Recaps

Xifeng Island’s leaders decided to use Jiang Ping as a sacrifice to handle the threat from Chen Nianjiang, while Jiang Ping continued toward Haiyue Island. After killing a Saint-level Haize and rescuing a cargo ship, he learned more about Haiyue Island and its powerful Zuo Clan.

• Green Hair and the other Peak Martial Saints agreed to make Jiang Ping bear the burden of dealing with Chen Nianjiang, despite Muyun’s objections.
• Jiang Ping crossed the sea without harming a group of Sea Kui, which then fled deeper into the sea to escape human hunters.
• A Saint-level Haize attacked a cargo ship, and Jiang Ping killed it with a single lightning-infused sword strike.
• The ship’s Half-Saint Elder offered to strip Haize’s valuable scales, while Tong Huo and a young girl welcomed Jiang Ping aboard.
• Tong Huo told Jiang Ping that the Zuo Clan Spirit Wander family ruled Haiyue Island and had two Spirit Wander cultivators, one of whom had passed the Four-Nine Tribulation.

After reaching Haiyue Island, Jiang Ping was identified as a Martial Saint from Xifeng Island and ordered to join the dangerous Blood Moon Guard. When he refused, the crowd condemned him, and he killed a Female Golden Core who spoke against him.

• Jiang Ping declined the Tong Clan Half-Saint’s offer to take Tong Huo as his disciple and arrived at Haiyue Island.
• At the city gate, a Greater Golden Core and Captain Zuo identified Jiang Ping as Chen Nianjiang from Xifeng Island and ordered him to follow them.
• Captain Zuo said the Zuo Clan was conscripting Jiang Ping into the Blood Moon Guard to defend the islands.
• Jiang Ping refused, and a Female Golden Core stepped forward to denounce him as ungrateful.
• Jiang Ping killed the Female Golden Core and challenged the rest of the crowd to speak up.

Jiang Ping revealed overwhelming Spirit Wanderer strength after people in Haiyue Island Main City challenged him, killing them and Captain Zuo. Two Zuo Clan Spirit Wanderers arrived and recognized Jiang Ping as a remarkably young, powerful stranger.

• Jiang Ping killed the handsome young master who dared him, while Captain Zuo failed to react.
• Jiang Ping killed more of the people who had confronted him and unleashed Thunderous Heavenly Might, trapping Captain Zuo and reducing him to ash.
• Onlookers realized Jiang Ping was a Spirit Wanderer, and Tong Huo’s group recognized his lightning technique and feared someone had provoked him.
• Two Zuo Clan Spirit Wanderers arrived, examined Jiang Ping, and estimated that he was under a hundred years old and at least at the Third Heaven of Spirit Wander.

Jiang Ping confronted the Zuo Clan over the attempt to harm him, and the clan offered him a cluster of Fire-attribute Divine Medicine to appease him. He accepted it but demanded a satisfactory resolution, then asked where he could find other kinds of Divine Medicine and waited at the Zuo Clan residence.

• Jiang Ping's Thunder and Lightning God Tree frightened the Martial Saints of Haiyue Island, and the Zuo Clan's Spirit Wander experts cautiously approached him.
• Zuo Ning offered Jiang Ping a cluster of Fire-attribute Divine Medicine, and Jiang Ping accepted it.
• Jiang Ping asked whether the Zuo Clan had more medicine, and his display of a stronger, Heavenly Art-level destructive power terrified Zuo Ning and Zuo Yi.
• Jiang Ping asked where he could find Earth-, Water-, and Wind-attribute Divine Medicines, and Zuo Ning named a Spirit Wander Clan and Golden Cloud Island.
• Jiang Ping drank tea at the Zuo Clan residence and gave the clan half an hour to provide a satisfactory answer.

As Muyun prepared to leave Xifeng Island, Zuo Yi arrived in a furious display and demanded to know who had forced Chen Nianjiang into conscription. The islanders learned Chen was a Spirit Wanderer, and Zuo Yi revealed that the Zuo Clan had lost a Great Accomplishment Martial Saint and a cluster of Divine Medicine before Chen forgave them.

• Muyun prepared to sail to Haiyue Island as Huang Ling and the green-haired Peak Martial Saint saw him off, while Muyun condemned the green-haired man's scheme to make Chen Nianjiang take another's place.
• Zuo Yi arrived at Xifeng Island as a Spirit Wanderer, wrecked ships in his path, and struck Green Hair's Father when he recognized him as one of those involved in the scheme.
• Zuo Yi demanded to know who had proposed and supported forcing Chen Nianjiang into conscription, and the Martial Saints confessed what had happened.
• Green-haired Peak explained that he had wanted to preserve Xifeng Island's remaining Martial Saints, and Zuo Yi revealed that Chen Nianjiang was a Spirit Wanderer.
• Zuo Yi told the stunned Saints that one Great Accomplishment Martial Saint had died and the Zuo Clan had lost a cluster of Divine Medicine, but Chen Nianjiang had already forgiven the clan.

Jiang Ping left Haiyue Island after the Zuo Clan executed the Martial Saints who had wronged him and surrendered Divine Medicine. Rumors of his strength spread across the islands as he returned safely to Great Li, planning to cultivate and await his children’s birth.

• Zuo Yi returned to Haiyue Island with the heads of the main culprits, and Jiang Ping declined the Zuo Clan’s banquet and departed.
• Zuo Ning warned the assembled Martial Saints to investigate future conscripts and avoid seizing otherworldly guests, while deciding not to report the incident to Golden Cloud Island.
• Rumors about Jiang Ping’s power and the Zuo Clan’s losses spread across nearby islands, prompting other clans to become more cautious.
• People on Golden Cloud Island debated whether Jiang Ping was a Close to the Dao Seed and discussed Hao Jun and other gifted Spirit Wanders.
• Jiang Ping took a circuitous route back to Xuanxin Island, returned safely to Great Li, and planned to absorb the Divine Medicine and wait for his children to be born.

Jiang Ping returned to the Imperial City, used Divine Medicine to strengthen his True Self Body, and entered seclusion to prepare for a breakthrough. Months later, Chen Qingyan gave birth to twins, and she declared that she would become a Saint.

• Jiang Ping told Chen Qingyan about his journey beyond Xuanxin Island and showed her the Divine Medicine he had brought back.
• Jiang Ping entered seclusion, hoping to strengthen his foundation before drawing down the Primordial Spirit Tribulation.
• After several months of consuming Divine Medicine, Jiang Ping sensed that he was nearing the tribulation but chose not to rush.
• Jiang Yirou summoned Jiang Ping when Chen Qingyan went into labor, and elders gathered to await the birth.
• Leng Yue announced that Chen Qingyan had delivered a boy and a girl, while the elders eagerly admired the twins.
• Jiang Ping checked on Chen Qingyan, who recovered on her own and said she intended to become a Saint.

After discovering that his newborn twins had dangerously imbalanced Life and Death bloodlines, Jiang Ping used his own True Meaning to stabilize them temporarily. With no cure available on Xuanxin Island, he agreed to leave the island soon to find one.

• The seniors discovered that Jiang Ping and Chen Qingyan's newborn twins cried uncontrollably and struggled to breathe.
• Jiang Ping found that the younger sister's Life bloodline had been absorbed by her older brother, leaving both infants with severe Life and Death imbalances.
• Jiang Ping warned that the older brother would die within an hour without intervention, then temporarily stabilized both children with his True Meaning of Life and Death.
• Jiang Ping explained that the infants could not cultivate martial arts while he substituted for their missing origins, and the seniors could offer no cure.
• Chen Qingyan urged Jiang Ping to seek a solution, and he agreed to leave Xuanxin Island in a few days, shocking the seniors.

Jiang Ping revealed to three Martial Saints that he could leave Xuanxin Island and described the outside world, prompting them to plan a cautious return. He then consumed Divine Medicine to strengthen his body and prepare for a breakthrough before seeking a cure for his children.

• Jiang Ping showed the three Martial Saints Divine Medicine and admitted he had reached the Spirit Wander Realm and could leave the island.
• Jiang Ping explained the Continental Blood Battle, the Near-Dao Shackles, and the dangers waiting beyond Xuanxin Island.
• Jiang Siqi and Shangguan Chun agreed to keep the escape route secret and delay the other saints’ departure until Jiang Ping had grown stronger.
• After reassuring the others that the children were fine, Jiang Ping swallowed the Divine Medicine in the Quiet room and began refining its power.
• Jiang Ping’s True Self Body reached perfect refinement, leaving him ready to cross the tribulation and break through.

Jiang Ping broke through to Spirit Wander Second Heaven in the North Sea and tested his strengthened techniques before deciding to leave Xuanxin Island with the three seniors. His True Self and the seniors departed through a Void Passage, while Chen Qingyan and Jiang Yirou stayed behind.

• Jiang Ping endured the Great Tribulation and shattered the Inner Demon Tribulation, reaching Spirit Wander Second Heaven.
• Jiang Ping tested the Zhan Shen Saber, the Life and Death Heavenly Saber, lightning, and his Five Elements techniques, concluding that his Life and Death Heavenly Saber was stronger than the Murong Family's saber.
• Zhou Tianming sensed the dense lightning Dao Rhythm and believed it could help him reach Martial Saint Ninth Heaven and then Spirit Wander.
• Jiang Ping told Jiang Siqi, Shangguan Chun, and the Martial Saint that he had broken through and was ready to leave Xuanxin Island.
• Jiang Ping left his physical body behind and departed with the three seniors through a Void Passage, while Chen Qingyan and Jiang Yirou saw them off.

Jiang Ping led the Three Seniors across the South Sea and through a perilous region governed by Near-Dao laws. After they crossed it, the Three Seniors sensed that the Shackles were gone and that they were close to leaving the island.

• Jiang Ping and the Three Seniors departed without alerting the Martial Saints waiting on the South Sea, so their attempt to leave the island would remain secret.
• The group encountered a Great Accomplishment Martial Saint from the Zhou Dynasty and continued more than ten thousand miles across the sea through the Void.
• When Martial Saint Murong stepped toward the open blue sky, Jiang Ping stopped him, and Jiang Siqi warned that the Shackles had tightened above them.
• The Three Seniors discussed whether other powerful islands had already escaped the Three Thousand Solitary Graves and warned Jiang Ping to avoid entanglement with the Near-Dao Reincarnation in the Tianluo Region.
• Jiang Ping sent his Past Body ahead to scout as the group crossed the dangerous region where Near-Dao laws interwove.
• After they passed through, Jiang Siqi and Shangguan Chun sensed immense Rhythm Force, and Martial Saint Murong rejoiced that the Shackles were gone.

Jiang Ping brought the three seniors from Xuanxin Island to Haiyue Island, helped them secure Dao Rhyme Pills, and prepared to leave for Golden Cloud Island to find a way to resolve the children’s incompleteness. The seniors were left to pursue breakthroughs on Haiyue Island while Jiang Ping continued his search.

• Jiang Siqi, Martial Saint Murong, and Shangguan Chun rejoiced at escaping Xuanxin Island’s restraints and vowed to advance their cultivation.
• Jiang Ping promised to obtain Dao Rhyme Pills for the three seniors and brought them to Haiyue Island.
• Jiang Ping warned the seniors to hide their rare cultivation techniques and told them to use the name Chen Nianjiang if trouble arose.
• The three seniors rented neighboring residences, and Jiang Ping traded half of Haize’s scales for Dao Rhyme Pills to share with them.
• Jiang Ping told the seniors he was leaving for Golden Cloud Island to search for records that could resolve the children’s incompleteness.

Jiang Ping encountered a Haize hunt on his journey and joined in, revealing that he was a young Spirit Wanderer. At the battlefield, he learned that the prodigy Ling Chen of the Golden Cloud Ling Family was fighting a Spirit Wanderer-level Haize, which suddenly unleashed a trace of True Saint bloodline.

• Jiang Ping killed a Saint-level Haize that had surfaced near the human Martial Saints, then stripped its scales for resources.
• Jiang Ping observed two Spirit Wanderers fighting a Haize and assessed that their strength might not be enough to defeat it.
• Jiang Ping revealed his Spirit Wanderer aura and offered to help, but Ling Chen rejected his assistance and refused to share the beast.
• A Martial Saint Jiang Ping had protected told him that the young prodigy was Ling Chen of the Golden Cloud Ling Family.
• The Haize went berserk and revealed red light from its scales, prompting Ling Chen to recognize its True Saint bloodline as the other Spirit Wanderer launched another attack.

Jiang Ping exposed two concealed Spirit Wanderers who were waiting to claim the Fierce Beast Haize’s resources, prompting Ling Chen to reject them and call Jiang Ping into the fight. As Jiang Ping entered the battlefield, one of the newcomers blocked his path, and Jiang Ping attacked him.

• Fierce Beast Haize unleashed its scales as armor and injured Ling Chen and the Third Heaven Spirit Wanderer.
• Ling Chen invited Jiang Ping to join the hunt, but Jiang Ping warned that two Spirit Wanderers were hidden above the clouds.
• Ling Chen attacked the concealed pair, revealing Qi Bing of the Golden Cloud Qi Family and another Spirit Wanderer.
• Qi Bing offered to join the fight and split the resources four ways, but Ling Chen refused and called Jiang Ping his senior brother.
• A Third Heaven Spirit Wanderer blocked Jiang Ping’s way, and Jiang Ping attacked him directly.

Jiang Ping fought Qi Bing and another Spirit Wanderer over a share of the resources, defeating them with his Withering Art and the Murong Clan’s Zhan Shen Saber. The battle left Qi Bing badly injured and established Jiang Ping as a formidable contender before the other Spirit Wanderers.

• Jiang Ping wounded a Third Heaven Spirit Wanderer with his Withering Art after that opponent tried to block his path.
• Ling Chen warned Jiang Ping that the injured Spirit Wanderer had vanished with a Spatial Treasure, but Jiang Ping struck him out of hiding and nearly severed half his body.
• Qi Bing attacked Jiang Ping with a spear while his companion joined in with a Sword Art, and Ling Chen remained occupied fighting the Fierce Beast.
• Jiang Ping drew on the Murong Clan’s Zhan Shen Saber and cut down both attackers, leaving them badly wounded as the watching Martial Saints stared in shock.
• Qi Bing unleashed the Qi Clan’s supreme Primordial Spirit art, but Jiang Ping shattered it with the Zhan Shen Saber and split Qi Bing’s body and Primordial Spirit apart.

Jiang Ping drove off Qi Bing and helped Ling Chen’s group slay a Haize Beast, then chose Spirit Pills over a cluster of Half-divine medicine that would take a hundred years to mature. He accepted Ling Chen’s invitation to visit Golden Cloud Island and travel together.

• Jiang Ping wounded Qi Bing’s Primordial Spirit with the Zhan Shen Saber and forced Qi Bing and his companion to retreat.
• Jiang Ping joined Ling Chen and the Ling Family elder in attacking the Haize Beast, and his Withering Marvelous Art helped weaken it until the three men killed it.
• Ling Chen explained that the Haize Beast had swallowed a cluster of Half-divine medicine that could become Divine Medicine after about a hundred years.
• Jiang Ping rejected his share of the Half-divine medicine in favor of Spirit Pills and received two hundred pills and part of the beast’s body.
• Ling Chen invited Jiang Ping to Golden Cloud Island, and Jiang Ping agreed to visit and travel with them.

Jiang Ping arrived at Golden Cloud Island with Ling Chen, witnessed its golden Jinxia, and learned more about the Ling Family and its powerful ancestors. While browsing the Ling Family’s Scripture Pavilion, he studied the Hao Clan’s Sunlight Mysterious Skill and considered how to complete his Thunderbolt Technique as a Heavenly Art.

• Jiang Ping and Ling Chen arrived at Golden Cloud Island at dawn and watched the golden Jinxia blanket the island.
• Ling Chen assured Jiang Ping that the Ling Family would protect him from Qi Bing’s revenge and invited him to stay.
• Ling Chen brought Jiang Ping to his residence, where Jiang Ping gave ten Spirit Pills to Ling Chen’s talented Martial Saint descendant.
• Ling Chen left to visit his Old Ancestor and transplant a Half-divine medicine, while Jiang Ping went to the Scripture Pavilion to read Martial Dao records.
• Jiang Ping studied the Hao Clan ancestor He Ren’s Sunlight Mysterious Skill and realized that his deeper understanding of lightning might let him complete the Thunderbolt Technique into a Heavenly Art.

Jiang Ping read about the Hao Family’s legendary cultivators and examined the Tianluo Region’s Close to the Dao Seed Ranking. He learned that Zhong Shenxiu, a Near-Dao Reincarnation who wielded Life and Death, held the top spot, and an annotation about her surprised him.

• Jiang Ping reflected on the Hao Family’s Old Ancestor, who had possessed Near-Dao Talent but died during the True Saint Tribulation.
• Jiang Ping read about Hao Jun, a Close to the Dao Seed who cultivated Water Fire Wind and Astonishing Brilliance and ranked fifth in the Tianluo Region.
• Jiang Ping learned that the ranking listed ten Near-Dao talents, though a true Close to the Dao Seed needed an Undying Trait at the Eighth Heaven.
• Jiang Ping discovered that Zhong Shenxiu ranked first and had cultivated Life and Death to the pinnacle of Divine Intent, along with a Space-type Heavenly Art.
• Jiang Ping thought he would likely lose if he fought Zhong Shenxiu, then noticed an annotation about her that surprised him.

Jiang Ping studied the era’s extraordinary geniuses and learned that many believed their rise followed a long period of decline. He turned back to his children’s problems, and Ling Chen explained why the offspring of those who entered sainthood through a Heavenly Art could not have their Incompleteness repaired.

• Jiang Ping read about Zhong Shenxiu and the other Close to the Dao Seeds, realizing that he had underestimated the era’s many formidable geniuses.
• Jiang Ping learned that seniors attributed the unprecedented flourishing of talent to the bloody war and the long decline that followed it.
• Jiang Ping decided to prioritize solving Jiang Yao and Jiang Hao’s problems before seeking resources or rushing to cultivate further.
• Jiang Ping searched for information about physiques but found nothing useful, then raised the subject of Zhong Shenxiu’s hypothetical child while drinking with Ling Chen.
• Ling Chen said that artificially repairing the Incompleteness of a child born to parents who entered sainthood through a Heavenly Art went against heaven’s mandate.
• Jiang Ping asked whether a rare treasure could help someone born with their Origin taken away, even if it could not make them whole.

Jiang Ping learned that his Great Saint Descendant’s stolen Origin could be restored with rare medicine from the Island of Ten Thousand Saints, and decided to seek it. After leaving Ling Chen, he was ambushed by Qi Xin, who demanded his Heavenly Art.

• Jiang Ping told Ling Chen how his children had cultivated a damaged Heavenly Art and lost a descendant’s Origin, and Ling Chen agreed to ask his cousin for information.
• Ling Chen told Jiang Ping that the Island of Ten Thousand Saints held medicine that could restore the Origin, while self-healing was an exceptionally unlikely alternative.
• Jiang Ping chose to seek the medicine, planned to prepare after passing the Four-Nine Tribulation, and left to return to Xuanxin Island.
• Ling Chen accompanied Jiang Ping for ten thousand miles and realized only after they parted that Jiang Ping had been traveling in a Primordial Spirit body.
• Qi Xin attacked Jiang Ping with a sudden killing move, but Jiang Ping dodged it, and Qi Xin demanded that he hand over the Heavenly Art.

Jiang Ping fought Qi Xin, who ambushed him for the Heavenly Art and other treasures, and overwhelmed the Golden Cloud Island prodigy with his Primordial Spirit Golden Saber and combat-strength Secret Technique. The chapter ended with Qi Xin badly shattered and helpless in Jiang Ping’s grasp.

• Jiang Ping suspected that Ling Chen or Zhen Long had revealed his circumstances after Qi Xin confronted him over his younger brother and the Heavenly Art.
• Qi Xin unleashed the Hao Family’s Rizhao Scripture, but Jiang Ping split its summoned sun with his saber and revealed strength beyond the Four-Nine Tribulation.
• Qi Xin attacked with the Great Sun God Chain and spear, but Jiang Ping’s strength-stacking Secret Technique broke through his defenses and wounded him.
• Qi Xin grew greedy after realizing Jiang Ping’s Secret Technique could double combat strength, crushed a talisman, and charged again.
• Jiang Ping struck Qi Xin repeatedly with his Primordial Spirit Golden Saber until Qi Xin could no longer resist, then seized him by the throat.

Jiang Ping discovered that Zhen Long, not Ling Chen, had informed on him, then confronted Hao Jun while trying to take Qi Xin home. Hao Jun attacked to search Jiang Ping’s memories, and Jiang Ping calmly challenged him to discover why he had chosen to stay.

• Jiang Ping searched Qi Xin’s memories and learned that Zhen Long had informed on him, then spared Qi Xin for now.
• Jiang Ping seized Qi Xin and headed home, but Hao Jun caught up and demanded to know what had happened.
• Qi Xin falsely claimed Jiang Ping had sought the Hao clan’s Sunlight Mysterious Skill, prompting Hao Jun to attack and demand a search of Jiang Ping’s memories.
• Jiang Ping faced Hao Jun’s Water Fire Wind technique and said that even Zhong Shenxiu could not stop him from leaving, then asked Hao Jun why he had chosen to stay.

Jiang Ping revealed his power to Hao Jun, who recognized him as a Close to the Dao Seed with a Space-type Heavenly Art and agreed to let him leave. Jiang Ping refused and claimed Hao Jun had stolen his clan’s Heavenly Art, then launched a surprise attack.

• Hao Jun attacked Jiang Ping and Qi Xin with the Imprisoning Heaven Handprint, but Jiang Ping remained unharmed while protecting Qi Xin.
• Hao Jun recognized Jiang Ping’s Space-type Heavenly Art and admitted he could not stop him from leaving.
• Qi Xin realized Jiang Ping was a Close to the Dao Seed and understood the danger of having tried to extort him.
• Jiang Ping refused Hao Jun’s offer to let him leave and demanded to inspect Hao Jun’s memories over an alleged theft of his clan’s Heavenly Art.
• Jiang Ping attacked Hao Jun, causing the ground beneath Hao Jun to erupt and shatter everything within a hundred miles into the Void.

Jiang Ping revealed his Life and Death power and fought Hao Jun, who recognized that Jiang Ping had forged a Samsara Foundation but was still a Low Realm Spirit Wander. As Jiang Ping brought out the Present Sword of the Years Sword Intent, Hao Jun sensed an overwhelming threat.

• Jiang Ping unleashed his Black and White Saber, causing Qi Xin’s body to dissolve and forcing Hao Jun to flee before turning to fight him.
• Hao Jun blocked Jiang Ping’s attacks and realized that his opponent wielded Life and Death into Samsara while still being a Low Realm Spirit Wander.
• Jiang Ping’s Black and White Saber wounded Hao Jun and began draining his lifespan, though Hao Jun broke the Saber Intent and recovered his vitality.
• Jiang Ping said he still could not suppress Hao Jun, then revealed another Heavenly Art, the Years Sword Intent.
• Jiang Ping began to unleash the Present Sword, and Hao Jun sensed a deadly threat.

Jiang Ping used the Present Sword to overwhelm and wound Hao Jun, a Close to the Dao Seed, despite suffering backlash from his incomplete mastery. After Jiang Ping left, Qi Xin's Old Ancestor arrived and learned that Hao Jun had been defeated by a cultivator who had not even undergone the Four-Nine Tribulation.

• Hao Jun realized Jiang Ping was stronger and fled from their fight.
• Jiang Ping reflected on how the Present Sword severed the past, then suffered backlash from forcing its power.
• Jiang Ping's World-Dwelling Sword shattered Hao Jun's attacks and left him covered in sword wounds.
• Jiang Ping threatened to Soul Search Hao Jun, then abruptly departed as Hao Jun's body began to crack under the sword's pressure.
• Qi Xin's Old Ancestor arrived, and Hao Jun revealed that his opponent was a lower-realm cultivator who had not undergone the Four-Nine Tribulation.