Recaps

Jiang Changkong persuaded Heaven to allow humans and demons to coexist in Proud Sea Kingdom, and the Demon Court grew as its members followed heavenly laws. After the immortal office revived and granted demons the power of Heaven, Jiang Changkong received their tribute and entered seclusion to strengthen his Acquired Chaos Dao Body.

• Jiang Changkong argued with the immortal office that humans and demons should be allowed to coexist, and it permitted him to try this in Proud Sea Kingdom.
• The Demon Court expanded as demons pledged allegiance, while Jiang Changkong punished those who refused to obey heavenly laws and spread news of the Heavenly Court's planned purge.
• A month later, the immortal office's power revived and affected the Demon Court's demons; Nineteen gained the power of Heaven, and Shi Wanzai's record recognized his efforts to repent.
• Thirty-seven Demon Kings offered Jiang Changkong treasures, and he asked them for immortal stones, spiritual essence, and other useful resources.
• After receiving the tribute, Jiang Changkong announced his seclusion and began improving his Acquired Chaos Dao Body with the fourth-rank immortal stones.

Jiang Changkong reached the peak of the Immortal God Realm and learned that the Purple Star Heavenly King wanted him to go to the Heavenly River Kingdom. He left secretly to investigate, while the Demon Race stayed behind to build its strength.

• Jiang Changkong raised the Golden Crow Immortal Scripture to its limit, reaching the peak of the Immortal God Realm as the Demon Court’s Heaven revived.
• The Purple Star Heavenly King confronted Jiang Changkong about the Judicial Book of Heaven and ordered him to visit the Heavenly River Kingdom in two days.
• Jiang Changkong asked Zhu Shijiu about the Heavenly River Kingdom, learned that an Immortal King oversaw it, and said he would travel there alone.
• Jiang Changkong left a divine power incarnation behind and secretly departed for the Heavenly River Immortal Kingdom.

Jiang Changkong followed the Divine Eye Star Lord to Clear River City, where they found a massacre and were pulled into a hidden river by a Golden Crow imprint. There, they discovered a replica of the Demon Emperor, a Flower-Fruit Mountain divine ape, and Zhu Shijiu breaking an immortal formation to reach a temple.

• Jiang Changkong and the Divine Eye Star Lord arrived at Clear River City and found its people dead and the city lord slain.
• The Divine Eye Star Lord blamed the Demon Race, while Jiang Changkong questioned whether demons were responsible.
• Fairy Jade Snow found a Golden Crow imprint that absorbed the Star Lord’s immortal power and transported the group into a river filled with immortal qi.
• The Divine Eye Star Lord led the others toward the demon aura and found a Golden Crow-robed young man, an ape, and Zhu Shijiu attacking an immortal formation.
• The ape shattered the formation’s defenses, revealing a temple behind a golden barrier, and the young man urged the others to keep attacking.

Jiang Changkong and the others entered the temple after the river array broke, where he exposed two supposed Demon Emperor followers as weak incarnations and let the fairies execute them. He recognized the temple as the Clean Altar Temple, Zhu Bajie’s sacred ground, and learned it had once been Marshal Canopy’s domain.

• The Book of Heaven identified the three enemies as Eastern Emperor Changyue, Sun Yuan, and Zhu Shijiu, though its information conflicted with their apparent identities and power.
• Divine Eye Star Lord told Jiang Changkong that the Heavenly Court would exile him to the lower realm under the pretense of letting him enforce the law freely.
• After the array broke, Divine Eye Star Lord fought the divine ape while Jiang Changkong suppressed the young man and the woman in red as they attacked Zilan and Jade Snow.
• The young man and woman revealed that they were only incarnations, and Jiang Changkong handed them over to the two fairies, who killed them and gained enough Power of Heaven to reach the limit of late Celestial Immortal cultivation.
• Jiang Changkong recognized the temple as the Clean Altar Temple and recalled Zhu Bajie’s identity as Marshal Canopy, commander of the Heavenly River’s water soldiers.

Jiang Changkong killed the Divine Eye Star Lord and the ape after they joined forces against him, then entered the Clean Altar Temple to investigate Zhu Bajie’s golden statue. The temple appeared empty, and Jiang Changkong questioned the two fairies about what they knew.

• The Divine Eye Star Lord and the ape prepared to enter the Clean Altar Temple, but the Demon Emperor arrived and forced everyone beneath his divine might.
• Jiang Changkong accused the ape of slaughtering wantonly and attacked it, while the Divine Eye Star Lord joined the fight against him.
• Jiang Changkong overwhelmed the Divine Eye Star Lord and the ape, pinned them to the riverbed, and found that restrictions erased their souls during his search.
• Jiang Changkong entered the untouched temple, where his secondary body and the two fairies were hiding beside a golden statue of Zhu Bajie.
• Jiang Changkong found no response when he touched the statue and asked the fairies what they thought, but Zilan challenged him to find the answer himself.

Jiang Changkong and the two fairies unlocked Zhu Bajie's residence, where Fairy Jade Snow received a Lunar immortal post. As the group prepared to explore another hall, Jiang Changkong noticed a broken plaque bearing the words “Witch Hall.”

• Fairy Jade Snow and Fairy Zilan helped Jiang Changkong trigger the restriction by channeling Vast Chill power into Zhu Bajie's statue, opening a passage.
• Jiang Changkong and the fairies entered the Heavenly Canopy Marshal's Residence and discovered that its Moonwatching Palace offered a view of the Lunar Star.
• Moonlight entered Fairy Jade Snow, granting her an immortal post and raising her cultivation to the peak of Heavenly Immortal.
• Fairy Zilan proposed exploring Dragon King Hall, and Jiang Changkong agreed as she ran toward it.
• Jiang Changkong spotted a shattered plaque among the ruins that read “Witch Hall.”

Jiang Changkong experienced a vision of an ancient Saint opening heaven and then witnessed the Moon God and Marshal Tianpeng discuss the Witch Clan’s inheritance and the vanished ancient immortals. The Moon God told him that a fragment of heaven lay in the underworld and that he could become its Lord by entering the underworld and mending heaven with his body.

• Jiang Changkong picked up the shattered Witch Hall plaque and was drawn into a vision of an ancient blood-energy race and its Saint.
• The Saint touched Jiang Changkong’s forehead and sent him information depicting the creation of worlds from chaos.
• The vision shifted to the Lunar Star, where the Moon God asked Marshal Tianpeng to keep the Witch Clan’s inheritance in his sacred ground.
• Marshal Tianpeng reluctantly accepted a divine palace from the Moon God as she said she would return, though he told her she could not.
• The Moon God told Jiang Changkong that a fragment of heaven was hidden in the underworld and that he could become the Lord of the Underworld by mending heaven with his body.

Jiang Changkong explored the ancient Heavenly Court ruins, gained the Witch Race’s Five Heaven-Opening Forms, and watched Fairy Zilan claim the Heavenly Canopy Marshal’s immortal office before the group was expelled. After escorting the fairies back to the heavens, he discovered that his Acquired Chaos Dao Body had reached the Immortal Deity limit and planned to enforce the law in the lower realm as the Judicial Heavenly God.

• Jiang Changkong left Witch Hall with knowledge of the Five Heaven-Opening Forms and continued exploring the ruins with Fairy Zilan and Fairy Jade Snow.
• Jiang Changkong and the others collected preserved pills from Lord Lao Hall, but found no immortal office there.
• Fairy Zilan activated the Heavenly Canopy Marshal’s golden statue, which struck her unconscious before swallowing the group and sending them back to the City Lord’s Manor.
• Jiang Changkong escorted Fairy Jade Snow and the unconscious Fairy Zilan to the passage to the heavens, refusing Jade Snow’s offer of a jade pendant.
• Jiang Changkong discovered that the Five Heaven-Opening Forms had raised his Acquired Chaos Dao Body to the Immortal Deity limit and began creating a duplicate body to return to Demon Emperor Hall.

Jiang Changkong defeated an Immortal Lord sent to kill him and learned that the Heavenly Court and the Heavenly River Immortal King had arranged the attack. He headed for a fourth-grade immortal stone mine, where he spotted two powerful Celestial Immortals forced to work as miners.

• Jiang Changkong recovered his Chaos Divine Power with a fifth-revolution restorative pill and prepared to use the Judicial Book of Heaven.
• A young Immortal Lord attacked Jiang Changkong, but Jiang shattered his sword with the first form of Opening Heaven and captured him.
• Jiang questioned the Immortal Lord and learned that the Heavenly River Immortal King had sent him, while the Heavenly Court had leaked Jiang’s location and helped slaughter Clear River City.
• Jiang killed the Immortal Lord, searched his soul, and discovered that the city he guarded had a fourth-grade immortal stone mine.
• Jiang flew to the mine near East Water City and saw five Celestial Immortals guarding it, along with two late-stage Celestial Immortals bound by restrictions and forced to mine.

Jiang Changkong rescued two Great Wilderness Immortals from forced labor in a Heavenly River mine and learned they had been pursuing the Yazi Dojo ruins. They offered to help him find its treasures and chose to stand with him despite the danger.

• Jiang Changkong discovered that Jiang Ziyu and Jiang Zifan were Great Wilderness Immortals being forced to mine while their cultivation was sealed.
• Jiang Changkong revealed himself as the Judicial Heavenly God, killed the guilty overseers and Immortals, and freed the innocent miners while restoring Jiang Ziyu and Jiang Zifan's cultivation.
• Jiang Changkong asked Jiang Ziyu and Jiang Zifan how they had ended up in the mine, and they warned him that the stationed Immortal Lord might return.
• Jiang Changkong told them he had already executed the Immortal Lord, and Jiang Zifan explained that they had been pursuing the Yazi ruins before fiends injured them.
• Jiang Ziyu and Jiang Zifan offered to help Jiang Changkong obtain the Yazi Dojo's treasures, and they declared they were willing to face danger alongside him.

Jiang Changkong and his companions traveled toward Yazi Dojo and encountered a fiend controlling Golden Water River with spatial laws. After the fiend transported them into Golden Water Town, they met Granny Jinshui, an ordinary mortal, and the chapter left them in her house.

• Jiang Changkong plundered immortal stones from a mineral vein and left with Jiang Ziyu and Jiang Zifan.
• Jiang Zifan warned Jiang Changkong that an Immortal Lord fiend occupied Golden Water River, but Jiang Changkong chose to pass through rather than take a detour.
• Jiang Changkong shielded his companions with Chaos Divine Power and flew toward Golden Water Town, where the fiend attacked with black fiendish light.
• Jiang Changkong broke the fiend's attacks and tried to continue onward, but spatial rifts appeared and pulled the three into Golden Water Town.
• Jiang Changkong entered a house with Jiang Ziyu and Jiang Zifan, identified Granny Jinshui as an ordinary mortal, and declined her offer of food.

Jiang Changkong investigated the dangerous Golden Water River and discovered its space was heavily distorted. He met Liu Xuanfeng, who explained that the river’s demon worked with the Heavenly River Navy and used immortals to refine pills.

• Granny Jinshui told Jiang Changkong that many visitors had entered the Golden Water River and most had vanished, while some who returned called themselves the Heavenly River Navy.
• Jiang Changkong found chaotic layers of shifting space around and inside the river, then returned to Golden Water Town with Jiang Ziyu and Jiang Zifan.
• Jiang Changkong noticed Liu Xuanfeng following them and used the Book of Heaven to identify him as a late-stage Celestial Immortal.
• Liu Xuanfeng said he had spent thirty years in Golden Water Town after entering the river with the Heavenly River Navy.
• Liu Xuanfeng told Jiang Changkong that the Navy cooperated with the river’s demon, which used immortals as ingredients to refine pills and had reached the limit of early-stage Immortal Lord ten years earlier.

Jiang Changkong and Liu Xuanfeng planned to lure the Golden Water River fiend out by making Jiang Changkong appear gravely wounded. After three nights without a response, Liu Xuanfeng approached Jiang Changkong as bait, and an invisible force swallowed them both.

• Liu Xuanfeng revealed that the Golden Water River fiend worked with the Heavenly River Immortal Kingdom to refine immortals into pills.
• Liu Xuanfeng showed Jiang Changkong a fifth-grade wood-element immortal artifact capable of forming a powerful separate space.
• Jiang Changkong decided to pose as a heavily wounded Immortal Lord and lure the fiend out of the river.
• Jiang Changkong spilled Chaos blood by the riverbank, but the fiend watched him for three days without emerging.
• Liu Xuanfeng approached Jiang Changkong and pretended he could save him, but an invisible force swallowed them both.

Jiang Changkong defeated the Space Immortal Lord who controlled the Golden Water River and learned the river’s hidden secret from his memories. He led Liu Xuanfeng, Jiang Ziyu, and the other immortal beneath the river to show them the remains of a dead Immortal Emperor.

• Jiang Changkong broke the demon’s illusory spaces and fought through its attacks while protecting Liu Xuanfeng.
• Jiang Changkong used Chaos Divine Power to expose the demon’s true body and destroy its defenses.
• Jiang Changkong revealed himself as the Judicial Heavenly God and killed the Space Immortal Lord, absorbing its memories.
• Jiang Changkong learned how to navigate the spaces beneath the Golden Water River and summoned Liu Xuanfeng, Jiang Ziyu, and the other immortal.
• Jiang Changkong led the three beneath the river and told them they would see the head of an Immortal Emperor, who had been beheaded in a single strike.

Jiang Changkong and his companions discovered that the Immortal Emperor's skull concealed a space filled with innate spiritual qi. After Liu Xuanfeng opened the hidden space, they entered and felt the pure qi strengthening them.

• Jiang Changkong and the others found an Immortal Emperor's skull in the underwater cave, but neither Jiang Changkong nor Liu Xuanfeng could move it.
• Jiang Changkong searched the fiend's memories and learned that the skull periodically released a special qi that aided cultivation.
• Jiang Changkong detected tiny patterns inside the skull and sent what he saw to Liu Xuanfeng.
• Liu Xuanfeng suspected the patterns concealed another space and used a small emerald tree to open it.
• The skull swallowed Jiang Changkong, Liu Xuanfeng, Jiang Ziyu, and Jiang Zifan into a space filled with innate spiritual qi, which began strengthening them.

Jiang Changkong and his companions discovered an ancient bamboo grove filled with Innate Spirit Qi and a pool of Innate Spirit Liquid, which Jiang Changkong secretly extracted. He agreed to help Liu Xuanfeng save the grove’s Jade Bamboo King, while learning that Liu Xuanfeng belonged to the Zhenyuan Immortal Sect and discussing Jiang Changkong’s ties to the Heavenly Court.

• Jiang Changkong, Liu Xuanfeng, Jiang Ziyu, and Jiang Zifan explored the small bamboo grove and found its Jade Bamboos could become powerful immortal-artifact materials.
• Jiang Changkong used his Chaos Divine Power to extract the Innate Spirit Liquid from the pool.
• Liu Xuanfeng identified the fragile Jade Bamboo as the Bamboo King and explained that it could not develop intelligence without Innate Spirit Liquid.
• Jiang Changkong agreed to help Liu Xuanfeng use a Five Elements Differentiation Array and Chaos Divine Power to restore the Bamboo King’s chance of taking form.
• Liu Xuanfeng had Jiang Ziyu and Jiang Zifan harvest the other bamboo, then admitted he belonged to the Zhenyuan Immortal Sect.
• Jiang Changkong explained that he was not serving the Heavenly Court, and Liu Xuanfeng warned that he might have to return when the Heavenly Dao revived.

Jiang Changkong helped Liu Xuanfeng awaken the Bamboo King, gathered innate spirit stones, and lured a mid-stage Immortal Lord into the cave. He killed the Immortal Lord with his Heaven-Opening Art, leaving the cave abode secure.

• Jiang Changkong poured Chaos Divine Power into the formation, helping the Bamboo King draw in innate spiritual energy and reveal innate spirit stones.
• Jiang Changkong and the others excavated the stones, divided them, and collected the bamboo before returning to the cave abode.
• Jiang Changkong sent a message to the mid-stage Immortal Lord, hid his companions, and waited in the cave disguised as a fiend.
• The Immortal Lord arrived with ten Heavenly River Navy soldiers, and Jiang Changkong ambushed him, killing the soldiers and wounding the Immortal Lord.
• Jiang Changkong revealed his identity and used the Heaven-Opening Art to turn the Immortal Lord and his sword to ash.

Jiang Changkong broke the restriction around Golden Water Town, then hunted down a weasel fiend and collected enough immortal stones to advance. He reached the Immortal Lord realm in seclusion, while Liu Xuanfeng and the others sensed his breakthrough outside.

• Jiang Changkong buried the defeated Immortal Emperor’s head, broke the restriction around Golden Water Town, and led Liu Xuanfeng, Jiang Ziyu, and their companion across the Golden Water River.
• Liu Xuanfeng joined Jiang Changkong’s group, and he guided them to a fiend’s territory.
• Jiang Changkong exposed and killed a weasel fiend, then took the immortal stones from its cave and gave its immortal artifacts to the others.
• Jiang Changkong entered seclusion and advanced his Four Revolutions Mysterious Art, martial arts, and Chaos Dao Body to the Immortal Lord realm.
• Liu Xuanfeng and the others felt Jiang Changkong’s Immortal Lord pressure and realized he had broken through.

After consolidating his breakthrough to the early Immortal Lord Realm, Jiang Changkong learned that Heavenly Water Immortal Lord had come after him and discussed the Heavenly Dao’s revival and the path to sainthood with Liu Xuanfeng. The chapter ended with Liu Xuanfeng urging him to wait patiently for the Heavenly Dao’s inevitable return.

• Jiang Changkong emerged from seclusion as an early Immortal Lord but concealed his true realm, then took Liu Xuanfeng, Jiang Ziyu, and Jiang Zifan away at greatly increased speed.
• Liu Xuanfeng told Jiang Changkong that Heavenly Water Immortal Lord, one of the Heavenly River Immortal Kingdom’s Four Great Marshals, had come to Golden Water Town after learning Jiang Changkong killed a fiend and a mid-stage Immortal Lord.
• Jiang Changkong and Liu Xuanfeng discussed how the Heavenly Dao’s return would restrain immortals, and Liu Xuanfeng explained the differences between Chaos Saints and Heavenly Dao Saints.
• Liu Xuanfeng said that the Heavenly Dao would fully return when all its fragments revived and every living being in the Immortal Realm heard the sound of the Dao.
• Liu Xuanfeng reassured Jiang Changkong that the Heavenly Dao’s revival was inevitable and would not treat him unfairly for enforcing the law.

Jiang Changkong and his companions entered the Yazi Dojo, where they found ancient Dragon Clan murals and weapons. They reached a passage depicting the Dragon Clan’s history, including the Moon Goddess at the Peach Banquet.

• Jiang Changkong killed a peak Celestial Immortal demon tiger and discussed the Heavenly Dao with Liu Xuanfeng, Jiang Zifan, and Jiang Ziyu.
• Jiang Ziyu and Jiang Zifan located the hidden entrance to the Yazi Dojo and opened it with a phantom of Yazi.
• Jiang Changkong blocked five daggers flying from the dojo’s gate, then gave the high-grade fourth-rank immortal artifacts to Jiang Ziyu and Jiang Zifan.
• Jiang Changkong and the others followed a passage lined with Dragon Clan murals, while Liu Xuanfeng explained the clan’s ancient glory.
• Jiang Ziyu recognized an image of the Moon Goddess at the Peach Banquet, and Liu Xuanfeng confirmed her guess.

Jiang Changkong and his companions explored Yazi Dojo, where murals revealed the Moon Goddess, the dragon race’s ancient history, and countless Primordial Saints. They reached a vast chamber containing a true dragon suspended in golden liquid, which Jiang Changkong recognized as the one from the city in the Eastern Sea’s Sealed Land.

• Liu Xuanfeng uncovered golden threads blocking the passage, and Jiang Changkong helped him evade an unseen Immortal Lord that attacked them.
• Jiang Ziyu and Jiang Zifan said the Moon Goddess in a mural had blinked, and Jiang Changkong later saw it blink and sensed a chilly presence.
• Jiang Changkong and his companions studied murals showing the dragon race’s peak, the Ancestral Dragon’s attainment of the Dao, and figures labeled as Primordial Saints.
• The group found murals depicting only the Sun, Lunar, and Battle Palaces and discussed whether the site was an Ancient Immortal Gods Experimental Ground.
• Jiang Changkong and the others entered a vast chamber and found a true dragon soaking in golden liquid, which Jiang Changkong recognized from the Eastern Sea’s Sealed Land.

Jiang Changkong and his companions found the experimental grounds already looted, then were ambushed by four Immortal Lords from the Heavenly River Immortal Kingdom. After Liu Xuanfeng withdrew with Jiang Ziyu and Jiang Zifan, Jiang Changkong fought the attackers alone and suffered a deep wound from Heavenly Water Immortal Lord.

• Jiang Changkong explained that the Dragon Clan’s created species could not be taken from the experimental grounds, and the group found three empty containers that had been opened before their arrival.
• Jiang Changkong recognized a beast claw as belonging to a Space Beast, and four Immortal Lords appeared and attacked him and his companions.
• Jiang Changkong revealed that three more Immortal Lords might be hidden nearby, so Liu Xuanfeng took Jiang Ziyu and Jiang Zifan to the passageway with protective artifacts.
• Heavenly Water Immortal Lord and the three late-stage Immortal Lords attacked Jiang Changkong, who sent the three lesser lords flying with his martial arts but was wounded by Heavenly Water Immortal Lord’s sword.

Jiang Changkong used the Lunar immortal formation beneath the Yazi Dojo to turn the fight against four Immortal Lords, then ancient dragon-race creations appeared and restrained three of them. With the spatial beast still unseen, Jiang Changkong charged Heavenly Water Immortal Lord, intent on killing him.

• Jiang Changkong discovered a Lunar immortal formation beneath the battlefield and drew on its Vast Cold power to shatter the Heavenly River Sword and strike Heavenly Water Immortal Lord.
• The four Immortal Lords used life-saving methods granted by an Immortal King to break free, but Jiang Changkong empowered himself with the formation and fought them with a Lunar blade and sword.
• Jiang Changkong wounded the three late-stage Immortal Lords and traded blows with Heavenly Water Immortal Lord as Jiang Ziyu and Liu Xuanfeng watched from a damaged Immortal Emperor treasure.
• A colossal ancient azure creation and an ancient divine ape emerged and fought the Immortal Lords, while a spatial beast remained missing.
• Jiang Changkong charged Heavenly Water Immortal Lord, aiming to kill him while the two creatures held off the other Immortal Lords.

Jiang Changkong killed Heavenly Water Immortal Lord and struck the other three Immortal Lords, but their power summoned the Heavenly River Immortal King’s phantom. A mysterious woman appeared behind Jiang Changkong and separated his Lunar Divine Power, and the phantom recognized her as the Moon Goddess.

• Jiang Changkong used the first move of Creation to break Heavenly Water Immortal Lord’s Immortal King protection and kill him.
• Jiang Changkong struck the three remaining Immortal Lords with the Creation Art, while the wounded spatial beasts retreated and spoke strange words.
• A cold aura awakened beneath the battlefield, and the Immortal Lords’ power gathered into the phantom of the Heavenly River Immortal King.
• Liu Xuanfeng warned Jiang Changkong as the underground power vanished and an icy presence appeared behind him.
• A jade-like hand rested on Jiang Changkong’s shoulder and forcibly separated his Lunar Divine Power into a veiled woman in white.
• The Heavenly River Immortal King’s phantom recoiled in terror and identified the woman as the Moon Goddess.

The Moon Goddess told Jiang Changkong what she knew about the ancient immortals’ research, the collapse of the Immortal Realm, and their departure. She gave him the remaining immortal stone powder, then warned him not to return because her divine soul could no longer stay hidden.

• The Moon Goddess destroyed the Heavenly River Immortal King’s phantom and brought Jiang Changkong to the Sea Clan Royal Palace.
• The Moon Goddess explained that her true body had left with the ancient immortals and gods, but she could only sense that it remained alive.
• The Moon Goddess recounted how Haotian Supreme Deity’s research drained the Immortal Realm, preceded the Heavenly Dao’s collapse, and continued until the ancient immortals departed.
• The Moon Goddess explained how the Dragon Clan dispersed the Ancestral Dragon’s power, allowing three creations to develop intelligence and guard her divine soul.
• The Moon Goddess gave Jiang Changkong the remaining 350,000 Essence, Qi, and Spirit worth of processed immortal stone powder.
• The Moon Goddess warned Jiang Changkong not to return because her divine soul could no longer remain hidden.