Chapter Summaries

Zhang Jian explored the special abilities his Heavenly Immortal breakthrough had granted him, then hosted a ceremony that drew powerful figures from across the Mount Zhou Realm. After the celebrations brought new supporters to Great Xia, he sensed a growing calamity and set out to find its source.

• Zhang Jian examined his Heavenly Immortal abilities, reorganized his immortal arts, and prepared to strengthen them further.
• Nine Heavens True Lord Xin Ziqing reunited with Immortal Maiden Qing Yao in Divine Capital, and Qing Yao admitted she had come to seek the Eastern Emperor Ruins.
• Xin Ziqing revealed that she held clues to the Eastern Emperor Ruins, while Qing Yao resolved to obtain them.
• Zhang Jian held a Heavenly Immortal celebration and shared cultivation methods that attracted many cultivators to pledge allegiance to the Great Xia Dynasty.
• Six months later, Zhang Jian sensed that a flaw in heaven and earth had triggered a calamity and resolved to locate it.

Zhang Jian traced a disturbance in heaven and earth to a ghost deity gateway in the Southern Divine Land, where yin and yang had fallen out of balance and ghosts had overrun much of White Deer Province. After reaching Golden Deer City and learning of the devastation, he prepared to confront a powerful surge of ghostly qi.

• Zhang Jian searched the Eastern Hanging Divine Continent with the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State, found no source of the disturbance, and sent warnings to his allies before setting out to investigate.
• At Paulownia Mountain, Drifting True Lord used the Sheji King Cauldron to locate a ghost deity gateway in the Southern Divine Land, and the patriarchs dispatched aid while Azure Origin Ancestor stayed to guard the sect.
• Zhang Jian received a message-bearing spell sword in the Two Realms Region and flew toward the Southern Divine Land, while the Sheji Ancient Immortal used the Eternal Heaven Instrument to find several more suspicious locations.
• In Phoenix City, Ji Ning and the Ji Clan found a vast Netherworld ghost domain and prepared to investigate it.
• At Golden Deer City, Zhang Jian dispelled the ghost soldiers attacking two Yin Spirit Venerables and learned from Pei Yuanzong that ghosts had devastated more than half of White Deer Province.
• Zhang Jian saw a great surge of profound yin ghostly qi rise in the distance as refugees fled Golden Deer City.

Zhang Jian rescued Ji Ning from a ghost god assault in Phoenix City and entered the gateway to cleanse the spirits within. Meanwhile, Azure Origin Ancestor learned that the Netherworld Demon Spring was nearing eruption, and the chapter ended with the ghost god gateway exploding after Zhang Jian emerged.

• Zhang Jian sensed powerful Death authority, sent the citizens of Golden Deer City to retreat, and flew toward Phoenix City.
• Ji Ning fought the Soul-Seizing Ghost God inside a nether ghost domain until Zhang Jian arrived and destroyed the domain with Solar Fission Breath.
• Zhang Jian subdued the Soul-Seizing Ghost God with the Azure Lotus Soul-Cleansing Spell, but an unseen underworld force annihilated the ghost god when he began to reveal its name.
• Zhang Jian cleansed Phoenix City of its remaining ghosts and entered the gateway to redeem the spirits within, while Ji Ning waited outside.
• Drifting True Lord informed Azure Origin Ancestor that the Netherworld Demon Spring in Heavenheart Prefecture was showing signs of eruption, and Azure Origin Ancestor ordered preparations to seal it.
• Zhang Jian emerged from the gateway, which then erupted into countless fragments as the Ji Clan cultivators watched.

After Phoenix City’s ghost gate was sealed, Zhang Jian and Ji Ning rushed to Western He Continent to confront the unstable Ancient Demon Spring. Zhang Jian joined the gathered immortals, offered to repair the spring’s seals and have Imperial Noble Consort Ji absorb some of its demonic Killing Intent, then learned why the Extermination Ancestor was called a World-Resident Immortal.

• Zhang Jian retrieved the Soul-Binding Chain after the ghost gate’s destruction, then received a message with Ji Ning warning him that the Ancient Demon Spring in Western He Continent required urgent attention.
• Zhang Jian and Ji Ning reached Western He Continent, where widespread Killing Intent had made its inhabitants unusually aggressive, and Zhang Jian summoned reinforcements from Haojing City.
• At Heavenly Heart Isle, the Extermination Ancestor won the immortals’ agreement to follow his command and organized preparations to repair the Ancient Demon Spring’s damaged restrictions.
• Zhang Jian examined the eighteen Cloud-Piercing Stone Towers and assured the Extermination Ancestor that he could restore their Dragon-Phoenix Treasure Seal Script runes.
• Zhang Jian proposed that Imperial Noble Consort Ji use her Blissful Immortal Spirit Diagram to absorb some of the spring’s demonic Killing Intent, and the Extermination Ancestor agreed to let her try.
• Zhang Jian asked what a World-Resident Immortal was, and the Extermination Ancestor explained that the four such immortals in Mount Zhou Realm remained in the world to safeguard it and suppress powerful beings who refused to ascend.

Zhang Jian repaired and strengthened the Cloud-Grinding Giant Towers, while Ji Xueqiong absorbed their stored spiritual mechanisms to nourish the spacetime cosmos within her treasure. Their work was interrupted by a coordinated eruption of demonic gates across Heavenheart Prefecture, which Extermination Ancestor suspected an unknown Old Devil had orchestrated.

• Extermination Ancestor explained that the four Immortals residing in the world included Violet Lightning Ancestor, the State-Society Emperor, and a dragon from the Skywind Sea's Ao Clan Dragon Race.
• Zhang Jian repaired and optimized the forbidden laws around the eighteen Cloud-Grinding Giant Towers, impressing the observing immortals.
• Ji Xueqiong arrived, revealed that the spacetime cosmos within her Blissful Immortal Spirit Diagram could absorb the demon-Killing Intent, and devoured the stored spiritual mechanisms from four towers.
• An extraterrestrial demon god appeared in a Heavenheart Prefecture city, slaughtered its inhabitants, and summoned an Asura Demon Gate; Extermination Ancestor sent Daoist Yi Hun to suppress it.
• Demonic gates erupted in several locations around Heavenheart Prefecture, and Extermination Ancestor concluded that an unknown Old Devil was likely forcing the demons to act together.

Zhang Jian repaired the restriction arts in all eighteen Cloud-Grinding Giant Towers, then entered the Ancient Demon Spring to investigate its corrupted suppressing treasure. He discovered a powerful demon god within and struck it back with the Mountain-Suppressing Seal, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Zhang Jian repaired and optimized the restriction arts in all eighteen Cloud-Grinding Giant Towers while the Ji clan absorbed demonic baleful aura with the Blissful Immortal Spirit Diagram.
• Extermination Ancestor and Violet Lightning Ancestor discussed the danger of the Netherworld Demon God surviving and agreed on preparations with Zhang Jian.
• Zhang Jian entered the Ancient Demon Spring, using the Fire of Righteousness and the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State to clear and weaken its demonic baleful aura.
• Zhang Jian found that the suppressing treasure was absorbing demonic baleful aura and fought the black dragons of demonic aura guarding its depths.
• Zhang Jian unleashed the Mountain-Suppressing Seal against the Demon Spring’s immense whirlpool and struck back a towering demon god that roared from within.

Extermination Ancestor and the gathered immortals confronted an invasion led by three powerful extraterrestrial demon gods near the Ancient Demon Spring. Zhang Jian subdued the spring’s Buddhist treasure long enough to stabilize its seal, then emerged to join the battle against the demons.

• Extermination Ancestor severed a Voracious Demon God's arm, and the leading demon forces appeared as the immortals assembled to face them.
• The Heaven Origin Inspector, Ao Shen, and other divine and immortal forces joined Extermination Ancestor as a killing formation activated against the demons.
• Zhang Jian used the fifth-tier treasure Thousand Jun to defeat the demon god guarding the Ancient Demon Spring and reveal the Pure Buddhist Staff.
• Zhang Jian found that the staff's Buddhist and demonic powers had fused, so he used a Heavenly Demon Gourd formation to temporarily balance it and suppress the spring.
• Zhang Jian sealed the Ancient Demon Spring's entrance with the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State, manifested his Innate Imperial Lord body, and charged at an outer-realm demon god.

Zhang Jian suppressed the Decayed Demon God and helped defeat the Gluttony Demon God, but the Bone Throne Demon God destroyed its body to break through the defenses and send two demonic lights into the Ancient Demon Spring. Zhang Jian’s Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State trapped them, and he joined it with the Sheji King Cauldron to contain the Devil Master’s Primordial Spirit.

• Zhang Jian used Royal Dao Submission and the Nine Nether Corpse-Shedding True Method to suppress the Decayed Demon God, then sent the other immortals to aid the battles across the battlefield.
• Zhang Jian and the Saint King clan ancestors trapped the Gluttony Demon God, froze it with Taiyin arts, and killed it with the Mountain-Suppressing Seal.
• The Bone Throne Demon God revealed overwhelming power and self-destructed to pierce the Nine Cauldrons Barrier and the Cloud-Grinding Barrier, sending its demonic soul into the Ancient Demon Spring.
• Zhang Jian revealed that his Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State had trapped the demonic presences at the spring and asked Azure Origin Ancestor for the Sheji King Cauldron.
• Azure Origin Ancestor sent the Sheji King Cauldron into Zhang Jian’s diagram, where King Cauldron Immortal Lord discovered that the art fused with him and might repair the cauldron’s damaged foundation.

Zhang Jian used the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State with the Sheji King Cauldron to suppress the Devil Master's Primordial Spirit and help defeat the invading demons. The Ancient Demon Spring remained sealed only temporarily, and Demon-Slaying True Lord proposed a method that might resolve it for good.

• The Sheji King Cauldron taught Zhang Jian its activation method, and the two treasures joined forces to trap and refine the Devil Master's Primordial Spirit.
• Extermination Ancestor ordered the immortals to eliminate the remaining demons, and Zhang Jian helped end the battle by killing the invaders.
• The immortals assessed their losses and praised Zhang Jian's concealed Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State, but he kept its deeper secrets to himself.
• Zhang Jian told the gathered immortals that his formation could hold the Ancient Demon Spring for only three to fifteen days, so Extermination Ancestor offered a fifth-tier Buddhist treasure to whoever could find a new seal.
• Demon-Slaying True Lord privately told Zhang Jian that her master had a method to settle the Ancient Demon Spring permanently and asked whether he dared to attempt it.

Demon-Slaying True Lord proposed using Zhang Jian’s Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State, the Sheji King Cauldron, and the True Martial Heaven-Cleaving Demon-Refining Array Diagram to refine the Ancient Demon Spring. With help from two allied sects, Zhang Jian and four companions began the work, and the demonic qi started to recede.

• Demon-Slaying True Lord presented his plan to the three second-generation ancestors, who approved using the Sheji King Cauldron and his inherited array diagram alongside Zhang Jian’s treasures.
• Azure Origin Ancestor brought out the Sheji King Cauldron to temporarily suppress the Ancient Demon Spring while Zhang Jian learned the array diagram’s methods.
• Seven days later, Changchun True Lord and Jade Sleeve True Lord arrived with mind-stabilizing treasures after their sects agreed to support Zhang Jian’s unification of the Mount Zhou Realm in exchange for a share of the merit and destiny.
• Zhang Jian led Demon-Slaying True Lord, Changchun True Lord, Jade Sleeve True Lord, and Ji clan into the Ancient Demon Spring to refine its demonic source.
• A nine-colored vortex formed as the five cultivators and their treasures worked together, and the demonic qi in the spring visibly fell over the following days.

After five years of demon-refining, Zhang Jian and his companions extinguished the ancient Demon Spring, earning heavenly merit and revealing the Netherworld Demon God’s corpse. Zhang Jian returned to Great Xia and began another massive sacrifice in the Imperial Ancestral Temple, while Azure Glow Dao Lord watched anxiously.

• The Demon-Subduing Qin Melody ended, spiritual essence surged across the Western He Continent, and heaven bestowed merit on Zhang Jian for extinguishing the Demon Spring.
• Extermination Ancestor and Violet Lightning Ancestor entered the transformed spring with other immortals, where Zhang Jian showed them two fragments of earth and Profound Yin authorities beside the Netherworld Demon God’s corpse.
• Zhang Jian left the corpse for Extermination Ancestor to handle and departed with Ji clan and Demon-Slaying True Lord; Demon-Slaying True Lord said he would enter a hundred years of seclusion.
• Zhang Jian and Ji clan returned to Haojing City, where Zhang Jian reunited with Bai clan and the imperial family before entering the Imperial Ancestral Temple.
• Zhang Jian piled up more gold and silver ingots than in his previous sacrifice and used the Sumeru mustard-seed art to begin offering them, as Azure Glow Dao Lord watched nervously.

Zhang Jian prepared for the Great Xia Dynasty’s expansion while Azure Glow Dao Lord absorbed a vast offering of incense and faith and claimed a new time-and-space treasure. After a family banquet, Zhang Jian returned to the Imperial Ancestral Temple, where a divine gift arrived as his Sacred Dao neared completion.

• Zhang Jian sacrificed gold and silver ingots, placed a time-and-space spirit treasure in the cauldron, then arranged Great Xia’s coming campaigns and continued refining the Pure Buddhist Staff.
• Azure Glow Dao Lord’s true body revealed that treasures from an ancient ruin could resolve their urgent difficulty and told her to spread word of the Taiyin Treasure Mirror in the Three Sovereigns Heavenly Realm.
• Azure Glow Dao Lord absorbed nearly six hundred million flawless units of incense and faith from the Two Realms Pool, forming five halos of divine power.
• Azure Glow Dao Lord seized and refined the Dragon-Phoenix Treasure Mirror, then sent an item from her private treasury through the Two Realms Pool.
• Zhang Jian hosted a family banquet, encouraged his descendants to cultivate, and returned to the Imperial Ancestral Temple, where a divine light entered his body with a message as his Sacred Dao neared completion.

After merging the Reincarnation Divine Stone, Zhang Jian gained authority over the netherworld, life, death, and reincarnation while the Great Xia Dynasty expanded across the continents. The chapter left the Sheji King Cauldron clamoring to leave Paulownia Mountain and join the Great Xia Dynasty.

• Zhang Jian fused the Reincarnation Divine Stone into the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State and spent half a month comprehending the rise and fall of the Nine Capitals Netherworld.
• Zhang Jian emerged with greater authority over the netherworld, life, death, and reincarnation, while distant ghosts and deities sensed the change but could not identify its source.
• Zhang Jian ordered the Southern Divine Land's kingdoms and immortal sects to submit to the Great Xia Dynasty, and the Ji clan, Heaven's Will Sect, and most regional powers accepted its suzerainty.
• The Western He Continent's human powers welcomed Great Xia's protection, and the Nanhua Immortal Sect led the Northern Divine Land in submitting to Zhang Jian.
• Zhang Jian invested the Nanhua Immortal Sect's sect master as the Northern Firmament Primordial Spirit True Lord and granted privileges to powers that pledged allegiance.
• The Sheji King Cauldron repeatedly demanded to leave Paulownia Mountain and become the Great Xia Dynasty's national-fortune spirit treasure, alarming the three second-generation patriarchs.

The Paulownia Mountain Dao Lineage agreed to let the Sheji King Cauldron aid Zhang Jian, while Zhang Jian consolidated Great Xia’s rule and prepared to negotiate with the Sheji Ancient Immortal. Two years later, the Ruinous Void Divine Land joined Great Xia, and a vast heavenly phenomenon appeared across the Mount Zhou Realm.

• The Sheji King Cauldron told Extermination Ancestor that following Zhang Jian could help him attain the Dao and return to the Heavenly Realm, and Extermination Ancestor brought the proposal to the Founders' Hall.
• Heavenly River True Person agreed that the Sheji King Cauldron could follow Zhang Jian, and the cauldron immediately left for Great Xia.
• Zhang Jian incorporated the other four Divine Lands into Great Xia, strengthening his Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State and his authority over state and society.
• The Sheji Ancient Immortal told the four inspection envoys that he would announce his position at a grand court assembly half a month later.
• Two years later, Zhang Jian visited the Ruinous Void Divine Land, and it joined Great Xia soon afterward, triggering a vast heavenly phenomenon.

Zhang Jian attained the Human Emperor Status and became a Sage King, gaining immense authority over the Mount Zhou Realm while beginning to consolidate Great Xia. A century later, the Divine Cave Cult Patriarch became a True Immortal, and Zhang Jian vowed to reunite with his sleeping family after completing his Sage King undertaking.

• The crimson dragon of national fortune merged with Zhang Jian, transforming his Human Emperor Destiny into the Human Emperor Status and granting him the Ancient Sage King Status.
• The Nine Cauldrons Barrier spread across the five continents, the gods paid homage to Zhang Jian, and the Paulownia Mountain Dao Lineage gained immense fortune from supporting his court.
• Floating Daoist and the Paulownia Mountain ancestors discovered that the fortune pouring into Heavenly Pool Peak had transformed its lotuses into powerful immortal seeds.
• A hundred years later, the Divine Cave Cult Patriarch endured the Seven-Nine Lightning Tribulation and attained True Immortality as Zhang Zhao, Daoist Jingming, and others watched.
• Zhang Jian visited the sleeping Zhang Yi, Qi Yuhua, and Zhang Min in the imperial mausoleum, promised to reunite with them in the heavenly realm, and prepared to sacrifice to his ancestors.

Zhang Jian held a grand Heaven-worship ceremony and ancestral rites, deepening his Sage King Dao Fruit and offering vast wealth and the Heavens Samsara Diagram. In the Heavenly Realm, Azure Glow Dao Lord received the offering, which yielded eleven billion units of flawless incense and an innate merit spirit treasure: the Heavens Samsara Diagram, bearing six innate divine prohibitions.

• Zhang Jian worshipped Heaven before the court and representatives of the five continents, and ancient Sage Kings acknowledged his status as a Sage King.
• Zhang Jian held ancestral rites with the imperial family, completing another Dao-heart obsession and bringing his cultivation closer to the Taiyi realm.
• Zhang Jian offered mountains of gold and silver ingots and the first-grade immortal treasure Heavens Samsara Diagram at the Imperial Ancestral Temple.
• Azure Glow Dao Lord stabilized the Two Realms Pool and received the offering, which filled 110 incense kingdoms with eleven billion units of flawless incense.
• Azure Glow Dao Lord received the Heavens Samsara Diagram as an innate merit spirit treasure and discovered that it contained six innate divine prohibitions.

Azure Glow Dao Lord sent Zhang Jian the Emperor Sui's Path-Realization Diagram, and Zhang Jian’s rule strengthened the Great Xia Dynasty as he planned to abdicate after three thousand years. When he sensed the Eastern Emperor Ruins emerging, he intervened and took the entire ruin to Haojing City, leaving Xin Ziqing stunned.

• Azure Glow Dao Lord sent the Emperor Sui's Path-Realization Diagram through the Two Realms Pool, and Zhang Jian welcomed its insights into the Sacred King Dao and fire laws.
• Zhang Jian strengthened the Great Xia Dynasty while cultivating and inspecting its provinces, and he planned to abdicate after three thousand years.
• Zhang Jian sensed an ancient ruin connected to the Eastern Emperor Treasure Mirror and hurried to the Southern Divine Land.
• Xin Ziqing trapped Fairy Qing Yao in a spacetime maze, took the Guiding Compass, and headed for the Eastern Emperor Ruins.
• Zhang Jian suppressed the maze and freed Fairy Qing Yao, then found Xin Ziqing approaching the ruin.
• Zhang Jian collected the Eastern Emperor Ruins and invited Xin Ziqing to visit Haojing City, leaving her behind in shock.

Zhang Jian entered the Eastern Emperor Ruins, uncovered its treasures and the Eastern Emperor’s Celestial Star Records, and left most of the divine city for the Great Xia Dynasty to explore. After he departed, invitations from powerful heavenly realms began arriving despite his not yet having ascended.

• Zhang Jian suppressed the Eastern Emperor Divine City’s Diagram of the Celestial Stars restriction and entered the ruins.
• Zhang Jian reached the Fusang Dao Palace, found the Fusang Sacred Root, and uncovered memorial tablets honoring fallen Gods, Devils, and cultivators.
• Zhang Jian found the Eastern Emperor’s relics, sent a fire jade bearing Nine Heavens True Lord Xin Ziqing’s aura to her, and took the Celestial Star Records.
• Zhang Jian left the divine city’s remaining treasures as a future trial ground for the Great Xia Dynasty and departed so its Ministry of Works could assess the ruins.
• After Zhang Jian attained the Dao, invitations from powers in other heavenly realms reached him before he had ascended.

After three thousand years of cultivation, Zhang Jian reviewed offers from several Heavenly Realms and considered delaying his ascension until he reached Taiyi True Number. He then went to Paulownia Mountain to see Azure Origin Ancestor and Extermination Ancestor ascend to the Heavenly Vault.

• Ji clan and the Western Palace Empress of the Bai clan presented Zhang Jian with invitations offering positions in the Central, Three Sovereigns, Ten Directions, and Nine Luminaries Heavenly Realms.
• Zhang Jian weighed the offers, planned to consult second-generation patriarchs, and decided he might delay ascending for several hundred years to reach Taiyi True Number.
• Zhang Jian learned that Azure Origin Ancestor and Extermination Ancestor were preparing to ascend and went to Paulownia Mountain to see them off.
• Extermination Ancestor entrusted Demon-Slaying True Lord with protecting the Paulownia Mountain Dao Lineage after recommending her to replace him as its resident immortal official.
• Azure Origin Ancestor and Extermination Ancestor activated their Heavenly Realm talismans and ascended together through the Celestial Gate as the others bade them farewell.

Zhang Jian visited his master, sons, and ancestral homes as he prepared to ascend, while learning that a Devil Master might target him in the heavenly realms. The chapter ended when a sudden lunar eclipse and blood-red omen appeared over Mount Zhou Realm, signaling trouble beyond the realm.

• Demon-Slaying True Lord congratulated Zhang Jian on his cultivation, learned he was nearing the True Number of Taiyi realm, and warned that a Devil Master he had slain might threaten him after his ascension.
• Zhang Jian told Demon-Slaying True Lord he planned to cultivate in Fire Cloud Grotto before going to the Central Heavenly Realm, then reunited with his senior brothers at Demon-Slaying Peak.
• Zhang Jian met Zhang Yi and Zhang Xian, urged them to visit their mothers, and left immortal treasures for them to safeguard their households.
• Zhang Jian visited Fengxi City and his ancestral residences, remembering the relatives and acquaintances who had died over the past three thousand years.
• As Zhang Jian left the Zhang clan's ancestral residence, the Taiyin Star appeared in daylight and was swallowed by dark clouds; a blood-red omen arose before sacred Dao auras dispersed it.