Chapter Summaries

Jiang Li challenged Xuan Tianji on Star Peak for the final decisive battle in the Holy Son Competition. Xuan Tianji’s star arts let him anticipate Jiang Li’s attacks, but Jiang Li’s Wind-Lightning Wings proved too fast for him to counter, leaving the outcome poised in Jiang Li’s favor.

• Jiang Li arrived at Star Peak, where Xuan Tianji declared that he would not surrender his position as the final Holy Son Candidate easily.
• Jiang Li attacked with Three-Colored Tribulation Lightning, but Xuan Tianji anticipated it and stepped precisely beyond its destructive range.
• Jiang Li unleashed Divine Firmament Sword Light, and Xuan Tianji blocked and refracted it with a spinning Star Shield.
• Jiang Li used his Wind-Lightning Wings to move so quickly that Xuan Tianji could perceive his trajectories but could not react in time.
• Jiang Li appeared behind Xuan Tianji and asked if he had been looking for him.

Jiang Li defeated Xuan Tianji and became the sole Holy Son Candidate, with the Heavenly Mystery Holy Master scheduling his assessment for three days later. As Jiang Li returned to Heaven Sword Peak, Lei Shan embraced Hai Wuya’s plan to destroy the Holy Land, while Xuan Tianji learned that his master believed Jiang Li was destined for greater heights.

• Jiang Li overcame Xuan Tianji’s stellar gravity with his Wind-Lightning Wings, struck him down, and won his fourth consecutive match.
• Qin Wudao learned that Jiang Li had beaten Xuan Tianji and realized Jiang Li had never used his full strength against him.
• Lei Shan learned that Jiang Li had defeated every Holy Son Candidate, then agreed with Hai Wuya that geniuses should die and began wielding pitch-black lightning.
• The Heavenly Mystery Holy Master declared Jiang Li the sole Holy Son Candidate, and Jiang Li requested that his assessment begin in three days.
• Jiang Li returned to Heaven Sword Peak, while the Heavenly Mystery Holy Master told Xuan Tianji that Jiang Li was destined to reach the summit and advised him to spend more time with Jiang Li.

Jiang Li set out to take the Holy Son assessment after defeating four candidates and receiving encouragement from his companions and Heaven Sword Peak. At the Holy Land Heavenly Tomb, the Seven-Colored Elk examined his cultivation and revealed that he had improved several powerful techniques, leaving the Heavenly Mystery Holy Master astonished.

• News spread that Jiang Li had defeated four Holy Son Candidates in one day, stirring admiration among the Immortal Sects and calls to kill him among the demonic sects.
• As the three-day wait ended, Li Xi, Murong Qing, Zhao Qingxuan, Zhang Song, and Heaven Sword Peak's disciples encouraged Jiang Li before he left for the assessment.
• Xuan Tianji welcomed Jiang Li at the Sect Master's Grand Hall, and the Heavenly Mystery Holy Master brought him to the Holy Land Heavenly Tomb, where a candidate needed the founders' recognition to become the true Holy Son.
• The Seven-Colored Elk appeared and questioned why a Mid Golden Core cultivator was taking an assessment meant for Nascent Soul cultivators, then learned Jiang Li had defeated powerful candidates, including Tianji.
• The Seven-Colored Elk identified traces of several cultivation arts in Jiang Li and realized he had improved them, stunning the Heavenly Mystery Holy Master.

Jiang Li revealed his flawless Invincible Golden Core, astonishing the Seven-Colored Elk and convincing it that he deserved to be Heavenly Mystery Holy Land's Holy Son. He entered the Great Dream Samsara assessment, where the Emperor's World-Shocking Divine Art took control and began a dream life as a prince.

• The Seven-Colored Elk learned that Jiang Li had altered the Ten Directions Thunderous Exorcism Scripture and believed his talent suited the Supreme Profound Mystery Canon.
• The Heavenly Mystery Holy Master defended Jiang Li's chosen path, and Jiang Li manifested his Invincible Golden Core, which the elk praised as flawless.
• The Seven-Colored Elk urged the Holy Master to appoint Jiang Li as Holy Son without an assessment, but the Ruinous Stone Gate opened to the test.
• The elk explained that the assessment used an immortal artifact fragment to trap challengers in a lifetime-long Great Dream Samsara, and Jiang Li chose the Body Refinement Method to guide him.
• Jiang Li entered the dream and found himself a pampered prince as the Emperor's World-Shocking Divine Art took control and resolved to unify the realm and attack Heaven.

Jiang Li entered a dream set in the Great Gan Dynasty of a hundred thousand years ago as its Seventh Prince, and the Body Refinement Method immediately drove him to seize power by force. After he defeated his rival princes and became Crown Prince, the Heavenly Mystery Holy Master and the Seven-Colored Elk wondered whether his extraordinary Dao Heart could help him survive the dangerous dream.

• Jiang Li recognized that his dream identity was the Seventh Prince of the ancient Great Gan Dynasty and learned that the dynasty faced threats from Immortal Sects, the Demonic Cult, the Demon Race, and a Demon Vanguard Army.
• The Heavenly Mystery Holy Master warned that the same dream had shattered Hai Wuya's Dao Heart, and he asked the Seven-Colored Elk to prevent Jiang Li from suffering the same fate.
• Jiang Li, controlled by the Body Refinement Method, defeated all eight rival princes in the imperial palace and declared that he would lead the dynasty to a new pinnacle.
• The two Spirit Transformation ancestors tested Jiang Li's strength and made him Crown Prince, beginning a new playthrough for the Great Gan Dynasty.
• The Seven-Colored Elk explained that Jiang Li had not seen through the dream but could wield part of his original strength because of his resolute Dao Heart and subconscious confidence.

After Jiang Li became Crown Prince, the cultivation technique’s auspicious manifestations won him growing prestige and Imperial Dynasty Dragon Qi before it drove him to overthrow King Gan. Jiang Li became the new emperor, and a Mountain River Sword Embryo appeared above the palace with an attack range matching Great Gan’s controlled territory.

• Jiang Li saw Ten Thousand Year Imperial Blood Ginseng and a Loyal Minister Stele Forest appear at Prince Jin's Residence, drawing cultivators who wanted to become his disciples.
• Jiang Li gained a Five Virtues Qilin, growing retainership, and the strength to slay seven Nascent Soul demon beasts as he advanced to the third layer of Emperor's World-Shocking Divine Art.
• Jiang Li's auspicious signs made people call him the Heavenly Mandate Emperor, while King Gan grew estranged from him and placed him under heavy guard.
• Emperor's World-Shocking Divine Art took control of Jiang Li and forced King Gan to abdicate after a fight with him and two Spirit Transformation ancestors.
• Jiang Li became Great Gan's new emperor, and a Mountain River Sword Embryo appeared above the palace with attacks reaching throughout the dynasty's controlled territory.

Jiang Li’s dream-world reign as the Heavenly Departure Holy Emperor culminated in the unification of the Cultivation World and a challenge to the Spirit Realm. After his cultivation technique urged him to conquer Heaven, he broke out of the Great Dream of Ancient Times and returned to the Holy Land Heavenly Tomb.

• Jiang Li developed Great Gan into a prosperous dynasty, led its campaigns to unify the Cultivation World, and became the Heavenly Departure Holy Emperor.
• Jiang Li reached the Nascent Soul realm and later slew ten Spirit Transformation Demon Kings, while the Heavenly Mystery Holy Master and the Seven-Colored Elk worried that he might become lost in the dream.
• The Heavenly Mystery Holy Master and the Seven-Colored Elk realized Jiang Li’s achievements surpassed the dream-world assessment and discussed pulling him out before he sank into the dream.
• Jiang Li suppressed Spirit Realm cultivators who descended on Great Gan, then followed his cultivation technique’s call to attack Heaven and establish a Supreme Immortal Dynasty.
• Jiang Li charged through the Spirit Realm Passage and broke out of the Ruinous Stone Gate, returning to the Holy Land Heavenly Tomb.

Jiang Li escaped the Great Dream of Ancient Times and was named the new Holy Son of the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land after winning the recognition of all nine patriarchs. The Holy Land resonated across its thirty-six Profound Peaks, and its disciples welcomed Holy Son Jiang.

• Jiang Li broke out of the dream world, interrupting the Emperor's attempt to attack Heaven and adding the opening of the Spirit Realm to his wish list.
• The Heavenly Mystery Holy Master and the Seven-Colored Elk were astonished by Jiang Li's escape and his achievements in the dream world.
• The Seven-Colored Elk declared Jiang Li the new Holy Son and promised that the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land would protect him.
• The Seven-Colored Elk invoked the Immortal Sect's fortune, and all nine patriarch statues recognized Jiang Li and bestowed their protection.
• The Heavenly Mystery Holy Land's thirty-six Profound Peaks resonated, its fortune dragon roared, and disciples learned that Jiang Li had become the new Holy Son.

Jiang Li became the Holy Son of Heavenly Mystery Holy Land and received the sect’s spiritual-energy feedback, strengthening his foundations without advancing him beyond Mid Golden Core. The Holy Land scheduled his ceremony for forty-nine days later and sent Spirit Boats across the Cultivation World to deliver invitations, making the event the center of widespread excitement.

• Heavenly Mystery Holy Land’s feedback evolved Jiang Li’s spiritual roots and transformed three of his Thunder Pools into Thunder Mansion Grotto-Heavens, though he remained at Mid Golden Core.
• The disciples, elders, and peak masters welcomed Jiang Li as Holy Son, and he thanked his teacher Zhang Song and greeted Murong Qing, Li Xi, and Zhao Qingxuan.
• The elders and peak masters set Jiang Li’s Holy Son Ceremony for forty-nine days later and planned to invite the Cultivation World.
• Heavenly Mystery Holy Land dispatched Spirit Boats led by Transformation Spirit True Lords to deliver Holy Posts to the Ten Immortal Sects and other powers.
• Cultivation sects and clans scrambled to obtain Holy Posts so they could attend Jiang Li’s ceremony and see him.

As Heavenly Mystery Holy Land prepared for Jiang Li’s Holy Son Ceremony, the Immortal Sects and demonic sects made plans around the gathering. Jiang Li used the time before the ceremony to cultivate, deepening his Sword Dao comprehension and gaining greater control over Sword Fiend.

• Che Yufei received Heavenly Mystery Holy Land’s invitation to the ceremony and recognized Jiang Li as its new Holy Son.
• Holy Son Candidates from other Immortal Sects prepared to challenge Jiang Li at the ceremony for a chance to make their names known.
• True Lord Gu Xin sought Blood Hell True Lord’s help to disrupt the ceremony and bring Jiang Li back under Ten Thousand Demons Sect’s control.
• Blood Hell True Lord agreed to infiltrate the ceremony, planned to frame Jiang Li as a Thousand Souls Demonic Sect agent, and ordered his hidden pawn in Heavenly Mystery Holy Land to avoid Jiang Li.
• Jiang Li began secluded cultivation with the Limitless Sword and advanced to the second stage of the Fifth Realm of Sword Dao, strengthening his use of Sword Fiend.

Jiang Li learned about the formidable challengers expected at his Holy Son Ceremony, including the possibility of Nascent Souls beyond Dao Infants, then prepared to face them. The ceremony began with the arrival of the great Immortal Sects, and Jiang Li stood on the first step of the Heavenly Stairway as the guests welcomed him.

• Jiang Li finished a month and a half of cultivation and estimated how long transforming his Thunder Pools would take.
• Zhang Song warned Jiang Li about the Dao Child, Sword Child, and Star Gazing Holy Son, and explained that an Immortal Embryo was rumored to surpass a Dao Infant.
• Zhang Song left to oversee the ceremony while Jiang Li returned to the Human Emperor Palace and continued cultivating with Li Xi, Fairy Murong, and Zhao Qingxuan.
• Guests arrived at Heavenly Mystery Holy Land for the ceremony, including representatives of Dao Sect, Sword Sect, Star Gazing Sect, and the other Immortal Sects; the Dao Child and Sword Child were absent.
• The Heavenly Mystery Holy Master raised the nine-thousand-nine-hundred-step Heart Questioning Heavenly Stairway, and Jiang Li stood on its first step as the assembled disciples welcomed him.

Jiang Li climbed the Heart Questioning Heavenly Stairway with the Supreme Divine Thunder Induction Scripture operating, and the sages’ spirits helped him withstand the Heavenly Mystery Founder’s final strike. After he reached the ten-thousandth step and was acclaimed as Holy Son, visiting powers presented him with lavish gifts.

• Jiang Li began climbing the Heart Questioning Heavenly Stairway while the Supreme Divine Thunder Induction Scripture endured its illusions and Dao Heart trials for him.
• Jiang Li ascended steadily as the sages’ phantoms praised his Dao Heart, impressing the Dao Sect vice sect master, the Sword Sect, and other guests.
• At the final step, the Heavenly Mystery Founder’s battle intent struck at Jiang Li, and the sages’ combined wills formed a defense that blocked it.
• Jiang Li stepped onto the ten-thousandth stair, completing the ascent and prompting cheers from the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land and its guests.
• The Cloudmist Dynasty, Dao Sect, and Sword Sect congratulated Jiang Li and presented him with a spirit-vein cauldron, a page from the Wordless Dao Book, and Star Slaying Intent.

At Jiang Li’s Holy Son Ceremony, the Sound Sect Saintess and Heavenly Mystery Holy Land’s peak masters presented him with valuable gifts, including Heavenly Fiend Qi that made other sects suspect he had reached the Fifth Realm of Sword Dao. When Jiang Li discovered that many guests were Demonic Path infiltrators, his cultivation technique seized control and attacked them.

• Su Miaoyin presented Jiang Li with an Enlightenment Melody and wished him success on the Great Dao.
• Gao Lan and Murong Wanhe gave Jiang Li five portions of Fire and Lightning Attribute Heavenly Fiend Qi, prompting sect representatives to speculate that he had comprehended the Fifth Realm of Sword Dao.
• Jiang Li accepted a Storage Ring from the Lin Family head and discovered a Ten Thousand Demons Sect token inside it.
• Jiang Li used Heart of Justice to spot more than a hundred suspicious guests, including several people from the Nine Great Immortal Sects.
• The Supreme Divine Thunder Induction Scripture crushed the Storage Ring and declared that the Demonic Path fiends must die.

During Jiang Li’s Holy Son ceremony, demonic forces tried to expose him as an undercover agent, but the assembled cultivators dismissed the accusation as absurd. Jiang Li eliminated the attackers, though True Lord Gu Xin’s final words confirmed that the Ten Thousand Demons Sect now knew he had betrayed them; the ceremony challenge stalled when no one dared face him.

• Jiang Li struck down the Lin Family head, and the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land uncovered the man’s ties to the Ten Thousand Demons Sect.
• Jiang Li exposed Blood Hell True Lord’s disguise, but the Blood Path incarnation escaped and accused Jiang Li of being a demonic undercover agent.
• The Immortal Sect representatives and most of the crowd laughed off Blood Hell True Lord’s claim, while True Lord Gu Xin concluded that Jiang Li had truly betrayed the Ten Thousand Demons Sect.
• Jiang Li pinned True Lord Gu Xin’s borrowed-body puppet with a lightning spear, and Gu Xin warned that the Ten Thousand Demons Sect would pursue him.
• Jiang Li cleared the remaining demonic attackers, and the ceremony returned to calm, but no Immortal Sect disciple stepped forward to challenge him.

Jiang Li’s overwhelming strength silenced the other sects’ challengers, while Fairy Miaoyin openly praised him and Zhao Tianxing tried to foresee their fight. After seeing every possible strategy end in defeat, Zhao Tianxing collapsed and conceded without a battle.

• Fairy Miaoyin declined to challenge Jiang Li and offered to play music for him, while Jiang Li turned down her kindness and invited anyone to challenge his position.
• The other sect disciples fell silent, leaving the Star Gazing Holy Son Zhao Tianxing as the last possible challenger.
• Jiang Li recalled Zhao Tianxing’s reputation and abilities, including his Star Destiny Divination Technique and the Spirit Transformation True Lord he had caused to die.
• Zhao Tianxing peered into several possible futures and saw Jiang Li defeat him regardless of his battle strategy.
• Zhao Tianxing overtaxed himself observing the future, collapsed after spitting blood, and admitted defeat before they fought.

Jiang Li defeated Zhao Tianxing and gained recognition as one of the Cultivation World's foremost young prodigies, bringing his Holy Son Ceremony to a close. Several days later, he met the Cloudmist Dynasty's emperor and Crown Prince, while the Emperor's World-Shocking Divine Art urged him to remake the dynasty as a new Great Gan Empire.

• Zhao Tianxing revealed that Jiang Li had defeated him without using Pseudo Sword Qi, and Jiang Li claimed he had used about eighty percent of his strength.
• Zhao Tianxing accepted his defeat and compared Jiang Li favorably to the Dao Child and Sword Child, while Immortal Sect representatives praised Jiang Li and sought closer ties with the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land.
• Jiang Li's ceremony ended, and news of his victory spread throughout the Cultivation World as the Ten Thousand Demons Sect and Thousand Souls Demonic Sect were ridiculed.
• Several days later, Jiang Li sorted the ceremony's treasures with Li Xi, Murong Qing, and Zhao Qingxuan while meeting the Cloudmist Dynasty's emperor and Crown Prince.
• The Emperor's World-Shocking Divine Art called the Cloudmist Dynasty's rulers its descendants and urged Jiang Li to overturn the dynasty and recreate the Great Gan Empire; Jiang Li doubted their bloodline and suspected the technique wanted to play emperor.

Jiang Li agreed to protect the Cloudmist Dynasty’s Nine Provinces from a Demon Race hunting trial, seeing a chance to kill Nascent Soul Great Demons and strengthen his cultivation. The Heavenly Mystery Holy Land pledged its unconditional support, while its Holy Master mistook Jiang Li’s actions for the beginning of his rise as an emperor.

• Emperor Zhangwu and Crown Prince Long Hao asked Jiang Li to protect the Nine Provinces from a Demon Race trial led by a Spirit Transformation Demon King.
• Jiang Li learned that the trial would include Nascent Soul Great Demons and agreed to help, hoping to kill seven and complete the third layer of the Emperor’s World-Shocking Divine Art.
• Cui Yan warned Jiang Li that, as Holy Son, his actions could be taken as the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land declaring war on the Demon Court.
• Jiang Li told the peak masters about his promise to the Cloudmist Dynasty, and the Heavenly Mystery Holy Master declared that the Holy Land would support him unconditionally.
• The Holy Master privately celebrated what he believed was the rise of the Heavenly Departure Holy Emperor, while Jiang Li insisted inwardly that he did not want to become emperor.

After becoming a Holy Son, Jiang Li studied two supreme true arts to strengthen the Qi Refining Method and learned more about the Demon Court’s coming trial. He prepared to lead a group against the demons, then accepted an evolution of the Supreme Divine Thunder Induction Scripture that would replace his conviction in justice with conviction in Heaven’s Will.

• Jiang Li visited the Technique Pavilion and took the Supreme Profound Mystery Canon and Star Transformation to study.
• Jiang Li told Li Xi, Murong Qing, and Zhao Qingxuan that the Demon Court’s trial would target high-level cultivators, and all three volunteered to join the fight.
• Jiang Li let the three women divide the congratulatory gifts and prepare for the coming expedition.
• Jiang Li used the Supreme Profound Mystery Canon as material to evolve the Supreme Divine Thunder Induction Scripture, and the system offered to merge and sublimate the technique.

Jiang Li’s evolved Qi Refining Method became the Supreme Azure Firmament Violet Firmament Heart Sutra, granting him a Heavenly Dao-style status panel and overwhelming streams of information. It declared itself a Heavenly Dao Emissary and sent him toward Cloudmist Imperial City, where the Demon Race Vanguard was expected to arrive.

• Jiang Li examined his new status panel and discovered that he ranked first among Golden Core and Nascent Soul cultivators, while placing last among Spirit Transformation cultivators.
• The Supreme Azure Firmament Violet Firmament Heart Sutra appointed itself a Heavenly Dao Emissary, and Jiang Li traveled from Heavenly Mystery Holy Land amid spectacular heavenly phenomena.
• The Heavenly Mystery Holy Master urged Xuan Tianji to join Jiang Li at the Demon Race trial, and Xuan Tianji agreed.
• Jiang Li received a flood of Heavenly Dao messages while traveling and filtered them until he saw that Cloudmist Dynasty planned to honor him as King Li and that the Demon Race Vanguard would arrive at dusk.
• Jiang Li learned that Xuan Tianji would lead thirty Heavenly Mystery Holy Land True Disciples to Cloudmist Imperial City in three days, and he recognized the Demon Race Vanguard as his Qi Refining Method’s target.

Jiang Li arrived at the Cloudmist Imperial City in a spectacular display and was welcomed by Emperor Zhangwu and the court as the Heavenly Mystery Holy Son. When six warning bells announced an attack by multiple Nascent Soul Great Demons, Jiang Li rushed toward the outer city to fight.

• Jiang Li descended into Cloudmist Imperial City with golden lotuses and law runes surrounding him, startling the guards and residents.
• Emperor Zhangwu and the officials welcomed Jiang Li at the imperial palace, where he declared that slaying demons was his duty.
• Six bell strikes warned that multiple Nascent Soul Great Demons were attacking the outer city.
• Jiang Li vanished to confront the demons, and Emperor Zhangwu and Crown Prince Long Hao prepared to follow.