Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ping An stole the Bone Axe from the White Giant Ape and barely escaped its pursuit. Unable to absorb the axe’s Primordial Power, he discovered it bore an ancient technique called the Heaven-Opening Creation Axe.

• Jiang Ping An used his Primordial Dao Domain to transfer the Bone Axe from the chained White Giant Ape into his inner world.
• The White Giant Ape broke free and struck Jiang Ping An, who recovered, disrupted its mind with the Soul Disorder Art, and escaped using thousands of clones.
• Jiang Ping An used an Invisibility Talisman and merged with surviving clones as he fled until the White Giant Ape stopped pursuing him.
• Jiang Ping An examined the Bone Axe but found he could not absorb its Primordial Power, even after repeated attempts.
• Jiang Ping An found tiny inscriptions on the axe handle and identified them as the Heaven-Opening Creation Axe technique.

Jiang Ping An discovered and memorized the Heaven-Opening Creation Axe technique, then began studying how to adapt it to his cultivation without an Origin Divine Spark. While hiding in the ice, he overheard two likely Hundred Herbs Divine Hall disciples plotting to kill their fellow disciple, but chose not to intervene.

• Jiang Ping An found the Heaven-Opening Creation Axe technique carved into the Bone Axe and memorized its three forms, which multiplied strength up to sixteenfold.
• Jiang Ping An hid in the ice with an Invisibility Talisman and studied how to adapt the technique's circulation paths to his body and the Original Rules.
• Jiang Ping An sensed a man and a woman fighting undersea Fierce Beasts and overheard them say they had trapped a woman in a damaged ancient formation.
• The woman used purple poison to disorient the Fierce Beasts, and the pair killed them while discussing their plan to finish off the woman.
• Jiang Ping An suspected the pair were from the Hundred Herbs Divine Hall but decided not to get involved.

Jiang Ping An discovered that Lu Qi and Song Fei had plotted to kill Demon Illusion Fairy and forced them to lead him to her. She remained trapped in a deadly formation as her protective lotus shield weakened.

• After killing the poisoned Fierce Beasts, Lu Qi and Song Fei discussed framing Demon Illusion Fairy and began kissing.
• Jiang Ping An ambushed Lu Qi and Song Fei, disarmed them, and demanded to know whom they had framed.
• Lu Qi admitted they had trapped Demon Illusion Fairy, and Jiang Ping An carried both disciples toward her location.
• Demon Illusion Fairy used Fu Yang’s black lotus petal to resist four Divine Swords in a sealed formation, but her shield neared collapse.

Jiang Ping An raced to save Demon Illusion Fairy from an ancient formation that was about to kill her. Unable to break the formation, he threw Song Fei and Lu Qi inside and charged in after them despite Demon Illusion Fairy’s desperate warnings.

• Trapped behind the fading lotus shield, Demon Illusion Fairy left farewell messages for Fu Yang and Jiang Ping An and prepared to die.
• Jiang Ping An arrived carrying Song Fei and Lu Qi, and Lu Qi told him the ancient formation could not be shut down.
• Jiang Ping An searched for a way to reach Demon Illusion Fairy, knowing the formation’s power could kill them before it ran dry.
• Song Fei attacked Jiang Ping An with poison needles, but he stopped them with his Soul Force and threw her and Lu Qi into the formation.
• Jiang Ping An charged into the formation, and Demon Illusion Fairy shouted for him to leave.

Jiang Ping An rescued Demon Illusion Fairy from the ancient killing array, though the escape left him gravely injured and cost Lu Qi and Song Fei their lives. After she cared for him, an awkward exchange over her recorded message and his reasons for saving her ended with her grabbing him by the throat.

• Jiang Ping An entered the ancient array, used his time domain until it drained his Primordial Qi, and blocked a black Divine Sword with his Bone Axe.
• Jiang Ping An shielded Demon Illusion Fairy from another sword strike and escaped the array with her, while Lu Qi and Song Fei were killed as bait.
• Demon Illusion Fairy gave Jiang Ping An a Pure Yang Regeneration Pill, but he kept it and swallowed an ordinary Healing Pill instead.
• Demon Illusion Fairy's recorded message played from Jiang Ping An's Identity Token, and she alternately demanded that he delete it and asked why he had not listened to the whole thing.
• Jiang Ping An said he risked his life because he considered Demon Illusion Fairy a friend, and she seized his throat, threatening to finish him off while he was weak.

Demon Illusion Fairy gave Jiang Ping An pills before leaving, and he recovered and rejoined Spirit Evolution Divine Hall’s group. As the group explored deeper into the ruins, Jiang Ping An noticed something that made him stop them.

• Demon Illusion Fairy promised to take responsibility for killing Fu Yang’s disciples, gave Jiang Ping An her high-grade pills, and left to return to her master.
• Jiang Ping An used the pills to recover, then followed his incarnation’s connection to find Spirit Evolution Divine Hall’s group.
• Yue Tianqing proposed exploring deeper into the ruins, and Su Jin asked the group whether they agreed.
• The group agreed to venture into unexplored areas and followed Yue Tianqing through the Demon Race ruins, collecting materials from the abandoned buildings.
• After finding nothing especially valuable, Yue Tianqing suggested moving on, but Jiang Ping An suddenly told everyone to wait.

Jiang Ping An sensed Original Power behind a buried gate, leading the group to discover a ruined medicine garden filled with valuable divine herbs. As everyone began harvesting, a hidden carnivorous vine attacked, leaving the group fighting for their lives.

• Jiang Ping An told Su Jin that he sensed Original Power behind a dilapidated gate, and Su Jin asked Yue Tianqing to clear the rubble.
• Yue Tianqing broke open the gate, revealing a medicine garden where the group found surviving divine herbs, including a Blue Ice Divine Flower.
• Jiang Ping An warned everyone that danger might be nearby, but the others ignored him and focused on harvesting the herbs.
• A brown vine bit off a Body Cultivator's head, and Su Jin dragged his battered body away from the attacking plant.
• Countless fanged vines burst from the ground and charged at the group, forcing everyone to prepare for battle.

Spirit Evolution Divine Hall fought their way through the Medicine Garden’s endlessly regenerating vines and found their source on a black altar. Yue Tianqing tore the vine root from a fang believed to belong to the Origin Heavenly Dragon, ending the attack, and the group celebrated their valuable discovery.

• Su Jin’s soul-sound attack failed against the soulless vines, which kept regenerating despite the group’s attacks.
• Jiang Ping An sensed that all the vines came from one root system deep within the Medicine Garden, and Su Jin told the others.
• Yue Tianqing led the group into the Medicine Garden’s depths, where they fought through the vines and collected herbs.
• The group found a three-meter fang on a black altar, which they believed was a tooth of the Origin Heavenly Dragon and the source of the vines.
• Su Jin cleared the way while Yue Tianqing tore the main root from the fang and smashed it, causing the vines to wither.
• Yue Tianqing praised Su Jin for helping them find the valuable Origin Heavenly Dragon remains.

The Spirit Evolution Divine Hall disciples fought the Radiant Light Divine Hall over the Origin Heavenly Dragon's remains, with Su Jin's music disrupting the enemy's minds. Jiang Ping An was buried beneath Wei Ge's hundred hammer blows, and everyone sensed his aura disappear.

• The Radiant Light Divine Hall appeared and demanded that Yue Tianqing hand over the Origin Heavenly Dragon's remains.
• Xue Geng ordered his armored disciples to attack, and the two divine halls began fighting.
• Su Jin played her guzheng to assault the Radiant Light Divine Hall members' souls, slowing their attacks.
• Xue Geng ordered Wei Ge to defeat Jiang Ping An and then kill Su Jin, while Jiang Ping An kept evading Wei Ge's attacks.
• Wei Ge activated his lineage secret art and unleashed a hundred hammer blows that drove Jiang Ping An into a crater.
• Everyone sensed that Jiang Ping An's aura had vanished.

After Jiang Ping An's life aura vanished, the Radiant Light Divine Hall believed he had been killed, and Wei Ge nearly struck down Su Jin. Jiang Ping An reappeared and killed Wei Ge with a deadly poison, leaving both sides stunned by his survival and the poison's power.

• Jiang Ping An's apparent death unsettled the Spirit Evolution Divine Hall, and Xue Geng sent Wei Ge to attack Su Jin.
• Su Jin used Jiang Ping An's purple lamp to block Wei Ge's meteor hammers, but the barrier began to fail under his assault.
• Jiang Ping An suddenly reappeared and pinned Wei Ge beneath his foot, revealing that the vanished life aura had belonged to one of his ordinary avatars.
• Jiang Ping An stabbed Wei Ge in the eye with a poison needle, and Wei Ge died as the poison dissolved his body inside his armor.
• The Radiant Light Divine Hall recognized the poison as resembling the Hundred Herbs Divine Hall's Purple Nether Bone-Dissolving Liquid and feared its power.

Jiang Ping An helped the Spirit Evolution Divine Hall defeat the Radiant Light Divine Hall’s attack, killing one enemy with a poison needle and helping Zheng Chiyan seal another. After Xue Geng ordered a retreat, Chu Meiyan and the Star Dou Divine Hall emerged from the dark sea.

• Jiang Ping An gave Yue Tianqing the black bracelet, then used Wei Ge’s meteor hammers to arm the Spirit Evolution Divine Hall’s Body Cultivators.
• Jiang Ping An trapped Zheng Chiyan’s opponent with a green skeleton, allowing Zheng Chiyan to seal and kill the Radiant Light Divine Hall disciple.
• Xue Geng ordered the Radiant Light Divine Hall to retreat after losing two fighters, and the Spirit Evolution Divine Hall pursued them to the Medicine Garden’s entrance.
• Su Jin stopped the pursuit, and Yue Tianqing praised Jiang Ping An and promised to compensate the group for Mystic Treasures used in battle.
• Chu Meiyan and the Star Dou Divine Hall appeared from the dark sea and praised the Spirit Evolution Divine Hall for driving off the Radiant Light Divine Hall.

Chu Meiyan persuaded Su Jin and the Spirit Evolution Divine Hall to cooperate with the Star Dou Divine Hall to collect five altars that could strengthen their bodies. After securing the Medicine Garden altar, the group traveled to a frozen forest where another altar might be found.

• Chu Meiyan told Su Jin that five altars could form a Five Spirit Altar and, with the Origin Heavenly Dragon's bones, permanently double their physical attributes.
• Su Jin agreed to cooperate cautiously after consulting Yue Tianqing and Jiang Ping An, while Chu Meiyan withheld the locations of the other altars.
• Yue Tianqing collected the altar from the Medicine Garden, and the Spirit Evolution Divine Hall disciples harvested the remaining divine medicine.
• Chu Meiyan led both groups through frozen seawater for two days to a forest buried beneath an iceberg, explaining that it had once been where the Six-Eyed Demon Sheep raised flying mounts.

Su Jin’s group searched the frozen forest for the Five Spirit Altar and discovered that living Origin Birds were guarding the area ahead. After a concealed scouting party was discovered and trapped in a battle, the rest of the group rushed to help.

• Chu Meiyan explained that the Six-Eyed Demon Sheep had used the Five Spirit Altar to breed Origin Birds and said an altar should be nearby.
• Yue Tianqing and the others broke through the ice, finding enormous dead Origin Birds frozen along the way.
• Jiang Ping An sensed many living beings ahead, including one at the High Lord God level, and Su Jin warned the group to stop.
• Chu Meiyan, Su Jin, Yue Tianqing, and a Soul Cultivator used a Formation Banner to scout ahead while the others waited.
• Chu Meiyan reported through the God Sound Talismans that they had been discovered and trapped a High Lord God-level Origin Bird, while other Origin Birds attacked them.
• The Star Dou Divine Hall and Spirit Evolution Divine Hall disciples rushed through the ice to help the trapped scouts.

The Spirit Evolution Divine Hall and Star Dou Divine Hall disciples tried to help Su Jin and Yue Tianqing hold back Origin Birds around a trapped High Lord God, but a second High Lord God forced them to flee. Jiang Ping An escaped with a Space Teleportation Talisman, defeated two pursuing Middle Lord God Origin Birds, and then encountered Chu Meiyan fleeing from the second High Lord God.

• Su Jin, Yue Tianqing, Chu Meiyan, and another investigator maintained a red barrier around a High Lord God Origin Bird while more than a hundred others attacked it.
• The Spirit Evolution Divine Hall and Star Dou Divine Hall disciples fought off the attacking Origin Birds, but the birds' speed and freezing breath overwhelmed them.
• Yue Tianqing ordered everyone to retreat when another High Lord God Origin Bird approached, and Jiang Ping An used a Space Teleportation Talisman to escape the battlefield.
• Two Middle Lord God Origin Birds followed Jiang Ping An through space; he weakened one with the Cursed Strip and killed it with his Green Demon Bone, then used the Soul Disorder Art to make the other freeze it.
• Jiang Ping An sensed a spatial disturbance and saw Chu Meiyan appear while fleeing from a High Lord God Origin Bird.

Jiang Ping An escaped Chu Meiyan and a pursuing High Lord God Level Origin Bird, then regrouped with Su Jin's party. Chu Meiyan survived and accused him of seducing her and stealing her Formation Banner, leaving Su Jin furious and the gathered disciples confused and hostile.

• Jiang Ping An pretended to fall under Chu Meiyan's Bewitchment Art, punched and kicked her, stole her Formation Banner, and escaped through space.
• Jiang Ping An erased Chu Meiyan's Divine Soul Imprint from the banner, used it to flee, and contacted Su Jin for her coordinates.
• Jiang Ping An reached Su Jin's group and found Chu Meiyan there, alive and glaring at him with murderous resentment.
• Jiang Ping An told Su Jin that Chu Meiyan had tried to use him as a shield against the Origin Bird, and Su Jin demanded an explanation from her.
• Chu Meiyan claimed Jiang Ping An had seduced her, taken her virginity, and stolen her Formation Banner, then insulted Su Jin until Su Jin was left speechless.

Su Jin, Chu Meiyan, and the others put aside their dispute and planned to lure the Origin Birds away from the Five Spirit Altar. When the second High Lord God-level Origin Bird refused to leave because it was guarding four chicks, Jiang Ping An warned Chu Meiyan not to kill them, leaving her to seek another way to draw it off.

• Su Jin and Chu Meiyan nearly fought over Chu Meiyan's attack on Jiang Ping An, but Yue Tianqing and Jiang Ping An helped calm the dispute so the group could focus on the altar.
• Chu Meiyan demanded her Teleportation Array Formation Banner from Jiang Ping An, and he returned it after erasing his Divine Soul Imprint.
• The two divine halls agreed that Su Jin and Yue Tianqing would lure away one High Lord God-level Origin Bird while Chu Meiyan's group drew away the other, then rested for a day before returning to the Frozen Forest.
• Su Jin and Yue Tianqing lured the first Origin Bird away, but the second stayed by the altar and sent lesser Origin Birds to attack Chu Meiyan's group.
• Jiang Ping An told Chu Meiyan that the second Origin Bird was guarding four chicks and warned her that killing them could make the flock hunt the group relentlessly; Chu Meiyan asked him what to do.

Jiang Ping An helped Chu Meiyan lure an enraged Origin Bird away from its nest so their allies could take the altar, then intimidated Chu Meiyan when she tried to confront him. After they agreed to set their dispute aside, Jiang Ping An revealed he had recognized her body as a flesh puppet.

• Jiang Ping An used the Soul Disorder Art to enrage an Origin Bird and drew it away with Chu Meiyan while their allies took the altar.
• After receiving word that the altar had been secured, Jiang Ping An dispelled the bird's hatred and returned with Chu Meiyan to a ruined building.
• Chu Meiyan sealed the area and confronted Jiang Ping An over their past fights, but his killing intent and Primordial Dao Domain made her back down.
• Jiang Ping An explained that he cultivated the Original Rules, and Chu Meiyan agreed to prioritize gathering the Five Spirit Altars over their dispute.
• Chu Meiyan tried to seduce Jiang Ping An, but he told her he knew her body was a flesh puppet, startling her.

Jiang Ping An and Chu Meiyan settled their conflict with a favor, then joined the others and traveled to the third altar. There, the Spirit Evolution and Radiant Light Divine Halls faced off, while Chu Meiyan’s cooperation with both sides raised suspicions about the Star Dou Divine Hall’s intentions.

• Chu Meiyan agreed to owe Jiang Ping An one favor after he refused to accept her original demand for three.
• Jiang Ping An and Chu Meiyan rejoined the others, and Jiang Ping An concealed his role in luring away the second Origin Bird.
• Chu Meiyan revealed that the third altar was on the Six-Eyed Demon Sheep’s frozen grasslands, and the group traveled there over five days.
• The Spirit Evolution Divine Hall encountered Xue Geng and the Radiant Light Divine Hall, and Chu Meiyan admitted the Star Dou Divine Hall had been cooperating with both sides.
• Chu Meiyan joked that the two divine halls should fight over the last altar, then denied trying to provoke them and began to explain her purpose.

Chu Meiyan explained the Five Spirit Altar’s dangerous enhancement ritual and secured a temporary truce between the divine halls. The groups then debated how to take the altar from a powerful White Giant Ape, while Jiang Ping An concealed his identity to avoid being recognized as the one who took its Bone Axe.

• Chu Meiyan revealed that altar enhancement had only a one-in-a-hundred-thousand success rate and required enduring years of pain, with longer endurance offering greater bodily strength.
• The Radiant Light Divine Hall and the Spirit Evolution Divine Hall chose to remain, and Chu Meiyan established a temporary cooperation that barred attacks until the ritual was completed.
• Xue Geng explained that the White Giant Ape guarded the altar, and the disciples of both halls argued over whether Su Jin had awakened it.
• Chu Meiyan proposed using an array to restrain the White Giant Ape, but demanded that the other halls bear the cost, prompting a fierce negotiation.
• Jiang Ping An changed his appearance and concealed his aura because he had taken the White Giant Ape’s Bone Axe.

The Holy Lands prepared Formation Banners to trap the White Giant Ape, but Jiang Ping An warned that his bad luck could endanger the group and was mocked. When the ape charged, two disciples failed to activate their banners, leaving the formation uncertain as the confrontation began.

• Chu Meiyan negotiated for the Star Dou Divine Hall to provide Formation Banners, with the Radiant Light Divine Hall and Spirit Evolution Divine Hall paying two-thirds of the cost.
• Jiang Ping An warned the group that his bad luck might bring disaster and asked to wait outside, but the others mocked him and dismissed his concern.
• The group mastered the banner-activation method and crossed the icefield toward the White Giant Ape, whose roars and Demon Qi frightened them as it approached.
• Chu Meiyan ordered everyone to activate their Formation Banners when the White Giant Ape entered range, but two disciples threw theirs without activating them.