Chapter Summaries

Jiang Chuan returned to Nandu City and learned that the Black Tide Divine Cult had attacked the outskirts after he killed the Black Tide Demonic Immortal. He caught up on the United Nations plan to divide the world into fifteen war zones and begin the campaign in the Atlantic Ocean, though he denied that the change had anything to do with him.

• Jiang Chuan returned to Nandu City and asked Meng Nanxi who had attacked its outskirts.
• Meng Nanxi explained that the Black Tide Divine Cult had attacked city lord's mansions worldwide and that Song Zhiyan's uncle had helped stop the Nandu assault.
• The big bird revealed that Jiang Chuan had killed the Black Tide Demonic Immortal, and Jiang Chuan punched it into the sky.
• Jiang Chuan asked what had happened during his half-month absence, and Meng Nanxi described Vice Premier Wang's proposal to reclaim humanity's homeland.
• Meng Nanxi and Song Zhiyi explained that nations had agreed to divide the world into fifteen war zones and begin their campaign in the Atlantic Ocean.
• Jiang Chuan denied that the war-zone plan's change had anything to do with his secluded cultivation in Wanpeng Heaven.

Jiang Chuan learned that the ancient immortals and demon immortals could return within three to six months, then discovered a Light Feather from Sun pointing to the Hindu Kush Mountains. He suspected Ancient Immortal Tianwu had lured Sun away and wondered why Tianwu wanted him there too.

• Song Zhiyan told Jiang Chuan that his secluded cultivation had delayed the Asian Theater Command Post, and Meng Nanxi showed him Great Xia’s delegation to the United States.
• Jiang Chuan revealed that Old Zhong wanted Earth Star’s Immortal Treasures gathered in preparation for the ancient immortals and demon immortals’ return.
• Song Zhiyan gave Jiang Chuan a document explaining the troop transfers, and they discussed whether the Azure Martial King was preserving his strength.
• Jiang Chuan found Sun’s Light Feather embedded in his office wall and identified its Immortal Script as “Hindu Kush Mountains.”
• Jiang Chuan reasoned that Ancient Immortal Tianwu had likely lured Sun away and questioned why Tianwu wanted him to go to the Hindu Kush Mountains as well.

Jiang Chuan considered whether Ancient Immortal Tianwu or an Immortal Realm expert had given Sun Yanfeng the True Immortal Eight Techniques, then organized the new Asian Theater Command Post and continued cultivating. As he neared the birth of his one hundred and first Deity Avatar, Meng Nanxi brought him another Light Feather.

• Jiang Chuan and Meng Nanxi discussed whether Ancient Immortal Tianwu had treated the Heavenly Connection Technique as a conspiracy and whether an Immortal Realm expert had taught Sun Yanfeng the True Immortal Eight Techniques.
• Jiang Chuan ordered the Azure Martial King and the Seven Swords King notified, and Northern Capital City appointed the Seven Swords King commander of the Asian Theater, Jiang Chuan deputy commander, and Zhong Ran chief of staff.
• Jiang Chuan sent Song Zhiyan, Zhao Danqin, Meng Luoshu, Ji Heng, Xiang Taining, Qiuyue Bai, and others to the Asian Theater Command Post, then returned to Secluded Cultivation.
• Jiang Chuan used the Sun Immortal Scripture, the Great Yin Mist, and other techniques to cultivate, and his Divine Avatars were born over the following seven days.
• As Jiang Chuan prepared to give birth to his one hundred and first Deity Avatar, Meng Nanxi entered with another Light Feather.

Jiang Chuan received a five-day summons to the Hindu Kush Mountains and traveled to Dihua City to lead the Asian Theater Command Post’s campaign. He ordered an attack on the Crimson Rock Mountains to demonstrate strength before negotiating, leaving Ji Heng, Xiang Taining, and the others to spearhead an advance under artillery fire.

• Meng Nanxi gave Jiang Chuan a Light Feather bearing the message “Five days,” and Jiang Chuan arranged to travel to Dihua City after spending the night with his family.
• Jiang Chuan reunited with Ji Min and Jiang Huai'an at home, then departed for Dihua City with Meng Nanxi, Song Zhiyan, Zhao Danqin, and the others.
• Jiang Chuan reached the Asian Theater Command Post and learned from the Seven Swords King that the army was assembled but faced a long route to the Hindu Kush Mountains.
• Jiang Chuan proposed fighting briefly in the Crimson Rock Mountains to pressure whoever occupied the Hindu Kush Mountains before negotiations.
• The Seven Swords King ordered the attack to begin at one in the afternoon, and Jiang Chuan told the army to charge, fight, and advance quickly beneath its own artillery barrage.

Jiang Chuan and the Seven Swords King led the army to the Crimson Rock Mountains, where they began a massive artillery assault to seize the area and its suspected Immortal Treasure. As the bombardment continued, Zhong Ran noticed an abnormal change in the mountains.

• Zhao Zihao, Qiuyue Bai, and Meng Luoshu cursed Jiang Chuan for ordering more bombardments, while Zheng Feiyang stayed quiet to avoid a Dragon Serpent Combined Attack.
• Jiang Chuan and the Seven Swords King led cultivators and military forces from Dihua City toward Zhong Ran’s frontline command post.
• The Seven Swords King explained that the Crimson Rock Mountains might contain an Immortal Treasure and that the White Terror Demon King had defeated him in two previous clashes.
• Jiang Chuan, Zhong Ran, and the Seven Swords King surveyed the frontline before the Seven Swords King ordered all units into the combat zone.
• At one in the afternoon, the Seven Swords King ordered a massive artillery barrage on the Crimson Rock Mountains, and Zhong Ran noticed an abnormal change before the bombardment was complete.

Jiang Chuan and the Seven Swords King discovered an injured Immortal Vine beneath the Crimson Rock Mountains and confronted the White Terror Demon King, who had made a pact with it. The White Terror Demon King offered information about the region’s fallen Immortal Light to bargain for his life, leaving Jiang Chuan unconvinced.

• The Crimson Rock Mountains trembled and erupted with Immortal Light, revealing a massive crimson Immortal Vine beneath them.
• The Seven Swords King flew to confront the vine while Jiang Chuan fought another vine, then dragged the injured Immortal Treasure from the ground and beat it against the earth.
• The Immortal Vine called out to the White Terror Demon King, revealing their pact, and the Seven Swords King recognized the demon king’s involvement.
• The White Terror Demon King appeared in human form and proposed giving up treasures to settle the dispute, but the Seven Swords King noted that killing him would yield the same treasures.
• The White Terror Demon King warned that the mountains held information about 175 beams of fallen Immortal Light and offered that knowledge in exchange for his life.
• Jiang Chuan asked why the White Terror Demon King assumed he did not know Soul Search.

Jiang Chuan forced the Immortal Vine to cooperate with Great Xia and let the White Terror Demon King leave after learning about returning immortals and forbidden regions. The Seven Swords King brought back information about the Hindu Kush Mountains, and Zhong Ran asked whether Jiang Chuan could face the Ancient Immortal Tianwu alone.

• Jiang Chuan used the Seven Swords King’s Scene Dividing Sword to isolate the White Terror Demon King and the Immortal Vine, then learned that a Black Tortoise demon immortal had left Earth Star for Profound Origin Heaven.
• Jiang Chuan offered the Immortal Vine cooperation with Great Xia or imprisonment, and it agreed to cooperate under a contract.
• Jiang Chuan let the White Terror Demon King go in exchange for his treasures and information, while Meng Nanxi and Xiang Taining argued that the demon king should be killed.
• The Seven Swords King returned to the frontline Command Post and reported that White Terror knew of thirteen perilous forbidden regions, including the Hindu Kush Mountains, where the void contained shifting worlds.
• Jiang Chuan suggested the Deity Control Technique could explain the Hindu Kush Mountains, and Zhong Ran asked whether he could face the Ancient Immortal Tianwu alone.

Jiang Chuan led the army through Central Asia using cultivators and modern artillery, then headed to the Hindu Kush Mountains after their ammunition ran low. There, he sensed a powerful presence and entered the mist-shrouded mountains to investigate, suspecting the Ancient Immortal Tianwu might be inside.

• Jiang Chuan and the Seven Swords King discussed whether Jiang Chuan could defeat the Ancient Immortal Tianwu, while Jiang Chuan ordered the attack to resume and put Zhao Zihao, Zheng Feiyang, and others to work building roads.
• The army combined artillery, armored forces, formations, and cultivators to break through the Beast Tide as the Seven Swords King explained how modern warfare could extend cultivators' combat time.
• Jiang Chuan devised a plan to surround the army with demonic beasts and have eastern and western forces pincer the enemy, then punched Zhao Zihao through a window after Zhao mocked him.
• Over three days, the army advanced more than a thousand li and killed over three hundred thousand demonic beasts, but ran low on shells by the fourth day.
• Jiang Chuan handed command to Luo Shunan and Lu Chenling and traveled with the Seven Swords King and Zhong Ran to the Hindu Kush Mountains, where he sensed a formidable powerhouse.
• Jiang Chuan tied the Taiji Gourd to his waist and flew into the mist-shrouded Hindu Kush Mountains, suspecting the Ancient Immortal Tianwu might have survived by relying on the True Immortal Eight Techniques.

Jiang Chuan met Ancient Immortal Tianwu in the Hindu Kush Mountains and learned why Tianwu had summoned Sun Yanfeng and sought help returning his true body. The chapter ended with Jiang Chuan accusing Tianwu of wanting to claim the Creation and Immortal Treasures that had fallen from the Immortal Realm.

• Jiang Chuan entered the Hindu Kush Mountains and found Sun Yanfeng beside a figure made of Great Dao Principles.
• Sun Yanfeng explained that Ancient Immortal Tianwu had taught him the Creation Jade Body and the True Immortal Eight Techniques, and that Tianwu wanted help guiding his true body back.
• Ancient Immortal Tianwu warned Jiang Chuan that killing Ye Cangbai had been a mistake and argued that Great Xia needed time to prepare for the returning Ancient Immortals, demon immortals, and monster immortals.
• Jiang Chuan attacked Tianwu with the Dragon Serpent Combined Attack, but Tianwu dissolved the divine scenes and said he did not want to fight his inheritors.
• Jiang Chuan accused Tianwu of seeking the Immortal Treasures and Creation that had fallen from the Immortal Realm by bringing his true body back.

Jiang Chuan learned that Ancient Immortal Tianwu had returned to search for wondrous landscapes forming from Immortal Light and to prepare for war against the demon immortals. When Jiang Chuan refused to let Tianwu use Great Xia’s forces, Tianwu attacked him.

• Ancient Immortal Tianwu explained that he sought wondrous landscapes born from Immortal Light, not merely Immortal Treasures, and wanted Great Xia cultivators to search for them.
• Jiang Chuan realized Tianwu and the other returning immortals also meant to gain an advantage in their long-running conflict with the demon immortals.
• Jiang Chuan accused Tianwu of exploiting Great Xia and demanded that he stop seeking cooperation with Earth Star’s forces.
• Tianwu summoned Great Dao Principles and donned the Heaven's Mandate Battle Armor after Jiang Chuan threatened to spare only his incarnation if he withdrew.
• Sun Yanfeng tried to prevent a fight, but Ancient Immortal Tianwu transformed into Immortal Light and charged at Jiang Chuan.

Jiang Chuan fought Ancient Immortal Tianwu and discovered the power of his Heaven Illumination Technique and God Burial Technique. The chapter ended with Ancient Immortal Tianwu asking whether Jiang Chuan had comprehended the God Burial Technique.

• Jiang Chuan opened the fight with the Heaven Transformation Technique, but Ancient Immortal Tianwu evaded his sword and struck him with a powerful punch.
• Jiang Chuan used the Purple Heaven Immortal Jade Sword and Heaven's Will Sword Technique, but Ancient Immortal Tianwu's Heaven Illumination Technique sent him flying and wounded him.
• Ancient Immortal Tianwu explained his views on the Dao and fate, then challenged Jiang Chuan to display the True Immortal Eight Techniques.
• Jiang Chuan used Wan Daoyi's Heaven and Earth Furnace saber art and the Immortal Extermination Technique as Ancient Immortal Tianwu also unleashed the Immortal Extermination Technique.
• Ancient Immortal Tianwu unleashed the God Burial Technique, severing Jiang Chuan's connection to the Heaven and Earth Great Dao while allowing himself to draw on its power and recover.
• Ancient Immortal Tianwu asked Jiang Chuan whether he had comprehended the God Burial Technique.

Jiang Chuan fought Ancient Immortal Tianwu inside the God Burial Technique’s altered world and gained the upper hand with the Heavenly Ruins Immortal Saber. He prepared to finish Tianwu despite his claim that he still had a trump card.

• Ancient Immortal Tianwu revealed that he had reinvented the God Burial Technique to intercept the Power of the Great Dao and turn it against Jiang Chuan.
• Ancient Immortal Tianwu summoned Qianming's Sun and Moon Divine Banner and challenged Jiang Chuan to break through the God Burial Technique.
• Jiang Chuan summoned the Heavenly Ruins Immortal Saber, which Ancient Immortal Tianwu recognized as Immortal Venerable Chen Xin’s weapon, and attacked with the Immortal Extermination Technique.
• Ancient Immortal Tianwu unleashed the Burning Dao World Furnace, but Jiang Chuan split its five-colored Dao fire and destroyed the furnace with his saber.
• Jiang Chuan badly wounded Ancient Immortal Tianwu and raised his saber to kill him, dismissing Tianwu’s claim that he still had a trump card.

Jiang Chuan confronted Ancient Immortal Tianwu until Ancient Immortal Yiyuan intervened, revealing himself as Jiang Chuan’s nominal master. Jiang Chuan persuaded Yiyuan that Great Xia could strengthen the ancient immortals through cooperation, then urged him to help kill Tianwu.

• Ancient Immortal Yiyuan arrived and blocked Jiang Chuan’s saber strike against Ancient Immortal Tianwu.
• Jiang Chuan explained that Mingyu had accepted him as Yiyuan’s disciple on Yiyuan’s behalf, then asked Yiyuan to leave rather than become his enemy.
• Jiang Chuan argued that Great Xia should avoid an all-out war and use its resources to help the ancient immortals hold the demon immortals at bay.
• Jiang Chuan claimed Great Xia could produce at least fifty ancient immortals over several hundred years, convincing Yiyuan that cooperation could be the better course.
• Tianwu warned Yiyuan that the demons could grow stronger too, but Jiang Chuan dismissed his concerns and urged Yiyuan to help kill him.

Jiang Chuan revealed the Cosmic Sword Pivot to Ancient Immortal Yiyuan and fought Ancient Immortal Tianwu, while Yiyuan warned that powerful beings still lurked in the region. The chapter ended with Jiang Chuan emerging from the battle and making a cryptic remark about swallowing the great sun.

• Jiang Chuan claimed he had completed the Cosmic Sword Pivot by combining the Azure Heaven Dao Sword and the Myriad Return Sword Art, convincing Ancient Immortal Yiyuan that Biluo had intended to create it.
• Jiang Chuan urged Ancient Immortal Yiyuan to leave, and Yiyuan vowed to deal with Mingyu for nearly destroying Biluo’s body and spirit.
• Ancient Immortal Tianwu empowered himself with the Heavenly Connection Technique, but Jiang Chuan’s sword strike split his body and shattered the world formed by the Deity Control Technique.
• Zhong Ran and the Seven Swords King sensed the clash in the Hindu Kush Mountains and rushed toward it.
• Ancient Immortal Yiyuan warned Sun Yanfeng that eight dangerous places and forbidden domains remained nearby, then Jiang Chuan emerged holding the Heavenly Ruins Immortal Saber.

Jiang Chuan fought Xuan Ba with the Heavenly Ruins Immortal Saber, Chaos Heaven Jar principles, and the Great Scarlet Ancient Immortal’s seal techniques. Their attacks left both badly injured, and Xuan Ba revealed he had another Immortal Realm advantage as their saber-and-whip clash continued.

• Xuan Ba attacked Jiang Chuan with the Nine Palaces Diagram and its nine Immortal Artifacts, while Jiang Chuan countered with Nature as Weapon and the Immortal Extermination Technique.
• Jiang Chuan emerged from Xuan Ba’s phantom treasures severely wounded, then used Chaos Mist to break free of the Star Stabilizing Pagoda’s restraint and pull Xuan Ba toward a Chaos Black Hole.
• Xuan Ba unleashed the Nine Palaces World-Ending Seal, and Jiang Chuan answered with the Great Scarlet Ancient Immortal’s Five Seals before revealing the Heaven-Slaying Dao-Breaking Seal as his seventh technique.
• Jiang Chuan and Xuan Ba’s seals collided, destroying the flesh on their fists and scattering Xuan Ba’s nine Immortal Artifacts.
• Jiang Chuan attacked with the Heavenly Ruins Immortal Saber, and Xuan Ba met his blows with the Pure Yang Whip before promising to reveal his fortune from the Immortal Realm.

Xuan Ba revealed that he had obtained the Nine Luminaries Scripture in the Immortal Realm and gathered his nine Immortal Artifacts to fight Jiang Chuan. As both prepared decisive attacks, Jiang Chuan challenged Xuan Ba’s understanding of the Ancient Era, and their battle reached a life-or-death clash.

• Xuan Ba unleashed the Nine Luminaries Scripture, manifesting nine kinds of yang qi and revealing that he had opened ninety-seven Physical Body Divine Palaces.
• Xuan Ba recalled the Immortal Artifacts Jiang Chuan had sent flying and merged them with the Nine Yangs, while Jiang Chuan activated the Leaving Heaven Immortal Scripture and summoned the power of ninety Deity Avatars.
• Jiang Chuan questioned Xuan Ba about Great Scarlet Ancient Immortal, Calamity Ancient Immortal, and the origins of demonic immortals, making Xuan Ba reconsider what he knew of the Ancient Era.
• Jiang Chuan gathered the power of his Divine Palaces, Mirage Worlds, scriptures, and divine abilities into a mighty fist seal, while Xuan Ba decided to settle the fight with one strike.
• Xuan Ba invoked Nine Luminaries Nine Palaces and Nine Treasures as One, while Jiang Chuan advanced with the Immortal Extermination Technique and blasted the Six Imperial Seals toward him.

Jiang Chuan and Xuan Ba’s battle ended with both badly wounded, and Xuan Ba’s essence blood was caught between Jiang Chuan and the Black Tortoise clan’s allies. Ancient Immortal Yiyuan agreed to meet Great Xia’s leaders as Zhong Ran prepared to escort him and Sun Yanfeng to Northern Capital City.

• Seven Swords King blocked the aftershock of Jiang Chuan and Xuan Ba’s clash while Ancient Immortal Yiyuan praised his sentimental swordsmanship.
• Jiang Chuan suppressed the immortal-artifact remnants embedded in his body, and Xuan Ba’s avatar admitted that his true body would have contained the nine artifacts better before exploding and sending its essence blood toward the Black Tortoise ancestral land.
• Jiang Chuan used the Chaos Black Hole to pull the Black Tortoise divine blood back, but the Sea Dividing Bow shot it and the Myriad Mountain Diagram seized part of it.
• Ancient Immortal Yiyuan confronted Xuan Shan, who destroyed the Sky Burning Lamp to escape with the Myriad Mountain Diagram and Sea Dividing Bow in the resulting blast.
• Jiang Chuan refined the captured divine blood to heal, while Ancient Immortal Yiyuan asked to meet Great Xia’s leaders, Chu Wan'er, and Netherkill Ancient Immortal.
• Zhong Ran offered to escort Ancient Immortal Yiyuan and Sun Yanfeng to Northern Capital City, and Sun Yanfeng worried they might be ambushed again.

Jiang Chuan recovered from his battle with Xuan Ba while studying the techniques Ancient Immortal Tianwu had passed to Sun Yanfeng. Meanwhile, Great Xia prepared to lease powerful cultivation artifacts and approach the Ancient Sects, and Jiang Chuan discovered that the Heaven Reversal Technique might be incomplete.

• Jiang Chuan reasoned that no ancient immortals or demon immortals had attacked him because returning from the Immortal Realm weakened them, and Sun Yanfeng gave him a book of Ancient Immortal Tianwu's techniques.
• Zhong Ran reassured Sun Yanfeng that he had acted rightly for Great Xia, then led him and Ancient Immortal Yiyuan away as Jiang Chuan and the Seven Swords King returned to the frontline Command Post.
• Jiang Chuan secluded himself to recover, using the Heavenly Dao Fruit and Mirage World power to grind away Xuan Ba's lingering Great Dao Principles and Immortal Artifact phantoms.
• Jiang Chuan refined Black Tortoise divine blood into medicine to heal his injuries after realizing the battle had consumed a great deal of his source essence.
• Qiuyue Bai and the others discussed Great Xia's proposed Lend-Lease Act for powerful Dao Tools and damaged Immortal Artifacts, as well as plans to send representatives to the Ancient Sects.
• After seven days of recovery, Jiang Chuan read Ancient Immortal Tianwu's book and discovered that Tianwu believed the Heaven Reversal Technique was incomplete.

Jiang Chuan studied Ancient Immortal Tianwu’s techniques while refining immortal materials and nurturing more Deity Avatars. After learning that the Seven Swords King had been recalled and the war supplies were ready, he took charge of the campaign and asked for a map to plan the next battle.

• Jiang Chuan examined the Heaven Reversal Technique and wondered what Great Dao could complete it, then studied Tianwu’s Creation Technique and Creation Jade Body.
• Jiang Chuan refined Sun Immortal Gold and Great Yin Mist into Chaos Qi, strengthening his Heavenly Court and nourishing fifty-one divine palaces.
• Jiang Chuan nurtured a deity in his Bone Joint Divine Palace and anticipated cultivating Tianwu’s techniques and completing the Two Energies Returning to Void Scripture.
• Over the next three days, Jiang Chuan nurtured more Deity Avatars while Meng Nanxi and the others called him out of seclusion.
• Meng Nanxi told Jiang Chuan that the Seven Swords King had been recalled to Northern Capital City, Vice Chairman Zhong was away, and the war zone had enough supplies to continue its offensive.
• Jiang Chuan realized he was in charge and ordered them to bring him the map so he could draw up a battle plan.

Jiang Chuan devised a missile-and-airpower battle plan to lure and destroy demonic beasts, then ordered the Asian Theater to prepare a general offensive. After Northern Capital City sent reinforcements and intelligence about forbidden regions, Jiang Chuan learned that Lone Star Mountain was considered the greatest danger.

• Jiang Chuan proposed a grand encirclement maneuver, explaining that cultivators and coordinated missile strikes could overcome the distance between the northern and southern forces.
• Jiang Chuan punched Zhao Zihao through a window after Zhao insulted his plan, then clarified that the southern and northern routes would draw out the demonic beasts for multidimensional attacks.
• Jiang Chuan ordered Meng Nanxi to send the plan to Luo Shunan and Yan Zhenghong and set the general offensive for noon the next day, while Meng Nanxi warned that the White Terror Demon King might still be a threat.
• Luo Shunan and the others put Zhao Zihao, Ji Heng, and the others to work building roads for mechanized forces as the Asian Theater mobilized.
• Lu Chenling arrived from Northern Capital City with Ma Haoyu, Lu Yingyao, elite troops, and Ancient Immortal Yiyuan's intelligence about the forbidden regions.
• Lu Chenling told Jiang Chuan that Lone Star Mountain was the place they should fear most, and Jiang Chuan studied its report.