Chapter Summaries

Ji Shu befriended Hua Qiangu, earning her trust and a surge of fortune as he learned about the suffering awaiting her. The next morning, Hua Qiangu brought Scholar Hua to meet Ji Shu, and her father began considering whether he could entrust her to him.

• Hua Qiangu told Ji Shu that villagers called her a monster because flowers withered at her birth and her blood harmed plants, and Ji Shu assured her he neither feared nor despised her.
• Ji Shu agreed to be Hua Qiangu's friend, raising her favorability to 98 and his fortune progress to 2.8%.
• Ji Shu spent the day exploring and playing with Hua Qiangu, then promised to meet her again at their secret base the next day.
• Hua Qiangu told Scholar Hua about Ji Shu and shared the food they had gathered, while Scholar Hua wondered whether Ji Shu was an immortal or a sect disciple.
• Hua Qiangu and Scholar Hua went to the valley at dawn, where Scholar Hua saw Ji Shu's cottage and considered entrusting his daughter to him.

Ji Shu grew close to Hua Qiangu and Scholar Hua by sharing food, helping them, and revealing his extraordinary talents, while Scholar Hua came to trust him with his daughter’s future. The chapter ended with Hua Qiangu eager to see Ji Shu again and Scholar Hua believing her association with him might bring her lasting good fortune.

• Ji Shu welcomed Hua Qiangu and Scholar Hua, shared a wild boar he had hunted, and promised to teach Hua Qiangu practical skills while staying nearby.
• Scholar Hua learned that Ji Shu had no family or sect, and Hua Qiangu offered to treat him as family and share her home with him.
• After spending the day eating and working with Ji Shu, Scholar Hua discovered his exceptional literary skill and urged him to take the imperial examinations, but Ji Shu refused so he could keep his promise to stay with Hua Qiangu.
• Hua Qiangu’s affection for Ji Shu deepened when he said he would not leave for the capital, and the three spent the evening talking before Hua Qiangu returned home with her father.
• Scholar Hua told Hua Qiangu to cherish Ji Shu, convinced that his talents and kindness made him an extraordinary friend who could improve her future.

Scholar Hua brought Hua Qiangu to Hundred Flowers Valley so she could study under Ji Shu, who taught her the Blossoming Flowers Sword Technique while mastering several martial arts himself. Hua Qiangu progressed to minor completion, and Ji Shu perfected Savage Bull Strength, leaving him prepared to grow even stronger.

• Scholar Hua decided Hua Qiangu should study under Ji Shu and brought her books and martial arts manuals to Hundred Flowers Valley.
• Ji Shu perfected the Blossoming Flowers Sword Technique after a single practice and began teaching it to Hua Qiangu.
• Hua Qiangu practiced diligently and, after more than twenty days, reached minor completion and pierced a fly with her sword.
• Scholar Hua brought Ji Shu the Savage Bull Strength manual, which Ji Shu quickly comprehended and perfected.

Ji Shu secretly studied Hua Qiangu’s Nuwa Bloodline while teaching her martial arts and helping her household. After more than five months, he completed his examination and replicated the bloodline, leaving him poised to explore its powers.

• Ji Shu examined Hua Qiangu’s Nuwa Bloodline through massages and hand-holding, and gradually raised his progress from 0.1% to 0.4%.
• Scholar Hua borrowed the Grass on Foot manual from the Zhang Family, and Ji Shu mastered it quickly before taking Hua Qiangu to practice.
• Ji Shu taught Hua Qiangu several martial arts until she reached First-rate cultivation, while continuing to examine her bloodline.
• After more than five months, Ji Shu’s perception of Hua Qiangu’s Nuwa Bloodline reached 100%, and he replicated it using his talents.

Ji Shu fully replicated Hua Qiangu’s Nuwa bloodline, mastered its ten divine powers, and trained Hua Qiangu until she became a mortal grandmaster and learned several powers herself. After Hua Qiangu’s conquest progress reached 100 percent, Ji Shu took her away from Hualian Village to seek cultivation methods.

• Ji Shu used All Things Grow to cure Scholar Hua, earning fortune and convincing him that Hua Qiangu could become a god.
• Scholar Hua encouraged Hua Qiangu to spend more time with Ji Shu, and over several months she perfected Savage Bull Strength and Grass on Foot and reached mortal grandmaster cultivation.
• Ji Shu finished replicating Hua Qiangu’s Nuwa bloodline and gained its ten divine powers, then taught Hua Qiangu Cloud Riding and Mist Driving and All Things Grow.
• Hua Qiangu learned to ride clouds and control All Things Grow, while Scholar Hua became increasingly hopeful about her future and defended Ji Shu from village gossip.
• Hua Qiangu’s conquest progress reached 100 percent, and Ji Shu decided to leave Hualian Village with her to search for cultivation methods.
• Hua Qiangu said goodbye to Scholar Hua and promised that they would return for the New Year.

Ji Shu brought Hua Qiangu to Shu and bargained with the emperor, restoring his youth in exchange for an official identity, martial arts and cultivation methods, and the Death's Mercy Sword. The rejuvenated emperor and his court eagerly prepared to serve Ji Shu, hoping to gain his favor.

• Ji Shu and Hua Qiangu flew from Hualian Village toward Shu, and Hua Qiangu thanked Ji Shu for changing her life.
• Ji Shu entered Shu's Imperial Study and offered to extend the emperor's life in exchange for his help.
• Ji Shu restored the emperor to youth, and the emperor agreed to arrange a low-profile post, collect martial arts and cultivation methods, and give Ji Shu the Death's Mercy Sword.
• Ji Shu examined the Death's Mercy Sword, sensed its killing abilities, and left the palace, planning to return the next day.
• The emperor revealed his rejuvenation to the palace, then told his ministers he had encountered a true immortal.
• The prime minister and other officials eagerly offered to gather martial arts and cultivation methods, hoping to meet Ji Shu and gain his help.

Ji Shu stayed in the Shu Kingdom’s Imperial Palace to study its martial arts and created the Calamity Heaven Martial Arts manual. After cultivating it to perfection and tempering his body and Golden Core with lightning, he reached the limit of martial arts Golden Core cultivation.

• Ji Shu brought Hua Qiangu to the Emperor and asked him to arrange rooms near the Library Pavilion, where Ji Shu planned to read.
• The Emperor sent his daughters Meng Yehhan, Meng Zian, and Meng Danwen to attend Ji Shu, while Hua Qiangu grew jealous of their interest in him.
• Ji Shu rapidly read the Library Pavilion’s martial arts manuals and mastered the Great Luo Formless Divine Art to Great Perfection.
• After three days of reading and a day of integrating the manuals, Ji Shu created the Calamity Heaven Martial Arts manual and cultivated it to Great Perfection.
• Ji Shu drew lightning from the heavens to temper his body and Golden Core, making his body resistant to ordinary weapons and branding nine lightning marks onto his Core.

Ji Shu strengthened his martial arts and cultivation by studying manuals and refining the Calamity Heaven Martial Arts, eventually becoming a Great Martial Immortal with all ten divine powers perfected. Confident he could face any immortal, he prepared to complete his mission but still planned to gather more immortal cultivation methods.

• Ji Shu survived his Lightning Tribulation, returned to the Library Pavilion, and agreed to teach Hua Qiangu the Calamity Heaven Martial Arts.
• Ji Shu wrote out the Calamity Heaven Martial Arts and gave the manual to the Second Princess to spread throughout the world after three months.
• Ji Shu studied the world's cultivation levels and manuals, then used the Human Emperor Art as a foundation to incorporate the other arts.
• The Emperor of Shu Kingdom traded version 1.0 of the Calamity Heaven Martial Arts for secret manuals, sending teams to collect them from other nations.
• After reading hundreds of thousands of manuals, Ji Shu created version 3.0, endured several days of lightning, and became a Great Martial Immortal.
• Ji Shu perfected all ten divine powers and decided he could face any immortal, though he still intended to collect more immortal cultivation methods.

Ji Shu prepared to leave Shu Kingdom and accepted the emperor’s Three Princesses as attendants. The emperor refused to let his sons Meng Xuanlang and Meng Xuancong accompany Ji Shu, and Meng Xuanlang’s fortune flowed to Ji Shu as he longed to follow the immortal.

• Ji Shu gave the Shu Kingdom’s emperor version 3.0 of Calamity Heaven Martial Arts and told him to spread it in two months.
• Ji Shu told the emperor he planned to travel through the kingdoms, and accepted the Three Princesses as attendants after the emperor offered them.
• Meng Xuanlang and Meng Xuancong asked to follow Ji Shu, but the emperor rejected them and urged them to cultivate Calamity Heaven Martial Arts instead.
• After reading the manual, both princes recognized its promise of immortality, while Meng Xuancong tried to persuade Meng Xuanlang to approach Ji Shu anyway.
• Fortune flowed into Ji Shu, mostly from Meng Xuanlang, and Ji Shu understood why the prince’s fortune had shifted.

Ji Shu toured Zhou Kingdom, where he studied its martial arts and cultivation texts, integrated the Five Elements Art into the Human Emperor Art, and gained Qing Shui's favor—and her fortune. After Ji Shu left Prince Chai's Residence with hopes resting on her, Qing Shui's father urged her to win the immortal's recognition.

• Ji Shu brought Hua Qiangu and the Three Princesses to Zhou Kingdom, where the emperor welcomed him and gave him access to the Library Pavilion.
• Ji Shu read Zhou Kingdom's martial arts and cultivation manuals, advanced his martial arts deduction to version 3.1, and comprehended the Five Elements Art before fusing it into the Human Emperor Art.
• The Emperor of Zhou Kingdom sent Qing Shui to serve Ji Shu, and Qing Shui's admiration for him caused fortune to flow to him.
• Ji Shu spent over half a month reading the Library Pavilion's books and accepted Qing Shui, while refusing the emperor's offer of three other women.
• Prince Chai told Qing Shui that her family depended on her winning Ji Shu's favor, leaving her anxious because she had barely spoken to him.

Qingshui asked Hua Qiangu to help her speak more with Ji Shu, while Ji Shu’s growing influence in Zhou Kingdom drew the attention of Yi Xiu Pavilion’s Dongfang Yuqing. Dongfang Yuqing sent Lv Qiao into the Imperial Palace to approach Ji Shu, hoping to learn more about him and preserve his plans.

• King Chai praised Qingshui and left her to pursue Ji Shu, so she decided to seek Hua Qiangu’s advice.
• Hua Qiangu agreed to introduce Qingshui to Ji Shu, and the two became sworn sisters after Qingshui insisted.
• Ji Shu’s Calamity Heaven Martial Arts and ability to return people to youth won him growing reverence among Zhou Kingdom’s leaders.
• Dongfang Yuqing learned that Lv Qiao had found no information about Ji Shu and admitted that his own investigation had caused him severe backlash.
• Dongfang Yuqing resolved to approach Ji Shu, but Lv Qiao volunteered to go in his place to protect Yi Xiu Pavilion’s master.
• Lv Qiao used Yi Xiu Pavilion’s connections to become a guard in the Imperial Palace and try to get close to Ji Shu.

Dongfang Yuqing learned that Ji Shu had left the Zhou Kingdom and sent Lv Qiao to pursue him, with Hua Qiangu as a backup source of information. In Nantang, Ji Shu rejuvenated the Emperor and visited the Library Pavilion, while dozens of princesses competed to serve him and Hua Qiangu’s friends rallied to keep them at bay.

• Lv Qiao reported that Ji Shu had left the Zhou Kingdom, and Dongfang Yuqing told her to pursue him or approach Hua Qiangu instead.
• Ji Shu arrived in Nantang, where the Emperor welcomed him and Ji Shu restored the Emperor’s youth after confirming that the nation had gathered martial arts and Cultivation Manuals.
• The Emperor sent more than thirty princesses and commandery princesses to serve around the Library Pavilion, far exceeding the three attendants chosen by other kingdoms.
• Qingshui and the Three Princesses of Shu Kingdom complained about the new competitors, then agreed to help Hua Qiangu win Ji Shu’s favor.
• Qingshui and the Three Princesses planned to stay near Ji Shu and keep the other princesses away, while Hua Qiangu happily accepted their support.

Ji Shu traveled across the Mortal Dynasty gathering martial arts manuals until Calamity Heaven Martial Arts reached version 4.0, while his Human Emperor Art advanced to the Flying True Person stage. After surviving a half-month tribulation, he stood as an overwhelmingly powerful figure, with Hua Qiangu and more than a hundred princesses and commandery princesses trained at his side.

• Ji Shu left Nantang after choosing Tang Ying and Tang Li from among its princesses and commandery princesses, then traveled on with Hua Qiangu, Qingshui, and the others.
• Over several years, Ji Shu visited dozens or hundreds of countries and gathered their exclusive martial arts manuals, eventually raising Calamity Heaven Martial Arts to version 4.0.
• Ji Shu endured a half-month tribulation that tempered his body, while his Human Emperor Art reached the fourth stage, the level of a Flying True Person.
• Hua Qiangu had reached the Great Martial Immortal realm, while several dozen princesses and commandery princesses, including Qingshui, had become Martial Arts Immortals and learned divine abilities from Ji Shu.
• Xia Zixun and Tan Fan watched Ji Shu control a vast Thunder Domain and reflected on how little they knew about his origins.

Tan Fan and Xia Zixun discussed why the righteous sects had gathered to confront Ji Shu over the spread of Calamity Heaven Martial Arts. After Ji Shu heard Daoist Qing Xu’s proposal for an institution to curb crime, he agreed to let Hua Qiangu, Qingshui, and the others join it.

• Tan Fan explained that the sect leaders feared Calamity Heaven Martial Arts had empowered criminals and caused their disciples’ deaths.
• Daoist Qing Xu asked Xia Zixun and Tan Fan to join the sects in negotiating with Ji Shu, and Xia Zixun agreed.
• Ji Shu completed his tribulation as his mission progress reached 68%, then received Daoist Qing Xu and the others.
• Daoist Qing Xu described the sects’ concerns, and Ji Shu argued that capable institutions could monitor criminals instead of restricting martial arts.
• Daoist Qing Xu asked Ji Shu to send disciples to the proposed institution, and Ji Shu agreed to have Hua Qiangu, Qingshui, and the others join.

Ji Shu secured the sects’ secret manuals and announced that he would teach martial arts, divine abilities, and the Immortal Path in three days, while his Human Emperor Art advanced to the perfected tenth level. Meanwhile, Dongfang Yuqing abandoned his plan to use Hua Qiangu against Bai Zi Hua, and Lv Qiao lamented that she had failed to win Ji Shu’s favor.

• Ji Shu caught Ni Qianzhang offering a fake manual, shrank and imprisoned him, then spared him after the sect leaders pleaded for mercy.
• The sect leaders surrendered their core manuals, and Ji Shu announced three public teachings to strengthen cultivators and support a world-spanning oversight organization.
• Hua Qiangu, Qingshui, and the other attendants celebrated being allowed to attend Ji Shu’s teachings, and their fortune flowed to him.
• Ji Shu read the sects’ manuals, fused their principles into the Human Emperor Art, and advanced it to the perfected tenth level of the Immortal Path.
• At Yi Xiu Pavilion, Lv Qiao regretted failing to be selected by Ji Shu, while Dongfang Yuqing gave up his plan involving Hua Qiangu and despaired over his inability to confront Bai Zi Hua.

Dongfang Yuqing abandoned his plan to use Hua Qiangu and decided to seek Ji Shu’s favor by attending his lecture. At Changliu, Mo Yan vowed to confront Ji Shu alone, while Bai Zi Hua and Sheng Xiao Mo supported attending the lecture to learn from his teachings.

• Dongfang Yuqing regretted opposing Ji Shu, then accepted Lv Qiao’s proposal to bring Yi Xiu Pavilion’s secret canon to the lecture and seek Ji Shu’s recognition.
• Mo Yan urged Bai Zi Hua and Sheng Xiao Mo to join him in challenging Ji Shu for inviting demonic practitioners to the lecture, but both refused.
• Bai Zi Hua recalled that Ji Shu had defeated him three years earlier and said Ji Shu’s peaceful conduct gave Changliu no reason to oppose him.
• Mo Yan stormed out, deciding to confront Ji Shu alone without involving Changliu’s disciples.
• Sheng Xiao Mo praised the Calamity Heaven Martial Arts and asked Bai Zi Hua whether he wanted to attend Ji Shu’s lecture.

Sheng Xiao Mo persuaded Bai Zi Hua to seek an alliance with Ji Shu and went to Southern Chu with Changliu’s secret manuals. As Ji Shu prepared to expound the Dao, he advanced his Immortal Path and drew the attention of Sha Qianmo and Shan Chunqiu.

• Bai Zi Hua agreed that Changliu should befriend Ji Shu and sent Sheng Xiao Mo to Southern Chu with the sect’s inherited classics.
• Ji Shu agreed to Qingshui’s request to spend the night with him and promised Hua Qiangu that he would satisfy her wishes later.
• Ji Shu received thousands of sect classics, advanced his Human Emperor Art to the Heaven-Shattering Dao Realm, and helped Hua Qiangu and the other women cultivate.
• Ji Shu’s Immortal Path reached the High Immortal level after several hours of cultivation.
• Shan Chunqiu sensed Ji Shu’s aura, and Sha Qianmo learned that Ji Shu would expound Calamity Heaven Martial Arts the next day.

Sha Qianmo sent the Holy Palace’s inheritance manuals and the Heavenly Fang Immortal Banishing Umbrella to Ji Shu, hoping to earn his help in resurrecting Liuxia. Ji Shu mastered the umbrella’s laws, returned the original, and gave Hua Qiangu an upgraded version, while the arriving sect leaders prepared to attend his teachings.

• Shan Chunqiu urged Sha Qianmo to seek Ji Shu’s teachings and told him Ji Shu had resurrected the dead, giving Sha Qianmo hope for Liuxia.
• Sha Qianmo ordered the Holy Palace’s manuals sent to Southern Chu and brought the Heavenly Fang Immortal Banishing Umbrella as an offering.
• Ji Shu allowed Demonic Path sects to exchange their manuals for teaching tokens, and Shan Chunqiu and other demonic leaders received theirs.
• Ji Shu mastered the umbrella’s defensive laws, returned the original, and infused an ordinary umbrella with an improved Protection ability for Hua Qiangu.
• Ji Shu postponed meeting Sha Qianmo until after his teaching, and Sha Qianmo promised to help Hua Qiangu after she told him about Ji Shu’s resurrections.
• Righteous and Demonic Path leaders anticipated Ji Shu’s lectures, believing they could transform their sects’ inheritances.

Ji Shu’s martial-path lectures brought the attendees enlightenment and strengthened his cultivation, while Ni Mantian and her father schemed to win his favor. After the lectures ended, Sha Qianmo asked Hua Qiangu to arrange a visit with Ji Shu, and Hua Qiangu revealed that he could forge Divine Artifacts.

• Ji Shu’s lectures on the martial path enlightened attendees including Ni Mantian, Sha Qianmo, and Xia Zixun, while Ni Qianzhang planned how his daughter might catch Ji Shu’s eye.
• Ni Mantian decided she wanted to become Ji Shu’s wife or disciple rather than his Personal Attendant, while Shan Chunqiu privately judged her unlikely to appeal to Ji Shu.
• After lecturing for dozens of days, Ji Shu ended the gathering and announced that his second lecture would begin in six months; his cultivation and luck had grown enough for him to consider leaving the world.
• Sha Qianmo asked Hua Qiangu to help her visit Ji Shu, and Hua Qiangu agreed to ask him.
• Hua Qiangu said Ji Shu could forge Divine Artifacts, stunning the sect leaders and disciples gathered around her.

Ji Shu revived Liuxia, completed his teachings, and took Hua Qiangu with him as the Hua Qiangu World returned to Earth, granting him Eternity Aura. After restoring Earth and reaching the peak of the Eternity Realm, Ji Shu defeated Emperor Venerable and set out to roam the Myriad Worlds.

• Ni Mantian envied Hua Qiangu’s closeness to Ji Shu and tried to approach him, but lost her nerve and fled.
• Sheng Xiao Mo argued that Ji Shu’s teachings could empower righteous sects and Rogue Cultivators, while Mo Yan struggled with his doubts and recognized Ji Shu’s overwhelming strength.
• Ji Shu used his powers to restore Liuxia, and Sha Qianmo and Liuxia thanked him before Sha Qianmo later traveled to the Southern Chu Kingdom to visit him.
• At the second and third sermons, Ji Shu demonstrated powerful divine abilities and completed the collection of fortune from his followers.
• Ji Shu took Hua Qiangu with him as the Hua Qiangu World returned to Earth, and Earth’s Will supplied him with Eternity Aura as he restored Earth and rose to the peak of the Eternity Realm.
• Ji Shu learned that Emperor Venerable had shattered Earth, refined the Dimension Sea, and killed Emperor Venerable in a surprise attack before departing to roam the Myriad Worlds.