Chapter Summaries

Ji Shu traded Dragon Saliva Fruits with Yu Feixue for books of spells and cultivation arts, then mastered hundreds of techniques in moments and revealed his true stature. Yu Feixue offered him leadership of the Crystal Palace and wondered what he wanted from her in exchange for further help.

• Yu Feixue learned Xu Changqing wanted to save his wife and daughter, directed him to seek a master in Great Tang, and sent him away with a map, clothes, and money.
• Ji Shu offered Yu Feixue Dragon Saliva Fruits in exchange for the Crystal Palace’s spell books, and she brought him hundreds of texts collected from ascenders.
• Ji Shu read more than a thousand books and learned that their techniques came from ascenders from many different worlds.
• Yu Feixue tried to persuade Ji Shu to master the books gradually, but he perfected hundreds of techniques in moments and drained the Crystal Palace’s Spiritual Essence.
• Ji Shu grew to ordinary human size and revealed his dragon horns, prompting Yu Feixue to mistake him for the Dragon King of the East Sea and offer him leadership of the Crystal Palace.

Ji Shu learned the Mermaid clan’s arts and accepted Yu Feixue and her clansmen as followers, then confronted the Flood Demon King when he threatened the Crystal Palace. Ji Shu overwhelmed the Flood Demon King with his sword, leaving him trapped beneath a storm of Sword Qi.

• Yu Feixue agreed to exchange the Mermaid clan’s arts and methods for Dragon Saliva Fruits and asked to lead her clansmen into Ji Shu’s Lesser World.
• Ji Shu perfected the Bewitching Melody Technique and the Mermaid clan’s other arts, then learned that the Flood Demon King had deceived Yu Feixue into collecting spells for him.
• The Flood Demon King arrived at the Crystal Palace and demanded that Yu Feixue hand over Qing Ji, threatening to slaughter her clan when she refused.
• The Flood Demon King attacked Ji Shu, but Ji Shu seized his staff and countered with the Sword in Stone.
• Ji Shu’s sword broke through the Flood Demon King’s techniques and defenses, and Myriad Swords Returning to Origin engulfed him in Sword Qi.

Ji Shu killed the Flood Demon King, moved the Little Mermaids and the Crystal Palace into the Painted World, and cultivated the Great Law of Embracing Origin with Azure Water to completion at the Heavenly Immortal realm. After learning the Flood Demon King’s techniques and secrets, Ji Shu began cultivating the Demonic Purple Moon Distant Heaven Swallowing Great Law.

• Ji Shu captured the Flood Demon King and imprisoned him beside Ao Xuan, where Samadhi True Fire tortured him.
• Ji Shu offered to take Yu Feixue and the Little Mermaids away; they packed and entered the Painted World, where Qiu Baisu welcomed them.
• Ji Shu stored the Crystal Palace in the Painted World and followed Yu Feixue to the spirit spring at Little Qing River.
• Ji Shu cultivated the Great Law of Embracing Origin with Azure Water to the completed Heavenly Immortal realm, awakening a Fish God bloodline ability.
• Ji Shu questioned the Flood Demon King and learned his techniques, the Demonic Purple Moon Distant Heaven Swallowing Great Law, and the location of the purple moon he had devoured.
• Ji Shu cultivated the Flood Demon King’s techniques and began the Demonic Purple Moon Distant Heaven Swallowing Great Law using the purple moon extracted from the Flood Demon King.

Ji Shu cultivated the Demonic Purple Moon Distant Heaven Swallowing Great Law until he condensed a True Spirit, then secluded himself in the East Sea while the Journey to the West Great Tribulation spread. When Xiao Longnv fled to his island, Ji Shu defeated the monster pursuing her and discovered it was the Evil Sword Immortal from Chinese Paladin 3, whom he captured for a future weapon.

• Ji Shu condensed a Mysterious Small Boat True Spirit, reached the limit of the Heavenly Immortal realm, and left the depleted spiritual spring behind.
• Ji Shu traveled east and hid on an island in the East Sea, where he fused several cultivation methods into the Supreme Immortal Scripture and advanced it to the Heavenly Immortal level.
• Xiao Longnv ran to Ji Shu for help, saying Divine Saint Venerable had torn out one of her dragon horns and was chasing her.
• Ji Shu saw through Divine Saint Venerable's disguise, recognized him as a monster built around Xiao Longnv's dragon horn, and crushed him with a combined palm attack.
• Ji Shu used the Mind Bewitching Technique to learn that the monster was the Evil Sword Immortal from Chinese Paladin 3, then sealed him in the Mystic Fire Mirror to use as the core of a future evil sword.

Ji Shu accompanied Xiao Longnv to the East Sea Dragon Palace, where Ao Guang welcomed him warmly after learning he was a Five-Clawed Golden Dragon who had saved his daughter. Ao Guang offered to share the Ancestral Dragon Divine Art and led Ji Shu to the inheritance ground, where Zhulong’s legacy awaited.

• Xiao Longnv persuaded Ji Shu to accompany her to the East Sea Dragon Palace, and Ji Shu revealed himself as a Five-Clawed Golden Dragon during their journey.
• Shrimp soldiers and crab generals welcomed Xiao Longnv back, and she reunited with Ao Guang and Dragon Mother Monasha.
• Ao Guang learned that Ji Shu had saved Xiao Longnv and was a Five-Clawed Golden Dragon, then promised to help him obtain the missing chapters of the Ancestral Dragon Divine Art.
• Ao Guang led Ji Shu through the Dragon Palace Treasure Pavilion and showed him the mist-shrouded inheritance ground where Zhulong had perished.

Ji Shu passed Zhulong’s trials and entered the Dragon Palace, where Zhulong’s remnant soul tried to seize his body but was crushed by the Talent Tower. Ji Shu collected the Dragon Lake and Dragon Palace into the Painted World, then brought the Dragon Gate inside as well, giving its inhabitants a chance to leap it.

• Ji Shu entered the inheritance ground, shattered all ninety-nine water curtains, and passed the bloodline purity trial.
• Ji Shu leapt the Dragon Gate, purified and strengthened his dragon bloodline, and reached the Dragon Lake.
• Ji Shu entered the lake-bottom Dragon Palace, where Zhulong’s remnant soul attacked his sea of consciousness and the Talent Tower destroyed it.
• Ji Shu discovered the Ancestral Dragon Divine Art among the remnant soul’s memories, sealed the remaining soul, and collected the Dragon Palace, stone dragons, and lake water into the Painted World.
• Ji Shu brought the Dragon Gate into the Painted World, where Guan Yu, Yu Feixue, Qiu Baisu, and the others began trying to leap it.

Ji Shu secured the Candle Dragon inheritance and gained the Four Seas Dragon Kings’ support before leaving the East Sea Dragon Palace to seek a Lesser World. In Chang'an, he found the Well Dragon King Ao Xiao, who led him toward the Ancient Well that served as the entrance.

• Ji Shu told Ao Guang he had obtained the Ancestral Dragon Divine Art, and Ao Guang invited him to remain at the Dragon Palace and summoned the other Dragon Kings.
• Ao Qin, Ao Run, and Ao Shun presented Ji Shu with three ancient treasures, while the Four Seas Dragon Kings held a discreet banquet to welcome him.
• Ji Shu studied the East Sea Dragon Palace’s library for months, advanced the Supreme Immortal Scripture, and received Ao Guang’s hidden dragon arts and continued support.
• After learning that he needed a Lesser World to transcend the river of time, Ji Shu accepted Ao Guang’s map and introduction to Ao Xiao and departed for Chang'an.
• Ji Shu returned to Chang'an, where Yuan Tiangang briefly found him familiar, then met Ao Xiao, who agreed to guide him to the Ancient Well inside the Imperial Palace.

Ji Shu used a World-Crossing Talisman to enter a Lesser World and arrived on a battlefield in the Chinese Paladin World. He saved Long Yang and the Jiang Kingdom from Yan Chengjian’s army, then recognized Long Kui as Long Yang’s sister.

• Ao Lian told Ji Shu that the nearby Lesser World would not open naturally for fifty years, so Ji Shu used a World-Crossing Talisman to force his way inside.
• Ji Shu crashed onto a battlefield between the Jiang Kingdom and the Yang Kingdom, where Long Yang was fighting to protect the Jiang Kingdom.
• Long Yang begged Ji Shu to save the Jiang Kingdom, while Yan Chengjian demanded that Ji Shu step aside and then ordered his archers to fire.
• Ji Shu stopped the arrow rain and sent it back at the Yang Kingdom army, killing Yan Chengjian and causing the surviving soldiers to flee.
• Long Yang swore his loyalty to Ji Shu, and Long Kui rushed from the capital to embrace her brother.
• Ji Shu recognized Long Kui and realized he had entered the Chinese Paladin World, at a time before Li Xiaoyao and the others.

Ji Shu discovered that changing the fates of Sons and Daughters of Fortune could help him transcend the River of Time, so he empowered Long Yang and Long Kui before leaving Jiang Kingdom. He later awakened Empress Nuwa in Dali and asked her to teach him how to travel through time and space.

• Ji Shu accepted Long Yang and Long Kui's invitation to the palace, then entered seclusion and learned that helping the siblings reverse their fates could increase his power of transcendence.
• Ji Shu cleansed Long Yang and Long Kui's marrow, granted them mana, and taught them the Martial God Heart Sutra; Long Yang reached the Martial God realm, while Long Kui became a martial arts grandmaster.
• Ji Shu left the siblings, and Long Yang protected Jiang Kingdom for over a century before Long Kui died longing to see her master again; Long Yang later abdicated and wandered in search of Ji Shu.
• Ji Shu reached Dali, awakened a remnant soul within Nuwa's statue, and met Empress Nuwa, who told him Ying Long had attained Golden Immortal after meditating by the East Sea for three thousand years.
• Ji Shu thanked Empress Nuwa for her guidance and asked to learn her method of traveling through time and space, which she warned could take tens of thousands of years to master.

Ji Shu mastered Empress Nuwa’s Leap Through Time and Space method, met Shui Bi at the East Sea, and changed her fate before traveling through the River of Time. He arrived in famine-stricken Yuzhou City, where Jing Tian begged him to save the city from starvation and the Evil Sword Immortal.

• Empress Nuwa taught Ji Shu Leap Through Time and Space after judging his Dao Heart, and he perfected it in a short time.
• Empress Nuwa warned Ji Shu that Fuxi might oppose his path to Golden Immortal, and Ji Shu went to Ying Long’s former retreat on the East Sea seabed.
• Ji Shu met Shui Bi, gave her a music box, secured her promise to remain in the God Realm for a thousand years, and learned several Water God spells from her.
• Ji Shu used Leap Through Time and Space to travel down the River of Time and landed in an alley in Yuzhou City.
• Jing Tian mistook Ji Shu for an immortal summoned to save Yuzhou City and begged him for food and help defeating the Evil Sword Immortal.
• A girl dressed in red ran over and tried to pull Jing Tian to his feet as he insisted that Ji Shu was a heavenly god.

Ji Shu saved Yuzhou City, defeated the Evil Sword Immortal, and reunited with Long Kui, who revealed how she had become a Demon Sword spirit. After learning that strange versions of Xu Changqing and the Evil Sword Immortal had appeared, Ji Shu considered questioning his captive and offered Tang Xuejian and Jing Tian a chance to cultivate the Dao.

• Ji Shu gave Yuzhou City a huge supply of apples, learned from Tang Xuejian that the Evil Sword Immortal and Luo Rulie were responsible for the city's suffering, and sent Luo Rulie flying with a palm.
• Ji Shu killed Thunderclap Hall's men, then took Tang Xuejian to confront the Evil Sword Immortal and captured him after defeating him with one slap.
• At Tang Family Fortress, Long Kui recognized Ji Shu as her master, embraced him, and explained how she had died, become a Demon Sword spirit, and searched for him for centuries.
• Ji Shu wondered why Long Kui, Xu Changqing, and the Evil Sword Immortal had appeared despite the changed events, and decided to question the captured Evil Sword Immortal.
• Ji Shu asked Tang Xuejian and Jing Tian whether they wanted to cultivate the Dao, and Tang Xuejian eagerly accepted.

Ji Shu trained Tang Xuejian and Jing Tian, gained power by changing their fates, and left the world after promising Long Kui he would return for her. He crossed into a pivotal moment in Chinese Paladin and arrived at the execution of Lin Qing'er, where he confronted Moon Worship Cult Leader Shi Jieren.

• Ji Shu taught Tang Xuejian the Longevity Dao Art and Jing Tian the Martial God Heart Sutra; Tang Xuejian rapidly reached Golden Core while Jing Tian advanced much more slowly.
• Ji Shu examined the Evil Sword Immortal, learned that Xu Changqing and the Shu Mountain Five Elders had died, then destroyed the Evil Sword Immortal and stored his core in the Mystic Fire Mirror.
• Tang Xuejian nurtured a Primordial Spirit and Jing Tian reached the martial arts Grandmaster realm, bringing Ji Shu more transcendent power and raising his True Spirit boat above the River of Time.
• Ji Shu left after promising Long Kui he would return for her; Long Kui stayed behind while Jing Tian vowed to cultivate harder.
• Ji Shu crossed into Nanshao Kingdom and landed at Lin Qing'er's execution, where he recognized Shi Jieren as the Moon Worship Cult Leader.

Ji Shu seized control of the execution, enslaved Shi Jieren, and ended the Moon Worship Cult’s threat to Lin Qing’er. He left Nanshao Kingdom with Zhao Ling’er, Clan Jiang, and Shi Jieren, while Li Xiaoyao stopped the Wine Sword Immortal on the road to ask him for a favor.

• Ji Shu used his power to defeat the Moon Worship Cult followers, confronted Shi Jieren, and took him into a painted world where he offered him the chance to create a Lesser World.
• Shi Jieren accepted Ji Shu’s control, learned several cultivation methods, and announced that he would leave the Moon Worship Cult to follow Ji Shu.
• At Ji Shu’s signal, Shi Jieren disbanded the Moon Worship Cult, freed Lin Qing’er, and handed authority over to the Witch King.
• Ji Shu asked to take Zhao Ling’er with him, and Lin Qing’er allowed Clan Jiang to accompany her; Ji Shu then departed with Zhao Ling’er, Clan Jiang, and Shi Jieren.
• Li Xiaoyao watched Zhao Ling’er leave, then encountered the Wine Sword Immortal and asked him for a favor; the Wine Sword Immortal demanded to know how Li Xiaoyao knew his identity.

Ji Shu helped Zhao Ling'er and Shi Jieren advance their cultivation, then used the Transcendence Power he gained to strengthen his connection beyond the River of Time. He trained young Li Xiaoyao as his disciple, then traveled ten years into the future and seized the Li Xiaoyao who did not recognize him.

• Zhao Ling'er and Shi Jieren reached Human Immortal cultivation under Ji Shu's guidance, and Ji Shu ascended three zhang above the River of Time to absorb Immortal Power.
• Ji Shu created a divine boat and false soul to keep cultivating while his Spiritual Soul returned to his body, then told Zhao Ling'er, Clan Jiang, and Shi Jieren to live in seclusion until they met again in ten years.
• Ji Shu found young Li Xiaoyao in Yuhang Town, taught him the Taiyi Sword Control Heart Sutra, and sealed his power until he was older.
• Ji Shu returned Li Xiaoyao to Li Furong, gave her a gold ingot, and left as she chased the boy with a feather duster.
• Ten years later, Ji Shu encountered a Li Xiaoyao who did not recognize him, immobilized him, and carried him to a mountain.

Ji Shu taught Li Xiaoyao, Zhao Ling'er, and Liu Jinyuan immortal cultivation, gaining enough Power of Transcendence to leap more than six zhang across the River of Time. After leaving Liu Jinyuan strong enough to impress Lin Yueru at her martial contest, the story left them drawing closer as Lin Tiannan invited Liu Jinyuan to discuss their marriage.

• Li Xiaoyao begged Ji Shu to take him as a disciple, and Ji Shu examined him before teaching him the Taiyi Sword Control Heart Sutra.
• Ji Shu brought Zhao Ling'er and Clan Jiang to Yuhang Town, where Zhao Ling'er advanced rapidly, ascended to immortality, and helped Ji Shu leap more than six zhang across the River of Time.
• Li Furong joined the cultivation group, while Li Xiaoyao trained harder after watching Zhao Ling'er surpass him.
• Ji Shu taught Liu Jinyuan the Donghua Immortal Scripture, and Liu Jinyuan developed a Primordial Spirit before Ji Shu departed.
• At Lin Yueru's martial contest, Liu Jinyuan effortlessly defeated her attack, caught her in midair, and revealed that an immortal had taught him cultivation.
• Lin Tiannan invited Liu Jinyuan to discuss matters as family, while Lin Yueru blushed and watched him with newfound admiration.

Ji Shu gathered the five Spirit Pearls, reunited with Zhao Ling'er and Li Xiaoyao, and guided Yin Ruozhuo into changing his cultivation path. After growing powerful enough to transcend the River of Time, he observed how altered fates affected its repeating cycles and discovered the Moon Worship Cult Leader, Zhao Ling'er, and Clan Jiang beyond one such cycle.

• Ji Shu killed Poisonous Lady in Black Spider Forest, took the Thunder Spirit Pearl, and unknowingly inspired Caiyi to pursue him and thank him.
• Ji Shu gathered the Earth, Wind, Water, and Fire Spirit Pearls, then returned to Yuhang Town and stopped Yin Ruozhuo from capturing Zhao Ling'er.
• Ji Shu explained that one could change fate by becoming stronger than the heavens, then guided Yin Ruozhuo in attaining enlightenment through the Taiyi Sword Control Heart Sutra.
• Ji Shu absorbed Transcendent Power from Yin Ruozhuo and advanced to the middle stage of the Golden Immortal realm, surpassing seven zhang beyond the River of Time.
• Ji Shu saw that Long Yang's fate had been replaced by a new repeating cycle, while the altered Chinese Paladin 1 cycle had collapsed and was being replaced.
• Ji Shu searched farther along the River of Time and found the Moon Worship Cult Leader with Zhao Ling'er and Clan Jiang beyond the cycle's predetermined program.

Ji Shu arrived in the unbound Immortal Sword One world and rescued Long Yang, Long Kui, Tang Xuejian, Jing Tian, and the others from Fuxi’s attack. After Ji Shu severed Fuxi’s arms and apparently defeated him, he continued battling him, transforming into a Five-Clawed Golden Dragon to break through Fuxi’s ring-shaped worlds.

• Fuxi attacked Tang Family Fortress with a giant palm, but Long Yang and the others joined forces to resist it.
• Ji Shu’s sword pierced the palm and struck Fuxi, whose severed arms and weapons fell from the sky.
• Long Yang recognized Fuxi’s Heavenly Emperor Jade and Heavenly Emperor Sword, and the group believed Ji Shu had killed Fuxi after hearing his plea for mercy.
• Ji Shu confronted Fuxi in the heavens and exchanged attacks with him using the Sword in Stone and their divine arts.
• Fuxi sealed Ji Shu inside rings of light, so Ji Shu transformed into a Five-Clawed Golden Dragon and shattered the enclosed worlds with his abilities.

Ji Shu defeated Fuxi, seized the Heavenly Emperor's Seal, and revived Empress Nuwa with the five spirit pearls and Fuxi's divine blood. With Nuwa restored, Ji Shu planned to help her unify the Six Realms before leaving the world.

• Ji Shu broke through Fuxi's halo-worlds, wounded him with his Heavenly Eye, and severed his left arm with the Sword in Stone.
• Fuxi unleashed Reincarnation Sword Qi and the Heavenly Emperor's Seal, but Ji Shu countered his attacks and cut off his right arm along with the Heavenly Emperor Sword.
• Ji Shu beheaded Fuxi, captured his Primordial Spirit in the Mystic Fire Mirror, and took the Heavenly Emperor's Seal.
• Ji Shu summoned Empress Nuwa's Statue, used the five spirit pearls to manifest Nuwa, and revived her with Fuxi's divine blood.
• Ji Shu told Empress Nuwa he would help her unify the Six Realms before leaving the world, while his power of transcendence grew closer to eight zhang.

Ji Shu shattered the rings of predetermined fate, freeing the River of Time and causing duplicate versions of Zhao Ling'er, Li Xiaoyao, Jing Tian, and others to appear. After returning to the Divine Realm, he helped Xi Yao reunite with Long Yang, whom she recognized as Fei Peng; the chapter ended with two generations of Tang Xuejian and Jing Tian facing one another at Tang Family Fortress.

• Nuwa warned Ji Shu that powerful beings in the Great World refined people into medicine and might be refining the Three Thousand Worlds, then explained Fuxi’s plan to spread incarnations across the Six Realms.
• Ji Shu used the Heavenly Emperor Sword and the other Heavenly Emperor treasures to break the rings of predetermined fate, causing duplicate Zhao Ling'ers and Li Xiaoyaos to meet and leaving the young Li Xiaoyao confused.
• Ji Shu destroyed the ring-worlds, freeing everyone’s fates and increasing his power of transcendence before returning to the Divine Realm with Nuwa.
• Ji Shu gave Shui Bi new music, and Xi Yao recognized him as the giver of Shui Bi’s music box while remembering Fei Peng.
• After the Deities were freed from the Divine Realm, Xi Yao found Long Yang, Jing Tian, Tang Xuejian, and the others at Tang Family Fortress and called Long Yang “Fei Peng.”
• Two young and elderly versions of Tang Xuejian and Jing Tian appeared together at Tang Family Fortress, and Jing Xiaolou demanded to know why the younger pair were pretending to be his parents.

After reaching Golden Immortal perfection, Ji Shu sought the source Five Elements Qi needed to advance toward the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm. He received Spirit Pearls and guidance from Nuwa, reunited with his companions in the God Realm, and began planning how to gather the remaining Qi.

• Jing Tian, Tang Xuejian, Jing Xiaolou, and the others were bewildered by the appearance of younger versions of Jing Tian and Tang Xuejian, and Xi Yao arrived and recognized Long Yang as Fei Peng.
• With Ji Shu's help, Nuwa unified the Six Realms, and Chong Lou abandoned his plans to challenge Fei Peng and entered seclusion to cultivate.
• Ji Shu cultivated for several months at the Heavenly Pool and reached Golden Immortal perfection, then asked Nuwa how to gather the Five Qi.
• Nuwa gave Ji Shu the Five Spirit Pearls; he kept the water, fire, and earth pearls, returned the lightning and wind pearls, and cultivated three embryonic Five Elements dragons in his organs.
• Ji Shu reunited with Long Kui, Long Yang, Xi Yao, Tang Xuejian, and others, who had been appointed divine officials by Nuwa.
• Nuwa told Ji Shu where to find the Origin Golden Qi and Origin Wood Qi, and said new water, fire, and earth Spirit Pearls would form again in about three to five years.