Chapter Summaries

Zhang Jian and Qi Yuhua discussed Si Lier’s qualities and arranged generous betrothal gifts for Zhang Zhao. After searching his captives and collecting their treasures, Zhang Jian set out for the Two Realms Region to help the Demon-Slaying True Lord attack the Lunar Demon Palace before traveling to the Great Yu Dynasty.

• Qi Yuhua reported that Si Lier was an exceptionally talented and capable cultivator, and Zhang Jian said his Dao Lineage had confirmed her decisive temperament and innate Dao body.
• Zhang Jian reassured Qi Yuhua that Zhang Zhao could win Si Lier’s respect over time, and they discussed the date and gifts for the betrothal.
• Zhang Jian searched Ji Ke, taking his immortal treasures, imperial seal, spirit crystals, and other valuables before freezing him again for a later ransom.
• Zhang Jian recovered numerous immortal treasures, spirit crystals, and a valuable water-attributed divine office from the powerful True Immortal and the other captured immortals.
• Zhang Jian dealt with his other captives and flew to Slaughter Divine Land to join the Demon-Slaying True Lord against the Lunar Demon Palace before presenting the betrothal gifts.

Zhang Jian and the Demon-Slaying True Lord attacked the Lunar Demon Palace, and Zhang Jian used the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State to capture its stronghold and seize the Evil Thought Stone. They then headed toward the Asura Devil Sect as calamitous signs gathered over Paulownia Mountain.

• Zhang Jian arrived at Yin Pool Mountain, where the Demon-Slaying True Lord told him to take the lead against the Lunar Demon Palace.
• Zhang Jian used his State-Society Emperor authority to locate the palace’s hidden subspace and swept Yin Pool Mountain into the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State.
• Yue Qingcheng sensed danger and used an Evil Thought Stone to summon a vortex, but Zhang Jian’s diagram suppressed the subspace and captured the Lunar Demon Palace’s forces.
• Zhang Jian gave the Evil Thought Stone to the Demon-Slaying True Lord, who said it could help advance her Demon-Slaying Immortal-Exterminating Sword.
• The Demon-Slaying True Lord urged Zhang Jian to make a public spectacle of his victories before Zhao'er married the Si Family’s heaven-favored daughter, and they set out for the Asura Devil Sect.
• Floating Daoist saw the Myriad Spirits Calamity-Distant Azure Lotus surrounded by dark currents and prayed that the Patriarch would protect all living beings from the coming calamity.

Zhang Jian destroyed the Asura Devil Sect’s mountain gate and killed its elders and patriarchs while Demon-Slaying True Lord watched. After she left to deal with the Sin Demon Sect, Zhang Jian searched the Devil Palace and departed satisfied, with preparations for the Si Family betrothal gifts still ahead.

• Demon-Slaying True Lord brought Zhang Jian to Mist Immortal Gorge, where he burned the Asura Devil Sect’s gateway with the Golden Crow Fission Grand Art.
• Zhang Jian killed the Four Great Devil King Elders and hundreds of Asura Devil Sect disciples with his spacetime arts.
• Zhang Jian used Central Wu-Earth Grand Primordial Qi to destroy the sect’s underground stronghold and draw out Blood-Withering Demon God.
• Zhang Jian captured Blood-Withering Demon God and killed Red Snake Granny after she tried to curse him.
• Demon-Slaying True Lord said she would handle the Sin Demon Sect and told Zhang Jian to prepare the betrothal gifts for the Si Family.
• Zhang Jian entered the Asura Devil Sect’s Devil Palace, then left with a satisfied smile.

Si Lier learned that the Ji Clan and others might try to disrupt her marriage alliance with Zhang Jian, while Zhang Jian presented lavish betrothal gifts to the Si family and learned of the threat himself. The wedding was set for half a year later, but Zhang Jian left the Si family ancient land prepared for someone to steal the bride.

• Si Doudou told Si Lier that the Ji Clan suspected Zhang Jian had caused an ancestor's disappearance and that several forces were plotting to snatch her.
• Zhang Jian presented extensive betrothal gifts to the Si family, including six Sea-Spirit Pearls, and the families set the wedding date for mid-spring, half a year later.
• Yu Huang persuaded Si Zhengqing to surrender the Sea-Spirit Pearls, claiming he needed them to face his third immortal tribulation.
• Si Lier sent Zhang Jian a warning about the plot against the marriage, and he replied that he already knew of it.
• After leaving the Great Yu Ancient Capital, Zhang Jian destroyed the warning note and declared that someone was trying to steal the bride.

Zhang Jian forced the Five-Elements Immortal Sect to abandon its planned marriage alliance with the Ji Clan and send Meng Bingyun to Great Xia as his consort, binding the sect to his rule. Half a year later, Zhang Jian and his entourage departed Haojing City to escort Zhang Zhao to his wedding with the Si Family’s daughter.

• True Lord Wanyang proposed marrying Meng Bingyun to Ji Yao in exchange for the Ji Clan’s protection, but Patriarch Qiyang objected to the match.
• Zhang Jian appeared in the Five-Elements Heavenly King Hall, immobilized the five leaders, and offered to take Meng Bingyun into Great Xia’s rear court instead.
• Patriarch Deyang agreed to send Meng Bingyun as Zhang Jian’s consort, while Zhang Jian planted a Soul-Cleansing Azure Lotus in True Lord Wanyang and warned the sect to obey Great Xia.
• Zhang Jian ordered the Five-Elements Immortal Sect to host a Great Xia envoy and escort Meng Bingyun to Haojing City, then left to prepare for Zhang Zhao’s wedding.
• Half a year later, Zhang Jian, Qi Yuhua, and Bai Liying prepared the wedding procession in Haojing City, and Zhang Jian sent Zhang Zhao and his entourage toward Ancient Wing Province in a dragon carriage.

Zhang Jian arranged for Violet Lightning Ancestor to guard Haojing City, then secretly protected Zhang Zhao’s bridal procession as it traveled to Ancient Wing Province and collected Si Lier. After Zhang Jian concealed the wedding party inside the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State, a Ji Clan True Immortal swallowed an apparent procession with the River-Mountain Gourd—only to realize it was a fake as a voice announced that the big fish had taken the bait.

• Zhang Jian asked Violet Lightning Ancestor to guard Haojing City while he secretly followed Zhang Zhao’s bridal procession.
• Meng Bingyun watched the imperial palace from her residence, reflecting that she hoped to secure her fate by attaching herself to the strong.
• Zhang Zhao’s procession arrived in Ancient Wing Province, where Si Doudou saw dense Human Emperor Violet Qi around him and Si Zhengqing welcomed the party.
• Zhang Jian drew Zhang Zhao, Si Lier, and the wedding party into the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State, then used his art to make a false procession continue through the void.
• A Ji Clan True Immortal swallowed the apparent procession with the River-Mountain Gourd, but recognized it as a fake as a voice declared that the big fish had taken the bait.

Zhang Jian defeated four Ji Clan True Immortals and crushed Yun Lianwu’s Heavenly Immortal attack with his State-Society Emperor authority. Ji Ning recognized the threat of a divine Dao Emperor and fled after asking Daoist Qingyuan to negotiate for the captured Ji Clan immortals.

• Zhang Jian used Time-Space Stasis and Taiyin Ice-Soul Divine Radiance to freeze and subdue the Ji Clan True Immortals.
• Zhang Jian countered the fire-attributed True Immortal’s sword with Heavenly Dao Suppression, then seized the Ji Clan fighters.
• Ji Ning confronted Daoist Qingyuan, who stepped aside and warned that the Yun Family’s Heavenly Immortal was doomed.
• Yun Lianwu attacked Zhang Jian with the White Emperor Golden Virtue Dharma Sword, but Zhang Jian evaded the strike and crushed him beneath a divine Dao golden mountain.
• Ji Ning realized Zhang Jian wielded the authority of a divine Dao Emperor and asked Daoist Qingyuan to arrange the release of the four captured True Immortals before departing.

Zhang Jian and Violet Lightning Ancestor defeated the forces that threatened Great Xia, securing the wedding alliance with the Si Family. Zhang Zhao’s bridal procession reached Haojing, where Zhang Jian presided over the Crown Prince’s wedding.

• Zhang Jian suppressed the Yun Family Celestial Immortal and sealed its soul in the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State before returning to Haojing.
• Violet Lightning Ancestor defeated and captured the Celestial Immortal demon god who threatened Haojing, driving the other hostile powers away.
• Cultivators in East Continent recognized that Great Xia’s rise could no longer be stopped, while the Four Spirits sensed that the danger around Haojing had passed.
• Zhang Zhao’s bridal procession arrived in Haojing with an extravagant dowry, confirming the marriage alliance between Great Xia and the Si Family of Great Yu.
• Zhang Jian presided over the wedding, which Zhang Yi, Qi Ruolan, Zhang Xian, Zhang Chang'an, and other members of the Zhang family attended.

Zhang Jian celebrated Zhang Zhao and Si Lier’s wedding before meeting with Paulownia Mountain Dao Lineage elders, who discussed the Ji Clan’s attack and the wilderness demons’ schemes. After accepting a captured calamity beast and revealing five imprisoned Ji Clan True Immortals, Zhang Jian watched his son and new daughter-in-law pay their respects and felt his Dao Heart nearing a breakthrough.

• Qi Yuhua urged Zhang Chang'an to spend time with her aging maternal grandparents, while Zhang Jian left to receive the sect’s wedding guests.
• Zhang Jian thanked Violet Lightning Ancestor and Azure Origin Ancestor for helping defend Great Xia from the Ji Clan.
• Violet Lightning Ancestor gave Zhang Jian a crippled calamity beast, which Demon-Slaying True Lord identified as the Three Saints Kingdom’s legendary Myriad Tribulations Heavenly Demon.
• Zhang Jian revealed that he had captured five Ji Clan True Immortals and said he would eventually retaliate against the Three Saints Kingdom’s demons.
• Zhang Zhao and Si Lier paid their respects to Zhang Jian the next morning, and Zhang Jian felt his Dao Heart become ready to advance.

Zhang Jian strengthened his control over immortal arts and assigned Zhang Zhao responsibility for planning Great Xia’s incorporation of the two hundred southeastern continents. As the Upper Clear Sword Sect debated whether to submit to Great Xia or relocate, True Lord Wanyang worked to earn Zhang Jian’s trust.

• Zhang Jian’s perfected obsession advanced his Primordial Spirit Dao Heart, making his command of laws and immortal arts more effortless.
• Zhang Jian ordered Zhang Zhao to work with the cabinet on a plan for incorporating the two hundred southeastern continents into Great Xia.
• Zhang Zhao and Si Lier visited the palace, where Si Lier learned she could cultivate near the Taiyin Treasure Tree and heard about a planned water-attribute secret realm.
• Zhang Jian expounded the Dao to Zhang Yi, Zhang Zhao, Si Lier, and others while Zhang Xian and Zhang Chang'an prepared to depart with their sect elders.
• The Upper Clear Sword Sect’s True Lords debated whether to accept Great Xia’s control or relocate, as True Lord Lishan weighed Zhang Jian’s conduct and strict rules for sects.
• True Lord Wanyang left Scarlet-Rod Mountain believing he had persuaded the Upper Clear Sword Sect to consider Great Xia, then headed toward the Profound Extremity Sect to continue earning Zhang Jian’s trust.

The Great Xia Dynasty expanded its rule across the southeastern continents as Zhang Jian strengthened his authority and prepared to retaliate against the Yun Family and Ji Clan. He infiltrated the Yun Family’s capital to assess its defenses, where he discovered that an unknown elder still guarded the clan’s survival.

• The Five-Elements Immortal Sect and Upper Clear Sword Sect submitted to Great Xia, bringing their territories and many sects under its rule as the dynasty’s dragon aura spread.
• Zhang Jian expanded his State-Society Emperor authority over the southeastern continents and assigned Zhang Zhao, Dongxiao Patriarch, Taiyin Fairy, and Patriarch Deyang to handle the remaining Profound Extremity Sect and neutral territories.
• Zhang Jian decided to take revenge on the Ji Clan and Yun Family with help from the Paulownia Mountain Dao Lineage, while Yun Qiao invoked Bai Di’s protection and took up an ancient golden halberd.
• Zhang Jian and Demon-Slaying True Lord arrived with four True Immortals at the Great Yin Dynasty; Demon-Slaying True Lord urged Zhang Jian to spare the Yun Family’s lineage from total destruction.
• Zhang Jian concealed himself and infiltrated Divine Capital, surveying its defenses and finding Yun Xiuwen cultivating in the Imperial Pole Hall.
• Zhang Jian refrained from attacking Yun Xiuwen after realizing that a powerful old monster still lurked within the Yun Clan’s ancestral land.

Zhang Jian infiltrated the Yun Family’s secret realm, then seized Great Yin Emperor Yun Xiuwen and confronted Yun Qiao. As the White Emperor’s legacy weapon awakened with a terrifying imperial will, Zhang Jian prepared to answer the Yun Family’s Sacred King power with the Paulownia Mountain Dao Lineage’s own legacy.

• Zhang Jian entered the Yun Family’s secret realm but withdrew from the White Emperor Temple, sensing that disturbing the ancient Sacred King’s sacred ground would bring disaster.
• Yun Qiao recognized the temple’s swaying candles as a warning of a man-made calamity for the Yun Family.
• Zhang Jian subdued Yun Xiuwen and provoked the Great Yin dragon soul, while Yun Qiao’s White Emperor Golden Halberd struck only an illusory phantom of Zhang Jian.
• Zhang Jian appeared above Yun Qiao and suppressed him, revealing that he was acting against the Yun Family over its seizure of a marriage from the Zhang clan of East Continent.
• The White Emperor Golden Halberd broke through Zhang Jian’s spatial suppression as imperial Dao will stirred within it, and Yun Family elders celebrated the Sacred King’s apparent intervention.
• Zhang Jian remained unafraid, recalling that the Paulownia Mountain Dao Lineage also possessed an ancient Sacred King legacy.

Zhang Jian summoned the Sheji King Cauldron to repel the White Emperor Golden Halberd and then moved to destroy the Yun Family and claim Divine Capital. The chapter ended with Zhang Jian securing the city while the Paulownia Mountain Dao Lineage and its allies prepared to divide the Yun Family’s holdings.

• Zhang Jian summoned the Sheji King Cauldron, which used the Nine Cauldrons Barrier to withstand the White Emperor Golden Halberd until Taiwu fled.
• Zhang Jian paid the Sheji King Cauldron thirty million high-grade spirit crystals for its aid, and it departed after inviting him to summon it again.
• Zhang Jian suppressed the Yun Family in Divine Capital, froze fleeing clan members with the Taiyin Ice Soul Immortal Bow, and ordered his allies to eliminate those outside the city.
• The Demon-Slaying True Lord and four True Immortal protectors agreed to help distribute the Yun Family’s holdings among the Paulownia Mountain Dao Lineage, its allies, and Zhang Jian’s forces.
• Zhang Jian swallowed Divine Capital into the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State, sealed the Nine-Colored Treasure Scroll in his palm, and celebrated his gains.

After the Yun Family's destruction, the Si Family and Ji Clan assessed the threat posed by Zhang Jian, while the Great Xia Dynasty absorbed the Yun Family's Divine Capital and negotiated the Profound Extremity Sect's submission. The chapter ended with the Sect's resistance collapsing and Zhang Jian preparing for an ancestral rite.

• Yu Huang and Si Zhengqing discussed the Yun Family's fall, Zhang Jian's strength, and Si Lier's prospects within the East Continent Zhang clan.
• Ji Clan elders debated whether to confront Zhang Jian, and Ji Ning urged them to ransom Ji Ke and five others while unifying their response to the Paulownia Mountain Dao Lineage envoy.
• Ji Lan favored negotiations with Zhang Jian, while Ji Tianyun warned that talks between unequal powers might not succeed but agreed to make contact.
• Zhang Jian refined the Yun Family's Divine Capital into a secondary capital and sent Zhang Zhao and the Divine Cave Cult Patriarch to negotiate the Profound Extremity Sect's submission.
• Two years later, Zhang Jian sensed the dragon qi legal restrictions spreading into the remaining fifty provinces after the Profound Extremity Sect submitted, and declared that the time for an ancestral rite had arrived.

Zhang Jian celebrated the Great Xia Dynasty’s expansion, sacrificed the Golden Crow Sun-Shooting Bow, and considered how to handle the surviving Yun clan. In the Heavenly Realm, Azure Glow Dao Lord received the sacrifice and, lacking a comparable treasure to return, gave up the foundation of her incarnation and resolved to cultivate the Dao of incense and faith.

• Zhang Jian accepted the Profound Extremity Sect’s submission terms, announced a Heaven-Worshipping Ceremony, and prepared to enfeoff lords and set sect territories.
• Zhang Jian held the ceremony and sacrificed gold and silver ingots along with the Golden Crow Sun-Shooting Bow in the Imperial Ancestral Temple.
• Zhang Jian decided to spare the remaining Yun clan powerhouses and considered taking a Yun clan woman as a consort to preserve the clan’s bloodline and appease its ancient Sage King.
• Azure Glow Dao Lord steadied the Two Realms Pool and collected two thousand nine hundred units of flawless incense offerings as the Golden Crow Sun-Shooting Bow and its two arrows manifested.
• Azure Glow Dao Lord gave up the treasure that formed the foundation of her incarnation to return for the bow, deciding to cultivate the Dao of incense and faith.

Zhang Jian visited the Heavenly Prison and forced the Yun clan to accept incorporation into the Zhang family, then received the Blood of the Firmament from his mysterious ancestor’s statue. The treasure contained primordial ancestral qi, which could strengthen his Dao Embryo immortal body, while Azure Glow Dao Lord concealed how depleted she had become.

• Zhang Jian offered to spare the Yun clan if Yun Xiuwen helped bring Yun Jiang back as his consort, but Yun Xiuwen refused and invoked Bai Di’s protection.
• Yun Qiao agreed to persuade Yun Jiang in exchange for a chance to preserve the Yun clan’s legacy through Zhang Jian’s child, and Zhang Jian killed three Yun clan True Immortals while suppressing Yun Xiuwen.
• Zhang Jian left the Heavenly Prison and visited the Imperial Ancestral Temple, where the female ancestor’s statue opened a gateway and delivered him a mass of azure divine light.
• Zhang Jian learned that the Blood of the Firmament contained primordial ancestral qi and could forge a primordial indestructible Dao body.
• Azure Glow Dao Lord considered warning Zhang Jian that repeated sacrifices were exhausting her vitality, but stayed silent when he promised to bring her more offerings.

Zhang Jian refined the Blood of the Firmament and began forming a Primordial Undying Dao Body, gaining a deeper understanding of heaven-and-earth laws. Three years later, a powerful innate divine light erupted from Haojing City, signaling the birth of a noble existence.

• Zhang Jian entered seclusion in the Taiyin Secret Land and refined the Blood of the Firmament into his innate Dao embryo.
• Zhang Jian experienced the formation and destruction of heaven and earth through the Ancestral Qi’s Great Dao imprint, and his understanding of the laws greatly increased.
• Zhang Jian’s Dao embryo began absorbing his accumulated treasures and legacies to form the Primordial Undying Dao Body, so he continued his seclusion.
• At the Heaven’s Will Sect, Yun Jiang asked Ji Ziyao about the Ji Clan’s negotiations, and Ji Ziyao predicted they would not succeed.
• Three years later, innate divine light surged from Haojing City and stirred the spiritual energies and laws across East Continent.

Zhang Jian broke through in the Great Xia Dynasty, transforming into an innate deity with an innate Emperor’s body. As immortals across the realm reacted to the omens, the Paulownia Mountain Dao Lineage agreed to help him unify the realm, while the Ji Clan and Heaven’s Will Sect offered marriage alliances.

• Zhang Jian’s breakthrough summoned vast divine omens that awakened ancient immortals and drew the attention of powerful figures across the realm.
• The Sheji Ancient Immortal and the Paulownia Mountain Ancestors recognized that an innate Emperor had emerged and identified Zhang Jian as the likely source.
• Extermination Ancestor urged the Paulownia Mountain Dao Lineage to help Zhang Jian grow and unify the realm, and Azure Origin Ancestor and Violet Lightning Ancestor agreed.
• Ji Tianyun accepted a deal to redeem Ji Clan captives for sixty million high-grade spirit crystals and a direct Ji Clan daughter’s marriage into the Great Xia Dynasty.
• A formidable immortal offered Yun Jiang as a marriage alliance, while Zhang Jian emerged from the Western Palace with a Primordial Indestructible Dao Body and an innate body.

Zhang Jian completed his transformation into an innate god, gaining a powerful divine body and rapidly advancing several immortal arts. After celebrating with his consorts and meeting visiting immortals, he learned that the Paulownia Mountain Dao Lineage might soon need his help against the Three Saints Kingdom’s awakening demon lord.

• Zhang Jian examined his innate godhood, discovering that his divine body, Primordial Spirit, comprehension, and immortal arts had undergone major transformations.
• Zhang Jian left seclusion and told the Fengling Mountain God and his consorts that he had become a god, then celebrated his breakthrough with Qi Yuhua and Bai Liying.
• Zhang Jian hosted visiting immortals and agreed to accept the Ji Clan’s payment, settle their dispute, and take a Ji Clan true seed into the inner court.
• After the guests departed, Zhang Jian confirmed to Extermination Ancestor, Violet Lightning Ancestor, and Azure Origin Ancestor that he had attained an innate divine body.
• Azure Origin Ancestor told Zhang Jian that the Three Saints Kingdom was plotting to awaken its demon lord and suggested he eliminate the demon lord to aid the Paulownia Mountain Dao Lineage.

Zhang Jian accepted the Paulownia Mountain Dao Lineage’s support for his Sacred King Dao Work and received Extermination Ancestor’s guidance on attaining Heavenly Immortalhood. After ransoming captives from the Ji Clan, he learned that the Ji Clan and Heaven’s Will Sect were yielding to the Great Xia Dynasty, while Yun Jiang was summoned to Soaring Cloud Palace.

• Azure Origin Ancestor said the Paulownia Mountain Dao Lineage would devote its strength to helping Zhang Jian unify the Divine Land Continent, and Zhang Jian thanked the three Patriarchs.
• Extermination Ancestor explained the path to Heavenly Immortalhood, and Zhang Jian rapidly advanced his understanding of the Immortal Dao laws while Demon-Slaying True Lord listened.
• Ji Ning paid Zhang Jian three hundred million high-grade spirit crystals, and Zhang Jian returned the Four Symbols True Immortal and Ji Ke.
• Ji Ziyao learned that the Ji Clan had agreed to send her aunt into the Great Xia Dynasty as a consort, then congratulated Yun Jiang on cultivating the seventh level of the Great Reincarnation True Scripture.
• Ji Ziyao summoned Yun Jiang to Soaring Cloud Palace, while Jiang Chengguang regretted that Heaven’s Will Sect could not resist its Patriarch’s orders to support the Great Xia Dynasty.