Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ping An exposed and helped defeat a group of Black Tiger Mercenary Group assassins, then sensed a powerful watcher across the starry sky and warned him against attacking. With the Demon God Sect shifting to protect him and rebuild, Jiang Ping An considered searching for Primal Chaos Gold Ore as a new way to obtain resources.

• Jiang Ping An recognized Gao Quan and the Black Tiger Mercenary Group as assassins, but Ji Fei initially refused to believe his warning.
• Gao Quan and the other assassins fled when Jiang Ping An shouted, and the Demon God Sect pursued them, capturing several while Gao Quan escaped.
• Jiang Ping An killed the captured assassins, took their storage artifacts, and gave their corpses to the Insect Soldiers.
• Jiang Ping An addressed a hidden observer across the starry sky, and Supreme Elder Lü Dan confirmed that a peerless expert had been watching him before the gaze vanished.
• Lü Dan stopped Jiang Ping An from pursuing the Devil Race and urged the Demon God Sect to protect him, recover, and build its strength.
• Jiang Ping An asked about hiring Heavenly Fate Masters to find ore, and Lü Dan angrily recalled that they had demanded seventy percent of the resources.

Jiang Ping An revealed that he could locate Primal Chaos Gold Ore, and the Demon God Sect agreed to give him half of any ore he divined. As the sect prepared to witness his ability, Mo Bufan arrived to tell Mo Chong that something terrible had happened involving Jiang Ping An.

• Lü Dan rejected Jiang Ping An’s offer to mine, but Ji Fei recognized him as the Heavenly Fate Master who had once found ore for Shen Feng.
• The Demon God Sect realized Jiang Ping An’s divination could help them find Primal Chaos Gold Ore, while Qian Huan Rou warned that using it might cost him lifespan.
• Jiang Ping An said his special technique had barely reduced his lifespan and demanded half of any ore he found; Lü Dan accepted and ordered extra protection for him.
• Ji Fei proposed giving Jiang Ping An Sect Leader-level resources, but the elders postponed the decision until they saw his divination at Broken Sky Cliff Mountain Range.
• At the Great Elder’s palace, Mo Bufan interrupted Mo Chong’s cultivation and announced that something terrible had happened involving Jiang Ping An.

Mo Bufan plotted to have Jiang Ping An killed despite Mo Chong's warning, while the Heavenly Fate Holy Land arrived to negotiate for a share of the Demon God Sect's mining profits. Hua Hongbei claimed Jiang Ping An had no Heavenly Fate Power, leaving the assembled cultivators questioning whether he was truly a Heavenly Fate Master.

• Mo Bufan urged Mo Chong to join forces with Situ Lingfeng against Jiang Ping An, but Mo Chong refused and warned him not to undermine the Demon God Sect.
• Mo Bufan secretly resolved to contact the Chaos Body and help arrange Jiang Ping An's death.
• Hua Hongbei brought Heavenly Fate Masters to the Broken Sky Cliff Mountain Range and proposed that the Demon God Sect give them sixty-five percent of the profits in exchange for help locating mineral veins.
• Lü Dan rejected Hua Hongbei's demand and said the Demon God Sect already had Jiang Ping An as a Heavenly Fate Master.
• Hua Hongbei examined Jiang Ping An and declared that he had no Heavenly Fate Power and was not a Heavenly Fate Master, prompting everyone nearby to look at him.

Jiang Ping An proved he could find Primal Chaos Gold Stone without using Heavenly Fate Power, then Hua Hongbei’s attempt to deduce his secret caused a severe backlash. Hua Hongbei realized Jiang Ping An’s eyes belonged to a powerful expert and fled after glimpsing a deadly vision.

• Hua Hongbei insisted Jiang Ping An was not a Heavenly Fate Master and offered to find the ore for sixty percent of the proceeds.
• Jiang Ping An pulled a stone from beneath Qian Huan Rou’s foot and revealed a valuable Primal Chaos Gold Stone inside.
• Jiang Ping An refused to share the stone with Lü Dan’s sect, and Lü Dan told Hua Hongbei to leave.
• Hua Hongbei tried to deduce Jiang Ping An, but his Jade Token shattered and he coughed blood from the backlash.
• Hua Hongbei said Jiang Ping An’s eyes belonged to a super powerful expert, then fled after glimpsing a vision of corpses, blood, and deadly Baleful Intent.

Jiang Ping An used his special eyes to locate Primal Chaos Gold Stone for the Demon God Sect while hiding how quickly he could find it. After Mo Chong blocked his appointment as Sect Leader, Ji Fei visited Jiang Ping An with news that the Chaos Body was organizing a gathering of human geniuses without inviting the Demon God Sect.

• Jiang Ping An found a piece of Primal Chaos Gold Stone, and the Demon God Sect began using his eyes to locate more ore.
• Jiang Ping An limited his searches to five or six pieces a day to avoid attracting attention, while the sect received half of what he found.
• Ji Fei proposed making Jiang Ping An Sect Leader, but Grand Elder Mo Chong blocked the plan and ended the elders' discussion by claiming he would enter seclusion.
• An elder suggested Ji Fei ask Jiang Ping An to sell her Primal Chaos Gold Stone, and she went to his cave to discuss resources.
• Ji Fei told Jiang Ping An that the Chaos Body planned a gathering of human geniuses, invited other major powers' heirs, and deliberately excluded the Demon God Sect.

Jiang Ping An lent Ji Fei a Primal Chaos Gold Stone, then gave Ye Wuqing rare Death Law strands and learned how quickly Qian Huan Rou was advancing with the Human Emperor Heart Sutra. He searched for ore to repair a Secret Treasure Glove and found an enormous Primal Chaos Gold Stone, leaving Lü Dan stunned when he heard it was larger than a human head.

• Ji Fei claimed she needed resources to grow stronger and persuaded Jiang Ping An to lend her one Primal Chaos Gold Stone, though she dismissed the debt note and kissed him before leaving.
• Qian Huan Rou warned Jiang Ping An that the debt note offered little protection, and he explained that he lent the stone to stop Ji Fei from disrupting his cultivation.
• Jiang Ping An gave Ye Wuqing a Storage Ring containing ten strands of Death Law, which Ye Wuqing accepted with deep gratitude.
• Jiang Ping An learned that Qian Huan Rou had forged half the acupoints with the Human Emperor Heart Sutra and then left to search for ore to repair his Secret Treasure Glove.
• Jiang Ping An found an enormous Primal Chaos Gold Stone and called the Demon God Sect experts and miners to excavate it.
• Lü Dan initially refused to help with mining, but froze when Jiang Ping An said the ore was bigger than a human head.

Jiang Ping An helped the Demon God Sect uncover a person-sized Primal Chaos Gold Stone, but the discovery triggered a backlash that petrified his body. Hua Hongbei confirmed that the petrification had no cure once it reached his neck, leaving Jiang Ping An facing death and the sect in crisis.

• Jiang Ping An led the Demon God Sect's powerful cultivators to a huge Primal Chaos Gold Stone deposit and warned them that the miners could not safely dig it out.
• Lü Dan assembled the Nascent Soul Realm and above disciples to excavate the ore, while Jiang Ping An stayed back to avoid losing more lifespan.
• The disciples uncovered a person-sized Primal Chaos Gold Stone, and the cultivators marveled at its size as Jiang Ping An's hands and arms began turning to stone.
• Jiang Ping An told the cultivators that a strange force had appeared in his body when the ore was unearthed, and the petrification spread toward his head.
• Lü Dan contacted Hua Hongbei, who said that finding too much ore caused backlash and confirmed the petrification had no cure once the affected parts turned to stone.
• Hua Hongbei revealed that the Heavenly Secret Art could halt the backlash only before it reached the neck, then warned that Jiang Ping An's death would leave the Demon God Sect in crisis.

Jiang Ping An’s body petrified after he discovered too many mineral deposits, but his Judge's Brush and Life-Death Book reversed the fatal backlash at the cost of a thousand years of lifespan. He recovered and went with the Demon God Sect experts to divide the Primal Chaos Gold Ore, while Mo Bufan vowed to kill him.

• Hua Hongbei told Lü Dan that only the Heavenly Secret Art could stop Jiang Ping An’s spreading petrification, and the Demon God Sect members mourned his apparent death.
• Lü Dan gave Jiang Ping An the entire Primal Chaos Gold Stone, and Jiang Ping An could only answer through divine sense as his body turned to stone.
• Mo Bufan celebrated Jiang Ping An’s apparent death and believed he would claim the Demon God Sect Saint Child position.
• Jiang Ping An’s petrification receded as the Judge's Brush and Life-Death Book reversed his fate, though he lost a thousand years of lifespan.
• Jiang Ping An told the others he would stop searching for mineral veins, then joined the experts to divide the Primal Chaos Gold Ore.
• Mo Bufan watched Jiang Ping An leave and vowed to kill him soon.

Jiang Ping An repaired the Secret Treasure Glove with Primal Chaos Gold Stone and discovered that it could conceal his aura and reach through space. Meanwhile, Situ Lingfeng learned that Changsun Pingzhen had given Mo Bufan a Great Emperor's Authentic Work to use against Jiang Ping An, expecting the painting to kill him within three months.

• Jiang Ping An returned to the cave after obtaining half of the Primal Chaos Gold Stone, and Qian Huan Rou warned him not to survey mineral veins again because the backlash had cost him lifespan.
• Jiang Ping An used the Treasure Accumulation Basin to repair the Secret Treasure Glove, discovering its spatial power and ability to hide his aura.
• Jiang Ping An accidentally reached through space and touched Qian Huan Rou while testing the glove, then apologized and resumed his cultivation.
• At the Heavenly Dao Academy, Situ Lingfeng complained that the heirs had declined his Heaven's Chosen Gathering and asked whether anyone had dealt with Jiang Ping An.
• Changsun Pingzhen revealed that he had given Mo Bufan a Great Emperor's Authentic Work to use against Jiang Ping An, and said he expected Jiang Ping An to die within three months.

Mo Bufan trapped Jiang Ping An and Qian Huan Rou inside the Great Emperor's Painting, where they encountered the young Great Emperor's will. Jiang Ping An challenged it and charged into its attack, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Jiang Ping An ignored Mo Bufan, who used a painting to draw him and Qian Huan Rou into it, then hid the painting and raised an alarm about the Saint Child's disappearance.
• The Demon God Sect's powerful figures searched for Jiang Ping An, suspected a hidden expert had taken him, and prepared for a possible attack by the Devil Race.
• Qian Huan Rou discovered they could not contact the outside and recognized the black-and-white world as a painting containing the young Great Emperor's will.
• Jiang Ping An refused Qian Huan Rou's warning and asked the Great Emperor's will for guidance.
• The Great Emperor's will struck Jiang Ping An with a palm, and Jiang Ping An used his combat techniques and charged forward to meet it.

Jiang Ping An fought the Great Emperor’s phantom, whose Chaos Law dismantled his techniques and whose speed and strength overwhelmed him. Though Qian Huan Rou urged him to flee, Jiang Ping An kept rising to attack, leaving her hoping he would somehow create a miracle.

• Jiang Ping An shattered the Great Emperor’s first palm strike, then charged with his Annihilation Fist after renewing his resolve to revive his family and seek revenge.
• The Great Emperor’s Chaos Law broke down Jiang Ping An’s punch, and the phantom struck through his abdomen and sent him crashing to the ground.
• Qian Huan Rou tried to cut open the space and urged Jiang Ping An to escape, but he healed himself with Endless Life and attacked again.
• The Great Emperor repeatedly dismantled Jiang Ping An’s secret techniques and beat him down, while Jiang Ping An set his broken arm and continued charging.
• Qian Huan Rou stopped trying to dissuade Jiang Ping An and watched in anticipation as he repeatedly rose to challenge the Great Emperor.

Jiang Ping An discovered that Battle Intent Law could resist the Great Emperor’s Chaos Law and broke through to the Third-Order Battle Intent Law. But the Great Emperor revealed the Divine Thought Art, overwhelmed Jiang Ping An, and left him drained and badly injured as Qian Huan Rou feared they would die.

• The Great Emperor’s Chaos Law neutralized Jiang Ping An’s laws, but the Great Emperor Will explained that Battle Intent Law was unaffected because it came from human conviction.
• Jiang Ping An fought on until his Battle Intent Law broke through to the Third-Order, shutting out the Chaos Law.
• Jiang Ping An used the Star Guiding Art to restrain the Great Emperor and struck with a full-powered Annihilation Fist, but the Great Emperor formed a shield that stopped it.
• The Great Emperor used the Divine Thought Art to seal Jiang Ping An and summoned a sword of law that destroyed all Three Hundred and Sixty Primordial Spirits.
• Jiang Ping An broke the Mental Chains and retreated, but his energy was exhausted, and Qian Huan Rou believed they could neither escape nor defeat the Great Emperor.

Jiang Ping An repeatedly challenged the Great Emperor inside the painting while the outside world believed him dead and the era’s Heaven’s Chosen gathered to compete. After Qian Huan Rou was crushed while trying to save him, Jiang Ping An awakened the full power of his bones and Time Eye and struck the Great Emperor with the Annihilation Fist.

• Jiang Ping An kept climbing the mountain and fighting the Great Emperor despite his injuries, while Qian Huan Rou urged him to stop.
• News spread that Jiang Ping An had disappeared and was presumed dead, as Heaven’s Chosen from major factions emerged to challenge the Chaos Body at the Heavenly Dao Academy.
• The Great Emperor trapped Jiang Ping An in a sphere of compressed laws, and Qian Huan Rou attacked from behind to help him escape.
• The Great Emperor restrained and crushed Qian Huan Rou, and Jiang Ping An blamed himself and erupted with killing intent.
• Jiang Ping An’s hair and battle soul turned white as the Demon Dragon Bone and Saint Body Spinal Bone released their power, breaking the Great Emperor’s restraint.
• Jiang Ping An sacrificed a hundred years of his lifespan to freeze the Great Emperor with Time Power and struck him with the Annihilation Fist, turning the black-and-white world white.

Jiang Ping An defeated the Great Emperor's intent and received instruction in mental power, while the Great Emperor praised his potential. Outside, Mo Bufan claimed Jiang Ping An was dead and pushed to become Saint Child, but Ye Wuqing attacked him and was killed by Mo Chong.

• Qian Huan Rou revealed she was alive, and Jiang Ping An learned that the Great Emperor had staged her apparent death to awaken his hidden power.
• The Great Emperor praised Jiang Ping An, taught him how to use mental power, and said his future depended on forging his own path.
• At Heaven Severing Cliff, Mo Chong pretended to grieve for Jiang Ping An and nominated his son Mo Bufan as the next Saint Child.
• Mo Bufan privately admitted to Ye Wuqing that he had schemed against Jiang Ping An and taunted him about lacking the power to retaliate.
• Ye Wuqing attacked Mo Bufan, but Mo Chong intervened and smashed Ye Wuqing's body apart with a palm.

Jiang Ping An returned after surviving Mo Bufan’s attack and confronted Mo Chong for trying to kill Ye Wuqing. When the elders tried to persuade him to stay in the Demon God Sect, Jiang Ping An refused to settle the matter, leaving the sect’s leaders under pressure to choose a side.

• Mo Chong killed Ye Wuqing twice, but Ye Wuqing revived each time with a Substitute Death Talisman until Ji Fei protected him with a Red Bell.
• Ye Wuqing accused Mo Bufan of killing Jiang Ping An, and Mo Bufan denied it while Mo Chong threatened Ji Fei for shielding Ye Wuqing.
• Jiang Ping An appeared with another figure, and Mo Bufan reacted with disbelief that he had survived the Great Emperor’s Painting.
• Jiang Ping An accused Mo Bufan of joining with the Heavenly Dao Academy to nearly kill him, but Mo Chong demanded evidence and denied the charge.
• Jiang Ping An thanked Ji Fei, then announced that he and Ye Wuqing would leave the Northern Region despite the elders offering him the sect leadership and resources.
• Mo Bufan called Jiang Ping An trash who could never comprehend high-level laws as the elders looked toward Mo Chong and Mo Bufan.

Jiang Ping An forced the Demon God Sect to answer for Mo Bufan’s attack on Ye Wuqing, and Mo Chong killed his own son to protect the Mo Clan. Jiang Ping An then drove off the Devil Race, revealed that he had removed his curse and comprehended the Destruction Law, and faced a renewed proposal to make him Sect Leader.

• Mo Chong refused Jiang Ping An’s demand to punish Mo Bufan, but the Devil Race arrived after hearing that Jiang Ping An was dead.
• Mo Chong killed Mo Bufan, then offered Ye Wuqing a top-grade treasure sword as compensation for nearly being killed.
• Jiang Ping An ordered the Devil Race to retreat, and his surviving presence sent their army fleeing.
• Jiang Ping An used the Destruction Law to destroy Devil Race creatures, including a Human-Faced Spider at the Refining Void Initial Stage, and confirmed that he had removed his curse.
• Ji Fei again proposed Jiang Ping An as Sect Leader, and the elders looked toward Mo Chong for his response.

Jiang Ping An became the Demon God Sect's chosen Sect Leader, while rumors spread that the sect was declining because of his low cultivation. After returning to the sect, he secretly headed toward the Central Continent to take revenge on the Changsun Family, and Changsun Pingzhen learned that Jiang Ping An was alive.

• Mo Chong accepted Jiang Ping An's appointment as Sect Leader, and the Demon God Sect's disciples saluted Jiang Ping An.
• News of Jiang Ping An's survival and impending rise to Sect Leader spread, prompting other forces to mock the Demon God Sect as weak.
• Jiang Ping An gave Ye Wuqing Sound Transmission Talismans and warned him not to act impulsively, while Qian Huan Rou revealed her identity to drive off Ji Fei.
• Jiang Ping An decided to retaliate against the Changsun Family and sent his main body, carrying the Judge's Brush, toward the Central Continent.
• At the Heavenly Dao Academy, a spy told Changsun Pingzhen that Jiang Ping An had come back to life, freezing his smile.

Changsun Pingzhen learned that Jiang Ping An had escaped the Great Emperor's Painting and placed enormous bounties on the Changsun Family, while Jiang Ping An secretly traveled toward the Central Continent to take revenge himself. Aboard the Flying Boat, Jiang Ping An overheard Ning You defending him against Situ Lingfeng's admirers.

• Changsun Pingzhen learned that Jiang Ping An had resurfaced and ordered a discreet assassination through the Heavenly Fiend Pavilion, but a scout warned him that Jiang Ping An was expected to become the Demon God Sect Leader.
• A scout reported that Jiang Ping An had offered the Demon Refining Bottle and other treasures as bounties on Changsun Family members, and Changsun Pingzhen rushed to save his son from a Tribulation Realm attacker.
• Jiang Ping An secretly boarded a Flying Boat to the Central Continent so he could personally target the Changsun Family's direct descendants.
• Ning You argued with a blue-robed man aboard the Flying Boat, defending Jiang Ping An and condemning Situ Lingfeng for taking his talent.
• The blue-robed man praised Situ Lingfeng and said he wished he had met Jiang Ping An so he could have assassinated him and become Situ Lingfeng's follower.

Ning You clashed with Changsun Long over Jiang Ping An before boarding a Flying Boat bound for the Central Continent. When the Black Tiger Alliance ambushed the boat, its bandits turned the passengers against one another, and Ning You faced execution with no one willing to resist.

• Ning You defended Jiang Ping An from Changsun Long and refused to leave the Flying Boat without a refund of her fare.
• Changsun Long's father warned him that the Black Tiger Alliance, led by a former Body Integration Realm powerhouse, might attack their important shipment.
• Jiang Ping An continued cultivating the Demonic Thunder Scripture and planned to release the Malevolent Spirits in his acupoints into the Changsun Family after reaching the Central Continent.
• Twenty days later, the Flying Boat struck the Five Elements Killing Array, and the Black Tiger Alliance ordered everyone aboard to surrender their wealth.
• Ning You urged the passengers to resist, but the bandits' promise to exempt informants from looting prompted the Cultivators to betray one another.
• A passenger tried to rally resistance and was killed by the fat saber-wielding bandit, who then threatened to kill Ning You for plotting rebellion.

Jiang Ping An disguised as an ordinary Spirit Transformation cultivator intervened when the Black Tiger Alliance threatened Ning You, but Changsun Qianhe stopped the passengers from fighting and offered the bandits a settlement. When the bandits turned on Jiang Ping An, he revealed overwhelming speed and killed another Refining Void expert; two more bandits then attacked him together.

• Jiang Ping An offered the broadsword-wielding bandit thirty Laws to spare Ning You, then killed him with a sudden strike.
• Changsun Qianhe suppressed the passengers and offered the Black Tiger Alliance toll money, preventing them from joining together against the bandits.
• Ning You apologized to Jiang Ping An and offered to become his Dao Companion in another life as the bandits prepared to kill him.
• A Refining Void Initial Stage bandit attacked Jiang Ping An, who killed him instantly and crushed his fleeing Primordial Spirit.
• Two Spirit Transformation Initial Stage bandits charged Jiang Ping An together.