Chapter Summaries

Zhang Jian reached Taiyi True Number and formed the Earth Sovereign Dao Fruit, completing the authority of the State-Society Emperor in the Mount Zhou Realm. As Great Xia prepared an Ascension Ceremony, its imperial descendants gathered at the mausoleum to awaken ancient ancestors.

• Azure Glow Dao Lord discussed Taiyin Fairy’s reincarnation with her incarnation and assigned her the task of finding a way to bring back Baihua, Baicao, and the other sisters banished to the lower realm.
• Azure Glow Dao Lord warned that Profound Extremity Devil Master had set his sights on someone from the Mount Zhou Realm who was about to ascend, but said he would suffer a crushing loss if he acted.
• Zhang Jian accepted the invitation to cultivate at Fire Cloud Grotto-Heaven and told Patriarch King Xia Yu he would later seek mediation about the title of Spirit Origin Emperor.
• Three hundred years later, Zhang Jian’s Dao Fruit fully formed as the Earth Sovereign Dao Fruit, and his State-Society Emperor authority reached great accomplishment.
• The Great Xia imperial household announced an Ascension Ceremony, and Zhang Yi, Zhang Xian, and other descendants gathered at the imperial mausoleum as Zhang Jian prepared to awaken ancient ancestors.

As Zhang Jian prepared to ascend to the Heavenly Realm, he awakened his parents, Qi Yuhua, Zhang Min, and the Four Symbols divine beasts, then gathered family members and officials to ascend with him. The chapter ended with Zhang Jian awaiting the Heavenly Gate to learn how many people he could bring, as his planned ascent had grown into the ascent of an entire dynasty.

• Immortals and gods gathered to witness Zhang Jian's planned ascent, while Yi Hun and others speculated about how many people he could take and whether Zhang Zhao could rule Great Xia.
• Zhang Jian released Zhang Yi and Qi Ruolan from their frozen sleep, suppressed the backlash on their lifespans, and told them he had completed his Sacred King merit and would take them to the Heavenly Realm.
• Zhang Jian awakened Bai Xianyin, Bai Nu, Phoenix Spirit, and White Tortoise, then invited them to ascend with him; Phoenix Spirit left to challenge the Heavenly Immortal tribulation.
• Zhang Jian awakened Qi Yuhua and Zhang Min, then returned with them to the imperial mausoleum, where Qi Yuhua reunited with her children.
• Zhang Jian privately instructed Zhang Zhao and Si Lier, then called forward imperial relatives, divine beasts, ghost and god subordinates, and high-ranking court ministers who would ascend with him.
• Zhang Jian prepared to bring an entire dynasty to the Heavenly Realm, but the number of people he could take remained unknown until the Heavenly Gate appeared.

Zhang Jian received permission to ascend with one hundred and nine companions, and he led his chosen followers through the Celestial Gate. After a dangerous passage through a temporal-spatial storm, he arrived in the Three Sovereigns Heavenly Realm, where Qingqiu’s attendant explained that the newly ascended had to reforge their immortal bodies in a Transformation Immortal Pool.

• Phoenix Spirit arrived to carry Zhang Jian, but he summoned his crimson Dharma-protecting Dragon God instead.
• The Heavenly Emperor’s decree authorized Zhang Jian to ascend with one hundred and nine cultivators, and he received guidance talismans for the Central Heavenly Realm and the Three Sovereigns Heavenly Realm.
• Officials, immortals, and imperial descendants scrambled to join Zhang Jian; he chose his companions and cast away those who exceeded the allowed number.
• Zhang Jian ascended through the Celestial Gate, leaving behind his Ancient Sage King Dao Fruit while retaining Human Emperor fortune and Violet Qi.
• A temporal-spatial storm threatened the ascending group, but Zhang Jian’s starry-heavens treasure diagram and a purple radiance helped them pass through safely.
• Zhang Jian emerged in the Three Sovereigns Heavenly Realm, where the others lost consciousness and an attendant directed them to the No. 9 Transformation Immortal Pool, Class A, to reforge their immortal bodies.

Zhang Jian used the Transformation Immortal Pool to synchronize with the Three Sovereigns Heavenly Realm’s laws and gained insight into advancing his cultivation. After meeting his Paulownia Mountain Dao Lineage elders, he learned that the Profound Extremity Devil Master had attacked his ascension, while Bai Liying and the others completed their transformations.

• Zhang Jian explored the Transformation Immortal Pool’s laws, sensed the Heavenly Realm’s vast Dao origin, and refined his understanding of how to advance his Dao Fruit.
• Zhang Jian left the pool and met Extermination Ancestor, Heavenly River True Person, Red-Brow True Person, Heavenly Rain Daoist, and the Si Family’s Second Patriarch.
• Heavenly River True Person advised Zhang Jian to consolidate his foundation in Fire Cloud Grotto-Heaven and said the lineage would provide him with a guide.
• Heavenly River True Person revealed that Profound Extremity Devil Master of the Blood Sea Demon Realm had attacked Zhang Jian’s ascension, but the Patriarchs and other emperors had struck back.
• Phoenix Spirit completed her transformation, and Zhang Jian moved Bai Liying out of the pool to undergo her Heavenly Immortal tribulation.
• Bai Liying passed her tribulation, while the other cultivators and officials successively completed their immortal-body or celestial-body transformations.

After transforming in the Immortalization Pool, Zhang Jian learned about the Assembly of the Three Sovereigns and Five Elders, Qingqiu, and the benefits of cultivating in Fire Cloud Grotto. He reached Three Sovereigns City, registered at the Ancestral God Hall, and entered Fire Cloud Grotto alone.

• Zhang Jian and the others emerged from Immortalization Pool Number Nine with immortal or celestial bodies, and he memorized the names of several young Zhang clan descendants.
• The Extermination Ancestor explained the Assembly's leaders, Qingqiu Goddess, and the rules and rewards for secluded cultivation in Fire Cloud Grotto.
• Zhang Jian and his party visited Qingqiu Immortal Palace, then traveled to Three Sovereigns City, where the other patriarchs left them to attend the Three Sovereigns Auction.
• Zhang Jian accepted the Heavenly Cauldron Immortal Lord's welcome at the Paulownia Mountain Dao Lineage outpost before setting out for Fire Cloud Grotto with the Extermination Ancestor.
• Zhang Jian registered at the Ancestral God Hall, received approval to enter Fire Cloud Grotto, and stepped through its violet passage.

Zhang Jian entered the Fire Cloud Grotto-Heaven to cultivate and gain access to its deeper layers, where he began repairing the restrictions that could extend his stay. As his first repair restored a damaged node and strengthened his fire-based immortal art, he suspected the vast red cloud he was helping to mend might be a living being.

• The Emperor Sui, Ziyi Clan, and Nest Emperor discussed Zhang Jian's exceptional talent and predicted he could become a human Dao Lord.
• Zhang Jian arrived in the Fire Cloud Grotto-Heaven and set out to reach its inner and core layers while completing tasks to extend his stay.
• Red Cloud appeared, gave Zhang Jian the grotto-heaven's rules, and revealed he was an innate god recreated by an ancient Sacred Emperor.
• Zhang Jian found the first damaged node of the Great Circumferential Hongyun Restriction and studied its innate runes.
• After six years, Zhang Jian repaired the node with fire-aspected divine materials, received Great Dao feedback, and brought his Emperor Sui immortal art to the verge of the fifth rank.
• Zhang Jian wondered whether the red cloud he was repairing was a living being before dismissing the possibility.

Zhang Jian repaired the damaged Great Circumference Red Cloud Prohibition, gained the Soul-Scattering Divine Flame and more time in the Fire Cloud Grotto-Heaven, then entered its inner layer. He explored the Human Emperor sacred halls and began learning the purpose of his Great Xia State-Society Hall.

• Zhang Jian spent nearly a thousand years repairing dozens of prohibition nodes, strengthening his body and deepening his understanding of heaven-and-earth runes.
• The restored prohibition rewarded Zhang Jian with the Soul-Scattering Divine Flame and a jade plaque granting three thousand years, raising his remaining time to seven thousand four hundred years.
• Zhang Jian fused the flame into the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State, and the Sheji King Cauldron helped refine the treasure.
• Zhang Jian left the outer layer and entered the inner layer, where he found the Fire Cloud cavern dwelling and learned that time passed three times faster there.
• Zhang Jian surveyed the Human Emperor sacred halls, found his Great Xia State-Society Hall, and began discovering its purpose.

Zhang Jian entered Fire Cloud Grotto and explored the Agricultural Emperor's Former Residence, where he found ancient treasures and began comprehending the Heavenly Dao. Azure Glow Dao Lord learned that the reincarnated Hundred Flowers still faced a death tribulation, then prepared to investigate an archaic ruin as Zhang Jian's Dao Fruit advanced toward completion.

• Zhang Jian deposited a trace of his Primordial Spirit imprint at Fire Cloud Grotto, then entered its inner layer and learned he had to pass four walls of fire clouds to qualify for its deepest core.
• Zhang Jian explored the Agricultural Emperor's Former Residence, finding precious herb gardens, a library, alchemy chambers, and two Heavenly Dao talismans inscribed with “Heaven and Earth.”
• Zhang Jian found the first wall of fire clouds, which required him to leave behind a self-created fourth-rank immortal art, and decided to comprehend the talismans before choosing one.
• Azure Glow Dao Lord told the Weaver Girl that Hundred Flowers had awakened her original spirit in the Donghua Great Realm but still needed to undergo another death tribulation to repay her karma.
• Azure Glow Dao Lord reviewed clues to ancient ruins and chose an archaic ruin to explore with an incarnation in search of treasures for her second Great Tribulation of Destruction.
• Zhang Jian meditated on “Heaven and Earth,” expanding his Earth Emperor Dao Fruit as wisps of Great Unity cloud-light appeared around it.

Zhang Jian studied the Agricultural Emperor’s library, using its knowledge of creation to strengthen his immortal arts and revive a dead spirit tree. He passed the first Fire Cloud Wall and reached Emperor Xuanyuan’s secluded residence, where he encountered the Xuanyuan Sword guarding a spring of Innate Five Elements essence.

• Zhang Jian refined the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State and considered how to advance its Earth Sovereign Dao Fruit.
• Zhang Jian entered the Agricultural Emperor’s library, studied its diverse theories of the Great Dao, and used Creation Manipulation to replace the Wood Virtue Creation True Scripture.
• Zhang Jian merged several heavenly treasures into his immortal arts and revived a Great Wilderness Iron Tree by combining Creation Manipulation with the Golden Chapters of Nine Nether Life and Death.
• Zhang Jian offered his Taiyin Body-Refining Grand Method to the first Fire Cloud Wall and followed the revealed path to a courtyard he suspected had belonged to Emperor Xuanyuan.
• Zhang Jian found an ancient well containing Innate Five Elements essence, defeated its conceptual sword qi with the Emperor Sui Burning World Method, and saw the Xuanyuan Sword emerge.

Zhang Jian challenged Xuanyuan Sword, using powerful Five Elements, soul, space-time, stellar, and earth-based immortal arts to withstand its attacks and force it to reveal power beyond the fifth rank. He earned enough tokens to extend his stay in Fire Cloud Grotto to 10,800 years and looked forward to the next two Fire Cloud Walls.

• After drinking three bowls of Innate Five Elements essence, Zhang Jian cultivated the Five Dragons Scripture for nearly a hundred years and deepened his understanding of the Five Elements laws.
• Zhang Jian resisted Xuanyuan Sword’s first sword qi with the Azure Lotus Soul-Cleansing Spell, then broke it with the combined Imperial Dao Suppression and Nine-Dragon True Scripture.
• Zhang Jian used space-time immortal arts to counter Xuanyuan Sword’s next attacks and tried to subdue it, but Xuanyuan Sword tore through his defenses.
• Zhang Jian deployed the Diagram of the Celestial Stars to evade Xuanyuan Sword’s Sacred Dao Command and law-suppressing attacks.
• After learning from the Sheji King Cauldron that Xuanyuan Sword possessed further special attributes, Zhang Jian combined seven fourth-tier immortal arts and Mature Authority of the State-Society Emperor into a vast divine diagram.
• Xuanyuan Sword unleashed power beyond a fifth-rank immortal technique and vanished; Zhang Jian received four tokens totaling 5,400 years, bringing his stay in Fire Cloud Grotto to 10,800 years.

Zhang Jian refused to surrender his Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State and advanced his Taiyin Body-Refining Grand Method to the fifth rank. Choosing to witness the historical imprint instead of studying other immortal arts, he watched Fuxi create the Eight Trigrams and gained new insight into his own Dao as Fuxi noticed him.

• Zhang Jian rejected the stone platform's test of the Emperor Sui Burning World Method and spent nearly three hundred years advancing his Taiyin Body-Refining Grand Method to the fifth rank.
• Zhang Jian offered the newly advanced Taiyin Body-Refining Grand Method to the platform, which opened a passage to a choice between a collection of high-rank immortal arts and a historical space-time imprint.
• Zhang Jian chose the historical imprint and watched a young Fuxi lead his people from the Yellow River to Wanqiu, where he improved their survival and established customs and social order.
• Fuxi studied Heaven and Earth, then witnessed a dragon horse and jade turtle reveal the Taiji pattern at the Wei River.
• Fuxi used yin and yang strokes to create the Eight Trigrams, while Zhang Jian's Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State evolved in response and deepened his understanding of the Dao.
• Fuxi looked across time and space and saw Zhang Jian in the void.

Zhang Jian used Heavenly Emperor Fuxi’s Primordial Eight Trigrams to advance his Earth Sovereign Dao Fruit and devise a way to search Fire Cloud Grotto-Heaven’s historical river. He obtained the hidden time-limit tokens and entered the passage to the final wall, where Heavenly Emperor Fuxi and the Three Ancestors of the human race appeared.

• Zhang Jian thanked Heavenly Emperor Fuxi for revealing the Primordial Eight Trigrams and used its principles to strengthen his Earth Sovereign Dao Fruit.
• Heavenly Emperor Fuxi spread the Primordial Eight Trigrams among the primitive humans, and Zhang Jian learned from it while Fuxi later developed a calendar and methods based on the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches.
• Hongyun watched Origin Sea Emperor fail to overcome the Xuanyuan Sword’s trial, then saw Zhang Jian use the Primordial Eight Trigrams to find nine of Fuxi’s hidden merit spiritual treasures.
• Zhang Jian perfected his Earth Sovereign Eight Trigrams Technique over six hundred years and used it to capture the Dragon Horse and jade turtle, taking the three-thousand-year token from the Dragon Horse.
• Zhang Jian sent the nine treasures to the stone platform and entered the passage toward the final wall of Fire Cloud, while Heavenly Emperor Fuxi and the Three Ancestors appeared behind him.

Zhang Jian entered the fourth Fire Cloud trial and began studying the Innate Five Supremes formation, using his Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State to absorb its essence while developing a Yin-Yang art to break it. After mastering the Eastern Emperor's Nine-Yang Immortal-Splitting Art and entering the formation to study its laws, he unknowingly stirred a growing hatred in Hongyun, whose Dao heart darkened.

• Sacred Emperor Fuxi and the three Human Ancestors recognized that Zhang Jian's spell resembled the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State, though Fuxi believed the resemblance was coincidental.
• Zhang Jian entered the Innate Five Supremes formation and found that the formation's Five Supremes Divine Mountain resisted both his divine power and the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State.
• Zhang Jian decided to absorb the formation's essence while creating a fifth-rank Yin-Yang art, and his combined Taiyin and Sun techniques began dividing the formation into Yin-Yang worlds.
• Zhang Jian cultivated the Eastern Emperor's Nine-Yang Immortal-Splitting Art, perfected his composite Yin-Yang art, and entered the formation to study its laws.
• Hongyun felt inexplicable killing intent toward Zhang Jian's Golden Crow manifestation, left the trial, and found that the hatred continued to trouble his Dao heart as black qi appeared between his brows.

Zhang Jian broke through the Primordial Five Tai Grand Formation and faced Hongyun, who challenged him over the four tokens. After Zhang Jian trapped Hongyun with the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State, Fuxi intervened, ended the fight, and granted Zhang Jian another five thousand years to stay.

• Hongyun let the black aura within him rise and left with his crimson gourd, while Dragon Horse and White Tortoise followed to watch him confront Zhang Jian.
• Zhang Jian spent three thousand five hundred years studying the Primordial Five Tai Grand Formation, then broke through it with his three-dimensional taiji diagram and the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State.
• Hongyun took all four tokens and challenged Zhang Jian, then attacked him with powerful composite immortal arts.
• Zhang Jian countered Hongyun's attacks and trapped him inside the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State, where Hongyun could not escape its dimensional storms.
• Fuxi stopped Hongyun's Soul-Scattering Gourd, declared him defeated, and promised to punish him while granting Zhang Jian another five thousand years to stay.

Zhang Jian entered the Fire Cloud Grotto-Heaven’s core and spent tens of thousands of years studying the Daoqi network, advancing many immortal arts and strengthening his cultivation. With his Earth Sovereign Dao Fruit nearing completion, he prepared to perfect the Nine Nether Emperor authority and condense his Earth Sovereign Primordial Spirit.

• Sacred Emperor Fuxi bound the fleeing Dragon Horse and Jade Tortoise, then departed with the others as Zhang Jian approached the stone platform and entered the core region.
• Zhang Jian discovered that the core region held vast human fortune, a six-to-one time ratio, and layered purple-mist networks containing precious Innate Imprints and Daoqi.
• Zhang Jian remained before the Daoqi network, studying its laws and advancing his fourth-rank immortal arts into fifth-rank arts over more than thirty thousand years.
• Human Sacred Emperors, the Three Progenitors of Humanity, the Five Elders, King Xia Yu, and Daoist Hongyun visited Zhang Jian but left him undisturbed as he cultivated.
• Zhang Jian completed the Earth Sovereign Trigrams and saw that his Taiyi azure cloud had taken shape, allowing him to prepare for a breakthrough into the Taiyi Celestial Immortal realm.
• Zhang Jian planned to balance his perfected State-Society Emperor authority by advancing his Nine Nether Emperor authority with Human Emperor Violet Qi and the Reincarnation Divine Stone.

Zhang Jian refined the Reincarnation Divine Stone and, after 2,700 years of deduction, formed the Earth Sovereign Primordial Spirit and reached Taiyi Celestial Immortal. He crossed the second Web of Dao Qi and discovered a vast purple treasure wheel containing the Three Sovereigns Heavenly Realm’s deeper origins.

• Zhang Jian refined the Reincarnation Divine Stone, strengthening his Nine Nether Emperor authority.
• In Copper Furnace Prefecture, Qi Yuhua and Bai Liying discussed expanding the Zhang clan’s territory, and Bai Liying went to receive the Heaven Cauldron Crown Prince.
• Zhang Jian completed his Nine Nether Emperor authority and spent 2,700 years combining the Earth Sovereign Dao Fruit with his other authorities and Dao Qi.
• Zhang Jian formed the Earth Sovereign Primordial Spirit, whose Earth Sovereign authority began at Taiyi Great Perfection, and Fuxi obscured the heavenly secrets surrounding his breakthrough.
• Zhang Jian tempered his Primordial Undying Dao Body, passed through the second Web of Dao Qi, and found a purple treasure wheel embodying the Three Sovereigns Heavenly Realm’s origins.

Zhang Jian absorbed the Supreme Sage Violet Qi in Fire Cloud Grotto-Heaven, greatly strengthening his innate origin and drawing close to the level of an innate sacred being. He reached an ancient palace and encountered the innate imprint, while twenty thousand years later his family in the Heaven Cauldron Kingdom received news from the Mount Zhou Realm.

• Zhang Jian absorbed the violet qi and chose to strengthen his innate origin, deepening his connection to the earth and Nine Netherworlds Great Dao laws.
• Zhang Jian’s transformation stirred the laws of the Three Sovereigns Heavenly Realm, and Sacred Emperor Fuxi concealed the disturbance from powerful enemies.
• Zhang Jian studied the Ancestral Qi Wheel for about three thousand years, then crossed its pressure and reached an abandoned palace beside an ancient tree and swing.
• Zhang Jian found the innate imprint above the palace and sent his Earth Sovereign Primordial Spirit into the visions it revealed.
• Twenty thousand years later, a descendant of the Zhang clan ascended from the lower realm to the Heaven Cauldron Kingdom and brought news of the Zhang clan in the Mount Zhou Realm.

Zhang Tianhe sought upper-realm aid after the Great Xia Dynasty was attacked by the Nine Profound Immortal Sect, and the Paulownia Mountain Dao Lineage arranged help through Azure Origin Ancestor. Zhang Jian emerged from more than twenty thousand years in seclusion as a near-grand-completion Taiyi Heavenly Immortal, joined the Assembly of the Three Sovereigns and Five Elders, and prepared to take up his post in the Central Heavenly Realm.

• Zhang Tianhe told the Copper Furnace Zhang clan that the Great Xia Dynasty had expanded beyond the Mount Zhou Realm but lost outposts to the Nine Profound Immortal Sect, so Qi Yuhua promised reinforcements.
• Extermination Ancestor told Zhang Qi that Azure Origin Ancestor would arrange mediation and that the Zhang clan would need to repay the favor, possibly through Spirit Origin Emperor's estate.
• Zhang Qi learned that Zhang Jian had emerged from Fire Cloud Grotto-Heaven after more than twenty thousand years in seclusion.
• Zhang Jian met King Xia Yu, Qingqiu Goddess, and other powerful immortals, then returned to Paulownia Mountain for a welcoming banquet.
• Zhang Jian agreed to join the Assembly of the Three Sovereigns and Five Elders as an official member.
• After his position was confirmed, Zhang Jian led the Zhang clan members toward the Central Heavenly Realm to take up their posts.

Zhang Jian appointed Zhang Qi to lead the Zhang clan remaining in the Three Sovereigns Heavenly Realm and arranged powerful allies and official posts for them, revealing his own Sequence Nine rank and Assembly privileges. At Cloudveil Ferry, War God Shang Yun continued hunting an escaped fiend despite learning that a powerful Sequence Eight Heavenly Realm Emperor was about to arrive.

• Zhang Jian named Zhang Qi head of the Zhang clan in the Three Sovereigns Heavenly Realm and left Zhang Tianrui, Zhang Tianxiang, Zhang Tianhe, and forty-two True Immortals to support him.
• Zhang Jian told the clan he was a Sequence Nine elder of the Hall of Grand Rectitude with Assembly privileges, including recommendation rights and subordinate official posts.
• Zhang Jian assigned Zhang Tianxiang and Zhang Tianhe to lower-level posts in the Hall of Grand Rectitude and planned to recommend Zhang Tianrui to the Divine Generals Palace.
• Zhang Jian instructed the clan to prepare for departure and went to meet the Heavenly Cauldron Immortal Lord, who had come to see them off.
• At Cloudveil Ferry, War God Shang Yun declared that an escaped fiend could not have passed the Heavenly Net and suggested a high-ranking immortal might have helped her escape.
• Immortal Anhai warned Shang Yun that a Sequence Eight Heavenly Realm Emperor was arriving, and Shang Yun said he would personally apologize if necessary.

Zhang Jian welcomed War God Shang Yun, who sought help finding an infiltrating heart devil at Cloudveil Ferry, and arranged for Zhang Nan to expose it. After the devil was captured and Zhang Nan earned a promise of recognition, Zhang Jian’s group continued toward the Heavenly Court, arriving at Mount Buzhou’s former site.

• Zhang Yujing introduced her grandfather Zhang Jian as the newly appointed Spirit Origin Emperor to War God Shang Yun, who had come seeking an outer-realm heart devil.
• Zhang Nan volunteered to reveal the hidden devil, wagering his cultivation, while Zhang Jian secretly used the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State to locate it.
• Zhang Nan exposed the devil among Cloudveil Ferry’s subordinate immortals, and War God Shang Yun sealed it with the Heavenly Net.
• War God Shang Yun promised to report Zhang Nan’s achievement to the Heavenly Court, while Zhang Jian declined the ferry official’s offer of hospitality.
• Zhang Jian and his group left Cloudveil Ferry and reached the former site of Mount Buzhou in less than half a month.