Chapter Summaries

Jiang Chuan emerged from secluded cultivation troubled by distracting thoughts and learned that Great Xia’s leaders were helping Qu Shi cross her Immortal Ascension Tribulation. He searched for scriptures to address his condition, but Lu Chenling warned him that the most relevant techniques were dangerous.

• During Jiang Chuan’s ten days of cultivation, a multicolored cocoon formed around him, but the mist of distracting thoughts barely diminished and disrupted his study of Old Man Buried Sword’s sword Dao.
• Jiang Chuan found the Central Committee Assembly Building empty and learned from Lu Chenling that everyone had gone to help Qu Shi cross her Immortal Ascension Tribulation.
• Lu Chenling searched Great Xia’s secret database for scriptures that might resolve Jiang Chuan’s condition and described the perilous Nine Nether Nine Heavens Ascension Scripture.
• Lu Chenling warned Jiang Chuan that the Myriad Gods Worship Me Scripture could cause split personalities and advised him not to cultivate dangerous techniques.
• Jiang Chuan denied that he could develop split personality disorder, while Lu Chenling questioned whether his habit of using Dragon Serpent Combined Attack on people counted as his Dao.

Jiang Chuan obtained several dangerous mind-cultivation scriptures despite warnings, then sensed Daoist Li Yang’s arrival in Northern Capital City and went to find him. The chapter ended with Jiang Chuan spotting Li Yang reading socialist works in a bookstore.

• Jiang Chuan decided the Nine Nether Nine Heavens Ascension Scripture might help control the distracting thoughts in his body, but worried it could be dangerous and linked to the Litian Ancient Immortal’s madness.
• After Zhong Ran accused him of wanting to become emperor, Jiang Chuan punched him into the sky, then heard the Azure Martial King warn that mind scriptures could drive cultivators into madness.
• Jiang Chuan persuaded everyone to let him study scriptures including the Nine Nether Nine Heavens Ascension Scripture and the Myriad Gods Worship Me Scripture.
• Jiang Dongchen presented the Flame of Yanhuang plan to identify young leaders who could rebuild Great Xia if Earth Star fell, but Jiang Chuan could not name the most talented candidates.
• Jiang Chuan sensed Daoist Li Yang in Northern Capital City through karma and used the Edict of All Heavens for Rebirth Scripture to travel to him.
• Jiang Chuan found Daoist Li Yang reading socialist books at Wutong Bookstore and wondered why he had come to the city.

Jiang Chuan and Daoist Li Yang debated Marxist theory, the future of Great Xia, and how states handled dissent and social conflict. Daoist Li Yang revealed that he wanted to help his homeland’s people become gods and ancestors, then asked Jiang Chuan whether he had heard of the Heaven Court.

• Jiang Chuan joined Daoist Li Yang at Wutong Bookstore and asked what he thought of Great Xia.
• Daoist Li Yang argued that Marxist theory could not fully guide Great Xia because it oversimplified conflict and might treat dissenters as enemies.
• Daoist Li Yang compared socialist states to feudal dynasties and proposed dividing people on planets into categories so they would fight among themselves.
• Jiang Chuan grew suspicious when Daoist Li Yang said he wanted to give his homeland’s people a chance to become gods and ancestors.
• Daoist Li Yang asked Jiang Chuan whether he had heard of the Heaven Court.

Jiang Chuan confronted Daoist Li Yang in Northern Capital City after Li Yang proposed using Great Xia to evolve a technological Heavenly Court. Their negotiations failed, and they left Wutong Bookstore to fight in the starry sky.

• Daoist Li Yang told Jiang Chuan he wanted Great Xia’s help to evolve the Azure Emperor Heavenly Court Diagram and cultivate the divine path.
• Jiang Chuan rejected Li Yang’s proposal and accused him of exploiting Great Xia, while Li Yang correctly guessed that Jiang Chuan had killed one of his incarnations.
• Li Yang presented a drone box and footage of the Luan Bird Aerospace Carrier, arguing that technology could help build a Heavenly Court.
• Jiang Chuan dismissed Li Yang’s claims, and the two challenged each other to battle in the starry sky.
• Li Yang threatened to kill Jiang Chuan with the Vast Cold Condensing Yin Saber Chapter and refine his soul; Jiang Chuan followed him out of Wutong Bookstore.

Jiang Chuan fought Daoist Li Yang in the starry sky beyond the Solar System, countering his Divine Dao techniques with his own powers. Jiang Chuan concluded that Li Yang had not mastered the Vast Cold Condensing Yin Saber Chapter, but Li Yang challenged his claim.

• Wang Hong warned Jiang Chuan not to act rashly as he and the others watched from across the street.
• Jiang Chuan and Daoist Li Yang flew beyond the Solar System so their battle would not affect Earth Star.
• Jiang Chuan and Li Yang exchanged attacks, and Jiang Chuan’s physical body withstood a strike from Li Yang, whose realm was a major realm higher.
• Qu Shi arrived as Jiang Chuan unleashed the Great Sun Slaughtering God Technique and the Immortal Extermination Technique against Li Yang’s manifested Immortal Realm.
• Li Yang used the Vast Cold Condensing Yin Saber Chapter, but Jiang Chuan blocked the saber lights with Myriad Phenomena Return to Nothingness.
• Jiang Chuan claimed Li Yang had failed to master the saber chapter, and Li Yang asked what nonsense he was spouting.

Jiang Chuan used a devastating version of the Vast Cold Condensing Yin Saber Chapter to wound Daoist Li Yang, who insisted it differed from the technique taught by Immortal King Guangyun. As Jiang Chuan prepared to finish the fight, Daoist Li Yang invoked the Azure Emperor Heavenly Court Diagram.

• Jiang Chuan mocked Daoist Li Yang's understanding of the Vast Cold Condensing Yin Saber Chapter and formed its blade light from Yin essences and Dao laws.
• Jiang Chuan's Immortal Extermination Technique tore through Daoist Li Yang's divine abilities and left a deep wound across his chest.
• Daoist Li Yang questioned how Jiang Chuan's attack could be the Vast Cold Condensing Yin Saber Chapter, recalling that Immortal King Guangyun had shown him a different version.
• Wang Hong, Sun Yixian, Qu Shi, and Azure Martial King speculated about secrets surrounding Daoist Li Yang and Immortal King Guangyun, including rumors about Guangyun's role in the Ancient Era.
• Jiang Chuan decided to kill Daoist Li Yang and ask Immortal King Guangyun for answers, but Daoist Li Yang summoned the Azure Emperor Heavenly Court Diagram.

Jiang Chuan severely wounded Daoist Li Yang with the Heaven-Slaying Dao-Breaking Seal and Immortal Extermination Technique, but Li Yang escaped in the Azure Emperor Heavenly Court Diagram. Afterward, Sun Yixian proposed sending envoys to warn the Immortal King Kanli and his group, and everyone looked to Jiang Chuan.

• Daoist Li Yang summoned the Azure Emperor Heavenly Court Diagram, while Jiang Chuan formed the Heaven-Slaying Dao-Breaking Seal with the Five Divine Beasts and Twilight Divine Light.
• Jiang Chuan struck Daoist Li Yang with the Immortal Extermination Technique, piercing and melting his Immortal King body despite Li Yang's counterattack.
• Daoist Li Yang escaped through the starry sky in the damaged Azure Emperor Heavenly Court Diagram before Jiang Chuan's Sword World could trap him.
• Azure Martial King said Li Yang's injuries would keep him from causing trouble in the short term, and Jiang Chuan wondered how the diagram had carried Li Yang away.
• Sun Yixian proposed sending people to warn the Immortal King Kanli and his group, and Wang Hong, Azure Martial King, and Qu Shi looked to Jiang Chuan, who feared walking into a trap.

Jiang Chuan returned to Nandu City, where he reunited with Song Zhiyan and discussed the Flame of Yanhuang Plan and Sun Yanfeng’s prospects. After Zhong Ran called about gathering Immortal Treasures for the plan, Jiang Chuan confronted the Eternal Immortal Bell and demanded that it either acknowledge him as its master or be refined.

• Jiang Chuan returned to his home in Nandu City and found Song Zhiyan caring for the Director and Purple Thunder.
• Song Zhiyan asked Jiang Chuan why Great Xia was preparing the Flame of Yanhuang Plan, and she joked that he and Qu Shi were the country’s greatest threats.
• During lunch, Song Zhiyi asked whether Sun Yanfeng would be transferred after his breakthrough, and Jiang Chuan blamed Qu Shi for Sun Yanfeng being overlooked.
• Zhong Ran called Jiang Chuan about collecting Immortal Treasures for the Flame of Yanhuang Plan and said Meng Weiyi would retrieve the treasures from the Strategic Level One Reserve Secret Vault.
• Jiang Chuan brought out the Eternal Immortal Bell and told its Tool Spirit to either acknowledge him as its master or let him refine it.

Jiang Chuan began refining the Eternal Immortal Bell while Meng Weiyi took the Myriad Wonders Immortal Palace and its stored Immortal Treasures to Northern Capital City. After a day out with Meng Nanxi, Song Zhiyi, and Song Zhiyan, Jiang Chuan studied the Nine Nether Nine Heavens Ascension Scripture and found it differed greatly from Lu Chenling’s account.

• Jiang Chuan pressured the Eternal Immortal Bell Tool Spirit until it agreed to let him refine it, though the process proved difficult.
• Meng Nanxi and the Three Primes Seal discussed their growing sense of approaching calamity with Jiang Chuan, Meng Weiyi, and the others.
• Meng Weiyi took the shrunken Myriad Wonders Immortal Palace and the Immortal Treasures from the Strategic Level One Reserve Secret Vault to Northern Capital City.
• Jiang Chuan went shopping with Meng Nanxi, Song Zhiyi, and Song Zhiyan, then returned home to refine the bell and study scriptures.
• Jiang Chuan read the Nine Nether Nine Heavens Ascension Scripture and found its contents vastly different from what Lu Chenling had told him.

Jiang Chuan studied the Nine Nether Nine Heavens Ascension Scripture and struggled with its demand that he reshape his cognition, while the Eternal Immortal Bell Tool Spirit passed him the Eternal Immortal Scripture’s divine abilities. At the Central Committee Assembly Building, Bright Jade Immortal King arrived in a fury and revealed that Biluò’s cultivation of Jiang Chuan’s Cosmic Sword Pivot had turned her into an illusory starry sky.

• Jiang Chuan realized that the Nine Nether Nine Heavens Ascension Scripture reshaped cognition and hesitated to cultivate it because it conflicted with his beliefs and Dao.
• The Eternal Immortal Bell Tool Spirit warned Jiang Chuan against rashly cultivating unknown scriptures, then gave him the Eternal Immortal Scripture Divine Abilities Scroll.
• Jiang Chuan learned that the six divine abilities relied on the Dao of Time, whose power depended on the cultivator’s comprehension.
• Jiang Chuan began reading Heng Wuji’s Myriad Gods Worship Me Scripture while his Deity Avatars pursued several cultivation tasks.
• At the Central Committee Assembly Building, Jiang Dongchen brought Qu Shi a document about promising geniuses, but Bright Jade Immortal King interrupted him by demanding to know where Jiang Chuan was.
• Wang Hong asked Bright Jade Immortal King what had happened, and Bright Jade Immortal King said Biluò had cultivated Jiang Chuan’s Cosmic Sword Pivot and turned into an illusory starry sky.

Jiang Chuan was summoned to Qingyuan Star after Azure Sky Ancient Immortal transformed into an illusory starry sky while cultivating the Cosmic Sword Pivot. He tried to awaken her consciousness by resonating his own evolving Cosmic Sword Pivot with hers, and both starry skies began to change.

• Meng Nanxi told Jiang Chuan that Azure Sky Ancient Immortal had vanished into an illusory starry sky and that Bright Jade Immortal King needed help saving her.
• Jiang Chuan and Bright Jade Immortal King blamed each other for Azure Sky Ancient Immortal’s crisis before Chu Wan’er urged them to focus on rescuing her.
• Moon Lotus Immortal Fairy took Jiang Chuan and the others to Qingyuan Star, where Immortal Kings discussed ways to retrieve Azure Sky Ancient Immortal’s consciousness.
• Jiang Chuan sensed the starry sky in the cave and proposed resonating his Cosmic Sword Pivot with the one Azure Sky Ancient Immortal was evolving.
• Jiang Chuan formed a vast starry sky from his sword qi, and Azure Sky Ancient Immortal’s illusory starry sky began to change in response.

The Azure Sky Ancient Immortal completed her Cosmic Sword Pivot and emerged transformed, drawing concern from the others. She demanded that the Bright Jade Immortal King apologize to Jiang Chuan, then transported everyone to the starry sky and prepared to fight him.

• The Azure Sky Ancient Immortal absorbed the stars and nebulae of the illusory sky, completed the Cosmic Sword Pivot, and reappeared in the cave.
• The Azure Sky Ancient Immortal insisted her cultivation was correct and defended Jiang Chuan when the Bright Jade Immortal King accused him of misleading her.
• The Azure Sky Ancient Immortal demanded an apology from the Bright Jade Immortal King, who refused.
• The Azure Sky Ancient Immortal sent everyone into the starry sky and challenged the Bright Jade Immortal King to show what he had learned in the Immortal Realm.
• The Azure Sky Ancient Immortal gathered immense cosmic power as the others worried about the fight, and Jiang Chuan offered to add a Dragon Serpent Combined Attack.

Azure Sky Ancient Immortal fought Bright Jade Immortal King in the starry sky, overwhelming him despite his powerful divine abilities. As Bright Jade fled toward Yiyuan Immortal King for help, Jiang Chuan rushed in and unleashed his Dragon Serpent Combined Attack.

• Azure Sky Ancient Immortal struck Bright Jade Immortal King with a vast torrent of sword qi, and Bright Jade countered with his Sun Moon Reincarnation Seal.
• Azure Sky Ancient Immortal created thousands of sword-qi incarnations, but Bright Jade pierced them with the Falling God Arrow, a divine ability inherited from the Heavenly God King.
• Azure Sky Ancient Immortal transformed her body into sword qi and battered Bright Jade into a barren planet before he escaped and fled from her pursuit.
• Bright Jade flew toward Yiyuan Immortal King and the others, while Moon Lotus Immortal Fairy proposed intervening.
• Jiang Chuan charged at Bright Jade and attacked with the Sixteen Thousandth Form of the Dragon Serpent Combined Attack.

Jiang Chuan returned to Earth Star after Azure Sky Ancient Immortal sensed Kun Ancestor watching them and chased after him with the other Immortal Kings. After a meeting about protecting Earth Star, Jiang Chuan resumed cultivating and discovered he could use karmic threads to find the people connected to them.

• Azure Sky Ancient Immortal sensed Kun Ancestor watching from several Star Systems away, and Kun Ancestor warned that a decisive event would occur within a day.
• Azure Sky Ancient Immortal tore open the void and pursued Kun Ancestor, while Jiang Chuan and Moon Lotus Immortal Fairy took the silver skiff back to Earth Star.
• At a meeting in Northern Capital City, Azure Martial King proposed forging War Banners to shelter and transport entire cities, but Sun Yixian neither approved nor rejected the plan.
• Jiang Chuan returned to Nandu City, resumed cultivating the Eternal Immortal Scripture, and let threads of karma gather around him.
• Jiang Chuan realized he might be able to follow karmic threads to the people at their other ends and decided to try Zhiyan's thread.

Jiang Chuan secretly spied on Song Zhiyan and Song Zhiyi, then used karmic threads to search for Demonic Immortals and the Phoenix Ancestor. The Phoenix Ancestor detected him and attacked through the karmic thread.

• Jiang Chuan overheard Song Zhiyan and Song Zhiyi discuss the Huaxia Fire Project’s final assessment and their chances of becoming Cave Heaven Lords.
• Song Zhiyan sensed Jiang Chuan’s gaze while he watched her and Song Zhiyi, so he withdrew his Divine Sense.
• Jiang Chuan tried to follow the Blood Sea Demonic Immortal’s karmic thread, but it snapped and disappeared.
• Jiang Chuan followed the Phoenix Ancestor’s karmic thread and saw her vast divine tree covered with phoenixes.
• The Phoenix Ancestor sensed Jiang Chuan spying on her and struck through the trembling karmic thread.

Jiang Chuan thwarted the Phoenix Ancestor’s sword strike, then interrupted his secluded cultivation when the Heavenly Ruins’ imminent arrival threatened to draw the universe’s powerful factions into battle. At a strategy meeting, the Nine Heavens Immortal King proposed cooperating with their rivals against the demon immortals, prompting strange looks from Jiang Chuan and the others.

• The Phoenix Ancestor attacked Jiang Chuan through their karmic connection, but Jiang Chuan countered with a saber gleam based on Wan Daoyi’s Sixth Blade.
• Jiang Chuan studied Old Man Buried Sword’s inheritance and nearly brought his sword art to great completion before sensing that the Heavenly Ruins were about to descend.
• Jiang Chuan met Meng Nanxi and traveled to Northern Capital City, where Immortal Kings and other leaders gathered at the Central Committee Assembly Building.
• Chu Wan’er reported that the Heavenly Ruins would fall into their universe in three days and that survivors from both sides of its brutal battle remained inside.
• The Nine Heavens Immortal King urged the assembled leaders to cooperate with their rivals against the demon immortals, and Jiang Chuan, Qu Shi, and others looked at him strangely.

Jiang Chuan and the others prepared Great Xia for the coming Heavenly Ruins by arranging civilian evacuations and announcing the Blood Sea Demonic Immortal’s revival as a public justification. Before Jiang Chuan entered the danger ahead, he spent the night with friends and then set off to see his family one last time.

• Jiang Chuan, Sun Yixian, and the others agreed to seek cooperation with the Immortal King Kanli and Immortal King Yi Xin factions, but could not locate the threats they wanted to eliminate.
• Sun Yixian ordered preparations to relocate Great Xia’s people into Cave Heaven Worlds, and Wang Hong suggested citing the Blood Sea Demonic Immortal’s revival to explain the evacuation.
• Great Xia announced the revival, and its people returned to their ordinary routines after discussing the news.
• Jiang Chuan met Song Zhiyi and the others in Northern Capital City, where he reassured Xiang Taining about his role as a Cave Heaven World master in the Flame of Yanhuang plan.
• Jiang Chuan spent the night drinking and joking with his friends, who urged him to return alive, then departed at dawn with Qiuyue Bai and the others to visit his family.

As Nandu City prepared to evacuate ahead of the Heavenly Ruins, Jiang Chuan learned that his parents had chosen to stay behind and face the danger with the city’s people. He said goodbye to his family and companions, then went to Northern Capital City to prepare for the coming crisis and ask the Nine Heavens Immortal King about possible allies.

• Jiang Chuan returned home and learned that Jiang Huai'an had chosen to stay in Nandu City rather than evacuate with the selected citizens.
• Ji Min refused to leave Jiang Huai'an behind, and the couple resolved to face the danger together despite Jiang Chuan's concern.
• Jiang Chuan shared breakfast with his parents, escorted them to the City Lord's Mansion, and left Silver Fox there to protect them.
• Meng Nanxi, Song Zhiyi, and Song Zhiyan embraced Jiang Chuan and asked him to return alive before he left for Northern Capital City with Meng Nanxi, Zhao Danqin, and Sun Yanfeng.
• Jiang Chuan met the Nine Heavens Immortal King at the Central Committee Assembly Building and asked whether Immortal King Kanli and Immortal King Yi Xin had agreed to cooperate against the demon immortals.

As the Immortal Kings agreed in principle to deal with the demon immortals, Great Xia prepared its Cave Heaven Worlds and put Jiang Chuan to work crafting talismans. After working through the night, Jiang Chuan sensed that the Heavenly Ruins had arrived.

• Nine Heavens Immortal King explained that Immortal King Kanli and Immortal King Yi Xin acknowledged the need to fight the demon immortals but had not secured their allies’ support.
• Qu Shi gave Meng Nanxi and Song Zhiyi their Cave Heaven assignments, and they set off with Song Zhiyan after Jiang Chuan promised to slay Great Xia’s enemies.
• Qu Shi recruited Jiang Chuan to help make Immortal King talismans, explaining how Great Xia’s new design combined separate talisman elements into divine abilities.
• Jiang Chuan infused the talismans with the power for Wan Daoyi’s Heaven and Earth Refinement, working from dawn until the following morning.
• As Qu Shi brought Jiang Chuan another box of talismans, he looked into the void and announced that the Heavenly Ruins had arrived.

Heavenly Ruins descended and shattered across the cosmos, unleashing catastrophic laws and debris that destroyed planets and nebulae. Jiang Chuan and the others flew to the Solar System’s edge to shield it from the spreading aftershocks, where they noticed others approaching Heavenly Ruins.

• Jiang Chuan warned that the Heavenly Dao could resist Heavenly Ruins for only eight to ten hours, and Great Xia rushed to finish its preparations.
• Jiang Chuan enlisted Azure Sky Ancient Immortal, Bright Jade Immortal King, and Yiyuan Immortal King to complete the remaining talismans.
• Qu Shi told Jiang Chuan that the Cave Heaven Worlds had concealed themselves in the void and would relocate if Great Xia failed to contact them.
• Heavenly Ruins fell into the universe, breaking apart and unleashing fragments and foreign laws that annihilated planets and tore open the void.
• Jiang Chuan, Sun Yixian, Azure Sky Ancient Immortal, and the other Immortals flew to the Solar System’s edge to block the aftershocks from Heavenly Ruins’ collision with a nebula.
• As Bright Jade Immortal King prepared to activate the Blood Sea Immortal Diagram, Sword Immortal Yao Guang spotted others moving toward Heavenly Ruins.