Chapter Summaries

Jiang Chuan unleashed the Vast Void Limitless Seal and the Immortal Extermination Technique against Ye Cangbai, forcing the Prime Minister to defend himself with the Path of Spell Arts. Their battle shook Northern Capital City, and a sword light finally split the aftershocks to reveal the battlefield.

• Ye Cangbai used Luotian Purple Qi to block Jiang Chuan's Flowing Cloud Sword, while the onlookers identified his cultivation as the Path of Spell Arts.
• Jiang Chuan summoned the Eye of the Heavens and manifested more than a thousand divine abilities with the Vast Void Limitless Seal.
• Jiang Chuan amplified his attack with the Immortal Extermination Technique, and Ye Cangbai met the torrent with Nine-Colored Immortal Light.
• Jiang Dongchen, Gong Yi, Li Wenbin, and the others shielded Northern Capital City from the battle's destructive aftershocks.
• Jiang Chuan and Ye Cangbai exchanged more than a hundred blows, and the onlookers spotted blood they believed belonged to Ye Cangbai.
• A brilliant sword light cut through the aftershocks and revealed the battlefield as someone said, "I Swallowed the Great Sun, and you say I trained wrong?"

Jiang Chuan and Ye Cangbai fought to the brink of death before Wang Hong and the Azure Martial King intervened. The Azure Martial King challenged Ye Cangbai over a possible Immortal Realm treasure and demanded to know why he had not received orders, leaving Jiang Chuan suspecting Ye was guarding against him.

• Jiang Chuan and Ye Cangbai traded devastating attacks, each suffering severe wounds as their battle escalated.
• Ye Cangbai claimed Jiang Chuan had exhausted his mana and prepared to finish him, but Jiang Chuan summoned a destructive dharma manifestation.
• Wang Hong arrived and urged them to stop, warning that they could both die if they continued fighting.
• The Azure Martial King arrived and questioned Ye Cangbai about an Immortal Palace scripture and a possible Immortal Realm treasure.
• Jiang Chuan recalled reports of Great Xia cultivators gaining powerful opportunities and suspected Ye Cangbai was guarding against the Azure Martial King.
• The Azure Martial King said Jiang Chuan had acted for a reason and asked Ye why he had not reported the opportunity or issued orders.

Jiang Chuan challenged Ye Cangbai and the Central Committee over how to respond to Ancient Immortal Qianming’s plot against Great Xia. Sun Yixian emerged from seclusion and proposed confronting the incarnation, leaving the decision awaiting Ye Cangbai’s response.

• Jiang Chuan accused Ye Cangbai and Jiang Dongchen of obstructing action, while the Azure Martial King and Wang Hong opposed Ye Cangbai.
• Sun Yixian announced that he had emerged from seclusion, and the Azure Martial King and Jiang Chuan went into the Assembly Building.
• Jiang Chuan encountered the Assembly Building’s artifact spirit, then joined the officials in Sun Yixian’s meeting.
• Sun Yixian argued that Great Xia should confront Ancient Immortal Qianming’s incarnation to protect its people and learn about the ancient immortals’ power.
• The Azure Martial King and Wang Hong supported Sun Yixian’s plan, and the others turned to Ye Cangbai for his position.

Jiang Chuan and Great Xia’s leaders debated the order of their coming campaigns, then Sun Yixian set dates for attacks on the North Sea Realm and the Two Energies Sacred Land. After returning to Nandu City, Jiang Chuan took out the Nine Heavens Immortal Stone to study its mysteries and seek a path to becoming a Void Immortal.

• Jiang Chuan clashed with Premier Ye Cangbai over who had authority to decide Great Xia’s response to Ancient Immortal Qianming.
• Sun Yixian decided Great Xia would attack the North Sea Realm on July 1st and Ancient Immortal Qianming’s incarnation on August 1st, and ordered Ye Cangbai to open the Strategic Level One Reserve Secret Vault for the Azure Martial King.
• Jiang Chuan told Gong Yi to summon the governors of the Southern Provinces for briefings, planning to require them to hand over treasures containing the Power of Yin and Yang.
• Jiang Chuan returned to Nandu City, saw the Azure Martial King’s army arriving and repairing the city, and went to his office.
• Jiang Chuan examined the Nine Heavens Immortal Stone and hoped that comprehending its secrets would help him become a Void Immortal.

Jiang Chuan learned the Nine Heavens Immortal Stone’s vision suggested that a collapsed heaven had become the Immortal Light that descended upon the world, though he could not explain why the immortals had allowed it. After nine days of cultivation, he mastered two supreme sword realms and began merging them to create the sword art envisioned by Senior Sister Biluo, before Meng Nanxi summoned him to meet Zhong Ran.

• Jiang Chuan used his Divine Sense on the Nine Heavens Immortal Stone and witnessed divine mountains fall through the heavens, eventually becoming a nine-apertured jade stone.
• Jiang Chuan concluded that the vision might reveal the truth behind the Immortal Light descending upon the world, but wondered why the immortals had not stopped the collapse and what had caused an earlier descent over five thousand years ago.
• Jiang Chuan continued comprehending the Great Dao within the stone, enduring intense pain as he witnessed the evolution of a world and the refinement of a divine mountain.
• After nine days, Jiang Chuan cultivated the Azure Heaven Dao Sword and Myriad Return Sword Art to their supreme realms and began merging them to deduce Senior Sister Biluo’s Unparalleled Supreme Sword Art.
• Three days later, Meng Nanxi woke Jiang Chuan from Secluded Cultivation and told him Zhong Ran had called for him; Jiang Chuan anticipated learning what treasures containing the Power of Yin and Yang the Southern Provinces had gathered.

Jiang Chuan learned that provincial governors were avoiding him because they feared his Dragon Serpent Combined Attack, then discussed military plans and the costly rebuilding of Magic City. During secluded cultivation, he searched for a way to merge two opposing sword arts and began to glimpse a possible solution.

• Jiang Chuan angrily learned from Zhong Ran that the provincial governors had not visited him, and he demanded treasures containing the Power of Yin and Yang.
• Jiang Chuan agreed that Azure Martial King should reclaim Xuancheng before Nandu City's citizens returned, and he decided to rebuild Magic City after defeating Shocking Heaven Demonic Venerable.
• Song Zhiyi stopped Jiang Chuan from returning to cultivation and mocked his claim that he worked for all of Great Xia.
• Jiang Chuan resumed studying how to merge the Azure Heaven Dao Sword with the Myriad Return Sword Art and suddenly considered a new possibility.

Jiang Chuan fused the Azure Heaven Dao Sword and Myriad Return Sword Art into a new supreme technique, the Cosmic Sword Pivot. After the Azure Martial King's army swiftly destroyed the demon forces at Xuancheng, Jiang Chuan learned that an important discussion was imminent, and he expected the next campaign to target the North Sea Realm.

• Jiang Chuan combined the Azure Heaven Dao Sword and Myriad Return Sword Art through the Heavenly Dao, then named the emerging technique the Cosmic Sword Pivot.
• Seven days later, Jiang Chuan came out of seclusion after learning that Xuancheng would be the Azure Martial King's army's first target on its southward march.
• Jiang Chuan argued with Gao Kang over who should command the army, punched him, and heard Meng Nanxi and Song Zhiyan promise to defend their father and surpass him.
• The Azure Martial King ordered a general offensive against Xuancheng, and artillery, tanks, and cultivators rapidly overwhelmed the demon beasts and demon kings there.
• Meng Yifei summoned Jiang Chuan and the others to an important meeting, and Jiang Chuan declared that he would wipe out the North Sea Realm.

Jiang Chuan joined Azure Martial King’s force for a surprise assault on the North Sea Realm, joking about claiming the land around the Tianshan Mountains as his territory. When they found the realm’s Golden Palace shielded by an activated formation, Jiang Chuan attacked it with his Dragon Serpent Combined Attack.

• Azure Martial King announced that he would lead a strike force against the North Sea Realm, since its strongest Demonic Immortal allies were unavailable and Seven Swords King remained injured.
• After the army cleared demonic beasts from Xuancheng, Jiang Chuan studied Azure Martial King’s fortifications and decided he could command troops down to the company level.
• Jiang Chuan realized he had forgotten to attack Gong Yi and Li Wenbin in Northern Capital City and resolved to make up for it later.
• The strike force reached the Tianshan Mountains, where Jiang Chuan claimed Outlying Jiangnan as his territory and traded remarks with Song Xianyun and Sun Yanfeng.
• Qu Shi spotted divine light pouring from the North Sea Realm’s Golden Palace, and the group debated whether the cults had revealed their approach or a mole had betrayed them.
• Jiang Chuan formed his Dragon Serpent Combined Attack, 2600 Forms, and punched the Golden Palace.

Jiang Chuan entered the North Sea Realm as Azure Martial King was trapped by its damaged immortal array, then confronted Shocking Heaven Demonic Venerable. After Shocking Heaven and Zhenxiao struck him with lightning and a surprise Flying Knife, Qu Shi intervened, and Jiang Chuan prepared to fight Shocking Heaven alone.

• Azure Martial King entered the North Sea Realm and was trapped by Shocking Heaven Demonic Venerable’s Thousand Rivers Converging into the Sea Immortal-Slaying God-Butchering Great Array.
• Jiang Chuan entered the realm despite Sun Yanfeng’s suggestion that they rescue Azure Martial King first, and Shocking Heaven attacked him with a lightning-charged dragon tail.
• Jiang Chuan countered with the Two Energies Disintegration Great Array and the Deity Control Technique, but Shocking Heaven moved at lightning speed and struck him with his dragon wings.
• Zhenxiao Demon King hit Jiang Chuan with a purple Flying Knife, and Qu Shi knocked away Shocking Heaven’s follow-up knives before fighting him with her Heavenly Star Sword Art.
• Jiang Chuan told Qu Shi to handle the North Sea demon immortals and drew the Flowing Cloud Sword to face Shocking Heaven alone.

Jiang Chuan battled Shocking Heaven Demonic Venerable while their allies fought the North Sea Realm’s demon immortals. Shocking Heaven revealed a powerful Dao Body-related technique and launched three killing moves at Jiang Chuan.

• Jiang Chuan’s sword destroyed Shocking Heaven Demonic Venerable’s Jade Pivot Court, while Sun Yanfeng, Song Xianyun, Bai Fenghua, and the others attacked the North Sea Realm’s demon immortals.
• Jiang Chuan and Shocking Heaven exchanged nearly a thousand blows, and Jiang Chuan challenged him to survive five more moves.
• Shocking Heaven invoked the Firmament Wind Thunder True Form Diagram, and Jiang Chuan met it with the power of his Divine Palace World and the Three Burials Great Immortal Technique.
• Shocking Heaven mentioned the secret of Dao Bodies and surrounded both fighters with a Knife Array of nine hundred ninety-nine Flying Knives.
• Shocking Heaven unleashed the Knife Array, a golden great seal, and his wind-and-thunder deity against Jiang Chuan at once.

Jiang Chuan overwhelmed Shocking Heaven Demonic Venerable’s attacks and used the Cloud Sea Covering Heaven Sword Array to battle the North Sea Realm’s forty-eight banners. As Jiang Chuan’s Sword World destroyed the banners’ phantoms, Shocking Heaven launched a final assault with an arrow made from an ancient human immortal’s spine.

• Jiang Chuan used Myriad Phenomena Return to Nothingness and the Immortal Extermination Technique to break Shocking Heaven Demonic Venerable’s attacks, forcing him to flee.
• Song Xianyun and Bai Fenghua cursed Jiang Chuan as his azure ripples swept toward them, while Sun Yanfeng fled.
• Shocking Heaven revealed forty-eight banners made from slain Ancient Experts and awakened their demonic beasts and deity phantoms.
• Jiang Chuan deployed the Cloud Sea Covering Heaven Sword Array and infused it with his Sword Intent, forming a Sword World that destroyed the phantoms.
• Shocking Heaven charged Jiang Chuan and fired a sinister arrow refined from an ancient human immortal’s spinal bone.

Jiang Chuan and the Azure Martial King fought Shocking Heaven Demonic Venerable as the North Sea Realm was devastated. Shocking Heaven Demonic Venerable ultimately self-destructed, leaving Jiang Chuan and the Azure Martial King’s fate uncertain as the aftershock faded.

• Jiang Chuan used the Immortal Extermination Technique and the Cloud Sea Covering Heaven Sword Array to meet Shocking Heaven Demonic Venerable’s bone arrow with the Cosmic Sword Pivot.
• Jiang Chuan survived the clash, while Shocking Heaven Demonic Venerable’s strength weakened and the battle’s aftershock left the North Sea Realm in ruins.
• The Azure Martial King emerged from the shattered Thousand Rivers Converge into the Sea Immortal Extermination Godslaying Array and urged Shocking Heaven Demonic Venerable to surrender.
• Shocking Heaven Demonic Venerable reactivated the array, then detonated it, his great seal, and his own body to take Jiang Chuan and the Azure Martial King down with him.
• Qu Shi, Sun Yanfeng, and the others blocked fleeing demonic immortals, who were swallowed by the explosion’s aftershock.
• Sun Yanfeng, Qu Shi, and Bai Fenghua wondered whether Jiang Chuan and the Azure Martial King had survived as the aftershock dissipated.

After surviving Zhen Xiao’s devastating attack, Jiang Chuan and the others entered the North Sea Demonic Immortal’s Immortal Palace to search for clues and treasures. Qu Shi and Jiang Chuan began competing to collect the spoils, and the chapter ended as Jiang Chuan opened another room and found an unidentified treasure.

• The Azure Martial King, Jiang Chuan, and the others flew to the surviving Immortal Palace after the North Sea Realm was nearly destroyed.
• Qu Shi tried to claim the group’s spoils, threatened Jiang Chuan, and then joined him in chasing off Sun Yanfeng.
• Qu Shi collected a broken True Dragon horn and a Phoenix Feather while insisting she was only holding the treasures temporarily.
• Jiang Chuan opened a room and found two pairs of Golden Crow demonic immortal eyes, which he stored as loot.
• Jiang Chuan opened another room and was stunned by the treasure inside.

Jiang Chuan searched the North Sea Demonic Immortal's palace and collected an Immortal Egg, a Dao chessboard, a Broken Sword, and a Vermilion Bird Feather. At the last door on the left, he had found little beyond empty rooms and a mysterious yellow dog.

• Jiang Chuan examined the Immortal Egg, and Azure Martial King warned that Immortal Realm artifacts could bring catastrophe and should be destroyed.
• Jiang Chuan found and put away a purple chessboard that could pit cultivators' understanding of the Dao against each other.
• Jiang Chuan searched several empty rooms and reasoned that Shocking Heaven Demonic Venerable had already taken the palace's greatest treasures.
• Jiang Chuan found a vicious crimson Broken Sword, while Qu Shi acquired a sleepy yellow dog that greeted the Black Tortoise and Big Crab.
• Jiang Chuan collected a Vermilion Bird Feather and reached the last door on the left.

Jiang Chuan discovered Cang Yun’s final words and refined the ruined Cave Heaven World, expanding his Inner World before returning to Nandu City. He resolved to grow strong enough to defeat Ye Cangbai, then learned that treasures containing the Power of Yin and Yang had arrived.

• Jiang Chuan found Cang Yun’s inscription and wondered what hidden crisis had led the Immortal Sword Immortal to try to save the Heavenly Dao.
• Qu Shi refined Cave Heaven World Fragments, and Jiang Chuan challenged him before using his Three-Colored Divine Furnace to refine the rest of the world and expand his Inner World to five hundred meters.
• Sun Yanfeng told Jiang Chuan that the Azure Martial King had taken Minister Song and the others to Northern Capital City to discuss the leak of their whereabouts.
• Jiang Chuan suspected Ye Cangbai might have plotted against them and resolved to reach the Virtual Immortal realm and kill him.
• Jiang Chuan, Qu Shi, and Sun Yanfeng returned to Nandu City, where Song Zhiyan told Jiang Chuan that several provinces had delivered treasures containing the Power of Yin and Yang.

Jiang Chuan refined treasures containing the Power of Yin and Yang to strengthen his Heavenly Court and give birth to twenty-five Deity Avatars. After emerging from seclusion, he approved the return of Nandu City's residents and agreed to send troops to help the Azure Martial King attack Qianjiang Province, eager to demonstrate his command skills.

• Meng Nanxi gave Jiang Chuan an inventory of treasures containing the Power of Yin and Yang, and he refined them with the Five Qi Divine Furnace.
• Jiang Chuan absorbed the resulting Solar and Lunar Transcendent Factors, strengthening his Heavenly Court and causing divine visions to appear.
• Over ten days of cultivation, Jiang Chuan's cocoons produced twenty-five Deity Avatars, and he used up all the treasures.
• Duan Hong told Jiang Chuan that the Xuancheng Defense Line was complete, and Jiang Chuan ordered the people of Nandu City to return home.
• Sun Yanfeng reported that the Azure Martial King had advanced into Qianjiang Province and requested Xijiang Province's support; Jiang Chuan approved the operation and called for five or six hundred thousand troops.

Jiang Chuan argued with Sun Yanfeng about military command, demanded Central Committee funding to rebuild reclaimed cities, and then headed to Xijiang Province to take command of the southern front. The chapter left Zhong Ran questioning whether Jiang Chuan should be in charge.

• Jiang Chuan ordered Sun Yanfeng to lead troops and take Qianjiang Province, and Sun Yanfeng agreed to have staff officers prepare an operational plan.
• Han Wenxuan presented Jiang Chuan with reconstruction plans for twelve reclaimed cities and the railway and highway networks.
• Jiang Chuan summoned Zhong Ran and insisted the Central Committee fund the twelve cities and cover at least eighty percent of future reconstruction costs.
• Zhong Ran agreed to fund six new cities, while excluding Magic City because of the danger of demonic beast attacks.
• Jiang Chuan put away the treasures sent by Nanyun Province and other provinces, then traveled to Xijiang Province with Zhong Ran and Sun Yanfeng.
• Jiang Chuan said he planned to command the hundreds of thousands of City Defense Army troops in Xijiang Province, and Zhong Ran said the southern front would be better off without him.

Jiang Chuan failed to catch Zhong Ran before they reached Hongdu City, where Xijiang Province's leaders presented their plan for fighting the demon kings in the Changqing Mountain Range. Zhong Ran proposed a three-sided encirclement that would drive the enemy toward Xijiang Province, and Jiang Chuan accepted it while complaining that the plan gave him no chance to demonstrate his command skills.

• Jiang Chuan pursued Zhong Ran with the Dragon Serpent Combined Attack, but Zhong Ran escaped until they reached Hongdu City, where Jiang Chuan abandoned the chase to avoid delaying the campaign.
• Shen Boxuan and Wang Lingyun welcomed Jiang Chuan, Zhong Ran, and their companions at the City Lord's Mansion, where Sun Yanfeng invited them to review Xijiang Province's battle plan.
• Wang Lingyun outlined a feint-and-formation strategy for luring and destroying demonic beasts in the Changqing Mountain Range, but Zhong Ran warned that the demon kings might not take the bait.
• Zhong Ran proposed encircling the range on three sides and leaving an opening that would drive the demon kings toward Xijiang Province, where prepared forces could intercept them.
• Jiang Chuan approved Zhong Ran's plan but complained that an interception battle would not let him show off his command skills, prompting Sun Yanfeng to urge him to prioritize people's lives.

Jiang Chuan cultivated the Two Energies Returning to Void Scripture and produced the Power of Nothingness, bringing him close to becoming a Void Immortal. When two streams of Immortal Light descended toward the Changqing Mountain Range, he coordinated with the Azure Martial King and moved the full-scale assault forward to 4 a.m.

• Jiang Chuan gave up trying to exchange command authority with the Azure Martial King, and they planned an assault on the Changqing Mountain Range for July 20.
• Jiang Chuan comprehended the Two Energies Returning to Void Scripture for four days, then refined Yin and Yang treasures into Transcendent Factors and formed a Yin Yang Dao Diagram.
• Jiang Chuan cultivated the Power of Nothingness and concluded that he could become a Void Immortal after further secluded cultivation.
• Two streams of Immortal Light descended toward the Changqing Mountain Range, interrupting Jiang Chuan as he prepared to refine the Black Tortoise.
• Jiang Chuan went to the City Lord's Mansion and contacted the Azure Martial King, who ordered the assault moved forward to 4 a.m.
• Jiang Chuan relayed the order to Shen Boxuan, who guaranteed that the troops would complete their missions.

Jiang Chuan and Zhong Ran coordinated the rushed deployment of defenses around the Changqing Mountain Range before ordering a massive artillery barrage at 3:59 a.m. The bombardment drew out demonic beasts, and the chapter ended as a tremendous roar sounded from the mountains, prompting Dark Eyebrows to suspect something was wrong.

• Jiang Chuan ordered Shen Boxuan and the army commanders to finish the defensive positions or face military law.
• Jiang Chuan and Zhong Ran reviewed frontline reports, sent Shen Boxuan and Wang Lingyun to hold a difficult northern area, and moved to the forward Command Post.
• Meng Nanxi reported that the Azure Martial King had completed the northern artillery positions, and Jiang Chuan told her to report their situation truthfully.
• At 3:59 a.m., Zhong Ran relayed Jiang Chuan's order to fire, and more than ten thousand guns shelled the Changqing Mountain Range.
• A Seventh Realm Black Tiger and other demonic beasts charged in several directions, and Zhong Ran identified them as a probing attack.
• A tremendous roar came from the mountains, and Dark Eyebrows began to recognize what had made it.