Chapter Summaries

Ji Shu attained the Supreme Dao Fruit, which strengthened the Six Realms and merged his Invincible Domains into one spanning the mortal world as well. As he prepared to ascend to greater heights, he began reforging the Painted World into a powerful cultivation resource.

• The East City God pleaded for his life, while Marshal Tianpeng’s army detained him; River God Feng Yi was relieved that he had once distanced himself from Song Jiang.
• Wanrenwang met Master Puhong on the road to Mount Qingcheng, and the two former acquaintances decided to seek discipleship at Bai Suzhen’s sect.
• After months of study, Ji Shu created the Supreme Immortal Scripture and attained the Supreme Dao Fruit, causing the Six Realms’ spiritual energy and Dao comprehension to improve.
• Ji Shu’s five Invincible Domains merged, giving him their protection throughout the five realms and the mortal world.
• Ji Shu took the Painted World to the Treasure Vault and began reforging it, combining it with the Divine Brush and the essences of treasures including the Wind Fire Wheels, Fire-Tipped Spear, and Universe Ring.

Ji Shu completed the Painted World, then ascended from the Six Realms and entered the Journey to the West Great World. After accepting its quest, he awakened the Bloodline Talent: Supreme, which could infinitely increase the potential of his bloodline.

• Ji Shu completed the Painted World, and its birth sent seven-colored treasure light across the Six Realms, awing gods and cultivators.
• Ji Shu concealed the Painted World in his palm, gathered the gods to explain his arrangements, and entered the Immortal Gate to ascend.
• Bai Suzhen, Xiao Qing, and Xin Shisi Niang mourned Ji Shu’s departure, while Xiao Qing persuaded Xin Shisi Niang to stay and cultivate.
• After Ji Shu left, the Six Realms’ cultivators and gods hesitated to rebel or ascend, fearing the dangers of other worlds and Ji Shu’s possible return.
• Ji Shu entered the Journey to the West Great World, accepted the quest to become its greatest expert and unify the Three Thousand Worlds, and awakened Bloodline Talent: Supreme.

Ji Shu entered the Journey to the West World and moved his Dao Fruits and Invincible Domain into the Painted World, allowing the Supreme Immortal Scripture to absorb his other methods and grow far stronger. While secretly exploring Xingguo Temple, he discovered that the monks were sinister and that Master Juehui was holding Guan Yu captive in a treasure cage.

• Ji Shu placed his Dao Fruits and Invincible Domain in the Painted World, then fused the Dharma power of his many methods into the Supreme Immortal Scripture and broke into a higher realm.
• Ji Shu concealed himself with the Painted World and other techniques and entered a lavish temple filled with powerful monks.
• Ji Shu found that invisible barriers prevented him from leaving the temple, so he followed monks deeper underground to investigate.
• Ji Shu watched Master Juehui use golden liquid to prepare a barrel of medicinal soup and reveal a cage holding a tiny Guan Yu.
• Guan Yu accused Master Juehui of betraying him at Xingguo Temple and struck the cage with his Azure Dragon Crescent Blade, but could not damage it.

Ji Shu defeated the old monk of Xingguo Temple and captured Guan Yu. The monk’s Primordial Spirit was trapped in Ji Shu’s Mystic Fire Mirror World and tortured by Samadhi True Fire, while Ji Shu was left facing Guan Yu in the cage.

• Guan Yu hurled his Azure Dragon Crescent Blade through the cage at the old monk, forcing Ji Shu to dodge and drawing the monk into attacking him.
• Ji Shu met the old monk’s palm strike with the Heaven-Turning Palm, then killed him with a single sword strike.
• The old monk tried to escape as a Primordial Spirit, but Ji Shu struck and sent him into the Mystic Fire Mirror World.
• The old monk was chained to the Heaven-Piercing Divine Fire Pillar and burned by Samadhi True Fire as the Painted World’s Gods and Buddhas watched and discussed his fate.
• Ji Shu beckoned the cage into his hand and looked at Guan Yu, who looked back at him.

Ji Shu rescued Guan Yu from Xingguo Temple and learned that powerful figures from lesser worlds could ascend into the Journey to the West Great World. After interrogating Master Juehui, Ji Shu discovered that the world’s immortals used spirit-devouring methods to evade the Five Decays, and suspected Xingguo Temple’s monks did the same.

• Guan Yu told Ji Shu how he had shattered the sky to ascend from the Mythical Three Kingdoms World, only to be captured and caged by Master Juehui.
• Ji Shu disguised himself as Juehui to dismiss the monks who came to investigate, then refined the God-Locking Golden Cage and examined Juehui’s Jade Pure Bottle.
• Guan Yu said he could faintly sense that his original world lay below, and Ji Shu bewitched Juehui to question him.
• Juehui revealed his Earth Immortal cultivation, the world’s hierarchy of realms, the Five Decays, and secret methods that consumed other people’s spirits and lifespans.
• Ji Shu recognized that Juehui’s Spirit Nourishing Undying Buddhist Dharma relied on spirit devouring and suspected the monks of Xingguo Temple practiced similar methods.

Ji Shu learned about the deadly Heavenly Tribulation of Five Decays and Master Xuanzang’s whereabouts, then began cultivating Monk Juehui’s Buddhist arts at Xingguo Temple. He mastered the arts with astonishing speed and advanced toward forming a Vajra body.

• Ji Shu learned from Monk Juehui that cultivators faced recurring Heavenly Tribulations of Five Decays and that the monk had resorted to devouring spirits to survive.
• Ji Shu discovered he was in Southern Jambudvipa, heard that Xuanzang had returned to Golden Mountain Temple, and decided to stay away from him and the Journey to the West group.
• Ji Shu began cultivating Monk Juehui’s arts and quickly mastered the God Annihilation Palm and Eight-Clawed Hand, manifesting sinister phenomena that shocked Guan Yu.
• Ji Shu cultivated the Spirit Nourishing Undying Buddhist Dharma, absorbed Spiritual Essence and Buddhist energy, and formed a flawless Primordial Spirit within a Buddha statue.
• Ji Shu reached the limits of the mortal world and began the leap toward a Vajra body as his Primordial Spirit entered his sea of consciousness and the Buddha statue merged with his body.

Ji Shu perfected the Spirit Nourishing Undying Buddhist Dharma and disguised himself as Monk Juehui to meet Yuan Shoucheng of the Great Tang Imperial Observatory. When Yuan Shoucheng discovered that the real Juehui was dead and attacked, Ji Shu captured him inside the Painted World.

• Ji Shu cultivated the Spirit Nourishing Undying Buddhist Dharma to the perfected Earth Immortal realm, astonishing Guan Yu.
• Ji Shu began integrating the Buddhist Dharma into the Supreme Immortal Scripture, hoping to advance it toward the Celestial Immortal level.
• After Master Juewu summoned him to receive an envoy from the Great Tang Emperor Li Shimin, Ji Shu mind-bewitched Monk Juehui and learned about Xingguo Temple's monks.
• Ji Shu met Yuan Shoucheng, concealed his ignorance of their past dealings, and blamed his memory loss on the Heavenly Tribulation of Five Decays.
• Yuan Shoucheng calculated that the real Monk Juehui was dead, attacked Ji Shu, and tried to flee, but Ji Shu trapped him and took him into the Painted World.

Ji Shu captured Yuan Shoucheng and killed Monk Juewu, while the Gods and Buddhas debated how to keep Ji Shu safe from the upper realm’s powerful figures. Yuan Shoucheng’s Primordial Spirit was dragged into a strange purgatorial space and bound to a Heaven-Piercing Divine Fire Pillar.

• The Gods and Buddhas formed an array, suppressed Yuan Shoucheng, and sealed him inside the palm-sized God-Locking Golden Cage.
• The Gods and Buddhas discussed how to prevent Ji Shu from clashing with powerful experts and chose Li Yingqi and Wu Song to persuade him.
• At Xingguo Temple, Ji Shu seized Monk Juewu with his Eight-Clawed Hand and dragged him into the Painted World.
• The Gods struck Monk Juewu, shattered his body, and bound his Primordial Spirit with an iron chain that dragged him away.
• Yuan Shoucheng asked the Gods and Buddhas to summon Ji Shu, but an iron chain pierced his body and carried his Primordial Spirit to a purgatorial space, where it bound him to a Heaven-Piercing Divine Fire Pillar.

Ji Shu captured Yuan Shoucheng, extracted his techniques and knowledge of the Journey to the West plan, and perfected the arts needed to impersonate him. He left Xingguo Temple disguised as Yuan Shoucheng just as the Day and Night Roaming Gods were closing in.

• Ji Shu burned Yuan Shoucheng and the monks with Samadhi True Fire, subdued them, and ordered Xingguo Temple's monks to guard the sealed main hall.
• Ji Shu used the Mind Bewitching Technique on Yuan Shoucheng and learned his techniques, laws, past life, and plan to entrap the Jing River Dragon King.
• Ji Shu learned that the Day and Night Roaming Gods were searching for Yuan Shoucheng and perfected Yuan Shoucheng's four signature techniques.
• Ji Shu cultivated the Thick Earth Divine Art and Profound Dao Spirit Condensing Method to perfection, then calculated that the roaming gods would reach Xingguo Temple within half a day.
• Ji Shu transformed into Yuan Shoucheng, told the guards that the others would remain in seclusion for months, and left Xingguo Temple.

Ji Shu impersonated Yuan Shoucheng and returned to Chang'an, intending to complete the scheme against the Jing River Dragon King before escaping the gods' scrutiny. He attended Li Shimin's Mid-Autumn banquet, where he recognized Wei Zheng, another reincarnated Celestial Immortal official.

• Ji Shu decided to impersonate Yuan Shoucheng, complete the task of trapping the Jing River Dragon King, and flee afterward.
• The Day Roaming God watched Ji Shu on the road but found no flaw in his disguise and flew away.
• Ji Shu returned to Chang'an and met Yuan Tiangang, then withdrew to prepare for his coming meeting with the Jing River Dragon King.
• Yuan Tiangang invited Ji Shu to Li Shimin's Mid-Autumn banquet, and Ji Shu calculated that no danger awaited him before accepting.
• Li Shimin welcomed Ji Shu at the palace banquet and seated him among the honored guests, where Ji Shu recognized Wei Zheng.

Ji Shu began telling fortunes in Chang'an and drew a crowd with his accurate predictions. The Jing River Dragon King, disguised as Ao Jing, challenged Ji Shu to predict the next day's rain, and Ji Shu accepted, unaware that Heaven's aid had shaped his calculation.

• Ji Shu read Yuan Tiangang's books on calculation arts, grasped their essence, and resolved to stay wary of him.
• Ji Shu set up Yuan Shoucheng's fortune-telling stall, where a fisherman thanked him and presented a golden carp carrying Dragon Qi.
• Princes, nobles, and commoners queued for readings, and Ji Shu saw the martial strength of Cheng Chusi and Princess Huainan.
• Ao Jing arrived after Ji Shu prepared to leave and demanded a fortune; Ji Shu recognized him as a Four-Clawed True Dragon and suspected he was the Jing River Dragon King.
• Ji Shu predicted rain at specific times and a precise rainfall for the following day, and Ao Jing wagered fifty taels of gold against the prediction.
• Ao Jing revealed his name, and Ji Shu calculated that he was the Jing River Dragon King, who had come intending to kill him before changing his plan.

Ao Jing defied the Heavenly Court’s rain order after learning that Yuan Shoucheng had predicted it exactly, then confronted Yuan Shoucheng after the rain. Yuan Shoucheng warned that Ao Jing would soon be executed for altering the rain, leaving Ao Jing terrified and reconsidering his growing influence.

• Ao Jing learned from the Heavenly Court’s edict that Yuan Shoucheng had accurately predicted the rain’s timing, amount, and duration.
• Despite recognizing Yuan Shoucheng’s abilities, Ao Jing decided to alter the rain and did so the next day, changing its timing and withholding some of its volume.
• Ao Jing went to Yuan Shoucheng’s stall and overturned it, declaring that the rain had differed from the prediction.
• Yuan Shoucheng, who was Ji Shu in disguise, told Ao Jing that the Heavenly Court would execute him and send him to the Dragon Slaying Platform for altering the rain.
• Ao Jing doubted the warning but grew increasingly afraid as he considered that his expanding network might have provoked the Heavenly Emperor.

Ji Shu persuaded Ao Jing to offer dragon clan arts and told him to seek Li Shimin’s protection from Wei Zheng, then left Chang’an after giving Li Yuanfang a cultivation manual. Li Yuanfang departed the Imperial Observatory with his fate changed, while Ji Shu slipped past a Well Dragon King and headed east underground.

• Ao Jing apologized to Ji Shu, offered him several dragon clan arts, and asked how to escape being beheaded by Wei Zheng.
• Ji Shu told Ao Jing to plead with Li Shimin, then returned to the Imperial Observatory and announced that he would leave to wander the Four Seas.
• Ji Shu gave his attendant the Thick Earth Divine Art; the attendant revealed his true name was Li Yuanfang and vowed to cultivate diligently.
• Li Yuanfang told Yuan Tiangang that Ji Shu had gone wandering and that he was leaving too, while keeping the reason for his changed fate secret.
• Ji Shu realized the attendant was Li Yuanfang, left the Imperial Observatory, and used concealment techniques to pass the Well Dragon King unnoticed before traveling east through an underground river.

After escaping Chang'an City through an underground river, Ji Shu mastered the dragon techniques taught by the Jing River Dragon King and activated a powerful dragon bloodline talent. He perfected the Heavenly Wave Water Control Art and continued eastward, now able to transform into a Five-Clawed Golden Dragon.

• Ji Shu used divination and Water Evasion to leave Chang'an City by its underground river, then relaxed after putting distance between himself and the city.
• Ji Shu recalled that the Jing River Dragon King had taught him the Nine Transformations of the Dragon God, the Dragon Roaming Art, and the Heavenly Wave Water Control Art.
• Ji Shu perfected the dragon techniques and, as his bloodline talent awakened, reached the ninth transformation and gained the ability to become a Five-Clawed Golden Dragon.
• Ji Shu realized that his activated dragon potential let him transform so completely that even dragon kin could not detect anything unusual.
• Ji Shu traveled east through the underground river and perfected the Heavenly Wave Water Control Art in one day.

Ji Shu traveled toward the East Sea in the form of an ordinary flood dragon to avoid drawing attention, but he encountered Qiu Baisu, a princess of the Sea Clam Tribe fleeing the Jing River Dragon Palace. After she revealed that the Jing River Dragon King was dead and offered to disclose the location of his treasure, a group of figures arrived, leaving their intentions unclear.

• Ji Shu completed his secluded cultivation after fusing the essence of his other techniques into the Supreme Immortal Scripture, then transformed into an ordinary flood dragon and set out for the East Sea.
• Ji Shu met Qiu Baisu beneath the Yellow River as she fled from Crab General Fu Bo the Great Commander and pleaded for his protection.
• Qiu Baisu told Ji Shu that the Jing River Dragon King had been executed, his family arrested, and the Dragon Palace thrown into chaos.
• Qiu Baisu explained that Fu Bo had killed her sisters while pursuing her for knowledge of the Jing River Dragon King's hidden treasure.
• Ji Shu learned through his calculations that Qiu Baisu was a princess of the Sea Clam Tribe and had served as a teacher at the Jing River Dragon Palace.
• Waves surged toward Ji Shu and Qiu Baisu, and several figures emerged from them.

Ji Shu defended Qiu Baisu from Commander Fubo and killed him and his shrimp soldiers and crab generals in an instant. He captured their Primordial Spirits in a Lesser World, where Commander Fubo encountered Li Kui and was left to suffer in Samadhi True Fire.

• Commander Fubo led hundreds of shrimp soldiers and crab generals to seize Qiu Baisu and demanded that Ji Shu stand aside.
• Ji Shu rejected Commander Fubo's threats and attacked with his sword and water techniques, killing him and all his subordinates.
• Ji Shu seized the defeated demons' Primordial Spirits and sent them into a Lesser World, where they were bound and burned.
• Commander Fubo recognized the Samadhi True Fire and begged for mercy, but Li Kui appeared, mocked him, and left him trapped in the flames.

Ji Shu reached the Jing River Dragon King's hidden treasure vault, where he discovered the Heavenly Immortal-level Illusory Sea Drifting Art and began cultivating it. As he advanced to the Earth Immortal realm, his Mist Dragon bloodline unlocked the art's full potential and removed its cultivation barriers.

• Ji Shu slaughtered Commander Fubo and his five or six hundred troops, then led Qiu Baisu toward the Jing River Dragon King's treasure vault.
• Qiu Baisu gave Ji Shu the Hidden Dragon Pearl, and they used its concealment to slip past the powerful patrols around the Si River Dragon Palace.
• Ji Shu saw Ao Xuan torturing clam maidens in the palace, then followed Qiu Baisu to the hidden entrance beside a coral reef as Ao Xuan arrived to search for them.
• Ji Shu and Qiu Baisu entered the vault and found rare treasures, a spiritual spring, and the Misty Dragon Divine Treasure Stele inscribed with the Illusory Sea Drifting Art.
• Ji Shu cultivated the art for several days, reached the Earth Immortal realm, and discovered that his activated Mist Dragon bloodline had removed its cultivation shackles.

Ji Shu broke through to Heavenly Immortal perfection by cultivating the Illusory Sea Drifting Art, then used the Painted World to collect the treasures in the hidden realm. After he and Qiu Baisu emerged, Dragon King Ao Xuan confronted them and ordered his army to attack, but Ji Shu engulfed the forces in clouds and mist.

• Ji Shu awakened his Mist Dragon bloodline potential, broke through the Heavenly Immortal barrier, and quickly cultivated the Illusory Sea Drifting Art to perfection.
• Qiu Baisu watched Ji Shu’s astonishing rise and became convinced that he was a Mist Dragon of exceptional power and background.
• Ji Shu used the Painted World to carry off the realm’s treasures, trees, and Misty Dragon Divine Treasure Stele, and took spiritual water from the spring before leaving with Qiu Baisu.
• Ji Shu and Qiu Baisu emerged from the cave and were surrounded by shrimp soldiers and crab generals led by a water tiger demon.
• Dragon King Ao Xuan arrived, mocked Qiu Baisu, and ordered his soldiers to seize and torture Ji Shu.
• Ji Shu waved his hand and engulfed Ao Xuan and the army of more than a hundred thousand in clouds and mist.

Ji Shu defeated Ao Xuan’s army, captured the Dragon Palace and its people in the Painted World, and learned powerful dragon arts before traveling to the Dawen River. He secretly entered a hidden cavern beneath the Mermaid’s domain and cultivated the Ancestral Dragon Divine Art to the Earth Immortal realm.

• Ji Shu trapped Ao Xuan’s army in the Illusory Sea Drifting Art, killed Ao Xuan, and captured his Primordial Spirit in the Painted World.
• After Ji Shu offered mercy, tens of thousands of aquatic troops surrendered, and he brought them and the remaining Dragon Palace women into the Painted World.
• Ji Shu collected the Si River Dragon Palace and its treasures, while Qiu Baisu chose to live inside the Painted World.
• Ji Shu extracted Ao Xuan’s arts and the Ancestral Dragon Divine Art, then traveled in disguise to the Dawen River to avoid the East Sea Dragon King.
• Ji Shu witnessed the Mermaid capsize a boat and lure its crew away, then used the Shrink Spell to enter a concealed cavern beneath her Crystal Palace.
• Ji Shu cultivated Ao Xuan’s water and other arts to perfection, then comprehended the Ancestral Dragon Divine Art and advanced it to the Earth Immortal realm.

After reaching the perfected Heavenly Immortal realm in the Ancestral Dragon Divine Art, Ji Shu left his secluded cave and was mistaken for a treasure-finding Little Folk by Yu Feixue and her Mermaid Tribe. At the Crystal Palace, he learned of the tribe’s near-destruction and Ao Xuan’s exploitation, while meeting the captive Xu Changqing.

• Ji Shu perfected his Heavenly Immortal cultivation, formed a Five-Clawed Golden Dragon in his dantian, and resolved to seek the Dragon King of the East Sea’s complete Ancestral Dragon Divine Art.
• Ji Shu drained the spirit spring, stored the cave’s treasures in the Painted World, and left in Little Folk form, where Yu Feixue caught him in a net.
• Ji Shu escaped Yu Feixue’s net, revealed himself, and agreed to cooperate after deciding to investigate her and seek the Mermaid Tribe’s cultivation technique.
• Yu Feixue told Ji Shu that assassins had devastated the Mermaid Tribe and that Ao Xuan had forced the survivors to seize rivers before exploiting them and demanding their beauties.
• At the Crystal Palace, Ji Shu learned that the Mermaids could identify ascenders by observing qi, while Yu Feixue ordered captive Xu Changqing to pour wine and demanded that he teach her people the Sword Control Technique.