Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ping An rescued the prisoners in Tianyuan Camp’s Hunting Ground and instantly killed Zhuo Shouyi, exposing his identity and triggering a camp-wide pursuit. He evaded the hunters by hiding inside the camp and prepared to break through to Second Level God King.

• Zhuo Shouyi demanded to know how Jiang Ping An crossed the Hunting Ground’s spatial barriers, then mocked him with a heap of human bones instead of revealing where the prisoners were.
• Jiang Ping An used his Primordial Dao Domain and Primordial Calamity Light to annihilate Zhuo Shouyi, prompting the five First Level God Kings to flee.
• Jiang Ping An replenished his divine power and escaped the Hunting Ground as Zhuo Tianyuan ordered Tianyuan Camp sealed and mobilized its God Kings to capture him.
• Jiang Ping An sent a Shadow Clone to draw the pursuers toward the camp entrance, then used a puppet to enter the Quiet Cultivation Pavilion unnoticed.
• Jiang Ping An revealed himself inside a rented Cultivation Room and decided to break through after proving his Dao by killing Zhuo Shouyi.

Jiang Ping An broke through to the Second Level God King realm and learned that Tianyuan Camp’s main forces had left to attack the Lan Alliance’s Blood Coral Mining Area. He exploited the camp’s weak defenses to rob several official shops before fleeing, with a low-level Enforcement Team pursuing the puppet that concealed him.

• Jiang Ping An broke open his second Gate of Profound Dao and reached the Second Level God King realm, then used rare treasures to comprehend the Supreme Yin and Supreme Yang Rules.
• Wildsea Royal Clan God Kings failed to find Jiang Ping An after he escaped their camp, and Zhuo Tianyuan angrily berated them.
• After months of cultivation, Jiang Ping An decided to return the more than a thousand rescued prisoners and traveled toward the camp inside a King of the Desolate Sea Demon puppet.
• A shop clerk told Jiang Ping An that the camp commander had led most of the army to attack the Lan Alliance’s Blood Coral Mining Area, so Jiang Ping An looted several official shops.
• Jiang Ping An fled Tianyuan Camp, and an Enforcement Team pursued him without realizing a Second Level God King was hidden inside the puppet.

Jiang Ping An returned more than a thousand captives to Snowy Mountain City, confirming the rumors of his daring raid and earning Contribution Points. The Wildsea Royal Clan and the Electric Eel Demon Race placed a huge bounty on him, while their invasion threatened to draw him out of seclusion.

• Jiang Ping An reached Snowy Mountain City and released the people he had rescued from Tianyuan Camp, leaving the guards stunned as the captives celebrated their return.
• Jiang Ping An’s Contribution Points rose to 473,622, and Lan Shi'er welcomed him with relief before sparring with him and losing.
• News of the rescue spread through the Lan Alliance, while the Wildsea Royal Clan and the Electric Eel Demon Race issued a bounty large enough to attract powerful assassins.
• Jiang Ping An announced that he would enter seclusion for five thousand years, but enemy leaders dismissed the announcement as a ruse.
• The Wildsea Royal Clan and the Electric Eel Demon Race launched a large-scale invasion, hoping to force Jiang Ping An onto the battlefield and expose him to assassins.

While Jiang Ping An cultivated at the Snowy Mountain City camp, his Shadow Clones assassinated more than a hundred enemy geniuses, disrupting the Wildsea Royal Clan and Electric Eel Demon Race. In the two hundred and twenty-third year after the bounty was placed on him, a clone was caught in a carefully prepared trap, and the enemy closed in to expose the assassin.

• The Wildsea Royal Clan and Electric Eel Demon Race attacked the Blue Sea Country and Burning Sea Country, while hidden assassins waited for Jiang Ping An to appear on the First Level God King battlefield.
• Jiang Ping An stayed in the Snowy Mountain City camp to cultivate and sent Shadow Clones into enemy territory to hunt wanted geniuses.
• Jiang Ping An's Shadow Clones killed more than a hundred enemy geniuses, spreading fear and disrupting the enemy's forces and advance.
• In the two hundred and twenty-third year after the bounty was placed on Jiang Ping An, a Shadow Clone infiltrated a target's residence and triggered a sealed-space trap.
• More than a dozen enemy experts, including two Sixth Level God Kings, surrounded the trapped clone and declared that they had finally caught the assassin.

Jiang Ping An’s Shadow Clone was captured by God Kings of the Wildsea Royal Clan and Electric Eel Demon Race, who used a causal Thunder Nail to injure his true body. He escaped using the Primordial Dao Domain, survived his wounds, and then heard Lan Shi’er announce that an old man had compromised.

• The God Kings restrained Jiang Ping An’s Shadow Clone and questioned him about the assassinations of their clans’ prodigies.
• An Electric Eel Demon Race expert struck the clone with a causal Thunder Nail, transmitting a wound to Jiang Ping An’s true body in Snowy Mountain City.
• Jiang Ping An pretended to confess, then mocked the demons by describing how he had cooked their slain clansmen.
• Jiang Ping An regained control of the clone through the Primordial Dao Domain, threatened the two races, and dispersed the clone before they could stop him.
• Jiang Ping An treated his wound and hid it before letting Lan Shi’er into his cultivation room.
• Lan Shi’er told Jiang Ping An that an old man had compromised, and he asked what the man had compromised on.

Lan Shi'er persuaded Jiang Ping An to leave the Front Line Camp for the imperial capital, and Long Ya joined them. Just as they set out, a Sixth Level God King ambushed Jiang Ping An and destroyed his body and Origin Divine Spark before escaping.

• Lan Shi'er told Jiang Ping An that the Lan Clan Royal Family would open its cultivation sites and resources to him for a fee, and stressed that the imperial capital would be safer.
• Jiang Ping An agreed to go after seeing Tuanzi and Little Lion’s longing to leave the courtyard, and said he needed a few days to handle one last matter.
• Three days later, Long Ya arrived to depart with Jiang Ping An and Lan Shi'er, having accepted the royal family’s invitation to cultivate in the imperial capital.
• As they headed for the city’s Teleportation Array, Jiang Ping An turned aside to bid farewell to Senior Dragon Chen, then sensed a Sixth Level God King’s aura.
• The masked assassin shattered Jiang Ping An’s Primordial Dao Domain, pierced his brow, and destroyed his Origin Divine Spark before an alliance expert could intervene.
• The assassin fled toward the outskirts of Snowy Mountain City as Jiang Ping An’s body exploded.

Jiang Ping An was assassinated by a Sixth Level God King in Snowy Mountain City, and news of his death spread across the alliance and beyond. His death left Lan Shi'er and Long Ya grieving, while rivals and enemies reacted with shock, regret, or relief.

• A Sixth Level God King assassinated Jiang Ping An on a city street, leaving Lan Shi'er and Long Ya to find his shattered remains.
• Lan Shi'er mourned Jiang Ping An until she fainted, and Long Ya caught her as the Military Camp Enforcement Team sealed off the scene.
• News of Jiang Ping An's death spread through the Lan Alliance, and Blue Sea Country retaliated against the Wildsea Royal Clan and Electric Eel Demon Race.
• Ye Cangchuan mourned the loss of the rival he had hoped to challenge, while Jun Changge regretted not fighting Jiang Ping An before his death.
• Thundercrash celebrated Jiang Ping An's death, feeling its long-standing inner demon ease.

Lan Shi'er revealed that Jiang Ping An had faked his death to escape the God Kings pursuing him, though the Origin Avatar’s destruction left him injured. After taking on the alias Long Ping and settling in Blue Sea Country’s imperial city, Jiang Ping An spotted a broken ancient Golden Puppet at a God King’s stall.

• Lan Shi'er returned to her Princess Residence, claimed she would enter seclusion, and revealed to Long Ya that Jiang Ping An was alive and his apparent death had been staged.
• Jiang Ping An explained that he had used an Origin Avatar to deceive his pursuers, and Long Ya reluctantly forgave the deception after learning he was injured.
• Jiang Ping An changed his appearance and adopted the alias Long Ping, but his Origin Divine Spark surfaced with cracks and he coughed blood.
• Long Ya helped Jiang Ping An leave the Princess Residence alone, and he set out to find a quiet place to recover while the others stayed with her and Lan Shi'er.
• Jiang Ping An wandered through the imperial city and noticed a broken Golden Puppet at a God King’s stall, where the vendor offered it for three hundred Spirit King Pills.

Jiang Ping An bought a damaged Golden Puppet, healed his Origin Divine Spark with strengthened blood essence from Demon Illusion Fairy, and repaired the puppet while hiding in a rented Cultivation Room. Just as Long Ya urgently asked for his help, the puppet’s final core rune was nearly complete.

• Jiang Ping An bargained the stall owner down to one hundred Spirit King Pills and bought the damaged Golden Puppet.
• Jiang Ping An rented a high-grade Cultivation Room, strengthened Demon Illusion Fairy’s blood essence four times, and used it to heal his Origin Divine Spark.
• Demon Illusion Fairy sneezed during cultivation, blamed Jiang Ping An for her unease, and vowed to take revenge on him.
• Jiang Ping An began repairing the Golden Puppet, using his World Eye to trace and restore its damaged Divine Rune channels.
• Lan Shi'er and Tuanzi contacted Jiang Ping An to check on his recovery, and Long Ya then asked him to send his address and help her.

Long Ya confided in Jiang Ping An about being excluded by factions of the Lan Clan Royal Family, and his blunt advice helped her regain her resolve. After she left Hua Miao Lou, Jiang Ping An discovered the bill was far beyond his means and was offered a chance to clear it by attempting the Spirit Painting challenge.

• Jiang Ping An went with Long Ya to Hua Miao Lou, where she drank heavily before revealing that royal factions had tried to force her into a political marriage and were now denying her access to resources and respect.
• Long Ya asked Jiang Ping An not to tell Lan Shi'er about her troubles, but became angry when he first commented on the wine instead of comforting her.
• Jiang Ping An told Long Ya to accept the world's unfairness and find her own way forward, and she chose to keep cultivating until she could defeat those who had dismissed her.
• Long Ya drank and watched the dancers until she was too drunk to continue, then left Hua Miao Lou alone while Jiang Ping An stayed behind to finish the food and wine.
• A maid informed Jiang Ping An that the bill was 295 Spirit King Pills, which he could not pay, and offered him the Spirit Painting challenge as a way to have it waived and earn a reward.

Jiang Ping An accepted Hua Miao Lou’s Spirit Painting challenge, easily overcame its first two illusions, and entered a third that presented an enormous, mysterious Black Mask. As the mask’s jaw split open and threatened to swallow him, he had not yet found a way to break the final illusion.

• Jiang Ping An revealed his Second Level God King cultivation and followed the maid upstairs to attempt the Spirit Painting challenge.
• Illusion Heart King explained that the painting’s first two layers tested will and desire, while its third required rapid comprehension of an ancient divine rune structure.
• Jiang Ping An faced a golden tiger in the first illusion and remained calm until it vanished.
• Jiang Ping An rejected an illusion of his family and loved ones, shattering the second realm with his resolve to reunite with them in reality.
• Jiang Ping An examined the immense Black Mask in the third illusion, and its jaw cracked open into a widening abyss.

Jiang Ping An broke the Black Mask’s soul-parasitizing Curse Seal and completed all three Illusionary Realms, astonishing everyone at Hua Miao Lou. He declined the painting spirit’s invitation to meet her master and asked only for the promised three thousand Spirit King Pills.

• Jiang Ping An trapped the Black Mask inside his World Eye, analyzed its Curse Seals, and destroyed its core nodes before the half-hour limit.
• The mask vanished, the illusion ended, and Jiang Ping An returned to the second floor, where the maid assumed he had failed and demanded payment.
• The Spirit Painting glowed, forced the other challengers out of their illusions, and sent its woman out to congratulate Jiang Ping An for breaking all three realms.
• The painting spirit invited Jiang Ping An upstairs to meet her master, but he declined and requested his three thousand Spirit King Pills instead.

Jiang Ping An refused to meet Hua Miao Lou’s Young Master, but Ning Yun Ya summoned him after he passed the Spirit Painting’s illusions and explained that he was recruiting people to face a mind-affecting ancient totem. Ning Yun Ya offered Jiang Ping An a large payment to join the expedition, and the chapter ended with Jiang Ping An considering the offer as Ning Yun Ya presented him with thirteen thousand Spirit King Pills.

• Jiang Ping An declined the invitation to meet the Young Master and asked for the three thousand Spirit King Pills he had earned.
• Ning Yun Ya spoke through the painting spirit, cleared the other God Kings from the second floor, and appeared before Jiang Ping An.
• Ning Yun Ya explained that the Spirit Painting’s illusions tested candidates for resistance to an ancient totem that could invade their divine souls.
• Jiang Ping An questioned the operation’s danger, and Ning Yun Ya said the totem was its main threat and that his team had prepared to handle other risks.
• Ning Yun Ya offered Jiang Ping An ten thousand Spirit King Pills in advance and another ten thousand after the expedition, then handed him a ring containing thirteen thousand pills.

Jiang Ping An accepted Ning Yun Ya’s offer to join an expedition in three months and used the time-flow Cultivation Room at Hua Miao Lou to prepare. He repaired and strengthened his Golden Puppet to the Second Level God King stage, then began cultivating for the journey ahead.

• Jiang Ping An accepted Ning Yun Ya’s reward and agreed to protect him and help search for things at an undisclosed destination.
• Ning Yun Ya set the departure for three months later and invited Jiang Ping An to stay and cultivate at Hua Miao Lou, where Jiang Ping An used the alias Long Ping.
• Jiang Ping An entered a Cultivation Room with time flowing thirty times faster and finished repairing the Golden Puppet.
• Jiang Ping An bonded with the Golden Puppet, tested its abilities, and used the Heaven Mending Art and Spirit King Pills to raise it to the Second Level God King stage.
• Jiang Ping An put away the strengthened puppet and devoted the remaining time before departure to cultivating and improving his combat strength.

After seven years of cultivation, Jiang Ping An joined Ning Yun Ya and four other God Kings for a mission, disguising himself as the artifact refiner Long Ping. The group teleported to their destination and found a real Black Mask far more powerful than its illusionary counterpart, leaving Jiang Ping An awkwardly exposed at the front.

• Jiang Ping An ended his cultivation, told Lan Shi'er, Tuanzi, and the others he would be away, and went to meet Ning Yun Ya.
• Jiang Ping An, Ding Han, Zhang Yong, Mo Xiu, and Lan Jie introduced themselves and their abilities before Ning Yun Ya prepared the group to depart.
• Lan Jie dismissed the others as burdens, but Ning Yun Ya insisted that the group travel together.
• Ning Yun Ya activated a Glass Tower and teleported all six God Kings to a dark, damp location.
• The group discovered a real Black Mask whose laws and sinister pressure far exceeded those of the mask in the Third Floor Illusionary Realm.
• Jiang Ping An tried to retreat, but the others had already moved behind him, leaving him at the front facing the Black Mask.

Ning Yun Ya explained the history of the Zhum civilization and led the group into its underground ruins to search for Mummy Soul Tree remains. Jiang Ping An volunteered to scout ahead, but his Little Golden Man smashed through a wall, alarming the others and potentially attracting danger.

• Ning Yun Ya revealed that the Zhum Tribe had merged its members' consciousnesses into the Zhumu Totem before its collective mind collapsed and the other tribes destroyed it.
• Ning Yun Ya explained that the group needed Mummy Soul Tree remains, a material used in resurrection altars, and warned that the totem's lingering power was eroding their divine souls.
• Lan Jie refused to scout and pushed the risk onto Jiang Ping An, Zhang Yong, and Ding Han, while Ning Yun Ya offered an additional thousand Spirit King Pills to whoever volunteered.
• Jiang Ping An agreed to lead, sent the Little Golden Man into the dark passage, and followed it with the group keeping their distance.
• The Little Golden Man suddenly smashed a seemingly empty section of wall, causing a loud explosion that left the group confused and prompted Ding Han to rebuke Jiang Ping An for attracting monsters.

Jiang Ping An’s group drew out the creatures hiding in the cavern, where his Little Golden Man easily burned through a swarm of Masked Rats. Ning Yun Ya warned them about the stronger primates, and the chapter ended as the group charged into battle against giant apes led by God King-level creatures.

• Jiang Ping An explained that he had made noise to lure out threats while the group could still retreat if necessary.
• A swarm of Masked Rats poured from the cavern’s depths, and Jiang Ping An’s Little Golden Man incinerated those at the front with a wall of fire.
• Ning Yun Ya warned that intelligent primate creatures were more dangerous than the Masked Rats.
• Several primates appeared atop giant rats, transformed into towering apes, and charged the group, including four at the God King Third Level.
• Ning Yun Ya and the others rushed to fight the giant apes, and a battle erupted in the cavern.

Jiang Ping An and the formidable group defeated the Masked Apes and Masked Rats, then discovered a vast underground palace complex. They headed toward its sealed central palace, which resembled the Zhumu Totem and seemed to conceal something valuable.

• Lan Jie, Zhang Yong, Ning Yun Ya, Ding Han, Jiang Ping An, and Mo Xiu fought the Masked Apes and Masked Rats while Mo Xiu's array supported and protected the group.
• Jiang Ping An's Little Golden Man crushed a giant ape with a single punch and finished it off using the Supreme Yang Rule, leaving Ding Han regretting that he had sold the puppet.
• The group killed the remaining creatures, collected their corpses, and continued through the cave with the Little Golden Man scouting ahead.
• After half an hour, the group reached an underground complex of Black Giant Stone palaces and found no treasures among the accessible buildings.
• The group noticed that the largest palace's closed doors blocked their Divine Sense and that its outline resembled the Zhumu Totem, so they flew toward it.

Ning Yun Ya and the expedition group broke through the ancient barrier and entered the central palace, where they found the Mummy Soul Tree and two ancient treasures. Lan Jie ignored their agreed division and rushed for the treasures, but the tree drained much of his soul and left him gravely injured.

• Mo Xiu determined that the ancient barrier could not be deciphered but could be worn down by attacking it, so the group assaulted it until it shattered.
• Ning Yun Ya proposed taking half the palace's treasures and dividing the rest among the five others, and the group agreed.
• Lan Jie rushed ahead, kicked open the palace doors, and entered first; the group followed and found the Mummy Soul Tree with a hide scroll and an ancient clay jar in its eye sockets.
• Lan Jie tried to seize the scroll, but the Mummy Soul Tree drained his soul and hurled him into the palace wall, leaving him badly wounded.
• Ning Yun Ya explained the tree's soul-draining danger, and Lan Jie accused him of withholding the warning; Ning Yun Ya blamed Lan Jie's greed and broken agreement.

Ning Yun Ya destroyed the Mummy Soul Tree, triggering a fight over its two treasures, while Jiang Ping An escaped the melee and discovered that a fragment of the tree nourished souls. After Ning Yun Ya teleported away with Jiang Ping An and abandoned Lan Jie in the ruins, a Zhum Mask appeared on Lan Jie and an ominous voice spoke.

• Ning Yun Ya used a dark golden scroll to destroy the Mummy Soul Tree, sending its two divine artifacts flying as Lan Jie, Zhang Yong, Mo Xiu, and Ding Han fought to seize them.
• Jiang Ping An withdrew from the battle and used the Little Golden Man to retrieve a tree fragment, discovering that it released soul-nourishing power.
• Ding Han escaped with his prize, while Lan Jie attacked Mo Xiu; Zhang Yong fled with his wounded wife using a Teleportation Jade Talisman.
• Ning Yun Ya withheld Lan Jie's reward and teleported away with Jiang Ping An in the Glass Tower, leaving Lan Jie behind.
• A Zhum Mask appeared on Lan Jie as an emotionless voice claimed the treasures belonged to its Ancestor.