Chapter Summaries

Jiang Li arrived at the imperial city as two Nascent Soul Great Demons threatened its defenders and began breaching the protective formation. Using the Heavenly Dao Authority granted by the new Qi Refining Method, he killed one demon, while the other remained.

• The Green-Faced Lion Demon and Blood Jade Kui Ox demanded that the emperor offer them mortals, and the Green-Faced Lion Demon burned a hole through the city’s protective formation.
• Jiang Li appeared above the city and extinguished the Green-Faced Lion Demon’s Azure Wood Flame with Heavenly Dao Authority.
• The citizens cheered for Jiang Li as the Blood Jade Kui Ox and Green-Faced Lion Demon questioned his apparent Mid Golden Core cultivation.
• The Green-Faced Lion Demon charged Jiang Li, who restrained it and struck it with Azure Firmament Tribulation Lightning.
• The Green-Faced Lion Demon died and returned to heaven and earth as Jiang Li considered the new lightning’s power.

Jiang Li killed two Nascent Soul Peak demons who attacked the Cloudmist Dynasty, then learned that the Demon Race Trial would begin in four days. Emperor Zhangwu offered him the title of King Li, but the Emperor's World-Shocking Divine Art began plotting to seize the dynasty and revive the legend of the Heavenly Departure Holy Emperor.

• Jiang Li used Azure Firmament Tribulation Lightning to kill the Blood Jade Kui Ox after the Green-Faced Lion Demon had already fallen to his attack.
• The Qi Refining Method ended its hosting after gaining Heavenly Dao faith, leaving Jiang Li to face the citizens and officials who praised him as an immortal.
• Emperor Zhangwu arrived, heard that Jiang Li had killed two Nascent Soul Peak demons, and thanked him before the gathered officials and citizens.
• Jiang Li saw a Heavenly Dao notice that the Demon Race Trial would begin in four days and bring attacks across the Cloudmist Dynasty's Nine Provinces.
• Emperor Zhangwu offered Jiang Li the title of King Li and equal authority, while the Emperor's World-Shocking Divine Art announced its plan to begin the legend of the Heavenly Departure Holy Emperor anew.

Jiang Li condensed a second Great Sun Sword Qi during seclusion and rose to 502nd on the Spirit Transformation Rankings. When the Kui Niu Tribe threatened the imperial court and defeated Crown Prince Long Hao, Jiang Li arrived and instantly killed their Golden Core peak fighter.

• Jiang Li condensed a second Great Sun Sword Qi using five portions of Heavenly Fiend Qi.
• The Heavenly Dao ranked Jiang Li 502nd on the Spirit Transformation Rankings after his strength increased.
• Three Kui Niu Tribe members confronted Emperor Zhangwu at court, and the Nascent Soul Middle Stage member demanded to know what happened to its elder.
• The White Jade Kui Ox defeated Crown Prince Long Hao in three moves while the tribe threatened the court.
• Jiang Li arrived, and the White Jade Kui Ox died after Jiang Li tore apart its Spiritual Sense with a glance.

Jiang Li returned to the Cloudmist Dynasty’s court and killed two Kui Ox Tribe challengers, while the ministers and emperor hailed him as their savior. The remaining ox demon learned Jiang Li was only a Golden Core cultivator, challenged his strength, and was incinerated by Jiang Li’s Great Sun Sword Qi.

• Jiang Li arrived in the court hall and killed a Golden Core peak Kui Ox with a glance, alarming the two Nascent Soul ox demons.
• Emperor Zhangwu, Crown Prince Long Hao, and the ministers begged Jiang Li to protect the Cloudmist Dynasty, while Jiang Li considered the trust and Destiny he could gain.
• The Emperor's World-Shocking Divine Art declined to take over Jiang Li’s body, judging the court hall too small a stage for winning the people’s faith.
• The ministers revealed that Jiang Li was a Golden Core cultivator and the Heavenly Mystery Holy Son, prompting the ox demons to recognize him as the man who had slain the Demon Dragon Lord and Demon Saint Successor.
• A Nascent Soul ox demon challenged Jiang Li, who pierced him with Great Sun Sword Qi and burned his body and Nascent Soul to ash.

Jiang Li killed the Kui Niu Tribe demons who attacked the imperial court, then learned how dire the Demon Race trial had become for the Nine Provinces. As he resolved to protect the whole region, his Qi Refining Method assimilated part of the Heavenly Dao and began borrowing its power.

• Jiang Li killed the fleeing Nascent Soul Early Stage bull demon with twelve streaks of Divine Firmament Sword Light after another Kui Niu Tribe prodigy had been burned away.
• Emperor Zhangwu recognized Jiang Li's Sword Fiend and treated him with greater respect, while Jiang Li asked about the trial and the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land disciples.
• Emperor Zhangwu told Jiang Li that Xuan Tianji had led thirty Heavenly Mystery Holy Land disciples to the Nine Provinces, but more than three hundred Demon Race prodigies were overwhelming the region.
• Emperor Zhangwu and his ministers pleaded with Jiang Li to preserve at least one safe area, while Jiang Li decided that he had to protect the entire Nine Provinces.
• Jiang Li's Supreme Azure Firmament Violet Firmament Heart Sutra assimilated one percent of the Heavenly Dao, transformed his righteous conviction into Heavenly Dao conviction, and began borrowing the Heavenly Dao's power.

Jiang Li’s upgraded cultivation technique swore to eradicate the foreign races and activated Heavenly Dao Emissary Mode as the imperial city descended into chaos. He unleashed a vast Golden Core tribulation over the city, while his allies fought on and he prepared to let the technique raise hell.

• Jiang Li discovered that the Supreme Azure Firmament Violet Firmament Heart Sutra could borrow the Heavenly Dao’s power directly and that its system had sworn to wipe out the foreign races.
• Jiang Li entered Heavenly Dao Emissary Mode and rose into the sky as Emperor Zhangwu, the Crown Prince, and the court officials followed him.
• Cultivators and officials stirred violence in the imperial city to aid the Demon Race, while frightened citizens prayed for the immortal master to return.
• Jiang Li declared that all evildoers would be executed and spread a nine-colored Golden Core tribulation across the city and beyond.
• Li Xi healed the defenders, Murong Qing stopped drawing on Golden Core power, and Zhao Qingxuan continued fighting as the Demon Race prodigies intensified their attack.
• Jiang Li sensed that Li Xi, Murong Qing, and Zhao Qingxuan were safe and gave the Qi Refining Method permission to raise hell.

Jiang Li watched the Qi Refining Method unleash Nine-Colored Tribulation Lightning across Cloudmist Imperial City, killing more than a thousand sinners and foreign-race collaborators. At the city gates, he confronted the Demon Race prodigies attacking the defenders, and the Qi Refining Method struck down their fleeing Huo Dou leader.

• Jiang Li assessed Li Xi, Zhao Qingxuan, and Murong Qing’s abilities as they fought in the imperial city.
• The Qi Refining Method declared that the sinful would be executed and killed over a thousand people with Nine-Colored Tribulation Lightning, terrifying cultivators and drawing worship from civilians.
• Jiang Li arrived at the city gates as the failing formation left the defenders struggling against Demon Race prodigies seeking to devour Li Xi and Murong Qing.
• A lightning bolt killed a Golden Core leopard demon, and Jiang Li identified himself as Jiang Li of the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land.
• After the demons recognized Jiang Li as the one who killed the Demon Dragon Lord and the Mountain Moving Divine Ape, Huo Dou fled, but Jiang Li’s Mysterious Firmament Tribulation Lightning killed him.

Jiang Li annihilated the Demon Race prodigies threatening Cloudmist Imperial City, then learned that his cultivation technique was merging with the Heavenly Dao to protect the Nine Provinces. He feared the process would assimilate his consciousness and turn him into a puppet.

• Jiang Li crushed the Demon Race prodigies with heavenly pressure and tribulation lightning, killing the remaining five Nascent Soul Great Demons.
• Jiang Li's Lightning Qi advanced as the deaths of foreign races fueled his cultivation, while Li Xi, Murong Qing, and Zhao Qingxuan watched in awe.
• Emperor Zhangwu ordered the imperial forces to rush to the Nine Provinces, where the Demon Race still threatened the human lands.
• Jiang Li realized his Wind-Lightning Wings could help him defend the Nine Provinces, but the cultivation technique instead began merging with the Heavenly Dao to protect them.
• Jiang Li panicked that the technique's forced Dao Integration would let the Heavenly Dao assimilate his consciousness.

Jiang Li’s Qi Refining Method merged with the Heavenly Dao, giving him a brief Heavenly Dao perspective and the Azure Firmament Thunder Eye. He saw that the Demon Race had overrun much of the Nine Provinces, then opened Eyes of the Firmament across the land and locked them onto the invaders.

• Jiang Li’s cultivation method completed its merger with the Heavenly Dao and granted him one strike of its power against foreign races across the Nine Provinces.
• Jiang Li gained a sweeping Heavenly Dao perspective, while Myriad Desire Demon Lord’s Divine Sense Body realized that a Golden Core cultivator had achieved Dao Integration.
• Murong Qing sensed Jiang Li’s connection to the Heavenly Dao, and Li Xi trusted that he would succeed at whatever he attempted.
• Jiang Li awakened the Azure Firmament Thunder Eye, which revealed the Nine Provinces’ breached formations and the failing resistance of the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land’s disciples.
• Eyes of the Firmament opened over the Nine Provinces, and the Demon Race prodigies sensed that they had been targeted.

Xuan Tianji battled a Nascent Soul Flood Dragon near Jiangzhou’s incense temple while its stored sword light killed several Demon Race prodigies. Jiang Li used his Heavenly Dao authority to eradicate the demons across the Nine Provinces and empowered the nine temples’ Divine Firmament Sword Lights, leaving his name poised for even greater reverence.

• Demon Race prodigies attacked Jiangzhou’s incense temple, and its Lightning Sword Light killed several before a Nascent Soul Flood Dragon intervened.
• Xuan Tianji confronted the Flood Dragon but could only keep it occupied with his Golden Core peak cultivation.
• Jiang Li observed the battle through the Azure Firmament Thunder Eyes and commanded the Flood Dragon to perish.
• Hundreds of Azure Firmament Tribulation Lightnings struck Demon Race prodigies across the Nine Provinces, eradicating them.
• The Qi Refining Method sent nine more tribulations into the provincial incense temples, empowering their Divine Firmament Sword Lights to Transformation Spirit-level strength.

After the Qi Refining Method used the Heavenly Dao to destroy the Demon Race across the Nine Provinces, Jiang Li received worship and blessings that greatly strengthened him. He ended the chapter at Late-Stage Golden Core with Nascent Soul Peak Spiritual Sense and a Merit Golden Wheel.

• The Azure Firmament Thunder Eye vanished after the Demon Race was wiped out, and people across the Nine Provinces knelt to worship Jiang Li.
• Xuan Tianji realized Jiang Li could wield the Power of the Heavenly Dao and understood why the Heavenly Mystery Holy Master had told him to follow Jiang Li.
• Jiang Li returned to his body exhausted, but the Dawn Golden Light restored his Primordial Spirit and raised his Spiritual Sense to the Nascent Soul Peak.
• The Heavenly Dao bestowed a Merit Golden Wheel on Jiang Li, while his Supreme Azure Firmament Violet Firmament Heart Sutra gained Lightning Qi progress and began condensing Human Race Destiny.
• Jiang Li advanced to Late-Stage Golden Core as the fifth Thunder Pool became a Thunder Mansion Grotto-Heaven.

After the Qi Refining Method wiped out the Demon Race trial’s prodigies, Jiang Li received Heavenly Dao rewards and drew the admiration of the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land. The chapter ended as a Spirit Transformation Demon King of the Flood Dragon Tribe arrived to attack him.

• Jiang Li saw that he had risen to 480th in the Spirit Transformation Rankings and gained 10% Human Race Destiny, 40% Heavenly Dao Affinity, and 1% Heavenly Dao Authority.
• Emperor Zhangwu and the officials learned that Eyes of Heavenly Punishment had killed the invading Demon Race prodigies across the Nine Provinces.
• The Heavenly Mystery Holy Land disciples gathered before Jiang Li, and Xuan Tianji knelt and asked to follow him.
• Jiang Li accepted Xuan Tianji, while the system called him the Director of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau.
• Jiang Li received a warning that a Spirit Transformation Demon King of the Flood Dragon Tribe was heading to the imperial capital, then saw the demon appear and roar at him.

The Old Flood Dragon Demon attacked the imperial city to avenge the fallen Demon Race prodigies, but Jiang Li used two Great Sun Sword Qi attacks and Li Xi’s Bodhi Ancient Tree to hold him off until he retreated. As the danger passed, Jiang Li received a system notification urging him to pursue the demon.

• The Old Flood Dragon Demon summoned a colossal tsunami to destroy the imperial city and threatened the gathered disciples.
• Zhao Qingxuan, Li Xi, Murong Qing, Xuan Tianji, and the other Immortal Sect disciples prepared to protect Jiang Li and help him escape.
• Jiang Li dismissed their plans and used Great Sun Sword Qi to vaporize the flood and confront the Old Flood Dragon Demon.
• The Old Flood Dragon Demon increased the flood’s power, but Jiang Li’s second sword qi joined the first and kept the demon at bay.
• Li Xi used the Bodhi Ancient Tree to restore Jiang Li’s mana, and the Old Flood Dragon Demon withdrew after failing to overwhelm him.
• The system notified Jiang Li that his Nine Heavens Wind-Thunder Void-Escape Secret Canon wanted him to pursue the retreating demon.

Jiang Li pursued the retreating Old Flood Dragon Demon after demonstrating that he could withstand the Spirit Transformation Demon King's attacks. The Old Flood Dragon Demon feared Jiang Li's growing strength, and Jiang Li caught up with it before reinforcements arrived.

• Jiang Li used the Nine Heavens Wind-Thunder Void-Escape Secret Canon Movement Technique to cross a hundred li and chase the Old Flood Dragon Demon.
• Xuan Tianji and the other Immortal Sect disciples reflected on their weakness as Emperor Zhangwu asked whether they would let Jiang Li pursue the Demon King.
• The Heaven Sword Peak Master, Crimson Bear True Lord, and a female True Lord arrived and learned from Xuan Tianji that Jiang Li had gone after the Old Flood Dragon Demon.
• The Heaven Sword Peak Master and the other True Lords hurried after Jiang Li, while Crimson Bear True Lord hoped Jiang Li might fulfill his wish of killing the dragon.
• The Old Flood Dragon Demon fled, vowing to ask the Demon Race Royal Court to send a Great Demon King or Demon Emperor to ambush Jiang Li.
• Jiang Li caught up with the Old Flood Dragon Demon, who recognized the wind-and-thunder wings behind him.

Jiang Li combined the Golden Core Phenomena of his Movement Technique and Sword Art to trap the Old Flood Dragon Demon and slay him with the Limitless Sword. The chapter ended with the demon’s severed body falling from the sky as Jiang Li watched.

• The Old Flood Dragon Demon attacked Jiang Li with his tail and Profound Nether Heavy Water, but Jiang Li evaded him and struck his scales with wind and thunder spears.
• Jiang Li’s Movement Technique and Sword Art combined their Golden Core Phenomena into the Poetic Sword Celestial River Descends to Nine Rivers, trapping the Old Flood Dragon Demon in an ink-wash landscape.
• The Movement Technique stripped the Old Flood Dragon Demon of his senses with a poetic technique, leaving him struggling to break free of the phenomenon.
• Jiang Li drew the Limitless Sword, infused it with Sword Fiend power, and struck the Old Flood Dragon Demon while his senses remained impaired.
• Jiang Li’s sword cut the Old Flood Dragon Demon in two, and the Golden Core Phenomenon dispersed as the dragon’s body fell from the sky.

Jiang Li pursued the wounded Old Flood Dragon Demon across the Cloudmist Dynasty while his Movement Technique deliberately waited for an audience before delivering the final blow. At Demon Suppressing City, Jiang Li beheaded the Demon King before its soldiers, who watched a Golden Core cultivator kill the once-feared flood dragon.

• Jiang Li chased Old Flood Dragon Demon after cutting his body in half, and the fleeing Demon King threatened him with retaliation from the Demon Court and Dragon Lords.
• Old Flood Dragon Demon burned his remaining strength and fled toward Demon Race territory while Jiang Li pursued him with sword attacks.
• Jiang Li realized his Movement Technique had let the Demon King escape so it could slay him before an audience, while the Sword Art urged it to kill dragons.
• Old Flood Dragon Demon reached Demon Suppressing City and threatened Jiang Li as the city's soldiers watched the wounded Demon King being hunted by a Golden Core cultivator.
• Jiang Li's Movement Technique unleashed Great Sun Sword Qi and cut off Old Flood Dragon Demon's head before the stunned soldiers.

Jiang Li returned from killing Old Flood Dragon Demon, stunning the Demon Suppressing City and the Spirit Transformation True Lords with his Golden Core strength. As the news spread, his sword art gained new powers, and Jiang Li resolved to raise it back to the top tier.

• The soldiers in Demon Suppressing City recognized Jiang Li as the Heavenly Mystery Holy Son after he beheaded Old Flood Dragon Demon, and they hailed him as the strongest Golden Core cultivator.
• Jiang Li worried that his feat would draw powerful enemies, while the Movement Technique carried the dragon corpse toward the imperial city and drew the Heaven Sword Peak Master, Crimson Bear True Lord, and a female Spirit Transformation cultivator to him.
• Jiang Li confirmed that he had killed Old Flood Dragon Demon alone, leaving the three Spirit Transformation True Lords stunned by his strength.
• At the imperial city, the Heaven Sword Peak Master credited Jiang Li with the kill, shocking Emperor Zhangwu, Xuan Tianji, and the gathered disciples and officials.
• The Movement Technique celebrated its grandstanding path, while the Profound Heaven Dragon Slaying Sword gained Thunder Law and Wind Intent after the dragon slaying.
• Jiang Li realized the sword art had gained power useful for advancing to Spirit Transformation and resolved to restore it to a top-tier sword art.

After killing a Spirit Transformation Demon King and disrupting the Demon Race Trial, Jiang Li worried about retaliation against the Cloudmist Dynasty, but the Ten Immortal Sects’ cultivators assured him that a full invasion was unlikely. The people and emperor saw him off with honors, awakening his Emperor’s Soul trait, before he returned to the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land as news of his deeds spread across the Cultivation World.

• Jiang Li asked whether the Demon Race would retaliate against the Cloudmist Dynasty, and the Heaven Sword Peak Master, Crimson Bear True Lord, and Mysterious True Lord explained that a large invasion was unlikely but that Demon Kings might target him.
• Jiang Li accepted Mysterious True Lord’s advice to return to the Holy Land under protection, and after a day’s rest he departed for the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land with three Spirit Transformation True Lords.
• The people of the Cloudmist Dynasty bowed and offered gifts as Jiang Li left, while Emperor Zhangwu and the officials honored him as the dynasty’s most honored prince.
• The wishes of ten thousand people awakened Jiang Li’s Emperor’s Soul trait, which let him draw on his subjects’ souls for expanded Spiritual Sense and protection against soul attacks.
• Jiang Li departed amid the people’s blessings, and news of his deeds spread throughout the Cultivation World.

After Jiang Li’s feat of killing a Spirit Transformation Demon King spread, the Immortal Sects were astonished while the Ten Demonic Sects resolved to eliminate him. The Heavenly Mystery Holy Master recognized Jiang Li’s strength and allowed him to choose a peak and establish his own branch, beginning his preparation for future leadership.

• Zhao Tianxing and the Immortal Sects learned that Jiang Li had killed a Spirit Transformation Demon King, and Zhao recognized him as the strongest among the younger generation.
• Blood Hell True Lord and True Lord Gu Xin feared Jiang Li’s rapid rise, and the Ten Demonic Sects agreed to kill him before he became an even greater threat.
• Jiang Li returned to the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land and told the Heavenly Mystery Holy Master and the Thirty-Six Peaks’ masters that he had killed the Old Flood Dragon Demon by seizing an opening.
• The Heavenly Mystery Holy Master permitted Jiang Li to choose a Profound Peak as his Holy Son Peak and begin taking part in Holy Land affairs.

Jiang Li learned that the human realm faced the Demon Realm’s growing threat and that its connection to the Spirit Realm had been severed. After receiving resources from the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land, he began advancing the third level of the Body Refinement Method.

• The Heavenly Mystery Holy Master brought Jiang Li to the Heavenly Tomb, where the Seven-Colored Elk learned that he had slain a Spirit Transformation Demon King.
• The Heavenly Mystery Holy Master and the Seven-Colored Elk explained that the nine Demon Realm passages were under threat, the Demon Abyss was a forbidden region, and the Spirit Realm had been unreachable for five thousand years.
• The Heavenly Mystery Holy Master granted Jiang Li five portions of Lightning Attribute Heavenly Fiend Qi, ten portions of Fire Attribute Heavenly Fiend Qi, and access to the secret treasury’s resources.
• Jiang Li returned to Heaven Sword Peak and reported to Zhang Song and the Sword Palace elders, who were astonished by his strength.
• Jiang Li gathered more than eight thousand strands of Imperial Dragon Qi on the Star Gazing Platform and activated the Emperor's World-Shocking Divine Art to begin advancing his Body Refinement Method.