Chapter Summaries

Xia Manggan defeated a Ninth-Rank Puppet on his first trial at Fangcun Mountain and earned access to the Three Realms Palace. There, he found the Houyi Archery Technique, read its demanding test, and left without choosing it.

• Xia Manggan challenged the Ninth-Rank Puppet and defeated it with his dual-mace technique, astonishing the gathered disciples and earning their respect.
• Celestial God Yinyue praised Xia Manggan and offered to take him to the Immortal Palace, but Xia Manggan declined because his other selves already studied under Celestial Venerable Wenshi and Buddha Jueming.
• Heavenly God Golden Crow escorted Xia Manggan to the Three Realms Palace while Celestial God Yinyue took Ji Ning to the Immortal Palace.
• Xia Manggan entered the Three Realms Palace and found the Houyi Archery Technique among its abbreviated manuals.
• Xia Manggan read the technique's test, which required striking a tiny target ten times from ten thousand li away using only brute force, then left the palace without looking back.

Xia Manggan chose to pursue the difficult Houyi Archery Technique and began training on Fangcun Mountain with a bow and arrows lent by Heavenly God Golden Crow. After more than a year of practice, the Woodcutter recognized that Xia Manggan had learned to fuse Heart Force into his arrows, while Xia Manggan continued steadily advancing his archery.

• Xia Manggan chose Houyi Archery Technique despite Heavenly God Golden Crow warning that its trial was exceptionally difficult.
• Heavenly God Golden Crow led Xia Manggan to a secluded place on Fangcun Mountain and gave him a Fire Dragon Bow and Wanderer Arrows.
• Xia Manggan began practicing, initially missing a target a hundred miles away, then firing more than ten thousand arrows each day and carefully studying each shot.
• Xia Manggan gradually moved his targets farther away as his accuracy improved, while the Woodcutter occasionally watched him train.
• After a little over a year, the Woodcutter observed that Xia Manggan had independently learned to fuse Heart Force into his arrows and praised his talent as a divine archer.

Heavenly God Golden Crow received the Xingtian World-Destroying Axe technique, while Xia Manggan completed the Houyi Archery Technique trial and reached the third realm of Heart Force. Patriarch Bodhi then sent Xia Manggan down Fangcun Mountain, promising him a Space-Time ultimate art and Golden Crow Demon Emperor essence blood as his two apprenticeship benefits.

• Ji Dian gave Heavenly God Golden Crow the complete Xingtian World-Destroying Axe technique after he completed the trial.
• Xia Manggan arrived at Three Realms Palace, where Ji Dian praised his mastery of archery and gave him the Houyi Archery Technique.
• Xia Manggan learned that the technique cultivated Heart Force and could let him fire a handful of exceptionally powerful arrows.
• Patriarch Bodhi summoned Xia Manggan and told him to leave Fangcun Mountain because he had little left to gain there.
• Patriarch Bodhi promised Xia Manggan a protective and confining Space-Time ultimate art and Golden Crow Demon Emperor essence blood that would perfect his Golden Crow Avatar and let him cultivate Sun Golden Rainbow.

Xia Manggan received the Golden Crow Demon Emperor's blood essence and Patriarch Bodhi's Myriad Worlds Space-Time art, then was permitted to complete his apprenticeship and leave Fangcun Mountain. As he sought instruction in the Sun Golden Rainbow escape art, the Xia Emperor learned that Blood Cloud Tower was preparing to act against the Great Xia World.

• Xia Manggan fused with the Golden Crow Demon Emperor's blood essence and received Patriarch Bodhi's Myriad Worlds Space-Time art.
• Patriarch Bodhi and the Woodcutter discussed Xia Manggan's extraordinary potential and the Woodcutter's gift of Golden Crow blood essence.
• Ji Ning defeated the Ninth-Rank Puppet Yuxin after more than a year of intensive sword training.
• Xia Manggan told Ji Ning, Celestial God Yinyue, and Heavenly God Golden Crow that Patriarch Bodhi had permitted him to complete his apprenticeship; he asked Yinyue to watch over Ah Huang and Golden Crow to teach him an escape art.
• The Xia Emperor heard Prince Qi report on Blood Cloud Tower, a faction that could kill any immortal or fiend in the Great Xia World for a price.

Xia Manggan traveled to the Sun Star as his Golden Crow Avatar and cultivated the Sun Golden Rainbow escape technique while tempering his body in True Sun Golden Flame. After capturing a Sun Golden Rainbow and reaching the ninth level of the Vairocana Corpse Body, his Human True Self left seclusion at Kongming Peak to go to the Demon Suppression Pagoda.

• Xia Manggan transformed into a Three-Legged Golden Crow and entered the Sun Star, where he searched the golden ocean for a Sun Golden Rainbow.
• After three days of failed attempts to attract one, Xia Manggan waited while absorbing True Sun Golden Flame to cultivate the Vairocana Corpse Body.
• A Sun Golden Rainbow entered Xia Manggan's Golden Crow Avatar, and he refined it to gain the escape technique's Heavenly Dao-limit speed.
• Xia Manggan tested the Golden Crow Avatar's new speed by flying through the void, then returned to the Sun Star to continue cultivating.
• Xia Manggan sensed that his Human True Self had completed the ninth level of the Vairocana Corpse Body, and his Human True Self left seclusion at Kongming Peak to go to the Demon Suppression Pagoda.

Xia Manggan fought through the Demon Suppression Pagoda, advancing from the first level to the fourth while developing his Snow Demon Mace Technique and revealing his mastery of Heart Force. Buddha Jueming watched in astonishment as Xia Manggan displayed Space-Time Force on the fourth level, leaving his true strength and hidden inheritances unclear.

• Xia Manggan carved through the first level's Asuras, refined his use of Wuji and Taiji Forces, and reached the mountain that led onward.
• Xia Manggan entered the second-level canyon, fought stronger Asuras, and practiced wielding Heart Force through his weapons and body.
• Buddha Jueming watched Xia Manggan and judged that his skill with the two Powers of Origin could carry him through the third level.
• Xia Manggan struggled against the third level's Return to Void Asuras as his Divine Power dwindled, then used Heart Force to kill the ten strongest chieftains with punches.
• Buddha Jueming reacted in shock when Xia Manggan reached the fourth level and displayed Space-Time Force.

Xia Manggan faced the fifth-floor trial of the Demon Suppression Pagoda, where he survived a fierce battle against the Celestial God Nine Nether God and advanced his martial technique. After waking from a nine-month sleep, he received two methods from Buddha Jueming, including a Fiendgod Body Refining method and the divine ability Nine Origin Annihilation.

• Buddha Jueming sent Xia Manggan from the fourth floor to face Nine Nether God on the fifth floor, where he had to survive for the time it took an incense stick to burn.
• Nine Nether God repeatedly wounded Xia Manggan, but Xia Manggan used the Myriad Worlds Divine Palace and fought back while seeking to refine his Samsara technique.
• Xia Manggan fused the mysteries of Wuji and Taiji into his martial technique, redirecting Nine Nether God's attack and forcing him back for the first time.
• Buddha Jueming stopped the trial and sent Nine Nether God away, while Xia Manggan collapsed from exhaustion and slept for nine months.
• After Xia Manggan woke, Buddha Jueming gave him the Jueming Inner Observation Withered Silence Divine Art and the divine ability Nine Origin Annihilation.

Xia Manggan returned from Mount Ling with new techniques from Buddha Jueming and learned that Mu Zishuo had been abducted. He identified likely Ten Thousand Demon Cave strongholds across Great Xia and told Xia Emperor about Wujian Sect’s threat, leaving Xia Emperor astonished by his rapid growth.

• Buddha Jueming taught Xia Manggan the Jueming Inner Observation Withered Stillness Divine Art and Nine Origin Annihilation, then warned him to act cautiously before they parted.
• Jiu Lian and Elder Gao told Xia Manggan that black-clothed men had abducted Mu Zishuo, whose Life Slip remained intact.
• Xia Manggan used Heart Force to search Great Xia and identified thirty-nine suspicious locations, including a Ten Thousand Demon Cave stronghold linked to Mu Zishuo’s disappearance.
• Xia Emperor arrived at Prince Gan Mansion after sensing Xia Manggan’s powerful Heart Force, and Xia Manggan asked him to speak somewhere isolated from the Heavenly Dao.
• Xia Manggan told Xia Emperor about Wujian Sect’s origins and showed him a map of suspected Ten Thousand Demon Cave bases, prompting Xia Emperor to question how much Xia Manggan had learned and how powerful he had become.

Xia Manggan urged Xia Emperor to look beyond Great Xia and coordinate resistance across the Crimson Bright Domain rather than wait for the Wujian forces to grow stronger. After hearing Xia Emperor’s account, Dao Ancestor Chiming praised Xia Manggan’s ambition and promised him powerful weapons for battle.

• Xia Manggan told Xia Emperor about the techniques and abilities he had learned, and Xia Emperor marveled at his cultivation.
• Xia Manggan urged Xia Emperor to destroy the Ten Thousand Demon Cave strongholds, but Xia Emperor proposed waiting until the enemy had invested more resources in its war Puppets.
• Xia Manggan challenged Xia Emperor to consider the Wujian Sect’s infiltration and wars across the Three Realms, not only Great Xia, and argued that the Crimson Bright Domain should take the initiative.
• Xia Emperor reported Xia Manggan’s views to Dao Ancestor Chiming, who praised his disciple-grandson’s vision and agreed that he should fight where the war was most severe.
• Dao Ancestor Chiming bestowed the Army-Breaking Maces on Xia Manggan and promised to seek the Rahula Bow for him.

Xia Manggan used Chaos Spirit Liquid and secluded cultivation in the Taichu Universe to greatly strengthen his body and master the second stage of Myriad Worlds, then received powerful treasures from the Xia Emperor for the coming raid. The chapter ends as more than a hundred Heavenly Immortal princes gather at Prince Gan Mansion for a banquet before the assault on the Ten Thousand Demon Cave bases.

• Xia Manggan absorbed Chaos Spirit Liquid, advancing his Human True Self’s body and Qi Refining cultivation to the Late Void Return Stage and bringing his divine body to the strength of a top-grade Immortal Rank magic treasure.
• Xia Manggan spent six days cultivating in the Taichu Universe and mastered the second stage of Myriad Worlds, forming a nine-layer Space-Time Robe.
• The Xia Emperor presented Xia Manggan with the Rahula Bow, arrows, and Army-Breaking Maces, explaining that Patriarch Bodhi and Xia Manggan’s grandmaster had provided them for the raid.
• The Xia Emperor told Xia Manggan that the raid on the suspected Ten Thousand Demon Cave bases would begin the next day and that his grandmaster would watch.
• More than a hundred Heavenly Immortal princes of the Xia Mang Clan arrived at Prince Gan Mansion for Xia Manggan’s banquet, bringing their ceremonial entourages.

The Xia Emperor gathered Xia Mang Heavenly Immortals and True Immortal Celestial Gods to launch a campaign against the Wujian Sect’s allies and Ten Thousand Demon Cave’s bases. Xia Manggan was assigned to destroy three bases, and the chapter ended as the participants departed for their targets.

• The Xia Emperor told 128 Heavenly Immortal princes that the Wujian Sect had recruited powers opposing Great Xia and ordered them wiped out.
• Xia Manggan watched six True Immortal Celestial Gods and Sword Immortal Changqing and Fairy Xuewu arrive in the World-Suppressing Array’s core space.
• Sword Immortal Changqing questioned Xia Manggan’s ability to join the operation, and Xia Manggan replied that he could survive and was skilled at killing.
• The Xia Emperor revealed 39 Ten Thousand Demon Cave bases and assigned himself and the other True Immortals and Celestial Gods three bases each, with Xia Manggan among them.
• The group memorized their targets and departed to await the Xia Emperor’s signal before striking together.

Xia Manggan revealed his overwhelming strength by destroying the Donglin Sect’s mountain defenses and entered its forbidden ground to find Junior Brother Shuo. He faced a force of Demon Guards as the chapter ended.

• The silver-armored general ordered the Donglin Sect Master and Han Da to make the sect appear normal while keeping the rear mountain forbidden.
• The Donglin Sect opened its gates to the waiting Purple Mansion cultivators, but Xia Manggan appeared as a gigantic demon god and shattered the sect’s defenses.
• Xia Manggan protected and teleported away the young cultivators, then charged through the black mist surrounding the forbidden ground.
• Xia Manggan sensed Junior Brother Shuo inside the forbidden ground and found a silver-armored young man commanding the Demon Guards to attack him.
• An ancient bronze-skinned Void Return God-Fiend led Earth Immortals, Loose Immortals, and Primordial Spirit God-Fiends in a charge against Xia Manggan.

Xia Manggan destroyed a Ten Thousand Demon Cave stronghold with overwhelming power, impressing the True Immortals and Celestial Gods watching. His Golden Crow Avatar then entered the Wujian Sect’s Fifth World, where Patriarch Bodhi told the anxious Dao Ancestor Chiming that Xia Manggan had sent only a flesh-and-blood incarnation and invited everyone to watch what happened next.

• Xia Manggan killed Bosi’a with one strike, then used a Heart Force soul attack to incapacitate the Demon Guards and shot the silver-armored youth dead with the Houyi Archery Technique.
• Dao Ancestor Chiming and the other True Immortals and Celestial Gods watched Xia Manggan’s battle through Water Mirrors and praised his powers and techniques.
• Xia Manggan summoned his Golden Crow Avatar after destroying the Donglin Sect stronghold, then flew into a black-mist passage leading to the Wujian Sect’s Fifth World.
• Dao Ancestor Chiming prepared to rescue Xia Manggan, but Patriarch Bodhi arrived and told him the Golden Crow Avatar was only a flesh-and-blood incarnation.
• Patriarch Bodhi showed the Fifth World in a light mirror, where tens of thousands of Heavenly Immortals and more than a dozen True Immortals and Celestial Gods confronted the Golden Crow Avatar, and asked Dao Ancestor Chiming for wine to watch the coming spectacle.

Xia Manggan’s Golden Crow Avatar entered the Wujian Sect’s Fifth World and drew a vast army into a trap before destroying himself to unleash True Sun Golden Flame. The Wujian Sect’s forces suffered devastating losses, and its leaders learned that Xia Manggan had caused the attack.

• Xia Manggan’s Golden Crow Avatar entered the Fifth World, where the Wujian Sect’s armies sealed the void and tried to surround him.
• Xia Manggan used Sun Golden Rainbow to evade the forces as the Black-Robed God King and Dao Ancestor Mozhu ordered a huge army to gather around him.
• After five hundred thousand Heavenly Immortals closed in, Xia Manggan released his nine-layer Space-Time Crystal Ball and self-destructed his avatar.
• The shattered crystal ball unleashed True Sun Golden Flame, killing one hundred and twenty thousand Heavenly Immortals and one Pure Yang True Immortal before Dao Ancestor Mozhu restrained the fire.
• Wujian Sect mighty figures arrived and asked whether Buddha Wuchao had attacked, but the Black-Robed God King identified Xia Manggan as the culprit.

Xia Manggan’s attack on the Ten Thousand Demon Cave strongholds yielded enormous spoils, while his True Sun Golden Flame devastated the Wujian Sect’s forces in the Fifth World. He arrived at Imperial Cliff Heaven, where Dao Ancestor Chiming revealed the scale of the destruction and left Sword Immortal Changqing stunned.

• Xia Manggan self-destructed his avatar in the Fifth World after releasing the True Sun Golden Flame, then saw his Fortune Value and Merit Points soar.
• Xia Manggan met the Xia Emperor, Fairy Xuewu, and Sword Immortal Changqing; the Xia Emperor rebuked Changqing after several thousand Puppet Masters died because of their Heavenly Dao Oaths.
• Xia Manggan saw that Mu Zishuo and the other rescued Puppet Masters would remain in the Donglin Mountain Range to refine Puppets for the Great Xia Dynasty.
• The Xia Emperor brought Xia Manggan and the others to Imperial Cliff Heaven, headquarters of the Crimson Bright Domain.
• Dao Ancestor Chiming praised Xia Manggan for burning twelve hundred thousand Heavenly Immortals and a Pure Yang True Immortal in the Fifth World, leaving Sword Immortal Changqing bewildered.

At a banquet in Imperial Cliff Heaven, Dao Ancestor Chiming praised Xia Manggan’s devastating strike against the Wujian Sect and made him the commander of a new elite army. The Black-Robed God King learned of Xia Manggan’s new protection and decided it was time to use someone against him.

• Dao Ancestor Chiming welcomed Xia Manggan and seated him among the Crimson Bright Domain’s leading True Immortal Celestial Gods, honoring his victory against the Wujian Sect.
• Xia Manggan promised to support the other Great Worlds, and the assembled leaders toasted him, while Sword Immortal Changqing warned that the Wujian Sect might send powerful assassins.
• Dao Ancestor Chiming urged Xia Manggan to remain in Imperial Cliff Heaven for safety and granted him Haoting Palace, nine thousand Heavenly Immortals, and eight hundred ten thousand Loose Immortals to form the Prince Gan Army.
• Dao Ancestor Chiming ordered the Xia Emperor to pass the Xingtian Formation to Xia Manggan and named his army the Crimson Bright Domain’s ace legion.
• The Black-Robed God King learned about Xia Manggan’s new army and formation, then decided to use someone against him.

Xia Manggan took command of the Prince Gan Army in Imperial Cliff Heaven and gave its soldiers the foundational methods of the Xingtian God Formation. After settling into Haoting Palace, he considered how to spend his vast Merit Points on Chaos Spirit Liquid to strengthen his clone technique.

• Celestial God Mengyi showed Xia Manggan and the Xia Emperor the canyon that would serve as the Prince Gan Army’s camp and assigned him nine thousand Heavenly Immortals and eight hundred and ten thousand Loose Immortals.
• Xia Manggan established Haoting Palace, introduced the Xingtian God Formation to the soldiers, and ordered their first drill for ten days later.
• Celestial God Mengyi and the Xia Emperor departed, and Xia Manggan inspected Haoting Palace’s cave manor world with its artifact spirit.
• Xia Manggan planned to leave management of the cave manor world to Jiu Lian when she arrived, since the Wujian Sect might target those close to him.
• Xia Manggan calculated that his Merit Points could buy more than four hundred and thirty bottles of Chaos Spirit Liquid and wondered whether that would suffice to advance his clone technique.

Xia Manggan studied the Twelve Capital Heaven Fiendgods and resolved to seek rare treasures that could let him cultivate a more powerful avatar method, while prioritizing research into using Heart Force to control magic treasures. Ten days later, he led the Prince Gan Army in its first Xingtian Formation drill as Celestial God Mengyi assessed its strength and Sword Immortal Changqing watched from nearby.

• Xia Manggan studied the requirements of the Twelve Capital Heaven Fiendgods, concluded that its third level depended on treasures unavailable in the Three Realms, and considered pursuing the Taowu Eighteen Fiendgods or the Thousand-Body Canon instead.
• Xia Manggan decided that his urgent task was to develop a way to control magic treasures with Heart Force, so his Second Primordial Spirit could undergo tribulation and become a Heavenly Immortal.
• Xia Manggan entered the Taichu Universe to cultivate, while his Golden Crow Avatar prepared the Xingtian Formation’s Divine Pattern over the following ten days.
• Xia Manggan met Mi Feng’s Second Primordial Spirit, who had become a Heavenly Immortal and had been sent to Imperial Cliff Heaven to temper himself and aid the struggle against the Wujian Sect.
• At Celestial God Mengyi’s request, Xia Manggan ordered the Prince Gan Army to form the Xingtian Formation, gathering the strength of nearly eight hundred twenty thousand Immortals into a ten-thousand-zhang Xingtian God.
• Sword Immortal Changqing watched the formation drill from a nearby mountain as Xia Manggan marveled at the immense power of the Xingtian God.

Xia Manggan tested his control of the strongest Xingtian God formation, learned that his two bodies could command separate formations, and completed his method for using Heart Force on magic treasures. He began his Second Primordial Spirit’s Heavenly Immortal tribulation, whose Wind Tribulation he calmly endured as a Daoist watched and worried about the final lightning bolts.

• Xia Manggan controlled the strongest Xingtian God and estimated he could eventually mobilize at most twenty percent of its power.
• Celestial God Mengyi explained that the formation would train Xia Manggan and appointed Mi Feng as his deputy commander.
• Xia Manggan discovered that his method for using Heart Force on magic treasures was complete and entered Haoting Palace’s minor world to spar with Celestial God Mengyi.
• Sword Immortal Changqing resented Xia Manggan and decided to join the Wujian Sect to pursue greater strength.
• Green-Robed Xia Manggan left Wenshi Heavenly Palace and began his tribulation on the Heavenly Tribulation Platform.
• Xia Manggan withstood the powerful Wind Tribulation using Space-Time arts while a middle-aged Daoist watched and worried about the final nine lightning bolts.

Xia Manggan passed the wind and fire tribulations, then faced a lightning tribulation far beyond an ordinary Heavenly Immortal Tribulation. He used the Wuji Ring and his own powers to withstand the first eighty-two lightning bolts, but the first Nine-Nine bolt formed as terrifying Purple-Gold Heavenly Lightning.

• Xia Manggan endured the Heavenly Immortal Wind as it destroyed and then restored his Second Primordial Spirit’s body, passing the wind tribulation with his Dao-heart intact.
• Xia Manggan passed the fire tribulation, while Daoist Sect disciples praised his skill and watched the lightning clouds gather across the Kunlun Ruins.
• Pure Yang True Immortals recognized Xia Manggan and were alarmed by the enormous tribulation clouds; Xia Manggan prepared the Dragon Robe and Wuji Ring as the first jade-white lightning bolt struck.
• Xia Manggan used the Wuji Ring to block the early lightning bolts, then formed six black-and-white vortices with the Samsara stance to withstand the Four-Nine through Eight-Nine tribulations.
• The first bolt of Xia Manggan’s Nine-Nine Lightning Tribulation formed as Purple-Gold Heavenly Lightning, frightening even the watching Pure Yang True Immortals.