Chapter Summaries

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.

After receiving the Moon Goddess’s help, Jiang Changkong cultivated into a late-stage Immortal Lord while his companions reconsidered their route to avoid the Heavenly Court. Liu Xuanfeng gave Jiang Changkong a contact token and offered information about a Heavenly Court ore vein, which Jiang Changkong agreed to investigate if the lead was genuine.

• Jiang Changkong spent the rewards from the Immortal Lords to advance his Five-Revolution Mystical Art and Golden Crow Immortal Scripture, reaching late-stage Immortal Lord.
• Jiang Changkong warned Jiang Ziyu and the other man that the Heavenly Court could anticipate their return to Great Wilderness, so they chose to travel to the Zhenyuan Immortal Sect with Liu Xuanfeng.
• Liu Xuanfeng gave Jiang Changkong an emerald-green jade token for contacting the group outside ancient dojos, and they parted ways.
• Liu Xuanfeng offered to trade information about a Heavenly Court ore vein in Great Wilderness for Jiang Changkong’s innate immortal stone.
• Jiang Changkong agreed to consider the ore vein after Liu Xuanfeng guaranteed that the information was true.

Jiang Changkong traveled toward a mineral vein after learning about the Heavenly Court’s control of resources and its ties to evil demons. At the Demon Emperor Hall, the Purple Star Heavenly King tried to enlist him against the powerful Judicial Heavenly God and offered a heavenly marriage, but Jiang Changkong demanded substantial resources before agreeing to anything.

• Jiang Changkong received Liu Xuanfeng’s map and headed for a mineral vein after learning that the Heavenly Court controlled resources and protected evil demons in exchange for a share of their gains.
• The Purple Star Heavenly King visited Jiang Changkong at the Demon Emperor Hall and offered compensation while urging him to become the sole Judicial Demon God.
• The Purple Star Heavenly King revealed that the Judicial Heavenly God had recently slain a peak-level Immortal Lord, prompting Sun Yuan to doubt the Demon Race’s ability to oppose him.
• The Purple Star Heavenly King raised the heavenly marriage between the lunar and solar, and Jiang Changkong revealed that Fairy Jade Snow held the Moon God’s immortal office.
• Jiang Changkong refused to commit without adequate compensation and demanded ten thousand top-grade fifth-grade immortal stones and one million top-grade fourth-grade immortal stones.

Jiang Changkong negotiated an alliance with Purple Star Heavenly King, then planned to use the resources to aid the Judicial Heavenly God and recruit him to the Demon Race. At the Heavenly Court’s herb field, Jiang Changkong uncovered how immortals were worked to death and their corpses used to grow herbs, and learned the Heavenly Court had secretly enabled the abuse.

• Jiang Changkong and Purple Star Heavenly King settled on an alliance price of immortal stones and other resources, and Purple Star agreed to bring a marriage contract bearing the Heavenly Emperor’s seal.
• Jiang Changkong told Sun Yuan that the Heavenly Court intended to use the Demon Race against the Judicial Heavenly God, and asked him to deliver the incoming resources to that god as a gesture of goodwill.
• Jiang Changkong concealed himself near the Heavenly Court’s mining grounds and watched an overseer take a dead miner to an herb field, where the corpse was turned into immortal qi.
• Jiang Changkong shattered the herb field’s formation, destroyed its herbs, and used Chaos Divine Power to search the souls of the three immortals stationed there.
• Jiang Changkong learned that the Heavenly Court controlled the Great Wilderness Kingdom’s mining operations, that most miners died there, and that the Heavenly Court had recently encouraged fiends to abduct more immortals.

Jiang Changkong raided a Heavenly Court mining vein in the Great Wilderness, killed its late-stage Immortal Lord overseer, freed the miners, and took the mine’s resources. He hid in Cloud Wilderness City, strengthened his Chaos Dao Body, and learned that the Heavenly Court’s influence had made the Great Wilderness fear its immortals.

• Jiang Changkong returned to the mining vein, defeated its late-stage Immortal Lord overseer with the Chaos Heavenly Eye, and searched the dying man’s soul to learn how the Heavenly Court exploited the Great Wilderness.
• Jiang Changkong punished the guilty immortals, freed the innocent miners, collected the mine’s resources, destroyed the vein, and escaped before the Heavenly Court could respond.
• Jiang Changkong concealed his identity in Cloud Wilderness City and counted his gains while waiting for his secondary body and Sun Yuan to bring resources.
• Jiang Changkong enhanced his Chaos Dao Body, reaching late-stage Immortal Lord and raising his Essence, Qi, and Spirit to 278332.
• Jiang Changkong searched nearby immortals’ souls and learned that many residents of the Great Wilderness feared the Heavenly Court’s immortals.

Jiang Changkong met with the Demon Emperor, accepted resources meant to pay for his death, and perfected the Golden Crow Immortal Scripture while using an avatar to mislead the Heavenly Court. His true body headed for another stronghold, where Heavenly Court immortals searching for him threatened to refine him into a golden pill.

• Jiang Changkong met the Demon Emperor and Sun Yuan, accepted the resources Purple Star Heavenly King had offered for his murder, and refused to join the Demon Race.
• Jiang Changkong used a restorative pill, created an avatar, and raised the Golden Crow Immortal Scripture to perfection.
• Jiang Changkong sent his avatar to draw the Heavenly Court's attention while his true body left the Great Wilderness Kingdom for another stronghold.
• A late-stage Celestial Immortal found Jiang Changkong in disguise and, after he denied seeing the Judicial Heavenly God, threatened to have him refined into a golden pill.