Chapter Summaries

Jiang Changkong became the Judicial Heavenly God after the Heavenly Court created a divine hall for him, gaining authority to enforce heavenly laws and a cultivation boost. He then visited the Purple Star Heavenly King, who asked him to take Zilan and Jade Snow with him.

• Heaven’s power formed the Judicial Heavenly God Hall, and Jiang Changkong entered it as the Heavenly Emperor proclaimed his appointment.
• Jiang Changkong attained the Immortal God realm, received the Judicial Heavenly God Divine Canon and an incomplete Judicial Divine Seal, and learned he could travel anywhere in the Heavenly Court’s territory by thought.
• Jiang Changkong examined the Book of Heaven and his status, then realized the Heavenly Court had made him an Immortal God to help revive the Heavenly Dao.
• Jiang Changkong went to the Purple Star Heavenly King’s residence, where Zilan and Jade Snow were staying.
• The Purple Star Heavenly King asked Jiang Changkong to take Zilan and Jade Snow with him, and Jiang Changkong agreed to repay the Heavenly King’s favor.

Jiang Changkong enforced Heaven’s laws as Judicial Heavenly God, killing Yan Mieshen and earning a great reward of Power of Heaven. When Li Qinghe came to recruit relatives of powerful generals into the new divine hall, Jiang Changkong exposed his violations and told him he belonged guarding the Heavenly Gate.

• Purple Star Heavenly King ordered Fairy Zilan and Fairy Jade Snow to follow Jiang Changkong so they could share his Power of Heaven, while Jiang Changkong returned to the Judicial Divine Hall.
• Jiang Changkong used his heavenly eye to strip two heavenly soldiers of their cultivation for violating the laws, then warned the others that every wrong would be punished.
• Yan Mieshen stormed into the divine hall seeking vengeance for his son, and Jiang Changkong invoked Heaven’s judgment to annihilate him with the Chaos Heavenly Eye.
• Jiang Changkong gained 10,000 points of Power of Heaven from Yan Mieshen’s death and saw his immortal office become more complete, though it was still slapped beside the immortal registry.
• Li Qinghe asked Jiang Changkong to appoint several generals’ sons to the divine hall, but Jiang Changkong exposed Li Qinghe’s own violations and told him he was better suited to guarding the Heavenly Gate.

Jiang Changkong took Zilan and Jade Snow to Three Immortals City to investigate Heavenly Court’s territory and encountered Yun Zhongchuan, who had previously deceived the two fairies. After a suspicious recruitment in the city, Jiang Changkong recognized the recruiter, Aoyin Minghe, as an Immortal-level ancient ferocious beast.

• Jiang Changkong rejected other Immortals’ attempts to join his enforcement efforts and set out with Zilan and Jade Snow to inspect Heavenly Court’s territory.
• Jiang Changkong chose to investigate the three great Immortal Sects and traveled with the two fairies to Three Immortals City.
• Yun Zhongchuan greeted Zilan and Jade Snow, who resented him for deceiving them before, and led the group through the city.
• Yun Zhongchuan took them to a slum, where Aoyin Minghe recruited several water-attributed martial artists for Proud Sea Kingdom.
• Jiang Changkong told the two fairies that Aoyin Minghe was an Immortal-level ancient ferocious beast that ate human brains.

Jiang Changkong discovered that Aoyin Minghe was a pureblood ancient ferocious beast who abducted cultivators to eat, then followed him with Jade Snow and Fairy Zilan. When Aoyin attacked the three great immortal sects, Jiang Changkong revealed himself and demanded that another hidden enemy come out too.

• Jiang Changkong learned from the Book of Heaven that Aoyin Minghe was an early-stage Immortal God and a notorious pureblood Aoyin who devoured living beings.
• Jiang Changkong and the two fairies found Aoyin recruiting water-element cultivators with help from Yun Zhongchuan and disciples of the three great immortal sects.
• Aoyin flew away with abducted cultivators, while the sect disciples pursued him to seize his golden pills; Jiang Changkong and the fairies secretly followed.
• At a lake, Aoyin revealed his ferocious form and attacked the sect disciples, declaring that he would eat them.
• Jiang Changkong interrupted Aoyin, identified himself as the Judicial Heavenly God, caught the abducted cultivators’ orb of immortal power, and struck the lake while calling for another hidden foe to come out.

Jiang Changkong defeated Aoyin Minghe and overwhelmed the Heaven-Devouring Python, but the Python dragged him and the two fairy maidens into a hidden abyss beneath the lake. They discovered Sun Godfire and circling Golden Crow phantoms, while the Python vanished.

• Jiang Changkong identified Aoyin Minghe and the Heaven-Devouring Python as sinners and fought them when they attacked him.
• Jiang Changkong killed Aoyin Minghe and destroyed the fleeing disciples of the three great Immortal Sects, while the Heaven-Devouring Python survived behind multicolored radiance.
• Jiang Changkong refused Jade Snow's offer to keep Aoyin Minghe's corpse, insisting that he would hand it over to the Purple Star Heavenly King.
• The Heaven-Devouring Python pulled Jiang Changkong, Jade Snow, and Fairy Zilan into the lake and opened an abyss beneath them.
• The three found Sun Godfire and saw Golden Crows flying through it, while the Heaven-Devouring Python disappeared.

Jiang Changkong and the two fairies followed the Heaven-Devouring Python into a realm filled with ancient Demon Court phantoms. They reached the python beyond the Ten Demon Marshals, but Chaos Divine Power failed to harm it and an unseen force repelled its attack.

• Jiang Changkong led Fairy Zilan, Fairy Jade Snow, and the rescued martial artists through the Solar Divine Fire to search for the Heaven-Devouring Python.
• The group discovered they had been traveling on the back of a Kunpeng and saw the Ten Demon Marshals of the ancient Demon Court suppressing the python with their phantom divine might.
• Fairy Jade Snow explained that the Demon Court had been ruled by Heavenly Emperor Dijun and Demon Emperor Eastern Emperor Taiyi, while Jiang Changkong silently recalled that their enemies had been the Wu.
• Fairy Jade Snow used the Jade Toad to shield the group from the Ten Demon Marshals' divine might as Fairy Zilan grabbed and dragged the injured Heaven-Devouring Python.
• The Heaven-Devouring Python claimed the Demon Race's territory protected it, then lunged at Fairy Zilan; an invisible force knocked it away after Jiang Changkong's Chaos Divine Power dispersed.

Jiang Changkong encountered the Ancient Demon Emperor’s phantom, who offered to protect him from the Heavenly Court’s scrutiny in exchange for enforcing the law for the Demon Court. After the encounter, Jiang Changkong found the Ancient Demon Court’s surviving treasures: a living Golden Crow egg and the Great Sun Golden Crow Immortal Scripture.

• Jiang Changkong and the two fairies crossed the Solar Divine Fire, read the stone stele, and climbed the nine steps, where they were separated.
• The Ancient Demon Emperor questioned Jiang Changkong about the Heavenly Courts and revealed that he could see through Jiang Changkong’s Chaos Dao Body.
• The Ancient Demon Emperor warned that the Heavenly Court could cut off Jiang Changkong’s immortal path and offered protection from Saints and the immortal registry in exchange for serving the Demon Court.
• The Ancient Demon Emperor entered Jiang Changkong’s mind, and Jiang Changkong returned to the ninth step beside the two fairies.
• Jiang Changkong found a living Golden Crow egg and a parasol tree branch containing the Great Sun Golden Crow Immortal Scripture, created by Demon Emperor Dijun and Demon Sovereign Eastern Emperor Taiyi.

Jiang Changkong obtained the Great Sun Golden Crow Immortal Scripture and the Demon Race's Judicial Heavenly God office before escaping the Sun Divine Fire ruins with Fairy Zilan, Fairy Jade Snow, and a Golden Crow egg. After defeating an Immortal Sect ambush, he returned to the Heavenly Court and decided to cultivate the scripture so he could convincingly pose as a Golden Crow.

• Jiang Changkong received Haotian Supreme Deity's concealment power, the Demon Emperor's Judicial Heavenly God office, and the Great Sun Golden Crow Immortal Scripture.
• Fairy Zilan and Fairy Jade Snow found a Golden Crow egg and took it with the parasol tree branch as the group left the ruins.
• Jiang Changkong killed the Heaven-Devouring Python after searching its soul and learning how the demons had tried to break the Dragon Race's seal.
• An Immortal Sect force ambushed the group, and Jiang Changkong killed its Celestial Immortal and disciples before returning to the Judicial Divine Hall.
• Jiang Changkong reviewed his gains and chose to cultivate the Golden Crow Immortal Scripture to support his planned Demon Race disguise.

Jiang Changkong advanced to the mid-stage Celestial Immortal realm after cultivating the Great Sun Golden Crow Immortal Scripture, then attacked the three immortal sects in the East Sea Region. He killed Li Kunhe and devastated the forces sent by the Mystic Cloud Immortal Sect and the Divine Sword Immortal Sect, declaring that the Book of Heaven had sentenced them to death.

• Jiang Changkong reached the mid-stage Celestial Immortal realm as the Great Sun Golden Crow Immortal Scripture fused with his Four Revolutions Mysterious Art and formed the Acquired Chaos Golden Crow Body.
• Jiang Changkong arrived at the Sea-Suppressing Immortal Sect, shattered its protective formation, and killed five initial-stage Celestial Immortals and many disciples.
• Li Kunhe emerged from seclusion and attacked Jiang Changkong, but Jiang Changkong shattered his Sea-Subduing Seal and killed him despite General Li Jie's incarnation intervening.
• The patriarchs of the Mystic Cloud Immortal Sect and the Divine Sword Immortal Sect arrived with twelve Celestial Immortals, and Jiang Changkong's chaos divine dragon killed more than half of them and badly wounded the survivors.
• The two surviving late-stage Celestial Immortals protested that their past grievances had been settled, but Jiang Changkong declared that the Book of Heaven had sentenced them to death.

Jiang Changkong wiped out the three immortal sects and killed Li Jie after the Judicial Book of Heaven identified him and two other Immortal Gods as traitors. Summoned to Heaven by the Purple Star Heavenly King, Jiang Changkong faced questions about the Judicial Book of Heaven.

• Jiang Changkong led the Chaos Divine Dragon through the three immortal sects, sparing most people below the Martial Immortal realm while burying fourteen immortals and thousands of others.
• Li Jie attacked Jiang Changkong with Liu Wuhen and Qin Tian, but Jiang Changkong overpowered all three and nearly killed Li Jie.
• The Purple Star Heavenly King ordered Jiang Changkong to stop and return to Heaven, but Jiang Changkong killed Li Jie and showed the Heavenly King the Judicial Book's revised judgment against the three Immortal Gods.
• The Purple Star Heavenly King summoned Jiang Changkong to his residence and questioned him about the Power of Heaven, Zilan, and Jade Snow.
• The Purple Star Heavenly King demanded to know about the Judicial Book of Heaven.

Jiang Changkong handed the Judicial Book of Heaven to the Purple Star Heavenly King, but Heaven revealed that his copy was only a subordinate book and gave him the main one. He changed its allegiance to the Demon Court, strengthened his cultivation, and returned to the Eastern Sea Dragon Palace.

• The Purple Star Heavenly King gave Jiang Changkong twenty thousand Essence, Qi, and Spirit in exchange for the Judicial Book of Heaven and ordered him to cultivate in seclusion.
• Jiang Changkong discovered that the Book of Heaven he had handed over was a subordinate copy, while Heaven granted him the main book through his Judicial Divine Seal and immortal office.
• Jiang Changkong changed the main book into the Demon Race Judicial Book of Heaven and learned that the Ancient Demon Emperor’s incomplete immortal office concealed an unknown purpose.
• Jiang Changkong spent his resources improving his Chaos Dao Body and completing the Golden Crow Immortal Scripture, reaching True Immortal (True God) Peak.
• Jiang Changkong left the Judicial Heavenly God Hall and appeared at the Eastern Sea Dragon Palace, where Prime Minister Turtle greeted him in alarm.

Jiang Changkong returned to the Eastern Sea after the Heavenly Court took the Judicial Book of Heaven from him, then made a powerful incarnation to preserve his post while he escaped. He left the Heavenly God Hall and traveled through the Eastern Sea under a new identity: Eastern Emperor Tai'er.

• Jiang Changkong returned to the Dragon Palace and told Ao Qingyu and the Little Dragon King that he would stay to govern the Eastern Sea with them.
• Jiang Changkong revealed that the Purple Star Heavenly King had taken the Judicial Book of Heaven, and said the Heavenly Court wanted him to be a puppet.
• Jiang Changkong went to the True Dragon Pool, transferred his immortal registry and a strand of his post's aura into a powerful Chaos incarnation, and restored his cultivation.
• Zilan and Fairy Jade Snow visited Jiang Changkong with immortal stones and news of the Golden Crow Immortal Scripture, but he refused their gifts and sent them away.
• Jiang Changkong changed his cultivation method, took the name Eastern Emperor Tai'er, and left using the Golden Crow Rainbow Transformation.

After announcing his seclusion, Jiang Changkong traveled to Aolai City to infiltrate a hidden Demon Race gathering place and seek a way to disrupt the Heavenly Court. He confronted an old woman just as Heavenly Court forces arrived to attack the city, leaving both sides poised for battle.

• The Purple Star Heavenly King gave Liu Zhi the Judicial Book of Heaven to serve as acting Judicial Heavenly God, while Fairy Zilan questioned his decision.
• Jiang Changkong sensed that the Book of Heaven would expose Liu Zhi to danger and headed for the Proud Sea Kingdom to find the Demon Race’s hidden gathering place.
• Jiang Changkong reached Aolai City, where demons disguised as vendors watched him warily.
• Jiang Changkong confronted an old woman weaving cloth and named Aoyin Minghe as his source, prompting her to question who he was.
• Heavenly soldiers and generals surrounded Aolai City, and a Divine Immortal general declared that the Demon Race remnants would be exterminated.
• The old woman suspected Jiang Changkong had led the forces there, while he condemned the ten Divine Immortals; the vendors revealed their demonic forms as battle began.

Jiang Changkong revealed himself as the Judicial Demon God, Eastern Emperor Changyue, and used his heavenly eye to strip the Heavenly Court generals of their cultivation. The chapter ended with the ten generals reduced to early-stage Celestial Immortals beneath his power.

• Jiang Changkong explained that the Heavenly Court was purging forces outside its rule to obtain the Power of Heaven as the generals attacked Aolai City.
• Jiang Changkong told the spider that the Judicial Heavenly God had killed Aoyin Minghe and the mixed-blood Heaven-Devouring Python, and that they had brought out a Golden Crow egg.
• A peak immortal general recognized Jiang Changkong’s heavenly eye, but his spear strike stopped before reaching him as the eye’s power reduced him to a Celestial Immortal.
• Jiang Changkong declared himself the Judicial Demon God and named himself Eastern Emperor Changyue before transforming into a Golden Crow and pursuing the fleeing general.
• Jiang Changkong’s heavenly eye enveloped the ten immortal generals and reduced them to early-stage Celestial Immortals.

Jiang Changkong destroyed the heavenly soldiers attacking Aolai Ancient City and revealed his claimed Demon Emperor lineage to Zhu Shijiu. He called for the Demon Court to rise against the sinful Heavenly Court.

• Jiang Changkong used his Heavenly Eye to reduce the heavenly soldiers’ cultivation, then burned them with Solar Divine Fire while preserving their immortal artifacts for the demons.
• Zhu Shijiu welcomed Jiang Changkong to Aolai Ancient City and ordered the demons to collect the artifacts and prepare to relocate.
• Jiang Changkong told Zhu Shijiu that Aoyin Minghe and the Heaven-Devouring Python had visited the ancient Demon Emperor Dijun’s legacy, and claimed to be Eastern Emperor Changyue, a descendant of Eastern Emperor Taiyi.
• Zhu Shijiu explained that she had guarded Aolai Ancient City while following the Demon Emperor’s rules by helping commoners and killing rarely.
• Jiang Changkong declared that the Demon Court should rise because the Heavenly Court was unfit to rule, then used the Judicial Book of Heaven to expose the sins of those in the Heavenly Court.

Jiang Changkong discussed uniting the Demon Race with Zhu Shijiu, who recounted Aolai Kingdom’s history and the ancient divine apes. She revealed that the apes would support him if he retrieved a treasure for them.

• Jiang Changkong asked Zhu Shijiu about the Demon Race’s leadership and strength, then declared that he intended to unite the race, establish a Demon Court, and reclaim the Golden Crow egg.
• Zhu Shijiu believed Jiang Changkong’s intentions after he invoked the Judicial Book of Heaven, and offered him wine brewed from peaches grown from flat peach pits.
• Jiang Changkong asked about Aolai Kingdom and the Heaven-Equaling Sage as Zhu Shijiu described the Demon Race’s persecution and retreat into hiding.
• Zhu Shijiu explained that Aolai City was the remaining ruin of Aolai Kingdom, where new generations of divine apes lived under the protection of an Immortal Lord.
• Zhu Shijiu said the divine apes would support Jiang Changkong if he retrieved a treasure for the Heaven-Equal Lineage.

Jiang Changkong went with Zhu Shijiu to Flower-Fruit Mountain to seek the Sea-Quelling Divine Needle Iron, the treasure Great Sage Equaling Heaven had left behind. After the divine apes verified his Demon Emperor lineage, an Immortal Lord questioned his admiration for Great Sage Equaling Heaven.

• Zhu Shijiu told Jiang Changkong that the Sea-Quelling Divine Needle Iron remained hidden and that even an Immortal Emperor had nearly died trying to take it.
• Jiang Changkong insisted on trying to obtain the treasure, and Zhu Shijiu led him through a concealed passage into the divine apes’ small world.
• A golden-furred ape named Sun Lao San examined Jiang Changkong, verified his Golden Crow body, and escorted him toward Flower-Fruit Mountain.
• Jiang Changkong and Sun Lao San traveled through Flower-Fruit Mountain, where Jiang Changkong saw its many demons and the Water Curtain Cave.
• An Immortal Lord divine ape emerged at the Water Curtain Cave and challenged Jiang Changkong’s praise of Great Sage Equaling Heaven, saying Heaven had permitted the events he admired.

Jiang Changkong sought Flower-Fruit Mountain’s support for rebuilding the Demon Court and was sent alone along a mysterious path to find the Sea-Quelling Divine Needle Iron. The path confronted him with an apparent Ji Ziling, but he suspected the encounter was an illusion and continued onward.

• Jiang Changkong told Sun Yuan he hoped to establish a new Demon Court and win Flower-Fruit Mountain’s aid, while Sun Yuan questioned his desire to revive a court under Heaven’s control.
• Jiang Changkong argued that he would try to discuss matters with Heaven once he was strong enough, though Sun Yuan and Zhu Shijiu doubted him.
• Sun Yuan led Jiang Changkong to a hidden path beneath his throne and warned him to stay calm, remain on the path, and return if he had not reached the end within three days.
• Jiang Changkong traveled along the path and encountered an apparent Ji Ziling, whose presence the Judicial Book of Heaven identified as a mortal from the Eastern Sea.
• Jiang Changkong decided the Ji Ziling before him could not be real and rushed past her without stopping.

Jiang Changkong battled the ancient road’s manifestations of the dead and a powerful Purple Star Heavenly King phantom as he traveled to retrieve the Sea-Quelling Divine Needle Iron. After destroying the phantom, he reached the road’s end and found the golden divine pillar.

• Jiang Changkong passed a monk and evaded the black-and-white soul collectors who claimed his mortal lifespan had ended.
• Jiang Changkong burned through an endless tide of souls of those he had killed, then destroyed the monk when his Buddhist defenses blocked the Sun Divine Fire.
• Jiang Changkong confronted the Purple Star Heavenly King phantom, endured its attacks, and guessed that it might be connected to the Heaven-Equaling Sage.
• The phantom copied Jiang Changkong’s power, but Jiang Changkong revealed that he had been holding back and destroyed it with one punch.
• Jiang Changkong reached the end of the ancient road and found the Sea-Quelling Divine Needle Iron, a golden pillar carved with true dragon patterns.

Jiang Changkong uncovered the true Sea-Quelling Divine Needle Iron and returned it to Sun Yuan, securing the Heaven-Equal Lineage’s allegiance as Demon Emperor. Sun Yuan insisted that the Demon Race already had a Golden Crow Demon Emperor, leaving Jiang Changkong surprised as the chapter ended.

• Jiang Changkong realized the ancient path concealed the true Sea-Quelling Divine Needle Iron and broke the path apart to reveal it.
• The Sea-Quelling Divine Needle Iron shrank into a golden-hooped staff, and Jiang Changkong handed it to Sun Yuan, who was crushed down by its weight.
• Sun Yuan explained that the Heaven-Equal Lineage would obey Jiang Changkong according to his rank, provided he did not lead them to ruin.
• Jiang Changkong said he planned to save the egg in the Heavenly Court and make him Demon Emperor if all went well, but Sun Yuan replied that the Demon Race already had the Golden Crow Demon Emperor.