Chapter Summaries

Ji Shu tamed Yellow Bird with the Beast Taming Technique, then found Life Source Liquid in the Heavenly Emperor's Treasury and greatly extended his lifespan. As he flew toward Qingyun Mountain with Xiao Bai and the others, Longevity Hall learned of his return from Death Swamp and heard rumors of a Beast God resurrection in the Southern Border.

• Ji Shu planted an Ice Flame Seed in Yellow Bird's mind and repeatedly punished it until it submitted and accepted him as its master.
• Ji Shu broke into the Heavenly Emperor's Treasury, drank and refined its Life Source Liquid, comprehended the Life Dao, and increased his lifespan to several thousand years.
• Ji Shu kept the potential-unlocking stone and flew with Xiao Bai and the others toward Qingyun Mountain on Yellow Bird's back.
• Cultivators who saw Yellow Bird carrying people out of Death Swamp suspected that its riders had seized the rare treasure there.
• Geng Liuniang told Yu Yangzi that Ji Shu was likely among Yellow Bird's riders, and Yu Yangzi sent Xiao Yuanshan to investigate.
• Xiao Yuanshan told Yu Yangzi that Yun Yilan had reportedly joined Players and Transdimensional Visitors to resurrect the Beast God in the Southern Border.

Yu Yangzi learned that the Beast God had revived and hoped it would clash with Ji Shu, while Jin Ping'er discovered that beasts had overrun the lands outside Qingyun Mountain. She fled toward Qingyun Mountain as Ji Shu secretly descended onto Tongtian Peak.

• Yu Yangzi discussed the Beast God's resurrection with Geng Liuniang and decided to visit the Ghost King Sect and Myriad Poisons Sect while the Beast God fought Ji Shu.
• Qin Wuyan and Jin Ping'er received letters in Heyang City and learned that their plans had changed.
• Jin Ping'er encountered Zhou Yixian and Xiao Huan, who warned that the Beast God had emerged and the world would grow more chaotic.
• Jin Ping'er found the Joyful Union Sect's encampment destroyed, escaped the White Bone Demon Snake and its horde, and fled toward Qingyun Mountain.
• The Yellow Bird reached the Qingyun Mountain region, and Ji Shu used the Turtle Breath Method to descend into Tongtian Peak's back mountain.

Ji Shu entered the Illusory Moon Cave Mansion and passed through its vision of his memories before reaching the altar where the Zhu Xian Ancient Sword was embedded. He drew in the sword’s baleful qi, discovered that his cultivation could refine it, and continued absorbing it.

• Ji Shu slipped past the Ancestral Hall and Wan Jianyi’s guard to reach the Illusory Moon Cave Mansion.
• Ji Shu activated the Tai Chi Diagram and entered the white mist gate, where the cave revealed a vision of Earth and Ouyang Shirou.
• Ji Shu cut through the illusory city and emerged before a seven-tiered altar bearing the Zhu Xian Ancient Sword.
• Ji Shu grasped the Zhu Xian Ancient Sword and absorbed its baleful qi, which the Tai Chi Immortal Scripture refined into nourishment for his Yin Pole.
• Ji Shu recognized the sword’s qi as unusually potent and let the trembling sword pour more of it into his body.

Ji Shu comprehended the fifth scroll of the Heavenly Scripture, merged all five scrolls, and created the Supreme Immortal Scripture. After refining the Zhu Xian Ancient Sword and absorbing the cave’s Seven-Colored Sword Qi, he encountered Wan Jianyi, who demanded to know how he had mastered the sword.

• Ji Shu comprehended the fifth scroll of the Heavenly Scripture and merged it with the other four, gaining a greatly extended lifespan and rising cultivation.
• Ji Shu created the Supreme Immortal Scripture, combining many cultivation paths into a Golden Core that could refine diverse kinds of Qi into core force.
• Ji Shu refined the Zhu Xian Ancient Sword and absorbed the cave’s accumulated Seven-Colored Sword Qi, making the sword far stronger.
• Wan Jianyi entered the Illusory Moon Cave Mansion and was shocked to see Ji Shu wielding the tamed, sheathed Zhu Xian Ancient Sword.
• Ji Shu introduced himself as an outsider named Ji Shu and said he could control the sword because he was strong enough, leaving Wan Jianyi speechless.

Ji Shu refused to hand the Zhu Xian Ancient Sword to Wan Jianyi and rushed to Qingyun Sect as the Beast God’s army threatened to overwhelm it. He single-handedly routed the strange beasts with the sword, while Wan Jianyi watched in awe and stayed behind to learn more about him.

• Wan Jianyi told Ji Shu that Qingyun Sect was near collapse and asked to borrow the Zhu Xian Ancient Sword to fight the Beast God’s army.
• Ji Shu learned that Daoxuan was unconscious and Little Bamboo Peak had suffered many casualties, then hurried out of Illusory Moon Cave Mansion.
• Wan Jianyi followed Ji Shu to Tongtian Peak and saw him unleash devastating sword strikes against the beasts near Yuqing Hall.
• Ji Shu charged into the beast horde and slaughtered so many creatures that the survivors fled in panic.
• Wan Jianyi concluded that Ji Shu’s strength surpassed anything he could match and secretly listened to the Little Bamboo Peak disciples to learn more about him.

Ji Shu wielded the Zhu Xian Sword to rescue the Qingyun Sect, then swept through Heyang City and slaughtered the monsters there. As he pursued the remaining beasts, the gathered righteous and evil factions debated whether to oppose him or support him, while Bi Yao insisted that she and Ji Shu were close.

• Ji Shu arrived at the Qingyun Sect and routed the strange beasts, astonishing Master Shuiyue, Lu Xueqi, Su Ru, Tian Buyi, Daoxuan, and the other disciples.
• Ji Shu pursued the fleeing beasts to Heyang City and killed the monsters that were devouring its people.
• Jin Ping'er, Qin Wuyan, Yu Yangzi, Poison God, Bi Yao, Cangsong, and Wanrenwang watched Ji Shu depart and discussed the threat he posed.
• Bi Yao declared that the Ghost King Sect would not oppose Ji Shu and urged the gathered Holy Cult members to submit to him and help unite the righteous and evil paths.
• Yu Yangzi suggested helping the Beast God against Ji Shu, but Bi Yao rejected the plan and claimed she and Ji Shu had once stayed in the same room for more than half a month.

The Holy Cult alliance fractured as its leaders weighed whether to oppose Ji Shu or support his path to the Upper Realm. Ji Shu met the Beast God and killed him and his Taotie, leaving the Beast God’s final thoughts on Linglong.

• Bi Yao and Wanrenwang argued that the alliance should not target Ji Shu, while Third Wonderful Fairy supported his plan to unite the righteous and evil paths and open the Gate to the Upper Realm.
• Wanrenwang regretted driving Ji Shu from the Ghost King Sect and questioned whether to continue the Four Spirits Blood Array.
• Ji Shu traveled south and encountered the Beast God, who explained that he planned to destroy the world in revenge for Linglong’s death.
• The Beast God attacked Ji Shu with a massive palm, but Ji Shu countered with the Zhu Xian Ancient Sword.
• Ji Shu’s sword strikes pierced the Beast God and his Taotie, and the dying Beast God mourned that Linglong had never met Ji Shu before he died.

After slaying the Beast God, Ji Shu began unifying the righteous and demonic paths, accepting Third Wonderful Fairy and her disciples’ allegiance. He killed Blood Sucking Old Demon and the other fleeing Myriad Poisons Sect leaders with a single sword strike, leaving the newly submitted women stunned by his power.

• Ji Shu returned from the Beast God’s defeat and learned he had spent more than a month at Qingyun Mountain.
• Ji Shu set out to unify the sects, but found the Myriad Poisons Sect had been wiped out by the Beast God’s calamity.
• Third Wonderful Fairy and her disciples knelt before Ji Shu and agreed to submit after speaking with Xiao Bai.
• Third Wonderful Fairy told Ji Shu where Poison God and the other Myriad Poisons Sect leaders were hiding, then led him to them.
• Blood Sucking Old Demon and the others fled and tried to resist Ji Shu’s sword, but he killed them all with one strike.

Ji Shu forced the remaining Holy Cult factions to submit and brought their leaders to Qingyun Sect. Bi Yao became his personal attendant, while Third Wonderful Fairy hoped to arrange the same for Jin Ping'er.

• Yu Yangzi surrendered Longevity Hall after learning that Ji Shu had defeated the Beast God and killed Blood Sucking Old Demon and the other cultivators.
• Poison God and Qin Wuyan were captured, and Poison God readily pledged allegiance to Ji Shu.
• Wanrenwang surrendered the Ghost King Sect, and Bi Yao asked to become Ji Shu’s personal attendant; Ji Shu agreed.
• Ji Shu led the surrendered factions on Yellow Bird to Qingyun Sect, while Third Wonderful Fairy resolved to seek a chance to send Jin Ping'er to him.

Ji Shu entered Qingyun Sect with the Demonic Path leaders and secured Daoxuan’s agreement for the sect to submit to his effort to unite the righteous and demonic paths. After the factions began persuading other sects to join, Ji Shu went to Qingyun Sect’s Library Pavilion with Bi Yao and Lu Xueqi attending him.

• Ji Shu arrived at Yuqing Hall with Poison God, Wanrenwang, and other Demonic Path leaders, where Daoxuan and Qingyun Sect’s disciples received him.
• Bi Yao grew wary of Lu Xueqi’s attention toward Ji Shu as the guests entered Yuqing Hall and discussed the state of the world.
• Tian Buyi, Master Shuiyue, and other Qingyun Sect leaders urged Daoxuan to cooperate, reminding him of Ji Shu’s aid and likely eventual ascension.
• Daoxuan agreed that Qingyun Sect would submit to Ji Shu until he ascended, and promised to help persuade Tianyin Temple and other righteous sects.
• Poison God, Third Wonderful Fairy, Wanrenwang, and others set out to subdue Demonic Path factions while Daoxuan led Qingyun Sect members to persuade righteous sects.
• Ji Shu went to Qingyun Sect’s Library Pavilion to read, accompanied by Bi Yao and Lu Xueqi.

Ji Shu completed his mission in the Zhu Xian World, claimed a World-Crossing Talisman, and established a sealed gateway on Kongsang Mountain. As he prepared to ascend, he invited Bi Yao, Lu Xueqi, and the others to gather at his new Mountain Sea Gate.

• Ji Shu studied Qingyun Sect's scriptures, Longevity Hall's cultivation arts, and Southern Border witchcraft, mastering their techniques and refining the Supreme Immortal Scripture.
• Ji Shu upgraded the Supreme Immortal Scripture, created the Myriad Laws Dao Sword Art, and traveled with Bi Yao, Lu Xueqi, Xiao Bai, and the others.
• Ji Shu received notice that he had completed the Main Quest and claimed a World-Crossing Talisman as his reward.
• Ji Shu placed the world gateway on Kongsang Mountain, chose one gate as the Gate to the Upper Realm, and sealed the Zhu Xian World from other Players without his permission.
• Ji Shu announced that he would establish Mountain Sea Gate on Kongsang Mountain and named Xiao Bai and the others as its elders.

The righteous and demonic factions finished renovating Kongsang Mountain and established Mountain Sea Gate around the Gate to the Upper Realm. Ji Shu returned and announced that he would ascend from there later, leaving the others to look after the new sect.

• Bi Yao and cultivators from both factions cleared and renovated Kongsang Mountain to build Mountain Sea Gate.
• Master Puhong, True Master Daoxuan, and others discussed the Gate to the Upper Realm and the people who had already ascended or planned to ascend.
• Faxiang and Fashan expressed their curiosity about Ji Shu, whom Faxiang felt he had encountered before.
• Ji Shu returned on Yellow Bird as the assembled cultivators welcomed him.
• Ji Shu declared Mountain Sea Gate established and said he would ascend from there later, asking everyone to protect the sect.

Ji Shu searched the Full Moon Ancient Well for the missing Yue Lao, then flew beyond the astral winds to explore the ruins of the Heavenly Court. In the shattered Ling Xiao Treasure Hall, he found the Heavenly Emperor Scripture and obtained the Investiture of the Gods, which he began refining.

• Ji Shu left Mountain Sea Gate with Lu Xueqi and Bi Yao after learning that Xiao Bai, Hu Sanniang, and Hu Xiaoliu had made great progress in cultivation.
• Ji Shu searched the Full Moon Ancient Well for Yue Lao but found her gone, and he tied Red Strings around Bi Yao's and Lu Xueqi's wrists.
• Ji Shu flew upward on Yellow Bird, broke through the astral winds alone, and reached the islands and ruins above the sky.
• Ji Shu explored the remains of Ling Xiao Treasure Hall and discovered the Heavenly Emperor Scripture, which explained the Five Scrolls of the Heavenly Book and the Heavenly Emperor's plans for the Three Realms.
• Ji Shu solved a heart-testing mechanism beneath the Emperor's Seat, retrieved the Investiture of the Gods, and began refining it with the Spiritual Essence in Ling Xiao Treasure Hall.

Ji Shu used the Investiture of the Gods to enfeoff Yue Lao as a high-ranking god and entrusted her with authority to appoint other gods. He traveled with Yue Lao, Bi Yao, and Lu Xueqi to the Underworld, where Old Man Black Heart demanded the Investiture of the Gods.

• Ji Shu realized the Investiture of the Gods could enfeoff gods and make them immortal, but he rejected becoming a god himself.
• Ji Shu enfeoffed Yue Lao as Yue Lao, and she emerged from the broken cloud and reunited with him.
• Ji Shu gave Yue Lao the Investiture of the Gods and told her to appoint kind people as gods, after learning about mortal life.
• Ji Shu, Yue Lao, Bi Yao, and Lu Xueqi traveled through the Three Realms and entered the Underworld beneath the Sky-Connecting Jianmu Tree.
• Old Man Black Heart demanded that Ji Shu's group hand over the Investiture of the Gods, and Ji Shu challenged him to take it.

Old Man Black Heart seized the Investiture of the Gods, but it swallowed him when he tried to refine it. Ji Shu destroyed the Judge and Ghost Officers who attacked, and Yue Lao learned how the Investiture bound anyone who tried to claim it without his permission.

• Old Man Black Heart took the Investiture of the Gods from Yue Lao and tried to refine it so he could become Heavenly Emperor.
• The Investiture of the Gods swallowed Old Man Black Heart, leaving his subordinates confused and hostile toward Ji Shu and his companions.
• The Judge and Ghost Officers charged at Ji Shu's group, but Ji Shu's power killed the first attackers and sent the others fleeing.
• Ji Shu unleashed ten thousand tracking sword shadows from the Azure Edge Sword and killed the remaining Fierce Ghosts.
• Yue Lao picked up the Investiture of the Gods and saw Old Man Black Heart's shadow branded on its reverse side.
• Ji Shu explained that anyone who tried to refine the Investiture without his permission would become a minor official bound to it.

Ji Shu and the three women freed Qing Ye from beneath King Yama's Throne and learned how he had attained the Dao by refining the Yama Seal and conquering three paths. After Ji Shu defeated him, they enfeoffed a Nine-Life Virtuous Man as King Yama, stripping Qing Ye of his authority over the Underworld.

• Qing Ye emerged from beneath King Yama's Throne and demanded to know where Old Man Black Heart had gone.
• Yue Lao showed Qing Ye the Investiture of the Gods, and he learned that Ji Shu had captured Old Man Black Heart.
• Qing Ye explained how he had refined the Yama Seal and conquered the Human Path, Beast Path, and Hell Path to attain the Dao.
• Qing Ye attacked Ji Shu with the Yama Seal, but Ji Shu blasted it away with a storm of sword radiance, forcing Qing Ye to concede.
• Ji Shu offered Qing Ye a place on the Investiture of the Gods, but Qing Ye refused and accepted becoming a wild ghost instead.
• Ji Shu and the women found a Nine-Life Virtuous Man in the Human Path and enfeoffed him as King Yama, causing Qing Ye to lose the Underworld's authority.

Ji Shu entered the Hell Library with the newly invested King Yama and began searching its records for useful cultivation methods. After learning how the library recorded the lives of Underworld souls, he asked the King Yama to gather books containing martial and immortal arts.

• Qing Ye regretted refusing Ji Shu’s invitation after seeing the King Yama’s power bind every wandering soul and ghost.
• Ji Shu entered the Hall of Yama’s hidden Hell Library under the King Yama’s guidance.
• The King Yama explained that the library’s rule-formed books recorded the lives and memories of ghosts who entered the Underworld.
• Ji Shu read the life of Lin Xun and found the Innate Undying Scripture, whose body-tempering method could help improve his Supreme Immortal Scripture.
• Ji Shu asked the King Yama to bring forward books about martial arts and immortal arts, and the King Yama began rearranging the library.

After leaving the Underworld, Ji Shu secluded himself at Incense Burning Valley and absorbed countless martial arts into his techniques, advancing his cultivation and preparing to ascend. Before leaving seclusion, he sensed an otherworldly aura in the Eight Fiends Mystic Fire Array and forcibly refined the Mystic Fire Mirror, revealing the frightened dragon-shaped Primordial Spirit within it.

• Ji Shu finished studying Hell Library, learned Qing Ye’s remaining arts, and left the Underworld with Bi Yao and Lu Xueqi while King Yama resumed Qing Ye’s trial.
• Ji Shu practiced Slay Ghost God, Seven Star Sword Style, Heavenly Ice Falling True Art, and many other techniques, including arts recorded in Duan Zhengchun’s memories such as the Six Meridian Divine Sword and North Profound Divine Art.
• After two months of secluded cultivation, Ji Shu’s Supreme Immortal Scripture reached version 3.0, his sword art grew stronger, and he decided it was time to ascend.
• Ji Shu sensed an otherworldly aura in the Eight Fiends Mystic Fire Array and forcibly refined the Mystic Fire Mirror, making its dragon-shaped Primordial Spirit respond to him in fear.

Ji Shu entered the fire world through the Mystic Fire Mirror and absorbed energy from its border with the Ice Sea to condense Taiji Orbs. Linglong and Qingyunzi appeared to stop him from draining the realm, and Ji Shu learned who they were before the chapter ended.

• Ji Shu opened a rift to the fire world with the Mystic Fire Mirror, killed the flame beasts that attacked him, and entered.
• Ji Shu crossed the sea of fire, found an endless Ice Sea, and sat between the two to absorb their energies and condense Taiji Orbs.
• Ji Shu compressed three mountain-sized Taiji Orbs into thumb-sized bombs before he could absorb no more.
• Linglong and Qingyunzi emerged and warned Ji Shu that draining the seas' source energy would collapse the Heavenly God Path and endanger its inhabitants and the other Paths.
• Ji Shu stopped absorbing and learned that the beautiful woman was Linglong, the Witch Clan witch maiden who created the Beast God, and the other figure was Qingyunzi, founder of the Qingyun Sect.
• Qingyunzi was relieved to learn from Ji Shu that the Qingyun Sect still existed and led the righteous path alongside another sect.

Ji Shu appointed Linglong and Qingyunzi as Water God and Fire God, then learned their secret arts and returned to the Mortal Realm. He entered the Asura Realm and unleashed the Eight Fiends Mystic Fire Array against its Asuras.

• Linglong and Qingyunzi explained the Heavenly God Realm’s fragility, and Ji Shu appointed them Water God and Fire God with the Investiture of the Gods.
• Linglong taught Ji Shu array techniques, while Qingyunzi taught him Earth Escape, Water Escape, and Physiognomy; he perfected all of them almost instantly.
• Linglong descended to the Mortal Realm, learned about Ji Shu’s origins and the changes there, then returned and told Qingyunzi what she had discovered.
• Ji Shu took the Fu Long Ding from the Ghost King Sect and used it to open a passage into the Asura Realm, leaving Wanrenwang to regret his pursuit of the Four Spirits Blood Array and suspect Ghost Mister.
• Asuras attacked Ji Shu when he arrived, and he summoned the Eight Fiends Mystic Fire Array, whose blazing beasts crushed wave after wave of them.