Chapter Summaries

Xia Manggan’s Second Primordial Spirit survived the Nine-Nine Lightning Tribulation’s Pure Yang Golden Light Lightning and the Heart Demon Tribulation, then began condensing a Heavenly Immortal Golden Core with Chaos Spirit Liquid. The Golden Core space expanded several times, but Xia Manggan knew it still had a long way to grow.

• Xia Manggan used his Wuji Ring, Heart Force, and layered defenses to withstand the final bolt of Pure Yang Golden Light Lightning, while Chaos Spirit Liquid repaired his body.
• The Pure Yang True Immortals and the Daoist Sect’s Three Pure Ones marveled that Xia Manggan had survived the lightning and discussed his potential strength.
• Xia Manggan awakened from the Heart Demon Tribulation in less than a month as Heaven and Earth gathered around him to assist his ascension.
• The Three Pure Ones asked Celestial Venerable Wenshi to bring Xia Manggan to Yuxu Heavenly Palace after he passed the tribulation.
• Xia Manggan poured nine drops of Chaos Spirit Liquid into his forming Golden Core, expanding its space several times.

Xia Manggan completed his Second-Grade Heavenly Immortal breakthrough, then advanced to a Second-Grade Pure Yang True Immortal with help from the Three Pure Ones. After testing his power against Celestial Venerable Xiaoyao, he learned that he could approach the weakest True Gods or Dao Ancestors in raw might but remained far below an elite one.

• Xia Manggan absorbed the Chaos Spirit Liquid and formed a Second-Grade Heavenly Immortal Golden Core, gaining vast reserves of purified Heavenly Immortal magic power.
• True Immortal Yellow Dragon and the other Daoist Sect True Immortals congratulated Xia Manggan, who warned that his true self and Golden Crow Avatar might draw even stronger tribulations.
• Celestial Venerable Wenshi brought Xia Manggan to Yuxu Heavenly Palace, where the Three Pure Ones confirmed he could gather the Five Qi in the Chest and gave him one hundred Great Luo Immortal Pills.
• Xia Manggan consumed the pills and became a Second-Grade Pure Yang True Immortal, with his Golden Core and magic power transforming and his strength rising dramatically.
• Xia Manggan attacked Celestial Venerable Xiaoyao with the Wuji Ring, but Xiaoyao stopped it effortlessly, leaving Xia Manggan aware of the gap between himself and elite True Gods or Dao Ancestors.

Xia Manggan learned how his strength compared with Celestial Gods, True Gods, and Dao Ancestors, and Three Pure Ones prepared to equip him with treasures and techniques. The chapter ended as Three Pure Ones presented him with nine powerful flying swords.

• Celestial Venerable Xiaoyao judged Xia Manggan’s Pure Yang Golden Core foundation and said his strength had reached the Celestial God Limit.
• Celestial Venerable Wenshi explained the strength tiers of Celestial Gods and True Immortals, while Celestial Venerable Xiaoyao described the foundations of True Gods and the ranks of Dao Ancestors.
• Three Pure Ones warned Xia Manggan that Dao Ancestors and powerful formations could still kill him, especially if the Wujian Sect found a chance to attack.
• Three Pure Ones offered Xia Manggan top-tier spirit treasures and secret arts, then summoned nine powerful flying swords before him.

After becoming a Pure Yang True Immortal, Xia Manggan received powerful treasures from the Daoist leaders and discovered that his Mind Sense could reach across the Three Realms. He found evidence linking Shaoyan Chou to the Wujian Sect and used it as grounds to act, then captured Shaoyan Chou’s avatars.

• The Three Pure Ones bestowed the Nine Palaces Immortal Swords on Xia Manggan, while Celestial Venerable Wenshi gave him the Heavenly Escape Spirit Light Boat and Celestial Venerable Xiaoyao began forging him a sword diagram and formation technique.
• Xia Manggan decided he was ready to seize the World Prison Stone Stele and used his Mind Sense to locate Shaoyan Chou’s avatars across the Three Realms.
• Xia Manggan discovered one avatar in Baiji City and the others associated with the Wujian Sect, giving him grounds to declare the Shaoyan Clan traitors to the Xia Mang Clan.
• Shaoyan Chou boasted about his hidden identities at a Wujian Sect outpost when an unseen enemy brought his concealed avatars into the hall and rendered all sixteen unconscious.

Xia Manggan destroyed Shaoyan Chou’s outpost, refined the Stone Stele’s Seven Great Dharma Methods, and entered the 17th World Prison, where he strengthened his eighteen avatars with Chaos Spirit Liquid. He began surveying the prisoners to find treasures, choosing a comparatively weak Pure Yang True Immortal as his first target.

• Green-Robed Xia Manggan killed Shaoyan Chou and everyone at the Wujian Sect outpost, then concealed his involvement from Iron Soldier Tower.
• Xia Manggan refined the Stone Stele and learned its Seven Great Dharma Methods, including the Taowu Eighteen Fiendgods and Indestructible Body.
• The World Prison’s Puppets gave Xia Manggan nineteen bottles of accumulated Chaos Spirit Liquid, and he used 943 drops to raise all eighteen avatars to their original second-grade Pure Yang True Immortal strength.
• Xia Manggan sent one avatar into the World Prison while the other seventeen studied the Universe Reversal One-Heart Formation.
• Xia Manggan used Heart Force to survey the prisoners and selected the weakest Pure Yang True Immortal he detected as his first target.

Shaoyan Chou feared the loss of his avatars would expose the Stone Stele and bring his death, but the Wujian Faction’s massive army arrived in Baiji City to prepare for a full invasion of Great Xia. The chapter ended with Sect Master Green Fox revealing that the God King considered killing Xia Manggan more important than conquering Great Xia.

• Shaoyan Chou agonized over the destruction of his sixteen avatars and decided to stay with the Wujian Faction rather than risk fleeing or reporting the Stone Stele.
• A huge chained black city appeared above Baiji City, sealing the surrounding space, and Sect Master Green Fox summoned Shaoyan Chou to its main hall.
• Shaoyan Chou saw the Wujian army assembling and learned that the God King had ordered two million Loose Immortals, ten thousand Heavenly Immortals, and war Puppets to join the campaign against Great Xia.
• True Immortal Baiji took command of the invasion and ordered Shaoyan Chou to bring the Shaoyan Clan’s immortals and cooperate in subduing the imprisoned Fiendgods.
• Sect Master Green Fox told True Immortal Baiji and the other leaders that the God King valued killing Xia Manggan’s true bodies and avatars above conquering Great Xia.

Xia Manggan learned that the Wujian Sect planned to invade the Great Xia World and prepared to lead the Prince Gan Army into battle. After revealing that his Second Primordial Spirit had become a Pure Yang True Immortal, he agreed to return for the campaign on March twenty-fifth.

• The Xia Emperor summoned the realm’s Heavenly Immortals and Loose Immortals to gather at the Great Xia Imperial City on March twenty-fifth.
• Xia Manggan studied the Universe Reversal One-Heart Formation and gained an initial grasp of its power to trap or defend against formidable enemies.
• Dao Ancestor Chiming summoned Xia Manggan and the Xia Emperor’s white-robed Second Primordial Spirit to discuss the Wujian Sect’s planned invasion.
• The Xia Emperor reported that the Wujian Sect would send two million Loose Immortals and ten thousand Heavenly Immortals, along with war Puppets and unknown hidden forces.
• Xia Manggan revealed that his Second Primordial Spirit had become a Pure Yang True Immortal, and Dao Ancestor Chiming assigned it to lead the Prince Gan Army into battle.
• Xia Manggan agreed to return with the Prince Gan Army on March twenty-fifth, after using the month to plunder Chaos Alien Races within the World Prison.

Xia Manggan returned from plundering the World Prison with an enormous hoard but had found no clues to the treasures needed for the third level of the Taowu Eighteen Fiendgods. The Three Pure Ones gave him the Great Thousand Sword Formation and the newly reforged Wuji Sword Map, leaving Xia Manggan to consider whether his divine soul could control the thousands of swords the formation required.

• Xia Manggan gathered the gains from twenty-one days of plundering, including more than ninety-three thousand Pure Yang Top-Grade Dharma Treasures, but found none of the exotic items he needed for the third level of the Taowu Eighteen Fiendgods.
• The Three Pure Ones summoned Xia Manggan to Yuxu Heavenly Palace and gave him the Great Thousand Sword Formation, created with help from Bodhi and his Martial Granduncle, and the reforged Wuji Sword Map.
• The Three Pure Ones explained that the sword map and formation could let Xia Manggan challenge powerful enemies, while he thanked his master and learned his Martial Granduncle was helping Bodhi create an escape art.
• Back in the World Prison, Xia Manggan studied the Great Thousand Sword Formation and learned that its ultimate form required 6,561 flying swords.
• Xia Manggan realized he had enough flying swords from his plunder, but wondered whether his divine soul could control them all.

Xia Manggan combined the sword formations controlled by his eighteen clones into a topaz sword light with power nearing the leader level, then challenged the World Prison’s Shiyu True God. Shiyu True God blocked the sword’s attacks, but Xia Manggan trapped him with two Space-Time techniques.

• Xia Manggan inscribed Great Thousand Runes on 6,561 flying swords and discovered that his eighteen clones could combine nine perfect sword formation foundations into a topaz sword light.
• Xia Manggan entered the World Prison and demanded that Shiyu True God submit or die, revealing his knowledge of Shiyu’s reputation and Chaos Exotic Treasures.
• Shiyu True God dismissed Xia Manggan as an ordinary True Immortal but became alarmed when the topaz sword light threatened him.
• Shiyu True God blocked the sword light’s attacks with his Dark Wind Space-Rending Staffs and Taiji techniques, then taunted Xia Manggan over his weak swordsmanship.
• Xia Manggan enveloped the valley in a special Heaven-and-Earth Space-Time and summoned the Nine Realms Divine Palace, binding Shiyu True God with two Space-Time forces.

Xia Manggan defeated Shiyu True God in the World Prison, searched his memories, and claimed his treasures. He left with a Seven-Colored Spirit-Gathering Crystal and headed back to reunite with his true self.

• Xia Manggan overwhelmed Shiyu True God with his sword formations, treasures, and binding arts until Shiyu True God surrendered.
• Xia Manggan searched Shiyu True God's memories and gained extensive cultivation insights that advanced his Wuji Force and Taiji Force to the third level.
• Shiyu True God gave Xia Manggan his Chaos Exotic Treasures and exotic objects in exchange for a promise of future freedom.
• Xia Manggan found a Seven-Colored Spirit-Gathering Crystal, a key material for cultivating the third level of the Taowu Eighteen Fiendgods.
• Xia Manggan left the World Prison for the Crimson Bright Domain to reunite with his true self.

Xia Manggan tested the Peering Heaven Taihao Pagoda, then revealed the World Prison Stone Stele’s inheritance and his immense collection of treasures to the Xia Emperor. The Xia Emperor received gifts that could greatly strengthen him and the Xia Mang Clan, and called Xia Manggan the greatest fortune of his life.

• Xia Manggan discovered that the Peering Heaven Taihao Pagoda could sustain extreme time acceleration more easily when his Human True Self or Golden Crow Avatar cultivated inside, and assigned the Golden Crow Avatar to train there.
• Xia Manggan decided his Human True Self and Second Primordial Spirit would appear in the coming war against the Wujian Sect, while keeping his other seventeen Second Primordial Spirit bodies secret.
• Xia Manggan visited the Xia Emperor in Tianmang Palace and brought him to the core space of the World-Suppressing Array.
• Xia Manggan gave the Xia Emperor a bamboo scroll containing seven methods and explained how he had obtained them from the World Prison Stone Stele.
• Xia Manggan gave the Xia Mang Clan tens of thousands of Pure Yang Top Grade magic treasures and presented the Xia Emperor with ninety-nine Flash Heaven Stars and ninety-nine drops of Chaos Spirit Liquid.
• The Xia Emperor was moved by Xia Manggan’s gifts and called him the greatest fortune of his life.

Xia Manggan gave Xia Emperor treasures that helped him prepare for a breakthrough, then took command of the Great Xia forces as Emperor Gan. The chapter ended with millions of Immortals kneeling to him in the Imperial City.

• Xia Manggan explained that Shaoyan Chou could not uncover the Stone Stele’s hidden treasure vault, and Xia Emperor vowed that Du Chou would not survive the war.
• Xia Emperor refined the Flash Heaven Star, gained new insights into the Water Path Heavenly Dao, and prepared to cultivate in seclusion with the Peering Heaven Taihao Pagoda.
• Ji Ning and other Immortals arrived in the Great Xia Royal Capital as hundreds of thousands gathered for the war against the Wujian Sect.
• Ji Ning saw more than fourteen thousand Heavenly Immortals assemble in Tianmang Palace, while over two million Loose Immortals filled the plaza.
• Xia Manggan entered the hall and took the throne as Emperor Gan, and the gathered Immortals bowed to him.

Xia Manggan took command of Great Xia’s war against the Wujian Sect while the Xia Emperor entered seclusion to pursue a breakthrough. He rallied the assembled Immortals with a formation plan and lavish gifts, leaving them preparing to fight under his leadership.

• A teal-haired Celestial God announced that the Xia Emperor was nearing a breakthrough and that Xia Manggan would command the war against the Wujian Sect.
• A Celestial God revealed that Xia Manggan had become a Pure Yang True Immortal, astonishing Ji Ning and the assembled Immortals.
• Xia Manggan assured the Heavenly Immortals of Great Xia’s powerful backing and organized them into twelve legions to train in the Xingtian Formation.
• Xia Manggan gave the Heavenly Immortals half a month to master the formation before competing to become legion commanders.
• Xia Manggan offered the ten True Immortals and Celestial Gods thousands of Pure Yang Top-Grade Dharma Treasures, prompting them to choose gifts for the coming war.

Xia Manggan prepared for the coming war against the Wujian Sect, recruiting trusted allies and secretly assigning surveillance around Baiji Commandery. He left Ji Ning with powerful cultivation methods and Chaos Spirit Liquid, asking him to grow stronger for the war.

• Xia Manggan gave ten True Immortal Celestial Gods powerful Pure Yang Top-Grade Dharma Treasures and privately briefed them on their assignments.
• Xia Manggan sent Number One, Number Two, and Number Three to watch Baiji Commandery for signs that the Wujian Sect was mobilizing.
• After nine days of private meetings, Xia Manggan urged Heavenly Immortal Tonghe to secure one of the twelve general positions because he could not trust the other candidates.
• Ji Ning met Xia Manggan, told him about Yu Wei's pregnancy and his feud with the Shaoyan Clan, and asked for a chance to avenge the Yuchi Clan.
• Xia Manggan took Ji Ning into the World-Suppressing Array's core space and taught him Taowu Eighteen Fiendgods and his Cultivation Notes, then gave him Chaos Spirit Liquid.

Ji Ning received Xia Manggan’s cultivation methods and an extraordinary cache of treasures before joining the trials to choose Great Xia’s Xingtian Formation commanders. Great Xia selected its twelve commanders as the Wujian Sect prepared to attack, and Shaoyan Chou was left humiliated by Heavenly Immortal Kumu’s loyalty to Xia Manggan.

• Xia Manggan gave Ji Ning the Taowu Eighteen Fiendgods method, a Heart Force soul technique, and Chaos Spirit Liquid, then warned him to keep his clones secret.
• Xia Manggan gave Ji Ning an Innate Cave Abode Spirit Treasure containing 360 top-grade Pure Yang flying swords and 1,000 Pure Yang Spirit Pills.
• Ji Ning and 367 other Heavenly Immortals gathered to test their command of the Xingtian Formation and compete for twelve commander positions.
• Xia Manggan chose Heavenly Immortal Kumu to lead the first formation test, and Kumu responded by forming a towering dark-red Xingtian God.
• Sect Master Green Fox revealed the twelve selected commanders, with Ji Ning ranked first and Kumu sixth.
• True Immortal Baiji ordered the Wujian Sect forces to prepare to attack Great Xia, while Shaoyan Chou sat disgraced by Kumu’s choice to remain loyal to Xia Manggan.

Xia Manggan equipped twelve Heavenly Immortal commanders with Pojian treasures as Great Xia prepared to face the Wujian Sect. When True Immortal Baiji tried to undermine Great Xia’s destiny by rallying a million Immortals, Xia Manggan addressed the entire world and turned its people’s fervor back toward Emperor Gan, then declared it was time to settle the score.

• Xia Manggan asked the commanders whether they had mastered the Xingtian Formation’s crucial methods, and Ji Ning confirmed that they were ready for battle.
• Xia Manggan gave each commander a pair of transforming Pure Yang Top-Grade Pojian Dharma Treasures to serve as weapons for their Xingtian Gods.
• True Immortal Baiji declared that he was leading a million Immortals to rebel against Great Xia, and True Immortal Dongyan warned that the Wujian Sect was trying to weaken the dynasty’s destiny.
• Xia Manggan projected his image and voice across the Great Xia World, denounced Baiji, and prompted countless beings to acclaim Emperor Gan, strengthening Great Xia’s destiny.
• Xia Manggan told the five True Immortal Celestial Gods and twelve Heavenly Immortal commanders that the time had come to settle the score with the Wujian Sect.

Xia Manggan rallied Great Xia’s Immortals and launched an immediate assault on Wujian City with all twelve legions. As the first clash began, he revealed that his command center was elsewhere and prepared to treat the opening battle as decisive.

• Xia Manggan stirred the Immortals’ loyalty, announced that they would defend their homeland, and sent the army into Eight-Dragon Cloud City.
• True Immortal Baiji and the Wujian Sect leaders chose to expand from Baiji Commandery, but Xia Manggan’s army appeared nearby and sealed the surrounding space.
• Twelve Xingtian Gods advanced toward Wujian City, prompting True Immortal Baiji to order the Wujian Sect to deploy its entire army.
• Xia Manggan halted the Xingtian Gods near a lake and reassured the five True Immortal Celestial Gods that he was not inside Eight-Dragon Cloud City.
• Eight White-Faced Flood Dragons approached the Xingtian Gods, and Xia Manggan ordered the five True Immortal Celestial Gods to attack while his Human True Self formed another Xingtian God.

Xia Manggan led Great Xia’s forces in a surprise assault that devastated the Wujian Sect’s vanguard, but True Immortal Baiji then revealed a much larger reserve army. As the battle tilted against Great Xia, Xia Manggan called on three Celestial Gods to join the fight.

• Xia Manggan appeared as a powerful Xingtian God and led Ji Ning and the other twelve Xingtian Gods into battle while five True Gods and Heavenly Immortals slowed the Wujian Sect’s forces with spells and treasures.
• Xia Manggan smashed apart two White-Faced Flood Dragons and helped his followers destroy another, killing nearly twenty-four hundred Heavenly Immortals and many Loose Immortals.
• Xia Manggan drove back four Wujian Sect Celestial Gods, while Sect Master Green Fox and True Immortal Baiji recognized that their army was losing and decided to reveal their hidden strength.
• True Immortal Baiji released three Celestial God-level god-fiend formations and twenty-two Celestial God Puppets, forcing Great Xia’s fighters to confront a sudden numerical disadvantage.
• Xia Manggan’s Second Primordial Spirit vanished from the palace and called Celestial God Zhuanshui, Celestial God Beiwang, and Celestial God Hanzheng to act.

Xia Manggan’s forces turned the battle against the Wujian Sect with the arrival of three Pangu Battle Formations and his overwhelming Perfect Xingtian God. As the Wujian Sect began to retreat, Sect Master Green Fox summoned hidden allies, leaving the fight poised for another turn.

• Celestial God Hanzheng led the imprisoned native god-fiends into battle after Xia Manggan promised them freedom, and they formed three Pangu Battle Formations with Celestial God Zhuanshui and Celestial God Beiwang.
• The Wujian Sect’s hidden army attacked Great Xia’s forces, but True Immortal Tiannong and four others endured the assault using powerful protective treasures.
• True Immortal Baiji redirected the Wujian Sect’s forces and spells against Xia Manggan’s and Ji Ning’s Xingtian Gods, briefly turning the battle in the Wujian Sect’s favor.
• Three Pangu Battle Formations arrived and struck the Wujian Sect’s White-Faced Flood Dragons, Blood Cloud Puppets, and Black Celestial God Puppets.
• Xia Manggan’s Second Primordial Spirit appeared in a Perfect Xingtian God, destroyed two Celestial God Puppets, and forced the Wujian Sect’s forces to flee.
• As Xia Manggan’s two Xingtian Gods pursued True Immortal Baiji and Sect Master Green Fox, Green Fox crushed a Letter Talisman and called hidden allies to act.

Xia Manggan battled the Wujian Sect’s forces as their reinforcements trapped his Perfect Xingtian God and a Chaos-powered arrow threatened his Human True Self. At the last moment, Xia Mang Xun appeared, caught the arrow, and revealed that he had become a Dao Ancestor.

• True Immortal Quyun lured the Six Demon Gods of Tonglian Mountain from their lair, while Heavenly God Hu Qu prepared to join the battle in the Great Xia World.
• Xia Manggan’s Human True Self fought the Three-Eyed Demon God of Swallowing Dragon Mountain, while his Second Primordial Spirit arrived with the stronger Perfect Xingtian God and drove the demon back.
• Heavenly God Hu Qu pierced the Universe Sealing Formation with an arrow, and Xia Manggan recognized the Chaos Dao Fruit in Hu Qu’s hand as a threat to his Human True Self.
• Sect Master Green Fox and the Wujian Sect’s Pure Yang True Immortals burned their source energy to restrain Xia Manggan, while the Three-Eyed Demon God and the Six Demon Gods of Tonglian Mountain joined the encirclement.
• Heavenly God Hu Qu fired a Chaos-powered arrow at Xia Manggan, but Xia Mang Xun caught it and revealed that he had become a Dao Ancestor.