Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ping An attacked the Changsun Family at Emperor Mountain, killing ten Refining Void Initial Stage experts with one Annihilation Fist. He then challenged five stronger cultivators, but their combined assault left him badly wounded as the Divine Soul Holy Land experts prepared to intervene.

• Jiang Ping An asked Su Hai to keep the Changsun Family's stronger experts from interfering, then flew into Emperor Mountain's territory to face ten Refining Void Initial Stage cultivators.
• The ten Changsun Family cultivators activated their bloodlines, but Jiang Ping An restrained them with a chain and killed them all with one Annihilation Fist.
• Jiang Ping An taunted the Changsun Family and challenged them to send twenty fighters when no one dared approach him.
• Jiang Ping An challenged five Refining Void Middle Stage experts, who raised their cultivation to the late stage and attacked him together.
• The five experts battered Jiang Ping An and bloodied his robes, prompting the Divine Soul Holy Land experts to consider stepping in.

Jiang Ping An used poison, Yin Thunder, Malevolent Spirits, and a White Willow branch to defeat and kill all five Changsun Family experts. As the Changsun Family turned to Lord Situ for help, Jiang Ping An openly challenged his enemies at Emperor Mountain.

• Jiang Ping An refused the Divine Soul Holy Land elders' offer to intervene and used Little Seven's potent poison to kill one opponent and cripple another.
• Jiang Ping An combined Yin Thunder, Destruction Law, secret arts, and Malevolent Spirits to gain the upper hand and kill more of the five experts.
• When a Changsun Family expert launched a sneak attack, the Divine Soul Holy Land elders blocked it, and Jiang Ping An warned that he would no longer follow the rules.
• Jiang Ping An used a White Willow branch to slice through the remaining experts and killed all five, each of whom had been two minor realms above him.
• Jiang Ping An challenged his enemies at Emperor Mountain, while a Changsun Family higher-up sent subordinates to seek Lord Situ's help.

Liang Xiaohong defeated Situ Lingfeng with the Emperor Fist and declared his intention to lead humanity, but Jiang Ping An’s arrival and the news of his strength shifted everyone’s attention. Lei Zang unexpectedly claimed Jiang Ping An as the Lei Family’s son-in-law and vowed to protect him.

• Liang Xiaohong defeated Situ Lingfeng with the Emperor Fist, shocking the gathered powers.
• Liang Xiaohong announced that he would unite humanity and lead its younger generation, and no one challenged him.
• A Changsun Family cultivator reported that Jiang Ping An had killed fifteen Refining Void cultivators at the foot of Emperor Mountain.
• Liang Xiaohong recognized Jiang Ping An as a threat, while Changsun Pingzhen vowed to kill him.
• Lei Zang erupted with Thunder Power and declared that no one could harm his Lei Family’s son-in-law, Jiang Ping An.

Jiang Ping An reunited with Meng Jing at Emperor Mountain as several major powers rallied to demand answers from the Heavenly Dao Academy. When its headmaster dismissed the conflict and offered him an insulting pardon, Jiang Ping An defied him and challenged the assembled powers to fight.

• Lei Zang denounced the Changsun Family for hiring assassins to kill Jiang Ping An and vowed not to let the matter go.
• Meng Jing reunited with Jiang Ping An, told him Liang Xiaohong had defeated the Chaos Body using the Emperor Fist, and urged him not to risk himself avenging Meng Kuo.
• Lei Zang proposed arranging Jiang Ping An and Meng Jing's marriage, while Meng Jing reminded him that Jiang Ping An had not found the Chaos Thunder Fruit.
• Changsun Pingzhen arrived, and Lei Zang, Qian Wan Shan, and Su Bin demanded that the Heavenly Dao Academy explain its persecution of Jiang Ping An.
• Heavenly Dao Academy Headmaster Zheng Mingxun appeared and declared the conflict settled, but Jiang Ping An rejected his offer, cursed him, and challenged anyone to fight.

Jiang Ping An retaliated against the Changsun Family by destroying its graveyard and Medicine Garden and poisoning its Spiritual Spring. As Changsun Pingzhen seethed over the devastation, Situ Lingfeng stepped forward to challenge Jiang Ping An.

• The Changsun Family Cultivators mocked Jiang Ping An from behind Emperor Mountain’s formation, while Lei Zang warned him not to attack it.
• Jiang Ping An revealed that Malevolent Spirits could bypass the formation, and his Evil Spirit Primordial Spirit destroyed the Changsun Family graveyard and Medicine Garden and poisoned its Spiritual Spring.
• Jiang Ping An taunted Changsun Pingzhen, saying the family now understood his pain and powerlessness.
• Situ Lingfeng appeared and challenged Jiang Ping An to regain his dignity after losing to Liang Xiaohong.
• Jiang Ping An and Situ Lingfeng faced each other as the gathered crowd anticipated their battle.

Jiang Ping An fought Situ Lingfeng, whose stolen Devouring Power gave him an advantage in sustaining the battle. Jiang Ping An revealed his self-created Annihilation Fist and wounded Situ Lingfeng, but Situ Lingfeng believed Jiang could not overcome his defenses.

• Jiang Ping An and Situ Lingfeng clashed with Yin Thunder and seven-colored Chaos Power, while Lei Zang recognized that Jiang Ping An had mastered Yin Thunder.
• Situ Lingfeng resisted Jiang Ping An's poison, exploited his superior energy reserves, and sent him flying as onlookers judged Jiang to be at a disadvantage.
• Jiang Ping An gathered several Laws and unleashed his Annihilation Fist, breaking through space and striking Situ Lingfeng hard enough to draw blood.
• Qian Yu revealed that Jiang Ping An had created the Annihilation Fist while fighting Grand Ancestor Crocodile, astonishing the gathered experts.
• Situ Lingfeng analyzed Jiang Ping An's attack and declared that it could not break his defense, insisting Jiang would lose.

Jiang Ping An exhausted his spiritual energy while fighting Situ Lingfeng, but refused to concede and revealed the Heavenly Fiend Art. Situ Lingfeng attacked with his own Mental Power, and the chapter ended as his giant sword swept toward Jiang Ping An.

• Situ Lingfeng repeatedly defended against Jiang Ping An's Annihilation Fist and judged that Jiang would lose once his spiritual energy ran out.
• Jiang Ping An used the Annihilation Fist a third time, leaving himself without spiritual energy but still standing in the void.
• Qian Yu realized that Jiang Ping An had not used his Saint Demon Body, and Meng Jing explained that its clone was in the Northern Region awaiting succession as Sect Leader.
• Jiang Ping An refused Meng Jing's plea to stop and declared that Situ Lingfeng would lose.
• Jiang Ping An unleashed the Heavenly Fiend Art, summoning countless corpse phantoms and a projection of a Tribulation Realm Eight-Claw Squid.
• Situ Lingfeng's sword strike was blocked by Jiang Ping An's Mental Power, so Situ Lingfeng formed a giant sword with his own Mental Power and swung it at him.

Jiang Ping An used a new mental power to control a corpse projection and turn the battle against Situ Lingfeng, while the spectators struggled to identify his technique. As Situ Lingfeng found a way to drain Jiang Ping An’s mental power, Jiang Ping An’s Evil Spirit Primordial Spirit struck from behind and shattered his Primordial Spirit.

• Lei Zang tried to intervene, but Su Bin stopped him and insisted Jiang Ping An would win.
• A projection of a slain Changsun Family cultivator blocked Situ Lingfeng’s greatsword and attacked him under Jiang Ping An’s control.
• The spectators, including Su Bin and the elders of the Divine Soul Holy Land, debated whether Jiang Ping An’s power came from the Divine Thought Art.
• Jiang Ping An’s new power linked his mental strength to projections created by the Heavenly Fiend Art, though controlling one powerful projection quickly consumed his mental energy.
• Situ Lingfeng discovered that attacking the projection drained Jiang Ping An’s mental power and began trying to wear him down.
• Jiang Ping An’s Evil Spirit Primordial Spirit attacked Situ Lingfeng from behind and shattered his Primordial Spirit.

Jiang Ping An defeated Situ Lingfeng, then challenged Liang Xiaohong to a life-and-death duel. Major powers chose sides as Liang Ping and others accused Jiang Ping An of being a spy, while Bu Si persuaded the Corpse Herding Sect to support him after claiming he had seen Jiang Ping An's future.

• The Evil Spirit Primordial Spirit destroyed Situ Lingfeng's Primordial Spirit, and Jiang Ping An's Mental Power projection self-destructed before Changsun Pingzhen stopped the blast from killing Situ Lingfeng.
• Jiang Ping An challenged Liang Xiaohong to a life-and-death duel, and Liang Ping accused Jiang Ping An of being a spy to protect his son.
• The Changsun Family Cultivators, the Sun God Sect, and the Bright Moon Holy Land joined Liang Ping in denouncing Jiang Ping An, while Lei Zang, Su Bin, and Qian Wan Shan defended him.
• Bu Si urged the Corpse Herding Sect Leader to side with Jiang Ping An, and the leader publicly declared Jiang Ping An a friend of the sect.
• The Corpse Herding Sect Leader asked what Bu Si had seen in the Ancient and Modern Future Mirror, and Bu Si said he had seen Jiang Ping An die.

Jiang Ping An agreed to fight Liang Xiaohong in a life-and-death duel three months later, while his enemies worried about his growing power. The chapter ended with the Changsun Family taking Situ Lingfeng to the Chaos Forbidden Zone and Liang Ping urging the Heavenly Marsh Holy Land to stop the duel.

• Xuan Yuanluori intervened as factions gathered around Jiang Ping An, and Jiang Ping An challenged Liang Xiaohong to meet him in the starry sky three months later.
• Jiang Ping An thanked the factions that had spoken for him and revealed that he had created the soul technique that controlled projections, stunning the gathered cultivators.
• Meng Jing dragged Jiang Ping An to an inn, while Situ Lingfeng coughed blood and the factions hostile to Jiang Ping An grew more alarmed by his strength.
• Changsun Hao reported the Changsun Family’s devastating losses to Changsun Pingzhen, who decided to take Situ Lingfeng to the Chaos Forbidden Zone.
• Changsun Pingzhen refused to explain the forbidden zone to Changsun Hao, and Liang Ping contacted the Heavenly Marsh Holy Land’s leaders to urge them to stop the duel.

Heavenly Marsh Holy Land agreed to Liang Ping’s plan to withdraw troops from the Eastern Sea and provoke a crisis so Jiang Ping An would abandon his duel with Liang Xiaohong. Meanwhile, Meng Jing recruited Ning You as her maid by promising her a powerful axe technique and generous cultivation resources.

• Liang Ping urged Heavenly Marsh Holy Land’s leaders to withdraw their Eastern Sea troops, revealing that Liang Xiaohong had inherited a Great Emperor’s legacy and saying he wanted to protect his son from Jiang Ping An.
• Despite objections that the withdrawal could doom the Eastern Sea and disgrace the Holy Land, most leaders approved Liang Ping’s plan.
• Meng Jing urged Jiang Ping An to give up his life-and-death duel, but he insisted on defeating Liang Xiaohong before his rival grew stronger.
• Jiang Ping An entered the Spirit Beast Storage Bag and encountered Ning You, who was embarrassed that she had boasted to him about rejecting him without knowing his identity.
• After Ning You explained how Jiang Ping An had saved her, Meng Jing asked her to become a maid and offered her the Heavenly Lightning Axe Technique and half a law each month.
• Ning You accepted Meng Jing’s offer and knelt to serve her.

As war spread across the Eastern Region, Heavenly Marsh Holy Land withdrew its troops from the Eastern Sea, leaving humanity exposed to attacks by sea demons and the Heaven Swallowing Crocodile Race. Jiang Ping An was branded a coward after forfeiting his duel with Liang Xiaohong, while the Eastern Region’s defenders lost ground and hope.

• News spread that Jiang Ping An and Liang Xiaohong would fight a Life and Death Duel in three months, drawing cultivators eager to see who would become humanity’s spiritual leader.
• Heavenly Marsh Holy Land withdrew its forces from the Eastern Sea to reinforce the Starry Sky Battlefield, and the Sea Demon Race launched an attack that drove the defenders back from the coastline.
• The Heaven Swallowing Crocodile Race invaded the Eastern Region and destroyed three countries as the sea demons advanced, triggering war across the region.
• Lei Zang confronted Liang Ping over Heavenly Marsh Holy Land’s withdrawal, while Liang Ping said Jiang Ping An should prepare for the duel; Lei Zang replied that Jiang had forfeited.
• Heavenly Marsh Holy Land announced that Jiang Ping An had fled, and Liang Xiaohong gained renown as humanity’s spiritual leader before leading followers to the Starry Sky Battlefield.
• The demon armies overwhelmed the Eastern Region’s joint defenders, forcing cultivators to retreat as despair spread and vast territories fell.

Jiang Ping An returned to the Eastern Region and saved Xia Qing from Grand Ancestor Crocodile, then confronted the awakened monster on the battlefield. Their opening clash halted the fighting, leaving both armies watching a battle that would decide the war.

• Jiang XiaoXue and Song Hui watched the cultivators suffer heavy losses as Grand Ancestor Crocodile overwhelmed their defenders, and Jiang XiaoXue teleported the wounded Xia Qing to safety.
• Grand Ancestor Crocodile discovered Xia Qing's Taiyin Power and World Tree Seed, but she wounded him with an immortal artifact fragment before he overwhelmed her with Devouring Power.
• Jiang Ping An abandoned the Central Continent competition and returned to the Eastern Region, striking Grand Ancestor Crocodile just as Xia Qing faced death.
• Xia Qing threw herself into Jiang Ping An's arms, but he pushed her away after she bit his tongue.
• Grand Ancestor Crocodile revealed that he had comprehended the Battle Intent Law and attacked Jiang Ping An, who blocked a sneak attack with a punch.
• The force of Jiang Ping An and Grand Ancestor Crocodile's clash leveled nearby mountains and stopped the battlefield as both sides watched them face off.

Jiang Ping An fought Grand Ancestor Crocodile, whose Five Elements Secret Technique and Devouring Power overwhelmed him and left the human Cultivators fearing for his life. Jiang Ping An then revealed his Devouring Clone, replenished his energy, and began driving Grand Ancestor Crocodile back.

• Jiang Ping An attacked Grand Ancestor Crocodile with the Annihilation Fist, but Grand Ancestor Crocodile endured the blow and concealed his fractured bones.
• Jiang Ping An struck again with the Limitless Fist, but Grand Ancestor Crocodile used the Five Elements Secret Technique to blunt the attack and restore his energy by devouring energy from the surroundings.
• Grand Ancestor Crocodile clashed with Jiang Ping An again and declared that Jiang Ping An had run out of energy, prompting Xia Qing and the human powerhouses to prepare to rescue him.
• Jiang Ping An unleashed Devouring Power to refill his energy and smashed Grand Ancestor Crocodile in the head, then enlarged his body and attacked with the Barbarian Race Totem Markings and Battle God Art.
• Grand Ancestor Crocodile was stunned to discover Jiang Ping An possessed Devouring Power, while Jiang Ping An's clone was revealed to have gained it by replicating Grand Ancestor Crocodile's Essential Blood Essence with the Treasure Accumulation Basin.

Jiang Ping An turned the tide against Grand Ancestor Crocodile and rallied the human armies, then arrived in the Eastern Sea and devastated the Sea Demon Race with the Heaven Shaking Demon Stick and self-destructing Bloodthirsty Nine Nether Worms. The battle continued as the human forces remained outnumbered, but Jiang Ping An's reinforcements began inflicting heavy losses on the sea demons.

• Jiang Ping An used his newly acquired Devouring Power to fight Grand Ancestor Crocodile to a standstill, allowing Xia Qing to rally the human soldiers.
• Jiang Ping An arrived with reinforcements as Qian Zuo's Anti-Demon Army prepared to face the advancing sea demons in the Eastern Sea.
• The sea demons charged Jiang Ping An for a promised supreme treasure, but they panicked when he drew the Heaven Shaking Demon Stick and began slaughtering them.
• Jiang Ping An used Sealing Heaven to stop a fleeing Double Horned Swimming Dragon and killed it with one strike.
• Jiang Ping An released Bloodthirsty Nine Nether Worms, whose red Insect Soldiers began self-destructing and killing large numbers of sea demons.

While fighting the Sea Demon Race in the Eastern Region, Jiang Ping An learned that the Devil Race had attacked Heaven Severing Cliff and faced their newly awakened Demon Child. The Pure-Blooded Heavenly Demon challenged him to a three-move duel, and their battle began with the Demon Child forming a colossal finger of dark power.

• Jiang Ping An and the Insect Soldiers fought the Sea Demon Race in a prolonged, bloody battle.
• After hearing Jiang Ping An had returned to the Eastern Region, the Devil Race launched an offensive against Heaven Severing Cliff.
• Jiang Ping An confronted the goat-headed Demon Child, whose pure blood suppressed the Demonic Qi of those around him.
• Lü Dan warned Jiang Ping An that the Refining Void Middle Stage Demon Child was a powerful Pure-Blooded Heavenly Demon.
• Jiang Ping An mocked the Demon Child's offer to submit and accepted his challenge.
• The Demon Child raised a ten-thousand-meter finger of Demonic Qi as both sides watched the duel begin.

Jiang Ping An resisted the Demon Child’s Devil’s Eye and killed him after surviving two Heavenly Demon Finger strikes. The Devil Race was left stunned by Jiang Ping An’s overwhelming strength and possible Heavenly Demon Pure Blood.

• The Demon Child unleashed the Heavenly Demon Finger, but Jiang Ping An shattered it with a punch and demanded two more moves.
• The Demon Child used the Devil’s Eye to magnify Jiang Ping An’s desires, turning his hair white and unleashing his killing intent.
• Jiang Ping An declared that his deepest desire was to protect those around him, then broke the Demon Child’s second Heavenly Demon Finger with one punch.
• Jiang Ping An ignored the Demon Child’s pure-blooded darkness, struck him down, and killed him after his Substitute Death Talisman revived him once.
• The Devil Race stood in shock as Qian Huan Rou told Ye Wuqing that the Demon Child had been doomed.

Jiang Ping An led the fight against the Devil Race and its allied demonic forces, while the Heavenly Marsh Holy Land celebrated Liang Xiaohong’s victory at a banquet. The banquet collapsed as news spread that Jiang Ping An had prompted the departure of the Holy Land’s allies, leaving the Saint Lord to warn Liang Ping that he was the cause.

• The Devil Race experts grieved the Demon Child’s death, but Grand Elder Lü Dan ordered the Demon God Sect to attack, and Jiang Ping An slaughtered powerful enemies using his secret treasure gloves and Heavenly Demon Pure Blood.
• Jiang Ping An’s three bodies fought across the Eastern Sea, the Endless Mountain Range, and the Devil Race battlefield as his battle intent continued to grow.
• The Heavenly Marsh Holy Land held a banquet to celebrate Liang Xiaohong’s victory over the Three-Headed Golden Crow Race and his capture of a living planet.
• The Pill Refining Sect Saint Child and the Beast Taming Dynasty Prince abruptly left after receiving messages, and other guests soon followed.
• Zhang Yang told Liang Ping that the Ancient Thunder Clan, the Great Qian Dynasty, and the Demon God Sect had severed ties with the Heavenly Marsh Holy Land, then departed to avoid being linked to it.
• The Heavenly Marsh Holy Land Saint Lord told Liang Ping that the guests had left because of Jiang Ping An.

After Jiang Ping An’s victories on three battlefields made him a celebrated hero, Heavenly Marsh Holy Land was isolated by other powers. Pang Heng and Liang Ping secretly plotted to kill him, and rumors spread that Jiang Ping An carried an immortal artifact.

• Pang Heng told Liang Ping that Jiang Ping An had held back Grand Ancestor Crocodile, slain the Demon Child, and killed half the Eastern Sea Sea Demons, all at the same time using three bodies.
• Liang Xiaohong chose to continue along the Emperor Road alone to temper himself and try to surpass Jiang Ping An.
• Pang Heng warned Liang Ping not to act rashly, then proposed using the Eastern Sea Demon Race’s method to kill Jiang Ping An.
• News of Jiang Ping An’s three victories spread, and cultivators praised him as humanity’s hero while condemning Heavenly Marsh Holy Land.
• The Lei Family, the Great Qian Dynasty, Great Xia, Vast Mist Sect, and other powers severed ties with Heavenly Marsh Holy Land, isolating it across the Eastern Region.
• A rumor spread that Jiang Ping An possessed an immortal artifact.

Rumors spread that Jiang Ping An possessed one of the Great Emperor’s hidden Immortal Artifacts, drawing the attention of powerful beings across the Cultivation World and the myriad races. After Ji Fei dragged him back to the sect and overwhelmed him, Jiang Ping An heard an ethereal voice in his mind saying, “Finally awake...”

• Ji Fei warned Jiang Ping An that the Immortal Artifact rumors had made him a target and escorted him back to the sect.
• Jiang Ping An realized the rumor’s accurate details suggested someone had deliberately exposed his Immortal Artifact.
• Ji Fei revealed she wanted Jiang Ping An and suppressed him after claiming his Primal Chaos Gold Stone had helped her break through to the Integrated Body Middle Stage.
• Powerful beings from the Three-Headed Golden Crow, Divine Winged Dragon Elephant, and Heaven Swallowing Crocodile Race vowed to seize the Immortal Artifact or kill Jiang Ping An.
• After Ji Fei apologized, Jiang Ping An tried to leave the Sect Leader’s residence and heard an ethereal voice in his mind say, “Finally awake...”