Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ping An secretly left the group to hunt the Heaven Swallowing Crocodiles, while the others encountered Triangle Bull Demons capturing humans and launched a battle against the race. The rescued survivors sacrificed themselves for revenge, and the prodigies joined the fighting as the slaughter began.

• Jiang Ping An hid in the Spirit Beast Storage Bag, then headed west alone to kill the Heaven Swallowing Crocodiles for harming his master.
• Jiang Ping An thanked Liang Ping for the Human Emperor Heart Sutra and said it would help him take the second step, unsettling Liang Ping.
• Meng Jing rescued an infant from a Triangle Bull Demon, and the cultivators aboard the Flying Boat killed the demons and freed their captives.
• A bereaved man and other survivors took Blood Burning Pills and sacrificed themselves to kill Triangle Bull Demons as the race's forces arrived.
• Meng Jing, Nangong Shen, Yun Huang, and the other prodigies attacked the advancing Triangle Bull Race, beginning a large-scale battle.

Yun Huang and Meng Jing fought the Triangle Bull Race with Jiang Ping An supporting them, inspiring displaced humans to return and join the counterattack. Meanwhile, Jiang Ping An reached Heaven Swallowing Crocodile territory and ignored Cheng Xuan's warning about a nearby tribe as he continued seeking revenge.

• Yun Huang was surrounded by Triangle Bull Demons, but Jiang Ping An used the Gravity Law to knock them down, allowing her to burn them with the Divine Phoenix secret art.
• Jiang Ping An supported Yun Huang and Meng Jing as they helped slaughter the Triangle Bull tribe, while the fighters of the Three Great Powers attacked more tribes across the region.
• The Clear Wind Sect's deputy sect master recognized Jiang Ping An and the other fighters in a scout's recording, halted the evacuation, and led the disciples back to avenge their dead.
• A fallen country's one-armed ruler and returning Cultivators rallied their surviving soldiers and rushed into the Endless Mountain Range to fight the Triangle Bull Race.
• After two months of travel, Jiang Ping An reached Heaven Swallowing Crocodile territory, where Cheng Xuan warned him that a nearby tribe held two Transformation God Initial Stage demons.
• Jiang Ping An continued toward the tribe, which he sought for revenge and to awaken his Devouring Clone, and Cheng Xuan flew after him to block his way.

Jiang Ping An joined Cheng Xuan and her companions as they prepared to attack a Heaven Swallowing Crocodile tribe, despite their doubts about his strength. After nine days of waiting, the group began its carefully planned operation, with Jiang Ping An following them toward the tribe.

• Jiang Ping An insisted on taking revenge for his master, and Cheng Xuan persuaded him to join her group rather than attack alone.
• Cheng Xuan revealed that the Heaven Swallowing Crocodiles had devoured more than a billion people in her country, and said the group planned to strike when the tribe awakened the Devouring Talent in ten days.
• Cheng YuChen distrusted Jiang Ping An and warned that he must obey Cheng Xuan during the operation, while the others doubted his claim that few peers could rival him.
• Jiang Ping An stayed with the group and cultivated, forging a second Human Emperor Acupoint in his right arm over the following days.
• As the operation began, Cheng Xuan warned everyone not to expose themselves, and Jiang Ping An attached an Invisibility Talisman before following the group toward the tribe.

Jiang Ping An and Cheng Xuan’s group were trapped by the Heaven Swallowing Crocodiles after Cheng YuChen appeared to betray them, but she sacrificed herself with a powerful talisman to destroy the tribe. As the barrier protecting the group shattered, Jiang Ping An realized the two Spirit Transformation experts had survived.

• Jiang Ping An’s group infiltrated the Heaven Swallowing Crocodile tribe and watched its young undergo an awakening ritual.
• Cheng YuChen trapped the group inside a barrier, and the Heaven Swallowing Crocodiles revealed she had been forced to obey them with a Devouring Worm.
• Cheng YuChen detonated a talisman, engulfing the tribe and seemingly killing the two Spirit Transformation experts along with millions of Heaven Swallowing Crocodiles.
• Jiang Ping An and the others learned Cheng YuChen had sacrificed herself to protect them, and Cheng Xuan broke down in grief.
• The barrier shattered, and Jiang Ping An warned the group that the two Spirit Transformation experts had survived.

Jiang Ping An revealed his overwhelming strength while rescuing Cheng Xuan from three Heaven Swallowing Crocodiles. He trapped the crocodiles in the Four Elephants Killing Array and declared his intent to avenge his master.

• Cheng Xuan and the surviving Cultivators fled after more than a dozen Nascent Soul Realm Cultivators sacrificed themselves to hold off two wounded Heaven Swallowing Crocodiles.
• A third Heaven Swallowing Crocodile blocked Cheng Xuan and Jiang Ping An, and Cheng Xuan threw Jiang Ping An clear as it tried to swallow him.
• Jiang Ping An used his powers to punch the third Heaven Swallowing Crocodile's head apart, stunning Cheng Xuan and the two pursuers.
• Cheng Xuan recognized Jiang Ping An and warned that the headless crocodile was still alive.
• Jiang Ping An dodged the crocodile's attack, activated the Four Elephants Killing Array around all three Heaven Swallowing Crocodiles, and vowed to avenge his master.

Jiang Ping An used his Battle Intent Armor, Sacred Physique, and Laws to overpower a Spirit Transformation Heaven Swallowing Crocodile while Cheng Xuan fought two others. The crocodile replenished its energy from treasures stored in its belly, and Cheng Xuan urged Jiang Ping An to control the formation and escape as she held off their enemies.

• The three injured Heaven Swallowing Crocodiles attacked Jiang Ping An and Cheng Xuan, who each took on their opponents.
• Jiang Ping An activated his Fourth-Order Battle Intent Armor and knocked back a Heaven Swallowing Crocodile with a head-on punch.
• Jiang Ping An summoned and fused with his armored Battle Soul, then used the Gravity Law to suppress the crocodile and batter it into the ground.
• The Heaven Swallowing Crocodile restored its depleted energy using spirit stones and treasures stored in its belly, while the other two also recovered.
• Cheng Xuan told Jiang Ping An to control the formation and leave while she held the three Heaven Swallowing Crocodiles back.

Jiang Ping An and Cheng Xuan used the Four Elephants Killing Array to overcome three Spirit Transformation Heaven Swallowing Crocodiles. After the battle, Cheng Xuan realized Jiang Ping An had slain all three and survived because of him.

• Cheng Xuan recognized the Four Elephants Killing Array and fought without worrying about her spiritual energy while it drained the crocodiles.
• Jiang Ping An slowed one Heaven Swallowing Crocodile with the Star Guiding Art, then used a Rune Sword and Sealing Heaven to restrain it before destroying its Nascent Soul.
• The two remaining Heaven Swallowing Crocodiles fled, but the array trapped them, and Jiang Ping An and Cheng Xuan fought them until they were badly injured.
• Jiang Ping An restrained the two crocodiles with Sealing Heaven and the Star Guiding Art, then used the array's energy to kill them with a giant Rune Sword.
• Cheng Xuan looked at Jiang Ping An in awe after all three Spirit Transformation Heaven Swallowing Crocodiles were dead.

Jiang Ping An began awakening his Devouring Clone’s Heaven Swallowing Crocodile bloodline at an ancient altar, creating a phenomenon that drew powerful demons toward him. As the awakening neared completion, four Spirit Transformation Heaven Swallowing Crocodiles discovered him and attacked to seize his bloodline.

• Cheng Xuan left Jiang Ping An and headed for her ancestral land after he found the awakening medium among the Heaven Swallowing Crocodile corpses.
• Jiang Ping An placed the medium against his Devouring Clone’s forehead on the altar, triggering a beam of light before he could complete the awakening.
• Cheng Xuan and the cultivators attacking the Triangle Bull Race sensed the phenomenon, and Lei Lan warned Meng Jing about the danger posed by a pure-blooded Heaven Swallowing Crocodile.
• Jiang Ping An prepared his trump cards and tried to stall while his Devouring Clone continued awakening.
• Four Heaven Swallowing Crocodiles at the Transformation God Initial Stage saw Jiang Ping An on the altar, recognized that he had acquired their bloodline, and charged to kill him.

Jiang Ping An and Cheng Xuan fought off the Heaven Swallowing Crocodiles as they tried to seize his treasures and bloodline. Cheng Xuan burned her life and fused her soul into the Heaven Shaking Demon Stick, which struck down two late-stage Spirit Transformation enemies as Jiang Ping An’s awakening remained incomplete.

• Jiang Ping An killed four Spirit Transformation Heaven Swallowing Crocodiles using his Quasi-Saint Body clone, the Four Elephants Killing Array, and his own techniques.
• Cheng Xuan returned to protect Jiang Ping An and ignited her life with the forbidden technique Comet.
• Jiang Ping An gave Cheng Xuan the Heaven Shaking Demon Stick, and she used it to kill a middle-stage and an initial-stage Spirit Transformation Heaven Swallowing Crocodile.
• As more enemies gathered around Jiang Ping An, Cheng Xuan burned away until only her head and one arm remained, while his awakening still needed a hundred breaths.
• Cheng Xuan fused her soul into the Heaven Shaking Demon Stick, which attacked on its own and killed two late-stage Spirit Transformation Heaven Swallowing Crocodiles.

Jiang Ping An held off the Heaven Swallowing Crocodiles with thousands of talismans and high-grade crystals while his Devouring Clone completed its awakening. The clone manifested the ancient ancestor’s bloodline and wielded the Judge's Brush, leaving dozens of crocodile experts dead as the battle turned in Jiang Ping An’s favor.

• Jiang Ping An threw thousands of copied talismans at the Heaven Swallowing Crocodiles, delaying their attacks and killing one expert.
• Jiang Ping An spent thousands of high-grade crystals to keep the Four Elephants Killing Array standing against the growing horde.
• The Devouring Clone awakened a massive Black Hole that drew in energy and swallowed a nearby Heaven Swallowing Crocodile.
• The Heaven Swallowing Crocodiles recognized Jiang Ping An and attacked in hopes of claiming the ancestor’s bloodline and earning entry to their ancestral land.
• Jiang Ping An gave the Judge's Brush to the Devouring Clone, which used its Quasi-Immortal Artifact power to kill dozens of Heaven Swallowing Crocodiles with one strike.

Jiang Ping An defeated the Heaven Swallowing Crocodiles underground, recovered the Heaven Shaking Demon Stick, and discovered that Cheng Xuan's soul had survived inside it. Cheng Xuan offered to lead him to her country's ancestral land, where a secret treasure with Time Power remained hidden.

• Jiang Ping An replenished his energy by devouring the Heaven Swallowing Crocodiles and pursued the remaining ones underground.
• The Heaven Swallowing Crocodiles attacked Jiang Ping An near the Heaven Shaking Demon Stick, and he killed them with the Judge's Brush.
• The Heaven Shaking Demon Stick flew into Jiang Ping An's hand, and Cheng Xuan revealed that her soul had fused with the weapon.
• Cheng Xuan explained the incomplete Soul Fusion Art and said her soul made the Heaven Shaking Demon Stick easier for Jiang Ping An to wield.
• Cheng Xuan offered to guide Jiang Ping An to the hidden ancestral treasures of Divine Weapon Country and revealed that one possessed Time Power.

Jiang Ping An agreed to keep Cheng Xuan company and began striking back at the Heaven Swallowing Crocodile Race, slaughtering its members while learning more about the terrifying potential of his Devouring Power. He continued toward another tribe after sensing, faintly, that someone was watching him.

• Cheng Xuan asked Jiang Ping An to take her out often and talk with her, and he agreed before setting out to kill enemies.
• Jiang Ping An killed a Heaven Swallowing Crocodile at the Transformation God Initial Stage with the Heaven Shaking Demon Stick and stored its body.
• Jiang Ping An used his Devouring Power to wipe out a tribe of several million Heaven Swallowing Crocodiles.
• Jiang Ping An told Cheng Xuan that Devouring Power could eventually consume laws and talents, and that the Great Emperor had risen partly through the Heaven Swallowing Crocodile Old Ancestor's power.
• Jiang Ping An felt that someone was faintly watching him, dismissed it as a possible illusion, and headed toward the next tribe.

Kang Chanwu discovered that sixteen Heaven Swallowing Crocodile tribes had been destroyed, and the Tracing Divine Mirror revealed Jiang Ping An was responsible. The powerhouses chased a decoy clone but could not find him, then turned to support the Triangle Bull Race against the humans.

• Kang Chanwu found that multiple tribes had vanished and reported the destruction of sixteen tribes and nearly twenty million clansmen to the Heaven Swallowing Crocodile Race powerhouses.
• Kang Chanwu used the Tracing Divine Mirror to view the destruction and the powerhouses identified Jiang Ping An as the culprit.
• The powerhouses detected Jiang Ping An and pursued him, but the figure they captured self-destructed into wood chips, revealing it was a clone.
• The Heaven Swallowing Crocodile Race powerhouses searched the area for months and used the Tracing Divine Mirror again, confirming that Jiang Ping An had already escaped.
• A Heaven Swallowing Crocodile powerhouse urged the others to abandon the search and support the Triangle Bull Race against the human geniuses.

After the battle at the Triangle Bull Race’s ancestral grounds, Liang Ping urged the Three Great Powers to punish Jiang Ping An for supposedly fleeing, while Meng Jing and Xia Qing defended him. The Heaven Swallowing Crocodile Race revealed that Jiang Ping An had devastated its forces and poisoned the Origin River, leaving Kang Chanwu vowing revenge.

• Lei Shiqing praised the surviving geniuses and prepared to withdraw after the half-year battle against the Triangle Bull Race.
• Liang Ping accused Jiang Ping An of fleeing and called for him to be expelled from the Heaven’s Chosen Reserve Program, while Meng Jing and Xia Qing insisted he had not abandoned the fight.
• The Heaven Swallowing Crocodile Race arrived, and Kang Chanwu accused Jiang Ping An of killing twenty million of his clansmen and more than forty Spirit Transformation experts.
• Kang Chanwu received word that more than a million Heaven Swallowing Crocodiles had died after poisoning spread through tribes along the Origin River.
• Kang Chanwu realized Jiang Ping An had poisoned the river as his promised grand gift and swore that the Heaven Swallowing Crocodile Race would never coexist with him.

After Jiang Ping An’s attack on the Heaven Swallowing Crocodile Race stunned the human cultivators, he contacted Meng Jing and revealed he was pursuing a secret treasure. Meng Jing defended him against Liang Ping, while Jiang Ping An continued toward the treasure’s location.

• The human cultivators learned Jiang Ping An had killed over forty Spirit Transformation experts and more than twenty million members of the Heaven Swallowing Crocodile Race, then escaped without being captured.
• Jiang Ping An contacted Meng Jing, reassured her that the Universe Compass and Teleportation Talismans were hiding him, and said he would return after seeking a secret treasure.
• After learning the others had heard about the treasure, Jiang Ping An claimed he had been joking and said he was going into seclusion instead.
• Lei Shiqing asked whether Jiang Ping An had awakened a high-grade Devouring Bloodline, but Jiang Ping An denied it and invented a story about Bu Si controlling three hundred corpses.
• Meng Jing confronted Liang Ping over calling Jiang Ping An a deserter, and Lei Shiqing stopped Liang Ping from retaliating.
• Liang Ping left after conceding that Jiang Ping An’s actions had made it impossible to remove him from the Heaven’s Chosen Training Program, while Meng Jing vowed to punish Liang Ping’s family someday.

Jiang Ping An encountered Bu Si in the ruined capital of Divine Weapon Country and learned that an immortal artifact had shown Bu Si his death in a great war three thousand years in the future. Jiang Ping An was left shaken by the prophecy, while his Bloodthirsty Nine Nether Worm continued growing stronger on its supply of Heaven Swallowing Crocodiles.

• Lei Shiqing gathered the prodigies' Image Recording Stones to count their Triangle Bull Demon kills, while Nangong Shen accepted that Jiang Ping An's feats had surpassed his own.
• Jiang Ping An arrived at the ruined capital of Divine Weapon Country and was surrounded by three Nascent Soul Realm Cultivators calling themselves the Bloodthirsty Three Demons.
• Bu Si appeared and told Jiang Ping An that the Ancient and Modern Future Mirror had shown him dying in a great war three thousand years later.
• Bu Si described the destruction of Jiang Ping An's Judge's Brush, Heaven Shaking Demon Stick, and Battle Intent Armor, but said he could not see the war's details.
• Jiang Ping An killed the three fleeing bandits and fed them to the Bloodthirsty Nine Nether Worm, whose Queen Insect had reached the Nascent Soul Realm and could produce a Golden Core Realm offspring each day.

Jiang Ping An rejected Bu Si's warning about the future, then fought Evil Cultivators who had come after Bu Si. After killing several of them, he challenged a Blood Fiend Sect Transformation God powerhouse using only his own strength.

• Jiang Ping An resolved to control his own destiny after Bu Si told him about the future.
• Evil Cultivators chased Bu Si, who asked Jiang Ping An for help before fleeing and leaving him behind.
• When the Evil Cultivators attacked, Jiang Ping An shattered their million vengeful souls and crushed four Nascent Soul Realm cultivators with the Star Guiding Art.
• A bald Blood Fiend Sect Transformation God Initial Stage powerhouse attacked Jiang Ping An, who smashed apart the man's head with one punch.
• Jiang Ping An used Thunder Flash to attack the regenerating powerhouse, choosing not to use the Heaven Shaking Demon Stick or Battle Intent Armor.

Jiang Ping An defeated a bald Blood Fiend Sect Spirit Transformation expert using his own strength and revealed his Soul Master abilities. After the victory, Bu Si arrived under pursuit and asked Jiang Ping An to help in exchange for the Ground Shrinking Step technique.

• The bald expert attacked Jiang Ping An with his Blood Blade, but Jiang Ping An met the strike with his fist and fought him in a fierce battle.
• The bald expert secretly stabbed Jiang Ping An in the dantian with a poisoned Demonic Bone Needle, but Jiang Ping An pulled it out unharmed and struck the expert in the heart.
• Jiang Ping An sealed the bald expert with Sealing Heaven, shattered his Nascent Soul, and identified himself before the expert died.
• Jiang Ping An fed the corpse to the Bloodthirsty Nine Nether Worm and reflected that this was his first Spirit Transformation Initial Stage victory without a magical treasure.
• Bu Si arrived covered in blood with powerful pursuers behind him and offered Jiang Ping An the Ground Shrinking Step technique for help; Jiang Ping An raised his fist toward him.

Jiang Ping An traveled with Cheng Xuan to the Divine Weapon Country’s ancestral land seeking a Time Secret Treasure, only to find its Stone Palace opened and its resources stolen. He bought the palace from the Extreme Sword Sect’s Yang Feng for five laws, then entered it as Yang Feng summoned Elder Li, hoping to profit from his apparent wealth.

• Jiang Ping An escaped Bu Si and went to the imperial mausoleum, where Cheng Xuan directed him to the lake leading to her country’s ancestral land.
• Jiang Ping An entered the hidden Small World and found that the Stone Palace had been opened and the ancestral land’s resources taken.
• Jiang Ping An ignored Cheng Xuan’s advice to leave and offered to buy the palace from the Extreme Sword Sect’s guards and Young Sect Master Yang Feng.
• Yang Feng accepted Jiang Ping An’s offer of five laws, and Jiang Ping An entered the palace and shut its doors.
• Yang Feng grew greedy over Jiang Ping An’s wealth and called Elder Li to come help him make a profit.

Jiang Ping An discovered that the Stone Palace was actually the Time Palace, a damaged time secret treasure, and used the Judge's Brush to restore its runes. The palace now made time flow more than five times faster inside, but Yang Feng and an accomplice approached, planning to kill Jiang Ping An for his resources.

• Cheng Xuan scolded Jiang Ping An for spending five laws to buy the rundown palace, but he activated its runes with Spirit Stone crystals and revealed it was the Time Palace.
• Jiang Ping An explained that his unusual eyes let him see laws and identified the palace's time laws, while Cheng Xuan learned it initially made time flow two and a half times faster inside.
• Jiang Ping An used the Judge's Brush to restore the palace's faded runes, increasing its time difference to more than five times faster after five days of work.
• Jiang Ping An noted that the palace consumed a hundred thousand Spirit Stones each day but had enough resources to afford it as he prepared for a war expected in three thousand years.
• Yang Feng and an accomplice approached and discussed killing Jiang Ping An to seize his resources.