Recaps

After recovering from his historic battle, Jiang Ping An learned that the Deceiving Heaven Art might help him survive the Divine Punishment Heavenly Tribulation. Yun Yao urged him to seek it in a Demon King’s tomb, then recounted its tragic origins and challenged him to choose between love and loyalty to one’s people.

• Jiang Ping An fainted from exhaustion after his battle, and Miao Xia watched over him while he slept for ten days.
• Jiang Ping An woke, then made a clone return upgraded magic treasures to his customers without charging them for the delayed work.
• Jiang Ping An read Deng ShaoXi’s invitation to explore a Demon Domain tomb that might contain the Deceiving Heaven Art.
• Jiang Ping An asked Yun Yao about the art, and she urged him to join the expedition because it could help him pass his tribulation and free her from the coffin.
• Yun Yao explained that the Demon Empress created the Deceiving Heaven Art after being sealed away from her human lover, who later ambushed and killed her for humanity’s sake.
• Jiang Ping An said he did not know what he would choose, and Yun Yao dismissed his hope for peace.

Jiang Ping An agreed to join Deng ShaoXi’s team to explore the discovered Small World of Demon Empress Dongfang Xueqing in search of the Deceiving Heaven Art. He then went to the Azure Branch Divine Hall to cultivate, where a Heavenly Immortal guard offered him a hundred Immortal-level women.

• Yun Yao told Jiang Ping An to investigate whether the discovered Small World was truly the Demon Empress’s tomb, since the Deceiving Heaven Art might be there.
• Jiang Ping An checked the Divine Token and confirmed that Demon Empress Dongfang Xueqing’s Small World had been discovered and was drawing interest across the Immortal Realm.
• Deng ShaoXi told Jiang Ping An that the Ironblood Organization had the jade pendant needed to enter the Core Region and invited him to explore with them in two months.
• Jiang Ping An accepted Deng ShaoXi’s invitation but asked him to keep his whereabouts secret because someone wanted to assassinate him, and he declined an offer to join Ironblood.
• Jiang Ping An gave Miao Xia fifteen thousand years of cultivation time and took her to the Azure Branch Divine Hall to cultivate.
• A Heavenly Immortal guard praised Jiang Ping An and offered him a hundred Immortal-level women from his family.

Jiang Ping An and Miao Xia entered the divine hall to study Immortal Dao Laws, and Jiang Ping An broke through to the Domain Realm Middle Stage. He gained five Origin Fruits and considered how to strengthen himself further before returning to the Barren Realm.

• Two Heavenly Immortals offered Jiang Ping An more than a hundred Immortal-level wives in exchange for passing on his bloodline, but he refused and insisted he would keep pursuing the immortal path.
• Jiang Ping An and Miao Xia registered their Divine Tokens and entered the divine hall, where projections of Immortal-level powerhouses demonstrated their laws.
• Jiang Ping An's Devouring Body and Battle Body, along with Miao Xia, began comprehending suitable Immortal Dao Laws while his Main Body absorbed Ancient God Origin.
• After a lengthy breakthrough, Jiang Ping An advanced to the Domain Realm Middle Stage, and each of his Five Immortal Roots produced a golden Origin Fruit.
• Jiang Ping An weighed learning the Slaughter Scripture and planned to eliminate the Heaven Swallowing Crocodile Race and the Sea Demon Race when he returned to the Barren Realm.

Jiang Ping An joined Deng ShaoXi’s group under the false name Bu Si and proved his strength by disintegrating Deng Luan’s staff. As the group traveled toward the Demon Empress Tomb, they were ambushed, and their warship crashed through more than a hundred mountains.

• Jiang Ping An left his Battle Body at the Azure Branch Divine Hall and met Deng ShaoXi’s group at the Demon Domain entrance while disguised as Bu Si.
• Deng Luan challenged Jiang Ping An by attacking him with a high-grade staff, but Jiang Ping An destroyed it with a touch and won the group’s respect.
• Jiang Ping An collected the staff’s valuable powder before the ten cultivators entered the Demon Domain and flew toward the tomb.
• Deng ShaoXi warned Jiang Ping An about the powerful puppets guarding the tomb, and Jiang Ping An said he might be able to handle some of them.
• Jiang Ping An sensed an ambush and warned the group, but the attack blasted their warship into the ground and through more than a hundred mountains.

After surviving an ambush by Shao Quan’s group, Jiang Ping An identified the attackers and urged Deng ShaoXi to keep their knowledge secret. A month later, they reached the Demon Empress’s Small World, where Deng ShaoXi invited Shao Quan’s group to explore with them.

• Deng ShaoXi defended the warship against an ambush, and he refused Deng Luan’s demand to pursue the attackers in case they had laid another trap.
• Jiang Ping An drew a portrait of one attacker, and Deng ShaoXi recognized him as Shao Quan of the Divine Light Organization, who was likely after the Jade Pendant Key.
• Jiang Ping An advised Deng ShaoXi to keep Shao Quan’s identity secret and consider ambushing his group in return.
• After a month without further attacks, Deng ShaoXi and his companions reached the rift to the Demon Empress’s Small World, where cultivators and merchants had gathered.
• Shao Quan greeted Deng ShaoXi, and Deng ShaoXi invited his group to explore the Small World together, surprising Shao Quan’s companions.

Deng ShaoXi and Shao Quan agreed to cooperate as their teams entered Dongfang Qingxue’s Small World, where Jiang Ping An absorbed Demon Qi and made crystals for his daughter. Shao Quan secretly led the others toward an ambush by provoking a Self-Destruct Puppet, and the chapter ended with the group fleeing as he anticipated the Iron Blood Group’s defeat.

• Deng ShaoXi and Shao Quan agreed that whoever found a treasure first would own it, then entered the Small World with their teams.
• Jiang Ping An absorbed Demon Qi without a barrier and condensed Demon Qi Immortal Crystals to give his daughter, Jiang MiaoYi.
• A Self-Destruct Puppet appeared, and Shao Quan attacked it despite warnings that doing so would attract more puppets.
• Puppets swarmed the group, and Shao Quan led the fleeing Iron Blood Group and others toward a place he claimed was safe.
• Shao Quan revealed that he had staged the incident to lure the Iron Blood Group into an ambush and take its jade pendant.

The Iron Blood Group ambushed the Divine Light Organization before Shao Quan’s trap could spring, and the two groups resumed fighting as the puppets closed in. Jiang Ping An used the Corpse Disassembly Technique to disable the puppets and began collecting them, but Shao Quan redirected a powerful attack toward him.

• Deng ShaoXi and the Iron Blood Group ambushed Shao Quan and the Divine Light Organization, then hurled their bodies into the pursuing puppets.
• Shao Quan regenerated after the attack, while the Iron Blood Group pressed its advantage and Shao Quan warned that the puppets were catching up.
• Jiang Ping An disabled the green bird puppet and its self-destructing passenger with the Corpse Disassembly Technique, then began dismantling and collecting the other puppets.
• Shao Quan unleashed a powerful sword beam toward Jiang Ping An, and Deng ShaoXi shouted a warning as he tried to stop it.

Jiang Ping An helped the Iron Blood Group escape the Divine Light Organization, dismantled a killing array, and led the group safely to the Core Region. After entering the Eighteen-Story Red Tower, they discovered that its fragrant flowers were poisonous.

• Jiang Ping An dodged Shao Quan’s sword attack, dismantled the attacking puppets, and watched Shao Quan and most of the Divine Light Organization flee.
• Jiang Ping An entered the Space Crack and dismantled an inactive immortal-level killing array before rejoining the Iron Blood Group.
• Shao Quan recognized Jiang Ping An, vowed revenge, and planned to reveal his location to someone who had placed a bounty on him.
• Deng Luan realized Jiang Ping An’s identity as the famous cultivator from Azure Branch Academy, while Jiang Ping An dismantled more puppets as the group traveled.
• Deng ShaoXi led the ten-member group through the barrier into the Eighteen-Story Red Tower, where the poisonous flower fragrance made Deng Luan dizzy.

Jiang Ping An helped the Iron Blood Group overcome the first floor’s energy that stopped their power from circulating, then warned other Cultivators that the three Immortal Medicines on the third floor were sentient and dangerous. The other factions doubted him and prepared to break the formation, leaving the threat unresolved.

• Jiang Ping An identified the first floor’s weakening effect as special energy and used Devouring Power to remove it from the group.
• Jiang Ping An advised everyone to strengthen their Protective Barriers, and the group passed an empty second floor before reaching the Medicine Garden on the third.
• The Cultivators fighting over three top-grade Immortal Medicines agreed to work together to break their formations, with one group demanding an extra share for defeating an Immortal Puppet.
• Jiang Ping An warned the Cultivators not to break the formations, explaining that the Immortal Medicines had gained sentience and possessed combat strength on the level of Immortals.
• Most factions accused Jiang Ping An of inventing the danger to claim the medicines, while the Iron Blood Group took defensive positions and waited.

Jiang Ping An warned the Cultivators away from three sentient Immortal Medicines, secretly helping Yun Yao clear the third floor so she could claim them. On the fifth floor, the group encountered a statue whose lethal pressure seemed to demand that they kneel and kowtow to pass.

• Jiang Ping An pointed out scratches inside the formation, convincing the Cultivators that the Immortal Medicines had gained sentience and were dangerous.
• Jiang Ping An and the others fled to the fourth floor, while the three Immortal Medicines angrily planned to devour the humans who returned.
• Yun Yao emerged from a Storage Bag in a puppet body and began using Immortal Runes to break the formations and take the three Immortal Medicines.
• Jiang Ping An mourned the nearly hundred puppets Yun Yao had refined as he and the others reached the fifth floor and saw a headless statue of Dongfang Qingxue.
• A Cultivator who flew toward the statue was killed by its immortal power, and the others found that clones and special methods could not overcome the pressure ahead.

Cultivators struggled to cross the fourth floor under the pressure of the Demon Empress’s statue, and many knelt and kowtowed to advance. Jiang Ping An walked through the pressure unhindered and reached the statue, where he asked for help obtaining the Deceiving Heaven Art.

• Guo Qing knelt and kowtowed toward the statue, advancing step by step because he refused to let the trials stop his pursuit of immortality.
• More Cultivators knelt to seek the Deceiving Heaven Art, and Deng Luan was crushed by the pressure until he showed sincere reverence.
• Jiang Ping An walked forward without kneeling, while the kneeling Cultivators assumed he had a treasure that protected him from the pressure.
• Jiang Ping An passed Guo Qing and reached the statue, then asked the Demon Empress to bless him with the Deceiving Heaven Art.

Jiang Ping An reached the Fifth Layer and opened a small warehouse, but an immortal sword inside drew the attention of powerful cultivators. Surrounded and exposed as an Array Master, he tried to bargain for protection while the rival factions considered how to claim the warehouses.

• Jiang Ping An left the Iron Blood Group to wait for them on the fifth floor, where cultivators were breaking into warehouses filled with treasures.
• Jiang Ping An used his special pupils and Mental Power to break the array around a small warehouse and found numerous magical treasures and an immortal sword inside.
• Eight Domain Realm Late Stage cultivators confronted Jiang Ping An and demanded the immortal sword, while a concealed assassin emerged nearby.
• The Yellow-Clothed Female Cultivator revealed that Jiang Ping An could open arrays, drawing dozens of experts who wanted his help.
• Jiang Ping An offered to help whichever side protected him, but the Yellow-Clothed Female Cultivator urged the factions to divide the warehouses rather than fight.

Jiang Ping An detonated an Immortal Artifact to escape the Cultivators who had tried to force him to open the warehouses, triggering explosions that destroyed the Fifth Layer. He survived, but four enraged Cultivators caught up with him and sealed off his escape.

• The factions demanded that Jiang Ping An open the warehouse arrays, treating him as a tool and threatening to control him with a gu insect.
• Jiang Ping An hurled his immortal sword at the Yellow-Clothed Female Cultivator, then detonated it; she died in the blast and the warehouse was destroyed.
• The explosion spread through the Fifth Layer, setting off other Immortal Artifacts and killing most of the Cultivators there.
• After the blasts ended, four survivors emerged from their Inner Worlds and saw Jiang Ping An fleeing toward the Fourth Floor.
• The four survivors pursued Jiang Ping An, blocked the exit with an array flag, and trapped him inside a barrier.

Jiang Ping An fought four Domain Realm Late Stage cultivators alone, using surprise attacks and his powerful techniques to turn the battle in his favor. After defeating two and watching another flee, he faced the last, poisoned and gravely wounded opponent, who prepared to use an Immortal-Level Talisman to take them both down.

• Jiang Ping An lured one cultivator close and swallowed him with his Black Hole, leaving three attackers.
• Jiang Ping An used his domains, Divine Feather Wings, and techniques to break the saber wielder’s weapon, absorb attacks, and badly injure the body cultivator.
• Jiang Ping An feinted that an Immortal-Level Puppet had arrived, then struck the body cultivator with Unyielding and drove him into the barrier.
• The sword cultivator fled, while Jiang Ping An killed and devoured the distracted saber wielder with another Unyielding strike.
• Jiang Ping An revealed that he had paralyzed the remaining body cultivator with poison, but the wounded man drew an Immortal-Level Talisman and threatened to take them both down.

Jiang Ping An used Time Power to reverse an Immortal-Level Talisman’s activation and killed the Body Cultivator who wielded it. He and Deng ShaoXi searched the scattered Small Worlds for treasures, then Jiang Ping An turned to collect magical treasure fragments as a seductive Cultivator threatened him.

• Jiang Ping An reversed the Immortal-Level Talisman’s activation with Time Power, crushed the Body Cultivator’s arm, and sent him into the Black Hole.
• Deng ShaoXi arrived with other Cultivators and asked Jiang Ping An about the ruins; Jiang Ping An blamed the destruction on an Array Master detonating an Immortal Artifact.
• Jiang Ping An told Deng ShaoXi that the dead Cultivators’ Small Worlds contained treasures, and the two searched them for Immortal Artifacts, pills, and talismans.
• Other Cultivators noticed the search and began looking for Small Worlds, but Jiang Ping An and Deng ShaoXi had already taken most of the valuable items.
• A female Cultivator tried to charm Jiang Ping An into giving her a treasure, but he ignored her and left to collect magical treasure fragments.

The cultivators reached the Sixth Layer and learned they had to enter a simulated war to earn immortal artifacts. As the group prepared to choose a camp, Jiang Ping An asked Deng ShaoXi whether he had experienced war before.

• Deng ShaoXi drove off a female cultivator who tried to seize the fragments, and the cultivators gathered magic treasure and immortal artifact fragments on the Fifth Layer.
• Deng ShaoXi took Jiang Ping An toward the Sixth Layer, while Guo Qing collected the remaining fragments and left the Immortal Pagoda.
• Guo Qing discovered on the Third Layer that the three Immortal Medicines and their sealing formation were gone, and guessed a powerful cultivator had taken them.
• The cultivators on the Sixth Layer found two doors marked Human Race Camp and Demon Race Camp and learned the simulated battlefield offered immortal artifacts for surviving the war.
• An elderly cultivator described the devastation of the Blood Sacrifice Immortal Sea battle, and Jiang Ping An asked Deng ShaoXi if he had experienced war.

Jiang Ping An and the other cultivators entered the Simulated Battlefield, where the overwhelming war quickly eliminated most of them and left the path to the Seventh Layer uncertain. Jiang Ping An survived a lethal ambush, then used Miao Jing’s Slaughter Scripture to grow stronger as he fought the Demon Race.

• Jiang Ping An warned Deng ShaoXi that war was terrifying, but the cultivators chose the Human Race Camp in hopes of reaching the Seventh Layer.
• The cultivators appeared in a starry battlefield and were overwhelmed by the vast armies; many were killed and teleported out.
• The survivors realized they might have lost their chance to reach the Seventh Layer, and found that the magic treasure fragments downstairs had disappeared.
• Jiang Ping An was decapitated by a transparent Demon Race creature, reversed time with his Time Rune, and swallowed the ambusher with his Devouring Black Hole.
• Jiang Ping An activated Miao Jing’s Slaughter Scripture and charged into the Demon Race, growing more powerful with each kill until his blood-red aura drove enemies away.

Jiang Ping An slaughtered Demon Race forces in the simulated battlefield while other Cultivators struggled to survive its vast war. After the Red Mansion opened and survivors earned immortal artifacts, assassins identified Jiang Ping An and prepared to kill him.

• Jiang Ping An pursued the fleeing Demon Race and entered an instinctive slaughter state strengthened by the Slaughter Scripture and Devouring Power.
• Deng ShaoXi and Deng Luan fought on the Domain Realm Late Stage battlefield, conserving their strength as they faced seemingly endless enemies.
• Cultivators flooded the Demon Empress's Small World, and after its puppets stopped appearing, they broke the barrier to the Red Mansion and entered its Simulated Battlefield.
• Many Cultivators were quickly eliminated from the sixth-floor battlefield, but six Domain Realm Late Stage Cultivators and one Domain Realm Middle Stage Cultivator survived ten years and earned a Human Immortal-grade immortal artifact.
• Assassins hired by Ouyang Zhuori concluded that Jiang Ping An was the Domain Realm Middle Stage survivor and sent more than thirty elite killers armed with an immortal artifact to find and assassinate him.

Jiang Ping An killed more than thirty assassins who tried to ambush him, using a spiritual attack he named Soul Kill. After discovering their immortal sword, he suspected Divine Light or the Heavenly Orchid Immortal Abode had sent them, but an unknown hand suddenly pressed onto his shoulder.

• More than thirty assassins searching the battlefield spotted Jiang Ping An emerging from his sea of blood and planned to ambush him with an immortal artifact.
• As the assassins approached, Jiang Ping An's killing intent froze their immortal energy, and his spiritual attack killed them all, including their leader.
• Jiang Ping An named the technique Soul Kill and had the sea of blood absorb the assassins' bodies.
• In the Red Chamber Sixth Floor, a man in black discovered that the assassins' Life Tablets had shattered simultaneously and ordered the deaths reported.
• Jiang Ping An found an immortal sword among the assassins' resources, suspected Divine Light or the Heavenly Orchid Immortal Abode had hired them, and felt a silent hand press his shoulder.

Yun Yao stopped Jiang Ping An’s slaughter after realizing that years of killing had distorted his perception of life, and forced him to leave the battlefield to recover. In a white space where survivors chose rewards, Jiang Ping An asked about a mind-guarding supreme treasure after no suitable immortal artifact was available.

• Yun Yao caught Jiang Ping An’s punch and warned him that his perception had become distorted from killing too many people.
• Jiang Ping An realized he had begun treating lives as worthless, but resisted leaving because he wanted the Deceiving Heaven Art.
• Yun Yao struck Jiang Ping An and forced him to calm down, after which he and the others appeared in a white space.
• Deng ShaoXi told Jiang Ping An that they could choose a Human Immortal-grade immortal artifact, and Jiang Ping An requested one that could guard his mind.
• The guardian said no Human Immortal-grade artifact of that type was available, but offered a low-quality supreme treasure, and Jiang Ping An asked what it was.

Jiang Ping An obtained the Buddhist Daoist Prayer Beads and left the Simulated Battlefield to recover from his troubles. At Yun Yao’s instruction, he went to the Hundred Weapons Sect Branch to become an apprentice, where a maid suddenly tried to win his business after mistaking his purpose.

• The guardian gave Jiang Ping An the Buddhist Daoist Prayer Beads and revealed that Lord Dongfang had taken the only copy of the Deceiving Heaven Art and never returned.
• Jiang Ping An imprinted the beads with his spiritual mark, learned how to use them, and told Deng ShaoXi he would stop fighting for now.
• Jiang Ping An and Deng Luan left the Simulated Battlefield, changed his appearance, and declined to join the Iron Blood Group immediately.
• Jiang Ping An asked Yun Yao when he could kill again, and she told him to study artifact forging before ordering him to apprentice at the Hundred Weapons Sect Branch.
• The maids ignored Jiang Ping An until he took out a supreme treasure-grade broadsword, after which one grabbed his arm and offered to buy it and arrange tea with her family.

Jiang Ping An sold a treasured blade and sought information about learning weapon refinement, but the shop’s maid had no useful lead. He then met Xie BenJun, a Weapon Refinement Immortal Master recruiting disciples, and Xie reluctantly accepted him as an apprentice.

• Jiang Ping An repaired a worn treasured blade and sold it to the maid for eight hundred thousand Immortal Crystals after his killing intent stopped her haggling.
• The maid told Jiang Ping An that learning weapon refinement required joining the Hundred Weapons Sect and traveling to its headquarters, and he calmed himself with Buddhist Daoist Prayer Beads before leaving.
• Jiang Ping An overheard a disciple accuse Xie BenJun of delaying his promised instruction in the Thousand Hammer Refinement Method and quit serving him.
• Xie BenJun told the maid to keep recruiting disciples, while she explained that people believed he used disciples as unpaid workers.
• Jiang Ping An offered to become Xie BenJun's disciple, briefly turned to leave when Xie claimed he did not take disciples casually, and was then accepted by the Immortal Master.

Jiang Ping An became Xie BenJun’s apprentice to fulfill Yun Yao’s task and received a high-grade hammer as his apprenticeship gift. Yun Yao revealed that she wanted him to approach the Hundred Weapons Sect to investigate its role in her family’s destruction, while using refining to calm his restless mind and prepare for his tribulation.

• Jiang Ping An asked Xie BenJun for an apprenticeship gift and received a high-grade Domain Realm hammer before Xie hurried away.
• Bao Zhi warned Jiang Ping An about Xie BenJun’s deceitful reputation, but he reassured her that he knew what kind of person Xie was and gave her the hammer.
• After settling into his room, Jiang Ping An asked Yun Yao why she had sent him to the shop, and she explained that the Hundred Weapons Sect had taken part in the destruction of her family.
• Yun Yao said she wanted to investigate the strange events surrounding her family’s attack and instructed Jiang Ping An to practice refining to calm his mind and prepare for the Divine Punishment Heavenly Tribulation.
• Jiang Ping An agreed to refine ten thousand first-order magical treasures after realizing that his impatience had changed, and Yun Yao offered to teach him her secret art, Thousand Hammerings, Hundred Refinements.

Yun Yao taught Jiang Ping An her Thousand Refinements method, and he mastered its basic technique after watching her demonstrate it once. After months of focused training, he learned more advanced forging while Yun Yao spent Immortal Crystals upgrading his resources and gave him Immortal Medicine-infused water to strengthen his lifespan.

• Yun Yao explained Thousand Refinements and demonstrated how to purify ore with precise punches, then told Jiang Ping An to try it.
• Jiang Ping An used his control over strength and the Limitless Fist to refine Immortal Iron ore successfully after seeing the technique once, astonishing Yun Yao.
• Yun Yao continued teaching Jiang Ping An advanced hammering techniques over several months, while he focused on artifact refinement on the Time Platform.
• Yun Yao told Jiang Ping An that she had spent Immortal Crystals upgrading the Enlightenment Tree and strengthening his Buddhist Daoist Bracelet with Soul Silkworm Silk.
• Jiang Ping An asked Yun Yao for an Immortal Medicine in compensation for the puppets she had taken, but she gave him Immortal Medicine-infused water instead.
• Jiang Ping An swallowed the water, and its life force flowed into his source as his Immortal roots absorbed it.

Jiang Ping An intervened when Zhou Yuan tried to dismiss Bao Zhi without paying her, then helped her expose a staged complaint about faulty magical artifacts. Bao Zhi kept her position after the plotters fled, while Zhou Yuan promised her a reward and planned to pocket part of it.

• Jiang Ping An asked Zhou Yuan why he was dismissing Bao Zhi, and Zhou Yuan refused to pay her three months of wages.
• Jiang Ping An offered to trade more than a million Immortal Crystals' worth of goods through Bao Zhi, but Zhou Yuan still insisted she should leave.
• Three customers brought broken magical artifacts to the shop and accused it of selling faulty goods, frightening customers and threatening its reputation.
• Following Jiang Ping An's guidance, Bao Zhi pointed out matching cut marks on the artifacts and bluffed that Great Dao traces could expose how they were damaged.
• The three customers fled, and Jiang Ping An persuaded Zhou Yuan to keep Bao Zhi; Zhou Yuan promised her a reward while intending to keep part of it for himself.