Chapter Summaries

Meng Jing’s family sent Lei Zang to demand that she leave Jiang Ping An, but Jiang Ping An agreed to face the Lei Family’s challenge. The chapter ended with him confident he would defeat the greatest heirs of the human race, while Meng Jing feared losing him.

• Meng Jing hid behind Jiang Ping An when Lei Zang and several Lei Family powerhouses arrived to take her home.
• Lei Zang offered Jiang Ping An five Heavenly Profound Pills and half of the Divine Thunder Body Tempering Art in exchange for leaving Meng Jing.
• Jiang Ping An rejected the deal, and Meng Jing threatened to cripple her Immortal Thunder Body if the Lei Family forced her to leave.
• Lei Zang offered to stop opposing their relationship if Jiang Ping An defeated the leading heirs of the human race’s major forces.
• Jiang Ping An accepted the challenge and said he would pretend the bet never happened if he lost, leaving the Lei Family members speechless.

Lei Zang warned Meng Jing and Jiang Ping An that war among the myriad races was approaching and urged Meng Jing to return to the Lei Family to cultivate. As Meng Jing secured the forbidden Demonic Thunder Scripture for Jiang Ping An, the Chu Kingdom and its allies panicked as his forces turned the war in Great Xia’s favor, while the Bright Moon Holy Land disappeared.

• Lei Zang described the coming conflict among the myriad races and urged Meng Jing to return to the Lei Family and become strong enough to lead it.
• Jiang Ping An agreed that Meng Jing should go back, and Meng Jing demanded that Lei Zang give him the complete Divine Thunder Body Tempering Art.
• Lei Zang offered Jiang Ping An the forbidden Demonic Thunder Scripture instead, and Meng Jing agreed to leave only after it was delivered.
• Jiang Ping An planned to challenge humanity’s powerful inheritors after obtaining the scripture and ending the war with the Chu Kingdom, especially targeting Liang Xiaohong.
• Rumors that Jiang Ping An ate human flesh spread panic through the Chu Kingdom, the Blade Tyrant Sect, and the Maple Leaf Kingdom as his forces helped Great Xia gain an advantage.
• The Chu Kingdom sought aid from the Bright Moon Holy Land but found that its people had vanished.

The Blade Tyrant Sect and Maple Leaf Kingdom demanded that Great Xia hand over Jiang Ping An, but Xia Yuanhao refused and ordered the battle to continue. As the armies clashed, a Heavenly Fiend Pavilion assassin attacked Jiang Ping An, who caught his fatal strike and began overpowering him.

• The Blade Tyrant Sect Master and Maple Leaf Kingdom's National Ruler offered to withdraw from the war if Great Xia executed Jiang Ping An.
• Xia Qing and others moved to protect Jiang Ping An when Xia Yuanhao spoke of a sacrifice, but Xia Yuanhao clarified that Great Xia would keep fighting and rallied his forces to attack.
• Jiang Ping An noticed a concealed Refining Void Initial Stage assassin, who revealed himself and used the Heavenly Fiend Art before striking at Jiang Ping An with a treasured sword.
• Jiang Ping An caught the assassin's sword, broke his arm with a punch, and pursued him with Thunder Flash.
• Jiang Ping An taunted the assassin over the price Chu Kingdom had paid as the assassin resolved to kill him.

Jiang Ping An fought off a masked Heavenly Fiend Pavilion assassin and his Primordial Spirit, then unleashed the first layer of the Heavenly Fiend Art when the assassin tried to escape. Its vision revealed the countless powerful beings Jiang Ping An had killed, including a Tribulation Realm Eight-Claw Squid.

• The masked assassin and his Primordial Spirit attacked Jiang Ping An, who countered their strikes with top-tier Divine Arts and laws.
• Jiang Ping An’s battle frenzy and Destruction Power drove the assassins back, but the masked assassin used a talisman and his Primordial Spirit to set up a killing blow.
• Qian Huan Rou’s Star Guiding Art bent the Primordial Spirit’s sword away from Jiang Ping An, and Jiang Ping An struck the attacker before the assassin tried to flee.
• Jiang Ping An stopped the assassin and revealed that he had learned the first layer of the Heavenly Fiend Art.
• The Heavenly Fiend Art filled the battlefield with the corpses of Jiang Ping An’s victims, including three Refining Void cultivators and a Tribulation Realm Eight-Claw Squid.

Jiang Ping An killed a Refining Void Initial Stage assassin and helped Great Xia defeat Chu Kingdom and its allies, who surrendered after a month of fighting. As Jiang Ping An’s enemies negotiated terms, Situ Lingfeng issued a bounty on him and spread rumors branding him a devil.

• Jiang Ping An used the Eight-Claw Squid corpse to overwhelm a faceless masked assassin, then destroyed the assassin’s body and Primordial Spirit.
• Jiang Ping An returned to the battlefield and attacked another Refining Void Initial Stage Cultivator while the war continued.
• The Great Xia Old Ancestor and a Vast Mist Sect powerhouse wounded the Chu Kingdom Old Ancestor, and Chu Kingdom, the Blade Tyrant Sect, and Maple Leaf Kingdom surrendered.
• Situ Lingfeng read news of Jiang Ping An’s exploits and offered an Enlightenment Tree to anyone who killed him.
• Rumors accused Jiang Ping An of slaughtering ordinary people, while Situ Lingfeng’s bounty encouraged people to hunt him.

After Situ Lingfeng placed a bounty on Jiang Ping An for the Enlightenment Tree, Jiang Ping An left Great Xia to pursue his own path and challenge the human race’s greatest inheritors. He was joined by Ye Wuqing, while Meng Jing returned to the Lei Family and Lei Lan warned Jiang Ping An about the deadly risks of the Demonic Thunder Scripture.

• Situ Lingfeng’s bounty on Jiang Ping An spread through the Wealth Source Commerce Association, and Xia Qing urged Jiang Ping An to hide in the Royal Secret Realm.
• Jiang Ping An entrusted Jiang XiaoXue to Song Hui, bid farewell to Wang Ren and the others, and left Great Xia to find his own path.
• Ye Wuqing caught up with Jiang Ping An and insisted on accompanying him; Jiang Ping An declared that he would challenge the great inheritors, beginning with the Crown Prince of the Great Qian Dynasty.
• In the Eastern Sea, Meng Jing tearfully returned with Lei Zang to the Lei Family ancestral grounds, leaving Jiang Ping An and the others behind.
• Lei Lan warned Jiang Ping An that the Demonic Thunder Scripture attracted increasingly powerful Malevolent Spirits and had caused every known cultivator of it to die with their Dao extinguished.

Jiang Ping An studied the dangerous Demonic Thunder Scripture despite its reputation for consuming the cultivator’s lifespan. His first attempt summoned a vast host of Malevolent Spirits, and Qian Zuo urged him to stop before they devoured his life.

• Lei Lan explained that he had hoped Jiang Ping An could master the Demonic Thunder Scripture and give the Lei Family reason to help break Jiang Ping An’s curse.
• Jiang Ping An returned to his residence, studied the Scripture, and used the Judge's Brush to help construct advanced lightning runes despite being unable to comprehend Thunder Law.
• Qian Zuo convened the Eastern Sea Anti-Demon Army’s generals to defend Jiang Ping An against the bounty and rumors spread by the Chaos Body.
• Eerie blood clouds, black lightning, and countless Malevolent Spirits appeared over the army, and the generals traced the phenomenon to Jiang Ping An’s residence.
• Jiang Ping An emerged with black lightning around him and explained that he had begun cultivating the Demonic Thunder Scripture; Qian Zuo recognized the art and told him to stop before the Malevolent Spirits consumed his lifespan.

Jiang Ping An’s attempt to cultivate the "Demonic Thunder Scripture" drew malevolent spirits that drained his lifespan, forcing him to consider abandoning the technique. He discovered his Human Emperor Heart Sutra-enhanced acupoints could trap the spirits and began absorbing them, but Qian Zuo intervened before he could test his limits.

• Jiang Ping An flew to the deserted battlefield as Yin lightning drew lingering souls into blood-red malevolent spirits, and Sea Demon Race experts recognized him beneath the blood clouds.
• Black lightning struck Jiang Ping An, and swarming malevolent spirits drained his lifespan while his attacks and sealing techniques failed to stop them all.
• Jiang Ping An realized the Yin attributes required by the "Demonic Thunder Scripture" conflicted with the Supreme Yang power needed to resist malevolent spirits, so he decided to abandon the technique.
• A malevolent spirit entered Jiang Ping An’s body but became trapped in an acupoint, where the Human Emperor Heart Sutra runes prevented it from escaping or draining more lifespan.
• Jiang Ping An opened his acupoints and began absorbing malevolent spirits, prompting Qian Zuo to rush over, scatter them, and shield him while warning him not to give up on himself.

Jiang Ping An continued cultivating the Demonic Thunder Scripture by sealing Malevolent Spirits in his acupoints, while Qian Zuo agreed to arrange a challenge against the Great Qian Dynasty's Crown Prince, Qian Yu. The Eastern Sea Anti-Demon Army and the Ancient Thunder Clan publicly cleared Jiang Ping An's name, prompting debate across the Cultivation World.

• Qian Zuo mistook Jiang Ping An's absorption of Malevolent Spirits for a suicide attempt, then learned he could seal them with a special technique.
• Jiang Ping An asked Qian Zuo to notify Qian Yu that he wanted to challenge him, and Qian Zuo agreed despite warning him not to be discouraged by the outcome.
• Qian Zuo removed Jiang Ping An's protection, and Jiang Ping An cultivated beneath black lightning while sealing Malevolent Spirits in his acupoints.
• The Sea Demon Race's powerhouses withdrew their attention after seeing that Jiang Ping An remained unharmed.
• The Eastern Sea Anti-Demon Army announced that Jiang Ping An had been framed and threatened those who attacked him without cause.
• The Ancient Thunder Clan also cleared Jiang Ping An's name, and the declarations led people across the Cultivation World to debate and investigate the accusations against him.

Situ Lingfeng framed Jiang Ping An by spreading a rumor that he possessed an immortal artifact, stirring suspicion throughout the Cultivation World. Jiang Ping An arrived in the Great Qian Dynasty to challenge Crown Prince Qian Yu, who welcomed him enthusiastically and insisted they eat first.

• Situ Lingfeng ordered his Dao Protector to spread the false rumor that Jiang Ping An possessed an immortal artifact, and the news fueled greed and suspicion across the Cultivation World.
• In a Great Qian Dynasty teahouse, Jiang Ping An and Ye Wuqing recognized the rumor as another attempt by Situ Lingfeng to endanger Jiang Ping An.
• Jiang Ping An restrained his urge to use the Judge's Brush against Situ Lingfeng and focused on cultivation and his plans to challenge the human race's top heirs.
• Jiang Ping An sent Qian Yu a voice transmission as the Crown Prince passed the teahouse, and Qian Yu rushed in to greet him.
• Jiang Ping An explained that he had come to seek Qian Yu's guidance and spar, but Qian Yu brushed that aside and invited him to the Royal Palace for a meal.

Jiang Ping An and Ye Wuqing visited Crown Prince Qian Yu’s lavish residence, where Qian Yu’s laziness and low cultivation baffled them. Their feast was interrupted by Azure King Qian Cang, who challenged Qian Yu to defeat him and prove he deserved the Crown Prince’s position.

• Qian Yu led Jiang Ping An and Ye Wuqing through the Royal Palace to his manor, where Jiang Ping An discovered that the Crown Prince was only at Nascent Soul Late Stage.
• Qian Yu served Jiang Ping An Enlightenment Tree tea and Star Fruit, and Jiang Ping An kept his fruit to help his wounded master.
• Qian Cang arrived and angrily berated Qian Yu for neglecting cultivation despite being Crown Prince.
• Qian Cang challenged Qian Yu to cultivate and defeat him if he wanted to keep the Crown Prince’s position.

Qian Cang challenged his younger brother Qian Yu, but after discovering that Jiang Ping An was visiting the Great Qian Dynasty, he fought Jiang instead. Their clash drew the attention of the royal cultivators and the Great Qian Emperor, who appeared as the battle began.

• Qian Cang tried to force Qian Yu to reveal his strength, but Qian Yu directed him to fight Jiang Ping An instead.
• Qian Cang recognized Jiang Ping An, exchanged greetings with him, and learned that Jiang had come to challenge powerful factions and seek a cure for his curse.
• Qian Cang punched through Qian Yu's stomach, and Jiang Ping An pulled Qian Yu away and healed him with Endless Life.
• Jiang Ping An challenged Qian Cang, and the two flew into the starry sky to fight while Qian Yu hurried after them.
• Qian Cang and Jiang Ping An clashed with the Star Guiding Art and traded powerful punches, cracking space and attracting the royal cultivators.
• The Great Qian Emperor appeared above the Royal Palace, and the royal cultivators bowed to him.

Jiang Ping An fought Qian Cang, the Great Qian Dynasty’s Azure King, while revealing that he had formed a new divine body called the Saint Demon Body. Their battle escalated as they unleashed their strongest techniques, and it remained undecided when Qian Huan Rou arrived and asked who would win.

• Qian Wan Shan identified the outsider fighting Qian Cang as Jiang Ping An, the only outsider granted the Star Guiding Art.
• Jiang Ping An overpowered Qian Cang with his Saint Demon Body and explained that it had formed by a fortunate coincidence.
• Qian Cang unleashed the Great Expanse Stellar Fist, and both fighters broke through each other’s techniques and injured their arms in a clash.
• Jiang Ping An and Qian Cang resumed their brutal fight as imperial clan members, palace figures, and old monsters gathered to watch.
• Qian Huan Rou arrived and asked Qian Wan Shan who he thought would win; he predicted that Qian Cang would prevail.

Jiang Ping An and Qian Cang fought to a draw after exhausting their strongest attacks, though Qian Cang learned Jiang had used only one of his three bodies. Qian Huan Rou then took Jiang away to examine his body, leaving Qian Cang unsettled about her intentions.

• Qian Wan Shan predicted Qian Cang would defeat Jiang Ping An, while Qian Huan Rou watched Jiang with interest.
• Jiang Ping An and Qian Cang fought an exhausting battle, with Jiang growing stronger as Qian Cang's spiritual energy dwindled.
• Jiang Ping An and Qian Cang agreed to decide the fight with one punch, and their clash left both kneeling with a severed arm.
• Qian Cang called the battle a draw and claimed his Forbidden Technique would have won, but Qian Huan Rou said he would have lost and learned Jiang's other two bodies were cultivating.
• Qian Huan Rou asked to examine Jiang Ping An's body and took him away, postponing his meal with the Crown Prince.

Jiang Ping An learned that the Judge's Brush and the Life-Death Book could break his curse, and discovered that he already possessed both treasures. He then asked Qian Huan Rou to help him explore whether he could forge multiple Primordial Spirits.

• Qian Huan Rou brought Jiang Ping An to her courtyard and examined his cultivation realms, then explained that a curse from a Tribulation Realm expert was difficult to remove.
• Qian Huan Rou identified the Judge's Brush and the Life-Death Book as the treasures needed to break Jiang Ping An's curse, and revealed that the Life-Death Book was also called Immortal Paper.
• Jiang Ping An realized he possessed both the Judge's Brush and Immortal Paper, and his relief at being able to break the curse overcame his fear of losing access to the laws of heaven and earth.
• Jiang Ping An asked whether he could turn the energy in his acupoints into Primordial Spirits, but Qian Huan Rou said a person could only have one Primordial Spirit and doubted his idea.
• Jiang Ping An offered Qian Huan Rou the Demon Refining Bottle and asked her to help him forge multiple Primordial Spirits.

Jiang Ping An accepted Qian Huan Rou’s guidance for five years in exchange for the Demon Refining Bottle and studied how to form a Primordial Spirit. After his failed attempt caused an explosion, Qian Huan Rou claimed they would become Dao Companions and ordered a wedding invitation sent to the great factions.

• Jiang Ping An gave Qian Huan Rou the Demon Refining Bottle, and she agreed to guide him for five years while explaining Nascent Souls and Primordial Spirits.
• News of Jiang Ping An’s victory over Qian Cang and his plans to challenge major factions spread, attracting assassins and treasure hunters to the Great Qian Dynasty.
• Jiang Ping An spent nearly a year studying with Qian Huan Rou while his other bodies cultivated elsewhere, then attempted to condense a Primordial Spirit and triggered an explosion that destroyed his clothes.
• Qian Yu and Qian Wan Shan arrived at Qian Huan Rou’s residence and found her hand pressed against the unclothed Jiang Ping An.
• Qian Huan Rou told them she intended to become Dao Companions with Jiang Ping An, secretly told him not to speak, and ordered Qian Wan Shan to invite the great sacred lands and divine sects to their wedding.

Qian Yu’s sudden cultivation breakthrough revealed the power of his Carefree Unrestrained God Body, while Qian Huan Rou explained that she had provoked him to cultivate by pretending she might become Dao Companions with Jiang Ping An. The chapter left Qian Huan Rou preparing to respond to a growing conflict in the Chaotic Star Territory as a war among the races drew near.

• Qian Yu surged from the Nascent Soul Realm to late-stage Spirit Transformation and challenged Jiang Ping An to a match in five years.
• Qian Huan Rou sent the royal family’s powerhouses away, returned the Demon Refining Bottle to Jiang Ping An, and explained that she had used her supposed relationship with him to spur Qian Yu to cultivate.
• Qian Huan Rou revealed that Qian Yu possessed the Carefree Unrestrained God Body, which let him comprehend any law and advance without realm bottlenecks whenever he wished.
• Qian Wan Shan reported that the Rain Clan and the Heaven Swallowing Crocodile Race had joined forces and seized three Great Qian Dynasty Resource Stars.
• Qian Huan Rou recognized the alliance as a threat and warned that a great war among the races was approaching.

Jiang Ping An failed to condense a Primordial Spirit while assassins gathered and conflict spread across the Cultivation World. Four years after leaving for the Chaotic Star Territory, Qian Huan Rou returned severely wounded by Rain Poison, and Qian Wan Shan offered her a Heavenly Mandate Pill.

• Qian Huan Rou left for the Chaotic Star Territory, while Jiang Ping An chose to wait for her return and pursue condensing a Primordial Spirit.
• Jiang Ping An repeatedly tried to forge multiple Primordial Spirits, but a strange law of heaven and earth caused each attempt to explode before taking shape.
• Qian Yu trained under the Great Qian Dynasty’s Old Ancestors as assassins and enemies of Jiang Ping An gathered in the imperial city.
• Great Xia concluded negotiations with Chu Kingdom and received compensation, while the Rain Clan and Heaven Swallowing Crocodile Race began a large-scale war against the Great Qian Dynasty.
• After four years, Qian Huan Rou was severely wounded by Rain Poison in the Chaotic Star Territory, and Qian Wan Shan offered her a Heavenly Mandate Pill as she faced death within three years.

Qian Huan Rou Slayed Origin to purge the Rain Poison and preserve the Great Qian Dynasty’s last Heavenly Mandate Pill, leaving her cultivation at the Qi Refining Stage. She chose to study Jiang Ping An’s Hidden Universe Art, while the dynasty prepared to retaliate against the Rain Clan.

• Qian Huan Rou refused the Heavenly Mandate Pill and destroyed her origin to remove the Rain Poison, causing her realm to fall to the Qi Refining Stage.
• The Great Qian Dynasty vowed to summon its Old Ancestors and soldiers to attack the Rain Clan in the Chaotic Star Territory.
• Qian Huan Rou returned to Jiang Ping An and asked to examine the Hidden Universe Art so she could try walking his cultivation path.
• Jiang Ping An gave Qian Huan Rou the Hidden Universe Art without asking for anything in return.
• Crown Prince Qian Yu visited Qian Huan Rou, who told him to return and cultivate before going to rest.
• Jiang Ping An told Qian Yu he would take good care of Qian Huan Rou, and Qian Yu misunderstood his words.

Jiang Ping An and Qian Yu traveled to the Chaotic Star Territory to fight the Heaven Swallowing Crocodile Race and the Rain Clan, which had pushed the Great Qian Dynasty toward its rear. After reaching the besieged teleportation gate, they joined the battle and instantly killed two top-tier enemies.

• Qian Yu challenged Jiang Ping An to compete in killing enemies, and Jiang Ping An agreed to travel with him to the Chaotic Star Territory.
• Qian Yu told Jiang Ping An that Ye Wuqing had enlisted to fight the Heaven Swallowing Crocodile Race and avenge him.
• At the teleportation gate, Qian Yu and Jiang Ping An saw the wounded soldiers and learned that the Rain Clan's support had made the war increasingly difficult.
• They arrived as the injured Qian Cang urged the Array Masters to evacuate the teleportation gate, then Qian Yu and Jiang Ping An offered to fight the Rain Clan and Heaven Swallowing Crocodile Race.
• Jiang Ping An and Qian Yu ignored the Rain Clan's poisonous rain and each killed a top-tier enemy with a single punch.