Chapter Summaries

Jiang Chuan received Jade Marrow and Black Obsidian Spirit Grasses from Song Zhiyi, then used the Jade Marrow and a Kirin Body Tempering Pill to advance his Flood Serpent Transformation Dragon Art. He began striking the golden cocoon surrounding his body to complete his transformation into a flood dragon.

• Song Zhiyi gave Jiang Chuan Jade Marrow and six Black Obsidian Spirit Grasses from Teacher Qu.
• Meng Nanxi told Jiang Chuan that the City Lord planned to meet Nandu City's selected geniuses and might ask him to give a speech.
• Jiang Chuan swallowed the Jade Marrow, endured its extreme saltiness, and refined it to reach the theoretical middle stage of the Flood Dragon Realm.
• Jiang Chuan refined a Kirin Body Tempering Pill over seven days, forming a golden light cocoon around his flesh and bones.
• Jiang Chuan circulated the Flood Serpent Transformation Dragon Art and drove his two blood-vitality flood dragons against the cocoon to begin his Mortal Transformation.

Jiang Chuan and the other Nandu City cultivators learned that rival cities planned to challenge them and undermine Nandu City's funding before their trip to the Cangwu Realm. Qu Shi set off to demand compensation from Meng Yifei, then returned half an hour later with one piece of good news and one piece of bad news.

• Jiang Chuan struggled to break the golden cocoon inside his body, managing to shatter just one streak of light after hundreds of blows.
• Qu Shi brought Jiang Chuan and three others to the Principal's Office, where Zhang Yanfeng explained that officials wanted to record the eight Cangwu Realm entrants' physical data.
• Zhang Yanfeng told the group that cultivators from Chuzhou City, Yangcheng, and other cities planned to challenge Nandu City's entrants and use defeat or public opinion to argue for cutting its funding.
• Jiang Chuan proposed that the students earn rewards for defeating their rivals, and Qu Shi agreed to demand a higher salary for herself.
• Jiang Chuan said victory seemed assured if he received the City Guard Army's five promised spiritual flames, so Qu Shi flew off to confront Meng Yifei and demand fifty flames as compensation.
• Qu Shi returned to Immortal Gate High School half an hour later with one piece of good news and one piece of bad news.

Jiang Chuan studied the scripture for cultivating Dao fire and refined five spirit flames given to him by Qu Shi. He fused them into a single flame, though its final form was not yet revealed.

• Qu Shi told Jiang Chuan and the others that the City Lord had agreed to reward them if they won, but had granted Jiang Chuan only five spirit flames instead of fifty.
• Jiang Chuan reviewed the scripture and learned how spirit flames formed from the Fire Transcendent Factor combined with other Transcendent Factors.
• Jiang Chuan refined the Nine Heavens Meteor Fire and an impure Silver Phoenix Flame, along with three other spirit flames.
• Jiang Chuan circulated the scripture, causing the five spirit flames in his dantian to fight and consume one another.
• The five spirit flames finally fused into one as Jiang Chuan watched expectantly.

Jiang Chuan fused five spirit flames into a yellow Dao Fire, opened his Heart Divine Palace, and used the fire to cultivate a new great medicine. After refining the Mountain Shaking Ring into his Myriad Weapons God Execution Art, he traveled with his teachers and classmates to meet City Lord Duan Hong and compete against geniuses from Yangcheng and Chuzhou City.

• Jiang Chuan tested his yellow Dao Fire on steel Iron Men, melting them, then realized he could not refine the resulting molten iron and pondered the scripture’s true intent.
• Jiang Chuan concluded that the Three Thousand Dao Fires Scripture for Refining All Things and All Techniques aimed to refine all things back into the original Dao, then sent his Dao Fire into his heart to open his Heart Divine Palace.
• Jiang Chuan’s heart tempered his blood, raising his strength close to 120,000 jin, but his blood qi could not break the golden cocoon trapping two large and one small flood dragons.
• Jiang Chuan photographed another set of Hand Seals from the Silk Cloth painting, then used his Dao Fire in the Thunder Fire Alchemy Scripture to create a silver-and-gold great medicine.
• Jiang Chuan took medicinal pills to recover, refined the Mountain Shaking Ring into the Myriad Weapons God Execution Art, and later traveled with his classmates and teachers to the City Lord’s Mansion to meet Duan Hong and compete against geniuses from Yangcheng and Chuzhou City.

Jiang Chuan and his group arrived at Nandu City’s City Lord’s Mansion for an inter-city exchange meeting, where rival cities had assembled powerful cultivators to challenge them. The group entered the heavily secured underground venue as the tension—and Qu Shi’s threats about Jiang Chuan’s homework—grew.

• Jiang Chuan and his companions learned that Yangzhou City and Chuzhou City had brought three Seventh Grade cultivators with blossoming Three Flowers, including a Ten Thousand Woods Dao Palace cultivator whose Three Flowers might have reached Eighth Grade.
• Zhang Minghui told the group that the City Lord expected Jiang Chuan to draw against at least one Seventh Grade opponent, or Qu Shi’s salary would go to the City Guard Army.
• Qu Shi threatened Jiang Chuan with increasingly bizarre homework if he lost, while Song Zhiyan and Song Zhiyi reacted to her suggestion that he visit their homes.
• Qu Shi confronted Deputy City Lord Hou Ming and traded barbs with him and Lin Huai, while Zhang Yanfeng and Zhang Minghui prevented the rivals from fighting before the meeting.
• Jiang Chuan and the others followed Zhang Minghui into the underground bunker, where mechanical rods tracked them as they entered the exchange meeting venue.

Nandu City and Yangzhou City’s leaders clashed before a cultivation competition, and Qin Yu forced Duan Hong to start the event. Jiang Chuan then offered to defeat the cultivators from both Yangzhou City and Chuzhou City alone in exchange for a greater reward.

• Jiang Xingwei deployed Cloud Seal Rocket Launchers and machine guns to intimidate the visiting cultivators, but Qin Yu struck him into a steel wall and demanded to see Duan Hong and Sun Yanfeng.
• Qu Shi explained that Qin Yu was a powerful Yangzhou City lord with little time left to live and no fear of dying.
• Qin Yu confronted Duan Hong and challenged him to fight, then joked with Qu Shi about lying down to claim compensation.
• Qin Yu and Duan Hong agreed to begin the competition, and the arena rose from the hall floor.
• Jiang Chuan asked how much greater his reward would be if he defeated the cultivators from Yangzhou City and Chuzhou City by himself.

Jiang Chuan challenged the geniuses from the various cities, prompting Fu Hao to fight him in the arena. Fu Hao unleashed his Shadow Mirror and a copied Tiger Demon alongside his Purple Qi Demon Suppressing Seal, and Jiang Chuan prepared to face the combined attack.

• Jiang Chuan rejected Zhang Yanfeng's warning and insisted that he could defeat the geniuses from the various cities.
• Qin Yu dismissed Jiang Chuan's claim, while Duan Hong promised to double both Jiang Chuan's reward and Qu Shi's salary if Jiang Chuan won.
• Fu Hao took the arena and attacked Jiang Chuan with his Purple Long Spear, but Jiang Chuan's strength and ten spear strikes forced Fu Hao back.
• Hou Ming warned Fu Hao not to compete with Jiang Chuan's raw strength after recognizing that Jiang Chuan had cultivated the Flood Serpent Transformation Dragon Art to the Flood Dragon Realm.
• Fu Hao summoned his Shadow Mirror's Tiger Demon and attacked Jiang Chuan with the Purple Qi Demon Suppressing Seal.

Jiang Chuan defeated Fu Hao with his formidable techniques and a fatal beam from his eye, drawing astonishment from the gathered cultivators. Sun Yanfeng arrived, and Ji Heng entered the arena to challenge Jiang Chuan with the completed Yin Yang Dragon Snake Scripture.

• Jiang Chuan countered Fu Hao’s attacks with lightning, sword, wind, and saber techniques before piercing Fu Hao’s palm and throat with a Dark Golden Light Beam.
• Fu Hao acknowledged his defeat, and the cultivators marveled that a fourth-realm cultivator could control the Power of Heaven and Earth and withstand attacks with a body like a treasure artifact.
• Meng Yifei arrived with Sun Yanfeng, Nandu City’s Deputy City Lord, who called the match an appetizer and challenged Qin Yu’s confidence.
• Lin Huai sent Ji Heng to face Jiang Chuan, and Ji Heng revealed that he had completed the Yin Yang Dragon Snake Scripture.
• Qu Shi and Meng Nanxi warned Jiang Chuan about the scripture’s power, and Ji Heng transformed into a streak of light and charged at him.

Jiang Chuan turned the tide against Ji Heng by using the Flood Serpent Transformation Dragon Art to block his Dragon Sword Snake Blade and send him flying. Ji Heng then unleashed the Yin Yang Dragon Snake Scissors, and Jiang Chuan charged into the attack as the observers prepared for the battle to continue.

• Ji Heng overpowered Jiang Chuan with Dragon Serpent Combined Attack and knocked the spear from his hand.
• Jiang Chuan used the Overturning Heaven Fist to fight Ji Heng evenly and push him back across the arena.
• Ji Heng transformed his golden dragon and black snake into the Dragon Sword Snake Blade and attacked Jiang Chuan with Dragon Snake Cleave Void.
• Jiang Chuan's golden body blocked the blade and sword, and his fists struck Ji Heng's chest and sent him flying.
• Jiang Chuan accused Ji Heng of failing to understand the Flood Serpent Transformation Dragon Art, then offered to guide him.
• Ji Heng roared and used the Yin Yang Dragon Snake Scissors as Jiang Chuan charged toward him.

Jiang Chuan defeated Ji Heng by breaking the Yin Yang Dragon Snake Scissors and fatally striking him, then faced Qiuyue Bai, a formidable Ten Thousand Woods Dao Palace candidate. Qiuyue Bai summoned an army of wooden-armored soldiers and led them in a charge toward Jiang Chuan.

• Jiang Chuan blocked Ji Heng’s Yin Yang Dragon Snake Scissors and overwhelmed him with repeated Overturning Heaven Fist punches until the scissors shattered.
• Jiang Chuan punched through Ji Heng’s chest before Ji Heng could unleash another divine ability, and Lin Huai had him carried off the arena.
• Qin Yu sent Qiuyue Bai to challenge Jiang Chuan, while spectators discussed her exceptional cultivation and Dao Palace status.
• Qiuyue Bai revealed that all three of her Dao Flowers had reached the eighth grade and offered Jiang Chuan time to recover his spiritual power.
• Jiang Chuan took up his spear as Qiuyue Bai summoned more than a hundred wooden-armored soldiers and charged at him.

Qiuyue Bai used her Heavenly Wood Dao Soldiers and Jiamu Life and Death Thunder to corner Jiang Chuan in their arena battle. Jiang Chuan charged at her in a burst of golden light, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Qiuyue Bai summoned her Wood Soldiers and clashed with Jiang Chuan using her saber, purple-gold clouds, and Life and Death Dao Diagram.
• Jiang Chuan countered with lightning, his great banner, and the Overturning Heaven Fist, while Qiuyue Bai blocked his surprise strike with an azure pearl.
• Qiuyue Bai called down Jiamu Life and Death Thunder, forcing Jiang Chuan to dodge and revealing the danger of her Wood Soldier formation.
• Qu Shi teased Jiang Chuan about needing to win, while Qin Yu and Duan Hong argued over her remarks about a humiliating reflection.
• Jiang Chuan activated the Myriad Weapons God Execution Art and charged at Qiuyue Bai in blinding golden light.

Jiang Chuan defeated Qiuyue Bai by breaking her formation and striking through her defenses amid the uncontrolled thunderstorm. After Qiuyue Bai conceded, Jiang Chuan challenged the cultivators from the other cities, still determined to fulfill his promise to the City Lord.

• Jiang Chuan destroyed Qiuyue Bai's formation, causing the gathered Jiamu Life and Death Thunder to erupt and engulf them both.
• Jiang Chuan pierced Qiuyue Bai's throat with a Dark Golden Light Beam, and she admitted defeat.
• The spectators reacted with shock as Jiang Chuan's allies praised his victory over a Dao Seed Candidate.
• Jiang Chuan reflected that Qiuyue Bai was formidable and grew more eager to reach the fifth realm, thinking about Ji Yan's strength.
• Jiang Chuan challenged the cultivators from the other cities to fight him after defeating only three.

Jiang Chuan competed at the Inter-City Exchange Meeting, then arranged to trade knowledge of the Flood Serpent Transformation Dragon Art for Ji Heng’s Yin Yang Dragon Snake Scripture. The meeting ended with Qin Yu rewarding Jiang Chuan, though the reward’s identity was not yet revealed.

• Hou Ming challenged Jiang Chuan to fight Fang Ze, but Qin Yu and Sun Yanfeng calmed the rival city leaders and urged the southern cities to cooperate.
• Jiang Chuan told Song Zhiyan that Qin Yu and Sun Yanfeng handled disputes like genuine middle-aged and elderly people, while Qu Shi’s approach risked getting her beaten.
• Meng Nanxi, Song Zhiyan, Kang Bo, and cultivators from other cities sparred after Qin Yu’s intervention prevented further bloody fights.
• Ji Heng offered to teach Jiang Chuan the Yin Yang Dragon Snake Scripture in exchange for the essence of the Flood Serpent Transformation Dragon Art, and they arranged to meet the next night.
• Duan Hong, Qin Yu, and Sun Yanfeng declared the Inter-City Exchange Meeting successfully concluded, and Qin Yu sent a streak of purple light to Jiang Chuan as a reward.

Jiang Chuan visited the City Lord's Mansion treasure vault and chose the dangerous Ghost Snake Sword, a Half-Dao Tool that Qu Shi's Dark Gold Treasure Wheel subdued. He refined the sword and began looking for a second treasure.

• Qin Yu gave Jiang Chuan a purple jade talisman containing a strand of sword qi, and Duan Hong authorized him to choose two treasures from the vault.
• Jiang Xingwei led Jiang Chuan and Qu Shi to the treasure vault and recommended an earth-element magic treasure, but Qu Shi objected to passing over its Half-Dao Tools.
• Jiang Xingwei showed them the Ghost Snake Sword and warned that its vicious weapon spirit could kill its master.
• Qu Shi used her Dark Gold Treasure Wheel to beat the Ghost Snake Sword's weapon spirit until it agreed to acknowledge Jiang Chuan as its master.
• Jiang Chuan grasped the Ghost Snake Sword, resisted its killing intent with the Great Sun Slaughtering God Technique, and refined it.
• Jiang Chuan began searching the vault for his second treasure.

Jiang Chuan chose an alchemy furnace and exchanged treasures for tools to help forge the foundation of an Immortal Grade Golden Core after helping Nandu City solve a major problem. At the banquet, he joined a regional exchange group and confronted Meng Yifei about the cultivation technique he had promised.

• Jiang Chuan selected a Bronze Alchemy Furnace from the Nandu City treasury and asked to exchange the Mother-Child Blades for two Peak Grade Treasure Tools; Duan Hong approved the request.
• Jiang Chuan left the treasury carrying the Ghost Snake Sword, the alchemy furnace, and four magic treasures, then met his father, Jiang Huai'an, and Du Qingfeng.
• Jiang Xingwei praised Jiang Chuan for solving a major problem and brought him and the others to the banquet, where Meng Nanxi shared Seventh Realm Purple Lion Demon King meat with him.
• Jiang Huai'an realized Meng Nanxi was Commander Meng's daughter and joked that Jiang Chuan had skipped a hundred years of detours.
• Qiuyue Bai proposed an exchange group, and Jiang Chuan joined it before asking Meng Yifei when he would give him the Native System Cultivation Technique.
• Meng Yifei walked away without answering, and Jiang Nanxi challenged Jiang Chuan after he threatened to deal with the old man.

Jiang Chuan was assigned to tutor Song Zhiyan and Song Zhiyi, then brought the Ghost Snake Sword home and received the Earth Overturning Scripture from Meng Nanxi. As he studied it, he discovered that its creator envisioned controlling the power of Earth to challenge the Heavenly Dao, and Jiang Chuan continued reading with a frown.

• Qu Shi ordered Jiang Chuan to tutor Song Zhiyan and Song Zhiyi after school, and forbade him from taking leave.
• Jiang Chuan found the Ghost Snake Sword's artifact spirit eating the Green Vine Demon King's vines and told it to leave some for Director.
• Meng Nanxi gave Jiang Chuan the Earth Overturning Scripture and said her father had told him to stay away.
• Jiang Chuan spent the morning writing down his understanding of the Flood Serpent Transformation Dragon Art for Ji Heng.
• Jiang Chuan studied the Earth Overturning Scripture and learned that Daoist Baitou had sought to control the Power of Earth and become a supreme existence beneath the Heavenly Dao.
• Jiang Chuan reached the final page of the Earth Overturning Scripture and frowned.

Jiang Chuan took Ji Heng outside Nandu City and gave him his version of the Flood Serpent Transformation Dragon Art, prompting Ji Heng to question the Yin Yang Dragon Serpent Sect’s teachings. Their argument was interrupted by a call on Jiang Chuan’s phone.

• Jiang Chuan complained that Meng Yifei had given him only part of the scripture, then refined a fire-element flying sword for Magic Treasure and Technique Fusion.
• After school, Jiang Chuan met Ji Heng and took him beyond Nandu City, explaining that he could not afford to eat at a restaurant.
• Ji Heng began cultivating the Yin Yang Dragon Snake Scripture and recited True Monarch Mingxin’s nine divine abilities while Jiang Chuan explained their origins and ranks.
• Ji Heng accused Jiang Chuan of deceiving him because the Yin Yang Dragon Serpent Sect’s texts did not describe the transformations Jiang Chuan had written.
• Jiang Chuan argued that the sect’s cultivators lacked talent and had misled Ji Heng, who decided to return and try cultivating differently.
• Jiang Chuan’s phone vibrated, interrupting Ji Heng, and Jiang Chuan worried that Teacher Qu was calling about her Immortal Sword Vermilion Bird.

Jiang Chuan received word that the Cangwu Realm expedition would begin on January 15th, then spent the next two weeks fusing a magic treasure with his technique and breaking through to the Fifth Realm. After unleashing the Five Elements Divine Thunder and destroying a mountain, he faced an angry Qu Shi.

• Qu Shi told Jiang Chuan that the Cangwu Realm expedition was set for January 15th and refused to lend him Merit Points.
• Jiang Chuan spent seven days fusing a peak-grade longsword with the Myriad Things and Myriad Laws Scripture, then refined the Ring-Pommel Saber and opened his Five Organs Divine Palace.
• Jiang Chuan broke through to the Fifth Realm and tested the Five Elements Divine Thunder, blasting apart a two-hundred-meter mountain.
• Song Bin arrived after the thunder alarmed Nandu City and warned Jiang Chuan that the City Lord would likely scold him.
• Jiang Chuan blamed the commotion on wanting to test the divine ability for Qu Shi, just as Qu Shi flew overhead and angrily demanded to know what he had said.

After Jiang Chuan’s experiment paralyzed Nandu City, Qu Shi and Duan Hong scolded him and he was confined to his home. He studied his Dao Foundation’s dormant power and waited for Meng Nanxi, Zhiyan, and Kang Bo to visit with the alchemy furnace Teacher Zhao had made.

• Qu Shi confronted Jiang Chuan, but Jiang Xingwei, Zhang Minghui, and others arrived before she could attack him and Song Bin.
• At the City Lord’s Mansion, Duan Hong berated Jiang Chuan for causing the citywide disruption and ordered him to stay home for three days before leaving for the Cangwu Realm.
• Jiang Chuan studied the Yin Yang Dragon Snake Scripture and tried to activate his Golden Sun Black Moon Dao Foundation, but it consumed his magic power and reverted before revealing its ability.
• Jiang Chuan concluded that he might need Sixth Realm Core Power to activate the fused Dao Foundation, then tempered his magic power with the five qi.
• The next morning, Meng Nanxi told Jiang Chuan that she, Zhiyan, and Kang Bo would come watch him and bring the completed alchemy furnace from Teacher Zhao.

Jiang Chuan received a powerful Bronze Alchemy Furnace, along with a debt of one hundred thousand Merit Points, and prepared to travel to the Cangwu Realm. As he left Nandu City with his classmates and teachers, he discovered that the silk cloth’s hand seal now matched his photograph, revealing that he could finally investigate its secret.

• Meng Nanxi and the others delivered the Bronze Alchemy Furnace to Jiang Chuan and explained its 221 formations, including the Kirin Burning Field Array.
• Song Zhiyan informed Jiang Chuan that he owed one hundred thousand Merit Points for the furnace, and he agreed to carry her snacks in his spatial jade tablet.
• Jiang Chuan spent three days preparing for the trip, then noticed that the hand seal on the silk cloth matched his photograph.
• Jiang Huai'an drove Jiang Chuan and Ji Min to the airport, where Zhang Yanfeng revealed that Qu Shi would accompany them to the Cangwu Realm.
• Jiang Chuan, Meng Nanxi, Song Zhiyan, and the others boarded a plane for the Cangwu Realm, which took off at 9:30.