Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ping An revealed that he had reached the Earth Immortal Realm and had destroyed the Heavenly Orchid Immortal Abode’s border army in revenge for Ouyang Hongyun’s attack. After Miao Jing and Xiao Liangyan explained that killing too many weaker beings could block further breakthroughs under the Immortal Dao Rules, Jiang Ping An realized that the obstruction he had felt was a backlash.

• Ouyang Hongyun learned that the border Teleportation Arrays had been destroyed and rushed there with the other Immortals, while Jiang Ping An savored the banquet delicacies after fleeing.
• News that the Heavenly Orchid Immortal Abode’s border forces had been wiped out spread across the Illusory Moon Region, and people suspected Jiang Ping An had used Earth Immortal-level Devouring Power.
• Meng Jing showed Jiang Ping An her newly acquired immortal lightning, but her pride faded when Miao Jing asked whether Jiang Ping An had reached the Earth Immortal Realm and he confirmed it.
• Xiao Liangyan asked whether Jiang Ping An had destroyed the border army, and Jiang Ping An explained that Ouyang Hongyun had attacked him first.
• Miao Jing and Xiao Liangyan warned Jiang Ping An that killing too many weaker beings could prevent him from advancing, and Jiang Ping An recognized the obstruction he had encountered while comprehending the Immortal Dao Rules.

Jiang Ping An learned that his killings had brought Immortal Dao backlash and considered ways to cleanse his karmic slaughter. He left the Feather Emperor Immortal Sect planning to seek Buddhist cleansing, while revealing that Nether Moon Palace would protect the sect.

• Miao Jing told Jiang Ping An that he could offset karmic slaughter by saving people at great personal risk, and described how difficult the process had been for him.
• Jiang Ping An blamed Ouyang Hongyun for the backlash and threatened to destroy the Heavenly Orchid Immortal Abode, but Xiao Liangyan warned him against provoking a decisive battle.
• Xiao Liangyan found an ancient record suggesting that Buddhist cleansing could remove karmic slaughter, and Jiang Ping An planned to contact Brahma Temple through Azure Branch Academy.
• Xiao Liangyan offered Jiang Ping An resources for the cleansing, but Jiang Ping An declined and said he would ask for help if he needed it.
• Jiang Ping An told Miao Jing and Xiao Liangyan that Nether Moon Palace would protect the Feather Emperor Immortal Sect, leaving them astonished by the powerful backing he had secured.

After reaching the Earth Immortal Realm, Jiang Ping An learned that Immortal Dao backlash would block his further progress unless he washed away his sins, so he sought help from Brahma Temple. Gu Cheng agreed to investigate, but warned that the temple rarely helped outsiders, and their search led them to a monk enjoying meat and wine at Sky Abyss Mountain.

• Jiang Ping An sent an Origin Avatar back to Azure Branch Academy, confident the Feather Emperor Immortal Sect no longer needed his direct attention.
• Jiang Ping An met Gu Cheng, who had recently broken through to the Earth Immortal Realm, and accepted his invitation to Sky Abyss Mountain.
• Jiang Ping An told Gu Cheng that he had killed over ten million people in retaliation against a faction whose Heavenly Immortal had hunted him, and revealed that he had since reached the Earth Immortal Realm.
• Gu Cheng said Brahma Temple might wash away Jiang Ping An's sins but rarely helped outsiders, and offered to look into making contact.
• At Sky Abyss Mountain, Jiang Ping An and Gu Cheng spotted a bald man in a crimson kasaya eating meat and drinking wine.

Jiang Ping An met Chan WuXiang, a wine-and-meat monk who claimed he was near death and wanted to pass down his mantle. After Gu Cheng recognized Chan WuXiang as one of Brahma Temple’s Four Great Dharma Masters, Jiang Ping An learned that the monk was a Golden Immortal-level powerhouse and a chance to help cleanse his sins.

• Jiang Ping An and Gu Cheng doubted that the drunken, meat-eating Chan WuXiang was truly a monk of Brahma Temple.
• Chan WuXiang told Jiang Ping An that he had been waiting to pass down his mantle and offered to help cleanse Jiang Ping An’s sins if he became his disciple.
• Gu Cheng warned Jiang Ping An to verify the monk’s identity, and Chan WuXiang gave his Dharma name.
• Gu Cheng recognized Chan WuXiang as one of Brahma Temple’s Four Great Dharma Masters, a Golden Immortal-level powerhouse nearing the Immortal Lord realm.
• Gu Cheng urged Jiang Ping An to seize the opportunity and take Chan WuXiang as his master.

Jiang Ping An agreed to help Chan WuXiang fight Brahma Temple’s disciples in exchange for having his sins washed away. After Chan WuXiang took him away, Gu Cheng remembered that Chan WuXiang was a renegade monk who had once attacked Brahma Temple and feared Jiang Ping An had been brought to provoke it.

• Jiang Ping An rejected Chan WuXiang’s offer until Chan WuXiang admitted he wanted help defeating Brahma Temple’s disciples.
• Chan WuXiang explained that he had left Brahma Temple after a dispute and intended to return with disciples to defeat its disciples.
• Jiang Ping An agreed to compete for Chan WuXiang in return for having his sins washed away, but declined to become his disciple.
• Chan WuXiang took Jiang Ping An away, leaving Gu Cheng behind.
• Gu Cheng remembered Chan WuXiang’s history as a renegade monk who had attacked Brahma Temple and failed to contact Jiang Ping An with Azure Branch Academy’s Divine Token.

Jiang Ping An accompanied Chan WuXiang to Brahma Temple, where Chan demanded a chance to prove his unorthodox path by having Jiang compete against the temple’s disciples. The Great Dharma Master offered a different test: Jiang must pass Hell Road, leaving Chan stunned by the news that one of their disciples had already done so.

• Jiang Ping An and Chan WuXiang arrived at Brahma Temple, where Jiang sensed his sins being drawn away.
• Chan WuXiang kicked open the temple gates and confronted three Great Dharma Masters, declaring that Jiang was his disciple and challenging their disciples.
• Chan WuXiang explained to Jiang that helping him win was Jiang’s only chance to have his sins washed away, and Jiang reluctantly agreed to continue.
• Chan WuXiang demanded that a temple disciple fight Jiang, but the central Great Dharma Master proposed that Jiang walk Hell Road instead.
• Chan WuXiang objected to the test, but the central Great Dharma Master said a disciple had passed Hell Road fifty-three years earlier and told Chan to leave if he refused.

Chan WuXiang agreed to let Jiang Ping An enter Hell Road in exchange for help cleansing Jiang Ping An’s sins. After explaining the sealed realm’s dangers, Chan WuXiang brought him to its entrance, where a mysterious monk warned him not to go in.

• Jiang Ping An saw through Chan WuXiang’s attempt to dissuade him and insisted on entering Hell Road if Chan WuXiang would keep his promise to cleanse his sins.
• Chan WuXiang accepted the temple’s terms, and Great Dharma Master Hong Yi agreed to open Hell Road early, warning that Jiang Ping An must not return to cause trouble if he failed.
• Chan WuXiang told Jiang Ping An that Hell Road held sealed wicked beings and perilous hazards, including the Yellow Springs River, Punishment Mountain, and Reincarnation Lake.
• Chan WuXiang led Jiang Ping An to the Deep Pit entrance, where a handsome monk appeared without being sensed and warned Jiang Ping An that he did not need to enter.

Jiang Ping An entered Hell Road with the Buddhist disciples, while Chan WuXiang revealed that he had brought him there because he foresaw Jiang becoming a devil and unleashing destruction. The Buddhist masters questioned whether Chan WuXiang intended to leave Jiang trapped in hell.

• Xuan Zhu warned Jiang Ping An against entering Hell Road, then revealed he had completed it once and was going back in.
• Hong Yi sealed the pit, gave the Buddhist disciples teleporting beads, and sent them into Hell Road; Jiang Ping An followed after asking Chan WuXiang to keep his promise.
• A Buddhist master warned that Jiang Ping An lacked the Buddhist power needed to withstand Hell Road’s evil energy, but Chan WuXiang ignored him.
• Hong Yi asked Chan WuXiang why he had brought Jiang Ping An, and Chan WuXiang admitted he had foreseen Jiang becoming a devil who led devils to devour countless people.
• Chan WuXiang said he had lied about taking Jiang as a disciple, and a Buddhist master suspected he had lured Jiang into Hell Road to leave him there.

Chan WuXiang opened the Six Paths Reincarnation Road and chose to be reborn rather than abandon his path. Jiang Ping An entered the Hell Road, where Xuan Zhu appeared and killed three Earth Immortal attackers with one finger.

• Chan WuXiang explained that Jiang Ping An’s trial on the Hell Road was meant to test him and said he would reincarnate to pursue his path anew.
• Chan WuXiang burned his life essence, opened the Six Paths Reincarnation Road, and departed for a new life despite the monks’ pleas.
• Jiang Ping An jumped into the Deep Pit and arrived in a sinister world beneath a blood-red moon.
• Three rotting Earth Immortals surrounded Jiang Ping An and threatened to eat him.
• Xuan Zhu appeared, silenced the Immortal Dao Rules, and killed the three Earth Immortals with a single strike.

Jiang Ping An reached the Yellow Springs River seeking an easy way across and learned he would need the region’s ruler, Cang Tian, to help him. When the river’s inhabitants attacked him for his immortal power, more Earth Immortals surged toward him.

• Xuan Zhu told Jiang Ping An that the three Earth Immortals he had killed were weakened, warned him against killing again, and flew toward the Yellow Springs River.
• Jiang Ping An forced Sun Jiancong, a remnant soul hiding in a skull, to explain that Cang Tian ruled the Earth Immortal region and could let him cross safely.
• Jiang Ping An crushed Sun Jiancong’s skull and reached the Yellow Springs River, where his divine sense could not probe far into the water.
• Jiang Ping An asked the river’s inhabitants to contact Cang Tian, but a fish demon attacked him and more than a dozen Earth Immortals surrounded him.
• The Earth Immortals attacked Jiang Ping An for his flesh and immortal power as a stream of reinforcements approached from the depths of the Yellow Springs.

Jiang Ping An tried to negotiate passage across the Yellow Springs, but the Vajra Ape attacked him and forced a contest of strength. After Jiang Ping An held his ground, the enraged ape grew to an enormous size and stomped at him.

• Jiang Ping An drove the Earth Immortals back with his killing intent and offered resources in exchange for permission to cross the Yellow Springs.
• The Vajra Ape appeared, and Jiang Ping An recognized it as a creature renowned for its strength and defense.
• The Vajra Ape ignored Jiang Ping An's attempt to avoid a fight and struck him with its fist, but Jiang Ping An met the blow head-on.
• Jiang Ping An and the Vajra Ape traded physical blows, astonishing the watching Earth Immortals as Jiang Ping An kept pace.
• The Vajra Ape expanded to a towering size and stomped toward Jiang Ping An after he refused to back down.

Jiang Ping An used his speed and Devouring Immortal Dao to wear down the Vajra Ape, but a fish demon used Yellow Springs Water to slow and corrode him. The Vajra Ape’s Star Shatter failed to kill him, and Jiang Ping An revealed his skeletal body and Invincible Path.

• Jiang Ping An trapped the Vajra Ape with Devouring Order Chains, struck its origin with Origin Annihilation, then dodged its attacks while draining its immortal power and blood qi.
• A rotten fish demon attacked Jiang Ping An with Yellow Springs Water, which clung to him, corroded his flesh, and restricted his speed.
• The Vajra Ape used Star Shatter to trap Jiang Ping An between its fists and smash them together, while the watching creatures assumed he had been killed.
• Jiang Ping An forced the Vajra Ape’s arms apart with his expanding skeletal body, then unleashed Battle Soul Armor, invincible battle intent, and a blood sea of killing intent.
• The creatures recognized Jiang Ping An’s Invincible Path as the same path as Lord Cang Tian’s.

Jiang Ping An confronted Cang Tian, an ancient Devil Race expert who shared his Invincible Will, at the Yellow Springs. Their clash began with Cang Tian’s attacks forcing Jiang Ping An onto the defensive.

• The Yellow Springs creatures recoiled as Jiang Ping An’s Invincible Aura frightened the Vajra Ape, and an ancient voice stopped their fight.
• Cang Tian appeared, revealed himself as a devil, and recognized Jiang Ping An as another who walked the Invincible Path.
• Jiang Ping An rejected Cang Tian’s claim that only one could follow that path, and both prepared to fight.
• Cang Tian struck with a demonic blade, but Jiang Ping An used Chaotic Antiquity to disrupt the attack before a second fused slash hit his Battle Intent Armor.
• Cang Tian used Shadow Demon Steps to attack from behind, and the two exchanged blows at tremendous speed while the onlookers struggled to follow.

Xuan Zhu watched Jiang Ping An and Cang Tian battle in the Yellow Springs and judged Cang Tian to be stronger. Jiang Ping An unleashed his trump cards and wounded Cang Tian, but Cang Tian revealed that he also knew the Devouring Heaven Demon Scripture.

• Xuan Zhu returned to the Yellow Springs, watched the battle, and recognized Cang Tian's advantage over Jiang Ping An.
• Cang Tian broke through Jiang Ping An's defenses with a five-layer blade strike and challenged him to reveal his remaining strength.
• Jiang Ping An unleashed the Slaughter Scripture, summoned Duanmu Jingyun with Rebirth, and used the Ice Seal Technique to immobilize Cang Tian.
• Jiang Ping An struck Cang Tian with Origin Annihilation and poisoned him to drain his Immortal Power, but Cang Tian healed and recovered.
• Cang Tian revealed that he knew the Devouring Heaven Demon Scripture and summoned a massive black hole behind himself.

Jiang Ping An struggled against Cang Tian’s overwhelming strength until he used his final trump card: the ability to foresee the future. Cang Tian recognized the power, and both fighters stopped their attacks, leaving the spectators bewildered.

• Cang Tian used the Devouring Heaven Demon Scripture and his Devil Race techniques to overpower Jiang Ping An, then severed one of his Divine Feather Bone Wings with a spatially empowered saber strike.
• Jiang Ping An regenerated his wing and resolved to use his final trump card rather than surrender his Invincible Path.
• Cang Tian launched spatial Blade Intents, but Jiang Ping An calmly dodged every strike as though he knew where each would appear.
• Cang Tian tested Jiang Ping An with a false move and realized Jiang Ping An could foresee the future.
• Cang Tian and Jiang Ping An withdrew their auras and stopped fighting, leaving the spectators confused.

Jiang Ping An learned why Cang Tian had stayed in the Yellow Springs for nearly three million years and continued toward the opposite bank. He left with Cang Tian’s request to reassure his parents, while Xuan Zhu warned that Jiang Ping An’s sins could bring future calamity.

• Cang Tian ended their fight, urged Jiang Ping An to master more Immortal Dao Laws, and offered him top-grade techniques in exchange for telling his parents he would return in three thousand years.
• Cang Tian revealed that the powerful opponent Jiang Ping An had faced was only one of his Source Stars, then vanished into the Yellow Springs.
• Jiang Ping An crossed the Yellow Springs using Devouring Power, and Xuan Zhu caught up with him and admitted he might someday suppress and kill him.
• Xuan Zhu explained that Cang Tian remained in the Yellow Springs to atone after leading three million Devil Race soldiers to their deaths and later killing many people in revenge.
• Jiang Ping An refused to atone in the Yellow Springs, since his countless past killings could keep him there for tens of millions of years.

Jiang Ping An ignored Xuan Zhu’s warning and stepped onto Punishment Mountain, where his immense sins summoned a catastrophic storm of purple lightning and Karmic Fire. He endured the first attacks, but more than ten million Karmic Fire Red Lotuses revealed the faces of those he had killed.

• Xuan Zhu warned Jiang Ping An that his sins would make Punishment Mountain impossible to cross, while a fleeing Earth Immortal was struck by purple lightning and reduced to ashes.
• Jiang Ping An rejected Xuan Zhu’s advice and flew from the Yellow Springs Water onto Punishment Mountain.
• Punishment Mountain erupted in purple lightning, black clouds, violent winds, and Karmic Fire, startling the immortals nearby.
• Jiang Ping An stood his ground as purple lightning struck him, drawing blood but failing to kill him.
• Karmic Fire charred Jiang Ping An’s flesh and formed more than ten million red lotuses bearing the faces of those he had killed.
• A Bloodthirsty Jiao Dragon saw the faces and condemned Jiang Ping An as a merciless killer.

Jiang Ping An endured Punishment Mountain’s Karmic Fire, purple lightning, and crushing gravity while comprehending the second layer of the Weapon Enhancement Technique. After thirty years, he strengthened his body and doubled his Star Origins, then continued toward the mountain’s heights.

• Jiang Ping An’s flesh was destroyed by Punishment Mountain’s punishment, but he sat down to study the Weapon Enhancement Technique rather than retreat.
• Xuan Zhu warned Jiang Ping An and climbed toward Reincarnation Lake, while Jiang Ping An stayed on the mountain for protection as he comprehended.
• Jiang Ping An endured thirty years of punishment until he mastered the technique’s second layer and released powerful golden Divine Runes.
• Cang Tian sensed Jiang Ping An’s newly revealed power and looked forward to a future battle with him.
• Jiang Ping An’s body and soul were enhanced, his nine Star Origins became eighteen, and he walked toward the higher reaches of Punishment Mountain.

Jiang Ping An comprehended a sin-amplifying Gravity Immortal Dao on Punishment Mountain, then continued climbing and killed two demons who tried to attack him. He left the remaining climbers in fear as he pressed toward the summit and Reincarnation Lake.

• Jiang Ping An stopped after climbing one-third of Punishment Mountain and spent five hundred years comprehending its gravity rules.
• Jiang Ping An mastered the Earth Immortal-level Gravity Immortal Dao, which increased its power according to a target's sins, and resumed climbing.
• The Tiger Demon and Spider Demon threatened Jiang Ping An, then attacked him when he ignored their warnings.
• Jiang Ping An used his gravity rules to pin the Tiger Demon and Spider Demon down, and the mountain's lightning and Karmic Fire burned them to ashes.
• The other beings cleared Jiang Ping An's path as he continued toward the summit, leaving everyone wondering whether he could reach Reincarnation Lake.

Jiang Ping An overcame Punishment Mountain by devouring its lightning and Karmic Fire, then entered Reincarnation Lake despite knowing its Death Reincarnation trial could destroy his soul. The lake erased his memories and began making him experience the deaths of those he had killed.

• Jiang Ping An tested his body against Punishment Mountain's punishments, then used the Devouring Heaven Demon Scripture to absorb the purple lightning and Karmic Fire.
• Jiang Ping An activated the Battle God Art and forced his way past the mountain's final barrier, reaching the summit as the laws and punishments vanished from his body.
• A Pig Demon taunted Jiang Ping An, warning that Reincarnation Lake was harder to pass than Punishment Mountain.
• Jiang Ping An recalled Chan WuXiang's warning that his tens of millions of sins could subject him to Death Reincarnation and destroy his soul, but he entered the lake anyway.
• Reincarnation Lake erased Jiang Ping An's memories and placed him on a city wall, where a Black Hole killed him; the scene reset and subjected him to the same death again.