in killing intent as he worried about his parents and the dead and displaced residents.
• Qu Shi and Meng Yifei questioned how anyone could breach Nandu City's two powerful protective arrays, while Jiang Chuan suspected the North Sea Realm and the evil cults.
• Meng Yifei said an earlier infiltrator may have belonged to a Major Immortal Dao Power, and Jiang Chuan accused the Mountain Sea Dao Sect of plotting against Nandu City.
• Sun Yanfeng urged caution and called after Jiang Chuan as he soared into the sky.

Jiang Chuan proposed raiding the Mountain Sea Dao Sect for treasure, but Chu Wan'er rejected his plan, and he was stopped by law enforcement for flying in Northern Capital City. He returned to the New Era Aerial Mobile Combat Fortress, where his companions discussed a major announcement the Azure Martial King would make at a celebration banquet.

• Jiang Chuan told Qu Shi and the others that he was going to find Chu Wan'er at the State Guest Hotel.
• Jiang Chuan proposed raiding the Mountain Sea Dao Sect to gather treasures and strengthen themselves, but Chu Wan'er accused him of using her and sent him away.
• Northern Capital City law enforcement tried to detain Jiang Chuan for flying within the Third Ring, but he flew back to Nandu City after telling them to have their director come find him.
• Meng Nanxi told Jiang Chuan that the Azure Martial King would announce something major at the upcoming celebration banquet, and the group asked what he thought it might be.

The Azure Martial King announced that Great Xia would reclaim its lost lands from demon beasts, while Jiang Chuan focused on his own plans to protect Nandu City and destroy the Mountain Sea Dao Sect. During secluded cultivation, he studied Old Man Buried Sword’s sword techniques and began breaking through toward the ninth realm as his Golden Core cracked and divine phenomena gathered around him.

• Jiang Chuan and the others speculated that the Azure Martial King’s announcement would concern reclaiming Great Xia’s lost lands, then ate at the celebration banquet.
• The Azure Martial King announced that Great Xia would take the initiative and reclaim the territories occupied by demon beasts, sending the news across the country and the world.
• Jiang Chuan returned to his room to cultivate, intent on shattering his core, forming a Dharma Manifestation, and reaching the ninth realm.
• Jiang Chuan’s Deity Avatar studied Old Man Buried Sword’s sword Dao, giving him insights into a technique that could turn the Great Dao itself into a sword.
• Jiang Chuan considered merging the Great Dao into his own Heavenly Dao and planned to cultivate One Sword Creates All Techniques and eventually deduce an Unparalleled Supreme Sword Art.
• Jiang Chuan’s Azure Gold Golden Core developed fissures as Sword Intent, Dao laws, and Transcendent Factors gathered into brilliant divine light around him.

Jiang Chuan advanced his sword Dao, received the Great Sun Golden Crow Sword, and prepared to return to Nandu City with the others. Before they left, more than ten cultivators arrived asking for Jiang Chuan.

• Jiang Chuan neared the realm of One Sword Creates All Techniques, then continued secluded cultivation while seeking a breakthrough to the ninth realm.
• After the Fiji Campaign ended, Sun Yanfeng, Meng Yifei, Qu Shi, and the others prepared to return to Nandu City under the finalized battle plan.
• Li Wenbin gave Jiang Chuan the Great Sun Golden Crow Sword, an ancient sword forged from the bones of a tenth-realm Golden Crow.
• Jiang Chuan used his Azure Heaven Dao Sword intent to subdue and refine the Great Sun Golden Crow Sword, startling Li Wenbin, Sun Yanfeng, and Qu Shi with his sword Dao progress.
• Sun Yanfeng and Li Wenbin worried that Jiang Chuan would bring disaster upon Southern Great Xia, while Jiang Chuan insisted they call him Governor Jiang.
• More than ten cultivators descended before the group and asked who Jiang Chuan was, prompting Sun Yanfeng to wonder if Heaven had finally opened its eyes.

Jiang Chuan confronted Li Shilun, a Northern Capital City Guard Corps commander sent to arrest him, and demanded to know who was behind the order. When Li Shilun attacked with a powerful Battle Formation, Jiang Chuan unleashed an invisible force that made him explode.

• Li Shilun arrived with Guard Corps cultivators and accused Jiang Chuan of breaking city regulations and resisting arrest.
• Jiang Chuan learned that the Azure Martial King had left and demanded to see whoever was directing Li Shilun.
• Li Wenbin tried to stop the arrest, but Li Shilun refused his authority and joined the Battle Formation to challenge Jiang Chuan.
• Li Shilun used the formation's power to attack Jiang Chuan with his Stab the Star technique.
• Jiang Chuan stepped forward and sent out invisible ripples that reached Li Shilun and the formation's cultivators, causing Li Shilun to explode.

Jiang Chuan pursued the surviving Li Shilun to the Central Committee Assembly Building and confronted Vice Regiment Commander Wang Zhen. Wang Zhen drew power from the building and attacked Jiang Chuan with his halberd.

• Jiang Chuan destroyed Li Shilun's Battle Formation with the Creation Technique, causing Li Shilun's subordinates to explode and leaving Li Shilun's Primordial Spirit to flee.
• Jiang Chuan pursued Li Shilun toward the Central Committee Assembly Building, while Li Wenbin, Sun Yanfeng, and Qu Shi followed.
• Li Shilun reached Wang Zhen and claimed Jiang Chuan had killed his Guard Regiment companions.
• Wang Zhen ordered nearly a hundred Guard Regiment cultivators to form a Battle Formation, then used the assembly building's power to strengthen himself.
• Wang Zhen flew up and swung his bronze halberd down at Jiang Chuan.

Jiang Chuan fought Wang Zhen inside the Guardian Corps battle formation, using the Nine Bending Sword River Void-Rending Array to cut off the Assembly Building’s power. Wang Zhen swallowed a Demonic Immortal Life-Seizing Pill as the Guardian Corps unleashed a barrage of divine abilities, leaving both fighters caught in the impact.

• Jiang Chuan used Creation as Labor to turn the battle formation’s Transcendent Factors into saber light, then blocked Wang Zhen’s halberd strike with the Great Sun Golden Crow Sword.
• Jiang Chuan formed the Nine Bending Sword River Void-Rending Array, weakening Wang Zhen and cutting off the Assembly Building’s power.
• Li Shilun urged the Guardian Corps to save Wang Zhen, while Wang Zhen swallowed a Demonic Immortal Life-Seizing Pill and regained his strength at the cost of two cycles of sixty years of lifespan.
• Qu Shi struck the battle formation’s light screen but failed to break through, and the Guardian Corps attacked Jiang Chuan with their enhanced divine abilities.
• Jiang Chuan shrank the sword formation around himself and Wang Zhen; Wang Zhen summoned the Dragon-Tiger Body-Protecting Divine Light as the attacks crashed down and shook Northern Capital City.

Jiang Chuan faced three Central Committee members after Wang Zhen and members of the Guard Regiment died in the battle. He mocked the officials and challenged their authority, and Luo Shunan attacked him.

• Jiang Chuan reappeared after his battle formation dissipated, while Wang Zhen had disappeared.
• Yan Zhenghong, Luo Shunan, and Qi Taihong came out of the Assembly Building, and Li Shilun accused Jiang Chuan of killing Wang Zhen and the Guard Regiment cultivators.
• Jiang Chuan denied responsibility for Wang Zhen's death and blamed Li Shilun for serving the Northern Capital City Law Enforcement Bureau.
• Jiang Chuan taunted the three Central Committee members and questioned their ability to defeat him.
• Luo Shunan transformed into demonic light and charged at Jiang Chuan.

Jiang Chuan fought Luo Shunan, matching his physical strength until Luo revealed a formidable nine-tiered pagoda and launched a feint followed by a hidden attack. Jiang Chuan was left in grave danger as the pagoda struck from the front and Luo attacked from behind, while the others rushed to intervene.

• Jiang Chuan and Luo Shunan exchanged powerful blows, and Jiang Chuan held his ground despite Luo's strength.
• Jiang Chuan attacked with the Great Sun Golden Crow Sword, but Luo blocked it with his high-grade nine-tiered pagoda forged from Sky Vault Divine Gold.
• Luo sent his pagoda and its nine contained treasures against Jiang Chuan, who countered with the Taiji Gourd and Great Sun Golden Crow Sword.
• Luo used a swarm of demonic shadows as a feint, then attacked Jiang Chuan from behind with a frigid saber while the pagoda knocked away Jiang Chuan's treasures.
• Qu Shi swung her sword to intervene, and Li Shilun called for the others to rescue Jiang Chuan.

Jiang Chuan overwhelmed Luo Shunan in battle, destroying his body and forcing him to beg for help. As Jiang Chuan attacked Luo Shunan’s Primordial Spirit, Yan Zhenghong intervened, and Jiang Chuan turned his anger toward him.

• Jiang Chuan used the Azure Heaven Dao Sword and Chaos Heaven Jar to block Luo Shunan’s Treasure Pagoda and swallow his blade light.
• Luo Shunan invoked his Bloodline Immortal Body and the power of his ancestor, the Big Dipper Ancient Immortal, to attack Jiang Chuan.
• Jiang Chuan combined the power of his Forty-Four Great Divine Palaces and multiple techniques with the Immortal Extermination Technique, then blasted Luo Shunan’s body apart.
• Jiang Chuan knocked away Luo Shunan’s weakened Treasure Pagoda and prepared to strike his Primordial Spirit with Dragon Serpent Combined Attack Five Hundred Forms.
• Luo Shunan begged Qi Taihong and Yan Zhenghong to save him, and Yan Zhenghong rushed to intervene as Jiang Chuan threatened him.

Jiang Chuan defeated Yan Zhenghong’s physical body and nearly continued the fight until Wang Hong intervened. As Qi Taihong argued that the dead Wang Zhen could not be convicted, Jiang Chuan suspected that someone among Qi Taihong, Luo Shunan, and Yan Zhenghong had arranged the attempt to detain him.

• Jiang Chuan shattered Yan Zhenghong’s body with his five divine abilities, shocking the Guard Regiment cultivators.
• Yan Zhenghong manifested his Dharma Body and began casting the Immortal Refining Curse, while his Divine Mirror showed Jiang Chuan a possible vision of his future self.
• Wang Hong arrived and stopped Jiang Chuan and Yan Zhenghong from fighting further.
• Jiang Chuan challenged Yan Zhenghong’s accusation and demanded an investigation into Wang Zhen’s role in Li Shilun’s attempt to detain him.
• Qi Taihong argued that Wang Zhen’s death made him impossible to convict under Great Xia’s laws, and Jiang Chuan questioned the law’s fairness.

Jiang Chuan returned to Nandu City and set a half-month deadline for the handover of the City Lord’s duties. After learning Duan Hong had been beating his father during training, Jiang Chuan resolved to make him pay, then began cultivating toward the Ninth Realm.

• Wang Hong ordered an immediate meeting of the Central Committee and agreed to discuss compensation for Jiang Chuan later.
• Jiang Chuan returned to Nandu City and gave Sun Yanfeng half a month to complete the City Lord’s handover.
• Jiang Chuan learned that Duan Hong had repeatedly beaten his father, Jiang Huai'an, while training with him and decided Duan Hong would face Dragon Serpent Combined Attack.
• Jiang Chuan began secluded cultivation to reach the Ninth Realm, and ten days later his Golden Core was covered in cracks.

Jiang Chuan broke his Golden Core and formed a powerful Dharma Form from its fragments. He flew out over the Pacific Ocean to absorb Transcendent Factors, then considered how his new strength compared with other cultivators before sensing something unusual.

• Jiang Chuan shattered his Golden Core and fused the Dao Forms of his scriptures and divine abilities into a humanoid Dharma Form with five divine abilities.
• Jiang Chuan left home to avoid the disturbance of absorbing Transcendent Factors and flew across the ruined Magic City to the Pacific Ocean.
• Jiang Chuan released his Dharma Form, which drew in vast amounts of Transcendent Factors and accumulated mana.
• Jiang Chuan judged that he could defeat many Ninth Realm cultivators but probably could not yet beat Chu Wan'er, the Azure Martial King, and the other Tenth Realm experts.
• As Jiang Chuan prepared to evolve heaven and earth within his Dharma Form, he felt something unusual.

Jiang Chuan evolved a small world inside his Dharma Avatar and refined the Chaos Heaven Jar to expand it, drawing the attention of Demon Kings. As he fought off their assault, an unseen cultivator attacked him from above.

• Jiang Chuan used the Two Energies Two Extremes Qi Refining Technique to open a world within his Dharma Avatar despite the deadly backlash.
• Jiang Chuan refined the Chaos Heaven Jar inside his new world, using its Chaos Soil essence to expand the world to nearly thirty meters in diameter.
• Numerous Demon Kings gathered around Jiang Chuan, and an enormous Black Dragon led them in an attack.
• Jiang Chuan used Dragon Serpent Combined Attack Five Hundred Forms to destroy the Black Dragon and strike at the other Demon Kings.
• A long sword descended from the heavens toward Jiang Chuan's skull, revealing that a cultivator had also come to attack him.