Chapter Summaries

Cultivators struggled to cross the fourth floor under the pressure of the Demon Empress’s statue, and many knelt and kowtowed to advance. Jiang Ping An walked through the pressure unhindered and reached the statue, where he asked for help obtaining the Deceiving Heaven Art.

• Guo Qing knelt and kowtowed toward the statue, advancing step by step because he refused to let the trials stop his pursuit of immortality.
• More Cultivators knelt to seek the Deceiving Heaven Art, and Deng Luan was crushed by the pressure until he showed sincere reverence.
• Jiang Ping An walked forward without kneeling, while the kneeling Cultivators assumed he had a treasure that protected him from the pressure.
• Jiang Ping An passed Guo Qing and reached the statue, then asked the Demon Empress to bless him with the Deceiving Heaven Art.

Jiang Ping An reached the Fifth Layer and opened a small warehouse, but an immortal sword inside drew the attention of powerful cultivators. Surrounded and exposed as an Array Master, he tried to bargain for protection while the rival factions considered how to claim the warehouses.

• Jiang Ping An left the Iron Blood Group to wait for them on the fifth floor, where cultivators were breaking into warehouses filled with treasures.
• Jiang Ping An used his special pupils and Mental Power to break the array around a small warehouse and found numerous magical treasures and an immortal sword inside.
• Eight Domain Realm Late Stage cultivators confronted Jiang Ping An and demanded the immortal sword, while a concealed assassin emerged nearby.
• The Yellow-Clothed Female Cultivator revealed that Jiang Ping An could open arrays, drawing dozens of experts who wanted his help.
• Jiang Ping An offered to help whichever side protected him, but the Yellow-Clothed Female Cultivator urged the factions to divide the warehouses rather than fight.

Jiang Ping An detonated an Immortal Artifact to escape the Cultivators who had tried to force him to open the warehouses, triggering explosions that destroyed the Fifth Layer. He survived, but four enraged Cultivators caught up with him and sealed off his escape.

• The factions demanded that Jiang Ping An open the warehouse arrays, treating him as a tool and threatening to control him with a gu insect.
• Jiang Ping An hurled his immortal sword at the Yellow-Clothed Female Cultivator, then detonated it; she died in the blast and the warehouse was destroyed.
• The explosion spread through the Fifth Layer, setting off other Immortal Artifacts and killing most of the Cultivators there.
• After the blasts ended, four survivors emerged from their Inner Worlds and saw Jiang Ping An fleeing toward the Fourth Floor.
• The four survivors pursued Jiang Ping An, blocked the exit with an array flag, and trapped him inside a barrier.

Jiang Ping An fought four Domain Realm Late Stage cultivators alone, using surprise attacks and his powerful techniques to turn the battle in his favor. After defeating two and watching another flee, he faced the last, poisoned and gravely wounded opponent, who prepared to use an Immortal-Level Talisman to take them both down.

• Jiang Ping An lured one cultivator close and swallowed him with his Black Hole, leaving three attackers.
• Jiang Ping An used his domains, Divine Feather Wings, and techniques to break the saber wielder’s weapon, absorb attacks, and badly injure the body cultivator.
• Jiang Ping An feinted that an Immortal-Level Puppet had arrived, then struck the body cultivator with Unyielding and drove him into the barrier.
• The sword cultivator fled, while Jiang Ping An killed and devoured the distracted saber wielder with another Unyielding strike.
• Jiang Ping An revealed that he had paralyzed the remaining body cultivator with poison, but the wounded man drew an Immortal-Level Talisman and threatened to take them both down.

Jiang Ping An used Time Power to reverse an Immortal-Level Talisman’s activation and killed the Body Cultivator who wielded it. He and Deng ShaoXi searched the scattered Small Worlds for treasures, then Jiang Ping An turned to collect magical treasure fragments as a seductive Cultivator threatened him.

• Jiang Ping An reversed the Immortal-Level Talisman’s activation with Time Power, crushed the Body Cultivator’s arm, and sent him into the Black Hole.
• Deng ShaoXi arrived with other Cultivators and asked Jiang Ping An about the ruins; Jiang Ping An blamed the destruction on an Array Master detonating an Immortal Artifact.
• Jiang Ping An told Deng ShaoXi that the dead Cultivators’ Small Worlds contained treasures, and the two searched them for Immortal Artifacts, pills, and talismans.
• Other Cultivators noticed the search and began looking for Small Worlds, but Jiang Ping An and Deng ShaoXi had already taken most of the valuable items.
• A female Cultivator tried to charm Jiang Ping An into giving her a treasure, but he ignored her and left to collect magical treasure fragments.

The cultivators reached the Sixth Layer and learned they had to enter a simulated war to earn immortal artifacts. As the group prepared to choose a camp, Jiang Ping An asked Deng ShaoXi whether he had experienced war before.

• Deng ShaoXi drove off a female cultivator who tried to seize the fragments, and the cultivators gathered magic treasure and immortal artifact fragments on the Fifth Layer.
• Deng ShaoXi took Jiang Ping An toward the Sixth Layer, while Guo Qing collected the remaining fragments and left the Immortal Pagoda.
• Guo Qing discovered on the Third Layer that the three Immortal Medicines and their sealing formation were gone, and guessed a powerful cultivator had taken them.
• The cultivators on the Sixth Layer found two doors marked Human Race Camp and Demon Race Camp and learned the simulated battlefield offered immortal artifacts for surviving the war.
• An elderly cultivator described the devastation of the Blood Sacrifice Immortal Sea battle, and Jiang Ping An asked Deng ShaoXi if he had experienced war.

Jiang Ping An and the other cultivators entered the Simulated Battlefield, where the overwhelming war quickly eliminated most of them and left the path to the Seventh Layer uncertain. Jiang Ping An survived a lethal ambush, then used Miao Jing’s Slaughter Scripture to grow stronger as he fought the Demon Race.

• Jiang Ping An warned Deng ShaoXi that war was terrifying, but the cultivators chose the Human Race Camp in hopes of reaching the Seventh Layer.
• The cultivators appeared in a starry battlefield and were overwhelmed by the vast armies; many were killed and teleported out.
• The survivors realized they might have lost their chance to reach the Seventh Layer, and found that the magic treasure fragments downstairs had disappeared.
• Jiang Ping An was decapitated by a transparent Demon Race creature, reversed time with his Time Rune, and swallowed the ambusher with his Devouring Black Hole.
• Jiang Ping An activated Miao Jing’s Slaughter Scripture and charged into the Demon Race, growing more powerful with each kill until his blood-red aura drove enemies away.

Jiang Ping An slaughtered Demon Race forces in the simulated battlefield while other Cultivators struggled to survive its vast war. After the Red Mansion opened and survivors earned immortal artifacts, assassins identified Jiang Ping An and prepared to kill him.

• Jiang Ping An pursued the fleeing Demon Race and entered an instinctive slaughter state strengthened by the Slaughter Scripture and Devouring Power.
• Deng ShaoXi and Deng Luan fought on the Domain Realm Late Stage battlefield, conserving their strength as they faced seemingly endless enemies.
• Cultivators flooded the Demon Empress's Small World, and after its puppets stopped appearing, they broke the barrier to the Red Mansion and entered its Simulated Battlefield.
• Many Cultivators were quickly eliminated from the sixth-floor battlefield, but six Domain Realm Late Stage Cultivators and one Domain Realm Middle Stage Cultivator survived ten years and earned a Human Immortal-grade immortal artifact.
• Assassins hired by Ouyang Zhuori concluded that Jiang Ping An was the Domain Realm Middle Stage survivor and sent more than thirty elite killers armed with an immortal artifact to find and assassinate him.

Jiang Ping An killed more than thirty assassins who tried to ambush him, using a spiritual attack he named Soul Kill. After discovering their immortal sword, he suspected Divine Light or the Heavenly Orchid Immortal Abode had sent them, but an unknown hand suddenly pressed onto his shoulder.

• More than thirty assassins searching the battlefield spotted Jiang Ping An emerging from his sea of blood and planned to ambush him with an immortal artifact.
• As the assassins approached, Jiang Ping An's killing intent froze their immortal energy, and his spiritual attack killed them all, including their leader.
• Jiang Ping An named the technique Soul Kill and had the sea of blood absorb the assassins' bodies.
• In the Red Chamber Sixth Floor, a man in black discovered that the assassins' Life Tablets had shattered simultaneously and ordered the deaths reported.
• Jiang Ping An found an immortal sword among the assassins' resources, suspected Divine Light or the Heavenly Orchid Immortal Abode had hired them, and felt a silent hand press his shoulder.

Yun Yao stopped Jiang Ping An’s slaughter after realizing that years of killing had distorted his perception of life, and forced him to leave the battlefield to recover. In a white space where survivors chose rewards, Jiang Ping An asked about a mind-guarding supreme treasure after no suitable immortal artifact was available.

• Yun Yao caught Jiang Ping An’s punch and warned him that his perception had become distorted from killing too many people.
• Jiang Ping An realized he had begun treating lives as worthless, but resisted leaving because he wanted the Deceiving Heaven Art.
• Yun Yao struck Jiang Ping An and forced him to calm down, after which he and the others appeared in a white space.
• Deng ShaoXi told Jiang Ping An that they could choose a Human Immortal-grade immortal artifact, and Jiang Ping An requested one that could guard his mind.
• The guardian said no Human Immortal-grade artifact of that type was available, but offered a low-quality supreme treasure, and Jiang Ping An asked what it was.

Jiang Ping An obtained the Buddhist Daoist Prayer Beads and left the Simulated Battlefield to recover from his troubles. At Yun Yao’s instruction, he went to the Hundred Weapons Sect Branch to become an apprentice, where a maid suddenly tried to win his business after mistaking his purpose.

• The guardian gave Jiang Ping An the Buddhist Daoist Prayer Beads and revealed that Lord Dongfang had taken the only copy of the Deceiving Heaven Art and never returned.
• Jiang Ping An imprinted the beads with his spiritual mark, learned how to use them, and told Deng ShaoXi he would stop fighting for now.
• Jiang Ping An and Deng Luan left the Simulated Battlefield, changed his appearance, and declined to join the Iron Blood Group immediately.
• Jiang Ping An asked Yun Yao when he could kill again, and she told him to study artifact forging before ordering him to apprentice at the Hundred Weapons Sect Branch.
• The maids ignored Jiang Ping An until he took out a supreme treasure-grade broadsword, after which one grabbed his arm and offered to buy it and arrange tea with her family.

Jiang Ping An sold a treasured blade and sought information about learning weapon refinement, but the shop’s maid had no useful lead. He then met Xie BenJun, a Weapon Refinement Immortal Master recruiting disciples, and Xie reluctantly accepted him as an apprentice.

• Jiang Ping An repaired a worn treasured blade and sold it to the maid for eight hundred thousand Immortal Crystals after his killing intent stopped her haggling.
• The maid told Jiang Ping An that learning weapon refinement required joining the Hundred Weapons Sect and traveling to its headquarters, and he calmed himself with Buddhist Daoist Prayer Beads before leaving.
• Jiang Ping An overheard a disciple accuse Xie BenJun of delaying his promised instruction in the Thousand Hammer Refinement Method and quit serving him.
• Xie BenJun told the maid to keep recruiting disciples, while she explained that people believed he used disciples as unpaid workers.
• Jiang Ping An offered to become Xie BenJun's disciple, briefly turned to leave when Xie claimed he did not take disciples casually, and was then accepted by the Immortal Master.

Jiang Ping An became Xie BenJun’s apprentice to fulfill Yun Yao’s task and received a high-grade hammer as his apprenticeship gift. Yun Yao revealed that she wanted him to approach the Hundred Weapons Sect to investigate its role in her family’s destruction, while using refining to calm his restless mind and prepare for his tribulation.

• Jiang Ping An asked Xie BenJun for an apprenticeship gift and received a high-grade Domain Realm hammer before Xie hurried away.
• Bao Zhi warned Jiang Ping An about Xie BenJun’s deceitful reputation, but he reassured her that he knew what kind of person Xie was and gave her the hammer.
• After settling into his room, Jiang Ping An asked Yun Yao why she had sent him to the shop, and she explained that the Hundred Weapons Sect had taken part in the destruction of her family.
• Yun Yao said she wanted to investigate the strange events surrounding her family’s attack and instructed Jiang Ping An to practice refining to calm his mind and prepare for the Divine Punishment Heavenly Tribulation.
• Jiang Ping An agreed to refine ten thousand first-order magical treasures after realizing that his impatience had changed, and Yun Yao offered to teach him her secret art, Thousand Hammerings, Hundred Refinements.

Yun Yao taught Jiang Ping An her Thousand Refinements method, and he mastered its basic technique after watching her demonstrate it once. After months of focused training, he learned more advanced forging while Yun Yao spent Immortal Crystals upgrading his resources and gave him Immortal Medicine-infused water to strengthen his lifespan.

• Yun Yao explained Thousand Refinements and demonstrated how to purify ore with precise punches, then told Jiang Ping An to try it.
• Jiang Ping An used his control over strength and the Limitless Fist to refine Immortal Iron ore successfully after seeing the technique once, astonishing Yun Yao.
• Yun Yao continued teaching Jiang Ping An advanced hammering techniques over several months, while he focused on artifact refinement on the Time Platform.
• Yun Yao told Jiang Ping An that she had spent Immortal Crystals upgrading the Enlightenment Tree and strengthening his Buddhist Daoist Bracelet with Soul Silkworm Silk.
• Jiang Ping An asked Yun Yao for an Immortal Medicine in compensation for the puppets she had taken, but she gave him Immortal Medicine-infused water instead.
• Jiang Ping An swallowed the water, and its life force flowed into his source as his Immortal roots absorbed it.

Jiang Ping An intervened when Zhou Yuan tried to dismiss Bao Zhi without paying her, then helped her expose a staged complaint about faulty magical artifacts. Bao Zhi kept her position after the plotters fled, while Zhou Yuan promised her a reward and planned to pocket part of it.

• Jiang Ping An asked Zhou Yuan why he was dismissing Bao Zhi, and Zhou Yuan refused to pay her three months of wages.
• Jiang Ping An offered to trade more than a million Immortal Crystals' worth of goods through Bao Zhi, but Zhou Yuan still insisted she should leave.
• Three customers brought broken magical artifacts to the shop and accused it of selling faulty goods, frightening customers and threatening its reputation.
• Following Jiang Ping An's guidance, Bao Zhi pointed out matching cut marks on the artifacts and bluffed that Great Dao traces could expose how they were damaged.
• The three customers fled, and Jiang Ping An persuaded Zhou Yuan to keep Bao Zhi; Zhou Yuan promised her a reward while intending to keep part of it for himself.

Jiang Ping An traded for refining materials, learned about Xie BenJun, and was tasked with investigating attacks on the shop. He left to investigate with Bao Zhi, while Xie BenJun secretly pursued a stolen Demon Weapon Forging Blueprint.

• Jiang Ping An used the false name Bu Si and had Bao Zhi sell his artifacts and buy Immortal Iron Essence Stone, Purple Origin Crystal Stone, and Dragon Pattern Crystal Stone.
• Bao Zhi told Jiang Ping An that Xie BenJun had returned injured and explained his history as a stingy Immortal-level Refining Master.
• Jiang Ping An visited Xie BenJun, who asked him to manage the shop and investigate whoever was plotting against it, offering only to lend him an immortal sword.
• Xie BenJun revealed that he had stolen a Demon Weapon Forging Blueprint from his longtime friend and hoped to use it to break through to the next realm.
• Jiang Ping An considered fleeing with the sword, but Yun Yao told him to stay and cultivate; Bao Zhi joined him and narrowed the likely culprits to three nearby artifact shops.

Jiang Ping An bluffed Ma Kuo into admitting that the Divine Tower Weapon Pavilion had schemed against the Hundred Weapons Sect’s shop. He then accepted Ma Kuo’s challenge to an artifact-forging contest five days later for the chance to win an Immortal Artifact.

• Jiang Ping An asked Bao Zhi to identify the most suspicious shops, and she pointed out the Divine Tower Weapon Pavilion across the street.
• Jiang Ping An entered the pavilion and falsely accused Ma Kuo of plotting against their shop, prompting Ma Kuo to reveal his guilt.
• Jiang Ping An admitted he had been bluffing and prepared to leave, but Ma Kuo challenged the Hundred Weapons Sect to a contest five days later.
• Jiang Ping An agreed to compete when Ma Kuo offered an Immortal Artifact to the winner and announced a discount to draw customers.
• Bao Zhi worried that Jiang Ping An would lose, but he calmly said he would run if he lost and profit if he won.

Jiang Ping An accepted a refining contest against the Divine Tower Weapon Pavilion for an Immortal artifact, despite knowing little about his standing and alarming Zhou Yuan with the risk to the shop. Five days later, Cultivators gathered to watch as the contest was about to begin, many eager to see Ma Kuo’s skill.

• Jiang Ping An asked Yun Yao about his refining ability, and she called him average but praised his skill at strengthening and forging magical treasures.
• Ma Kuo publicized a contest between the two shops, drawing customers with discounted prices and spreading word of the challenge.
• Zhou Yuan learned that the contest’s loser would have to leave the area and panicked when Bao Zhi told him Ma Kuo was a renowned prodigy with three Strange Fires.
• Jiang Ping An refused to apologize or flee, offered Bao Zhi a valuable magical treasure as compensation, and reassured her that he would handle any danger.
• Five days later, Cultivators and Refining Masters gathered between the shops, anticipating Ma Kuo’s performance.

Jiang Ping An challenged Ma Kuo to an artifact-enhancement contest for an Immortal Artifact, while Ma Kuo used the spectacle to draw customers to his shop. The contest began with Ma Kuo confident that Jiang Ping An’s rune-based method would destroy his sword.

• The Hundred Weapons Sect Branch maids and manager Zhou Yuan tried to distance their shop from Jiang Ping An’s challenge.
• Ma Kuo displayed a Top-Grade Immortal Artifact and agreed to Jiang Ping An’s choice of artifact enhancement as the contest field.
• Jiang Ping An and Ma Kuo inspected each other’s mid-grade Domain Realm treasure swords and confirmed they were suitable for the contest.
• Ma Kuo announced a twenty-percent discount at his shop to attract customers while the contest took place.
• Ma Kuo began enhancing his sword with special refined ore, while Jiang Ping An drew runes to raise the grade of his sword.
• Ma Kuo believed Jiang Ping An’s runes would exceed the sword’s material limit and destroy it.

Jiang Ping An competed with Ma Kuo to enhance magical treasures and used runes to raise a mid-grade Domain Realm treasure sword to high grade in a single day. Ma Kuo lost the first round, and Jiang Ping An offered to sell him the sword.

• Jiang Ping An and Ma Kuo began a magical treasure enhancement contest while Zhou Yuan and Bao Zhi argued over Jiang Ping An’s chances.
• Ma Kuo demonstrated the Divine Tower Weapon Pavilion’s Sky Hammer technique, and Jiang Ping An watched closely and learned from its hammer strokes.
• Jiang Ping An advised Ma Kuo to rely more on his hammer technique, then used a circular rune pattern to enhance his treasure sword.
• The sword’s materials remained unchanged despite its increase from mid-grade to high-grade, leaving Ma Kuo and the Refining Masters stunned.
• Jiang Ping An checked with Yun Yao that the enhancement method was safe, then offered to sell the sword to Ma Kuo, who realized he had lost the first round.