Chapter Summaries

Jiang Chuan’s forces fought the Demon Kings of Sanxiang Province, overcame the Ink Kirin Demon King, and captured the Immortal Well. After the victory, Jiang Chuan and Zhong Ran inspected the well and wondered whether something was wrong with it.

• Meng Nanxi struck the Immortal Well with the Vajra Hoop, and Zheng Feiyang, Ji Heng, and others fought the Ink Kirin as it unleashed strange spring water.
• Gao Kang ordered more than ten thousand cannons to fire on the advancing demon beasts, and Cangwu Army cultivators charged the battlefield from the flanks.
• Zheng Feiyang, Ji Heng, and Zhao Danqin wounded the Ink Kirin Demon King, then Song Zhiyan, Qiuyue Bai, Meng Nanxi, and others joined the siege.
• The group killed the Ink Kirin Demon King before the Jade Snake Demon King could come to its aid, and the battle ended three hours later.
• Jiang Chuan ordered a victory feast, then inspected the captured Immortal Well with Zhong Ran and asked whether something was wrong with it.

Jiang Chuan was pulled into the Immortal Well and faced a suited version of himself, who matched his signature techniques and then overwhelmed his blade with the Immortal Extermination Technique and Overturning Heaven Fist. The battle left Jiang Chuan under the force of the opposing punch.

• Xiang Taining, Qiuyue Bai, and Song Zhiyan explained that the Immortal Well had shown them figures tied to their pasts and fears.
• Jiang Chuan saw a majestic, suited version of himself in the well water before the Immortal Well surged and pulled him inside.
• Jiang Chuan found himself in a vast azure ocean, where his suited counterpart emerged and attacked with Dragon Serpent Combined Attack 3600 Forms.
• Jiang Chuan and his counterpart clashed evenly, then the counterpart used Five Qi Five Elements Sword against Jiang Chuan's silver white blade light.
• Jiang Chuan's counterpart advanced through the blade light with the Immortal Extermination Technique and struck with Overturning Heaven Fist, crushing the blade and bearing down on Jiang Chuan.

Jiang Chuan battled the suit-clad version of himself conjured by the Immortal Well, which matched his techniques and could restore its Dao Fruit after detonating it. After the Immortal Well’s Jiang Chuan drove him back with a Dao Fruit explosion, Jiang Chuan prepared to unleash Great Yin Mist against his pursuer.

• Jiang Chuan and his suit-clad counterpart exchanged more than a thousand blows before the counterpart used the Heaven Transformation Technique to summon and explode a Three-legged Alchemy Furnace.
• The two Jiang Chuans clashed with their Purple Heaven Immortal Jade Swords, matching the Myriad Return Sword Art against the Azure Heaven Dao Sword.
• Meng Nanxi, Qiuyue Bai, and Zhao Zihao questioned why the Immortal Well had revived and created a version of Jiang Chuan.
• The suit-clad Jiang Chuan used Nature as Weapon, while Jiang Chuan answered with the Flying Immortal Sword Art and the powers of his divine beasts and techniques.
• Jiang Chuan tried to devour his counterpart with the Chaos Heaven Jar’s power, but the counterpart detonated his Heavenly Dao Fruit and sent Jiang Chuan flying.
• Zhong Ran realized the counterpart could restore his Dao Fruit after self-destruction, and Jiang Chuan unleashed Great Yin Mist as the counterpart pursued him.

Jiang Chuan used the Great Yin Mist to defeat the trial opponent and was awarded one opportunity to fish in the Immortal Well. He began drawing on his scripture to attract treasures, leaving the result of his fishing attempt unknown.

• Jiang Chuan overwhelmed the suit-clad Jiang Chuan with the Great Yin Mist after his sword and repeated Heavenly Dao Fruit explosions failed to break it.
• After half an hour of silence, a mechanical voice announced that the heir of the Two Forms Immortal Lord had passed the trial and earned one fishing opportunity.
• Jiang Chuan reappeared beside the Immortal Well, received an azure Fishing Rod, and saw countless treasures inside the well.
• The onlookers suggested treasures for Jiang Chuan to fish for, and he learned that he could either attract treasures with his aura or target one directly.
• Jiang Chuan dropped the hook into the well and drove the Fishing Rod with all his strength, transforming his aura as he began to draw in a treasure.

Jiang Chuan fished treasures from the Immortal Well, but the hook ignored the phoenix scripture and immortal sword to retrieve a sealed treasure box. The box opened to reveal a Three-legged Golden Crow carrying an inheritance tied to the collapsed Immortal Realm Heavenly Dao.

• Jiang Chuan tried to fish up the supreme Heavenly Dao, but the surrounding immortal treasures and herbs fell silent instead of responding.
• A Five-Colored Phoenix bearing an immortal scripture, a golden immortal sword, and a sealed treasure box drifted toward Jiang Chuan's hook.
• Jiang Chuan chose the treasures already within reach, but the sealed box struck the phoenix and was caught by the hook instead.
• Jiang Chuan removed the silver Paper Talisman, and the box opened to reveal a Three-legged Golden Crow.
• Jiang Chuan sensed that the Golden Crow, like the Sword Key, had been made from Heavenly Dao Origin scattered when the Immortal Realm Heavenly Dao collapsed.
• Zhong Ran wondered what the Golden Crow's true body was and what inheritance it carried.

At the celebration banquet, Jiang Chuan discussed the recovery of Nanyue Province and grew convinced that Premier Ye Cangbai and the Ye Family threatened Great Xia. After threatening to destroy them once he was powerful enough, Jiang Chuan was summoned with Zhong Ran to meet Wang Hong about an urgent matter.

• Song Zhiyan urged Song Zhiyi to try the Immortal Well, while the group discussed selling Immortal Realm Scriptures to cultivators who could challenge their manifested selves.
• Jiang Chuan learned that the Jade Snake Demon King had fled toward Nanyue Province with a large horde of demonic beasts, and he discussed whether the Azure Martial King would advance into Nanyue or Bamin Province.
• Gao Kang warned Jiang Chuan that recovering Nanyue Province could bring him into conflict with Premier Ye Cangbai and officials Ye had promoted.
• Zhao Zihao encouraged Jiang Chuan to view Ye Cangbai's appointments as warlordism, and Jiang Chuan declared that he would destroy the Ye Family once he was strong enough to defeat both Ye Cangbai and Sun Yixian.
• After the banquet, an officer told Jiang Chuan that Wang Hong urgently wanted to meet with him and Zhong Ran.

After the Arctic Glacier shook and a figure resembling the Slaughtering Immortals Demonic Immortal emerged, Jiang Chuan returned to Nandu City to cultivate. He mastered the Heaven Transformation Technique and wondered who could help him test its power.

• Wang Hong told Jiang Chuan and Zhong Ran that a figure resembling the Slaughtering Immortals Demonic Immortal had emerged from the Arctic Glacier.
• Jiang Chuan advised Great Xia not to send investigators and argued that Sun Yixian should not let the news force him into an unprepared tribulation.
• Jiang Chuan handed command of Sanxiang Land to Zhong Ran, ordered the army to rest after planning the province's reconstruction, and returned to Nandu City.
• Jiang Chuan refined the Three-legged Golden Crow while his Deity Avatars cultivated and developed his techniques for half a month.
• Jiang Chuan reached great mastery in the Heaven Transformation Technique, refined marks left by Immortal Realm immortals, and sought someone to test its power on.

Jiang Chuan reviewed reconstruction plans and government funding needs, then decided to raise money by punching through the Pacific Ocean and collecting spoils from the Demon Kings. With Meng Nanxi, Qiuyue Bai, Zheng Feiyang, and the others waiting offshore, he began his attack.

• Jiang Chuan rejected most provincial reconstruction plans as impractical but approved some city projects and ordered the Central Committee to appoint provincial personnel.
• Meng Nanxi told Jiang Chuan that the Azure Martial King was preparing to attack Southern Yue, Guangxi, and Bamin, adding to Great Xia's financial burden.
• Jiang Chuan decided to punch through the Pacific Ocean and told Meng Nanxi to gather cultivators to collect the battlefield spoils.
• The next morning, Jiang Chuan met Meng Nanxi, Qiuyue Bai, Zheng Feiyang, Song Zhiyan, Song Bin, Sun Yanfeng, and the others offshore near Magic City.
• Jiang Chuan flew out over the ocean, formed a fist seal, and unleashed Dragon Serpent Combined Attack Style 4300.

Jiang Chuan tore through the ocean’s demon kings with his Fist Seal and confronted a Ten Realms Kun Fish wielding a damaged Immortal Artifact. After overpowering its attacks, Jiang Chuan prepared to kill it as it called for help.

• Jiang Chuan drove his golden dragons and black snakes through the ocean, slaughtering demon beasts and Demon Kings that resisted or fled.
• Jiang Chuan destroyed a Ninth Realm Water Kirin and its followers after demanding their treasures.
• A Ten Realms Kun Fish attacked Jiang Chuan with a damaged Golden Stele, but Jiang Chuan met it with his Azure Great Bell.
• The Kun Fish unleashed a sea of Taiyin Divine Thunder, and Jiang Chuan absorbed it with his Three-legged Immortal Furnace and burned it away.
• Jiang Chuan transformed the furnace into an Azure Great Seal, knocked aside the Golden Stele, and broke the Kun Fish’s golden Peng phantom.
• As the Kun Fish tried to escape and called for help, Jiang Chuan formed a Seven-Colored Immortal Sword and vowed that no one could save it.

Jiang Chuan defeated the Kun Fish and Silver Dragon with overwhelming force, but the Purple Heaven Immortal Jade Coffin survived his attack and began absorbing blood and the Silver Dragon’s damaged Nascent Soul. As Jiang Chuan charged it again, he warned the being or artifact inside to surrender before his next strike.

• Jiang Chuan’s Seven-Colored Immortal Sword sliced the Kun Fish and Silver Dragon in two, but a Purple Heaven Immortal Jade Coffin protected the Silver Dragon’s Nascent Soul.
• Jiang Chuan attacked the coffin with his Five-Colored Immortal Pagoda, and the clash unleashed a devastating shockwave across the Pacific Ocean.
• Song Bin, Meng Nanxi, Song Zhiyan, and the others fled the ocean while the survivors joked that Sun Yanfeng was responsible for Jiang Chuan’s strength.
• The awakened coffin drew in the Silver Dragon’s damaged Nascent Soul and blood from nearby demon beasts, prompting Ji Heng to wonder whether the dragon was pleading for mercy.
• Jiang Chuan charged the coffin again, revealed the worlds within his divine palaces, and demanded that its occupant surrender or face his next strike.

Jiang Chuan defeated the Purple Heaven Immortal Jade Coffin with the Six Imperial Seals, then opened it and found it empty. He carried it out of the Pacific Ocean and asked his allies to investigate it and recover treasures while he prepared to rebuild cities south of the Yangtze River.

• Jiang Chuan unleashed the Immortal Extermination Technique and Six Imperial Seals against the Purple Heaven Immortal Jade Coffin as Song Bin, Qiuyue Bai, Zhao Danqin, and the others fled.
• Qu Shi used her sword to shield the fleeing group from the blast, while Jiang Dongchen, Zhong Ran, and the others learned that Jiang Chuan had caused the disturbance.
• Jiang Chuan opened the dimmed coffin and found it empty, leaving him puzzled about how it had absorbed blood essence and Primordial Spirits.
• Jiang Chuan closed the coffin, carried it out of the Pacific Ocean, and asked Jiang Dongchen and Zhong Ran to summon his Big Sister and Netherkill to examine it.
• Jiang Chuan ordered Sun Yanfeng to retrieve Silver Dragon's and Kunpeng's bones and told the Central Committee to handle the treasures so he could begin rebuilding cities south of the Yangtze River.

Jiang Chuan returned to Nandu City with the Purple Heaven Immortal Jade Coffin, and Chu Wan'er discovered it could form a Void Channel linked to One Heart Ancient Immortal. Alarmed by the Ancient Immortals’ possible return, Jiang Chuan began cultivating to strengthen himself and prepare to face them.

• Jiang Chuan told Zhong Ran the coffin had been empty, and Zhong Ran took him away before Harold O'Brien arrived.
• Jiang Chuan returned to a prosperous Nandu City with Zhong Ran, who contacted Chu Wan'er and the Netherkill Ancient Immortal.
• Chu Wan'er examined the Purple Heaven Immortal Jade Coffin and explained that One Heart Ancient Immortal had refined it to construct a Void Channel and borrow his power.
• Jiang Chuan feared that Ancient Immortals and demon immortals might return, resolved to become an immortal, and went to his office to cultivate.
• Jiang Chuan used the Sword Key to study Old Man Buried Sword's sword arts as his Divine Palaces and Heavenly Dao Fruit tempered his body and Nascent Soul.

Jiang Chuan cultivated the fourth level of the Five Greats Wheel Calamity Scripture, evolving and destroying a starry sky within his dantian before forming a wheel imbued with reincarnation. As Heavenly Dao Principles gathered around it, he waited to see what creation the scripture would produce.

• Jiang Chuan spent seven days comprehending Old Man Buried Sword's sword Dao and then began cultivating the fourth level of the Five Greats Wheel Calamity Scripture.
• Jiang Chuan gathered Transcendent Factors and evolved them into a starry sky filled with landscapes and phantasmal divine beasts, then dimmed and destroyed it over ten days and nights.
• Jiang Chuan used ten Nine-Clawed True Dragons to suppress the destructive power erupting from his dantian until it transformed into a black-gray mass of qi.
• Jiang Chuan evolved the mass into a Five-Colored Light Mass containing a starry sky and a wheel bearing the Edict of All Heavens for Rebirth Scripture.
• The wheel drew down Great Dao Principles and Dao Sound, and Jiang Chuan anticipated the creation it would bring.

Jiang Chuan refined a pill made from Mirage World origins and greatly increased his power, then learned that an ominous Immortal Light had appeared near Wendu City. Suspecting something was wrong with the Azure Martial King's deployment, he decided to call Teacher Qu.

• Jiang Chuan swallowed the nine-colored pill, refined it over three days and nights, and gained the power of 151 Divine Palaces.
• Jiang Chuan emerged from seclusion and joked with Meng Nanxi, Song Zhiyan, Song Zhiyi, Silver Fox, and the mermaid about being monitored by foreign countries.
• Meng Nanxi told Jiang Chuan that the Azure Martial King had been dispatched to investigate an Immortal Light near Wendu City, where a rain of fire had nearly burned the city.
• Jiang Chuan questioned why the Azure Martial King had been sent instead of the Seven Swords King or Skybreaker King and decided to call Teacher Qu.

Jiang Chuan learned that investigators had vanished near Wendu City and suspected the strange incidents were connected to the President and the Azure Martial King. He decided to travel to Wendu City the next morning to investigate, then spent the night at Song Zhiyi's home.

• Qu Shi told Jiang Chuan that two Ninth Realm Cultivators and more than ten Seventh or Eighth Realm Cultivators had disappeared while investigating near Wendu City, while the Seven Swords King was occupied by a revived formation in ancient ruins.
• Jiang Chuan questioned why the powerful experts in Northern Capital City had not gone to Wendu City and learned that the President had emerged from seclusion after meeting the Netherkill Ancient Immortal.
• Jiang Chuan told Meng Nanxi to arrange a plane to Wendu City and suggested that Wang Hong might be unwilling or afraid to leave Northern Capital City.
• Jiang Chuan ended his call with Qu Shi and said he would investigate Wendu City to learn what had happened to the Azure Martial King.
• Song Zhiyi cooked Jiang Chuan six dishes and soup, and he praised her cooking before she blushed at his remark about whoever married her being lucky.

Jiang Chuan and Qu Shi flew toward Wendu City to investigate the Azure Martial King’s possible fate. They found a crashed plane and the corpses of several evil-cult cultivators, including Twilight End Society Vice Chairman Lei Yunliang, leaving them worried the crash was connected to the Azure Martial King.

• Jiang Chuan told Meng Nanxi to conceal his destination and said he would fly north instead of going to Wendu City.
• Qu Shi returned the next morning and insisted on accompanying Jiang Chuan to investigate what might have happened to the Azure Martial King.
• Jiang Chuan and Qu Shi flew across the northern grasslands toward Wendu City and noticed the growing number of demon beasts.
• Jiang Chuan and Qu Shi discovered crashed plane wreckage surrounded by the bodies of Black Tide, Yellow Springs, and Immortal Slaughter Divine Cult cultivators.
• Qu Shi identified Lei Yunliang among the dead, and Jiang Chuan concluded that someone had ambushed him at close range.
• Jiang Chuan worried the plane crash was connected to the Azure Martial King, and he and Qu Shi hurried toward Wendu City.

Jiang Chuan and Qu Shi entered a strange Cave Heaven beneath the scorched earth and confronted Yellow Springs Demonic Immortal, who explained how the Eight Great Demonic Immortals planned to return through the Power of Faith. Yellow Springs Demonic Immortal revealed that he had been gathering power while speaking to them, leaving the confrontation poised to escalate.

• Jiang Chuan and Qu Shi found corpses and a gray mist beneath the scorched earth, then entered the Cave Heaven beyond it.
• Jiang Chuan identified the Cave Heaven as the work of Yellow Springs Demonic Immortal and called him out.
• Yellow Springs Demonic Immortal emerged from the Yellow Great River, and Jiang Chuan deduced how the Eight Great Demonic Immortals used heaven and earth, cults, and the Power of Faith to revive.
• Jiang Chuan demanded that Yellow Springs Demonic Immortal explain his conflict with Azure Martial King and offered to spare him.
• Yellow Springs Demonic Immortal said he had been gathering the power of the Cave Heaven while they spoke.

Jiang Chuan battled Yellow Springs Demonic Immortal in the Cave Heaven World, using the Heavenly Dao Fruit and Great Scarlet Ancient Immortal’s supposed eighth seal technique against millions of revived corpses. As their divine abilities collided, Yellow Springs began to suspect Great Scarlet had concealed his strength and might have been connected to the ancient era’s hidden mastermind.

• Jiang Chuan and Yellow Springs Demonic Immortal exchanged blows, and Jiang Chuan’s hand was badly injured by Yellow Springs Immortal Slaying Seal.
• Yellow Springs used Life and Death Reversal to revive millions of corpses and send them to attack Jiang Chuan.
• Jiang Chuan invoked Great Scarlet Ancient Immortal’s Vast Void Limitless Seal, drawing on the Heavenly Dao Fruit and Great Dao Principles.
• Yellow Springs questioned how Great Scarlet could have created an eighth seal technique when he had known only five, then wondered whether Great Scarlet had hidden his strength or been taken over.
• Jiang Chuan unleashed thousands of Chaos-infused divine abilities against the corpses’ attacks, and the clashing forces shattered the void.

Jiang Chuan battled Yellow Springs Demonic Immortal, who wielded Immortal Venerable Chen Xin’s Demonic Saber Scripture and an Immortal Artifact. Jiang Chuan unleashed Senior Sister Biluo’s Cosmic Sword Pivot against Yellow Springs’ decisive saber strike, leaving the outcome unknown.

• Yellow Springs Demonic Immortal summoned an Immortal Artifact saber and explained that he had obtained the Demonic Saber Scripture from Immortal Venerable Chen Xin.
• Jiang Chuan attacked with the Five-Colored Immortal Pagoda and Purple Heaven Immortal Jade Sword while Yellow Springs strengthened his saber with Great Dao Principles.
• As their weapons clashed, Jiang Chuan realized Yellow Springs was gathering momentum to unleash the absolute Demonic Saber.
• Jiang Chuan used the Heaven Transformation Technique and Deity Control Technique to form a Seven-Colored Immortal Sword and execute Senior Sister Biluo’s Cosmic Sword Pivot.
• Jiang Chuan and Yellow Springs Demonic Immortal unleashed their strongest strikes against each other, and Qu Shi watched to see who had won.

Jiang Chuan defeated the Yellow Springs Demonic Immortal and learned that the Azure Martial King had been trapped while trying to suppress an Immortal Soul and its Immortal Realm Treasure. After Yellow Springs destroyed his Cave Heaven World and escaped, Jiang Chuan and Qu Shi tried to guess where the wounded Azure Martial King had gone, then reached the same sudden possibility.

• Jiang Chuan defeated the Yellow Springs Demonic Immortal, who revealed that he had joined a trap against the Azure Martial King over an Immortal Soul and its Immortal Realm Treasure.
• Yellow Springs warned that the Azure Martial King had been wounded and might no longer be able to suppress the Immortal Soul, then detonated his Cave Heaven World and escaped.
• Jiang Chuan found Qu Shi alive after the explosion, and she changed into another suit of Scarlet Battle Armor while scolding him for looking.
• Jiang Chuan and Qu Shi reasoned that the Azure Martial King would avoid the northeast, Northern Capital City, and the Seven Swords King, leaving his likely destination uncertain.
• Jiang Chuan and Qu Shi simultaneously thought of a possibility for where the Azure Martial King had gone.