Chapter Summaries

After Chi You tested Yang Jian in battle, he escorted him and Yang Chan to the Eastern Heavenly Court at Emperor Venerate’s summons. Yang Jian met the ruler in the Lingxiao Treasure Hall and froze when Emperor Venerate’s face and aura reminded him almost exactly of Qin Mu.

• Yang Jian withstood Chi You’s powerful strike, earning the war god’s respect.
• Chi You told Yang Jian that Emperor Venerate had ordered him brought to the Heavenly Court, and Yang Jian agreed to go with Yang Chan.
• Chi You led Yang Jian and Yang Chan to the Lingxiao Treasure Hall, where Emperor Venerate awaited them.
• Emperor Venerate revealed his face, and Yang Jian recognized a striking resemblance to his master, Qin Mu.

Yang Jian learned that the Eastern Heavenly Court's Emperor Venerate was one of Master Qin Mu's Clones and accepted his support for rescuing his mother from Peach Mountain. The Emperor Venerate warned that Yang Jian was outmatched by Haotian's forces, then promised to help and said he would strengthen Yang Jian before he left.

• Yang Jian mistook the Emperor Venerate's resemblance to Master Qin Mu for a coincidence and apologized for staring.
• The Emperor Venerate revealed that he was one of Master Qin Mu's Clones, and Yang Jian respectfully addressed him as Martial Uncle.
• Yang Jian confirmed that he intended to rescue his mother from Peach Mountain and avenge her suffering under Haotian.
• The Emperor Venerate warned Yang Jian that Haotian had assembled one hundred thousand aquatic troops, ten Golden Immortal lords, and Quasi-Saint experts to guard Peach Mountain.
• Yang Jian refused to back down, and the Emperor Venerate promised to support him and hold up the sky if it fell.
• The Emperor Venerate told Yang Jian that his current strength was insufficient and that he would train him before he left.

Emperor Venerate warned Yang Jian that he could not survive the Quasi-Saints guarding Peach Mountain with his current strength, then gave him the Purple Wei Emperor Star’s source power. As the power entered Yang Jian, it began destroying and rebuilding his body, leaving him enduring tremendous pain.

• Emperor Venerate told Yang Jian that the Heavenly Court’s hidden Quasi-Saints were far more dangerous than its troops and Immortal Lords.
• Emperor Venerate revealed the Purple Wei Emperor Star and explained that its power could transform a Daluo Golden Immortal.
• Emperor Venerate condensed the star’s source power into a pearl and offered it to Yang Jian.
• Yang Jian accepted the Violet Star Origin and vowed to cleave Peach Mountain apart.
• The Violet Star Origin entered Yang Jian and began violently destroying and repairing his meridians.

Yang Jian endured the Purple Wei Emperor Star’s power as it remade his body and transformed his fate, then advanced to the half-step Quasi-Saint realm. He reached the gate of Quasi-Saint but could not open it, and realized he lacked both the method and an Innate Spiritual Treasure to sever his Three Corpses.

• Yang Chan anxiously asked Emperor Venerate whether Yang Jian would survive the painful transformation, and Emperor Venerate reassured her.
• Yang Jian endured as Purple Wei’s power merged with his Great Witch Quintessential Blood and remade his body.
• Yang Jian emerged from the shattered purple cocoon with the Emperor Star’s mark and broke through to the half-step Quasi-Saint realm.
• Yang Jian’s roar sent purple starlight through the Lingxiao Treasure Hall, alarming the heavenly soldiers and generals.
• Yang Jian tried to break through the Quasi-Saint gate, but it remained shut, and he recognized that he lacked the method and Innate Spiritual Treasure needed to sever the Three Corpses.
• Emperor Venerate’s voice sounded beside Yang Jian’s ear as he struggled to advance.

Yang Jian used the Purple Wei Emperor Star’s origin as a vessel to sever his Evil Corpse, overcoming the malice rooted in his family’s suffering. After the corpse returned to him, he broke through to the early-stage Quasi-Saint realm, drawing the attention of powerful beings across the Eastern Heavenly Realm.

• Emperor Venerate told Yang Jian that the Purple Wei Emperor Star’s origin could serve as the vessel for his Three Corpses.
• Yang Jian confronted memories of his family’s destruction and forced his malice into the Purple Wei origin while Yang Chan watched in distress.
• Yang Jian used his heavenly eye and willpower to make the Purple Wei origin accept his malice, then severed his Evil Corpse.
• Yang Jian’s Evil Corpse appeared as a purple-black armored figure, saluted him, and returned to his body.
• Yang Jian broke through to the early-stage Quasi-Saint realm, and experts across the Eastern Heavenly Realm sensed his aura.

Yang Jian reached the Quasi-Saint realm with Emperor Venerate’s help and set off with Yang Chan to rescue their mother from Peach Mountain. As they traveled toward the lower realm, Yang Jian explained that Emperor Venerate had helped him because he was his master’s disciple, and that they should not overstay their welcome.

• Emperor Venerate bestowed the Purple Wei origin on Yang Jian, helping him break through to the Quasi-Saint realm, and ordered him to bring his mother back from Peach Mountain.
• Yang Jian thanked Emperor Venerate, then left the Lingxiao Treasure Hall with Yang Chan to rescue their mother.
• Chi You sensed Yang Jian’s new strength, realized he had become a Quasi-Saint, and returned to the hall hoping to watch the coming confrontation with Haotian.
• Yang Jian and Yang Chan left the Eastern Heavenly Court and headed toward the lower realm.
• Yang Chan asked whether they had left too abruptly, and Yang Jian explained that Emperor Venerate had helped him as his master’s disciple and that they should know when to leave.

Yang Jian returned from the Thirty-Three Heavens as a Quasi-Saint, while Emperor Venerate gave Chi You permission to assist him at Peach Mountain in a personal capacity. Back at Plum Mountain, Fire Spirit was stunned by Yang Jian’s transformation and noticed the beautiful young girl accompanying him.

• Yang Jian told Yang Chan they would discover his strength when he fought.
• Chi You asked Emperor Venerate whether the Eastern Heavenly Court could send people to watch Yang Jian split Peach Mountain, and Emperor Venerate warned him against involving the court in a war with Haotian.
• Emperor Venerate told Chi You he could aid Yang Jian privately, and Chi You eagerly set off for Peach Mountain with the Tiger Soul Saber.
• Yang Jian and Yang Chan returned to Plum Mountain, where Fire Spirit arrived and was shocked to sense Yang Jian’s Quasi-Saint aura.
• Yang Jian reassured Fire Spirit that he was genuine and had encountered opportunities, then Fire Spirit noticed the beautiful young girl behind him.

Yang Chan teased Yang Jian and Fire Spirit by calling her his sister-in-law, making both of them blush before Yang Jian fled to check on his army. At Plum Mountain, he found the thirty-six-thousand-strong force assembled and ready to march against Peach Mountain to save his mother.

• Yang Chan asked Yang Jian whether Fire Spirit was her sister-in-law, flustering both Yang Jian and Fire Spirit.
• Yang Jian introduced Yang Chan to Fire Spirit and tried to deny the implication, but Yang Chan pointed out that they were both blushing.
• Yang Jian escaped to the Plum Mountain parade ground, leaving Fire Spirit and Yang Chan laughing together.
• Yuan Hong reported that the thirty-six-thousand-strong Plum Mountain army had assembled and was ready to follow Yang Jian to Peach Mountain.

Yang Jian led his demon army toward Peach Mountain to save his mother, prompting Haotian to send one hundred thousand heavenly soldiers to stop him. Sect Master Tongtian ordered the Sect of Interception to support Yang Jian, and Daoist Duobao led thousands of immortals toward the battle.

• Yang Jian announced that the three-month deadline had arrived, then led thirty-six thousand demon soldiers from Plum Mountain toward Peach Mountain.
• Experts across the Three Realms sensed Yang Jian's Quasi-Saint cultivation and were shocked that he planned to split the mountain and save his mother.
• Haotian ordered one hundred thousand heavenly soldiers and generals to descend on Peach Mountain and suppress Yang Jian and his army.
• Sect Master Tongtian ordered Daoist Duobao to summon the Sect of Interception's disciples and aid Yang Jian.
• Daoist Duobao gathered several thousand immortals on Jin'ao Island, announced Tongtian's decree, and led them toward Peach Mountain.

Daoist Duobao led the Sect of Interception toward Peach Mountain, and Ancestor Minghe sent an Asura army to support Yang Jian as the Three Realms watched the conflict escalate. Yang Jian arrived before Haotian’s Heavenly Net Formation and focused on the mountain where he sensed his mother.

• Daoist Duobao commanded thousands of Sect of Interception immortals to march toward Peach Mountain.
• Ancestor Minghe ordered Tian Bojun, Great Brahma, Desire Heaven, and Shiva to gather the Asura Clan and support Yang Jian without killing.
• Tian Bojun led hundreds of thousands of Asura warriors out of the Nether Blood Sea toward Peach Mountain.
• Yang Jian and his demon army reached the Heavenly Net Formation, where a hundred thousand heavenly soldiers stood guard.
• A golden-armored divine general demanded that Yang Jian surrender, but Yang Jian ignored him and fixed his gaze on Peach Mountain.

Yang Jian broke through the Heavenly Court’s formation with a single axe strike and fought his way to Peach Mountain to free his mother. As he moved to destroy the barrier, Haotian’s Saint-level Three-Corpse incarnation appeared and halted the battlefield.

• Yang Jian rejected the celestial general’s demand to surrender and charged the hundred thousand Heavenly soldiers.
• Yang Jian shattered the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Fiends Grand Formation with one axe strike, destroying tens of thousands of soldiers and wounding the golden-armored divine general.
• Yuan Hong, Fire Spirit Holy Mother, and Yang Chan joined Yang Jian’s forces as they overwhelmed the demoralized Heavenly soldiers.
• Yang Jian crossed the battlefield to Peach Mountain and raised his axe against Haotian’s golden barrier.
• Haotian’s immense pressure froze everyone in place, and his Three-Corpse incarnation appeared above Peach Mountain.

Haotian’s incarnation descended onto the battlefield and confronted Yang Jian, who defied his claim of family loyalty and fought back against the Saint’s overwhelming power. Haotian wounded Yang Jian but was himself slightly injured, and he prepared to finish Yang Jian with a Sword of the Heavenly Emperor.

• Haotian’s incarnation arrived, restoring the Heavenly soldiers’ hope while his Saintly pressure immobilized Yang Chan, Fire Spirit Holy Mother, and the Plum Mountain army.
• Haotian condemned Yang Jian as a disobedient nephew and declared that he would suppress him, but Yang Jian accused him of tormenting Yaoji and trying to kill his own nephew.
• Haotian struck Yang Jian with a palm imbued with Heavenly Dao laws, and Yang Jian broke through the pressure with the Nine Revolutions Profound Skill and swung his Shield-Axe at Haotian.
• Haotian’s palm defeated Yang Jian and sent him crashing into a ravine, but Yang Jian’s axe strike left a small wound on Haotian’s incarnation.
• Haotian grew furious, summoned a golden Sword of the Heavenly Emperor, and prepared to erase Yang Jian.

Yang Jian endured Haotian’s incarnation’s attacks and prepared to face a fatal sword strike while Qin Mu watched from the Nether Underworld. At the last moment, Yang Chan unleashed the Lotus Lantern to shield her brother, leaving Yang Jian alive but alarmed by the price she had paid.

• Yang Jian rose from the pit and challenged Haotian’s incarnation to attack again, while Qin Mu chose to keep watching and Huang Tian restrained himself from intervening.
• Haotian’s incarnation summoned the Heavenly Emperor’s Sword and prepared to erase Yang Jian’s body and soul with a final strike.
• Yang Jian burned through his life potential and braced himself to meet the sword as Yang Chan and their allies cried out in despair.
• Yang Chan awakened the Lotus Lantern and poured her magical power and life essence into it to protect Yang Jian.
• The Lotus Lantern’s seven-colored radiance blocked the Heavenly Emperor’s Sword long enough to save Yang Jian, who realized his sister had paid a heavy price.

Haotian's incarnation grievously wounded Yang Chan and suppressed Fire Spirit Holy Mother when she intervened, leaving Yang Jian helpless beneath the Heavenly Emperor's Sword. As Haotian prepared to finish them, a tremendous force tore open the heavens above the Ninth Heaven.

• Haotian's incarnation severed Yang Chan's connection to the Lotus Lantern and sent her falling while Yang Jian remained pinned by the Heavenly Emperor's Sword.
• Fire Spirit Holy Mother caught Yang Chan, handed her to Yuan Hong and the others, and attacked Haotian with the Myriad Fire Heaven-Burning Formation.
• Haotian stripped away the formation's flames, sealed Fire Spirit Holy Mother's mana, and sent her falling from the sky.
• Haotian turned back to Yang Jian and raised his hand to end the fight.
• A deafening boom shook the Three Realms as black cracks split the heavens above Peach Mountain and Chaos Qi poured through.

Chi You arrived at Peach Mountain and shattered the Saintly pressure from Haotian’s incarnation, freeing Yang Jian and the other fighters. He declared that he had come in his personal capacity as Yang Jian’s friend to help him seek justice, leaving Haotian unable to frame his intervention as a conflict between the two Heavenly Courts.

• Chi You’s voice broke Haotian’s Saint domain, restoring the fighters’ mana and allowing Yang Jian to escape the Heavenly Emperor’s Sword’s pressure.
• Chi You tore open the spatial rift and emerged from Chaos, stunning the battlefield and prompting Haotian to recognize him.
• Haotian sensed that Chi You’s power had risen to a level comparable to a Saint and questioned why he had entered Heavenly Court territory.
• Chi You rejected Haotian’s attempt to make his arrival an Eastern Heavenly Court intervention and said he had come personally to help his friend Yang Jian seek justice.

Chi You confronted Haotian's incarnation to protect Yang Jian, and their evenly matched battle moved into the depths of the void. With everyone watching the clash, Yang Jian recognized his chance to act against Peach Mountain's restrictions.

• Haotian's incarnation called Chi You and Yang Jian to die, then attacked Chi You with the Heavenly Emperor's Sword.
• Chi You wielded the Tiger Soul Saber and met Haotian's strike head-on, and the collision sent both fighters flying with injuries.
• Chi You charged again, and he and Haotian fought their way into the endless void as their battle shook the Peach Mountain battlefield.
• Yang Jian wondered why Chi You had called him a friend and brother, then pushed aside his questions and focused on Peach Mountain.
• Yang Jian saw an opportunity while the others watched Chi You and Haotian fight.

Yang Jian slaughtered the Heavenly army and prepared to break Peach Mountain to save his mother, but King Dizang arrived and dissolved his attack. As Yang Jian confronted the Buddhist visitors, Qin Mu watched from the Nether Underworld and called King Dizang the second act’s whetstone for Jian'er.

• With Haotian occupied by Chi You, Yang Jian killed a Heavenly general and slaughtered the remaining Heavenly soldiers and generals at Peach Mountain.
• Yang Jian reached the mountain and raised his Shield-Axe to break the restrictions and free his mother.
• King Dizang arrived with Diting and Buddhist followers, then used a golden seal to dissolve Yang Jian’s axe strike.
• Yang Jian angrily confronted King Dizang for stopping him, while Venerable Yuanshi and Taishang watched from afar.
• In the Nether Underworld, Qin Mu said King Dizang could temper the violence in Jian'er’s heart.

Yang Jian rejected King Dizang’s pleas and attacked him to free his mother, Yaoji, from Peach Mountain. King Dizang trapped Yang Jian in a Buddhist formation and offered to recruit him into Western Teachings in exchange for appealing to the Heavenly Court to spare Yaoji.

• King Dizang urged Yang Jian to abandon his plan, but Yang Jian denounced the gods’ hypocrisy and struck at him with his Shield-Axe.
• King Dizang used the Karmic Fire Red Lotus to block Yang Jian’s blow and warned that destroying Peach Mountain would devastate the West’s earth veins and kill countless beings.
• Yang Jian refused to stop, blaming Haotian and the hypocrites who had allowed his mother to suffer.
• King Dizang ordered the Arhats and Bodhisattvas to form the Myriad Buddhas Worship the Patriarch Grand Formation, trapping Yang Jian in its Buddhist light and chants.
• King Dizang offered to take Yang Jian to Spirit Mountain to cultivate and promised to petition the Heavenly Court to let Yaoji enter the Western Paradise.

King Dizang used the Myriad Buddhas Worship the Patriarch Grand Formation to suppress Yang Jian and prepared to seal his consciousness, while Qin Mu remained confident that help was coming. Just as King Dizang’s palm seal was about to fall, a host of armed figures emerged through a rift cleaved open by Sword Qi.

• Yang Jian rejected King Dizang’s offer to join the Western Teachings and accused him of plotting to turn him into a puppet.
• King Dizang unleashed the formation’s golden chains, sealed Yang Jian’s power, and forced him to his knees as Yang Chan, Yuan Hong, and the others watched helplessly.
• Hidden observers believed Yang Jian was finished, but Lord Taishang told Grand Master Xuandu that the real show had only just begun.
• Qin Mu restrained Huang Tian and remained confident that King Dizang was not the only one coming to the battlefield.
• King Dizang prepared to seal Yang Jian’s consciousness, but a powerful Sword Qi split open the sky and a host of armed figures emerged from the rift.

The Sect of Interception arrived in force at Peach Mountain to rescue Yang Jian, and Daoist Duobao broke King Dizang’s formation before fighting him. As the Sect of Interception and Buddhist forces clashed and Chi You battled Haotian, a new rift filled with overwhelming blood Baleful Intent opened in the sky.

• Golden Spirit Mother, Mother Wudang, Mother Guiling, Zhao Gongming, and the Ten Thousand Immortals of the Sect of Interception emerged from the rift to support Fire Spirit Mother and Yang Jian.
• Daoist Duobao attacked King Dizang with the Myriad Treasure River, shattered the Buddhist formation, and freed Yang Jian.
• Daoist Duobao summoned the Immortal-Slaying Formation Diagram and fought King Dizang while the Sect of Interception battled the Buddhist disciples; Yuan Hong and his companions joined the melee.
• Haotian’s attention shifted to the fighting below, allowing Chi You to wound his incarnation and taunt him.
• A new rift tore open above Peach Mountain, releasing a vast tide of blood Baleful Intent that made Duobao and King Dizang pause in alarm.