Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ping defeated a Feng Clan Greater Golden Core who had tried to assassinate him, then arrived at Yin-Yang Dao Mountain as its barrier opened. A Greater Golden Core launched a killing move at him just as he was about to ascend, while most onlookers waited calmly, already aware of his strength.

• Jiang Ping left Gu Ling and headed toward Earth Element Mountain, while Gu Shuo and the other Half-step Greater Golden Cores wondered about his plans.
• Jiang Ping returned unharmed after fighting an unknown attacker, ignored Gu Shuo, and continued toward Earth Element Mountain with his wife.
• The Feng Clan learned that its hero had reached the Greater Golden Core level, only for him to return wounded and admit he had tried to assassinate Jiang Ping.
• The barrier of Yin-Yang Dao Mountain vanished, and Jiang Ping's group prepared to enter the final Land of Creation.
• A Greater Golden Core unleashed a powerful sword attack at Jiang Ping as he was about to climb Dao Mountain, while most gathered Golden Cores stayed calm.

Jiang Ping overwhelmed Hong Tiange in battle, defeating the newly advanced Greater Golden Core and nearly killing him before a Half-Saint intervened. The Half-Saints worried that Jiang Ping would have to choose a single Momentum to enter the Greater Golden Core Realm, but Jiang Yuan believed he would forge an unprecedented path.

• Hong Tiange unleashed his strongest sword strike against Jiang Ping, but Jiang Ping shattered it with one punch.
• Hong Tiange summoned his Ice and Snow anomaly and sword formation, but Jiang Ping broke them apart without using his full strength.
• Jiang Ping intensified his attack with his Bone Technique, shattered Hong Tiange's anomaly, and drove the Da Wei Saint Son to flee.
• Jiang Ping beat Hong Tiange until a Half-Saint rescued him from Jiang Ping's killing blow.
• The Zheng Family Half-Saint said Jiang Ping would have to choose one Momentum to fuse into his Golden Core, while Jiang Yuan believed he would find a supreme path of his own.

Jiang Ping routed the Aristocratic Family Camp, secured a classic containing the Void Palm, and forced the survivors to yield the summit of Dao Mountain to his group. At the peak, they found the source of the Yin-Yang Aura and learned that a Martial Saint had disappeared after entering it.

• Jiang Ping attacked the Aristocratic Family Camp and badly wounded or eliminated geniuses from the Zheng, Su, Shang, Lu, and other families, while Jiang Yuan warned the Half-Saints not to interfere.
• Gu Ling offered Jiang Ping a classic containing the Void Palm in exchange for sparing Gu Shuo, and Jiang Ping accepted it.
• Jiang Ping tried to take the Years Sword from a newly advanced Shang Family Greater Golden Core, but a Half-Saint intervened and took the expert away.
• Leng Yue revealed that she had reached the Greater Golden Core Realm, and Qin Feng led the group toward the summit of Dao Mountain.
• Jiang Ping and his companions reached the summit, where Qin Feng identified a dark formation as the source of the Yin-Yang Aura.
• Leng Yue said that a Martial Saint of the Sixth Heaven had entered the source and vanished without a trace.

At Dao Mountain, Jiang Ping rapidly cultivated the Void Palm and reached Nine Revolutions Perfection, bringing him to the threshold of the Greater Golden Core Realm. He postponed choosing a great trend for his Golden Core, weighing several paths before making the decisive breakthrough.

• Jiang Ping and the Jiang Saint Faction benefited from Dao Mountain's creation, while Gu Ling broke through to Half-step Greater Golden Core.
• Jiang Ping practiced the Void Palm, learning to strike targets from over thirty zhang away within three days.
• Gu Ling and several Half-Saints praised Jiang Ping's talent and predicted he would surpass Xiao Yucheng.
• Jiang Ping broke through to Nine Revolutions Perfection and stood one step from the Greater Golden Core Realm.
• Qin Feng, Han Liyuan, and Leng Yue discussed Jiang Ping's possible paths, but he chose to wait before committing to a great trend.

After Dao Mountain’s aura was exhausted, Jiang Ping prepared to leave and continue cultivating, but Shang Mingyuan ambushed him, shattered his foundation, and drove him toward the Black Abyss. As the Jiang Family tried to intervene, the Wei Family sided with the attackers, leaving Chen Qingyan to rush toward Jiang Ping.

• Jiang Ping pondered how to advance toward Half-Saint and considered eventually combining the Life and Death Artistic Conceptions.
• After half a month on Dao Mountain, the group prepared to leave as the aura dwindled and several geniuses approached or entered the Greater Golden Core realm.
• Shang Mingyuan attacked Jiang Ping with a Martial Saint’s power, cracking his Golden Core and Martial Dao Furnace and causing Different Force to spill from his body.
• Jiang Yuan identified Shang Mingyuan as the attacker and called for Saint Wei, but discovered Wei Lin had vanished and suspected his betrayal.
• Shang Mingyuan attacked again and forced Jiang Ping toward the Black Abyss while Half-Saints from several families blocked Jiang Yuan.
• Chen Qingyan ran toward Jiang Ping, and Jiang Yuan received a voice transmission confirming that the Wei Family had turned against the Jiang Family.

Jiang Ping and Chen Qingyan escaped the Black Abyss but were pulled back in by Dao Mountain’s Magic Array as Jiang Saint arrived too late to save them. Enraged, Jiang Saint attacked the other factions, and two Zheng Family Saints appeared to stop him.

• Jiang Ping used his resonance with the Old Saint’s blood essence to strengthen its protection and climb out of the Black Abyss with Chen Qingyan, but a Martial Saint’s attack triggered the array’s suction and swallowed them again.
• Jiang Saint arrived carrying Shang Mingyuan’s second son’s severed head, crushed it before the Shang Family, and learned that several Greater Golden Cores had died.
• Jiang Siqi jumped into the Black Abyss to search for Jiang Ping and Chen Qingyan, but returned injured and judged their survival unlikely.
• Jiang Saint charged at the face in the sky and summoned massive Celestial Bodies that threatened the gathered geniuses, including his own allies.
• A huge hand crushed the falling Celestial Bodies, and two Zheng Family Saints appeared to confront Jiang Siqi.

Jiang Saint refused to accept the other families’ claim that the deaths had made things even, and launched a battle against the Four Saints. After killing Zheng Yao, he trapped the Imperial City and the surrounding area inside his Myriad Heavens Starry Array, leaving the conflict on the brink of a decisive clash.

• Jiang Saint attacked the Four Saints with his Starry Sky Saint Technique, while Shang Mingyuan and the Zheng Family Twin Saints shattered his descending stars.
• Jiang Saint seized Zheng Yao, and Saint Leng appeared to block Shang Mingyuan’s attack on Dao Mountain, holding the head of Shang Mingyuan’s eldest son.
• Shang Mingyuan defended his actions as necessary for Great Li’s future, but Jiang Saint crushed Zheng Yao before the Four Saints could save him.
• Zheng Tianrong and the other Zheng Saint attacked Jiang Saint, and Saint Leng intervened to protect the Half-Saints.
• Jiang Saint formed the Myriad Heavens Starry Array over a hundred-li area, trapping the Imperial City, the Half-Saints, and Saint Lu behind its screen of starlight.

Jiang Siqi unleashed the Star Dou Grand Formation and fought Shang Mingyuan and the Zheng Family Twin Saints while slaughtering the Aristocratic Family Camp’s descendants. As his allies were nearly overwhelmed, Martial Saint Changchun, Shangguan, and the supposedly dead Xie Wuji arrived to turn the battle.

• Shang Mingyuan shattered the Star Curtain briefly, then joined the Zheng Family Twin Saints and the Su Family Martial Saint in attacking Jiang Siqi as other Saints emerged in the Imperial City.
• Jiang Siqi endured the Saints’ attacks and killed the Aristocratic Family Camp’s Golden Core geniuses, devastating the Shang, Su, and Zheng families.
• Wei Lin joined the assault and struck at Leng Yue, Jiang Jun, Han Liyuan, Qin Feng, and their companions, killing more than twenty Golden Cores before the Old Saint intervened.
• Martial Saint Changchun appeared and restored Jiang Siqi’s arm and Saint Leng’s vitality, stopping Wei Lin’s next strike.
• Shangguan arrived to oppose Shang Mingyuan, and Xie Wuji appeared alive, shocking the Zheng Family Old Woman and the white-bearded Half-Saint.

Shangguan Chun joined Jiang Siqi against Shang Mingyuan, turning the battle against the Shang Family Martial Saint and leaving him badly wounded and humiliated. Xie Wuji recorded Shang Mingyuan being struck in the face as Shangguan Chun revealed his contempt for the Shang Family’s origins.

• Shangguan Chun refused Shang Mingyuan’s demand to withdraw and attacked him with the Pure Water Element Art.
• Jiang Siqi recovered under Martial Saint Changchun’s care and joined Shangguan Chun, while Changchun held off the Zheng Family Twin Saints and watched Wei Lin.
• Shang Mingyuan used his Supreme Yang Fire Art to heal and counterattack, but Jiang Siqi and Shangguan Chun repeatedly injured him.
• Jiang Siqi struck toward Shang Mingyuan’s face, and Xie Wuji recorded the moment in his painting.
• Shang Mingyuan lost a leg and demanded to know why Shangguan Chun sided with Jiang Siqi, but Shangguan Chun denounced the Shang Family’s ancestry and its claims of status.

After learning that Jiang Ping had advanced the Changshi Fist to the Eighth Level Concept Realm, the Martial Saints turned their fury on Shang Mingyuan and Wei Lin for killing a genius whose talent could have benefited generations. Shangguan Chun and Jiang Saint attacked Shang Mingyuan, who survived being torn in half by reassembling himself.

• Xie Wuji revealed that Jiang Ping had extended the Changshi Fist’s artistic conception by two levels, reaching Great Accomplishment Concept, and blamed Wei Lin and Shang Mingyuan for his death.
• Shangguan Chun condemned Shang Mingyuan for destroying a talent capable of benefiting martial artists across the world, and the gathered Saints reacted with anger and grief.
• Jiang Yuan revealed that Jiang Ping had reached the Eighth Level Concept Realm and sent his final concepts to him before falling into the Black Abyss; Shangguan Chun confirmed the breakthrough.
• Shang Mingyuan insisted he had no regrets, while Zheng Tianrong warned the neutral Martial Saints against joining the fight, prompting two Saints to withdraw.
• Shangguan Chun and Jiang Saint attacked Shang Mingyuan, and Jiang Saint tore him in half, but Shang Mingyuan reassembled himself amid the flames.

Jiang Ping and Chen Qingyan were trapped in the Yin-Yang Compass as its destructive power overwhelmed the Old Saint’s blood. As Chen Qingyan neared death, Jiang Ping’s True Self and the Three Little Persons broke through the Short Life Saber Technique, and Jiang Ping’s vitality surged as her hair began to grow back.

• Jiang Ping recognized that the Dao Mountain formation’s compass embodied the Five Elements giving rise to Yin and Yang, while he and Chen Qingyan were dragged toward it.
• Jiang Ping fused the Old Saint’s essence blood with Chen Qingyan’s, briefly strengthening the saintly light protecting them.
• The saintly light broke apart, and the compass’s energy shattered their bodies as Jiang Ping tried to keep them alive with the Changshi Concept and Changshi Fist.
• Chen Qingyan’s body deteriorated to bare bones, and Jiang Ping watched helplessly as she asked whether it was time to say goodbye.
• Jiang Ping’s True Self and the Three Little Persons practiced the Short Life Saber Technique until a curtain of life-and-death laws appeared in the Sea of Consciousness.
• Jiang Ping’s vitality surged, his flesh covered their skeletons again, and Chen Qingyan’s black hair began to grow back.

Shang Mingyuan broke through into the Seventh Heaven amid a battle with Shangguan Chun, Jiang Siqi, and Martial Saint Murong, but their attacks left him gravely injured. He survived with his future advancement effectively blocked, while Jiang Saint accepted that killing him would now be difficult.

• Shang Mingyuan began breaking through under attacks from Shangguan Chun and Jiang Siqi, but Martial Saint Murong joined them and struck him with lightning.
• Shang Mingyuan completed his breakthrough into the Seventh Heaven as the Zheng father and son and Saint Lu tried to aid him, while Martial Saint Changchun held them back with her withering Dao Rhythm.
• Shang Mingyuan briefly established a foothold in the Seventh Heaven, but his excessive use of Dao Force and the three Saints' assault cracked his Origin and caused a severe Dao Injury.
• Shangguan Chun explained that Shang Mingyuan would struggle to establish a lasting foothold in the Seventh Heaven, and Shang Mingyuan howled at the loss of his future.
• Jiang Saint celebrated Shang Mingyuan's ruined prospects but sighed that killing him would now be difficult.

Jiang Ping survived the Yin-Yang Compass by comprehending the Life Trend and escaped with Chen Qingyan, reaching the bottom of Dao Mountain. After discovering a ruined palace and failing to find a safe way out, he suffered a severe Dao Injury and began repairing his Martial Dao Furnace.

• Jiang Ping used the Old Saint's true blood and the Life Trend to protect himself and Chen Qingyan from the Yin-Yang Compass, then pulled them free.
• Jiang Ping and Chen Qingyan fell through Dao Mountain's enormous Magic Array and landed beside a glowing lake and a ruined palace.
• Jiang Ping found a dead Martial Saint outside the palace, entered the hall, and found clothes to dress himself and Chen Qingyan.
• Jiang Ping buried the Martial Saint, then tried to find an escape route by approaching the stone wall and digging a tunnel.
• A burst of formation power struck Jiang Ping and fractured his Martial Dao Furnace and Golden Core, so he returned to the palace to heal.

After Shang Mingyuan’s breakthrough left him too injured to continue fighting, the battle ended, and the Martial Saints failed to rescue Jiang Ping from Black Abyss. While the world mourned Jiang Ping and condemned the Shang Family, Jiang Ping remained alive inside Dao Mountain and considered using a breakthrough baptism to repair his Golden Core.

• Shangguan Chun ended the battle, and Shang Mingyuan withdrew with his surviving clan members as the other factions departed.
• The Five Saints tried to enter Black Abyss but returned wounded, believing Jiang Ping and the other trapped cultivator were likely dead.
• Xie Wuji mourned Jiang Ping, and Jiang Jun and Jiang Saint erected an empty tomb and carved his epitaph.
• News of the battle spread across Xuanxin Island, and martial artists condemned Shang Mingyuan and the Shang Family for Jiang Ping’s apparent death.
• Jiang Ping healed inside Dao Mountain, found that the Life Trend could not repair his cracked Golden Core, and decided to use the Baptism of breaking through a great barrier.

Jiang Ping and Chen Qingyan recovered in the ancient palace and explored Dao Mountain, finding a large supply of Jade Gold but no exit. At a mysterious lake, they discovered water that repaired damaged Golden Cores and could complete Chen Qingyan’s Saint Body.

• Chen Qingyan woke with her body and Martial Dao Furnace restored, reunited with Jiang Ping, and learned that his Fist Technique had made a major breakthrough.
• Jiang Ping said their damaged Golden Cores could only be restored by breaking through a major barrier, and he planned to fuse life and death into a stronger path.
• Jiang Ping and Chen Qingyan explored the palace grounds, found a large pile of Jade Gold beside a ruined Forging Hut, and failed to find a way out of Dao Mountain.
• Jiang Ping touched the lake and discovered that its water began repairing his Martial Dao Golden Core.
• Chen Qingyan entered the lake and realized that its mysterious substance could complete her Saint Body.

Jiang Ping and Chen Qingyan repaired their constitutions in the lake and chose to cultivate the Life Trend together, while news spread of Su Tongxuan and Xiao Yucheng reaching Half-Saint. Jiang Ping then successfully comprehended the Short World Trend.

• Chen Qingyan and Jiang Ping entered the lake, where its water repaired her Innate Sacred Body and his Golden Core.
• Jiang Ping urged Chen Qingyan to cultivate the Life Trend with him, and she agreed.
• Martial Saint Changchun explained that Jiang Ping’s three-part Changshi Fist concept could preserve youth and combat strength, and proposed calling it the Everlasting Youth Fist.
• Su Tongxuan established a foothold as a Half-Saint, and people learned that Xiao Yucheng had also already broken through.
• Lusheng dismissed the praise of Su Tongxuan and Xiao Yucheng, saying they had once been no match for Jiang Ping.
• Jiang Ping successfully comprehended the Short World Trend and caused a potted plant to wither instantly.

Jiang Ping fused the trends of life and death, then attempted to advance from Golden Core perfection toward the Greater Golden Core while developing a single technique that combined his Heavenly Arts. The chapter ended with his Dao Path producing overwhelming auspicious signs and an aura powerful enough to threaten even a Half-Saint.

• Jiang Ping unleashed the Short World Trend, withering Chen Qingyan’s potted plants, then revived them with his Life Trend.
• Jiang Ping made the plants cycle repeatedly between flourishing and withering, revealing that he sought to fuse life and death.
• Jiang Ping gathered the fused trends into his Golden Core and began advancing toward the Greater Golden Core.
• Jiang Ping tested his new power by striking an ancient tree with colorful light that destroyed it at its source.
• Jiang Ping began trying to combine his life and death Heavenly Arts into one technique, producing strange signs that left Chen Qingyan unable to understand his Dao Path.
• Jiang Ping’s aura intensified amid dazzling phenomena, and Chen Qingyan sensed that even a Half-Saint could be injured by him.

After more than a month of cultivation, Jiang Ping broke through to Greater Golden Core, created the Withering and Flourishing Cycle Saber Technique, and advanced to Half-Saint. He planned to cultivate Void Palm to escape Xuanxin Island, and six years passed after he and Chen Qingyan decided to have a child.

• Chen Qingyan tended the palace garden and practiced the Changshi Fist while Jiang Ping's breakthrough shook the surrounding land.
• Jiang Ping fused the concepts of Life and Death into the Withering and Flourishing Cycle Saber Technique and reached Greater Golden Core.
• Jiang Ping shattered his Golden Core, established himself as a Half-Saint, and formed a fourth little person in his Consciousness Space.
• Jiang Ping told Chen Qingyan he intended to cultivate Void Palm to escape Xuanxin Island and eventually destroy the Shang Family.
• Jiang Ping and Chen Qingyan decided to have a child, and six years passed.

At the Five Elements Mysterious Mountain, Lu Chenfeng’s defeat by Xiao Yucheng revealed how far the older generation’s power had advanced. The gathering turned tense when Jiang Jun challenged Xiao’s standing and Leng Yue confronted Wei Chen over his alliance with the Shang and Zheng Families.

• Half-Saints gathered before the Five Elements Mysterious Mountain and remarked that the current generation of geniuses was weaker than the previous one.
• Wei Chen asked Lu Chenfeng about his duel with Xiao Yucheng, and Lu Chenfeng admitted that he had lost.
• Su Tongxuan said Xiao Yucheng could overcome Lu Chenfeng through his superior realm, and Xiao Yucheng arrived with Xu Wei and revealed that his blade momentum had reached fifty percent.
• Jiang Jun mocked Xiao Yucheng’s claim to leadership, but Xie Wuji’s presence stopped Wei Chen from challenging him.
• Leng Yue confronted Wei Chen for serving the Shang and Zheng Families despite their shared past with Qin Feng and Han Liyuan, and Wei Chen stayed silent under Xie Wuji’s gaze.

After the Old Saint of the Qin Royal Family died, the factions learned that a Near-Dao Being’s cave mansion had appeared, drawing the world’s strongest experts toward a dangerous contest for its treasures. Reports from the cave mansion shifted the balance of power, leaving Saint Leng troubled despite Jiang Saint’s breakthrough to the Sixth Heaven.

• The Old Saint of the Qin Royal Family died, and Xie Wuji brought Leng Yue and Jiang Jun back to the Imperial City as news emerged of a world-shocking cave mansion in the Brilliant Dynasty.
• The Martial Saints gathered at the Qin Royal Palace to mourn, where Saint Lu revealed that the cave mansion belonged to a prodigy who had once reached the Near-Dao Realm.
• Reports from the Brilliant Dynasty said Martial Saint Tianfeng obtained a devastating incomplete dagger, Saint Ming gained a skill leading to Divine Wander, and the State Lord of Jin State was gravely wounded after acquiring a Spiritual Pill.
• News arrived that Shang Mingyuan had recovered from his Dao Injury, prompting the Aristocratic Family Camp to celebrate his renewed chance to reach the Seventh Heaven.
• Jiang Saint’s breakthrough to the Sixth Heaven excited his allies, but Saint Leng remained grave and warned that trouble was coming.