Chapter Summaries

Yun Jiang learned that Heaven’s Will Sect had agreed to marry her into the Yun clan’s alliance with the Great Xia Dynasty, while Ji Xueqiong studied Zhang Jian’s extraordinary rise and agreed to meet him. A year later, Zhang Jian planted a peach pit at Two-Dragon Mountain and planned to acquire a divine spring to nourish it.

• Jiang Chengguang told Yun Jiang that Heaven’s Will Sect would reconcile with the Great Xia Dynasty and would not oppose the Yun clan’s marriage arrangement.
• Yun Jiang learned that Ji Xueqiong, the mountain lord of Fourth Spirit Mountain, was also to be married into the Zhang clan.
• Ji Xueqiong read Heaven’s Will Sect’s intelligence on Zhang Jian and was astonished by his rapid cultivation and rise to become an innate god and divine dao emperor.
• Ji Xueqiong consulted her masters, and her First Master advised her to meet Zhang Jian, saying he was worthy of her talent.
• One year later, Zhang Jian planted a peach pit at Two-Dragon Mountain and resolved to find a divine spring to nourish the fortune-suppressing spirit root.

Zhang Jian visited Bai Shuang to learn about spiritual springs in the Wilderness Region, accepted her Earthspring Pearl, and set out to search for treasures. Near Azure Carp Lake, he uncovered signs that the Demon Lord was about to awaken and that otherworldly forces were plotting to enter the region.

• Zhang Jian left his blessed land and traveled to Lishui Divine Palace to ask Bai Shuang about the Wilderness Region’s factions and spiritual springs.
• Bai Shuang described several possible locations and lent Zhang Jian the Earthspring Pearl, which could sense spiritual springs and water-element treasures.
• Zhang Jian reached Azure Carp Lake and used the pearl to detect several spiritual springs, including two that were divine objects of heaven and earth.
• Zhang Jian overheard Azure Carp Demon Gods discuss the coming awakening of the Demon Lord and learned that Heavenly Demon Yang Qing was heading to Three Saints Kingdom.
• Zhang Jian trapped Yang Qing in a phantom realm and discovered that he planned to help an ancestor descend from beyond the realm, while an otherworldly Devil God had also entered the Wilderness Region.

Zhang Jian investigated Three Saints City, where he sensed many mixed-blood demons from beyond the realm and an unseen gaze that followed him. The watcher was revealed as Shi Rui, a human carpenter who had died three hundred years earlier and become an invisible, immortal presence.

• Zhang Jian entered Three Saints City and sensed that many demons there carried blood from beyond the realm.
• Zhang Jian visited Three Saints Hall, tested its high priest, and felt an untraceable gaze watching him.
• The high priest fled Three Saints Hall after Zhang Jian left, fearing that Zhang Jian would discover his true identity.
• Zhang Jian searched the city for the Demon Lord's resting place, vanished from a green-robed demon cultivator, and sensed the strange gaze again near the Demon Emperor Temple.
• Shi Rui watched Zhang Jian from above the Demon Emperor Temple and recalled how a strange bead had made him invisible and immortal after the Three Saints' images crushed him three hundred years earlier.

Zhang Jian discovered that Shi Rui had survived as the spirit of a fifth-tier immortal treasure and accepted him as an outer disciple of Demon-Slaying Peak. Shi Rui revealed a possible route to the Demon Lord and described the many treasures in Three Saints Palace as they headed there.

• Zhang Jian trapped Shi Rui in his innate divine domain, drew out a peculiar blue pearl, and learned it was a fifth-tier immortal treasure that had preserved Shi Rui after his death.
• Shi Rui begged Zhang Jian to save him and offered the treasure, then persuaded him to take him as a disciple by sharing secrets about Three Saints City; Zhang Jian accepted him as an outer disciple pending Foundation Establishment and a test.
• Shi Rui told Zhang Jian that Nine Infants and Vine Dragon had repeatedly visited ancient ruins in the forest and poured treasures into a dried-up well, though he did not know whether it was the Demon Lord’s hiding place.
• Zhang Jian decided to visit Three Saints Palace first, and Shi Rui guided him while describing its Heavenly Demon Gourd, Mountain-Suppressing Seal, White Jade Spirit Fruits, Ancient Bodhi Tree, and Dragon-Transformation Pool.

Zhang Jian swept Everlasting Spring Hall and Dragon-Transformation Pool of their treasures, including rare spirit trees, lotuses, and divine spring seeds. After he headed for Great Accomplishment Hall with Shi Rui, Demon Marshals Vine Dragon and Nine Infants discovered the theft and rushed there, while other demons followed.

• Zhang Jian gathered the spirit fruits and trees in Everlasting Spring Hall, then explained to Shi Rui that cultivators should uphold precepts even while seeking strength.
• Zhang Jian left the Bodhi treasure tree untouched for the moment and used the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State to capture two demon gods and their troops who entered Everlasting Spring Hall.
• At Dragon-Transformation Pool, Zhang Jian sensed a divine spring and collected its lotuses, sleeping demon dragon, spirit crystals, and spring seeds.
• Zhang Jian led Shi Rui toward Great Accomplishment Hall to seize the treasures there.
• Demon Marshal Vine Dragon discovered that Everlasting Spring Hall had been robbed, and he and Demon Marshal Nine Infants raced toward Great Accomplishment Hall as other demons followed.

Zhang Jian broke into the Great Accomplishment Hall and seized control of its two fourth-tier immortal treasures, then trapped Demon Marshal Vine Dragon and Demon Marshal Nine Infants when they arrived. As demon forces gathered around the hall, Zhang Jian revealed his innate god form and began sweeping across Cloud-Touching Ridge.

• Zhang Jian entered the Great Accomplishment Hall with Shi Rui and identified the Mountain-Suppressing Seal and Heavenly Demon Gourd as fourth-tier immortal treasures.
• Zhang Jian used the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State to suppress the two treasures as they tried to escape, then noticed Demon Marshal Nine Infants sensing danger outside.
• Demon Marshal Vine Dragon rushed into the hall, while Zhang Jian trapped him in a sea of fire and battered him with the Golden Crow Fission Grand Art.
• Demon Marshal Nine Infants attacked to help Vine Dragon, but Zhang Jian shot her nine-headed dragon form with the Taiyin Ice Soul Immortal Bow and froze much of it.
• Demon Marshal Nine Infants ordered the gathered demons to fight as several tried to flee, while Zhang Jian prepared to deal with her and the watching extraterritorial forces.
• Zhang Jian revealed his innate god body, and his divine radiance spread across the Three Saints Palace and enveloped Cloud-Touching Ridge.

Zhang Jian killed Nine-Infant Demon Marshal, seized Three Saints Palace, and went to confront the sleeping Demon Lord Zhuyan. At the ancient well, he learned Zhuyan was trying to become innate and attacked before the demon lord could emerge.

• Zhang Jian used an array of immortal arts to overwhelm Nine-Infant Demon Marshal, then annihilated her body and Primordial Spirit with the State Grand Dao Laws.
• Zhang Jian swept Three Saints Palace, its demon soldiers, treasures, and Ancient Bodhi Treasure Tree into the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State, then flew off with Shi Rui.
• The green-robed female demon and a handsome youth saw the emptied palace site and wondered about Zhang Jian's power and the lost opportunity within Three Saints Palace.
• Zhang Jian sent Shi Rui away and entered the back mountains, where he found the memorial steles and ancient well associated with Demon Lord Zhuyan.
• Demon Lord Zhuyan revealed that he knew Zhang Jian was an innate deity, and Zhang Jian recognized that Zhuyan was using the Gate of Ten Thousand Demons to seek an innate physique.
• When Demon Lord Zhuyan tried to appeal to their shared innate nature, Zhang Jian struck the ancient well with the authority of the State-Society Emperor.

Zhang Jian trapped Demon Lord Zhu Yan inside the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State and wore him down with repeated Taiyin spells. Zhu Yan ultimately lost the ability to resist, while Violet Lightning Ancestor and Extermination Ancestor captured the other demons and devils nearby.

• Demon Lord Zhu Yan burst from underground with the fifth-rank immortal treasure Thousand Jun and attacked Zhang Jian.
• Zhang Jian unfolded the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State into a vast starry domain, relying on its Dimension Heart to replenish its power.
• Zhu Yan tried to destroy the domain and escape, while Zhang Jian repeatedly attacked him with a composite of four Taiyin immortal spells.
• Violet Lightning Ancestor and Extermination Ancestor captured the lurking extraterrestrial demons and devils, preventing Zhang Jian from claiming them himself.
• Zhang Jian continued wearing Zhu Yan down until the Demon Lord became a massive ice sculpture and could no longer resist.

Zhang Jian restored Cloud-Touching Ridge after defeating and suppressing the Wilderness Demon Lord, while Extermination Ancestor declared the Paulownia Mountain Dao Lineage’s rule over the Wilderness Region. Zhang Jian returned to Great Xia with Shi Rui and his spoils, then revealed to Zhang Zhao and Si Lier that he had killed the Demon Marshals and imprisoned Demon Lord Zhu Yan; meanwhile, Azure Glow Dao Lord worried that her true body would blame her for losing ancestral qi.

• Zhang Jian used innate divine power to restore the shattered Cloud-Touching Ridge and recovered the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State.
• Extermination Ancestor announced that the Paulownia Mountain Dao Lineage would rule the Wilderness Region and warned demons to stay out of two forbidden regions, while Violet Lightning Ancestor destroyed outer-realm demon gods.
• Zhang Jian brought Shi Rui back to Great Xia, returned the Earthspring Pearl to Bai Shuang, and left precious lotuses as thanks.
• Zhang Jian entrusted Zhang Zhao and Si Lier with rare treasures from his journey and showed them the corpse of Vine Dragon Demon Marshal.
• Zhang Jian told Zhang Zhao and Si Lier that he had imprisoned Demon Lord Zhu Yan, leaving them astonished by his victories.
• Azure Glow Dao Lord absorbed offerings and worried that her true body would blame her for losing a precious strand of ancestral qi.

Azure Glow Dao Lord’s true body advised her incarnation to sell the Taiyin Treasure Mirror through the Three Sovereigns Auction and arranged another treasure to cover future sacrifices. In Hanyuan Hall, Zhang Jian distributed treasures and began restoring Shi Rui’s dead body with the Life-and-Death Lotus, leaving the revival underway.

• Azure Glow Dao Lord’s true body contacted her incarnation, proposed offering the Taiyin Treasure Mirror at the Three Sovereigns Auction to lure out the Taiyin Immortal Lord, and promised a treasure from her mortal-realm vault to cover another sacrifice.
• Zhang Jian consulted Zhang Zhao and Si Lier about relocating the Dragon-Transformation Pool, then gave Zhang Zhao a Jade Pool Golden Lotus and Si Lier a Water-Spirit Jade Lotus along with a secret dual-cultivation technique.
• Zhang Jian distributed White Jade Spirit Fruits to Bai Liying, Zhang Yi, and Phoenix Spirit, then summoned Shi Rui from Haojing City.
• Zhang Jian examined the Void Soul-Severing Pearl within Shi Rui and found Shi Rui’s preserved true body, Little Carpenter, in its artifact space.
• Zhang Jian used the Nine Nether Corpse-Shedding True Method and the Life-and-Death Lotus to draw deathly energy from Little Carpenter and restore life to his body.

Zhang Jian revived Little Carpenter and sent him toward cultivation before entering the Paulownia Mountain Dao Lineage to seek the Golden Chapters of the Nine Heavens Divine Palace, higher-rank spells, and support for unifying the Eastern Hanging Divine Continent. The lineage agreed to provide the spells and was renegotiating support for unification, while Zhang Jian began asking about strange phenomena between Heaven and Earth.

• Zhang Jian restored Little Carpenter's death register and lifespan, then guided Shi Rui's soul back into Little Carpenter's body.
• Zhang Jian registered Little Carpenter under the Demon-Slaying Peak branch and gave him the Nine Chapters of Paulownia Mountain Purity to begin cultivating.
• Ji Xueqiong and a party from the Heaven's Will Sect and Ji Clan entered Great Xia territory and traveled toward Haojing City to learn more about Zhang Jian and the dynasty.
• Floating Daoist and Azure Origin Ancestor helped Zhang Jian obtain the Golden Chapters of the Nine Heavens Divine Palace, and Azure Origin Ancestor agreed that the sect would cover the spirit crystal fees for higher-rank spell inheritances.
• Zhang Jian offered the captured Demon Lord Zhu Yan to the Paulownia Mountain Dao Lineage as compensation, then learned that its second-generation patriarchs were negotiating support for his unification of the Eastern Hanging Divine Continent.
• Zhang Jian asked Azure Origin Ancestor about the strange phenomena between Heaven and Earth.

Zhang Jian learned that a great calamity might arrive within decades or centuries and obtained new divine and immortal arts from the Paulownia Mountain Dao Lineage. As news spread that the Three Saints Palace had fallen and Paulownia Mountain would support the Great Xia Dynasty, Zhang Yi and Zhang Xian prepared to return to Haojing City.

• The Azure Origin Ancestor told Zhang Jian that Heaven and Earth’s calamity could arrive within decades or centuries, with extraterritorial enemies and internal collusion posing the greatest danger.
• Zhang Jian discussed the Great Xia Dynasty’s expansion plans with the Azure Origin Ancestor and obtained the Earth Chapter of the Nine Heavens Divine Palace’s Golden Chapters, divine arts, and three third-rank immortal arts.
• Zhang Yi complained to Zhang Xian about his place in the lineage, and the brothers discussed marriage alliances and the treasures awaiting them in Haojing City.
• Zhang Yi and Zhang Xian decided to return to Haojing City together.
• News spread that the Paulownia Mountain Dao Lineage had destroyed the Three Saints Palace and planned to hand mortal territories to the Great Xia Dynasty.

The Si Family and Ji Clan considered how to respond to the Paulownia Mountain Dao Lineage’s support for the Great Xia Dynasty, while the Heaven’s Will Sect party arrived in Haojing City. Zhang Jian devoted himself to cultivation and remained in seclusion as the visiting envoys awaited a meeting.

• Yu Huang agreed that the Si Family would acknowledge the Great Xia Dynasty in name, while the Sixth Patriarch insisted that Ancient Wing Province and the surrounding provinces remain Si Family territory.
• Ji Tianyun yielded the decision to Ji Canglan, who chose to strengthen the Ji Family’s marriage alliance with the Great Xia Dynasty by providing a more substantial dowry for Xueqiong.
• Ji Xueqiong decided to meet Zhang Jian as a Heaven’s Will Sect envoy, though she gave up observing his qi at close range because he might detect her methods.
• Zhang Jian studied the Golden Chapters of the Nine Heavens Divine Palace and began cultivating Earth Edict and other divine and immortal arts in Wusi Hall.
• Zhang Jian entered seclusion until before his wedding, leaving Crown Prince Zhang Zhao and Crown Princess Si Lier to receive the Heaven’s Will Sect party.

Ji Xueqiong married into the Great Xia imperial harem as the Great Xia Dynasty expanded its rule across the Eastern Hanging Divine Continent. As Zhang Jian absorbed the continent’s authority and his imperial power grew, Ji Xueqiong sensed that he possessed the force that complemented her immortal treasure.

• Si Lier welcomed the Heaven's Will Sect party, and Ji Xueqiong learned from her Grand Master that Si Lier and Zhang Zhao possessed extraordinary destinies.
• Half a year later, Ji Xueqiong married Zhang Jian in a lavish ceremony, and Yun Jiang also entered the Great Xia imperial harem.
• Zhang Jian released some Yun clan experts and, three months later, joined the Paulownia Mountain Dao Lineage in declaring Great Xia’s takeover of its territories.
• The Si Family and other powers recognized Great Xia as their suzerain, allowing Zhang Jian to extend his authority across most of the Eastern Hanging Divine Continent.
• Zhang Jian’s Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State absorbed the continent’s earth qi, advancing toward a fourth-rank immortal art as his divine jurisdiction expanded.
• Ji Xueqiong sensed Zhang Jian’s growing imperial power and realized it was the force that complemented her life-bound immortal treasure.

Zhang Jian’s power and the Great Xia Dynasty’s influence grew as he prepared for the ancestral rites, then led the Zhang clan in honoring its ancestors. After Ji Xueqiong approached him with a secret, an enormous sacrifice sent a torrent of incense power through the Two Realms Pool, alarming Azure Glow Dao Lord.

• Zhang Jian reached the peak of his Primordial Spirit True Lord accumulation and began preparing to attain Heavenly Immortality.
• The Nine Cauldrons advanced into a set of first-rank immortal treasures as the Great Xia Dynasty absorbed powers across the Eastern Hanging Divine Continent.
• Zhang Jian led the grand enfeoffment and ancestral rites, where Zhang Yi and Qi Ruolan worshiped their ancestors and Zhang Min discussed his plans to remain awake.
• Zhang Jian burned a vast offering and sacrificed his Flowing Light Zither, then met Ji Xueqiong, who said she wished to share a secret with him.
• Azure Glow Dao Lord sensed the sacrifice through the Two Realms Pool and struggled to contain its immense torrent of incense golden light.

Azure Glow Dao Lord received an enormous incense sacrifice, a time-based innate zither, and sent a precious treasure back through the Two Realms Pool. In Haojing City, Zhang Jian offered Ji Xueqiong guidance for her growing immortal treasure, then received a Primordial Life-Death Pearl from the Imperial Ancestral Temple.

• The Two Realms Pool produced 110 million flawless incense offerings and gave birth to the Flowing Light Zither, which Azure Glow Dao Lord refined before sending another treasure through the passage as feedback.
• Zhang Jian visited Imperial Noble Consort Ji at Gathering Immortals Palace, where Ji Xueqiong revealed her fifth-tier Blissful Immortal Spirit Diagram and asked for his support.
• Zhang Jian recognized that the Blissful Immortal Spirit Diagram needed the mysteries of time and space, and invited Ji Xueqiong to hear his teachings at Purple Tenuity Hall.
• Zhang Jian left Gathering Immortals Palace and went to the Imperial Ancestral Temple, where he received the Primordial Life-Death Pearl, a treasure containing the powers of creation, destruction, and other Great Dao origins.

Zhang Jian absorbed the Primordial Life-Death Pearl as Great Xia expanded its control over the Two Realms Region, while time carried away many of his old companions. He ice-sealed Qi Yuhua and secured the imperial mausoleum, and eighty years later a vast phenomenon appeared above Haojing City.

• Zhang Jian swallowed the Primordial Life-Death Pearl into the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State to refine it alongside the Dimension Heart.
• Zhang Jian strengthened Great Xia's rule by breaking up sect alliances, recruiting cultivators, and establishing new divine path territories across the Two Realms Region.
• At Qi Wanshi's funeral, Zhang Jian and Empress Qi mourned her passing, and Heavenly Void Daoist paid his respects but could not bring himself to ask Zhang Jian for guidance.
• Zhang Jian ice-sealed Retired Emperor Zhang Yi, Empress Dowager Madam Zhang Qi, and later Empress Qi, then protected Qi Yuhua's phoenix chamber with a grand formation.
• Zhang Jian forced captured opponents, including Yun Lianwu, to guard the imperial mausoleum for ten thousand years and punished Yun Lianwu when he resisted.
• Eighty years later, after Prince Duan Zhang Min had also been ice-sealed, a vast phenomenon spread above Haojing City as immortal light pierced the heavens from Hanyuan Hall.

Zhang Jian began his Immortal Tribulation before a host of onlookers, wielding his vast immortal arts and dynasty-fortune treasures to overcome its first waves. After revealing nine powerful fire dragons, he appeared poised to survive the Heavenly Immortal tribulation, though it remained uncertain whether he would ascend to the Heavenly Palace.

• The Paulownia Mountain Dao Lineage’s elders and True Lords kept uninvited cultivators five hundred li from Haojing City as Zhang Jian’s Immortal Tribulation began.
• Violet Lightning Ancestor and Extermination Ancestor recognized the nine-layer tribulation as an Eighty-One Lightning Tribulation, intensified by the karmic burdens of Zhang Jian’s Saint King Dao.
• Imperial Noble Consort Ji, Bai Liying, Noble Consort Yun, and Consort Meng watched from Haojing City as the first layer unleashed Great-Cavern Divine Thunder.
• Zhang Jian used the Nine Heavens Wind-Riding Thunder-Control Technique to devour the Great-Cavern Divine Thunder and the second layer’s Pure-Yang Bing-Fire Divine Thunder.
• When Supreme-Yang Gourd Divine Thunder descended, Zhang Jian summoned the All-Heavens Canopy and nine crimson-veined fire dragons through the Nine-Dragon True Scripture.
• The onlookers judged Zhang Jian likely to survive the Heavenly Immortal tribulation, while the possibility of his immediate ascent to the Heavenly Palace remained uncertain.

Zhang Jian endured the final three Celestial Immortal Tribulations, using his nine Crimson Vein Fire Dragons to overcome the powerful lightning manifestations. After absorbing the Creation Divine Thunder, his origin immortal light began to strengthen and transform, leaving his breakthrough underway.

• Zhang Jian used the nine dragons to disperse the Mysterious Yin Gui Water Divine Thunder and extinguish the Karmic Fire and Nefarious Fire Heart-Burning Tribulations.
• Zhang Jian’s dragons shattered the Threefold Returning Dharma-Annihilating Divine Thunder, while the Nine Cauldrons Barrier contained its destructive aftershocks.
• Zhang Jian’s nine dragons defeated the lightning deity of the eighth tribulation, though his Primordial Ancestral Qi prevented him from completing his transformation into a Celestial Immortal.
• Zhang Jian’s dragons formed the Nine-Dragon World-Refining Formation and destroyed the thunder god and clouds of the ninth tribulation.
• Zhang Jian absorbed the Creation Divine Thunder, strengthening the origin immortal light within his innate Primordial Spirit and beginning a further transformation.

Zhang Jian passed his immortal tribulation and became a Heavenly Immortal, but refused immediate ascension so he could pursue the Sacred King Dao Fruit and bring his household with him. With the Paulownia Mountain Dao Lineage and allied families pledging support, he set out to unify humanity and quell the great tribulation.

• Zhang Jian transformed his cultivation into undying immortal radiance, completed his Heavenly Immortal breakthrough, and rejected the Heavenly Realm's offers of official posts.
• The consorts, princes, Paulownia Mountain elders, and other observers celebrated Zhang Jian's success, while Demon-Slaying True Lord and Extermination Ancestor discussed his future Sacred King attainment.
• The Great Xia Dynasty announced a Heavenly Immortal Grand Ceremony in Haojing City, and Zhang Jian later welcomed guests who sought his tribulation insights.
• Azure Origin Ancestor asked Zhang Jian about his plans, and Zhang Jian declared that he would unify humanity, sweep across the world, quell the great tribulation, and attain the Sacred Dao.
• Azure Origin Ancestor, the Si Family, the Ji Clan, and other allies pledged full support for Zhang Jian's campaign to unify the Mount Zhou Realm.