Chapter Summaries

Jie crushed General Mo’s Dharma manifestation and prepared to kill him, leaving the Heavenly Prodigy Base and civilians expecting their deaths. A young man in Ice Armor appeared between Jie and General Mo, revealing a Grandmaster-level domain and stopping the attack.

• Jie used Abyssal Dark Spiritual Essence to shatter General Mo’s ancient tree Dharma manifestation, break his blade, and hurl him into an underground parking lot.
• Jie explained that the Ancient Demon Emperor Chen had granted the demon race access to cultivation methods and secret arts, then prepared another devastating strike against General Mo.
• The martial artists and civilians watched in despair as Jie’s attack descended, believing General Mo’s death would leave them defenseless.
• A dragon’s roar sounded as a young man in Ice Armor appeared in midair between Jie and General Mo, wielding Abyssal Emergence and combining flames with frost to resist the corrosion.
• Zhao Gongzheng recognized the young man as a Grandmaster but wondered why he seemed familiar.

Jiang Qiu saved General Mo from demon general [Jie] and overwhelmed the demon with his power. When [Jie] tried to escape, Jiang Qiu trapped him with Twin Heavens, leaving [Jie] facing a lethal attack.

• Jiang Qiu appeared beneath the Dark Clouds and blocked [Jie]'s fatal strike against General Mo.
• [Jie] recognized Jiang Qiu's aura as bearing a trace of Emperor [Chen]'s pressure and attacked him.
• Jiang Qiu used the [Abyssal Emergence] spear and Dragon Roar Spear Intent to force [Jie] to struggle against his attack.
• [Jie] sent his observations to Emperor [Chen] and tried to escape with a secret technique.
• Jiang Qiu used Twin Heavens to disrupt [Jie]'s escape, causing the technique to backlash and wound him.
• Jiang Qiu unleashed Enraged Dragon Facing Heaven as [Jie] realized his life was in danger.

Jiang Qiu revealed himself as a Grandmaster and killed demon general [Jie], turning the battle for Plateau City’s Outer City in humanity’s favor. He prepared to escort the survivors toward the Inner City as [Chen] learned that Jiang Qiu had appeared in Plateau City.

• Jiang Qiu used [Abyssal Emergence] to break through [Jie]’s defenses and kill him, stunning both armies.
• Jiang Qiu revealed his identity, and General Mo, Zhao Gongzheng, and the evacuation convoy recognized him as God Jiang.
• Jiang Qiu attacked the Ancestral Demons, routed [Jie]’s force, and helped drive Mountain King’s army into retreat.
• Zhao Qian told Jiang Qiu to escort the Outer City residents to the Inner City because Plateau City’s Outer City had fallen.
• Jiang Qiu surveyed the devastated city, suspected Mountain King was regrouping nearby, and blamed [Chen] for the assault.
• [Jie] sent word to [Chen] before dying that Jiang Qiu had appeared in Plateau City.

After Jiang Qiu killed the demon general [Jie], Zhao Qian considered whether he could one day stand against the Ancient Demon Emperor [Chen]. At a meeting in Plateau City’s Martial Arts Building, the leaders learned that the Kunlun Demon Race had abruptly withdrawn from the city’s defenses, and Luo Beixing said the retreat had another cause.

• Jiang Qiu and the other martial artists returned to the Inner City after helping evacuate Outer City residents, while Zhao Qian reflected on Jiang Qiu’s strength and his chances against [Chen].
• Zhao Qian considered how difficult Jiang Qiu’s path to the Path-Entering Realm would be, given the power of his spear intent and the domain required to advance.
• The leaders gathered in the Martial Arts Building and noted that Kunlun Demon Race forces across Plateau City had stopped attacking and withdrawn to the Outer City’s boundary lines.
• The gathered Grandmasters asked whether Luo Beixing had killed more demon marshals, but he said the enemy’s retreat had another cause.

Luo Beixing revealed that Jiang Qiu had gained the Enlightenment Fruit, forged a dragon body, and reached the Path-Glimpsing Realm, then linked him to Chen and the Kunlun Demon Race’s retreat. Lin Yu warned that protecting Jiang Qiu was essential because his connection to Chen restrained the Demon King’s otherwise overwhelming power.

• Luo Beixing told the assembled experts that Jiang Qiu had returned from the Northern Wilderness Great Secret Realm after obtaining the Enlightenment Fruit and entering the Path-Glimpsing Realm.
• The experts verified the news and celebrated Jiang Qiu’s achievement, but questioned how a newly advanced Grandmaster could affect the Kunlun Demon Race’s retreat.
• Luo Beixing explained that Jiang Qiu and Chen shared a connection that could influence Chen’s decisions, and urged the experts to consider Jiang Qiu’s safety.
• Lin Yu stated that Chen’s connection to Jiang Qiu limited his power and warned that failing to protect Jiang Qiu could allow the demon races to overrun the world.

As Plateau City prepared to evacuate millions through a secret-realm transfer array, Jiang Qiu learned the city might not withstand another Kunlun Demon Race attack. Zhao Qian suggested that discovering what Ancient Demon Emperor Chen lacked to reach the Path-Integration Realm might give the province a chance to defeat the demons.

• The battle report revealed severe losses for Plateau City, while Demon General Jie was among the few demon leaders killed.
• Masters wondered which reinforcement had slain Jie, while Jiang Qiu stayed with Zhao Qian at the Martial Arts Building.
• Zhao Qian explained that Plateau City was using an ancient rune array linked to a secret realm to evacuate its residents, a process expected to take at least twenty-four hours.
• Jiang Qiu asked whether Plateau City could defeat the Kunlun Demon Race, and Zhao Qian said the province might prevail if it discovered what Chen lacked to reach the Path-Integration Realm.

Chen headed for Plateau City to kill Jiang Qiu and complete his Great Dao, while a strange storm isolated the city and disrupted its defenses. The chapter left the city's officials unable to evacuate the remaining ten million people as the threat closed in.

• Chen flew toward Plateau City, intending to seal it off and kill Jiang Qiu before he could escape again.
• A wounded master on the western wall noticed unnatural torrential rain across the city and sent word to the Martial Arts Tower.
• Luo Beixing halted the evacuation debate and warned that a second attack was approaching with greater momentum than the first.
• Luo Beixing received reports that flooding, blocked signals, and a vast domain-like interference had cut Plateau City off from the outside world.
• Grandmaster Lin Yu reported that the array formations were malfunctioning and nearby secret realms could no longer be opened, leaving ten million people without a safe evacuation route.

With Plateau City's teleportation array shut down and more than two hundred thousand people stranded, Jiang Qiu believed he might be able to help restore it. The chapter ended as Zhao Qian asked Elder Lin to let Jiang Qiu inspect the array core.

• The researchers halted teleportation after the array's known secret-realm destinations were sealed and no safe alternatives were available.
• Jiang Qiu studied the array and asked Zhao Qian for authorization to inspect its core, saying he might be able to activate it.
• Zhao Qian questioned Jiang Qiu's array knowledge, and Jiang Qiu explained that he had encountered it in the Northern Wilderness Great Secret Realm.
• Grandmaster Lin arrived and warned that without repairing the array, Plateau City would have to fight its way out against the approaching Kunlun Demon Race army.
• Zhao Qian asked Elder Lin to let Jiang Qiu inspect the array core and try to repair it.

Jiang Qiu entered the teleportation formation’s core to repair its connection while Lin Yu gave him ten minutes. Jiang Qiu successfully connected it to an unknown secret realm, leaving Lin Yu astonished and wondering which world they had reached.

• Lin Yu agreed to take Jiang Qiu into the formation core, while Zhao Qian received orders to gather supporting martial artists at the western gate as the Kunlun Demon Race advanced.
• Jiang Qiu used Soul Ice Spiritual Essence to manipulate the formation’s ancient runes, and Lin Yu realized he understood formation arts.
• Jiang Qiu adjusted the formation and announced that he had connected it to a destination.
• Lin Yu sensed a stable secret realm coordinate and asked Jiang Qiu which secret realm world he had connected to.

Jiang Qiu connected Plateau City’s transmission formation to the Northern Wilderness Great Secret Realm and proved it could safely transport its citizens. With the evacuation underway, he planned to visit the temporary resettlement area and protect the people himself.

• Jiang Qiu told Lin Yu that the formation was stably connected to the Northern Wilderness Great Secret Realm and explained that the realm could shelter tens of millions.
• Lin Yu ordered the transmission evacuation to resume despite the risks of moving so many people.
• The formation successfully transported its first group of more than two hundred thousand citizens to the new destination.
• Lin Yu praised Jiang Qiu for saving the people of Plateau City and the Northwest Province, while Jiang Qiu asked to visit the resettlement area.
• Lin Yu offered to send a Grandmaster to protect Jiang Qiu, but Jiang Qiu said he was a Grandmaster and should protect others.

Jiang Qiu reached the temporary resettlement area and revealed his dragon form after sensing [Chen]’s rain and learning that Grandmaster Lu Han had died. The surrounding Grandmasters mistook him for a disguised demon, but when Grandmaster Han exposed a demon aura, suspicion shifted to him.

• Jiang Qiu went alone to the temporary resettlement area as a blaze in the southwest marked Grandmaster Lu Han’s death alongside the demon commander Mountain King and the fall of the city gate.
• Jiang Qiu sensed that [Chen] might have come in person, and the rain prompted his dragon form to emerge.
• The powerhouses surrounding the area suspected Jiang Qiu was a demon in disguise until General Mo and Lin Yu’s direct disciple identified him.
• Grandmaster Han challenged Jiang Qiu’s identity and prepared to attack him, but Jiang Qiu’s dragon roar made Han tremble.
• General Mo and Lin Yu’s direct disciple noticed Grandmaster Han briefly revealed a demon aura, and the other Grandmasters turned their weapons toward him.

Grandmaster Jin killed Grandmaster Han, whose death unleashed a Great Grandmaster’s lingering domain and a catastrophic waterspout over Plateau City. As civilians faced destruction, Jiang Qiu embraced his dragon nature and began forging the dragon race’s innate Vast Water Jade Tendons.

• Grandmaster Han revealed his demonic aura and summoned a waterspout that threatened the temporary resettlement zone.
• Grandmaster Jin struck down Grandmaster Han, then realized he had killed a genuine Great Grandmaster whose lingering domain was unleashing a disaster across Plateau City.
• Grandmaster Jin ordered the martial artists to suppress the waterspout as they fought to save civilians and keep buildings from collapsing.
• General Mo checked on Jiang Qiu, who reflected on the demon race’s infiltration and the suffering caused by the war.
• Jiang Qiu dismissed his spear, rose into the sky, and answered the dragon aura in the rain by embracing his dragon nature.
• Jiang Qiu used the momentum of the disaster to absorb Vast Water Dao Intent and begin forging the dragon race’s innate Vast Water Jade Tendons.

Chen sensed someone using a dead Grandmaster’s domain intent and his Rain Tribulation to forge Vast Water Spiritual Essence, then vanished toward central Plateau City. As he arrived, he ordered the Kunlun Demon Race to break into the city, while Luo Beixing faced five Demon Commanders who burned their bloodlines to stop him.

• Chen recognized that someone in Plateau City was trying to forge Vast Water Spiritual Essence using his Rain Tribulation and disappeared from the sky.
• Luo Beixing continued holding off five Kunlun Demon Race Commanders as Plateau City’s residents prepared to evacuate through Jiang Qiu’s repaired teleportation array.
• A Dragon Race pressure erupted from the Martial Arts Building, distracting Luo Beixing briefly before he restored the standoff.
• The Luan Bird Demon Commander taunted Luo Beixing and declared that Emperor Chen intended to rule Plateau City and kill its defenders.
• Luo Beixing unleashed his killing intent, and the five Demon Commanders burned their bloodlines to raise their strength and hold him back.
• Chen announced that he had reached central Plateau City and ordered the Kunlun Demon Race to fight their way inside.

Jiang Qiu endured [Chen]'s attempt to crush him inside the waterspout while Grandmaster Qian launched a desperate sword strike. [Chen] killed Grandmaster Qian and resumed attacking Jiang Qiu, but a saber Master briefly interrupted him before being killed.

• [Chen] descended through a vortex in the storm and used his Dragon's Might to compress the waterspout around Jiang Qiu.
• Jiang Qiu resisted the crushing force with his dragon body and Ice Armor while his Dao Intent absorption advanced toward a realm breakthrough.
• Grandmaster Qian attacked [Chen] from behind with a lightning-enhanced sword strike, but [Chen] tore open his abdomen and absorbed a vapor from his body.
• [Chen] declared himself invincible in this era and resumed compressing the waterspout around Jiang Qiu.
• A saber Master struck [Chen]'s palm and interrupted his control, but [Chen] killed him with raging wind.

Jiang Qiu advanced to the mid stage of the Path-Glimpsing Realm while Chen’s water tornado threatened him and Plateau City. Luo Beixing arrived after killing five demon marshals, briefly reached Half-step Path-Integration Realm power, and saved Jiang Qiu, but Chen remained determined to slaughter the city.

• Jiang Qiu’s Dao Intent absorption reached its limit under Chen’s compressed water tornado, advancing him to the mid stage of the Path-Glimpsing Realm as his third Jade Tendon began to form.
• Grandmasters sacrificed themselves to interrupt Chen, while Dharma Manifestation Realm warriors protected civilians and helped them evacuate.
• Luo Beixing’s spear aura swept in from the west, and the Grandmasters recognized him as the strongest expert in Northwest Province.
• Chen revealed that Luo Beixing had killed the five demon marshals and judged that he had reached the threshold of Half-step Path-Integration Realm.
• Luo Beixing dispersed the water tornado trapping Jiang Qiu, and its Vast Water Dao Intent fragments accelerated Jiang Qiu’s cultivation.
• Chen identified Luo Beixing’s unusual Great Dao, then declared that he would still slaughter Plateau City and unfolded his domain.

Grandmaster Lin Yu activated Plateau City's formations to weaken the Rain Tribulation and help Jiang Qiu forge the Vast Water Jade Tendons. As Azure and Luo Beixing continued fighting, demon forces breached parts of the Inner City, leaving the injured Grandmasters to defend them.

• Grandmaster Lin Yu ordered the Grandmasters to protect the evacuation and support Jiang Qiu while Azure fought Luo Beixing inside his black domain.
• Lin Yu told Jiang Qiu that Plateau City was on the verge of falling and used the city's formations to help him escape through the teleportation array after completing his Jade Tendons.
• Lin Yu activated the Colorful Lotus Formation, which weakened the waterspout and Rain Tribulation so Jiang Qiu could absorb Vast Water Dao intent.
• Jiang Qiu broke through to the high stage of the Path-Glimpsing Realm and continued forging his Vast Water Jade Tendons as Lin Yu's energy rapidly drained.
• Twelve hours later, Jiang Qiu neared the peak stage of the Path-Glimpsing Realm while Azure and Luo Beixing's battle intensified.
• Demon forces seized several Inner City sectors and fought the eight remaining injured Grandmasters.

As Plateau City’s defenses collapsed and Jiang Qiu remained trapped while forging the Vast Water Jade Tendons, his dragon aura disrupted Emperor [Chen]’s Rain Tribulation and halted the battle. Dream Demon ordered the demons to destroy the underground teleportation array and prevent Jiang Qiu from escaping.

• More than five million citizens were teleported away before the Kunlun Demon Race attacked the evacuation effort and threatened the underground arrays.
• Jiang Qiu stayed trapped in the waterspout as the human defenders dwindled, Grandmaster Lin Yu withdrew, and fighting broke out across the Inner City.
• Jiang Qiu reached the Path-Glimpsing Realm’s Peak Tier, and the rain began to recede as his dragon aura spread across the battlefield.
• Jiang Qiu’s presence made demons and humans alike stop fighting, and the white-haired old general explained that the rain was avoiding him.
• Dream Demon told the demon commanders to kill the remaining humans and prioritize destroying the teleportation array before Jiang Qiu escaped.

Jiang Qiu stood alone between the Kunlun Demon Race and Plateau City's remaining defenders, using his Dragon Bloodline and spear intent to halt the demons' advance. As two wounded Grandmasters urged him to escape, he refused, saying he had awakened a dragon talent.

• Dream Demon ordered the Kunlun Demon Race to attack Plateau City's remaining defenders after the Rain Tribulation split the battlefield.
• Jiang Qiu descended before the Martial Arts Building and cut through the Rain Tribulation with his spear, creating a boundary the demons had to cross.
• Jiang Qiu's Dragon Roar Spear Intent killed hundreds of Ancestral Demons and wounded demon generals, prompting the demon commanders to order weaker demons to retreat.
• Lin Yu explained that Jiang Qiu's Dragon Bloodline, supreme artistic conception, and unusual technique let him produce domain-like combat effects.
• The vice dean and another wounded Grandmaster joined Jiang Qiu and urged him to teleport away, but Jiang Qiu refused and revealed that he had awakened a dragon talent.

Jiang Qiu used his newly awakened Dragon Bloodline Talents to break the Rain Tribulation and severely wound Wu Xuan. The seven remaining demon commanders then launched their killing techniques at Jiang Qiu and the Martial Arts Building.

• Jiang Qiu awakened Rain Tribulation, Dragon Lake, and Dragon Body Transformation after forging Vast Water Jade Tendons, and used Rain Tribulation to destroy Chen's setup.
• Jiang Qiu unleashed Dragon Roar Spear Intent against Wu Xuan, whose water shield could not stop the attack from passing through and striking him.
• Jiang Qiu's strike left Wu Xuan's shell cracked and bleeding, and Jiang Qiu withdrew his spear to catch his breath.
• The seven other demon commanders attacked Jiang Qiu with coordinated killing techniques as the two Grandmasters tried to rush in and protect him.
• Wu Xuan emerged from the mist, furious and injured, and shouted for the others to kill Jiang Qiu.

Chen defeated Luo Beixing, but Luo Beixing’s final strike left him gravely injured. When Chen discovered the demons had still failed to capture Plateau City, he learned that Jiang Qiu had held off eight demon commanders with his Dragon Body Transformation and Rain Tribulation.

• Chen endured Luo Beixing’s attacks while both fighters neared exhaustion.
• Luo Beixing unfolded his domain and used his final spear to pierce Chen, but Chen survived and declared victory.
• Chen emerged from the crater and realized he could not absorb the Rain Tribulation he had arranged to heal himself.
• Dream Demon and the demon commanders gathered around Chen as he saw that their assault on Plateau City had stalled.
• Jiang Qiu fought off eight demon commanders, and Chen recognized that Jiang Qiu had mastered a Dragon Body Transformation and the Rain Tribulation.