Chapter Summaries

Luo Beixing died after passing his Great Dao comprehension to Jiang Qiu, who entered the Dao and became Plateau City's last defender. With [Chen] badly wounded and the demons withdrawing, the battle paused with Plateau City still standing.

• Luo Beixing returned to the Martial Arts Building and told Jiang Qiu that [Chen] was badly wounded and Plateau City's hope rested with him.
• Luo Beixing died and passed his Great Dao comprehension and the secret art Reverse Life Dao Merging to Jiang Qiu.
• Jiang Qiu entered the Path-Entering Realm, healed his wounds, and replenished his spiritual essence.
• Jiang Qiu faced the demons alone, and his new power drove many of them to retreat.
• [Chen] ordered the demons to withdraw and recover rather than continue sacrificing their kin.

After defeating the Kunlun Demon Race’s assault on Plateau City, Jiang Qiu watched Chen withdraw with his army and promise not to invade Xia Country for three years. Plateau City lay in ruins, and Jiang Qiu turned his thoughts toward the fate of its millions of displaced residents.

• Wu Xuan urged Chen to keep fighting Jiang Qiu, but Chen ordered the demons to return to Kunlun because their mission to destroy Plateau City was already complete.
• Chen promised Jiang Qiu that the demons would not invade Xia Country for three years and would withdraw from Tianshan City and Plateau City.
• Jiang Qiu chose not to pursue Chen, and the surviving martial artists and residents realized that Plateau City had survived because of him.
• After the demons departed, Jiang Qiu surveyed the ruined city and took comfort that many people were still alive.
• Jiang Qiu considered how Kyoto could resettle Plateau City's millions of refugees while other border regions were also evacuating residents.

After Plateau City survived the demon assault, officials moved to recognize Jiang Qiu’s decisive contribution and plan for the region’s recovery. Meanwhile, in North Realm, Cold Sky’s flying demons prepared to grow stronger and set their sights on North Realm Mountain.

• Lin Yu told the provincial authorities that Jiang Qiu had held off nine demon commanders, then applied for Jiang Qiu to become an Honorary Dean with authority over Northwest Province’s Secret Realms.
• The Northwest Martial Arts University committee convened to consider Honorary Dean applications for Guming Academy and the Soldier Cultivation Academy, while officials planned countermeasures and rewards for Jiang Qiu.
• Kyoto began plans to resettle Plateau City’s refugees and sent an inspection team to Northwest Province to investigate the battle and support the region.
• Cold Sky led over ten thousand flying demons in a North Realm Mountain stronghold, where they gathered resources and awaited their clan’s resurgence.
• Cold Sky decided to take human form and explore North Realm Mountain’s summit to learn what had happened during the Heaven’s Chosen Competition and whether the Enlightenment Fruit Tree remained.

In Outer City, Li Ang urged Zhao Gongzheng to strengthen No.8 Middle School’s authority and tie its future to Jiang Qiu while millions of refugees remained stranded in the North Realm. Zhao Gongzheng had to consider Li Ang’s push to expand the school’s influence amid uncertainty about returning home.

• Li Ang visited Zhao Gongzheng and asked whether the refugees could escape the secret realm world.
• Zhao Gongzheng said they could return if they waited for orders, citing news that Jiang Qiu had defended Plateau City from Demon Emperor Chen and the great demons.
• Li Ang explained that Outer City was isolated from the Initial Land, where powerful organizations had gathered, and warned that rival high schools were already recruiting supporters.
• Li Ang argued that No.8 Middle School should claim territory, teach martial arts, and send Outstanding Students to explore, using Jiang Qiu’s reputation to secure its status.
• Li Ang urged Zhao Gongzheng to bind No.8 Middle School to Jiang Qiu, saying the school and its people had no other reliable support.

Jiang Qiu and the final Plateau City survivors arrived in Initial Land, where Wang Dan reported on the refugees’ settlement and the committee’s work. Lin Yu urged Jiang Qiu to take charge, but Jiang Qiu declined to manage affairs as he toured the rapidly developed settlement, where martial artists were quietly consolidating power.

• Jiang Qiu, Lin Yu, and the final group of Plateau City heroes teleported into Initial Land’s Teleportation Hall.
• Wang Dan briefed Lin Yu and Jiang Qiu on the eight million refugees, the Initial Land Committee, and the North Realm.
• Lin Yu called for the committee to disband and said Jiang Qiu should lead, but Jiang Qiu declined and proposed taking stock of the population.
• Jiang Qiu toured Initial Land and learned that three months had passed there since his departure.
• Jiang Qiu observed that modern clothing and status set some residents apart, while martial artists were beginning to wield power as a new social order took shape.

Jiang Qiu returned to the North Realm Mountain Peak to create a Dragon Lake and considered how the North Realm’s growing spiritual essence might draw attention from other great worlds. Meanwhile, Shangguan Yue watched news of Plateau City’s destruction and worried over her unconscious disciple Liu Zili, whose body was covered in strange marks.

• Jiang Qiu sensed that the North Realm’s connection to him was strengthening and worried that opening the secret realm exit could attract beings from unknown great worlds.
• Jiang Qiu examined the revived dragon vein and decided to refine the North Realm Mountain Peak into a Dragon Lake to improve human martial artists’ cultivation.
• News reports said Plateau City had been destroyed, Luo Beixing had died, and millions of refugees remained trapped in the Northern Wilderness Great Secret Realm.
• Shangguan Yue learned that Jiang Qiu had become a Grandmaster and lamented the destruction of Plateau City while visiting Liu Zili’s nutrient chamber.
• Shangguan Yue saw purple-black patterns covering Liu Zili’s body and a burning red spider-like mark on her forehead.

As the Kunlun Demon Race withdrew and Northwest Martial Arts University strengthened border defenses, An Ling cared for the isolated Binglian, who wanted to find Jiang Qiu. Binglian’s growing premonition warned that a world-shaking calamity connected to her and everyone else was coming.

• The Kunlun Demon Race retreated to Kunlun City and the Kunlun Mountains, while Northwest Martial Arts University organized border defenses and sent graduates to guard the frontier.
• An Ling brought lunch to Binglian and found her withdrawn in her room amid rumors connecting her to claims that Jiang Qiu was a demon spy.
• An Ling offered to help Binglian go outside, but she said she wanted to find Brother Jiang.
• Binglian sensed that a great calamity was drawing closer and would threaten everyone, though a week had passed without any visible disaster.
• After leaving Binglian, An Ling wondered whether the severed connection to the Northern Wilderness Great Secret Realm meant an unknown force had intervened.

Jiang Qiu spent three months shaping his domain into Dragon Lake at North Realm Mountain, and its rain and dragon’s roar stirred fears of an ancient calamity across the North Realm. As tribes prepared for danger, Zhuang’s son Tianming resolved to travel south and see Dragon Lake.

• Jiang Qiu entered seclusion and used his cultivation to form a vast lake atop North Realm Mountain as rain fell for three months.
• A dragon’s roar and gathering storm clouds made Lin Yu suspect that Jiang Qiu had caused a disturbance comparable to Chen’s past feat.
• Bing recognized the rain as a warning remembered in the saying that a great calamity followed when Dragon Lake rained, and hurried to recall the South Mountain tribespeople.
• The North Snow Tribe gathered to pray as Lie led worship, fearing the storm would end the new era opened by Qiu.
• Tianming, Zhuang’s son, decided to go south and see Dragon Lake, believing its lightning and waters could bring him strength.

Jiang Qiu sensed that an ancient calamity was threatening Blue Star, while a massive black craft emerged from a purple-black fissure and plunged the world into darkness. The craft halted as a blue curtain of light appeared across the sky, displaying a lizard-like Foreign Race being.

• Jiang Qiu recalled a vision of a powerful being unleashing a calamity across countless worlds and feared that Blue Star was its target.
• Jiang Qiu sensed that opening the secret realm would bring disaster and realized Blue Star, not the North Realm, faced the threat.
• Purple light spread across Blue Star, and Xia Country issued a Level One Alert warning that the country was inside an unknown formation domain.
• A purple-black fissure opened above the clouds as an immense black cube-shaped craft emerged and darkened the world.
• The craft stopped descending, and a blue curtain of light appeared across Blue Star, showing an image of a lizard-like Foreign Race being.

Venerable Zuo Xuan arrived on Blue Star aboard the Eight Directions Teleportation Vessel and began abducting powerful cultivators and lifeforms with special growth potential. As Blue Star’s people were swept away, Binglian and Shangguan Yue were taken too, leaving Liu Zili’s fate uncertain.

• Venerable Zuo Xuan announced that he had come to take Blue Star’s talented lifeforms, and the vessel breached the planet’s network to survey its inhabitants.
• Xia Country’s nine supreme experts attacked the vessel but were defeated and absorbed, while purple beams seized powerful humans and demons across Blue Star.
• Venerable Zuo Xuan ordered the vessel to begin taking lifeforms below the Path-Integration Realm with special growth potential.
• Binglian’s danger-warning talent filled her with fear, and a purple beam abducted her from her room.
• Shangguan Yue rushed to check on Liu Zili in the underground laboratory, but a purple beam seized Shangguan Yue before she could reach the glass pod.

After Zuo Xuan abducted Blue Star’s Heaven’s Chosen and departed, Chen revealed that his Dragon Lake had hidden the Kunlun Demon Race from the calamity and explained that Zuo Xuan would return in twenty years. Chen planned to find his Dragon Lake relic secret realm and take the demons beyond Blue Star, while the Sakai Family sought Yamata’s inheritance amid the chaos.

• Zuo Xuan left Blue Star after taking more than a hundred thousand Heaven’s Chosen and warned its inhabitants that he would return in twenty years.
• Chen’s Dragon Lake concealment vanished, revealing the ecosystem and demons who had escaped abduction.
• Chen explained to Dream Demon and the other demons that Zuo Xuan belonged to the Imperial Blue Lizard Race and that he would return when his teleportation treasure could be used again.
• Chen reassured the Kunlun Demon Race, taught them about the wider worlds, and planned to take Dream Demon, Beiming, and Wu Xuan beyond Blue Star.
• The Sakai Family and Sangdao Demon Race descended into chaos, and the new head of the Sakai Family entered Yamata’s ruined palace to seek his inheritance.

Jiang Qiu traced a strange pillar of light to a damaged high-grade formation hidden beneath the South Mountain Range. Suspecting it was a teleportation array with an unknown destination, he concealed the site and prepared to take control of it.

• Jiang Qiu sensed a force far beyond the Path-Integration Realm probe the void near Blue Star, but the North Realm remained undetected.
• Jiang Qiu saw a pillar of light erupt in the north and followed its spatial fluctuations toward the South Mountain Range.
• Jiang Qiu searched for a month before finding a shattered valley near the range’s northern exit, where residual formation energy remained.
• Jiang Qiu discovered a damaged high-grade formation in a cavern and found a milky-white lake of concentrated spiritual essence at its core.
• Jiang Qiu suspected the formation was a teleportation array and used Twin Heavens to conceal the site before studying how to control it.

Jiang Qiu repaired an ancient teleportation array and concealed it, then prepared to return to Blue Star. During his ten-year absence, the refugees and native tribes had united around his legacy, and [Tianming] led a campaign against the Cold Sky Cliff demon remnants.

• Jiang Qiu restored the void-traversing array and learned it had been built to carry people from the Heavenly Profound Great World to distant World Clusters.
• Jiang Qiu hid the array's aura and decided to return to Blue Star rather than risk exposing the fragile North Realm and Blue Star to unknown powers.
• Grandmaster Lin Yu, Zhao Gongzheng, and Li Ang helped unify the refugees and establish ties with the native tribes, while No.8 Middle School became a center of learning and worship of Jiang Qiu.
• [Tianming] reached the Path-Integration Realm at age ten and led native clansmen south to destroy the Cold Sky Cliff demon stronghold.
• [Tianming] shattered the stronghold with one punch, leaving [Han] horrified when he sensed that another blow was coming.

Jiang Qiu opened a way out of the North Realm secret realm and took Lin Yu to investigate Blue Star, hoping to contact Xia Country and arrange for the refugees’ return. They found Northern Border City devastated and overrun by demons, with almost no pure humans left.

• Jiang Qiu helped resettle the Plateau City refugees across 1,008 captured demon strongholds and opened Dragon Lake to those who had earned great merit.
• Lin Yu thanked Jiang Qiu for helping the refugees survive and explained that the tribal shamans had once made conflict with the tribes dangerous.
• Lin Yu wondered what had happened to Xia Country and Blue Star, and Jiang Qiu revealed that he could open the secret realm’s exit.
• Jiang Qiu took Lin Yu through the exit, and they set out to contact Zhu Weiyi in Northern Border City.
• Jiang Qiu and Lin Yu found Northern Border City in ruins, occupied by great demons, with almost no pure humans remaining.

Jiang Qiu returned to Northern Border City and learned from Wu Shan that Venerable [Zuo Xuan] had taken talented people from Blue Star. After discovering that people close to him might be among the abducted, Jiang Qiu vowed to reach the Nine Venerables Great World and kill [Zuo Xuan].

• In Northern Border City, the Demon Lord rejected proposals to join the Western Church or Mulberry Island and chose to keep protecting the mixed-blood humans there.
• Jiang Qiu encountered his former teacher Wu Shan, who had risen to the Dharma Manifestation Realm and was guarding the city.
• Wu Shan told Jiang Qiu that [Zuo Xuan] had taken geniuses and powerful figures from Blue Star, including Soldier Cultivation Academy students Lin Wei and Liang Taiyue.
• Jiang Qiu feared that Zhai Song, Binglian, and Liu Zili had also been taken away.
• Wu Shan showed Jiang Qiu recordings of [Zuo Xuan] announcing his plan to take every lifeform on Blue Star with unique talent.
• Jiang Qiu vowed to kill [Zuo Xuan] in the Nine Venerables Great World.

Jiang Qiu annihilated the demon forces stationed in Northern Border City and ordered the Xia Kingdom’s allies to purge the city in his name. After learning that Xia Country faced invasions on several fronts, he sent Lin Yu to rally its martial artists and flew toward Mulberry Island to destroy its threat.

• Jiang Qiu warned the demon-shaped humans in the Xia Kingdom Administrative Zone to stay away from the Northern Snow Wolf Tribe, then emerged and destroyed the three major demon tribes’ forces around Northern Border City.
• The Ox-headed Human and Goat-headed Human learned Jiang Qiu was alive and led their subordinates to hunt down fleeing demons and purge the city.
• Jiang Qiu told Lin Yu that the Kunlun Demon Race had devastated Xia Country’s northwest and that the Mulberry Island forces and Western Church threatened the country elsewhere.
• Lin Yu agreed to gather Xia Country’s martial artists while Jiang Qiu flew toward Mulberry Island to eliminate its forces.

Jiang Qiu appeared on the East Coast and swiftly crushed the Sangdao forces attacking Xia Country. As the Sakai Family head sought help from Yamata, the Great Secret Realm began to shake under an unknown force.

• Jiang Qiu killed the Sangdao commander and slaughtered thousands of demons, ending the attack on the East Coast.
• Xie Kuang identified Jiang Qiu and told the survivors that he had once sparred with him in spear techniques.
• The Sakai Family head received reports of the destroyed invasion force and a devastating strike against a city on Mulberry Island.
• The Sakai Family head entered the Sangdao Great Secret Realm and pleaded with Yamata for help against the human invader.
• Yamata reacted in disbelief to news of a Path-Entering Realm expert as the Great Secret Realm shook from an outside force.

Jiang Qiu discovered that Yamata had survived and escaped through a teleportation formation, then swept through demon-held regions of Xia Country and became celebrated as its Protector War God. At Kunlun City, he found that Chen and all the great demons above the Path-Glimpsing Realm had vanished.

• Jiang Qiu confronted Yamata among the palace ruins, but Yamata escaped to another great world through an ancient teleportation formation.
• Jiang Qiu destroyed the ruins and vowed to hunt Yamata down once he could travel between great worlds.
• Jiang Qiu wiped out the demons entrenched in the Northwest Province, astonishing the Xia Country defenders.
• Lin Yu organized a provisional central government and spread stories of Jiang Qiu's victories, naming him the Protector War God.
• Jiang Qiu slaughtered the demons in Kunlun City and discovered that Chen and every great demon above the Path-Glimpsing Realm had disappeared.

After leaving Blue Star, Jiang Qiu crossed into the Two Poles Great World, where he learned that Hua was still alive and resolved to bring her home. He arrived as a soul in the Hundred Ghosts Sect’s summoning ritual, where more than a hundred newborn lives began to form.

• Lin Yu learned from Jiang Qiu that Chen had vanished with the high-ranking demons and that the Kunlun Great Secret Realm entrance had disappeared.
• Jiang Qiu told Lin Yu he planned to intercept Zuo Xuan, then returned to the North Realm and opened a passage connecting it to Blue Star.
• Jiang Qiu left the North Realm, activated a great teleportation array, and received an inheritance identifying his destination as the Two Poles Great World.
• The inheritance showed Jiang Qiu memories of Hua, and he realized she was still alive and vowed to take her home.
• The Hundred Ghosts Sect began its Two Poles Summoning Life ritual, and black light formed more than a hundred newborn lives.

Jiang Qiu was summoned into a new world by the Hundred Ghosts Sect’s Two Poles Summoning Life formation, but retained his body, cultivation, and awakened Dragon Bloodline instead of becoming an infant. After concealing his strength and observing the sect’s elders select newborns to raise, he was left behind until the lowest-ranking elder, Lingyu, offered to cultivate with him.

• A powerful law reshaped Jiang Qiu’s body into that of a fourteen-year-old, while his talents and cultivation remained intact and his Dragon Bloodline grew stronger.
• The Summoning Elder questioned Jiang Qiu, then ordered the elders to take him away with the newborns after attributing his unusual appearance to a special bloodline.
• Jiang Qiu concealed his strength and watched the Hundred Ghosts Sect’s masked elders choose infants they believed could become powerful cultivators.
• The elders passed over Jiang Qiu, leaving him alone in the formation.
• Lingyu, the lowest-ranking elder of the Hundred Ghosts Sect, introduced herself and invited Jiang Qiu to cultivate with her.