Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ping traveled through Great Zhou and entered the Near-Dao Being’s sanctuary to collect life- and death-type wondrous arts. As he prepared to leave for Great Li, a Half-Saint arrived, excitedly announcing that he had found pills.

• Jiang Ping learned that Great Zhou had many more Martial Saints and peerless young talents than Great Li, including a genius cultivating his Void Palm and the Unparalleled Heavenly Technique.
• Jiang Ping heard that Great Zhou’s strongest young martial artists were competing for opportunities in the Near-Dao Being’s sanctuary and went there to seek its preserved life-type wondrous art.
• Jiang Ping avoided the battles and tore open space to reach the sanctuary’s Stone Tablet Forest, where he found the life- and death-type wondrous arts he wanted.
• Jiang Ping decided to collect a few more cultivation methods before returning to Great Li and inviting Qing Yan to visit Great Zhou with him later.
• A handsome Half-Saint rushed toward Jiang Ping and announced that he had found the pills.

Jiang Ping traded Innate Spiritual Spring with Fan Jin for the Jimie Heavenly Technique, hoping to advance his path of death. After discovering the scripture contained only the philosophy of the Trend, he confronted Fan Jin over the incomplete technique.

• Jiang Ping took the Fire Rhythm Pill from a Half-Saint who had tried to divert his pursuers toward him.
• Fan Jin invited Jiang Ping to his Palace and gave him a foundational text related to the Jimie Heavenly Technique.
• Fan Jin offered to trade the Jimie Heavenly Technique for Innate Spiritual Spring, and Jiang Ping accepted.
• Jiang Ping comprehended the Heavenly Art briefly and confirmed that his Short Life Saber Concept Realm of God had advanced from 42% to 43%.
• Jiang Ping examined the scripture to verify it was complete, then challenged Fan Jin after finding it contained only the philosophy of the Trend.

Fan Jin tried to keep the Innate Spiritual Spring after offering Jiang Ping an incomplete Heavenly Art, then fled and sought help from Lin Hai. Jiang Ping pursued them to the Saint Lin Dojo, where he fought Lin Hai and revealed a ten-thousand-zhang Dharma Image.

• Jiang Ping rejected Fan Jin's incomplete Heavenly Art and demanded the Innate Spiritual Spring back, but Fan Jin fled with it.
• Fan Jin sought refuge with Lin Hai, admitted he had offended Jiang Ping, and offered to share the Spiritual Spring; Lin Hai demanded half.
• Jiang Ping caught up with Fan Jin using the Covering the Sky Hand Seal, but Lin Hai intervened and stopped the attack.
• Fan Jin fled toward the Great Zhou Imperial City to have his son receive the Baptism, while Lin Hai asked Jiang Ping to forgive him.
• Jiang Ping confronted Lin Hai at the Saint Lin Dojo, and their battle alarmed the Lin Clan as Jiang Ping's ten-thousand-zhang Dharma Image appeared.

Jiang Saint fought the Lin Clan’s newly advanced Seventh Heaven Martial Saint, and the battle left both Saints’ blood and Dao Rhythms in the sky. He then attacked Zhou Imperial City, where Number One Under Heaven Zhou Tianming appeared, and declared that he would send Zhou Tianming and his disciple into Samsara.

• The Lin Clan celebrated its Old Ancestor’s breakthrough to Great Accomplishment as he fought Jiang Saint of Great Li.
• Saint Blood fell from the sky, and onlookers discovered it carried the Dao Rhythms of both Jiang Saint and Lin Old Senior.
• Jiang Saint appeared above Zhou Imperial City, shattered its Magic Array, and angered the city’s residents.
• Zhou Tianming, the Lightning and Thunder Martial Saint and Number One Under Heaven, confronted Jiang Saint.
• Jiang Saint declared that he would send Zhou Tianming and his disciple into Samsara.

Jiang Ping confronted Zhou Tianming in Zhou Imperial City after discovering Fan Jin had used the Innate Spiritual Spring to baptize his son. When Zhou Tianming tried to let him leave peacefully, Jiang Ping killed Saint Lin, escalating the conflict with the Zhou Royal Family.

• The Zhou Royal Family condemned Jiang Ping’s threat against Zhou Tianming, while the gathered experts anticipated a clash between them.
• Zhou Tianming told Jiang Ping to leave, but Jiang attacked after learning Fan Jin had used the Innate Spiritual Spring.
• Zhou Tianming shattered Jiang Ping’s Void Divine Intent with the Thunder and Lightning God Tree’s power.
• Zhou Tianming and another royal expert warned Jiang Ping to retreat and accept the consequences of further defiance.
• Jiang Ping declared that the Zhou family would pay a price, and Saint Lin’s head fell from the sky after Jiang Ping killed him.

Jiang Ping refused Zhou Tianming’s attempt to settle the dispute and fought to punish Fan Jin for taking the Innate Spiritual Spring. Zhou Tianming intervened to save Fan Jin and his son, but the Fan Clan was devastated, and Jiang Ping and Zhou Tianming began a battle above Zhou Imperial City.

• The Royal Family learned Jiang Ping had killed Saint Lin, a Great Accomplishment Martial Saint, and Fan Jin realized he had caused a disaster.
• Jiang Ping attacked Fan Jin, revealing the power of a Fourth Heaven Martial Saint, but Zhou Tianming blocked the blow and Fan Jin and his son escaped as the Fan Clan was destroyed.
• Zhou Tianming urged Jiang Ping to end the dispute, but Jiang Ping refused to let Zhou Tianming decide what price Fan Jin should pay.
• Zhou Tianming attacked Jiang Ping, who drew his Black and White Heavenly Saber and challenged Zhou Tianming to bear the consequences of interfering.
• The two unleashed their strongest attacks, forcing the Imperial City’s Martial Saints to activate the City-Protecting Grand Array to protect the city.

Jiang Ping fought Zhou Tianming, the Lightning and Thunder Martial Saint, and revealed that his immense physical body came from a Life and Death path rather than ordinary Great Accomplishment cultivation. Jiang Ping left Zhou Tianming wounded and draining of blood and vitality, while Zhou Tianming recognized the threat and grew enraged.

• Zhou Tianming unleashed thunder and lightning attacks, but Jiang Ping countered them with the Black and White Heavenly Saber.
• Zhou Tianming deployed his Forty-Nine Thunder Saint Swords, cracking Jiang Ping’s saber and forcing him to reveal his black-and-white runes and ten-thousand-zhang body.
• Zhou Tianming realized Jiang Ping was not a Life Martial Saint but a Life and Death Great Saint whose body embodied two supreme essences.
• Jiang Ping and Zhou Tianming clashed as ten-thousand-zhang Dharma Bodies, and Jiang Ping injured Zhou Tianming while remaining unharmed.
• Zhou Tianming felt his blood and vitality decline from Jiang Ping’s power and responded with surging killing intent.

Jiang Ping defeated Zhou Tianming in a battle over the Zhou Imperial City, despite Zhou Tianming awakening part of his true self’s Primordial Spirit. Jiang Ping killed Fan Jin and his sons before departing, leaving the Zhou Royal Family’s power and legends shattered.

• Jiang Ping used Life Reversal to cut away Zhou Tianming’s lifespan and pressed him with powerful strikes.
• Jiang Ping matched Zhou Tianming’s Years Sword with the Time Sword and destroyed his Past Body, leaving Zhou Tianming suppressed and wounded.
• Zhou Tianming awakened part of his true self’s Primordial Spirit and wielded Spirit Wander power, but the battle ended with him defeated.
• Zhou Tianming returned to the palace injured and aged, while Fan Jin rejoiced that his master had survived.
• Jiang Ping killed Fan Jin and his sons with a finger strike as Zhou Tianming watched without intervening.
• Jiang Ping departed the Zhou Imperial City after defeating Number One Under Heaven.

Zhou Tianming revealed that Jiang Ping had forged sainthood through the Heavenly Arts of life and death, defeated him, and cut more than a century from his lifespan. Jiang Ping was acclaimed as the new Number One Under Heaven, while Zhou predicted he could enter divine wandering and urged the Zhou Royal Family to keep a lower profile.

• Zhou Tianming explained that Jiang Ping was a Life and Death Great Saint who had mastered both Heavenly Arts and defeated him with an irreversible technique that cut his lifespan by more than a hundred years.
• Zhou Tianming suspected Jiang Ping had forged a Withering and Blooming Sacred Body, declared him invincible on Xuanxin Island, and said the Zhou Royal Family should keep a lower profile.
• News spread that Jiang Ping had defeated the Number One Under Heaven, and martial artists learned that he had forged sainthood through the Heavenly Arts of life and death.
• Jiang Siqi, Shangguan Chun, and the others were astonished that Jiang Ping had returned without telling them of his victory.
• Shangguan Chun and Martial Saint Murong celebrated Jiang Ping's rise and anticipated a new golden Great Era.

Jiang Ping settled into family life, built a dojo, and raised Jiang Yirou while remaining the era’s strongest martial artist. Ten years later, he sent his Past Body into the force surrounding Xuanxin Island, but it found an overwhelming barrier and Jiang Ping returned injured.

• Jiang Yirou first chose a great hammer, then a wooden sword, and later pursued fist techniques instead of her father’s preferred saber path.
• At Xie Wuji’s suggestion, Jiang Ping built a dojo and residence, gathered family and old acquaintances there, and guided Xie Wuji’s cultivation.
• Over the following years, Jiang Ping trained Jiang Yirou, who wished to stay youthful like her mother, Chen Qingyan.
• Ten years after Jiang Ping defeated the Lightning and Thunder Martial Saint, he failed to escape Xuanxin Island because a powerful force disrupted every Void Passage.
• Jiang Ping sent his Past Body through the passage to investigate, then vomited blood when it vanished into the white mist.
• Jiang Ping recovered quickly and told the gathered Martial Saints that an incomprehensible force lay beyond the island.

After failing to break through the barrier, Jiang Ping returned home injured, while his allies remained hopeful that he would eventually reach the Spirit Wander Realm and lead them forward. At home, he reunited with Chen Qingyan and their daughter Jiang Yirou, who prepared to attend a Heroes' Gathering in Great Zhou.

• Jiang Saint Murong and the other Martial Saints discussed Jiang Ping's failed attempt and their hope that he would eventually reach the Spirit Wander Realm or higher.
• Jiang Ping transported the group back, and the Martial Saints discussed how his influence had spread the Changshi Fist and Jimie Heavenly Technique among gifted cultivators.
• Jiang Yirou returned to the dojo, teased Chen Qingyan about her storybooks, and was made to pick peppers for dinner.
• Jiang Ping returned with blood on his collar and admitted to Chen Qingyan that he had failed again, while Jiang Yirou wondered how long it would take him to reach the Spirit Wander Realm.
• At dinner, Jiang Yirou told her parents that she would attend the Heroes' Gathering in Great Zhou with Grandpa Xie, and Jiang Ping encouraged her while Chen Qingyan warned her to behave.
• Jiang Yirou finished dinner and had Jiang Ping take her to the Jiang Family so she could join her companions in setting River Lanterns afloat.

Jiang Ping prepared to enter Divine Roaming but believed Near-Dao power sealed Xuanxin Island. When an old handwritten note confirmed his suspicion, he told the gathered Saints he thought they could escape if he reached Near Dao.

• Jiang Ping told Chen Qingyan that he was preparing to awaken his true self and suspected terrifying power, possibly Near Dao, surrounded Xuanxin Island.
• Jiang Yirou returned from her journey with first place in the Eighth Grade Realm and advanced to the Bone Refining Stage.
• Over the next two years, Jiang Yirou matured and trained harder, while Jiang Ping denied being a Near-Dao Reincarnation.
• News spread that a handwritten note from the last Divine Roamer had revealed Near-Dao power surrounded Xuanxin Island, leaving the Martial Saints and Half-Saints in despair.
• At Jiang Saint's gathering, Jiang Ping said he believed they could escape and declared that he would step into Near Dao.

Jiang Ping learned how difficult it would be to reach Spirit Wander and True Saint, then chose to keep building his foundation while training Jiang Yirou. Months later, another handwritten note surfaced, and Martial Saints brought it to Jiang Ping hoping to make him pay for it.

• Martial Saint Murong and Shangguan Chun explained the dangers of the Spirit Wander and True Saint Tribulations and the difference between True Saint and Near Dao.
• Jiang Ping returned to his dojo, rejected forcing a breakthrough, and decided to let his spiritual power and foundation develop naturally.
• Jiang Yirou asked Jiang Ping to teach her saber techniques, and he continued training her in the Deathly Heavenly Saber.
• Half a year later, the descendants of a Spirit Wander expert discovered their ancestral graves had been dug up, prompting speculation that a Martial Saint had searched for another handwritten note.
• The Spirit Wander family found another handwritten note, and several Martial Saints brought it to Jiang Ping while expecting him to pay for it.
• Jiang Ping turned and left rather than accept their offer.

Jiang Ping learned that a narrow weak point in Xuanxin Island’s barrier could offer a chance to escape during the Heavenly Tide, provided he mastered the Void Palm to Divine Intent Peak. He promised to notify the Martial Saints if escape became possible, then decided to travel with Chen Qingyan to cultivate his spirit, leaving Jiang Yirou behind.

• Jiang Ping read a Spirit Wander cultivator’s note explaining that the barrier around Xuanxin Island weakened at a specific South Sea location during the Heavenly Tide.
• The Female Saint explained that escaping would require using the Gu Family’s Void Palm to open a Void Passage, and Jiang Ping said he would notify the others when the time came.
• Jiang Ping told his seniors about the note, and Jiang Siqi warned that Zhou Tianming might pose a danger if he left the island.
• Jiang Ping asked Chen Qingyan to travel with him, saying the journey would help him cultivate his spirit and prepare to reach the Spirit Wander Realm.
• Jiang Yirou learned that her parents planned to travel for three to five years without taking her along, and she felt abandoned.

Jiang Ping and Chen Qingyan secretly left the Imperial City to travel the jianghu, while Jiang Ping delayed a Spirit Wander breakthrough to deepen his foundation. Disguised as the heroes Chen Pingping and Jiang Qingqing, they joined a group targeting the Wu Family and entered its residence, where they found two young people training.

• Jiang Ping told Jiang Saint he was entering seclusion, entrusted his daughter to Elder Xie, and secretly departed with Chen Qingyan in disguise.
• Jiang Ping told Chen Qingyan he could summon the Spirit Wander Tribulation but wanted to strengthen his Primordial Spirit before advancing.
• The couple traveled through Great Li as the Dusty Wind Duo, gaining fame for helping people and confronting injustice.
• Chen Pingping and Jiang Qingqing joined Mole Man’s group to target Wu Fang, whom they accused of poisoning her husband and seizing an orphaned estate.
• The group slipped into the Wu Family Grand Courtyard at night and found a young man and woman practicing martial arts near the Training Ground.

Chen Pingping and his companions punished Wu Fang’s family for their crimes, while Chen Pingping’s experiences roaming the mortal world deepened his understanding of spirit roaming. As the group celebrated, thunder suddenly sounded beneath a clear sky.

• Mole Man and Chen Pingping watched Wu Fang’s son reveal that he knew his true parentage and planned to seek support from his birth father’s powerful relatives.
• Chen Pingping secretly destroyed the young man’s cultivation, and Mole Man, Chen Pingping, and the Aged Elder attacked Wu Fang and her lover.
• Chen Pingping and his wife killed a Wu Sixth Rank expert, while the Aged Elder killed Wu Fang and her lover.
• The next day, Chen Pingping and his companions celebrated after defeating martial artists Wu Fang had sent to the neighboring county.
• Chen Pingping reflected on how his travels had clarified his understanding of spirit roaming, then a sudden thunderclap startled the group despite the clear sky.

Chen Pingping and Jiang Qingqing joined a gathering of disguised martial artists, then exposed a gang led by Xiao Long when he tried to rob them. After rescuing the others and revealing their Golden Core strength, Jiang Ping and Chen Qingyan traveled to the East Sea, where Jiang Ping’s Spirit Wander Tribulation began.

• Chen Pingping and Jiang Qingqing drank with Mole Man and two other martial artists, who warned them that their identities had been exposed after they killed a noble son.
• Chen Pingping and Jiang Qingqing realized the man in his early thirties was stalling while an apparent attack unfolded nearby.
• Mole Man returned wounded to warn them, but the young man attacked him and revealed that he had been working with a gang.
• Xiao Long removed his human-skin mask and surrounded the couple with his accomplices, expecting to seize their valuables.
• Jiang Ping and Chen Qingyan revealed their true voices and Golden Core strength, then healed Mole Man and the wounded old man before leaving.
• Jiang Ping and Chen Qingyan traveled to the East Sea, where Jiang Ping was engulfed by lightning as his Spirit Wander Tribulation began.

Jiang Ping endured his first Spirit Wander Heavenly Tribulation, reassembled his body and overcame visions drawn from his memories to unite his inner gods and condense his True Self. He emerged with vastly increased spiritual and physical power, able to tear open the Void and clear a path through the Yellow Spring Mist.

• Jiang Ping’s body repeatedly exploded under the Purple Lightning as the gods within him awakened and the Mud Pill True God tried to unite them.
• Jiang Ping used Life Divine Intent to rebuild his body, then faced a tribulation that extinguished his inner gods and plunged him into memories of his family.
• Jiang Ping killed the figures of Jiang Fu and Jiang An in the memory, spared Jiang Xi, and then relived the merchant-ship incident where Chen Qingyan exposed him.
• Jiang Ping remained lucid through the inner demon visions, and the tribulation ended with all his gods united into a True Self.
• Jiang Ping tore open the Void with his physical strength, blasted a thousand-li channel through the Yellow Spring Mist, and unleashed the Reincarnation Heavenly Saber’s power across the sea.

Jiang Ping explored his new Spirit Wander Realm abilities while traveling with Chen Qingyan, then returned to Great Li with her pregnant with twins. Their daughter Jiang Yirou was shocked to learn she would soon have a younger brother and sister.

• Jiang Ping sent his True Self across the seas, saw the Saints waiting in the South Sea, and returned to Chen Qingyan after confirming his breakthrough.
• Jiang Ping and Chen Qingyan visited Great Li, then traveled through the feudal states and Zhou Dynasty while he practiced the Zhan Shen Saber and refined his Void Palm.
• More than a year after his breakthrough, Jiang Ping and Chen Qingyan ended their travels and returned to Great Li.
• Jiang Yirou welcomed her parents, then was stunned to see Chen Qingyan's pregnancy and learned she was carrying Dragon and Phoenix Twins.
• Xie Wuji celebrated the news, and Jiang Siqi asked Jiang Ping how Chen Qingyan had conceived so soon after his ascension; Jiang Ping suggested it was due to his Changshi Fist and the Way of Life.

News of Chen Qingyan’s pregnancy drove clans and Martial Saints to seek the Changshi Fist and arrange marriages to continue their bloodlines. Jiang Ping stockpiled resources for his family, refused to share the Deathly Heavenly Saber, and emerged from seclusion ready to try leaving Xuanxin Island.

• News spread that Chen Qingyan was pregnant with Dragon and Phoenix Twins, prompting clans to seek the Changshi Fist and elderly Martial Saints to take new wives for their family lines.
• Jiang Yirou gathered rare cultivation resources as Chen Qingyan and Jiang Ping showed her how much the Jiang family had accumulated.
• Jiang Ping exchanged the Changshi Heavenly Art for resources but refused a request to share the Deathly Heavenly Saber, which he kept as a Jiang family foundation.
• Jiang Ping ended his Heavenly Art trades, entered seclusion, and emerged half a month later after making a breakthrough.
• Jiang Ping told Chen Qingyan that he wanted to try leaving the island.